The God of this Evil Age #17

‘Disobedient Child; Child of Disobedience’

Bro. Lee Vayle   -   August 19, 1990   

	Let us pray: Gracious heavenly Father, we pray that now You are here in
the form of the Holy Spirit, lead us by Your Word and teach us Your way
correctly that we may follow therein, and our footsteps may not falter,
but Lord, in the straight and narrow path, not one deviate but going
straight toward Thee, and with Thee, enter into the joys of the Kingdom
of God in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.	Now we’re at number 17 in The God of This Evil Age, and we’re on
about page 35, I do believe, and last Wednesday we studied quite
intensively Bro. Branham’s remarks about the children of God, and the
children of the devil in contradistinction one to another, especially
where he showed us that the children’s devil were called ‘the
children of disobedience’ and, of course, then conversely, the
children of God were ‘the children of obedience.’ 

2.	Now obedience, of course, always has to do with a word which is
particularly a command or a sign that may be interpreted correctly or
some type of example given so that those would then be obedient to
whatever was set before them as a sense of direction or what to do. So
actually it boils down however to that which is a word which may be
correctly understood which may be impressed upon those to whom the word
is given and then, of course, they’d be able to follow that particular
word. 

3.	Now, of course, the obedient ones were obedient not to simply a word
but to a revealed Word as in the illustration that Bro. Branham gave in
1 Jn 3:10 concerning Abel. And it is also interesting to note that Paul
was obedient to the heavenly vision which was a revelation as set forth
in the Book of Acts, chapter 26, and we might just look at that
particularly. …And Paul speaking here says,

		(19)	(Wherefore), O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the 				
heavenly vision: 

4.	Now this God here that Paul is bringing forth in the Book of Acts
here before King Agrippa is made marvelously clear as Paul stood before
Felix and is accused by Ananias, the high priest over here in chapter
24...

		(1)	And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the 			
	elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed 				
the governor against Paul.

		(2)	And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, 				
saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very 			
worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence, (He’s 				
buttering the old guy up. He’s a lobby for the Sanhedrin, a bunch 			
of corrupt Jews.)

		(3)	We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, 					
with thankfulness. (Fat liar! His mouth is just oozing the grease 				
of hypocrisy. That bunch couldn’t wait to cut Rome’s throat if they 
			had a chance. Oh, I just love these hypocrites.)

		(4)	Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, (See,
I’ve 				got my point across, oh great one.) I pray thee thou wouldest
					hear us of thy clemency a few words.

		(5)	For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of 				
sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, (and of course, 				we
have no king but Caesar) and a ringleader of the sect of the 				
Nazarenes:

		(6)	Who…hath (also) gone about to profane the temple: whom we 				
took, and would have judged according to our law.

		(7)	But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, (that’s why we’re 	
			bothering you with these nitwit things, you know) with great 				
violence took him away out of our hands,

		(8)	Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of 				
whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof 				we
accuse him.

		(9)	And the Jews also assented, saying…these things were so. (He had
				a bunch with his lobby there; old high priest and a chief speaker of
				the whole bunch.)

		(10)	Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to
speak, 				answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many
years 				a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for 
				myself: (Now he’s not buttering the guy up but he’s answering
fire 				with fire.)

		(11)	Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but
twelve 				days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.

		(12)	And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, 	
		neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the 	
		city:

		(13)	Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

		(14)	But this I confess unto thee, (Now watch!) that after the way
which 				they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers,
believing all 				things which are written in the law and the prophets:

		(15)	And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that 
			there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and (the)
				unjust.

		(16)	And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void
				of offence toward God, and toward men.

5.	Now you see what you’re looking at here is the fact that this man
was obedient according to verse 14.

		(14)	But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call 
				heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things 			
	which are written in the law and the prophets.

	He said, “They believe in the law and the prophets. I believe in the
law and the prophets. This is my understanding according to the heavenly
vision that I have a correct revelation. I allow them to believe what
they believe. Why do they not allow me?”

	Because this is a government under Rome which is like Libra, a justice
for all, it’s an open book, and as long as you don’t contravene a
certain area you have a right to your conscience. And these Jews, the
Sanhedrin, did not want that right given to them. Paul had every right
to it. He certainly did. All right.

6.	We also note over here in Romans, it’s the 1st chapter...

		(1)	Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,
separated 					unto the gospel of God,

		(2)	(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy 				
scriptures,)

		(3)	Concerning his Son Jesus (the) Christ our Lord, which was made 			
of the seed of David according to the flesh;

		(4)	And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the 			
	spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 

	And he’s speaking right here that Jesus rose from the dead and,
therefore, that same Spirit that was incarnated has come back. And he
came back to Paul in a Pillar of Fire to bring the church into its
existence. And remember, the church by this time already had a platform.
The church did not have anything other than a platform to build upon.
Now, from the platform comes a foundation. And remember, in the
foundation, the foundation laid which was Jesus Christ being the chief
Cornerstone wherein the building started and Paul knew that, and notice
he says, [Romans 1:]

		(5)	By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to 	
		the faith among all nations, for his name:

		(6)	Among whom…also (you are) the called of Jesus Christ:

		(7)	To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace
				to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

	And notice there the 5th verse again.

		(5)	By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to 	
		the faith…

	So Paul was an obedient person. He was obedient to the Word. And this
is what we are particularly looking at. 

7.	Also, in 2 Corinthians, the 10th chapter…

		(1)	Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of 		
	Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am 				bold
toward you:

		(2)	But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with 	
		that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which 			
think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 

	Now this man was standing up to a divine revelation which was
vindicated and he said, “I will call your bluff if I have to.” Now
if you think I’m not scared to call your bluff, don’t ever call the
bluff of a prophet. That’s the one person cannot be judged. And more
than one man died because he called William Branham’s bluff and the
only thing is many more would have died except that God did not want to
tip His hand because only eight will make the ark, not just figurally
speaking, but speaking directly by the words of Jesus Christ Himself,
“Few there be that make it.” And he stood right there and he let
them know what he was to them. He was that apostle according to Romans,
if he was an apostle to Rome, he was an apostle to the Corinthians, and
he based his apostleship upon his vindicated ministry as a prophet. 

8.	Now listen! We do not walk according to the flesh; and don’t call
my bluff.

		(3)	For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

	Now what is he saying? Is he simply saying, “Hey, I’m not a high
minded person? I’m not a mean person. I’m not one of these, you
know, like a carnal working person.” He said, “No.” He said,
“I’ve got the Holy Spirit beside me.” And there’s a thing the
same as Elisha did when he made a mistake, and the same as Moses did
when he made a mistake in using Almighty God in a wrong way. He smote
the rock, and the other man called out bears that destroyed children,
but this man watched himself in the meekness of Christ. 

9.	Like the day when Bro. Branham was challenged by Almighty God,
whether would he destroy that young man sitting in the congregation,
absolutely so foolish kissing his girl and messing around with her in
the house of Almighty God. It wasn’t a true temple of God but that
place was consecrated to God, and Bro. Branham stood there, his face
dark, rocking back and forth on his heels. And I never prayed as I
prayed in my life, “Oh God, don’t let him touch that boy.” 

	He suddenly softened, he said, “I’ll let you live.” 

	They didn’t realize that man had that power, the same as those
Pentecostal preachers, three hundred strong, who defied him in Chicago,
and he said, “You’re smarter than I thought.” He says right on a
tape, and he said, “Lee, they were smarter. Had one man moved forward
to challenge me; they’d of carried him out feet first because the
Pillar of Fire hung there.” 

10.	Oh listen, people, don’t get an idea that you can be strong in
yourself. You haven’t got any strength. But there’s something that
comes over a man that knows that he knows, and that was the man, the
Apostle Paul. And he stood there and now he said, “Listen… [2
Corinthians 10:]

		(4)	(…the weapons of (my) warfare are not carnal, (there’s
something 				far beyond that; it’s not flesh you’re dealing with.
It is absolutely 				the Spirit of Almighty God.) …mighty through God
to the pulling 				down of strong holds;) (Now watch!)

		(5)	Casting down (reasonings), and every high thing that (exalts)
itself 						against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every                           					thought to the obedience of Christ;

	What is he talking about? He’s talking about man’s word against
God’s Word. He’s talking about man trifling with God’s Word.
He’s talking about God’s Word standing inviolate, like I was trying
to bring out yesterday with a marriage thought, if God ordained that it
wasn’t good for man to be alone, and He ordained that man could not be
alone without the Word, then you better get with that Word because God
not only gave the act of marriage but He gave the strength behind the
Holy Spirit to make that marriage successful. And that’s the way the
church is, to bring us right to Christ from the engagement to the
complete union when we stand at the Wedding Supper and come back here to
take over in the Millennium. Listen! That’s exactly what it’s all
about, brother/sister, don’t make any mistake. 

11.	Look over here in 1 Peter, all through the Bible we see the truth
given to us, Scripture after Scripture, where there isn’t any doubt.
All right.  1 Peter, 1st chapter.

		(11)	Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
				was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand (of) the 				
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

		(12)	Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us 
			they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by 			
them (which) have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy 					Ghost
sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to 					look into.


	Now he’s talking about the Old Testament prophets preaching the
gospel because the gospel actually starts from the Book of Genesis and
ends in Revelation.

		(13)	Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, (that’s what Paul
said,) 				be sober, hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought
unto 					you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

		(14)	As obedient children, 

12.	What are we to be obedient to? The grace that is delivered at the
end time which grace is “except I send Elijah with the message of
restoration I’ll wipe you out.” Then what are you to be obedient to?
You are to be obedient to the Word which is to say, “Yes”, first of
all, in the passive and then in the active, not to deviate from it and
to die if necessary. “Live or die, sink or swim,” this is that Word.
Thereby we stand with the prophets, brother/sister, we are in a most
unique position of any people in all this entire world, we even have a
superiority over Eve and Adam who stood there in the Presence of
Almighty God, could not come to the Tree of Life, but we have a
privilege they did not have, and we can maintain it. 

13.	Now, he says here then, “Dearly beloved,…” No, over here.

		(14)	…obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to
former 				lusts in your ignorance:

		(15)	But as he which hath called you is holy, so (you) be holy in all 
				manner of (your behavior); 

		(16)	Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.  

	And Bro. Branham absolutely would have to equate that to Mt 5:48 where
it says, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect.” And he said, “If God demanded it, then God must make a way
for it.” And that is an absolute consummate brilliant spiritual
statement because if God said it, God had better make a way for it
because you and I cannot bring it into existence, something on our own.
It must be God who said, “If the Lord build not the house they labor
in vain that build it.” So you can understand where we are standing
with this prophet, William Branham, in this great and marvelous day. All
right. Now, all right. 

14.	Bro. Branham dwelt on this portion of the message as he dwelt on it
he mentioned the disobedience to the Word of God by Eve. Now, as we
brought out Wednesday, we must be very careful here and note that Eve
was not a child of disobedience but she was a disobedient child. I can
tell you, you can have something that is born of a goat, and you can
have something born of a sheep, and they’ll both get into mischief but
there’s two different natures in there. So she was not a child of
disobedience but she was a disobedient child. She bent to the false word
in a confrontation with the enemy but you’ll notice that Jesus did not
bend in a confrontation. There’s a big difference there. 

15.	Let’s look at the Book of Luke, one of my favorite portions
because this seems to clear a lot of things up in…the 1st chapter.

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

	That’s exactly what Peter said in 1 Peter which I read to you. Here
is today the Omega of this Alpha which was giving the people a
revelation because they were ignorant. They wanted to know. They were
not in rebellion, and they didn’t understand. They never knew the
times. They didn’t know the hour but they felt in the spirit, they
felt in the air, and believe me, when they said, “Oh God, send us a
prophet. Oh God, send us a prophet.” They recognized the prophet. Not
like America. 

16.	“Oh God, send us a prophet.” The Herald of His Coming: many
times I’ve used this illustration, because Bro. Branham was right
there with Bro. Moore, in his own house. “God send us a prophet.” So
the prophet came in, and the prophet left. “God send us a prophet. God
send us a prophet.” 

	And my Bible tells me when you turn down the one that God sent; you
will receive the one that God didn’t send. The antichrist is in order;
you do what you want about it. I’ve just given you the Word of God.
All right. 

17.	Now listen! See the exact Scripture Bro. Branham was using when he
used this phraseology concerning Eve. Now remember, he had already used
something concerning Abel and Cain, and he had made the differentiation,
and he said, “Like Eve,” he didn’t say, she was one with him, he
said, “Like,” using an illustration. So in Ephesians, the 2nd
chapter, he says here, 

		(1)	And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and 				
sins; (and that “hath he quickened” shouldn’t even be there.
That’s 				something somebody interpolated. Forget it.) And you who
were 				dead in trespasses and sins;

		(2)	Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this 			
	world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit 				
that now worketh in the children (or sons) of disobedience:

		(3)	Among whom…(you) had (your behavior) in times past in the 				
(lust) of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the
mind; 				and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

	In other words, they could not tell you from a child of disobedience
even though you were not a child of disobedience; you were merely
disobedient with them. That’s where you get the eagle in the chicken
nest: Bro. Branham, very correct. 

18.	Shall we read Psalm 51? And I won’t take too much time this
morning because to be honest with you I’m burnt out and I’m very
tired already.

		(1)	Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness; 				
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my 				
transgressions.

		(2)	Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my 			
sin.

	Is that the voice of Cain? I ask you: is that the voice of Cain? They
don’t want cleansing. He said, “God, who do you think You are to lay
Your hand on me?” Listen to me! The devil after the White Throne is
going to gather up all of his children of disobedience and they’re
going to come against the holy encampment to destroy you and me. Do you
understand the difference this morning, a disobedient child from a child
of disobedience? Here it is right before you. Make no mistake about it. 

		(3)	…(I’ve acknowledged) my (transgression): my sin is ever before
				me.

		(4)	Against thee, (and) thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil
in 				thy sight:

19.	Now he’s bewailing the fact he took Bathsheba when he had four
hundred and ninety-nine other wives to gratify himself in, and sure to
God the bunch of them must have been just as good as she was sexually. I
hit that hard to let you know how deep a child can be in disobedience
without being a child of disobedience. Murder her husband, but notice
the grace of God, allowing him to have a son by her called Solomon. Ho,
just spins you right out of your own orbit. Stagger under the grace of
Almighty God. Listen! He said,

		(4)	Against thee, (and) thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil
in 				thy sight: that thou mightiest be justified when thou speakest,
and 				be clear when thou judgest.

	Did Cain talk like that? I got it coming to me? I deserve it. No, this
is a disobedient child. Listen!

		(5)	Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother 				
conceive me.

20.	Married sex is not unrighteous. Marriage intercourse is a righteous
act according to the prophet but you can tell right here that wasn’t
the way God wanted his children coming forth in the first place. Notice
all the time how things go off of cater and God brings them right back
having His way? So he admits exactly what it’s all about but he was
not born a bastard child. He was the legitimate child of his parents;
the anointed of God that Samuel saw and recognized a man after God’s
own heart, one of God’s children. 

	Oh, I can take this legalist message to a legalist and they’ll say,
“Well, I can get away with anything.” And the eternal security
bunch, “I can get away with anything.” 

	Oh, you cannot get away with anything. You will hate yourself in your
condition if you’re a true child of God; you’ll abominate yourself
in the righteous Presence of our God. I wish you all could have been in
the prophet’s presence as I was, time after time. Something crept over
you like an eerie feeling, and you began to walk softly. True. 

	Listen! He said here,

		(6)	Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden
					part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

21.	He flunked the test in his flesh. After having just said the mighty
deep things of Almighty God, and stood for righteous and sanctification
and sanctification particularly of the flesh, he fell in the deepest
cesspool of it. Sure, now he is repenting. 

	I want to ask you: did Cain repent? Cain couldn’t repent. God only
can grant repentance. And repentance is granted only to His children.
Disobedient to what? His Word, to His purpose, to His heart, to His
life, but God is faithful who has also promised who said, “I stand
behind My Word to perform It,” and He’ll not lose any one of it.
[Psalm 51]

		  (8)	Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast
				broken may rejoice. (This man was penitent, his heart was 				
crushed.)

		  (9)	Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

		(10)	Create in me a clean heart, O God; renew a right spirit…

22.	This man is screaming in the torture of his soul, “God, do
something because I’m rotten.” He didn’t say, “Well, hallelujah,
I’m a child of God. Oh, bless God; I’m a child, hallelujah.” You
can tell right there that guy is nothing but a dog who will talk that
way; a hypocrite, a make-believer. 

	When a church is called to repentance it will come to repentance
because God has granted it, and God has not granted this age repentance.
That’s right. Don’t challenge me, you know I’m right. I don’t
feel any challenge; I just let you know that. Eight souls within the
ark. You and I are not getting away with anything, brother/sister, nor
is the world. We’ll hear Bro. Branham say, “Flee from it.” We
won’t get there this morning. I ain’t going to finish my notes
likely. 

23.	Now watch carefully! The first definite child of disobedience, Cain,
started his own religion based on the Word of God, but only after he
turned down the manifested revelation that God had given to Abel.
There’s organization. It went on to the tower of Babel with Nimrod.
What we are looking at and saying is this; the children of disobedience
in contradistinction to the wise and the foolish, because you got wise
and foolish virgins. You’ve got one cloth out of which is cut the
pattern, and the remnant is identical to the cloth that was used. One is
called wise virgin, one is called foolish. 

	The wise virgin have what it takes to carry oil. And Bro. Branham
explained it. “The oil is the Holy Ghost; the conduit of the Holy
Ghost is the Word.” He said to the Pharisees, “You have no place in
you for the Word,” and the foolish virgin did not have a place in them
for the present Word; they were still living on the old, and the oil had
leaked out. And because they had not taken the message, having come out,
because they came out they had to die. And that’s what this age is;
the foolish virgin will die. Hunted down like dogs; they’ll try to
hunt us down too, if we’re still here. 

	The children of disobedience in contradistinction to the foolish and
the wise always turned down the revealed Word of the hour or the
spiritual food in that season and when they do they use the unrevealed
and misinterpreted word to start their own religion. It’s what they
do. These people are very clever. 

24.	Now listen closely! What we just read and saw here is the Alpha. Now
I wonder do you get it? We’re looking at the very beginning, and in
the beginning you have to look at Cain. You must understand exactly what
happened. 

	Now watch! Eve was a disobedient child to the Word, from the
disobedient child came forth the son of disobedience. Are you following
me? This is how Bro. Branham could say, “When the Bride went astray,
immediately from her sprung up the evil one. Always starting with the
truth, and then veering from it.”  No great mystery but it is a
mystery. 

	Now listen! If you got it, let me ask you. What is the Alpha which
continues to the Omega? In other words, what is the pattern due to a
spirit of life that follows through the church system which finally
enthrones Satan—that’s the Omega—as to be God, as we consider
organization because we see the Omega. The Omega now is definitely an
organization and if the Omega is the organization, then no matter what
you are looking at and thinking in your own mind and studying your own
Scripture and getting your own thoughts, let me tell you this. The Alpha
and the Omega is the same or you will plant wheat and get oats, you will
plant corn and get barley and you’ll think you’re planting
righteousness and go to hell. 

	I had to throw that in because I’m mean. Up here, down there. We’ll
eat cake, anything else. Right, Laura? Laura knows me. We just hit it on
the head; I care nothing for a man’s reputation. Stick with this Word.
You can always tell a person’s mouth whether they really believe the
prophet. Watch the goofy things they tell you. All right. 

25.	Listen! We are going to go to Revelation, chapter 17, and we’re
going to read.

		(1)	And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven 				
(seals), and talked with me, saying…, Come hither; I will shew 				
unto thee the judgment of the great whore that (sits) upon many 				
waters:

	Now Bro. Branham called Eve, “the prostitute,” because out of her
came the child of disobedience. Did she or did she not give birth to it?
Well, come on. Bro. Branham’s nicer than I am. 

	I complained and I said, “I don’t like what I’m doing.” 

	He said, “Well, somebody’s got to do it.” 

	I don’t know if the Lord chose me or not or he chose me. 

	Bro. Branham said, “You do it because nobody else is.” And I’ve
kept it up.  All right. 

26.	He called Eve, “the prostitute.” She was a prostitute to her
husband. So she brought it forth; can’t deny it. 

		(2)	With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and 	
		the habitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of 			
her fornication. (See, they love it; oh, they love it.)

		(3)	…he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw
a 				woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of 				
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

		(4)	…the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked 
			with gold and precious stones and pearls, having (the) golden cup 			
in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. 			
(Oh my! She was a prime candidate for AIDS. And she is, too; 				
she’s loaded.)

		(5)	And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, 					BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND 				ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

		(6)	And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and 				
with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and I saw her, I wondered 			
with great admiration. (Hey, he said, hey man! This is a system.)

		(7)	And the angel said,  (Why do you) marvel? I will tell (you) the 		
		mystery of the woman, the beast that (carries) her, which hath 				
seven heads and (so on.)

	Now that’s the Roman Empire come back to life in the papal empire,
the Holy Roman Empire, and revived again under American power that built
the image by saving Europe for the beast. And Rome sits back right now
and who comes running? Bush goes running to consult with the pope. That
stupid idiot; he hasn’t got anything. Don’t tell me he’s got
anything worth listening to. And Gorbachev goes running. What is making
those men do it? Spirit, like spirit. In other words, Rome is a
political system. 

27.	Now let’s read chapter 18. What part will I read? I could read it
all but I won’t do it. Now let’s read a bit here. …

		(2)	And he cried mightily saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen, 				and is become the habitation of devils, 

	The world church system, spiritually, economically, financially,
militarily is run by the devil. Do what you want about it. “But, Bro.
Vayle, I don’t really think so.” See, you don’t believe the
message. You don’t believe vindication. 

	Look, these are notes, not a television set. It’s not a radio.
They’re not your notes. They’re not your thinking; they’re mine.
Now you say, “Bro. Vayle, I can understand that.” Then understand
this. We’re listening to a vindicated prophet. He knows what he knows
like I know what I know. These are my notes; that’s all I can say. All
right.

28.	Listen! [Revelation 18:]

		(3)	…all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her 				
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication 			
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through 					the
abundance of her delicacies. (And so on and so on.)

	And now listen! She’s going to be blotted out. So, if that is Omega,
what is Alpha? Alpha is the devil who said, “I am going to take it all
over.” Alpha is the devil who used the beast, who in turn used a child
of God. The son of disobedience, the true son is Satan, and in the
confrontation with Eve…she bowed and she took Adam with her. That is
why the church can never bring forth Christ in the flesh. It’s going
to take a virgin pure Bride that isn’t the prostitute Eve, that
isn’t the prostitute church that turned on Jesus, the Gentile church,
of whom Paul said, “I espoused you as a chaste virgin but I’ve
caught you messing around.” What was her sexual intercourse? Mental,
she’d come into a state of disobedience by disbelieving the Word, and
her actions begin to show it. All right. 

29.	Now, before we go further we have to consider Bro. Branham’s
statement that when the message of the Oneness came on the Godhead, they
organized it and died, as also happened to Lutherans and Wesleyans. Now
notice in there that Bro. Branham said, “They died.” Am I going to
then understand that these men that received a genuine truth and loved
It, died. No, I am understanding what happened to Eve. Satan came in
with his angels of light according to 2 Corinthians, the 11th chapter,
and began to turn their understanding away from the truth. So, to my
understanding we can compare this to Eve, what Bro. Branham said about
Oneness and these others, under Luther and Wesley. She was not a child
of disobedience but a disobedient child; that brought death and the son
of death who was the start of the serpent seed. Eve listened to the
disobedient one, even Satan, as he represented…as he was represented
to her in an almost human being animal. 

30.	So we see in Paul’s day, the fall of the Bride members, as they
listened to Satan’s angels, and I’m going to read it to you, in 2
Corinthians, the 11th chapter, and he’s talking about this new Jesus,
this new spirit, this new gospel, and he said…, “It’s no wonder,
…don’t stand back and marvel, as though I’m telling you something
you really don’t know.” He said here, 

		(13)	For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming 				
themselves into the apostles of Christ.

		(14)	And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of 
				light.

		(15)	Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers…be transformed
as 					the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to 
				their works.

	Now what was it that Satan did to deceive Eve to become disobedient?
Now she was not a child of disobedience. She was taken out of Adam’s
side; she was a part of Adam, and the Bible distinctly said, “They
were male and female, in one spirit form,” and Bro. Branham said,
“God put it into one flesh, then He took the female out, and put it
into a female body,” so don’t tell me she’s a child of the devil.
No way. She was not in the original creation according to the flesh. No
sir. She was outside that first six days; couldn’t have been a part of
it. She came through the proper channels, and she was a disobedient
child, just what we’ve been reading about. 

31.	Now notice, Satan came as an angel of light, and you will find that
“Beware of those false prophets who come to you in sheep clothing but
inwardly they are ravening wolves.” They come to you looking exactly
like Christians; they manifest the fruit. They manifest the gift. They
stand right there, and you cannot tell them one from the other because
Bro. Branham said, “The two spirits at the end time are so close
it’s a razor edge distinction.” 

	Now, what brings this on at the end time? The folly of the first church
that brought a wrong seed, the same as Eve brings the wrong seed to
culmination at this very end time. The only generation through the Seven
Church Ages that produces the true Seed Christ in the flesh is
represented now in this hour because Bro. Branham said, “She won’t
fall.” Now what’s a fallen woman? She’s breeding with the wrong
man. She hasn’t got a husband. She says, “I got a husband,” the
same as Eve said, “I’ve gotten me a man from the Lord.” In other
words, it was Adam who fostered this child. Like fun! Her act was
entirely illegitimate because she completely belonged to Adam. She
brought forth this bastard. 

32.	You got the same thing happening until the end generation; the Bride
will not become disobedient. The prophet brings her back to the Apostle
Paul. And at this time the Spirit of God does not say through the
Apostle Paul, “I’ve espoused you as a true virgin, but you’ve sunk
down,” the…prophetic voice of God  through the prophet said, “You
are the righteous, sinless, blameless, virtuous Bride of Christ, and you
will not fall.” 

	Now we’re talking about doctrine, brother/sister. We’re talking
about Christ is the doctrine. Not your bunch of preachers up north of me
and around the country. North, I guess that way. I go south that way,
west that way, east this way, not these hamstrung birds by the devil who
are saying, “Well, Christ is the doctrine like serpent seed.” Christ
is the Seals; the full manifestation of God, the Rhema/Logos. So turn
Him aside, deny Him. …?... or fight! Don’t be little baby fools. 

	Paul stood there with such intensity. 

	[Festus] said, “You’ve got to be mad.” [Acts 26:24, 25]

	“No,” he said, “I’m not mad. I’m sold out.” 

	God said, “I’m tired of this pukey generation. They make me sick in
my stomach; luke-warm.” Get hot or get cold. They want Lee Vayle to
sit on the fence and say, “Well, it’s okay.” Okay, my foot. 

33.	Alpha was the start of it all. Alpha is the start of all
organizations; is the turning down of a revelation, and a part of the
true revelation is to believe what Bro. Branham said about it because he
just doesn’t talk Bible like the rest do. He goes behind and exposes
those things which were not known from before the foundation of the
world. In other words, they were there in the keys and mysteries, and he
brings them out to us through the revelation. So what then again is the
Alpha, the start of all organization is to turn down the revelation. 

34.	And remember, a part of the true revelation is to accept only a true
vindicated messenger and a true five-fold ministry. The devil’s got a
trick saying, “There isn’t any five-fold ministry.” That’s
right. It’s going all around the country. They took…they just play
tapes and that’s all. “Oh, we believe the prophet.” When did the
prophet say there weren’t a five-fold ministry? When did the prophet
say, quit preaching the gospel? And the gospel is the end time message?
What is the gospel? The good news of God and His prophet, if there’s
better news than that, you tell me. “Well,” you say, “Bro. Vayle,
it’s the Blood of the Cross is the best news.” 

	I want to ask you a question. What was the Blood of the Cross for? Oh,
you got money to buy a brand new car. So you look at the money and you
say, “Well, the money is there for a brand new car but I just love
that money and I won’t buy the car.” Idiots! Don’t tell me people
aren’t spiritual idiots; I’m telling you they are. They haven’t
got the mind of Christ; therefore, they have no true wisdom. And so they
talk about the Blood, not knowing where the Blood is to take us. As one
fellow said, “They get on the signs that point to the bus depot
instead of getting on the bus that the sign pointed to.” 

35.	Alpha or the start of all organizations is the turning down of the
revelation, the true revelation, vindicated, and then proceeding on to
its own by the seed of discrepancy in the antichrist spirit of
presumption, even as Eve presumed and Cain presumed. But you notice Eve
repented. She put the blame where it really belonged. Cain presumed. 

	And people today presume they can build the house of God apart from God
as they said, “A million more in ‘54.” Bro. Branham just loved to
quote the Baptist. “A million more in ‘54; a million more in ‘54;
and a million…and a million and five in ‘55; a million and six in
‘66.” Whatever… Oh, we can take what God has put here and we can
use it, and they forget that Cain did the same thing. They forget the
devil did the same thing. They don’t know who their parents are.
They’re not thoroughbreds. They’re mules. 

36.	Now watch this hour and see the truth of it. Let’s come and take a
look. We go to Revelation 22. And I don’t care what anybody says, old
Bloomfield knew this was right but how many more like old Bloomfield
knew anything about it? That’s last Sunday’s. …

		(9)	Then saith he unto me, See (you don’t) do it…: (don’t
worship me) 				for I am (of) thy (fellowservants), and of thy brethren
the prophets, 				and of them which keep the sayings of this book:
worship God.

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

	Rev 10:4 said, “Seal it.” This says, “Don’t you dare,” so
therefore, somebody, somehow, at some time has to open the book. Now the
question is who is going to do it? And how are we going to know? Well,
of course, God is stupid. Anybody knows that God’s an idiot. The
Sanhedrin said, “When God gets in trouble, He calls on us.” And the
Roman Catholic Church believes what they say to be the truth because
they’re stuck with their stupid lies and they haven’t been given a
chance to repent. They were given it before Luther and they turned it
down, and took Jezebel. We’ll talk about her with her painted face and
short hair and everything else, later on; typing women today, and women
typing it: turned it down flat. 

37.	Tell me who is going to open the book? Did God give us a key? Is it
in the Bible? Certainly, certainly! The spirit of Christ alone, and
that’s why Christ is the prophet, through the prophet, can interpret
the times and the understanding of this book. God had to send the
prophet, and there’s only one prophet that we know of and that’s
Elijah. 

	Now the point is who is Elijah? “Well, it wasn’t that idiot because
you know, anybody with a great ministry like him, everybody, you see,
Bro. Vayle, gets puffed up, and when they get puffed up you know, that
poor Kentucky jerk, you know. He just couldn’t even talk straight. And
so because God answered back, he got puffed up. I’m Elijah.”
Somebody’s got to be Elijah. Somebody’s got to be Elijah. The Jews
are back in the homeland. The whole world is going to turn on it because
the oil’s going to get scarce and America has already turned on the
Jews whether you know it or not, it is absolutely known in Jewish
circles that Reagan was a friend of the Jews, and Bush is their enemy.
Well, you do what you want. 

38.	I can preach politics because I read. God gave me a gift, years ago,
to read the right books and the right thing without going through
dribbles and dribbles of God knows what. I don’t have to. Now I just
read the prophet. Oh, I have a good time. I don’t know about you;
I’m glad you came so I can stand up here and have a good time. 

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

		(11)	He that is unjust, (will) be unjust still: he (that) is filthy,
let him be 				filthy still: (Say, in other words, leave him alone) and
he that is 					righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is
holy, let him be 				holy still.

	In other words, there’s nothing you can do about it. You cannot touch
the righteous and do one thing to them. You cannot touch the unholy and
do one thing to them. It’s over. If this isn’t White Throne, tell me
what it is? Come on. If this is not Malachi 4, tell me what it is? You
tell me. I want to know but it won’t do any good because I’ll listen
to the prophet; the prophet told me. 

		(12)	And, behold, I come quickly; 

39.	He hasn’t even come. He’s only appeared as the Holy Spirit. The
same One in the Pillar of Fire coming down to reveal the same Word that
Paul gave. We’re waiting now for the Body to return which is the one
part of the Seventh Seal the Branhamites get all mixed up on because
they can’t figure it.  He said, “The Second Coming is left out.”
But he already told them, “Appearing and Coming are two different
words, therefore, two different Logos. If they’re two different Rhema;
they’re two different Logos.” That’s the Rhema/Logos of this hour.
That’s the Rhema/Logos of this hour. But the physical comes when
we’re taken up. When the Rhema/Logos is flesh; we see Him. We’re
taken up by Him but I don’t believe we see Him. I don’t believe we
see the Pillar of Fire. We could but I kind of doubt it. There’s no
Word for it. Bro. Branham just said, “All three things take place.”
[Revelation 22:]

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

		(13)	I am Alpha and Omega, (I am fulfilling what I said I was in the 	
			beginning, and I am proving I am all of it. I am it.) the first and 	
			the last. (Now listen!)

		(14)	Blessed are they that (wash their robes)…

	Now look at that horrible translation the devil threw in there. Said,
“Do his commandments.” What are you going to do to become immortal?
What do you do to get repentance granted to you? What do you do to
become a believer? What do you do to become a Seed? You got to be or you
ain’t. You see the Garden of Eden? Okay. Now, 

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

40.	Peter said, “Lord,” he said, “Just, oh, Lord, …just not my
hands and feet,” he said, “Do all of me.” 

	And He said, “Look, Peter, step aside, boy, step aside.” He might
as well have said, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He said, “Listen,
all that needs is the feet at this time.” 

	Peter wanted head, hands and feet. But at the end time it’s the
washing of the robes of completion when the Bride is all glorious within
and without because it’s a holy perfect garment, that inner garment, a
vesture, a vestment, which becomes the vesture. 

	And then it says, “They alone have the right to the Tree of Life.”
The very single thing that Eve wanted, and Adam wanted has been withheld
for six thousand years, and it’s now in sight at this hour to the
believers like you and me. And what does it say when you come to that
Tree of Life, you have the entrance to the Holy City via, which is
already explained, the one thousand year Millennium, one day. My
brother/sister, the day after tomorrow you go and enter the Holy City.
Today, one thousand year Millennium, a further sanctification, a further
tremendous period is waiting us. Now, that’s its results. 

41.	Now see what organization does. Let’s look at organization. They
are in chapter 22:

		(18)	For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy 				of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add 				unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 

	Now listen! What is he talking about? …”Seal not the sayings of the
prophecy of this book.” So he’s telling you what comes out in Rev
22:10, don’t you dare change it. Ha, here’s where you’re stuck,
brother/sister. You’re not stuck for the whole Bible. 

	I don’t care if this bird that lives licentious over in Germany comes
along and he said, “Well, you see, Bro. Vayle, Bro. Branham should
have talked about Zechariah. And he should have talked of this. And he
should have talked that.” 

	He forgot Bro. Branham said, “Under the Feast of the Trumpets, I was
going to preach the Trumpets, but God said, ‘Lay off, it’s not a
thing to do with you. You’ll be gone. You don’t preach about those
Trumpets and those Vials. Back off’.”

	Now I want to ask you a question; what are you trying to believe
outside of William Branham’s preaching? “Oh my dear Baptist friend
said so and so.” You’re dead; forget it. I just cut you off like
that; I’m sorry but you asked for it, if you’re saying it. “Well,
I got an opinion.” You’re dead! This message alone has life, eternal
life, immortality. Do you understand what I’m reading? 

		(10)	…Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book:

		(18)	For I testify (to) every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy 				of this book, (The Seven Seals and the Seven Thunders.) 

42.	Why did Bro. Branham say, “Say what I say. Say what I say?”
Because this is it! He never covered the whole Bible; why should he? You
know something? That he gave us so much is so fantastic. He gave it to
peons like you and me who have an expansive, regenerated it, heart and
brain to take these goodies. We have the insatiable appetite for the
lovely mysteries. 

	And Bro. Palberg is not psychedelic, is he? He knows what I’m talking
about. I’m not going to tell you about it. If you can’t remember
that sermon preached, somebody preached some time ago. We don’t deal
with those things. We deal with the realities and Bro. Branham laid it
down. And here’s what the people do. They don’t listen. So what
happens? They add and they get the tribulation. No other generation can
do it. And those that take away have their names out of the Book of
Life; it’s finished, finished. If it can be proven by some vindication
this is the man that God entrusted to open the book. Well, you see,
I’m sold on it. Whatever anybody else does is their business. 

43.	Now with this is mind we read again. The great antidote that Bro.
Branham brought us in Ephesians, the 2nd chapter, and again,

		(1)	And you who are dead in trespasses and (sin);

	You that in times past were just like the goats wandering around in
your mess; you’re like the children of rebellion and disobedience.
There wasn’t one sign or one clue about you according to nature that
you were any different.

		(4)	But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he 			
	loved us, (Jacob have I loved; Esau have I hated. When they were 			
complaining he said, “This is real love.”)

		(5)	…hath quickened us together with Christ, (the baptism with the 	
			Holy Ghost and put us in the divine revelation in position. 				
Quickened us with Christ…)

		(6)	…raised us together….

		(7)	That in the ages to come…(not this age in which you and I were 	
			a debunker of the things of God, and full of the bunkum of the 				
devil, not in this age, brother/sister,  it’s very mild here) the ages
to 				come shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness 				
toward us through Jesus (Christ).

	Now these people that we’re talking about talk about the blood; the
blood is not effective when you go against the Word. I’m sorry but
that’s the truth. I never could figure why the Branhamites were always
worried about the blood on or off the mercy seat. I said, “What does
it matter? In one place he said, ‘The blood fell upon the ground and
went back to its element.’ What do I care if the blood has done its
work?” Bro. Branham saw the blood in a vision as a circle around the
earth. Then is the blood around the earth? What does it matter? The Holy
Ghost came back; the life. What are all these speculations? They’re
not worth a nickel. We don’t dwell on speculations; there’s a
scientific picture as Bro. Branham said, “As it was when Moses went
down to Egypt, God was with him and He appeared…that is God appeared
in signs and wonders and not only that but,” he said, “He was
literally seen upon Mount Sinai in a Pillar of Fire, so today and the
camera took His picture.” I like it. I don’t know. 

44.	Listen! This is exemplified to us thoroughly in the book of Acts,
the 20th chapter, and Paul here is going to lead the people. They’re
weeping and sobbing, and amongst that elite beautiful crowd the false
shepherds have come in, the phony elders, the sheep stealers, the
wolves, the sheep killers, and so Paul says, 

		(26)	…I (may) take you to record this day, that I am pure from the 	
			blood of all…(the word ‘men’ is thrown in there; it shouldn’t
be. 				It’s everybody.)

		(27)	For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
God.

	What’s the counsel of God in this hour? We’re reading it right here
in this sermon: “Come out of her, my people.” Get rid of your own
thinking, what you’ve been taught; forget it. There’s been Word upon
Word added, Word upon Word taken, misinterpretation, everything; we’ve
had it. That was part of our nature in the church system. 

	We’re in the Bride system. He said, “I no longer call you
‘church’; you’re not church. I no longer call you ‘saint’.
You’re not saints. You’re Bride.” What does it matter whether you
used to work as a chamber maid, or you’re the chief stewardess up
there in one of the fancy motels, or you ran a great big department
store or something? What does it matter when you marry the nice guy
that’s got all the money, the personality, the great Lover of our
soul? What do you care what you are? It’s what you is, baby. It’s
what you is, through Him, and in His glory we’ll shine. I shall be
like Him, wondrously like Him, Jesus my Savior divine. That’s what
we’re talking about. We don’t have any hope in ourselves. Forget it.
Phooey. Sheee. 

45.	Now he said, [Acts 20:]

		(27)	…I have not shunned to declare…the counsel of God. (Bro. 				
Branham did the same thing.)

		(28)	Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over
the 				which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church
				of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

		(29)	For this (I know), after my departing (this Eden, Eve will be 			
	attacked by) grievous wolves…not sparing the flock.

	They already came in. You know something? I want you to sit and think
this morning how dirty, rotten, filthy the devil is, to give him his
dues; lousy scum. There’s not enough morals left in this world to
really hit you with this but how would you like your daughter
impregnated by filth? I’m afraid our daughters are looking for it.
That’s why I can’t talk too much; they don’t know what I’m
talking about. We got so used to filth; there’s nothing left.
There’s no comparison, hardly, yet Bro. Branham did say, “It takes a
dirty woman, a rotten woman, a foul woman to make a real woman shine. So
bless God, there’s a small Bride somewhere that shines out amongst all
these filthy prostitutes in the world.” But how would you like it?
That’s what Satan did. Then how can you do anything but hate him, and
despise him, and what he’s done to the noble creatures that God put on
this land. 

46.	I already read you Lk 1:17. They were ignorant of the Word of God,
that’s exactly why God sent John, the Baptist to forerun Jesus Christ.
In plain English, nobody needs to forerun God. Why did He send him? To
catch the attention, to know who was coming, to start the ball rolling
for the elect: How many listen, and when he came who listened? Hardly
anybody, but he came to bring the disobedient to the wisdom of the Lord
which disobedience is not necessarily, an act which is against a
commandment that the person knew but it means ignorance: it’s like a
sign somebody waves and the guy, “Oh, I thought he meant me to move
on.” So the guy goes down the road and falls into a ditch. 

	“Why, hey, I’m sorry. I wasn’t signaling for you to go on. I was
signaling for you to slow down.” 

	“Oh boy, I got my signals mixed.” That’s why Bro. Branham came.
That’s why John came. To make sure you got your signals and your sign
exactly right by the grace of God. This is also Malachi 4. 

47.	Malachi 4: and it says over here,

		(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the 				great and dreadful day of the Lord: (which is the burning up of 
				everybody at the end of the three and a half years)

		(6)	And he shall turn the (hearts) of the children (back) to their
fathers, 				(because John the Baptist did the first part of verse 6,
and so 					therefore, it will not be repeated.)

	And that’s what Paul said. “Though you got a thousand instructors,
you got one father in the gospel.”And Bro. Branham came right on his
heels as the father, and he took his own wife, he said, “She is my
wife but she is my daughter in the gospel.” He let them know exactly
that he was the father. 

48.	I will never forget the perfect picture, old Brother Wright, he was
frail and when I saw him, I thought, “Oh God, don’t let that happen
to me.” He’d sit out in his car with the windows rolled up and
everybody else enjoying the crisp air out there, and he’d sit in there
to get the sunshine and try to get warm. And I remember, he stood before
Bro. Branham that day, his hair kind of white and fuzzy and sticking out
there and him so frail, beautiful looking man fading away and Bro.
Branham stood there, and God have pity but William Branham looked just
like his father, and the son standing there. And he looked up with that
expression on his face like “My father, my father,” looking there. 

	Oh, listen, brother/sister, I want to tell you it’s turning the
hearts of the children back to the fathers because William Branham is
identical to the Apostle Paul. He is the Omega of the Alpha with the
vindication. That’s in…you can find that in the 15th chapter of the
Book of Romans, in one place where he said, “In Jerusalem to Illyricum
and all around about” he said, “it’s manifested, I stand
vindicated.” He said, “You’re not standing…on something that
somebody just made up.” He said, “I’ve proved it.” And the rest
of the people said, “Ah, ha, ha.” Maybe, maybe…what? Ten, fifteen
million people said, “Ha, ha, ha.” Five billion people say, “Ha,
ha, ha.” See, vindication to them is no vindication because they got a
mindset by the devil. If a child, originally a child of obedience, a
true child, can become fooled and disobedient, what about a child of
disobedience? There’s no hope, brother/sister. 

49.	This is also is 1 Corinthians, the 4th chapter, and it says here,
I’ve read it. 

		(14)	I write not these things to shame you, …as my beloved sons I
warn 				you. (Oh, I like that. That is so perfect.)

		(15)	For though (you) have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
yet…ye 				(have) not many fathers: for in Jesus (Christ) I have
begotten you 				through the gospel.

		(16)	Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

	Now that’s what Paul said here. He said, [Paraphrased verses 9 to 13]


	“They’re trying to get you from me because I don’t have any
glamour.” Listen to his glamour. “Us apostles,” he said, “are
sent as fools for Christ sake, but you are wise in Christ.” He said,
“We’re weak but you’re strong. You’re honorable; we’re
despised, even in this present hour we hunger and thirst, we’re naked,
we’re buffeted, we’ve got no certain dwelling place, we labor, work
with our own hands, we’re reviled but we bless, persecuted, we suffer,
we’re defamed, we entreat, we’re made the filth of the world, the
off scouring.” “Oh,” they said, “that’s right, Paul. I
couldn’t attend your church; you’re too much of a gutter-bum. Why
the Vatican cannot even be numbered in dollars; the beautiful churches.
Who would want to be with you jerks? Now you Branhamites, you are
stupid, stupid, stupid. The man that you called a great man was an
ignorant jerk. Why we know his friends who positively will tell you that
he followed a man named Sauders who was the originator of the sons of
the prophets, and William Branham took their word, letter by letter and
what he says to you is what they taught him. He’s a liar.” 

50.	I just ask one question. Did they have THUS SAITH THE LORD?
They’re telling me that God is a liar. They’re telling me that God
has no integrity. Let me tell you something. Lee Vayle has no integrity,
not a bit. I could just as soon see you die in your own blood as anybody
else. That’s your tough luck. But I’ve got something to tell you. I
believe the best I can in That. So if you ever talked to William
Branham, is the one I hope to talk to. The one that God answered back to
is the one that I want to talk to. I haven’t got anything to give you;
never have and never will. You don’t either. You’re in the same
lousy stinking boat that I am, in the respect of the fact we have
nothing that we can produce at any time, anymore than anybody else can
but this man did. 

	And while he was alive and many, several years afterward, there
wasn’t one religious historian who did not admit that he had the
greatest ministry since the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, but now
it’s so convenient that he’s dead, to lie about him, and tell
callous lies. The same filthy bunch are lying about the God of this
Bible. Do what you want about it, brother/sister, I’ve no time for
that utter nonsense. All right. 

51.	Listen! 1 Corinthians, I said, 4, I read it. Having seen this and
now understanding the organization is of the devil, we can start next
Wednesday on page 35, paragraph 145, after we read Gen 11:1-9 and 2
Thessalonians. So that’s it. 

	Never seem to get caught up but one day I hope to get “caught up”
after the change sets in. Let’s rise and be dismissed. Lots of food
out there, there’s enough meat to put you all in a beef garment, raise
your cholesterol fifty points, [Congregation laughs.] give you
indigestion the size of a baseball bat. I’m not telling you lies.
It’s the truth, by the time you eat the buns you’ll feel sleepy.

	Heavenly Father, we love the people here, we love Your Word Lord, we
love to fellowship with them around the Word, around the table of food,
spiritual, physical, whatever, to see their faces Lord, and know that
the registering of the Word is what is important with them as well with
us, only praying, oh God release that life even as the prophet says You
will in this same sermon as we get down the road a little bit. We’re
looking only for it Lord, in the meantime may we not take it to the
place where we lose the sense of the great sobriety and the great
strength of It Lord, coming more and more into that image, as Jesus was,
and Paul was, and William Branham with the faces set as flint to go
right down that road no matter what it takes. Like Daniel, who could not
turn aside. Lord God we know that You are the same God, we believe You
are without a doubt because You answered back to this man here and I
know Lord, that You are a God of integrity and I stand here before the
people praying to It and acknowledging It. I do not believe for one
minute that You’d allow anybody to answer back in Your name according
to this Word, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I do not believe it
could be possible because You are a God of integrity. You Yourself said,
“I am the Way, the Truth and Life,” and You said, Your children were
those of obedience, they’re of the same way, they’re of the same
seed. There cannot then Lord, be anything but what the prophet said,
“There’s a Bride out there somewhere. And if we’re not Bride by
the grace of God we’ll not stand in her way.” 

	We feel that way this morning Lord, we just give You the honor and give
You the glory, give to Your praise and credit that You are true Lord,
every Word we have of ourselves is a lie, everything we do of ourselves
is dishonorable Lord, we are by nature those children of wrath, like the
children of disobedience, but Lord, by Your grace, O God, we can stand
with David in our extremity, our extreme sense of dishonoring You and
the extreme sense of ourselves Lord, what we are by ourselves, even
though we are children, we cry to You, O God, put a new spirit within
us, change us completely Lord, from center to circumference, until it
may be known that we are those who are with You in this journey of life.


	Heal the sick amongst us, we pray Lord, let there not be one feeble one
amongst us. Bro. Branham said that, I say it too. Lord God, as he was
sent to heal your children with that message of healing, by a gift of
healing Lord, we don’t have the gift of healing with us, amongst us,
but we have the message of healing Lord, let that message of healing
heal the people Father, let them have a strength from within they never
knew, coming out Lord, in the flesh even as one day the life will
manifest in our flesh if we be those true Bride people there’ll be a
change Lord, a glorification. Then Lord, there will not be any gravity
that can hold us, there will not be any bounds that can hold us,
there’ll be nothing Lord. We’ll be one in that great eternal Spirit
with You to be with ever Lord, whatever You want, that’s what we’ll
want as never before, and then Lord, we’ll see those things that we
haven’t seen before. Bless Your people today Lord, may it be from this
moment on a constant source of power and blessing. Lead, guide and
direct in every facet and factor. We’ll give You the glory in the Name
of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. 

	‘Take the Name of Jesus with you.’