The Way of a True Prophet # 1

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   May 13, 1984

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father, again we are so happy to be in this
house, Lord, that You have provided for us and also brothers and sisters
together which is also a provision of grace, for we have not been left
alone either as to Your Spirit, either as to kindred, but now in the
family of God, great rejoicing, knowing Your in our midst here, Lord,
and You're not ashamed to call us brethren. We're so happy for that,
we're grateful that we are identified through the complete merits of
Thyself in Jesus Christ. And also because we are of Yourself, fallen
sons that have come back to a place of redemption.

	We're very grateful, Lord. Be with us in this service, may we rejoice
together in the Word of this hour, to see It more clearly than ever, and
know we are a part of It in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may be
seated.

1.	Now before we go to the Message, let's go back in our minds and say,
"When did Bro. Branham preach a sermon on Mother's Day?" This is
Mother's Day, well I know he did. But, you notice at the end of the
road, (and I was around him quite a bit and you heard the tapes too)
that he honored Christmas and Easter, and Easter above all others. He
did preach special messages.

	Well, I went back to 1962 and I didn't find a Mother's Day Message.
But, I also noticed in 1962, Mother's Day fell on the 13th like it does
today. [Bro. Branham preached 'Mother Day's Message' May 10, 1959] It
has to be, because that's when he preached his sermons on Sunday, not so
much on a Wednesday. So, Mother's Day Message in 1962 which by the way
was the last May he preached in until his death. There was no following
May Messages. He was in Africa in '65, and he was nowhere to be found
when it came to preaching in '64, and in '63 also, I guess it is.

	So, we go back to '62, and in there we find 'The Way of a True
Prophet'. Well, if that's good enough for Bro. Branham on Mother's Day,
it's good enough for me.

2.	So, hello mother's, the Lord bless you, have a great time in Christ
and that's it. Have a good dinner, your husband's take you out. Buy you
dinner and corsage. But anyway, 'The Way of a True Prophet'  [05-13-62]
and I'm going to start on page 8, although the text he takes from Amos
starts on page 11.  (We're going to take our time, we'll get maybe three
pages in and that's it, because I got of Scripture.) 

[16] 	 Now last Sunday night Brother Roy Roberson (I don't know whether
he's 					here, I can't make out enough to see that if he's here.), he
called me up and 				was telling me about the message. And someone
called and said, "I was 					wondering when you talked about God Who
gave us all things." See? He 					did: He gave us life; try to buy it.
He gave us love; try to buy it. He gave us 				joy; try to buy it.
…gave us peace; try to buy that. No way of buying it, can't 				buy
it. Then I said, "He gave us death." 

 

[17]	And someone called and said, "Preacher, I wondered where you were 	
			going with that." He said, "I thought, 'Oh, here Brother Branham tied
					himself up this time.'" 

		Not when the Bible says so. See? The Bible said He gave us death.
Well, 					what can we do with death? 

	Well, it's Scriptural, he did say, "I kill and make alive." [1 Sam 2:6]
And He brought death in the land and all. It was in His Sovereign will.

		 You know, Paul coming to death, said, "Oh, death, where is your
sting?" 					Death doesn't control us; we control it. That's right. All
things are given 					to us. 

 		And then, I gave the illustration of how that Israel on the march to
the 					promised land, they had never seen that land; they knew nothing
about it. 

3.	Now, you'll also the Millennium. We know very little about It. Now,
let's get this flat. Jesus went over to the other land. Upper and lower.
Hades, right? And He came back and He brought resurrected Saints with
Him. But, they have not been in a Millennium. Neither Jesus experienced
It, nor Abraham, or anybody else experienced It. So, that's really
something to look forward to. We're all going to get there at the same
time. Not even Jesus gets a march on it, and He made It. Nice, eh?
Something to think about.

	You know, you're just first class citizens. You haven't considered
yourself right there in the front line, because you keep looking back on
what you were in a fallen state. Well, you are not in a fallen state.
Now as long as you're in Ohio, you're in a fallen State. [laughter] And
United States you're in fallen State, but you are in the kingdom,
because Bro. Branham said, "The kingdom has come when the Perfect Word
has come and we receive It." So, we're in good shape.

4.	All right:  

		…knew nothing about it. They had a promise of God there was a land,
it 					was full of milk and honey and a great good place. They never
seen it; 					nobody had ever been there, or knew anything about it, but
they had the 					promise. (Yeah.)

	Now, what are you do with the promise? Does this make you realize a
promise       is so great, that hey, it doesn't matter what happens as
long as we make it. See, Paul had this understanding. Because, he knew
without the First Resurrection, no Millennium.

	I've always said, and you know my thoughts on the Millennium, It is
deliberately left out in the sense of a real thorough description.
Therefore, to me It signifies a fantastic surprise element, and also as
Bro. Branham said, "You would have to be glorified to apprehend It, or
even begin to (you know) be a part of It." So, it's a tremendous thing
that lies ahead of us, and then again, It's only for a thousand years;
or longer because the word is 'millennia' in the Greek, which means,
'more than'. And Bro. Branham said, "Time does not run out with the
Millennium, because, although It's blended to Eternity (now mind you)
because the Great White Throne is there at the end,"

	Now, what if everybody's got to appear, which they do? How long could
that take? Well, zap, zap, zap. And I don't think you'll zap it faster
than that even. Billions and billions and billions. And evidently they
argue, because they'll say, "Lord, didn't we do this, and this, and
this…?" He'll say, "yeah." What if that took thousands of years? I
don't know. There's a great day coming, it's going to last a long, long
time. 

5.	Now, you know, years ago and my wife used to work in what they called
the…I forget the name was now, the Provincial…it was nut house for
little kids, they were… That's why I married her, so she'd take good
care of me. You know it wasn't nutty kids, it was kids that weren't born
with the proper mental attributes there. So this one girl was teaching
and she talked about there was no night there. And a cute little fellow,
his name was Jackie (something or other) and he listened attentively
like he always did, he's looking up so attentively, and he went away and
he came back and he sighed, "Oh," he said, "Miss Brown, I don't think I
want to go to heaven."

	And she said, "Jackie, why not?"

	Well he said, "There's no night there and I don't think I could stand
it without sleep."

	Well, who wants to sleep when you get to the Millennium? For the first
time you'll recognize every leaf on every tree is different from every
leaf on every other tree. And for the first time you'll know each little
bug, and each little butterfly. And each bird, and for once the black
bird will look nice. [laughter] It's not that he doesn't look nice,
there are too many of them. That's right. See, all these things are
going to be in their place.  

6.	Now, great place, nobody's been there, knew anything about it. But,
had a promise, that promise has got them out of the grave, they're
waiting to go. See?

 		…by faith they sojourned right through the desert. And when they
got to 					the borderline, they (got to a place which signified
'crossover'.) 

	It was crossover time in the element of time, and in the element of
conditions. But, their condition wasn't right at that time, (but, just
sort of forget that part) and remember, that everything is done in
season. Like, when Jack and I were talking last night, he said, "Lee,"
(he said) when you read out of Wuest's translation on Peter, the epochal
season, (he said) that did something for me." He said, "Nothing is done
to understand It." See?

	It shows the prophet was right on his seasons. The Word in the season.
The hour and the times. And nobody gives credence to it. See, and, oh
look… Everybody today can throw down the shovel when the whistle
blows, but when the eagle screams, they were just like Walker's dream:
everybody went on doing what he was doing, the prophet screamed out
twice, so the very earth shook, there It is, there It is. [points to the
pictures of the Pillar of Fire and Cloud] The riding of the trail.
Nobody paid a bit of attention, but I'm going to tell you, they'll be
looking up too late from the wrath of the land.

7.	See, now:  

		…they (right) to the borderline, they had a warrior there by the
name of 					"Joshua…" 

	All right, what did Bro. Branham call him? Warrior. Joshua means
'Jehovah Savior'. Now, remember, Bro. Branham said that, "Joshua was not
a Word giver as was Moses." Right? 

	All right, then you can see right here that something is running out.
The Word has already been given. The descent was the 'Shout'. The next
thing is the 'Resurrection'. The third thing is the 'Rapture'. And Who
is doing it? The Great One Who descended with the Shout, which is a
military command, Who is putting everything into military order, the
Pillar of Fire, God and the Pillar of Fire is taking us over.

	You show me where God ever left His people in exit without somebody?
The prophet's gone. Who's here? God. We've returned to Headship. Isn't
that nice? We've returned to Headship. The prophet said so. Don't let
this go over your heads  brother/sister, let It go in. The Bride's not
out of here for one reason. Her mind is still back there cluttered up.
She is still polluting the bread of God with her own thinking. This is
the thinking of God. It's on all my tapes I've ever mentioned, of Bro.
Branham, said, "Lee, all my thoughts are of God." And so are mine, if I
get the prophet's thoughts. 

	Now, the prophet wasn't saying, "Lee, God puts in my mind to have
dinner." His stomach could do that for him, because He's got a law set
up. He was speaking in terms of what we understand, so therefore,
Headship had come. And we were getting straight from Headship by God's
ordained method. Headship's own thoughts.

8.	Now, they got to the border.

		…and they had a warrior by the name of "Joshua," which means
"Jehovah 				Saviour." 

	…?... right, you need, you need it to get you plumb in. See? Most
people still can't understand we're in transition. Bro. Branham spoke on
'The Token', the box-car sealed. Everybody thinks, "well, the box-car's
sealed, hallelujah." What do you do with a sealed box-car? "You shunk it
on a track, and let it sit there." Like fun you do! When you fill the
box-car, you hook it to the engine. 

"I'm going home to glory, on the happy day express." The letter's on the
engine spell the name of the engine, 'Jesus'. Ah, ha, we're not back
there somewhere thinking old theology. We're up in the new theology.
Right!

		So he crossed over the Jordan into the promised land and brought back
the 				evidence that the land was there. (I like it.)

	Now, we're going to ours, which is the Millennium, which is
resurrection, Jesus Christ has come back with resurrected bodies that
don't fit anywhere. "Oh," you say, "Bro. Vayle they fit in heaven." Only
temporarily. Only temporarily. Only temporarily, because you see, we're
dust, and we're going to be glorified dust. And we're going to get a
glorified resurrected earth. Because the earth went through the Blood
and the water, and the fire the same as we're doing. It's beautiful,
isn't it?

9.	All right, now he said: 

		…it was a good land. (They had the proof there, they came back with 
				the evidence thereof, there's the evidence there, camera's caught
it.) 					[points to the two pictures]

[18] 	Two men came back with a big clusters of  grapes. It was a good
land. 					Two men brought back (one bunch of grapes, took two to haul.
It was a 					good land, so he brought) the evidence back the land that
they were going 					to possess was there. (Now, we have the evidence
through the prophet 					that we're going into it.)

		 Now, to the church, we are journeying to a land of immortality, a
land 					where there's no death, a land where the dead's raised up; and
we had 					a great Saviour in our camp, "Jesus" means " Joshua Saviour,
beloved." 					And He crossed the Jordan of death over on the other
land, 						come back, and brought the evidence that we live after
death. Amen. So 					where is death at? 

	Now notice: if He is risen from the dead, and "He's the same yesterday,
today and forever,"  if He lays the body aside and comes back in a
Pillar of Fire to the Gentiles, He will do exactly the same thing,
proven He is risen amongst us, we're crossing over.

	Now, Who's going to take us over? He is! He's not gone anywhere
brother/sister. He does all three in descending. I want one person to
show me where He came down, went up, came down, went up, came down and
that's it. And we go up with Him, that' isn't true. That is not true. If
I found one thing the prophet said, I'd believe that. But, I cannot find
one thing.

10.	So, where's death at? 

		And then, He gave us all things. 

	That's exactly right. Because in Him is everything. See, if you look at
just one attribute, creativity, where is the limit to creation when He's
infinite in both His mind and His resources? 

	Now, I tell you what: there's enough of us here to know what little
kids can do, and they're pretty good with their hands some of them. And
I didn't teach school very long, but I taught it long enough and Cheri
no doubt will get a whole lot more experience than I had, or ever want
to have, but you give kids paper-mache and various little things,
plasticine or anything else, and what they come up with at the age of
six, seven and eight is so astounding, I walk away and I change my
color. I become green with envy. And I become disgusted with their
ability. Yeah, the little jerks can do. [laughter] That's the truth.    


	What about God? Where does a kid come up with it? That's just some
little thing God lets fly around here to let us know, because we're sub,
sub, sub, sub gods. Sons of God. Demi-gods, right. But, what could God
do? See, you got to think of these things. See? All things.

11.	Now, if that's just one thing that's in Him that He gave to us,
where do we stand? "Eye have not seen, nor ear heard," [1Cor 2:9] and I
don't know that it ever will. Thirty trillion years. Eight hundred
trillion years, a googol, a googol, a googol of years; [a number that is
equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros] light years thrown in for good
measure. Do you think He'll ever be exhausted? Nah. How many trees have
been in this world? How many snowflakes? Uh? Billions of tons of snow?
Oh, billions of tons. Not one snowflake like the other snowflake. Who
figured that out? Shee, man oh man.

	Listen to the genes. The genes' story. You  get tired of my genes
story? Well, if you do, plug your ears. The odds against two individual
being born exactly alike are astronomical, except identical twins.
There's no such a thing as a true identical. There's couldn't be, that
is impossible. There are more than eight million ways and twenty three
chromosome of a mother, and twenty three of a father can combine. More
than eight million. The odds against any two children (of their two
children) having the same complement of chromosomes, are about seventy
trillion to one. [Bro. Vayle whistles] Man. And since each chromosomes
may have twelve hundred and fifty genes. Can't even see hardly except
for a high powered microscope. You think you're complex, take a look at
God, honey. Ha, ha, ha, we're complexed with our stupid complexes, and
God doesn't have any. Praise God for Jesus. Just love that man of
Galilee. 

12.	Each chromosome has twelve hundred and fifty genes, the odds against
any two individuals reach a number so high have been written as 1,
followed by 9,031 zeros, and you just merely touched God. Because if He
could do that through two humans, what could He do through four humans?
Uh? It says, "their children." What could He do then through a thousand.
Oh, you're going to be in the Millennium aren't you? You're going to be
building houses aren't you? Okay, well, let's start thinking now. What's
It going to be like?  

	You know what? For the first time you're going to have fulfillment.
What makes you rage anyway? Because weather doesn't work out right?
Nothing works out right. It's not supposed to work out right. You're
supposed to just roll with the punches, and say, "There's a great day
coming, hallelujah, bye and bye." [said with melody] "Great day coming
in a land, we will not die."  I'm in transition.

	See, this is a thing right here. This is a paradox. They say, "What do
you mean?" I meant what I said. You can understand that can't you? I'm
in transition, I'm on my way. Time and eternity has blended. 

	You say, "Prove it." 

	I prove nothing. There It is right there. [points to the picture of the
Pillar of Fire] 

	You say, "I believe Him."

	You're a liar, because you don't believe what I'm telling you, and I'm
telling you what he said. He said, "Time has run out, per se." Which
means, 'time as itself as an element', which is simply measured by the
roll of a planet, has run out. You're being involved in a higher factor.
Yes sir. Glory.

13.	You noticed this morning there's no water in my gasoline to make
this sputter. I'm fully assured, yeah. Two men brought one bunch of
grapes. A man and a woman could bring forth that, what I mentioned. One
followed by over nine thousand zeros of complexity and combinations. Ha,
you think Rubik's cube is something to thrill your hearts? [laughter] Oh
brother, listen: let's get anxious to get over there. 

		He gave us all things. Now, we have the earnest of our inheritance, 

	Why? Same Holy Ghost. Same Holy Ghost. If two people…now remember,
the woman came out of the man. If that can be produced by one man, who
is a sub-god, a demi-god, and you got a gene in it, what will happen
when the light, or the water, or the spirit falls on the gene of the
soul and transforms the body? Like Adam, you can name every beast. And
you won't have to worry like the Hindu, pushing the bugs aside unless
you step on your uncle. No, you say, "Hey little feller..." You know all
about it. You won't have to kill it, nothing to kill in the Millennium.
No, everything's just terrific. Yes sir, just the right number of black
birds too. On the other hand, they'll be alright, they're going to get
taken care of.

 	I got to keep reminding myself of these things, that's why I keep
throwing them in there. You know it's a guilty conscious, bringing it
out. Oh man, I look at those, some like Bro. Evans and those weeds he
had in his bean crops a few years ago. [Bro. Vayle says laughing] They
got a purpose I'm ain't going to say what they are, don't ask me. But
everything's got a purpose, everything is there just the way it should
be.

14.	All right, he said:

		Now, we have the earnest of our inheritance, insomuch (Now, listen
close. 					I'd like to preach on that subject, (I would too, I preached
a bit on them, but 				I want to preach more by the grace of God.) but I
just feel, feels good to 					me right now. See?) that we have the
earnest of that, for one day we walked 				in sin; and after being
baptized in His Name, raised with Him in the 					resurrection, (that's
spiritual of course) we've been brought out of sin, never 				more to
want to go back again. (That's right.) See? We are raised from 					sin
with the evidence that we have--we are potentially in the resurrection 	
			from all death. (Spiritual and physical) See?

 [19]	If we could raise up from sin by faith in Him, and if there's
sin... Who 					would want to go back to the garbage cans of sin again?
(Yeah, you feed 					a dog some good red meat, I'm going to tell you one
thing, I don't care if he 				is a stray, he's got enough brains to
stick around. Yeah.) …that's the earnest 				(Amen.); that's the
earnest of the complete resurrection.

	See, your appetite's already been changed. And if your appetite has
been changed, which was fitted for this, then you got to have something
else outside is your environmental milieu when you get changed in your
body. Ha! How would I go around here with an incorruptible body eating
corrupted things? 

	"Well," you say, "if you did eat it, it wouldn't hurt you." That's not
the point.  

 You know what the point is? I'll read the point: (Do you love the Lord
this morning?) I just feel real good, because the Lord's so good. And I
love Bro. Branham's sermons, they just tickle me up and down. And I like
to come here and read them when I sit by myself, you people singing,
and…the Spirit of the Lord, His power here, giving Him preeminence, I
just feel so good I want to praise. And I get up here and everything's
just so good. You know, just wonderful.

15.	Now, let me see what It says here:

	"And the woman saw the tree was good for food." (Now, let's just
pretend this was apples, or   oranges or something. But you can put it
to the physical and it brings out the same thing.) But, It says, "The
tree was good for food and pleasant to the eyes, a tree to be desired."
[Gen 3:6]

	Well, you know, it tells you right there back in the Eden, they were
synchronized to beauty. And then people look at women with those cruddy
green and blue around the…oh, come on, synchronized to beauty, my
foot. And they say, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Oh boy, what
kind of eyes are looking on that junk. Not mine. Uh, uh. 

	No, Bro. Branham even brought it down to the mammy cow. The old fellow
sat there, and was looking, sitting on the rail looking at the heifers
go by, and, "brother, I think that one's the best one."

	He said, "Preacher, (he said) you better stick to your preaching. You
may know preaching, but you sure don't know cows."

	"Why," he said, "what's the matter, (he said) that one's well built,
everything else."

	He said, "Look, see the wild look in her eye? She ain't got it."

	 Anybody ever had a cow with a wild look in her eye? So, you're looking
at one right now that had a cow, with a wild look in her eye. And she
would drag me across the prairie in her chains without even a fly biting
her. She would take off and me digging my heels in…never mind what's
going on in my mind, coming out of my mouth. [loud laughter] That's sort
of not bedtime story material. [more laughter] She'd wrap it around you
and she'd rip you. She would get in the ditch and take one look, and
gouge your head in it, (phftt!) threw …?... [makes loud whistle] like
that, man. Mother's Day sermon? [Louder laughter] Didn't know that was
coming did you? That she'd never be a mammy to her babies, she hasn't
got it. The eyes of the beholder.

	You're going to see God in a male or female in character, you better
have something inside of you to make the eyes light up the right way.
Right?

16.	Okay, all right, now this is all here, we're talking about it. Now:

		See? If we could raise up from sin by faith in Him… Who would want
to 					go back to the garbage cans of sin again? We pass from death to
Life. 					See? …that's the earnest (Amen.); that's the earnest of the
complete 					resurrection. All death, physically and spiritual, we done
overcome spiritual 				death, 'cause we've passed from death unto Life. 

	Now, don't get your priorities mixed up here, say, "We have overcome.
We have passed." Uh, uh, He done past us. See, we have been translated
into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Would anyone like to translate
himself? I left my other glasses at home, would somebody please zip over
and zap back with the speed of thought? These would do alright, but I
like the others better. Nobody? Neither did you do one thing about your
salvation.

	Now, you desired, and God gave you a little will in there, in the soul
to make a decision in the gene that you had. If you didn't have the
right gene, you'd never make it.

17.	Ever seen people that you loved…and know to your brother's and
sister's  to pray to God, but never could get what you got? Why? 

	To be honest with you, my brother was ten times the man I ever been, or
ever will be, but he could never get what I got. That's why Jacob was a
better man than Esau. Esau took care of his mammy and pappy, he loved
them and everything else. Old Jacob out there gallivanting. He had to.
What made it? Election, based upon foreknowledge. 

		And as the Elijah went down to Jordan one day and struck it (that's
with 					Elisha, he went down and struck it, and Jordan) [2 Kings 2:8]
parted back 					and they crossed over, and Elisha come back with a
double portion. When 				we strike Jordan (with Christ), we got one
portion, but when we return we're 				coming with two portions. 

	And you've got two evidences right now to prove it. I think I'm back to
two bunches of grapes. Better look that up for sure, I'm not…I like
that, I like that thought anyway. (One bunch, one bunch…Norman said he
saw one bunch.) Well, that was just one bunch could be carried by
several men. We've got several men carrying several bunches. [Bro. Vayle
laughs] All right, we won't argue the Bible. Okay.

		…but when we return…two portions. We got Eternal Life,
resurrection from 				sin now in righteousness with the Holy Ghost, and
then on the return with 					Christ we come with both physical
resurrection; and we already got spiritual 				resurrection; we have a
double portion of it. Always a type of Christ and the 				church, Elisha
and Elijah. 

18.	Now remember, the Bible speaks of people at the end-time 'twice
dead', we're 'twice alive'. Yep!  

		Oh, I don't want to get started on that. (Said Bro. Branham) My, my,
my, 					we'd get this six hour message (there he said.) 

		Now, death is nothing; we got it; it's ours. It can't control me; I
control 					it. How? Through Him Who made me an overcomer, because I've
already 					overcome death. How did I do it? By believing on Him. See?

[20] 	Death's in sin, unbelief. I'm not an unbeliever; I'm a believer.
I've raised 					from that thing, resurrected. It's the earnest of all
my complete physical, 					spiritual resurrection, everything. Yes, sir.
Do you get that? 

		So we do have 	death under our control through Jesus Christ, Who
overcame 				death, hell, grave, sickness, sorrows, everything else,
triumphed over all. 					And we are now risen with Him, setting in
heavenly places, spiritually 					speaking, in Christ Jesus with all
things under our feet. Even the physical 					resurrection is under our
feet, because we're in Christ.

19.	Now, let's just take a little look at that here for a second, in 1
Corinthians 15:22, and this is the time of the Presence. It says:

		(22) 	For as in Adam all die, (in identical matter) in Christ (we'll)
all be 						made alive.

		(23) 	But every man in his own order…

	Now notice, he tells you right there, there was an order. Now the order
is what? Going into the Millennium via the Resurrection, and there's an
order to It. Now, what took them into the Promise Land? A Commander. A
Warrior, coming down here to do battle for us. That's right. Okay, now:

 		(23)	…Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at
his 						coming.

	Now, who was the leader? Joshua. Who is our leader? Jehovah Savior,
Holy Spirit, right here in the form of  Pillar of Fire to take us in.
Then that constitutes Headship, and He is responsible for everything,
even the logistics. No longer does an army or a soldier provide for
himself, the State provides for it. Our General provides for us. See,
the whole …?... at our disposal. 

	Now: 

		(24) 	Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
					to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and 	
				all authority and power.

		(25) 	For he must reign, till…all enemies (are put) under (the) feet
(of 						Jesus.)

	Now, it's going on now. There again, I differ greatly with my brethren
who do not believe what I believe. I say, we are in transition. We have
not been shunted to a railing out there. I'm going to tell you 
brother/sister, as the Saints on the other side are resting on the
Message of Bro. Branham gave over here to get them out. In other words,
that Message is effective over there, then It's got to be effective
here. And It's got to be more effective here, than over there, because
we're the one that's getting It. See?

20.	All right, now:

		Even our  physical resurrection under our feet, because we're in
Christ. Do 				you get it? If you do, raise your hands. Amen. That's
good. Just as long as 					you get it, that's fine. See?  Now, just keep
keeping it in your mind. We have 				passed from death unto Life.
Physical, spiritual, every way, and everything, 				and all things
belongs to us now! [emphasized] (It didn't back there! only 					in a
potential figure. See, keep the paradox in mind.) 

	There he stood, Pillar of Fire, [points to the picture of the Pillar of
Fire] everything began to move, chandelier swings, reach into pocket,
pull out money. Tell events down the road. Take five million …?...
Five thousand, hundreds of thousands of spirits under his control. Stand
back and forth, he couldn't miss if he tried. Completely dominated by
God. 

	Then the man says, "I'll tell you what it's about."

	They said, "That ain't the way we heard it. Reverend Father so and so,
doesn't believe that. Don't believe… Well, he's a prophet when he
says…you know, those other things, but don't believe he's on the
Word." Paradox!

	I suppose the world stood back when Edison got the incandescent bulb.
And they said, "I'll tell you how it works Edison. How would they…
Shut up!

21.	I like what old Smokey said down in Flordia. Repeat my little story
again: General Motors said, "Well, you know we know how it is (you know)
that you take heat off the manifold and it vaporizes the gas and you get
the miles."

	He said, "I know you do, but you can't do it can you?"

	Bunch of jerks! General Motor's stinks. Stinks! Paid women to frame
[Ralph] Nader. Now the FBI is pulling deals. You know why? Because, they
turned down the experts. Now they're stuck with the excrement of their
own thinking, and prejudices. Rotten ways, I've got no pity for America.
People want me to be full of love. You get your own brand of love.

	If I've got to spit on Jesus Christ and I've spit on Him enough, I
learned bitter lessons the last few years, spitting on Him, and make Him
a liar. These guys can do what they want, but don't count me in.

	He said, "Now, this generation shall not pass away." [Mt 24:34]
"There's some be standing here will not taste of death." [Mt 16:28] You
do what you want with It.

22.	Time and Eternity have blended, and time has lost out! So, death has
lost its sting. Uh? Well, uh? Now, "Adam was in sin, (he said,) lest he
put forth his hand, and he'd live forever." [Gen 3:22]  A period of
time. And that period of time has run out. So now, I can put forth my
hand and live forever. And He made a way that I could have it in the
right state, and in a better state than Adam had.

	Now, if Adam's in the First Resurrection, he is still waiting for the
Millennium. And I got news for Adam, he ain't going to get there one
step ahead of me. Yeah. Even Jesus has forgone. Even Jesus has forgone
the joy of stepping ahead of us. Unless, it's by one step to be descent.
Personally, I hope He's several steps ahead, because I want to keep Him
in view, and get a good look all the way. 

		While the whole world out there is saying we're crazy. (Paradox. Yet,
the 					whole world belongs to us.) 

	You say, "I don't know that." I do know it. Because, that's what the
Book of Daniel said, and under the fourth kingdom we own it all. Under
Rome, at the end-time it's ours. But, I don't want it at this point.
Personally, I want to get out of here and come back.

 	You know what? I'm going to tell you something: Now you women will all
agree with me, because there's no man here that is good enough to
remodel a house while the family still lives in it. Phooey! [laughter]
Ho, ho, oh brother, don't talk to me about that again. The best way is
ten pounds of dynamite. If that don't do it, buy twenty. Well, I'll tell
you what, that's what I'm looking at right here. The paradox shows us
absolutely that, though we own the kingdom, it's ours, in the condition
it's in, we don't want it, let the fire remold it.

23.	Now, listen:

		While the world out here is saying we're crazy, yet the whole earth
belongs 				to us. (So, they're under us, now they'll learn to shut
their mouths and respect 				us, but it's alright. They didn't respect
Him, they won't respect us, John said 				so.) How you going to inherit
it? When--as I said, Abraham (See?), he was 				in the promised land;
God gave it to him. Lot was taken by some renegade 				outlaws took
away. (That was his nephew.) All right. 

[21] 	Everything that was in that land belonged to Abraham. (So, Lot
belonged 					to Abraham. Now watch:) So Abraham wasn't a warrior; he
never did fight. 				He didn't have any warriors with him; he had some
servants. But when he 					had seen that something--the devil had come
and robbed him of something 				that was a promise to him, he armed his
servants and took an arm himself. 

	What did he say? Joshua was a warrior. God's King of Salem, right? But,
he sure can fight. God is a Mighty Warrior. Bible says He is. That's
when an angry Captain rises in rage and comes down. So, we have
Melchizedek amongst us. We have the Judge amongst us. We have the
Warrior amongst us. Do you think the Warrior hasn't showed His colors?
What about March of '64 in Alaska? What about the prophet saying, "I
don't pray for America?" Do you think he's unkind? 

24.	All right, like Lot we're down in Sodom. We're not a part of it.  

		Abraham didn't know how he was going to overcome this whole company 		
		of kings, just a handful of servants; but God told him how to do it.
And he 					divided himself and slaughtered the kings, and came back
triumphant. 

	Now, what does a good general do? He puts everything in ranks and
divisions. And we get that Word properly divided  brother/sister, which
is the key of this hour, so we do not compare with Cain, but we compare
with Abel. We go right back to the original human born. Because, Adam
and Eve were the first and only that were not born. Personally, I don't
care if they had navel's or not, Not interested. I suppose they didn't.
I think Bro. Branham said they didn't. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm
not interested. I believe the record. They were the two that weren't. We
are. See?

	Now, when the church, which was born in sin, and we're all were shaped
in iniquity come into the world speaking lies, truly right with God in
the Church at the end-time has the proper division; which means,
'headship, leadership, a preeminence, a dependability' (a dependence
upon) that Bride becomes invincible. 

25.	Now:  

		Why? He laid his faith upon God's promise that everything in that land
					was his, and Lot was part of it, was part of the land. (Now you
see, you're 					getting into the fact right there of getting bodies out
of the ground too. See, 				understand that, the type?) Oh, my. There he
met Melchizedek…(King of 					Peace, King of Righteousness, but He
teaches my hands to war.) 

	I don't mean to go busting people's noses in, causing fights. Hands,
represent what you do. Feet, represent where you walk. Mind, what you
think. Ears, what you hear. Eyes, what you see. In other words, complete
spiritual motivation lining with the Word, because, as God is three
things, He is Word, He is Spirit, He is Love, you cannot take one of
Them from the other, they must all blend. You get spirit outside of
Word, you're messed up. You get love outside of Word, you're messed up.
You take straight Word with strictly letter, you don't have the love of
God, the other, in there, there's a problem.  

	There he met Melchizedek after the battle was over. Couldn't you just
see 				Abraham coming up the road? He didn't know he was a warrior, but
he knew 			then that he was. 

	Warrior taking in, a warrior people: "The Bride is as clear as the sun
and as fair as the moon, as terrible as an army with banners." Bible
says so. [Song 6:10] Not out there to fight and destroy, stand with Him,
knowing that He'll bring her out.

26.	Abraham at the time of the visitation which would shortly bring into
existence the promised son in flesh, didn't know at that time he was a
warrior, but he stood up for God and His Word and went down and got Lot
out. And yet people can't stand the term 'in the Message', they can't
stand anything. And I can't stand them. I'm sorry. I don't want to make
you like me, I just voice my thoughts.

		Yes, sir, he met the One Who gave the promise: Melchizedek. 

	Promise giver, King of Peace, King of Righteousness made Abraham a
warrior. "Cursed is the man whose sword does not draw blood." [Jer
48:10b] Not out to kill, but isn't it strange how you're branded a
killer when you stand up for the Word?

	I'm going to tell you something: the church started in the Gentile age
in confrontation through a man who taught other men what other men did
not know in the way that this man knew it. And I'm talking about Paul,
and he confronted Peter who forgot to forget what was behind him, Peter
turned back. I'm not blaming Peter, I'm just telling you something,

27.	Look,  brother/sister, do you know why people believe this is the
Bible, what Bro. Branham quoted from quoting other men? Nobody, but
nobody would spill the beans on himself the way this Bible spill the
beans. Nobody would open the closet doors and shake the skeletons and
said, "This little wound here is because you see he got involved with
this and this, and this." And he went down here and "this and this, and
this." The Bible does. And the Bible tells how that Peter was to be
blamed. Now, Peter wasn't deceived, he knew better.

	Isn't it strange to know that Bro. Peter who opened the door with the
vision, "call that not uncommon, or unclean which God has cleansed." And
he got up and said, "I perceive that God respects nobody, but loves
everybody," then turned around and went back on his own word. And it
took somebody with more of everything (in the sense of the word, just in
the sense of the word now, because he was adapted to a special principle
that Peter wasn't,) came down and said, "Now, hold it…" 

	And we have a man in our midst just like that [[points to the picture
of the Pillar of Fire] in William Marrion Branham, prophet of God. And I
hope before God that there is a five-fold ministry of some description
that comes within at least a trillion miles of the prophet.

28.		Now, let's read out of the Book of Amos. (Well, we're doing great
as usual, 					right on time, four and a half hours late.) I'm going to
speak this morning 					(not six hours though; I hope not. See?) (I
didn't say that, William Branham 				said it.) "The Way of a True
Prophet." And tonight, the Lord willing, "Letting 				Off the Pressure,"
the Lord willing.

		 Now, I am known to be a critic, but I'm  not critical, only anything
that's 					wrong. See? But I... We should criticize wrong.  

	Hey 'wrong', where are you? I'm over here in the sawdust pile. Hogwash!
You're in the manure pile. (Strike that off this tape, but not at this
minute.) Well, come on, come on, where's 'wrong'? 

	"Well, Bro. Vayle, what happened was the…you see, God didn't make any
cactus in the Garden of Eden. But one day the devil got there and he
took those leaves and rolled them and…Adam, you know, he plunged his
hand in the cactus and he just screamed out angry." You're a liar. It
was Adam's sin that brought on the cactus. Right? All right!

	Where is 'wrong'? Off the Word. 

	"Okay, who's off the Word?"

	"I," said the tree! Aw, come on.

	When Bro. Branham exposed a cancer spirit, he said, "There's one over
there getting nervous and he's calling for help." Who got together?
Cancer spirits.

29.	I know I'm nasty, now look, shall we go home? I can quit preaching
now. I'm too late to be saved, or redeemed. I got sealed in somehow to
what I'm into. Now, don't get my attitude as though I just rough and
corn-copy, I don't mean that. But look  brother/sister, something is
settling to this hour where I can't help myself, and you can't help
yourself, because time and eternity has blended. And even at the White
Throne it is all over, but saying this and that. 

	Don't kid yourselves, honey child, don't kid yourselves. I've been
preaching pretty straight here. One day I'm just going to read the 'Ten
Commandments', so you do what you want. That exposes you. Not hard on
anybody, it's just too late in the day. Maybe I'm crazy, I wouldn't say
I wasn't. I'll pass every test I believe as far as just being a fairly
decent person mentally.

30.	Now: "Criticize wrong."  Who do you love more? See, that's the
thing.

[22] 	Now… I want to read now from Amos the 3rd chapter--yes, the 3rd
chapter…	

		Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of
Israel, 				against the whole family which I brought up from the land of
Egypt, saying,

		You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I
will punish 				You for... your iniquity.

		Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

	What did God say to William Branham, "If perchance in October of 23,
1964, that Bro. Branham was approached by God. "He said, "Would you like
to take a walk with Me?" 

	"Well, wouldn't that be nice, no more bunions, and no more fallen
arches, because, you see we're in agreement now."

	Hogwash! It was all in the mind. And the spirit which is in the mind
and in the soul, for the eyes of the heart had been illumined the same
as yours and mine. Now, let me tell you, when that prophet stood before
the Pillar of Fire and God said, "Thus and so, and this and that." He
heard It for the first time, and therefore he was not one step ahead of
us. When we listen to him, and we heard It for the first time! "We're
marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion."

	Jesus doesn't get to the Millennium ahead of me. Bro. Branham doesn't
get there ahead of me and you. Yep. Oh yes! Oh yes, they're agreed. Do
you agree the prophet was right? Then you're walking with God. 

31.	God gave a little sign one day, and Moses said, "Hey, (he said)
isn't that strange, why (he said) there's a Fire in that bush. That's
not the sun, (he said) no, sun's over there. Fire in that bush, I think
I better check that out."

	And God said…

	And of course, Moses should have said, "Well, ha, ha, ha, (phftt!) I've
been down in Egypt all these years, they've got a lot of funny things
down there. So what's this…there's got to be a fellow in another bush
and he's projecting his voice, he's a ventriloquist."

	Don't you think they understood the sun, so they used heliographs and
could flash the light? Oh sure. I can take a bit of mica, if it's just
right, things in nature get it in tune with the sun and I could start
grass burning, the same as I take a mirror. So, Moses could have said,
I'm a very brilliant person, I can't get fooled by this (phfftt!)
stuff." 

	What was in Moses, and what was in the bush that said, "Hey… that's,
that's God." Walk together.

32.	 	Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young
lion cry 					out of his den, if  he's taken nothing?

	Will a prophet come by a simply a windbag and a big mouth if God hasn't
talked to him? Now, there's lots of windbags in the ministry. I could be
number one. You deal with the prophet of  William Branham, Word of God
says, "He can't open his mouth unless it's of God."

		Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where there is no gin is
for him? 

	In other words, you are looking at things that happened, stand still
and watch. And when you do get your own thinking out of the way, because
just in case, somebody else's thinking can be right.

		…shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at
all? 					(Taking nothing at all?)

	In other words, keep setting the snare out there, it'll get some. He's
telling you there's a continuity with God. He keeps moving. Moving.
Moving. He'll get what he wants.

		Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall 					there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it?

	In other words, something which is on the cataclysmic nature, something
entirely out of the human realm. Oh, they'll stand back and try to
explain it. Like the fellow said, "That's hypnotism." 

	So, Bro. Branham whirled, he said, "Well, you know more about it than I
do, then you hypnotize and  get him better." Of course the doctor
repented.

	I never heard the fellow in Bloomington, Indiana repenting. When Bro.
Branham was discerning he said, "hypnotism."

	Bro. Branham looked down, well he said, "You ought to know more about
this than I do, you come up here and do it." 

33.	Like General Motors went down. Big General Motors, worth billions,
and those great brains up there are going to share what, hundreds of
millions of dollars, because they're so brilliant on stock holder's
money and all. And [Lee] Iacocca was genius, and on Reagan's and
Stockman's, and they're going to blame it on themselves. 

	And they came down and said to Smokey, "Well, we know all about it." 

	He said, "Then do it."

	"Well, we can't do it, but we know that you ain't right anyway if you
can do it."   

		Surely the Lord... will do nothing, (now watch) but he reveals his
secrets 					unto his prophets. (What secrets? What's behind the doing!
Paradox.) 

	[Bro. Vayle speaks in a scornful tone:] "William Branham you can do it,
but, 			so much for your explanation. Jesus the Christ we know You can
do it; trouble 			is, You do it too good. Whatever our prophet's had ran
out. Hmm! Now if we 			can't do it to him, or we can't do it like him,
and something should happen to 				him, and if we'd believed him, then
we'd be stuck. So, let's not fool, let's get 			rid of him, at least
we've got the status quo."

	Bro. Branham said, "There's a secret behind the secret." Uh? And he
preached 'Paradox', at the end of 1965, that started  his last year, and
he ended It with 'The Rapture'. Death and a Rapture.

34.		The lion has roared, who will not fear? (Oh, not us, (phftt!)
William Branham 				a roaring lion? Ha, ha, ha, ha! A soaring eagle
crying? Ho, ho, ho, ho, fap!)  

	Let me tell you something: if I wanted to be real cruddy, (which
doesn't have to try too hard, everybody knows that,) and I wanted to
give the Branham Message a slap in the face, there's nothing to it,
because he's part Indian. And what was handed down from his Indian
ancestry he could have been a great shaman and dealt with spirits. And
he went to Tucson where the Indians were famous for calling the spirits.


	And I could say, "Well, fap, things have happened all along. What he
says about what is happening doesn't necessarily means it's so. Because
you see, we see these things over on the other side. And after all, if
this were really a God, He would have come to me and us." [said in a
big-shot way] Right? But, it's wrong.

	I don't care if William Branham was a hundred and forty percent Indian,
because, no Indian ever did, or a whole tribe ever did what he did. Then
you read up on Tecumseh and his funny brother the prophet, you'll find
Tecumseh was more prophet than his brother. And Tecumseh couldn't do it,
and no Indian ever did it. No shaman ever did it, no witch doctor ever
did it, because he tied up the shaman's and the witch doctors, and the
devil's not divided anymore than God is. But, the church is divided. I'm
Methodist, I'm Baptist, I'm Presbyterian, I'm Pentecostal, I'm one, I'm
two, you mean that you are that exactly.

35.	All right.

		… who will not fear? (Now listen,) the Lord GOD has spoken, who can
but 				prophesy?

	He said, "I'll talk to the four pillars of the building, but I'll talk,
and I'll wake my wife at night and I'll talk." Now he said, "This is a
mighty strange doctrine you're going to hear (he said) about the
Rapture. Might well disagree with it," he said. But he said, "I just am
a sincere person, I just can't come and talk for the sake of talking.
And I'd like you to know that I want to tell you something." That
started to happen and they got the giggles.

	Here's Amos he said: 

[23]	 His eyes must've got narrow as he stood that morning on the hill
just 					beyond the city of Samaria. I can see his steady hands as it
moved through 				his gray beard; the hot sun was shining down. He
wasn't too glamorous to 				look at: how different from the modern
evangelist today. His clothes were 					rugged, shaggy-looking
beard...looked down that city of Samaria, his eyes 					getting narrow
as he looked... He wasn't much to look at, but he had THUS 				SAITH THE
LORD for that nation.  

		It was perhaps a lot different 	for this oncoming campaign, 

	Now, he talked about a military man, a military campaign. He got into
politics discussing the Kennedy thing and all that, that's another type
of campaign. And there's a religious campaign, soul winning campaign,
this kind of campaign. What kind of campaign is this? The campaign is:
to set a people right with God by a prophet. 

36.	But, nobody wanted it. They wanted Bro. Branham for a great
campaign, like the preacher said over there in South Bend, Indiana.
"Why," he said, "we'll bring Bro. Branham in, and he'll bring the crowd
and we'll take it from there." And Bro. Branham gave the Assemblies of
God, he said, three quarter million converts. They took it from there.

	Now look, I'm responsible for what I preach here, I'm going to have to
answer for every single one of you. Tapes and all. Thank God, I'm not
the Assemblies of God. Because, from there three quarter million, they
went to millions and millions. They came in the second and third
generation. It was a lot different for this oncoming campaign:

		…that the Lord had sent him to Samaria for,

	 Now remember, Samaria was known as the bastard camp. They were
Gentiles and Jews combined. And at the end-time, the church and the
whole bunch together is hybridized. 

  		He wasn't equipped for such a revival, as we would think (See? As we
would 				think what?) he should be today. 

	Now, we must learn to know what God gives us and how He wants up to use
It. This is what people don't understand. See?

		But remember, he wasn't a modern evangelist; he was a prophet. 

	Remember, he was a prophet, but he did the work of an evangelist. He
had to warn souls. William Branham had to do the same thing.

		He did not care about the modern equipment; he had THUS SAITH THE 				
LORD. 

	Bro. Branham said, "I can go to any little town, half a dozen people,
(he said) I don't have television, radio, great big tents and …?...,
that's alright," he said.  Sure, for those that got it, that's fine. But
he said, "My ministry is not that way." And he's telling them right
here, "I've got Thus saith the Lord, you catching on? Don't you know I'm
like Amos back there, I'm back in that group."

37.	You see, he was back to Alpha. He was back to the Alpha, because
everything the modern evangelist has, God made it by His Word, and now
the same Word was here that was responsible for even the tents that were
made out of plastics and compounds and all that God put on the earth in
natural resources. The Word stood here now and said, "You don't need it,
because, I'm the One that said, 'Behold I create all things new'. I'm
back here to finish what I started in the Garden of Eden." The greatest
thing is back to the Word, and they didn't catch what he was saying.

		He didn't care how he looked, how much fashion he had was dressed
like, 					whether his hair was combed right, or whether anybody looked
at him 					or not.

	Now, don't carry this too far, because we're going to read more about
this and get into it. Because I don't want anybody coming out of here as
though he just got out of bed with your hair rumpled and you look a
mess. You got clean clothes, and you wear dirty ones. So, don't read
this backwards and wrong now. Just get an idea that you're supposed to
come in and [makes unintelligible noises] like a half wit or something;
or you be like the girl with the two hula-hoops. You see her picture in
the paper? She could whirl two hula hoops, but she couldn't put two
socks on the right color. One is a black and one is a white. And the guy
took that picture just for that very thing. So, we don't want any
hula-hoop operators here. [laughter] 

	That are so heavenly minded, they're no earthly good. I have been stuck
accidently in the dark by putting different colored socks on. Even
picked up one different shoe one time. Thank God I saw it. I think my
wife went out one time, started to go out one time with two different
shoes. Whether she caught it, or I caught it, it was caught anyway. If I
caught it, then she caught it. And if she caught it, she didn't catch
it. You know what I'm talking about.

38.	All right: 

[24] 	He had the Word of the Lord and that was his full objective: bring
that 					Word of the Lord. 

	In other words, what he's saying, he did not involve himself per se as
a personality, or an  oncoming person that would be attractive to the
people. He wasn't a crowd pleaser. He had the Word of the Lord. All
right. (We're sure way behind, but, that's alright.) All right, he had
the Word of the Lord, and that was his full objective, bring the Word of
the Lord.

		Who was this fellow? Yep, it was Amos the prophet: rugged individual, 
				but he knew where he was standing; knew what he was doing; he was a 
				true prophet of the Word. 

	How could he be anything else and be a prophet of God if he didn't have
those two attributes in there? Know where he stood and what he was
doing. Yet, they wrote books as though Bro. Branham didn't know what he
was doing.

	I wish you'd have been there the day he looked a hole in me. And I mean
he looked a hole right through until I was like a piece…not like a
piece of Swiss cheese, I wasn't even like a sieve anymore. I was not
even a window with a pane of glass in it. He went plumb to my soul.
That's the funny thing, the whole thing, how come the people try to say
that, what was said about a woman, he looked at my soul and found it
black as night. When he looked at my soul that day, believe me he did,
he searched me from one end to the other a full three solid minutes
while I sat there dying. Then he relaxed, because my stupid mouth had
shot off with one of my stupid reverse compliments. It's okay to do it,
but not to a prophet, honey. You're in trouble right up to your ears.
[said laughing] No.

39.	Now:

		…the reason he had come to this city, was because the Word had come
to 					him. (Now, he didn't go to Jerusalem, he went to Samaria.) When
the Word 				of the Lord comes to a true servant, he must go; regardless
of circumstances, 				regardless of difficulties, he must go anyhow.
Whether he's prepared, 					whether he feels like it, whether he wants
to, whether whatevermore; he must 				go anyhow. It's God speaking, and
he must carry this message… He never 					goes for foolishness;  never
goes for money; never goes for popularity; …he's 				got a mission,
he's sent of the Lord. And he is the Word of God, (Now listen:) 				And
he's the Word of God. (The prophet is the Word of God,) because he's 			
carrying the Word of the Lord. That is the true prophet of the Lord. 

 	Now listen: this is a very solemn warning to everybody, as well as a
five-fold ministry, but it's very solemn. Now listen: And he is the Word
of God, because he's carrying the Word of the Lord, that is a true
prophet of the Lord. 

[25] 	My text is "The Way of a True Prophet of God." 

	Now, he is the Word, because he's carrying the Word. Now, that doesn't
make him God per se, but he is the Word. Now:

		This great, fearless man of God prophesied in the days of Jeroboam II.
					I've got part of Amos' history written out here before me. Amos
prophesied 				about thirteen years of his campaign. Now Jeroboam II was
just about as 					smart and able a man as Israel had had for some time.
He was a man that 					had brought prosperity to Israel. Israel was all
flourishing, but something 					was wrong with Jeroboam; he was an
idolater. 

		Now I, kinda reading this the other day, kinda thought this was pretty
fitting  				today. (Remember the words' now', 'today'.) No matter how
smart a man is, 					(now, that's today)  how much he can do, and how
much prosperity, if he 					gets away from God, he's a debt to the
nation, away from God and His Word.

40.	What about the Full Gospel Business Men? They were imitating the
Fishers of Men, the Baptist, and the whole bunch. Business men, oh,
great men of renown. "I'm a business man, and I've got money. Oh we got
that." Are you attentive now? "Thank you, I am an important man. I'm
anointed with money to serve God." Hogwash! This burns me to a crisp 
brother/sister, I've been with those birds, I watched them. 

	The Full Gospel Business Men followed suit, Trinitarian's. Yeah. One
man says, he said,  "I'm probably the richest man here, I'm worth four
million dollars." I thought wonderful, do something with it. By the time
I got home, there's a letter in the mail asking me for money. Well, if
they had so much, why do they want mine? [laughter] Because, they want
it all.

	What's the difference between a rotten Christian and a rotten
non-Christian? Except one is a hypocrite. Don't give me that stuff 
brother/sister, I've been all through that clap-trap and balderdash. 

41.	Look it, now listen:

		I wonder if it isn't fitting to us today, (in other words, we're the
sort of antitype 				of that back there) to someone who loves to set on
television and show how 				smart they are, how much brains they got.
(Now, he talked about a campaign.) 		

	Remember Kennedy and Nixon and their debates? Do you know what I read
the other day? McDonald's spends a hundred and eighty six million
dollars a year in advertising. I wonder how much all together these
candidates are spending? And most of it tax money. Because everyone was
pretty well put a little box, "yeah, I'll give him a buck of two, you
know, might as well." Spending the money. They're projecting something.
See?

42. Now:

  		He was a smart man all right. (If you think Kenney's smart, you
ought to 					see Trudeau.) Israel was in a backslidden condition; her
preachers, her 					priests, her government had all left the Word of the
Lord. Now, they didn't 					believe that. (That they left the Word of
God) they believed that they were 					with the Word of God… (That's
paradox.)

	Now, this is a true case of legalism. They are self righteous, they
talk of a sacrifice, a mediator, and intercessor, then turn down the
Provider of it All. They turned down the Provider of it All. For God is
in the prophet. There are not several kinds of words in my book 
brother/sister, the Word of God that says: "The love work to his
neighbor is the same word that said, 'Let the waters be divided'."
There's no difference in the Word, it's just the difference of where the
Word was to go for what purpose, but it's all one Word.

	Like Bro. Branham said, "Law and grace are the two faces of a one
word." Legalist!

		Now, they didn't believe that. They believed that they were with the
Word of the 				Lord, but "there is a way that seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof is 				the ways of death."

	Now, they thought the Rapture was their way of going. Bro. Branham
said, "That's not the way it goes." Then, are they going to be in it?
The answer is…listen  brother/sister, for God's sake, let's get to
this point, because I don't want to condemn anybody. But, just answer me
one question: if it doesn't matter, why did Bro. Branham preach on it? I
want to know. Why did he bother preaching? Look, I got enough trouble
now.

43.	Look, if my house is full of cockroaches, you'd take…" Bro. Vayle,
you have never, ever seen this tremendous cockroach I have, I'll turn it
loose in your house." Oh God, I got a million cockroaches now. What do
you want, one big enough to eat the cat? [laughter] I'm serious. What
Bro. Branham said to get me…I'm confused enough now. Listen, I'm not a
prophet, I teach a little bit, maybe have a little tiny gift of some
sort. I'm not here to confuse you, I'm trying to help you. Now, if I'm
just confusing you, I'm sorry. Nothing I can do about it, because I'm
not confused. I'm in a Rapture right now. I don't care what anybody
says. Time and eternity has blended, it has to me. Space no longer
matters. Matter doesn't matter. 

	You say, "How Bro. Vayle?"

	I don't know! I'm not God. I don't have a thing to do carrying out His
Word, that's His business. I'm nuttier than a fruit-cake, sure. If we're
not a walking paradox, what are we? See?

44.	[26] Why were they wrong? How could a man believe that (which we're
in, they 				taught they believed right that they) were wrong, a whole
priesthood of men, 				thousands of preachers, and priests, and kings,
and governors, (now remember, 				they were in the Catholic church, the
Bible says the end-time,) all who professed 				to be worshippers of
God, and yet all [emphasized] of them were wrong. 					(Not one was
right.) 

	All right. You say, "Hey, you're trying to make a prophet as right as
God." Well, he better be. He had better be, or shut his mouth. And I'm
not a prophet, I can get away with a little bit, because, I got to
watch, and then God brings me around. I'm not afraid of what I preach. 

		Then they didn't need a king for prosperity. )Why? The Son of
prosperity 					wants to lead us into the Millennium. They don't need
it.) What they needed 				was a prophet, because the Word of the Lord,
or the interpretation (either 					one) of the Word of the Lord comes to
a true prophet. Sometimes you can 					see what his way is then. It's a
pretty rugged way when all the priests, all the 				preachers, all the
Diviners, and the government itself against him; but yet, 				the Word
of the Lord comes to the prophet, and that alone. He has the right 			
Word, although they had the same Bible (and he had the same Bible) they
had. 				But the Word of the Lord was to him; was vindicating that he
had the Word. 				(Paradox! Oh, how they loved the vindication, but how
they hated what the 				vindication was all about. See?) 

45.	In other words, the people had the wrong interpretation, and when
the vindication come to point them to the right interpretation, they
were like the people that went to the bus depot, and there was a sign
said, 'to the buses', and they jumped on the sign, instead of the bus.
That's not original of me, a preacher said that, and I just took it from
him. He's wasn't original either, I guess. 

	We're not going to have time to get into Isaiah 29 and read It all. So,
I'm just going to let this next paragraph go, but we're down at the
bottom of page 13. That's very good, five pages. All right, five pages
we're down here to the bottom. 

	[Bro. Vayle makes some local service comments]

 	I love you all, the Lord love you. And I know that you know that I
love you. And I know that you love me. And the reason we do it, is
because we love Him Who is the Word. We have our Headship as a man
believing a prophet of God, because, he's the last of the father's as
far as we're concerned the prophets. We're his children of the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe, absolutely that God sent him. We
believe that his Word is the Word of God to us. And he gave us the Word
that said, "I call you Bride, don't call you Saints anymore." And he
said, "You're the perfect righteous Bride of Christ." 

	Even broke the whole thing down, said, "It's all been sent back to
Satan." And so, we ought to be so rejoicing in the goodness of the Lord,
that sin does not have dominion, that we can live in victory.

46.	I know there are a lot of things in life that we really enjoy, but
they're going to be as though they didn't exist. You say, "Bro. Vayle,
why is that?" 

	Because, the thing that's coming is so much greater, you say, "Oh boy,
oh my, I can see why I had to get a change to (you know) because without
the change is, it would be just too much for me, it's just too
wonderful. You know.

	They made a little test years ago, this fellow, Dr. Conan(?) used to be
the Moody Bible Institute, way back in about 1938, '39. He came up to
Canada, and he said they made a test one day, put a beautiful lily out.
Beautiful lily, snow white Easter lily, you know the lovely lilies. And
you know what they did? They brought a little girl and some little kids
in who had been playing in the mud. And the little girl stood there, her
hands were in front of her, and she looked at the lily and she looked at
her hands, she put her hands behind her back. Yeah, that's right. Even
little kids, they know, they know.

	And I'm going to tell you one thing: that's the way you've got to come
as a little child. You just realize in the Presence of something that is
as great as we saw and we know, you stand back with your hands behind
your back, and you watch. And you know that God is going to do something
for you. He's got to do something. You're not fit to do it yourself.
It's not as though you're not fit, in the sense, well, hey, every son is
an heir to God. 

	It's not that I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact the state
that we were in left us in an undone condition, that God said, "Look,
I've got to do something special." And He did it. Now that the special
thing is done that God's Own heart demanded it of God Himself. God's Own
faith is in It, there is no way we are going to miss It, because, it's
all in His hands. See, that's the way it is. Amen. Let's rise.

	Gracious Heavenly Father, created the heavens and the earth, God of the
universe, how many there are, we don't know, but You're there, and now
You're here. And we know You're here, that you're putting everything in
order. We stand blindly with it, that actually at this hour we believe,
Lord, that You are here in a way that the prophet described, the same
One that brought the Word is here revealing the Word. And the same One
therefore, that maintained the Word is here now drawing It to a
conclusion. And that conclusion is unto us upon whom the ends of the
ages have come. Church Ages and all these various things. And we know,
Lord, You're in process of bringing us into that place.

	And Father, today, if there's anything within us of a spirit that's
malicious, or it would be one that rises up to aggrandize itself in
pride as though we were different from other flesh, as far as pertaining
to the flesh, or of others who have been saved and whatever.

	Father, You know our hearts, and we're trying to clear a record
concerning our hearts, to get our hearts really right with You, that we
put it all back on You, Lord. We didn't know what was under our noses.
And we wouldn't have know what's behind us, but You worked it out. And
now, Lord, by grace and only through the fact of You involved in all of
it, and we, Lord, are like the conduit, hopefully that's exactly the way
it is. The paper, a letter written on, a channel, a vessel, the now
through all the grace we look at what is for our benefit under our eyes,
as it were, our very noses. watching this; knowing that this is how You
do It, and we're a part of It, and we're moving on in.

	And, thank You for helping us not to look at ourselves. Judging
ourselves, yes, by the Word, the full Word. Not law, grace.
Understanding these things.  [tape ends]

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