Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed # 21

‘Going Back to Eden’

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   November 5, 1986 

	…again we approach Thy throne of grace in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, our representative and our representation. Father, we thank You
for this privilege we can come to You for us, for that in every time of
need and this time of need, Lord, is that You will be with us in the
study of your Word. That Your Word may come forth as You’d have it
come forth according to Your understanding of how You gave it, Lord, and
what it’s meant to be to us. So help us tonight, Lord, as we study
together. And may Your Word, Lord, which we know this mechanical Word
can be a conduit for the Holy Spirit, be perfectly right and true, one
with that Spirit, Lord, in understanding so the Spirit of God may flow
through It, and in and through us from our souls to our spirit to our
very lives, Lord, being therein living epistles read and known of all
men. Help us to this end, Lord, because we desire this sincerely
actually above anything else. This is our heart’s desire. Help us to
see it accomplished. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now, of course, this is I think we’re on number 21 of Christ is the
Mystery of God Revealed, and we came to the section wherein Bro. Branham
is dealing with restoration back to Eden. And, of course, he – as we
saw on page 62 and reading about 64 – he elaborated a little on the
Garden of Eden, setting forth Christ the Tree of Life in that Garden.
And let’s just look at that again, bring up some thoughts. 

[62-2]	Now remember, He is that Tree of Life contrary to the serpent’s
seed. You see? He’s that Seed, the woman’s Seed, the Tree of Life in
the garden.

2.	Now let’s just go back a minute here to the Book of Genesis and
study what Bro. Branham is saying because he’s quoting from, actually
he’s taking from chapter 2 and in verse 8 and 9, and then verse 17.

(8)	And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put
the man whom he had formed.

(9)	And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; …

	Now that covers the portion wherein you have the trees are good for
food. And man, of course, then at this particular point, is a
[fruitarian] not much of a vegetarian, although vegetarianism is all
right but he’s living on fruit, and of course, that could be, embrace
the fact of nuts also being available. God put it there. It was good to
look at. It was good to eat. Then you notice it departs from that and
goes into symbology and he doesn’t say that these two trees are coming
out of the ground whatsoever, but he says:

(9)	…the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
(the) knowledge of good and evil. (Then it says in verse 16:)

(16) 	And the LORD commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat:

(17)	But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it: for in the day (in the eating) thereof (dying) thou (doest)
surely die.

	And, of course, we know death set in in the first one thousand years,
and no man lived to be a thousand years old. 

3.	Now you notice in here that it says, “Out of the ground the Lord
God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for
food.” So if this tree over here is not good for food, if you eat it,
it’ll kill you, it didn’t come out of the ground nor was it a
transplant into the ground. You have to recognize that, period. All
right. 

	The Tree of Life was also there. Now Bro. Branham categorically says
this and he said, “He was that Tree of Life.” So let’s make a
little further study then and we go to the point where we look at this
one tree and it says it’s a Tree of Life and the other it says is the
tree of knowledge of good and evil and that throws you for a loop
because you don’t get the direct impact. The direct impact comes in
verse 17 if you read it right. For in the…it’s the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil and if you eat of it, it brings forth death.
So let me change the reading of the 9th verse. [Genesis 2:]

(9)	…the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
(death)…

	That’s exactly what it is. It’s the Tree of Life and the tree of
death. And Bro. Branham says that this One, the Tree of Life is the only
one that you can eat of and live forever. So we’re looking at two
particular things here: a Tree of Life and a tree of death. 

4.	Now we go back again to the Book of Ezekiel, the 28th chapter, and we
read there concerning Satan and he’s placed distinctly in the Garden
of Eden. Now, this is in symbol that the king of Tyre and he is
representative of Satan because this is a world empire and recognized as
the head at that time. And remember, Satan admitted to Christ that he
owned it all. And he said, “If you come fall down and worship me,
I’ll give you all the kingdoms of the world.” And we saw last week
in the two services, Saturday and Sunday, how that Eden represented
God’s government on earth and God’s headquarters, according to Bro.
Branham, in Satan’s eden. Okay, we’re reading. 

(12)	Son of man, take up a lamentation (against) the king of Tyrus, and
say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

(13) 	Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; (There again we notice
that Eden is not a garden of man; it’s the garden of God and man was
allowed in there.) every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius,
topaz, the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, the jasper, the sapphire, the
emerald, the carbuncle, and gold: (and) the workmanship of thy tabrets
and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.


	Now you’ll notice right there that’s almost identical to the ephod
or the breastplate of the high priest who led in worship to God and
literally was the one that was accepted by God for the people.

(14) 	Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. (Now he’s upon the holy mountain.
That’s symbolical again of the power and majesty of Almighty God and
the kingdom of God.)

(15)	Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee.

(16)	By the multitude of thy merchandise (thou hast) filled the midst of
thee with violence, …

5.	Now that tells you right there that all commerce and all the things
that are in the world today are of Satan. It is strange but true, and
sadly true, that the hippies and the yuppies, I guess not the yuppies,
but the flower children and everybody else wanted to find something way
back in yesteryear where they can live upon the soil and knit their own
little garments and have natural childbirth and this natural and natural
and be farmers. That’s exactly what God wanted as farmers. But
you’ll notice that science and materialism and all of these things are
of the devil. Now building our houses and vineyards and things is not of
the devil. Those are of God but when you start getting all these other
things in there, as Bro. Branham said, “You won’t see an automobile
or you won’t see an airplane in the Millennium.” 

	And remember, this fellow Agopian, he really thought he was Jesus. He
was a very handsome man, wore a beard and a long flowing garment and
I’ve seen him on different occasions. And he could read people’s
minds and he really believed, he thought he was the Lord Jesus Christ
incarnate. And I went to visit him one time and he was very afraid of
me. Well, he might have been because I could snoop out these guys that
are pretty fallacious, you know. And so, anyway I finally put him at
ease and we began talking. And he let me know the Millennium was going
to be full of like a great big plastic bubble and you could... it’s
going to be like a great big hothouse. Fap! And you go into a phone
booth and you can dial a number and you’d be transported.
[Congregation laughs.] So much for Agopian. Sounds like hogwash,
doesn’t it? Hogwash Agopian. The man was completely deluded to the
devil. [Ezekiel 28:]

(16) 	By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and will destroy thee, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

	Now you’ll notice in here, he says, “By the multitude of thy
merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence” –
that’s his kingdom –  “and thou hast sinned.” That’s why God
says He’s going to destroy those that destroy the earth and He’s
going to bring it back to a natural place. All right. We established the
fact then here that Satan was in Eden. That’s what he was and he was
the anointed cherub that covers. 

6.	So we go back to, let me see. Let’s go back to, what do I want.
Exodus 25, I guess, is where we learn about the cherubims. Here in verse
18 to 25, talking about the mercy seat and above the mercy seat.

(18) 	….thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt
thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 

(19)	And one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other
end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends
thereof.

(20) 	And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one
to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 

(21)	And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the
ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. 

(22)	And there I will meet with thee, (See, that’s on the mercy seat
between the two cherubims.) and meet with thee, and commune with thee
from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon
the ark of the testimony, (and so on.)

	Now you’ll notice that God told Moses to make everything,
“according to the pattern which I showed thee in the mountain”
because Paul later on says in the Book of Hebrews, that everything is a
type and a pattern of what was in heaven for the heavens themselves are
purified, not with the blood of bulls and goats but the thing which is
perfect which is the blood of Jesus Christ. 

	So here what we’re looking at is what all students understand to
believe that Satan was there with Jesus and Bro. Branham said was
Michael. He was a mighty archangel. Evidently he might have been in the
form, he was perhaps even superior to Michael at that time, a superior
form. He was in the form of a cherubim. And there were the two that were
designated to lead in the worship of Almighty God and they were the ones
then who were given evidently the authority and wisdom in order to take
communication from God to the people or whatever communication God
wanted. Now you see what happened to one; one then became full of sin by
lying. That’s where sin… the death comes from is sin. And iniquity
was found in him at the time that he was at the height of this perfect
wisdom which he had from Almighty God but he got lifted up by pride and
then Satan, by reason of pride, he fell. So, we can see here that Satan
actually was the tree of death in the Garden of Eden. 

7.	Now let’s look at the Tree of Life. To look at the Tree of Life we
go to Isaiah 53. And we’re going to see something here that Bro.
Branham taught us, perhaps a little indirectly, and yet he struck this
very hard.

(1)	Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD 
revealed?

	Now you will notice in here, “Who hath believed our report?” So
there’s got to be the believing of a report which evidently is a
revelation. And we read that – oh keep your finger there – and
you’ll notice we read that over in the Book of Acts, the 13th chapter,
when it says here, verse 40:

(40)	Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken in the
prophets;

(41)	Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: (Now you despisers
will wonder and you will perish) for I work a work in your days, a work
which (you) shall in no wise believe, though a man (explain) it unto
you. 

	So therefore, there is an explanation coming forth here. Now watch why
they don’t believe. [Isaiah 53]

(2)	For (this tree) shall grow up before (God) as a... root out of a dry
ground: he (will have) no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see
him, there 	is no beauty that we should desire him.

	Now you’ll notice the trees in the Garden that came out of the ground
were beautiful to look at, and they were good to eat, but it doesn’t
say one thing about the two trees concerning what they look like. So
from the Scripture, you’re going to find out that one was beautiful
and one was literally ugly; the two trees in contradistinction. Death is
anything but nice. I mean, life is anything but nice; it is literally
ugly in the face of what death presents. 

8.	Now if you don’t believe that just hold your finger there and go
back to Ezekiel again. So read it, want to make sure that just know what
we’re talking about because we don’t just want to slide this over
and you think you heard a voice and you didn’t hear it. [Ezekiel 28]

(12)	…Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

	Now it wasn’t good to eat. It was death to eat it but it was
beautiful. Now you know over here in the Book of Revelation 18, I think
it is. If it isn’t we’ll just try to quote it to you off the cuff.
Now, in Revelation 18:

(1)	And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven,
having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

(2)	And he cried mightily with a (mighty) voice, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold
of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean bird.

(3)	(And) all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with
her,

	Now what was the deed that Eve did in the Garden? Fornication. See? In
other words, it speaks of idolatry. Eve got into idolatry. Now you’ll
notice.. and I can’t get this verse right here. It’s one of these
chapters right in here where John looked at her and he wondered. And
Bro. Branham mentioned that that wondering was at her beauty. And
that’s exactly what we’re thinking of here, this woman drunk and
this mystery Babylon, comes straight from the Garden of Eden under the
power of Satan. 

9.	Now, let’s keep reading. [Isaiah 53]

(2)	…there is no beauty that we should desire him.

(3)	He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised,
and we esteemed him not.

(4)	Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

(5)	But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.

(6)	All we like sheep have gone astray; (and so on)…

	Now with that I want to read over here in the Revelation 13:8.

(8)	And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,…

	Now this is talking of the beast. This is Satan having come down in
Revelation 12, and is now incarnated himself the same as he incarnated
himself in Judas in order to betray Christ. So therefore, Satan could
not betray Adam and Eve unless he was in a form whereby he could betray
them. And Christ had to be some kind of a form which was anything but
appetizing spiritually speaking. And we’ll look at this just a second.
All right. 

(7)	And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and (give) power (and so on. Verse 8:) 

(8)	And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are
not 	written in the book of the life of the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. (Isaiah 53)

	So you see, the Tree of Life was nothing to look upon. It was nothing
that people could admire. That’s exactly why Bro. Branham says, “Eve
was betrayed by reasoning and betrayed by wisdom because Satan himself
betrayed himself by his wisdom.” He came to a certain place and he
couldn’t go any further. And that’s…his own son was the same way.
He couldn’t take blood. He couldn’t take the slaying of a lamb,
where you take the lamb and the bleeding lamb, the little lamb knows
he’s going to die because he’s being held down. The lamb doesn’t
want to be held down and no animal wants to be held down. So he grabbed
it to kill it. And, of course, Cain saw it defecate all over and urinate
all over Cain and the blood gush out, just like birth is not a clean and
nice thing. You wonder why in the world would anybody have any children
born with the mess it carries on. 

10.	The sacrifice was the same way. And so whatever was in that garden
pertaining to Christ the Tree of Life was anything but looked to be
wholesome and appetizing and desirable and smart in anyway. It looked
anything but, because that’s what it says here. [Isaiah 53]

(5)	But he was wounded for our transgressions, (oppressed and afflicted,
he opened not his mouth)

(8)	He was taken from prison and from judgment: …cut off out of the
land of the living: …

	And all of this was done way back there in the very Garden. So the one
standing there, as you’ll notice, in the full form of redemption could
not be taken by Eve or Adam. He can just stand there waiting because
there was no reason for redemption at that time. So therefore, they took
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then it opened the door
where this One could say concerning the future, who was crucified before
the foundation of the world or from the foundation of the world, that He
would then come back in another unappetizing form which would be the
fullness of all the prophecy and the Word of God concerning Him which
then would bring redemption. 

11.	Now, He wasn’t believed back there in that form and you understand
He will never believe…be believed in any form by the people who are
under the thralldom of nature. And that happens to be even every single
child of God that’s born again unless God comes to him and grants him
repentance which is the change of mind which God has to do based upon
the foreknowledge of God that he’s going to be a believer and is a
believer. That could never happen to him. So this is what we’re
looking at here in this particular portion of Word that the message that
Bro. Branham has brought to us, that He is that Tree of Life and when He
came on earth… Well let’s read first of all.

[62-2]	And (if he be that tree)…and (if he) be that Word then, the
Word of God which Eve turned down in the Garden of Eden,…

	Now. You’re not just looking at the Word that Eve turned down, which
was a command of Almighty God, but it’s a matter of turning down the
Logos. See? Turned Him down, called a tree. Now, what did she take? She
took the serpent and he was the most beautiful creature on earth. He was
the subtlest. He was the smartest. He looked almost exactly like a man
but, face it, he was black. 

	Now that has nothing to do with the black race. You say, “How do you
know?” Because Bro. Branham categorically said so. Who did he say it
to? He said it to me and other different ones; we got more than one
witness. But he’s like a giant, very handsome. He knew all the tricks
of the trade. And that’s where the giants came from. And the tricks of
the trade, of course, was his seduction. And let’s face it, he
manipulated the woman sexually; that’s what he actually did. And she
fell for it; she wanted that. 

12.	And the Tree of Life…the Tree of Life to her was her husband
working in coordination with her to the Tree of Life which was the head
of the husband because actually she was a tree also to the man. You
know, even fruits cross-pollinate. There’s hardly any that doesn’t.
So you got your typology there anyway. You can’t carry or can’t take
it any further than this because I’m not too great on types. I can
take it as far as I can go. 

	Now, and He was the only one that could have given that life. Now
remember, He stood there although they couldn’t reach Him, the promise
lasted at that time close to one thousand years because the oldest man
that died was Methuselah, at nine hundred and sixty-nine years of age.
And Adam was what, nine hundred and thirty or so. They lived a good old
age but they all died there. And they looked forward by the shedding of
the blood of the Lamb to the Tree of Life which would come in a human
form which would be Logos, the... God Himself and His plan which is what
it is, come into a form wherein God could manifest Himself to bring
about a redemption.

[62-2]	And when He came on earth, He was the Tree of Life. (And of
course, they cut down that tree.)

13.	Now, Bro. Branham mentions that God intended to bring forth a Bride
tree, which Eve was a Bride tree to Adam in that Garden because she
bears fruit, she was a tree and she stood there. Now, and God according
to Bro. Branham, “God is going to restore the Bride tree and the Tree
of Life back in the Garden as one as they were in the beginning but even
greater than was in the beginning and at this time He’s making it
known.” Now I think with that thought in mind is why Bro. Branham says
here, considering that the Bride is a Tree of Life, he said: 

[63-1]	The Church is the Blood of Christ by the Spirit, because the Life
is in the Blood. 

	So what he’s saying here then, that the church…that the Bride
because the life of God is in her and the life is always in the blood,
she is then a carrier by reason of the fact that she is that body that
the Lord is producing that life in. So therefore, he says, this is the
tree of…she is… that the Bride is a Bride tree and she is in her own
way a tree of life at this particular time. Now he says: 

[63-1]	(This life that’s in the Bride constituting her as the carrier,
which she is, that) that’s the baptism (with) the Holy Ghost that
baptizes us into His Body, that recognizes only His Body, His flesh
(and) His Word. Denominations won’t ever touch that;…

	Now, there is no place here where anyone has the idea or should have
the idea that because the church is the blood of Jesus Christ, that
coming into the church would ever do anything for her or that sinner. No
way shape and form because denominations cannot do this. This again is a
matter of symbols, a matter of type. But nevertheless, she is the body. 

14.	Now, the baptism with the Holy Ghost baptizes us into this Body. In
other words, the Holy Ghost Himself places us as a part of Himself by
giving a portion of His life to us as it was in the day of Pentecost.
And the picture is very simple if you remember that the Pillar of Fire
came back, God came back in the form of the Pillar of Fire and that
Pillar of Fire dropped little licks of fire on each person. And that
little lick of fire went into each person but that did not diminish the
Fire itself and that did not exhaust the Fire itself. So therefore, it
was as it were, men getting lighted by plucking a brand from the burning
and lighting themselves with it. Now that’s a farfetched illustration
but it’s a good enough illustration. It’s not doctrine. So each one
has a little portion of that life and you know that life is like the sun
radiating; it never diminishes. Unless God makes that sun to cease it
would never diminish because God’s maintaining that sun. He’d have
to take His hand off it. 

15.	Now it says here that this baptism of the Holy Ghost, Christ in you
the hope of glory – that’s what it is, that little portion there,
not Christ Himself. Let’s get this straight. The Token of this hour is
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and if anybody tells me he’s got the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself, I say you’ve got to get your head examined
spiritually because you’re a phony. You got a little measure of His
life. The closest anybody can come is the prophet and the prophet only
has the Lord Jesus Christ periodically, like Moses. He was God to the
people when the Pillar of Fire was in him. As Bro. Branham said, “I
can feel Him rising up inside of me.” I forget which…that’s how I
got the thing copied off at home. But anyway, we see here that the Giver
Himself is given of Himself. That’s the truth. The Giver has given of
Himself. As the Scripture says, “God has given us of His Spirit.” He
didn’t say he gave us His Spirit, period. But He gave us of His
Spirit. Now:

[63-1]	 that (One) recognizes only His Body, His flesh, His Word.

16.	So therefore, the Bride in every age will have to recognize His
Body. And Bro. Branham said, “Recognizing the Body of Christ – in
Discerning His Body – the major mark of your being a discerner of the
Body would be to recognize the messenger that God has sent for that
hour,” which in this case is to recognize the prophet and God in the
prophet and God identifying Himself in the prophet by the works which
God Himself is doing in and through the prophet. And here’s what he
says:

[71-1]	…My church has nothing to do with it. It’s an individual,…
(Now what’s he talking about?) 

[70-4]	The pregnated person with the Seed of God, the Word in there
manifesting Itself, so surrendered to the will of God that the Word and
the Word alone manifests Itself and this person, (to the) prisoner, to
an individual. 

[71-1]	…My church has nothing to do with it. It’s an individual, one
person. All hell is against this teaching. All hell’s against this
Truth, but it is the Truth. 

	So hell’s against two things. It’s against God and His prophet and
it’s against the Presence of God. Like I’ve said God, prophet;
prophet, God; God, prophet; prophet, God. Then God in the prophet. Now
nobody wants that because that sets apart an individual; that’s your
Tree of Life hated and going down the drain. Now they’ll take a pope.
If ever there’s a messed up, glommed up individual it’s the pope and
his prostitute sisters, the Protestants, their presidents and leaders
and bishops. Yeah. How can any educated person have a thing to do with
that religion when they know by their records that are extant, they
killed millions and millions of people? “Get out of her, my people.”
Why do they love Protestantism? Because it’s the same filth! I will
not be associated with them. No way, shape and form. If you’ve got
some association you haven’t given up, all your old thinking, that’s
what wrong if you people sitting here and can’t follow this message.
You’re still blind with your creeds and dogmas. The veil is still upon
your hearts and minds. You’ve got to get rid of them! You got to hate
what God hates and love what God loves; then you’re a prisoner to
God’s Word and you’ll get somewhere. Until that time you can’t.
Certainly that’s the truth. See? 

17.	She recognizes His body, His flesh. What is the flesh of this hour?
He that says Jesus is not come in the flesh is antichrist, John saying
that. This always has to do with the prophetic. Now, if she can’t
recognize the prophet, then she can’t recognize this Word. In other
words, she cannot recognize Logos manifesting Himself in the channels
whereby God has ordained that this be so. And it comes up always…it
raises the anger of the people and they cannot take the Tree of Life
except through a revelation because it’s not pretty. It’s anything
but good because it comes against everything. It just stands right there
for God to have His way.

[63-1]	Denominations won’t ever touch that; it’s a revelation. 

	See? Just like Elijah must come. “Give it to the Jews.” 

	“Oh, sure he’s going to come but it’s going to come this way.”

	 And it comes its own way, proves it’s its own way, vindicated by God
because it’s got to be vindicated it’s God’s way. 

	“Oh,” they say, “that’s not God’s way.” 

	“Oh,” they said, “look, for heaven’s sake realize there’s
been this going on for years and years and years.” 

	Those same spiritual idiots that tell you they’re looking for the
coming of Christ and the Appearing. They don’t even know what the
Appearing is. And that’s been going on for what? Hundreds and hundreds
of years. See? 

18.	Religion is a matter of convenience. It’s very inconvenient to
believe this, especially serpent seed. See?

[63-1]	Denominations won’t ever touch it; it’s a revelation. She
knows it. So did Eve know it, but she fell; but this one knows it and
won’t fall. (See?) She’s ordained! (Notice, the exclusivity of the
people to receive the exclusive revelation both of which are foreknown,
elected and predestinated. See? Now,) she’s ordained! (What? Not to
fall.) She’s ordained to not fall. She won’t fail. She’s
predestinated to it. 

	See? In other words, Bro. Branham said, “Little Bride, you’re the
perfectly virtuous sinless Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ because the
blood scattered the sin.” And you see, if she’s carrying the blood,
then there’s nobody else carrying that blood. She is the blood. No one
else can fall in the category. 

	You can say, “Where is the blood?” I don’t care where you put the
blood. All this business of the blood is on or off the mercy seat
doesn’t faze me one little bit. I got no problem with that. I’m not
going to argue anything anymore. I got no time for it. What’s now?
When the Lamb’s climbed upon the throne when the last of the 144,000
is in, and the temple is filled with smoke, you can talk about the blood
and no blood then, I don’t care. Talk about anything you want. 

19.	My attitude is this, which is the Word of God: you can talk blood
all you want. If you turn down the life, there’s no blood. Why? For
the simple reason life comes out of the blood and if you haven’t got
the life which brings light then you haven’t got the blood. So why
fuss about it? You’re shot anyway. Just something for people to mess
up. Even in this message they mess up. 

	They try to make Revelation 19 William Branham. The more these
preachers get together the more they’re going to hash over a bunch of
nonsense and corruption. I’m about ready to just take, in spite of the
good equipment I got you, just take every tape and say, “Forget it.”
If you want to hear what I got to say, come here and listen or forget
it. It’s just about got that bad. They’re not listening anyway. Bro.
Branham categorically said, “That was Christ and the Bride coming
back.” You don’t see the Bride again till the 19th chapter and the
4th chapter she’s gone out. So they’ve got to bring up every hogwash
under God’s heaven. 

	Another guy preached the Resurrection is over. This bird out here,
Starzach, wrote out something. He said, “The Parousia people believe
the Resurrection’s over.” He’s a liar. He has never heard a tape
or talked to me one minute. The Resurrection is not over! Starzach(?)
won’t have any stars in his crown, I can tell you that, being a liar.
I got a controversy with these guys. They don’t stay with the Word of
God. They got no intention of staying with the Word of God because they
don’t know the Word of God. And they’re never going to know it the
way they’re going. 

	This one is not going to fall. See? Why? Because the token in her
recognizes the Token. You got ears that hear everything wrong the
prophet said, you got eyes to see everything wrong? Don’t tell me
that’s the token. No way, shape and form. That’s why you shouldn’t
worry though. Bro. Branham said they wouldn’t receive it anyway. They
wouldn’t receive him. They wouldn’t receive me. So that takes care
of that. But I got a right to stand up and be counted for the sake of
the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope anyway. 

20.	Now Bro. Branham said:

[63-1]	(The reason this Bride’s not going to fall is because)
“Blessed is the man (to whom the Lord) will not impute sin.” You
ministers know what I’m speaking of…a couple dozen of you sitting
here. …”Blessed is the man who (the Lord) will not impute sin.”

	All right, where does he say that? That’s in the Book of [Romans] 4.
Let’s go and see what Bro. Branham is quoting from. It’s not enough
to just know where it is; let’s talk about it to get the picture.

(1)	What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the
flesh, hath found?

(2)	…if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but
not before God.

(3)	For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, (and it was the
believing that) was counted unto him for righteousness. 

	It wasn’t what he did. That wouldn’t have done it. He had to have
faith in what he did. How many people got faith even in taking
communion? What it really stands for? And foot washing and these things?
How many people got… Well, just that’s how it works. 

(4)	Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of
debt.

(5)	But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted (to him) for righteousness.

(6)	Even as David (describes) the blessedness of the man, unto whom God
imputeth righteousness without works,

(7)	Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered.

(8)	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 

	It tells you how He won’t impute sin because God takes care of it.
How? The righteousness which is of faith by believing. That’s why Bro.
Branham could… That’s why Jesus said, Bro. Branham also said, “If
you can’t believe what I’m saying, believe the works until something
begins to grow in you and you begin to realize, ‘Hey, that man’s got
to be telling the truth and I better get my thinking in line.’” Eve
never got her thinking in line. Now:

[63-2]	Notice, redeeming back (redeeming, going back) with him, going
back home to Eternal Life in a human body, eating, drinking, living
forever. 

21.	That’s exactly what we’re looking for. Now, that is what they
could not have in the Garden which was Christ the Seventh Seal. He’s
all Seven Seals. Bro. Branham said, “Christ is the Seals.” Bro.
Branham said, “Christ is the doctrine.” So therefore, the Seals, in
revealing Christ, reveal the doctrine. Now we can’t understand it all;
we don’t have to understand it all but the picture is this:
revelation, preeminence, back to Eden. So God has a prophet with a
revelation which God gives him as ...?... Then this prophet becomes a
bondservant of God, giving Him the preeminence. Then this gives the
Bride the revelation. That’s what you’re looking at. That’s what
the gates of hell are against. 

	The gates of hell were against that back in the days of Adam and Eve.
It was against it in the time of Abel and Cain. It was against it in the
time of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth. Why, didn’t they destroy both
John and Jesus? Do you think at this time then they’re going not to do
the same thing? But this time they crucify to themselves and destroy to
themselves by disbelief, unbelief, both Elijah and Christ. See? 

22.	Now we’re going back to this place under where the Seventh Seal
was where God began creating His masterpiece. First of all, the
masterpiece in identifying Himself as He did through the Logos process
and bringing up a Bride identified with Him. In fact, her identification
is He. She doesn’t have any of her own. Everybody else wants an
identification. That’s a big thing today. 

	Women: “We want to be identified.” So what does a woman do? Up in
Canada, that nut Clark up there: he never should have got into office
but his wife wouldn’t even take his name. She couldn’t be Mrs.
Clark. People think they’re Mrs. Jesus. They’re Mrs. Devil is what
they really are. But it’s a sign of the times. Women want their
independence, independence, independence. Don’t they know Eve was
independent of Adam the day she talked to the devil and got carried
away? The more she seeks independence apart from God’s ordained
structure, the more she’s going to be in bondage and that’s in
bondage to the male because God constituted him the head. You look at
what’s going on; you’ll understand what I’m saying. 

23.	You know women aren’t going to smarten up because the church
won’t smarten up. Women type the church. Now the sisters here,
they’re smart because they’re in Christ. But you look out there on
the street and see what you got; prostitutes, infidelity. For the first
time, more women are leaving husbands and children than men. Imagine.
Women that bear children. The Bible says, “The father pitieth the
child.” [Ps 103:13] It doesn’t say the woman does; it says the
father does. Now you’re getting a picture right here where man
didn’t even want it but man’s got it. Man of his own…without his
own accord wanting it, has got more on the ball than the woman has now
concerning children. You talk about a mess but it’s supposed to be
that way. 

	It’s getting there’s more and more but the woman…the woman is
surrendering more and more of her rights to the male in every single
hand. She’s more and more in bondage. And that’s what the church is.
She’s more and more bondage to the devil. She can’t move without the
devil. She’s moving right back into the thing she came out of. She’s
been doing, she’s going to do it more and more and more. You can see
Satan’s eden; you can see God’s Eden. You can see where one is
going, the other’s going. You say, “I’m going to bring it right
down to hell.” And they’re doing it; it’s being done today. See? 

24.	But going back, they’re going to build houses, inhabit them, plant
vineyards and eat the fruit. Now that’s what they started where the
opening of God’s program took place in humanity and the Seven Seals
has nothing more nor less than to do with God’s program in humanity.
And what God closed off there then becomes seeping out a little at a
time until we saw Christ and then from that on until we see Him one more
time in the flesh. And that’s all under the Seven Seals which brings
us to immortality. Because immortality escaped them at that time and
immortality comes under the Seventh Seal. Time runs out. According to
the Bible, time runs out in the Book of Genesis: “Lest they stretch
forth their hands and eat and live forever.” There was a time element.
In there, immortality had to come. It was God’s plan but they
weren’t to live in that state. So now redemption’s taken place. So
the Seventh Seal was there and closed off to us, all seven. Now we got
it all back. 

[63-2]	What is it? (To go back to eating and drinking. Not marrying and
giving in marriage and raising children, no.) His Bride going back with
Him, redeemed back to the original Adam and Eve again. …sin is left
behind. They looked (behind) at the cross and see (that) the death (has)
been paid. And now by faith we are resurrected with Him, (That’s
spiritual resurrection because it’s a ‘now’ message. We’re in a
spiritual resurrection.) sitting in heavenly places right now, looking
back to what redeemed us, waiting for the Husband to come, (and that’s
the Trump) to march on home with Him.

25.	That’s when He descends and we meet Him in the air. What came down
was God Himself, manifesting Himself. Now we’re waiting for the
vessel, the body. When the Spirit that’s in our midst becomes
incarnate to us we’ll crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords.
We’ll have the Wedding Supper and come on back. The Bridal Supper is
Christ coming the second time mortal or immortal, physical. Then He
comes back on earth. I don’t know what people think. They’re mixed
up; we’re not mixed up. See, they got to lie about us because you see
they don’t want us to be right. If there’s a truth, there’s always
got to be a lie. You got to understand that.

[63-3]	Threefold purpose of God manifested in Adam and Eve, (Notice,
threefold purpose of God manifested – that’s the Edenic life – in
Adam and Eve,) and every prophet, and down through the ages, and He that
is to come: He that was, He which is, and He which is to come, the whole
manifestation, the revelation of the Word of God. (It’s all Seven
Seals.) Adam and Eve going back home again redeemed: God making Himself
known.

26.	Sure. That’s Eph 1:17. Now we all know what that is. That’s the
Spirit coming into the Church. Now, this is why Paul spoke as he did in
1 Corinthians 15:12-19.

(12)	Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some
among you there is no resurrection of the dead? 

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

(14)	And if Christ be not risen, then our preaching (is) vain, and your
faith is also vain. (Now, he’s talking about Resurrection; the
materiality of the Resurrection.)

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

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

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

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


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

	And he tells you right there that the whole thrust of his message is a
Resurrection that puts us back in Eden. So the whole thrust of Bro.
Branham’s message is this is the hour that Paul spoke of, the Bride
getting ready to go back. And he’s speaking of a living Bride going
back. Now by faith we are resurrected with Him, or we’re going back. 

[63-3]	God making Himself known. (Now listen: at the end time, you’ll
notice,)

[63-4]	There He’ll sit upon the Throne of David. Is that right? And
rule all nations with a rod of iron. (Now the ruling of the rod of iron
absolutely is when He comes back with destruction, and that is the King
David of righteousness and He’ll rule. He’ll take the devil and
throw him in the pit and destroy all these people that destroyed the
earth.) …all nations with a rod of iron. There’ll be a tree on each
side,…

27.	Now then he’s going to New Jerusalem. He runs them together
showing us that time and eternity has blended under the Seventh Seal,
and therefore, everything that we have…they have looked forward to the
future, Abraham being the type, the patriarchs, looking for a city which
hath foundations, coming back here on this earth which we possess by
virtue of the title deed that God promised to us – it’s in His hand,
and can’t take it until a certain day – all looking forward to that,
is now in its mature and last stages because all it takes is
immortality. Because that’s what it said in the Garden: “Lest he
stretch forth his hand and live forever.” 

 I don’t know why people can’t understand English. Well, I do know
why; they’re blind. 

[63-4]	…He’ll sit upon the Throne of David. …(and there’s going
to be a tree on each side of the river, roots on both sides, the nations
come in,) …these leaves will be for the healing of the nations. (Keep
peace, you see.) The kings shall bring their honor into it. (That’s
New Jerusalem.) There’ll be nothing can defile or anything ever enter
in.

28.	Now. Remember, Satan was allowed to enter the first heaven. He was
allowed to enter the heaven on earth in the Garden of Eden. But he
won’t be allowed into this because he’ll be conveniently burned up.
He’ll be destroyed. People don’t believe in annihilation. Ha, you
talk about claptrap and balderdash. They say, “There’s no such thing
as God ever… Anything can be finally destroyed, it goes back to a
gas.” Well, all right, let all you go back to a gas. Where are you?
Ha. Go back to the original building blocks. Where are you? People you
know, pseudo science, pseudo intellectual, pseudo… Well, it was okay
for their day, folk, but we’re way beyond. We’re not proud of it;
we’re just, we’re beyond it. They don’t see things we see.
They’ll never… They can’t understand. There’s no way they’ll
understand it. There’s no way the theologians who are great
theologians and great men of God in the days gone by can understand what
I understand. There’s no way they can understand it. 

	There’s no book written, there’s no book can be written on what
we’re hearing today based on what the prophet taught us. Look at the
books and find out for yourself. Don’t listen somebody lie to you on a
telephone conversation or look you in the eye and lie like the devil
because he’s part of the devil. Get the books yourself and read them.
Do you want to ask the smartest man of the works here? Ask Ungeren.
He’s read all the books and far more than I’ve read. He’ll tell
you it’s not in those books. Go to your Bible schools; find out
what’s in the books. They don’t even know themselves what’s in the
books, just little old black book. They’ll stand there and look at you
knowing jolly well that they’re lying to you. Honest Pentecostal
people have known for countless years that the baptism with the Holy
Ghost was not speaking in tongues but they can’t turn from that, you
see. They’ve got to lie more and more about it. Sure, I’ve been all
through that. Look it, I came up in Pentecost. Came up in a…come up
out of the water and out of the water. Come up from the water, out of
the water. Come up from the whore and get out of the whore. 

[63-4]	There’ll be nothing that can defile (the devil can’t get
there)… And Mount Zion will have a Light on her all day and (all)
night, and the Redeemed shall walk in that Light! …hallelujah!

[63-5]	To think it’s not (some) mythical story; it’s not some
theological conception; it’s a revelation of Jesus Christ by His Word,
which is outshining and been true in all ages! And it’s true in this
age! (What is true in this age? The revelation we’re going home to the
land beyond the river. Col 3:4: When Christ who is our life shall appear
and we shall appear with Him.) It’s true…now. It’s true with me.
It’s true with you, and every man and woman that holds this
revelation. (That holds what revelation? The revelation that this is the
hour of the Appearing of Christ, Malachi 4. That’s Christ in the
prophet, Christ in the prophet, or God in the prophet, whatever way you
want to put it. In other words, it’s the Shout.)

[64-1]	And see, God Himself making Himself known and pulsating Him
through the Life that you’re a prisoner to Him now. You are His love
prisoner. The world can laugh, make fun and say, “Come on out.” You
could go, but you’re a prisoner. The other women can act Hollywood,
but not you; you’re a prisoner. …See, you’re a prisoner to Christ.
Other men can smoke and drink and carry on if they want to and call
themselves Christians, deacons, and even preachers, but not you;
you’re a prisoner, (you’re) a prisoner to the Word. Yes, sir… (All
right.)

[64-2]	Making His mystery known to His Bride Tree, redeemed by Christ,
the second Adam; going back home to be restored back to the original
Eden; free from death, sickness, (and) sorrow, (and) shame; going back
(to the Tree) with Eternal Life. …

29.	All right. Now he says in here, which we read, in the first part,
you can understand when he says, “It’s true with me, it’s true
with you, and every man that holds this revelation.” Now what is this
revelation? He said, “It’s the Shout.” How does this revelation
come? 

[64-1]	…God…making Himself known and pulsating…through the Life
that you’re a prisoner to Him now. You are His love prisoner. 

	It doesn’t come to a group; it comes to an individual. The group only
gets what comes to the individual. Now speaking of himself and speaking
of us indirectly you could go but you’re a prisoner. Now he’s
talking to the church, women, because this types the church. 

[64-1]	…The other women (outside they) can act Hollywood, but not you;
you’re a prisoner. 

	See, because the Word says don’t do that. Now, concerning this
revelation which you are a prisoner to, the prophet and the Bride are
both prisoners in their own way, as it was with Jesus and His apostles.
Jesus came to do the will of God and that’s all He could do because he
was the perfect prisoner to Almighty God. It was because he was a
special creation. And the prophet is a very special person. He’s not
like you and me. 

	You can say, “Well, I’d like to have a life like William
Branham.” You and I could never have a life like William Branham.
It’s impossible. You can’t do it. There’s too much goes with it
because when you’re stuck in a tube like he’s stuck in a tube and a
prophet’s stuck in a tube and you and I are not stuck in any tube.
There’s something else goes with it that doesn’t go with just you
and me. In our own way we are prisoners. And he said, “The apostles
said, ‘Live or die, sink or swim, this is it.’” Did Jesus Christ
say, “Live or die, sink or swim, this is it”? No way, shape and
form. He said, “This is it.” And He said, “I’m going to die.”
And it was no swimming; it was sinking till God raised him. Now you and,
I that’s different. Now you and me, that’s different. We can say,
“Live or die, sink or swim.” We believe what the prophet said. 

[64-2]	Making His mystery known to His Bride Tree, redeemed by Christ,
the second Adam; going back home to be restored back to the original
Eden; (And we’re doing it now based on what we have.)

[64-3]	You say, “We made converts to Christianity by His
government.” 

30.	Now he’s going back to what he said previously when he interjected
all of this, that you don’t get…you don’t get to become one of the
Bride by government, which means some certain process. There’s no way
that you and I can be inducted into some church or some body or
something through some process of man, even though the Bride is the
blood of Christ and she carries the seed so-to-speak, and all of these
things. Every member is placed in there by Christ and that alone.

[64-3]	That’s not it. (by government) “Well, they’re not supposed
to drink; they’re not supposed to lie.”

Do you know the Mohammedans can outshine (you)... Do you know the
heathen in Africa, those black men...  …they got laws among their
tribe that’ll outshine anything you can produce in Christianity.

[64-4]	…I went to that tribe of Shangai there. If a young girl isn’t
married by a certain age, she has to leave the tribe, take off her
tribal paint. She goes into the city; she’s just a roustabout.
…Before she’s married, she has to be tested for her virginity. If
she be found guilty of committing adultery with some man, …she has to
tell who it is, and they’re both killed together.

…they can…outshine…these so-called Christians... What if you did
that in so-called Christianity? Ninety-nine percent of them would die
before daylight (if you tested them for their virginity. That’s a
fact. Bro. Branham said, “If you killed everyone that got in sexual
sins,” he said, “you wouldn’t have enough living left to bury the
dead.” That’s why God just blasts them at the end time, just burn
them up.) (That’s right….), both men and women. (That’s right. Now
look it, I’m not going to say to anybody, “You committed sexual
sins; you’re going to hell.” That’s not the truth. It’s just, it
shouldn’t have been done.)…

[65-1]	…You say, “Well, I’m pure.” (“How pure are you?” he
says.)

“Whosoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed
adultery with her in his heart already.” Now, what about that? What
about you, sister, …presented yourself to that man…? You’re just
as guilty as if you did it.

31.	Now here’s the thing I want to ask you, a question about this one.
How many of us got that kind of a spirit on him that the prophet had? He
realized what was out there in the world to be looked upon. I think
there’s one quote he made something along this order. He said,
“There’s enough flesh hanging out there to make any red-blooded son
of God go crazy.” He also said in another place, which we do know he
said, and I’m quoting it more correctly perhaps, is that he said, “A
brother,” he said, “a godly brother will turn his head away.” Now
this is a message that Bro. Branham preaches which is a message to
repent. And only godly sorrow can bring about repentance, and only godly
sorrow for what people know is going on and cry and sigh against sin
will ever have this in their heart where that they realize this is truly
wrong and they want to get away from it.

[65-2]	“Oh, but it’s all right.” Pastor’s afraid to say
(anything different)… why? His denominational headquarters will kick
him out if he gets straight on that (on this one here.) 

	Why, I remember years ago when I was just preaching way back in Canada,
about twenty-two years of age, about twenty-two, that we used to have a
good old Bro. Nunn. His name was Doctor... Brother… he was almost,
well he came out of Moody Bible, he came out of Chicago. Bro. Rev. Nunn
was a very outstanding lovely Christian man of God. We had good
fellowship. The next person that followed him was a modern Baptist. Him
and his wife would go cycling down the road, she with shorts on and, you
know, looking like somebody out of Hollywood or West Palm Beach, and
everybody looked in horror. But it wasn’t long till the whole church
figured well, that was a pretty good deal if the preacher’s wife does
it. Now you just realize how many people that preacher’s wife and him
have led into adultery. What will it be like on judgment day? 

	You see, a lot of people don’t realize that what you do goes plumb
around the world eternally. One person even said this in economics,
“If one person anywhere in the world gets a raise in pay, any standard
of living whatsoever it is, will be felt around the whole world even if
minutely and infinitesimally where people cannot count it.” Even
economics knows that law. I’m quoting from economics. I’m not
quoting something out of my head, I figured out. Then what about this?
See? 

32.	Now.

[65-2]	His denominational headquarters would kick him out… They’re
hybrid. They don’t take the Word. The Word said that’s true. (In
other words, you got to cover yourself.) Jesus said that it is true, and
He’s the Head. 

	That’s He’s the Head of the body. And remember this: the body does
not speak for the Head. The Head speaks for the body but indirectly the
body will speak for the Head by what thoughts are in your head by the
actions that you and I take. But for the Word of God, the body does not
speak for the Head. The church does not have a say so; it is the Head
that has the say so. That’s why when we realize Headship has returned,
then how important that truly is. 

33.	Now, this next paragraph is concerning William Branham, so watch it.

[65-3]	…notice now, God making Himself known. …We’re not suppose
to make converts to Christianity by a government, but by…revelation of
Christ in you as God was in Christ. (Now hold it. Now God is not in any
of us here as He was in Christ, no way, shape and form. Minitureized,
yes. If He’s in us, each one of us, as He was in Christ everyone of us
then would be this. Then what’s he talking about? He’s talking about
himself. Now let’s keep reading.) As God was in Christ, Christ (is) in
you. …What God did in Christ, Christ does in you. What signs did God
in Christ, Christ does in you. 

	Is that a fact? I’d like to see it done. Then every one of us would
be Elijah vindicated by God’s ministry. He’s not talking about you
and me. He’s talking about the Token Himself, God Himself. “I am not
the Son of man, the Pillar of Fire is not the Son of man, it’s in the
form of the Holy Spirit.” Here is God in a man doing those very works;
that is the Son of man ministry that is the Son of man revealed and the
prophet revealed Him. You and I don’t do it. 

[65-4]	Jesus said at that day (that’s this day) – at that day (when
this revelation is made known) you will know that I am in the Father,
and the Father in Me, (and) I in you, and you in Me. (When the
revelation is made manifest,) (What’s made manifest? It’s
interpreted by bringing it to pass. That’s the hour of Elijah.) at
that day, you will know that I and the Father are One. I’m in the
Father, and the Father in Me. Then when the revelation comes forth, then
it’s I in you and you in Me.”

34.	And when we receive it... he that receives whomsoever I send
receives Me. So you got the trickle down, trickle down economics.
Everything today is typed, symbolical. That’s this hour. That’s the
invisible union. God in the prophet. God in the prophet, the Word and
the Word in the prophet was the conduit of the Holy Ghost of the measure
of the hour. There was a measure of God in Luther. There was a measure
of God in Wesley, a measure of God in Pentecost but the great measure is
now because we’re to fullness. It’s all you can say because this is
it. Then when the revelation comes forth then it’s I in you and you in
Me. Now it’s trickle down to the Bride, invisible union.

[65-4]	There you are. See the manifold threefold... What for? To bring
it back. …(Adam and Eve were one through the Tree of Life there. Now
you got the Tree of Life back, immortality within our grasp. We can
stretch forth our hands.) 

[65-5]	As Jesus was the Word of God, He vindicated the same. 

	The same what? The same as this. Then He returned back today in the
form of the Holy Ghost. God has given us His Son in the form of the Holy
Ghost. Listen! These phrases I’m using are strange to you; they’re
very strange to me. Just keep using them until they take hold. You’re
no longer using your old phraseology: “Oh, God wouldn’t indwell a
prophet. You mean God?” Yes, I mean God. I mean Himself. I mean the
distinct possibility. 

	I believe the Scripture, “God was in the prophets,” was in various
measures, that is per manifestation and per Word, but when you return to
Headship the whole plan comes into focus and you don’t have to repeat
Luther, Wesley, Pentecost. That’s…you don’t. You go on to the
greater glory, a glory that never fades because all those people died
but this glory is going to be in a Bride that’s going to take on
immortality. 

[65-5] As Jesus was the Word of God, He vindicated the same. If He
wasn’t the Word, He wouldn’t have made manifest the Word. 

	If He had been some great theologian, just talked about it, say,
“Hey, look at this. Isn’t this great?” See? 

35.	Jesus is the great prophet in the Garden, proved His Word right off
the bat. He said, “In the day that you eat this you’ll die,” and
they died. Isn’t that a terrible way to have a prophecy fulfilled?
I’d sooner have a prophecy fulfilled you’ll never die. I’d sooner
have the hour, say, “Hey, you’re one of those that’s gonna
live.” You know, there’s a word in the Bible, “I shall not die but
live.” It’s written for this hour. All Scripture has compound
meanings. David could say that. He was screaming out in the Holy Ghost
for the end time. See? Bro. Branham typed it all the way through. 

[65-5]	…He’d have been some great theologian. (Just talked about
it.) That would’ve been the real Messiah the world was looking for.
See? Yes, sir. That would’ve been He. That’s what they’re looking
for today: some (theologian) – some –  somebody (that) can exceed
Billy Graham, or somebody (they) can smother down with their
organization, come up and show (the) Baptists they know where they’re
standing. Sure. They’re looking for that. …But the Church is looking
for the humility and the signs of the living God, Christ. (The Church is
like Israel. They wanted the Word fulfilled according to their
interpretation, what they wanted, not what God wanted. See, what is
humility? Humility is agreeing with God. Humility is John 4, the lady at
the well. It’s low-key, making the dominant figure Christ.)

[65-6]	Jesus wasn’t a great theologian. He was a common peasant, a
carpenter’s Son (so-called). See? He walked around, and…He said,
“Some of you show Me what the Bible says that I will do that I
haven’t manifested.” 

	See? Now, perfect has come so it has to prove itself out that this is
the Word of God for the last day. Now let’s go back here where it
says, “Some of you show Me what the Bible says that I (was supposed
to) do that I haven’t manifested.” Okay. 

36.	Let’s go back to Jn 5:39 because I want to show you something here
that’s making the New Testament, the gospels for our day all over
again because He’s got to come to the Israel the same as He came
to…He’s got to come to the Gentiles the same as He came to Israel.
Okay. Let’s read 5:39.

(39)	Search the scriptures; for in them (you) think (you) have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me.

(40)	And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

(42)	But I know you, that (you) have not the love of God in you. (Yet
you see that’s the same thing today.)

(43)	I am come in my Father’s name, and (you’ll not) receive me…
another come in his own name, (you) will receive (him). 

	See? All right now, what is this couched in? What is this taken from?
Let’s start reading in verse 16.

(16)	And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him,
because he had done these things on the sabbath day. (See, He broke
their tradition. He didn’t break any tradition; He did what was right.
If you can heal somebody on the sabbath day, heal the person on the
sabbath day.)

(17)	…Jesus answered… My Father worketh hiterto, and I work. (He
said, I work…he said, “My Father worked up till now. Now I’m doing
the work,” with the idea that the work of the Father was suspended and
committed to Him, which it was.)

(18)	Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only
had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making
(him) God. 

37.	And that’s true. Now there’s the thing right there you see that
you got to watch. If Jesus is literally from the loins of God, which he
is, and literally the Son of God then there’s an equality there.
There’s where Oneness people cannot understand what Bro. Branham
preached and the Trinity can’t understand, and the people that hear
Bro. Branham can’t understand. They can’t put it together. They
think that if I’ve preached the way I preached, I’ve got two gods. I
haven’t got two gods. But I’m going to tell you, if you can’t
worship Jesus for what he did, there’s something wrong somewhere. You
better start thinking. God’s an object of worship. Elohim said to
Adoni. The Lord said to my lord.

(19)	Then…Jesus (answered) and said…, (Truly, truly,) I say unto
you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do:
for what things soever he doeth, these also (do) the Son (Bro. Branham
said that was by vision.)

(20)	For the Father loveth the Son, and shewth him all things…(he)
doeth: (That’s right.) and he will shew him greater works than these,
that ye may marvel.

(21)	For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so
the Son (quickens) whom he will. (Now that’s a great work that’s
going to happen. And it did happen when he came back from the dead
because people saw Abraham and different ones.) [John 5]

(22)	(But) the Father…For the Father judgeth no man, but hath
committed all judgment unto the Son: 

(23)	That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father.
	(Even) he that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father 
which…sent him.

(24)	Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believe on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come
into conedemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 

(25)	Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear
shall live.

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

(27)	And hath given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the
Son of man.

(28)	Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that
are in the graves shall hear his voice,

(29)	And (they) shall come forth; …that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation.

(30)	I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father (that) sent me.

(31)	If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

(32)	There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the
witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

(33)	(You) sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

(34)	But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that
ye might be saved.

(35)	He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.

(36)	(For) I have (a) greater witness than that of John: for the works
which the Father hath given me to finish, the works that I do, (shall)
bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

(37)	And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of
me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
(That’s true; only a prophet could do that.)

(38)	…(you) have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
him (you) believe not. (Now listen, here’s the whole reason I read
this.)

(39)	Search the scriptures; for in them (you) think (you) have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me.

	This, the whole context of searching the Scripture to see who He was,
was in the light of the hour of the Resurrection. The same thing today.
John the Baptist, Jesus, Resurrection; William Branham, Jesus in the
form of the Holy Spirit, Resurrection. Going right back to Eden. Right?
You see what we’re talking about? Okay, that’s what that’s all
about. He is the sole judge of the Scripture and He alone can tell us
what it is. That’s what a prophet is all about.

[66-1]	So the Church can do the same thing today. 

38.	Oh, can it? I want to see the church do it. Why does Bro. Branham
say that then, later on, say, “Show me a church that’s doing it?”
Is he calling us all to be prophets? Is he telling us we better get
together when he told us not to get together? See, you just can’t just
listen to his sermons just like you’re out there in the cow pasture.
You can’t do it. You’re not in denominations anymore. You better
listen. Jn 14:12 was singular, not plural. 

[66-1]	So the Church can do the same thing today. What Christ did, so
does the Church…now. “(And) that day you’ll know…I am in the
Father and the Father’s in Me, I in you and you in Me.” See? There
you go. Marching on to Zion. To where? the Kingdom. “At that day, you
will know that I’m in you.” 

	That’s Pentecostal hogwash right there if you’re going to take that
for the church. There’s your false teachers, your false prophets. This
is the Shout. This is the vindication of the Shout. This is the day of
the true return ministry. Not someone looking down the road. We got
people in this message looking down the road; they want a return
ministry. What for? How many ministers do you need? If he’s going to
come back, there’s only one thing he can do and that is bring Word. We
already know his ministry unless there’s some great big thing attached
that I don’t know anything about. He wants to do something that’s
fine by me but I can tell you flat, I’m not looking for anything more.
The church has seen its last sign as far as I’m concerned. 

39.	Listen. Luke 17:30.

(30)	Even thus it (shall) be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
(Rapture, Shout, singular! Lk 17:20)

(20)	…the Pharisees (demanded), when the kingdom of God should come,
…and (he) said, The kingdom of God cometh not with
observation:(“Well,” he said, “why you won’t even know.”)

(21)	Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there!... 

	It’ll be right under their noses. Point here, point there. “Oh
it’s back here. It’s over there. It’s going to come, come,
come.” Forget it; it’s right in front of you. Now that’s the case
right there. Say, “Well, I don’t know that I like that.” Well, who
cares what you like? Eden was the government of God, kingdom of God
right on earth, and the devil stood there, Logos stood there, Adam and
Eve stood there. You say, “Well, I don’t think I like that.” Well,
the Bible said you wouldn’t. …?... pinned you right down. You’re
not going to like that at all. You want your own ideas. The kingdom of
God is not within you. No, it’s in the midst of you. 

(22)	And he said…, The days will come, when (you) shall desire to see
one of the days of the Son of man, (you) shall not see it. (They won’t
see it; no way. They couldn’t.)

(23)	And (they’ll) say…, See here; or, see there: (Don’t go after
and follow them. What’s it going to be like? The days will be like
this.)

(24)	For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under
heaven, (shines) unto the other part…(the sun rising in the East and
going to the West,) so shall the Son of man be in his day. (I already
thought he had his day. No, the day that is to come again. But now
listen!)

(25)	But first (he’ll be rejected and) suffer many things, of this
generation. (Now what generation will he be in then that sees this?)

(26)	…as it was in the days of (Noah), (that’s the generation) so
shall it be in the days of the Son of man. (Repeat for the Gentiles
because Noah was a Gentile. He’s no Jew. He’s the common breed that
predates Abraham. Noah was the last true human being.)

(27)	They (ate), they drank, they married wives, they (gave) in
marriage, …the flood came, …

(28)	…the days of Lot; (He wasn’t a Jew either. Abraham was a
Hebrew, of course.) …they bought, they sold, …

(30)	…thus shall it be...

 	At that time in that generation, there’ll be a repeat. A repeat of
what? Resurrection hour. The Son of man doing in human flesh what he did
back there because the prophet is the living Word of God manifested in
human flesh. In this hour it is Christ in Elijah and Bro. Branham
categorically said, “The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself.” Not a man, God but it will come by a man, a prophet. Now:

[66-2]	...watch here. …(this is) beautiful... I…want you to (not)
miss this. …everybody, and you people on tape, out in the jungles and
wherever you hear it, now listen. “And as the Father has sent Me, so
send I you,” Jesus said. See? Now, watch, the Father that sent Him
went in Him to vindicate Himself right, for He was the Word. And the
same Jesus that sends you, (Ha! Go ahead and run with it like the
Pentecostals do.) goes with you and in you to vindicate the same God.
(Is he talking about you and me? No dice. Is he talking about all of us
together? No dice. That’s an individual, that’s the prophet,
that’s Elijah.) “As the Father has sent Me (and I live by the
Father), so I’ll send you, and you live by Me.” What is He? He’s
the Word. You live by the Word. (Now we can do that, too, but only if
the Word’s vindicated and we get it from somebody.) Oh, how I would
like to take a text on that and preach (maybe) a couple of
hours…(Okay.)

40. Let’s just take a little peak at Galatians 2:20.

(20)	I (have been) crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not
I, but Christ (lives) in me: and the life (that) I now live in the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself
for me.

	Do you think everybody can say that? It’s nice to think you can say
it and to a degree you can say it. Okay. 

[66-3]	(Now) notice. …the “Father that sent Me” went with Him. The
Father that sends – the Jesus that sends us…in...(Then he quits. He
might as well said “in us”, because he said it up here.)  “A
little while and the world won’t see Me any more, yet ye shall see Me,
for I (personal pronoun, ‘I ‘the Person, Jesus) will be with you,
even in you to the end of the world. (Coming right up to what? Headship
into full manifestation.) The works that I do shall you do also.” Now,
go back and see what He did; then see what you do, …then compare
yourself.

	Now is that a challenge to you and me? Well, if it is, I’m not
biting. Because the same prophet said, everybody doesn’t heal the
sick. Everybody doesn’t have a ministry for the sick. And what I used
to do back there in praying for the sick, why did he take it from me and
make me go back to teaching which I’m a teacher? Because I’m not an
evangelist. I don’t have to come with any healing ministry. If you
don’t know by now what you’re hearing, you need some proof or
something, it’s just too bad. You’re out of luck. We’re all out of
luck. No use even celebrating Thanksgiving; nothing to be thankful for.

[66-3]	Now, go back and see what He did; then see what you do, …then
compare yourself.

41.	Now that’s not a snide remark. That’s a cutting remark. Now
let’s read what he’s saying.

[66-4]	“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the
coming of the Son of man. And as (in) the days of Lot...” when a
modern Billy Graham and Oral Roberts went down into Sodom…preaching to
those Sodomites…blinded their eyes (See?) with the Gospel... One Angel
stayed back (a Messenger) with Abraham and the elected group. …what
kind of a sign did He do? …what did Abraham call Him? Elohim, God
manifested in flesh. Jesus, showing that He, Himself (God in Him) will
be manifested in His Bride in the last days. (Well, if that’s the
baptism with the Holy Ghost then it’s always been there.) Oh, my….
Just no end to it. It’s just a revelation of God. It’s eternal, just
keeps moving on and on and on.

	No sir, there was no time when God was in the Bride as He is today in
the full measure and in a prophet in particular, God in the prophet.
See? God and the prophet. God and the prophet and the vindication of the
message and the Bride are all one, identified together. It’s just a
revelation of God. God in the anointing, and the anointing in the
prophet revealing, giving preeminence and getting us restored. God in
the prophet. God in our midst. 

[66-5]	Notice. Then one like the first Adam and Eve before sin separated
them in death, now Christ (in) the second Adam in Life redeems His Bride
from death, and now on His way back to the original Eden, restoring back
His Bride in fellowship back with God, as Husband and Wife to the garden
of Eden: Christ and His Bride.

42.	Now notice what he’s saying, what he couldn’t do back there,
he’s doing now. See? He couldn’t restore them. He made it impossible
for them to stretch forth their hands. It couldn’t be done. Notice, 

[66-5]	Then one like the first Adam and Eve before sin separated them in
death, now Christ the second Adam in Life redeems His Bride from death,
and now on His way back to the original Eden, restoring back His Bride
in fellowship back with God, as Husband and Wife (in) the garden of
Eden: Christ and (the) Bride.

	Before we even get out of here, we’re perfectly Christ and the Bride.
It will go back right to Eden in the physical form. See? For about two
thousand years God did not speak, that’s to the Bride, only
spoke…let her speak to Him in prayer and He could answer back. But
today, the Bride hears directly from God through a prophet. See, so now
we’re getting the great revelation of the New Jerusalem which we’re
coming into very quickly forming Itself. How much time do we have left?
All right.

[67-1]	…At that day, the Kingdom (will) be given over to the Father,
(When’s that? New Jerusalem, he is speaking of again, that) He might
be All and in All. “While he’s yet speaking, I’ll hear,” 
…(David and) Christ... David sitting on the Throne, the King over the
whole human race... “And while they’re… thinking, I’ll know what
they’re thinking about; before they speak, I’ll answer. The wolf and
the lamb shall…together feed. The lion shall eat straw like a bullock.
They shall feed together and lay down. They shall not hurt or destroy in
all My holy mountain.” Right back exactly to Eden again as hard as it
can go... There’s your threefold purpose. Oh God, help us to know it;
(let)… help us to know it.

43.	In other words, the future home of the earthly Bride and the
heavenly Bridegroom, and time blending into eternity, the Seventh Seal,
ushering in the Millennium, the Roman candle, time running out.
Everything is in progress at this time and cannot stop until God takes
over everything. Now that’s what you’re into right now which is the
Shout. Then why are people worrying about anything down the road or
anything back there or anything else? This is what bothers me and this
is what I strick out against and perhaps I should ignore it and just
forget it, who cares? I can’t help anybody anyway except there’s
nothing I can do to anybody except I’ve got a job to do. And they
don’t understand what a vindicated prophet is all about. They can’t
see the Lord Himself descended with a Shout and the Lord could not come
unless He had a prophet there and there could not be a prophet there
unless God was going to come and put the thing together; I can’t
understand it. 

	Just because William Branham is gone doesn’t mean anything because
God must increase and William Branham decrease. And the same Spirit that
is among us is going to raise the dead and incarnate Himself and the
same Pillar of Fire is going to lead us to the Millennium. And it’s
all based on what has already happened. And you don’t need any
explanation; you just need to believe it. You don’t need any
confirmation; it’s been confirmed. You don’t need vindication; all
you need is believe it. You don’t even have to understand it to the
extent that you might want to understand it but if you see anything at
all, you’re going to understand that and that’s where your faith is.


44.	Now could you put your faith where you see a completely finished
work? Look I’m in the swim; the waters have begun to spill out of the
Eastern Gate that Ezekiel saw. They rose to the ankles under Luther;
they rose to the knees under Wesley. They rose to the thighs under
Pentecost, and it’s water to carry us right over, right to the Tree of
Life, the river of Life. If you can’t see that and understand what
you’re in, then I have no hope for me or for you. Because what did
This do if it didn’t do that? And what is It doing? So that’s as far
as we’re going to go to page 67 and here…this is a…October, the
5th. Okay. I trust you got some good out of that tonight, help you to
see where you’re at, how far down the road. Let’s rise at this time
and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, again we look unto You, thanking You for Your mercy
and Your grace, Your love and Your goodness, Lord, and we know that
heaven and earth shall pass away but Your Word will be fulfilled. And we
know these earthly bodies, Lord, they’re weakening and decaying; yet,
the inner man, Lord, it is true, knows more and understands more than
ever before. Oh God, we pray, that You’ll help us to stabilize that
inner man on the understanding of faith which is this Word revealed and
the outer man have nothing to do with it but, Lord, let it be as the
Scripture said, the inner man being renewed. Help us, Lord, each one of
us to get that inner man in line and fed, Lord, and in preeminence as it
should be as the prophet had a preeminence that could bring this about,
we now, Lord, we know now Lord that this union and this measure of Word
which has the same measure of the Holy Spirit is able to bring this
inner man right to the place where it should be, growing, growing more
to a perfect day, to a perfect knowledge, to a perfect glory. And even
though the outer man fades there’s a glory in there that just no one
can touch and the outer signs and those things that plague and bother
and all these things that come upon the earth, Lord, they just don’t
have a thing to do with us and our faith. 

	Help us, Lord, therefore, as the age increases upon us, all of us
getting older, all of us bending closer to the earth from whence we
came, returning toward it, Lord, may we have within us a greater life
and a greater measure because that’s what Your Word said. Now Father
God, we have depended solely upon this and we have seen ourselves so
thoroughly convinced by what we know in this Scripture and from what we
saw in a prophet that, Lord, then surely what was in that Word has to be
ours and the outwork itself through us because as we had no part in the
beginning except, Lord, we were a part of You, therefore, to enjoy this
part here then it will all be of You, even as Your own Word said,
“Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Except the Lord watch the city, the watchman watcheth but in vain,”
and Lord, that puts it all down here that if You’re not doing the
building here and You’re not doing the keeping, the caring whatsoever,
then Lord God in heaven what is there. We know there’d be nothing. 

	So now Father go with us as we go, keep us under Your protective
covering and Your love, Lord, and we may we grow up as never before,
Lord, in this faith, in this ministry, in faith and love and power of
the Holy Ghost and unto Thee we shall ascribe the honor and glory
because we ask it in Jesus’ Name, Amen. 

	The Lord bless you. Let’s just sing, “Take the Name of Jesus with
you.”

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Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed # 21 – Page   PAGE  1 

Is this a direct quote of Bro. Branham’s? If Bro. Vayle is just
paraphrasing is should probably not be italicized.