The Study Of Man

Bro. Lee Vayle  –  July 12, 1987

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re again grateful to stand here
with Your people Lord, knowing that You are here, that we were in Your
Presence and You are in our presence and this is not a figment of the
imagination, but this is real and true, and we cannot appreciate it
enough Lord, we just trust that we will increase in sobriety, sincerity,
and in wisdom concerning that revelation Lord, so that our lives would
be drastically changed, O God, more into Your image, day by day. Help us
Lord to understand and to live the life Lord that should accommodate
this great life that You have put within us and this great life that’s
amongst us. Just coming right to the day Lord when we know that You in
Your human form, that Your Spirit becomes incarnate to us, crowning You
King of king, Lord of lords, and coming back here on the earth, setting
up the Kingdom which is already in progress, putting it in divine order.
We pray Lord that the reality shall come deep upon our souls and we’ll
walk in it. May it be our life and our breath, may it be our food, may
we eat it and live it and sleep it, in Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. You
may be seated. 

1.	Now this morning I want to take a little study called A Study Of Man,
and of course I won’t be able to do it justice, even if I could preach
for six or eight hours I wouldn’t be able to do it justice, but
we’ll try to take some thoughts anyway concerning the subject, just
simple, easy things that aren’t hard to understand, and just may sort
of cap off, not necessarily cap off what we’ve been dealing with this
last period of time. So A Study Of Man. 

	Now the study of man is known as anthropology. It’s the same, I
guess, as the study of the stars in relations to its effect upon mankind
was known as astrology. They have all these ‘ologies’ in the Greek,
and this is one of them; it’s called ‘anthropology’. And
anthropology, which is the study of man, is based on observation as to
what mankind does. It’s based on how people conduct themselves
individually, socially, racially, interracially, and how they act as
pertaining to their sexuality, male from female, being different. In
other words, anthropology or the study of man is actually documentation
through observation. 

2	Now to go beyond observation for documentation, embraces philosophy.
And philosophy is the love of wisdom or knowledge. Philosophy attempts
to deal with what causes conduct. It grandly speaks of laws and
principles wherein the races that foster be – or wherein rather what
lies within the races themselves, (see?) what is in the people –
foster their behavior, their conduct, or what causes them to send forth
certain stimuli, or initiate something which would cause a stimuli. And
then it studies the responses of those stimuli. 

	And these two branches of study, anthropology and philosophy, are
actually inseparate, inseparable. They have to stay together really to
know anything about mankind. But they are anything but scientific in
their union, as philosophy depends upon reasoning and reasoning in
itself is never conclusive. Because though you may see a million
evidences that you are completely right in your conclusion as you look
at the behavior and diagnose from it, there always are exceptions. And
when there’s exceptions then the rule is broken. 

3.	So man has always cried out when it comes to philosophy, and when it
comes to anthropology, he always cries out the simple cry which is,
“What is truth?” And you know that was asked in the days of Jesus. I
think Pilate says, “What is truth?” Then he turned and walked off. 

	In other words, can we find absolutes in the human race, and can we
find absolutes for the human race? See? Is there a common life stream
that can be tapped into to bring man to an absolute? Though not actually
carbon copies or clones, because he is to retain his individuality.
That’s what they’re wondering about. Since the answer, if left to
man alone is based in philosophy, we would need a man of super
intellectual ability to gather all the data, and at the same time
possess the power to analyze and interpret it, and predict in specific
and not general terms the exact responses to the various stimuli. And it
looks like sometimes people don’t even need a stimulus, but it’s
there inside, in a spirit form somehow. So they’d have to know all of
that which abounds in the human race.

4.	Now this brings us to where we are today, which is the computer age.
And you know you can feed information into a computer, and you come out
with answers. And that’s okay if you’re going to design a car
according to the principles of aerodynamics and you don’t feed the
computer a bunch of bunk. But the computer is only as good as the person
that programs it, and what comes out is only as good as what was viewed
from the law of science, which is strictly by observation and testing,
and who in the world would dare to trust a computer – though it looks
like we’re going more and more that way – to truly come up with what
lies within man and how man can be helped if he can truly be helped?
Well you know that would have to come up with what actually then, what
is the truth about man? Well who’s going to go into it? 

	Well if you had somebody of that caliber, which would take a human
being, photographic mind, how many years would he have to live to be
able to produce what should be produced? Methuselah lived for 969 years,
Adam wasn’t far behind, and the best they produced was the cataclysmic
flood where God Almighty had to wipe them off the face of the earth,
almost every single person.

5.	So if you had somebody of this stature, what I’ve been talking
about, outside of a computer, even he with computers, even that would
not be enough, for the awareness that you’d come to would only explain
the laws of effect, but would not convert those laws or what caused the
effect, to bring out a correct effect every single time, which the Bible
would simply call blessings and cursings or good and evil. See, he
couldn’t do it. Six thousand years of anthropology and philosophy have
brought us only to genocide, and one step from genocidal annihilation of
all peoples and kingdoms on earth, whether it be animal kingdom or plant
kingdom or the inanimate structure of the earth itself, because it could
go off under hydrogen atomic bombs into complete dissolution. 

	Now that’s the best the human race has come to in six thousand years,
genocide and almost completely annihilative genocide, because where will
America and Russia stop? They have that little feeling, “Ah-hah, it
won’t be that bad. We’ll get out of it.” Yeah? 

6.	The revelation of truth does not lie in man. For though he is a
reasoning creature, he cannot come to the truth by reasoning, because
you’ve got to go from the visible to the invisible. Then if you can go
from the visible to the invisible, theoretically, and let’s say that
you can, that I can reach out and get my hand on the invisible, how do I
know which of the invisible I’ve got my hands on when I’m dealing
with visible effects from laws which are invisible? How are you going to
do it? See you cannot go from the visible to the invisible. You know as
well as I do, look it, that makes the biggest bunch of fat-headed liars
under God’s creation, pseudo, malicious, fallacious, scientists. And
they’re no more scientific than nothing, because the word
‘science’ comes from the word ‘scio’, ‘scire’, ‘sciewe’,
‘scitum’, which means ‘to know’ in the Latin. And nobody
assuredly knows anything. You sitting here don’t know one thing this
morning, and I don’t either, to assuredly know. The best that we know
is operative on the grounds of faith. See? God Himself never ever
approved anything to anybody.

7.	You can see what man does, but you can’t see within him what makes
him do it. We would have to know what lies in man to bring forth both
good and bad fruit. In other words, what is in there that lets this
fellow be a bitter and sweet fountain? Where it came from, this good and
bad fruit. And above all to stop the source of the bad so that good may
come continually. Then the question is: what is good? Then the next
question: how much is genetics? As God said, “Can the Ethiopian change
his skin or the leopard his spots?” See? Then you being evil might do
good. 

	We would have to find a way to come into a source of power that would
govern life, as we want it to be. There again that’s catch. And there
that man, if we found one, would fail again, for what he might interpret
as being the desire of mankind, could not prosper, for man is anything
but omniscient, and certainly not omnipotent, but next door to complete
physical failure, as seen in his philosophical pursuits of sexual
pleasure, with AIDS about to destroy all mankind. And in the face of
AIDS, he still seeks his kingdom of his own desires and refuses to give
up any restraint upon it with the threat of death.

8.	Now I wish you could all see that film I saw on AIDS under Koppel. I
want you to see it. I don’t know – have we got it Sid? Well
certainly if we’ve still got it, we’ll circulate it. I want you to
see how those homosexuals reacted to the truth. And that was, “We
don’t care! We’re going to do it our way and you’re going to pay
for it! And see that we don’t die in doing it.” 

	Now that’s exactly what you will see. That’s the farthest that man
has come! You say, “Why?” Because he will die! How much sex did they
have when they were dying? The body comes to the place even under
venereal disease unto the fourth generation, of gonorrhea and especially
syphilis, where the mind is so far gone there is no even thought of
procreation, because he cannot procreate. What are you going to do under
the galloping disease of AIDS? 

9.	To us it is evident that mankind needs a philosophy from an
omniscient Source, One Who can know the end from the beginning,
delineate every response from every stimuli, and set us on a course
which will bring us to a place where study and philosophy are not
needed. But life is lived as it should be, a pure source, a pure
product. We’d have arguments on that, wouldn’t we? Say, “What’s
a pure source, what’s a pure product? I want it this way, I want it
that way.” Strange to say, God has provided that already through a
prophet, and the Millennium that man calls ‘utopia’ is about to
begin. 

	However, be it noted, and I mean noted, that this dawn of a new
humanity we’re talking about, that I say has already come, does not
lie in conduct or obedience, but solely and wholly in grace. You don’t
need a computer minded man, that’s completely out. What you need is
somebody to pick you up by the scruff of the neck, dust you off, give
you a bath, call you his son, and said, “Look, you didn’t know this,
but here it is for you.” And if you can’t see that in this hour,
brother/sister, you never got the message of grace at all, you just
thought you did. Bro. Branham categorically said, “If God ever sends
His power back in the church, it will not be by obedience.” So I
don’t care how many laws you learn, how many things you figure, it
will be by grace.

	Now the Bible is the source Book for Elijah the prophet who came to
spearhead an entrance into paradise, where those who enter will be in
perfect harmony with the universe, God in His Zoe and cosmos. How many
people today think are going to make it when they deny God? They’ve
already denied Him. The denying of the prophet William Branham, God in
the prophet.

10.	Let me read you something, because it’s a little difficult for my
memory to function too good. Why should it function, I can read my
notes. Here’s what Bro. Branham said: [Desperations, 09/01/63 Evening]

[10]	…now, the entire Holy Spirit visits the church making God in
human flesh as He did 	before Sodom…

	The church, fully deceived into causing the people to worshipping Satan
through the church. Boy did the pope blow it this week, or last week,
when he went to talk with Waldheim. And he said, “Well you see, I met
him as a head of state.” Ah yes, the state of corruption! Of
immorality! Of degradation! Yeah. The head of a church, every Catholic
ought to quit the church with that, but they haven’t got the guts,
they’re Kennedy’s. Fact, they’ve got an appetite for it, because
that’s what a Kennedy would do. Be interesting, the White Throne is
the day after tomorrow, twenty-four and a half hours away maximum,
twenty-four and a quarter, we’ll soon find out what happened with the
hero at Chappaquiddick and his girlfriend. 

11.	This prophet was the forerunner of the perfect mind and will that is
now in process of establishing truth and establishing man in the truth,
and as a part of the truth, so that anthropology and philosophy will
literally be one from a higher Source. And Eph 1:3-12 will be fulfilled.


(3)	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
blessed us (and he’s not talking about your preexistence, he’s
talking about your present existence, for the Ephesian church could have
had a Rapture.) …in (all) heavenly places in Christ:

(4)	According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, (to be admirably suited through grace to this position we’re
talking about, coming down upon earth.) that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:

(5)	Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

(6)	To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us
accepted in the beloved.

(7)	In whom we have redemption through his blood, (see there’s how
you’re going to get there,) the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of his grace;

(8)	Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

(9)	Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

(10)	That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, 

12.	You know that starts just in a matter of minutes? That starts the
Millennium. See, don’t get your eyes on Revelation 20, 21, 22, that
tells you about everybody. This is about the Bride, Millennium.

(9)	Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

(10)	That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and
(things) are on earth; 

(11)	In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will:

(12)	That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in
(him). 

	See, you’re looking at that. A super, super, super race is in the
making, approaching its Head, Who will guarantee that the angels as
spirit creations of God will be engaged in a new anthropological study,
and see the true philosophy is God, as seen by Eph 3:1-12. Let’s read
it.

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 

If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given
me to you-ward: 

How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote
afore in few words,

Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of
Christ)

Which in other (generations) was not made known unto the sons of men, as
it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body and
partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God
given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given,
that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ;

And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from
(before times eternal) hath been hid in God, who created all things by
(Christ) Jesus:

To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly
places might be (made) known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our
Lord:

In whom we have boldness…

14.	All right, there’s your true study of anthropology, is watching
the church. And the true philosophy is seeing what God wrought in her!
Knowing that God’s behind the whole thing. See? 

	With that we want to combine Peter, 1 Peter, because I want you to see
this now, through the eternal ages something is going to be up there,
and they’re going to be watching us, that’s anthropology, they’re
going to know the philosophy and wisdom of God. 1 Pt 1:10-12.

(10)	Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

(11)	Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of (God) which
was in them did (testify), when it testified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, the glory that should follow.

(12)	Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us
they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down
from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

	They’re going to be watching the church, and then they’re going to
understand true anthropology and philosophy. There’ll be no guesswork.
I can understand the scientists and geneticists and these
anthropologists. I can understand the philosophers, their problems.
They’re never going to lick them. They’re not coming the right way.
You got to be a people well laid back and understand truth, then let God
bring you out of darkness into light. 

15.	All the humanistic and erroneous approaches of man, wherein men try
to deal with mankind, hoping to understand themselves in the possibility
of coming to the truth and the implementation of living that truth, will
be eradicated, and then shall be Hab 2:14 be fulfilled:

(14)	For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of
the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

	You get to understand the things you don’t understand now. You’re
not asked to understand those things. This is just the beginning, this
goes to the Millennium, when your mind’s unencumbered. You’re minds
are encumbered. You’ve got no more chance – well I wouldn’t put
you’ve got no more chance. Put it this way: you’ve got no more
chance in the human than the man in the human that doesn’t have God,
except God reveal it to you, you being born again. See?

16.	No more will God cry out through the prophet’s voice as He did in
Hos 4:6.

(6)	My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because (you have)
rejected knowledge, I will reject (you),

	That’s exactly Jn 3:16 and on, where it says,

(19)	…this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light…

	Listen, it matters that Jesus died upon Calvary, but it means nothing
to you except condemnation if you don’t receive the light. You see? 

	Furthermore he keeps on with the same voice: [Hosea 4] 

(6)	…seeing (you have) forgotten the law of (your) God, I will also
forget (your) children.

17.	Let me ask you a question. Did Luther’s children forget? Yes they
forgot! God forgot them. Did Wesley’s children forget? Yes, they
forgot. God has forgotten them! Don’t try to remind God, my brother,
my sister. Have the Pentecostal children been forgotten? Yes! There’s
only one children group today, brother/sister. 

	In this day as eternity is overcoming time, we hear Is 49:16,

(16)	Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls
are continually before me. 

	The Lamb Himself is our Lamb’s Book of Life, we are upon His palms!
That’s what’s revealed when He came down and let us know our names
were therein! And our walls, which are New Jerusalem, are continually
before Him, and we have seen it, if we only want to believe in
revelation, and that which proves the revelation. 

18.	All right, that’s enough in that vein. We as Bible spirit-filled
believers know we have to get our answers from God’s holy Word by
spiritual revelation. So first of all let us look in the Bible as we
find it for man and his purpose. Biologically, man at the beginning was
– and that’s as far as the physical is concerned now, not the
spiritual – because we’re talking about man as man is studied. You
can’t study the man that left his body. You can’t do it.
Biologically, man at the beginning was and still is a mammal – he’s
an animal – who was both created and formed and given a position of
stewardship over the earth and its contents, and responsibility for its
well being and its destiny. I got to think of that one. Stewardship, for
its well being and its destiny. All but God Himself was accountable to
man. In other words man could not account to God for God. God’s
sovereign. But man was accountable to God for every single thing in the
universe. So all but God was under the domain of accountability. His
stewardship’s accountability to God was such that his success or
failure encompassed the whole earth, and extended to the universe as a
whole! Because the universe affects the earth, and affects you and me.
If Adam stepped up in responsibility, had he gone to the Tree of Life,
all else would have stepped up with him. If Adam fell, all else would
fall with him. 

19.	Let’s just take a look at Hebrews to see this stepping up
business. 11:40, the heroes of faith that have gone on before us, in the
first resurrection. What does it say about you and me?

(40)	God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us
should not be made perfect.

	They stepped up; we’re guaranteed a step up. Do you follow what I’m
saying? All right? If they’re brought down, we’re brought down. 

20.	Let’s go to Rom 5:15, reading:

(15)	But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through
the offence of one many be dead… (so death came. Verse 16,)

(16)	And not as (if) by one that sinned… for the judgment was by one
to condemnation… (17:)

(17)	For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; (verse 18,)

(18)	Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; (verse 19,)

(19)	For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners… (verse
20,)

(20)	Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. (21:)

(21)	…sin (has) reigned unto death…

	Reaches everybody. When Adam fell, everything fell. There was nothing
left that did not fall. Adam and God’s cosmos were one. The Zoe and
cosmos of God were one with man in the form of Adam. 

21.	The specific scriptural proof of what I have said is over here in
the Book of Rom [8:]19-23,

(19)	For the earnest expectation of (creation is waiting) for the
manifestation (or the placing) of the sons of God. 

	Placing where? In the true order of divine grace! So that every cell
member of the body of Christ is by grace! Predestinated through the
human race. With every person, every gift, every measure is of God.
Reading again,

(20)	For (creation) was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by
reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 

(21)	Because the (creation) itself (also) shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption (where’d corruption start? In man. In the mind.)
into the liberty of the (glory of the) children of God.

(22)	For we know that the whole creation groan(s) and travail(s) in pain
together (till) now. 

(23)	And not only (it), but ourselves also, which have (even) the
firstfruits of the Spirit, (vindication that this is not our lot and we
are going to get out of here.) even we (are groaning in) ourselves, (but
we will groan, and there’s no way we’re not going to groan, until)
the adoption, (the placing of sons in the resurrection,) the redemption
of (the human) body.

22.	All right. And the prophet Elijah, as William Branham explained,
that which we have said in the Seals, wherein the Lamb takes the Book,
looses the Seals, and he was giving back God the title deed of the
property and property rights that Adam lost in the fall. In fact Bro.
Branham went so far as to declare this unsealed document to be an
abstract, which is a brief containing the names of all title holders,
whoever had their name on the title, and any judgments or debts in
existence against the property. So when he handed the abstract back, the
title deed with the abstract, it shows there isn’t any debt against
Adam and the Adamic race, it’s been taken care of. 

	Furthermore we know that Paul speaks of himself and all mankind as sold
as slaves in the marketplace, under complete slavery by sin. The earth
is no less under the thralldom of sin, and it’s come to the place
where the earth can no longer purify itself! You’re a good agronomist
understand that a fertile balanced soil does not attract bugs and weeds.
It’s the other soil that does it. But man’s not going to do a thing
about it, you know why? Because they’re screaming for bread. And the
bread that they get will not satisfy them, because it doesn’t have the
elements that God put in them! You mean to tell me that God made
something inferior to what these bunch of bullhunks out here are
producing? I can get a wild rose, might not look as pretty as this bunch
of hybridized junk, but doesn’t attract the bugs and the diseases. 

23.	In fact, it looks like man is finally getting a bit of a
breakthrough by being sensible. I understand Armstrong, they’ve taken
their cue from NASA and different places, now they’ve got a rose that
they’ve sort of cloned now, and when the winter comes it can even
freeze down, grow right up again because it comes out of the root.
Science is smartening up a little bit, they know it’s go to come out
of a root. The government won’t do it, it’s too stupid, it’s run
by a bunch of jackasses. And we’ve put them in there. Pardon – I may
should take that back and be a nice guy and say a bunch of people that
don’t know what they’re really doing. They know not what they’re
doing, they’re doing what the lobbyist said, let’s face it.
Everything for a buck. They haven’t begun to protect us by keeping our
seeds from being finally destroyed! They haven’t protected the
animals! It takes men who love nature, and they’re the more the hippie
bunch, let’s face it – oh God, help us, how far we’ve gone, think
we’re Christians. They’re the ones that are trying to preserve the
good seeds that aren’t attacked by rodents and – well rodents
aren’t so bad, but the bugs and the pests, in the way of fungus and
bacteria. Our government wouldn’t care two bits if it was all gone. So
later on you can eat all the food you want and your bellies would still
swell from starvation. 

24.	The prophet said there’s nothing left in the earth. But he
didn’t say man couldn’t put it back in if he wanted to. He’ll
never do it on a monumental scale. How come up there in Oregon they say
where the dust from Mount Helen that fell over the whole land, it’s
producing tremendous things. And the little buggies and little animals
are now burying through the dust and the lava, and it’s making the
ground come back, and the production that was in the earth before, that
they haven’t seen for years and years is coming back! God haste the
day when the volcanoes erupt and cover this earth once more. I’m not
being callous. If we don’t look out for our self-interest, you tell me
who’s going to. Well you say, “Well the Bible said no man cared for
my soul.” Why should he if you didn’t care for it? Don’t think
people don’t care for your soul and God doesn’t care, the whole
trouble is you don’t care for your soul. Yes sir. Souls need bodies to
go in and the healthier the body, the easier on the old soul in there
too. See? 

25.	Now the earth is no less under the thralldom of sin. It sure is not.
At this time the spiritual resurrection has already taken place in the
Bride, and is waiting like Adam, who was in a spirit form, to get the
physical body that put him in complete harmony with God and nature at
that time; we’ve got to go beyond that. To see the magnitude of
Adam’s stewardship and consequently the magnitude of our own loss, and
his loss, we just go back simply to read Gen 1:26-28, and we’ll see it
right there what I’ve been talking about. 

(26)	And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 

	How many complexes do you think God’s got? How many types of stimuli
to get an effect does God have? Does He send forth bitter and sweet
water? Adam was sure in good form back there in the image of God.
Didn’t have a bit of trouble. Not a bit of trouble. Made in the
likeness of God, spirit form.

(26)	…let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the
air, and… cattle, and over all the earth, every creeping thing that
creep(s) upon the earth.

(27)	So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them. (One spirit body, two spirits as
it were blending.)

(28)	And God blessed them, said unto them, Be fruitful, multiply,
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, the fowl of the air, over every living thing that move(s) upon
the earth. (So God gave him complete domain.)

26.	Now take a look at again Romans 5, and you get that 12th verse up
there. 

(12)	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin; and death passed upon all men, for all have sinned:

	He had it in the complete power to bring forth a race of people in the
image of Almighty God. A terrible picture of man is painted in Rom
3:10-18, if we just want to read it.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

They are all gone out of the way, together become unprofitable; there is
none that doeth good, no, not one.

27.	How many times you heard the Nazarene, the Legalist, Pentecostal,
the Methodist, say, “I sought God.” Hogwash, you sought God.
You’re a liar and you know it. You no more  sought guy, than a hog
wanted to go to the butcher, or wanted to get penned up. Listen to what
man’s like:

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps under their lips: 

	Hah, that’s a pretty picture, but it’s sure true. Need our mouths
washed out with the soap of God, don’t we?

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

…feet swift to shed blood:

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

…the way of peace they (have) not known:

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

28.	How low they sunk is also seen in Romans, just before the great
flood, beginning at Rom 1:21.

(21)	Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, their
foolish heart was darkened.

	That’s before the flood, when they had a second chance! What about
today, when God was fully exposed before them? What chance? Talk about
their foolish heart? Rich, increased in goods, they say, and think we
lack nothing, but they’re wretched, miserable, naked, and blind and
don’t even know it. Caught up in their multiplicity of illicit affairs
with idolatry and churchioloty. 

(23)	…changed the glory of the uncorruptible God (to) an image made
like corruptible man, to birds, fourfooted beasts, and… things. 

	What have they done? They rationalized God. A God of creation that made
them gods! Because they’re over creation.

(24)	Wherefore God gave them (unto) uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts, 

	In other words when they have thoroughly associated themselves with
nature, they could only associate with animals – you can’t associate
with plants! Go and kiss a plant and see what you get back. A bee will
likely sting you on the nose and serve you right for kissing a plant.
Associate with the trees, the birds! You can associate with animals
though, and that’s instinctual. We’ll talk about that, just a
minute, we’ll talk about it.

(24)	…the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies
between themselves:

(25)	…changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served
the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. (In other
words all they thought was service to themselves and to mankind.)

(26)	For this cause God gave them up (to) vile affections: (and so the
church being so kind and sweet endorsed homosexuality) even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 

29.	Who’s the first big shot woman who died of AIDS? Know who it was?
Mrs. Flynt. Rotten as they ever came. Pretty woman. Told her husband,
“Yeah, you got Christ, and twenty million dollars walked out when you
did.” She was bisexual. She was filth. But no different from anybody
else! Not condemning her. I admire her that she’ll stand up and tell
the truth. She evidently didn’t wait to die to promulgate her junk.
Although I understand before she died she was looking for something a
little nicer, by way of nicer magazines. Her husband wouldn’t grant
that. Well that’s man. He thinks he’s got God up here and have
anything down here. Got news for you, brother/sister, what’s up here
will dedicate what’s down here. And indicate it. Their religion was
filth like this here.

(27)	…likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned
in their lust one toward another; 

30.	This is funny isn’t it here, strange? It says the women got into
homosexuality before the men did. Oh. Good reason for it, I suppose, you
know. I don’t know. Well it was sin, wasn’t it? When I say good
reason, I meant there must of have been something really brewing under
the surface there. 28,

(28)	…even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to reprobate mind(s), to do those things which are not
convenient; (abnormal.)

(29)	Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
malignity; whisperers,

(30)	Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors
of evil things, disobedient to parents,

(31)	Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful: 

	I saw those implacable bunch in that building. The only placation they
had, “Sure, go ahead and do it and we’ll pick up the bill for you.
We’ll get you out and restore you to health so you can go all through
it again.” Why that’s like telling the guy, “Stick your hand in
the meat-grinder and I’ll restore it, and you stick it in again and
again and again.” My God, what’s the matter with people?

(32)	Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things
are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them
that do them.

	They know the judgment of God is in the land, they know that something
is striking. And they take their pleasure in it. Yes sir. 

31.	All right listen, by the time of the flood, there was only one true
human being left. That was Gen 6:9. Genetically perfect. After Noah’s
death there was no genetically true human being, and there are none
today. The dominant genes of the beast have taken over again until man
is purely sensual. As dying beasts can be aroused sexually, the male, by
the scent of the female in rut, he can be dying, but he’ll do his dead
level best to have intercourse. So the human race is purely animal. I
don’t like to preach that you shock people, but I’m a shocker and I
might as well admit it, I’m an x-rated preacher and you’re going to
get them both barrels. Because it’s the truth! Weeds with one little
hair root will propagate themselves. I hate weeds. Finally get to the
place where you pick them up and you hang them on a wire and watch them
roast. Because you know those stinkers, one little bit of moisture, one
– hey, I’m not joking, I’m telling the truth. Right? Give them one
teeny-weeny break, which is no break, and they will come to seed, which
is sex. Oh you bet. Then parents cannot caution their kids these days, I
don’t know what’s wrong with parents; something wrong with parents
don’t caution their kids and try to help them. See?

	It says in 1 Cor 15:20 all died in Adam. That meant separation from God
and all that God meant in the universe, to Adam. And all that Adam
possessed was forfeit. I’m glad there’s Bro. Branham told us about
the abstract and the title deed. Adam was created for lordship to be a
prince under God Who was his Father, the King! Adam had a prime
obligation to God! He was to people the world with images of God!
Children of God who would also take headship for God over God’s
creation. Essentially it was up to Adam to people the New Jerusalem with
sons of God, and by lesser predestination and election all the rest of
the sons were to come in, outside the holy City. 

32.	Psalm 8 speaks of Jesus, but also it gives us a part with him! Now
Bro. Branham said this was Jesus. 

(1)	O LORD our (God), how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who
hast set thy glory above the heavens. (That’s His Own testimony about
Himself and how great He is.)

(2)	Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou (has) ordained strength
because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the
avenger. 

	If God does it so simple a little baby can get it, then He shuts every
mouth at the White Throne judgment, doesn’t He? And that’s going on
now. Rewards are being handed out, you know. Have you got your hands
open for rewards? Like I said this morning on the glass of cold water?

(3)	When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and
the stars, which thou hast ordained;

(4)	What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, (you
visit) him?

(5)	For thou hast made [him] a little lower than the angels, crowned him
with glory and honour.

(6)	…(made) him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; put all
things under his feet:

(7)	All sheep and oxen, yea, and (all) beasts of the field(s);

(8)	The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and (whatever) passeth
through (waters) the paths of the seas.

(9)	O LORD our (God), how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

	But they sure have ruined the Name of God in the earth, didn’t they?
You notice Paul takes that to Jesus, and he said, “Suffering, made
flesh to suffer.” So that’s man in there secondly. 

33.	All right. Secondly, wherein was the failure? Man was supposed to be
this, ordained to it, and will come to it eventually, yes. Yes he will.
Where was the failure? Study of Genesis will reveal Eve’s sin with the
serpent, and Adam’s sin with Eve was of course sexual sin. In Gen
1:26-29, which we already read, didn’t we?

…(Let’s) make man in our image… (give them all this.)

(28)	…Be fruitful, and multiply, replenish the earth, (verse 28,)
subdue 	it: have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air,
	(everything) that move(s) upon the (face of the) earth.

	What was that subduing of the earth? I think keeping the plants and
things in order. And ruling nature as God by the Holy Spirit does now.

	All right, but Gen 1:26-29 is followed by 2:7, where man and woman, but
each separately, is put into a human body. And then warned, Adam was
warned after being put in the Garden of Eden, not to defile himself by
taking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, if he did he would
die. Then [verses]16-25, He gives them all this authority and whatsoever
we see – well let’s see, that’s 2:25, yup. 

34.	Now there is no mention in Gen 1:28, what followed later on when
Adam was put into a physical body. Let’s go back then, so I’ll
explain what I’m saying. Let’s look at 1:28.

(28)	And God blessed them, and God said… Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: 

	Now that was not said after being put into a human body. So we
understand the command of God to Adam, in propagation, was for images
not bodies! But we cannot bypass Gen 1:29.

(29)	And God said, Behold, I have given you herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; it shall be (to you) for meat.

	Which means in the spiritual form it is very doubtful that Adam ate
anything. I don’t believe he did, I got no Scripture for it, and
I’ve nothing Bro. Branham said. In fact everything’s contrary. I
know that for the very fact that those in paradise are spirit bodies and
they can hug and kiss each other without sensation, pure love and
motivation, but they cannot eat. Shake hands, everything else. Can’t
eat. I guess no need to sleep. 

	We cannot bypass Gen 1:29, when we consider the body. But remember,
those bodies would be supplied for the images that they created with
God, even as God supplied the body for Adam and Eve. There was a choice
there, definitely. Not man in his own. 

35.	Now amongst the animals bodies were not given in the Adamic way.
That is, it was to begin with! But the seed was in them to procreate, by
instinct. They would multiply strictly by the procreative act. Eve
admits that this is what happened to her in Gen 3:13. 

…the LORD said (to) the woman, What is (it) that thou hast done? And
the woman said, The serpent (seduced) me… 

	“He took me into a sexual act,” is what it actually says in the
Hebrew. Adam admits Eve invited him into the act. In the 12th verse, 

(12)	…(he) said, The woman (you gave) to be with me, she gave me of
the tree, and I did eat.

	He admits it. Gen 3:20 is an admission that Eve was the mother of both
the serpent children and the children of Abraham, she was called Eve
because she was the mother of all living. It does not say that Adam was.
And there is no chance that he was, because in the Book of John, Cain
has designated as his father, the evil one, and Adam at no time ever had
any designation of evil imputed to him, because God was his Father.

36.	Now all right, the serpent line mingled with the Adamic line. Cain
married his own sister, half sister. So it went. Well it wasn’t even a
half sister. Just was a daughter of Adam and Eve. I don’t know what
you’d call it. The Adamic line stayed separate for quite some time,
but they began to interbreed, mingling the seed as it says in Genesis 6,
and you will notice exactly how it puts it, which opens your eyes to the
truth.

(1)	…it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them, (more women than men.)

(2)	…the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
(beautiful); (so they began breeding, interchanging, intermarrying,
until there was no true human left, race left. They went completely
sexual.)

(3)	And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man… 

37.	Now when did His Spirit begin to strive? His Spirit strove back
there with Adam and Eve, and said, “Now listen.” By the Word. The
Spirit strives by the Word. Man comes by and say, “God’s striving
with me,” and be off the Word – you’re a liar! Complete liar.
Fooled by the devil! God strives by His Word! Because the Spirit has to
have a conduit! The human being in himself is not the conduit! No, I’m
sorry. We wouldn’t need a prophet. All of us could be Jannes – not
Jannes and Jambres, but Korah, Dathen and Abiram. “Who needs you
Moses? Hallelujah, we’ve got God too.” Bunch of Pentecostals!
Baptists, Presbyterians. …?... the Baptists under …?... were worse
than the Pentecostals. At least they’d give you a fair shake on who
owned what – at least I think, I don’t know if they would or not. I
ain’t going to talk. 

	But Spirit’s got to have a conduit. God striving, as He did in the
days of Adam. “Adam here’s the truth; here’s the right tree.”
And then He said, now again He said, “Look, stay within the right
trees! Adam and Eve, and you intermarry with each other, not outside!”
 

	But these men were too virile for their own good. They’re caught with
lust. So what happened? Hybrids always look pretty nice, you know. So
they got caught with the fair women. And God said, “I won’t
strive.” He said, “I’m going to cut his days back to a hundred and
twenty.”

(4)	There were giants in the earth in those days; (sure, be
interbreeding.) also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, they bare children to them… (That’s what we’re
talking about. So that’s what brought about the fall before the
flood.)

(5)	And God saw the wickedness of man was great (upon) the earth, (from
that time on,) every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil
continually.

38.	Now you’re dealing with the sexual assault of sexual spirits upon
men and women. You got to, because this is where it all came from. Eve
let herself be entered in by the serpent. Adam turned right around,
entered in also, in order to save her. So he got caught up in the act.
Now all his children are caught up in the act. 

	And I read you out of Romans what was taking place in Genesis 6. Man
gets so low down with the AIDS, which he was, he was expiring. What they
call the sleeping disease in Africa. God got sorry for man, so He said,
“Instead of letting a man live it out,” He said, “I’ll just kill
off all but eight.” God’s going to do the same thing at the end of
this time, everybody dies but the Bride. 

(7)	…the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; (doesn’t say, “I’ll annhilate,” just
“created from the face of the earth.”) both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I
have made them. 

	He said, “I’m sorry,” He said, “they’re in such a terrible
mess, that they’re in there.” All right, they’re in that horrible
condition. The 8th verse:

But Noah found grace in the eyes of (God).

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and (genetically)
perfect in his generations, (his wife wasn’t and his children
weren’t.)

	Last true human being died with Noah. Humanity after the flood carried
both seeds, and with no way to tell them apart physically, one lump, but
God moves now by predestination. 

39.	According to the Book of Romans 9, he explains beautifully – my,
without understanding serpent seed and the intermingling, how in the
world could you ever justify Romans 9, predestination and election?
Couldn’t do it. 9:6.

(6)	Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are
not all Israel, which are of Israel:

	It tells you right there! Jacob had twelve sons, and in his loins was
serpent seed as sure as there was God’s seed! And every one of his
children, and their children, every human being. 

(7)	Neither, (are they) the seed of Abraham, (and they’re all children
because they came out from Abraham? Well you can trace your lineage
plumb back there.) …but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 

	In other words, you’ve got to come from a Source beyond Abraham, that
was put within Abraham to be the progenitor as Adam was, and Eve, in
order to have these sons that God wants, wholly Jerusalem.

(8)	That is, They which are the children of the flesh, (they’re) not
the children of God: 

40.	In other words, what happened back there in the Garden? Satan told a
lot of truth. He said, “Look, you can have children this way and it
will be very pleasurable.” To the extent today man is not interested
in procreation except as a means and an end to recreation. That’s why
the world’s messed up. That’s why Bro. Branham took the hard-nosed
stand he took. And we got to understand it. There is recreation at the
price of procreation, but you got to know the times when recreation
stands still or you’re going to get procreation. Now that’s the Word
of God the prophet brought us. 

(8)	…They are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of
God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 

	Now notice any number can be born a certain way, but there’s only a
certain number born another way. 

(9)	For this is the word of promise, At this time I (will) come (to
Sarah), and (she) shall have a son.

(10)	And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even
our father Isaac;

(11)	(For the children being not yet born, neither having done good or
evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of
works, but of him that calleth;)

41.	Now notice these children not yet born were not living souls. No
siree. Now if they’d have died prematurely, they’d have been up
there. Like Bro. Branham’s little daughter. She died very young, he
saw her as a grown woman. So much for these people who have visions, and
wonderful visions and revelations there’s angels up there raising your
children and you know. Oh pbbt. Pshew, brother. Somebody raised sand in
their eyes, spiritual sawdust. 

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

…it is written, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

	Did God author the act of Eve and the serpent and then Adam and Eve?
No, He did not. It was there as a choice, and they blew it. Now is God
then the author of unrighteousness? No way, no way. In fact, if you
follow this you’ll see how God is perfectly righteous.

…(He said) to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and
compassion on whom I will have compassion.

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of
God that shew(s) mercy. (Well that’s fair enough. God’s God.)

For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I
raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, (and) my name might
be declared throughout all the earth.

Therefore he (hath) mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will
he hardeneth.

Thou wilt then (say)… 

	Now how does He harden? He just puts the things of God in front of
them. And they say, “No way. No way. No way.” How much of the things
of God do you think the serpent wanted? Why there was no soul in the
bird! He had no place for a soul – he had a place, but no soul! So he
was strictly instinctual. 

42.	Why do you think parents got to watch their kids so hard? And they
do watch them, without even explaining things? Because they’re
instinctual, that’s why! And if you don’t know that, you are sicker
than I am. I will say one thing I admit about this modern society. They
have tried to bring out in the open, in a frank and honest way, which
turned horribly frank and dishonorable, what the Christians should have
brought out. When the Bible said, “The women are to teach their
daughters how to love their husbands,” and so on, I believe that takes
in the whole gambit. You know, brother/sister, look; the people perish
from lack of knowledge. And now they’re going into eternal damnation,
because they’ve turned down the knowledge of the most High. No, the
people just won’t listen. 

(19)	(Well you’ll say then,) Why doth he yet find fault? …who hath
resisted his will?

(20)	Nay but, O man, who art (you) that repliest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed it, Why (have you) made me thus?

43.	Oh boy, people sure don’t like this. They say, “Well if I had to
believe that, I’d just leave God.” What made you think you got Him?
Shows what they are. You know, and sweet lovely people too. Oh they’re
so meek and so nervous, just want everything just right, right, oh so
nervous about anything, and “Bro. Vayle, if I had to believe that, I
don’t know what I’d do…”  What do you believe? How can it get
any plainer? Okay.

(21)	Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make
one vessel unto honour, another (to) dishonour? (That’s Esau and
Jacob.)

(22)	What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and make his power known,
endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
destruction: 

	Now notice, the Bible specifically teaches that they fitted themselves
to destruction, that’s in the Greek. But over here it’s in the
Greek:

(23)	…that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of
mercy, which he had afore prepared…

	The preparing of this vessel is of God. And a lot of them don’t
understand, because of Hebrews, the chastening. 

44.	Okay, 2 Tim [2:]19.

(19)	…the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord
knoweth them (which) are his. (Predestination.)

	It is also true that the elect is able to separate the unbeliever from
the true believer, according to 1 Jn 3:8-13. That of course is one of my
favorites. 1 John – I’ll get it in a second here – the 3rd
chapter, beginning at verse 8:

(8)	He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sin(s) from
the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
might (bring to nothing or) destroy the works of the devil.

(9)	Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth
in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

45.	Now that’s evidently the sin that would separate you from God!
There is a sin unto death! Evidently when you’re born again, you will
sin! But you’ll never do that sin! There won’t be anything in you
that will attribute unto Satan the works of God, the Word of God, and
these other things that are pertinent in the Bible. 

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:


	They’re manifested. That they can pick out right now what is of God
and what is of the devil. They don’t get their wires crossed up. 

(10)	…whosoever doeth righteousness is not of God, neither he that
loveth not his brother. 

	Now what is the doing of righteousness? It’s the act that Abel did in
worshipping God; the unrighteous act is what Cain did in worshipping
God. One went by revelation, the other went by his own reasoning. And
they both could say, “I got the Bible.” Because we know Cain offered
a first fruit. Whether he really had it in his mind to offer a first
fruit, and say, “I’m going to rise in the resurrection, I’m going
to prove I’m okay, I don’t need the death of anybody, I don’t
need…” you know, and Bro. Branham said something’s got to die for
something else to live. Whether Cain did all that, Bro. Branham said by
doing what he did he denied that his mother and his father, the serpent
and Eve, had done a sexual sin. Okay this also explains again Jn
3:16,17, the condemnation remains even after the blood. 

46.	All right, 1 Jn 3:8-13 is the complete exposition of Jn 3:16 plus,
as already stated. This ability to discern, as it says in Mal 3:18, to
discern righteousness from wickedness, is the antidote for Mt 24:24,
where deception is at the highest peak in spiritual history and
revelation, where only the works of God by the Holy Ghost can bring into
evidence what people see, and they’re still off the Word. Nobody can
understand it, unless you understand Mal 3:18, which happens at the time
of the Presence, the great healing ministry in the earth, when Elijah is
to be on the scene and everything to be restored. Now that’s what you
need, that discernment to tell them apart. 

	Let’s go then to Mal 3:18, because I want to read you, I think it’s
the best thing I do that. I’ve read it many times, but we’ll read it
again. This is at the end time of the Elijah proposition. Okay, at the
time of the Bride talking the Word, which has been given her. And then
it says in verse 18, 

(18)	Then (you) shall return, (where? To the Lord! Turn back through
Elijah.) and discern between righteous(ness) and wicked(ness), (who are
the righteous, who are the wicked? Who is Abel, who is Cain?) between
him that serve(s) God (Abel) and him that serve(s) not. (Which is Cain.)

	How are you going to know? You got to have the Word test. Those that go
by the Word of God, the revelation of the hour, they’re the ones that
are in. 

47.	All right, thirdly we look at the finality of it all, the study of
man. At the time of the Presence or the Appearing, which is Mt 3:11,12,
as the Judge, the Separator:

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh
after me is mighter than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and fire:

Whose fan is in his hand, (present tense at that time, Judge, Son of
man. Now today, what’s He doing?) thoroughly (purging) his floor,
gather(ing) his wheat (in) the garner; (ready to burn the chaff.
Pentecost has got to burn. I’m not for it, it’s just what God says.)

48.	All right, compare this to Jn 1:14, 

(14)	…the Word (became) flesh, dwelt among us, (we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and
truth.

	With that, 18th verse, 

(18)	No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is
in the bosom of the Father, (hath led him forth by words.)

	So there you are. He’s going to become flesh again through a prophet,
because God was in the prophet. Never forget, God was in the prophet.
There’s the key to the whole thing. 

49.	All right, let’s read 23-27:

(23)	He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make
straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

(24)	And they which were sent (out) of the Pharisees.

(25)	…asked him, (saying,) Why (do you baptize) then, if (you’re)
not Christ, nor (Elijah, nor) that prophet?

(26)	John answered, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one
among you, whom ye know not;

(27)	He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose
shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

	That same thing happened today. William Branham baptizing in the Ohio
River, standing there, according to Rev 10:1-7, the Pillar of Fire
appeared, God came down like a rainbow, circular form, and was seen by
many people. And the prophet prophesied. Same thing right there.

50.	Now with this, this is the same identically to 1 Th 4:16, 

(16)	…the Lord himself descend… with a shout, the voice of the
archangel, and trump of God:

	This is identical to 1 Corinthians 15, beginning at verse 20, where all
in Adam have sinned, all in Christ made alive. Christ Himself the first
fruit, then the rest at His Presence. When He sets the church in order
to get her out of here in the Rapture, to bring on a resurrection of
course, first of all. But then the church must be set in order. What is
the order for the church? To get her back to where Adam was, before, not
before now he sinned, but to get him back where he was in a fallen
condition, to reach and take the Tree of Life, because you are still
going to be you until you’re changed! No perfection this side of the
resurrection. You’re going to have your troubles, but they’re going
to decrease because that sweet Spirit coming into the church, more and
more you’re getting closer to those spirits moving in to get their
bodies, the dead. It’s just a dimension out here, brother/sister,
that’s all. Just a dimension, the highest dimension, moving in closer,
closer; you will be changing, changing, changing, but there’s no such
thing as perfection until you are redeemed, physically. We are already
back to that position! Why? Because it is very simple! Rev 20:10 tells
you that the Book is unsealed, and at that time the Tree of Life is in
view. 

	Now as soon as the church is set in order the Rapture takes place.
After the Rapture takes place is Rev 19:11-20, where He comes back on
the white horse. And Rev 20:1-6, is where He takes the devil and all the
rest and puts them in a pit. And then you go on to the White Throne
judgment. After the White Throne judgment you come to the New Jerusalem,
which is the very end. I’m just going through this very carefully.
That’s where you’re going to go. 

51.	Now to wind down the message, know this, this is the hour of man’s
destiny. And the hour of his destiny is Rev 22:10, which I have
mentioned, the unsealing of the Book, which is Rev 10:1-7, the Book is
unsealed now, which was sealed up. Now what do you find as soon as the
Book is unsealed? 

	[Revelation 22:]

(11)	He that is unjust, (is) unjust still: he (that) is filthy, (is)
filthy still: he that is righteous, (is) righteous still: and he that is
holy, (is) holy still.

	And God’s reward is with Him because there’s no more rewards to be
given, because it’s all over. So whatever you’ve laid up, that’s
what you’re going to get, by way of reward. Whatever He wants to do
for you is already been purchased and is in the works. So that’s
perfectly fine. We got a little time left? Okay, we can finish off then.

	All right, there is no more to come. Time as we know it is fading out,
eternity is coming on a pace, and eternity, remember, will be inhabited
by immortals. So the key to the blending of time to eternity is the
blending in of men becoming immortal in their spirits by the Word, which
will bring about immortal bodies, not by sex, no, not even by
resurrection, by virtue of the fact of the life that is within you
bringing you a complete metamorphosis as the Bible teaches.

52.	The final Voice of Hebrews 12 speaking from heaven is taking place.
And that Voice warns us. [Revelation 22:]

(16)	I Jesus have sent (my messenger) to testify unto you these things
in the churches. (I’m) the root and offspring of David, the bright and
morning star.

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. ...let him that is athirst 
come. And (let) whosoever will, (then) take (of) the water(s) of life 
freely. 

	Now that’s the Message going out today, by God, the faithful Christ,
the servant, the prophet, and the Bride. And he said, 

(18)	…I testify (to) every man that hear(s) the words of the prophecy
of this book… 

	That’s the unsealed Book. You couldn’t hear before it was unsealed.
So that’s for now. “Don’t you dare add a word, or you’ll go
straight to the great tribulation. And don’t you take out a word,
because not only will you go to the great tribulation, you have already
shown anything in the Book of Life, you’re going to miss it all.”
Shows what it is.

53.	What is there to look at? What is there to look to? Well, we’re
looking at this hour of the revelation, where man is coming to fulfill
the purpose which God appointed to. A study of man and that is what the
Bible contains, and history tells it. It’s open before us. But there
will be no history soon, and all the evil will be destroyed, and even
the Bride will forget her days of humanity, according to Rev 21:3,4.

(3)	And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, (that’s
Jesus Christ himself, the incarnation of God,) and they shall be his
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

(4)	And God (Himself, their God,) shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, (nor) sorrow, nor crying,
neither… any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(They’re gone. See?)

	Just think; we will walk right into the Millennium and the new heavens
and the new earth with this Message of the revelation of God and His
grace, given us by the prophet! Just like the Exodus. Walk right in. How
many signs did Israel do? Nothing. Moses did it all. What did Israel
bring forth? Nothing. Moses did it all. God with Moses, God and Moses.
What did they have to do? Kill the lamb, which means take what is given
you, apply it, and walk out and into. And don’t get shaken down in
between times. 

	There’s your anthropology: man a complete failure, fallen from the
face and image of God. But here also is your philosophy: the wisdom of
God in Christ has brought you back, far greater than from whence you
fell. Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Gracious Heavenly Father, again we want to testify to Your goodness,
and love and mercy that You’ve given us in this hour. And we say we
are thrilled absolutely Lord, with Your kind love that You have shown
toward us. And surely Lord it is as You said in Your Word, “All things
are ready, come to the feast.” I trust Lord none of us are making
excuses, but we are avidly waiting for the doors to open, when we can go
from the spiritual feasting we are doing on this living Word, to the
incarnate bodies Lord, those bodies that You have predestinated for us,
and what You want is the ultimate, and then sit down at the Wedding
Supper with the Lamb, God Himself incarnated. And Lord to think that
that is not only possible, but is in the making. It’s going on right
now. 

	So we can say even more clearly with Bro. Branham than ever before, if
we’re not Bride, there’s certainly a Bride out there somewhere, and
by the grace of God, Lord, could we just even be friends of the
Bridegroom, to get somewhere near the Wedding, if not this hour, down
the road, Lord, when You make up all Your jewels, finally, and the
saints gather around New Jerusalem, the Bride. For we know Lord and we
have seen and believe enough, that surely Lord there is a place for us.
But by Your grace Lord, we’re believing that there won’t be a place
outside the Wedding Supper, but there’ll be a place inside the Wedding
Supper Lord, for us. 

	Father, cleanse us from all sin today, Lord, we pray, of all pettiness,
anger, malice, and those things we saw mentioned in the Word, what lies
in man. Get us away from backbiting and the …?... Lord that show forth
?confidence? rather than resurrection. O God, may we not identify with
the graveyard, may we identify with Christ Who is risen amongst us, and
know that assuredly even as He has a body, You Lord God have a body
there waiting, that wonderful body, our great physical High Priest. Even
now Lord, You are Melchisedec, You are our Judge, You are all of it, and
one day we’re going to be a part with You. We trust by the grace of
God that these bodies, Lord that we have now, will begin to line up more
and more and more, due to the spiritual resurrection of our faith, which
we have in Thee. 

	So we commend ourselves to You this morning, every single one of us
Lord, to walk forth in victory, and greater victory, and ever widening
victory, Lord, over the world, the flesh and the devil, by the released
power of the Word within us. To the praise of the glory of God, to the
witnessing that we are Christ’s and Christ is worthy that He is God.
Unto Thee we ascribe the honor and the glory, in Jesus’ Name, we pray.
Amen. 

	‘Take the Name of Jesus with you’ .

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