Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed #9

September 3, 1986

	Let us pray:	

	Heavenly Father, again we want to thank you for your goodness and mercy
extended to us.  Especially appreciate the services you gave us last
weekend with Bro. Bell  and Bro. Ungren, bringing out so faithfully and
clearly the Word which You have given us through a prophet.  

	We appreciate that so much, Lord, to know there are men and women of
the same faith that we are, not too many perhaps but there are enough,
Lord, and even in the end time they’ll time thin down, as it was in
the days of Noah—just eight.  One man alone was pure human, Lord.  We
know that Noah was perfect of all, and no one else in his generation. 
And, Lord, we know there…is also true that at this time the seed has
got to run out.	

	And the little tiny bride is going to be taken away, just like Noah,
but there won’t be an add mixture with that group that goes out of
here.  It’s going to be just pure seed of God, transformed and right
back to that wonderful day, Lord, where men like Enoch were pure human
beings taken away.	

	So we know we are closing off an age, Lord, and we pray that as even as
John the Baptist came, and now Bro. Branham to make ready the people
prepared for the, Lord, that we might be thoroughly ready, because Lord,
God we know that we have been prepared as vessels unto honor unto You,
by reason of the fact that we see this Word, Lord, where other do not
see it.  Doesn’t make us anything but it gives You the glory and the
honor.

	Help us to be humble in kindness and sweet tonight and just help us
all, Lord, to receive Your Word in especially in my own case Father.  

	This is a tremendous sermon that the prophet brought—just so many
things he said.  Just—not that they boggle the mind, but the mind just
takes off spinning in the heavenly places in Christ, so that thoughts
come, Lord, just innumerable numbers of them, that we can’t hardly
keep up.  So we pray You’ll help to us just get our thinking straight
now, and get the help that we should get from the message that prophet
brought us, because we are not feeding on the words of man, we’re are
feeding on a body Word, the nourishing Word of God to nourish us up in
the faith and put us in that immortality and into the rapture, to the
wedding supper, into the millennium.

	All these things, Lord, lie here tonight.  Help us not to just
appreciate them but as people to say yes that’s right, that’s
wonderful, but, Lord, to be partakers of the grace that has been, and
the truth made known in this hour.  In Jesus name we pray, Amen.  

You may be seated.

	Now this would be, I suppose, number nine—somewhere in that area.  I
run out of remembering what place I’m at myself, in Christ is the
Mystery of God Revealed.  Now we might just change that title to say
this: Messiah, Messiah is the Mystery of God Revealed—because that is
true, because that’s what the Hebrew is Mashiah and the Greek is
Kristos.  And they mean the anointed One, it means the same thing.  So
Christ for the Gentiles, Messiah for the Hebrews.  It’s all one, is
the mystery of God revealed.

	Now the first division of this message that Bro. Branham brought to us
dealt with the fact that the unseen and unknown God desired to remove
the mystery that kept men from relating to Him.  Now that’s the fact
of the matter is that God being spirit, He cannot be known to finite
creatures.  So God must then do something wherein He will be able to
make Himself known to the people.  So the people can relate to Him, and
not only relate to Him but relate to Him correctly.

	You know, many people relate to many things but unless the relating is
very correct it really is just an effort, nothing really comes of it. 
In other words when you are dealing with God you must come to the place
where you’re dealing in, not probable success but, you got to deal in
a reality.  In other words it must be truly successful.

	See a lot of people today have jobs and they are not really qualified
for them.  And they never have a really have a full life because they,
not properly qualified cannot be at ease within the confines of that
particular occupation and so they’re not truly successful.  Life is
just more or less just humdrum.

	So but God wants a relating to man, a man being finite, and God being
infinite.  Now this would require a revelation and God determined to
give that revelation.  Number one in His own way, number two in Him own
times, number three to whomsoever He decreed to give it and, number four
in what measure or how much He would give and, number five to what
effect at any given time.

	Now if you want something to discuss at your Friday night meetings you
have something there for a good long time to come.  You’ve got five
major point’s right there to consider.

	Now this revelation, by the time of its completion—which would of
course conclude roughly after the two thousand years of seven church
ages—would bring God into preeminence in a Bride and hence place that
Bride back in Eden.  So that’s what you’re looking at, this
revelation would give God the preeminence and yet that would involve
different things there, and then would put this bride back in Eden which
is literally a restoration.

	Now the last few paragraphs we read, on pages 47 and 48, dealt with the
sovereignty of election in that God in His own will could open the eyes
of one and blind the eyes of another, or simply open the eyes of one and
leave the others the way they were at the time He was reveling Himself. 
So that at the time of the evident manifestation of Himself one would
receive and another reject, though both claim to be equally available to
the revelation by professing to be looking for it.  I hope you’re
listening to what I’m saying.

	The illustration Bro. Branham used was of the priest who called Jesus
Beelzebub when he discerned their thoughts.  And of the woman at the
well of Sychar who also had her thoughts discerned when she accepted him
as Messiah, and she did it based on the same gift of discernment that
the Pharisees turned aside.

	So alright, with that thought in mind that he was teaching on the woman
at the well, we’re going to go back and read what he said:

48-4 …I can see her big pretty eyes shine up like that, tears running
down her cheeks, said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet.  I'm
looking for a Messiah, (So are the Hebrews, the others) and when that
Messiah comes, He'll do this very same thing.  He'll tell us these
things."

He said, "I am He."

"Oh, Lord..." She left her pot, "Here He is.(That’s what she said)
Come see a Man Who's told me the things (ever I have done)..." What was
it?  That Light struck that Seed.  That Life was there.  It come forth.

48-5 Same thing today.

	Now he’s giving you a principle which we have studied time and time
again which is Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
forever, where you have the major example over there in Genesis 18,
where God appears in a form to Abraham.  See, which was what we call a
theophany but anything’s a theophany, it just simply means where God
can manifest Himself to the people; take on some kind of a form.

	Alright same thing today now watch:

But the theologians say…

	Now here he’s bringing you here to show you that you cannot get a
revelation by simply studying, educating yourself, laying yourself open
to something by reason of study, and study to the extent that you think
the whole Word has gelled together, and you understand what It is
saying.

	Now that is normal treatment of the Word of God, but normal treatment
does not obtain, because God has His own way of doing what He wants to
do which is to give a revelation.  Now remember the great thing is to
get a revelation of the unseen and unknown God, to understand Him and
His ways, that is what it’s about.

	So you must keep this in mind at all times, so that if you are going to
know God according to the scripture and according to this hour, when it
is definitely stated that there would be a revelation of Him, you must
be prepared to receive the way that revelation is given or you’re
simply not going to get it.  Or you’re out of complete orientation and
you can never be successful.  You’ll mess around at the job, you could
be quite happy and you can be quite content.

	Just like in this message we say well what about it?  Well we believe
in a prophet.  Well what do you believe about a prophet?   Well he
brought the Word.  Well how do you know?  What are talking about?  What
did he really bring?  Now that’s up for argument, that why we’re a
very minority group and we shall be more and more minority, and that’s
fine, there’s no problem there.  

	Now, same thing today—that is, there’s—the people—the light
will strike today, there’ll be the seminarians who turned it down, the
theologians.  They’ll be simple people who will accept it.  In other
words, this will not be popular with the crowds and understood by the
religious crowds.

But the theologians say, "Now, wait just a minute.  I'll find out if
So-and-so... (like say,) if Pastor Moody said (now brother, now here’s
a case of the blind leading the blind) What's Pastor Moody got to do
with this, this day?  

	Now this is something that people just can’t grasp when it comes to
theology, when it comes to denominational Christianity, they simply
cannot understand that Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
forever is not a continuous manifestation or a continuous understanding
or something continuous within the church.  It is how He goes about
reveling Himself.  That is what Hebrews thirteen and eight is.  It is
not what people think it is.  So if you’re going to the garage and you
think that a crescent wrench is a box-end there is something wrong,
you’re not going to make it.  It’s just that simple, applied to a
mechanical.  It just, it just doesn’t obtain, it won’t cut.

What's Pastor Moody got to do with this, this day?  Pastor Moody lived
in his day, but not now.

	Now that’s a very clear statement, but it doesn’t mean anything to
church going people because they think, “well hey, we’ve all
believed in the blood.  And Moody came along and he was anointed of God
to get the people to see the blood again and the necessity for the
rebirth, and that’s all we have to have.”  	And they make it a
continuous thing that, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
forever, is sort of a social, well a redemptive program that God has
laid down.  Redemptive program, it is true but that’s not the whole
truth.  See?  Now.

Certainly not.  Luther lived in his day, but not in the day of Wesley. 
Wesley lived in his day, not in the day of Pentecost.  Pentecost lived
in their day, but they're a long ways from this, in this hour.

	See?  Now let’s look at this here Bro. Branham is standing there as a
man who says “I am a prophet, I know what it is all about” and
he’s challenging dead men.  Anybody can challenge a dead man. 
Challenge Luther, he’s dead.  Challenge the Lutherans, Ha!  They
don’t even know what Luther said.  I’ve got the books and I know
some Lutherans, just about most of them.  Challenge the Methodist.

	Wesley never said the stuff that Methodist and the Nazarenes got into. 
Read what he said.  He wasn’t a theologian, his theologian anyway was
Fletcher.  The man who could below like a bull and be heard almost seven
miles on the prairies, and his main fame was antinomianism, which that
Bro. Brother Branham correctly said Calvinism got to the place of the
hard shell Baptist where there was no need to have salvation because you
are already predestinated.

	They got cold and dead and formal there’s nothing left in the church.
 See?  What did they have back there?  Anybody can challenge dead men
but let’s go closer though.  He said:

Pentecost lived in their day, but they're a long ways from this, in this
hour.  We're in the last hour.

	So the challenge is Pentecostal.  Not Methodist, Baptist, they’ve
been dead for so many years, come on.  They’ve been gone to the dust,
spiritually speaking.  Now, he’s...  So what is the challenge that
William Branham hands to the Pentecostals?  The challenge of Hebrews
13:8 and the coming of Elijah, and with Elijah must come God.

	See, this is where the people that say that they believe this message
miss this.  They want to throw it all back on William Branham.  If you
thrown it back on William Branham then he’s your savior, go right
ahead.  William Branham has said it.  He said, “I was just a voice and
that against my better judgment.  I didn’t have enough spirituality or
anything about me to recognize and to understand and be of convenience
to Almighty God; it was purely an accident, as far as I’m
concerned.”  But as far as God’s concerned it wasn’t an accident,
it was predestination.

	See?  Pentecost lived in their day.  So Bro. Branham’s challenge has
to be to the living, which is the Pentecostals.  We’re in this, in the
last hour.  Now, what is the last hour?  The last hour is 1 Corinthians
the thirteenth chapter, and it says in here, in verse nine: For we know
in part, and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect is
come, what does it mean?  When there are no more parts.  No more parts. 
Now what happens when there are no more parts?  It’s completed, that
which is in part is done away.  Now how in the world can you do away
with anything, if Almighty God, after a completion?   Or at a
completion, it’s very, very simple, it gives way to headship.

	Let’s go to Ephesians the fourth chapter.  Now, verse 11: 

11	And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

	Now Paul is saying this; the same man that said to the Corinthians, if
any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge
the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.  In
other words, Paul took precedence over every single person and defied
Peter to his face.

	Paul was the unchallengeable apostle to the Gentiles, and he
categorically says he gave these as literally headship of the Holy Ghost
to a people to this reason; 

12	For the perfecting of the saints, (That’s to make a completion. 
That would be a full body.) for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ: (that’s the building up of the body of
Christ.)

13	(Bringing in the members) Till we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, (finished
again) unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

	Takes you right up to Christ, there is no more of Christ to pour into
the church; therefore there is nothing left but Christ.

	Just exactly like you, male and female.  Where you are functioning
organically and you are able to procreate, and there’ll come a time
when neither one could do it, then all that’s left then is you,
because you’re finished.  Alright, that’s what we’re looking at
here.

	My, if people could just understand a few simple things it would be
nothing to it.  You come into the full stature of what God wanted.  Now
what does He want?  He wants a bride.  And what’s the bride for?  To
have a headship, she’s not there just to be a bride; coochy, coochy
coo, you pretty thing.  She’s there to compliment him.  She’s there
for Him.  Woman was made for the man, not the man for the woman.  You
got to get your pictures, you got to get your the puzzle together right.
 There’s really no puzzle.  

	So henceforth be no more children.  So what are you going to be?  Be
full adults.  Poppa and momma are through procreating.  Why don’t you
meet your kids on the adult level?  Well you say, “We never do.” 
That’s right because we’re kooky.  We’re goofy parents; fifty year
old adult people are still [Brother Vayle makes a baby sound.]  What do
you say?  They’re not just …?...  Just like our parents were with
us, “aw come on, Ma lay off.”  “Look Pa, you had your day, give me
mine.”  “What are you talking about?”  Adulthood, see?  No more
kids.  They got their own lives now, got their own credit cards, bank
accounts, liabilities, durability’s—if such a thing is possible.

14	…carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15	But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
which is the head, even Christ:

	Now we’ve got the head.  Completion means headship.  Give way to Him,
the Procreator, the Father.  See?  In what form?  In the form of a
Sonship.  See?  That’s a little difficult there, but we will get back
to it perhaps.  

16	From whom the whole body (notice to get rid of … we come up to him)


16	From whom the whole (no more no less; whole) body (every member
body.) fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint
supplieth,

	That’s the skeletal structure.  So what’s going to be the supply
right up to the neck, where the head takes His place?  Seven church
ages.  According to the effectual working in the measure of every part. 
Now it tells you; there was an effectual measure in every part; seven
church ages, seven messages, seven measures of the oly Holy HhhHHHHHH   

Holy Ghost, bringing around till where there is no more left but the
head Himself, to come down and what, take over? Preeminence, the proof
of preeminence, the outcome of preeminence, I’m just throwing it here
so you’ll under stand what we’re getting into.

16	… maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
(Tells you right there, the whole thing comes together.  What is this?)
edifying of itself in love. (Well let’s read it, tells you over here.)


	[Ephesians 1:3-4:]

3	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

4	According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5	Having predestinated us…

	After the edifying of Itself in love, bringing every foreknown seed and
member into a predestinated place by you being born—natural
election—so that you could take you spiritual election back to God and
now stand here complete.  No more members to come in, bride finished
off, God at the head of His church ready to raise the dead. 
Preeminence.  Oh, you let your church just try to bring that to pass. 
They’re not going to do it.  So you see what we are talking about
here.  Okay,ay, with it Romans 11:25.

	And that’s nothing but what I’ve already said.  This is the great
mystery, Paul preaching about the gentiles, how the Gospel is going to
go back to the Hebrews.

25	For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, (

	The mystery of the Jew and the Gentile and how the Gospel left the Jew
to go to the Gentile and goes back from the Gentile to the Jew.

25	For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come
in.

	And when does the fullness of the Gentiles come in?  Over there in
Ephesians when the Head’s got to come, for the Lord, Himself, shall
descend from heaven with a final message.  Bringing Him into preeminence
to raise the dead and put her back in Eden.  Now the whole thing comes
together.  Not difficult, just let your thinking go. Pretend you were
never brought up in Pentecost, or anything else, just be a good old
Catholic.  You know if you think—that’s the best of the worst.
Isn’t that a case of, the case of the first are going to be last or
something?  The first—kind of world-organized church, they’re taking
it today; we thank the Lord for that.

	Now, we’re in the last hour we talked about.  Their organizations are
all scrupled up>:D<that’s the world organization, the church—and
proves that it’s not there.  Now it proves that what we’re talking
about, for the end time, is not in the organized church.  The Word has
never been correctly vindicated, just only in It's strength.  

	Now a correct vindication of the word is Deuteronomy. Signs and wonders
have never mattered though people believed they have.  They only matter
in the economy of God if it is a true healing or miracle revival in
order to point you to a message.  Now, let’s just take a look.  If
I’m lucky I’ll find it, if I’m not lucky somebody else with find
it for me.

	Psalms 68, now it says here in verse 18:

18	Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou
hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, (at the time
of gifts, there will be gifts also) that the LORD God might dwell among
them.

	Showing you there comes a time of the true anointing and the false
anointing when God is amongst His people.  That’s not the baptism with
Holy Ghost, that’s Christ in you the hope of glory.  When did this
happen?  Back in Numbers when Korah and Dathan defied Moses and said,
“listen Moses we want to tell you something, you’re not the Holy
Ghost in this outfit, you’re not the Holy God, you don’t think
you’re somebody, let me tell you we’re just as good as you are,
we’ve got the gifts among us, we’re important, don’t just think
that the Word just comes by you, you got some kind of thing over us.” 

	And Paul said the same thing.  [1 Corinthians:14:37:]

	If any man think himself to be a prophet, (Koran and Dathan) or
spiritual, (You’ve got a glimpse of the Holy Ghost) let him
acknowledge that the things that I write…

	There’s got to be an acknowledgment somewhere, concerning somebody,
concerning some things which include themselves in God.  There’s got
to be an acknowledgment, see?

	Alright, the Word’s been vindicated, just only in his strength.  In
others words, it’s proven that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday,
today and forever, by examining history and Mark 16, showing the
peripheral, and how he saves and can do great things for people—always
has and always will—but to be vindicated that this is indeed God; has
not been.  And no one can prove their correctness of their understanding
by simply miracles; that’s the Word of God. 

	I don’t care if   Bro. Branham said that or not.  He had to say it
because the Word said it ahead of him.  Every prophet has to agree with
ever other prophet.  We’ll see that as we have a little time.  I hope
we do, I don’t know.

	Only the strength of the Word’s been shown.  That’s why he said
over there in the Book of Revelation.  He said save that little oil,
that little strength; don’t let it go down.  So the strength has
always been there to do something.  So that people can say yes I know
there’s something to it.  But they’ve got a three God
understanding—or it’s a complex—of three gods.  But what is the
truth of Godhead?  What is the truth about anything pertaining to
spiritual matters?  What is it all about?  

	Now then, God’s got to vindicate His Word according to how He
vindicates it, which is through a prophet.  And the so called
vindication of signs and wonders is merely to get your attention to know
there is something going on beyond this man, that he’s got an
authority.  It doesn’t point to the man and simply point to power.  It
points to the source.  Is this Word a genuine strength from a genuine
source, the source being God?  That’s what he’s talking about.

48-5 (Now) seeds, denomination, (denominational seeds).  Seeds,
denominations...  And they make denominations and then put them old
jimsonweed seeds in with that genuine wheat.

	And that’s exactly true, that’s what the Bible teaches anyway,
there’s no problem there.  Because Bro. Branham said we had the Word
of God demonstrated in power but never in Its correct revelation.  And
then he said the things have been going on for years and people can say,
“well alright, we believe this to be God,” and then turn right
around and you’ve got a mixed congregation. And we’re talking about
bride, brother/sister, we’re not talking about church anymore. We’re
talking about a church called out of a church because that’s what
it’s always been.  He said the crop went to jimsonweed.  Now this then
tells you that the chaff period is over.  Then when the wheat separates
there is nothing left in the last denomination that the wheat came out
of, which is Pentecost. 

	They can shout, they can scream, they can dance, they can speak in
tongues, they can perform miracles, but there’s no more genuine
baptism with the Holy Ghost and nothing, it simply signifies that God is
doing something amongst the people.  And what He’s doing in the
people—the in people are the out people—and He’s taking them out. 
You can’t do a thing about that because it’s gone back to tares.  

	Do you understand what I am saying? It is no longer a wheat plant.
It’s over, it’s finished, there’s nothing but tares.  The chaff
which He burns up, you just burn up the dead part of the wheat, it’s
no value.  But what’s flourishing?  Tares are flourishing.

	You go out there with the—because, the weed, the big old horse weeds
and things out there, they got up there, man oh man!  Look at those
little old morning glory vines they got.  You look out at some fields,
corn and what have you, rather beans mostly, and you see a beautiful
haze of purple out there.  I got some kind of crazy thing that’s
around my place there, it looks like it’s a fungus, almost.  It get on
the chrysanthemums; threw them out, throw them away.  And I see crawling
up the rocks—and this little kind of thing folio, little kind of vine,
like filaments, and little nodules like on them.  I don’t know what
the goofy thing is; I can’t find a root to it.  Like they’re
airborne.  That’s your system that you’ve got today.  The life of…
 Look, the weeds have taken over.  Sure, that’s where you’ve get
your ecumenical move.

48-5 (Alright) That's right, green briars and nettles (Notice, he
doesn’t talk about wheat now, and chaff), green briars and nettles (Uh
huh. See?), went on back to that; it died right out. Then they brOkay,e
the field up and started over again, planted some real seeds and some of
them come up and it chOkay,ed it out.

49-1 (Now:) But then, God said in this last days 

	Now notice the language, in this last days, our prophesy says these
last days.  But he said this last days, showing there's a period of time
in there that’s a singular.  And you want to catch it

He'd bring out a people washed in His Blood. 

	Now he’s taking concerning an exodus, concerning what went through
Moses and the people of Israel.  Now:

 And they were predestinated to be there; they've got to be there. God
said so. And It would reveal... (Now watch, he’s talking here; well
let’s just read some more.) And the very sign I was—

	And he stops.  Now you can take that anyway you want too.  You can say
he’s referring to himself, which he is.  Or you can say he was going
to say, “the very sign I was referring to, Malachi 4.”  I don’t
care what you say, any way you want.  Knowing   Bro. Branham, it would
be literally.  He would have said, “the sign I was referring to, in
Malachi 4, and what he would do,” which is, a prophet is a sign.  And
so we had a prophet, he’s a sign to this generation.  And what sign? 
And no sign be given but the sign of the prophet Jonas.  

	We’re right back to Christ; we’re right back to Alpha.  Through
the; now it’s the Omega is to the Gentiles.  The very sign of:

49-1 Malachi 4, and what he would do--restore back again, bring back
(at) in the last days these great things that He promised. He'd bring
the revelation. What is--what is he to do? Malachi 4 was to bring back
the faith of the fathers to the children. 

	Now that would be to turn the hearts of the children back to the
fathers, which is to give us an original understanding.

 See? That's right--to bring that same thing 

	Now watch what that was going to be, according to William Branham, not
according to anybody else, but he stood alone.

to bring that same thing, the same Pillar of Fire in on the scene, the
same signs, the same wonders, the same Jesus, making Him the same,
preaching Him the same, vindicating Him the same yesterday, today, and
forever. (It’s all in there)

	Now, what are the signs of Elijah, the four signs of Elijah?  Alright,
there was the whirlwind, there was the earthquake, there was the fire,
there was the still small voice—William Branham had all four. 
There’s many people saw what the whirlwind did, it gouged the stones
out of a solid rock wall.  I’ve got a piece at home—a three corner
piece myself—that was gouged out.  Every piece of stone was three
corners, a pyramid.

	The next thing was the earthquake in Alaska, which he said would
happen.  The next thing; the pillar of fire came down, was seen by
hundreds of people outside of Tucson.  Even school kids called up to see
it.  The next thing was the still small voice coming back, absolving the
people from their adulteries, their marriage to wrong people; forgiving,
which is their whoredoms, their idolatry, because that’s it.  Brother
Ungren said the truth, an idol is a lover.  And he said, “you men and
women marry from a sex proposition.”  Men wanted a sex queen and
that’s what they got.  Didn’t turn out to be such a hot queen after
all, she was a flat tire.  I don’t think the man was much of a king
either, now was he?

49-1 (But) "I will restore" saith the Lord, "all the years that the
Methodist worm, and the caterpillar worm, and the Baptist (worm), and
the Catholic, and all (those) them worms eating that--that faith down to
become a denominational stump where there's no seed left in there.  "But
I will restore again," saith the Lord, "all the years..." What?--"all
the signs and wonders that they have forsaken.

		Sure, Okay,.  The statement Bro. Branham makes up here at the top,
which we read; God is going to have a, bring a people out in the last
days, the last time here, the very last time.  The people washed in the
blood, thoroughly cleansed of all their sins, scrubbed away by the Holy
Ghost, and so on.  Then down here we see the appearing of the Lord, the
Pillar of Fire, we see the end time evangelism brought to our attention,
which end time evangelism is the Appearing.  What can you preach if this
is the Appearing but the Appearing?  You can’t go back and preach a
beginning for the end.

	What do you do?  When the car goes through the assembly line, you say,
“well that’s a good job, let’s take it all apart and start
over.”  No, you fill it full of gas.  Step on the start and away she
goes.  So all we needed was an outpouring of the Holy Ghost in this
hour.  We got it.  Let God dynamize the Word, which He has proven He’s
already dynamized it.  Let Him dynamize it in the individuals, they’ll
be changes, being dynamized now.  If it isn’t you better receive the
Holy Ghost, pure and simple, that’s all.  Know that you’re born
again.  I hope that doesn’t sound too strange but you folk who’re
used to listening to me; you can follow me I think quite easy.

 (Alright) "But I will restore again," saith the Lord, "all the
years..." What? "all the signs and wonders that they have forsaken. 
I'll take it right back to that original Tree again, and I will restore
It," (In other words make it like it was in the beginning) saith the
Lord.  That prophet was a vindicated prophet.  His words have to come to
pass.  Amen.

	Because he’s from Deuteronomy.  Now let’s look at this thought here
of this hour.  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. 
Okay,ay, He’s an unchanging God.  Now any Bible student knows that
there’s four beasts, four living creatures in the Bible.  There’s
the lion, there’s the calf, there’s the man and there’s the eagle.
 And everyone is very specific, because it tells you the seven ages are
divided into four complete periods, so that no one needs to be deceived.
The first period was the lion, which indicates the most powerful
animal—that is, indicates as the type of the most powerful animal on
earth.  The last group of people identified with the eagle, which is the
powerful bird of the heavens.

	So now it tells you that the church, which was of the earth, of which
it had a lion—which is the strongest, the most active, most
powerful—the king of the beasts.  It went to the calf, which was the
commonest and the lowest, which was sacrificial.  It went to the man,
which was the smartest, who can get rid of the calf and get rid of the
lion.  See?   See, he could get rid of the eagle if he had a chance, but
the eagle stays up too far.

	The next picture shows something is going to get a bride away from the
lion and from the calf, and from the man—although the elements will
still be there in an essence, because you can’t change God—but
they’ll be recessive, not dominant.  So therefore, if you are going to
have anything to do with the salvation of souls, it is going to be under
the eagle—which is restoration; which is the heavenlies, which is the
book of Ephesians, which is eternity in a nutshell, which is the
explanation of eternity in a nutshell, starting with God before there
was an aspect of stardust.  And it takes the eagle to bring it out.  So,
that’s what we’re looking at.

	Now God says; I’m going to bring it back to where it was in order to
bring it to where I want to be which is right up to a rapture.  And now
we saw enough of the tree being worn down, we saw all this worn down but
the Bible said at this time that the smOkay,ing flax I will not quench,
a bruised reed shall I will not break.

	In other words, what we are leaning upon, what we’re depending for
for life, God did not take it away totally.  He came right behind and
restored it.  So now you’ve got a staff to lean on that’s going to
get you there in your last final pilgrim journey.  The Lord’s our
staff.  And you’ve got the oil poured back in, in the measure that’s
going to get you there.  It was smOkay,ing, it was weakened, it was
gone, but God did not get rid of it as He did with Israel.  God will
never restore the law to Israel as people think He’s going to do it. 
He can’t do it.  Their millennialist ideas are completely wrong. 
Completely wrong.

	It’s the Eden of the Bride, a thousand years of courtship and
honeymoon.  It’s not the kind of reigning people think as it’s going
to reigning.  You can project that over to the New Jerusalem where the
Bride will reign substantially, but not like people call reign.  It will
be a beneficent or a benevolent outpouring of grace through a bride to a
people that’s not bride and they’re all one in their own economy,
which economy is the economy of God.  It could be the greatest thing. 
It will never, never fade, it’s going to be marvelous.

49-2 The Holy Ghost alone is the Revealer of the Divine revelation of
Christ and has been in all ages.

	Now you talk about Messiah, you talk about Christ.  That is simply God
coming on the scene in some form to help a people.  And it all pointed
to the final help of redemption whereby through blood, He exonerated a
people, and the baptism with the Holy Ghost, which could only come by
the blood.  He brought a people into a place where there can be
immortality imputed to her at the last day without even dying, right
back to Eden.  	See?

	Now, that’s been Christ in all ages.  So don’t get carried away
with just talking about a body.  You’ve got to see the thing coming up
through all ages, where it says at the final chapter on the church ages,
speaking of God…  Let me get it back here because sometimes my mind
doesn’t hit that proper verse.  

	Oh, he says here: the beginning of the creation of God, going right
back to where God began forming a creation around himself, to be evident
to people, to be communicative and communicating.  Alright;

49-2  The Holy Ghost alone is the Revealer of the Divine revelation of
Christ and has been in all ages.  (In other words how God has been doing
the thing we’re talking about) Remember...  All ages?

		Now, that not only takes us back to the Old Testament which we will
just leave there, because look, that’s a lot of typing and we are not
too interested in it.  We are, but the point is we’re interested from
53AD on.  So therefore from 1953—either 1933 and 1965—we have this
manifestation, this revelation.

49-2  Remember...  All ages?  Who did the Word of the Lord come to? 
Prophet alone. (See?  That is right)  And the prophet had to be
vindicated first.  (That’s very true, that’s Deuteronomy 18) Not
'cause he said he was a prophet, because he was borned a prophet and
proved to be a prophet, and everything he said was exactly on the Word
and come to pass,

	Thereby taking precedence and preeminence over everything else that
said it was of God as a manifestation to make you believe it was of God.
 Now I’m throwing it in here so you’ll understand Bro. Branham’s
language, because that’s what he’s saying. 

See?  (Now see?) It was...  The Word of the Lord came only by the Holy
Ghost.  The Bible said, "The man of old, moved by the Holy Ghost (See?)
wrote the Word."

	Now we must not take this out of context, like a self-appointed
prophets would do, and the context is one of simplicity.  One of
simplicity.  Just believe the way God does things, not anything else.  

	Let’s go back to Luke 1 and 17 and just see, because this is the
Elijah ministry which was given the John as the number three
Elijah—Elisha was the number two.  Now, verse 17 in John.  [Luke:
1:17:] 

17	And he shall go before (The Lord God of Israel) him in the spirit and
power of Elias (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and (even) the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make
ready a people prepared for the Lord.

	In plain English, this man, spOkay,en of in Isaiah, that where all the
high places were going to be brought down and all the low places brought
up, and every path is going to be made straight.  Some great tremendous
thing is going to happen, oh my.  Your eyes are just a bugging out of
your head, so you’ll be able to see it.  Oh no, my, this is a
tremendous coming.  It was a flat as a dime when it came to what men
wanted.

	Here is the simplicity; what did John do?  He simply gave the people an
understanding that this was the hour in which God was doing something
and he explained the something.  That’s all that was.  God revealing
Himself; here I am, here’s what I’m doing.  It’s so simple, why
look it.  What will it do?  Look it, this will actually space you out. 
Look, hey, you say, “hey, that shouldn’t be the way God would do
things, now if I were God…”  But you’re not God, stupid.

	Remember the fiddler on the roof, if I we’re a rich man—but he
wasn’t a rich man.  He’d have a car, well, not hardly.  He’d have
a house and servants and he’d go down the street with a nice suit, and
his wife would kind of go down with a you know, Mrs. High mucky-muck,
you know?  But he wasn’t. 

	You know, funny thing is more people play God then they play rich
people.  Oh what a mess this world’s in.  Just think that one over. 
What a mess this world’s in. Simplicity, not some great big thing.
See?  Now, keep reading here.

49-3 Look, John the Baptist (Now watch) would never had known Jesus
(That’s Messiah) if it hadn't been for the Holy Ghost pointing Him
out.

	Now this guy’s a prophet, of whom Jesus said a greater prophet never
was born of a woman.  And he wouldn’t know it if Jack Bell says it was
split-beans or buttermilk unless God would have told him.  So where does
it leave your theologian?  Now all the theologians, they mouth off
beautiful things about John, “Oh sweet John, oh sweet John and sweet
John is right back here.”  What’s back here? In the form of man and
had the ability, and the guts of a Harod, they’d have done to this man
what they did to John.

49-3 Look, John the Baptist would never had known Jesus if it hadn't
been for the Holy Ghost pointing Him out.

	Now you see, in that that’s remarkable because who does the Holy
Ghost deal with?  See?  But, look it, here’s the whole thing.  Would
Moses have known if God had not said, “Hey I’m God, take your shoes
off.”  If the bush hadn’t burnt supernaturally?  Now if we believe
in God, this is it. See?  What about Bro. Branham?  What would He have
known, if that visitation of the visitor hadn’t spOkay,en through him
and said, “As John the Baptist was the forerunner to the first coming,
your message”—which is the Shout—“will have to forerun the
second?”  Because 1 Thessalonians 4:16 is the appearing; the means to
the rapture in the second coming, brings headship into evidence.

49-3 That right? John the Baptist, that great prophet that come forth
and said, "There's One standing among you right now. There's an ordinary
man standing here somewhere, that's the Lamb of God."

	This tells you how God brings revelation to His human revelator; He has
to deal with him somehow.

John said then, "I bore record--I bare record I saw the Spirit of God
(the Holy Ghost) descending from heaven like a Dove (In the form of a
dove), and It went upon Him, and a Voice said, 'This is My beloved Son
in Whom I'm pleased… (To dwell) '" What was it? The Holy Ghost (Had)
said, "I'll point Him out."

	Now, who could tell us what June 11, 1933 meant when hundreds of people
saw a rainbow, circular rainbow, come down over the prophet with a
whizzing noise?  Shrilling, whizzing noise, like maybe the day of
Pentecost.  See?  Who could tell us what that ring of angels meant that
people described as a cloud, on February 28, 1963?  So June 11, 1933 and
thirty years exactly later—take ‘33 as the baby being born, add
‘63 when Christ began to teach the full manifestation—how would
anybody know these things if they weren’t told?

	Do you think the people believed back in those days the shepherds came,
“hey a bunch of angels came down?”  

	“Oh boy those shepherds, out there in the boondocks too long.  Now,
let’s go to the great High Priest and he will psyche you out of your
foolish hallucinations.” 

	“Oh great High Priest I want to tell you flat, we saw angels, and my
buddy here saw them, too.  Heard heavenly voices then told us about a
babe in a manger, that’s Messiah.”

	“A babe in a manger?  Oh?  On a manure pile? you have got to be
kidding!  Our God is like David and Solomon.  Great high gorgeous temple
and a great throne, it couldn’t be what you say.”

	But it was.  Always people are wrong, you know, just…  Don’t ask
people, ask God.

49-3 The Holy Ghost said, "I'll point Him out."

50-1 That's the only way you'll know Him today, 

	What way?  If God gives somebody a revelation and points it out. 
Nobody wants to believe that one.

the only way you'll get the threefold revelation of God is for the Holy
Ghost...

	And he stops there because he would have to continue by saying, “God
tells me and then I tell you.”  Now who wants to listen to that?  He
said, “man, don’t give me that jive?.  I know the world, I don’t
talk their language too good but I sure know their stinking thoughts,
because I tell you, I’ve got a limburger intellect myself.  Now
listen.  Chapter 13 of the book of Acts, 40 and 41:

40	Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spOkay,en of in
the prophets;

41	Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: 

	Now he said; Behold you despisers, stand there and wonder and perish,
go ahead.

	for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise
believe, though a man declare it unto you.

	What it really means; you won’t believe it because some man is going
to tell you and you’re just too smart for your own good.  You’ve got
the answers, so you’re not going to listen.  No matter what happens,
you’re not going to pay attention.  See?  That’s what he’s saying
here.

And the only way it can ever be, (That’s a revelation) is you're
predestinated to see it.

	Now what’s he saying there?  He’s saying the prophet is
predestinated, and he sees the Pillar of Fire, and you’re
predestinated to believe the prophet that tells you he sees the Pillar
of Fire, because he has the signs of Deuteronomy.  Now the worlds going
to call that stupid.  Well that’s fine, I don’t care what they call
it, just thank God.  No problem.  

	I’m like my sister-in-law, she said, “I don’t care who owns it,
as long as I can use it.”  I don’t care what they say, as long as I
get what the prophet had. No problem, we’re not got any fight, no. 
Now watch how he puts the denomination:

If it don't, you'll never see it. 

	In other words, if God doesn’t to it His own way; predestinate you to
see it through the predestinated prophet by the Holy Ghost, you’re
never going to get it.  See?

If you're not predestinated to see it, you'll never see it, 'cause that
Light can flash and you'll go away and make fun of it and explain it
away by some intellectual conception when the very God Himself 
manifesting Himself and proving it

	Because they don’t know how God does it.  And they won’t stop and
listen.  Look, we’ve been through this.  You’re not as old as I am,
but you don’t have to be.  Go to your ministry you used to go to and
talk to him about this, and listen, he’ll run you plumb off or run you
in.  One of the two, you know that.  Some jellyfish put his hand there	

	Like I was back in Canada, this guy, his name was White. He was running
the United Church.  And you talk about a sick individual.  And the guy
at the west coast, sick, my God.  These homosexuals that go around
mincing like women, they look like brute men along side of those
perverts in the pulpit.  I kid you not.  At least they’re muscle men. 
Those guys…  I hate to give you my …?... They look like a weak dish
of puke.  And if I feel that way, how does God feel?

	You say well God doesn’t feel that way.  You wait and find out.  You
wait and find out.  You wait and find out, you’ll see.  You’ll see,
and you will see, not very long from now either.  Because I’m just
getting mad about it but He’ll do something about it.  I can feel a
bit with His feelings when I see these things but He’s got the
feelings Himself, He knows what He’s going to do.  It’s been proven.

50-1 See? But if it ain't upon you to see it, you won't see it

	Now herein lies the unforgivable sin, men calling this of the Devil,
blaspheming it or simply turning away.  But herein is also the proof,
that the elect can never blaspheme the Holy Ghost because they see it,
and they name it.  And you don’t even know how you do it.  Do you
think I knew one thing about William Branham when something inside of me
said if there’s any man you listen too, you listen to that one right
there?

	I was so happy to be away from the pulpit.  You bet I was.  Phooey on
the pulpit and the bunch of people around me.  I didn’t have to have a
bunch of preachers to make me sick, had just enough people around made
me sick, a bunch of denominational…oh brother.  So I said if that’s
God I’m getting out of here.  But it wasn’t God.  When I found God I
got back in.  Why do you think I’m happy with you people here?  Either
I’m nuts or we’re all nuts together, or this is God, one of the two.
 Now I chose to believe very, very much, and I do believe with all of my
heart, that we’re an elect group of people here, and I mean that
altogether.

 50-2 God never just said, "I'll choose this one, choose that one,"

	He’s talking about predestination, predestinated to it.  How could He
if He had already set you up before the foundation of the world?  It’s
no longer a matter of simple choice; it’s a matter of truth, it’s a
matter of progression, God in progression, His revelation and His people
to whom He’s revealing.  

	Time element.  Substance element.  Value element. All of those things
they’re progression.  Coming from God, going back to God.  Coming from
God into seed, going back fully expanded.  There's your picture right
there.  How could it be?  

	Wait a second.  What have you got to do with planning a turnip seed
being a turnip seed and a beet seed being a beet seed?  You just plant
seed, and what's in the seed manifests itself.  Let’s talk about a
seed, here’s a turnip seed and here’s a beet seed and you put it in
the very same soil.  

	Now we’ve got a chemist amongst us, one, maybe more, taken chemistry.
 But I know very well that Rusty’s going to have to agree with me on
this grounds; that if I put a turnip seed in a soil that’s been fully
analyzed, that one little chunk of soil, I put a turnip seed and I put a
beet seed.  A turnip will come up and a beet will come up in the same
bit of soil.  Been analyzed, there's no difference in soil.  Now where
is the difference?  It’s in the seed.

	Now let’s analyze the seed and we’ll find the very same things in
one seed as we find in the other seed.  You say, “well, the quantity
makes the difference.”  Well sure, a little more amino acid in this
than the other one, it’s, you know. a little more calcium and this,
that, and the other.  But it’s going to have the same thing in there
basically.  Well then, how come you’ve got a turnip and you’ve got a
beet?  

	How come you’ve got a mother and a father, same sperm, the same egg
and it splits, and you’ve got two children.  They’re pretty close to
identical.  But alright, you’ve got an egg that doesn’t split,
there’s two eggs there, you analyze and their identically the same
thing, but one kid’s got brown eyes and one kid’s got blue eyes, and
yet the same elements precisely from the same people are in both of
those kids.  

	Why does one got a brown eye and one got a blue eye?  That’s two of
them of course in each head.  (Can’t get me mixed up on that one, but
you couldn’t do it.)  What did it?  The spirit or the life did it.
See? So alright we’re looking predestination here.  You got to go
back.  We’re going back to the beginnings.

50-2 God never just said, "I'll choose this one, choose that one,"
…Reason He could predestinate is because He's infinite, and He--He
knows... He's infinite, so therefore He knowed everything. He knowed the
end; He could tell the end from the beginning. He's God. If He can't do
that, He's not God. That's it. He's infinite. All right.

	Sure.  My sheep hear my voice and they follow me.  Okay.  Let me just
take a couple of scriptures, Galatians the fourth chapter.  I’ll get
back to that thought on how the spirit delineates.  

	And that spirit is the one actually, not the genetic pattern as people
think, although that is true.  That is natural.  The true genetic
pattern is in the life, not the amino acids, the DNA and the RNA.  No
way, shape and form.  Nope.  One is natural election and one is
spiritual.  And without the spiritual, hogwash to your natural.  You
can’t kid me, brother/sister.  I know this Word here and revelation is
what does it. And where do you get revelation?  From a prophet.

  Galatians 4:9, and it says:

9	But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how
turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements

	Now it says now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of
God.  The both are correct but you wouldn’t know God unless you were
known of God.  So Paul had just merely got his priorities a little out
of line, or what you might call his chronology out of line.  God knew
you and then you knew God.  

	Okay, let’s take another one.  Let’s go to Acts the fifteenth
chapter.  And that’s very, very easy—that’s beginning unto, known
unto God from the beginning of the world and all His acts—I think it
is, 15:18.  Alright. 

18	Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
(And what was that written about?)

	Verse 13:

13	And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and
brethren, hearken unto me: (That’s because the doors open to the
Gentiles)

14	Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to
take out of them a people for his name.

15	And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

16	After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of
David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof,
and I will set it up:

	How in the world could they figure that meant the Gentiles?  Do you
know that that’s a hundred percent spiritual and its interpretation,
the temple of David? God’s going to have a temple He can live in, a
bride, and this tells it, how it’s going to be done.

17	That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all
these things.

	That’s why there’s no temple in the millennium.  The Lamb’s the
Temple, we’re in Him; in Christ.  We comprise the Temple as it
were—I suppose.  Part of that goes in there.  Anyway:

18	Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

	In other words; He knew the end at the beginning. Okay:

50-3 John would've never known Him (now notice how He repeat it, so this
is important) (no, sir) had the Holy Ghost not pointed out. See how God
hides His mystery to the high educated and everything? Look, every one
of them people saying... And simplicity reveals it to whom He has
predestinated to see it

	In other words; light is unobtrusive.  It doesn’t hit you like a ton
of bricks. It merely illuninates what’s there.  That’s light.  So
light’s a revelation.  That what's light is all about.  That’s what
you call light, revelation.

And simplicity reveals it to whom He has predestinated to see it. (See?)
 John would've never known Him

	Now in plain English, the prophets are not instinctively right, they
must be told.  Even Jesus said, “I only say what I hear what my father
say and do what I see Him do.  I don’t act apart from instruction.” 
Everybody else does.  A prophets under bondage; we’ll get to that.  I
don’t know, not tonight I don’t think.  Alright.

50-3 Looky there. Others standing by and never even seen the Dove.
(Okay, so what?) They never heard no voice.

	Okay.  So therefore, number one some see nothing.  Two, others seen and
they can’t catch it.  Three, some see and deny it.  Four, some see and
blaspheme.  Now that’s the way it goes.  

	You say, “well I don’t think that’s true.”  But it is true.  It
is true.  See, you don’t what to get back to your Bibles.  Well you
say, “oh, tell us some nice doctrine.”  I should talk about some
fuzzy haired-doctrine?  As though doctrine had fuzzy hair.  I don’t
mean it that way, I’m talking about what Church wants, their doctrine,
their creeds and their dogmas, their little own imaginings.  It will
wear you down finally.  You’ll never run to heaven with that,
brother/sister, you’ll never even have the stamina or the strength. 
This is the day you’re going to walk and not be weary, you will run
and not faint.  You’re going to fly.  See?  No, they do this, they
never heard any voice.

50-3 For it was only sent to that predestinated Seed. "Predestinated?"
Certainly (John) he was predestinated. (Now listen) For Isaiah, 712
years before he was borned, in the Spirit raised up out of these human
senses and said, "There's a Voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Prepare the way of the Lord and make His…(And make His paths
straight).'" Then if Isaiah could see it, couldn't Malachi see the same
thing?...?...

	Hundreds of years later Malachi said the same things because he rose up
out of human senses.  Christ never spoke of Himself, no prophet ever
spoke of himself.  Yet Pentecostals said Bro. Branham was a prophet then
denied him.  They had denied Him the privilege of filling his office. 
How many tonight will do the same thing unknowingly?  Brothers/sisters,
we’ve got to shake ourselves.

	See, Bro. Branham was so far in the spirit of time, that He’d bite
himself …?... what is it?  Pinch yourself.  Prophet, he’s out of his
senses, into the senses of God.

50-3 couldn't Malachi see the same thing?...?... (God) predestinated
that last prophet to sealing off all the prophets of the Old Testament

	Now, not Malachi, John!  The Law was until John.  And what’d he do? 
He sealed off the Old Testament.  What will William Branham do?  Seal it
off.  Seal it off, how?  By completing the revelation so headship can
take over.  

	The prophet himself said, “I must decrease and He must increase.” 
And He said, “if that Great One coming is a man, then I wasn’t that
one that was sent.”  He said, “as John the Baptist, looking
heavenward, He says behold the Lamb of God.”  And we all thought
he’s going to stand here and look up into heavens.  Hogwash. 
Heaven’s an elevated place.  It puts us in the spiritual, open their
eyes to the dimension.  

	Christ amongst us.  You can’t tell people anything.  Greek students
are so smart they just stumble over their own—what? —little jots and
tittles.

50-3 that great prophet standing there at the end of the age. See? He's
saying, "It's predestinated?" Certainly he was. Malachi saw him too.

	Who did Malachi see?  He saw John.  Isaiah saw William Branham, Malachi
saw William Branham, Jesus Christ prophesied of him.  You say, “oh my,
oh you…”  Oh, come on children you have enough, you… 

	Look, shall I debase myself and use terrible lousy words?  You’ve got
the guts to believe that He saw you, then He didn’t see that man that
could do what you and I couldn’t even begin to approximate?  No, bless
God.  No way.  If there were ten trillion of us couldn’t begin to
approximate what His little finger would do in the name of Jesus Christ.

	And yet people get fooled by everything, but…  Look we’re not dumb
driven cattle brother/sister, we’re sheep.  Bro. Branham would
interpret a man’s dream, there were cattle going westward and He said,
“they’d take the path of least resistance.”  We are not going to
take the path of least resistance, we are going to stand up and declare
ourselves in the name of Jesus Christ, we’re set for the defense of
this gospel.  Not what somebody tells us to preach, some mealy-mouthed
out there, there's a lot of them.  They do what they want; we’re going
to do what we want around here.  

	That’s why I’m kind of a tough cookie up here, because I stand it. 
If you don’t like it, you know what you can do.  You get your own
church or anything else you want.  But you must like it or you
wouldn’t be here.  And I don’t see why you shouldn’t like it
because I like it and I like you.  There ought to be some kind of
romance by this time.

	So what we see?  The Bible knew William Branham ministry—yeah, like
John ministry, not called by name, ministry—at the end time.  Prophet
saw it, declared it, see?  Malachi saw it.

50-4 Jesus said, "If you can receive it, this is he who was spoken of,
'I send My messenger before My face (Malachi 3) to prepare the way
before Me.'"

	Now he said, “look I’m going to tell you the truth, can you take
it?”  And a bunch said, “no way, you’ve got to be, oh, your
mental.  You’re a Samaritan.”  In other words; you’ve got a
bastard religion, you’re a bastard yourself and you’re crazy. 
Illegitimate is a better word but the tough word in the Bible I use. 
Because that’s exactly true, that’s what they called Him.

 50-4 See? Sure he was predestinated to see that Message. No wonder he
could look yonder and see that Dove coming down, that Light that was in
the wilderness…

	Now remember Jesus himself said, “if they called the master of the
house Beelzebub, what are they going to call you?  If they beat me and
I’m not worthy of any beating and any name calling and any stripes,
what will they do about you that are worthy?”  So you can see there's
a tough proposition here.

	They wouldn’t believe Jesus for one minute.  Jesus said, “John the
Baptist was Elijah.”  Oh boy.  No way.  See?  Each Age has always had
a messenger to get ready a prepared people.  And what was it doing?  It
was getting ready for the next step.  The Catholic Church with a few
godly men within it got somebody, somehow, ready to meet Luther and he
pulled him out. And at the end of the age, there was some there in the
Lutheran Church.  You see?

	That little bit coming up could be pulling out again.  And now coming
out of the last age there’s a few people that are willing to take a
last day message from a last day messenger.  That’s the way it is. 
He’ll have to pull them out.

50-4 No wonder he could look yonder and see that Dove coming down, that
Light that was in the wilderness (See, Bro. Branham was born with a
pillar of fire over His head, a light.) with Israel, coming, moving
down, the God Himself saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm
pleased to dwell in," (Now notice) God and man becoming One

	Now let’s see if that statements true.  Now look, the Jesus-only
people will absolutely brand me as two Gods.  …?... out the other day
said, he said, “you blew my mind to hear what you were saying,” but
he said, “now I can see it.”  

	Can’t you understand scripture, are you insane?  Now let’s test
your sanity, let’s prove it.  This is a horse, “Amen Bro. Vayle.” 
This is a water pump.  “Amen Bro. Vayle.”  I’ll prove it to you.  

	Now you think I’m mean, I am mean, I never said I wasn’t.  Say,
“you’re no pillar of the church, you’re the cesspool in the
basement.”  Praise the Lord, at long as I’m somewhere.  Now let’s
take 1 Timothy the second chapter.  Now let’s just read, verses three
to six.

3	For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

4	Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of
the truth.

5	For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus;

6	Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

	“Now it doesn’t say that, it says the God Christ Jesus.”  So
that’s a water pump.  Oh is this a horse, I forget what I called it? 
This here well, I don’t know what that could be a bottle of wine or
vinegar.  Who cares?  Because you see, you’re crazy, you’re stupid. 
There’s no use trying to talk to you. Now why do people who claim to
be spiritual suddenly act like idiots?  

	A kid in grade three, if I said tell me son, what does this, call this
Jesus Christ?  “Well, it calls Him a man.”  Does it call Him God? 
“No it calls Him a Man.”  Is that an organ?  “Yes, that’s an
organ.”  You sure it’s not a piano?  “No, it’s not a piano.” 
Well it could a mouth organ.  “Oh come on, I don’t even think a
giant could put that in his mouth.”  

	A kid in school.  But go and address smart men in a seminary, or in a
pew, or in a pulpit and suddenly they’re insane and they call us
insane.  Because we can talk, we can differentiate between a hawk and a
chickadee.  Evidently they can’t.  Now who’s the insane?

	I’m going to tell you something.  You cannot get rid of Jesus, you
oneness people, if you’re oneness in your mind or your heart or
hearing this tape.  You cannot get rid of that body because God reduced
Himself to a man for the purpose of kinsman-ship.  Redemption to save us
by blood.  And that Lamb will always be there with the nail prints,
sitting on the throne through eternity.  And He’s not sucked up and
done away with and He won’t be God per se.

	But as Bro. Branham said, the body is so much a part of God it is a
Son.  And I was trying to tell you about the radish and the beet and the
turnip and the carrot.  It isn’t the minerals, it’s the life. 
It’s the life wherein the genetic code is, because minerals and
substance without a life are nothing.  So God gave Himself a genetic
code in the human pattern, becoming the express image of God and the
expression of His substance. 

	As Bro. Branham said, what is the difference between God and Jesus? 
God did have no beginning but Jesus did.  Sure there’s a mystery
there, we’ll get to it before it’s over, don’t worry.  It becomes
clearer and clearer.  But I won’t force any issues, because I won’t
leave the Bible.  

	When a prophet said, for man’s thinking to try to put a new patch on
an old garment, when this is an entirely new message revealing Godhead. 
So you forget everything you knew about Godhead and baptisms and those
things.  And you go on to what?	You go back to God Himself, where it’s
all completed and everything that came from the Head has come down.  

	Now what are you going to face next?  You’re going to face Head. 
Let’s take ourselves back.  Name your father and mother.  You can do
it.  Name your grand parents.  Now I tricked you.  Name your great-grand
parents.  You say, “well I think I got them too.”  Name your
great-great-grand parents.  “Well maybe, I think, I’m not sure.” 
Name your great-great-great-grand parents.  “Well I hope I’m right
on this one.”  Take yourself back like Bible genealogy to Adam and you
go plumb back to God, where the genes came from.

	Now tell me that God is a material substance.  God is a genetic code in
the Holy Ghost.  And by that genetic coding being God, omniscient,
omnipotent, He can do anything anytime He wants and He’s doing it and
He’s showing how He’s does it with us in relationship and people
blindly go away.  And they take their own genetic coding, as though they
had something to with it.  You can’t do it.  I hope you’re catching
what I’m saying, because I’m dealing flat with Godhead right now and
how God does things.

	I know I’m right, I don’t care what anybody else says.  I know
I’m right.  I told Brother Dave, I’ve quoted a prophet and not even
know how to quote Him.  I’ve told people years ago to get together and
talk the Word. But what was it?  But we found it, didn’t we, in the
Token? But they had not yet come together to talk the Word.  Now where
did that come from?  The same Holy Ghost, brother/sister, that showed me
in the Bible, showed Bro. Branham.

	But He saw a little group down there.  Maybe Lee Vale’s group is the
only group that did it.  I wouldn’t say it was the only group, but you
better start doing more and more of it, and me too.  I miss the days
when I was strong and I’d have people come by the house, and I could
just—one little thought they gave me and I’d be off for an hour and
a half and stay up until two in the morning, talking.  It kept them out
of bed and kept me out of it.  It served you right.  It gave you a bum
shake, I give you one too. Keep me up that late.  It was good though
wasn’t it?  He said:

50-4"This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in," God and
man becoming One.

	Now listen, all else you can put to one side, as an angel, fine, as
Michael, you can leave it there.  As Melchisedec.  Who knows what
happened?  But you always watch that one man called Christ Jesus and the
Pillar of Fire.  As Paul said, that at this time we don’t know Him as
a man anymore except, He’s sitting up there as a
mediator—intersection.  

	Who do we know Jesus as; who do we know Jehovah as?  Pillar of Fire,
because the Pillar of Fire said I’m Jesus.  And Bro. Branham met that
same Pillar of Fire and He called the One up there, the Body.  Don’t
be ignorant brother/sisters, stick with the prophet.  I was offended for
while over that little thought of that word, the Body—I thought that
was too nice to say, but that’s the only expression you can possibly
use.

	Okay, here we see the personal present manifested to the prophet, as he
indicates what the Word is, in season. In other words, God personally
deals with that prophet so that that prophet can give you the Word in
season, just what Bro. Branham said.

50-4There you are. Simplicity. (What's the simplicity? What's he saying,
now illustrating simplicity.  John that old preacher) When an old
preacher... His father--his father was a great theologian, (That’s
Zacheriah) you know. He come out of school. Look like he (John) would've
went back to his father's denomination. That wouldn't be in the will of
God.

51-2 When God touched him at his birth back there and he received the
Holy Ghost three months before he was born.

	…?... That’s true, you know that.  He was six months in his
mother’s womb, received the Holy Ghost, before He was born.  Now
people come along and say “well now the thing is this, you have to
repent before you get the Holy Ghost.”  Well, John didn’t have
anything to repent of and He got the Holy Ghost, evidently.

	How do you account for God?  You stereotyped Him.  And always He’s
stereotyped wrong.  This is the true stereotype, God minds His own
business and asks us to mind ours but listen to His.  Exactly true.  Now
here’s what He did.  This man was predestined before he was born
because he’s back there in God.  This is natural election,
predestination, what we saw was spiritual because He was in God.

51-2 Yes, sir. When Mary went up there and little John was six months
old in his mother's womb and hadn't ever--them little muscles had never
moved yet, and Mary (Elizabeth) was afraid.

	Now this is was what the prophet said, you better believe it, like Jack
said on Saturday night.  You don’t find this in your Bible.  Well you
say, “I think Bro. Branham is glamorizing.”  Well bully for you.  Is
your glamorization any better?  Because you didn’t know either. 

	Where did Moses get His understanding?  Moses wrote way back from
concerning in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. 
Trace the history right down through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Came up
right, no word missing, everything in a nut form you know, in a nutshell
form, epitomized.  Say, “oh I believe that, I believe that, I believe
that, I believe that.”  Why?  “Oh a prophet did it.”  Well what if
a prophet came on the scene today?  “Well I’m not quite so sure.” 
That’s right, you’re not sure.  But there's ways to be sure.  

	You know, isn’t it strange how the mind works.  Phooey on the mind. 
It’ll trick you.  I even get mental blocks.  You don’t try to build
with them, you couldn’t, it won't work.

51-2…and Mary was afraid. The little muscles were growing, but she
couldn't feel no life--Elisabeth, his mother, rather. And when Mary come
up and grabbed her and hugged her, put her arms--laid hands on her 
(Laid hands on her, so to speak)... That's it. "God has spoke to me, and
I'm going to have a baby too." (That’s Mary speaking)

"Are you and Joseph married?"

"No."

"Mary, how can this be?"

"The Holy Ghost shall overshadow me, and there'll be (a son) created in
me. And I shall call His Name Jesus. He will be the Son of God."

	 How?  God imparts His life.  You don’t worry about the genetic
material when you’ve got the genetic Author, a part of It, within you.
 Well what did God breath into Adam?  How did He make him into a
spiritual being in the first place, that was in his image?  Breathed in
the Holy Ghost, started that seed in there.  How’d the Holy Ghost do
that?  Not in sex, but He got into it.  How’d he get here?  You I’m
talking about, you got here by sex. You got here.  You, a gene of God
got here, born over a manure pile so to speak.

	So Christ so born over a manure pile, identified perfectly to get you a
rebirth, begotten of God. These things aren’t hard to understand. 
Let’s face it, the virgin birth, as Bro. Branham said is nothing to
understand along side of the complexity of a child of God, a son of God,
being born after generation of generation and trillions and—oh God,
how many how many eggs and sperm?—greater then the stars, multiplied
by what’s in the stars.  How can you count?  There's no way.

	Only the infinite God could watch that that life come on down.  Then
people marvel, His eye is on the sparrow.  That’s as big as sixteen
universes along side of a sperm and an egg, the life that’s in it. 
Now I’m going to tell you something that’s no trouble with God at
all, really, because He is life, just doled out, meted out a certain
way.  You think, heh.  Come on, listen here, look at the penguins, she
knows exactly who her little baby is, little penguin knows exactly who
momma is.

	No, listen.  Little, little tiny, little bit of mayfly, a little,
little fly that you can't even see, it knows how to breed exactly with
the little fly that you can hardly see. It doesn’t go into a big
mosquito or glow fly or a horse fly or a grasshopper.  Life is life, it
knows.  You think God doesn’t know His children and the children
don’t know God?

	It’s just that they don’t acquaint themselves with knowledge, but
when they understand the way of God and acquaint themselves with the
knowledge, then it’s not as though the ass knows its master’s crib,
the birds in the air know their path, but my people know not me.  That
isn't true anymore.  That’s what those guys out there; but they shall
know their God.  And then they’ll be like a like a troop jumping over
a wall.  That’s rupture.  The prophet said so.

	Oh listen brother/sister, I’ve got confidence in this Word and in
nothing else.  You can have the rest.  They say, “take the whole world
and give me Jesus.”  Well now, just hold it, let’s qualify that. 
What Jesus are you talking about?  One of your imagination or the Logos
of God?  See, okay?  But there’s different things you can say about
that.

51-2 And as soon as that word Jesus spoke, little John begin to leap and
shout, jumping around in his mother's womb. She said, "Blessed be the
Lord God, for whence comes the mother of my Lord." The mother of my
Lord... Oh, my. "Whence comes the mother of my Lord, for as soon as your
salutation come into my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy."

	Now listen, that little baby was just a little boy and she’s talking
about the Lord, the mother of my Lord.  Now she wasn’t the mother of
God but the mother of my Lord.  And who is our Lord, who is our master?
Jesus. Who heads the church psychically?  Jesus does.  The head of the
bride is a man.  So therefore the head of the bride is Christ the
Messiah and Messiah has got to die, to give his life.  And who is head
of Christ?  The very one that indwelt him.

	So God has a son and presents a bride.  And God is fulfilled in that. 
People can't understand God being fulfilled that way.  Well we just try
to understand it.  We can't do anything about it.  I know it boggles the
mind but I think if we sat around and talked it out, we can find out
some things there.  But it all boils back to one thing, God being a
savior.  He predestined a sinner in order to give Himself reason and
purpose of being and God having this substance that is spiritual within
to be a Father.  He made a way for Him.

	 But God also had the attributes of being a Son, like coming under
subjection, so what’d He do?  He puts Himself in a position to come
under authority.  But now, also He’s a husband so He puts Himself in a
position therefore to be one.  How unsearchable are His ways, but you
can some of the mighty good things of God, can't you?

51-4 No wonder he didn't want no seminary, something to indoctrinate him
with something another. He had a important job. He was a man of the
wilderness, went out into the wilderness and waited. God told him out
there, (Sure did)  said, "Now..." and revealed to him. (Oh, there's your
revelation again.) "And I'll tell you Who He is. (He’s a prophet,
I’ll make that right) You're a prophet. The Word's to you. (Means
comes to you) You know who you are. You've got to come.”

 	Now he’s saying; here this is a conversation, like between John and
God where John is saying, look God saying to John, look John… 

"You know who you are, 

	And you know who’s coming to you.  See?  You know, see?  Like He said
here.  You know who you are

 John. (But) Keep yourself quiet. Don't say (anything) nothing. Go on
out there, and when you see (Messiah) this One, there'll be a sign
coming from heaven like a Light; a Dove will come down. That'll be Him
when you see Him."

	See, there again you’ll notice that Bro. Branham keeps on informing
you that the prophet informs you with the information wherewith God
informed him.  And if you want information from God you’ve got to have
the ordained channel.  And you can't say, “well I’ve got the Holy
Ghost, that’ll do it.”  

	Caiaphas had the Holy Ghost, prophesied, and had Christ crucified. 
Don’t talk to me about having the Holy Ghost, because you can be just
as anointed as Judas was, and as Caiaphas was, but the real genuine
baptism of the Holy Ghost, you being a seed—it’ll point out Christ
every single time as it has done in every age.  And in this age when
headship returns it points him out, God once more, manifested in human
flesh—but you’ve got to be careful on that one.  It doesn’t make
the man God, because he never had a birth like this one did—but God to
the people, through that manifestation.

52-1 That's the reason when Jesus walked out in the water, John looked
over, and he seen that Dove coming down, he said, "Behold the Lamb of
God. There He is. He's the One that'll take away the sin of the world."

	The same thing today.  Bro. Branham was in the water baptizing, when
that Pillar of Fire came down like a rainbow.  He was there to see the
vision of angels and see it fulfilled and he said this is what it’s
all about, and the world said, aw come on now.  And when the dove came
down they didn’t give a rip if anybody did see it, maybe…  Bro.
Branham said nobody saw it, except John, that’s true, but nobody... 
But you know, funny thing was, some people believed it.  And look what
happened to them.  

	Now listen here, if we’re right today, if we believe, what’s going
to happen to us?  We’ll going to get out of here.  See, we’re
already back to Eden.  We’re right back to where we’re going to
stretch forth the hand to take of the Tree of Life, which when we do, we
get to Eden transformed, because all nature is waiting for us, and
we’ve got to get to that Tree of Life first.

	Everybody thinks, “oh, let me get back to where nature is.”  You
are all messed up in your thinking, you’ve got to get back there
yourself, the nature follows you.  Let’s read it in Romans the eighth
chapter.  

	You got one more minute left on that?  Two minutes.  Okay, I’ve just
got time,  we’re going to close.  

	The eighth chapter of Romans, it says here, verse 19: 

19	For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.

20	For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by
reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21	Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22	For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
together until now.

23	And not only they, but ourselves also, (Even people like us, full of
the Holy ghost) which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body.

	It tells you right there.  When our bodies are redeemed then everything
else gets redeemed.  But in the mean time, we’re right to Eden where
we can stretch forth the hand and walk immortal.  And when we walk
immortal then we walk out of here, marriage supper, come on down and
it’s Millennium.  Now that’s what we’ve got.

	I don’t care what anybody else says brother/sister, I’m not giving
you a pipe dream.  People think we’re dreaming, if this is a dream
let’s dream on.  

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	

	Heavenly Father we’re grateful to again to say that we thank You from
the bottom of our hearts, that we can come together and to just pour and
pour and pour over one message.  One little paragraph, one sentence, to
see it open up.  To realize, Lord, how that we have stood in the
presence of great things in this hour.  That actually, Lord, we realize,
by hearing this message from Bro. Branham, we realize that six thousand
years waited for this, two thousand years waited from the time of the
apostle Paul.

	And here our eyes are seeing and our ears are hearing, and we’re
comprehending what is going on and we recognize it is You.  And we
admit, Lord, we can’t recognize it as we want to recognize it.  We
don’t have the solemnity, the sobriety, these things we ought to have,
but Lord, we know it’s real.  And we can say with the prophet, if
we’re not bride, there’s a bride out there somewhere that will have
it.  Because we know it is true.  

	But Lord, by faith we believe tonight that You didn’t bring us this
far to dump us off the edge, to let us lie as foolish virgin or
something else.  You brought us this far, Lord, to see this in order to
inherit that dimension of which we are speaking.  The very kingdom of
God here, ready to translate us into this Truth of it, then all nature
following, because we know that man fell then nature fell, so we’ve
got to get restored first.  So Father we thank you tonight.

	Now heavenly Father ,again we just pray, forgive us of every sin this
day of omission and commission.  Wash our hearts thoroughly by the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Hear our voices through the blood, see our
representative up there for us in our stead, oh Lord God, and then bow
Your ear in grace as You’ve already done.  

	Stretch forth your hand in mercy, Lord, and take these hearts of ours,
hearts of ours, and circumcise them all from all unbelief and any
waywardness, oh God, and submission in the chains of love to You, Lord,
until…  Not trying to be William Branham, but simply follow in his
steps and be a credit, like we take him as our spiritual voice from
You—that we followed Your voice through him, and now are passing from
the Word that he gave us into Your very image.

	Father, please help us tonight in this respect, because this is what we
want.  In spite of all talk and brashness and everything else, Lord, we
want to be tender, kind and sweet and loving, and just the dear children
of God, who in humility and grace actually live, Lord, as they ought to
live and believe as they ought to believe.

	That all things Lord to glorify Your name because that’s what we want
Lord, we don’t want to misrepresent You in any way, but really
represent You.  And we know-

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