Seed of Discrepancy #10

Propagating God; Examine Yourselves

March 19, 1995

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we remember so many times when Bro.
Branham would call a prayer line; he would say to the person, “I feel
a real welcoming spirit.” And we pray, Lord, that You may feel a
welcoming spirit from us because we know that we have more than a
welcoming Spirit from You, Lord. It’s not just ‘welcome’, but
it’s greatly beneficial. Many people welcome us, and they’re nice
and they would talk to us, and that’s very good. But, Lord, You are
here to do for us, and we know that to be the truth because You’re
bringing all things into order, getting the Bride ready, for that which
has not entered upon her mind only very vaguely, because we know that
the real interpretation, the real revelation, comes by explanation
through manifestation, the very experiencing thereof.

	So, we’re looking forward, Lord, to what Your Word has said, knowing
there’s something far, far, beyond what the Word is at this time which
has been spoken, and It is going to mature into that which has also been
spoken, but whereof, we do not know the height and the depth, but we
shall know at that particular time. We’re grateful for It, but in the
meantime, we pray, we shall know the height and depth of what we ought
to know at this time, Lord, and the mechanics, blessed by the dynamics,
Father, that we may proceed forth into being the Bride, being the
adopted people, and to show forth Your praise.

	We ask You, Lord, to help us to be truly humble and willing to hear
Your Word, to obey Your Voice and to walk in the Light and to just let
You have right-of-way in our lives: to get out of the way in some cases
and, yet, be in the Way in some cases, and which would be, that we want
to be, very definitely in Your Will in whatever we can do. So, grant our
service a blessing this morning. We give You praise in Jesus’ Name,
Amen.

	You may be seated.

1. 	Now we’re on number ten of the “Seed of Discrepancy”. And last
Sunday we got so far as to simply read the preamble and having discussed
it, we had no time left to begin reading in the Message. So, what I want
to do this morning, is what I promised I would do, is to simply read the
preamble if I can just keep myself disciplined; that’s all I will do
and then we’ll go on to reading and commenting from page 8, about
paragraph 38, somewhere in that particular area. All right.

2.	When Bro. Branham choose this title, wherein he desired to speak of,
and affirm the reality of, existing human entities or persons who are
definitely a departure from the original two children of God, Adam and
Eve, he went to Matthew 13, wherein Jesus Himself refers to Adam and
Eve—now not by name—and their own progeny and true descendants as
children of God by God’s Own sowing (God’s Own sowing, God’s Own
sperma, God’s Own spora, God’s Own Life) and another group, who are
called the children of the devil or the seed and the sowing of the
devil, which matured, actually into people, the same as we saw with God.

3. 	The field wherein both seeds of God and Satan are sown is the field
of God, and God alone. Now, that’s true. There weren’t two fields.
There was one field. This field is called by Paul, “God’s
husbandry.” [1 Cor 3:9] He said, “You are God’s husbandry. You are
God’s field. You are God’s agriculture. You are God’s planting.”
Thus, it is clearly seen that two different seeds from two different
sources, one called God, one called the enemy of God or the devil, have
been sown in a common field that belongs to God. “All souls are
mine” and have to make an account to God. And this field has now
yielded and continues to yield two species, or two kinds of children
from two different sources, and of course, Bro. Branham said, “This is
the harvest of them.”

4.	Now, since Jesus explained his parable, there is no longer any
problem with the evident truth of where these two seeds actually came
from and how they came. Let us face it. Both Adam and Eve were the seed
or the children of God and were called seed on the basis of propagation.
Adam and Eve—both—propagating what? Propagating God, the species.
Horses have horses, dogs have dogs, pigs have pigs, humans have humans.
What’s the origin? God: “God breathed into Adam the breath of lives
and man became a living soul.” [Gen 2:7] So, we have no problem,
except with our own inability to cope with the Word of God.

5.	Both Adam and Eve were the seed or children, the seed children of
God; they were called seed on the basis of propagation. Adam and Eve;
both had the same life and were one species and could in mating produce
nothing but replications or images of their own original and
God-produced selves. Well? You breed dogs, do you expect to get horses?
That would be nice. Get a couple of dogs, fifty bucks a piece, and get
an Arabian stallion worth ten thousand a piece. I’m nasty; aren’t I?
My God, look it, see, I don’t understand people. I don’t understand
people. Why cannot they believe the Word of God that’s vindicated? Of
course, It’s not vindicated to them.

6.	Adam and Eve both had the same life, naturally, and were of one
species and could, in mating, produce nothing but replications or images
of their own original and God produced selves. But the woman does not
carry seed, even though she herself is a seed. The woman is a field in
which the seed is buried for a period of about nine months, and then,
she gives birth. Adam was also a field in that he carried seed. But that
seed could not bring forth outside the woman, which… And Paul explains
that in 1 Cor 11:8-12. And I better take the time to read It because
this is very important. And 1 Cor 11:8-12, It is saying:

(8)	(But) the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. (See?
Same life.)

(9)	Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the
man.

	Why? Sexual affair, doormat, servant? Oh come on. He’s talking about
what we’re talking about this morning. Propagation: children unto God.
See?

(11)	Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, (I skipped verse
10; it doesn’t matter.) neither the woman without the man, in the
Lord.

(12)	For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the
woman; but all things of God.

	He’d tell you that’s how God laid it out, and that’s the way it
is. God breathed into Adam the breath of lives, and he became a living
soul. And that’s the life of God in us is our soul.

7.	Remember; the serpent had a place for a soul, but did not have one.
He had life. And Bro. Branham explains that by saying, “We have an
inner soul. We have a gene from God.” Theologians mostly do not
agree…will agree with themselves, “That animals do not have
souls.” Bro. Branham said so. But you go to your Bible, go to the
original Hebrew, you will find the word ‘soul’ is used of animals.
So, what did Bro. Branham do, he clarified it, he explained it, he
showed us the truth, “Inner, inner, gene from God, Adam had the gene
from God.”

 	Bro. Branham said, “Who are you? You’re that soul. Where did you
come from? Did you come from God? Then you have a part of you that is
eternal, that never did need saving. You always were saved.”
Theologians will not go with William Branham, but William Branham is a
vindicated theologian quoting Paul. Who are you going to believe? Who
are you going to believe?

	I don’t try to force anybody. You can believe what you want, but I
believe this, or I wouldn’t preach it. I believe it right down to
perfection. Not to the perfection I will have, as time goes on, and I
think nothing but the pure Word of God. After all God did not hit me
with a lightning bolt and, then, bong my head on the concrete. But He
did speak to my heart concerning who I should listen to, which was the
man that I saw vindicated.

	Woman does not carry seed. She does not. The man carries seed. But the
man has to have the woman; the woman has to have the man.

8.	Now, in the original plan of God, we find Paul speaking of seed
producing or developing into bodies. We read that in 1 Cor 15:35-39. You
do not plant that body; you plant the seed. And in that seed there is a
genetic pattern within the life. And the strangest thing in all the
world, that’s like a spirit. It’s a life, and as soon as it’s
watered, the substance of that seed begins to get eaten up in order to
produce the chemical action, reaction, the plant. Let science do that!
And they say there’s no God.

9.	Isn’t is marvelous, this Australian fellow… He gets a million
dollars from the Templeton fund because he relates science and religion?
And he was going to be some kind of Presbyterian, divine or Anglican
divine, or Pentecostal divine. Now, that’s a thought, isn’t it? And
he couldn’t hack it, so he became a scientist, so-called. And he wrote
a treatise finally, how that there must be something that you don’t
really want to call ‘God’ out there, but there’s an order. Hall…
Oh, I was going to say, “Hallelujah.” They should have given me the
million bucks, and I could have done better than that. I would just have
shown them some of Bro. Branham’s two films and say, do what you want
with it. Do what you want. Oh my, my, my, my, my. It’s a great life,
if you don’t weaken. All right.

10.	Now in Gen 3:1-15 and 3:20, where Eve was declared the mother of all
living, and we see Satan enter through the serpent to hybridize the
human race, the field of God. And this is a true historical account of
one field, or womb, baring two children, of two different sources.
That’s what happened. She was a field—fruit tree. And at that time
the sperm and ovum of male and female beast could no longer bring forth
according to original pattern but were given bodies by a displeased God.
So, I can see no hope for any serpent or beast seed in the Resurrection
according to 1 Corinthians 15, but only the Lake of Fire.

	And so on down the line we read. We looked at Romans 9, and we saw
predestination there on the grounds of foreknowledge of one lump of
clay, where Abraham had Isaac and Ishmael, and one was one seed, (two
women) but here they were children of Abraham, Isaac, by one husband and
one wife Rebekah, one was Esau; God hating one seed and loving the
other. So, we can see what we’re talking about.

11.	Then we come to the place where we find headship in Judas, as Bro.
Branham said. Now we look at Judas and Jesus, both of these men, and I
repeat, men, actually, were incarnated; one by Elohim and one by Satan.
So, you know, logically, if God took that seed Jesus as His Seed, you
think Satan would do less. He had to acknowledge his seed. So, Satan
incarnated him.

	“Say, we don’t go by logic.”

	I’m not going by logic; I’m just telling it’s logical to
understand the Bible telling you that.

 	And now at the end time, when Elohim again shall be incarnated in
Jesus at the Rapture, the devil will incarnate himself in the pope, when
the Bride’s gone. Now speaking of these end-time serpent seed, many of
which are very religious, Bro. Branham points out that Judas was very
religious. He even joined with the great Messiah prophet and had a
ministry of gifts, yet he himself was not real. That’s Judas wasn’t.
In spite of what would appear to make him even like unto Jesus, which
was his human figure, he was, actually, an intelligent beast. “Brute
beast made to be taken and destroyed.” [2 Pet 2:12] Well, what are you
going to do with the pope? You can’t have alpha without omega, and you
can’t have omega without alpha. Right? ‘Alpha and omega’ is a
principle. So, all right.

12.	What about Judas? His control was not the Word of God. His control
was the same word of Genesis 3: “Hath God said?” Is this the truth?
Will this really happen?

	Most people don’t doubt there’s a God; they just wonder, “Hey,
what’s He doing anyway? What about that Word of His? Oh, come on. You
really don’t believe that, do you, about God?”

	Every now and then I meet someone that’s got a good reasoning nature,
and he tries to reason things out, and it’s very cute, but it won’t
work.

13.	A reasoning creature, (which is man) the seed of God can both reason
and believe. But always, the seed of God, true Bride, will reject reason
for revelation. The beast cannot do this. There is no place in him for
the true Word; perverted word, yes. Truth, no! That’s why at the end
time, He’s the God of Truth, and He’s rejected entirely. The Bible
said, “They crucified themselves the Son of God.” [Heb 6:6] That’s
the Holy Ghost. He can’t receive a revelation even when vindicated.
Judas could not, and all living Judases simply cannot. They cannot
receive revelation. They can go so far and no further.

14.	Now we read Scripture the other day in 2 Tim 3:1-14, Hebrews 6, 2
Peter 1 all the way through and the Book of Jude. And we notice these
very religious people, and they’re nothing but serpent seed. And at
the end time they’re Pentecostal chaff—and the majority. And
they’re the ones that are mentioned because they are the last to have
the Life of God go through them before it goes into the seed, and it
looks like the real thing.

15.	Pentecostals and Branhamites in many ways are twins, or should be.
Except, God forbid, that we should go so far as one Pentecostal
preacher, put a sign over the church where they come together, and he
put, “Gift Room”. So now, they can talk in tongues and do what they
want to do. And the other guy lied to me about his microphone hanging in
the pews to pick up any messages.

	He said, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t do it.” He said, “But if I did
the big, the big…”

	And he was doing it.

	He said, “The tragic thing is we’re not getting any messages.”

	Why would he want a message in tongues when you’re preaching the Word
of God? If you tried that here I would just say, “Ushers, please,
deacons, please take the brother/sister out.” If you don’t respect
the house of God, who’s going to respect you? You ask me one reason
why I should?

	“Well, be nice.”

	What do you mean ‘nice’? You don’t think the serpent was nice to
Eve? Ho! Seducers, not rapers, brother/sister, is what you better watch
out for. The number of rapes in this country are infinitesimal compared
to seductions, and the woman is just as messed up with either one,
except in one, she doesn’t have an excuse, the other she would have an
excuse; they should kill the guy. Now I just say that, and I mean it. I
mean it; I got no problem with it. Bible says so. What rights has he got
to do that junk?

16.	Then, at the end time we see Revelation 13 and 2 Thessalonians, Son
of man, son of perdition—two ministries: one by the Son of God and one
being used, the ministries being used by the son of the serpent. And
believe me, let me tell you; the people today are almost all brute
beasts made to be taken and destroyed, because they are just like the
time of the flood: eight people made the ark. Only one person was truly
human. When Noah died; it was all over. From that time you had the one
lump that the men carried: serpent, God. You say, “Why would God allow
it?” It’s God’s business: for the judgment coming when He will not
allow it? Okay, all right.

17.	We’re going to go to reading on page 8, because, my, we’re
getting way behind on paragraph 38. And, notice: [SEED.OF.DISCREPANCY
PHOENIX.AZ V-12 N-5 65-0118]

[38]	If Judas was the seed of the enemy and the discrepancy, (or that
word ‘and’ should be… It’s a preposition, in this case. You can
tell it.) If Judas was the seed of the enemy, even the discrepancy, it
also became flesh and dwelt among us in the person of Judas Iscariot.

	Now, look what he’s doing here. He’s talking about a person before
he’s even in flesh. Now we were persons before we were in flesh.
“When the morning stars sang and the sons of God clapped their hands
and danced around the throne.” [Job 38:7] We have no memory; we did
it. Now he said, “Judas was already that, in the preexistent form,
and, if you don’t take it too far back, which we don’t have to, you
can take it to the time when he was in his father’s
loins—seed—when it was not yet manifested.” And for a long time
you couldn’t tell. In fact, hey, let’s face it, when they went out
to carry the Gospel at Jesus’ command; I wouldn’t be surprised if
Judas sang the praises of Jesus even louder than Peter. And Peter was a
real individual. 

18.	[38]	So, Judas was the seed of the enemy, even the discrepancy, and
he also became flesh and dwelt among us in the person that was known as
Judas Iscariot.

	All at this time, Bro. Branham is saying, Here is that seed, and
there’s nothing you can do about it. And that seed had to come forth a
hundred percent as it was, from his father’s loins and his father’s
and his father’s, his father’s, his father’s, his father’s,
right back to Cain and right back to the serpent.” Now you can do what
you want about it; that’s the truth. There’s only two seeds, two
sowers; one woman. Eve’s the mother of all living, even science proves
that. But they got a snidely say, “Well, there could have been many
Eves but we know we came from this one.”

	You know, I think there should be… Well, there’s a day of reckoning
coming for their folly anyway. So, all right.

19.	Judas was already foreknown and written about, even the Book of
Life, because he was a part of Israel, to come forth when he came forth.
He was exactly that serpent seed, and he was the highest of all serpent
seeds because Satan would indwell him. Now, that’s logical, because
Jesus was the highest of all God’s seed, so God indwelt him, and he
became a perfect manifestation of God. So, Judas now becomes a perfect
manifestation. And you’ll notice that manifestation—What was
it?—Judas tried to get the Seed of God completely destroyed. He wanted
Jesus destroyed.

20.	Now, listen; after the Great White Throne, (And there’s two
separate paths.) what does Satan try to do? He gathers all his host
together and attempts to destroy the people of God and the holy
encampment. No change. No. You see what we’re talking about? God’s
seed cannot change; they’ve got to believe. They’ve got to do. The
seed of the serpent cannot change. They’ve got to believe. They’ve
got to do. And God’s children, His seed will go by revelation—also,
a certain amount of reasoning, because once you are born-again and begin
to exercise the Word of God in your life, you come to a place of
discernment, which means judgment, and you can judge between. And you
can be, according to Malachi, you can speak the Word and talk to people,
and you can judge between righteous and evil people, and those who serve
God and those who don’t.

21.	If you catch one of our preachers, he says, “I believe in Bro.
Branham”, yet he’s telling his own people now that he’s going to
be a district elder over many people—little satellite churches—and
there’s going to be typed out that he’s Joshua or somebody, and
there’s going to be two million enter the Millennium with him. Now he
says he believes Bro. Branham.

	Now, how can this man believe Bro. Branham? He’s a Latter-Rainer. He
always was. He cannot change. He cannot help himself. He’s got to
tell, whereas up here I cannot tell you different. Eight people made it!
Don’t sit there and think eight hundred, eight thousand, eight
million’s going to make it. Eight people made it!

	So, if you want to draw your types, you better draw your types
correctly. And then, Bro. Branham distinctly told us, “You better
watch, even your illustrations because your illustrations can take you
off: one word, you’re gone.” I’m quoting you the prophet. I’m
not quoting Lee Vayle. I’m not here for Lee Vayle. If I was here for
Lee Vayle, I wouldn’t be here. You know that, certainly, I’d be out
there in the world.

22.	[38]	If Judas was the seed of the enemy; (He certainly was, since
Judas was a seed.) even the discrepancy, (Even that changed from a human
being; he was a beast; had the form and everything else, but he was a
beast, just like the anti-Christ.) He came in the person of Judas
Iscariot that the devil may inhabit him. He never had (any) real, real
faith. He had what he thought was faith. There’s such a thing as
having faith and a make-believe faith. (All right.)

	Here we’re looking at the basis of the son of perdition and the Son
of man in the end time, because Bro. Branham took this to the end time.
So, we are now going to go to 2 Corinthians 13, and let us see what we
come up with here because I believe there’s some tremendously
interesting things for this hour. And so, we’re going to look at verse
5, because Bro. Branham has already told these people, Listen, this
isn’t just a parable. This is for you people sitting here under my
ministry. And as every church has three kinds of believers, they’re
sitting here tonight. Now you Pentecostals get this and get this
flat—you chaff, end-time people. And he counts himself as Pentecostal;
you’ll find himself doing it. He said, “I want you to know what’s
happening.” 

23.	So, let’s look at it in verse 5.

(5)	Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith. (Now he said here,
“Judas never had any real, real faith.” Now Paul says:) 

(5)	Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own
selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except you be reprobates?

	Isn’t it funny; the world wants to tell everybody we’re all
reprobates? In other words, we’re all dogs that can get born-again,
and all hogs that can get born-again, all goats that get born-again. The
doctrine of reprobation is a lie from the pit of hell! If you’re a
seed of God, there’s no way you can be a reprobate or reprobated. How
can God reprobate one of His children? See, these guys don’t know the
Bible.

24.	Now Paul said, [2 Corinthians 13]

(5)	Examine your(self,) (Now, let’s read the context; we go back to
verse 1.)

(1)	This is the third time I am coming to you. (Now, watch!) In the
mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

	These are the words of the Old Testament and the words of Jesus. And
they’re the words of the New Testament. It says here that you need
two. And Paul explains the real two. And he does it in Hebrews: that God
Himself came down and interposed Himself with an oath, and the
interposition of God with an oath is always with a prophet. And the
prophet is always vindicated. Right? You bet I’m right. You want to
sit there wrong, that’s up to you entirely. It takes two. It takes God
and the prophet. If the people want to know something they cannot
worship and serve God without a prophet; we saw that.

25.	Now, watch! [2 Corinthians 13]

(2)	I (have) told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present,
the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore
have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare.

	Now, hold it. This guy’s tough. He’s not tough for Paul; he’s
tough for God and the Word. Now, keep watching. 

(3)	Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is
not weak, but is mighty in you.

	Oh, boy, you talk about a big blowhard. Here comes the apostle Paul,
bless God. What does he say here? He said, “Since ye seek proof of
Christ speaking in me, which is mighty in you.” Did we get that far
with Bro. Branham? Or do we believe it this morning? 

	You know what I’m trying to show you? Vindication! Vindication! Paul
was vindicated. He never spoke small peanuts for Herod or a bunch of
Full Gospel Businessmen, and neither did William Branham. 

26.	(4)	For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he…(No, let
me read it again.)

(3)	…seek ye proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not
weak, but is mighty in you.

(4)	For though he (Christ) was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth
by the power of God.

	And now, that same Holy Ghost, God Himself, is dealing with them
through Paul.

(4)	For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power
of God toward you.

(5)	Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith.

	All right. Now the question is: have you examined yourself that you
believe in vindication? Or are you a little leery? Or are you waiting to
turn a corner? Or are you like most of these Pentecostals that call
themselves Branhamites, north, south, east and west of us, all around
us? You couldn’t get them to preach the truth if they tried, because
the truth isn’t in them. They’ve never believed Bro. Branham was
truly vindicated; they’ve been enamored by him. But have they sat
there for the Word, as men and women that hunger, as Bro. Branham said,
“My heart panteth after the water brook.” Rather, “my soul panteth
after thee, O God, as the hart panteth after the water brook.” [Ps
42:1] I know them.

27.	(5)	(He said:)…Know ye not your own selves, how that [Jesus]
Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

(6)	But I trust [that] ye shall know that you are not reprobates.

(7)	Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear
approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as
reprobates. (That’s what they call us.) 

(8)	For (Listen!) we can do nothing against the truth, but for the
truth.

	Isn’t that wonderful. That’s one thing I’ve got to learn because,
man, I come out slugging all the time with cannons shots. and all I need
is a fly swatter. Just stick with the Word of God—nothing else.

(9)	For we are glad, when (you) are weak, and ye are strong: and this
also we wish, even your perfection.

(10)	Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I
should use sharpness, according to the power which (God) hath given me
to edification, and not to destruction.

	He knew he had something, same as William Branham had. The time he
stood there, and I saw him; he could have killed that boy right then.
That couple could have died right there. He had the ability. Paul had
the same thing. And he said, “I’m glad I don’t have to come and
face you because I know what you’re pulling off. And I know what
you’re doing. It may come to the place where it’s just more than
words, and you want to know I’ve got vindication or not; Christ is
speaking in me? That I’m the authority of God? That he that hears me;
hears God: that he that listens to me is being taught by Jesus
Christ?” Oh, he says that in Ephesians. I quoted it to you. Here’s
your… [Bro. Vayle knocks on the pulpit.] Check your selves out. Check
yourselves out.

28.	You know what Bro. Branham is doing? Let me tell you what he is
doing. He said, “Just think the same Pillar of Fire that brought the
Word to Paul is here revealing It.” Not, not really. The same Pillar
of Fire is merely saying the same thing through Bro. Branham, but he’s
giving it in the twentieth century when it’s all over. And all it is,
is an explanation in the sense that he is elaborating. But William
Branham hasn’t changed one thing here. He says here, “He didn’t
have real, real faith.” ‘Well, who’s got it? Let’s find out.
Let’s see if I’m a Judas or I’m a child of God.’ 

	Everybody sat grinning. I’m a child of God. I’m a child of God.
I’m a child of God.

29.	Then pretty soon, the women heard Bro. Branham, and he said,
“Every time I come back, (he said,) your shorts, skirt, your hair’s
shorter and…” “Hee, hee, haw, chuckle, chuckle, chuckle.” I hope
you don’t think I’m a woman hater, but women upset me. They upset me
because too many women, not our sisters here, but out in the world, they
all upset me because they are just the real, livid, rotten thing that
the church is. And, oh man, how they’ll let you know that they can run
the world and men fail. 

	When you talk about the men failing and make the Holy Ghost like this
guy in Florida does, you make him female. I don’t know how many here
would have any inclination toward that. Let me tell you something:
you’re worse than reprobates. You’re worse than reprobates. You
haven’t got a clue. But there’s going to be people around this
Message that they’re going to run out and back and forth, up and down,
do everything they can to destroy the people with it.

30.	Here this fellow Judas, this Judas is a mutation. Let’s look at
mutations. According to Mendel’s Law and you study the thing through,
you’ll find… And scientists want to make all of us mutations where
you’re mutating up from the slimy little tadpole or something,
whatever the original germ was, out of the slime. Forget it. You get a
mutation, what you’re going to find is the negative factor is always
greater than the positive. So, there has to come a time when there’s
going to be hardly any seed of God on this earth. Eight made the ark,
and all the rest, five and a half billion, are going to be serpent seed.

31.	Now, watch! 

[38]	He had what he thought was faith. There’s such a thing as having
faith and make-believe faith.

	Peter says the same thing. He speaks of ‘unfeigned love’. He speaks
of ‘faith’. I always like to go to 1 Peter because, let’s face it,
that’s the place to go, right? Right! 1 Peter 1:22. It says here:

(22)	Seeing ye have purified your soul in obeying the truth through the
Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another
fervently with a pure heart:

(23)	Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. 

	He tells you that seed Word has to have another dose of Word upon it,
which is the conduit of the Holy Ghost, to shake it and bring it forth
to life. As Paul said, “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from
amongst the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” [Eph 5:14] It
doesn’t say life; it says, ‘Light.’ Now, remember; everything that
makes manifest is light. That makes manifest; that Pillar of Fire taken
by a camera—the raising of the dead and the healing of the sick, and
all those things: the Word of God which lives and abides forever.

32.	(24)	For all flesh is (just like) grass, and [all] the glory of
(the) man as the flower of the grass. The grass withereth (and fadeth).

	That’s wonderful, but what about the Word? The Word lives on. In
other words, you yourself, as a being leaving this earth, you do not
die. You go to that body that’s waiting for you eternal. It’s right
in 2 Cor 5:1. You go there, and you wait for your physical body to come.
And Bro. Branham said you can shake hands and hug each other, there’s
no bad sensations, everything is of God, but you can’t eat, and you
can’t drink, because you don’t have that body. He was there with
them and saw it. So, all right. We’re having a nice time on this
little sentence of Bro. Branham.

33.	[38]	…Judas was the seed of the enemy (He was the discrepancy. He
certainly was. [He] didn’t have a serpent body. He’s not a human
being.) that became flesh all the way from Cain, all the way down. [He]
became Judas Iscariot, the person, and he never had any real, real
faith. He had what he thought was faith.” He didn’t examine himself.

	I wonder how many people that night examined themselves from what Bro.
Branham says here? See? According to him, “Examine yourselves.”

	“Well, let’s see, have I thought a bad thought this morning?”
“Was I nice to my wife?” “Was my nice wife nice to me?”

	In other words, it’s not a matter of revelation; it’s always a
matter of action, action, action, action. “But remember, the mule can
outwork the horse any day of the week:” quoting Bro. Branham.

	Actions do count, but only if you’re seed. “Many will come in that
day and say, ‘Lord, have we not cast out devils in thy Name?
Prophesied and done other works?’” [Mt 7:22] “And here’s the
witnesses. Yes, Lord, I delivered her from the insane institution. She
will tell You.”

	Oh, they’ll come like the Pentecostal girl will come. They gave her
three apples, and they passed them through the bars of a cell. She said,
“Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I’ve sinned against thee all.”

	So, one lady got to praying and fasting. The preacher, he didn’t do
so good. When they got in the cell, the devil spirit knocked him down
flatter than a pancake.

34.	You can tell why Bro. Branham said that falling over is the wrong
spirit. I don’t care if [Benny] Hinn breathes on them, or Mr. Fox used
to lay hands on them, or Pentecostals or Branhamites do it. “It’s of
the devil.” Bro. Branham said so. Do we believe a prophet, or don’t
we? Now my question is in the judgment; what is going to happen, they
come and say, “We cast the devils out of this woman. “Now, if
they’re Trinitarian idolaters, what’s it going to be? “Well,
you’re just fine; come on in. Hey, that was great that you did
that.”

	Have you ever heard about a steward? You know what a steward is? A
steward is the guy that has something in charge of which belongs to
somebody else. I understand gifts of the Holy Spirit mean they belong to
Him. And what if we have those gifts and use them wrong? Well, we should
think about it.

35.	[38]	He had what he thought was a faith. There’s such a thing as
having faith and a make-believe faith. 

[39]	And a genuine faith of God will believe in God, and God is the
Word. It’ll never add anything to It. The Bible tells us if we add one
word, or take away one Word, our part will be taken out of the Book of
Life. That’s Revelation 22:18, the last closing chapter.

36.	What do you say we turn to 1 Corinthians 14. “The same Pillar of
Fire that brought the Word is here revealing It.” “I preached what
Paul preached,” said William Branham. Then, listen to what William
Branham says in verse 34 and down. 

(34)	Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under
obedience, as also saith the law.

(35)	And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at
home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

(36)	What? (They’re questioning him. See?) came the word of God out
from you? or came it unto you only?

(37)	If any man think himself to be a prophet, or (even full of the Holy
Ghost), let him acknowledge that the things that I write are the
commandments of the Lord.

(38)	But if (you want to) be ignorant (of the fact of Deuteronomy 18,
and refuse to take It, then be my guest, says Paul.)

	Do you think Paul came by with a bull whip and tried to whip people
into submission? No. I know I preach up here tough, but you know out of
the pulpit, hey, look: I don’t care what you do, where you go, what
you think. That’s your business. I just preach and the tapes go out.
And I preach hard; I preach tough with the Word of God. But I don’t
hold a club over anybody. But I want to tell you something. This Word of
God is tough. It can’t be added to; It can’t be taken from, so that
means It can’t be broken. 

37.	Paragraph 40.

[40]	In the first beginning, the first Book of the Bible, God told them
not to break one Word of that, “every Word must be kept,” they must
live by that Word. Jesus, in the middle of the Book, came along and said
that in His age, and said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every Word that comes out of the mouth of God.” And in the closing age
of Revelation, (see?)…in the closing age of Revelation…

	Now there’s a double thought there. One is the Book of Revelation,
and the other is Seven Seals, Seven Thunders, which, of course, are in
that Book.

[40]	And in the closing age of Revelation, foretold to us, that
“Whosoever shall take one Word out of the Book, or add one word to It,
his part shall be taken out of the Book of Life.” (That Revelation, of
course, chapter 22:18, 19.)

	So, Bro. Branham is now bringing the people to the place where God has
dealt in three. Number one: back at the time of Moses and before. Number
two: the time of Jesus. Number three: at the time of William Branham
because Paul does not say this. It is William Branham.

38.	Paragraph 41.

[41]	Therefore there can be nothing shadowy, just a genuine,
unadulterated Word of God!

	In other words, he’s telling us here, the revelation must be so clear
and so precise, though a wayfaring man be a fool, he need not err
therein. In other words, there are no more shadows; there are no more
glares—no more looking into a glass darkly, no more veils upon the
mind. [Pause] I’m letting that sink in because we are prone to believe
there are veils upon our minds, when that is not true. Every veil has
been removed by the Word; it is we, who choose to let our minds linger
with the old creeds and dogmas of which Bro. Branham correctly said so
beautifully, “How are you going to be dressed and ready for the
Wedding Supper? Never ever talk of those old creeds and dogmas ever
again.” But you got to talk: what are you going to talk about? What
Malachi said: the Word. Think the Word to the place where you can’t
think anymore and talk anymore the old way.

39.	Now, listen! Let’s get this flat: there’s no such a thing as a
super, super spiritual person. Jesus was the only person who ever lived
the Word, but we can believe It. David, knowingly broke every
commandment in the Book. He even took advantage of his authority as a
great man. He lowered himself. Yet, the man loved God, and had a real
revelation. [End of side one of the audio tape]

	What I’m telling you is, looking at this here: a true Bride at the
end time will not be all cluttered up with turning corners and wondering
about the Parousia, when it’s simply the ‘Presence’. They don’t
even know Who came down. They don’t even know Who’s here.

	Who is that? Tell me! Well, come on. Sure, it’s Elohim. Certainly,
isn’t the Lamb. Where is the Lamb? Certainly. Take that down to
Tennessee. Ask them down there. Of course, us northerners, our brains
are so chilled with the cold, that’s the trouble. Well, I’m a
red-hot believer. I’m sorry. I can’t take your luke-warm vomit.

40.	[41]	There‘s nothing can be shadowy, just a genuine unadulterated
Word of God! (if it is going to be given to the Bride, so that she will
not add or take one Word.)

   Now, what did Eve do? She listened to an argument. She listened to a
reasoning beast. The beast couldn’t get a revelation if he tried.
Satan couldn’t get a revelation, and he tried. But they can reason.
And you know why the devil tries to overcome the holy encampment at the
end time and God and His servants? Because there’s billions of them,
and there’s very few of us. “Why,” he said, “anybody knows
numbers are…”

	It’s like the old game; he that gets there fustest with the mostest,
wins the battle. And he said, “We’re the mostest.”

	 Now, listen to me! Let you minds go. Do you realize that’s actually
going to take place? The devil and his crowd think they can do it. And
then you know what’s going to come and happen afterward? When he gets
thrown down there in the Lake of Fire, we’re going to go by and say,
“Oh, merciful God. Is this…? No, it can’t be. It can’t be what
made everybody tremble.”

41.	Have you heard the pope’s latest encyclical? Oh, he roars like a
lion, but he’s only a mouse. He’s only a blob of fat with a fat
mouth; his own people don’t even believe him. But I tell you the old
boy’s held his ground on certain things I admire. He’s cut out
abortion. Birth control, that’s not natural. Women preachers. But that
doesn’t amount to a hill of beans because everything else goes. The
weightier matters have been left out entirely. But he’s just a mouse.
And yet people jump.

	Clinton goes hippity-hippity hop. Almost think he came from Australia,
like a kangaroo or something, I don’t know. Oh, yeah. I can see why
Reagan went over there because his preacher is no better than the pope.
You know all about his preacher, don’t you? His personal pastor;
he’s tied up with five women in the congregation, at least that many,
I guess.

42.	Why am I bringing all this out? I’m bringing this out because this
is what’s going on today in the face of that. [Bro. Vayle points to
the picture of the Pillar of Fire (Shekinah Glory).] And there’s
nobody… There’s nobody ashamed of themselves. Nobody’s crying,
nobody’s mourning, nobody’s repenting. Notice how I use the term
loosely there. When you’re talking of the five and a half billion
people in the world, what do you see? And the billions in the church; a
billion Protestants, a billion Catholics and a billion Mohammedans that
are supposed to be sweet, fine people, and you know that they live by
the sword.

43.	[41]	Therefore there cannot be anything shadowy, just a genuine
unadulterated Word of God! That’s sons of God and daughters of God,
whose borned, not by the will of man, nor by the shaking of a hand, or
some form of baptism…

	Like what? Like Salvation Army, wearing a suit of clothes that looks
different. And that’s their baptism? What do the Mennonites do? Do the
Mennonites go by… Do they believe in baptism? You’ve got me beat
there. Sprinkling, I’d imagine. Then they wear those clothes. I
don’t know. Let me tell you something. You get baptized in water,
completely immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or you are not
going to go onto the baptism with the Holy Ghost, normally.

	Now I know it’s been done, in time past, you could receive the Holy
Ghost without water baptism. But the point is: the program of God is,
“Repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for
remission of sin, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost,”
[Acts 2:38] and, as Bro. Branham correctly said, “You do two; God does
the third. You can’t help it.” See? Then you pile Word upon Word.
See? All right.

44.	Let’s go again.

[41]	There can be absolutely nothing shadowy, just a genuine
unadulterated Word…! That’s sons of God and daughters of God, whose
not born of the will of man, nor by shaking hands, or some form of
baptism; but borned in the Spirit of God, by the Holy Ghost, and the
Word manifesting Itself through them. That’s genuine Seed…!

	Now, watch it. Just watch right there. Because over here, as in every
single sermon, he brings out the…on healing and raising the dead and
all of these other things and everybody comes right along and says,
“Oh, that’s fine. We know we really are it. We really know we got
it.”

	But just a minute, he is preaching what Paul preached, and this is
twentieth century. Go back to 2 Corinthians 13 again, and you will find
out that Paul identifies himself as that seed that brings forth the Word
to all other seeds. Now, watch again! He is talking, and he can fool you
here so completely, you’ll begin believing you’re going to have all
the signs and wonders, when Bro. Branham said, “The church has had its
last sign.” But that doesn’t mean that the dead cannot be raised,
the sick cannot be healed, the blind cannot see, the deaf cannot hear,
the dumb cannot speak, and the devils cast out. Absolutely, it should be
going on and is going on and can go on and must go on. “As long as
there’s a genuine Bride, there’ll be a genuine gift of tongues”,
quoting the prophet. That’s “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” vindicated.

45.	And he says right here, [41] “Born of the Spirit of God by the
Holy Ghost and the Word manifesting Itself through them; that’s
genuine seed.” How many of them does he put himself with? Moses, Paul,
William Branham. Don’t tell me anybody sitting here and all of you put
together and all of us put together and the whole world put together can
qualify here, because he’s talking about Revelation 22. You can’t
add a word, and you can’t take a word. And he’s bringing the fact
out of the Word of God, and It can only be brought by a prophet. And, if
It’s going to be manifested, then It’s got to come by a prophet.

	And he said, “God reveals His Word by manifesting It.” What Word
then is He then revealing? He’s revealing: you can’t add to It or
take from It because here’s a prophet. Not you and I; not you and I.
Get over that nonsense.

46.	I said time and time again, I had a past ministry, and I was on the
field. I depended on it. I challenged them that I could tell them
what’s wrong with them, and I did it, too. When they didn’t have any
faith, I used my faith. I used the prayer of faith, and they got healed.

	Oh, you can stick with the Word of God like a bulldozer and go plumb to
hell doing it. Don’t think for one minute you can’t. I could have
been an absolute serpent seed, but the more I went to the Word, the more
the gifts disappeared. Oh, the more I was around Bro. Branham, the more
everything went down the drain. I had true discernment; I didn’t have
all true discernment. I had a lot of true discernment which meant I made
a lot…but I gave was perfectly right, but a lot… Some wasn’t. So,
could I stand up here under those conditions and tell you that I can
give you this. I wasn’t manifesting the Word. I was no manifester of
the Word. If I prayed a prayer of faith, and you rise up out of your
seat healed, that’s just evidence of the Word’s living—that Mark
16 is true. The gifts are here.

47.	But you talk about manifesting this, adding a Word, taking a Word
and you’re talking now about incarnation, which, remember; Jesus was
Son of man with that perfect ministry, and the Holy Ghost and Satan were
right there with that razor blade difference using everything God
allowed him to use for the perverted word, a real, false, betrayer
prophet, betrayer of God right now in this hour. That’s what he’s
talking about.

	Don’t tell me telling some Pentecostal, “Hey, you’re great, you
got it.” Come on, they’re chaff. Merciful God, you couldn’t sell
me Bro. Branham’s a prophet if he boiled out of his mouth this side
because he wanted to make favorite Pentecost and, then, hit this side
because he wanted to be a Baptist. That’s hypocrisy. Hey, I wouldn’t
do that myself. Forget it. He couldn’t have done it because he was a
prophet. You couldn’t bribe him for money. They came with money and
said, “Take it away.” They tried to make him somebody. He said, Get
out of my hair.

48.	So therefore, he’s telling you at this end time here, there is
absolutely no way whatsoever that there is not a perfect clarity so that
we may have it, not add or take a Word, and then have a conduct with It.
Let’s look at James 1.

(1)	James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting,

(2)	My brethren, count it all (pure) joy when you fall into divers
(testings); 

(3)	Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

(4)	[But] let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing.

	Now, listen: “perfect and entire” as pertaining to conduct means
that you believe the Word of God and walk in It, until the results
promised are yours. That’s not the perfection that comes by the Blood.
That’s not the perfection; sanctification comes by the Word. That’s
an active faith. Your passive faith is your revelation. And, if you’re
off your passive faith, I don’t care how great you act for God because
you’re only condemned. That’s Matthew 7. You’ve heard me preach
that enough to know I know what I’m talking about. 

49.    (6)	But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like (the) wave of the sea driven with the wind…

(7)	…let not that man think [that] he’ll receive any thing (from
God.)

(8)	A double-minded man… (“That’s,” Bro. Branham said, “is a
hypocrite. A hypocrite.” That’s what Judas was.) is unstable in all
his ways. 

(9)	Let the brother of low degree rejoice in (him) that [is] exalted.

(10)	But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the
grass he shall pass away (also). (He’s nothing.)

(11)	For (as) the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, (Now Peter
says the same thing about grass.) but withered the grass, and the flower
thereof falleth, the grace of the fashion [of it] perishes: so also
shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

(12)	Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried,
he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him.

	Now there’s a special crown for those who go through temptations and
trials. But just a minute, what if your temptation and trial is off the
Word? Then you get nothing. Come on, look at the Pentecostals: they pray
for the sick, they raise the dead, and they’ve been excoriated,
they’ve been spurned, they’ve been spit on. And at judgment day…
Listen; let’s get this flat or this Word lies and that lied, and the
man under that man lied. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar
of Fire and Bro. Branham.] He said, “They’re going to come and say,
‘Have we not raised the dead, cast out devils, have we not
prophesied.’ ‘I never knew you.’”

50.	Okay, here’s the Bible, you want to preach it? I’m getting it
right from that fellow right there: William Branham, prophet of God,
vindicated, a man that feared God, a man that loved God, a man that
obeyed God, a man in whom God was veiled and spoke the Word of Life,
right alongside Moses and Paul because God works in threes. I’m not
glamorizing Bro. Branham; I love him with all my heart. But I’m going
to tell you, he’s not God. And he’s not Jesus my Savior, because
he’s not up there on the throne mediating. He’s not interceding.
Boy, Lee Vayle… You think anybody needs an intercessor, this is the
guy right here. William Branham isn’t there. Forget it. But he’s the
prophet of this hour; there isn’t anybody else. Nothing more is going
to happen. See.

51.	[James 1] …get a crown.

(13)	Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: (So, you
can’t be tempted of God; you can be tested with evil. He doesn’t
tempt any man.) …

(14)	But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed. (Now, see; that’s Eve.) 

(15)	(And) when (that) lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (That’s right exactly.
That’s the Garden of Eden.) 

(16)	Do not err, my beloved brethren.

(17)	Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.

	Ha, ha! How many perfect gifts were in this hour? One. One. Pentecostal
church is full of gifts. Some of the Branham churches are full of gifts.
Study their history like I have; see what’s happening. The bold, great
churches that thought they had everything in order suddenly find
themselves in a mess. See, they didn’t have the man with the
discerning of spirits at the door like Bro. Branham said. That’s what
I bank on. I got to bank on every word he said. Hey, and you can’t
make it an excuse, although in my condition, it could be an excuse in
this respect; I don’t know how to look or where to look for a person
that’s got discerning of spirits. I’m stuck. Maybe we could try,
maybe that’s our fault.

(17)	Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
down from the Father of lights, (and) with whom is (neither)
variableness, (nor) shadow of turning.

	Then, how can there be one mistake in discernment? How can there be one
mistake in prophecy? 

52.	A man from Africa said he was a prophet. Bro. Branham called him a
prophet because he said he was a prophet. And he said he gets his
prophecies one word at a time. Like what could be; rain, rain, rain, or
something; car, car, car, look out. So then, he had this thing come:
“yellow mane lion, yellow mane lion, yellow mane lion. Oh, Bro.
Branham’s going to go to Africa and shoot a yellow mane lion.”

	Well, Bro. Branham went to Africa and didn’t get a yellow mane lion.
And Bro. Branham stood and said, “That was his prophecy, not mine.”
So, what did Bro. Branham say? “When you prophesied false; pray the
spirit off of you.” Did he pray it off of him? You should have read
the letter I read. I hope he prayed it off himself before he died.

	So, I found him a cute, little yellow mane lion. You pressed the foot,
and it drops around, and I gave it to Bro. Branham put in his tape…
“Can I have it?” I said, “I bought it for you. There’s your
yellow mane lion.” …?... I’m not nice. I admit I’m not nice. He
laughed. Look, it was a joke. We had our jokes. It was…[Congregation
chuckles.] He’s a… Bro. Branham was… Well, he was no sour puss.

53.	Verse 18. [James 1]

(18)	Of his own will begat [he] us with the word of truth, (There you
are.) that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

	Now, look; if you’re begotten with the Word of Truth: a dog is a dog,
is a dog, is a dog—dog’s sperm. A horse is a horse, is a
horse—horse sperm. Then, if you’re begotten by a Word; it’s got to
be Word, Word, Word—Word sperm. Right? How in the world could we be a
part of that Word and not be Word, Word, Word? 

	See, James is only saying what Bro. Branham said. He said, You don’t
start with a human cell and pile on a cat cell and a dog cell. It’s
human cell, human cell, human cell, or cat cell, cat cell, cat cell, or
dog cell, dog cell, dog cell. Right? Of course, the human cells we have
today they’re a mess. That’s why we got to have a death and a
resurrection. 

54.	Now he said:

(19)	Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath.

	Now just a minute, every good and perfect gift begotten by the Word,
only the prophet can bring the Word. Right away be swift to hear a
prophet. They never are. But they should be. Swift to hear the prophet:
slow to say one word.

	You know something, I been… I was in meetings with Bro. Branham, and
I’m going to tell you something. I knew when Bro. Branham actually did
not catch a certain question; I would never open my mouth. I saw where
men didn’t mean wrong, but corrected him. I saw them fall. I don’t
know what it means. I don’t know what it means. They got off the Word.
What am I trying to tell you? You are fooling with God when you fool
with the prophet.

	You don’t go by vindication and say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, I’ve got
some, too.” 

	You’ve got some, too, of what? Infallibility? Give me some; show me.
No.

55.	[James 1]

(20)	For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

	In other words, you get angry with the prophet, there’s no way that
you will ever come to worship and serve God acceptably. 

(21)	Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity, (superfluity)
of naughtiness, (That’s what he called those people that come against
the prophet. Dare to change a word.) and receive with meekness the
engrafted word…

	What do you graft into a plant? A hunk of dead wood? Nah, you graft in
a living branch. You’re grafting something in there. In other words,
you didn’t have the Word in the first place, but it’s grafted in
you. But, listen; it’s going to take because it’s the living Word of
this hour for you that are a part of that Word.

(21)	…which is able to save your souls.

	What do you mean “save you souls?” Without that Word your soul
cannot make the correct decision. So, Bro. Branham is taking up with
James here. And he said:

(22)	…Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves.

(23)	For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto
a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

	Now we’re supposed to look in the glass of the Word. 

56.	Let’s read 2 Corinthians 3. [James 1]

(24)	For he beholds himself, and goes…straightway forgetteth what
manner of man he was.

(25)	But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, (Now you’re
getting 2 Corinthians 3) and continues therein, he (is) not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

	Now, this man James is actually speaking of revelation. See, this is
where Luther even got worked up. “This is a straw book. Who needs
it?” If you read this book correctly, as I’m trying to show you this
morning, from a vindicated prophet’s viewpoint, his teaching, you can
see this is not a straw book. This is a book of correctly understanding
passive revelation and active faith, or a passive faith by revelation
and an active faith which allows you to do certain things, and not only
allows you, but commands you, and also let’s you know, if you have a
true revelation, this is the way you will go. Because Paul said, “Let
him that stole, steal no more.” [Eph 4:28] Let him labor with his
hands doing that which is good, that he may have to have a lot of money?
No. He may give to the poor. Him that has it; he’s going to have
something, so he doesn’t have to have people giving something. He’s
going to start doing something. He’s going to be blessed.

57.	(26)	(But) if any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, (that) man’s religion is
vain.

	What is that? Just popping off at each other? He’s been talking about
here, where the Word of God comes from. You say, “Well, here’s a
vindicated prophet, but I don’t agree.”

	Like I told you about the preacher that came to me, and he said,
“Bro. Vayle, you’re certainly wrong in writing this Church Age book
of Bro. Branham, because Bro. Branham does not believe this.”

	I said, “You’re wrong. He’s the man that gave it to me.”

	You know what it was on? Predestination. How are you going to get a
Pentecostal to believe in predestination? You’re not going to get him.
They’re legalist and falling away; they’re not going to do it. They
can’t do it. Not in them to do it. That’s their business, not mine.
Look. He had to come back and apologize. That’s good.

58.	But I’m going to tell you something flat: it’s guys like you
that made me phone Bro. Branham and wonder if I was wrong. Spent
forty-five minutes on the telephone, my money, out of my pocket, and
I’m poor as a church mouse. And Bro. Branham said, “That’s right,
Lee.”

	I said, “Now hold it, Bro. Branham. Let’s not go so quick. Let me
explain exactly what I am telling you, word by word.”

	I took every sentence, broke it down; explained it. He said,
“That’s right, Lee. And here’s some more scripture to go with
it.”

	That’s how the Church Age book was written, whether you know it or
not. There’s doctrine in there that I didn’t know from a hill of
beans. And on my own, I’d have said, “Forget it.” I was a rabid
believer that a goat could be turned into a sheep; we’re all
reprobates, hallelujah, because of Jesus’ death, because God made a
mistake, we all got set free somehow or could be changed—transmuted.
Yeah. Where do you think I got my theology? Out of the belfry with the
bats. That’s where I got it from. if you want to know the truth.

59.	And he said, “That’s genuine seed of God.” Now this will go
with a quote that I don’t have with me here, but Bro. Branham said,
“When you see God descend from the heavens and stand before groups of
men and declare Himself as ever He did; and that’s the truth.” And
he goes on to let you know, then, further down the line, that that’s
the evidence of you having received the baptism with the Holy Ghost. It
doesn’t have a thing to do with what we produce or hope to produce or
can produce with what God gives us to produce with. It is something that
God Himself is entirely obligated Himself, and it’s a free gift of
grace. 

	Now, look; the free gift of grace is what God gives us, and we’re His
children. But you know, He has to bring us through the course of
discipline to bring us up into character, and He rewards us for that.
But what comes by grace doesn’t have one thing to do with what we are
doing with what He gives us in the lives of our training that we may
develop into a character. The grace is: we are His children, and He
gives it to us.

60.	And, if we are those who turn on Him through disobedience and want
our own way, we can end up like the little girl that Bro. Branham prayed
for. When she would become pregnant, the baby died. She was full of
septicemia, and she was dying. And Bro. Branham prayed, and she got
completely, perfectly better, but she knew she was going to die because
the Lord had just cleaned her up to take her home. Bro. Branham didn’t
know it; the mother didn’t know it, but the girl knew it.

	When Bro. Branham got angry with God; God wouldn’t talk to him about
a month, and then God finally said, “Now, let me explain something to
you.” He gave him a vision of the girl in a boat; she was backslidden,
and she was just about drowned. They got her on the third time up. Now
He said, “I could of taken her then, but she wasn’t ready. She
wasn’t cleaned up. I’ve cleaned her up and I took her home.”

	 Now you understand grace. Grace doesn’t have a thing to do over
here. Sure it extends over there, but the grace is that we are His
children. He allowed us to come forth, and He gives us all the power and
everything necessary to walk in the Light. 

61.	And, if we turn down that Word, there is where the trouble is.
That’s what Eve did. I think Eve died quite a few… Well, when did
Eve die? We don’t know, but Adam didn’t live the full thousand.
There’s no record of her even living eight hundred years. Is there?
We’d have to check the genealogy. They brought in death. See? There
you are. So you’re…

	Look; watch what Bro. Branham is saying from the standpoint of a
vindicated prophet in the hour. Don’t take any word; don’t take any
paragraph; don’t take anything. Please, don’t take anything, until
you lay it all out in the picture, or you’re going to get your cow
eating grass off the top of the tree.

62.	Now:

[42]	The enemy joins the church and becomes very orthodox in a creed or
something. That’s discrepancy, anything that interferes with the
strain of genuine Truth of God’s Word.

	Now, right back again: what in the name of common sense or the name of
God is genuine truth? There it is. There it is. [Points to picture of
Pillar of Fire and Bro. Branham] Vindicated prophet. That’s it. 

[43]	And how do we know? We say, “Well, they, you’ve got a right to
interpret it?” No, sir! No man has a right to interpret God’s Word.
(See, that’s Bible. See. No private interpretation.) He’s His Own
interpreter. (Now, watch!) He promises It, then He does It, that’s the
interpretation thereof. When He promised It, then He fulfills It, and
that’s the interpretation of It. Anything contrary to God’s Word is
a discrepancy! Absolutely!

	Now, what’s he talking about? The perfect Word of God, no adding and
no taking. Now, do you need to have It interpreted, “Thou shalt not
steal”? Huh? No more than, “Thou shalt put your clothes on in the
morning or get picked up naked and thrown in the hoosegow.” No more
than knowing, if you don’t…say, hit the switch, or the lights
won’t come on.

	“Oh, I got to have a revelation. I got to think…oh, oh, oh.”

	Oh God. I …you know, standing up here like a one act comedian is
stupid, I know. But this is how it gets me right in here. And I’m
ready to vomit and how… I can understand how God can vomit. 

63.	Comb your hair. Brush your teeth. Put on your socks. Eat your
porridge. Thou shalt not lie. Thou shalt not steal. Honour thy father
and thy mother. Look not upon the wine when it is red. Anybody knows
certain simple facts, period. But they don’t know revelation.

	Back in the first century, they had another Jesus, they had another
Word, they had another Holy Spirit; then, my God, what have we got at
the end time? Get what he’s talking about! He’s talking about Judas
and Jesus. He’s talking about a seed of God and seed of the devil.
He’s talking about a Word that’s true and a word that’s perverted.
And he’s talking about those same two groups claiming it. Where is the
authority? Where is the right? Who is this person that the genuine seed
of God can stand there like Paul? William Branham—hallelujah—because
he had it!

	I’m not revering William Branham. I’m not waiting for him to come
back and kiss his feet and say, “Oh brother.” I could do that.
He’d be worth having his feet kissed, but he sure ain’t Jesus
Christ. Whoo, oh. Good night. He’s not even one of the twenty-four
elders. Now he could supersede them for all I know. Don’t ask me what
God’s going to do. He didn’t tell me, and I ain’t going to tell
you, if He doesn’t tell me. And, if somebody did tell me, I wouldn’t
think it was God because I’m not a prophet. And prophets don’t deal
with that anyway. So, get your minds settled. See? See.

64.	Got a right to interpret it? Ho, ho. Listen He promises it. What
does He promise? He promised a revelation at the end time. He promised
the Seals would be broken. “Seal up the book.” Revelation 10:4, Rev
20:10, don’t you dare seal the Book. So, some time between 10:4 and
20:10, It’s opened. Seven thunders thundered. Bro. Branham declared
that he was the one that did it. Yet they’re trying to tell you the
Seventh Seal wasn’t opened.

	The Seventh Seal wasn’t opened? Then it’s on the back of the book,
and the books not opened. Huh? The Seventh Seal according to William
Branham is Rev 10:1-7. What are you going to do about that? See, they
don’t know what the prophet said. They don’t know, and can’t put
it together. They don’t go to their Bibles. They can’t do it. I’m
not the only one that does it. But I learned years ago from the prophet,
personally, this is how it is done. See?

65.	No altered gene is going to open this book. That’s why Jesus was
created; sperm and egg, and then, that personal life of his which was
lived for awhile in Michael, as he led in the worship with Satan, and
Satan was thrown out. That was disbanded. And He came down in a human
body, sperm and egg, created in Mary’s womb and came out; perfect
gene, perfect strain, perfect truth. There He stood, the God of truth
and no one believed him. He said, “You’re looking at me; you’re
seeing the Father.” William Branham said “Same thing, you’re
looking at me.” So, the deity cult took that and ran—made him God.
Didn’t make him God? That’s ridiculous. It was only God in the man
doing the work.

66.	[Paragraph 42]

[42]	That’s discrepancy, anything that interferes with that strain of
genuine Truth of the Word of God. (That’s discrepancy.)

	In other words, interjects or takes away as today, in gene-altering.
When they are altering genes, they’re doing it for a special purpose.
Oh, for the good of mankind! Oh, yes, yes. Oh, yes, definitely, we’re
going to alter these genes, and I’m going to tell you, it’ll cure
diabetes, it will do this, it will do that. Like fun it will. Because
that’s what the serpent said to Eve, “Oh, we’ll alter these genes.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, Eve, don’t worry, Eve, don’t worry, honey, we’ll
just alter the genes.”

	They died. And the serpent got his body completely changed, when God
had given him a seed which was to go on and on in a resurrection. So, if
the body’s changed before the resurrection, how is he going to come up
in the resurrection? No serpents. Na, na, na. No serpent seed, no
nothing. Think it over. Think it over.

67.	[43]	How do we know? We say, “Well, they, you’ve got a right to
interpret It.” But, no sir! (He does his own. Let’s go into…and
get it for sure.) He’s His Own interpreter. He promises It, then He
does It, that’s the interpretation… When He promised It, He fulfills
It. That’s the interpretation of It. Anything contrary to God’s Word
is a discrepancy! Absolutely!

	In other words, Bro. Branham explained this many times by, ‘a virgin
shall bear a child’. Now we know that word in the Hebrew is
‘alma’, which is young lady, and that’s true. And Bro. Branham
really knew that in his heart because he said every man said,
“That’s going to be my daughter.” Why you know, that wouldn’t be
possible. But some young woman, some time, would have that baby
according to Scripture, and the woman had it. And nobody knew the
processes, until the angel came and the fulfillment was there, and they
said, “That is the Messiah.”

68.	And this is what happened right here, William Branham, vindicated,
publicly proved he is that prophet and he was that prophet and will be
that prophet that opened the Seals and bring us back to a perfect Word
by the grace of Almighty God. And you don’t need to worry about the
interpretation of how you’re going to get to the place where you
can’t add a word or take a word. You’re there now through the
vindication of that man. See, God does it; that’s the explanation.
That’s the interpretation. That’s the revelation. That’s it.

	Now, don’t try to go beyond that. Just rejoice in and say, Thank you,
Jesus. Thank you, God, that this is how You came down and did it and
Jesus on that throne up there guaranteeing, absolutely, now we’re
throne-ward bound. The bend in the road goes upward. All of these things
you know. [Right?]

	Well, anyway, next Sunday, if we get back… That is, you never know
what I’m going to do the way I am at my age, or what God’s going to
do with or for me; but anyway, we’ll go on next Sunday, by the grace
of God. Let’s stand. Let’s be dismissed at this particular time.

	Gracious, heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for Your kindness
and mercy, which You showed toward us by allowing us to come together in
Your house, Father, and wherein we have a naughty spirit if there should
be amongst us, or anything in our heart which is superfluous, Lord, or
overbearing or anything of ourselves, we pray You’ll take it away
because we know, as far as this Word is concerned, we don’t have one
thing to do with It, but It has everything to do with us. And we know,
Lord, You gave It to us through a vindicated prophet, and we know that
we stand with Him in It, whether we understand It or not, we will stand,
and we will stand there at least as friends of the bridegroom because we
know this is a Bridegroom Message. Absolutely. We believe that right now
Elohim Himself, the One Who came down in the Garden, as Bro. Branham
said, “That same One down here again with the book of redemption
opening it up and revealing all these things to us, the same Pillar of
Fire”…

	We rejoice in that, Lord, and know it. But, as to knowing You and how
specific and how to the depth of the essentiality, those are things,
Lord, that worry us because we feel that, even at this point, we are not
so thoroughly inured in and up in the depth of the revelation where it
is expanding and literally red-hot and it is our life, where…not
running around screaming and trying to make anybody believe, but this is
our life. This is it. And we know that we’re part way there because
we’ve exceeded to It, Lord; we agree; we know It is right.

	We’re not looking anywhere else except to It, but we would love to
have a greater depth of sincerity and oneness as the prophet did. Maybe
we’re never going to have it. I don’t know, Lord. But I would ask
this morning for myself and the people here, that we would come further
down the road where we’d have that real sincerity and the depth of the
oneness of it, as the prophet had it, the ‘allness’ of it, as he
quoted from the Psalms, “As my heart panteth after thee, O God, as the
hart panteth after the water brook,” the hart wounded and bleeding,
trying to get to the water of Life where…knowing that this is going to
fill up the blood vessels and bring on almost like a resurrection, bring
us into the thing which we were made for. And, Lord, we are at that
river; we are partaking of It. We got to be because it’s Word upon
Word and it’s getting us, we believe, richer and sweeter and clearer
and everything is… It’s just there before us.

 	And now, Lord, let It not be just there before us, let us begin to
ingest It and come down within us until…until we’re just Word
people. Not crazy and not cultish, but just Word people, living Word,
life of the Word, because we have seen the true revelation, and the life
and the light is both here. And we are here, Lord. We know it’s a
tremendous hour, the great epiphany. And we want to, by Your grace,
Lord, share in it and get deeper and deeper, until one day that little
last heart beat, little last wink of the eye, little last step we take,
the little flutter of the hands, that sweep going over a little Bride
that’s going to join with the resurrected ones and, then, go on to the
Rapture and the Wedding Supper.

	Father, heal the sick amongst us. Bless every heart, sanctify every
heart, O God, to the end that it’s so sanctified people by Your Word,
not by works. Works, we know, are good, Lord. We’re happy with works.
Would to God there were more of them, but Lord, we know the secret lies
in the revelation, believing this Word that Abel believed in and Cain
turned aside. So, we’re leaving it all in Your hands now.

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

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”