The Way of a True Prophet # 6

 

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   June 10, 1984

	Shall we pray: Heavenly Father we're very grateful again to be allowed
to be in this house of worship dedicated to Your great and wonderful
Name, believing You’re here, Lord, in a way that You've not been here
for two thousand years. And yes, we can say You've never been here in
this particular way. We know that, for Thou art Elohim, the One Who
becomes, and we trust, Lord, as You have become, so are we also
becoming, for we rest upon Your Word that the prophet said You became
us, that we might become You. And we know, Lord, that …?... in a
different direction, but we know that You have come for, what You had
become in our midst at this hour affects us greatly, even to a change to
immortality, in winding up of all things, then we're very happy to be a
part of that, by faith we believe we are. 

	We count the Word done, and we glorify Thy Name. We trust, Lord, this
is true, to truly glorify Your Name in Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You
may be seated.

1.	Now, we're still on 'The Way of a True Prophet', [05-13-1962] and
this is number six. And of course this Message we could have well just
read and perhaps not taken so much time on. But, it's like every other
Message, you begin thinking of all the things that the prophet said. You
begin correlating them, relating them, and where do you start?

	I got thinking today, well, that's good, we'll be out of here in no
time at all. So, I came in this morning and I begin sitting here and I
thought, well, we'll be out of here luckily before time runs out.
[laughter] I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, I just get to
thinking some of the things that's in here and say, "Where do you leave
out certain things, and where do you stop reviewing, where do you stop
reminding, rehearsing?" I don't know that you ever do.

2.	So anyway, we're at the fact of "The Way of a True Prophet' and of
course you understand as well as I do, that this sermon was necessary,
because most people to begin  with do not believe in prophets such as
Bro. Branham  has brought to our attention called 'major prophets, or
Word prophets'. There is something in the Bible that says Elijah is
going to come, that's true. But, what is that all about anyway?

	And most people don't believe in prophet's, because (you know) they
believe that the Bible has already been written, and you can't add to
It, or take from It. They like to quote that over here in both
Deuteronomy and in the Book of Revelation 22:18-19. "If any man add to
these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this
Book."

	Oh, that's right. "If any man adds." Now, what if God wanted to add? 

	"Oh," they say, "well, God you can't add, because we said You can't."

	Wonderful, I like that. Then who needs God? You talk about sheer
stupidity arrogance. Come on, I've never heard greater blaspheming in my
life. It says, "If a man adds." 

3.	Well now, even Dr. Bloomfield had enough understanding to know that
when the Thunders were left out, he said, "Well look, (he said) they're
not in the Bible." Error number one. Good thinking though. 

	He said, "They're not in the Bible, so somebody's got to come and put
them in there for us." Now, that's very good. That's very good as far a
logical sane, (and I use the word with tongue and cheek and not relative
Scripture,) a sane person would say. That's very good thinking. Very
good, but he's wrong. Because, the Bible said, "You can't add and you
can't take." But, somebody's got to come along. 

	Now, who's going to come along. Second Peter tells us who's going to
come along. It said, "At the great and wonderful day there's going to be
a prophet who under absolute inspiration is going to tell you what's in
the Scripture by revelation the meaning of It, what's the other prophets
have already said." 

	Now, he says that, that's very clear. But, people simply don't
understand that I suppose, because they don't want to understand it.
What are you going to when It says, "See that you refuse not Him that
speaketh?" [Heb 12:25] 

	Why, they like to tell you over here quoting from Hebrews 1, "That God
in sundry times, divers manners spake unto the fathers in the prophets."
Sure, that's fine. "But in these last days hath spoken unto us in the
Son, by whom he hath appointed heirs." 

	And they go on to conjecture whthin their minds. "All right, that's the
end of all speaking." Since Jesus come no more prophet. Then what do you
do with Paul? How come John opened his mouth? Was he flapping in the
breeze?

4.	The same Book of Hebrews then turns and says here: "You refuse not
him that speaketh." [12:25] Then you turn right around in John, It said,
"God gave a revelation to Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ gave it to
John." [Rev 1:1] Now then, you tell me who's insane? Your theologian.
Now we got mama and daddy insanity. The denomination and church. Now, we
got the children, little insanities. That's right.

	You know, I'm going to tell you something: one day this Word is going
to judge them. Now, I get up here kind of facetious like, because I'm
very sarcastic, lay it right on the line. Not sincere reverend like Bro.
Branham, but don't ask me to be Bro. Branham. After all he's dead. I'd
be nice if I was dead too. Maybe. Couldn't be Bro. Branham at all. But,
I just don't understand.

	It says right here: "He's going to shake heaven and earth," [Haggi 2:6]
 and when He does, there won't be any more shaking. The only thing left
is the kingdom of God. That's the Book of Revelation, and He's talking
in there. And He says, "Seal it up until the end-time." Something was
sealed in there. And in the same chapter 22, It says, "Don't seal it."
So, between Revelation 10:4 and Revelation 22:10 it becomes unsealed.
What is in here, not understood is now opened.

	And what they couldn't have…let's understand that, what couldn't be
had before has got to be had now. Because Paul did not know Him in the
power of the Resurrection, and he's got to know here. Because It talks
about two Resurrections. See?

5.	Now, Bro. Branham comes on the scene and he says, "Now, the way of a
true prophet." And we know and he knows that he's a true prophet. And he
takes Amos as a background, as an illustration, so that you'll
understand when a true prophet comes, he is not going to come like you
want him to come. He's not going to be what you want him to be.

	Well, you say, "What's he going to be like?" Well, let's go to the Book
that's written by a prophet so we'll what it's like well he goes to the
Book of Amos. And in there, he begins telling us from Amos as his
background, he's going to tell us all about himself, William Branham,
and what pertains to his ministry as a true prophet.

	Then he goes on and he talks about Micaiah, about Paul, and even the
Lord Jesus Christ. Even mentions concerning himself; his own
characteristic baldhead. How many times did he tell you, Elijah had a
baldhead, and Elisha had a baldhead, no doubt Paul had a baldhead? I
don't know if all the prophets were baldheaded. He never said they were.

6.	Then he talks about standing afar and looking down the cities eyes
squinting. He did the same thing, he'd look way down the river a mile,
spotted a little old duck floating around. I couldn't even see the log
the duck was floating, between the log and the bank. Letting you know,
the prophet's are far-sighted. They have physical qualities they're born
with that commend them to what they are doing. Their very nature. 

	He talked about John being a wilderness man. Bro. Branham was a
wilderness man. All of those things. Then he spoke of the constant
exposure of the sins of women that prophets went into. And going back
mostly to Ahab. You go on back there, because that's where Elijah became
known the first time; and there's five spirit's of Elijah. Five times.
Went to Elisha, John the Baptist , and there's got to be one to the
Gentiles, and one to the Hebrews. See?

	He is extra emphatic on the prophet's judgmental nature as was required
by Amos. You read the first three chapters of Amos, he told us to read
the whole Book. We don't do that of course at this particular time, but
just read a couple of portions here.

7.	He said: [Amos 1:]

		(3) 	Thus saith the LORD; For (the) transgressions of Damascus, and 		
			for four, (I'll) not turn away the punishment thereof… (and then He
					tells why.) 

	And then He said:  

		(11) 	Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for
four, 					(I'll) not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did
pursue his 					brother with the sword, and did (cut) off all pity, and
his anger did tear 					perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

		(12) 	(And I'll) send fire (down upon him.) 

	Then chapter 2, He speaks:  

		(4)	…For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, (I'll) not
turn away 					the punishment; because they despised the law of the
LORD, not kept 					his commandments, and their lies caused them to err,
after the which 					their fathers have walked:

	Now notice, over these he's telling about the deeds they did which were
despicable, but over here the despicable deed of Judah is leaving the
Word. That's what he tells them. 

	Now he said:  

		(5) 	(I'll) send a fire upon Judah…devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

	Then for Israel, It said:

		(6) 	…For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not
turn 						away the punishment; because they sold the righteous for
silver, 						and the poor for a pair of shoes;

8.	That's exactly what they'll do at the end time. When the Roman
Catholic church owns it all and they have the gold and silver, the Bride
of course will be taken out of here before it's too late, before they
can get her; but there'll be the church, the foolish virgin that will be
purged and they'll just get rid of them. In fact if we're here long
enough and we're part of the squeeze, well you watch it, they'll have no
pity. Oh no, it's then the money and the whole bit, we look good, we
can't afford (you know) to not dress beautifully. And after all
beautiful clothes and buildings, and royal priesthood cost a lot of
money. Money, money, money, money. 

	"What did they do?"

	Well, there's a bunch of souls over here. 

	"We'll bid those souls, hallelujah, I'll take them."

	You talk about corruption, they don't care. You might as well get an
understanding, ain't nobody cares much about you except God. You better
get close to God. And in the show-down ain't nobody going to care but
God. And maybe the end-time He not going to care. Because it all
depends, they said, "He that is unsavory me, I'll be unsavory with him."
"He that is froward with me, [willfully contrary] I'll be froward with
him." Now, smart off with me, I'll smart off with you. In other words,
tit-for-tat. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Come on, all
laid out there. Of course, God put her right on the line.

 	Now, at this time of overwhelming sin in the land, because we find the
prophet comes at a time of idolatry, turning from the Word, turning from
the things of God, judgment has to come, (you saw it right there) at
this time of great judgment, Bro. Branham speaks of the prophet Amos
being like a doctor diagnosing. And remember, how often Bro. Branham
would say in a prayer line, "is this the patient?" Patient?  Dr. Branham
diagnosing through the Word of God.

9.	All right: [The Way of a True Prophet 05-13-62]

 		"Amos, how did you know?" (In other words, this condition, the land.)
  

[68] 	Just like a doctor diagnosing a case. When he finds the disease
that's on 					the patient, he knows what to do… He knows how far the
disease has 					advanced, and he knows what's going to happen due to
the disease. And 					that's the way with the prophet, a true prophet. 

	Now, he said, "Just a minute, how do you know William Branham is a true
prophet?"

	Because he diagnoses like a doctor. Come on in a prayer line, Hebrews
4:12. I'm going to discern and tell all about yourselves and you
couldn't hide if you tried. He would tell you where you were to see what
doctor. He would tell you what the room looked liked. He would tell you
the conversation, and he'd hit it every single time. Then he'd tell you
what the doctor couldn't tell you.

10.	What about the Hindu lady, Christian lady no doubt was in his
meeting's in Durban, (or Johannesburg, it doesn't matter) in Africa, and
there she came before him very healthy looking, very nice, and he said,
"You've just been to a doctor."

	And she said, "Yes, I have."

	And he said, "You have a little cyst."

	"That's exactly right."

	"And that should be removed."

	"That's exactly right."

	But he said, "Madam hold it, make your peace with God, further, because
you will not live, you're going to die."

	And she didn't die from the cyst. The doctor didn't tell her one thing.
And she went down and sat beside her husband…and she toppled over the
seat, she was gone just like that. Oh, how come the doctor didn't tell
her? Doctor Branham could.

	You've got a wonderful position and a marvelous diagnostician when you
got a man that can tell you, "better be ready because you're going." Let
the doctor tell you that.

	Sister [Ella] Branham fell over dead when a lady friend there was
crying, the doctor said, "what are you crying for? She's in a better
place than we are, she was a lovely Christian lady, she's gone to her
reward." Now, that was a real physician. No prophet, but he certainly
had a good diagnosis and a good prognosis on that one. Not too many can
do that.

11.	But you see, now there again we come to the paradox. This man
proves. What is he proving? The Great Physician now is here, the
sympathizing Jesus, that's why the little Amish girl couldn't sit at
that piano. That's why the Holy Angel of God, the Spirit came down and
played the piano, "The Great Physician now is here, the sympathizing
Jesus." ecause the Great Doctor is here. He's diagnosing, but the
paradox is, the One that does the great miracles and all, they still
say, "Well now, hmmmm, well I tell you, that guy Branham got nice
discernment he had, but, oh brother, is he off on the Word, of boy." 

	You know what? They didn't like his prognosis. He said, "You're all
going to die." Didn't like the prognosis.

	I'm going to tell you something brother/sister: I've told you many
times, my wife and I went to doctor to doctor to get the diagnosis is
going to cure us. No diagnosis cures you. It merely tells what is wrong,
and that's law. And the church is under law because they got rid of
grace. People think they know grace.

	Let me tell you about grace and what it really is in very vulgar
language, I'm noted for my     x-rated sermons, so I'm going to be
preaching a little bit on it.

12.	What is a legalist?

	A legalist is a man who is illicit with his sexual relationships with a
woman. Now, he's driven to it, he knows he shouldn't do it, but oh, it's
such a delightful thing…"oh my, but I shouldn't.., but I…well…"
And he does it. He says, "Well, hallelujah, Jesus the Blood…yeah, the
Blood's there, You're the intercessor…" Woman could be doing the same
thing don't worry, and she is, she's with a man. "Lord, you forgive me."
And he feels pretty good and he's back there the next night. And the
next night, the next night.

	But the 'eternal security' man says, "Well, hallelujah, I'm eternal
security, I can do it anytime I want. Walks in and does it. Same rotten
stinking spirit. The spirit of grace wouldn't do that to a man. Spirit
of grace doesn't do that to women. I'm going to tell you something,
there's something in my heart that says this: I might want a woman, but
can I defile her? Listen, let's get this flat. Let's get this flat:
women are criticized  too stinking much because they are the weaker
vessels. And I know the Angel said to Bro. Branham, "Don't defile
yourself with women." That meant women that set their cap for you,
because you're going to be a handsome preacher boy. And they'll be
laying for you. What about the handsome preacher boys that lay for the
women? What right does a man got to defile a woman, or woman to defile a
man? See?

13.	Now, let's get back to Scripture now, and we're reading what we're
saying here: The Way of a True Prophet. That man William Branham could
diagnose. He knew every single thing that was going on. He told the
church exactly what their trouble was. But they wouldn't take grace,
they took law, because they were under the church which is full of
adultery. And you've got the fallen away church, and you've got the
church that believes in eternal security, and they're both wrong because
they won't come to grace. The church has got to have something 
brother/sister that's real before God, or it isn't getting anywhere. I'm
not trying to stand up here as though I've got something more than
anybody else, it's not for one minute. 

	But, I'm going to tell you this: as cruddy as I am, there's something
in my heart. There better be something in your hearts because you're all
nicer than I am. And I'm not being sarcastic, but if you got up here,
you might not be half as nice as I am, then again though. Because, you'd
have to hit at a few things. Yep!

14.	You say, "What makes you talk this way Bro. Vayle?" 

	Listen, I'm going to tell you something: when I get phone calls, like I
said last Wednesday night, when forty year old women sleep with
seventeen year old boys, and twenty one, there's something wrong
somewhere.

	You say, "Why preach that here brother?"

	These tapes go out. And I'm going to keep preaching it, because I'm
going to tell you something: that's in the Bible for the end-time. Let
this church be warned. "Because he that thinketh he standeth, better
take heed lest he fall," [1Cor 10:12] because he will fall. Keep your
vessels pure before Almighty God. See, these things have got to be in
the church. That's right, but they better not be in a Bride. No, they
better not be. I tell you, I'm kind of fussy, and if I'm fussy, you
better believe that God is.

	"Well," you say, "yours might be pure legalism." Sure, could be, but
God's still fussy and He's pure grace. So, we're not going to throw
anything back on God and make God some kind of a fool.

15.	Now listen, he said he knows what is going to happen, and that's a
way of a true prophet, discerning proof, that:

 		I don't care what you're doing... When he sees sin advancing, when
it's a 					eating cancer; when it's in such an advance stage in the
Pentecostals and 					all the rest of them, they can't come back…
They're going to perish.

	Knowing the Word for the hour, that's how this man Amos could discern.
How could he discern? Knowing the Word for the hour. What did Bro.
Branham do? Everything for the Word for the hour. People thought that
William Branham was on the scene simply to help people. That is true,
but it's in the negative. He was the living Word of God manifested and
he brought that Word for this hour, and what he did was contingent to
it, and if men took the positive they'll live. Because, he said nothing
outside of this Message comes to life, then everything in this Message
does come to life.

	Now, you've got that in a picture Paul painted in the second Book of
Corinthians. He said, "For some were savour of life unto life, and death
unto death." [2 Cor 2:16] And that's a picture of the Roman General on
the beautiful great big white horse, because he's conquered the nation.
He's bringing back slaves. Those in front are dressed in white, they
will be give freedom and honorary citizenship, because they're
recognized as great men. The ones behind will go to the gladiatorial
arena and they'll die. Prophet of God.

 	Paul said, "I'm that kind of prophet. But at the end-time there's
coming a man who brings us face to face with Jesus Christ." Then those
who walk ahead will live, and those who walk behind will die. That's
right. We just got to understand these things, because we're not
playing. Not judging anybody, not judging even ourselves, that's up to
God.

16.	Now:

  		…how could Amos diagnose the case? He diagnosed it by the Word of 
				God. That's how a true prophet diagnoses the case and says to those 
				women, "Don't you ever try to go to judgment with bobbed hair when 	
			you know better." 

	Now, if bobbed hair will keep a woman from the judgment seat to mercy
seat, …?... unto the judgment, what about something else? How was it
with a woman's hair? (Woman types the church.) You cut off her hair
that's what happened. See?

	Bro. Branham said, "In every case Lutheran's stopped. (phtt!) Light's
are out. The Wesleyan's stopped. The Pentecostal's stopped. Had they
gone on (like you and I are doing and there's no place else to go now,)
they'd have made it. But the Lutheran's are dead like the Catholics. And
the Wesleyan's are dead, and that takes from the Pentecostal's. The
whole bunch are dead. See, because they cut off. 

	I'm seventy years of age. I was twenty two years of age when a certain
preacher named George R. Upton, one of the big-shots in Canada, big
Trinitarian Pentecostal, stood there and said, "Beware, we and our
forefathers came out of the churches which preceded us, because they
turned down Light from heaven which was new, fresh and misunderstood;
let us beware lest we do the same thing."  And he did it! 

	I'm going to tell you  brother/sister, we're already being the judge.
And you say, "Bro. Vayle, I'll ask you." Don't ask me, I don't know.
But, you better realize, "by your words you're justified, and by your
words you're condemned." [Mt 12:37] You better realize before the
judgment ever takes place. "Every word" Bro. Branham said, "is circling
out there is space to the eternity."  Every action, every single thing
that's done. All those things are there. See? And Bro. Branham proved
it.

17.	Now, the short hair was showing they were cut off. They were cutting
off deliberately. Catholic's turned down Luther. Now, they turn around
and say, "Now, if Pope John [XXIII] had been there instead of Leo [X]
and Tetzel, oh my, Luther would have been with us. We'd have been with
him." 

	Jesus said, "You say, "If we'd have been alive we would not have killed
the prophet."

	"Now," He said, "No, you're the same children of hell."

	I ain't Pentecostal. The last bunch I was with so to speak, I'm nothing
from nowhere. Unless I can be a part of Him, I'm not interested. Say the
cutting off of the hair.

18.	All right:

		"… when you know better." Say to you men, the rest of you, you
preachers, 				denying the Word, having a form of godliness, joining
organizations to dodge 				the issue…

	How does a church dodge the issue? "Oh, our church doesn't believe
that."

	Said the Methodist, "Hey," (Bro. Branham) he said, (young Methodist
preacher) he said, "you go to the Pentecostal's all the time." He said,
"that's not looking good."

	"Well," he said, "how about you taking me?"

	"Oh," he said, "the church wouldn't allow it." 

	When did the church become God? I didn't know the church was God, I
thought we're suppose to worship God? I thought I got orders from
somewhere? I know where he gets his orders, from headquarters. When I
was a Baptist, I had a letter every day, and sometimes three letters. I
said, "Merciful heavens, if I could hear from God this often, I'd be the
most spiritual man living." So, I said, "Forget your letters," I just
dumped them. They weren't hearing from God.

	Oh listen, if a dollar bill could talk so loud, you can do anything you
want in a Baptist church. Most Baptist churches, most Pentecostal too,
if you got enough money. Oh, you don't have to have the priest take up
an offering and say, "I'll pray you through." Oh, your hail fellow wound
men under the blood everything else, if you got enough money. Unless of
course your money begins to maybe disintegrate the whole union and then
your money won't count then, because, hallelujah, we must protect our
great doctor. Why don't you protect him before? Forget it, what a mess.
What a mess. 

19.		… you look at the same Word the true prophets would look at. The
diagnosis 				of the case said, "Death, separation." (It's all gone.)

	In other words, a prophet comes on the scene. What Word has he got?
Same Word you got. No different. Got same God you got, so to speak.

		Just like a doctor, he knows the case. He knows what kind of symptoms 
				it's got. 

[69] 	Look at this nation. When you say, "Pentecostal done?" (Finished,
sure.) 					When they won't even let you come to church, 'cause you
preach to the 					women about their bobbed hair, and the Bible condemns
it... Afraid you'll 					say something about them. 

	How much love is that? What if a woman does get condemned by cutting
their hair? Well she does? (It's not what if, it's she does.) How much
love has the church got in a thing like that? I'd like to know. There's
no love there at all. Oh sure, love a pocket-book. I don't know how a
man can love a woman with bobbed hair anyway, I never could stand bobbed
hair. There's only one person I ever knew. I used to go around I told
you, I used to go around the country, I was made …?... How many
men…raise your hand that (you know) really believe a woman looks more
feminine… put the word even sexy, go ahead, put it down let's be
x-rated sermons. I preach them all the time.

20.	All right: you want a woman desirable, beautiful and all. Only one
time did I ever notice a man say, "I like them with short hair." Where
did he run? Plumb after Laurie(?), that took care of that. Laurie made
himself God. I don't know, should have made a test here, just to see
where we're going. [laughter] Tell you, get you the picture and I can't
pull it on you. No, no. Women don't look like real woman with their hair
all …?... You say, "My wife does." I'm sorry for your wife. Too bad,
but, you ain't going to change me. Not going to change God. Not going to
change the Word. Say, "Where's love?"  

	Well, you say, "I'll go home and make my wife…" No, you're not going
to make your wife nothing. No, no. No if you were to ask her that ends
it. 

		Here the other day, when I was up making some campaigns up on the west
				coast and ministers, talked to Bro. Borders and said now to Bro.
Borders, "Bro. 				Branham when he's on a campaign, I understand now
that if he comes here 				that he baptizes in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ" Brother Borders said, 				"Well," he said, "He doesn't even
preach about doctrine just prays for the sick. 				And the presbyter
said, "Well, (he said) I wasn't asking about that. He said, Bro. 			
Branham said,  (they had the tapes; they know.) He said, I'm asking you,
"Does 				he baptize in Jesus' Name?"	 

[70] 	Now, he said, "Only in his own church. (That's all, own church.)
"Well," 					he said, "that's it, we don't want him, Because we don't
want a heresy among 				our people."

21.	Now, the word 'heresy' means an opinion. Now, why did this man call
heresy baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ? Because there is no
positive command in the Bible. The one command is 'baptize in the name
of Father, Son and Holy Ghost'. And every place in the Book of Acts they
baptized in Jesus' Name, Lord Jesus, Jesus Christ, so it comes out to
baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

	So therefore, they say this: you do not baptize in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, but as you are commanded to do everything in the Name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore you tell the people, "I command you in
the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be baptized in the Name of the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost and that does it. 

	Now, that sounds great. But, let's find out if they have an assumption.
What about tongues as evidence? "Oh," they say, "every place in the Book
of Acts they spoke in tongues." Where is one Scripture said they would
as evidence? Now, where's heresy?

	"Well," you say, "Bro. Vayle looks like we need a higher authority.
That's exactly right, and God sent a prophet. And when the authority
came they weren't interested. See, the prophet gets you away from
heresy, which is really hear-say. (Well, it really isn't, but it's close
enough.) Which it really isn't, but it's close enough. All right:

22.		 …the other day when my good friend Ed Daulton got a letter from
the 					Baptist church; he said, "We excommunicate you from the Baptist
fellowship, 				because you have joined in the heresy of being baptized
in Jesus' Name." I 				like to stand with Paul, "In what the world calls
heresy, that's the way I 					worship God, 'cause it's His Word." Yes,
sir. Yes. Oh, sure the doctor diagnoses 				the case; he sees where it
is. A true prophet diagnoses the case by the Word.

	But I'm going to tell you something: a prophet can't do anything about
it, it's going to take God. It's going to take God. Bro. Branham
explained that thoroughly. He said, "You give something to the patient,
(he said) you've got to give a poison, then you give so much poison, so
much antidote." In other words, the medicine is just right. Something
comes in there and knock it on the head, but doesn't go too far. Like he
said, "Alright, (he said) anybody can shoot the rat, but who fills the
rat holes." 

	I said, "The doctor gives you a shot of penicillin, but who's going to
bring you back to health? Who's going to fill the holes up where the rat
got in there?" It takes God, there's a healing within you. And so we're
looking at this thing right now, the prophet can only diagnose, the
doctor can only diagnose. The doctor assists, so does the prophet
assists, but It's God who's going to do the work. And if God's not
building the house, the house isn't going to be built. And God demands
that He builds the house a house, especially at the end-time is the
beginning, because He tells you, if Elijah doesn't come the whole thing
is going to abort. See?

23.	So all right: 

		He diagnoses by the symptoms. Is that right? He looks at the symptoms,
he 				sees what's the matter with the patient. He sees how far it's
advanced and 					then says, "There's nothing that could be done."
(That's about America 					1956) A true prophet takes the Word of God
diagnoses the cases, throws 					the medicine into it, and the people
throws it back in his face. See?

	Now remember, we're under grace. We're under promise. That's the
paradox. We're in a strip of territory here just before the Millennium
is promise, promise, promise, that God says, "I will restore, saith the
Lord." 

	"Oh, the church will restore it. The prophet restores." 

	Hogwash! Church and prophet don't do it, it's God  does it. And God
does it to the prophet and the church both. See? People got to get your
mind on God. That's why we preach Him and His Presence. I don't
understand people. Bro. Branham said, "The Holy Spirit comes up through
the body." And He's up. 

	And then he says, "He comes down," so He's down.

	And the prophet  says, "What's up and what's down?" So He's here. I
preach His Presence.

	He said,  "Where are these guys arguing?"

	Because, they don't preach It like I do. And I'm going to argue right
to the point, because they don't preach like Bro. Branham did. Because,
they're always looking back, always looking forward not looking now. And
I say, "What's He doing now that He's here?" I want to know. We know, by
the grace of God I believe we do. If we don't, where's the prophet say
something different? Not being rambunctious, just showing…putting it
right there.

24.	Now, it says he throws the medicine back in the face. What's a
medicine? Promise, what God's doing. See, what the outworking is. And
the people throw it back in His face. They did.   

		What's going to happen? Perish, that's all. Pleasure loving,
world-streaked 				bunch of so-called hypocrisy... (might as well said
hypocrites)  But that's the 				way of a true prophet. Oh, my. 

[71]	 He sees the diseases. He saw that they'd got away from the Word.
He 					knew the Word, so he knew the results, what was coming. He saw
the 					luxury they was living in; he saw the way those women were
acting. 

	Now, the men like the women that act that way. Oh, Mr. Hall and mayor
Daley, oh he was a kind of a hail fellow well met, he was a pretty good
mayor. Now his son's running, he's a Democrat, what do you expect? Back
in the horse and buggy days. Still got old fashion ideas, think you can
spend your way out of debt. You got to be crazy. He was telling how he
enjoyed the European trip. And he liked going over to France, a place
where the mini-skirts were all the higher. By taking their clothes off
he'd like that a whole lot better I guess. That's fine. You want to make
America one great big house of prostitution, which it is? That's
alright, the church's the same way. Sixteen year old girl said the same
thing. Got her picture right in the paper, mini-skirt up to here said,
"don't tell me you can't be a Christian for wearing mini-skirts." I'm
telling her, she ain't no Christian. She's a church floozy and that's
all it comes to.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, watch your words."

	I just watched my words. I just said it. I don't care what anybody
says, she's a prostitute from the word go. Like Bro. Branham said, "Your
grandmother was a flapper, your mother a prostitute and you're just
walking right after her."

	Now, come on, check the records. Just nail her right down, and flee
from that stuff. Church's got to flee from it. The whole thing types up
what's wrong with the church. They're into idolatry, and they think they
got God. Making love to God. God making love to them to bring forth the
Son. Come on! Not going to bring Him forth at all.

25. Now, women acting that way: 

		He seen the way them priests were doing, how they got away from the
true 				worship of God and things like that. 

	Then, what was Bro. Branham to do? To bring them back to the true
worship of God is what Elijah did. And he did it on the basis of proving
who God was, and what God was, now He said, "The hearts are turned."
What hearts? The seven thousand that hadn't bowed the knee. Back to
worship. Your hearts are turned back to worshipping God. You see this in
anybody else? The God they say they worship is going to destroy them.

	How can they worship if they don't worship? How can you worship God, if
God does not accept it? "Sure, well I believe He does." Well, let's find
out if He does. There's a judgment day coming, let's find out if we got
all the answers. What about those who come and say, "Lord, we prophesied
in Thy Name, did wonderful works. We did miracles, did the whole thing.
Why, Lord, we had Your power,  then we did what You said." [Mt 7:22] 

	"Get out of here!" [Mt 7:23]

26.	I didn't write the Book, He wrote It. I just trust I've got a part
and a good part. (I don't know) It's all good, but you know what I mean,
where there is no judgment.

 	 	…he said, "That God that you claim you'll serve will destroy
you.”(Then 					they weren't serving Him.)

		“Why?”

		“You've not kept My commandments." Yet they thought he had. Didn't I
just 				read it? …4th verse: (and so on,) "Because I chose you…of
all the families 				out of the earth, and yet you refuse to walk in My
commandments." 

	Remember, I said a while ago, he nailed them right down. One turned
down the Word, the other sold out for money. Why, when you turn down the
Word, you will sell out for money. In fact, the reason you might say you
turned down the Word, is because you want the money. You've already done
sold out.

27.	Like the fellow said, "A man told a lie. That didn't make him a
liar, he already was a liar, that's why he told a lie." Good thinking.

		Do you think that little baldheaded prophet (here he is) [points to
the picture 				of the Pillar of Fire] standing there with that gray
beard streaking and his					 eyes flashing fire, speaking to that bunch
of priests, and things, and said, 					"The God that you hypocrites are
acting like you're serving, that same God				will destroy you," you
think he'd get cooperation? (There's a message of 					judgment 
brother/sister, then there's got to be a verdict.) Oh, my. Try him 				
today and see if he would. No, but he what? That's the way of a true
prophet. 				He had the Word; he knew what It was.(Then, how could he
compromise?)

	You see, what you're looking at is this: a prophet could not stop
saying what he was forced to say, he was in a straight-jacket, or a
tube. Neither can the end-time prophet Elijah, if he is of the same
caliber according to Peter.

	You say, "I think Bro. Branham should have changed this." Like a friend
of my who is now dead, "Oh," he said, "Bro. Vayle, how can you stand
William Branham (he said,) that ranting and raving?" He was an Irishman.
Doesn't matter what he was. Ranting and raving? Then what's mine? Don't
even name it. Not a name for it.

[72] 	Like Micaiah…when he stood before Ahab, he looked at them.
(That's their 				other prophets.) He knew the Word. Micaiah spoke the
Word to them. Why? 				Micaiah judged his vision, his doctrine with the
Word of God; and he had 					seen that his doctrine and the Word was the
same, because the Word said 					that God would curse Ahab, and he would
cause the dogs to lick his blood. 				That's what the Word said. 

		So Micaiah had a vision; he was a prophet. …he prayed, "Oh, Lord
God, 					what must I do? What must I say to this bunch of preachers
standing here? 				…all the organizations; every one in the land's
gathered against me, Lord. 				Here I stand before the king; what must I
say?"…he went into a vision; 					said, "Go on up. Go on up," …,
"but I have seen Israel scattered like she's             				sheep
having no shepherd." 

28.	Now watch: no prophet ever stood by himself, nor will stand by
himself. No way. God was the first Prophet, then every prophet  had to
say what God started with, and every succeeding prophet had to build
upon that prophet, and every prophet has to jive with every other
prophet, or it's not God. How can you write a book by forty different
people and in sixteen hundred different years, and the whole Book run in
continuity? Couldn't do it. The thematic structure would be impossible.
It couldn't be done.  All right:

		That district presbyter walked up and smacked Micaiah in the mouth and
					said, "Where'd the Word of God, the Spirit of God go, when It went
out of 					me. (He said,) (out of him)?" (Spirit of God go out of him?
No way. It wasn't 				in him in the first place.)

[73] 	You know what God said? He let a devil go down and get among them,
					because they were off the Word to begin with. 

	What about the devil, when he comes down here? Ho, they're going to be
standing ducks. Sitting ducks, beg your pardon. That's the Word. That
guy take a gun and shoot a bunch of ducks in a field. Shooting duck,
fish in a rain barrel, same thing. They will. They've been seduced
already. They're off now, they're off the Word in the beginning.

		The Bible said if they wouldn't believe the Word, He'd give them
strong 					delusions to believe a lie and would be damned by it.
(That's what happened 				then.) That's exactly what these organizations
and people of this nation's 					doing today: believing a lie to be
damned by it. "For there's not a Name 					given under Heaven whereby we
must be saved." Line up, organizations… 

29.	The fact is, can there be a devil amongst us? Well, there's three
kind of believers. There's everything going on. I'm not saying there's
devils among us, I just say, "Look, I explained something Thursday I
want you to understand, because I mull these things over a period of
time till I get my answers, begin to see what is being said: "Since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were in the beginning."
[2 Pet 3:4] Not knowing this one thing, that God was holding that world
in store, in a warehouse as it were, watching it, holding it. Why?

	Because, the cup of iniquity wasn't filled yet. He said, "Moses, I know
the four hundred years is up, but you're still not getting out." The cup
of the Amorites isn't filled. He was waiting for the world of the
ungodly to get to such a place that he could get the elect out.

	Now, listen to me: our cup is not yet filled, you're going to see
things and see things that will turn your hair and make you wonder.
Well, I'm going to tell you something: stop your wondering, get ready
for it. I don't know who's going to do what, what I'm going to do,
you're going to do, anybody else is going to do.  But, there's so few
people know the first thing about what's going on. And remember, sin
increases. Now righteousness has already had its day, they're lying in
the sun ripening. You can't be more righteous than the pronunciation:
"He became you that you might become Him, you're the righteous perfect
Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ." And it's all thrown back on Satan
little Bride, you didn't do it in the first place!"     

30.	What more can you ask? You can't! Headship has returned to the Bride
to raise them out of the dust and to change us, but that world is still
heaping and heaping. Don't worry about the world. Get your eyes off it.
The prophet said it was going to happen, said, "it's going to burn."

	"Oh, my, my, my." Oh, well stay here and burn. 

	"Oh, that's a different story.

	Then believe the prophet. You know I want to tell you something: Jesus
one day, He said, "You bunch of birds, (he said) mercy." He said, "You
bunch of birds." He said, "John the Baptist, he came and he was fasting
and mourning and you look at him and say, 'well now, something is very
funny here'." And then He said, "My brethren coming they're not fasting
and they're rejoicing and all and say, 'well, something funny here'."
Said, he can't please you bunch. Oh, you call the tricks, "mourn to us,
be happy to us." Can't please them anyway.

31.	Now, Jesus said some things, and Bro. Branham said some things,
that's the way it is, that's the way it is. Now, if you say, then you're
judgmental, you're condemning. Oh great, let's go down here where
there's a bunch of food that…like the salmon just coming in again I
understand. Because I see 'Charlie the Crab' there, Dayton's got a big
ad for fresh salmon. Right? So pretty soon Krogs(?) will have the ad in
the paper. Fresh salmon. Now, let's see if the health inspector goes in,
all the nice salmon, say, "hey, it's full of botulism." Full of
salmonella. Salmon full of salmonella, you bet it is. Food poisoning. 

	"Oh good, I'll just slurp that down. Fine, fine, that suits me fine."  

	Oh, does it? Bro. Branham the food inspector came by and said, "All the
table is full of vomit."

	"Oh, (slurp, slurp) I love…" (slurp, slurp, slurp.)

	I'm going to tell you something: something's wrong  brother/sister,
something's mighty wrong. I'm going to tell you this: let's get this
flat, perception is all but down the drain, spiritual perception.
There's hardly one-tenth of one-thousand percent. Put that to five
billion people, it's not even that much. It's right. It's a mess. Time
to believe what the prophet said, "Just stand with It." See? He said It,
and he's the voice of God to the people, vindicated.

32.	 	Now, what about these others--what did these other prophets look
at? They 				were prophets. Yes, sir. They were prophets, (sure) but if
they'd have stopped 				and examined their prophecy by the Word... If
the Methodists would stop 					today and examine their prophecy, they'd
never sprinkle another person; 					they'd receive the Holy Ghost; (see,
they stopped. That's right, that's what 					happened) they'd baptize
everyone by immersing in the Name of the Lord 					Jesus Christ. (They
wouldn't sprinkle anymore.) In the Assemblies of God 					would stop
today and look at their prophecy, they'd come back to the Word. 				If
the Oneness would stop and examine their prophecy, they'd come back to 	
		the Word.

[74] 	But, you see, if those prophets would've stopped and examined
their prophecy... 				They reasoned; they said, "That land belongs to
us, we'll go up to Ramoth 					Gilead, we'll take it; because it belongs
to us. Joshua gave it to us." 

	That's what they say today. Listen, "I got the baptism with the Holy
Ghost, you prove me I haven't." 

	Why I say, "You believe what the prophet said?"

	"Aah!"

	"Well, you ain't got It."

	Do you think they're going to believe that? They're not going to take
that for fifteen seconds.  (We're going to close this if it's the last
thing we do.)  [missing words after tape turned over]             ...
see pure reasoning entered in. 

	Now, they say, "We got the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the
atonement, we believe this, we're going to make the Rapture." 

	It doesn't say that. It says, "Except Elijah come…" 

	"Well, that's for the Jews."

	"Behold, I stand at the door and knock." [Rev 3:20] What's that? 

	"Well, that's Jesus talking to sinners."

33.	Hogwash, that's you trying to get back in the church. He's back in
the Bride. The Spirit and the Bride say the same thing, got the same
thing. They got one voice, got one spirit, got one flesh, got one blood.
And above all, they got one mind. He's Head of the Bride again 
brother/sister . Yes sir.

		"Why, they said, "that's ours, we'll go and take it, it belongs to us.
Joshua 					give it to us, through Almighty God." 

		And Micaiah said, "Sure sounds reasonable." 

		But that's what it is. You don't want to reason; you want to believe
God. 					Don't reason anything.  

	That's what Paul said, "Casting down reasoning's, and everything that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God." [2 Cor 10:5] That word is
called 'imagining'. But it's not imagination it's reasoning's. 

	People say, "Well, I got a great imagination." That's not what the
Bible says. That's a wrong word, it's reasoning. That's what Satan did
to Eve. See? People reason right today, say, "Well, the Bible's closed."
Sure it's closed, but it's open." Can't add a word. Who says you're
going to? Just explain It. 

	"So, what do you think I am?" I know what you are. You ain't nothing.
Bring a vindicated prophet. 

34.	You know Nebuchadnezzar had more brains than all this world put
together. He sure did. He sure did. Back there in the time of Daniel, he
had a dream and couldn't remember it, and all the big shots came and
they bowed themselves and said, "O king, O king, great king listen,
you're asking something that nobody else ever had."

	He said, "Sure, (he said) I've got the brains to do it, the rest are a
bunch of dumb skulls along side of me. For I would have put you birds to
death years ago and thought about a bunch of hokey-pokes you were."
[laughter] He said, "You tell me the dream and I'll know that you'll
have the answer."

	"Oh," they said, "just a minute now."

	He said, "Just a minute now." Now, he said, "You're the guys that said
you had the answers, so you'll give the answers or you'll burn." And he
said, "I'm the only one that forgot the dream, so I'll know."

	Now, you bring me a prophet like that, with 'Thus saith the Lord'.
Sure, then I'll know. And yet that was the hour of the handwriting on
the wall, speaking in tongues too. It was reasonable, but it wasn't
right.

35.		What if Abraham would've reasoned? How would he ever have left the
land?

	Now, he's telling us something here today  brother/sister, that Bro.
Branham laid it on the line in 'The Unveiling of the Mighty God'. He
said things are said to throw the people, but they're not sent to throw
the people. They are sent said they will throw the people, if the people
don't understand. But, "the wise will understand." the Bible says. [Dan
12:10b] They will not get thrown. See, they understand.

	So therefore, there are things said here that cause you to know that
Bro. Branham is telling you something through the mouth of this man
Amos. We're looking at Amos. He's letting you know, look, don't question
and don't try to reason, just take it.

	Then, when you get thoroughly conversant with it, you begin to fall
into line and into place. That's the trouble, that's what repentance is,
getting your mind unhinged, and re-hinged. Getting conversant.
Repentance simply means get rid of your own thinking, and get the mind
of God. 

		What if Abraham would've reasoned? How would he ever left the land? 		
		How would he been a hundred years old, still giving praise to God, and
					they going to have the baby by Sarah, and her ninety? Cast away
reasoning; 				just believe. 

36.	You know something what if I asked you a question this morning.
Everybody here is a hundred year old man and a ninety year old wife.
Now, what would be easier for you to believe, that I can stand here and
drink a bottle of hard liquor, get tighter than a hoot-owl, go on a
riding binge in my car running kids over on the sidewalk, literally
killing people, (now listen) what it be harder between these two, that
my wife and I a hundred and ninety years, could have a baby or be
forgiven by God for all the things I did by drinking this liquor and
being such a horrible killer?

	Now, your reasoning is going to say, "Well, Bro. Vayle ain't no way you
and your wife could have a baby." See, just tells you what you are. You
don't have Abraham's faith. Not that we're going to, because there's no
Word for it. But, I just want you to understand, you see, you just got a
long way to come yet where you really believe God. Because, you let your
reasoning get in the way.

37.	Now, what Bro. Branham is trying to say here is this: there isn't
any reasoning to be done. The prophet opened his mouth, and the words
came out. No reasoning. We open out ears, hey, that sounds good, and the
Word comes in. No reasoning.

	Now, you got a God people, until then you haven't. You say, "Bro.
Vayle, how do you figure?" I don't figure nothing. I can sit here and
tell you in spite of Lee…I'm not going to go out and get a bottle of
liquor, I'll do worse than that. I won't bother getting one, to do what
I do. Which ain't half a bad as some people do, but that's not the
answer either. Because you just compare yourself. What good's
comparison? Let's get down to the real facts. See, I can't tell things,
there's no way I can explain things but I know it.

	You say, "How do you know it?" 

	I don't know how I know.

	"Then how do you know?"

	I don't know that either. But, a prophet said it.

38.	Now, let it sink in. See, the 'ifs' and 'ands' and 'buts' my
brother/sister, have nothing to do with it. See, I don't have a promise
to die, got a promise to… What if you die? There's not a thing to do
with it. The promise is to live. Why? Because, the promise is not to Lee
Vayle, it's for the Bride. But, being a part of that at this hour, I
have that promise, but, I can die and be back in five minutes. See,
don't get your wires crossed, just believe. Don't put your reason to it,
because your reasoning always will be wrong. That's why the legalist
says, "Why I can do this thing right here." He doesn't really want to do
it, she really doesn't really do it, but you see they're weak and they
do it anyway, because they like doing it. And they say, "Oh Lord,
forgive me." 

	And I got news, they haven't accepted Elijah. They don't believe God.
That's why they're doing what they're doing. And the other fellow thinks
he and she can do what they want. They don't believe either. That's why
there's no grace. Oh my, I hope we're beginning to see some things, 
brother/sister, because it's rich and real if you just let your own
thinking go and understand. It's in the simple things. It's not pushing
and hard, me yelling all that, that's my nature. I wish I never learned
to be that way, but… Even as a kid, I could…if it wasn't noise, you
know what, after all what's in silence except dullness. Isn't true, it's
not true, but just… Even when I used to study years ago, I can't
anymore, but you could have had a tin… whistling around the house and
four herds of stampeding camels, or rhinoceros coming through the room
it wouldn't bother me any, if I wanted to make my mind up studying. I
couldn't hear, you almost had to kick me in the shins to get my
attention. That's the way it was.

39.	All right, listen, he said here: Cast away reasons. Now, here Bro.
Branham said: 

		And you let the devil tell you, (now here's what the devil said) "You 
				know, Brother Branham ain't nothing but a hypocrite.”

		“Now, (he said) Now, wait, let's see if he's teaching right. Let me
go 					back to the Bible with you.”

	They wouldn't do it though. See? Of course their guess was as good as
his guess. But, what if he wasn't guessing? "Oh, Bro. Branham is hooked
up with God, yes siree, you go to him and he'll tell… read your heart,
oh, yes, yes, yes."

	Oh, just, just, just a minute, when he reads my heart, and he tells me,
"oh, you're broken hearted because your sainted aunt Martha died, and
you were her pet and she was your pet, and all these complexes are
there." And he could get through for that, and now you need help in your
life with the Word, and that God stands back and says, "Well,
with…aunt Martha, I can help you [said with a sobbing voice] with My
Word, forget it." Come on, something stinks, brother/sister, something
stinks. Something stinks. I'm not interested in my aunt Martha and my
dear sainted mother, she was a saint, or my uncle, or my brother, my
sister, anybody. 

 	I'm interested in one thing: God. One Person, His Word. If I can't get
answers, then what is the use? If William Branham came to clear things
and only muddied the waters, that's what people think, and the reason
they think it is because of reasoning. Get rid of the reasoning, and
you'll begin to see it's in the Bible. And he's vindicated, so therefore
you know what he says is the Bible.

40.	Now, let's get back to the Bible. He said, "they won't do it."

		He won't (the devil won't) let you do that. (To come to Me, he says,
and 					get this done.) No, no. See? But the devil will say something
bad about 					me (which he might have a right to), then you just keep
getting that, and 					you start your reasoning, "Yeah, he oughtn't to
have done this; he oughtn't 				to have done that." 

		You start looking at me, well, you have plenty. And you go about
looking 					at  Jesus Christ, you can find plenty there too. (What
about a five-fold 					ministry, what about the pew?) Let's look at
Jesus a minute. 						I'm going to put each one of you a minister right
now. (Back there in 					the days of course…) Now, we're going to
forget He ever was on earth 					like. 

[75] 	He's a boy that's proven the whole nation over, that He's a
bastard-born 					child; His mother had Him before this father…and she
was ever married; 					it's proven. Now, they're not going to the Word,
(see, they wouldn't 					go to the Word, where the Word said,) "A virgin
shall conceive"; they're 					just going to what they hear. An
illegitimate child: didn't they tell Him He 					was born in sin and try
to teach them? See? 

41.	Now listen: organization will brand everybody different from them,
illegitimate, because they are illegitimate to their concepts. And I'm
going to tell you something: a true Bride is illegitimate to the church,
and the church is illegitimate to the Bride. Well, I'm going to tell you
something: God and the Bride true are legitimate, one to each other. 	

		Now, look what Jesus was doing. He was actually tearing up every
church 				there was in the country. Was that right? Organizations,
everything else... 					What was He? …some overgrown boy going around,
some young fellow, 					no denomination... "Tell me what church you
belong to. Who is your father? 				You say Joseph's not your father?”

		“Joseph is not My father,"  …. "Who is your father?”

		“God is My Father.”

		“Ha, you fanatic. That's exactly what you are. You being a man and
saying 				God is your father?" (Well, he could sure prove something
they couldn't 					prove.)

		If they would've examined it by the Word... Hallelujah. Don't you see
what, 				the Word was to be made flesh. They didn't examine their
vision with the 					Word.

[76] 	That's it; that's what's the matter today. You don't examine your
visions 					correctly, your prophecy and doctrine you should examine by
God's Word. 				Somebody try to tell you the Truth, then you fall out
with them. Just like 					Amos did, tell the truth, then you'd do the
same thing. (In other words, if 					Amos was here, you'd do the same
thing.)

42.	Bro. Branham said, "Look, I'm not accepted. You think I don't like
not being accepted? But, you think that I don't understand this truth
that I'm not to be accepted? You think I don't know that's what is going
to happen? Do you think that if I can read your body and tell you, hey,
you got terminal cancer and get ready, because you're going to die?"

	Now remember, out there in Phoenix, Arizona, when Florence Shakarian
was going to die, Bro. Branham said around two o'clock in the morning.
(Between two or three, something like that) He said, "She's going to
die."

	Well, everybody got to praying and praying, and suddenly someone rose
in the meeting and screamed, "Thus saith the Lord, my little children,
she's not going to die, she's going to live, hallelujah." But, he
screamed, screamed, screamed, but she was dead by two in the morning.
They couldn't…they had the wrong answer. See?  

	Now, they knew that he could do that. See? They knew, that as a
diagnostician he could do it. But, I know they didn't accept Hebrews
4:12, discernment. Oh, they went over here to the Book of  1
Corinthians, and they talk about discernment, and they come over here
and they say, "Now, these wonderful gifts are… what are they? Oh yes,
they're the word of wisdom, and a word of knowledge, and of faith, and
of healing, and of miracles, and prophecy, discerning of spirits, ah,
that's it. Tongues, and interpretations, it's one of those gifts. And
it's one of those gifts magnified, it's fantastic." Hogwash! 

43.	The Paradox, Ephesus returned. "Little woman, I'm going to tell you
all about yourself." God on the scene. The Spirit of Ephesians 1:17-21.
The Works going on. Come up to Headship. He said, "If I'm your Head,
where's my honor?" I'd like to challenge the Branhamite's on that one. 

	Majority run around, "What a great guy I am, what a great guy." You're
looking at the biggest hunk of crud in God's humanity, except for the
grace of God, I'm still back on the dung heap as part of the dung. No
leadership at all, never lead anybody, never will. Get to the Word.   I
could be out of here tomorrow, a jerk and a crumb-bum like I am. Go on
with God. I'll tell you like I told my wife, "If I mess up, don't you
DARE mess up!" Absolutely. Don't blame me for nothing, credit me for
nothing. I stand neutral. That's any gift to the church is neutral. You
get a good pipe that pipes water he doesn't add acid and corrosion,
doesn't add one thing. So, I don't know if I'm a good pipe or not. I'm
some kind of a pipe. Maybe I'm a stove pipe, who knows? But, I want to
be some kind of pipe. 

44.	All right; now they refused the Word.

		That's what's the matter today. You don't examine (everything by the
Word.)

		…look here, He's in this condition. Now, you would've condemned Him,
					perhaps (That's right.), if you hadn't gone back to the Word. They
do the 					same; they condemn Him today. (See, that's why they
crucified the Word 					of God afresh.)

		Why if you women in here... Yeah. Why don't you examine your idea of
your 				bobbed hair with the Word and see what It says? 

	Well, I know what they say. They say…I'll read it to you so you'll
understand: he's talking about long hair. Now, they're supposed to have
the hair for a covering. Now, it says here: [1 Corinthians 11:]

		(3) 	…I have you know, the head of every man is Christ; the head of
the 					woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

	Then It says:

		(4) 	Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
(dishonors) 					his head.

	Now, we're talking about headship and the conferred position under the
complete Headship of God. God, Christ, man, woman! Well, come on, (I
don't care what you think, I'm talking about Bible) See,  "what's my
hair got to do with it?" Cut it off, shave it. It's your short hair, who
gives a rip? It's just that simple.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, why hit so hard?"

45.	Look, I'm going to tell you something: do you think old Lee Vayle is
some kind of a jerk up here? He knows girls years ago come to this
church used to snip their hair off. Why, women of the church come in
here, say, "Bro. Vayle, I saw so and so's hair hanging down over, you
know, last time before it's down past her hips, and now it's up in the
middle of her back. What's going on?" 

	I said, "She cutting her hair." It's that simple, everybody knows, you
have to ask me? Huh? (phftt) Come on, I'm not nice, but I never said I
was nice. I don't intend to be nice. I'm nicer than nice. I love you,
and I'm here to help you. You know if you need help, I try to help you.
I'm not trying to hurt you now.

 	Now listen: Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered
dishonors his head. 

	They say, "His head's Jesus."

	How are you going to cover Him? You can't even see Him. He's on His
Father's throne. I'll tell you what: If you can cover Him, let me know
what kind of blanket, and I'll buy the blanket. He's talking about head,
it's on your neck, it's on your shoulders. And man.

		(5) 	But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head 					
uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if 					
she were shaven.

46.	All right, now we're talking about man can't have a covering on his
head, woman's got to have a cover. She doesn't have a cover, better just
go ahead and take her… (phftt!) Don't talk about Yul Brynner, next
time about about Yulee Brynner's. [laughter] Skin heads. Man, baldheaded
doesn't look too bad, but a woman…I ain't going to say no more. The
Bible speaks  of baldness for women.

		(6) 	For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: …it be
a 						shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

	Now, shorn means 'clipped'. It's okay, no shearing, no shaving.

		(7) 	For a man indeed ought not to cover his head; (Now, we're talking
						about covering here. We're talking about can't cut, so man
therefore, 					got to cut.) his image of glory of God: but the woman is
the 						glory of the man.

		(8) 	For the man is not of the woman: the woman of the man.

		(9) 	Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the 
				man.

		(10) 	For this cause ought the woman to have (authority, that's) power
on 					her head because of the (messengers).

47.	Now, right there It tells you that there's something positively
about the woman's head and her hair that she's got to have. Number one:
because of her husband, and because of male-dom over wife-dom, and
female-dom, if I can use those terms, make you understand what we're
talking about. I'm sure you caught what I'm saying. It's sexism, because
that's what it amounts to. It's the sexes. See? This woman, she's got to
show this, got to have this. 

		(11) 	Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the
woman 					without the man, in the Lord.

		(12) 	For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the
woman; 					all things of God

		(13) 	Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God 			
		uncovered? (Now, the uncovering here, is speaking of cutting and 					
shaving.)

		(14) 	(Does) not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have
long hair, 					(it's) a shame unto him? (So therefore, a man has to cut
his hair. So 					long hair would be uncut hair.) 

		(15) 	But if a woman have long hair, (uncut hair, it's her) glory: for
her 						hair is for a covering.

 	Now, if God wants your hair for a covering, the question is, how much
covering do you want before God? "Oh, Bro. Vayle, I want all the
covering." Then don't cut your hair!! Right! That's what He's talking
about! Anybody can know that.

48.	Now watch, here's what they say though:

		(16) 	But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, 	
				neither the churches of God.

	So therefore, they say, "Well, if you're going to fuss about it, then
wear a little hat like the Amisher's, and the Dunkard's do, and a few
more, or just cut your hair, it really doesn't matter." Aw, brother.
He's letting you know, nobody in the church of God cuts hair period. It
doesn't even come up. It's not countenant, it's not an argument. It's
nothing to talk about. It's a 'do it'. So, that's simple. Now, you see
what goes on in the churches? 

	Bro. Branham came…now look it, this cutting off as I told you is
symbolical. It's a figure of the woman denying her headship. Now, he's
saying, if you snip it, shave it! In other words, if you give off one
part of the Word of God, throw the whole Book out. Have the grace to
walk out. Yeah. Yeah, death bed confessions would be interesting
wouldn't they? 

	Man suddenly get convicted, "well dear, I got to tell you all the 
women I've run with."  

	"Well, honey, don't die feeling too bad, and I'll name all the men I've
run with too."

	That's your church. (Snip, snip, snip, snip, snip.) Adultery breaks a
marriage union. (Snip, snip, snip, snip.) Type, all in type. 

49.	Let's get back here: Look at what he was doing, tearing up churches
and so on.  Okay,

		Why don't you examine your baptism of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 			
	and that false 'trinity' it's so-called, which is nothing in the world
but three 				offices in one God: titles. No name of Father, there's no
such a thing as 					name, Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Name of the Father,
Son, Holy Ghost, 					which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Examine your
baptism with the way 					everyone in the Bible was baptized. 

	Now, I'm going to add something to this: everybody still gets confused,
because the name of the Father is the name of the Son, and the name of
the Son is the name of the Father is Jesus Jehovah Savior. But, you've
got to understand the other names and titles. As Irenaeus said, "There's
hundreds of them, but not hundreds of gods, it's one God." And you
understand it on the grounds that help you understand Him like Elohim
means 'the One that Becomes'. We've stood strong on that in this church
here. And anybody listening to me preach and knowing the tapes, you'd at
least know what I'm saying if I'm right or wrong. And I know I'm right.
Because Bro. Branham was right. And he used that word 'become', and
nobody else, no theologian uses it. And yet, they know it's there. But
they're like Vincent, he understood there weren't three gods. The Son
came back as the Holy Ghost. That eliminated one. But the Holy Ghost was
the Father. That eliminates two. There's only one! One God that had a
body, a human body. Not a Pillar of Fire, couldn't die. Not an angel,
that couldn't die. Not the wind, that couldn't die. Not a rock, that
couldn't die. Not water, that couldn't die, but in a human figure that
could die and shed blood, and Jesus was known as the Blood of God. One
God. See? 

	All the time coming to the place where God could manifest Himself in
Sonship. (We'll get into that sometime, I'm getting ready to start
looking at some of these other sermons I want to go into. We'll see, I
don't know. I'm not too smart, but we can pray.)

50.	Now he said:

		If you'd examine your thought with the Word, you'd come back and you'd
be 				baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (That's immersed
in water.)

[77] 	That's what Paul told them to do, said if anybody taught anything
different 				let him be accursed, even if an Angel come down... (Seven
did!) [points to 					the picture of the Cloud.]

	"Well," you say, "Bro. Vayle I really don't know." 

	Well I don't know either.

	"But," you say, "I'm a believer."

	Oh they say, Joseph Smith had an angel come and he dug a hole in the
ground, and here were all these gold plates. Why they say it would have
taken a wagon load and better for all these gold plates that old Joe got
his hands on. If I'd have got my hands on gold plates I forgot the Word.
[laughter] Fap! Oh brother.

	Then they talk about this Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, she had something come
to her too. It was true, something did. Just like to Joe Smith. The
Seventh Day Adventist's the same thing. But, Paul said, "Let one angel
come and be off that Word." Seven came, and everyday he [Bro. Branham]
took his bible and concordance. If Joe Smith would have done that, he
would have found that he was wrong. Well, he believed in polygamy so do
some of Burrard(?) gang. See, that's the legalist. He wants the flesh
that doesn't belong to him. He wants his sexual gratification, and
there's no limit to it. So, hoodwink a little girl. You say, "Amongst
us?" No, not amongst us. Thank God I don't count that part as.

	Bible says, "If a man goes out and drinks and whores around the town,
he said, don't even sit with him." He didn't say you couldn't blast him.
[laughter] Well, I used to, I'm honest. Come on, you know that's…you,
you, come on,  brother/sister. Listen, I'm going to tell you something:
at least I will admit one thing, except for his rotten stinking
dishonesty, he has a little honesty.

	As Bro. Branham said, "Polygamy is a thousand times better than
Hollywood marriage and divorce, but we know it's wrong."

	"Well," you say, "the lesser evil is the better." Not unless you're
counting calories. [laughter] Because, "he that offends in one point of
the law is guilty of all." [Jas 2:10] So, I just told a little lie last
night. Well, it might as well been a whopper. Bro. Branham got caught up
on that you know.

52.		…lot of times Angels come down, you know, how the Pentecost eats
that  					up. When remember St. Martin stood there, (a big bright
shining angel stood 				there:) a man who had been baptized in Jesus'
Name, believed in the Holy 					Ghost, kept the Word. Romans kicking him
around, and trying to foist their 				dogmas and man-made doctrines on
him, but he stood with the Word. 					…in power... The devils would
come and try to talk to him. …pay no 					attention. One day Satan
came like Christ, crowned, looking like Christ, 					golden slippers on,
said, "Don't you recognize me, Martin? I'm your Lord; 				worship me." 

		Martin looked… something was wrong. 

		He said, "Martin, can't you recognize me?"… "I am your Lord and
Saviour, 				worship me." 

		…said it three times, Martin just kept looking around; and he seen
Christ 					would be crowned by His people at His coming; (See, a vision
broke) He 					wouldn't be wearing golden slippers. He said, "Get thee
away from me, 					Satan." Boy, if Pentecostals sure eat that up?
…bright shining angel...

53.	See, Christ is going to get crowned by His Saints. See?

[78] 	…woman come down from Chicago… "Brother Branham, ministers up 
				there said if an Angel of the Lord told you to baptize in Jesus'
Name, they'd 				accept it; but since that's your own thought." 

		I said, "If the Angel of the Lord said anything contrary to that, it
wouldn't 					be the Angel of the Lord." See? 

		If any Angel says anything that's contrary to this Word, let it be a
lie. If a 					man tells you, a messenger from God (says he's from God),
tells you it's 					right to be baptized in the name of Father, Son,
Holy Ghost, let him be a 					liar. 

	Why? Let him be, because he is. Sure, I would say, let him alone, he is
a liar. Unless he's the same breed you are then it's okay. You know what
I mean? You know, sinner is sinner. But, it's still wrong 
brother/sister, it's still wrong. They got to answer for it. Because
everything has got to come to Light. Everything has got to come, there
be not…every Word of God is going to be proven. Every Word of God for
our day has been proven, and every Word is going to be proven again at
the Judgment Seat, it's going to be. That's right, it's going to be.
It's got to be. Understand that, because, it's got to have been in
effect.

54.	You know, they took this Harry Reems you know, I guess, I don't
know, maybe you don't read the papers as thoroughly as I do. I don't
read them that thoroughly. But Harry Reems was caught up for very
explicit sex acts and pictures. And so they got him in Tennessee, they
brought him in and I guess they bankrupt the guy, (and different guys
too,) and then the lawyer found out they tried to make the law
retroactive. There wasn't a law passed when Harry Reems did it. So, the
American law can be just full of manure that's all, because it's nothing
but manure. Supposed to be based on the Word of God, but it ain't
nothing the way it's handled.

	But, I'm going to tell you something: the Word of God is different,
It's being fulfilled. And that day when the flash is on that screen,
it's going to be proven it was in effect. And I don't care if the
Tennessee law wasn't in effect, Harry Reems ought to know this being a
Jew, that the Word of God is in effect, 'Thou shalt not commit
adultery'. That's right. When hundreds and thousands are excited by it,
it shows there's something wrong, and God will hold them responsible.

	Now you get excited by your own house that's a different story. But
don't get excited out there. Now see, I'm not one of those guys is going
to tell you a bunch of lies, and bunch of clap-trap and balderdash, get
you all messed up. I'm telling you flat what's in your home as long as
it's clean it's alright, but it's not out there. That's what I'm
preaching. This is what Bro. Branham preached, and this is what's going
on. It's alright, don't want to offend anybody, but I'd sooner offend
you, and you say, "Well, Lee, you didn't tell us."

	You want to ask questions, I'll answer questions Wednesday night, put
them in the pot. You ask anything at all as long as it's on the Word of
God, and I know something about it.

55.	No sir, "any angel come is contrary, he's a liar." 

		…the reason Micaiah could know that his prophecy came from God,
because 				he was with the Word of God. Yes, sir. (See, he went to the
other prophet.)

	Wouldn't that be something, Bro. Branham come and say, "Hey, look at
that cloud out there in Arizona…" I want to tell you something: he
told the folk ahead of time, Seven Mighty Angels. Now, we don't know
that Seven Mighty Angels. But we believe it. 

	But, I'll tell you what we also believe, and this is proven [points to
the picture of the Pillar of Fire] just like that's proven, [points to
the picture of the Cloud] but of course nobody could see the Angels.
What about those two clouds out there in Sabino Canyon, Bro. Branham was
out there praying over 'Marriage and Divorce', the Pillar of Fire came
down, up and down, up and down, a little black cloud up and down, just
like on Moses. Just took right back to Moses. Moses gave you this, it
was death. Now God gives you This. See? Sure.  

56.	Now:

		Oh, Amos was here, he'd stay with the Word. That's right. 

[79] 	But you see what's the trouble today with us is like it is with
them. (I'm 					fixing to close.) They'd been taken off the Foundation.
(Taught off you 					see, when you're taught off, you're taken off it,)
…said, "You have made 					the Word of God of non-effect by your
traditions." 

		And false baptism, (instead of being baptized, shake hands.)  

		Some say, "Speak in tongues." 

		I've heard devils speak in tongues and shake hands too. (That was
cute, 					I like his jokes better than mine. They come in they're not
as rough as 					mine.) (Devils speak in tongues and shake hands.) Yes,
sir. That's no 					sign of It. Now, look, all these things like that,
all those things... See? 					You get off the Word of God,  teach those
traditions. That's right. 

		Now, he'd have to take you back to the Word. But our teachers today
have 					taught people off of the Foundation of God's Word. Now, listen
close. 					That's what they've done there; what Amos was telling them.
"The God 					that you claim to know, He's the One's that's going to
destroy you." 

57.	Now, I want you to notice something here  brother/sister, this
prophet of God, if he was really a prophet of God, he is going to be
judged by what he said right here. He said, "You don't know Him, but you
claim to know Him."

	Now, that's what Jesus came and said. Now, if that's not an exact
repeat of Jesus' ministry, I want to know what is! He said, "You don't
know Him, but I know Him."

	Said, "Just a minute, did they claim?"

	They certainly did. They claimed to know Abraham's God.

	You said, "you don't." 

	You do what you what you want with it. I just want to show you, Bro.
Branham's statement is true.

		Now, we have taught off of what? The Foundation of the faith that was
once 				delivered to the Pentecostal fathers...(Now come on, not to
Pentecost, but 					Pentecostal fathers. Not about Pentecost, but what
was at that hour. (Yeah.): 				the Bible: taught a false purgatory,
(people did) taught false baptism, false 				this,  false, false, 
false, (organizational, false) from the original. You don't 				believe
it, come back to the Bible and take your purgatory,  take your 				
Father, Son, Holy Ghost, sprinkling  that stuff, and come back and see
if 					it's Scriptural. (Go to the Foundation, that's the Bible, see?) 


58.	Sure:

[80] 	…they're off of the Foundation which Paul said in the Bible...
the Church 					is founded upon the doctrine of the apostles and the
prophets. (Notice, it's 					not founded on them, it's founded on the
doctrine. See, the Word.) … We 					 went off of that Foundation of
the Word to denominational foundations. 

		Now listen in closing. Put on your spiritual hearing aid. Listen,
we've got 					off of the Foundation of the Word and on the foundation
of a denomination. 				How long could I stay on that? Another three
hours. Off of the Foundation 				of the Word to the foundation of
worldly pleasures, worldliness, immoral 					creeping into the church,
off of the Word onto creeds. That would take me 					three weeks to
preach that through halfway, those four comments right there. 				Off of
the Word… Denomination, Word... the church got right off.

		There isn't but one thing: get back to the Word. "Repent" that's what
it means 				" go back, turn about face"; you're going the wrong way. 

[81] 	Denomination of pleasure... Denomination, foundation, I mean, of 
pleasure, 				foundation of worldliness, foundation of creeds, all that
together hatched 					out a immoral corruption, spiritual corruption.
(That's being off the Word, 				see, spiritual corruption.)

		He being a true prophet, he would see in us just exactly what he saw
in them. 				If he was standing here in this platform today, and I'd
say, "Brother Amos, 				great prophet of God, you fearless one,
(fearless, ah, not fearless as people 				think fearless, no, no, not
that kind) come here and take my place." He'd 					preach this Word.
He'd have to; he's a prophet. All right. He would preach 				it just
exactly the way It's written, just what we're saying now. (Just what 			
	we're saying, Amos and I both.) All right. He'd see in them what he
sees in 				us: immoral decay. 

		Just look, friends. How many here in this present church now, sees the
					world's in immoral decay? Why, we know it is. Well, what's the
matter? 					it's off the Word. That's right. (It's off the Word.)

59.	Now listen, I'm going to ask you a question: you tell me what the
standard of morals are? Go ahead. "Word." That's all. It's Word, see? 

[82]	A minister said…Bro. Branham, look! I know you're right in that,
but, if 					I preached that, my denomination would kick me out, my
people would run 				me out of the church." Then said, "I'd never preach
another sermon."

		I said, "Preach it anyhow."

	You know, a certain man got kicked out of church, he was the one that
God healed? He was born blind, his parents kicked him out. Everybody
kicked him out and Jesus came by and picked him up. So you see, when you
get kicked out you're happy. If you get kicked in, forget it. 

	Oh man, I was glad I got kicked out. "Well," he said, "you can't have
any papers."

	I said, "Well, if that's it, I guess I get no papers." 

	I want to tell you something: if you get to the place where you even…
the Bible says, at the end-time (you know) the grasshopper like in
Eccclesiates (you know) where they get so old, It talks about the
grasshopper, they say in India, in the east, if the grasshopper had
jumped on that man's shoulder he'd fall over. Well, if you can't stand a
grasshopper jumping on your shoulder (you're so weak and old) then how
about carrying a paper around. [laughter] Forget it. I can't carry the
paper.

60.		 Yes, sir. It's God's Word. You're responsible, if you're a prophet
of God, 					true, you'll stay with the Word; if not, you'll around for
denominations. 					Depends on where you're from. 

		No, sir, (now listen,) we cannot build... The government cannot build
a 					house upon a solid rock, when the people are voting for a house
of pleasure			 	on sinking sands. [Bro. Vayle whistles,] (Now, he hits
the government and 				the people.)

		Look what we want. Just take a minute now. I hope I don't wear you
out. 					Look what we want, just a minute. I can't pass this comment,
this note. 					Look what we want. 

		Look at our television. That's what we want. We want some of these
comedians 				to stand up there and turn all kind of dirty jokes, stay
home from prayer meeting 				on Wednesday night, or the preacher'll let
out early so that you can go and 				see some old filthy, dirty
shows…sexy dressed, all the rest… It shows what 				kind of spirit's
in you. (See, they're manifesting.)

[83]	We permit it, the people... If the people of this nation would
write letters 					to our government (and say, there'd be a hundred
million letters fly into 					that government), "Stop those filthy
programs," they'd have to do it. We 					are the people, but we the
people want filthiness; so that's what we get. 

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, don't." Don't Bro. Vayle me.

61.	I'm going to go with my dear old friend James over here, and I'll
read from chapter 4, from the Book of James, and he said:

		(1) 	From whence come wars and fightings among you? (Well, it's that 	
				lousy bunch of Communists, and that filthy bunch of hawks;) come 			
	they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

	"Oh, I don't believe that."

		(2) 	(You) lust, and have not: (you) kill, and desire to have… 

	In other words, you work up pleasures in you and not sex. Not, come on,
you just killed somebody …?... He's talking about "she that liveth in
pleasure is dead while she liveth."   [1 Tim 5:6] 

		(2)	…(you) kill, desire to have…cannot obtain: (you) fight war,
(you) 						have not, because (you) ask not.

		(3) 	(You) ask, and receive not, because (you) ask amiss, that (you)
may 					consume it upon your lusts.

		(4) 	(You) adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of 					the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore
will be a friend 					of the world is the enemy of God.

		(5) 	Do (you) think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth 					In us lusteth to envy?

	Spirit in you wants to you …?... right, live in the Spirit, walk in
the Spirit and have all this kind of corruption? Say, "Oh yeah." Now,
they're getting these video cassettes now, so they can run them through
the TV. Well, I'm not against that if you take good care of it. What if
you should desire to see something that's different? And the wandering
eye could soon like that you know.

		Look at the radio programs. Oh, my. Turn "Rock of Ages" into twist,
"Old 					Rugged Cross" into swing, 

62.	Years ago… I got no faith in this man, but I think he told the
truth. There was this Pentecostal bunch led by a Pentecostal lady,
because her husband wasn't there that night, and she said, "Oh Bro. so
and so (and he was not a Christian) would you play some music for us."
And he played 'The Old Rugged Cross'. Said, "The Old Rugged Cross,"
[Bro. Vayle makes some upbeat sounds] and they're all dancing [makes
more music sounds] and right to the Old Rugged Cross. And syncopated it
right, right to hopped up jazz.

	Listen, contemporary sinful music. And there's contemporary godly
music. Now, when they take the contemporary godly music and turn it into
the things of hell, there's something wrong! Well, if they turn the
Scripture they'll turn the singing, or anything goes. See, not long ago
those hoops he said, the hula-hoops, Bro. Branham hated those
hula-hoops. See? 

		What's it sponsored by? Beer, whiskey, cigarettes, money of the
nation. 					What do they do? (In other words, they'll take radio and TV
and sponsor 					anything.) Pentecost wouldn't go to them dirty filthy
pictures and such plays. 				Devil put one over on you, put the
television in your house. Way of a true 					prophet…

		Pentecostals used to wouldn't go to them dirty, filthy pictures and
such plays. 				Devil put one on you, put the television in your house. 

		Way of a true prophet… let's stay with the Truth. Yes, sir. 

		Look at our billboards: women standing out with cigarettes in their
hand, 					every little Jezebel in the country... 

63.	Back in 1929, Moody's Monthly said, "The pictures are now showing
women near a package of cigarettes with their hand close, how soon will
it be before you see the cigarettes in their hands getting women to
smoke cigarettes?" Moody Monthly was right. Spoke out like a prophet. 

	Now, you got, "You've come a long way baby." [Cigarette slogan] Oh no
baby, you're just one step from hell. Back in 1929, you're maybe sixty
years from it, but today you're in it. With your painted up eyes, and
your gook, and your whole mess that you're into. Understand a little
girl put this junk on her eyes now that's supposed to believe.

	You say, "Who?"

	Find out for yourself. I ain't gossiping, just telling you. Where's the
mother's? Come on you mother's, what about your daughters? "Oh, a little
this, a little that." Oh what, does it? Well, come on. Then you answer
in judgment day. Because those were the cats that Bro. Branham saw. And
I saw the same thing years ago when I use to look at TV, when Danny Kaye
had thim on. 

64.	Now, Bro. Branham saw these women in the vision, they'd come up,
they'd suddenly as they ran toward him they were nothing but great big
eyes made up like cats-eyes way up, and that woo-woo sound. And he sat
there like they were coming up the escalator when the vision repeated. I
saw the very same thing with Danny Kaye, he had all these girls made up
like cats, and then they came right toward the camera. I used to think
Mary Tyler Moore was kind of a nice girl, because she used to go around
(you know) with that nice…little act-thing she did, and I saw her  one
night on TV and she was dancing like a whirlwind. Oh, beautiful figure
and she could really dance, but just as sexy as a prostitute. I felt so
bad about her, she can do what she wants. Her son committed suicide,
that shows just what…she already paid a price. Oh yeah, they don't
give a rip. They want these things. See? Now, holding the cigarettes,
all that stuff. 

[84]	You say something to Ricky, or Elvis, oh they'd shoot you. And the
government 				would back them up, 'cause they're only teenagers. "Well,
that's all right. Oh, 				you see, they didn't understand. They're
teenagers..." 

	What about the Jews got 'bar-mitzvah' set forth at thirteen? Who's
responsible? Those kids didn't get that way by themselves. I'll tell you
what it was: as the Catholic church cut off the truth, and the
Lutheran's cut it off, and the Wesleyan's and Pentecost, now they've cut
it all off. There's only one place to go, and that's to the flesh.
That's what they're going to do.

65.	Let me read about the flesh: (Might as well, this is going to be one
of those long tedious Sunday's, I want to finish anyway. If I get too
long, I'll cancel Wednesday and you can stay home Wednesday night,
didn't say I would.)

	Listen here: [Romans 1:]

		(9) 	Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; 					
(absolutely shown and revealed) for God hath shewed it (to) them. 					
(There's nobody in doubt about it.)

		(20) 	For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are 						clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even 						his eternal power and Godhead; they are without excuse:

		(21) 	Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,


	They used to know God. Israel used to know God. Pentecost used to know
God. The Catholic's used to know God. Every Protestant used to know God,
they don't know Him anymore.

		(21)	…they glorified him not as God… 

	In other words, they couldn't give God the credit for His revelation,
let it sit there. Who knows more about God than God? Nobody knows more
about me than I do, except God! So many tried to tell me about myself.
You say I'm a psychiatrist. Ah, drop dead! I know you bunch too. Fap!
You're dime a dozen. Most of them are a bunch of German Jews that are
renegade. What do they got to offer? Nothing, to get back to God. 

		(21)	 …they knew…glorified him not…neither were thankful; became
						vain in their (reasonings), foolish heart was darkened.

		(22) 	Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

	Didn't say there was no God. Oh, but some of them did. [verse 24] 

		(24) 	Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the 					
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between 					
themselves:

	Now, what's the only thing you've today to save you from this? "The
Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, coming and
opening the eyes of your heart," [Eph 1:17-18] So, that in spite of
yourself, (and you'll like this if you're a Grace believer) in spite of
yourself you won't be running out here with this stuff. Now, we ain't
just putting up with this kind of stuff  brother/ sister.

66.	I want to tell you something: I don't care if it's all around the
world, I don't care where it is, this pulpit doesn't believe anything
else but the truth. Now, if I was committing adultery today I'd tell you
the truth, because I'm a very queer bird, but I'm not committing
adultery. I'm not robbing, stealing, and all these things. Now, you're
not either. But, I want you to know what a prophet's like and why did he
come in this age.

	Oh, but the people say like this fellow from the west coast from South
Africa, the great African. "Oh yes, oh, (he said,) that judging, that
man that judges everybody now, he's judged himself, why they're lovely
dear people." And he watched the girls floozy foot across the platform.
No right to pray, you get up in the church and prophesy. "Oh, sister so
and so."

	And you don't dare say a thing, because she's a little sex-pot of
brother so and so is worth a lot of money. Phftt, that much for your
money! I like money, don't like it that well. Not like rob a bank or
shoot somebody for it. Get up and tell lies, forget it. You heard what I
said. 

	Like they say, the only difference the government and Dillinger, well
Dillinger had a gun. The government's got one too, or a used car
salesman, same thing. 

		(24)	…dishonour their bodies…

		(25) 	…changed the truth of God (to) a lie,  worshipped and served
the 						creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. 

67.	In other words, made the church some big thing. Get to God by the
church. "Come in the church, we got God." Who said so? See?

		(26) 	For this cause God gave them up (to) vile affections: (oh God, 	
				brother if you know what I'm talking about, go on down to the 					
newsstand and take a look.) even the women did change the natural 				
use into that which is against nature:

		(27) 	…likewise men, leaving the natural use of woman, burned in
their 						lust one toward another; men with men working that which is 
					unseemly, receiving in themselves that recompence of their error 		
			which was meet. (AIDS and the rest of it.)

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

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

		(30) 	Backbiters, haters of God…

		"Oh, we don't hate God."

	"If I had not done the works that no other man did, they did not sin,
but now they both seen, both hated Me and My Father." [John 15:24] You
get that out of the Bible and I'll believe you.

	"Oh, we love Him."

	Do you love Him? That's a lie for the pit of hell. I'll cry to my dying
day there's no such thing as 'church love', it's the 'love of God' 
brother/sister. You tell me that you can separate God, Word, and love
and get away with it. Something better line up and it's not this stuff
I've seen all my life. "Hallelujah, love you Jesus," and go out and pull
everything in the book. Yep.

68.	Listen:

		(31) 	…without natural affection, implacable, (implacable, cannot be
						placated, cannot be turned, no room for repentance, nothing left,)
						unmerciful:

	Unmerciful? Why is there incest today in the homes? Little tiny kids
molested all the time, and every way of escape made, because, well it's
here to stay. 

	I want to tell you something brother/sister: the devil's implacable and
sin is implacable, and lust is implacable. As the Bible said, there's
several things that cannot be satiated, the fire cannot be satiated, the
grave cannot be satiated, neither can sin in this hour be satiated, nor
man. And they don't already have sex, but they want to destroy. It's not
just rape, it's violence. Cutting the girl's throat until the blood goes
down, strangles the little boy, the little girl over the adult.
Implacable, knowing this is in the land the judges stand back and say,
"Well, tsk, well…"

	What did it? Off the Word of God. What did it? Off the Word of God.
What did it? Off the Word of God! What's doing it? Cut hair for one
thing! I haven't been so rough on cut hair for a long time. I'm still
not rough, I haven't got a feeling in my heart, or one a month…not a
bad feeling in my bones about cut hair. Do what you want. Any woman
here, and any woman out there.

69.	Bro. Branham said, "You cut your hair your man can divorce you." I
don't have to divorce you, God's already done divorced you. You don't
tell me there's going to be a virgin with short hair get in. Now, I'm
not saying women can't have short hair, because their hair won't grow.
Look, I knew a poor little woman down below here in Alabama, she looked
like one of those chickens (you know) with curly feathers. It just
didn't grow from the time since she was four, I'm sorry for her. You
think God's going to hold that against her? No! What should she do? She
should wear a wig. I'm not talking like God now, and I said that's my
wife she'd wear a wig. Why? So she looks more natural. Now listen:

		(31)	… unmerciful:   

		(32) 	Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such 			
		things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure 		
		in them that do them. (Are those rotten filthy judges and all the rest
					have pleasure in what's going on.)

	You say, "They do know?"

	They don't know, they do know, because, look he stood there with Him
the Judge. It's been known plumb around the world, and the preachers
said, "Oh, we got to stop this." Yep.

	Then Pentecost did the grandest act of all, they said, "Sure we'll have
him any day he wants to come. We'll let the people know he's off the
Word." Yeah.

70.	Okay listen:

		Now, you see what a true prophet means? His way? 

		Look at these filthy dreamers in the churches with their denomination,
					they'd shoot you right in the back. The only thing keeps them from
doing 					it is the mercy of God till the Messages got out. The devil
will kill you, 					if he could do it. That's right. But the Message has
got to go. "I, the Lord, 					will restore." That's right. "I'm able of
these stones to rise it." That's right. 				All right. 

		Our picture shows, our billboards, our pleasure-loving…  

[85] 	…Florida to California, key clubs; where men throw their keys in
a hat, 					they're picked up [by the women]  live with each other for a
week and so on. 

		They don't know what decency means. Out here with a little old tight
dresses 				on, things like that, men lusting after them, and think 
they're decent. You 					might not have done nothing wrong, sister, but
let me tell you something; 					you're a tool of the devil. (So is a
man, don't worry, he's not saying the man 				isn't.) At the judgment
bar, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll answer for 					committing adultery,
and your soul will be gone. 

71.	Now listen, he said, 'Thus Saith the Lord'. Now no man can say that
on his own. I'm going to tell you something: he's not a true prophet of
God if he says It on his own. It won't be backed up. And it's got to
have a continuancy, continuing laying in the Word. "You'll answer."  

		You know better; you know it anyhow. 

		Our whole setup is corrupt and decayed. It's our people, what they
want. 					Like a good man of the house. Why, if a man was a good man of
the house, 				blaming your government... That's what sends our boys out
here and makes 				cannon fodder out of them (That's right.), because
our own corruption. 					(That's what it says.) If we loved the Lord,
served the Lord, voted the right 					kind of government and everything
else, it would be a wonderful place. 					That's right. We'd have no
wars. No. God's our Refuge and our Strength. 

[86]	Send our boys out and kill them, butcher them up, everything else,
is 					because our own action has brought it to pass. God said so in
the Bible, 					and He doesn't change; He's just the same. It's our own
people want it.

	Now, why does he say that? Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation, we
have made the image to the beast. We made an image to the beast. I
wonder what's going to happen now that Mr. Moon is going to have to
serve eighteen months in prison mandatory by the Supreme Court refusing
to review his case. Yet, every Roman Catholic bishop is doing and will
continue to do what Mr. Moon evidently got caught in, inadvertently,
because he wasn't doing it when he was told not to. But not one Roman
Catholic bishop was on the Donahue Show, a couple of black Baptist were,
and what's that guy down there in Virginia? Falwel. 

	And he said, "I'm against everything he stands for," he said. And he
said, "I don't do my books the way he does them, we get an A-plus from
the IRS, (he said) I don't even have a bank account in my name. He said,
"The church gives us our living and my wife handles it." Which is
scriptural if he wants to do it that way. That would be alright, he
handles the spiritual, so his wife can handle that part. It's alright,
it's not unscriptural. It can be done. But he said, "I will fight,
because this man was done wrong by. The Salvation Army does it, and
everybody does it."

72.	You know how they do it? Because, the preachers allow their names to
be on checks that they pass out, and they take that money and are
responsible. And when it goes in their hands from that minute on they
can be taxed for it. That's why when I get checks in my name, I put
deposit to Grace Gospel Church, or Calvary Church in Columbus. And if I
put my name on it, I know I'm liable for it just as sure as I stand
here.

	Now, if it's a gift, that's a horse of a different color. If it's not a
gift, it's a tithe, it's got to go through the proper channels. But if
it's not designated tithe, it becomes a gift. That's headquarters from
the smartest accountants in America. But, the Catholic bishop's will not
stop doing what they're doing. 

	Now, they're going to take Mr. Cody(?) to court, but he died. How come
his lady cousin has not been investigated and the money given back to
the Catholic church? Why, they'll cover a bigger nest of worms than
ever.

	Well, what about our Chief Justices? Now let's face it: this man was
railroaded on a technicality not a crime. Did your teenage boys, if you
got them and you don't, are out there that are raised rotten, they
wouldn't listen to you and went out there and committed heinous crimes,
even knowing what they're doing, and men who plan to do crimes and do
them, the judge will say, "Well, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm…" Yeah. For murder
you get a reprimand verbal. For cumulated parking tickets, six months in
jail. That's where it goes.  

73.	For blaspheming God and starting court fights and everything else,
and Madalyn Murray O'Hair, [atheist activist] you can be glorified as a
Venus which she is; and I hope you caught the double meaning. Send out
boys out and kill them, there's something wrong. 

		That's the same thing our government, about its people here. Don't
blame 					the government, blame this bunch of backslidden churches for
putting such 				things in their politics as they got. They want it.
That's the reason they 					vote for it, that's the reason they got it;
that's the reason the judgment of 					God's upon them; and they're
going to reap what they sowed. They're sowing 				now and they're going
to reap later. 

[87]	Watch… we're mad stricken (yeah.), trying to buy our way into
Russia, 					trying to buy our way with communism, trying with money...
You can't buy 				these gifts of God. 

		There was a guy named Simon, tried it.. He [Paul] said, "Your money 		
		perishes with you." [Acts 8:20]  You're playing the part of Simon the 
				sorcerer, trying to buy a gift of God. Come back to the Word; come
back 					to God; come back to Christ; and then don't worry about
communism. 					(That's right, don't worry.) We'll vote another man in;
have another 					Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or somebody like
the real man. 					Don't blame that government up there; blame
ourselves. That's what 					Amos would say, and that's the way of a true
prophet. (…?...) not time, no 					use blaming the government, which
it true.)

74.	You know, the Methodist church has been one of the biggest bug-aboos
of all, but the Catholic is the biggest flim-flam of the whole bunch.
They pretend they fight communism, Look it,  (you know) I've told you
how it is, a Baptist preacher said, "Hold it," he said, "there's
something very fishy here." So he put a map, he took the map of the
world and he covered in red everywhere where the Roman Catholic church
was, and its two branches, east and west, which is Greek Orthodox. Then
he covered that with purple, (rather, first of all he started with
purple where the church was) then he began taking his red pencil, and
where the Protestant's were there was no red. But where the purple was,
it was all red. So, who brings on communism? The Catholic church.
Because it drains the people under, the people say, "Well, if the
priest's got it, we better get a little bit of our own."

	How should you keep a bunch of priests and nuns happy having it? They
take a vow of poverty. I'd like a vow of poverty, three good meals a day
and all the clothes I can wear, and have a nice time doing it. If that's
poverty, bring me a barrel. Like I said, when I felt better, "If this is
tribulation, (you know) just bring on two thousand more years with good
health." This ain't no squeeze yet, we're just getting that way.

75. Okay, alliances:

		Israel had their alliance... First they had to get away from the Word
of 					God, before they could make an alliance with their enemy.
(America did 					the same thing, certainly.) Before we could ever make
an alliance with 					our enemy and things, we have to get away from the
Word of God. 

[88] 	Same now, letting Rome take over, why, we're doing it all the
time. She 					took the government; she's taking the places; taking the
people; taking the 					churches. What are we doing? …agreeing with
them. "Oh, don't make 					any difference… this way, that way; it's
all God anyhow." (That's what 					they say.)

		…miserable, backslidden so-called prophets. 

	Why, so called? Because, they are so-called prophets, they're onerous 
prophets, these guys that prophesy falsely. Ahab's four hundred false
prophets. They're prophets, sure, students of theology.

		What's the matter with you? They don't know the Word about God in
these 				things. They don't study the Word. They don't realize. They
say communism's 				going to take the world over. No, it isn't.
Romanism's taking the world over. 				It's doing it under the name of
Christianity. Didn't the Bible, Jesus say it'd 					be so close it'd
fool the very Elect if possible?  

		What we need today, we need another true prophet. Amen. (There he was,
					standing right there.) We need a man for the Word of God to come
to. Yes, 					brother. He'd be rejected, run out, cast out; he'd blast a
hole. (Sure would). 				He would sure sow such seeds, till the Elect
would find it. That's right.

[89] 	We need a prophet. We need a man who has the right interpretation
of the 					Word comes to, that God speaks through him and vindicates
the Word to make 				It true. That's what we need, brother, we need the
promised according to 					Malachi 4, (there It is,) [points to the
picture of the Pillar of Fire] to restore 				what? The faith of the
people back to the Bible. The promised one; he'll do it.				 (You see,
that's what happened in Elijah's day.)

76.	 Let me go back to that. 1 Kings 18. 

		(37) 	Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou 		
			art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

	In other words, the turning of the heart will be only to the Elect. The
seven thousand that didn't bow the knee, and they did not know, the
confusion was too great and Elijah was very scarce, he wasn't around too
much. And when he was he blasted. And so the people knew that that man
knew God, but they didn't know that they knew, but they knew something
was working.

	So, one day, this great big show-down is called, and the Fire comes and
Elijah says, "Now they know the true God, who I am, who you are, and we
together, and this will turn it around." This was William Branham's
ministry to give Light to our heart so the Day Star could arise and we'd
be part of the future of Almighty God. It has been done.

	You say, "Has my heart been turned?" Certainly, your heart's been
turned. What do you think has been turned, your head? Oh brother.

	I don't see anybody here with his back bone in the front. I'm sure mine
isn't. So, your heads haven't been turned, it's your heart that's
turned. Your understanding, you have a spiritual concept. it's what you
have. See? (I don't  want to be tough on you, but you know how it is.)

77.	All right.

		Amos knew Israel, her ungodly lovers would destroy her. …their
ungodly 					lovers of today will soon destroy them. (That's us.) The
very denominational 				creeds and things, that they've bound themselves
unto (you Pentecostals), 					that's the thing's going to destroy you:
your creed and denomination. 					You're binding yourself right up
yonder to take the mark of the beast…

	How is it going to be done? Through joining the institution the mark of
the beast. And they'll sing, "Jesus, lover of my soul," while they're
doing it. See?  

		You're binding yourself right up yonder taking the mark of the beast
even 					and don't even know it, holding it right over your eyes. Sure
it is, boycott. 					(Why? They're blinded, see?) What are you trying to
do? You belong to 					this… don't belong to that. See? You just wait.
Just get a little bit longer. 					Then you say, "I'll get out of it
then." 

		No, you won't; you're already in it; you're already marked; you're
caught 					with the mark on you. 

Why? Because the heart hasn't been turned. It's been confirmed in the
same old pattern. What enlightens one blinds the other. What frees one,
enslaves the other.

		No matter, Esau wept bitterly, he knew better; wept bitterly, trying
to find 					a place to repent and couldn't find it. You'll stay there
then. Now's the time 				to flee. (Hebrew 6 is going on, see? No
repentance.)    	

[90]	Amos knew that their ungodly lovers would soon destroy her, for
they, the 					church, had left Him, God, and His Word, and way of life.
They'd got away 				from God's way of life and made their own way. Oh,
the Word is a 						stumbling block to them, and It's the same thing
today. The Word of God 					is a stumbling block…

78. Let's find out, the exact parallel. First Peter 2:6. And It says:

		(6) 	Wherefore (it's) contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a
chief 					corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him
shall not 						be confounded.

		(7) 	Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them
which 					be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, is
made the 					head of the corner,

		(8) 	…a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them
which 						stumble at the word, being disobedient: (and that simply
means, 'not 					understanding', and they won't listen to the man that
can explain It.)

	All right:	

		…they say, "We got the Holy Ghost." 

		…still wear bobbed hair? …baptize in the Father, Son, Holy Ghost?
How 					can  you believe those things and act the way you do? Goes to
show that 					your fruits proves it. Jesus said, "By their fruits you
know them." (Now, 					that's not being nice, and this and that. That's
how you line with the Word.)

		Yes. If Amos was here, he'd cry against their systems. You know that? 

		Now, I'm going to read a verse in closing…  

		The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord... has spoken, who
can 					but prophesy?

[91] 	Listen. In closing now I want to say this. I'm sorry to have kept
you a half 					hour late. I'm a hunter; I hunt. I'm glad God give me
something like that. 					The other day when the gun went off, I went
right back down to see if I could 				it shoot again. I don't want it to
scare me. If I was in a car wreck, I wouldn't				quit driving a car. If
I walk across the floor, and stumble my toe on the carpet, 				and went
through the window, I wouldn't quit walking. See? God gave me 					clean
exercise; that was Satan; that wasn't God. See? That was Satan. 

		Now, I know the spiritual application to it. There's three of us in
this room 				right now that knows what it is, and it'd raise the hair
on your head. (I don't 				know what it was, I never did find out.) 

79.	Anyway, It says, [Amos 3:8] 

		"If a lion roars who will not fear?"

[92]	I've hunted in the African jungles. I've been around where lions
were. He's 				the king of the beasts. I've laid out in the jungles at
nighttime and hear the 					squawking hyenas, the laughing, the howling,
and different animals…some 				of them hyenas make your blood curdle
is  when they scream. …leopards 					and whining, and beetles, and
monkeys, and baboons, thousand times 					thousands squeak, squawk, walk
everywhere; all you hear is kinds of 					things going on, but let a
lion roar, even the beetles keep still. …a deathly 					hush. They
keep still. The king has spoken. Amen. 

		If a lion roars, who'll not fear? When God speaks, who can keep from 	
			prophesying? (In other words, if God is going to speak its going to
take a 					prophet.) When God speaks, the prophet cries. You know what
I mean? 					The true prophet cries. Friends, He has spoken. Then let
every creature 					of His kingdom take heed to what He said. (Now, he
didn’t say anything 					else, but the kingdom.)  

[93] 	If a lion can recognize there's something wrong, when he roars
everything 				of his kingdom hushes. They listen. Even the little
beetles, in that kingdom. 				The blood-shrilling howl of the hyena,
shuts up. The elephant there, that 					could pick up the lion and whirl
him around and throw him out, he shuts 					up and stand still. The cape
buffalo who can snort, look like blowed fire from 				his nose, when a
lion jump on him, wouldn't even harm him... Let the rhino 				with his
seven tons of armored piercing and his big snoot, let a lion roar, he 		
	stops in his tracks. What's the matter? His king has spoken. See? He
wants 				to hear what's going to be said. 

		And when God speaks, the prophet cries; and let His Kingdom take heed
to 				what He's saying. God has spoken; let every creature of His
Kingdom listen				 to what He's saying. Let's pray. 

80.	And he prays:

		O Lion of the tribe of Judah, rise up and roar. Thou art roaring in
this last 				day. Your eyes are narrowed; looking down. You're seeing
the sin of this 					so-called Christian nation world. We're seeing the
sin of this nation, when 				it's been bought with precious Blood. We're
seeing how the denominations 				are wading over Your Word, see how the
false prophets are lying, God's 					Truth they're denying. 

[94]	Roar, O Lion of Judah; let Your prophets cry out. When God speaks,
who 					can keep from prophesying? (That's Hebrews 12, coming right
now, the 					next is judgment.) It's the Word of God coming out of the
Bible, moving 					up through the prophet. Who can he hold his peace? If
he would, he'd 					blow to pieces. 

		Oh, God, let Your prophet roar, Lord. Roar out Your Message, God, and 
				let every creature of the Kingdom take heed. May they stop. May the
women 				stop and examine themselves. May the men stop and examine
themselves. 					May every preacher listens to this tape, stop and
examine himself, for the 					Lion of the tribe of Judah roars, then the
true Word, coming to the prophets, 				speaks, out, "Repent and turn
back before it's too late." 

		God, I commit this message on the tape and in this visible audience to
You 				this morning, trusting You'll approve it and call every son and
daughter of 				God, that's under--that'll ever hear this tape or hear
my voice, back to 					repentance. 

		Lord, I believe if You'd sent Amos here, he'd cry the same thing. But
if he's 				a prophet of the Lord, he's a sender forth of the Word. He
sent forth by 					the Word, with the Word, (that's a prophet) and he is
the Word. Now, Lord, 				let it be done in the Name of Jesus Christ. 

81.	We're going to close with going back to Amos 3, I'm taking this
long, I might as well take the rest of the time. In chapter 3 Bro.
Branham is speaking and he says:

		(1)	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,

		(2)	You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore
I 						will punish You for all your iniquities. (That's wise and
foolish 						virgins are going to hear this, and something is going to
happen.)

		(3)	Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (No way.)

		(4)	Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young
						lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?

		(5)	Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for
him? 						shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken
nothing 						at all?

		(6)	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, he's telling you, "Look, hey you know the signs are
going on, What if something that you know has got to be God, or
something so mysterious (you know) you got to be somewhere near God?
Something that’s very unusual, something is going on. Look, if you
know it out there, you got to know it in here.

82.	You don't suddenly come to church being out there very alert: "watch
now, little boys and girls, only when the sign says 'green', walk. Now
when it says 'red', we stop. Whoop, there's a car zooming, watch it,
don't walk, you maybe go hit that red light kill us all."

	"Oh, we know it." Suddenly come to church, errrh, [makes a noise]
suddenly you're an itiot,  ape. Come on, that's what happens. That's
what happens.

	Jesus said, "Look, you can tell the signs out there. You can discern.
How come you don't know something's going on?" [Mt 16:2-3] Only the
Elect. 

	Well, I'm glad I'm going this way  brother/sister, I believe I am. I
believe you're going this way, I believe we're all going together.

		(7)	Surely the Lord... will do nothing, but he reveals his secrets
unto 						his servants the prophets.

	In other words, something is to happen which is a secret, but it won't
be when the prophet gets there. That's right.

		(8)	The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD (has) 					
spoken, who can but prophesy?

		(9)	Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, the palaces of Egypt say, 						
Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, (while 						the
great mountains of …?... and so on, right down there.)

	You can see right there what he's saying. Look, there's a true prophet
in the land. "I've given you the earmarks, I've shown you how they do
it, I'm a true prophet. I've got all the earmarks, my ministry,
everything, my personality, it's all standing in front of you. Can't you
stand still and notice something?"

	It's okay, they couldn't… [tape ends]

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