Leadership #1

Turning the Corner; This Time

June 19, 1994

	Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we realize Your Presence and thank You
for It, knowing You are here to turn our hearts back to the fathers,
even as the Scripture has said, and Bro. Branham said, “The Elijah for
this hour, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, God having descended to bring
us the true revelation of that Word, as it came from Paul.” And we
trust this morning we shall have a true understanding of what Paul was
saying, and also that in Scripture, which Paul used, based on the Old
Testament, and all those things that You showed him. We do not desire to
go beyond that. We just want to stay with what is for this hour. And we
appreciate so much if You would help us in making all these things clear
and going deep within our souls and changing our very lives and, lastly,
causing our bodies to conform, Lord, to the perfect configuration of
what You wanted in the original. And we shall certainly have it, because
we know this is the promise of this hour given to us. We ask these
mercies in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now we’re going to look at the message, “Leadership”, which was
the last sermon that Bro. Branham preached at the West Coast. We already
took “Things That Are To Be”, which was the first sermon, actually,
some time previously, “Modern Events Made Clear by Prophecy”, and
now we’re looking at this one. And before we start to read, we want to
realize that Bro. Branham had already brought a message to the Full
Gospel Businessmen, who sponsored him, or gathered under Bro. Jack Moore
in Shreveport, Louisiana, and he preached on the sermon, “Doing God a
Service Apart from His Will”, which was about two hours and contained
some of the most tremendous quotes that I have ever heard, or you’ll
ever hear, and also some of the strictest and deepest admonition, which
also was one hundred percent judgmental and could well be corrective, if
they had taken the correction.

2.	And now he’s over here at the West Coast, and he is dealing with
the Full Gospel Businessmen there (after a supper, I guess. I kind of
forget. I think tables are all out there and all.) and bringing them
which would be his closing message, actually, to any people whatsoever.
Now we know that Bro. Branham on more than one occasion said that all
the churches, organizations, denominations were actually closed to him,
except perhaps one or two little churches that would sponsor him, or
maybe sometime a few churches get together, even against the will of
their denomination or organization, and just have a little meeting,
paying no attention to Bro. Branham, just hoping that his ministry,
which was so tremendous, would bring people in and people would be
saved; and then, they’d come to their churches, and they’d take them
from there. 

3.	A fellow, one time said, concerning Bro. Branham, “Well,” he
said, “we don’t believe what he said, but as long as the people come
in and get saved, well, we’ll take it from there.” 

	And, of course, that was a matter, then, of using Bro. Branham, a
prophet of God, vindicated, Elijah of this hour in the human flesh.
That’s just pretty well like the people on the last day, in coming
before the White Throne, He will say, “I never knew you; you used me.
And now I’m going to demand pay for my hire.”

	And so, they are cast into the Lake of Fire, having already gone
through the Great Tribulation, many of them perhaps even being martyrs.
I really don’t know too much about that, because I don’t see foolish
virgins thrown into the Lake of Fire. I see them in the Tribulation, but
coming forth under a special period of grace through the Lord Jesus
Christ.

4.	Now these Full Gospel Businessmen, Bro. Branham mentioned quite some
time ago, (I’m sure you’ll find it on a tape also. It’s not just a
private conversation.) he told them that, when they organized, he would
have to leave them. And I was sitting with him in Sambo’s Restaurant
on Miracle Mile in Tucson, and I handed him the Full Gospel
Businessmen’s magazine, which on the back had set forth now their
creeds and their dogmas, which absolutely demanded that you believe,
number one, in a Trinity, which is paganism--idolatry.

5.	Now I want you to notice something here: Businessmen have organized
in the denominational churches, the Catholic Church has used them and is
using them—Knights of Columbus, and all these various ones—and the
Protestants also organized under Fishers of Men, and their idea is this:
Look, the clergy is not doing the job. God’s work is not being done;
so therefore, we are going to elect ourselves to do the work which these
clergymen cannot do—the so-called five-fold ministry. We’ll simply
bypass them, and we’ll take over.

	Now that’s the same as when women talked to me in the Carolinas, and
I said, “Why did you women go down and become missionaries?”

	“Well,” she said, “Bro. Vayle, the thing is: the men wouldn’t
go.”

	I said, “Great. Have you ever heard the Scripture that said, when
Jesus said, ‘Pray the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
harvesters’?”

	I said, “Do you realize this is like a man with a big field of wheat,
and you’re supposed to come in and say, ‘Sir, your crop is ready for
harvesting. I pray that you will send laborers out there and get your
crop in.’”

	That’s a paradox, if I ever heard one. I said, “Did you women
pray?”

	She said, “No.”

	I said, “There you are.”

6.	Now these people have the idea that God is exactly fine. His Word is
exactly fine, but the people that God is dealing with are a bunch of
dum-dums and His Bride, if He has one, is a bimbo. She’s a good
looking floozy and a prostitute, purveyor of her own flesh to men. Now
these people show you they don’t have an inkling concerning
predestination, they don’t understand election, they don’t
understand foreknowledge, they haven’t got a clue about God and His
Family, and they’re divided into two camps. They’re divided into the
two camps of the Jesus-Only, which have very few, and the
‘Trinities’, which have a lot. 

7.	And, as I was saying about the Trinitarians, a group of businessmen,
positively start their creed and their dogma, and you cannot belong to
them, unless you believe in a Trinity. Now, listen to me carefully: They
are what? Tell me, tell me. Businessmen.
B-u-s-i-n-e-s-s-m-e-n—businessmen. Do you understand? Business and
religion, right? Right? Exactly right. 

	Now, what at the end time? You can neither buy nor sell. Huh? What’s
that got to do with religion? Nothing! It’s commerce. So, the whole
system is a golden calf system, and it has nothing to do with God!
He’s merely a figurehead; He’s merely a convenience. Right. He’s
nothing but a blarney stone. He has no real relevance, because it’s
business. I should have come to this understanding years ago, but I
wasn’t in the know, because Bro. Branham hadn’t told us. Years ago
they had an organization whereby all the Protestants and any
Trinitarian, as long as you signed that you were a Trinitarian, you
could buy goods at twenty per cent or thirty per cent off, which was
supposed to be subsidized, and I think it was…business.

	“In the name of Jesus, hallelujah! We’ll do business, come and sign
on the line, become an idolater. Hallelujah! Open the gates of hell,
partake of the poison…for a dollar. [Bro. Vayle does an auctioneer’s
bid call:] Anybody bid a dollar, dollar, dollar, come and going, come
and going, dollar, dollar, dollar, five dollar, ten dollars?”

	I don’t trust people who talk about God anymore in business. That’s
why Bro. Branham said, “If you work for a man, and you talk about
Jesus Christ on the job, you ought to be fired. You give him an honest
day’s work for an honest day’s pay, unless the boss comes to you and
says, ‘I’d like to talk about the Lord.’” Then, you better know
what he’s got up his sleeve at that time, too.

8.	Businessmen, Full Gospel Businessmen… They sold out to their creeds
and dogmas, one of which is idolatry. See? Now the Jesus-Only have not
followed, because they’re not that big; but no doubt they’ve got
something in the brew somewhere, and I’m not interested. So now,
you’ve got businessmen and those Oneness guys: They run to the Trinity
and hobnob with them, which is fine—birds of a feather.

	Now Oneness, Jesus-Only, is wrong! Bro. Branham said so. But evidently
most of the Branhamites can’t read, or when they hear Bro. Branham say
it, there’s nothing in here to receive it, because they don’t
believe it.

9.	What did Bro. Branham say? The great revelation under the Seven
Seals… And, remember; Melchisedec was part of it, confirming and
corroborating by “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” and the Holy Spirit coming
in the form of heavenly messengers, positively opening the door and
approving Bro. Branham, what he taught a long, long time ago concerning
Melchisedec, without father or mother. There was only One, because Jesus
had a father and mother. He had a heavenly One; then, he had an earthly
mother--heavenly Father; earthly mother.

	The Oneness are wrong; the Trinitarians are wrong. He said, “We stand
in-between,” and he spoke all the time concerning the fact that, after
God, there was nothing there in the time of the existence of God alone.
He said, “Not even an atom. There was nothing there. Then, that Light
forms;” so therefore, the Light formed. He must have been formed from
something, because you can’t form something from nothing. The Word is
not ‘create’. Later on you’ll find God creating Himself in the
form of human flesh that starts with an egg and the sperm. But that one
which was formed to take that body, which was created, through flesh,
egg and sperm, coming by the powers of the factory and chemical
processes of the virgin Mary; that one was way back there, and that was
the Son of God, and they talked. 

	And God created all things by that Son of God. It was not the Son per
se that did the creating, though he certainly did. Huh? But it was God
in him. It was the God that did it. Therefore, you have a perfect
understanding of Scripture, but you cannot get people to believe it.

10.	Now Bro. Branham is standing before these people who have sold
themselves out to the golden calf. They’ve usurped the ministry that
God set in the church—a five-fold. Therefore, would it be possible
that Demos Shakarian could possibly listen to Bro. Branham? No! He was
already sold on a dead man, Charles Price, whom I knew well. I even
lived right beside Charles Price’s personal business agent, Charley
Jackson. When I asked Charley Jackson, “How would you compare, because
you were the aide-de-camp to General Booth, how would you compare
General Booth to Charles Price?”

	He said, “Bro. Vayle, I’ll tell you what I tell everybody,
“General Booth was the only man fit to polish Dr. Price’s shoes.”

	This man knew a lot of people. He worked with Charles Price. I not only
knew Charles Price, I knew his daughters—not like the back of my hand,
but I knew them. Now the point is this: having been with Charles Price
and with Bro. Branham, I would say that Charles Price was a
genius—which he was. He was a man who had so much time for everything,
I don’t know where it came from, and where it went; and yet, he could
rest. He was a fabulous person, but alongside William Branham, no way,
shape or form; no comparison, because William Branham was face-to-face
with God—Moses, Paul, William Branham.

11.	Mrs. McPherson died. Dr. Price died. They died young. Right
afterward, Bro. Branham came on the scene. I honor Dr. Charles Price. I
have nothing against him. But having read his writings over many years
and finally, when he was more or less through preaching, (because he had
a great ministry) he did what everybody else does: as soon as you’ve
got a big ministry and it begins to peter out, you go to writing. You go
to becoming an authority. You are not an authority, unless it is that
way: “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” And the greatest authority was in three
prophets: Moses, Paul, William Branham.

	You say, “What do you do with Jesus?”

	You discount him, because he was the builder of the house, of which
Moses, Paul and William Branham were mere draftsmen, laying out the Word
of the house planned for the ultimate Architect—in other words,
servants. Would you make them more? You better not. If God makes them
more, that’s His business. And I know He does, because His language is
far more beautiful than mine. They’re called ‘prophets-apostles’.

12.	So, he’s addressing these people that began to usurp authority and
do the job for God, and how was it to be done? Money! Money! Money!
Money! Money! Money! Money!

	“Come,” said the Full Gospel Businessmen, “see how God has
blessed me! Ah, I’m a wealthy man. I have this world’s goods. I have
tithed, I have given, and the increase is abundant. Now, wouldn’t you
like to be like us? Come and join us. Money! Money! Money! Money!
Money!”

	First step to the Antichrist running the world: money, money, money,
money, money, money. Bring on the gold. Rescue the perishing--perishing
in debts. Rescue the nations, forty generations down the line having
spent all the kids’ inheritance and completely bankrupt at this very
hour. 

	And nobody knows where to turn to tax more of our dollars away, because
they’re getting greedier and greedier every minute. And every time the
President has acquiesced to Congress and said, “Let us raise the taxes
to balance the budget,” they say, “Hee! Hee! Hee! What a deceived
person. Oh, they’ve always been deceived, and this one is worse than
any.” 

	Even Reagan got messed up. Eisenhower was the last man to balance the
budget; and the funny thing was, he did it under a Jew. 

	From that time on, it’s just been mayhem and chaos. And every time
they raise the taxes, Congress laughs and laughs and says, “Ha! Ha!
Ha! More money to spend—more money for our drunken brawls and sprees
and giveaway programs.”

	They’re too busy examining the sex life of a louse or a serpent or
something, getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, while people go
hungry. 

13.	Don’t you see what I’m talking about? This group here is
condemned, because everything is money. Now that’s what you’re
looking at when Rome shells out. It’s for one reason: to take over.

	So, now he’s standing before them, and he’s going to talk to them.
Now the point is: what’ll he say? This is going to be exciting. How
will he place himself before these men, as he did to Demos Shekarian. He
had a Word from the Lord for him, and Demos (I wasn’t there, but Bro.
Billy Paul told me he stood afar off; his dad would not let him get
near. And he said Demos) hung his head and dropped a couple of tears,
shuffled his feet in the sand, and then walked off. He should have
kicked his shoes off; he was on holy ground and didn’t even know it.
Now that may be stretching it, but it’s a little bit of a…what do
you want to call it?...a little illustration.

14.	Now Bro. Branham gets before these people here who have bypassed the
ministry; and, when they bypass the ministry, they said, “We are going
to do what is said here in Ephesians 4.”

	Now, if you went to those people… Now Demos is dead. But, if you go
to those men and you say, “Are you telling me that these men here have
failed and are failing, and you are fulfilling it where you now are the
representatives of the Holy Ghost, and you will bring a Bride to
perfection?”

	And I think they’d grin their lovely gold-toothed, or
platinum-toothed grin, and that’s their answer: “Yah, we are doing
it.”

	I don’t know if we’ll get to it, if I get to Timothy this morning,
and you’ll begin to understand some of these things in the Bible. All
right.

15.	Now Bro. Branham is talking, and he says here, in the bottom of the
page, paragraph 5:

[5]	We want to say we’ve had a wonderful time coming across the hill,
and the meetings. In other words, getting into California. Last night we
had a wonderful time up there…with the brethren at the other chapter.
The man behind this all, really, is Bro.Williams, who died quite some
time ago. And so had a great crowd out and wonderful attendance, the
people so reverent and nice. So, it makes me feel real good to be a part
of the Full Gospel Businessmen. 

	Now, remember; I told you I presented him with that little book with
all their creeds and dogmas and the way to come into their organization.
I said, “Bill, didn’t you say that when they organized, you’d have
to leave?”

	He said, “Yes.”

	I said, “Well, would you like to read this, or have me read it?”

	He said, “You read it.”

	I read it. He said, “You mind if I have it?”

	I said, “That’s why I brought it.”	

16.	The die was cast. From that moment he was no longer a part of them.
He went to them. What will he say? How good did he really feel? Did he
feel real good, because he knew this was the final straw? He had
absolutely no place to go: no church, no men outside the church, that
talk so big that, “We’re the ones that’s going to bring it to
pass, because the ministry’s flip-flopped and failed.”

	And now money, money, money, money, money, money: the golden calf steps
in. How much God? How much a part is the prophet? Well, he’s no part,
but he’s there fulfilling his invitation in his last days on earth,
and that’s the way it is.

	Paul had to be amongst all the stuff he had, too.

17.	[6]	I’ve a Message, he says, I feel, from God. It’s a little odd
to some people but I can’t help being any more than just what I am. I
don’t mean to be different, it’s just that I’m living at a
changing time. Now, what’s a changing time? 

[7]	As long as you’re building the wall one straight way, it’s all
fine, the bricklayers can go right down the row. But when you have to
turn the corner, that’s where things change. And you’re not building
a wall; we’re building a house, you see, so these turns have to come. 

	Now you can’t argue what he’s saying there. If you build a house,
it’s not just one great, big wall, unless it’s made out of some kind
of rubber material that you can suddenly just bend it with four corners
and seal the one corner and cut some doors and windows. And he’s
talking about bricks; so, we’re talking about one at a time. And he
said, “You come to a corner,” and in building a house, that
absolutely has to come.

[7]	…They came in the age of Martin Luther, Wesley, Pentecostal age;
and it’s here again. So it’s hard to turn the corners. Now, how is
it hard to turn a corner? Hard for the people; it’s not hard for God.
It can’t be hard for the Messenger. Oh, he’s different, but you
can’t look at him. He’s talking to these Gospel Businessmen.
They’ve organized; they’ve shown their colors. He knew them,
inch-by-inch: “It’s hard for you birds,” you guys. But I’m so
thankful to God, even though how rough it’s been, the people have
responded a hundred per cent.

	I ask the question: what people? Is he telling them they’ve responded
a hundred per cent? Well, if they did, their wives didn’t. They
laughed him to scorn, and the men went along with the little sex
symbols, the little harlots, with filthy spirits on them. Aren’t you
glad, you men, that your wives don’t have filthy spirits, and you’re
not sleeping with harlots? You ought to think about it. 

[7]	…So we’re very thankful to each one of you. 

18.	Now Bro. Branham categorically says, “We’re living in a changing
time.” It’s time to change the structuring, the building of the
house, whose house we are. 

	So, let’s go to 1 Corinthians 3, and begin to notice something here.
Paul is mentioning the schisms within the church, where men are
determining of themselves to pull away people to their own particular,
peculiar part of this building, which is the true Bride Church, if it is
possible. Now in their minds all’s fair in love and war. In their
minds they feel they have a right to do this. They’ve a right to cause
this problem. “I am of Paul; I am of Apollos; I am of Cephas; I’m so
and so.”

	Now Paul says, “There’s only one way you can make this stick: you
cannot identify each of these people as an authority or the master
draftsman under the master Architect.” Now, watch; and I’ll prove it
to you: He said, verse 2:

(2)	I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were
not able to bear it, neither yet are you now able.

(3)	For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and
strife, and divisions…

	What kind of a house do you have with divisions? Part of a wall, a
great, big gap, some protrubance out here that looks like a cow shed or
an outhouse or something. Try to put a roof on, there’s a great, big
hole; part of it’s tin, part of it’s shingle, part of it’s thatch.
What kind of a mess?

(4)	For while one says, I am of Paul; I am of Apollos, are you not
carnal?

(5)	Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

(6)	I planted, Apollos watered…

	Now, notice in there: Paul does not say that Apollos planted; he does
not say that Cephas planted. He says that God planted, but he also said
you can call anybody your teacher and have a thousand of them, but there
is one father in the Gospel—that’s me. He said you’ve only got one
father. In other words, I carry the seed Word, the seed Word I carry;
thereby were you watered, if you had that germ in you.

(8)	Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one…

19.	Apollos at that time, evidently, was one with him. But I can tell
you Barnabas wasn’t. Barnabas tried to have Timothy circumcised by
hook or by crook, and Paul said, “Out!”

	“Oh, you’re not supposed to do that, Bro. Vayle. You’re supposed
to pray and be sweet and kind.”

	Yeah, so you can infect somebody else. “Out!”

	After the first or second admonition, reject as a heretic. This fellow
already proved he was heretical, wanting a little Greek boy circumcised
like a Jew!

	Now, don’t try to say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, they were separated by
the Holy Ghost, and God said so.”

	So was Judas separated and chosen! So was Pharaoh raised up! And,
don’t think everybody else isn’t raised up by God, and some are
vessels unto wrath. Who do you think raised up Oral Roberts? I’m not
afraid to categorically say, because Bro. Branham told me, as examples
of true vine and false, “I’m true; Oral Roberts is false.” 

	You better believe he is. Can’t you see his record? 

20.	We ought to be smart enough by this time to know exactly, a hundred
percent, who is false, who is wrong, who is heretical. If we don’t
know by now, I’ll just say this one thing: the second coming is at
least one hundred and fifty years off, if not two thousand.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, how can you make such a statement?”

	Because the former and latter rain are falling in the time of the
latter rain, with the true latter rain being exposed today and coming
upon the true former rain or teaching Word of Almighty God. The time of
the latter rain was God’s Word coming forth in power. It went to
restore the gifts, and people said, “This is it.”

	It wasn’t it, and it brought forth all the false anointed, until true
teaching came forth, and it fell into our souls. And the true latter
rain will not bring forth gifts of the spirit and mockery and
hypocrites. It’s going to bring forth real sons of God, who walk to
the Tree of Life and be transformed forever more, to walk into that
glorious Millennium, which he’ll tell you more about what’s coming
up. 

21.	Oh yes, the Word of God is full of it, if you let yourself go to
believe what the prophet said. Now I could talk in tongues right then,
jump around and scream. I’m not doing it. Why? You’d just get
confused. Put the tongues back somewhere; put the other gifts back. Let
the Word of God come forth with no uncertain tones. I’m not blowing
uncertain tones. You may go away with an uncertain idea, but I am doing
my best.

23.	[1 Corinthians 3:]

(8)	He that planteth and he that watereth are one. (How one? Same mind,
same Word, same everything.)

(9)	For we are laborers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry; you
are God’s building. 

	Now he’s drawn out two perfect pictures here, the way Jesus did:
wolves in sheep’s clothing in trees. Huh? Now Paul says, “A field, a
planted field of God.” Then he says, “A building of God.” That’s
why Bro. Branham said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”
Eh? 

(10)	According to the grace of God which is given me as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another man (like
Apollos, and different ones) can build thereon. But every man take heed
how he builds.

	It must be under the strict, revelatory power of the Holy Ghost,
agreeing with every Word, as Paul set It forth.

(11)	For other foundations can no man lay than that is laid, which is
Jesus Christ. 

23.	Right. In other words you start right there; and, if you miss Him…
I don’t care what you say about ‘Father’ and ‘Holy Ghost’,
forget it. So, they can’t believe there’s a second person, but Bro.
Branham said there was. They can’t believe there’s two
personalities, two people, two individuals. They’re like the
Jesus-Only: They cannot believe that the Son and the Father talked,
because, you see, the Father is the Son somehow, and you’ve got a
mixed up mess like you’ll never get out of, until you get the Son
comatose upon the Throne, or a Mercy Seat, or somewhere. What good is a
comatose lawyer? I’m before the judge; I’ve got in a mess, and the
lawyer alone can help me, and I’m pleading, “Hey! Do something!”

	[Makes snoring sounds.] “He’s comatose.” [More snoring.]

	How can I plead the Blood? How can I plead the Word? How can I plead
anything? My attorney’s comatose. 

	Oh, I suppose I could get around that one. Jesus said there comes a day
when you won’t ask anything in my name, you’ll just go ahead and ask
it yourself, so he can be on there comatose, and we just go ahead on
your own. 

	You can make the Bible say a million things, honey. It doesn’t matter
what you really want to make it. See? You can make it say anything. You
can even get transmigration of souls out of here, if you want, (I’m
sure we can find it.) where, if you step on an ant, you could be
stepping on an uncle, or who knows? 

	Say, “Just a minute, you can’t really do it.”

	I can’t? I can, too, because Paul says, “In him we live and move
and have our being.” That’s every reprobate also, then. Then, why
stop there? No, don’t fool with the Word of God. 

24.	Now, let’s keep reading:

(11)	For other foundation can no man lay than that’s already laid…
(And Paul laid it in the Book of Galatians.)

(12)	Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble;

(13)	Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
declare it, (And that’s right today: made it manifest. The church has
been thoroughly analyzed and absolutely diagnosed—Heb 4:12.) because
it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work
of what sort is it. (Pillar of Fire came right down and did it. This is
also White Throne.)

(14)	If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.

(15)	If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; so as by fire.

(16)	Know ye not that you are the temple of God, and the Sprit of God
dwelleth in you?

(17)	If any man defile the temple of God, God shall destroy him; for the
temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 

	Now, listen. I want you to notice here: Paul is using the singular for
the individual, and he’s using it for the whole building, letting you
know, as Bro. Branham said, “You can’t put a cat cell upon a dog
cell.”

	You can only put Word upon Word upon Word; and, if we are not Word gene
members of God in our souls, then we are not a part of this. It’s
already predestinated by the master Builder, the master Architect, the
master Designer, the omniscient, omnipotent God, and no one can stand
against Him. This is exactly what we are looking at here. 

25.	Now, having looked at this, let’s go back… Well, to do that,
before we go back to the day of Paul, where the trouble started, let’s
go back to the Book of Acts, and we’re looking at Chapter 7, I do
believe. All right.

	Stephen here is speaking of Moses, and in verse 32, where Moses
trembled before God in a Pillar of Fire in the bush that didn’t burn. 

(33)	…Put off the shoes from thy feet: for the place where you stand
is holy ground.

(34)	I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in
Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver
them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

(35)	This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a
judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hands
of the messenger, the angel, which appeared to him in the bush. (In
other words that Pillar of Fire there, that Shekinah Glory, was a
messenger, a manifestation, catching his attention, bringing him a
message: God is here. Something great is hear.)

26.	Now: 

(36)	He brought them out, after that he showed wonders and signs in the
land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

(37)	This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel, A
prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me; him you shall here.

(38)	This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness which the
angel spake to him in mount Sinai, and with our fathers who received the
lively oracles to give us.

(39)	To whom our fathers would not (Now, listen:) to whom our fathers
would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned
back again to Egypt,

(40)	Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses,
which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of
him.

(41)	And they made a calf.

	A golden calf. See? The golden calf scheme, right there. And the golden
calf scheme was to take them right back to Egypt under a complete world
domination, where there was a power present over them that dictated
every single thing about them buying and selling, which merely tells
you: if you cannot buy and sell, you are locked in--lock, stock, and
barrel--period. You aren’t going anywhere. You’ve had it. 

	You don’t even need to talk about the sign in the hand and the sign
in the head, which means the will and the belief, the creeds and dogmas.
Because, if you can’t buy or sell, how are you going to use your hands
or your head? So, the whole thing is a definitive, final takeover. 

	Now, notice: They wanted to go back to that. And, remember; Israel
couldn’t even eat and drink, unless they provided their own straw to
make bricks…everything. What a terrible condition. But they’re
willing to go back to it. Why? To get sustenance, free. 

	That’s why Russia is turning down democracy. It doesn’t work for
them. There’s something in their heart that wants someone to run them.
Give them a little bit of borscht and vodka, they’ll suffer anything.

27.	Now, watch:

(41)	They made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the
idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. (See? Always adding
something to something. Bro. Branham said, “They didn’t get away
with it.”)

(42)	Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as
it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel,
you’ve offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty
years in the wilderness?

(43)	Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god
Remphan, figures that you made to worship them: and I will carry you
away beyond Babylon.

	What is he telling them? There’s coming a day when Egypt could look
like a Sunday school picnic. Now, what I’m trying to get across to you
is this: When did this take place? It took place in the Exodus, when
they came out of Egypt, the same as we come out of Babylon in our
journey to the Promised Land, as theirs was Canaan and ours is the
Promised Land, which is the Millennium. This is when Balaam and Korah,
Dathan, Abiram rose up. Do you follow what I’m saying? This is where
you see the picture of the false anointed. This is where you see
‘doing God a service apart from His Will’, which Bro. Branham
preached for two hours to those Full Gospel businessmen, and they
didn’t get it. And he’s preaching about ‘leadership’ now, and
they’re not getting it.

28.	Now, where was the leadership? It was invested in Moses by God. What
other leadership, under whom, came to the forefront? Balaam under Satan,
and Korah, Dathan, Abiram, with genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost, exactly
like Balaam, but no blood lines. The blood lines were in Israel, you
see? And they rose up, fully identifying themselves with the grace of
God, to lead people away from the grace of God! 

	Do you understand? Now we’re talking about ‘leadership’, and Bro.
Branham is talking about turning the corner--the ages: under Luther, a
leader; under Wesley, a leader; under Pentecost, a continuation and a
complete deterioration of Wesley that ended up in Pentecost with no
leaders—restoration of the gifts of the Holy Ghost through a baptism
with the Holy Ghost, which was genuine for a while, then went into
absolute—the ‘ungenuine’, where they gave way to a false evidence,
which is not a true evidence of speaking in tongues, when the one, true
evidence is to be with the Word, as you’ll see right here.

29.	Now, let’s go to 2 Timothy, so we begin to see what we’re
looking at, even before we go into this sermon here. We’re laying the
groundwork as to exactly what obtained. Now I’m sure I’m not wrong
for one minute. I’m sure I’m right when I’m telling you all these
things. 2 Timothy 3. Now Paul is speaking:	

(1)	This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

	Now Bro. Branham said this is the only place in Scripture which is his
hour, our hour, that is perilous. Now the word ‘perilous’ comes from
a Greek word that actually means that it’s ‘without strength’.
It’s a period that’s let down, like Bro. Branham would keep talking
about the little chorus they sang, “The sheep got out, and the goats
came in.” How did it happen? He said, “You let the bars down.” 

	The church let the bars down. Now, when did that start, so that
you’re getting the omega? Because this is the omega of an alpha,
because the first days have to be there for the last days, or there
cannot be this. How can you have a ‘last’ without a ‘first’?
I’d like to know. You can’t have a last day of the week without the
first day.

	So therefore, where did this occur? It occurred way back there under
Moses. It started with the truly revealed Word of God to a church, which
Israel was a church in the wilderness. 

30.	Now, having read Acts 7, what did you pick up? You picked up that
the one, true God, appeared on Mt. Sinai, appearing in mighty signs and
wonders, proving Who and What He is, and to whom He wants to be what He
is. 

	They joined themselves to idols, and they took up the worship of
Moloch, which was fire worship. This is one thing God forbade: to ever
give His children fire. And I’m going to tell you something: When the
three Hebrew children were given to fire, God rescued them, because God
did not give them to the fire—the devil did—to prove their worship
of God, and God destroyed the power of the god of fire by bringing them
right through, showing He was God, even as it happened upon Mount
Carmel. There have been a lot of Mount Carmel showdowns with God, and
people don’t want to recognize them. They joined to idolatry at that
time.

31.	Now, at the time of Paul they did the same thing: They got into
idolatry, spiritual fornication. Now my Bible tells me: at the end time
they’ve let themselves down to the extent there is nothing even left
in human conduct to warrant anybody having faith in humanity. Natural
brute beasts! 

	Where were your long-haired Beatles, your perverts, your homosexuals,
and your complete rotten mess? We have it today. Where was it until this
hour, when Bro. Branham took over? When did we have a president so
indiscreet to have his wife in Europe and his wanting two women in bed
with him at the same time, and no doubt getting it? Now you’ve got
Clinton with more women than ever. You can’t find it, brother/sister.

32.	Now, let’s read about our hour, of the coming out the Exodus, when
these buzzards, (Full-Gospel businessmen, pretending they’re
‘Eagles’) completely ravaged by the power of the enemy: “for men
should be lovers of their own selves…covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural
affection.” [2 Tim 3:2-3]

	So, O. J. Simpson kills his wife. He beats her up and beats her up. Why
didn’t somebody do something the time they caught her with only a bra
on and some gym pants, and she was saying, “He was going to kill
me,” her eyes all blackened? 

	You know what? Psychologists tell us women like to get beaten up. Now,
not you women; you’re not that type. And, if your husband beats you
up, let me know, and we’ll take a four-by-four to him—give him some
of his own medicine. You’re not a man; you’re a dog—pit bull. And
you need a slap in the chops. I just tell you flat. I’m not fooling.
Now, if you’re insane, that’s a different thing. 

	He’s a great hero—say, a wonderful fellow. He’s got this streak
inside. How come he didn’t beat some big men up? Beat his wife up?
Well, she kind of must have liked it or something. She went back. They
tell me that’s what women do; they keep going back, until one day
they’re killed. 

	And they say, “Well, she had a cry for help.”

	How hard did she cry? She couldn’t have cried very hard. I’m
telling you: this is in the Bible that tells you ‘no natural
affection’. Trucebreakers. You can’t believe anybody’s word
anymore. I’m so disillusioned, I pretty well gave up, unless it’s
just “See you tomorrow,” and I won’t be there either myself.
Isn’t that awful?

33.	[2 Timothy 3]:

(3)	…False accusers, incontinent (You can read about them in the
paper. I don’t have to explain all this), fierce, despisers of those
that are good, (the big sneer)

(4)	Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of
God.

	Now you’ve got God brought in here. How can they love God when they
love their own selves, where all their creeds and dogmas have come from,
where the Catholic Church, for all these centuries, has joined in
idolatry?

	Now the Protestant church comes along, and it says, “Well, just a
minute; we’re Protestants.”

	No, you’re not Protestants! You came out of the same root the
Catholic Church came out of! Just a whore of another color, and
different tricks. You wonder where all these sex books are written
today? Catholic Church didn’t write them; the Protestants did. They
know more tricks than the Catholics. I’m just giving you a figure in
the world—what’s going on spiritually. It says her daughters that
came out of her are going to go to the Lake of Fire with her.

(5)	Having a form of godliness, (In other words they lay down all the
laws and all, what God is, pots and pans, and this and that.) but
denying the power thereof: (That’s the authority and that which
constitutes the drive of authority, because authority is no good, unless
there’s some actual physical power behind it.) from such turn away.

(6)	For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead silly
women laden with sins, captive, led away with drivers lusts,

(7)	Ever learning, and enver able to come to the the knowledge of the
truth.

34.	Now, watch; in this hour:

(8)	Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these resist the
truth: (Two people confronting each other, and one no more belonging to
the other than a hyenna and a baby confronting each other. They resist
truth.) corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

(9)	But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest
unto all, (As Jannes and Jambres were also. Now they’re going to be
destroyed at the time of the Rapture, and so on.)

(10)	But thou hast fully known my doctrine, my manner of life, my
purpose, my faith, my longsuffering, my love, and my patience,

(11)	My persecutions, afflictions, (You know how I’ve endured every
single one of these and never turned one time from the reality I
presented to you when I first came on the scene. The unchanging God and
the unchanging ministry.)

	But, you see, here is what’s happened to the Church. The Church went
right down into the grave. But it must have a resurrection. And the
resurrection comes through Luther, Wesley, and up and through Pentecost,
which is the chaff, until the true Life manifests, which Life manifested
in the chaff only in and through William Branham. It didn’t manifest
anywhere else, because they’ve already been fully infested with the
religion that has already got into it all forms of idolatry! 

	I know the Protestants say, “Oh, don’t tell me.”

	I’m not telling them anything. Here’s the Bible. Read It for
yourself.

	“Oh, that’s not us.”

	Prove it; prove it. Give me a sign. That’s the last sign we had:
discernment, which is judgment! “I indict this generation.” The
whole thing is out there before us. So therefore, Protestants and Rome
have the same root, and Protestants are merely branches on the same
tree, and the Catholics recognize it, and the Protestants don’t. And
the only people that the Catholics can possibly go against are the
Jesus-Only. Could it be that’s where the foolish virgin are? At least
some? I don’t know.

35.	But, you see, the minute you hit Trinity, that is the keynote, and
that is the key revelation by “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” thousands and
thousands of vindications, proving there is one God, period! And He
doesn’t have a son who is ‘God the Son’. And He doesn’t have a
partner who is ‘God the Holy Ghost’. He is God, One God, Who is
spirit, Who is the Holy Ghost, Who has a Son, of whom the Scripture
says: He’s the very essence, having outrayed from Him. True. 

	And, if you still haven’t caught the picture in Hebrews 2, let me
tell you, church, there’s something wrong with you sitting here. I’m
not wasting my time, (of course not) but you need to have your heads and
your hearts examined, because in the midst of the brethren, he sings
praises unto God. He leads the Bride choir in the glorious anthems,
(See?) unto Almighty God. And the only reason he can do it, without any
shame, no feelings, just joy and gladness, is that we’re with him;
we’re one source. That’s why you can look at David and say he’s
“a man after God‘s own heart.” I don’t care what the historians
say. I only believe what God said.

36.	Now, let me show you something: Israel on the way to Palestine. They
raised up a tabernacle. They were given the tabernacle in the
wilderness, of which God said to Moses, “See thou make it according to
the pattern I showed you in the mount.” And they did it. Right? But my
Bible says they raised up a tabernacle to Moloch. So, we see the two of
them going in.

	Now, as we see them go in, we see the tabernacle of God going in with
Israel, right? Badger skins…all of it…priesthood. Understand? But,
however, there was that stain that went in with them. Right? And God
said, “Destroy utterly the Canaanite. Get rid of everybody! Otherwise,
you will have problems. And everything I’ve laid out here in this
wonderful Word, this tremendous tabernacle, going in here, will not be
coming to its full maturity, and where I would want it.”

	Even went to a temple (That went astray, too.) for it. Now they’ve
got the Midianites in there. 

37.	Now, let’s just stop a minute. Bro. Branham said… (Just keep
your thinking there and listen to me.) Bro. Branham said, “Eve should
have had the Seed, Christ.” Now, when God sent Israel into the land,
He said, “Listen to me; get rid of everybody. I don’t want any mixed
seed.”

	Now, let’s talk about breed. Did you know the Aztecs had purple dogs
that couldn’t stand the sun, because they had no hair? How many know
that? You saw the picture in the National Geographic. Do you know what
they’ve done recently? They took selective genes, selective breeding,
to breeding those dogs, and they have produced a hairless, purple dog.

	What am I talking about? Couldn’t the great God of the universe
select all the genes that the people of Israel had kept separate and
finally brought forth Jesus Christ, the perfect man, identical to Adam?
Still wouldn’t have worked, though, would it? Eve should have had him.
Finally, the real Eve, Mary, did. 

	When that Son was to come forth, God created the sperm and the egg,
which merely meant the outward body, and that Life came right in there,
that same Life that was one time in Michael, stepped outside of Michael,
same Life came down, took human form; then, God stepped inside of him.
Don’t try to argue these things; just believe them. You try to figure
them, you’ll go mad. It’s bad enough that I try to figure them. Let
me lay it out the best I can.

	When Adam was put to the test, he fell, just like Eve. When Christ was
put to the test, he couldn’t fall. See? He remembered from way back
there. I just brought that as a sidelight.

38.	Now, let’s go back and look at my picture. They were coming into
Palestine. They should have kept themselves pure with the Word and pure
from the strange flesh. They should have walked in and set their
tabernacle up. But what we are going to do, (Let’s bless God and
listen to this.) we are taking this Word, and, we, as a tabernacle, are
going into the Millennium with a tabernacle, because there will be
temple service. Now, can you see what’s happening and how we’re
moving in?

	Now, did you get my point and understand it? Some of you look a little
bit puzzled. Now, listen: by now, not one should be confused. Didn’t I
tell you that Bro. Branham said, “In the Millennium there’s further
sanctification, further setting apart.” In other words it’s a
purifying--a purifying, that we, by the power of God, sanctify and set
ourselves apart. Aren’t we set apart by the Word? Without this Word,
can we go in? No way, shape and form. Why this Word? In order to be the
people that can go in.

	Now, listen: they destroyed it by the temple they should have had. They
destroyed it by the tabernacle they should have had. Will we destroy?
No! We are going in, and we will establish through God and the power of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who now is the incarnation of Almighty
God, and we’ll be there in the temple worship. 

	You just believe what the prophet said, you’re going to find
everything work out. You don’t have to ask any questions, just believe
what he said. Now that can only happen…I know you’re not rejoicing
like me, because these things don’t mean that much to you; but they
mean everything to me, because I’m getting answers. I don’t have to
live a confused life. Certain things muddle me here about my flesh: Why
don’t I get so and so and so and so? Forget it! If Paul called his
brain power ‘a bunch of dung’, well, my body is no more than a bunch
of corruption, and my brain’s that too. So, all right. We see the
picture here.

39.	Bro. Branham is talking here about this corner to be turned, and
you’ll notice he talks about his message and the turning of the
corner. So therefore, he talks about himself with Luther, Wesley,
William Branham. And, when you get that far, there’s only one place
you can go, because the messengers have run out. And, when the
messengers run out, the five-fold runs out, the Bride runs out,
everything runs out; and therefore, Headship must come.

	Now Headship has come in the form of the Holy Ghost bringing the Word,
and it’s a full Word, and it’s the full Holy Spirit—God Himself,
right here now: El, El Elah, Elohim, Jehovah Elohim—call Him what you
want. He’s actually Jesus, which is Jehovah-Savior. He called him
‘Christ’, which means ‘the Deliverer’. He’s here, He’s here
to wind it up, and that same One is going to take us up and, then, bring
us back to what we’re talking about.

40.	Now Bro. Branham lets you know categorically that He is that One.
Now my point is this, to this church and the people on tape, the
perilous time is this hour in the ‘exodus’, to let down the bars, to
go without strength. 

	What was the strength of the deer that was wounded? Get to the water!
To bring back the blood level, get the corpuscles flowing, get some
help, through the waters of life. What are the waters of life? The Word
of the living God revealed by the Holy Ghost, encased in the Holy Ghost,
the Holy Ghost encased in It, down in these genes here, renewing the
inner man, while the outer man is perishing.

	But at the right time there’ll be an explosion of grace, and those
cells, will literally be transferred from what we are now and take on
the heavenly. You’ll look just like you are except some of you maybe
are too fat, and you’ll lose a lot of weight. Now my nose is big, but
it’s not going to get any smaller. I’ll get my hair back; but,
personally, I don’t care one way or the other. If the wind blows, I
won’t mind if it blows. My hair’s like thistle down, like fine, fine
thread—one wind and sixty thousand hairs go sixty thousand directions.
It won’t matter though. None of those things will matter, because
we’re in an entirely different society—entirely different set of
values: a God-civilization.

	You see, here’s the crux right now: How do the people that say they
believe this Message, value this Message? Women’s little scheme…
I’m not down on women, but this is cute, like I told you. They said,
“Well, you don’t have to cut your hair; you can just have so many
permanents, it’ll break off.”

	Does it really matter how you kill somebody, with arsenic, a knife, or
a shotgun, or a Sherman tank? The point is: you’re dead. You know,
it’s kind of ludicrous, but that’s it.

41.	Right in these three paragraphs we spent all this time for the
introduction to let you know what this man is up against with these
people. And I’m going to tell you something: except for a group of us
that had faith and loved him and believed in him and believed this Word,
there wouldn’t have been too big a crowd. And we weren’t there to
get milked by the Full Gospel Businessmen, because I wouldn’t give
them a nickel.

	Now I’m going to tell you something: You’re going to preach
what’s in your heart. Jesus Christ is just a scapegoat for the whole
thing, for the big money market, the big money market plan. Why do you
think the Pope calls himself ‘the Vicar of Christ’? In other words
he’s Messiah right here, leading the people out into power and over
the judgment of this earth, and he’s going to sit here supreme. He’s
telling you that. He said, “I’m Messiah; I’m your Savior.” And
he’s going to get them, too, with the gold. That’s why I said… I
should do my little diagram, where I showed you where the gold was.
It’s right in Rome. And there are satellites. Every church with all
the gold, the gold crosses, maybe worth sixty-five thousand dollars
twenty years ago. What’s it worth today? Who knows when they set the
price of gold? Every Catholic Church could be worth ten million dollars
or ten billion dollars; because, when you’ve got it all, you set your
own price. Why do you think women go to Dior and pay thirty thousand
dollars for a dress? Because it’s the only one, and nobody else is
going to have one like it. So, you’ve got all the gold, you set your
price. And, when you’ve got one dress from Dior, he sets his price.

	Some woman in New York sells shirts, two hundred and forty dollars. I
saw one discounted in Shottenstein’s for sixty dollars. I said, “I
wouldn’t give her twenty dollars for this shirt. I can buy better. You
wait until 666 hits the mark.

42.	This is the introduction, and Bro. Branham is going to open the
Bible; and, of course, he’ll pray before he starts reading. And these
are my thoughts looking back all these years on what was actually there.
I’m acting, by the grace of God, and I hope it’s the grace of God,
as a historian, to give you the picture. Then, whatever comes out, we
will have to judge in the light of what he says, being faithful to
Almighty God and the ministry God gave him, which is the Word of His
Presence and the doctrine of Himself, strictly passive, very little
active, and then, concerning them, who are his hosts. 

	How will William Branham be a nice man, and yet at the same time, his
sword will draw blood? What is he going to tell these people who are
standing up to lead the church? because that’s what they’re going to
do. They said, “The preachers failed; the five-fold failed. We’re
going to do it.”

	What’s he going to say? Does he tell them to do it? Does he tell them
they’re wrong? Does he tell them how to mend their ways? Does he tell
them what’s going to happen? Well, I would suggest it’s all there,
and I would suggest we start on Wednesday night to try to find out. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	

	Our merciful, Heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for times of
refreshing, which You have given, and we know that You gave them
mightily under Luther, where You planted a most tremendous, powerful
seed of justification, where the man could see foreknowledge, election,
predestination, and saw the startling things in the Word of God. If
justification devolved all back upon You, then these other things did,
and You were the Root and the Spring of it all, and he saw it. And we
appreciate that. 

	And then, we saw it go down to seed and organization. We saw Wesley
come up with the sanctified life, where people were drifting away and
saying, “Well, if God’s done the whole thing, what does it matter
what we are, and who we are, where we are, and what we do? He’s going
to get us anyway.” 

	And that was a horrible thing to say, and we saw that come.

	And then, we saw the Wesley church trying to receive some power, but
never could get there, knowing that He who raised from the dead was the
same, today and forever.

	And we saw the Pentecostals come along. We saw the latter rain begin to
fall. We saw the power of God manifested. In the return of gifts we saw
these things and the Scripture; but then, we came to the last time of
William Branham, where life is now in the last stage, and those with
that same Life will come into the garner and be taken up.

	Now, Lord, where we are grateful for that, and we are here, Lord, in
these meetings to study this last sermon that Bro. Branham gave to the
last people that even considered having him, and that under duress, of
people that laughed at him, of people that mocked, of people who said,
“If he’s coming, I’m not going.” All of these things, Lord.

	And old Carl Williams, standing right there battling for him. “God
bless” (as Bro. Branham would say) “his gallant soul gone on,” and
believe he’s with Bro. Branham right today, believing the same God, as
far as he could believe, believing it a hundred per cent, we believe
with all our hearts.

	Now they’re gone on, Lord, and we’re going on too. And we’re
taking heed this morning of the perilous time that there is in this
exodus, going in just before the great temple worship is established in
the great Millennial land. Oh, my, we’re marching to it.

	Bless Your people, Lord. Heal the sick among us. Cause us to rejoice.
Bring us all back more and more vigorous toward the things of God,
realizing, more and more full of the Holy Ghost. Pile Word upon Word.
Let the Word flow like torrents. Let It descend upon our souls, and the
Life thereof nurture us and bring us forth in Thine image. 

	Unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all
power, honor, and glory. Through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.