Third Exodus #1

Bro. Lee Vayle – September 14, 1983

 

	Let us pray. Heavenly Father, again we want to say how we appreciate
the opportunity of coming together in a place that You set aside for us.
We’re happy that we can be here in Your Presence and study the Word
together, Lord, it’s certainly a momentous occasion of our life,
knowing we have this freedom, yet knowing sometime that freedom will be
taken from us, but in the meantime we’re very grateful to it. Help us
Lord that we might appreciate it and make good use of it to do that
which is incumbent upon us from the joy of our heart, serving You Lord,
redeeming the time because the days are real. We commend ourselves
therefore at this time in this little time of gathering around the Word
Lord, as set forth by Your vindicated prophet. May we know what he said,
exactly how he said it, coming from You, and may the revelation be one
with You, in Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now next Wednesday of course you know Bro. Terry will be bringing us
a message, and I thought it would it nice if we get the …?..., I guess
we can maybe we can get it for about 9:30/10:00, something like that.
See, can you see if we can get it for that late at night? See if we can
get it? Yeah, good. That’s for next Wednesday, and what we’ll do,
we’ll just bring some sandwiches and make coffee, and stuff like that.
Bro. Miller’s church is coming over too, and how many else I don’t
know. You know, we’re not trying to make anything out of him, but
it’s nice to be friendly, and I think people always remember
hospitality. In fact the Bible commends us to be hospitable. So when we
fulfill that we’re doing part of the Word of the Lord. And of course
it works nice for us too, I think, you all like a little coffee …?...,
whatever they call it. I know you, you can’t kid me. 

	Oh by the way now, we want to make sure that you watch the children,
they don’t jump up and down on the beds upstairs there, because
they’re especially for guests, and if you keep doing that, I’m going
to come by with my switchblade and popgun, and woe unto you who have
waterbeds and mattresses. Now  the word to the wise is sufficient. And
this is one time I would like you to call my bluff. It would be just fun
watching those… hahaha. All right. So you watch the kids, don’t let
them jump on those beds, because they’re good beds and the sheets and
things aren’t exactly something that we’re taking off of the
goodwill. They were good money.

	So all right, now let me see. I think that kind of takes care of
things, and I think Brother and Sister Green coming down this Sunday,
also the ?Odin’s?, as far as we know. And we appreciate them coming.

2.	Now we’re going to go into the Third Exodus, and I thought maybe I
might have start on the Future Home, but I got to reading this and I
liked it. And so we’ll just read beginning at page 8, and I’ll go
along commenting. He’s reading from Exodus the 3rd chapter, verses
1-12. [The Third Exodus, 03/30/63M]

[49]	Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to
the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: … and he
looked, and, behold, the bush burnt with fire, and the bush was not
consumed. Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,
… why the bush is not burnt. And when the LORD saw that he turned
aside to see,… 

[50]	Want to lay emphasis on that! And when the LORD saw that he turned
aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and
said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh
hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And Moses hid
his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. And the LORD said, I have
surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt,… have
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their
sorrows; And I'm come down to deliver them out of the hands of the
Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land… and
large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites,… Hittites, and the Amorites, and Perizzites, Hivites,and
Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is
come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherein the Egyptians 
oppressed them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto
Pharaoh,… 

[51]	You notice? "I have come down." But, "I'm sending thee." God, going
in the form of a man.  

3.	See now this is one of the tough ones, that many people just can’t
see, you know. “When you see God descend from heaven, stand before
groups of men, declare Himself.” Well come on. When did He do it,
except in a man? Now you see we get pretty squeamish, you see. …?...
just squeamish. All right. 

[51]	"Go." Let’s read verse 10 again. Come now therefore, and I will
send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the
children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I
should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and
this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou… 

[52]	… When thou has brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall
serve God upon this mountain. 

[53]	Not noticing, before, but feeling very deeply inspired of the
Spirit this morning, I caught that just then. God, sending His servant
back where he had run from, He gave him the sign of a mountain. 

4.	I think he’s referring to himself there where he had that sign of
the three major peaks and the seven in a row, you know. And the last one
just blended off into eternity. That was out there in that… I don’t
know if it was in the Teton’s, Grand Teton’s, or just where it was
exactly. And you notice also God identifying Himself with a mountain. So
that’s not strange, it’s perfectly legitimate. People come along and
say, “Well I don’t believe that Bro. Branham that was a real
revelation. Does God do things like that?” Well he said here that he
identified himself with the mountain, the mountain of God. Right? All
right. 

[54]	Now we're going to speak, this morning, on the subject of the
second exodus; of God's people, or the calling out of God's people.
Exodus means "brought out; called out; taken away from." And I want to
use that as a subject, of the second exodus of God's people.

[55]	Now, they've had many exoduses, of course, but I'm speaking on the
time that God called an exodus, a separation from where they were, at
the present time. (At that time in history back there.) Here, God is
making ready to fulfill His Divine promised Word that He gave to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Years, hundreds of years had passed by,
but, yet, God never forgets His promise. (Four hundred years.) In the
season, the due time, God always makes His promise right. 

5.	Now I like the way Bro. Branham uses the word ‘season’. Most
people don’t use that term. And if you don’t use the word
‘season’, then you don’t begin to get the full complementary
effect of what goes into a season. You talk about a day, [Bro. Vayle
makes popping sound] you know, come on. Well He’s been building up to
a day maybe for five thousand years. Then there’s a special time
surrounding it. Otherwise how would you know when the signs are in? So
the word ‘season’ is absolutely the best word, spiritual food in due
season and so on. You’ll notice how that a prophet will use the right
words. All right?

[55]	In the season, the due time, God always makes His promise right.

[56]	Therefore, you can rest assured that what God has promised in this
Bible, He's going to do it. Just no need of trying to think anything
else, and say, "Well, the prophet was, maybe, wrong," or, "that couldn't
happen in this day." Looked almost impossible then, more impossible than
it does now. But God did it, anyhow, because He promised He would do it.

[57]	And look how simple He does it. (Now the clue is “Look how simple
He does it,” then the following words are the simplicity.) "I have
come down. I have heard your cry. I remember My promise, I have come
down to do it, and I'm sending you. You do it. I'm going to be with you.
Certainly, I'll be with you. My never-, never-failing Presence will be
with you wherever you go. Don't be afraid." …"I'm going down to
deliver." 

	Now that’s what he said simplicity was. “Oh boy, bring me my big
steak dinner.” 

	“Who’s going to kill the cow?” 

	“Forget it, I don’t care who kills the cow, bring me my big steak
dinner.” Bring the trimmings, bring it all in here, it’s time to
eat. 

	“Oh we got to pray and fast.” I wish they would. I’m glad they
do. But that won’t do it. Simplicity, see? Oh now, is that right?
Okay. 

[57]	I'm sure the spiritual mind catches that. See? (The spiritual mind
catches who William Branham is, that’s what he’s saying. See? The
one that has the Word. All right?) "That I'm going to send you, to bring
My people to an exodus. Call them out, and I'll be with you." 

6.	Now the simplicity is simply a message, a prophet getting them out,
and that prophet is God to the people. God is there. 

[58]	Now, how we can rest, how faith can catch that hope there. God’s
going to do it. 

	God is. Not character, not your fruit, not your gifts, not your
nearness to God. Ha. Well how near was God to Bro. Branham? God pure and
simple. Not just a modicum of the Holy Ghost, that didn’t do it. That
didn’t do it. It had to go, God just did it, and William Branham was
just a voice. So it wasn’t the nearness of William Branham, it was God
doing it. See? It wasn’t obedience. 

[58]	Now, how we can rest, how faith can catch that hope there. God’s
going to do it. (God’s going to do it.) He promised it. (See? Oh for
people just nutty enough to believe a promise. To lose their own mind,
get the mind of God, be spiritually minded.) No matter how, what the
circumstances are, or what anyone else says, God’s going to do it,
anyhow, because He promised to do it. 

7.	Like with Abraham. A loused up wife, he couldn’t have chucked her
out and got a young woman, it wouldn’t do any good, because he
couldn’t do it anyway. Ha, pbbt. Abraham wasn’t going to throw away
Sarah. …?... He just had… just to be with. That’s the way God
stuck with the Bride. The only thing He can do for her is bring her back
to immortality. Oh brother/sister. Poor old Abe, our
great-great-grandfather Abraham. No good, impotent, his wife messed up,
wouldn’t have done him any good to get a young woman. But what did God
do? He promised it.

[58]	And He does it so simple, that, it goes over the understanding of
the cultured mind who would try to reason about it, "How could it be?" 

[59]	I don't mean to say that a man now, with a good, strong mind, fine
education, that that man won't understand. (Now where’s the big yaps?)
That's all right, wonderful, as long as he uses that not to reason, but,
that culture that he's got, to believe God. 

8.	In other words, he’s come to the place like they asked the great
Dr. Simpson that discovered chlroform. And they said, “What was the
greatest discovery of your life?” 

	He said, “That I was a sinner and Jesus Christ was my Savior.” 

	Now that was a tremendously brilliant person. Ha! Well I’d like to
slap knuckles, I get the time of my life. These macho men, they…
hahahaha. All right, I’m not going to comment on that. 

[59]	Let it be converted into the simplicity… 

	All right, what simplicity? 

[57]	"I have come down. I have heard the cry. (People crying because of
sin.) I remember My promise, I've come down to do it, and I'm sending
you. (William Branham.) You do it. (Get them out of Egypt, Babylon.) I'm
going to be with you. Certainly, I'll be with you. (Now, look at it. He
said, “I’ll be with you, certainly.” That means He’s going to
make the prophet know that He’s with him and He’s going to let the
people know that He’s with him. See?) My never-, never-failing
Presence will be with you wherever you go. Don't be afraid. … I'm come
down to deliver." (Okay.) …spiritual mind catches that. (Right?)

[59]	Let it be converted to the simplicity of listening to what God has
said, and believe It. (“I’m come down, here I am, I’m going to do
it, you’re going to stand there as My Voice.”) His culture will help
him then. 

	Well sure. I could say something, but I’m not going to, because you
know what I stand for anyway. It isn’t what you quite think, but it
might be a long time to get to what I want to say.

[60]	Notice. But when the man tries to reason… 

9.	Now here’s what he said about the cultured mind that’s in the
abyss, in chaos.

[60]	But when a man tries to reason, that "It couldn't be done," then
that drives him away from God, constantly, all the time, (education
then, is wrong education when it says, “Hey, it can’t be done.”
When God said it was going to be done. See?) when he's trying to listen
to what, his own understanding. See? If you don't understand the Bible,
and the Bible says a certain thing, just punctuate It, "Amen." And let
it go like that. 

	He’s telling you about an educated mind, and a mind that’s so
ignorant, perhaps, but not necessarily so, it could be in brilliant men,
or just fine men, and you can’t get it, say, “Hallelujah, amen.”
Pass on. 

[61]	Now, instead of referring to these Scriptures, you can jot them
down, in this Sunday school lesson. I would, maybe, you'd like to look
at it. …first, but I've got so many. Let's… 

[62]	Before we find out what this exodus means, I'm going to type the…
exodus then, (that’s Alpha, right?) and the exodus now, (that’s
Omega, aren’t going to be anymore.) and watch if it isn't running
exactly parallel. One of them is natural. And the very same things that
He did in the natural, He's typing it again, antityping it in spiritual,
(so what is the Omega? He calls it) the spiritual exodus. 

[63]	Marvelous, to see the Word of God! How anyone could say It's not
inspired? This was about twenty-eight hundred years ago, you know. And
how that He’s promised, and what He's done and laid it out there for
example, how He makes the shadow of something to testify of the
positive. I’ll get on that, tonight, moon and sun, the Lord willing. 

10.	All right, shadow, Alpha, positive, Omega. Right?

[64]	But, first, we must review Genesis to see why they were down in
Egypt. Why would God's people be out of that land? (What land? Promised
land, see? Into that land, unpromised.) After all, God promised that,
right there where the beginning was, with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in
Palestine. God gave them that land, and said, "This is it." (Well then,
if this is it, see?) …then, why would the people not be in the place
that God provided them? 

[65]	That's the question of today, also. God gave us the Pentecost. He
gave us the Book of Acts. He gave us the Holy Spirit, to lead us and
guide us. He gave us a Land. (That’s true church order, see?) Why are
we out of It? Well why is the church out of It? Isn't the great
Christian church today living again like the Book of Acts, bringing
forth the same thing? There's some reason for it. 

[66]	We all know that we're broke up, we're in terrible condition. The
most terrible condition Christianity has ever lived in, is today. And
we're … right on the brim or the brink of a great, terrific judgment
laying for the church. And before this judgment can happen, God calling
an exodus, just like He did then. The Amorites' sin was heaped up… 

11.	Now the Amorites are mountaineers. They’re the ones that climb to
the top and look over. Like the devil took Jesus to a high mountain. And
told, “Look over the whole thing, this is all yours if you obey me.”
See, the high places. They’re the ones lifted up lofty. The great
organization, the great education, the great programs. Everything, see? 

[66]	The Amorites’ … so He's calling a spiritual exodus. Now let's
go back just a moment, type, and find out.

[67]	They went down in Egypt, all because of the jealousy of a brother.
That's the reason Israel was in Egypt at that time, out of the land.
Remember, God's promises were only as long as they stayed in the land. 

[68]	Now can you see what we were speaking in prayer, a few moments ago?
Why did God have to harden Pharaoh's heart? To put the people back in
the promised land, before He could bless them, to bring forth the
Messiah to them. (To them, see?)

[69]	How did He have to harden Hitler's heart, to be against the Jews,
when he was half Jew, himself? How could He have to do that in Stalin,
Mussolini? See? People that's not inspired, like a nation, they… God
has to take the things they’re living by, the laws of the land, many
times, to make His promises come true. 

12.	In other words He takes a natural before there’s a spiritual can
happen. And remember the promise is spiritual, so God’s got to lay a
platform of many physical things before the promise can come into true
spiritual effect. Otherwise it wouldn’t have effect upon the people.
There wouldn’t be anything there that would want to move them out. So
you can tell that we’re not ready to move out, because the pressure
hasn’t come down too; just watch this thing now.

[69]	So, He had to harden those dictators' hearts, to turn the Jews back
to the promised land. It had to be that way. (Then what about our
spiritual exodus, see?)

[70]	Now we find out, that, going down, Joseph… We know the story, as
we go back to Genesis, and we can just read it. I'm just a little late
for this Sunday school lesson, I'll try to hurry. 

[71]	Now notice. Read the story when you can, of Joseph, being born
later of his brethren, next to the last. (Joseph was a second to the
last, and the two children, I guess, of Rachel.) The spiritual mind will
catch that right now. He wasn't the last child; Benjamin was. But, in
the excommunication, watch. Joseph and Benjamin were full-blooded
brothers, and only two that were brothers. 

13.	Now I don’t know what he’s really hitting at here, but I just
wonder if he’s not trying to tell us that he’s the second to the
last Elijah. Because there’s five: Elijah, Elisha, John the Baptist,
William Branham and Elijah at the end time. Is he trying to tell us that
this is second to the last? That everything is going to be gone at that
time? I don’t know exactly. Is he telling us that before God turns to
the Jews, this is the Seventh Church Age, second to the last then, the
last church age is one before the very last, because He turns to the
Jews for a little while, three and a half years, and it’s all over?
See? Second to the last. We may get it later, I don’t know.

[71]	He wasn’t the last child; Benjamin was. But, in the
excommunication, watch. Joseph and Benjamin were full-blooded brothers,
and only two that were brothers. Never did Benjamin get the recognition
till he met Joseph. And above the rest of them, Benjamin given a double
portion of everything that Joseph gave. (Well he could be telling us
here very plainly too that until we actually meet Jesus, as typed in
Joseph, we are not going to get our position, nor does Israel.) All
right. Notice now, we find that down there. They were… 

[72]	He was taken from his brothers because that he was spiritual. He
was a great man, although the humblest of the bunch, the least of the
bunch. "They hated him without a cause." They should not have hated him.
They should have respected him. Because, why did they hate him, because
he was a brother? Not exactly that. They hated him because that God
dealt with him more than He did with the rest of them.(Now he’s
telling you about jealousy here, that has to do with pride, and he, in
his own ministry, is likened to that very end, the people hated William
Branham, they were jealous of him, because he had his ministry. All
right.) God gave Joseph a spiritual understanding. He could interpret
dreams, perfectly. He could foretell things that would come to pass,
perfectly, just the way they were. …he didn't pull any punches. 

14.	Now remember that’s before the Anointed Ones at the End Time.
You’ve got men telling dreams, just right down the line too, but they
go off. There’s only one person that’s perfect, can tell it just as
it is, that was William Branham. No man following can do it. I don’t
care. Now young W.V. Grant can just tell you dreams left and right, but
he goes off. And I will mention his name, I don’t mean to be
disrespectful, but look, we’ve got a job to do, and that’s all right
by me. I’m going to do what I got to do.

[73]	He saw the dream of those sheaves bowing before his sheaf, and his
brothers then got angry with him. Said, "I guess, then, you little
holy-roller," in other words, "we'll have to bow down before you
someday?" But that's the way it happened. How would those great big
giants ever bow before the little, insignificant fellow standing there?
But they did it, they sure did, and pleaded for mercy. But he hadn't
come in power, yet, you see. (Now he’s talking about Joseph.) He was
only then in just the child form. 

[74]	…then we find out, by doing this, that Joseph was taken from
among his brethren, the denominations, and set out to himself. His
brothers, all in the land. Then there come such a great thing. We
realize that Israel… as long as they dwelt in their dwelling place,
and kept up. Now, that's one good thing, to stay in place. Positionally,
that's right. But, they got rid of the Spirit. (Don’t do that.)

[75]	The fundamentals, today, positionally know what they are, by
intellectual conception of the Bible, but there's no Spirit. 

	Now you see what he’s trying to tell you there, you’ve got to know
your position, and you’ve got to be full of the Holy Ghost. There are
many people that know the Word very graphically. But there’s no
spirit. That’s why the foolish virgin in the end time, there’s no
life in it. The life is in this Message.

[75]	But they've rejected Joseph, turned Him out. They wanted nothing to
do with It. "…a bunch of holy-rollers. 

15.	Now he’s telling you the same thing, they’re rejecting Christ at
this hour, because they’re turning down the prophet’s ministry. See?


	Now you notice in here he says here, “His brothers, all in the
land.” Is that why Bro. Branham kept calling these ministers brethren?
Because he always called them brethren. But you notice he said that just
Benjamin and Joseph were real brethren. But he always called them
brethren. So no doubt he was calling all those brethren out there, but
there’s only true brethren, and that’s in whom the midst Christ
stood and not ashamed to call them brethren.

[75]	They've excommunicated Him, sold Him out, to the world. They were
out of their fellowship. (Now he puts past tense and present tense,
showing he’s relating the two as it’s going on today.)

[76]	Now, by doing that, they were taking out of place, taken down into
Egypt, later on. (See?)

[77]	Now, the story of these jealous brothers is certainly of great
comparison with the spiritual side of it today. We are well aware of
that, that’s pure jealousy, not pure. It's old, dirty, filthy
jealousy. See? There's no purity in jealousy. (He meant that there was
nothing but jealousy in there. There is no purity in jealousy.) See?
It's nothing but filthy jealousy. (Remember Satan by reason of pride
fell.) When, they see the same Bible, and the nature of the same God
that wrote the Bible, vindicating Himself, and then turn That down
without a reason. Pure… Well, not pure. As I said, it's dirty
jealousy. 

	See, they say, “We and our church, we’re right. We don’t care.
Whatever you produce doesn’t matter.” Like they say the Catholic
church lived two thousand years, it’s got to be God. Pbbt. Hogwash.
What kind of junk is that? Every person been living since Adam was
turned away from the Tree of Life and they’re all dying. And every
Roman Catholic is dying too. Shows that nobody yet has come to the place
that they can walk to the Tree of Life. When they can, we’ll know
something’s really gone on; by that time it will be too late. See? 
And that’s still going to be God, it won’t be man doing it. See? 

16.	Now, 

[77]	Watch God heal the sick, raise up the dead, the same God that lived
in the days of the apostles! The same Gospel that they wrote, for this
spiritual journey, it’s the same God that does the same things. Till
there is nothing but jealousy, has excommunicated, and said "…we'll
not have It among our people." 

	Now that’s when they put Him out. Put God out. Because He said,
“I’m coming down in a prophet.” Put the prophet out, you put God
out. See, people can say what they want, I don’t care what they say.
We believe it this way, we’re going to go this way. If we’re wrong,
tell you one thing, we’re a whole lot more right than they are. So at
least that much is good.

[78]	They thought, the brethren, that they’d never have use for a man
like that, so, "Why not just get rid of him?" 

[79]	That's what, same thing has happened today. They think, that,
"Because that our churches have become intellectual, had the
best-dressed crowds, the biggest organization, smartest ministers, that
we have no use of the Spirit in the way that It was back there." 

	Now just a minute. He said, “No use of the Spirit in the way that It
was back there.” All right. And “They’d never have use for a man
like that, so, “Why not just get rid of him?”” So there’s no use
for the Spirit. Which shows you every church age minister, messenger,
was the Holy Ghost for his hour. To reject him was to reject the Holy
Ghost. The man and the Message is the same. The man and the Spirit is
the same. You can’t get rid of it, see? He that hath an ear, hear what
the Spirit says.” 

17.	Now, 

[79]	That, they are full. In other words, actions speaks louder than
words. That, their seminaries, and they're the brain of their being. And
their coming together and discussing this thing, are not able, with
their own intellectual minds, to set a Church in order, better than what
the Holy Spirit could do. (Now you see, they figure they know more than
the Holy Spirit, so they don’t need the Holy Spirit.) "It's Something
that we don't need… 

	Now you notice he said they’re full. Now that refers to the Book of
Luke, when the people… Let’s just take a look at that for a second.
Luke 6, something like the beatitudes, kind of. And we’re over here,
verse 20.

(20)	…he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed (are
the) poor: for yours is the kingdom of (heaven).

(21)	Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. …(you)
that weep: (you’ll) laugh.

(22)	Blessed are ye, when men hate you, when they separate you from
their company, and shall reproach you, cast out your name as evil, for
the Son of man’s sake. 

18.	Now notice that’s for this hour, Son of man’s sake. Now what if
we’re right on this doctrine? My name is the most excoriated, hated
name in all the Branham Message. And you better believe it. Now if I’m
right, I’ve only got one barrel to date, the second barrel’s just
around the corner. Now you heed my word and know what I’m talking
about. And this is hard.

(23)	Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: (best …?... got a four by
four and meet him with it,) for, behold, your reward… (I put that in
the Scripture for my own thinking. Not that you’re supposed to do it,
but I won’t do it, I better not do it.) for in like manner did their
fathers unto the prophets. (So this puts you in the prophet class, see?)

(24)	But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
consolation. 

(25)	Woe unto you that are full! for (you) shall (be hungry). 

	He said they’re full. All right, you know what their fate is.
They’ve got news for the Holy Spirit, they’ve turned down the man
who’s God to the people, they’ve turned down the Word, that’s Word
of God. All right? 

[79]	It's, the days of that has passed." (Now.) Now, isn't that just
right? "We don't need the Holy Spirit to heal the sick. 

19.	Now in other words they say, “Look, things like being produced
today, we don’t need.  That was years back in Pentecost when the
groundwork was being laid, the framework, we don’t need it now.”

[79]	“We don’t need the Spirit to heal the sick. We got doctors. We
don't need the Spirit to speak in tongues. We're intelligent people."
(We can learn our own languages.) And when you do, you take, right from
your framework, the Lifeline. (So now you’ve got a Frankenstein, and
no amount of electricity is going to bring a dead man’s bones back. It
won’t work.)

[80]	Jesus said to the Jews, …"Haven't you read that, 'The Stone that
was rejected is the Chief Cornerstone that all the building is setting
upon'?" 

	Alpha is Omega, what was there has got to come back, he’s telling
you. There’s got to be a repeat ministry. And to do it, the same One
has got to be here. But it’s going to be Spirit, revealed Word with
it.

[81]	Now, see what I mean? Now I'm sure you can catch that. That, the
reason of it now, is because they thought that they'd never have a need
of It. (Who needs to talk in tongues? Who needs this? Who needs that?
See?) "We don't need speakers with tongues. We don't need interpreters
of tongues. We no longer need the Old Testament prophets to set us in
order, by the Holy Spirit. We understand It." See? 

	Now notice. There are Seven Church Ages. Number Four was the furthest
from the oil. From Number One it started to go up and decrease, but
after Number Four it started to come back and increase. So that Age
Number Four stood alone as the bankruptcy of the church that wouldn’t
repent and of the church that fell in the ground and died. Number Five
then approximated Three, Number Six approximated Two and Number Seven
approximates One, you’re right back where you started. Follow what I
said? I don’t have to write on the board, I don’t think. I think you
can catch that. 

20.	All right, so they say that “We don’t need it in this hour.”
That’s when you do need it. Is this hour.  See? 

[81]	They have adopted a man-made system to take place of the Holy
Spirit.

[82]	Therefore, there is people that's elected, has their names on the
Lamb's Book of Life, they can't go for that. They’re not
spiritual-minded, no they can’t go for that. (Now why does he hit
that? The major problem amongst the Branhamites around the world,
outside of America is predestination, they can’t take it. Now I know
what I’m talking about, because I’m in touch. See?) They can't stand
it, no matter if their fathers and mothers have lived in whatever
organizational church. 

[83]	When a church makes, does, maybe it wouldn't speak that right. 

21.	Now what’s he saying? Well he’s telling you. You can’t look to
your father and mother, your sisters and brothers. Who are his brethren?
Not your father, mother, sisters, brothers. You’ve got to be born
again. Why listen, if I rested on my mother and my relatives, I might as
well cut my throat and get out of here. I’m the renegade. So phooey on
that nonsense. Boy, don’t ever talk to me about your blood relatives,
not that anybody here’s got any blood relatives make any much of mine,
but the point is this… well I never know. I just got to keep warning.
Because one day I’m going to have to meet you down the road. 

[83]	Oh, no. They wouldn't speak it right out, but their actions prove
it. Here is the Word. The Holy Spirit proves it amongst those, that He
can get them together… 

	What’s he saying here? He saying, look, they wouldn’t have a
meeting like this and have the Holy Ghost move amongst them. Oh no, no,
no. They wouldn’t do it. They wouldn’t get together. 

	Oh they’re like the Methodist came, said, “Bro. Branham you go to
those Pentecostals.” 

	He said, “Look,” he said, “I’m Methodist.” 

	“Well,” he said, “you invite me.” 

	“Oh,” he said, “I can’t.”

	Then why knock the Pentecostals? Now we can, because we invited him.
We’re a bunch of knockers, we came out. Yes siree. We just had enough
gas in our carburetor to make a lot of noise, so the Lord helped us. Not
a bang, bang, chug, chug, we’re out of here. 

22.	So they won’t do it, they won’t bring together. Oh no, they
won’t speak in tongues, cast out devils. That’s organization.

[84]	Mrs. Arganbright there, was thinking that, the other day, sitting
out there on the walk, pulling out some grass, when she was cutting the
lawn. I passed, right by side of her. She didn't know, and I just let
her go on. I was watching. (He made an illustration. That’s the way
denominations are. They didn’t even went by him, they didn’t know
what was there. They had no idea what was going on. You know, she left
for Junior Jackson’s church though. Went down with the gifted people.
Yup.) But notice the Holy Spirit in His great work. 

[85]	The church feels it don't need the Holy Spirit. (Then it wouldn’t
need the work, would it?) The churches will tell you that. And a man can
stand up and give you such an intellectual talk, almost make you believe
it. Now let's stop there, a minute. Didn't Jesus say that two would be
so close together, till "It would deceive the very Elected if it was
possible"? (Now with the signs and wonders, he still tells you these
people, outside of the Bride, are simply intellectuals!) It's gospel,
it's men who can handle that word in such a way, that he could almost
make any intellectual person, if you're just trusting in intellectual.
They  condemn the Holy Spirit, and take the way of the man. We see that.


23.	Now you know that that’s exactly what happened in Hebrews 3. They
disapproved of God. Why? They disapproved of Moses. See? No doubt they
disapproved of him because he was too smart. He could speak Spain better
than they could. He was smarter at the Hebrew and smarter at the
Egyptian. He was a general, he was well taught. “Well he’s too smart
for us.” “Now William Branham’s too much a hillbilly for us.”
You can’t please anybody, quit trying it. Fap. Just go on your way,
brother/sister. If you’re eating good, just slug in there with the
sheep. Amen. Don’t worry about what those birds are out there doing,
pretending they’re sheep, because they got some sheep on the outside.

[85]	Now, that's the same thing they thought about Joseph, (now Joseph
identified the spirit, you see.)  they got rid of him. (Why, why was he
the spirit? Because he told them his position!) All down in Egypt, oh,
how we can think, how I could spend hours. You could stay three years
and never leave that subject, day and night, and still be finding the
great kernels of the Holy Spirit. (That’s on Joseph typing, you see.) 

[86]	The spiritual mind can look down in Egypt and see that persecution
rise; can see Joseph taken away, in order that the persecution could
rise. And then see God, with His wheel in the wheel, everything moving
around just perfectly. 

24.	Now notice he’s going to use the term ‘wheel in the wheel’
signifying the perfection of God moving apart from circumstances,
dedicated to His Own Word, and doing it, never minding what any
intellectual, anybody else ever thought. 

[86]	…spiritual mind can look down in Egypt and see that persecution
rise; can see Joseph taken away, in order the persecution could rise.
Then see God, with His wheel in the wheel, everything moving perfectly.
See Potiphar reject Joseph; 

	Now notice, when he went to this branch here about Joseph taken away
before the persecution, so that Moses could rise on the scene and God
could get him out, he reversed the chronology and he went back to the
same Joseph who was rejected and shows the same thing happening all
through his life under Potiphar. Something’s got to happen to Joseph.

[86]	…see that lie told. And see Joseph in the prison, his beard grown
out, excommunicated from his brethren. And then, all of a sudden, God
moved in. 

	When did God move in first place? Well He put him elevated. Then He had
to move Joseph out so there’d be somebody come that didn’t know
Joseph, right? We’ll get into that.

[87]	How we can see that wheel in the wheel, moving! God's great plan
moving everything up to this exodus, to the time when He would call His
people back in the land, back in the place, in position where He could
bless them and place among them the One that He promised He would place
among them. 

25.	That’s the Presence. That’s where the tabernacle would be built,
and God Himself in the form of the Holy Spirit, covered in fire, would
come down. And take over in the holy of holies. Remember He came down in
a cloud, hovered them, then took them in and then went into the Ark of
the Covenant. Then entered into the temple. All right, now that was the
idea. And it types the Promised Land, but remember it’s also telling
us something, because we’re in the Exodus. And this is Exodus he’s
talking about. 

[87]	They had to be in the land. Remember, they had to come out of the
land where they were in, and get in the land of promise, before their
promised Messiah could ever come.

[88]	And the Church has to do the same thing; (they got to get out of
Babylon.) get out of that group of rejecters, over into the promise,
before Messiah can ever be manifested before them. 

	You got to get out, start coming out, you’ll see the works. You’ll
hear the Word. Then you got to come all the way out before you’ll ever
get with Him. 

	All right, now, he says here, then:

[87]	How we can see that wheel in the wheel, moving! God’s great plan
moving up to this exodus, to this time when He would call His people
back in the land, back in place, … and place among them that One… 

26.	Okay, there had to be a persecution arise, he said. Then you watch
God begin to move perfectly in that place. Now he said He has to
position them. That’s exactly referring to us as to them.  We’ve got
to be positioned according to 1 Corinthians 15. The Presence, and then
God moving on the scene to bring all things under His feet. See?  And
that’s when the Lord descends from heaven with a Shout, the voice of
the archangel. Follow me?

[88]	The Life of the Messiah, manifested, making a Church ready, a
Bride. (Now not talking of Israel.) 

      Now he says here, 

[88]	…get out of that group of rejecters, over into the promise,
before Messiah can ever be manifested before them. You see it? The Life
of the Messiah, manifested, making a Church ready, a Bride. (Now he
tells you the same Life that was in Messiah is back here getting a Bride
ready.)

[89]	A woman marry a man, and disagreeing with him, it would be some
kind of a fuss, continually. But when a man and his wife, his
girlfriend, his espoused, when they are in perfect harmony, like one
soul and one mind, because they're going to be one flesh. (He’s not in
here flesh yet.)

[90]	Then, when the Church can get in such harmony with God, until the
manifestation of the Bridegroom is manifested in the Bride, because
they're going to be one! (Well you say, “What does that mean?” Well
in my books it means immortality. We’re supposed to be like Him
because we see Him as He is. That’s what 1 John 3 said.) Oh, what a
great lesson. 

27.	Now it’s happening right today, see? It’s already happening,
happening. They’re going to be one, that’s the key. See? Not
physical but spiritual, then physical. You get position with the Word,
with Him, He here, then we’re going to be changed, taken away, put in
the Promised Land. 

[90]	All right. 

[91]	Now, remember, the spiritual mind picking this up, can see the type
and the antitype, and pick it. For one, we could go hours on it. Watch
what takes place. 

[92]	Now why have we waited all these years, since this oasis of time?
(In other words this is a time of refreshing, he’s telling you,
that’s spoken of in Acts 3.) You know, the Bible speaks, that, "The
church fled in the wilderness, where she was nourished for times and a
time."  (It’s time times and a half and time there.) Why has all this
been? That we… You see? It's still God's wheel in the wheel. 

[93]	Why hasn't God done this, a long time ago, when men sat down with
pencils, and women, and tried to draw out just the time? Like (in other
words tell us this time we’re in now,) Judge Rutherford and many of
them… 

28.	Now Rutherford …?... absolutely said that the Presence, the regal
return and the regal reign of Christ started in 1914. And for three and
a half years they put the Jehovah Witnesses in prison, then turned them
loose. So they say the three and a half years is when they were… the
woman was persecuted. The starting of Christ’s Presence. But they’re
wrong. They tried to figure it out. Mother Shipton wrote some poetry and
they tried to use hers. He’s trying to tell you you can’t do it.
See? Now he doesn’t deny the persecution, Bro. Branham, he doesn’t
deny the Presence. He says you can’t figure it! See? [End of side
one.] 

[93]	When going by what they've tried to figure out the Scripture, they
ruined it. See? It's hid. It's actually hid.(Now come on, don’t be
babies. What has been hidden and nothing said? Seventh Seal. Relative to
the return.) And how could the Scripture go against Itself, when Jesus
said, "No man knows the minute or hour"? (In other words you can’t
figure it. But you’ll know it when it gets here.) See? They just get
one piece of Scripture and hold It. 

[94]	You must take the whole Thing. Then, if God is in that, then God
will manifest that to be the Truth. Like Divine healing, if it isn't
Truth, then it isn't Truth; God will have nothing to do with it. But if
He manifests It to be the Truth, then It is the Truth. (Now he’s
talking about the Presence. Did he prove divine healing? Yes. Did he
prove that He’s here? Yes. Then He’s here.) Just as Jesus… 

[95]	God said, "If there be one among you, is a prophet, or spiritual,
I'll speak to him. And what he says comes to pass, then hear it. That's
it. But if his prophecy is wrong, then…" God can't be wrong. He's
infinite, infallible, omnipotent, and He cannot be wrong. So, if the man
is speaking, then it shows the man. If he spoke his own words, it'll
fail. But if he speaks God's Words, it can't fail, because it's God
speaking. Then, his inspiration comes from God, and it will… have to
be right. 

29.	Now that’s not just the inspiration saying, “'THUS SAITH THE
LORD', tomorrow it’s going to rain.” That sets the premise for the
Message so the Message is right! The Message is as infallible, as
infallible as the rain that came! You can’t have one without the
other. See? Now Rutherford’s prophecy failed. William Branham’s
didn’t. See? 

[95]	That's the way God said to tell it. That's the way the Bible… 

[96]	In the Old Testament, He said, "If they speak not according to the
law and the prophets, it's because they have no Life in them… 

	Now how did the law and prophets speak? How’d the prophets speak?
“'THUS SAITH THE LORD', a certain thing will take place.” When it
takes place, you listen. So nobody can say, “This is it for sure,”
unless you’re a prophet and you got God’s backing. You follow me?
Okay. 

[96]	…no Life in them." That’s right. They have to speak according
to the law and prophets. And  if the prophets, or anything else, must be
according to the Word. If it isn't, it's wrong. (Okay.)

[97]	Now, we find out that all this has taken place, because, waited.
Revivals: Methodists, Lutheran, Baptists, Campbellites, and all the
others… had great revivals. The Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness,
Pentecostals, all great revivals. But the great exodus hasn't come. Why?


30.	See, now everybody said, “We’re waiting for the coming of the
Lord.” 

	He said, “You Lutehrans, potentially, had that coming, when the Holy
Spirit. You Methodists potentially, couldn’t happen. You Pentecostals,
potentially, couldn’t happen.” 

	But when the season comes it’s got to come! See? All right. So the
season for the Holy Spirit is Exodus! Now they know that. Least they
should. 

[97]	God told Abraham He would keep him in the land right then, but the
iniquity of the Amorites wasn't full. And God has waited, patiently.
Them people, trying to figure out, they can see the Scripture runs right
into something. Right into something, and say, "This is the day. This is
the time." But you fail to understand the iniquity of the Amorites is
not yet fulfilled. 

31. That’s true. We can’t get out of here till you see the world
council of church bring a squeeze down. Because that’s what he’s
talking about.

[98]	Four hundred years they would journey down there in Egypt, and be
brought out. But they actually stayed four hundred and forty years,
because they rejected the prophet. They had to suffer another, about
forty years in the wilderness… (That’s eighty years, isn’t it?
Forty, forty.) Forty years went by, because they rejected the message.
(What about this people? Right, 1933, we’ve gone by fifty. We’ve had
jubilee since ’33, the first Appearing. When He came down. Rainbow
signified what came down.) 

[99]	Now, forty years in God's time would be about one and a half
minutes… (It’s not really so, because the space of half an hour in
heaven was come to roughly about twenty-one years, would be almost an
hour, forty minutes. But he’s right, as far as just – pbbt –
…?... you know, just fap, it’s all over.) That's how much
difference. 

[100]	Now we're running late. Why? (Why are we running late? He’s
talking spiritually, not the clock.) God’s been long-suffering,
waiting, watching. Let the Lutherans rise in revival, organize.
Methodists rise in revival; organize. John Smith, the Baptist church,
… great revival; organize. Let Pentecostals raise up with the
restoration of gifts; organize. Until the iniquity gets plumb full, then
God is tired, (the organization hasn’t come to the peak! It’s no
way. Those Amorites haven’t climbed enough mountains. They haven’t
got where they want to go. He’ll talk about president Kennedy after
awhile.) then there comes an exodus. 

[101]	And we see it, that the people themselves can see back down the
stream of time, that the thing is cursed. (See?)

32.	Now people always knew it was wrong. But they organized. He said
this never will organize. Now little guys rise up and try to be
something, but fap, that’s just natural. That’s that devil pride.

[101]	…then people themselves can see back down the stream of time,
that the thing is cursed. (That’s organization.) They take a wedge and
a fine Babylonian garment, (that signifies like a priesthood). And
that's the thing that curses amongst the people, when man tries to
inject his own ideas upon things. 

	See that’s your Nicolaitin concept, the priesthood. See? See, if Bro.
Branham’s garments is your thoughts, because their thoughts were the
people’s garments, organization, then his is the true revelation, and
not organization.

[102]	We have got to stay with that Word. That's the commandments of
God, was, "Not to touch nothing in that city, that cursed city. Don't
touch it. Leave it alone." 

33.	In other words, don’t have a thing to do with any doctrine you
ever had before and any type of church system. Because every table is
full of vomit. There isn’t one doctrine that hasn’t been tainted. I
don’t care how good it is. The whole thing is corrupt. It needs a
complete new revelation. And as soon as the prophet corrected the error,
we’re caught up to know where we come, where we’re at, we’re ready
to move on. That’s what he said.

[103]	And Achan thought that he could take this gold wedge and live
pretty decently like the rest the world, (be a Christian, …?... mess
around) and fine Babylonian garment. Oh, at the Achans in the camps!
See? But the thing is cursed, and it continually is cursed. It was
cursed since the very Nicene Council, at Nicaea, Rome, it’s been
cursed ever since. (See, that’s the world.) But God has let the
iniquity fill up, until the time of the Amorites is about fulfilled.
(See? Remember the real curse was even a revelation. So the church has
got… that Jezebel has got to foist everything upon the people. See?)

[104]	And now anybody with spiritual understanding, remember, I keep
quoting, spiritual understanding, you can see that the iniquity of this
nation is filled up. 

34.	Now what’s the spiritual understanding? Let’s understand this
once and for all. 1 Corinthians 14, I think it is. All right, 36:

What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, (born of the
spirit,) let him acknowledge the things that I write are the
commandments of (God).

	William Branham stood up and he was the only non-manure-head of the
bunch, the only man feeding food that wasn’t vomit, and tripe, the
only man with 'THUS SAITH THE LORD', the only man that wasn’t
doctrinaire with the doctrine of this world, he was the only one who
could tell it, that had the Word of God. Nobody else did. Now I know
that sounds pretty rough, but that’s the way it is, as far as I’m
concerned, and anybody else can fly a kite. I know a lot of people think
I don’t defend Bro. Branham enough, until they find me that I defend
him a whole lot more than they do. I won’t even associate with people
that make him a false prophet. Now could be a bunch of goats sitting
here, but believe me, God doesn’t have false prophets that He gives
the Word of God to. See, let’s get that down flat. Time people
smartened up. Now spiritual understanding then makes Bro. Branham right,
period.

[104]	…you can see that the iniquity of this nation is filled up.
(Because they turned him down.) She's organized and reorganized, and
organized and organized. And now she's confederated, and joining with
something else. (What’s that? The Catholic church.) The iniquity is
filled up. It's time for exodus, it’s time for a calling-out, to the
promised Land. Not the promise, just another country to go to; but a
Home, the Millennium, time for a calling-out. The iniquity of this
nation is filled up. She is filthy. 

35.  [Now:]

[105]	You say, "Brother Branham, the nation you live in?" Yes, sir.
Certainly. You say, "As a citizen of the United States, you shouldn't
say that." Then, Elijah shouldn't have called a curse upon Israel, and
him an Israelite. The rest of the prophets should never have cursed that
nation they were Israelites under Israel. 

[106]	But they only spoke, not their own thoughts, but the Word of the
Lord. Depends on where you're drawing your inspiration from. Depends on
how it's coming. If it's contrary to the Word, leave it alone. I don’t
ask anybody to prove that That's contrary to the Word. (He knows that
everybody says it, but they don’t believe it, see?

[107]	Did not the Bible say, in Revelations 13? That's where this nation
appears. This nation is numbered thirteen, a woman's nation. It's a
woman, in the Bible. Woman is on our coins. It's a woman's nation. It's
where the rottenness of women begins, starts, where it ends at. The
rottenness started in Eden, by disbelieving God's Word. Here is where it
hatched out women preachers and everything else. The filth of the world
comes out of Hollywood, the worse nation in the world; more divorces,
than the rest the world put together. See? Why? You'll find out one of
these days, the Lord willing. You'll see, this cursed thing. You can see
the blindness of this divorce stuff that Satan pulled over the eyes of
the people. We're in a terrible hour. The end is almost at hand now, I
believe. They're rotten, rotten to the core. (See, marriage and divorce
is one of the signs of the time. And that has to do with the end time
divorce, when God divorces that church, you know.)

[108]	She appears in Revelations 13, number thirteen. And remember, it
raised up like a lamb, freedom of religion. But then it received power
from the beast; an image like it. And he spoke with all the authority,
and done the same rotten things the beast did before him. Then tell me
it's not prophesied of this nation? The Amorites (that’s the
mountaineers, one at the top. We’re building a world system, we’ve
paid for it, we’ve got it.) …is just about ripe, because they're
already working in it. 

[109]	And even our new pope, his main purpose is to unite the brethren
together. And, to the natural eye, it's the thing to do. But, in the
eyes of God, it's contrary to the Holy Spirit. We can't mix up with
that. And every church will be caught into that federation. 

36.	You remember that Bishop Stanley that handed Bro. Branham the Bible
that morning, his own Bible stuck, in Phoenix? And do you remember
Bishop Stanley’s sister said the message, the message, she gave the
message interpretation? Do you know that Bishop Stanley has confessed
that he has one purpose in life, and that is to bring the Protestants
back to Rome? So, so much for the men who ran after the Bishop Stanley.
I could mention one. But I’m too polite and nice; I don’t do things
like that. I’ll just let him tell all the – pbbt – you know. 

[109]	Get out of that thing, as quick as you can. You'll take the mark
of the beast, not knowing what you're doing. Get out of it.

[110]	I hope the spiritual mind can catch it. (In other words, “You
got faith in me, you’ll get out. You won’t fool around, you’ll
obey me. You’ll be a part of it, the same as I am.” You see?) But I
wonder, out there. Anyhow, you can't visit every nation. You can send
tapes to it. God will have some way to catch that mind out there where
that seed is sown. That’s right. As soon as the Light strikes it, it's
gone, takes Life. Like the little woman at the well, she said, "There It
is." She caught It. 

[111]	Get out of that thing. It's cursed. "Cursed?" Tell me where one
ever fell and rose again. Tell me one ever raised that didn't fall. So,
you can see that the thing is wrong. All right. 

[112]	…iniquity wasn't full yet, of the Amorites, so they had to
linger and wait for the exodus. But when the Amorites got their iniquity
filled, then there came a spiritual exodus, or natural exodus, to lead
the people to a natural land, where a natural Amorite had once dwelt,
called out of their land. (In other words, the Amorites are going to
lose it, we’re going to take it over eventually.)

[113]	And the iniquity of the Amorite denomination (see? That’s your
mountain, that filled the earth, Babylon. Great at one time, ran
everything, going to do it again. Head of gold, you know, all that
junk.) that has called themselves "the Church," so long, till their
iniquity is about fulfilled. 

37.  [Now:]

[114]	There is coming an exodus, where God will show who is who; where
the Church Itself, the Bride of Jesus Christ, will be exodus-ed taken
out, of the Land into that that's promised. "In My Father's House are
many mansions, in that place." (That’s a Mount Zion showdown. Three
showdowns, right? All right. What did he say? Mount Sinai, Mount Carmel,
and now Mount Zion. Of course Calvary was a showdown too, but nobody
knew it, except the few disciples, that He rose.) You don't have to go
There and fight like they did. It's already prepared. If this earthly
tabernacle dwelling be dissolved, we have one waiting, "That where I am,
you’ll be also." The great exodus is at hand! (Into the rest under the
Seventh Seal, see?)

[115]	Watch how God did that exodus,… what preparation He made, and
study just a moment, then look at today. All right. Notice, before this
exodus, "There raised up a pharaoh who didn't know Joseph." See? A
pharaoh who didn't know Joseph. "Didn't know Joseph." What was Joseph
representing? The spiritual part in this exodus. 

[116]	There raises up now, "We’re in freedom." (But you see there has
to be a physical to go with spiritual.) ("The woman was nourished for a
time, time, and dividing of time.") (Times, time divided, three and a
half years.) But finally there raised up… a pharaoh dictator who knew
not the freedom of religion, uniting them together. Don't let it pass
you. There come a time when there was a pharaoh, first, had to come. 

[117]	And the organization has lived lusciously, lived as a grafted
branch, into the real vine of Christianity, but still bearing original
fruits: women, half-dressed; men, intellectual, denying the power of the
Spirit. But, it's lived under the name of the Christian church. It's a
grafted vine. But the Husbandman is coming by now to prune that vine, as
He said He would do it. 

38.	Well when you prune it all off the real vine, what happens? The real
vine gets taken away, and the limbs all get burnt. Because it’s got to
be transplanted. Remember God absolutely puts a sickle to the true vine
and to the false vine. He reaps the true vine, takes it in the Rapture,
First Resurrection, and the rest burnt. Now that’s simple as ABC.
It’s a grafted vine. 

[117]	But the Husbandman coming by now to prune that vine, as He said He
would do. And all those that don't have the fruit is cut off and thrown
into the fire and consumed. 

[118]	It's an awful thing to say, but Truth sometimes seems awful, it
just tells you, how God takes His children through the deep waters and
the miry sands. He does it like that. (In other words he tells you that
the Bride is going to have a rough time too. Remember there’s a
purging before. The purging of the church, that’s great tribulation.
Our purging is a spiritual affair. You know, chastened.) Remember, the
pot must be broke in shivers, shards, little pieces to remolded and
ground again. Look like a terrible thing to destroy it, but it has to be
done thus, in order to get the pot re-made, the vase or whatever you're
making. 

39.	Now he tells you flat, you got to ditch everything you ever thought
you were and are, put it all on the table and say, “Lord, here I am,
You got to do me over. I got to repent, got to get lined up.”

[119]	"There was a pharaoh raised up, who did not know Joseph." And that
was the beginning of the beginning. That was the beginning of the
exodus. And when that thing began to form, under a political power,
began to form, God began to get ready. (Now notice he said the beginning
of the beginning started under a pharaoh who didn’t know Joseph. And
he’s talking about Kennedy. Now don’t forget he’s talking about
Jack Kennedy.) The iniquity of the Amorites was fulfilled. The time that
He promised Abraham was fulfilled, and the time of deliverance was at
hand.

[120]	And God permitted a pharaoh to raise up, who knew not Joseph, and
Raamses was born. Right after Seti comes Raamses. And Raamses was that
one who knew not the blessings of Joseph. He didn't know what the
spiritual side was. He was only a political genius, that he could take
Ethiopia and all the rest of the countries, under military might. And
that's all he knew, was military might. 

40.	See now he’s telling you something there. That this man refuses to
understand that America was great because of Protestantism. They had
nothing to do with Catholicism. They came over here to get away from it.
But the devil’s very tenacious.

[121]	And I think, if any man was spiritual, could see what's taking
place now. We're getting a pharaoh who knows not freedom of religion.
When our president took office, he would not swear to that, that he
believed in freedom of religion. (I don’t know where that statement
came from.)

[122]	What about the other day when we had this question of segregation,
down in the South? When this governor of Alabama… (that would be
Wallace.) I wish I could talk to that minister, Martin Luther King. How
can the man be a leader, and leading his people into a death trap? If
those people were slaves, I'd be down there, my coat off, beating away
for them people. They're not slaves. They're citizens. They're citizens
of the nation. The question of "going to school." 

[123]	Them people, if they got a hard heart and don't know those things.
You can't drive into a people, spiritual things, what is beat in there
with political powers. (Now politics, spirit don’t mix.) They've got
to accept it, be born again, then they'll see these things. 

[124]	But, this man, if I could only speak to him; leading those
precious people, under the name of religion, to a death trap where he's
going to kill thousands times thousands of them! They just get the
natural side.

41.  [Now:]

[125]	…the colored brother, when this uprising came to Louisiana, I
was there at the time. There's a colored minister, precious old brother,
stood up and said, asked the militia, "Could I speak to them? They're my
people." And the old minister up, there, said, "I want to say, this
morning, I never was ashamed of my color. My Maker made me what I am." 

[126]	That's the way He wants you to remain. That's the way He wants
every man to remain. He makes white flowers, blue flowers, all colors of
flowers. Don't interbreed them. Don't cross them. You go against nature.


[127]	He said, "I never been ashamed of my color, until this morning.
…When I see my people rise up and do things they're doing now …it
makes me ashamed." I thought, "God, bless that boy." He said, "You're
only going to cause trouble. …Look at the schools here. If we had no
schools, …it would be different. But who’s got the best schools in
Louisiana? …Let's take, for instance, our city, Shreveport. …There's
a white school over there, that’s an old school. They built another
one. They haven't got one instrument, one thing for the children to
play. We got a yard full. Besides that, they built us a great, big,
marble swimming pool for our children. And we got the best of teachers
that can be got."  And he said, "Why do you want to go over there, when
we got better here? What's the matter with you?" 

[128]	They just deadened his voice. In other words, they’d be
“Yeah…” …see, wrong inspiration. 

42.  [Now:]

[129]	Them people were slaves. They're my brothers and sisters. If they
were slaves today, I'd say, "Let's join them and go down through the
street and protest that thing." They're not slaves. They're citizens
with the same rights everyone else has got. It's just a bunch of
inspiration coming from hell, to cause a million of them to be killed.
They’ll start a revolution. Certainly… It's not right. 

[130]	Men and women have their own rights. Our colored brothers, and
Japanese, and yellow, white, and black, whatever they was. There's no
difference in the color of a god. We all come from one man, Adam. But if
God separated us and turned us different colors, let's remain that way.
If I was a yellow man, I'd want to remain a Chinese or Japanese. If I
was a colored man, I'd want to remain that way. God made me that way. 

[131]	Frankly, there's a lot about the colored race the white race ought
to have. They don't have the worry. They're more spiritual. There's a
thousand things about them white man can't even touch. God made them
thus. 

[132]	Who could ever out-sing a colored choir? Where would you find
voices? I've seen them come from the lands back there, didn't know
which, was right and left hand. Thirty or forty different tribes of
them, and they sing to a place, till ministers stand there, and say, "I
just can't touch it." They’d trained choirs for years, and one will be
octave high, and low, and everything. And say, "Listen to that, just
perfectly, even in different language." They're gifted. 

43.	What do they call that? Is that a poly-…? Polychromatic is the
color, but that’s the same as the ear too. In other words, when we
hear, we got to separate notes. And they can hear all those notes at one
time, and each one falls perfect. And they can take any note they want
to sing at any time. Indians can do the same thing. White man can’t do
it. Indians and black men, wherever there’s four people, there’s an
actual born quartet. Now people, white people can learn it, and once in
awhile you hear someone with perfect tune or something. But the black
people and the Indians, they just got it. Man, it would be nice. Well
I’m not going to envy them. I wish I had a little more talent singing,
but my forte certainly is not singing. Big feet are though. Okay. 

[133]	But, you see, all this stuff has to happen, all because of a
politician that you people elected with your crooked machines. (That’s
the Kennedy over Nixon, you know. Up in Cook, up where, what do …?...
Cook County and Davie up there.)

[134]	…the other day, when that governor stood there, sworn and
elected into that office, by the people, and the question of segregation
according to the constitution is, that each state can take its own
thought about that. He didn't care, but he read the constitution, said,
"Now, the school stands for segregation." They got a school over there.
And only two colored children wanted to enter that school, when they got
their own college. But he stood and said, "What?" (He did.) He read the
constitution. 

[135]	Then when it come back to this fellow up there, that knows not
Joseph, freedom. Pulling for those colored votes, and not knowing it was
a republican party that freed them, (Republican party,) in the first
place. Selling out their birthrights, to such a thing as, to lead them
to a death trap, to show that every man-made system has got to fall.
That’s exactly right. And Mr. Kennedy nationalized that guard, and
send those men right back in the face of their own fathers standing
there under the constitution. That broke the constitution. 

[136]	Said, "We'll not fight. No, sir." And said, "I hope the nation can
find out we're not living anymore under a democracy, but under military
dictatorship." 

44.  That’s exactly where it started. It was that move right there
down in Alabama. Now everybody going to say, “Well this has got to be
done, that’s got to be done.” No way.

[137]	You know the old saying, "Once a southern democrat, always." I
don't know now. Surely a man will have sense enough to wake up to
something. Let those precious people alone. Don't kill them off, down
there. 

[138]	Like that guy shot that brother in the back, the other night, with
that gun, his little children and wife in the house. I don't care who he
is, that's low-down and little. Yes, sir. I’d like to be the judge on
that case, once. Shoot that man, coming home to his wife and children.
He's a citizen, has a right to stand for what he thinks, a good man.
Picture in the Life magazine, that little boy crying for his daddy. And
some renegade out there, shot him in the back, out of an ambush. 

[139]	That's what you get when you reject Christ. (Now the thing is,
what’s going to come next?) That's right. That's where the whole
nation has got to, under politics. It's such a shame… 

45.  You see Laodiceanism, Nicolaitism is politics, that’s the
trouble, you see. And they’re only too glad to join up with anything
to get …?...

[140]	My little son said to me, this morning, "Daddy, the pilgrim
fathers, when they come over here, were they all belong to this certain
denomination of church?..."  Said, "They had one big coat?" 

[141]	I said, "No, honey. They come here for freedom of religion. That's
why they come here, to get from under such stuff as that." You see where
it's got to now? Shows that all these kingdoms must fall. 

[142]	One thing, I pray Brother Martin Luther King will certainly soon
wake up. He loves his people; there's no doubt. But only see where his
inspiration comes from. What good would it do if you went to school, a
million of you lying yonder, dead? Wouldn't it be just, going to school,
just the same? (See, that’s the answer. What have you got? Same old
grind.) Now, for hunger, if it was something for another, slaves, a man
would be a martyr to give his life for such a cause, a worthy cause,
that would be a worthy cause. But just to go to school, I don't see it.
I don't think the Holy Spirit is agreeing with him, on that, at all.
It's got the people all worked up, a bunch of ballyhoo, you see. 

[143]	Just like Hitler did, in Germany, led them right into a death
trap, (see? He did it too.) those precious Germans. They laid by the
…millions, piled up on top one another. 

46.  (Not to mention the six million Jews.) 

[144]	…that's exactly the same thing. And remember, I'm on tape.
You'll see that, maybe after I'm gone. (In other words, I might not be
here, but you watch and see.) That's exactly what's going to happen.
Them precious people will die down there, like flies. Starts a
revolution, both white and colored will fight again, and die like flies.
And what you got when it's all over? A bunch of dead people. (?You?
haven’t changed anything, he’s trying to tell them. Takes Christ.)

[145]	"But there raised up a pharaoh that didn't know Joseph." It’s
the same thing today, a man has raised up and took oath in the White
House, that will not swear to his oath, will not take his oath he
believes in freedom of religion. 

[146]	What's this new pope saying? 

47.  Now I’ll tell you… now you may wonder about this, but I think
what Bro. Branham is saying here, that though Kennedy raised his hand
that he did believe in freedom, as a Roman Catholic he cannot. And
it’s nothing to tell a lie. I think what he’s doing here, I think
that’s what he said on another tape, “They’ll go ahead and lie.”
He said, “If a Roman Catholic said to me, “I’m going to vote for
Nixon,” I’d know right away that person’s lying.” Because
they’re forbidden by the church to vote for any but a Roman Catholic.
So I believe that’s what he’s saying here, because I do believe that
Kennedy did make the statement that religion doesn’t mean anything,
and he did take a proper oath, as far as I know. So I’m not saying
Bro. Branham is a hundred percent wrong here, I’m just saying this is
what he told us on other tapes, they can say what they want, but it
doesn’t mean a thing. See?  Because that’s where the backgrounding
is. Now of course many people don’t like to believe that, that’s
their business, not mine. All right. 

[147]	At this time, Raamses, … was growing. His power growing. The
natural man, Raamses, was growing. 

[148]	The natural man, the antichrist, is growing now. Through politics,
(what natural man? He’s going to take it all over. Politics and
church.) he's already got to the White House. (What’s he talking
about? Political power. The merging, to bring it about.) 

[149]	Then there's a persecution coming upon all those who won't unite
with it, and a boycott. It'll be too late then. You've already took the
mark. Don't say, "I'll do it then." You better do it now. (In other
words, get out now.) Raamses was growing.

[150]	But remember, while Raamses was growing in the power, of Egypt,
God had Moses in the wilderness. 

48.  In other words, in what looked like a chaotic condition, God was
moving, and people couldn’t understand. They said, “Well,
shouldn’t you fight with fire with fire? Shouldn’t there be this,
shouldn’t be that? Shouldn’t there be this and that thing?” He
said, “No, …?... the wheel in the wheel is moving right now.” God
in the prophet.

[150]	He was growing, too. Raamses had a political system. God had a
spiritual system, under a prophet, ready to come down, and speak to the
people. 

[151]	They're both growing again. It'll be a showdown, one of these
days. (That was spoken in June 30, ’63. What’s to come later? Mount
Zion showdown, the Rapture, see?) The time ain't far off when there will
come a showdown. As the natural… As Scripture says, "The natural types
the spiritual." You can't get away from it. There it is. It's right
before your eyes. It's Truth. (See?)

	Americans won’t believe that, they don’t believe nothing. Roman
Catholics wrote a book on the pilgram fathers, they said, “The pilgrim
fathers came over to America because they wanted to worship in a
righteous way, so they brought a bunch of priests with them.” That’s
exactly what they taught in social sciences and civics. Then one priest
got so big mouthed down in Texas, he said, “It was you Protestants
killed us Catholics.” He said, “We’re going to shut your mouths
one of these days, telling lies on us.” 

49.  Why you got to be deaf, dumb and insane and devil possessed, and
worse than that, you got to be plain stupid jerk trying to get somewhere
in this stupid jackass world down here. You’ll make it to hell all
right, for a long time, anybody talks that way. They know it’s a lie.
And they think nothing of it. And the Protestants are lying too,
they’re a bunch of liars too. William Branham was the only
non-manurehead, only legitimate Christian in the whole bunch, till God
began dealing with us. Ha, they don’t like that, do they? I like it.
Gives me hope. Gives me hope, yeah.

[151]	As the natural… As Scripture says, “The natural types
spiritual.” You can’t get away from it. There it is. Right before
your eyes, It’s Truth. Look at the Church now, calling out, coming
into power. Holy Spirit coming down, mysteries of God being revealed and
set in order. See? The right church, she's already in the White House.
And the Church is pulling Itself together, amen, not a denomination; (In
other words he says, the right church, wrong church, here and there.)
but out of the bondage of iniquities… (the real church, out of the
bondage of iniquities, see?)

50.  Now here’s what he should have said. “This wrong order’s in
the White House, and the right church, the true church, is pulling
itself together out of denominations, out of the bondage, away from the
Amorites.” See, his language is a bit mixed up there, but you follow.

[152]	God had Moses, His to-be prophet. (He wasn’t yet, but to-be
prophet.) Though he had already prophesied, and proved that he was
right, but yet he was in the school of wilderness, hid away from the
rest of the world. But he was schooled, being trained, out in the
wilderness. 

[153]	The enemy will propose, always, his system. And unbelief will
accept it, because the enemy is the intellectual sign. 

[154]	Now, remember, there's only two. Don't forget this. Only two
powers. One is spiritual power, of the Holy Spirit. The other  is the
devil, working through intellectual power. (Now intellectual power will
not produce. We saw what real power did, you got to go where the Word
is. See?) For, that's where he entered, in the garden of Eden, through
intellectual powers, to make Eve believe in intellectual conception,
against the Word. It’s just as plain as can be, the kids could see
that. That's the way it's been, all the way down. 

[155]	Here it is, in Egypt, this morning. There is an intellectual power
working in Raamses, bringing him up to power. And raising him up, who
knows not the freedom to let what Joseph had done, what the church had
done in the beginning. (It won’t leave it alone, see?)

[156]	…now we see the same thing, an intellectual power weaving among
the churches, it's raised up to an ecclesiastical head that don't care
about what the Bible says. (See, in other words they can’t take the
Message and the messenger. See?) They got their own system. Not what the
Bible said. It's what the church said. (And that’s Pentecost too.) And
the Protestants weaved right into that, until all the little groups,
like this, "Well, sure. I know It says This, but I tell you, those days
are gone." 

[157]	"Form of godliness, and denying the power." Every Scripture in the
Bible points straight to it. 

[158]	Now you see why I wanted this tape is to send it to the people.
The hour has arrived. 

51.  All right, now what hour has arrived? They’re both growing, it
will be a showdown one of these days. Okay, so we’re coming to
showdown. 

	…See? 

[159]	The intellectual part looks perfect. 

[158]	The hour has arrived. Truth has got to be known. The exodus is at
hand.

[159]	The intellectual part looks perfect. And it is perfect, it's
exactly; but, perfect, inspiration of Satan.

[160]	And, all the time, that, this intellectual Raamses was growing and
coming to the throne. And remember, he raised up as a brother to Moses,
see, a brother to Moses. (In other words, in the land at the same time
and all.) One of them had to take the intellectual seat, just like
Joseph to his brethren. And what did they do with the little Joseph?
Excommunicated him from the Word. The Word is God. They excommunicated
the Word, accepted a creed. And now the creed has grown to power. 

[161]	O God, let people see that! (See the creed has now taken the power
away from the Word. But the Word alone has life, it will come back.) How
can I use any more voice? How can I make it any plainer by the
Scripture, under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that we're here? (In
other words, this is the hour.) 

[162]	"Oh," you say, "well, now, if that came from Pope John, or Pope
So-and-so, Bishop So-and-so!" Do you see that God took a little,
insignificant desert-dweller? Say, "How can it all be wrong?" 

[163]	God deals with an individual, not with groups. With individuals;
God gives Him, getting His. Only thing He had to have is one man that He
could operate with. That's all He wants is one man. 

52.  Now that’s what he’s bringing you down to. All it takes is one
man for the Rapture to get going. Took one man to get in the ark. It
took one Man to die for our sins. Takes one Man to stand there and plead
for our sins. All it takes is one. It takes one messenger in every age,
it takes one man at this hour to get the whole thing moving. Why?
Because that God has that one man.

[163]	He's tried to get it, through every age. If He could get one man!
He’s got one man in the days of Noah! One in the days of Elijah! One
man in the days of John the Baptist. (One now, see?) Just one man is all
He needs. In the days of the judges, He tried to get one man, Samson,
gave him great power, sold out to a woman and was blinded. Judges;
wasn't so. God is the judge. See? (Samson didn’t wait for God to give
him the answer, he boobooed, blew her.) 

[164]	You see, today, He's trying to get one man He can get in His hand,
that'll tell the Truth, that'll be fearless with it, that won't pull no
punches, that will not be dogmatic; (that’s in other words having your
own dogmas and creeds,) one man that He can hold in His hand and show
His Word alive, and show Himself alive. 

	See that would make God the Judge, see, at that time. You see? You
follow me? Because He couldn’t get the Judge back there, but God’s
the Judge. Now when He sets this in the church, then that’s Judge.
Well you’re dealing with God, and you’ll be judged by dealing with
God. So what is the Judge? 

[164]	I believe He could get such a person ready. I do. I believe it. I
just believe the Bible enough, to believe that (he’s talking about
himself,) He could get it, that's right, that would tell the Truth. 

53.  Now:

[165]	After while, we find out, after went through all these schools.
Now watch. The enemy proposes something, intellectual mind, because the
enemy is working on intellects. And the mind will set down and reason,
and say, "Now, just a minute. It isn't so…"

[166]	I talked to a man the other day, he said, "Look, Billy!" He works
for the Public Service Company… "I want to ask you something. …You
are Irish." … "Yes, sir. …kind of ashamed, but, I am." 

[167]	…"Well, …do you know you should be Catholic?" 

[168]	"I am original catholic." You know, the first Church was catholic.


[169]	…where is it, today? It started at Pentecost, organization…
Look, at Pentecost come right back and organized, done the same thing
first Catholic church did. They're almost as far away today as they,
were two thousand years ago. And fifty years is what it took. (As bad as
the Catholics almost.)

[170]	He said, "Don't you believe that when a group of ecumenical minds,
…set together and reasons something, and the entire group can agree,
don't you think they'll be just a little… (said,) I come to hear you
preach, …but I disagree with you."

54.  [Now:]

[171]	I said, "The only way that you can prove that you're disagreement
is logical, is prove it by the Bible." He said, "The Bible has nothing
to do with it." 

[172]	I said, "To you, It might not. But, to me, It's all to do with it.
It's the Word." 

[173]	He said, "Don't you think that a bunch of ecumenical minds sitting
together, could be more right, being sure of being right, than just one
little, uneducated fellow like yourself?" I said… "Well, …what
business you got to say anything …against our church? (That’s what
he said.) When, there's been, down through the ages, when they had the
first church council, as you spoke of, one night, we heard, the church
ages, of the ecumenical council at Nicaea, Rome, formed the Roman
Catholic church. …Don't you know that there was thousands of men,
spirit, God-sent men set in that council? And don't you think that their
mind would be more subject to know the will of God, than yours down
here, after God has proved through two thousand years the church is
right?" 

55.  He’s trying to say the Catholic church was right for two thousand
years.

[174]	I said, "He never proved it. …If that church is a Church of God,
let us see it bring forth like the first Church did. Let’s see it
produce the things they did in the first place. When, even the Bible
says, '…not one jot or tittle shall fail from It. '  …Whosoever
shall take one Word away from This, … his part will be taken out,'
whether it's ecumenical council or whatever it is, 'from the Book of
Life.' it’s finished." He said, "Billy, you're just erratic." 

	What have you got left on your tape? You’re about finished? Well,
I’m going to miss a page and a half here, but that’s all right.
I’m going to close here, because I have about a page and a half to go,
and I don’t want to miss it, because these tapes go out like the
others. All right? The educated mind, that’s page twenty-eight. I
don’t know if we can finish next week or not, but we’re working on
it. 

	Now we’ve got some good things here already, and we’ll be getting
some more of these good things, where as we get into the last pages,
where the Presence is absolutely brought to our attention. Okay, shall
we rise at this time?

	Kind, Heavenly Father, again we praise and thank You for love, mercy,
and grace, Your kind consideration of us O Lord, that You have provided
liberally all things for us, and You do continue. And we praise You Lord
that we can come here and get these little messages Bro. Branham brought
us that are food to our soul, that’s a great history of this hour,
it’s Your Word that has been brought forth. And we pray Lord as we
come together each time that our comments will be right with the Word as
the prophet gave it, weaving back and forth Lord, to nail down the
things that are most surely said to us, and Lord we know that we want
them to be one part. We concede all these things the prophet said Lord,
it just takes one man to get it going, one man to get us out of here,
because You’re with that one man, and if that man will tell the truth,
and not pull his punches, and be exactly right, and Lord now we’re
standing on it. Now Father You’ve vindicated him, and I believe,
because we believe him, You’ll vindicate us. Not that we’re looking
for anything special for us, we’re looking to get out of here. And so
Father that’s the showdown we’re looking for, Mount Zion, and we
praise Thee for it, O God. 

	Bless everyone here in divine Presence therefore, heal the sick amongst
us Lord, provide for the needy, give jobs for those looking for them,
open up eyes that need help, revelation, anything Lord, we know we can
look to You in this hour, because this is that great hour of
consummation, the great God appearing amongst us, certainly unveiling
Himself and showing He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, and He
Himself, as He told us not to lose one jot or one tittle, You Yourself
Lord have not lost one jot or one tittle of Yourself. No way, shape and
form have You ever changed, but if anything, we see the magnificence and
the greatness of it all the more. 

	So we praise You tonight for Your love, mercy, and the wonderment of
Yourself that You should be here with us, we cannot praise Thee enough.
So we commend ourselves most ?hardly? to You, in the Name of Jesus
Christ, we pray. Amen. 

	The Lord bless you, let’s just sing ‘Take the Name of Jesus with
you’ and we’ll be together next Sunday morning then at eleven
o’clock, we continue our meetings. All right?  [Congregation sings.]

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