Two Spirits  

‘ Mark 16’

 Bro. Lee Vayle   -   January 9, 1997

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we acknowledge Your Presence, and trust
glorified in some measure, knowing that it would be truly glorified if
indeed we filled the positions that You sent us all here to fulfill, as
a part of the body of Jesus Christ, as a part of the manifestation of
Yourself in Your Word here upon earth, that people might really know
what the truth of the Kingdom of God is. Knowing also that there are
those who would only have us as a witness, Lord, because they never did
have contact through the prophet, other …?… those ways that You have
set forth. 

So we pray, Father, that though we may fall in many, many ways, we shall
not fall in the truth of the Word, but rather in our minds, our souls,
and our spirits, and then hopefully coming through in our bodies, be
that true Word of Almighty God. We know Lord if we’re seed, in spite
of ourselves we shall truly come forth as that true Word, knowing that
that Word at one time that You gave through Paul concerning the end
time, that there would be a people who would not die, would not taste
death, but would be standing here, Lord, at the time of the great
resurrection and change for a Rapture. And we trust, Lord, that we’re
a part of that, though some of us may precede and go on, having the best
of two worlds, Lord, yet there’ll be someone standing here. We trust
Lord, that it would be those positively who are partakers of the Word of
revelation the prophet gave, and even as we understand it, Lord, because
we’re standing upon that. Help us to see more truth this morning. We
give You glory thereby, in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be
seated.

1.	Now, I’m not going to continue this morning with the thoughts we
had on the message of servitude and Stewardship, but I’m going to
just, hopefully we’ll be able to cover some material that is very
beneficial, particularly because, like everybody who preaches, it really
depends on the ears of the people, whether those ears are in tune with
the voice of the preacher, in order to get what is actually being said.
And for the life of me, I’m a little puzzled as to why some things I
say are so terribly, terribly misconstrued, when I have made very, very
strong statements that would be contrary to the misconstruing, it leaves
me very greatly puzzled. However, we’ll just go into that, and try to
help you to see as never before exactly where I am coming from,
concerning the message that Bro. Branham left us. 

	Now, one thing of course is very puzzling. And that is that we still
have the same word coming back to me, that people who hear one or two
tapes, and are not really familiar with my teaching ministry, still
think that we do not believe in prayer. And of course, that is a very
wrong thing for anybody to believe, because we certainly do believe in
prayer, we’ve preached on it, had services here when I was more able
to, before Bro. and Sis. McRae came, where we had these services and I
would take little teaching message on Sunday afternoons, and then we’d
go to prayer for a certain length of time. 

2.	So that’s peculiar there, but I think the main thing that came out
of it is, that when I mentioned that Bro. Branham said he took seventeen
years in order to try to teach the people that the laying on of hands
was strictly from the Hebrew understanding of the laying on of hands,
and their ceremonies and rites, which they conducted, and that he was
more in line with the centurion who when Jesus said, “Why, I’ll be
glad to come and lay hands on your servant, that he might live.” 

And the centurion, now that’s a Gentile, he said, “Hey, look, you
don’t need to come and lay hands on my servant. I understand perfectly
authority, I’m in authority over this hundred people,” I think
that’s… there were a hundred in that little band. And he said, “If
I say to one, ‘Go,’ I say to one, ‘Come,’ I just tell them and
they do it.” Now he said, “I can perceive that You are an authority
and a power over life and death, and sickness and disease, You don’t
have to come and touch my servant. Just say the word like I do. And
he’ll be healed.” 

And Jesus said, “I’ve never seen such faith as that.” 

And Bro. Branham said, “That is where the Gentiles belong.” And he
said, “For seventeen years I have attempted to have the people
understand this, but they always want the prayer line.” And he said,
“It isn’t necessary.” Why? Because he was preaching us the perfect
Word, which was perfect faith. The perfect revelation, where there were
no more doubts, and there were no more problems. And so therefore, he
said, “Take this Message for your healing.” And he would try to get
rid of the prayer line -- and he never did though -- by discerning from
the platform, and you’ll notice that sermon after sermon, and time
after time, in praying for the sick, he would start the prayer line then
always it would go out to the congregation. And he’d say, “See? You
don’t need to come forward. You don’t need to have hands laid on
you. What you need to realize, God is here to do these things, and
He’s never failed to do them, and it’s in the Bible, it’s Mark
16.” And now, this is where we find the problem. People misunderstand
thinking that Mark 16 is no longer in existence in this Message. That is
not true. 

3.	Now, when you go to Mark 16, which we’ll go this morning, and I
hope I’m not going to be too scattered, because my notes are no notes,
they’re just little jottings here and there, with Scripture. And so we
reading in there, that last chapter, Jesus is about to ascend into
heaven after the resurrection:  

(15)	And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the    
                 gospel to every creature.

(16)	He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; (and) he that    
                believeth not shall be damned (or judged and condemned).

(17)	And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they    
                  shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new
tongues;

(18)	They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing,   
                           it shall not hurt them; (and) they shall lay
hands on the sick, and                    they shall recover.

4.	Now, let’s just see where that goes. Now we know that James, the
brother of Jesus was there. So let’s go to James 5, and we’ll take a
look at the laying on of hands over there. Because certainly it is
there. All right, he says in verse [13.]

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him         
              sing psalms.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church;       
                   and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in
the name                         of the Lord:

Now if you’re going to anoint with oil, you sure got to have the hand
touching the head, far as I know they don’t stand back and use a
spray, or pour it on. Though you could pour it on, that’s scriptural.
Psalm 133 will show you that. But here really, is you’re seeing the
laying on of hands.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise   
                    him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him.   

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that      
                     ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man                     availeth much.

(Elijah) was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed
earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the 
                   space of three years and six months.

And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought    
    forth her fruit.

(My) brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

5.	Now notice, that erring from the truth and conversion, one convert
him… Now Bro. Branham said that when Jesus said to Peter, “When
you’re converted, strengthen your brethren.” Which meant that
you’re truly full of the Holy Ghost. So therefore, it tells you right
here, if any man err from the truth, you can tell right there that the
man could be justified, sanctified, but never filled with the Holy
Ghost. But you bring a person into the baptism with the Holy Ghost, then
that man will be solid in the truth, because there’s no way he could
be out of the truth. 

And you know how Bro. Branham always talked about, “You people that
aren’t full of the Holy Ghost, come on forward.” 

Well I know what the people thought; they thought the same old rigmarole
we were taught. That number one: you are justified, you are baptized in
water, and some believed in sanctification, some Pentecostals, the
majority did not. And then they said the next thing; you’re born
again. Say, “Hallelujah, I’m born again. Now I must be empowered.”
Say, “I got the spirit of Jesus, glory to God, I’m born again, now I
got to get the power, I’m going to get God’s Holy Spirit. I’m
baptized with the Holy Ghost.” 

Uh-uh, uh-uh, no way. The baptism with the Holy Ghost is the rebirth, as
Bro. Branham said, “You are born again by the baptism with the Holy
Ghost.” 

6.	See what I’m talking about now? This right here, it shows you, this
man in particular according to what we see in the Message could stray
from the truth, because he wasn’t truly born again. And Bro. Branham
knowing these people, he would have to keep telling them, “Come on
receive the Holy Ghost.” This then if they really did in his meetings,
would be a positive, genuine rebirth and they would believe this Word.
Because you cannot have the Spirit of God in your life, that same
Spirit, Him there, Who gave the Word through the prophet, and then deny
any part of it. No way. He will say amen to every Word, maybe not
understanding it, but he will say amen.

So, when you look at this Scripture here, now let’s be very careful,
because we’re going to do our best to show you, no Scripture ever
contradicts another Scripture. It’s never out of way. 

Now notice he said here, positively, these people here come to
conversion, and Bro. Branham did say, “Peter,  Jesus said, when you
are converted, strengthen your brethren,” and did he not put it down
to the baptism with the Holy Ghost? Come on, who knows the tape? I am
speaking to intelligent people alive this morning, am I not? Well
didn’t he say it? Well look on your computers. Get your books;
you’re going to find it. That’s exactly so. 

7.	Now we’re going to go right back to Mark 16. We’re going to take
a really good look at it. Now, verse [15.]

(Well, he said, first of all,) He said, Go into all the world, and      
                preach the gospel to every creature.

     	Now Bro. Branham said, “He didn’t say go into the world and
teach.” And I know there’s a certain fellow in New York made a very
big deal out of that, because he was going to go out and preach with
signs and everything else. He believes that in his ministry the dead
were raised, and he’s going to be a hallelujah big shot. Well,
that’s fine by me. You go out there, and you win them all, but you
don’t teach, and in your teaching is where you’re going to find if
they’re chaff, or they’re seed. Because anybody can go out there and
just preach, and see signs and everything else, we’ll get to that. I
want to show you how it’s done. I trust this morning by the grace of
God I will never be misunderstood again. And I know the misunderstanding
is somebody getting just one tape out of many. And they don’t know
where I’m coming from, or where I’m going. So I promised you we’re
going get into this, this morning. 

(16)	He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; (and) he that    
                believeth not shall be damned.

Now it tells you right there, he that believeth. Now just a minute.
We’re going to go back to the days when Jesus was on earth: born, at
thirty, baptized in the River Jordan in water by John, God Himself
coming in, and God Himself the Anointer and the Anointing being one, in
filled this human tabernacle, see? God coming forth, to manifest Himself
in human flesh, truly the fullness of Godhead bodily, and that meant in
whatever capacity God would be in that man’s body, positively would
all be manifested right in there, every single thing, bar none. 

8.	Now, He came down there in that river Jordan where Jesus was standing
with John. Now Jesus began to do miracles, He began to call His
disciples, and when He called His disciples, the question now arises, is
this: what did they believe then? They never believed hardly anything,
they just believed that He was Messiah, they didn’t know the Scripture
concerning Him, they didn’t know that He would be virgin born in the
strictest sense of the word, unless they had been told, they just knew
that there’d be a young woman would bear this child, and this child
would be Messiah. They didn’t have a clue exactly that this was God
manifest in human flesh, except in the sense that a prophet would have
God manifesting in and through him, and would be thoroughly identified
by THUS SAITH THE LORD, or by the signs and wonders that were manifested
there. They did not know that He was going to die upon the cross; they
did not know that He was going to rise again; and even when He died,
they couldn’t understand the Scripture, and when He rose again and the
tomb was emptied, they were at a complete loss, they didn’t believe
it. “Where have you taken Him? Stolen Him? And put Him away somewhere?
Where is He gone to?” And then when He confronted them, they still
didn’t know, though their hearts were burning! 

So, the point what I’m looking at is this: believe what? Now you
understand where I’m coming from. Now, please understand where I am
coming from. He said, “They that believe.” 

And I say, “Believe what?” 

Now, they were seed back there and they didn’t believe. And they
weren’t supposed to believe. They weren’t supposed to know on their
own. 

9.	Now, hold your finger in Mark here, and go over to Luke. Just flip
your page over, and let’s find out here. And this is about John the
Baptist. And John the Baptist came on the scene, full of the Holy Ghost
from his mother’s womb. Now, how in the world do you get that way when
the fellow’s a sinner, he doesn’t even have a chance to repent?
Well, the beautiful thing was John intrinsically never was a sinner; he
was a part of God! And the Holy Ghost came upon him as a teeny weenie
infant. Now, this isn’t God indwelling, the same as God indwelling
Jesus. There’s a difference. Because this is not the bodily. 

You could say, “Well, it could be the same person without all the
manifestation.” 

I won’t argue, I only know this is not the same. There’s a
difference here on the very grounds that this man wondered after he got
imprisoned, he said, “Are You really that One?” 

I’m letting you know as a Christian you can have some variants and
some ups and downs in your faith and all, but there’s something in
you, you’ll go to the source and say, “Just a minute. Am I right or
am I wrong?” See, that’s what John did. So you can waver and you can
have some problems. You can be depressed, you can have a high, you can
have up and down, and you can wonder, and go back and forth to a limited
degree. But if you’re real seed, you’ll look for the tie post, the
definitive. You’ll not go away from reality. You’ll say, “Which is
the real, real?” Now keep that in mind, because I want to go into it:
the real, real.

10.	Now, here’s what it says about John. [Luke 1:]

(17)	And he shall go before (the Lord God of Israel)... 

In the Spirit of God he’s going to go before God Himself. He’s going
to point out the Messiah, and he’s going to forerun Almighty God
manifested in human flesh, not God the Son, but the Son of God,
completely overtaken and indwelt in this obedient Son. Now,  

…in the spirit and power of (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the
fathers                       to the children, (now what is that? The
word should not be ‘and’ as                     a conjunction,
it’s a preposition! Even.) Even the disobedient to the wisdom of the
just; (in order) to make ready a people prepared for                    
the Lord.

It tells you right there, that this man, in spite of the fact God being
there, in spite of the fact that the Holy Spirit came down, God Himself,
and invaded and took over the Son, in spite of the fact of every single
manifestation, in spite of everything, the people of themselves
weren’t able to get it, until and unless somebody explained what is
going on! 

“Oh, bless God, I don’t know if it’s God. Oh, bless God, I don’t
know this.” 

11.	Oh, before I cry or start screaming, I had better leave the pulpit.
Because this tears me to pieces as nothing else could ever do. Because
it’s insanity! Straight from the devil! It’s what Satan does to a
human mind. And this is what God can do to a human mind, is where you
can listen, I mean listen, I mean listen! And begin to understand, I
don’t care what God ever has done, or ever will do, unless the Person
here, that is the Manifestor, or the vehicle that God is using, explains
to you what is being done, you don’t know! You just think you know.
How? Because you upset the whole apple cart. And God said through Bro.
Branham, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming of Christ, the
great explainer, the great pointer out, the great discerner, the great
placer, so your Message, so you with this Word, will bring God and the
entire light into focus!” 

You say, “John didn’t do it.” I beg your pardon. John did to the
seed and to nobody else. Don’t ever sell truth short whether it be in
God or a believer, a little tiny seed.

12.	So we go back. “He that believeth shall be saved.” Believe what?
Number one: believe this is the Son of God, not God the Son! Believe
this is the risen One. Believe that He is the mediator and the
intercessor. Believe that He is the High Priest. Believe that every
single thing He said, which was vindicated, is now coming forth in the
promises of the doctrine, which was vindicated. And remember, Jesus
preached doctrine! He said, “My doctrine is not of this world!” He
preached strong, solid doctrine: serpent seed, election based on
foreknowledge, predestination, separation, two vines, two fathers, two
children’s. Believe. 

The next thought of believing is you have to believe His holy apostles
and prophets. What did they teach? Of those all Paul was the one who
brought the revelation, as the rest could not, because they weren’t
ordained to it. They were scribes with an understanding that God gave
especially to them, having been a part of His ministry, because the
Bible distinctly states they were a part of that ministry of Jesus
Christ, from which Judas fell. So therefore, you would have to
positively believe that. 

13.	Now, with that in mind, remember, he says: [Mark 16:]

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; (and) he that         
           believeth not shall be damned.

Tell me, where am I going to turn? Come on. Huh? What book? What
Scripture says the same thing? Another man said it. Come on. I don’t
want to be misunderstood anymore, my days are short, I’ll soon be out
of here. My eyes are getting so bad, I can’t see too well. [Someone
from congregation says “John.”]  Absolutely. Who said that? Ed?
We’ve got a scholar right in the front row. John 3, let’s go to Jn
3:16. 

(16)	For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,    
                that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have                      everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;           
      but that the world through him (should) be saved. (Huh?)

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth        
                not is condemned already, because he hath not believed
in the name                        of the only begotten Son of God. (So
now there’s a name to it. What                        does He say
next?)

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and    
            men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds
were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hates the light, neither cometh to the    
           light, (that) his deeds should be reproved.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, 

So in doing truth there’s a work involved! And the Pharisees came and
said, “What must we do to do the works of God?” 

And He said, “You must believe that I am the Son of God, Jesus the
Christ.” 

14.	So the whole Bible comes together here. And we don’t throw
anything out, whatsoever. There is nothing we ever throw out, and it
tells you right here, as in Mark, that there is a light! There is a
truth! There is an understanding! And you do not have an error in it!
And James says, “If there is an error somewhere, it’s because you
haven’t been baptized with the Holy Ghost.” So the next thing is,
you make sure you’re baptized with the Holy Ghost. That’s why Bro.
Branham preached The Token. 

Now, if you can be led off by some preacher mouthing off, and if I
should mouth off, and I’m not telling you truth …?…, there’s
something wrong with you. You better start praying for a genuine baptism
with the Holy Ghost. People claim I’m off the Word, let them stand
beside me. I’m ready for a showdown any time, because I’m resting on
it, what I believe, heaven or hell, right today, sink or swim, live or
die, you better believe it. I’m not going to try to change my mind. If
God wants to take me today, I’m going to tell you, I’m going to
depend on this, there’s nothing else I can depend upon! I’m gone as
a person! It’s what God wants to do with me! And that’s got nothing
to do with me. In other words, I never made the choice, and I can’t
make a choice. In other words, I’m preaching as a dying man to dying
men and women, whether you know it or not. 

15.	Now he says here: [Mark 16:]

(16)	…he that believeth not shall be damned. 

	Believe what? Believe in the revelation that is vindicated by the
prophets. God vindicating the prophets. Believe in that truth, and this
where people cannot understand Bro. Branham. They cannot understand that
there were seven ages with seven portions of truth, seven out-pouring of
the Holy Ghost, and that Word was a conduit. And whatever a measure of
truth God gave. Now remember, He gave the whole lump in Ephesus. There
could have been a Rapture, but the Bride was not full and complete. It
would take roughly two thousand years. And what happened? Even in
Ephesus, in that period where Paul was – now he doesn’t blame the
Ephesian Church. It happened in Corinth. They already had another Jesus,
they had another spirit, they had another gospel. 

But everybody always thinks, “Oh, my, we didn’t make a mistake,
there were some back there that had it right, and there’s some here
got it right.” 

Oh, no, no, no, they went to right to Trinitarianism, then at the end
they went right to Oneness, and they’re both wrong! There’s only one
God, and the begotten Son, the Only Begotten, the Son, and then for all
I know, millions, or hundreds of millions of other sons that came by
Adam, and even Jesus had to come by Adam according to the flesh, because
his mother, the womb that he borrowed, was from the tribe of Judah, the
same as the father, who stood with her, though he had nothing to do with
her. His lineage in the flesh was according to the tribe, which did not
have priesthood, which was Judah. The lion of the tribe of Judah. And
there he stood right there in a borrowed womb, and it was her body as a
chemical factory that brought forth his body, and according to natural
election, he was in a natural election, the same as you and I were.
Shoo. If you don’t believe me, study the tapes; you’re going to find
out a few things by studying tapes. 

16.	Now, remember, this is based upon the Word of Jesus, the teaching of
Jesus, Who had THUS SAITH THE LORD, He had more than THUS SAITH THE
LORD. God was speaking through Him continuously, except in those rare
occasions when Jesus Himself spoke. He said, “What you see being done,
My Father’s doing it. What you hear being said, My Father is saying
it. I and My Father are one. He that sees Me, sees the Father.”
Because every single thing that Jesus did was done by God Himself, for
man could not do what Jesus did. And when you have a man that’s
vindicated, there is something done that man himself cannot do. And you
got to go back to some Authority, or some Spirit, or Something
somewhere, and find out what is behind that person. Because that person
can never claim that he is doing it. If any man claims he is doing it,
that man is false. God has to do it through the individual. 

17.	So, right down the line now remember, Jesus was vindicated. And this
is something that He said, based upon His vindication. And His
vindication was not something merely that He said before He died, the
vindication was in the proof that He rose from the dead, and being risen
from the dead, He said, “This is what I am telling you,” and you can
never get rid of Mark 16! 

So, anybody who thinks I’m trying to get rid of Mark 16, because I’m
trying to tell you what Bro. Branham said, and show you that the laying
on of hands is specific for the elders in individual cases, and you
don’t need prayer meetings anymore, you can be sitting there with this
Message as your healing, sitting right in your seat, getting up here
well, and going your way and praising God! They misunderstand and say,
“Well, Vayle doesn’t believe in Mark 16.” They’re liars! I say
they are liars! And this is on tape, and it’s on the videocassette,
and I challenge any man living to say that I have ever denied Mark 16.
It cannot be denied, because these are the words of a resurrected
Person! And He’s living to back these words up.

18.	Now, let’s get this flat, in this hour, Mark 16 has become a trap.
I have never denied it, and I never will deny it, because it’s the
truth. Mark 16, though the Word of the Living God, for the living Bride,
has become a trap. Now, let’s find out why it’s a trap. We go to the
Book of Matthew. And in Matthew 24 we read. And we’ll start in 23,
because we won’t have to read the whole thing.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there;       
             believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, 

It’s not false Christs ‘and’ lying prophets, don’t ever think
so. Although there could be a vaster range within this, because there
are five fold ministries that are anointed, and people anointed, and
we’ll go into it, because I want to show you something. But take it
from me at this point, because the emphasis is there on false Christs,
even lying… you could call it ‘and’, but I believe it’s
‘even’ false prophets, because I can show you from Matthew 7. 

(24)	…shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch, if it were
possible,     (that) they shall deceive (even) the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before.

19.	Where did he tell them before? Somebody tell me? Matthew 7. We go to
Matthew 7. This is why I see even lying prophets.

(15)	Beware of false prophets, (lying prophets) which (shall) come to   
            you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves.

	Inwardly they are serpent seed, but they look just exactly like
prophets. In other words, they have prophetic ability. And they look
just like Christians. They’re not out there smoking or drinking,
except for maybe guys like poor old Allen, A.A., I guess he died a
drunk. And you got some sleazebags out there; I know that. That are
womanizers. We’re not talking about that run of the mill, stupid
insipient stuff. We’re talking about high-class men. And some women
false prophetesses too. Now, just let your mind begin to go. And look
back upon those batch of men we knew. And there’s some still there.
And the big Trinitarian goes, “Phew,” blows on people, they fall, or
touch, they fall over. And that’s a wrong spirit. High class man too.
And don’t think he isn’t. Hobnobs with the very elite. The big
Christians. 

(15)	…inwardly they are ravening wolves. (They perhaps don’t even   
                   		know it.)

You shall know them by their fruits. 

20.	Now right away they say, “Well this has to do with smoking and
drinking, adultery.” It doesn’t at all! A prophet’s fruit is the
Word. It’s what he says, what he brings forth, what he foretells, what
his ministry is. So let’s get that flat. You don’t look at a prune
tree and say, “Bless God, give me a peach!” 

Why say, “I’m a teacher.” 

Don’t say to me, “Bro. Vayle, be a prophet.” 

I’d say, “Drop dead! You’re insulting me. Go away.” 

Well you say, “Now, Bro. Vayle, you should be nice and sweet and…”


Oh, come on, don’t give me that razzmatazz junk. How can I teach you
anything if you don’t know split beans from buttermilk? If you don’t
know a prophet from teacher, evangelist, pastor, apostle? You know, you
just don’t qualify. So just get down to where you begin to qualify,
learn a little bit. 

(16)	You’ll know them by their fruits. Do men gather… (Just what I
said, “Peach tree, give me an apple, something.”) Do men gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit.

21.	What was the first corrupt tree? The tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. Knowledge of good and evil means it’s got some of both. Oh,
come on, there can’t be evil without good, so what is it? It’s a
perversion! I can prove it; just give me time. Just stick around for the
next hour and a half; I haven’t even got to my notes yet. 

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt        
             tree bring forth good fruit.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and         
           cast into the fire.

Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.

Now, he’s talking about a false prophet, and in the Bible a false
prophet is a man that comes to you, Deuteronomy 13, with lying signs and
wonders, based upon a true ministry of Deuteronomy 18. And he comes with
his signs and his wonders, and he’s got a false prophecy to test you,
to lead you from God. Right? Come on! Is that not chapter 18, and
chapter 13? And is not there also a prophet of whom God spake in Numbers
12, and said, “If there’s a prophet among you, I the Lord will speak
to him in dreams and visions, my servant, Moses, not so, I will speak to
him even apparently face to face. I will speak to him, and he will be
able to see something, an aura, or something out around here, that makes
him know I’m God.” Well, did he not? Okay, so you know what we’re
talking about.

22.	All right listen. 

Not every one that saith (to) me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the      
               kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which                         is in heaven.

What’s the will of the Father which is in heaven? “I’ve manifested
thy Name on earth, I’ve done the works you set before me, I’ve kept
in the truth, I haven’t lost any, I haven’t turned any aside.”
There’s a record here. Got to live up to. 

Many will say in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied           
          in thy name? (Well, that’s anybody can prophesy in the Name,
                           but how do they back it up?) and in thy name
have (we not) cast                         out devils? in thy name done
wonderful works? (That takes in the                 whole gambit. And
what’s He going to say?)

I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you         
   that work iniquity.

And what’s the original iniquity? Bending of the Word. Thou was
perfect in all thy ways till iniquity, the bending of the word, the
perversion of the Word, these are perverters of the Word of God, based
upon genuine signs and wonders! Genuine signs and wonders! Who performs
genuine signs and wonders? God does! Because the devil can’t heal. And
the devil can’t cast out devils. Right? So Who’s doing it? 

	Now, why is God doing this? Does anybody remember Deuteronomy 13, yet?
He said, “The Lord your God doth what?” Test you. 

“Oh, He doesn’t do it anymore, He’s so sweet and so nice. No, God
wouldn’t do it.” Read Hebrews 12, then tell me He doesn’t. Come
on, read it. 

23.	Okay. Back to Matthew 24. Matthew 24, it says here,

For there shall arise false Christs, and (even lying) prophets, and     
                 shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if
it were possible,              (but thank God it’s not at the end
time,) they shall deceive the very elect.

Everybody but the very elect gets deceived. Well, come on, let’s go
back now to Mark 16, and find who those very elect are. The very elect
are what? 

(16)	He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth              not shall be damned. 

And John 3 explains it. So therefore, if you have come to the light, in
order to worship and to serve God, because this is the crux, and you
line up with the light of the hour – now again I say, here is where
they do not understand Bro. Branham, Seven Church Ages, starting with
perfection, decreasing to the fourth age, that’s the middle one. One,
two, three, four middle, five, six, seven. And under the dark ages of
Catholicism, the light all but went out. Then it began to come back.
Until we’re promised in Acts 3, and in Joel, a complete return of the
Word of God, and shown also by Paul in 1 Th 4:16, though it’s not
recognized, but it should be in 2 Th 1:7-10. Based upon definitively
Romans 1, where the Bible said at the time when they know God, actually
can apprehend Him through manifestation, make God being making them
aware of Himself. And you can only be aware of God through the prophet,
who has THUS SAITH THE LORD, and brings a genuine Word, based upon the
integrity of God backing that man’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.

 But from that time on, it becomes a wild card. Anything and everything
the prophet has produced becomes a wild card. Because that’s the
testing that God says, when a false prophet comes on the scene, and
everybody gets all sweated out, and they get frantic, and they lose
their grip, because Deuteronomy 13 comes before Deuteronomy 18, and they
get completely fooled, thinking that Deuteronomy 18 and 13 is the very
same thing, when it isn’t. Deuteronomy 18 is reality, but because the
folly comes first, the pointing out, before the truth comes emblazon,
they say, “Ha-ha, my own nephew is fooled on that one.” Sold out
completely on Deuteronomy 13. And he can’t read Deuteronomy 18. It’s
the same as people cannot read the Scripture when it says, “There’s
one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” the mind
instantly says, “The God Christ Jesus, who the second person, who
became a man.” Huh? Right? Absolutely right. The Jesus-Only can’t
even do that good.

	So all right, it says here in the Book of Matthew, which I just read to
you, it says here: the very elect should not be deceived. Now, Bro.
Branham’s comment on this, as a vindicated prophet, setting the record
right and teaching us according to truth, meeting God face to face in a
Pillar of Fire, as they say, “Lip to ear.” And there’s the picture
right there. God veiled behind the Pillar of Fire. He said, “There is
a razorblade difference.” Right? 

24.	All right. Let’s go back to the Scripture. To the beginning, and
this time we’re going to have to go back before Genesis. We got to go
back before perhaps even the foundation of the world. I don’t know for
sure, because you see, I’m not conversant with everything as the
prophet was, but my guesstimation, and it is a guesstimation, is that
this most definitively was even before there was any physical creation,
that we know is the foundation of the world, and those things. But there
was a creation ahead of it, as far as I can see. But I’m not telling
you it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, I don’t have definitive Scripture to
the point where I can say, “This, this, this, because this is it.”
But I’m going to go way, way back. And I go back in the beginning, I
must find the alpha and omega of the razorblade difference. Because if
there’s an omega, there has to be an alpha. It’s utterly impossible.
If Bro. Branham said there was twins today, the two spirits were so
close, as to be razorblade difference only, and he talked about those
two spirits being in there, and one was manipulating Mark 16! The other
was not manipulating Mark 16. How can you manipulate what is your own,
and you have a sacred trust and command of God to do it? Huh?           
     [End of side one of tape one.]  

25.	All right. The two spirits go back to the throne of God, and worship
in heaven. The two that led in worship were two mighty archangels; one
is even called a cherub. One was Michael, and one was Satan. And Bro.
Branham says at that time, prehistorically, I suppose, and that’s why
I believe this was before the earth was formed in the present shape that
it’s in, or maybe even before He stood there, the Son stood there, as
Bro. Branham said, and just pointed out, “Let there be.” And great
masses began to form, frozen masses out there, and then He begin to talk
to them. They’d begin to form, their shape and all. And Bro. Branham
talked about that light coming forth, when there was nothing but God
could come forth from. And that was called the Son of God. And God
talked to that Son. And that Son began to create and do everything,
according to the mind of God, because He was an obedient Son. If He’s
obedient Son here on earth, He had to be obedient back there, or He
couldn’t have been obedient Son. If He said, “When I’m on earth
here, everything I say and do, its only God in Me doing it.” Then it
had to be the same back there. It couldn’t be, because you simply –
brother/sister, let’s get this flat. You can’t change. If you are
seed, you are seed. If you are not, you are not. 

So therefore, no matter how much you boast, how much you think, how much
you feel, how much you can show in your perspectise before God, look at
this, look at that, that doesn’t mean a single solitary thing at this
hour; it’s are you, or are you not, and if you do not believe the
vindicated Word according to the Book, and I showed you place after
place, there is no way that you are seed. I’m with Bro. Branham; if we
can’t say Amen to every Word, it’s not the Holy Ghost. It’s merely
a superficial anointing, which we’ll talk about. 

26.	So all right, way back there, before there was that speck of
stardust, [before] there was an atom, Jesus came forth, that Son of God.
And He was a Spirit form being, the same as His Father. And Bro. Branham
said, “That Son was a part of God.” That’s why it’s a true
Logos. Because it contains that which is from it’s origin. 

Like a spoon. The origin of that spoon is in the mind. Oh, they saw a
leaf, and the leaf held water. Hey, the reason that leaf holds water,
it’s this way and it’s got a curve. Wonderful. Now, I don’t have
to slurp my soup by putting my face down there. I can put it into a
little dish. Or whatever the guy thought of. Do you know that you can
even put water in a leaf and take a match and heat the water? And the
leaf doesn’t burn. You know that, don’t you? Did it in school,
didn’t you? Come on. Why? Because the heat is conducted away. So
people began to experiment. See, that was the thought. The manifestation
is a logos. 

	What if God had in mind a cow with two horns and four feet and four
hoofs. And something came out with six horns, and bedroom slippers on.
That’s no logos. That’s no logos. See what I mean? 

27.	All right, so that was a Logos. You can use that term in different
ways, but it must contain that element that was back there, that brought
this forth. That’s why Jesus was a Son of God; He wasn’t God the
Son, He’s not even God. When we’re talking of eternal spirit that
had no beginning, with Him, like you and me, we’re talking about
eternal spirit that had no beginning, but a little tiny bit is all you
and I have, and He had enough to make Him joint heir with His Father,
and He had enough to give us to make us joint heirs with Him, through
the beneficence, the kindness of God passed down, so on, so on.

	All right, now listen, getting back to that place. He was there, Jesus
was there as Michael. I don’t understand it; I am not even interested
in understanding it. All I know is that is the truth; Bro. Branham said
so. And He stood there in that form as a great archangel. And Satan
stood with him. And Bro. Branham, like other theologians said, that he
led in the worship of God. And as he led in the worship of God, the
Scripture tells us, and we better begin to read over here in Isaiah 14,
and then jumping to Ezekiel 28, then we can refer back and forth to what
we want to talk about. 

28.	So all right, [Isaiah 14:] verses 12-16.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

Now, that word ‘son’ in the Hebrew is the same word for son, s-o-n,
as all sons, period. Now, the Jehovah Witnesses think that Jesus is a
Son of God by creation. Not so. He’s the Son of God by birth, and God
gave birth to Him, because that Son was a part of God, the same as every
baby when it comes forth in the flesh is the visible part of the
woman’s flesh that comes forth, not the man’s, although that’s in
the genes and forms what was in the womb, but it’s the woman that
supplies everything else in there that that spirit inside, or that soul
works inside on, and brings it forth. 

29.	So all right. “Thou son of the morning.”  Now, Lucifer was a
son, but not a son by birth. Now the word ‘son’ means, according to
what I read in the definition, it’s ‘a builder of a family’. So
therefore, Jesus is a builder of the family, and Satan is a builder of a
family. Now Satan is a builder by reason of creation, and therefore
that’s what he was way, way back there. And that’s when I say there
might not have been any creation other than the heavens, and the
archangels, the angels, and a form of worship up there, then after that,
Jesus coming on the scene as creator of the earth and all, could have
done it. Now, I’m not saying that’s exactly as it was. I’m just
telling you there’s a possibility, and telling you, because I’m
taking you way back to the very beginning. 

So in the very beginning, they’re twins! One is a Son of God; one is a
son of morning. Now the word ‘morning’ means ‘dawn’! D-a-w-n.
Sunrise. So, is it not possible, that after this word came forth, “Let
there be light,” and there was light, that this person was the first
creation that was set there? 

30.	Now the reason I’m saying that, there is a difference between the
two. Someone would like to say that Jesus is a brother of the devil. And
the restitutionalists believe that Jesus and the devil will walk down
the streets of glory one day hand in hand, that’s a lie from the pit
of hell! They ain’t going to do it! And I’m going to be there to see
it ain’t done. You know I had to throw that in there. Because look,
there’s nothing in my heart that would ever believe that for fifteen
minutes, there couldn’t be. All my life I want to love God and be
obedient. And this fellow here that’s defiant, wants to destroy the
holy encampment. Is he going to walk down there? Am I going to be a part
of him and him of me? My God. No, no, no, no, no, there’s nothing
there that could believe that. …?… believed that. Bro. Branham
denied it, so that takes care of that. That’s what Jimmy Jones
believed too, by the way. So you got a good idea. 

31.	“Thou son of the morning!” So you got two sons. One’s the Son
by birth, the other is a son of creation, at two different times
entirely. So therefore, One belongs to eternity, and the other does not
belong to eternity! None of the angels belong to eternity. Angels and
archangels, and different cherubim, for all I know fell, I know angels
fell. Bro. Branham went along with the understanding I think Newton
brought forth, that one third fell. To my knowledge there’s no
Scripture that’s the exact number, if Bro. Branham said there’s a
third, then there’s a third. I have no problem; I don’t care how
many there were. Now, 

(12)	…how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the     
        			nations!

	You’re cut down to the ground! You haven’t got your first estate.
You and the other angels left your first estate, and now you’re thrown
down here. You no longer have that authority in heaven. You no longer
have a part of it. It’s completely gone, once and for all, forever. 

Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will        
                exalt my throne above the stars of God: 

32.	Now notice what this fellow’s still doing. He’s still saying,
“I’m still going to make it. I was up there, I’ll get there again,
and believe me, I’ll take over.” And if you think that’s a lie,
what about the book of Revelation, when after the condemnation of the
White Throne, they storm the holy encampment and say, “Come on, boys!
Let’s take God and everybody over.” That’s why I’m never going
to walk down the streets of glory with that fellow. Now, and he says,

(13)	…(I’ll) exalt my throne above the stars of God:

	Even tried to win Jesus over. “Fall down and worship me, I’ll give
you everything I’ve got here, it’s mine; you take it over.” And
he’s still trying it; he’s still saying it. 

And by the way I want you to notice something here. This fellow, Satan,
is the original, or the originator of democracy. Sure. The original
organizer. And this age ends in democracy, the people’s rights! And he
said, “I’m not going to listen to God! I’m a part of this! I’ll
tell God what to do!” What about people praying these days, and in
church services, telling God what to do; read your books, come on. If
you’ve been through Pentecost like I’ve been through, you know all
the answers to this jigsaw puzzle. It’s no longer a puzzle, it’s
just as clear as clear as the brilliant daylight that God first set upon
this earth, it’s crystal clear. Anybody can see it, and understand
what’s going on. And Satan called a vote. He said, “Come on, let’s
take a vote.” Theocracy was not denied first in the Garden of Eden, it
was denied in heaven; the original democracy. And Satan stood right
there with Michael, Jesus in that form that God had Him in, leading in
the worship.

33.	 Now,

(13)	…I will sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

(And) they that (shall) see thee narrowly look upon thee, and consider
thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did
shake kingdoms;

You know Jesus is a man. The only reason he’s a man, because he took
on a human figure. That’s the reason the devil’s a man too, because
he takes on a human figure. Because Jesus has been a measure taking on
the human figure from Adam on down, so has Satan been doing it through
the beast, and through Cain and the rest of them, all the way down.

34.	Let’s go back to Ezekiel now, because I’m going to just start
talking at random here to bring my thoughts together. And yet it’s not
too random, don’t worry. All right, verse 1.   [Ezekiel 28:]

The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God;      
                (Now Bro. Branham admits this is a picture. It’s the
truth, but it has                     to do with Satan. (Thus saith the
Lord;) Because thine heart is lifted                  up, and thou hast
said, I am a God, (and) sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas
(that’s the peoples); yet thou art a man, not God,                 
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Now that’s right in the church today. In 2 Thessalonians, Bro. Branham
said, “That’s the pope forgiving sins, sitting as God.”

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret they can hide    
            from thee:

With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten           
       thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy          
                riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy
riches:

That’s Revelation 17 and 18. Babylon.

(And) therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast set thine        
              heart as the heart of God; (Forgive sin and so on. And
have                            worship, right down the line; rule
everything.)

Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, (and) terrible      
                     of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the                           beauty of thy wisdom, they shall
defile thy brightness.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, (that) thou die the death        
                of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (There
again is                        people, see.)

Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou      
             shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth
thee. 

See, there you’re right back to Revelation again, chapter 20.

(And) thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand        
             of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 

Son of man, take up a lamentation (against) the king of Tyrus,          
                 and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest
up the                   sum, of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Thou hast been in Eden (the king never was there. Only representedly
there. His representation; the devil was there in the form of the
beast.) Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
was               thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl,
onyx, (so on): the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes (were)
prepared in thee in              the day thou was created.

35.	Now I’m going to tell you something. This is a type of worship.
And standing between God and whatever else is there. He was literally
equal to Jesus. Literally equal. But it’s all gone. And now there’s
no other name given under heaven of whereby we can be saved, there’s
only one mediator between God and man, there’s only one High Priest,
there’s only one intercessor, there’s no longer anything there.
Whatever was there was spoiled by democracy. Was spoiled by taking a
vote. Was spoiled by thinking, “Hey, we’ve got something in this.”
Because remember I told you iniquity means perversion of the Word.
“Thou was perfect in all of thy ways, until perversion of that Word
took place in you.” And that’s the way Eve was. She was not a
prostitute to a male, until she was first of all a prostitute to the
Word of God. Get that flat! 

Bro. Branham said, “Had she’d stood behind the Word, and not gotten
from behind it, she would have been okay! And they would have come to
the act naturally, which they should have come to and would have come
to,” and I’ve explained that and showed it to you. I’ve got some
more information on that; I just haven’t got it with me this morning,
the sermon.

(13)	Thou hast been in the (garden of )Eden; (and so on.)

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;

That’s the secret right there. Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth. Who was Jesus? The anointed One. So you got two anointings,
right? Come on. And there’s a razorblade between the two, right? 

 36.	Okay, let’s go to the word ‘anointing’. All right, the word
‘anointing’, a primary root, from Dt 28:40, and many, many other
verses, means ‘to smear over’, that is ‘to anoint’. So let’s
go to Dt 28:40, and we’ll see how quickly we can work these Scriptures
through. And it says:

(For) thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou   
          shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive shall cast
his fruit. 

Now, it’s telling you right there, the word ‘anoint’ means to take
the oil from the olives, and you go ahead and you smear yourself with
it. So that’s what that basic word ‘anoint’ means. 

37.	However, there is another primary or principle root in Exodus 28:41.
So we’ll take a look at that one. All of these you’ll find are
pretty well close to the same. 

And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, (that’s the dress,)   
            and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate
them,             (Now notice the anointing is actually an act of
consecration.) and               sanctify them, that they may minister
unto me in the priest’s office.

	Now of course the oil anointing is symbolic of the Holy Ghost. So these
men here were set apart for ministries which the Holy Ghost would
utilize and give them, as it were time for them to take the office or
whatever position they were to take. Now that means to rub with oil. 

38.	Now, if we go to Psalm 133, and I think that’s the one I want. If
it isn’t, we’ll just have to skip it. But, all right.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell           
      together in unity!

It is like the precious ointment (or the oil) upon the head, that ran   
                   down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went
down to the                 skirts of his garments;

As the dew of Hermon, 

So, you’re talking here now in symbology, the oil effectively shows
forth physically that these people positively have the Word of God and
the right of God in their positions to exercise their duties as set
forth as ministers of God, to the people, with the people, so that God
is worshipped and served. So here we have this anointing, this smearing
as it were.

	Now, the basic meaning is ‘to anoint’, which is by implication
‘to consecrate to the office they have’, it also means ‘to
paint’. So that’s very good from that one.

39.	 Now, if we go to Ps 2:2. That’s a long book, can’t seem to go
through it. 2:2.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel 
together, against the Lord, and against his anointed,

Now, what we’re looking at here is also 1 Sam 24:6:

(6)	And he said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should do this     
                thing unto my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch
forth mine                  hand against him, seeing he is the anointed
of the Lord. (And then                  verse 10:)

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how the Lord (hath) delivered     
               thee to-day into mine hand(s) in the cave: and (the same)
bade kill                   thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said,
I will not put forth mine                hand against my lord; for he is
the Lord’s anointed.

Now, that word there comes from the root word which means ‘to rub’
or ‘smear with oil’, which means ‘to anoint’, by implication it
is ‘to consecrate’, and it usually refers to a consecrated person
such as a priest or a king, but especially to Messiah. So all right now,
we’ve got the fact that God has placed somebody and actually is
manifesting the placing thereof by the rights that are to be used in
order to put him in that particular office.

40.	Now, also we find in Ex 25:6, it says,

(6)	Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for (the) sweet    
                 			incense,

Now, that’s something to be mixed into the oil therein. And there
again what we find here, it’s an ointment, and by implication it means
‘a consecratory gift’. So you can see here something is being used
in conjunction with something else. 

	Now, these words which I’ve expressed, all except for the first word
in Dt 28:40, all have their roots in the word, which means ‘to rub
with oil’. So you’ve got Dt 28:40, is a word that stands by itself,
primary. But all the rest of them, in Ex 28:41, which is ‘to
anoint’, and by implying ‘to consecrate’. Also over here, the
anointed one of the Lord, such as Messiah, also has its same roots in
that word. And in this last one I read, Exodus 25, it also has its roots
in the same word. Definitely in that particular order. 

41.	Now, when we look at “Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth,” that is another root word. Huh? You follow me? All these
others come down the same. Messiah. King David. Aaron. Right down.
Follow me? All that anointing. Everything’s in a type. It has oil. The
Holy Spirit in Ephesians 4 set a five-fold ministry. In 1 Corinthians
12, every member set. Right? Everyone to be in the body must be seed,
baptized with the Holy Ghost, and set, right? All from the same source.
All the same anointing. All the way down. Right? Do you follow what
I’m saying?

42.	 The next word ‘anoint’ concerning Satan, is not so. So let’s
just take a look at it. 

So, we go to Ezek 28:14. In other words, the words that I gave you have
a perfect relationship. An absolute coming down. So that there are no
riffles, no perversion, coming down straight. So we go to Ezek 28:14.

	(14)	Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; I have set thee so: 

Oh-ho. Here is a son of the morning, he’s just part of a creation, a
very major part, very, very major, and he’s not a son of God, no.
He’s the son of the beginning of light, and these things we find in
Scripture, and he’s the anointed cherub, he’s anointed. 

43.	So let’s take a look at the word ‘anointed’. Now, this
definitely comes from the same root word, but the meaning is changed.
Coming from the same root word, it doesn’t matter if it does.
There’s something in there that is now different. There’s something
now that creates its own line. There’s something in there for a
special purpose, that the purpose is not in this particular area of
which I speaking concerning God, His Son, and the sons of Almighty God. 

Now here’s what that means. It means anointed in the sense of
expansion. In the sense of expansion. If I expanded my house, what does
it mean I did to it? Tell me. Added to it. What does the Bible say about
adding? Death, right? Death. So there’s no such thing as an expanded
version of the Bible, there’s no such thing as an expanded revelation.
If it is it’s very, very dangerous, and it will destroy you. 

44.	Now, in the sense of expansion, outspread, that is with
out-stretched wing. So therefore, there is an anointing that comes from
the original God that definitely is of God, but something happens. It
doesn’t go to the twin that follows Michael, it goes to the twin that
has a family, and it has this anointing, which is a setting of God,
which is an office of God, which evidently there is a life of God to it,
because let’s face it, not even the devil can live without God’s
permission, because all things are made by Him, and all things are
maintained by Him. There’s something in there then that the devil had,
“Thou was perfect in all of thy ways, and the anointings fell equally,
until you changed that word.” Huh? Ah. Razorblade edge. Because one is
definitive reality for a Bride, the other is a perverted reality that
those who do not bring their deeds to the light will begin to fool with
and mess with, and they will get themselves and everybody else in
trouble. So there’s where the razorblade came in. Definitely.
Definitely came in. 

Now, “Thou art the cherub that covereth.” Ezek 28:14.

(14)	Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:

In other words, the anointing was absolutely allowed by God, as to the
original. 

45.	Now, I phoned my good friend Peter Gatcho, my good brother, who is
we know an outstanding chemist. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be where
he’s at today in …?…. And I phoned Russ and Russ gave me a good
idea too, but when Peter phoned back I got what I wanted. I got what I
wanted from you too, Russ, it was okay; you’re limited like I am. 

So I said to Peter, “Peter, I want something in chemistry that I can
illustrate a spiritual truth.” Now I may get you more confused than
ever when I’m finished, but I don’t think I will. I said, “Can you
give me a compound, like let’s pretend its XYZ. And X is the
definitive, but in moving that out, I can use the basic reality of it,
and yet over here, there’s a change.” 

And Russ gave me when I talked about coal, he said, “Well Lee,
you’ve got a good point there, because coal is carbon with additives,
and you can take the same carbon under pressure and make a diamond.”
And that’s right, you can do it. 

But the reason I like Peter’s is because the insight he gave me is
this, he said, “Lee, take insulin. Insulin is a protein. It is in
human beings, it’s in pigs. It’s in animals. But the insulin
that’s in animals is different from the ones in human beings, because
of certain enzymes.” Now he said, “There are people that can take
the insulin from a hog, and get no reaction. And others take it; they
get a reaction. But if you can get human insulin, it will not give you a
reaction, because you see, it is true to the specie.” It’s the same
basic thing back there! Insulin turning your sugar, I guess, to starch.
Anyway it has to do with the …?… making insulin, and there’s where
your sugar processes come in and all. 

46.	You see, what I’m looking at is this, basically that anointing;
genuine real anointing. You could take it, and when you took it in a
certain area, it wouldn’t fit the Bride! It could fit the hogs, the
animals. It wouldn’t do it. Now you can take this insulin, and you
take it back, insulin is insulin. And it does a certain thing
regardless. But in animals there’s something there, and in human
beings there’s another something there. And you know what it is? One
has the Word, and the other doesn’t. 

Well, come on. Now you see the razorblade difference right in this hour.
Started way, way back there. And Mark 16 can be used like insulin, in
the sheep, the goats, the hogs, the dogs. You can be anointed, and
it’s a true anointing, it is still insulin, it is still the Holy
Ghost, but depends on you, what’s in your genes, huh? Your enzymes.
What happens? It will manifest, oh, it will take the sugar and convert
it. Oh yeah. It will keep you from having water in your system, and
going blind, and lose your sexual functions, and everything else, and
diabetes; oh it’s a great thing. Yeah, it’s a great thing. Send you
to hell, too. 

47.	The same anointing on these false ones bring forth Mark 16. Because
it’s always stood there. And they always look back and say, “Mark 16
is it, Mark 16.” No one denies it. Then how come they deny the
confession which I showed you a little time ago, in the Seed of
Discrepancy, that that word ‘confession’ has a time element on it?
It’s not just saying the same thing, oh no. You can repeat the Bible
cover to cover. You can come right along, and we can all come along, and
we don’t have to be… we’re not even agnostic! “Why, I don’t
know if there’s a God or not. Sure, we know there’s a God! I’m not
atheistic, you bet there’s a God; don’t ever say there isn’t! But
hah, I’m a Gnostic. I can add to it, I can change it. I can work on
it.” 

And the devil, my brother/sister, is not an agnostic. He is not even an
atheist. He never was and never will be. He is a Gnostic. “I can
change it. I can do what I want. I can get away with it.” You can’t
get away from it. So that’s what you’re looking at.

48.	Now, “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.” The word
‘cover’ is used also in verse 16. [Ezekiel 28:]

	(16)	…and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of  
                   		the stones.

Well, the word ‘cover’ may or may not be worth looking into. Ex
33:22, this is a tough one over here. And this is Moses. Verse 18,

(18)	…I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

(19)	He said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will  
                     proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will
be gracious                     (unto) whom I will be gracious, and will
shew mercy on whom I                   will shew mercy. (This is
Paul’s quoting this in Romans 9:) 

(20)	And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for no man (shall) see    
              me, and live.

(21)	And the Lord said, Behold there is a place by me, and thou shall   
            stand upon a rock:  (That’s the rock of revelation, no
doubt.)

It will come to pass, (when) my glory passeth by, I will put thee       
               in a (the cleft) of the rock, and will cover thee with my
hand while                       I pass by:

And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts:       
         but  my face (thou) not (see).

Now, of course to me that’s a matter of the very same thing today with
Bro. Branham. Where God showed him the glory by the very fact of
manifesting the Word, which God gave to Bro. Branham, vindicated to us,
proving this is God Himself. There’s no doubt about it; this is God.
We can’t be agnostic. We cannot be atheists. There’s only one thing
we can be, and that is Gnostics. We can take or add. We can claim a
superior revelation, or a different revelation. And say, “What does it
matter?” In fact the matter is, what you’re saying, and I would be
saying is this: “We’re above it all, we’re greater.” 

49.	You know, you should have been around that man; you’d come away
knowing the Presence of God and wondering just where you stood. And that
wasn’t meant to be as though this man is something so different from
us. We’re talking about God using a vessel for a very, very special
occasion. Which was not for Himself, no, no, no. Was for the Bride. Bro.
Branham even said, “If the hand does it, the Bride does it.” And he
was doing it all as the hand. Manifesting, see?

	All right, so what we see here then, there is a covering. Now the
principle root for the word ‘covering’ means ‘to entwine’. That
would be like a vine, or like a screen. You see? And by implication, it
means ‘to fence in’ or ‘to cover over’. Figuratively it means
‘to cover as a defense,’ or ‘to defend,’ or ‘to hedge in’.

50.	 So, we might go to Ex 37:9, I think that’s what I got written
down here, if it’s not we’ll go to the next one. 

And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered           
         with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to  
               another; even to the mercy seat (east)ward were the faces
of the cherubims.

Now, what was in that Ark of the Covenant of course was Aaron’s rod
that budded, the manna, and the Word of God. And remember, Aaron’s rod
that budded got lost or died, and the manna, worms got it; it finally
went away. But what stayed? The Word. And the archangels over there, on
the seat, the covering, showed guarding that Word, the Word of God, only
as the source of worship that they were engaged in, and as long as they
were with that Word, guarding the Word, keeping the Word, standing right
there with It, there was mercy, there was justice, everything was there,
plus the worship and the service of Almighty God. 

51.	Now, I want to look at another word here, and that’s Job 40:22.
And I’m going to draw a conclusion here, we don’t have to believe
it, it’s just an idea, because hey, I’m not a prophet, and but I’m
looking something here. 40:22. And it says:

The shady tree cover him with their shadow; (The shady                  
            trees cover him with their shadow.)

You know, a tree is made of leaves, where the sun just doesn’t really
get through, but there’s breaks in there, you know, it’s like a
lattice work again. So the thought of covering in here, as I look at it,
is a matter of where light can come through. Where light can actually
come through from God to the people. God is not so obscure and unable to
be seen and to be known that He cannot be known. In fact there is an
awareness that Romans tells us of, when they knew God, meaning that they
were truly aware of God, like today we got THUS SAITH THE LORD. They
were truly aware. 

52.	And so, this would show me as I see it, God usually bringing His
light through man, God bringing His light through prophet. God bringing
it. Just year after year, age after age, God bringing forth His light.
And these ones here must be those that are able to walk in the light and
be in that light, and you see Satan never walked in it. Because the
ability was there to obey or disobey. That’s why Jesus was known as
the Son of obedience, and Satan as the son of disobedience. That’s why
in the Garden of Eden there was a tree there. That’s where democracy
took place. Right in the garden. The devil came in, and he said, “You
give me a vote.” He said, “Hey, make up your own mind.” 

I’m telling you that there’s nothing really solid about anything.
And Bro. Branham and everybody that tells you about faith will tell you
that there’s nothing solid about faith as far as the reasoning of man
is concerned, it is a revelation. And what we take as scientific
evidence, science laughs at and just buzz it off. We go to them and say,
“Prove it. There were two fathers, and one mother.” 

They say, “Yeah, so what, there could have been a dozen really,
that’s all we found.” You can’t do it. 

53.	But what light comes to us. That light is a vindicated light, is a
true and wonderful light, and those people there, that have this
wonderful light, they human beings, vessels of clay, really doesn’t
matter, we’re here today to defend the Word of God. Like I said the
other day, I’m like the Apostle Paul, I am not set for the defense of
morals. Now let’s get that flat. I’m going to repeat it, because I
never said it to you, I said it to Lloyd. I am not set for the defense
of morals, I am set for the defense of the gospel, and if you have the
gospel, you will have the morals! 

That’s where Paul hit the Jews. He said, “You make me laugh.” He
said, “The Gentiles out there by nature don’t do the things that
you’re doing, and they don’t even have the Word of God. What is
wrong with you?” 

So if you and I are born again, we’re not going to be out there
lusting and stealing and lying and doing everything. No, it’s written
in our hearts and in our minds by the power of God. I’m set for the
defense of the gospel. The power of God unto salvation. And what comes
out of His salvation is a life, and that life will be translated right
from this Word here, don’t worry. It will be there. So I’m set for
the defense of the gospel, and I’m just an ordinary person, you are
ordinary… [End of side two of tape one.] people. But we are set for
it. 

54.	Now I’m going to go to the word ‘covering’ one more time, and
it’s over here in Ez 28:14, “Thou art the cherub that covers,” and
that’s taken from the word meaning ‘a covering’, that is ‘a
garniture’. And a garniture is an embellishment or a decoration or an
ornament. 

Now, he said, “You were set there as a covering. You were set there as
an ornament. You were set there as a jewel. And you threw it all
away.” 

We also are set as jewels for His crown, as ornamentation. It’s the
same as Jesus was, we follow in His footsteps. So we are in a realm
today where we know as no other age ever knew, except the first age, and
I don’t believe they knew it like we know it, because it’s an end
time revelation as never before. Thoroughly embellished, thoroughly
brought out. We understand the two spirits. The two spirits at the end
time positively are razor difference. And the one spirit recognizes the
prophet of God coming according to Deuteronomy 18, and recognizes the
rest is Deuteronomy 13! Whereas the chaff world of the Pentecostals,
everything is Mark 16, where all we needed Bro. Branham for, we didn’t
even need him for that. Like that guy up there in Saskatchewan now. He
said, “If we’d only have prayed, God wouldn’t have had to send
Bro. Branham.” Maybe you know who he is Bob; you’ve heard him enough
times. I hope you’re not like he was. Do you know what that means?
“Bless God, we as a little group, we’d have brought it all. Oh yeah.
We’d have taken a vote. We’d have had the mind of God.” Oh yeah.
Come on people. I don’t have to take a knife and cut you, and then rub
salt and garlic in your wounds, and vinegar. Or do I have to? I’ll say
one thing about some people. They don’t even have what the devil has,
because he trembles. And I’m not finished preaching on Stewardship
yet, either. 

55.	I want to close off, and we’re going to talk about this Alpha from
the beginning. It started with Satan and Michael. He came down to earth,
the tree of light and life against the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, which of course represent the same two: the Son of God, and the
son of the morning. One by birth, one by creation. One Who was so
simple, everything God said was fine by Him, because God said it. The
other was so smart, he sealed up the sum of wisdom, he had all the
answers. And they were all wrong. But he could make it sound very good;
he went strictly by the senses, the other went strictly by faith. We saw
them in the garden. We saw them both appeal the tree of life and the
tree of knowledge of good and evil to a woman, representing the church.
And she got from behind the Word and she fell and became a prostitute.
And she was a prostitute, she wasn’t raped, she was a prostitute. She
gave consent to an act she should not have given consent to. So she was
a prostitute before she was a prostitute. That’s why she was out of
the first creation, and she was not an afterthought, but she was brought
up later. 

And we see the same thing going at the time of the Exodus of Moses. And
pastor Pharaoh was there, and he had two smart preachers called Jannes
and Jambres, and what Moses could do, they could do too. And
consequently we saw politics, mixed with religion, the same as we saw
politics mixed with religion in the Garden of Eden. Because the devil
said to the queen of the garden, she was coequal with the king there,
Adam. And he said, “Listen, this is a democratic society. You can vote
for me and you’re your own boss.” 

56.	Today we’ve got people’s rights; it’s a democratic society. We
vote what we want, we get our own rights, and we tell God what to do,
and everybody else what to do. But you notice, God doesn’t do what we
tell Him to do, and neither do the politicians do what we tell them to
do. There’s only one person running the show and that’s the devil,
in a democratic institution. Remember this, all government is of the
devil. Democracy, just the same as Totalitarian, Communism, Nazism,
Fascism, or anything else you want to bring out, it’s all the same.
And whether you’re the emir or you’re the ?iodole?, it doesn’t
matter. Involved in politics, you’re of the devil, and God doesn’t
have one thing to do with it. But they always talk as though God did,
and God’s on our side. I’m going to tell you one thing that’s
true, God’s not on anybody’s side. It depends, are you on God’s
side? That’s the way the call has always been and always will be. 

57.	So pastor Pharaoh rose up, the two spirits were in the land. And as
they went down the road, they went to Baalpeor, and there again the
Garden of Eden came in sight, and they got enticed by sex. And if you
look up the word ‘Baalpeor’, you’re going to find it’s the
worship of the female genitals, and they had a great big feast, and
Balaam, the false prophet stood there, and he said, “Come on, we’re
all brothers, we’re democratic. We’re organized, we can get
together, we have no problem.” 

And the Spirit of God, perverted from the Word, broke in upon that man
and he was truly a prophet, and he prophesied attempting to lead Israel
away from God, his prophecy fell flat, because God wouldn’t let him
prophesy anything but good toward Israel, but he enticed them by the
flesh. He became organized toward the woman and ran off. 

58.	Down the road we come across Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And they
were the modern days that Bro. Branham railed out against in his
messages, against the Pentecostals, because it’s a genuine anointing.
And remember, the devil doesn’t have any spirit other than that God
allows him to have, plus that created one that he gave, that was
allowed. Every power is of God, every authority, every word, there’s
nothing that isn’t of God, it’s what you do with it. It’s what you
do with it. There is where Stewardship went all haywire. There’s where
it’s still haywire. One day the faithful Steward will put us all in
our place, and He’s going to have to do it by a resurrection, and a
changing. 

But they went down the road, and there was Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
And they rose up in the gift of prophecy. And they prophesied. And they
were genuine in their prophecies. And they said, “Listen, we’ve got
the Spirit of God. What does this Moses do? What makes him think that
he’s the headcheese? What makes him think that he hears from God and
we do not?” 

And Paul said the same thing, “If any man’s a prophet, if he’s got
anything to say, any authority, he will admit, he will tell you, that
what I have, and I alone, have the Word of Almighty God.” 

And that’s the one time that Moses got mad. And that’s what William
Branham rose up. They wouldn’t come and stand beside him; they’d
have carried him out feet first. And Moses said, “God, if what they
say is right, You get rid of me, or You get rid of them.” 

And God says, “Stand back.” 

59.	Amen! The Gnostics can’t shout where we shout. They can’t scream
where we scream! I’ll run around… you want to follow me? Hey, if
people just want me to run around a building, if that makes them happy,
I’ll do it. I’m eighty-two, but I can jump. And some of you folk can
help me jump. If I can’t jump high enough. Yeah. Myself, I feel
something’s terribly, terribly wrong out there. 

And he said, “If they die a death natural, I was never sent.” 

“Stand aside.” 

And fire destroyed them and all their families. Because sons build
families. One’s allowed of God, but not of God. And one is not allowed
of God, but is of God.  Foreknown, elected, predestinated, right to the
finish. 

60.	So William Branham stood against the Pentecostals. And they went
back to the Scripture, and they wrested the Scripture to prove they
didn’t need the prophet sent from God. And they said, “Why hey, we
can speak in tongues. We’ve raised the dead. Why some of our members
out here, they pray for teeth and gold fills all their teeth.” Yes.
Interesting. Interesting. I can tell you where that comes from, just
give me time, I haven’t got to Stewardship yet. Yeah. “Why listen,
we pray for the sick and they get healed!” 

And Bro. Oral Roberts, I have nothing against the man, except I know
he’s the false vine. I saw him in Columbus. They brought a boy, all
kind of swollen up, fat little fellow, because he couldn’t walk. He
maybe ate a little bit too much. His father carried him, and his legs
dangled down like cooked macaroni sticks, waving in the wind. Oral said,
“Come here.” Prayed. Set him down, he ran. A woman came with her
neck broken. You talk about being foolhardy. Here. Crunch!  You hear
…?…  He could have broken her neck. Perfectly healed. I saw in ten
minutes, miracle, miracle, miracle– of course in Bro. Branham, in
1958, we saw fifty in fifty minutes. That meeting was so tense with the
power of God and faith, if I’d have said, “Now Bro. Branham’s
going to sneeze three times, on the third sneeze, you’re all
healed,” they’d have all been healed. There wasn’t one person
called up wasn’t healed. Best meeting I saw in my life, outside of the
original one, when he said, “Bring me twenty-five of your worst
cases.” 

61.	So, Bro. Branham came against these people. The false anointed ones.
The Jannes and Jambres had been there all the time. They’re in the
papal and the Protestant religions where they take authority, and they
mix their politics with their religion. And they stand back as the false
prophets with the man-made religion of Gnosticism where the pope adds,
and the pope takes away, and the pope has a higher revelation, in fact
the Catholics boast that they wrote the Bible. That’s the biggest
bunch of nonsense I’ve heard in my life, they never wrote any Bible.
The Bible was written; they perverted it. They put it into the Latin,
which is the ?Vulgate? then they translated it back to English. What’s
the big deal? So full of mistakes it’s pitiful. Terrible pitiful. But
you see the whole thing right today? You got your… And when Bro.
Branham rose up, what was happening? You had your popes and your
Protestant leaders all lined up. And the pope comes on the scene, and he
said, “I’m the leader of Protestants.” He said, “I can claim
every child. Everybody baptized in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is a
Roman Catholic, because we invented it. We did it.” And it’s a
historical record that is the truth. They claim every single one. And
years ago you couldn’t be married before the altar. You had to go
behind the altar. It was a Protestant Catholic. Not anymore. If you’re
baptized in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, you are a Roman Catholic. And
Time’s magazine proved it. Every organization, every single one has
come from Rome. Let’s admit Bro. Branham was proved scientifically,
historically, a hundred percent correct. 

And there is your Jannes and Jambres. There’s your line coming down.
Where we had our true men of God, those reformists, and a prophet,
we’ve always had the pope and these men standing there and saying,
“We know. We’re the ones.” Now the last pope is the most
dangerous, because we’re getting right down to the end of time. And he
said, “There’s a bad pope coming. And I want you Catholics to know,
when he comes, we’ve nothing to do with him, no, no, I’m going to
safeguard you. Yeah.” He’s going to come in with flatteries and fool
everybody. Just like this guy’s fooled everybody right now. 

62.	See, right down today, when Paul was there, there were the Gnostics
and those that claimed to be separate, yet they agreed with Paul just to
the extent that they could use him. And we’ve got people agree with
Bro. Branham to the extent that they use him. They’ll say, “He was a
man sent from God, but he wasn’t here to give us the truth, we already
had the truth, hallelujah. He just shows what could be done.” They
wouldn’t go back to the Bible. 

So close, the very elect will not be deceived, and only they. The
foolish virgin will die for what they didn’t take. And everybody else
will go to the Lake of Fire, because this is the chaff age. You tell me
I’m wrong? Then you read your Bible, brother/sister. You tell me the
prophet made a mistake when he called the Pentecostals chaff. Come on,
do it. Come on. I’m just a parrot. I’m just a soundboard sounding
back what the prophet said. I’ve got nothing to do with this. This is
not my Book. I never wrote it. I don’t interpret it. I’ve nothing to
do with it as a person. But there was a man sent from God whose name was
William Branham, and he opened the book and revealed us the mysteries.
And showed us the truth. 

63.	Now he that believeth in Him is not condemned. And shall never come
into the judgment. And the same man stood here with the same God, and
said, “I condemn this generation. But little Bride, left hand, right
hand, two vines, one God, one Word, one positive, one negative. But you
never even did it, you’re the righteous, sinless, perfect Bride of the
Lord Jesus Christ.” 

I don’t know if I feel like that or not, it doesn’t matter   I
can’t prove it; it doesn’t matter. But I can say it, because he said
it. And in saying it I’m confessing, because confession has an element
of the time and hour, not just the Word that was said, but it’s a
spiritual meat in due season, and this is that season. Let’s rise and
be dismissed, and as we are, remember this. We can be healed. We have
this Message for our healing. We have it for our life. And healing is a
part of life. As Bro. Branham said, “Healing is within you. Don’t
try to take it too far.” Which is true. You can’t escape the grave,
my brother/sister, if God’s ordained it to you. And you’ll never
escape standing here to be immortal if God’s ordained it to you. Then
who can resist His will? Nobody. Then why not just say, “Thank You
Jesus,” and walk in the light? Let’s pray.

	Heavenly Father, as we go our way, if indeed we do, may we take the
words with us we’ve learned this morning, and seen so clearly in the
Word, perhaps never before, and hopefully as never before, but now with
an understanding deep down within us, to understand the razorblade
difference, to see these very things in Your Word, Lord, even manifested
fully and perfectly in chemistry and nature, because truly You are seen
in nature. It is so true; everything is so true, Lord. Everything is so
true. It just so marvelous that the ends of the world have come down
upon us, that time and eternity have blended, the Seventh Seal like a
Roman candle, moving us from ignorance to the wisdom of God. Moving us
from the thralldom of Satan and death to immortality in Christ Jesus,
the Word of the hour. Lord, let no man ever think different. Let us be
as this morning Lord, I don’t care what you do to us Lord, and how you
do it. But bring us to that place that Paul wanted the Corinthian
church, if any man thinks he’s born again, any man thinks he’s a
prophet, no matter what he thinks, if he thinks along these lines that
there’s something in him, let him acknowledge and superimpose upon
every thought and everything what the vindicated Word is for this hour.
Grant that to us Lord as we go, and help us to walk in the light, and in
the comfort of the Scripture, and live in the Spirit, and whatever
anointing we have upon us, believing and knowing it’s of God. That it
comes forth as the meat in this due season in our lives, that we might
fulfill the obligations, Lord, not just that, but above all the great
position and honor you’ve bestowed upon us through the ministry of
Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit bringing the body of Christ. 

We commend ourselves to You, Lord, in this hour, to heal the sick
amongst us, and to give grace for every time of need, Lord, cheer up
those Lord that need cheering up, and if there’s any high-mindedness
among us, bring us right down, Lord, because we know there’s no place
for that in the Kingdom, at all, at all. So Lord may Your will be done.
We give You praise and honor, in Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

‘ Take the Name of Jesus with you.’

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