They Know Better PRIVATE  

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

July 5, 1991

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re grateful that we are here, and
since knowing that we know that which is actually hidden from the world,
yet was revealed to the world, and men knew It, and they did nothing
about It, except in the negative, where they denied It all and
attributed to what was not You, Lord; knowing that very soon there’s
going to be an anti-Christ come on the scene—even we see the world
church power—even designating dates: ‘91, ‘92. And so, we’re
confident, Lord, that we are in the last day. And somehow, Lord, we know
by Your Spirit, at least we feel we do, something moving that gives us
this blessed and great assurance, O God, that we have come up higher,
even as the prophet told Bro. Hickerson, as he placed his hand about a
foot above the table, and he said, “Hick, you’re down here on the
table, and I’m up here. But, when I’m gone, you’ll be up here
where my hand is.” And I believe, Lord, that that young man told the
truth. I believe it is the truth; I don’t believe for one minute that
we can get away from that.

	Again, Lord, your prophet said there was a difference between ‘caught
up’ and ‘catch up’. And I believe, Lord, that that’s what he
meant in a certain various respect when he said, “They without us
cannot be made perfect.” And we are catching up to them, Lord, and
also we’ll be catching up to those that are already ascended above us:
the first—one, two, three, four, five, six church ages, plus those
that have gone on before You, that ascended somewhere in heaven, into a
dimension, where they are absolutely immortal. These things are
positively fantastic, Lord, but they are not beyond belief, because we
believe them. We accept them, Lord, because we have seen the evidence of
It being so. 

	Now, help us to see further truth tonight in simplicity and in faith, O
God, as never before. Establish in our hearts and minds in that
simplicity rock bottom, Lord, that You said was just like a rock—such
a simple comparison. One’s rock. One’s sand. As the prophet said,
“One is an eagle; one is a chicken or a hawk.” These things, Lord,
we see; and, if we are a part of You, a part of the prophet, sons and
daughters of the prophets, we accept them, and we go on this way,
knowing, Lord, it is soon going to be consummated. Help us tonight in
the service, therefore. We give You glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.  	Now I’m not particularly organized tonight as to how the readings
are going to go, and I’m not particularly organized as to what the
title is, but we’ll start off with number one. And I kind of doubt if
I’m going to get to number three, but number one is: “Preachers Know
Better”. “Preachers Know Better”. 

	Now, you’re going to find as I read some actual quotes from Bro.
Branham here—before I read some other material—that Bro. Branham
cried out against the preachers. He cried out against those in
authority, and he absolutely indicted them. And he said that they
absolutely knew better. They absolutely did know, and they did nothing
about it, except in the adverse.

2.  	So, I am prepared to show you tonight from the theologians’ own
writing, from their words over their own hand, their own signature, as
it were; as I can honestly tell you, I received a letter from a certain
person one day, and I caught a lie over his own signature. So, I have
this tonight to read to you, which is absolutely authentic, and we’ll
start by reading what Bro. Branham said, as he screamed out against
these people.

3.  	He says here in “The Indictment”, “There, they...they...the
ones who ought to have known better, if anybody should have known
better, it should have been those ministers. If anybody should have
known better, it should have be the clergies of this day; if anybody
ought to know—the bishops, the archbishops, the ministers.” And
you’ll notice by the emphasis upon the certain terminology, that this
would refer either to the Roman Catholic Church in majority, also to the
Anglican, but coming down to the other denominations, of which, Bro.
Branham said at that time, “There are eight hundred and some.” Today
there are over twenty-two hundred. That’s right. That’s the actual
report I’m giving you, because I read it.

4.  	“If anybody ought to know, the bishops, and the archbishops, the
ministers, doctors of divinity ought to know different; but, why can’t
they? Oh, what a contradiction. What have we got before us here but a
contradiction? They claim that they worship God, and they are killing
the Prince of Life.” Now, did you listen to what I read? Now, are you
listening, or are we just sort of flopping around, because we’re used
to reading? We’re not used to taking the actual material the man said.
He said, “They are killing the Prince of Life, and they know that
they’re doing it.” 

5.  	We continue to read: “There they...they...the ones who ought to
know better, killing the Prince of Life.” And, go on down to “The
Indictment”, let’s see now, yes sir, call to repentance. And, my,
the indicting now, “This new Calvary is the church so-called most holy
places, great pulpits, Catholicism, the altar, Catholic altar called
their pulpit, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian.” Remember, he also
said, “Methodist, Baptist, witchcraft.” “The Lutheran, the
Pentecostals, the most holy places—there He receives his hardest
pierces, a new Calvary. Where is it found at? In the holy places—the
church—where He is crucified at from the pastors. You hypocrites, you
know better than that. I’m not angry, but something inside of me is
stirring. God’s been thoroughly identified among you.”

6.	“The Way of a True Prophet”: We won’t look at. We’ll just put
some of these to one side. They’re, you know, print-outs.

 “Awakening Jesus”. Now, what about me standing here tonight? What
have I got to do? There’s 150 people here, I guess, something like
that, whether it’s 150, whether it’s one person, 500,000, it
doesn’t make any difference.” Hey, he starts with 150, gets up to
150,000, settles on one person, if necessary. “Just doesn’t make any
difference. Just the same, see. Now, if anybody thinks that this is
bogus, and not right, I ask you to come and take my place and do the
same thing.” So, he’s doing something. Right? “You know better
than to try that. Notice. But now, God has to prove whether He’s right
or not. Now, if it’s the Lord God or not.”

“Remembering the Lord”: “Now they showed that those priests
actually knew who He was. Because Nicodemus expressed it and the
Sanhedrin, one of the great men, expressed it when he came. He was one
of the chief of the Pharisees, and he said, ‘Rabbi, we know that
You’re a teacher come from God because no man can do the things that
You do except God be with him.’”  See, they knew it. “But, see,
they got to remember that. They knew better, but didn’t do it. Let
your creed hold you down from the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and
because they tell you there’s no such thing.” 

“Identification”: “Now, I’m coming down home here just a little
closer now. How about you Pentecostals that you really know better?
That’s right. You know better than that; you know better.” Bro.
Branham called himself a Pentecostal in certain ways. “Oh, what could
be said right there, how that God has left this nation naked. They know
better. Newspapers have published it around and around. Signs of his
coming have been produced, and they continued right on, like they
ignored it and they are without any excuse.”

7.	Now I could read much more, but I want to pose the question. When
Bro. Branham was speaking, (And you know that he was a messenger sent
from God, and he had a Message which was to forerun the Second Coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ.) and my question is this: “Is he talking to the
theologians on the basis of the Scripture that they positively knew that
what he was bringing was the correct interpretation?” Or was he
saying, “You positively know from the signs and the wonders that are
here that this positively is of God, and you know it?”

	Now the answer is this: there is no way that Bro. Branham could accuse
any denomination of believers of knowing better and not believing him
per se as concerning the doctrine, because they did not know better.
Because they were taught different from what Bro. Branham was. And
furthermore, the way he articulated and expressed his own understanding
of Scripture was many times so darkened that they were not able to
follow him. It was not that Bro. Branham was darkened, but it was in
darkened counsel, as it were, because they could not take it. 

8.	Now the answer tonight is categorically: it was the miracle and sign
ministry that was in their midst that showed the appearing of the Lord
Jesus Christ, Himself, in this hour, that proved that this was
absolutely God. They knew it positively, and they turned it down. And
they knew better than to turn it down, but they turned it down. So, we
are not talking about the Word. We are talking about that which preceded
the Word, as I mentioned to you last night, that a true Word prophet
coming from God, that man must have had God vindicate Himself to him,
and then, God turn around and vindicate that man to whomever He wanted
that man to speak, because the law has been laid down: “I will no
longer at any time speak to you personally. I will not appear to you
personally. But I will come through a prophet.” And, when He came
through the prophet, there were those that rose up. So, God, then,
declared Himself further, and He said, “If there be a prophet amongst
you, I will reveal Myself in dreams and visions and so on.” But He
said, “my servant, Moses, is not so, because I will speak to him
face-to-face and show Myself even apparently.” He said, “I will
actually appear before Him, and we will talk face-to-face.” And that
was positively vindicated by Almighty God, that God so dealt with Moses.

9.   So, this man, William Branham, is talking about vindication. And he
says positively, absolutely, “The people in this world, the
theologians, the churches, they know this, and they’ve turned it down,
and thereby crucified the Son of God to themselves afresh.” Now, do
you understand what I’m saying? What I’m saying tonight is so
simple, (exactly what you’ve believed, exactly what you know) but I am
presenting it tonight, hopefully with the help of God, in such a way
that you really know that you know that you know, that you know that you
know it! And you leave here on a higher plane than you’ve ever been
before, because we just know so too many things about this great prophet
that we can’t claim that we don’t know this. 

10.  Now, in order that you might surely and irrevocably know what I’m
talking about, I’m going to start to read about that which is coming
upon the land, and I’ll quote you from Pope John Paul: “Almighty God
can make the impossible possible.” 

	Well, what about it? Is there an ‘amen’ or ‘shout’ in the camp?
Is there an understanding? This pope is telling you, “God, almighty,
positively—and I know it—this God that I represent, this Christ that
I am the vicar of, I am telling you, ‘He is able to do the
impossible!’”

11.  Now, is the guy a big, flap-mouthed liar, or is he telling the
truth? You’re going to find that he’s telling the truth. You’re
going to find that he is not pulling his punches, because too long the
Protestants have thought the Catholics are working on a bluff—which
indeed they are, because the devil is just a bluff, the Catholics are a
bluff, the Protestants are bluffs, and the churches are bluffs. And they
have been confronted, and their bluff has been called. And their bluff
has been called legally in the courts of God, and they will stand in the
Judgment. And the White Throne is going on right now, because Bro.
Branham said so, and we can prove it by the Scripture. He said, “I
indict this generation.” And he positively did indict this generation,
and he brought on the flashing lights of this hour in which we appear
with him. 

12.  “Now,” he said, “Almighty God can make the impossible
possible...can change all human hearts through the queenship of Jesus’
mother, Mary.” This is an absolute statement by the pope, and I want
you to understand that it is. 

13.  Enter Fatima of Portugal, October 13, 1917. Reading again:
“Undoubtedly, one of the greatest signs in the skies…”Are you
listening? Just keep listening! 

 	“Undoubtedly one of the greatest signs in the skies that has ever
been witnessed by man took place in Fatima, Portugal, on October 13,
1917.”

	How many even knew about it? Let me see your hands. Come on, get the
hands up. Well, thank you. Just be honest with me tonight, because I’m
a very abrupt person. I’m not nervous, but I’m hammering, and I’m
going to hammer. So, if I want hands, I want hands. You catch what I’m
saying? Obey your elders. All right.

    	“On that day an apparition that claimed to be the Virgin Mary
appeared for the sixth consecutive month to three small children at a
spot called Cova da Iria. By the time of the sixth appearance, word of
the affair had spread so widely that over 75,000 people were gathered to
the tiny hamlet. Then it happened: one of the children cried out,
“Look at the sun!” As the crowd looked up at the sun, it began to
turn a silvery color and began to spin at high speeds, spewing off
colors that bathed the crowds below in every tint contained in a
rainbow. Then, the sun began to roam across the skies, moving this way
and then, that. Occasionally, it would stop, and once again begin
spinning and shooting forth the colored lights before it would go back
to roaming the heavens. Finally it stood still, pulsating and trembling
in the sky. Without warning it plunged from its position in the skies.
It began heading directly down onto the people below. The sun grew
bigger and bigger, and the heat became intense as the fire came down
from heaven. People began to scream and panic, thinking the end of the
world had come. At the height of their panic, the sun stopped in its
descent and began to climb back to its conventional place in the sky.
All returned to normal. The show was over. The crowd, then, noticed, as
the wind blew upon them, but seemed to have no effect upon the trees,
that they were completely dry. This was in spite of the fact that it
rained for days prior to the event, all night and the night before. Even
the ground was parched and cracked as if no rain had fallen in months.
There is no question that something happened in that October afternoon
of 1917.”

    	“Seventeen thousand people who had come from all over the world
witnessed it. People from up to 40 miles away, who were not even with
the crowd, also saw it. Newsmen and secular reporters of every type were
there, too. Everyone agreed that something completely beyond the control
of men had taken place. Most, of course, believed it was a great miracle
by the Virgin Mary. Clearly, it was either that or an unusually powerful
deception working on the hearts and minds of men.”

    	“Rome, Italy, May 13, 1981: Exactly 64 years to the day after the
first appearance of Mary at Fatima, the head of the Roman Catholic
Church, Pope John Paul II, bent down to pick up a little girl who had a
picture of Mary pinned to her sweater. As he did, the first two bullets
of the Browning automatic fired at his head, sailed over him. Next two
bullets found a place in the pope’s body. While recovering, Pope John
began to wonder if it was more than coincidence. The one that he
worshipped as the Virgin Mary and to whom he had dedicated his papacy,
had saved his life on the anniversary of the first appearance of Fatima.
Quickly he had his answer. As he lay convalescing, John Paul believes
that he had a supernatural vision.” (Don’t think he can’t have
visions.) “That vision,” he said, “included an exact repeat of the
miracle seen by 75,000 people at Fatima 64 years earlier.” Notice he
goes in eights (8 x 8 = 64).

	“Whatever John Paul saw remains a secret, but he was so moved by the
event that this man would come to the papacy as a dyed-in-the-wool
globalist, changed his entire approach to bringing forth his envisioned
new world order.” (Quote. Bush has a new world order.)

14.	Malachi Martin is believed by many to be the unofficial voice of
Pope John Paul II. He has recently authored a book entitled, The Keys of
This Blood, the struggle for world dominion between Pope John Paul II,
Mikhail Gorbachev and the capitalist West, and he even names Bush in
another place. Martin writes, on page 48 and 49 of the pope’s vision,
“Gone, too, was the pope’s presumed time frame for a leisurely and
relatively peaceful evolution—a relatively easy and peaceful
revolution—leisurely—from the traditional system of sovereign and
interacting nation states, to a veritable new world order.” And you
can see it working right now.

15. 	“Instead there was now no doubt in John Paul’s mind that in
heaven’s agenda, all would be thrown into the cauldron of human
judgment gone awry; of human evil sanctioned by men as normal, of
unparalleled, natural catastrophes, and catastrophes caused by panic.
This panic, this world gone out of control will be, John Paul believes,
the result of some event that will evoke an utterly new state of
conscienceness in all of mankind.” 

	This sounds exactly like the effect that the Rapture could have upon
the world. However, according to the vision that John Paul II had, it
will be quite something different, as we shall see.

16. 	Now, going on: “That this vision of John Paul is extremely
disturbing for a number of reasons. The greatest of these is, of course,
is the source of the vision. As previously noted, the position the
Catholic Church gives to Mary is not biblical. Indeed, Mary is often
placed above Jesus Himself, as the Savior of the world. The Mary that
appeared at Fatima was no more biblical. This apparition appeared many
times and each time imparted a message to the children who saw her. In
the first visit, this spirit asked three small children if they were
willing to offer themselves to God and to bear all the sufferings He
wills as an act of reparation for the sins for which He is offended, and
of supplication for the conversion of sinners.”

17. 	So, if you’re looking at a new world order, you’re looking at
the Virgin Mary, the queen of the heaven, and she will be the dominant
figure. And you will have to pay reparation for your own sins which is
nothing, more or less, than the doctrine of purgatory, and there was no
place for the blood of Jesus Christ here. This is in contradistinction
to the Word that says, “By His own Blood He entered in once into the
holy place, having obtained redemption for us, so Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many, and this man, Christ, after He had
offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of
God.” But Mary has risen up and told some kids that they’d better
suffer for the sins of the people, and thereby they would save many.
That’s your church!

18.	At a later date, after showing these terrified children a vision of
the torment of hell, this Mary told them what they were to do. 

	“You have seen hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save
them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate
Heart.” 

	Mary never sinned? Why did she say, “Well, your father and I were
going forth sorrowing.” She told a lie right there. Previously, she
said, “I had a child by the Holy Ghost without male intervention.”
Now she said, “Well, this boy...this man’s his father.” If we’re
depending on her, well, I’ve got news for you. You better change your
doctrine for sure.

19. 	“You’ve seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save
them God wishes to establish to the world devotion to my Immaculate
Heart”...sinless heart. 

	Now, they’re striving for sinless heart. She’s got it. 

	“If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there
will be peace. Pray the rosary in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary and
every day in order to obtain peace for the world...” 

	Because she, only, can help you. So, all right. There’s no possible
conclusion that we can come to except the one which tells us this
apparition, which appeared in Fatima and to the present pope, must be a
seductive spirit masquerading as Mary. And that is certainly the truth.

20. 	If that is the case, the same spirit guides that are leading and
directing the multitude of new-agers are also deceived, deceiving the
head of the world’s largest organization. The terrifying reality that
John Paul II, far from being only a nominal follower of this Mary,
believes that she spared his life for a divine purpose, and he is now
marching under her direct orders. And that’s exactly true, because
he’s dedicated his life entirely to the Virgin Mary, entirely devoted
to her, because she is the queen of the heavens. All right.

21. 	“John Paul knows.” This is quoting again from Martin: “John
Paul knows only that his function will be as a servant, that his years
of preparation as one of the world’s figures, a voice and a figure
that have received international recognition, will culminate in the
apostolic ministrations he must perform in a very different world from
the world of the Millennial end gain, and among nations that no longer
rely on themselves to build on earth a city of man.”

22. 	Now this is what Martin is saying concerning the pope, concerning
his devotion to the Virgin Mary, what he hopes to accomplish, all the
time weaving in Christ, who has now become a subdominate, or a
subsidiary figure, so that Jesus Christ is no longer Lord as he said,
but Mary is positively that person that should be worshipped. Now, this
is gnosticism in its form as it came forth in the first century, because
the gnostics say, “As you quote the Book of Isaiah, and you hear the
Lord say, “I am the Lord and there is none beside me. I created and no
else beside me, I took counsel from nobody,” a female voice roared out
of heaven: “You liar, you. Have you forgotten that I created you, and
by me you have done all these things?”

23. 	You are looking at paganism in the form it has always had. There is
no difference. But, let me advise you this: as God does not change,
neither does the devil. Let us look at the picture as it took place
years ago when Satan tempted Jesus. When Satan came, he said, “Now, if
You’re the Son of God, make these stones into bread.” In other
words, “Feed the multitude!” And that’s the cry going on today.
The pope says, “I am not a spiritual man. I am a moral man.” And he
is demanding that the whole world break bread together and share bread
in order that all men may have equal...whether they deserve it or not.
It’s a communist principle which is absolutely loony, because when you
give anybody a chance for authority, you’re going to see the
upper-crust is going to milk the lower-crust. 

24. 	So, he came to Jesus, and he said, “Why don’t you feed the
multitude?” Now, when Jesus did feed the multitude, they came to Him,
and he said, “Tell me, why did you come to me? You never came to hear
the Word. You came to get the loaves and the fishes. I know your hearts
exactly.” 

25. 	Now the next thing that happened, when Jesus was approached by the
devil, the devil said, “Jump off the top of the pinnacle.” He said,
in other words, “Attract their attention! Get their attention! Get
their eyes off of everything, but get them on to you. Do something! See?
The lying signs and wonders. Anything at all.” The next thing was, he
said, “Fall down and worship me.” And you got the identical thing
going on today, because God does not change. His ways do not change.
Satan does not change, and his ways do not change. The people got an
idea different. Every answer he had is totally and wonderfully in the
Bible.

26. 	“John Paul knows then only that his function will be as a
servant. Somebody’s going to take him over. That his years of
preparation as one of the world’s leaders, as a voice and a figure,
that have received international recognition...” 

	You ever hear about the voice that came down from heaven? He’s going
to...He has a voice. Yeah, he’s an international figure. He’s
recognized.

	...Will culminate in the apostolic...the commission to go forth into
all the world, the apostolic ministrations, he must perform in a very
different world from the world of the Millennial end gain and among
nations that no longer rely on themselves to build on earth a city of
man.” 

	In other words, he promises a complete dominion and takeover to direct
men exactly where he wants them to go, which he will state came from the
Immaculate Heart of Mary—which is exalted above the Lord Jesus Christ
and Almighty God, Himself. This is the exaltation of a man. 

27. 	We read further, from Martin—Malachi Martin: “Practically
considered, the success of the pope...the success of his papal
participation in the end game…”

	That’s the end of the game—what was predestinated. This man is
talking in terms of predestination. This man is acting as a vicar of
Christ. This man is telling you things as though he is God. And so, when
he said, “Ninety-one or ninety-two,” it may be later than you think,
or anyone of us thinks. 

	“Practically considered, the success of his papal participation in
the end game depends on an event.” “Now,” he said, “this whole
thing is building up and it’s going to be brought to the peak, where
you know it’s going to actually happen, because there’s a
participation. Now this participation brings on an event whose timing
and occasion he is powerless to determine.”

28. 	He is telling you right now that there’s an authority over him
that’s going to control him, and the nature of which he cannot in any
way influence or fashion. “I and my father are one, and what he says,
I say, and what he does, I do. I don’t have a control.” Antichrist.
“Without that event, he will be impotent.” Without that event he
will be impotent. His gas will be gone. The wind will be taken out of
his kite. He will stand there like some idiot who said he could do it.

29. 	Remember the guy years ago, he psyched himself up, and he said,
“I am going to walk on water.” He was an Indian fakir. It was the
cutest thing I ever saw on a Johnny Carson show, and I plead guilty—I
like to watch—not Johnny Carson, but Parr. Parr was my favorite,
because he wasn’t such a jerk. He was a little cleaner and everything
else. Anyway, this fakir got himself all psyched up, and he said, “I
am going to walk on water just the way Jesus did. I can do it,
positively.” And he had this great big swimming pool there, and he had
all the bleachers all filled up, and the people had all paid their
money. And I saw the picture, and he stood there, he got...why, I know
he didn’t say “Hail Marys” but “Hari krishna, krishna hari...”
Who knows? And he got himself ready, and he stepped forward off the
diving board and “Vwoo-o-o-o-o!” Right up past the eyebrows!

30. 	Now the pope is standing where that fellow stood, and he’s
saying, “I’m standing here, and I am telling you something. But I do
admit this: it is going to depend upon a manifestation! It is going to
depend upon incontravertible evidence. It will be something that you
see!” And I’ll tell you what it means. Don’t worry.” He’s
going to tell you what it means.

31. 	“Without that event...” Let me read again: “Practically
considered the success of his papal participation in the end gain, the
totality, the predestinated end, depends on an event whose timing and
occasion he is powerless to determine. He is a tool of God, of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary.” 

	Like fun! 

	“And the nature of which he cannot in any way influence or fashion.
He is controlled. Without that event he will be impotent, just at the
height of the end game.

	“Live, die, sink, swim.” Ever heard that before? Oh, you haven’t?
No...no. You haven’t heard that. You couldn’t have, because that’s
what we say. All right.

32. 	“Without that event, he will be impotent just at the height of
the end gain (game). Backed up by that event he cannot but emerge as the
most powerful man alive in his time. He is waiting for an event which
will fission.” Ever hear of an atomic fission? Huh? Just bust you
right into one pot, and you is one and you ain’t gonna separate. You
ain’t gonna go no where. You ain’t gonna do nothing, because you is
bundled in! They have no power to buy, sell, sink, swim or do anything
without him. He’s telling you here: “He is waiting for an event that
will fission human history—splitting the immediate past from the
oncoming future.”

33. 	What’s the Millennium going to do for us? He’s telling you
about it for him. 

	“It will be an event on public view in the skies, in the oceans, and
on the continental land masses of this planet. It will particularly
involve: 1. our human sun” (s-u-n), “which every day lights up and
shines upon the valleys, the mountains and the plains of this earth
before our eyes” (for our eyes). 

	That’s for our eyes, using it. 

	“But on the day of this event, it will not appear merely as the
master star of our so-called solar system, rather it will be seen as the
circum-ambient glory of the woman whom the apostles described as clothed
with the sun and giving birth to a child who will rule over the nations
with a scepter of iron.” 

	They don’t pull their punches, do they? Scepter of iron. Sounds like
a false Rev 12:1, the woman in the sun.

34. 	“Fissioning. It will be as an event in John Paul’s conviction
of faith.” Sound like Abraham’s? “For it will immediately nullify
all the grand designs the nations are now forming and will introduce the
grand design of man’s Maker.” 

	Paul said, “I will present you to Christ.” This man says, “Hold
it, bud. I take pre-imminence.”

35. 	“John Paul’s waiting and watching time will then be over. His
ministry as a servant of the grand design will then begin like his
Master. For this he was born and came into the world.” 

	And I can say the same thing about Judas! Okay, do you understand what
I’m saying? Bro. Branham said, “I had a ministry. My ministry is
known. It was not done in a corner. It was not hidden. And the preachers
know it. The theologians know it. There isn’t anybody in the religious
circles who doesn’t know it. Therefore, they’re indicted.”

36. 	Now, let me read to you from a man who went over there, a Catholic
priest, a theologian and a sculpturer. He went over there, because he
wanted to be an “adorer” also. He wanted to know about Fatima and
the children. And you’re going to find discrepancies between what is
said in one place and the other. And the whole thing ends up, in my
understanding, as quite a fabrication. But it’s here. I’ve got it in
print. All right.

37. 	“The best reason for believing in Fatima is the one which the
Blessed Virgin, herself, gave in the beginning—the miracle of the
sun...” 

	How did he know? 

	“October 13, 1917.” 

	Now this man is telling you something as an authority! Where’s his
authority? I told our church back in Ohio I got a tape from a young lad
that I knew many years ago. His little sermon was, “Coming with
Clouds.” And he said a rainbow could not be a rainbow, unless there
was a cloud there. And he dribbled along until he came to the point
where we are clouds. And then, he said, “See? Coming with clouds does
not mean ‘clouds’. It means ‘people’.” 

	And, if I meet him, (And I don’t care to.) I will say just one thing:
“Where did you get the authority to say that? Where have you got one
Scripture? You say it, you open your mouth, and it’s true because you
open your mouth? Then, give me something really good! Open your mouth
for something I want since you got so much!” See? He can’t do it. 

38. 	This man is speaking entirely out of turn based on this fact that
he is a Roman Catholic priest, and he’s gone over there to get every
bit of evidence he can concerning his subject, and he is going to make
the most beautiful and perfect replica of statuary of what these kids
saw. And this is going to be the most beautiful Virgin Mary--whoever was
there at Fatima. Now, he’s talking, and he’s spent time to find out
what really went on. Not what a bunch of people said, but what really
went on.

39. 	But he says here, “The best reason for believing in Fatima is the
one which the blessed Virgin, herself, gave in the beginning, the
miracle of the sun, October 13, 1917. About 70,000 people saw it, and
all of them had gone to the Cova, because Lucy had said there would be a
miracle at noon on that day. The prophecy had been talked about so much
that even the anticlerical press had to be represented. The miracle that
had been foretold by Lucy as the proof which the blessed Virgin was
going to give to the reality of her apparition.” 

	Now, this is a copy of a book, you can see. 

40. 	“I hoped that in my short stay in Portugal I might meet people,
some of the people who saw that miracle. Lucy’s sisters gave me their
accounts on the first day of my visit to Fatima. Now, back at Lisbon,
and with only a short time remaining before I had to go on to Rome, I
chanced to meet another witness, Senhora Dona Ermelinda Maria Saraiva C.
Alves.” 

	Boy, I’m sure glad we don’t have that in America. I just call it
SDEMSC Alves. That’s a mouthful.

41. 	“In the reading room of the hotel Senhora Alves was visiting two
Spanish ladies who were guests there. I overheard her telling her
friends of the story of the doves, trying to describe how beautiful the
doves were, and I felt they would enjoy having photographs of them; so,
I brought prints I had from my room and gave each of the ladies one of
them.” 

42. 	Now the story of the doves is: as this shrine was moving, honoring
the virgin Mary, and they were worshipping along the road to where the
great evidence was going to be forthcoming and evidently be a part of a
cathedral they had built, five doves that were bought by a lady to be
released on the way to this cathedral, or creche, whatever you want to
call it--something there--they were going to worship, those doves were
released and, strangely, they flew right to the statue, and there they
nestled in, and nobody could shoo them away. Finally, a couple of doves
left. Three went into the church, (or the sanctuary—whatever) and
there they would be on the windows and doing certain things which caused
quite a stir to the people and, I guess, three of those doves actually
stayed for a long time, and I don’t know what all happened, but he’s
talking about this phenomena of the doves.

43. 	Well, I want to tell you, right here in America, we have the
phenomena of the doves, and I don’t go for it. It’s all right for
doves, but don’t try to sell me on what they are. Because this guy,
Ted Lewis, had a dove, a beautiful white dove, flew into his house. He
put it in the cage, and when the dove was in the air, he took a picture,
and the tail of the dove actually formed like the bottom, or the hem, of
the garments of a man suspended in air and the beak and all showed forth
like it was a face. And it was supposed to be a replica of Jesus Christ.
And he sends that picture; and he gave my wife handfuls of pictures one
day.

	“Send them around.”

	What for?

	“Well, so people will know.”

	What for? So that he could be some big shot?

44. 	Well, I was down in Macon, Georgia, and my good friend down
there… If you don’t know his name, I’m not going to tell you. But
you know who he is. He had a dove come into his tree. It was the white
dove. So, he took a picture. And he’s letting me know how cunning this
picture was and all. And the strangest thing of all was—take a look at
the profile, honey! Do you see the beezer? Right in that tree was my
beezer! And I said, “I know it’s supernatural!” I said, “I know
this is right!” I said, “Notice my profile.” [Pause.] Do you see
the white stripe down my back? I am a skunk. I make no bones about it.

	Doves—smuvs! What’s that got to do with it? You need a sign on top
of a sign? Listen to me. When you’ve got to take two sleeping pills,
three Nebutals, a shot in the arm, to get to sleep, my God, there’s
something wrong with you. Oh well, just bear with me. 

45.	“In the ensuing conversations Senhora Alves added a pleasing
observation to the story of the doves. She said that she had seen one of
the doves with its neck beautifully arched, drinking rain water, which
was running off the edge of our Lady’s mantle.” 

	Oh, so sweet! 

	“Senhora Alves later casually mentioned that she was present at the
miracle of the sun in 1917. And I asked Sonhora Alves many questions
about the miracle. Her account was very much like those of Maria and
Teresa. One point that has puzzled me in descriptions I had read was the
way in which the sun seemed to move.” 

	Now, listen. 

	“It is usually spoken of as ‘spinning round’.” 

	Now the spinning round I have actually seen with my naked eye. That is
what they call the paten. And it moves, and it moves, and it dances
around on the face of the sun, making the sun slightly dark. That was at
the funeral oration of Bro. Branham. Keep listening.

   	“Making use of an ashtray to represent the sun, I moved it in two
ways upon a table. First, by holding it firmly and describing a circle
on the table top. Then, by turning it in one spot, I asked her which of
these movements the spinning sun resembled. She said ‘the
second’.” 

	In other words, the account of the sun running around the sky, jumping
up and down, doing hop-scotch, was a lie. 

   	“The sun appeared to spin around in its own axis and came towards
the earth.” 

	Now there’s the descent. 

	“She declared also that it seemed to increase in size visually as
does any approaching object. I asked Senhora Alves if she would kindly
write out her testimony for me, and she said she would, and she brought
the following account to the hotel a few days later: 

‘I was one among thousands of persons who assisted at the phenomena of
Fatima on the 13th day of October, 1917, about a year before the end of
the great war. The description of this extraordinary phenomena is well
enough known, varying  little from testimony to testimony in words. It
is always the same principle, and may be summed up as follows: Weeks
before, Lucy, the visionary of Fatima, had pronounced an extraordinary
event,”—like prophesy—“so that we were not surprised by what we
saw. At noon that day the visionary exclaimed in the middle of the
multitude which had gathered around, “Look at the sun!” At the time
it had been raining torrentially. Suddenly the clouds broke apart,
rushing dizzily to the side, and the sun appeared shining in the sky,
showing itself like a silver, phosphorescent disc, turning on itself and
taking on successively (and not simultaneously) different colors: red,
white, blue, and orange. All of this was seen distinctly without the
vision being blinding, despite the fact it was mid-day and the sky
around the sun was completely clear of clouds. Then, the sun appeared to
detach itself from the sky as to come toward the earth. The multitude
fell on its knees praying. The sun returns to its normal position after
this truly fantastic dance, and we could not stare any longer at it. All
this passed in a few seconds. It was thus that I witnessed on the day of
the 13th day of October, 1917, as did the thousands of persons of all
social positions. If that phenomenon had not been of supernatural
origin, Fatima would not have thrived these thirty years as it still
does. The supernaturality of Fatima has, fortunately, preserved Portugal
from war and from the least of harms. Senhora Corliss’” (and so on).


	And she signs her name. 

 	And you will notice nothing is said here about anybody being burnt.
There’s nothing said here about the earth being parched. There are
absolutely various accounts. 

46.	Now I have read all this to let you know that these people, even
from this, before Bro. Branham... It’s en-grained in the Roman
Catholic Church to know exactly what Bro. Branham said, as I read to
you, and what the Protestants know, and, especially, the Pentecostals.

47. 	So, let’s listen. The man is now talking as a theologian. “Many
people miss God’s point about miracles.” 

	What did I just say? [First side of the tape ends.] Many people miss
God’s point about miracles! 

	So, he said, “God does miracles, and there’s a point to it.” 

	You understand? So, we’re to prick our ears up and say, “Now, what
do those people believe? What is the point that they’re getting? What
do miracles do? What is it all about?”

48. 	So, listen: “He does not ask” (That’s God.) “does not ask
us to believe in miracles; He hits us between the eyes with them.”
There is no Protestant, there is no Scripture...William Branham,
himself, could not have said it better! You don’t believe it? 

	“Here’s the burning bush. What in the world is going on? I’m a
scientist; I’m a general. The greatest science is in Egypt: I was heir
to it. I’ve got armies. That bush isn’t burning, but it’s
burning.” 

	Right between the eyes! He didn’t say, “Moses, do you believe that
this here bush isn’t burning, though it’s on fire?” He didn’t
say one thing—hit him smack-dab between the eyes! Bush on fire, not
being consumed! What goes on?

49. 	“Well, bless God, Bro. Vayle, we are so far removed from those
times. We are highly educated.” 

	You are highly stupid, you jackass! Don’t like my words? There’s
the door. I love my words, because I speak with an anger and a
bitterness. No self-justification; only an anger. I believe the prophet.
I try to believe God. 

50. “He hits us right between the eyes with them. He demands that we
believe in Him, and everything He has made known.” 

	Read it again? Start from the front. 

	“Many people miss God’s point about miracles.” 

	What is God’s point? He does not ask us to believe in miracles, He
doesn’t give a hoot if you do or not. You’re going to get them. 

	“He hits us between the eyes with them.” 

	He doesn’t say, “I’m coming on the scene, and I think I’ll show
you a little rabbit in a hat or something. Hey, would you like to hear
something? Would you like to see something?” Well, He speakes to Moses
late one night, and He said, “Moses, I don’t want to surprise you,
because, you know, it can be tough if your system goes “wha-ooo” and
you swallow your tongue. So, I’m going to let you know ahead of time
something’s going to happen out there in the bushes.”

51. 	This man knows more than ninety-nine percent of the theologians and
so-called Christians. His language is so precise, so fantastic, and I
think I’m good but “ooph-she.” Man! I stink along side of this
guy. Notice the preciseness, what he can say in just a phrase. This
man’s a genius. You know, any nincompoop preacher like me can preach
two hours; a fairly good one will preach three-quarters; a brilliant one
will preach thirty; the genius—twenty. I ain’t no genius. This
man’s a genius. 

	“Many people miss God’s point about miracles.” 

	Statement of fact. 

	“He does not ask us to believe in miracles. He hits us between the
eyes with them.” 

	And He doesn’t care two bits if you believe or not. You know what I
mean? 

	“He demands that we believe in Him and in everything He has made
known. He...to convince us that He is making something known, He does
what only the creator of nature can do”(—miracle). “He makes
visible creation act in a manner that differs from its natural, fixed
behavior. He confronts us with eye-opening facts.” 

	He says, in effect, “Look here, pay attention; I got something to
tell you. Listen to me!”

52. 	Okay! Anybody do better than that? William Branham didn’t do
better. I read what William Branham said. “You know better! You know
what it’s about.” 

	And we sat back and said, “Well, those poor misguided people. Now I
don’t want to be one of them, but you know you just got to feel sorry
in your heart, because really, Bro. Branham, they didn’t know.” 

	Who you trying to kid? Who you trying to kid in the face of this
man’s writing? And this man is a Roman Catholic. He is not only a
Roman Catholic ordained priest. He is a theologian, and he is an artist
at heart. And he can express with his words and with his hands which you
and I dare not touch! 

53. 	Are you disappointed you came? Or are you beginning to see what I
told you: I would blast and roll your minds in the aisle tonight by the
simplicity of what you and I have thought was a casual statement, as
though it were true, but it wasn’t necessarily one percent true. It
had a modicum of truth in it. But Bro. Branham was not in the absolute
when he said, “They know better! They know! And they crucify the Son
of God!”

54. 	Shall we dance? Might as well, because, hey, we really don’t
believe it, do we? Now, I’m being sarcastic. I’m hitting you,
because this broke like a bombshell over me. This has done something for
me and to me. And, if you get nothing else out of this meeting, and you
get this tonight, you will be a different person. In fact, you cannot
leave here without being a different person, because, when you go to
church, there is something going to happen to you, because always,
there’s the left hand of God, and there is the right hand of God.
There is a positive and there is a negative. And you will leave here
positive, or you will leave here negative, because you cannot be
neutral. 

55. 	You say, “Brother Vayle, I’m going to defy you.” 

	Go ahead. You’re not defying me. I take you to Scripture. I take the
apostle Paul. He says, “You go to church and you leave there in worse
shape than when you came.” 

	Now, you’ll be leaving this meeting, and you’ll be remembering what
I have read. And you can have copies if you want. And Dave Ozimek will
bring the very book, if necessary, and copy the whole thing for you,
because I got him to get the books. I wanted to trace this down.

56. 	Here is something from heaven which, in my books, is as phoney as
baloney, that the devil himself perpetrated with the power that God
allowed of him. But, where is the record of William Branham’s funeral
oration, when I looked at the sun, and the platen was going back and
round and forth. And out of the left side there came a stream of solid
gold that came between a white building, and the building became gold,
and a stream of solid red, like blood, that came from the right hand
side, and it came between the sun and the white building. It turned red.
And there we saw the cross and the power of God in the sky, and nobody
paid any attention to it! 

 	And there on the sun there appeared like a clock saying at the hour
four… And ‘four’ means deliverance. And I pointed men to it, and I
began talking to some men in the car. They were from Chicago, and I
said, (And they were sitting in the car. I became angry.) “Well,
what’s the matter with you sitting in the car?” I said, “A great
prophet—God’s witness to a prophet, witnessed in the sky—and you
sit there and call yourselves servants of Christ.” Oh, I booted them
sharply right on their rear ends. They climbed out of their stupid,
stinking car, and when they saw what was in the skies, they began to
weep.  

57. 	“Many people miss God’s point about miracles.” 

	Their response is “Hallelujah! What a revival! Bless God! The Voice
said to me, ‘These are Bible days, hallelujah. And that’s how it was
done in the Bible. You can do it, too.’” 

	“Oh, hey! A man sent from God. Hallelujah. And he came to show us how
to do the same thing? Nonsense!!”

58. 	Don’t you just love my sarcasm? I hate it, but it’s the only
way I know how to teach. Because everything is too casual. And the
prophet said, “In Africa one time 30,000 come. In America it’s
become so common—common—common—common—common! Nobody thinks
anything anymore. But here’s a Roman Catholic. What would have
happened had he been in one of Bro. Branham’s meetings? As Bro.
Branham said concerning Jackie Kennedy’s waterhead, he said, “But
had she been in one of our meetings, what could have transpired?”

	And we sit back, and we say, “Well, you know, Bro. Branham had a
ministry...yes...maybe... see...yep, yep, yep.”

	We sort of waltz around in a little bit of a self-patting-on-the-back
attitude.

59.	This man says here, “Many people missed the point of God’s
miracles.” 

	What’s the point? Smack dab in the eye! Lest you have it in the solar
plexus...lift you off your feet. Pay attention! Stand up and be counted.

 	“He does not ask us to believe in miracles. He hits us between the
eyes. He demands that we believe in Him, and in everything He has made
known.” 

	Everything He has made known? And the prophet took us through the Seven
Church Ages, the Seven Seals, the history? 

	“Well, it could be, you know. Well, it just could be, you know, and,
after all, Lee Vayle had something to do with the Church Age book (An
Exposition of the Seven Church Ages). So, he’s a liar. So, therefore,
we know all those things he wrote were not of Bro. Branham.” 

	I’m not defending myself, kid. Listen! I learned years ago, I
wasn’t listening to Bro. Branham. It was his ears. I listened to my
own stupid ears.

60. “He demands that we believe Him and everything He has made
known--to convince us.” 

	To convince us. To convince us. Perfect faith. Bro. Branham was
convinced that, if he went to the graveyard, at the site where Abraham
Lincoln or George Washington lay moldering, completely gone to bones or
ashes and dust or gases, and God said, “You raise him,” he said,
“I’d challenge the armies of the earth to come and shoot me down, if
I can’t do it.” 

	Convinced! He said in his own sermon, “Convinced”. And people stood
back, and they were convinced that, “Oh, well, bless God, God
does...ho, ho… Well, He does miracles. After all, you know, Bro.
Vayle, I’ve seen a few myself. Ha, ha, ha, ha.” 

61. 	That’s the one thing that killed me when even nice men came by
and said, “Well, you know, Bro. Vayle, Bro. Branham was a great man,
but I had visions also.” 

	And I said, “O God.” Right in the kisser! I wouldn’t hurt their
feelings. I’d have said, “Okay, sit down. Sit down, pop. Sit down!
Let’s compare visions. Let’s bring on the witnesses. Let’s talk
about prophecies. Bring ‘em on. I’ll match you. I got witnesses of
visions. I’ve had them in technicolor.” 

	I ain’t got nothing. I’ve got nothing at all. But they had so
much—for one little piddly thing.

62. 	This man says, “He demands that we believe Him in everything, to
convince us that He is making something known.” 

	“Moses, come here, get your shoes off. Listen. I am God! The God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!” 

	“Yes, Lord, I’m convinced. Yes, Lord, I...I...I know You are. I’m
convinced.” 

	He should have said, “Ha, ha, ha, you and who else!” 

	Oh, come on. Read your Bibles. Show me how he acted. The complete
reverence and understanding that this was God. As I said last night,
“God must vindicate Himself to that man.” 

	“Take your shoes off.” 

	He took them off. 

	“I’m going to send you down to Egypt, because I heard their cry.
You’re going to bring them out.” 

	He said, “No doubt, Lord, You’re right. I believe You, but they
won’t believe me.” 

	He said, “They will. Throw your rod down.” 

	Moses did. It turned into a snake. 

	“Take it by the tail.” 

	It was a rod. 

	“Put your hand in your bosom.” 

	Leprous. 

	“Put it back in. They’ll be convinced.”

63. 	This man, in a few words, preaches a better sermon than most people
ever thought of preaching. “He is making something known. He does only
what the Creator of nature can do. He makes visible creation act in a
manner that differs from its naturally fixed behavior.” 

	The little girl, like this, I told you about last night, all crippled
up...whew! What is God doing? He is talking. He is saying something!
He’s getting your attention.

64. 	Now, listen: “He confronts us with the eye-opening facts. He
says, in effect, ‘Look here, pay attention. I’ve something to tell
you. Listen to me!’” 

	You’re dismissed. You can go home. You had your sermon. What did you
get out of it? See? That’s what I’m trying to bring to you tonight:
What did you get out of it? What are you getting out of it? Why aren’t
we being shaken when this man can stand here, when this man knows what
he’s saying, based upon the absolute falsity, yet he can tell the
truth from his paganism.

	And we call ourselves “Christians.” Hogwash! Not that we’re not;
just bear with me. 

65. 	“Now in the absence of evidence we don’t have to worry about
what an alleged happening may mean. We can believe what God says only
when we are sure that He has spoken.” Church of Christ said, “It’s
the devil.” The Pharisees say, “It’s the devil.” Yet the Bible
says only God can heal, and that’s one of His names. “I am the
Healer.” So now, the devil’s mixed up with God, and God’s mixed up
with the devil, and their ministries are mixed up. So now, God heals;
the devil talks. That’s exactly right! As soon as God does anything,
the devil starts talking, and everybody listens to the devil!
Ninety-nine percent or better.

66. 	“Now, in the absence of evidence we don’t have to worry about
what an alleged happening may mean.” 

	He said, “If there’s nothing there and somebody just talks as hot
air, forget it. We can believe only what God says only when we are sure
He-e-e-e has spoken. We are sure that He has spoken when we have
conclusive evidence of a miracle in support of a claim that He has
spoken. We have to examine carefully the proofs of reported miracles. If
the proofs are satisfactory, that’s that. God has acted.” 

	Ho! Here’s a Catholic saying it. Take this to a Presbyterian Church,
and they’d say, “Well, it could be, or it couldn’t. And we’re of
the opinion it isn’t, so therefore, it ain’t.” 

	Well, what happened? 

	“Well, who knows?” 

67. 	Well, hey, you guys are so smart. You believe in evolution. You got
all the answers. And you pick up a dinosaur bone a million years old,
that they’ve used carbon on, you know, dating, and all that stuff. You
got all the answers. Hey, hey, man... You’ve split atoms, and you go
ahead, and you cause fission and this and that. And you go ahead, and
you splice genes and this and that. 

	“Huh...well...well, well, well...We don’t deal in this stuff.” 

	You see how ridiculous everything is? This man is fabulous. I could
wish that he could be born-again. I don’t know anything about him.

68. 	“If the proofs are satisfactory, that’s that. God has acted. We
go on to inquire...we go from there to inquire about the significance of
His action. If the proofs are inadequate, we forget the whole matter.”
I want to ask you a question. When did the Protestants investigate the
miracle ministry that was before the Word, the proof that He was here?
What did they investigate? They never did it. What about the time that
Bro. Branham was there in India, and here was this man that worshipped
the sun, and his eyes were completely gone? The mayor of the
city...everybody...knew him. He was kind of a big figure, because he’d
been such a stupid idolater. Oh, he was great now, because his eyes were
burnt up, because he was worshipping. Oh yeah, hallelujah. He went to
church. He went there for the worse. He didn’t get better. 

69. 	So, Bro. Branham began talking. They argued back and forth—the
Jains said this, the Sikhs said that, the other said this, the other
thing. Finally, he said, “Listen, here is a blind man. You all know
him. Who will step forward in the name of his god and give him his
eyesight? “Oh,” he said, “My, you were talking so much before, how
come you’re so strangely silent?” 

	Oh, that was Elijah upon Mount Carmel. “Cry a little louder. Jump a
little higher. Scream a little faster. Come on, get with it, kid. Whoop
‘er up! Bring on the sideshow. We’ve got a thing opening up here.”


	He just gave them the ‘ol thumb-in-the-eyeball. “Oh,” he said,
“You’re strangely quiet.” He said, “What, now, if I pray to my
God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the man gets his
healing—his eyesight—back. What about it?” 

	Oh, everybody was happy, happy, goody, goody, wonderful, wonderful. Oh,
they’d sure become Christians. You bet they would. Bro. Branham had
the vision, you see. Called the man up; laid hands... The man screamed
as his eyeballs came back. Then, everybody tried to touch Bro. Branham
like he was a god. The whole thing fizzled. But, you know something?
Where are the Jains, and where are the Sikhs, and where are those people
today? Utterly condemned. Because they knew better! And they know the
truth!

70. 	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, we don’t even know in America.” 

	You see what you’re doing? You are denying the truth of God’s Word.
You are denying this Message. You might as well go home and don’t
bother coming back to church. You’re coming back to condemnation. The
minute you start making excuses, that is the minute that you lose out
with God, because there are no excuses, because Eve came with excuses,
and He said, “No dice!” And Adam came with excuses, and He said,
“No dice!” And the serpent came, and He said, “You got it, bud!”
I think the language is something like that—twentieth century. 

	God doesn’t accept excuses. He may wink at ignorance, but, when the
signs are in, He doesn’t wink anymore. And this end-time ministry was
the John the Baptist-Elijah ministry to turn the hearts of the children
back to the fathers. And according to my Bible, It says concerning John
the Baptist, “His ministry was to go before the Lord God of Israel in
order to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.” And It tells
you categorically, “even the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.”
And the disobedient simply means, not ‘an act of disobedience’, but
‘they didn’t know’. They were ignorant, and God winks at
ignorance—until…

71. 	So, here we are today. We are either going to be more confirmed in
this Message, or you are going to drift away, and I will drift away with
you. And, since my challenge went out, I have the strangest feeling that
something is happening where some of you are not quite on fire as when I
first started talking. So, you better watch your step, because I’m not
exactly dumb.

72. 	This is a Roman Catholic theologian. This is a man that you and I
claim to be so far ahead of with knowledge that he doesn’t even look
like a shadow. 

	Bro. Branham said, “It’s thinner than the soup made with a shadow
of a chicken that’s starved to death.” 

	And we stand here in all our glory that we knew the prophet. We know
all these things. And this man, who wrote this, can say it better than
you and I are saying it. Now I know that dampens you, but let’s be
honest. You’re before the White Throne. Young girl, young man, young
child: you’re before the White Throne. You’ll not grow up, some of
you. Some of you will not die, by the grace of God.

73. 	What I am showing you here is what is in the world, religious
world. What is in every single denomination. They know! They know! 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Branham said, if they’d known,” in quoting
the Scripture, “If they had known it was the Prince of Glory, they
would not have crucified Him.” 

	This man says that they know! What about it? 

	“Well, Bro. Vayle, I’m just going to believe the prophet. I’m
going to believe the Bible.” 

	“By thy words thou art justified, and by thy words thou art
condemned.” 

	These men speak for all men. Blind leaders of the blind. I don’t like
saying these things, but I do like saying them, because it helps me to
get down to the nitty-gritty and say, “Look, boy, you’re on the
spot.” It’s “live, die, sink or swim” for you, Lee Vayle.
Don’t talk to the audience. Talk to yourself. I point one finger, and
got three or four pointing back. As many as my miserable fingers can
bend.

74. Listen, “If the proofs are satisfactory, that’s that.” 

	“Well,” says the Church of Christ, “It’s not, because the devil
heals.” 

	Give me Scripture. Let’s go to the Church of Christ. William Branham
was down there in Windsor, Ontario. From Detroit came two Church of
Christ people, one a secretary or elder, and one was a preacher. 

	“And this William Branham is certainly a fraud, and he is of the
devil. He is a soothsayer, and we, the Church of Christ—the glorious
Church of Christ, with the Word—we only speak what the Bible speaks,
and what the Bible does not speak, we do not speak. And we will expose
him. Yes, we will.” 

	So, they sit in the preacher’s study. There’s a desk there, an oak
desk, and there’s a green cloth on it. And they make up a whole lot of
things they’re going to put on the card, if perchance, one is so lucky
to be in the line, and expose this fraud.

75. 	Well, one is very lucky. He gets in line. He’s given a prayer
card. He turns it to Billy Paul. He goes through the prayer line, and
Bro. Branham says, “Sir, there is nothing wrong with you
whatsoever.” 

	“Well,” he said, “Didn’t you read what was on my card?” 

	He said, “Sir, those cards don’t have any meaning, except it gets
people in line so we have order. I don’t need the cards per se. It’s
just that we have some order, so everybody doesn’t rush up.” And I
forget the whole story, you might remember better than me. But Bro.
Branham said some little word, and the guy said, “Oh, so that’s how
he works it.” 

	Bro. Branham could hear him, whether he was talking or not. He caught
it. He said, “What did you say? Ah,” he said, “you are from
Detroit. You are a Church of Christ minister. Today you and your elder
sat in your study, where there’s an oak desk with a green cloth on
top, and you conspired to trick me and to prove me of Satan. Thus saith
the Lord: ‘All the diseases you put on that card are now on you!’”


	And he screamed out. He grabbed him, and he said, “Take them off!”

	He said, “I didn’t put them on!” 

76. 	Now, come on. The Church of Christ elders knew it. His congregation
knew it. The people knew it. And Bro. Branham, concerning his ministry,
said, “They know this is of God.” And this man says when that
happens, it’s a miracle contrary to nature, and they shut up and
listen: “I’ve got something to tell you.” 

	They stand back like the Pharisees, and they said, “Who’s going to
tell us anything?” 

	“I indict this generation,” said the prophet. 

77. 	“If the proof’s satisfactory, that’s that. God has acted. We
go on there to inquire about the significance of the action.” 

	What is this all about? What is it? 

	“Well,” said one, “It’s because I can do the same thing he did.
He discerned; I’ll discern.”  

	“Oh, Bible days are here again. Hallelujah. Now we’re really going
to turn the world to God. Oh, hallelujah.” 

	“Millions now living will never die.” “Everybody’s now talking
in tongues. Everybody’s charismatic. Oh, what a great, great time
we’re having, and it’s all from God. Oh, yes, yes, yes. We’re
right in God’s pocket.”

	“Not knowing.” God said, “We’re rich, increased in goods, and
know not you’re wretched, miserable, naked and blind, and I am not in
your midst. I am entirely outside of you.”

78. 	So, listen, he said, “We go on from the miracle to inquire.” 

	We’re going to ask some questions. What in the world is this all
about? 

	So, Moses said, “What in the world is this all about?” And God
says, “I’ll tell you, if you’ll just sit down and listen.” 

	Do you think that God gets people’s attention just for fun? You know,
we consider God’s like us. We’re cute, little baby teasers. We take
a feather, and we tickle the baby’s chin, “Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.”
We get his attention. And it’s just so cute to get his attention. But
that’s all we want. Okay, baby ticklers, am I right? I say, “I’m
right.” God’s not cute. God doesn’t do cute things.

79. 	Do you wonder why William Branham was so serious? I’m telling
you: from a theologian’s remarks, from a Roman Catholic. Lee Vayle did
not write this. Roy Borders did not write it. Morris Ungren didn’t
write it. Neither Jack nor Terry wrote it. A Roman Catholic
priest-theologian-artist with expression in his soul, wrote the truth,
even though based upon a miracle of a lie. Makes you feel humble. At
least I hope it does. I hope it does something to me. 

80. 	“We go on to inquire there about the significance of the
action.” 

	Did anybody come and say, “William Branham, what are you all
about?” 

	One or two people did. Why do you think I wrote Twentieth Century
Prophet? I told the prophet strictly to his face, and I make no bones,
and I’m not proud as though I’m some great man to approach the
prophet and say, “William Branham, let me tell you this.” That was
not the way it was. I was fed up from my belt button both ways with
these arrogant people who had anointing upon them, and I couldn’t
understand it, because he had not yet explained to me, which he
explained previously before he preached the sermon on the topic of the
“Anointed Ones at the End Time”. But I knew William Branham to be
what he was in the sense of the man that he was. And I said, “Bill, I
wouldn’t walk across the street to see you raise the dead, except I
know the kind of a man you are.” Because I don’t give two bits for
the raising of the dead—they’re going to die anyway. And I don’t
care two bits about a miracle. I want to know what’s behind it—if
anything’s behind it. I didn’t know that William Branham was that
prophet, but I knew the miracle in itself was not the answer. As one
fellow once said—it could have been Ern Baxter. I don’t know. He
said, “When you go to the bus depot, and you see a sign, that the sign
says, ‘to the bus,’ you don’t get on the sign and ride it. You go
where the sign points, and you get on the bus.” But Ern Baxter did not
get on the bus!

81.	You say, “You’re calling names.” 

	That’s my business. I’ll answer, so you keep your mouth shut. Plug
your ears. I know about the guy, pure and simple. If you want to know
dirt, I can... Look, I can dish it to you. I’m not going to do it
tonight. I could have done it last night. I left a lot of things out. I
think I did tell you a fact, though, as the kid told me, he said,
“Look, you stay around Bro. Branham long enough, they’ll call you a
crook and every dirty thing in the book.” 

	You say, “Well, how could that be around a prophet?” 

	It had to be, or he wouldn’t have been the prophet. 

	You see maggots, there’s got to be flies. You see God, there’s got
to be the devil. If you see truth, there’s got to be hypocrisy.
What...hey... Listen! Left hand—judgment; right hand—honor. God’s
got two hands. Never comes with just one. He comes with both. That’s
right! Never forget it.

82. 	“We go on from there to inquire about the significance of his
action. If the proofs are inadequate, we forget the whole matter.” 

	And Bro. Branham said, “Go to your Bible. Go to your Bible.” He
quoted the Bible. And, let me show you something, what he did over here.
Nobody paid any attention, except poor little rubes like us—thank God
I’m a hick from the hayseed company. 

	Listen to what he says over here in Acts 3:19. You’ve got to separate
it at the bottom: “When times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord,” God come down in a great healing revival that
Bro. Branham said was going on for thirty years before he died, and is
still going on, “And he shall send Jesus Christ, which was before
appointed unto you, whom the heavens...” They can’t send Him just
yet, but He’s going to be sent. “...The heavens must retain until
the restoration of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all
his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the
fathers, ‘A prophet shall the Lord, your God, raise up unto you of
your brethren like unto me. Him you will hear in all things, whatsoever
he shall say unto you, and it will come to pass that every soul which
will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the
people.’” That did not take place when Jesus was here in His earthly
ministry. It didn’t take place. It’s got to take place.

83. 	Now, watch: “And yea, and all the prophets from Samuel.” And
William Branham never failed to quote Samuel. “When did I ever tell
you a lie? When did I ever take your money?” When did I ever do so and
so? William Branham took us right back to the Bible. William Branham
told us, if this man comes on the scene, Elijah, he will be indicated.
He will be vindicated. And God was his vindication. He went so far as to
say, “The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself; not
man, but God. But it’ll come by a man; come by a prophet.”

84. 	So, therefore, this man says, “If the proof isn’t there, you
drop it.” Now, the Catholic Church rests upon men like him who believe
in Fatima. Will there be something come forth in this generation which,
in itself, is in the realm of the supernatural, but is not of God? The
Bible correctly states there’ll be lying signs and wonders and
miracles and everything else. That’s right.

85. 	“For instance, nobody asked us to combine the miracles and the
message of Fatima into one great dose of believing that is too big to
swallow.” 

	Now, you see, he’s beginning to chicken just a bit. Well now, we
don’t. 

	He said, “Hey, you can lead this to such a place, it gets so big that
you just can’t take it. So we’ll just report it kind of mildly.”
“We are asked to accept the Message because of the miracles.” Bro.
Branham said, “The Lord descends with a Shout—which is a Message.”
Bro. Branham said, “The light that came down and swirled above his
head like a rainbow—where maybe 3,000 people saw—on June 11 [1933],
when the seventeenth person was being baptized. And the Voice spoke to
him and said, ‘As John the Baptist foreran the First Coming, so your
Message will forerun the Second Coming.’”

86. Now here is what he says, “We are asked to accept the Message
because of the miracles.” 

	Bro. Branham did not only meet with God when people saw what nobody saw
at the time of Moses, because there wasn’t anybody there but Moses,
but Bro. Branham was given miracles before the Word in order to attract
the people’s attention—hit them right between the eyes, and say,
“Smarten up. Lighten up. I’m going to tell you something! I got a
Message.” A little Roman Catholic theologian...

87. “If we are not convinced of any miracle of Fatima, we are quite
free to suspend judgment about the message.” “Now,” he said, “if
it can’t be proven, there’s nothing real here,” he said, “forget
it.”

	How many times did Bro. Branham say, “Come up here and stand beside
me.” Do what I do. 

	I just read it. When has it ever failed? 

	“Go on,” he said, “Come up.” 

	He challenged them. Not only did he challenge them concerning where
these things came from, he took his Bible, and he said, “You stand
with me, you show me where there are three gods. I will show you where
there is one.” 

	He stood there, as he did before the Indians over there in India.

88. 	The 70,000 people who saw the sun perform so strangely on October
13, 1917, did not say, “My word, I believe this is a miracle.” 

	They knew very well that it was! 

	What they said was, “My God, I believe in You.” 

	With that? Base a whole theological concept on that? When you’ve got
witnesses that told all kinds of different stories? Hey, if I can
resurrect some people, or find some people that aren’t liars or
forgetful or dumb or something, I could prove to you that night, Bro.
Branham said what I told you he said. 

	He said, “Now,” he said, “We can have everybody go through the
prayer line, or you can see” 24... I forget...or 25 miracles.
Absolutely guaranteed! Hundreds of them. They knew.

89. 	Where do you or we stand tonight? Do you know what? We should take
a page out of the Old Testament; and, when these great things come
forth, we should be orchestrated by the Spirit of God. Not by me going,
“shoo-shoo-shoo,” you know. 

	I know a fellow in New York, Jack. He had certain words he said, and
everybody rose and screamed. Remember? I’m not going to orchestrate
them that way. I would prefer the Holy Spirit orchestrate you until you
just scream, “The Lord, He is God. The Lord, He is God!” I know you
won’t do it. It’s all right. Look, I...I’m forgiving myself; so, I
got to forgive you. But, you see, we’re just a little bit...a little
bit...whatever. 

	“My word, I believe this is a miracle.” 

90.	They knew very well that it was. What they said was, “My God! I
believe in you!”

	“When little Lucy dos Santos was lifted up by a man named Carlos
Mendes and asked to tell the people what Our Lady had said, she did not
have to explain that if they believed God had worked a miracle, they
could believe Our Lady had said ‘thus so and so.’ After God’s
preface to the child’s statement, they were simply interested in
knowing the contents of ‘thus and so.’” 

 	Now, here’s a little girl, completely misled by the enemy, an
apparition which is truly false, some little things that were happening
in the atmosphere and all, and the people stood there, and they said,
“Little Lucy, tell us what He said. We believe!” 

91.	“Well,” said the guy, “William Branham, I’m going to prove
he’s a charlatan and a crook.” 

 	I’m doing this on purpose to let you realize: It’s all over. They
have blasphemed God. They have turned completely away. When I can read
this book to you...these pages that are so clear… When Bro. Branham
said, “They know better,” this is what he is saying. And he’s not
saying anything else. 

	“Well, Bro. Vayle, that’s your opinion.” 

	Well, thank you. I’m glad you appreciate at least that much.

92. 	“Lifted the girl up.” 

	What a spirit that was upon those people. Bro. Branham, with the power
of God, could not get that spirit upon a congregation. Do you see why
they’re going to worship the devil? They don’t care two bits about
God to worship Him. What William Branham had—Moses, Paul, William
Branham—the man sent before to the Gentiles before the burning, the
infallible person, who could stand there, and you couldn’t hide if you
tried… And that was not attributed to William Branham, because Heb
4:12 was not written about Bro. Branham. It was written about God. And
God let the people have their way. And He said, “I will deal with you
through a prophet.” And so he deals, exactly one hundred percent

	And the people say, “Uh, hey...uh...how did you like the ball game
last night?” “Oh, it’s always great.” “Yeah, there’s a
stupid guy named William Branham came to town; supposed to be doing some
things.” “Ha! I wouldn’t go there. I went out and had a beer.” 

	That’s pretty well what was said and done. 

93.	Do you get what I’m trying to paint for you? And you say it’s
not over? You say judgment hasn’t set in? You say the White Throne is
not here? You say the separation isn’t taking place? You say the One
that came down isn’t being glorified in his Saints? He certainly is.
If these others things are being done, if the world’s being condemned
out there that believe not the Gospel, then the Saints are being
glorified. See? You just can’t say, “Hey, look, hey, there.” This
man nails it. He’s marvelous!

94. 	Now, you former Roman Catholics, you didn’t even know about this.
You had a bunch of unfaithful scalawags that didn’t tell you anything.
And you Pentecostals, what I came out of, you were a whole lot less
faithful, because you knew, and you lied. Long as they talked in
tongues, it was all right. Don’t bring your tongue-talking,
slack-wearing, short-hair stuff around me, because I’ll tell you off.
I may let you get away with it a little while, but you better cut it
out. We don’t take that in our church. We allow it for one minute or
two. Women coming in without husbands, you hold your place or you’ll
find out you ain’t going to have no place either. 

	You say, “Now, you’ve gone to nattering, and you gone to
meddling.” 

	You bet your sweet life, I have. 

	I was over in Europe—Roman Catholics wouldn’t let a woman come into
their church with slacks on. Yeah. Still like to wear men’s clothes
and everything else. Maybe going to be a bunch of good ol’ foolish
virgin from the Roman Catholic Church beat the Protestants all out.
I’m not saying...I’m just talking, you know, to make you look up a
little bit, because your redemption draweth nigh.Yeah.

95. 	“We have already learned the contents of the message of Fatima
from Lucy, herself.” 

	How do they know she spoke the truth? 

	“Well,” they say, “Hey, there’s miracles! She’s gotta tell
the truth.” 

	“Well, you know Bro. Branham could have made a mistake.” 

	Well, jolly, jolly, jolly. A lot of this Book was written by scribes.
They had total recall. 

	“Ah, can’t believe that!” 

96. 	“We will all learn the contents of the message of Fatima from
Lucy, herself. We have had also some evidences of the miracles in which
God confirms this message.” Signs following. “In the week that
remained in my stay in Portugal I inquired about such evidences. One
miracle...” 

	Now, listen. Now, will you? Are you listening? Now promise me you’re
gonna really hear what I read. You ready? Now you’re going to hear
Bro. Branham: “One miracle takes as much omnipotence as a thousand.”


	You didn’t hear it, did you? You didn’t believe it. America
didn’t believe it. America still doesn’t believe it.

 	A Roman Catholic trinitarian theologian, priest, preacher, sculptor,
artist, poet, author—not full of the Holy Ghost—can express and know
more than the multitude of so-called, baptized with the Holy Ghost
Christians, and even Branhamites. I’m sitting with you, honey. I’m
not blaming you. 

	You might say, “Lee Vayle stands up and, oh man, he did himself proud
tonight, ha-ha. Boy, did he get the right thing to say. Yes sir, he said
it, and he read it.” 

	That’s not true. I’m embarrassed! I’m embarrassed, because I know
it. I heard the prophet say it. I’ve said it myself, but I didn’t
know that this man would say it!  

97. 	“One miracle takes as much omnipotence as a thousand.” 

	I have said many times, and perhaps you heard me on the series on
“Faith”, that Jesus said, “If you got a little faith like a grain
of mustard seed, you can move a mountain.” And Paul said, “Though I
have all faith to move mountains...” I said, “Listen, little faith
and big faith is simply faith. Just get using it.” I said in my own
words about faith what this man said, what Bro. Branham said. And he
said it fantastically. If Bro. Branham were here tonight to hear this,
I’m going to tell you, he’d be screaming. I believe he’s hearing
it. I hope so. He said, “When my name is mentioned, and they love me,
the saints kind of look over the bannister, the balustrade up there.
And,” he said, “they’re listening in to the conversation.” 

	I don’t understand a lot of things, but he wouldn’t be too happy,
the way I preach. But he couldn’t help that, because he said, “God
made me that way,” and I can sort of blame it on him and the Lord, and
then, come back to the truth. It’s me, anyway.

98. 	Isn’t that beautiful? “One miracle takes as much omnipotence as
a thousand.” 

	That is priceless. “If one becomes a fact for us, then we have to
accept the message which it sustains.” O God. “The miracle sustains
the Message, and God did the miracles, so God sustains His Word!” 

	You know, I’m going to quit preaching. Honest to God. I can’t take
anymore. This guy’s so far ahead of me I. I’m not lying. I’m not
trying to be nice and say something to be stupid up here. I’ve never
seen his equal. 

	“Of course, many miracles make the Message more emphatic!” 

	You know, I feel like crying, honestly, I get in these rare moods, you
know, when I’m crazy and full of antics and hot air, and God knows
what stupidity, but I could cry right now—thinking about this. 

	He... Now, listen. He said, “This is just what God did at Fatima.” 

	This is what God did in Jeffersonville! This is what He did in Detroit.
This is what He did in Lima. This is what He did in Indiana. This is
what He did in everywhere around the world. In Johannesburg. In Durbin.
And all around the country. This is what God did! God sustaining his
Word. 

	And then, people say, “Bro. Vayle, I want... I want the miracles, and
I want this, and I want that, but I don’t think I really want the
Word. Bro. Vayle, you make too much of the Word.” 

99. 	After hearing this man and knowing what I’ve preached, do you
think I make too much of the Word? Do you think that I should talk more
about miracles and all? Well, if you do, you’re welcome to believe
anything you want, but I’m not going to be convinced. And, if you’re
a tither to my church, and you believe it, I want you to tell me
tonight, and we’ll write you a check. You’ll get the full amount. I
don’t want you... 

	You say, “You’re a nasty man.” 

	You show me where Noah took everybody on board. I’m not Noah, of
course, but I’m trying to make a point. This man is not born again.
This man, anointed, is more correctly anointed to the Word than many
Pentecostals. And this is a tragic thing to say, because we’re
speaking of our hour, brother/sister, and Elijah of our hour. We are not
talking about regeneration; we are talking about the end-time Bride that
is finally coming in and going to the Tree of Life and coming into
immortality, while the dead come out of the grave, and there will be a
Rapture. That is what we are talking about. Keep that in mind. Elijah
must truly come. And Bro. Branham says, “He comes and He goes, and
they don’t know it.”

100. William Branham came and went, and the people are still grasping
and groaning and grunting. Must he come back and do another miracle?
What if he does? If that takes that to convince you, there’s something
wrong with your faith. 

	“Well,” you say, “there’s something wrong with yours, Vayle, if
you don’t believe he’ll come back and do it.” 

	I never said that. I said he is coming back. I know he is coming back.
And, if he doesn’t come back, I ain’t going nowhere, and nobody else
is coming back and going anywhere either! But, what he does is up to
God. And I’m not God. And I don’t know one miracle Bro. Branham did
that established the fact that he’s going to come back and do a whole
lot more. He can, if he wants, and God wants it. I don’t know. 

	I know one thing: Bro. Branham, in his Message, is like this guy
confirming the fact of exactly who he was and what he had for us—which
was a Message—and the Message is absolutely God’s Word, and it’s
sustained by the fact that God, Himself, performed the miracles that
vindicated it. And that’s exactly what Bro. Branham taught us. And
there’s something more to believe that’s great, but why don’t they
believe what’s going on now?

	I’m every kind of a jerk, because I believe the Presence. So, a
fellow said the other day to a bunch of guys arguing, he said, “So, do
you believe in the Parousia?” 

	“Nah,” they said, “That’s a false doctrine.” 

	He said, “Do you know what the word ‘parousia’ is?” 

	They said, “No.” 

	“Well, it means the “Presence.” 

	“Oh, it means the Presence. Oh, yeah, we believe that. He was present
at Pentecost.” 

	He said, “Hold it. Bro. Branham said, ‘That was upon the flesh.’
This is different. This is He Who came back.” 

	And they stood there, “Oh-o-o-o.”

101. And their preacher lied. He said he believed it. He told this guy
that didn’t... (I think it’s the same guy.) They said they didn’t
know my phone number; didn’t know where I was. Ha, ha—I’m here, in
Mississauga. Came from Ohio. Don’t worry, they know who I am and where
I am, and you can get my phone number, whether I want to give it to you
or not, because it’s right in the phone book. All you got to phone is
area 513, and say, “Where is Lee Vayle?” They’ll find me. My
name’s in the book. I know it’s in a better Book! I’m waiting for
my call from heaven. See? Okay.

102. “He has given the message of the blessed virgin tremendous
emphasis.” 

	Every one of Bro. Branham’s messages was about Christ, not the virgin
Mary. 

	“Senhor Souza Guedes made the very conservative estimate of about a
hundred certainly miraculous cures at the Cova. There was at least one
miracle during each pilgrimage at Fatima. From May to October, 1946 and
there were three in one day: May 13, 1946. The volume of Fatima wonders
is well known in Portugal, but, unfortunately, very little known in the
States.” 

	Not much known here. 

	“A few miracles have been described in some books on Fatima published
in English, and every history of Fatima duly accents the miracle of the
sun in October 13, 1917, but we need very much a work which will give a
more extensive, critical presentation of the Fatima miracles.”

103. Bro. Branham wanted a book like that. Nobody ever gave it to him.
Anna Jean turned down the Church Ages. 

	She said, “I can’t write it. It’s not book material.” 

	So, poor slob like me did it. He wanted me to talk to Meda, and get her
perspective, and get all these things in order. I’m not an author,
really. I could do a bit of writing, a little talent there. But
it’s... I’m just not hip. I never wrote the book. Nobody wrote the
book.

104. “I do not propose to fill that need in these chapters, but only
to report in particular instances, which I personally encountered.
During my stay in Portugal, I met two persons who were miraculously
cured at Fatima. I will present the stories of their cures. Nearly
everyone I met told me about the miracle of the doves of December, 1946.
It is simple and charming story about a very real and very recent
prodigy. I have already given the testimony of Teresa and Maria, Irma
Dores’s sisters, on the miracle of the sun; and this testimony will be
augmented by accounts I’ve received from two...by the person, one of
them Senhor Carlos Mendes. Although these testimonies are sufficient
proof, I...” 

	Notice: ‘sufficient proof’. Oh boy! Sounds like dog meat is selling
for sirloin steak at five dollars a pound. No dice.

	“I cite them with the reminder that my witnesses are only four out of
70,000 who saw the miracle of the sun. These are the evidences I offer,
not in any sense of the total argument for the credibility of Fatima,
but of segments for which I can vouch the great body of proof that
exists in Portugal. Maria Jose da Silva was instantly cured of a grave
abdominal infection on May 13, 1946.” Same year Bro. Branham got
turned loose with a gift of healing. “Father Gardiner and both John
and Ronald Symington saw the miracle take place. The Symingtons had met
with me and Fernandez and so on.” 

105. Now what am I going to say about this—this is the end of the
reading. I’m going to say this: Bro. Branham told us categorically
that you can go to a witch doctor and get healed, because you believe
you are dealing with God. Now, remember; the ‘Immaculate Heart of
Mary’ is based upon the fact that she is the mother of our Lord—our
mother of our God—according to Catholicism. As it is, the son is the
husband of the mother. The diabolical, Babylonian trinity. 

 	Now, let us say that Mary... And it is true that they take the wedding
of Cana, and they twist the Scripture a bit, to make Mary say,
concerning Jesus, “He will do whatever I tell Him.” So, therefore,
He turned the water into wine, and made it a very blessed thing for the
people. Now then, because she is His mother, and she has the
‘Immaculate Heart’, she has every right to go to the Son, who can
twist the Father’s arm, and get anything He wants.

107. So, now they are going through this Fatima. They are going through
the Lady of the Rosary. They are going through the Queen of Heaven, but
they are not believing that she is going to give the miracle, but the
miracle will be granted because of her pleading with Jesus, who, in
turn, sees the pleasure of the Father wrought, and they, believing that
God is doing it, get healed. 

	And anybody can have it. I don’t say that constitutes lying signs and
wonders for one minute, because only God can heal. I’m not so foolish
to think God’s not doing the healing. It’s God doing it. But you can
see how this whole thing can be wrought out and how it is done. What
time is it? Too late to go any further. If I were to start tonight,
there’s roughly an hour and a half on the next section, which I would
deal with, which I won’t. We have Sunday morning coming up at nine
thirty. So, I’m going to let you go. 

108. Now I’m just going to go back to what I said in the beginning. I
did not build you up to bring you something spectacular, although to me,
it is. I told you there was no possibility that you could leave here not
seeing the truth of the simplicity that Bro. Branham said, “The
simplicity fools everybody.” “God in Simplicity” was not a sermon
by accident. And what we see here in a Catholic... And, if I had any
heart like the apostle Paul, which I do not have. I am not the apostle
Paul. If I had anything in my heart at all, perhaps I should have and
perhaps I should do it, would be to pray for such a man as this, to be
so close and yet so far away; that this man can express my own thoughts
better than I can express them; that this man stands before the whole
world for the Roman Catholic Church and admits that when there is a
miracle, you get hit right between the eyes—to get the attention,
because God wants to tell you something.

109. William Branham came on the scene, and men said, like Gordon
Lindsay, “A man sent from God. Bible days are here again.” 

	Bro. Bosworth pulled my coat and said, “Bro. Vayle, I’ve prayed for
forty years for the ministry of Christ to return on this earth, and
there It is in that man.” 

	And I don’t believe for one minute that Bro. Bosworth realized there
was a Message. Nobody realized there was a Message. There wasn’t
anybody hardly that I know said, “What is going to come? What is this
prodigy all about? There must be something coming from heaven.”

110. Look, when God made Moses attracted to Himself, that was for
something. What is this? What is this? People look to the miracles. 

	They say, “Oh, give me miracles. Give me miracles. Give me miracles.
And more!” 

	And then, when discernment come, because Bro. Branham slowed down,
because that was that Second Pull, after the signs and the things, and
the discernment came on, they got weary of it, because to them it was
like wrapping, pretty wrapping, on the parcel. 

	“Forget the parcel. Give us something else.” 

	They turned their backs, not knowing that that was the last sign the
church would see. They did not stop and say, “William Branham, what
are you about anyway? What are you here for?”

111. People will tell you, (historians, religious historians) “This is
the greatest ministry since 2,000 years. This, literally, is a
duplication of the time of Jesus Christ. This is it.” 

	Yet none would believe when Bro. Branham said, “I am coming with a
Message,” and he hammered It, and he hammered It, and hammered It.
And, as I tried to show you last night, and show you in the series on
the Seals, brought me to the attention William Branham, was brought here
for a Message which separates people. He was here for the Bride. The
gift of healing was for the world. All these other things attracted us,
and he was bringing us a Message, and that was one hundred percent what
he was doing—bringing it to us.

112. So, we should have known and taken it unequivocally to heart that
this was exactly what it was all about and searched, as Bro. Branham
quoted Christ, “Search and see if this is not the Scripture.” Find
out if I am telling you a lie. He was indicated; he was vindicated; he
proclaimed it one hundred percent. 

	He turned around, and then, he said concerning the events of the
Rapture, (He took that over in 1 Th 4:16: “The Lord himself descend
from heaven with a shout, the voice of the archangel.”) and he said,
“Let me tell you right now,” he said, “the Shout is the
Message.” 

	Ble-e-ew! There it went right there!

113. Well, what was this man all about? 

	“Oh, Bro. Vayle, hallelujah, He’s the same yesterday, today and
forever, and this is God coming on the scene like He does once in a
while to wake us up and bring in the millions and let us all go out and
have great healing ministries, and the women get all turned loose to
floosey, flussy across the platform, with their high-heel slippers and
long hair a-flying and talking in tongues, and jigging around like a
bunch of baboons set loose on a banana stand.” 

	Pentecost! The Baptists said, “Pooey!” The Church of Christ said,
“Devil!” And you heard what I read tonight. I read the truth from
the lips of a man like Nebuchadnezzer, who said, “God reigns over us,
and the armies of the heaven and the earth, and nobody can tell Him what
to do. He does what He wants and when He wants to do it.”

	And men turn from God as they did in the days of Noah. They didn’t
turn to Him. So, they couldn’t believe that Bro. Branham really meant,
(It really was true, based upon vindication.) “Shut up and listen! You
don’t have a think coming. The Shout is a Message.” 

	Well-l-l, well, a Roman Catholic, a trinitarian Roman Catholic, who’d
look at some little sign of Fatima, an illusion, an apparition, he said,
“Get this: I saw God. What is it, Lord?”

114. Is it over? The sermon is. And, if I know anything, this
generation’s over. You won’t be the same again. You’re going to go
back, or you’re going to go forward. I know what I’m talking about.
I’m not a prophet. I’m not even much of a teacher. Bro. Branham
said, “A little gift of teaching.” How little?  He knew. And I know
very, very little--very little. But I know my Bible. 

115. You’ve been at a peculiar Communion tonight, around the Word of
Almighty God. And you have the living proof of the prophet who said,
“They know better,” and we didn’t believe it. We simply thought
they were ignorant, that a few blind leaders had turned them all blind,
but I read to you tonight from what the Catholic Church actually stands
for, and that’s the mother, and she taught the daughters.

	Let’s rise.

	Heavenly Father, we want to thank You for the time you’ve allotted us
tonight. We took more time, perhaps, on this than...well, more than I
thought we would, but I must say, for myself, when I read it the first
time and second time, I never saw what I saw tonight. It didn’t strike
home like it did. It’s like, Lord, when Naaman went to Israel; all the
Israelites with their leprosy and groveling and groaning and having a
problem, Naaman comes in and believes God, walks in the dirty old river,
puts aside his misunderstandings, prides and prejudices, and walks right
in and comes out perfectly whole—body like a child’s. And Jesus
said, “There are a lot of lepers there in the time of Naaman when he
went to Israel.” How many Israelites got healed?

	And here, Lord, tonight, You gave us the privilege of actually looking
into the theology and understanding of what Fatima and Lourdes and all
these things are about, and the simplicity, Lord, of what this man
states, literally appalls us tonight till we can say--and even as with
crocodile tears, “Lord, I don’t care if it’s even with skepticism
in my heart, or even anything in my heart—I don’t give a rip! I’m
asking, Lord, for forgiveness, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; and
an insight in the face of reality that the prophet said it so
perfect—absolutely the truth! He knew what he was talking about,
because You were talking through him. And we’re not going to say,
“Well, this one fellow knew it and the rest didn’t,” because
that’s a lie. Because he’s talking according to the actual dictates
of the Roman Catholic Church concerning miracles and the investigation
and what there is. But tonight we’ve learned what they believe comes
from it. 

	And now we see these things being set up, Lord. It could be genuine,
wonderful miracles take place. Just like Judas said, “I’m going to
use the name of Jesus. I’m going to talk about the man from Galilee,
and you’re going to see things happen.”

	And I thank You, Lord, that You heard me; my heart feels better
already. I only trust God I’ve got enough brains and enough something,
just keep on that heart pumping for Your glory and honor, the blood of
Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleansing and taking away all unbelief,
everything, Lord, that’s not there, and to stand exactly where this
man said, “We’re going to hear from God. What do you got to say?”
No longer is it an idea of whether it’s truth or not—it’s got to
be truth, because the miracle sustains It. 

	O God, when I think of the things I’ve read the prophet said, and I
haven’t got as far as that man, to the extent, Lord, that it’s just
a closed, shut case of simplicity, Father, we need a little more
education in Your boot camp, in Your kindergarten or something--Your
training, Lord. So, I want You to help every single one tonight. Cleanse
us all by Your Blood, Lord, tonight. Scour us right on down. Purify our
minds. Just help us to wash our robes and get rid of every spot and
everything from the world, and stand up and say, Lord, because it is the
truth: The miracles sustain the Word! There isn’t a doubt. There
isn’t a question. We have heard from God. We believe It, and we mean
that we believe It. And we can come to the place, Lord, live or die, and
we might die, and it’d be a pleasure, Lord, under the right conditions
to die. No matter what the penalty would be and the suffering the flesh,
or whatever else. O God, there is a glory, Lord, that is Yours, that
You’ve come to reveal in us. Help us, Lord, to just realize this Word
that Paul said, “In that day because of my Message, you believed.”
That grace and that power and the transforming strength is there.

	So, we commend ourselves. Forgive us, then, our sins, Lord, and with
the sweet Spirit of Christ in our midst, may any sick amongst us be
healed and may the people be helped. Give us more than ever, Lord, a
spirit of real sincerity. Real sincerity. Not a cowering thing, Lord,
but I mean a real sincerity about You, Father, that You’re real, that
this Message is real, that this is all real, that It’s not a
propaganda situation. It’s not a historical event. It’s something,
Lord, that this man could come on and say, “I’m basing on this. The
pope is basing on this. Something has happened. And here we see the
Bible and God exposed.”

	Father, help us tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. Bring us, Lord, to
altars of repentance, to hours of prayers, to the “sighing and crying
over sin,” especially the sin of unbelief in our own hearts, and to
stop striving to be a people who have an active faith, which we know is
good, but to come into that passive faith, the reality of what You have
done and have sustained. It’s happened. It can never be erased.
Nothing will stop it going on with it. That’s all I can say, Lord. I
don’t know what else to say. Bless Your people now. 

	And unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen. 

	

  

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