What God is Doing Now # 1 Bro. Lee Vayle, - August 10, 1980 Heavenly Father, we thank You for the privilege of being in this gathering together where Thou art surely with us, Lord, and we cannot have any grand pretentious claims, Lord, as though we would number ourselves with those of great people, Lord, but only with the humble who have had the opportunity to see these things in Jesus have found themselves to be nothing. And therefore, Lord, in the minus quantity, but we pray today that You will so help us that we might be in Thee, Lord, and found in Thee, and therefore lacking nothing whatsoever. That these terrible uncomely part having all the comeliness which is of God. Bring us to that place where we ought to be. So, we thank You, Lord, for grace which You have given us this hour. And we pray, Lord, that as we study Your Word, that grace may become more evident to us. We ask these mercies in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Oh, about a year ago now I went into a series of studies concerning 'What Happened When the Holy Spirit Comes'. And at that time, I spoke to you basically from that which came to me at that time, and an inner voice that said, "This church would never be the same again, depending on how you understood and believe what was being brought forth." I supposed I did not belabor that point as indeed it is not my way of belaboring anything that the Lord gives me, lest people begin to feel that I have some exalted spirit upon me, but that is not so. The attitude I take is this, that I sowed the seed that goes wherever it will, and those who believe there lies their change. And I have never heard so many people over my years of ministering as when I had preached this same series in three different places and said my life can never be the same again. Because they begin to catch what was in my heart and mind, which I myself was not aware of it at that particular time. But looking back I began to see that what it was all about, was laying the foundation for some of the things I have said most recently. And also into that peculiar period of time would bring forth either partially ahead of and into the Resurrection, which is the manifestations of the sons of God. Which subject I believe has poorly treated, and over treated, even critical of myself, because as I've told you I've had to desist and refrain from that subject. Not that I had not quoted what the prophet said, but that I had evidently not understood what he said. 2. Now, before we go into a recap of some of the material I brought to you a year ago, in order to bring us up to date more thoroughly on just what I have mentioned concerning what we are coming into; I want to basically go over some Scriptures at random, which I wish I had made notes of. But however, it isn't too necessary, because I believe the Lord will help my mind to bring us those Scriptures which are necessary to show you what I have in mind, and what lies in store for us. And in fact, is now manifesting and perhaps not surface manifesting, but literally is working at this particular point. So, we go to 1 Corinthians 15: and we read that Scripture which now has been brought to my attention and yours so thoroughly the last four of five messages. And It says: (22) For as in Adam all die, (in identical manner, because that's what the Greek says) even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (23) But every man in his own order: … And you will notice that this is guaranteed that there is an order to the Resurrection. Which of course is a complete series, and part of that resurrection is taken place already. Which is the first half of the First Resurrection. Literally It could be the first third of the First Resurrection. Which I may have time to explain later on, as you consider the 144,000. Now, (23) But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (24) Then cometh the end, … Now, we are in the end period now. Because under the Seventh Seal the momentous events begin to take place that are suggested and set forth here. The Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit coming down in Person form, in order to set Himself at the Head of the Church, to bring about a resurrection. This is not Jesus Who is the Christ through His human flesh glorified, this is God Himself Who is Lord Jesus Christ. Because we know that that is Jesus is Jehovah Savior. 3. Now, It says, (23) …Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his (Parousia, which Presence we are in now.) (24) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, … Now, you'll notice the future perfect tense is put here, because if something is taking place now which cannot possibly help but end in this. And you'll notice: (24) Then (shall come) the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, … We're in a process here with the Parousia, which cannot cease until Jesus gives the Kingdom back to God, which is the New Jerusalem, Mount Zion where the Lamb is on the Throne above the pyramidal City Mount Zion, and the Pillar of Fire, (which is God) is above Him. (24) … (and has) put down all rule and all authority and power. In other words, there will be nothing outside the beneficence of Almighty God, Who up to this point has been thoroughly misunderstood, and is being misunderstood, and will be misunderstood until the Resurrection. As Bro. Branham said, "I used to believe that God was all the time against me, and His Son all the time for me." He said, "I come to find out They were the same Person, God was always for me." 4. Now, (25) For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. (26) (And) the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. Now, that does not take place till the Lake of Fire. And after the Lake of Fire there comes the Bride caught up to an exalted position what you call the Throne, the heavens of God. And let us understand for you use the word 'heaven', it is not somewhere billions of miles away, it means 'an elevated place'. In other words, in a dimension which is beyond them. That's why Bro. Branham said, "All of these things are simply dimensions." Now: (27) For he hath put all things under his feet… This is concerning the future perfect tense. Everything is not under His feet at this moment, when it shall have been. The 'shall have been' means is going be, and nothing can stop it. So therefore, you put it what Paul, 'the future perfect'. (See?) You act as though it's already done, though it's going to be done. (See?) 5. Now, (27) …But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, (left out) which did put all things under him. Now, you notice I brought to your attention here that Jesus will turn the Kingdom back to God. And then It says over here, "For He hath put all things under His feet." Now, Who’s feet are we talking about? I'll tell you Who's feet, It's Jesus' feet. (25) For he must reign, till all enemies (are) under his feet. (26) The last enemy (put under Jesus' feet) is death. Then It says: "For God hath put all things under Jesus' feet." And you'll notice this is the first future perfect again. It's just a though it were already done. 6. Now, just don't hold your breath and die, let me just read you the Book of Romans, and you'll find out why I'm talking about the way I'm talking. Romans 8:28. (28) (For) we know that all things work together for good to them that love (the Lord,) to them who are the called according to his purpose. (29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30) Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he (had) called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (31) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Now, what happened to the Old Testament Bride? They're completely glorified on the basis of predestination being found in Adam. Now, the New Testament Bride is in the same position. And we count ourselves already glorified, because there's no way that you can't be glorified providing you're born again. (See?) 7. Now, this future perfect tense, but when He said, "All things are put under Jesus," when God said, "All things are put under Him." It is manifested, it is perfectly plain as perfectly clear that God Himself is not in that bracket of being under Jesus. That's why you still come to God through Jesus. But that doesn't supersede God when a man came through the blood with the high priest, that didn't supersede God, it was the way that God gave to the man. (You see?) Jesus is not God. Don't get the idea He is. He's a man. That's what the Bible calls Him. Then It says, "When all things shall be subdued unto Him by God." When everything is subdued unto Jesus sitting there and standing there, and God's doing it. The whole thing, even after the Millennium is over, and the White Throne judgment sets in. And then here's all the dead raised up, and here's the devil's group billions and billions. And here's God's bunch, billions of those too I believe. And then It says the devils group to get an idea, we got one final run. Let's see if we can overcome all these people, because it's just people. 8. So, then they come down toward the holy encampment, not holy city, holy encampment. And the Bible distinctly says that Jesus and His group just stand there and Fire comes down out of Heaven from God. See, Jesus does not do one thing, His work is done. That's why He sat down. That's why there's a Sabbath unto Him. And in that Sabbath we're coming into Him by the way of the Holy Ghost, so we have the guarantee everything that has and does, in this hour. See? Now, I'm talking fast, but I hope you're getting my thoughts. If you don't…you're out of luck. See, we've been on this subject long enough on the things of God you can follow me. You should be able to. But when all these things shall be suited unto Him, then shall the Son Himself also be subject, ranked under Him that put all things under Him that God maybe All in all. And anything that God is, everything that God is comes into perfect manifestation. (See?) Under perfect condition. 9. Now, what I'm trying to show you here is this: that God is doing certain things, and nobody else is doing them. (See?) And that's this period. And at this period when God Himself came down. Revelation 10:1. That great One came down with that Book opened in His hand as it were. The Seals opened to the people. It was not William Branham who opened those Seals. I don't care what anybody says, It was God Himself Who did it, because of the Lamb. It was time for the Lamb to take what was His in order that that might come under Him also. (See?) Coming to the place where God becomes All in all. Because God is not yet All and in all, but He will be. Because we're talking of sovereignty. Where's there's not one breath drawn, not one eye wink, there's not one heart beat, (hearts do beat, I don't know, might be, I don't know, there's no blood there) but anyway whatever it is, God is completely sovereign doing these things. 10. Now, let's go to Ephesians 4:7. (I guess may cover interdiction this morning, it won't bother me, therefore it shouldn't bother you.) And It said here: (7) …unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Now notice, It says that grace is according to the measure of the gift of Christ, or you don't have grace. That's right. You might think you do, but you haven't got it. It's got to be a gift of Almighty God. That's why no man is going to boast in His Presence. That's why I can't stand this sickening sweet, sweet stuff. As Bro. Branham said, "Christian Science can put everyone of us to shame with the love that they show," Because it's a studied kind of a love. See, let's face this thing, let's get this flat: the church is a woman. And women are…I'm not fussing at, see, but let's get this, your nature to bear children, and to be what God made you to be. You've got that sweet spirit about you, and it's a wonderful spirit and it's a wonderful spirit in the right place. But it's idolatry in the wrong place. People get always fooled about that sweet spirit junk. Don't ever get fooled by a sweet spirit, ain't no such animal. But that started with the beast, called seduction. 11. Now, gifts according to grace. Says, (7) …unto every one is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. (It's a gift.) (8) Wherefore he (said)… Notice, 'wherefore'. Wherefore always is something that follows, it's an explanation, or conclusion, or something comes out of it. (8) When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. And here's the measure of gifts that he gives: (9) …he ascended, … Now, He that gave it was Jesus Who died, rose again and came back as the Holy Ghost. (11) And he gave…apostles; prophets; evangelists; … (so on, so forth.) (12) … (to perfect the) saints, for the work of the ministry, (to) edifying the body of Christ: (13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: And the fullness of Christ is when God is able to see the complete fullness worked out, and Jesus hands It back to the Father. Not until that time. 12. Now, and It says, (14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; (15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up (unto) him (not into him, but unto him) … God's going to get a people that unto Christ. A full matured people according to the gift of grace that God gives. Man can't do it. Ain't no way he's going to do it. It says here, the Holy Ghost is going to do it. Now, that Holy Ghost has been doing this for Seven solid Church Ages. And at the end time He comes down Himself to finish it. (See?) (15) …speaking the truth in love, grow up (unto) him…the head, even Christ, (16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, (seven joints, Seven Church Ages, Holy Ghost doing it, nobody lacking) …maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. 13. Okay, let's check It out, Revelation 1:12, (I'll get my thought later on, I got lots of little thoughts here, but it's alright.) (12) And I turned to see the voice that spake with me… Now, this is conversational, God communing with man, and man communing with God. People don't believe that anymore. That's why they don't believe the Book of Hebrews; (hold your finger there,) let's go back to Hebrews 1: (1) God, who at sundry times and in divers (ways) in time past (spoke) unto the fathers (in) the prophets, (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us (in) his Son, (by) whom he appointed all things… Now, they take that and they refused to believe Hebrews chapter 12:25, (25) See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh… I think about a super woman preacher in Kansas that turned down William Branham. Can't stand this Message, because…well, she's a super woman preacher. I'm not complimenting her just to go that far and not further. Spoken in the Son. It's all over. Is it all over? Said, He speaks. How does He speak? Gave you the key in the prophets. Nobody wants prophets anymore. So, that's fine, don't have them. I'm not going to tell you to have prophets, you don't have to have anything. 14. My wife would she'd like to feed you like they feed geese. Push the food down, because she likes to feed people. Lee Vayle don't. There's no force feeding, you can grab it while it goes by you. Do you want it? I'm not as mean as I sound, I'm just mean. I'm mean what I sound. Let me tell you how I look. He said over here though ahead of it: [Hebrews 12:] (22) But (you) are come unto mount Sion, unto the city of the living God, (New Jerusalem) heavenly, and to an innumerable company of angels, (23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (24) And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel. Listen, that's now, it never could be before. You're in the future perfect, where there's a wind down, the count down, the Judge's down, it's all over that's what Bro. Branham preached those sermons, [Flashing Red Light 63-06-23], 'Combine', [Countdown 64-02-09]. (See?) Now: (25) See that (you) refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that (speaks) from heaven: (There's a time that He's going to speak again.) Now, you just don't go to Hebrews 1: and say, "Well, He's not going to speak again." They're a bunch of Baptist. Before you're as bad as the Roman Catholic church, you become a Baptist preacher like I was for awhile and you'll get three letters a day from headquarters. So, I said, "My God, if I can hear from God this often, you're the most spiritual man living, (phftt!) drop dead." I walked out before they threw me out. That's the story of my life anyway. Why should I listen to the man? I've got hard enough job listening to God. That's why I say, "Don't listen to Lee Vayle, try to listen to God." You here God in this Scripture here, and I showed you, that's great. You don't, well you didn't. 15. Listen: (26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (27) And this word, Yet once more, (signifies) the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. (28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, … It tells you the hour in which you are, they couldn't have the Kingdom back there, no way! I just thought the other day about Bro. Branham's vision. I forget who it was, Ray, or some other man? To my wife, I said, "Hey, when Bro. Branham got there just stand around there hugging each other." My God I wouldn't like that. I don't mind a few hugs. I don't want to just stand around. I don't think he had a real vision when it comes to who the vision of what's really going on. I think it was maybe symbolic. It's true, that that's the hour to have…sort of lovely conclave, a nice coming together. But we're looking for a Kingdom! And this is the hour where we're into the Kingdom. And when That One comes down to Speak, everything's going to be shaken down that can be shaken down. There's only one that can't be shaken down, that's "the Word of God that liveth and endureth forever." [1 Pet 1:25] And all things are made That Word, and all things endure by that same Word. (See?) 16. Now, let's go back to Revelation [1:] (12) And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; Now, I'm just throwing this in from the Book of Ephesians the Seven Church Ages, a Bride being brought out. (13) And in the midst of the seven (golden) candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. Now, Who is He? That's Jesus in the midst of the Bride. (See?) Now remember, He's got seven Stars in His right hand. Now, if He's in the midst of the candlesticks, let's find out what He is in the midst of the candlesticks what's going on. 17. Run back to Zechariah 4:1. (1) And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of (a) sleep. Fine, hold your finger there. Ephesians 5: (which has to do with the Bride chapter, and It says here in verse 14) (14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from (amongst) the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. The last plague to hit him was spiritual death. The last plague to hit us is spiritual death. But in the spiritual death there's a Voice calling, "Awake, and come out of her!" You see. Now, God's doing it. All right, I'm awaked. Waken out of a sleep, the sleep of death. Except I sent Elijah the prophet everyone's gone. [Zechariah 4:] (2) And (he) said. What seest thou? And I said, (look), and behold a candlestick of gold, (and) a bowl upon the top of it, and seven lamps, seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: (3) And two olive trees (stand by) the (two on the) right side of the bowl, and the (one on) the [left] side. (Old and New Testament) 18. And what were the olive trees doing? They are giving life, or the oil that brings us a light that is in the midst of the candlesticks. So, what is in the midst of the candlesticks? Christ, the Oil of God. Christ the Word of God. Christ Who is Holy Spirit. I'll prove It to you. It says down there in verse 6. Then he answered: (6) …This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (7) Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou (should) become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace … And at that time Old and New Testament Saints come together under grace, making up the whole Bride and the whole Church of Almighty God. (See?) Christ doing it. Nobody else is doing it. There's nobody can do it. "For as in Adam all died." Every single one hope It says as it were upon. "Now in Christ everyone's made alive." [1 Cor 15:22] (See?) God is doing It. It's not something that man can do. No way. 19. Over here, back again in the Book of Ecclesiastes 3:14, this old boy back there had a glimpse of It. And he said here: (14) I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. That's right. And I'll tell you, I'm sorry to say that when men bypass Almighty God, what He is doing their time will come. And there's no fear in their eyes, because of what God's doing. There will come a time when they'll fear before God, but it's going to be too late. Now reading: (15) That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. We see here that God works in a cycle. That whatever He has done, He will keep on doing. As Bro. Branham said, "If there had been a better way to help Adam, God would have done it. God is obligated to always act according to the same way He acted first." Because that shows if He acted another way, then shows there's something wrong with God. He's not omnipotent, He's not omniscient, He doesn’t have what He's supposed to have. But He does, see? Now, It is God Who is doing It, and nobody else can do It, because that is how God has laid it out. 20. Now, we're going back to the Book of Philippians 3:20, It says here: (20) For our (citizenship) is in heaven; (now notice, our citizenship is in heaven the elevated plain) from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: (21) Who shall change our vile body, … Now, Jesus does not change the vile body. It is God that does this, because the Bride is presented to Him. He does not raise her, It is God Who raises the body and presents the Bride through the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, (21) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able (to bring under order) all things unto himself. You say, "Why does He say in here, "unto His glorious body like unto His?" Because that's the body of His glory. It's the only body God's got. Now He can take that body anytime He wants. Oneness doctrine got off on the wrong foot. They said the body dissolves. God does not dissolve the body. It's what Bro. Branham said, "God raised that Body and set It there at His right hand of the Mercy Seat as a memorial to the Resurrection." Now, that's that kind of a funny way to put it, "a memorial to the Resurrection." Did it to His Resurrection. It is the Resurrection. He’s there trying to tell you there that Body is there proving the Resurrection. And the Resurrection proves the phony …?... that Jesus Christ brought upon Calvary. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ." [1 Cor 15:22] Everyone is brought back to Almighty God. (See?) 21. Now, It is God Who is doing this thing. It is not somebody else who is doing it. It is God Himself and nobody else can do it. That's why Bro. Branham kept emphasizing and pressing unto the point that God Himself must do It, and this is all of grace. Now notice, Paul the apostle in that same chapter [Ephesians 3:] verse 9, (9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: (10) That I may know him, (even in) the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; Now, the very fact that he throws in here the Resurrection, and throws in suffering may confuse many people, but don't let it bug you, just keep on reading. (11) If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection (from among) the dead. Now, he does not say, "Unto the Resurrection." But he says, "Unto the Resurrection from among the dead." So therefore, there is going to be a time when the dead come out of the grave leaving many dead in the grave to come up later on. So, this is the first of First Resurrection, which will be the second part of First Resurrection. For the first part has already taken place when Abraham and Noah and perhaps those, all the great ones of the Old Testament came up that are due to come up under election. (See?) The rest will come up at the White Throne and come on later. 22. Then comes the Bride of this hour who is changed here on earth, and those that come out of the earth. And then if the 144,000 are killed, which Bro. Branham certainly did suggest it, under the Fourth Seal. Then there is no doubt that they will be the third part. And God does everything in threes. So, that's likely just exactly that way it is. That they will become the third part of the First Resurrection. (See?) They will then follow the Lamb wherever He goes and serve the Bride. Then to prove deliverance there's a fourth part, when the two witnesses go up. (See?) You can put them as three, you put them…it doesn't matter which way it goes. You can go from three to four, because they are absolutely caught up and they get their changes. Now, we know here according to this Scripture here that Paul says: (11) (That) I might attain (to that out) resurrection (anyway shape or form, I might commit it.) (12) Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: … And that's absolutely true, because I don't care how far Paul went as a mighty believer in Almighty God and went down into that ground, there was no way that he could be perfected upon a part from us though he was not perfected. Now, that Bro. Branham said correctly that could there could have been a Rapture at the time of Paul. Or there could have been a Rapture at the at the next Church Age too as far as I'm concerned. Because they had what they needed, but you see they're missing out. They'd gone into sin. They weren't a virgin bride any longer, though the Blood could have covered that. And the rest of the Bride wasn't in, so they couldn't be a Rapture in the First Church Age. No way, shape, and form. Now, Paul could say here, "If any means I might attain to It." [Phil 3:11] No way possible. 23. Now, did this man Paul make a mistake? No sir, that's just his language. Let's go to Hebrews 6: and find out something there. (1) Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, … go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (2) Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and resurrection of the dead, of eternal judgment. (3) And this will we do, if God permit. What if God didn't permit it? God didn't permit it over here either. Now, he's talking about the Resurrection here. And he's talking about the Resurrection here, but God couldn't do It. Now, I don't care what Paul or anybody else does. I don't care how hard you try, you cannot bring about your own resurrection. You cannot bring about your Eternal Life. There's nothing you can do that God said He's going to do for you. You got to believe. (See?) Paul couldn't do It. Any means try to get in there live the life, do everything under high heaven, press into It. See that you don't miss It. Well, I tell you one thing, there's only one way you won't miss It, and that's being full of the Holy Ghost. If you're not full of the Holy Ghost you've done missed It already. Now, I'm not trying to scare anybody, it's just the fact to the Word of Almighty God. Because the Holy Ghost was given for that very purpose. (See?) 24. God is doing this thing. Now, he said, [Philippians 3:] (12) (…I was) already perfect… (and so on.) (13) Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and (pressing) forth unto those things which are before, (14) I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (15) Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, … Now, haw, haw, haw, just a minute, up here he said he wasn't perfect. Down here he says he is perfect. See, thus minded. In other words, listen: everybody…I preached a sermon on Abraham's faith several times in 1975 I think in Macon. Preached two in a series, 'Faith # 1', and Faith # 2'. And in there I showed you that the whole of everything is bound up in the Resurrection unto Eternal Life in the First Resurrection. Nothing else matters. "Abraham looked for a city has foundation, whose builder and maker is God." [Heb 11:10] And God never gave him on place where he put foot and said that's yours. He said, "You've got to come back and get it later on." You know, I don't care all your dreams could go down the drain. Every hope that you've got is going to go down the drain. You're going to stand here like Paul at the end time; your education, your ideas, your thoughts. 25. Let's get this straight, I don't care what kind of revelation you've got outside of His Word is worth talking about. Forget your stars, your pyramids, and your ideas, get back to what's vindicated. I'm a tough guy to deal with. If you want to meet me privately come on. I'll take anybody on. I've been in Pentecost all through the hogwash and stuff, the Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, all the junk. Don't tell me, I was born into the Presbyterian. Got into Methodist church. Got into Pentecost. Went with the Baptist. Strong believer in these. Philadelphian confession of faith. Closest thing to the inspired Word of Almighty God ever laid out in print. The prophet came out. Share nothing of your ideas. Get back to the Word here. Oh, things aren't going to do a thing for you. Argue with Scripture. Argue with Bro. Branham. Argue this way, that way, ain't going to do anything for you either. Christ the Holy Ghost, the Life. And there's an evidence with that, which is that Word. "I press toward the mark." I'm not perfected yet. At the end time when you see all the wheat maturing that's something that some of you folk sitting here this morning can't understand. And I don't blame you. It drives me nuts too! I'll stop a second and tell you why drives me nuts. Bugs me plumb to death. I have no business being bugged. Why should I be bugged? God's not bugged. 26. [Revelation 22:] (14) Blessed are they that (wash their robes,) they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. (15) For without are dogs, (that's male prostitutes, if that doesn't make you vomit nothing will) sorcerers, … That's your druggists that give you the wrong medicine and kill you. That's where the word 'druggist' comes from, the Greek. They write the prescriptions, and it's not God. They betrayed the Word of God. (15) …whoremongers, (pimp preachers that sell women as prostitutes to denominational males and bring forth serpent seed) murderers, idolaters, whosoever (loves) and maketh a lie. At the same time, "He that is righteous is righteous still. Him that is filthy is filthy still." [Rev 22:11] The very heights, God Himself come down to stand with His people and for His people and march them right into the Presence …?... and said, "There they are Son, they're just like You." And the same time, all the filth out here and filth amongst us, it just drives you crazy. Get this straight, it's not going to change, it's going to get worse, before it's going to get better. Those that are better are getting better. Those that are worse are going to get worse. Can't help it! No way you're going to change it. No way! 27. There's just one thing about today is worse than the other day, and that is when Jesus…when God took upon Himself a human form in human flesh, they plucked His beard, the spit in His face, they pulled the hair off His head, they put a crown on Him and a knife in His side. But today He's here and they ignore Him. They don't even have to take time to spit in His face. He's standing at the door and knocking. [knocks on the pulpit] The way change in His image. You say, "That's denomination." It was as one time, now it's back to the Branhamites. He's crazy. There's so much idolatry amongst us it's pitiful. Sure. William Branham's name is glorified you can hardly hear the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, I love his name, and he's a wonderful brother, but I told him many, many years ago in '58, right to his face, I said, "I love you, but you're not Jesus Christ. You didn’t die to save me." And he didn't and he won't and he can't. They made too much of him. They're making too much of everything, it seems, except He's here. Just because, He's going to take us through. He's going to bring us under subjection. And that word doesn't mean 'pound you down', knock you down, He's going to rank you. And Bro. Branham came to rank the Church and to show them the truth. And try to rank the women, and some of you men got wives that won't even listen to you anymore. You can't tell them anything. Some of you won’t even listen to your preacher, because he's talked about the whore’s forehead. He might have preached his score for you, and I'll preach twice his score. I've got nothing against anybody. But I've got something in my heart that screams out, "Why aren't we recognizing Him?" And He's here to do It all for us. And don't even pay any attention to Him. They just got mad at Him and they didn't even…quite nice. He said, "Hey, I'm getting some attention around here. (See?) 29. Now listen, He's come down to do It. He is going to do It. And It says to the people of this living age here, that Paul wanted to come into, but couldn't, because the time wasn't right. (See?) Time was not ready to bring forth that Bride who can come into the Presence of Almighty God, or stand in the Presence of God, because of the Blood of Jesus Christ, the high Priesthood, and the Intermediator-ship of Jesus Christ. Melchisedec fully exposed, I taught you that some time ago. Now, He is here, and whether it looks like it or not, whether it sounds like it or not, whether it feels like it or not, Bro. Branham correctly said, "God catches a hold of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit came down and set Himself at the Head of the Church in order to raise the dead," And that is the part that is bringing us into the final total subjection or ranking unto God. Now, I've got no doubt that's the ranking, which it is the ranking, yet before we get away we'll be ranked. They're going to go up in theory, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven. See, when God Himself takes the Bride up, (the Holy Spirit, God) slips into the body of Jesus Christ and incarnates Himself; thereby presenting to help a spotless glorious Bride. And you can see where it's like Jesus presenting to Himself a Bride, because He was the One Who shed His Blood with the Blood standing there so God could do it all for a Bride. It's all of God. No way shape or form, salvation is the Lord. There's no way anybody can get in, there's no way anybody can stay in. There's no way anybody's going to get to the Resurrection outside of Jesus Christ the Lord. 30. Now, here He is to do this wonderful work for us. Here He is ranking us. Now, It talks about ranking, and in that rank I want to show you that in the ranking of the Church Age, Age number Seven contrary to what we may feel in our heart, or discern through manifestation around us and in us, and through us and amongst us, seems to be perfectly itself is glorious. Age number One started out tremendous. But in there already was the deeds of the Nicolaitans which they did not hate. They knew they were wrong, but you know the super imposed authorities seem not too bad of an idea amongst us. So, they things slip. They didn't hate that which would take the place of Jesus Christ. There was only one person could take the place of Jesus Christ honestly, and that was the apostle Paul who was the apostle to the Gentile church. You know, the Catholic's are not wrong when they say they have a vicar of Christ. The word 'vicar' means 'instead of', and the Holy Ghost is here instead of Jesus Christ. And the man who has the Spirit to bring the Word to the church is literally that vicar, but It doesn't come through human instrumentality, He comes by God placing those men. We read that in Ephesians. There, and in our, was Bro. William Branham a prophet sent from God, and he was the vicar to the Bride of Jesus Christ. He was like Eliezer at it were, bringing and showing the things of God, and bringing us to Jesus Christ our Lord. 31. Now, at this particular time then we have the Holy Spirit come down here in the Seventh Church Age, and as Age One was good, and as Age Two drifted and Three drifted, Four went into the ground and died is the word, Five begin coming back and Six and Seven as I told you, (you had your blackboard here) visualized a pyramid, the base of the pyramid is always greater than the apex. (See?) But remember, when you look at the pyramid spiritually, the pyramid is inverted. The Base is up there, Age number One, (right?) Age number Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, until you come down here to the cone. And the full concentration of God Himself in a tiny group of people makes this Age a million times greater than Pentecost. Then people want to go back to Pentecost. Bro. Evans, …?... you never were in it. You're lucky. HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer" \o "Eliezer" We got them all over, they're running back to Pentecostal denomination right now. And I spilled my heart and my blood and almost my guts in Canada out west. They've got this preacher up there from Michigan goes in and he says, "Well, Miriam…women can lead songs services in church." Oh, can they? They take authority when they do. And he said, "It's okay, because you see Miriam lead in the dance." She led in the thinking, and she got leprosy for it too, a smarty pants. And that was the end of Miriam, she died shortly, though she got healed. Going back to Pentecost. Why do you want to go back to Pentecost for? We're a million times greater Bro. Branham said the truth. Because you've got the full centralized force of all Ages of the Son taking over now. Do you know that Bride is going to be standing right here owning the whole thing before one thing is done before she gets away she'll own it all? It's right here in our hands this morning, and we're the ones that are standing looking at it. Everything that Adam lost we're gazing at it coming right back now. Everything and God is doing it. We're not lifting a finger. There is no finger to lift. It is all on the grounds of believing. 32. We're going to go back here to the Book of Deuteronomy, 1:39, that's the Book that was second given. Now: (39) Moreover, your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, (even) your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 42:45 (40) But as for you… (so on.) Now, chapter 2: verse 14, (14) And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were (came) over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. Now, Israel was given the opportunity to go in when they were called out, when they turned it down flat. They had the knowledge of good and evil which was God demonstrating His mighty Word before them. "It's here, do you want It, I'll take you in." The children were not in that bracket. They did not have the knowledge of good and evil, which meant, "do you want it, I'll take you in spite of what you see; in spite of what is going on, remember the mighty work that I did is the guarantee that you are going to go in." 33. That's what God said to Adam and Eve. The mighty work that I showed you is the guarantee. "Don't take that tree, come the other way." But they turned It down flat for a sensation, for something that they were going to do. For something they thought they could figure out. Only Caleb was a giant in faith. And if he said, "God said it." Based on what God did with what He said, "We're going in, come on let's take it over." "Oh, (they said) hogwash, we can't take it over, they're too big." They had every excuse under high heaven. They began looking at all the crud and all the crime, and all the junk round about them like we look right today. 34. Now, I'm going to show you something that's very, very serious. We go over here to the Book of [Revelation] 21: (7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; … Now, who overcomes? He that believes that Jesus is the Christ. He's the Messiah, He's the One doing it. You believe It? All right, He said: (6) …I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (8) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, (now listen, the fearful and unbelieving will be right there with the abominable, the) murderers, (the) whoremongers, (the) sorcerers, idolaters, (the) liars, … Same thing I read over yonder, chapter 22: (11) …he that is righteous, is righteous, he that is filthy is filthy still… I'm coming right down to take the whole thing over now, and hand It back to My Father. (13) I am Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, the first and last. (14) Blessed are they that (not) do his commandments, (but wash their robes) they have right to the tree of life, … (15) For (outside) are dogs, and sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, … Now It doesn't say one thing you doing anything, He said, "you believe." I'm not telling you more, you live like the devil and get in. I didn't say that. Whoremongers are out there living like the devil. Idolaters living like the devil, sorcerers live like the devil, dogs living like the devil. …?... would go with the righteous. But their righteous is not of themselves, their righteousness is of God as the Scripture says. Because their righteous is God, but God is doing It. 35. But notice, it's the faith premise! Now, who's going in across the land? Who's going to cross over Jordan on the Third Exodus? I'll tell you what, it's those that believe this Message that has been vindicated. If God says so, that's it. Look around and say, "I don't know that God's doing this for me." Well, you don't know it, I'm sorry. If I don't know it I'm sorry for me. Like you've got to be sorry for you. But the point is, God is doing It. See, I stand with Bro. Branham. He gave a key thought when he said, "If we're not Bride, there's a Bride out there somewhere." Oh yeah, you aren't going to fool him on the Word of God. That Word of God didn't stand on Bill Branham. That Word of God didn't stand on you people and me. Didn't stand on us at all. It stood on God Who's vindicated showing Himself. (See?) He said, "There's a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I won't stand in her way." Too smart to stand in the way of what God's doing. Yeah, these guys did, it's under unbelief. 36. I'm going to tell you flat, there's a Bride out there somewhere, I may not be part of that Bride. I've got good hope of the Second Resurrection, because I'll be here anyway. I ain't going to miss It. Nobody is going to miss It. Even the animals are going to be there. Everything will be ranked in order. And if I'm in that Bride, I'm going to be changed to immortality right here by the grace of God if I'm supposed to go home. If I go on, that's okay, because there's no difference. You just come up and…you just have it easy in the mean time, the rest of the guys have it rough. That's all. You have it rougher, longer, the other guys get away, no problem. But I tell you, if we're standing here and we're Bride in spite of what you and I think, or anybody else thinks, because it doesn't matter what anybody thinks, or what anybody else does. It's an individual affair of faith with your heart. And if you're called of God, you're full of the Holy Ghost, you will believe what you saw was the basis, the basis for what you are going to see. But you will see yourself changed by God according to His Word, not your thinking and my thinking, because it didn't originate there. Paul the apostle said, "I didn't get these thoughts by myself." [Gal 1:12] And William Branham stood right there and I…sat with him at Tampa, Florida in '64, he said, "Lee, (he said) all my thoughts are of God." In other words, he told us straight: "What I've give you is doctrine, my thoughts are coming from God. My own brain doesn’t enter in, because as a man I fight the very things that I preach, and the very things that I teach." 37. Let me tell you something brother/sister, I want to stand with that same Word this morning, that many things that Bro. Branham taught. I don't see in their fullness, and I can see just what he said is going to tear families apart, going to tear churches apart. It'll tear a lot of people apart. I going to tell you one thing, that same Word will pull a Bride together. Yes sir, there may be dogs out there and the whoremongers and he that loveth the lie and this thing and that thing. There may be fifteen hundred things out there, but let me tell you flat: There’s a mighty God this morning has come to bring everything under the feet of Jesus Christ. Now remember, the Bible says He's going to sit there till all things be brought under Him. But there's got to come a time when He gets up to receive what's been put under His feet. And when those Seals were opened, the Lamb got up and stepped forward. I don’t know how many people thought when Bro. Branham mentioned that the Seals were opened, smoked filled the temple, the Blood off the Mercy Seat, redemption gone. I know, I thought he said it. I thought I knew what he meant when he said it. And I thought it was all over. 38. Then they said, "Well Bro. Branham, is it too late to win souls?" He said, "Mercy me, what did I say, did I give anybody that idea?" Follow him down in a later sermon and he'll tell you that smoke fills the temple, and it's all over when Jesus steps forward, He's going to pick His Bride up. God picks them up for Him of course. He did It, (See?) But, until that time there's mercy and grace. And in this period right here today brother/ sister, there's mercy and grace right at this hour until that last one is brought in, and that last one is child trained. Maybe we're going through child training period right now. Maybe that's why it's so prickly and so hard. But I want to tell you something, God is doing what God said He would do. (See?) It's God doing this thing. The Holy Spirit Himself started it, the Holy Spirit Himself is continuing, and the Holy Spirit Himself is going to finish the whole thing to perfection. 39. Now, that's basic to what I have in mind to attempt to present if I should feel lead to as time goes on here, I don't know. I never make any promises, because I might not be able to fulfill them. But I want to get you fully conversive with this understanding, that whatsoever is to come forth in the Bride according to the Word as set forth by Bro. Branham through vindication, so we know what is true, we know by what is already taken place on 'thus saith the Lord'. There's no 'ifs', 'ands, or 'buts', it has got to come. (See?) So, though the man stood there and said, "If we're not Bride there's a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I will not stand in her way." Now, that is exactly the spirit of this Message, the spirit of the people of God within this Message. The understanding in the faith. It is going to be done. And every time you see something would indicate it isn't going to be done, that is a sure proof that it is going to be done. Because there's got to be the direct competitive forces, all diabolical cunning of the enemy has been turned loosed against all the wisdom of God. 40. I'm going to prove it to you over here in Ephesians 1:15, It distinctly says after those folks commended for having received the Holy Ghost: (15) Wherefore I also, (because you are Bride) after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus (Christ.) and (your) love (to) all the saints, (16) Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: Now, Paul was speaking the same thing here as in Philippians that couldn't happen. Impossible. Impossible to happen. Why? (17) …the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may know what is the hope of his calling, (I want to deal a special sermon on this one) and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Now, Paul had the revelation, the same thing that Bro. Branham preached. But there was no way for that to be instrumented into his life at this time would have brought forth a resurrection. And he said right here, "When that spirit comes right into the Church." And that revelation of Almighty God, God revealing Himself. I'll show you the difference of the meaning of the Word the 'parousia', and the 'phaneroo', and the 'epiphanea', and the other words in the Greek there, showing you that at this time the Spirit of wisdom and revelation comes into the Church, so let's the Church go down which is living, to reveal the great and mighty secrets things of Almighty God. Now, that could not happen back there, it was happen at this hour. (See?) 41. And what is the great secret? The great secret is the Seven Seals, He came, and nobody recognized Him. There in June 11,1933, the Pillar of Fire came down and nobody knew It was God. Nobody knew He come down to set Himself at the Head of the Church. There were these signs and wonders getting the people all ready for the Seals to open. In 1963, a mark, one foot upon the land, on foot upon the sea taking complete authority over everything. Complete authority standing over the sea. (See?) Now, she's rolling under subjection. The order has started. You see now why Bro. Branham kept singing: "Oh they come from the east and west. (Oh yeah, they're getting ranked.) They got to come from the lands afar. They're going to feast in the King and dine as His guest; How blessed these mortals are. Beholding His hallow'd face," And nobody knew Who they were looking at. Oh, they had a funny feeling about it. Every time I was on that platform with Bro. Branham and he'd say, "I don't know if He'll come, but we'll ask for Him coming." He said, "He's here and started…" I'd just break down and cry, I couldn't help it. There's something about that Presence there. But God has to have something to work through. (See?) Working through Bride right now, Bride can't understand it. Because, she's torn in so many ways. So many people want to take control over. "See, come and hear me, this one here, do this and do that." No, not with what’s in here. 43. …?... right today, a fellow met me yesterday talked , He let me know he had the Pillar of Fire and people saw it. He's as bad as the guy that sent a picture out and he had a ball of fire at his feet and called it the Pillar of Fire. Bro. Branham said, "Balls of fire on the platform oil and blood come from the devil." No, no, one man had the Pillar of Fire, Church's got God. You talk about your pillar of fire all you want, I got no use for it. That is to say, per se, what you say, Pillar of Fire, wonderful, that's God. Pillar of Fire, sure He's there. But He's not over one man now, He walks in the midst of His Church. He's taking that Bride softly down the road. You know, the church got hit on the head with an acorn, like little henny-penny one day, she got hit by an acorn, she said, "The sky is falling we got to run." And you know old foxy-loxy heard it. He said, "Wow, (he said) this is an opportunity." So, he got goosey-loosey, turkey-lurky and all the rest of them following him, he got them. 44. Let me tell you what, we don't have any henny-penny leading us into the den of foxy-loxy with all diabolical cunning. As I said a little while ago, I was going to take you to that Scripture and I gave It to you here, but all the wisdom of God is come forth, for God the great Author of all wisdom is right here now to lead a Bride in all wisdom which is His Word here, and lead a Bride right into eternity brother/sister. You say, "God's doing it?" Yep, God's doing it. Yep, God's doing it. (Yep) She doesn't know all the ramifications, she doesn't know all the tapes, doesn't know all the Scriptures, doesn't know all meanings, doesn't have to. She's that washer woman lady, with just one of three tapes, that's she believes is for her. She didn't hear the old song, 'Henny-penny the sky's falling' said by foxy-loxy. She heard, "Hey, the Great One's here," and she believed It. And He's going to take us through. He's going to present us as a glorious Bride, perfect as she stands before. Given to the Son. Remember, Bro. Branham said, "If God could have given His Son anything better than a Bride, He's have done it. If He could have given a man better than a woman, He would have done it." I want to talk about that too. But not right now. (See?) 45. All right, God is doing it. God is bringing all things under rank, and all things under order. Not this order, may seem like chaos, don't let that bug you. Don't let that bother you. There's a peace in the storm in the midst of all trials and God is going to take everyone through. And He said here, "It's going to take you right to the Resurrection." The same thing that God wrought in Christ, He's going to work in us. And as He set Him at His Own right hand heavenly places far about all principalities we're going to be right there with Him in all the worlds to come. All things are going to be under His feet and our feet. Now listen, it's got to be under our feet too, because He doesn't hand the Kingdom back until Mount Zion. (Yep) That's what Bro. Branham said, "The Throne's in the heart." God ruling and reigning. Bride owns the whole world right now. She just won't take it over. Do you think I want this world in this mess? Oh, come on, Bro. Branham said, "There's going to be fires break forth to purge this earth of every germ and disease." And I said, "Hallelujah, can almost see it too." They had to, they had to …?... I think I get along better with disease germs and mosquitoes anyway. But you know what, there won't be mosquitoes bites on anybody at that time. You say, "They won't have any blood, they'll bite you anyway." No they won't. No there won’t be nothing mean in those days. No siree, not with me. 46. Then It says, [Ephesians 1:] (22) …all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (23) Which is his body, (filling all things with) all in all. Do you realize brother/sister, the whole Word of God, the whole Word of God from this time on by that Spirit, God Himself in the Church, with all wisdom and power and glory and honor revealing to us Himself and His secrets, positively will fill this Bride with the whole Word till she becomes that whole Word manifested? That's not you and I doing it. No, siree. Now, we have a part to play in It. but that's faith. That's faith and that's believing that's going down the road with Jesus Christ. (See?) Well, I'm going to let you go now, because this is what I had in mind to launch out on the Scripture as to why the Holy Spirit is given in order to show that there will be this working of the Holy Spirit according to the Word of God in an end time Bride. And I've given you enough Scripture here that you can see, that absolutely there can be no mistake about it, that when the Parousia takes place the Appearing takes place. And remember, I cautioned you already that that is a very grave period of time where we can be so confused, because the manifestation, that we can throw our hands up, and actually despair. But remember, It says in Matthew 24, as He sat upon the Mount of Olives the disciples said, "Tell us when these things shall be, and what shall be the sign of Thy Presence." Didn't say, "The sign that You're going to be here." Says, "The sign that You are here." They understood It. You see, they were smart, they could put two and two together. He was here and nobody knew It. He was here and John the Baptist was told that He was here, but John didn't know where He was. 47. He said, "There's One amongst us, (he said) I know Him. There's One amongst you don't know, and I'm going to point Him out." And suddenly, there He was in the River Jordan. Then the Spirit of God came down. And our John the Baptist at the end time stood there baptizing in the River Jordan, [Ohio River] and the Holy Ghost came down, God in the form of a Pillar of Fire indicating there was a man that you listen to. (See?) Absolutely, there was Elijah for this hour. Now, It says here when they answered to the question, "What's it going to be like then?" And He said, "Oh, it's going to be a very bad situation." And He said, "There's trials, there's wars and rumors of war, and there's people rising up to kill and for my name's sake you're going to be hated." Which took place then, is going to take place now too. "Many are going to be offended." Ho, serpent seed offends everybody. If you want to be a popular skunk at a garden party just bring that one up. That's the good one right there to give you…give everybody a false impression. "They're going to hate one another." [Matthew 24:] 48. Now listen, "Many false prophets arise to deceive many, because iniquity abounds. The love of many are going to wax cold, but they that endure shall be in." The Gospel's got to be preached. And then It says here: "At the end time, (in our particular case more than anybody in the world) then shall they say, 'Lo here is Christ, or there. Believe it not, they'll arise false Christ's, false prophets showing great signs and wonders. If it were possible they'd deceive the Very Elect. Behold, I've already told you, I'm preparing you, but what I showed you already. Therefore, if they say, 'He's in the desert, (see?) don't believe it, He's already Appeared." He's already manifested, the Word has already been given, Forget those phonies out there. He's the secret chamber where two or three come together and they say, "Let's agree upon certain things." This is the way it is, called: 'preacher’s conclave' forget it. You'd be surprised how many people come to me, would be preachers and teachers. Pardon the expression, it's the truth, and they come and say, "Now, Bro. Vayle, you must preach this thing." I get letters, you must teach this thing. Why? They say, "They're like the bunch in New York, Lee's got the ear of the people, so therefore he's got the ear of the people, we get Lee to teach it, they'll believe it." 49. Well, hogwash, I don't have the ear of the people. I don't want the ear of the people. I'm not interested in the ear of the people. If I was, I'd be running around the world, I got all kinds of tickets to do waiting for me. Well, not all kinds, but don't worry once I get the word out ‘I’m on the way’, I can just circumnavigate the globe like a satellite up there, forget it. I've got no doctrine to preach somebody's idea, I just want to stick to this Word the best I know how. And I'm showing you this morning here brother/sister, It says, "As lightning comes out of the east. and shines…" [Mt 24:27] That's the epiphanea, the shining forth, that's how His Presence is, God Himself has shined forth. Then don't take somebody else's shining forth, and go right into a glare. (See?) The end time is full of diabolical cunning, Bro. Branham's own quote who He was. Right in the Church Age Book “There'll be a repeat of all diabolical cunning. Right starting in the Garden of Eden.” The devil is going to pull every solid trick in the book that he can pull. Then God at the end time is going to climax and cap off the whole thing by Him sending delusion, which nobody can deal with. Which is the Holy Ghost begins to anoint in genuine signs and wonders. And they say, "Well, ha, ha, we got it, forget what the prophet said." Ha, ha, you ain't got it, and you better remember what the prophet said, because after Moses there rose up Korah, Dathan and Abiram. And before they got to the Promised Land, Balaam stepped forth. Tickled the people's flesh, till they seduced themselves and adulteries and fornication. And God said, "I'll kill them." Do you realize when old Phineas went out there and killed the two people he actually performed an atonement before Almighty God. Blood was shed. Stopped God's wrath upon the people. 50. Let me tell you something brother/sister before this day is over and this old Bride has gone off this earth, maybe she'll even be standing here before she's actually caught up in some of the Thunders, and some of the…under the Sixth Seal, that Trumpet begins to blow and the vials begin to empty out. I don't know she could be standing right here. If she isn't, she'll be above it looking down anyway. Because it's just a dimension, you know, just a dimension what's the difference? Those things begin to break out there, yeah, they'll be there. The wrath of God poured out. See, the woman wouldn't listen. She had that forehead alright, couldn't tell her a thing. She took the mark of the beast, every single thing that the world stood for, Satan stood for. And God said, "I’m going to burn her." And He burns her with fire. He hits her with hail stones, (see?) but the Bride's gone. Now, here we are in this end time when the spirits are so close, like a razor blade difference. Iniquity on every hand abounding, but righteousness abounds also, because God is going to take that Bride through brother/sister. 51. I want to tell you flat, when Old Eliezer, (you know I don't type him to the Holy Ghost, but I type him to that emissary that one sent) when he went down there to see that little girl Rebekah, he just gave her the gifts, and he said, "Come on, I'll be your guide and take you back." And I want to tell you, there wasn't anybody there to bother her, or molest her. And the Bible said, "Old Isaac was there waiting for her, and when he saw her something just begin to pound in his heart. When she got off that camel he said, "She's everything I ever wanted." And the wedding supper was enjoyed. (Yep) I want to tell you something brother/sister, we're at that time when God has come down to take a Bride through. If you don't believe anything I've ever said before you, you believe this and stand with it and don't doubt in your heart, because that's the one stone… [Tape abruptly ends] HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer" \o "Eliezer" What God is Doing Now # 1 (0680B) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 20