Future Home #4

A Holy Fire

 May 8, 1988

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, Your very Presence guaranteed the Lord
Jesus Christ’s birth, coming to this earth to give us redemption. Your
very Presence today also guarantees the rebirth of the earth, Lord,
redemption plan going on apace, and we’re a part of it already. We
pray, Lord, therefore, that this Word that was given for the hour of
restoration be made very clear to us today: that we not only accept It,
but we assimilate It, Lord, that we understand It, and It brings forth
fruit in our lives, O God, unto eternal life, to the glory of Almighty
God. Father, we know that You have done something in us and for us,
Lord, something to us, and we count on that Lord, to be the finishing
work of this hour that’ll bring the dead out of the ground, Father,
and bring us into immortality. We give Thee praise for helping us study
this morning, this wonderful Message brought to us by vindicated
prophet. In Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now this is number four of “The Future Home of the Earthly
Bride”, and we closed off reading on page 26 and at paragraph 121. And
up to this point we find Bro. Branham explaining carefully that the
combined Scripture in 2 Peter 3 and Revelation 21 do not say that God
will annihilate the heavens and earth, necessitating another completely
new creation, nor does He simply dissolve completely and entirely the
heavens and earth, reducing them to an amorphous heap of original
building blocks (like some people think that they go back to hydrogen),
from which He rebuilds them, but that God actually and only burns up
what is on the earth’s surface and around the earth, so that He
cleanses it completely of the old order or cosmos, or any and all things
that defile, so that the devil and his demons are annihilated, all evil
government is gone, all germs, all thorns, and any and every thing that
offends. And then, God brings it all out, as in a resurrection; and
then, He comes down and lives here on earth with His people, and His Own
order of government in effect. It reminds us of the flood, for only the
earth cosmos and its appurtenances were destroyed at that time. Now it
is to be fire that purifies it and does the very same thing.

2.	So, it’s good to read paragraph 119 and 120 and 121 on page 26, and
then, go on. But, before we do, it is well to recall that Bro. Branham
continuously refers to this cleansing and restoration as the process of
redemption, and constantly draws our attention to the fact that all
things redeemable must come by and through this one pattern of water,
blood, and life, or justification, sanctification, Holy Ghost baptism,
to prepare us to be the home, or dwelling place, of God. As with the
individual, so with the earth, and with the heaven.

3.	So, we start reading here then on page 26, paragraph 119. We were
just at the bottom of the page.

[119]  	Notice, some of you Bible students, in Peter, 2 Peter 3, he uses
the word “world” from the Greek word, “kosmos,” which means
“the world order.” (That’s true.) 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 order or kosmos, the
politics, the sinners, the system, sin, disease, germs, everything
that’s wrong, will pass away. God once shook the earth, but this time
He’ll shake the heavens also. See? For we receive a Kingdom that
cannot be moved, the eternal Kingdom. Watch how He goes about to do it.

	Now, in here you’ll notice that God is going to destroy the earth,
that is the part of the earth which is corrupted, which is chaotic,
which is not of Him. And Bro. Branham didn’t know a thing about AIDS
and what we have today, but he did know homosexuality had increased and
the social diseases had gone rampant. And he didn’t know about, as we
understand, mutation of germs today, although he knew a little bit about
it; nor did he understand, because nothing much was being said about
genetic splicing. So, what we have today is that man is loosing upon
earth the various things, which he has conjured up and worked with, and
various germs, which he has tried to use effectively in immunization.
And also, they’re trying to use the DNA and the RNA, and gone about
splicing; and it’s going to turn upon the earth as everything does
turn upon us. And it’s going to be very, very destructive and very,
very horrible.

4.	Now I wanted to really get through this series as quickly as I can;
but, because these tapes go out, and many people don’t have access to
the literature I have access to, I’m going to read to you from
what’s called “The Cutting Edge” by Dr. Douglas. And he’s quite
outstanding in what he is into. [Bro. Vayle reads “The Cutting Edge”
article, and then another article concerning the dangers of
vaccinations.]

5.	Now he says, “The AIDS germ doesn’t cause AIDS.” Now, it’s
like a knife doesn’t cause a wound when you get stabbed. He says,
“The AIDS germ doesn’t cause AIDS. It takes the AIDS virus, called
HIV, plus another germ to get the deadly syndrome that we know as
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Retroviruses are all leukegemic;”
that is, they cause an increase in the white cells, which we know is
leukemia. “…A mad proliferation of cells and consequent death.”
That’s true, because they just gobble everything up and just destroy
your organs and all. “But the AIDS virus is not like that. It does
just the opposite and destroys cells.”

	So, you see, one causes one thing to happen in your body to do a thing,
and this goes directly across. “It cytocidal [cytolytic], not
leukogenic;” so, it doesn’t make a lot of white cells and all. It
just goes about doing its own thing. “Why would this one retrovirus
act differently from all the others? It doesn’t make sense.” 

	Now I’m not up to know all these terms, and Peter’s [Gatchell] not
here to help me. “Retroviruses pretty much minded their own business,
until the virologists started messing with them. There are exceptions,
of course. The myxoma virus sent millions of rabbits into that great
hutch in the sky—almost wiped them out.” I think that happened under
a French doctor wanting to get rid of the rabbits in his garden. “But,
you know rabbits, they made a comeback.” I’m not sure that man can.

6.	“If HIV can be detected in six weeks, why can the victim remain
free of symptoms for years? It only takes days for the virus to
reproduce, but the quantity of virus present usually remains low, with
or without the patient showing signs of AIDS. That doesn’t make any
sense either, because, by contrast, all other viruses are expressed at
high titers when they function as pathogens. In other words infections,
whether they are from regular germs or a virus, don’t cause you to be
sick, until they are present in large numbers. Why should AIDS be any
different?”

	“Has AIDS changed the rules of nature?” Probably not. What if they
have? You see why it’s got to go? Because it’s part of a wrong
cosmos. See, things are out of control. “But, if the rules haven’t
been changed, they must at least have been bent a little, because the
AIDS virus destroys its own house. A virus cannot reproduce outside of a
host cell. Most viruses reproduce in the cell and leave the cell intact,
but AIDS destroys its host. There seems to be a gap in our knowledge. In
fact, government scientists made a shocking admission at a recent
meeting of the National Institute of Health,” the people who are
supposed to deliver us from AIDS—and they’re the ones that are in
charge. They admitted, “that they haven’t the foggiest idea of the
life cycle of the AIDS virus or the basis of AIDS infections.” So, how
are you going to fight it? Now they know a lot about cancer, but they
know nothing about this.

7.	 “Doctor Dusburg, University of California Berkeley, in fact goes
so far as to say the extremely low level of virus expression casts doubt
whether the virus is even necessary to cause AIDS,” (Oh, ho!) “or
any other diseases with which it is associated.” So, they’re more
than stuck now. Those are the experts. “In other words Dusburg thinks
that the AIDS virus may just be a frequent fellow traveler.” So,
you’ve got to have something to get something.

	“The AIDS viruses are shown not to be sufficient to cause AIDS, and
the evidence that they are necessary to cause it is debated.” People
aren’t going to like this, because it means we are still facing an
unknown. “If the germ has at least been identified, that’s
progress.” (It hasn’t been to the degree they want it.) “But
fighting the unknown is another matter.” Back to square one, as the
saying goes. In other words, as far as they’ve come, it doesn’t mean
a thing.

	“Dusburg’s theory is getting support from an unexpected source: the
syphilis germ.” Well, that’s natural. No more than apples would
cause babies! What causes babies? Sex. See, they’re trying to make the
Bible sound like a book for jackasses, but this is going to be
okay—science. How stupid can people get? Let’s keep reading, and we
might find out.

	“Dusburg’s theory is getting support from an unexpected source, the
syphilis germ. There’s a remarkable and mysterious connection between
AIDS and syphilis.” Why shouldn’t there be? “There were 4000 cases
of syphilis in New York City alone in the first six months of 1986. In
1985 there were only 2000 for the entire year. It would be easy to
assume that this increase in syphilis is just another example of
multiple venereal diseases seen in the homosexual population. The
AIDS-infected individual usually has at least one or another venereal
disease.” Ah-ha! Herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia; why not syphilis? Sure
they do.

8.	“While this is true, it goes much deeper than that. Syphilis of the
brain, neural syphilis, takes years after the initial infection to
develop.” That’s where you get locomotor ataxia. “In AIDS patients
who contract syphilis, the neural syphilis may appear in a matter of
months. In AIDS patients who contract syphilis, neural syphilis then can
come in a matter of months, not years anymore now. Which leads to the
question: Is much of the AIDS dementia now being seen actually neural
syphilis?” Do you follow what he’s saying here? Okay, got to keep
them separate, because they’re both doing the same thing. And one, in
AIDS, brings it on very rapidly, where syphilis alone would take a long
time. So, is syphilis, then, the traveler that brings this on in our
bodies?” Well, there’s no doubt that it’s a connected thing,
because this is a sexual related disease. “And an even more
provocative question: Is it possible that AIDS is nothing but a new and
extremely virulent form of syphilis? Some experts think so but most, at
this point, do not.”

	“A review of pre-penicillin medical literature brought out a
startling finding. Karposi’s sarcoma and pneumocystitis,
cranio-pneumonia, rarely seen in other than AIDS patients, were quite
common in patients with syphilis.” So, you see, we’re getting the
same symptoms, the same problems. “Joan McKetta of The University of
California Berkeley is a believer. ‘When you have a simple
explanation, like syphilis, and a more complicated one, like a fancy
retrovirus, why not go with the simpler one and at least see where it
takes you?’” Of course, then, they won’t spend the billions of
dollars on that one; it’s too simple.

	It’s the same like cancer. You can’t have preventive medicine or
anything. Oh no, they’ve got it sewed up—too big money here. If you
want to make money, just find out what drug company’s getting near
something: the government, FDA, get a little leak in there, where the
FDA says we got something that will help AIDS. Then, you put your money
in there fast, because your two dollars will be a hundred dollars in six
months. Do you want to make money? I kid you not. Just read your stock
reports. See? That’s our government that God’s going to ‘whoosh’
with the flame of fire. Can’t wait to see His blowtorch. If I go with
it: fine. I’ve got it coming to me.

9.	“Other signs are pointing at Herpes or as at least a cofactor in
the development of AIDS. It is found in seventy-five percent to one
hundred percent of the AIDS cases. Some investigators go so far as to
say that Herpes is a form of syphilis.” See, they’re getting it all
back together. “There are other sources, Epstein Barr virus is found
in close to one hundred percent cases of AIDS, as is the Hepatitis-B
virus. ‘The AIDS virus,’ Dr. Dusburg says, ‘may be just a
passenger virus for any of those which, then, kill the patient.’ He
concludes, ‘It seems likely that the AIDS virus is just the most
common among the opportunistic viral infections of AIDS patients rather
than the cause of AIDS.’ The disease, then, would be caused by a yet
unidentified agent, which may not even be a virus. Maybe the syphilis
theory isn’t so crazy.”

10.	Now here’s an article here going on, and this has to do with the
doctors who are playing God by making a vaccine. “The evidence
continues to mount that there are no safe vaccines. We now know that the
Sabin polio vaccine, the Colshot vaccine, the swine flu vaccine, the
Hepatitis-B vaccine, and, of course, the smallpox vaccine of the World
Health Organization, were all contaminated with polio-like and cancer
causing viruses.”

	How would you like to have a shot of that to cure you and get this?
Nice, isn’t it? Like the government says, “We’ll protect you.”
So, they take all our money and do anything they want with it. It’s
all the same lousy stinking category, brother/sister. That’s why
it’s all going to get destroyed. Who do you think has brought this on
us? The government. Because they license the AMA and the doctors; they
can do what they want. But God forbid a chiropractor have a say in
something—or a nature-path. Oh, no, because that won’t make the drug
company billions of dollars. What was it that Mr. President said, when
our trade was getting into a big slump and deficit, “Why we’re going
to make money, billions of dollars, on the drugs we sell (overseas). The
drug made by a thug, and the thugs make the drugs. You can see that.

11.	“New studies now point the finger at the German measles rubella
vaccine as the cause of the chronic fatigue syndrome, also mistakenly
called Epstein Barr, or the yuppie disease. The vaccine received with
fanfare by public officials when introduced is a live virus. These live
virus vaccines are always dangerous and fraught with unpredictable
results.” What about them putting the stuff on our gardens to keep
strawberries from freezing?

	“You think we would have learned a lesson from the polio vaccine
disaster.” No, no longer, it’s just money. You don’t learn
lessons. The lesson is that you can get a lot of money and get away with
it as long as you got enough of it. That’s why Bro. Branham opposed
capital punishment, because the black man and the poor white get strung
up, but the rich guy got away. It’s sort of like Kennedy and
Chappaquidick. Two things saved him; you know what they are. If you
don’t by now, we’ll have to inform you.

12.	“You’d think we’ve learned a lesson with the polio vaccine,
the results of which we are only now seeing in the form of brain
cancer.” (Brain cancer!) “The problem, as Alan Algorithms Inc. sees
it, is that the virus lives in vaccinated children for years and can be
transmitted easily through a touch or a cough or a kiss.” There’s
your mono and the whole bit. That’s casual contact.

	“German measles is not just for children anymore; everybody can have
it, thanks to the fifth horsemen of the apocalypse, the world
virologists. The pathetic thing is that German measles is a very benign
disease, lasting only a few days in most patients.” So, why bother
with it? “The only people at risk are newborn babies of mothers who
catch the disease during early pregnancy—a very small percentage of
people—not warranting the massive vaccination program that started in
1977.” It’s gone a full nine years and start another cycle, more
vicious—every nine-year cycle. “Now pregnant mothers may be at even
greater risk, because millions of people are carrying the virus through
inoculation or infection from an inoculated person.” Have fun.

13.	“Some interesting questions arise: aren’t these the same people
that gave us the swine flu?” Paralysis, gamma globulin, AIDS, polio
vaccine—brain cancer. “Is this part of a conspiracy to destroy the
health of the American people?” Now he’s getting a little bit red
here. Here’s your red herring. “Are these vaccines used in Russia
and by other enemy countries?” You know they’re not, but that
doesn’t mean anything. “Can you, with a terrible record, trust any
vaccine recommended by public health officials? Is there Epstein Barr or
other viral contaminants involved here? Wouldn’t number five seem
likely in view of the past record?” We’re number five, whatever that
is. In other words, wouldn’t there simply be a greater continuation?
He says number five is Epstein Barr viral contaminant involved here,
because these other prove they’re viral contaminants.

	“Seven. Has anybody bothered to check as Dr. Peyton Ruth said in
1935, ‘Since what one thinks determines what one does in research, it
is well to think something’”? What they should be thinking is: Which
virus is it this time, and how did it get there? They’re not doing
that; they’re just madly going ahead.

14.	“The last and most important questions are all these young people
dragging themselves around from doctor to doctor looking for a cure for
their fatigue going to eventually get cancer like many other victims did
with the public health medicine.” And there’s millions of them.
“Some experts suspect that the chronic fatigue syndrome, now believed
to be spreading to German measles vaccinations, is actually Human B
Leukemia Lymphoma virus, HBLV. The prevalence of this deadly infectious
cancer’s increased over 200 percent in California during the last ten
years. HBLV in humans is identical morphologically, to African swine
fever virus, and probably genetically engineered in a laboratory to make
it infectious to humans.” They deliberately do it. “Doctor Albert B.
Sabin divides cancer into two categories: cancers that God made and
cancers that virologists made. ‘I separate them, because I’m not at
all sure that God does what virologists do, or like to do.’ Sabin
doesn’t call virologists the fifth horsemen of the apocalypse, but he
comes close to it.”

15.	There’s a quote here by a doctor. I wanted to read what she had to
say, but I don’t see it. It must be in one of my other articles that I
got the other day. It says, “AIDS spreading rapidly. The critical mass
for AIDS infection, when practically everybody—except possibly for a
few Eskimos that will be infected—will be reached when AIDS becomes
pneumonia that is spread from lung infection and vector transmitted.”
That is, by mosquitoes.

	“There’s very disturbing news in this regard. There is little doubt
that tuberculosis can carry the AIDS virus with it either piggybacked or
incorporated into it’s gene pool.” Tuberculosis has never been
cured. It can’t be. “Now we have reports of a dramatic increase in
histoplasmosis, a fungus or yeast disease of the lungs, coming from
South America. With tuberculosis and histo increasing dramatically,
pneumonic spread of AIDS is an ever-increasing possibility.” It’s no
longer sexual now; just breathe it.

16.	“Five immigrants in New York with AIDS were found recently to have
histoplasmosis.” That’s that lung problem. “Now we have two
horsemen riding the mosquito to help solve the population problem.”
Too many people? They’ll soon be gone. “Malaria, a parasite; yellow
fever, a virus. If a cow virus, BLV, can be combined with a sheep virus,
SVV, to make AIDS, why can’t a mosquito virus, yellow fever, combine
with the AIDS virus to form super AIDS, transmitted by mosquitoes?”
And the answer is, “Possibly it will.” You can’t rule it out.

	“Nigeria has announced a raging yellow fever epidemic; 331 deaths
reported in June 1987. The problem is that DDT was banned by the
environmentalists in favor of the eagle.” Which I can understand.
“Now people are dying like flies all over the world from malaria,
yellow fever, dengue fever, typhus, and other insect-borne diseases.”
D-e-n-g-e is dengue or deng. Now I don’t like DDT either, but whether
you like it or not, there is no doubt that it has saved millions of
lives in the equatorial mosquito belt. “I predict that DDT will make a
comeback, after it is proven that the AIDS virus can be carried by
parasite, malaria, other viruses, like Epstein Barr, yellow fever,
bacterial tuberculosis, yeast, histoplasmosis [fungus].”

	“The gay men’s health crisis received $674,679 of your tax money in
1986 and 1987, though homosexuals are facing a vicious and deadly
backlash from decent Americans. Yet, they push on with their program of
degeneracy, confident that the Federal Government will continue to give
them protection and financial support.” And they probably will.

17.	Well, do you blame God for just more or less setting a fire to the
world? He’s duty bound to do it. You tell me how God would have a way
out. There’s no way. See?

18.	Now he says here, He’s going to take the cosmos, paragraph 119,
politics, sinners, the system, FDA, AMA. Strange. You can’t even get
the AMA to allow linoleic acid [unsaturated fatty acid], an oil, finest
oil in the world, if you’re going to use oils at all. It’s made out
of flax seed, cold-pressed method in Germany. Articles are written all
around the world about it, but the FDA says no. But, if you put your
bottles on and say it’s good for your complexion, it’s okay. When
you pay money and the premium is stupidity, there’s something wrong
somewhere. You think that God would allow that to go on? How long before
God is going to judge for the sake of the people? “Go to you rich men,
weep and howl.” They’re going to get the worst of it. They haven’t
made their money right. They’ve taken God’s heritage here for
God’s people and done despite with it. Look at America. Two hundred
years in America, yet we’re in far worse shape than Europe. They’ve
been over there thousands of years killing their soil. Over here we’ve
got nothing left but a dust belt anymore. See?

19.	God has got to end it! And that’s all there is to it! Everything
has got to go. It’s all going to pass away. And we’ll study that
word ‘pass away’ in a little while.

[119]  	God once shook the earth, this time He’s going to shake the
heavens also. We’re going to receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved,
the eternal Kingdom. Now, watch how He goes about to do it.

	Now, listen; Bro. Branham makes a statement. “For we receive a
Kingdom that cannot be moved,” and that’s an eternal Kingdom. Now,
how can it be eternal, when it’s got a beginning? The point is, it
assumes eternality by the place it takes. Because from this time on,
nothing is going to happen that’s bad to it. And, you know, we’ve
got a little Scripture here. Bro. Branham doesn’t use it, but seeing
he gave us the clue to it, we’re going to use it.

20.	We’re going to go to 1 Corinthians 15. And, because this is
redemption of the mankind, what about the earth? The same thing. It says
in verse 48:

(48)	As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy: as is the
heavenly, such are they that are (also) heavenly. (There’s a
difference.)

(49)	And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly.

(51)	Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but (we’re)
all (going to) be changed,

(52)	In a moment, in the twinkling af an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, the dead be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.

(53)	For this corruptib(ility) must put on incorruptib(ility), and this
mortal must put on immortality. (That’s what’s going to happen to
the earth.)

	All the corruptible is going to be destroyed and superceded by the
incorruptible. See? And there’ll be nothing at any time that’ll
defile. So, we’re going to be in an eternal condition, not on grounds
that our bodies were eternal or this earth was eternal, but it now
assumes eternality, in the plan of Almighty God through the eternality
of God Himself. Time and eternity blend.

21.	[120]  	Now notice, Peter said here, “And will melt with the
fervent heat and the works therein are burned up,” not the planet, but
the works therein: the works of man (or what was caused by man through
the power of Satan). All their politicians, and their schemes, all their
denominations and manmade schemes will all go when it burns.

	Sure! Let’s face it. The perpetrators must go with what they
perpetrated. That’s only fair. Like the Bible says, “He that
sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” When was Gen
9:6 ever changed? You tell me. People want to change everything.
That’s one of the great sins, is changing government. It’s right in
the Bible. Changing government. Yes sir, you watch it. They changed it
in the garden. Satan took over. God gave them a theocracy, with the
prophet. They kicked him out to put a king in there. See?

	America took a great step forward when it tried to go back to what was
right, coming over here. Now they’re just as messed up as anybody.
Government has changed; people can say what they want. We send elected
representatives to represent us and do our will. The minute they get in
there they do their own. There is no difference between us and
communism, when it comes right down to a final “THUS SAITH THE LORD”
in the Scripture here. They’re no worse than we are. In fact, I think
they’re a step ahead of us. Gorbachev has now apologized to the Greek
Orthodox Church. You know what that is? That’s the same as the
Catholic Church, Roman, taking the bones of, you know, Joan of Arc—if
they could find them—put them in a nice tomb, and dig up the bones of
the priests that killed her, and burn them and say, “Now, that’s
nice.” It doesn’t work. Russia’s shot; we’re shot. It’s the
end of time. Politics and apology won’t do it. Only the blood of Jesus
Christ, acted upon by the Holy Ghost, will do anything. And, if you’re
not under the Blood, you better get under the Blood, brother/sister. I
don’t care how young or how old you are. See?

22.	Now:

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

[122]  	The Bible said here—Peter said, “The heavens will pass away
and the earth with a great noise.” Such an explosion will rock it (Oh,
my.), because it’s got to kill every disease, every thistle, every
thorn, everything there is to be done. The fire’ll burn it up.

	Now you know the fire is the second death in annihilation, in the Lake
of Fire. And this earth is going to get its annihilation in this sense:
there is an end to it! And I mean an end to it! It’s all over. My, how
could these exploiters that sell their own grandmother and their
grandchildren down the road for a buck, how would they like it over
there? They wouldn’t like it over there. The only reason the devil
likes it is he found someone to exploit. You know, he can’t exploit
rocks, so he gets men to exploit rocks. They bust up all the nice rocks,
make concrete, everything else. For a while they just threw them at each
other. Now God knows what they do with the rocks. See?

23.	[122]  	It’ll rock; (My!) it’ll kill every thistle, every thorn,
(and so on). The fire is going to burn it up. And remember, it’s not
all together (Now, listen.) just a literal fire; it’s a holy fire
(See?), that will take away Satan and all of his devils. Both heaven and
earth will pass away, killing all the germs, all the insects, all
natural life on it and around it, even the water, will explode—H2O.
(That’s the chain reaction, atomic reaction.) Think of it. Talk about
noise!

	It is a holy fire. Now, when you look at the holy fire, you realize
that it’s accomplishing something that is spiritual; in other words,
accomplishing something that God wants for the welfare and the
implementation of His Plan, which is to gather His whole family in the
heaven and earth together in the paradise of God. So, it’s a holy
fire. It’s a great purging fire. John the Baptist said, “Behold His
fan is in His hand; He’ll thoroughly purge His floor, in order to
gather the wheat in the garner.” God’s got to clean up the mess. And
He’s going to do it. So therefore, it is a holy fire, because it is a
just and righteous fire, by a just and wonderful God.

24.	Let’s read this over here in Hebrews 12. I never get tired of
reading the Bible, because in preaching these sermons, you know, I
usually miss a lot of Scripture. We don’t even start with Scripture
most of the time, we just start reading where Bro. Branham spoke. Now,
It says here concerning you and me—the end time: Heb 12:18:

(18)	For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, that
burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

(19)	And the (voice) of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
(that) they heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them
any more:

(20)	(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much
as a beast touch the mountain, it (must) be stoned, or thrust through
with a dart:

(21)	And so terrible was the sight, Moses said, I exceedingly fear and
quake:)

(22)	But (you) are come unto mount Sion (you are approaching unto the
New Jerusalem), unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels,

(23)	To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of
just men made perfect,

(24)	And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

	Now It tells you who are involved here. And they who are involved have
predeceased us. Now we are being involved because of 1 Th 4:16.

(16)	The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: the dead in Christ shall
rise first: (and so on, you see?)

	You can see what we’re talking about here.

25.	Now, watch. It says to those people—that’s you and I at this
hour of the appearing.

	[Heb 12:25]

(24)	See that you refuse not him that speaketh.

	Now, remember; don’t you fail. Listen to the speaker! And the speaker
is not God; it’s a prophet! Because Sinai, God speaking orally to the
people, is finished! No longer see and no longer hear. So, you better
know that someone’s going to be here. And the Bible categorically said
it’s Elijah. Fine.

26.	Now:

(25)	… For if they escaped not who refused him that (spoke) on earth,
much more shall (we not) escape, if we turn away from him from heaven.

	It doesn’t say he’s speaking from heaven. It says turning away from
the one from heaven. Who’s that? Rev 10:1. Who’s the prophet? Rev
10:7. Who is it? Elijah. That’s right. Remember, Malachi 4 speaks of
fire. Now, watch.

(26)	Whose voice then shook the earth (when he was on earth. That’s
Jesus on Calvary): but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I
shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

27.	Now, if He was in the form of a prophet then, He’s got to be in
the form of a prophet now. Is that right? Yes, it’s right. It can’t
be otherwise. There’s no way you can change it. There is no other way
but Deuteronomy 18.

	And Bro. Branham said the last great thing before the coming of the
Lord was God appearing in human flesh. Oh, people don’t like that.

	“Well, that puts Bro. Branham… He’s the one. Why, He’s too
big!”

	Well, okay Joe Blow, would you like to stand up and take it? John
Dokes? Who wants to do it?

	“Well, I hate to…”

	Simpering bunch of infidels. How sick can they get? I know why God
wants to vomit at the end time; because I feel like it, and I’ve got
an awful strong stomach. I’m not at all sensitive like God is. And I
could just barf on the whole thing. Pardon the language; I use it on
purpose, so‘ll you get the point.

28.	Now, listen.

(25)	… (Don’t) turn away from the one that speaks, that came from
heaven:

(26)	Whose voice shook the earth: but now promised, saying, Yet once
more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

	Well, you know what that is. That’s Revelations. Stars are going to
fall. Everything’s going to be shaken. And it’s going to continue
that way with an interim of one thousand years; and then, take it up
with most violent force ever known, when the whole thing gets purged.
Remember, there’s an interim of a thousand years there.

(27)	And this word, once more, signifies the removing of those things
that are shaken, as of things that are made.

	In other words, wherever man put his hand to work with whatever was
original upon this earth, God’s going to dump it! And there’s no
place it wasn’t. You think it is? What about our gases here, going up
to Canada, killing all the trees? Killing all our trees. You like maple
syrup? Better start putting in a supply every year they’ve got
some—for the next two or three years. Maple sugar trees are dying. The
whole thing’s going. Now, listen.

(27)	… as of things that are made.

	“As of things that are made.” They made sin. They made havoc. They
made destruction. The tornadoes blew in. The hurricanes blew in. The
typhoons came. All of these things must go! Because it’s nature out of
the control of Almighty God. It’s what we saw right here in reading
this little article by Dr. Douglas. And he’s a top authority on these
things. See?

(27)	… (only that) which cannot be shaken may remain.

	Well, that’s true. What wasn’t under man he couldn’t get to? Or
under the devil? A structure, a framework, everything else burnt off,
but that never was shaken. God will just form something on top of it.
It’s like a resurrection. Now, watch.

(28)	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved (eternal as
Bro. Branham said), let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear: (Knowing this and abstaining
from it!)

(29)	For our God is a consuming fire. (And everything that isn’t fit
to stay is going to be consumed.)

	The United States is going to go. Italy’s going to go. Russia’s
going to go. It’s all going to go. There will be nothing left at the
time this happens.

29.	Now, he says here, it’s a literal fire; but it’s a holy fire.
It’s a purger. Look how it started over here: the same as it was in
the days of Jesus. Hebrews 4.

(11)	For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, the joints and marrow, discerner of thoughts and intents of the
heart.

(12)	Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:
but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
have to do (which is the Judge, and it’s already set in order now
through the prophetic Word in this sermon, what is going to burn!)

	You say, “Well, I don’t believe it.” 

	Well, fine by me. I don’t control what you believe. There’s got to
be very few of us who do believe.

	We can’t be like the drug companies, the doctors, and the government:
interested in billions of dollars. See? Well, Liberace’s money
didn’t save him. No, he went to court. Somebody called him a homo, and
he said he wasn’t. He even won a court case, but he died of AIDS. And
Jessica Hahn said she wasn’t a prostitute. But, when she heard of
Liberace, she turned around and got an AIDS test. Why? She had eaten off
his plate? Whew. Come on, for heaven’s sake. You can’t be that
naïve. The girl always was a prostitute. It was her nature.

30.	God’s going to destroy this, brother/sister. And let’s face it:
He’s coming for a virtuous Bride, a virgin Bride. And you young
people, the luckiest people this world’s ever seen, outside of the
first church age, because you’re born into something so rich and so
real with the power of God that you don’t have a problem, unless you
deliberately act like a bunch of idiots. Now, if your parents don’t
take care of you, you better tell your parents something. That’s
right. You’re on your own.

	You can see right here. Listen, I wouldn’t go back. I wouldn’t
retrogress. I wouldn’t want my youth. I don’t even want to go back
last year over this year, and the arthritis is worse than last year. It
is so much better already this year, spiritually speaking where I know
the Truth. I would not go back for a billion dollars. First of all, I
couldn’t get a billion dollars; and second, I wouldn’t know how to
spend it. I’d be stuck with some stupid thing like the rest of the
billionaires. I’ll take my two bits and stand with God.

31.	[122]  	All right, here’s what it says. It’s a holy Fire. Take
away Satan and all his devils. Heaven and earth (Amen.) will pass away,
killing all germs, all insects (Amen, especially those that bite), all
natural life on and around it, (I always did want to get rid of those
mosquitoes. I didn’t know until now that it was going to be done.)
even the H2O, the water, is going to explode. Think of it. Talk about a
noise!

	[123]	You think that little noise out there in Tucson was something,
when He opened the six seals?

	Now say, “Aha, there it is. He only opened six seals!” 

	Then, how come Bro. Branham said the Seventh Seal was Rev 10:1-7 [End
of the first side of the audio tape.] I don’t buy it. Under the
Seventh Seal, he said, was all the Thunders. And we have the Thunders,
because they’re the mysteries to put us in the Rapture. 

	You say, “Why?” 

	Don’t ask me. Just look at what the Word of God said. Right? Okay,

32.	[123]  	… that shook the country around about and caused the talk,
wait till this earth receives her baptism!

[124]  	You know, when a man receives the baptism of Fire there’s a
lot of noise around there. They think that it’s a shame to hear people
scream and shout like that. Just wait till this earth gets her baptism.
Wait till it explodes, the H2O, the water; for the Bible said in
Revelations 21, “there was no more sea.” (In other words that’s
the dissolution of it—atomic reaction. This is a definitive statement
that Bro. Branham makes, based upon his vindication from God as a
prophet. All right.)

[125]  	This will change the whole surface of the entire earth.(In other
words, all of what Satan and man has worked over and used and changed
and perverted.) She’ll burst and blow to pieces. On the outside, which
is the crust and even to hundreds of feet below it, it will just simply
be completely demolished. (Rubble, and changed.) The atmospheres, the
gases that’s in the earth now, where they’re finding these missiles
that can’t get through it—great spheres up in there (way up in some
kind of a sphere) there’s all kinds of gases, they’ll say, and
that’ll burst. The holy wrath of God will come upon it, will cleanse
it. It will change the entire surface.

	Now I don’t know what Bro. Branham means here, exactly, but I think
he means that the expanse up there is so great, you send a missile up to
Mars; and, if the gravity doesn’t bring it in to circle Mars and keep
circling, it’ll just keep moving and moving and going and going and
going. And they find by using the spectroscope and getting pictures
back, radiograms, what have you, from these satellites that are going
around the world and sending back pictures, they can tell you what kind
of gases are up there. Absolutely.

	And it’s going to explode. And say it’s even got to go hundreds of
miles, if not thousands, because there’s debris up there, floating
around right now, and they’re trying figure a way to get the debris
out of the way, because they’re traveling about 24,000 miles an hour,
(Well, it’s more than that I guess up there.) little tiny pellets,
[Bro. Vayle makes whistling noise.] right through like that. A
satellite. They’re trying to use a material that bullet proof vests
are made of, to see if it will work and then send things up there with
little cranes and all and try to drag it in. Pitiful little man. But boy
is he a troublemaker. It’s just like one biting bedbug. Bite me and I
swell up over my whole body. Itch, scratch, scratch. Scratch, scratch,
itch. The holy wrath of God is going to stop all this mess.

33.	[126] 	 Now, many of you that want to put down the word, the Greek
word, “pass away,” it comes from a certain Word... I had to find
out. I thought, “How’s this world going to pass away, and yet
we’re going to live on it?” (Now that’s a good question. How is it
going to pass away, and I’m going to be here living on it?) But
you’ll notice (some of you people that wants to put it down, I’ll
spell it for you; I couldn’t pronounce it). (So, he spells it in the
Greek) p-a-r-e-r-e-c-h-o-m-i-a, (and I think that’s parerechomia.) 

[127]	Now, that way, as I said, when I get—the inspiration strikes me
for something, then I go back to find out the word.

	Now you see the inspiration struck him, but he’s praying. That’s
how this sermon came. And he said within himself, “Now how’s the
world going to pass away if I’m going to be on the world,” because
this is what it’s actually saying here. So, he’s got to go and try
to find it out, and he says:

[127]  	I can’t spell it and I can’t pronounce it. But in that the
Lord has given me a way: I go and find out what that word means; then I
got it.

	Now he tells you the Lord has given him a way, which is not like my
way, of simply going to the Greek and checking it out. So, he’s got
another way that, though he does go to the Greek, it’s not simply like
a student that he uses his mind only and says, Well I’ve got to
compare these Scripture and see if I can find out something.

	So, he explains here he feels compelled to check out the word for
meaning, that the translators are losing in the word that they’re
using. It’s not simply the right word; so, God begins to deal with
him, to watch what that word is and go with God into the Bible and see
what this word really means. And, remember; it has to line with
redemption! Did you get what I said? If he’s going to find a word, it
has got to line with redemption! Right? Right, because that’s what he
said so. That’s what we’re all about.

34.	[127]  	See, “Heavens and earth will pass away.” Now, this word
means ‘passing from one form to another’. It does not mean
annihilation, as the English word would mean,’ pass away’: that
would be annihilated. But the Greek word here does not mean
annihilation, that kind of passing away; it means, ‘passing from one
thing to another’. (See? It says,) ‘to pass from one condition to
another...’

	All right now. Let’s read.

[128]  	Now notice, Paul used it. (If you want to read it now—put it
down you can read it later.) It’s Titus 3:5.

	Okay, we’ll read it right now, because this is later. Right? Much
later. And I think you know the verse, because at one time like me, you
memorized it and then forgot it.

(5)	Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to
his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of
the Holy Ghost; (Washing of regeneration. See?)

[128]  	Now, Paul is using this same word.

	Now the word ‘regeneration’ is not the word he spelled from the
Greek. See? But he said Paul is using the word ‘regeneration’
applying to the man, the sinner, the sheep gone astray, like Peter
applied this to the earth. Everything redeemable must follow one
pattern. Now, remember; the earth had water, blood, fire, change. Man
has water, blood, fire, Holy Ghost, purification—Holy Ghost coming in,
what? Change. Redemption of the body. All right.

[128 ]  	Paul is using this same word: means regeneration of man—that
man is passed from a sinner to a saint, not completely annihilated. When
a man’s changed, he isn’t annihilated, but he’s a changed person.
He’s been changed from what he was to what he is, not annihilated.

	Now, remember; he’s using the terminology of redemption.

[129]  	Jesus used the same word in Matthew 19:28—now, not 28:19…
(28:19 is ‘be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ’; this
is 19:28.)

35.	All right. Let’s go to Matthew, because he said, “Read It
later.” What’s this, 23-24 years later? So, we read It—together
here.

(28) 	And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye which
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in
the throne of his glory, (you shall also) sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

	Now, this word is ‘recreation’ according to the
Greek—palengenicia. It is not the same as the other word,
‘recreation’—‘making new’, the same word in Titus. But it’s
the same word that God said to the prophet, “You don’t go by the
Greek!” Only this one word. Now, watch the rest begin to change and
follow.

	See, you can see a prophet doesn’t do what a teacher would do. A
teacher, he’s just plumb stuck. 

	They come to me and say, “Well, where is your authority, Mr. Vayle?
You think you’re a little bit of a teacher. Where’d your authority
be to just change this?” 

	That’s why they’ll study the Greek and never bring the Bride
together. It’s got to be a revelation. And the revelation is:
redemption follows one pattern, and I don’t care what words you use!
It’s one, two, three, go! Water, blood, fire, change.

36.	So, all right now; we’re talking business. And you know, anybody
in his right mind knows this, you know, if you study the Word of God at
all. And you’re looking at the thing here. Let’s keep reading now.
Now he says:

[129]  	You’ll set with me in my Father’s Kingdom, “regenerated
(You see?), changed—when you’re changed. (That’s right. Nobody can
doubt that.) He used the same word. And He used the same word when He
said to the colt; (When He said to the colt,) “Loose the colt…(said
of the colt it should be)… Let loose the colt and let it go.”

	Now that word is not the same word at all, again. It’s the word
‘dissolve’. It’ll be dissolved. I’m going to dissolve my
marriage. I’m going to dissolve my partnership. I’m going to
dissolve the sugar in water. Dissolve anything you want. I’m going to
dissolve this contract of the colt to the tie-post. That’s what
happened in the Garden of Eden; they got untied from the tie-post. They
dissolved it. A dissolving. One was making new. This is a dissolving.

37.	[129]  	Said the same thing at the resurrection of Lazarus, “Loose
him.”

	Now this requires a change! Sugar dissolved is changed! The colt let go
is changed! Lazarus let go is changed! So, now you’ve got a change
with a change! which is everything of Satan is burnt up, good! Gone!
Bam. I’m changed! This is changed! Loosed forever! Redemption. Do you
see what Bro. Branham’s doing here? 

	Oh, someone comes by, “Well, you see Bro. Branham erred on the
Greek.” 

	Hogwash. He never erred on the Greek. You stupid person; you wouldn’t
know a Greek from a Russian.

[129]  	“Loose him. He’s been tied, let him go.” (We’ve been
tied for a long time. Thank God it’s getting over.)

[130]  	What does it mean? The earth will be loosed from the grip of
Satan. It’ll be loosed. It’ll be loosed from politics; loosed from
denominational religious systems to be used for the Kingdom of God, to
establish it here on earth. For as long as it’s in the hands of
Satan—politics, Satan’s the ruler of this earth—he owns it. It
belonged to him, but now Christ has redeemed it.

	There you see the beautiful picture he’s painted. See, that’s a
real prophet taking the Word of God. I wish I could do that, but
there’s no need to, as he does it for me.

	You know, why should I come and hoe your garden just to make it look
good, if you’ve already hoed the garden? If you haven’t hoed it,
I’m not going to come and do it anyway. It’s the same as this.

38.	You know, come on, he mentions grace here. Hebrews 12 mentioned
grace. Hey, let’s read that for enjoyment. It’s just so much joy to
look at the Word of God. In verse 28. [Heb 12:28]

 (28)	Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace (Let us be smart enough to take it as a free gift and say,
“That’s mine!” Not like these people out here trying to keep
it—trying to perpetuate something! Let go of it. Let go of it! God’s
got something better).

	You know how it is. Look here; let me tell you something. If you ever
get into the position, which some of you have gotten in over the years,
if you started as a couple of poor working kids, get married, and kids
come along, and it’s tough, tough, tough, pretty soon you get a little
more money, a little better, a little better, and pretty soon the kids
are all gone away; so, when you really don’t need the money, except
maybe you get sick, you got the money. But you know what happens? You
usually make your salary a little better. Things get better, get better,
get better; they do get better and better.

	Well, you know, the more you get along in this Message here, the more
things get better and better and better. See? And at the same time, no
matter how good things are in this world, if you’ve got this good
stuff of God, you’re happy to let loose of anything you’ve got and
leave it all behind and say, “Lord, burn it. And Lord, if I could see
some of it burn, it would be a nice lesson. And I’ll just stay around
with you and see it burn.” 

	We will, by the way.

	And the poor greedy guys out there, if there’s any greedy ones left
by that time, looking out in the Lake of Fire, “Oh, it’s all
burning. Oh, alas Babylon it’s all… Isn’t it terrible; isn’t it
terrible?”

	It isn’t terrible! Hallelujah, get rid of the junk. Get rid of it.
The Bible warns us about that.

	“Alas, Babylon, isn’t it awful?”

	No, praise God; it’s great! I’m glad it’s going. Though I’m not
as glad as I should be. Put it this way, I’m going to get glad as time
goes on. I know the things of the earth kind of pull you. 

	You say, “Well, here I am now. I’d like to enjoy this.”

	I know for awhile I used to wonder about the roads in America and say,
“My heavens, here I’m getting so old; I won’t get to drive those
roads.” 

	For the first time in America, they have roads east and west, north and
south, a person can really drive on. That’s not really true. They’re
breaking up already. [Bro. Vayle laughs.] They need new ones. 

	But anyhow, I say, “Well, isn’t it too bad. Here I am, going to be
so old; I can’t drive those nice roads.” 

	Phooey. You can have it. No good anyway. See?

39.	Now, let’s keep reading. The property’s been loosed, and we’ve
been loosed, and we’ve been tied to God, praise the Lord.

[131]  	One time I was his property (Satan’s), but not now. One time
that little woman at the well was his property, but not now; He came to
loose the grip of it. (That’s Satan.) Loosed his grip. He loosed the
grip of sin of Satan upon my life, upon your life, and now we are not
his. Have you often heard me say in prayer, “Take your hands off of
God’s property?” Amen. (See? It’s an end-time saying.) Have faith
to claim your own. That’s your right. Again, he said to Satan, “Take
your hands off of her.” “Take your hands off of him.” See? Faith
will do it. It’s being right done today by the Word of the Lord.

[132]  	Oh, my. Not annihilate it, but just, “Take your hands off
it,”—to loose it; let it go; pass it away. Pass it on, see. It
changes; earth will change; politics will change; religions will change;
denominations pass away; politics pass away—the Kingdom of God shall
be established.

	Now, in other words, everything goes into degeneration. But now, it’s
going into regeneration, where degeneration can never ever come. So, one
form of government, which is the cosmos of the ungodly, will now pass
over into the cosmos of the godly! And God will reign and rule. Now this
sermon is a fantastic sermon. And it should do tremendous things for us,
because it’s vindicated to know that this is already started. Because
this… Hebrews 12 is spoken to the end-time people. Right. Though every
Bride has a stake in it, you see?

	Now, there will always be government. There will never be a time when
there is no government. But this will be the government of our God.

40.	[133]  	We read in Rev 6:14 (concerning the skies and the earth);
“it departed as a scroll.” As John said, “I saw the heaven depart
as a scroll,” and the earth also. Rev 6:14. Jesus said, “Heavens and
earth is going to pass away,” or in other words, heaven and earth
shall be changed. He used that same word right there again. Not
annihilated, (See, ‘pass away’. It’s going to change.) For later
in Rev 21:2-24 he saw the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of
heaven and sitting upon this earth. It doesn’t mean that the earth
will be annihilated. The systems will be changed through the cleanup of
the fire of God; because, you see, it is a holy fire, and as a holy
fire, it does not devour that which is right. It only devours that which
is wrong.

	You know something brother/sister, it’s like the maggots. During the
First World War, and they’re doing it again now. The maggots would
form on the soldier’s legs and arms, and those maggots would eat away
all the puss and the rotten stuff, but they left all the good flesh. And
doctors just haven’t got a way to scrape out the corruption like a
good old maggot will take care of it. And that’s what you see in this
holy fire. Now I’m not trying to compare the fire with a maggot; but
I’m telling you, it’s in nature, right in nature under your noses.
There is that which… Like, look: You can take oxygen. Oxygen destroys
the anaerobic diseases that’ll kill you. But it feeds the aerobic,
which are good for you!

41.	So, the holy fire of God is a discriminating, judging fire! Whose
fan is in His hand, to thoroughly purge the floor! And the Holy Ghost
breathes; it was even caught on a tape. In Waterloo, Iowa, which has
breathed across the world—across all mankind, is discriminating right
now and is taking out the elect.

	So, you see, it’s a holy fire, brother/sister. In other words you can
depend on it. How wonderful! Like I see we want to get this church to
the place where, if we have make-believers, believers, and unbelievers
here, (which we could well have, I don’t know.) we just take everybody
to be a believer with us. They’re all trying—all believing to get
there. But I’ll tell you, if we set our hearts, my brother/sister, the
love of Christ by the Holy Ghost can come into this church, and
everybody anointed, everybody on fire for God with a beautiful
congregation, and the sick healed amongst us.

	You don’t have to sit around and say, “Well hey, if we just got rid
of this and got rid of that, things would happen.”

	I got news for you: they’ll happen right now, because they are
happening right now.

42.	[133]  	See, they weren’t annihilated. For later, in Revelations
21:2-24, he saw the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven and
sitting upon this earth. It does not mean annihilation, just the
systems…

[134]  	Daniel saw the same thing. A rock struck the world, was hewed
out without hands, (I spoke of that the other night.) The whole image of
the systems was broken down and became like chaff on a summer threshing
floor, the fan just breezing it away. (Chasing it away. All gone, no
more chaff, praise God.) The wind packed it away. And the rock grew
itself into a great mountain that covered the earth. Watch that mountain
now in a little bit; that mountain covered the earth.

	In other words, brother/sister, what you see here is the continuing
kingdom of Almighty God. And it’s started already.

43.	Let’s go to Colossians 1, and we’re looking at the Word here:
Col 1: 16-18.

(16)	For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, in (the)
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, (Now, watch.) or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him,
and for him: (And they got taken over—taken over by
Satan—prostituted to the filth of this world.)

(17)	(But) he is before all things, and by him all things (are
maintained). (He knows what’s going on.)

(18)	And (he’s) the head of the body, the church: who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have
the preeminence.

(19)	For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;

	In other words He’s in control right now. He’s just waiting for the
day when the church, which is the firstborn in His likeness, is going to
come forth with Him and take it all over.

44.	Now Bro. Branham talked of this stone made without hands. Let’s go
back to Daniel. And Bro. Branham, I think, was speaking from Daniel 4;
maybe, I don’t know, 29-31. I wrote it down, anyway. I’m going to go
back to it and read, first of all, Dan 2:31.

	Now here’s the image that Daniel saw in the vision, and he’s
telling it to the King, what it’s all about. [Dan 2:31.]

(31)	Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. (That) image, whose
brightness was excellent, stood before thee; (whose) form was terrible.

(32)	(The) image (with) fine gold, (silver, and brass and iron). (And
34.)

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

	Now this other image was made by hands, signifying world dominion in
four separate great political dominions. No more, no less. And it was
going to be smashed! Now, watch:

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

45.	Okay. Now, let’s go to Dan 4:29-31 and see the picture. Now this
is where Nebuchadnezzar is going to get, what you call, disciplined by
God, because he said, “All my hands have made this; look at me. I’m
somebody.” Let’s read.

(28)	At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom
of Babylon.

(29)	The king (said), Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for
the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of
my majesty?

(30)	While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from
heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom
is departed from thee.

(31)	They shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the
beasts of the field (and so on):

	Now, let’s go down to… Well, that’s about as far as we need to
go. But, then, notice in verse 34.

(34)	And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes
unto heaven, mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most
High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever (and ever),
whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, his kingdom is from (one)
generation to (another) generation:

(35)	All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: he doeth
according to his will in the army of heaven(s), and among the
inhabitants of the earth: none can stay his hand, or say to him, What
(dost thou do? Or, what are you doing this for?) What doest thou?

(36)	At the same time my reason returned to me; and the glory of my
kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned to me; my counsellors, my
lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent
majesty was added to me.

(37)	Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the (God) of
heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: (Notice that:
judgment. That’s a big thing, judge, judge, judge. That’s a big
thing, judge. Remember that!) and those that walk in pride he is able to
abase.

	Now that’s what you’re looking forward to in the very near future,
it started already, because the appearing which sets the pattern for the
coming, which sets the Millennium, and eternity going on and on and on,
even through time, because we become eternal. We always were eternal;
soon cloaked with eternality. We’re going on.

46.	Now:

[135]  	Also, we find over in Revelation there, it said, “The kings of
the new earth will bring their honor and glory into it.” (Now, look at
that. There’s more government. The cosmos of God—kings, rulers. See?
Something to do.) The New Jerusalem is sitting on this earth. See, it is
just changed.

	In other words the complete picture of redemption is what we see.
‘Redeemed’ means ‘to buy back’, and every single thing that
could be bought back is bought back, and we’re right now in the cosmos
of God. This illustrates it.

[136]  	You’re the same man in stature. (This is redemption concerning
you.) You’re the same man in stature, when God called you: the same
woman. But you see what it did; it was a regeneration: the old life that
you had passed away; the old desires you had passed away. When you used
to like to drink, and cuss, and fuss, and stew, and run around, and be
immoral, that thing just died. See? At that time you were Satan’s
instrument; now you are redeemed. Then, you must be God’s instrument,
see? And that’s what the world will be, the same way, redeemed!
(It’ll be God’s instrument, no longer Satan’s.) A new heaven and
new earth, just like you—you are a new creature. And the Greek word
there (anybody knows) said you are a new creation. Amen. A new creation
in the same old temple. (What’s he saying? A brand new order of
government! See? That’s right. That’s why the church must be under
God. A new creation.) Hallelujah. Watch what happens here now. Glorious.
All right.

	Now, when he mentioned new creation, of course, that’s over here in 2
Corinthians 5, where we’ll read what Bro. Branham was talking about.
And it may do us some good—beginning at verse 14.

(14)	For the love of Christ constrain(s) us; because we thus judge, if
one died for all, then were all dead: (That’s right, even the sheep.
They were once dead; the others were double dead.)

(15)	And he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth
live to themselves, but unto him (that) died for them, and rose again.
(That’s the government. Right? Something’s happened to you.)

(16)	Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we
have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no
more.

(17)	Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (Just like
Christ; he hasn’t got the same flesh he had. If you stabbed Jesus, he
bled; if you hit Him, he bruised. Try to stab him now. You can’t.
He’s not the same): old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new (in the government inside of us—not yet the outside.)

(18)	All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus
Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

	In other words, to witness as a mediator, or a delegate to the people,
“Look, you can have what God says.” And Bro. Branham here is telling
us what we’re going to have in the new world. Witness to it. Notice,
reconciliation.

(19)	To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the
word of reconciliation.

(20)	Now we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by
us (and so on. All right.)

47.	[137]  	Now, we find that this earth will hold the kings of the
earth, (That’s right.) and again in Matthew 5:5, “The meek shall
inherit the earth.” (That’s us. And you know… Now, listen.) It
isn’t going to have another earth; no, it’s just going to be the
same earth. I’m trying to get the plan of redemption to you, if I
don’t get anything else. (A single plan for all.)

	Now he’s giving us a rule here. What God does for a certain purpose
works every time for every other thing He’s going to do it for. He
saves one man by the Blood; offers Blood again. Gives one man the Holy
Ghost under certain conditions; does it again. Redeems man by a certain
plan, and He’s got to redeem everything by a certain plan. See,
everything is falling in order. Now, one, a single plan for a single
redemption, because it means going back to God no matter what it is.

48.	[138]  	The baptism of fire on it only is to cleanse it and make it
a fit place for His meek to live in.

	Why? Because the meek don’t fight. And we certainly don’t want
anybody there to fight us. We’ve had enough fighting down here. If I
have to go where I got to fight some more, forget it. If I got to fight
myself and everybody else, I might as well just say, “Look, I don’t
want to go.” I sure am like the girl said, “I don’t think I want
to go.” I’m not going to that kind of place anyway.

[138]  	The baptism of fire on it only is to cleanse it and make it a
fit place for His meek, (And, remember; they’re kings and priests;
they’re going to live in.) See? Oh. Like He did us, this creation to
live in, before He could come in it, (That’s you and me as temples.)
He had to give us the baptism of fire; then the Holy Ghost can come in
and live: after the baptism of fire. Then, when you get the baptism of
fire, then the Holy Ghost can come in. (He keeps repeating it.) What if
it does? (What if it does come, see?) It burns up everything contrary to
the Word out of you. See? It won’t believe anything else but the Word,
because It is the Word. All right.

49.	Let’s just find out something here, if that’s right. Let’s go
to Malachi 3. What finished? What are we doing? [Mal 3:2]

(2)	Who may abide the day of his coming? who shall stand when he
appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

	Before He comes in and takes over, He scrubs with fuller’s soap, and
He burns out with the fire. Okay, let’s go to Psalm 97. Let’s read
something here, starting at verse 1.

(1)	The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of (the
islands) be glad thereof.

(2)	Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment
are the habitation(s) of his throne. (Now, watch what happens to get
what He wants for His throne.)

(3)	A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

	That’s where He can sit down. So, the Holy Ghost has got to have the
fire of the Holy Ghost. It comes and burns out all the old denomination,
dogma, all the old things that are in there, then the Holy Ghost
Himself, having cleaned out the roost, can roost on it, because He’s a
Dove. He seined out your hearts so He can get on the roost of your
heart. The Dove sits in there. That’s right. That’s what he’s
talking about. That’s what the Bible teaches, my brother/sister. All
right.

50.	Now, from that point on, we are all Word believers, and we must
understand this. As Bro. Branham brought so clearly, there’ll be
nothing there but the Word, why? Because the conduit of the Holy Ghost
is the Word.

	Now, let me explain something to you, what I’ve tried to preach in
all these years, sermon after sermon: the love of God. As I said, I
stand for even sleazy love. Look, sleazy love is better than no love.
Bro. Branham liked nice people, no matter what they were. He liked nice
people. He says nice things about anybody that acts nice. That’s why
you don’t hear him say anything about me. But I’m going to tell you
something: I go for it. But in my books, there’s a phony love, because
the Bible said, “Let love be without hypocrisy.” And he said, “I
show every manifestation, even give my body be burned, give all my goods
to the poor, show everything that’s love. It doesn’t mean I really
got it.”

51.	Now, let me tell you something. Let me show you something. It says,
“The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.”
That’s the Bible, right? The Bible says that. But Bro. Branham said
the conduit was the Word. Then, how do you get the love of God in your
heart outside of the Word?

	And I’ve preached all these years, and I still maintain, my
brother/sister, something has got to happen to you and me because of
this Word, and that change is going on now. It’s very slow. I may die
and not get what I want; fact is, it pretty well looks like it. In fact,
sometimes I get very discouraged: think it’s better to get out of here
and die, before I heap up anything else. It’s a nice thought, but
it’s not happened yet.

52.	But I tell you; my sermons have been true. The love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts, and there’s one conduit: that’s the Word. If
you want genuine love, if you want genuine patience, if you want genuine
temperance, if you want God Himself, you have got to have the Word.
It’s still “This is the condemnation; light has come into the
world.” The blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse anybody if a man
leaves the Word. It doesn’t work. There is no covenant of blood when
you leave the Word. And, if you don’t have the Word for this hour,
what will you stand on?

	I know we’re a minority! We will never be anything but the barest
minority over what we preach in this pulpit, and other brothers and
sisters in the message. We’ll be the barest minority. That’s
something to rejoice about! They’ll hate us, because we got to stand
for it. 

	You can just say, “Well, look; I’m sorry. Where’s your
vindication?”

	I get phone calls, always going back, and “This wonderful man… That
wonderful man…”

	Oh, don’t give me any more wonderful men. Give me the wonderful God.
I’m tired of wonderful men. They all let you down. If I’m a
wonderful man, I’ll let you down. The more wonderful, the more
they’ll let you down—almost. There’s one, Bro. Branham. Put it
down. There’s no big ones; there’s no little ones. There’s only
one Holy One. That’s the Holy God in the midst of us, brother. And
that’s what we’ve got to realize, and that life in us must come by
that Word. So, this Word is everything. 

	And that’s what I say, back in the days of Moses (the exodus), he
said, make little frontlets before your eyes—phylacteries. They bang,
bang, bang, the Word, Word, bang, bang, bang, bang, the head, Word,
Word, Word. Put them around your ankles: Word, Word, Word. Everything. 

	But, if Israel said, “Well, this man I don’t like. I prefer the old
Pentecostal days, the leeks and the garlic,” the hot times, you know,
in religious town tonight. Sure, I’m not for it anymore,
brother/sister. I don’t mind the shouting and all; but you better make
it God, because I’ve been all through the other.

53.	[139]  	See, that’s what we’re talking about, (Bro. Branham
said) the other day, the evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? The evidence
of the Holy Ghost is when you can receive the Word, not some system, but
have a clear understanding.

	Now people say, “You don’t have to understand the Word.” Bro.
Branham says you do. What did he say, “You don’t have to understand;
just believe.” He’s telling you: don’t force yourself to
understand, just take It. But you will understand. He said, “Hearing
is understanding.”

	Brother/sister, I could never stand in this pulpit and tell you people,
“Don’t understand.” I’m doing my dead level best to communicate
to you what I understand to be what the prophet understood. I don’t
know that I’m a hundred percent, but I’m trying to be. And that’s
all I can do. I cannot give you a revelation. But I can teach it and
teach it, and you can come to the place where you can know it ‘word
perfect’. Praise God for that much. It may get you off some kind of
hook down the road, if it doesn’t save you—and the same way for me. 

	Bring the Holy Ghost in to heal us—a little heaven to go to heaven
in. You don’t have to go to hell in hell. You can go to hell with a
little heaven around you. A lot of people are trying. I guess they’re
doing it. We live in a little hell around us too; this is all we’re
going to know, is this purging done here. We’re not going to be purged
up there, brother/sister. As soon as we get to the Millennium, John saw
thrones! Oh man, he saw happy people. He didn’t see weeping and
wailing, fussing and mussing. I tell you, we’re getting ready for the
big thing that’s ahead. Actually it’s not very far ahead. It’s
right now. If we could have just had our eyes opened like Bro. Branham,
with his visions, you’d see the thing bursting all around us. It’s
breaking all around.

54.	So, I’m as far as we’re going to go this morning. I put a little
note here. And that’ll be here, we’ll start over next Wednesday
again. I’m sorry I had to read all this to you, but I wanted to get it
all, to let you know that, hey, this earth had better burn! And
everything had better burn with it. You know why? I wouldn’t be happy,
and God wants me happy. Now you might not think so, but God wants me
happy. So, you want to be happy? Let it burn. Lord, haste the day. Amen.
Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for Your love, mercy,
grace, and the kindness You’ve shown us, especially, Lord, to be able
to get in this message with Bro. Branham here, and see some of the
things he said, and find it right in our newspaper, twenty-some years
later. To see, Lord, what we consider to be the beginning of the very
end, the showdown of the showdown, the rapid acceleration, the cup
coming to the place of almost overflowing, in fact it will be pretty
soon; and we can see now where everything is just at a place of
guesswork! Science, it thought it knew so much. And doctors, they’ve
been the perpetrators of all this upon us, Lord; but, under the
devil—education, just what You said it was, gone right to the church.

	But here’s a little folk, and we believe we’re part of it, that has
the wisdom of God. And we know You’ve got the answer of the devil.
He’s roaring. And he’ll roar against us. But, Lord, though the
foolish virgin, those that are left here, they’ll be hunted down, the
Bride will be gone. We know, Lord, we’re going to have some pressure.
We’re getting pressure now. We realize that. But Father, by Your Name
and by Your grace, we can say, if the pressure comes, thank You for it,
Jesus. It’s going to do something in us and for us, as we stand with
Your Word.

	Now, let Your Word have right of way, Lord, that the Holy Ghost may
have right of way, and we be vessels indeed unto honor, lights that
cannot be hid, trumpets that don’t give uncertain sounds, but certain
sounds. In short, Lord, the children are of God, living epistles, read
and known, that we are of our Father. Father, we wouldn’t want any
more than that, Lord. O God, that’s the place Lord, where the real
suffering has to be. And so, Father, may we enter into it, and then,
into Thy gates with praise. And unto Thee we give the glory in Jesus’
Name. Amen.

	“Take the Name of Jesus With You.”

 Gen 9:6  Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.

 Rev 10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed
with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it
were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

 Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished as he hath
declared to his servants, the prophets.