Leadership #24

 Oneness of the Godhead

October 16, 1994

	Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Presence, and we know that many
things are attributed unto Jesus, the Only-begotten Son, and those
things perhaps aren’t always right. As we think of the Lord treading
upon the earth, over the grass, there wouldn’t be any grass that was
bent, we wouldn’t see His footsteps in the dew, but the fact of the
matter is His footsteps thundered across Judea, and around Galilee, and
everywhere He went. And even so, today, those same footsteps, which were
Your footsteps, now here by the Holy Ghost have thundered around the
world, and yet people refuse to look. They refuse to believe. They are
so enamored and inured with their own understanding, which is so wrong,
and so vitally wrong, Lord, that they cannot turn to truth. 

	But we realize that it’s all for a purpose there that in this last
hour of deception, men deceive themselves. It isn’t a matter of You
deceiving, though You do send strong deception. It’s a matter of how
people take it. And they have taken it entirely in a wrong way, and yet
in a right way, because very few will find the straight and narrow way,
and very few will be in the ark of safety. 

	So, we praise You, Lord, that we are not amongst those who believe in
this last hour it’s ‘softly and tenderly’, a mild rapping on the
door, a little voice of some description, that just may awake a little
chord. Not so. But, Lord, a mighty, vindicating God came forth on the
scene, vindicating His prophet, vindicating His Word, the thunders have
thundered, Lion has roared. Lo, we know this to be the truth, Father,
and the awakening in our hearts has been wonderful. We appreciate it.
May we ever feed upon the Bread of Life. We give You glory, in Jesus’
Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now we are over here, number twenty-four on “Leadership”, and in
our last two dissertations on “Leadership”, studying only five short
paragraphs, we found Bro. Branham hitting right at the heart of his
phenomenal ministry’s purpose for coming to the Pentecostal Age
Christians. It was God attracting the people of the Seventh Church Age,
because there was a new Message from God to come forth in order to bring
out the very elect. The tremendous impact of discerning and seeing the
gift of healing in operation, even to the extent where everyone in a
long prayer line was healed, whether they be deaf, blind, dumb,
crippled, dying of cancer, TB, and every other kind of disease…seeing
the mighty works of God was not entertainment, but vindication by God
Himself, though God Himself needs no vindication, Him personally, that a
new Message was about to come forth and thereby no other Message, no
matter how revered, how powerful, how gratifying, how anything, could
now give life, but death, because God had spoken. 

	And his ministry, Bro. Branham’s, was received equally as well as
Jesus Christ’s, until he, like Jesus, began to teach the truth. But
the people, then, and now today, could not receive Word so contrary to
their creeds and dogmas and their way of life and worship and so
on--like the woman at the well--and their own understanding in
particular what they’re taught by people superior and over them--and
what they drum up themselves--and this in spite of ‘THUS SAITH THE
LORD’ of Deuteronomy 18, which could not be duplicated, and was not
something given at that time for replication. It came and it went as it
did in the beginning of the Gentile ages. It will not repeat itself
whatsoever. 

	When Jesus declared he and the Father were one, even explaining it in
detail, as it’s been done today, they said, “He made himself God,”
which he denied, and thoroughly explained why he wasn’t God. 

2.	Now, let’s stop there for just a little second. We want to go to
Colossians, and we could read 1:19 first.

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.

	And that’s an actual summation of the fact that God by Christ Jesus
created all things, no matter what they were, and this one, by whom God
created: (That was His Son.)

…he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (That is,
they’re still maintained.)

…he’s the head of the body, the church: …the beginning, the
firstborn from among the dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence. 

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.

	So, it is very apparent here that whatever God did, it was already
predetermined and carried out that God would still do it, particularly
through that one, regardless of whether the position was amplified and
further glorified, or went into what we might call a diminishing, as It
says in Philippians, on a temporary basis, Father and Son in the
relationship. Then in Col 2:9, where It tells you beware of the
philosophies and traditions of men, who can’t figure things out,
because they can’t apprehend what’s from the spirit. Of course,
they’re not equipped.

3.	And notice:

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

	So, in this body, this person of the body, the fullness of God dwells.
Now, what would be the fullness of God? Well, as I understand, without
trying to look into the Greek and everything else, I would understand
this to be, that whatever God had within Him, and God Himself programmed
through His Own sovereignty for release, It would be released through
this one. Now, that may sound strange, but it isn’t strange, because
that’s how it’s supposed to be.

4.	Now in Jn 1:1:

(1)	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.

	Now, categorically Bro. Branham said, “If you make the Word Jesus,
you have three gods.” Now he said that because he never ever dwelt, in
my understanding, with any type of delineation upon the incorrectness of
Trinity and Oneness and, then, brought in the Twoness. He never ever
touched Twoness--two gods. So, he said, “If you take the Word and make
it Jesus…” and, of course, that’s the Son of God. And that’s the
one that came in his Father’s Name. So, if you attribute to Jesus, the
man, called that at his birth, circumcised the eighth day, dedicated,
prophesied over, et cetera, cetera, you’re wrong. The Word is God
Himself.

5.	Now, that’s a term that Greek students say that John found much
better than the terminology that the Hebrews used. So, we look at the
word ‘logos’. Now the word ‘logos’ itself must be understood to
come forth from another word, which is ‘lego’, which means ‘to lay
forth’, that is, ‘relate in words in systematic discourse’. In
other words, it’s got to be something absolutely cohesive,
enlightening. It can’t be muddled; it can’t leave ifs, ands or buts;
it can’t leave you to wander with your own thinking. In other words,
this would be in every sense a most scientific dissertation in the sense
that, as science goes and relates numbers in certain order, so that H2O
is always H2O, equals water. O3 is ozone. I think you can get O up to a
five, even. I don’t know how many… Who knows? Do you know how many
it can go to? Who knows? You haven’t studied. Doesn’t matter.
We’ve got scientists here who work with it. And I can tell you right
now, if either Rusty or Peter had any doubt that oxygen and hydrogen
combines in a one and a two, or different from that, they’d quit their
jobs. In fact they wouldn’t have a job. There wouldn’t be a company
to go to.

6.	So, when we speak of ‘lego’ being ‘a delineation’, it is the
ultimate discourse, setting forth, laying forth. To add a word or take a
word impugns your judgment, because you’re stupid! How are you going
to do better than God? Oh no problem, black hats, black clothes, invent
something, refuse this, take that, hallelujah. Nuh-uh-uh. Hold it. I beg
your pardon. Even the tabernacle in the wilderness could not have a
flaw! And every single person engaged therein was full of the Holy Ghost
in whatever measure was needed to give him the scientific skill, even as
Bezaleel became an artificer in silver and gold and brass. And I’ll
bet you today nobody could touch him! 

	We talk about what we see in the Parthenon and over in Greece there,
the Acropolis, and we marvel at how beautiful they had it planned out,
so that you stand here, and they had the pillars askew! Yep. Because
perspective of the eye skews things up. Do you know, by looking, you can
get all skewed up? Like they did under Jesus and under William Branham?
And you’re not seeing what you think you see, unless God takes that
Word and focuses to your eye. So, if you think you can work outside of a
divine revelation, you are wrong. Huh? Certainly. He’s got to reveal
His Word.

	Anyway, no matter how perfect it was made, so the columns were slightly
contoured, so you could stand back and see in perfection, you know,
point of view, vanishing point, of high-rise, and all that kind of
stuff. I’m not an artist, but I know that much. Even I can draw a line
and show you where the eye goes. You take a building, you have to work
on it. Now we don’t here. We run it perfectly mathematically, because
we live in it, and have it as perfect as you can.

7.	But what I’m saying here is this: that no human ability could ever
touch Bezaleel, because the same God that made H2O and every atom, every
neutron, and everything else, whatever it is, to the smallest, to the
smallest, to the smallest, until you get the soma tides; you can see
them with a microscope. I don’t care how far you go back, everything
is in perfect divine order and shall remain that way--and come back
after the perversion.

8.	So, when we talk about ‘lego’, we’re talking then about
something in the systematic discourse that is within itself flawless in
its presentation, because of the Presenter. Now I’m not talking about
anybody but God. Let’s get that flat. Holy men of God wrote this Book
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, period. And it takes the same Holy
Ghost in certain men to bring it into complete light. 

9.	Now the word ‘Logos’ from Jn 1:1 is, “Something said, including
the thought.” Something said, including the thought. Okay, here we go.
And we go to Ephesians 1.

Blessed be God and (the) Father (who is the) Lord Jesus Christ.

	Now, that’s how people in this Message are reading it! Jesus is not
God! Jesus denied he was God! Yet people say today, “You make Jesus
God.” I don’t make Jesus God; they make Jesus God! They’re
Jesus-Only. They don’t know what Bro. Branham said that I’m just
reading to you, or quoting you, out of Jn 1:1. 

	So, Bro. Branham effectively killed Jesus! Oh, did he? He never killed
him. He said, “You can’t make him the Word.” Because God is the
Word! The God and Father of this one is the Word! Now, it’s not that
Jesus can’t be the Word. Bro. Branham categorically said, “That
light that came forth, that was the Logos, that was the Word.” 

10.	Now, let’s go it again. “Something said, ‘including the
thought’.” Something said, including the thought. So therefore, what
I am thinking must be said in such a way as to make that thought come
out. In plain English you call a knife a ‘knife’, and a fork a
‘fork’. You don’t ask somebody when you say ‘knife’ to think
‘fork’, and when you think ‘fork’, they think ‘knife’.
They’ve got to think ‘knife’ when you think ‘knife’, got to
say ‘fork’ when you say ‘fork’, or the wife says to the husband,
“Do you mind helping me and put the forks on the table?” He goes and
gets the knives. Oh, brother. I guess some men are just that dumb, but I
doubt it. 

	So therefore, the Word expresses the thought, as Bro. Branham clearly
said. But God is not a thought! Huh? So, don’t just stop there, the
Word expresses the thought. Pass on. Don’t just stop there. Let’s go
right to the Greek. And this is what I’ve been trying to say for a
long time: God is not a thought, which a thought is impersonal; that is,
it is not a person, and you cannot have an impersonal or non-person God!
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God” simply boils
down to this truth: the Word is God, and God is the Word, and they are
nouns in apposition, which means they are one and the same thing. Where
A is equal to B, because B is A, and A is B.

11.	Now we must be careful to see that God has, or produces, thoughts.
Those thoughts written first, then verbalized, bring forth creation or
whatever else God has in mind, for He is sovereign. His thoughts set
forth to intelligent beings, like man, cannot return to Him void, but
must bring forth an action or production, what He thought, wrote, and
verbalized. But when we speak of Jn 1:1, where God Himself becomes Word,
then even as the Word expresses the thought, so God must be expressed!
God must be expressed! God must be expressed! Huh? Then, whatever form
or manifestation comes forth, actions included, must be God presenting
Himself! God veiling and unveiling Himself! Quoting the prophet, right?
God veiled in simplicity and revealing Himself in the same. And I found
that right in the Bible. William Branham didn’t know Greek. This is
how God went forth into a revelation of Himself from the Son of God
forming as a light, and then finally into flesh.

	So, here’s the secret of why we believe as we believe, at least I
believe as I believe, based upon Bro. Branham sending forth the
infallible signal, “We are not Oneness! So, don’t call me
Oneness!” Now, of course, that’s the doctrine; he was oneness as far
as the Godhead was concerned; he believed in one God. He did not believe
in three gods! He did not believe in two gods! But he saw the Son of God
in a vision! And that’s Elohim in a Pillar of Fire! (Bro. Vayle points
to the picture of the Pillar of Fire) And they were different. Huh? 

12.	All right. Collosians 2:9. Let’s take a look at It.

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

	In him God looked down and said, “This is my beloved Son in whom
I’m pleased.” And Bro. Branham brought them both together. “In
whom I am pleased to dwell in. In fact, I’m very well pleased to dwell
in him.” 

	So, there you find him, that virgin born one, who predated everything
but God Himself, who, when he was brought forth of the very substance
and essentiality of God, bringing the first one into existence, the
great Son of God, God by him created all things, and Bro. Branham told
how it was done. And you bring the same thing down, when he was in
flesh, how he healed the sick, and raised the dead, and did miracle
after miracle, and Jesus said, “God did it through me!” 

13.	Now, listen carefully; bodily then is a form. And so the fullness of
God in a body form. So therefore, every single thing that God was to
Himself, as Almighty God, Jehovah Elohim…and never forget the Book of
Isaiah is written very carefully. Elohim, Jehovah-Elohim, sometimes
it’s used as Adonai. We’ve never gone into it; we might sometime.
There’s not enough versed on it. Haven’t found the need. But you
will find He is Jehovah-Elohim. He is Jehovah-Elohim. 

	Now Jehovah-Elohim, whatever He is, and whatever He wants to do, coming
forth in a manifestation and His expression, and expressing Himself
personally because He’s a part of it, He does it through this one! And
He did it back there in the beginning! Even when this Son of God, this
light, mask, spirit substance… What I’m trying to tell you, it’s
real! Two! Not one. As Bro. Branham said, “Now there’s two.” And
Bro. Branham said, “Believe every word and put it together.” It’s
a bunch of people that Gordy knows… “Well, that’s just one
quote.” 

	So, Bro. Branham just fooled us with one quote, did he? So, you throw
it out? You better look and find out what Bro. Branham’s talking
about. 

14.	Now, watch carefully. Is not God creator? Do you agree? Is that
Pillar of Fire creator? How did He do it? Huh? Through the Son. Fine. Is
God not redeemer? How did He do it? Is He not Shepherd? What did Jesus
say? “I’m the great Shepherd.” 

	Now, here’s where we’re getting the doctrine of the oneness of the
Godhead. And I’ve watched this for years and years, but the simplicity
only struck after I realized I had said one thing in the pulpit that
could lead you astray. Maybe it was a private conversation, talking
about the Shepherd. I was in a sermon. And it sounded as though I was
negating Jesus. The point is: you do not negate Jesus. You’d better
watch out you’re not negating God, because the minute you negate
Jesus, you negate God. You negate God, you negate Jesus, and I’m
talking in terms of Father and Son. And I’m talking in terms though
God is the Father of Jesus, (Now, watch.) with all the glory that was
there in the beginning, there was something that Jesus Himself could not
have, unless and until he became a man, as he was way back there and
took over Michael alongside of Satan and led in the worship. I don’t
understand it; I just believe it. The same as Bro. Branham said, “God
came down, took a handful, blew in it, stepped into it, and when He got
finished He walked out, dust was dust again.” And yet the same one
could eat meat and everything else. 

	See, you just don’t let your thinking go. 

	“How could it be? How could it be?” 

	Oh, for heaven’s sake, shut-up! It’s the same old crud. 

	“I’ve got to have evolution somewhere because it doesn’t satisfy
me.” 

	I got news for you, if you don’t believe the Word of God, you don’t
know what dissatisfaction is till you hit the Lake of Fire. 

	Whereas Bro. Branham said, “I would sooner have the oath of the
Knights of Columbus perpetrated on me…” if it’s true. And I
believe it’s true. Because under the inquisition the Catholics would
do anything to the Protestants or anybody else that didn’t agree,
“…than be five minutes in the Great Tribulation.” 

	Even people who believe in the Lamb will curse God and gnaw their
tongues in pain and say, “Save us from the wrath of the Lamb.”
Disbelieving is a very serious thing when you’ve got vindication, my
brother/sister.

15.	So, we see that the fullness of God is in this one! In other words,
God expressing Himself! And if Bro. Branham was incorrect in Jn 1:1, and
how could he be, when Jesus himself said, “I am not God”… 

	The rich young man said, “Good master.”

	He said, “Don’t call me good unless you think I’m God, and I’m
not God. There’s only one good, that’s God.” 

	And he never went his full extent, as I was beginning to say, until he
took upon him a robe of flesh and suffered. He himself could not have
had that glorified body without suffering. He would have been a body of
glory, but that’s not it. What was the ultimate? Head of the church,
head of the Bride, Millennium, down the ages, all the ages to come.

16.	So, all right. Jesus said, “When you’ve seen me, you’ve seen
the Father, and I am not the Father! Because what you are seeing is the
body that the Father chose, and the works the body cannot do except the
Chooser of this body. And God indwells me, and I indwell Him.” Every
prophet from Moses, and perhaps predating Moses had the same.

	Now, here is why again we have only one God. But we have the Son. And
those who have him in a coma, or prone on the mercy seat, or gone back
to the dust, those who have him any other way than animate, sitting on
the Father’s throne, discoursing even now with God the Father, don’t
even believe the Scripture! They are willfully ignorant having gone back
to the false teachers of Trinity and Jesus-Only.

17.	I had a man write me a letter not long ago how I should get a
certain Oneness book, Jesus-Only, and he’d find that Bro. Branham was
identical. After Bro. Branham said he wasn’t? I don’t care if Bro.
Branham disagreed in only one word! He’s different. He explained
thoroughly he was not God, but the Son of God. 

	When they declared they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood, they
deserted him like rats in a sinking ship, because they could not accept
the analogy as the Omega of the Alpha manna and the smitten rock. They
couldn’t take it. God did that. And you know what it was? It was an
act of redemption of the flesh in a temporary manner. But the day would
come when eternal life would come by eating the flesh of the Son of God,
which we showed you in the Greek was ‘sarx’, which means ‘an
animal with the entire skin removed’ making a carcass, and God was
behind the skin. You take off the skin, Word: God in human flesh
expressing Himself, the complete discourse, the complete unveiling of
the mind of God, and the direction it takes, and in what manner it
takes, and under what conditions. And there he stood right there and
said, “Eat my flesh.” And they couldn’t understand. 

18.	Jesus said the same thing to Satan, “Man shall not live by bread
alone, but every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” And let
me tell you something, brother/sister. Every Word that proceeded out of
the mouth of God concerning redemption, everything else, was fulfilled
in Jesus right there. And it was God in him doing it. He was that
vessel. And look at the glorification Jesus has now and will get, which
he couldn’t have had before. What a glorification you and I have at
simply walking into it by the grace of God, which we could not have had,
had we not bypassed that Word body. God never has anybody in debt, that
is, indebted to them. 

	He said, “What will you give me to …?…” 

	He said, “I made it all.” 

	“What sacrifice you have formed?” 

	He said, “It’s all mine.” 

	He said, “Just do what you’re required to do, and that’s the
whole principle.” 

	He also said, “Drink my blood.” Now, let’s face it… “Or you
got no life in you.”

19.	Those actually come to the same thing, except we’re talking now
about the Holy Spirit coming upon that Word, you and I more and more
filled, until the last church age completely filled, and no one is left
but the Holy Spirit, the Baptizer Himself, justification gives way to
sanctification, sanctification gives way to the baptism, the baptism
gives way to the Holy Ghost Himself. Right? That’s Ephesians. If you
don’t believe Bro. Branham, you’ll find it right in Eph 1:13-14.

	We also saw the fact of ‘eating’ is the exact word used in the
Garden of Eden, where they ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, which was sexual intercourse. We saw the same thing in Songs of
Solomon 2, which is absolutely a sex act, is described perfectly. People
call it the pornographic, dirty book of the Bible. That’s a lie.
It’s Christ and the Bride. 

20. 	And Bro. Branham categorically said… What did he say? I’m going
to read It to you again. He said, [Spoken Word Original Seed, 03/18/65.]

[88-3]	That’s how adultery--that’s how adultery is committed
spiritually. When you, knowing better by the Word of God, by the
intercourse of the mind, (2 Corinthians 11, right? Absolutely.) take in
a lie of the devil against the Word of God: that’s exactly what Eve
did. With the spiritual intercourse first that came by believing
Satan’s lie into the womb of her mind, that polluted her soul, set
death in the soul; then the natural act took place. And that’s the
only way that a woman…can commit adultery against her husband, is to
first let some man talk her into it and then receiving it, a man
that’s not her husband. Then she’s commits adultery. And when the
Bride of Jesus Christ lets manmade creeds and dogmas take the place of
the Word of God, she is committing adultery. (Same thing.)

21.	[Marriage and Divorce, 02/21/65.]

[40-6]	Notice, He can put her away, but she cannot put Him away.
(Lopping off the branches.) He did it, and proved it, in the days of
Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, (See, they don’t believe that.) when they
refused to become the further part of Him by having Spiritual, sexual
affair to become pregnated with the further part of the Word. You
understand? She refused... The Lutheran church refused for Christ to
have any more desire with her. Luther refused it. Let me say this (going
to call me something anyhow), so is it today with every one of them!
They fail to take that Word! They refuse Christ! And any woman that
refuses a man, his child, has no right to be his wife.

	In other words the church deliberately did not want Christ to come back
here, though they said they did, proving one hundred percent, Bro.
Branham’s statement correct, Eve should have gone to the Tree of Life
for spiritual intercourse, and she should have brought forth that Seed!
She let the serpent take over. You tell me the Word of that prophet’s
not on the Word one hundred percent. They haven’t got a clue. The only
people who know anything about this truth, and any message at all, is we
who follow the Message. 

22.	Now we’re going to read on page 28 and 29, paragraphs 192 to 197,
(going on) because this sermon all the way refutes the Full Gospel
Businessmen, their self-proclaimed and self-ordained right to be leaders
of life, when they are already dead, even in the second death. Now,
sounds tough; doesn’t it? Well, eight people made it. Two more would
have swamped it.

	“Well, I think, Bro. Vayle, if some more would have tried to come on,
real sincere, God would have kicked out some animals.”

	Hah! You mean God would kick out one of His lovely animals for a
serpent seed? You’ve got to be kidding. You don’t belong in the same
pew I belong; you may claim you’re in the same church.

23.	All right. [Leadership, 07/12/65]

[193]	Look when he was first come on the earth, and started his
ministry, “O young Rabbi…Come down here.” 

[194]	…one day he stood up and said, “I and my Father are One.”
(That did it.)

[196]	“Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood,
you have no Life in you.”

[197]	“Oh, He’s a vampire! (He wants us all cannibals. Forget it.)

[198]	Those apostles sat right there; thousands left Him, but those
apostles were ordained to Life. 

	Now, listen; let’s get this flat! There were seventy people ordained
alongside of the twelve to go out and do miracles, and they did it. Find
me anything about those seventy having been given power by God to cast
out devils, heal the sick, and raise the dead, give sight to the blind,
speech to the dumb, hearing to the deaf. Tell me. They went, and so have
the Pentecostal--turned right away from the personal presence of eternal
Life Himself. 

24.	[198]	He said so. (What? “Eat my flesh, drink my blood.”) They
couldn’t explain It; they believed It. They stayed right with It
because, they said, “No man can do these works.”

	Now Bro. Branham is gigging them. Ah, I hear some teachers got a cattle
prod, and I don’t blame them, to give some kids in school a jolt in
the right direction. I don’t think it does any good. Temporarily they
think about it, and then, they’re right back to mischief. Bro. Branham
used a cattle prod on these guys here; they didn’t even know they were
stung though. When you have a conscience seared with a hot iron, or as
Bro. Branham said, no more conscience than a snake got hips, there’s
nothing too much anybody can do to wake you.

25.	[199]	Even the priests knew that. Nicodemus said, “We know” (And
he’s from the Sanhedrin.) “…no man can do these works except…God
be with him.”

	And you know he’s quoted by Luke in the Book of Acts. Jesus of
Nazareth, a man anointed of God with the Holy Spirit went about doing
good, because God was with him. Nicodemus knew that the anointing that
this man had to have was the Anointer Himself! But it didn’t reach him
at that time. Luke caught the drift right away, and he’s a Gentile, by
the way.

26.	[200]	Peter, on the day of Pentecost, said, “Jesus of Nazareth, a
man of God approved among you. God was with Him.” 

	So, Jesus wasn’t God. But when he had God with him in a particular
sense, in a particular way for a particular thing, you were looking at
God, because that was the expression. Yeah. And what God did through the
prophets’ bodily was only a small part when He did it all through
Jesus, and He’s still doing it. Huh? Do you think He’s not mediating
to bring in souls? You think He’s not interceding? That’s God’s
job. He said, “All day long I stretch forth my hands, nobody believes,
nobody comes.” Huh? Here’s the mediator, Jesus, stretching forth his
hands, but only the right one comes. “My sheep hear my voice and they
come.” God said, “They’re not of my fold. Blessed is the man whom
thou chooses and causes to approach unto Thy throne.” Jesus never said
one original Word. Every single Word was from God, already written down,
waiting to be verbalized. And when the proper time of manifestation
came, the whole delineation was there: God revealed! Just take away the
skin. That’s all. Take away the prophet’s skin. God veiled behind
badgers skins. Not anymore; not anymore.

27.	[201]	Look in the Scriptures, what the Scriptures said to do. Jesus
said, “Search the Scriptures, in them you think you have eternal Life.


	You think you have eternal Life; you think you know the Word of God.
You think. Not only know it, but you do it. You think you’re one with
the Word. Search them! Go ahead and really look into it! Attach a
microscope to each eyeball; let the light of God hit it. You think you
have eternal Life. 

[201]	They are what testifies of me. If you would have known Moses,
you’d have known me, for Moses wrote that I would come, in the form
that I would come—prophet.

	Oh, yeah. Listen to me, Israel as a church cut its throat, until God
scattered them, and there’s hardly any Jews ever coming in. And at the
end there’s only one hundred and forty-four thousand, when they get
grafted in. So, what’s He going to do at the end time? He made a
little promise to His little Bride. “The bruised reed I won’t crush
and break; the smoking flax I will not quench,” but He said, “I’m
going to come in judgment and bring you forth into victory, little
Bride.” And the rest, well, they’re fatted as calves for the
slaughter, the Great Tribulation, the second death.

28.	[202]	He comes in three names, as God. Three (like Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost), same Go; it’s three attributes.

[203]	Now, then also, justification, sanctification: Luther, Wesley,
Pentecostals; same thing: three attributes, three stages, three church
ages.

	Why is He coming in three stages? Because at the end of the fourth age
they cease to drift, for judgment from age one to age four is sealed in.
It’s all over for them! Now it’s time to rise from the dead. So, God
begins to bring life back to the root of the tree, which has been
thoroughly cut down under Luther, Wesley, the Pentecostals.

29.	[204]	Same thing: water, blood, spirit. Always as you go along, the
three elements that take you back into the body of Christ. (The one that
brought it down: water, blood, spirit. The same thing takes us back:
water, blood, spirit. Takes it back. No difference.) Like it brings you
from natural birth, types your spiritual birth. The baby’s born; first
thing’s water, next blood, then life. That’s the way you come into
the Kingdom of God. 

	That’s the way you come into the Kingdom of God, because you already
had a gene of God, a part of God, which is your soul! And you could have
been stillborn, and you would have made it. You could have died after
three months--no problem. The life Bro. Branham’s talking about is the
giving of a genuine life to the muscles and nerves and the connection to
the brain, the whole thing. And you need that spirit which is allowed of
God, but is not of God, or you’d be baptized with the Holy Ghost the
minute you’re born. That’s why John the Baptist was not baptized
with the Holy Ghost the minute he was born; he was baptized with the
Holy Ghost before he was born. See? Why? Because he was a very special
person. 

30.	[204]	That’s the way you come into the Kingdom of God, the same
way. See? That’s the way the church comes in, the same thing. Same
thing. Now, notice on these three things, how God is forming His body.

[205]	Now, we find that in here, that you have a right in your choice.
(Now you go back to the choice. You have eternal life, or not have it.
Now you can marry, or not have a woman.) You choose the girl you want to
marry; she accepts you. All right. 

	Now, right today you can choose Hagar, or you can choose Sarah. It
doesn’t matter, as far as you do. I never did like the world church. I
would sit in church as a kid under a preacher that was a louse-bound
heathen, if there ever was one, denied the virgin birth and everything
else, yet he wanted us to believe in God. And my greatest entertainment
was pulling the blowflies off the window and pulling their wings off. Or
picking up a pen and jamming them on a pin to make a little barbell. It
was a dirty thing to do. Little dumbbell, you watch them hand it back
and forth in their feet. 

	When it came time to join the church, we were supposed to take
Communion. I was scared to death to take Communion. I didn’t know;
just scared to death. 

	“Well,” he said, “son,” he said, “was there anything ever in
my sermons to make you want to, you know, interest you and to pick you
up to turn you toward God?” 

	“Well,” I said, “I really don’t know.” I said, “I know in
the springtime I felt a little better.” 

	Yep, and that was a complete turn off. The guy ahead of him, I was too
young to know. I knew he was a man of God; it was like a magnet. I sat
right in the very front bench, and my eyes riveted on that man. Didn’t
know what he was saying, but I knew he had something from God. Same like
I knew Bro. Branham: “That’s the man you listen to.” So, later on,
then, I got saved; I took Communion. Yeah, it was all right. Then I
heard the Message; I took foot washing. I couldn’t figure why foot
washing was any good, because we weren’t over there in the East in hot
weather running our feet through manure, but it’s a type. 

31.	So, all right, he says here:

[205]	You choose the girl you want to marry.

	Do you want Mount Sinai, do you want Mount Zion? Now Mount Sinai goes
to anything that’s manmade, or given to man, but which in itself
cannot bring forth life! See? You could stand by and say, “Woman have
a baby; woman have a baby; woman have a baby! I declare you pregnant! I
declare… We wrote a law into existence, Mao Se Tong, wrote it.” Who
cares about him? “Ramsey wrote it; Napoleon wrote it; the queen wrote
it! Woman, you get pregnant now, because I say so.” Oh, for heaven… 

	Life begets life! And there’s only one Word that’s a conduit of
life, and that’s God’s Word. Or even Adam wouldn’t have had It.
And therefore, he became a propagator. So, the church has its manmade
creeds and laws and everything, and it says now, “Be pregnant! Bring
forth that Son! Bring forth that Son! Bring forth that Son! We’re
going to do it!” 

	They’re going to do nothing, but go to hell.

32.	Now the point is this, in this special hour of grace, the Full
Gospel Businessmen, everybody, had the chance, the choice, the option to
pick a Bride. Well, how in the world are you going to pick a Bride when
you already figure that you’re Bride? You’re the real McCoy? See?
Well…

[205]	You choose the girl you want to marry; she accepts you. All right.


	In other words there’s a choice within us which will indicate which
way we are going, to organization, or the living Word of God. And I’ve
heard people call this Message everything, and boy do they call my
preaching everything. I don’t think Bro. Branham needs to, you know,
what they say, shake in his grave, but what they’re saying about him,
half as much, if I was dead… Well, it would be fine if I were, but
maybe I have even more right to shake in mine. But everything that
they’re calling me, they’d have to call him, because I only preach
what he says here. I don’t preach anything else.

33.	[206]	 …another thing, you have a choice of whether you want to
live or whether you don’t want to live. (See, he’s right back to
choice number one again.) You choose between Life and death. You can
live.

[207]	That boy had that choice. He was successful in everything else: a
religious man, but he knew that when that... He spoke it of himself,
“I’ve observed all these commandments since I was a youth,” and he
knew he didn’t have eternal Life. See? (Or why would he say, “What
can I do to get it?”) And he had a choice to accept It or refuse It,
and he turned It down. That was the most fatal mistake he could have
ever made. The rest of It wouldn’t (have really mattered,) amounted to
anything. It doesn’t amount to anything, unless you take that choice.

	So, Bro. Branham is talking again now at the Presence of God, and what
that Presence means.

34.	Now:

[208]	Now, let us follow him at his choosing, and see where it led
him…. Now, see where he chose. Look, he was a rich man, …a
businessman, …a ruler, …a religious man. All that! (So with the
FGBM, Full Gospel Businessmen.)

[209]	Today we’d say, “Boy, he’s a genuine Methodist, or Baptist,
or a Pentecostal. He’s a real fellow, real nice boy. Fine!” Nothing
you could say about him; friendly, nice, sociable, everything. Nothing
immoral about him. He didn’t probably smoke, drink, or run around to
shows and dances, and whatever we’d call it today, as we would class a
Christian. But that isn’t eternal Life yet! (See, that’s just really
a sanctifying process you can go through.) That isn’t what we’re
talking about. He might have been loyal to his church, in which he
probably was. But, you see, and what did it lead…to? Great popularity.
Let’s say, if he was a preacher, and he could a-been... He got a
better church. He could a-been the state presbyter or a bishop. See? It
leads you to popularity, and it led him to riches and to fame.

[210]	It might do the same thing today…

	And boy the Full Gospel Businessmen, they’re all over the whole
world. Now they’re still derided by a lot of people, but they’ve
gotten so big, and so popular, so famous, so worldwide, prestige,
everything else, you simply can’t afford to bypass them, because it
wouldn’t be good business. After all, if you’ve got somebody that
buck De Beers and their diamonds for years and years, and finally came
out with a good grade of diamonds, like they did, at a better price, and
even better diamonds, De Beers wouldn’t last. They’d have to form
some kind of a union. And they always do. That’s why the Pentecostals
are back in the world council, and the majority don’t even know it.

	They’ve tried to make Dr. Bell apologize, (That’s Billy Graham’s
father-in-law.) years and years ago, and he said, “No way. I was
there.” They’re a part of it.

35.	[210]	 It might do the same thing today, if you have a great talent
to sing. I thought of that young man awhile ago that sang that song
here; how he gave that to the devil, and now he’s got it back... And
how different between him and Elvis Presley and some of those. Pat
Boone, and a group like that, Ernie Ford, and those guys, great singers;
and take their talents, their God-given talents, and use it to inspire
the works of the devil. 

	Sure, because they just don’t stop at hymns, and even if they did,
why, don’t you know that the devil sung praise unto God and worshipped
God? Huh? Sure. 

	[210]	That’s right. Some great singer selling their God-given talents
for fame in this world, to become a somebody. How could you become any
more of a “body” (or a somebody) than you could be a somebody, which
is a son of God? 

	See, you couldn’t possibly. Now, these people are like that, the Full
Gospel Businessmen.

[211]	I don’t care if you own the whole city, the whole world, and you
haven’t accepted the leadership of eternal Life by the Holy Spirit
(Christ), (and boy do they talk about Christ,) how you going to... Who
are you, anyway? You’re a dead mortal, dead in sins and trespasses!
Religious as you want to be; as faithful as you want to be to the
church; preacher, (your preacher,) if you want to be in the pulpit; but
to it turn down, you die!

	Now, that’s now. That’s now, just like the ‘alpha’, when Israel
got scattered, the religion’s gone, the worship is gone, a few elected
come in under the altar. That’s just because there has to be the seed
coming all the way down. 

	Now the point is: Does the Holy Spirit ever stop leading? My answer is
‘no,’ but you’ve got to know it’s the Holy Spirit. So, we see
here today they turned down Messiah, not knowing they did. (And believe
me, they didn’t.) They turned down the rescuer, the redeemer. And
remember; all that is done by leading! See? 

36.	[212]	Now this young fellow was a great success. (Like the
Businessmen.) He was a great success here in this life. Certainly. We
follow him a little bit, and we see he got to be greatly successful. And
we follow him through the Bible. We find him a rich man. He’s got such
great…places, he was entertaining the judge and the mayor of the city,
or what-more. He’s up on top of his roof, great banquets; plenty of
waitresses, …women, girls, …everything else, around him.

	I think he’s talking about the Full Gospel Businessmen’s banquets.
I was there at a couple of them. Boy do they put on the dog.

	[212]	And there’s a beggar lying at the gate, named Lazarus. He
sweeps the crumbs off…him. We know the story. The next thing, he goes
on successful, just like the churches are today.

	In other words, it’s a smug, self-righteous, self-serving,
despicable, hypocritical set-up. I think I could put a few more words in
but I just ran out. But God didn’t. They’re deceived and deceiving.
They’re liars; the truth is not in them. They like the original ones,
of whom Jesus said, “If I had not done the works that no other man
did.” (Period! Now a dash.)—“they had no sin. They do now. For
they’ve seen the works, and they hate both me and my Father.”

	“Well, bless God; we believe Mark 16.” 

	I don’t care if you do. When they fussed at Jesus, because of his
stand, he said, “Just a minute, what good work do you condemn me
for?” 

	They said, “Nothing.”

	He said, “Now, hold it. Let’s go further. If I by the finger of God
cast out devils, by whom are your children casting out devils?” They
must have been casting out devils, and praying for the sick, and seeing
God move. 

	Now Jesus wasn’t fantasizing. They never came back and said, “Now,
hold it; tell us which of our people are casting out devils like you?”
Huh? 

37.	Then later on, there were a bunch of people going around casting out
devils, even talking about Jesus, I guess. I’m pretty sure they were.
Disciples came back, and they said, “Lord, I think we better call down
fire from heaven, because these guys are casting out devils, like
we’re doing.” 

	And Jesus said, “You know what spirit you’re of, hold it.” 

	And so the Full Gospel Businessmen didn’t know what spirit they were
of, just anointed. Like these people were. True baptism, brother/sister,
goes way beyond that.

38.	[213]	A businessman sitting here, telling me right here in
California, that the church has to tell the labor union what to do.
(That’s why Bro. Branham warned the labor unions, “It’s okay to
stay with them until the church takes over.”) See, it’s coming
church and state again. It’s right on you. You see, you’re right in
there, and you take a mark of the beast not knowing it. 

	Now, that concord the pope made with Israel… You know, if you look at
Israel, that’s a funny, funny nation. They scream democracy; they
believe in socialism. They talk about liberty and freedom, but they’re
as bad as the Muslims. Come over there, “We’ll kill you if you try
to preach something else than we preach.” Yeah. What a mess today. 

39.	Now, listen carefully, this is something here that I wish we could
have had.

[214]	If you ever bought one of my tapes, get this when I get it, when I
get home, “The Trail of the Serpent”; (That was the beast in the
Eden, and the beast at the end time, the trail of the serpent all
through the Bible.) and you’ll see where it’s at, see where this
ends up at. 

	I wonder who got that tape. Well, there’s a great day coming called
the White Throne. Huh? Oh yeah, you could pull a lot of things off
today. You could make yourself high and mighty, but even when the devil
gets cast down to hell, they say, “Don’t tell me that insignificant?
He caused all this trouble?” He ain’t nothing. And he gets
annihilated. But the devil’s a pretty big shot until that time,
ain’t he? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. 

40.	[214]	Going home now to preach it, if the Lord willing. It’s about
four hours, so I couldn’t keep it at one of the meeting like this. I
have to go there where the church suffers with me so long, patiently.
(Boy I’d be willing to sit six hours on that.) You can listen to the
tape sometime in your home. 

	Actually I think that every single thing he said on that tape is in all
these tapes, but he just didn’t put it all together.

[215]	Notice this, now we find out that he became a great success (great
success). Then we find him later till he was a greater success, until he
said, “I’ve got so much!” (“Man, I don’t need William Branham.
Hah!” Notice the sarcasm. “I’ve got so much.”) Boy, he’d
a-made a great genuine guy of this day. Wouldn’t he? “Even my barns
has swelled out; they’re bursting. I’ve got so much till I said…

	“Why don’t you come and see how God made me rich, and you can get
rich too?” Then they send you letters, “We want your money.” Hah!
I didn’t send them a plug nickel. In the days when they had Sambo’s
I should have sent a wooden nickel for a cup of coffee. Huh? I never
found it in my interest to water a thistle or a pigweed that’s going
to mess up my garden.

	Prophet William Branham said, “Have nothing to do with that stuff!”
Dear little friend of mine died of cancer, rather than go… Even if the
guy would have guaranteed her healing, Bro. Branham said, “Stay away
from that stuff.” Discerning, and yet they’re running for
discernment, discernment, and discernment, and discernment. Well…

41.	[215]	“Oh,” he said, “I’ve got so much!” “Oh, soul, take
your rest.” 

	Like one fellow said, “This guy sure wasn’t too smart. He mistook
his soul for his body.” 

	 He said, “I’ve worked hard. Now it’s time to retire!” 

	You know, a lot of people die as soon as they retired, because they
find that working is good for them. Of course, those that are smart,
they get hobbies. They take up other things with their hands, utilize
their lives, and go on to something else. They don’t get heart attacks
and diabetes and things; they go on living. See, we’re supposed to
work here, and we’re supposed to work there. As I said, Bro. Branham
said we’re going to build houses; we’re going to work in heaven. If
you don’t like working you’d better not plan on going to heaven. 

42.	You know the wife is a helpmeet. The ‘helpmeet’ means ‘one of
the same species’. So what the husband is like, she’s like, exactly;
except for her femininity and her place in that particular specie.

	Now I realize that some male birds, they build the nest by themselves,
but I’m not sure that I know which they are. I think the wren usually
builds the nest, and then he starts singing that the female will join
him, and if she doesn’t like it, he’s got to build another one. But
usually I think most birds work together. I think husband and wife make
a good team. If they really work together, they can produce an awful lot
in their lives as spiritual people, physically sound people, moral
leaders, with a good sense of business.

43.	[216]	But what he did at the beginning, he rejected the leadership
of…Christ. 

	Now, that determines everything. How hard you work, what you do, what
you emass, what you don’t, nothing really matters, unless you got the
foundation. That no man can lay except God Himself, Jesus Christ. In
other words, you have that Word right there. 

[216]	His church, his intelligence, his education, …all, had lead him
to a success. And the Jews loved him. He gave to them, he helped them,
he might have done this, or that, or the other. But, you see, he
rejected the leadership of Jesus Christ, the eternal Life. And the Bible
said, “Thou fool, tonight your soul is required.”

	Just like Belshazzar. Kingdom was gone, everything shot, he paid no
never mind. So, in this hour, it’s all over! Malachi 4 whizzing
through six thousand years, like a split second. That’s all it is. And
eternity as though it didn’t exist. No, it doesn’t mean a thing.

44.	[217]	And now we find him (next place) in hell, lifting up his eyes
and seeing that beggar that he turned out on the street, now in the
bosom of Abraham. What a fatal mistake! how the churches had been all
right in the way that they went, but they still didn’t have eternal
Life. 

	Now Bro. Branham’s coming to the true meaning here. The personal
confrontation of God in human flesh by the ruler is Alpha--is the Omega
of the Full Gospel Businessmen and everybody with them, because now they
are the leaders and recognized as such! Yeah, they are. What’s Rome
doing leading? Hah, O God. They’re in the same stinking rut they’ve
been in for hundreds and hundreds of years! Going nowhere! Lutheran,
Baptist, Pentecostal! They’re the last! They’re the leaders.
They’re the ones that taught the fullness of the Holy Ghost and
baptism, gifts and everything else, so it’s everywhere. Pope’s
endorsed it. These guys are the leaders! And Bro. Branham said Duplessis
and this bunch took them right back to Rome. So, when the cream of the
crop, so-called, takes the wine and the dreg, so-called, back to Rome…
And dregs is at the bottom. That’s the stuff you got to get rid of.
That’s what they are right now. It’s all mother harlot and her
daughters.

45.	Again we see Daniel at Belshazzer’s feast. Mighty, great Full
Gospel Businessmen representing all the end time. And Bro. Branham said,
“The Kingdom is rent from you! The Great Tribulation and the Lake of
Fire, because that’s exactly what it says in Revelation, now face
you!” 

	And they looked around, “How to split the Kingdom up?” Huh? Oh
yeah; oh yeah. Ah, yes, these end time; they have their seat now with
all the rest. “So, we’ll all get together and divide the pot.” 

	And, what is the pot? Creeds and dogmas and everything else, and Bro.
Branham said, “If you talk about those, that they’re your food, you
will not get ready.” The way to get ready is not talk about it. Except
when I preach here and warn you, that’s a different thing. I’m not
telling you to think about it and want it. I’m warning you day by day,
and telling you, listen that stuff is dead! Talk this Word, and the Lord
will listen. You know, what does the Lord even give two bits about our
prayers? Come on. 

	“I’m going to twist God’s arm, you watch. Now, come on, Lord. Put
your arm, you know, we’re going to wrestle, arm wrestle.” 

	Well, He said, “That’s the way you want to play, I’ll give it to
you. But you’re still going to hell.”

46.	Bro. Branham said the truth, “You don’t have to ask God all the
time for things. You just live the life, believe the Word, they’ll
fall into your lap.” Where there’s something said to do, just do it.
Even a cup of cold water gets a reward, on this side and that side. But
the other side is where it really counts. When did we ever give a cup of
water to somebody? When did I do something for somebody? Yep.

47.	[218]	That reminds me of a sermon I preached here not long ago, “A
Thinking Man’s Filter”. You might have had it. I was going, walking
through the woods, …squirrel hunting (this fall) and I looked down.
And, of course, I can’t call the cigarette company. (That is its name,
but I would do it. It wouldn’t bother me any.) You know it anyway. And
there laid a cigarette pack lying there. And I just passed by it, …in
the woods. And I had seen that package lying there, and I looked back
again, it said, “A thinking man’s filter, a smoking man’s
taste.” I just started walking…through the woods.

[219]	And Holy Spirit said, “Turn and pick that up.”

[220]	And I reached down and picked it up, “A thinking man’s filter,
a smoking man’s taste.” I thought “American firm here, selling
death under disguisement (hypocrites, see?) to their own American
citizens.” A thinking man’s filter? A smoking man’s taste?

[221]	I was at the World Fair when Yul Brynner was there, and those
people up there, when he giving…that test. And how he put one
cigarette (You know, he smoked it, and then he threw it) across the
marbles (and the tower. Went down it, of course. That’s what he’s
saying.) Wiped up the nicotine and put it on a rat’s back, a white
rat, and in seven days he was so full of cancer he couldn’t walk. And
they said, “You know, they say a filter. It’s just a gimmick; it
only sells more cigarettes.” (Why? Because you crave for the next one
right away. He says here,)

[222]	It takes so much nicotine to satisfy that devil. 

	You know Bro. Branham hated women smoking more than women drinking? You
know why? A woman smoking, that’s great… [Bro. Vayle makes puffing
sounds.] O God, I hate it. But a woman drunk, you’ll want to do
something. 

48.	Read the Reader’s Digest the other day, I think it was the
Reader’s Digest, or maybe it was the news, where several women said,
“I wish I’d never smoked.” I think it was the Reader’s Digest.
Who knows what it is? Dave? Reader’s Digest. How about five women,
four women? Four or five women. Who hasn’t read it? Well, come on you
guys; you make copies and give ‘em around. And you’ll be glad you
never smoked. They’re dying of cancer and everything else. You know. I
figure our daughter might die of cancer. I hope she doesn’t. But
she’s got this one… [Bro. Vayle imitates Carel excusing herself.] I
said, “Girl, I want to tell you something. If you were smoking and you
were a spy or something, they’d throw you in jail, and you wouldn’t
have a cigarette.” I don’t think Carolyn [Lee] smoked her last day,
did she? No, she’s in the hospital. She couldn’t do it. But her
mother saw she had one; put it in her mouth. Women with cigarettes? Did
Bro. Branham see more than he talked? I tell you one thing, he didn’t
tell us everything, because he said one place, “I don’t want to make
you nervous.” All right.

49.	[222]	…so much nicotine to satisfy that devil. That’s right. And
when you take a filtered cigarette, it takes about four cigarettes to
take that one’s place. It’s a gimmick to sell you more cigarettes.
You cannot have smoke unless you’ve got tar; and tar, you’ve got
cancer. See how it is? And the blind Americans, looking for a rabbit to
come out of a hat somewhere, …fall for it. You can’t have it; it’s
death. I don’t care which way you go; it’s death any way you go.
“A thinking man’s filter.” A thinking man wouldn’t smoke at all
(That’s right.) if he’s got any thoughts at all. 

	In other words, he doesn’t even think. You know what it is? He wants,
and she wants, to smart off like the rest. Moody magazine in 1929, said,
“Men are smoking, but we just saw an ad in the paper, a woman standing
there, and she was standing near a pack of cigarettes.” They said,
“Mark our words, the next few advertisements going by, she’ll have
it in her hand!” Moody knew it! Moody church. Yeah. 

50.	[223]	Well, I thought that just can compare that to the churches.
See? I think. Has God got a filter? Yes.

[224]	And every church has got a filter. That’s right. They filter
ones that comes in, and they let a lot of death in too. (In other words
you got to join their church by their filter, which is subscribing to
them, as they see it, as they’re sure God sees it, because how could
they be wrong?)

[225]	How could you ever draw a denomination through God’s Filter?
(That’s the Word, enlivened by the Spirit.) How could you do it? How
could you draw a bobbed-hair woman through that Filter? Tell me. How
could you ever draw a woman that wears slacks through there, when
“It’s an abomination for her to put on a garment pertains to a
man”

	See, what she’s done, she’s denied her sexuality completely!
“From now on I’m a man!” Rosie the Riveter! Now she’s out there
pumping iron! She looks like a skinned cat! Oh, God I hate that. I
wouldn’t let her come near me! I’d just as soon as sit down with a
whore with AIDS. I’m burnt up about that stuff. I tell you the truth.
…“pertains to a man.” Now she acts like a man, swears like a man,
drinks like a man, smokes like a man! Out there being soldiers and
policemen, everything else! Firemen! 

	Then the recent survey on sexuality tries to tell America that
everything is normal. The hetro’s are just what they always were [said
sarcastically]. Pbbt! Bunch of stinking, rotten liars. Like they say
“figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.” Who did they go to,
under what condition? My prophet’s word said they’re growing thirty
percent a year in California, that’s twenty-nine years ago, or thirty
years ago. But oh, these statisticians are going to tell us different.
Forget the statistics. Tell me how you could draw a woman through the
Word with that. 

51.	[225]	See, God’s filter would catch her out there, It wouldn’t
let her come in. (But the church has got their own filters.) So I say
that there is a thinking man’s Filter, that’s God’s Word, and It
suits a holy man’s taste. That’s right, a holy man; not a church
man, but a holy man’s taste. Because It’s pure, holiness,
unadulterated Word of God! There is a thinking man’s Filter. And the
church member, I advise you to use That one.

[226]	Because it brings in the world, and one lump of it is death. One
lump leavens; one little leaven leavens the whole lump. “Whosoever
shall take one Word out of this, or add one word to It, his part will be
taken from the Book of Life.”

[227]	At the Garden of Eden, what caused death, and all this sorrow,
every heartache, every little dying baby, every rattle in the throat,
every ambulance screaming, every hospital, every graveyard? Was because
Eve doubted one Word (not all of It now,) it just perverted It. 

	Now, that’s what you want to watch, the adding or subtracting. A
double negative makes positively a positive. It’s not you taking a
word and adding, as though “I got to be so careful,” but you must be
careful. Even illustrating, you’ve got to be careful. You don’t
change It; you don’t change It. Don’t matter every word. You see, it
doesn’t matter, history, anything else, that Word of God gets
fulfilled, maybe a hundred percent unknown to anybody but God Himself,
and yet He’ll look down history and say, “It was already done there.
You missed it.” 

52.	How much in the Book of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, other books, were trying
to look down the future? Already went by. 

	“So why didn’t Bro. Branham go back and say it all then?” 

	Because his Message was life for this hour. The life had gone out of
it. Brother/sister, let’s face it, fertilizer does not give life to
the plant; it only helps the plant to live. And Bro. Branham said,
“The Word that’s gone by is dead. It’s like fertilizer.” I
don’t mean to use it in a bad sense now. But what do you do? It adds
to our life by seeing what’s gone by and the life has gone out of it,
and we see we’re coming up! It helps us! Like fertilizer to a plant.
Don’t throw away the Word of God. It’s all there; just leave it. She
perverted It. 

53.	[227]	…God said, “Man was to keep every Word of God.” Now,
that’s the first of the Bible. 

	You see? What do you got today when she perverted that into sexuality?
Today she’s lost her sexuality. And it’s not over yet. More and more
it’s going to be this way. It’s getting worse. Why? Because it’s
got to be a literally complete Sodom condition, where the Sodomites are
running the mayors and everything else, and they are because they’ve
got political clout! If you’ve got three hundred people that will vote
for one man, and six thousand that won’t, your three hundred will put
the man in! And since the Right to Life are foolishly killing people,
they’ll soon be out of existence. And if they have the right to kill
to protect life, like some of them are doing… I believe they’re
insane, myself. The Right to Life has no place on the streets or any
place else. But they’re a good outfit if they’d have just kept their
noses clean and stayed with the Word instead of their own folly and try
to do something different.

54.	All right. That’s the end for today. Covered a little more ground
than usual, but that’s to be expected. So, all right. When we see you
again, if we’re in any kind of fettle, fine--or halfway fine. Because
every day it seems like it’s harder to get out of bed and quicker to
want to jump back in. With that condition, one day I may decide to just
see what happens. Yep. All right. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You for the time You’ve given us today to
be together, to see what lies in this Message here, great and wondrous
things, Lord, which the prophet taught us, pinpointing everything right
down to this very hour, showing us the truth of it. So, Lord, we thank
You for it, and we pray now as we go here the women will be absolutely
feminine, and the men will be absolutely masculine, but only in the
Lord, acting as daughters and sons of Almighty God, even in every
relationship, which is as it should be, and that way, Lord, it’s a
little bit of the Millennium to go to the Millennium in, which You never
denied us, we’ve denied ourselves. 

	So we pray Lord, by Your grace and mercy, the family life will be
beautiful life, and the church life will be a beautiful life, looking
now and getting ready, practicing already, going into that further
beautiful life, where the worship and fellowship is so much more
wonderful, and everything is such dynamism, because a little period of
grace here is getting us all ready for it, and we’re nicely fitted,
and all this Word in here just bubbling and glowing and changing and
growing, certainly will make a most marvelous time in the land and the
days which are ahead of us. 

	And may we now just put all our trust and faith in there, Lord, and
nothing else, that we have seen You, Lord, full Logos, come forth in
manifestation, we know God Who is our Father, we know the truth of the
Scripture that said the head of the woman is man, and the head of man is
Christ, and the head of Christ is God. Lord, we recognize that all the
way through by Your Word, and by Your grace, we’ll be a part of it,
hallelujah. 

	Now bless each one, Father, and may be the sick amongst us be healed,
and may the needs be met, whatever they are, and, Father, continue to
give us wisdom and grace and understanding and strength for the day, for
the rest of the journey, we don’t believe it’s too far off now, for
which we praise You. 

	Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power, honor, and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You”