What is His Purpose? Bro. Lee Vayle - September 7, 1982 Let’s just pray. Heavenly Father, we’re so glad tonight that though it’s impossible at this time for people who didn’t see the prophet, to see those first two signs. We thank the Lord, it is not impossible that they too shall see the Word that was brought forth in the Message. We are glad tonight, Lord, that though the others have passed on, the Word which You have given, has not passed on but, is here. And You are here Lord, bringing Your Word to pass, so therefore, the Word is living. We cannot separate the Word from Yourself. We appreciate that. We’re very glad to have someone, who is One with His Word. Especially, when It’s Elohim the Creator. We’re grateful tonight, Lord, You’ve opened our eyes, that we’ve not been blinded, by the signs and those things which appeared. Blinded by creeds and dogmas, but rather, Lord, we have anointed our eyes with the eye salve of God, and we are grateful, Lord. Now, Father, we commend ourselves to You, this evening hour. In the study of the Word, the Word of Thy grace the grace of God. Knowing, Lord, it’s not only able to make men wise unto salvation which it has been for Seven Church Ages. But,Lord, this Word now, is able to bring forth immortality. That’s what we’re interested in. Believing that’s the promise of this hour. We are so grateful, there is nothing like it. So, we thank You tonight, and open our hearts and minds now. Getting into Your Presence Lord, perchance not just perchance, but believing, in this reality that we will come to know Your Word better, tonight, and thereby, better know You, than we’ve ever known before. We ask these mercies in Jesus Name. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Well, we’re getting along very good. But my throat’s bothering me. But, excuse me, it’s a little bit rough tonight. But that’s the worst thing that ever happened, we’re in good shape. You know, no use worrying about that. You just kind of bear with me. Now, appreciate very much, the people being here. And appreciate even more, myself being here with the people. You know…not referring to ourselves, but just physiologically, a head wouldn’t be very much good without the rest of the members. I’m not a head, see, I'm just illustrating. Head wouldn’t be much good without, (you know) the members of the body. It’d look kind of funny, how you’d get anything done. Well, if you'd had a preacher up here and no people, forget it. It just wouldn't work. And maybe awful. Appreciate everybody being here. Could mention a lot of names of different ones that came. And Bro. Andy Thompson phoned me, said he got back from Arkansas. He wanted to come over tomorrow so, I said, “That’s great.” I said, “You’ll meet a lot of folks who you haven't a long time.” So, I just went down the names. And I got so good...got feeling so good telling about the names, I began rejoicing myself that they were here and just kept it up. So, we appreciate everyone, love everyone, and trust the same sweet Spirit with last night, with us tonight. Going into the Word of Almighty God. 2. Now, last night, we definitely brought to your attention, that He is here. And hope indelibly imprinted in your mind and heart, if you cannot talk of a Word prophet, without knowing that God is with him. And you cannot talk of God, without a Word prophet. That's funny people kind of think you can divide it. I don’t see how you can. In fact, you can’t do it. See, there’s got to be someone, who reflects. Bro. Branham said, “The prophet was a reflector.” He said, “The prophet is the living Word of God, manifested.” That’s sure stumbles some people. Oh my, they didn’t believe when I made that quote, that’s what Bro. Branham said. Fellow got up and he thought he was some kind of an apostle. I thought he was more of a pistol. Saturday night special kind, maybe. He just rose up against it. It didn’t do him any good, because the prophet said it. I don’t care what anybody else says. I know that sounds kind of tough, but then, every hardboiled egg has a yellow centre. So, don’t feel bad. [laughter] All right. Why is He Present? Or what is He doing? If He is here, what is He doing? Because, we maintain that He is here, in a very special way, that He has not been for two thousand years. The Logos Appearing in the Pillar of Fire, with the prophet. What was He sent for, what is He doing? Why did He come? Why is Elohim here? 3. Last night, in the message, we mentioned God being Present even as He was to Abraham, just before the destruction of Sodom. Now, at that time He revealed Sarah’s wrong thinking on God’s Word of promise, relative to the coming son. You understand what I said. God was Present, to Abraham and Sarah. And He revealed Sarah’s wrong thinking on God’s Word of promise, relative to the coming son. Now, that’s just which is there in that scene, it’s the last thing she who types the Bride, New Jerusalem, in human flesh, receives from God, ere the fire fell. Now, you notice that I combine two things there. The promise in her mind which she knew, but was in error concerning it, was rectified. Plus the fact that God was there, giving the sign of discerning her heart before the fire fell. You can catch the two things. Bro. Branham never put the two together, it specifically in one minute, as I’m doing tonight. He did say the Seventh Seal corrected the errors. He did say that Elohim was here. He did say the last sign the Bride saw was, ever would see, is that sign of God discerning the thoughts of Sarah behind Him in the tent. Put them together. We see a sign, we see an error corrected. Brings out what would you said, to see a sign without a correction, it’s not very valuable. 4. Notice, she was would ascend in His Presence, and had to repent for the loss of her virgin mind, toward the Word. I wonder if the church is repenting tonight, for the loss of her virgin mind, concerning the Word. The church doesn’t even know that she lost her virgin mind, and refuses to believe it. And will deny there is no way she has lost it. But you will notice that Sarah missed the Gospel, the good news of the coming son, she put it aside. She looked unto another son, who came not out of her womb. She said, “Let this son of Hagar, this Ishmael be the one.” She rejected the Spirit of God. The original virgin Bride did the same thing. She took another Jesus, another gospel, another spirit. How desperately we continually get, when you fail on all three, you are bankrupt. Now, when Elohim presented Himself to Abraham and Sarah, and notice I said…Elohim presented Himself. There’s a big difference between us presenting ourselves to God, and God presenting Himself to us. We had been presenting ourselves to God, continuously for two thousand years. What has it done for us? But God presented Himself to them, and Sarah was ashamed, she was rebuked. 5. John who wrote the Book of Revelation, said in this epistle, "that you might not be ashamed in His Presence." He knew there could be an ashamed church, when that One which we are talking about, became Present, and shame has to do with nakedness. "You’re wretched, miserable, blind, and naked." [Rev 3:17b] ...?... Adam and Eve lived in the Garden, they were naked, and they were not ashamed. Because the glory of the Lord covered them. But this church is blind, to the glory of God. Rejoices in her fornications. She should be ashamed, but she’s not. There is no shame before her eyes. 5. So, when Elohim presented Himself, to Abraham and Sarah, He revealed the hour in which judgment was to fall and made known to them, the great mystery of divine grace. That, never would the righteous perish with the wicked. The question arose in the days of Charles Fuller [American clergyman] he was a good preacher, but, he was a politician in many ways. I don’t speak unkindly, I speak knowingly. Time after time I heard him on the radio, and he was going to dissipate wrong thinking, or at least tell us what was right, do we go through the Tribulation, or do we not. By the time, he got finished, I didn’t know if up was down, or in was out, and neither did he. Daniel was a dissolver of doubt. People still scream with jealous adoration, look at this great man, who could tell another man his dream, when he had forgotten it. And they say, “Hallelujah, Praise God, what a great man.” Let me tell you: Bro. Branham told many, many people their dreams. They just spit in his face. 6. I’ll never forget the man in Waterloo, in 1958, Paul Boyd, walked in and he said, “Good morning Bro. Branham, can I have a word with you?” And Bro. Branham said, “Sit down Paul, we’ll have breakfast together.” I was there, and he said, “Bro. Branham, I want to tell you my dream.” And Bro. Branham said, “No Paul, I will tell you your dream and tell the meaning of it, and he did.” Will the righteous perish with the wicked? The answer; no! You say, “How can I be certain?” Because God said so. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Heb 13:8] And if you want to know my brother, my sister, whether the righteous will perish with the wicked, you had better go to God, because God alone, can judge between the righteous and the wicked. And God said, “No!” No times. In plain speech, Genesis 18: is Malachi 4:1-2. I should quote it, I guess, but sometimes I misquote. (1) (And) for, behold, the day cometh, (which) shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and that day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (2) But unto you that fear my name… What name? Lord said, “We fear, not just any name will do.” Don’t say “Hey boy,” and expect me to come running. Don'ts say, “Listen, you big mouth preacher come running.” I ain't going to do it. You better call me by my name, and be respectful. God said to the forward, “ I will be forward.” To the meek He’s meek, to the humble He’s humble. To the sincere He’s sincere. To the respectful He’s respectful. (2) …unto you that fear my name (What name?) shall the Sun of righteousness a rise with healing in his wings; and (you) shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (3) And (you) shall tread down the wicked; … they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. (Rev 19:11- to the end). 7. 1 Thessalonians 5:9, because the Word of God runs in continuity, notice. (9) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation (through) our Lord Jesus Christ, Wherein again, the righteous are separated from the wicked. As It says over in the Book of Luke 17: 28-30. (28) Likewise, also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; (29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, (not on Lot, but on Sodom) and destroyed … all. (but, Lot and the two girls) (30) Even thus (it'll) be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 34-37; (34) I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; one taken, and the other left. (35) Two … grinding together; one…taken, and (one)left. (36) Two in the field; one taken, and the other left. (37) And they answered and said, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where so ever the body is,… Where ever the body is. Bro. Branham said, “You’re not feeding on the word of a man, you’re feeding on the body Word of the Lord Jesus Christ." And wherever the soma is, the lifegiving Word, (37) …the eagles (are) gathered together. But notice, one taken, one left. The one left was not an eagle. 8. Revelation 22: and also reading from verse 10. On into that chapter. (10) And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. Between Revelation 10:4 when the Book was sealed up to Revelation 22:10, it becomes unsealed. And wherein It says, seal It up, and don’t you dare divulge it. Now, It says, “Don’t you dare seal it up, because it has been divulged.” And Bro. Branham said, “If the devil could get ahold of it, he could do irreparable damage. But, he could not get ahold of it, until it was put on tape and the Bride, has the food stored up that going to get her across the river.” 9. Now It says, for the time is at hand, that, (11) He that is unjust, (is) unjust still:…filthy, filthy still…righteous, righteous still: holy, holy still. (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, … “I was there before the destruction of Sodom, I am here now, for the destruction of the world. I was there in the days of Noah when the flood came, I am here now, when the same flood of fire shall come upon the earth.” (13) (Yes sir, He's) Alpha and Omega, …the first and the last. (Tthe beginning and the end. He's all of It.) (14) Blessed are they (that wash their robes) … Don’t put that in your Bible…that ‘do his commandments’ that’s a terrible mis-translation. What can you do to influence God? I always thought God influenced us. They that wash their robes; (14) … have (the) right to the tree of life, and … enter in through the gates into the city. (15) For without are (male prostitutes), and (poisoners), and (traffickers, and licentious women), murderers (who kill men’s souls), idolaters (caught up in the perversion of three gods), and whosoever loveth… a lie. 10. What’s left? Nothing worth tasting. You will also notice that God appeared in human form to them, and promised the covenant of sons, to become flesh to them after the earth was cleansed from Sodom’s fire, but not before it. The seed of Abraham came on earth after Sodom. The Royal Seed can come only after the cleansing. Why should He come down before it? If knowing His descendants of whom all but Noah, had already received a portion of serpent seed. Because, remember It said, Noah was the only perfect man in his generations. And that Word in the Bible, it was absolutely perfect, and genetically is what is said, genetically perfect. He was the last true son of Adam, who was a son of God. His wife and children and their wives, were perverted already. Now, if God cleansed the earth for that man Noah would of come down, let me tell you flat, He’ll cleanse the earth for my Jesus, the great man to come down. And I’m not about to put my foot either on the filth. Hallelujah, I’ve had enough of it. And I’ll put my feet upon the cleansed ground, which has been cleansed by the cleansing fire of Almighty God. Now, I want you to carefully note something about, this great God Elohim, that pertains to the Royal Seed of Abraham, in the days of his flesh. 11. So, we’re going to go here in the Book of Luke. Take Scripture back and forth between Luke and Matthew. Now, let’s look right at; Luke 1:13- 17. (13) But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. (14) And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. (15) (And) he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. (And you tell me, you know God.) Here’s a man full of the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. You and I have got to repent and go through everything else, to get the Holy Ghost. He already had It. Then people sit back and they think that they can second guess God. Don’t try it. That’s why I say Bro Branham may come back with some ministry. I don’t know, but if he does, it’s going to be just like Jesus. He’s going to tell us about the kingdom. You say, “Will he do something?” I don’t know. It’s very possible that he will, because I’m not going to second guess God. If John could have the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. Oh, brother/sister. Don’t try to second guess God. He had the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. Oh, what a promise. Then you people look around, and say, “God, where are my kids going to be in the Rapture?” (Huh?) “God can raise up of these stones.” [Mt 3:9] God can give a child the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb. God can do anything that God wants to do it. Hallelujah, I’m glad God wants to do whatever He wants to do. Oh, I’m a hard shell. I am positively wicked in my stand on grace. Not, free spirit of lust or taste, just grace, grace, grace. I’m amazed at great amazing grace. I am, I’ll be honest with you. I’m not putting on a sideshow up here. Tells you what’s in my heart. 12. Listen: (16) …many of the children of Israel shall (John) turn to the Lord (God of Israel. And John shall go before the Lord (God) of Israel.) (17) (And) the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (even) the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. To make ready a people prepared? Mother prepared the dinner if it's ready? Oh, brother. What kind of language is that? The Elect, needed him. The Elect needed him, the prepared vessel had to be made ready. Are you ready for that day brother/sister? “Well, hallelujah Bro. Vayle.” Don’t hallelujah me because, I’m going to cut you right down, honey child. Without Him, sending John, our Elijah William Branham, you wouldn’t be ready. Period! Because He’s Alpha and Omega, this is the way He did it. There’s no elect child of God, who cannot accept what God does. Period, not question mark. You feel good? I feel great. I could just go home right now, after just saying that much. You just sit there, and just grin. Like Jack's mule that is eating buckberries, [laughter] that’s a southern expression, I don’t know what it was all about, but it sure sounds good. Just grin. Haven't you ever done that, just grin. I’m doing it now, aren't you catching on? That is the holiest grin I can wholly set forth, holy. I just think how wonderful that is. John the Baptist, full of the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb, preceding the Lord God of Israel, and he’s doing something for the Elect, commissioned from God. And, He’s Alpha and Omega. (See?) 13. Now, let’s go to Matthew 3: we’re going to weave these back and forth, with the help of the Lord. I say, “With the help of the Lord,” because often times, I write my notes then, I wonder why I wrote them. Yet, you see, you’re talking to an older fogey up here than, you people realize. You just bear with me. You see, so I’m not going to get turned around, because I figure God’s going to help me. I’ve already been turned around. I mean, I’m not going to turn back, wrong way. Now he said, here in chapter 3: (9) …think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, (that’s that prophet speaking) that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. In other words, he’s saying look it, you are not a part of this act, as pertaining to the initiation and the follow through. Shut up, and sit down. God can bypass you, and start all over again with rocks. That hurts my pride! They didn’t like that. (10) …now (is) the axe laid unto the root of the trees: (that made them squirm) therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. They said, “Now, I think he’s trying to tell us something.” He’s telling us, that we’re the bad trees. (11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, (now who’s coming after him? The Lord God of Israel, in flesh.) whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: (12) Whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly purge his floor, gather his wheat into the garner; (and) burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. All right. Remember verse 12, of Matthew 3: “Whose fan is in his hand.” He who has the fan, will thoroughly purge His floor, and He who has the fan, who thoroughly purges the floor, will gather His wheat into the garner. And He who has the fan, in His hand, and He who will thoroughly purge His floor, and He will gather His wheat into His garner; He, will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. And it’s not called His chaff either. Now, does it? Doesn’t say it’s His chaff, says, His wheat. 14. All right. Verse 12 of Matthew 3: is Luke 1:17. (17) And (John) shall go before (the Lord God of Israel. John shall go before Elohim.) … Who's Jesus Christ? Elohim. Here, in Matthew 3:12, He is separating the righteous from the wicked. “Shall I destroy the righteous with the wicked,” [Gen18:25] says Elohim? No! Then chaff is wicked. Now comes the cut. Chaff is Pentecost. Nice crowd here, but you can thin out any time you want. If you disagree, that’s your business. You're entitled to go. you’ve got your own thoughts. I’m not telling you to go. But I want you to know something: the supernatural God, has supernatural ministries, has prophets that deal in the supernatural. And God is not to be fooled with. The Lord God of Israel, said, “The righteous will not die with the wicked.” He said, “I will burn up the wicked.” And the chaff is wicked. And the chaff is people. And within the chaff, lies the righteous. But there’s nothing in the chaff that has to do with the wheat, because the life has moved on. 15. We must not let this escape us, so we go to Matthew 13: 29-30. What is He doing? And what is He about to do? You already forgot my subject. You've already forgotten, the subject is ‘What is He Doing?’ And you could say, ‘What is He also about to do now, that He’s here doing it'. I’m slow tonight, on purpose. Don’t have as many notes as last night. Just makes it seem as long. So, give it just as much credit. [laughter] That was a lie. All right. You’ve got the place Matthew 13: 29-30. Now, this is about the wheat getting the tares getting in with the wheat. Now, this is not Hebrews 6: this is Matthew 13: (29) But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, (you) root up also the wheat with them. (Now, he said, it’s too early to do anything about it. But there’s coming a time when you can.) (30) Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into… my barn. (Why? Because it’s His wheat.) 16. All right. We must not let this escape us. Matthew 3:12 (take your time, because I make a very big mistake reading Scripture back and forth so fast.) (12) Whose fan is in his hand, and he (whose fan is in his hand) will thoroughly purge his floor, (and he whose fan was in his hand, who is thoroughly purging his floor, he will) … gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Let them both grow until the harvest together. And in the time of the harvest I will say to the reaper, “Go out there and do something about the tares, which is gathering together and binding in bundles, and burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” No different, same thing. Now, verse 30 that I read, gather the wheat…I said here, at the time of the harvest, let them go, till harvest time come, they both become ripe. And when they’re ripe, he said, “We are going to gather, and we’re going to separate, we’re going to burn one, and not the other.” And in another place he said, “Tares,” in another place he says, “Chaff”…it’s the same thing. (See?) Now remember, one group as of tares, the full life of what was in the seed, has come to manifestation. But within the chaff, the life of God, has moved on. …?.... No way does 13:30 annul, obviate or annual 3:12 in anyway, just because it’s a little bit of different wording. And 13:30 does not supersede 3:12 in anyway, because one mentions the harvest which is both the harvest. Because, that’s where you gather the wheat into the barn. What we are seeing here is, that you cannot separate the wheat and the tares, you cannot separate the chaff, from the wheat. Until a certain specific time, they absolutely are together, they grow together. 17. Now watch, this is very clear in the Book of Matthew 23:34. (34) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: … Now, here’s what it is, it happens to the wheat and the tares, and to the wheat and the chaff. Because, you burn up the chaff. (34) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, (a prophet is to whom the Word is given, wise men, those are the ones that can disseminate the Word) and the scribes (are those who can simply tell It, they don’t talk about It, they simply say this is what It says.) … Bro. Branham said to the five-fold ministry, “Break down what I said, and feed it to the people.” And he turn to the congregation saying, “say exactly what I say.” It would be nice if everybody listened. Now listen, he said, "I’m going to send you these people in that category." A prophet with a five-fold ministry, and a good bunch of people in the pews. (34) …and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them (you'll) scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: (35) That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom (you) slew between the temple and the altar. (36) Verily I say unto you, All (this) shall come upon this generation. (harvest time) (37) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, Yeah, and they did it screaming out praises to God. (37) … Jerusalem…that killest the prophets… The most holy city, the most holy God, as Bro. Branham brought out, “You killed Him”. (37) … and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together… How often would I had a harvest of you. Identified you, with Myself, as a first-fruit. Because, that’s what harvest is all about. A seed planted. And many more just like it. (37) …gathered thy children together even as a hen (gathers her children, in other words, hover them, shelter them, care for them. But you wouldn’t.) (38) Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. In other words, it's all over, I’m going to terminate generations. And they were terminated, many of them. (39) (Why) I say unto you, (You'll) not see me henceforth, (they'll) say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. 18. Now, you’ll notice in there, the wheat and the tares grow to the end. And that is logical, because the chaff and the wheat inside the chaff, grow to the end. Then and only then is there a harvest. So, they're there right together. I want to ask you a question. Who is it, that takes the responsibility? God! He said, “I am going to do it.” And He tells you how it is done. It is a Word prophet. And then with the Word prophet comes a ministry. And under the ministry, comes a people. So, it is not too hard to understand, how it is to go in all the world, and preach the gospel. People scattered in order to hear the good Word of God. So, we see, God is Present to gather His elect. But God has to have help. The help starts with the prophet. Then, It spreads out. Remember, God and a prophet, form the divine plan of dissemination of whatever Word must come forth. It must come in that manner. 19. Now, that is exactly how the prophet put it constantly, from Revelation 10:1-7 Now, we’re going to go into the quotes as I said last night. Using the very same quotes. Because, listen…preachers phone me all the time, people phone me all the time, they say, “Bro Vayle, do you believe that one that Bro. Branham said about Him being Present?” I could have pages, literally pages, of quotes from the prophet wherein absolutely he sets forth the Presence of God. Elohim, in fact, you yourself know how that Bro. Branham, was quoting from John 1, and he sort of stumbled over it, but he got it across anyway. When he said, “In the beginning was Elohim, and Elohim was the Word, and the Word was Elohim.” Well then, I don’t care what people say about what became flesh. The prophet said, “Elohim, became flesh.” 20. All right. We read the quotes again…at least some. [Trying to do God a Service 65-07-18] [174] …today He's standing among us, in the person of the Holy Spirit, manifesting Himself more and more, (and more and more) coming into His Church, making Himself known; This is a quote that you must know, and never let go, because it’s the understanding, with the Appearing at the river, June 11, (I believe it was) 1933. That’s when it started. Coming more and more into the Church, via the Word, but it wasn’t until the Seals, in 1963 in March, that He came down with one foot on land, and one on sea, the Seals being opened, with the clear identification that this is what it was all about, the revealed Word correcting the errors. Taking up the loose ends until the Word was perfect. And today He is within the Church. Number two: [The Called-Out 58-01-09] [E24] …The Son of man has already come from glory, and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy… Now, the Son of man, is the ministry, of Him who became flesh upon earth, identifying Himself, who He was that they could say “This is that prophet.” (See?) 21. All right. [Someone says the reference] (Do you mean where it’s found?) This one I’m reading now is found in 'Will the Saints go through the Great Tribulation'? The other was 'Doing God a Service'. Some might …?... the reference. [E24] …(now) showing … His great Presence, doing the same thing He did, (Doing the same things He did here on earth,) revealing Himself, like He did to Abraham. Before the destruction, He has come now in mercy, revealing Himself to the Church… Now notice, the Son of man revealing Himself, and Him revealing Himself, are actually two different things. Because one is manifestation, and the other is explanation. Because always God does something, but He’s got to have somebody there to explain it, because God’s His Own interpreter. And interpretation is manifestation. And you can see a manifestation, and go plumb haywire with the manifestation. That’s what those two signs did. The sign in the hand, the minute I saw it I said, “Hold it.” Now, I’m not …look it…let’s get this flat. Lee Vayle is not a virtuous know-it-all. But I’m not here to bamboozle you, and tell you lies, and don’t you take me that way. When I saw that sign I said, “No way, there’s something wrong with that sign.” And I’ll tell you why. Because Bro. Branham said, “See, the woman’s got cancer.” Then he said, “It’s in the liver.” And I said, “Hold it.” The Voice that said it’s in the liver, obvious, in the necessity of the sign. Because if you’ve got a sign to tell you what kind of cancer it is. I mean, if you’ve got to have a voice, to tell you where the cancer is, that the hand indicated, you don’t need a sign in the hand, because the same Voice will say, "cancer of the liver." Then Bro. Branham categorically said, “That sign was to fool the people.” 22. Now, I’m not smart being up here. I just tell you, Lee Vayle could see it, anybody could see it. I don’t have 20/20 vision. Except, hindsight. [E24] ...He’ll come… in mercy, to reveal Himself to the Church. The next time He reveals Himself, it’ll be in judgement on the world and the nations that forgot God. [Three: ‘Christ the Mystery’ 63-07-28] [??] The Headship is here, headship and Scripture needs position as head chief. Chief authority. Leadership. Supremacy. (Look under Leadership Pg 26-3) The Headship is here. Amen. So, let it be, but, most people won’t let it be. Christ the risen Lord, is here in the same power of His Resurrection, then He ever was manifesting Himself. [Four: 'Souls that are in Prison' 63-11-10] [400] Now we know that Christ is here maybe you don’t see Him with your eyes... But through vision, I tell you, He is here. [Five: The Breach [63-03-17E] [41] When the Seals are broke, the mystery is revealed, down comes the (Message), Christ, setting His foot on land and sea with the rainbow over His head…. (Now, who had the rainbow? The One on the Throne.) Now, remember, this seventh angel (the Messenger) is on earth at the time of His Coming. 19. His coming? (Yeah) Souls in prison, the Seventh Seal brings Him back to earth, you could take it either way. Physical or Spiritual. Now, join me, First Seal. [Six: 'The First Seal' 63-03-18] [??] Because there were seven seals, the Seventh Seal, there was silence. No one knew that was the minute. (…?...) A lot of people, couldn‘t see that. Did you catch what he said? Nobody knew it would, I see you did. But, what he’s seen, He will reveal it. Has anybody seen Him coming down in the physical? No. Then,what did He reveal? Nice to think isn’t it? …?... [poor audio] Yeah, after almost two thousand years, God will visit it again. Being a servant. Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is coming according to Luke 17:30. He’s the Son of man, that’s revealed Himself amongst His people. Not a man, God, but He'll come to a prophet. …?... God in the revelation. Now, he’s God to the people. Most people get touchy over this. Isn't anybody who can admit, or even dare to believe, that Almighty God …?... whatever that means? You know what that means? Same thing as It says in the Bible, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep. What’s the Spirit of God? God is a Spirit. Then what’s the Spirit of a Spirit? You see He’s trying to tell you the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep. God gave you a part of His Spirit. And you say, a Spirit, then you see a prophet could not contain God. Where's your thinking? You deny the very hope of a rebirth, right? Come on, we’re not kids anymore. Let’s be men and women. (Sure.) 20. All right. [Seven: 'The Future Home'…64-08-02] [501] …the Headstone, comes into the Body. …?... Coming into the body? That’s not coming out of , it’s into… …?.... He’s on top. …?... He was here with us. [inaudible comments] Because they’re going to be the big shots. Just hold yourself down boy, because we’re going to get fantastic in here. [Eight:[ 'Leadership' [65-12-07] [54] That Life is present here tonight. That's right. The Holy Spirit is here, which is Christ in Spirit form. His Spirit, the anointing is here. [Nine:] 'The Feast of the Trumpets' [64-07-01] [113] … Now how shall it be, that He hall appear in the last days, to bring the people back to the Word, so that the Bride will know her Husband, know her Mate, the revealed Word. Yeah, is that better? The Logos ...?... to the Bride. [Ten:] ‘Questions and Answers’: [103] When this Holy Spirit that we have... (Now listen, this is the quote I wanted you to give to Bro. George today, but I couldn’t put my hand on it.) …when this Holy Spirit that we have, becomes incarnate to us. 21. Now look it, He’s already incarnate to us, by the Baptism with the Holy Ghost per se, ...?... But this Holy Ghost that we have in the fullness now, becomes incarnated to us. …the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Spirit, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, We’ll crown Him King of kings. (...?...) Don't be weary. Don't worry, that's a southern expression I get. Don't worry Jesus is here. I got to explain to these Canadians. ...?... Jesus is here, He's here today manifesting Himself doing the same things He did then just the same. Doing the very same things. And is among us today, and He showed Himself here with us and proven, vindicated His Word. 22. 'Stature of a Perfect Man [62-10-14] [128] In the evening time it shall be Light.(I love this) that's when comes Christ, the Holy Spirit. Jesus comes down ... (and right away it sounds like he's talking about three different persons. He's not, he's using appellations that's all. You understand appellations, that's what gives the Life. All right,) comes Christ, Holy Spirit, (Jehovah Savior, that's Elohim) comes down sets Himself at the Head of the church, then He'll resurrect this church being His own body. 'The Rapture' [65-12-04] [83] When you see... (and he said this in Yuma, to businessmen.) That’s when Bro. Branham said, “The Shout is the Message, the voice is the resurrection, the trumpet of the catching up to the Wedding Supper.” And I said in my heart, “Bro. Branham, I’ve heard you say a lot of things, but this is…I don’t know that I can take this.” And something inside me made me say, “When was he ever wrong?” And I said, “That’s right.” He never was wrong, so the Shout is. The Shout is the Message, and the Voice is the Resurrection, and the Trumpet is the Rapture. That ended it, I’m a believer. Kind of slow sometimes. [83] When you see God come from the Heaven, stand before groups of men, (stand there and) declare Himself just as ever He did. And that’s the Truth, and this Bible open before me. (And he looked, and It's right here in the Word.) 23. All right, 'Leadership' [65-12-07] [51] That’s right the Holy Spirit, it's Christ in Spirit form; HIs Spirit, the anointing is here. 'Super Sign' [62-06-67] I like this one: [66] There'll be a bride. Just as certain as I'm standing in this pulpit; (I said, "Amen." Hallelujah,) there'll be a bride that's washed in the Blood of that Lamb. (Amen, say it brother.) And that Lamb will be living among them, showing super signs of His resurrection, after two thousand years the same thing He did when He was here on earth. (He's here see?) See, they're not going to go the place where He's here. "Now, He's in me, hallelujah, but He's not here." See, this is the fallacy, and this is where the Branham people got off beat. Even before he died, or just as soon as he died, a young man with nonsense, and insanity, stood up and said to the people, and he said, “Nobody has the Holy Ghost unless they know they have to come to him.” He said, "I’ve got the tape right now, where he preached in a certain church." And he said, “I have followed the prophet for ten years, and I heard him say, " twelve hours a day, and anybody will tell you the Baptism with Holy Ghost, and the new birth, is one and the same thing, doesn't know what he was saying.” And the whole church screamed, “Amen”. 24. The same church I was in, that preached Bro. Branham's sermon he told me to preach. Absolutely contrary. And if you want to know the truth the next day Bro. Branham must have had that tape that night, because I met him in his presence, he took me in his arms and hugged me, and said, “Doc, you might have thought you preached some sermons in your day, but that’s your masterpiece up today.” Now, if I’m a liar, I’ll meet you at the judgment, and you’ll judge me. And if I’m telling the truth, and you disbelieve, you’re going to be in my hands, because I’m going to be sitting there with Him. You say, “Bro. Vayle, you put it strong.” I put it strong because I mean it strong, I’m not fooling anymore. I don’t say this with disrespect, if you don’t know who you believe, I do. If you’re not born again, let me put it flat I am. If you don’t have the former and rain together, I have. You say, “You prove something.” You prove I haven’t. The evidence of the Holy Ghost, is believing this Word, and standing with It. They said, to Jesus, “You deny what you are.” And He said, "If I do, I'm a liar, just like you." I'm not calling anybody a liar, but I let you know where my stand is. You’re not here to fool. 25. Now listen, ‘Discerning of Spirits’ …we’ll let that go for a minute. ‘Leadership’ [65-12-07] Praying: [329] …O Great Leader, great Holy Spirit, before You take Your flight in to the skies with Your Church. 'The Feast of the Trumpets' [64-07-19] [101] Jesus the Son of God, revealing Himself by the Scriptures, making that Scripture (that has been predestinated to this day, like it was to that day, and all other days) live. And believe It…the evidence of Holy Spirit. [102] Righteousness… [108] Now we know He is with us. We believe that. We see His Word made manifest, by photographs, by Scripture, by declarations in the Heaven, and earth, everything else He said. Not one time did it fail. Quotes: That He is here. 26. All right. To deny His Presence, is to deny everything we believe about a prophet at the end-time. Because, he categorically said, concerning the Seventh Seal; Revelation 10: 1-7 is the Seventh Seal. And he said, when Revelation 10:1 is on earth, the Seventh Church Age messenger prophet is on earth at the same time. And if William Branham was here, and he was here, and if he was a prophet of God, and those photographs cannot lie, then He, Elohim was here. And is here, because the dead have not been raised, and He’s here to raise the dead. There are so foolish the men in this Message, could turn around and say, “Well, look here. Bro. Branham spoke the Word that’s going to get them out of the grave.” Let me tell you flat: God will get Bro. Branham out of the grave. And God is here to get him out of the grave. Because the supernatural is amongst us. There’s not room to go insane. It means we get the mind of God. The whole world goes insane, but the Bride. He’s here at the end-time. But let us get to our subject, ‘Why is God Present?’ 27. Why is He Present? Number one: He is here to raise the dead. In the evening time, it shall be Light. That’s when comes Christ. The Holy Spirit, Jesus comes down and sets Himself as the Head of the Church. And Bro. Branham categorically said, “It takes the miracle ministry of Jesus Christ, Himself to bring the Head down.” In other words, that ministry must absolutely indicate and vindicate, that He Who is coming, is God Himself. The ministry sets it up as to proof and identification. Then He comes down. That’s why He came down in the Seals, into the fullness of the Church, in March 1963. All right. In the evening time, it shall be light. That’s when comes Christ, the Holy Spirit Jesus, comes down into the Church, sets Himself as Head of the Church. Then He will resurrect the Church, being His own body. " Stature of a Perfect Man'. All right. He is here to raise the dead. Now, that’s true, very true. The Scripture for it is found over here in the Book of 1 Corinthians 15: Now, this is not old hat, though, I’m repeating a lot of things. A lot of people think it’s old hat and say, “Bro. Vayle, tell you what, why don’t you give us something new?” I’ll tell you why. Why don’t you respond in your faith? How to accept the ...?... all right. I’m not going to bite you. All right. Here it is, in 1 Corinthians 15:12. (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? 28. Now, those people had the message preached that the resurrection they preached to themselves, and didn’t believe it. Now tonight I hope, there’s nobody here, that acquiesces in themselves, that He is here, yet they deny It actually. Look…look it friends, I am not a preacher who desires ‘Amens’ because I teach. And a lot of expression in the congregation, throws me off. Because I fear that someone does not catch what I am saying, because there is too many (you know) explanations out here. …But look it, amening or not, the thing is, you can understand in a certain way, and say, “Yes, I acknowledge that He is here.” Do you really know that He is here? This is the thing we’re talking about. Are you sold and satisfied? Jesus said "The kingdom of God is in the midst of you." And He said, “The kingdom cometh not with observation.” [Lk 17:30] He said, "It could be right here and you can’t see it, it’s right under your nose, it takes a revelation." Now, He says, "Don’t run here, and don’t run there, because you took your nose with you." So, if it’s under your nose here, there’s no use in putting your nose over there, because you won’t see it over there, if you can’t see it under your nose here. And that’s just easy preaching to let you know what’s going on. He’s here. The prophet said, “Look, you can’t see it with your eyes, but, I’m telling you, He’s here. I am proving He is here.” "I don’t believe He’s here." I know He's Here. I know He is here. No way about it. 29. Now, [1 Corinthians 15:13-23] (13) … if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: (14) And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is vain. Now listen, watch very careful: (15) (And) Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. Now, listen carefully: (16) … if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: (17) And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; (you) are yet in your sins. (18) ...they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. (19) If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But watch: (20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. Now watch: (21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. Now listen: (22) For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But hold it, I’ll tell you when. (23) … every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his (Presence). Now listen: He’s got to be here to raise the dead. He’s got to be Present to raise the dead. Now, a lot of you folk would just love to have a Resurrection. You’d love to settle the question. When Bro. Branham comes back, what is he really going to be doing? What is the tape all about? Makes you happy, doesn’t it? It makes me happy. No dice, unless He’s here to raise the dead. You want to be in the Resurrection? You want to see your loved ones? Sorry. If He’s not here, no dead come up. 30. Now, that’s the Bible. I can prove it to you. [John 11:] (25) … I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (See?) You’ve got to stay with the Word. Now, a little further. No, that’s it. [1 Corinthians 15:] (23) … every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his (Presence, In other words, His coming down here on earth. 31. Now, notice. God is present to raise the dead. Because, God is the only One that raises the dead. Peter said in Acts 3:15, I believe it is, he said, "God hath raised up the One that you killed. Paul over in Acts 26:8, he said, "You think it's a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?" He said over there in the same chapter 26, “Why, (he said) I’m called in…over the fact that God raises the dead.” Now, I want to ask you a question" Who raises the dead? I want to ask you, who raised Jesus Christ? I want to ask you. God raised Him. Elohim raises Him. (See?) You can’t get by with it's just their trivial. Now, let us think of something here. Abraham and Sarah were not dead. They were alive. But they needed a change in the body, or the son could not come on the earth. They were alive with God Present. Just before the fire fell. God Present, before the Royal Son of David, comes back to take His earth, and sit upon His Throne. And when He does, He is Elohim incarnated. You know, I hope you’re feeling in your heart what I’m feeling. But it just suddenly becomes so big and in my heart. What a big God we serve, what a wonderful God. You know, look it brother/sister. Let me tell you something in vernacular. I always use vernacular, because I’m a gutter preacher. The deck has been stacked, against the devil. He’s not going to win a hand. No way, shape or form. 32. All right. You go to 1 Thessalonians 4: now let’s look at…this is beautiful, very simple, Bro. Branham taught on It. I take what he taught, and put it in my own words. Verse 13. (13) ...I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that (you) sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. Now listen, they were crying and moaning, they didn’t have the answer. They were wondering. He said, "Look I’m going to tell you." (14) … if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Now, that’s simple. If you believe that, it’s settled, it’s finished. Faith is so simple. Everybody stumbles over it. I do myself. Bro. Branham complained himself, he talked to me one day, he said, “Lee, I don’t know, if God has got to put me in a tube. (He said,) He’s just got to make me do things that He wants. Why can’t I just step out in faith?” I said, “Bro. Branham, if I had your ministry, I would find it ten times harder than I have it now. Because God doing things without it even being your permission, or your knowing things, and you see them being done.” I said, “No wonder you’re in that position.” Absolutely. But he kept fooling himself to get into a position, whereby his own faith, he reached out. 33. Now, he says right here, it’s so simple. (14) … if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Let me show you something else. If you don’t believe him, then God can’t bring them forth. "You’ve got to believe that Bro. Vayle," and I’ll tell you why. He said, "You've made the commandments from God void in your behalf." I’m not saying God won’t bring them forth, God will bring them forth. But to the people who don’t believe, God will bring them forth. They’ve had it. So, what about at the end-time, when the Word’s vindicated, where do you stand? If the prophet’s are God to the people, then why would somebody want to twist it around into an eentsy-peentsy own little way? Ha! That was a nasty crack. But it’s good for it. Don’t think I haven’t had trouble with some of these things. I had trouble with ‘Stature of a Perfect Man,’ because I looked at myself and I said, “Forget it.” And I sort of refused to believe anything about it, except generally speaking, he said it. One day I said, “Hold it boy, you better face up because, it’s true, whether you believe it or not. ” So, I said, “Glory to God,” and looked at it. And that’s the three-way mirror I talked about. Twenty years of age, looking in a three-way mirror, I saw my nose and everything … it had a traumatic effect, I went into shock. One day when I was about fifty, I looked in the mirror, I said “Hey you don’t look half bad kid.” Don't look half good, either. I looked at ‘Stature of a Perfect man’, I said, “Wonderful.” You know, just come on, it’s simple. 34. Now: (15) For this we say unto, (you never listen, say 'Thus saith the Lord'. What Lord?) that we which are alive and remain unto the (presence) of the Lord... (that's when He raises the dead,) shall not (take the pre-eminence over) them which are asleep. Now, Bro. Branham used the word, ‘prevent’ which is true in this respect. It is very true, we shall not prevent, because you see, we could prevent in our own minds and think, “Hey, I’m a pre-eminent person.” When He’s here? When He’s here, and the dead haven’t seen Him, because they’re in the other place that Bro. Branham saw. And He is here unveiled before us. "Oh, look at me, look at me. " Oh, no. He, look at Him. I like that. That’s better than that three-way mirror, hallelujah. Oh, and I ought to know, because I’m involved. Yes sir. (16) For the Lord himself shall... (come down from heaven) 35. “Johnny, get off that ladder.” Up at the very top of the roof. Takes three, runs down, “I’m down, Mommy.” “Get down off of that ladder.” Two more seconds. “I’m down, Mommy.” That’s your theologians. They say ‘descended’ He’s up in the air. Come on. I’m not very smart, but I’m not an idiot. “Zacchaeus, come down.” “I’m already down.” Because I’m not a …?... My fangs are not lowered. Nor are my claws unsheathed. My voice is my only weapon. And I intend to use it, if somebody’s wrong. Presence is here. I lived in an apartment for years, I lived upstairs and people lived downstairs, and as long as they were downstairs, they weren’t present with me. While I was upstairs, I wasn’t present with them. Oh, brother/sister. no wonder Bro. Branham said, “Education has no place, and theology has less than anyplace.” (16) … the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ (will) rise first: (17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so, shall we ever be with the Lord. You say, “How can that be done?” Very simply. "The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?" [Mt 22:44] 36. God Himself, Elohim comes here. When that Spirit amongst us, incarnates Himself, we are caught up to meet that One, that is the 'Lily of the Valley', the 'Rose of Sharon', the 'Bright and Morning Star', Elohim, 'Almighty God', the immortal One in flesh. Yes sir, brother/sister, the living and the dead are spoken of in verse 13. And in verse 15, we’re told that God is Present to raise the dead, but with whom is He Present? Not with the dead, they are not raised, He has descended amongst the living, He is Present with them, Appearing to them. What is He doing? What is He doing? Return again to Matthew 13:30, the last part. (30) …(gathering) the wheat into my barn. Returning again to 2 Thessalonians 2:1. (1) ...we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, (even) by our gathering together unto him, His Presence gathering us. He said, “I would gather you, I tried to gather you, I sent Word prophets, and they laid it on the line, and I sent out men who could handle the Word, and they simply tell it as it was. And you scourged them, you killed them. You wouldn’t take them. I wanted to gather you. I told you how I did it. But, you won’t listen, you got your own theology, you made the promises of God void to you. Depart you workers of iniquity. I don’t have any place for you I’ve never known you.” Now, be real careful, this is before Sodom. Before Revelation 19: and the sword of fire. Thus God, is not here in the flesh, of the Logos made flesh, but only in the Spirit. And working through His reapers, even the prophets, the wise men, and the scribes, none are left out. All can be soul winners unto God. 37. But, how does the prophet gather them? He gathers them by the Word. In John 13:20 here He is speaking of: (20) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He said, “I sent prophets and you killed them.” "Behold, I send unto you prophets. Why don’t you receive them?" You see what I’m saying? Are we getting the Scripture together? Shall I go over it again? I’m going to go over it again. We are not going to lose the thought. We are going to learn, because, that is why we are here. Listen to me. [Matthew 23:] (34) … behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, … (37) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, (you that killed the ones I sent unto you) … how often would I have gathered (you.) I will send reapers into My vineyard. God will do it. God has to be there. But, He’s got to have a manifestation. Sends prophets, and those that believe the prophets. The five-fold ministry and those that are the laity. Call them what you will, and everybody has a part in It. Everybody who takes the Word out on any condition whatsoever, take It out, take It out. The gospel of this kingdom must be preached, at the end-time. What is the Gospel of the kingdom? "The Kingdom of God, is in the midst of You." He’s here! He’s here! But, you’re going to be followed. You think the gates of hell won’t come against you brother/sister. Get in my shoes for a while, you will find out. And I find it very easy at this point, to what it could be. Too true. 38. [2 Thessalonians 2:] (1) (What then is) our gathering together unto him, But, by means of a Message. [1 Thessalonians 4:] (16) (So) the Lord …(descends) from heaven with a shout, (which is a Message) … The Shout is not said to be be the actual Voice of the One who descends. That is true. This disclaims it. It is not the Voice of the descending One, that is heard. I want to tell you about it. Last year, I’d been down at Easter service with Bro. Bell. Harold Macondo was there. In my heart, I felt all kinds of times, but I felt jittery. I made no more appointments. I said, “Maybe I’ll go across and see Bob Cash, because I didn’t get to see him last time. I had to hurry by his house. I’ll maybe go see him. And I said to Harold, “Harold, you got a lot of time on your hands? We can go together.” He said, “Sure, I’ll fly back from New Orleans, back to Tucson.” 39. But I couldn’t get rest concerning it, and I said, “No, I don't know, I kind of feel to go to Jeffersonville.” I just kind of feel to go to Jeff. I couldn’t shake it. Sunday morning, I said, “I can’t help it.” And Jack’s here as a witness, because he would figure that's, “Old Lee cant' make his mind up.” And Jack was right, I couldn’t make my mind up. I’d been cut too many ways. Finally I said, “No way. No way. No way. I am going to Jeffersonville. I have got to go.” I’m going to see Sis. Branham, we’re going to visit because this is it. So, Harold goes home, I go up to Jeffersonville. I make it in one and a half days, and I go to the motel. And they say, “How long are you going to stay?” I say, “I’ve got to get out of here Thursday morning.” The lady, she’s very nice, she says, “That’s very good, otherwise we'd throw you out.” And I thought that’s a pretty nice joke, and I said, “Well, why are you going to throw me out?” She said, “Don’t you know? The Kentucky Derby's on.” 40. I was caught down there one time before that, I had to sleep in Bro. Branham’s bed. I don’t know too much about derbies and betting on horses a long, long long time ago. And I don’t mind seeing a race. That’s all right. Kind of a bit of a sport. And so, I grinned, and I said, “Well great.” And I thought to myself, “Wasn’t the Lord nice.” Because the Lord knew I wouldn’t have a place if I came up in a week. I wouldn’t have a place to stay. Wasn't that sweet of the Lord? I got very happy about it. Then, we went to see Sis. Branham, and the more we talked, the happier we got. We begin talking about things, and I said to her, “Meda, I want to ask you a question: You were down there on the river that day, when that Cloud came whizzing down.” I said, “Did you see the Pillar of Fire?” She said, “No Bro. Vayle, we were always taught to be very obedient to Bro. Branham, when he quickly said, “Bow your heads.” I bowed my head, and I did not see anything.” “Oh,” I said, “Oh.” But, she said, “I heard the words that he said, “As John the Baptist (you know) preceded the First Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, so your Message will go before the Second Coming.” And she said, “But you know Bro. Vayle, when I talked to Bro. Bill, I said, “Bill, I heard what was said, but, (she said) “Bill, that was your voice that said It.” And she said, "he looked at me kind of crooked like, (you know) ...?... he just kind of grinned and walked on." 41. I said, “Meda, let me tell you something.” I said, “That was Bill’s voice. But that was the start of the Shout, by the descent of God.” Listen, I said, “It wasn't...the Scripture does not say it was the Voice of the One that descended.” It said, He used the voice. And remember what Bro. Branham said, (and I had my Bible I think at that time), was able to show her, he said, “I was just a voice, and that against my better judgement. I wanted to smell like a skunk, by skinning skunks.” Preacher’s ought to smell like sheep by being with sheep. She thought I’d smell like shepherds, by being a shepherd. We ought to smell like the lily of the valley now, and the rose of Sharon, because, He’s here. (Yeah) That’s what the Songs of Solomon are all about. He’s a sweet odor to my nostrils. Ooh, smell, those apples. Smell those roses. Mmmm, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Oh, brother/sister. So, we talked quite a long time, there are certain things we talked about that I (you know) wouldn’t be right to tell you. But I know that in her heart, and I’d already seen on her face, the same thing I saw on Bro. Branham. That change. And we were so happy that Sis. Branham had come to a rest and a peace. There was nothing about her that was vindictive, or in anyway critical though God knows she would have had opportunity and reason to be that way. She was old Meda we knew years ago, and we were so happy, and we talked about Bro. Branham exactly who he was, and she seemed so happy when we talked about it. 42. And then, right after that, we went home and she…died. And then I knew that urge in my heart was not for the Kentucky Derby. But it was truly this, that had I gone later in the week, when there was no room, I’d a gone home and said, “Look Alison, it’s only four hours down here, we’ll go home and come back another four hours.” We never would have seen her. I’m talking about an eyewitness, and a woman that heard that day when that Pillar of Fire came down, and the Voice of the One that descended, was the voice of William Branham. And you try to tell me, that the prophet is not God to the people. Then pick your own prophet, your own God. You say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re mean.” I’ve got a right to be mean. I’ve got a right to be rough, because I am not one billionth as tough as the God that gave this nation opportunity to repent. And they turned Him down, because I do not have in my hands the atomic bomb, or the flame of Almighty to destroy, and to incinerate to a crisp, neither leaving root not branch. There’ll be no history after today. 43. All right. Listen, the Shout is the Message, the gathering together. Now we’re taking lots of time. Some people said, “You should’ve preached longer last night, you’re going to regret it tonight.” Matthew 25:1-13 (1) Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Now, let’s understand this word ‘heaven’ simply means, ‘elevated place’ and Bro. Branham, used a beautiful expression. He said, “dimension.” Seven dimensions, seven heavens, some people 'a dimension'. It simply means 'an elevated dimension', we’re looking at. All right. Esoterical but yet fundamental. (3) They … took their lamps, (and went forth to meet the Bridegroom) Now this is the opening sentence, and here we’re going to find about what’s it all about. Five wise, five foolish. (3) (Foolish) took their lamps, and …took no oil with them: (4) ...the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. (5) … the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 44. Now, what happened here? The oil ran out of the Word. The life wasn’t in the Word anymore. That’s what’s wrong with those foolish virgins. (See?) Now, they’ll quote you Word left and right, you’ll have Charismatics just right. They’ll have virtues just right, they’ll have everything just right. But they’re still wrong. Because the life went out of the Word. See, Bro, Branham told it correctly, the Book of Life…the Lamb’s Book of Life, is like a seed planted, and as the life comes up, it leaves behind the carriers, but there’s got to be a seed. And the seed is the First Resurrection, part one and two. Because, there's two parts. One part is already been over, Old Testament saints, now comes New. And while you’re thinking about It, the two witnesses get in on It. And while you’re still thinking, the 144,000 become a part of It. That first group. There’s no stereotypes, just set there and think. Relax. And tell this scenario, Bro. Branham called it, “A panorama,” just enjoy the scenery. You see? 45. All right. The life has gone out of it. I’d have the same Word, that’s what Bro. Branham said. Let me get this quote, oh, we are going to enjoy ourselves. I hope. Because sometimes I only hope, and I manage to mess you up. … I’ve got to find it… [Questions & Answers COD 64-08-30E] [23] …our Message is no different, (it’s the same) message you’ve heard all your life, …only something more (has) been revealed to It. This Message is the same Message… Luther (presented or) preached, … the same message that Pentecostal preached, only something added to it. What it is, is the revealing of the Seals, what them reformers left off … that’s been made known in this day could not be known then. What’s the Message? It's faith…in Questions and Answers. Okay. Now I was reading over here. Now see, they had the Message, just the same Message, the same Word, but the life has moved out, gone on. Now, the Bridegroom tarries, and others slumbered and slept. (6) And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom … Cross that word out ‘cometh,’ that word ‘cometh’ is not there, He is already here. How can you behold something that’s not here? How would you people like to behold my sister? She’s seventy-eight years old and as spry as a donkey. How are you going to behold her, if she’s not here? Or, how would you like to behold myself? Nobody can see myself. You’re here, but you can’t see Him. Now, I could show you my self, no big deal. You’re feeling okay? How are you going to behold Him, if He’s not here to behold? 46. All right. Beholding. (6) … Behold, the bridegroom (come) out to meet him. Let’s get acquainted. How’s He going to know the name? This is the name. How’s He going to know? Can’t see Him? But, you can. And you can see by hearing. Because in 1 Samuel 3: hearing, is called a vision. Not a funny-god, not a super-god, God is God, He does things His own way. Behold Him. Come out and meet Him. (7) … all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. Tell me, when the foolish virgins went seeking oil, was it before Bro. Branham or after? After. The Presence of the Lord was with Bro. Branham, the visible manifestation of God, in signs and wonders. With all of Bro. Branham absolutely, and everything caught fire from that time on. And the revival has never ceased. False anointed have got a revival too. I’m going to tell you something. The revival is in the Bride. I don’t care what your friends say in this Message, count Lee Vayle out. I can be as popular as a skunk at a garden party, and care less. He is here. The two rains have come together. I can see Him. And I’ve never loved Him, like I love Him today. 47. I can hear Him. You say, “Bro. Vayle, hold it, Bro. Branham said otherwise.” No, he didn’t. He said, “Completely communion, was two people talking together.” "He walks with me, and He talks with me. And He tells me, I am His own." And He took away all fear and all guilt. How’d He do it? I really don’t know, I’m just glad that He did. (8) (They arose) And the foolish …said … Give us of your oil; … Has there been a time when you’d like to have what somebody else has in the Holy Ghost? Sure, but you can’t get it from that person. Join the Pentecostals, talk in tongues. Be Charismatic, no problem. God said, “You can have it, you can do it.” Sure, and He said, “You would do it.” I don’t mean here, people. I mean it would be done. He said so. “I’ll pour My Spirit upon all flesh, and you sons and your daughters will prophesy, and upon my sons and my daughters …?... and they'll prophesy.” [Joel 2:28] Two groups of people. One false anointed correctly, one true anointed correctly. One anointed to the Word, and one not anointed to the Word. And the life is in the Word. Measure of the Holy Spirit, is the measure of the Word. "Give us of you oil, our lamps have gone out." [Mt 5:28] (Yeah) You know, let's put it this way, I don't care what group of people you talk to, they say, “Oh, we had that five years ago.” Hey, hold it. No, not hold it. Because I haven’t got it in this Bible, it’s another Bible. 48. I want to tell you what Sauer’s history said, and he’s the greatest authority on Martin Luther. It’s in the Church Age Book, that Martin Luther was a prophet. And a speaker in tongues, and an interpreter, he had it all. Lutherans', but it leaked out. Wesleyans had it, it leaked out. Pentecost had it, it leaked out. And God said, “I’ll confound them all, I’ll let them all have it.” But it didn’t get down inside. It was a manifestation of a gift. And Bro. Branham said, “If I give you my pen, I did not give you myself. I give you a gift.” Jack Bell gave me that. Norman Lee, you gave me that. I never got them. Who’d want them? Thank you for the gift. I could afford to feed those two guys? (Phfft) [laughter] Sometimes it takes a little foolishness, as it were, in order to get a point across. But do you see the boys with me? I haven't got them. Gifts are gifts. Got the gifts, thank you boys. Love them gifts. 49. Let me tell you something. If I had to lose even the gift of the givers, I’d throw a thousand pens in the fire, if I had my brother's. (Yeah) Both, good kids. [Matthew 25:] (9) But the wise answered, saying, (uh uh…no way) … lest there be not enough for us and you… You know something? God may be omniscient, and omnipotent, but He’s not universal. There’s not enough God, (I’m sorry, but there isn’t enough God, there just isn’t) …for both the non-elect and the elect. You can say what you want, but, there isn’t. There’s not enough Holy Ghost allotted, there just isn’t because, He’s right here. There’s nothing you can do about it, you can't, there’s no way we can give you anything, or we didn’t have enough for ourselves. You see, God started it, and God stopped it. We’ll talk about these things, as times goes on, just keep in your seats. If you’re getting a little tired, if you can even stand up, don’t walk around. Just stand up, and sit down quietly. I’ll just read my notes and pretend I don’t see it. He said, “No way.” (9) … go … and buy for yourselves. (go to them that sell, and you buy.) (10) … they went to buy, the bridegroom came; … In other words… too late. Now you see, you’re beholding and the coming. What’s going to happen to those that are too late? Fire. ( See?) (10) …while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. (11) (They came later), saying, Lord, … open (this door) This is what Dr. Hoyer, who I consider to be the world’s greatest interpreter of the Bible, because of his ability in the Greek, the Hebrew, and so on. (12) … Said, (Truly) I say unto you, (I used to know you as my wife, but, I don’t know you as my wife anymore. They’re divorced.) (13) Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. 50. All right. The gathered ones have come out, or been separated. The wise from the foolish, and the tares. (Right?) Both foolish and tares. Have beheld Him (that’s the wise), are full of the Holy Spirit, miss the great Tribulation. They go to the Wedding Supper. That is why Bro. Branham used Amos 3:6-7 so often. (6) Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? (7) Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. (8) The lion hath roared, (Seven Thunders) who will not fear? the Lord hath spoken, who can but prophesy? All right. He is Present to raise the dead. We saw that. We also saw, He is Present, to gather the living. 51: All right. Here it is. [The Feast of the Trumpets 64-07-19M] [113] …and how He shall appear in the last days, is to bring the people back to the Word, so the Bride will know Her Husband, know Her Mate, the revealed Word. (See?) All right, He is Present to gather the living, we looked into it. Further more, number three; He’s here to change the living to immortality. That is 1 Corinthians 15:49. Now, Paul said here, preaching on the Resurrection, the people then would say, “Now, Bro. Paul, does everybody have to die in order to be in the Resurrection?” And he said, “No, you can get your change apart from dying, and being raised from the dead.” Now in verse 49 of chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians. (49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Spoken to a people living. Do you know tonight, if you’re born again, you’re going to be exactly like Jesus Christ, in the flesh? You know, that sounds…...let me put it this way: (you know) Johnny stands... (I don’t know who Johnny is, but forget it, he’s like me) he’s standing here and he knows there’s a bully down there. He said, “Boy I’ll tell you, that kid better not smarten me or I’ll punch him in the nose, sock him in the gut, I'll fix him.” Because he’s a few blocks down the road. [laughter] Johnny sees the bully, and, “How do you do?” It’s easy to talk about being changed to His likeness, if you really mean it. When it comes to the showdown, are you convinced, or are you in a bunch of Johnnies? 52. Now, I’m talking in terms of reality. Because, what I said down at Bro. Bells’ I’ll repeat here and in every church. I preach for results, if you cannot sit in my meetings any longer, and not be changed. Now, I’ve thrown you a challenge. That’s how I believe the Word of God. You say, “Vayle, who do you think you are?” It’s none of your business, who I think I am. It’s what the prophet said. That’s right. That’s what the Word of God said, and what He’s done. I never believed that Lee Vayle ever had what the prophet had, without fear, without guilt. But I saw what no man living saw, and I can prove it, because it’s not even on a tape. And nobody saw what I saw, in his face. You say, “You're trying to tell the people to look on our faces?” I didn’t say that. I’m telling you, you cannot listen to this Word, because it’s the Word of the same prophet that I follow. That changed me, that changed him. And if you think I’m kidding, talk to Nelson Guy, what happened in his church. Don’t talk to me about ours. I’m not here to tell, but I said, “His church will never be the same.” And it hasn’t been Nelson, and you know it. He said, “What if you come to be ...?... ? [inaudible comments] “No I merely come in here behind him.” He was a pastor, it’s already started to be done. But I knew when God told me to preach it, I was going to preach another series entirely. And I had to tell him, what I tell people, “When you hear this, you’ll never be the same again.” And you’re not the same. If you can hear this Word on the lips of any man being the true Word of God as being vindicated by a prophet, or shown by Almighty God, you cannot remain what you are. For God, will raise up stones. 53. I’m not hearing myself. Never told you to follow Lee Vayle. I told you not to listen to him. I have nothing to tell you, but this is the Word of God, that I’m talking about tonight. "If we have borne the image of the earthy." [1 Cor 14:49] Well are you amazed you’re earthy? The question is now, are you ready for the heavenly? Now, I said, “Johnny can boast pretty much.” So, what if he sees the bully? Now, I’ll blow your minds, it’s okay. I never asked most of you to come. You came on your own. You’re over your own barrel. There’s preachers here tonight, who will quote and tell me where it’s found. And I had one of the best times in my life last night. I never had better. Talked to Bro. Ungren, we had a good time, and a good time this morning. But, above all, I talked to Bro. Foulcher and he was nothing but a walking compendium, and encyclopedia of this Message. He’s one of those guys that’s got much on the ball, they simply hate him because he shows you up. Sorry ...?.... I sat with him last night, I was never so thrilled in my life, as that man could tell me every page of every book and almost every paragraph of what I preached last night. I didn’t know I was doing as you know I didn’t know, because I don’t have that kind of a brain. But the great man who files the information in the computer, is the same that can take it out. Now I don’t lie to you today, brother/sister. If He’s here, you have a knowledge imparted by the Holy Ghost, which is the knowledge of Him. Which has a profound effect upon the knower. And that knowledge is this is that hour of transformation. And I want to tell you categorically, I will not back away, but, I cannot die, because the promise of this hour is life. 54. For He Who once said, “Whosoever believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” That Word does not hold for the living, “Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never perish.” [Jn 11:26] Do you believe this? Yes! I believe It. You say, “Bro. Vayle, what if you died tomorrow morning?” No problem. No problem. I’m still going to get It. No problem. But I live under that compulsion? And I must admit I wish I had another compulsion, and that is to know I was going to get out of here tonight. I wish I could. But I don’t. The compulsion is: this is that hour. “Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, being Present.” Because It can only happen when the dead are raised. And the dead can only be raised when He is here. I’m not going to die, but live. Abraham died believing the promises. All of these died believing the promises. But there comes a time when there are those who will not die, they’ll receive the promise. You know why? Because the prophet was here. To me, that prophet gave me the full Word of Almighty God. I did not know that at any time I should be the way I’m talking tonight. Because that is not within me as a normal person. Now, I’m going to go further. Bro. Branham said, “This would be so simple.” Watch that close here, ...?... Remember what it was he told me? “It is going to be so easy like eating your dinner.” That’s right. Now listen. I don’t have any hip-hurrah. “Oh Hallelujah, I’m going to be caught up” No. Look, that’s a microphone. Oh, ...?... No. That’s a microphone. That’s a microphone stand. 55. Now, watch carefully now, because I’m not lying to you. He’s here. Well, have you looked? I thought He was here. He says, “Come.” I’m going to come. It’s nothing in the big natural anymore. Because it’s also the supernatural. “So, Bro, Vayle, what if you die?” It’s no nig shake, no big shake. I’m not a Luke Rader, or a Paul Rader, “Pull up the blinds, let the sun in, this is my coronation day.” Now, I don’t have that at all. Too bad I'm, “…?... Oh, pray Jesus, Oh pray to God.” Friends, communion, natural, is it unnatural to be a son of God? You’re naturally, a son of God. Supernaturally, a son of God. Manifested, son of God. You say, “What’s the manifestation?” I believe, righteousness. When you see God confirm His Word, as He has in every other day, and made that Word live, and you believe It, you are righteous. You are full of the Holy Ghost. That does It. Let me tell you something: You’re hearing me tell you what you know that Bro. Branham has. God. I’m not that far. God. John said, “We saw Him, we handled Him. We talked with Him.” You mean, just like that? Isn’t that irreverent? Anything else would be irreverent. I would children show it to you. …?... Instead you you're like ...?... ...?... another man.” He was afraid you'd go with another woman. We even talked with each other, there’s someone standing between you. It’s your business associates. ...?... No? We just live together. Maybe it was William Branham. You’re coming into it. Bro. Branham, I said one day, “Bro. Bill, Boy, (I said) I’ve been thinking, my wouldn’t it be nice to be married, raise our children without sin. Without sickness. Without all these things. Why he said, “Lee, hold it, you’re talking about the Millennium.” I’m walking into it. 56. This is by the grace of God, brother/sister, I’m not telling you a lie. I’m standing on this Word. For seventeen years, since the prophet died, I’ve stood right in the middle of the road, and proclaimed the things I’m telling you now. And they come back upon me. Is that any great thing? If I was so weak for seventeen years, shouldn’t I have a cross? How much more the Word of God? I’m not boasting. I’m just trying to tell you some of the things, from the depths of my being. And I relate them to the Word, because what else can it be? Now you say, “But, Bro. Vayle, the false anointed could have that.” Absolutely, but you see, I getting by this thing the vindicated Word. I’ve got the real McCoy. I don’t have the interpretation of some theologian. I have the very revelation of God Himself. He said, “He that receives whomever I send to you, is he that receiveth Him, the One that sent me.” In other words, Then God sent Jesus, and I receive Him. We do receive Him. He sends a prophet, we do receive Him that is the Word. All right, we’ve got that Word. Now then, God, the Son, and me, and the Word, that includes you, we’re all one. Well, is God unfamiliar with God? Is God terrified by God? Does God want me to believe in God? He wouldn’t. Look, don’t be afraid to let go. We’ve got to go sometime. See, look, I don’t have time to tell you a lot of things. It would take hours and hours of preaching. I trust explaining how it is that Bro. Branham said Einstein knew perfectly well, that we would be creating universes. Brother/sister, we are doomed. As Bro. Branham said, “As we near the Headstone, a super, super, super race.” But, he said, “The last time you saw It, was Abraham outside the tent.” Sarah, inside the tent. God discerning, and the fire falls. The righteous are gathered into the garner. Garnered in. He’s doing it now. (See?) 57. All right listen, He’s here to change us, in His likeness. "If we) have borne the image of the earthy, we shall bear the image of the heavenly." [1 Cor 15:49] You know, people read this, doesn’t mean a thing when they read. "For as in Adam all die, in identical manner even so in Jesus Christ are we made alive." [1 Cor 15:22] And they say, “Hold it, hold it.” Don’t hold a thing. As everyone, died in Adam, everyone in Adam, are going to be brought back. First Resurrection or Second? Don’t trust, don’t bother. Listen, believe It. "As I have borne the image of the earthy, I am going to bear the image of the heavenly." [1 Cor 15:49] He said so, that’s all there is to it. But this is the hour. Now, if this wasn’t the hour, it’d be different. How could God quicken to us, what is not the hour? So, if He’s quickens it to me, He quickens it to you. (See?) No different. If I say, "Brethren, flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God." [1 Cor 15:50] Wonderful, I’m sure glad about that. …Look it, Flesh and blood down here, cannot inherit the place of the elevated. Oh, what am I going to do? You’re not going to do a thing. …what would a caterpillar do in that got in that got in that chrysalis? And he said, “I want to be a butterfly. I tell you what I’m going to do.” He owned it. It’s what was in him, did. (See?) 58. Okay, "I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we'll all be changed, in the atoms. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump"… [1 Cor 15:51-52] What’s the last trump? "In the days of the voice of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the last trump." [Rev 10:7] They found. "the dead shall be raised incorruptible, we shall be changed. This corruptibility, you wear it away by usage." (Boy do I know that.) "Put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." [1 Cor 15:53] That’s what It says, we cannot be worn away by usage. That's so we can build houses. Plant trees, vineyards, have a ball. Be real workaholics…as it were. And then we’ll be sit down-aholics. Go visit for a thousand years, someplace. “Oh, is it?” I’m telling you the truth. You know, I’m not going to lie to you. "So, when this corruptibility shall have put on incorruptibility, this mortal, immortality." Then it will be brought to pass the saying, "Death is swallowed in victory, Oh, death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy sting?" (I think this is a repetition there. There's a word wrong in there somewhere.) "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law." [1 Cor 15:54-56] 59. Now, I’m going to tell you something. God is not a law. God has laws, but God is not a law. Life has laws, but, life is not a law. Life is life. Life is life. God is God. All right. We have God. And that is called Eternal life. And by the way, zoe, in the Greek, although every student says the same thing, is not ‘eternal life’, it is just ‘life’. That’s where you get the word 'zoology'. Biology is from bios. Zoology, just is life. In other words, I’m telling you flat. Bro. Branham could recognize the apostle Paul. People recognized Abraham. I’ll recognize you, you’ll recognize me. And we’ll go on living, eating and drinking in the kingdom of God. Building, and everything else. But you are there. Oh, brother, wouldn't that be nice? Well look at the chess players... now we’re not going to play chess in heaven. At least I hope not. Or you can if you want, but forget it. I’d sooner elevate my chest, ...?... Look how they sit for hours and days and days. And they love it. I just told some folk today... this is not a sign of senility. It just the fact that I sort of run down. Pshew…the old spring doesn’t wind up any more…not much spring. I said, I came to the place where we've got five or six rose bushes, but I thought I’d just put them up there to see what they would do, hoping they’d do something. Well, one of them is a glorious rose, and it lasted for days and days. Nice, red one. Another came out, it had a nice salmon coloured rose, it didn’t last so long, but we tied it so we could see it. Look at our rose and I wished I had eyesight to use a camera, if I had a camera, it’d be a dud, …if I handled a camera, I’m a dud …forget it. So, I looked at it, I didn’t have a camera to take a picture, it would’ve been nice. 60. Now, I’m going to tell you something... a different kind of me. But, I’d love to be home, now, when the light when the sun is up. And look out the window, and look at those roses coming in. You see, I’m really run down, when I’m doing that. Because I’m usually... Shhhpp… like that. Now look it, that’s living. You see it? It’s something in here, that knows where the real things are. Now look, you’re just coming into it. I’m trying to explain that this naturalness is all about that I feel. Because that’s where I’m going to, a naturalness. Don’t you understand when God came down here in flesh, He ate the flesh of a calf and drank the milk of a cow. He took the fish, and Bro. Branham said, “In the Resurrection, He had a fish sandwich.” I wondered if a person would catch fish in the Millennium, and have a sandwich. I still really don’t know, because that wasn’t the Millennium, but Bro. Branham said, He sat down with a fish sandwich. So, you fishermen better get ready, and give me some sandwiches, because I’m not much of a fisherman. And I don’t intend to be. I intend to plant the roses, and to smell them. And if you bring me the fish, if you have the fish, I’ll let you smell my roses. [laughter] That fish may be good to eat, but it stinks, maybe in the Millennium they wouldn’t. But you see what I’m telling you? There is a naturalness, that the prophet told us, and the Bible tells us. (See?) And that naturalness, is here today, and everybody but the Bride, (and phony Bride, that wasn’t nice, but I’m not a nice person) want something like supernatural, way out here. But, the Bride is content with simplicity. That’s why Bro. Branham kept taking us back to the original. Simplicity. One man, one woman, one God, with one wife. In this simplicity of a Godhead. (See?) Now listen brother/sister, believe me, I am not lying to you. I could be wrong, I could be misinterpreting what goes through my mind and my heart. But don’t you kid yourself, I’m not. Number four: He’s Present to restore. All right. Raise the dead. He’s Present with the living to raise the dead. He’s to gather the saints in. He could change the living to immortality. He is going to restore, all those things go hand and hand. 61. Back to Joel. Now, let’s look at Joel. We are taking our time, because, I intend to take my time. I want to just take it easy, and the more I bring little thoughts, I hope the better you get the simplicity. Bro. Branham said, “We’re missing it because of simplicity.” I told you years back in 1975, after going into these conventions, I said, “I’m sick of it, I’m tired. Everybody is reading between the lines.” And by the time they’ve read between the lines, as Bro. Branham said, “It’d take a telescope to count the fleas on Mars.” So, read between the writing, you’ll put between the lines, that Bro. Branham read between. God have mercy. I said, he said, “Simplicity, has got to be a simplicity.” And God took me to the brunt, and I heard a voice. When I was downtown…downstairs walking, and I’m sure that voice within me said, “The Resurrection proves His death.” I said, ‘What?” The Resurrection proves His death. But something made it sound good. And I waited, and I knew, if he had been an imposter God would not have raised Him. 62. If the Blood was not efficacious, and the sin offering satisfactory, God would not have raised Him. And He’s risen amongst us, proving it’s all over, as far as sin is concerned. Tonight, there’s too many legalists here. And eternal security people are legalists too, because they don't believe. You can’t let go, and let God. If I look in your eyes and entrust you to lower your heads, you’d cast glances at me. I don’t want to hurt your feelings. But if there’s something wrong, you’d better repent. Get the Holy Ghost. If you end up, would you be crazy with ten thousand dollars, just to get you out of bed, or you might be dissident? But if I prove I’m sincere, and I was your benefactor, you say, “Thank you Bro Vayle.” Here, our benefactor has proven Himself tonight, why can't we say, “Thank-you Jesus?” Oh yeah, simple brother/sister. It’s simple, if I get too many ramifications, just leave the building, because there's no use listening to me. No ramifications, He’s here, and He’s going to do it. And I’m going to let Him do it. I couldn’t stop Him anyways. I don’t want to stop Him. Oh my, I look at that three-way mirror. I’m looking in here…and I’m beautiful. I want my wife to think I am. You see, I can see it. Oh, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. 63. All right. [Joel 2:] (21) Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Period, pillaged, depleted, imagine like a pear instead of a round apple. Poor old earth. Ravaged by mankind. God said, “I’ll destroy them that destroy the earth.” Oh, rejoice. Did He say rejoice? (22) Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: Forty thousand elephants. Now, there’s twelve hundred. I’ll cry for the birds. Cry for the flowers. Nature sighing and groaning. When is man going to take his hands off it? (22) …(past) of the wilderness do spring, … tree (bears) her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Now listen, earth, I sent Him down, who was made from the chemistry of the earth by means of a woman. That same one back here without flesh. And the earth feels the impulse of the Spirit of God. And something begins to happen. Stones crying out as man doesn’t. Nature already aware of God, brother/sister. Come on. Come on, come on, come on, come on. The earth is aware. We're not dumb stones, dumb creatures. “Doc, you know better than I do.” The earth is aware. Oh, I want to scream. I can’t have it. God. Now, surely Zion, nature’s caught it, what about you? (23) … rejoice in the LORD your God: for (he’s) given you the former rain moderately, (he'll) cause to come down (upon) you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first (cross that ‘month’ out, it doesn’t mean ‘first month’. We’re going to get back that which was first.) Omega is alpha, and alpha is omega. (24) And the floors shall be full of wheat, … Didn’t Bro. Branham say when you plant the seed, and the harvest comes, you're back to the original. Earth beginning to rejoice, and you're sensitive when man isn’t. Animals begin to scream out, you’re sensitive, where man isn’t. You can tell when an earthquake is coming. But man can’t do a thing about it. I was swatting flies the other day. I intend to relieve myself by swatting those flies outside. And I’m going to tell you, sure as I stand here, that fly bristles when I raise that fly swatter. He knows more than we do. But he doesn’t if you’re a child of God. Only if you’re the wrong kind. Listen here, the former rain was given moderately. You say, “Oh, if I were back in the days of Jesus, …Hallelujah!” Not, interested. Not interested. 64. He was just in One man, now He’s in many men. Once he raised One man, then several were raised with Him.” But now, hallelujah, redemption has come. Oh bless the Name of the Lord. Moderate, but not …?... anymore. He's the moderate vat that overflows toward the people. (Yep) Don’t try to make me moderate at these signs, and I won’t try to make you moderate. No, for the first time, I used to laugh at that Bro. Branham sort of, because I’m a funny, conservative Canadian, I’m nuttier than a fruit-cake and I'll admit it. Make jokes in the wrong places, because I’m nervous and everything else. You said, “He’s one out in the wilderness there, and he screams, running around that pine tree.” I thought, boy, that's the day you'll see Lee Vayle. Neighbour is one of my good buddies come by. And I start talking about God, and I’ve got a …?... You want to run and scream. I don’t dare do it. Neighbours will think I’m nuttier than I am. They’ve got that impression they may be right. Used to wonder and laugh, how he’d wake up Meda, and want to preach. I would never do that to my wife, I don’t think she’s that good of a congregation. I'm going to tell you something: The only reason her hearing existed is, for my mouth. I can tell you that. Rejoice, it’s no longer moderate brother/sister. Bro. Branham said, “Jesus Christ had more success in his ministry in my flesh, than He did in His own.” He’s not moderate anymore. 65. Oh look, brother/sister, just hold your finger there, and I want to go back and show you in the Book of Romans. If I don’t finish the message, it doesn’t matter, I can end it anywhere. Because you know, what I’m talking about. You know what I’m talking about, what’s the use of preaching about it? Except, I like to preach. I’ll admit it. It says in here: "But not as the offence, so is the free gift. No comparison. Not as it was by one offence, so is the gift, no comparison. If by one's man death rose, on comparison. If offence is set in by judgment came upon the nation, no comparison with the other." [Rom 5:15-18 paraphrased] It says, the glory that was upon Mount Sinai, doesn’t even exist by virtue of the fact that a greater glory is here. Now, brother/sister, there is no use in saying “I’ve got a bigger microphone, I’ve got a bigger stereo”. So, this one never did exist. But I want to tell you something, it doesn’t exist by reason of the greater glory. You had nothing more to do with it. And the glory shook the mountain, shook the earth, and God stood there. And they ran in fear, they didn’t approve. And now He came down here, and they don’t approve. But a Bride caught the vision. And He overflowed, and grace overflowed. Oh yes, earth’s floors are full of wheat. He’s gathering His wheat into the garner. It’s full. You say, “How full?” As full as God wants it, the fullness of the Gentiles. 66. All right. Vats overflow the wine and oil, don’t touch the wine and the oil. Listen brother/sister, there’s more revelation than you and I can ever handle. There is more life than you and I will ever handle. There is more life, there is more everything, because All in all is here. Oh yes, don't try to reduce Him to a virtue. You try to get a God of your imagination. Don’t try to put a seal upon God and say, “Lord, you’re not doing it right.” Because, that’s what they did back there in the days of the wilderness. It said they tempted Me, they tried to prove Me. It doesn’t say that at all. It said, “They did not approve of Me.” They did not approve of God upon Mount Sinai. They did not approve when God thundered forth, and they ran from the Presence of God. Which would have changed them. And that hurling Light, back and forth, back and forth. Circling, over the people making Moses’ face radiant, catching the same glory back and forth, back to God like a cyclotron, whirling, whirling, whirling. They wouldn’t have dried up the Red Sea. Only they have taken every bit of the land. But they run out with the prophet, and he was God. And they said, “Give us a law.” The same One stands here, with His reflection, like the laser beam, like that cyclotron. And that reflection came from God to the prophet gets …?... people. Get this you people, get this straight the prophet was God to the people. That reflection came off of God, to the prophet. That reflection hit you and me. And that reflection came back again into the Word. And then Almighty God, began reflecting, and the cyclotron goes, and goes, and goes, and one of these days, that excited vessel within us, that inner Spirit, is going to change these very atoms. 67. By the reflection of Almighty God. Let me tell you, clearly let me tell you brethren, let me tell you flat. Your reflection and mine doesn’t do it. God’s reflection does it. And it came from a prophet. And that same reflection on my lips and your lips, that Word of the living God, which is the light of Almighty God. And the face of Jesus Christ, transmitted by a faithful ministry. …?... here tonight whether you know it or not, there’s something happening too. And those vessels of yours the cyclotron within you, going faster and faster. If you don’t want to meet Him in the air, I’m going to. That condensed by four minutes, two and a half hours of preaching. [Joel 2:26] (26) …Ye shall eat in plenty... What? The Word. The teaching that I gave, "For man shall not live by bread alone, but every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." [Mt. 4:4] But God’s not stuck in …?... over here. Or does it? Or does it? “Well, Bro. Vayle, that prophet isn’t God to me.” And tell me what he told you. Tell me what he told you! I told you last night, I’d come out slugging. You tell me what you heard that’s going to change you. Because it starts in the mind. That’s where it went off track. Sarah, lost her virgin mind, of the Word. You’ll …?... and be satisfied. Relaxation under the Seventh Seal. “Why don’t you leave me too?” Said Jesus, to the seventy when they heard the hard words, “ Eat My flesh, and drink My Blood.” Let me tell you something. Bro. Branham was right when he said, “They never thought of that before. That man’s a vampire, he’s a cannibal.” Just a minute brother/sister, let me tell you something flat. There’s nobody here, but knows this truth. If I’m hitting you here tonight, any one person here, you’ll catch it.” 68. You’re not a fool, you’re not a jackass, neither am I. Proof shall stand in a congregation, that congregation knows that that preacher up there is hitting at him. They don’t know, what he’s saying. They can’t put their finger on it but intuitively they know. Those Pharisees heard Jesus say, “Eat My flesh, and drink My Blood.” And they said, “Just a minute.” They couldn’t place it. But down in their consciousness, they knew that at one time, they laid their hands upon an animal. Then they took part of that flesh, and ate it. And they didn’t know what He was saying, but they knew He was saying something that they didn’t like, against their traditions. And they rose up. If you’re sitting here with your doctrines, that you cannot believe a prophet, let me ask you, what do you believe? Your grandfather, your grandmother, your mother, who do you believe? Then let’s take them out of the grave and tell you something. Let me tell you flat, when Lazarus came out of the grave, they simply tried to kill him. And I don’t think he told them anything. "Though one rose from the dead, (they will not believe." Lk 16:31] 69. God sends a prophet and they do believe. Right? [Joel 2:] (25) And I will restore … the years that the locust (ate), the cankerworm, the (palmerworm,) caterpillar… (26) (Why am I sending? You) shall eat in plenty, … and praise the name of the LORD … Listen brother/sister, there is no praise that is acceptable to God that’s outside of this Word. There is no worship acceptable to God, that is outside of this Word. There were some men who offered strange fires, and dedicated sensors. And God said, “Kill the men, but, keep the sensors. The gifts of the Holy Ghost are genuine, but the men are false. (26) … and my people shall never be ashamed. Seven Church Ages, God’s people have been ashamed. They have said, “He’s coming.” They have said, “We won’t die.” But Lee Vayle is one man that’s not going to be ashamed. At the Cross. …There is a Bride that will not… they said, “Why would Bro. Branham die?” Because the prophet goes to the people. A prophet cannot live…you…going with Moses he never made it. William Branham could not make it. It was destiny. But because of the promise, that God gave the prophet vindicated, “We shall not die, but live.” You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel. That I am the Lord your God, and none else. (Yeah) You’ll know it? How are you going to know it? How are you going to know it? Here comes that One prophesied by Isaiah, born of a virgin. Messiah, coming in Israel, and John stands there and said…They said, “What do you mean? Who are you? Why do you needed it for?” He said, “I needed to point out Messiah, because you won’t even know Him, unless I point Him out.” Well, you say, “Just a minute. Don’t tell me I won’t know, if He’s not pointed out.” I'm going to prove you wouldn’t know. 70. Let me go to the Bible. [Romans 9:] (1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost. (2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (3) For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh. (4) Who are Israelities; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; (5) Whose are the fathers, and of whom (was) concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever…. (Have you got more than that?) Now, I'm going to be real dirty and …?.. I want somebody to tell me you’ve got more than that. You say, “Well I have the Holy Ghost.” Don’t bypass the question. How could you have greater than the adoption? (See?) You don’t have one thing to do with what Israel didn’t have. But the children, and the man stood there, and pointed Him out. And said, "There He is." And then, He proved who He was. And they said, "Kill him." (Yeah) You shall know that I’m in the midst. Do you know tonight? Do you know who’s in our midst tonight? That is all that's required. Because if you know He’s here, you’re part of the prepared One that’s going to be made ready. And what’s going to make you ready? That Word’s going to clothe you. Bro. Branham categorically said, “I believe I’m here to dress a Bride.” 71. What are you going to put on the Holy Ghost, which is the Holy Spirit is the garment. And the Scripture here distinctly said, “It is an inner garment.” And it’s not a garment, it’s a vesture, signifying investurement. “This is My Bride.” See Her dressed beautifully, glorious within and without. You stand back and you say, “I looked in that three-way mirror.” I didn’t think I looked too good. Oh, you said, “Honey, you’ve got the wrong image.” You know, look at yourself, you see me. Look at yourself and you’re dead. Look at Him Who is Life. I'm the Lord your God, I'm none else. Listen, I’m not going to preach tomorrow. I’m a little rough tonight, not in my voice, but, I’m a little rough, because I’m getting in that place where I'm edgy. Tomorrow night I would’ve preached on one thing, ‘Loving Him, or Loathing Him.’ I’ll reserve that to a little group. Now listen, none else, you stand with me, and you preach that He is here. They are already sneering, “Vayle, says He’s here.” So what? The Creator is here. He made those trees. Wonderful, give me the trees. I’m not acting for you, but I’m telling you the truth, I know what I’m talking about. If you believe what I preach tonight, you’re in for trouble. The gates of hell will come against you. It’ll come against you suddenly in your own life. By carelessness. Get this flat, I’m telling you something tonight. Put it in your hearts, and believe me. Because I’m not responsible from this moment on. Carelessness, is going to trap everyone of you. It's not that you’re bad people, you’re not bad people, you’re good people. Not because I say so, because you know you are in the Word of Almighty God. And He is here. 72. And you haven’t been destroyed. The Blood scatters sin, until there be no evidence. The Bride is perfected by the Blood. The Bride is perfected by the Word. She’s perfected by the Holy Ghost. She’s perfected by God, and she’s perfect. But the treasure in an earthen vessel, and we’re careless, careless.. careless… And Bro. Branham was careless. Oh, yeah. (Yeah) Now, almost got him in prison for it too. He didn’t mean wrong. Said to Bro. Branham, “Bro. Branham, is you church chartered?” He said, "Yes Lee, it's charted." He didn’t know what a charter was. And I didn’t know if he didn't know. If he’d been chartered, he’d have been saved. But you’ve got to watch governments. If he'd gone to the courthouse, and placed a statement in the courthouse, concerning certain things. I can go to the courthouse and say, that everyone in this meeting tonight was a dope and an idiot. There’s no truth to it, but I could put it in the courthouse and I can sign it and put a statement in there. And the recorder of the courthouse received it. So, they put in Bro. Branham’s church, ‘this is a church.’ That didn't mean a thing. Didn’t have a charter. Carelessness. Not wanting to be careless, not knowing. (See?) The gates of hell are against you. 73. But, I’ll tell you something. You’ll never know grace, as you know it today. You’ll never know glory, as you know it today. Outside of the Resurrection, you’ll never know. Then no generation will ever know, as this generation knows Him. And no generation outside this generation, will have the effect on the living members, that this generation had by effect of knowing Him. For they’ve walked to the Tree of Life. Live forever. Are you ready to live forever? Now, I can’t judge you by myself, but I don’t get any whoopee feeling. I don’t get an whoopee feeling that I’m going to eat my dinner. Go to bed, I've eaten my dinner, (whatever I had.) Go to bed tonight, and sleeping and get up tomorrow morning. Because it’s natural. I’m a son of God, therefore it’s natural to walk into eternity. You don’t make a big thing out of …look it… There are big things, I recognize that the prophet mentioned the simplicity, we’re trying to get simplistic. It hasn’t a thing to do with an emotion, or a feeling. It’s a fact. Now, “I’m your God and none else.” [Joel 2:27] “Oh, if we don’t like that doctrine. God’s here, so what?” "What do you mean so what?" “Well, we want a prophet. Well, we want this.” Nothing wrong with all that. But I want to tell you one thing. I want Him. But when I fell in love, I’m going to tell you one thing, I wanted to be married to the girl I’m married to. Sure, I’d like to have a million dollars, but I would have liked it because I’m going to marry her. 74. I’d like a nice car, because we’d have gone someplace. I didn’t want anything, but I wanted her. Anything else was good. Wasn’t going to fault it. But…and I’ve had dreams when I thought I was married to somebody else, and she had somebody else. My, I woke up in a cold sweat, then a red-hot sweat, and I was sicker than a dog. I didn’t know if I really loved her, like I ought to love her. When I woke up that morning and she was there beside me, …whew…I knew I loved her! Sometimes you people might not think so, but you all have your moments. I’ve got a good marriage. That marriage is just like a union with Jesus. You do everything together, nothing apart. I told her years ago, we lived with a couple my wife and I, we had our first little baby, we lived in their home. Upstairs, I rented, and he was some kind of a crippled guy...and yakkity, yakkity, yak, that’s all they said to each other. And I thought, “My heavens.” I know when my wife and I get a certain age, there’s no way we’d yakkity yak. There’s no way. Nobody, yakkity yak? You could go to the monkey’s zoo… yakkity yak, and …?... We got fellowship, that’s communion, communing with each other. You know, communication, and speech, my wife and I have less to commune, unless she’s mad I guess. I’m trying to tell you, simplicity, we’re entering into with Jesus. 75. Listen, I don’t care about my notes. I just want to let my hair down and talk, because this may be the last time we get together. 1964 I was with Bro. Branham in Tampa. He said, “Lee, all my thoughts are of God.” And he said, “I’ve got to be alone.” And he said, “I want you to write the books by yourself. Everybody leave me alone.” I even go home, and I’ll talk, and they'll take away that thought. And I might not get it for a month. And I said, “That’s great, a prophet can have all his thoughts from God.” A few months ago, not long ago, the inner voice, something within me said, “I don’t want you to have your eyes on anything, but what is yours from the Word, for the Bride.” And He said, “Don’t look at the church out there.” I didn’t know that Bro Branham had said that, down here, but, he took it out. I’m going to tell you something. Brother/sister, if all I do is think what God says is for the Bride, “All my thoughts are of God.” Do you see the simplicity of what the prophet taught in these things. We are not dealing anymore brother/sister, some Never-Never-Land, that is nebulous. We are dealing, one and one make two. And Bro. Branham said, “The Revelation that’s incoming, towards him,… revealing is like two and two is four two and two is four, two and two is four. That’s what I said, “All my thoughts are of God, all my thoughts are of God. Get them quick, get them quick, get them quick"…in other words, don’t let your mind go here. Don’t let your mind go there. Bring those thoughts in, and keep them in. Talk those thoughts, bring that Word. And God listens. And He says, “Those are my people, I can tell by the way they talk” Look it, I’m going to tell you something flat. If you can speak German, there’s no trouble with you going to Germany, and knowing they’re speaking German. And there’s no trouble if you go to New York, and walking through German section, you go [makes several noises] that’s God. He said, “They’re my kind of people. In fact, they are My people.” All my thoughts. 76. You thought It was hard, didn’t you? You thought I’d be like a prophet with a special tuning set, and get a thought. What's yours in the Bride? That’s your thought. That’s your thought. The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things that are revealed, belong unto us, and our children for a thousand generations. Ho, thousand generations. Whew…What's that? Forty-thousand years. If not more. Forty years is not really a generation. As Bro. Branham said, “A generation starts every day.” It’s supposed to be seventy years. So, double it. Can you take it? Expand your minds, let them go. Who ever thought you’d believe a prophet, when you believed such foolishness years ago, that there was an eternal hell. Oh horrors, there must be an eternal hell, because if there isn’t, you see, people wouldn’t be scared. And they wouldn’t come to God if they’re not scared. I’d like a chapter and verse. A Bible college made a little test. It was Three Hills of Alberta. Missonary Alliance, stuff. They made a test, they found sixty percent came to ‘God through fear’ then, God must be fear. I thought He was love. "Blessed is the man whom thou chooses and causest to approach unto Thy Throne." [Ps 65:4] Fear? You’d be scared to death, to come near the Throne, you got to be nuts. Fear doesn’t save you. Look, I’m going to tell you something. You can take a little boy, a little girl, and that kid is stubborn as a mule. And you say, “Don’t do it.” You’re going to raise blisters and bring blood onto that child’s rear end, it’ll still do it. Theology…(phfft!) on theology. Listen, “You shall know that I am in your midst. That I am the Lord your God.” [Joel 2:27] 77. John said, “There’s the Lord your God”. They said, “Kill Him.” Bro. Branham unveiled Him. “Do you love what you saw?” Listen, verses 21-29 tells what He’s going to do. Verses 31-32 tells the great Tribulation. (That's Joel chapter 2) This precedes the great Tribulation. Then what is this all about? It is about Matthew 24: and Luke 17: The Appearing, and the revealing, the Presence of Him. Earth has received a shockwave. (Yeah) Alaska, earth received a shockwave, it said, …Hallelujah…we’ve got a split in the middle. That’s right. Earth rejoice, animals, they’ve got a sixth sense about them, they know something is going to happen. Like, that earthquake. But the Bride, was told by a prophet, “Behold your God. Come on out and look at Him.” All right. This is the same thing we’re talking about, in Acts 3: 19-26. Restoration. Now listen, due to restoration, some are not physically destroyed. Due to restoration, the Bride hears Him. 78. Listen, He’s here. “That which is perfect is come”. [1 Cor 13:10] “That which is perfect has come.” All right. Let’s talk about it....don't tempt me. [1 Corinthians 13:] (8) (Love) never (fails): but whether there be prophecies, (that) fail; … tongues, (will) cease; …knowledge (will) vanish away. (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 shall be done away. (11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) … now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part… Paul said that. Only, you’re a part of It. There’s only a portion. Well, I’m entitled to. Because Iays right here, (11) … when I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) … now we see through a glass, darkly; then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as (I am also) known. (When? When that which is perfect is come.) 79. Now listen, what is this man talking about? The knowledge which is in part. (Right?) That’s right. Now hold it, keep your finger there. Because there’s some pernicious teaching out; that that which is perfect has not come. Hebrews 1: (See?) The gates of hell are against this, (and my mind went blank.) So much for the gates of hell. (1) God, who at (many ways and many parts) and in (many ways) spake in time(s) past unto the fathers (in) the prophets, No prophet outside of Jesus Christ, ever had it all. Only Jesus. Now Paul said, “I’m a prophet. And I’ve got a part.” Now, the word, ‘perfect’ means; finished, consummated, perfect. You can’t add to it, you can't take from it, or it’s no longer perfect. Now, who is the end of the law of all things, and who is the great prophet/healer? And Who is He? He's a Spirit. Then if He is here, 'in part' is done away. He’s not talking about you prophesying about events. He’s talking about the Word of God than comes in part. There is a part in the first age, the second age, the third age, the fourth age, the fifth age and the sixth age, and in seven All in all. Because He is here! And He will do now, what He could not do, because it was not time when He was here. I showed you that last night in Isaiah, He took the Book and He read it to the place… “the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of the vengeance…” [Isa 61:2] he left out, because that day was not here, but it’s here now. That man that runs around saying, “That which is not perfect is come,” is trying to bring this down to some little prophecy. He’s wrong. He’s wrong. Christ has been revealed, and He’s the fullness of Almighty God. 80. All right. Bro. Branham said categorically…the question asked: ‘that which is perfect is come’ what does it mean? ...he said, “Who is perfect but God? And what is God, but the Word. And by His grace, we have the perfect revelation, of the Word for this hour.” Now, what is the Word for this hour? The opening of the Seals, which gives you a perfect revelation, that everybody ahead did not have, but now, you have. It’s here. All right, listen to me. Bro. Branham said, “One day God said, 'Let there be light'. That was the Word. When the Light came, it was no longer a Word, it was Reality.” It was said in the Bible that this same One is going to come back in the Spirit and do the same thing for the Gentiles, I’ll prove it to you … not tonight, I don’t have time now…but chapter 12, is just as clear as water. He is going to Appear to the Gentiles, and do the same things in the Spirit that He did in His flesh. That is exactly true. The perfect ministry of Christ, would return to this earth, absolutely identical, and would bring that Capstone down. The Capstone, is the Holy Spirit, and He's veiled in the Word, that you and I could never see Him. Because that’s how you know your Mate, and you've got to see your Mate, to know Him, is the revealed Word. 81. All right, listen. These things have all been a promise. Now listen carefully. There has been a Word, concerning the Resurrection. The word ‘resurrection’ is not a promise. It is an event. The talk of the event is the promise which indicates, a time when it will be. Now, all these years, we have had the earnest of the Resurrection. Which means it is temporary. Now, the prophet said it, I’m just giving you what the prophet said. Your baptism with the Holy Ghost, is temporary. It is temporary to the time of the Resurrection. It does not get you out of the ground. It guarantees that you will come out of the ground. Now, when the time comes, when the Holy Spirit baptism is no longe,. the last Elected one is brought in, and the last one is child trained; there is no more earnest, it is run out. But there is people in there that have to come out of the ground, because they have received the Holy Ghost when they were born again. But that doesn’t get them out of the ground. God gets them out of the ground. 82. All right. To this time, it has been a Word. It has been a Word of promise that He’s going to come here and do It. The fact that He is here to do It, is no longer a Word, it’s real. Well, what about your Resurrection then? 'That which is perfect is come'. That’s God. That’s the revealed Word. The revealed Word of this hour is, “I shall not die, but live.” [Ps 118:17] And I shall stand here and see the dead come out of the grave. And absolutely, I’ll stand here and will be changed. And we are going to mingle together, and then we are going to be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air, for the Wedding Supper, and we're going to come back upon a cleansed earth. Now, Bro. Branham said, “The Seventh Seal is like a Roman candle.” It just kept shooting out, and shooting out. Now, the fact that He is here, has started something, and He is going to finish it. And it’s going to be when this generation, the fact that Israel will come back to the homeland. Now, if you are old enough to qualify, or young enough to qualify, put it any which way you want in that age bracket, you have every reason, being full of the Holy Ghost to believe God, instead of believing foolishness. (See? ) At the day of the resurrection of Lazarus, Jesus stood there before Mary and Martha, and He said, “Listen, I am the Resurrection and Life, do you believe this?” And she said, “Lord, I believe my brother will rise in the Resurrection.” He said, “Shut up girl, and listen!” If He’d been more like me, He would have said it. (See?) “I am the Resurrection.” Having proved? No. Then, He's still the Resurrection. But now, it’s not even an event, it’s a Person. 83. Now I ask you, why is He here? To raise the dead. How do you know you’re Bride? I’m going to see Him. I’m going to get changed, I’m going to go. And you stood here tonight, and dare to get your thoughts all muddled up, because somebody runs around and tells stupid things and denies the prophet. And you say you believe the prophet, and follow right on his cotton-picking coattails. And you tell that to the Marines, but don’t tell Lee Vayle. Because I’ll call your hand. The prophet said, “That which is perfect is come.” That which is perfect is come to William Branham! And if you’ve got the unmitigated gall, to deny the prophet, give me a sign. Tell me the prophet made a mistake. She ain’t here, is she…Carol? No, she’s not here. Or she would tell you, that man told her, “Yes, the prophet made a mistake, he was wrong.” Isn't that right? You don’t have to nod your heads, but listen, have some guts girl. I’ll call your bluff. That’s right. Tell me the prophet made a mistake! What? I'm going to tell you he didn’t. You say, “Vayle, you preach experience.” What do you expect me to preach? What's happening, has happened. Now, you prove I haven’t got it. 84. You open your mouth and tell me the prophet’s wrong. And you know in your heart, you know you haven’t got it. How come you're not preaching tomorrow nigh? Because tonight is rough enough. But love Him or loathe Him. (Yeah) Yeah, you bet It's the Word. I preach nothing but the Word, son. Part, [taps his Bible] any prophet has the part. William Branham has his part. But he wasn’t that which is perfect. Elohim. Know Him as we’re known. How are you known little Bride? Remember he said, “I call you Bride, I don’t call you church.” Not only the revelation of Him, but the revelation of His inheritance in the Bride. That word ‘inheritance’ has to be that, which the father passes onto the son. And the only thing that God passed onto that Son, was His Name. And we’ve got His Name, we’re Mrs. Jesus. He said we were. Deny the prophet said, “We're the Blood of God, go on deny it. Uhh? “Oh Bro. Vayle, this is a hard thing.” That’s what they said, and left Him. I’m going to tell you, there’s nothing hard anymore. It’s simple as 'abc'. He said it, He’s here. All in all, is here. Oh say, I want to tell you one thing, “I married Rockefeller,” she says, “And you know, my…” Well they said, “How many diamonds are you going to get?” Well she said, “We don’t count Rockefeller in diamonds.” I’ve got everything Rockefeller has, and He’s got more than that. Smart woman. 85. Let me tell you something: Remember Bro. Branham talking about the two kids on his knees. Becky sat there and pushed away Sarah, and she said, “I’ve got all of daddy… hee, hee, hee.” Bro. Bill put his arm around and grabbed Sarah, and she, “Well Daddy’s got all of me.” Out of the mouths of babes. Have you got all of Daddy? Daddy’s got all of you. You know something? Any man that’s afraid to put his wife’s name on the same check book as his, he ain’t got a wife, she ain’t got a husband. They’re a couple of nuts living together. They’re sick. [laughter] Mr. and Mrs. Jesus. Ever since we had a check book, as far as I know, at least the last twenty years, my wife’s name is there. And I said, “Look kid, if you take all the money you deserve it, and you worked for most of it.” I’m a lazy bum, I just take mine for nothing. I’m the most beautifully treated son of God in all the whole world. And the most useless one of the whole bunch, so, take heart. Take heart, lift up your heads and rejoice. Look, I looked in the three-way mirror, it was traumatic. I never looked again. But one day I did look in the reflection. And for the first time I breathed easy. I didn’t see Lee Vayle anymore. I saw Him. Sure, my name’s on the same check book He is. Name on the same check book…listen brother/sister, I’m not here to run anybody down. But I do lash out because I’m tired of nonsense and all the sickening stuff going around. 86. William Branham was a prophet of God. God vindicated William Branham. God identified Himself. God went right down the road. Look what’s in the Book here. I told you, for many years I came out of Canada. I never saw a cardinal. But I saw a picture of a cardinal. And the first time I saw one, I said, “There he is.” Saw Bro. Branham the first time, I was backslidden. Quit preaching, I was disappointed in everybody, disappointed in myself. Gave it all up and said, “No way, no way. Forget it, forget it, forget it.” I saw him that night, I never stopped crying for two hours. I knew, “If you listen to any man, you listen to him.” And then, I had to go back preaching. So, I took the Bible off the shelf and dusted…whewft… Put it back on again. Every preacher got to have a black suit. Went down and bought a black suit. Hung it back in the closet. But I knew it wouldn’t work. So, one day I knew it was all over. But this time I said, “Lord, I don’t care what it costs.” This time we go ahead, and never turn back. I’ll die, but I won’t turn back. I went through tough times. I can’t remember them. What I worried about ten years ago, …I don’t know what it was. I forget. What I suffered, depravation, my wife and family, He always answered. He never left me alone. It wasn’t hard, and I can tell you tonight, it isn’t hard. I can tell you tonight, it is not complex, it is simple. It is just what the prophet said. You’re going to leave tonight, and I’m going to tell you flat. I’m not a mind reader, and I’m going to tell you flat, you sitting here tonight. And you’re saying, “If Vayle made it.” Palms down, we’ve got made. 87. Others are going to say,… “ whew…boy, I didn’t feel nothing, I didn’t see nothing.” I’m scared. Don’t be afraid. The rest of you are going to say, “Who does he think he is?” Be my guest. I’m way ahead of you. Way ahead of you. Not as a Christian. No, but just a preacher standing here, already know the answer. The gates of hell are against this revelation, but it won’t prevail. He’s here. And the same yesterday, today and forever. And that’s part of the Resurrection, where He did not say, “Whosoever liveth believeth in Me, shall never die.” He’s saying that tonight, to you and me. “You shall never die.” And yet, we could die tomorrow and be just so tickled to get out of here. He told me…I…look it, I don’t make any apologies, I’m tired of making apologies. Because of my funny kind of nature, Forget it, you’ve got a worse one than I've got maybe, drop dead. [laughter] And I mean that kindly. But I’m just tired of a lot of junk that goes around. I’ve cried all my life…my wife knows. Cried at night in the pillow, cried during the day. I got my tears back, for a while I couldn’t cry, but I got my tears back. 88. And I’ll tell you how it happened. A young lad was going through the same experience that I was going through. He couldn’t understand what God was doing, but He knew that God was doing something to him. He led the song service, and when he led the song service I began to cry, and I couldn’t stop crying. He hasn’t left you alone brother/sister. He hasn’t forsaken you. He spoke to my heart, and He said, “That sweet spirit, you’ll have it.” It comes just before the Resurrection. And I didn’t jump up and down and scream, because I knew that Bro. Branham stood in the pulpit that night, and he said, “I’m healed, and I don’t know why I’m healed, after all these years.” But he died in that condition. I’m not kidding myself. I may not live to have that sweet spirit, but I’m going to have it on the other side. My God, does not fail. We haven’t just touched the hem of His garment, brother/sister, we’ve been folded within His arms. We have passed from death unto life. Immortality is no longer a myth. Resurrection is no longer a myth. The Millennium is already ushered in, because He is here, brother/sister. It’s no longer a Word, it’s Reality. For Christ our life has appeared, and we’re going to appear with Him in glory. It’s been manifested. “The ship has set its course,” Bro. Branham said. The stabilizers have been fixed. The direction has been set. He said, “We’ll crest every wave.” Sure, the squeeze can come down. So what. I’d sooner be caught in a squeeze. I'd sooner pay a dear price, than to go back for some petty little thing of my own and say, “The prophet was wrong.” Because he wasn’t wrong. Because he was wrong in one word, ‘it's all over’. Because God can’t make a mistake. And He chose prophets to convey the Word. He told you how they would do it. 89. Let me tell you brother/sister. If you had been walking in the atmosphere of your own heart, and you think that which is perfect has not come, and that which is perfect is God, what is God, but the Word. And that perfect Word of this hour is here. Let me tell you something. You’re wrong. Because no Word outside of what lay in Him, and His promise of this hour, is going to be manifested, and manifested in a Bride. And that Bride is Elect. Took a long time, didn’t preach a sermon. But you’re not going to leave here tonight, unchanged. I’m going to tell you something. How can you stand there and say, “I told you.” Because I don’t have anything to tell you. I’m only telling you what the prophet said, and I’m taking it word by word in this Bible, you go your way, let’s see what happens down the road. Many men can say many things the prophet said. But we all ought to say what the prophet said. You don’t leave it up to your pastor. Evangelist, this, that, remember, it’s in your own hearts. “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.” [Mt 12:34] Say, “Not in my heart.” Who’ll bring Him down? In other words, don’t ask questions. Don’t ask questions, just listen and believe on Him. (See?) 90. God, vindicated that prophet. Restoration…look it…everything is here tonight. Everything. He is here. All in all, is here. Elohim is here. Brother/sister listen: The Creator was here. Bro. Branham showed you, that He was here. (Yeah) Do you understand what I’m saying tonight? I hope you do. Because, it’s not a Word of prophecy any more, It’s here. Listen, the very words he said, when God said, “Let there be light.” That was just the Word. But when the light came, it was reality. The Word was gone. “It shall be light about the evening time.” [Zech 14:7] It’s Light brother/sister, it’s no longer a word, it is the Word. Now, you know something? You think right now, you ought to be yelling, but I’m glad you’re not. Do you know why? Because you’re believing It. It’s coming just natural to you. (See?) You don’t have to feel for anything. You don’t have to pull for anything, anymore. You know what I’m talking about. See, look. I told you there’s no way you’re going to leave here unchanged. There’s no way. There’s no way. Because the Word of God is Living. Not because I bring It. It’s already been brought. I’m not confirming what the prophet said. I’m teaching what the prophet said. I’m not proving what the prophet said. I’m just showing you in Scripture he said It. That’s the job of five-fold ministry. (See?) He’s here. What is He doing? Everything. Everything. He’s doing it for me. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. He’s taking care of a wretch like me. Once I knew that I would die. But I’m bound for immortality. Not as nice as the original hymn. But he didn’t put it my way. Let’s rise. Heavenly Father, we love you tonight. Lord God, I don’t want any ways, anybody to ever think I walk these prophet’s shoes, as though I took his place, or anything else, because that’s absolutely ridiculous. And nobody could take my place, anymore than I could take anybody else’s place, or anybody else take Your place. But, Lord, he did say, that I would say hard things, You know, Lord, as much as I haven’t liked to, there’s been a zeal, Lord, for You and Your Word and the prophet. Forgive me, Lord, if I’ve been a little rough in spots. But as the prophet said, “Somebody’s got to tell them.” And he was talking to me, and I’m not going to try to tell anybody anything as though I’m telling anybody anything. You know that, Lord, in my heart. But to tell what is in my heart, by grace, Lord, I stand here with Your Word. That You’re here. You’re doing these things, Lord, and it’s ever so simple. What it is, is just the life, intermingling, and at one time shortly, that life of Yours, is going take over these lives of ours. Because Your own Word by Your prophet said, “When Christ who is our life shall appear….” Thoroughly manifested as to Who and what He is, then we will be the same thing in glory with Him. And, Lord, if You haven’t been manifested, forgive me. I’m going to have to say like Paul, “If You didn’t raise Jesus from the dead, we're telling a lie, and there isn’t any hope.” And if You’re not here, to raise the dead and to change us, I’m in the same boat, Lord. But the prophet said that You were here. And I’m basing every single thing upon that fact, Lord. And He Himself, Lord, You, know he said, “If I teach you something wrong. I’ll stand in the judgment for you.” Casting everything back Lord, upon the prophet. By Your grace, Lord, by Your help, and I believe it has been Your grace and Your help that makes me to see absolutely that there was a prophet, and who that prophet was. And the workings, Lord, not of imagination, but of the Reality of the Presence of God. I believe that, Lord. And I am confirmed, Lord, in that simplicity, knowing tonight that You’re doing this. Lord, You know I stood all these years with You. And You've been so gracious after forty-five years of spitting in Your face, to turn right around and do the very thing in spite of myself, making You a liar. Now, Lord, know Lord, that You understand that, because I don’t understand it myself. But I’m grateful, Lord, for You’ve helped me done it. And I praise Your Name, Lord, that You’re wonderful that You have done it. Father tonight, I couldn’t wish myself accursed, that’s the last thing I could do. I’m not a Paul, and I’m not a Moses. No way, Lord, but, I do pray tonight that nobody in this building, not one single person, shall be accursed. Lord, I want what You’ve been helping me with. And I want more of it, I want it to spiral more and more, effectively until, it comes right into the realms of the atoms within the body being changed. Like in that cyclotron. As in the DNA and the RNA, when scientists doing things, when they’re cloning things. O God, if You could take one cell of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and clone each one of us, into the very image of Jesus Christ. Lord, science speaks of You. The earth speaks of You. Heaven and earth speaks of You. But of all things though, the Word speaks of You, and is manifested. And we’re part of that, and we’re so grateful. We love You tonight, Lord. Love you more than we ever loved You. Just rejoicing, Your grace and mercy more than at any time. We appreciate it. And, Lord, I’ve got to tell you again, I just can hardly wait for that sweet spirit, O God. Because I could step out of here tonight, and walk into It, O God. You said that would be there. And I know it’s there. You wouldn’t lie, Lord. I know You’re true. I could have a little bit of truth in me, that’s good enough for me. But You’re entirely true. You’re entirely faithful, Lord. You’ve been good to let me have a little bit of faith about a few things. But, You’re the faithful One. And You are here. And the people should never be ashamed, of what it is. Resurrection hour, Lord. It is immortality hour. It is that, we’re not going to go to try to climb some hill, Lord, to put some show on. We’re just going day by day. Pounding our nails and digging our potatoes. And eating our bread and our butter, and just sitting there, standing there, sleeping there, just natural, Lord, walking in the Kingdom of God, in our midst. The higher dimension already taking place. Lord, help me to see it more clearly. Give me a better spirit of forgiveness. All these things so necessary, help Your people, Lord. Father, tonight it could be all over but the training of the last's been in. I don’t know. But for the first time, Lord, though we could stand here in a bit of a fear within ourselves, and a bit of a trembling, we’re glad that we’re here in this last day. Lord, for the first time begin to say with the prophet, I would have chosen this time. I’m going to feel like a liar, Lord. I know I'd only chose it, because You put me here. And I know the wisdom of Your choosing, so, Lord, because You choose that that’s going to have to good enough for me. But, Lord, it’s a wonderful thing, just the same. To have been with the prophet, to know that God was unveiled to see all these things. Lord God, how we praise You. Now, Lord, we’re going home. Going to rest hopefully, Lord, to get strength. Father, we don’t believe one Word, that You given in this hour disappears, for You said, “Young people could see visions.” Merciful God, I l know there is no vision that anyone could create, greater than the revelation of Him who is veiled in that Word, who is the living Word. You yet You said it's ...?... vision. Bless the young people, Lord. I’ve had them, Lord, way back when I was young, and it was so good, Lord. God help young people with ministries in this respect, that real true visions can come to somebody somewhere. the old people, dream dreams. And, Lord, that sure takes me in, because you said, seventy years to go, and I've only got two to go. And I wish it was two months to go, or maybe two days that's really better still, because of the glory that’s over there. But, Lord, I’m an old person, there's older people here, they can have dreams. You said it, Lord, I’m standing on it tonight. We don’t believe that one thing is gone out of Your Word. We believe it’s just fuller, the right way to approach, the right way to see, the right way to do all these things in here, Lord. O Father, God help us and above all Lord, remove the jaundice from our eyes. I believe Lord there’s that tonight too, I have to confess, I have a lot of it lying in there. I don’t want to be that way, Lord. I don’t want to be skittish, temperamental, Lord. Don’t want to be but, I’ve got to admit I’m hooked in a lot of ways. Pray You'llforgive, Lord, and help, Father God. Help each one of us. Help each one of us, Lord. Wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Lord God, I would see your blessings. Hopefully, your blessings, upon every single person. Nobody missed, but that sweet Spirit amongst us. Until there wasn’t one person that wasn’t healed. Signifying the dynamics of that which is Present, going into the Resurrection. Lord, we pray the same prayers that the prophet prayed. We couldn’t pray a better prayer. And we prayed that Lord. And we prayed that tonight. Now, Father, tonight, please we ask you once more, break down those walls within us. Break down those walls within. Help us, Lord, tonight, break down every wall. Give, Lord, and help, Lord God. Help each one of us, Lord, wise as serpents, harmless as doves, Lord God, I would see Your blessing, hopefully Your blessing upon every single person. Nobody miss, but that's His Spirit amongst us. Until there wasn't one person that wasn’t healed. Signifying the dynamics of That which was Present, going into the Resurrection. Lord, we pray the same prayer that the prophet prayed, we couldn’t pray any better prayers. And he prayed that Lord, and we pray it tonight. Now, Father tonight, please we ask You once more break down those walls within us. Break down those walls within us. Help us, Lord, tonight, break down every wall. Starting, Father, with between You and us. Whether there's just There’ just no way that we doubt You, no way that... there's anything that comes up. No way. Lord, Father, please forgive us, but when You poured upon us immoderately, this rain. We became very moderate, as gluttons for more, Lord. Forgive us, Lord, but I don’t see where we can have enough. I’m not satisfied, Lord, with the water to the ankles back there in Luther’s day. Up to the knees in Wesley’s. Up to the hips in Pentecost, Lord, I'm only satisfied in that river that cannot be plumbed, but it barrels us right over. Father, my heart is enlarged to that end. And my soul wants to magnify God. Lord, the God of yesterday, as preached by the people, is not enough, I want that overflowing God within my heart. My life and my mind. And I pray the same thing for the people. Lord, we’re crying tonight. We’re crying tonight, Lord, we're not going to leave here unchanged. I’m not going to leave here unchanged, now no way, no way, no way. No way Lord. I’m asking You Lord, and if You said “If anybody else concerning Your will.” The prophet said, "Watch you motives." And this is not something we can spend upon the lust of our flesh, or anything else, or to cause wars, God. We're talking about that which stops wars, and is not consumed upon the flesh, but consumes the flesh until the older flesh dies away, and the inner man is renewed. So, Father tonight, we’ve got out of giving a prayer. Hallelujah Lord God. Legitimate prayer we take hold of the horns of the altars tonight. And we will not be denied. I will not be denied. Till Jesus comes and pours Himself into deeper depths. I will not be denied. O Father, we love You tonight. It’s so wonderful in Your Presence God, we believe It. And thank You for It. Just don’t know how to quit praying, just don't know how to go. But Lord God, as Moses said, “Settle down on us Lord, we’re stopping for the night.” But, we’re not stopping, no way, we’re going on. Rise up before us, lead on oh, great Jehovah, be our covering. Our All in all, Hallelujah. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. He has redeemed us by His own Blood, and sanctified us by His Word, and called us by His grace. And identified us by the Holy Spirit, and made us to know by the bonds of liberty. And the Holy Ghost of the Word we're His. We praise Thy name tonight, Lord. Magnify Your wonderful Name. Magnify Your wonderful Name. Sweep over us, Holy Spirit. Kill everything humanly extinct which is not good. Bring up everything that lies within that seed within us, anointed by the water of God. In the sunshine of His grace, and His Presence, maturing, ripening, right down the line, O God. O God, we praise You. We love Your wonderful Name. Thank You for everybody present here. And we can only do it Lord, because we thank You. Because we know You’re Present. Lord, there may be feeble ones amongst us, mankind within that class if not entirely. I might leave here in that same condition. But, Lord, I will not leave here in a condition, less spiritual. No way, no way, no way. And one day, Lord, that excitement within the cyclotron of the moving grace of Almighty God, by the power of the Resurrection lying within the Word, is going to change the very atoms of the body, minds of the people here. Lord, I believe in, I believe the true report. Hallelujah to the King, I have crossed the inner court right into the inner veil. Glory be to God. Passed it all, passed it all, it's all passed up . Thank God for ever. We just praise You, Lord. Receive, Lord, our thanks, and we receive Your mercy, Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, the only wise God, by all power and honour and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 'Now, the Lord bless you'. What is His Purpose? (0982b) Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1