The Way of a True Prophet # 4

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   May 23, 1984

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father, we're always grateful to be in Your
house to worship Your Name, knowing that we have access and liberty
through Yourself, and all the measures and ways that You and Your Wisdom
took to bring about that which is now in perfection, and we're happy for
that, Lord, that It doesn't rest in us. It rests in Your Own power to
bring Your Own Word to pass which we're part of that. We're thankful for
that.

	We just marvel at Your goodness, we'll never cease praising You for
this, nor there just wouldn't be any way to cease praising You for this,
Lord. And we're glad we can start down here in this great measureless
ocean of grace we praise you for it.

	Now, be with the study of the Word, may It do our hearts good, Lord,
just warm us to It, and may we have a liberty in the Spirit, in Jesus'
Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Certainly happy to see brother and sister Klassen with us tonight.
Certainly welcome them. And I'm going to take a shorter message tonight,
cut this back, because I've been talking to Bro. Zvonko [Knezevic] here,
or maybe we don't get his name quite right, but, I don't think I got all
his questions answered, so, you can always ask me.

	That's what they do here brother, they ask questions. They usually
discuss the Word for certain number of weeks or months, and then they
come to church. And I say, "Well, who's got some questions?" Not that
I'm any authority, but I'll do my best to help. And that's about all we
can do.

	[Bro. Vayle address local issues]

2.	Now, in 'The Way of a True Prophet', this would be number four. We
noticed that Bro. Branham is actually talking about himself. Let's just
make no mistake about it. It sounds…many times Bro. Branham said
things that were in direct reference to himself, but he went out of his
way to come around. And that's why even the little book that I wrote,
'Twentieth Century Prophet' was valuable to him, because I could say the
things that he could not say so directly.

	But, all the information we're receiving on Amos here, is really
telling us that he will be like Amos, like John the Baptist, like
Elijah, like the prophets of old, because the Word of the Lord came to
him. And so, that's what we're looking at here, and he mentions
judgment, how the prophet comes in judgment. How the prophet comes to
correct, and we're about on page 24. That's a pretty good place to
start, and speaking of a true prophet.

3.	 Now he said:  [The Way of a True Prophet 05-13-62] 

[44]	He would blast and condemn every bobbed-haired woman.

	Now, of course that goes over like a lead balloon. Because people say,
"What in the world has that got to do with it anyway?" Because, they're
always of the opinion that if this thing is done, then it involves a
spiritual concept. See like: "well, look at me, I don't bob my hair."
See? And that's not it. It isn't that you're a better person because you
don't bob your hair, it's a command of the Lord. See? And it's not
saying you'll go to heaven by it, or go to hell without it, it's what
God laid down here. Now:

		How could he do anything else? He's a prophet. 

	Now you see, "How can I do anything else?" he says, "I'm a prophet."

		He'd say, "You, Jezebels..." (That's what he said.) He'd get rough on
them. 					Why? He's a prophet. He'd have to stay with the Word. That's
right. You 					think they'd stop? No, sir. They'd say, "It's a fanatic
out there. He's as bad 					as that old Paul was in the Bible: a woman
hater." 

4.	Now, what is he telling you? He's telling you the same Spirit that
was on Elijah, was on Elisha, was on Amos, It was on John the Baptist is
on him. And was on Paul.

	Well, one woman said, "Why," she said to Bro. Branham, "you're just a
woman hater, you get on to us like Paul did."

	"Well," he said, "no, I don't hate women. It's I love my sisters," of
course in a spiritual sense.  

 		"It's a fanatic. He's as bad as that old Paul was in the Bible: woman
hater." 

[45] 	He said, You  bunch of imposters, so-called Christians.
(Hypocrites, 				is the word see?) 

	Now, this man Bro. Branham said is the Word of God for the Hour. Well
now, if he's the Word of God for the hour, and Jesus was The Word of God
 that you look forward to, and everybody looks back to, because that's
the fullness, and this man like John the Baptist, like Elijah, like
Amos, like Paul, like William Branham comes on the scene now, and he
brings out these things which are in themselves a condemnation, where
does that put all this stuff that's called 'love'?

	Now you see, that's my beef. You might as well let all the tapes on
love go out, I've been betrayed, whether you know it or not. I gave some
tapes out and this brother just let them go out. So I found that out.
Let him  go. I'll take the last tape one of these days and bring it all
together, and I'll show you some things in there where there's no way
brother, you can deny what I'm preaching, there's no way.

	In the light of what God showed Bro. Branham in '64, the evidence, the
Holy Ghost was not love, there is no way that you can get around it.
It's just beginning to form in my mind, so I might as well tell you.

 	Now, see, how would this line with what the church calls love? "Well,
there's really no harm." 

	Why, I used to tell Bro. Branham, I said, "Come on Bill, (I said) I've
seen these long hair dames they could lick the jam off a door knob,
they're so gossipy, and as mean as that old cow I will talk about."

	"Well," he said, "I never said it was a sign of spirituality." 

	Oh boy, what's he talking about? You know, that wouldn't do you any
good, so to speak. Well, it does, but it's a Nazarite vow, see?

5.	Okay, now:

		"No matter how holy you try to live, that don't have one thing to do
with it. 				(Now watch, see?) As long as you deny God's Word and don't
line up to It, 				you're a sinner, an unbeliever." 

	Now, he's talking about long hair in contradistinction to short hair,
because short hair is against the Word of God. Now, you understand of
course. You bring this to a Pentecostal church, or any church that's
nominal today, you'll be condemned right there. There's no way they can
take this. See?

	The traditions of man have over ruled the 'Thus Saith the Lord' of a
prophet. Now notice, Bro. Branham hits this a lot, the prophet's got to
have "Thus Saith the Lord'. And long hair is 'Thus Saith the Lord'. See?


	All right, he's just a sinner, an unbeliever.

		That's what he'd say. He'd lay the axe right to the root of the tree;
he 					wouldn't spare anything. He's a prophet and that's the way of a
true 					prophet. (To lay the ax to the root. To chop and to cut down.)


	Now people don't believe that. See, they think that the prophet is here
somehow, maybe going to help you get to heaven. Well, that isn't really
true. He doesn't help you get to heaven, he makes sure you get to
heaven. Like John did, "to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
[Lk 1:17]  What's a prepared people? Elected, predestination, already
made up. What's ready? Well, they can take off anytime. You know?
They're helped.

		They stay with that Word regardless of who it is; if it's their own
mother or 				daddy, makes no difference; Jesus did that way. Wouldn't
even as much as 				call her mother; she wasn't. He was God; God don't
have a mother. If He 					would, then who's father? (Very good
question.) 

6.	All right, now notice what Bro. Branham is saying here, that this
prophet is judgmental, because he's condemning.

		He'd blast and condemn them. He'd condemn every denomination, because 
			there's none of them built on the Word. 

	Now, you know every denomination says it is. They will tell you that
denominations are built, because further Light was available, they came
and took the Light and the people behind them didn't, so therefore they
had to build another structure. That is a lie from the pit of hell. The
church is not made of structures, it is one structure.

	And the life that's in a baby as Bro. Branham said, "is not a human
cell, then a dog cell, then a bear cell, then a cow cell, and a pig
cell," and God knows what. But that's what the church wants to do. It's
got to have the cell of the Word. The Life in the Word. And so It's
going to line with the Word. "He'd blast them."

		…there's none built on the Word. I can't find one of them. As soon
as they 					denominate, they're against the Word right then. So how can
the prophet 					bless what the Word condemns? 

7.	Now, he's letting you know right there that, if you know anything
about what a prophet did when he came on the scene, and God was the
first Prophet, He had to blast what was done. 

	He said to her, He said, "What's going on here? Who told you you're
naked?" 

	"Why did you hide?"

	Adam said, "Well, I hid."

	He said, "Why did you hide?"

	See, the first Prophet being God set the tenor. So if a prophet comes
on the scene and he doesn't blast, it's like Bro. Branham said, "that
any healing revival that doesn't make the people come out is not a
genuine healing revival." See, you just got to understand what he said,
and stick with it. 

	So therefore, a prophet has to condemn. Now, he's not condemning the
people, he said,        "I don't condemn the people, there's good people
in there." He said, "I'm condemning the organization." Now, then he
said:

		Yet he doesn't want to do it to hurt his brother, but yet he's got to
do it, 					because he's a prophet. And he's the representation of the
true Word of 					God and won't move from It in no way at all: precept
on precept, line 					upon line. See what I mean? 

8.	Well, let's go back to Isaiah 28. Now, he's talking about himself.
So, alright, he's going to condemn, so what's he going to do? He's going
to take the precepts from the Word of God in order to condemn. All
right, verse 5.

		(5) 	In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and 
					for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

	Now, It says right here, that "the Lord of host Himself is going to be
a crown of glory, and will be a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of
the people."

	In other words, he's telling you what's He going to be? He's going to
be the Headstone. If He's going to be the crown, then it means He's
going to come right down on the Head. Which He will, which the last part
of the Church Ages, the Seventh Church Age is formed up to this point,
where only Christ Himself can sit on it. Come down upon it. One Person.

9.	So all right:

		(6) 	And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and
for 					strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

	Now, He's going to backup the prophet that comes with the spirit of
judgment at the time of the Capstone. Well, God's got to back William
Branham up. That's fine if He does. So, you came in here condemn women
with long hair, and you did this, and you said that. All right, you said
Los Angles is going to go down, Mr. du Plessis has written a letter, (I
got the letter at home) and he said, "That, that condemner got condemned
himself. Why, (he said) I'm out here in California and (he said) with
lovely saints of God and I feel just at home, and every thing's fine,
(he said) if it goes down, well (he said) praise God we go down." Well,
praise God, we go up I hope. (Trying to make a double entendre there,
but it's alright.)

10.	Now notice, It says here, now:  "You're going to press a battle to
the gate."

	Now, what are the gates of hell against? The Presence. Of course Bro.
Branham said, "Once you see this Message, that's all you'll see in the
Word." Well, I see Presence, that's all I see. I mean, I'm not stupid
that I don't know a Seventh Day Adventist could see Saturday everyday
too. But, I believe we're right.

		(7) 	But they also have erred through wine, (wrong stimulation, wrong 
					revelation) and through strong drink are out of the way; (then they
						take their wrong revelation and make it a doctrine and build their
						church 	on it. See? and) the priest and the prophet have erred 			
		through strong drink, (they belong to the seminary, they've got all 		
			this clap-trap and balderdash which is against the Word.) they are 		
			swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; 	
			they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

	That proves what I said is right. Says right there. See? There's
no…vision. And they err in judgment.

		(8) 	For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, (and) there is
no place 					clean.

	Now, Bro. Branham has already said that in this Message here. He said,
"There's not one of them right." There's not one priest, there's not one
preacher, there's not one person. And would he have been right except
God corrected him?  He would not have been right except God corrected
him.

 	Now:

		(9) 	Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to under-		
		stand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from 			
	the breasts.

11.	Well, let's go over here to Hebrews 5:10. It says here: 

		(10) 	Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

		(11) 	Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
seeing 					(you're) dull of hearing.

		(12) 	For when for the time (you) ought to be teachers, (you) have
need 						that one teach you again…the first principles of the
oracles of God; 					and are become such as have need of milk, and not
strong meat.

		(13) 	For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
righteousness: 					for he is a babe.

	Now, until Bro. Branham came on the scene do we understand this? By no
means. We never understood righteousness and contradistinction
unrighteousness. Never understood these things, oh we put a lot on the
glory of God, that Jesus Christ died upon Calvary, made a way for us,
but this tells you that you're supposed to know something. Then you got
people come along and said, "Well, you don't have to believe really,
understand like Bro. Branham said, you just believe." Well, how do you
know what you're believing?

	I heard people come out…they told me came out of marriage and
divorce, and I told you before it's not nice to say, but they came out
of divorce chuckling, one rooster many hens. One bull many cows, if
that's what you understood  go join Jones down there and be a
polygamist. You're going to do it anyway. But, you ain't going to make
no Rapture. Shows what you are. We'll get to that in just a minute some
of these things.

12.	See:  

		(14) 	…strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, (and)
those 						who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern
both 						good and evil. (Only you better know something right there.)

	Then It says:  [Hebrews 6:]

		(1) 	…leaving the principles… (you) go on (to) perfection; (where
the 						thing runs out). 

	And when it runs out, it runs out with a bang. In the time of the
Latter Rain, the Former Rain comes. And what you do with that shows
which way you're going, whether you're cocklebur, or whether you're
true.  

		The way of a true prophet. 

	Now, he said, "At that time of the weaning you're no longer in the
milk-age; you're in the Melchisedec Age."

	Remember, "He was a priest after the order of Melchisedec." [Heb 7:17]
But, never sat upon the throne. Melchisedec was a king. David was priest
king. Jesus born unto Judah. But, Bro. Branham said, 'Souls Are Now in
Prison', "He ripped the seals off the Book, handed the Book to the
Father, climbed upon the Father's Throne." What happened? The One on the
Throne came down here.

13.	 So all right, we're under the Seals. At that time in Melchisedec,
especially the time of rest. See, notice the transition of offices, the
moving in.

	Now, all right, precept upon precept at that time. "Precept upon
precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."
[Isa 28:10] In other words, the major doctrines were outlined, then he
began filling them in. At the tail end he said, "Now, you that are in
the five-fold ministry, you break It down further, and feed the people."
 If people don't want to be fed, well, that's fine.

	Well, people got to be fed. Take your pick, do you want vomit, or do
you the real? Now, you're going to have to take one of the two. "For man
shall not live by bread alone." [Mt 4:4] So, he's predestinated to have
a bread. Now, what bread do you want? The polluted bread full of
wiggle-tails, or do you want the real, fresh from the ovens of Almighty
God? Well, it's up to the person. Now,  "For with stammering lips and
another tongue will he speak to the people."         [Isa. 28:11] 

 	All right, now: What was stammering lips and another tongue? The
Church Age came in with tongues in it, goes out with tongues the same as
the Gentiles Age fell under Babylon, when Babylon which is the first
great age, went out with handwriting of tongues on the wall. 

	All right, now you're getting down here. And he said, "This is the rest
wherewith you may cause  the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:
yet they would not hear." [Isa 28:12] What was?  

14.	Well, let's go back, "In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a
crown…" [Isa 28:5] He'll be the Head. He'll be the Anointing, from
Headship to headship, we're back to Headship. And when He comes, He
reveals It all. As Bro. Branham said, "From before the foundation of the
world," and brings it right up to now. And he said, that: "This is going
to be the rest whereby you cause the weary to rest, and this is the
refreshing." But, they would not hear. 

	But, the Word of the Lord, "women, stop cutting your hair. Men, start
smarting up. Get your doctrine lined up." God didn't take a back seat,
but the Word of the Lord was just the same to them. 

 	"Precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken." [Isa 28:13]

	"Wherefore hear the Word of the Lord, you scornful men…" [Isa 28:14] 


	That's Malachi 4:1. "You're proud, that do wickedly…" See? Now, he's
telling them what is going to happen in this hour. 

15.	Then they say: [Isaiah 28:15-17]

	"Well, we made a covenant with death. We are in agreement, when the
overflowing 		scourge shall pass through, it shall come naught unto us,
for we have made lies our 		refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves. 

	Therefore thus Saith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zion, (the Bride.
Now, we're going 	to deal with her.) a foundation stone, a tried stone,
a precious corner stone, a sure 		foundation: he that believeth shall
not make haste.

	And  judgment will I lay to the line, righteousness to the plummet: (He
tells you 			right there, that the judgment, will I lay to the line,
that's the measuring line that 		they use in carpentry, The plummet is
also one that gets the perpendicular. You're 		going to lay the building
out, horizontal, vertical, absolutely right. You're building. 		See?)
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies." (They'll be in the
Great 		Tribulation before they know it. And so, you could go on and
on.) 

	See, because he just had to give you one little thought down here:
"precept upon precept," take it back to where it is, get the thing and
throw it into context. And you've got a picture of what's going on at
this very moment. And then he says, "See what I mean, the way of a true
prophet."

16.	Oh, what has he got? We have a refuge not of lies, but a refuge
against lies. Because, the lie is: "Thou shalt not surely die." [Gen
3:4] And spiritual death is the last plague. That's why …?... took
last week here, "This prophet will come and show the true blessing.
He'll come and show the true curses." And one of the great curses
manifest is: women with bob hair show they've broken their Nazarite vow.
They become they complete destitute whores that Paul was afraid they'd
become. Picture of the church, the harlot and her daughters.

	Listen, let me tell you something  brother/sister, birth control has
tried to be practiced for centuries and centuries, they've only got good
at it recently. They're trying to show you something here, the harlot
brought forth daughters. She got pregnant out of her wedlock, because
she's a whore, that's what she wanted. And you go back and find out,
you'll find many a prostitute had baby after baby. Rotten kids, and you
get diseases. Now, they're trying to adopt two little babies out with
AIDS I think it is, or something, two poor little kids. This world's
finished  brother/sister.

17.	I've been telling you a long time ago, I've preached for years when
I begin to discover in the Book of Genesis that God repented that He
made man. That isn't as though He changed His mind, He was in abject
sorrow because man was dying and dying, and dying. He said, "I'll just
close it all off." And if you let this world go on without a judge,
without God sending a judgment to get rid of this world, they
eventually, they will fall in their last breath, somebody will pull his
last breath in this cesspool of sickness. Just fall and he's gone.

	Oh, God's going to cut it off. You say, "Why?" Because, He loves His
Own order. He loves the world. He died for the soil out there. You think
He didn't? The Blood went on it. "Oh, I feel real religious," Bro.
Branham would say, "I feel real good in my soul." If he liked that, he'd
sure like me. I'm out there. 

	Ha, ha, ha, yes sir, we were from up, we can say, "Which is even the
Son of man which is in heaven." Identified Him a hundred percent. Yeah,
people don't even like the fact "I and My Father is one." [Jn 10:30]
Because I like this whole thing. We don't have to worry about it, He did
all the worrying for us.

18.	[46] Come to me, say, "Lord, I wish You'd make me a prophet." He
doesn't do 					  that. No, He doesn't do that. 

	People say, "I'd like to be a prophet." Why? So they'd be contrary.
They'd be reactionary to the Word of God. That's what we've got today, a
bunch of reactionaries in the church. Haw, you talk about a stinking
mess. Prophet comes on the scene, they just say opposite.

		He would condemn every immoral act of the churches: (now notice, what
the 				immoral acts are:)  bunco…

	Right away, you say, "that's right, I agree that immoral act ought to
go, pornography ought to go, yes sir, all illicit sex ought to go, and
drunkenness ought to go, and all this stuff ought to go."

	Well, what about your 'bonco' parties? "Oh now, just a minute, well
listen they're going to gamble anyway."

	You know, I thought Rowan and Martin were sure cute that time, (I never
saw them on TV, but our daughter did, was in the paper anyway,) and one
of them said to the other, "Hey," he said, "did you hear that they are
going to make the store stop playing bingo?" 

	He said, "That's good, (he said) I think they should, you ought to put
it back in the church where it belongs." [laughter]

	I thought that guy knew more than ninety percent of the preachers.
Bingo. You go to a Catholic city and just wonder which church you're
going to play with the jackpot gets bigger and bigger. It's very
tempting, fifteen hundred dollars, twenty five hundred dollars. And you
can see poor guys [makes a noise] their mouth watering for that money
you know, whet in there for a few cents. Bonco is right.

19.		…all these things they're having, card parties, soup suppers. 

	To raise money, you see? Do you know, they do this in the face of the
fact there is nothing that beats tithing? And by the time that you get a
group organized to expend their efforts and their money to raise money,
you lose money. Anybody ought to know, by the time you pay millions to
the Cancer Society of America, maybe a hundred and forty million
dollars, there's no proof that anymore than four percent is ever spent
on anybody, far as I know the figures.

	That's why I say give through your church. Anybody knocks it, "Well, we
got a good program at our church, we just give liberally down there and
help the people that need help, that's why we should just beat this dry
wall hollow. And we know the money is not going to be used wrong. Don't
even have to tell them that. Just tell them the truth. You ain't going
to fool with them. 

	I do, I tell them. From my door I say, "Look, I'm sorry, (I say) I give
liberally to our church, we help people. Yep, even tell them how to
diet, but that doesn't do much good. [laughter] 

20.		He'd condemn every one of them; (listen:) he'd blast them into hell
where 					they came from. (So, a preacher talk like that? Well, I guess
it wouldn't hurt.)                         		Think you'd receive him?
No. The church today wouldn't receive him. 					Pentecost receive him?
(Now, he's not talking about Amos, he's talking about 				William
Branham.) When he'd walk there and say, "You bobbed-haired bunch 				of
Jezebels, don't you know what THUS SAITH THE LORD means? (It means, 			
if he's got 'Thus Saith the Lord', you fear him.)

	I told you, time after time out there in California last time he was in
California, he said, "You women (he said) every time I tell you not to
bob your hair, and wear those slacks, and every time I come back (he
said) you're worse than ever."  

	"Heh, heh, heh, heh." They were tittering. Oh, big joke! And the man
demonstrated what he had. Paradox. It isn't just paradox, what is it? 

	"Mentally gone," as Bro. Branham said. "Why, (he said) there's nothing
left in the soil out there for your food, (he said) to build your body,
(he said) it turns your body into corruption." What does it do? It turns
your brain to mush. Well then, you go to the Word of God. And what are
people? A bunch of mush. 

20.	Okay:

		Walk out here with a little skinned-up looking dress on, don't you
know 					you're guilty of committing adultery every day with a hundreds
of men?" 					That's what he'd say. 

		They'd say, "Well, that old fogy, old, baldheaded, gray-looking
fellow, (who 				had the bald head and look grey? William Branham) get
him out of that pulpit. 				Let's see the trustee board. Deacons, get
him out of here. We'll...”

		“You bunch of miserable hypocrites." That's right. Amos would call
it out. 

	What about Bill Branham? "Oh, heaven forbid." You know, we're not
prehistoric…(you know) cucumbers like poor old Amos was, you know.
Haw, we should have what Amos had. We do have it, praise God. Because,
Bro. Branham said, "The closest thing the baptism with the Holy Ghost,"
what the prophet said. So, we're in a good bunch of people. Yes sir.

		…then you call yourself, "Well… We belong to this group.”

		“We belong to that group." 

		You're of the devil, your father, for he's the one that denies the
Word. 

21.	You know, when Satan fell he took a bunch with him, all kinds of
devils running around. But, when God comes down, just one God, one
prophet. 

	How many religions? How many doctrines? How many this, how many that?
How many everything? As many devils in hell there are, but you got one
Word, one God, one prophet. How can you lose. Man alive…When you got
one choice, you know you've got it.

	Like Sam Levinson said, he said, "Every meal time we had two choices,
'take it, or leave it'." [laughter] 

	Bro. Branham said, "the soul has a choice." 

	Wouldn't it be great, so many people running around, they're like
they're trying to run around on this Message. Just what did the prophet
say? That's what God said. Then people say, "Well, you don't have to
understand it." But, they sure argue hard to prove their point the way
they understand. Haw, fap! Well, the way I look at it, the sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander.

[47] 	Say, "I spoke with tongues," and then bob your hair? (What kind of
tongues 				was it? Not evidence, see?)

		"Glory to God. Hallelujah." 

22.	I'm going to tell you something: Bro. Branham here is not just
mouthing off. What he's doing right here is showing what Pentecostal
people do. The minute they get stuck, they talk in tongues, or try to
show they got something by some little phenomena. Yeah, open a
refrigerator door and the light's on. Say, "That's wonderful, that's
something, because the light was out for three days, oh, we're going to
get something new going to happen." Well, just meant that you didn't
have to get a new bulb. I don't know. Talk about crazy. Try to …?...
everything.

		The Bible said it's a common thing (in other words, it's not right) 
for a 					woman to pray with her head cut like that. (The hair cut
off.) Then call 					yourself a Christian. Shame on you. Crawl off in a
corner somewhere; 					and get right with God. 

	Now, he's even taking the name away of Christian from a person that's
off there. Now, this                   is just not women, you got to get
the side of men too.

		Put on them little old short clothes, get out here in a yard, and
stretch 					yourself out when you know good and well you're committing
adultery 					with a hundred men every day.  Jesus said so: "Who looks
upon a 						woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her."
She the one 					that presented herself, 

23.	Now, if you think they didn't like that, what do you think, or how
do you think they like when Bro. Branham said, "Let me tell you what's
wrong with that woman. She is anointed with a false spirit, which is
sexual spirit." Whew, man I want to tell you the cure is worse than the
disease, or the prognosis. The diagnosis in that case it would be was
worse than the disease. Because, he said, "It's a spirit on her." 

	And he proved he knew what he was talking about when a woman came into
his tent and said, "Bro. Branham," (she said) I don't know what it is,
but (she said) men always try to pick me up." She said, "There's a man
over there trying to pick me up right now."

	He said, "there's a spirit on you." But, he said, "I'll stop it. Just
sit there and I'll start concentrating." And he concentrated until the
man dropped a fork and a knife, and couldn't eat his food, he just
bolted and left the restaurant. What happened to the woman I don't know.
I hope she got right with God.

24.		You're dead to the things of the world; you've raised from
that,(spiritual 					resurrection,) as I said, the beginning. You turn
your head in shame. Your 					eyes narrow upon such a thing of sin,
instead of look at women to lust after 				them. "You men that'd do a
thing like that and call yourself Christian." 

	Now you see, he's going to get right back on the men. Well, if he
doesn't get back on the men, what is the use? Temptation is temptation.
Who is going to be tempted? Male and female both are tempted. So
therefore, if a woman is a temptation, then man gets tempted, man has to
bear the temptation. Temptation is not sin. It's walking into
temptation, taking advantage of it, or letting it take advantage of you.
See? Now: 

		That's what he'd tell you. I'm trying to take his words this morning.
(Now, 					he's letting you know) They would be his words, for remember
he's a true 					prophet; and he'd stay with the Word. And I'm just
quoting his words; that's 				all. 'Cause if you brought him; he is the
Word; and there's the Word Itself. 					You may not have the man, but
you got His Word; 

	Now, he's telling you there, look: you don't have Amos, but you got
what Amos did. You don't have Isaiah, but you got what Isaiah said. He
said, "Sure, you don't have the man." But he said in plain English, "I'm
the man you got. And if I've got the same Spirit, (he said) there's no
way I'm going to be different from the rest of them." See, he's going to
line up with the Word. See? 

		'cause he'd have the Word of the Lord.

25.	Then you see, there wouldn't be one prophet that didn't have the
Word of the Lord. Like I mentioned on Sunday, Micaiah. There was old
Ahab and he wanted Micaiah to preach good,  Micaiah prophesy.  And
Micaiah said, "No way, (he said) there's a prophecy against you, it
won't work." Then he said, "I saw Israel scattered as a sheep without a
shepherd." [1 Kings 22:17] Oh man, they got mad, but Micaiah didn't die,
it was the old Ahab died. Now:

[48] 	Every man-made doctrine, he'd condemn it, such as baptism in the
name 					of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He'd throw that thing
plumb back into 				eternity. He'd condemn it, so there wouldn't be a
smell of it left. Yes, sir. 					How many you--how many  church's this
morning would receive him on 					that? Then they, this Jesus' Name
bunch, they'd--they'd say, "Oh, we'd take 				him on that"; and then
your organization, he'd blast you right on out with 					it (That's
right.), your bobbed-haired women and you putting up with that. 				
(That Jesus' Name bunch.) That's right. Your men, the way they do and
act... 				That's right. 

	So, in other words, a prophet has to be corrective. He's always showing
the judgmental aspect, and he's showing that there is a final verdict
from which there is no appeal. The Seventh Church Age has a 'no appeal'
Message. There's no way. It's either here or now, because it says so,
chaff for the burning. See, there's no way.

26.	You see, in other words, there's absolutely no such thing as a
mediator, as an intercessor, or anything else left the minute you turn
this Word down. Now, you see, your children could come along in the
Sixth Age, the Fifth Age, the Fourth Age, Three, Two and One. But, in
the Seventh Age, no way! Because, the final court of appeal, if you want
to use the term is: "Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet to turn the
hearts of the children back to their fathers," or it's all gone. [Mal
4:5-6] And Elijah does it. So, there's your final court of appeal.
There's your verdict, the verdict's in. So, what are you going to do? 

	When the verdict's in, let us hand it over to the authority. Who is the
supreme authority? God, is the Supreme Authority. See? Son of man, He's
Judge. Why? Because, He did all the work. Now, it all runs out. Sure.
People don't like to think that. But the point is, it's going to run out
sometime. Just like you and I are going to die one of these days, if
something doesn't happen.

 		 Your bobbed-haired women and you putting up with that. That's
right…

27.	Now:		

		A lot of people say it's good to be a prophet. It is, if you're ready
to sell 					out everything to the world and stay with God and with His
Word. 

		No, we wouldn't receive him by no means, our denominations today. We 	
			certainly wouldn't have nothing to do with him. 

		Listen to him blast it. He'd say, (now listen:) "The very God that you
					claim to believe in, He'll destroy you." 

	Now, watch Him prove it. Paradox, double or compound meaning. Hebrews
13:8, "If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever," and He
is risen from the dead, He will now do in the form of the Holy Spirit
what He did when He was here upon earth. What did He do? He blasted
them. See?

28.	Now, He warned them that there was destruction when He was here in
the flesh. Then if He's here in the Spirit, He will have to do the same
thing He did back there. He will warn them it's going to fall. You're
going to tell them how to get out, those who are going to miss It. So,
He's obligated, but, they think that Hebrews 13:8 is simply that God is
essentially an unchanging God, when the answer is, God is not simply an
unchanging God, He is a changing God without essentially changing. Oh
yeah, the One that becomes. Right!

	We see Him becoming more and more to the Judge. And the Judge goes more
and more unto the King. And the King is a sovereign authority, because
the King said, "I will send My Son." And when they killed the King's
Son, the King said, "Okay, they're all going to die." Watch your Bibles.
Elohim becoming. You and I little…we're becoming. People don't
understand that.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, you becoming?" Yes siree! You say, "I can't see
it." Well, certainly not. What did they see in Abraham? You're looking
at Abraham. Do what you want. That's why I'm as popular as a skunk at a
garden party. I got my own garden? You bet, as far as I'm concerned you
could cut every tape from this moment on. That's okay be me. I'll preach
to four walls. Yep.

29.	People just can't stand a prophet. Look it, I'm going to tell you
something: if a prophet did this, what about a five-fold ministry? "Well
now, the prophet was just a little boisterous, and you can't listen to
him when he got really rough, you know, he didn't mean that."

	Well, that's what du Plessis said. Oh, the prophet did mean it.
Remember when Bro. Branham  got smeared across the road they said, "Whoo
 whoo whoo, that proves it, he was a dirty dog, God got him." Paradox
again. Oh brother. Well, it's too bad.  

30.	Now listen: 

		"…he'll destroy you." What would it do about that? The very God that
					Pentecost believes in, from the very immoral acts and things that
they're 					doing and permitting to be done, that very God will bring
judgment upon 					them organizations. That's exactly what Amos said to
them. 

	Now, remember he's accusing them of breaking their Nazarite vow, public
admitting to their prostitution, and dressing the way they are to prove
it physically. You think they're going to believe what the prophet said?


	Why, they're going to say, "Why, I want to tell you something Mr.
Branham, we don't do immoral acts."

	"Well," he said, "your immoral acts is already done the way you let
your women dress. The way you encourage fornication, spiritual
fornication, which brings on spiritual death."

		"Oh," they said, "we got Abraham. We got--we got this. We got the law;
					we got priests; we got prophets." (That's in the day of Jesus, of
course, 					and Amos.)

		Oh, brother, those eyes narrowed as he looked upon them and blast that
					Word into them. Yes, sir. 

[49] 	Sure they wouldn't receive him. No, sir. He said, "They'll destroy
them with 				your man-made doctrines." That's what he'd tell you today.
He'd say the same 				as he did then. He said, "The very God that your
building churches to (perhaps 				paying millions of dollars), the very
shrines you're building to Jehovah, that 				you claim that you love,
(now, there's your love again) that very God will 					destroy you;
because you're rejecting His Word." 

	How much love is there in anything that isn't Word, not oriented, but
Word conceived? Not just orientation. Orientation doesn't have a thing
to do with inanimate, it has to do with the animate.

31.	I want to ask you a question: where does life come from? Comes from
life. And it's not orientation, it's Genesis. Then, that's why Bro.
Branham said, "An eagle isn't like a chicken. He may get fooled for
while that he is a chicken, but, there comes a day when cluck, cluck is
over, and peep, peep."  So with your love. So with anything! See? 

	Said: 

		"…that very God will destroy you (that you claim to love,) because
you're 					rejecting His Word."

	The church cannot walk and talk with God. No, because they disagree.
Only the Bride can walk and talk with God.

		So is it today. (In this hour the true prophet comes. And he says.)
The very 					God that America claims to serve will bring judgment upon
the nation and 				destroy it. I hope that gets so deep you'll never
wiggle out of it. The very 					One that you claim that you love with
your own man-made dogmas, and 					immoral life, and decay that you got
in you, (that's dry-rot, see? spiritual 					death) away from the Word
of God will destroy you someday. That's 					THUS SAITH THE LORD. 

	Now, That 'Thus Saith the Lord', puts Bro. Branham in the true class,
not in the Balaam class, and he goes back to Deuteronomy 18, which is:
"when a man comes in the Name of the Lord, and the thing comes to pass
you fear Him."  How many people feared Bro. Branham? 

	Is it time to change? [tape] Well, that's the end of the service.
[Message ends]

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