Anointed Ones at the End Time #20

The Great Deceit

...No More Vindication

April 29, 1987

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we know that You gave by face-to-face
revelation this Word to the great apostle Paul, and yet he prayed that
utterance would be given unto him to utter those things which were given
to him, Lord. And there’s been much given to us. 

	And we pray that we also might utter those things, oh God, not only
with Your permission, but with Your Holy Spirit, those things which are
given to us, that already we know, Lord, but we can know them even
deeper, with a greater understanding. And such an understanding, Lord,
to change our very lives, as the life is released, making us truly wise
as we have never been wise before. 

	Help us to that end. We’ll give you the praise in Jesus’ Name.
Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, I mentioned that if you have enough questions, we could take a
question and answer period, or we could just go on to another—a little
segment of “The Anointed Ones at the End Time”—some thoughts
recapping. And we don’t have enough questions here at this time, so
I’ll save what we have and built up to that end.

	Now, this will be number twenty on “The Anointed Ones at the End
Time”. And we’re looking in Mt 24:24 from where Bro. Branham took
his text which, of course, was taken from chapter 3 of Matthew 24.

(3)	…what shall be the sign of thy (Presence), and of the end (also)
of the (age)?

	Now, I realize that many people will not want to use that word
‘Presence’, and actually denigrate it into the thought of a literal
Coming in the air and, then, to the earth. But I can not myself buy
that, because they already knew about the days of the Son of man, which
were to repeat. And to say that they did not know that is ridiculous,
because the theologians today know that to be true, but they cannot
place it. So, if a theologian today can know it 2000 years afterward, no
one will tell me that these people, who were in the ‘in’ crowd and
the ‘in’ revelation, would be so ignorant as not to understand this.

2.	So, what will be one of the great signs? It’s going to be the great
sign of deception. Now, you know that God would be not God, as we know
God and understand Him to be God, if He were to allow deception without,
first of all, giving us that which was to be betrayed, or something to
be taken instead of the Truth. Now, that’s all through the Bible. You
simply can not find anything that is a counterfeit or in the realm of
deception until, first of all, God has thoroughly made the person
knowledgeable. Even a court of law, which is not too sane and too
satisfactory, would have to give you the benefit. There is also a
sacrifice for ignorance in the Word of God. 

	And when Paul the apostle stood before the people in his day, he said,
“This thing was not done in a corner.” So therefore, we see that God
does things, and then, He has every right to bring judgment for the
people turning from Truth to deceit. Now, you know that’s what It says
in 2 Thessalonians. So, we’ll just take a little peak at It so we know
one hundred percent where we stand and enjoy ourselves in this security
which we have in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

3.	Many people are so afraid of being fooled. Why, certainly, we should
be afraid of being fooled, especially if we don’t know what it’s all
about. Now, nobody knows but us.

	And It says here, 2 Th 2:8.

(8)	And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of
his (Presence:)

(9)	Even him, whose (Presence) is after the working of Satan… 

	Now, this is absolute confrontation of an absolute Presence. Then the
other is an absolute presence.

	…with all power and signs and lying wonders, 

(10)	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness…

	So therefore, what is it? Righteousness has been revealed and a
deception of righteousness now comes in. It’s only...Why, It tells you
right here.

(10)	…because they received not the love of the truth...

	So, what are they going to be deceived about? The Truth. But the Truth
has to be there, or God is entirely unjust. That is why on the White
Throne there’s a complete and perfect record. And everybody has his
day in court.

(10)	…received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

	Now, that tells you very truthfully, very tersely, just actually you
have to face it. Distinctly says here you are saved by the truth;
you’re lost without it. Now, they turned down the truth which would
have saved them, so what can God do?

(11)	(He sends) them strong delusion, that they should believe (the)
lie:

(12)	That they all might be (condemned, judged) who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness... 

	...which means ‘righteousness perverted’, which righteousness has
to do with truth. No truth, no righteousness. Truth, righteousness. You
can see why the evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is certainly
knowing the Word of the Lord for the hour. 

4.	All right. Back then to Matthew 24. Now, at that time they’re going
to say “Lo here and lo there is Christ. Do not believe it.” Now, why
should you not believe it? Because you’re dealing with the Presence.
Now, there’ll have to be a confrontation of Presence, or why
shouldn’t you run?

	Why, you know something: I love dessert. I’m not so crazy about it
any more because, you know, I’m getting over it. But if my wife and I
had our way, we’d be as bad as Betty Marconda. Every ice cream parlor
must be tasted. And you just keep looking for more ice cream parlors.
Well, ice cream is good, but isn’t God a whole lot better? Oh, taste
and see that the Lord is good. If you haven’t found Him here, get Him
over here. If you can’t get Him over there, for God’s sake go over
there. Your soul’s at stake.

	So, why should He say don’t run over here and don’t run there?
Because you already had a confrontation, or this Bible doesn’t mean
anything. Now, you see why this is all about Presence. Seek ye the Lord
while He may be found; call upon Him while He’s near. Well, how do you
know? So therefore, something must have happened in the realm of
confrontation, the realm of presentation of a Presence. Now you
understand what I’m saying? 

	And then It says:

		(24)	For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets. 

	Now, this lets you know without a doubt that you wouldn’t be sap
enough to run here or to run there unless there was more than a
reasonable facsimile of what was presented to you as God. Right?

5.	Now, just think that every agent is town that has a car to sell, and
that every agent is a Oldsmobile agent. Now, let’s say he’s going to
try to fool you, or try to get you as a customer. What’s he going to
do? He’s going to have to make his product look better than the
original product, so he can get you from the original product to the
other product. Right? That’s what you’re looking at. You follow what
I’m saying? 

	You’re right back to the Garden of Eden. The Tree of Life didn’t
look so hot, but the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil looked
great. Why, it was just great to look at. You follow what we’re
saying? So, all right. 

	So, why should you run except there’s something there? This is not
some confused thing, some nebulous thing that this theologian looks at,
and that theologian looks at, and the other fellows come together and
say, “I wonder if we could possibly figure this out.” You think God
is stupid? Now, we’re dumb, but God’s not stupid. Why would you run?
See?

6.	[Matthew 24]

(24)	For there shall arise false Christs, (based on the genuine. And
this will be what you might call more psychedelic. Just reminds you of
some of these preachers.) and false prophets, and shall shew great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, (the very elect should
be deceived.)

(25)	Behold, I have told you before.

(26)	Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert;
(don’t go forth): ...in the secret chambers; (do not believe it. Then
He’s telling you something here, giving you what you might call a
summation, a reason.)

(27)	For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shines (out of)
the west; so shall also the (Presence) of the Son of man be.

	Now, let’s remember you must put these together and understand: what
a prophet is all about is the Word. What was Jesus Christ as prophet all
about? The living, true, manifested Word. So therefore, there’ll be a
true, living, manifested Word that’s going to bring you the Truth as
it is in Christ Jesus for this hour, and these men with greater signs
and wonders and bigger tents and bigger everything will rise up, and
they will have all these signs and the wonders in order to pull you
away. Now, this is what he is talking about.

7.	You see, you could take one sermon of Bro. Branham’s, and preach
for the next hundred years. See, it all ties in. Now, he said,
“Behold, I told you before…” Matthew 7:15. 

(15)	Beware of false prophets… 

	There you are again. What’s a prophet all about? Teaching...the Word.
How is he able to convince people that he is that one? By visible
manifestation, called vindication, those things that you know only God
could do, or something beyond the human instrument. 

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

	They certainly are ravening wolves. Now, this is the description of the
anointed ones of the end time. All right. They are wolves in sheep
clothing; so therefore, on the exterior they have to qualify absolutely
as a Christian. And this, of course, is in the moral field—as in
Galatians 5, the fruit of the Spirit, and as in 2 Pet 1:5.

(5)	…(adding) to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; (and so
on, coming up.)

	Those are things that are in a very nice life that has been changed
from immorality perhaps, and excesses, to a life which is more
commensurate with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

8.	Now, as we look at that, we want to realize that this picture of the
sheep clothing where they appear to be genuine Christians must be looked
at in the light that everything else is looked at, and that is this:
that Bro. Branham said at the end time these two spirits, the Spirit of
Christ and the spirit of antichrist—and ‘anti’ means ‘instead
of’, ‘that which is usurping and taking over’—those two spirits
are so close that only the very elect will not be deceived by them. They
are so close that only the very elect can tell them apart.

9.	Now, in viewing this we ask: How did this come about? Was it some
sudden phenomenon? No. No. No, no. It evidently was not. It is the
culmination of the twin doctrine that we understand Bro. Branham taught:
Cain and Abel; Jacob and Esau; Isaac and Ishmael; right down the line.
Actually, you had even the twin doctrine in the serpent that was a
great, tall, giant man: ebony, very handsome, very marvelous creature.
Now, that’s not where the color of the race came from, so just
understand that.

	But he would be opposite to Adam, as like a twin. Both were able to
foster as federal heads of people. So therefore, the serpent took Eve to
bring forth progeny; Adam also had to take her to bring forth. But what
we are looking at is the same Jesus and Judas. Now, when you go to the
Scripture in the Book of Revelation, where John is speaking, he sees the
white horse and the red horse and the black horse and the brindle. What
is it? 

	You see there, at the time the Spirit of God went forth upon the earth,
the spirit of the antichrist went forth. And he was a white horse rider.
The horse was white, and he was riding. See? Now, he wasn’t able to do
what the Holy Ghost did, and he wasn’t able to be crowned, because you
can’t crown a spirit. And he started out so close.

10.	Now, watch carefully. Through the ages coming up, when the Spirit of
God had moved on in the church ages—like the plant, the wheat—and
that which was left behind was organized doctrine, you saw the emphasis
continually upon a life. Right? Even the Catholic Church was protested
by men that lived sacred lives, like St. Francis of Assisi. And St.
Martin was there; Colombo was there. There were many, many people in the
Catholic Church that protested the Catholic Church’s vulgarity. And
they wanted to see lives that bore fruit. 

	Now, that’s what it went to. It went to a works program. That’s why
you see, you go to a church today, they’re all really legalist. Now,
the Methodist and the Baptists, they don’t believe they are legalist,
but they are, because they don’t have the Holy Ghost working in them
to produce a truly sanctified life. See? But notice what we are looking
at. We are looking at the fruit program. And in there, coming up through
the ages until the last age, it is different because you are going back
to the very first stage and the very ministry of Jesus Christ, in that,
in the last age, which is the Pentecostal age, the restoration of gifts.
Now, when it comes to those gifts, those gifts are energies of the Holy
Ghost.

11.	Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 12 just to take a look at it, so we can
proceed in our studies and not take too long tonight, but just give you
some more understanding. Now, in 1 Cor 12:4-11:

(4)	Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

(5)	And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

(6)	And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God
(that is doing it.)

(7)	But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal.

(8)	For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the
word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

(9)	To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing
by the same Spirit; (Now, man is not doing this; the Holy Ghost is doing
it in chosen vessels.)

(10)	…to another prophecy... discerning of spirits; divers kinds of
tongues…interpretation of tongues:

(11)	But all these work that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to
every man severally (or individually)... 

	That word ‘severally’ is such a crazy word. The King’s ‘several
house’ meant ‘his own little private house’. ‘Several’ means
‘individual’. Why…but it does. Just take it for the truth. Don’t
be confused. A lot of people think the word ‘several’ means
‘you’re going to get a lot of gifts’. Hogwash! He’s telling you
He deals with every one of you as an individual. And yet corporately, if
It’s the same Holy Ghost, we are all one! Brother Branham said, “Why
is it they’re trying to grab the ball?” 

	Oh, what visions of beauty we have if we just believe this tonight and
begin operating here as a body. Don’t think it’s beyond you. I
don’t care what this age has. For you to believe less than the best is
ridiculous. If you haven’t believed the greatest, then you are not
believing God. To believe God you must believe to the extreme that
Abraham did: God who raises the dead and calleth those things which are
not as though they were. Now, that’s a vision. That’s good pastoral
subject right there if you want to know the truth. That’s what you got
to have, brother/sister, sitting here in these pews. Don’t look to me
for that. I’ve got to have it with you—all one here.

12.	All right. Now It tells you the Holy Ghost is doing this in the
people. And in Romans 12, just to give you the same perfect
understanding... Romans 12:5-8:

(5)	So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one
of another. 

	Why? Because it’s the same Life in you.

(5)	So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one
of another. 

	Very strange here. We haven’t come to the place when one bleeds we
all bleed. We’ll stand back and watch him bleed. But we can get there.
I’ll read you the place where one rejoices, we all rejoice. When one
falls into degradation, we all sorrow for him. We get pretty callous
these days; we’ve seen too much. It’s time to put the blinkers on
and get back to seeing what God’s Word says and see ourselves in It.
Never mind what the world is doing. Let them drop dead! 

13.	I’ve got to watch that very carefully. I get all these phone calls
and hear all these things from around the end of the world come here,
critical of me and my ministry. It really shouldn’t bother me. Really,
it doesn’t bother me too much, but it makes me very cynical. Where are
people living in? They don’t know the same God I know; they sure
don’t know the same Word. There’s something missing somewhere. And
we take this Word by Word.

(6)	Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to
us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of
faith;

(7)	Or ministry, ...wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on
teaching;

(8)	Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: (and giving) with simplicity;
(ruling,) with diligence; (showing) mercy, with cheerfulness.

	Now It tells you, in the body there are hundreds and hundreds of gifts.
Now, these here, they just kind of seem flat along side of those in 1
Corinthians. What it is trying to show you, it’s one Holy Spirit
working in an entire body, but working in individuals, making it a
glorious replica of the Lord Jesus Christ, a glorious image unto Him.
And we can have it.

14.	Now, but I was saying, at the end time Alpha’s Omega, and you’ve
got to go back to the power manifestation of the Word, which comes in
Elijah—the Elijah ministry—in order to restore the Word. And at that
time, it is not only Elijah, it is the presence of God Himself, as Bro.
Branham said, “The Token is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself,” and
could only appear in the evening time, as it did personified in a man as
God stood looking like a man before Abraham in Genesis 18.

	So, we are seeing God and the prophet, and God in the prophet. A lot of
folk can’t understand it. Let’s just take a picture of it. Here is
Moses. Moses looks at the Pillar of Fire. The people also see the
flashing of lightning, the dark clouds. They hear the thunder; the earth
is quaking. They’re seeing what Moses is seeing. He visibly appeared,
and they said, “We don’t want to see him anymore.” 

	You understand what I’m saying? All right. Listen. They were looking
at the same God Moses was looking at. God was not in Moses. God was not
in Moses until God got into Moses. And the Bible distinctively says that
God, outside of Moses, took the spirit off of Moses and gave it to
seventy men. 

15.	I hope you understand what I’m talking about. You should never get
confused on the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the Baptizer in the
presence of God and understand these things. Ah, how many understand
them outside of us? That’s not my business. My business is here. If
only you and I understand, that’s our privilege. God gave it to us.
See? Those that don’t want it, that’s fine. But I want that answer
tonight and every one of you sitting in the pews, you hear me now and be
able to answer me back and understand: God—prophet! But not God in the
prophet at that point.

	Moses and the whole group, two millions standing there, watching Mount
Sinai. But the Bible said God was in the prophets, but not at that time,
and so, God had put His Spirit into Moses. Now, He takes it off and
gives it to the seventy. And let me assure you there’s more Spirit of
God in Moses than there are in the seventy.

	So, here’s where we are looking at in the picture of this end time:
Moses with Paul, William Branham. Now, we wouldn’t understand these
things except by vindication. We accept vindication; the church
doesn’t. Then let them do what the prophet did. They didn’t have it.
They won’t have that little thing that Deuteronomy 18 gives to a
prophet. See?

16.	Now, we are looking at this thing at the end time. We’re looking
right back to ‘alpha and omega’, we’re looking to the twins. All
right. Now, look; Judas and Jesus: Judas was given authority and power
to cast out devils and raise the dead, and any man says he didn’t do
it is weaving something into the Bible. He did it. But you know, just
the same as being twins, what happened? The Scripture says the
devil—Diablos himself—entered into Judas. And Jesus said, “One of
you is ‘the’ devil,” which is diablos, not, “one of you is
‘a’ devil,” which is a demon or demoniac. The man wasn’t that.
He was the physical incarnation, and he, therefore, would be the express
image.

	So you can see, then, that these men at the end time, as Bro. Branham
categorically said, were speaking for the devil, the same as Moses was
speaking for God. And they did the same miracles. They produced the same
wonders. And what I’m trying to show you in Scripture here is the
great confusion, the great deceit. We know only God can do these things.


17.	Then, how in the name of common sense is God allowing the devil’s
gang to do what His Spirit does? Because these are
energies—‘energi’ in the Greek—of the Holy Ghost. Let’s say
I’ve got a little dynamo down here in the river. It’s running fast.
Up there, have a little dynamo. I’ve got my generator going. And
we’re God’s crowd. We’ll give ourselves that credit because we are
God’s crowd. And down below the river there’s the devil’s crowd.
And they say, “Hey, we don’t have electricity now in our building.
That bunch up there, that dumb bunch of bunnies called God’s crowd,
(And I guess they are God’s crowd.) we’ll just tap in on their
generator.”

	Well, that’s what’s happened. They’ve tapped in on God. You say,
“How can God allow it?” 

	Well, go back in your understanding, brother/sister. There’s no power
but of God. Where did the devil get his power? He’s a created being.
So everything the devil uses is from God. His ability to fool you as an
anointed messenger with the Word came from God anointing him as the
mighty archangel that covered the Mercy Seat with Michael and worshipped
God.

18.	So, you see, at the end time, you’ve got a people fully endued by
the spirit of God in gifts, which can not be by man naturally. They’re
beyond the power of man. So, they’re distinct energies of the Holy
Ghost. Now then, how can they do that without being baptized with the
Holy Ghost? That’s the mystery. That’s the mystery. And the mystery
is ‘anointing’. And It tells you right here, “false
christs”—men that have legitimate spiritual gifts but illegitimate
spiritual understanding. Their job is to take the genuine and pervert
the people from the truth of the genuine. If William Branham was
genuine, then his Word must be genuine.

	Now, with this understanding let us also know this: that no matter what
you are looking at, starting with your twin doctrine, looking at
it...always...and you go right back to the very beginning before there
was a heaven of earth and a speck of stardust: I want to ask you: Who
was there first, Jesus or Lucifer? And the answer is Jesus. That light
that came forth in the beginning was the Word—‘the Word with God and
the Word was God’, that began the whole of creation.

19.	So, we’re looking at our twins, and we see always, then, in the
economy of God, there must be the original in order for there to be a
counterfeit. So, we come right to this very last day, and we see—and I
think it’s good to go back to Cain and Abel, because you’ll notice,
at that time, they both offered excellent sacrifices. You couldn’t
tell one from the other. You could not do it unless you had a
revelation. There’s no way because the Bible distinctly says ‘Abel
offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain;’ so therefore,
Cain’s offering was excellent. He worshipped God. He’d be an
outstanding man in his community. And until it came to the revelation,
you could not tell them apart—both fine men. You’ve got the same
thing today.

	So, that’s what we are looking at. We are looking at, first of all, a
people who live a life. Then we are looking at a people who got gifts
and power with God, and they demonstrate it. This is what we see here. 

20.	Now, watch. Let’s see these men. They’re over here in Rev
3:17-19.

(17)	Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable,
and poor, and blind, and naked: 

(18)	(Now,) I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, (That’s
gold of faith.) that you mayest be rich; and white raiment, that you may
be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear... 

	Now, remember; John prayed that, that they wouldn’t be ashamed in His
Presence. John knew from the Book of Revelation, the Appearing in the
form of the Holy Ghost in a Pillar of Fire, Christ to the Church, and he
was hoping they wouldn’t be this way. Oh, the point is, they were
going to be that way. But you don’t think a man of God wouldn’t pray
to God that they wouldn’t be that way. You couldn’t have anything at
all if you didn’t pray and wanted something else.

	...wouldn’t be ashamed...caught in your adulteries, caught in your
fornications—spiritual...caught in your idolatries. That’s what he
is talking about when he comes here with Elijah.

(18)	…and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, (In other words, you better
get some eyesalve.) that you may see. (“I want you to know
something,” he said.)

(19)	(Those that) I love, I(I’m going to come right there and rebuke
them. The prophet must come with a rebuke message, or he’s not a
prophet.) and (I’m going to) chasten: (I’m going to train him up the
way he ought to go, and I’m going to make him)…zealous…(to)
repent. (To bring his mind where it ought to be, because that’s where
transforming power lies according to Romans 12.)

21.	Now, what I’m looking at is, these people, according to Bro.
Branham, saying it so clearly, that when Moses came down from the
mountain, Aaron had made golden calves, and they were into a golden calf
scheme, which he said these people in Revelation and these false
anointed ones have a golden calf scheme. There’s your prophet Jerry,
your prophet Jimmy, Swaggart, and Baker, and Tammy his Jezebel, and Oral
the Roberts—go down the line. 

	And who spilt the beans? The Baptist boy from Chattanooga—forget his
name, but I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw a goring bull
that sniffs blood—none of them—or a skunk at garden party. Those
guys are so holy. Why didn’t they go to the boy and really get him
straightened out?

22.	See, the whole thing is a big Judas cover-up, a great big golden
scheme, and the money’s falling off. See? Brother Branham never
touched a penny. Oral didn’t mind getting that money from that dog
racer down there in Florida. I’m not speaking evil of the guy. I’m
just telling you what’s happened. He didn’t mind turning that down.
But an Armenian, when his wife got healed of cancer so perfectly and
instantly like that, gave Bro. Branham a certified check for a million
and a half dollars, he said, “Take it back.” 

	Oh, you say, “Now, now, now, now, Bro. Branham shouldn’t have done
that, because—oh, the Gospel should be preached—Hallelujah, and
souls be saved!”

	What gospel? Paul spoke of another gospel, another Jesus, another
spirit. He said, don’t kid yourself, there’s only one Gospel. I’m
going to tell you something: it was Moses’ law that did the job in his
day, it was Paul’s gospel that did the job in his day, and it’s
William Branham’s message does the job in this day, because they’re
running in continuity. Oh, I know that they wouldn’t believe that. We
don’t care what they believe. We haven’t got any time for that kind
of nonsense. We believe the truth. 

23.	Let’s go to Timothy. I think it’s the first Book of Timothy, no
doubt. 1 Tim 6:3-5.

(3)	If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even
the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is
according to godliness;

(4)	He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes
of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

(5)	Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, (That’s this day.)
and destitute of the truth, (That’s this day.) supposing that gain is
godliness. 

	Oh, look at the money Bro. Swaggart brings in! Brother: I say that with
my hand and my thumb and my finger clenched over my nostrils for good
reason. A hundred and thirty-six million dollars a year: What do you
need it for?

24.	Anybody knows that successful soul winning is on a one-to-one basis.
It always has been. It always will be. That’s where you get the true
converts. But this church here has an awful lot of that in it, if not,
maybe over eighty percent. That’s right. Get your books out. You’ll
find out. It’s not what you think. If there come—some preacher can
shoot his mouth off and you see a big campaign and all that kind of
stuff, that doesn’t mean anything. 

	Where are Billy Graham’s converts today, the thousands and thousands
that come in? Didn’t he make a statement, “Three thousand in this
city...I come back, there’s not thirty?” Why? It’s not done the
way people think it’s done. They always second-guess God, and they end
up in folly.

	But here it is: the golden calf scheme. And they said, “Well, look at
all this coming in.” That’s godliness. Falwell himself decries it,
but he’s caught up in it. They’re all caught up in it. 

	“Oh, that’s a lesson to learn, that when you come to God, He’s
always an underachiever.”

	Wait until Judgment Day; you’ll find out. Wait and see New Jerusalem
come down. Will you think He’s an underachiever then? Wait till you
see how you turn out, if you thought He hadn’t done right by you. Wait
till you look at yourself in a glorified state and say, “Well, if He
could do that with a chunk of mud and a gross bunch of inept tissue, run
by God knows what’s inside of me,” you’ll say, “He’s
not—God’s not inept and He’s not an underachiever.” 

	You see, God works with qualitative instinct, not quantitative. He just
threw all that out there to let you know He’s the great, big, grand
God, but it comes down to the heart of man, where Bro. Branham said, God
could look through his eyes, talk through his lips. That’s something,
brother/sister, that you want to look at and understand how great and
marvelous it is. 

25.	All right. We see the golden calf scheme. We see these men popular.
And we see them in sexual wrong-doing. Thus then, of Mt 24:24 and their
followers, they can range all the way from the seemingly most godly,
loving, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, to the lowest of the immoral.
And they’ll do it, too. Don’t worry.

26.	Now, it’s at this time Malachi 4 has to become a reality, because
that’s what the Bible says concerning Elijah and Malachi 4. It’s in
the day of the Lord, when He comes, that the Bride is helped, or God
would cut the whole thing off. He said, “I’m not going to do it.”
Remember; He didn’t kill everybody in Noah’s day, and He’s not
going to kill everybody in our day. He’s going to get some of us out
of here by His Own wonderful grace, not by ours at all.

	Now, at this particular time, then... (And you well know the Elijah
ministry, because Christ vindicates it.) Elijah is the initiator;
therefore, (Now, listen carefully and understand, please, because this
is where you are going to have to harden your heart against your own,
sloppy thinking and your own, sloppy love. Right. ...your own sloppy,
human, distinct desires.) everybody following William Branham is false.
Now, you don’t like that because you are too nice...and I’m too
nice. Oh, we are nicer than God. We should have a little session here;
tell God “Hey, I don’t think this is the way to go.” 

	Every one that follows is a false christ. You say what you want,
because once the Truth is given by vindication and you’re off of that
Truth, you are antichrist. You can do what you want, my brother/sister,
with what I’m saying, but this is the gist of the subject, which is
lesson number twenty...and Bro. Branham preached one of the most
remarkable, stirring, searching sermons ever heard in eternity, with the
White Throne one day off—the day after tomorrow.

27.	Once the Word is established by vindication, there is no more
vindication. Then why are they doing these things? They didn’t do them
before! 

	“Oh,” they say, “Brother Branham, great man of God, came on the
scene, (Yes, he did.) and he showed us how it was in Bible days, and
Bible days are here again. We’re going to do it again, all of us,
hallelujah. We’re going to have faith. We’ll lock ourselves in the
closet. We’ll throw the key away. We’ll fast. We’ll starve
ourselves. We’ll force God.”

	Allen did it and died a drunkard. I’m not... Now, listen; I’m sorry
for the man. I’m just telling you facts, brother/sister. All others
are thieves and robbers. See? Now, let them preach Mark 16. Let them
refer in their own element to Heb13:8, by Mark 16, recognizing the
prophet. Those are legitimate valued ministries, wherein you are not
majoring on a minor. But these men major on a minor, not only a minor
but deceit, because they say, “Look, we can do the same thing and
better.” And Bro. Branham said they’d be bigger and better.

28.	And I’m going to tell you something: it tears your heart when you
know that’s the way it is. And you can be a second John the Baptist
and say, “Hey, were you really the one?” What am I doing here?

	I saw Bro. Branham weep watching television, seeing the huge crowds of
Bro. Roberts. And he said, “See, Lee, I could have had that. God
doesn’t want me to have it.”

	He could have used his gift to live in the most beautiful mansion.
Oral’s son got a clothes closet, what, 450 square feet or something,
and I thought I was going out of my gird to build one 12 by 14. Mine is
so long, it’s like a whole house. I don’t know what his is, like, a
half acre or something. How many clothes do you got to do that...and his
wife? It’s their business, not mine. I care less. Who needs several
houses and an air conditioned dog house? Was that for him to sleep in?
I’d like to know some answers. I’m going to tell you the answer
right here. It’s a golden calf scheme; it’s of the devil.

29.	Now, listen; it is not uncharitable on my part to raise my voice and
speak these things with authority, because it’s vindicated. I’m not
speaking of myself. I’m an echo to a voice. See? Once the prophet
comes on the scene, there is no more vindication, as any attempt at it
(That’s vindication.) by these or others, proves they are false. You
cannot vindicate a vindication. That’s what vindication’s all about.
That is why Paul said he nor anyone could change the Word that he
brought, because his Word was brought by vindication; therefore, it
would take a further vindication. And where are you going to stop it?
Where are you going to go?

	That vindication was it, and it was sufficient, or God is inept. Why
would God give insufficient vindication? So therefore, he sent his
prophet. So therefore, when the attempt to show by any sign or wonder,
which in itself is a duplicate in order to establish themselves, they
are one hundred percent false. This is the formula we go by. That’s
why Paul said, “Nobody can change it. I can’t change it. It’s all
over.” So with the revelation of this day and this hour. 

30.	All right. With that in mind, I want to take one highlight, and
I’m going to close, because we may take more highlights. One of the
highlights of this message was Lk 21:25-28.

(25)	And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon…

	At the time of the appearing of the Son of man—at the time of the Day
of the Lord—at the time of Elijah—at the time of the false anointed
ones—at this time, period.

(25)	…signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon
the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves
roaring; (Now, that’s humanity right there.)

(26)	Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: (That’s why heart disease is the
number one.) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

(27)	And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power
and great glory. (Now, that’s the Son of man Himself, with power and
great glory.)

(28)	And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and
lift...your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Is not now, but
it’s indicated at this time that it’s near.)

	Now, there is what we are talking about—the ring of angels. Now, that
is the sign of the Son of man appearing in the heavens. Now, that is not
the Rapture. That is not the Second Coming. That is not your change.
This is what lets you know, on top of the Elijah ministry of prophetic
vindication, this is it, what you are looking for, which is that Word as
it was in the days of Moses and in the days of Paul, and now in the day
of Jesus Christ. And we will liken this more to the days of Moses than
the days of Paul for the very reason that you are looking at Exodus...is
what we are going into.

31.	So, all right. Now, this Scripture, Lk 21:25-28, Bro. Branham could
have said, which he did say, and I say, this day that Scripture was
fulfilled, February 28, 1963. Twenty-four solid years ago that took
place. Now, let us look at the Scripture, for It says in that verse 26,
“For the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” And again, “Coming in
a cloud with power and great glory.” 

	Okay, the word ‘power’ in both places is ‘dunamis’.
Specifically, ‘miraculous power, indicating great strength, even to
the extent of violence or the ability to do violence’—mighty works
of wonders. Now, the word ‘heave’ means ‘an elevated place’.
That’s what it’s about. The great high places. 

	At this time It says the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Now, who is
the prince of the power of the air? Satan. Who is it has power over all
governments, and therefore, he’s in an elevated position? Satan.

	Now, It says that kingdom, his kingdom and the kingdoms of the earth
are going to be shaken, and they’ll see the Son of man coming with
great power and glory, which signifies that same ministry of Elijah. And
what is he here for? To bring the Word.

32.	Now then, looking at verse 28.

(28)	And when these things begin to come to pass…

	When you see that sign in the sky. When you know that the prophet is on
the scene, the Rev 10:1-7 is taking place. This is what you are looking
at. When you look at these things come to pass:

(28)	...then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption… (is
right around the corner.)

	In other words, it is in this hour that you will be redeemed. Now, this
is part of Luke 17, the Son of man being revealed. Not only in
manifested signs and wonders, but visibly before the world and by the
camera, as we see over here to your left and to my right, which fulfills
Malachi 4, “Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet,” or I would come
and, in my coming, destroy everything. But by coming with Elijah, I will
not do so. 

33.	And it sets the stage for 1 Cor 15:51. So, let’s take a look at it
because your redemption draweth nigh, and that’s what we’re dealing
with. And here he says here: 

(51)	Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed, (That’s our redemption—immortality.)

(52)	In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound…

	Now, that is taken from Eph 1:13-14.

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

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

	Now, look; your soul and your spirit is irrevocably saved; it’s
redeemed. It’s your body that needs it now, because your soul and
spirit has to come back to a new vessel, where Bro. Branham says in
“Marriage and Divorce”, God will create, not by sex, but a creative
act. From the very elements that our bodies are in, He’ll bring it
right back to a glorified body, which is redemption.

33.	So, here is... Watch you are looking at. You are looking at this
right here. Your redemption is guaranteed by this [points to the picture
of the Cloud]. And you wouldn’t know that [points to the picture of
the Cloud] except for this [points to the picture of the Pillar of
Fire], because there is an interfacing or an inter-connection between it
all, or you’re missing it. You simply cannot take one verse of
Scripture. You have a Word for this hour which is a body-Word. That’s
for the body. And every single Word is just as necessary as every neuron
in your body, every synaptic connection, everything else you’ve got
there, every little cell. It’s absolutely necessary—every single
Word.

	Now, so Luke 17, you see what we are talking about right here:
they’re interconnected. And this in Luke 17 is under Rev 10:1-7,
fulfilling Malachi 4, setting the stage for 1 Cor 15:51, as is the
promise in Eph 1:13-14, which is literalized in Eph 1:15-23, when the
spirit of wisdom comes down in order to bring the Truth, which will
bring the dead out of the ground and put us in the Rapture. That’s
what that’s about, because that’s what It says right here. 

34.	So, when you see that [points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire],
from that you know it, it’s been vindicated—you know that the dead
have to come out of the ground, and as Bro. Branham told Billy Paul, (I
don’t remember all the three things he said.) he said, Those who do
not believe in LA. sinking and his vision of the tent—which I don’t
understand it—it’s going to be fulfilled. I’m sure it’s in the
Resurrection; something’s in there. And I’ve got to leave it right
there, and I think he said something else to it. He said, You might as
well be out there playing marbles. 

	In other words, you really believe what this Word is all about here,
brother/sister. You believe that visitation of angels; you believe that
picture of the Pillar of Fire. You believe that, because that is what it
is all about—absolutely—and nothing else.

	So, one of the great highlights that we see in this end time of the
anointed ones of the end time, from Bro. Branham’s message, he lets us
categorically know that already, now, it’s fulfilled, Luke 21. And at
that time, It says, lift up your heads. Who are you looking to? God.
Therefore, nobody can say come over here and look at this. 

35.	I’ve got a woman in Tucson writing letters around the country
concerning my ministry. And she says “Oh, don’t believe Lee Vayle.
He’s entirely wrong; going to lead you astray.” And she said, “You
know, we have a TV in our home, so we can see Jimmy Swaggart. I hear
he’s got television channels over there in Sweden,” where the guy is
reading. “You listen to him, because he’s the closest to Bro.
Branham.”

	If I had a woman like that in my church, she’d come before the whole
church. That’s the danger of people not teaching in their churches.
Let me tell you something: I’ll confront every one of you. I said
something nasty to Gene the other day. I didn’t mean it. I said
something nasty to Norm there. I didn’t mean either one. Gene was
talking to me and I was talking to him, and I said, “Now, look,”
something about if he withstood my ministry, which I don’t mean he
does or is ever going to do it, but just illustrating. I said, “I’ll
throw you through a basketball hoop.” 

	Now, I couldn’t throw him through a basketball hoop. But the point is
this; I’m set for a fight. And I said to Norm, “Look, I don’t know
what you believe.” 

	I don’t know what Norm believes! But I’m not insulting as though he
does not believe. And I talk that way. I want you to know,
brother/sister, listen to me! We are not fooling here. 

36.	Now, I know it’s not as real as it should be. I know it’s not as
deep. We’re not as sincere. I know that! I’m not some cockeyed fool!
In myself I’m worse than that. But I’m not here as some blathering
idiot, standing up here. Either... Listen, you tell me who’s got more
than this.

	Now, they say, “Well, I tell you, come and see him.”

	And I’ll say “Ha, ha, ha! Don’t give me that tripe. I’ve
already been told not to go.”

	My brother, don’t you—my sister, don’t you see vindication is
vindication? 

37.	You know, you all got pretty good senses here. Well, I say that,
much better than mine now, because mine are going downhill. My
eyesight’s not bad. One eye’s injured; you know, a little bit of
deterioration is all right. My hearing is very good; it’s a little bit
too good. And I got a lot of things, you know...well, they are just not
what they should be. Of course, that’s natural. We’re dying. See? 

	But I’m going to tell you something: you give me a stick of
peppermint, I know peppermint. Then you give me garlic... And I like
garlic. I know garlic is not onion; I can tell the difference. I’m not
smart enough to know... I might not tell, you know, a shallot from an
onion.I don’t know. Either they’re nice, they’re mild. In fact, I
found some that were hotter than onions. But I’m letting you know
something. Look; even with your natural senses, you’re not stupid.
Then listen; if your natural senses that you use, and faith and diet can
tell you something, what about your spiritual senses—if you’ve got
any? 

38	Well, is it too hard to know that once a thing’s been vindicated,
there’s no more vindication? Look; you may even be a prophet, but like
I say, look; here’s old Paul. And now he said there’s no way that
even I can change what’s been said. Isaac couldn’t change it. Isaac:
blind, going by senses. Hearing...got ears, and he’s got feelings. And
Jacob comes in with some skin on his hands. Oh, that Esau must have been
a hairy bird! He felt him. He said, “Oh,” he said, “he’s got the
feeling all right.” He said, “Sure smells like it. Boy, that
smell… That boy smells good,” you know, if you…you know, like
a…anything, anyway…like the moose out there. 

	And he said, “Now, that food smells good, too.” But he said,
“Man,” he said, “my hearing,” he said, “sure must be going bad
[sic] than I thought it was, because it’s the voice of Jacob but the
hand of Esau.” And you know, he said... Then what did he do? He went
to his spiritual senses, and his spiritual senses to prophesy. And he
prophesied one hundred percent for Jacob. And when he found out it
wasn’t Esau, he said, “I can’t change it.”

	Why? It’s a good thing it couldn’t be changed. 

	John the Baptist, he said, “Tell me, are you the one?”

	“Go back and tell John this is the one.” 

	It never has, and it never will change. What is vindicated is
vindicated. 

	He saw the Pillar of Fire come down in the form of the Holy Ghost. That
does it. The words he said, he spoke not of himself. That does it.
William Branham was shaken at times, but I’ll tell you something: when
those days of the Son of man came on the scene, that man went from power
to power until nothing could shake him...like the apostle Paul: let any
man come on the scene... Why? Because you don’t vindicate vindication,
and God does not change horses. I tell you, antichrist does. He’s got
to.

39.	So, we’ve got a vindicated Word, and we can’t change.
Vindication’s over. People think Bro. Branham’s got to come back
with further vindication—I don’t believe for one minute that he’s
going to come back with any vindication, as far as a necessary
vindication, because he said we’ve got everything under the Seals to
put us in the Rapture—that means, to get to the Wedding Supper. 

	What did he come back with? Just the same thing Jesus did. He spake
concerning the kingdoms and proves reality beyond the grave. And
brother, you think that’s not going to give us resurrection faith and
rapturing faith? Oh my! You think it’s not going to set the whole
world on fire—our world on fire? You talk about this universe spinning
and dissolving and God recreating; we’ll go into a spin like you’ll
never believe and come out recreated. You bet. We’re in a kind of in a
tizzy right now, but when God puts us in His spin, it’s going to be a
different thing entirely. 

40.	Sure, we’re looking at it right now. I don’t know what the
future holds, all those things, but I know this Word, and I’m content
to sit right here and wait my day. I will not stick my neck out and try
to project as though I understood, because I don’t understand. I’m
terribly careful not to put myself in a position of unbelief. I often
say these things only because I’ve got enough people out there that
listen. They get the tapes, and they try to pick up everything I say as
though I don’t believe what the prophet said because I don’t go into
a tizzy about faith. I’m going to tell you something, brother/sister.
I’m not trying to beat the Resurrection. I’m waiting for it, because
I can’t do one thing about it. I may be in it, by the grace of God,
dead—deader than a mackerel, as far as this body’s concerned, but
waiting to get it back on the right day at the right time.

41.	Anointed ones at the end time... Don’t pay me...ever mind. A
fellow phoned me one day, desperate. He said, “Bro. Vayle, what about
this man, what about that man.” He said...mentioned a certain man.

	I said, “Bro. Branham told me categorically, ‘Leave that man.
He’s false anointed.’”

	“Oh,” he said, “but he seems to have a genuine gift.”

	I said, “They all got genuine gifts, brother.”

	He said, “I’m so desperate, should I go?”

	I said, “Bro. Branham said, ‘Stay away from that thing!’”

	He said, “Did he say that?”

	I said, “He sure did.”

	You can get so desperate, brother/sister, like Saul, go to the witch of
Endor. Oh yeah, we’re fallible, we’re human. 

42.	But you know what? Not this generation. She will not be deceived.
Uh-uh. I don’t know how many here’s elect. I can’t prove anything.
But by the grace of God we believe everybody’s elect. And nobody’s
more elect than anybody else. You know, there’s that old joke: they
said all men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others.
That’s not with the Bride. No. No, that’s not the Bride. It’s the
same Holy Spirit; it’s the same revelation.

	You say, “I don’t see everything.”

	Who said you had to? Who said you got to get everything? One day old
Elisha—good old man...just a fine old man. And he prophesied, but he
wasn’t a Word prophet. He just lived the Word and the Word came as
necessary. One day he couldn’t get a Word from God. He said, “Bring
me a minstrel.”

	Guy played, played, bingy, bingy, bingy on his guitar, or whatever he
had...zither or whatever it was. And he said, he couldn’t... He
couldn’t get anything. He couldn’t get a thing. And somebody said,
“Hey, I see a chariot.”

	He said, “That’s that old Jed,” he said, “or somebody.” He
said, “It’s time to get out of here.” ...said, “God won’t show
me this, so I’ll just run off in the wilderness.”

	You may get that way sometime. You’re could lose the sense of
direction. 

43.	You’re not infallible; nobody’s infallible. It’s a tough life
in certain ways, although right now we could take two thousand years of
this and good health. I have no problem there. I don’t know what’s
going to happen when the rug gets pulled. He’ll give us grace. But
look; there’s times when you... Look; it’s tough. But get this flat:
a vindicated Word... There is no more vindication. And anybody else that
says, “Hey, you better watch this, or look here,” you say, “Thank
you, I don’t have time, but get thee behind me, Satan.”

	You say, “I just don’t know that I can be impolite.”

	Well, say it under your breath, or just let your actions follow it out.
Can you do that tonight? If you can’t do it, you better start doing
it. 

44.	Look; you understand what I’m saying? There’s no more
vindication. It’s been vindicated. But when they prove time and time
again that the car will do sixty miles an hour, do you have to go out
and try it yourself? My God, you can’t be that stupid! 

	You didn’t catch it, did you? I’m trying to tell you this: if you
can’t take this vindication, you’d better get your own, and you
ain’t got none. You’re trying to tell me, let me take that Word and
see it vindicated.

	People come around me and say, “Well, I’ve had this.”

	And I said, “Come on, let’s pool our notes, and we’ll see how
many visions you’ve had,” and I’ll tell him how many I’ve had.
“...how many times you’ve prophesied,” and I’ll tell him how
many times I’ve prophesied. And I can usually flatten them. And I
ain’t got any vindication. Little things day-by-day pop up. Well, not
day-by-day, (Pardon that expression.) but in my day things pop up.
I’ll turn to my wife, and I’ll say something—or somebody standing
near me. Doesn’t fail. Where does it come from? I don’t believe it
comes from the devil; I believe it comes from God. That doesn’t mean
one thing, brother/sister. I can be false anointed and prophesy
correctly three times an hour, that’s seventy-two times a day, and
believe nothing.

45.	How can you stand against a prophet that said, “Bring me
twenty-four of your worst cases; I’ll guarantee healing?” But they
all sat there wanting to get healed. 

	Perhaps you’re sitting here tonight and got cancer and don’t know
it. And William Branham come by—or maybe you got one bad eye. You
might be almost blind...a little kidney infection or something. And
we’re a big crowd. Brother Branham said, “Now bring me twenty-four
worst cases; I guarantee healing.”

	And you say, “Well, I got this kidney infection. I don’t want to
see those twenty-four miracles. I want my kidney healed.” 

	You blew it. You blew it right there. You weren’t waiting to see God.
You wanted too much yourself. That’s what’s wrong with these guys.
They’re too self-centered. They want too much of themselves. Why
not... Brother Branham said, “Can’t you leave me carry the ball?”

46.	How many of you learn to carry the ball with each other? Some of you
would have somebody else carry the ball for you, and you’d take all
the gravy. I don’t say that to anybody sitting here, but maybe I might
be hitting somebody. Have you learned these things as Christians? Oh,
brother/sister, they’re necessary, you know. Some things are tough.
You’ve got to learn to sow. Brother Branham learned to sow a hard way
to be what he was. 

	God doesn’t just say, “Here now, little fellow,” chunk-chunk,
“everything’s just beautiful. I’m just going to make you
hootsy-tootsy to over the congregation. And you watch things go very
nice this time on, having it…”

	Oh, is that a fact? He’d pray for everybody in the congregation to
get healed, pull up his pant leg and see a great big, ugly, black
bruise. He limped on it for days, couldn’t get healed.
Self-sacrificial love, self sacrificial gifts. Not building a
golden-calf empire; standing still with God. 

47.	Oh, brother/sister, you don’t have a great big burden to carry.
You don’t have the big responsibility. You just got one thing, and
that’s believe! That’s all! You’ve got to believe! 

	You believe it’s all ready done; that’s grace—marvelous grace of
our loving Lord. But you can just sit back and say it’s been proven. I
don’t worry anymore. Well, that’s down; well, that’s fine. Big
tent, big this, big that; that’s fine. Let them have it. Let them… 

	How many churches will say the same thing? But they aren’t vindicated
like we are, because we’ve got a vindicated Message. They go by
tradition and folly; we go by revealed wisdom. 

	Oh, we’re just happy, happy people. Praise the Lord! 

	Let’s rise.

	Gracious, heavenly Father, we love You tonight. We praise Thee, oh God,
for Your kindness. We know that we don’t deserve it. But we did ask
You tonight, Lord, to help us, and You helped us to bring it into the
realm of utter simplicity, into the brick wall of simplicity, into the
place where the wall is so high that men can not get over, so deep that
men can not get under. We stand right there and see the salvation of our
God. And we thank You for it, Lord, that You’re doing it all.

	In this our day, when You could look down and say, “I’m going to
end the whole thing, but I’ve got the solution...and Elijah coming,”
and it was done. And Lord, we praise Thee, oh God, from the depth of our
heart, oh God of great love, that You have done this for us, and our
eyes are open to it. 

	And we do not excoriate those on the outside whose eyes are closed,
Lord. We are not going to do that by Your grace and Your love and Your
power...tender mercies. We can pity them, Lord, which we certainly
trust, oh God, that we will do, and have great anxiety concerning them,
even as Paul would have and any servant of God would have.

	But Lord, we will not go with them! The invitation, Lord, is they come
with us. There is no invitation that we go with them, for You said when
they say, “Come here, come there,” You say “Don’t go hither.”
Sorry. If we’re going to walk together, Lord, they got to come our
way, because by the grace You have given us we are going Your way.
It’s not any more whose side is God on, but it’s who is on the
Lord’s side, and we want to stand there.

	We want to stand with our Joshua, the Holy Spirit, veiled in the Pillar
of Fire tonight, to lead us right to the Millennium, that Spirit
that’s in our midst, ready to be incarnated in Jesus Christ, our
living Lord, that One that came down to place the Church according to
the Word of Almighty God, doing so now, and placing us, building us up
in the most holy faith, in the assurance that was in the great Abraham,
the full assurance of faith, for we know that faith gives way at this
time, Lord, absolutely gives way, to sight. And we have seen.

	John said those Scriptures have been fulfilled to such an extent we
saw, we heard, we handled of the Word of Life, and we, Lord, in the same
enviable position tonight in the way You’ve given us. 

	We praise thee, oh God, and thank You for the fullness of You Word
devolving upon us this hour. We believe tonight, and I trust tomorrow
and every day, it grows and grows. And we believe, holding our heads up,
our redemption has drawn nigh. And this is the hour of the Resurrection,
and this is the day of the Open Seal, the Tree of Life in full view, and
immortality to the chosen few that will be here.

	And Lord, if any measure of a reward in this, that people, by living
and walking with You, would qualify, wherein others would pass on...and
I don’t know that’s true. But if there was anything to that, then
Lord I pray that this people here, there’ll be some standing here who
will so apply themselves to the grace of Almighty God and the Word, the
sobriety and diligence of this hour, that one day they will see those
loved ones back here on earth, and they will walk right in to the
Millennium glorified and to the Wedding Supper.

	Father, that’s a prize that Paul said he’d give everything
for—everything behind him and this just one thing looking at. And
Father, maybe You could help me tonight, and all of us standing here, to
just somehow let that grace trickle into our hearts and that Life in
Your Word, oh God, counting all things lost to gain the excellence in
that knowledge, and be a part of the Out-resurrection from among the
dead, in fact, not even die. Somebody’s going to be there, Lord. Maybe
we can be there.

	Bless each one in this divine Presence, oh God. And as the prophet said
so many times, ‘May all the sick be healed.’ One day it’s going to
be. One day they’re just going to be so beautiful, rounded out in this
flesh here. Yes sir, just looking like the sons of God that they are.
Then comes the Resurrection; then comes immortality.

	Bless us, Lord, as we go, partake a little substance with each other, a
little friendship, a little fellowship. Grace and honor, Lord, be Yours.
The glory be Yours, oh God, as it’s never been before in our lives.

	We pray humbly tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

	“Take the Name Jesus with You.”