Anointed Ones at the End Time #22

The Elijah of This Hour

It Comes by a Man

June 3, 1987

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re again happy to say we’re
grateful to be in the house of the Lord God, which You have given us,
Lord, for services. We praise You, Lord, for the health, the strength,
the energy You’ve given us, Lord, that we wish to dedicate to You and
hopefully, Lord, that it has been done, we served you some how
acceptably.

	Thank you, Lord, for food, clothing, and all the things You’ve given
us in this world which will pass away. We thank you, Lord, for friends
and good people that we love and love us, Lord, which will not pass away
because they’re part of Your Word. Father, for these things we thank
You. 

	We praise You, Lord, for the Word at the end time that You’ve given
us. We ask you, Lord, to bless It to the nourishment of our souls, the
illumination of our minds. And may, Lord, we be a product of that Word,
an end-product, oh God, so that when all’s gone away, Lord, and
nothing else remains, we know that Your Word will remain, and we being a
part of It, shall remain with us.

	So, help us with the service tonight that we might be a blessing to
each other, because we know already You’ve blessed us. In Jesus’
Name we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, this will likely be the last message, number 22, “The Anointed
Ones of the End Time”. And, you’ll notice in Mt 24:24, Bro. Branham
uses this as his text:

(24)	For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
show great signs and wonders; insomuch..., if it were possible, they
shall deceive the very elect.

	Now, you’ll notice that Bro. Branham did not belabor this text in the
sense of bringing out the fact that It is speaking of a plurality of
deceivers, a plurality of false prophets, who, of course, are also false
teachers. And the thought he brought out here was very strong that he
said, notice, there are many of them. 

	Now, as we look at this plurality, it makes us notice quite
conclusively that no one prophet is singled out in the case of these
false prophets. There’s nothing said about one of them. It’s said
about several of them, so that, as I say, there’s not any mention here
of one singled out as is in the case in the Book of Revelation where the
false prophet, who serves the Beast, is singled out. You don’t see
that, but you see something entirely different. So, evidently, there
will be a headship from these false anointed ones. That’s what we
would surmise, and, of course, that is true that there will be one at
the end time.

2.	But, however, we do know that God has singled out a true prophet at
the end time, and you’ll look at Mt 24:3, where:

(3)	...he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him
privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign of thy coming (or thy presence), and...the end of the (age)?

	Now, in there he immediately designates the sign of the presence of the
Lord in the end of the age, in verse 4, by saying:

(4)	…Take heed that no man deceive you.

(5)	For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many.

And that’s what It says in verse 24.

(24)	For there shall arise false Christs, (even lying) prophets, and
shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that (it’ll) deceive
(everybody but) the very elect(ed) (as Bro. Branham put it.)

	So, we’re looking at the thought here that Bro. Branham brings out
that the prophet that we know and call Elijah in this hour really,
basically, is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, not a man-god, but it comes
through a prophet. So that when you’re looking at the many false
prophets here, you are looking at them in contradistinction to Jesus
Christ Himself, because it is the sign of the Presence. Now, you know
positively, that that could not therefore have anything to do with what
is called the Appearing in the fundamentalist minds, which is the
Rapture. So that’s entirely erroneous. 

3.	Now, we’re also looking at the fact that at the end time God has
told us that there is a prophet singled out, and that one is Elijah. So,
without mentioning the name Elijah here, you automatically have to bring
to your own attention somehow—someone show it to you, you get it from
God—that there would have to be a true one, or true ones, as well as
false ones. So there, evidently, are any number of false prophets at the
end time. That’s what the Bible tells us here.

4.	Now, this description of the false prophet that is set forth here in
Mt 24:24, who do these signs and wonders, you pick him up in Deuteronomy
13. And you’ll notice It says, verse 1, beginning... We’ll take
about four verses.

(1)	If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and
giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

(2)	And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let
us serve them;

(3)	Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

	Now, you’ll notice in here that these false prophets have the ability
to foretell an event, and the event can come to pass. They have power
ministries. And you’ll notice verse 3 is the critical verse. 

(3)	Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

	So, what you’re seeing here is God is dividing the make-believer and
the unbeliever from the true believer in God.

5.	Now, with this we want to also notice something that is very worthy
of note, and that is this: as we read It again.

(2)	…saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known,
and let us serve them;

(3)	Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

	Now, what you’re looking at here in the light of the present-day
Scripture is that people will hardly use this and take it to heart for
the present hour, because they will tell you that all of these people
that we designate as false prophets, have the Word of God, and they’re
using the Word of God. They’re Christians, and, therefore, it
couldn’t be that this is what really the Lord is saying. 

	Well, you know, that is a lot of tripe! Deuteronomy 13—by the time
this Deuteronomy 13 is written, Moses has already laid out the whole
Bible that they’re supposed to have. Do you understand what I’m
saying?

	So, when anybody tries to tell you that these false prophets couldn’t
be the false prophets that we’re trying to make them due to Bro.
Branham’s vindicated ministry, because, “hey, they’re preaching
the Word!” What do you think these bozos were preaching? You following
what I’m saying? They had the Word just the same as we got the Word.
Now, you keep that in mind while I go back here to Romans and belabor
you again by repeating something, but when I repeat these things, it
really can jam it into your consciousness, which you need to know.

6.	All right. Romans 9. 

(1)	I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost,

(2)	That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

(3)	For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

(4)	Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory,
and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God,
and the promises;

(5)	Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.

	Who had everything It says right here in the first five books of Moses
and everything right up to Malachi, and they had every single thing
going for them that they were surely Israelites, yet God says here,
“I’m going to send people amongst you with signs and wonders, and
I’m going to separate the believers from the make-believers and the
unbelievers.” Now, that’s what you are looking at. So, you are not
looking at anything strange here that Bro. Branham taught. You’re
looking at a scriptural understanding from Genesis to Revelation. 

7.	All right. He said here, then, that the Lord God is going to prove
you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul. He’s going to send that amongst you. Now
therefore, watch carefully what is being done in this separation. In
this separation now—God doing it—this becomes a question of
identifying one’s self with the true God and worshipping Him. 

	Now, there again, I know that we’re to the place where people are
thinking that Israel would definitely, then, be offering their children
in flames of fire and doing many, many other things they shouldn’t be
doing. But if you only read your Bibles, you will find out that they
destroyed such heathen idolaters, but they were taken in to the
seduction—its seductive blandishments—of Jezebel (and various other
ones), so that the religion was actually bastardized. There was no such
thing as a turning away from the original as saying, “Well, there’s
nothing to anything. There’s no God; there’s no nothing.” It
wasn’t a turning the back on God as though it were a hundred percent,
although it was a hundred percent.

8.	So, I want you to see this because this is very, very important at
this hour that the question, then, before us concerning these that God
Himself sends amongst us, as He sent here, as they’re going into the
promised land, sending to us before we go into the Millennium, is the
question of one identifying himself with the true God (That’s what
it’s all about.) and, of course, whether you are worshipping God in
spirit and in truth, for the end time of Mt 24:24 is actually over here
in Jude 3-4...might be enough to read. 

(3)	Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that
you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once (for all)
delivered unto the saints.

(4)	For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation (spoken of that this was going to happen),
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying (or absolutely saying no to) the only Lord God, and our Lord
Jesus Christ.

	Now, this, of course, is speaking of what is happening in our time as
we know it. 

9.	Now, let’s go a minute here to 2 Corinthians 11 and see this one…


(2)	For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused
you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

(3)	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through
his subtilty…

	Now you’re getting to the place of where you can understand all, but
the elect, will be deceived. This is very, very subtle. See? So, this is
not any great departure from the mainstream of Christian doctrine. This
is what you’ve got to understand. No, it will not be very far from the
mainstream. 

(3)	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through
his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that
is in Christ.

(4)	For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus… 

	Now, you say, “Well now, I don’t know that I could really believe
that, that anybody would fall for it.” 

	Well, Paul’s a nut. You’re smart, and Paul’s a jackass.
Theologians got the answer, but Paul doesn’t have an answer. He said,
“...another Jesus.”

	“Well, you see, that’s just an illustration.” 

	Do you believe that? Then throw your Bible in a junk can. I haven’t
got time for illustrations because your soul depends on it.

10.	(4)	…whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit…

	“Well now, I just...I don’t think that would be possible.” 

	Well, you’re wrong. If it wasn’t possible, he wouldn’t have said
it.

(4)	…or another gospel…

	So, you can see here that there’s a terrible danger. And notice what
he says here how this is going to take place. Verse 13:

(13)	For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.

	Telling them that the very One that they believe in, they are ministers
of, and they’re deliberately going to lead them from that One.
That’s what It says. And they can do it...and no marvel. 

11.	And he said, “Don’t think this strange, and don’t think
that’s beyond being done.” He said, “Don’t marvel, I’m just
telling you the truth. And I’ll tell you why:”

(14)	…for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

	Now, whatsoever maketh manifest is light. So therefore, the devil is on
the scene actually manifesting himself that he is that one. So, he will
predict events, he will use gifts of the Holy Spirit, he will use
virtuous tactics and traits, and he will betray the people. Why? Because
he’s going to get them plumb off the Word, because that’s where Eve
got off...was with the Word. He didn’t do a lot of things around her;
he just simply brought the Word and said, “Hey,” he said, “I think
maybe that you ought to look at this; look at it carefully the way I’m
looking at it because I don’t think you got it right.”

	Now, here was a spirit that got in an animal, just like a man, and he
made himself an angel of light, and he handled the Word of God, and he
deceived the woman, and she fell, and the man fell, and we’ve been
laboring under the consequence of getting from behind the Word for six
thousand years. 

12.	I’m going to tell you something, brother/sister. Let’s get this
flat. Can anybody here tonight admit that you are positively stupid, a
nincompoop, and you couldn’t answer what two and two are? Well,
let’s all pretend that we’re sharks--we’re smart guys. Now,
we’ve learned a little trick that really pays off. Do you think after
that trick was tried for six thousand years and paid off, that the
devil’s going to switch tactics? You’ve got to be sick! You are nuts
and can’t add two and two. If I got something that has paid for six
thousand years, do you think I’m going to fool with it? No. And so
Satan has done it for six thousand years very successfully, and he’s
going to keep doing it. 

	He’s going to be an angel of light, and he’s going to meet you on
your ground—Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist—and take you right down
the drain with him, because he’s done it for six thousand years. And
another thing, after six thousand years—and let’s face it, there’s
hardly anybody here that’s... Well, you’re getting up in years;
you’re past ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. And isn’t it hard to
break a habit? You think after six thousand years Satan’s going to
break his habit? after six thousand years that man’s continually
fallen, he’s not going to fall for the same old trick? He certainly is
going to fall for it. That’s why all, but the very elect, get
deceived.

	He meets you right on your front doorstep. He meets you right in the
pulpit. And he manifests everything the way God said: the same as God
said to Adam, “For this cause you’re going to leave me. Watch it.”
It didn’t bother him any. He paid no more attention than nothing.
That’s the way man is constituted. It’s too bad that he is.

13.	Now, he’s transformed as an angel of light, which being light,
makes manifest. He manifests himself exactly to be the one that he is
not. So therefore, under his guise, he could certainly impersonate
Christ and represent Him, and fool every single person, but the elect.
And God said, “I’m going to send him to do it, and I’m going to
separate the make-believer and the unbeliever from the real believer.”
And there is only one exact [word unclear] way that you’ll identify
with God under those conditions: when you identify with the right
prophet, period.

	Is there a question mark in your minds? If you think you can do it
yourself, brother/sister, you’re lost tonight. You know what this
message is all about? why I bother preaching? why Bro. Branham came on
the scene? You better get converted to truth because you’ve got to
identify. And here’s how you identify: prophets! Now, how many people
are going to believe that? 

	“Well, you see, there aren’t any more prophets.” 

	Well, there’s no more devil either, then. Wonderful! Then, if
there’s no more devil, there’s no more God either, because who wants
that kind of God. 

14.	Now, listen:

(15)	Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers (who speak for him
who is the great false prophet) …be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

	Then it is no great thing at the end time if God sends Elijah and he
correctly, absolutely, is the minister of Light and Life to you and me
for Christ. Yes sir! God’s His Own prophet. Yeah, the Elijah of this
hour is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in the form of the Pillar of Fire,
the Holy Spirit, but It comes by a man. That man’s a prophet. Do you
understand what I’m saying? There has to be a complete manifestation
of Christ, then, but there’ll be a complete manifestation of
antichrist. 

	And It says there’s going to be those that rally around, but
remember; the prophet stands alone. These guys bunch together. They’re
a bevy, they’re a horde, they’re a swarm, they’re a flock... Call
it what you want. See? 

15.	Now, he warns the people. Paul says now... “Let’s go to the end
time. We go to 2 Thessalonians 2, and we read It: 

(1)	...we beseech you, brethren, by the (Presence) of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (Now how does He gather
the people? By the prophet, with the Word.)

(2)	That ye be not soon shaken in mind, (Where’s he going to hit you?
In the mind.) …neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter...from
us, as that the day of (the Lord) is at hand.

	Now, he’s telling you something right there: how it can happen. See?
Tells you. Now, watch:

(2)	(Don’t) be...soon shaken in mind...or...troubled…

	See? Don’t let a spirit let you, and don’t get a word get you or a
letter get in. Don’t let anybody ever tell you about that hour. Now,
let’s get this straight. 

16.	Let’s go to It again.

(1)	Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, ...our gathering together unto him... 

	Now, that’s the one of 1 Corinthians 15; this is the Parousia, the
Presence. That’s what I want you to notice something here. He said,
“I don’t want you shaken in mind, I don’t want you troubled, I
don’t want you to listen to any spirit or any word, or any letter,
concerning that day.” Why not? Because it’s under complete mystery
until Elijah comes.

	Now, why would they be troubled? Because they know these false ones
must appear, and the showdown is over the prophets and through the
prophets. So, he tells them: “Don’t you be previous, and don’t you
have a thought on it. You wait.” See? And now, that’s what we are
looking at tonight, at this end time. And these false prophets are here
to destroy the Bride.

17.	Now, this brings us to the question: since the Bible proves
categorically that, from the Garden of Eden, man always falls for the
false, how are the elect kept from idolatry? Well, we’ve been telling
you. They’re kept the way that God keeps them. 

	How can one identify with God and worship Him? The answer again is in
Deuteronomy—referred to It tonight already. It’s found in Dt 18:20.

(20)	But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name
of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

	Now, do you ever remember the story Bro. Branham told about the enemy
that appeared to Martin and said, “I’m your Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ?” I want to ask you a question. If the devil is subtle and
he’s going to betray everybody, deceive everybody but the very
elected, and these people are nominal Christians, they’re supposed to
be worshipping God, do you thing anybody’s going to come in the name
of Beelzebub, or Allah, or Mohammed? No! They’re not going to come
that way. So, how are they going to come? They’re going to come in the
name of the Lord, and they’re going to say “Hallelujah Jesus,
there’s only one way for sins forgiven, and that’s by the blood.” 

	Why? Because they are not stupid! They’re deceived, but they’re not
stupid. A deceived man is not necessarily a stupid man, and a stupid
man’s not necessarily a deceived man. Stupid is stupid, deceived is
deceived. Ignorant’s ignorant; deceived’s deceived. These are
deceived people, and you cannot tell a deceived person he is wrong.
That’s why they’re deceived. Their hallucinations are right.

18.	Now, they’re going to come, and they are going to come in the name
of the Lord. Now, if they came in the name of anybody else, you just,
well, get rid of that bird. He’s out. Now, what... How are you going
to figure this out?

(21)	And if thou say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the
LORD hath not spoken? (Or what’s the word he has spoken—doesn’t
matter what way you put it.) 

(22)	When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be
afraid of him.

	Now, you notice positively that way back in the time of Jeremiah, he
mentioned the captivity would be for seventy solid years. And you know
the prophets rose up, and they said, “Well, there’s no way; it’s
going to be just two years—Zedekiah [king] and his gang [Hananiah,
prophet] right there. So, what do you have? You have the little prophet
stand up, and he said, “No.” Michaiah said, “Nope, what I’m
going to do is stick with the prophet. I’ve got to stick with the
whole thing right down the line here.” Not Michaiah, forget his
name—another fellow’s name. 

	Now, he said, “Look here,” he said, “We’re going to stick with
the Word of the Lord, because that man was the vindicated prophet.”
Now, how could that man be a vindicated prophet? Because when he spoke
in the name of the Lord, the thing that he said came to pass. And this
is something, therefore, that when other people speak in the name of the
Lord, (We have all the Old Testament for it.) the thing could not come
to pass.

19.	Now, we see here what God has given us to go by, and since He’s
the God of the New Testament as well as the Old, He does not change. We
know this is Bible truth; it is Thus Saith the Holy Scripture. Now, what
is the problem, then, with Mt 24:24? The problem is this—not with us,
but others: The readers of Mt 24:24 all think they are true and everyone
else is false. Right! Ask the Catholics, “There’s no Protestant
truth.” Ask the Anglicans, “Those Baptists are nuts.” Ask the
Pentecostals, “Nobody’s got it but us.” Ask the Methodists,
“Hey, look; we’re there. Nobody else is.”

	You know what’s going to happen? It’s happening right through
Pentecost now. Everybody’s dealing in the miraculous, just like these
false prophets. So therefore, everyone will soon get together and bury
their differences. Then they’ll all be right.

20.	How can anybody... I say, how can anybody in organization accept Mt
24:24, when the reason he’s in organization is because he knows
that’s right? Well, they can’t accept it. They can’t accept Mt
24:24. Come on! They can not realize that they could be false, or are
false, and they fail to realize the answer lies in a true prophet. 

	They say, “Well, I don’t believe you. See, here’s the point, you
see, we’ve got the whole Bible.”

	That’s the great big fallacy of fundamentalism from Pentecost on down
to every single last one of them. They say, “Well, look here. We got
the whole Bible. We don’t need a prophet. We got the Holy Ghost,
He’ll lead us.”

	Well, how do you know you’ve got the Holy Ghost? What’s your test? 

	You say, “Why, I spoke in tongues.” 

	Well, the pope can speak in tongues, too, and say Hail Marys. Where
does that leave you? The Roman Catholics will tell you they wrote the
Bible. They’re a bunch of liars. They didn’t write the Bible. But
they don’t... They’ve lied for so long now, it’s just second
nature. You’re not going to get them telling the truth any more than
you can convert the devil. You’re not going to do it. And the Baptists
come along and they say they never were Protestants. They try to go back
to John the Baptist. You’re never going to convert a Baptist. He’s
finished. Organization is shot! 

	Do you think for one minute they’re going to believe Mt 24:24? No,
they can’t. Do you think they can believe in a prophet? They can’t.
So, don’t ask them to. When you say it the second time, go away and
leave them alone. Now, they can not realize that. 

	That answer is, as we’ve stated many times... The answer to Mt
24:24—which they turn down—is Mt 24:3: What shall the end-time sign
of Christ’s Presence be? Now, the answer is we’ve already stated it
to you: the first of the messages is that God comes on the scene as His
Own prophet. 

21.	Now, let’s take a look at that in the Scriptures. I’ve told you
many, many times that these theologians can not give you the answer.
Now, let’s look at it. Eph 1:17-20.

(17)	That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him:

(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know
what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints,

(19)	And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

(20)	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead…

	And you can tell right here that something is going to happen that sets
off the Resurrection, brings about the Rapture. Every theologian knows
that, if he knows anything. He knows that that is not verses 13 and 14.
That’s the baptism. He knows from Acts 19 that these people are full
of the Holy Ghost. Then, what is this? Now, let’s look at It again. 

(17)	That the God of our Lord Jesus..., the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

	It tells you right there, just before the Resurrection there is going
to be a knowledge of God that evidently has not been previous, or has
been lost. And the truth is, it was lost. It has to be because this is
what Paul was moaning about to the Corinthians. They weren’t virgins
anymore. Where? In their minds. See? That’s what you’re looking at.

22.	All right. Revelation 10. We’re looking at the same thought here. 

(1)	...I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, clothed
with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it
were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: (That’s a perfect
description of what came down [in Bro. Branham on the Ohio River)

(2)	And he had in his hand a little book open: and...his right foot upon
the sea, and his left...on the earth,

(3)	And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had
cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. (Now, that’s on earth at
the time this One comes down.)

(4)	And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to
write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those
things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. (So,
that’s something future, because this is the future.)

(5)	And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth
lifted up his hand to heaven,

(6)	And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven,
and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that
therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there
should be time no longer:

(7)	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath
declared to his servants the prophets.

	Now, just a second here. The mystery of God should be finished! All
right. So, something has been in progress. Okay. 

23.	Let’s go back to Ephesians 1. Paul prays: 

(16)	Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my
prayers;

(17)	That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him:

(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know
what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints (are),

(19)	And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

(20)	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead... 

	All right. What’s that? That’s immortality. So, evidently this
portion here which is immortality—which finishes the history of man,
that makes man eternal—is over here where time runs out and eternity
sets in. So, we’re looking for a visitation from God Himself at a
particular time.

24.	All right. What is that? That is Malachi 4. So, let’s go back and
take a look at Malachi 4. There’s no problem understanding Malachi 4. 

(1)	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, ...that do wickedly, shall be stubble...

	Now, what is God consistently crying against? Idolatry. And Paul says,
“...another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel.” Now, how far off
can you get to where you are wretched, miserable, blind, and don’t
know it, and instead say, “We’re rich, increased in goods, and
don’t lack a thing. Hallelujah, we’ve got it made”? And you’re
wiped out. You’re the Titanic. It’s been hit by an iceberg. You’re
gone. Your foolproof, death-proof ship is finished, and millions now
living will die. Yeah. In fact, put it down to where the truth is,
billions—six billion, of them.

(1)	…all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch. (Why does he say that? Because the day after
tomorrow is White Throne, Lake of Fire.)

(2)	But unto you that fear my name (So, the name has a great deal to do
with it.) shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings
(immortality); and ye shall go forth...as calves of the stall.

(3)	And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD
of hosts.

	Verse 5.

(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the LORD:

(6)	And he shall turn the heart(s) of...the (children back to the)
fathers lest I come and smite...with a curse. (As It says in Acts 3:
“utterly destroy.”)

	So we see, as Bro. Branham says, “God is His Own prophet. God proves
Himself to be His Own prophet.”

25.	Matthew 12:9-21.

(9)	And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:

(10)	And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they
asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they
might accuse him.

(11)	And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that
(left) one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he
not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

(12)	How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful
to do (good) on the sabbath days.

(13)	Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched
it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

(14)	Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, (that)
they might destroy him.

(15)	But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great
multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

(16)	And charged them that they should not make him known:

(17)	That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet,
saying,

(18)	Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul
is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew
judgment to the Gentiles.

	Did he do it then? Absolutely not. Everybody wants to takes this and
make this, “Well, that is when the Holy Spirit went to the
Gentiles.” 

	You’re wrong.

26.	(19)	He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his
voice in the streets.

(20)	A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not
quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

(21)	And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

	You notice, it’s a Name. It doesn’t say one thing about the Blood;
doesn’t say one thing about the Holy Ghost, per se. It’s the baptism
and all. What’s it talking about?

(21)	And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

	And William Branham came in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and
absolutely turned everything plumb around because God vindicated the
man. You don’t have to see anything, brother/sister. (You’ve) seen
all you need to see. 

	Now, It says here, positively, He’s going to show judgment to the
Gentiles. Absolutely, you saw it right here in that Cloud and so on. 

	He shall not strive nor cry. He didn’t. He did that in Jerusalem,
though. He lifted his voice in the streets. The bruised reed he broke;
the smoking flax he quenched. He doesn’t do it to the Gentiles; saved
the oil and the wine. Turn the hearts back to the father; that’s done
in this day. Who’s doing it? He is. The Spirit that was upon that man
comes back in this hour and vindicates Himself, proving that He is that
One. So, we notice that God proves Himself as His Own great prophet.

27.	Now, let’s keep reading from Matthew 12, and we read verses 31-37.

(31)	Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be
forgiven unto men: but (they that blaspheme) against the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven unto men.

(32)	And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be
forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall
not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to
come.

(33)	Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the
tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
(Now watch the fruits.)

(34)	O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?
(How can you bring the Scripture? How can you possibly teach It? How can
you be right?) for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

(35)	A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth
good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth
evil things.

(36)	But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

(37)	For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou
shalt be condemned.

	Now, an idle word is not something frivolous, my brother/sister. An
idle word has to do...keep it in context. Keep it in context. In other
words, an idle word is ‘you shooting your mouth off’—you know what
you’re talking about. How often have I had men come to me and deny
Bro. Branham over some silly, little thing. One man said, “Well, he
couldn’t be a prophet.” 

	I said, “why not?” “Because he told us to bow our heads and keep
our eyes closed so devils are cast out.” 

	Another man said, “Well, he couldn’t be a prophet. 

	I said, “Why not?” 

	He said, “Well, he calls children ‘kids’.” 

	I said, “So what?” I said, “Maybe it comes from the word
‘kidder’, you know, ‘kindergarten’.” What’s that got to do
with it? You wonder how people can be so ignorant spiritually. You know,
I can see why God vomits at the end time. I’m not God, and it
doesn’t take me long to vomit either, and I’ve got a very hard
stomach! 

28.	Now, in these verses here what I read, you are looking at the
understanding of the Presence in this hour. In other words, can people
recognize God and know that this is God? because that’s what this is
all about. Now, the key to this true, prophet Elijah and the true
revelation of God is Mt 16:31 to Mt 17:11, which brings out that Elijah
must come before the Millennium sets in, just before our hour of
glorification. And remember; manifested sons come in the Resurrection.
Then Elijah must come. He is necessary for this, and you can see why.

	All right. [End of side 1 of audio tape.] Because this is necessary,
there must be a true prophet of God or there can be no deceivers. How
could there be a counterfeit without the original? This is especially
necessary to separate the elect, or they would die, as It says in
Malachi: ‘Except that I send Elijah the prophet, I’d destroy them
all.’

29.	Now, let’s go again to 2 Thessalonians, this time to chapter 2,
and we’ll read beyond what we read before. We go to 2 Th 2:7-12.

(7)	For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
(hindereth) will let (hinder), until he be taken out of the way.

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

(9)	Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders, (Just what Deuteronomy 13 says.)

(10)	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. 

	Now, what’s going to save them? Truth. They say, “Well, I believe
Jesus.” 

	Do you? Then deny how he does it? See, that’s the thing what you’re
looking at. See, they simply can not see this; they won’t see it.

(11)	And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe (the) lie:

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

	And we know what unrighteousness is...who had their own form of
worship, and said, “That’s it!” So God says, “I’ll let them go
head-long into it. In fact, I’ll back them up. I’ll send men among
them who can perform miracles and signs and wonders and take them a
hundred percent off the Word, never to get back again.” And they will
blaspheme the Holy Ghost before it’s over. You watch and see.

30.	Now, watch. Verse 13:

(13)	But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God...from the beginning hath (elected) you
to salvation…

	Only the elect do not get deceived. God sees to it. It is the presence
of God and His prophet and the false prophets that bring on the
antichrist and the destruction. Now, let’s get this verse straight. If
God does not come on the scene and Elijah does not come on the scene,
there can be no false prophets to come on the scene, there can be no
antichrist and beast to come on the scene, and there can be no
destruction. That’s right.

	That’s how it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the days of
Sodom and Gomorrah: What do you except now? It’s just that simple.
See?

31.	For as God spoke in His man, or God speaks in His man, so Satan
speaks in his men. Now, God does not speak in men; God speaks in one
man. See? God in mercy saves His elect by separation, “Whose fan is in
his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his wheat
into the garner.” [Mt 3:12] Now, the fan is in his hand. Acts 3:19,
beginning in the middle:

(19)	…when the times of refreshing (the fan creating a breeze) ...from
the presence of (God)...

	See? That which can be seen. Right there. At the end time there will
be, as Bro. Branham calls this, “revival.” Now, listen. The great
revival which is a healing revival, which is a genuine revival for the
purpose of bringing a new Message...and what that healing revival does,
it makes some people look right to a prophet, and it makes all the rest
look right to themselves. And you’ve seen it.

	So, the fan clears the air, indicates and vindicates, draws the elect.
And the same breeze shoots the rest of them right into destruction,
because it’s the same God, brother/sister, that brings you and me into
glory in New Jerusalem that throws those into the Lake of Fire—not two
gods. And God doesn’t say, “Now devil, I hate to do this here, so
you’ll do it for me.” He chucks the devil in, too. You’re getting
a clean sweep.

32.	Now, we know who Elijah was, according to Elijah, the man—that’s
William Branham. He said, “Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself, but it comes by a prophet.” Now, what was he supposed
to do? To know this, recall what was said at the Ohio River on June 11,
1933.

	“As John the Baptist foreran the first coming of Christ, so your
message foreruns the second coming of Christ.”

	Then recall what he said in 1962 in Seattle. “This is my ministry, to
declare that He is here.”

	Now, years back when I worked with Bro. Branham—’58, to be
precise—some brethren had told me what the angel of God said at the
river was that ‘John the Baptist foreran, so you, William Branham,
will forerun the Second Coming.’ Some of us said, “Say, hey, that
was not what was told him. You said that wrong.” 

	Oh? Well, what did he really say? 

	Well, he said, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming, so your
ministry shall forerun the second,” so I began saying that. 

33.	So, one day Bro. Branham called me in Lima, ‘57. It was ‘57
rather than ‘58. He said, “Now Lee,” he said, “I want to inform
you,” he said, “you’re saying something wrong here.”

 	“Well,” I said “What’s that, Bro. Branham?”

	And he said, “It was neither me nor my ministry that foreruns.”
What he told me was, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming, so
your message foreruns…” 

34.	Now, you’re going to find right today people very close to Bro.
Branham, maybe right in the family almost, will tell you that ‘he’
foreruns. That is not true, although it is axiomatic—a man would be
there to give the message, but that’s not it. William Branham’s
presence does not do it, as a man. Only a Message is what does it. 

	Now, so Bro. Branham here said the angel told him, “Your message will
forerun.” And Bro. Branham said, “My ministry is to declare that He
is here.” So therefore, what is the Message, and what is the ministry
that’s identical? To tell the people He’s here! To unveil the mighty
God that is in our midst. So therefore, he must be the messenger of Rev
10:7, if indeed the mighty One that came down with the rainbow and
appeared on the river was Rev 10:1. 

	And of course, if the devil fooled us, then God’s not very smart and
very big, because this man could do exactly what the real prophet of God
was supposed to do. So then, you see, God’s a bigger deceiver than we
thought; He cuts His Own throat and everybody else’s. No, don’t be
fooled, brother/sisters. Don’t look the other way and get your ideas
all wrong.

35.	He must be the messenger of Rev 10:7. He must be the Elijah of Mal
4:5-6, or we will burn with the rest of them. He must have something to
do with 1 Th 4:16, because It says distinctly that that is not said to
be the voice of the One who descends. See? It’s not the voice of the
Lord. 

	So, I want to read to you what we read before.

[260] 	In the very day that the Son of man is revealed, Revelations
10:1-7, (I thought it was Luke 17. Sure it is.) The seventh angel’s
Message, opening up the Seals... What is it? Not the (messenger) is the
Son of man, but the messenger is revealing the Son of man. Can you get
it separated now? That’s where it seems to be so hard for you. You
see? Not the Son of man Himself, but the seventh angel, the seventh
messenger, is revealing to the public… (In other words, he’s
preaching and telling the people—revealing) the Son of man, because
it’s left the shuck. 

	Now, what has left the shuck? Life. So, all right. Nothing outside of
this Message will come to life, or the prophet lied. Now, if the prophet
lied, and he would be this fellow William Branham, he’d be a pretty
big trump card as far as signs and wonders go. Then let me say this: the
devil hasn’t fooled anybody, because we’re very, very tiny in
numbers. We are evidence of the biggest flop in Satan’s history. If
you can believe that, well, something’s entirely wrong. There’s no
way that that would work. See? 

36.	[260]	It’s left the shuck, (The life has left the shuck.)
...can’t organize it; (How can you organize life? How can you organize
what’s here?) it’s the Grain itself again. (Matthew 12. the same one
in the flesh is back here in the Spirit, doing it.) “And in that day
Jannes and Jambres will withstand—the anointed ones, make-believers,
and unbelievers, the church formal and...Pentecostals—stand up against
the true Grain. (deny the Lord) But let them alone; their folly will be
manifest as theirs was.” 

	[261] 	Revelation 10 said, “In the days of the sounding of the
seventh angel...” Now, remember, seventh, Laodicea Church Age, the
sounding of that angel, when that church age is done (it’s)
denominated, ...become a church… (See, history. Now:) …What was each
messenger? (Now, he’s going to bring you something here.) What was
Martin Luther? A rebuke to the Catholic. (Who) was Wesley? A rebuke
to… (Luther). What was the Pentecostal? Rebuke to the others.
Where’s the Life gone now? Away from (all) organization. No more
shuck, it’s Grain. (So, what is God rebuking now? Pentecost.
Pentecost.) What is it? A rebuke to the Pentecostal(s) to fulfill the
Scripture of this hour. See?

	The first rebuke that God gave the Pentecostals was an independent
Baptist preacher that didn’t believe in speaking in tongues as any
evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who believed in one God and
baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, came out, and
out-Pentecostalled all Pentecostals from 1906 to this hour, and from the
day of Jesus Christ to this hour. They couldn’t take it. And the
Pentecostals can’t take it, and they’re gone—complete, finished.
Nor can any organizational person be in the Bride. It’s utterly
impossible.

37.	[262]	 Notice the very day when this messenger, not when he
starts… but when he begins to declare his Message. 

	What’s the declaration? He is here. God’s His Own prophet. The
Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, not man, but it
comes by a man—a prophet.

[262]	…First Pull, healing; Second Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the
opening of the Word, the mysteries revealed. There’s no higher order
to reveal the Word than by prophets. But the only way the prophet can be
a-vindicated is by the Word. 

	Which means he’s got to be in here, and you’ve got to understand,
to see, from the Word that this is what it’s all about. And it won’t
be just the first time. It’ll have to be in continuity from Genesis to
Revelation, wherever it is. This prophet can not miscue.

38.	[262]	 And remember, the Third Pull was the opening of those Seven
Seals to reveal the hidden Truth that’s been sealed in the Word.
(That’s true. It was sealed in the Word. Nothing can get out and
nothing get in.) Do you see it? It is then, in that day when this thing
is to take place, that Jannes and Jambres, the impersonators, will
appear again, just like they did when Moses appeared with the original
Word to say It; they appear to impersonate It. 

	In other words, Moses came with the Word. He demonstrated he had the
authority, and they jumped right in behind him and did the same thing.
Now, listen to me. Anybody that could be fooled by Jannes and Jambres
today, in the light of fundamental belief in the Scriptures, would have
to be completely an idiot—spiritually speaking, an idiot. This is
merely an illustration. That is, these guys did it and didn’t fool
Israel one little bit, but they could fool the majority down there. At
the end time it’s going to be so close everybody gets fooled but the
very elected. There’s no way out. See? Understand what I’m saying?

	Look; just put you mind back there. Would you be fooled by those birds?
Not really. No! And yet you could be fooled by them. You see, I’m
telling you about two distinct camps, where the vines are way out.
One’s Israel; one’s Egypt. Now, we’re talking where the two are so
close, it’s a razor blade’s difference—hardly a razor blade in the
two spirits. So, let’s watch this carefully:

[262]	…they appear to impersonate It. Just exactly right. Now, you see
what Matthew 24:24 is all about? The anointed ones. 

39.	Now, Bro. Branham—and this was what the message was all about:
correctly placing a prophet.

[269] 	Now, I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this
tape, you might have thought today that I was trying to say that about
myself, being that I was packing this Message. (In other words, making
himself some great person.) I have no more to do with this Message than
nothing, no more than just a voice. And my voice, even against my better
judgment... I wanted to be a trapper. But (today—that was yesterday,
today) it’s the will of my Father that I declare to do, and am
determined to do. (What? To be the voice. To be the vindicated voice.) I
wasn’t the One that appeared down on the rive...

	Now, this is the Appearing. And at the time of the Appearing: Rev
10:1-7, Mal 4:4-6, 1 Th 4:16. Lk 17:20-30...the Appearing.

[269]	...I was only standing there when He appeared. I’m not the One
that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as
perfect as they are; I’m only one that’s near when He does it. (And
I am the one that is here, and they are all imitating me now.) I was
only a voice that He used to say it. (Now, there’s many voices out
there saying everything but what I’m saying.) It wasn’t what I knew;
(Here’s Paul the apostle speaking.) it’s what I just surrendered
myself to, and He spoke through. It isn’t I. It wasn’t the seventh
messenger, oh, no; it was a manifestation of the Son of man.

	Now, how did the Son of man manifest Himself and declare Himself?
Through the prophet. He used the prophet.

[269]	It wasn’t the messenger, his Message; it was the mystery that
God unfolded. (Seven Seals, Seven Thunders.) It’s not…man; it’s
God. 

	The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Who appeared
down at Abraham’s time? God in a man-form.

40.	[262]	The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from
the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ. He’s the One that you’re
feeding on. (Where was He? In the prophet.) You’re not feeding on a
man. His words will fail, but you’re feeding on the unfailing
Body-Word of the Son of man.

	That is in contradistinction of what the others have, because their
word is hybridized. And remember; when you make the Word of God a
tradition, it becomes of none effect. In other words, they’re going to
preach the Appearing, but until they preach it right, it has no power.
They’re going to preach the Rapture. Until they preach it right, it
has no power. They’re going to preach the Resurrection. Until they
preach it right, it’s got no power. Why? Because if it’s preached
wrong, it’s no longer the Word of God. For not one jot nor one tittle
will pass away. [Mt 5:18] 

41.	Now, that’s the thing we’re looking at, and that’s why people
think we’re haters and confusers, condemners—everything else. Look;
I’ve got no more to do with this than the prophet had to do with it. I
never asked God to come down, be witnessed by hundreds of people in a
whirling light like a rainbow. I never asked God to have His picture
taken. I never asked for this. I never asked Him for anything. And
neither did you. And neither did the prophet. And neither did Moses. And
neither did Abraham. And neither did Job. Neither did Isaac. Neither did
Paul. Paul wanted anything but what the man of Galilee had to offer.

	God in sovereignty did it. The same as He said concerning Jeremiah:
“Before you were formed in the womb I knew you.” You try to tell a
Pentecostal he’s foreknown in someplace, someplace else. You try to
tell them. They tell me of people right in this message, claim to
believe the Presence, everything else; deny predestination. My God have
pity. 

	“Poor God...poor God. Poor God. The devil’s got Him trapped and
buffaloed. You and I upset Him. You know, we just...” 

	That’s why we’ve got women preachers. They upset their husbands;
now we’re upsetting God.

42.	[269]	A man, his words will fail, (They sure will fail.) but
you’re feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. 

	In other words, you’re seeing exactly what this Word said here, what
God said is being fulfilled, and it’s being fulfilled through a man,
but God’s doing it. And God’s doing it in a man. And that’s a
whole lot different from the baptism with the Holy Ghost,
brother/sister, for the baptism with the Holy Ghost is given way to the
Baptizer Himself. Not that people can not be filled with the Holy Ghost.
I don’t believe that for one minute. But the real Holy Ghost baptism
is not what Pentecostals thought it was—not what you and I thought it
was.

43.	All right. So, here we’re looking at the picture. Now, you will
notice the humility of Bro. Branham statements in this, in the light of
Hebrews 1, as the apostle Paul wrote. 

(1)	God, who… (in many parts and in many ways) (spoke) in time past
unto the fathers (in) the prophets...

	“God in the prophets.” It is evident, by vindication and proof of
the Scripture, that this is the prophet of the exodus. Definitely, as
Acts 3 says, a Samuel type. Samuel never brought the Word, but he was a
judge who, by the Holy Ghost, being what he was, absolutely understood
the Word and could reveal It and could discern and, thereby, prove that
he was fully qualified to be the spokesman for God. This is the prophet
of the exodus, the Samuel type, a judge, who received the true
revelation of God and brought us to God and true worship, fully
delineating upon us or giving to us in this hour, 2 Corinthians 3:17:

(17)	Now the Lord is that Spirit: (And that is Matthew 12.) and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (There is jubilee. Time to
get out of bondage.)

(18)	But we all, with open face… (No more traditional veils of man’s
interpetation upon our face. And when the veils are cut away) beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord...

	Now, when you look in a glass, the person you see is yourself. So,
until you cut away the veils you can not see yourself. You can’t see
your self as a true manifested son of God; I can tell you that much. You
can not see the real you. You can see yourself as a denominational seed.


44.	You just hold your finger there one second. Go back to Ephesians
with me. At the time this Spirit comes and the veils are cut away
through the prophetic utterance: [Eph 1:18]

(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (Now, you are
looking with your eyes, right?) (and you all) know what is the hope of
his calling...

	You’re looking at it. Not something he hopes to have, but I’m
looking at what he was called to receive. You’re looking at it. 

	Well, you say, “Well, a lot of people say that.” 

	Don’t you understand everybody will say it? What do you think these
false prophets are for out there, kid? 

	“Oh, it says...all the denominations, “You’re false prophets; get
away!” 

	“Oh,” they say, “My foot, they’ll say that. They’ll say,
“Hallelujah, nice brother.” 

	You know that.

	Let the pope speak in tongues and say ‘Hail Marys’, they don’t
give two cracks about that. They’ve got Pentecost over a barrel on
that one, don’t they?

45.	(18)	…and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints...

	Now, that’s all right. When this is taken away, and until it’s
taken away, you cannot place yourself there in the Word. No, somebody
else has done it. Denominational brother, shake my hand, join my church,
say this, say that, do the other thing...and what happens? When you see
your placing and the glory of His inheritance, and you recognize it,
some of you cross-eyed, pigeon-toed, knocked-knee... You know, what’s
that old saying, ‘Teeth knocked out and jaws caved-in’? You don’t
look very good, do you? That doesn’t got a thing to do with it.

	Brother Branham kept talking about old, apostle Paul, one of the most
beautiful characters God ever had or ever will have: hook-nosed,
beady-eyed Jew; bow-legged, knock-kneed; runty, squinty. Why he’d a
sure been a sex symbol, a hunk, wouldn’t he? or a chunk, whatever you
call them. But he saw himself. 

46.	And It says: [2 Cor 3:18]

(18)	…are changed into the same image (What image? The image that’s
in the Word that you see now, which takes in the Appearing, the full
scope and you’re changed) from glory to glory...

	Which means you’ve come up all the way—the Spirit’s come up all
the way through the ages, and now you are ready—for what?
Glorification. That’s the last step of glorification. He’s here to
raise the dead. [2 Corinthians 4] 

(1)	Therefore seeing we have this ministry…

	What? To cut away the veils, the creeds, the dogmas. And Paul said,
‘We don’t faint, because we’ve got a part in It.’ That’s why
that man could be a day and night in the deep, beaten with
stripes—thirty-nine stripes five times—left for dead, fought in the
arena, finally beheaded, because he saw what he was to the people. And
that makes the difference in a ministry, brother/sister. And watch what
he said:

(2) 	...have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in
craftiness...

	Not walking like Jerry Falwell, who got the PTL (Pass the Loot),
non-charismatic. Now, unless he was miserably misquoted when that little
scandal broke, the very first week he said, “I’m going to pass it
back. I don’t want to head it up at all.” But the millions they’re
getting there, third biggest resort in America, and the time on TV,
twenty-four hours a day, wherever he wants it... Now he says he ain’t
going to give it back. That’s Falwell. Can’t trust a Baptist. But
you can’t trust a Pentecostal, Swaggart and his bunch. You can’t
trust Ankerberg, either. 

	Ever seen his picture? Makes me puke. He’s got kind of a white hair
like an albino—comes down like this here. If I wanted Jesus Christ as
my Savior, I wouldn’t look at him. I can tell you that. 

	You say, “Don’t look at outward appearance.” 

	What am I supposed to look at, kid? Don’t try to make me a jerk.
Yeah. 

	Look at their haircuts. Look at the way they do things: handling the
Word deceitfully, not walking in craftiness. Let them manifest some
truth. I’d like to see it. The prophet did; Paul did. What’s the
matter with these birds? You and I, brother/sister, don’t have that
obligation.

47.	The man that God sends did have it, and he fulfilled it. And only
through him can you find exactly what you want to see, which is the true
Christ and your identification with Him, because that’s what it’s
all about. Now, where are you identifying? with the false crew, or the
prophet of God? Well, I think the answer is obvious. We’re doing our
best to identify with the prophet. Not that our defense of him makes us
one with him, but our faith does. Yeah. 

	Just “Pile Word upon Word,” as the prophet said. You get fuller and
fuller of the Life that’s in the Word. And remember; he said, “When
you receive the Word of God, you become the Word of God in your
flesh.” Now, that was speaking in the highest order of the prophet,
but it comes watered down and trickled down to you and me. It becomes
part of your life and my life.

48.	We’re not here in vain, brother/sister. Oh, there’s a lull going
on right now. This is the time when people can fall away. This is the
time when they’ll fuss about what a little tiny gift I’ve got and
want to throw it under the floor and deny the Presence. Sure. I want to
tell you something, brother/sister. You hang on to this revelation
because there’s where the truth is. I’ve not sold you down a river
nor up a river. But I can tell you I know certain things, and I won’t
take... Nobody will get them out of me. There’s no way. They can’t
do it. I don’t care what happens in the sense, what can happen?
God’s over all.

	And the Word is there, and the Life is there. Not that I had It, but he
had It. And God did It. He said, “Behold, I will do It,” and He’s
done It. And you know every time God does something, how many catch on?

49.	Well, listen. Let me give you a little closing illustration, then
we’re going to go home. Daniel, the great prophet of God, was called
on the scene at Belshazzar’s feast because the Hand was writing on the
wall, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN, and nobody could read it. And the
queen remembered that there was a great man who could do something
great, and said, “Bring him in.” And he read the writing, and he
told them exactly what was the truth.

	He said, “Your kingdom is ripped from your hands. It’s gone.”
See? “You’re being taken over. There’s nothing left.” Judgment. 

	And the king acted as though he still owned it all. “Why,” he said,
“make that man the third ruler.” 

	What was he going to rule? There’s nothing there to rule. It’s
gone. What was he talking about? It’s finished! But he went right on.
And so are these people going right on, my brother/sister. And so are we
going right on. Yes, we are going right on. 

50.	And you know it as well as I do that something is happening all the
time. Nearer, still nearer, close to thy heart, (Yeah.) being pulled
closer and closer, away from the storm that’s beginning to beat now,
hidden in the pavilion that God has set for us, (That’s right.) to get
us out of here. As the prophet said, tender your hearts up. Let that oil
begin to lubricate all the old, you know, hard places in our
lives—mellow right down in the presence of the Lord—because He is
here.

	And realize this: we wouldn’t see either, except we were meant to
see. But he said when you see these things, lift up your heads and
rejoice. And this set it in motion: [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of
the Cloud.] 1963, I believe, February 28, 1963 [as shown in the Life
magazine, May 17, 1963 issue]

	You say, “Brother Vayle, that’s almost twenty-five solid years
ago.” 

	God waited a hundred and twenty in Noah’s day. He won’t wait that
long, brother/sister. But if he waits until all of us that are over
fifty years old here pass off the scene, don’t you worry one little
bit about it because it’s going to see it take place very shortly. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You again for Your love and kindness to us,
that we could come together to study Your Word, Lord, to see the things
that are written therein to add a little word here, a little word there,
a little insight here, a little insight there, Lord, to repeat those
things that are good to hear again, to just give them a deeper impact
upon our lives...just give us a little more life, a little more
fluidity, and above all, to take away a little more if there’s
anything left of the creeds and the dogmas of man or a wrong
interpretation, to begin to see that glory, that inheritance, of Christ
in the Word, to see ourselves identified with You by the way that You do
identify, and then know that we’ve passed from death unto life, and we
are entering now to the gates of the City, just getting ready for
eternity to take over entirely. 

	Father, we know that’s true, and as the prophet said, and I could
never forget what he said, Lord, and he said, “Lord, if we’re not
Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God we
won’t stand in her way.”

	This much we know, some... It’s going on. That great One has
descended; the Shout has come. It’s doing what It’s supposed to do,
setting Your Church, Your Bride, in order. There will be a Resurrection;
there will be a Rapture. There will be a Wedding Supper. There will be a
Millennium. There will be the White Throne. There will be the
dissolution of all things. There will be a re-creation. There will be a
new heaven, a new earth, and the New Jerusalem. And there’ll be Your
people. 

	And You, Lord, will be there with the Lamb on the throne and the Pillar
of Fire above the throne. The lamb will lie down with the wolf. It will
be just one great glorious kingdom. And God shall be All-in-all, and
glorified as such. And we will come to our full destiny, to see the hand
of God move continuously, world without end.

	Now, Father, may this Message which we heard from the prophet, he said,
“Take it for your healing.” We are taking it for our healing. We
don’t need to have prayer lines, Lord. We don’t need to lay hands on
the sick, although that is fine. We don’t need to preach special
messages. We saw that this is ours. It proved it. The vindicated prophet
proved the whole Word lay before us, proved the full atonement, proved
the whole price paid. And Father, we receive It tonight.

	And I thank You, therefore, for the strength which will cause us to be
better and better, until Lord, that sweet Spirit amongst us is greater
and greater and everyone is healed, marching right into the Millennium.

	Now, unto Thee we shall ascribe the honor and the glory. In Jesus’
Name we pray. Amen.

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”