Shalom #15

Showdown!

Word in the Virgin

April 26, 1989

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’ve been singing about the Spirit
falling upon Your people, and we know that that is not just the
possibility, but at the end time we know that Your Spirit would come
upon all men, just before the great tribulation. It could be the wicked
ones like Judas, the truly anointed, but false to the Word; and then,
there’d be those, Lord, that were with You according to Word. And we
appreciate that Lord, and by faith we believe we’re a part of that,
that Your Spirit can fall upon us as we take Word by Word and believe It
and just stand with It, and that It becomes a part of our thinking and a
part of our lives. 

	We know that with You, Your thinking was a part of You. We’re not
quite the same, Lord. We know that though we are a part of You, we left
that thinking behind, and now we have to have our thinking brought up to
a proper order, which we can at this hour. So, help our thinking, Lord,
to be Your thinking this night; and then, we know it’s going to be
well with us, because we know the life in that thinking, which is Your
Word, will bring it forth in human vessels. Guide and bless us tonight.
In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now we’re at number 15 in “Shalom,” and in this message, as
well as in his other messages, Bro. Branham, as a true prophet of God,
uses the words ‘Light’, ‘God’, ‘Spirit’, ‘the Word’,
interchangeably, making them synonymous, yet different in overtone,
according to the presentation of a particular truth. Also, you notice
that Bro. Branham uses words the same as the old Jewish prophets did.
They’re synonymous. They’re interchangeable. But actually, each time
there’s a special overtone, a special qualification, due to the truth
that is to be or is being presented. Now surely God is Spirit; God is
Life, but He is also Light. The use of these descriptive words helps us
to receive a revelation of God Himself, as to what He is and does. 

2.	Now that’s the purpose, of course, of words. They are to define, to
make that which is objective more subjective, so that you understand
more about (We’re talking of God now.) the personality of God, God as
a Person, and His character, qualities, characteristics. So therefore,
the use of these descriptive words, then, help us to receive a
revelation of God, Himself. As I said, those words are ‘Spirit’,
‘Light’, ‘Life’, and so on. Also remember, He’s Savior. 

	For example, let us start at the beginning. “In the beginning,
God.” Well, the question comes up: what kind of a God? He is Spirit.
That’s exactly what God is. Then, what is spirit? Well, spirit is
life. Thus, God is living Spirit. That’s exactly what God is. Now,
what are His dimensions? Well, how do we describe Him? He is eternally
the same and is omnipotent and omniscient. 

	So therefore, God is an eternal God, never changes, the major
qualifications of God being omnipotence and omniscience. These two
attributes are limited only by God’s Own character, as to what He will
devise with His great ability, and what He will do with what He’s
invented, according to His Own knowledge. In His omnipotence He is a
Creator. He can speak into existence whatever He so desires in
accordance as to what characteristics lay within Him. And He can do with
that creation according to His thinking, which is also directed
according to His Own God-life, which even He cannot change. 

3.	Now that’s something right there that people, I think, may have a
little hard job with, because they think maybe by prayer and fasting
they can twist God’s arm. Well now, they don’t understand the Word.
Like Bro. Branham said, “You don’t pray to God to ask God to change.
You pray to God to ask God to change you.” Now, remember; there is
such a thing as people getting answers to prayer and becoming
spiritually dead. You know, they can get all kinds of blessing; they can
be anointed, and God will send leanness to their souls. And finally,
like in this age, they’re doubly dead. There never was a generation
like this generation. They’re twice dead, even before they drop dead
in their decaying flesh. 

4.	Now, so therefore, God can only do according to what His God-likeness
is. You see? Thus, He is both Rhema and Logos within Himself. So
therefore, God as you might say, blueprint and manifestation, that He
is, because there comes omniscience and omnipotence. Omniscience knows;
omnipotence does. What does omnipotence do? What omniscience knows. What
is omniscience? God is omniscient. So, God is both Rhema and Logos, and
anybody that tries to tell you differently is wrong.

5.	Now I got a phone call just the other night from Australia. And this
brother said he was so grateful, because I delivered to them the fact
that the Hebrew prophets understood God as both Rhema and Logos, and
Bro. Branham did the very same thing. They’re synonymous. And then, he
mentioned this certain man that I’m well aware of, and you’re well
aware of, who goes around confusing people. He’s trying to tell
something that Bro. Branham didn’t tell. The man is not vindicated!
Oh, he’s been vindicated as a liar. Yes, I’m going to say it
publicly, and I care less if people don’t like it. The man
‘corrected’ Bro. Branham. How can you correct a prophet? Bro.
Branham said the only thing that cannot be corrected is a prophet! Then,
trying to correct a prophet? He ought to stop such nonsense. 

6.	Thus, He is both Rhema and Logos—within Himself! And you’d never
know Rhema, unless He projected being Logos. And, because He can and
does make Himself known according to His Own desires, which are directed
as to what He Himself is, He not only gives light, but He Himself is
Light. And to know God is light, and to know more and more about Him is
increasing light. As the Bible tells us, at the end time there will be
increased light for the believer, but not for the sinner. He spoke light
in the beginning, as to manifestation. That is, He spoke it. It was
already Rhema, or He couldn’t have spoken. It was already a part of
God in God’s likeness, or it wouldn’t have been produced. Thus, Word
and Light are synonymous. Definitely they are synonymous. Rhema as Word
becomes Logos as Light. This is carried to the extent that, as children
of God, we are Rhema Logos, because we’re with Him in the
beginning—and also Rhema-Light-Logos or Rhema-Logos-Light. 

7.	 He said, “You’re the light of the world.”

	Like Father, like son, in plain English. He is the Light, and we are
His little begotten lights. If you’re begotten of God, and He’s
Light, then you’re light. Right? It’s just as simple as dogs having
dogs and cats having kittens and pigs having piglets and human beings
having babies—human babies; because there aren’t separate words for
begetting. “As in Adam all died, even so in Christ all are made
alive.” You’ve got to go back to your concepts. Light has come. Bro.
Branham tells us that. See, that’s the point he was making. Light has
come in this hour. God is here and has revealed Himself and vindicated
that it is He Himself, and the Light is God. This Light, God and His
revelation, presses the darkness. The light ones gather as in Goshen,
while all around the darkened ones are literally paralyzed in Egypt,
according to Ex 10:21-23.

8.	 Now, let’s take a look at It. 

(21)	And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward (the)
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness
which may be felt.

(22)	And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a
thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

(23)	(And) they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for
three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

	Now I want to ask you a question. Was it the geography that made the
difference, or was it the people? It was the people. So, where Israel
was, there was light. You are a light set upon a hill. You’re the
light of the world. See? So, we see, God comes bringing His Own
revelation of Himself, and we know it is of God by vindication, as it is
set forth in the Word to be thus, and it is thus. What is the difference
when God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. “Let
such and such a thing happen,” and it’s in this Word. God sends a
prophet on the scene to bring to your attention His immediate act in
order to gain your attention from the act. Like Bro. Branham said,
“God was thousands of years in bringing a Messiah that He prophesied
would have to come in Genesis, the very first few years of Eden”—
thousands of years to get Him here. 

	So, what God is doing, He brings our attention to the place with
something immediate, thereby letting us know that something, which has
been previously said, even thousands of years before, and distilled in
God before the foundation of the world, is about to transpire. That is
God doing it; that is light. All right. We understand that.

9.	So, God comes bringing His Own revelation of Himself. And we know it
is of God by vindication. We see it set forth in the Word. This
separates the children of light from the children of darkness! See? Now,
unless you are confirmed in the understanding of what we call
Calvinism—which is really true sovereignty of God—and understand
beginnings as Bro. Branham taught, you will rebel against this; because
it is your sweet loving nature that makes men to want to make God a
liar, the very God that they say they love. Now you know that I’m not
saying that to you, because you do not do that here. But there could be
others out there I’m thinking of that might even get these tapes, and
it will sort of prick their conscience, which I hope it does. 

10.	Now this separates the children of light from the children of
darkness as we see in John 8, which is that fantastic chapter to show
you the serpent seed, if anything ever did. And It does.

	And we’ll read Jn 8:29, beginning:

(29)	And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone;
for I (always) do those things that please him.

(30)	(And) as he spake these words, many believed on him.

(31)	Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you
continue in my word, then are you my disciples (Or, you will learn of
me.) indeed.

	Now they had to continue in the Word to keep on learning. That’s what
happened when the Lutherans came out. They didn’t keep on with the
Word when Methodists came on the scene. And the Methodists didn’t keep
on when the Pentecostals came on the scene. And the Pentecostals rose up
against Bro. Branham. So, the light within them has turned to darkness.
That’s why they are the chaff! And I can’t change the Bible, and I
don’t want to change the Bible! I’m not interested in changing It. I
want It to change me. And He says:

(32)	And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

(33)	(And) they answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and (we never)
were in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, You shall be made free?
(We’re already free. That’s what they thought.)

(34)	Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin. (Now sin is unbelief.)

(35)	And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son
abideth (for) ever. (Now, remember; He said, “This is the work of God
that you believe on Him that God has sent.”) 

(36)	If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

11.	Now, let’s look at this picture. “If the Son makes you free, you
are free indeed.” Now see, there isn’t anybody but God Who is
Savior. God alone is Savior. So, what is He telling you here? He is
telling you that God, in the hour of Sonship, God as Son, is setting
people free, because God was in Christ. That’s the rule. God always
has to be in something to do something. Like Bro. Branham threw the rock
up in the air to cause something to happen. And he said the suction
actually brought the tornadic force that ripped the stones out of that
sheer wall of rock, out near Wilcox in Arizona; and the same thing,
then, started an earthquake. Now I hear, Terry Sproule told us the
delicate balance of a rock falling can start a tornado. Now I hear, Dave
[Barradas] tells me, that he read an article, where the flapping of a
butterfly’s wings in the Philippines can start something in the
Caribbean, like a hurricane—the delicate balance. 

	That makes you wonder: what delicate balance is there in God, and if we
could get to it. What lies ahead of us to be in the delicate balance
that we’re entering into now? That’s why there’ll be a new
universe, literally, created, melted down and brought over again. Just
thinking sitting here, before I got to the pulpit, just literally
thinking about God creating, and I thought God created those squirrels.
Didn’t He? He did that. That was fantastic. 

	And then, I thought, well, I sat there behind Bro. Branham, and I saw
that microphone cord wrapped around him; and I didn’t see it
disintegrate, but I saw it come back together, lying there. And I
thought, there’s a perfect picture. Look what lies ahead of us: God
creating and God transforming the elements that are here now, literally
taking and doing something to them, and bringing them back. Why, we’ve
seen manifestation here, brother/sister, that makes us to know God, if
anybody ever knows God. See?

12.	 Now, let’s keep reading.

(37)	I know you’re Abraham’s seed; but you seek to kill me, because
my word hath no place in you.

	Now that’s something that’s true. Bro. Branham categorically said,
“The serpent had a place for a soul, but he didn’t have a soul.”
These people did not have a place for God’s Word though they mouthed
daily, religiously, the Ten Commandments and all the law and the
prophets; because the whole Bible, thirty-nine books of the Old
Testament, were already there—Psalms and all of them. And some, maybe,
could quote them verbatim, chapter after chapter. 

(38)	I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that
which you have seen with your father.

(39)	They answered and said, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of
Abraham. 

13.	What were the works of Abraham? Recognizing God on the plains of
Mamre and knowing the great Judge was there—learning: Will He destroy
the righteous with the wicked? That’s always the question when God
comes on the scene. “What is He going to do?” Well, the Blood stands
good for us, brother/sister, like God gave Bro. Branham that vision, the
earth surrounded by a circle of Blood. 

	And He told William Branham, “I want you to know this one thing:
Except for that circle of Blood, you sit there condemning that woman
that’s backslidden and a mess. But I’ll tell you,” He said,
“without that circle of Blood, you’d be destroyed too.” 

	We thank God for the Blood. See?

14.	(40)	Now you seek to kill me, a man (which) told you the truth,
which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

(41)	You do the deeds of your father. 

	Now, what is it? He’s referring right here, the same person who wrote
this, John, as a scribe, is referring to Cain. It’s the same thing. He
was of that wicked one.

(41)	You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We be not
born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

	Show me Cain in the chronology—the genealogy! You can’t do it! They
could trace themselves to Abraham, every one of these; and, as soon as
they traced themselves to Abraham, they had a home run to God. Figure it
out. Go to your genealogy. 

	“Oh,” He said, “Yes, I know.” He said, “That’s true. You
can trace your genealogy. But,” He said, “you’re still serpent
seed.” See, it was the serpent seed; they knew it. Then, these
Pentecostals try to tell you that Eve didn’t cohabit with the serpent.
They still got some idea that it was some great big four-footed hoofed
elephant, clomp, clomp, clomp. When did you ever see a big four-footed
idiot beast or old dumb beast have a conversation with anybody? Some
women are crazy all right, but Eve wasn’t that crazy. Lord, have pity.


(41)	(See, we have one father, we’re) not born of fornication; (See,
they knew the truth of serpent seed.)

(42)	Jesus said, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I
proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent
me.

(43)	Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear
my word.

	There was no place for them; they couldn’t hear It! If you haven’t
got a place for the Word of God, you’ll never understand It! There’s
no way you can understand It. It’s all double talk. It’s all
mystical, mythical. That’s where the Gnostics came in. They couldn’t
get a revelation, so they made their own up! And Gnosticism obtains
right today, and it’s a mess. 

15.	Now:

(44)	You’re of your father the devil, the lusts of your father
(you’ll) do. He was a murderer from the beginning, abode not in the
truth, because (there’s) no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speak(s) of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

(45)	And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not. 

(46)	Which of you convinceth me of sin? If I say the truth, why do you
not believe me?

(47)	He that is of God heareth God’s words: you therefore hear them
not, because you’re not of God.

	Show me that this Scripture has ever been changed by God. This is
showdown! This is showdown. It always has been and always will be. And,
if this is the hour of showdown, this has to obtain. If it is not the
hour of showdown, there is a showdown coming, and it will obtain. But we
believe it’s already come. 

	This is identical, as you well know, to 2 Th 2:8-14—just before
antichrist takes over. The love of the truth is only in a little certain
group of people, who are sanctified by the Word. The rest of them do not
have it. 

16.	As we read last Sunday, and we’ll read again, we see that God
Himself reveals Himself and reveals about Himself. And He is as Light
itself; and, because He is Light itself, He uses a child of Light, who
is also a light, pointing to The Light. He’s using a prophet like John
the Baptist. See? And all the little lights come to that great Light via
the short-lived light, as it was with Moses and John and Paul and now
Bro. Branham. The great Light sends a lesser light, like before the sun
rises in its glory; the morning star comes forth in the darkest hour,
just before the sun starts to rise. And all the little stars, little
lights, gather to the great Light via the bright and burning light, like
as John the Baptist and Moses and Paul and now William Branham. Bro.
Branham’s own words, as directed by God, describe those Light Word
conditions, the church, the true Word Bride.

17.	 I’m going to read from “Spoken Word Is Original Seed.” [page
119] All right.

[119,4]	Now, here is what I’m trying to say to you: The law of
reproduction brings forth of its kind (Gen 1:11), and because Bro.
Branham never read It, I don’t know that anybody else bothered to read
It. [Genesis] 1:11 says:

(11)	And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
(seeds—spora), and the (tree yielding) fruit after his kind, whose
(spora) is in itself, upon the earth: and (so it was).

[4]	All right. What I’m trying to say to you is this: The law of
reproduction… 

	In other words the continuation of a species brings forth after
whatever kind that specie is. There are two kinds of progenitors
according to the Bible. There are two progenitors: one is God and one is
the devil. Let’s go first of all to Matthew 13, and we will see
exactly what God said, and let us believe what God said. Let us not try
to get a parable out of a parable, when the parable has already been
explained. It’s no longer a parable then! It’s the revelation of
truth or reality. 

18.	Now, what I just said there, you can see what kind of idiots we have
been for doing this. All right. Matthew 13:36; He explains the parable.
The sower went forth to sow. And, as he sowed, somebody crept up behind
him and sowed a bunch of tares. When it came time for the season to
manifest itself, which means the ground was producing now what was
poured into it; then, all of a sudden you’ve got two things there:
You’ve got wheat and tares. 

	They said, “Well, should we pull up all the tares?” 

	“No!” He said, “You’ll uproot some of the wheat. Just leave
them be. At the time of the harvest we’ll gather the wheat into the
granary, and we’ll bind the tares into bundles, and we’ll burn
them.” 

	“Whose fan is in His hand; he thoroughly purges His floor, gathers
wheat in the garner, and burns up the chaff, the tares, with fire
unquenchable.” [Mat 3:12] That’s Bible truth.

	[Matthew 13]

(36)	Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

(37)	He answered and said (to) them, He that soweth the good seed is the
Son of man;

(38)	The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked;

(39)	The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of
the world; the reapers are the angels (or the messengers).

(40)	As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so
shall it be (at) the end of this world.

(41)	The Son of man shall send forth his (messengers, his) angels, and
they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them
(that) do iniquity;

(42)	And shall cast them (in) a furnace of fire: (there’ll) be wailing
and gnashing of teeth.

(43)	Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

	In other words there’ll be no way concerning this coming Kingdom,
that there’ll be any wicked ones there for any further pollution of
the world, or what’s in the world, or of mankind. They’ll be gone.
That’s going to take care of that. So, that’s why you don’t have
to worry about an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth anymore. Just
leave it in God’s hands. 

19.	With that we’re going to go to 1 John 3, which you know we dearly
love, the same as we love John 8 and these other chapters. But these are
especially pertinent to us, because we see the truth, which so many
people don’t want. 1 John 3:7:

(7)	Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness
is righteous, even as he is righteous.

	Now It tells you that. It tells you that flat. Okay. Let’s jump down
to verse 12.

(12)	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And
wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
brother’s righteous. 

	You say, “Why do you jump down there?” Because that’s what he’s
talking about! He’s going back to the beginning. You can’t compare
Adam and the serpent—or the beast. There’s no way. One’s a beast;
one’s a man. So, the only two you can compare is Cain and Abel. And
they have separate fathers but one mother. Just like Mother Earth.
She’s got about five distinct colors: red, brown, yellow, black,
white—all on one earth. You don’t get black people out of Africa as
black earth; and red people out of America, the red Indians; or the
brown ones. No. See, there’s got to be a progenitor. All right.

20.	[1 John 3]

(7)	Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness
(like Abel) is righteous, 

(8)	He that committeth sin (like Cain) is of the devil; for the devil
sin(s) from the beginning. 

	What’s the first thing we know about the devil? Never mind what he
did up in heaven; forget it. It has nothing to do with you. What did he
do in Eden? The Bible said he was in Eden. He distorted the Word and
took the woman away from vindication to reasonings. Now, if you’re
going to let your mind go from vindication to reasoning, you’re
finished! That’s the battle of Armageddon going on right there. 

(8)	For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil.

	Not to destroy the people per se, although that stands, and it must
stand. But He’s going to bring to nothing what Satan did. Let me see
if I can find it for you. Oh my! I’m going to pull a blank on this;
it’s in the Book of Hebrews—Heb 2:14.

(14)	Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
likewise (also) took (a) part of the same; that through death he might
(bring to nothing) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

21.	See? All right, let’s keep reading now.

(9)	Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth
in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

(10)	In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that
loveth not his brother.

	Now he’s giving you a clue there! And the clue is this: the Word
takes precedence over every single emotion and over every single
outcome, because God had to have a Word that said “Let there be
light,” before there was light. So, the precedence is the Word. And
that precedence will set your tenor as to how you love somebody or not.
And you can’t hide. Let me tell you right now: You can’t hide.
We’re way down the road, brother/sister, where we don’t get fooled
anymore. There’s no way to get fooled. There’s no way at all.

(11)	This is the message you’ve heard from the beginning, (that) we
should love one another. 

	That’s a message of love. See? That you should love! What is he
talking about? He’s talking about people who absolutely have to
manifest something. You can’t help it. The minute you leave the womb,
you manifest by crying. You want to nurse. Next thing, you fill your
diapers. There’s no way you can’t manifest. It’s simply a process
of life. And life itself is activity. If there’s no motion, there’s
no life. It’s inert; it’s dead. Or it soon will be. 

	You say, “What if a thing’s entirely paralyzed?” 

	The heart would have to stop. So therefore, it’s not entirely
paralyzed. Just a portion of it. There’ll be a manifestation. All
right.

22.	He says now:

(11)	The message you heard from the beginning, that you should love one
another.

	But the basic is this: what are you born of? Is there a place in you
for the Word? Do you understand that Word? That’s what makes the
difference as to what you are. The other is an action. But, you see,
you’re born with the spirit that God allows. And you can go different
ways with that spirit. But that which is born of God, that seed, cannot
sin, because it will believe God! 

	That’s why the Jews rose up and said, “Don’t you tell us that
Cain is our father—the serpent’s our father. That is not so.”

	And he said, “If you had God as your Father, you’d go right to that
Word.” 

	And then, you couldn’t help but manifest; there would be a love there
for each other. 

	Now I’m hitting pretty hard here, but I’m sorry. That’s all I
know how to teach this Message. I’m not going to get sucked down the
merry old road of fruit, because Bro. Branham said, “It is not fruit!
It is not gifts!” Then, what is it? It’d better be something. I tell
you in plain English: If you are a seed of God, you have an affinity for
the Word, and It doesn’t shock you. It doesn’t scare you. It makes
you very, very happy. It intoxicates you.

23.	(12)	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, (See? And who’s
deeds) were evil.

	What was the evil deed? Presuming to worship God apart from a genuine
revelation! And going on his own word, which we will talk about here,
that produces a hybrid. See? 

(12)	Wherefore why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, his
brother’s righteous.

(13)	Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

(14)	We know we have passed from death unto life, because we love (those
who love and have the Word.)

	Oh, I’m so happy I’ve got lots of opponents, especially in the
ministry. If I was loved by all those out there… Like I said, if
everybody that talks about Presence, believes Presence, I’m going to
have to quit preaching It. But the longer I live, the more I see many
hardly have a clue to what we are talking about. Not trying to be
anybody. Just telling you the truth, as I see it. All right.

24.	 Bro. Branham said: [“Spoken Word Is the Original Seed,”
62-03-18]

[4]	Now what I’m trying to say to you is: The law of reproduction
brings forth of its kind. 

	He’s talking about two sources. He’s talking about offspring. There
is God, Who’s got offspring. So therefore, those children will be
genetically of God. What about the devil? They will be genetically, as
far as the devil can go, by the devil. Because, remember; the devil
doesn’t have one thing, except perverted Word. He never made up one
Word. He never had one ounce of power, except what God gave him. He is
nothing but the things of God perverted. And remember, there’s nothing
impure of itself, and all things are pure to the pure in heart. So
therefore, if we ever got the Word of God in our hearts, and fully
released, everything would take on purity. That’s right. That’s why
I say we must have the Word of God and the life within it released more
and more and more to get us where we’re going. All right.

25.	[4]	I’m trying to tell you, Bro. Branham said, I’m trying to
bring you to a place of understanding of species. Within the human race,
within the world. And he said, what I’m trying to say is this, from a
Genesis, there is a seed that accounts for every single thing that’s
manifested as a production. Without seed you can’t produce. 

[4]	These last days, true church Bride comes to the Headstone, Matthew
25, “Come out and meet Him.” Will be the super church, a super race.
A God-race. See? As they near the great Headstone… Now that’s not
the Headstone, or the Capstone spiritual. This is the Headstone
physical. See? And also, the closer you come to God by the Word and the
life of the Spirit, the more you get in divine church order. They will
be so much like Him, even they will be in His very image in order to be
united with Him. Certainly! Certainly. What kind of a Bride do you think
God’s going to have for the Son? They will be One. 

	Now, what’s he talking about? The Bible distinctly says, “He’s
not ashamed to call them brethren, because they are of one source.” To
begin with, then, they are of one source. Then, from that point on, the
church coming up as Bride, comes more and more into the image. What is
an image? An image is actually a pattern taken from an original. So
therefore, man will come more and more into what God originally had in
mind for him! And you know the last step is immortality! And, once
you’re immortal, you’re there. You’re becoming more and more like
Him through seven church ages of light. See? 

26.	[4]	They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living
God. 

	Now that’s what he says. Listen! In the last days there’s going to
be a super Bride church. She’s going to be approaching the great
Headstone, spiritually and physically. And, as she approaches in the
spiritual, she becoming more spiritually like Him, and she becomes more
physically like Him; because one of these days she’s going to have to
be immortal Light the same as He is. She’ll be in His very image in
order to make the Wedding Supper. She’s in the Word right now in order
to be in the “Invisible Union,” at this particular time. And this
church will be in His very image, to be united with Him, all the way
through. It is prophesied in the Word and now confirmed to us that this
is so. A Word Bride!

27.	[4]	They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living
God. 

	Now, that doesn’t mean she’s going to be doing something to prove
something that’s already been proven! What it is, she’s the
fulfillment of God’s Own omniscience, His Own plan, His blueprint. So,
she’ll be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God, spirit
living God—omniscient, omnipotent—Who had a plan. And the plan is
what? A group or a race of God children that will be around Him for
eternity. Now, listen.

[4]	Denominations can never produce this. Watch! They will produce their
creeds and dogmas mixed with the Word and bring a hybrid product. 

	So, what’s he telling you here? He’s telling you only the Bride has
the true unadulterated Word, and she alone is the unadulterated child of
Almighty God. The rest are bastards. 

28.	Now, let me find you something about illegitimate children over here
in Heb 12:3.

(3)	For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

(4)	Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

(5)	And have you forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
unto children, My son, despise thou (not) the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

(6)	For whom the Lord loveth he chasten(s), and scourgeth every son
(that) he receive(s).

	In other words He doesn’t let you get by with being slack or
nonchalant or disobedient. He hauls you up short! He says, “You
can’t do that.” You get under conviction. Now:

(7)	If you endure chastening, God deal(s) with you as with sons; for
what son is he whom the father (doesn’t chasten)? 

	That means ‘to train and put him through a rigorous course where he
brings himself under obedience to God’. 

(8)	But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then
are you bastards, and not sons. 

	It tells you right there. Now, how does anybody get corrected? By being
told what is right when they’re already wrong. So therefore,
correction is the Word. And, if you turn down the Word, which is the
only correction God has, through His vindicated prophets, then you’re
absolutely illegitimate—bastard children. Creeds and dogmas! You’ve
got to get rid of them. They produce a hybrid product. 

29.	[“Spoken Word Is the Original Seed”]

[119]	The first son, Adam that was, was spoken Seed-Word of God. Now
he’s speaking of the flesh. He was given a bride, a bride to produce
himself. She fell. Produced himself, but she fell. (See, that’s what a
bride is given for to produce himself again another son of God, but she
fell by hybridizing. See?) 

	All right. Let’s look at that picture. Eve was in Adam, so therefore
she was a part of Adam. She was a product of Adam; she was a part of
himself. So therefore, if a part of himself and himself come together in
a union, then Adam actually produces himself! Right? Certainly! Another
Adam. What did she do? She messed up. She produced a hybrid child—part
animal, because the seed was so close it could mingle. So therefore, as
Bro. Branham said, she fell and caused him to die. Why? Because, then,
he took her. He did a wrong thing.

30.	[6]	A second Son, a spoken Seed-Word of God, and he’s talking
about Jesus, was given a bride like Adam, but before He could marry
her—and He hasn’t done it yet, see—she has fallen also; for she
was put to a free moral agency like Adam’s wife was: to believe
God’s Word and live, or doubt It and die; and so what she didn’t
believe it, she died. 

	Now we find that over here in 2 Corinthians 11. I’ve read It many,
many times. You know just where I’m going. And he says here:

(2)	(I’m) jealous over you with godly jealousy: I have espoused you to
one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

(3)	But I fear, lest (any man) by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtility, so your minds be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Christ. (So, she fell.)

[120,1]	Then from a little group with the true Seed of the Word, now the
little group with the true seed, coming right on down through all this
great big mess, God will present Christ a beloved Bride, a virgin, a
virgin of His Word. Because, remember; Christ is the virgin mind of
Almighty God; right there we see Him. And through them and by them will
be fulfilled all that’s been promised for His Word in the Virgin.
What’s the Word in the Virgin? The image of God, the likeness, and
immortality. See? The Word in the Virgin, who knows no manmade creeds or
dogmas. Now, that’s where your battle of Armageddon is—the big thing
that’s rough. The Word of promise in Himself like it was in Mary, God
Himself made manifest… 

	Now he’s telling you something here, how this actually works. Paul
said, “We have this ministry.” Now Bro. Branham here is reiterating
what Paul said: There’s a ministry that brings about the image of
Christ, when you find yourself in that Word, and you find yourself being
transfigured. 

31.	Now, watch. 

[1]	The Word of promise in Himself like it was in Mary. He’s using
Mary as an example. God Himself made manifest… 

	Now, how did God make Himself manifest through Mary? He brought a
virgin born body to birth and inhabited that body. Jesus was not
schizophrenic, but He actually was two people. You can say what you
want, but Bro. Branham said that God left him in the garden of
Gethsemane. And Jesus said, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken
me?” when previously he said God was in him. [End of side one of the
audio tape.] 

[1]	God made Himself manifest… He will act Himself by His own Word of
promise so to fulfill all that has been written of Him. As He did when
He came from the virgin womb (type of the spirit now), so will the
Virgin now, accepting His Word: “Be it unto me as Thou has said,”
though it was said by an Angel, or a messenger, while it yet was written
Word. 

32.	Now, let’s look at that in Isaiah, because Bro. Branham quotes It:
Isa 9:6. And I think I know what he has in mind here, and I think I know
why he didn’t quote this. Let people get it themselves. 

(6)	For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: (unto
us—Israel; unto us—Israel) the government shall be upon his
shoulder: (and so on.)

	Now, who did it? One single woman did it, and all the nation got it.
And you’re looking right here at Bro. Branham. That’s one single
prophet to whom the Word of the Lord came, vindicated and revealed, now
does it all so that we, as a Bride, can have it. Just the same as Mary
had to bring the Christ so the Bride could have Him. 

33.	[1]	And Mary said, “Be it unto me as Thou has said,” though even
though it was said by an Angel, God Himself did not come down and say
it, He sent an angel. And an angel is a messenger. 

	Now, listen. He’s telling you something. He’s letting you know
this: it was something written in the Word, where God sent an angel! But
you’ll notice at this time, God Himself came down for His Own Word
already written. This is that Word of prophecy made more sure that Peter
speaks of, because here Bro. Branham, in talking of Mary, is talking
about the inception—the beginning. We’re now looking at the end. 

34.	Now It says:

[1]	They will love Him, and will have His potentials, for He is their
Head. 

	Now, how many people have headship of Christ, as Bro. Branham is
talking? Nobody! It’s a composite! The only one is the man standing
there. There’s man in Headship! [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of
the Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham.] There again is a picture of
headship, that coming down. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the
Cloud.] See? The prophet was the eye, and the last moving part of the
body is the eye. Above it is the mind, which deals with the spirit. See?


35.	Now:

[1]	They have His potentials, for He is their Head, and they are His
subjects, subject to His Head. Headship was Christ.

	That’s your 1 Corinthians 15 based on 1 Th 4:16, “The Lord Himself
descend with a keleusma,” with an order to the church, bringing the
church into divine subjection. What will He bring it subject to?
Himself! But what is He? He is the Word! What is He? He is the Life!
What is He? He is the Light! What is He? He is the Salvation! God
putting everything under the feet of Jesus. Why? Because you’re
looking at now the soon union of, not spiritual-only Headship, but
physical Headship! So the Bride, now in the spiritual image, is getting
ready for the physical image. And, notice in there, they will love Him.
Certainly. Why? Because they’ll have His potential, (And Bro. Branham
demonstrated.) because He is their Head. 

36.	In other words whatsoever the mind of God could conceive, the power
of God could bring forth. So now, whatever was in the mind of Jesus the
Christ has been demonstrated there and demonstrated there [Points to
both pictures on the wall.] by mighty vindication to show that He will
now bring into manifestation the full potential that was vested in Him!
And the full potential is New Jerusalem with the Lamb on the throne and
the millions of Bride, or hundreds of thousands Bride, and the millions
outside, and the Pillar of Fire above the throne. The full potential.
That’s why time and eternity have blended, and there aren’t any
mysteries left! So, why are we banging our heads against the wall for
this mystery, that mystery, this thing, that thing? Listen, we’re
losing out, my brother/sister. We’re worried about the thunders having
thundered and the Seventh Seal not opened, this and that, when Bro.
Branham categorically said, “You’ve got everything you need to put
you in a Rapture.” And you can’t rapture until you see Him (We’ve
already seen Him.) and you get changed.

37.	[2]	Notice, what harmony. Jesus never did anything until seen of the
Father or the Father showed Him first. So will the Bride, and He shows
her His Word of Life, (He shows her.) and she receives It; never doubts
It. 

	Now he tells you right there. What is he talking about? Jn 14:10. And
we soon get it. So, we’ll certainly know.

(10)	Believest thou not I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the
words I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells
in me, he doeth the works.

(11)	Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else
believe me for the very works’ sake.

	And He said down the road it’s going to happen again, but greater. He
said, “Based upon the works, the Bride will know this is the Word, and
she receives the Word.” Now He’s manifested and demonstrated the
potentials! Once that’s done, there’s a Word! Now the Word comes
forth. Now there’s nothing left except for God to completely energize
the Word in the Bride. 

38.	Listen, this is what he said:

[2]	So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. See, there’s
a harmony between Christ and God and the Bride. An absolute harmony.
See? Now, so will the Bride, He shows her the Word of Life, she receives
It. Never doubts it. What do you think of that? Are we qualified to be
that kind of Bride? 

[3]	Nothing can harm Her, not even death; for if the seed be planted,
the water will raise it up again. Amen. (I got a big “Hallelujah.”)
Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to
know what He wants done with the Word, and she does it in His Name. She
has “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” 

	The Bride does not have “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” The prophet has
“THUS SAITH THE LORD;” and therefore, the Bride has “THUS SAITH
THE LORD” in that relationship. And, when you see that, that’s all
you need. Who needs a bunch of “THUS SAITH THE LORDs?” You’ve
already had it! Who needs vindication? It’s already had it! You just
use what’s vindicated, which is the Word.

39.	[4]	Then it’s germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is
grown and serves its purpose. They do only His will. (Amen. I’ll
believe that.) No one can persuade them different. 

	What’s he talking about? Eve was persuaded different. 

	They have “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” or they keep still. See? Then,
they will do the works of God. For it is Himself in them, continuing His
Word to fulfill as He did complete in His days. 

	 In other words He didn’t complete it. He didn’t complete
everything the first time He was here. He’s going to do it now. And
Bro. Branham said, “If the hand does it the body does it.” Most
people want to take this and run with it. Bro. Branham warns against it.
They want to run and be some great person. 

	Listen. You know that’s just as stupid as proving the Pythagorean
Theorem. So, what you do, you take your right angle triangle, and you
say, “Now this is eight inches, and this is six.” So then, what you
do, you take a square out here, and you make thirty-six here, and
sixty-four there. Then, you make the squares on this here, and you add
them, and you find… 

	“Hey, look what I found out: The sum of the two squares, the square
root of the sum; that’s the hypotenuse. Isn’t that wonderful.”

	Oh, stop it. That was found two thousand years ago—three thousand for
all I know; just use it. Don’t tell me, brother/sister, how to build
an electric light switch. Just give me the switch, and I’ll punch it.
I wouldn’t know the first thing about making an electric switch to do
anything, and you’re not much brighter. 	

	So, what would you want some kind of special little vindication, some
little thing for you? What do you want it for? Do we want to be
somebody? Proves right now we would be in the wrong class. I don’t
need any vindication. All I need is to rise and shine, which, in other
words, is to bear witness of the Light. 

	Now, back to “Shalom.” All right.

40.	Let me read it to you now, on page 21, starting at 117.
[“Shalom.”]

[117]	The great Light that hung in the wilderness when Moses forsook
Egypt, esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater treasures than of
Egypt.

[118] 	The same One that met Saul… And Saul recognized Who It was.
Paragraph 120.

[120]	The same Light has come. To what? The same Light, Bro. Branham
said, has come to the Bride, which means has come to William Branham,
and there it is right there. To what? To manifest, to make known to the
people the promises that He’s made for this day, manifested Light of
the day. The darkness is darkened.

	Just as soon as God came on the scene through a prophet and began doing
the wonderful works, instantly, they had a wrong idea of what it was all
about. It became dark right away. Oh, you can do that and do it better!
Where’s Oral Roberts today? Tommy Hicks is dead. Where’s Clifton
Erickson? Where is Tommy Osborne? Where’s W.B. Grant? Where are they
all? We have too many Swaggerts and too many Bakkers. We have Bakkers by
a baker’s dozen, and Swaggerts right in there with them. But, you
know, they came out of the oven half-baked, like a loaf half-done,
half-baked. They wouldn’t stay and listen. Oh, they had it. 

	“We got it. Look at us. Why, Bro. Branham is peanuts alongside of
me.” 

	Is that a fact? Tell me when Jesus had anything? A couple of nice women
made Him a nice garment. A few nice ladies helped him get a
living—gave him a little food, a little bread, and a little bit here
and there. The fox there had holes; the birds there had nests. The very
One, infinite One, came right down and had nothing. And he died and they
stripped him of his clothes and he hung there naked. So, the pope of
Rome is the big shot, if you want to know who is. Jimmy Swaggert and
these guys aren’t even peanuts. The place he lives in, or worships in,
and makes himself God, I understand is two billion billions. So, don’t
talk about material things, brother/sister. It just shows you’re
gross. Manifest the Light of day. Manifest Who is the Light. The little
lights manifest who are the dark ones.

41.	[121]	When He came, he was the Light of the day. There was supposed
to come a Messiah. And He came just exactly like God said He would come.
And when He did, what was He? The Light of the day. And It pressed the
darkness so against Him! Is that right? He had to give His Life that the
Light continue, could shine. He was the Light of the day. But why, why
was He the Light of the day? He was the vindicated Word that had been
spoken, made manifest. Well, everybody should know that. See? Rhema and
Logos—same thing. 

[122]	God said over this dark, gloomy, dismal, mossy world and stood
there here without light, He said, “Let there be light.” And it
wasn’t light until that Word was manifested, then it was light.
[“That which makes manifest is light.”]

	Rhema became Logos; they’re one and the same. 

	“You mean to tell me without Rhema there would be any Logos?” 

	No, don’t anybody tell you. The thing conceived must have a part of
the conceiver in it. You just can’t do otherwise. The more you see
this Message, the more you’ll associate yourself with God and the
universe with Him. We have tried to make it abstract, a distant God.
Paul the apostle said it true: “In Him we live and move and have our
being. We are the offspring of God.”

42.	[123]	He said, “There’ll come a Savior, a Messiah.” It
wasn’t manifested until He came to manifest that promise. In other
words, until that came into evidence, manifested physically, it was just
a Word of promise. But now it’s vindicated, manifested. And, when He
vindicated that promise, He said, “Search the Scripture, for in Them
you think you have Eternal Life; and They are They that testify of
me.” And Bro. Branham has to say the same thing. That and that [Points
to both pictures.] and everything he says has got to be in the
Scripture. Now people won’t believe that, but that’s their business,
not ours—yours or mine. 

[124]	They said, “We know not whence Thou comest. We are Moses’
disciples.”

[125]	He said, “If you were Moses’ disciples you would know me,”
that’s true. “For Moses wrote of me.” A true Lutheran would
understand William Branham. See? A true Wesleyan and a true Pentecostal.


[126]	And today, or this day, that we’re living in now, God has come
on the scene to vindicate and prove His promises. So, it’s the Light
[Points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.] of the hour, so we can
rise and shine. In other words the light William Branham, pointing to
the great Light, sets us in harmony so that we now know that we’re
part of the Light. See? And we can testify to it. Testify to
vindication, because the morning star rising is Christ amongst us,
vindicated. It’s what you see right there, “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”
Oh, the world doesn’t want that. The Light shines upon us again today.
What’s he talking about? Matthew. The light that rose in the east is
now come to the west. The Word is being made manifest. So, in other
words, if God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light; then
He said, “Let there be a prophet Malachi… of Elijah come,” and
there he is; that is light. See? It’s the Light. And He’s rising
with healing in His wings—immortality. 

[127]	Just like that light’s shining out there, the sunshine, this
morning. That’s God’s spoken Word, there’s nothing else can give
light like that. God said, “Let there be light,” created the sun to
rule the day. The moon to rule the night and the stars. Very good. God
spoke It; that’s what happened. See? Now he’s likening to It.
That’s God’s spoken Word, there’s nothing else can give light like
that. And there’s nothing else that can give light like a vindicated
Word. See? There’s nothing can do it. Any artificial light burns out
in a little bit, that’s your creeds and dogmas, the bulbs and
everything else. But that Light never fails, for it’s the spoken Word
of God made manifest. 

	In other words, when you know that you’ve got “THUS SAITH THE
LORD,” and you’ve got a real vindication, you don’t have one worry
from that time on. You’ve seen the Light. You’ve seen the glory of
God. You’ve seen God. Your questions are settled. 

	You say, “Well, the point is, there’s a lot of things I don’t
understand.” 

	What’s that got to do with it? Nobody told you to testify to that.
Nobody told you to rise and testify to the fact that God has come on the
scene and vindicated Himself once more. As Bro. Branham said, “My
ministry is to declare that He is here.” And you can tell that over
the country they haven’t got an idea. They absolutely don’t have an
idea what’s going on. See?

43.	[128]	Now, little denominational creeds will burst a bulb, and blow
a bulb, knock a fuse, and everything else. But the Word of God shall
never fail! It’ll be Itself, always, the Word. 

	In other words It stands right there vindicated. And, don’t you think
for one minute It’s going to change either Itself, or Its meaning, or
its course. Uh-uh. Though a butterfly bring It, that Word of God is a
bulldozer. He’s everything up in front of It. It’s so
powerful—atomic; It will dissolve the very earth. 

[130]	Rise, and shine, for the Light has come. The Word, Light, is
vindicated. 

	We read that already in Ephesians 5. Let’s go back, beginning at
verse 6. 

(6)	Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things
cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

	Why is God going to bring on the Great Tribulation? Because a bunch of
churches perverted It! A bunch of church members! Read It for yourself!
Vain words, false hope, traditions, ideas apart from Truth. 

(7)	Be ye (not) partakers with them. 

(8)	For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light: (In other words, walk out!)

(9)	(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness
and truth;)

	Now this is the thing that Bro. Branham finally had to resolve that it
wasn’t the fruit as in Galatians! This is another fruit. 

44.	Okay, let’s look at It. Galatians 5: that’s going back. 

(22)	But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,

(23)	Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

	[Ephesians 5:9]

(9)	(But) the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and righteousness and
truth;

	And Cain was unrighteous! So, you’ve got a revealed Word laid down
that you don’t dare worship apart from! And these Pentecostal churches
pass around a loaf of bread and break a piece off. They can’t even do
the Lord’s Supper right. 

(10)	Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

(11)	And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
reprove them.

	It’s not a matter of saying, “Hey fellow, let me tell you: you
shouldn’t smoke cigars, you shouldn’t commit adultery, you
shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that; you ought to do something,
this, this, this!” 

	You say, “Brother, do you know the truth of the revealed Word of
God?” 

	That’s where this church has got to stand. I don’t care what other
fruit we manifest or don’t manifest, because you can manifest
everything else and not have Truth. And, don’t you try to hybridize
It. I’ve warned you time after time. I’ve told some of you
personally: “Don’t fool with certain things!” 

45.	What’s the unfruitful works of darkness? What does it mean
unfruitful? They’ve got fruit, but it’s unfruitful to God! It’s
cursed! God said to Cain, “The fruit of your hands is cursed!” The
earth is cursed. And the more people get into ‘churchianity’, as
Bro. Branham taught us, the more curse upon this earth! More Alaskan oil
spills; more radiation pollution. You’ll be eating food that’s
radiated very soon. 

	I’m absolutely, almost absolutely, certain that what I’m getting
right now is papayas out of Hawaii that are radiated. That’s why
they’re no good. They look yellow, but they’re tough as a brick. And
the government’s just looking out… You know the government will grab
you. They’re even going to try to take ginger away from you—from the
health foods—because people say ginger makes your stomach warm. Only
the doctors are supposed to prescribe… And ginger’s not a drug. But
you watch: they’re trying to do everything they can to bring on more
and more and more pollution to more and more destroy! 

	Let’s understand this: This is a time to rejoice, because we’re
getting out of here! The righteous shall not die with the wicked;
God’s curse is upon the church. And the church is causing this! See?
But this is the reason that Russia is playing nice right now. But
they’ve got a bomb for the church; don’t worry. 

46.	Now: unfruitful works.

(12)	(It’s) a shame even to speak of those things which are done of
them in secret. 

	You just don’t know how far they’re going to go, until it becomes a
lustful, rotten thing—a naked woman dancing in a Lutheran church unto
God. Yeah. All around it. Why didn’t the Lutherans come out and blast
her plumb into eternity? Look at the Pentecostals. We could tell you
plenty about them, too. 

(13)	But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
(You want to know what God says about this and what the truth is? God
will vindicate it.) what(ever) doth make manifest is light. (It’s been
manifested right there.) [Points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.]

(14)	Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from
(amongst) the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

	He said, “Stir yourselves; there’s a way to get away from the wrath
of God, just before the blast of the Great Tribulation comes.” 

	“Come out from among them; be ye separate,” saith the Lord God. 

(15)	See then you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 

(16)	Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

(17)	Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the
Lord is.

(18)	And be not drunk with wine, (instead) be filled with the Spirit;

(19)	Singing (Listen, how does he do it? Singing) in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, 

	In other words the Bible made melody is the conduit of the Holy Ghost.
In other words, as you get a good attitude toward the Word of God and
enjoy It and love It, the more and more the Holy Ghost flows into your
being, causing you to walk right and straight.

(20)	Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father in the name
of (the) Lord Jesus Christ.

47.	Notice. He says in paragraph 131.

[131]	The only way, as God was… In other words God can’t change. So,
what He ever did He’ll do again. Jesus Christ was the manifestation of
God’s spoken Word. He said, “Let there be light;” light came.
“Let there be a Savior;” He came. The Bible then teaches how He
came. And Bro. Branham gives us a thorough description.

[132]	John the Baptist was the Light of the hour. He was the Light
before Jesus was Light. That’s that little light, see? The prophets in
Isaiah said, “A voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way
of the Lord, make straight His path.” That was the spoken Word of God,
It was lying there, hadn’t come to life yet. Malachi, the last
prophet, four hundred years before it taken place, he said, “Behold, I
send My messenger before me, to prepare the way of the Lord.” Here
came one out of the wilderness, without denomination, without creed,
without identification. But his Light identified him. He said, the Word
identified him.

48.	Let’s go back to Jn 5:33-39. And It says:

You sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. (There you are.
That’s the Light! That’s what we do. Who’s the truth? Jesus.)

But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you
might be saved. (Notice.)

He was a burning and (a) shining light: you were willing for a season to
rejoice in his light. (But they didn’t like when he said, “There’s
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” But He said,)

I have (a) greater witness than that of John: for the works which the
Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness
of me, that the Father hath sent me. (Now, listen. God gave Him certain
works to finish. But that didn’t mean everything was finished—just
at that hour.)

The Father himself, hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. You have
neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him you
believe not. 

	Now Bro. Branham was sent from God to us. To turn him down shows
exactly what that person is. There is no place for Word in him. There is
no Word in him. Creeds and dogmas, yes; but no Word of God.

(38)	(For) ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
you believe not.

Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and
they are they which testify of me.

	The thing is, how much time did people put on Bro. Branham and his
ministry and go to the Word? The minute he said something, they denied
it. They blasphemed the Word. They blasphemed God. It was finished.

[132]	They said, “Are you the Messiah?”

[133]	He said, “I’m not!” That’s John the Baptist. “But I’m
the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the
Lord!’” Prepare for the Messiah.

[134]	Jesus said, “You did walk in his Light.” He was a bright and a
burning Light, shining Light for a while. Why? Until the way was
prepared, then his Light went out. 

	All he could do was prepare a way. That’s all William Branham could
do: prepare a way for the Word; then, by the grace of God bring the
Word. And he said from that point on, “I must decrease, and He must
increase.” And that’s exactly what happened. See? Now, his Light
went out. Why? Because the law was given until John, but grace and truth
came by Jesus Christ. And, remember; you cannot have grace without
truth, because grace without truth is disgrace. It’s presumption.

49.	[135]	You can’t walk in that light, you Baptists…

	Because they say they come from John the Baptist. Dr. Carrell did. You
talk about a ridiculous book. He said, “We’re not even Protestants.
We go back to John the Baptist.” 

	He’s irrational. He’d have to trace his ancestry back to John, and
John was celibate! He never got married! Oh my! That’s the pope;
he’d have to trace himself back to Peter. Well, Peter was married.
Find out who his kids were. That would be a joke on you. There’s not a
record of having any kids. He had a wife but no children, as far as we
know. 

[135]	You can’t walk in that light. This is the Light of the hour! The
Light has come. Rise, and shine. The Word, Light. Word, the manifested
Word of God (identified) is Light.

	In other words that which manifests is Light. All right? The thing is,
if that which manifests is Light, it is the Light. What are you going to
shine that Light on that you’re supposed to be looking for? The Word.
Search the Scripture. The prophet brought It. 

50.	[136]	Now, what about the new year we’re facing? We could have
more to say on this in-between, from the darkness to the Light,
introducing the Light coming between, but now we want to get right
straight to the new year. 

	And that’s a good place to stop right there, because now he goes from
Light to the New Year. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed at this time.

	Most gracious kind heavenly Father, we thank You again for Your love
and mercy and grace, which you bestowed at this hour. We’re a very,
very privileged people, to know that we’ve stood in the presence of
Almighty God and His prophet and seen that which was manifested before
us, proving, Lord, there is something here in this hour for this people.
And, Lord, we don’t claim for one minute to have gotten even anywhere
near it, but we’re standing here knowing that there is something here,
and it’s shining on us, and we’re reflecting back in a measure to
know and believe in our hearts that we’re some part of it. Whether
we’re the complete part of it as we want to be, or just friends of the
Bride and the Bridegroom, then that’s something that You alone know,
because we know “the foundation of God standeth sure, having this
seal, the Lord knoweth them which are His.” But we also know this,
that “The sheep know the Voice,” and that gives us great consolation
and encouragement at this time to believe we are following the Voice
that has been heard, the Voice that came from heaven, down here upon
earth speaking one last time. The consuming fire Himself is here. And He
Who is here has positively made the difference. 

	And, Father God in heaven, we believe our lot lies in pleasant places,
because we believe we stand with Abraham of old, recognizing the day,
the hour, and that which is pertinent to it. We stand here recognizing,
knowing that Sodom must soon burn. Certainly it will; but we stand here
in righteousness by Your grace and only grace, and that because of
kinship—not fellowship, but kinship. But thank God there is
fellowship. Through Thee, O Lord, we will make it on that great day,
sons of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ.

	Hasten that great day, Lord, no matter what comes upon earth. May we be
glad to see all these things take place, because we know absolutely they
must take place; and, as they come to pass, we know that as darkness
deepens, the light is all the more intense. They talk about the black
holes out there, massive things for all we know. They’re of tremendous
weight, so that no man can figure it. But, Lord, it’s not like the
laser. Light agitated in the gem, the great Ruby, that Light pouring
through the stone, the precious Headstone Christ, burns a hole through
anything. That Light is come, concentrated in a Bride. 

	Thank You for Your Light, Lord, searing and burning out all the things
of the world, sanctifying us holy unto Yourself. And again, we say with
the prophet: “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there
somewhere,” getting every single thing that we’re talking about,
Lord, as we believe revealed by the prophet. And we won’t want to
stand in her way. But, Father, somehow we still hope and believe,
because we know this much: we haven’t known this in vain, but You’re
here to take us all the way through. 

	Grant Your great peace and Your exaltation of Christ in our midst as
never before. May we shout with an inward shout, Lord; and, if it
pleases You, may we have an outward shout, too. Let the rafters ring, O
God. It doesn’t matter to us. Let the building even be shattered, as
it were, with the praises—tumultuous praises from within our hearts
and from our mouths, if it gives You glory. But, let it not be a shout,
except it be to give Thee glory. 

	Help us in all these ways, Lord. Direct our paths, father God, but
direct above all else our minds that we may have the fruitful works of
righteousness. This is what we pray. This is what we desire. We thank
You for it. Heal the sick amongst us. Thank You for healing those, Lord,
prayed for on Sunday. We know some have been healed already, and we know
more will be healed. We thank You for it. And we just pray, Lord, that
there will be a concentration now of Your saints and Light as never
before. Help us all to this end. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. 

	“Take the Name of Jesus With You.”