Future Home #17 - Recap

God’s Way of Beginning Again

July 24, 1988

	Heavenly Father, we just approach Your Throne this morning to ask You
to put it into our hearts to believe and to praise You, and to worship
You and to live according to Truth. We know, if Satan could put in the
heart of Judas to betray You, and the hearts of Annanias and Saphira to
lie, then how much more, Lord, You can put in our hearts to serve
righteously, correctly, the living God. And we know that that’s not
just possible; we know that it is possible, absolutely. It is even
commended unto us.

	So, Lord, teach us how to get out of the way that You might have the
preeminence in our hearts, minds, and lives. Be gracious to us today, O
God, by enlightening our hearts and giving us strength to walk in the
Light. We’ll be careful to give You the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen.


	You may be seated.

1.	Now, because of the importance of some of the things that Bro.
Branham said in “The Future Home”, I want to take a little recap on
some of those thoughts, because they seem to me to be very outstanding
in the presentation by Bro. Branham. Now, going over the Message, it has
become my considered opinion—and, of course, I’m not the smartest
preacher, nor teacher, nor great theologian. I haven’t studied all the
books. But, it is still, from what I have studied and read, my
considered opinion, that no theologian in any of the Seven Church Ages
(and especially the sixth and the seventh—also the fifth, because
Luther came in the fifth) that anyone has come anywhere near revealing
(as Bro. Branham did) why God devised and now follows through on His
Plan to place His future Kingdom on a newly recreated earth, making this
His eternal home and His eternal government.

2.	Now it’s commonly believed that since God is God, (That means
He’s absolutely sovereign.) that being God, He can do anything He
wants to do, (And He does that.) and that He is both Creator and
Sustainer; and that’s the Scripture. God did not just make this earth
and everything in it and put the times and the patterns in process and,
then, stand back and watch it work. That is not true. 

	God is in intimate relationship and control over all
nature—everything He’s made—because He’s Creator and Sustainer.
And most certainly He could, because He’s able to, by the Word of His
mouth, blast into literal nothingness whatever He desired to blast into
nothingness, that is, put to one side and say, “Well, that’s all
over; I’m finished with it. There’s no more of it.” Now, He would
not be capricious in so doing. Even though He’s sovereign and could do
it, He’s not whimsical. He’s not capricious, because He would be
correctly judgmental. He has promised He would save His elect and His
Heavenly retinue—whatever that comprises—of angels, archangels, and
so on. And He’s also said He would annihilate all else and start over
again. And He could just annihilate everything and start over, if He
wanted to, but He’s not capricious. He has a way of beginning again,
and that ‘beginning again’ is not through the process of complete
annihilation and, then, starting something all over again. 

3.	Now you might think that would be true, according to Rev 20:11.
Let’s just look at that. And he says here:

(11)	... I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place
for them.

	Well, if there isn’t found any place for them in the economy of God,
what would they be doing outside the economy of God? They wouldn’t be
there at all. God would just annihilate them. There’s found no place
for them in the new economy of God; it would signify an annihilation.
Say, “Well, all right, we’re just going to get rid of the whole
thing, annihilate it, and that’ll take care of that.” And then, in
Rev 21:1-2:

(1)	And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea..

	Now that sounds very much like ‘All right, God’s going to blast
everything into eternity (so to speak). He’s going to annihilate it,
and that takes care of that. He’d just start all over again.’ 

4.	Then, in 2 Peter we find what appears to be the same sentiment. And
It says in 2 Pet 3:10-13:

(10)	But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, ... the elements
shall melt with (the) fervent heat, (and) the earth also (Now, that
sounds like, period. The earth... And It says on top of that, all the
works that ever came out of it, are going to be) burned up. (Well...)

(11)	Seeing … that all these things shall be dissolved, (Well, you
know how to dissolve a thing is you just, just like vaporizing it.) what
manner of persons (you) ought to be (and so on)

(12)	Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, ... the elements ... melt
with (a) fervent heat?

(13)	Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for a new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

	So, that looks as though it’s very clear in Scripture that God’s
just going to destroy it all—dissolve it all, start all over again,
build something entirely new, radically new, for all we know. 

5.	Again, over here in Malachi 4 we seem to get a thought along the same
line here that would sound like it.

(1)	For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and (yea)
all the proud, ... and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the
day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts ...
(leaving) them neither root nor branch.

	Sounds like there’s going to be a pretty thorough annihilation there
too. 

	Now, however, we know that this is not so. What it sounds like is not
what it is. But, as the more enlightened students of Scripture
know—and Bro. Branham, by vindicated ministry, proved—that it’s
merely the crust of the earth and the atmosphere that is going to be
melted. And the word ‘dissolved’, of course, does not mean
‘dissolved, in the sense that we would dissolve a lump of sugar in a
cup of water’. The word ‘dissolved’ means ‘to loose from its
binding, what it was moored to’. So, therefore, he’s looking at the
loosing of the former creation and those things that are of God from the
bondage of sin and death and anything that belongs to the enemy and,
then, are joined back to Almighty God in a re-creation that God will
bring about, wherein there is a cleansing from all evil life and all
physical forms of evil life even to the attention, even to the spirit
behind it. All of that’s going to go, so that God will one day reign
without the evidence of sin or anything which even would denote sin,
either near Him, around Him, and so on, so that His Kingdom would be an
everlasting and perfect Kingdom which enjoys His Own glorification.

6.	Now it is very evident, and we understand, that the earth’s
redemption, as Bro. Branham taught it, takes on an aspect (as I
mentioned) that no other person has ever brought to our attention. Now
we’ll read on page 44, paragraphs 203-207. He says:

[203]	Now look, it’s going to be... (Then, he stops there. He said,)
Remember, it’s not going to be Heaven... (And he’s talking about the
New Jerusalem coming down to earth, but) it comes down from Heaven.
It’s a dwelling place, a place to dwell in, to take up His abode. Like
John saw in Revelation 21 on the Isle of Patmos, he saw it descending.
John saw the City descending from Heaven like a dove, like he saw...
(And he speaks now in terms of when John the Baptist—not John the
Revelator, now, but, when John the Baptist—saw the Holy Spirit, God in
the form of a dove, come down and take up His habitation in Jesus, he
said ... Here comes God down upon His earthly tabernacle, Jesus, the
man, and it was descending from out of Heaven.

[204]	Jesus was baptized, went up straight way out of the water. (Now
he’s talking, of course, before he was baptized, (He changes his tense
here.) and he talks of previous, where John is going to meet Jesus. He
said...) When He met the prophet ... (the Word always comes to the
prophet, and Jesus was the Word.) And the prophet was standing there,
denying all their denominations, everything; and, when he saw the Word,
the Word came right to him. The prophet was so shocked, he said,
“I’ve got need to be baptized by you. Why do you come to me?”

[205]	He said, Suffer it to be so, for thus it is becoming to us... to
fulfill all righteousness... I am the Sacrifice that must be washed.”
(So, John allowed it. Now, watch:)

[206]	When he went up out of the water, he said, “I saw the heavens
open.”The prophet saw it. He saw the heavens open, and here come
descending out of Heaven the form of a Dove and a Voice saying...
“This is... (Now, watch; listen to this.) This is My part of the earth
that I have redeemed, and from this part of the earth I will redeem the
rest of it, for he is My Word made manifest. And the whole world—I
spoke it into existence by My Word (Hebrews 11), and Satan’s held it
all this time, but I’ve come to redeem it.” —so much... (Because
the body of Christ was made out of that earth.) “and I’m coming to
dwell in the earth.”

	Now, this throws the whole plan of redemption into the light where Bro.
Branham constantly talked of the earth being a type of our redemption:
water, blood, and spirit—fire (the cleansing); that is, water, and
blood and the cleansing of fire. Then, the Spirit of God can dwell in
the individual. So it is with nature. God has so arranged that this
earth, positively, that though baptized in water, it didn’t do the
job. The blood of Jesus Christ came in between, and it set the principle
whereby the fire could now cleanse it, and God could come down and take
over with His Own people and what He had foreknown, elected and
predestinated of everything you see out here for the last six thousand
years.

7.	You see, all those junky cars out there, (And they’re nice cars,
but they’re just junk.) you’re not going to want them in the
Millennium. You wouldn’t have any use for them. You wouldn’t have
any use for all these trappings we see here; there’s just no place for
it. But I want to tell you, brother/sister, they were made out of
something that was in this earth that God is going to redeem and put in
its right place. And it won’t be a heap of tin out there anymore. And
it won’t be a bunch of indestructible plastic. And it won’t be a
bunch of poison. But it’s going to be exactly what was here in the
beginning. (See?) And, remember that Jesus’ body was composed of it. 

	Now, don’t think any other thought. Otherwise you get too
heavenly-minded, and you’re no earthly good. Your thoughts are
completely beyond the thoughts of God, and God will not stand for that.
You and I must bring our thoughts where God brought His thoughts. And He
brought us down here into this earth. That’s why He said, “I will
destroy those that destroy the earth.” And that’s why you see the
conservationists such as Bro. Branham, and that’s why you see the EPA,
and that’s why you see the hippies. And that’s why you see all this
stuff out there. They’re trying to roll everything back to a day that
only God can bring us back to. And it’s going to take a dissolution by
fire. Yes it is. Then, every single thing will come back, not only in
its rightful and proper place according to the ecology of God, but it
will be glorified by God.

8.	Nobody ever said anything like this in any text book of theology that
I know of. You’re not going to find it. In Bro. Branham there lay the
complete composite of God—the prophet, and the poet, and the lawgiver,
and the revealer, and the preacher, and the teacher—a real voice of
God. You don’t think there’s a poet in William Branham? I’ve
looked, and I’ve looked, and I can’t find where in the Church Ages
(in my own laziness) where he mentions “Jehovah born over a manure
pile, Jehovah weeping.” [THE SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE  JEFF IN  ROJC
185-227  TUESDAY 60-1206] Then, he said, “You people going around so
proud with your nose so high in the air, if a rainstorm came you’d
drown.”(I think he said that. I know I would if he didn’t.
[Laughter]... I’ve already said it. ) But the poet, by the Spirit of
God, that lay in the Songs of Solomon and in the Psalms, was in that
man. That’s why he loved nature. He was a true conservationist. 

9.	Let’s keep reading. Now, let me read it again. Here’s what Bro.
Branham said: (And it’s so wonderful.)

[206]	“This is My part of the earth that I have redeemed.” Because
that’s where he came out of; Jesus came out of the earth.

	God identified Himself. Let’s just look at it. I’ll turn to it over
here. It’s in Hebrews. It says here in Heb 2:14:

(14)	Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood
(which is the earth. They never had that in Adam and Eve when they were
spirit forms. It was only when they came out of the earth, like the
beast of the field and all – same thing; we’re akin to the beast,
mammals.), he ... likewise took part of the same;

	He never took the human sperm. He took the divine sperm by creation
(and the egg) and placed it in the womb of Mary, and she became, what
you’d call the factory (That’s what it was.) to produce from the
earth, his body. He only took a part of it. No Sir, he didn’t take all
of it... Old Doc DeHan, old ‘gravel-voice’ Dehawn, he brought this
out beautifully. He didn’t say he ‘partook of’. He ‘took a part
of’; He didn’t take it all. (See?)

(14)	...that through death...

	He couldn’t die in the flesh you and I have and mean anything for
blood. It wasn’t pure. That’s not the blood of God. If Mary had a
husband, and that husband brought forth this man that we call Jesus,
that would not be the blood of God. The blood of God signifies the Truth
that the egg and sperm were created by God and placed in the womb of
Mary, because that’s where it had to come from. 

10.	Now It says: [Hebrews 2]

(14)	...that through death he might destroy him ...(Bring to nothing,
him) that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

(15)	And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.

(16)	For verily he took not on him (of the substance or) the nature of
(what lies in) angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

	Where did Abraham come from? Out of the ground. So, Jesus did the same
thing. God became thoroughly identified with all of nature. That’s why
I keep on teaching that in Him was Zoe. God is not Zoe; God is not
nature. God’s not a piece of tin out there. The attributes of God
which lie in the great Attributes of the mental capacities of God, which
is infinite wisdom, omniscience plus omnipotence can do all of this we
see. And, listen; when you see that, you see God; and you will not waste
that. Like we’ll bring out what Bro. Branham says concerning your
soul: “How could God destroy our souls? He can’t, because it’s a
part of Himself.”

11.	But you’re seeing a perversion out there. Even mythology
understands a perversion. Balder the Beautiful: Everybody loved him
except Loke; he hated him. So, he made everybody in nature say, “We
will not hurt this man.” They even dipped him in blood (I think) so
he’d be ... by the heel or someplace... (I don’t know my mythology
anymore. I’m not that smart anymore. I can’t remember. Maybe you
remember.) He had one little vulnerable spot. All nature said, “We
will not do one thing to harm him.” But the little bit of mistletoe up
in the Arctic areas. They felt that the mistletoe was ever so
insignificant; he would never be a problem to Balder the Beautiful.
Everybody loved him. (See? It’s a picture of the insanity of paganism,
trying to talk about Christ—how God became flesh.) So, Loke fashioned
the mistletoe into a dart that could destroy him.

	So, that’s what you see out here. Even heathen mythology points to
the fact that there’s a perversion out there. You get rid of the
perversion, let God bring you back, and we get out of our perverted
ways. What more could you want?

	Well, you see, to say something different is to impugn the wisdom of
God and say, “Well, God, I know better than You.” And the beauty of
this Message is that Bro. Branham brings us to the Truth. 

	It’s not say, “Now, if I was God, I’d just destroy the whole
thing; then, I’d start and do something else.” 

	You’ve got to be wrong. This is the eternal purpose of God that’s
in a form forever. Not some magic that man thinks he’s going to do. 

12.	Now, listen. Let me read it.

[206] 	“This is My part of the earth that I have redeemed, and from
this part of the earth I will redeem the rest of it.

	What came out of the earth? Everything you see. You know, in everything
that’s so perverted it’s better we use artificial flowers than real
flowers anymore. Yes! Everything’s so perverted, but just wait till
God brings it back. You see, no seed can be really lost. What’ve they
done to your vegetables? Try and find some good vegetables anymore.
They’ve got a seed bank that the world—some type of congress of
agriculture—is determined to destroy every seed but the seeds that
they want, which are hybrids. They’ve done it, almost. 

	So, there’s a group of smart people (Thank God!) that say, “We’re
not going to stand for this folly.” So, they’ve got their own banks,
and they’re pleading with people, “Do you know a seed somewhere that
is still original? Bring it to us. We want to cultivate that—the
original seed.”

13.	How’d you like to be back to just even where Adam was? Adam fell
into sin. Bro. Branham... (Well, there again I’ll be ahead of myself
to answer the next question.) So, anyway, wouldn’t it be nice to be
back to where Adam was, even in sin? How’d you like to be someone like
Abel, even though you died for it? Or like Seth? How’d you like to cut
a figure in this world like a Boaz? And the women be some kind of a
Ruth? That’s getting far down the trail. Let’s think of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob. Let’s think of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel. How’d you
like to go back—even that far back? It’d sure be a whole lot better
than this society we’ve got today. You talk about a mess that’s on
our hands. 

14.	Now he said: (Page 44)

[206] 	 (I’m going to) ... redeem the rest of it, for he is my Word
made manifest and by the Word of his mouth all of this is there. And He
is the expression of God Himself, and nature is an expression of God.
You and I are an expression of God. He said, “I’m going to redeem
it.” (You don’t find any theologians saying that. It’s not in any
other book.) ... Satan’s held it all this time, but I’ve come to
redeem it.” (Now, they’ll say that. If they didn’t say that,
they’re not even, you know, Christian?) They’re not even that;
they’re a bunch of heathen.

 [207]	John said, “I saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem descending
out of Heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband.”

	Presentation. A presentation. God brought Eve to Adam and said, “Now,
this is what came out of you.” 

	“Well, I came out of the earth, and she came out of me. Bone of my
bone, flesh of my flesh. This is my wife; this is what You gave me.”

	And the holy City, which is the Bride, is a presentation to Jesus
Christ that came out of Him, that came out of the earth. Are you feeling
better about the earth now? I know you are. Perhaps I feel it in the
Spirit. We’re becoming more positive.

15.	Look, you may be dying today of God-knows-what: tuberculosis,
cancer, diabetes. So what? What’s that got to do with it? Even little
tiny babies die. You’ve got problems right now with your little
children. We’ll take eight solid generations to breed your children
back to health—if you could find what to eat. (I’ll jump the gun
here.) Look, for years I preached—before Bro. Branham came on the
scene, and before anything came on the scene—about AIDS. I said,
“God repented Himself. God felt sorry for the human race,” and He
said, “I’m going to blot them all out.” And He let the flood come
in, and He took them all out.

16.	Let’s look at AIDS today. AIDS is not only debilitating; it is
terribly debilitating. You have no will; you’re drained completely.
And the worse thing is, they don’t tell you. And I will tell you this
morning: With AIDS you are not only dying, you are rotting. Your bodies
rot with AIDS. And It says, in the end time, the people will be ‘twice
dead’. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, that’s spiritual.” 

	It is true, but it is now that these people with AIDS, carrying AIDS,
are literally rotting and dying before they’re dead. They’re not
just starving; they’re rotting. So, you that are fooling around (if
you are) with men and women, look out! Let me tell you this: In the
Cutting Edge paper, (I didn’t bring it.) AIDS is doubling every twelve
months—the patients, the sick ones. If there were 300,000 AIDS cases
in America (and there are more), by the year 2000 there will, in America
alone, be over 315 million cases of AIDS. Think about it. And there
won’t be that many people in America. We’ve only got about two and a
quarter million right now. That’s the world. That’s the price man
will pay for his sin. 

17.	Do you hear what I’m saying, you young people? And you married
ones, if you have a disposition toward wantonness, let me tell you...
And I’ll say it again: If you get AIDS through sexual intercourse, I
will not pray for you, nor will this church. Now, whatever the church
does is your business; you’re on your own. We’ll pray for your soul,
but your body… Well, you’ve asked for it. You can’t even guzzle
too much coffee without your immune system going. So, don’t talk to me
about flagrantly disobeying the precepts of Almighty God, when God, in
this hour, has made a way for you and me (if we were young again) to
marry wives and live with them in the pleasantness and the love and the
consideration and the beauty of life that God wanted for us.

	Now, that’s it. I’m giving you statistics. I’ve got... Dr.
Douglas, then, is no fool. I’ve got it right at home on my desk.
I’ve got a little file; I could bring it if you like, and I could read
it to you. But my understanding is, there’s close to a million cases
in America right now. So, in 1989, there’s two million, and in ‘90
there’s four million, and in ‘91 there’s eight million, and in
‘92 there’s sixteen, and in ‘93 there’s thirty-two, and in ‘94
there is sixty-four... Now we’re getting there very fast. The next is
128, and the next is 256, and from there you go to 512 million—and
that’s way before the year 2000. That’s the possibility, but not
factual for sure.

	What’s God going to do? God’s going to get a Bride out of here, and
within three and a half years the whole world will be completely gone.
And He’ll come back and set up His Kingdom for one thousand years for
further sanctification. [Page 44]

18.	[207] 	 John said, “I saw the holy City, New Jerusalem, descending
out of Heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband.”

	Where did it settle on? Just exactly like it did on there, upon the
earth. Where did Adam get his wife? Out of the earth and on the earth.
Where did Jesus come from? Bodily, out of the earth. Don’t attach some
big thing to it! You see, our minds would like to glorify God in a way
that God doesn’t want to be glorified.

	“Why, Lord, if I had my way.”

	Oh, come, come! 

	“Would You come out of the earth like we came out of the earth? Far
be it from You, O Lord!” 

	You talk about a bunch of sanctimonious reasonings! Then, some
preacher, some theologian, some great leader stands up, and he leads the
people right into sin, as though he knew something. 

19.	Tell me whether the theologians have caught what Bro. Branham said
here. Tell me that they—with their wisdom, their greatness—had the
tenderness and the love and the beauty and the poetry and the shimmering
life and the edenic expressions to understand how God really was lifting
people. 

	“Well, He lifted my soul.” 

	Certainly. You always were a part of God; He just brought that back.
It’s your body He’s looking to redeem now. That’s why Paul got so
upset. They said, “Some say the resurrection’s over. There isn’t
any.” And he said, “If there be no resurrection, forget the whole
Gospel.”

	Well, have you looked in any three-way mirrors recently? [Laughter] I
think you’re just as bad as I am. You can’t take it. You look in a
three-way mirror, and you go into a almost... (What do you call it?)
Well, you almost become catatonic. You freeze. [Laughter] You get a
complex. Don’t look at me, so grouchy sometimes. You think I’m not
telling you the truth? I’m telling you the truth; you’ll have your
same crooked noses. (I think.) If you didn’t, how would I recognize
you? because I’m going to be there. I can’t afford to miss it.
Forget your three-way mirrors. [Page 44]

20.	[207]	“...adorned as a bride for her husband.” What did it
settle on? The earth. —just like it did upon the earth there. Jesus
was part of that earth that the Holy Ghost descended upon (Is that
right?) and remained upon Him forever.

	If you ever get the baptism with the Holy Ghost, your cells will never
ever get over the effect of it. It’s just like it takes the same
baptism with the Holy Ghost now to begin exciting every atom—the RNA
and the DNA—every single bit of our bodies being excited right now by
the Word of Almighty God, the Life. God didn’t say He’s going to
raise up a new congregation. No siree! He sure didn’t say that. He’s
going to redeem the one that’s here in the ground and standing now on
it. He’s not going to raise up a new generation. The generation of God
is His seed—six thousand years of seed: two thousand years of New
Testament, four thousand years of Old—bringing it all together in the
New Jerusalem. Yes! Right here on the earth, even before the New
Jerusalem. He’s not going to make a new world. It’s this one right
here. He’s just going to burn it and clean it like He did you. His
plans must remain ever the same. Isn’t that wonderful to think of
that? Absolutely fantastic! (See?)

21.	[207] 	(Now) it remained upon Him forever, just like it remains upon
you and me. Sure. It can never leave Him; It’s always there. He and
God are One. Always has to remain. And so Jesus [John] saw the holy
City, New Jerusalem, descending like a comet or a dove, coming down out
of Heaven and settling upon a redeemed, entire earth. To do what? To
claim every attribute that He made the earth for; to claim every
attribute that He made the earth for.

	And, what came out of the earth? You name it. The birds, the bees, the
fish, everything came out of it somewhere, because what’s in the water
that sustains the beasts, the fish and all, is not just simply H2O.
There’s everything grown in there by the minerals; it’s placed in
there. You remember, a little while back, they touted it, because Dr.
Crane did.

	“Why,” he said, “My mother-in-law got some sea-water down there
in Florida, and she drinks the stuff, and her arthritis disappeared.
Why? Because the ocean’s full of these wonderful minerals.” 

	Sure, the ocean is full of minerals. Now it’s so full of junk the
minerals are corrupted. That’s why you can’t get fish anymore
that’s worth a plugged nickel. The ichthyologist tells you flat, shows
you pictures—fish are full of cancer. There’s not going to be any
cancerous fish over there. 

	You say, “Do we eat fish?” 

	I don’t know. Jesus ate a fish sandwich, according to Bro. Branham,
and I believe he did. 

	“Well, that was just the first part of the Resurrection.” 

	Maybe... We might eat fish. I don’t know; I care less. Personally,
I’m not a vegetarian. But, if God wants me to be a vegetarian,
hallelujah! Your kids will like their turnips. I love turnips myself,
but some people hate ’em. Some of those greens I don’t like too
well. They’re too fiery for me; there’s too much sulfur. But I’ll
love ’em in the Millennium... [Bro. Vayle snickers.] Sure, they’ll
be better.

22.	Now, listen: He said here...

[207]	...settling upon a redeemed earth. To do what? To claim every
attribute that He made the earth for.

	That’s all nature coming back—all the beautiful birds and bees and
all. You won’t have these fiery-tempered African bees. Of course, they
might be there, but they’ll have the sting taken out of them. 

[207]	She’s scoured and burned by fire—Jesus in His fiery
temptations in the wilderness for forty days.

	Now, listen; here’s something fantastic. We never caught this when I
said this the last time—at least I don’t think so.

[207]	She’s been scoured and burned by the fire—Jesus in His fiery
temptations in the wilderness for forty days. “In the fiery
temptations in the wilderness”—what he went through in his body is
typing what’s coming now. Now, let’s keep reading. Now, listen;
After that, notice, it was ready for his ministry then.

	There’s why Bro. Branham mentions sanctification further to the
earth. Until Jesus was completely burned by the fires of temptation, the
body was not ready for the ministry! And the earth will not be ready for
Him, until it’s scoured before the Millennium. Then, it won’t be
ready for the New Jerusalem and the great Kingdom of God, until it’s
scoured by fire in a dissolution and a re-creation. Oh! That’s going
to be great, because I’ve always known in my heart... 

	I’ve read this, but I didn’t read it before. I believe we’d
better go over the whole sermon again; find out what he really said.
But, look what he tells you right here—what I’ve looked at and said.
In the Millennium we’re learning something then for later. And we’re
keeping on learning. Just to think, at that time we’re only ready for
the true ministry of God. Then, what comes out of redemption? How
marvelous what’s come. I don’t know; but I’m sure in a way I do
know: Everything that lies in God that He wants us to have, that He
procured for us—double bought, double created—and threw a double
creation on us. That ought to make a dead man rejoice and believe God:
How wonderful what the Lord has done for us!

23.	Okay, that’s as far as I’m going to read there now. Let’s go
now to page 40 and paragraph 185. Now, look; here’s us:

[185]	(And) See, look; you are part of that ground.

	What ground? This ground that becomes that ground. Because he only
dissolves this ground (this body) to bring that body out of this body.
It always was here. Now it’s in the best shape it ever was, because
it’s glorified.

	Look, it’s simple as ABC. There’s a nice piece of ground out there.
(Sadly, and really, it’s full of pesticides, and every other thing
under high heaven.) But supposing I would take a nice little peach
stone. Well, that’s too long; I’ll take something else. I’ll take
something like, say ‘raspberries’. So, I plant a raspberry seed out
there. Now, there’s a life that is going to appear, because it is a
life it has an affinity to chemicals. In that soil is iron, inorganic
iron, that doesn’t do a thing for me. No. In there is a type of,
maybe, boron and heaven-knows-what, (I’m not even going to try to
figure it.) and it won’t do a thing for me. But, let that raspberry
bush—due to the processes that God endowed it with, showing His
attributes therein—it reaches in and takes the inorganic chemicals,
turns them into organic chemicals. I eat it and say, “That’s
great!” Now, if you can’t understand that and rejoice and see the
divine alchemy of God in what I’m talking about from Bro. Branham,
you’re not concentrating this morning. 

24.	It’s a natural process that God’s doing—the God who doesn’t
change. If you can understand nature, you can understand what’s ahead
of you. I’m going to be changed. It’s always changing; it’s always
going on—breaking down the rocks, hurling out the lava. Ever since Mt.
St. Helen up there out west went up, they have found plants they
haven’t seen for hundreds of years. The land is fertile. Oh, all we
need is one gigantic blow up! [Laughter] And God’s going to do it.
(See?) He works according to pattern. So, as sure as you’re here this
morning, with a hope in God, you are going to make it. There’s
something real, and really real about the whole plan.

25.	You’re a part of that ground. Part of what ground? Coming down!
You’re already making history. Can you feel New Jerusalem this
morning? We’re supposed to. That’s what it’s all about. Under the
Seventh Seal, this is part of the Thunders. This is part of you knowing
your Mate. I want to ask you a question, you women: Where did your
husbands come from? Out of the ground. Where did Jesus come from? Out of
the ground. Through what processes? The Divine attributes of God that He
set in order. All children of God participate in the same thing. The
earth always was your womb, really. Then, the same thing that came down,
is the same thing that went up, is the same thing here. But God’s
glorified it—no difference. I think it’s marvelous to see these
things. He said, “You’re part of that ground.” That ground... Is
that right? And, when He redeemed you, He redeemed the earth with the
same thing. And, remember; your bodies are redeemed. We’re just
waiting for the Day of Redemption; the great thing is the Day of
Redemption. (See?) The Blood settled, my brother/sister, the issue of
whether you and I could come back to God. The same Blood settled the
issue: Do we come back as a whole people with body, soul, and
spirit—the consciousness and the fullness of reality? Absolutely! You
will come back as you. I will come back as I.

	Always, you know, years ago when we were kids, we always wished we were
born into somebody else’s family with more money and nicer parents.
Yeah, we’ve got the same stupid ideas today, too. You’ve come to
God, but most have wrong ideas. This Message corrects those ideas and
even tells you what your future is.

26.	Anyway...

[185]	...He redeems you. He redeemed the earth with the same thing.

	The same Blood! Not a different blood and a watered-down blood.

	“Well, bless God, I’m a first-rate citizen, and that out there is a
second-rate.”

	Is that a fact! Then, how come God’s going to destroy those that
destroy the earth, the same as He destroys them that destroy you as a
part of the earth? So, you get a little different idea about God. You
can see where the pantheists and heathenism got their real roots. They
seem to have known more about Truth than you and I because of wrong
theology. As Bro. Branham categorically said, “What’s wrong with
marriages? What’s wrong with the whole mess? Wrong theology!” Wrong
theology means a complete misunderstanding of God Himself—the Truth of
our God.

27.	[185]	When He redeems you, He redeemed the earth—the same thing,
and you’re together again. Oh, how much plainer can it be, see? You
have to be redeemed, because you’re part of it. If the Blood didn’t
drop on you, you aren’t redeemed yet; you’re not called. Then He
cleanses it; that’s the same thing He does in the fire. Even the Blood
dropped; yet it’s got to be cleansed by fire for the dwelling place
for God. God already took up His abode. Potentially the Kingdom of God
is in the earth now in the hearts of His saints. It’s His attributes
that He began in the beginning. Now His attributes are redeemed.
What’s He waiting for? To redeem the earth.

	We get redeemed with it. That’s natural. Would we want to be redeemed
without a redeemed earth? Would the earth be redeemed without us? It’s
all part and parcel. And God made Himself a part of it. This is what
I’m trying to drive home today: the completeness of God in dealing
with us. God identified, brother/sister... God identified in this hour.
Bro. Branham mentioned ‘God identified’, and we’re identified with
Him.

[185]	What’s He waiting for? To redeem the earth; to set His
attributes on it; to fulfill exactly His predestinated plan.

28.	All right. Now page 42:

[192] 	God and His creation and His creatures of this creation are
redeemed by His Own Blood.

	There again, man wants to put God higher than God put Himself.

	“Now, Lord, I realize that we were in Your image. And I realize,
Lord, that You know...”

	(See?) It’s just too mundane; it’s too common. And we all want to
be different. Isn’t it funny, we always want to keep up with the
Joneses and get ahead of God and be dragged around by the nose by the
devil. Why not get with the Word? We are getting Word this morning.

	You might sit here and say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, that’s just common,
common kind of stuff. Tell me some great things of God.”

	This is part of the Thunders under the Seventh Seal! What do you want?
I know what you want. You want something nice that God says you’re not
to have. I don’t want to be sharp and sarcastic and mean, but I must
cut down our humanistic, antichrist thinking, or I’m not worthy to be
up in this pulpit. 

	God’s not looking for a bunch of simpletons, led by insanes, to get
to the heavens. He said, “The blind follow the blind; let them fall in
the ditch. And, take your bulldozer, and cover them up.” Do you want
to fall in the ditch? We don’t want to fall in the ditch, no sir. [End
of the first side of the audio tape.]

29.	[192]	God and His creation and His creatures of this creation are
redeemed by His Own Blood; cleansed by His Own cleansing process—His
germ-killing, sin-killing process—like if anything is sterilized. The
best sterilization we’ve ever had’s been fire. You can take anything
and wash it with soapsuds and all these chemicals they talk about; but
it still isn’t free; but you burn it once. (And the Russians will tell
you that’s the truth, because they’re ahead of us in it.) And, when
the holy fire of God sterilizes the earth…when the chemicals...all
those things... (You know, they’re going to be destroyed, that are
wrong, or put back to their natural use.) He lifted His Bride, which can
come into the Heaven with Him while this is going on, (takes them right
up there, out of the way) and comes back upon the earth again: New
Heavens and a New Earth.

[193] 	The cold winter won’t hurt it; the hot summers can’t hurt it;
the deserts will bloom as a rose; sin and sinners are gone; God in His
creatures and creation is dwelling together in perfect harmony.

[194]	As the heavens and the earth... (Now, listen:) as the heavens and
earth are husband and wife, so is Christ and the Church.

	 Now, let’s reverse that: “As Christ and the Church are husband and
wife, so are the heavens and earth.” But, you’ll notice that Bro.
Branham puts heavens and earth first. Because without the heavens and
the earth first, they don’t come back in the particular position
they’re supposed to be in. “God had to have,” as Bro. Branham
said, “a sea before there was a fish to swim in it.” He couldn’t
make a fish first. (See?)

	So, what’s he talking about? God’s great plan. He’s going to
change this whole thing and bring us right down to the same thing but in
a glorified state. That’s marvelous. Because, listen; I don’t care
what anybody thinks... he gets really crazy in his theology. I know. But
man cannot think beyond the realm of time and space; actually, he
can’t do it. (And in space here, I’m counting the whole creation —
the whole thing... I’m talking about time.) You can’t do it, because
it’s always “What if...? Maybe it could...” You’ve got to figure
specifically from what you have to what you might get to. So therefore,
man is stuck with this earth. God made him to be an earth-bound
creature. That’s one thing that I think the smarter theologians have
understood very beautifully. “...dwelling in harmony.”

 30.	[194]	As the heavens and the earth are husband and wife, so is
Christ and the Church. And they all meet in one big glorious plan of
redemption and is brought right into the bosom of God again.

	In other words, for anything that lies in God, that Bride has. You’ll
notice that this is in perfect alignment with the Scriptures that can be
read in Hebrews 2, where I was reading before. 

	And It says here... (Jesus is saying here…) Paul is saying concerning
Jesus and the Bride, verse 12: [Hebrews 2]

(12)	Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of
the church will I sing praise unto thee.

(13)	And again, (I’ll) put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and
the children which God hath given me.

	You see the perfect picture of God with His Own family, as It says in
Eph 3:14-15. 

(15)	...the whole family in heaven and earth.

31.	Now Jesus took his place with us and identified himself with the
fallen sons of God and with fallen nature in order to redeem all of it.
And he became a part of nature through human birth to be identified with
every bit of his creation in order to redeem it. Now Bro. Branham, using
this format, espouses what most people hate. He bluntly tells us how the
sons of God fell and how all creation was sold into bondage. Now, before
I read that directly from Bro. Branham, I’m going to go to Gen
1:22-25.

(22)	And God blessed them saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. (Now,
that’s the same as with the earth—the beasts were to do the same
thing, and the fish in the sea, and so on... insects, everything else.
Then, He says, concerning man in verses 24 and 25... Well, we’ll read
that; that’s about the beasts.)

(24)	Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind; (and
so on...)

(25)	And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind: (They’re going to do it, see, by multiplication processes.)

(26)	(Then) God said (about man), Let us make man in our image... and
let them: have dominion over the fishes of the sea, ... the fowl of the
air, ... the cattle of the earth, ... (and so on).

(27)	So God created man in his ... image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.

	All right. Now, in Gen 2:7, notice here: This is the coming out of the
earth.

(7)	And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the (earth), and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(“He breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives,” is what the
Bible actually says.)

	Now, back again to Gen 1:22; and God said... [Paraphrased]

(22)	... (Multiply, be fruitful ... fill the seas and fill the earth,
and so on ... He said in verse 25:)

(25)	... (“Bring forth after your kind.” That says the same thing.
And in verse 28:)

(28)	(He says to man, Be fruitful and multiply and bring forth of your
kind upon the earth.)

32.	Now the question comes up: How can a fulfilled command of God bring
destruction? The beasts do it; the fish do it; man does it. And God
says, “On the very basis of the command that they were to do it...”
He just wipes it all out. Now, why would He do it? It tells you
there’s something wrong with what is being done to bring this forth.
That just tells you plainly. There’s nothing wrong with the command of
God. And, as Bro. Branham said, “Adam and Eve would have had to come
to sexual intercourse.” There’s no two ways… (The man’s one
hundred percent right.) There’s no two ways they would not have come
to it. Now, what in the world happened, in the way that it did happen,
to make this tremendous program of God come to the place where God says,
“I’m going to destroy it and rebuild it.”? There has to be a
reason. He’d have to do it, somewhere. [Genesis 3]

(13)	And the LORD said (to) the woman, What is (it) that thou hast done.
And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me. (which means, he seduced
her physically, which he did.)

33.	Now, let’s read page 48.

[224]	What is she then? (Now, this is about the seed that the woman has
to bear and will bear eventually.) What is she then? She has no seed.
She has a field to receive the seed. So, the seed of the enemy went
forth, while good Sower went forth sowing good seed, and the enemy came
behind him sowing corrupt seed.

	Now, what was the good seed the Lord sowed? Adam and Eve. Because
everything had within it seed, or it couldn’t bear. Then, what did the
enemy do? He had to sow a seed! Because It tells us in Matthew
13—Jesus Himself speaking—that the seed and the tares and the wheat
are people. And Satan cannot create. So, he had to get to God’s
creation. Now it couldn’t be Adam and Eve that were wrong in sexual
intercourse, because that’s how you bring forth children and seed. No
way! And the Bible proves it. The last ‘perfect’ man on earth was
Noah—and that word is ‘genetically perfect’. So, what happened? It
tells you: The beast, so close to the human, (the missing link) got with
Eve and defiled her. And she was already pregnant with his ‘beast’
when Adam got to her, and she became pregnant by Adam. And, as the Bible
distinctly says, “Eve is the mother of all living, (And science has
proved it.) but It has never said that Adam’s the father of all
living, because he wasn’t—nowhere near. So, It says, “The enemy
went forth...”

34.	Now:

[224] 	But the rain falls on the just and the unjust, on the corrupt
seed. The sun... It all has to grow. Jesus said, “Let them grow
together, at that day they’ll be bundled”—the tares and the
wheat—be all bundled different. They’re being bundled in the big
organization…the World Council of Churches. What is the end? To be
burned. But the grain is to be taken into the garner. See? Where they
both live by the same thing, the same water, the same rain.

	Everything out here, they will take out of the soil; the same as you
and I have done; the same as God put in Adam, and in Adam and Eve’s
children. They took it out—the serpent seed did. Then, they mixed in
the human race, until there’s nobody left genetically perfect.
There’s got to be a redemption—not in your soul. Unh, unh. Nope.
Your soul’s a part of God. The body’s not; it’s a part of the
earth. And there’s where corruption came in.

35.	[225]	The citrus tree, that’s an orange tree that will bear, bring
forth on it, if it’s grafted in... You could take a pomegranate or
grapefruit or something like that and graft it in. And it’s living off
of the life of the orange tree.

[226] 	The denominations have been injected into the vine, because if
they claim to be Christians, they live by it. Caiaphas... (you
know)…even prophesied. See, they live by it. I wish we could have a
week to talk about it.

[227]	Look, those hands designed this for His beloved Bride (talking of
God). Designed in tender love for His Bride. Remember, the Holy Ghost
descended on Jesus, which Jesus was a part of the earth. Why? The germ
of God, the life of God was designed in the womb of a woman which was
the earth. All right. Then the life of God came in, so he was the
beginning of the creation of God. See? And then, the blood of God that
was there by that germ, (that germ of Life, See?) when it was shed at
Calvary, it dropped back upon the earth. What for? To redeem the earth.
Now it’s been justified; it’s been sanctified, called and claimed;
now it’s to receive its baptism of fire, and cleansed for Jesus and
his Bride. And you are those other parts that were drawn out of this
earth. You are part of the earth, your body. Your soul is part of God,
an attribute of God, displayed here on earth in a body. In other words,
can be seen and visible. The body’s to be redeemed. Now the soul’s
redeemed, because it was in sin. So, God came down by process of
justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and redeemed
your soul. And you, being part of the earth, it’s redeemed by it.
You’re in the process now, and it’s growing. Okay.

 [189]	Remember, the Bible said if that soul won’t do as He said to
do, He’ll destroy even that soul. But you see, He can’t destroy
Himself and remain God. So, if that soul is of the world, it has to be
destroyed. But, if it’s eternal with God, it never did begin, because
it’s part of God; it can never be destroyed. Amen! What a beautiful
thing ... how thankful that... The churches, people, ought to see that.

36.	Now, let’s just go back here to Matthew 13, and we’ll read what
was said. I’ve mentioned it to you: verses 24-30.

(24)	Another parable put he forth... The kingdom of heaven is likened
unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

(25)	But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. (That’s... We’re talking about the earth
now. You can see the simple analogy here—the parable.)

(26)	When the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also. (Cain and Abel)

(27)	So the servants of the householder came and said, Sir, (did you
not) sow good seed in (your) field? ... whence (has it these) tares?

(28)	He said... An enemy (has) done this. The servants said unto him,
Wilt thou... we go and gather them up?

(29)	(And) he said, (No); lest while you gather the tares, you root up
the wheat (also)

(30)	Let both grow together (till) the harvest: ... in the time of
harvest (I’ll) say to the reapers, Gather together first the tares,
... bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my
barn.

	Now, He doesn’t say He’s going to burn them right away; He says,
“Gather them to burn them. They won’t be burned for quite some time.
The Bride will be gone. They’ll be burnt on earth and, then, burnt in
the Lake of Fire. 

37.	Now, what does that parable mean? We go to verse 36. [Matthew 13]

(36)	(They said) ... Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the
field.

(37)	He answered and said... He that soweth the good seed is the Son of
man;

(38)	The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
kingdom; but the tares are the (kingdom) of the wicked one;

	Now, what’s He talking about? Wheat and tares. Where did the wheat
get its body? Out of the ground. Where does a tare get its body? Out of
the ground. All right. The woman is a field. She receives seed. What did
Satan do? He got to the woman through the beast. He wasn’t a slippery,
slimy serpent. I’ve said before, have you ever seen a hairy snake? He
wasn’t a four-footed hairy creature. He was a giant—a great tall
man. Adam was small and ruddy. He could blush. Adam’s name signifies
‘clay’—also, ‘that which can blush’; ‘ruddy’ means
‘red’. The serpent was dark. I could say more but I might offend
people. But I know what I’m talking about. I asked him questions on
this. That’s where the giants came from. (See?) He was a beast; he had
no soul. He had a place for a soul, but no soul. Being joined to the
woman, a soul could be produced, because she came from Adam; at least, I
feel that is how it is. [Matthew 13]

38.	(39)	The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; the reapers are the angels.

(40)	As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so
shall (the end of the world be).

(41)	The Son of man shall send forth (his messengers) his angels ...
(They’ll) gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them
which do iniquity;

(42)	And ... cast them (in) a furnace of fire: (there’ll) be wailing
and gnashing of teeth. (That’s Tribulation and down at the White
Throne, also.)

(43)	Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father. 

	In other words there is no time, until that time, that the righteous
will really shine. Try as hard as you want, you will never be a success.
The most you can do is plague yourselves and end up with vanity and
distress and soreness and delusion. You might as well live for God, and
let God do it for you. Don’t be big-time Charlie, or try to be a big
operator; you’re going to die with it. You learn to stand still and
let God fight your battles and do something for you; you’ll see
what’ll happen. Your striving will be over.

39.	This church and we have never learned yet to step aside and let God
do things. We’re learning, but we haven’t come far enough—not
nearly far enough. The minute we do, you’ll see a new spirit come into
the place, because the Bible said, “The lily of the field does not
toil to spin, yet Solomon was not arrayed in all his glory like that
lily of the field out there, like the little day lilies right there. And
they’re not doing too good because of all the stress. But you get a
day lily in a proper condition—beautiful, beautiful plant, just shot
through with beauty. My! What God could bring out of the soil—you and
me. We would be incomparable compared to that; could never touch us, if
we just learned to get out of the way. Look at Bro. Branham in his great
ministry. (See?)

40.	Now, in closing I want to read 2 Peter—just go over It again and
just make a bare comment on It. It says here: [2 Peter 3]

(3)	(…concerning the last days, scoffers are going to come.)

(4)	(And the last father that falls asleep, that’s William Branham.)

(5)	(And the Bible says they’re doing something willfully... something
willfully.)

	That’s what the Bible teaches. What is it? They are ignorant;
they’re willfully ignorant concerning the Presence, the conditions of
the Rapture, the hour in which we live—which is White Throne. I
don’t know if you’re still getting me up here or not on White
Throne. It’s simple as ABC. It’s letting you know this (whether you
know it or not): It could be the last one is in and being child-trained;
there’s no more going to come in. Bro. Branham said, over twenty-five
years ago, (he said), “I’ve gone across America, laced it back and
forth. The last time, I think maybe fifty souls came to the altar. If
any were saved, I don’t know.” He said, “Maybe it’s all fished
out; it’s all over.” ‘Ignorant’ of the fact that the books are
literally closed. And what you are now, and I am, is what we will ever
be. That’s pretty solemn to know that—this White Throne. ‘White
Throne’ merely means ‘the record’s come out’; the judge has
already imputed guilt and righteousness. 

41.	I think the greatest thing we discovered in Bro. Branham’s sermons
is the fact of the Judge. Yet most people don’t even believe Bro.
Branham said that.

	I’m meeting with you now. In another body, I will meet you all again.
In this church and on tapes and around the world. People in majority
don’t understand this, and they don’t want to understand it. We know
what the prophet said. (See?) White Throne’s on. I’ll trust that you
understand. You people don’t want to know. Do you know why? Because
they already know something. What do they know? Pentecostal legalist
theology! They don’t know the Bible the way Bro. Branham taught it. 

42.	Now, listen; It says: [2 Peter 3]

(5)	(They’re ignorant; they want to be ignorant concerning the Truth
of this fulfillment of the Word of God in this hour.)

(6)	(And he refers them to Noah. They waited too long, while they
laughed about the Ark, and say, “I told you so.”)

	I’ve got a fellow who phones me all the time, and he wants to gig me.
He hopes he can get me turned away from the Message, because he’s got
peace in his ignorance and his folly. Dead theology and dead books! Let
me tell you something: I will go to hell knowing this one thing: that I
saw some kind of vindication, outside of a stupid book that somebody
wrote about this Book that lives! No book can prove itself within its
covers, unless there’s a dynamic force within the covers to make the
book come to pass. William Branham is the only man that did it.

43.	My challenge still goes out about my little stupid hangnail. I will
write and give you every cent I have in the bank. I will also take my
gun and shoot as many tellers as I have to, to take the money to pay
you, if you could just come up here and make this little hang-nail heal
and say, “In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I come. And Lee Vayle,
whether you want it or not, the hangnail is gone.” 

	You’d say, “What if it happens?” 

	Then, I’ve got to give you everything I’ve got and shoot somebody.
Either you believe the Book, or you don’t believe the Book. And you
don’t believe what some ignorant, big-mouth said about it; you believe
what God Almighty Himself has done about It. Because, if God doesn’t
do something about this Book, it is like all the others. 

	A pope that says Mary’s in Heaven? How does the pope know? The
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of the Greeks, the General
Superintendent of the Assemblies of God… Let them stand and say, “I
take every spirit under my control, in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, for the glory of God.” Let them tell you, “Let God say,
‘Raise Abraham Lincoln,’ and I’ll go, and you shoot me down, if I
can’t do it.” That’s what Bro. Branham said. He meant it!!
Vindicated!!

44.	Now, It says right here... “As it was in the days of Noah ...”
[Mt.24:37] They knew the earth was standing there. You can look back,
and the Scripture says the earth sat there waiting for Judgment. And the
people got tired. They laughed, and they mocked And I know they say,
“Well, where’s the Pillar of Fire today?” 

	Well, I want to ask you a question: Where is it? Go back to your Bible.
When Moses went, the Pillar of Fire didn’t. William Branham’s gone.
The Pillar of Fire is hanging somewhere. I don’t know where, and it is
not for me to know. That’s God’s business. And It’s going to take
us into the Millennium. The same One’s going to raise the dead. Let
them scoff, or let them laugh. If it takes twenty-five more years, and
I’m dead, what difference does it make? What’s that got to do with
me and with you? The prophet said, “…a hundred years, maybe yet
tomorrow morning.” Now It said: [2 Peter 3]

(9)	The Lord is not slack concerning his promises.

	But, get to understand that the last day, a thousand years, is just
nothing for God. It’s a snap of the fingers; it’s a day. And a day
now coming up—tomorrow morning—is your one thousand years. God wants
all to repent. All He grants repentance to are all who are going to come
in. They’re not all in here yet. They’re not all child-trained; at
least, they’re not child-trained. [2 Peter 3]

45.	(10)	(Then, he says he’s going to come as a thief in the day and
the night. “Fervent heat”—going to be dissolved.)

	Now, here’s where the theologians are wrong. They say, collectively
(one group), “Jesus Christ does not come back to earth until the end
of the Millennium.” 

	They’re ‘postmillennious’.

	The other group says… (There’s three of them, rather.) The other
group and the majority say, “We are ‘premillennium’. He will come
back before the Millennium.” 

	The others say, “There is no Millennium.” Do you know why? Because
they can’t figure why Peter will tell you of the dissolution of the
earth, and there’s still going to be a Millennium. They can’t figure
it.

	They say, “Look! It’s going to be at the end of the thousand years,
and He’s going to come back, and there’s going to be the dissolution
then.” 

	They can’t figure it. 

	The others say, “There’s no Millennium; it’s a figure of
speech.” 

	They’re ‘amillenniells’: “There isn’t any.” 

46.	The prophet came on the scene, vindicated, and said: [Paraphrased]

	Let me tell you people, and put the whole Bride to rest: Jesus appears
on this earth in the form of the Holy Ghost in a Pillar of Fire with the
vindicating ministry of the Son of man. (And he went through the whole
process and showed us the conditions of the Rapture. And now, he says,)
As soon as the Rapture takes place, there’ll be three and a half years
of great tribulation. At the end of the three and a half years, the
Bride will come back with the Lord Jesus Christ and set up the
Millennium for one thousand years. At the end of the one thousand years
there’ll be a White Throne Judgment and a Lake of Fire. The Bride will
be caught up into Heaven with her God and her Bridegroom. And at that
time of the dissolution that there will be a re-creation. Then the Bride
will now come back in the pyramidal City, seated upon Mt. Zion in the
New Earth. And there they’ll be forever and ever, husband and wife...
and so on.

	Now, that is under the Seven Seals and under the Thunders. The beauty
and the glory and the information and the loveliness of inspiration,
that gives us a spiritual poetic understanding of a Bride and a Groom in
communion and in love, is what I’ve preached this morning on the first
position when Bro. Branham said, “God said , This is a part of the
earth that I am redeeming. And I’m redeeming you, the other part, in a
complete redeemed condition.” You never heard anything like that in
your life—never heard the beauty and saw the glory of it. There’s no
way we could have gotten it. There’s no way, except a vindicated
prophet brought it. 

	And then, he tells us, “Listen, I’m going to tell you a little
secret: All these people out there are wrong. I’m going to tell you
who’s right. And there wasn’t anybody right but the prophet, because
they all missed the Appearing. And many people right today who say they
believe this Message are still missing the Appearing, because the
Appearing is the Presence. He is here, or He could not have appeared.
How’d He get His picture taken except being here? What about over
here? [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.] 

47.	So, here we are today, brother/sister, in a reality—part of the
vindication principle. Not that you and I will become aggressive in our
faith, but we can become realistic and peaceful and at rest in the Lord
Jesus Christ. It’s what the prophet said in “The Rapture” message:
“It’s been spoken; now, let It be done.”

	Wherein we need to apply ourselves. We have greater ability than ever,
in understanding the Word of God, to stand firm in the faith and advance
against the kingdom of the enemy. Not just in our hearts anymore,
brother/sister. I want to tell you something: These old hearts of ours,
brother/sister, and these old bodies, you won’t have to worry about
them much longer. Those of you that are going to make the Rapture being
young, (It’s going to be a younger generation; my generation’s
certainly passing away. That’s true; you can’t deny that.) by the
grace of God, you’ll be standing here, upright, to go on in. It’s
already started. If I die and go into the dust—which quite naturally,
I think I will likely do that. I don’t have to be here. No difference.
It’s already taken care of. No magical word was spoken by Bro.
Branham. The living Word of God was preached; that does it!

48.	What a nice thing to know: That we have within our grasp, in our
hearts, our minds, our lives, the very Kingdom of Almighty God (the
attributes, all the divine—no presumption, but all the divine
attributes waiting and will definitely…) having already entered into
the perfect outworking and manifestation of it all. It’s not a dream;
it’s reality. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Gracious heavenly Father, again we want to thank You for Your goodness
to us. It’s such a marvelous thing to realize that in this message of
Bro. Branham under the Seventh Seal—part of the mysteries—to see the
Spirit behind It and marvel at the great, what we might call
‘engagement period’, revealed and manifested that we are the beloved
of the Lord, and we are just waiting for the rest of the dead to come
up, the people to be changed and taken to a Wedding Supper, there to
learn more of You, Your grace and mercy preparatory for the future,
already now the divinely anointed chosen soil.

	How wonderful! just to even contemplate and feel a little bit like Adam
back there! He must have known that, and we getting the feeling of it
within our members. Lord, I pray that we’ll be spiritually astute to
the extent that we not only receive this, but glory in it and revel in
it and grow in it, so that our very hearts, minds and lives, our very
bodies in tune with it, have no other desire than that desire which has
already been met in You, Lord. That’s all that I want for me. And I
would think, maybe, that’s all the rest of the folk want for them.

	Now Lord, join us together in deeper love and communion of the Word
enlivened by the Holy Spirit. And, let us not, Father, from this moment
on, seek to say vain things, foolish things, or enter into the processes
of life’s outworking here as men and women who must face jobs and
homes and those things; but let us, Lord, rise above it, now, into our
true vocation—true family of God—so that these other things are
merely that which we use, and it passes away, redeeming the time, Lord,
as never before, speaking to ourselves in spiritual psalms and hymns and
to each other in the Word, as it was scripturally set forth in Malachi
that “those who thought upon Your Name, spoke often one to another.”

	Lord, we’ll soon go in there and feast on the good food you gave us
and are giving us day-by-day—far more than we ever need and deserve,
and the world around us literally starving for food. Lord, are we
esteeming the Bread from Heaven as great? I pray we are, Lord, as never
before and that we also try to extend to those—even though they may
not want that same Bread of Life—because we would that all men, Lord,
come to repentance in the knowledge of our God, the love of our God, and
what it is to rejoice in a fellowship of true love around this Word that
is understood and is the mainspring of our lives, because God is in it.

	Lord, I pray that. You know I want it, Lord. I’m a very poor example
of this reality, but I still want it. And I pray, Lord, I’ll come to
the place where I’ll want what You want, and want nothing else, as the
prophet said. That’s where we want to come. 

	We’ll give You the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”