Shalom #20

Look UP!

May 21, 1989

	Heavenly Father, we count it a great privilege, as it already had been
stated in Your Presence by prayer. It’s a great privilege to be here
and fellowship with You and fellowship with each other, and we pray it
shall be around the Word. Break Your Word to us, Father, we pray, in
such a way that we will leave here a changed people and that it might be
an occasion of great joy and remembrance, and each of us growing in
grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In Jesus’
Name we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

	[Bro. Vayle invites Bro. Peter Wong to the pulpit to address the
congregation.]

1.	Now we’re on number twenty of “Shalom.” And we especially noted
last Sunday morning, that Bro. Branham referred to ‘shalom’, God’s
peace, as contingent with, and a part of, the Seventh Seal, according to
Rev 10:1-7, which he actually identified as that ring of angels that
came down and is seen in that picture, [Bro. Vayle points to the picture
of the Cloud—the Judge.] which is thoroughly spoken of in 2 Th 1:7-10.
And you’re all familiar with those scriptures. And remember, those
scriptures could have a dual application. 

	Now, specifically referring to the cloud of angels that appeared in
1963, he said, “Don’t be weary.” He was talking about that
Appearing, which is a part of the Seventh Seal—actually about
two-thirds of it. He said, “Don’t be weary,” or, “Don’t give
way to worry,” which is based on doubts, which in turn is based on our
inability to cope with the times and know for sure we can overcome as
has been indicated by vindication. He is saying to us, “Be confident,
have faith. Jesus is here. Relax and be at peace.” 

2.	Now we’re going to go back to page 25 to read, in order to come to
page 26, the first paragraph. So, Bro. Branham said, as I just quoted:

[159]	Shalom! Peace! Don’t be weary; don’t worry. Jesus is here. His
great Light has come to us, and we’re thankful for It, yes, His Word,
the great mystery. 

	So, what you’re looking at is Revelation 10, the great mystery, the
presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost in a
Pillar of Fire, and His prophet; and the main thrust is upon the Word,
which is the conduit of the Holy Ghost. No Word, no Holy Ghost. Now you
can understand that by the fact that “the Holy Spirit moved upon the
face of the deep and God said.” So therefore, the Holy Ghost is
inactive and inoperative, cannot communicate, cannot perform, is of no
impact, unless It is written or spoken. Because we were in Him, then we
were written; and then, we became spoken. All right.

3.	[159]	Here He is today manifesting Himself, doing the same as He did
then… When? When He was here in His flesh. Just the same. That’s Heb
13:8, which brings together the entire gospels to Matthew 4 and Matthew
12, where He comes back as the Holy Spirit to do the very same works;
the never changing God. Doing the same thing. As the morning star
rising.

[160]  We are creatures of time. He’s God of eternity. 

	Now, that statement is not just descriptive, but it is a key to the
prophet’s message in that time and eternity have such a disparity of
likeness, (They are so different.) that it is almost like handing a book
to a horse and saying, “How about reading this? It will do you
good.” In other words a veterinarian writes it and gives it to the
horse! I don’t care if God did write this Book, simply giving it to
us. It’s just about the same as a veterinarian writing and giving it
to a horse. In fact it’s worse, because the horse doesn’t get
condemned because he can’t read. But there’s enough in this Book
that is plain and simple to make anybody begin to realize: “Look, what
is behind it?” What is behind it?

	So, Bro. Branham is letting us know here that there is such a
difference between time and eternity, mortality and immortality; you
know, mortality now and immortality later.

 4.	So, he says:

[160] 	We try to press ourselves, we try to make something different,
“Oh, this has got to be done.” Remember, He knows all about it.
It’s going to happen, anyhow. Let Him do it. Just commit yourself to
Him.

	Now, at the time, that little juncture, where eternity and time blend
together--or we are about to step from time into eternity, which is
mortality to immortality--there is something that we must not attempt to
do, to figure, to try, and to work it out. This is something sovereign,
as I’ve said year after year. I don’t know whether I said it before
Bro. Branham deceased, but certainly for about twenty-three solid years,
if not the full twenty-four just coming up. I have said—either Bro.
Branham said it on his tapes, private conversation, which I doubt, or I
got it just by listening—that, if God doesn’t do it, it’s not
going to be done. And the more you try to do it, the further you’re
going to miss it. 

5.	So, here is something that you’ve got to come to grips with, and in
coming to grips with it, it will give us pure reconciliation to God and
perfect relaxation and perfect peace. It will pass from a partial
understanding of faith to a full assurance of faith, so that it is no
longer faith; it is knowledge. It is no longer hope; it is knowledge.
For what a man has already got, why would he hope for it; because he’s
got it. The only trouble with this is the people have failed, as they
always fail, to recognize what God is doing. Do you think Eve recognized
what God was doing? The answer is no! She didn’t recognize. Now Adam
did. Now, let’s not try to downgrade women because of these
statements. We are talking about types. And in the type, the woman
absolutely designates humanity, which is brought back to God; and the
man, headship of God, which brings salvation. There is a typing here.
Adam deliberately sold out. He left his estate for his wife, the same as
Jesus Christ did. Adam should not have done it. He wasn’t in a
position to do it. 

6.	So, we’re looking at mankind and even sons and daughters of God,
typed in Eve, who do not necessarily have an understanding, even though
it’s there in front of them. You’re looking at something pretty
subtle here. You’re looking at the fact: if you want this perfect
peace, you’ve got to know how God does things. And, when you
understand God does it by vindicating His Presence through a prophet,
the prophet being vindicated, and therefore the Word that he brings is
vindicated. And that Word being vindicated, has to be explained to you!
So, now you are at the full mercy of God! And God is rich in mercy! by
grace! So, Bro. Branham is saying, “ Look, if there’s one thing,
don’t try to figure it out.” That’s one thing he taught very, very
strong to the church members. Don’t try to put yourself in a position
of a five-fold minister! 

7.	Now, listen. He said that he knows all about what? What he’s
talking about! The Light! The hour! The juncture of time! Eternity
taking over time! Time blending into eternity! Mortality, in spite of
ourselves and our condition with the human body turned to junk, because
there’s nothing left in the ground. And the human mind is delirious
and full of folly, ignorance and insanity. That’s the time and the
hour in which we live. I think, if we have any indication by
vindication, that God is going to do something for us, we ought to be
the happiest people in all the world! See? Certainly. Now, don’t say
this has got to be done, that’s got to be done, because that’s
wrong! God comes on the scene and does it, just like in the days of John
the Baptist. 

	Now he said, “He knows all about it. It’s going to happen anyhow;
let Him do it. Just commit yourself to Him.” Now, that was an
outstanding warning in 1964. The same warning held good in 1965. It held
good in 1985. And, as the Lord tarries, it’s going to hold good in
1990! And, if time goes on, It still is the same Word of Truth, because
It doesn’t change.

8.	Now, let’s start reading then, over here, and I’m going to read
two paragraphs. And these two paragraphs are literally an end-time
description of the time of Abraham in Romans 4.

[161]	Look up, and shine with joy of the Lord, to know that you’ve
been privileged, the privilege being your eyes have come open, and
you’ve seen this day. Not seeing this day with your eyes unopened!
What privilege is that? That’s no privilege. The privilege is that
your eyes are open. Trust in Him for the future. See, the years, no
matter how many years. You’ve seen Him vindicate His Word in days
past. He that vindicated His Word in days past and made all those other
things happen just exactly to the hour that we’re living in,
everything exactly, to the seventh angel’s message, that’s his own
message, both shown in heaven, and on earth, and made It known three
ways so there can be no slip up; remember, He’s promised He’d come
again. Hallelujah. The Word will be vindicated, or that Word. Now, how
is a Word vindicated? By coming to pass. If everything else is being
vindicated, then the statement of His literal, physical Appearing is on
the scene. God’s promised Word, with two thousand years of waiting,
He’ll arrive on time! 

	Now He was four thousand years waiting from the Garden of Eden, until
He came in human flesh, born as a babe from the virgin womb. Now He’s
going to come back and pick us up. We’ll meet Him in the air,
immortal. He’ll arrive on time. 

9.	Now people say, “Well, I’m going to pray; and bless God, that’s
going to do it.” 

	Well, bless God, it’s not going to do it! See, that’s what
everybody’s got: an idea that you can do something about it! When you
can’t even pray to add one cubit to your stature, add one more hair to
your head, or anything else, how are you trying to regulate world
events? Now most of us can’t even get up in the morning without our
faces falling in our coffee cup! But suddenly we’re giants at prayer! 

	Just like that poor old fellow, Moore, that’s dead, “O God, send a
prophet. O God, God, send a prophet, Jesus send a prophet!” 

	And the prophet came right in, said, “Here I am,” sat down and had
dinner, shook the man’s hand, prayed and went off. 

	“O God, send a prophet!” 

	Israel said, “O God, send a prophet!” So, John the Baptist came. 

	“O God, send Messiah!” 

	So, He came. Lopped off the head of John, crucified Jesus, and said,
“O God, send a prophet! O God, send Messiah!” 

	You think people have changed? Bro. Branham said, “The man went out
on the street, picked up the newspaper, came and parked on the divan,
and his wife says, ‘What’s new John’?

	He said, ‘Nothing new. The same old thing; just different people
doing it’.” 

	And he said, “My New Year message to you is not the same old people
doing the same old thing or new people doing the same old thing.” He
said, “This is a new Bride, where God started to form a new Bride in
1955, and they’re doing something different.” I like that. That’s
what you call a real New Year, not flipping some page of a calendar. 

10.	[161]	He’ll arrive on time! Don’t worry. He’ll be here. 

	Well, just a minute, he already said He was here! What’s he talking
about? The Lord shall descend from heaven with a Shout—come right down
here on earth—and we will meet the Lord in the air. The One that came
down is right here. The One that came down is right here with His
picture taken. The church can do what it wants. But I believe the Bible,
and I believe vindication. But I’m going to tell you: the man Jesus is
still up there, and He’s on the Father’s throne. The One in Rev 5:1
abdicated, leaving it in the hands of a man, the man Christ Jesus,
ordained of God, who went about anointed of the Spirit, doing good,
miracles and everything else. That same one, a man, not
comatosed—living, breathing, interceding—is on the throne right now!
Where do these people get their ideas from? I don’t know. Who’s
amongst us? The same One that came down. 

11.	[161]	He will be here. Now, listen. As He has vindicated His Word in
every age, the church Ages show the same thing, and the revealing of our
Lord by the seventh Message, and so on. God revealed it, manifested it,
proved it. And in amongst us today… 

	In other words He’s amongst us today. But He’s still going to come.
What’s the mystery? When that Spirit that’s in our midst becomes
incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him King of kings, and Lord of lords,
that will be the Son of man, the Son of David, the Son of God, the
everlasting Father, the altogether Lovely, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily
of the Valley, and maybe two hundred and eighty more titles and names;
but one God. When will that happen? When we meet Him in the air; He
becomes incarnate to us. The body will come down, to meet the One that
was here in the body that came to Paul in a Pillar of Fire and said,
“I’m Jehovah-Savior. I’m Jesus.” 

12.	[161]	He showed Himself, that’s the Logos, here with us, and
proved and vindicated His Word, the Rhema. So will He!

	In other words, once it started, it will never finish, until the
reality we are looking for transcends every thing else. Everything else
through the transfiguring power of Almighty God. 

[162]	There will be a Millennium. There will be a Millennium. The old
will be young there, in the Millennium, for ever and ever. Sickness will
fade away. 

	How can sickness fade away, when you’ve got a brand new body? It
isn’t even there. So, what is sickness doing now, in spite of
everything around us? It’s fading away with the sweet Spirit of Jesus
Christ coming into the meeting. That’s why I keep admonishing you
people: understand what I preach here, and get it, because it’s the
only salvation you’ve got. 

	Listen, there’s a Bride somewhere. He said, “Sickness will fade.”
Do you hear what I said? How’s it going to fade when the gifts, as it
were, are put on the shelf? When you’ve finally run your course of the
Swaggarts, and the Roberts, the Pentecostals, the neo-Pentecostals, when
you’ve finally run your course! Well, I hope it’s awful close.
We’ve run our courses, and the gifts of the spirit, as it were, are
put on the shelf—the sweet Spirit of Christ coming more and more, and
every sick person healed, fading away the sickness.

13.	Now I ask you a question. Is this Message based upon vindication? Is
this the hollow sentimentality of a very nice man called William
Branham, who had a touch from God? Or, is this a vindicated prophet of
Rev 10:7 of whom it is said concerning the One that descends, He has a
Shout; but the Greek tells you it is not said to be the Voice of the One
Who descends, and Hebrews 12 says, “The One from heaven speaking one
more time?” And, how does He speak, but through a prophet? The
vindicated Word says, “Sickness is fading.” The vindicated Word
said, “Sickness is fading!” Praise God! Believe it.

14.	Now I could be like Marjo, who is a fraud, a fake, and a sham. And
you could hear his hollow repetition in getting the Pentecostals all
burning up. But I’m not going to try to enthuse you up like a Roberts
and an Allen and a Swaggart and anybody else. I’m going to tell you
the straight Word of God this morning; and, let’s see what we do with
it, without a scream, without a shout, without a raising of your
eyebrow: It said sickness will fade. How are you feeling Aaron? Throat
better by now? It faded. The back went like this, but the throat went,
slowly. You got a new spleen, Joe, for all you know? I don’t know. 

	Doctor said, “No spleen trouble.” Right? And your spleen was taken
out. Sickness fades. Now I don’t know if this is the case or not! 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, you’re trying to make our church that
way!” 

	I’m not trying to make you anything! I’m trying to get me to see
and you to see this is a vindicated prophet who said, “It’s
fading.” And I’m going to stand here and say, “God, let it fade in
me, and let it fade in you.” Don’t care about the world. I don’t
like them, and they don’t like me.

	 Well, you say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re supposed to love.” 

	“Love not the world nor the things of the world.” Don’t try to
get me caught on the barb the way the devil tried to catch Jesus,
because I think I know my Bible a little bit better than that. Not
better than Jesus, but enough to use it as a sword. 

15.	[162]	Sickness will fade away, and death will be no more. 

	Fading is fading! Shadow is shadow! From the Garden of Eden, they faded
until now! But the desert will blossom as a rose! It’s happening right
now. It’s got to be! Bro. Branham died in an accident. He had the
arteries of a sixteen year old. He was plagued with a certain suffering
that God let him have. The devil put it on him, and God allowed it, and
nothing you can do about it—like the apostle Paul. But you notice that
John the beloved was not plagued. He was in his nineties when he went to
sleep. He had a good time. They tried to boil him in oil; it didn’t
work. He was too tough. You can be sick, but you can be healed. Age
doesn’t have a thing to do with it. Somebody who hears this Message
will continue to get better, because he said, “Sickness will fade!”
He didn’t say it would stop; he said it would fade! And a vindicated
prophet had better know the difference between brakes that fade, and
brakes that stop, and brakes that aren’t there! 

	Have you ever had fading brakes? I’m putting the reverse on at this
point. Oh man, it can sure catch a knot in your stomach and a lump in
your throat, because you think, “I’m going to hit or be hit!” But
suddenly the squeaking and the grinding—you made it; you’re lucky!
All right.

16.	Now, listen. He’s talking of a build up. He’s talking of a
progression through the renewing of the mind! Now I’m just reading
what he said, and I can’t help what he said. I’ve got to believe
what he said! And he said:

[162]	Death will be no more. And that at that time in the Millennium,
and it’s not fading; it’s gone. In the Millennium, they shall build
houses; they will inhabit them. They’ll plant vineyards and they will
eat thereof the fruit. They will not plant and another inhabit (like his
son take it), his son will be living by him. 

	Some of you people here this morning, by the grace of God, can walk
into the Millennium entirely with your family! Now you young people
sitting here that are into puberty and what have you, you boys anxious
to mess around, and you girls anxious to mess with, you will not make
it, unless you’re born again! You’re on your own! And your
temptation is no greater than my temptation, or my wife’s temptation,
or Pete’s temptation, and his wife’s temptation, or anybody else’s
temptation. You just got more opportunity! And you’re going to get
caught and go to hell with it, unless you turn to God.

	Let’s get this straight: I read all the accounts on AIDS, and
they’re doubling in America! And the colleges have just about the same
percent now as the jails have! And you can’t cure it, because they
mutate. For eight HIVs you would need eight serums! And it doesn’t
mean they’d work. Understand this you people sitting here: this is the
voice of judgment in the White Throne. I’m going to face you shortly. 

	I don’t trust too much in natural medicines. Let me tell you, they
might not work for you; you could be dead before they take over. 

17.	A true spiritual sexual relationship with God—bringing forth life
as typed with men and women. You see what’s happened in the natural;
the same thing has happened in the spiritual. The children born in the
church today are hybrids, products of filth and disgust, not the true
life of God, because they’ve left the Word. 

[162]	His son living by him. He’ll not plant and another eat, die off,
somebody else take it; he’ll live there. There’ll be nothing can
hurt. We’ll be changed from what we are now, into that glorious image
of the Son of God which is immortal. What is he talking about? He’s
talking about the virgin-born one. God will incarnate Himself in that
Son. Years can never touch Him, age can never do anything to Him, He’s
the immortal Son of God. So, we know that we’re at the end time.
We’re at the junction. All these things thoroughly identified; so it
will be identified again.

	What identified? The only thing left under the Seventh Seal that
hasn’t come to pass… And this is why people that say they believe
this Message say, “The Seventh Seal is not opened.” They are wrong.
It is opened! The Appearing is under the Seventh Seal and so is the
Second Coming! The Second Coming has not taken place! But the Appearing
has. 

	I’ve got one message, word-by-word what the prophet said. And believe
me, He is here, and He’s still coming, because the He in the first is
the Holy Spirit. The second is the virgin born Son—God manifesting
Himself in Sonship at this hour, Son of man. God is yet to manifest
Himself at the Wedding Supper. And He’ll be clothed in a human body,
which has been glorified, and so will we.

18.	Now, it’s going to be a long, long study, but you’re used to it,
and so am I. Hunker down in your seats and get relaxed. So, what did
Bro. Branham say? Rom 4:13:

(13)	For the promise, that (Abraham would) be heir (to) the world,
(That’s Millennium.) was not to Abraham, or his seed, through the law,
(Trying to do something about it; pressing into it; this, that and the
other thing. Now you can press in, in the right manner, but not the
wrong manner. Pressing in, in the right manner, is being determined
you’re going to let God do it.) but through the righteousness of
faith.

(14)	For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and
the promise made of none effect.

	In other words the minute you’ll try to do something about it,
you’ve lost the promise! Now, think that one over. Now this is
supposed to make you relax, not get you nervous. But I can tell you
right now; this makes some nervous. Why? If I gave you a million
dollars, or I said to you, “I’m going to give you one million
dollars, legal tender,” and I started giving one million dollars away,
you’d say, “Hey, that guy’s vindicated. He does it.” Well,
that’s what we’re looking at—Scripture. God has given us trillions
of dollars worth of manifested promises. Showing there’s trillions by
trillions waiting for us! All right.

19.	 It was a free gift; everything’s a free gift. So, what do you do?
You believe it! So, if you try to do something except believe it, the
promise is of none effect.

(15)	Because the law worketh wrath: (The harder you try to do it, the
more you’re going to miss it.) for where (there is) no law, there is
no transgression.

	In other words God says, “There is nothing you can do about it, so
you don’t have to try!” You follow what I said? That’s right. You
don’t have to try. Works is trying. Now you can’t possibly sin,
because there’s no standard that says you’ve sinned. Bro. Branham
came and said, “Little Bride, you didn’t even do it.” Well,
that’s great! I can tell you one thing: that which was inside of me
never wanted to do it. That’s why the Blood was so effective for my
flesh, to make sure I’d come back in a resurrection. God has
sanctified the work of His hands, which was already a product and here
in the earth! That’s why He destroys them that destroy the earth! 

	I’m going to tell you, there’s no reverence for God anymore. Oh,
there’s a wrong reverence amongst the Hindus. Take a little brush in
case they walk on a fly or an ant—transmigration of souls. We won’t
hit that this morning, or… There’s something about wrong doctrine
that brings that out in the Bible.

20.	All right, listen.

(16)	Therefore (it’s) of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end
the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of
the law, (That’s the Jews.) but to that also which is of the faith of
Abraham; who is the father of us all,

(17)	(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls
those things which (are) not as though they were. 

	And William Branham came on the scene, and he said, “We are before
the White Throne right now.” And it hasn’t happened? But it has. If
you cannot accept that fact, you are not thinking properly! Now you
strive to press into that! People don’t believe this. 

	Why, they say, “You know very well that’s a thousand years at least
away.” 

	Well, I want to tell you the same God with the wig… The same God, 2
Th 1:7-10; the same God, Revelation 1, the Judge; that same One is here
right now. And with Him is the White Throne. And I’m going to tell you
this, brother/sister: the next conscious act that you have concerning
time will be the White Throne, because White Throne deals with time, not
eternity. They blended. They are one. And so, when God came to Abraham,
He was the God Who calls things which are not as though they were, and
He raises the dead; and, if you cannot call things which are not as
though they were, because it’s been vindicated to it, you’re not
accepting Bible truth. 

	Now, listen! I’m not trying to tell you something false or make it
hard for you. I’m just telling you the truth! And I want to tell you
something: it’s not as hard as you think it is! All you got to do is
say, “The prophet said it, that’s it!” And I’m talking about not
what you live, but what you believe! And when you truly believe right,
you and I will live more and more right! 

21.	I keep harping to young people and all, growing up. They don’t
really believe what they’ve been taught at home. But, how many of them
really believe? Where is the life? I can tell you where it’s been.
You’ve been too busy, except to bring your kids up. Same as I was.
That’s the trouble. Too busy making a living. What’s a living when
you’ve lost their lives? Some of you lost your kids already. What
happened? Will they come back? I don’t know! That’s up to God. But
you better watch it. You better know that you’re right and your
children are taught right. From that point on, I don’t know. I can’t
tell you; you can’t either. But you’ve applied that token. 

22.	(18)	Who when hope was gone hoped on in faith, (In other words
there’s nothing left to expect! But he looked for it anyway.) that he
might become the father of many nations, (because it) was spoken (of
him), So shall thy seed be.

(19)	And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was (a) hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of
Sarah’s womb:

(20)	He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was
strong in faith, giving glory to God;

(21)	And being fully persuaded that, what (he’d) promised, he was able
to perform. 

	Now, let me tell you something, brother/sister. Let’s look at the
last verse:

(22)	And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

	Now, listen! Abraham was 25 years in coming to the assurance of faith!
And it took the presence of God to make him come to that point. That’s
right. Absolutely. The last Church Age began in 1906. The Holy Spirit
began pouring forth in signs and wonders and evidence, (Absolutely!)
coming closer and closer to the reality of Christ in the Bride, getting
ready for the prophet—the prophet to manifest for God and, thereby,
manifest for the whole Bride; because God does not communicate publicly.
He communicates individually to one person, and that person communicates
to the others. All right.

23.	Back in 1906, the last began to start—came on the scene. Now, what
was it? Twenty-seven years later, 1933, God publicly appeared at the
Ohio River. Let’s ask a question? When was William Branham born? April
6, 1909. Is that right? He was twenty-four years old at the time God
appeared. When was he born again? He was born again two years prior to
that. So, all right. Back to 1906, Pentecost started. Twenty-five years
almost to the day, what do we have? We have God appearing to William
Branham in various ways, but not to the world. Even previous to that,
showing Himself. This lets you understand that there are certain
twenty-five year periods that happen in history, whether we want them or
not. And things come out of them. 

	Now it took Abraham twenty-five years. I don’t know there’s going
to be twenty-five years after Bro. Branham’s death, but it could be
with that period of time. I’m not going to set dates. That’s not my
nature, because the dates always go wrong. I’m trying to show you
something here that full persuasion came to Abraham in the twenty-fifth
year! at the time of the Appearing! At the time of the burning of Sodom!
At that time, Abraham said, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right? Will the righteous perish with the wicked?” And God said,
“Never, never, never. If there’s only one person, that person
won’t perish.” The assurance of faith. 

24.	Now William Branham is on the scene. [End of side one of the audio
tape.] Now we have Bro. Branham come on the scene. This is the Appearing
time. And in this Appearing time, Bro. Branham has told us this: He
said, “Listen, this is the hour of perfect assurance! This is that
hour that God’s promise concerning His literal physical coming, and
the Millennium is here.” Now the same prophet was so imbued with his
own vindication, he used two names: George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln. “If God tells me you’re that voice, that Pillar of Fire,
that angel comes near me, and said, ‘You go and raise Abraham Lincoln
or George Washington from the dead’, I will go to the graveyard, and I
will challenge the armies of the earth to come and see me do it, or they
can shoot me down in my failure.” 

	I’ll challenge Oral Roberts, Tommy Osborne, Grant, anybody living, to
just say “‘THUS SAITH THE LORD,’ your hangnail’s better,” and
let’s see it get better. 

	God is sovereign. Do you know the meaning of God? Well, do you know the
meaning of God this morning, brother/sister? It means sovereign. That
is, God does exactly what He wants to do, and that God is right there.
[Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire over Bro.
Branham on the wall.] For that prophet came in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And it never failed, not even once. Now, if the devil did
it, then the Kingdom of God is divided, and it’s finished! Where do we
stand this morning? Where is our faith? It’s a perfect faith we’ve
been handed. All right.

25.	Let’s go back. We’re going to take sentence number one. You
know, I use this just like the Bible. He says:

[161]	Look up, and shine with joy of the Lord, or the joy of the Lord,
to know that you’ve been privileged, your eyes have come open and
you’ve seen this day. 

	Now there is absolutely no doubt that the opening of the eyes is
according to Revelation 3, where It says concerning the whole church
system—Bride, wise virgin, foolish virgin, believer, make-believer,
the whole gamut, everything in cosmos—is wretched, miserable, naked,
blind, and doesn’t know it. So, it’s a spiritual condition.
Absolutely. Now He says, “Come to me for the eye-salve.” 

	Now I’m going to show you something here in the Book of Revelation.
I’ve told you before, but in case you forgot it, I want you to look at
this. It says: [Revelation 3]

(18)	…And anoint thine eye with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

	That sounds exactly as though you already have the eye salve, but you
haven’t been enabled somehow to use it! That’s not true! He said,
“I counsel thee to buy of me. To come to me.” And the coming to Him
is for the eye-salve, and it’s a poultice of broken bread—the Word
of God broken to the individual, formed into a poultice. It’ll draw
the matter out of your eyes, giving you a vision that you’re able to
see what’s before you and to know it’s of God. And, unless you know
and realize it’s of God, you are still blind, if perchance God did
manifest Himself in His Word. Now, if God did not manifest Himself in
His Word, how did that man have ‘In the name Of The Lord Jesus
Christ…’? I want to know! Tell me this morning you people sitting
here. You say you believe this Message. Do you believe in the integrity
of God? Look, I am a no good weakling. Put it down. And I admit it. I
think the majority feel as I do. 

26.	But, listen; when it comes to integrity, my integrity is just like
yours. It’s not perfect. But we both have enough integrity, and enough
common sense, and enough love of money that, if anybody said, “Lee
Vayle is going to give every man, woman, and child in this building ten
dollars,” or it was said concerning you, and somebody came to me and
said, “Lee Vayle, give me ten dollars.” 

	I’d say, “Why?”

	“Because, so-and-so said you said it.”

	“Well,” I said, “I’ve got news for you. I didn’t say it, and
so therefore, I’ll not do it!” 

	What about God? What about God? He said, “Ask anything in my Name and
the Father will do it.” One day a Voice said to Bro. Branham, “What
do you need?” 

 	He said, “I need squirrels.”

	“How many?” 

	Said, “I need three.” 

	“Well,” He said, “you’ll get them.”

	Same man came on, and you couldn’t hide if you tried, in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing failed. That’s integrity! That
integrity means He is going to come in human flesh glorified.
Immortalized and glorified. If He’s been true in the vindication, He
is true in this. So, that’s Rev 3:18-19. 

27.	Now, based on Matthew 13, blessed are your eyes because they see;
but the rest do not see. Now Bro. Branham says, “Look up.” All
right. There is only one place in Scripture that I know of that
specifically says, “Look up.” That’s Luke. Luke 21. And It says
here, verses 25 to 28. Oh, before that, verse 24:

(24)	They shall fall by the edge of the sword, (It happened.) be led
away (in) captive (for) all nations: (It happened.) and Jerusalem shall
be trodden down of the Gentiles, (It happened.) until the times of the
Gentiles be fulfilled. (Jerusalem is finally free.) 

	So, the times of the Gentiles are running out. So, okay. Now, what does
it say at that time? 

(25)	There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the
waves roaring; (Of course, that’s political disharmony.)

(26)	Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken.

(27)	And then shall they see the Son of man coming in cloud with power
and glory.

(28)	And when these things begin to come to pass…

	What’s the first thing begins to come to pass? Israel in its
homeland! That’s the key. Then, what about Israel in its homeland?
What’s it got to do with you Gentiles? Your time is running out! Now
then, what’s going to happen for the Gentiles? What are the Gentiles
going to get out of this? Where do their joy and their consolation come
in? Well, it’s right over here in Matthew 12, just as plain as can be,
concerning the ministry of Jesus in verse 17.

(17)	It might be fulfilled spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 

(18)	Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul
is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew
judgment to the Gentiles.

	He never went to the Gentiles!

	“Oh,” they say, “Bro. Vayle, that’s when Jesus comes in the
form of the Holy Spirit and goes to the Gentile nations through us
missionaries.” 

	Hogwash! It doesn’t say that. It says He’s going to do it! 

28.	Now, listen:

(19)	He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice
in the streets.

(20)	A bruised reed shall he not break, smoking flax shall he not
quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. 

(21)	And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

	That’s to the Gentiles—in the form of the Holy Spirit! Way back in
the flesh He raised His voice. He strove! He was in the streets! It’s
not that way anymore. It’s going to come different. But He’s going
to come. And He came that way! [Points to the picture of the Cloud.] And
He came that way! [Points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.] 

	You might say, “Well, I don’t believe that.” 

	You’re an unbeliever then. Israel’s back in the homeland. Time is
running out. 

	Now Gene [Petry], you hear a lot of programs. You used to ride in back
and forth to work—all these guys, Dr. Dobson etc., etc. Correct me if
I’m wrong. Is there a clinic called Balmier, something, clinic? Okay.
Isn’t it true that every single time these birds go on the air, it is
Jesus plus psychiatry! You know what Peter said to the man that tried to
mix up his own religion with the Word of God for money? He said, “Thy
monies perish with you.” And I’m going to be completely vulgar like
Dr. Phillips, because the word in there is ‘to perdition’. And
Phillips said the word in plain English is ‘to hell with you and your
money’. And that’s what I say about psychiatry and the Word of God,
when you put them together. It is not that there are not true
psychological principles in the Word of God, but where do you need a
psychologist or a psychiatrist to reveal the Word to you? 

29.	Bro. Branham said that’s exactly what they were doing to
missionaries. He said it twenty-five years ago, and now they’re
telling everybody, “Come to our clinic, and we can help you in six to
eight weeks.” But on your own you can do it in two to three years.
According to these men, I shouldn’t be up here, because I’m not a
psychologist or a psychiatrist. But where they’re playing around the
edges, I have seen the insane delivered. I have seen the dumb speak, the
deaf hear, and the blind eyes come open. I have seen cancers disappear
instantly. I have seen people’s lives changed by a sheer Word of
Almighty God. I have stood and argued with the so-called psychiatrists.
A psychiatrist said to my wife, “Your husband must be a very great
psychiatrist. I’d like to meet him.” And I met him, and I guess he
didn’t get much out of it. It doesn’t rub off. 

	The Bible mentions the sorcerer at the end time, which is the
poisoner—which is the druggist! And they give you the pills. And all
these doctors talk about these tranquilizers. Brother/sister, there’s
still something wrong with us. We are not pressing into this truth the
way we should, because Bro. Branham guaranteed a relaxation under the
Seventh Seal. And the vindicated prophet Paul prophesied that, when He
came with those angels, we could relax: no more fear, because the Judge
has come. 

	Well, let’s keep reading, because we’re not finished. 

30.	It says, “Look up. Look up, and shine…” at this particular
time of the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 

	Now I want to ask you a question. And, let’s see exactly how we all
are. “Coming in cloud with great glory.” What does that honestly
mean to you and to me? 

	“Well, hallelujah!”—us good old fundamental Pentecostals, plus
God-knows-what. “That’s some great big thing, bless God. That really
stands out; not like just a sore thumb, but every nerve in your body
exposed to where one touch would send you into orbit screaming!” 

	Sensation. 

	“Or your eyes behold something where you stand completely aghast and
marvel.” 

	No. It seems to me you never did read Isaiah 53, did you? 

(1)	Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed?

(2)	(He’ll) grow up before him (like) a tender plant, 

	What’s a tender plant? One that’s not out there in the sunlight,
rugged and getting all the sun and all the attention. It’s a little
thing. If you kick it over, it just seems to die under your feet.

(2)	…as a root out of a dry ground: (What’s that thing doing here
anyway? Doesn’t belong.) (and) he has no form nor comeliness; when
(we’ll) see him, (and) no beauty that (we’ll) desire him.

(3)	(And He’s) despised and rejected…

	“But hallelujah, we’re different, bless God.” 

	Not so. That’s false. Could that be the cloud of glory? Well, sure
don’t look like it, bless God, because the scientists at one time
couldn’t figure it, and now all the preachers have got it figured,
hallelujah, because they said, “I’ll tell you what it was. It was a
missile.” 

	And there were no missiles fired. We’ve got men in this congregation
that are top engineers in the services, though in the civilian
department. And they can shove the scientific truth down the lying teeth
and throat of the Pentecostals! Because they’re the big ones--the
chaff that burns. They’re consummate unbelievers. And the truth is not
in them. They are the Jesus-Only and Trinitarians. 

	You say, “Vayle, you’re tough on them.” 

	I was one of them. Don’t talk to me about my previous family, because
I was with them. There is no argument.

31.	Now. Zephaniah, way back, little tiny Book in the Old Testament.
Zephaniah 3:14:

(14)	Sing, O daughter of Zion; (That’s us.) shout, O Israel; be glad
and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. (You’ve got
three appellations right in there; speaking to the whole Bride.)

(15)	The Lord hath taken away thy judgments (no White Throne), cast out
(your) enemy: (The devil’s fully exposed.) the king of Israel, even
the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

	When and how was the King of Israel in the midst of Israel? By the Holy
Ghost in a Pillar of Fire in the temple of God. Read your Bible. It’s
there.

(15)	…thou shalt not see evil any more.

(16)	In that day (it’ll) be said (in) Jerusalem, Fear not: and to
Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

(17)	The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, (he’ll) joy
over thee with singing.

	Now you’ve been singing that here all the time. Shall we make that
our opening chorus and our closing chorus for about next ten years? Next
few weeks? Listen. Israel as a nation, Jerusalem as a City, and Zion as
a Bride, are all here at one time. And something is going on. Do we
recognize it? 

32.	Now: 

(18)	I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who
are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

(19)	Behold, at that time (I’ll do unto) all that afflict thee: and I
will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and
(I’ll gather) them (with) praise and fame in every land where they
have been put to shame. 

	Now, certainly that’s talking about Israel, the Promised Land, I mean
Israel back over there, and the city, the whole bit; but it’s still
talking of the Bride. He’s just talking about it three ways--actually
two ways, but three appellations.

(20)	At that time I (will) bring you again, even (at) the time I gather
you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the
earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

	Two threads are woven all the way through. It’s going on in the
Bride. It’s going on there. And Bro. Branham said, “Look up!” Look
up at the time this joy is going to come! Look up at the time of the
revelation of the Son of man. Look up at the time when Israel is back in
Palestine, and Jerusalem is controlled by them, and it is. Now, listen;
it’s not controlled by God. Oh no! Only indirectly. Sovereign Will.
The Bride is controlled by God, and she’s being put under submission
to God according to 1 Corinthians 15. And that ends up with you and me
being transfigured from mortality to immortality. 

33.	Now he says, “This is the time to look up, because your eyes have
come open.” Now, we don’t have much time. Let me read my notes. The
specific reference to look up is Lk 21:25-28. It’s not necessarily
meant to take the place of ‘arise’, but it is an admonition that
once having arisen, conditions are such in a world of darkness, that the
one who has arisen must look up, because that’s where the sun is! 

	You don’t go down in the basement and say, “There’s no light out
there; there’s no sun out there!” 

	Oh, they thought Bro. Branham was making a little kind of a stupid
illustration. It’s not a stupid illustration! It was serious. Don’t
crawl back in your shell of creeds and dogmas and mythology. Start
looking up where the sun is! Now, what was he talking about? He was
talking particularly of a light—the Day Star rising, which was the
vindication of Christ in our midst bringing us the Word, where Rhema and
Logos was one and the same. And, don’t you dare try to make it any
different—that they’re not one and the same! 

	Like some say, “Well, Rhema’s this; Logos is that.” 

	There is no difference; it’s simply a matter of explanation. So,
you’ll understand more and more. 

34.	Now, listen. “Look up.” As Bro. Branham said many times, “I,
the Lord, have planted it. I will water it, lest any man pluck it out of
my hands.” So, look up. 

	Now Isaiah 60:1-2: “Arise and shine for thy light is come…and gross
darkness upon the earth,” speaks of arising as does Matthew 25: the
sleeping virgins, all ten of them. All of them are awakened out of their
sleep! 

	Now, remember; Paul knowing this by revelation, says in Eph 5:14.
Listen to It.

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

	It doesn’t say they’re dead. It says, “Arise from amongst the
dead.” And, when they arise from amongst the dead, they are to look
up! They will see the morning star, which is Christ risen amongst us,
His Word being vindicated, pointing us to the reality of God. In all of
these cases, we are told of gross darkness. We’ll find it in there. It
is self-evident from Rev 3:14-21, which is the Laodicean Age, that the
awakened one is awakened both to light and darkness, because he
doesn’t know the difference! And understanding the darkness is
necessary to truly understand the light! How in the world can you not
say “I see,” if you don’t know you’re blind. Then, you’re
turned to light. One is not without the other, the light without
darkness; for Bro. Branham says that everything… He mentions
everything in there every time he talks; he talks this light and
darkness. And he mentions it in that one sentence up there. 

35.	Now I just want to review this condition of darkness that we’ve
come to. But before I do, I want to show you the parallelism of
Scripture that I spoke of last Sunday and Lloyd [Lusk] took up last
Wednesday. Bro. Branham said the Bible is a jigsaw. Why is it a jigsaw?
Because passive faith and active faith run hand in hand, intermingled!
Calvinism, which is the grace of God, is intermingled with the works
that come through grace! And people get confused. Every time there’s a
blessing, there’s a curse. Every time there’s a curse, there’s a
blessing. Go to the Garden of Eden. The blessing was, “You are joint
heirs with me. You control it all. You control the animals. You control
the plants. You are demi-gods. You, Adam and Eve, are absolutely one
with me. Take it over.” 

	And He said, “There is one provision. One thing and you’re dead.”


	Blessing and cursing. Good and evil. You can’t separate it! Zion and
Old Jerusalem. You can’t separate them! I can prove it by
Galatians—our mother Jerusalem, Zion, is from above! Theirs is from
below! Understand what I’m saying? If you don’t get this clear, you
could be mixed up till the day you die. And that comes pretty soon.

36.	Now I’ll read the Bible without the jigsaw effect. How many
minutes do we have? How many? Can’t even read it. Okay, it’s a good
place to stop for number twenty-one. And I won’t be back with you
until at least a week from Wednesday, or a week from next Sunday,
because I’d like to take a little time. It helps me so much to take
the time off. I’m going to deal with this, and I’m going to read the
Bible to you, and I’m going to show you, God helping me, what I’m
trying to get across to you. The Bible is a jigsaw puzzle! And, if you
don’t get the parts right, you’ll get confused every single time.
But, if you get your parts right, which the prophet came to do, you
won’t have any trouble, and I won’t have any trouble. But we’ve
got to know how to divide the Word. 

37.	Now brother/sister, the Bible distinctly says, “If it is of faith,
it is no longer of works. If it is works, it is no longer of faith.”
Why are we getting mixed up this late in the day? Now we know we
didn’t bring that on any more than Bro. Branham did. He didn’t bring
that on. We didn’t bring it on. He never told It what to say. We never
told William Branham what to say. But we sit here as judges of the Word
this very hour. I’m guilty, and you’re guilty. That’s right. But,
listen; sickness will fade, until there’s no room for it, because,
like Abraham, we’re changed. Not just beautiful, decadent, and rotten
corrupting mortality to beautiful, living, youthful mortality, but we
are changed from corruptible into incorruptible. And it’s coming.
It’s working now within our members. 

38.	I’m going to close by saying this: remember, I sat under Bro.
Branham on December 4, 1965, when he preached on “The Rapture,” and
he said, “The Shout is the Message.” 

	And I said, “Bro. Branham, I’ve heard you say many strange things,
but this is too strange. I don’t think I can take it.” 

	And I heard myself inside say, “But, when was he ever wrong?”

39.	 And I said, “The Shout is the Message.” If I hadn’t have made
that statement, do you think I could take first chapter of 1 Corinthians
the way I can take it today and weave it back and forth and show you the
truth? Do you think I can teach anything the prophet said, unless I
first of all came to give him credit that he said it; it’s got to be
true? Why is this richer and realer every time, no matter what the
sermon is? Because I take it word by word, crisscross it back and forth.
That doesn’t make me anything. It makes Him everything—God
everything in His prophet. And it makes us to know, we’ve got our eyes
open, yet we don’t know as we want to know. That’s true. But we
don’t know as we used to know. Right. But praise God, we’re going to
know, and it’s getting face-to-face, closer and closer, because the
prophet said, “The negative is going to the positive.” 

	 Did he say it? Then he said it. That’s true. My negative is losing
out to my positive. My physical old flesh is losing out to immortality!
I’ve got a promise to live and not to die! Now it doesn’t mean I
can’t die! In fact, I’ve got to the place I’d like to have the
best of both sides. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for love, mercy, and grace,
which has been vindicated to us at this moment. We can stand with
Abraham, and indeed we have to stand with Abraham, and by grace, Lord,
we do stand with Abraham, and we know we do it, Lord, we know we do it
on the grounds that we simply identify! And in identification we pick up
everything that he picked up, standing with it! We know that’s why
Bro. Branham said, “Paul, in reaching for the prize, looked for
complete identification.” O God, this morning, that’s what we’re
looking for. I don’t have to worry about it; I don’t have to produce
anything, Lord. All I got to do is believe the vindicated Message,
believe what the prophet said, putting everything out of my mind but
that. You, O Lord, never let anybody pluck it out of Your hand. 

	Now Father, we commend ourselves to You this hour of this day, go with
the dear ones that must go, stay with us who fellowship around Your
Word, the table, whatsoever, Lord. May we have a great wonderful time,
knowing, Father, that this psychology’s all right. We can practice
that out there while we eat and sit around, just be nice to each other.
And that’s good. Recognize the things of the world—their proper
spirit; that’s good! We understand these things; but Lord, there is a
food and a fellowship that is not psychological. It is Holy Ghost depth
of eternal properties. May that, Lord, supersede everything. We know it
does. 

	Now bless, Lord, the little children. Especially the baby dedicated.
Bless every home represented here. And Father, bring us together with
more of grace, and more love of you and more love of each other, as
never before, until it can be said, “Behold, how they love each
other.” That’s what we’re striving for. But we’re not striving
very hard. Maybe that’s true: we’re not striving too hard. But Lord,
we’re looking at it, and we say, “That’s it. That’s the goal.”
And I believe Lord that it’s working. I believe that there’s
something in this building here that transcends all relationship to any
human flesh whatsoever. It goes right to Your love, Your mercy, Your
grace, Your Word, Your Presence amongst us; and that binds us as one
body. 

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

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

 Rev 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a
book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

 Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath
declared to his servants the prophets.