Leadership #13

Works = Word; Word = Works

August 28, 1994

	Heavenly Father, we know that when we sing “Jesus, You’re here,”
we know it is the same as when Paul said, “Jesus,” called You by
name, knowing, as Bro. Branham said, “The same Pillar of Fire that
came to Paul to bring the Word is here revealing It, and has been,”
and, as Paul said, “is now face to face,” and It is, in reality:
perfection has come, standing before the Tree of Life and waiting to go
into the Millennium, the further sanctification, the further worship,
the further revelation, those things that have been reserved to us, we
are now in their presence and they, in full view of us, by revelation,
waiting to be entered into, knowing that a revelation has been given us
in order that we can enter into it all.

	May we be very encouraged this morning with that, Lord, and put away
all negative thinking, any doubts whatsoever, realize we’ve come to
perfect faith, and stand therein, Lord, until it has its perfect way and
there comes forth, then, the Resurrection, the immortality, the Rapture,
the Wedding Supper and the Coming Back, Lord, to start anew in this
kingdom which you have already put up and prepared for us, in Your own
essential way, Lord, and will one day bring it forth into the
manifestation, which we’re looking for.

	We give You glory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

	You may be seated.

1.	Now we’re into number fourteen of “Leadership”, and as we
continue our studies, I find that I cannot help believe that Bro.
Branham preached every message as though it could be his last sermon,
and not just something to edify or as fitting to the occasion as when it
was a breakfast to the Full Gospel Businessmen. He simply addressed them
on the principle of going there for a breakfast and then talking would
be no more different from him going to Europe when he was commanded not
to go, just to speak a couple of times, and the Angel of the Lord told
him, direct from God, that he could not go unless it was actually a
series of meetings, he had better remain at home. So, there’s no doubt
in my mind that this message here was simply more than one that befitted
the occasion or he was doing somebody a favor or simply wanted a place
to preach. 

2.	It is also certain that he knew his days were numbered. He had spoken
of that to people. He’d even made a mistake thinking he would be shot.
Evidently in a vision he saw that his throat was open as with a bullet
wound, but it was a tracheotomy. And here it is, his last exhortation
given to a Full Gospel Businessmen’s meeting wherein the people could
easily accept the works but not the Word. In fact, it was coming to the
place where now the works were not accepted, because I think many
people, who came on the principle of wishing to have Bro. Branham
discern, were now finding that their own faith had to make the gift of
healing operate, and they were hoping that through discernment, which
was really an encouragement to them, would go past the fact of
encouragement and now be the implementation of their healing, even as
when Bro. Branham said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD you’re healed,” but
it wasn’t so, and they would become very tired by his lengthy
dissertations and very tired of the fact that so many people, even
though they were called, never received healing. 

3.	Yet it’s strange that in Lima, when we had him there in 1957, that
we don’t know one person who was called out but was tremendously
healed, and many people were healed sitting in their seats, not having
been called out. There were tremendous things that were done, because we
knew what to do—which was to cause the gift of healing to operate by
teaching faith and bringing the people together to the end that this
might be received. And, you know, when you treat God hit-and-miss, He
will treat you hit-and-miss. The Bible distinctly says that he that
lightly looks at the Lord, that is lightly countenances Him, so God will
lightly countenance that person. There are so many Scriptures that tell
you there is a correct way—even mechanically, and there is a wrong
way.

4.	But the people were getting more and more discouraged with Bro.
Branham until really the only opening he had, because he would not join
himself with one particular church and make them the great thing...or
one organization, was his in-between group—at one time called
‘non-denominational’ or ‘inter-denominational’, because they
embraced everybody. But then, they took the Trinitarian aspect and,
contrary to their own doctrine, which was ‘anybody full of the Holy
Ghost spoke in tongues’, they immediately put out the Oneness people
by declaring there was a Trinity.

	So, they did, in a measure, accept Bro. Branham according to work and
discernment, but, as I think it was Gorden Lindsey, David du Plessis,
here in Ohio, back in Middletown, that Chautauqua area, said, “All
right. William Branham is fine to believe when he’s discerning and
praying, but when it comes to the Word, don’t you believe him, because
he’s doctrinally off.”

	This is the stupidest thing under God’s creation. But the point is:
It is not simply stupid; so, listen to me. It is not simply stupid so
that you and I could make such a statement and simply walk off casually.
You will go before the White Throne, and you will go to hell. Now, think
it over. There’s no Blood for you. So, what are you going to do? Have
your own little song and dance? 

5.	Now, let’s look at the picture: I’m not an evangelist; I’m a
teacher. I’m not going to have an altar call. It’s up to you to do
what you want. They did what they wanted. The judgment prophet, where
everything burns some time after he’s finished, and we have a very
casual attitude as though it really didn’t matter. Yet the Roman
Catholic Church could say, (just an ordinary priest concerning a false,
wicked sign by the enemy concerning Fatima) “Why don’t you shut up
and sit down? God wants to talk to you. The miracle itself is nothing;
it’s what God wants to tell you and deal with you.”

	I wonder what would have happened if Bro. Branham had gone to the
Catholic Church. Is this why he said, concerning Jackie Kennedy, with
her water head, her leading America, (her husband a Roman Catholic, the
final insult and blow to any light in America, or America being any
light whatsoever except to build an image to the beast) and he said,
“Perhaps she’d have done differently if she had heard this
message.” Perhaps she would have. She didn’t hear it to harden her
heart, but the Pentecostal women sat there with their husbands, their
fickle, little, gigolo husbands, who let their wives run rampant; they
could not countenance true doctrine. Where are they today? You answer
your question.

6.	Is your love greater than God’s love? Is your desire greater than
God’s desire? Is mine? I want to tell you one thing: You lightly
respect God, He’ll lightly respect you. In fact, He won’t respect
you or me either. There’s only one thing that God can respect, and
that’s His Own Godhoodedness, which cannot be defined in any way
except by Words. 

	And here it is, the last exhortation given in a Full Gospel
Businessmen’s meeting wherein the people could easily accept the
works, but not the Word. Also, we know that this Message is the omega
Message wherein God Himself is confronting us in human flesh, as when he
confronted the rich, young ruler and offered to lead him to eternal
Life. Now, that’s up for grabs. What I mean is this: Take it or leave
it. Whoever heard of it? Why, “God in these last days has spoken in
Son, Jesus Christ.” Don’t talk to me about anybody else. 

7.	Here was Elohim-Messiah-Prophet Himself and personally (repeat:
personally) standing there and offering this businessman eternal Life
Himself, and this businessman denied God. And it is done again, and it
was done again that very night, and is still being done again, even as
we might read over here in 2 Peter. And, remember; 2 Peter is an
end-time... Both Peters are end-time books on the Second Coming, but 2
Peter is very judgmental. [2 Peter 2]

(1)	But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you.

	Now, this is the end time, and you’ll notice the false prophets are
dwindling; you don’t see them. Where are the Osborns? Where are the
Roberts? Where’s hardly anybody? Oh, you have a few local men, like
Swaggert and the rest of them—expose themselves. And they’ve been
exposing themselves all right, not just spiritually, but physically.
They are so corrupt and rotten, though how the people love them. You
know? Like pastor, like people—all alike.

8.	(1)	...False teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, (Privily...privily. They’ve got their own understanding.
They don’t have any authority; there’s no vindication; there’s
nothing but a mouth which is a sepulcher. They’ll bring in damnable
heresies. Heresies: that which is against the truth and will be
condemned.) even denying the Lord that bought them and bring unto
themselves swift destruction.

	Now, how can that be amongst people that believe in Blood-washing? That
takes in all the Catholics. This is not Muslims; this is not your
Taoists, your Buddhists, Mohammeds, the rest of them. This is about
Christians. They’re denying the present One. That’s what they’re
doing. They’re denying, and He’s the One that bought them. They deny
even Jesus upon the throne; they don’t know where he is. To think that
he’s not mediator and intercessor and in communion with the Father is
something so abysmal as to not only reject but to be horrified and stand
in awe, (Yes, stand in awe.) speechless, at those people that say such
things, as if they even have anything to do with God.

9.	Do you realize that this Message with the greatest light has the
greatest darkness? Where is the Lamb? He’s on the throne, and through
the Father has offered the invitation, “Overcome. Get ready.” How do
you get ready? How many remember what we read and went over just
recently? How do you get ready? You get ready in the negative by never,
ever saying what you came out of, having a thing to do with it, your
mind a part of it, but now only that which is; as Bro. Branham said,
“Say what I say.” And, if you’re not doing that, you’re not
getting ready.

	“Oh, Bro. Vayle, I’m looking for some great mystery. Couldn’t you
call a prayer line and lay on hands?”

	I don’t think that would do anything except condemn you and what
you’re doing. It doesn’t come that way. These teachers go out
there... They don’t have a bit of vindication. The only teachers that
do have any vindication are those that say what the prophet said and
take it right through the Bible—bring it together for you.

11.	“Denying the Lord that bought them:” positively deny Him, yet
all this time saying, “Oh, He bought me. I love Him. I believe in the
shed Blood. Look at this; look at that. You people have no Spirit. Oh,
my, my.” 

	Because you’re not jumping up and down yelling, you’re criticized.
I challenge any man living to come into this church, and you sit here
and see if he says everything according to this Word, and you catch it.
You’ll be so busy jumping up and down, you wouldn’t catch anything,
except what? Your neighbor breathing on you and you get intestinal flu
like he’s got? That’s hardly worth it. 

12.	I’m sarcastic on purpose, because you’re better listening and
keeping your mouth shut until you know what to say, because by your
words, you’re justified, and by your words, you’re condemned. And
you’re not justified by what I ask you to say, and you’re not
condemned by what I tell you not to say. You’re condemned on your own
by what you say, as that inner person, and what you don’t say, or
you’re justified. Is that sufficiently clear? Now I don’t mean you
go dead on me and not say, “Amen,” or something—hey? But I’m
going to tell you: I can tell by looking at you, you’re not dead. I
can tell when the men are concentrating, and the women. You’re not
fooling me one little bit. And I can tell when the spirit begins to lift
when it’s just not the way it should be.

	You see, my brother/sister, I am not depending on you. I cannot be
dependent on you. The sheep must depend on the pastor or the one
that’s helping them. Now, if you don’t want to eat, and some
didn’t, they just go elsewhere. That’s fine. I’m especially glad
that you’re here this morning. I would add to that, but just take it
the way it is said.

13.	Now the Bible said, “It’s going to bring upon us swift
destruction.” Are they suddenly going to be judged in their seats and
running around and killed by a car? Oh, no, no. He’s talking about the
destruction of the Great Tribulation, which we’ll hit, and then, the
burning of the earth.

(2)	And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 

	Now, watch: ‘Evil’ is ‘worshiping in vain’, ‘worshiping
without credentials’, ‘going where you have no business to
go’—like Cain—and still trying to do it. Do you want to hold your
finger there? If you do, it might be wise to go to 2 Th 2:9:

(9)	Even him, whose coming if after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders,

(10)	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness...

14.	Unrighteousness completely deceives them. What is part of that
unrighteousness this morning? It is that ‘tongues are the evidence of
the baptism with the Holy Ghost’ and ‘you can talk with God’ and
‘you know you hear from God,’ and ‘you feel that you’ve got
something from God,’ and you don’t take the guide book, and yet you
go to the post office, and you put a twenty-nine cent on a letter to go
to Canada, they’ll say, “Just a minute, you owe eleven cents
more.” Or you try to send it to Europe, they say, “Twenty-one cents
more.” 

	You can’t even send a letter in a stupid post office, and some little
stupid greeting, some little stupid letter trying to finesse them,
maybe. How do you think you’re going to come before God in
unrighteousness with a filthy act of worship, which means bypassing the
sacrifice, which is Christ, when there’s only one way to Him, which is
by the Word? How are you going to do it? I like to ask my brethren these
questions. Now they say I say, “Bro. Vayle doesn’t teach pastoral
sermons.” You’re getting a pastoral sermon this morning and very
doctrinaire. 

15.	Pain is abounding, and the people who fuss at Cain and call him
‘that great deceiver’, the one who killed Abel, the type of Christ,
the righteous Abel, the blood calling from the ground, they’re doing
the same thing right now: trampling under foot the blood of the
Covenant.

	And It says:

(10)	With all deceivablenss of unrighteousness...

	A worship that is razor blade close to reality, because they didn’t
receive the vindicated Message which alone could point them to the
truth. Now they worship in a lie and in an error. Now, don’t say this
is wrong, (This is right!) or do me a favor and everybody that hears my
voice on tape: spit on this Bible, rip it up. At least have the guts to
defy God openly in sin than to pretend you’re an obedient little sheep
under the submission and love and presence of Christ in worship.

16.	Do you hear what I said?

	“Well, Bro. Vayle, you ain’t got no love.”

	No, I ain’t got no love, but I’ve got guts, and I’ve got a
sanctified spirit and a mind that looks at the Word the way It’s
written and doesn’t try to figure it out to get around it. Well,
don’t think I wouldn’t like to, but there’s no percentage in it.
This is where your suffering comes; this is where your denying comes;
this is where the battle comes. 

	If you think there’s a battle over fornication and adultery—oh, how
wrong you are. That’s nothing compared to this, because honest before
God, with a repentant heart, you can be forgiven for your adulteries and
your fornication, but you can’t be forgiven for this, because this is
a rebellion against God. And as the Scripture said, “If a man sin
against a man,” [1 Sam 2:25] and that’s a man even raping or these
other things going on, “the judge can judge you; but, if you sin
against God, who will plead for you?” I want to know some answers.
I’ve got all mine through vindication of a prophet, not me. Anything I
thought I had...ha, ha, ha! I wouldn’t even put cream and sugar on it
and try to feed it to my dog. I’m talking about all those sensations
and things. Forget it.

17.	Now, watch:

(10)	...Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might
be saved. 

	They couldn’t love it; they hated it. Remember, Jesus said, “If I
had not done the works no other man did, they’d not sinned, but now
they both hated me and my Father. If I hadn’t done the works…” Yet
those same people, they even denied divine healing of the Church of
Christ, saying, “Oh, but you’re wrong. I love God.” And they can
put on an act that’d make you cry: how sweet and how wonderful, and
you begin to say, “God, do I have anything?” 

	And the Voice should come back, but will not come back, and say, “You
have the Word. Let all things conform around the Word, because if it
doesn’t conform around the Word, then it is valueless. 

18.	(11)	And for this God will send them strong delusion. 

	“Strong delusion.” They’ll be sweeter than ever; they’ll be
nicer than ever. There’ll be more healings, more tongues, more
interpretation, more prophecy, more everything than ever; more
everything. You see, I have no record that the Holy Spirit anointing
leaves the world, just the Holy Spirit. 

	In 2 Thessalonians 2. But, what did Paul say? 

(13)	We’re bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren
beloved... (Now, who are ‘beloved’ of the Lord? The Elect.) because
God has from the beginning (That’s right in Jesus.) chosen you to
salvation (You’re going to come through this period unscathed.)
through sanctification of the Spirit (even) belief of the truth. 

	There is no such thing as the Spirit of God sanctifying you outside of
truth, because whatever sanctifying He does is simply an act of God on
His part to put you in a place where the process can now begin in
earnest in the individuals by the Word. 

19.	And you can go to the beginning, and there you see that God had two
people set aside: Cain and Abel. One refused the Word completely; the
other took the Word completely. One was completely sanctified through
the processes of the Spirit and the truth, which was ‘believe’. The
other was simply sanctified by the Spirit, the same as Mr. Pharaoh was
raised up by God. He did his job all right. A lot of people doing the
same thing, but they’re a million miles off the Word, though they
greatly claim to be in that Word. 

	They’ll follow their ways, and they’ll be made merchandise of.
First of all, they’ll milk you by the Roberts and the Swaggerts and
the rest of them. Then the antichrist will milk you, and the devil. I
just wonder if the devil’s going to be laughing when he gets his
destruction, because he laughs at the people whom he has destroyed.
It’s a little thought, isn’t it? Just let your mind go to the White
Throne and the Lake of Fire. What is it like? Well, these are things
here we look at. 

20.	So, here Bro. Branham is bringing us the omega of the alpha of this
rich, young businessman to all these businessmen and, incidentally, all
the others. And here, as in that day, was Jehovah-Elohim-Messiah-Prophet
Himself personally, very personally, standing there, and offering this
businessman eternal Life Himself, and he (and they) deny God. And, what
happens? It happens as in Hebrew 6: “They crucify to themselves the
Son of God afresh,” and they end up crucified.

21.	Now, as Israel came up through its Seven Church Ages, (Bro. Branham
said one day he would show to us (He never did.) that Israel had Seven
Church Ages, and they came up for God’s Headship, even the hour of
Messiah.) so today the Gentile church has come through Seven Church Ages
and Headship is here. That is a categorical fact. It is believed more
widespread than it used to be, but it is still entirely and more
dogmatically in its entirety disbelieved in its truth. They don’t have
a clue to it. 

	The Headship is here according to the full revelation as described in
Eph 1:17-18, where the Spirit comes into the Church to let the Church
know the hour in which it is living and the deep, revealed secrets of
Almighty God. This will bring it to the ministries that have come forth
in flesh because of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself—dying, rising, going
back to God, sending forth the Holy Spirit—“Because I will pray the
Father He will give you the Holy Spirit.” It’s the same Spirit that
Jesus had—that Spirit coming back in a ministry and ministering to the
people with their own ministries, bringing them finally to a place where
they cannot be shaken. The old song says, [Bro. Vayle sings:] “I shall
not be, I shall not be moved. I shall not be, I shall not be moved. Just
like a tree that’s planted by the waters, I shall not be moved.”
Bro. Branham said that was today. Little roots, little branches of the
Tree of Life, no doubt. 

22.	And, what will the people do? The Gentiles will do as the rich,
young ruler: They will refuse the person, all the while offering the
opposite. They’ll refuse the person, see, all the while offering,
giving back, the opposite, because Word equal works. That’s what they
don’t understand. Word equal works and works equal Word. 

	Now, in our case we had Word that equals works, and the Word, through
works, went plumb down the drain. So, now we have to go where the real
work is: Deuteronomy 18. Do you follow what I’m saying? Now, when you
get Word, Deuteronomy 18, THUS SAITH THE LORD, works equal Word, because
the Word cannot come outside of those works. But when you get works
without that revealed Word, you will come into every single thing of
every sign and wonder (Oh, yeah!) and be condemned: “Depart from
me—I never knew you.” And that’s going to take in some beautiful,
wonderfully fine people, as far as the world’s concerned: gentle,
sweet and everything else, because they’re the ones that couldn’t
stand Bro. Branham’s terrible way of preaching. So, all right. 

23.	They will refuse the person, all the while offering the opposite to
what they should offer back to God, because they started with the Word,
and the second thousandth century it had gone off of target from the God
and Son and Word. And yet the signs, all this came back, even with the
baptism with the Holy Ghost for the true Seed, and it didn’t do it.
See? So, if you’re going to get works out of the Word, which is
perverted, you will be condemned at the White Throne. 

	But now, if the works, which come out of the Word, which come out of
vindication... Now you’re on target. Now, how much are you seeing of
works coming out of the Word? The age is over; not that there can’t be
some. Let’s open a room at the back. But I want one of you to pray and
fast, until you have the gift of discernment, because you cannot even be
in that room, unless someone is standing there with a gift of
discernment. Now you’ve got to have qualified prophets who can judge.
I’m going to be honest with you: I may be remiss in a lot of things,
but I’m just going to stick with this Word. You have all the gifts you
want. I’m not against them. I just don’t have them. And at this
point, until I’m thoroughly established in the Word and know, I
don’t want them, because evidently there’s a plethora of it all out
here.

24.	Now, just to get this straight, we’ll go back to the alpha of the
Book of Mark. I could have taken a lot more time on Peter, but I thought
it just good to close it off. Mark 10:17-23:

(17)	And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running,
and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I
may inherit eternal life? (Now, watch Jesus correct him:)

(18)	And Jesus said, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but
one, that’s God.

(19)	Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, nor kill,
nor steal, nor bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and
mother.

(20)	And he said, Master, I’ve observed these from my youth.

(21)	And Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him...

	Why should he? This kid, you see, was either... He was an Israelite
according to his birth after the flesh, but, you know, you can turn down
God flat, like Paul. Paul brought this out in Romans 9. 

25.	What happened to this kid? Let’s go to Romans 9; let’s begin to
see what this boy had, if you want to know the truth. And Jesus loved
him. And the point is: Why would he not? In verse four, now he said 

(3)	...My kinsmen after my flesh, my brethren:

(4)	Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, the glory, the
covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;

(5)	And whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
(Messiah has to come).

	And they’ve got God over the whole thing. Well, sure, he loved.
I’ve loved people, too, and wanted the best. It didn’t do one thing.
Now he said:

(21)	(I’ll tell you what you do: you) lack (just) one thing: go your
way, sell what you have, give to the poor and you’ll have treasure in
heaven. (Now, there’s how to lay up treasure in heaven. That’s
axiomatic; that’s a commandment.) and come, take up thy cross, and
follow me. 

(22)	And he was sad of that saying, and he went away grieved: (because)
he had many possessions. 

(23)	And Jesus looked around about his disciples, How hardly shall they
that have riches to enter the kingdom of God!

26.	Now here’s the Full Gospel Businessmen telling you how rich they
are and how great they are, and they’re going to win the world to
Christ. I know how they do it. They send out letters asking poor little
suckers like me for money, and I throw it in the garbage tin. 

	Oh, I’ve been all through their tripe. I think I’d sooner clean the
cow barn than clean up after them. And I’m not laughing or making a
joke. I’m just telling you the truth—hogs or anything else. Forget
it. It’s a program of calculated deceit. How can they sit there and
turn down the prophet? How can they sit down and turn God manifested in
human flesh? “Ho! That’s a good one right there: God manifested in
human flesh! Hoo-wah-wah-wah, wow!” Yet you’re supposed to be the
body of Christ. 

	“That’s different!”

	I know, because you’re lovely and sweet and wonderful. Why don’t
you crawl under a rock? Now, that’s not to you personally. That’s to
any spirit here that doesn’t catch what I’m saying, or any spirit
that hears the tapes. It’s blistering, but it’s true. That’s the
most calculated, filthy rebellion against God that only Satan could put
in a person’s heart. There you are: a modern Ananias and Sapphira.

27.	(23)	...How hardly they that have riches enter the kingdom of God!

(24)	And the disciples were astonished (and saying, “My, my, my,
that’s terrible.”) Children, how hard is it for them that trust in
riches, (he said now, “That trust in riches”) to enter the kingdom
of God.

	“Well,” you say, “now just a minute. We didn’t trust in riches.
We’re trusting in God.”

	Then, why do you flaunt your riches? Do you want to know who is
greatest of all? He that is servant to all, not the guy that rises up
and says, “I’m going to run the show. I’m going to lead the
parade.” That’s organization; that’s hell fire, twice damned,
second death.

28.	Let’s read Revelation 3. Here’s your omega.

(14)	These things said the Amen (the Winder-Upper, the God of truth),
the faithful and true witness (through Seven Church Ages; the very One
in whom God began to form Himself in human flesh):

(15)	I know thy works, they’re neither cold nor hot: I would you were
cold or hot. (Oh, boy!)

(16)	You’re (just lukewarm, you make me vomit.)

(17)	(Now, listen to what you’re saying,) I’m rich, increased with
goods and (don’t need a thing). (The young man said, “I don’t need
a thing; I’ve got it all.”

	Jesus said: “The very thing that you say, “You’ve got it
all…,” which is financial progress and materiality, tells me, “Get
rid of it. You ain’t got nothing!” And on the stormy seas of life,
you’ve got an anvil of iron hanging around your neck, instead of a
life float.”) You don’t know you’re wretched (when it comes to the
kingdom of God, laying up that treasure...); you’re a person standing
there begging, begging for the treasures that you never laid up when you
had the chance...with your nickels and your dimes and your giving and
helping and showing mercy and writing nice letters and thinking of other
people. 

	Some of you still sit here, and you’re still thinking, “Gimme,
gimme. Oh, if I could only have... Oh, gimme, gimme.”

29.	I’ve got news for you: I don’t want to be here when trouble
really starts and see what’s going to happen, because some of you
still haven’t caught it. Why are you looking for something, when
you’ve already got something to give and to work with? I’ve watched
it here over the years, and I’ve seen a lot of failing over the years.
You need better peripheral vision and up and down to look around...
“Is there something I could do? Is there something I can help?”

	When you get my age, all you can do is get on the phone and maybe talk
a little bit or give people some money. I can’t do much anymore. But
I’m still obligated, if I can do anything at all, to do it. I can
still give a crust of bread. I can still give encouragement. Why do you
think I’m telling each of you young kids—fifteen, sixteen, “I will
pay.” Yes, Caleb, I will pay. Jennifer. Yes, the money’s yours
tomorrow, if you want that aptitude test.

30.	Now you can’t present good works to God and say, “Lord, this is
going to do outside the revelation.” I’m talking to a revelation
people. I’m talking very desperately to the revelation people, and He
said, “You don’t know that you’re a beggar. You talk about
treasure laid up in heaven; you talk about what here. You’re a
beggar”—tin cup and selling pencils. Are we a tin cup-pencil selling
bunch of people? Now, I’m preaching hard. I don’t mean to be, you
know, hard as though nobody here—myself included—is worth nothing.
I’m not saying that. I’m just saying there’s a lot more to just
saying, “I know; I see; we had a prophet;” if we don’t follow the
prophet...

31.	 I told you: one of the most embarrassing experiences of my
life—in 1955 in Indiana… There was a man lying in a car, hotter than
a firecracker, couldn’t even get into the building—Cauble
Tabernacle, and he wanted prayer. Nobody paid any attention. One day,
finally, a person said,” Bro. Vayle, this man can’t come in.” I
guess it was a brother or sister or somebody said, “But he’s out
here in the car, hot and tired, and he simply can’t get in the
building. Do you think Bro. Branham would come and pray?”

	I said, “Are you kidding? Most assuredly, William Branham will come
and pray for him.”

	And William Branham came and prayed for that man. He prayed for him,
and out of his pocket he pulled a twenty dollar bill. Oh, merciful God
in heaven! I could have given him the twenty dollar bill. Blind as a
bat. Pray for him? I could have done that, too, but not like William
Branham. And, do you know, if the man got healed (And I hope he did;
but, if he didn’t) Bro. Branham started twenty dollars rolling right
toward heaven. Yeah...yeah, I was embarrassed.

32.	(18)	I counsel thee to buy of me gold (Not the stuff you dig out of
the ground that’s going to be worth a thousand to ten thousand dollars
an ounce when the church takes over, but the gold) tried in the fire.

	What is it that gets tried in the fire? Your faith. And, what is your
faith? The true faith is the revelation of the Word, and it’s the
perfect faith of this hour. So, it’s going to take the forces of hell,
the most intensive and even least intensive, will come against us for
this revelation. And, what is the revelation? He’s here! The same One
in the Pillar of Fire that brought the Word to Paul is here revealing
It; the same One that went with Moses to Israel and manifested by signs
and wonders is here, had His picture, not taken there, but authenticated
by historians, right on the wall. There it is: [Bro. Vayle points to
it.] the same Rock, same Cloud, Jehovah Elohim, none else but God, the
same One that came down in the Garden of Eden to speak to His erring
children who were the progenitors, the same One now came down to talk to
the last generation, the last seed.

	He’s come down that we may have gold tried in the fire, that we may
have His Word that’s come up two thousand solid years, and they
couldn’t do a thing about it. Twist It and turn It as much as they
might try, they couldn’t do it. And here It is now in Its final stage
of perfection and consummation, which means we are in the harvest, which
means we ‘are’ the harvest. As Bro. Branham said, “We are
Easter.”

33.	With It is the white raiment: “I’m here to dress a Bride with
the pure Word of God.” How do you get ready? Put It on. Don’t ever
say anything about the other any more—no more shame of your nakedness.
John prayed we wouldn’t be ashamed and naked at that time. We
aren’t. We’ve got the true eye salve. What’s the true eye salve?
Not just an anointing—a derivative. We don’t have any more light
that bounces off the wall, and we’re looking at the light that bounced
off the wall. We’re looking straight at the Light and that Light is
going right into us via Word, so that now we are Light! We are not just
Resurrection; we are Light!

	Now you and I can’t get dressed any other way but by saying that. We
can go back to the old world and they can...”Well, I’m working on
it...I’m a ‘hope’ so I’m a ‘maybe’...I’m believing...bless
God, I’ll get there.” And you hit them with the Word, they’re so
intolerant, they’re so puffed up with pride, they’re so rotten...
They’d cut your eyes out.

	“Oh, but they got it.”

	What you and I have... We just shrug our shoulders and pass on. If they
don’t want it, they don’t want it. Don’t try to convince them.
Forget it. You bulldoze them, that’s all you’ve got. You’ve got a
bulldozed one.

34.	Now he says:

(19)	As many as I love, (Now, who does He love? At this time, it’s the
very elect.) I rebuke and I chasten...

	In other words, “I’m here to put you straight on the Word, because
that’s where you got off. I’m here to put you straight on
‘Godhead’.”

	Remember, the ‘Godhead’ revelation was under the Seventh Seal. The
greatest single revelation was the oneness of the Godhead. So, that
means Jesus-Only and all the rest don’t have a prayer! unless they
turn around and find out what the truth is.

	“Well, Bro. Vayle, you know, before Bro. Branham preached the Seven
Seals, you know, we understood.” That’s their attitude.

	Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did. Oh, boy, there was another liar hit the
dust. It wasn’t that oneness of the Godhead wasn’t correct; it was
as pure as the single, solitary fact: there is one God. Period! But God
and His Son aren’t like my finger.

35.	Now, as I said a few minutes ago: Bro. Branham, as a vindicated
prophet, could never preach just to be saying something. He himself said
that. We know his messages were vindicated and, therefore, “THUS SAITH
THE LORD.” With this in mind we notice he called this period of time
of the very presence of God as the ‘Word age’ and also said the
‘mind age’, wherein once you get past the eye, nothing is moving.
So, if nothing is moving past the eye… And the neck is not part of the
body. It’s that flange. And there’s only one joint I know of that
you can actually use, (You’ve got muscles controlling your eyes and
things.) that’s the jawbone. And the tongue’s in there. So, when the
Head came down, He ‘jawboned’ us and He ‘tongued’ us. Kind of a
crude expression, but it’s true. The jawboning was by “THUS SAITH
THE LORD,” so we sat down and shut up.

36.	Now, notice; the last moving part is the eye. That’s not a joint
controlled by muscles. Now the eye goes to the mind, same like the
earball...the eyeball, the earball. Never mind this; forget it, forget
it. You’re dealing with two things: eye and ear. That’s in the head.
Eye is not down here; ear is not down here; mouth is not down here. So,
be careful, little mouth, how you spout, for a lot of rotten lies are
coming out, see, but not from God. Come in here; your heart comes out
true.

37.	Now, what I’m trying to show you is this: The last moving part is
the eye. And the eye is fully epitomized in the prophet, as is the
mouth. Now the prophet is gone. I want to ask you a question: If the
last moving part is the eye that sees, and the mouth is the last moving
part that ejects the Words, (Because that’s all it is, is ejection.)
can you honestly, then, look for something else? And the answer is,
“No.” 

	But the Full Gospel Businessmen looked to a dead man named Dr. Price
for something evidently he said to Demos [Shakarian] and some of the
people. And I can show you where Dr. Price went off on the Word of God.
I knew even before Bro. Branham came on the scene that Dr. Price was off
on the Word of God, because he, like Dr. Kenyon, preached a sermon on
“God and His Family”. I knew both were wrong. How did I know?
Because, you see, I didn’t belong to their age; I belonged to this
age. I’m a different person. I couldn’t take what they were
teaching. No way. 

38.	Now, Headship is here then according to Eph 1:17, and brings us up
to Eph 4:16 to about 19. And every one of us must come to grips with Rev
10:1-7, which is also Acts 3:19-26, which is also 1 Th 4:16, with all
its ramifications through the Scripture, which tells you exactly Who
came down and Who is what doing to whom—and the consequences.
Vindication all proves this.

	Now I don’t need to preach a whole sermon on this. Someone can come
behind me and take every one of these Scriptures and preach a whole
sermon. You don’t need it, if you’ve been listening at all. If you
haven’t, then get the tapes and get over it. Vindication proves it.
And by the grace of God we’ve had the opportunity to accept God and
His Word—not just God, but God according to His Word, and that alone
is true Word. Do you follow me? We don’t just accept God; we accept
God according to His vindicated Word. That’s why Jesus-Only is wrong.
That’s why only under the Seventh Seal could Bro. Branham bring it
out.

39.	There is no way to accept one—that’s ‘accept God, reject the
Word’; ‘accept the Word, reject God.’ You say, “How can you
reject God and accept the Word?” 

	Because this is a tremendous Book when It comes to philosophy and
psychology and psychiatry. You just live that, you’ve got a success
story right now. There is no way to accept just one, because God is the
Word as enunciated by Jesus Christ himself, who knew that he was going
to die and shed his Blood, and he knew what they would do about the
Blood: They would take the Blood, but not the Word. So, he said: [John
3]

(17)	For God sent not his son into the world (That’s “God loved the
world and gave him.”) to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved.

(18)	He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten son of God.

	So therefore, what God did is literally up to a choice. Now, up to the
choice again, if it’s in the affirmative, to receive him, there’s
something contingent to the choice.

40.	Yeah, let’s look at It:

(19)	And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

(20)	For every one that doeth evil (Now this is actually worshipping,
because we’re talking about God; we’re talking about the Messiah
role; we’re talking about Jesus dying; we’re talking about accepting
him; we’re talking about this. And two people make a choice—Cain and
Abel, and they both knew the living God, but one knew Him a way the
other didn’t. They both had the Word, but one had It the way another
didn’t. Yeah. See? Now:) neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
be reproved.

(21)	But he that doeth truth cometh to the light.

	In other words, once you start, from that point on, you’re not
afraid. 

	Let’s go on. I used to misunderstand Bro. Branham so thoroughly. I
told you many times, I’d come to a sermon, and I’d back off, just
stricken with terror, and say, “Hold it! Would you sooner hit it here
or hit it over there?” You’re not in control; you’re being
controlled. 

	And I’ve heard those same sermons sitting in a church, a church full
of people, and such darkness upon my soul, I could have screamed and run
out of the building, screaming. Yeah! Did you hear what I said? It’s
on tape! and don’t take it off. Don’t take it off. Darkness. I could
have said, “This is not the way it should be. I’m missing
something.” And I got alone and read it. And it wasn’t what I heard
with these stinking, loused up, uncircumcised, cruddy, manure-filled
ears from dogmas and creeds and experience, and a mind corroded. When
the mind turned to God, the veil was lifted, and I found it wasn’t
that way at all. If you want to breathe freely, take off your straight
jackets.

41.	No one can escape this, what I’m talking about, as It says in Acts
3:23, which Bro. Branham brought out in this very message and showed
that... I have preached this for years, a hundred percent with the
prophet, not remembering he said it. I was there when he said it. For It
says here:

(23)	And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. 

	That’s Malachi 4, all burnt over, no foolish virgin, no serpent seed,
nobody to come back, like Noah with sex, and rebuild the earth with sex.
No, it’s by the Resurrection. Yes, sir. 

42.	And, notice the particular way John the Baptist put it in Mt 3:1-12:

(1)	In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of
Judaea,

(2)	And saying, Repent ye: the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

(3)	For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The
voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight. (See? That was John’s testimony. He was a
Bible boy; he’s in the Bible; he’s the Word of God made manifest in
human flesh. Oh, yes.)

(4)	The same John had raiment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle
about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Well, if you
roast them and put them in honey, I guess they’re pretty good.)

(5)	Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region
around about Jordan,

(6)	And were baptized of him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

(7)	And when he saw many of the Sadducees and Pharisees...

	Now he didn’t ball these other guys out; he balled these big shots
that were calling the shots. Yeah. “We’ll have you, Bro. Branham,
for our meeting, but you know we’re not going to believe you. You’re
a drawing card. Yeah.”

	Finally it got he wasn’t a drawing card. Well, Carl Williams had
enough weight to keep bringing him in but no place else. 

43.	There you are again: Jesus, no place in the motel, but put him in a
barn on a manure heap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [Bro. Vayle sings:]

	“Oh, how I love Jesus. Yes, my own kind of Jesus.

	The one of my imagination, that’s the kind I love.

	But don’t tell the Word, don’t tell us the Word.

	It makes me very uneasy (and angry, too, if you only knew it),

	If you start telling the Word.” [Bro. Vayle sings to the tune of
“Oh, How I Love Jesus”.]

	Yeah. Oh, the devil loves that. Man! He hangs his big teeth out there
and he just loves that. Yeah.

44.	(7)	...The Sadducees, they came to John’s baptism, and John said,
O generation of vipers...(Now, how in the name of common sense can they
be vipers if their mammy and pappy weren’t vipers? Well, never mind
the mammy, just talk about the daddy, because the life is in the daddy.
“You are of your father, the devil, and the works of your
father...”) who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 

	Who even mentioned anything for you to stick your nose in here? You
don’t belong here; you’re not part. What are you doing here? These
boys are okay. Oh, something got stirred up, eh? And now you’re coming
to find out. Now, what are you going to do when you find out? 

	“Well,” said they, “Bro. Branham is a real man. You can believe
him when he discerns—boy, that trace and vision... But when it comes
to the Word...huh, huh, huh, huh, huh. You listen to us!”

	So now, if the devil can control people under the anointing, like
Judas, and they can produce gifts, they’re going to say, “Huh, huh,
huh. Come on. There’s more of us, boy, we’ve got it. That boy just
got too big for his britches. Him? Elijah? Hoo! hoo! hoo!”

	Well, don’t you think there’s going to be a real one sometime?

	“Oh, yeah, but when he comes, he’ll be one of us.”

	Their motto is not Heb 13:8. It’s the old Latin motto: Excelsior!
Onward and upward! Yeah. And you clothe yourselves in shining knight
armor and take a big sword and knock poor people’s heads off. 

	Excelsior! Do you know what ‘excelsior’ really is? ‘Excelsior’
is ‘fine wood shavings’. You didn’t even know that, did you?
That’s another name for ‘excelsior’—fine wood shavings. You can
pack anything in it. Oh, brother, what they pack in it—um, um, um.

45.	(7)	...Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

(8)	Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance. (What’s the
‘fruit meet for repentance’? Honestly come and questioning and
saying, “Are we right here? Are we right there? Is this the way to do
it?” Bro. Branham actually opened himself, time after time for
questions. Wonderful. That’s the Spirit of God.)

(9)	Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:
(and) I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up
children unto Abraham. (He wasn’t going to do that, of course, except
through the long process. Now, watch. Now, let’s listen carefully, and
see if you can catch something here. And I’ll help you catch it:)

(10)	And now the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every
tree which bringeth not good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
(Interpolation:)

(11)	I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh
after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and fire:

(12)	Whose fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner; and burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.

46.	I ask you a question: verse 10, verse 12, the interpolation is
simply what it said in those two verses of 10 and 12: the Judge will be
there in 10, and He’s going to do it.

	Now I want to ask you a question: From the words that I emphasized, and
what the Judge is going to do, is there any difference between verse 10
and verse 12? Now, look at it. We’re going to take an axe; we’re
going to cut down the trees; all those that don’t have the right fruit
we’re going to burn. Now we’re going to take a combine and cut down
the wheat and all the tares and chaff, and we’re going to put the
wheat in the barn, and then, we’re going to burn up the chaff.

47.	Now you’ve been hearing me preach for years and years. You’ve
been hearing Bro. Branham’s messages. I’ve showed you time after
time how God says things by switching phraseology.

	What does this mean to you? Well, I’m not going to embarrass you, and
I’m not going to ask for any answers. I’ll explain it to you.

	Number one: a tree grows over the centuries. We have sequoia trees that
I think are 1300 years old; we have trees that are gingko trees, they
say are 4,000 years old; we have trees, then, that started in the first
age, (Right?) the first time the Gospel was preached—started. Right?
And those trees have come up. All organization, every single thing, is
going to be chopped down except the Bride Tree that gets her second
wind. Right?

	Now you go to the wheat and the tares: Is it not true that the Gospel
was re-sowed under William Branham? All right. There’s your chaff, and
there’s your tares. Now they were spoken of way back yonder, but they
turned from Matthew 13 into a tree, and that tree was the mustard seed
tree, which is the least of all, grew into a tree that covered the
earth, and the foul birds of the air came. “Chop it down and burn it
up. Ain’t good for nothing.” But the Bride Tree came up along side
of it, and it was all but dead. Remember what killed it? The four bugs?
Yeah. We went through that: “Spoken Word Is Original Seed.”

48.	Now we’re here where it’s no longer a tree. You don’t have
time for it. It’s a seed sown that brings forth a wheat crop and
brings forth a tare crop: the ‘flashing red lights’ of destruction.
“I hear the noise of the combine.” What Bro. Branham’s sown is
coming into a fast harvest. The wheat will be gathered in the garner,
separated from the chaff. That is done by what? Matthew 24, the Word.
But where the chaff is burned, the wheat is separated in Luke 17 by the
Rapture.

	Now you can see that something at the end time happens to bring on a
quick harvest where the reaper overtakes the sower, where the wheat is
sown and the hot desert sun, as it were, with plenteous rain, bringing
forth a virgin crop—very few, but they’ll be there. This will bring
about the end of time as we know it. So, this is Malachi 4, as we saw in
Scripture.

	Thus at this end time, there is a sowing of the Word and a harvest, and
it has to be identical to the original, or forget it. And, if it is
original, then there is an espousal to the Bridegroom, the definitive
marriage, the definitive, invisible union. Remember, that was preached
in 1965, just before Bro. Branham preached his last few series over in
California.

49.	“So, we have a choice today,” said Bro. Branham. “We can be
led by God Himself.” 

	Where’s the Lamb? He never said he would lead you. He’s the Lamb!
When he said, “I am the good Shepherd,” that was God, the good
Shepherd. He’s a mediator; he’s an intercessor; he’s talking to
the Father, the Father talks to him. Oh, yeah, he’s not dead or
comatose or lying on an altar, face down in the mud or something. 

	Listen, can you really believe there are people who say they hear Bro.
Branham and listen to that drivel and preach that drivel? Now, don’t
get so high-minded you think you know something, or we know something.
That’s asinine. 

50.	“So, we have a choice today: We can be led by God Himself” and
be led to God Himself. The one terminology is: We can be led by the Holy
Spirit Himself to God Himself—which does not make them two different
people! No! No! No! Simply lets God fulfill His roles. Yeah. That’s
all. When He fulfilled the role of perfect Redeemer in Jesus and
Reconciler...no trouble with God—it’s people’s brains—they
can’t even read, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who is a man!” who at one time was set on the right hand of
the Majesty on High, and he’s still on the right hand of the Majesty
on High! Only this time he’s not on a mercy seat. He’s on the
throne, and he hasn’t changed one bit. No. He’s still waiting for
the Jews to come in, and he will get them in. Oh, yes, my friend. 

	“So, we have a choice today: We can be led by God Himself” and led
to God Himself, or be led by someone else (or some ones) and miss
eternal Life. For, if you miss Him, Who can bring you into eternal Life,
which simply means in plain English: not like God Himself, but a part of
God in a figure! (Huh?) which will be glorified flesh. Yeah! That’s
all there is. We don’t need to miss eternal Life, but we do have a
choice. All right.

51.	We’ll read one paragraph, so I’ll be able to say I read
something. 

[153] 	Sometime in life here we have to confront the thing just like
this young man did.

	Now I wish he’d have slapped them real hard like... It would have
been nice if he’d have said, “Sometime you have to confront this
same God, Who stood there in human flesh and now stands again in human
flesh.” Huh? Whoo-oo! That would’ve been like the eagle sweeping
over the chicken pen. You’d have seen the roosters and all the hens
squawk.

	I remember I was in a place one day, back in 1970. Jack Palmer and I,
and there were these three women—Pentecostal. So, they knew we were
preachers, and they checked us out. And I checked them out, and I wanted
to see how the hens would cackle. “Whock, whock, whock,” when I told
them all about: there is one God. They sort of jumped off the manure
pile and hid for cover for a while, but they came back and began to
realize that maybe their theology just didn’t quite add up. And I
didn’t wait around to find out; it would be impossible anyway.

52.	[153]	 Sometime in life we have to confront the thing just like this
young man did... Now, listen; they weren’t getting that. Are we
getting it? Sometime in life we have to...

	Now, listen; you say, “Well, just a minute, now, Bro-Bro-Bro-Bro-Bro.
Branham...hey! Bro. Branham...”

	Now, just you listen: Bro. Branham was not going back six thousand
years; he was not going back two thousand years; he was not going back
to 1906 even, when the Pentecostal movement broke out. He wasn’t even
born in 1906. This generation, this people sitting there in the sound of
his voice and the tapes and the books, you, personally, are going to
have to confront the Pillar of Fire, Almighty God, just like this man
did. Though He was veiled at that time in human flesh, the flesh of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and William Branham has gone on now, now He’s
veiled in the Word completely.

53.	[153] 	And you’re going to have to confront Him, like this young
man did, because we are mortal beings and we are given the
opportunity...

	“I don’t know where He was... What’s this William Branham talking
about? Where is God anyway? What about that stuff in the clouds and Him
coming down? Wha-wha-wha-wha-wha?”

	“Well, in that day, Bro. Vayle, ignorance will get me by.”

	Will it? You didn’t know it was a meat grinder when you stuck your
hand in and got your hand chawed up? Oh, ignorance got you by, didn’t
it? You didn’t know that you were like that poor man in Africa who saw
a rabbit go down a hole and stuck his hand in to pull the rabbit out,
and a snake bit him and he died.

	Oh, his ignorance should have saved him. Oh, come on.
Tst-tst-tst-tst-tst. Shee! Brother/Sister, listen; please don’t argue
with me on these things.

54.	[153] 	...You have a choice. Bro. Branham had a choice. He wanted to
make the wrong choice, but God wouldn’t let him. You and I have a
choice, too, and by the grace of God, who influenced us. “My sheep
hear My Voice, and they follow Me.” God made it so you...Who’s
‘you’? Who are you? Gene of God, or not a gene of God... You, the
soul, can choose. If He put Adam and Eve on free moral agency so they
could choose, and then they made the wrong choice... Now, listen; their
wrong choice was not like you and I have a wrong choice. Let’s get
that flat. The Book of Romans tells us that. And, see, He can do no more
than He did to them. He’s got to put you to the same thing so you can
choose or reject.

	Now I ask you a question: Adam we know had a son, Enos, when he was 130
years old. How old he was with Abel, we don’t know; and Seth, we
don’t know. But the thing I’m looking at is this: that fellow lived
to be almost a thousand years old. Now, what if he’d have been going
along just right, until the year 999, (Huh?) and he made a wrong choice?
Over, right?

	Do you see why every tree dies at the end time—gets burned up? Every
tree. I don’t care if they’re right till this hour. I don’t care
who was right. If at this hour you make that choice, which is wrong, as
Adam did and Eve, it’s over. It’s death. The foolish virgin will
die. They didn’t learn in time. No, no, no. They didn’t learn. They
had to have fresh vessels for oil. The same old goat skin dried out, or
calfbelly, or whatever it was. You put the fermented wine in
there—blow it all apart. It won’t work. You can’t put an old patch
on a new garment. It won’t work. It’s all there. See?

55.	Now he said: Listen; if He gave Adam that choice... Now, remember.
Now, look at it: He’s now comparing the Garden of Eden with his own
Message, his own ministry and the Messenger—God Himself...huh? God
Himself—right? turned Judge—always was—brought the
Word...rejected...judged; brings the Word...rejected...judged! What
about us? Alpha is omega. As Bro. Branham often said, “Do what you
like.” 

	He’s got to do the same thing. Remember, he said, “The same One
that came down there to them that botched it, is the same One that came
here to the result of the botch of the botches.” 

56.	We’re under the homosexual privileges we now have today, and I’m
a hundred percent against them. I wouldn’t abuse them. I wouldn’t
kill them, but I would not give them any rights at all. I would
ostracize every single one and say, “Get out of this church. I’ve
nothing to do with you.”

	Now, if everybody goes homosexual, where are the babies going to come
from? Well, you’ve got Navratilova, the great homo tennis player. She
wants a baby, but she’s not going to know a man. Interesting! Is she
going to bear a baboon or something? That’s not a joking matter. The
fact of the matter is: She’s got to get a germ somewhere. She’s
going to have to milk a male somewhere—from the sperm bank maybe.

	So, I’m trying to tell you: There’s going to be a time when they
ain’t even human to make a choice—and they’re that way already.
Mendel’s Law: That’s a good thing that came out of the Catholic
Church. That monk proved, you know, mutation, selection of genes; and
the dominant always wins. And the serpent was a mighty big fellow, and
so was Cain, and so was his progeny. The dominant factor is running
today. You better believe it’s serpent seed, because God is not going
to destroy even His foolish virgin. They get killed, as far as I know
the Scripture. I could be wrong, but I doubt very much—even the
144,000.

57.	Now I don’t even want to think of this; but, when you’re
changed, your thinking changes. If you and I have a part of coming with
Him upon those horses, and we’re going to be a part of the
extermination, you give me one reason why the death penalty is not in
effect right now. Give me one reason why a man can rape a woman and not
pay death penalty. Give me one reason.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, what if it was you?”

	Then kill me. I deserve it.

	“What if it’s your son?”

	Kill him. He asked for it.

	“What about my kids?”

	Kill them. They asked for it.

	You say, “Oh, Bro. Vayle...”

	Don’t “Bro. Vayle” me. You’ve got a different book from what
I’ve got. Fire will soon take the whole thing over. Thank God. By His
grace, may we be out of here. I don’t know.

58.	Well, next Saturday we’ll read it again and start in. Many times
you can’t hear these preambles too often, because they’re the parts
that I feel I get from God from this Word here that I want to pass on to
you. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, unto Thy great and holy Name and Thy great and
wonderful self, through the Lord Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior, our
man that is on that throne up there, we give You back to Your Word,
trusting that in any way, shape and form, anything is mispronounced,
misrepresented, mis-said in any way, forgive us, we pray, in Jesus’
Name.

	And, correct us by this Own Word of Yours, O God, not by Your divine
intervention, as though we have to have something special ourselves. No,
no, no, no, no. We have the Word of the prophet and Your Word here and
Your Holy Spirit to help us and guide us into all truth and keep us firm
in the faith. 

	We thank You, Lord, for Your help today. Now unto the King, eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only-wise God, be all power, honor and glory,
through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. 

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”

 (17)  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him: (18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that we may
know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints.