Seed of Discrepancy #33

 Reprobates (Romans 1; 2 Timothy 3)

 April 28, 1996

	Heavenly Father, we are grateful for your Presence, and we pray that we
may day by day increase in that knowledge to the effect that we not only
understand Your Presence and know that You are here, but act as those
who are in Your Presence. Help us to be ever mindful of that, knowing
that this is that hour which was to come, and there must be a people who
are really aware of Your Presence and what it means: You to be here, and
what it means to us particularly, because this is the great time of
division before the going over, even as it was in the time of Moses. 

	So, we accept Your Presence, and we know that You’ve accepted us, or
You would not have revealed Yourself unto us, but may we grow in grace
and the knowledge of our Lord and Jesus Christ our Savior, coming up to
that perfect stature, which we know we have by faith and identification,
but there is also that growth that we ourselves have to have for that
great presentation. So, be with us today, Lord, and may we acknowledge
Your Presence to that degree, and to the answer of our prayer that we
come up to that stature. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, just to sort of recap from last week or so, I mentioned that we
go to the Hebrew, you’ll find that the word ‘whirlwind’ is
actually ‘hurricane’, and it has the same… If you look in the
reference, you’ll find that same word is ‘Red Sea’, which I
understand was called the Red Sea, because of the red reeds that grew
around about it. And I was not trying to make anything definite as
concerning the relationship, except for the fact that the Red Sea is
mentioned, and that’s about the earliest mention in the actual
chronological structure of our Bible as we have it now. And what we’re
looking at is the fact that Bro. Branham mentioned the taking from
Hosea, that the sowing to the winds came to a hurricane. 

	And so, that’s an Old Testament reference, and so, therefore, my
thought was that we especially now at the crossing of our Red Sea, which
is the separation of Israel from Egypt, which is the church from
Babylon, getting ready to cross over. And at that particular time you
will notice that, that great wind that divided the sea, which is very
fine, very good, there is that division today also, the hurricane effect
that God has brought upon the world is dividing the people from a
people, and getting that people ready to enter into a new phase of
stability with God. 

	And he spoke of that in Matthew 7, particularly that the man building a
house, building upon the sand, when the winds came, would cause
destruction. But the ones who are built upon the rock of revelation
would never lose that house. Now, the church is built upon the rock of
revelation, and the same God that gave the revelation…because that’s
what Jesus said to Peter, “Flesh and blood have not revealed it.” He
said, “I didn’t do it, nobody here did it, you didn’t get it by
yourself; it was my Father, or Elohim, or Jehovah-Elohim, Who is Holy
Spirit, gave the revelation.” 

2.	So, what I was merely typing this in to show you that everything in
the Scripture literally dovetails in a way that is phenomenal. And at
the same time we know there is a Hebrew scholar, (I’m sure it’s a
Hebrew scholar.) has made an in-depth study of the mathematics of the
Bible the same as Ivan Panin did in the New Testament, where everything
worked out into sevens. And if it doesn’t come into a seven, you know
positively, he claims, of course, that this is not of God—that
they’ve got something in the translation which is out of line. He took
Mark 16, where many people say that is not to be reckoned as part of the
canon of the new Scripture, you know, where he mentions, “Go into all
the world and preach all the Gospel, and they that believe on him,
believeth on me,” you know, they would have signs follow him, speak
with new tongues, take up serpents, cast out devils, heal the sick, and
so on. But according to Panin and the mathematics of the Bible that has
to be in there. 

3.	Now, I read a little article that’s extant, but I don’t intend to
pursue it because I don’t believe in Bible mathematics, though it’s
there. I’m not against it. I’m for it; I recognize it. And in there
they found that way back in Genesis, actually when you took the numbers
put together in a certain combination, there were names of people that
came out hundreds of years later. Well, that’s beautiful, but that
doesn’t do one thing to me like that does. I mean mathematics are
great, but I believe this. Mathematics don’t lie, but liars can use
mathematics. And the same fellow ten to one would turn this down, and
he’d find mathematics to do it. Phooey on mathematics. I’m not the
least bit interested. It’s fine as I say, but who needs it. We don’t
need it; we don’t want it, because even then you’re at the mercy of
a mathematician to attempt to tell you the truth of the Word of God.
Forget it! There’s no place for it. 

4.	Science has repudiated this Message by not even looking at it. The
only science we have is the science of George J. Lacy who absolutely
confirmed that that is a picture of a supernatural being. Does anybody
give a rip? Not giving a rip one little bit, they don’t give a rip.
And yet right today it’s absolutely proven, the human race comes from
one woman and two men: one mother, two fathers. Does science give a rip?
Pbbt. They don’t care. I’m willing to write them and pay ten
thousand dollars to see if I’m analyzed, which I come in that 00.01%
or I’m in the 99.99%. What would it prove if I got it done? Nothing. 

	You say, “Well, you could, then, classify as foolish virgin.” 

	Hey, that sounds great, but I’ve already got this proof. I don’t
need it. What would I do it for? Well, the fact I’d do it for kicks,
to come back in the world, they’d likely boil me in oil. I don’t
think I want to get boiled in oil, but if I was supposed to be, God
would give me grace, because this is the truth.

5.	The next thing I want to look at is Rev 10:8, and I felt a little bit
foreign in going into Rev 10:8 and the rest of the verse, which Bro.
Branham told me, and I have no fear before God that I am telling you a
lie, but when I asked him, “Who is it going to stand before kings and
so on?” 

	And he said, “The Word.”

	Now we can look at that in different ways. We can look at it in the
light that John was now given a revelation that was contingent upon this
in the sense… Well, the revelation wasn’t contingent, but the truth
could be contingent upon this revelation which John already knew a part
of, in the sense that John already wrote his epistles confirming the
fact that he knew God, and he knew the Son of God, and he knew who
antichrist was, those that did not agree with those who brought the
definitive revelation. Because he said, “Who is antichrist?”

	He said, “The one that doesn’t believe in me, who will not hear my
voice and hear what I have to say.” And that’s actually the truth of
the Scripture of prophets. And remember; the apostles go with that
because they’re part of a five-fold ministry. 

6.	So, we see Jesus said, “I send you prophets and wise men and
scribes.” And we know that the wise men are those who can handle that
which was given to them by God through the prophets. So, “I send you
prophets; I send you a five-fold ministry; I send you a priesthood, so
to speak; I send you those that can help you, and then, I also send you
an unqualified, unclassified, purely pure Word.” 

	And all of that is going to come right in line, see God does everything
in threes: prophets, wise men, and scribes. So, the scribe would simply
come along and say, “Look, this is what is written. I don’t
understand it myself, but here it is.” Or he could say, “I attest to
this, because I know that this is perfectly true.”

7.	And as you read the Book of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you’ll
find in there, that Luke particularly was a Greek physician, and somehow
he was given perfect recall by the Holy Ghost. And the Book of Luke will
judge people, because Bro. Branham absolutely unqualifiedly set forth Lk
17:30, the days of the Son of man, which that is right at this period,
we’ve gone through, and it will not repeat again, except under the two
witnesses. And you’ll see the unqualified answer right there, but they
still won’t do anything about it.

	So, John could have been looking at that, and the voice could have been
telling him, “Look; this is already started, it’s going on, it will
continue to go on.” Now, we bill that, then, as a five-fold ministry
of our hour. Well, that’s all right, but that doesn’t set too good
with me. 

8.	Now, the next thing is we can look at the fact that Paul in the Book
of Acts 9:15, and we see what It says there. And this is God speaking to
the man. Is this the same thing that He said to John? Well, we’ll look
at it. And he says here:

(15)	But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel
unto me, (That’s speaking to Ananias concerning Paul.) to bear my name
before the Gentiles, (even) kings, and the children of Israel:

	See, “You’re going to bear my Name before the Gentiles and kings
and the children of Israel.”

(16)	For I will shew him how great things he must suffer (in) my (name).

	Now, that’s very good and you could put that, that that’s part of
this verse, but the fact of the matter is, though it could be part of
this verse in continuum, because we’re going down the road, you will
notice that this was written when John was in exile, and already Paul
had been on the scene, and endorsed thoroughly by John and by Peter, as
a true apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. So, that doesn’t hold exactly
enough water. 

9.	What I’m looking at really, and I believe could be the truth, but
again I’m just talking because I’m the guy that’s up here, and
we’re into then the Book of Revelation, and you’ll find there the
two witnesses, and you understand the two witnesses positively actually
shook the whole world. So, it could be, then, because this is our hour
of Rev 10:1-7 and Rev 10:8 plus those next few verses in there, being
the Word will culminate in the two witnesses as Bro. Branham distinctly
said and correctly said, that they will have no other Message than this
Message, because there isn’t any other Message! And they will appear
before kings; they’ll appear before everybody. The whole world will
know what’s going on. And the way we’ve got our computers set up
today, there isn’t anybody that can’t have actual pictures and
everything else brought up on his computer if he wants it, but also
television is a much greater influence, and has been, and you will
understand that will be under absolute control. And it could be even at
that time science will have come to the place where they could actually
bend or straighten out rays, and God knows how that the whole world
could actually see what’s going on over there in Jerusalem, which is
another Babylon, which is a desecration of the truth as we have it
today.

10.	So, as you look at those things you can peruse them…also the fact
that Bro. Branham did stand before kings…particularly the word
‘king’ can be used in place of a dictator; can be used in place of a
president. What it signifies is the top authority of any nation or
conglomerate of nations, commonwealth, or whatever you want to say. So,
Bro. Branham himself actually did stand before kings in this respect.
But looking down the road, and what we’re doing here, we’re putting
it all together, you can see when Bro. Branham told us that, and told me
particular, and I’m telling you, and you know the Bible open before
me, and knowing there’s a God in heaven, my hand raised, I wouldn’t
lie to you. What good would it do if I lie to you? 

11.	Now, there’s people going to say, “Did Bro. Branham… Did other
people hear that Bro. Branham said that? Is it on a tape?” Even those
that I know like the palm of my hand are saying it behind my back now:
“Well, He’s always been here. Who heard him say it?” 

	Let them come right here, the Bible open. I give this a challenge,
where my tapes go, in all the world and before you people, stand beside
me and raise your hand; call me a liar. You got guts? Come on do it. You
come on do it. See, I’m not bluffing, and I’m not afraid. 

	See, it’s too late anyway. If I’m not with God, I’m not going
anywhere except to hell. I know people want to sit on the fence and hope
this and hope that. I’ve got no hope at all. I’m committed. How am I
going to turn back on what I said when my whole thinking is in this
Message? You talk about Great Tribulation; it’s three and a half
years. One and three quarters, He’s revealed. I don’t say seven
years. I can’t think in terms of seven years. One half is gone. You
talk about Rapture, appearing? Appearing right down the line. He’s
been appearing, and He’s still here, but He appeared already. Two
different words, ‘appearing’ and ‘coming’. That’s your
Parousia; It’s right here—suddenly come to His temple; nobody knew
it: William Branham prophet of God, judging the world, passing over to
us, declaring our place. 

10.	I can’t think any other way. And I learned my lesson. Don’t you
dare think any other way. And don’t you take the challenge with a
half-baked bunch of super idiots, devil possessed devil’s seed running
around, that would try to get you in an argument, that just maybe you
could see this. Forget it! You see what you see! And don’t try to see
or give credence to anything else anybody sees, or you haven’t got
anything in my books. Well, anyway it doesn’t matter whether you
please me or not: how do you stack up before God? See, you’ve got to
take a stand. It’s not whether you’re some super-duper guy. Do you
realize that whole church world out there except us are miserable,
wretched, naked, blind, and exclaiming and… Well they’re against us.
They’re declaiming against this, but they’re claiming, “We’re
rich, increased in goods. We don’t lack a thing. We’ve got it all.
Hallelujah! Millions in the Rapture. We’re going.” No, you’re in
the rupture is what you’re doing. You’re going to hell—unless you
repent. And repentance is not granted, except to those in the election,
by a foreknowledge, and predestinated to that end.

11.	So, I wanted to go over that with you. Also I’d like to say that
last Sunday I had an accident of speech, which is the stupidest thing
and the funniest thing on this ground: in my mind I said, “I’m going
to tell them absolutely and not make a mistake. I’m going to quote Jn
14:12, not 12:14,” and I turned around and put Jn 12:14 right on the
tape. Didn’t even know I did it, because my mind was so solidly fixed.
That goes to show you, you don’t trust your own thinking. You’d
better trust the thinking of the prophet who had the mind of Almighty
God.

12.	Now we’re going into discrepancy, “Seed of Discrepancy”, April
28, 1996, and without going into a long preamble, which I always start
that way, but I end up in a long one… So, listen; just take your time
with me. Without going into a long preamble, we simply note that Bro.
Branham has spoken vehemently against ecumenism and branded it as the
harvest of the tares where they are bundled together for the burning in
one great World Council of Churches. Now, remember; these are all seeds
of discrepancy, that’s the organizations and the people in them,
wherein not one tare, not one tare at this time is a Word-revealed,
identified person. And no organization has life in it, anymore than that
one person has, but is dead and even entering into the second death at
this time. 

13.	Now, all you got to do is to recall what we went into in Romans 1,
and read It many, many times. For It says:

(18)	The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold (not) the truth in (righteousness).

	Now, Paul is going into past history of the religion of God from
Genesis 1, right on into the whole Book of Genesis and into Exodus,
where God has taken out a people for His Name that were harbored down
there in Egypt to be nourished and fed until they were big enough to
come out and to fight their own battles and all. But you know what he
said in Romans 1 previous to that. He said:

(14)	I am (a) debtor both to Greeks, and to Barbarians; both to the
wise, and unwise.

(15)	So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you
that are (in) Rome also.

(16)	For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power
of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.

(17)	For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

	Now, what he’s saying here, we’re starting this thing out, and
we’re going to progress by faith until we get to the ultimate faith,
which is perfect faith, which is the perfect revelation of the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

14.	Now, remember; that’s exactly what we saw over here in Rev 10:7,
which I’ve given to you many, many times:

(7)	In the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he shall
begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as (God) hath
declared (the good news of the gospel by His) prophets.

	So, every single mystery is going to come to an end. There’ll be no
more parables; there’ll be no more similes; there’ll be no more
voices coming out of the dark. It’s going to be face-to-face. This is
going to be, if this is perfect faith. And ‘perfect faith’ means…
And most people don’t understand it at all. They simply can’t get
into their minds that ‘perfect faith’ means ‘a perfection, which
is ‘a conclusion’, which ‘there isn’t any more’. 

15.	So now, It is perfect. So, you can’t add to It, and you can’t
take from It. It’s like I’ve described many times: if you could get
a perfect billiard ball, which you couldn’t get unless you went in
space. And you couldn’t get a billiard ball even, then. You’d have
to some substance that was fluid, and you could, then, at that time put
it in where there’s no gravity effect. It’s just floating around.
You can make a perfect bowling ball, so to speak. Now, let’s take that
bowling ball, and we’ll put a coat of varnish on it. Now, one scratch,
it’s gone. One scratch!

	So, you can’t add or take a word. How many words in this Bible?
Anybody know from the computer? I forget. Millions? Don’t take one and
don’t add one. Yet every word has its place and its time, particularly
as to its need and its fulfillment in the mind of God. No matter what
you and I do, forget it. You can’t change it; you can’t do a thing. 

16.	So, when Bro. Branham said, “We have ‘perfection is come’. We
have the perfect Word of this hour,” means seven messages make
perfection, because God deals in perfection, which is conclusions, wound
up, perfect, all over, can’t take a Word, can’t add a Word,
judgment, rewards, victories, everything. Everything He was going to do,
everything He wanted done, everyone He wanted included, everyone He
wanted excluded, right there. Forget it. Perfect, absolute
predestination. God the Predestinator. 

	Even as Paul knew what they’d say, then who hath gone against His
will? Why does He yet find fault? What’s He pointing His finger at?
Shut-up and sit down; you’re not God. Can the thing formed say to Him
that formed it, “Why hast Thou made me thus?” But I’m going to
notice something here: my soul was not formed. My soul is a part of God,
and so is yours; and we come to the place where we don’t question; we
don’t doubt! We never say, “Why has God done this, and why has
God…?” 

	Oh, shut-up! There aren’t any more questions; it’s all turned to
answers. And Bro. Branham said, “In this day God is speaking plainly;
forget the parables,” though we came from a parable to the fact where
we are today.

17.	Now, here’s what he says. He said, “Listen, I want to tell you
something. You watch down future generations,” and he’s quoting from
his own life in Acts 20, which was given by Luke. They said, “Grievous
wolves are going to come in.” 

	Now, he said, “When this thing begins to happen, I want you to know
that I brought you this Gospel, and if you waver one little bit, just
get your mind straight, that you better go back in history.” Now,
what’s the history? [Romans 1]

(18)	For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness (in) men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness. 

	Now, that’s the same thing you’ve got over here in Ephesians 4. So,
just hold your finger there, and let’s run to Ephesians, because I
don’t want to get anybody off of track here, which is certainly not my
understanding how to do things. Now, notice in Eph 4:15:

(15)	But speaking the truth in love, (no, ‘holding’ the truth in
love,) may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even
Christ.

	Why may? Because you’re starting in the first age, and they’re
going to make it. The next one is the second age, three, four, five,
six, and seven. And the seventh age we have the perfect revelation, as
Bro. Branham said. So, it’s all over. 

20.	Now, Paul had that perfect revelation, so he’s talking from the
point of view, (Now, listen.) “holding the truth in
unrighteousness.” And what does It say here? [Rom 1:18]

(18)	For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness (even the) unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness.

	It tells you flat, there’s a discrepancy. They had it; Paul gave It,
vindicated. What did they do with It? Mess with It. Just like they
messed way back in the time of Israel and, before that even, in the
Garden of Eden! Eve didn’t hold the truth the way she should have held
it. And Adam boo-booed. He had such great love for a part of him, which
was his body, he was willing to die with her and bring on successive
generations that were born in sin because of him—because Eve should
have borne Christ.

	I showed you that by the very fact that the only one that could qualify
for Genesis, when He spoke, “Take all things in your hands and
rule,” the only one was Jesus Christ, and now with his group. And that
doesn’t come by sex. But it could have followed by sex had he been
there in the garden with us. They blew it: an interruption. 

	I hope you’re catching me. I’m throwing an awful lot at you, but by
now you should know what I’m speaking of. And the unlearned would not
know what I’m saying. They haven’t got a clue. But you should know
every single thing I’m talking about, even though I just throw one
sentence at you. 

19.	Now, notice what It says in verse 19:

(19)	Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them: for God
hath shewed it unto them. (Back there in history.)

(20)	For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so they are without excuse:

(21)	Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their (reasonings), and their
foolish heart(s) (were) darkened.

(22)	Professing themselves to be wise, (philosophers,) they became
fools,

(23)	And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and
creeping things. 

	Now, remember; God said, “Don’t you dare make an image in heaven
and earth concerning me.” Why? Because His Own image was to come forth
in His Own Son. Right? Because He is the image of God. So, any image you
have of God outside of that Son, who is the Son of God, who is not God,
but God was in him, you are completely a heathen idolater. You fulfill
the Scripture. 

21.	So, where are these Trinitaritans in this Message, and the
Jesus-Only? I want to ask you. Now anybody can wax bold up here, and say
anything you want, and I am doing it, but I want to do this, because I
want them to come forth and show me where I’m wrong. They can’t do
it. “Blessed be God, Who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Blessed be God, even the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed be
God and His Son. Sons have beginnings. And all sons and children are a
part of the life of that parent, the man—not the woman, although she
has a life in that egg. I’m not going to say the egg is rotten or
anything else. That’s a lot of bunk. Otherwise why would she have a
menstrual period? Because something goes kaput. 

	But remember; Eve was Adam’s genes. And God made a female spirit to
put in that woman in order to bear children. And that’s what sex is
all about: bearing of children. You tell me it’s something else, and
I’ll tell you you’re crazy. 

	Well, you say, “No, it’s for pleasure.” 

	Then how come children come out of your pleasure? So, it’s for what?
Bearing. And it comes from the man. and the woman’s part of the man.
And if you have holy matrimony, that’s the one God chose for you, as
Bro. Branham said, “Your mother is a part of your father, and you’re
a part of your father; you’re all one.” 

	So, where does that leave us? In the church? No, it leaves us with God.
He began His generations in Jesus Christ and that was placed into Adam
and into the flesh and on down. But they don’t believe it. They’re
just a bunch… He said it’s a bunch of fools. They corrupted the
whole image of God. In other words they corrupted everything about God
that could give them any account of God and any hope in God. 

22.	Now what happens? [Romans 1]

(24)	Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness…

	Yeah. But they’re all talking how wonderful they live and how
wonderful they love each other and how wonderful they are. And they’re
all unclean. Do you know why? Because when righteousness is revealed and
turned down, then everything else is corrupt. And from the corruption
you go to uncleanness. When Eve got from behind the Word, she went right
to uncleanness. She committed adultery! “She was a prostitute,” as
Bro. Branham said, making the woman today the filthiest vessel under
high heaven and earth and under the earth, because we’re all nature,
and all the rest of nature can’t say ‘no’. The woman can say
‘no’, and she won’t do it. So, she had become, as Bro. Branham
said, “A sexual garbage disposal.” Look at nature. I’ll let you
put between the lines what I’m not saying!

23.	No, through their lusts of their hearts, the inner man, to dishonor
their own bodies amongst themselves, between themselves. Isn’t that
what a prostitute does? What’s in her heart today? The love of money.
And men will pay it. Isn’t that what Sean Penn did? He’s sorry he
got caught, having spent fifty-two thousand dollars on Madame Heiss’
call girls. And he said, “Well, anybody does those things, but boy was
I stupid to do it.” 

	He should have read the Book of Ecclesiastes, preferably the Book of
Proverbs: “When the prostitutes come knocking, give not thy strength
to them.” Why does that old pro run around? Money. The church today is
a prostitute to money. Preachers won’t give up their pensions. I
don’t care when it goes, as long it goes, and… Hey, it’s going to
go. What are you going to do about it? Let her go. Greed, avarice.

24.	Now, watch what they do.

…dishonour their bodies between themselves…

	Way back in the Bible, the dog was a male prostitute. What did a male
prostitute do? He sold himself. If you ever see the film The Lion in
Winter, that was O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn. I don’t think it was
Olivier; I’m almost sure it was O’Toole. The theme of that in
certain areas was male prostitutes. Were they historically correct? You
bet your sweet life they were. Right here in the Bible. Right here in
the Bible.

25.	Now: 

(25)	(They) changed the truth of God into a lie…

	What do they do? Because they want to get away with dishonoring
themselves between themselves, so they change the Word concerning it!
Now, we’ve got homo preachers. We’ve got lesbian preachers. “Oh,
God doesn’t mean that at all.” So, the lie is: “We’ll not die;
we’re just fine.” Certainly!

…worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator…

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: even (the)   women
did change… 

	Now, that’s a real smack against the woman. How do you think a woman
would change? How could one woman have affection with another woman? and
go through certain acts that are ordained to be natural and become
unnatural to them? What do they do?

26.	See, you’re looking at more and more filth now, and I’ve warned
you already that Paul has taken them back from his present day to what
was, as an example, and now what is today. It’s going to come the same
thing because it can’t change! Huh? My God, if you think sex has
changed in the last six thousand years, you are stupid crazy, and you
don’t belong here because I cannot teach idiots. I’m rough because
I’m using this tongue in cheek when I am saying this, it’s an
illustration. I’m not accusing anybody here, or even on the tapes. I
just want to jolt you. I want to jolt you to the truth that there’s
nothing new under the sun! And what was in the past is going on now even
to the extent of the very ministry of Almighty God through His chosen
Son, born of the virgin Mary by two created seeds, sperm and egg, that
same thing by the Holy Ghost is going on now, and think, as Bro. Branham
said, “God has given the gift of His Son in the person of the Holy
Spirit,” which means Son of man absolutely has repeated! And
everything else that goes with it is repeating!

27.	So, in the rejection of this, you come to complete and absolute
idolatry, and the whole world coming together, so that if you’re a
Buddhist, you can worship Buddha, whoever he is, and if you are a
Muslim, you can worship God, who is no God at all, but was a devil with
another name put to it—or the same name given to one god. Or you can
be with the Tibetans and believe in reincarnation, and with the Chinese
and believe in ancestor worship, or you can go to India, where they have
Siva and the god with seven arms, and you have even a god that you obey
who believes in killing: the ‘thugee’ religion. And that’s all
going to come together, because it is coming together. And it’s going
to. You better believe it, because the whole world is religious. 

	As one fellow said, “You don’t find an atheist in a foxhole.” 

	And neither will you find an atheist when it comes time to feed your
belly and you’ve got the pangs of hunger upon you and your family, and
the whole bit, and you can neither buy nor sell without that mark.
You’ll go right into it. You’d better believe you will! And I’m
talking now in terms of the world, not of us sitting here in the
Christians. 

28.	They turned the truth of God into a lie, the day of the eating
thereof, dying thou dost surely die. You eat any food but the spiritual
food in due season, you die, because there’s no life in any other food
except the manna sent down, vindicated by God through that prophet. I
don’t even have to go to the Bible to believe him. Show me somebody
else that’s done it. Show me another voice that’s spoken back. Show
me some vindication. That’s why people who never heard me before, they
say, “Lee, until I got your tapes, I never knew what vindication
was.” I wonder where they’re coming from, what foxhole are they in?
It’s outrageous.

29.	(27)	And likewise…the men, leaving the natural use of woman… 

	Now, whether you want to believe it or not, it looks like women were a
jump ahead of the men when it comes to homosexuality. I’m reading my
Bible. I said it looks like it. Who was the one kicked over the trace in
the Garden of Eden? Eve. Who kick over the traces here? Women. What do
the women typify? Typify the church: the miserable, rotten church
that’s a prostitute to every single thing but her own filthy desires
and organization. She’s not a prostitute to that; she’s a beautiful
loving wife to it. Come on. 

30.	Remember; before Bro. Branham died the divorce was culminated: “I
used to know you as my wife. I don’t know you as my wife any
longer.” The church is finished, why? Because he was a prophet to
Pharaoh—Pastor Pharaoh, and not just pastor, he was God. And William
Branham condemned them, just like Moses. And he said, “I don’t pray
for America anymore.” 

	“Oh, what a terrible thing for a prophet of God. He hasn’t got any
love. He hasn’t got what we got. He won’t pray anymore.” 

	Well, go ahead and pray. And I’ll say again, why didn’t Moses say
to God, “I got a better plan than Yours. I’ll pray for Pharaoh, what
a wonderful thing to have Pharaoh and all the gang come in”? 

	What would have God done to Moses? He would have had to say, “Look
bud, I can tell you one thing: I guess the sheep don’t hear the voice
after all. Buzz.” 

	Pardon my vernacular. But that’s what it is, ‘take a walk’.
‘Get out of here.’ Sheep hear the voice. I don’t care what time of
life they hear it, what age they hear, wherever they hear it, how they
hear it, but they hear the voice. See, let’s face it. 

31.	Now, It says here, now when the women went haywire, the men went
haywire.

(27)	…working that which is unseemly, (received) in themselves that
recompence of their error which was meet. (There’s your AIDS and every
filthy social disease.)

(28)	And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to reprobate mind(s), to do those things which are not
convenient.

	In other words, this Scripture here is simply a repetition of what they
did, and it got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. Dr.
Dobson said in Australia they have turned a blind eye to incest. They
don’t even worry about it anymore. I don’t know where he got the
information, but I heard an Australian doctor the other day on the NPR,
the National Public Radio, whatever it is, and she just gets up and
talks, and boy, in no time at all she’s telling you how wonderful
Australia is. Yeah, you don’t need to worry about having any health
problems there; the doctors take care of you. You get your colleges; you
get everything. And she’s a communist from the ground up, and you know
jolly well the woman hasn’t got a thing but the stupidity the Bible
says she’s got. 

	Doesn’t she know there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Don’t you
know when Eve got invited to her free lunch and Adam partook, we have
six thousand years of hell on earth? Satan’s kingdom? You can have it
sister, or Mrs. whoever you are, doctor from Australia. Go back to where
you belong. But she’ll sell a lot of people, especially the NPR’s
and all the guys from down here at Yellow Springs, and all these
colleges, she’ll sell them a bill of goods, and they’ll stand right
there, “Oh, this is great. This is great.” I think she’d even get
the Muslims and all the rest in on that one. Reprobate. And the funniest
thing is this: if you were a weasel you would have to have a weasel
mind, because ain’t nobody going to change it. Now, if you’re a
monkey, a chimpanzee, or an orangutan, you can be still trained, but you
still got that mind. Right? 

32.	Now, let’s get this flat. If they get a reprobate mind, they would
have to be what, in the first place, to get it? Tell me. [Congregation
says, “Reprobate.”] Absolutely true. Now, there’s a doctrine
called the doctrine of reprobation where everybody but everybody is
going to hell, unless—unless they, by their own wills, come to God.
That’s like saying a goat can become a sheep and a serpent can become
a sheep. A serpent seed can become a child of God, a child of the devil
can become a child of God, a child of disobedience can become a child of
obedience. That’s a lie from the pit of hell. Because there ain’t no
such thing of you changing a cow and a horse and a pig and a dog. And
they’ve got those minds.

	Now, these guys come into their full fruition. Their reasoning of their
mind is fully reprobate, because they are reprobates. They’ve got a
snaky mind, because they are snakes. The shark has got a sharky mind,
because he’s a shark. And the sheep has a sheepy mind, because he’s
a sheep. And a son of God has a mind of God, because he’s a son of
God.

	And I’m going to tell you, if you’re a son of God, his parents, his
wife, his kids and nobody can switch it for him or for her, the mother
or father. If you are a male sheep or you’re a female sheep, there is
nobody going to do a thing about you. And there’s no way you’re
going to mess it because as a sheep, you’ll have to have a sheep mind.
As a son of God, daughter of God, you’ve got to have a daughter and a
son of God mind. 

33.	(28)	…(and they’ll) do those things which are not convenient…

	In other words, they’ll deliberately go out of their way. Even when
they find themselves in a bind, they’ll stick with it. They cannot
repent; they cannot change. And Paul said, “You are a reprobate except
you’ve got the Spirit of Christ.” And he said, “If you’ve got
the Spirit of Christ, you can’t be a reprobate.” And you start with
the Spirit of Christ going right back to God, and that soul of yours is
a little tiny part of God. And God’s not diminished by giving a part
of Himself to all of us through natural election, foreknowledge,
election, predestination. No! He’s not diminished at all. He’s
happy; He’s enlarged. He’s enlarged. 

34.	How would God have a great Kingdom and be King over it except He had
many children? When a man has a great kingdom, what is he? He’s
enlarged. When a man and a woman have a family, they’re enlarged! When
the church increases in real, true, godly, born-again members, it’s
enlarged! When I speak the Word of God day and night, my mouth is
enlarged! When it comes back in my ears, my heart is enlarged! When I
bring it forth again, it’s further enlarged! People can’t understand
it: that’s a law of science; that’s a law of God; that’s a law of
physics; that’s a law of psychology; but primarily, it’s a law of
God, because that’s what counts. The Bible says so. 

35.	Paul’s heart got enlarged when the people need help: ‘my heart
is enlarged toward you’. They tried to tell Paul, “You made my heart
skinny; you’ve done this; you’ve done this.” 

	 Paul said, “You haven’t heard me at all.” 

	Anybody says you’re cut off in this Message—“Oh, I have to walk
this way; I got to do this way,” or like Bro. Branham brought out, the
Legalist: “Well, I’d give that person a piece of mind, but, you see,
I’m a Christian.”—pbbt, hogwash. 

	Don’t try to put ‘pbbt’ in type, because it doesn’t work. So,
on the tape it’s bad enough. On video it’s worse still. But how do
you cope with these things, where people run off at a tangent?

36.	(27)	…filled with…unrighteousness…

	Now, the Gospel is the power of God, and therein is the righteousness
of God revealed! So, if it’s in the Word, the righteousness is
revealed, then what you take from that Word, that Word in you has to
produce a righteousness! 

	Now, that’s where people are entirely wrong about this thought of
perfection I was dwelling on awhile ago. They think to be perfect
you’ve got to walk on eggshells, you’ve got to be so and so,
you’ve got to be like what my brother-in-law, a Nazarene, years ago
said, “You got to be even careful how you say the word
‘gracious’.” But you ought to have seen those Nazarene’s.
They’re a bunch of sex pots like everybody else was, crooked as
dog’s hind leg. The guy that beat me years ago was a Nazarene. Yeah,
beat me out of money—the company out of money. Didn’t beat me up;
beat my boss up. So much for that. 

37.	We’re not dealing in people with perfect walks as though they were
Jesus Christ. We’re dealing with righteousness. And there’s a great
big difference there in dealing with righteousness. See? Where was
David? “Blessed is the man to whom God will not impute his
iniquities.” Blessed is the man whose sins are covered. And that’s
under the subject of righteousness, that if Abraham has whereof to
boast, let him boast, but not before God, because there is nothing in
that that is righteous! It can come out of righteousness, but in itself
it is not righteous! The thing itself that is righteous is the life of
the Holy Ghost in that Word, and you have that Word! It’s a conduit,
and the life is in there, and your mind now is under control of Almighty
God. And you don’t have a reprobate mind. You have the mind of God. 

	In this flesh we will sin. There’s coming a day we won’t sin, so
don’t worry about it. 

38.	Now, if you were doing all kinds of unrighteous things, like:

(29)	…envy, murder, deceit, debate, malignity; whisperers, (all of
those things.)

(30)	Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors
of evil things, disobedient to parents,

(31)	Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:

(32)	Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things
are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them
that do them.

	Now, that’s coming right down to our children. Wasn’t that a six
year old boy that was killing that little baby, a one-month old baby?
Killers. Let it soak in. Because that’s what’s going on. You
haven’t got a clue. I forget the Frenchman [Antoine de Saint-Exupery]
that wrote [book name unclear; sounds like ‘Kabluna’, but not found
online] and Wind, Stars and Sands. I’ll maybe remember his name later
on. But he writes about how when he was up in the Artic amongst the
Eskimos, they were making an icehouse, an igloo, and one of the fellows
shirt came up, and his belly protruded like a big globule, and he took
his ice knife and plunged it in there and killed the man. Just something
to do. Try to bring the man to justice; he had no sense of what he’d
done wrong. 

39.	Even back then, over fifty years ago—make it sixty, and make it
over sixty—even then there were people who had no conscience, who had
no form that was even moral in the sense of at least ‘live and let
live’, or ‘to help and be helped’. Although they did have it
amongst them to a degree; let’s face it. There’s none that’s
entirely bereft of it. But I’m saying the seed was already there.
Where is it today? Where is it today? What does that woman think of that
little boy that attacked that tiny, little fellow and two others with
him? How soon the conscience of people goes down the drain; as in
Chicago, I guess it was, where they threw the little boy from the fifth
story, because he wouldn’t steal gum or something. 

40.	Now, he says: 

(32)	Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things
are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in…them. 

	And that’s where you are today. Look at your law courts. Just down
the road, look at the policemen they’ve got up on the carpet, and
they’re going to let him… One they’ll dismiss; he quit—Angel
quit. What about the other guy and the woman involved? Why haven’t
they quit? They’re going to stand right there and be excused: “Oh,
it’s fine, because we’re the fort. We’re the cops. We’re the
law.” 

	And the judge will do the same thing, and he’ll cry, “Well, you
see, if you want the law changed, by all means you’ve got to go to
Congress and get it changed; your government does it.” 

	But you I’m telling you the truth. And they make a law anytime they
want to make it so they can accuse or excuse and get away with murder.
You cannot even go on precedence any more., I think Britain is way ahead
of us and Canada might be, but in the States there’s no longer
precedence. Every trial must be fought on its own merits all the way to
the Supreme Court, and there could be a complete reverse decision
contrary to the first, when the first was right. So, that’s the kind
of mess you got here.

41.	And Paul is warning about that. And we find it over here, as Paul
warns about it, in 2 Timothy 3, which I won’t take time to read,
because our whole time always goes on these preambles: 

(1)	(I) know…also, in the last days (when time shall be no more,)
perilous times shall come. 

	‘Last days’, ‘last days’. Oh, a short, short period. Oh, a
quick, quick work. Hold it! It says ‘times’, ‘times’,
‘times’. Well, you say, “I think that perilous time means several
things coming at one time.” 

	You could be right, but I choose to differ, that you just let it sit
there in that one instance. I’m looking this as a prolonged period,
“as it was in the days of Noah, perilous times shall come,” event
after event prolonging these days, stretching them out.

(2)	For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, (and) unholy…
(Now, listen. It says here:) …men shall be lovers of (them) selves…
(and not of God.)

	So, they esteem their own bodies, their own lives, their own words,
their own works, far above God. There’s no love for God here, because
they love themselves. Because you cannot love yourself and God at the
same time, the way the psychologists try to tell you. You can’t do it.
You’ve got to respect what God made you, and what God gave you, to
work with. But then you got to respect God far above that, so you could
bring yourself under the conditioning that God would give you. And what
are they? 

(2)	…covetous, boast… 

	Now, there’s your covetous, see; they love themselves, so they want
money. The love of money is the root of all evil, make these people love
themselves. They love themselves even more. And these so-called kings
and queens on… It used to be Broadway, but now it’s all Hollywood.
What a stinking mess…and down there in Nashville.

42.	(2)	…boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,

(3)	Without natural affection, (There you are; just cold killers.)
trucebreakers, (I know we condemn people like that, but God condemns
them more.) false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that
are good,

(4)	Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God; 

(5)	Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof…

	In other words, they will not give God credit one little bit for His
omniscience and omnipotence: “Forget it, we just got to do our best,
work our way this way, that way, and we got some idea in mind, we’ll
take care of that.” Notice? See:

(5)	…from such turn away.

(6)	For of this sort are they which creep into houses, …lead captive
silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 

(7)	Ever learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

(8)	Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so…these…resist
truth…

	Go on down the line. And that’s the picture of what comes out of this
Gospel. It parallels Romans 1, exactly identical. And Paul said that’s
what this Gospel was going to turn into. And Jesus said, “The kingdom
of heaven is likened unto the man that planted a mustard seed, and the
mustard seed got so great it covered the whole earth, and the fowls of
the air made their lodging there.” 

43.	That’s a picture of sin, rottenness and destruction! The Gospel
will take over and bring forth the entire power of the Satan, the
antichrist, over every single religion, Christianity so-called will
prevail. And all you’ve got to do is look on the map today! Who’s
got the armaments? Who’s got the weapons? Who’s got everything?
America tops it all. And I don’t know, and must be the pope calling
her off, because Bro. Branham said if any pope says don’t fight, they
won’t fight. And Mr. Clinton ran to the pope and Reagan ran to the
pope. Is the pope telling America not to drop a few bombs and settle the
mess? Do you think we couldn’t settle the mess over there with Taiwan
and China? Don’t be nuts. We could do it in fifteen seconds. Do you
think we couldn’t wipe out Bosnia and all those guys fighting and
messing around? Don’t be ridiculous. We alone have the armaments to do
it, and we could do it. But we’re such a nice, Christian people. I’m
not for it; I’m just telling you, it could be done. What’s stopping
it? 

	“Well, it’s in the name of God, so-called. It’s religion doing
it.” I’m not for war; I’m against war one hundred percent, the
same as you are. But I’m bringing you out a picture here. See? 

44.	What’s going on? There’s a very, very high power going on
that’s directing everything—this—to the very end, and well,
let’s face it. Let’s find out what it is. It’s simple as A-B-C.
It’s in 2 Thessalonians 2. It says:

(3)	(Lo) let no man decieve you by any means: …except there come a
falling away first, (That’s a divorce.) and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; (He’s been revealed already; the
divorce has taken place.)

(4)	Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God. (That’s forgiving sins.)

(5)	Remember ye not, …when I was with you, I told you these things?
(It’s going to be revealed down the line.)

(7)	…fhe mystery of iniquity…work(s): (and will work until the Holy
Spirit, God Himself steps out of the way and takes us up to the Marriage
Supper.)

(8)	…then…that Wicked (shall) be revealed, (his presence made
absolutely known for who he is and all about it) whom the Lord (will
eventually) consume with the spirit of his mouth, and…destroy with the
brightness of his (presence): (He’s going to be right there. We’re
with Him to destroy him.)

(9)	(And this one,) whose coming is after the working of Satan (in other
words, Satan’s whole missionary effort, his whole program, everything
is settled right up and headed up there,) …all power and signs and
lying wonders,

(10)	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
(There’s your reprobate right there: unrighteous.)

	Now, what brought it on? They turned down the truth; they absolutely
brought in their discrepancies, as Bro. Branham said, and they’re the
seed of discrepancy! In other words, there’s a line of people went off
at the same time the Word went off! God said, “Don’t eat of that
tree; don’t you partake of any sexual intercourse that’s going to
bring forth children this particular time,” though they would have
come to it. “Don’t have a thing to do with it.” 

45.	And the serpent came along. And that time the Word took on a
discrepancy. It was not the word that God said, because the little word
‘not’ was put in there, and what happened? Cain was born! The seed
of discrepancy! The seed of being off the Word. That’s why you can’t
come by natural generation. Even all Israel was not Israel! End up a
bunch of serpent seed at the end! Do you think they’ve changed? No!
Only one hundred and forty-four thousand come out! Why is it over in
Israel, like Zionism now, and Israel is the way it is? Because it’s
like Egypt: it’s got to harbor the life that’s in the chaff! You
don’t think for one minute Israel’s not chaff and the rest are not
chaff and America’s all chaff? Come on, it’s all chaff, except for a
tiny Bride! Because remember: there cannot be a Message go to Israel and
say, “Look, we’re going to take you under the law. It’s okay.
Bring back the red heifer; shed the blood!” No, no, no, no, no! It’s
gone! And if they do do it, it doesn’t mean one thing! They condemn
themselves to even greater disgrace and disunity and disharmony and
prove what they are. Because if they’re the seed of God, they’ll
recognize their brother. 

	Oh, Israel hated their brother, Joseph. But one day they recognized him
when the Bride was in the palace, and he made himself known. Oh, did
they get fear in their tummies and every place else, and they sat there
and stood there, biting their fingernails if they even had the strength
to do that. They were melting. He said, “It’s okay. You were my
friends, my brothers, and this was done in the house of my friends.
It’s all right. It had to be. That’s the way it was. I’m not
angry. I’m not here anymore to anger. We’re taking care of
everything; we’re taking care of you.” 

46.	And listen here: [2 Thessalonians]

(10)	…they received not the love of the truth…

	Now, just a minute, what is love of the truth? Well, first of all, what
is truth? Well no, let’s go ‘what is love’? Predestination, right?
Well that’s Malachi, predestination. And Paul said its great cause for
rejoicing. Now what is the one thing they’ve turned down, vehemently
turned down, is what? Predestination. So, they hate the God of
predestination, because He’s revealed Himself as the predestinating
God, which is true, because even if you are illicit in your conjugal
relations, which is man and wife to enter into—you are faithless
concerning that—you will still bring forth children, and you men will
be fathers and sires of those children! whether you planned it or not! 

	Now, do you think for one minute God is not a predestinating Father?
Because you, whether you planned it or not, you’re still a
predestinating father, because you went through the act. And you mean to
tell me God can have children in the human race here and not be a
predestinating Father? You have got to… I don’t know what you’ve
got to be, but you’re not on my terms. You’re not on my terms; I can
tell you that. And you’re not on the terms of God’s Word because
Bro. Branham made it so clear that God knew every flea and how many
times he’d bat his eyeballs, and how many it would take to make a
pound of tallow. So where are you going to stand up against?

47.	(13)	(Now,) we are bound to give thanks to God always for you,
brethren beleoved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of Spirit…

	God chose you way back there and brought you right through, sanctifying
you by the Spirit, which means separating you by the baptism with the
Holy Ghost, putting you in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you
will never make a mistake—when the truth is presented.

	See, years ago I turned away from truth. I knew it was right, but my
mind got in the way. When I was taught the baptism with the Holy Ghost
was the rebirth, I saw it. And as I began to walk home, (And I was
living in Calgary, Alberta at that time.) walked to my home, I remember
walking over this little bridge. It took me to Hillcrest, (I guess it
was, that little area.) and I was rejoicing and thinking, “That’s
wonderful; that’s the truth.” Then I said, “Now, hold it; hold
it.” And I blew it. 

	But you know what? You don’t hear me say that anymore. Because when
the sheep heard the voice, knowing it was a vindicated voice, he said,
“If you say so, that’s the way it is.” And when I took it into my
mind and into my heart, everything in the Bible opened up, seed and
everything else, just in a matter of minutes. And that’s the time when
I preached on it, having written the articles on it for Bro. Branham, he
gave me a big hug, and he said, “Doc,” he said, “you might have
thought you preached some sermons in your day, but that was your
masterpiece.” 

	And I brought out the full extent, right down the line, from the
infinite God, foreknowing, electing, right down here, predestination,
all the way through it, because you are seed, God has shed forth the
spirit into your heart, whereby you can cry, “Father.” And you
couldn’t do it before, because you didn’t know you could claim,
“Oh, You’re my Father.” 

48.	Like old Eberheart said, years ago, he said, “You people that
pray, ‘Our Father, which art in heaven’, you better watch what
you’re saying, because the devil’s the prince of the powers of the
air, and the principalities, you could be praying to the devil, because
he could be your father.” And he didn’t know the first thing about
serpent seed. He didn’t know the first thing about one God, and yet he
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as the apostles did, and
don’t tell me they made a mistake. That old boy had more brains, and I
believe more of God, than the Pentecostals ever thought of having. I say
thought of having, in this area. Now, he didn’t believe in speaking in
tongues, but to my knowledge he never called it the devil. But I don’t
know. I can’t give the man too much credit. I’m not God.

49.	But there’s your picture here: what we’re looking at, what is to
be brought forth in this hour, and it has been brought forth in this
day: it’s the second death. Now, also you see that in Revelation 13,
where they worship the beast because of their bellies. They have been
judged by the Word, which can only come in and through a prophet, and we
mean by that statement that God was in William Branham, and the words
spoken by the lips of William Branham was the Word of Almighty God.
You’ll find that in Hebrews 1. And if you want to…

50.	Well, I’ll likely die before this sermon’s over; this “Seed of
Discrepancy” is over. So, I’m just going to take my time here, and I
don’t have much time. And I’m going to take you to Hebrews 4. And
here’s a parallel of what we’re going through today, when Israel
died in the wilderness. They never made it, because they could not put
their faith in the ultimate, which was vindication! They couldn’t do
it. They got betrayed by men like Balaam. You know that as well as I do,
at Baal Peor. You know they began to follow gifts, which came after the
Word, Moses. Korah, Dathan and Abiram. They were a mess. And multitudes
died in the wilderness because they could not go in. Now, had they been
predestinated, they would have done it. But having fallen in the trap,
you know, as Paul said, “All Israel is not Israel.” And though they
be the generation after generation having come down from Abraham, we
know that some of them were not true seed, as we saw Rebekah and Isaac,
man and woman, husband and wife, bring forth twins, one was not loved
and one was loved—one hated and one was loved.

51.	Now, Paul is giving a warning: [Hebrews 4]

Let us fear therefore, lest, a promise (having) being left us…

	Now, a promise having being left you: is there something in the will?
Is there something that Jesus put in his will concerning you and me?
Because that’s what it means, ‘if a promise is left you’, that’s
a will, right? Okay. Promises are something you’re going to have when
the testator is dead and the executor comes on the scene in order to
mete out to you what you’re going to get. Now the Holy Ghost, God
Himself, is on the scene right now, right? And He is giving part of the
will of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he died; now he’s risen again, and
therefore, God Himself has come down to execute this particular part of
the will. Now, that didn’t happen in any other age except Age One. So,
if He came down to execute the will, essentially then He revealed to
Paul what was the will. And the Word of God is the will of God and the
will of God is the Word of God. Anybody knows that, even a theologian
that is devil possessed would know that much if he wants to be true at
least to what we call a theology of the day. 

52.	So, now you got to be a little shaken up here now, It says, because
there’s something in this will, and I wonder if I’m going to be a
part of it or it’s going to come to me. Now, what is this part of the
will?

…of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of
it.

	Now we know that we know we can go back to Thessalonians, and we can
peg that in 2 Thessalonians, where It says here: [2 Thessalonians 1]

(7)	And…you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
(Christ) shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels…

	At the time of judgment we find that entering in, and the wicked church
is judged as tares and bound for the burning. And the Bride is loosed,
and she goes from judgment into victory, while the judged church
doesn’t. It goes into its death.

53.	(1)	(Now)…you should seem to come short of it. [Hebrews 4]

	Now, it’s true that you do come short of it in this period, because
without us, they cannot be made perfect. So, we lack something that we
need to bring us all together. In this hour of perfection comes. Right?
So we’re going to be a whole Bride, a whole church, in the second
half, of the First Resurrection. 

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them…

	Now, he’s throwing a parallel, just like in Romans. He said,
“We’ve got it; they had it; watch out.” They didn’t go into it.
Why? The very hour that Jesus Christ Himself came, the Holy Ghost God
came in the form of human flesh, which the prophet, vindicated, says
must come at this hour. And now God has given the gift of His Son, which
is the Son of God in the form of the Holy Ghost; that means Son of man
has come again. The very ministry here. Although that ministry’s
finished, God Himself is here in the form of the Pillar of Fire to lead
us in the Millennium. Now, he said they didn’t cross over then, they
loused it up. Now, no we’re not going to louse it up. Two men over
twenty got in. I don’t hope to stand here for the Resurrection, though
I could be. I’m not saying I’m Caleb or Joshua or something like
that. If anybody wants to make me that, they’re sort of stupid,
because they’ve got no go ahead from me. I got to know who I am. I’m
just Lee Vayle, guy that could die. So don’t try to make what I’m
not. 

54.	Now, watch:

(2)	…but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it.

	Now, Bro. Branham explained that. When the blood was to be shed, the
one girl said… Well, the Rabbi said, “Look, that’s a wonderful
thing. I believe it.” 

	But neither the rabbi nor the girl had it on the doorpost. 

	And the priest said to the girl inside the house, “Come on out;
we’re going to go dancing.” 

	She said, “No, I’m under the blood.” 

	The girl had not actually had the blood physically applied to the
doorpost of her house, but she believed it mentally, just like the Rabbi
did, and she simply reiterated what the Rabbi had taught her, thinking
“That’s a wonderful thing. I believe it.”

	So, the Rabbi, the priest, and the girl didn’t believe. They said
they believed. They accepted it. But they didn’t receive it—wasn’t
meant to. 

	Now, there are those that see, and they haven’t got what it takes to
go from thereon. Don’t you know multiplied thousands saw in William
Branham something they’d never seen before? They knew something was
there but couldn’t take (and apply) what he had to say. 

55.	Now, watch. [Hebrews 4]

(2)	…but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it.

(3)	For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works
were finished from the foundation of the world.

(4)	For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And
God did rest the seventh day from all (the) works.

(5)	And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

(6)	Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they
to whom it was first preached entered not because of unbelief:

(7)	(And) again, he limits a cetain day, saying in David, To day, after
so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.

(8)	(And if Joshua, not Jesus now. That’s a misconception there. Jesus
wasn’t on earth back then. That’s Joshua. And if Joshua) had given
them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

(9)	There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(10)	For he that is entered into his rest, he has (also) ceased from his
own works, as God did from his.

	Now, that’s very good. You’re talking about the act of
righteousness through the Holy Spirit bringing you into the truth, and
you’re born again, that’s fine. But when you talk about over there
where those that didn’t enter in, you’re talking about leaving Egypt
and going through the Red Sea into Palestine! Uh-uh, it doesn’t work.
It only works if Jesus called them out, and that was a minor thing.
We’re looking today, as Bro. Branham categorically placed himself with
Moses and with Paul and now, and we’re going in. 

56.	So, you keep the times of the last day correct. And this very thing
right now has become a peril. This is a perilous, one of the perilous
times in this Message and in these last days; so, we’ve got to watch
it.

(5)	There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(6)	For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his
own works, as God did from his.

(7)	Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man
(should) fall after the same example of unbelief. (Now, watch:)

(8)	For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of joints and marrow, and discern(s) the thoughts and
intents of the heart.

	Now, when did that take place outside of this hour? You tell me. You
tell me. There’s your vindication we’re entering into, or are we not
entering in? And what was the last sign that Bro. Branham said? The time
of Abraham and Sarah before the fire fell, what was it? Discernment.
Now, where do you stand in discernment? A little Pentecostal gimmick?
like Shelley coming by and these other guys? They’re not even two bits
in my book. They can’t do what I did years ago. I didn’t have any
such thing as absolute discernment, and I didn’t have anything as
vindication, and I don’t have it now, except in this Word vindicated
by the prophet. And I pick up this, what Bro. Branham wrote as given to
us; we wrote it down here, this is my vindication right here. And I
believe It.

57.	(13)	(Now,) neither is there any creature that is not manifest in
his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with
whom we have to do.

	Now, what did he say at the end time? “You’re wretched, naked,
miserable, blind, and you don’t have a thing.” Serpent seed-seed of
discrepancy-false church-ecumenism: the whole thing, a bunch of harem,
scare ‘em, foolishness. See?

(14)	Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into
the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
(That’s confession.) 

	Confession to what? What the Gospel is in the first place, back here in
Romans, now given to us by revelation, by the same spirit that brought
it: perfect faith. 

	“Oh, if I had perfect faith, I’d raise the dead.” 

	Oh, shut-up. Merciful God, you never heard the prophet. You want to
raise the dead, and he’s already said, “Everybody doesn’t pray for
the sick even.” 

	“Huh, well what about that? He’s not nice. He doesn’t give me all
these gifts.” 

	He said He didn’t. You didn’t know your ABC’s; what do you know
about algebra? I don’t mean to be tough. Come on! Come on, this is the
last call! Get some steel in your blood, some iron in your blood. Get a
saw log for a backbone like old Abraham Lincoln prayed for. 

58.	(14)	Seeing…we have (this) great high priest, …passed into the
heavens (for this hour). 

	It doesn’t say He’s on the Mercy Seat. He’s on the throne, and a
name higher than the heavens. And at this time everything is naked
before Him. And He said, “I see you’re naked, wretched, miserable,
blind!” 

	We said, “Yeah, what was I wrong on this doctrine? Was I wrong here?
Was I wrong there? Oh God, cleanse my mind. Oh God, give me Your
mind.” 

	Minds that are full of manna, not fecal matter. Hey, don’t you know
when they ate manna in the wilderness, they had to carry a shovel, and
they put their dung in a little hole and covered it? You think for one
minute they didn’t have bowel movements? You know a person that
doesn’t have bowel movements is in very bad trouble. You’re stuck
back there with Luther and Wesley and Pentecost, you’ve got problems.
Dead manna, been used up. You don’t make a mess in the Bible here; you
leave it there where it belongs. If Bro. Branham said the manna is full
of wiggle-tails, what about the manna that’s been used up?

	This Son of God that’s in the heavens, he’s on the throne, and Word
has been given us, because it’s a revelation of Jesus Chris. And God
is revealing Him… That same Spirit is revealing that Son to us right
now. And the Bible says there’s no way you’ll ever get a knowledge
of the Son except the Father reveals Him, and you’ve got to come
through the Son in order to get the Father to get the revelation. So,
there’s one revealing the other. “He that has seen me hath seen the
Father.” Right down the line. 

59.	(15)	(Now,) we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with
the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin.

(16)	Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

	Now, this is a needy time. This is a time of the greatest need, because
it’s a time of peril. Perilous times in the last days. In other words,
every step you take in this Message, there’s a peril lying there. 

	“Oh, I can’t take this.” 

	I laugh when… I don’t mean to laugh, but I tell you, I just… What
do I get, embarrassed of people? Do I say, “Well, it had to happen”?
What do I say when people don’t even tithe? Now, you know I don’t
want your tithe. I don’t take your tithe. I square my bills. If I owe
this church anything out of the tithe fund, I pay it back. I’ve got
money in my own fund, which counts for offerings and building and
everything else, I can handle that. But money, most of the money, just
about everything goes out. What comes in here does go out. I could
explain it by my books, if you want to see the checks and all. But the
thing is, I’m very, very… I’m not upset, but I simply can’t
understand when the Word of God is so clear, if you can’t handle the
unrighteous mammon, and that thing is in your heart, you haven’t got
control.

	You say, “Well, I believe this Word. I-I-I-I-I…”

	Oh, please don’t tell me that! And they’re backsliding all the
time. There’s those that used to tithe, don’t tithe. You know what
they’re saying? “Hey, what’s it all about? Who needs it?” 

	That’s what’s wrong in a certain place in Canada. No matter what
you do, you can’t be straightened out. There’s no hope in their
straightening out as I see it at this point. And I won’t go into that,
because… No.

60.	The fifth chapter [of Hebrews] now goes onto Melchisedec. And the
full revelation cannot come until the church is mature, which is part of
Ephesians. And that happened under the Seventh Seal. Now, from this
point, what goes on and goes to the whole world, no matter how it goes
and continues to go, until it stands before kings, and even unto the
White Throne, where they’ll still be kings, this Word will come. Make
no mistake about it. And there’s a great time of danger by people
missing out. 

	William Branham identified himself to be the Elijah of Malachi 4 and
was proven to be he by God Himself vindicating God Himself in the
prophet. That the means of vindication is not recognized by the world
church system is easily accepted, because it is the Bible pattern
wherein all prophets are always rejected, even when God Himself is
manifesting in human flesh, where He appears in human flesh as He will,
as well as a Pillar of Fire. 

61.	And don’t forget God appeared in the Garden of Eden when He talked
to Adam and Eve and came down, and He came down, and when He came down
that time, the record is He challenged them on the Word. And this is the
challenge we have right here today on that Word. It’s not on how good
a life you live, how many souls you’ve won, what you’ve done this,
and what you’ve done that. The challenge is on the Word, what have you
done with it? 

	“I’ve added a word, I’ve taken a word, I’m walking in unbelief,
I can’t give credit here, I can’t give credit there.”

	I’ve got job doing it. There are certain things that rock my mind and
make it real, and I say, “It’s got to be true, because I see it over
here.” It’s got to be true, because this thing here to me is greater
than that thing over there. And if all part of the same, then the whole
thing is true, because it’s a one, true God. Oh, your mind will buzz
you. Oh, you bet your life it will buzz you. You know that as well as I
do.

62.	So, we can go to page 22 and paragraph 76, and notice how Bro.
Branham, as he said, is vehement in his enunciation of the world church,
which worships in vain, because its doctrines and commandments are of
men, having left the true revelation of God. And so, on page 22 and at
the bottom it says: [Seed of Discrepancy, 01/18/65]

[76]	I scream today, as it was, the great prophet of long ago, Amos,
when he came down into that city, (Jerusalem,) “I’m not a prophet,
nor a son of a prophet.” 

	Now, that’s ‘yes and no’ because the truth is God is His Own
Prophet. And the man himself is not a prophet, except in the sense that
he’s given a designation and an office as pertaining to God! the same
as everyone of us are children of God. But we’re not all pastors,
we’re not all teachers, we’re not all evangelists, we’re not all
apostles and prophets, we’re not all those who give with good
cheerfulness, and those that do this and do that with hundreds of gifts
in the church, speak in tongues, and have a gift of faith and a gift of
prophecy and a gift of healing and a gift of interpretation and right
down the line, miracles. We’re not! We’re all different, every one
of us. Those are merely terminologies which we have to use that
signifies, identifies, qualifies, setting us in the body of Christ with
our various ministries. 

	So, he said Amos could say, and William Branham says, “I’m not a
prophet.” And in the essentiality he was not a prophet; God is His Own
Prophet! And if God’s doing the prophesying through the lips of a man,
then you can honestly say that man is only a prophet insofar as he is
identified as doing that thing! An ordinary man cannot tell the things
that perfectly come to pass, as Bro. Branham said: “It’s not William
Branham that tells those things that perfectly come to pass.” Neither
did Amos, and neither did Paul, and neither did Moses, and neither did
anybody else, as Isaiah especially, forget it. It was God. And that’s
the way it is.

63.	Now, but he said: 

[76]	…if the lion roars, who can but fear!

	Why did Bro. Branham quote that? Because under the Seventh Seal, the
lion, as it were, a lion roared! And he couldn’t hold back what was
told him. He had to present it! And he said, “This will drive all of
my friends away, except maybe a few.” 

	They said, “Bro. Branham, if you ever went kooky, you went kooky
now.” 

	A man going to come on the scene, “I’m the one to open the
Seals!” Different men have said that! They’re saying it now, and
they’re laughing stock! That man was vindicated! Merciful God, what do
you want for vindication, when one time should do it!? Not hundreds of
times. 

	“Well, God, tell me how I’d like to hear it. Oh God, do it like
I’d like to see it done. You’re such a loving God, and I’m such a
lovely child.” 

	Oh, you are a pain in the neck. A lovely child, my foot. Telling God to
change His way for you and your stinkin’ reasoning. “God hit me over
the head, flatten me, straighten me out! Stop me being so stupid I can
think my prayers and my fasting or whatever I do, twists Your arm.” 

 	I’ve seen them pray and fast; a woman especially, one time, and a
man in the ministry. They believe this Message no more than nothing…
Why? Because they prayed, they fasted, they twisted God’s arm. 

64.	Brother Branham warned Franklin Hall, “Don’t publish that book
on fasting.” Who took it up? Allen took it up, the man that died an
alcoholic. Is that what God has His servants do? Die of alcohol? Want
you to show me one. He fed them to lions; smeared them across the road
in a car wreck. God’s prophets don’t die believing in three gods and
a Jesus-Only, full of alcohol…. Though some woman prostitute preacher
down there, she’s dead now, in Louisville, tried to say Bro. Branham
ran with women. Her name was Mrs. Hicks. I’ll put it on the tape. She
can’t sue me, but I wouldn’t care. I raise my hand toward heaven,
I’ll tell you. Not telling you lies, to the best of my knowledge,
that’s an absolute fact. But if it isn’t an absolute fact, I know
one thing about her, she never did believe him anyway, because her
daughter’s a Pentecostal preacher, and she’s the one who had all the
men running down training them. 

	How is a woman preacher going to train men? Train them in gifts of the
Holy Ghost and be somebody, and say, “Oh boy, the people are coming
and getting saved”? Saved from what? Saved to what? This is an
unfolding revelation, unfolding work of God coming right to perfection
where the Bride is taken away. And I like what the old guy said years
ago, he said, “Salvation is a three-fold process: I have been saved,
I’m being saved, I’ve yet to be saved.” He’s right. But don’t
carry that too far, just an illustration showing you how the progressive
work of Almighty God goes. 

65.	[76]	…if the lion roars, who can but fear!” …“When God
speaks, who can but prophecy.” (You see?)

	Now, notice; God speaking. When God speaks, who can but prophecy. It
tells you right there, God speaking demands a prophecy. And the
prophecy’s got to come by a prophet; the one that God indicated and
vindicated, he was the one that was the mouthpiece. See? 

 [76]	He predicted judgment upon that generation… 

	Now, the generation’s a very good word. In one case you’ll find it
means ‘born’ like a special lineage. And so you’ve got two kinds,
and science proves it. You’ve got 99.99 that is all of one seed.
You’ve got a little .00 something that’s of another seed.
Scientifically proven. So, you’ve got two lineages. It tells you right
here. He said: 

 [76]	He predicted judgment upon the generation…

	What generation? “Oh generation of vipers, who warned you of the
wrath to come?” And you go to Matthew 22 you’ll find generation,
generation, generation, and every single time it’s vipers. Now, if
they’re vipers back there, what are they now? Well, your questions
answered: how many Jews came in? I’m not against the Jews; I’m just
laying it on the line. How many are going to come in? One hundred and
forty-four thousand. And they’re the ones that don’t receive Him, so
the Bible says in Acts 3, “Destroy utterly,” and that follows
Malachi. That follows Elijah. This Elijah and that Elijah coming in the
Great Tribulation preaches the same thing as this Elijah, or this Elijah
was wrong! And if this Elijah’s wrong, then those people are God’s
seed, and we’re serpent seed! 

66.	Now figure this one out. How can eight people suddenly be eight
million, eight hundred million, two and a half billion people get in an
ark? So, serpent seed is 99.9999. Seed of God is 0.0001—something like
that. Right? Can’t have your cake and eat it, that’s scientific.
We’re not talking now on generalities here. 

	Another time the word ‘generation’ means ‘an age or a nation’.
So, “this generation will not pass away;” this age will not pass
away. These kinds of people won’t pass away till it’s all fulfilled.
All fulfilled what? The generation that belongs to God, all the
Scripture concerning them, is going to be fulfilled in us, as per
Gentiles, then fulfilled in the last of Israel as per Israel, and all
the rest of Scripture, delineating upon the generations of serpent seed,
the Scripture there will be fulfilled upon them. Right? Right! Huh? You
with me? Ebal and Gerizim? 

	Is it not true that those upon Gerizim, they shouted all the blessings.
Huh? And isn’t it true that those upon Mount Ebal liked evil; they
shouted the cursings. Is that true? Then if He came left hand and right
hand, is He going to say, “mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm” the Bride
doesn’t know what’s going on, “Yep, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm,” to
the ones that are condemned? Don’t be ridiculous. It’s all in plain
open. He said, “Little Bride, you didn’t even do it,” and then he
lowered the boom on the seed of discrepancy. Right here, he raised his
voice, vehemently screamed, vehemently screamed out against ecumenism.
Did he or did he not? We’ve heard the tapes; we could play them for
you for your edification. 

67.	[76]	See “…who can but prophesy?” He predicted judgment upon
that generation… 

	That type of people that came on and on and on and now formed the last
age where the tares are separated and put into bundles and the wheat is
taken from the chaff, so the chaff burns with the tares because it’s
all one. He pronounced judgment… 

[76]	“The very God that you claim to serve will destroy you.”

	Now, what did Jesus say that’s come to pass in our day? “You’ve
made the Word of God vain by your traditions, so your worship of God is
vain.” It doesn’t say they won’t worship God, it says, “It
won’t do you any good to worship God.”

	So, if you’re an idolater out there and you’re paying tithes,
it’s not going to do you any good. You’re subscribing to the tithes
of an organization, and you’ll take what they say more and more and
more, and you’ll handle it better and better and better; you’ll be
more facile… Oh, my God, you should have heard me when I was just a
kid preacher, and I believed in tongues. Oh man, did I believe. I could
twist Scripture around your neck, and I could twist it back and forth
with Scripture, till one guy said, he said, “Son, I’m going to tell
you, I really believe you’re a teacher.” 

	And I said, “Well, that’s very nice of you. I don’t know what I
am, but I just try to preach what I see,” and I was seeing all
cock-eyed, too, because I had a bunch of cock-eyed instructors. I had a
cock-eyed devil too, to tell you the truth. God never taught me a lot of
the junk that I believed. Mm-mm. No, no, no, no, no. Organization did. 

	I went right down the line, listening to experience, till Bro. Branham
said, “Hey, we don’t go by experience. We go by the Word of God.” 

	I said, “Have it your way, doc; you win.” Ever since then I just
discredit everything I ever had, except I know that He lives, and by the
grace of God I’ve got the Word of life that will make me live with
Him. That’s all that matters. That’s all that matters! Don’t want
to twist it now, be very careful. 

68.	Now, he said:

[77]	You put this, it’s on tape, and you remember. (He said you put
this on tape; you get that tape; you listen; you remember.) That the
very God that... (And he would have repeated himself, that you say you
serve and worship, He is going to destroy you. Absolutely.) These people
now that’s gathering all this great…harvest of World Council of
Churches. And you’re going to have to go into it. You can’t stay out
of it. You’re either going to be individually getting out of it, or
you’re going (individually going to go) into it. (In other words,
he’s pinning not the people down as a group now, but every single
person.) There ain’t going to be no middle ground. It’ll be the mark
of the beast. No man could buy or sell, except he has the mark of the
beast, or…got the discrepancy. 

	Now, what he’s telling, the mark of the beast, you don’t even know
you’ve got it, because it’s in your mind here, where you’re
serving a false God and taking the Bible of the true God and perverting
It to make it line up with a false god. It’s a seed of discrepancy.
It’s in the genes physically, and it’s in the genes spiritually!
Right? Why, absolutely! How do I say that? Because He said, “Make the
tree good or make it evil! A good tree will not bring forth evil fruit,
and an evil tree will not bring forth good fruit!” Huh?

69.	See where you sit this morning, brother/sister? You’re not sitting
on any old rocking chair on a porch trying to wile your life away.
Don’t worry for one minute. You’re not even in your backyard sitting
under a fig tree or something out there. You’re on the hot seat. And
it won’t be like old grandma with the hot cross buns, sitting on a hot
stove and not getting marked. You’re already marked: in the hand, in
the forehead and the mind. I’ll keep whipping these guys that think
they’re so smart. 

	Well, what’s the difference? They’re meant to fool the people. They
wouldn’t last two seconds here. The guy came in here one time, and the
church caught him in about five minutes; he made a booboo. Yet he
believes the Presence very strong, but I wonder what he believes it for.
For money? What interest has he got? Check people’s lives; you begin
to wonder what in the world’s going on. See? 

70.	Now, ‘seed of discrepancy’. The discrepancy is the mark of the
beast. 

 [77]	Now, stay out of it! Get out of it! Flee it! Stay from it! The God
that they claim they’re serving will destroy them. (Oh, and they say,)
the great God of love (He) won’t...

	Well, do you think He’ll bypass His Word that’s been truly
revealed? Do you think He’ll bypass Matthew 16 to make It nice for us
when He didn’t even make It nice for Peter? And said, “Peter, look,
you’ve got a revelation from God. I didn’t give it, and you didn’t
get it. Nobody gave it. God gave it.” Do you think we’re going to be
different? Everybody wants to be even greater than Peter. 

	“Oh hallelujah, Peter was that guy… He was a kind of a shifty guy.
He couldn’t be trusted, but we love his energy,” blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. 

	What a bunch of blather-mouth idiots, so to speak. Their mouths come
right around their ears, so they can hear what’s going in their ears;
they’re like big antennas out there waving to catch a breeze. They
talk about Peter, lowering Peter to their stature. 

	Hey, let’s get to Peter’s stature. Flesh and blood never told me
anything, except all wrong. God did it. And you can claim that from
there. Huh? Isn’t that the same One that indwelt Jesus Christ? Well,
come on. If it’s not the same One, there’s something wrong
somewhere. How can we testify to every Word that Jesus said? God
testified to Himself when He was the body of Jesus, now He testifies the
same thing when He was in the body of William Branham. And we’ve got a
part of His Own life in us; we receive it! Huh? I said a while ago,
little penguins know their mothers, and their mothers know their little
penguins by their shrill chirping. They know by the voice. Aren’t we
as well off as penguins?

71.	[77]	(Oh, they) said, “…Jesus, he prayed that we should all be
one.” 

[78]	(But) He also said, “How can you walk together, two walk
together, unless they be agreed?”

	Now, that’s the thing I get a lot of whipping for, all over the
world, because I’m kind of a iconoclastic, and I kind of remain by
myself, which I do. But Bro. Branham himself said, “How can you have
fellowship, you who believe all the Word, have fellowship with those
that believe only part of the Word?” 

	And what’s he talking about? Out there in the country somewhere?
Well, he’s talking about us. My fellowship doesn’t go to Methodist,
Baptist; I don’t run around hobnobbing with Pentecost and everyone
else. My whole life is in this Message with people that surround it. And
I hear more and more people, more and more don’t have a clue to
Presence, they can talk it even intelligently with me, and then say,
“Well, He’s been here all the time.” 

	That’s been here all the time? [Points to picture of Pillar of Fire
on the wall] Prove it. Prove it. Find me one historian. Get the works of
the Catholic Church. I’ve had them. Get the books. Prove it. 

72.	The historians today admit, Bible days repeated; the ministry of
Jesus Christ came back to this earth as Daddy Bosworth said, in 1953, as
he pulled my coattails. He said, “Bro. Vayle, I prayed for the
ministry of Jesus Christ to return to this earth for forty years, there
it is in that man.” Daddy Bosworth didn’t miss a trick, because
I’ll tell you why, the ministry of Jesus Christ, was the ministry of
Elohim, Jehovah-Elohim Himself through a human body, and it came to
William Branham. Hallelujah. 

	Now, let the Pentecostals run around the aisles and shout and scream.
Let the rest of the Branhamites that preach like we get it preaching
here. I’ll run and scream around the aisles if they run and scream
with this. And I’ll be shouting louder. I’ll be like King David:
when people cried, he cried more, and when they screamed, he screamed
louder—if I’ve even got to buy a bull horn to do it. And I’ll let
them do it; I’ll run. I’ll have a hallelujah march with you. I’m
not against emotion—scream, everything else. But I’m going to tell
you one thing: you can’t just get anything from God, in my books,
screaming and yelling, when you don’t even know what you’re
screaming and yelling about. And when you refuse to scream and yell
about the truth, there’s got to be something wrong somewhere. No, you
can’t teach under those conditions. I don’t believe you can. See? 

73.	[78]	He said, “one,” like he and the Father are One. And the
Father was the Word, and he was the Word made manifest. (Now, that’s
beautiful right there, that’s Jn 1:1.) He was One with the Father,
because He was the manifestation of God’s promised Word. (He was. He
was one because He was the manifestation of that Word. He wasn’t that
Word per se. He was the manifestaton of It, and thereby, in the flesh He
was that Word Logos. You can get Logos a lot of different ways. We’ve
seen that in Scripture. You see?) And so is it today, or any other day. 

	Now, that’s where Bro. Branham really gets them confused. But the
point is, if you’re beginning to describe this and make a comparison,
them were those days. You’ve got to follow what Bro. Branham said,
“When you see God descend from the heavens and stand before groups of
men, and declare Himself as ever He did.” 

	Now, come on, where do you find that? Huh? You find this in the same
place: God in the prophets, Hebrews 1. Hebrews 1, concerning the Son,
the image of God. That’s why He said, “Don’t you dare make an
image of me, in heaven or in earth, or anything above; anything you’ve
seen, forget it. Don’t you dare make an image: a human being, anybody.
I’m sending my Own image.” What was he? The Only-begotten Son,
virgin born. 

74.	An image is an image; it is not the real thing. Jesus was not the
real God. He was a part of God, the Only-begotten one, whom the
generations were started, and then, God came and indwelt him. Oh, a
mystery: that Son one time indwelt Michael the archangel and led in
worship with Satan. I don’t understand it, and I don’t even want to
understand it! Brother Branham said it, that’s enough. Hallelujah!
When He wanted to come down and take a human body, He did it. When He
wanted William Branham, He did it! When He wanted Paul, He did it! What
more do you want?

	“Well, I’m going to be a part.”

	Oh, you’re not going to be a part of anything. You’ve got to stand
back and believe. Only believe! Why do you think Bro. Branham had that
song indelibly in his mind and in every congregation he ever addressed,
Only Believe, by [Paul] Rader, because that was the truth: “Only
believe, only believe, all things are possible.” That God should come
and indwell that man [points to picture of Pillar of Fire on the wall]
like He indwelt Jesus, like He indwelt Moses, like He did?

	“Well, I don’t know if He really indwelt Moses and Paul. That’s a
different thing entirely. Well, I don’t really believe that.”

	You don’t believe your Bible. You don’t believe your Bible. William
Branham said, “The Pillar of Fire standing up inside of me.”

	“Oh, God have pity on… Oh God, let me out of here. This is too
sacrilegious.”

	I like it. Tell me more. I want to get next to it.

75.	Want to get next to the Pillar of Fire? Shake hands with the man.
Huh? It went by them when he said, “‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’.
That’s not William Branham speaking.”

	I don’t like to singe feathers, but I’ve singed chicken feathers
before, but never caught an eagle feather. [Someone says, “Praise the
Lord.”] Thank you. Did you catch what I said awhile ago? I’ve singed
a lot of chicken feathers, but never an eagle feather. Hey, I know what
is singed chicken feathers. I’ve done it. You pluck the big feathers
off, then you light some newspaper, and you get the little fuzzy
feathers off. Singe them. And you know what? Smoke was horrible. On the
other hand, I don’t mind eating a chicken, but I’d hate to eat an
eagle. Huh? Oh Lord, my sarcasm is going to get me killed some day. I
don’t know. Well, the sooner the better. 

76.	And the Father was the Word, and He was the Word and made manifest.
He was One with the Father, because He was the manifestation of God’s
promised Word. And Bro. Branham said the prophet is the Word of God made
manifest in human flesh. Right? Oh, the chickens clucked over that one.
Oh, they ran screaming to the manure heaps, squawking, squawking,
calling for their husband. Bock, bock, bock, squawk, squawk. And my
friend opened the Bible; they opened the book, because I’d showed him
two days before, and he said, “Read this.” You think they were
converted? Well, put it this way, I’ve watched and I wonder. I wonder.

77.	[78]	And so it is today and any other day. Yes, sir. That God is
One…

	That God, Jehovah was One with the Son, because He was in the Son, but
the Son wasn’t God and God wasn’t the Son. I’m saying this, not
William Branham. 

[78]	That God is One; He wants us to be one.

[79]	How can we be one, this one denying the virgin birth, and this one
deny divine healing, and this, …and all of them in a mess…? (Now,
listen. Here’s the thing that’s like the contradiction.: He’s God,
but he isn’t God.) Some of them even don’t even believe in God,
believe he was the Son of God; believe he was the son of Joseph… 

	They don’t believe that Elohim Himself was the God standing there.
And they don’t even believe that this One standing there was the Son
of God, and God was in Him. They believe he was merely a son of Joseph,
and Bro. Branham said many people said he was an illegitimate son of a
Roman soldier.

[79]	…He was the son of Joseph, just called the Son of God. Certainly.
The twin brothers to Lutherans, Zwinglies, believe that, that He was
absolutely just a good man. The Christian Science said He was a prophet,
an ordinary man; He wasn’t divine. Why, if He wasn’t divine, He’s
the greatest deceiver the world ever had. He was God or He was nothing.
He was divine! He was deity…, in the person of the Son of God. 

	So, he’s talking about a man in a man. He’s talking about a man in
a man. The best the Trinitarians can do is say this way, “God is like
an egg. A shell on the outside, the white on the inside, the yolk on the
inside.” 

	And I said, “Hold it, there’s four of them,” because there’s a
shell on the outside, there’s a skin on the inside, there’s a white
on the inside of that, and there’s the yellow. That makes four. So,
Trinity is screwy. 

78.	The other guy said, “I understood Trinity when I went to China,
the weather was so cold they gave me a coat. And they put a coat on me,
and don’t you know in that coat was a beautiful, furry lining, and in
that lining also was a third lining and that was Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost—my coat.” 

	And I thought, that’s pretty good, but I don’t know if that’s
really true. And I bounced back and forth and back and forth between
Trinity and Jesus-Only, until one day it broke upon me in the fullness
of the reality of ‘Who is this Melchisedec’, when Bro. Branham laid
it out, and he laid it out flat and strong. And that was it. And I could
see the genealogy, I can see the principles, I can see everything. And
the everything pertains exactly true what he says, “In the person of
the Son of God, that was God.” 

	So, God was in the Son of God! And the Son of God was also Son of man
because he was prophet. That’s the thing you’re looking at, and
people do not want to believe it. That’s what Bro. Hall was bringing
out. I don’t think he used that one here. He used other ones. But what
you’re looking at, Bro. Hall talked about expression, and he talked
about humanity, and “Jesus was God, but He wasn’t God.”

79.	What does he mean “Jesus was God, but He wasn’t God?” The
truth of the matter is: I don’t even like that expression. And I’ll
tell you why I don’t like it: because it throws a puzzle at you:
“Let’s start looking at both sides.” 

	Well, I know that’s the way God wanted it, or Bro. Branham wouldn’t
have said it that way. But the point is, I’m telling you as a teacher,
I can’t resent it, because I’ve got no right to resent what God
does, because what God does, Bro. Branham explained, opens the eyes of
one, and blinds the eyes of the other! And you sit there, until you get
the revelation! You don’t comment; you just look at it! You keep going
back and forth! 

	And that’s my ministry, always has been that way, till I can finalize
it. And I can finalize this positively, that in the beginning a light
formed when there wasn’t even one molecule, nothing created—nothing,
nothing, nothing but God! Where did that light form from? Because
‘form’ means ‘something comes from something’. A piece of God
went out. That was the Son of God, like a child playing around the
throne. And Bro. Branham describes the whole of creation, and that same
One, (And don’t try to make it different.) only came in human flesh,
just like us, except for one difference: we bypassed our theophonic
form, that Word-form, that Spirit-form body, and came down here. We’ll
meet it one day. 

80.	That’s why we’re eternal in the heavens. And ‘eternal’ means
‘a substance that never had a beginning’. Just like Jesus was that
substance that came out, there is that same thing somehow waiting for
us. And we go to it. And in the air it meets us. Don’t try to figure
it! Listen to what the prophet said and believe it. He’s vindicated.
He also said there were things under the Seals revealed to us which were
not known from before the foundation of the world. Oh, are we in a super
class, as it were; we are the perfect; we’re the knowledgeable ones.
The rest are turning to Gnosticism and foolishness, but we stay right
with the Word of God. God Himself ordained that that one be in a certain
form, and that one, then, take on flesh, and He described how it was
done. 

	And He wasn’t God the Son coming into the body. He was God, Father,
Elohim, Jehovah-Elohim. And He came right into Jesus at the river
Jordan, and on the cross, God having left him, leaving His tabernacle,
he cried to God, “Into Thy hands, I commend my spirit.” And the
Bible distinctly tells us that’s where the spirit went; and the soul
went down into hell, and the body went into the grave, and that’s the
conclusion! Then God raised him. God didn’t raise God. The truth of
the matter is that God even raised that Son. Well, the fact is, he went
down there in the power of Almighty God and led them loose, took up his
body, and they took up their bodies, and came out. Because God raises
the dead. The Son didn’t raise himself; God raises the dead. And the
body didn’t even suffer corruption. 

81.	Look what God did through Jesus in the resurrection of Lazarus, four
days in the ground, dissolving into fluids and stinking. 

	“Oh, I believe that. I believe that.” 

	Then how come it’s hard to believe that Bro. Branham, by the power of
God, created squirrels? 

	“Well, it would have been nice if he hadn’t eaten them.” 

	You an animal lover or something? You can’t stand the fact that
somebody has a fur coat, and kills a squirrel or eats a good chunk of
beef? I treated Bro. Hall when he was here. I said, “Have a nice
steak; we call it American mad cow steak.” I got tickled pink because
I saw she chomped hers down faster than he did. This is on tape; this is
going to be a good joke. But it was cute as all get out. I love to see
them eat a good meal. Now, of course, I wasn’t behind them either.
Don’t think that I was behind them. We had a good steak there.

82.	[79]	He was God or He was nothing. 

	Who is he talking about? The One that was in the Son. In His Son how?
And He was in that Son how? By a body that God Himself was creating
through a sperm and an egg that He created in the incubation factory of
Mary. That’s all. And that life of that Son was reduced to the life in
that sperm. And when He came forth he was a virgin born Son of God. He
grew up just like you and me. He had to, to partake of everything we
partook of. Increased in wisdom and stature with God and man, appeared
suddenly in the temple at age twelve, confounded the scholars and
everybody else. What a marvelous thing that was.

83.	So, all right. Here we are. I wanted to get this far anyway, where
we see where Bro. Branham cried out against the ecumenical spirit, the
seed of discrepancy, which is now in the judgment halls, lined up for
the burning and the destruction. And it’s showing again the one that
they worshipped is not the One that He is revealing! And he’s
explaining Who the true God is under the conditions of the hour in which
it is! and which it was! They don’t get it. “Father, Son and Holy
Ghost.” 

	Well, Lord bless you. I guess I’m overdue or something. Who knows?
But anyway that’s as far as we’ve gone today, and there’s
Communion Service next Saturday, and if I’m able to, which I kind of
doubt I’m up to that much strenuous exercise to take two services. But
anyway, you’ll be here if I’m not. Hopefully then, we’ll get in
one of them. 

	So, let’s rise to be dismissed.

	Our gracious, eternal Father, we thank You for the time we spent in
Your Presence today, knowing it is Your Presence, not that You would be
here especially in the Pillar of Fire for us, but definitely, Lord, we
know that You are here to lead Your people into the Millennium, even as
You were back there to lead them into Promised Land, which You certainly
did. 

	Now, we know, Lord, that many of us are going to go on ahead, and
perhaps, who knows, there might be two people left, there may be nobody
left, of what you might call of the old ones around Bro. Branham that
took the Message to heart, and wrote about it, preached about it, and
have done these things, Lord, and we know we’re fast fading out. But
we know that You abide forever, and that’s the thing that counts. And
You are here, Lord, as You brought the Shout to put the church in order,
gave us a Message of Your Presence, and that which is contingent to it,
adheres it, and now You’re here to raise the dead, once the
application has been thoroughly worked out in the Bride, that lovely
Message, the lovely Word, the gospel of our salvation, the true
doctrine, the true understanding, the true revelation. These things,
Lord, we know that You will raise the dead, and we will all come into a
place where we ought to be. 

	And now, Lord, our only hope is in You, and we just pray that as we
have taken this Word on more and more, and have gone into it more and
more, Lord, that righteous wonderful hope that we have may spring more
and more into our hearts, and come forth more and more into our minds,
and out of our mouths, even to the point, Lord, where all the critics
will have to acknowledge that we are walking in the light as He is in
the light, and there are those things coming forth from us, from this
Word, Lord, that they put so much stock in, which we do not, but we
admit that it is there, and all these things, Lord, come into harmony
according to what You want. Although we do ask and say these people
might see it, we know that You don’t have to answer that prayer, Lord,
because it may be that You don’t want anything like that. And that’s
fine by us because the critics mouths are all stopped on the ground
anyway of vindication, which we know vindication means really nothing in
itself unless there is a Word to be vindicated, and that Word itself
must to come to light in our lives, our understandings, in our souls,
and be a part of the truth, because it’s the real truth, wherein we
worship You in Spirit and in truth. 

	Now, You know our hearts today, Lord, and what we really desire, and I
pray, Father, if we are not in line with this enough, that You will
correct us, no matter what it takes to correct us; Father in heaven we
pray that You will correct us, and see that our feet are on the right
path, illuminated by the light of the Word of Almighty God, walking in
it, not only walking having believed it, but actually a certain amount
of manifestation according to what You desire of us, both in righteous
lives and in anything else that You have incumbent upon us, so that we
might be pleasing to You, because we know in the bottom of our hearts
that’s what we really want, although many times we seem so far from
it. 

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

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”