Future Home #3

Proven: the Vindication Principle

May 4, 1988

	…Which we have, Lord, coming together in this Your… [Interrupted by
shrieking noise from microphone] …Asking then, my God, that You grant
mercy to us in this hour, that Your Word will be revealed to us, so that
we can know that things are surely given to us of God. We just pray,
Lord, that You’ll help us, and we’ll be very careful to give you all
the praise and the glory, because we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now we’re on to number 3 of the “Future Home of the Earthly
Bride”, and I trust the Lord will help us, because there’s so much
good material here we are starting into, not that we haven’t had…
[Blank spot on tape due to microphone malfunction.]

	It’s already hooked in; we’ll just use this one, except I have to
turn around here in a minute or two. We’ve got something anyway. Maybe
that’s the devil squealing. Bro. Branham said we have his number.

2.	Now in presenting this subject, Bro. Branham let it be known that he
received his necessary knowledge, which was required for this message,
supernaturally, by the Holy Ghost leading him into the Scripture. Now,
remember; he told us how that he got a thought in prayer, and then, he
would begin tracing it through the Scripture to see that it was one with
the Word. So, when he presented this subject, he let us know that he
received what he needed to know in a supernatural revelation by the Holy
Ghost in the Word of God.

3.	We, therefore, contend that this is a part of the revelation of the
Seven Thunders under the Seventh Seal, and is a part of the necessary
truth of the restoration by Elijah. Now, there again, this will evoke
controversy in those who do not follow what we believe, but this is a
part of what is to be known in this hour, and it is a part of our
redemption in this particular area. Because, remember; there is no way
that one is going to get out of this earth here, except certain
Scripture be put to one side by something that God has already foreknown
that He would do, in order that a people would not die but would be
walking into eternal life.

4.	Now a mysterious part of this subject was the question as to how God
would dissolve the old heavens and earth and create new ones. And the
answer was that the heavens and earth were not literally annihilated,
but that it was the atmospheres, (Bro. Branham called it
‘atmospheres’ in the plural.) and that which was upon the earth,
that was burned up, thus ridding the entire world of all sin and all the
consequences of sin, even to evil spirits themselves. All noxious and
toxic materials would be destroyed. There would be no germs or weeds or
thorns, nothing that could hurt or ever upset creation again. Everything
would be in perfect harmony. Satan himself will be annihilated; however,
even if he were here, not annihilated, he would have nothing to work
with or work upon. That’s what Bro. Branham said, “In the Millennium
he’s bound with chains of circumstance.” But later on he’s
actually destroyed.

5.	Now, in order for Bro. Branham to present his understanding of this
great event, he pointed out that what God was doing was that He was
redeeming the earth in exactly the same way or manner He redeemed any
part of His redeemable creation. Now all creation’s not redeemable.

One: In the days of Noah He sent the flood which was certainly typical
of water baptism.

Two: Then, when Jesus died, His Blood fell upon the earth which is
typical of cleansing by blood. And that has to do with sin,
particularly.

And three: Now the fire will come and finish the work, so that, then,
the final work of God can come into being.

6.	Now these three works are identical for human redemption such as
water, blood, and spirit. The water, blood, and spirit is the exact
sequence of life as it comes in the world. Bro. Branham spoke about the
woman carrying a child, the water breaking, then the blood, then the
spirit of life coming into the child.

7.	Again, there were three great errors and three great works under
Luther, Wesley, and Pentecost. Luther brought justification; Wesley,
sanctification; Pentecost was the baptism of the Holy Ghost; and now
restoration, which is number four. It is started, as we saw in Rev
22:10-15, the opening of the Seals, and getting ready for the entering
into immortality, which immortality we saw also, given to us through the
Tree of Life, back there in Rev 22:1-2. I think we better read those so
we get the picture a little more carefully, because repetition,
especially of Scripture, is just very, very essential to us. So: [Rev
22:10-15]

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

(11)	He (that’s) unjust, let him be unjust still: he (that’s)
filthy, let him be filthy still: he that is righteous, be righteous
still: holy, holy still. (And so on. You can see the dividing line
there; there is no recourse. That’s why we look at this as the White
Throne Judgment.)

(12)	And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
every man according as his work shall be. (At that particular time, of
the separation, He has not yet come. There’s not a coming.)

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

(14)	Blessed are they that wash their robes (not “do His
commandments;” that’s not true: “That wash their robes.”) that
they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through
the gates into the city.

	Now, already you’ve had a complete revelation right up to the New
Jerusalem, the new heavens and the new earth. And this is thrown in here
from the interpolation of Rev 10:1-7. This is what takes place when the
mighty angel comes down with the prophet of God on earth.

8.	Now, watch. [Rev. 22:1]

(1)	And he shewed me a river (22:1-2)… and shewed me a pure river of
water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and
of the Lamb.

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

	So, what we’re looking to, is seeing the final work that’s done
upon earth, and before we will take this over, New Jerusalem, the fire
must have fallen, and the earth and the atmosphere being completely
re-created, even as we, after the baptism with the Holy Ghost, go into
the ground and are dissolved into ashes, gases, and so forth, come back
in a complete resurrection of the whole thing. So, you can see here the
picture Bro. Branham is trying to deal us is that God works in the same
identical manner all through redemption. It doesn’t matter what it is.
It can be the human race; it can be nature; it can be the earth; it can
be the skies. It does not matter.

9.	Now with this, Bro. Branham brought to our attention that all of
redemption is by God at a price--that a price had to be paid. It
wasn’t just something that fell in line, something that was settled in
the mind of God as a plan that eventually worked out, but it was
something that was paid for. And that’s something to remember and
never forget. Now he brings out the fact that Satan tried to give the
Kingdom to Jesus Christ, and Christ refused it. Instead He bought it all
back by His shed Blood and will one day take it all over, as He has said
He would.

10.	So, we’re going to go to page 18, and we’ll start at paragraph
82. Then we’ll start moving into what Bro. Branham is bringing us in
this message.

[82] 	Satan tried to say, “I’ll give it to you.” He said, “No,
sir, I’ll buy it.” Let it be a witness. He was 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. (Before He takes it over, see? He doesn’t
want it under the present conditions.) Then it’s purchased so that the
redeemed can live on it—live in it in peace. (And you haven’t had
peace for six thousand years.)

[83] 	Notice, the baptism of fire is to cleanse it from sin, from
sickness, from disease germs, from sinners, from the devil and all of
his group. He’s to be cast out into the Lake of Fire. Holy fire from
God comes down from God out of heaven and burns it up to make it ready
for God to dwell in. (Now, notice that the parallelism of the redemption
of God in the human being. See?) For God, in the new world that is to
come, is to dwell in the earth. (That’s exactly right.)

	He’s going to come right down here and dwell with us, and the
incarnation of Jesus Christ; then, of course, He will disincarnate
Himself at the time of the New Jerusalem’s institutional government,
where Bro. Branham said the Lamb will be on the throne, which is above
the pyramidal city of 1500 miles wide and high, and the Pillar of Fire
will be over it. So, God’s going to come on this earth and dwell here,
and that’s exactly where He intends to stay.

11.	[83] 	Because you say, “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.

	So, we have a oneness that is coming up; we have a oneness that we have
now, because we’re one through the Word; and we’ve already had a
oneness by the baptism with the Holy Ghost, which is our sealing into
the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

12.	So, what you see, really, is what God had in His mind as omniscient
being, and then, beginning to implement as omnipotent being, all now
coming to the final end where, what He had in this particular
section--because He may have many sections; (I don’t know.) but with
this particular one, dealing with this particular redemptive plan that
He had—is going to come into a full being and the emphasis on the
complete oneness, as it was all one with God, because nobody was there
but God. See? All there lay the ability to project this. Now, having
gone through these processes, the oneness is complete in a manifested
form.

13.	So, what you’re looking at, as Bro. Branham said, is the constant
going from the negative to the positive--the constant oneness--God
coming down here to dwell in the earth. So, if people can’t see what
we’re teaching, from what Bro. Branham taught, I think they need to
further study. Now you’re catching what I’m saying. Churches
aren’t preaching, out there, what we’re preaching here. And there
may be some, (There’s got to be some.) but they’re not understanding
what we’re understanding. Now we’re not proud about it, but I’m
going to keep letting you know that; because, look, the only way
you’re going to get out of this world is to know these things, because
this is a part of restoration! See, God is really restoring Himself to
the people. It was God Who made reconciliation. We should have made the
reconciliation. We should have been the one tendering toward God, and
man is always tendered toward God, and he’s always messed up! Now, if
you don’t want to be messed up, you let God do it all. And the
greatest gift is to learn to get out of the way. We saw the prophet
doing it. 

14.	So, all right. We’re coming more and more into this unique
oneness. Now the unique oneness for the church started at Pentecost, on
that day. Now it’s in our day; now at the White Throne… And, why at
the White Throne? He said, “You’ll know I am in the Father, and you
in me and I in you,” because at that time, the separation is not only
total, it is absolute, in that, that which was, is no longer. You’re
looking at annihilation. “Every plant my Father has not planted is
uprooted. Every thought my Father hasn’t thought is gone.” You’re
into this unique oneness. And the unique oneness is going on now, by
reason of this Word. Now I know the world is not going to take this;
but, if Bro. Branham was that prophet we believe he was, then let me
assure you, this has to be the truth that I’m telling you. You’re
not getting some mixed up theology and something, which is a myth. 

15.	[84] 	(Now,) See, the heart has to be cleansed like that. (Now
he’s talking about what’s happened to the earth and all.) Before God
can come down in the person of the Holy Ghost, which is Christ coming
down to dwell in the human heart, that person must be repented. (He’s
got to repent.) Then, he must be baptized in water in the name of Jesus
Christ to show Who he belongs to. (Now, that’s the witness.) Then, it
must be cleansed by the blood of Jesus. (That’s true: Repent, be
baptized.) Then the holy fire and the Holy Ghost from God comes down and
burns out all the desire of sin, all the nature of the world. (I’m
going to read this all through at one time.) And therefore, he that sins
willfully after receiving the knowledge of the Truth…

 	Then again the Bible said it’s impossible for a man that’s borned
of God, because he cannot sin, he does not sin. There’s no way for him
to sin. How can he be a sinner and a redeemed at the same time? How can
I be in the pawn shop and out of the pawn shop at the same time? Oh, He
redeemed us by His Blood; by His Spirit He cleansed us, then comes to
dwell in us--the church (not the denomination now--the church).

	Now, what you’re looking at here is like Bro. Branham has made a
contradiction here. He’s going along here preaching, how that the
desire of sin is gone and all the nature of the world. And then, he
says, “and therefore, he that sins willfully, after receiving the
knowledge of the Truth.”

	Now he has to cut himself short here; because actually, this is an
interpolation that does not belong there, although it is very, very
true. Why? Because he, in the Holy Spirit, knows that he is an ordained,
vindicated prophet who says this message here was given him
supernaturally as part of the Seven Seals and of the Seven Thunders. And
he’s saying, “You reject this, you haven’t got the other.” No
matter how far you think you’ve come, no matter how much Holy Ghost
you’ve got, talk in tongues and everything else, absolutely, it’s
out. See? Because he goes on right away to correct it. He should leave
this out. Leaving it out, he said, “God comes down; all the nature of
the world is gone.” 

	Then, it tells you from that point, “The Bible said it’s impossible
for a man that’s born of God to sin. He does not sin; there’s no way
for him to sin. How can he be a sinner and redeemed at the same time?”

	Now this is not simply an argument. See? Otherwise, you’ve got people
going back and forth.

	“I’m Armenian; I’m Legalist; I’m a Calvinist;” and therefore,
you’re going to have a fight. 

	There is no fight to this. This is a categorical statement.

16.	[84] 	How can I be in the pawn shop and out of the pawn shop at the
same time. Oh, He redeemed us by His Blood; by His Spirit He cleansed
us; and then, He came to dwell in us--the church (not the denomination
now--the church). (See? Now he’s talking about the true Church, not
the ungodly church.)

	Okay. Let’s go back and examine this. “And therefore, he that sins
willfully after receiving the knowledge of the Truth.” Anytime God
does the real supernatural, such as the great healing meeting, there’s
got to be a new message come forth. And, as for the other messages, the
life has gone out of them. All right. The life has gone out of
everything but this Message here; there is no Word outside of this Word
that has any life in it.

17.	So, let’s go to the Bible where Bro. Branham uses this Scripture:
“They that sin willfully…” So, we got to go to Book of Hebrews,
Heb 10:11-31.

(11)	And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

(12)	But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God;

(13)	From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

(14) 	For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.

(15)	Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he
said before,

(16)	This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,
saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, in their minds
will I write them;

(17) 	And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

(18) 	Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin.

18.	Now there’s no offering for sins that are past. It’s all over.
See, now you’ve got to have something that takes you from the blood,
based on the blood. And that goes from the intermediary that brings you
in, to the intercessor that keeps you in, all based upon the blood.

(19)	Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus,

(20)	By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us (or
dedicated for us), through the veil, (that’s) to say, his flesh;

(21) 	And having an high priest over the house of God;

(22)	Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water.

(23)	Let us hold fast the (con)fession of our faith without wavering;
(for he is faithful that promised;)

(24)	And let us consider one another to provoke (That is, to begin… to
excite) unto (acts of) love and good works:

(25)	Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner
of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see
the day approaching.

	Now this is an end-time Message concerning the blood of the Covenant
and the Mediator of His Own Blood Covenant; because as you see the day
approach… So, as I said the other day, don’t anybody ever talk about
the Blood as though it’s out of style or off the Mercy Seat, or
believe that our Bro. Branham meant the Blood doesn’t count. If it
weren’t for the Blood, nothing would count, because you’re looking
at redemption. See? Now we’re going to get feisty. We’re going to
get feisty about that one. I’m a pretty feisty guy about a lot of
things.

19.	(25)	…so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

(26)	For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

	Now, look. It’s telling you, the mediatorship of Jesus Christ, based
upon the Blood, giving way to intercession, that you haven’t got a
prayer, if you turn down light during the time of intercession. Do you
follow what I’m saying? Look at it. See, that’s what we base all our
preaching on here, upon Bro. Branham’s message.

(26)	For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

(27)	But a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which
shall devour the adversaries.

(28)	He that despised Moses’ law…

	Not the blood! But the law! What Moses gave. 

	They said, “Shut up fat-mouth. Who do you think you are? We’ve got
prophesy in our midst. We can prophesy too. We’re of the Levites. Who
are you to think you can tell us what to do?” 

	You’ve got the same thing right here. God sent Luther, “Catholics
shut your mouths.” God sent Wesley. “Lutherans and Catholics shut
your mouths.” He sent Pentecostals, “Wesleyans, Lutherans,
Catholics, shut your mouths.” Now He sent William Branham. Who’s
shutting their mouths?

20.	Now:

(29)	Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought
worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the
blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and
hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

	How can you do despite to It except by turning down the Word? Come on;
bring your Scripture together. I know they’re going to quote that and
say, “Well, the whole thing was, they turned down the Blood.” There
isn’t a Protestant or Catholic who doesn’t turn down the Blood. But
the Catholics got a bunch of saints and who-done-its in there. And the
Protestants are plumb off the Word as much as the Catholics are. Look at
the truth here, brother. See, that’s what you’re up against. Then,
Paul turns around, and says, “Why do you think I’m in bonds, and so
on, here?” All right. Now:

(30)	For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will
recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

	Now, when did God judge those people that mouthed off? He judged them
by fire. And you know what, their sensors were not burnt up--showing
that the gifts of the Spirit are genuine. But the people using them were
phony. The gifts are still here, if you can find them and use them.
There are still too many false to the Word.

21.	Now, watch.

(31) 	It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
(All right now; with that, verse 26, was this:)

(26)	For if we sin wilfully after (we’ve) received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

	Now, listen; Jesus Christ died for Israel. For every single one the
atonement was made, but they turned down the Word of Truth concerning
it! Therefore, the Blood covenant was gone. The mediator was gone. The
intercessor was gone. It was all gone based upon the acceptation of what
God did, or what God purported to have done, which we know God did. As
the Bible said, “Who hath believed our report?” The report was not
believed. All right.

22.	With that verse in mind, we go to Hebrews 6, because this is the end
time.

(4)	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all) enlightened
(no more enlightenment), and have tasted the heavenly gift, made
partakers of the Holy Ghost, (You know positively that’s Matthew 12.)

(5)	And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to
come,

(6)	(Having fallen) away, (It’s impossible.) to renew them (to)
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
put him to an open shame.

	Now, by turning down an end-time message, they have literally crucified
the Son of God, whom they say was already crucified and shed His Blood.
Now, how can you do that and stand before God justified? See, that’s
why he throws it in there.

23.	Now, let’s go further.

(7)	For the earth which drinketh in the rain that (fall) cometh oft upon
it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed,
receive(d) blessing from God: (Now, what is rain in the Bible? The rain
is Word; that’s what it is.)

(8)	(And) that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh
unto cursing; whose end is to be burned (That’s Matthew 7; the false
prophets, the false teaching).

(9)	But, beloved, (we’re) persuaded better things of you, and things
that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

	Now he’s telling you right here, “Listen, I’m going to tell you
what.” He said, “There’s a tiny, tiny minority that’s going to
get this, and the rest are going to miss it.” He’s talking to some
people who are going to get it.

24.	Okay, with that we’re going to read Revelation 22, again. This
should put this in a light, which…although these things should be
brighter than ever.

(10)	And he (said) unto me, Seal not the sayings (verse 10) of the
prophesy of this book: for the time is at hand. (The unsealing of Rev
10:4.)

(11)	He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: he (that’s) filthy,
(is) filthy still: righteous (still and so on right down…)

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

	Now, “through the gates into the city.” “I am the door of the
sheep fold.” You cannot come in through Christ except through verse 10
and what follows. Otherwise, you think you’re going to get in, and you
won’t get in. You can’t do it. The sheepfold is New Jerusalem.
Don’t try to kid me; I’m telling you, that’s what it is; that’s
what it is. That’s the sheepfold. How do you get in? By Christ--Christ
the Seals. Now some will count the sheepfold as really two in
number—Hebrew and Gentile—but I speak of us.

25.	Bro. Branham said everything so perfectly true; it just takes a
hundred and fifty years to find out. If I’m supposed to be here
teaching and helping the people understand this Word, I don’t expect
to get out of here for at least another fifty-five years, to be honest
with you, because these things only break through inspiration, and then,
I see it here in the Bible. You can’t get it. I don’t care. I could
ask God for this a million times. God wouldn’t show it. He just breaks
with inspiration. It’s not what I want; it’s what He wants for the
minute. So, you can see how this all comes together, as we’ve never
seen it before. And that’s the secret of it: to know the Word of
Almighty God for our day. All right.

26.	He says here:

[84] 	How can you be a sinner and be redeemed at the same time? (What
did He say? What did the Judge say to us? He said, “You’re the
spotless, righteous, virtuous Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ and
didn’t do it at all.” Now, He didn’t say that to the church;
that’s the old church--the denominations. He said that to us. Now:)

[85] 	Notice close now as we take this. (Speaking of the places we’re
to dwell in... Now they’re talking about the places we’re to dwell
in. Listen closely.) The antediluvian repentance that brought water
baptism. Then Christ came and shed His Blood upon it to cleanse and to
claim it. Then comes the next, the destruction of the world as it is
now. 

	Remember, there are three kinds. The original world, the flood world
which we have in order now waiting for the new world. In other words,
since the flood, nothing has changed.

[85]	Then, Christ came and shed His Blood upon to cleanse and claim it.
(Not just cleanse it, but claim it. See?) Then comes the next,
destruction of the world as it is now. All the sin that’s in the
heavens above... He’s the prince of the power of the air. He wards off
the blessings from God. (He keeps them away.) In there comes
thunderbolts of lightning and strikes the earth, and everything from the
heavens, sheets of ice and rain, and typhoons, and storms, everything
comes from above which is from Satan, the prince of the power of the
air!

	Now that’s proved by Job—Job 1. Satan sent the whirlwind; he sent
the fire; he sent this and that, and the thunderbolts and all. Read It
yourself: Job 1:1-22.

27.	[86] 	Notice, see how Satan tried to take it, as I said a few
minutes ago by giving it to Jesus without buying it. Then Satan still
has a claim, because it’s earmarked, (See?) but Jesus buys it by His
shed Blood and brings it back to the rightful Owner. That’s how He
bought us by His Blood, and how He bought the Church.

	Now, who really is the rightful owner of this world? We are! It was
given to us and we lost it. So, it’s really ours. We were tricked out
of it. So, Christ becomes a scapegoat, as though He were the one who did
the tricking. So, He takes all the blame and gets it back to us. Now
it’s in God’s hands, because He is the rightful owner by creation.
Man forfeited it to Satan. So, God’s got to get it back; then, give it
to man. All right. If Jesus had let Satan give it to Him, in no wise
could God have sanctified it.

28.	Let’s go to Hebrews 13, if I can get what I want here. I wrote a
Scripture down. We’ll see if it works. Heb 13:12.

(12)	Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
own blood, suffered without the gate. (All right.)

	Now you know that all things are sanctified by Blood. So therefore,
Jesus Christ, in order to bring the earth back, had to have a process of
redemption, a process of cleansing, and He did it by His Blood. Amen.

[87] 	And now, it’s baptism of fire cleanses from all germs, all
diseases, all sickness, even all spiritual things (which is by us too;
it does the same way)… That’s what the Blood and the fire does… to
make it ready for God to dwell in, in this great age to come, the new
earth.

[88] 	See, He redeems it in the same way He does His people. He makes it
all just the same--His plan of redemption. For He is the unchangeable
God, always the same in His plan. (Now, in other words all that can or
is to be redeemed comes in this one way, and no other way.)

[89] 	How I’ve told you before and make it known to you again, by all
ages God cannot change. Makes it known every time by the same way. He
made it known, His first message in the antediluvian world, by Noah the
prophet.

29.	That takes us to Heb 13:8, Genesis 18. God always brings the Word by
the prophet. Now people don’t like to believe that. So, when a prophet
comes, they repudiate him. But you must remember just the same, Heb
13:8.

[89] 	Yesterday, I was talking to a dear brother, who’s sitting
present with me now. He said, “One thing you said, Brother Branham,
always shook me.”

	I said, “What is it, brother?”

	He said, “Here’s what you said (and it’s true): ‘the
minority’--how a little group is going to be saved in the days of the
coming.”

	And we talked of how Jesus said, “Strait is the gate, narrow is the
Way, but there’ll be very few that’ll find it.” (Sure, because
that’s the battle of the mind.)

	Now notice, the Bible said, “As it was in the days of Noah, wherein
eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the coming...”

	The brother said, “Remember, there’s only eight souls there.”

	I said, “You just got half the picture.”

[90] 	Noah was a type of the remnant that’s carried over, not the
translated bunch. Enoch, one man, went in the Rapture before the flood
came, showing that the Church does not go into the tribulation or
anything around it. Enoch was translated: one man. Oh, the church may be
a great number, but the Bride is going to be a very small group,
that’ll make up the Bride. Now, the church may be a great number, but
the Bride... You see, compare eight with one. (Now, listen. Is this a
categorical statement? Now, get your attention up, and don’t fall
asleep.) Eight times less will be the Bride than the church. (Going to
narrow it right down. Is that categorical? All right.)

 	Noah was the only perfect man, genetically, in the entire
generation--one out of eight. Go a little further. If he was the only
one left genetically perfect, it is absolutely sure that Enoch was
genetically perfect. He represents the Rapture. So, now you’ve got one
out of nine. So therefore, your percentage is eleven to twelve percent
of an entire group that are going to have any salvation at the end of
time. So, with five billion people in the world, and there’s not one
billion Christians, how many Christians of those are truly born again?
With the Pentecostals leading the race and influencing all
denominations, and they’re false and anointed, how many are true
believers? You can figure, when Bro. Branham said seven or eight hundred
might be in a Bride, that’s a pretty good guestimate. Sounds very
close. The Bride is the least.

30.	[90] 	And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the sinner
and the ungodly appear? 

	If seven more out of eight, out of the whole group, very, very few of
them now, are going to make it, after and during the tribulation come
up, later on, what about the sinner and ungodly that we looked about
here, that turned all this down? Not a chance. Not a prayer. Billions
will die as serpent seed.

	[90]	Those who know better to do it and go ahead and do it anyhow…
Now he’s referring back to what he said up here: those that sin
willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth. See? Those who
know better to do it and go ahead and do it anyhow, those who follow the
rules of denomination instead of the Word, where will they appear at? 

	At the Judgment--White Throne, already going on. And there’ll be no
recourse, see? How can you have recourse in a court of law, when
they’ve caught you red-handed? when the Judge himself was there and
saw it? How’s it going to be? You haven’t got a prayer. It’s White
Throne now. See? Look, the corpse has been dead a long time; it’s just
waiting for the burial.) 

	[90]	Yet called Christians, taking the name of Christ? (And taking it
in vain. All right. I want to read the next two paragraphs together.)

[91] 	Now, Noah was a perfect type of those carried over. Remember, when
Noah came out, Ham was with him. Sin was still in there (in the carry
over, in the ark). Sin went right on over the ark, unbelief, doubt went
over in the ark, carried above the judgment; but Enoch went higher than
the ark. (No double jeopardy.) He went on into the presence of God, but
Noah went through and came out, and there was still sin: type of the
Millennium—of the world’s condition. 

	Why is there still sin there? Because the resurrected dead are coming
up. And all they do is change their bodies and their geography. So,
they’re going to try to get rid of God. Just like they’re doing now.
So, sin carries over.

[92] 	The Millennium is not the end of it; there’s still time after
the Millennium.

	Now I hear a brother’s preaching out of his 2000 years is 6000. Where
he gets the information, I don’t know, and I care less. I’m not
going to preach it here. I know the word in the Greek is ‘millennia’
which is plural. Where do you go from there? Where the prophet took it.
He said, “Time goes on.” That’s it; forget it. The minute you try
to speculate and formulate some truth without the prophet of God’s
other attesting statements, you’ve got a problem. I don’t want that
kind of problem here. That takes too much re-studying.

31.	Now, let’s go to the Book of Revelations and see that. He’s
typing here, Noah. Enoch took a higher level. See? And, notice; before
the flood there had to be, “He that is righteous, is righteous still;
he that is filthy is filthy still.” And Noah got away and entered in
through the gates. Come in through Christ. So therefore, now Enoch has
got a way. He’s in the higher level. “There is, therefore, now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” He’s secure.

	Now you’ve got to come back and see that it’s anything wrong with
anybody. But He’ll be in the Throne, judging, with the One on the
Throne. So, now these are being judged. So, let’s take a look at this
in Revelation 19 to see the coming back.

(11)	I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon
him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and
make war. (He’s already judging, (Judge) and He’s still judging. Now
He makes war.)

(12)	His eyes as flame of fire, head (with) many crowns; he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself. (Then, how we going to know
it?)

(13)	And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God. (He’s got a name no man knows but He’s
called the Word of God.)

(14)	The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

(15)	Out of his mouth goe(s) a sharp sword, that with it he should smite
the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

(16)	And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

(17)	And I saw an angel standing in the sun; cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather
yourselves unto the supper of the great God;

(18)	That ye may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the
flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses, and them that sit upon them,
and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, (and) both small and
great.

(18)	And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and
against his army. (Now that’s Armageddon. That’s just before the
thousand years opens up.)

(19)	And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles (with) him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
(And) both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

32.	Now you can see right there that that’s all these Pentecostals at
the end time that have the anointing on them. They turn down the Word of
God--because they’re the leaders. The Catholic Church has sucked them
in, lock, stock and barrel.

(10)	And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, (and the) sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls
were filled with their flesh.

	Now we keep reading. [Rev 20:1]

(1)	And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the
bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

(2)	And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

(3)	And cast him into the bottomless pit, and (was) shut up, and set a
seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a
little season. (See?)

(4)	And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, which had not worshipped the
beast, (Now that’s throughout the whole 2000 years.) neither his
image, (nor) had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (And
they weren’t organized.)

(5)	But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years
were finished. This is the first resurrection. (That’s the First
Resurrection already taken place; the second’s coming up.)

(6)	Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on
such the second death hath no power, but (they’ll) be priests of God
and Christ, and reign with him a thousand years. (They’re not going to
be judged; they’re judged.)

(7)	When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of
his prison,

(8)	And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them to battle: the
number of whom is (to be) the sand of the sea. (There you are. Then, It
says here:)

(9)	And they went up (to) the breadth of the earth, and compassed the
camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from
God out of heaven, and devoured them. (They’re cast into the Lake of
Fire; they’re going to be destroyed.)

33.	So, you see what you’re looking at here. Bro. Branham paints the
picture perfectly. All right.

[93] 	Notice in that; we’ll get to it after a bit. See, the earth,
redeemed now goes back to its original Owner again.

	 Now, that’s after the water, the blood, and the cleansing. And
it’s going to be put in service for God, with God right there in the
middle of it. It said, they shall serve Him day and night. Yep.
They’re in there. 

[93]	He took it from Satan. He took the earth away from Satan just like
He took you away from Satan, just like He took the little woman at the
well away from Satan. There stood the priest: thought he was with God,
and yet he had nothing. (Thought he was in God’s pocket, see?) I’d
like to draw on that just for a moment. (How much time do we have?
Better watch your tape there, because I’m going to use the blackboard
a bit here.)

[94]	(Now, notice in that we say, we’re going to talk about it. There
was a woman, there was a priest.) Now we want you to get this real
clear; watch close now on this teaching, close on this teaching. Now
this here, here is God. (Let’s read it.) God, which is the eternal and
all alone. There is no one but Him. (That’s right.) But in God, He had
attributes. Now this here represents the Word, the Word of God, which
was made flesh and dwelled among us in the person of Jesus. Now, this
here—fellow here we’re going to make him like this. Now this is
called the woman at the well. This is the priest, Pharisee. And where
you see this open blackboard--means grace and salvation.

[95]	Now, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh
and dwelled among us.” The three stages: it was an attribute first,
was God that He thought of Himself as being human…(That’s the first
attribute God had. He wanted to make Himself into a form which we would
take.) and that transmitted Him down to Jesus. (He took on human flesh.)
And now, if you’ll ever be there, you were with Him then. For
there’s only one form of eternal life; that’s God. Now you had to be
a part of God at the beginning! Not what you just chose down here; He
chose you! “All the Father has given me will come.”

[96]	Now, look at this priest here. We find his bottom part here--his
back life--back behind him, his predestination back here is sinful.
Here’s hell down here. Now, this little part in here (looks like the
blackboard), that represents his purity. He was a priest; he was an
honorable man. That represented this. He had to be a good man or he
couldn’t be a priest. But you see how he got it? With intellectual
learning. (Now, that’s all he had--was a priesthood.)

[97]	Now this little woman, her first life up here, she was a
prostitute. She was all marred up, but way down in here just a little
bit of understanding, and she knew when Messiah would come. (That’s
all she knew.)

[98]	Notice, when Jesus came and manifested the Word, because the Word
discerned the thoughts that was in the heart (as Heb 4:12 says He would
and does today through Bro. Branham)... The Word was a discerner of the
thoughts of the heart, and He came as the Son of man, the Prophet. What
happened? The priest with only intellectual learning said, “He’s a
devil,” because that’s what his denomination called it. (That’s
all he could do.) What did it do? He had no representation, so it
blacked him out.

[99]	But this little woman had nothing to present. She was as filthy and
dirty as she could be. But, notice; way down here she’s got
representation! And then, she was looking for this to be made flesh;
and, when He said, “Go, get your husband and come here.”

	She said, “I don’t have any.”

	He said, “You said the truth, because you have five, and the one you
have now is not yours. You’ve had five; that makes six you had.”

	She said, “Sir, You’re not Beelzebub. I perceive that You are a
prophet. Now we know the Messiah, which is called Christ will come; when
He does, He’ll do this.”

	He said, “I’m He.”

	No more doubt! You can’t explain it!

	Now you can’t explain revelation. You can’t give a revelation. Now
you can’t explain to the extent that, when explaining a revelation,
the person will get it. But, if you already got something by revelation,
then it helps to be taught about it. And that’s where I stand. You
can’t explain a revelation. There’s no way it can be. It comes, or
it doesn’t come.

[99]	She saw it; she believed it; away she went. Why? What did It do to
her? It redeemed her. 

[100]	Now watch, He came to be a Redeemer. Is that right? What does
redeem mean?—bring back. Buy back, is what it really means. Why
didn’t He get the priest? He never was up there. He had no
representation.

34.	So, now we’ve done this before on different occasions, and what
we’ll do, if I can do this for you, without getting all tangled…
We’re going to start up here, as Bro. Branham did for me one time, and
I showed it to you: representative of God. [Bro. Vayle begins drawing on
the board.]

	Now in Him were the major attributes that He wanted, was Himself to
become in the form of human flesh, which He wanted for Himself. All
these other things were in there too. So, Bro. Branham mentioned that
from Him, out of Him… Is this mike on, are you people getting me? Are
you getting it out there, from the speakers?

	Okay, now in here, were you and everybody else, like I was saying; and
now God… [squealing from microphone and blank spot.]

35.	Now he calls It the Logos, which is fine, because we know we were in
Him, but what we’re looking at is this particular area here. Now the
Holy Spirit comes down through the Word, and, of course, Jesus Christ,
being that Word, we’ll put Him down here. We’ll make this Jesus. Now
this then, coming through here needs discerning. So, what we got here is
what I know Bro. Branham had in mind with his blackboard, to give you
the understanding.

	Now, here is the priest right here. And this priest stood here, and
this priest here, because he had no representation. He had this little
seed down in here that’s black. But he had all the intellectual
understanding of the priesthood that was before him, and they taught the
law of Moses. And he knew these things. He knew Messiah was to come. He
understood the hope of Israel. A lot of things he got, but he was not
represented. And down here, Bro. Branham said, “was hell.” So, if
hell was down there, we’re going to put heaven up here.

	Now here we find this little old girl down here; she was a prostitute.
Okay. And it seems that her life was completely in shambles. In fact we
know it was in complete shambles, and I guess I made this so big, it’s
going to take a long time to cover it. Now, you’ve seen me do this
before… [End of the first side of the audio tape.]

36.	Watch what happens. In this particular case, because the light
strikes, and he turns it down and says, “You’re of the devil,” and
that’s the best he can do, because that’s his organization. Now, see
what happens.

	Now, do you understand how that “filthy is filthy still and righteous
is righteous still,” when the manifested Word comes on the scene? So,
this is what Bro. Branham is trying to get across to us. And he said,
“If you don’t have representation up there to begin with, see,”
coming down, down, down… and notice how representation in Christ, you
go back through Christ every single time. See? Now see, what we’ll do
here is show you this. Her aspirations… No, put it this way. Her
aspirations toward heaven, here, went this way, and here. See? Showing
that’s exactly how it’s to be done.

	Now that’s my understanding of what Bro. Branham was saying here. I
stand to be corrected, though I doubt very much if there’s any
correction to be done. All right.

37.	He said here at the bottom of page 22:

[100] 	He came to redeem that which had fallen, which was lost sheep.

	Now, notice: ‘had fallen’, shows, from the very terminology, ‘had
fallen’, ‘a previous condition of unfallen’. How could you be
fallen in Christ? You’d have to get out of Christ. And then, that part
which was in Christ could not fall, see? Like Bro. Branham said,
“There’ll come a time when you’ll realize you always were saved.
You always had eternal life. You always were right with God.” All
right.

	The serpent had nothing to fall from. He’s already down. Cain, did he
have something to fall from? I doubt very much. He couldn’t. There’s
no repentance there; nothing there. What about the priest? He couldn’t
fall either. That’s why Jesus said, “You generation of vipers.
You’re a bunch of serpent seed.” All right.

[100]	In the fall this got messed up with that girl, (Or the girl got
messed up in the fallen condition.) but God had her in His thinking
before the foundation of the world, and He had come to cleanse her. (Now
he said,) “Then He knew He had eternal life.” (Whatever that means,
I don’t know. I think at that time, he simply means, then He knew at
that time He had eternal life to redeem, and He was redeeming her. Now
he said:)

[101]	Where’s the priest… What did it do to him? It sent him right
back to his destination. (Right down here. See, right down there.) He
had nothing to begin—only intellectual learning. (Now there is your
great battle. All right.)

38.	Let’s go to Jude 3-4.

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

(4)	For there are certain men crept in unaware, (And they’re doing it
right now.) who were before of old ordained to this condemnation…

	In other words they were spoken of that they would be here, but they
were never in the thoughts of God for foreknowledge, election,
predestination, and final redemption. They were not. They were spoken
of. And there’s a big difference when God speaks of things and not
speaks concerning you directly. See?

(4)	Who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying (saying
no) to the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

	That’s identical to Peter; there is no difference in this sentiment.

39.	[102] 	Now, listen friend: if the only thing you’ve got is just
intellectual learning, you get something different from that! You’ll
never be able to get it unless you’ve got representation.

	Now, notice; I admire Bro. Branham’s honesty and his fearlessness. He
said, “You’d better get it.” But he’s telling you right there,
“You aren’t going to get it, unless you’ve got representation.”
I like that. Most everybody thinks they got to preach of salvation in
such a way that you don’t use the whole Bible. “You must never
preach to the sinner, ‘Hey, now look, there’s such a thing maybe,
that you can’t have it.’ Don’t ever tell anybody that, you know,
oh, no, no.” Am I nicer than God?

	Jesus came to a generation of vipers, He said, “You’re not with it;
you’re not going to get it.” Are we supposed to be different? Are we
a bunch of stupid psychologists! Christ was spiritual; William Branham
was spiritual. Had he been a psychologist, he’d have said, “Now,
I’ll just--listen folk…” He’d have been more suave like Spurgeon
was. On the outside of the door he put the words, “Whosoever will, may
come,” but over the altar, “Elect, foreknown of God.” Well,
that’s a nice way of telling it. But I tell you, the old hard shells
had the truth. They went too far. I love Bro. Branham. I admire his
great honesty.

40.	[102] 	You’ll not get it unless you got representation. That’s
the reason I believe, (Notice what he said to the people:) from the
east, west, north and south: the Word, living, made manifest.

	In other words they knew God was manifesting Himself, the Word was
living for the hour. The prophet was the living Word of God manifest,
and these people were the same Word, in their order, manifested by
coming to the Word, and saying, “Yes,” like the little prostitute.
Every one of us were prostitutes. There’s no two ways about it.

41.	[103] 	Notice, now, how He makes His Way known by His prophets in
the beginning. He never changed it!

	There’s a blank place on the space there, and that’s a terrible,
terrible thing to think that a man, given charge of the tapes, never had
two machines ready to tape the message. How much did he believe? I
wonder, how much did he believe? In spite of all his protestations,
nothing, perhaps. He’s been a troublemaker ever since. Let’s face
it. I’ll tell you, but these are serious things, brother/sister. You
understand? This is making Bible history; this statement right here. And
then, to have a blank on the tape? Just sit and think it over. 

	How strong are you in your convictions tonight? Are you just sitting
here listening? Or, have you got a conviction of life and death? Are you
still playing games and playing church, little things this, little
things that, little picky things? We’re all pretty guilty; we‘d
better stop being guilty. That the Board could give a man this job, and
him sit there and not turn the tape over and get that tape moving…
I’m not speaking about me. It doesn’t matter about me. I’d like to
know what’s here. 

	You say, “Well, it’s like the Bible, Bro. Vayle. It’ll be
someplace else.” 

	Even though it will be someplace else, that doesn’t excuse it.
There’s too much of that going on.

42.	[103] 	And He justified him, sanctified him, sent the Holy Ghost and
Fire, and burnt the sin out him, and dwelled in him Himself.

	That could be a prophet; that could be every one of us. But, remember;
the Token is the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself. You and I do not get Jesus
Christ, Himself. We get a portion. We get a life. The prophet could say
he did, because he said, “The great end time…” (How’d he put it?
I forget the exact words, but…) “The great end-time tremendous
thing, when God was once more veiled in human flesh.” God Himself, not
the whole Bride now, although that’s true. That is true. Everything
that God wants by way of redemption will be in the Bride as she comes up
in a resurrection and will still go on. But, when it comes to God
Himself in a person, God was in the prophets. And we do not understand
it fully, but we accept it and say God was in the prophet. Not like you
and me--no way shape and form. I don’t believe that for one minute.

43.	[104] 	He does the earth that He’s going to use in a plan of
redemption the same way. In other words He does to the earth, or what He
does to the earth, is in the same way, which is the plan of redemption,
like you and I go through. It repented and was baptized in water, by
Noah. Jesus came and sanctified it by dripping His Blood upon it and
claimed it. That’s right. He bought it. And the new earth that’s to
come, is to have a holy fire baptism to clean it of every devil, every
germ, every sickness, everything there is, and make it anew. “I saw a
new heaven and a new earth.” You become a new person! Amen! Not just
an old one patched up by joining a church or trying to turn a new page,
but you are a complete brand new unit.

	Now, how are you a complete, brand new unit? By building around the
unit that was there from God! The original. If you didn’t have that to
begin with, or I don’t have it, it’s not going to be there. It
won’t be there. It’s got to be something from God, in His original
thinking. See? Now, that takes place by building around that original
seed, (See?) that you are. So it is with the earth. It’s the same
thing. He takes the frame of the earth, inside, and just builds around
it. He burns the old around--changed like you and I change our lives. He
changes that; then, of course, in the Resurrection it’s completely
changed.

44.	[104] 	God takes the old man and burns him completely out with the
Holy Ghost and Fire and comes Himself, sends down your representation.
“No man can come to me except my Father has drawn him. And all the
Father has given me will come to me.” You see it? Same plan, same way.

[105] 	Satan will be taken from the earth, just exactly like Satan was
taken from you. Satan can tempt, but he cannot get a born-again
Christian. In other words he cannot entrap him. He cannot make him fall
like he could before. He can’t get a born again Christian, for God
from the foundation of the earth foresaw him, and sent Jesus to redeem
him, and the Blood speaks for him. How can he sin when it can’t be
seen even by God? See? The only thing He hears is your voice. He sees
your representation. Amen. That is true.

	In other words Bro. Branham said, “He doesn’t see you and your sin;
He only hears your voice.” He sees you through the Blood, and
there’s no sin whatsoever. And He sees through the Blood, and he sees
our representative, which is Jesus Christ the Lord.

45.	Now he says in here, “Satan can tempt you, but he can’t get you
back where you were.” Let’s go to 2 Peter that the legalists use.
And they talk about this 2 Peter 2, you know, about these false prophets
and all. Then, it says in verse 22, their influence does this to the
people; they entrap. Okay. [2 Pet 2:22.]

(22)	But it happened unto them according to the true proverb, (that) the
dog is turned to his own vomit again; the sow (is) washed to her
wallowing in the mire.

	Now the thing is this: the dog will go back, and the sow will go back;
but the sheep won’t. Whoever heard of a dog becoming a sheep, or a sow
becoming a sheep? It’s utterly ridiculous. They want to put the Bible
together according to their own thinking, as to justify their means; to
win an argument, rather than to have eternal life. I know many are
sincere and all, and that’s true. But sincerity is not the answer.
Truth is the answer. And the great truth they miss is that we are not
children of God by creation, but by birth—begotten of God—part of
His Family.

46.	Now he’s telling us here, that God doesn’t even see us. He
cannot see us or our sin, if we should sin. He only hears our voice. He
sees our representative, which is Jesus Christ the Lord. Now that is
“THUS SAITH THE LORD.” And all legal mouths are shut, because this
is a vindicated statement and is under the vindication principle.

	Now here’s what you must understand. (This is very important to put
this together tonight.) Understand that this is part of the vindication
principle. You absolutely receive this and know this to be true. 

	Now this will not cause you to say, “Well, I can do it and get away
with it, because He doesn’t even see it.” 

	That shows you never had it in the first place. But this is your
confidence that you have in Him. So, put that down as a vindication. So,
all right.

47.	[106] 	By the same means… For the world is one of His attributes
just the same as you are one of His attributes. The world becomes (It
was and it becomes to manifestation.) one of His attributes, because it
was God’s thinking in the beginning to have a world, to be on a
throne, to be a King, to be a Redeemer, to be a Healer. That’s His
attributes--just like an attribute of you. (All right.)

	From what Bro. Branham told us here, we, then, are a true type mirror
of God and the Son of God, for our attributes are the outworking of
ourselves, even as God and Himself. Now that’s a tough one. But I
wrote it down just exactly as I thought of it. Now, let me go over this
again.

[106] 	By the same means... For the world is one of His attributes just
the same as you are one of His attributes.

	Now the world was one of God’s attributes. In other words it was in
God’s thinking. So, what did He do? He brought it to pass by His
Spoken Word. It was a manifestation of God Himself from the fact of what
God exactly was. It had to be in there, or it couldn’t have been.
Okay.

	“The world becomes one of His attributes,” because it was God’s
thinking in the beginning, (And it did.) to have a world, to be on a
throne, to be a King, to be a Redeemer, to be a Healer. That’s His
attributes--just like an attribute of you.

	Now it’s not saying we’re attributes now, although that is true;
but it’s saying an attribute of you begins, then, to come forth into a
manifestation, because it was there in order to manifest. Now, because
we have an attribute in us, which really counts, which is an attribute
of God, what is it going to do? It’s going to do the same thing. So
then, we are a true type mirror of God! In other words, we’re
mirroring God in our watered down, trickle-down position, the same as
God is sovereign God. So then, we are a true type mirror of God and the
Son of God, for our attributes are the out working of ourselves! What
we’re going to be in the Resurrection, Millennium, and New Jerusalem,
is already in there! And, if it’s in there, there’s going to be an
outworking of it! That’s what you see here! Could never be that
otherwise. That’s why it’s the way it is. 

	So, let me read it again. We, then, are a true type mirror of God and
the Son of God, for our attributes are the outworking of ourselves, even
as God and His attributes and Himself. 

	Now you heard what I said, if I give you the picture. Because it says
right here, “That’s His attribute, just like an attribute of you.”
Now I take him to mean what he said.

48.	Now, listen. Let’s watch him some more now.

	[106] 	I can’t say “a post” lest I think of ‘post’. I can’t
say “man” lest I think of a ‘man’. Then, when I think of man;
then say ‘man’, the thinking is my attribute and the expression is
the word. See? Like Isaiah—how could he say that a virgin was going to
conceive? What is a thought?

	Now, let’s think of this. He said, “I can’t say ‘post’,
unless I think of a post.” All right, fine and dandy. Can’t think of
‘man’, unless I say ‘man,’ unless I think of a ‘man.’ In
other words it’s got to be there in my thinking before I can say it.
In other words we think and then say. That is God. However, we work it
backwards. We can think only because something is there that produces a
thought. In other words, how can I think of a ‘hudnut’? There’s no
such think as a ‘hudnut’. There’d have to be a ‘hudnut’ to
think of it. So, before Bro. Branham can think ‘post’, there’d
have to have been a ‘post’ there, or he couldn’t have a thought of
it. That’s opposite to God. God doesn’t work that way. See?

49.	Now, let’s just try to work this where you can see what I’m
driving at. There has to be something there before we can have a thought
ourselves, which, in turn, we will express by word. So, vindication
reality. Bro. Branham manifestly proved through his ministry what God
wanted him to say. He himself could not say it. But the ministry gave
him the proof that whatever God gave him, he could say, so that he was
working in the same principle we’re working from: it’s got to be
there before we can say it! Now, if it’s there and he said it, and we
saw it is there, then we say it! And now we’re perfectly identified
with God in His Word. You see what I’m saying? Once more, and I’m
trying to get us to the vindication principle. Now, see I’ve been
wanting to go to vindicated reality for a long time. And I thought maybe
I’ll preach this, and I’ll come to where I can start a series. I
don’t have to start a series. We’re getting it right here, because
this is the sermon that’s needed to show you vindication--to show you
God’s vindication that sits before us.

50.	Now, let’s keep reading. We’ll go back again.

[107] 	Now, many of you wonder how that the discernment comes? I’m
going to tell you. See, it’s a word that I say, it isn’t my
thinking, because I don’t know. (In other words he takes up his
parable, and he said, ‘I won’t tell you the words, because I get
them from God.’ The Hindu religion has tried to copy this with the
Mantra. It’s going to lead you plumb to hell.) It’s a word that I
say, and it isn’t in my thinking. (Might be a word that’s in
tongues.) I don’t know. I don’t know of the thinking of it. (In
other words I didn’t manufacture it.) How can I tell you who you are
and where you come from, when I don’t know you?

	Now, watch right there. Bro. Branham is not now working from something
he knows whereby he can work. He now tells them something that he
doesn’t know at all from his own ‘knowing’. That’s God. And
it’s proven, because there it is. See? Vice versa if you’re learning
something in the world. You say, “What’s ‘light’?” A kid knows
light, because a mother and father tell him. “That’s ‘the
moon’.” The parents say so. “That’s ‘red’,” because the
parents say so. The child of himself does not know. He can only learn
through the sense gates. And, because he’s able to have a mind and a
spirit and a soul, he can put some things together.

	But this is different! what Bro. Branham is telling us. He said, “I
don’t know.” But he said, “When I tell you, it is manifested; not
that it is manifested because I say so, but it’s already there; and I
know nothing about it! And, when I tell you, and it is so, then that’s
it!” 

	And that’s so explosive that everyone should turn to Christ! and
everybody get healed! And here is where we have lost out on vindicated
reality! Brother/Sister, we’re not sold. We’re not sold. We got to
be. See?

51.	[107] 	I don’t know what you’re thinking of. How can I tell you
who you are and where you come from, when I don’t know you?

	That’s right. How can I say ‘post’, if I don’t know of a
‘post’? Now I’ve got to know ‘post’ before I can say
‘post’. “I was chased from ‘pillar’ to ‘post.’” Then,
I’ve got to know what a ‘pillar’ is. I never knew what a
‘pillar’ is when that saying came up. What’s a ‘pillar’? Tell
me.

	“Well, a ‘pillar’ is a ‘post’, really, but it’s a different
kind of post.” 

	Oh, I see. Now I can talk about a ‘pillar’. I can’t talk of
anything, unless there’s something there to talk about. See?

52.	So, this is God moving. It’s in the spiritual world. The devil can
do it, too; but he doesn’t do it this way. But people think the devil
does this, that Bro. Branham’s the devil. Well, fine. I’m glad they
think that, because that means I’m right--always a minority. Let the
majority say anything it wants; I’m not going to hell with them. I’m
not going to try to take a place above God for them because of human
love.

[107] 	Now, how can I tell you who you are or where you came from, when
I don’t know you? How can I tell you what you done ten years ago, when
I never ever saw you in my life? How can I tell you where you live and
what you’ll do ten years from now? How do I know the future? But it is
Somebody Else’s thought.

	See? But a thought must be spoken. See, here’s the omniscient God,
now, that predestinated the whole thing, as Bro. Branham’s ministry
shows it. All right.

53.	[108] 	“Let this mind that was in Christ be in you.” “Let the
mind that was in Christ be in you.” See, then it isn’t your
thinking; it’s His thinking through you, and you’re not expressing
your own words; you’re expressing His Words.

	Now that’s a prophet telling about his experiences under discernment.
But you can hand that down to you and me. When you begin to say what
Bro. Branham said and express his thoughts, you’re expressing the
thoughts of God. When you begin to take, and I begin to take, the
positive side against the negative… The confession is mentioned in
Hebrews. Look at It right over here: Heb 10:23.

(23)	Let us hold fast the (con)fession of our faith without wavering;
(for he is faithful that promised.)

	Now that’s the principle of the vindicated Word, based on a covenant.
So, you confess It. And we’re trying to do that here. And we’re
going to keep doing it.

54.	[109] 	That’s how many a times the brethren get confused of
interpretation of tongues and things. (He says up here now, you got to
express somebody else’s thinking, not your own. He said, “That’s
the only way it’s going to be God’s Word, as we inputting His words
right in you, the mind of Christ.” And he said then, “Here’s how
many people get confused, interpretation of tongues and things.”) See,
they say things that aren’t right. (So, they’re not saying the mind
of God.) They don’t realize that’s Satan doing that. 

	You say, “In the Garden of God?” 

	Just wait till we get through. Find out if it is or not.

	Now, what’s he talking about, the Garden of God? Two trees. Anointed
ones at the end time. The need for judging in the prayer room, even
before something ever comes out. Discerning of spirits. Is the Spirit of
God here, or is it not here? You think I’d have trusted that bunch
that left Bro. Branham’s message with their tongues and talking and
all that stuff? Why, they came against the Word of God! You think I’d
make time for that? A man have tongues interpreting in the congregation?

	Oh my, they spoke of one fellow. I forget. I won’t tell you where he
is. It wouldn’t be kind. Oh, they praised him to the sky. Oh my, how
every time this church order was right, this and that. And I said… I
just stood back and watched. Now they haven’t got a time for him.
He’s way off the Word. Pitiful. Completely mixed up. Now they got the
same fellow down in Jackson, Mississippi, doing the same thing. I phoned
him one time and said, “Brother, you’ve got to quit doing that.”

	“Oh, you don’t understand brother.”

	I said, “Brother, I do understand. You don’t understand; let me
tell you again.” I said, “He’ll fool you; you’re going to pay a
price.”

	No man would even give that man a second look today. He fostered the
guy with an eight-inch pick, you know, playing a guitar. Who in the name
of common sense wants to play a guitar with eight-inch picks and bring
anybody to God? The guy’s stupid. Would you like that kind of man in
your pulpit? A lot of people would. They think that’s great. That’s
Pentecostal jargon. “Anything goes in this message….” Not around
here, bless God.

55.	You’d better stick to this Word here. I’m not talking about a
holy life now. I’m looking for a holy life I don’t have. But this
Word will bring it, or I’m done, because I haven’t got a clue. You
look for what you want. I’m telling you in this pulpit what I’m
looking for. It has to be God in His Word doing It. He had a Word in one
age; the life went through for justification.

	And I tell you, poor old Luther, as much as I love him… And I know
he’s that messenger God sent, and I respect him more than any man
outside of Bro. Branham. I tell you frankly, as a messenger, I think the
world of him. Yet he’s the one that Hitler literally quoted, “You
got to exterminate the Jews.” He caused a peasants’ rebellion. Many
were killed. Wesley came with the higher order in holiness. Pentecostal
came with the greatest. Where’d it go? If what we’ve got is real,
brother/sister, righteous will be righteous, and filthy will be filthy.
We’ll be on the righteous side. I’m standing on it.

	You stand for what you want; and I love you people, respect you. I let
my stand be here in this pulpit. The Word did it each and every
time--the Message. Let this message bring forth, or we know William
Branham was of the devil, and we’ve been fooled. It’s got to bring
forth. And it won’t organize. I may be accused of it--not looking for
people coming in. That’s only once on the weekend, once a month maybe.
I’m not trying to win the world for Christ; not for one minute. Win
all the souls I can, if souls are to be won, yes. They’re being won,
too. They come here and they sit, and they finally see it: this is the
Word of God. We’re winning souls. We’re wise. We’re doing the
right thing. It’s just there’s not a lot of seed out there to work
with. That’s all; let’s face it. They’ve just gone down to the end
of the barrel. That’s how things got confused. He said here, Satan
made them say the wrong thing.

56.	Now, listen.

[109] 	The weeds and the wheat grow in the same field; they both live by
the same sun and the same rain. 

	That’s the Holy Ghost comes in and anoints, the Spirit of God begins
to move, and Satan moves right in; and the first thing you’ve got a
bunch of folk… Satan just takes over. They say the wrong things. They
haven’t got it in them. Now, listen; paragraph 110.

[110] 	“But if there be one among you who’s a prophet, I, the Lord,
will speak to him; and, if what he says happens, then that’s me,
because he’s not expressing his own thoughts; he’s expressing my
thoughts! My attributes are the things that have to come out--use his
mouth to express them by! After he’s said them, they’ve got to come
to pass! (See, that’s a manifestation of the thought.) Heaven and
earth will pass away but My Word will never fail.” (See, it goes
beyond gifts, right to the truth of the Word. See? And he says, “I can
judge these people, and I find they’re wrong.”)

[111] 	Isaiah said, “A virgin shall conceive.” That settles it:
She’s going to conceive. What God said, He does. (How He does it?
That’s His business.)

 	Oh, makes known by His prophets all His manifestations, because it’s
His attributes of His thoughts that’s expressed. (God in the
man—acting through the man.)

	In other words the manifestation actually is attributes expressed, and
it starts with the thinking. And from the thinking, it goes to the
power--from omniscience to omnipotence; and watch it. That’s the
simplicity there is to God. And I mean that in an offhand term--a basic
explanation. God is omniscience and omnipotence. He is Spirit. And
He’s Holy Spirit. And we’d never know Holy Spirit from a rotten
spirit, except God had told us. And that’s part of His omniscience.
And He can do it; that’s part of His omnipotence. So, what you always
see is God moving in that area. And we love Him.

57.	[111] 	Oh, make known by His prophets all of His manifestations,
because it’s His attributes of His thoughts expressed. Now, here it
was in this little woman; she was one of His attributes. 

	In other words she was right up here to begin with. And, watch her come
on down through the human line. See, the human line, and Adam, and then,
the old Serpent gets… Down, down, down, and here they are at the time
of Israel in the day of Jesus Christ.

[112] 	And there was a priest representing the light: he had learned it
from the Bible, (no trouble) he had learned that God was God; (sure
thing) he had learned that holiness was right; he had learned that there
was a law of God; he’d learned it because of an intellectual
conception. And he was born of the right lineage: he was a Levite; but
he only knew it by intellectual conception. And, when the Light of the
hour... See, he learned it by what had happened; not what was happening,
but what had happened. (Moses had seen those.) And, when he found what
was happening, his denomination said nothing about it; therefore, he had
no representation of it. But here was a Redeemer on earth at that time
to redeem those attributes of God, and she received it.

	Now then, at the time of Jesus, it was a priesthood; and today, there
is no difference for the Levites from Levi. No difference, from the
Levites from Levi, Lutheran priests from Luther, and Wesleyans from
Wesley. No different. And with the Pentecostals it’s the same way. It
is Ecclesiasticism. That’s all it is.

	Now Jesus made known the elect who they were--who they were already.
Let’s read it again: Jesus made known the elect, who they were
already, His Own attributes, but only now made flesh and manifested. So
Jesus made known the elect: that they were the manifested attributes for
that hour, manifest in flesh. So it was with William Branham. No
problem. All right.

58.	[112] 	But here was a Redeemer on earth. (Before there wasn’t, but
there was; and she saw that) and she received it. The same with Matthew
12 in this hour.)

[113] 	She never questioned it. She said, “When Messiah comes, He will
do this,” and that settled it. And she saw it done. So, He said,
“I’m the Messiah,” so that settled it. (He could tell her that;
couldn’t tell anybody else that.) There’s no more questions; she
just went telling everybody, “Come, see Who I found.”

	What about today? If she became one with the Word, then what about now?
Same thing. You see, it’s the same redemption. He’s trying to tell
us it’s going on now. And He’s doing it the same way. And He’s
showing it to us. And there’s nothing that’s redeemable that isn’t
done this way. So, it’s one great joyous experience to one big, happy
unit. And it’s all of God.

59.	[114] 	These processes make us clean—a temple for His dwelling
place: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost with
fire. That does the cleansing of the temple.

	Now, with that, notice what you’ve got in Eph 5:26. Now this is here:

(25)	Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave
himself for it; (Now, watch:)

(26)	(In order) that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing
of water by the word (to the end),

(27)	That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; it should be holy and without
blemish.

	Okay, back to Revelation 22, again.

(10)	Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is
at hand. (Just is just; filthy, filthy, so on.)

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

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

	There you are. Same thing. The washing of water by the Word of the last
day.

60.	Now:

[115] 	So, as the old world frame was not destroyed by the waters when
it was washed off—the frame of the planet, the old frame (all the
dirt, all the stuff that God put on the earth) was not destroyed when
the first world was destroyed; and the Bible said it was destroyed. But
it never destroyed the frame; it just destroyed the sin and the sinners
that were on it. Good. The framework remained. (Now, that’s logical.)

[116] 	But you see, as justification (as you Baptists and Methodists
want to think of it)—just justification, believing and being baptized,
that’s not enough! You’ll wander right back into the things of the
world; bob your hair, wear your shorts, everything else. See, there’s
nothing happened yet. You just looked back and saw you’ve done wrong.

[117] 	What did justification do to the world? Never did a thing to it;
started right off again, just as much as sin as it ever was. (Now,
that’s very important to know that.) That’s the way a man does, and
that’s all the further he goes. That’s what the great evangelist
Billy Graham ought to see. He said, “I go and have thirty thousand
converts—come back in a year and haven’t got thirty.” That’s all
the farther they went. See? Surely, they repent. I believe they
repent—most of them, or some at least; but that isn’t what it takes.
It proves it here.

[118] 	Now, so the old world framework was not destroyed by the water.
The world was only washed off. That got its baptism; it was baptized. So
will the framework remain though it be burnt by fire. It don’t destroy
the earth; just destroys the sin that’s on it.

	All right. This strong and constant typing, is not exactly typing, but
really proving the complete process of redemption to the end, which is
immortality, which is what we really want. So, God is taking these steps
here to bring us to the place of complete immortality; and so, He’s
doing it with the world; and so, that’s what we want to see here.

61.	[119] 	Now, notice here, some of you Bible students (especially Bro.
Vayle looking at me). Notice, in Peter, in the third chapter, he uses
the word ‘world’ as the Greek word, ‘kosmos’, which means ‘the
world order’. The earth shall pass away, melt the elements with
fervent heat. See? Doesn’t mean the earth--the planet--is going to
pass away, but the world kosmos--the politics, sinners, the system, sin,
disease, germs, everything that’s wrong--will pass away.

[ ] 	(Then, you see, He shook the earth; this time He’ll shake the
heavens.) Everything that was, God once shook the heavens, but this time
He said, He’ll shake the earth: heavens and earth also. He shook the
earth, then; this time He’ll shake the heavens. (In other words the
heavens are going to be on fire, but the Bible never said they’re on
fire at the time of the flood or when the Blood dropped upon it.) For we
receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved, the eternal Kingdom. Watch how
He does it. (And that, of course, is said in Heb 12:25: We once hear
from God.)

	Now Bro. Branham used the word ‘kosmos’ there, which means ‘in
order’. And, if you go to the Bible, you’ll find that there are two
orders. One is God’s order, and one is the order of the ungodly. The
other is the order of the godly, which is God’s. God had an order in
this universe, and it’s been despoiled, as Satan has taken over and
brought to a very bad place.

62.	So, we’re going to look here at 2 Pet 2:4-6.

(4)	For if God spared not the angels that sinned, (and) cast them down
to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
judgment;

(5)	And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the
ungodly;

	See, the flood didn’t do the damage to the world. No problem at all.
It just burst loose the old order; wiped it plumb out; laid down a
great, big layer of silt. You can even see the mastodon; I suppose it
was there at that time, under feet and feet of silt. They say that’s
the time he died, when the water came down. It said the sudden release
of water like that, could cause freezing. Temperatures, terribly
unnatural. He was solid frozen--flash freezing, just in an instant. Even
the green grasses in his mouth. They claim they even took a steak off of
one and could eat it. That’s a good deep freeze.

	Now it says here, you can see here that the earth was saved. He just
got rid of everything on it, but let it all come back. Because it
wasn’t fire. Next time it’s fire. It isn’t going to come back--no
way, shape and form. 

	With that, now, he said here:

(6)	Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them
with an overthrow, making them an (example) unto those that after should
live ungodly;

	And you see the fire there, but even after that little fire, of course,
we saw that they came back. So, what you’re looking at here is that
God is changing the order, and the regular disposition of that order, to
His Own divine order that He wanted in the future.

63.	[120] 	Now, notice here, Peter said, “And will melt with the
fervent heat and the works therein be burnt up,” not the planet, the
works (That’s good.) of man. All their politicians, their schemes, and
their denominations and manmade schemes with it, will all go when it
burns. (Now, that absolutely is Heb 12:25.)

	Now the start of this great close-up, this great clean up, is right at
hand here according to Dan 2:31-35.

(31)	(And) thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great
image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form
thereof was terrible.

(32)	(And the image had a head) of fine gold, his breast and his arms of
silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

(33)	His legs of iron, his feet of iron and part of clay.

(34)	Thou sawest till a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the
image upon his feet that were (made) of iron and clay, and brake to
pieces.

	Now you know something? This is at the end time of the Roman Empire, at
the time when an image is made with hands unto the beast, when everybody
comes together and gives their hands and their minds to the
antichrist--Roman Catholic and Protestant churches combined. Now this
one is not by that. This one is not made by hands. It’s not a stone
that’s cut. See?

(35)	Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold,
broken to pieces together, and became like chaff of the summer threshing
floors (complete destruction of the world systems); and the wind carried
them away (and there was) no place found for them: and the stone that
smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

	It’s going on right now. They’re breaking down the whole system.
“…Filled the whole earth.” Doesn’t destroy and annihilate it,
just gets the thing ready for the people of God to come back, and God
Himself to come down in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. As Bro.
Branham said, “When that Spirit that’s in our midst becomes
incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords, and
that will be the Son of God, the Son of man, the Son of David, the Rose
of Sharon”--you know, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the whole bit.

64.	[121] 	“And the heavens will pass away with a great noise.” Did
you notice there? “Heavens will pass away with a great noise.”
Listen, the whole earth will be on fire and will ignite the gases
that’s in the earth and explode it. (Exactly.)

65.	That’s as far as we’ll go, because that’s good enough at this
time. We couldn’t get any further.

	Now, try to remember some of the things I mentioned which I wrote down
here. And, if you remember them, you’re going to do better than I am,
because I don’t remember them without my notes. But I want you to get
the understanding that we’re looking at the vindication principle
stronger than ever. We’re looking at the fact that this has been
proven. There is nothing left to prove. This is a divine order of God.

	Everything is crumbling. And, if the world order’s crumbling, then by
the same principle, our own wrong thinking and everything we’ve had
that’s wrong is crumbling and is being burnt out at this moment so
that God can really live in us, as Bro. Branham said, “the real
baptism with the Holy Ghost, the genuineness.”

	Now you say, “How’s it being done?”

	I’m telling how it’s been done. Now I could be wrong. Maybe
you’ve got to do something; maybe I’ve got to do something. Just ask
you a question. How was it done back there? And, how’s it going to be
done again? See, you got to realize this one thing. It was grace that
did it to the Elect and the rest removed. Now we’re in that hour
today. And I don’t look for anything other than what happened then. I
can’t see that my own volition has anything to do with it, because my
own volition has already spoken, “I want this, and I want it bad; and
I don’t know a thing I can do about it, except believe.” 

	I’ve got to believe like Noah. In spite of everything that came to
pass, they wouldn’t say, ‘We believe you.’ It doesn’t mean a
thing. As long as you believe. I don’t believe that Noah was the
sweetest, most wonderful man in all the world. I don’t even know that
Enoch was. All I know is he walked with God. And my Bible says, “If we
walk in the light as He is the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing of all
unrighteousness,” and we stand here in that position today.

66.	So, all I can say is: take these things that Bro. Branham laid out,
and let us together try to understand them. Let us believe them with all
of our hearts and just stand here with this Word, because, having done
all to stand, there’ll come a time when you’ve done everything you
can do, and you’ve just got to stand there. It’s just like dying,
brother/sister. The doctors done all they can do. Everybody’s done all
they can do. All the prayers have been sent, and you’ve still got to
lie there knowing that pretty soon your breath is gone, your hearts
stopped beating, and you’re gone. Then, you’re right in God’s
hands. And you know what? You’re in God’s hands now.

	So, that’s the best I can tell you. You just keep reading and seeing
what God gives us. The Lord bless you. Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, again we thank You for the Truth that You bring us
through the message of the prophet. We only pray, my God, that it shall
go deep down in our hearts, by way of our minds, the spirit and the
soul, and become a stone, Lord God, a stone in our hearts. A rigid,
rigid stone, Lord, that everything in the principle of the life of
Christ stands on and springs from; like that rock, Lord, that Moses
stood on, that brought forth the living water. Bring it forth, Lord, as
a rock in our soul, of living water. And, let the Tree of Life spread
it’s fruits on either side, and let it come forth in manifestation, O
Lord, and a life that is blameless and a body that is healed.

	Bless Your people, Lord, we pray. I believe You have, Father, and I
know You’ve given us something to take with us. O God, let not the
devil snatch it from us, Lord, we pray. Let nothing fall to the ground
this evening hour, our living God, but let it rather bring forth eternal
fruit in us, Lord, to manifest the divine attribute that we are of you.
We pray this, in faith, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

	“Take the Name of Jesus With You.”