Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation

Br. Lee Vayle  –  April 9, 1982

     Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You again for the time of
fellowship You've allotted to us in this hour, for time has not
completely run out, but we can come together, worship Thy great and Thy
Holy Name. And we're happy for that. We ask You, Lord, now to anoint the
ears that hear and bless You, Lord, You'll have to anoint me in speech
in order to bring forth that which You have shown me in Scripture, which
is by The Lord, concerning the Word that has been vindicated in this
hour. We commend ourselves into Your care tonight knowing that You heard
us and are helping us. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.

     You may be seated.

     Now, whoever's regulating the amplification, I'm going to do my
best to keep my voice down tonight because I don't know why I've, ah,
seem to have problems with my throat. It'll go - It'll go away later on
but at this time, I'll have a little trouble so I'll just try to keep as
low as I can and that way not sort of put a strain on myself.

1.   Now, ah, I read to you the other day from Ephesians and I gave
you Brother Branham's quote, which I would believe is the, ah, quote
that belongs to that Scripture from "Daniels Seventieth Week." 

     "The Spirit of wisdom comes into the Church, to make known to the
Church, by the revelation of the Holy Spirit, bringing the Church in and
revealing what day we're living in. Just the same as Gabriel came to
Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to the Church in the last days, to reveal
these deep... these great, deep secret things." 

     Now, what I read here in Ephesians was, "That the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you." That's the
Ephesian Church, not the individuals. The spirit He was giving the
individuals was already given to them individually in verses 13, 14, and
15. 

(17)     …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:

	

     And you’ll notice at that time, the specific understanding in
verse 18 was to be accrued unto them, and in verse 19 the resurrection
would follow that particular knowledge from that particular Spirit. So,
as Brother Branham said, "The Spirit of wisdom and revelation" - that's
what we're talking about - "comes into the Church."

     Now, we showed you that this was an historical aspect, ah, that
we were going into. In other words, what time would this Spirit come
into the Church? And, what would be the reason? One of the reasons? And
he said, "Just as Gabriel came to Daniel." 

     Now, that lets you know that, ah, this would be at the end time
when that which was sealed up, ah, to the Jews and consequently to the
Gentiles, would be released. And also, we showed you that this Spirit of
wisdom and revelation in a knowledge of Him, ah, was here because it was
that Spirit of wisdom and knowledge wherein the plan of God stood in
election, both for Jew and Gentile. And, ah, you had to see from
Scripture how that the courses of both under election would run out. So,
it was this Spirit that would be given to the Church at the end time.
And when it was, it was designating that the course of history had run
out, that this was that spoken of in the Scripture, the end of all
things has come up before Him as in the Book of Gen...of Genesis at the
time of Noah, that which is also spoken by Him who raised His hand and
swore by Himself that time should be no more. We saw that on Wednesday
night. 

2.   Now, we're going to further look at this Scripture because
Brother Branham makes some pertinent statements concerning the Gentiles,
that at the last day of The Lord Jesus Christ in Spirit form would deal
with the Gentiles as He had dealt with Israel. So, we're going to read
from "The Feast of The Trumpets", chap... verse... um, paragraph 2,
beginning on page 35.

     "But the prophet said, 'The Son will not shine through this day;
it'll be a day of gloom.' They've had enough Light, like a real rainy
day, they could join churches, and believe the Lord, and things like
that. But, he said, 'In the evening time, the clouds will move away, the
denominations will fade.' And the same Gospel, the same Word made flesh,
as He promised in Luke 17:33. The same Gospel, with the same thing,
would take place in the evening time, just when the shadows are getting
low. The same Gospel, the same Christ."

     Now, look, you're, ah, perhaps not thinking the way I'm
thinking. I'm thinking, as I read these verses, same Gospel, same Word
made flesh; same Gospel, same thing; same Gospel, same Christ. See,
there's where my emphasis are: the same. We'll go into this a little
later on at the end of the message. 

     [2 Corinthians 11:2]

(2)      For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused you to one

           husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to
Christ. 

(3)       But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his

subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is
in Christ.

(4)	For he that cometh preacheth another Jesus...

     Now, do you believe that happened? If you didn't you don't
belong here. You don't belong anywhere. I'm just being honest with you.
You just don't belong, because they preached another Jesus. 

(4)	...or receive another spirit

     Now, you say, "That couldn't happen." 

     Then Paul's a liar, and you're wonderful. No, Paul wasn't a
liar. The guy that believes different is a liar. Another gospel, which
is another word. At the end time, same Jesus, same Word made flesh, same
everything. You follow what I'm saying now? 

 3.  Alright. If you're not used to my style of preaching, it's all
right, I don't like it myself too much either. I make my point by
sarcasm. If you don't like that then you better get a hold of God and
blame Him because He was sarcastic and so was Jesus and so was Paul and
so was Job. I'm not advocating sarcasm, but you can only get your points
across many times by sarcasm. And I am not sarcastic with you. It's
people I'm sarcastic with, principles that people endorse, and then they
got the nerve to sit around as though they're spiritual. Hog wash. Worse
off than the Roman Catholic Church. Alright. 

     "Same Gospel, same Christ that lived in the flesh back yonder at
the beginning, on the eastern people, shall live again in the Western
people at the end time. 'It shall be Light in the evening time'."

    That's that Spirit he's talking about in "Daniels Seventy", which
I'm talking about in Ephesians 1:17.

     " 'All Scripture is given by inspiration,' and cannot be
broken."

     You didn't even know there was a Scripture there on this subject
that could be broken, hey? Don't feel bad, I didn't know either. Not
that I was supposed to know, but I'm that smart. 

     "The big Fifty days has passed over. The Pentecostal feast has
passed over, seven sabbaths; until the trumpets, a type of the Seventh
Church Age. Remember, remember, the... under the Sixth Trumpet, the
Jew... Are you listening? Under the Sixth Trumpet, the Pentecostals
reject the Bible; the lukewarm, not only the Pentecostals, all the rest.
The world church rejects Christ and He is put on the outside. And in the
same Trumpet... or same Seal, rather, when It was opened, to show Jesus
on the outside of the church, trying to get back in; at the same time,
the Trumpet sound for the Jews, and the Jews, and the Jews recognize the
Atonement."

     Now, he's just giving you Scripture on what actually happens at
the end time, under what part in the Book of Revelation. 

     "The Holy Spirit has been bound by these denominational rivers,
almost two thousand years, but is to be loosed in the evening time, by
the evening-time Message. The Holy Spirit back in the Church again;
Christ, Himself, revealed in human flesh, in the evening time. He said.
He promised it."

     Where'd He promise it? Where'd He promise it? You think this man
knew the Bible? Or did he not know the Bible? Now, Brother Branham can't
bring something out of thin air. He condemned himself on the Seals, when
he categorically stated that under those Thunders, which literally were
the Seals revealed, It was not something to be added to the Bible, It
was already in the Bible. It remained there as the revelation yet to be
brought forth.

     Alright, he said, "There was three stages of it, as I said. The
martyrs age...martyrs...age for martyrs; and the stage of reformers; now
the calling out time." Calling out time? Is that Bible? 

     "When finished, at Laodicean Age, according to Revelation 10,
the mystery of all the Bible would be known to the Bride. Is that right?
Revelation 10. Now listen close. Bride, called out by the Word; Christ
Himself calling out the Bride, making plain Hebrews 13:8, 'the same
yesterday, today, and forever. He that believeth on Me, the works that
I do shall he does also.' " Singular. Remember, singular. Not plural,
singular. "Luke 22"...no, let me see, "Luke 17:30, also Malachi 4,
Hebrews 4, all these Scriptures that's promised, this is to be between
the Sixth Seal and the Seventh." Of course, he doesn't mean that that
would be chronological, necessary, the way it's put in the Bible there.

4.  Now, we'll go to page 39 because I don't intend to read everything
in here. That's not my purpose. I just want to read a bit to get you to
understand why I'm preaching the way I'm preaching. 

    "Look, I want to say one more thing. Closely now; don't miss this.
How striking! From the seventh angel's (that's the messenger of the
Seventh Seal) Message...Revelation 10, was the Seventh Seal, to the
Seven Trumpets, between those two times...

     O God, how can we say This, to make the people see It?

     It's between that Sixth Trumpet... Sixth Trumpet, Sixth Seal
sounds at the same time. And between the Sixth Trumpet and the Seventh
Trumpet, there is a prophet to appear before the Gentiles, to call the
people back to the original Pentecostal Doctrine; and the two witnesses
of Revelation 11 appear to the Jews, to send them to Jesus, while the
Church is being taken up. All of them, prophets! The Word of the Lord
cannot be broken. It won't be denomination! 

     Read in your Book here and see if that between the Sixth and
Seventh Trumpet isn't injected in there, with the Jews being called out
between the Sixth and Seventh Plague, we come over to that hundred and
forty-four thousand, which was between that. Do you remember? Between
the Sixth, the Fifth and Sixth" - he's sort of batting it back and
forth is because the memory's not so good - "Between the Sixth and
Seventh Seal, there was a calling of a hundred and forty-four thousand."

     Now, that's where it's placed in the Bible, because between the
Sixth Seal and when It simply mentions the Seventh Seal as silence in
Heaven, the chapter that...are concerning the calling out of the hundred
and forty-four thousand in there as an interpolation, it is... he is not
talking chronologically here.

5.  Look, there's only four Seals that run chronologically. One, Two,
Three, Four. The Fifth, with the Jews under the alter in election, run
concurrently, not necessarily extensively with all four, but mostly with
the Fourth, where the Jews are persecuted unto death at the end time in
- in mass of numbers.

     Alright. The Sixth Seal begins under the Fourth when the-the two
hundred thousand devils are loose at the river of Euphrates, which come
upon the Jews, that took place under the Fourth Seal, more particularly
under Hitler, Stalin, than any other time in history. So number Six is
under the Fourth Seal. Seven is purely revelatory with the coming of the
Lord, spiritual and physical. And remember, in the One coming, "I come
and I do not smite; I come and I do smite."

     Seal number Seven is also under number Four. And you can
understand that because Four is deliverance and there's only four
beasts, there are not five. So, Four - One, Two, Three, Four - is
chronological, and that's the extent of time. Time runs out under the
Fourth Seal.

 6.  Okay. So, therefore, when you read “The Feasts of The
Trumpets”, keep that in mind and understand that what Brother Branham
was saying here is terribly hard to understand unless you yourself can
pick up the chronology and remember the various things that he says that
will give you the understanding that I have given you tonight,
concerning those four Seals. 

     "Then, between that, there was to be a seventh angel's Message,
that has been preaching and condemning the Pentecostals. And Jesus had
been put out; wouldn't have no co-operation with nobody, be on the
outside, rejected. The Bible said so." Well, you know that because
that's Revelation, chapter 3. "For, it's Christ made manifest among us,
Jesus among us all, made manifest in the purity to His Word, making It
known. And if that's...

     This is not just make-up, friends. This is THUS SAITH THE LORD,
the Scripture."

     Now, look, I believe exactly what he said. And with the help of
God, I'm going to prove exactly what he said. If the Holy Spirit does
come into the Church, it's the last time. He does come to the Gentiles
to do the same thing He did for the Jews.

 7.   Alright. I'll take you, first of all, to the Book of Acts, the
3rd chapter. Now, It says in the middle of verse 19, where there should
be a period:

(19)	...when times of refreshing shall come from the Lord.

(20)     And he shall send Jesus Christ, which (was appointed) unto
you:

    But It said, "Hold it. After this great revival, which is a
healing revival" -  now, I've taught that many times, how it is –
“that Jesus is to come physically, but even then, He cannot come
physically until there's a restoration...” 

(21)     ...of all the things, spoken by the mouth of all (the) holy
prophets since the

            world began.

     Now, notice, in conjunction with this coming - not the former
coming where Peter, here, is talking about the Just One that was denied
and crucified and God raised up - but he's talking about the day when He
must come as King.

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

     Now notice, 

(23)     (It'll) come to pass, that every soul, (that) will not hear
that prophet, shall

            be destroyed from among the people.	

     That did not take place in the time when Jesus was here in the
flesh. But it has to take place when He is here at an end time. And
you'll notice, how the emphasis is on the prophetic ministry of Christ -
a prophet.

(24)	Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel that follow after, as many as
has spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

     

     What days? The days in which Jesus was here in His flesh and the
days when He is here, and It says nothing about His flesh because this
takes place just before He comes in His flesh. Now, don't get your minds
made up you're going to throw that back in the days of Jesus because
you're going to get all balled up, because He came as the Lamb to
deliver and not to destroy. And He said, "You can say anything you want
against Me, but when the time comes when the Holy Spirit is here, one
word is blasphemy and you're all finished."

     See, He's not talking about the historical period when He was
back there in the days of His flesh. He's talking about these days here.
(See?)

(25)	Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God
made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

(26)     Unto you first God, having raised up his Son...

  And that word actually is the word for resurrection, raised Him in a
resurrection.

(26)	...sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his

iniquities.

8.    Alright. They saw, in their day, that Christ was raised. First
of all, raised up amongst them as a human being, a prophet, the Lamb of
God; God manifested in flesh, raised up. Then God raised Him from the
dead. And they never saw Him raised from the dead. They saw the evidence
of Him being raised.

     Now, the same promise is given to us that He'll be raised up
amongst us, evidentially, with full evidence that the last time because
"Unto you first." 

     Now, he didn't say, "Unto you God raised Him up."

  

     He said, "Unto you first!"

     So, therefore, there's got to be at least a second. 

     Alright. We see then, the...not only the possibility, but the
certainty, that something very definitive and fantastic concerning Jesus
Christ Himself, the Holy Spirit, will be in our midst at the end time.
And at that time there will be a restoration which will allow Him Who
was incarnated to incarnate Himself once more and come back and take
over His Kingdom.

 9.  Now, that you may know that this is a definitive move of the Holy
Spirit, given to the Gentiles, we'll go to the Book of Matthew, the 12th
chapter. And they are ..?.. before you. 15 - 21.

(15)     But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and
great

            multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

(16)	And charged them they should not make him known:

     You know that that same miracle happened in our day, where there
wasn't one miss when Brother Branham prayed for multitudes, there wasn't
one person healed... not healed, rather, not one person missed. But
anyway, we're looking at this picture, here, two thousand years ago.

(17)     That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
Esaias, saying,

(18)     Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, whom my
soul is

            well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall
shew judgement 

            to the Gentiles.

     Now look, in a Jewish setting, in the flesh, coming to Israel. "He
came unto His Own and His Own received Him not." (See?) Either He was in
the world, the world was made by Him. 

     Now, It says right here, when He came to Israel, having healed the
multitudes, that the witness of God to Him next the Gentiles. Now, you -
you follow what I'm saying? If you don't you're going to get mixed up.
Now, let your own thinking go because you've been taught a lot of goofy
things about this that aren't true. And I will show you some of the
things you've been taught after a while that are not true.

     Alright, continue to read.

(19)	He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice
in the

      	streets.

(20)	A bruised reed he shall not break, (the) smoking flax he shall not
quench,

      		till he send - send forth judgement unto victory.

(21)     And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

10.  Now, I'm going to take this back to Matthew 42 in a moment, but
first of all we want to note some things here in Matthew 12. One, we
first note that the setting that demanded that this placing of an Old
Testament prophecy concerning Christ. In other words, there's an Old
Testament prophecy that demanded a fulfillment and a placing. It was
concerning Christ. 

    Now, notice... we'll notice the context, the placing. Verse 9. Now
here's verse 9 - 14, is what brought out this Old testament placing of
fulfillment of prophesy. 

(9)	And when he was departed thence, he went into synagogue:

(10)     ...behold, there was a man which had (a) hand withered. They
asked him,

            saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they
might accuse

            him.

(11)	 And he said unto them, What man shall be there among you, that
shall 

             have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath
day, will he not lay

                         hold on it, and lift it out?

(12)     How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore, it is
lawful to do

well on the sabbath days.

(13)	Then (said) he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he
stretched it

            forth; and it was restored whole, like the other.

(14)     Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him,
how they

might destroy him.

     Notice especially verse 14:

(14)     ...the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him,
how they might

            destroy him.

     Destroy means "to ruin" - death and punishment. So, we get the
picture, the council to destroy him. 

11.   Okay, who are they? We go back to John, the 8th chapter, and we
begin at verse 37.

(37)	I know (you're) Abraham's seed; but (you) seek to kill me, because
my word (is) no place in you.

(38)     I speak that which I have seen with my Father: (you) do that
which 

	(you've) seen with your father.

(39)    They answered and said, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith, If
(you're)

           Abraham's children, (you) would do the works of Abraham.

(40)     But now (you) seek to kill me, a man that told you the truth,
which I have 

	heard of God: this did not Abraham.

(41)     (You) do the deeds of your father. Then they said, We be not
born of

fornication; we have one Father, even God.

 

(42)     Jesus said, If God were your Father, (you'd) love me: for I
proceeded forth

and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

(43)     Why do (you) not understand my speech? even because (you)
cannot hear

my word.

(44)     (You're) of your father...(you) are of your father the devil,
the lusts of your

father (you) will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not

in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he (speak of) a
lie, he

(speaks) of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

(45)     And because I tell you the truth, (you) believe me not.

(46)     Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth,
why do (you)

            not believe me?

(47)     He (that's) of God heareth God's words; (you) therefore hear
them not,

            because (you're) not of God.

(48)     Then answered the Jews, and said, Say we not well that thou
art a 

		Samaritan, and (has) a devil?

(49)     Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father
and (you)

           dishonour me.

(50)     And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and
judgeth.

(51)     Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he
shall never see

death.

(52)     Then said the Jews, Now we know that thou hast a devil.
Abraham is dead,

and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep - (ah) - my saying, he

shall never taste of death.

(53)     Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and
the prophets

are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

(54)     (And) Jesus answered, if I honour myself, my honour is
nothing: it is my

father that honoureth me; of whom (you) say, that he is your (Father):

12.   Now, this...that's getting pretty close. What if you had a
controversy and claimed you were born again and a prophet came on the
scene, and the Spirit of God came on the scene, fully vindicated, and
said something opposite to what you're saying. Where would you stand?
That's a sobering thought. Everybody says, "Well, I-I'm right."

     I-I'd like you to come up here and just prove one little thing
you're right about. Just give me one little sign. If you can mouth off -
I can make you so happy and mad, tonight, you'll spit in my face. You
ain't got nothing. You don't believe it? Come up and try it. I know
because I can prove it. You'll sit there, you're so sweet and so
wonderful. Let me cross you on your doctrine. Well, I’ll tell you
clear up that I can cut like a barbwire. Not that I intend to. I don't
even have to, I can get people riled up. Just because somebody says
something doesn't make it right. See, that's where the Roman Catholic
church is, and the Protestants, the whole bunch of them, Pentecostals
especially. Because they say it doesn't make it right. Here's God
Himself, in human flesh, arguing with people that are religious.

     "Well", they said, "we're Abraham's seed."

     He said, "Sure, I know you're born after Abraham's physical
flesh. But," He said, "you're not Abraham's children. If you were," He
said, "you'd know what I'm saying." He said, "No place in you for the
Word."

     Now, you think they couldn't quote the law of Moses back to Him,
left, right, and in-between?  Well, there was a Jew up in Canada. He
was the biggest ...?... whore monger I guess under God's creation. But
he knows...he knew the first five Books and all the law and all the
prophets. He knew just about the whole...the whole Old Testament back
and forth, he'd quote It for us. What did that do for him except condemn
him?

13.   Well, I got your attention. Let's keep moving. 

     Now, He said:

(54)     ...of whom ye say, he is your God:

(55)     Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should
say, I know

            him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him,
and keep his

            saying.

(56)     Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it,
and was glad.

(57)     Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not fifty years old,
and thou hast seen

Abraham?

(58)     Jesus said, Verily I - verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham
was, I am.

(59)     (And) they took up stones to (stone) him: but Jesus hid
himself, went out

of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

14.  Alright. Now, let’s go back to Matthew 12 again because that's
what we're talking about. Now, you see, they wanted to kill Him; they
wanted to destroy Him. They took their little ..?.. word against a
vindicated Ministry of which Jesus said, "If I had not done the works
that no other man did, they had not sinned, but now they've both seen
and hated both Me and My Father."

     People sit here tonight, maybe you know something about the
church of Christ, they hate anything to do with divine healing, yet they
say they love God. They're liars, and the Truth isn't in them. Come on,
let's just nail her down. They're going to nail you high to the wall
anyway, so you may as well get ready for it, because they've already
blasphemed the Holy Ghost. 

     Okay, we're talking about Matthew, here, 15 and 16 again.

(15)     ...when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and
great

 multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

     Now, that was... that was absolutely every person was healed that
came in that group. 

(16)	And charged them that they should not make him known:

     Alright. This is followed by Matthew: 22 - 30, the same chapter.

(22)     Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind,
and dumb:

and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

(23)     And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son
of David?

(24)     ...when the Pharisees heard it, they said, (now
that's...that's making Him

the Christ, see? The...) This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by

Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

     "Why," they said, "there's a lot of devils and this is the biggest
devil of the whole works, because He just runs every devil in the
country. It's the biggest devil of all. You're looking at the biggest
devil of all," they said.

(25)     And Jesus knew their thoughts and said, Every kingdom...

     Notice - 'kingdom'. "Well, if He's the big shot, then He's the king
of the devil." 

(25)     ...Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation; and every

city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

(26)     And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself;
how (can) his

kingdom stand?

     Let me ask you a question. If you're born again and God loses you,
where is His Kingdom? He ain't got one, if God saves you to boot you
out. Now, you legalist, we're going to take... not... we're not just
going to wash your hair tonight, we're going to cut it off to wash it.
Where do you get that nonsense? Legal non-nonsense.

(27)     ...if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your
children cast them

out? therefore they shall be your judges.

(28)	But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of
God is

come unto you.

     Now, that's what He says. One of the marks of the presence of the
Kingdom was the casting out of devils. But it didn't mean that the
people would understand it! You hear what I said? Taking devils under
control will be the earmarks of the Presence of the Kingdom, but it
didn't mean that people would understand it.

(29)	Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his
goods,

 except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

(30)     He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth
not with me

scattereth abroad.

     I don't believe Jesus said that to be making up a little bit of
wry humor. Or, is this put in the Bible as simply filled space? I
believe It's true. You're either for or against. There's no neutrality.
How could there have been when He stood there in His aweness, majesty,
and dignity, performing those deeds and taking power and authority over
the devil. (See?) 

15.   Alright. Now, getting into our verses of Matthew 12:17 - 21.
Taking this slow. We'll be here a long time. It's about a five and a
half hour sermon cut down to two, if I can manage. So, that's still a
couple hours, and an hour and a half the other night. 

     Alright. 

(17)     That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
prophet, saying,

(18)     Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom
my soul

is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew 

judgement to the Gentiles.

(19)     He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his
voice in the

streets.

(20)     A bruised reed shall he not break, (the) smoking flax shall
he not quench,

till he send forth judgement unto victory.

(21)     And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. 

     Now, especially verse 18 - especially the last part.

(18)     Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my
soul is

well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show
judgement

to the Gentiles.

     Now, this shows the same One manifested and revealed in Israel
is to have a Ministry to the Gentiles. And notice, the emphasis is on
the Spirit as pertaining to the Ministry. "I will put my spirit upon
him". You reckon that when Jesus died, and before He was flailed with
crucifying, do you reckon that the Spirit of God left Him? It did in the
Garden of Gethsemane - Spirit of God left Him. 

16.   Now, are you thinking enough to get my next thought? What was He
up until the time of the river Jordan, when God came in and filled Him
fully with Himself? Well, He was a man. He was a man two times in that
span.

     Now, therefore, my point is this: did He need to be literally God
manifest in flesh - with the emphasis on the Godhead - to be the
sacrifice?  I'm just going to let this sit - sit...the question sit
there as rhetorical for the season. I'm trying to show you something
here, that at this point He is already differentiating between the
physical and the Spiritual, and it is not the physical that pertains to
the Gentiles, it is the Spiritual that pertains to the Gentiles. 

     "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given", was not given
to the Gentiles, although they come in on It. He came unto His Own, and
He was born into the tribe of Judah to set up a lineage of
foreknowledge, election, and predestination. And He's always called the
man, Christ Jesus. But what I'm trying to set up for you, here, is to
get your understanding straight. Flesh to Israel - Spirit to the
Gentiles, and this One here that had the Spirit upon Him would
spiritually minister to the Gentiles, but to Israel He ministered
physically. "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the
world." You follow what I'm saying?

17.   Alright. Jesus said, "Other sheep I have which are not of this
fold. Them also must I bring."

     When did He bring them? Not in the physical form. He had no
contact with them. The other sheep of the other fold are the Gentiles,
and they come under the Spirit. 

     Now, verses 18 - 21:

(18)     Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom

my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he

shall shew judgement to the Gentiles.

(19)     He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his
voice

in the streets.

(20)     A bruised reed he shall not break, (the) smoking flax shall
he not 

quench, till he send forth judgement unto victory.

(21)	And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

   

     Alright. Listen, I want to ask you a question. Is this Scripture
authentic if this belongs to the Jews? Now, don't look at me sort of
dumb. Look at your Bible. You got your Bibles with you? I want you to
think. If this describes Jesus amongst the Jews, I am a red-headed,
pileated - there's such a thing - wood pecker, because He did side with
the Jews! He took... He'd show with them in-in language, in debate. He
took a whip made out of cords, and beat them out of the temple. The
next, did He cry or did He not cry? He cried at that great day of the
feast and said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink, and
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.   This spake he of
the Spirit, which was not yet given."

     Did He lift His Voice in the streets? He preached in the
streets! And this doesn't have a thing to do with the Jews [Says it with
sarcasm]. Understand what I'm saying? Or do you? If you don't want to
let anybody know but me that you're not getting it, wink. I want to ask
you something. Listen again. Did He strive with the Jews? Well, if
beating people up isn't striving, and He that argued with them and
telling them they're of the devil, and rebuking them on every turn, I
wonder what striving is. If crying isn't raising your voice, tell me
what it isn't. If preaching in the streets isn't making your voice
known, tell me, what is it? 

(20)     A bruised reed he shall not break...

     A reed is a form of support that a shepherd or an older person
might use. Now, when that reed gets old, it gets brittle. And if it
breaks, it'll pierce the hand. He's telling you, here, that  He will
not withdraw support from the Gentiles, but when He supports them He'll
support them all the way through to the end.

 

     The burning, smoking flax is the little plant that contains oil
that's placed in the window to guide the children or the ...?.. to
safety. There's a residence there; there's someone there to help you.
And if someone doesn't keep the oil in the vessel and keep the flax
clean it'll smoke. 

18.   Remember what the Spirit says under the Seals, that you must not
destroy the oil and the wine, that little tiny measure. So, here's the
picture of the Church Ages. The Spirit of God dealing with the Gentiles.
And it’ll look as though there was nothing to Christianity. It would
look as though the hope, the revealed Word, all those things are gone,
but He saves the remnants.

 

     All through seven Church Ages there's the remnants. And that
God, the Holy Spirit, is our refuge and our hope, our only ..?.. And I
don't care how smoky and how murky things look, how dark it is, "At the
evening time, it shall be Light," because He will not destroy either
one.

     And It says, "In his name shall the Gentiles trust."

     Notice, in verse 21, the Gentiles... to the Gentiles It is only
a Name to trust in, thus the man of the Name is not there; Spirit of the
Name is there. (See?)

19.   Let's go to Acts 13:44 - 49.

(44)	…the next sabbeth day came the whole city together to hear the
word of

God.

(45)	…when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy,
and spake against those things which were spoken (of) by Paul,
contradicting and blaspheming.

(46)	Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary the
word   of God should first (be) spoken (unto) you: but seeing (you) put
it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we
turn to the Gentiles. 

     Now, notice...I want you to notice, It says, "The word spoken that
you may have eternal life." 

     

     Now, brother/sister, when you talk about dealing with the Word that
brings Eternal Life, what are you dealing with? Pure, unadulterated Word
of God. Let no one sit here, tonight, to think that Eternal Life is in
any word, but the truly revealed Word. And by truly revealed Word, I
mean anybody can pick up the Bible and read It, and thoroughly, 100
percent, misunderstand It. 

(47)     For so (saith) the Lord... For so hath the Lord commanded us,
saying, 

                        I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles,
that thou (should) be for 

                        salvation unto the ends of the earth.

     

     Do you realize that verse of Scripture puts man in a most
tremendous place. Yet, if it weren't for the apostle Paul, the Gentiles
would not have Light and salvation. You say, "Brother Vayle, I just
don't see how that great God would possibly depend upon a man."

     

     Then you don't know the first thing about God, do you, honey?
Admit it, you're not even saved. I hate to cut like this, but it's the
only way I know how to get people's attention; get them smartened up. If
the prophet had to hue them out of the rock, and it's getting rockier
all the time, don't think the teacher's going to use a cream puff,
because he ain't. And I don't mean I'm stand alone as one teacher in the
world, nobody else. I'm just... I know my ministry.

     

      Look, God used Paul.

(48)	And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, (that doesn't
make anybody a pope - don't think so) they glorified the word of the
Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

     Now listen, if they weren't ordained they never would have
believed. This is one verse that the legalists cannot get around. I
don't care how many translations you get, It all reads the same, "As
many as were ordained believed." If they weren't ordained to eternal
life, they didn't believe, period.

20.  Alright. With that we go to 2nd Corinthians, the 5th chapter, and
verse 16. This is one we've all quoted many times. At least we all know
It.

(16)     Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea,
though we

 have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no 

 more.

     Then what are you going to know Him after? Spirit of God. That's
all. 

     Now, let's just look a little more closely as we go along at
these verses. If that means we're going to keep going back and forth,
over and over them, until we get everything out of them we can possibly
get out of them.

21.   We go to Matthew 12 again. We look at, ah, verse 18, that last
part I suppose, of what we're going to look at, more than anything.
Um...

(18)     ...I will (pour)...put my spirit upon him, and he shall show
judgement 

(unto) the Gentiles… judgement unto the Gentiles. 

     Okay, 20 b - the last part:

(20)     ...he (will) sent forth judgment unto victory. 

     That's also for the Gentiles. 

     Now, in verse 21:

(21)     And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

This which He does will place preeminence in His name, and that Name
will be the standard, unto which they cleave as the ultimate.

22.  Now, we're going to go back to Isaiah 42:1-7, because the
translation from the Hebrew to the Greek leaves much to be desired as to
a better and definitive understanding. The first seven verses:

(1)	Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in who my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgement to the Gentiles.

(2)	He shall not cry, nor lift up (his voice) ...nor lift up, nor cause
his voice to be heard in the street.

(3)       (The) bruised reed he shall not break, smoking flax not
quench: (until) he

bring forth judgement unto truth.

(4)	He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he set judgement in the
earth: and

the isles shall wait for his law.

(5)	Thus saith the Lord God...God the Lord, he that created the heavens,
and

stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which
cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
spirit to them that walk therein:

(6)       I the Lord have called in righteousness, and will hold
thine hand, and keep

thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles;

(7)      To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
prison, and them

that sit in darkness (and) out of the prison house.

     Now, take verse 1. This Messiah to Israel - because that's where He
goes; that's where He's manifested - is going to bring forth judgement
unto the Gentiles. Now, that sounds like punishment but that's not so.
Judgement means verdict, decree, or divine law. The sense of this word,
or meaning, or usage is one - to bring matters to the rule, that is to
be the filter of it, (see), to know just what it really means. Secondly,
could minister justice as a magistrate. So, you can see there, it
doesn't to Paul, ah, set forth anything which is a judgement unto
perdition, but it is certainly, ah, something that - and not just
something that sounds like but that really is - He is talking about the
revealed Word.

     Now, let's just go to see if we can see that ourselves in the
Scripture, by letting the Word interpret the Word. In verse 6:

(6)	I the Lord have called in righteousness, and will hold thine hand,
and will

keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of
the

Gentiles;

     Now, this has nothing to do with Him as a physical being of a
person. The giving of a covenant, when a covenant is made, it is usually
made in writing, it is verbal; something must be said as per an exchange
of understanding, where people can come to an agreement. And It says,
"For a light to the Gentiles," so therefore, Christ comes to the
Gentiles and He definitely is a-a Light. 

(7)	To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners (of) the prison,
and them

that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

23.   Now, just hold your finger there if you want to look for
Scripture. And we're going to go back to the 26th chapter of the Book of
Acts, and we'll read starting at verse 16. Now, this is where this
Light… this Voice, ah, talks to Paul, here. 

(16)	But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee
for this

purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things
which

thou hast seen, and (the) things in which I will appear unto thee;

     Notice, He's going to appear unto him in future.

(17)     Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto
whom I now 

	send thee, 

(18)     To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the

power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins,
inheritance among them (that) are sanctified by faith (which) is in me.

     Now that-that could sound like a healing ministry but it's not.
It's a revelatory ministry; It's a revelation of the Word that is fit to
the Gentiles. Now, 

(19)     Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient the heavenly
vision:

(20)	But-but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and

throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they

should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

(21)     (And) For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and
went about

to kill me.

(22)     Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this
day,

witnessing both to small and great - witnessing both to shall and great,

saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say

should come:

(23)     That Christ should suffer, he should be the first that should
rise from the

dead, and should shew the light unto the people, (even) to the Gentiles.

     

     Now, notice, this takes place after the rising from the dead. And
He was raised unto Israel first, and proven to be raised by
manifestation of signs and wonders, God bearing them witness. (You see?)

(24)	And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice,

Paul, (you're beside thyself; much learning (has made you) mad.

(25)     (And) he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak
forth the words

of truth and (sobriety).

(26)     For the king knoweth of things, (for)...before whom also I
speak freely: for

I am persuaded none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing 

was not done in a corner.

(28)     (And king) Agrippa said unto Paul, thou almost persuaded me
to be a

Christian.

     Alright, we are back in Acts 13:46-49, previously. We don't have to
read It again, but that’s where Paul was given the commission, under
the authority of the prophetic Word of Almighty God, to turn to the
Gentiles. 

24.    So, the man Christ Jesus in flesh was to Israel, but to the
Gentiles It is the Holy Spirit revealing the Name and all that lies in
the Name because He is His Name. What is His Name? Jesus, Jehovah
Saviour. And that's what we're looking at when we look at Ephesians 1:17
and 18.

     Now, we do not know Jesus historically. There's no way. We know
Him spiritually. To the Jew, as a man; to the Gentiles, a revelation of
the man by the Spirit; to Israel, a man; to the Gentiles, a Light. 

25.   Now, let's go back to Isaiah 42 and 1.

(1)	Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul

delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: (and) he shall bring forth

judgement to the Gentiles.

     Now, the revealed Word to the Gentiles - that's the Alpha. That's
exactly what He was to be, the revealed Word to the Gentiles. He comes
as a Light, and the Light brings forth the Truth of the Scripture. Okay,
we go to verse 2.

(2)     He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard
in the street.

     And 3 - 6:

(3)	A bruised reed shall he not break, smoking flax not quench: (till)
he bring

forth judgement unto (the) truth.

(4)       He (will) not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
judgement in the

earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

(5)	(For) Thus saith the Lord, he that created the heavens, and
stretched them

out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he
that

giveth (forth) breadth unto the people upon it, and (the) spirit to them
that

walk therein:

(6)	I the Lord have called thee in righteous, (I'll uphold) thine hand,
keep thee,

and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light (to) the
Gentiles;

     That, to me, is - is a... are the-the church ages, ah, that follow.

     Now, in verse 4, "He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he
have set judgement in the earth." Alright, to 'set' means to establish
what He brought forth in verse 1. Now, what He brought forth there, 

(1)	Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, (Now notice, He's
called His elect. Christ was in the election) in whom my soul
delighteth; I put my

spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.

     That's exactly what He's going to do. He's going to bring forth
that Word so the Gentiles will be set in order. Now, when did He do it?
Never had. Now, you see, we're talking of the people. They never were
set in order, because in the first church age the Word of God began to
drift into, ah, a desecration by the people so that the Truth was lost.
 

     Now, what He brought forth then, in verse 1, absolutely that is
going to be confirmed and is confirmed as that Word. Now, when He sets
that Word - and He has to set that Word - as in Revelation 10 and 7,
from Revelation 10 and 1. 

26.  Now, let's...now, I hope you're following my chronology here,
because my chronology is based upon what Brother Branham asserted. That
One that appeared in Israel absolutely must appear to the Gentiles, and
He will, but He will do it in the form of the Holy Spirit, but it will
be that same One. And He will do it at the end time. It will be just as
definitive as it was to Israel. And the definitive to Israel was: He
spent three and a half years making Himself known, and the Ministry was
cut off. Now, that doesn't say a thing to the Gentiles in three and a
half, but what we're looking at is something which is absolutely in a
parallel that is truly as definitive as it was to Israel because if He
was raised up unto them, He must be raised up unto us, what He was to
Israel. And remember the setting was, back there, in that miracle
Ministry of absolute authentication that He was that One, He cannot be
less in this hour than that One, if there is something there. 

27.   Okay, let's go to Revelation 10:

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

	with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it
were 

	the sun, his feet as pillars of fire:

     Now, that's the same One sitting on the Throne, in the 5th
chap... the 4th chapter of the Book of Revelation. It's the One that's
got the Pillar of Fire… the One Who is the Pillar of Fire; It's the
One Who's got the rainbow. And it says, right here, that He comes down
on the earth as Pillars of Fire. Now, 

(3)	(crying) with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: 

     But the verse I'm looking at is in verse 7:

(7)	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he
shall

begin to sound, the mystery of God should be (completed, perfect, and
run

out), as (God) hath declared the (good news of the Gospel by) his
servants

the prophets.

     So therefore, we see here, a mighty Messenger coming down from
Heaven, coming to earth in the presence of a prophet. Time is running
out, it's all over, and every mystery and the Gospel runs out. (See?) At
that time, He will establish to the Gentiles. In other words,
irrefutably - in my understanding - irrefutably proves that He is that
same One. And it's proven to the Gentiles, not to somebody else. Now, of
course, it doesn't mean the Gentiles are going to believe it, any more
than the Jews believe it. Let's be sensible. 

28.  Now, notice in 42, verses 5-7, this One.

(5)	Thus saith the Lord God, he that created the heavens, and stretched
them

out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he
that

giveth breath unto the people upon it, and (the) spirit to them that
walk

therein:

     That's what... just exactly what Brother Branham said. God gives
a spirit to everyone that is born; it is allowed of God, bit it is not
of God.

(6)       I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
thine hand, and

keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of
the

Gentiles;

     Notice what He said He's going to do. That One would be absolutely
sustained and perfected by Him. And remember, His resurrection proved
His death; proved that He was that worthy One, because It says death
could not hold Him. There was no way. I-I don't care if He was killed -
and I'm not-I'm not for one minute obviating the power of the-of the
atonement. In fact, I started with the atonement that here was a man,
and you can obviate the Spirit because he was that body prepared and God
came into him, and that same Spirit left him in Gethsemane. 

     Now, you're looking at a very special body, a very special man,
but you're still looking at a man. Now, that's the One that God upheld.
(See?) And He was given to Israel in the flesh. (See?) That same One. Of
course, his flesh is going to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and so
on. But, in the interim, He is given to the Gentiles as a Light. (See?)

29.   Now, the point is, I want to ask you a question. If that is the
same One that did the miracles, that cast out devils, that He ..?.. the
setting of Isaiah 42, when is it to happen when the same things happen
again to prove He's that One? Well, It tells you. It has to do with His
Kingdom. 

(4)	He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgement in
the

earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

     Tells you right there, as Paul says in Ephesians, "He hath made
them both one" - One body. And They'll be in the Millennium; They'll be
there together. Every single elected one is going to be there. 

     Now, It says at this point, here, that absolutely He is going to
"set judgement into the earth, and the isles shall wait for his law".
Absolutely, they are waiting for that One to come forth in flesh, and
reign over the whole earth. Now, what One? That One that appears in the
Spirit at the end time.

30.   Okay. We might also read Isaiah 49:1-7. Not just trying to get a
lot of Scripture in here, but I like this portion. 

(1)	Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord
hath

called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made
mention of my name.

(2)	…he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his
hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he
hid me;

(3)       And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom
I will be

glorified.

(4)	Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for
nought,

in vain: (for) yet surely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work
with

my God.

(5)	And (he said)…And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb
to

be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
gathered,

yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my

strength.

(6)       And he said, It is a thing that thou (should) be my servant
to raise up the 

tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of  Israel: I will also
give thee for a light to the Gentiles, (and) thou mayest be (that) my
salvation...be my

salvation unto the end of the earth.

(7)	Thus saith the Lord, the redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to
whom

man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers,

Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the
Lord

that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, he shall choose thee.

     Now, you can see Israel turned Him down. You can see the whole
history here. Yet this same One is to be a Light to the Gentiles. Now,
what we're getting across to you is that He never does appear to the
Gentiles in the flesh. It's in the Spirit. (See?) But you got to look at
the-the ways that God did His great works all through the Scripture,
which we're looking into.

     Now, we're looking into the fact that at some time, some time
God, as the prophet said, is obligated and must cause Jesus to appear
amongst and do amongst the Gentiles what He did in Israel. And you
get...and if you're following me tonight, with even a half a mind open,
and I'm sure you got your minds open, you can see that the very, ah -
Brother Branham called it panoramic, I don't like calling it that - the
very setting wherein He was manifested to be that One in the flesh, will
require the same setting in this hour to prove He's that one in the
Spirit, because remember what It says. It is coming the hour when that
Light will demonstrate that He is that One in whom the Gentiles trust.
And it is He Who is here to set up His Kingdom.

     Now, I don't know if you caught that when I read all these
verses of Scripture. I'm trying to bring them to your attention.

     Now, in Isaiah 49, again, 1-7, which I read. 

(7)	Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One (or
his Holy One), to whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth,
a servant...to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes
also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy
One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

31.   Now, that's because He is a Light. Now, how is-is His Kingdom
established. Now, let's go to 1st Corinthians 15, and we'll see exactly
how this takes place. Aright. Verse 50:

(50)	Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom 

	of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

    How is He going to get His Kingdom? How is He going to be
worshiped? There's only one way. That's in a resurrection unto
immortality. 

32.   So, notice, [Isaiah 49:6]

(6)	...It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up
the tribes 

	of Jacob, to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for
a light

to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be (to) my salvation unto the end of
the

earth.

     And what comes out of it? The resurrection. So, I'm placing, and
I'm not simply placing this Light at the end time, previous to the
resurrection. That same Light that appeared to the apostle Paul,
absolutely will be the same Light that comes at the end time. I'm not
saying It didn't come at the first. What I'm saying, here, is that when
He appears to the Gentiles, as that Light, the raising up of a Kingdom,
it is... it will have to be just previous to the resurrection. 

33.   Now, we're not through talking on this subject yet. Let's go
back to Matthew 12. Just keep your thoughts in order the best you can. I
know it's a little bit difficult, maybe, but we got other Scripture to
go into. But I want to deal with this more than any other portion. The
14th verse:

(14)     Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him,
how they

might destroy him.

     Alright. That's the Alpha; now watch the Omega. And I won't take
time to read this, but in the Omega you will find Revelation, chapter
13. You read it to yourself. You know what we're looking at. This is
America - thirteen calling, thirteen everything, raising up an image to
the beast, which means that America that came away from Europe to
destroy from her midst the Romans Catholicism, which was in her, to have
a system which would be the void of the church corruptions and
organization, finally comes to doing the very same thing in America,
here, by bringing the Protestants together to put a man as her head. The
American council of churches and the world council of churches. And in
here, you will see that the mark of the beast takes place, and there is
a complete repudiation of Almighty God.

34.   Now - I just left that sit there - back to Matthew, the 12th
chapter, 15 - 21.

(15)	(And) Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great

multitudes followed him,

(16)     And charged them that they should not make him known:

(17)     That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet
Esaias, saying,

      See, in other words, they could not possibly have Him in the
revelation as a nation because the revelation that went to nation was to
the Gentiles by the Holy Spirit. Alright. Reading down to verse, ah, 21.

(21)	And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

     We read It sufficient. You know It. All these years from the
apostle Paul, until now, there has been no Voice of the Bridegroom.
There is a promise of revelation, but none since the Bride went off
course, in 2nd Corinthians 11 and 4, which I read to you at the start of
the message. Things just drifted, or as the prophet said, they guessed
at it, but nothing came of it. But watch in verse 20. 

(20)	A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not
quench,

till he send forth judgement unto victory.

     Now, that's what we're looking at, tonight. And, the Omega, the
20th verse, promised that 18: "He shall show judgement", is going to be
fulfilled. Now, watch what I'm saying, here. 

(18)     Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my
soul is

well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgement

to the Gentiles.

     That is absolutely ...?... that is given as a promise, that that
judgement, the revelation, the-the Word set in order to the Church, is
going to be theirs. Now, notice, It says here, His ministry will not be
one of a personal identification, but when He does come, "The bruised
reed He shall not break, the smoking flax he shall not quench."

35.   Now, you know what Brother Branham taught in "The Seven Church
Ages." The little light all but went out, the little needle all but
dwindle, the little oil was all but gone, the bread was all but
dissipated; there was hardly any one thing left, and yet God had
charged, "Don't you dare allow that to go and, ah, completely finalize -
be gone," It says - now watch - "till he sends forth judgement unto
victory." 

     Now, He promises you, here, the state of man will be dangerously
close to being broken, but He won't allow it. The-the revelation of the
Word of God will be dangerously close to be absolutely nothing anymore,
but it won't happen, (you see?), till He come and set it in order
Himself. And at that time, there will be a trust in His revealed Name.
(You see?) There will be a trust.

     Now, I ask you a question. What was the revelation of this hour?
There is one God... what... and His name is One. These verses here are
what came into magnificent display at the end of the age under a
prophet. So many people were not aware of it, as I myself would never
have no more known these verses, here, than nothing except just led to
them by the Lord in revelation. 

     Now, as I've said before, verse 21 stresses the Name; stresses
illumination of the Name, through six church ages. That Name, to begin
with, was known but became almost totally unknown, until the very end of
time. And in the sixth age, at the end of it, there was a glimmer of
hope given concerning that Name. But under the seventh age, is when the
Name would be known. 

36.   Now, Matthew 19 again...rather 12 and 19.

(19)     He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his
voice in the

            streets. (And so on).

37.   Alright. Um, let's go back to Revelation; to the Laodicean Church
Age, because that's what we got to deal with. 20 and 21:

(20)     Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: (and) if any man hear
my voice, 

	and open the door, I will come into him, and sup with him, and he with

me.

      Notice, He stands at the door, and knocks. He's not lifting His
Voice, He's not striving, there is nothing He is doing. He's just there.
The gentle knocking at the door. And He says, "If a man open the door,
I'll come into him, and sup with him, and he with me." And then It says:

(21)     To him that overcometh I will grant to sit with me in my
throne, as (I'm

overcome), and set down with my Father in his throne.

     Now, notice what we're looking at, here. We're looking at the fact
the establishment of the Throne on earth. Now, you're putting it
together. I hope you are, because it is my understanding, here, that it
is at this time that this happens, the Kingdom is in our midst, without
observation, and It is coming as a Light, will establish the Gentiles in
the Kingdom.

     Now, you say, "Well, why in the world is that necessary?"

     Well, why in the world is not necessary? Now, you see, I asked
you a question. Now, if you caught my question, and if you heard what I
read a little while ago, you got the answer. 

38.   Let's go back to 1st Corinthians 15. Now watch, beginning at verse
20. 

(20)     But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them

that slept.

(21)     For since by man came death, by man also came the
resurrection of the

dead.

(22)     For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all made
alive.

(23)     But every man in his own order; Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that 

	are Christ's at his (presence).

Now, who's going to be present for the resurrection? That One that took
upon Himself a human form. Now, watch carefully.

(24)     Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the
kingdom to

God. When does that Kingdom start? It starts in the Millennium,
right? 

     Alright, you'll notice that those who are raised are already
guaranteed a part in the Millennium. 

     Say, "Well, all it takes then is a resurrection."

     You made a mistake. You didn't listen to what I read. [1
Corinthians 15:50-51]

(50)     Now this I say, brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom of 

		God; neither corrupt (can incorrupted). 

(51)     Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep; we
shall all be

changed,

39.   See, you're looking...you are looking at the Light that
establishes the Kingdom. And the Light is not to the dead. They've
already gone on. "The bruised reed he did not break; the smoking flax he
did not quench." They got just enough to get them into the rebirth and
into the Kingdom, (you see?), based on the fact of being born again, but
there's not one thing said about those standing here, are in that
position. 

     Now, there is the where... there is where the Light appears to the
Gentiles; where the Voice is not raised, where there's no striving, no
arguing. He just simply stands at the door and knocks, and the knocking
is a revelation; the revealed Word in our midst, and He is there for the
purpose of establishing His Kingdom.

40.  Now, let’s go back to Matthew again. Now, I'm repeating myself
in various ways in order to see this as full as we can. In verses 9-14,
He went out of their synagogue, He healed a man who had a withered hand.
And they said, "Just a minute, You're working on Sunday. We just don't
allow anybody to do anything on a Sabbath day."

     So, He deals with them, and when He deals with them, the
Pharisees held a council so they might destroy Him. Now, Christ busted
wide open their traditions and works and so did the prophet. So, a
council was formed to kill the man of the Name. 

41.  Now, in this hour, Brother Branham had a vision. It was a man
striking a woman with a triangular club - like a split log which has
three sides - and he said, "That was my father, but it wasn't my father;
that was my mother, but it wasn't my mother." And he said, "What it was,
was the organization run by the denominational heads, and every time the
woman was trying to get a revelation of the Name and one God, the
denominational organized husband beat her down,” (see?) - forming a
union. 

     And you can't go anywhere, at this hour, and find any group of
people that cater to Christian religion so that they would lift the
burden of finances to the procurement of necessary equipment or
merchandise, for what they make you sign a card that you believe in one
God who is a tri...who is a trinity of a Father, and a Son, and a Holy
Ghost.

     Now, you just try and find any organization anywhere, because I
know what I'm talking about. They have made organizations to supply
churches with-with the, ah, equipment and things that they might want
for missionaries that might have certain things that they need on the
field, for ministers who might need certain things, ah, pertaining to
making their work easier. And they have made it possible to discount,
but you've got to sign the card that says you're a Trinitarian. 

     Now, the Roman Catholics will allow people to be married before
they're altered, even if it's a Protestant. They didn't used to be for
it, but the Catholics said, "We made a mistake. As long as you're
baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is our
baptism, you can stand there because you're one of us." See, you got it.

    So, therefore, you have the image forming the council to come
against the Name of the man, the same as they came against the man with
the Name. Now, when's that going to take place? It's only going to take
place in the end time.

     Now listen, why did they come against the man of the Name?
Because He produced the power in the Name. Now, just think for one
minute, that they're going to come against the Name of the man if the
power hasn't been there? Now, I said a little while ago that Jesus
healed all the people at a certain time. This happened in Brother
Branham's ministry several times, that when people came, there wasn't
one person there wasn't healed. And you can't find that record
anywhere, except at this end time. And the records that happen to live
parallel.

42.   Now, remember, let's get this flat, that the apostle Paul, the
one with whom God dealt, was called a Light unto the Gentiles. In other
words, he stood in a formidable place of that One that God was using in
the Presence of the Spirit. 

     Now, how could a man be a Light? There's only one way a man can
be a Light and that is he will inform the other person concerning
certain things, and in this case, the information will be about God
Himself because the Scripture said, "The spirit of wisdom." And Brother
Branham placed the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in a certain defying
period of history. And the apostle Paul did the same thing. And when
that Spirit came, there would absolutely be the definitive revelation of
Him Who is God. And that revelation would constitute the Light. And
remember, Jesus is the Light and He is the revelation of God. And
remember, - Now, let's understand this very, very, clearly now - in Him
was Life and the Life was the Light of man. That separates it.

     So, hope that you're beginning to see what I'm driving at, at
this particular time.

     Now, it all started back in 1933, in June 11th, as Brother
Branham was baptizing the seventeenth convert.  

 43.   Now listen, Jesus Name, revelation, brought the mighty miracles
of Matthew 12:22-23 ..?.. They brought deaf and dumb, and they were
healed. Then it brought the rejection of verses 24-30. And now, today,
it is the death plague of Egyptian separation of Matthew 12:31-37.  

(31)     Wherefore I say unto you; All manner of sin and blasphemy
shall be

forgiven unto men: but blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be

forgiven unto men.

(32)     And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it
shall be

forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall
not 

be forgiven him, neither in this world, (nor) in the world to come.

     Now, listen, there's only one other place in the Bible that makes
these dire statements, and that is, "He that addeth a word shall have
the plagues added; and he that takes away shall have his life take...
name taken out of the Book of Life."

44.  Now, there's only one way that anybody could virtually and
positively blaspheme the Holy Ghost, and that is when the irrefutable,
incontrovertible evidence has been placed before the people that this is
that One and they reject It, and say it out and qualify It as being of
the devil. That is the one time that that...that the people will fall
into the harm of the unforgivable sin. 

      Now, it happened back there under the apostles because theirs
was the pure God; they had the Gospel, they had the Name, they had
everything just exactly right. But there never was a time since then
that that Light would be irrefutable. Men looked at it, and there was
just enough Light there, where a man could...or strength, where a man
could lean upon it and not break ...?... There was just enough Light in
the smoky condition that man could get by, but at evening time it shall
be Light, (see?), when He hurls forth judgement unto victory; when He
has a magistrate. And remember, Brother Branham saw Him as a Judge. When
He as a Judge will come, and set the Word in order, properly defined and
interpreted, so that His rama... legal ramifications can be brought to
pass. 

(32)     And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it
(will) be

forgiven him: (True) but (when you speak) against the Holy Ghost, it
shall

not be forgiven him, neither in this world, (nor) the world to come.

     Now, remember, brother/sister, if it hadn't been for the Son of
man, had not been for the Son of man revelation, they never would have
come to the place of blaspheming the Holy Ghost. Did you hear what I
said? It was the Son of man revelation. "He that speaketh a word against
the Son of man, this revelation here," He said, "what I am giving you,
concerning Me proven to be that One by My ministry." Now, He said,
"Alright, you're...that, ah, you're getting away with it now, but
there's coming a time when, positively, once that is over, once the
proof has been fully vindicated, and the Holy Spirit begins doing these
works, there is no time that you will ever be forgiven."

45.   Alright, we're reading then, down to, um, really must be
further...verse 33, here:

(33)     Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make
the tree 

	corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

     Now listen, let's get a picture here, now. When He spoke to these
people under the conditions which they were, He lumped them all together
as a tree. One tree, one fruit. What about the day when the Protestants
all come together as one tree, one fruit; and then the Catholics come
together, one tree and one fruit. He that makes the tree good.

(34)     O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out

of abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

(35)     A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth
forth good

things; an evil man (with) evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 

(36)     But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall
speak, they shall 

	give account of in the day of judgement.

(37)     For by thy words shalt thou be justified, and by thy words
thou shalt be

condemned.

     Now, you notice right here, brother/sister, that the whole thing
fell back in disrepute upon them because of their evil testimony,
because they did not have the revelation. And He said, "By your words
you're justified, and by your words you are condemned. 

46.  Alright, let's just find a little bit about that in Malachi
[3:16].

(3)	Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the
Lord

hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written (out)

before him for them that feared the Lord, and (they) that thought upon
his name.

(4)       And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day
when I make up my

jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son...

     When did that happen? Under Elijah's ministry. He said, "I'm
coming, and I won't condemn because Elijah's there." But, He said,
"After that's over, I'm coming and I will condemn."

     Alright. Now, you see the - the death plague of Egyptian
separ... of the separation from Egypt. Blasphe... blasphemy against the
Holy Ghost because they have denied the evidence that this was that One
and therefore, they will consequently blaspheme the Holy Ghost, even as
Eve blasphemed Jesus Christ our Lord. 

47.   Let's keep reading. Down to 38.

(38)     Then certain scribes of Pharisees answered, saying, Master,
we see a sign 

	from thee.

(39)     (And) he answered and said, An evil and adulterous generation
seeketh

after a sign; and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of
the prophet Jonas:

(40)     For Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly; so shall the

Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

(41)     The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgement with this
generation, and

condemn it: because they repented (not) at the preach...they repented at
the 

preaching of Jonas; and a greater than Jonas is here.

     Now, listen, Jonas simply stepped out of the mouth of the whale, of
course, and then they - they believed in the God of the sea, so
therefore, they accepted him. I understand that very perfectly. But
notice, they repented simply at preaching. And a greater was there than
just a preacher. 

(42)     The queen of the south shall rise up in judgement with this
generation, and

condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon; and a greater than Solomon is here.

Let's keep reading.

(43)     When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry

places, seeking rest, and (finds) none. 

(44)     Then he (said). I will return (to) my house from whence I
came out; and

when he is come, he (finds) it empty, swept, and garnished.

(45)	(He goes out, and walks with himself) seven other spirits more
wicked

than himself, (shall) enter and dwell (within) the last state of that
man is

worse than the first. (And) Even so shall it be unto this wicked
generation.

     Now listen, He's not talking about a man getting in sin, here, and
getting messed up. He's talking about that generation. Now look, He
starts with a tree, and then He tells you every single person in that
generation is going to have to account for what's comes out of his
mouth, what his revelation is. Then they say, "Alright, you're going to
give us a sign."

     And He said, "There is no sign given you, but the sign of the
prophet Jonas." 

     Now watch, the sign has to be the sign for that hour. And when
that sign for that hour comes, there isn't another sign. And you can
want all the signs you want, but He says that, at that time, that you
are required in judgement. These will rise up against you who have no
sign. And you're going to be condemned.

     Now listen, 

(43)     When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walk(s)
through  

 dry places,

      Alright. Seventh church age of Gentiles, God gave a revelation.
And at the end of the time when they turned down the revelation, that
age was in worse shape than it ever was. Every age went through the same
thing. So shall it be with this wicked generation. Turn... you see...
follow, now, carefully. Every generation had a revelation. When it ran
its course, that generation was in worse shape than it was to begin
with. The second generation starts - that is the second church age - the
life we sinned. Now, you got all the hangers on from the first church
age coming up into the second church age, and you got a few out of them.
Now they're seven times worse. 

     Now you got those coming up from the one, two, and three,
because they're coming up. The same spirit, the same bunch, they keep
coming up, just like those four great nations of the four beasts come
right on down from Babylon, right on down to Rome today. 

     Alright, the first church age reproduces its rottenness in the
second church age. The second church age reproduces one and two in the
third. (See?) Then one, two, three, into four. One, two, three, four,
into five. One two, three, four, five, into six. One, two, tree, four,
five, six, into seven. Seven devils. This age is the rottenest age.
(See?)

     Now, even thus it'll be.

(46)     While he talked to the people, behold, his mother and his
brethren stood 

	without, (wanting) to speak with him.

(47)     Then (he) said, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand
without,

(wanting) to speak (to you).

(48)     (And he said), Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

     (See?) I ask you a question. Can the church ever produce Christ?
There's no way. Denominations never did it. His mother, His father, and
the rest, all stood there as products of that generation in that hour.
And that's going to be the same thing in this hour. How can this seventh
church age, seven times rottener than all ages combined together, how is
it going to produce Christ? There is no way. Christ must produce
Himself. (See?)

48.   Alright, let's look at Israel. They had their seven church ages so
rotten, yet they were supposed to be the holiest, they were supposed to
be the best. Brother Branham said the holiest people, the holiest city,
the Holy God, the holy everything. They crucified the Lord of Glory. 

     Now, "Because thou sayest thou art rich, increased in goods and
don't lack a thing, and yet knowest not they're wretched, poor, and
miserable, blind and naked." This age. "I'm outside the door." They put
Jesus out. What was He? The man. Now, what do they put out at the end
time? They put Him out as the Spirit.

     Now listen, how can you put something out if you don't know it's
there? Put the cat out. Didn't know I had a cat. How am I going to put
the cat out? How are you going to put Him out if you don't know He's
there? 

     See, we're trying to get across to you, that Brother Branham
said, "In the Bible, here," he said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Holy
Scripture, absolutely, Christ will appear to the Gentiles; at the
evening time it shall be Light."  And He is a Light to the Gentiles.
(See?) 

     Now, remember, He will not break that reed, He will not cause
the lamp to go out until He establishes; until the Light proves that He
was the Light all along. You follow what I'm saying? Proving that He was
that Light. Didn't Jesus prove that He was that Logos that followed
Israel? Certainly He did. What about our day? He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever. He will prove Who He is, and He proves Who He is.
(See?) Alright, it all ends at this particular time. 

49.   Now, that Light, ah, separates the Bride. We go to Matthew 12:46 -
we read it - to 50.

 

(48)     ...Who is my mother? who (is) my (brother)?

(49)     And he stretched forth his hand (to) his disciples, and said,
Behold my

mother and my brethren!

(50)	For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven,
the same

is my brother, and sister,

     Now, notice, what is the will of God? To believe the doctrine. You
cannot establish and never have been able to establish the principle of
the programs of works to identify yourself with God. There is no way.
The identification lies in the Light. See, walking in that Light;
understanding the Light. 

50.   Now, Matthew 24:23 - 27:

(23)     Then if any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, or (lo) there;
believe it not.

(24)     For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets,
and shew great

signs and wonders; insomuch, were possible, they shall deceive the very

elect.

(25)     Behold, I told you before.

(26)     Wherefore if they say, Behold, he is in the desert; go not
forth: in the

secret chambers; believe it not.

     And listen.

(27)     For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even
unto the west;

so shall also the (presence) of the Son of man be.

     Now, you notice right here, there is a presence of the Son of man,
and that's what He called Himself, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God." And He said, "You can speak a word against Me at this time,
as Son of man, because I'm here in the flesh."

     But hold it, He is not here in the flesh. He is a Light. And
this Light comes at the time others come, only He precedes it, because
you can't have a false prophet until there's first of all a true
prophet, because a false prophet is one who is off the Word, and a true
prophet is one who's on the Word. And you cannot have a false unless you
have a true, because if you didn't have the true, and you had a false,
the false would be true, because that's about a counterfeit. You can't
have a counterfeit unless there's a genuine. But if there's no genuine,
the counterfeit is the genuine because it's the original.

     Now, He says right here, there is going to be this problem of
Light. Now, that...remember, back there they couldn't identify Him. They
said, "Alright, this is not that Seed, this is the other seed. He is
casting out devils by the kingdom of Satan, and He's the big wheel in
the kingdom.'

     He said, "You get away with it right now, but the day is
coming," He said, "when you won't."

     Now what... now listen, what was it that provoked them to say
it? The mighty miracles. Now, they could get away with it then, but when
He does it over here they can't get away with it, because He's talking
about the same thing, because attributing to Satan, the works of
Almighty God, and making Jesus the anti-Christ, making Him Satan, an
incarnation of the enemy, making Him that wicked thief, positively was
based upon the miracle Ministry that He had. They saw the miracle
Ministry and Jesus said they both hate...they both hated Him and His
Father.

     So, therefore, now, at this end time we see there's the Light
will return. 

51.   Now, we keep on reading over here. 40 and 41.

(40)     Then shall two be in the field; one taken, (one) left.

(41)     Two grinding at the mill; one taken, and the other left.

     Now, that is not the Rapture. That is the separation, because the
Rapture does not follow at that time. The Lord is delaying His
coming.... delaying, and so on down the line.

     Alright, I think I read sufficiently over here in Matthew 12.
I'm going to just...look, I got pages and notes, here, just weed this
back and forth, but I'm not going to weed it back and forth anymore. I
think you get the understanding of what we're talking about.

52.   Let's go now to Luke the 17th chapter, because that follows over
here in Matthew the - the, ah, 24th chapter. Now, look at It. In verse
20.

(20)     ...when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of
God

should come, he answered (unto) them and said, The kingdom of God 

cometh not with observation:

     In other words, It'll come and you can't see It come. It'll be
there and It won't be one thing to commend It to you as per it coming,
but when It's there somebody ought to know that It is there.     You
mean to tell me the Kingdom of God could come and nobody know it? Well,
It says right here, It can come and nobody know it. 

(21)     Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold,
the kingdom of

God is (amongst) you.

     Now, what He's telling them right here is, "Look, It's going to be
under your noses. And if you're not given the ability to see It, you're
not going to see It." 

     Now, do you understand what I'm saying? Now, listen, this... the
Gentiles are to be established by the Light of the Holy Spirit at the
end time. And It can come and nobody know it, cause He's talking about
Himself! He said, "It's here right now." 

     You understand what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a
Kingdom that is here that is not yet established, but It will be
established. Now look, there can't be a Millennium until there's a
resurrection. And the resurrection does not affect the living. They do
not get resurrected. They got to get changed. (See?)

53.   Now, therefore, the Light does not come to the dead. Their light
was okay to get them the bruised reed, the smoking flax, got them there,
but that won't put the Kingdom in! It won't bring back Christ. You see
where Brother Branham's just saying, "They're not going to get Him back
to denominations, creeds and organization. Why," he said,
"there's...where there's not enough power amongst the church in faith,"
he said, "they have a little bit of healing these days," he said, "How
are you going to get a resurrection? How are you going to get a rapture?
But," he said, "those Seals opened, gave the Bride everything to put her
in a Rapture."

     The Light has come! And it's the Light that sets an order! You
understand what I'm telling you? Shout, Voice, Trumpet. Christ Himself
using a prophet. Christ Himself, the Light. (I'll talk about this Sunday
night more) The Light shining on the people. The people receiving
revelation. They are now ready for the Rapture, the resurrection,
because they without us cannot be made perfect, signifying a perfection
among the Bride. "That which is perfect has come." Showing all things
are at the end now.

54.  Now listen, we're here. We're at that very place. 

(21)     Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, there! for, behold, the
kingdom of God 

	is (in the midst of) you.

     They looked right at Him and said, "That's the devil." They looked
right at Him and said, "That's only a man." They looked right at Him and
said, "Well, He sure ain't Moses and He sure ain't Abraham. I can't
figure that guy out." They looked at Him and they said, "Well, I tell
you what, everybody's got an idea, everybody's got an opinion. The whole
world's gone nuts after Him. Well, I'll tell you one thing, if we don't
get rid of Him, we'll have no place in the Kingdom, so let's get rid of
Him." 

     And He's under their noses. And then they said, "Now, look,
there's no use you trying to look over here, or run over there, or any
place else, because He's right here."

     How come these goof-balls ran Israel? Supposed to believe this
Message? How can a person be born again? I'm asking some questions right
now, because I'm serious. How can anyone say he's born again and start
looking every single place but under your nose? (See?) 

     "I got to  run to Tuscon."

     Run to Tuscon. 

    "I got to run to Jeffersonville."

     Run to Jeffersonville.

     "Well, the Pillar of Fire was down there in the Colosseum, or
something, in Houston."

     Well, run to the Houston... run to Houston. Go ahead. I'll tell
you one thing, you'll run and trip over yourself and I'll tell you where
you'll end up at. The thing you're looking for, you've done missed.
(See?) The screen does not run around looking for the light, the light
hits the screen. 

     Now listen, 

(22)     he said unto disciples, The days will come, when (you'll)
desire to see one

of the days of the Son of man, and (you'll) not see it. (Now listen)

(23)     they shall say, See here: or, see there: go not after, nor
follow them.

     Now, He's telling you how it's going to come.

(24)     For as lightning, lighteneth under one part (of) heaven, unto
the other 

	part...shineth unto the other part; so shall also the Son of man be in
his

day. 

     Now listen, He's already having His day here and they can't see
Him. Now, He said, "I'm going to have another day." And they won't see
it. 

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

     Now, He tells you that sometimes after His death and
resurrection, because that's when it's going to be, the days are going
to repeat. Then, He tells you the hour. “As it was in the days of
Noah. As it was in the days of Lot.”

      In verse 30.

(30)     Even thus it shall be in the day when the Son of man is
revealed.

     And He said it's going to be the same thing at the time of the
Gentiles because Noah was a Gentile. Sodom and Gomorrah were Gentile.
That's the same hour that calamity is predicted; the same experiences
that took place. 

55.   In 9 - 14 in chapter... of Matthew 12, that brought about 15 - 21,
that brought on from 21 to the absolute separation, is the same thing
happening right now with the Presence of the Holy Spirit in the form of
a Light; that that Light is the manifestation of Life. 

     You follow what I said tonight? Brother Branham's right. The very
same One that came in flesh to Israel, is the same One that's amongst us
right tonight. And as He was His Own prophet in human flesh. And that's
what got it in dutch, because He was that revealed Word and explicitly
did He reveal it for that hour and they said, "Kill him."

     And it's never failed to be the same pattern. They said,
concerning Paul, "Kill him, then we'll get rid of ..?.."

      And the day will come when they'll say, "Let's kill this bunch
of goofballs and we'll get rid of that crazy Jesus stuff that they
teach."

     Because you have got to be illiterate in everything of the
Spirit of God if you do not understand in this hour, there is another
Jesus that is not the original. There is another spirit that is not the
original. There is another word that is not the original. The Church is,
therefore, on three counts which makes perfection, even as God Himself
comes in threes. They're idolaters and of the devil. And you can place
yourself either place you want, tonight, because by your words you're
justified, and by your words you are condemned, once His Ministry has
been proven amongst us.

 56.  I wanted to take this Scripture to let you know, brother/sister,
that you are not walking in darkness. There are too many people who take
this Ministry, this Message of Brother Branham's, and it is simply ..?..
I've said before and I'll say it gain. If I was a community preacher, I
would endorse everything that Brother Branham said and I would preach
it, as a local community church. It would cause some trouble, sure it
would. But I'd be satisfied that I had the cream of the doctrine; that I
have the depth of the understanding, that I stood in a place unique
because I cut across every Christian religion that there is, and came up
with an answer that any man looking at could be satisfied at least in
the mental. And I believe today they're many people amongst us who have
nothing but a stipulation of the mind, a stipulation of their own
spirit, and they have looked at this Word in the light of that which is
intriguing. They don't look at in the Light of an absolute vindicated
THUS SAITH THE LORD. A Life that brought forth a Light, making the Life
that shone Light. 

     And you wonder why my ministries changed and why I am changed,
because I do not preach word, I preach Life. Wait till Sunday morning,
what this is all about. I'm not - Sunday night - I'm not trying to raise
your expectation because preaching this last time around, I'm simply off
my own feelings. I'm preaching more or less off the top of my head, when
usually I go a whole lot deeper. But it's the same Word, whether I
preach off the top of my head, the tip of my tongue ...tongue, or the
bottom of my heart. It makes… stays the same Word. 

57.  This Word is Life because when Moses brought that Word the
Egyptians died. When Jesus was the incarnated Word and He fulfilled His
mission in the flesh, Israel died. Under Titus, all but a few, the
elect, those ..?.. and got away. And let me assure you that Brother
Branham was not lying. Let me show you from Matthew 12, that's the
secret, that that's that secret chapter in this Book, open tonight,
where Brother Branham said, yes, the last plague was spiritual death and
sold to this generation. 

     You tell me why? Because under Moses, Logos was there; under
Jesus, the Logos was there; under William Branham, the Logos was there.
This is that hour of the complete, irrefutable proof, that that One Who
was once in flesh is here amongst us in Spirit, proving Who His is to
establish His Kingdom, and because the King is here - not physical
flesh, but Spiritual - the King is here. The Kingdom is here. (See?) And
people will look here and they'll look there. But, I want to tell you
something. If you missed what's under your nose, you missed It all.
Don't run around looking, brother/sister, it's too late. 

     I've never run, looking. I'm not standing up here boasting, but
I've never been a man to run to look. Oh, I've gone ..?.. a couple of
things. I don't look now. Pictures don't intrigue me. Miracles don't
intrigue me. There's nothing intrigues me, except this Word, because
here's where the Life is. (See?)

58.   We have passed... we have passed, simply, from what some people
will call a diatribe, or some would call an exposition, depending on
their nature - call it anything you want, but as far as I am concerned
we have passed from this being a recorded Book of what has gone by, and
what is to go by, to a reality of what is happening now, and time has
run out. We're no longer looking at pages here, brother/sister. I'm not.
I'm no longer looking at this Book for a degree of knowledge. Nope. I
look at It as Life. No longer do I expect, for one minute, to go down to
the store - I never did, of course - expect to go down to the store and
buy a pound of gravel and sew it to get radishes, and carrots, and
onions. I get the seeds wherein the life is, to get my radishes,
carrots, and onions.  

     And this is no longer a Book that I look at as though there's
something in here that I may satisfy my curiosity or indulge my desire
for knowledge. It has one meaning: Life. That's all, just Life. That's
what It is. I believe with all my heart the Kingdom is here because the
King is here. 

     I'm not looking for even manifestation of that Kingdom. I don't
have to. Why should I? See, a lot of folks, today, are looking for
manifestations in the sons of God. They're looking in the wrong place.
The fullness is in the resurrection. You've seen your last sign. I'm not
going to argue with anybody. The prophet says you've seen the last sign.
Why are people looking for ..?.. Why would you look for that when you
want Life? What good would it do if you go out there and turn the world
upside down with miracle after miracle and end up false anointed? Now,
they don't have Life. False anointed don't have Life. They're producing
miracles. 

59.  Remember, it's a showdown as Israel came out of Egypt. Brother
Branham said Moses went down there and said to Pharaoh... asked the
Pharaoh, he said, ah, "God told me that… to-to come here and to let
the people go."

     "Well," he said, "I don't know you ever heard in any kind of a
God. What are you talking about?"

     "Well," he said, "I'll show you a sign or two."

     Moses showed the sign. In fact, the Pharaoh said, "Well," he
said, "Magicians, you come over here and let's just see what we can do
about this and this." Magicians produced the same signs.

     But in this age, they can impersonate it. He said any genuine
gift. You see, I'm not-I'm not interested in looking anywhere. I'm
interested in one thing - Life. (See?) 

     I told you. Few months ago much of the people misunderstanding what
I'm really saying because, look, I could be dead tomorrow morning. I'm
not interested in the resurrection. In the other church ages, Jesus
said, "I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live."

     But that's not said for this hour. It said for this hour,
"Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

     Do you believe this? Then how can you believe the other if you
believe this? You say, "Brother Vayle, you're contradicting yourself."

     I am not contradicting myself. You just don't see what I see.
You're still back there under the wrong promise. 

     "This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be
fulfilled."

     I am a part of that generation that shall not pass away, shall
not taste the death. Now, If I do taste death, that's okay by me, but I
can't hold to that other promise because I'm living in this hour, and
this hour is Life, not death!

60.   Alright, did you hear Him lift His Voice in the streets? Did you
hear Him scream and strive? You never saw Him. How did you know He was
there? The same Spirit was in Jesus. "Which of you can convince me of
one word, show I've missed one place of not fulfilling the Scripture?
One word, I'm out." He said, "You showed me you couldn't do it." 

     That was that Light. That was that ...?.. on the western sky.
And He was raised to the Gentiles and appeared amongst them exactly as
the Word said, exactly as the prophet taught. And you look at
organization and denomination, you see why I fight so hard for the local
..?.. church? That no man can look through any man in this hour. 

61.   The closest you can get to any type of leadership and that is
strictly one with the Word, that's the local pastor. And he doesn't have
any rabbit's foot that a lot of preachers try to use, and they say,
"Well, he's ordained to see you through."

     Let me tell you flat, if Jack Bell goes off this Word, he will
never see you through. He can scream and jump up and down and talk in
tongues and ..?.. and strut, and pull every deed in the book, but if
he's off this Word and he knows this because he… I-I wouldn't say this
to any… well, I wouldn't be scared to say it in front of any preacher,
wouldn't bother me any, but I particularly like to say it in front of
him because I know he stands just where I stand. He doesn't have a
rabbit's foot. When he was ordained to see you through, it meant that he
was responsible for you. He didn't have a rabbit's foot. Obey them that
teach you the Word of God, have any authority over you. "Feed My
sheep...rule My sheep, feed My sheep." That's where he stands; that's
where I stand. There's nobody going to see you through, as though that
person could see you through. 

     He is here to establish and bring to pass His Word. And He's
given faithful ministers in the body of Christ. Sure He has. He's given
them gifts and callings. Not to make room for them - that'd be a lot of
Hogwash, giving them any preeminence - but to make them fully
utilitarian and useful to the people of Almighty God, that they might be
those who help and aid; who can be, as it were, sub-shepherds under The
Shepherd - very sub by the way. Sub, sub, sub, type. Nobody's a great
person among His, cause the Great One is here. 

     See, we're not dealing with anything other than Himself, God.
Brother Branham said, "He's obligated to do it." You know why? Because
It said in the Word He did.

     You understand tonight, now? I hope you understand if you've
never understood the Scripture where Brother Branham said, "He will come
to the Gentiles in the Spirit as He came to Israel." And He did it. And
though they cannot crucify His flesh the second time, they will crucify
to themselves afresh that very One.

     The Lord bless you. Let's rise.

     Heavenly Father, we took a long time tonight, and we knew we
would, weaving back and forth, and back and forth on Scripture because
they must know, Lord, not only through the realm of the generosity of
Your Spirit that gave them signs to show the prophet was right, and
there was in this evidence, not just the feasibility of what he said
true, but we knew it was true. But Your Own prophet said, "Once you see
this Message, that's all you'll see in the Word."

     And, Lord, I believe tonight that it was necessary to show, in
that Word, those things that the prophet said, laid out before us, that
our faith - although it's wonderful to know that the prophet was here
and we're so grateful, and to know that the Word was demonstrated, but
now, like the apostles, we can say, "Now, for ourselves we have seen It
and do believe and It does something for us."

     And Father, if that's been accomplished tonight, my visit here
has been more than productive, it has been blessed of You. And I pray to
that end, Lord, that it has been blessed with You so that they can and
do say, "We believe Him but now we have seen for ourselves the very
Scripture that He brought to our attention, which were filled in our
presence.” And if this is true, then how much more is true His
Presence is here, the Kingdom of God is in the midst of us. We have seen
It and rejoice and are glad because we are a part of that, for, Lord, we
know the Kingdom comes without observation to cause most, there's got to
be somebody here that's elected to see It. We believe we're a part of
that, tonight. 

     We're so grateful, Lord, that You have not left this to the
winds of those men who might come together - one, two, or maybe dozens -
and try to set something in order. We're grateful, Lord, that we are not
at the mercy of our own imagination. But, Lord, we are in the mercy and
the pleasure of You Yourself, Who gave us the ability by grace to see
what was in this, our hour, and to know It and to be a part of It, is
our revelation. 

     And we believe, therefore, Lord, we are part of that Kingdom.
Father, we're anxious for that day to come when the gifts as it were,
were put on the shelf, and that sweet Spirit of God come amongst us, and
there won't be one person that's sick, one person infirm, Lord, knowing
it's pointing even more and more to the resurrection.

     Heavenly Father, we look for that. In the meantime, Lord, we
know that man has the ability, tonight, to bend his faith towards Your
Word for help, even as man has the ability when the ground was cursed,
and was bringing forth the nettles, the stinging things, and more rocks
than fertile land, more salt water than good water, and yet You gave,
although the earth was cursed, You gave man the ability to draw out of
that soil against the perversity of nature, a living. And, Lord, I
believe right tonight there's people here can absolutely receive many,
many things in this life, by faith in You and by constantly drawing
strength from You, Lord, can be instructed and guided in the things of
this life, Lord, so that there... though there are trials and
tribulations and much perverse that's even in nature, we're able to draw
forth, O God, and live in a place of victory, a place of strength, Lord,
of stamina. 

     We believe that tonight, Lord. We don't believe your people were
meant to sort of float along at the mercy of things and conditions. I
believe, Lord, with all my heart, though I might be seeing a lot of
things kind of late in the day to do too much about them, I see, Lord,
very clearly, that we were not left at the mercy of anything, no way.
Though all these things we hear, thank God there is ability through
Jesus Christ, our Lord, to be more than conquerors. 

     Lord, if there's an eye dim tonight concerning revelation, I
pray that that eye will be open. I pray, Lord, that if there's anyone
misunderstanding, not understanding the direction we're pointing, the
way we're going, that, Lord, You can wake them up at two in the morning,
as You woke me up for a certain point I had to know. And like a voice,
tell them exactly what they need to know because You're not my God
tonight, any more that what's their...You're...their God. I'm believing
for them, Lord, tonight. The same as I believe for myself. The same,
Lord, as I believe what this Scripture has done for me, Lord, what's
going on. And what It has done for men all through the ages, but
especially in this hour, unto immortality. 

     Lord, whether I stand here or not in that day, I'm claiming the
Word of this hour tonight, and may there not be one person who stands
infirm in their faith, but believes the same promises. We... we're
looking at that tonight, Lord, as never before, and unto the King,
eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, therefore, be
all-power, and honor and glory, world without end, and especially, Lord,
may you receive glory and honor from us, who believe in this hour. In
Jesus Name, Amen. ‘The Lord bless you.’ 

     You're walking in the Light? Now, you see, you can't-you can't say
for one minute that you're not walking in the Light if you got some
Light, tonight, on the hour in which you live and what's gone on in your
day. If you got a little bit more Light and understanding how the
prophet could positively say, it's in the Bible, here, that He's got to
do for the Gentiles what He's done for Israel, nail it right down to
this hour, well now, you-you simply cannot be walking except in more and
more Light. 

     Now, the Bible says, "The path of the righteous shineth more and
more to the perfect day." I believe that. I believe it with all my
heart. 

     "Well," you say, "well, Brother Vayle, what about there, back in
the days of the apostle Paul."

      We've got a revelation of this hour they couldn't have in their
hour because Paul prayed that the Spirit may come and reveal those
things but he couldn't do it just... except before the resurrection.
This is that hour. You say, "Well, we're going to be a puffed up bunch
of people."

     No way. Say, we're going to get preeminence. No way, doesn't
give you preeminence. Just gets you out of here; gets you out of here.
Then you'll find out if you're preeminent or not. That day when your
presentation comes, whether you got this kind of crown or that kind of
crown, that kind of thing and that kind of thing, but in the meantime,
brother/sister, let's get this and understand, we're walking in a
greater Light.

     As Brother Branham said, that that glory would pass away as
glorious. what about this Glory? What about It? Going to take you right
into immortality. Well, I want to get you people all revved up about
immortality. Now look, I'm telling you flat, I could die. I could die
tomorrow. Sure, no problem. In fact, you could guess by now I'd like it.
Get out of here. This pestilential existence I have isn't anything to
ride home about. But - but I know this one thing, that I-I cannot,
honestly, look towards death at this hour. And I'd like to. I hope I
can. Hope I can do it because it doesn't mean a thing if I die or
live... or stay here because there's no preeminence or preference. 

     But look, brother/sister, let's get this flat, there will be some
standing here who shall not taste death. And there isn't one person who
knows who it's going to be. You better believe tonight. I wouldn't...I
don't want to hear one word about...unless you understand my own stand
what I'm saying, I don't want one person to ever talk about dying. Now,
I can do it for one reason. I've got something from the Lord and a
revelation you don't have. So, I know what I'm talking about. But, I
tell you, even with that revelation there's something so overpowering
that there's no way I can stand here and say that I'm going to die. I
can only stand here and say, "I'm going to live."

     Now, I'm talking in puzzles, and you got to forgive me. I'm just
sorry for you if you can't figure the thing out. You listen, you obey me
anyway, as those that have an authority over you by the Word of God. The
mysteries have all been revealed in this hour. “Flesh and blood shall
not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Let's get that flat. “We shall not
all sleep,” (see?), “but all be saved in a moment.” (see?) 

     "He that liveth and believeth in Me," - What? the Light that
came, - "shall never die." 

     Now, I-I hate to take away the thought of you nice people having
a nice funeral, people crying all around you, Brother Bell saying some
nice things that whether he means or not, he’ll say it anyway. You
ain't going to die. That's right. I'm not lying to you. I'm sort of
teasing you a little bit. 

     But once you know, "He that liveth and believeth in Me." He said
that when He was with Israel, walking down that road. The same One that
said it, is saying it here, tonight, "He that liveth and believeth in Me
shall never parish." Do you believe that? Now, come on, we're getting
right near home. I'm testing your faith tonight. See, you're looking at
yourself, so, ah, look all you want. They will...they won't stop you if
you're part of it. It won't take you there if you're a part of it.
(See?) It's looking at Him, because He's going to do it. (See?)

     How do you think... how do you think Mary and Martha felt that
day He said that? You think they felt a little bit funny? They felt
funny when He said, "I am the resurrection and the life: he that
believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall live." 

     "Did you believe that?"

     She said, "Yeah, I believe He'll come back down the road
somewhere."

     He said, "Hold it. I'm talking about now."

     She felt kind of funny. Do you feel a little funny? That doesn't
change the Word. A lot of Marys and Marthas? Who said ..?.. they didn't?
Did it happen back there? Will it happen here? Will this generation pass
away? Are there those standing here will not see death? Where's it going
to happen? Houston? Let's run to Houston. You ever hear about the man
that ..?.. got killed by a lion? Even so, Lord Jesus. You like ..?.. 

     Okay, let's go sing "We'll Walk in the Light." 

 

   

  

Why He is Here # 5  (Presence) 

'The Judge Standing Among the Bride"

Final Proofing needed

Bro. Lee Vayle  -  October 24, 11982

 	…which You've have given us to worship You believing that it is in
Spirit and in Truth, Lord, to be here and a partaker of the full council
of Almighty God. To give them the                     pre-eminence even
as this is right at this hour for You desiring to bring Yourself to us
in a way that we can apprehend You come by revelation. And then through
that revelation we give You pre-eminence, and then we get right back to
Headship, back to the Garden where it was supposed to be in the
beginning.

	We thank You for that, Lord, we really appreciate it, and we believe
this is in the process now of just getting ready to turn the corner, if
that corner has not already been turned into the Resurrection Itself.
So, Father, we just commend ourselves to Your grace at this hour,
knowing that You are that great Creator, and about to create again
bodies to come out of the dust, and clothe men and women to bring them
to that place, Lord, which was in Your thoughts in the beginning. So,
we're grateful we're part of that today. We declare ourselves to be a
part of it in this great unity wherein we stand, that we and the Father
are one, Lord. We say that, we believe it, and You know our hearts,
Lord, that they are open before you. And that's been proven this late
hour, we don't have any doubt that. Our hearts, Lord, are one with Your
Word by grace, in Jesus' Name we thank You. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, before we get into the message, and I want to tell you that I've
got to sort of go back on my word from last Sunday. I'm not going to get
to what I wanted to today, we're going to take more time in coming to
the place where we present Him in the light of 'The Judge standing
amongst the Bride'. We're just taking further aspects to see just where
we'll go. Now… we're a little group here and (you know) it's very
friendly little group the way the church is even. It's kind of like
you're sitting in my lap, and I'm sitting in your lap and that's nice.
So, the preaching is not like I'm preaching so much as we're having a
conversation.

	Now, you say, "Bro. Vayle, it's a one-sided conversation. No, the Holy
Spirit is talking to you like He's talking to me. It's a three-sided
conversation. It's not one of these just…(you know) and then again I'm
just thinking I get your stool one of these days. You bring it over, and
I'll sit up here, and so I can kind of lean over the pulpit like a desk,
and just talk with you. Because sometimes there's things I want to tell
you that I feel you ought to know in the sense of how myself am feeling
out toward this subject.

2.	Now, I mentioned sometime back, (just a couple of weeks ago) that I
felt the great possibility of having turned the corner into the
Resurrection, or as I previously stated the gravitational pull, the
Spirit leaving the Word. In other words, the Word having run Its course
as to the Message, and the usage of It is now coming to the place where
the Bride will be transformed as the dead come out of the ground. But
before they can come out of the ground, that Word has to be in a
position so that the Word in is becomes flesh. (I wonder if I got that
sort of written down here somewhere. I never know what I write down, but
I write things down somewhere, but I'll get it to you later on.)

	Now, what I'm trying to get is this: two or three years ago, (was
longer than that now, several years back) back in '75 actually what it
was, I was as I told you sort of moody and puzzling as to Bro. Branham's
statement that the Message was so simple It was going over people's
heads. They're passing It by, and I said, "Well, the way these preachers
are writing in-between the lines, it would take a telescope to take the
fleas on Mars, to give you the revelation that the preachers are trying
to give you, because it is so…Bro. Branham said, "Gummed up."

 	Now, because I resented what was going on, and spiritually so, one day
a voice said to me, "The Resurrection proves His death." And I've never
ever heard anything like that ever expressed in my life, or having read
it to my knowledge. And so I said, "Well, that sounds like there's
something to that." And that evolved the series of  'The Blood', wherein
I saw things that I don't know that were ever printed or said, at least
I don't know of any books that are extant at this hour, that said some
of the things that were said and gone into, because of what came to me.

3.	Now, the other day, (maybe three weeks ago) well, let's go back
further. In-between that series of messages, and what  I happening now
you remember that it also said the church will go either forward or
backward, depending on their understanding of the series I was teaching.
The theme of which was, 'the vertical to the horizontal'.

	Now, the vertical to the horizontal is a term where I don't know where
I got it. I might have got it from business magazines, I might have got
it from a sermon, I might have got it originally. I don't it's original.
But, the idea is that the Spirit of God coming down moves from the
vertical, (from Him) to the horizontal, which is out here in the world,
in the Bride, every place else.

	Now, how that Spirits moves will depend upon in whom It is moving, and
for what reason It is moving, and furthermore, whether anyone will try
to stop that moving. Now, we've got a couple of engineers here,
especially we've got Dave. So, what if Dave's got a job as an engineer
at Wright-Patterson, and people start coming by and say, "Well now, Dave
the thing is we need the floor swept, sweep the floors."

	Now, you say, "Well, he should prove that he's humble in doing it."
He's stupid to do it. He wasn't called to sweep floors, he's an
engineer. Now, see the reason I hit that that hard is, you go to
ministries. Now, ministries are millions and millions of miles above
engineers. Because engineering is strictly in the carnal, the same as
every other job in this world is in the carnal, and it's all got to go. 
But there is a calling in the Holy Spirit that cannot be shaken down.
That's in every single one of us. See, now the minute a ministry is
interfered with somebody is going to get hurt, and there's a lot of
people hurt, because ministries are interfered with. Now, you know what
I'm talking about, it's too late to fool around. I'm telling you flat,
what happens. (See?) 

4.	Now, let's go further, He began dealing with me, the next subject was
as Bro. Branham said, "Always looking forward, always looking back,
never know what's going on." Now, I have never deliberately sought God
for these things. If I were to seek God, I would disobey the prophet. He
said, "The harder you try the further you get from it." And the time you
think you've got it, that's the time you haven't. 

	Listen, that does not obviate the fact that you’ve got to get it, and
you'll have to know that you've got it. Now, come on, he didn't say one
thing to mess us up and leave us in a never-never land of the
hodge-podge. Goodness me, we've had that for six thousand years, forget
it! You're coming to the "place of face to face, and known as you're
know." [1 Cor 13:12] "No more children tossed to and fro, with every
wind of doctrine and cunning, and sleight of fancy of men," [Eph 1:14]
and the devil and all these things. We're coming to a place of
knowledge.

5.	Now, I went along and enfolded you the best I could, grouping and
feeling and letting you know that there was certain things in the
atmosphere, as you'll recalled, I brought back. I was in Canada, and it
came back, and I had felt that we were…with possibility of moving.
Even then five years ago, (about four, five years ago) from the Word of
the mechanics into the dynamics, which would bring the dead out of the
ground, which is the corner I'm looking. You see, always looking at that
corner.

	Then, I began looking at it and studying with you, showing you what He
is doing now under the precept of when He came down, (that Jesus had
climbed on the Throne) the process now is all things under His feet.
Because remember, the Head of the Church is Christ. And the Head of
Christ is God. And God owes Jesus a debt, and that debt is to bring
everything back to the Millennium with the last Adam is our Head, the
Bride and Groom in the Millennium.

6.	Now, I said, "Well, it's possible we're right in here now to the
place." I preached four times or so to you, and I suddenly realized that
we don't look in the heavens as signs, because you see, when I came
back, I preached that and Bro, Gene came to me and said, "Lee, did you
know the astronomers have found a star that's standing still?" And I
said, "No." 

	So, what I was…we're wondering where we standing still? Were we with
the Message as to the mechanics had we moved over to the dynamics? Well,
I thought maybe the best we could be doing would be either standing
still, or moving, because the gradational pull is equal on both sides.
Well, when he said the star was standing still, we'll you know that old
trick, (you know) you take a balloon when you were in school, a special
they had in physics class. And they'd blow it up, and then they'd hold
both ends and let it go and the balloon go putt, putt, putt, up and
down, didn't go anywhere. Because it had (you know) equal force, two
forces in equal direction. If they would have had four, (you know)
balanced off even more.

	But the star is standing still because the forces are there, that kept
it there. Now, I haven't heard of that star, and I care less. But, I
began thinking, well maybe God is showing me things in the heavens,
because Bro. Branham said, "Things in heavens, then in the earth…" and
then so on. Well, then He showed me, He said, "No, you missed it. I
don't want you looking at anything in the heavens, because it's not for
you, it was just for that one time to start you moving. It's not in the
earth, (at least that's my understand of that) it's in the Word." (See?)

 	Now, we keep looking at the Word, and I've been looking at the Word,
and looking at the Word. And then He said one day, "I don't want you
looking at anything except what's the Bride." Not even in the church
out…I've known as I said Bro. Branham has said that, but he did. "Not
out there, nowhere." Got, get to the Word.

7.	Now, what I'm leading and taking my time is this: the other day it
suddenly came to my mind out of the blue. And what came to my mind will
disturb, (…?... really, because it shouldn't) but could disturb the
people who have a wrong understanding of Godhead, (that's one group) and
a wrong understanding of pre-eminence and worship, and some of these
things that you just might not get what I am saying as I caught it
myself.

	Now watch: I ask you a question, and listen carefully and think.
Exactly what did Jesus intend to do when He came here? And your major
answer is,  "As John the Baptist, behold the Lamb of God that takes away
the sin of the world." And you come right to the point of Redemption by
Blood. And that's interesting. And I believe, that's truth. He came to
do that. 

	And you know, if you believe that too strongly you begin to throw
everything else out of balance. Because that's one thing, the main
thing, but you're missing it. So was I. Now, you see where your minds
are going right now? You mind says, "Well, is he preaching heresy,
what's going on?" See, my mind doesn't question, because right away when
I know He speaks, I know there's something to It. (See?) And I knew
there was something there.

	And what there was there is this: (now let's watch carefully) from Abel
(in Hebrews 11)  right up to mentioning Samuel, David, Jephthae, Barak
and the rest of them, Rahab, and right on down the line. Those Old
Testament Saints, now ask you a question: what did they have to do with
Jesus' coming in the flesh and dying? They're already dead.

	Now, listen carefully: then the Blood wasn't atoning for them as It
atones for us. There's a difference. (See?) Now, you just let your minds
go a bit. What did He come to do for them? Death is separation, right?
All right, death is separation. Now, upper and lower Sheol is in one
place, Luke 16 shows you that. It's a vast gulf, but it's in one place.
That's why spirits could come back before the New Testament. They're
moved, they're in different places now, upper and lower. Don't have
upper and lower anymore, they're way apart 

8.	Now, He died upon Calvary. And they're in prison separated from God.
(See?) Now, the shedding of the Blood meant that He had to die in order
to get to them. Because He couldn't get to them physically, He had to
get to them spiritually. Does your mind begin to pick up a little better
now?  So, when he came to die on Calvary, and you look back in the Old
Testament, now He's the same yesterday, today and forever, [Heb 13:8]
what He does never changes. He was in involved in coming not to die, to
raise the dead. But He couldn't raise the dead until he died. Now, does
your mind begin to function now? He never just came to die upon Calvary.
He came to get those dead out of there. (You follow what I'm saying?)
It's abstract, you understanding what I am saying? Now, if you don't, go
over it in your minds again. 

	It's hard to tell you these things, because look, I'm only looking at
them now, they'll start coming out in messaged after message, because I
know what I'm talking about. He came to do many things. (See?) Of which
the death, the shedding of Blood was the prerequisite, the great
prerequisite, (or the great need) but He came to get them out. And the
shedding of the Blood didn't do it. (You follow what I am saying?)
Because they never popped out of the grave, because He shed his Blood.
(You follow me? You get it.) He had to go and get them. Now, He's the
same, "yesterday, and today, and forever," and He's got to come and get
us. And it was in the Spirit He did it, and He'll do it again. Now you
see, this is where this is coming from.

9.	Now, if you understand then what I am saying, a lot of this which I
feel will be coming, and I don't know what all is going to come is based
upon the premise: that He is everything. And He is doing it all. And it
is not functional as in one aspect. It is functional in the whole, and I
don't care if somebody did die, and rise again if God wasn't in it. It
wouldn't mean anything. Because salvation is of the Lord. (See?) 

	Now, you're getting to understand grace better, and understand
sovereignty, and understand yourselves. Take a good look in the mirror,
and spit in your face and forget it. And look it to Him. Because you
ain't getting nowhere unless He does it. (See?) 

	Now, I don't speak to you as a prophet, I don’t even know if I'm a
teacher. Bro. Branham never said I was, he said, "You have a gift of
teaching." That gift maybe a lot different than people think for this
reason: it will see the Scripture in the light that a prophet brings it.
He'd have to bring it first. But it'll got into the prophetic, and the
prophetic 'psalm' is, Jesus Who is this King of glory. And the King of
glory is coming up to the gates of Heaven, having led captivity captive.
(See?) 

10.	Now, the Blood opened the door, but He had to do it. The Blood opens
the door, but He's got to convict you. The Blood opens the door, but the
Spirit has got to bring you step by step, justification, sanctification,
baptism with the Holy Ghost sealing you in. God is doing it. So, I'm not
taking from the Blood, I'm just showing you this, that you can't get
lopsided with God. The revelation is a complete revelation as to
redemption. And the redemption was already played out fifty percent,
(actually…I'm going to leave it at fifty percent, because there's more
than two parts to the First Resurrection.) Hard to explain, the first
half has already taken place. Call it a half, it's really not, Old
Testament Saints. Number two comes us. Number three comes the two
witnesses. Number four comes the 144,000. They're in it, but they're not
Bride. 

	So, you've got…you have got literally twenty five percent over with
at least when it comes to chronology, and fitting in of the pieces in
the chronology. But really, it's fifty percent over. (See?)  You
understand what I'm driving at? You have God to see, that what's many
people the fundamentalist sees. He does not see what I am telling you,
because he says, "Well, hallelujah, the Blood was shed." And then he
thinks there is a normal sequence  because of the Blood, which is not
true. The normal sequence is sovereignty and what He did back there,
He's going to do again.

11.	So, there was the apostles, the one's waiting, and they were
standing there; they saw the dead come out of ground. Yep! I don't know
how many they saw, but they saw them. They saw Jesus. Now, the same
thing with us. We'll be standing here, we're going to see the dead come
out of the ground. Now, you tell me how come they come out of the
ground? It wasn't because of the Blood. And yet it was because of the
Blood. But the Blood didn't do it. But the Blood did do it. (See?)

	In other words, it's basic, redemption is basic what you have always
believed, but you haven't gone far enough, (you see?) to interrelate
until you become right at home with grace and sovereignty. You become
relaxed. See, that's why I like what we got here. We're just like
family, sometimes it's worse than family. [laughter] But, it's that way.
So we can talk to each other. And I get time that you can sort of get me
your responses back, I can look at your faces and what have you, and get
your responses back.

 

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