What Happens When the Holy Ghost Comes # 2  

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     Feb 25, 1981 

	Heavenly Father, we love the revealing of Your Word.  Which one day It
must come forth in that manifestation of Its revelation, which things,
Lord, are left into the future. But, Lord, we know there are certain
things which have been revealed, which arise now by manifestation,
therefore, interpreted to us.  So we pray, Lord, that those things which
we already have, we will not despise by looking backward, or forward.  
But look at them now, in the light of the revelation of God.  Father, we
just put ourselves at Your disposal therefore, to help us with the Word.
 The eyes of our understanding being enlightened. That we may know these
things which are ours in this hour.  We’ll be careful to give You the
glory in Jesus Name. Amen.  You may be seated.

1.	Now, this is the third message, on ‘What Happens When the Holy
Spirit Comes.’ And I’m going to be referring you to the
Resurrection, which is in the offing, and is already in a measure,
entered into.  And I want to deal with it in such a way, that you’ll
recall where Bro. Branham used to believe that in the day when he would
leave this body, he would be a disembodied spirit, something like a
cloud, floating around.  And maybe Bro. Neville like another cloud,
would go by.  And he had the vision of ‘beyond the curtain of time,’
and he saw a distinct physical manifestation.  That he said, “I’ll
never be the same again.”  And this is perhaps something I have in
mind, that you’ll catch tonight.  As we just deal with the subject of
‘eternal life’, and find out exactly what eternal life is, from the
Word of Almighty God.  

	Now, we’ll sort of warm up to it.  And we’ll go back to John
14:16-20 which will be a bit of a recap, to get to where we want to
start off fresh.  This is what we used previously.  

			(16)	And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter,

                        that he may abide with you forever;

			(17) 	Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it

                        seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but (you)
know him; for he 							dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

			(18)	 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

			(19) 	Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but (you)
see me: 						because I live, (you) shall live also.

			(20)	 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and (you) in
me, 						and I in you.

	Could also read the 23rd. 

			(23)	… If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will
love 						him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

 	Now, you’ll notice the word ‘with’ is not the same as the word
‘in’.  

2.	Also, we’ll go to John 6:62 just the one verse.  

			(62)	What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was 	
					before?

	And you won’t have to maybe find these, I’ll be hitting them quite
quickly. 

	 John 20:17

			(17)	(And) Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet
ascended 						to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say… I ascend
unto my Father, 						and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

3.	And then back in the Book of Luke, the last chapter 24: 49-51.

			(49)	And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but
tarry… 						in the City of Jerusalem, until (you) be endued with
power from 							on high.

			(50)     	And he led them out as far as … Bethany, and he lifted up
his hands, 						and blessed them.

			(51)    	And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted
from them, 						and carried up into heaven.

	And with that,  Acts 1:9

			(9)	And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was
taken 						up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

	And then, over in Ephesians 4:8-10

			(8)	Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity
						captive, and gave gifts unto men.

			(9)       (Now (he) that ascended, (that is; went up) what is it but
that he also 						descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

			(10)     (And) He that descended is the same also that ascended up
far above                                               				all heavens,
that he might fill all things.)

4.	Now, you’ll notice in the Scripture that I read first, that Jesus
made the promise that actually He would come back and indwell them. 
Now, He also said in, John [6:]

			(62)	What and if (you) see the Son of man ascend up (into heaven)
where 						he was 	(previously)?

	And in, John 20: you see that the same Word was given, that after the
Resurrection, was the time that he would literally ascend up into
heaven.  And then in Luke 24: they saw Him go up into heaven.  And in
Acts 1: which really is previous to Luke 24: he mentions the coming of
the Holy Spirit.  

	And in Ephesians 4: 8-10 verses which I read, I’ve explained them at
different times to you.  Verse 9 says,

			(9)	(Now (he) that ascended, …

 	He that promised that He was going to go up, and they actually saw Him
go up, to where He was before.  So, whoever He was before, He was here. 
So, whoever He was before, that was in that body; took that body back to
where it came from.  Because He that ascended…now who is He?  But,
that He also descended first, into the lower parts of the earth.  Now,
we know that was Jesus the Son of man, who was born of the virgin Mary,
by the seed of God.  He died, and His body was not left in the grave,
nor His soul was not left in hell.  But He was the one that went down
there.  Now, It said, that that one that ascended, first of all had to
descend before He could actually go up there.  And the one that said,
“I am from there, and I’m going back there.”  Could not go there
until first of all, 

			(9)	 … he (had to descend) into the lower parts of the earth?

	Now then It says, 

			(10)	He that descended is the same also that ascended…

	So therefore, you see here, that He went down, went up, came back. 
See? Now, how did He come back?  It tells you.  He came back as the Holy
Spirit.  So, therefore the One that was there originally, and dwelt upon
earth, indwelling fully one body, now came back in order to give that
same Spirit in the right measure, to the one to whom He spoke saying,
“I’m going to come back, and the One that was with you, shall be in
you.” 

5.	Now also in John 14:18, He said:

			(18)	I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

	Which He certainly did.  And when He came back, as that One, He filled
them with His Own Spirit, just exactly as He said He would. 

	Now, John 14:20 of course, that's one we like very much there, as a
Scripture,

			(20) 	(In) that day (you) shall know that I am in my Father, and
(you) in 							me, and I in you.

6.	Now, you go back again to the Book of Acts 2:2-3,  and we see that
fulfilled.  

			(2)	And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing
mighty

                        wind, and it filled all the house where they
were sitting.

			(3)       And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of
fire, and it sat

                        upon each of them.

	Now, that was the Pillar of Fire.  Now, this helps us to understand,
John 14:20 as we view this Scripture with some other Scriptures.  Now, I
want to go to chapter 1.  Now, remember we’re talking about a Pillar
of Fire came down, a cloud of fire came down, and little tongues of
fire, came out of the one cloud of fire.  Okay.  Over in 1 Corinthians
10:1-4

			(1)	Moreover, brethren, I would not that (you) should be ignorant,
how that

                        all our fathers were under the cloud, (all the
fathers were) and all passed

                        through the sea;

			(2) 	And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

			(3)	 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

			(4) 	And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of
that 							spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

7.	Now, we just leave that there a second, and go back to the Book of
Exodus.  I want to read these Scriptures back and forth, for a little
study here.  And in the chapter 13 of Exodus, verses 21 to 22.  

			(21)	And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to

                        lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of
fire, …

 	Now, that wasn’t mentioned in 1 Corinthians 10, just the rock.  But
you see, the Pillar of Fire, actually housed God too, the same as the
cloud did.

			

			(21)	…to give them light; (and) to go by day and night:

			(22)     (And) He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor
the pillar 						of fire by night, from before the people.	

8.	Now, also you notice, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13

			(12)	For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members                       				of that one body, being many, are one
body: so also, is Christ.

	Now, we come here from the one person forming a body, to many people
forming a body. It says, 

			(13)     For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, …

	Now, It says, all the fathers were under the cloud.  All the fathers
were under that pillar.  And there wasn’t one that wasn’t actually
baptized in that manner.  So, they were actually enveloped as one, as a
body.  So, you’ve got an Old Testament Bride, and you’ve got a New
Testament Bride, and there’s no way that you can get away from
whatever they had, will equate to what we have, because they’re one
body.  The Old and New, is one.  We’ll show you that a little later on
by the Scripture.  

9.	Now all right, what I’m looking at here in this Scripture, is the
fact that here is the same One in the vertical.  That is God that Israel
knew, that came into the horizontal, which was Jesus.  Because then when
He came down the only way He could really manifest in the horizontal,
was in this individual, which was His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

   	In other words, God as I say, came from the vertical, to the
horizontal, which we’ve been talking about.  The Holy Spirit, standing
here in a Pillar of Fire.  The Holy Spirit in a Cloud by day, and a
Pillar of Fire by night.  That same Holy Spirit that could talk out of
the whirlwind, and all of those things.  That was the best horizontal He
had at that time.  But when He came into the horizontal, of the
individual man, then He set Himself a precedent.  Where He has to stay
in the horizontal, which is in man and which actually is in men.  So
therefore, God will now be moving in the realm of many individuals,
comprising one single body.  

10.	Now, we go over here to Ephesians, and we can see that in chapter
2:18-22.

			(18)	For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father.

			(19)	Now therefore (you're) no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow

				citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

			(20)     And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus

                       Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

			(21)     In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth
(into) an holy

                        temple (of) the Lord:

			(22) 	In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God
through

                        the Spirit.

	Now, you’ll notice in here, in the first place, the individual
becomes the recipient of the Holy Spirit.  In other words, He temples
the Holy Ghost, as an individual, and all the individuals built
together, in the process of time, are forming that pyramidal structure,
which itself as it goes up, is literally a temple unto the Most High
God.  Now, you can see here, that this will begin to clarify exactly,
Galatians 3:14

			(14)	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through 
						Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through 						faith.  

 	Now that’s clarifying the fact that there is one temple built unto
God, or one body build unto Him.  There are not several.  And here the
blessing of Abraham, is coming on the Gentiles, which is literally the
receiving of the Holy Spirit, into individual lives.  

11.	Now also, you go to and check this back in Genesis 15:1

			(1)	After these things, the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a    
                                    				vision,  saying, Fear not,
Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding 						great reward.

	Now, that’s identical …this here is identical, to Exodus 13:21-22,
where God was leading Israel.  You see, He was a shield unto them.  And
He was a provider.  As long as that Pillar stood there, there wasn’t
anybody could touch him.  And at the same time when they needed food,
the food came down.  At the same time, they needed water, the water was
there.  The shoes did not wear out, and there was nothing, due to God
Himself, His Presence being there, under that anointing, where anything
went wrong.  They were continuing under God Almighty.  Now, what I’m
trying to show you here, if you haven’t already caught on already is;
that there is no doubt from the Scripture that I have read in the New
Testament, every single place, linking with the Old, that the Jehovah of
the Old Testament, is the Jesus of the New.  And there’s only one
Spirit you're dealing with which is the Spirit of God.  

 	Otherwise, you can be one who believes in two Gods, or three Gods. 
And then I don’t know where you’d end up at.  See?  Because it
won’t work.  See?  Much of their theology is based upon, a
misunderstanding in most areas today.  That you can be born again, then
filled with the Holy Ghost, as though there are two separate spirits. 
The point is, if at any point you get God, you’ve got God.  See?
There’s just no way you can move from it.  

12.	Now also, we can look and see how this works out in the future,
where Ezekiel talks about the future.  And God involved in that future,
in Ezekiel 34:11-16  

			(11)	For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search
my

                        sheep, and seek them out.

	Now, notice who’s doing it. 

			(12)     As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is
among his 							sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep,
and …deliver 							them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy                       					and dark day.

	Now, let’s face it.  This Scripture actually refers more to this day,
than any actual day in the history.  Though I’m not going to (you
know) worry about that aspect.         

		                                                                      
                                                                  				
(13)    	And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
the

                       	countries, and will bring them (out of) their
own land, and feed them 						upon the mountains of Israel by the
rivers, and in all the inhabited 							places of the country.

	Now,  He said, I will bring them up from all countries and bring them
to their own land, not out of their own land.  

			(14)     I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high
mountains of Israel

                        shall their fold be: they (shall) lie in a good
fold, and in a fat pasture 						shall they feed upon the mountains of
Israel.

			(15) 	(And) I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down,
saith the Lord 

                        GOD.

			(16)     I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which
was driven

                        away, and will bind up that which was broken,
and will strengthen that

                        which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and
the strong; I will feed them

                        with judgment.

13.	 Now, you can see that’s actually the Book of Revelation dealing
with the church of Rome.  Now,  22-31

			(22)	(And) Therefore, will I save my flock, and they shall no more be
a prey;

                        and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

			(23)	And set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even
my 						servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd.

	

			(24)	And I the LORD will be their God…

	Now, you can see the difference between God, His Holy Spirit, and the
Son which was the body of God at that particular time.  That Bro.
Branham said, “God raised up the body as a memorial to the
Resurrection.”  And what he meant by that was, placing it behind the
throne, on the Mercy Seat.  That became a memorial to that Resurrection.
 Now, he did what was requiem.  

			(23)	… he shall feed them, … he shall be their shepherd.

			(24)     	And (I'll) be their God, and my servant David a prince
among them; 						(and) I the LORD have spoken it.

			(25)     	And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will
cause the

                       	evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they
shall dwell safely in the

                       	wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

			(26)    	And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
blessing;

                      	and I will cause (a) shower to come down in his
season; there shall be 

                      	showers of blessing.

			(27)   	And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the
earth shall yield

                      	her increase, and they shall be safe in their
land, and shall know that I

                      	am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of
their yoke, and delivered 

                      	them out of the hand of those that served
themselves of them.

			(28)   	And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, (and)neither
shall the 						beast of the (field) devour them; but (they'll) dwell
safely, and none 						shall make them afraid.

			(29)   And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall
be no more

                      consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the
shame of the heathen

                      any more.

			(30)   Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God … with them,
and that

                      they, even the house of Israel, are my people,
saith the Lord GOD.

			(31)   (You are) my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am
your God,

                      saith the Lord GOD.

14.	 Now, over in John 10:16 Jesus speaking says,

			(16)	And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also
must I

                        bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there
shall be onefold, and 

                        one shepherd. 

  	  Now therefore, whatever refers to Israel at that particular hour,
has got to refer to the Gentiles, because the promise of Abraham has
come to them identical to the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.  And the
promise of Abraham, and remember Abraham didn’t get …I preached that
here… he didn’t get one place that the sole of his foot, as an
inheritance, and yet his feet were on it in the Promised Land, yet, he
didn’t get one foot of it.  That wasn’t one place was called his. 
He was to get it afterwards.  And then he looked for a City on top of
that foundation, whose builder and maker was God.  

	  So, what we see here is that when Jesus was saying these things,
talking about it, He was speaking in the person of God.  Just like
David, “They wounded my hands and my feet.”  Well, David’s hands
and feet were not wounded.  The worse he got, was a kick in the teeth by
his familiar friends, who lifted up their heels against him.  After
he’d gone to church and said, “Hallelujah, praise be to God,” and
done a Pentecostal dance, something like that.  Then they came and
knifed him under the fifth rib.  Well you can see that’s a different
story entirely.  

15.	Now, let’s go…we read in Ephesians 2:18-22, but let’s go to
Ephesians chapter 3, and we’ll continue to see that it’s one flock,
it’s onefold, it’s one shepherd, it’s one king.  There aren’t
two. So, there's just one of them. 

 	   And that One, that talked in the first person, said, “I’ll not
leave you I will come to you.” [Jn 14:18] was the Holy Spirit, and He
did come back.  See?  Okay, we’re in Ephesians then, in chapter 3, and
the Jehovah of the Old, is the Jesus of the New.  Let’s face it,
because Jesus is Joshua,  which means ‘Jehovah Savior’.  

16.	All right, get over here in Ephesians 3 now, and I can read, 

			(1)	For this cause…

	  Now notice, Paul is saying ‘for this cause.’  What cause? Because
of this great thing that lies ahead, the building of the temple to God. 
The building of the body of Christ. And remember he hits that over in
Ephesians 4: again.  The Book of Ephesians is definitely all Bride. 
It’s all Bride.  It's the one Bride Book in the Bible.  Now, when you
place yourself under Bride, then don’t go back where the parallel is a
negative.  Ephesians is not a negative Book.  You see?  Over there in
Corinthians he has to talk about a body.  See?  And they were in
trouble.  Over here, there isn’t any trouble.  The church in Corinth
was not in order.  See?  But the church in Ephesus was in order.  See? 
Okay.  

			(1)	For this cause…(what was said forth here, of what God’s plan
was)                                     				I …, the prisoner of (the
Lord) Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

			(2) 	If  (you) have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God
which is 						given me to you-ward:

			(3)       How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery;
(as I wrote

                       afore in few words,

			(4)       Whereby, when (you) read, (you) may understand my knowledge
in the 						mystery of Christ)

	 Now, he’s telling you this is a big mystery in Christ.  

			(5) 	Which in other ages (or generations) was not made known unto the
sons

                        of men, (now It doesn’t say it wasn’t make
known, as though it had never

                        been known.  Watch the language.) as it is now
revealed unto his holy

                        apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

			(6) 	That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body,
and

                        partakers of his promise in Christ by the
gospel:

			(7)	Whereof I was made a minister, (of the gospel to that end, see?) 
                             				according to the gift of the grace of
God given unto me by the effectual 						working of his power.

			(8) 	Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given, 						that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of 							Christ;  

			(9) 	And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, 	
					which from…(before times eternal. See? had) been hid in God…

17.	 Let’s notice it. It doesn’t say that they weren’t aware of
this.  See? They knew something lay there.  But they didn’t know how
to place It, until Paul came along and placed It for them.  Now he said,
"These mysteries back there."  That’s where Bro. Branham could say
that, “this age would reveal mysteries hidden before the foundation of
the world.”  It didn’t mean they weren’t here in the Scripture,
when he came out and said, “Hey, I’m going to tell you something
new, and bless God, this is something different.”  He said, “No way
can you change the Word, by taking or adding from It.”  But what It
is, It wasn’t known in those ages, as It’s known today.  You see?

There’s a depth of revelation that is superior in this age, as it
never was in any other age.  See?  There’s just no way.  

	 Now,  [Ephesians 4:]

			(9)	… which (had) been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus 
						Christ:

			(10)     To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly 						places might be (made) known by the church the manifold
wisdom of 						God,

			(11)     According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ
Jesus our 						Lord:

			(12)	In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith
of 						him. 

	  Now, he was telling us right here, that there was a purpose God had
revealed.  And yet it would remain hidden until a specific time when it
would be thoroughly known.  That the Gentiles had a part of this, and
you will notice it’s the baptism with the Holy Ghost. See? God was
bringing this to pass in his own particular and wonderful way.  And so
therefore, when Jesus said, “I’m going to come back,” the Holy
Ghost came back.  And that was, Jehovah Savior.  That was your rebirth. 
See?  

18.	Now, you don’t have to turn to it…but, John 4: 24 says.  that
“God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship Him in spirit
and in truth.”  And then Paul brings out the definitive part of that
in 1 Corinthians 2: and those verses where he speaks of how that is
done. The revelation comes by someone with the authority to speak the
right Word, that will give you an understanding.  And of course, in this
age, it is greater than ever, because God Himself, is now with the Bride
that conducts her safely through. You see?  

	  Just like this same Pillar of Fire way back there.  You notice in
certain places I mention in John 14: and  drew your attention to It. 
And in some places, it was ‘in’ and others ‘with’.  Now today
you see as a Scripture says, “He dwelleth with you, and shall be in
you.” [Jn 14:17b] It is now, “He is in you, but does dwell with
you.” Of course I’m not touching too much of that tonight.  That’s
for other times, and we brought some of that out Sunday morning.

19.	So,  again we see perfectly when Jesus said there is a day coming
when you know the truth of you are in Him, and He is in you, or I am in
you, and you are in Me.  Now, Bro. Branham categorically stated, that
would be three times.  The First Church Age, this hour the last Church
Age, and at the White Throne judgment.  I can understand why he did
place It there.  That’s the right place to put It.  So today, we have
an understanding that only the First Church Age ever had concerning the
truth of the oneness of the Godhead.  Now, I’m going to let out a
little something here that I don’t like to talk about, because it goes
into other messages.  And I’m going to take an actual full sermon on
it.  But I want you to know this; what is confusing to just about
everybody, is the fact that the Name of the Father is the Name of the
Son.

 

	  And the Name of the Son, is the Name of the Father.  And if you
don’t have the Holy Ghost, and understanding in this Message, you
cannot separate the Scripture, where It’s speaking of God the Father,
not God the Son…now.  But of the Son.  Then if you don’t know what
authority lies in the Father, which does not at this point, lie in the
Son, you’re going to get It mixed up.  

20.	And you'll  read Philippians 3:20 when It talks about our Lord and
Savior Appearing from heaven, …where our citizenship is…you will
think that's Jesus the Son of God in human flesh coming down the road,
is this.  When, it is not so.  It is God Himself, Holy Spirit, that
raises the dead.  See?  So now, you understand what we’re seeing here.
 So, when He said, “I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to
you. [Jn 14:18]  What if you see the Son of man ascended up where He
was?”  The He said, “Don’t touch Me, that’s got to go on back
there.” Then He said, “I’m going to go and come on back.” [Jn
14:28] And He did come back, and the Scripture definitely puts it, it
was the Holy Spirit that came back.  

	  Now, you know the Scripture distinctly says that the Holy Spirit came
upon Mary, but Jesus said that God was His Father.  Well, I’m going to
tell you one thing.  Two men cannot sire the same son.  So, how many
Holy Ghost's are, and how many gods are there?  See?  

	  All right.  We want to see then, what our point is here, that God
Himself, Holy Spirit, Eternal One, is the One that came back.  Because
that’s the One that led Israel. That’s the One that’s the Chief
Shepherd of Israel. That’s the One that’s doing it all.  If I had
time tonight, I’d show you in 1 Corinthians 15: exactly what’s going
on.  And God is doing It.  See?  Just can’t stick around that long.

21.	So, here we are at the point where we can say, that God who is Holy
Spirit, the One who indwelt Jesus, …See? …who never changes, has
entered into a union, with individual members of a composite body,
making a temple of Himself, unto Himself, of each member, and all
members as a whole.  See?  Every one of us is born again, temples of the
Holy Spirit.  And is a temple.  “Know ye not your body is a temple of
the Holy Ghost?” [1 Cor 6:19] 

	  But the corporate membership, the composite, makes the entire body of
the Seven Church Ages.  That’s why Bro. Branham saw them go up… one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven… though they come out of the
ground, …seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.  And it’s got to
be that way, because the last little bit of the Bride, she’s snatched
away a few at a time.  Nobody even notices she’s gone.  I just threw
that in for good measure.   

22.	 All right, we asked, what happened at that union, when God
incarnated Himself thus?  See?  Went as individually, He filled
individuals and corporately building up a Church.  Now, we’re thinking
more in terms of the individual at this moment, because we’ve already
dealt with a measure on the corporate.  Which I suggested tonight again,
when the person of God Himself, the fulness of the Holy Spirit, comes
into the Church.  

	  Now remember, He’s been doing this for three ages, under the face
of the man,  (And you see, that’s three men, I should say)  under the
face of a man, and the end-time eagle.  Under Luther, and under Wesley,
because remember, the seed came out of the ground under Luther.  So, the
Holy Spirit has been coming more and more into the Church, manifesting
Himself, until a time all of God must come into the Church, and manifest
to the Church.  See? I could take Scripture on that, but I just threw
that because the prophet said it. Okay. 

23.	 Now, what has happened when God and man formed a union?  For that
is what the baptism with the Holy Spirit is.  Now, Sunday we brought to
your attention, that… why did God send the Holy Spirit?  And we showed
you conclusively, that you can say many things and you can say them
right, but you’re wrong.  Because the reason He sent the Holy Spirit,
was to unite you back to God.  You see?  To cement you to God.  So
irrevocably, you become one with Him.  "For he that is joined to the
Lord is one in Spirit." [1 Cor 6:17]   "And he that hath not the Spirit
of Christ, he is none of His." [Rom 8:9b]  So therefore, you’re joined
to Him.  

	  Now, that’s what the Holy Ghost is given for.  Not to make you
certain things.  If you are full of the Holy Ghost, attributes will
manifest.  See?  If you’re not full of the Holy Ghost, attributes will
not manifest.  See? That’s why I talked to you very sincerely about
gifts, and I’m going to hit it in about three hours likely on a Sunday
on it.  So, we’re going to try to wrap this thing up, to show you,
don’t you begin fooling around. See? You’ve got to listen to the
prophet.  

24.	Now, well many things happened.  But, the major effect of that
union, the great primary necessity to bring to fruition, the potential
of what lay in there.  And that potential was Eternal Life to the
individual, and through it, bringing into the manifestation in Him.  And
correctly into the horizontal, all that lies in that life. 

	  Now, that’s what God did when you were filled with the Holy Ghost. 
The first great thing, you became alive from the dead, and you received,
Eternal Life, and in that Eternal Life, in the individual and the Bride,
there it lies, the potential of all that lies in God that He wants at
any particular time, both now, and in the future.  Okay.  

	  This does not necessarily mean, that the Bride ever becomes God. 
Now, I know Bro. Branham said, “He became you, so that you could
become Him.”  But he never said, we became God.  Never once.  He said,
“On that great pyramidal City on Mount Zion, there's going to be there
fifteen hundred miles each way, fifteen hundred miles up.”  And he
said, “There’s going to be the Lamb seated on the Throne, and the
Pillar of Fire above the Throne.”   

25.	 So, the Bride never ever became God.  But everything…but she
becomes all of the all that lies in God, that God wanted placed in her
through Christ.  You see?  That’s… plain.  And remember, that the
emphasis of Christ, is on creation. You follow me?  The emphasis in the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,
and all things remain by Him.  Now, you go into Colossians, the same
thing.  So, hold these things in your mind, what I’m saying.  Remember
what I said about Bro. Branham’s vision.  Keep that in your mind.  Now
keep this in your mind.  See?  The great potential in manifestation of
creation, …now, man was created…now, they also find out that Christ
at the beginning of the creation of God, God created Himself in human
flesh. We’re into that.

	  The Bride never becomes God.  Though what is available to her, from
God and in God, she will have.  And she is the beneficiary, and
repository of all of that.  So, we want to consider exactly how this
baptism with the Holy Spirit, this union with God, brings Eternal Life,
into its place and scope.  Okay.  Now, that Holy Spirit was God.  Came
back, fills the individual.  Makes a body corporate by the composite. 
Now, and the picture is, Eternal Life.  The picture is 'the fold' and
they’ll never die.  They'll ever be disturbed.  Nothing is going to
happen to them.  Everything is going to be just right.  Okay.  

26.	 Let’s study this from the Book of Romans, and then we’ll try to
show you, how it is that you and I tonight by this Word, can have the
same change that Bro. Branham had, when he had that vision.  Another, He
said, “I’ll never be the same again.”  

	  Now, that’s what these Messages were all about.  There is no place
after we study this Word in a certain way, that we can ever be the same
again.  Because our thinking is going to be changed.  And if our
thinking is right according to the Word of God, that will be anointed by
the Holy Ghost, to bring us even into the Resurrection.  Bypassing
death. We go to Romans 5:12-21 

			(12)	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death

                        by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned:

			(13) 	(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
when 

                        there is no law.

			(14)     Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over
them that

                        had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
transgression, who is the

                        figure of him that was to come.

 	  Now, It tells you right here, they were dying.  So, what are you
dying for?  Nobody told them. The law came around and categorized it.
See?  Well, do you know right off the bat, they couldn’t do anything
about themselves, they were stuck.  They had a sentence of death in
themselves.  Look brother/sister, you don’t even care if the guy dies
of typhoid, or diphtheria… he’s dead. The diagnosis doesn’t help
you one little bit.  What you need is a cure.  See?  All right.  These
people couldn’t figure anything out.   And It tells you, the law came
around, and it really confirmed.  That’s why Paul said, he said, "the
thing that should’ve been life, became death to me."  All it did was
diagnose. 

27.	 Let me tell you something, I told you facetiously some time ago. 
I’ve been running around to doctor after doctor trying to find a
diagnose that’ll cure me. The diagnosis will not cure you.  It just
tells you what’s wrong.  Prescription will cure you.  

			(14)     Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses. (and so on.)

	  Now, 15.

			(15)     But not as the offence, so also is the free gift…

 	  Now notice, he’s making a comparison here. See?  Just the same as
He made Adam a figure of Jesus.  Yet, Adam is a figure of death, and
Jesus is a figure of Life.  How can you make death, equate to life. 
He’s not. He’s using an illustration.  That’s why He’s said the
very thing the process that Adam went through, and destroyed you, and
you had no part in it.  Therefore, the same thing obtains over here. 
There is another process, and you have no part in it.  As you were a
victim here, you are a blessed person over here.  See?  You’re not a
victim now, you become a benefactor.  Well, you become the one upon whom
the benefactor bestows the goods.  

 	  Now, reading on further.  

			(15)	…For if through the offence of one many be dead, (now you say,
many 

                        be dead. We are all dead.  What is the many?
It’s the Elect.  See?) much

                        more the grace of God, and the gift by grace,
which is by one man, Jesus

                        Christ, hath abounded unto many.

			(16)      And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for
the judgment 						was by one to condemnation, but the … gift is of
many offences unto

                        justification.

 	  Now therefore, you can see here.  Sure, you’ve got the sentence of
death in you because you’re a sinner.  You could have the most
multiplied sins under high heaven, it doesn’t matter.  It’s not that
it doesn’t matter, but the point is, when you compare it to what was
done against sin;  the remedy against the diagnosis, it brings the
prognosis, and the remedy wins every time.  

			(17)	 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more (in
other 					 	words…no comparison) they which receive abundance of
grace and of

                        the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by
one, Jesus Christ.)

			(18)	Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
					 		condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift
came

                        upon all men unto justification of life.

			(19) 	For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
the 

                        obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

			(20)      Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.
But where

                        sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

			(21)    	That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace
reign through 					 	righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our
Lord.

28.	 Now, the keys of course, are verses 17-21, where It says, ‘by
Jesus.’  See?  What we’re looking at.  This thing which is actually
Eternal Life, comes by Jesus Christ our Lord.  It is evident that
Adam’s act brought death.  It is evident that Jesus’ act brought
Life.  It is evident that Jesus’ death on Calvary opened the door, or
instituted Eternal Life, even as Adam …his act, opened the door, and
instituted death.  Now remember, death is separation, and life is union.
 And redemption is to buy back.  So therefore, redemption purchased you,
where God could put His Holy Spirit in you, and join you to Him.  Now,
so therefore, the theologians are right, and Bro. Branham was right in
using the same theological terminology, that death is separation from
God.  See?  Now, in other words, the umbilical cord was cut.  Which is
fine here, but it is no good there.  There has got to be a strict union.
 

 	  Now, we’re going to go back to the beginning, to see what this is
all about.  And that’s what we want to do.  That’s what you do with
the Scripture, you got to go back to the beginning, so you’ll
understand what It’s all about.  Genesis and Revelation are the two
great Books of the Bible. 

29.	Genesis 2:15-17, now:

			(15)	And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden

                        to dress it and to keep it.

			(16)	 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
the 

                         garden thou mayest freely eat:

			(17)	 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: 

                         for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.

	  In the day of the eating of it, dying thou dost surely die, is the
way that It’s written.  A literal translation.  Okay.  [Genesis]
3:17-19.  This was after they ate, they got into sin.

			(17)	And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice

                        of thy wife, and (ate) of the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying,

                        Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground
for thy sake; in sorrow 						(you’re going to) eat of it all the days
of thy life;

			(18)     Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
(you shall) eat 						the herb of the field;

			(19)    	In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, til (you)
return unto the

                         ground for out of it (you were) taken: for dust
(you are), and unto dust

                         (you shall) return.

	 All right.  22-24.

			(22)	And the LORD God said, Behold, the man (in this state) is become
as

                        one of us, to know good and evil: now, lest (in
this condition) he put

                        forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life, and eat, and live forever:

			(23)     Therefore…

 	  Now if you think this is just some little bedtime story, you’re
wrong.  This is the Word of God. So, let’s get this flat what we’re
reading here. This is not something that’s a great mystery. A little
bedtime story, and something that has some peculiar mystical thing to
it.  

			(23)	Therefore, the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, 
						to till the ground from whence he was taken.

			(24)     So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
garden of 							Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to 							keep the way of the tree of life.

30.	  Okay.  We go now to the chapter 5:5.  

			(5)	And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years:

                        and he died.

	  Now, you will notice, that Adam was denied immortality.  That is
living forever and ever and ever, in the flesh he was in.  For one
reason, and that was his mortal condition. [Geneses] 3:22.

			(22)	And the LORD God said, … the man is become as one of us, to
know 

                        good and evil: …

 	  He had entered in the midst of that which was perfection itself.  He
had entered in to conflicting forces.  Now, the forces were there.  As
long as they stood apart, nothing would ever go wrong.  But when you
took the two forces, and brought them together, …and we’re talking
now about the sexual intercourse, which brought about the birth of Cain.
  In other words, he took a natural way to bring life, instead of a
spiritual way.  And when that happened, the knowledge of both good and
evil, lay there.  So therefore, nature and all of it was in conflict. 
And God is in harmony.  So therefore, in that condition, and that was
the condition, that God said cannot exist forever.  See?  In no way.  No
way could it possibly, (see?) because of the condition of sin.  He could
not be immortal.

	  Now, immortality or eternality, lay right there already.  Now, you
can say what you want.  But I’m telling you what the Bible says.  It
said this fellow already knew both sides to the coin.  He got himself
messed up.  And God said, “He can reach Eternal Life in that
condition, unless I stop it.”  He just gone, on and on and on.  In
other words, it lay right there, already. Everything was exactly right
but the sin problem.  So, he was cut off.  That’s what Romans 5: said.
 

31.	Let’s go back and take a look.  …I just came from Romans 5: you
see?  That’s why I read those Scriptures.  All right.  Back to Romans
5: It says here.  

			(12)	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by

                         sin; …  (See? That's where it came from.)

  	  In other words, God had to impose the literal, physical penalty to
the body, on the grounds that he’d already separated himself from God,
by indulging in, or crossing, two laws that were not to be crossed. 
Now, don’t you see why women can’t cut their hair and wear pants?  I
didn’t get any women saying 'amen', but I hope you’re smiling inside
honey.  I’m giving you the truth tonight.  See?  Look it, I've warned
you, and I don’t like preaching these sermons, because I worry t
something’s going to happen to somebody.  You cannot be the same
person by next Sunday night.  You can’t be the same person after
Sunday night, nor tonight.  There’s no way you’re going to be the
same person.  Now, you might think I’m boasting, or telling you
something.  I don’t care little what you think.  

32.	I’ll stand in judgment day, don’t you worry.  I know what I’m
talking about.  I’m not responsible for what’s going to happen, once
I preach.  There’s a messenger comes, and knocks on the door, and
gives you the parcel.  UPS comes and knocks on the door, they got it now
so knock on the door, just throw the parcel in.  See?  They don’t care
two cents what’s in that parcel, or any condition or anything else. 
I'm the guy that gets the parcel.  Same thing here.  

	  Now, It says right here, that this man here, brought death into the
world, because he brought sin into the world.  Now, that death course,
has a two-fold application here, because one is separation from God, and
the other is separation from the earth. “…From dust thou art, and to
dust you will return”.  [Gen 3:19]  Now, you’ll notice that Adam
died short of the one thousand years.  "And the day that you eat of thou
wilt surely die.” [Gen 20:7] 

 	  Go in 2 Peter 3:8, we have the well-known ones. “Beloved, be not
ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.” In the day that you eat
thereof dying, thou shalt surely die." He had lost out with God, and the
penalty of his body  must cease, and decease, was forced upon him. But
his death, was not an annihilation.  His death did not bring
annihilation.  His death simply brought, that separation from his body,
and from the life that he was granted by God, under the perfect laws and
working of God.  Now, he merely left his body.  

33.	  We go to the Book of Luke 16:19-26. Now, I hope you’re catching
everything that I am saying because, my words have a real impact later
on.  I’m saying things that the best I can, for what I’m leading up
to.  All right, 19-26. 

			(19) 	There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
fine

                        linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

			(20) 	And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at
his 						gate, full of sores,

			(21) 	…desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man's 						table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

			(22) 	…it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
the angels 						into Abraham's bosom: the rich man … died, and was
buried;

			(23)     …in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and
(seeing) Abraham 						afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

			(24) 	…said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, 		
				that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; 
						for I am tormented in this flame.

			(25) 	(And) Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
(received)

		            	good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: (and) now
he is comforted, 

                        and (you're) tormented.

			(26)     …beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed: so that

                        they which would pass from hence to you cannot;
neither can they pass 						to us, would come from thence.

			(27)	Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou (would)
send him 						to my father's house:

			(28)      For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them…
(and so on.)

 	   Now, that illustrates our point conclusively, of the fact that
there is a place of detention, one of which is a sort of para-physical
place.  Not a true Eden, but a place of …that is, you might say…in
harmony to what man would want, when he leaves this world.  And
there’s a place that is not in harmony, what anybody would want, when
he leaves this world.  Two places, and Bro. Branham described them.  

34.	Second Corinthians 5:1-3, now this is a great comfort.  This is what
Bro. Branham saw.   

			(1)	For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, 

                        (goes down in the dust like Adam) we have a
building of God, an house

                        not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

			(2)       For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
with our 						house  which is from heaven:

	  Now, these bodies we’re in, are not from heaven.  They’re merely
allowed by heaven, in the sense that the Creator created (you know) the
earth and all, and we came out of.  

			(3) 	If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

35.	Okay. 1 Peter 3:18-20

			(18)	For Christ, also … once suffered for sins, the just for the
unjust, that he 

                        might bring us to God, being put to death in the
flesh, but quickened by 

                        the Spirit:

			(19) 	By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

 	  Now, that was not the Spirit of God doing that.  That was the Spirit
of Jesus.  Because, the Spirit of God left Him in the Garden of
Gethsemane.  Otherwise, why would He cry upon the Cross, “My God, My
God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”  He would’ve told a lie.  God did
forsake Him.  Bro. Branham said that’s when God left Him, that was in
Gethsemane.  I think we’re well aware of that.  Now, 

			(20)     Which sometime were disobedient, (now He went by that
Spirit, His 

                        own, justified, perhaps even fortified by the
Spirit of God…I wouldn’t

                        doubt that...which sometimes were the Spirits in
prison) when

                        once the longsuffering of God waited in the days
of Noah, while the

                        ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight
souls were saved by 

                        water.

36.	Only eight people evidently, to the place that was prepared for the
nice ones. And everybody else, could be three billion, the scientists
figure three billion, or better.  There’s four billion right now, I
think.  Would be worse than the flood.  And just think, those few
people, actually went to the place that was a lovely place.  The rest
went to a prison house.  See?  And it was too late, they heard the
Gospel.  That’s what Bro. Branham says at the end-time, the gospel is
preached to them at the end of the Millennium.  Absolutely is.  See?  

 	  Now, you can see here, that man is not annihilated.  The soul and
the spirit, is actually left intact.  And in the case of those who are
the Elect of God, they will go to a spirit body. Now, Bro. Branham
called this a ‘theophany.’  Now, it’s not really a theophany, but 
it's a pretty good expression.  Theophany means; 'theo-fan-ier, which
means 'God Himself showing Himself forth'.  This could be not ‘theo’
theophany, it could be whatever the human is in Greek, or the …?... in
Greek, when you put the mark of the body on it.  In other words, it’s
what is there waiting for us, that we bypass to come down here in the
mortal form.  

37.	All right.  Now, before we go further, …watch carefully now,
because I’m leading into something here.  We must know something very,
very important.  And it is the study of two words, that have to do with
man, and eternal life.  Because, that’s what we’re talking about.  

	  It’s the heart and soul of this subject, that I have in mind.  Now,
those two words in the Hebrew, are first of all ‘life’, l-i-f-e, and
secondly, the word ‘eternal’ which is also interpreted as
‘forever,’ means; ages upon ages.  And remember one thing Bro.
Branham correctly said, …and think most theologians do…that when you
apply anything concerning God, you must use the word, ‘eternal.’ 
And then when you use that in that particular sense, it doesn’t have a
beginning and an ending.  But you can use the same word in the proper
context, and that’s the Greek and the Hebrew.  As many as sixteen and
seventeen different ways.  So, if you don’t know what context, you can
mess yourself up.  

     Now, this word ‘life,’ and this word ‘eternal,’ which can
also be called ‘forever.’  They are the same word, used of both God
and man.  Now, that’s the first thing they get.  You do not have a
separate word meaning life, and you talk about God.  You do not have a
separate word and talk about man.  You don’t have a separate word for
eternal, and talk about man, and talk about God.  It’s the one and the
same word, and it obtains, and it does the same thing in the Greek.

 

38.	Now, let’s go get some illustrations here.  We go first of all to
2 Kings 19:4 and16.

			(4)	It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh,

                        whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living

                        God; and will reprove the words which the LORD
thy God (had) heard:

                        wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant
that are left.

	Now we go to … 16th verse also.

			(16)	 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and
see: 

                         and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath
sent him to reproach the 

                         living God.

 		Now, we believe the Bible is the Word of God.  And I just got to tell
you that's what It says there.

39.	 We go to 1 Kings 3. Now, here it happens to be in verse 22 over
Solomon’s wisdom.   

			(22)	And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the
dead

                        is (your) son. And this said, No; but the dead
is thy son, and the living 						is  my son. …

	The identical word, ‘living’ that applies to God, and this child. 
No different.  No different.  The same word.  Okay.  Let’s go to
Genesis 3:22

			(22)	And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to 						know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and
take … 						of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:  

	 Okay.  We got the Word.  Now, go back to Psalm 102:12, and It says:
[omit comments]

 

			(12)	(For) thou, O LORD, shall endure forever; …

 	 No different, same word identically. In the Greek, it is positively
the same. So, we go to the New Testament, that’s where the Greek is. 
Though in the Septuagint, it is the Old and the Greek, and it was a
standard Scripture use in the days of Jesus, and by all the scholars so
what’s a pity they didn’t just take the Old Testament from the Greek
and just run the whole thing through, it would’ve been a great
concordance. They kind of messed us up.  

40.	Okay.  Luke 12:15

			(15)	And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: 		
				for a man's life (what he’s living right now) consisteth not in
the 							abundance of the things (that) he (possesses).

		And, we get to the Book of Acts 17:25.

			(25)	Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed 				
		anything, seeing he giveth to all life, …

		That’s all, everything that it brings, of course.  Then you can put
it there where you want to be.  That’s life and breath, and all
things, and of course Paul is talking primarily of a man.  

		1 Corinthians 15:19

		(19)	If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men
most 						miserable.

41.	Okay.  Now, let’s go to John 5:26.  You know, Bro. Branham loved
to quote John 5: the verses 19, 24,25 and so on.  All right, 26,

			(26)	For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to 						have life in himself;

		No different, same Word.  Zoe, no different, same Word.  

		Ephesians 4:18

			(18)	Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life
of 						God through the ignorance that is in them, …

 		Notice alienated, separated from God.  Literally, foreigners to their
own father. What did it?  The darkened mind.  When Eve let her mind be
darkened, by the enemy.  You see?  Alienated from the life of God. The
same word ‘life’ is zoe.  

42.	 Now, what I’m doing is putting Genesis 3: 22-24, in its right
perspective.  So, let’s go back to Genesis 3.

		(22)	… Behold, the man become as one of us, to know good and evil:
and

                        now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also
of the tree of life, …and 

                        live for ever:

     Now, there it is.  Now there he was, right in sin.  Got those two
laws mixed up, right in.  Go right ahead and grab it. Now he could have
done it, because the Bible said so.  So, God stopped it, He wouldn’t
let him do it.  Instead of immortality, He instituted the second step of
separation, which was death.  So, now the man, is separated spiritually
from God.  And he’s separated physically, from the place where God put
him.  See?  Now, if He’d put forth His hand, in the condition he was
in, it would’ve been horrible.   Millions of years, of literal
degradation. Try to fight his way out of a morass.  See?  What a
terrible condition it would’ve been.  But God called it off. 

      Now, to us then, eternal life …let’s watch carefully.  Is not
the ability of an entity, or some being to live without an end, but it
is specifically, restoration through Eden, in a physical form.  Now,
remember what I said about Bro. Branham’s vision?  Oh, he said,
“I’ll never be the same again.  I’ve got something settled. 
Why,” he said, “I’m not nothing going to no place.  I’m
something going to someplace.  And in that place, I’m just something
that’s going to be somebody.”  And he said, “Oh, we hugged each
other, and we kissed each other, and they had a ball.”  They were so
happy there, there was a Reality.  Now William Branham didn’t cease. 
See?  There’s no cessation there.  It just went on.  

43.  Now, I say again, eternal life is not the ability of an entity, or,
some being to live without an end.  But it is specifically, in our case,
restoration to Eden, in a physical form. Revelation 22:14.

		(14)	Blessed are they that (wash their robes), that they may have
right

                        to the tree of life, and enter in through the
gates (to) the city.

      Now, as you read the Book of Revelation, you will see that what we
are talking about, somebody is going somewhere in a special vehicle, for
special things.  And they know all about it.  This is exactly what we
read in 2 Corinthians 5:1. At no place, were we meant to be dispossessed
of a vehicle.  To be the dispossessed of what God puts that life into. 
In the beginning God made …created man and woman.  Male and female,
and that was a Spirit body.  And it bypassed the theophany.  And listen,
let’s face it…that which God created, absolutely was a substance,
but it’s a Spiritual substance, that you and I know nothing of.  You
see?  Now listen, and let’s face this fact, that the Spirit is a
substance.   

44.  All right.  Here in some meetings, you know, you’ve heard of it
yourself, and I’m not going to try to liken anything from the Spirit
of God to this thing, when it’ll just bypass everything Pentecost ever
produced.  And you know as well as I do, when people have been devil
possessed, and that devil has been cast out of that person, that devil
has such power to actually knock a person flatter than a fritter. Just
bang then, backing them.  Almost scrape him off the floor.  Now, you
tell me that Spirit doesn’t have some kind of a substance to do that? 
You tell me the electricity that you can’t see, is in some kind of a
substance in its own way, and its own nature?  Just takes one of those
plates off  and somebody stick their finger in. 

      I know all about it.  You can do it.  Well I'll put a pan of water
and help you get off real flat.  Let you drown in the bathtub sometime. 
See what I’m trying to show you here?  The human mind is not
comprehending in this last hour what’s really going on.  Bro.
Branham’s vision did not set a lot of people free.  See?  They’re
still mixed up.  The hope isn’t there the way it should be. See? The
body may dissolve, but the man in the body does not dissolve whatsoever.
 

45.  Now, we want to realize the depth of this, by going to 1
Corinthians 15: 12-34.  This is the chapter on the Resurrection. 
Hampered myself so much last year, didn’t get around to doing half my
preaching.  So, I’m a whole year behind, and I don’t know if I’ll
ever get caught up.  

		(12)	Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say
some

                        among you that there is no resurrection of the
dead?

		(13)     But if there be no resurrection of the dead, (now listen,)
then Christ 					(is) not risen:

	  And once more.

		(14) 	And if Christ be not risen, then our preaching (is) vain, and
your faith

                        is vain (also).

		(15)     Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
				 	witnessed) of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up,
						if so be that the dead rise not.

		(16)     For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

		(17)     And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; (and you)
are … in your 					sins.

            (18)     Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are perished.

		(19)     If in this life only we have hope in Christ, (forget it,
I’m not interested.)  

      Well what kind of a life would you be looking forward to?  You
say, “Hallelujah, I’ve got God, I’m born again, and I’ve got
Eternal Life.”  Have you really got Eternal Life? What is your Eternal
Life?  I’m trying to show you something here.  It’s not just that
you’ve got the Holy Ghost in here that that's Eternal Life.  That’s
not it at all.  That’s the makings towards the thing you’re looking
to.  See?  Just like you’ve got to get full of the Holy Ghost, to get
the union.  Then when you get the union, this is the first thing that
comes out of it.  Restoration.  See?  Now, specifically, restoration
back to the Garden of Eden.  

46.  Now, let’s keep on reading.  

	

		(20)    … now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first
fruits of 						them that slept. (See?)

     The Resurrection, brings up more like Him.  First fruits simply
means, the first one.  And if there’s going to be a first one,
there’s got to be a lot more. Nobody knows how many more.  As Bro.
Branham correctly said, “Every orange that grows on that tree, was
already in the seed that you planted.”  That’s how it is in Christ. 
The first One, brings all the other seed up, that was in there.  Do you
follow me?  Now, He’s talking about Resurrection.  See?  

     All right.  And  remember,  he’s talking about perishing, and
living.  As in Adam, all died.  Now, put it where it belongs. 
Separation.  Dissolution of bodies.  Christ’s union.  Resurrection of
bodies.  You can’t separate them.   See?  

	   No more than you could separate interest on your money in the bank,
if you don’t have money in the bank.  What do you put money in the
bank for?  To get interest.  What are you born again for?  For the
Resurrection.  See?  

47.  Now,

		(21)     For since by man came death, by man came also the
resurrection 						(also).

                       

		(22)     For as in Adam all die, (in identical manner) all be made
alive (in 						Christ).

		(23)     But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits;
(after) they

                        that are Christ's at his (Parousia).

      This to me is the most fantastic Scripture, I love to deal with
it, just literally put in hours into it.  

		(24)	Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom 	
				of God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all…
(authority) 					and all (reign.) 

            (26)      The last (thing) destroyed is death. (See?)

     Okay let’s read a little further. It says here: 

                        

		(29)      …else (what) shall they do which are baptized for the
dead, if the 						dead rise not at all?

      I want to ask you a question. Why are you baptized in the Name of
the Lord Jesus Christ in water?  “Well I’m baptized in water,
because it’s truly said by the prophet, as it was said by the apostle,
repent, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall
receive the Holy Ghost.”  That’s fine.  What does that do for you? 
It doesn’t say that.  It says, “What are you baptized for, if the
dead don’t rise?”  Why are you baptized in water?  Because you
believe you’re going to rise again.  See?  Adam could have stretched
forth his hand, God said, “No.” That’s what It says in the Book of
Genesis. I’m not going to try to change it, It says the same thing
right here. 

48.  Now, It says,  

		(31)	 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our
Lord, I

                         die daily.

		(32)	 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what 					(does it) me, if the dead rise not?...

  	  Oh, Hallelujah, I’ve got Eternal Life. I’ll be up there in some
kind of a body. I’ll be doing this and I’ll be doing that, I’ll 
jump and be floating around.  Oh boy will I have fun.  Ha!  The apostle
Paul didn’t talk that way.  

		(33)	 (Don’t be) deceived: evil (thoughts mucked up the whole mess.)

		(34)	 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some (of you) have not
the 					knowledge of God: I (say) this to your shame.

      They didn’t know what it was all about.  What happened to Adam? 
He left God.  His body died.  We’re brought back, the body rises. 
Separate one from the other.  You say, “Why do you preach this way,
Lee Vayle? I’ll tell you why.  Because the Shout’s the Message, the
Resurrection’s around the corner.  See?  And the hope doesn’t lie
there, only can lie there when it’s anointed.  See?  There’s a
three-fold believing, that we have.  Body, soul, and Spirit.  And the
Holy Spirit has sealed us in, to guarantee the Resurrection. He didn't
say to guarantee that you’ve got Eternal Life.  “I’ve already got
it.”  The Blood, made the way, for the Holy Ghost to join the
(Baptist's?) in order to put you in the Resurrection.  See? You're not
getting it, You're going to change. This Word will change you…don't
care what you say. This world is now paying for it.  

49.  You say, “Bro. Vayle, have you to It all?  No, I’ve got the
revelation of Him and His Name and a few things I slip in now and then. 
That’s dunamis, like this other one. I preached it, because I’m
going to give it.  I don’t have to worry about Bro. Branham says about
the theophany, you can have him. That's his, not mine, this is mine. 
God showed me this last year.  Because I don’t go by the stars
anymore, I don't go by out here,  I go by this Word.  And what's in this
Word I got, that's mine.  See?

     That’s what this Word is being preached for. It  takes you to
understand what is now.  See?   What this is all about.  Because we are
already into the Resurrection, by the Shout.  Now, a lot of you got a
funny idea, that you're  going to be floating around on clouds, and
fifteen hundred different things, and big ministries and all this.  Get
wise to yourselves. He said, “You’ve seen your last sign, to the
Church.” The big ministries lie down the road …?...   See?  And Bro.
Branham categorically said concerning the manifestation of adoption.  He
said,…how did he put it now? “The fulness is in the Resurrection.”
 See?  

      All right.  Now, he’s telling us here.  Some men will say,
“How are the dead raised up, and so on? ”  See?  There’s no room
for confusion today.  We cannot disassociate Eternal Life from
immortality, and immortality has to do with the body.  I see God in this
place, don’t worry.  My place.   

50.  Now, let’s look at this life again, taking some Scripture.
Rapidly, we’ll say. Okay.  We’re going to go to 1 John 5: and I hope
I don’t take too long on this.  Because you’re getting the complete
picture now what we have in mind here.  1 John 5:11-12 then he says.

		(11)	And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this

                        life is in his Son.

     Now, what was His Son?  A human being.  That’s what you’ve been
given.  You’ve been given a life to be like the Son.  And the Son, was
a man.  He could eat, He could drink.  Now, 

		

		(12) 	He that hath the Son hath (got  this) life; and he that (doesn't
have) 						the Son of God (doesn't not have that) life.

     See?  Verse 13, 

		(13)	These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
the

                        Son of God; that (you) may know that (you) have
eternal life, and that 					(you) may believe on the name of the Son of
God.

51. John had the same trouble there, that I’ve got tonight, and
you’ve got tonight.  You believe It, but you don’t believe It. 
You’ve got It, but, you haven’t got It.  You placed It, but you
haven't placed It.  Now He said, "Look here, I’m going to tell you
something: God (he said) He walked in the flesh here.  He was flesh and
dwelt among us.  And we are the Word for our hour, the same thing that
Jesus was, and here, we’re walking the same way."  And He said,
“You’ve got the very same faith and the very same thing is the first
fruits are going to have that.”  And remember Bro. Branham said,
“Jesus ate a fish sandwich,” when He rose from the dead.  I never
could…I never knew why Bro. Branham said that.  I still don’t know,
and I really, you know buzzing around, (you might say, does somebody
know?) Bro. Branham said a thing about the fact that Jesus put the fish
on the fire, the bread and all.  Was there something that lets us know
that Jesus ate some. And I forget, I think Harold Marconda, "Yeah, (he
said) Bro. Branham said Jesus ate a fish sandwich." 

      Well, I'll  buy that.  I didn’t think it happened, but praise
God, I’m glad to be, maybe I'll eat fish. If I don't, it's still
alright. Because you see the Millennium was anomaly when Jesus was here.
 That could be interim.  But you see, we're looking at this the way It's
written.  

52.  Now he said here, 

		(13)	These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
the

                        Son of God; that (you) may know that (you) have
eternal life, and that 					(you) may believe…  

      Now notice what It says here.  You get three kicks, first of all,
you believe on the Name.  See?  Now, the point is: I see we’re
baptized unto the fact you’re looking forward to get baptized with the
Holy Ghost in order to come back in this flesh, and be eternal and
immortal.  Now It says here:  

		(13)	…that you may know you have eternal life, (and this is the fact
that 					you do have Eternal Life, because, you understand It.)  

     Then It says, because now it comes back with such an impact.  The
assurance lies in there.  See?  Now, if I ask the question.  How many of
you are assured you’re going to really make the Resurrection?  You
know what you do?  You chicken out.  Don’t you?  "Well, it's just
something down the road, Hallelujah. We'll go up and float on a cloud,
and maybe after centuries, and maybe of years of floating around it's
…?... "

     You're entirely wrong. He could’ve gone to the Tree, and lived,
but God put a stop to it. He had everything there, but  just one thing
that wasn’t settled.  The condition.  Get the conditions right…like
that.  See? You already were in eternity.  If you were in the Son, and
you’ve got that spot, you were already eternal.  It's a matter of
getting you back.  To that, all that Adam messed up, Jesus Christ
un-messed, brought them back.  

53.   Okay.    

     1 John 4:13

		(13)	Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he 			
		hath given us of his Spirit.

     Now, that's what we already took.  And with that, back in [5:13]

		(13)	These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
the 

                        Son of God; that (you) may know that ye have
eternal life,... (how 						is He doing it? He's dwelling in you.) 

      And what is that life He says up here?  This is the record God has
given us Eternal Life, and this Life was in His Son." [1 Jn 5:11]  Now,
I don't believe he's talking just about the fact that the Son is the
body.  And we have become a corporate body. I don't believe that at all.
 He’s talking individual. Getting them assurance.  That where their
faith is, and their faith is where He is, and what He does, we’re
identified, and not only identified, we’re a hundred percent with Him.
 We’re just like Him, as part of the first- fruits.  

54.  All right.  1 John 4:2

		(2)	Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth
that 					Jesus is come in the flesh is of God:

     That’s very good. "Every spirit that he confesseth that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is of God."  Now, he’s not talking about
the fact that He was flesh way back there, that God dwelt in.  He’s
talking about the fact that the Spirit of God dwells in flesh.  

     All right.  If the Spirit of God is supposed to dwell in flesh,
what’s going to happen to your flesh and mine when we die?  It's got
to get raised.  Because remember this time, the Spirit of God though It
left Jesus for the atonement, does not leave us.   No way.  The certain
soul, is joined together by the Holy Ghost.  And right there, the Spirit
body that God’s got waiting for you, that you and I bypass in order to
bring you right down here.  Can’t get away from it.  See?  You can’t
separate that flesh. Verse 15.

		(15)	Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
(dwells) in

                         him, and he in God.

     Notice, what did Paul say?  He said, "What were you baptized
under?"  Why did you get the Holy Ghost?  What is it all about?  Just
trying to bring these verses to show you. Chapter 5            verse 1.

		(1)	Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: …

   Over in verse 8.

     

		(8)	(These) three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the
water,

                        and the blood: and these three agree in one.

     Now, there's witness on earth; Spirit, water and blood, they're
agreeing in one.  What are they agreeing to?  Agreeing back to the fact
that the rebirth, God manifesting Himself in you and me, and so on. 
Now, 

		(9)	If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:
for 						this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

    Now, just hold it right there.  The Son testified, that He gave His
Spirit, and the witness here is, that we have the very things that is
going to put us into the Resurrection.  That’s what Paul says, over
there in Romans 8:  These Scriptures, all dovetail.   

55. Now, let’s go to Matthew 10:32.  I’m going to cut verses out
here, because I don’t want to take too long.  Because we were covering
this subject well enough to get the point across, without belaboring it.
 All right. Chapter 10:32, and It says as we have read the other day:

		(32)	Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess 

                         also before my Father which is in heaven.

		(33)	But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny
before

                        my Father which is in heaven.

     And here is what It says here…literal translation. "Therefore,
let everyone be of such character, that he will confess Me before men,
in the realization of, and testimony to His oneness with Me,  I will
also confess him, before My Father Who is in heaven, in the realization
and testimony of My oneness with Him." All right, what's He? 
First-fruits.  

      Now, if you can’t confess to being first, what does it leave
you? Don’t you see what I’m trying to tell you?  The First Church
Age, they could not believe in the Resurrection! They couldn’t hack
it. See? And Alpha is Omega, the same problem comes at the end Age. See?


      Do you realize the Tree of Life is just out here? We’re not
looking for the theophonic body to go up to.  We’re looking for it to
come down and meet us, then, we go up.  See?  And we’ve got to jar
ourselves.  You don’t look in another place, then what the Word has
told you to look.  Bro. Branham kept warning us.  “Always looking
back, always looking forward, never mind what’s going on.”  That’s
why I’ve got a whole series of sermons on ‘What God is doing now’.
 And this is one of those things.   

56.  All right. Go to John 11:   getting in the Gospel. Verses 25,26. 
Now notice, when this took place at the graveside of Lazarus, Jesus
Himself could not die.  And risen, 

		(25)	(And yet, He said … I am the resurrection, and the life: he
that 						believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

		(26) 	And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never (perish). 	
				Believest thou this?

     Now, you notice right in here, this was God speaking in the first
person.  This was not Jesus as a man saying this.  This was God. 
Because, God alone could raise the dead.  The Bible says, He kills and
make alive, He bruises and heals, and all these things.  He brings good
and problems to us.  That word 'evil' is usually problems. Now, He says
here,

		(26) 	And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die…

      Now, the promise right here is, that those who believe in Him, and
are in Him, have the promise, of what took place here.  And remember
Jesus…or God, was in the human body, at that particular time.  So,
He’s referring to the very fact of His Life and the person coexisting,
in that vessel.  See?  “I am the Resurrection, and the life.” [Jn
11:25] 

57.  Now, over here in Romans 8:2, we get more verses.  

		(2)	For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (has) made me
free 						from the law of sin and death.

     Now notice, the law of the life which is in Christ Jesus, which is
in me, has made me free from the law of sin and death.  In other words,
sin diagnosed or undiagnosed, is finished. And so is death.  See?  We're
looking forward to those that are in the graves, coming out of the
graves.  8:10-11,

		(10)	And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the
Spirit

                        is life because of righteousness.

     But, It also says, you shall, the Holy Spirit has given you a seal
in your body, in order to raise the dead.  Now, that’s what It says. 

		(11)     But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you,

                        (if you’re full of the Holy Ghost.) he that
raised up Christ from the dead

                        shall quicken your mortal (body) by his Spirit
that (dwells) in you.

     So, number one, separated, brought back.  Death, brought up.  See? 
Okay. Also 22-23 of the same verses.

		(22)	For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain

                        together until now.

		(23)     And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
first-fruits of the

                        Spirit, even we ourselves (are) groan within
ourselves, waiting for the					 adoption  to wit, the redemption of our
body.   

      They said, “We can’t wait to get our bodies redeemed.”  Now,
may I ask you a question?  How many here tonight are really longing for
It?  I mean really longing, in such a way, that there’s nothing left
that really matters.  See, Paul the apostle was there.  He wasn’t
talking about pie in the sky now, he was talking about a fact of an
actual resurrection.  Now these people in the early church, they were
not fully cognizant, of the Reality as was the apostle Paul.  But there
is a Reality here, that must be reckoned with.  See? Okay.  

58.  Now, let’s just check over here in 1 Corinthians 15: again.  And
I want to show you something here.  It said over here in Romans, that
the whole creation is groaning.  And they're waiting for our release, in
order to get their release.  And in 1 Corinthians 15:35,

		(35)	But some will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body

                        do they come?

		(36)	(You) fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it
die:

     And that which you sow, you don’t sow that body that shall be,
but a little old bare grain with some kind of a life in it.  Maybe a
wheat or something.  But God gives it a body.  What you sow, the grain,
the sperma, the seed that you sow, God gives it a body and it has
already pleased Him.  You come back in the same body.  Now, it’s not
the same body, with a trouble in the body.  But you’re going to look
like you.  And you’re going to be you.  See?  It’s going to be the
same body, that changed.  

59.  Now listen.  All flesh is not the same flesh.  Now, what’s He
talking about?  Resurrection.  Now, if man alone was going to get
resurrected, why would he worry about flesh?  So, all nature is going to
come back.  I don’t know if every single fish is going to come back.
And every single horse, and every single cow, and everything else, but
they tell me, that in the species of the world today, they're losing ten
of the original creation of God, in the bugs and the birds and animals,
…ten per day.  Now, you think God’s not going to bring them back? 
If He’s not going to bring them back, why did He have them in the
first place?  Be kind of silly.  

		(39)	… another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of
birds.

     Bro. Branham saw his dog and horse, back there.  I said,
“Amen,” I'm going to see some of mine too.  Now, if these birds down
here want to quibble and fool around, it tells you that they don't know
the first thing about the Resurrection.  And get ready for It.  And they
don’t want the Resurrection, the way that God wants It, they want
their own stupid ideas. Well, they could have the… I’m not
interested in your ideas.  I want to see the dogs, I want to see the
cats, I want to see the birds, I want to see it all.  See?  

       

      Now, He also says there’s body flesh, there's body terrestrial. 
That’s what He’s going to do, in the final Resurrection.  He’s
going to dissolve it all, and bring it all back.  There’ll be greater
suns, and greater moons, and everything wonderful.  Just the way, it’s
supposed to be. Because, the earth is waxing old like a garment.  And
the universe has been going down the drain.  

60.  Now, let’s go there, (because we only read the first three
verses, alright) 2 Corinthians 5:1-5, then I says in verse 4. 

		(4)	For we that are in this tabernacle … groan, being burdened: not
for 					that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality…

      Now watch it: Mortality, has to do with that time, with that body
that Adam had, and he couldn’t get it.  Paul said, "I want to tell
you, I’m ready for the Tree of Life right now."  They were ready at
that hour.  And there’s no person not born again, that’s not ready
for that Tree of Life, if God is ready for It.  If God’s not ready for
It, it can’t happen.  See?  Because that’s at the very end.  Now, He
said here, 			            

		(4)	… that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

     Now, where’s that supposed to take place? 1 Corinthians 15: tells
you that. That he said here: 

	

		(51)	Behold, I shew you a mystery; (We'll) not all sleep, (we'll) all
be 						changed,   

		(52)	In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the last trump: the
trumpet 					shall sound, the dead shall be raised incorruptible that we
(should) 						be changed.

	

		(53)	 For this (corruptibility) must put on (incorruptibility), and
this mortal 					put  on immortality. 

       Now, He tells you right there.  He knew jolly well that there was
no place with an unclothing.  The righteous go to a body prepared.  And
if they don’t have to go to that body, you get immortal right here. 
And as you get caught up, you get the thing you didn’t get.  See? 
There’s no problem whatever. 

61.  Now, Ephesians 1:13-14, which I’ve been quoting in a semi, very
semi, very poor manner.  But here It is here.   

		(13)	In whom ye also trusted, after that (you) heard the word of
truth, the 					gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that (you)
believed, (you) 					were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

		(14)     Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption
of the 						purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

     Now, the praise of His glory, does not even begin to get rounded
out, until the first-fruits are there with Him.  In other words, all the
first-fruits, Christ and the first-fruits.  See?  Now, It tells you why
the Holy Ghost was given to you.  That’s the initial baptism with the
Holy Ghost.  And then the next verse is, to teach you that God Himself,
comes down to make sure you make the scene on immortality.  That you
don’t even die, you walk right in.  For this (mortus) death doom that
was put on this immortal that cannot die.  

     Now, you can see more clearly why Bro. Branham preached in 'Christ
the Mystery of God Revealed' [63-07-28], that one third of the great
plan of God, was to restore fallen Eve, to Eden.  

      He said He did three things.  Reveal, get the pre-eminence, and
restore to Eden.  So therefore, I hit the Resurrection right on the
head, and I hit eternal life right on the head.  See?  Now, he said "In
Him is the Millennium, for He is the Resurrection, and the life.  It’s
all in Him, and we in Him, are now all things."  That’s what the
prophet said.  Even to the New Jerusalem.  For there is where the true
life ends up. 

62.   Revelation 21: 22-27

		(22)	And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb 

                        are the temple of it.

		(23)     And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: 

                        for the glory of God did lighten it, and the
Lamb is the light thereof.

		(24)	And the nations … that are saved shall walk in the light of it:


                        and the kings of the earth do bring their glory
and honour into it.

		(25) 	And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: …no night
there.

		(26) 	…(they'll) bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

		(27)	And (there's) no wise enter into it any thing (to defile) neither


                        whatsoever worketh abomination, or (make) a lie:
but they which 						are written in the Lamb's book of life.

     You can see right here, according to the Scripture, of the Book of
Revelation, which is the end of all things.  And also, is the opening of
all those things, which lay in the realm of eternity, which we do not
know too much of.  That it is all a very physical thing. It is all very,
very physical.  

63.  Now, we go on a little further.  We go up in [Revelation] chapter
22, verses 1-2.

		(1)	And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, 

                        proceeding out of the throne of God and of the
Lamb.

		(2) 	In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was

                        there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded

                        her fruit every month: and the leaves of the
tree were for the healing

                        of the nations. (To keep peace.)

       Now, who’s going to eat them?  What’s it doing there?  You
see, the whole thing is physical.  The whole thing is physical.  And you
cannot even begin to speak of Eternal Life, outside of a revelation on
the Resurrection that you are a part of It.  Because that is what
happened, because that’s what was lost.  When sin separated man, and
the body dissolved, it was necessary then, that God joined back and
raised the body.  Now, that’s what Eternal Life is all about.  It is
not anything else but that.  See?  That is what happened when the Spirit
came.  

64.  Even the future is already past, as is seen in  Romans 8:28-34. 

		(28)	And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love

                        God, 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.

     Notice, that you were elected, called, predestinated, to be a
first-fruit.  That’s what it’s all about.  See?  Now, here’s the
thing, people are always worried they’re going to miss something. 
I’m here to try and drive the nail down and clench it, that you
can’t miss it. Then, put it on your notebook.  Your shopping days are
over.  People still think that they’re going around and shopping for
the Millennium. They go around shopping for the New Jerusalem.  If
you’re born again, it’s done been shopped for.  See?

		(30)    Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
whom

                       he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also 

                       glorified.

		(31)    What shall we then say to these things? (Hey man) If God be
for us, who

                       can be against us?

    And then It tells you how it happened.

		(32)     He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how

                        shall he not with him also freely give us all
things?

		(33)     Who (dares) lay any … charge (against) God's elect. It is
God that 						(justifies).  (Who dares condemn me in God’s court?)

		(34) 	(Who dares condemn me in God's court? That word means, 'condemn 
				to death'. Why he said,) Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, 					who is even at the right hand of God, (making) intercession.
(You see?  					He’s trying to show you, what we are into.)

 65.  Now remember, this follows the chapter on the Holy Spirit
guaranteeing you your resurrection.  You being a son of God, all nature
waiting for the adoption, and then lays it all out here, and said,
“Look, how are you going to miss it?” Remember, the apostle Paul was
so close to that resurrection, he said, “I don’t want to hear about
anything, outside the Resurrection.” People say, “Look here, I want
to get away from all this mess.”  That’s child’s talk.  I want to
get in that Resurrection.  That’s the man talking.  See, the child
talk is always ‘get away from that stuff’.  Men with vision, want to
get into something.  See?  It’s already happened, as seen in this
particular image.  

     So, as in the previous messages, we see that when the Holy Spirit
comes and unites the seed, with Christ the Seal, or guarantee of the
Resurrection, and Millennium, is affixed. And one is completely assured
of his inheritance in Christ.  In other words, when Christ purchased
him. By faith already glorified, indeed we have already had, said the
prophet, “A Spiritual Resurrection.”  In other words, even that has
been taken care of.  See?  

66.  Now, here we are at this point, alive from the dead.  Henceforth,
we will not perish.  Because we have Eternal Life.  And we can declare
with Job [19:]

	

		(25) 	… I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
the

                        latter day upon the earth:

		(26)	And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh

                        shall I see God:

		(27) 	Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not


                        another; ...

67.  In other words, I’m the same guy coming back, I’m going to be
there.  Now you see, that’s what it’s all about with Christ.  See? 
First-fruits.  And Paul said, “Don’t you dare move this, or we are
of all men most miserable.” [1 Cor 15:19] If there’s no such thing
as the Resurrection.  He said, in other words, if I’ve got to be some
kind of a disembodied spirit floating around, even in good condition, he
said, “Forget it.” You see, it won’t add.  Because man was put in
place in the Garden.  That’s where he fell.  He’s got to go back. 
See?  Now, we’re right at the very verge, my brother/sister.  See? 
All right.  

		(27)	…though my reins be consumed within me.  

     Immortality, is waiting for the entire New Testament Bride, because
of that unveiled life of Christ, which we saw…over here a bit in,
Matthew 16:28 

		(28)	Verily I say unto you, (there'd be some) standing here, (which
shall)

                        not taste of death, till they see the Son of man
coming in his kingdom.

      You know something, we’ve already seen Him.  I can prove it to
you by Scripture, the kingdom’s here.  You just haven’t taken over
yet.  But I can absolutely prove it to you.  That, that same One, that's
going to come back in a glorified body, if we just possess the whole
thing in the right way, the right shape, and the right form, that same
One is right here, bringing everything under subjection.  Now, in 1
Corinthians 15:53-54, it is deathlessness…which I read a while ago…
filling up the Bride, now by the Spirit.  It’s deathlessness. We read
it to you. 

68.   Okay.  Thumb through Scripture quickly, Romans 2: and a little old
verse over here verse 7, and It says,

   	(7)	To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory
and 

                        honour and immortality, eternal life: (Can’t
separate them.)

      If you’re immortal, you’re eternal.  If you’re eternal,
you’ve got immortality.  Can’t have one without the other.  No way,
because there’s no way where the Spirit’s just floating around. 
Everything has a substance, everything has a manifestation.  Everything
has got to have its part in there. 

69.  Okay.  2 Timothy, we’re hitting some Scripture, 2 Timothy 1:10

		(10)	But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus
Christ,

                        who hath abolished death, and … brought life
and immortality to light

                        through the gospel:

      Now notice, you can’t separate life and immortality.  Now watch.
 I said awhile ago, that this life in the Greek that pertained to God,
and pertained to man, was the word, ‘zoe.’  Now I know that men like
Dr. Bosworth, and Bro. Branham, and the theologians, will tell you, and
correctly so, that when you see the word ‘zoe’, you’re dealing
with eternal life.  And that is true.  But let’s get down to what zoe
is.  Zoology, life as we have it here.  So, God puts His life as we have
it here, and that’s what you and I are to expect.  Is the life that we
have now, will be ideal, under ideal conditions. That’s why the devil
is bound.   God wouldn’t even have to destroy the devil in order to
put him in a lake of fire.  Just let him stand out there and he will
have the worst time of his life, watching the saints gladly marching
around, him trying to buzz you, and mess you, and just walk away.  

      “I don’t even recognize the bird”.  See?  Back there in the
Garden, Satan fooled him.  But you could lose a billion saints, there
wouldn’t be one Bride messed up.  But God doesn’t want anything
that’s not original.  Not under His proper ages, under His control
now.  So, He gets rid of him.  He’s not there:

		(10)	But is now made manifest by the appearing…

     Now, I’m not sure that that word there is not Parousia.  That’s
‘shining forth’ I believe, I’ll have to look in my book again.  I
didn’t make any mark in my Bible on that.  

		(10)	(made manifest…) of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath
abolished 					death, and (has) brought life and immortality to light
through the 						gospel:

70. Now listen, the same One in a Pillar of Fire, that came and brought
this Word, is the same One that came back in the Pillar of Fire to
explain and bring to pass, the Word of God at this very point.  

      And brother/sister, it is true, the prophet correctly said, when
he said, it.  “He does all three in descending, for the Lord Himself,
shall descend from heaven with the Shout, the voice of the archangel,
and the trump of God.”  and that’s going to make everybody here
ready, …that’s Bride, so the dead can come out of the ground.  And
when they come out of the ground, and get their change, we can have our
change, and the next thing is, caught up.  

     Now It says, He Appears to do that very thing.  Because the word
‘Appearing’ in 1 Thessalonians 4: is Parousia, which means; ‘His
Presence’ which is the ‘Appearing’, that is going on right at this
minute.  

     And remember, He Appears for this very end.  Now, it is life
unending, un-decaying, that lies ahead.  That we have the essence of
now, and all we are doing is waiting for the time.  It’s not that we
don’t have it, we do have it.  But there’s got to be a season.  See?
And remember, let’s face that season brother/sister, God has not yet
turned to the Jew.  Just got them back in the homeland.  You’ve got a
clock, you’ve got a timepiece.  No way, are we getting out of here,
until God has turned to the Jews.  

71.  Now listen.  Right now, we go to …Revelation 22: beginning at
verse 8.

		(8)	And I John saw these things, and heard them….when I had

                        heard and seen, I fell down to worship before
the feet of the angel

                        which shewed me these things.

		(9)	(And he said, don’t you do it): for I am thy fellow servant, and
of thy 					brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of
this book: 					worship God.

		(10)	 And he (said) unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
this book: 

                         for the time is at hand.

	

      From Revelation 10:4 to this point, Revelation 10:4 ‘seal’ the
Book.  This point, ‘unseal’ the Book.   And, at the point where the
Seals are opened, and the Book is unsealed.  Now listen brother/sister,
let’s get this flat…did He rip off seven Seals or Six Seals?  Now,
the prophet can’t reveal any more than what is ripped off.  But, I
don’t know one place in the Bible, that says He ripped off Six, and
left the Seventh setting there.  I want to ask you another question. 
How do you open the Book if one seal is left on it?  You don’t open
it.  So, the Seals are opened.  And at that time, this is the time:

		(11)	He that is unjust, (is) unjust still: and he (that’s) filthy,
(is) filthy still: 

                        … he that is righteous, (is) righteous still:
… he that is holy, (is) holy 					still.

     At that time.  When did that take place?   When the Mighty One
comes down, called, the Pillar of Fire, and the rainbow around His head.
 The messenger of God, which is God Himself.  

		(12)	And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
every

                        man according as his work shall be.

		(13) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the last.

     In other words, it’s all wound up.  Listen.  

		(14) 	Blessed are they that (wash their robes…that is, in the Greek
it does 					not say, ‘do His commandments, it’s wash their
robes’) 

       Everything with immortality has to do with robes. Believe me,
it’s all through the Scriptures, I explained that in 1 Corinthians 15:
it’s on the old tapes, if you want to look at it again, if they’re
around. I don’t know.  

		(14)	… that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter
in through 

                        the gates into the city.  

    Now, It tells you right there, at the time that the Seals are
opened, the Tree of Life returns to the earth.  The Sword of Flame, and
the Cherubims is taken away from it.  See?  The Tree of Life, is again
back into the earth.

72.  Let’s go back to Genesis 3:23

		(23)	Therefore, the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, 	
				to till the ground…

       And He put a Cherubim there, to keep him out, and get away from
the Tree of Life.  Now listen. The Cherubim was to keep him from the
Tree of Life, which in turn, would keep him from the Garden of Eden. 
But the Tree of Life is down here today, at this particular time that
men may go to the Tree of Life, and go to the Garden of Eden.  Now, what
was he like in the Garden of Eden?  Physical flesh.  Physical flesh.
See?  Eternal life brother/sister, is not simply a Spirit.  It is a
Spirit, and a condition.  And you can’t have one without the other. 
Or, you’re trying to tell me, the Word of God is dead, and It
doesn’t bring forth fruit.  When God said, “Let there be light.” 
There had to be light, whether that thing was a million years off, or
five seconds off.  And when He said, “Eternal life”, there’s got
to be a body.  

       I don’t care it it’s one year off, or, one million.  You
cannot say, ‘eternal life’ and not qualify the Garden of Eden.  You
cannot bypass the Millennium, you’ve got to qualify.  You cannot
bypass New Jerusalem.  You have got to qualify.  Because, that is
Eternal Life.  You see?  You talk about a pear tree.  Is that just a
tree?  It's a tree. Well, is it a pear tree if there’s no pears on it?
 You can’t do it.  Eternal life …this is eternal life what I’m
talking about.  So, the Tree is back.  

73.  Now, in Genesis 1:26-31

		(26)	And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

                        and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the

                        fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over

                        every creeping thing that (creeps) upon the
earth.

		(27) 	So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created


                        he him; male and female created he them.

		(28)     And God … God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply

	            	(that was given them by the Holy Spirit), replenish the
earth,

                        and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over

                        the fowl of the air, every living thing that
(moves) upon the (face 						of the) earth.

		(29)     And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed,

                       which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which 

                       is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat.

		(30) 	And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
and to

                        every thing that (creeps) upon the earth,
wherein there is life, I have 

                        given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

		(31)     And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very

                        good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.

      You know, brother/sister, we’ve got to get back to that.  It’s
being fulfilled at this very moment.  

74.  Let’s go to the Book of 2 Corinthians…(we’ll be out of here
in a few minutes so, just hang on with me a little bit) just a few more
Scriptures to look into.  And it says  in  2 Corinthians 4:6.  

		(6)	For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath

                        shined in our hearts, to give (us the) knowledge
of the glory of God 					in the face of Jesus Christ.

     Now, with it, 15-18, and It says here,

		(15)	For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might
through

                        the thanksgiving of many (rebound) to the glory
of God.

		(16) 	For which cause, we faint not; but though our outward man
perish, yet

                        the inward man is renewed day by day.

		(17) 	For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
us a far 

                        more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

      Now, how can that be if your old man is perishing, and your outer
man is perishing?  What is working for you in the eternal weight of
glory?  He’s talking about the body perishing.  You’re not going to
tell me, that body’s gone, and that’s all there is to it.  No,
siree. While we look at the things that are seen, but look not at the
things that are unseen.  

		(18) 	… for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things

                        which are not seen are eternal.

     And you’re looking forward to that new life, where all things are
new, when you get there, it’s all over.  See?  That’s what we’re
trying to show you.  It’s all over, it’s all around.  It’s not
looking around the corner anymore brother/sister, it’s right here at
this very moment.  

75.  Now, 1 Corinthians 13:9  

		(9)	For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

		(10)	But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
part

                        (is) done away.

       Now, what did Bro. Branham say about that?  Why he said, “Who
is perfect but God, and 

what is God but the Word. By His grace we know that we have the perfect
revelation of this hour.”  Now listen. 

		(10)	… that which is in part is done away. 

     In other words, the Seven Church Ages, you’re at the end of it. 
Why?  Because the perfect One God is come down, coming more and more
into the Church, until He’s all in the Church.  In the midst.  And
what’s He going to do?  He’s going to manifest everything that goes
with it.  And the first one is, He’s got to deal with immortality in a
Bride that doesn’t die.  Now, Pentecost didn’t do it.  You know,
there’s preachers going around saying Bro. Branham wants to get back
to Acts 2:  Well, I’ve got one word to say to that fella.  If he’s
got too much Pentecost in him, he might have come out of Pentecost,
Pentecost didn’t come out of him.  

76.  Now you see, back in those days, …you know what happened?  Why
they spoke their own language. And somebody heard them preach in their
native tongue.  Now that man didn’t have that happen.  But I had it
happen. I've already been back to Acts 2, I’m not interested.  You
know what?  Because Bro. Branham said this is a million times greater.
They never had a resurrection, they never had a resurrection in the Book
of Acts.  I’m not interested.  So, I hear a lot of preaching, and I
don’t agree with them.  And I’m not going to agree with them, why
should I?     I know I get people fussing with me.  Toronto does a
certain amount. And no doubt some of you, do too, (you see) they you bad
mouth people. You're a tough mean customer. I’m could to tell you
something.  I don’t have to account to you.  

     The apostle Paul and Barnabas, had a donnybrook over John Mark, who
acted like a sissy. He ran home to Mama.  They had a donnybrook, right
in public.  I don’t have to answer, if I’ve got a fight with these
preachers running around, preaching false doctrine.  Unless the prophet
lied about me.  I’ll never preach false doctrine.  Because if I’ve
got a spirit of prophecy, that is the testimony of Jesus Christ.  He
said that's what I had, he called it a ‘flame of fire’ over my head.
 I’m not boasting, I’m trying to make you to listen to me.  You
don’t have to, I may never come back.  I’m just warning you, I may
never come back.  I care less.  But I get sick and tired of these guys
that try to take us where the prophet didn’t take us.  Do you realize,
we’re right on the verge of the Resurrection, of somebody walking to
that Tree, without missing one heartbeat? One blink, one footstep. Do
you understand that?  That’s what eternal life is.  See?  God did
three great things.  See?  Revelation, get the pre-eminence, and now
back to Eden.  

77.  Let me tell you something, brother/sister.  There are three great
things that are gone on.  The first was revelation that Bro. Branham
gave.  But, I want to tell you out of my heart…but then again, don’t
look at Lee Vayle.  For God’s sake listen to me, but, don’t listen
as though I’m somebody, but I’m your brother just talking.  It took
last year, the last few months, to bring me the revelation that gives
Him pre-eminence, and I preached It, since last March.  I preach a lot
of things.  This little bit that’s here tonight, but not much.  I’ve
got about ten sermons, and more to go.  But He, is God, very God.  

     That makes me to know one thing, because God spoke to my heart.  It
took me four sermons, going back and forth wondering, wondering,
what’s going on.  He finally showed me, He said, "You don’t need
signs out there, or here.  You’re in the Word, that’s where it is." 
I know what the Word said to me.  I didn’t know it before.  See?  But
for the first time He's  getting pre-eminence Let me tell you something:
 God is the pre-eminent One.  Right now, you people, … you take sides,
some of you folk, about personalities.  I’m going to tell you, count
me out.  Count me out.  But I’ll put my money where my mouth is.  You
that want to make a fuss, we'll fly him in here, see what's going on. 

78.  I showed you that Capstone didn’t I?  Well….   but they forget
the little lines. Page 47 'The Stature, it think it is.  See the little
line coming down? Bro. Branham drew it, my wife's’ got it here it’s
here in the Bible.   [BV is drawing on the whiteboard] Here's God, this
is what he drew, this is the Word.  It’s the Holy Spirit coming
through the Word.  Coming down here. Now, he said, “Look”, he said,
“Down here, this is coming to the individual. Here's the woman at the
well, I mean the woman at the Simon the sorcerer, Simon the Pharisee’s
house.” 

     All black, but a little white here. See?   Now here’s Simon. 
Simon is in the black. That Word came down, she turned all white.  He
turned all black.  Let me tell you something:  everything in here has to
come down through Seven Ages.  Right?  Then He would come down.  Right? 
Are there any more lines?  No, where does the preacher fit in and say,
“You listen to me, I’ve got something to tell you.”  Your western
Canada says, “Oh, Bro. Branham is gone, you listen to this man.” 
Now you know what I’m talking about…or you’re a bunch of dumb
bells.  I'll slug you. I don’t give a rip.  I challenge you.  When
that man said, “Lee, it's come here in Canada, that you've been made
an absolute.”  I knew the man that did it.  I stood before all the
churches out there.  I said, “I am not an absolute.”  I cleared the
air.  

      When I went to him, I said, “Brother, the people are saying,
since Bro. Branham’s gone, they listen to you as an absolute.”  He
didn’t do one thing about it.  I’m not bad mouthing anybody. I can
name names.  See?  I’m sick and tired, because see I know, God showed
me.   Like a flash of lightening.  Sure it’s down.  Then there’s
nothing more to come down.  Then why do you need somebody?  Do you see
why I’m upset these days, and torn to pieces?  Do you think I’ll
honor any man?  Drop dead.  And go through the whole bunch, every
preacher included.  If I can’t honor Him, Who is here, knowing He is
here.  If you think I’d give you a smile…well, if I wanted your
money or something. (phfft!) Or take advantage…sure.  By some ‘Jack
the ripper’ or somebody.  Sure.  Huh?  Who cares about anybody, down? 


79.  You get in between that Rock that came down, crush to gravel. 
You’re going to get the pre-eminence my brother/sister.  It's going to
close a lot or preachers’ mouths to do it maybe, a lot of church doors
maybe.  The prophet said they'll close them up. I want to tell you, 
He’s here.  And I believe with all my heart, I’m sixty-six years of
age.  And I turned sixty-six, before I knew Him, as I know Him at this
moment.  And I’m not boasting, I’m just telling you flat.  I never
knew Him, as I know Him today.  I can’t tell you what’s going on by
my life, but, I went to the Word.  And the Word began to bear witness. 
Revelation, pre-eminence, back to Eden.  You haven't got a long time to
go.  Maybe in ’82, I don’t know, maybe not.  But the Tree of Life is
here.  I’m not going to read over in Ephesians, I’m going to go to,
Philippians 3:10-15.

		(10)	That I may know him, and (and the word ‘and’ does not
necessarily 					mean ‘a conjunction’, even) …the power of his
resurrection, and 						the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his 						death;

		(11) 	If by any means I might attain (to) the (out) resurrection of
the dead.

     Now, I don’t care, there’s no man living can say in the light
of Paul’s knowledge, “Oh I’m just going to do everything I can to
make the Resurrection.”  Hogwash, you’re going to make the
Resurrection whether you want to make it or not.  But the
out-resurrection from among the dead, is a different thing.  It means
you get up while the rest lie there.  Now he said,

		(11) 	If by any means I might attain ...

		(12) 	Not as though I had already attained, (or we're) already
perfect: …

80. So, therefore, there’s got to be a perfection that will already
bring it about.  And they cannot be perfect without us, so there’s a
perfection coming in the Bride.  And where did Bro. Branham put that
perfection?  She’d have the Word and know what to do with It, or shut
up.  Up to this point, I believe I’ve never led anybody astray off the
Word.  And you know, if I make a mistake I’ll come back and tell you,
… I told you already I looked at Ephesians 4: and though it’s true
He came back as the Holy Spirit, and I thought that was Pentecost.  And
I realized it was not.  It was the Pillar of Fire come down to put the
Church in order, with a five-fold ministry to keep it clean.  

     To keep a clean house. So, she could be a virgin of the Word.  See?
 Can’t drop it.  Now, this is what happened.  I’m going to tell you
why brother/sister.  This First Church Age Bible, was written for the
last Church Age.  And if you read this as the First Church Age, you’ll
blow it. You'd be as the last Church Age. Because, that’s what it’s
all about.  Alpha’s Omega.  See?  

81.  Now, he said,  

                       

		(14)     I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
God in 						Christ Jesus.

 	I press into the Resurrection.  Now, how do you do it?  By standing
still.  By standing still. People can’t stand still for it.  Just take
my word for it. (I'll send you the tapes if I don't preach it, you can
play it yourself, or do what you want with it. Go to the
…?...Scripture, I know what I’m talking about.  

		(15)     Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and
if in any

                       thing be otherwise minded, God (will) reveal unto
you.

		(16)	Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
the

                        same rule, let us mind the same thing.

     We’re at the end-time, there’s only one Message.  There’s
only one eye. You get one Message, the whole body gets full of light. 
See?

		(17)    ( Now,) brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them
(who) 					walk so, as ye have us for an ensample.

		(18)     (For many walk, of whom I have told you, and now tell you 

                        even weeping, that they are the enemies of the
cross of Christ:

		(19)	Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose
glory

                         is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

		(20)	 For our (citizenship) is (from) heaven; from whence also we look
						for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

		21) 	Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto 						(the) body (of His glory.  Yeah, not glorified body, His
glory), according 					to the working whereby he is able even (not too)
subdue…(that word 					is a bad word.)

 	  That word is a bad word.  That word ‘subdue’ sounds like
you’re pushing things under.  You’re taking things in your control
like by force.  The word ‘subdue’ means ‘coming to a natural
order.’  And the natural order is now.  See?  At this moment,
there’s an order.  And in that order, it’s God Himself, Holy Spirit,
bringing everything in line, so that there will be a people ready at
that Resurrection.  God is doing it.  He’s putting it all under the
feet of Jesus.  See?  Now, that’s what’s gone on today
brother/sister. Then listen, confess it.  Be buried with Him.  Risen
with Him.  How?  Not by manner of men, but by His Spirit, which he gives
is to those that repent, are baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.  

82.  I don’t know why I put this in here, but I wrote…have it
written down. Speaking of Christ, on the Word.  Bro. Branham's
'Invisible Union [of the Bride of Christ'] 

[58]	He was only the manifestation of the attributes of God, for He was
the Son 				of God. 

 

     The name ‘son’ is the attributes of his father.  Now, you can
understand right now what he’s saying there.  God was in the body
Jesus, the fullness of the Godhead, bodily.  But you see, He only
manifested a certain thing that He wanted manifested.  Jesus never
created.  You see, all things were already made by Him, but His plan was
for a Redemption.  So therefore, the attributes that God placed forth at
that time, were His attributes that would be in a Son.  And let’s face
it, He tells you about us in the same thing…picture.   

[59]	 …and just as you were in the loins of the genes of your father,
in 

         	 the body of your father when he was a young boy, you were in
him.

         	Yet, he couldn’t have fellowship with you, because, he
didn’t know

      	 you.  But then through the bedding grounds of a mother, you were

          	brought forth into the earth, coming into… your father,
then you

       	 could have fellowship with him. 

      Now, every thing that is you, was not in the Son. Although,
let’s face it. everything that you are, is there, but it won’t be
manifested.  See?

[60]     … so were you, sons… and daughters … , before there even
was a moon, 					stars, or a molecule.  You were sons and daughters of
God for you are 					only the physical manifestation of the attributes,
that were within God 					at the beginning… 

     Now, what about when He said, “I am the Resurrection and the
life?  See? 

		…For, there is only one form of Eternal Life, and that was you,
before….

		( Now, you didn’t know about it, neither did you know when you were
in 					your earthly father) …but you are manifested in His image. In
the image 					of God you are made and manifested for the glory and the
fellowship of 					God.… 

[61]      And, therefore, as sure as your gene had to be in your father,
before your

         	 natural birth, your spiritual gene had to be in God, because,
you’re

      	an expression of the attributes of His thoughts, before the
foundation of

     	the world. … There's no way around it.  That’s right.  Now,
…we notice, 					then, that Life being in you, God’s life being in
you, from the foundation 					of the world.  

 [241] 	 ...“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God.” Then 					you were in God. The Word, the part you’re to play,
was with God before 					the foundation of the world…  He saw you, He
knew you, He predestinated 				you…    

83.  You know what He predestinated you to?  Said,  Eternal Life.
‘Hey, what about that Eternal Life? Just give me an answer eh boy.” 
Well, I’ll tell you what it’s all about.  We’re going back to
Eden.  See?  You can’t get another answer.  What was your Eternal Life
tonight brother/sister?  Your Eternal Life that you have today,
positively, cannot be separated, under any consideration, from the
Resurrection, which we’re about going into.  On this earth, and at the
age which is to come, which is a physical, …wonderful thing.  See?   

	   Now, let’s ask a question, what do you associate with, whenever
you’re associating any thoughts?  You, associate you, in an ideal
condition.  No business, no enterprise, no plan formulated, but always
attempts to be the assurance, and insurance, of the very best that can
accrue to the individual, as he is at that point.  See?  That’s right.
 

      Now, let’s talk about that.  Why do you have treasure in heaven?
 If there’s not a Resurrection, why do you lay it up there?  Why would
kings bring their glory in, if there’s not something going on now? 
See?  Why would you put everything to one side. To make sure you’re in
the Resurrection?  Why would you consecrate yourself?  Now look:
there’s no way you can think beyond thinking as a man.  It won’t
work.  No man knows a thing  except the Spirit of man in him.  Animals
don’t know it.  And the only way we know God, is by His Holy Spirit in
us. 

       And He tells us, those things that we have already known in our
nature, must be there waiting for us somewhere, or what is life all
about?  Then He comes in and tells you.  “Yes, that is right.  But now
let me give you the real clue,” He says.  “I’m going to take you
right back to Eden.”  That’s Eternal Life brother/sister.  I hope
you feel better.  I hope you feel better.  Because if you’ve got any
funny ideas about, …you know, you now can if you want, if God let
you…now you can comeback as a worm, somebody’s going to step on. 
That’s all right by me. Or you could come back as a beast of burden,
somebody riding, and whip the living daylights out of you.  That’s
okay by me. …?... For you that is, but not for me. 

84.  Notice: what I’d like, and I’ve always known, is to be the
ideal person, that I’m not, but I’d like to be, in the conditions
that suit an ideal person.  And if I’m in Him, I’ve got it made. 
I’ve got it made.  See?  And I wouldn’t want it any other way. See? 
I want to ask you a question:  Are you still a kid, where you want to be
somebody else?  When I was a kid, I wished I was somebody else.  I
didn’t really wish I was.  I wished I was in a different family, with
more money.  And more toys and more things.  See?  But down inside,
there’s not one of us, who doesn’t want to be that right person
under right conditions.  Not one. Not one of us.  You say, “I’d like
my face different.”   Your face, doesn’t mean a thing.  

     Your body doesn’t mean a thing.  No, none of those things mean
anything.  That’s merely, the tearing down and misunderstanding, of
what the real thing was.  I said to Bro. Branham one time, (I'll let you
go pretty quick, I'll get to it right away, …I said, “Bro. Branham,
I was just thinking, man wouldn’t it be nice if there’s such a thing
where people could you know…be human, raise their families, without
sin. I said, it’s nice, salvation is nice, and you can see the
potential, but something just inside of me yearns and looks out
wouldn’t it be great, to have our children, and live these
lives….” …?...  He said, “Lee, you’re talking about the
Millennium boy.” And you know what.  They’ll be there.  Yup.  See? 
Now there’s your answer, Eternal Life.  Let the Lord Bless You. 
Let’s rise.

     Heavenly Father, we know that we have been like the First Church
Age, and that’s natural, abstract, concerning the Resurrection.  As
pertaining to the actual reality of the vehicle of Eternal Life.  For
even You said, “This is the record, that Eternal Life is in the
Son.”  Never came down here in the wind, never came down in the sea,
never came down in a cloud. Could have.  Never came down in the beast,
which thank God it didn’t.  But came down in the Son.  And here, we
have the very same thing.  So, that the apostle Paul could cry, “Let
there be no Resurrection, we are of all men, most miserable.  This life
only we have hope, what is the use?”  

     What’s going on here?  And, Lord, we’ve come to that tonight,
and we know that we might not be just as far as we want to be, but,
Lord, I really believe that within the next few months…  I really,
Lord, I can’t go beyond the next few months…not that You told me. 
But I’m believing, Lord, that very, very, shortly, we turn that corner
with every single person in this building, that loves You, and knows You
as Savior; will stand in that place, of the longing for the
Resurrection.  Not just longing to get away, but the Reality of "this is
It, and we are into It."  We believe that, Lord.  I cannot believe
otherwise.  Even if it takes the fulness to see men like Bro. Branham
come out of the ground, that’s all right by me too.  

     But I don’t believe that’s far off, Lord.  I believe that’s
near.  But in the meantime, I believe, Lord, tonight every one of us has
got the right to ask You to anoint the Word to that end, where our
hopes, and our joy, and these things that are real, begin to take a
pre-eminence in our lives, as they have not before.  So, that they stand
with the Reality, Lord.  And I believe that You’re helping us tonight,
and I’m of the opinion, Lord, if because of the fact of what You said
over a year ago, that I can see that we will not be the same, we will be
changed by the very Word that is being spoken.  That there will be no
way that cannot happen.  Because if it is the Word, then, It’s going
to come into a manifestation.  And It’s got to be given back to God,
so, God can anoint It, and we’ll come right up.  

      So, Lord, I believe that’s what’s happened, and in this
service at this point.  I believe, Lord, for myself, that I can say that
through the grace of God, that this is my good fortune tonight, with
this people to take a step higher in our revelation, and the continuity
thereof, which will take us right into the Resurrection.  Lord, may Your
pre-eminence, be what I have sort of stormed about to night, Lord.  And
I admit that I have, because You know, Lord, that I think the discontent
arises from the fact that I myself know so many things, and yet, I just
simply am remiss in them.  

     And so, I am very discontented, Lord, but  I pray you forgive me. 
And help me and all the dear ones here tonight.  To just rise to the
occasion, and  "the Now"  come right into that place, Lord.  And we
believe that, it’s got to be for somebody, Lord.  We might as well
claim It.  And by grace tonight, we claim these things.  For every
single person standing here Lord.  We claim healing, Lord, for those who
need healing.  My God, in the face of the Resurrection, right here
tonight, surely cancer, and tuberculosis, and typhoid and all these
conditions, tumours and cataracts.  How could they stand?  If a man rot
with his face fallen in, would come out of the ground, which we’re
looking for at this time, then, surely, Lord, we know that there is
nothing lacking for anybody, and in any way, shape or form.  

     Because the greater contains the lesser.  And the whole contains
the part.  And, Lord, we can know tonight, and we thank You, Lord, that
we feel that You are dealing with a people at this moment.  And we are
getting revelated.  And by the grace of God, we thank You for our
healing, for the people tonight, Lord Jesus.  And the help that they
needed in victory, Oh God.  And in the problems of life.  And seducing
spirits, Lord, and these things that come upon the people, Lord God, we
stand in the Presence tonight of the Deliverer.  Therefore, we thank You
for deliverance and health.  Bless the pastor, and all the people
together.  And may the grace of God be such, as to cause us to just
stand back in awe, at what great things He has done to our minds, and to
our spirits.  

     Delivering us deeper and deeper, into the kingdom of the dear Son. 
We pray these mercies and believe that we receive them.  And because,
Lord, somehow tonight we feel, that they are being received.  And we
thank You for them, in the name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.  The Lord bless
you.  Let’s just sing as we go, ‘Oh How I Love Jesus’.  

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