The Rising of the Sun #1

This Rising: His Presence; Immortal Life

April 22, 1984

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we come to Your great throne of mercy
and grace this hour, Lord, requesting especially for Your permission to
preach the Word with Your anointing sent down from on high, Lord, giving
us understanding hearts and minds to truly know the way of God and
believing at this hour the very Word, the mechanics thereof shall be
dynamized to literally take the Life and Light that lies therein by the
Holy Spirit to produce that same Word in us. We do thank You for what
You’ve done so far for us, Lord, believing now that You will do all
else that lies in Your Word which is You bring the dead out of the
ground; You’ll have a Bride ready also for that perfection, being a
part of it, changing her and taking us away. Our whole hope is built on
that, Lord, and we have no other hope and no other desire, and we
believe that this is the hour for it. We commend ourselves to You,
therefore, to this Word of grace and this interest. In Jesus’ Name we
pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1. Now, it’s certainly wonderful to have the folk here. I know that it
could easily run in the minds of the people, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if
we had,’ you know, ‘a full house like this all the time.’ No, not
unless the same people were here. I wouldn’t be interested. 

	You say, Well, Bro. Vayle, you know, Bride is Bride.” 

	Yeah, that’s true. Bride is Bride, but you know, let’s face it, I
got a bride, and I sure wouldn’t want your bride. And you got a bride,
and you wouldn’t want my bride. If we did there’d be something wrong
with us somewhere. 

2.	So, we love the folk that come from a distance, to come visit, us and
we feel special interest. And I know you have a special interest in us,
and, you know, it’s that that creates a spirit. I’m just thinking
here this morning that, like the Spirit of God moved in so beautifully,
and I said to myself, “I know all these people,” and like I said so
many times in this pulpit, “You know my faults and I know your
faults.” And it’s a faulty subject isn’t it. They may bring on
earthquakes. But Bro. Branham said that the best we can have is
brotherly kindness, which is prickly, but he said that the minute that
something happens to someone we always want to help and really do what
is right. That is true, if there is something in the Word that you can
do and stay with the Word in doing it. 

3. 	But I look at it a little different way from that, although I agree
one hundred percent with the prophet. I’m going to add my little
thought to it because I know his is already there in other sermons. And
that is: when the Spirit of God moves in, you just don’t give a rip
what the other fellow’s thoughts are. They don’t really matter. You
look at it and say, “What does it really matter?” Because you know
all the good points. 

4.	So, we’re very happy to have the people here, and so, I’m letting
you know you haven’t reached perfection any more than I have, but
listen and enjoy. We’re a lot further than the ages have ever come
before. So, we must just keep pressing on and praising the Lord for His
goodness. We love the move of the Spirit of the living God.

5. 	Now, the folk here, of course, and you who often get tapes, realize
that when I take a message from Bro. Branham verbatim, there’s hardly
a time that I can finish it because “The Paradox” was what, an hour
and a half Bro. Branham preached—an hour and a half, two hours? We
concluded eight messages here which averaged I suppose an hour and three
quarters by the time you run them across the board. Well, eight times an
hour and three quarters is about 15 hours, somewhere in there. Well, we
got lunch, but it’s down at the Grange, and we’re not supposed to
eat in the house of God. So… And I’m not going to preach 15 hours. 

	So, you know what’s going to happen. I’m going to go just as far as
I can and stop like I do, and then, on Wednesday we recap. And tapes are
available on one condition: if the pastor of the church says that you
can have them. You have a pastor; you always have to confer with him. He
says, “Sure that’s okay,” you’re always able to get them, but it
must always come through the pastor because that’s not just courtesy,
that’s the Word of God.

6. So, we’re going to take “The Rising of the Sun” this morning,
and hopefully we’ll get maybe twelve, thirteen, fourteen pages. I
don’t know. I’d like to get to page 22 from number 4, but I don’t
think we can make it. Now It says here, Rev 1:17-18, Bro. Branham
reading: [Paragraph 4-3]

(17) 	And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his
right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; …I am the first and the
last. 

	Now, that ought to tell you something. That’s the alpha-omega
principle. There’s going to be something that is back in that day that
comes to this day. 

7.	And I want to tell you now before we get into it, the major stumbling
block of receiving Bro. Branham was the lack of understanding of his
understanding. Bro. Branham categorically said what I don’t believe
any theologian has ever said, that is since the time we had any records
whatsoever on the sheepskin, the papyri or any other way, etchings,
carvings you name it, there is no record to my knowledge that anybody
having said correctly from the Bible that the Lord Jesus Christ is
obligated to come to the Gentiles in the form of the Holy Spirit at the
end of the age and do for them what He did for Israel in the flesh. And,
if you do not see that, which is the true Presence, which is not the
baptism with the Holy Ghost, (It’s the Baptizer with the Holy Ghost
doing it for those who are baptized with the Holy Ghost.) you, in my
estimation, cannot understand what the prophet has taught.

8. 	When the Lord rebuked Bro. Branham for doing many things which he
thought he was able to do on the grounds of trying to be helpful to the
people, of which was the great miracle ministry, of which the Angel of
God said, “You made a side show of it,” (And I never could see that
myself.) that lets you know how the Holy Spirit moves so different from
us. And he said you cannot teach Pentecostal babies doctrine, spiritual
things. You can’t do it. And because the Pentecostal people are
legalists, they think there is something they can put into it. 

	Tell me what you can put into God? I would like someone this morning to
tell me, “I’m going to put something into God.” A piggy bank, yes,
but God is not a piggy bank. Into politics and your government, yes. But
He’s above these governments. He’s ‘King of Kings and Lord of
Lords’, and He’s sovereign. What can you put into God, tell me? Tell
me. God Himself said, “Listen,” He said, “did you ever give to me
first?” He said, “I gave to you first.” See, now this is where we
are today. But everybody wants to put into it. Bro. Branham said, “If
you have something to put into it yourself, you see what he said.”
Consecration is not saying, “Here I am, you know, Lord, I’m giving
You something.” Consecration is, “I’m here with empty hands Lord,
do something for me.” So, see where your theology is? Okay, sweet. I
won’t say manure heads if you pay me? I was nice. I try to be nice,
but it never works.

9. 	You know, Moses… I’m going to defend myself. I shouldn’t do it
because it’s very nasty to do that to people. But Moses was a Levite,
and Korah was also a Levite, and Dathan and Abiram and the two hundred
and fifty princes came from the other tribes, especially from Reuben and
so on, mighty men and they were valiant. Now, you know what Moses did?
He stood there. The same man that loved the people to where he said,
“Lord, if you take them, You’ve got to take me…” Do you know
what he did that day when Korah, Dathan, Abiram and those two hundred
and fifty stood against him? He repudiated his own flesh and blood and
everybody else and stood with the Word. Do you know that the mighty
princes came against Bro. Branham? The full gospel businessmen—oh
yeah, and the preachers—because it was always at those conventions and
breakfasts. And it was there at the ministers’ breakfast and the Full
Gospel Business Convention, (Wasn’t it now, remember?) where they all
got together repudiating the prophet, and he stood there. You know Jesus
died to fulfill the Word. Only figuratively do we die; we live to
fulfill the Word. There isn’t any difference: Word is Word. All right.
Stay with that Word. 




	Romans 8:11:

(11) 	But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, (Now, watch; watch this, brother/sister. See the difference.
Now, watch.) 

(11) 	But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you… 

	What is he saying? The Spirit of God that raised Jesus, if that Spirit
that dwells in you, that One that raised Jesus will also quicken your
body, Baptizer having baptized you unto the Resurrection, will now raise
you. But your baptism doesn’t raise you. We’re talking of Presence,
which we’ll get into here hopefully with the help of the Lord, if I
ever get that far. 

11.	Mark 16:1-2:

(1) 	And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother
of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and
anoint him.

(2) 	And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came
unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

	[Bro. Vayle begins reading from the sermon “It Is the Rising of the
Sun”,  preached in Jeffersonville, Indiana on 4/18/65.

[4-6]	I want to take for a text: “It Is The Rising of the Sun,” and
for a subject I want to use “The Quickening Power”.

	Brother Branham was literally taking a subject from the text here. It
was at the rising of the sun that this happened, and he’s going to
talk about the quickening power. 

12.	[5-4]	Now, that it is the greatest week in history, the greatest
celebration of all times, this Easter is where He proved what He had
said. Man can say things, but yet it isn’t exactly believed upon
thoroughly, until it’s been proved to be the truth.

	Slick talkers will tell you anything and there’s always somebody to
believe it. Jesus was not a slick talker. He was just… He laid it on
the line. 

[5-4]	And as God, Who said, “Prove all things, and hold fast to that
which is good,” He would not tell you to do something that He would
not do Himself.

	You say, “Just a minute, we’re talking about a faith precept here.
Have the faith of God.” 

	Don’t you think God has faith in Himself? Well, come on. 

	You say, “I think you’re kind of getting down...yeah where the
sheep are. You know there’s such a thing as having the faith of God?
If God’s got a faith, and Jesus had the faith of God, then what’s
that faith all about? The same as yours. So, Bro. Branham says very
correctly here. God knows he can do it; God knows he’s going to do it.

	So, you say, “Hey, amen.” 

	Well, you say, “That’s very simple.” 

	Oh, brother, that’s the truth. 

13.	So, he proved who this was, who died for our sins, and remember;
this is the same statement in a different way that the Lord gave me: The
resurrection proves His death. In other words, when God brought Him
back, everything that was to be accomplished by His death is absolutely
accomplished. That’s why a Bride is perfect by the Blood. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, I want to put something into it.”

	Well, where’s the Blood? I want to put something into it. 

	You going to say, “Hey Lord, that’s very nice of You, Lord, to say
all of these things, and you know, I kind of believe You’re right.
I’d kind of like to put something into it.” 

	He said, “Yeah, put yourself in.”

	You say, “I, I, I now see, look; I don’t quite see it that way, you
see.”

	“Oh,” says the Lord, “I know, you’re proud like Satan. You want
someone to look at you—especially me.”

	He said, “I ain’t lookin’. It’s been looked at.” 

	See what your pride will do to you. 

	You say, “I, I, I believe I’m ignorant.”

	No, you’re proud.

	“I was just trying to be humble.”

	No, anything contrary to the Word of God is pride, where people think
you’re self-righteous because you say, “I’m the righteousness of
God because God said so. I’m perfect by the blood because the Word
said so.” 

	They say, “Oh, you self-righteous bird you. Who are you anyway?”

14.	I want to tell you something: you saying what God said is going to
get you in trouble with the world, and the Devil, and the flesh, but
it’ll sure clear the record with God. Who are you interested in?

[6-2]	Therefore, if God raised up Jesus from the dead, did He raise Him
up for a memorial, and is this resurrection morning only one day in the
year or a certain day that we celebrate this, or are we benefactors of
His resurrection?

	And the answer is categorically: No! This is just one day. Forget it.
What does it mean to me? 

[6-2]	What does it mean to you? Now, we believe by faith that He raised
from the dead, but what has that got to do with me? That was two
thousand years ago.

	Sure, two thousand years ago. According to Mk 16:2 the Resurrection was
at sun-up. We read It. The sun was rising. 

[7-2]	(And he says) And then I thought of that, and then from the
subject of the quickening of Jesus Christ to be raised up from the dead,
I drew my subject, the rising of the sun.

	And you realize, of course, he’s going to be talking about the rising
of the s-u-n merely in type for the great antitype the S-O-N. The rising
of the sun—going back to the beginning.

15. 	[7-3]	Well, there was a time when the world was laying in utter
darkness. It was without form and was void… 

	That word is ‘chaos’ or ‘abyss’. The Bible says when you go
back on that Word, you go to the chaos; become chaotic, abysmal. In
other words something had happened where the Word had gone; now all this
set in. 

[7-3]	...it was without form and was void, and it was all covered with
water, and was laying there in the dark, dismal, gloomy atmosphere. And
the Spirit of God moved upon that water and said, “Let there be
light.”

[7-4] 	God had a reason to do that, for down beneath that water there
was seeds that He had planted, and it had to have that sunlight to make
it live. 

	Now, watch; he’s typing to you and me because we are spora or seed.
Right? 

16.	Now, watch how he takes it down the way into the earth in the flesh.
Just keep watching everything; we’re into type now, pointing to
antitype. 

[7-4]	And the first Light was ever given in the earth was God’s spoken
Word. 

	Now, not sun and moon. Remember; that came later. This is different.
Let there be light. So therefore, always the light of the Word spoken is
first no matter what comes later: luminaries and different, you always
go back to the beginning—always the original.

[7-4]	The first Light that ever struck the earth was God’s spoken
Word. He said, “Let there be light.” And there was light that turned
darkness into light in order to bring forth a creation of joy and life
upon the earth.

	All right. There’s coming a day when the earth goes through throes of
destruction: earthquakes, floods, cataclysms and burnings. And if He
said, “Let there be light,” what’s going to happen? It’s going
to burst forth in joy. So, the Bride’s going to come down in the
Millennium. Okay.

17.	[7-5]	Then the Spirit of God, as It moved with love and compassion
at that great day…

	“It moved with love and compassion,” see, because something had
gone wrong. Everything had gone off, but there were seeds there.
Everything in this world is gone off, but there’s seed there—chaotic
condition. Keep everything abreast in this hour, brother/sister, or Bro.
Branham’s Message means nothing to you. I’m sorry. If you ever put
this back with Luther, I’m sorry. If you put this back with Wesley,
I’m sorry. And if you put it back with Pentecost, I am not only
sorrowful, I am disgusted, because, see, you blew it. 

18.	You know, I’ve been teaching a long time this Message, and I would
hate to have anybody around me for just even a little while who’d go
back and not forget the things which are ‘behind’. And that word
means directly behind your back, like this curtain is, and you look at
what is before you. That means right here under your nose. And Bro.
Branham brought us an under-the-nose Message and the instant turning of
the back. So, we see this; we’re looking at this hour. 

19.	[7-6]	But oh, it wasn’t nothing, that sunrise, like the sunrise on
that Easter morning. (that great week) This time, with the sun leaping
into the skies, it brought forth a greater sunrise then ever; because it
came greater news with this sunrise, than it did with the sunrise at the
beginning. 

	Now, there was good news at the beginning. Remember, and the earth was
going to bring forth in the plentitude, but it was a plentitude that was
going to fall. And now the great news is: He is risen, and we’re risen
with Him in His kingship and kingdom. The greater sunrise; the greater
Son has risen. And Bro. Branham said, Oh, that was a great thing that
Luther brought as when you compare it to Catholicism; and it was a great
thing that Wesley brought when you compare it to Lutheranism; and it was
a great thing at Pentecost. He said there was a glory there. But what a
glory this is; it’ll never fade because the glory of God has been
manifested. And you’re at the end time, see.

20.	[7-6]	…brought a news that He is risen. He is quickened from the
dead as He’s promised. He’s risen from the dead.

	Now, remember… Oh, what’s the use, I’ll just read and I’ll just
keep hopping back and forth like a cricket on the griddle. You know
there’s no way I’m going to get out of this one. I’m going to take
a little bit of theological liberty and yet, don’t worry. Acts 3:19b: 

(19)	 …when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of
the Lord…

	Anything which is visible to the eye, of that which is there… And
remember; Jesus said, “They have both seen and hated me, when they saw
the mighty works that I did.” Remember; nature only lets you know
there is a God, and Paul said, “I am here to tell you about the God
that you know is out there. And you can only know Him by me telling you
about Him and a spiritual revelation from God.”

21. All right. Now, listen. The great miracle ministry of Jesus Christ
on earth was through William Branham. The ministry that had to be so
identical as to prove it was Jesus Christ and not William Branham, so
that you were not hearing the Words of a man, but a man declared it unto
you. And they couldn’t believe because the prophet said they
wouldn’t.

(20) 	And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached (or
appointed) unto you.

	And It says after the miracle ministry, you can literally look for him.
But It said, “Hold it, the heavens have still got to keep him back.”
Then, the one that is up there is not the One that is down here. The One
that descended with a shout is God Himself, Elohim; the body is up
there—a living human body, because the high priest is a man; the
intercessor is a man. Don’t get your lines mixed up like Jesus-Only
and some of these people.

22.	(21) 	Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of
all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets…

	And what was it God spoke by the mouth of His prophets? His Word.
Because God was in the prophets; what God said for the hour. And
invariably, mankind ran and messed it all up. And every time God sent a
prophet, he unmessed it and added until there came a time where nothing
would be added. As Bro. Branham said, he sealed up the New Testament
with the opening of the Seals. You can’t add and you can’t take.
There perfectly and beautifully: restoration.

23.	(22) 	For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him
shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

(23) 	And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
that prophet, shall be destroyed…

	That did not happen even back there in Titus, 70 AD, because Israel’s
still living. There’s 144,000, true Israelites who are going to be
sealed in. Then, they weren’t all destroyed. So, there’s got to come
a time that that prophet, being extant through a visibility, will
destroy everyone that doesn’t listen. And you tell me there’s going
to be a Millennium made up of a bunch of races down here on earth? Where
do you get it from? Burn it, leaving neither root nor branch. But the
theologian will challenge Bro. Branham. How can they do it? 

24.	Now, listen.

(24) 	Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after,
as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. 

	You tell me one thing that Samuel wrote? Nothing. The Word of the Lord
came to Samuel by vision and a Voice. And the Voice was a vision,
because when Samuel heard the voice of God, It said he wouldn’t go and
tell Eli the things that God showed him, that he actually…the
appearing, the vision, the whole thing. So, the prophet could stand
there, see the Pillar of Fire, you and I couldn’t see it, and he’d
repeat back what the Pillar of Fire said, and so, therefore, we saw the
same thing that Bro. Branham saw.

25.	All right. Let’s keep going. [Acts 3]

(25) 	Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God
made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed. (Now, listen.)

(26) 	Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

	Now listen, brother/sister. It tells you right here that God raised up
Jesus Christ first, and that is not through the birth of Mary; that is
from the ground he was raised up in a Resurrection. Now, when you say
‘first’, you have got to add a second, because it shows forth a
series of raising up, or at least one more. Or it would merely say, God
raised him up, period! But it doesn’t say that. It says, “God raised
him up first!” 

	Now, It says over here, “…when the times of refreshing,” when
you’re going to see what this One here, when He’s raised to the
Gentiles, when you see Him doing the same things in the form of the Holy
Spirit—the Son of man revealed, the prophet, and the Pillar of Fire
and the elect Bride seeing there—when that happens, you know that the
One that’s here is going to send that one that’s there. But you
don’t know when. And the point is: what does it matter when, if
you’re ready, when his ‘when’ comes? If you have your ‘when’,
what does it matter about his ‘when’? And what does it matter about
his ‘when’ when we’ve got our ‘when’? You follow me? Exactly
true.

	So, God raised him up. So, there’s a Resurrection to the Gentiles.
And there’s a spiritual resurrection which Bro. Branham goes into
which I can see we’re not going to get to this morning—maybe down
the road about 6 or 7 pages. All right.

26.	[7-7] 	The first time the sun rose in Genesis, it was bringing a
message that there will be life upon the earth-mortal life. 

	The next rising said, “There’s going to be through this
instrumentality, immortal life upon the earth.” When’s it going to
take place? Now. See? That’s why Bro. Branham was so thrilled with
this message. 

	[7-7]	But this time when the sun rose, there was a dual
sunrising—another sunrising. It was a not only s-u-n rising, it was a
S-o-n had risen to bring eternal Life to all God’s promised seed that
by foreknowledge He’s seen laying upon the earth. 

	Now, when the light struck, it said all those seeds would be able to
come forth because we’re going to establish the way in which it was
done by the sun and the moon. Now, there was a Word that came down in
human flesh. And through the processes that God had given out in His
Word, it was incumbent when the life was struck by God and the life
shattered and spread, and the Blood upon the earth, the dead were going
to come out, and they did. When they crucified the Son of God afresh,
which they’ve already done, that same Life is going to bring the dead
out of the earth.) 

27.	[8-1]	No more could the botany life live back there at the beginning
without the s-u-n to bring it to life; no more than today, when sons of
God is upon the earth, (They’re here; sure they’re here.) it takes
the S-o-n Light to bring them to eternal Life—His chosen ones that He
knew before the foundation of the world. He had chosen them in Himself
before the foundation of the world. And on Easter morning then, in this
dirt somewhere, laid our bodies (didn’t say soul and spirit) at that
time, for we are the dust of the earth; and in heaven there was a book
of memory, and His attributes was in Him, knowing that because this Son
of God raised, It would also raise to Life every son that was
foreordained to this great time. 

	Now, he tells you the reason that one raised because of attributes, and
we have the same attributes coming in a miniscule form. We’re part of
it.

	You say, “Well, I ask you ‘what does that mean?’” 

	Well, it means this: Hey, that’s a carnation; that’s a lily. Now
I’m not too smart about carnations, but I know they got seeds and
lilies got seeds, too; but they’re different. Usually they work from
bulbs and they work seeds. Carnations, they’re perennials; daisies and
so on. They have a different way, larkspur and stuff. A different way.
But the point is, you see, there’s a life in there. Now then, when you
take a lily, which is…an original lily, or an original
poppy—whatever you’ve got—and you say, “Well now, this one was
this way, then every one that was in the original will be the same
way.” So, if God raised Him, He’s going to raise us!

28. Now, you see that blows the idea of faith. Hey, you don’t need any
faith that we’re going to have something to eat down there. As sure as
the sun rose this morning, we’re going to; that’s in the books. You
say, “Why do you say a thing like that?” Because, you see, that’s
the way it is. 

	You say, “Well, maybe something could happen.” 

	That’s true, but ain’t nothing going to happen. 

	“Well,” you say, “what if it really did happen?” 

	Well, you could excuse that, but you make something happen to God. You
see, you can’t do it. See? That’s why Bro. Branham said, “You
always try to put something into it.” He said, “Quit trying to put
something into it. Get into it!”

	You know, people are so afraid to get into the pool because maybe
there’s not enough chlorine or maybe somebody with dirty feet got into
the pool ahead. Ah, shut up and get into the pool. Ah, brother; get into
the pool.

29. 	[8-1]	And, on Easter morning then, in this dirt somewhere, laid our
bodies at that time…

	Our bodies, right now, were lying there. You know what? When a bunch of
dirt was being glorified, we were there unglorified. Now we’re going
to get glorified, and there’s still going to be a bunch of dirt lying
there unglorified. That’s the way it is.

[8-1]	Now, …in heaven there was a book of memory, and His attributes
was in Him, knowing that because this Son of God raised, (And like I
said about the living, it’s got to run true to form.) It would also
raise to Life every son that was foreordained to this great time. He
knew it would be, and what a more glorious sunrise that was than it was
at the beginning, at time when it first dawned. (Because one was type
one’s antitype. All right.)

[8-2]	Now, on this great breaking of the Easter Seal... Now, today we
have a tuberculosis Easter seal. People sends a message one to the
other, and to support this great fund or drive for the doctors and
medical science to work upon something to retire or to help the
tuberculosis, they are seal—what we call an Easter seal, when we send
message one to another...But when we receive the message, that seal is
broken, because the seal is what’s got a message bound on the inside. 

	What’s he saying? There’s nothing to it. Here comes a herald and he
said, “I have a letter from the king”. He said, “Here is the seal
on the back.” 

	And the man says, “I’ll take it and look at it.” 

	He says, “No you won’t. That’s not for you.” He says,
“That’s for the other king.” So God, the great God, the great
King, He’s a… and we’re priests and kings unto God, remember. He
sent a message and it was sealed. And he sent it to little kings like
you and me. And very little by the way—very little, so what? Kings
nonetheless. Princes, see? Prince of God. All right now. See, there’s
a message behind it.

30.	Now, the whole Bible is sealed until the end time with seven Seals,
or there can’t be a resurrection. Now, what in the world is the seal
all about? It encloses a message. Then the Lord shall descend from
Heaven with a Message. Who is the Holy Ghost? God’s Own Messenger.
Well, is He or is He not? Who brings the Word? Men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. God’s His Own Prophet. God’s His own
Teacher. God’s His own Evangelist. God’s His Own Prophet—(I said
that once.) God’s His Own Apostle. God’s His Own Messenger. The
Messenger of the Covenant was an Angel. What was it? God stood there.
And because He was surrounded by that which brought Him into view of the
people, especially the Prophet. That was known as the messenger.
That’s why the Messenger of the Covenant was Christ. So, He comes
down.

31. Now, Bro. Branham said He comes down to set Himself at the head of
the Church in order to raise the dead; then He’s got to break the
Seals to do it! And people try to tell me the Seventh Seal has not been
broken. Seventh Seal is Rev 10:1-7; what are you going to do with it? 

	Are you going to close your eyes and say, “Well, we believe the
Message, but the Prophet really wasn’t here”? 

	You say, “I don’t say that, Bro. Vayle.” 

	That’s what you’re saying my friend.

	Look; I don’t care what you say you are saying; I’m going to tell
you what you are saying. And I’m not trying to hurt anybody’s
feelings, because I could be in the same boat. See? Because there’s a
message behind it. And remember; under the Seventh Seal was the Seven
Thunders, and they bang in a row: one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven. You bet It’s open. See.

32.	Now, this great Easter seal.

[8-2]	…they are seal…what we call an Easter seal—when we send
message one to another...

[8-3]	But when we receive the message, that seal is broken, because the
seal is what’s got a message bound on the inside. And now, the true
Easter Seal on this sunrise, was broken, and the secret of Life after
death was revealed. (That was back there, but you got the same thing
occurring at the end.) Before that time we didn’t know; the world
groped in darkness, groped around man’s suspicion. Theories was among
man’s hearts—traditions, made up. Men worshipped idols; they
worshipped the sun; they worshipped all kinds of gods. And all kinds of
people that made claims, they all went into the grave, and they stayed
in the grave. But the real Seal had been broken, and one, who once lived
as we live, died as we will die, was risen (or made to rise) from the
dead!

	All right. That’s why Bro. Branham could say that Christ is the
Seals. Christ is the mystery of God revealed. He came down; there stood
God revealed. There stood the Mystery; there stood it all. And He
contained the Message, and that’s the paradox. Nobody repudiated the
works, except the pure, blind, ignorant and those stricken with folly.
Everybody said, “We love the works.” But they turned down the
assessment. They turned down the Word, see?

33.	[8-3]	But the real Seal had been broken, and one, who once lived as
we live, died as we will die, was risen from the dead! What a morning!
Never one like it in all the history of the world. The secret was made
known that He was both Resurrection and the Life.

	Now you see, there’s the thing right today. But you know, when you
talk about Resurrection and Life, there’s a spiritual and the
physical, and you cannot keep them apart. But then, you must keep them
apart; that is in your understanding. We have already had a spiritual
resurrection from amongst the spiritually dead in Babylon, but the
physical resurrection has not yet taken place. See?

34.	[8-4]	Then he said when he come forth on that morning, “Because I
live, you live also.” Not only was he the beneficiary of the
resurrection, but all those seed that was resting in God’s great
providence was a benefactor of that resurrection to Life, because he
said, “Because I live, ye shall live also.” 

	Now, there’s identification. Now, that’s real identification. As a
son, you are not identified; you are either a son or you are not a son.
You either were in the genes of God or you were not. And you can’t get
there by hocus-pocus or by trial or anything else. You either were or
you weren’t; just like I said of the lily here. The lily came a
certain way, stays a certain way; carnations a certain way, daisies a
certain way, larkspur, the whole bit; fern, everything a certain way;
and that’s exactly what it is. 

	But when it comes to our death, you and I did not die for our sins. He
did. But we were identified in that. And when he rose, we are
identified. But when it comes to sons, he stands in the midst of sons.
Only sons can be born again. And that is not some divine alchemy; that
is from the beginning, Bro. Branham categorically stated. 

	Let’s understand these things, brother/sister. You were a fallen son.
And you look at yourself…and I keep telling people: Listen, I’ve
been around animals and people, which is the highest form of animal,
which is the lowest form of animal, because they can think. And believe
me their thoughts are manure thoughts. And a fallen son can do
everything that a non-son can do. Yeah, and a whole lot worse because he
is a son.

35. Let’s ask a question. If everyone was really a son, in the
sense… (That’s true sons, real sons.) And these sons, you know,
because there’s a Deep calling to the deep, and they know that
they’re not satisfied, but they’ll do terrible things. Now, here’s
an old sinner boy out here, but he’s like that beast, in a sense of
the word. Now, the beast was unique because he had a place for a soul
and didn’t have a soul. But these others got a soul, but we’re
going, you know, to play it down a bit and get the picture. This fellow
out here, he’s not like you and me: he’s not a son of God, but
he’s just out there plumb, hog wild. I want to ask you a question: In
a court of law—a just court of law—who should deserve the worst
blame and punishment? That poor bird out there, or you and me? You and
me. See? You better get a hold of grace this morning, brother/sister,
because when you talk about putting into it, this and that, you know
you’re cutting your throat.

36. Let’s just look at it. Here’s a… Now, mothers in nature are
different from fathers. Too bad men that are born in the human race
cannot be real people. We got too much of the other. Now, what I’m
talking about is this. Although a father, an animal, maybe like a wolf,
may feed the cubs and try to help the babies, the mother really does the
real job in there. Now, there’s something in nature, and there is
enough to say, “Well now, we love children and you know if it’s a
boy, we got the blue stuff all laid out here and girl a little pink laid
out. Now, they go just for yellow because they’re smart now. You
don’t care which it really is; doesn’t do you really any good.
That’s the casting of the lots in the hand of man but the disposal is
in the hand of God. But what I’m trying to say is this: You and I
would, in our normal thinking, would plan everything for that child.
That’s foreknowledge and predestination. And why wouldn’t God
foreknow and predestinate, if we’re smart enough to know to do that,
if we could do it? And remember, God can do it. Now, wouldn’t He do
it?

37.	Now you see, therefore, I’m trying to tell you something here. God
has already made every preparation, so all a son has to do is to say,
“I’m coming. I’ve heard the voice of the Shepherd; I’ve heard
the Eagle’s cry. That’s it. And there’s nothing I’ve put into
it. I stand here and let Him put it into me.” 

	That’s consecration. That’s “nothing in my hands I bring; simply
to thy cross I cling.” 

	Now, that sounds very pretty, but it’s not erudite and it’s not
pretty, but the fact of the matter: it’s bloody, it’s gory, it’s
bleeding. Because remember; they didn’t take the lamb and shoot a
bullet in it, and plug the hole up so it wouldn’t bleed nasty. The
first lamb was taken and a jagged rock across the jugular vein and blood
was everywhere. And you know, that sheep in terror, same as all things
dying and men dying, they grow rigid, they defecate, they urinate, they
can’t hold it any longer. And animals even before they die… You’ve
seen an animal scared; they urinate all over the place and defecate.
People do the same thing under fire and war and everything else. Not a
very pretty sight.

38.	So, Cain brought the lilies, and he said, “Isn’t that lovely?”
He said, “I saw that stinking mess down there with my brother,
Abel.” He said, “You know, Abel… You know, [Bro. Vayle makes a
sound imitating somebody crazy.] but after all I’m the firstborn;
that’s the way it should be done.” 

	Wasn’t done, see? Death is not a very pretty thing. Now, if God did
that for you and me, why can’t we just take it? Why can’t we just
take the Resurrection? That’s the faith of God. God had faith in
Himself and brought it to pass. See? 

	Just begin to let yourself go because that’s the secret of the broken
Seal. Who could break the seal? And when it was broken, who could read
it? Who knew what to do? All right.

39.	[9-1] 	Now, that was the breaking of the Seal. (“Son, you’re
free to come home.”) Because he was brought up out of the grave, so
will every one that’s in Christ be brought up with him.

	Wonderful, that is true. Why? Because that’s the way it’s done. You
know something: let me tell you something. This is the truth and a lot
of people wish it weren’t. You know there’s going to be a
Resurrection, which is called the general or the Second Resurrection,
wherein everybody but the Bride comes up, and they’re going to be
judged. Now, those people that go in the grave, they know better and
have known better than to do the things that they did such as Stalin and
Hitler and Nero and Pharaoh and Agrippa and Herod and some of our
friends. You think that though 

40. John Kennedy was revered as one of the greatest men that ever lived
in America, Charismatic to the hilt, but wanted two women in bed at one
time with him. The record proves the man was a sexist. I guess they’re
trying to make a saint of him by now. I want to ask you a question: You
think he didn’t know something? Down the road it’d meet him. You
think if you and I aren’t born again, there isn’t something down the
road that isn’t going to meet us? And the strangest thing is, those
that claim to be born again don’t even have any faith in the
propitiation of Jesus Christ, the blood scattering, that they don’t
meet it because they’re never going to come into a judgment. But they
did wrong; they’ll be burnt up—not them, but what they did. The
Bible said they’d be tried, but they’re not going to lose anything.
There won’t be one hair of your head lost. 

	Now, here’s what I’m talking about. There’ll be a lot of people,
like the Book of Revelation says, “Hide me from the wrath of the Lamb
that sits on the throne.” And my point is this: There are a lot of
people who don’t want to be in a resurrection, but they’re going to
be in one anyway. 

41. Now, my brother/sister, let me tell you something: the Resurrection
is not in your powers and mine. We are going to be in a resurrection.
Now, the thing is: let us examine ourselves if we be candidates of the
First Resurrection. And if we be candidates, which we are according to
the prophet, then our worries are gone. For though they burn my body and
I go to ashes, dust, or back to the gases, every little atom and
molecule of my body has been touched by the Holy Ghost and the Holy
Ghost has His brand on it. And one day when He calls, every single atom
in my body and your body is going to come right back, if we should go to
the dust, because He’s got a brand on it. Now, I’m going to tell you
something, brother/sister: we don’t have one thing to do with it. We
don’t have one thing to do with it. It’s already done.

42. You know something? When you’re dead, you’re dead. They can jump
on you, stamp on you, they can burn you. Oh, they can be very
self-righteous like the Roman Catholics were, who dug up the bones of
the priests who killed Joan of Ark and then burnt the bones and said,
“Isn’t that lovely what we did.” And those priests didn’t care
two cents, but there’s a day coming when they will. And you know what?
The people that dug the bones up and burnt them will be right there with
them. Like Jesus said to the Pharisees, “Oh, you said, ‘If we had
been back in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have done
this.’” He said, “I’m going to tell you something: you’re
cursed with your fathers.” You know why? Because the lily brings forth
lilies, and the carnation brings forth carnations, and serpent seed
bring forth serpent seed, and seed of God brings forth children of God!
Hallelujah! I can get steamed up and haven’t even started preaching.
I’ve been playing around the edges for a minute there. Got to get
warmed up myself and begin to understand, it’s already been done.
“Come and dine, the master calleth;” there’s a table spread. See?

43. The Message is to bring a Bride together. You didn’t even know you
were being brought together. William Branham came on the scene. I’ve
watched him. My wife went. I said, “I don’t want to go see him.” I
read in the paper he could discern diseases. I never said he was the
devil. I said, “I’ve seen spiritists do that. So, who gives a
rip.” 

	I never said he did it by spirits. I just knew it could be done. Ptt.
Who cares. A little Pentecostal girl I used to work for, so she said,
“Well, Sis. Vayle, you and I better go down there because,” she
said, “Bro. Wes said, ‘It’s fantastic…’” and this and that. 

	So, my wife trots down there with her. They hitchhike down there,
because I was on strike. I was part of the tram strike and even my wife
had to stay home. She prevailed on me that I should go and talked and
talked, and I got the feeling, you know. That’s exactly how I felt.
Then, a good friend of mine came by, and he put the thumb screws on me
gently, and oh boy, caught in the trap, my wife and this bird. So, there
was one seat in the balcony, and whose seat was it? Mine; everybody else
standing outside. Wasn’t long until I started crying for two solid
hours. And I knew it was over. I don’t know what somebody else heard
from that man. I don’t remember a word he said, but I saw what
happened, and I knew it was God. And I knew one thing, “If you ever
listen to any man, you listen to that man.”

	I didn’t know a Message was calling. 

	You say, “Does that gather?” 

	If you don’t believe it, that’s your business. I’m not here to
persuade anybody. I’m just going to tell you what happened. That’s
what Brother Branham did. That’s all anybody can do is tell you what
happened. See, that’s what it’s all about. See.

44.	[9-1] 	That was the breaking of the Seal. Because he was brought up,
so will every one that’s in Christ be brought up with him.

	Of course, there could be a slip-up. “Now, I William Branham, prophet
of God, through vindication, the same vindication that vindicated him,
the same power that raised Him, well…you know it could be a slip-up.
God might change His mind.” Is that what he said? He said, “Look. So
will everyone that’s in Christ be brought up with Him. The Word of God
said, “He’s going to bring them forth.”

[9-1]	At this glorious sunrise, God had proven or a-vindicated His Word.
All the glooms and doubts that had moved in people’s minds was taken
away, because here was He Who once lived, eat, drink, and fellowship
with mankind, that said, “I have power to lay my life down, and I have
power to raise it up again.” And now, not only had He made the
statement, but He proved it to be the truth. 

	And the same one said, “I’m going to go to the Gentiles. And I
won’t raise my voice in the street. I won’t contend. I won’t do
one thing I’m doing here. I won’t fuss, argue, incite, contend or
even raise my voice.” He said, “They won’t even know I’m around
hardly.” He said, “I’m going to tell you something. I won’t
break the bruised reed. I won’t put out the smoking flax.” He did
that to Israel. To Israel He was flesh; to the Gentiles He is Spirit and
a Name. And in His Name we trust, because He’s Jehovah God, the same
One rose to the Gentiles in this hour. See? All right.

45.	[9-1] 	And now, not only had He made the statement, but He proved it
to be the truth. Oh, what a glorious thing that is. I’m sure this
morning that even we, who believe it, cannot comprehend what a great
thing that was. Because he raised from the dead, we also have already
raised from the dead, for we were in him.

	That is identification. Pretty soon it won’t be. See? And in His
glory we’ll shine. We’ll be like Him. We’ll be changed. See?

[9-2]	Notice now, as the gloom covered the earth and the seeds could not
live without the s-u-n to rise; and gloom had covered the earth, and
now, the S-o-n was risen and all gloom was vanished by this Light,
(Certainly, life disbands shadows.) as It spread across the nations to
the people that “He is not here, but he has risen.” What a
statement!

	You know, one day they came to Jesus and said, “Tell us plainly…”
They said, “Tell us bluntly; lay it on the line, boy. Who are You?” 

	And He said, “I told you. The works proved it.” He said, “Are you
going to believe it if I tell it again? No. You’re just going to use
it against me.”

	They said, “You know, that idiot thinks he’s the Son of God. Look
at that crazy guy, not 55 years of age. He looks horrible for his age
even, and he said he was back where Abraham was. I’m supposed to
believe he had a facelift or something. Ha! Pbbbt! Boy, what crawls out
of the woodwork when you give it a chance.” 

	They just slurred at Him. Then they got so all fired up because they
found the one that they slurred, was loved by the people, and they said,
“Well, we’re going to lose everything we got.” And what did they
have? What did they have? Death and destruction. So, they said,
“Let’s kill Him.” 

46.	[9-3] 	He had proved His Word. He had proved It to be true, for He
had now conquered death, hell, and the grave, the trinity of the devil:
death, hell, and the grave. For Satan is the author of death; he is the
possessor of hell and also the grave. 

	How do you like that? Do you know we’re on the verge of a mighty
cataclysm? The Bride is about to go up, and Satan is about to be cast
out. And do you know that Satan knows the handwriting on the wall. But
you know, he can’t handle the Word; he can’t do a thing about it.
All he can do is stand back and watch. He is very angry right now. And
his main weapon right now is the same weapon he had back in the days of
Jesus the Christ. And they said, “Oh look; Bro. Branham, now I want to
tell you something.” 

	These great men that stood there in Chautauqua, Ohio down there towards
Middletown. Yeah, let’s be very proud of the state of Ohio. Prophet of
God stands there and, these were not two men that lived in Ohio, praise
be to God. Both hands go up. Texas I think, California; I’m not sure.
But they, one of the states represented here, you’re free. They stood
on the platform, and they said, “Brother Branham is a great prophet
when he tells you about your diseases and these things and miracles, but
he’s not a prophet when it comes to the Word. He doesn’t know the
Word.”

	Well, they don’t even know what a prophet is. Theologians? Well,
that’s a corrupted word. Theology, simply means a ‘theo’ and a
‘logo’- ‘logos’: that means the word concerning God. Well, they
didn’t have it. I can tell you that. Bro. Branham did. 

47.	[9-3]	He proved His Word, okay. …the trinity of Satan: death, hell
and the grave. All right.

[9-3]	And that was the trinity of Satan, being caused by one thing, that
was death (and sin caused death)—death you go with the grave, and
being a sinner you go to hell. (See, he puts them together.) …the
trinity of Satan, which was death that had held man in captivity all
these years, but now, the true trinity of God being One, manifested in
Christ, Who was Life, and had broke the Seals and conquered the enemy
and rose up the one, true, and living God. “I am He that was dead, and
I’m alive forevermore and have the keys of death and hell.” 

	Now, brother/sister, let’s understand this. When a seal is broken,
right… Now, understand the picture. Now, watch; the seal is broken;
we’ve got this message that is rolled up here. Okay, the seal is
broken; there it comes open. Now then, listen; it’s completely sealed
to the complete unsealing. Now, that sounds like a little bit of a
double talk, but get what I’m trying to say. When Bro. Branham said
the seal was broken, literally the breaking of that seal put another
seal in place, which means, when the truth came, you couldn’t do one
thing about it. It’s over. And that’s where we stand with William
Branham, prophet of God and God with us. The broken Seal literally
sealed. 

48.	You can’t stop time and eternity. We’ve got it now. We are in
the position where there is neither time nor space to the Bride. In my
own heart before God, I witness to that. I know neither time nor space
when it comes to the Bride. I’ll stand here and tell you and not blink
an eye. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re some mystic.”

	Call me what you want. Call me a son of the devil; I prefer to believe
I’m a son of God. Call me what you want. But my revelation tells me
and shows me that the Bride is one, and their Lord God is in the midst
of her. I don’t see any time; I don’t see any space. Eternity has
blended with time. I have no trouble. The ushering in of the Millennium
has taken place. You do what you want about it. That’s my
understanding of coming out of Pentecost.

49.	[9-4]	 God in One, made man and dwelled among us, and conquered
every enemy, and had proved that the trinity of Satan was conquered, and
that the trinity of God was made known, because only God alone had power
to bring life back again. He was that Immanuel. (Of course, that means
‘God with us’.) God had been manifested in the flesh. 

[9-5]	No wonder He could claim there, Matthew 27, “All powers in
heaven and earth is given into my hands. I send you to be my witnesses
to all the world.” He had conquered both death, hell, and the grave.

	He certainly conquered space when He said, “Go all around the
world.” The Message of the Kingdom, brother/sister, has been preached.
Bro. Branham said, “I was seven times around the World.” Now, was
that Bro. Branham standing there saying I was seven times around the
world, and he’s just a big, just you know, a little, humbug Irishman
standing there out of Kentucky so he’s got to look good because
God’s gotta give him some kind of little ministry that looks nice, so
he said, “I been seven times around the world”? Or did he mean it? 

	Now, I want these things to sink in. Do you know why? Because, unless
they sink in, you cannot be serious and sober about this Message, where
life and death are in the balance in this hour. You can’t do it, my
brother/sister. You’ve got to take every word that’s here and weigh
those words. Now, was he just putting on a show—a fiasco, or did he
mean it? Then, if that’s the case, there comes a perfection, and this
gospel of the kingdom has been preached.

50. You say, “Well, I believe there’s a lot of folk down in Arabia
that haven’t heard this Word.” 

	So? The seed ran out. 

	“A lot of folk in China haven’t heard it.” 

	So, the seed ran out. Where is the end time? America—melting pot. You
show me one people that’s not here in America. I’ll bet you the
Maoris are here—somewhere: New Zealand…Australia…New Zealand is
it? [New Zealand is correct.] I’ll bet you the Bushmen from South
Africa are here. I’ll bet you they’re here. And I don’t
necessarily refer to the Zulus who came down later. I’m talking of two
distinct people, genetically speaking. Nobody knows who is who anyway.
But you watch the seeds come down. There are only three major roots.
Bro. Branham laid it on the line: Ham, Shem and Japheth. What do you
want? And if the seed is run out, where is it? Then, have they heard or
haven’t they heard? God’s no fool. Sheep hear the Voice. I never
heard of a sheep going, “Hey, master shepherd, hey master shepherd!
I’m over here master shepherd.” The good Shepherd goes and finds
them.

	Some of you folk got Nazarene theology. Merciful heaven I hope not. Bad
enough to be Amish, Methodist, Presbyterian…bad enough to be anything.
Be a Christian. Be a Christian, brother/sister. That’s what we’re up
against this morning.

51.	[10-1]	Listen. Now, and then not only that, He sent word to His
disciples—His believing, “Fear not, for I am He that was dead and is
alive again forevermore. And I have the keys to death and hell.
I’ve…conquered it.

	Well, you say, “If that’s the case of the fact having been
accomplished, what are we waiting for?” 

	For all the seed. That’s all. They could’ve had a Resurrection and
Rapture back there in the time of Paul. No problem; it wasn’t time.
The seed hadn’t come in. You know, God doesn’t just have a plan and
say, “Oh, hey, great,” zap and it’s over. Before there was a speck
of stardust He sat back there for trillions of eons, until it all came
together. And He began to move. God’s not in a rush. Jacob learned
that.

52. Anybody here remember the sermon I preached on Jacob’s prayer in
the Bible? Old Norm [Lee] remembers. They’re still around here.
That’s where old Jacob… His brother was coming to get him, so he
dropped to his knees, and he said, “Lord God”. He took time with the
enemy coming. The prophets did the same, like Elisha did his best to get
in the Spirit. The guy coming to take his head off his shoulders was
coming. He said, “Stop playing that instrument there. I want to get
quiet before God.” Got all quiet and down and couldn’t hear a thing
and said, “Well, I guess it’s time to go before he kills me.” And
he walked across the street and disappeared. 

	Old Jacob, knowing his brother was coming to kill him, he got down on
his knees, and he said, “Lord God,” he said, “You’ve been so
good to me.” He said, “You’ve done wonderful things for me.” He
thanked God for everything. He prayed around the world, so to speak, and
then, he said, “Now Lord,” he said, “My brother is coming down the
road to get me. If you don’t do something…” He got off his knees,
stood before God. “Okay brother, what are you going to do?” His
brother was ready to give him the fifth rib treatment, you know: they
hug you and get you in the fifth rib with a dagger. He dropped the
dagger and kissed him on both cheeks and said, “Look; kids are kids.
We were a couple of fools, both of us.” He said, “I was jealous”,
but he said, “Look man, I got all kinds of things. I don’t need your
camels. Man,” he said, “Look, I’m loaded the same as you are.
Let’s be buddies.” See, there’s a difference brother/sister: fear
is gone. See, all these things, He conquered it.

53.	[10-1] 	He has raised from the dead. 

[10-2]	Oh, what a wonderful thing that is! “I am alive”—or
quickened. The word means, the word “quickened,” the Greek word
means, that’s something that’s made alive after death. Like
the—the seed that goes into the earth, (Now, watch this one.) it has
to die, every bit of the seed; it has to rot, every bit of the seed; and
every bit of the life that was in the seed has to come forth again.

	Law of nature based on God’s way. See. Now, listen. The church had to
fall on the ground and die. But the church forgot it had to get rid of
the coat. It had to die. There wasn’t one soul in the Bride that ever
died. There’s not one spirit that’s not going to make it. But the
bodies are dead and the dogmas and the creeds are dead. And, my
brother/sister, let me tell you something: If you got one creed or one
dogma back in Pentecost, that you superseded this message with that
creed or dogma, you have got brain rot and heart rot, and there is no
cure for that outside of a rebirth, or a genuine repentance if you’re
walking in a bit of darkness, though you are a true child of God. Every
thought must be brought into captivity; every creed and dogma has to
rot, because it was that body of that word that brought the Bride to her
death. And therefore, it is that body of that word that has to rot
completely, or you have no spiritual resurrection. This is the hardest
thing in all the world—I found out in all my preaching: to convince
people to let their own thinking go as the prophet said and judge no
longer, meditate no longer and also compare no longer with what you
formerly knew. Wash it out of your heart and mind and say, “What is he
saying?”

54. As we learned in “The Paradox”, Bro. Branham said that John was
the forerunner of an Ephesus, and there’s an Ephesus at this hour. And
he lets you know what the forerunning was, and he showed you how it
worked. And people said, “Well, I know this.” I know what happened;
they’re not saying anything. 

	They said, “Bro. Branham said there’s got to be a Ephesus. Well,
marvelous. I believe the prophet.” 

	I said, “Now, just a minute. What does he mean?” 

	“Oh, I believe the prophet.”

55.	I want you to just sit and think a little today, brother/sister, on
that statement. I could be confused and the other fellow could be right,
and I could be just wrong. But you see, in my thinking is this: When
Bro. Branham told the Pentecostals, he said, “Look, you will not take
the word ‘predestination’, so I’ll give you the word
‘foreknowledge’,” that to me was insulting them to the hilt and
saying, “Look, you people cannot stand an organ, so I’ll call it a
piano, and you’re like a piano.”

	And what I’m saying is this here: if you judge everything that Bro.
Branham said in the light of your own understanding, or you have that
possibility, or are even doing it somewhat, there is no way that
you’ve lined with the Word. There is no way that you know that
you’re not adding or taking, because you are… There is no way you
can escape it, because you are using what is already added or taken.
You’ve got to come to the place where you look and say, “Hey, what
is he saying, and why is he saying it?” All right.

56. 	Notice, it may take a long time for the old body of this life, the
old food that we’re feeding on, of all of that to go by the board, but
it’s got to go by the board. I stand up here, time after time I’ll
tell you. Look; not to be smart, you know, and say ole Lee Vayle…
Look, I don’t know nothing. God be my judge, I know nothing. What I do
know is all wrong—usually. But I sat with Bro. Branham four and a half
hours at one point until he finally… I said, “Bro. Branham, You
trying to tell me the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the rebirth is one
and the same thing?” Now, look; I can produce every tape, but about
six, and every single one will tell you what you thought you heard him
say: that the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the ‘rebirth’ is
different, because he said it was, and he turned right around and said,
“You can be baptized with the Holy Ghost a thousand times a day and
still miss it.” 

57.	Until you know what he’s saying, you’re in trouble. Four and a
half hours, he said, “Now, you’ve got it, Doc.” Well, that blew my
mind. 

	So, somebody says, “Well, now Bro. Branham says there’s got to be
an Ephesus.” 

	Well, hallelujah! Go a little further. Do you know what the Ephesus
was? The woman at the well had discernment. The forerunner, John for the
Ephesus, and the Ephesus was Jesus at the well. And William Branham
stood there, a figure of man instead of Jesus Christ, and read
people’s hearts. That’s our Ephesus: God, discerning thoughts and
intents; He’s here with us. And that’s not the baptism with the Holy
Ghost because the church was forbidden to do it. Brother Branham said
anyone practicing that gift of discernment publicly was false anointed. 

58. 	Do what you want with what the prophet said. Go back to Pentecost.
Have a good time, at your expense. And it will be at yours, not mine. 

	You say, “Vayle, you’re getting mean and tough again. Go back to
where you’re nicely natured.” 

	Thank you. I’m right back again. Right back again. But cursed is the
man whose sword does not draw blood.

59.	[10-3]	He was quickened, not only that... “And will send the same
Life that quickened me, the power that brought me from the grave, I will
send It upon you to quicken you, that where I am there ye will be
also.”

	Now, my brother/sister, that’s the baptism with the Holy Ghost, but
it’s also the paradox that the great Quickener is here to raise the
dead. The great paradox is that they saw the great works of William
Branham which were the works of God, and then, he said, “Now, I’m
going to tell you about it.”

	Oh, they said, “Don’t bother; we know all about
it—hallelujah—because, Bro. Branham, we agree with you, prophet of
God: “He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.” We pray for the
sick; we see the dead raised.” 

	And he said, Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! I’m not talking about that.
I’m talking when He was here. I’m talking when He was here. He’s
the same yesterday, today and forever. And if He is, then he’ll do,
now that He’s here in the form of the Holy Spirit, what He did when He
was here in flesh.

	And they said, “Oh, how quaint; how quaint. You mean the baptism.” 

	No, I don’t. I mean the Baptizer. 

	You doubting me? Are you doubting me? Come on, let’s find out. 

	You say, “What was the question?” 

	“Are you the Son of God?” 

	He said, “No”. 

	Pillar of fire?

	“No”.

60. Listen. Let’s get every doubt under control this morning. I
don’t care who you are. I’m going to answer to God for my preaching;
you’re going to answer to God for hearing it. And I’m not mad at
anybody. But you see, I know this is the point that people are not
getting, because I wasn’t born yesterday—the day before, but not
yesterday. 

	Now, that Pillar of Fire was the Logos that went out of God, the Logos
which is actually the attribute of the fullness of God. What does it
mean? God had to have some way to outray Himself: what was in Him
intrinsically, what He was. So, He had an object to do it through,
because no man can see God and live. No man. 

	“Well, we can see.” 

	Pillar of Fire, wham. You doubt that? Who doubts that? The City of
Zion, the Lamb is on the Throne. Right? At the top? Do we see him? Yeah.
And the prophet said what? Pillar of Fire above him. Right? That’s
what you see. Right? And you don’t see God, period.

61. How can you see spirit? 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle when I get so and so…” 

	I got news for you: the Bible didn’t say that. But a face-to-face
brother/sister is a confrontation of the indisputability of the true
credibility of the Almighty. And you’re seeing it when God came in the
form to where it could be seen. Notice, when God became; Elohim means
the One that becomes, the form of God in our midst, forming from Luther,
Wesley, Pentecost and now. 

62. You know something: You believe what I’m telling you because
it’s the truth. I believe what I’m telling you because I know it’s
the truth, but it’s really hard to get, because there’s still the
mind: Doing, doing, doing! The battle of Armageddon is right up here for
you and me. You say, “Hey, I got to get rid of my thinking – I got
to stop my thinking.” God becoming. God becoming. Now, just a minute.
Essentially God cannot become because He changes not, but dramatically
within the role of the drama wherein He assessed Himself as the main
character, He can change his role anytime He wants, back and forth and
in-between, for a million roles. God becoming! Elohim.

	That’s why, when I talk about Presence, I’m not talking about
anything but Elohim. That’s all. I’m sorry. If I’m wrong, I’m
wrong. If you believe me and I’m wrong, I’m going to have to stand
before God for all of you. And it’s not a nice thought, but I do not
believe I’m wrong. All right.

63. [Bro. Vayle begins reading from “QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFF.IN
COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823”; paragraph numbering according to Folio Views
version.]

[107]	When God become into a form to where It could be seen, It was the
anointing of the great Spirit that went forth, Its condescending, coming
down, God, the Father, the Logos that was up over Israel, that... He was
holy, could not bear sin. (Now he talks the same one in Eden), it had to
be blood offering right in Eden. (So, that same one over Israel; same
one in Eden. All right.) Then that Logos become flesh and dwelt among
us; and where this Logos dwelt in a human body, which was the Sacrifice.

[108]	When man was made in the image of God... And then God came down in
the image of man to redeem man; that brought man and God together.
Heavens and earth hugged and kissed each other; God and man embraced
each other as Fatherhood and Sonship. (The Father and the Son were one
in that body; before, just Pillar of Fire, Fatherhood. Body—Son! See?)
…when the Logos became flesh and dwelled among us. 

[109]	Jesus said, “I came from God, and I go to God.” Is that right?
(Certainly.) After His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension…

	Where do you come from—motherhood, fatherhood—you can’t go back
to them. So, where did you come from before? Way back in some source,
and you’ll go back to it. Oh, you will. If you were in God, you’ll
go back to God; serpent seed you’ll go back to serpent seed. If
you’re a make-believer, same goes. Foolish Virgin, you’ll finally
meet up. You’ll get your ancestry all figured out. But I’m going to
tell you, at that day every tribe is going to be there, and he’s going
to take every one, like Joshua took at the time of Achan, and he’s
going to take you right back (all the way back), take me all the way
back, and take you all the way back. All right.

64.	[109]	…I came from God, and I go to God.” Is that right? After
His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension, when the body was taken
up to set at the right hand of God... 

	Notice, he calls it a body. Now, that sounds like a disrespectful
prophet to say, “Jesus, you’re a body.” That’s awful. No,
that’s exactly right. Exactly right. He’s making a distinction. His
language is flawless; this is God speaking to us in this man right here.
See. Don’t argue with God.

[109]	Now, I don’t mean God’s got a right hand; God’s a spirit.
But ‘at the right hand’ means ‘in power and authority of God’.
(That’s exactly right.) That in that Name everything in heaven is
named after It and subject to It. Everything in earth is named after It
and subject to It, a Name above all names, Jesus Christ. 

[110]	Now, this Logos (Now, watch.) that was in Him, which was the
Spirit of God, (Now he calls the Logos, ‘in him’), the Anointing,
through the sanctifying grace of the Blood, brought many sons to God,
which is anointed with this same Logos.

	Now, what He’s got, brother/sister, you and I get in miniscule. Just
like the sperm of the male which has life is miniscule compared to the
sire, who is the life, the progenitor. Okay.

65.	[111]	Now, on the day of Pentecost It come down (What came down?
What he’s talking about, God, Elohim, the becoming), that Pillar of
Fire, and broke apart like that, and tongues of fire set upon each of
them, not their tongues, but tongues of fire set upon each of them, a
elected, selected group, identified by this Pillar of Fire, showing that
God had separated Himself into man. Do you get it? God, the Logos,
separating Himself into men; God, not in one person, He’s in His
Church universal. That’s the reason Jesus said, “The works that I do
shall you also, more...”

	Now, right there, you see, he’s with Pentecost. “Hallelujah, Bro.
Branham. Hallelujah, Bro. Branham. Hallelujah, Bro. Branham.” 

	Now, just a minute. Pentecost. He’s going to come down. He’s
obligated to do in the form of the Holy Spirit for the Gentiles what He
did when He was here in the flesh for Israel. He’s here now, and
He’s going to prove it. Ephesus is here! The One in the Lamb is come
back. What is he talking about? Talk about a lead balloon.

	Brother/Sister, Heb 13:8 has more than one meaning. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle.” 

	Don’t ‘Bro. Vayle’ me. The prophet said all Scripture has
compound meaning. You say you believe the prophet, well then, believe
the prophet. He’s trying to tell them here.

66.	[111]	(Now, this is to the church universal.) Now, I know the King
James says, “greater,” (Now, watch what he’s doing.) but the right
translation there is “more than this shall you do.” (Now, watch it.)
God was bottled and confined in one man, Jesus Christ. But now He’s
bottled and confined in the whole universal Church …

	To what degree? To the degree of His purpose. But there’s another
purpose. Ephesians. Back to Ephesus, chapter 4. He that went up came
back as the Holy Ghost. What did he do? He wasn’t filling anybody with
the Holy Ghost in verse 10:

(10) 	He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all
heavens, that he might fill all things.

	“Fill all things.” What ‘all things’? Well, that’s the
question. Bro. Branham said we’re the ‘all things’ of God. 

67.	Now, what’s he doing?

(11) 	And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers…

	It tells you right there. Is that the baptism with the Holy Ghost? No,
it’s not the baptism with the Holy Ghost, but these have to have the
Holy Ghost to get this. Are you people sitting in the pew… I’m the
only one here in the fivefold ministry that’s sitting here that has
the office of a teacher. There’s not one of you here that’s a
teacher. Maybe you’ve got some brothers and sisters that say, “Well,
I teach because I teach Sunday school.” 

	Come on. Fap! We don’t desecrate the things of God, and neither am I
proud and puffed up. I just tell you the truth, and you know it.
That’s not your baptism, but I got to be baptized with the Holy Ghost
to function. Now, this is something different. Now, what’s this going
to do? You going to perfect the saints? The work of the ministry? The
edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the
faith? The knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

68.	Now you say, “What about those gifts over there in Romans 12 and
in 1 Corinthians 12 that line up?” 

	They’re complimentary to this. They’re complimentary to this.
That’s why Bro. Branham said the pastor does not come in and sit with
those speaking in tongues and doing this and that. He’s in his study.
And then, they bring what is from that room on his desk, and he reads
it. He says, “Well, I wasn’t there; I truly wasn’t there. But,
since I’ve got faith in those men and those women,” (he would say)
“This is what they said; now let’s see if it comes to pass.”

	Now, what if I stood here and I was telling you what Bro. Branham said,
vindicated prophet of God, and I said, “Now, this is his idea, but
this is mine. I like mine better.” I can only say what he said. By the
grace of God I do. I don’t know; I can’t prove it. Nobody can prove
anything, even William Branham couldn’t prove what he said was what
God said. We believe it because of signs and wonders and miracles,
because of identification. But so what? It’s a faith proposition. See?
All right. 

69.	Got to keep reading here. Now, where was I? Must’ve been
[paragraph] 120 here. Oh yeah.

[112]	Right now, while God is here speaking with us in our hearts, (God
in our hearts. Baptism, right?) He’s in Africa; He’s in Asia; He’s
in Europe; He’s in England.

	But...! When William Branham preached this sermon, let me tell you
something: He was in Jeffersonville, April 18th, 1965. He was not in
Africa. So, those in Africa did not get, or anyplace else get, what God
was saying. So, this is different. Right? Right! Let’s get down to
nitty-gritty. I’m a rough person; I’m an impatient person.

70.	What’s two and two? 

	You say, “Five.” 

	Hold it! Out. Brother Branham said it. They said teach our women to
have gifts. He said, “If they don’t know their A-B-Cs, how can they
do algebra?” Without knowing you’re A-B-Cs, you cannot do algebra,
because algebra takes the letter-form symbols to mean many things when
it comes to numerics. In its simplified terminology, which it’s yet
very complex in some ways, brings you down to immediate, simple answers.
That was nicely put wasn’t it? Thank you. I’ll break your attention,
not your hearts.

	God was not in Europe or Africa. Was He? No. But He was in the
heart—the Baptism. But the Light appeared in America, not Africa, not
Asia, not Europe. And according to a fellow in Germany, It did not go
back to Germany. If It did, It’s backslidden. How in the world could
God backslide? How could God go back? Come on! People want to go to the
Resurrection and then go back. Brother/Sister, you’ve got to go
forward. We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion. God said
to Abraham, “Don’t you dare go back.” 

71.	Now, listen.

[113]	Now, after His death, burial, and ascension, and the coming of the
Holy Ghost, Paul on his road down—which was Saul—to Damascus, he was
struck down by a Pillar of Fire, the Logos. 

	And Paul wasn’t full of the Holy Ghost. The great Holy Ghost which
gives the measure of the His Spirit which is the Holy Ghost to
believers, went ‘boom’—shot him right down. And this unregenerate
son got a revelation. 

	He said, “Who are you Lord?” 

	He said, “I’m Jesus”—Jehovah savior. My! And he wasn’t even
full of the Holy Ghost. He said, “Saul, get on your feet. You go to
Damascus. There’s a fellow down there who’s going to lay hands on
you, and you’re going to receive something from me called the baptism
with the Holy Ghost because I am the Baptizer.” 

	“Yes,” 

	He said, “Then you’re going to receive your sight, and I’m going
to take you out into the desert and talk to you for two years.” 

	That’s not Pentecost, brother/sister. That’s the man who came at
Pentecost! 

	I know shouting doesn’t get the point across, but it helps me. Then,
when my throat is shot, my wife will give me some hot coffee and make it
all the worse. We love each other; you love me, I love you.

72.	Now, listen. Listen now!

[113]	… struck down by a Pillar of Fire, the Logos. And that Jew
would’ve never called that Pillar of Fire, “Lord,” unless he knew
It was the same Logos that his people followed through the wilderness. 

	“I Am that I Am. If you do not believe that I am, you die in your
sins. I and my Father are one. He that has seen me has seen the
Father.” And Saul new right there what had happened.

[113]	Now, that was not the Son of man; that was the Logos.

	Certainly that wasn’t Jesus Christ in his human form. That was the
Spirit of God in an outward evidence—the same Spirit that was in
Jesus.

73.	[114]	Now, we say this with reverence, and love, and respect. See?
As Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today…

	“Hallelujah! More miracles! Hallelujah, more signs” 

	Shut up! Shut up and listen! I’m sick and tired of Pentecostals
shouting and screaming! I’m doing it for the prophet; putting on a
good act for him. One day he said, “Lee, you can tell them; I can’t.
I can’t say those things about myself, but you can.” 

	I’m going to tell you something right here: the paradox, the compound
meaning ‘the same yesterday, today and forever’ means that today
He’s come back. The same Pillar of Fire, the same Jesus, the Christ
that was in human flesh has come down now—the same Baptizer. As Bro.
Branham said, “Justification gave way to sanctification;
sanctification gave way to the baptism with the Holy Ghost; and the
baptism with the Holy Ghost gives way to the Holy Ghost Himself.” Huh.

74.	[114]	 As Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, and
also that in the last days, as it was before Lot’s time, or in Lot’s
time in Sodom, so shall it be in the day that the Son of man reveals
Himself again, revealing Himself. 

	There it is: Pillar of Fire. There’s the prophet. Prophet said, “I
am not the Son of man – no He’s up there.” The One that’s here
with the prophet is doing something, so that the one that’s up there
can come down. 

[114]	…the same Logos that was upon Jesus—which He has become from
that (That’s the human flesh.) back to the Pillar of Fire again and
has descended down on the earth… 

	I am down on the earth. Everybody but me is up in the air somewhere. Is
it my glasses? Funny my theological—my brothers, my minister—friends
don’t understand He’s down here. Oh, it’s still “Johnny is up on
the ladder and mother gets scared.”

	“Johnny, will please come down here.” 

	“I’m down, mommy.” 

	She hears the voice in the air. Do you think that mommy believes that
Johnny’s down. How many know what two and two are? Five? Drop dead.
Excuse me but don’t come around me. Organ is really called a piano.
Oh, come on. I was going to say something, but I’ve got to watch the
tape. 

	He said they wouldn’t believe it. What he said is, it’s
investigating judgment going on.

75.	[115]	And now, this great Pillar of Fire that’s absolutely
identified even by scientific cameras…

	And the picture that’s here with the cloud, he said did the same
thing. Right? Well, come on. Right? Make up your mind. He said it. Is it
hard to let your thinking go? The mouths of two witnesses… Where’s
the picture? Never mind, you’ve seen it. Well, here it is – thank
you. Old Dave, he’s got the eyes of an eagle. There It is, the camera
caught It. The Judge…this picture’s very poor; the one I gave Bro.
Branham, my original, here it is like this way… here’s the eyes and
nose very clear, wig, head, the Judge. Same as that. Elohim becoming. 

	Brother Branham said, when he phoned Jack Moore, “Who is that One in
Rev 1:17.” 

	Oh, he said, “That’s the glorified form.” 

	He said, “That didn’t ring a bell.” 

	He could’ve said ‘it struck a sour note, and I’d say that, too.
I’d of said, “That ain’t manna kid; there’s something wrong with
that.” 

	No, see; Bro. Branham’s sweet. I should be like him. Why doesn’t
somebody pray for me? If you are praying, your prayers aren’t doing
much good. You better start praying harder and louder. I got to get over
the top here.

76.	But He said… Listen. “The camera caught It there; the camera
caught It there.” 

[115]	Now, …George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI for fingerprint and
documents, said, “I called it psychology myself, Reverend Branham,
but,” said, “the light struck the lens. I put it under ultra ray
lights and had an examination here for four or five days. And the light
struck the lens. And this lens won’t take psychology.” Now, that’s
identified.

	What’s identified? The same One that was in flesh is here now without
flesh, veiled in a Pillar of Fire. Yet, the same One goes in the
prophets or God’s in the prophets. He said, “When you see God
descend from Heaven and stand before groups of men and declare Himself
as ever He did…And that’s the truth, this Bible opened before me.”


	You say, “He’s swearing on the Bible.” 

	Like fun. He’s telling you: How did God do it in the Bible. God’s
in the prophets. All right.

77.	[116]	Then watch the works of It. It, among us… 

	It among us…It among us…It among us… Not in us; ‘in us’ was
Africa, this is among us. That’s why the Bride doesn’t have space or
time any more. We’re up against the Millennium. We’re being ushered
in. And now eternity and time has blended. And there’s something going
on in the bodies right now; different type of mask. 

	You say, “I don’t believe it.” 

	I do, hallelujah. I’m getting out of here. Stay if you want; be my
guest. I’m not trying to be mean. I’m just trying to quiz you in
your thinking. I know I’m doing a lousy job. I’m sorry about that.
You pray more for me, and harder still. Teach you a lesson to come here.

78.	[116] 	Then watch the works of It. It, among us, proves the same
Jesus that once lived in Palestine, the same Spirit was upon Him has
come up through a Body until It’s come back to Headship again.

	Headship is here. He sets Himself head of the Church to raise the dead.
Now, look; do we believe or don’t we believe it? Two and two do not
make five; two and two make four. He is here. He’s come on down.
He’s come down with a Shout. He’s come down to raise the dead.
He’s come down to take us up. Hallelujah! We’re into it.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t feel nothing.” 

	Oh, forget your feelings! Fap! I’ll keep you here an hour and a half,
and you’ll feel big pangs in your stomach. Want some feelings? You
always knew I wasn’t nice. Okay. Listen.

79.	[116]	It, among us, proves the same Jesus that once lived in
Palestine, the same Spirit was upon Him has come up through a Body until
It’s come back to Headship again, which He’s coming soon to claim
the Body.

	The Headship to raise the dead. And then, the One that is without flesh
changes the whole bunch of us, brings them up, takes us up, and the man
that is flesh comes on down, we meet Him in the clouds up there, and the
Spirit that’s amongst us now becomes incarnate to us. God slips into
him, and we crown Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now, here’s
what Bro. Branham said:

[116]	Amen. The Head’s coming to the Body. You get it?

	Now, first of all, he said, “Headship is here.” Then he said,
“…head coming to the body.” Can’t you understand that he’s
talking about the fact it’s the becoming? Can’t you let your
thinking go? You’re not Pentecostal, brother/sister. We’re not
dealing anymore… Are we dealing with Pentecost? I won’t look each of
you in the eye to find out. That’s your business, not mine. But are we
dealing with Pentecost? You still back there in the rubble of your own
mind, or can you not see that Heb 13:8 was different in Bro. Branham’s
mind than it was in Pentecost and your mind and mine. We saw the Alpha
and Omega principle.

80.	You say, “Bro. Vayle, I pray for the sick.” 

	Oh, drop dead, and pray for the sick. There’s a bunch of false
anointed out there. Judas raised the dead. Go on, pray for the sick. I
believe in praying for the sick, so don’t give me your Pentecostal
hogwash. I prayed for sick. I think even one person was dead. I
wouldn’t say for sure. I don’t know. I’ve seen miracles time after
time of the most dynamic sort. I’m no more prophet than a dead horse;
I’m more of dead horse than I am a prophet.

 	Prophet of God stood there. Brother Branham was all messed up. Angel
said, “Don’t get your lines mixed up in times like these.” Don’t
get your theology all messed up when you take Heb 13:8 and run with
Pentecost, when William Branham said, [concerning Hebrews]13:8: He’s
obligated then to [do] now in the form of the Holy Spirit what He did
back there in flesh because He’s the same yesterday, today and
forever. And that’s the truth. And if He is the same, and He is here,
then He’ll do it! And He’s done it! proving Heb 13:8,
brother/sister, is different from what people thought it was.

81.	Do you love the Lord? I hope so. Just a minute to go, and I can’t
read this all. I’m going to close. I won’t keep you. Now, listen.
You get it?

[116]	When the incarnation takes place that will be the Son of God, the
Son of man, the Son of David, the I AM, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of
the Valley, the Morning Star.

	And when he said that One becomes incarnate to us, it’ll be Father,
Son and Holy Ghost, and he wrapped it all up: One God—one God in the
form of the Pillar of Fire, one God in a prophet speaking to His people,
one God in multitudes, as it were, diversified—gifts and all—making
up a body. One God. It’ll go up into that great body up there, the
Lamb called Jesus the Christ, identified with mankind where God took His
genes and reflected them into a bit of soil as it were: sperm and an
egg, and put it into a woman’s womb. And they do it today. They take
the male sperm and the female egg, and they can put it in another
woman’s uterus and take it out and put it back to transfer it anywhere
they want, showing that what Bro. Branham said was correct. The virgin
birth was God creating an egg and a sperm and putting it in a woman’s
womb and through chemistry, brought forth that great one.
Brother/Sister, if God would do that for Himself, it’s no marvel
He’s going to take this dust of ours and change it.

	It’s just the living God doing living things. It’s the risen Christ
doing the risen thing. It’s the great God risen above all things.

82.	Let’s rise and sing: [Bro. Vayle recites the verses to “Christ
Arose”.]

Up from the grave he arose; with a mighty triumph o’er his foes; he
arose a victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever, with his
saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

	Do you know that one? Okay. [Congregation begins singing from “Christ
Arose”.]

	You’re going to get too high on that, but we’re going to sing it
anyway. Norm can you pitch that lower? Who can pitch that lower? It’s
way down.

	[Bro. Vayle and congregation begin singing.]

Up from the grave he arose; with a mighty triumph o’er his foes; he
arose a victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever, with his
saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Low in the grave he lay, Jesus my Savior, he tore the bars away, Jesus
my Lord!

Up from the grave he arose;with a mighty triumph o’er his foes;he
arose a victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever, with his
saints to reign. (Now hold those notes!) He arose! He arose! Hallelujah!
Christ arose!

	Lord bless you. Take the name of Jesus with you. Lunch is right down
here at the little old grange. You know how to get there. Enjoyed being
with you and I trust you’ll enjoy the day further, the blessings of
Almighty God. Take them with you; keep solemn in His Presence wherever
you can. Remember this, brother/sister. It is no myth. It is no story
told as He is here. And He’s risen from the dead. He’s back here
raised up under the Gentiles. Don’t let anybody fool you. Don’t you
get your own thinking. Believe God! 

	There’s only one thing going to get you in this Resurrection,
brother/sister, this Rapture: it’s Resurrection faith and Rapturing
faith. The prophet said so, and he said everything under those Seven
Seals were there, and he turned around and said He was those
Seals—Christ revealed—seals broken. And at means one thing was
opened, and another thing was shut. He said those Seals sealed the New
Testament. The old thing is gone; the new thing is here. You can’t go
back—can’t go back. You can’t go back if you’re Bride. 

	Come on. Get your thinking gone, brother/sister. I’m not here as a
cheerleader; you know that. Though a man declare it unto you; I see old
Lee Vayle tell you… Yeah, I’ll tell you. Well, who is he anyway? He
ain’t nobody. Never said I was. I’m not living on the milk of human
kindness, something I’ve got, or anybody else’s kindness, or my
goodness, yours or anybody else’s. I’m telling you the truth. The
Word of God can. All right.

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.” Lord bless you.