Anointed Ones at the End Time #15

It Is Finished

April 12, 1987

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re so glad to know the Lord Jesus
Christ is here in the form of the Holy Spirit and the Pillar of Fire,
leading your people, knowing that He came to do in the Spirit what He
did when He was here in the flesh, God, very God manifested amongst the
people. 

	And having done it, Lord, we believe also that You have appeared to
Your temple suddenly Lord, to cleanse it, and to bring it into a divine
order, so it’s no longer a den of thieves, the bride of Christ no
longer a den of thieves, that body, Lord, no longer misaligned, but,
come right up to where You want it in order that the dead may rise, and
there be a perfect body form New Jerusalem, ready for Mount Zion.

	Help us Lord today to understand what the prophet set forth before us
in the study of Your Word, that it may do us good, Lord, that it may
feed the inner man, oh God. It may nurture us up and bring our bodies in
subjection, Lord, because we know Thou art the God of all flesh. 

	Lord, You made man to be obedient to You. By Your spirit we’re
claiming that promise this morning, to be obedient to You, Lord, to show
forth fruit unto your praise and glory, which fruit, Lord, be, first of
all, believing this Word, then living that Word by the power of God
within us. In Jesus’ Name we ask these mercies. Amen.

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, this is number 15, “Anointed Ones at the End Time”, and it
is to be expected that any denominational brother, especially
Pentecostal in doctrine, might well be bitterly hurt and absolutely
outraged for being described as a tool of the devil to deceive the
last-day church world, which is...it’s a church world to the end that
both spiritual and physical death engulfs the world as Bro. Branham sets
forth in his message.

	Now, that’s exactly what Bro. Branham is saying about these people,
genuinely anointed with the Holy Spirit, with the wrong word, are tools
of the devil, and they are used to deceive all but the elect to bring
the world, of course the world church, to the antichrist.

	It is not difficult to realize the anger and animosity he evokes when
he declares that he and he alone has the true ministry of vindication
and the true word of restoration, and all others are impersonators and
deceivers. Now, that’s a blank statement that’s very correct with
this message. And that’s like Jesus said, all that ever came before me
are thieves and robbers. He never did explain it fully. And you go by
history, it is a very difficult remark to put in its place. I don’t
understand it myself.

	It may be he is talking about anybody that said they had something
would do you good and save you outside of the scripture. He said
they’re thieves and robbers because Christ was the theme of the
Scripture, He was the one spoken about. I don’t know really what it
was all about. 

2.	But Bro. Branham comes on the scene, and he says that everybody else
is an impersonator and deceiver. Of course, that would be outside of
this Word. Now, surely we can understand their fury, which may well be
unleashed toward us who believe this Message, when Bro. Branham
categorically places the judgment scene of their White Throne rejection
right in this hour that we believe to be His Appearing amongst us. And
that’s what Bro. Branham did. 

	For the prophet places Mt 24:24 with Mt 7:21, which says there’ll
come in that day and do so-and-so, and He said “I’ll declare I never
knew you.” So, the prophet places Mt 24:24, the deceivers and their
rejection, in Mt 7:21, and in the same breath speaks of what is going on
now as though it were already happening at the White Throne, for the
prophet speaks of the wheat and the tares of sitting down together in
the Kingdom.

3.	They are doing it now and will do it soon again at the White Throne,
which is actually the day after tomorrow, because a thousand years is as
one day. And we find that in Mt 22:11-14, so we just might look at that
where Bro. Branham is speaking. Matthew 22:

(11)	And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man
which had not on a wedding garment:

(12)	And he said unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having
a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

(13)	Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and
take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.

(14)	For many are called, but few are chosen.

	He referred that to this very hour, sitting down in the assembly,
listening to the Word and not receiving It, and so, therefore, they’re
cast out. Also remember; Eden was God’s headquarters or His kingdom on
earth, and at that particular time it was when He had Eden and Adam and
Eve in divine order, that they were able to stretch forth their
hand—which they did not do—to eat of the Tree of Life and live
forever. And so we have the Tree of Life here, under Eden conditions, in
the sense that we are getting back to Eden very, very rapidly.

4.	Now, in looking at this, then, what we’re talking about, Bro.
Branham is putting this group of people here at the White Throne
categorically, which is true according to Malachi 4. Now most people
don’t want to admit that. They simply can not admit to the imminency
of the hour and the irremediable, remediable conditions. They simply can
not believe it. They think there is something going to happen yet.
There’s going to be some measure of grace that this thing could be put
off: “Maybe we can work it out.” 

	That is a lie from the pit of hell; it’s over. Either this is what
the prophet said, or we’ve all been fooled, and when I say ‘all’,
it’s ‘a very, very few people’—very, very few. It’s got to be
over because time and eternity has come together. And so we’re looking
at the White Throne as no other people did. 

5.	Now everybody is thinking of the Great Tribulation, and that’s true
that it should be thought of. But we bypass it; we’re not interested
in it. And if the people were smart, they wouldn’t be, either.
They’d be looking at White Throne. They don’t know that this is that
hour—day, just twenty-four hours off, if you want to know the truth,
as God counts time.

	The prophet’s scathing indictment is that these people, these
prophets and people claim they are known of God and know God, but they
are impostors and were never known of God, as It says in Matthew 7. So,
they are not backsliders. Pentecostal people say these are backsliders.
How can they say that? That’s like saying, “Well, I used to know me
when I was twelve years old.”

	“Oh, I never knew you. I never knew you.”

	They make God some kind of fool or a liar. He never did know them.
They’re not backsliders. Why try to make the Scripture believe the
way, sound the way you want it to sound? Face up to it. He said I never
knew you, period. Well, if he never knew them, he never knew them. So,
why fool with God? Why? You know, you ought to write your own Bible.

	You say, “Well, I wouldn’t do that.”

	You already done that. See? Do a thing and lie about it.

	“I never stole the candy. Honest, Mom. I didn’t steal it.”

	“What’s all over your face?”

	“I wouldn’t know.”

	I guess not, see? A further judgmental assessment is that since they
are of Satan, and Satan is speaking through them, they are just like
their father the devil. They cannot handle the Word but are entirely
false to It, though genuinely anointed by the Holy Spirit and under
those conditions should know the truth. 

6.	We left off reading where Bro. Branham is using Matthew 7, wherein
Christ condemns them as workers of iniquity for using spiritual gifts to
vindicate themselves and their organizations before the people. Hope you
caught that. They’re exactly like Balaam, who prophesied perfectly but
refused the truth of the Word as it was in Moses. And Balaam himself
died condemned in the battle against the people of Israel, even as today
these people will die at Armageddon. 

	All right. Page 45, paragraph 193:

[193]	“That’s exactly right, but when it come to the Word you
refused it.” (He’s talking to these false anointed ones.) Oh,
brother. See the deceiving part? Not prophet exactly, but with the Word,
true Word, vindicated Word, made manifest. “You workers of
iniquity...”

	Now, what he’s saying here in my estimation is this, they never
rejected Bro. Branham as a true prophet in the works that he did. They
rejected him as a Word prophet, which is ridiculous, because if
anybody’s going to know the Word, a prophet’s going to know the
Word, because that’s what a prophet’s all about. But of course, they
don’t believe that anymore. A prophet merely foretells a few things
and he just drifts along, preaching a bit. You know, it’s just works
out fine. But that’s not what we are dealing with here, because when
you deal with the prophet Elijah restoring you’re dealing with a
larger area. 

7.	Now also, on top of that, I would say Bro. Branham is also saying
these men are prophets is true—very, very true. They are prophets in
the legitimate sense of their performing genuine signs and wonders and
miracles and things. So therefore, you cannot now say, “Well, William
Branham’s no prophet; these people aren’t prophets.”

	That’s a lie. William Branham was a prophet; they are prophets.
It’s just—you’ve got to stay with the Word. You can’t say,
“Well, Balaam wasn’t a prophet.” Balaam was truly a prophet, but
not the true prophet because the true prophet would have been with the
Word. As Paul said, “if any man thinks himself to be a prophet or a
spiritual, let him acknowledge the things I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord.” So, you see what we’re saying here? 

8.	Okay, he said [193]	“You workers of iniquity...” 

	First of all, they knew better. They knew better so they could have
done it right and they wouldn’t do it, because they’d been told. 

[194] 	Try... Satan has tried in all ages to impersonate the true Word.
We know that, don’t we?

	Now, the word ‘impersonate’ means ‘personify, take the place of,
or act the part’. So, Satan has always acted as though he was one with
the Word, that he could tell you what it’s all about, and people just
don’t want to accept that. 

	The very first place Satan showed his hand to mankind was in dealing
with the Word. Then, what is the last place he’s going to show it? In
dealing with the Word. What’s it going to be? In the middle, the same
thing. As I’ve said before, you look at the beginning; you look at the
end. If I’ve got a board, it analyzes oak at one end and the other end
it’s an oak board. All right? The devil’s at the end; the devil’s
at the beginning. He’s always done it. He simply cannot handle the
Word.

9.	Now under the Seventh Seal, Bro. Branham tells us that Satan cannot
do a thing about the Third Pull, which is the revealed Word of God. Now,
don’t take the Third Pull as being tremendous manifestation of
vindication. It isn’t—as though that’s the Third Pull.

	I should rephrase that. I should say that, don’t take the Third Pull,
the great things that were done there, as a ministry in itself. It’s
really a ministry, a vindication, not that it needed vindication, but
it’s a constant growth of the vindication to the point where you can
accept what Bro. Branham says as being true, because you’ve got to
believe that those mighty messengers, embodiments of the Holy Ghost, the
Seven Spirits been before the throne, all came down at one time in the
presence of Almighty God, in full representation and manifestation, told
him seven complete messages of the Seven Thunders—of the Seven
Seals—and revealed it. So, that’s what you’re looking at there.
See?

	Now, that great vindication he had, he says, “did you see the Third
Pull, how things were done so stupendously?” showing you that he had
the authority to declare that which no one else could declare, that he
was the one for the end time.

	Okay. Now, Satan can not handle the Word, though he wants to
impersonate it, but he simply cannot do it.

10.	[195] 	Notice. They came up to the borderline and quit. Looky here,
He said in Hebrews the 6th chapter, where we were reading awhile ago. I
told you to refer back to it, and we will for the next couple minutes. 

	Now, this business again, “borderline.” We want to look at it. They
came up to the borderline, and they quit. Now, all scholars are familiar
with the term ‘borderline’. And to them it simply means this: that
you can come to the place where you see something and know in your heart
that you should repent and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior,
and like those seeds sown in the ground, it might be your experience
that the seed fell upon the hard pavement. And you say, “I know
there’s something there,” but you walk away. Well, the birds of the
air get that, and it’s all gobbled up. All right.

	Then there’s the one, of course, that falls amongst the thorns, and
it’s gravelly. And so the soil is just not right, and it’s just not
right in your life, so you say, “Well now, I just don’t think I like
that.” So, you drop it. Then you get to the place where something else
chokes it out...down the line, until you could come to the place where
it’s good ground; there’s good seed.

	Now people use that for borderline, and they take the idea of
borderline, then, where Israel came to the place where they knew there
was a God, they knew there was something real, and they came right to
the position where they could say, “Well, hey, we should... We’ll
step over now because we know there’s something really great here.”
But they don’t do it. They simply do not do it. 

11.	Now, to understand the history of true borderline, let’s go back
of what borderline is, as against what I’m going to talk about today,
Bro. Branham’s illustrating about borderline. We’re going to go to
Hebrews 3 because we don’t want to be sort of fooled by what he is
saying here. Okay, we might start, then, at Heb 3:7. 

(7)	Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his
voice,

(8)	Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation (or testing) in the wilderness:

(9)	When your fathers (tested) me, (and) proved me, and saw my works
forty years. 

	See, they wouldn’t cross over, so God had to keep them running around
the mountain for forty years. They all dropped dead. They weren’t
supposed to go in anyway.

(10)	Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
alway err in their heart... 

	In always in heart, they remain the same. They’re just full of error.
Like I mentioned this morning, see, there wasn’t any room there for
reality.

12.	(10)	...and they have not known my ways.

(11)	So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

(12)	Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from the living God.

(13)	But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any
of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

(14)	For we are made (companions) of Christ, if we hold the beginning of
our confidence stedfast unto the end;

(15)	While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation.

(16)	For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that
came out of Egypt by Moses.

	Now, you see, the people here were not willing to take the word of a
vindicated prophet lock, stock, and barrel and say, “That’s it.”
They had to fuss about it, they had to argue about it, they had to deny
it, they had to toss it back and forth amongst themselves. They were
strictly in unbelief. Now, that’s being done right today, and the
people who say—call themselves message and outside, they don’t give
two cents for it anymore. William Branham is dead, dead, dead, gone,
gone, gone, and his followers fight, fight, fight. Who needs it?

	They don’t care two bits. They wouldn’t give you two bits for it.
No. They wouldn’t do it. So, here’s a lot of problems right here,
and it’s amongst us. Let’s not kid ourselves.

13.	(17)	But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them
that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

	Now, we’ve gone by twenty-one years now; still nineteen to go. Who
knows? I don’t know. I’ll be a long time dead by then.

(18)	And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but
to them that believed not?

(19)	So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

	[Hebrews 4]

(1)	Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering
into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

(2)	For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the
word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them
that heard it.

(3)	For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works
were finished from the foundation of the world.

(4)	For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And
God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

(5)	And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

	So, there are two different rests speaking of there. There’s one
where God did His own resting from His work, and now you can cease from
yours, which this Scripture here is merely a type of what’s in 2
Thessalonians 1 where we come to rest. It’s merely a type of it. See,
you’ve got to watch this.

14.	(5)	And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

(6)	Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they
to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

(7)	Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so
long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not
your hearts.

(8)	For if (Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterward
have spoken of another day.

(9)	There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(10)	 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his
own works, as God did from his.

	Now, your rest will bring you to the same place it brought God: no more
works; It’s all over.

(11)	Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall
after the same example of unbelief.

	So, the greatest labor you and I’ve got is a battle of the mind, like
Bro. Branham said, Armageddon. Now, what I want to show you here is
this: this is not the same; it’s only a type of what’s over here in
Hebrews 6. So, when he talks of borderline Christians, don’t go back
here and say, “Well, I see that.” You’re using it only as a type
and ‘take a look at this’.

15.	Now, Hebrews 6. 

(1)	Therefore (laying) the principles of the doctrine of Christ (aside,
leaving them), let us go on unto perfection; (That’s a complete
consummation and conclusion.) not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

(2)	Of the doctrines of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

(3)	And this will we do, if God permit.

	You see, there’s no need for it because the simple reason, it’s
already been preached. It’s been dealt with. So, now you’re going to
the place of finishing it off. When you finish off the house and
you’re going to put the little doohickeys on top of your house, you
don’t say, “Well, hey, I’m just going to rip her down and built
her over again,” or say, “That’s not a house. I can’t put the
top on.”

	That’s what people read this Scripture as: It’s already been
established. You don’t have to worry about it. Anything going to be
done now is where the contractor takes care of the mistakes and finishes
the thing off the way the house is supposed to be. So, that’s what
you’re looking at.

16.	(3)	And this will we do, if God permit.

	God did not permit at that time. No sir. Permission would have meant
the whole body was complete, the last member had been added through the
grace and the love of Almighty God. But it hasn’t been. Only at this
time you’re coming here. And at the time of perfection, watch what
proceeds it:

(4)	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all) enlightened,
(And Peter tells you the same thing in 2 Peter.) and have tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

(5)	And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to
come,

(6)	(Having fallen) away, (Not if they shall, although that’s true,
but now it’s today...) to renew them again unto repentance; seeing
they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame. (Now, watch:)

(7)	For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it,
(How often? That’s the Word of God: seven times.) and bringeth forth
herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed...

	Well, who are we the husbandry of? Almighty God. I, the Lord, have
planted and watered lest any man pluck it from my Father’s hand.

(7)	...receiveth blessing from God: (Okay.)

17.	(8)	But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is
nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

	You’re right up to the place of cursing and burning, which is what?
The Great Tribulation and the Lake of Fire. You can’t separate the two
of them any more. I want you to notice that.

	I’m not... Listen, people; get this flat. In the days of Noah eight
people, and eight people alone, made it. Right? Eight people. The
rest...gone! So this age. So, don’t get a lot of ideas about grace and
mercy and this and that. This ends grace. This is the grace of God. This
is the mercy of God. This is God coming down and exposing Himself to a
bunch of sinners, laying Himself on the chopping block, once more to be
crucified as it were. And the people sneer and turn away. It is over.
You don’t need to wait for White Throne judgment. It’s hit you. 

	Now, if you think, brother/sister, any other way than this, “Ah,
I’m going to put my finger now in a buzz saw.”

	So, I put my finger in. And it’s ripped to pieces. You don’t put
your finger in again to prove it. It’s ripped to pieces. That’s what
the whiteness of this is all about right now. You are into it. Your
finger’s being mutilated in the buzz saw, whether you know it or not.
So, don’t look down the road for White Throne. You better get very
comfortable with yourself right now, and with God, and get the records
cleaned up. 

	This is no time for carping and...like I mentioned this morning about
poor old apostle Paul being, you know, hit back by the Corinthians. Oh,
you’re taking liberties, you’re taking this. Nobody’s taking
anything from anybody. We’re doing it ourselves. Right down the line. 

	This is the showdown, whether we’re in step with the Word of God or
not. No time for babies anymore. No. It’s time for men to examine
themselves and know where they stand. See? And he says right here, this
is that time of burning. 

18.	(9)	But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things
that accompany salvation, though thus we speak.

	What things accompany salvation? Partaking, tasting, realizing, and
knowing that this is yours, and saying that’s it. How many people
still looking for a lot of things, I don’t know, but they are still
looking for them.

	So, borderline Christians is not what a lot of people think of in terms
of simply a little illustration. You’re looking at it now, the people
who turn down the legitimacy and the authority of a vindicated prophet
in favor of what they have, based upon their own experiences without the
government of God, but within another government.

	Because under Moses, the government of God had come down to earth that
the will of God might be done on earth as it was in heaven, because that
was the will of God in heaven for the earth. And you’ve got the same
thing now. People say, “Thy will be done, Thy Kingdom come.” 

	It’s here! And they’ve turned it down flat, because where do you
think the Word of God came from?

	“Oh,” says God. “I’ve met a lot of people down there.
Hallelujah. Oh, I’m glad for those nice, fine, wonderful people. Boys,
I want to talk with you. You and I are going to have a conference. And
what you tell me, I’ll back up.”

	Hogwash! That’s the same malarkey of the Sanhedrin, who said, “When
God gets a problem, He calls on us.”

	Let me tell you, God never called on you and me to give Him any input,
brother/sister. The only input He wants is you and me listening. We’re
not doing too good a job—about time we did. 

19.	But you see what we’re talking about here, “borderline.”
Listen, borderline, brother/sister, is right today. And borderline is
epitomized, you might say, in these false anointed. They can come right
to the Word of God, say, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. He’s the same,
yesterday, today, and forever. We believe in healing. We believe in
raising the dead. We believe in this, this, this. Why, there’s even
some amongst us, bless God, who believe in sovereignty, and some who
believe in eternal security. We don’t turn that down. But this hogwash
of a prophet bit, we’ll turn that down.”

	No straight and narrow anymore. No bullet off the trajectory.
“Everything just fine. Hallelujah, we got a gunshot religion.” 

	Shoom, hit the whole bunch! When did God ever gun-shot any
Christian...or shotgun? He can shoot them one at a time, but he never,
ever took dozens at a time. He doesn’t throw a bomb in the water and
see how many fish he can bring up. He baits his line, but for the fish.
There’s something wrong.

	“Borderline” is right today, as Bro. Branham expressed it, but not
‘borderline’ as the Baptists talk about it. No, not ‘borderline’
as the religion talks about it, but borderline as whether you’re going
in or not going in. See? It’s true. That’s what we are looking at
here.

20.	Okay, they came up to the borderline and quit. Now, in Hebrews 6,
we’re reading a while ago:

[195] 	He said, “But thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejection,
whose end is to be burned...” Borderline! (Now, watch.) “You who
have tasted the heavenly gift... (‘Tasted’... In other words,
you’ve ‘seen’ it. You can’t just taste it with your mouth, but
you saw it, and you knew that it was the Truth.)

	Knew what was the Truth? This was the genuine McCoy; this was God. You
knew this man had to be a prophet. He had to be something. So, you saw
it. You knew that much. You knew that was the truth. You knew it was the
truth. He repeats it.

[195]	—tasted the heavenly gift, and made partakers of the Holy Spirit
as It fell upon you, (Okay) tasted of the good Word of God
(‘tasted...you ‘seen’ it was right. And the Holy Ghost falling
upon you; you, the weed in the field), and then turn away, denying the
very Christ that sanctified you and called you and put that anointing
upon you; there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin for that.”

	Now you notice this anointing upon these people. There are those that
are pretty raunchy. We saw that come out of Canada—this guy named B.
G. Leonard. Whether he’s living or not, I don’t know. He’d be
what, close to eighty by now. He’d be about six-seven years from me. I
don’t know. But his idea was, what you do in the flesh doesn’t
matter because the flesh is flesh, spirit’s spirit. You could be
laying in a honky-tonk all night with a bunch of prostitutes, boozing it
up, and next morning go out and lay hands on the sick, and they’d get
healed and everything else. And they would, too. But he was a very rare
breed.

	Then you’ve got Vic Wierwille’s bunch. In a way they pulled the
same stuff, too. I guess he had—died of cirrhosis of the liver. He can
get that beside booze, I suppose, but I understood, the way he drank
booze day and night and everything else, you could tell where that came
from. I’m not running the guy down. I’m just telling the truth.

	You can talk about me, tell the truth, too. If I’m drinking, smoking,
living these things, then just nail it because that’s the way it is.
Don’t be a bunch of idiots. Bring it out in the open.

21.	Look where Oral Roberts is today—James Bakker and his wife. Now,
they’re going to have rights; going to have a movie on this one, but
they retained all rights, I guess. Dickering ain’t out of it
yet—headlines in the newspaper. Where’s it going to?

	Now, normally these people don’t cut too much ice. Now these,
Robertson and Bakker, weren’t too flagrant, but bad enough. They’re
caught, and you can see it. But you see this business here, being
sanctified. Most of these people here do live pretty good lives. Oh,
they snitch on each other like Jimmy Swaggart. Now, what the Bible says,
if you got a man falling, you go and restore him. He wanted to pull the
pins on him; now he feels sorry for him.

	I wouldn’t give you two bits for Swaggart’s chance at the White
Throne judgment. I wouldn’t before God, in this, knowing this Book
here, knowing the prophet taught, I wouldn’t give you any hope at all.
He’s an avowed Trinitarian, typical Pentecostal. If you spit on the
floor, you’re going to hell; he can commit adultery, he’s okay.

	I’ve seen it. Legalists are all the same. Always condemning somebody.
Now, if you got a Word behind it, you’re not condemning at all.
You’ve got to just preach the Word. I don’t care what those guys did
to begin with, but I’m going to tell you what: a lot of them live good
lives. You come right down, they’re fine men, except for Oral and his
money, and we can talk about that some time. 

	So, it’s just where he went wrong, where the Scripture does not stand
with what he teaches. That’s where he went right off. It became a
trap. Brother Branham said another thing would be women. Jimmy Bakker
got trapped with a woman. But you know something, I believe somebody
trapped him—without a doubt. He wasn’t alone in that thing. It was a
dirty work at the crossroads. Sure. Right down the line, popularity and
all those things. See? Now, but they can be fine men. Start out right,
but you see, turning away from the Word has got to manifest you.

22.	“Say, Bro. Vayle, all the people that come with this Word, will
they be purely righteous men?”

	No, there never was a righteous man outside of Jesus Christ. You can
have problems, but I can tell you one thing: you won’t go for a
legalized so-called adultery by believing in multiple marriages and say,
well, you know, polygamy is okay. Brother Branham didn’t say polygamy
was okay. He said it wasn’t okay. He said it’s a thousand times
better than Hollywood marriage and divorce, but it’s not okay. Sure.

	I’m going to tell you something. You know that Methodism, preaching
Methodism, is a thousand times better than preaching Confucianism, but
that doesn’t make Methodism right. So, it doesn’t make polygamy
right. That’s just men’s evil lust. But normally speaking, they live
a sanctified life to a degree.

23.	Now, Bro. Branham said here that these people that have the Holy
Spirit fall upon them according to Acts 2, which is right... Now, we
read in Acts 2—ah, we won’t bother. You’re familiar with it: falls
upon the good and the bad.

	He said they say “No, deny the Lord Jesus Christ that bought them.”
Now, I want to ask you a question. If this One over here, rather, over
here [Bro. Vayle points to both pictures behind him.] same thing, is
here in the form of the Holy Spirit, doing in the form of the Spirit
what He did when He was here in flesh, then who did they crucify? They
crucified that One, right? They sure did. 

	Now, He said they’re going to do it again. They’re denying it. Now
you say, “Well, look; my father has been dead for a hundred
years”—well, not hardly that. Was dead let’s say thirty years.
Well, can you deny your father because he’s been dead for thirty
years? You can’t do it, see? You know that that one was there. You
know there always was.

	Now, let’s say that that father left a will, and now you get a piece
of land. You can’t deny the fact you got that land. And here God came
on the scene. Now, you can’t deny that He’s on the scene because He
is doing the same things He did when He was on the scene two thousand
years ago. But they’re going to deny Him. It’s wrong. See? They
won’t listen. 

24.	[195] 	It’s unpardonable. (He said, it’s the unpardonable sin.)
It’s impossible for them to ever come to the knowledge of the Truth.

	Now, message rejecters will positively miss the Second Coming of Christ
because they missed the Appearing, and there’s no room where they can
repent:

[195]	“For it is impossible for those who were once made partakers of
the Holy Ghost (That’s fell upon the weeds... See?) started in with
Jesus, and ‘Lord, I’m going through,’ but when you hit the Word,
you turn back)—made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and even tasted (or
seen the Word Itself manifested), and then turn away from It; it’s
totally impossible, for them to ever see It or come to It. That’s THUS
SAITH THE SCRIPTURE. 

	Now, what he is doing is telling you, “I have the correct
interpretation of the Word, so you listen.”

[195]	Now, you—heavens and earth will pass away but It won’t. 

	Now, those who keep the old, original doctrines, their old dogmas, and
simply take on gifts, having seen this, there’s no hope for them. Now,
watch; he says here:

[195]	…heavens and earth will pass away but It won’t.

	What won’t? What he’s talking about? He’s talking about this
Scripture’s fulfillment, according to his preaching of Hebrews 6. 

25.	Now, he said, “You’re going to watch it all pass away,” but he
said, “You’d better believe that this won’t.”

	Why? Because the righteous will end up in Mount Zion and the wicked at
the White Throne to be destroyed. Now, what’s he doing? He is getting
us not only ready for the Millennium...because at the Millennium the
heavens and the earth do not pass away, they’re here, renovated.

	So, when heaven and earth pass away, this is getting us ready for that
hour, at the White Throne, when the heavens and earth are dissolved and
we are looking for the New Jerusalem. This is the hour, as he said in
the Seventh Seal, that time and eternity have blended in a union. This
is the time when he says wheat will always be wheat, and tares will
always be tares, and the foolish virgin will always be foolish virgin.
In fact, this is that Scripture I keep quoting and quoting from, hoping
you’re going to get it one hundred per cent, and I’m hoping the same
way for myself: revelation 22, beginning at verse 10, the unsealing of
the Book, the Seven Seals and Thunders.

	(10)	...Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time
is at hand.

	So, whatever prophetic utterance is in this Book is unsealed at this
time.

(11)	He that is unjust, let him be unjust still (or ‘will be’), ...
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.

	That’s White Throne. Not just Presence, not just the Rapture, not
just the presentation; it’s the whole thing. So, you see, He said to
the righteous, you’re going to get yours; and the unrighteous,
you’re going to get yours. And this is it.

	So therefore, time has run out. Mercy runs out. Grace runs out.
Everything runs out. It’s the end of everything. Seventh Seal. And yet
people try to tell you Seventh Seal isn’t opened. Oh, my God have
mercy. They don’t know what the prophet said. They just think what he
said. They take one little thing and run with it.

26.	[196] 	Notice! Let me give you a little example. Look at those
people who came out under Moses’ prophecy, come out of that
organization, and came out of everything under the prophecy, 

	What prophecy? The prophecy that God said would be in that hour: four
hundred years later I’m going to bring them out. 

[196]	(They) saw the great works and wonders and things like that, and
came up to the borderline of going in. 

	See, now, what’s he talking about? Of coming to the place of the
recognition of your part in It, of seeing yourself as a part of It,
knowing that this is what you are looking for. Now, that’s a pretty
tough statement right there. 

27.	[196]	Now, Lee, there comes your name on the Book. See? You’ve got
it fixed out. You got it. And you that’s not here and out in the
hook-up, Brother Lee Vayle setting here, he’s grammarizing this book
of the Seven Church Ages, and the problem come up, the question about
your name taken off the Lamb’s Book of Life. 

	Now, actually the thought in there is not really “Lamb’s Book.”
That’s a little slip of the tongue in my estimation, there, although
it’s...Lamb’s Life is the original, and Life came from it. There’s
an interjection there, see? It could say Lamb’s Life under the
prophetic utterance of William Branham, or he could just say it the Book
of Life because of what It says in Rev 22:19. Let’s look at It:

(19)	And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out
of the holy city, and from the things (written therein).

	Now see, Bro. Branham gave us to understand what true baptism with the
Holy Ghost really was against the contra [sic], which was a fictitious
baptism. We could, then, use the same with this: true Lamb’s Book or
Life, and that which they figure is Lamb’s Book of Life. But I’m
just laying this in there because the only thing I can do about this is
read Scripture on it, but we realize that Bro. Branham did say other
places concerning the Lamb’s Book of Life, that was unalterable. See? 

	So, we’ll just leave it at the, just what he says here, but we know
here that this is the one that can be taken out of.

28.	[196]	See, it’s puzzled a lot of ministers, but wait till you get
the book; you’ll understand it if you just got any Light in you. (You
know how the book treats that one.)

[197] 	Notice! Now, you’ll turn your head and won’t even look at it
if you don’t want to see it. Like my mother used to say, “You
can’t get blood out of a turnip, ...there’s no blood in it.”

	In other words, there’s nothing to you to be attracted there, so you
just leave it be. It’s not your desire.

 [198] 	Notice! The Light has to come; it’s not in darkness. The Light
comes to the darkness, and the darkness perceives it not. 

	William Branham is telling you here that there is no light in this
spiritual, Laodicean church. It’s bankrupt. It’s completely dark.
And the light does not come out of the darkness. The light comes from
outside. And the darkness doesn’t perceive it.

	Remember the cry to the Bride, foolish and wise virgins, was “behold
the Bridegroom.”

	It was a cry from the outside, for It says “come out.” See?
“Behold the Bridegroom. Come out.” So the cry is on the outside.
There is no light on the inside. God even took Moses away from his own
group to get his group out. And they were a mixed crowd.

29.	[198]	Notice now! The anointed ones in this day. As Moses brought
out those children of Israel, and they listened, and got all confused
with that great nation up there... Now, Israel was interdenominational.
It had no land, had no home; it was going to a home. We have no church;
we’re going to a Church, the Church of the Firstborn, the Church
that’s in glory, not the church that’s on earth by a man, the Church
that’s in glory, the called-out ones, predestinated to eternal Life.
See?

	Now, that doesn’t mean that at this time we’re not a part of it.
And it doesn’t mean we’re not a part of the true Church, the Bride.
But he’s telling you you’ve got a destination which is far beyond
here. Remember; the building blocks that they brought in for Solomon’s
temple, which types the Bride in certain areas, was brought in from the
outside, already made up but fitted on the spot it was supposed to be,
which was in Israel, in Jerusalem.

30.	So, let’s read this in Hebrews 12, what Bro. Branham is talking
about here. And he says here in verse 18 about the fact of inheriting
this place. [Heb 12:18-29]

(18)	For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that
burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

(19)	And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any
more...

	Now, this is sort of like the allegory over there in the Book of
Galatians, where Paul is speaking of the two sons of Abraham: one by the
bondwoman and one by the free. And only the one by the free was
recognized because the one by the bondwoman was Israel, or Jerusalem, in
the physical flesh, which was in bondage and would never make it. The
Jerusalem is from above. Okay, it’s the same thing he is saying. Verse
20. He said, you don’t have a thing to do with that.

(20)	(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much
as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through
with a dart:

(21)	And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear
and quake:)

(22)	But ye are come unto mount Sion...

	Not unto Horeb, Mount Sinai. You’re not come there; you’re come to
Mount Zion.

(22)	...and unto the city of the living God, (Now, where is the city of
the living God? It’s sure not on earth.) the heavenly Jerusalem,
(which John saw coming down) and to an innumerable company of
(messengers,)

(23)	To the general assembly and church of the firstborn...

	That’s why Pentecostals like to call themselves the General
Assembly—churches like that, you know. 

	You know, I’m going to tell you something. Calling yourself something
doesn’t make you—I can call myself a little red hen, I’m no little
red hen. I can call myself Theodore Roosevelt, doesn’t make me
Theodore Roosevelt. And everybody talking about heaven ain’t going
there. 

	You’re just—you’re calling these names here. Grace Gospel Church
doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re it. It just lets people know we
believe in a gospel of grace, that’s about all we do. Whatever that
entails. Okay:

31.	(23)	To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of
just men made perfect...

	Now, notice in here that you are coming to this great general assembly,
and then it jumps in here and says “to God the Judge of all.” Let me
tell you something: you don’t get in there unless you are judged
first. 

	See, He’s bringing it down from the top, where the thing is in there,
how you get in and who’s getting in. “The spirits of just men made
perfect.” And how are they going to get in? 

(24)	(And) to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood
of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 

	Now, watch. This is what you are looking at for this day that Bro.
Branham is speaking of.

(25)	See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. (Not ‘did speak’, but
‘is now speaking’.) For if they escaped not who refused him that
spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him
that (is) from heaven...

	He’s not speaking from heaven, now. The Thunders were not in heaven;
they were on earth.

(26)	Whose voice then shook the earth: (At that time it did, back there
on Mount Zion, and when he cried out on the cross.) but now he hath
promised, saying...

	This is after Calvary; this is at the end time. We’ll prove it
because this is the City you are going to. And you can’t go there;
nobody’s going there until it’s all made up. So, He’s talking to
the people of whom it’s made up. 

32.	Now: 

(26)	Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but (also) heaven.

(27)	And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain. 

	So, he’s telling you before anybody gets there, they all’ve got to
go through this. Now they’ve got to go through this. This is the
evidence of the time to go, starting to go there. There’s something
which is going to be shaken down.

(28)	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be (shaken down).

	Now, the shakedown is in Hebrews 6, because they wouldn’t go in. Do
you realize what He is telling you here? Something devolves upon us in
the program of God that does not give us any preeminency of any
description. We’re just one of the boys. But it’s got to happen to
us, or this doesn’t happen. 

	You know, like the car that was already to go, everybody thought it
was, but just one little thing was missing. You know what that was? A
fuse. Let’s bring it down to the smallest point. The fuse was missing.
Everything was there, but the fuse missing. But somebody put the fuse
in. Now, as long as the car was completely made up, except the fuse—no
dice. Or the great generator is ready to go and somebody forgot to put a
switch in. Just like Adam laying on the ground, and God didn’t breathe
in. Then God had to breathe in. 

	So, all signals are go. They have been in process for six thousand
years. But at the end time there’s got to be something, or the thing
gets wiped out, except Elijah come, (See?) except the Appearing.

33.	(28)	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear:

(29)	For our God is a consuming fire.

	What’s He talking about? Everything gets burnt up but this. So, we
press into the kingdom of heaven, which is manifested on earth to the
extent of the presence of God getting us out of here, winding the whole
thing up through the Millennium to White Throne, into the eternities.
Now, that’s what you are looking at. You’re look at this thing at
this very hour. 

	Now people don’t want to look at it that way. There’s a sort of...
Now, listen. There’s a sort of buoyancy, a sort of euphoria, you might
say, in the people of God, so-called, about the fact, hey, this is the
end time, and we’ll soon get out of here. But there’s no
understanding of it. That’s what we’re looking at. The understanding
is missing. Why is it missing? Because the Appearing is missing. You
understand what I’m saying? 

34.	Now, look; what if you had plans to build a car that works on, oh
not like Lear’s idea’s going to revive the old Whites or the old
Stanley steamer. That didn’t work. He found out water breaks down.
Nobody seems to... But let’s say somebody came on the scene, and
he’s got the thing where water doesn’t break down and mess things
up. You know, the heat will still keep it going. You know what water
does, it just never has worked out properly.

	Now, they’re talking of hydrogen. Evidently they’ve got a car that
really works on hydrogen. Maybe, who knows, nitrogen, anything else. You
never can tell what they make things work with ‘lead pipe cinch’,
whatever they’ve got.

	But anyway, let’s say you come to that very place that you say,
“Okay, now I can go ahead and do this,” but—and there’s a little
part in here that’s an electrical deal, and the thing is, you read it
but you read it wrong. You don’t have an understanding. 

	So, here you are, you’re trying to make this little section in here
work. Now, will you ever get your car working if this section is wrong?
The answer is no. 

35.	Then will you ever make Mount Zion if your understanding of the
Appearing is wrong? The answer is no!

	See, now you say, “Well, I don’t think the grace of God would do
that.”

	Well, I’ve got news for you; the grace of God does that. What
you’re trying to tell God what his grace is. You can’t do it. See,
the thing is, grace doesn’t cost you and me a plug nickel, except the
will to receive it, but it cost God everything.

	Remember what Friedman says, “There ain’t no such thing as a free
lunch.” 

	“Come over to my house, and I’ll give you a free meal.” 

	Hogwash! I paid for that meal. You didn’t get a free meal. No! No
such thing as a free meal. Never has been, never will be. The only free
meal was back in the Garden of Eden, and that wasn’t free either, on
the grounds he had to go pick it. Now, man gets here by the sweat of his
brow; that is, what he’s going to eat. So, let’s look at the
picture’s quite right here now. See?

36.	Okay, that’s the Church of the First Born. [Bro. Vayle gets back
to Bro. Branham’s statement.] 

[198] 	Now, we have no church; we’re going to a Church, the Church of
the First Born, (That’s Mount Zion.) the Church that’s in glory.
(See, they’re waiting for us.) Not the churches...on earth by a man,
no way. …the church that’s in glory, the called-out ones,
predestinated to eternal Life. 

	And what about them? They without us can not be made perfect. They
can’t be finished. They’re held here in the scheme of making my car
because somebody has got to have the ability to understand what goes in
to make the whole thing work. That’s right. Now, Adam lay on the
ground, a perfect man. What had to go into him? God breathed in, brought
the breath of Life, which was the Holy Spirit, and Adam began to walk
around—became a living soul.

37.	Now, what you need is a Holy Ghost revelation in this hour, to put
the Church in movement. Now, what does the world
church—Pentecost—say? Well, they take Tommy Hick’s vision. I know
what his vision was. Goody for him. I don’t believe in it. He saw the
church all bound down and nailed down, you know, like Gulliver was by
the Lilliputians; you know, in what was that book? Gulliver’s Travels?
I forget or what... It wasn’t Moore that wrote that book... It was
somebody...I forget now.

	...all tired...all down there. And he said, “The church was a
sleeping giant, and it began to rouse itself.”

	 Hogwash! It’s going to rouse itself plumb for the pit of hell. Where
do you get the church is a big sleeping giant, rise up and do great
works and wonders? The great works and wonders, brother, are for one
purpose: to point you to a Message. Anybody knows that by
understanding—by looking at Scripture. Anybody knows that. No other
reason for it. The church has had its Message, see?

38.	[198]	Going to their home, and when they came up to the place to
cross over, they doubted the Word! and came back after Joshua and Caleb
and those that had gone over and brought back a bunch of grapes to prove
to them the land was there, the Word of God’s promise.

	Okay, what about these men, like all these prophets? In plain English,
they went over and brought back the evidence. How did they go over? They
all went over in trance and vision. They went over by dreams. They went
over by trances. Moses went over by face-to-face, Paul went over by
face-to-face, and William Branham went over by face-to-face. Right
there. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.] They
went over. Now, the Word came back:

[198]	 ...of God’s promise, “It’s a good land, milk and honey.”
And brought it back on this side to prove it to them.

	See? All right. Have we seen the Millennium come up? We sure have. Have
we seen Mount Zion come? We sure have. We’ve seen it. The evidence is
here. See? The tally’s in. You don’t have to worry about some
lottery game to see if your numbers come up, the numbers came up.
That’s another reason you look at the lotteries. 

	That’s the sign of the times. Everybody’s taking a chance. Why?
They put in their own thinking. 

	“Put it in, watch me hit the jackpot. I’ll put my thinking in;
I’ll hit the jackpot. Oh, I’ve waited six thousand years for this
thing. I’m putting my thinking in; I’ll hit the jackpot.” 

	You’re gone! You know what chance you got hitting the jackpot just in
the lottery alone? You’re at least four times apt to be hit by
lightning than winning the jackpot, if not seven or eight times. What
the actual figures were, I put it down low. Anybody remember? I think it
was as high as seven to eight times you get hit by lightning than win
the jackpot.

	Now, in the natural somebody could hit a jackpot, but they can’t take
it with them. So, don’t put your thinking into a lot of gifts, a lot
of this and that, and say, “Well hey, I got it made,” because
you’re not going to have it made. See?

39.	[198] 	And they brought it back on this side to prove it to them,
and they tasted...it, and said, “Oh, oh, we can’t do it though.”
(No, can’t go in.) What happened? They perished in the wilderness.
They stayed right there and organized themselves, and died, every one of
them but the ones that went over and brought the fruit back, Joshua and
Caleb. 

	They went in, didn’t they? 

	Now, here’s something Bro. Branham saying could be hard to
understand. I don’t say I’ve got it.

[198]	Moses was translated, a type of the waiting for the Church, and
the resurrection of the Old Testament and New Testament, and the
raptured Body. See the three there?

	I might read it this way: 

[198]	Moses was translated, a type of the waiting for the church, and
the resurrection of the Old Testament, New Testament, and living make
the raptured Body. See the three there. Have to keep those threes in
line, so with the believer and make believer.

	See, it’s three kind of unbelievers: make believer, unbeliever,
believer...believers then. 

	Now, listen. Joshua, of course, and Caleb, they were the ones that were
living, and they went into the Promised Land. Now, Moses was waiting, it
says, for what would be the Old Testament and New Testaments saints, as
far as I can see that. So in other words, what I am looking at here: it
could be that the three are the living, which are Joshua and Caleb, the
Old Testament and the New Testament, and that makes up Mount Zion.
He’s waiting for those. That’s three. I don’t know. I can’t say.

	I haven’t got that figured out, and I don’t really try to figure it
out because I don’t see it. I don’t see it. But he says in here that
Moses was translated. That puts him out of the picture. So, all right.

	So, now you have He’s waiting, and what’s He waiting for?
Resurrection, Old and New, the whole raptured Body. Joshua and Caleb are
in there already. There’s your three as far as I can see it. In other
words, right today what are we waiting for? The New Testament saints
that are dead, they’re going to be in. 

40.	The Old Testament saints are resurrected; they’re somewhere. I
don’t know where they’re at, but they’re there. They’ve got
resurrected, glorified bodies. Don’t try to take it away; just believe
God because they had bodies. They’re gone somewhere, which is not hard
to understand in the sense of, hey, they’re in another dimension. And
ah...

	Hey, you believe the wind is real? You can’t see it. Ever seen these
little whirlwind jig around? You know you can’t see it. What you see
is the dust and stuff forming the whirlwind. But you get a big one,
it’s called a tornado. It’ll ruin you. And you don’t have to see
it. You can’t really see it, you just see the debris that’s in it,
but if it ever hits you, you know it hit you. Now, water, you see, it
will flatten you. But wind can hit you and flatten you. Now, sound you
cannot see, and it will flatten you, too—knock buildings down. So you
see, lots of things you can’t see. So, that resurrected Body is
somewhere. We don’t have to see it, but it’s out there—just find
its own dimension. 

41.	So now, we’ve got Old Testament saints; they’re ready for Zion.
The dead bride, New Testament, they’re ready for Zion in the sense
they know they’re going to be there. What holds it up? The living. So,
I look at that as the three. I don’t know.

[199] 	...Remember, God never did forgive that sin!

	What sin? Of holding everything up from going in, of thwarting His
plan, of letting the devil take over. Never did forgive them for their
unbelief. When God laid it out and said “Here it is, listen!” this
makes men without excuse. 

[199]	Now, how they going to come in? (Now, watch. Now, here’s the big
question:) If it’s thorns to begin with, it’s thorns at the end.
Only the predestinated will see it.

	Now, Bro. Branham mentions that Baal-Peor’s the place where God never
forgave them, and now he mentions it here, He never forgave them. So,
what does He never forgive them for? It’s all really the same thing,
because it’s the same thing which is adultery. At Baal-Peor they
committed adultery. That’s exactly what they did. They mixed the two
groups of people in an unholy union, which was motivated purely by
pleasure and sexual appetites that had nothing to do with the Word of
Almighty God. They listened to a false prophet. And then over here, they
refused to go in. They refused to take the Word of a true prophet. So,
what does it say here? It tells you that you can be escaping and
escaping and escaping, and come to the final place of escape, and coming
in you miss it flat. 

42.	Don’t sit here this morning, brother/sister, because “my mommy
believes it, my father believes it, my aunt believes it, my uncle
believes it,” or they do or they don’t, and “I’ve been brought
up in it, and I see this and that.” You’d better come all the way
and know where you stand. “Make your calling and election sure.”
Find out where your heart is, to see if it’s in the Word or not—to
see where your life is.

	Now, we’re not trying to make you people that are so cut, that are so
wonderful, that there’s not one sin amongst us. There will never be
that until we’re changed. But I tell you, we ought to be getting less
and less sinful in our lives. Not puritanical, but more purer thoughts
and everything: more justice in judgment; more ability to cope with this
life in the strength and the power of God, even though the enemy is
closing in...because remember; the great weapon against us is this, out
here in creeds and dogmas and vain philosophies, and our life is in this
Word. Let’s keep it there.

	And the more we keep it this Word, the better it’s going to be for us
all the way down the line. What purer living and purer thinking can
anybody have than this Word of God in his mind and heart? You’ll never
get any better, brother/sister.

43.	Now, he illustrates about Saint Martin here.

[200] 	Notice closely now, just like in the days of Saint Martin right
before the Dark Ages, a godly little man named Saint Martin. How many
ever read the writings of Saint Martin? Many of you have. I went down to
get the writings of Saint Martin, the priest said, “But he wasn’t
canonized.” Sure, he wasn’t canonized: not by them, but he was by
God. The Holy Spirit told us to put him there on the third church age.
(It’s Paul, Ireneus, Martin.)

[201] 	And look what a godly little man he was: called, predestinated,
his parents heathen, his daddy a soldier. He had to follow his
father’s line to be a soldier. And he did... He always believed that
there was a God somewhere, a man of the woods, and could see God out
there in nature. (That’s Bro. Branham referring to himself, of
course.). One day he passed through a city, and there was an old bum
laying there dying, asking somebody... It was cold that night; old one
said, “Give me something to cover me up; I’ll die tonight.”

	[202] 	Nobody’d do it. And Martin stayed off to one side and watched
him for a while. Nobody’d do it. He only had one coat; he himself
would freeze—he was on duty—if he’d...he’d give him that coat.
So he thought, “Both of us have a chance to live if I’ll divide with
him.” So he took his own coat, and split it in two with his saber, and
wrapped the old bum in it. He wrapped his own coat around himself—what
was left of it, of course.

	Everybody said, “Look what a funny-looking sentry; look what a
funny-looking soldier, half a coat wrapped around him.”

[203] 	The next night when he was off of duty and laying in his bed,
he’s woke up, looked, standing there in the room, and there stood
Jesus Christ wrapped in that old piece of garment that he put around
him. He knew right then, “What you do unto my little ones, that you
have done unto me, to my anointed,” laying there. He was a great
servant of God. The church made fun of him, persecuted him, kicked him
out, and everything else, but he was a prophet of God. What he said came
to pass. There’s many believed him in that age too.

	Now, of course, he never had what Bro. Branham had when it came to
saying the prophecies. We know that. But also, Bro. Branham refers to
himself; Bro. Branham was kicked out of the church because he would not
ordain a woman preacher. He said, “There’s no Bible for it,” and
the fellow said, “You do it or you’re out.”

	Well, he said, “I’m out.”

	I appreciate that. It’s an easy way to go. Of course, woman never did
like him. I don’t know why, he’s such a perfect gentleman.

44.	[204] 	I want to show you how deceiving the devil is. One day Martin
was setting in his study. Up come a mighty angel, crown on his head,
golden shoes on, lace around his garments of gold, and said, “Martin,
do you know me?” He said, “I am your Lord and saviour, Martin. I’m
the one that saved you. Worship me, Martin.” But that prophet, knowing
there was a little something strange there, he kept looking at him. He
said, “Martin, I am your saviour, Jesus Christ; worship me. Don’t
you know me, Martin?”

[205]	Martin just kept looking at him, the Scripture running through his
mind; he said, “Satan, get away from me.” He said, “You got a
crown on your head, and the Word of God says His saints will crown Him
at the end of the age.” Wouldn’t that have been Pentecostal bait?
Watch that Word, brother! That’s where it pays.

	Now, he’s not hitting, throwing off on the Pentecostal person per se.
He’s just letting you know that that’s the people that stand for all
the signs and wonders and all these other things, and all their dreams
and visions, having turned away from the original, which was Bro.
Branham at the end time. Somebody’s got to be Elijah. And if he’s
not, somebody’s going to come and be Elijah. He’s going to go
through the same process; they’re going to turn him down. Why? Because
that’s the way it goes.

45.	There’s not going to be many people saved. This “Millions now
living will never die” is stupid, you know? 

	“Hey, I’m going to eat six pounds of candy and not have consumed
one calorie. Oh, I’m going to breathe six liters of air, and I’ll
take on six thousand calories.”

	You’ve got to be nuts! Something’s wrong with your head! So why say
millions living will never die when the Bible says they will? I just
don’t understand people. Look, I came out of Pentecost. I came out of
Baptist and Presbyterian, too, by the way. And they all came out of me,
too. One good cathartic did it. Well, I was doing it anyway.

	I’m great for body cleansing. That’s another sign of the times.
Everything in the market now is body cleansing...body... Why? Because
your body’s full of corruption—pure unmitigated crud. Not just
diseases you pick up, but what causes your diseases. I’ll give you a
little health lecture right now on the colon and prove to you just how
messed up you are—ninety percent of you. You that aren’t will soon
be. You need a cathartic. You need a cleansing. That’s why the blood
of Christ is stronger than It ever was. And the Life that was in the
Blood is shed now so we can have better life. 

	Everybody is talking about life...eating better. We’re eating
wonderful here. Don’t fill your guts and make them a sewer with food
out there, like. I’m trying to keep telling you people something.
Everything is typed and everything is real.

46.	You listen to me. I’m not just here to give you a line of blarney.
I’m not trying to sell you something—no way, shape, and form. I’m
trying to tell you something—make you understand these things.
Everything is right; typed to the end time, perfect. There’s nothing
left in the soil. There’s nothing left in the food. There’s nothing
left in this Word of God anymore. It’s finished! 

	The only food at all is what you and I are getting now; the prophet
brought us. It came out of here. Sure it did. The rest is wiggletails.
You tell that anybody but us, they say, “What do you mean?” It’s
gone. You see?

47.	Now, listen. Let’s face it. Where is the least corrupted part of
the earth? Right down deep where you dig. And that’s the only thing in
here, brother/sister, that wasn’t corrupted. And the prophet took it
out so it can’t be messed with the other anymore. He dug way down deep
under the Thunders and the Seals and brought it right out. And what
came? Christ.

	Oh, I could talk about that, too, and tell you what happened this
week—right in the physical. Down in a coal mine, prophecy said, at a
certain time when they dug out Christ in the rock, that was the time of
the Coming. And they dug it out. They’re traitors to their own
understanding—Pentecostals. 

	I don’t care where you go, brother/sister. I don’t care. You men
are sitting here, scientists, smarter by me than a million miles, but
your brains will never figure these things out. It’s all been figured
out for us by a prophet, laid right before us. And he said everything
lay in nature. Everything lay out here just under your nose. Every
newspaper told you all about it. 

48.	You can’t find a word today: “confrontation;” “the
peripheral.” Read everything you’ve got; every word plumb types
everything this Message writes all over. A perfect revelation: ‘the
Perfect is come’. Nature, God, everything in harmony, proves this. And
people blindly go on their way. You know why? Because you can prove
nothing to them.

	You can prove nothing. They’re all loused up with the MDs. They’re
all loused up with the sorcerers, which are your pharmacists, which
control the doctors. So men and women are dying on every hand because of
false education. Science, falsely so-called. Philosophies. If they just
took this Word and listened to the prophet, brother/sister, I’m going
to tell you something: we’d be a sure different people than we are
now. We’d have more rejoicing, more everything—be like this old
saint of God here. 

49.	He didn’t get stuck with this hogwash here. No sir. [205]
“Satan, get away from me.” See, that’s where it pays to have this
Word on everything.

[206] 	One day again in the monastery, they had an old saint down there,
bunch of young monks. There was one of them kinda irritable. (You know,
kind of sassy type of guy) Watch this; here’s a good—a good parable
for today. He wanted to be something above the rest of them; he wanted
to show himself—authority, bigger something, something better, all
class, you know, and great big something. He had to be classical. Always
wanted the other brethren to see he was different. See? He—no matter
what it was, he was very arrogant. He was the only pebble on the beach;
there was nobody could touch him. Now, watch what happened. 

	Now, this is a people, always want to be somebody, always want to
preach, always want to be what they’re not, always want to take over.
Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. Open one door, boy, they just
walk right in, want to just take it. You know, there’s something wrong
with a guy that wants to be something...unless you just want to live for
Jesus—you want to abnegate yourself and live for God.

	Well, he wanted to be a big guy in society.

50.	[206]	You follow me? See? So he said—he prophesied; he said,
“The Lord’s made me a prophet also. I’m a prophet.” Now, there
was one identified prophet in the land, and that was Saint Martin. He
was borned a prophet. (See Bro. Branham is talking about himself and his
ministry.)

[207] 	But this kid said—young fellow said—young monk about
twenty-five years old—he said. “The Lord has made me a prophet, and
I’m going to prove it to you.” Said, “Tonight the Lord’s going
to give me a big, fine robe, put it upon me, a white robe, and set among
you. Then all of you shall come up to me (See?), and you’ll take
orders from me!” (Sounds good, doesn’t it?)

[208]	Now, compare that today. See? “I’ll be the head of the
organization. I’ll take care of you...

	Uh-huh. 1975, preaching down there in Macon...invited a certain man in
my pulpit. The platform was mine. He came there, let the people know he
would listen to me. He’s over there in New York; they’re falling
under the power now, so you can tell what he had. Yeah.

	[208]	...rest of you monks.”

	Listen; I went up in Canada one time, a certain preacher said, “Lee,
they’re telling people around here they’ve got to listen to you now
since Bro. Branham’s gone.”

	I said, “Who said that?” He mentioned names, and I said, “I’ll
go in the pulpit and fix that guy.”

	I went to the pulpit and I fixed that guy. I went to every pulpit. I
fixed everybody in that pulpit. The same guy, I found out that he made
himself an apostle. You had to listen to him because his people said
“Now, look; this is the man you listen to.”

	I went and I said, “Now listen, Leonard; they’re telling this about
you. Let’s go in the pulpit and tell the people that’s a lie.”

	He wouldn’t do it. Thorsten went to him. He wouldn’t listen to
Thorsten.

51.	Let me tell you something, brother/sister. I know names and dates
and places. I’m going to tell you something: I ain’t nothing. I
never made myself one thing [unclear word or two]. I can tell you what
the prophet said, and that’s my business; and that’s yours if I tell
you. But I’ll tell you one thing, that’s no authority over you or
anybody else.

	You don’t have to listen to me. There’s no way anybody’s bound.
And you won’t make it by listening to me. You’ve got to be elected,
because I could say this thing till I’m blue in my face and talk with
you, and I will find out from you if you know what I am saying. And
maybe you don’t know what I’m saying because I haven’t got the
ability to project it, and you don’t have the ability to receive it
because I’m on a wavelength that you’re not on. And you know, when
you get a jammed radio, you know, you’re not getting the wavelength,
boy, that’s nothing but a bunch of static.

52.	Now, look; you can get a TV, and you can see a bunch of pictures,
and if you can’t hear the words, just see the old guy’s mouth
a-flapping on the news, you don’t know the news. Then sometimes you
hear a description, but you can’t see the picture. Have you ever
listened to a guy talking about a prize fight in the ring—good old
boxing match, and then you see it on a screen later? 

	You say, “That’s not the guy I saw punching it out with that
fellow.”

	Or you heard him tell about a ball game and say, “that’s not the
ballgame that’s on the TV. I don’t know where that guy got his
game.”

	You see what I mean? It’s just difficult; that’s all. Nobody’s
meant to be a big shot, and there are no big shots. I’m going to tell
you something. I recognize nobody in this Message as though he’s a big
shot. 

53.	A guy phoned me one time—long time back. He said “Lee, look.”
He said, “I’m in the west; you’re in the east. Now, look,” he
said. “The people need someone to look to!”—not as though he said
we’re running things, you know.

	He really meant he was. But he said, “Here’s the thing now.” He
said, “They need someone to go to who’ll be like an authority.”

	Oh, I said, “Thank you brother,” and I hung up.

	Where’s John Martin today? Where is Earl? You want to phone me, ask
questions, I’m delighted to help you. But don’t phone me as any
authority, as though Lee Vayle is going to set you right, because I
can’t set myself right. I’ve got troubles, kid! My neck’s stiff.
My God, that’s bad. The Bible says a stiff neck goeth before a fall.
Don’t kid yourself about this stuff that you got to listen to anybody,
any special person. It won’t work. 

	I saw a fellow run around the country. At first he ran after me; he ran
after Brother What-do-you-call-him down there in Jeffersonville, then he
ran after this guy. And this guy got messed up in sin. Who’s he
following now? Why don’t you just follow Jesus by the way of the Word?

	Now, I’m doing my best to help you understand some of these things,
because I’m taking it word by word, the best I can do. When I hit a
tough spot, I tell you it’s a tough spot I don’t know. When I see
something here that’s very evident, we just merely talk it over so it
becomes stronger and better for us. That’s all.

54.	So, anyway:

[208] 	He said, I’ll take care of the rest of you monks. And sure
enough that night the lights come on in the building, so the writing of
Saint Martin says. You can read it. And it’s authentic; it’s
history. And the lights come on, ...the rest of them watched, and here
it come... He had on a white robe standing among them. He said, “See
what I told you!” But that was contrary to the Word.

	And it was! You see? Now, you know why it’s contrary to the Word?
Because God doesn’t dress anybody up to put him head of the Church.
God dresses a man down and gives him a job so that God can be head of
the Church. You don’t point to yourself. You wouldn’t get this in
Malachi and 1 Corinthians 15 where the Church gets in order.

55.	[209] 	And when they went and got the old dean of the college, and
he walked up and down a little bit, said, “Son, that doesn’t sound
right.” He said, “There’s only one way (Here it is.)—there’s
only one way for us to know. It does look supernatural.” Boy,
Pentecost would’ve grabbed that root, sinker, line, hook, and
everything else. (not just Pentecost, anyone looking at miracles) He
said, “The miracle may seem all right, but it don’t seem right to
the Word. Now, we have such a person, an anointed prophet by the name of
Martin. Come...up before him.”

	The guy said, “No, no, Martin hasn’t got a thing to do with
this.” (He sure didn’t.)

[210]	He said, “You’re going anyhow!” And they grabbed him by the
arm to take him before Martin, and the robe left him. See? Deceive the
elected if it were possible. See? They know.

	Now, it suggests here that even the devil can bring signs that are
funny and peculiar to convince people, and he can.

56.	Years and years ago in Pentecost, a woman said to me, and she was
talking about her nephew being a... He got into spiritism. And she said,
“You know,” she said, “Bro. Vayle, I think we ought to leave it
alone.” She said, “I think that’s real deep.”

	I said, “Sister, it is. It’s as deep as hell itself because it
comes from the devil.”

	Just anything to grab anything because the boy was getting messages,
so-called, from his mother. Well, if the mother... (That was her
sister.) “Well, sis, if you can help your boy, I’m here for some
help, too.”

	You say, “Pentecostals?”

	Yes, Pentecostals. Don’t tell me they’re super-spiritual:
Methodist, Baptists, or any of them. Anybody can fall for this if they
don’t know what’s going on. And when there’s more of this in the
spirit realm than there is in the House of God, I can see why Methodists
and Baptists and Presbyterians—especially Methodists—will fall for
that nonsense. They’ll fall for it. Methodist, all the churches are
full of spiritism. Catholic Church is full of it. They’re all full of
it. 

57.	You know, you don’t even dare operate a gift in the church unless,
first of all, you got a man that can discern spirits to see what spirit
it is? Then people are screaming for gifts and the other thing? 

	You know what I’d be screaming for? I’d be screaming, “Oh God,
make me so one with this Word, not just by intelligence, but with the
depth of my spiritual soul understanding, to stand here and then
discern, not in myself, but in the spirit of this Word, oh God, which
was sent before me. Not to be critical, but to know for my good, because
I don’t want be deceived by anybody or anything. And I can...”

	Now, we’re getting some place. But people open themselves up to any
old thing. We don’t here, we know that. But I know around the country
they do. One brother, I just cannot believe it, but he’s got gifts
right on the floor in his church again, and that man knew way, way back,
that that was what I’m talking about. He couldn’t place
it—couldn’t place it. Not to my knowledge, that we know of.

	What’s he doing back in Pentecost? What’s he doing back with gifts
on the floor? What’s he doing? See, not against any gift if it’s put
in the proper order with men of God that can handle those things. I’m
all for it. But see right here, it couldn’t be done.

58.	[211]	 Jesus said, “My sheep know my Voice.” “Oh,” you say,
“hear My Voice.” That’s His Word. “Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every Word.” See? The predestinated knows this. A
strange word or strange voice, they won’t follow. That’s the way
with those fellows back there; they wouldn’t follow. They knew that
Martin was there, a prophet of that age, identified by God through the
Word, knew the Word. And that man wouldn’t stand before him.

	Now see, Bro. Branham is saying again; this is self-vindication. They
would not come and stand before him. They wouldn’t do it—wouldn’t
do it. How fortunate are those who would stand before him. How fortunate
for those who listen to the Word of God and want It better than life,
who say, “This is my whole life. What else have I got?”

	This was an example of Bro. Branham, and this can be an example for you
and me, to be willing to stand before that Word and see where we stand
because that’s where we stand before God.

	You say, “How’s that?”

	Because if God gave a vindicated Word—which means the truth, and we
stand before the truth and let the truth, you know, discern us, then we
know we stand righteous before God; we’re not fearful any longer. But
if we don’t dare stand before that Word, we know that we’re living a
lie.

59.	I’m not talking about actions now, first of all. Look, what do you
know about actions unless you first of all know about precept? You
don’t know if your actions are right or wrong. You may be doing
something wrong and think you are right. You may be doing something
right and you think you’re wrong. 

	You don’t even know the tax laws! And the IRS doesn’t know the tax
laws, either. They’re finally admitting it. The papers are getting
full of it. For the first time they’re admitting the deceit and every
dirty deal that they pull off. And now Congress is going to investigate
where the IRS has deliberately pushed people to the wall because one guy
is settling their hash right now. 

	They’ve become vindictive like they were to Bro. Branham. This guy
Smith, a Roman Catholic, was vindictive to destroy Bro. Branham. Used
his own laws against the constitution and said, “I’ll get you any
way.”

	So, where are you today? What do you know? Nothing. Paul said even
those that know something don’t know as they ought to know. But then
listen, if we get a revelation, that’s one thing we know we’re
starting right. Then, from there on, is it this or is it that? Let’s
go to the Word. Is it this or is it that? Let’s go to the Word.

	You say, “Well, I can’t quite tell.”

	Well, sit still till you can tell. As Bro. Branham said, If it’s
doubtful, don’t do it. Just leave it for the time being. You’ll come
around to it.

60.	But you see where we are at? We’ve come to this place,
brother/sister, at the end time, where you and I can walk to the White
Throne. See? “I’ll go with Him through the judgment.” Brother
Branham said, That’s now. This moment that’s being done, while we
sing it. I’ve taken It as my Judge, and I’ve cast my lot with Him as
the righteous Judge. Lord, you said it, so I believe it. You’re the
correct interpreter of this Word. You gave It; You ought to know. And
You’re here, and You proved It. That’s fine by me. I’ll take that.
Then He will go with us from that point on. 

	Now, do you think He’s going to condemn Himself? Ha! What man that
wrote the law, that can interpret the law, now gets up and condemns
himself by giving you bum advice? He condemn you? He said, “I gave you
that advice. I wrote the law. I interpret the law. I told you. Did you
do it?”

	“Yes.”

	“Get in. You’re free.”

	What are you going to do? Brother Branham said, God’s the Judge, the
jury, the panel, everything. He’s your lawyer. When the man says
“I’m going in,” praise the Lord, we’re going in. Let’s go in
together.

	Lord bless you. Let’s rise and be dismissed.	Can’t beat that, can
you? That’s your token. Apply It this morning, brother/sister.

	

	Heavenly Father, we come to you in Jesus’ Name, knowing, Lord, that
You are with us. Now, Father, we want to stay with You. That is the big
thing. They wouldn’t do that in Israel. They came right up to the
place where they could have stayed with You, and they just walked off.

	Now, Father, we’re not going to walk off by the grace of God that You
give us today because, Lord, there’s something in us that’s just not
going to walk off, except by grace, from the devil, the world, the flesh
and all these other things. Lay it all on the altar, leave it there, and
begin to walk with You as the prophet said that You said in that
vision...a voice said, “How’d you like to take a walk with me?”

	Oh God, I know that there’s a walk for everybody here. There’s a
walk, Lord, for the Bride. There’s something moving and stirring,
Lord, that’s so wonderful. 

	We just pray, Father, that You’ll help us to get rid of all this
heart of unbelief and this mind of unbelief, the raggedy taggles of
nature and things in our minds, oh God, that are not of You, and let our
minds Lord, open up—open up, Lord, like a, like that beautiful
sunflower does to the sun.

	And Lord, we think of sunflowers, we think of that man that sold a
painting. He couldn’t even get a hundred and twenty-five dollars for
it, and today it’s worth about forty million dollars. Somebody paid a
price for the sunflowers. And Lord, we believe that that’s exactly
what’s going on today. 

	The sunflowers, every one of us sunflowers that You paid Your Blood
for—more than forty billions for every single person. You paid an
eternity for each one of us. And we, like those sunflowers, just
following You day by day, and in the darkness of night, if we can’t
see, we just drop our heads because it’s such a sorrowful condition.

	But Lord, we don’t believe we have to drop our heads like the
sunflowers do in natural, but we can keep our faces turned toward You,
Lord, with Your brightness shining upon us, redeemed children of
Almighty God, and the pearls of great price to You, and You’re the
Pearl of great price to us.

	Father, we thank You for this love You’ve bestowed upon us, this
goodness, this perfection, Lord, that comes through You. We can not
praise You enough. It just thrills our hearts to know that everywhere we
look, if we just want to look, we see Jesus. Everywhere we go, if we
just want to go, You’re with us, Lord. All of these things show Your
grace and Your mercy.

	Help us, Lord, to dedicate our lives and our minds to You as never
before, and be happy in the service of our King. And no matter what
comes, enlarge our hearts until there’s no restrictions; there’s no
constrictions any more, that enlarged heart opens up for the great
things of God to be poured in us and through us. Not to be great, Lord.
Not to be great, but that great thing of love, mercy, gentleness,
patience, kindness, those things, Lord, until Your Name is glorified,
and it is true that we are read epistles, but epistles of God. 

	Father, bless each one in divine Presence. Don’t let there be any
sick amongst us, Lord, I pray, Father, as this message was given for
healing—restoration (Healing is restoration, Lord.) there won’t be
one of us to continue on the sickness, oh God, but day by day reaching
up, Lord, to that Light, which is Christ, the healing Life.

	Just take away all those things, Lord, that are wrong about us. Help
us, Lord, we pray. But above all, cleanse our hearts and our minds
because we know that, as they are cleansed, Father, the healing will
become much simpler, much easier, for that’s what John told us, that
our hearts would prosper, then our souls would prosper, and our minds
would prosper, then finally our bodies would prosper.

	So, we commend ourselves to You. Bring us together for Easter, Lord, on
Friday. The brethren, Lord, when they come, may they come with joy and
earnest expectation. May they receive for that which they come, oh God. 

	May your people be great givers, Lord, donors towards the meetings
here...mostly falls upon us, Lord, we realize that. We pray that we
shall rise to the occasion, with Your healing, Lord, in Your wings,
rising upon us.

	Bless us in all these things. We’ll be careful to give You the glory,
because we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

	The Lord bless you.

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”

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