The Way of God

 Bro. Lee Vayle

July 21, 1982

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we are very grateful tonight for the
fact that You are here, there’s no doubt in our minds that have been
proven conclusively, and also by revelation we know that which has been
proven. Your way Lord astounds us that makes us marvel that is so
accurate, so good. And Lord, though all could be deceived, we are not
deceived, because we are of that Election. We are so happy for that. We
rejoice in You Lord, Thou art our strength,   our high tower, our
exceeding great reward, our courage, Your all things Lord. And this is
wonderful, we’re so grateful that God is our refuge. And this is true
for us Lord, that Your Presence is against the gates of hell, and the
gates of hell maybe against us, but You are against that which is
against us. We have ...?... even the raising judgment us, we shall
condemn, we become instruments of judgment that shall not prosper. We
are grateful for that, we thank You for it. Now, Lord we commend
ourselves to You this evening hour, with joy in the Holy Spirit in
Jesus’ Name. Amen. You may be seated.

 	Now, I’ll try not to be too long tonight for various reasons, one of
which is I want to try to keep from getting a little bit too tired,
especially in the throat. And also to not get into to much material.

1.	Now, tonight I’m going to deal on, ‘The Way of God’.  Instead
of a devotional message which would be fine, we’re going to look at
the subject of ‘The Way of God’. And we’ll begin with reading Ps
95:10.

	(10)	Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It
is a 				people that err in their heart, (See, they don’t have that
heart know-

		ledge,) they have not known my ways: (The thought there is that 

		they did not know My ways.)

	The 103rd Psalm, and this is the 7th verse, which is one we’re all
familiar with,

	(7)	He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children 				
of (men).

	Now, Moses knew His ways, the children of Israel did not. They saw His
acts. That’s all they saw, they couldn’t put the two together. 

2.	Then in Prov 16 25, we read here,

	(25)	There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof 
				are the ways of death.

	And over in Amos the 3rd chapter, quoting the one Bro. Branham used so
much, verse 7.

	(7)	Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secret 			
	unto his servants the prophets. 

	So, we’re looking at the ways of God as delineated in Scripture. Now,
this message will not attempt to detail the ways of God, as though
I’ve had a revelation that dealt thoroughly with the subject. Rather
it’s an attempt to tell of a certain peculiar way, that is actually
started in Genesis in the Garden of Eden, and is carried through out the
Bible, even to this hour. Now, looking briefly at our Scripture, which
we’ve read, it is most definite that this Way, that we are perusing
includes a prophet.

3.	 In Ps 103:7, the prophet Moses is mentioned. And then in Amos It
says, “Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secret
unto his servants the prophets.” [Amos 3:7] In other words, what God
is doing when in manifest will be the preliminary to, and contain a
secret which would be a revelation. So, looking at this thought, ‘The
Way of God’, is we’re looking at it tonight. Most definitely
includes a prophet, a prophet must be there. 

	And you’ll remember when I taught on Thursday night in Columbus, that
we showed you very, very conclusively that there cannot be a prophet
man, unless the prophet God is there. No Way! Prophet man is not
existent without prophet God in the same arena.

	We also noticed, in Ps 103:7, that miraculous manifestation is not a
means of revelation, although it is a part of the way, but God attracts
attention by means of the miraculous, or the stupendous, the phenomenal
or whatever He’s doing, and the revelation is separate. 

4.	Now, finally from the context of Ps 95:10. both God and His way are
disproved, or disapproved of in an Exodus period. Now, so that you get
that, I want to repeat that, that you will notice that there is certain
Scripture here, that lets us know in an Exodus period, both God and His
way are disapproved by the people. That same Psalm verse 7,   

	(7)	For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the 		
		sheep of his hand. To day if you will hear his voice, 

	(8)	Harden not your heart, as in the provocation and as in the day of 	
			temptation in the wilderness:

	(9)	When your fathers tempted me, (and) proved me, (put me to the

		test, did not approve of me.) and saw my works.

	(10)	(For) forty (long) years was I grieved with this generation, and
said, 				It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not
known my 				ways:

	(11)	Unto whom I sware in my wrath they should not enter into my 				
rest.

	And remember, the Exodus period under Moses, types the last Exodus out
of Babylon in out of this earth into the millennium. And of course it is
in 2 Thessalonians the 2nd chapter, beginning at the 3rd verse.

	(3)	Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not 				
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of 					sin
be revealed, the son of perdition;  

	(4)	Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, 			
	or that is worshipped; so that he as God (sits) in the temple of 				
God, showing himself that he is God.

	Now, he’s pulling a real bluff and he’s got the people nailed in,
where he wants them with his affirmation. Now that’s the situation.
Watch more:

	(6)	And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed 					in
his time.

	(7)	For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he (that) 				
(hindereth) will (hinder,) until he be taken out of the way.

	(8)	Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume 			
	with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of 
			his (presence).

	(9)	Even him, whose (presence) is after the working of Satan with all 	
			power and signs and lying wonders.

	(10)	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; 				(Now listen,) because they received not the love of the
truth, that 					they might be saved.

5.	Notice, the Exodus takes place after there is a revelation, which has
to do with what we saw here, back in the time of Moses, the Bride going
away. 

	Now, you can only run true to a form, because it says, “They never
did know His way.”

Now, if they didn’t know His way back there, how are they going to
know His way today, if His way is not the same today as it was back
there? The alpha, omega principle. The fact that, “He’s the same
yesterday, today and forever,” and that God does not do one thing, but
has not been previously done before and stays within the fashion. So,
before there can be a falling away, before there can be, that One coming
in manifestation, which is the mystery of iniquity, then there would
have to be the manifestation of the mystery of Godliness, So that there
would be a conclusive patterns, because God cannot vary from His
pattern. 

	So, with all deceivableness, they’re going to leave the truth, which
could save them. And for this cause, God will send the strong delusion
that they should believe ‘the lie’. Which, ‘the lie’, was,
“You shall not die, but surely live.” [Gen 3:4]

6.	Now, remember the thesis with the Roman Catholic church for centuries
has been, through the successions of popes, “They will bring
righteousness upon this earth, until he, to whom they are the vicar can
come back and take over.” So you are going to see some pretty
stupendous things at the end time. And you better not be a part of it.
You better know how God does things, which I’m sure you are all aware
of it by now.

 	Now that we understand this much of the subject, ‘the way that God
does things’, we go to Scripture for illustrious proof of this
principle, and we see how it works. We’re going to see exactly how God
works, through this prophet God’s ministry the miraculous and the
under- standing of what He is doing, and the entering into the
understanding whereby the individual and individuals are saved.

7.	In the Book of Ex 3:1-12.

	(1)	Now  Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest 	
			of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and 		
		came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

	(2)	And the (messenger) of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of 			
fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and , behold, the bush 	
		burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

	(3)	And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,
why 				the bush in not burnt.

	Now notice, don’t get mixed up in your language. You’ll notice is
says in the 2nd verse, the messenger of the Lord. And then it says,
that... this messenger was in the burning bush. But in verse 4, it says,

	(4)	And when the LORD saw that he turned aside, God called... out 				
of the midst of the bush,... 

	So God was His Own Messenger. God’s His Own Prophet, He’s His Own
Apostle, He’s His Own Pastor, He’s His Own Teacher. I’m not
getting steamed up. But I got reason to be. Let me tell you this church,
there’s some of these attitudes could drive me to distraction, or
almost suicide, but I get with this Word. The Word of God begins to
slant into a something happens, let me tell you I’m putting you on
your guard. You’re going to need it. You’re going to need it.
Don’t sit here. I never preach anymore without having... come right
down. Last Sunday was going to be my next last sermon for a long, long
time. You listening? Let’s get this Quincy. You heard Terry Sproule
preach, I never coached that boy, but his ministry lives, because of one
preacher you're looking at. 

8.	Listen, Quincy you’ve heard grace is God, plus nothing. God’s His
Own Messenger. Somebody tell you, “Jesus Christ is God,” doesn’t
know his Book. “God was in Christ!”

...?...  God’s His Own Messenger. I said, “God’s His Own
Messenger, He’s His Own Prophet.”   He may need a sounding board, He
may need pastors, He may need teachers, but they better be in the mode.
Don’t get up here and talk to me about somebody’s got authority.
Don’t you parrot it in your seats because  I know what goes on. [Bro.
Vayle knock a few times] I’ll meet you down that road, I’m telling
you God’s His Own authority. You better blink your eye-balls. God help
this church, doesn’t smarten up and begin getting in the right track.
You think old Lee Vayle is kidding you? I’ve got news for you; I’ll
meet you down that road as sure as Lee Vayle stands here and you sit
there, and every word on this tape is going to come back if I’ve lied
to you. Every word is going to come  back even if I’ve told you the
truth. There is a way that God’s got. And we’re dealing with God
tonight, we’re not dealing with Lee Vayle or William Branham. That’s
right, that’s right.

9.	He sent a Messenger did He? He was the Messenger. God spoke out of
that bush. 

	(4)	...(He) said, Moses, Moses. (You think God doesn’t know our 				
names?) (He) said, Here am I.

	(5)	... Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for 
				the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

	(6)	Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, 	
		the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; 				
for he was afraid to look upon God.

	The Pillar of Fire wasn’t God, but it was God. Jesus wasn’t God,
but He was God. God we’re wrapped up in a door-knob. and God we’re
wrapped up in William Branham. God was in the prophet. Let it sink in,
don’t be scared. Get out of your fears once in your life. I don’t
have any fears. I get mad as a fire-cracker up here and let you have it,
but I got no fear. I’m not afraid of one or all of you put together.
I’ve made my peace today. The gates of hell are against me, I care
less. I don’t say I care less, as though I care less. Just be sure you
ain't part of it. Just be sure that we’re part of the gates of God,
right? Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

10.	I’m the God of Isaac. Afraid to look upon God. Nobody can see God
and live. No man can see God living, no way. I believe that goes
straight down to glorification. I don’t believe anything has the power
to see God. Jesus Himself said, “No man can see God. Why do you call
Me good, there’s none good but God.” They saw everything that there
was of God, when they saw Jesus. God poured into Him everything He was.
We’re looking at the same thing here God in that burning bush. 

	(7)	(The) LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people    
                               		which are in Egypt, and (I’ve) heard
their cry by reason their 					taskmasters; I know their sorrows;

	(8)	 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the 				
Egyptians, and bring them out of the land unto a good land 						and a
large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; (Down

		there, He names the names.)

	(9)	Therefore now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come 		
		unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the 				
Egyptians oppress them.

	He saw it all along. He said, “This is the day of reckoning.” What
about Quincy? What about this church? What about all the churches that
say they believe the Branham Message? The vindicated Message of Almighty
God, God being His Own Prophet, using a reflector. You’re looking down
the road, aren’t you? Forget it. This is as though judgment struck
this hour.

11.	“Oh, Bro. Vayle, I’ve got away with things of the past”. Did
you? Come on, it’s judgment tonight. It’s not down the road. I go
around the country, I watch women getting their heels higher and higher.
Can’t tell them anything. Get them down, so you don’t wobble. I’m
not a fool, I may look like one, act like one, but I’m not really.
Don’t tell me that was the time God saw it. That’s the time He saw
too much. He said, “The cups full, I’m going to wack down.”

	(10)	Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that 				
thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out 					of
Egypt. 

	Now, He tells them who they are. My children of Israel. Not
denomination. Israelite. Israelite’s are what? Princes with God. In
the last day there will be a certain group of people talking a certain
way, and God hears them.

12.	There’s a fellow in Pennsylvania, and that’s nothing Ohio, and
they’re all around saying, “Pray, pray, pray, that’ll do it.” I
got news for you, it won’t do it! It’s a certain talking you’re
doing with each other. Until this Message gets a hold, we’re all
gossip and everything else is put out of the way. All innuendos in
additions, well you know how you inundate a thing with this and that.
They talk a certain way, He said, “Those are my jewels.” [Mal
3:17]There’re the Israelites, “We understand each other.”  

	(11)	And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto 					
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel 						out
of Egypt?

	(12)	And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; 

	“Now Moses, how did I tell you I’m going on down, and tell you to
go down, and we’re doing both the same job, unless there was somebody
there with you?” How could He not be present today, if He’s here to
raise the dead, and the dead haven’t been raised?

	Somebody says, “The Pillar of Fire’s gone back.” I care less if
you call Him a Pillar of Fire, just call Him a Spirit, God is Here!
Elohim is Here! The One that raises the dead. I know He’s is, because
the dead haven’t been raised. The sweet Spirit hasn’t come into the
church. You say, “Bro. Vayle you need one.” I’ve admitted that all
my life, what about you? Huh? 

	(12)	... Certainly (I’ll) be with (you)... When thou hast brought
forth the 				people out of Egypt, (you’ll) serve God upon this
mountain.

 	Listen, God makes Himself and His purpose known to the prophet, but
based on a former prophecy. “All Scripture given is the inspiration of
God.” So therefore, every succeeding Scripture in its hour is based
upon the precedent of the unfailing Word of God. Now, that same God
said, “Four hundred years I’m going to bring them out. Four hundred
good years am I going to this thing go on and on, I’ll let it go
on,” He said, “I’ll just let it go.” But He said, “There’s a
day coming.”  Now, this was that day.

13.	Now, Exodus the 4:1-9.

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

	“Oh, that’s a great cock-and-bull story you got there Moses. What 
you got up your sleeve? You going to take us out and mess us up?
What’s this plan? We haven’t seen God.”

	(2)	And the LORD said, What’s in your hand? And he said, A rod.

	(3)	He said, Cast it on the ground, And he cast it on the ground, 				
and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

	(4)	And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take 				
it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it 				
became a rod in his hand:

	(5)	That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the 				
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath 				
appeared unto thee. 

	Now, that never happened before. You didn’t see too much happen back
there in those days, before Moses came on the scene. You saw God
Appearing to His prophets, a little sign here, a little sign there.
About the best sign of all is when, the fire came down and ripped off
Sodom and Gomorrah. Took them right out like pssst, like a blast. They
say the mark is still there. You can find it right today in the ground.
That’s why ?Beilakowski? build his theory of the worlds in collision
and instantaneous creation. And he took everything in the Bible, even
where the fire came down when Elijah called it down, he traces it right
there. But he put it down as a phenomenon. Not some phenomenon it’s
all of us, God Himself doing it.

14.	Where did this all come from? Serpent by the tail. Well any sign
will do. Any sign the supernatural will do, as long as you know
something’s got to be doing it, that man can’t do it. Not some cheap
magician trick.

	(6)	... Put thy hand in thy bosom. And he put his hand in his bosom...

		and it was leprous.

	(7)	... Put it back in again, (white as snow and so on.)

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

	(9)	And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two 
				signs, nor hearken unto thy voice, thou shalt take of the water 				
of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which 				
thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

	Now, in here, verse 21 also,

	(21)	And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into 				
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which 					I
have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, (I’m warning 				
you, it won’t do Egypt one bit of good, it will harden them, it will 	
			blame them. It won’t do one bit of good. “Go on down anyway.”)

15.	All right. These verses is the start of the so-called contest with
Pharaoh. Now, this all carries right on, what was done here. In the
miracles, in the signs and wonders, right on over to the Red Sea. The
complete defeat of the Egyptians, the miracle of man and water, in
health and blessing. But all Israel saw, was the works which they liked
to a degree, but only two people over twenty years of age, plus Moses
could understand... what God was it, was to believe Him. In a Pillar of
Fire, God leading a people a prophet, who could sit still and just
listen and follow. That’s what the prophet said. I’m quoting
absolutely William Branham, prophet of God. There was a prophet. He was
a prophet, he was the prophet close your Bible and forget it. Because I
can tell you right now there is just no such thing as not being a
prophet.

	And he said, “God gave them a prophet.” The Pillar of Fire was
there. To lead them on out and lead them in. But they wanted a law. 

	“Bro. Branham, how many songs should we sing?” 

	Well I guess that’s all right, there's no kick about it.

	“Bro. Branham, how long is the service?”

	Well, it’s really not a bad question.

	“Bro. Branham, what can I do to be immortal?”

	Ask him a good one.

	“Well, how about pray?”

	How about memorizing the Bible. The only people I knew who had
photographic minds missed it. Do your alms work. Do everything you can.
Won’t do. It was what God wanted to do. And they turned down God flat.
They liked the miracles.

16.	Now notice The Way of God:

	(a)	Give a prophetic promise.

	(b)	Raise a prophet at the right time.

	(c)	Manifest Himself in His Word to the prophet, who would then

		be used of God in a proven ministry.

	(d)	The prophet would explain what was going on.

	(e)	Now it was up to the people to grasp what was being done, 

		what and for what purpose of grace. 

	The Word was been given, which Word would separate them from all
nations and take them to where God could be their God. Because He said,
“This Word is what makes deliverance.” Between you and all the rest,
and that’s Thessalonians. Isn’t it? Well isn’t? Let’s find out.

17.	I quoted you out of Deuteronomy, I think where He said, “This Word
is going to make the difference. He said, “They’re going to say,
‘this people is such a great people, because they got such a law, they
have got such a word.’”  What does it say over here? Well, it says
over here, "That they had not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved, they believed the lie." Yeah! Couldn’t stand still. 

	Remember that sermon I preached on? 'Time of the Resurrection', they
couldn’t stand still.  Ephraim could not stand still for the
first-born coming out of the ground. If you’re Bride you’ve got no
trouble. 

	(f)	Israel disappointed of both God and His ways.

	Now, that’s a record. That’s a record. I didn’t make it up, I
quoted you. 

18.	Now, these Scriptural facts that I am giving according to this
Message, and the truth as found in Scripture as  in Heb 3:7-19. Now,
don’t get so shaken when I whopped you heads off at the beginning of
the service, if you can’t get this part. I’m a tough customer, you
know it and I know it. Verse 7,

	(7)	Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his 				
voice,

	(8)	Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, in the day of        
                                		temptation in the wilderness:

	(9)	When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works 				
forty years. 

	How much is too much? It’s too much when God lets His Word stand a
certain length of time in His grace and His Word. And He said, “I’ve
showed you long enough. You’re blinded now, and you’re gone. 

	(10)	(Now) I was grieved with that generation,... 

	What generation? The generation that went out. There’s a couple of
generations you’ve got to get your eyes on. The generation that’s in
Israel at the time they’re a nation, the generation that’s here when
we come out of Babylon. Remember only two, are over twenty got over into
the homeland. Two, all the rest died. God let them die. They weren’t
fit to keep. None the less they were the foolish virgin. That’s right,
they were. Prophet said so. I’m not giving you a lot of gas.

	(10)	... err in their heart; they have not know my ways, (he said, 				
	“There’s not room in you for in your heart for my Word.” 					
Same God.) they have not known my ways.

	(11)	I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest...

19.	They had every reason to know the ways of God by absolute
vindication of the Presence of Almighty God the Word of Truth. And they
made Him a liar. Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Can God
bring water out of a rock? Can God bring down manna? And when the manna
came down they said, “Yuk, who can take it?” Yeah, you know I’m
going to say something, it’s ...?... too. Who comes to this church and
is fed up with Logos? Who comes to this church and is fed up hearing
about God? Already there’s talk, you’ve had too much. And seeing Him
alone will put you in the Resurrection, my brother, my sister. I
didn’t come here to snap your heads off for no reason. You’ve got it
coming. Not you people here take the tape, go ahead, put it across the
land. I’m not through preaching, America.  When I’m finished God
will take me. 

	Kind of strange it took a Canadian to come down here to have a land of
adoption. To be identified with the prophet, the connecting link, with
the Flame of Fire, called the Spirit of Prophecy. You do what you want
with it. I know  I’ve got it. Fight it all you want, if you’re so
inclined to fight. See, he told me what to do, and I’m telling you
what to do. Get into this Word, my brother, my sister, [Bro. Vayle
knocks of the pulpit several times] get into this Word, get into this
Word. Until it doesn’t matter if the sun rises or sets.  For the watch
dogs of hell blacken your ears day and night. For the fiery serpents
nibble at your heels. Don’t think it’s not coming. Don’t think
it’s not coming, there’s a squeeze coming down.

20.	[Hebrews 3:]

	(11) 	I sware in my wrath, They’ll not enter into my rest. (No way.)

	Now listen, we’re not talking about Millennium. It’s not just the
Holy Ghost baptism. This is the rest, the Millennium. “I want to be
their God. I want to be My people. I’m going to care for them.” Do
you know, that while they had decent kings and Israel walked before God,
three times a year every male went up to the feast day, never once was
Israel attacked on  a feast day when all the males were gone? You’ve
got a big God, if you just knew it. He’s bigger than any of us thinks
He is. I’m glad I love Him today more than I ever loved Him. I’m
glad I know His grace then I ever knew His grace. You may think I’m up
here just so hard bitten that I don’t know the things of God; I want
to tell you something. I almost called for a little testimony meeting
tonight, that’s because I love Him so. But you know my stand anyway,
I’ve never loved Him, like I love Him tonight. I’ve never known Him
like I’ve known Him tonight. The deeper the waters, the better I know
His depth. The higher the flames of war, the higher I know His love.
Sure I wouldn’t lie to you. I’m not William Branham. Don’t try to
put me with those boys. But I wouldn’t lie to you.

21.	(12)	Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart 
				of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

	(13)	But exhort one another daily, while it is call To day; lest any 		
		of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

	(14)	For we are made (companions...) 							

	You know something? If my wife was a long distant companion, my heart
would likely get fond for somebody else. You know what I’m trying to
tell you here? Companion means He’s here.

[Bro. Vayle knocks on the pulpit several times] He’s here. God was
there my brother, my sister. And He proved that He was there. And He
told them a love story, and they turned it down. They had a better way.
See! They didn’t like a prophet. Most people don’t like those
things, good thing we do.

	(14)	For we are made (companions) of Christ, 

22.	And you know in Heb 1:9, It says,

	(9)	Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore 				
God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness 				
above  thy fellows. (Which are companions.)

	Christ anointed for you and me. What good was His anointing? To this
point, nothing. All for you and me. But God is here now to put all
things under His feet. Paying back to Him, who loved us so dearly He
gave His Own life. A man did it. Oh different from us sure, but a man. A
man did it. You wonder about the love of God, the love of man? See it in
Jesus. Yep! 

23.	Also, in Heb 2:12.

	(12)	I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the 				
church will I sing praise unto thee.

	On the strength of Whom was the Name of God declared amongst us by God
Himself?

Because, that one that died upon Calvary standing there for you and me.
And the One that put Him to the test is here amongst us. And you know
what, the great gift of God is to Jesus? Well, I’m afraid you’re
going to laugh yourself sick at this one. But it’s you and me.

	But you say, “Bro. Vayle, I think I could of done better than God.”
That’s where you are wrong. You see, you couldn’t of mixed the
grace, you couldn’t of mixed the proportion of love, you couldn’t of
done it.

	 “That God should love a sinner such as I  should yearn, (should
literally yearn) to call someone like me to enter into His bliss. Not
resting until He should draw me nigh, how wonderful is love like
this.”

	 Jesus died upon Calvary, procured a price and now God is here to give
that gift back. Oh sure, there’s nobody who’s going to say, “I’m
worthy.” I’ve been teaching all along for literally the last two,
three months, whatever it is. Started the end of April, was it? Or the
end of March? Into April, May and into June, telling you, you look at
yourself you’re dead anyway, so why bother looking. This Word never
reflected you, yet it reflects Him. Brethren, first-fruit, many more
like Him owed that gift of Redemption.

24.	Oh, look it, [Hebrews 3:]

	(15)	While... To Day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts,
					as in the provocation.

	(16)	For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that 	
			came out of Egypt by Moses.

	(17)	But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them 			
	that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

	(18)	And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but
					to them that believed not?

	Bro. Branham said, “There is only one sin, unbelief.” But this
Church is still categorizing it, aren’t you? “I don’t pray
enough.” Well, certainly nobody prays enough. But, I’m not saying
that to excuse us. Look at yourself. What are you going to do until the
Rapture to make yourself better?

Tell me. You’ve already heard that maybe too much deep teaching might
be making you miss a few things. Tell me, what are you going to do? Oh,
I want to know. I’m a teacher.

25.	The Scripture says, “Obey them who have the rule over you, who
teach to you the Word of God.” And they say, “Them.” ...?... I
know my Bible, brother/sister. I know my Bible. I’m a teacher. The
prophet said so. Never said I was a false teacher. Said, “I knew back
there, I see you’re seed.”  Where am I off the Word? Unbelief?
...?... "Oh, God in me are going to do it."     Are we? If any message
ought to kill that, Bro. Terry Sproule should of killed that one.

	He said, “Establish a principle.” For remember, that same week I
said, “God was not a law, and life is not a law.” God has laws, and
life has laws. But God is not a law, and life is not a law. Now, how are
you going to get it? You got to operate something? They didn't believe.
You see, are you trying to tell me that all Israel had to do was
believe, that’s the secret? And if there’s anything anybody has to
do, it would come from the faith, and God would have done it. Because of
faith, because if it’s faith it is no longer works. If it is grace, it
is no longer works no way, grace by faith.. Do you follow what I’m
saying tonight? Time to take the ‘forty-five’ and blow some holes in
the head. To make some new holes.

	Bro. Branham said, “Get rid of your own thinking.”  Let your minds
go, The best way is a ‘forty-four’. The man in Canada got taken back
to bondage and he blew his head off. You say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re
guessing.” I’m a pretty good guesser. 

26.	“He swore in His wrath, their carcasses fell in the wilderness.”

	 You know why? They started falling in the first place, because they
got into fornication. Idolatry. Mixed multitude. Never forgiven. The
others that fell were foolish virgins. What about the end time? Chaff,
that’s not foolish virgins that’s chaff, sorry. Don’t try to kid
me, there’s nothing my brother/sister in chaff. Ump, ump, ump. Foolish
virgins one time had oil, but the oil went plumb out of the Word.
Foolish virgin died, chaff burned. Unbelief. What you got to do? 

	"This is the works of God you believe on Him whom He has sent."

	 “I want to do the works of God.” 

	"Believe on Him that has been sent." Believe on a prophet that was sent
by God. Lindsay wrote a book on  ‘A Man Sent From God.’ Pentecost
will burn because of that book, because they endorsed it. 

27.	Men like that guy down in Florida said, “I’ll expose him if you
push me.” If he does that discerning, that’s a familiar spirit.
Brother/sister let me tell you something, “That man tonight is in

the never-never land. 

	As Bro. Branham said, “Let them pour acid in my stomach, then put
that oath upon me that  Knights the Columbus say, they’ll do to a
Protestant, but don’t give me ten minutes in that, or the great
tribulation either.” 

	Where are those men? You say, “Bro. Vayle.”  Don’t Bro. Vayle me.
I believe this Word whether you do or not.  Are you with pastor Moses, 
who went down to Egypt and he said, “Gentlemen I have news for you, I
have a Word from God, hallelujah. We’re going to pray Pharaoh into the
kingdom, and when he becomes one of us, hallelujah, our troubles are
over, and we’ll just stay here.” Yeah, you’ll stay there all
right. That wasn’t Moses’ message. …?... Didn’t believe in
getting out. Okay.

28.	Notice: [End of side one of tape]Next the prophet would explain what
was going on. Then it was up to the people to grasp who was doing what,
and for what purpose of grace. God’s doing it. And what purpose of
grace?  “Oh,” said God, “Moses listen, tell those people down
there I am fed up, and I mean fed up. I have heard their groaning and
I’m going to send you down......?... Moses, ...?... Moses, ...?...
Moses.”  Is that what God’s going to do to us? Grace, grace.
Constantly doing something nice for us. I can talk rougher then a
...?...  God’s still going to do it. I can sound meaner as four horn
bulls up here, you know, in fly time even. They get pretty pesky at that
time. I know a little bit about farming, not that I’m a farmer. Been
around animals. 

	Is that what He sent a prophet for? Tells us He loved us, I’m going
to do something for you. Stretched his hand. You know what? The word
confirmed it with an oath. That word was not confirmed. It means, He
interposed Himself. God Himself came down. Raised His hand and said,
“Time’s run out. Little Bride time’s run out. I love you.”
Israel didn’t believe it. They wanted a law.

 	Now hear me, I’m quoting prophet, William Branham that you say you
believe in. I don’t do much quoting. If you know doctrine you don’t
have to, the quotes comes to you as you need them. The great filer in
the computer of the soul can pull them out, He's called the Holy Ghost.
And the Scripture is called, “Bringing all things to remembrance what
I said.” And if it’s not in your memory, He can’t bring it out.

29.	All right. It’s up to the people to grasp who was doing what, and
for what purpose of grace. The Word was then given in which Word would
separate them from all nations and take them where God could be their
God, under the explicit conditions of the Covenant. Ours is Millennium
brother/sister, where the devil is tied with the chain of circumstances.
The guy could say to this 

lamp, “Will you dance with me?” Doesn’t even hear me. “Will you
go to the beer parlor and drink with me, and we both get drunk?”
He’s not interested. The devil can come by in that great Millennium
day, run loose like the wild-man that he is, and try to seduce and
persuade each one of us and we say, “What are you talking about? You
don’t seem to get through to me. What are you saying?  What is that
anyway? Why don’t you try some other planet, this one is occupied by a
strange people, who can’t respond?” That’s the hour. He interposed
Himself and raised His hand and said, “Time’s run out.”

30.	All right, listen, Israel disapproved, they disapproved of God, they
disapproved of God’s ways. Bro. Branham hit it right on the head, the
Pharisees said, “Oh if He was that one, he would of come down the
corridors of heaven with a beautiful red carpet, and He would of come to
us and said, ‘Oh great Caiaphas...’”

	 Oh great pie in the face He would of said maybe. God should come down
the corridor to any man. God came down as His Own Name, my brother, my
sister. Yeah! He was His Own man. Oh Yeah!

	 Now, He’s His Own Man. He’s His Own Prophet. Oh yeah, He’s His
Own Apostle. He’s His Own Teacher. He’s His Own Pastor. He’s His
Own Evangelist.

	“I’m a great teacher...” [mimicking  someone]

	Who are the great pastors? Let me tell you something about pastors;
they got carried away in that first century, because Paul said, “The
elders come and get us to get together and I want to talk to you.” 

	And the elders said, “They were somebody.” So the pastors changed
their names from shepherd to elders. And now they're a chief 
authorities. That’s why Joe Coleman found it. Why was it shepherds? A
place to make him a great man, because he was a shepherd. You’re being
cut to pieces very thin tonight with a razor blade, if you caught what
I’m saying. 

31.	Here’s the Bible, will you come and stand beside me and preach it
different. I give you a chance, anybody to come up. Stand right here.
I’m not lying to you, I’m telling you the truth. Happens I know
certain things you might not be aware of. I’ve a little gift. That
gift is not just a gift of God that knows Scripture, but is also a gift
to read the right book at the right time. It’s true, I’m not lying
to you. I don’t have to read book after book, after book, then I find
those little goodies. And that’s the doctrine of gnosis, [knowledge of
spiritual matters]  I know something. And the pastors have it today, and
the teachers have it today. And this Message is full of it. Now if
you’ve heard what I said, you people know, you can be in very tough
shape listening to people. 

	The prophet said, “Be certain of God.” Oh I could vindicate myself
surely on the strength of what the prophet said to the witnesses, I
never ever told you to listen to me in a following, never once have I
told you. And I’m telling you less even than ever. Where would you go
to follow me? Have I taught you exactly how it is that I know that I
have no guilt before God, and I have no fear? Can I transmit something
and tell you how to get it? Can I tell you how I got it, that you might
get it also? Can I tell you how I stood in the presence of the prophet
and he said, “Bro. Vayle, I saw you coming?” I can’t do anything
for you. Nothing I can do for you. There’s One here that can turn on
the Light. Oh yeah! That’s been telling you about Him. I never point
to myself. Once in a while I talk a bit about myself, but phfft, anybody
can do that. Just forget it. But He’s here. I know He’s here. Now
listen, there’s your proof right there. Exodus time. Exodus time. 

32.	All right listen in Moses’ day it was God present to back up
Moses. Right! In Moses’ day  God was present to back up Moses, but in
Jesus’ day God was there to back Himself up, or to prove who He was.
If you don’t believe, “Who I am,” you’ll die in your sin. He
said, “Moses gave you manna, I give you bread that will not perish.
Drink my Blood, eat my Flesh, you got Life in you.” They couldn’t
take it. 

	So all John the Baptist had to do was to explain, John’s own presence
and mission as being Isaiah 40, and Malachi 3, the forerunner of
Messiah, who is Emanuel. Even Elohim in human flesh.

33.	John as prophet, one, explained what He was all about. Number two,
pointed out God in human flesh. Then that One Jesus, proved who they
both were. Just like in Moses’ day. Right! Yeah. But what happened?
They disapproved and killed both John and Jesus. Yet, the principle was
there. Oh yeah! Just as God always did things. The Word coming to the
prophet, God manifesting Himself, proving it was He.

	Listen, “I got something for you: Hear my prophet, he that receives
who I send, receives Me. And he who receives Me, receives the One who
sent Me.” So, we’re all one. In this great wonderful cyclotron
tonight, all one. Oh yeah!  Don’t ...?... all way Quincy. You’re two
inches from death if you only knew it.  

34.	You say, “How do you know it Bro. Vayle?” Why do you think God
gave me that meeting? It wasn’t yours, it was mine. Right? Or wasn’t
it? Did you put it on? I got you over a barrel, it wasn’t yours,
nothing to do with you, nothing to do with Columbus. Nothing to do with
naybody one man. And I sat back and did nothing, literally nothing. But
I knew that meeting. I’m not lying to you. I said, “God if you
don’t do it, nothing.” We’re not ignorant and I’m not boasting,
because I do know things from God the odd time. That was the meeting I
begged for, four years ago and I couldn’t have it. The meeting I
watched for all these years and I couldn’t have it.

	Now, let me tell you something; there wasn’t one minister out of line
with each other and nobody knew what the others really ...?... But I
didn’t know. But God knew. Simplicity, He’s here. What is He doing,
now that He’s here? Apply that to the Church, take it through the
Word, you’ve had four sermons. You believe what you want, that’s
your privilege. I believe what I want. And I believe from that meeting
the pressure is coming down as it has never come down. 

35.	The gates of hell against the crucial ‘Living Revelation’ that
He is here. But He won’t tip His hand any longer, He’s tipped it,
and the next show down in Mount Zion, which is Rapture. I’m going to
be a part of that Rapture, going to be a part. I don’t know who’s
all going to be there. I believe the prophet said, “You believe
you’re going to be there. I’m going to be there, absolutely.  I
believe a lot of other folk going to be there too. There may be very few
in number when you consider those of all the ages. Certainly they’ll
be few in numbers, considering all the ages. The prophet told us that,
let’s not be ridiculous. We’re going to be there, by the grace of
Almighty God. Now listen, but only the Elect. Only the Elect will ever
understand what God is doing

36.	We go to Lk 1:17,

	(17)	And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, 					
(and) turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (even) the 				
disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people 				
prepared for the Lord.

	And a prepared people is Elect. The prepared vessel is election. Only
the Elect, only the Elected, no one else will receive the Message. Only
two over twenty got into the Promise Land.  All the rest had to die, and
only those under twenty got in, because their minds were still - not
versatile, but pliable to where they could grasp it and go on in.

37.	Bro. Branham said, “You turn this down, you put your ear to the
door, and they’ll run a needle through it, it called an ‘awl’, and
you’re marked, and you’ll never hear again.”  

	And that’s what happened, that mixed multitude, because Korah,
Dathan, Abiram rose up and they said, “Ha, what is this talk about one
guy having it all? We’ve got something too.” And they did have
some-thing, and they died. Yeah! And Moses glorified himself, and he
died. Woe betide anyone who glorifies himself and say, “I will make
it, watch me I have something.” We will do it this way, we will do it
that way. God said, “Moses speak to the rock.”

	 And Moses forgot all about the grace that was one day in his heart
when he said, “Oh God if you kill them, kill me.” He forgot it was
all a matter of grace, and he smote the rock. I won’t work, my
brother/sister, because where the law was fulfilled in Christ, what law
are you going to fulfill? And that law was not because you did
something; the law was death, because man has sinned. When Jesus died,
we’re not Seventh Day Adventist, Pentecostal Missionary Alliance,
Seven Day non-sense, cults. We’re Elect of God, we understand, we’re
talking of life. He fulfilled that law of condemnation that said,
“Death.” And He died, because that’s what the law did. There
wasn’t one thing that anybody could do, Jesus Himself couldn’t do.
He was done in. Yeah! He was done in. Hanged on a Roman tree. Freely
gave His life, sinless for you and me. What are you going to do, my
brother, my sister? I’m not saying go out of here and go to the bar
room down town and get drunk and murder somebody.

38.	Listen, if there ever was a day that there should be fruit, it
should be now. If there ever was a day that should be charismatic
possibilities in the right way and the church order, it should be right
now. If there should be any such fruit...or character, put them
together, it should be now. If there should be any interest in God, it
should be now. If there should be obedience, it should be now. But that
won’t do it. See? That won’t do it. See, certainly. You don’t
think for one minute I’m sitting back on my uppers and thinking that I
shouldn’t have more, oh, mercy me no. The more I see Him and see His
love and grace, the more I can hate myself. But I’ve taken my last
look, because it doesn’t do any good. I can hate myself till
dooms-day, that won’t do it. Only believe. See?  Where now Christ was
alive should appear.

39.	Now, this was supposed to be a short message, but there’s no such
thing as a short message with me, so forget it. So I’m going back to
the Garden of Eden hopefully, to try to show you the roots of how I see
this all started as to this way of God, which is in these words, how
that He manifests or interprets His Word by bringing it to pass. And
still needs someone to explain it so to let the people know exactly what
has gone on and what is to come. Yeah! Yeah! 

	Now, you tell that to the guy out there and he’ll laugh at you. But
that’s the Bible, that’s the Bible. The prophet told us the very
thing I’m telling you tonight. Repeating it. So nobody can fail at
this little bit at least.

40.	All right. Now, Then the people entered to what, is there for them
and becomes the fulfilled Word of God. Now, this part which I’m going
into is partially negative. Now, now I can do that. It must be the Lord
helping me, because I said it, and I’m going to give you the Scripture
on it. I got it right here. Okay, [Romans 5:]

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

	(13)	For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
when 					there is no law.

	(14)	Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them 				
that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, 				
who is the figure of him that to come.

	Adam in his sin, Jesus in His measure of Life, yet Adam is actually a
type in the negative. Follow what I said? Right. So I’m giving you
some negative tonight. Don’t feel bad. But I want to show you this
precept started right back in the Garden of Eden.

41.	Okay, we go to Gen 2:18-25. Okay. Now, this is the kind of thing I
like, because of its tremendous interest to me.   

	(18)	...God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will 	
			make him an help meet for him.

	(19)	And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the 				
field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to 					see
what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every 					living
creature, that was the name thereof.

	(20)	And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and
					to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an 		
		help meet for him.

	(21)	And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and 				
he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead 	
		thereof;

	(22)	And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a 				
woman, and brought her unto the man.

	(23)	And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my 				
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

	(24)	(God said,) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his 					
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one 				
flesh.

	(25)	And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not 				
ashamed.

	All right. Now notice, Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh she’s woman, because she came out of me.” 

	God said, “Therefore shall a man... therefore, because of this thing
how it was done, and everything else, and the presentation of her in
him, he’ll leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and
they shall be one flesh.”

	Now, and there was no condemnation but only the condition stated, they
were both naked and they were not ashamed.

42.	Now, let’s look at verse 24 again,

	(24)	Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall 	
			cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

(a) 	Adam was not born. He did not have a mother, except mother earth.
Oh yeah. Mother earth.

	Huh? Sure. The earth was his mother. Doesn’t the woman build the baby
for the life? Man 	has a life let’s face it. Okay.

(b)	 He had a father. Lk 3:38 says, “Adam was the son of God.

(c)	Adam knew only God in a personal way, as He’s his progenitor. And
not the earth, for the 	earth in inanimate. The earth was his bedding
ground. (The earth was his bedding ground.)

	Bro. Branham said, “You were in your fathers loins.” You could not
have fellowship. But 	one day through holy matrimony in the proper
bedding ground through your mother, that 	seed came forth. Bedding
ground.

43.	All right. Gen 2:7,

	(7)	And the LORD God formed man (out) of the dust of the (earth,)

		and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became 				
a living soul.

	All right. Because of this, he must of known how his body got here, for
he was in a spirit form originally, according to Gen 1:26-29, where Eden
at that time, they were told to replenish the earth. There you’ve
always got to start with something. See? Something to start with. 

	Let’s go back to Genesis 1, and make sure we get all this in here.

	(26)	...God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 			
	and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, (and cattle 				
and so on.)

	(27)	... created man in his own image, in the image of God created he 	
			him: male and female created he them.

	(28)	... blessed them, and said, Be fruitful, and multiply, ...have
dominion 				over the fish of the sea (and so on, so on. But just
...what you’re going 				to have is in the line of fruit and those
things in the garden.)

44.	Now watch carefully, [Gen] 2:24-25 again,

	(24)	Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, cleave unto
					his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

	(25)	And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not

		ashamed.

	Gen 2:16-17,

	(16)	And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree 					of
the garden thou mayest freely eat:

	(17)	But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat 				of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die.

	With the result of [Gen] 3:19-20,

	(19)	In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till you return
unto the 				ground; for out of it (you were) taken: unto dust (you)
return.

	(20)	And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother 
			of all living.

	All right. You understand what we’re saying here? Let’s look at it
again, so you’ll under-stand. First of all He said, “And the LORD
God said, ‘Of every tree you may eat, but of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, you shall not eat of it’ because the day  you eat
that, is the day you die, and you go back to the ground and you lose Me.
You’re separated from me. We don’t stand here talking anymore. You
and I are finished.”

45.	Then He says over here, He said, “It’s a woman that’s going to
do it.” And the condition were, they were naked.  Serpent seed. But
I’m not preaching on serpent seed. I’m just showing a law.

	Now listen, God being His Own Prophet, and there being only two people,
He says to Adam in Gen 2:24,

	(24)	Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall 	
			cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 

	He said, “You’re going to leave Me for her. You are going to leave
Me out, because of her. I’m going to get the cold shoulder, the
boot.” That’s exactly what He said.

46.	Now then Adam is stumped. For here are three unique things:

 	Number one:	  A warning of death.

	Number two:	  A prophecy of leaving.

	Number three:   An act that leaves God and brings death.

	It’s all the same thing. Isn’t it? I’m thinking too fast ...?...
you understand what I’m saying here? ...?...  to show you how this all
starts. And I took you right back to the Eden, to show you that God said
it. God was His Own Prophet in prophesying, and God stood right there,
and saw it gone, and the interpretation of the Word, (that we’re
talking about tonight) was manifested as to what it was, serpent seed.
Sexual intercourse. He said, “You’re going to leave Me out, You’re
going to take the woman, you’re going to do it together, you’re
going to leave Me out.” And they did. Because God was going to give
the bodies, while they breathed the life that God gave them, and spoke
them into existence. Like Bro. Branham said. "Blew, blew on it." Not
quite that simple  I don’t believe. Much more intricate.

 	So that now God has got to produce the bodies out of the ground. But
before He does, He’s got to put the spirit in there, that they
by-passed. Now then, they ought to be fruitful. They ought to multiply,
but death works. And omitting God is prophesied concerning the act that
makes him cleave to the woman.   

47.	Now here’s what I’m getting at: the prophecy was there. Only by
its fulfillment allowed in and through the two of them manifested what
it was all about. It’s the only way. So only the explanation by God
opened up to them, what was now presently with the human race. See? 

	Then God moves to Gen 3:14-15. So we go to it. See now, watch what
happened.

	(14)	And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast 				
done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, every beast of the 				
field; upon (your) belly (you) go, (eat dust all your) life.

	(15)	And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between 				
thy seed and her seed: (it'll) bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise 		
		his heel.

	Now, who’s doing the prophesying? God’s his Own Prophet. Upon what
basis? On the basis of the first prophecy, “You’re going to leave
Me.” It’s going to be sex. It’s going to be with the human race.
It’s going to be the fall.

	Now, the next prophecy, "I’m going to redeem them."  Nature is going
to go down. Now, you tell me that’s not what exactly what happened,
when Jesus came on earth to redeem us. Prophet-God. Death-explanation.
The whole thing. [problems with the microphone]  

48.	Okay, now, we’re looking at this: Moving into [Gen] 3:16. I read
it to you. Now he goes on,

	(16)	Unto the woman... multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;

		(See? Leaving God out. Cleaving to the woman. Sex. That’s 					why
men leave, certainly, to have their own homes and all.)

	Now, it’s going to be sorrow. Your husband rule over you. See,
that’s the new covenant unto her.

	(17)	And he said (to) Adam said, Because (you’ve) hearkened to 				
your wife, (there’s going to be sorrow and the wresting of food 				
from the ground. The earth is cursed because of you. See?)

	Now, there’s only one way for everything to come back, and that’s
for the curse to be lifted, and come back where a human body should have
been, which is out of the grave in the resurrection. Then the earth can
be turned around and things begin to happen the way they should. But
notice the law that we showed you here. How does everything we said that
the prophet said, God brings it on and comes on the scene. And there’s
a prophet and God begins to manifest, to attract the attention. The
prophet begins to tell them and let them know what’s going on. And
when the people have been brought into that orb, that realm of that Word
of God, then they begin to be the living Word of their hour. And
brother/sister that’s what its all about tonight. I mean the Word of
God has been full, been fulfilled.

49.	In Mal 4:1-6 when He says in there,

	(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of 			
	the great and (terrible) day of the LORD: (The dreadful day.)

	Now, He said, “There’s a day coming.” There’s got to be. A day
of wrath. But He said, “There’s a great day when the Sun of
righteousness arise with healing in his wings;” And that’s
immortality. That’s the Resurrection. So He is here to raise the dead
at this hour. See? And there had to be a prophet. There had to be God.
Now the prophet’s gone. He’s got to go. He’s got to be gathered to
his people. 

	There was never a Church Age messenger that didn’t go off the scene.
They all got to go off the scene. So that the Word of God becomes fully
effective in a Bride. There comes a time when God must take over, and
God would begin to lead, and there won’t be one thing that that Bride
has, that the prophet didn’t give. And give it perfectly and be
revealed perfectly to that Bride. See? “He must increase, and I must
decrease.” And that’s exactly what  happened the prophet said.

50.	So, here you’ve got your picture. God’s way of doing things.
Just what the prophet taught you, just what is going on at this hour. 

	Now the question comes: the Word of God is here to manifested. It has
been proven. And that Word said, Bro. Branham spoke three times in the
Rapture tape, “Thus it  has been spoken, and thus it will be.” 
It’s out of your hands and my hands, except one thing, ‘to
believe’. That’s all. You don’t have to know the intricacies. You
don’t have to know every little thing that happened. Certainly not. I
wouldn’t know everything that happened. I have a little potential you
might say, very small, infinitesimal, to have mine own  understanding
which satisfies me of what is going on. Because these are the thing I
look at. I don’t look at those things out there. I don’t worry about
a charismatic move. I don’t worry about pastors. Others can take care
of those things, evangelists. One of those things I have is this: the
prophet said, “Don’t look back, don’t look forward what is going
on.”  

	And I don’t set in my heart and say, “Lord you’ve got to show
me.” I just say, “Lord that’s just what the prophet said, ‘Is
there something you’d like to show me.”’  Is there something that
I can see.”  And it started two years ago.

51.	But every time that I come back to the simplicity of that Word, how
God does things, He comes on that scene. And today a prophet on that
scene with Him. God will be His Own Prophet. He will vindicate Himself,
He will prove Himself, He will show Himself. See? There God Him-self
transformed into the very Word. And that Word now is true
transubstantiation, because it’s the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ,
because the Life is in it. And you and I partaking by faith
brother/sister, what else could we be but that Word? What is it all
about, for that God to come the scene, and that prophet to come on the
scene, but to bring the very thing to pass, that God said must come on
the scene?  I ask you, “What is coming on the scene?” Resurrection.
Immortality. Rapture. Who’s going to do it? 

	“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I
once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.”

52.	T’was grace through all six church ages, it’s grace tonight.
See? It was grace that blinded Israel’s eyes, that He might bring them
in. Under His Blood covenant of flesh, under the Fifth Seal. He won’t
lose one of them. But now the mystery of the Gentiles has run out. The
Gentiles are being blinded, God’s turning back to Israel.

	Oh, brother/sister, all the songs that Bro. Branham sung, they’re all
in tonight. I don’t know how you feel, like the message did you any
good or not. Time I whack around this room... maybe nobody gets any
good. Maybe I’m the only guy that gets therapeutic action up here, I
don’t know.  I hope not. But I hope you see brother/sister, that we
haven’t been fooling, and we haven’t been fooled. See? You’re
dealing with God tonight. Oh yeah! It’s not to throw chills down your
spine. It’s not to throw you out there somewhere in the peripheral.
No! It’s not out there. No it’s not to uncoordinate you. But to get
you to realize, He’s got to be here for somebody. And who knew back
there when Jesus was upon earth? Twelve, one is the devil, few on the
outside. Who was there in the upper room? A hundred and twenty. Who’s
at the end-time?

53.	I saw Bro. Branham, I told you this before, (I’ll tell you again
we’ll quit and go home) I saw him up in Portland, Maine, when we were
up there together in a campaign, he came into my room or out of his, I
forget which, we turned the TV on to see Oral Roberts, we saw him. Saw
the thousands, thousands, thousands, thousands and I saw the tears flow
down his cheeks and he said, “Lee I could  have all that, but he
won’t let me.”  Oral, fine man, lot of fine men in the world today. 

	I got a tape from a Dr. Manners, one of the greatest-- he’s called
the greatest synthesis in the world, in other words, he learns
everything from everybody and puts it together. Lowell  University you
know, just below Chicago out there. He was out at Oral’s, and he was
telling years ago when we were kids, and some of you were kids at that
time, when hospitals were two stories high and three stories high and
maybe four, five.  Oral’s is sixty-three. They’re sixty stories high
the hospitals now. One piece of machinery one equipment, over a million
dollars. Oral’s come a long way. Virginia Slims [a cigarette brand]
never put a girl that far, “You’ve come a long way baby.” Oral’s
come a long way. I read my ads. I can make fun of them. Oral’s come a
long way.

54.	Well Bro. Branham... [makes a whooshing sound]... like this came all
the way down. I’m going to tell you something, William Branham and a
Bride are immortal. And they are the whole purpose, this Bride of
Almighty God in this hour, because He’s come right down here to prove
it. I’m not against Oral really, why should I be? He reads my
handwriting, I read his. Had an expert teach me, his name is William
Branham. I don’t have any problem with that. But I want you to know
this brother/sister, that man cried, he was human just like you and me.
Yeah! 

	There are lots of thing you can look at and say, “You know, I can
take these gifts, I can do something about it.” I saw him the day he
talked to his wife, and he’d just talked to her, he said, “You know,
Meda if I used my gift like a lot of them did, and had all the money
coming in like they have, we wouldn’t have floors like you can almost
drop a knife in the cracks.” The wood had separated. A wood built by a
genuine contractor, that charged him twenty five thousand dollars and
put a floor in where the...come on. Hardwood is kiln-dried, it doesn’t
separate. You look at that floor where the dust and the lint gets in,
and it looked pretty cruddy in plain English. And he said, “Meda,”
he said, “You know we could  have beautiful rugs, (he said) I don’t
have the money. I couldn’t charge if I tried, there’s no way I could
do it.” See?

55.	That’s what we’re talking about tonight brother/sister.
There’s a lot of big things out there, that’s fine. There’s a lot
of ways people could go and do an awful lot of things. That’s true.
But we’ve got God on our side. Because a little handful of people
recognize when a man of God comes on the scene, and he tells us the way
of God. Not like Israel who saw the works and turned down the way. Nah!
They said, “We’ll go it alone. We’ve got our own ideas, our own
schemes.” 

	But God was on the scene. “Hey, I want to tell you something. I want
to drown all those Egyptians. I want to knock out all those people in
that land over there. I want to take you where your shoes don’t wear
out, and your clothes don’t stink, you won’t even need a bath. Where
I’ll feed you luscious bread in the morning, and the Pillar of Fire at
night to keep you warm, and a Cloud to keep you cool by day. And if you
get thirsty, I’m going to bring water out of the rock for you, then
have a few testing’s  on the road, but I want to take you in. From
there on just hover you, like a hen with her chickens.” 

	

	“Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killeth the prophets, stones
...?... I,  I wanted to do it.” He said, “But you wouldn’t let Me
do it.”

56.	Is the Bride willing tonight to just let Him do it? Not taking one
thing away. This Message doesn’t take one thing: As Luther had greater
glory than Catholicism, and Wesley  greater glory than  Pentecost
greater than Wesley, so this Message has the greatest glory. And it’s
not that you’ve run out of justification, or sanctification or any
virtue, but you’re in the Presence of the Living God, who will now do
what nothing, no matter to what extent it is done will ever do. No one
but God can raise those dead, and change our flesh and He’s here to do
it. And He’s here the way He’s specified. You follow me? Not one
person, if you understood half of what I said tonight can leave this
building and put one word back on me or this church, and say, “I
didn’t understand.” Because I believe you did.

	 Do you want me to read again what I read to you, those points? I
don’t have to read them, you know? God, prophet, manifestation,
explanation into the reality, the Bride becoming the Word of that hour.
Right?  Let’s rise.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You again for mercy and grace. Can’t thank
the Lord for my explosiveness at all, but I do believe Lord, I have
preached Your Word, if I’ve preached it unkindly, or in any other way
than to simply put it across, which I can admit that I well do many
times. Lord I cannot take back anything that was said no matter how it
was said. I cannot take back what I see in Your Word here, right from
the Book of Genesis, starting with the negative, which I have every
right to do according to Paul the prophet in Romans 5, and show exactly
how it is Lord. 

	And if I have aggrandized myself, which I have not intended to, forgive
me. If  I have lowered the people Lord, forgive me they might be raised
up oh God. We know time is short, and  if I was told by the prophet,
somebody’s got to tell them, perhaps he did not mean to go this far,
that is possible Lord, if  I have gone too far forgive me. But not one
word Lord can I take back at this moment I do not believe I have to. But
if there is something, You show me that I should correct a little here,
a little there, I’m only too glad Lord, because lips can blunder.
Mouths can speak those things that they do not really intend to, because
their thoughts go racing down the road.

	 So any little incident something in there Lord, I pray that You’ll
hear me now, and forgive me and let the people know, to what is really
being driven at tonight. If they really believe this Message they know
now what the apostles, there’s no place else to go. They cannot go
back, they cannot go forward. They got to stand still and see the
Salvation of God. They’ve got to stand in Your presence Lord, we’ve
go to stand there and recognize that. We know that Lord, we know that
You’re here in grace and mercy. The prophet said so, “You’re here
in grace and mercy.”  And grace and mercy does not impute iniquity. I
know Lord, while all those things are in there which would of condemned
us and we would of died, but we’re looking at You tonight in grace and
mercy and seeing the reflection come back, and seeing Christ formed.
Seeing God Himself in flesh, and we believe that tonight Lord.

	Now, Father tonight there may be sick among us, I don’t know. I
appreciate the brethren coming and praying for me. So we pray for those
that are home sick and those Lord, and those who couldn’t make it,
because of sickness, and this and that. Perhaps tonight even are those
like Lloyd, having some problems, I don’t know. We pray oh God
tonight. Lord Jesus maybe the sweet Spirit is not here, but It’ll
come, absolutely and we know it will be all over the place, but we know
that still at this point there is no lack, because the prophet always
prayed. And we believe tonight Lord, for healing. I believe for more for
myself, being able to cope for Sunday coming up oh God, being able to
preach. Heavenly Father, help to that end. 

	Bless Your people oh God. Lord in heaven, bless them because, leaving
here tonight if I was their enemy, which I am not, nor do I want to be
anybody’s enemy. And I do not want anybody for my enemy if that is
possible, which I do not know, nobody knows but You Lord. I would not
want anything but blessing oh God. When the chips are down, the hour is
here, I would not be able to stand, I know I couldn’t stand and say
that’s something that they deserve, although that could be true, many
ways I deserve things too Lord, and I know people in grace and mercy and
love say, “No,  let it not be.”  We stand in the same tonight Lord,
with grace and mercy toward each. To believe for each other, to love
each other, somehow, someway oh God, so that grace and mercy would be
abundantly manifested. And each one of us show more fruit and more
understanding, because we need it.

	Now unto the King, Eternal, Immortal, Invisible the only Wise God, be
all power in honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

	The Lord bless you. We’re ready to go. And I’ll say this again. I
will not take back anything I said, no way, no way shape and form.
It’s on a tape, I’ll sign my name to it, and I’ll stand on the
record. I have preached the truth and only the truth. And there’s no
great one amongst us, except Him. Yep! 

	Let me tell you something brother/sister, you and I may think we’re
somebody, the day’s going to come where we’re going to have to prove
it. Oh God, I don’t want that. I don’t want to have to prove
anything. Because I’ll just prove what I am in the flesh. I’m not
interested...	

	Let’s sing... ‘Take the Name of Jesus with you.’

	

	

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