Leadership #30

Warning about Anointings

December 28, 1994

[The audio version of this message begins some time into Bro. Vayle’s
comments and announcements before he opens with the following prayer.]

	Heavenly Father, we know that truly the whole earth is filled with Your
glory because You are here, and Your glory is attendant upon You,
Father. And that light that shone forth, manifesting Your Presence and
for one great reason: that You might shine into the hearts of men and
women and bring them into victory and total deliverance at this time, as
God, the great Messiah, leading His people into the Wedding Supper, into
the Millennium. 

	We appreciate the fact, Lord, we know You’re here. We know You
deserve glory, Lord. We try to give You glory. We honor You and make
mention of Your Name so many, many times, at all times, Lord. And
we’re so happy to know that we can talk about vindication, we can talk
about truth, we can talk about worship in spirit and in truth, we can
talk about knowing You, all these things, Lord, that are so vital and
surreal, we do know. And Father, they fill our lives with glory and
future anticipation of Your greater glory manifested and the revelation
of Yourself, more and more coming to us until we’re more and more a
part of that, living in the beauty and holiness of it, Father, and
seeing the true power of the revelation manifested, which we believe is
soon to be in this earth and, then, continue on gloriously. 

	Bless our studies tonight. We give You praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, of course, remember that in this last series of meetings, Bro.
Branham started out in Shreveport, and there he preached his
Thanksgiving message, which was “The Invisible Union” which he
titled completely to the Bride, as an elder speaking to the elect lady.
And he was speaking to those, of course, and he boldly spoke. I realized
that his preaching in Shreveport there was literally a slap in the face
to some people because they weren’t so dumb that they didn’t realize
they weren’t excluded by the fact that Bro. Branham’s definitive
preaching and defining very carefully, even as Jesus did, as Paul did,
the truth of the Bride, that there would be a Word Bride. And, of
course, as I realize that it was not accepted, (And you could tell, of
course, as years went on, that his ministry down there was absolutely
not accepted.) it was the same as around the world. There just were
very, very few that actually heard the truth.

2.	And also, he preached the closing sermon, “On the Wings of a Snow
White Dove” which was a very beautiful sermon. And at the same time,
he mixed in, even there, some very strong rebuke to the Full Gospel
Businessmen in “Doing God a Service without It Being His Will.” And
then, he went on to Yuma. And, of course, here is where Bro. Branham had
told his people that, “I promise that I would always bring my messages
here first, but,” he said, “time has run out, and I’ve got to
actually do more teaching on the road, but you’ll get the tapes.”

	And so, in Yuma, Arizona, which is actually on the border of Arizona
and California, (It’s kind of like a dividing line there.) he was able
to bring forth the mystery of the Appearing and the Rapture showing that
the Appearing is literally the first step of, and into, the Rapture. And
then, of course, going on to California, we’ve covered all the
messages that he preached there. We came to “Leadership”, and we
found that “Leadership” really was, literally, in its entirety, a
rebuke to the people who had interposed themselves between the church
and God, or, you might say, the Holy Spirit.

3.	Now God can interpose Himself; that is Scriptural. He interposed
Himself when He came down and indwelt the tabernacle, Jesus Christ, the
righteous Son. But no one has the right to interpose himself, or any
group of people have any right to interpose, as though that person, or
those persons (And they’re organizations is what they are.) have any
divine right or any right whatsoever. 

	And, of course, you know that these men were like many other men; they
follow the so-called “Fishers of Men” which were more organizational
Baptists, Methodists, and what have you, that are fundamental. And they
didn’t proclaim, of course, the denominationals outside of
Pentecostals, that the ministry had failed, but they were terribly
anxious to become a part of the ministry in the winning of souls. And,
in so doing, you’ll notice that they organized. And, of course, Bro.
Branham said when the Full Gospel Businessmen organized, it was all over
between him and them. Now, I do know that he… I made sure that he knew
they were organized by giving him the literature where they had set
forth their creeds and dogmas and they had gone in totality to the
Trinitarian doctrine, which absolutely is idolatry. 

	And it’s kind of like a friend of mine just said. He said, concerning
the fact of the only-wise God… Now, he said, “Which one of the three
is the only-wise One?” What have you got? You’ve got the wisest one.
It’s always more like the three bears, isn’t it? Papa bear, mama
bear, and baby bear. It can’t hold water; there’s no truth to it.
But they organized, and Bro. Branham knew they were organized, and
therefore, they were gone. I mean they’re… Anything that they
thought they could’ve done was completely, then, going to waste. 

4.	So, we noted in… I think we’re in number thirty today. We noticed
the last time that Bro. Branham was dealing with Moses, who, contrary to
the young business man, received the leadership of eternal Life Himself,
was happy to forsake all, even far more than the young man, to inherit
the riches of Christ. Bro. Branham especially pointed out that as
pressures mounted on Moses, who forsook all and endured the mockings of
his adversaries, Moses did not give up. He was not like the rich young
ruler and Pentecostal businessmen, who could not take the chastisement,
which was, literally, their understanding of Scripture and doctrine, and
they would not take correction, proving they were bastard children. 

	Now, this is a very strong statement, but it’s a statement that you
have to deal with, if you’re not willing to throw over your doctrines,
which are not vindicated, to take the vindicated Word of God. (And
we’ll see Bro. Branham make a statement here that is absolutely just
like Jn 14:12. You’ll begin to understand.) You see that there is no
way that [that] person could possibly be born again and part of the
Bride and make the Rapture. Now millions of people are claiming
they’re going to make this Rapture. And some of them are getting very
hilarious. 

5.	I just forget the name of the man that started this Latter Rain
movement all over again, and he’s got five hundred and some different
places in the world now. I understand he and some of his head men were
brought up on sex charges. And so now, what they’ve got in the
churches (and I’m just bringing this out to show you what’s in the
churches now), they’re having a hilarious time laughing. It’s called
laughing in the spirit.

	Now, hey, listen, I knew all about that fifty—over fifty years ago.
Did you say, “Were you a partaker of some of them nincompoopentcy?”
Well, put it this way; I can tell you about it. It’s the same old
story: you can get gigged for anything, and tickle your funny bone or
anything else. And now the big thing is now, God wants us happy. Now,
nobody said that God didn’t want you happy, but God also wants you
serious. “Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.”

6.	I’m so glad that I can look back on over about thirty years and
better, when my life really began to turn around and get one with that
Word. I can look back with the satisfaction now, that I could never have
looked back before. I remembered my Creator. I took the Word, and I have
great satisfaction knowing that. What my position is and what happens,
that’s up to God entirely. But the Scripture certainly is fulfilled in
that, that happiness, and it’s not a giggly happiness, and it’s not
just laugh, laugh, laugh up a storm, as though God wants me happy. See?

7.	The point is that there are many things in life that are emotional,
and they come in the line of the psyche and the emotion. And there’s
such a thing called peace. And peace is the greatest… Jesus never
said, “My happiness I give unto you.” He said, “My peace I give
unto you. Let not your heart be troubled.” And then, he told them the
story of how to have peace, “to take my yoke upon you.” And get
linked up with me, he said, “For my yoke is easy and my burden is
light.” 

	And the fact of the matter is that you will always find that, under
chastisement, which comes by teaching… God doesn’t come to the
classroom, then look over the paper and go boing, boing, boing over
everybody’s head…just because he cleaned the temple out. Now,
listen, he cleaned the temple because He talked to them and they
wouldn’t listen. And when they wouldn’t listen, he got His dander
up. 

	Now you might say, “Well, now Bro. Branham said, ‘When God was in
Christ, sometimes it was God Himself speaking right through Christ, and
sometimes it was Jesus conversing,’” and sometimes it, like talking
to each other, and what have you. 

8.	Well, I would ask you a question: “Which one do you think cleansed
the temple, Jesus or his Father?” Well, I would put it this way: I
think Jesus did and his Father gave him the strength to do a good job.
That may be a little facetious, but the point is there is so much that
is involved in this Scripture that you cannot go off on a tangent and
kind of laugh yourself into a laughing-gas doctrine or religion. 

	Now, there’s nothing if you want to run around this room and scream
to get relaxed. Hey, if that’s what it takes, you know, I wouldn’t
argue the point—or get up and clap, happy, you know, just
“Hallelujah” march and a few things, and we could get a big drum in,
and that would wake up people who try to sleep a little bit, a few
kazoos and combs and things. I’m not… and you do your marching. What
I’m trying to tell is: psychology is all right. It’s like the Bible
says, “Bodily exercise profiteth little.” You don’t get hurt by
exercising; you don’t get hurt by using good psychology. But you’ll
never be a child of God by either of those. It’s the Word, and
you’ll see more and more in here where Bro. Branham brings It all the
time.

9.	You see, they couldn’t take that Word; that was the whole thing.
And that was a correction, see. That’s what I keep reading to you. And
I’ve seen many, many times that I read to you, and every time I read
it, you get a deeper and more powerful insight into what John the
Baptist did. Now, remember that John the Baptist was the third Elijah,
and Bro. Branham was the fourth Elijah, and he was to the Gentiles. And
in Lk 1:15 It says: 

(15)	…he shall be great in the sight of the Lord (God of Israel, and
so on.)

(16)	And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their
God.

	Now, that tells you right there that they were turned away from God.
And, yet, at the same time they were worshipping. And they knew there
was only one God, and they knew it was the God of Israel, they knew it
was the God who had written the Bible, they knew it was the God that
stood before Moses and Moses stood before Him, they knew their prophets;
they were vindicated. There was no trouble there. They were religious,
they were sincere; they were worshippers of God. But, as Bro. Branham
said, “The very God they claimed to worship, they were determined to
crucify.” Of course, they can’t crucify God; they crucified the Son
of God. And, of course, that was the life of the Father in him. You
never can get away from that. 

10.	I know many people try to think, “Well, God did this; God did
that.” The point is, when that son became incarnate from way back
yonder, that light that formed and, “this day have I begotten thee.
This day have I started my generations in thee.” That, actually, was a
part of the life of God. As I said on Sunday, looking at your own body,
where the islets of Langerhans, they produce insulin and not in your
heart. 

	So, God took that literal part of Him that would bring forth Fatherhood
and a human race for Him. And that was bodily…came bodily into Jesus
Christ. And Jesus never worked apart from God. There is no place where
Jesus ever had sovereignty committed to Him. No place. No place where
Jesus ever had omniscience committed to him…or omnipotence. Never. No,
everything was delegated to him, and He received authority and control
by it. 

11.	So anyway, we’re looking at this verse of Scripture. It says,
“He’s going to turn Israel back to God.” Now Israel would say,
“Well, what do you mean ‘Turn us back.’ We’re not even turned
away.” 

	See? And, notice here; “And he shall go before him in the spirit and
power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, even
the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.” [Lk 1:17] See, that tells
you what John the Baptist did. He told them what the Scripture really
meant, what Messiah was really about. And they couldn’t take it. 

12.	Now Jesus came on the scene thoroughly vindicated. And in his
vindication, he vindicated John because John did not do miracles or have
vindication. That’s what makes him such a great prophet. He stood
right up there where… You talk about intestinal fortitude. He stood
right there as a prophet that couldn’t prove one thing he said. And he
couldn’t do it. He said, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes…”
Why, he couldn’t prove anything. And Jesus came on the scene and, by
vindication, vindicated John the Baptist. You know now, at least one of
these days, God’s going to come on the scene and vindicate a Bride.
Right? The Bride’s going to be taken out of here. 

13.	So, all right. Now he’s saying in here that ‘turning the
hearts’ is ‘the disobedient to the wisdom of the just’. In other
words, the untutored, and those that did not know the truth, he turned
them to the truth. And this is exactly where we find Bro. Branham with
these Full Gospel Businessmen and the people. And we find that they are
not children of God, that they are illegitimate.

14.	Now, if you’re going to take the term illegitimate, according to
Bro. Branham’s definition, an illegitimate child in this hour is where
two married couples, you know, join the key club and she has a child by
the other man, not her husband. That child is absolutely, thoroughly
illegitimate. Now, in the old days, it was a matter of a man marrying a
woman other than a true Israelite, and the child, therefore, could not
get into the temple worship for ten generations. It took that long to
wash it out of the bloodstream. They… So, there wouldn’t be any
evidence or signs there, and that was just because it was wrong flesh in
there. 

	Well, now today, however, we find the apostle Paul agreeing with Bro.
Branham concurring with him that the children that cannot take
chastisement, they are illegitimate. Now, what are they illegitimate to?
They’re illegitimate to the Word. And so, therefore, any union that
they claim to have with God, that brings forth divergence, a separation
from the Word, proves that their union is not a union that is held in
the sight of God Himself.

15.	So, Bro. Branham says here that they couldn’t take chastisement.
They couldn’t take the Scriptural and doctrinal correction, proving
they were bastard children. Now, when you find that Bro. Branham
categorically said, “The greatest revelation under the Seven Seals,”
which would be the Seven Thunders also, “is that there is one God,”
what about the Jesus-Only people that didn’t take correction? See, we
have… My fights are with them right now. Yes, sir. You can hardly find
anybody that understands Godhead. They’re all Jesus-Only. They make
Jesus his own father. You find it’s Jesus-Only that says the Father
and the Son have a conversation. You can’t do it. They fail to realize
that God was in Christ and, therefore, they change principles.

16.	If you find one principle that God used, and that was successful,
let me tell you flat, (And it couldn’t be anything else but
successful.) it never changes. That’s in Ecclesiastes: What God does,
He does forever, and no man can put to it and no man can take from it,
because God does it. And this is something you learn, that men may fear
the Lord. And this goes more towards the sign of the prophet that, when
men see a prophet on the scene, vindicated, (And not only is the prophet
vindicated, but, let’s face it, God Himself is vindicated to the
people as to His actuality, to His reality, to His nature, and to what
He demands.) and you find people turn that down, well now, would you say
that they’re legitimate children of God? They’d be illegitimate. 

	They’re just like when Eve said, “I’ve gotten me a man from the
Lord.” As Bro. Branham said, “The orneriest prostitute in the world
can have a child by the drunkenest, rottenest bum in the world, and
because it’s a law that God set down, the child is of God, but it’s
only because of the law of nature.” So, Eve must’ve got quite a bit
of tutoring from the devil, from the serpent, before he snuck out of the
garden. But, anyway, we’re going on here. 

17.	And when it comes to emotions and reasonings and false revelations
and gifts of the spirit, they were at the head of the class. And the
Pentecostals are. They were falsely anointed to the vindicated Word.
They were the Judases, the Jannes, the Jambres, the Balaams, the Korahs,
the Dathans, the priests like Caiphas. They all started out to find out
about this Jesus of Nazareth, but as soon as he was repudiated by the
hierarchy, because he called their bluff on the doctrine, they
couldn’t take it, that he was indeed Messiah. So, they admitted that
they must have been wrong to entertain such a thought, and they went
back to their vomit. 

18.	So, all right. We’re going to start on page 37, and we’ll read
now.

[258]	Many times people start out, and they say, “Oh, I’ll do it.
Glory to God, I see it!” And let somebody laugh at you and make fun of
you, “Probably I was wrong.” I was just maybe a little bit too
hasty, and I shouldn’t have done that.

	I’m going to tell you something; there are two things that came to me
when I was very young. according to my own experience and what I was
taught, I received the Holy Spirit, and I got into some teaching. And in
the teaching I found the doctrine of ‘state and standing’, which I
knew to be correct. My spirit witnessed, everything in the Bible
witnessed, but I could not believe in eternal security or sovereignty.
Then, there came to me the doctrine of ‘no eternal hell’. And it was
just like floods of joy, and I said, “That’s great. I believe
that.” I said, “That’s right. How could you go to eternal hell and
be eternal there without having God in you? This is ridiculous.” And
so I turned it down. That’s sixty years ago, about, turned that down.

19.	At the same time, there came to me the doctrine, which I accepted,
thought it over, and rejected (because of the church I went to), which
was ‘the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the rebirth is one and the
same thing; there is no difference’. Now I believed it for one hour,
and I walked off. Now I’m going to tell you something: If you’re a
child of God, and the light comes to you and you walk off, you’ll pay
for it, you will pay for it. I paid for it. I paid for turning down
other things in the Word of God. 

	And today, most of us are too prone to turn down what is, not the
legitimatized Word, but the Word proven to be legitimate, and even more
than legitimate. It’s one of the integrity of God. And God does not
make loose statements in His Word just in order to curry favor with us
or just to make us feel good. I’m of the opinion that God is very
pragmatic: a door is a door, a dog is a dog, a pig is a pig, and a hog
is a hog, and a cow is a cow. He doesn’t mess things up. God does not
deal with hybrids. 

20.	Bro. Branham, preaching in “Spoken Word Is the Original Seed,”
never gave us one inch or one moment of time to believe that that Word
could ever change or any seed could ever change. That’s why in that
sermon, the principles of alpha and omega became so outstanding to me,
so that I could read now the Scripture and see It with an entirely
different understanding than I had before, in the sense that It was so
illuminated and expanded, enlarged, that I can see these things just
simple as A-B-C. And it’s not boasting; it’s just the truth, because
when you get working with a certain media, and you yourself are adept at
it, and you are highly qualified on the ground that that is your
destination, (That’s your predestination.) you are not going to have a
lot of trouble. You simply are not going to do it. 

21.	Oil floats on water. You can emulsify it; that is true, and I
imagine there have been people over the years who are sort of like
emulsified Christians. But in this hour, there are not any emulsified
Christians. In this hour it is life or death. Like as I mentioned the
other day, on Sunday, this Bible here, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil, was right there with the Tree of Life. Well, the Bible is the
Tree of Life, but it’s also the Tree of Death, because if you don’t
take it, you die. You try to live without it, you’re gone. You try to
worship, or do one thing, and say, “We’re getting the crowds;
we’re getting the healings; we’re getting the gifts; we got all
this,” that doesn’t mean one thing to God. 

	His Own Word tells you very tersely, distinctly and emphatically, and
He just brushes them right off into hell. “Why, depart from me, I
never knew you, you that work iniquity.” 

	Now, listen; this is not God saying now, “Now, I’ve got something
to tell you. You’re really nice people, and you’re my children, but
you just… Well, you know, kids, they don’t learn too good and adults
aren’t much better.” 

	Where do you find that in the Bible? I want to know where God fools
with His Word. You can’t find it; it isn’t there brother/sister.
See? When you deal with God, you might as well deal as science does,
with perimeters and parameters, because there isn’t any difference.
And I can take and show you this God, right with the human body, (We
laid it out here.) and you’re going to find, positively, you don’t
fool with God, brother/sister. You don’t get your own ideas about God.
And the only way you get that way, is by believing what the prophet
said, that which is vindicated, and you stand right here, life and
death. 

22.	So, they take the Word of God, and they use it wrong, and it becomes
a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I’m not saying God and the
devil’s the same thing, I’m just telling you that Bro. Branham’s
understanding of perversion and twins and the teaching of twins, (which
is the next most fabulous principle that Bro. Branham taught us) you
begin to change any of those things, you’ll lose out. And until you
can handle them, and do handle them, let me say this: You be careful how
you teach and what you teach, because you’re going to go way out of
the ballpark, and you’re going to take somebody with you. That’s why
it’s important that men learn the Word of God in such a way they can
instruct their families, so they know their families are safe, because
they’re not going to say one word that is going to draw them off, just
lay It right down the line.

	Now I know, that there’s a tremendous temptation, like Bro. Branham
mentioned Jannes and Jambres and Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, (See?) those
guys there. There’s a tremendous temptation for people to want to
organize in order to have an input or some type of control, rather than
God in control and our coming together on this Word. 

23.	But anyway, 

[259]	He said, “They that cannot stand chastisement. They are bastard
children and not the children of God.” (See, they cannot be corrected
and instructed.) See, they’re worked up under emotion.

	Now, that’s what they’re doing now. Everybody’s having a great
time laughing. Well, if that’s the best it does, I guess it’s all
right. I mean, to me, it’s like children, little kids, and pretty soon
they’ll be squabbling, “We have piped, and you have not danced.”
Yeah. 

	“Here we’re playing our magic flute for you. How come you’re not
enjoying it?” 

	Well, there’s so many voices in the air today. I’m not interested
in any one except that vindicated voice there. [Bro. Vayle points to the
picture of the Pillar of Fire above Bro. Branham.] I mean I stand, live
or die, with it. I could go to bed now and just close my eyes and sleep
and sleep the rest of my life; I’m so tired most of the time. Don’t
bother waking me. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, have you changed your mind?” 

	No, I don’t have a mind to change. 

	You say, “Well, what if you’d missed it?” 

	Then, so, I missed it. So, you’re so smart, don’t you miss it. You
know. 

	You say, “You’re a fatalist.”

	You bet your sweet life I’m a fatalist. So is God. Predestination is
fatalism, except for one thing: There’s a leeway within it, where you
can lay up treasures in heaven. But I’m going to tell you something,
don’t you worry too much about that, because if you’re a child of
God, God knows how to take you by the short hair on the back of your
neck and see that you are pointed in the right direction. As the old
song said, “He does not compel us to go against our will; He just
makes us willing to go.” That’s why God sent the hornets that time.
They weren’t moving until God sent the hornets; then they began to
move in a hurry. 

24.	Chastisement, see, they didn’t want it; they couldn’t take
correction. And the Seven Seals corrected. How much did Bro. Branham
actually preach when it came to conduct? Very, very, very little. And
the only reason he said so many times about women’s clothes was
because they kept disobeying him. Actually he knew it wasn’t going to
reach them. But, you know, then he wasn’t allowed to make an example
of anybody either, which he could have done.

	What would be the use of scaring a bunch of people into wearing long
skirts and keeping their hair long instead of short, if there was
nothing in the spirit there that really would help them? Huh, what would
be the use? What if Bro. Branham told some person in a prayer line,
“Look, you’ve got this terrible spirit on you. It’s a wicked,
filthy spirit on you, and you’re coming right up here. They’ll carry
you out of this building before midnight.” Then we’d get a whole
bunch of people scared stiff with no revelation…keep getting their
hair down past their shoulders as far as it would go and putting their
skirts to their ankles. 

	See, that’s not it. It’s teaching—vindicated teaching. If you
cannot subscribe to vindicated teaching, as I said time after time, (And
I know some men have problems with their wives with the heels and skirts
and things.) And women, simply… I simply don’t know where you’re
coming from. I don’t know where you’re coming from. I know our women
here don’t do that. If you tried wearing high heels here, I’d be
sure that someone put some real thick gum out there and direct you
ladies to it, and you’d lose your shoes and also your dignity, which
is what you need, if you have dignity—presumption, but not dignity. I
really… I just don’t understand. See. 

25.	He never told them to do a lot, “do this and do that.” He said,
“Listen.” And the correction of the Word, the path of the righteous
shine more and more to the perfect day, and in the Word is the power to
transform, and these people turned It down. And they turned It down,
turning down the Giver for the gifts. Now they didn’t believe that He
was there. Certainly not. 

	How much impression, anyway, does God ever make on anybody when you
consider Solomon? Huh? Here he raised his hands in the great temple,
smoke filled the temple, priests couldn’t stand to minister, and you
talk about a prayer. Well, hey, that guys like a… I think the Cherubim
couldn’t beat him. And pray. What did he end up as? An idolater! What
happened? He went off the Word! That’s what Eve did. She was a nice
lady, but she just went off the Word. Adam was a fine man; he went off
the Word. Now God’s going to have a Bride. That’s why Bro.
Branham’s preaching these sermons the way he has at the very last,
maybe ten sermons he preached—eight or ten of them. He wants the
people to understand. See? 

26.	Now, [259] “He said, “They cannot stand correction...”” They
cannot stand the Word coming to them to show that they are wrong.

	Yet almost everybody says, “Well, show me how to be right. Show me
how to be right.” 

	And then, they run to their preacher and say, “Well, hey, I heard a
fellow talk about this guy named William Branham. What about him?”

	“Oh, he was a skunk. Yeah. Oh, he was… He believed Jesus-Only; was
one God. Forget it. Oh my; ho, ho, ho, ho.” 

	And the fellow doesn’t know enough about William Branham to say,
“Well, sir, can I compare William Branham with you? Have you ever had
a vision? What have you prophesied? Have you raised the dead? Have you
turned thousands and thousands to Christ? What do you do with money? Do
you work on money like William Branham does, or do you have like scads
and scads of dough like you’re trying to build an empire or
something?” 

	But the poor guy never knows anything about William Branham to say
anything. All he’s got is a few sermons in his hands from somebody, if
he’s got even that much. And so the pastors, the clergy, the
hierarchy, they turn these poor fellows away. Just like that rich young
ruler. 

27.	[259]	You see, they’re bastards, …not…children of God. See?
They’re worked up on emotion. See, the seed that I talked about a
while ago, (Now, watch that.) …the seed that I talked about a while
ago, that soul… (Now, seed and soul is synonymous. If they’re not
synonymous, they are concurrently within each other, and you can’t
tell where one starts and the other ends off at.) See, the seed that I
talked about awhile ago, that soul wasn’t there to start with. (The
right soul, the soul from God, the seed of God, wasn’t with them, and
they could not take correction.)

	Now, isn’t that the strangest thing, to get entirely lost over what
you believe the Scripture says and you know jolly well that the church
down the street doesn’t agree with you, but then, you have a
touchstone and you have a rabbit’s foot, and the rabbit foot’s name
is Jesus, the sweet little baby born in a manger, so “it really
doesn’t matter about the Word because we got Jesus.”

	Well, you’re entirely wrong—entirely wrong—because there’s
nothing about that man, that we call Jesus, that is anything but the
Word. He came as the Word, which means he was actually the Son of
God—Logos in that particular sense.

	He wasn’t just representing. Let me tell you: Jesus did not represent
the Son of God. He was the Son of God. And you and I are not
representing sons of God; we are, or we are not, sons of God. Now you
can say, “Well, I don’t know that my life…”

	Who said anything about your life at this point? That’s the whole
stinking thing that everybody’s all messed up on. Eve got messed up
getting from behind the Word and so did Adam. The thing is, is get with
this Word, and they did not want to get with this Word.

28.	The great Reverend Duplicity [sic] himself said that, you know,
“You can’t trust Bro. Branham except when he’s telling you what
your trouble is with your body.” 

	Well, isn’t that great? Well, all that would mean is William Branham
had more on the ball than the doctor, who is scientifically trained,
so-called. What was he doing in the pulpit? Why didn’t he open a
clinic? See? 

	No, most people claim that they want to be right, but just as soon as
it comes in conflict, you find they don’t want to be right, that is,
you telling them how to be right. Now you can see why we have such
problems with this ‘two-god’ business, which is so silly it’s
pitiful. I never did believe in ‘god the son’ or two gods, but I
always knew that Son’s mighty important—mighty important. He’s
still making intercession, as Bro. Branham said. All right.

29.	[259] “See, the seed that I talked about awhile ago, that soul
wasn’t there to start with.” Now, if it wasn’t there to start
with, there’s no way you’re going to get it. 

	Now, see; there’s the fallacy of what they think is the rebirth:
“I’m a pig, and by rebirth I can get changed into a sheep.” 

	Well, just a minute, if you were a pig, if you were drunken, debauched,
come in the world telling lies, as Bro. Branham said, filthy as all get
out, and now, you’ve changed your life entirely… I want to ask you a
question: Did you change from being the man you were, or did you just
change spiritually? You didn’t change from the man you were. If you
started with heart trouble, ten-to-one you got heart trouble after
you’re born again. If you got kidney trouble, it’s ten-to-one it
didn’t leave you. Not saying it couldn’t, under the right
circumstances. 

	But you could even, maybe, go down in the water to be baptized, the
water be too cold, and you could choke to death maybe. I don’t know; I
never heard of it being done. But I’m trying to get across to you. You
didn’t change; something happened to your nature within you by the
power of God that caused you to begin to move in the correct direction
of the works and Word of God. So, there was an anointing there. There
was something that happened, but it did not change you at all. You’re
that same person.

30.	So now, what we’re looking at here is: You cannot get a change
from what you are; you are either seed or you are not seed. And if you
are seed, you will want that Word, and then, you will want to abide by
that Word. You won’t be wanting to say, “Tell me, what must I do to
inherit life—to earn a life? Tell me and give me a program.” It
won’t be that way. 

	It would be more like, “Tell me the story of Jesus.” It will be
wanting the Word because the Word is what counts. And here’s where the
churches with their legalism have hurt people so terribly much. They put
the cart before the horse. They want the people with their good works
and all, hoping by those good works, they’ll suddenly begin to evolve
into a position where they can really claim to be children of God
because they’re walking a certain circumspect path. 

	Well, what about over here? If you want a certain circumspect path…
Listen, I’m not against right conduct. You know, I believe in right
conduct. But, you know, it’s first things first. 

31.	What about this? “I speak with the tongues of men and angels and
have not got the Holy Ghost. I can prophesy, understand mysteries, have
all knowledge, have all faith, move mountains. I’m not… and I still
don’t have the Holy Ghost. I bestow all my goods to feed the poor; I
even give my body to be burned. I still don’t have the Holy Ghost. I
don’t have any prophet at all. There’s no prophet.” 

	You see? Now this person is in a great works program. And the works
program is coming from the Bible. So now, you’re going to turn around
and say, “Well, don’t tell me for one minute this great man here
isn’t full of the Holy Ghost. Look at all those souls he’s
winning.” 

	How many souls is Billy Graham actually leading to Jesus Christ and are
going to be part of the Bride? I mean if there’s any, I don’t know.
I’m not saying there couldn’t be. I ask the question. He’s as
organized as anybody that ever came on the face of the earth; he’s a
very good friend of all the popes. Finally, in his older age, even in
his seventies, he’s regretting that he was so political-minded that he
had to hobnob with presidents. Of course, that gave him a real build up;
you know, gave him a real stimulus—the old thing called pride, you
know, in there. 

	So, the point is: to be born of the uncorrupted Word can only be to the
elect, and they are predestinated to It.

32.	Now he says here:

[259]	It was anointed with the Spirit, and he done all kinds of things,
and when you’re spirit’s anointed, you can… It’s the real,
genuine Holy Ghost, and you could still be a devil.

	Now, this is something, of course, that Bro. Branham preached and
nobody else ever did, except the Nazarenes when they wanted to call the
Pentecostals full of the devil. And they didn’t say that you’ve got
the Holy Ghost because you speak in tongues. They said, “You’re a
devil, and you’re talking in devilish tongues.” And the Missionary
Alliance, when they saw the gifts manifested, they branded it of the
devil, and the Missionary Alliance died. And whatever they’re doing,
don’t ask me. If there’s any foolish virgin, that’s between them
and God.

	But I’m narrowing it down again so that you’ll understand: Eight
people made the ark. So, never mind the percentage, mind the reason that
the eight made the ark, and nobody else, because nobody listened. Now,
that’s the whole thing. And Noah, and his boys, and perhaps the women,
were the only ones that pitched in and built the ark. 

33.	Now, whether this is true or not, I can’t say, but I heard the
other day that there is a man that’s been to Turkey and down to Mt.
Ararat, and they brought back some nuts and bolts which are magnesium
and titanium which are space age materials. And some of the wood has cat
hair in it, and they’re saying, “Well, that could well be the
ark.” 

	Well, I’m certainly not surprised they can find space age materials.
Bro. Branham said it was the atomic bombs that brought the cataclysm on.


	You don’t find that God is taking clubs and beating people up. The
trouble is men make their own clubs and beat themselves up and blame it
onto God, because God will not have His laws tampered with; He won’t
have His laws changed. And His laws will be obeyed, or there’s a
penalty to pay.

34.	Now, when he said, “…you could be still a devil,” let’s
remember this: All power is of God, and the power that the devil
exercises right now, with all deceivableness, even to the extent that he
is permitted, that his children can use gifts of the Holy Ghost, that
God pours His Spirit upon the flesh. Now His Spirit doesn’t get down
into the soul. But it anoints the flesh. And many, many things happen,
and people don’t want to admit that. But I’m sorry; you’ve got to
admit it because the Scripture says “All power is of God.” The devil
doesn’t have any power, except what the Lord allows him. And when Adam
blew that contract with Eve, there was nothing we can do until the time
expires and that time runs out. 

35.	[260]	“Oh,” you say, “Oh, Brother Branham!” 

]261]	False prophets! The Bible said, “In the last days there’d be
false prophets.” Jesus said, “There shall rise false Christs.” Not
“false Jesuses,” now—nobody would stand still for that—but
‘false Christs’.’ Christ’ means, ‘anointed one’.

	Now, you see, when you’re talking about Christ, you’re talking
about Messiah. Now, why did Israel need a Messiah? “Messiah, Messiah,
Messiah. Well, Messiah is going to come and deliver us and put us way up
here over it all.” 

	Exactly! Exactly! That’s Christ. He’s the One that’s going to do
it. See? 

	Now, these anointed ones are telling you, “Listen, we’re here to
get you out of your mess, and you ride our toboggan.” 

	Of course, they don’t tell you toboggans always go down hill. But
anything looks expedient, flashy, gets anybody interested. “You come
with us, and we’ll get you there.”

36.	Now, they’re anointed even to the extent that they could have
dreams and visions, prophecies, some might even raise the dead; I
believe Judas could’ve done it. I don’t know that he did, but he was
anointed to. And he was a devil. 

	See, ‘Christ’ means ‘anointed one.’ It means ‘anointed;’
that’s true, ‘Christ’ actually means ‘anointed’ or
‘anointer’. But I’m asking you, what does He do? 

	“Well, we’ve got this anointed one.” 

	“Well, what does he do?” 

	“Well, I don’t know. He’s just anointed.” 

	Well, I don’t think I’m even going to get curious, except wondering
what’s in your brain. You say, “He’s anointed.” What’s he
going to do with his anointing? What is it all about? Where do I come
in? 

37.	Now, Bro. Branham was anointed like nobody else. How many said,
“Hey, what’s this anointing for? Where do I come in on this?
What’s this anyway?” 

	Why they just declared themselves: “Hey, hallelujah, strange, this
guys a Baptist. He’s ain’t Pentecost, but glory be to God, it shows
the whole world. Now, God’s taken a Baptist to prove all the world
that we Pentecostals have got it. Yeah!” 

	Isn’t that exactly what it was? They said, “Hallelujah, that’s a
big anointing. We’ll get one too.” 

	And these men, now, are leaders. They’re dying off, just like we’re
dying off. They’re going to have to answer the roll call.

	They’re going to have to talk to God, and God’s going to say,
“Why did you turn down my servant? You knew that nobody had anything
like this for two thousand years. Even the historian said so. Now, what
made you think you could set yourself apart and be a judge?” 

38.	Now, “with what measure you meet, the same measure is given unto
you.” Now, if there’s no respect given to God, He said, “He that
doesn’t respect me, him will I lightly respect also. He that turns
away his ear from hearing my Word or the law, I’ll turn away my ear
from hearing his prayer. Many will come in that day and say, ‘Lord,
Lord…’” They’re praying now. 

	“Hey, I haven’t got time for you.” 

	Why? Because what we’re looking at here, brother/sister, is White
Throne. We are before the White Throne. Don’t go looking down the
road.

	See, I’ve had this fight with Branhamites for years: always looking
back or always looking down the road. I’m not interested in looking
down the road; I’m looking down my nose—what can I see when I point
my nose toward the Word. When I point my heart towards God, what begins
to form, from my knowledge of this message, I can take to the Word and
see some of those things that were not known from before the foundation
of the world.

39.	You can’t find some of the things in this Bible here that Bro.
Branham said as literal doctrines until you begin to realize, on the
principle of alpha and omega, he is telling you the one hundred percent,
definitive truth, because turnip seed will always bring a turnip. It
won’t bring a rhubarb or pomegranate.

	And he said the two toughest books in the Bible the devil hates with a
vengeance are Genesis and Revelation. The devil can’t stand original
spoken Word seed, and he can’t stand to see the end of it all. So,
what’s planted comes forth, so it doesn’t matter what you think you
read or what you think you hear: shut up and sit down! and cringe like a
dog at the master’s feet lest you miss a crumb from the table! That
should be the attitude of every one of us. Not something arrogant.

	You’ve got so many Gnostics today it’s pitiful; they’ve gone
beyond Bro. Branham. Oh, they’ll give you the great mysteries. Tell me
one time I’ve told you anything from Bro. Branham I cannot go to this
Word, and take it right back. Now you’ve got the tapes. I challenge
you; get the tapes. Copy everything down; you’ve got a right to ask
questions.

	“No,” you say, “I’m a believer.”

	God’s not looking just for worshippers. That’s a lot of hogwash. Do
you know why? He’s going to make them worship anyway! One day, every
knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, and He can throw them in
the Lake of Fire for all I know. That’s His business to do it. The
point is, what about now, before the White Throne? What about now, “He
that receiveth whomsoever I send, receives me.” And on those
conditions, of receiving me under those conditions, you receive the One
that even sent me. Yeah. 

40.	I ask you a question: How was Jesus sent? Huh? Not just born on
earth and full of the Holy Ghost, God was in Him. So, what if we find a
man now, like a prophet like William Branham, that Jesus has to send
because there is nothing else he can do? He’s the mediator; he stands
between God and men. 

	So, all right. The plan is, we’re going to send… The man must be
sent—identical manner. He said, “I’ll send you.” It would have
to be in order for them to receive Him and receive the Father. That’s
what happens. We have a prophet and God in the prophet, and William
Branham said, “You’re looking at me, aren’t you?” Oh, brother,
do you think this crowd could take that? Why most Branhamites, they just
pass it over like, you know, “Well, you know,
interesting—interesting.” 

	This to me is not just interesting: Is it right? Am I on the right
track? Never mind my conduct. Never mind that. My conduct isn’t worth
two bits. Without this passive faith, my active faith isn’t worth a
plug nickel. But I’ll tell you one thing: you’ve got the right
passive faith, you’re active faith can be pretty, pretty, pretty,
good. You’re right up there, too, because Paul said that those with
the right passive faith: be careful how you build and lay up treasure in
heaven, not wood, hay and stubble that get destroyed. Oh, yeah, you
could, you could… 

41.	[259]	It’s a real, genuine Holy Ghost anointing upon you, (Yeah.)
and you could still be a devil.

[261]	‘Christ’ means ‘the anointed one’. Falsely anointed. They
are anointed, but they are false at the bottom of it; and do great signs
and wonders, speak in tongues, dance in the Spirit, (Now they’re
laughing, uproariously.) and preach the gospel.

	I remember years ago, there was a guy so tickled with his own
preaching, he couldn’t stop laughing, and I got so disgusted I
could’ve shot him. I don’t know if I’d like to hear a series of
giggling spirits. I am kind of a tough customer. I don’t mean to be,
but I’ll just be honest with you. Look, if I don’t like rhubarb,
I’ll tell you flat I don’t like rhubarb. If I like it, I’ll tell
you I like rhubarb. But I try not to be a hypocrite. I try not even to
like something because you like it and want me to like it. I hope
we’re all that honest in a sweet way, or try to be that honest in a
sweet way. 

	But I love this Word; this is the main thing. And It’s not something
to pique my curiosity or to satisfy any appetite I might have for the
unique, or to be able to say I know these things that others do not
know. Well, I sure don’t mind it, but why shouldn’t I? On the
grounds of our instructions that we have here, in these messages from
the prophet. False prophets, the Bible said there’d be; they do great
signs and wonders.

42.	[262]	Judas Iscariot did it! …Caiaphas prophesied! Balaam, the
hypocrite! (Notice what he said, “Balaam, the hypocrite.”) Sure, did
all the signs, everything, all the religious moves. See?

[263]	But, you see, you put a cocklebur seed and a wheat seed in the
same bed and pour the water down upon them and anoint them, they’ll
both rejoice.

	Now, that doesn’t mean right here he’s saying, ‘Now, look; you
can be a piece of ground, and you can have a seed from God in you and a
cocklebur seed of God in you, too.’ He doesn’t say that. He’s
talking about actual seeds. One, maybe, is like a grain of wheat, and
one is a cocklebur seed, and they both get planted there, one by
accident, and one by the farmer putting it there. The cocklebur’s
there.

	Now, what does he say about that? Now he’s likening to plants because
we’re likened to plants. See, Peter tells us that. We’re likened to
plants, to even the grass. 

43.	[263]	You put a cocklebur seed and a wheat seed in the same bed of
ground and pour the water down upon them, and anoint them, (See,
that’s… anointing is also that word like ‘pouring’, see, like
‘pouring forth’.) they’ll both rejoice. They’ll both grow by it,
the same water. “The sun shines on the just and the unjust, and the
rain falls on the just and the unjust, but by their fruits you shall
know them.” (See, now Bro. Branham’s using Scripture.) How can you
keep from lining up with the Word? Amen. See what I mean? “The water
falls on the just and the unjust.” 

	In other words, the Holy Spirit, physically, anoints human beings the
same as water coming down causes that plant to grow and to bring out
fruit. Now, if it’s a genuine anointing in the sense it’s truly the
Holy Ghost, it will speak in tongues, it will prophesy, it’ll have
visions and dreams, it’ll heal the sick and everything else—and be
miles off the Word—millions of miles off the Word. But what puzzles me
is how we got... 

44.	I never did bring that film down. Most preachers are against me
doing it. They said, “We can’t stand five minutes without starting
to vomit.” This guy Shelley, over in England…how people that
followed Bro. Branham and know anything, can listen to this sick, poor,
misguided creature? I mean, he needs sanitation. And anybody around him
had better stay far enough away because it’s not even a decent show.

	Look, for heaven’s sakes, if we’re going to have some spiritism,
let’s have some good spiritism! And if we’re going to have a
Pentecostal fluke, let’s make it the highest order. I don’t read my
Bible that on the day of Pentecost they’re screaming and jumping and
running around and every... I can’t read my Bible the way these guys
are doing it.

45.	Now, here’s the point. If you can be fooled, or people can be
fooled by some things that are so pitiful, I would hate to think what
would happen if somebody held real solemn assembly and the dignity and
power of human culture and character with that same anointing and walked
amongst the people with a dynamic faith (Now I’ve done it; not quite
what I’m saying, what I’m going to tell you.) and said ‘I can tell
you don’t have enough faith or something’s wrong, you can’t
believe. Just pretend you’re not here. I’ll use my faith, and
you’ll be delivered,’ and they were. I can jump around and make
noises and pretend we’re getting somewhere. I’ll walk down, stand
right there. And I can prove it to you. There are people still living.
And to sell out to a Mickey Mouse? Merciful God, at least… Let’s
bring on the rats, if you can’t have a kangaroo.

46.	Now, listen. I’m preaching tonight, and I’m disturbed. And at
the same time, I’m not disturbed, because I’m angry and I’m
sarcastic. And I haven’t one bit of respect for it. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, what about the fact of the speaking in
tongues?” 

	Genuine gift of the Holy Ghost: no problem. 

	“What if they prophesy?”

	No problem. My problem’s with them foisting gifts upon the people
with a false word, which is anti-Christ. No brother/sister, I would love
gifts and things in the church, but first of all, you find me someone
that can stand right there with the discerning of spirits, like Bro.
Branham said, “Put it in order.” Do what the prophet said; don’t
pretend you’re a preacher. Of course, you wouldn’t anyway, but that
goes for outside of the country. These guys, “I’m a preacher, bless
God; I can do it.” 

	That’s a lie from the pit of hell; you’re the guy that better not
do it. Blind leaders of the blind, falling into the ditch; still under
that anointing of organization. Gnostics! Korah, Dathan, Abirams. 

	Now, I’m preaching what Bro. Branham preached. That’s all. I’m
just taking more time doing it.

47.	[264]	Jesus said, “They will come to me in that day and say,
‘Lord, Lord! Have I not cast out devils? Have I not…prophesied? Have
I not done great things in your Name?’” He’ll say, “You workers
of iniquity, depart from me. I don’t even know you.” (Now he’s got
a little blunder here, but that’s all right, he’s just, a little
slip of the tongue.) “Go into eternal hell” (Well, look; hell
isn’t eternal, but it’s all right; it’s everlasting anyway, a
special period of time) “that’s been prepared for the devil and his
angels.” You see? What a word! Falsely, worship in vain, striving in
vain. 

	Now, you see, passive faith contrasted with active faith. Your
striving, which is your active faith, doesn’t do you one bit of good
if you’re off of this Word. And you can even claim the highest in the
world, which is God anointing you like a prophet, and you’re speaking
in tongues when you’re prophesying and you’re having visions and
praying for the sick and everything else, manifesting gift of healing. 

	I had that happen in my meetings. I’ve had a gift of healing… It
had to be a gift of healing one night. I don’t see what it could be
anything else but, temporary. Five people, and every one instantly
healed. One tumor on the brain, one a heart case, the next one was such
a terrible cold, he could hardly open his eyes…instantly healed. That,
to me, is just as big a healing as a cancer case, because sometimes
people get their faith up for cancer but can’t get their faith up for
a little old cold. God’s not interested in colds, I guess. Well, I’m
sure He is. See?

48.	[264]	…worship,… striving in vain.”“Why do you do that when
you don’t have to do it? Now, why take a substitute when the heavens
are full of genuine?” 

	All right, what do you think the heavens would be full of, the genuine?
It’s the Word. The Word. God in His Holy Word, and the marvelous Son
that is glorified in the adoption sitting on the throne. See? “You
don’t have to do that.” You don’t have to do the things you’re
doing. See? They’re contrary to the truth, and they’re doing these
in their own deceits and deceitful way. 

49.	[265a]	Now, we find Moses anointed, (Now Moses, of course, has the
revelation.) And once he’s anointed and has the revelation nothing
could turn him back. His own brothers turned him down. That didn’t
stop him. He went right on into the wilderness. And one day out there,
he met God face-to-face, with the Pillar of Fire hanging in a bush.

	Now you notice in there, that this man is the leader of the exodus. And
you notice the Pillar of Fire was in a bush. Now I’ll ask you a
question: What was it that the voice spoke out of to Bro. Branham? It
was a tree, wasn’t it? He looked up, like the size of a barrel, leaves
moving, and the voice came out, “Never smoke or drink or defile
yourself with women because there is a work for you to do when you are
older.” 

	So, all right. Face-to-face. And that’s what the Scripture says
concerning Moses. It says, “I raise up a prophet; I speak to him in
visions and in dreams. But with my servant Moses, my prophet Moses, it
is not so. But I speak with him face-to-face, even apparently.” I make
myself absolutely visible to him; he knows that I am there. 

50.	[265b]	Now, …the Pillar of Fire hanging in the bush. And God said,
“Moses, take off your shoes; the ground you’re standing on is holy.
For I have heard the cries of my people, and I have heard their
groaning, and I remember my promise of the Word.” 

	Now, what are you looking at right here? You’re looking at the old
psalm; “Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. Thy word is a lamp and a
light to my path and to my feet.” And what do you got here? 

[265]	He said, “…take off your shoes; the ground you’re standing
on is holy.” Now, why? “For I have heard the cries of my people. I
have heard their groanings, and I remember my promise of the Word.”

	Now, right today, we are standing on holy ground. Everybody sings the
song, “Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.” “Holy ground.” Oh,
yeah. They’re looking forward—looking forward. Why do we look
forward when it’s already here? 

	I sing, “Standing on the Promises of Christ my Lord.” That’s
right. We are standing on the promises. But we’re the only ones that
are doing it. Listen, you’d better not try to contradict me, because
the promise of healing and those things are not a part of this message
that is going to get you in there. In fact, it can keep you out of there
by turning down the Giver for some gifts and turning down your passive
faith for a bunch of active faith.

	It’s not the guy that’s got the greatest anointing, the greatest
tent, and have an Oral Roberts take a prayer line like this, drive you
crazy, one after the other, bang, bang, bang. That’s not it at all.
The man’s a Trinitarian, a million miles off the road, publicly
declared to be one of the false vine. 

51.	Now, let’s get this also flat: If there’s twins, one of the
twins is false and of the devil. So, if you saw a complete Bro. Branham
replication, I’d say, “Hi chum, get thee hence.” I’m not
interested. Why would God have to vindicate Himself the second time in a
row? I’d like to know, why… 

	Look; if gold is gold… I like what Gertrude Stein says, “A rose is
a rose is a rose.” A vindicated Word is a vindicated Word is a
vindicated Word is a vindicated Word. Therefore, my faith is perfect
because I believe the perfect Word. How can you have a perfect faith
outside of a perfect Word? See? This is where we’re so different in
this Message. When you follow Bro. Branham, a vindicated prophet, it’s
so different. 

52.	Notice, he says, [265]“For I have heard the cries of my people and
heard their groanings and remember my promise of the Word.” Do you
realize that’s the exact reason the Lord descended with a shout? The
people, in their hearts, and volubly also have been crying. He’s heard
their groanings, and there’s more groanings going on now than ever. 

	I mean, even people that don’t even believe this (I would consider
‘believe right’.) are just about ready to light a match to the
atomic bomb, if that will settle the whole thing, and just get out of
here. 

	You say, “Who knows about the next world? Who cares what God’s
going to do or anybody else is going to do. This is such a complete
mess, let’s blow her up!” 

	And then, of course, maybe you can go and enjoy the film called The
Planet of the Apes or something. What would man do if he blew it up? 

53.	What I’m trying to show you is this: that people are already burnt
to a frazzle. They don’t know which way to turn; they want leadership.
They kicked a bunch out of Congress and the Senate now, and before
it’s over, they’ll kick a bunch more out. They think now term limits
and a few more things are going to do it. The prophet said, “No
politician can make a right decision.” You know why? Because church
and state are divided to such an extent that anybody that wants to serve
the state or wants a part in the state and will go the way of that
corrupt situation—which they know: We do not have Government by the
people and for the people. We have Government by lobby, for the lobby.

	So, the minute they go in there, they are living a lie. The president
took a lie as an oath, the same as men and women take an oath in
marriage. They lie to each other. I’ve had them lie to me. I’m not
kidding, lie to me. Your politicians are liars to begin with. Every one
makes a wrong decision. You tell me they didn’t.

	Nixon said, “I won’t raise taxes.” 

	He did.

	Reagan said, “No, no, I won’t raise taxes.” 

	He did. 

	Bush said, “Read my lips.” 

	Biggest one in history, I think. Church and state is separated, my
brother/sister. But church and state will soon be together, and it will
be all religion. A state of religious (what would you call it?)
dictatorship, anti-Christ. 

54.	[265]	Now, listen; “For I have heard the cries of my people, and I
have heard of their groanings, and I remember my promise of the Word.
And I’m coming down. I’m going to send you down there to take them
out.” Certainly. He met God face-to-face. He talked with Him. He was
commissioned by God.

	Now you know, of course, that Moses never took anybody out of anything.
Moses was only the figurehead. God said, “I’m going to lead them out
with a high hand.” Now I’ve got… This is news for you: Moses was
not a high hand. Moses was the prophet. And he was the visibility of the
method and the power of God in delivering Israel from Egypt. 

	Now, at this time, we’re not looking for Bro. Branham to lead us out
into the Millennium. He told us categorically that he was leading us out
of the organization, and the Holy Spirit, which is our Joshua, Himself,
is leading us into the Millennium. 

55.	[266]	God came right back—that same Pillar of Fire—and
vindicated that prophet standing out there on the mountain, to prove
that it was, when he took his hand and performed all kinds of miracles
and things. Oh, they had the impersonators. Oh, sure. There was Jannes
and Jambres stood right there and did the same thing they did. But who
was the original, see?

	Even twins. Don’t you know that they have twins that can’t be born
at the same time? Now, don’t get confused about Jacob and Esau. I’m
just letting you know that the twins… One’s a bad vine, see? 

[266]	There are impersonators. Oh, sure. There was Jannes and Jambres
stood right there and done the same thing they did. But who was the
original, see? Where did it start from? Did it come from the Word? Was
it the hour? 

	Now, that’s what you’re looking at right there. Where did it start
from? In other words, is this something that is in the Word? Now,
that’s a very tough question right there, because the minute that he
says, “Is it in the Word?” you have this problem: and that is, you
and I could look at a certain Scripture for the next ten thousand years
and not even have a real clue as to what that Scripture really means.
Now, we would do our best, and we would study, we would make
comparisons, we might make phone calls, we’d read books, we would do
our best. But let me tell you something: you’re dead; you’re dead.
You haven’t got it. 

	So, when he says here, “Where did it start from?” The thing is, is
there something in the Word, then, that indicates something should
happen? Well, sure. We know that there’s got to be a second coming.
We’ve got to know Israel’s back in the homeland. So, then you can
begin taking from those places, but it still doesn’t mean that
you’ll be right. It’s going to take a vindicated prophet because
that has been the norm or the procedure that God has followed.

56.	Now, just looking at this for a second before we go, Bro. Branham
went to the… (I’ll have to just start here next time.) Bro. Branham,
in going to the world as he did, and to the Bride and Pentecosts, and so
on… Do you know there were two—two times Bro. Branham’s name was
written? One time his name was written on a piece of paper, I believe,
by some dear old Pentecostal saints in a prophecy written: The end
time… It’ll be the time of the second coming of Christ, when a man
named William Branham will be preaching up and down the west coast. I
forget the exact words.

	And they brought the piece of paper to Bro. Branham, and said, “How
do you spell your name, sir?”

	“I spell it with an ‘h’.”

	“Well,” they said, “you’re the one that’s being talked
about.”

	So, they had this piece of paper that had the prophecy. Now, there is,
no doubt, then, that Bro. Branham had his call, recognition, by true
believers.

	The Mormon Church also has it in their book of prophecy. And they’re
a million miles off base; they’re completely off the Word of God. They
don’t have a clue and never will have a clue unless some seed is in
there and God gets that seed out which, of course, we know there are
some Mormons that have come out, but very, very, very, very few.

57.	So, what I’m looking at is this that you might recognize: There
are those on both sides of the fence that can recognize reality, but
there’s only one on one side of the fence that can go with It. The
others will let It go. How come the Mormons did not do everything in the
world they could to get to William Branham? No, they were very smart.
They left the door open, because I talked to a man named Bro. James out
there who was also in Utah, and he said, “Bro. Vayle, seeing you were
with Bro. Branham, do your best to bring him here to Utah,” he said,
“and to Salt Lake City, because this is one Gentile the Mormons will
allow to come into their temple any time at all, and the door’s open
to William Branham.”

	Hah, hah, hah. Why would William Branham go there? See? Recognition.
The devil recognized Jesus, but so did the couple, sweet, old people: an
old man and an old woman. They both recognized and knew something was
there. You’re going to see a lot of it.

58.	Bro. Branham didn’t say, “Hey, you bunch of birds; you didn’t
recognize God’s hand working here.” He didn’t say that.

	He didn’t say, “There’s not one good one amongst you.”

	But the point of the matter is: he was preaching to religious people,
some of whom were Bride material, Word material, either wise, foolish
virgin, whichever they were…seed of God. The others were not; they
were simply religious. And their religion had to go to superstition,
because when you believe the gift of the spirit, so called, above
‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ of a prophet, you are merely superstitious;
you’re not really believing.

59.	So, all right, we didn’t get very far tonight, but that’s no
problem. We’re in no rush. 1995 is upon us, and who knows, 1996 may
never come. Who knows that? We don’t know that.

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Gracious, heavenly Father, we come to You in this hour again, as
we’re going home, thanking You for the time we’ve had together
looking at these things that are in our day and transpired already and
are transpiring, even to the extent, Lord, that we are absolutely
disconcerted within ourselves, disturbed, and marvel at such unbelief as
we see today. It is… But we know that’s not our business. We know,
Lord, our business is to stay with the Word, the great revelation You
gave us, solid rock Word we’re standing on, Holy ground Word we’re
standing on. Yes, that’s exactly what it is.

	And we pray, Lord, that what is in our minds from You shall go deep
within our hearts and bring forth fruitage that people may never, ever
do anything evermore again that is out of line with the Word as the
prophet taught It, this being his last message of warning; warning about
people, warning about the gifts, the falsity of the people, even with
genuine anointings, and showing, as he said before, “There’s just a
razor blade difference between the two spirits,” and yet the people
laughing him to scorn and refusing to believe.

	But, Lord, we know that, as the Scripture says, “unto us who believe,
He is precious.” And unto us who believe the Word is precious, It is
our life, It is our truth, and we admit that It’s not as much as It
should be. We are not as consumed as we should be. We can only pray,
Lord, if we are on the back burner simmering, we ask in the name of
Jesus Christ to pull us up on the front burner and start us boiling so
we really begin to combine the virtues of the passive with the active in
the proper way that it should be done, not in any other way, except
within the confines of the Word, as absolutely delivered us under
vindication of ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ by a prophet. 

	And then, Lord, we know that that’s what we want, and we believe now,
You hear our prayer. You give that to us. Guide us and direct us, keep
us, Lord, in paths of righteousness now, Father, because we know that
before there’s actually another service, we’ll be breaking into a
new year, 1995, which is certainly fine by us. We have no problem there.
It’s indeed a ‘seven’ year. And whether this is completion we do
not have an idea, but that is all right, Lord. We know that it just
shows one more revolution is passed, and any time… And who knows,
when, in Your great wisdom, You will take a Bride out of this earth up
to the Wedding Supper, to the great incarnation and the crowning of King
of Kings. And Lord, that’s going to be marvelous—going to be
wonderful, especially wonderful to us who believe, who understand the
truth that there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the
man Christ Jesus, the one now on the Father’s throne waiting for the
consummation. 

	We pray that You’ll heal the sick amongst us, Lord, and help families
with needs, whatever they may be, Lord. We just ask You to let the peace
of God enter our hearts and minds where they see You moving and helping,
Lord, and faith begins to rise, and rises Lord, even more to the extent
that great peace floods our hearts and our minds and we can just rejoice
that we have the truth, and what little we do even, we do it in Your
Name. There isn’t a glass of cold water loses reward, there isn’t a
sparrow that falls that’s not noted, and there’s not a hair from our
head that You don’t know just where it is at. Therefore, with this and
understanding in our heart, we commend ourselves again to You more and
more and thank You for it all in the name Jesus Christ, our blessed
Savior. Amen.

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”