Future Home #2

One Plan for All

May 1, 1988

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father we know that Martha expressed that,
“Now that You’re here, even so my brother could rise from the
dead.” And we know that that’s exactly the truth that she might have
thought that she was inspired by her own spirit; but we believe more
like Peter, that she was inspired by the Holy Ghost Himself to bring
forth the declaration, “The presence of God brings about a
resurrection.” And, Lord, we believe that You are present, though many
do not. We believe You are present here, personally. I know that we
don’t look like it many times by our behavior; we don’t seem to
grasp it. We don’t really recognize as we ought to, but we do know
that that is true, as far as we can know at this time. And we pray,
Lord, that shall increase in our understanding as never before and bring
forth fruit commensurate with us.

	Guide us in our studies today, Lord, that we do not be remiss in
anything that’s said, but say only what the prophet said, and may it
be confirmed to our hearts and minds in such a manner that we will not
forget it; and then, not only not forgetting it, but those portions that
we should believe very, very strongly, we will believe and add daily to
it in any portion that we should walk therein, we might also walk
therein in our worship toward You. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now this is the “Future Home #2”, and just to recap, Bro. Branham
read both 2 Pet 3:1-18 and Rev 21:1-7 as the Scripture for this study;
and he showed that both Peter and John, though seeming to differ, were
proclaiming the same promise. But, wherein John merely mentioned the
promise’s fulfillment, Peter literally explained the instrumentation
of it, or how it would actually be done, that is, the new heavens and
the new earth, which we’re looking forward to, because that is the
setting of the New Jerusalem, the future Home of the earthly Bride and
heavenly Bridegroom. I should have reversed that; it’s the heavenly
Bridegroom and the earthly Bride. Bro. Branham categorically set forth
by vindicated revelation (Now this is what we learned last night.) that
the new earth and heavens were not a new creation based upon an
annihilation of the old, but rather, a necessary purification of the
earth’s crust and its atmosphere, and then, a re-creation, to rid it
of all sin and the consequences of sin, whatever those consequences
manifested. Thus, we will live right here on earth, that is, on this
same earth, in the Millennium; and after that, we will still live right
here, on this same earth, in the New Jerusalem. Now that’s what the
truth is.

2.	The prophecy of Isa 65:17-25, which literally is the same as that in
Revelation, actually appears to run the Millennium and the New Jerusalem
right together. Now, remember; that’s how the prophets did it, and
that’s how Bro. Branham did it. And it was, I told you, a great
stumbling block to my mental processes, because, if there’s anything
that I’m adept at, it’s logical deduction and literature. And so, I
was looking for the logical, which shows you can’t use anything of the
human instrumentality to work a revelation. It’ll kill you right now.
So, I had a battle, but the battle was overcome. It only took about 22
years. That’s not bad, out of 73 years. So, I’m helping you, so that
you don’t have that battle. I trust you’re understanding, therefore,
what I’m saying, because it’s terribly important to the peace of
your mind, as to the revelation.

3.	So, the prophecy, which deals with this in the Old Testament, Isa
65:17-25, actually appears to run the Millennium and the New Jerusalem
right together; and why shouldn’t it do so? Because it’s talking of
the same thing that’s going on now, which so many people don’t
understand where we stand here in this ministry of Bro. Branham’s, on
the Presence, which is the Appearing. Every single one of those words
has started—and is moving, and moving, and moving—as Christ started
to appear, and move into His Church, in 1933! But it was in 1963 that we
saw Rev 10:1 join with Rev 10:7, you see, bringing forth the Seals and
all. And at that time Bro. Branham said he had to decrease, so that
Christ would come more and more, and God would take Headship—God in
the form of the Holy Spirit in a Pillar of Fire.

4.	Now you say, “I don’t see Him.”

	Well, wonderful! What do you expect? You’re a prophet that you should
see Him?

	You’ve got to go by faith. And your faith is vindicated. See?
That’s just like somebody giving you the power of attorney over
old—well, not old—John D. Rockefeller. He’s been dead for so many
years, he’s nothing but ashes. And his kids don’t have that money.
But, if he were living, and he gave you a check with the power of
attorney and said, “Go ahead,” well, you’d experiment.

	You’d say, “Well, let me write a check,” and you’d see how big
it is.

	And you could write up to a billion dollars at least. Well, you know,
this morning you’re writing checks for eternity—for immortality.
Proven. The trouble is, we’re just not drawing on the bank. That’s
not God’s fault. That’s our fault. I’ve always said, “Stupid is
stupid.” I’m not looking at you and saying that. I’m talking about
myself. And you, too, in a nice trickle down way.

5.	Now this, looking as though the Millennium and the New Jerusalem are
run together, so you can’t differentiate… You actually can. This
only appears so, because time and eternity have blended. And New
Jerusalem is actually only a continuation of what we are about to enter
into by way of the Resurrection and Rapture, as Christ started coming
into the church through His Appearing in June 11, 1933 (and finally took
headship in about 1963), right when He came down. See? That’s the
idea. He’s got to come down to take headship in order to raise the
dead—finish off that Shout. Now my dates are not Gospel truth, as if I
were a prophet. I’m just looking at the progression, as I feel and
hope it is.

6.	Well, we’re already into that, moving us into the Millennium; and
once you come to a certain place in the economy of God, you can dig your
heels in all you want, and you’re not going to stop it. There’s no
way, because, you see, you’re in a particular period of predestinated
time, and God says, “Time is finished.”

	Well, you say, “Well, just a minute; time goes on.”

	Sure it does. It goes right past the Millennium. But, do you ever stop
to think of this? that he said, “Time is finished when God came
down,” and he said, “Okay, time as you know it is already finished
for all of you and some of you will know it, and you’re entering in to
the eternities.” Sure, he said, “Time’s up for you fellows.
Time’s up for the Bride.”

	Now you can’t change that. You’ve got to sit here this morning and
take that in and relax with it. Now some might not feel like relaxing
with it. I’m sorry. I’m not going to try to change it, because God
wouldn’t listen to me anyway. I never heard of a messenger that was
sent out that told the one that gave the message, and said, “Hey now,
I think this is wrong, and we better do it my way.” Now Larry Speaks
shows what a bunch of idiots are in government. But, we’re not Larry
Speaks to put quotes in the mouth of God. He’s not going to pay any
attention.

7.	So, here we are in this marvelous period, and it’s a time of
relaxing. Let your muscles sag. See? In other words this is the great
day of the great spiritual (What am I going to call him?)—the idle
fellow. You’re through exerting yourself in certain areas. It’s out
of your hands. That’s why Bro. Branham had a great gift of getting out
of the way. And, if he could get out of the way, it’s where God wants
it. Now we must learn to get out of the way and just let God take His
course by His Spirit. He’s going to do it anyway. See?

8.	So, this is going on now, this great sovereign thing that God is
doing, time and eternity blending, and whether anybody wants to know it
or not, we are literally moving right into Mount Zion; and nothing is
going to deter us anymore, because He which hath begun the good work in
you, will perform it until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is
that day. And that’s a period of time. Just like old (What was his
name? Not Rutherford, but the man that worked out on the—not the
expanded Bible. Anyway, his name starts with ‘R’. [Rotherham]) And
he understood that the actual Presence was a series of events to take
over a period of time. Which is very strange that many people in this
message don’t even know as much as that man knew back there.

	And you know, when you get to look back on those men, and you don’t
know what they knew, I’m going to tell you one thing: you are not full
of the Holy Ghost. I just tell you flat: You have missed it, and you’d
better repent. We’ve got a good baptismal tank down there. We’ll
fill it with water. We’ll baptize you, and you see if you get the Holy
Ghost. Now that’s just plain and simple. If you can’t differentiate
that, you’re not with it. The Holy Spirit is a teacher; so we will be
taught of God.

9.	Bro. Branham said, “The Token is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.”
You tell me this morning, anybody here has got the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself, I will call you mistaken. And I’ll prove it, because you
cannot do what the Lord Jesus Christ did. There it was. Now you and I
can receive His Spirit, a part of His Life, but you know, you better
watch language here. We’re watching language in this sermon, and
it’s becoming consistently clearer; and I know it is, because things
come together.

	People say, “Bro. Vayle, we hear your tapes, and we see the Bible
move right together now.”—the prophet’s message.

	Now I read to you last night, that’s how Bro. Branham did it. So,
I’m supposed to do the same thing he did. And you’re supposed to sit
here and get the same thing what is given you. See? We’re looking at
that.

10.	Now last night we left off at the bottom of page 13, where Bro.
Branham was showing us how Satan was sinfully ruling and ruling through
sin. He was ‘sinfully ruling and ruling through sin’. You get what I
said? He was himself ‘sinfully ruling and ruling through the sin of
the people’. What he did, he usurped the authority that God gave man
by double dealing from the bottom of the deck. He handed Eve and Adam a
bum deck of cards. And the minute he did, he began moving right through
them. So, that’s it. Satan was sinfully ruling and ruling through sin,
the earth and its atmospheres. So, God must rid the earth of him and his
evil spirits and his politics and sin and disease and any plant, which
God had not planted. It was not in the true plan of God. We know that.
God will take back to Himself, His earth and heavens. And, since our
bodies are a part of that earth, we will be a part of the restoration
and redemption back to God. It’s all one part and parcel.

11.	So, paragraph 51, on page 13. We’re going to start reading. And
we’ll go right to page 14 where we left off.

[51] 	Now sin caused all this to happen, and God through this age is
gathering up His material.

	“God through this age,” and how, in the age we’re in, God is
beginning to gather all His material up, and He’s going to get it all
ready for the great and wonderful day which starts a little purification
of the earth, at the start of the Millennium, then a great, big,
marvelous dissolution and a reconstitution to bring us back for the
eternities.

12.	Now I’ve got a little verse here somewhere, I think, in Lk 21:18.

(18)	There shall not an hair of your head perish.

	Where’d it come from? From the spirit, from your life, which is the
soul that God gave, naturally transmitting through human
instrumentality, taking from the earth. He’s going to restore the
earth, and our hair’s going to be restored. We’re not going to lose
one hair. Sister Branham told Bill, she said, “You’re losing your
hair.”

	He said, “I haven’t lost one.”

	She said, “Then, pray tell me where they are.”

	He said, “Where they were in the first place.” 

	He’s going to get them again. All right.

13.	Let’s go to Rev 20:13.

(13)	And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; (Absolutely,
that’s part of the earth.) and death and hell delivered up the dead
which were in them: (That’s part of it, too.) and they were judged
every man according to their works. (So, you see that’s coming on.)

	Let’s go back and see Job 19. Bro. Branham loved Job 19. He loved all
the Book of Job. All right. Job 19:25-27.

(25)	For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth:

(26)	And though after my skin worms destroy this (flesh), yet in my
flesh (I shall) see God:

(27)	Whom I shall see for myself, (in this flesh which is mine, and
I’m going to get it back) and (my) eyes; (which I’m using right now,
are going to come back, and I’m going to use them too, and I’m going
to behold Him. And they won’t be somebody else’s eyes. It won’t be
another set of eyes. It’s going to be mine.) though my reins (are)
consumed (and everything goes to pot and goes down to gases and ashes,
or just gases, I am coming back—me, Job).

	That’s nice. That’s nice. I like that. I like it because a lot of
people wouldn’t. They want to be somebody else. You know, you get to
the place, finally, where you realize in God’s economy, you’re glad
you weren’t born in the house next door that had a nice swimming pool
and everything else. And you kids, you know, think, “If I was born to
this parent over here, and I belong to this one instead of my own mother
and dad, it would be so much nicer.”

	You know, that baby talk goes many times to adulthood. I got news for
you: Are you glad you’re coming back who you are, in the shape that
you’d like to be as youth? No more wishful, stupid daydreaming, but to
be really the real you you’ve always wanted to be?

	Well, that’s what Job said. He said, “My neighbors not coming back
in my stead, nor is an angel going to take my place.” He said,
“I’m coming back.” He said, “Hallelujah.”

	Yes, I’m coming back—like some people might not want to come back.

14.	One person had a little run-in. And a fellow said, “Now, look;
Bro. Branham’s coming back, and he’s going to be the chief honcho.
And I’m going to be under him; you’re going to be under me.”

	The other person said, “Well, I don’t know if I want to come
back.”

	[Bro. Vayle laughs.] No fear at all! Come on back, just the way you
are. God will take you all through. I can understand that.

15.	Bro. Branham says:

[51] 	Satan is still here. Sure is, I believe that. That’s the reason
all these things happen. All the bad things up there, see, the bad
politics and all. He’s still here, and all of his evil forces are
still here. They haven’t diminished. They know their same old dirty
tricks, and they’ve learned some new ones.

[52] 	Notice, that’s why the earth now is so filthy. That’s why the
scum and ridiculous things that goes on: bloodshed, war, politics,
sin—See? Politics is filthy—adultery, all kinds of filthiness goes
on, is because that Satan is the ruler of this earth and this
atmosphere.

	So, Satan is in charge. The Bible says so. He’s the god of this
world. He’s the prince, the power of the air. He’s known as the
prince of darkness. And he has nothing in Christ. Now, let’s
understand that. He has nothing in Christ. And Christ has nothing in
him. That’s a categorical statement by Jesus Himself. And He proved it
in the temptation. You and I are different. Satan had nothing in us, but
we had plenty in God, and Satan fooled us! And he’s still fooling us!
But God’s going to redeem us. See?

16.	Now he’s the prince of the power of the air. The word air is
‘pneuma’, which is the same thing as ‘spirit’. So therefore,
when we breathe air out here, you can see you’re actually breathing in
the wrong spirit, because you can’t go out here and get a decent
breath of fresh air anymore. That’s just a sly remark—not
scientific.

	Now, who’s behind that, God or the devil? God made man to be
pastoral—inclined to the rural. And then… In the time that’s
coming, every one of us is going to sit under his own vine in his own
vineyard and under his own trees. And he’s going to build his own
houses; and you won’t need to worry about the EPA, because the
devil’s going to be gone. And the EPA’s no good anyway, because
it’s run by a bunch of businessmen from the President on down.
Politics. I’m glad we don’t have a thing to do with it.

17.	Now Bro. Branham says:

[52] 	You say, “the atmosphere?” Yes, sir!

	Well, that’s what he said over here in paragraph 47.

[47] 	It is only the atmospheres around the earth and the sin that’s
upon the earth that’s going to be destroyed. Yep. Yes, sir.

[53] 	Both the heavens and earth now are contaminated with devils that
can accuse us before God.

	Now, what does that literally mean? That means when they accuse us for
what is going on and what we are doing… And they are the perpetrators
of it themselves, using us, really, against our own wills, because we
don’t want it this way, and they’re accusing us. In other words they
blame us for themselves and their terrible failures and everything they
do. Or they try to deny that we are God’s and that we love God. Poor
old Job over here, in the first chapter. He went through that.

18.	Now Bro. Branham says the devil stands there accusing us, and these
filthy spirits accuse us, too. Now It says: [Job 1:1]

(1)	There was a man (named) Job; (he) feared God, and eschewed evil (And
he was a very rich man. And It says that he went fasting for his sons,
and on their feast days, he would sacrifice and everything else. And
then, It says in verse 5.)

(5)	It was so, when the days of their feasting were gone, that Job sent
and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt
offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be
that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their heart. (And so Job,
he) did (it) continuously.

(6)	Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves
before the Lord, and Satan (snuck in also. He had every right to. Every
right to.)

	You know he can appear before God. And you know his devils can. So, we
better have somebody appear for us. Now, you see, this is where the
intercessor, and Christ, is so powerful a figure that men must never
forget the value of that one at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
who, now, is upon the very throne of God, waiting to be enthroned as the
greater Son of David, which he will be after God incarnates Himself in
him.

19.	So, we’re being accused. And it’s perfectly scriptural. It’s
right here. God allows it.

(7)	The Lord said to Satan, (“Where did you come from; what have you
been doing?” That’s pretty chummy isn’t it? “How are you? What
have you been doing these days?”)

	Well, if the devil can do that, what about you and me? If he’s got
the brass and the gumption to stand before God and throw something at
us, I think we should have the brass and gumption to stand before God
and throw something at him—to resist him, to use every means we can.
The best way to throw something at him is to throw the Word of God,
because that’s one thing he cannot stand. Anything else, he can stand,
but he can’t stand that. And I can prove it by the very fact he
despoiled the Word of God to Eve; so therefore, he hates the Word of
God, because he knows God’s standing behind every Word. He wants to
prove that God doesn’t. And:

(7) 	(Where have you come walking) to and fro in the earth.

(8)	And (so) the Lord said (to) Satan (threw him a challenge), (have
you) considered my servant Job, there is none like him in the earth, a
perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and eschews evil?

(9)	(And Satan said, “Well, does) Job fear God for (nothing)?”

(10)	(You’ve) made an hedge about him, and about his house, (and all
that he has and) every side. (You’ve) blessed the work of his hands.
(You’ve increased his substance in the land.)

(11)	(Just) put forth (Your) hand now, and touch (him), and (he’ll)
curse (You) to (Your) face. (There you are. That’s a true picture of
what goes on.)

(12)	And the Lord said, Behold, all that he (has) is in (your) power;
only upon (him) put not forth (your) hand. (And) Satan went forth from
the presence of (God).

	Notice, the material possessions were the first things that Satan was
allowed to touch. And you know something, that’s a beautiful thing
right there—material possessions.

20.	Now I’m going to sneak a little thing here. Now, what would happen
if we end up with a hundred thousand dollars debt on this church and
ninety thousand dollars, and things get rough. Will some of you people
turn tail? Will you be thrown for a loop, because there’s money
involved? How about some people who don’t get jobs? They get so angry,
and they get so wistful, and they get so down in the dumps and all,
they’re ready to throw everything...

	I’m giving you a lesson this morning, friends, as a pastor. You’d
better know these things and be ready to stand. I told you years ago, I
thought God failed me, because we prayed food on the table. 

	“Oh,” my wife said, “Where’s the food?”

	I said, “We haven’t got any. We’ve got to pray.”

	She said, “Yeah, but the table’s empty.”

	I said, “We still got to pray.” And pretty soon the food came in.

	And I thought I was horribly abused. Yeah. When I found people turn on
me, they wouldn’t tithe or anything else, showing that they were
wrong, I walked off. And I’m going to say something here, and it’s
not nice but, I said, “To ‘h-e-double-l’ with the whole thing.”
And I walked off. And I paid a price. And I paid a big price. And I had
to come right back where it all was.

21.	Now the first thing the devil did, accusing this man, he said,
“I’ll tell you what. You let him not be so prosperous. You let the
going go tough with the money and the family, and see where it is.”

	Now, if the going’s tough around here, I’m going to tell you one
thing: That’s when the husband needs to love the wife more, and the
wife needs to love the husband more, and they do more for each other,
not sitting around pontificating, “I’m the boss and you’re so and
so.”

	Now, listen; don’t you ever pull that in this church. I don’t want
to see your faces. And I’m not being nasty. I’m just telling you the
truth. You get together, and I mean get together. Years ago finances was
the number one cause of divorce problems and splitting. Today it is sex,
because that’s where it was in the beginning—right in prosperity, in
the garden—sex.

22.	Now Satan said, “Now you just go ahead and let me roll Job over,
financially.” 

	Sit and think about it, kids. Sit and think about it. Some of you
squirm, a long time ago, and you had it so good. You don’t know the
first thing about having it rough.

	You know the prediction, by 1990, a depression that makes the last one
look like a Sunday school picnic. I was through that tough one. And the
reason I’m grinning is, I wonder if the next one, tough as this,
wouldn’t be something kind of wonderful to be able to trust God in.
Now I’m not anxious for it. I like Doc Bosworth. He’d never ask for
a nickel; never pass the plate. He’d just believe God would take care
of him.

	And he said, “Bro. Vayle, when I knew it was my time to leave that
city, that place, and God would give great revivals,” he said,
“we’d be so happy going down to the station, just whistling, because
we didn’t have a nickel, and we knew God would give it to us before we
got to the train.”

	And he said, “In those days,” he said, “We read that wheat was a
perfect food.”

	I don’t think it really was.

	“And we could get it two bits a bushel.” And he said, “We’d eat
wheat and eat wheat,” and he said, “We all felt good, and we all
thrived.” He said, “For many years; but mind you, I wouldn’t want
to do it again.” [Bro. Vayle laughs.]

	Oh, I loved that man. I tell you, until you have met men like Bro.
Bosworth and Bro. Branham you have not met anybody of the highest
caliber.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, you must think we’re awfully shabby.” 

	I’m talking about myself too. I wish you could meet spiritual giants
that I have met, men who stand there, right in the presence of God, and
act like God. That makes you wonder where you stand in grace.

23.	Satan accuses. So, he hit Job, taking everything away. Then, he
killed his children. And he put his finger on Job, and he said, “You
watch, I’ll make Job curse you.” 

	And you know sickness can make people curse God. Their children can
make people curse God. Jesus said, “Blessed is the man who is not
offended in me.” The happiest, most prosperous, most wonderful,
positive person in all this world, and Christendom, is the one who never
gets offended in Christ, because he knows the ways of God.

24.	Now Satan is up there to mess this whole thing up. And he’s got
tremendous resources; he’s got tremendous influence, even with God.
Right? Right. You talk about lobbying, which is a form of politics due
to a power-base and influence. This fellow’s got power. Now God will
never let him overdo it, because there’s no temptation taking us, no
trial we’re not able to bear. And the bearing of it is by going
through; and you must learn to go through. We must all learn to go
through.

	I’m sorry for you, but you’ve got to do it. I had to do it. We
tried every trick in the book. Even when the kids were gone, we began
having it real tough again. My wife said, “I’m going to go do some
work.”

	I said, “You can if you want to, but I can tell you one thing: it
won’t do you any good. We’re still going to face it.”

	And we did. We did. We lived on like nothing you’ve ever lived on.
And had tough luck like perhaps none of you’ve ever had. You think you
have, of course. But you know something: it’s great. No trial seems
very good for the time being, but afterward it brings forth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness, because you know there’s a God
who’s on your side. It’s just the old devil trying to kick you
around. And he will kick you around. He’ll kick you and me around
both, because he’s got the influence, and he’s up there, and he has
great power from God, and that power has literally not been truly
relinquished. He’s holding on. He’s got influence. But I’m glad
we’ve got influence with another One.

25.	Now, listen. He said:

[53] 	Both heaven and earth are contaminated (They sure are.) with
devils that can accuse us before God. (And they sure do.) And Jesus is
there to intercede for us (See?), while the accusers keep pointing a
finger, and said, “They did this. They did this. They did this.” But
the Blood still covers!

	Now he’s talking about the atmosphere and the earth, wherein dwelleth
not righteousness. But dwelleth unrighteousness in preponderance to the
righteousness.

26.	Now, let’s go to Hebrews 9, and let us see something very
wonderful here, because this indicates what is there and into the future
will be manifested. It is still not manifested. [Heb 9:17]

(17)	For a testament is of force after men are dead: (Sure, the will is
enforced after the man’s died—you know, if you can make it work.
These crooked lawyers, they’re not going to make it work.) otherwise
it is no strength at all while the testator liveth.

(18)	Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood
(In other words the first testament or covenant had to have blood).

(19)	For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according
to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people,

(20)	Saying, This is the blood of the testament (of the covenant) which
God hath enjoined unto you (He said, “Here it is. I’m presenting it.
Take it. It’s going to do you good.”)

(21)	Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the
vessels of ministry. (See that? Oh yes, wonderful.)

(22)	And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
(the) shedding of blood. (You better believe it. There) is no remission
(of sin, period.)

	Sin will stick right there, if there’s no Blood. Therefore, the
Blood’s important. See? Because we’re going to have to get over the
hurdle, ‘It’s appointed unto man once to die, and after that the
judgment’. And, why is it appointed to man once to die? Though the
spirit is life, because of righteousness, the body is dead because of
sin. You’ve got to get over that hurdle, because we can’t die.

27.	So, you see, don’t ever talk about the Blood being off the mercy
seat as though the Blood isn’t of the most fantastic and tremendous
value. Don’t ever devalue the Blood! God never intended to devalue the
Word at the expense of the Blood or the Blood at the expense of the
Word! How could He? It says right here, they sprinkled blood on the
book. How are you going to have Word without Blood and Blood without
Word. Huh?

	Well, there’s your answer. Don’t ever even think of changing it.
Listen, it’s like saying, “Hey, don’t listen to any preacher, just
listen to me.” Well, I’m going to tell you something, as long as you
come here, that’s your job. When you don’t like it, you go someplace
else, or I’ll go someplace else; because I’ll never downgrade the
blood of Jesus Christ. And I don’t have any real grasp on the
understanding of it. But I know this much: I’m not going to be
betrayed by folly. No prophet ever came and took away the Blood—no
way, shape and form. Not when he got such a solid rebuke about that
circle of Blood being for him, or he’d have just been plumb out there
in limbo, too. Correct.

28.	Now:

(23)	It was therefore necessary that the pattern of (these) things in
the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.

	It tells you right there, the blood of Jesus Christ entered into the
very heavenlies, to the very holy seat, the mercy seat, the heavenlies.
And that’s the circle of blood that Bro. Branham saw, covers the
entire earth and the entire atmospheres.

	So, no matter what is going on, the shed Blood, which made Jesus Christ
the intermediary, the mediator between man and God, this shed Blood
allows Him to intercede for us also. And Bro. Branham says, “God hears
our voice through the Blood. He doesn’t see us at all. He only looks
at our representation.” And, if you didn’t have a representation
back there, you don’t have one now. We’ll see that in this same
wonderful message Bro. Branham’s bringing.

29.	[53] 	Now, He came to redeem that elected that He foresaw. That’s
why it’s so filthy today. That’s why that filth remains.

	Now the constant progression of sin demands that it, and all it
befouls, be destroyed. Because, you see, sin is progressive, the same as
Christ coming into the church, by revelation, and the Word is
progressive. So, Satan’s work is progressive, because the cup of
iniquity must be filled at the same time the cup of righteousness is
filled.

30.	Now we read that in the Book of Revelation, at the opening of the
Seals, in this particular time, “He that is righteous is righteous
still, and he that is filthy is filthy still.” And “They that wash
their robes have the right to the Tree of Life!” So, now the
conditions are reversed. That which kept us from God, in prime shape to
stand before Him on the earth—like Job said that he was going to
stand—that condition is reversed! How did it get reversed? Sin has run
its course! It’s over for sin! And we’re just beginning to get into
righteousness! Isn’t that nice? Now we think we know a few things here
by grace (Which we do know a few things by grace.) and say, “Look,
through this and this—vindication—we know we’ve got something.”
But we don’t even really know what we’ve got in the measure that
we’re going to know it. Because we can’t. This human mind gets in
the way. That’s the biggest battle there is. He’s a rascal. He sure
is.

31.	It’s all going to be destroyed. That’s this which sin brought
forth. We find that over here in Rev 21:5-8:

(5)	And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
(He said, “I’m sick and tired of the old.”) He said, Write: for
these words are true and faithful.

	He said, “They’re going to come to pass.” 

	Now, why did he say this? Because as in the days Peter spoke of, there
are going to be scoffers saying, “Well, is that really going to come
to pass? Oh, you say, ‘He’s here.’ Well, let’s find out if
He’s here.” 

	Well, they’re going to scoff about everything. They’ve got to.

	You say, “In this message Bro. Vayle?”

	Who are you kidding? If you don’t know that, you don’t know
anything. It’s always the people you’re with, you’re engaged with.
The Pharisees fought Jesus Christ, and then old Paul, the apostle,
fought Him too. And one day the light hit Paul; and then, he was fought
by the Pharisees. Come on. It’s simple as A-B-C. Come on
brother/sister; don’t look way down the road and worry about the
Catholic Church and the rest of the Protestants, because they’re all
one. You better worry about what’s going on here, like I told you
already.

32.	Here’s a guy who’s got his mug printed in the paper as though
he’s some big shot. Oh, wonderfully accepted, because he likes to run
around, talk a lot, beat his wife up, split a church, everything else.
Why, he couldn’t stand what we preach. I can’t stand what he
preaches either, so it’s an even thing. I can’t stand the thought of
a man who’d beat his wife up. When did Jesus Christ beat on His wife?
Perversion is perversion, honey, whether it’s in this church or some
other church by the name in the message, so-called—and drag Bro.
Branham’s name down?

	A guy is going around the country saying Bro. Bill and Meda fought all
the time like cats and dogs. That’s a lie from the pit of hell. The
same man said thirty-five pages of Bro. Branham’s Seven Church Ages
book were wrong.

	He said he hadn’t read them.

	He’s a liar. He read them. I read them to him. I’ve had my stomach
full of folly. You know why I cut the meetings down to two, to just the
weekend? I’m telling you why. I’m not interested in preachers per
se. I’ve got a few good friends. I’ve got a few ministers I know.

33.	Let’s keep reading.

(6)	(Said,) It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, (Look, He said, “It’s
done.” What’s done? What’s done? What He said would be done.
God’s going to be their God, the Holy City coming down, no more tears,
no more crying, no more sorrow. All the old things have passed away.
And) I will give him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of
life freely.

(7)	He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God,
and (he’ll) be my son.

	That’s in between this thing taking place right at this point, to him
that thirsteth. Is the world church thirsting?

	They said, “We don’t need anything.”

	And God says He turns away those that are full! But He welcomes those
that are empty.

	The old Pentecostals sang, “Bring your empty earthen vessels, clean
through Jesus’ precious Blood. Come you needy ones and all.” They
say, “Well, hallelujah. We’re all filled.”

	And the prophet came by and proved they’re all empty. Something’s
wrong somewhere. And I’m going to tell you: It’s not in our thinking
brother/sister. It’s not in this church. You bet it’s not. I don’t
care what anybody says. We’ve got no headquarters. And I’m no
headquarters. I’m being accused right now. That’s why this church
will cut off and cut off, until we’re just by ourselves.

	You say, Bro. Vayle, “You’re getting pessimistic.”

	What do you expect out of me? Just telling you the truth. I’m not
going to get caught, brother, by the grace of God, in this stuff. I’m
not going to get caught in it. I deplore it; I hate it. I don’t want
it in my life. I’ve got bad enough troubles now.

	But right now, if you’re thirsty, if you’re not full, if you’re
not one of those puffed up, arrogant people, He’s got a thirst
quencher for you. The Bible says, “Right now, at this time, what are
you thirsty for? What do you want from God that’s in the Word for you
at this hour? Just settle your distrust and your fears and your qualms.
You can have it right now.”

34.	But he said, listen:

(7)	He that overcometh shall inherit all things. (Overcome what?
Overcome this period of time in here, of unbelief, where Alpha’s
Omega—the Appearing and all these things.)

(8)	But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have
their part in the lake which burneth fire and brimstone: which is the
second death.

	And you tell me the White Throne is not going on now? Come on, read
your Bibles. Read your Bibles. But you got to read it in faith. 

	I talked to one man just the other night about the White Throne. He
said he got really happy when he heard about it.

	He said, “That’s it. I believe it.”

	Theologians going around, preachers, big shots in this message, can’t
see it. I know they can’t see it. They’re too big. We’re little
shots. Bro. Branham taught me that years ago.

35.	Revelation 21:23-27.

(23)	And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine
in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof.

(24)	And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of
it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.

(25)	And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day (or night): for
there shall be no night there.

(26)	And they shall bring glory and honor of the nations into it.

(27)	And there shall be no wise enter into it any thing that defiles.
(Everything will be God’s number one first creation.)

	 You say, “Well, what about woman?”

	Don’t worry about her. She was in God’s mind to begin with, and she
was in a spirit form before she ever got into the flesh. It was only in
the flesh she had her problems. And man was just waiting for her to have
her problem; don’t worry. Look at men today; don’t look at women. It
takes two to tango. And they tell me men always were better dancers and
better musicians. So, watch it. Hmm? 

	That was a snide remark. I hope you caught it. I was plugging for the
ladies. I better; my wife is one. Now I’m not afraid of her; don’t
worry. I never have been; never will be. No need to. She loves me, and I
love her. She loves me more than I love her. I know that, but that’s
where she’s got me over the barrel. All right. Now it should be vice
versa. See? How about you men? You better confess your sins while you
got time. The Bible says you’re supposed to send them on ahead of you.

36.	(27)	(…Whoever) work(s) abomination (won’t be there), (whoever)
make(s) a lie (won’t be there): but they (whose names are) in the
Lamb’s book of life. 

	When was your name written? Before the foundation of the world, before
the male and the female, or any animal was put into flesh, or any speck
of stardust, the name was there. Nothing is going to get there.

	Now, how is it not going to get there? Because the Blood made the
circle, and the fire wipes out what sin brought in the body.

	I hate to say this, but I think we’re going to be on this sermon for
the next eight months. I covered two paragraphs. [Bro. Vayle laughs.]	

37.	[53] 	That’s why it’s so filthy today, he says.

	In other words the enemy employs filth! And it started in the Garden of
Eden, and it’s not just merely sexual now, it’s going to be
everywhere, with sexuality being the typing. Because, why? Without sex
the earth would not be propagated. It would not be filled. Nothing else
is filled either in this world, because it all depends on that one
issue. Freud was almost completely right on his thesis. I hear before he
died he changed it, and therefore, he would be almost one hundred
percent right.

38.	[54] 	The apostle, in 2 Pet 3:5-6, refers to three stages of the
earth.

	Now here’s where I said Bullinger hit it, and Bullinger was right.
And, watch how Bro. Branham says the same thing, showing you that Bro.
Branham never came on the scene but only to correct and add what was
left out, because there wasn’t time. These great men of God, in the
age of the face of the man, were genuinely men of God and in the Bride.
And you don’t need to think for one minute they are not coming up;
because, if they don’t come up, you’re not going to make it either.
I never saw a baby yet worth a whoop, where the body was clean from the
feet to the navel, and then, the navel to the neck missing, and you got
a head and a neck. Why, the kid’s dead!

	Well, don’t think God’s got a Bride that’s got a nose off or an
arm off or a toe off or something else off. Out of every age the elect
are there. From the very first creation of man, God’s had His elect.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all would be made alive!—but
in their own order. And there is a Bride that takes the supremacy
through the elective powers of Almighty God, and the rest are just as
good, and they’re going to come in later. But there won’t be anyone
but those there! Nobody but those will be there. And the Holy City will
be fantastic. Oh my! God will be fulfilling Himself and mankind like He
never did before. I tell you, I want to get there. Even if I get there
for five minutes and He throws me out, I’d like to know what it’s
all about. But, if we get there for five minutes, I’ll be there for
five trillion years. How will they try throwing me out, if I ever got
in? I think I would know something good when I saw it. I hope so. All
right. 

39.	Three stages:

[54] 	See, he gets three stages mentioned here, and he talks about the
three stages, of which the new heavens and the new earth is that third
stage of the same earth. Notice how he brings them. The old world stood
out of the water. That’s number one. That was the antediluvian…
Paragraph 55:

[55] 	Now, the one that is—the present world we live in now, (He
called it a world.) the old world stood out of water (Gen 1:1), and now,
( The world that now is present.) That’s what we’re looking at. And
number three, and then again he refers to another one, the world that is
to come, the new world—three worlds, or three stages of the world.

	Now that makes sense, because God does things like that. He doesn’t
just start and blot it out, then start over again. He just takes a
progression. That’s sensible.

[56] 	And notice how God makes plain to us His plan of redemption.

	Now this is where I told you last night, that Bro. Branham takes page
after page of identifying the redemption of the heavens and earth with
our own personal redemption, because God has only one plan of
redemption. You follow? All right.

[56] 	And notice how God makes plain to us His plan of redemption. Oh,
this just thrilled my soul when I saw it. Because you see, made it
really clear. One plan. How He makes plain to us here now, His plan of
redemption. Not salvation; it’s redemption. That’s good. Now,
compare what we see with our own eyes what God has done to redeem His
world. Now, remember; there are two worlds: the world of the ungodly and
the world of the godly. See. Right? He’s used the same plan to redeem
His people. For the unchangeable God changes not any of His plans or
anything. Nothing at all, never changes anything. Such a glorious thing.

	In other words one plan of redemption for all that is to be redeemed.
No matter what it is to be redeemed, it has one plan. 

40.	Now:

[57] 	He led us to Himself, to tabernacle in us by three stages of
grace. Now you know that. Just like He’s led the world in three stages
to come through the world’s processes of redemption, to the end God
will come down Himself, to tabernacle here as it says in Rev 21:22.

	Now, you notice, I changed Bro. Branham’s wording. I added to it on
purpose to get the full strength of it; because that’s what he says.
He said, “He came down here to tabernacle in us.” What’s he going
to do then? He’s going to come and tabernacle here. 

	So, I told you about it. Let me prove it to you. Revelation 21:22:

(22)	And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are the temple of it.

	There you are. He wants to come right down here. And we won’t be His
temple. we’re going to be a city! He will be His Own Temple and His
Own Light. He will be the great Generator, and we will be the
generated—or the animated. See, three stages.

41.	[57] 	As God will come to the world after it has gone through three
different stages of purification, (See, he’s saying what I just told
you.) that’s exactly how He comes to three stages of grace for you and
me. I’ve taught that at the beginning; I’ve never changed since,
because It is God’s Word.

[58] 	Now, You have to keep your three’s together, your sevens, your
twelves. Now I can’t explain that. That’s just what he said, and
it’s true. The numerics of the Bible must run perfect or you get your
pictures all mixed up. If you can’t understand it, just keep praying.
You watch, it’ll cut right in, exactly. God is perfected in threes.

	Now that’s what he said a while ago, last night. He said, “Look,
I’m not going to take a subject and follow it all the way through from
Genesis to Revelation, so I cover A to Z.” He said, “I’m like the
Bible. I break in here; I give you so much. I break in here; give you so
much. Then, I come back and start on this again. I go over here and
touch this again.” And in a series of messages, when Bro. Branham’s
whole ministry is finished, we had the perfect revelation for this hour,
everything to put us in a rapture. That’s God’s Truth, my
brother/sister, as we understand God’s Truth.

42.	[59] 	Notice the old world (antediluvian), the world that’s
present now (That’s number two.) and the world to come (number three).

	Number one: the old world; number two: what we’re living in now;
number three: is going to come. Now that’s where Paul was caught to
the third heaven. That’s what Bullinger thinks. And he said,
“There’s no word in it, and there’s no Jewish fable. We don’t
understand it.” But he said, “If you’re going to look at the third
heaven, we know there was a heaven, there is a heaven now, and
there’ll be a third one then.” So, Paul says, “I caught a glimpse
of the Millennium and New Jerusalem.” Who knows? I don’t know, but
that’s a very good thought. A very good thought. I like it. I don’t
know it’s right, but it’s good thinking, you know, the third ‘to
come’. See?

	And also, when Jesus said to the thief, “I say unto thee…”
Everybody wants to say, “Today you’ll be with me in paradise.” I
agree with Bullinger again. Although he would be with him, (in that
particular place) he said, “I say to thee, today” (tomorrow like),
“I will walk with you in the Millennium and in New Jerusalem.” 

	See, now no matter how you look at it, it’s true that that man did
not go to the place of the lost. No. And he didn’t make the First
Resurrection either. I’m sure of that. He couldn’t, because he was
New Testament, not Old Testament in my understanding. He’ll still come
up. And in the tomorrow, God’s tomorrow, where there’s no sorrow,
(Right? the third world) he’s going to be there. We’re going to be
there, too. That’s going to be marvelous to see that man, that first
one, to see the first martyr Stephen, and to see Paul. I imagine Paul
and Bro. Branham will be just like twins, born out of due season. You
know, [Bro. Vayle laughs.] just almost two thousand years apart.
That’s a long time to carry a baby. But it was worked in the plan of
God; he carried him a long time in the womb of God’s divine grace. 

43.	Now:

[59] 	See, His plan of redemption is exactly the same by everything. No
change in His plan of redemption. He uses the same method. He never
changes. He said, in Malachi, “I am God and I change not.” That’s
true. He sure doesn’t. The way He does it, therefore, if He saved the
first man He ever saved by the shed blood of an innocent one, He’ll
have to save the next one. Not another way. And if every one He saves
will have to be the same way. Not just number one, then number two, but
number three, until it’s all over. If He healed a man at any time
through the journey of life, let it be in the days of Jesus, the
apostles, the prophets, whenever it was, when the same conditions are
met, He’s got to do it again. That’s right. He doesn’t change. Man
changes, time changes, age changes, dispensation changes, but God
remains the same—perfect! What a hope that ought to give the sick
people.

	See? In other words, as we meet the conditions, there’s absolutely no
way out that we cannot be healed, (unless God Himself sent a prophet,
and said, “You can’t have it.”) once the conditions are met, see?

44.	Now, just to stop a second, and we go to Rev 22:10-14.

(9) 	(And he said) unto me, See thou do it not: (worship me) (I’m) thy
fellowservant, and of (the) brethren the prophets, and of them (that)
keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

(10) 	And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this
book: for the time is at hand.

(11) 	He that is unjust, (will) be unjust still: filthy, filthy still:
(and so on and so on. Verse 12;)

(12) 	Behold, I come quickly; my reward with me, to give every man
according as his work shall be.

(13) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the
last.

	Now, notice what he says here. I never saw this before. “And my
reward is with me, to give every man according as his works shall be.”
And that’s of the time of the opening of the Seals. That shows White
Throne again. See the principle? You can’t separate them anymore. Now
you and your minds may try; but I warn you, don’t try it in your
minds. Let your heart be your guide, until your minds straighten out.
Now I have no problem here at this point, and I expect none of you to
have any problem. Just let your minds go. There is no problem. It tells
you right here: “I’m Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.”
In other words the First has come into view, and the First is the Last,
because you’re back where I wanted you in the first place, and this
time it’s going to be better. Because God wanted the three worlds. He
wanted this place for us. Eden had disappeared a long time ago. At the
time of the flood, Eden got washed out somewhere. And by God’s grace,
after Noah, He still allowed the exact location, (sort of, the area)
Tigris and Euphrates; he must have allowed part of it to come back. Or
He merely mentions those, as markers. See, it’s the same One. God’s
doing great things right now. Actually, we can see ourselves at home in
the New Jerusalem if we want to.

45.	(13)	Blessed are they that (wash their robes), that they may have
right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the
city.

	Now, with that, let’s look at Rev 22:2:

(2)	In the midst of the street of it, on either side of the river, was
there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded
her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were the healing of
the nations.

	Now, let’s say that that Tree of Life is symbolical. I want to ask
you a question now. Let’s be very honest and very sincere, because it
can do something for us. I don’t know if it will or not, but I hope it
will. I want to ask you a question: Do you believe that the Tree of Life
is here now? Not a symbol any longer? Then, how much more can we be
healed, if we begin to see these things? We have let the devil take this
message and deny the actual content and the depth of the truth and the
power thereof. It is time to get the minds renewed; without the renewing
of the mind there can be no transfiguration. Can’t do it.

46.	See, this is why your Friday night meetings can be so valuable. And
that’s why your home life can be so valuable. That’s why the Bible
said, ‘Look, take phylacteries, bind them upon your forehead’. You
go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. It reminds you of what’s in there.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. You keep saying, “Yes.” Whatever you want in your
mind. That little bang, bang, bang, as you walk, as you sweat, as you
twist your head, as the wind blows, as you wipe your forehead, as you
push your hair back. Always, it’s reminding you, reminding you,
showing you the Word in the mind, to get down in the heart, blocking
every channel. It would make us spiritual. It’s marvelous what we can
do, if we want to do it, brother/sister.

	That’s why Bro. Branham said, “I’ve given myself entirely to the
Word.” I couldn’t figure him, but I figure him now. Will anybody
rise up to do that in this message? We will, if we’re not lazy. We
learn to esteem God and His Truth above everything else; nothing’s
going to bother you. The fact that you’ve been betrayed by people
doesn’t mean a thing. The fact you know they can sit right beside you,
they’re going to cut your throat, doesn’t mean a thing. I told you
time after time: this church with a hundred seats, a hundred and fifty
seats, could go one hundred and fifty different ways tomorrow morning.
But, by the grace of God, it won’t. And, if some of them do go, I’m
not stopping. It’s too late to stop. I can’t anyway. See?

	My, it’s all before us, brother/sister. You never saw a day like this
day, when everything’s right out in the open, and proven. See? The
vindication principle, brother/sister, is at work. I don’t care what
anybody says. We are a people who abide, our faith abides, firmly
established on the vindication principle and nothing else. It has been
proven. It has been proven.

47.	So, this guy says, “I don’t believe it.” 

	Brother, be my guest. 

	“Well, I don’t think you’re going to make it.” 

	That’s up to God. But I believe it. 

	“Well, boy-oh-boy. Your prophet’s dead.” 

	Sure, but so is your theologian of a hundred years ago, and he never
had any proof. You had a smart brain anointed by God. Today the brain is
not anointed in the way it was anointed years ago. It’s anointed
differently. You’ve got to take this Word first, in here, then watch
the anointing come. You cannot say, “Lord, my mind is anointed,
hallelujah,” and not believe this, and go to the Bible and get a right
answer. You’ve got to say, “Lord, I believe that; I accept that.
I’m anointed! By the very grounds I’ve got this Word in here, the
Holy Ghost must come to it! Then, as I go to my Bible…” like Bro.
Branham did. We can’t be Bro. Branhams. We got our own little
trickle-down. Let’s understand.

48.	[60] 	If He ever healed a person, He has to do it again when the
same conditions are met. If He ever saved a man, He’s got to do it on
the same grounds He did at the first time. If He ever filled a man with
the Holy Ghost, He’s got to do it on the same grounds He did the first
time. That’s been going on for seven church ages. If He ever raised a
man from the grave, He’s got to do it the second time and every other
time on the same principle. How is that? “Come out, come on forth.”
The same voice of God, that raised Lazarus, is going to be here. You and
I won’t hear it, but we’ll see it.

	Now our seeing is by our hearing. Our hearing, the call, is by our
seeing. Because we see the dead raised, we’ll know He called. So, we
hear the call (Right?) By seeing. Today we see by hearing, right?
Certainly we do. We’re a fine bunch of mixed up people. That’s the
way God wants it, see? We’re plumb out of the world and the ways of
the world. 

	Look, I trust we are soon to that place where we can say, not just by
faith and by the fact of identification, but in a reality, because our
own spirits are down, and our lives are humbled before God: “Satan’s
got nothing to do with me, and I’ve got nothing to do with him.” Oh,
my. It may not come till the Resurrection, but it’s going to come
anyway.

[60] 	If He ever raised a man, He’s got to do it the same way.

	Always, we go back to Eccl 3:14:

(14)	I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing
can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it, that men
should fear before him.

49.	This is not something, my brother/sister, that God did, and you
can’t add to it. This is something that God did and is doing now, and
don’t you dare touch it! How can you lay a hand on a prophet of God,
vindicated by the Word and, then, come away clear? You’re going to be
guilty. We won’t be, because we believe differently.

(13)	That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
been; and God require(s) that which is past.

[61] 	There’s the law that Bro. Branham laid down. Oh, what a hope
that gives me! What is it? Not in some man-made theory, something that
groups of men have come together on, but His unchangeable Word.

	Well, how do you know it’s His unchangeable Word? God said so! 

	“Well, I don’t believe that.” 

	You don’t have to believe anything. In fact, I’m glad they don’t.
I’ve told you for years here: if the preachers and people believe as
I’m preaching from this pulpit, I’ve got to be wrong. Because Bro.
Branham said, if they did it that way, he’d be wrong. Now the Word’s
coming back. 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, are you glad the people are condemned?”


	No, I’m glad I’m right! [Bro. Vayle’s being facetious.) What do
you think? I don’t rejoice that you got a hundred thousand dollar debt
on your home and my house is clear. I don’t rejoice about your debt. I
rejoice my house is clear. You get your own house clear and rejoice.
That’s it: plain, good, common sense—horse sense coming from a
sheep. [Bro. Vayle laughs.] A stable knowledge. That’s what it is.

[61] 	He said, You say, “Is it the Truth Bro. Branham?”

	He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie and Mine be the truth.
Because for heavens and earth were going to pass away but My Word will
never fail.”

[62]	All Scripture’s given by inspiration; therefore, it’s good and
profitable for doctrine; and remember that all Scripture will be
fulfilled—every bit of it! And you know, that eschatology is a part of
doctrine; that’s future things.

50.	Now, as God gives revelation, we live by it, and through it, and
expect…. You see, we live by it, and through it (That’s a
revelation.) we expect (That’s our faith.) to receive the benefits
that are coming by revealed prophecy. That’s right. Bro. Branham gave
us the revelation. He tells us what it’s all about. We live by it.
That’s ours; that’s our light. And through it we expect to receive
all the benefits that are coming, because he revealed it by prophecy.
Bro. Branham said, “It’s been spoken; it’s going to be.”

[63] 	Notice how God made it plain to us. And, if that wasn’t a great
confirmation, a good, great, loving blessing from God, when I see this
and see that since a boy (first time Christ dealt with me), I still
always taught those three stages of grace! Notice if it isn’t true
now.

[64] 	Now, the first step is repentance toward God.

51.	Now, watch; he’s going to bring us to the place, and he’s going
to really belabor this, how that our justification, sanctification, and
baptism is exactly how God does everything in His universe that He wants
to redeem. There is no exception. It’s done in threes.

[64] 	Now, the first step is repentance toward God; then, what follows
after that, is water baptism. Water baptism: “Repent and be baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ.” See? Water baptism follows, showing that
the repentance was genuine, to remit our past sins. Now, that has
nothing to do with our future sins. It only remits the past sins.
“Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.” What for?
Remission, taking away of past sin: and nothing to do with the future.
Just your sin has been chopped off; whatever you did is gone, because
the blood scatters till there be no evidence. That’s what he told us.

[65] 	You can’t repent for what Adam did. No! You never did it; Adam
did it. The Bible tells us that: Romans 5. You just get forgiveness for
what you’ve done. The old nature is still there. Now, he said, Let me
take this board a minute. Now I haven’t got a blackboard here, so
I’ll read it slow, and we’ll visualize it.

[66] 	Now, here is a human heart. So, he draws a heart. I’m a long
ways from an artist. Here is a human heart, and now here is another
human heart. Two human hearts on the blackboard. It’s a blackboard,
remember, not a whiteboard. Now, this one over here has a snake in it.
So, he draws a snake. Keep that in your mind. That’s sin. Here he has
life. Now he’s going to draw a dove. This one has a Dove in it, which
is the Holy Spirit. So, you’ve got two hearts drawn now. One’s got a
snake, and one’s got a dove. All right. That’s the Holy Spirit. Here
he has a life. Well, this one here has malice, (That’s the snake.)
hatred, envy. That’s what’s causing it: this fellow here. The snake
inside. Well, this one over here has love, joy, long-suffering, and
that’s what does it down here. He points to the dove—the Holy
Spirit.

[67] 	Now, when you are forgiven of your sin, only what you’ve already
done is taken away. The future sins you’ve confessed, and He
intercedes. Remember that. But the thing that made you do it is still
there. Your sins are gone, but that old nature’s there. That’s the
old root of evil. It’s still there. In other words you still want to
do those things. You’re a creature of habit. You like what you’ve
done. You know it’s wrong but there’s something in there that says,
“Hey, you know, let’s go do it. Let’s go do it.” 

[68]	Now, when you repent and are baptized in the name of Jesus Christ,
that is when He forgives you of your sins. Repent and be baptized.
That’s right. Now:

[69] 	Secondly comes sanctification, (The first you see is
justification. He’ll tell you that later.) which sets our minds in
order for holiness: to think right. You couldn’t do it before.
“Sanctification” is a compound Greek word which means “cleansed…
cleaned and set apart for service.” You see, it sets you apart, but
the service comes when you’re full of the Holy Ghost. He’ll tell you
that. Now, number three.

[70] 	Then the next comes the baptism of the Fire and Holy Ghost that
God might dwell in us, and the Fire of God cleanses our hearts from sin
and puts the Holy Ghost inside. Then… See, it’s a living fire.
It’s not a dead fire; it’s a living fire. Then we bring forth the
same Life that this did—the Dove, brings forth that’s in us. And,
what did He bring forth? Joy, love, longsuffering, and meekness and
gentleness, and all those goodies. All right.

52.	Now 71, page 17. Now, let’s illustrate this in the natural birth,
is what he’s telling you.

[71]	Notice, in the natural birth when a woman gives birth to a baby...
The natural life types the spiritual life. Now, watch that. So, when a
woman gives birth to a baby, in the natural, the first thing happens is
what? Number one: the breaking of water. Number two: then comes the
blood, then the next thing comes the life, the spirit. Grab the little
fellow, spank him and away he goes, screaming. Water, blood, spirit...
Right? That’s true. See?

[72] 	Now, when a baby is borned in the Kingdom of God, he comes the
same way: Water, Blood, Spirit.

[73] 	Now, notice; sanctification, the second stage of it, cleanses the
mind, sets the heart, the mind of the heart in order of holiness. In
other words there’s a new pattern coming up now.

[74] 	A man can repent of sin, and he’s still thinking of... Well,
let’s say, maybe he’s an immoral man. You know, women; he likes
women. Every immoral looking woman he finds; it’s still there. Maybe
he’s a drunkard. Every time he smells a drink; still there. See? But
then, when he gets sanctified, that cleanses that desire out of him. He
doesn’t want to drink anymore.

53.	Now it doesn’t say he can’t get tempted, but it becomes foreign
to him. 

	You say, “Well, that’s a temptation. Before they would have walked
right into it. So what? That’s life.”

	See, that’s what they’re doing now in all the TV and all these
films, which makes it so bad. I talked to a girl in Cincinnati; she’s
a real sweet kid that had something to do in the airport. I forget, she
was in one of the places where they vend magazines and T-shirts and
things; and we got to talking, because our plane was delayed. And we
were discussing this thing about TV and picture shows and
videocassettes. 

	And I said, “Well, what gets me is that I simply cannot conceive,
from my upbringing and the life that we have lived and taught our
children, and what I see going on about me, that it’s natural in every
home for the parents to use filthy words on the kids and the kids to use
filthy words on the parents, and back and forth, until there’s nothing
but dirty, four-letter words, and a conversation which is absolutely out
of order.”

	She said, “Where have you been?” She just looked me in the eye. She
said, “Things have changed.”

	I still cannot accept that. But I guess it’s there.

54.	So, this is what he’s talking about here. You’re under a certain
pattern. Nothing to it. The prostitute, after she’s had her
intercourse with the man, maybe given him AIDS and everything else, the
Bible says, she’s just like eating a piece of bread: She wipes her
mouth; says it was a good meal; you know, a part of life. Hey, I’m
going to tell you. People are that way in the natural. The only thing
they’ve held back is from some religious training they’ve had or
something down the road that suggested there were morals somewhere.
Naturally, we are degrading. Ourselves and others are degraded.

	Now, let the Spirit of God begin to move. 

	You say, “All right, I’ve been baptized in water. I know God has
forgiven me. The remission of sin is complete, but I’ve got this messy
thing in here.” 

	God immediately sets about giving you the spirit, in a sanctifying
measure of grace, where you know right now, “Hey, that’s only not
the thing not to do; but look, I don’t want to do it. I’ve got
problems, and I’ve still got that problem in there. There’s
something in there, but I don’t want to do it.” In other words the
mind begins to line up; the things of God begin to look better.

55.	[74] 	Maybe he’s a drunkard. Every time he smells a drink; it’s
there. See? But when he gets sanctified, that cleanses the desire out of
him. He doesn’t have a desire now. It takes the want of it away. He
still can be tempted, but He takes the want of it away. In other words
you don’t want to do it, and so, you begin to buckle down; whereas
before, you just wanted to do it and did it. Now there’s something
moving on you. Still he’s not right yet. No, he’s still not there
yet. Then, he is baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire, cleansed, burnt
out, cleaned up, and then put into the service of God.

	Now he’s too busy serving God to get messed up with the other. But
the devil will always tempt us and try to get our minds someplace away
from the business of God. Jesus said, (when they try to get Him misled)
“I must be about my Father’s business. Don’t try to mislead me.”
Elisha taught that to Gehazi. “Don’t let anybody attract you.
Don’t greet anybody. Don’t say hello. Don’t stop. Don’t do this;
just go on right down there.” 

	That’s right. Get your eye on the goal. We get our eyes on the goal,
brother/sister, to believe with all our hearts, that everything we need
to get us in the Rapture we are going to have; we will be in that
Rapture. Because I’ll tell you why: if you’re not seed, you won’t
want to get your mind in order. It’s just that simple. See, it’s
going to be dead manna to you. It’s going to be dry. It’s going to
be disgusting. I’ve warned you of that many times. When you get right
down to the nitty-gritty of the plan of God brought before us by the
prophet, vindicated of God, and you begin to see how this thing looks
like a cut and dried thing, It could do something to you: destroy you. 

	But, if you’re a real seed of God, you say, “Hallelujah, I’m sure
glad it’s that way.” You say, “Man, I like it all cut and dried,
especially because I’m a part of it. Yes siree. I’ve got my
representation with me way back yonder; got it right now; I’m going to
have it all the better, surely.”

56.	[74] 	Sanctification only sets him aside for service. See? If
sanctification only sets him aside for service, as Bro. Branham says
right here, the Holy Ghost empowers him for the service. Because, why
would you be set aside for service, if you don’t get something to do
the service? You know, that would be silly, wouldn’t it? God defeat
His Own purpose.

[75] 	And notice that just exactly how that comes. So, the message is
coming… Now, notice, and watch this here: Notice the message is coming
in three stages—Martin Luther, justification; John Wesley,
sanctification; the Pentecostals, baptism of the Holy Ghost. What does
that mean? All of this needed to get the Bride ready. These messages, to
get the final message, and put her into orbit. See? What you’re
looking at. These messages, being there shows (being here maybe more. I
interpolated that.) that’s where there can’t be any more messages of
it. Because, you see, it’s coming to three. Reformation. Now you’re
right to restoration. There can’t be any more messages. This has got
to finish it. No organization. We’re at the end of time. Three
stages... Baptism cleanses the heart with the Holy Ghost. And, remember;
a genuine baptism will make us take the Message.

[76] 	How striking now! He takes the place, (That’s the earth, the
world.) where we are to dwell in through the same processes. Now He’s
called the Church through justification, called it through
sanctification, filled it with the Holy Ghost and fire, and He took it
through a process so that He Himself, the Holy Spirit Himself, the Son
of God, could dwell in the human heart. Now it has to go through that
before He can come into it. Notice, He has done the world (where the
Bride’s going to live in) the same way—His same plan of salvation.

[77] 	Notice the antediluvian world. After it had repented through the
bride of that day, Noah… Notice, one man, seven people with him,
repented. That was the whole thing, repented, through the Bride of that
day, Noah… He gave it a water baptism, covered it over with water;
just exactly true, because that’s what baptism does. Justification,
showing that He’s on His road to call this fallen world from Eden back
to its restoration again. The world fell from Eden; now He’s got to
call it back. Then, Christ came and shed His Blood upon it, water, now
blood, Noah, Christ, cleansing it and claiming it. See? That’s the
world we live in now. See, Noah—water, Jesus—Blood.

57.	[78] 	See how Satan here in the Scripture tried to make Him break
God’s plan to receive it—give it to Him, when he took Him up on the
mountain and tried to give it to Him without the purchase of Blood? Now,
see that’s why I proclaim the power of the Blood. Never, ever… just
thank God for the blood of Jesus Christ and glory in it. See?

[79] 	Did you notice how Abraham, when they tried to give him the land,
he bought it with so many shekels of silver before the people as a
ensign, as a witness: “Let it be known this day I’ve bought this
very place.” See? Purchased it. And Satan tried to give Jesus the
kingdom which belonged to Satan now. Belonged to him; belongs to him
now. He tried to give it to Him as a gift, but He wouldn’t receive it.
See, then Satan could still have claim on it.

	What good would it be if He let Satan give it to Him? He would have to
receive it in that same condition, then it would exist in that
condition. Forget it. If you’re going to give me some broken old down
car with fenders all battered off and the motor shot, I’d just say,
“Hey, put the fenders back on, fix her up and give me a new motor, and
I’ll listen to you about your car. You aren’t giving me anything in
this condition. You think I’m going to pay a price of $800 for two
bits worth of junk? Forget it. I’m not stupid.” 

	Well, Jesus wasn’t stupid. You mean to tell me he was going to get
the earth in the condition it was in? 

	Now he said, “Hey look, I’ll pay for something decent.” 

	Oh, man. Jesus was a smart business head. He wasn’t some milk toast
guy going around, you know, drooling in his beard or something,
couldn’t drink his lemonade, or whatever he had—I don’t know. Some
people think that Jesus was some sort of a peculiar fellow. He wasn’t.
I’m going to tell you, He was every inch of man. But He stood there…
He was every inch God, too. 

	He said, “Look, I’m not going to take it at any account from
you.”

58.	[79] 	He tried to give Him a gift; he wouldn’t receive it. See,
then Satan could have still had claim on it. But, it had to be bought.
Amen. He was the Word in the fullness thereof. That’s who Jesus was:
the fullness of the Word. They couldn’t deceive Him. Oh, He was going
to cleanse it, just by His Own Blood. That was a purchase price. See?

[80] 	Then, it is now to get the baptism of fire. It’s had water now;
it’s had already the blood. Two thousand years later, it’s going to
get fire. That’s number three. What happened? Christ came and called
the Church to repentance, baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins, and to sanctify the Church, with the fire of God came
down and burned out all the filth and came and dwells in the human
heart.

	Now, let’s take a look at that. That’s in 1 Corinthians 6, because
that’s what Bro. Branham was teaching us. So, let’s look at It. All
right. [1 Cor 6:19-20]

(19)	What? know ye not your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which
is in you, which ye have of God, and (you’re) not your own?

(20)	For (you were) bought with a price. (That’s like the world.)

	Now, if you’ve been bought with the price, you’re entitled to the
Holy Ghost, and you must receive the Holy Ghost, and you will receive
the Holy Ghost. Certainly, because that’s the way it is in the earth. 

	You think you’ll stand back and say, “Well now, I’ve got the
water, I’ve got the Blood, and I refuse the fire?” 

	What’s the world got to do with it? That’s the purchase of God.
He’ll do what He wants. Now, what about this: we’re the purchase of
God. He’s going to do what He wants. What’s He want to do? Fill us.
You think a lamb, a true child of God, is not going to be filled? Why,
you’ve got to be whistling in the dark. You’ve missed sovereignty
and the principle of grace. You don’t understand election,
predestination. Sovereignty is “I’m God, and I do what I want, and
you try to stop me.” Well, I’m glad He thought that way about me,
because I’d have sure tried to stop Him. We should say, it’s nice
we’ve got a God that knows what He’s doing—especially to us.

(20)	… glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God’s.

59.	And, let’s read something else here. Let’s read 1 Cor 6:15-18.

(15)	Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then
take members of Christ, and make them members of harlot? God forbid.

(16)	What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. (And we’re speaking of
spiritual adultery now.)

(17)	But he (that’s) joined to the Lord is one spirit.

(18)	(Therefore) flee (these) fornication(s of this wrong type of
thinking and doing). Every sin that a man doeth is without (his) body;
but he that committeth fornication sin(s) against his own body.

	So there, let’s say you’re out there fornicating and these
spiritual adulterers. You think you’re going to make the Resurrection?
Forget it. The Bible says you aren’t going to do it; you’ve sinned
against your body. You cut yourself plumb off. Brother/sister, you must
stay with your types in the Word of God. Don’t let anybody fool you.
We don’t intend to be fooled. Let’s face it; we’re not going to be
fooled by the grace of God. Not because I say so, but the Word of God
says so. The elect cannot be fooled. All right.

60.	[80]	…burn out all the filth and come and dwell in your heart.

[81]	Now, for the world, to be redeemed for this redeemed person… Now,
for the world to be redeemed for this redeemed person, to be redeemed,
see… He uses the same method. World, one person; doesn’t matter. He
baptized it in water after the flood destruction, shed His Blood upon it
to sanctify it and cleanse it. It’s his, now.

[82]	And Satan said, “I’ll give it to you.”

	He said, “No, sir, I bought it.” Let it be a witness.

61.	“My Blood’s a witness.” He was lifted up for an ensign, lifted
above the earth, shed His Blood; it’s mine. He hung right between the
two, (That’s right, in the atmosphere.) hanging in the atmosphere, the
Blood on the earth, cleansing the whole thing, proving it’s His;
can’t do a thing about it; going to claim it at the right hour,
because Satan has claims by reason of a time. Right? Oh, yes, the same
time until Adam can be immortal. Satan’s time is over, brother/sister.
My, that’s nice. A few more days to suffer. That’s okay; let’s
suffer with understanding, not anxieties.

[82] 	He lifted up for an ensign—that He bought it; He purchased it.
But now it has to go through a baptism of fire, holy fire from God which
cleanses the earth and the heavens around it. Then, it’s purchased, so
the redeemed can live on it—and live in peace.

	It’s purchased, but it’s not cleansed. We can’t go there. See?
Satan not just bound now by circumstances, when this fire falls. He’s
bound, period. He’s not going to have his way. Oh, he’ll come forth
after the Second Resurrection and try to do a little bit. But he’s a
loser, and there’s no way he’s going to do anything further. You
see?

62.	Now it’s ready for the people of God to dwell in. For God, in the
new world that is to come, is to dwell on earth—God in the new world
that’s to come. The fire-cleansed world; God is coming right down.
Right there. But, you see, He’s got to do it that way. The next time
He comes, He’s the Person in the Lord Jesus Christ, in the perfect
Headship. Right now, it’s the Headship over the Bride, nothing else.

[83] 	You say, “God? He dwells in the human heart.” But He and the
Bride become One, and they go to their home in the new world. And the
same plan of redemption is used to redeem both world and the persons
that live in it.

	 In other words there is one plan for the perfect thing that God had in
mind. A new oneness is coming to us now, over and above the oneness we
have now, which we started one with God, by being born again. We are now
in a new oneness with each other and God by the Word: uniting time. The
third one is at the Marriage Supper, and we all, literally, live around
the throne of God: the Bride and the Bridegroom.

[84] 	See, the heart has to be cleansed like that.

63.	How much time we got left? Oh, I’ll never read this paragraph
here, because I’ve got to read all of it, and we’ve got to comment
on it. So, we’ll leave right here at the point, where we are seeing,
positively, what God did for each one of us. He is now in process and
has been in process with the earth. And we’re coming to the oneness
where God Himself will dwell with His people, and He will be the temple.
We’re looking for it, brother/sister. It’s here by the grace of God.


	Now, here’s what you and I must think about. This will take away all
these other things. Why? Because the glory, which we have now, exceeds
any other glory there ever was in redemption’s plan, and we are now
about to see a greater glory. Right. Because never has a group of people
been changed standing on earth. What a wonderful day it is. We’re even
going to see how many are going to be in it. The prophet said so. Bless
your heart; 7:30 Wednesday night. Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	We appreciate all the good folk coming in for the Communion and
Foot-washing. It certainly makes our day here. I hope it made yours. If
you had contributed to you as much as you have contributed to us, I’d
say… Well, I want to tell you, you’ve got a real blessing, because
you really contribute to us in a marvelous way that cannot be expressed.
We know that you love us, and we sure love you. And, if we can’t be
together on this side of the border, because I’m sure not going north,
and you know as far as the vacations are concerned, I’ve been there.
That was enough for me. And maybe we’ll never get together, you know,
until the Millennium. There won’t be any borders there—travel with a
speed of thought. How nice! How wonderful! Let’s be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we want to praise and thank You again for Your lovely,
lovely, Holy Spirit You sent to us individually, and Your lovely Self in
our midst at the Head of the church, and a prophet that was yielded to
You to bring us this Word. That as we study we see just so many
tremendous things flowing out, like the whole plan, Lord, set before the
foundation of the world. And we a part of it, O God, by faith, for we
believe what we have seen and heard, and we know that light that which
maketh manifest is light, and it does make manifest, Lord, that there is
a people who believe this. Right or wrong, it’s still light
manifesting. And Father, we believe it is right.

	And now, Lord God, wouldn’t it be nice if we somehow, but only by
Your help we know we can do it, by the greater One within us, to so get
out of the way, Lord, that we would not only love and appreciate You, as
we ought to, but Your Own Light may take precedence and supersede our
lives, that we could honestly say with Paul, at least in some measure,
that “for us to live is Christ.” Lord, we know that is true in a
measure, but the measure is just… Well, let’s say Lord, that we’re
discouraged with ourselves by not being in the fullness of the divine
flow, humanly speaking, as we really know we ought to be, with the
manifested fruit of the Holy Ghost in and through us. Help us,
therefore, Lord, to put aside the old man unto complete crucifixion. Let
him be annihilated. Let all these things in there, Lord, that have been
inbred in us and also worked into us, by the nature we’ve had, and by
the lives we’ve led, and the education we’ve got, influence of this
person, that person, whatever, we pray, Lord, that it’ll give way to
the Word of God which has been revealed to us, and tune in more and more
of those channels until Father, the Word alone charges our inner battery
and comes forth in the life that You want us to have. 

	We’re not begging for gifts and things, Lord, though we certainly are
not turning them aside—at least we don’t want to turn them aside
though we may be. If there’s something, Father, that you have for us,
we pray… We can’t do like the prophet did, but we can read what he
said here… [End of the audio tape.]