Thoughts From the Anointed Ones Bro. Lee Vayle - September 16, 1984 1. Start with the tape rather than saying anything, but I may be here for a little while just to see if we can't talk about a few things, understand that some of you have been going into The Anointed Ones at the End Time, and that's a very good Message. You've no doubt come across the very strong beginning statement of Bro. Branham on the teachers. You know most people are a little prone to take more on the false prophet than the false teacher. And I would be very happy with that too, to start everybody looking at false prophet in case I was a false teacher to get me off the hook, you know. And that's the way human nature is. It's alright. It's clever, it's meant to be. We can get off the hook and get somebody else on the hook that's perfectly alright. But, in this particular case we know that Bro. Branham did mention that the false teachers would come after the false prophets, which of course we find over here in 2 Peter 2:1. It says: (1) But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. Now, of course you got to go back to Matthew 24 to get your ground work on that one. And It says in verse 10, (10) ...then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (Now, you're looking at the prospect of hatred coming up.) (11) And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. Now, you've got betrayals, you've got offenses, you've got hatreds, false prophets deceiving people. (12) And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 2. Iniquity is lawlessness. And I'm afraid that most people try to take the word 'lawlessness' under the explanation or you might call the description of the lawlessness meaning apart from any word whatsoever, which is true, or any law whatsoever, which could also be true, but when you're dealing with what you're dealing here, the sign of the Coming, the end of the world, and the warnings that God is giving His people you're not dealing then with simply law. You're dealing with law as in Psalm 119 which is an encompassment of the pure Word of God which has been given to people. And It tells you that there, that they are not going to be interested in the law of God. Iniquity is going to abound. They're going to be lawless. Now, I think what you're seeing in this point here whether you feel it's stretching the point or not, is that what Bro. Branham said about the denominations right at this point. "They're lawless." They don't care about the revealed Word of God. The Roman Catholic church for centuries has taken the stand, and so have the Protestant's, that what they say has to be the truth of the kingdom. Now, It tells you here at the time of the Presence there's going to be false prophets. So therefore, at the time of the Presence, the Presence will be signified by a true prophet. Now that's axiomatic. [self evident] I mean, look, we don't have to, you know, sneak around bushes and try to be great scholars to figure that one out. That's simple as ABC. All right. 3. Now, the coming of that prophet through the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to bring great deception. "Take heed that no man deceive you." [Mt 24:4] And it seems that the name of the game is going to be deception. It's just like every place you go now they have all these bill-boards out where: 'Come and play lotto'. 'Come and play bingo'. And now that one man's won forty million dollars, everybody's very anxious to dig down and try to win forty million dollars. Well, out of two hundred and forty million people, that's all right, if you did buy two hundred and forty million tickets you'd have to have the combinations. They don't tell you how that one man out of so many millions, out of so many combinations, was able to get that. Well it'll happen to somebody. But what I'm trying to show you here is that deception is the key note of the atmosphere and is the spirit of the age. Now, you'll notice that that spirit of the age and deception is so strong, that you got to watch it. We'll get back after a bit to the teachers, I don't know. It doesn't much matter about teachers, we let them slide. 4. So: [Matthew 24:] (4) ...Take heed that no man deceive you. (5) For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; (that don't believe they'll) deceive many. Now, those men will come from everywhere. And they will be telling you that they are the anointed ones who can give you the secret of what you need. They certainly will. And there'll be some things that are very, very outstanding. And as you read books and understand what happens today, and has happened will may you cry for pure sorrow. Because the devil will use some people so close to reality; only to throw them overboard, and even seeing William Branham destroyed the way he was. And of course we heard on a tape where he said when he went down to New Orleans and he saw the slaves that blacks sold as cattle he said, "That's wrong, I'm going to strike a blow against that and It'll kill me." And William Branham said he was a lot like Abraham Lincoln. He was born in a log cabin, and he didn't have any education, grew up the way he grew up, and he said he always hated liquor and he said, "I'm going to strike a blow against it." And he said, "One day It'll take my life." And he was killed by a drunken driver. Very strange. I don't know if that's the whole truth of it, I would doubt it. But anyway, you'll see all this deception. 5. Now watch where the deception comes. [Matthew 24:] (6) And (you) shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: (don't) be troubled:... (because it's humbug.) Now, does it make your paper clearer today why these news anchor men and all these guys are just...they'll tell you anything. (6) (Don't) be troubled: these things must come to pass,... There's going to be wars. Sure. These things have been going on for years. And it's going to end in a war. Sure nation's are going to rise against nation. But in the meantime what's all the fussing? You're just been thrown a loop. Your families are being hurt. Your spirits are being disquieted. You got problems whether you live or die, you eat or not eat. (7) ...nation shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom: there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. (8) ..these are the beginning of sorrows. Now, in that 'all', It tells you that there's going to be a lot of deception. But you're going to get by. There'll be a real one come along. In the meantime the whole world is nervous, nervous, nervous, and more nervous, and there isn't any need for it, as long as the coral snake isn't in your bed biting you, it doesn't matter if there's a million coral snakes. And if the war is on the other side of the globe that happens to be their business and God's business. But you notice the countries are stirred up and stirred up, and stirred up and stirred up, ever since the prophet came on the scene. 6. The prophet came on the scene particularly the Second World War, we've had nothing less since that time. Since that time everything has gone into a literally a tail spin, and into a gigantic funnel like a cyclone getting greater and greater. (9) (Many) shall (be, they'll) deliver you up to be afflicted, (they'll) kill you: (you'll) be hated of all nations for my name's sake. (10) ...many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (11) ...many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. Now, the false prophets can only come after the one true prophet. That's historically correct through the Scripture. That's why Bro. Branham said there was only one real major prophet at one time. Now if you read your Bible you'll find out that doesn't seem to be quite correct. Because other prophets were on the scene at the same time as other prophet's were. But always, there was one who took the major attention that he's the one that you would look at. Just the same as you have today when back in Paul's day when he was on the scene, there was Agabus, [Acts 21:10] and there were other men. They were fine, fine prophets, but they weren't the caliber of Paul. So you see, there's one. One real Word prophet on the scene. And the others will kind of blend into it, go along with it, and something works out. But, there's one. (12) And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 7. Now, we talked about this iniquity it's a state of lawlessness. It's a getting away from the revealed Word of God. And the getting away from the revealed Word of God ,It tells you that the love is going to wax cold. Now Jesus said that before John said it to the First Church Age, "You have lost your first love." [Rev 2:4] Now you say why am I putting it this way, because the whole thing stems upon the Presence. And the Presence stems upon a prophet. And the prophet bringing a Message, and it is that Message that counts. I'm still at a loss to understand how people cannot understand what we say, or what Bro. Branham did say. For he said categorically, "There's no such thing as a true healing revival, unless there is a Message." 8. And then he stood that day and he told us, he said: [Anointed Ones at the End Time - 07-25-65] [118] ...Now, I want you to know this is sure. You that listen to this tape, you might have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, seeing that I was packing this Message. I have no more to do with this message than nothing, no more than just a voice. And my voice, against my better judgment... I wanted to be a trapper. But it's the will of my Father I desire to do, and determined to do.. What was he going to be? A voice. Same like John the Baptist. The voice crying in the wilderness. I wasn't the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I'm not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect as they are; I'm only one that's near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used to say It. It wasn't what I knew; it's what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn't me. It isn't the seventh messenger, oh, no; it was a manifestation of the Son of man. It wasn't the (messenger, Seventh Church Age messenger) his Message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It's not a man; it's God. [119] And the angel was not the Son of man; (The messenger was not the Son of man, William Branham was not. He was the) messenger from the Son of man. And He was there in Spirit form, the Pillar of Fire stood there. And Bro. Branham said, "That Pillar of Fire is the form of the Son-ship of God." We're going to have to start learning to use more of his terms and be more familiar with them. If we had 'Marriage and Divorce' I'd read it to you till we'd be more careful. We've got to be more and more careful with these terms. Because, even though he calls it 'the Son-ship of God', the same yesterday, today and forever, he also calls It Elohim, so you know what you're dealing with, so that Hebrews 13:8 is not simply Mark 16. It's only a part of it. You got to let your mind go and begin to understand what you're into. You are not into the categorized thinking of a group of people that are lead by denominations. You have been liberated by the Holy Ghost from all creeds and dogmas, so you're now a part of the entire Word. So you've got to understand that and get away from all this other stuff. 9. All right: The Son of man is Christ. He's the One that you're feeding on... Now, so going back here, you have the Presence and you have the prophet. Now, remember someone will say, "Alright, the prophet said there's going to be a Message. The prophet brought a Message. He brought it from the Lord." And Bro. Branham did say that the Spirit descends by the prophet's spirit. But he also said that Pillar of Fire was standing up inside of him. He also said that he spoke face to face. So, there's many things the prophet might say, but there's one thing, you better know this: the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven was not William Branham. Now, you're going to find a lot of that messed up. I don't know if people just want to be messed up. You say, "Well, why?" It's because It says so right here. "Many shall come in My Name and saying I'm Christ. And they're going to deceive the many. And you watch how they rise up and tell you things to come. All these things." [Matthew 24:] Then It says here, "But he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved." [Mk 13:13] Now, there's going to be an end when these things finish off. And at the time they finish off there's going to be a Jewish remnant of 144,000 saved. There's going to be a Bride of untold number taken out of here, but they will be saved. 10. [Matthew 24:] (14) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all (the) nations; and then shall the end come. Now, the gospel of the kingdom that He is talking about there, absolutely was at the end-time when Jesus went out...and His disciples with Him they showed Him the buildings and He said, "See not all these things, there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down." And the questions came about: "When shall these things be?" (Well the stones were thrown down.) "What shall be the sign of Thy Presence and the end of the world?" [Mt 24:2-3] Now, you'll notice that God has not changed His ways of doing things since He destroyed the world under Noah. Now there was a previous destruction we don't know the first thing about it. There's no record, so forget it. But there is a record from Noah. And at that time they were buying, they were selling, they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and given in marriage and everything was going on beautifully until suddenly, the rain begin to pitch forth in the skies and it was all over. How many were saved? Eight were saved plus the animals, which is a type of the Resurrection. God bringing things back in nature the way it was. Now, those that endure are going to be saved. Those that endure what? Those that stay with the Word that is brought at the time of the prophet in the Presence. And this gospel is going to go forth, and this is going to bring about the end. 11. Now, here's something that people don't understand: Locked in here is everything that Bro. Branham gave us which was the revealed Word, the Seventh Seals, that which is Perfect has come. See? Redemption running out. Time and eternity uniting. Space and matter coming together. And I believe that. See? At the time of the gospel preached at the kingdom. Now remember, the gospel kingdom was preached at the time of John the Baptist in the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, "If you had received this One, such and such would have been the case." Now, when you come to this time, he doesn't say, "If you had received this One, such and such would be the case, he tells you in Malachi 4: (1) ...behold, the day cometh, that shall burn (like) an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall (burn) and leave them neither root nor branch. (2) But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; (that's immortality, you'll) grow up as calves of the stall. (3) And (you will) tread down the wicked; (under your feet, they'll) be ashes... And he brings you the picture: (5) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet... (and there is going to be a separation.) 12. Now, John spoke of the same separation. John did not say the fan is in His hands to thoroughly purge His floor and gather the wheat into the garner, he did not. He prophesied it. It is at this hour. For Jesus said, "Who made me a judge over you?" But all judgment was committed to Him, and there's the picture of the Judge right there. [points to the Cloud] So all right. The gospel of the kingdom. And Bro. Branham said he went over the world seven times. Many people might say, "Well every single one must be brought in." Where do you find that in the Bible? Where do you find it? "The wind bloweth where He willeth." [Jn 3:8] The Holy Spirit breathes where He willeth. You can't tell where whether He goes, you can hear the sound of His Voice, you don't know whether He's coming or going. How do you know where the sheep are? The sun has always moved to the West. There's less and less in the back. People don't want to believe that, because they call themselves 'free-believers' and 'free-thinkers'. They're not. They're denominational thinkers than believers. See? 13. Now He said, [Matthew 24:] (14) ...the end come. (And there's a bit of interpolation there.) (15) When (you) therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) (16) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: (17) Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: (18) ...let him which is in the field (neither) return back to take his clothes. (19) ...woe them with child, and (those) that give suck in those days! (20) ... pray that your flight be not in winter, (or) on the sabbath day: That's not a thing to do with the Gentiles. That took place under Titus, AD. (21) For then (there'll) be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. (That's right, there'll be greater scale, but no worse.) (22) ...except those days be shortened, (there'll) no flesh be saved: for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (Now that's looking down at our time now.) (23) Then if any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, (lo) there; believe it not. Now, there's you're old gimmick right there, has always been pulled by denominations for centuries, "We got the Word, Christ is on side, we're on His side." But this time you'll notice it's a little different. (24) (It's going to be amongst people who say and give) great signs and wonders; and if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. The Pentecostal movement was the ideal prop or foil that was needed by Bro. Branham to negate the specificity [quality] of His Own meetings and His Own ministry, to narrow them into that which alone was truly of God, because everybody else had healings and this and that and the other thing. See? So the false prophets arose and said, "Well, we've got some too." And they will have ministries that will be so great as to deceive all but the very Elect. Now what are they going to miss? They're going to miss one thing: 'Thus saith the Lord'. That's the one thing they won't have. Most of them won't have a correct water baptism. Most of them won't have anything correct, but they will have gifts. 13. Now He said: (25) Behold, I have told you before. (That was chapter 7 in the book of Matthew.) (26) Wherefore if they shall say, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe it not. Certainly not! Why would you go see what you've already seen and seen the right thing? Remember, Bro. Branham said, "Leave it alone, don't touch it." Sure, he's in the desert. Bro. Branham did go to the desert, but he didn't take people to the desert. He had public meetings. Nothing wrong with a man going to a desert. I'm not against that. Paul went to a desert. Jesus went to the desert. Moses went to the desert. Bro. Branham went down, and Elijah did it. I'm not the least interested if you go a desert. I'm interested in people who try to get people out there, then I say forget it. You're the ones that's messed up. They don't say, "Come and see the man out there." The man comes in. Bro. Branham categorically said that. He said, "The prophets stomps out to the desert mountains and stays there and comes back with a message." 14. Remember the time they tried to find old Elijah; the king sent out there and so they found Elijah and they said, "O man of God come down, man of God." "Well," he said, "if I be a man of God let fire come and kill fifty of you birds right now." Fire came and (phffft!) killed fifty of them. So the rest of them ran back home and they said, "He's a tough old bird. Don't you know that we've found him, but fire came down and ...?... his word and killed fifty." ...?... The king didn't care two-bits about those birds. He had several thousand more, he didn't mind sacrificing. What did he care? That's people, see. That's serpent seed. That's that devilish stuff that we're against. So he sent a bunch more out there. And he said, "O man of God come on down." He said, if I be a man of God, let fire come out of heaven." Killed fifty men. Fifty more men got fried, blotted out. Just like a star or something hit them. So they took the word to the king and the king said, Well," (he said,) we'll just keep wearing him down, we'll got a lot more men here." Isn't that nice how people are when they're kings? How would anybody like to be a king? Shows what you are. You've got something that you want to get over somebody. And you don't know the meaning of service, that "he's the greatest of all who is servant of all." [Mk 10:44] You don't know the joy of love, or anything. Top-dog. Bunch of corn hash, not a beef steak let me tell you that. So, king sent out fifty people, and this captain was clever, and he said, "O thou man of God, (he said,) one hundred people got killed here, (he said) and I don't want to get killed. And I know that you're a man of God." He said, "Couldn't you just come on down?" "Well." he said, "okay I'll come on down." No harm done. So he came on down, and he told the king, he said, "I'm going to tell you something, (he said) I haven't caused Israel one bit of trouble." He said, "You caused the trouble. Before it's over there's going to be a showdown and you'll know who is God." [2 Kings 1:] Well you see, those men had something and sure the people ran out to see them, but you know what happened? They just got in trouble. The prophet had to come in where the people were. So It tells you, forget the desert don't try to go out there where these old women do, have their crazy tongues, interpretations and then they have their underground things like they took a bunch from Ohio out there to Arizona. What a mess. 15. [Matthew 24:] (26) ...behold, he is in the secret chamber;... What does that mean? Three or four people get together to solve the thing out. "Let's all get together and see what the prophet said." Well, I don't mind you giving me quotes, but don't try to tell me what he said, because what he said is doctrine. Quotes are simply building blocks. I want to know doctrine." Now, He tells you the truth: (27) (Where) as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the (Presence) of the Son of man be. Now, He tells you, "It shall be light about the evening time."He tells you the light is a Message through a prophet by a Presence, and you got It right there. [points to the Pillar of Fire picture] Now, I don't understand why people don't understand that. 16. Now, Bro. Branham categorically said in the 'Wings of a Snow White Dove'. He said, "When I go to Yuma, Arizona, I'm going to teach on the conditions of the Rapture." All right, let's just stop and think. What is Rapture? All right, Rapture is catching up, right? Catching up. Catching up. [Bro. Vayle illustrates on a board] Okay, I'm not going to do this very good, because I'm sure I won't be able to make it. These are people. Very fine people too. Okay, they're going to get caught up, see? Oh, I got them all. Caught up. That's Rapture. Now, what are the conditions? Shout, Voice. Now, I want to know why people can't understand that. What are the conditions of a Rapture? The conditions of a Rapture is Shout and a Voice. All right, what is a voice? A Voice is when the Lord Himself descends from heaven with a Message, and He gives It to a prophet. Wherein 2 Thessalonians, by our gathering together to the Lord Jesus Christ is a Message and we come together on a Message. Now, the true revival pointed to a Message. The prophet with Thus saith the Lord was vindicated as the one true prophet. Everybody else no matter what they had, and what they thought they had, and whatever they would do from that time on, phony. Sorry, phony. I'm simply not interested in anybody else says. If they're not phony to the other guy, they're phony to me. And even if they're not phony to God they're phony to me for this reason: He warned, and the prophet said you hear only one. He said, "He was the Voice." 17. All right. William Branham brought us a Message. That was to bring us to Christ. Where was Christ? Outside the church. He was to bring us into union of Christ, because there has to be an espousal before there's going to be a Catching up. Furthermore, "They without us cannot be made perfect." [Heb 11:40] There cannot be a Resurrection without something done for us and to us. So, the conditions of the Rapture are simply: there must be a prophet born on this earth of the caliber of John the Baptist who will be baptizing in water when a Light from heaven will come down and the Word will meet the prophet in the water. And he will come with an introduction and a Message. And at that time will begun to do for the Gentiles what was done to the Jews proving Him is: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever," [Heb 13:8] and to fulfill the Word in the Bride now which He could not fulfill before. And all of those Scriptures must be fulfilled. You'll also be fulfilled, there'll be a small group who will not die but live and be changed. And then these people that are dead will come out of the ground. Now, these are the conditions. Now the Bible distinctly says: "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout." [1 Th 4:16] 18. Now, here is why I have my puzzles. And we could all have a puzzle. Where is heaven? In the Greek the word 'heaven' means 'elevated places'. But back in Palestine there were a bunch of people looking up, they said, "Oh ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing into the heavens?" Listen, let's take a look at that. That might be interesting. [Acts] 1:10. (10) And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, (so that's up) behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; (11) Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? (So they had their chins elevated, right? and their faces elevated. They were gazing.) this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as (you've) seen him go... (So, as He went up, He's going to come down.) 19. So, I know now what up is. I don't care where you are, as long as you're looking up, you're up. If you're on the North Pole, you're looking up. If you're at the South Pole, you're looking up. If you're on the equator, you're looking up. I care less. Because It tells you what they were going through as people physical. So, they're looking up. Now, It says, this same One is going to come down. Now, we know that to be true in the physical they were going to meet Him in the air at the Wedding Supper. Well watch 1 Thessalonians, [4:16] "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with the Shout, with the Voice of the archangel and the Trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first." Now, the quest, the very conditions we have (and you listen carefully,) and the dead in Christ shall rise first is actually telling you the Rapture. And the conditions of the Rapture is: "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with the Shout, with the Voice of the archangel." Those are your conditions, or there won't be anybody getting in that Rapture. And It also tells us we are going to be changed, because at that point It did not say we're going to get changed. Now John the Beloved had already made the point. He said, "When He Appears, we're going to be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." [1 Jn 3:2] And you know to see Him as He is, is going to be a revelation, because no man can see God. Actually, no man can even see Jesus and get away with it, on the grounds of knowing Who and What He is, because nobody did back in those days. They either had to have a revelation by being Seed, or he had to do something to attract the attention, which attention some were attracted to and others weren't. To the extent that some attractors that were attracted said, "Oh, this is God." And the others were detractors, but they were attracted just the same. And they said, "That's the devil." See? 20. All right, you've got conditions. All right, the Lord's going to come down from heaven. Where is heaven? I don't know where it is. Dimension. Where He's going to come down. He's going to have a Message through a prophet. Now, He's not going to need the prophet to raise the dead, because prophets don't raise the dead on mass. God raises the dead. So now, God's come down here with a Message to raise the dead, to change us, to pick us up in a Rapture, to take us to the Marriage Supper. And that's not going to be too fast, because it's going to take a long time to separate believers from believers. Because believers, as believers are going to have to mature in distinction to others who believe, but will never mature. They must be make-believers, or foolish virgin or something. Of course they're not going to make it. 21. Now, down here then, with the Shout is the Message preceded by a dynamic ministry where the ministry of Christ vindicates Elijah, proving who he is, so that when he brings the Word It fits right down. It can't fit down on any other word. It's going to take a ministry, (see?) to bring that Word down. Bro. Branham said so. That's why you had that great ministry. Nothing like it. Nothing ever will be again until Moses and Elijah come. All right, now we're thoroughly onto the conditions, Presence, prophet, Word, bringing in the living Bride, bringing her to a place under the Third Exodus. And you've got mixed believers and everything else there. Sure thing. You've got people long ago saw baptism in Jesus' Name, and still back in organization, God knows what. See? Got to bring us to the place: "You can't add a Word or take a Word." [Rev 22:18-19] The prophet goes off the scene. So that He that is greater must increase, the lesser must decrease. The Bride ripening. At the right time the dead will come out of the ground. And this present living group will consort with them and have a blessed time knowing they made it, which made it, and everybody and they'll see coming up. And you'll remember some from the other age, and they'll remember you, because you can't remember them too well. And after they'd had a high old time on earth so there'd be no detraction from meeting Him Who is our Lord, that One that God has made both Lord and Christ. The One we're looking to see, you'll be able to see Him. Don't worry about the Pillar of Fire, you might not even get a chance to even see That. We've looking for the One that's incarnate. We're looking for the theophonic part, that Logos part of God that took the flesh. A lot of people can't understand, that flesh is just marvelous. Just because God got out of It, and He's in the Pillar of Fire. They say, "Oh, what about that?" Don't you what about that, that's our Lord and God our Christ. You bet. We don't sell Him short. We praise and honor Him. Ask everything in His Name, honor and believe in Him. Now, when we get up there, the Spirit that's in the midst of us will incarnate Itself in that One, and we'll crown Him King of kings, and Lord of lords, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace, the Son of David, the Son of man, Holy Ghost, Lily of the valley, Rose of Sharon. He'll be absolutely all of the hundreds of titles and names in That person. That's what He's going to be. Then we're going to come on down here and take over, then we're going to set up the New Jerusalem. 22. All right now: notice in here we talked about the 'light shining'. And It says, "Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered." [Mt 24:28] Now, I know a lot of people don't like me, because I don't really take exception to Bro. Branham on this, because other students say the same as he did, but this word 'carcass' is 'toma', it's not 'soma'. There's got to be a toma carcass, and a soma carcass. Soma means 'somatic', which is healthy. Soma, is in Luke 17. Over here they're running for the 'tomatic' the ptomaine poison bunch. Over here we're running for the healing in the wings that's going to give us resurrection or immortality. You know, people right today don't know that Bro. Branham said that Matthew 24 was the Rapture separating the people, but Luke 17 was the Word separating the people. Why it's right on the tape, a man said, "Lee Vayle says that." He said, "You show me where the prophet said it." So, one guy bust out laughing, brought in the book. He's been reading it. Unveiling the Mighty God is one place. I'm not going to say these things as the prophet said them. This is your tough part here brother/sister. 23. Now, let's go back to 2 Peter. Peter telling us here that as there were false prophets, you've got to watch for the false teachers. Now, the reason for that is, there isn't time for false prophets to come up at irregularly spaced periods that would give you time (you know) to sort of sleep and say, "Hey, here's another great guy." You've got the great guy who's got it all, who's the criterion so that everybody's got to align to him, William Branham, and anybody that doesn't align is a phony. See? So, all these guys come with their great falderals [foolish nonsense] and their great shows and things and it doesn't cut any ice, because you see, they've seen the big one and they didn't get away. What do you care about the little ones? Now, what's the danger? The danger lies in the teaching. See, there's the thing. Anybody can come then say, "Oh, William Branham...oh, ho, there's never was a man like him, but what school did he go to? Why the man was arrogant and ignorant. Now, come on, look, I can read the Bible too." Listen, anybody can say that. But the Bible's a revelation. So what happens? Now you can take anything that William Branham said which is the Bible in a Twentieth Century Message form for this hour, and you can twist It anyway you want to according to the background of your teaching which could have been right once in another age. Now, you've got trouble. 24. Now, It says here: [1 Peter 2:] (1) ...false teachers, privily bring in damnable heresies, denying the Lord... (saying 'no' to the Lord.) What if He's here? I don't know that He's here, I can't prove anything. I can tell you one thing, He was here, and I can also tell you that Bro. Branham said, "God takes the man, but not the spirit." I can also tell you he said, "The Pillar of Fire is going to lead us into the Millennium." I can also tell you, that the Pillar of Fire was the One that gave the Message, and He's the One that's supposed to be here to raise the dead and get us up there. So Who's here? I don't know. You'll know full gum when I tell you something: since chickens can eat constituted horse manure and it tastes good, and we can eat chickens [laughter] and we think they taste good...I'm talking about appetites. You see what I'm trying to tell you? Anything taste good then, that's fine. 25. The Bible said, "Every table is going to be full of vomit." When I vomit I want to blow it all out and quickly rinse my mouth and let that horrible hydrochloric acid and all that conglomeration that I thought were so good going down just stick around my tonsils if I had any left, and yet people just love vomit. "All tables are full of vomit." [Isa 28:8] "Did you hear that great sermon this morning on water baptism, Father, Son, Holy Ghost?" [Makes eating sounds] Slurp, slurp, chomp, chomp, chomp. "Oh, best vomit we've ever had." [More eating sounds] Luther's vomit, that came in the Roman Catholic church, where that's a real old one. Have you heard of the Chinese one thousand year old egg? Hundred year old egg? You haven't? Don't you people eat Chinese food? Where they finally found out they're not good for you. Neither is vomit. [2 Peter 2:] (1) ...denying the Lord (say, He's not here.) the (very) Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2) And many (that they refuse them, see,) many shall follow their pernicious ways; (and remember, those ways are snowballing right now. They'll be getting the crowds, you watch. We've going to get smaller and smaller.) by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 26. Now the way of truth. Who is the way of truth? "I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life." [Jn 14:6] And Jesus never said that as a man. It was said in a man. The Lord alone is the Way and the Truth. He was the manifestation of It, and the Voice that indicated It. They are going to turn It. The very Word of God that William Branham preached, explaining, and he had to explain serpent seed to get the understanding of sovereignty and predestination. Well, we couldn't sit here and take it ourselves. (3) And through covetousness...with feigned words (hypocritical words) make merchandise of you: whose judgment now a long time (lingers) not, and damnation slumbereth not. Tells you right there there's going to be a Resurrection right around this time, the whole thing is going to get dealt with. Do you know that William Branham coming on the scene was an absolute sign of the Resurrection? He never came on the scene until Israel was there. You say, "Israel's in the homeland, going to have a resurrection, hallelujah." Hallelujah, shut up! When Israel's in the homeland and Elijah comes, and the Pillar of Fire. Now we're getting somewhere. You don't go and just pick up one thing. A good marriage is not some man and some woman getting married. A good marriage is the right man and the right woman getting married. Then you don't go down to the hospital and say, "This was our baby, but I like this one, it's got prettier toe nails or something." You get your own [baby]. You know people are slightly crazy. Bro. Branham said they were. 27. Now: (4) ...if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, (that's the messengers) and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (5) And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; Now, It tells you right there, there was only one man with the Word. Do you know that there's no such thing as righteousness unless it's preached, and you hear it as a Word? Right! Women cut their hair. Men let their hair grow long. Unless there's a Word said, the act of cutting or not cutting is not a righteous or an unrighteous act. That's why you got to know. See? He was a preacher of righteousness. Righteousness is a preached thing. Righteousness depends upon preaching, delineation, exegesis, showing forth in words. 28. That's why It says over here in 1 Corinthians 1. (17) For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with enticing words of man's) wisdom, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. (18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto (them) which are saved (it's) the power of God. Preaching is the power of God! Why? Because It tells you what's there. And if It doesn't tell you, you can't hear. And if you can't hear, you can't understand. And when you understand then you know what's there, you say, "That's it." You've got it. 29. Let's go to Romans 1:16. That's a beautiful one right here. (16) ...(I'm) not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: (it's) the power of God unto salvation to every one that (believes it); Believes It? You know it goes way beyond that. There's something behind it. But all you've got to do is say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got me." Everybody wants to analyze, synthesize, stigmatize, remanufacture, God knows what. Why don't they just shut up and listen? (16) ...(I'm) not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for (it's) the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (17) For therein is (revealed, for therein is) the righteousness of God revealed (the very righteousness of God is revealed by words!) from faith to faith: as (it's) written, The just shall live by faith. (18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness... He's against every other word. And He tells you His Word is all about Him and what He is doing, and if you believe It you are with Him. You're a Word believer. Now that's grace. Now grace remember, started from before the foundation of the world. Never forget that one. Here I'm doing my best to let people know how the Rapture starts, how all the Parousia's down here in the Epiphanea's down here, and the Apokalupsis' is down here, and the whole thing is going on in God's great cyclotron, the whole thing is moving, oh it's marvelous, and we're going to caught out of here, and people just spitting on It, and they're hating It. I don't understand it. We're passed already these other things, we know them. And because we know them, these are the forces of the cyclotron. See? I mean, go over here again, so we don't get ourselves all scrupled up. Tell you what, just too easy to think, "Oh well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a bite of porridge this morning, and my wife put some nice raisins in there to give me energy, and I drank some of that good milk that Dave and Ruthie brought by, oh yes, a little cream on it. Oh that was good too. Oh yes, a little more energy..." Aw, shut up! 30. Listen to this as a Christian: [Romans 1:] (16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for (the gospel) is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth... (17) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (18) (But) the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who (held down) the truth in unrighteousness; See, what can a man do but believe? Nothing! From there on God will do the whole bunch. And if God's not doing anything, shows you didn't believe. Don't get negative, just go on start over. See, now we had that at the end time. Bro. Branham said, "Just think," he said, "the same Pillar of Fire that brought the Word to Paul is here revealing It." Well, did he mean it, or did he not mean it? "Justification gave way to sanctification, sanctification gave way to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the Baptism gave way to the Holy Ghost Himself." Did he mean it, or did he not mean it? 31. If you can't understand that, I'll tell you a little story. It's very wicked. Women never knew how they got babies. They came by storks. But nobody ever saw stork. But all of them had babies. And one day they all stopped having babies, and a great big stork came. Now, that holds you kind of numb doesn't it? Now know what I told you? The Baptism with the Holy Ghost gave way to the Holy Ghost Himself. You've never seen the Holy Ghost. How did you get to be a regenerated Seed of God? That sperm of God? That Life of God? But now God's here, and the Seed is running out. People don't want to believe the Seed is going to run out. They don't want to believe that the reaper is going to overtake the Sower. (Micah, I'm not sure.) People don't want to understand, this is it. So this is the time you've got all these teachers to rise up and explain away everything. Yeah. And the wrath of heaven is revealed against it, because when this Message gets turned down, the Sodom condition flares. Because it tells you. People wonder and say, "Hey, where's education been all these years?" You get people still believe in idols. Well, crazy Roman Catholics do, as well as Hindus. Crazy Protestant's do too. Rabbit's foot and all. What kind of junk is that? Astrology, tarot, card playing, (phffft!) Casting bones, necromancy. It's worse than ever. 32. But notice what's worse than that. Vile affection, women in incest amongst themselves, so that poor little Vanessa Williams, she's caught downright crude. They've got better, bigger pictures against her now doing more and rotten things. And now he claims he's got the picture of one of the runner ups in another Miss America all pushing herself ever which way. Now why? What do women want to do that for? Surely there cannot be near the gratification of loving a man and enjoining in a proper act that is given by God for specific reason. But to tear your clothes off and just show yourself, when that's against nature is become vile. And you know what? They will not retain God in their knowledge. Now you say, "Just a minute, the world's religious." You listen to me, under the apostle Paul, of what I'm talking of. He said, "They left the true Jesus. The true Spirit, and the true Word." So their god can make a woman that's a strip-teaser, a Lutheran, dance before men and women naked and do an impressionistic act to glorify God. And preachers back her up. What preachers? 33. These preachers: [Romans 1:] (29) Being filled with unrighteousness, (no truth anymore) fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,... Look at those schools there's fine little pre-teen, (pre-aged) kids going to school, some seventy some old grandma and the rotten filthy bums just like her, fondling and having intercourse with little kids. Yeah, what do you think they're going to do with it? Oh, not very much if anything. Why, why should they? [Verses 30-31] They) without understanding, they're covenantbreakers, they're evil, they're disobedient, they're haters of God, they're despiteful, they're proud, they're implacable. They have no natural affection, and they know the judgment of God, (and they don't care two-cents about it. Yeah. Knowing that One that came with him and they take pleasure in all these birds out there.) I tell you brother, we need to get our minds under control, begin to realize what's going on. The cup of iniquity hasn't got full. That's why the Bride's not out of here. We're waiting as in the days of Noah. The cup's not full. God said to Moses, "When four hundred years is up, but (He said,) these birds ain't ready." We've got too many good laws yet. We may have pretty soon a woman president. This may be Ms. Ferraro, who can't even take her husband's name, because she's so juicy-floozy. I wouldn't let her into my bathroom. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I don't want to hate the woman. I want to feel sorry for her, but I want ...?... She's got no right at all, but she'll get there by November if the cards could go over. Reagan could be out. I don't think so myself, but I don't know. But it just shows we're getting there. Yes sir. 34. Now, down here, Noah the eighth person, he was righteous. Only one man had the Word, and those little tiny group he gave the Word to. And notice, they were blood relatives, and through marriage, see, they had a kinship. Same thing took place in Sodom and Gomorrah, because they lived ungodly. For that righteous man dwelling and among them seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. The Lord knows how to deliver them... the godly out of temptation, and reserved the unjust until the day of judgment to be punished. Now, here's the thing you're looking at, and I want you to understand: Everybody keeps looking at. "Oh, what did the guy do? Oh, what did the guy do? Oh, what did the guy do? Oh, what did the guy do? What did the guy do?" Shut up! And I'll tell you what the guy did! He didn't listen! You think he was doing out there in the mud pile with the harlots and the mongers and the cheapskates and God's knows what. No! He wasn't listening! Blind and dull of hearing. You get deaf and dumb [blind] people they don't do much. Why? Because they can't see and hear. Then because they can't see and hear they'll try to wiggle their fingers and do something else. But they're not normal. But you get an ordinary person who blinds his eyes and closes his ears, like they rushed on Stephen as they did, because he brought the truth. [Acts 7:57] This is what's going on. They have turned on the prophet and they have become teachers, and their teaching is building Sodom and Gomorrah. Oh, come on..! 35. Let's go to... I know you've got to have an answer for that, because you'll just... I know what you do, you people shoot your mouth off when I shoot my mouth off. [some chuckling] I know but I'm going to get you out of trouble right here. All right listen: Ephesians 4, It says: (9) Now that he ascended, what is he descended lower parts of the earth? (10) He that descended is the same that ascended above all, (11) (And when he ascended came back here...) he gave prophets and apostles; (and so on.) (12) (To perfect) the saints, for the work of the ministry, edifying of the body of Christ: (13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and knowledge of the Son of God, unto (the) perfect man, the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (14) ...we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; (15) But (holding) the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is (Christ) the head, (16) From whom the whole body (comes) together... (see?) That's what is happening to us by a Word. The Lord gave the Word and great was the company that published It. See? 36. And so we look at these things, and I'm not finished, I didn't get to what I want to, but I'll get back to it another time, don't worry, [when] I get time to do it. But just looking at these things (you know,) that run across my mind and people say certain things of what we don't believe and do believe, and I say look, I've got no trouble if He didn't come down. Bro. Branham said, "He came up." Bro. Joe gave a good illustration. He said, "How in the world can He come up at the same time He came down?" "Well," he said, "if you pour water into a glass that comes up, that comes down." He said, "That satisfies me." That satisfies me too Joe, whether you've got the right answer, I don't give a rip. Very good answer. I could say fine for us. I wouldn't say, I certainly would not fault it, it's beautiful, because it's really the truth. 37. Every Age had a measure of the Word full of the Holy Ghost of life, coming up, up, up, up. And when you come to the place where there's no more measure, what is it? It's the One that poured the measure in, because it had to come out of Him. Because the Bride does not become God. This is the craziest thing in the world when people say, "Well God poured everything into Christ and Christ poured everything into the Bride." Well then, there's no more God. There's no more Christ. "Hey Bride, we've got it all." [makes several whoopee noises] You all listen, if we've got it all, you take your whoopee's someplace else, because I want to puke out of my eyes and my nose and everyplace in my body where's an orifice, because I'm sick, sick, sick and tired. I haven't got anything I want. No, I'm not God, and the Bride is not God. He poured in for her salvation. Whatever He did, I don't fully understand, but I do know that we're supposed to believe "that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." [2 Cor 5:19] And so therefore, I take redemption to be the full thrust of what we're into now. And God poured every bit of redemption into Him, and every bit of redemption into us, or we're not redeemed. Now, the last little edge of it was here, and He's going to get us out of here. And I'm rejoicing, and we're filling up. And we're filling up, and we're filling up. And they're filling up, and they're filling up. And we're bringing in, and we're bringing in. And they're rejecting, and they're rejecting. And we're going on, and we're going on, and they're going backward. "Oh," they say, "Bro. Vayle I don't believe He ever went away." Oh, I don't say He ever went away. Fine. He never went away. "I say... He never went away. He always was here." What Bro. Branham said, "He's here, He wasn't here two thousand years ago." Because He's now talking face to face with William Branham and not to Paul. So, if He never went away fine. If He never went away, fine. I've got no problem. He turned a corner while He's here. When He turned a corner what happened? I want to know. This is a juncture. I don't care if He never went away. Bible says He did. "For I'm trying to make my friends and my enemies happy." 38. I'm trying to say you don't believe what I believe, that's fine. I got the quote right at home on my desk. The man says that "what you see, you see it's a terrible thing what these people preach." And before he preached the people knew better, they should have called his hand right there. "Why," he said, "They're preaching..." (he didn't call my name, but he might as well have, because he was hitting at me.) "Well," he said, "they don't believe in a literal coming." He said, "They just believe in a spiritual. They don't believe they're going to meet Him in the air." He doesn't believe the Rapture. Bro. Branham said, "I am going to give you the conditions to meeting Him in the air." And he said, "He did all three in descending." So, I don't care if even descending, I'll go that far. Although I know He did. I say, "What's He here for? What is He doing? What is going on? Where's the division?" Now, they're crying, because they're sure that Bro. Branham did not say that this Word is dividing believer and believer. But Bro. Branham did say so in Christ the Mystery of God Revealed, and other places too. 39. Now, so we've got a bunch of teachers teaching. And let's face it, some have got enough guts to say the prophet was wrong, but some ain't that stupid. But there are those that's stupid who will listen to a man who says the prophet's wrong. Because that means, they don't believe the prophet's right either. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, "If Bro. Branham was wrong, he had more right being wrong than these people had right being right." That's right. That's true. Because you see, God's prophet don't make wrong. How about the time that God let Moses strike the rock, then water came forth? A prophet is right even when he's not right. He's a prisoner. He's bound up. Lots of things people don't understand. Try to understand them brother/sister, we're at the end-time. We're at the end-time. Going to be more and more teaching going around. That's one reason I'd just sooner not teach anymore. I'm not unhappy that... now that was a lie right there. [laughter] I'm not unhappy that I can do something else, you know, like if I could eat something, I don't feel hungry anymore. But I do get very unhappy that I'm not preaching. That might be something that I'm supposed to go through, I don't know. I haven't any idea, but I do know certain things are still in my mind if I preach them or not. If I don't preach them, my ministry will not be finished, because I've left some things in the air that should be covered that aren't covered to the extent they should be covered. Because people think I teach out of here then we don't believe in the fine things of love. We do, but we've got to understand where love comes from, from every direction, and what it's all about based on the Word. And then you judge yourself is to whether you are in the love God, and doing the love that God wants done, or whether you're just following the crowd. And we're getting to the end of the day. 40. I believe God's going to get a Bride out of here that's all glorious within and without. And I'm quite sure that the Bride will be walking on top of my casket quite some time before that happens which is fine by me. But then I hope they kick the casket top open and I come out, and be part of It, because I don't know how much I'm going to get on this side. Because if I don't get perfection this side, I'm going to get it that side. That's the Word of the Living God. But you see, ever since the prophet came on the scene my brother, my sister, and Israel in Palestine something has been going on. And this is what people cannot figure and he laid it down in the Rapture and died. Now they're saying, "Come back and do something else." Look, I'm happy to have William Branham come back with the archangel Gabriel. Anybody. And if God Almighty said He wanted Joan of Arc to come by with him, that would suit me fine too, but I'm pretty sure she's not going to, because that's another age. But I wouldn't be surprised at all to find Daddy Bosworth come up and say, "Well Lee, didn't I tell you I prayed for God for forty years the ministry of Jesus Christ to be in that man wasn't it so?" I say, "Well Doc, you're pretty smart old boy. I always knew you were, but you had insight. You're like old Simeon." Yeah, well there's great things coming brother/sister, don't get worried about it. There's great things coming, but you've got to know this: the vines are growing together, and it hasn't come that far yet. See? 41. Judgments of God are in the world, but that just hit a little bit of Alaska. But what was the judgment to the Bride, little Bride? "You didn't do it at all. You are the perfect righteous Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ." See? Now, it doesn't mean for one minute we're going to sit around and say, "Well, I can do anything I want." No sir, you're going to find yourself under harder strain you've been all your life. You feel more critical of yourself and anything you see will be more critical all the time. And say, "Oh God, that shouldn't be. God that shouldn't be." Get that life cleaned up. Get all the animosities out. That's hard. If you're a guy like me, I'm just naturally blow my stack all the time. Finally you know you've got just so much steam in so much of a box, and once that steam is out of there that's all you've got. Then you've run your course and you find you're not just too good shape, because that's what you've been going on. Now you're down, what are you going to go on? Well, you haven't been pulling the whistle on love too much. Some of those things, see. But just realize, we're at the end of the rope just the same. 42. Prophet's been gone nineteen years. Think of it. Kids I've picked up as tiny babies, getting married, everything else. And I'm still standing here, waiting to get out of here. Trying to push my foot into the door. I've got...what is this... the thirteenth or fourteenth inning? Whatever it is, separate test, September 28, [Bro. Vayle's birthday] I should be able to get out of here. Seventy years old. You live seventy years, that's enough for anybody. Sure enough for me. Whatever God has got in mind, of course we've got to try to look at that. But I just want you to know that things are moving on. The false teachers are everywhere. They're rising up, criticizing everything. But you just go ...?... just a minute now, he said he turned a corner, where are we at? If he never went away, the prophet said He's doing something different He didn't do before. Tell me what He's doing? If He didn't go away, come he said He came down? We want to know the answers. I believe we have the answers brother/sister, and I believe He came to give us the answers. And because He had to have a man He gave us a man He could speak through and give us the answers. And I don't care who that man was. If God was with that man, that man could only say what God wanted him to say. You better believe that. And God did say we have everything we need to put us in a Rapture. It's all been laid down. We are going to get out of here by the grace of Almighty God. Let's rise. Gracious Heavenly Father, Almighty God, we thank You for Your love, Your mercy, Your grace, Your kindness. We look to You, Lord, that You continue to give us of Thy Self, Lord, in ways of excellence of wisdom, Lord, because that's what we want. Not just wisdom, not excellent wisdom like Daniel had from Thee, O God, we want the Word of the living God given to us. We pray Thee, Lord, that You hear our prayer that You do help us, that You love us, that You lead us in these ways. Now Father, renew our minds. We pray that You renew our bodies. Above all, renew the spirits within us by the Holy Ghost, so the Word begins to bubble, enjoy itself and aggrandize itself within us until it is just the joy in the wonderment of the Lord constantly coming through. Now, lead us in paths of righteousness for Thy sake, O God. Help us to lay down everything that has been against us, Lord, for we are our own enemies. Help us to weigh evey word and everything that's every cost, and just look at it in the light that what it is, as the Scripture has distinctly said all these things we use are going to pass away with the use thereof. Let us learn to use them and let it be gone. Help us now, Lord, to understand this and walk in the Light of God, which, if we have caught this one thought at this time: there'll be victory in the camp, and I believe there will be for Thou art God, and Thou has heard and you love us in Jesus' Name. Amen 'Take the Name of Jesus with you'. 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