Spoken Word Is the Original Seed #15

 Book 2

Amen! That’s My Word. I’ll Take That!

  July 31, 1993  

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re so happy that You are here in
the form of the Holy Spirit, not in a body of flesh, but in that Spirit
to head up the Church and to lead the Church into the promised land,
which we know is to be the great Millennium. We’re grateful for that.
And we pray, Lord, that as this Word is come and You had a prophet to
deliver It—You had him already prepared—so even now You’re
preparing the people, and we trust that we are aware of that as we
proceed down the last little days of this life, and that we might be not
only aware, but very amenable to Your Word, knowing that prayer is not
that which is given to us to twist Your arm and to make You change Your
Mind or cause You to do those things which we want You to do, but
rather, Lord, prayer is we agreeing with You and Your revelation, Your
Word. And we want to ask You to help us to bring ourselves in submission
and subjection to that Word, that that Word may come forth in our life,
and not only this life, but the life which is to come. So, Father, help
us to that end tonight. Teach us Your Word more perfectly. We’ll give
You the glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	All right. Now, last Sunday, as in previous studies, we saw how Eve
failed to bring forth the promised Word-Seed Son through bypassing her
husband, as did the First Church Age, and it’s continued to do so. Yet
there must come a Church that is the true, virgin Word Bride of Christ
and to Christ, (Not only ‘of’, but ‘to’ because that’s where
the trouble came. They failed Him. They were of Him, and failed Him.)
even as the virgin Mary said, “Be it unto me according to Thy Word,”
and the royal Seed was born and fulfilled his destiny and even now is on
the Father’s throne waiting for the reincarnation to come back with
the other sons and seed of God to fulfill Gen 1:26-30. And you’re all
aware of that. 

2.	(26)	…God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, …over the fowl of
the air, …over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

(27)	So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; (and) male and female created he them. 

(28)	And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, (to) subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, …over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.

	Now, let’s just look at that again. So, we saw in our previous
studies how Eve failed to bring forth the promised Seed, or Word-Seed,
Son. And it came to pass she did this by bypassing her husband. She
turned to somebody else who was able to--and wrongfully--inseminated
her, bringing forth, not the Son of God, but a bastard. That happened
also in the First Church Age. We find that Paul was worried about the
Bride being inseminated by a wrong word. It all started with the mind,
which is the womb of the spirit, the womb of the Word, and consequently,
we have a very sorrowful condition at the end time, which is a
thoroughly illegitimate church in Rev 3:14-23. 

2.	So, that church, the first church, bypassed her husband, but we have,
of course, Mary, who was on the scene, the virgin Mary, and she said,
“Be it unto me according to Thy Word.” Now, you’ll notice in there
that Mary makes literally two statements, one of which is, first of all,
“Be it unto me”… Now, I want you to just think a minute. What is
that little phrase, “Be it unto me”? Actually it is the same as
another phrase which can be summed up in one word. Are you thinking?
Okay. “Be it unto me.” “So let it be.” What’s the one word
that sounds just like it? ‘Amen.’ All right, Mary said, “Amen.”
And Bro. Branham said, “That every true Seed of God full of the Holy
Ghost says what to every Word? ‘Amen.’” All right. She said,
“Amen, according to Thy Word.” Now, just about every fundamentalist
says, “Amen, amen, amen.” But when it’s according to the Word,
“Hey, I never said ‘Amen’ to that.” 

3.	Now, just to be really nasty, let’s read the Word of God: Rev 3:14.

(14)	And unto the (messenger) of the church of the Laodiceans write,
Thus saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the
creation of God.

	This is the same God of Isaiah, the God of the Amen, the God of truth.
So, Eve could not say and did not say, “Amen, let it be according to
Your Word.” She took another word. The First Church Age took another
word which has been increasing until, when the God of the Amen comes on
the scene, ‘Let it be according to Thy Word’, they’re a million
miles away, and they’re saying in the face of the legitimate
Scripture, (And all Scripture is legitimate, but this is even more
legitimate than anything.) “As it was in the days of Noah.” But the
fundamentalists, led particularly by the Pentecostals…that if Bro.
Branham said back in his day, which is, my goodness me, twenty-eight
years ago, and he said it thirty years ago: “Methodists want the
Baptists, Baptists want the Presbyterians; Pentecostals want them
all”… And the Pentecostal is still today the fastest growing church
until, in Latin America, the people are coming away from the Catholicism
and Protestantism and from idolatry and nothingness, and they’re
becoming Pentecostal by the tens of thousands. And everybody’s
screaming, “Millions now living will never die.” 

	That is a lie from the pit of hell. Now, I know that you and I are
accused of being crepe hangers and not very nice people, because we dare
to say, “Just a minute, millions now living—in fact, billions—are
going to die.” 

	So therefore, we are looking for a Mary, a true virgin of the Word, who
will say “Amen” to the angel of this hour.

4.	Hey, let’s read It again: Rev 3:14.

	To the messenger…to the messenger, right, of the Laodicean church,
the last church, the Seventh Church Age: you bunch of lukewarm people,
that the best of your testimony is this, one of self aggrandizement,
self-satisfaction, “I’m full, and I don’t need anything.”
Remember; when you come to the Lord full, He turns you away empty. And
the empty ones He turns away full. Doesn’t turn them away; He brings
them in and feeds them, because you say, “I’m rich, increased in
goods, and have need of nothing;” and don’t know you’re wretched,
miserable; you’re a beggar, bumming on the street, poor, blind, naked.
I’ve got something to tell you, but you don’t listen. And when He
says, this is what you are and you come to me for the Holy Ghost and for
the raiment that the shame of your nakedness does not appear at my
Appearing, you better get some eye salve, they said, “Who are you
talking to?” 

	So, the messenger came; they said, “Amen, my foot. Trouble with you
is, Branham, (Never mind that stupid picture, who knows what that is,
and all that poppycock about the angels.) we got news for you. It just
happens that you’re a poor, little, ignorant, Kentucky hillbilly that
God gave a great gift to so you had to mess everything up.” 

	Yet a Roman Catholic priest knows when God brings a miracle, you shut
up, sit down, and listen. Well, that Roman Catholic priest may do a
whole lot better on the judgment day than all the Pentecostals put
together. In fact, I can tell you right now, he will. The man that wrote
that book, in my books, absolutely will be at the White Throne. Now,
remember; God said in His Word, “If the heathen know by conscience
without law what to do, and you Israelites who have got the law don’t
even listen, they’re going to be a witness against you.” I know that
they expect us to kowtow to them or if we’re right at least to feel
terribly sorry. Well, they may have a point, not ‘to kowtowing’, but
the ‘terribly sorry’. 

5.	Now, she said here, “Amen, according to Thy Word, let It be to
me.” The virtuous Bride, if there is one, (And there will be one at
the end time that will be as Mary.) we must particularly emphasize the
words of Mary, “According to Thy Word,” that is: “Let this one,
the coming one, be born of me in no other way than according to the Word
of God, which bypasses man entirely, and even the woman entirely, except
as a conduit for the nourishment and the forming of the child, so
indeed, the Word of God becomes flesh.” Now, that’s what she
understood, and the Church today, the true Bride, will understand that.
An actual, spoken Word Son of God was produced in human flesh. Christ
was the Word of God manifested in human flesh. The Bride must be like
him, as we notice in 1 Pet 1:23, which we’ve looked at many, many
times.

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

	In other words, as Bro. Branham said, “We bypassed our Word body, but
by baptism with the Holy Ghost we now have that which is
commensurate.” And of course, that may be a sort of a loose statement,
a little loose application, but believe me, it is still true because,
were we to have something different, God would have seen that we’ve
had it. So now, all right. We have this, then, the baptism with the Holy
Ghost, which is the rebirth. 

6.	Now, notice; he says, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible.
Now, we are to be re-begotten, or reborn, because we were born of the
corruptible spora or seed, and every child of God born of sex dies and
corrupts, and even corrupts before he dies, because he’s born of
corruptible seed, which means his body’s got to go—was born to go.
As one fellow once said, write above your mirror: “Born to die.” His
body corrupts even before he dies and is a state of corruption. It is,
absolutely, a body of death or the carrier of death. 

7.	But let us notice Jesus according to his flesh, and to do that we go
to Ps 16:10. All right.

(10)	For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption.

8.	And you notice over here in Acts 2:22-36.

(22) 	Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God
did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know: (See, you
can’t deny.)

(23)	Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain… 

	And notice that the elect didn’t have a thing to do with that. Now,
if they didn’t have a thing to do with that in the Alpha, they won’t
do it in the Omega, but they’ll be the only ones that don’t. The
foolish virgin also will crucify themselves the Son of God, not knowing
what they do.

(24)	Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because
it was not possible…he should be holden of it. 

(25)	For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before
my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: 

(26)	Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover
also my flesh shall rest in hope…

9.	My flesh shall rest in hope. Now, hope is earnest expectation. Now,
Jesus had to die, but there comes at the end time a Bride that won’t
die, so her flesh can rest in hope, in earnest expectation of the
promise of the hour and those promises which are contingent to it. 

(27)	Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 

(28)	Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; (and) shall make me
full of joy with thy countenance. 

	That’s the promise for this hour, too, because that’s ‘alpha’
for the ‘omega’, the presence of Almighty God. And remember;
that’s what happens in 1 Corinthians 13, doesn’t it? 

10.	Hold your finger there and go to 1 Corinthians 13. As these things
cross my mind, I’ll just look at them because we’re in no rush. All
right. It says here:

(9)	…we know in part, …we prophesy in part.

(10) 	…when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
shall be done away.

(11) 	When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child,
…thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things. (Okay, you’re in the Melchisedec era, the full revelation, and
It says:)

(12) 	(But) now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face-to-face:
now I know in part…

	And It says over here, we prophesy in part: Seven Church Ages, seven
parts of the prophetic message because the Bible is a Book of prophecy.
But at the end time it’s face-to-face. 

11.	Now, you don’t have to believe that if you don’t want to, but I
got news for you…if I can find It. See, I’m always talking about
things I have a hard job finding, because I have a job with the Bible. I
know it’s in It, but I don’t know where to find it. Oh, I found It,
in Numbers 12, after Moses was confronted by Aaron and Miriam, because
they smarted off, and they got away with it, but they got punished. 

(5)	…the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the
door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came
forth.

(6) 	…said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the
LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak to him
in a dream.

(7) 	My servant Moses is not so, (He ain’t just a prophet. Let that
sink in. Let it sink in. Yeah.) My servant Moses is not so, who is
faithful in all mine house.

(8) 	With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even (in a visible form), and
not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold
(there again, God in a figure): wherefore then were ye not afraid to
speak against my servant Moses? (Now, this is a prophet deluxe; not just
a prophet, a prophet beyond a prophet.)

(9) 	And (God was angry with them, and when he left them, their bodies
turned something like AIDS, rotten. You’re not so dumb you can’t get
what I’m talking about.) 

12.	All right. Let’s go back to Acts, about this prophet. Okay,
we’re reading in Acts 2:28. 

(28)	Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me
full of joy with thy countenance.

	You will make me full of joy with Thy countenance, with Your Appearing,
with Your showing Yourself, revealing Yourself.

(29)	Men and brethren, let me speak freely unto you of the patriarch
David, …he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto
this day. 

(30)	Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an
oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on (the) throne; (That’s where he traced
his genealogies of Mary and Joseph back to David.)

(31)	He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his
soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption. (Okay.)

(32)	This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 

(33)	Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth
this, which ye now see and hear.

13.	Now, remember; the promise of the Holy Ghost is temporary. It runs
out. As it runs out, you have to get, then, there’s only one recourse,
and that’s the Baptizer Himself. So, the baptism runs out, but not the
Baptizer. So now we’re face-to-face with the Baptizer. 

(34)	For (Moses himself) is not ascended (it was not Moses himself that
ascended, though he himself said,) The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on
my right hand, 

(35)	…till I make thy foes thy footstool. 

	Okay, you’re going to sit there, or you’re going to be there, until
it’s time for the takeover. Now, remember; there’s a process going
on now where the enemies, the foes, must be turned into a footstool. Now
what’s a footstool? Something you put your feet on. Right? 

14.	Okay, let’s check it out: Malachi 4.

(1)	For, behold, the day (of the Lord) shall burn as an oven; and all
the proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, (and) it shall leave
them neither root nor branch.

(2)	But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise
with healing in his wings; and…shall go forth, and (go) up (you’ll
go forth at that time with Him growing) as calves of the stall.

(3)	And ye shall tread down the wicked; (and) they’ll be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the LORD of
hosts.

	So, all right. Footstool. This is the day of the footstool—the hour.
[Acts 2]

(36)	Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

	God made Him that; this is the great Son of God. All right. This one
was born of the Word, and you will notice there was no way that His body
could corrupt, even though he died. Couldn’t. Well, the man is dead,
the body corrupts. No, I’m sorry, no way, because the man had no sin.
He was not born of sex. He was the last Adam, the second man, and made
in God’s image. And he came forth in that image that God wanted. No
way could the body corrupt. Now, if he’d have taken thirty days in the
grave, it would have been already provided that corruption could not set
in. Now notice; Bro. Branham said, “The fourth day corruption would
set in.” There’s no way it could set in because that was the Word of
God: he’s going to rise the third day. And his body was kept in that
very particular condition. And the third day signifies some time in that
hour, the third hour, there’s got to be the raising from the dead. 

15.	Now, let’s look at 1 Cor 15:51-55. 

(51) 	Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all (die. No, we’re
all going to) be changed, (without death, without the body corrupting
any further.)

	Now, this is going to be just like Abraham: just about one minute
before his body was changed, he was in the worst shape he ever was in.
But remember; that Word kept him from ever going to the place of
corruption. He couldn’t do it. That Word changed him back to a young
man and Sarah to a young woman. Now, remember; our Abraham, which is
really the seed which is Isaac, but we’ve got to go back. Isaac did
die, of course. Abraham died, too. But we did not see Isaac coming back
from a state of…well, almost morbidity you might call. He was ready to
die, but Abraham did. And Abraham’s body was changed. 

16.	(51)	…We shall not all sleep, …we shall…be changed. 

(52)	In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: (where)
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall (all) be changed. 

(53)	For this (corruptibility) must put on (incorruptibility), and this
(mortality)…put on immortality. 

	And at that particular time death is swallowed in victory. Doesn’t
say it’s destroyed; it’s just swallowed up as a wild animal caught
in a net. And so death at that particular time has no sting. So,
here’s what you’re looking at in this hour: it’s going to take a
virgin Bride, virgin of the Word, who has no mind but the mind of
Christ, no Word but the Word of Christ. And yet you’ll notice that
many, many churches have that inscribed on their cornerstone; “No
word, but the Word of God” or “…the Bible.” 

	And that, of course, that’s a lot of hogwash, because it’s not
according to the Word of God as long as you’ve got a creed or a dogma
there, even though ninety percent of It be the Word of God. If you’ve
got your own, little creed in there by changing one word, you have a
problem. All right. 

17.	Now, we’re going to go back to page 30, and Bro. Branham says: 

[30-4]	Hallelujah! Can you see, (which means ‘can you understand what
I am saying’?) the Word takes flesh. (Now, let’s go back to the
previous paragraph. And Mary is talking, and she’s saying:) 

[30-3]	“Listen, my old mother is a blind woman, but she’s a godly
woman. Through her lips she’s planted a seed in my heart. I’ve read
it out of God’s Word.

	Now, remember; the Bible tells us way back there in the Pentateuch,
that you’re supposed to take the Word of God and teach It to your
children, to your children’s children, right down to a thousand
generations. You see, now a thousand generations is quite a long time. A
generation could be twenty years, forty years; could be a hundred years;
could be a thousand years. Look in Scripture you’ll find that. The
generations in the beginning were one thousand years, then they went
down to one hundred under the time of Abraham, when he said, “You’re
four generations from now, four hundred years down in Egypt.” And
then, now a generation would be seventy years; that’s, in other words,
completion. Yet Bro. Branham said, “The new generation starts every
day.” But remember; the Word of God is given to God’s children, and
It never runs out. There’s no Word of God void of power, and there’s
no Word of God that ever dies, ever runs out till Its course is
completely finished and when It’s completely manifested. All right. 

18.	She said here… Now what is the Word she read?

[30-3]	“…I read it out of God’s Word myself that God said in
Isaiah 9:6: ‘a virgin shall conceive.’” 

	Now, that was the Word planted in her heart. Now, do you think for one
minute that any other woman in Israel, if somebody came to them and
said, “Now, you’re going to have a baby without male
intervention…” They’d have looked you in the eye and said, “Just
who are you trying to kid? I suppose you think that you’re God or
somebody.” 

	Oh, they knew all about these gods that came down and got women
pregnant. So, the virgin birth was something which would be looked upon
askance, and they would know there’s great trickery there. 

	Now, what I’m trying to show you here is this angel interpreted to
her, having come from God, what the Scripture really means when It says
in Isaiah…because It does not say, ‘a virgin shall conceive, her
being a virgin and without male intervention will bear a child’.
It’s actually, ‘amah’, which means ‘a young woman’. Now, you
see, why I’m saying that is for the very purpose to get you to
understand that there’s a lot of things in this Bible that you and I
think we can just read and know, and then, in the face of vindicated
revelation, we say, “Aw, just a minute, that can’t be, because
I’ve got my own idea.” Well, I’m sorry, that’s the way people
are. That’s just the way people are. 

19.	Now, let’s go a little further. Brother Branham categorically
said, “Every…man figured his daughter would be that one to bear that
child,” and he said, “They were putting aside little booties and the
bird’s eye, now they’re getting the diapers and the little boots
ready.” Now, you mean to tell me Israel believed that a woman without
male intervention was going to have a baby that would be Messiah? See,
Bro. Branham took a lot of things that he said, and when you balance
them all in there, they’re a hundred percent with the Word, because
when he said, “Every father said; ‘Now that’s my daughter. I’m
looking for that virgin to come forth,’” did every man in Israel
believe in the virgin birth? 

	Now, just a minute, Bro. Branham’s own words were, concerning Mary,
“They said, ‘Virgin birth, my foot; she’s nothing but a little
whore to her husband. She had a child illegitimate by a Roman
soldier.’” Come on, you can’t have your cake and eat it. The
prophet didn’t make mistakes. He put one thing here and one thing
there, and you bring it together, it’s one hundred percent perfect;
because they all wanted that daughter to be the virgin to bring forth
that child, that young woman. Sure, of the tribe of David… Sure,
men—males. He didn’t say, “You were in your mother.” He said,
“You were in your father because the father bears the life.” So, all
right. 

20.	This girl, this young woman, virgin—yes, but young woman… The
angel came to her, and she pondered the... Let’s go back and look at
it. It’s over in the Book of Luke. Let’s just follow what’s going
on here. Now, It says…verse 26: [Chapter 1]

(26)	…in the sixth month (that’s of Elisabeth’s pregnancy) the
angel Gabriel was sent from God (into) a city of Galilee, named
Nazareth, (Now this is Gabriel.)

(27) 	To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house
of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

(28) 	And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou…art highly
favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women.

(29) 	And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in
her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 

	Now, she didn’t throw up her hands in horror; she wasn’t
overwhelmed. Now just a minute, this sounds like somebody that’s a
little bit nutty—a little too simple to just stand there. Now, let’s
look at it. I want you to follow me. This woman was no run-of-the-mill
ordinary young woman. I can tell you that right now. What made her stand
there? What made her not get terribly frightened and run off screaming?
Now, she knew about the devil; she knows about fallen angels. There’s
no way she doesn’t know these things. See? But what is this about? She
stands there and looks at it. In other words, what I’m saying, she
didn’t make any snap judgments based on her religion and her teaching
which they did with Jesus, which they did with John the Baptist, which
they did with William Branham, which they did with Paul, which they do
with everybody that comes from God. You’ve got those birds, those
people that make their snap judgments. 

21.	Now, she stood right there. Now she represents the Church. Now,
remember this: she’s the virgin bride of Christ.

(29)	…(And she wondered what) manner of salutation this should be.

(30) 	And the angel (continued) said, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast
found favour with God.

(31) 	And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a
son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 

	Now, this angel did not say, “Mary, I’ve got a proposition from God
for you.” Now, that’s the way you and I would like it. “Lord, I
got friends I’d like to see saved.” Go right back to good old
Pharaoh and Moses.

	“Lord, I’m going to go back to Egypt, and I’m going to pray for
Moses, because he’s really my half-brother, you know. I mean, Pharaoh.
He’s my half-brother there,” (and of course, it wasn’t real
half-brother, but he was according to family relations. He was a
half-brother.) “and I’m going to go back there and pray for old
Pharaoh, because he’s a nice old boy. And we’ve played together. Oh,
we had our tiffs and everything else, you know. I’ll just solve this
whole thing by praying for those people. Everything is going to be
nice.” 

	Now, this proves that’s a lot of hogwash. 

22.	Now, he said to her, “You’ve found favor with God.” Of course,
that could be a come-on trick—huh? There’s a lot of people swear
they found favor with God, and they’re going straight to hell. What
I’m trying to show you: this woman was uniquely that one, chosen,
approaching unto God, and she fell right in line with reality. And it
didn’t explode her mind. Yeah. Now, if this didn’t explode her mind,
and it’s so easy for people’s minds to be caught up by the devil and
taken right off the Word, this is a very unique person. So therefore,
the end-time Bride will be a very unique Bride. She’ll catch it right
now and say, “That’s God. That’s God, yeah.” Yeah. No problem
and she’ll stand there waiting for the full expectation of the promise
of this hour. “It’s mine!” “Be it unto me according to Your
Word.” That’s this Bride at the end time. Now, a lot of other brides
thought they had it, but they didn’t. See? 

23.	[Luke 1]

(31) 	…(Now,) you’ll conceive in (your) womb, and bring forth a son,
…(you’ll) call his name JESUS. 

(32) 	He (will) be great, (he will) be called the Son of the Highest
(because he certainly is): and the Lord…shall give unto him the throne
of his father David: (That’s down the road—still is.)

(33) 	And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his
kingdom there shall be no end. (Now, that’s actually Isaiah. He’s
quoting right there from chapter 9.)

(34) 	…Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not
a man? 

	Now, she’s espoused to Joseph. But look at this girl coming right
around. Now, she could have said, “Now this, of course, will come from
my husband, Joseph, to whom I am espoused and I’m pledged to marry,
and I will marry.” See? …said, “you will conceive,” that’s a
normal thing that happens between husband and wife, or between male and
female.

	(32)	He…will be called (the Son of God) the Son of the Highest. 

	Now, she in her mind will accept this. She doesn’t know how it’s
going to be, and the literal thought is, “Is a man involved in
this?” The angel said, “No.”

24.	(35) 	…The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the
Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which
shall be born of thee (issue forth from you) shall be called the Son of
God. (Then he tells her something that nobody else knew.)

(36) 	And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son
in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called
barren.

(37) 	For with (the presence of) God (God being there, God Himself)
nothing shall be impossible. (Perfect faith.)

	Now, this woman did not have any vindication that we can see written
here in Scripture. So, if you want to look at her faith, and you want to
see what she’s like in contradistinction to everybody else, you are
looking at a veritable thief on the cross, who in the face of a man that
claimed he was savior, and was dying, couldn’t save himself or do a
thing, seeing no miracles, knowing nothing, but looking at him, suddenly
saying, “Remember me when you come to your kingdom.” You’ve got a
perfect picture of these two people; they’re absolutely fantastic. One
trusting in a crucified and dying Savior, yet knowing this is It, and
this woman knowing nothing about how anybody could have a child apart
from a man, she just says, “How will it be? God’s in this, but I’m
going to marry a man.” Which is it? 

25.	Now, she must have known something about serpent seed because all of
Israel knew about serpent seed. [Bro. Vayle chuckles.] You know, it’s
really beautiful when you come here, because here the Pharisees, in the
light of everything Jesus did, proving He was actually God manifest in
flesh, “Why,” they said, “He’s of Beelzebub; anybody can see
that, because he doesn’t agree with us.” 

	Now, let’s get the picture, in the presence of the Amen. “Amen,”
she said, “Amen, amen, whatever is for me, is for me.” How many
people are going to make the Rapture? How many five-fold ministry?
Brother Branham went… Just before he died, he said there are less than
what is on his five fingers of his hand. I believe old Sam Conley
wouldn’t lie, any more than I’d lie about what he said to me.
What’s to lie? 

26.	[Luke 1]

(38) 	(So) Mary said, Behold the handmaid…

	‘Amen’ is what she is saying. ‘Amen’ to the God of the Amen. He
doesn’t change; He’s the same God. Now notice! This is ‘alpha’.
Right, the Bride is there as a virgin Bride with the alpha God. The
“so be it.” Now, at the end time we’ve got the same thing. 

(38)	…Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord (She said, “I’m
it. I’m it.” The Bride’s going to say the same at the end time.);
be it unto me according to thy word. 

	Now, notice; she said it twice. Didn’t she? No, she said it once, but
up here was the same thing. She said, “How can this be?” When he
told her, she didn’t bat an eyelash; she didn’t move away. 

(38)	Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me (Amen) to your word.
(Let it be exactly as the Word of God is interpreted to me in this
hour.)

	And as I say, all she did was see an angel come into that room. What
about when God has His picture taken and THUS SAITH THE LORD has been
vindicated time after time, and Bro. Branham was in the same category as
Moses and Paul and proven to be such. All right. 

27.	Now, having preached this little paragraph, he said: 

[30-4]	Hallelujah! Can you see, can you understand, do you see how the
Word takes on flesh? …It becomes flesh? There you are. God’s going
to have a Church. It’s going to be born of the Word of God, because it
is the living Word of God. 

	Now, It was the living Word of God back there, speaking to Mary, that
brought forth Christ in flesh. Now, that’s what you’re looking at.
Brother Branham said, “That when God stood down there with Abraham,
the promise was just before the burning of Sodom.” Now, remember; the
judgment was passed, and after the fire, that son was born, came forth
in flesh, but the promise was vindicated. We’ve got the same thing
right now. Before this earth is cleansed with fire and the Son of God in
flesh with the Bride comes down and takes over, we already have that
Word given to us, and there’s no way that It’s not going to become
flesh. It absolutely has to. 

28.	Now, as Bro. Branham said, “The Word becomes flesh and the flesh
becomes Word.” He says here:

[30-4]	It’s going to be born of the Word of God, because it is the
living Word of God. Do you see it? 

	Do you understand now that at the end time there has to be the Word
come to a Church which is virgin in this respect, that no word will
supercede the Word of the messenger from God? Now, remember; the church
has condemned itself. The book that Lindsay wrote, (And the Pentecostals
took it.) was A Man Sent from God. Stadsklev wrote the book, A Prophet
Visits Africa. It was known that Bro. Branham was of such stature as not
seen since the time of Jesus Christ. Yet as the Pharisees and Sadducees,
they had no problem verbally crucifying him. He said:

[30-5]	“How do you know it?”

[30-6]	“Why, it’s going to...” (He cuts his phraselogy off.)

[30-7]	“You know what you’re going to be called from this time on?
You’re going to be called a harlot.” 

	That’s what Bro. Branham said she was according to the tradition that
they said she was with a Roman soldier, and then palmed it off as a
virgin birth.

29.	Well, that’s nothing. We had a Catholic girl got pregnant by a
Catholic priest, and she said that she had a child by the Holy Ghost
because the priest was the Holy Ghost to her. Well, I don’t know, I
thought the Holy Ghost had morals that forbad us to do those things. Why
would He do… You know, you can see people just… You can go to church
and go to hell so fast your head will swim. In fact, actually, going to
church and praying is one of the quickest ways to go to hell, because
there’s nothing in the church, and your prayers never get answered.
You know, let’s face it: there’s a mess in this world. You know, you
call a spade a spade. I’m quite well-known for that. 

30.	You see, she said:

[30-8]	“I don’t care what I’m called, that has nothing to do with
it. Be it unto me according to the Word of God.” 

	That’s the same thing…the woman turned the corner. Now she can
never go back. Now she gets pregnant. Joseph has a dream. She tells
everybody, “I’m with child of the Holy Ghost.” They said, “Oh,
ho, ho, you and who else.” 

	Brother Branham showed that nobody but Christ ever lived the life and
never told a lie…because she turns around: “Your father and I
sorrowed.” 

	He said, “What are you talking about? I must be about my Father’s
business. You’re telling me about Joseph’s business. Come on. I’m
not his son and you know it. You’re lying now again, the second
time.” 

31.	Hey, I want to tell you one thing: God’s going to catch you
flat-footed, brother/sister. There’s nothing hidden that won’t be
revealed, nothing but will be shouted from the housetop. Make your
hearts clear; don’t leave this building full of sin, lies, everything
that could be lodged in your heart, making up stories about people,
everything else. Don’t do those things. 

32.	[30-9]	Oh, could everybody say that today?( I’ve turned the
corner.) Oh, if people could really from the heart, all of us could say
that (See?): “Be it unto me according to Thy Word, Lord.” …and
really mean it. 

	In other words, I’m stuck with It. “Live, die, sink, swim.” 

	“I’ll know the real thing when it comes.” 

	I suppose Mary said that. 

	“Well, if this isn’t the real thing.” 

	Oh, brother… Hey, I want to tell you something: ‘alpha is omega’.
Don’t ever forget that was in the gospels when Jesus Christ was there.
Now, we’re talking about God Himself in His Son. Whatever was there,
whatever was done by anybody, there is a repeat in the ‘omega’ when
the Son of man days are on this earth, which they were, or you’ve got
the same crew. They don’t believe that there’s a Bride that can
bring forth Jesus Christ because “Bless God; we are the bride that’s
going to bring forth Jesus.” In fact, they don’t even know much
about a Bride. They think the church is the bride. The true Church
ceased being a virgin way back yonder. Now, there’s a little group in
here who always believes whatever God brings forth. 

33.	Now, he says here:

[30-9]	My, really mean it. One or two or somewhere out in there is going
to pick It up,  (In other words, they’re going to catch it for this
hour.) some predestinated that really means that, and, brother, you’re
going to see sparks flying, right then (That’s right.)—when you
really got that there to meet that, what’s coming, when that
irrigation begins to fall on that Word. Yes, sir.

	Now, he’s talking about bringing the Son of God in flesh. Let’s
understand that. And the church is preaching vehemently, bringing back
the King and causing this one to come back to earth, winning the world
for God. They’ve fallen in the same old trap that Catholicism is:
“When we somehow by force or any way can convert the world to Christ,
the Christ of our thinking, He’ll come back.” 

	And my Bible says, “Eight people make the ark.” 

34.	Now, hey, the world condition is so rotten that no politician can
make a right decision. Now, come on, let’s face it. Every year they
get suckered in. Nixon got suckered in. Oh, he was big mouth, “No
taxes. No taxes.” Every time taxes are raised, it’s a bigger
boon-doggle; Congress grabs it, spends more money, deeper in debt. 

[You load] sixteen tons, and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don’t you call me…

[Song “Sixteen Tons”]

	One day they’re going to call for the debt. The whole country is
going to be bust. Now Reagan raised taxes. He suckered in. Bush suckered
in. This time it’s not even a sucker job with Clinton. [laughter] No,
it isn’t a sucker job; they knew it and they’re raising taxes. And
he not going to clean up this debt by—what is it?—five billion
bucks, or five hundred billion in the next five years. There’s no way.
They’ll be five hundred more billion worse in debt. You think you can
get rid of Senator Bird down there in Virginia? You’d have to kill him
and Rostenkowski, because he’s head of the [House] Ways and Means, and
Bird’s the biggest porkbarreler of the whole bunch. And the guy in
Pennsylvania is no different. I’m talking right off the top of my
head, the truth. The guy in Pennsylvania, you can see the… It’s a
memorial to the steam engine. Yeah. Why don’t they put a memorial to
Christ and feed kids? Do something really worthwhile. I’ll tell you,
when they feed kids, they’ll skim all the cream off. If they allocate
five billion for kids, they’ll take at least four billion of that. You
can’t believe everything you hear. I sort of do, though, if I hear the
right thing. Oh yeah, if it’s the right thing, if it pleases me, I
believe it. 

35.	There’s a man… I’ll show you his film in due time, he’s been
accosted by the FDA because cancer can be healed, any kind of cancer at
all. There’s really nothing to it, unless you’re drawing your last
breath, forget it. Or if your time—your trump—is up, and God trumps
your ace, you’re ready to go, you’ve got to go whether you’re
ready or not. They sat with the FDA, he and his friends that believe in
this, (And I have a lot of information on it, and also the product.
It’s available to me.) and they told him flat, “We are not
interested in the cancer cure.” 

	Now you say, “I don’t believe the FDA could say that.” 

	Are you nuts?

	When Dr. Aiken, the guy with the… make you have better energy, better
health and get some fat off your bones and things like that. When he
literally spoke up against the American Cancer Society, that they were
nothing but a bunch of boondogglers taking in billions of dollars and
not spending it on proper research and helping people, I thought they
were going to get that guy’s license; they’ll kill him. But suddenly
they had a little twinge of conscience, and they said, “Doctor,
you’re right, but there’s nothing we can do about it, because it’s
such a monolithic, bureaucratic bunch.” 

	You mean I’ve got the money to help you from starving, I’ve got the
money to lift your burden, and was given for that purpose, and the
legislation is there, and then I’ve got the right, then, somehow by
divine intervention, (It’s the devil.) and I’m not going to give it
to you? Oh, come on. Read your Bibles. It’s over here that the
sorcerers there, Revelation 18, and he’s the druggist. [Bro. Vayle
searches for the right Scripture.] [Revelation 18]

(3)	…wrath of the fornication, (of) the kings of the earth, …the
merchants…are waxed rich (with the) delicacies. 

	Anyway, there it is. It’s the sorcerers. And what are they? That’s
your druggists. All right.

36.	We’re reading in here. Okay. Now, one or two out there… Now, if
you’re getting down to ‘eight make the ark’—are going to really
believe this Message, now, this paragraph here could really be referring
to William Branham more than it’s referring to the Bride, on the
grounds he said: 

[30-9]	…you’re going to see sparks flying right then; that’s
right—when you really get out there to meet that, what’s coming,
when that irrigation begins to fall on that Word. Yes, sir.

	Now, we know positively that, though Pentecostals thought they really
had a latter rain, they had the real anointing on the Word, Bro. Branham
was the one person that really had it. The rest didn’t. They just
thought they had the Pillar of Fire, and they just thought they had this
end-time ministry. They did not have it. And that Spirit of God falling
on…the Word of Almighty God—Brother Branham just introducing and
preaching—proved absolutely, radically, that the Word that that man
brought was the Word of restoration of this hour. 

	Now, let’s say there’s a Bride that actually meets that and said,
“Look, we’re like Mary. We’ve turned a corner. We are not going to
stand for any foolishness. This is It one hundred percent, and we know
it. Anything else is counterfeit because this is It. Be it unto me
according to that Word that that messenger brought.” Now, there’s no
problem believing Bro. Branham because the Bible distinctly says, “He
that receiveth whomsoever I send receives me. He that receives me
receives the Father which sent me.” So, we have no problem with Church
Age messengers if you want to believe the Word just, even simply,
mechanically. 

37.	So, all right. There’s got to be, then, Bro. Branham described
that one, the same as latter rain describes it over there in the Book of
Joel. You see? It talks about that. [Chapter 2]

(9)	They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall,
they shall climb up upon houses; they shall enter in at the windows like
a thief. (And so on.)

	He said, “That’s the Rapture. That’s the people that’s anointed
for the Rapture.” 

	In other words, they are that Word, the same as God anoints His Word
and brings It to pass in this particular case, this Word, (as in all
particular cases, except prophecy about Russia and Denmark and God knows
what)…. But when you’re talking about God’s Bible and God’s
people, this is a prophecy, and it’s manifested in human flesh. And
let me tell you that’s exactly what happens. The sparks are sure going
to fly, because we’re going to put on incorruptibility.

38.	[30-10]	Now, what was it? The virgin mind, womb: virgin womb for the
baby. Results? eternal Life. Eve, a good a woman as she was, virgin as
she was, but she first let the doubt come in by the word, a devil’s
lie. What did he do? Brought her into contact in the wrong way. What was
her child? Death. (And that’s exactly true.) 

	As Bro. Branham said, “There was no sentence in there concerning
death; they were meant to live.” And the fact of the matter was, they
were meant to live as the Scripture says, “Replenish and fill the
whole earth.” Those two people were supposed to literally fill the
whole earth and absolutely control it, and get rid of the devil, and
destroy all of his works, and this whole earth filled with the glory of
God. It never happened but it’s going to. And there’ll be nobody on
this earth in the Millennium, but that those elect children of Almighty
God having taken over this earth and thrown the devil and the false
prophets with the whole bunch into the Lake of Fire, into hell, rather,
and then stand up on the day of judgment on the White Throne condemn the
whole thing where there’ll be nothing left. Brother Branham said,
“The flames leap up a thousand miles high to destroy every single germ
even.”

39.	She was supposed to bring forth life and she brought forth death;
every child to live and not want to die. 

[31-1]	Mary: virgin mind, virgin womb... When the devil tried to tempt
her, at the time the Angel came to her then and said, “You’re going
to have a baby,” Satan said, “Now, you better be quiet about
that.” The Angel said, “It’s an act of God.” And she no doubt
thought of Isaiah 9:6; (He’s already repeated that, of course, over
here,) “Behold the handsmaid of the Lord.” She said. What’s the
results? Virgin birth; eternal Word in her, and she brought forth
eternal Life. 

	Now, what was the eternal Word in her? Faith in the understanding a
virgin was going to bring that Seed, the Messiah. Now, she didn’t know
it was going to be she. She just knew that Word had to be there, and It
was there. And the Angel came and said, “This is that hour.” Then he
let her know how it was to be. And that was sufficient for her; she
believed it. See? 

40.	Now, we look at that. The second…yeah:

[31-1]	“You’re going to have a baby,” and Satan said, “Now, you
better be quiet about that.” And the Angel said, “It’s an act of
God.” And she no doubt thought of Isaiah 9:6…

	Well, of course, she couldn’t help but think of it; he said she
already knew it. She’d been taught it. So now, we are likening
ourselves to the virgin Mary. Now, listen carefully: our testimony is
the last and only true testimony of the Church, Seven Church Ages, and
it can’t be changed. We haven’t made a mistake. It’s not going to
be superceded, though many times, many people have made this testimony,
and ours is the last and only true testimony according to Acts 3.

41.	So, let’s go to Acts 3, and we won’t just stop there; we’re
going to go to Matthew 17 and so on. But in Acts 3:19b It says:

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

(20)	(Even God) shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you: (or appointed to you.)

(21)	Whom, (But watch now about this Jesus Christ!) Whom the heaven must
(retain) until the…(restoration) of all things, which God has spoken
by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

	Now It tells you right here, at the time of refreshing that comes from
the presence of God—positively—that is the hour in which Jesus has
to return to the earth. But hold it! He still can’t come. And he
won’t come until there’s a restoration of the Word right back to
original. Now, who is going to do it? 

	“Well, bless God,” said the pope, “that’s me.” 

	Well, he’s a liar. He’s a liar. Everything he has is mixed up with
voodoo and witchcraft—and he’s admitted it. So, he’s a liar.
He’s no more vicar of Christ than I’m the prime minister of…of
what? Who knows? Nepal, or some place, if they got one. Pakistan.
Neither am I the Lord God that just came down from heaven. See what I
mean? Let’s take it right to the logical conclusion. 

42.	Now, It says, the heavens have to retain him until that. Now the
question is, “How?” Restoration is spoken of in Matthew 17. Now, It
says here in verse 10. 

(10)	…his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that
(Elijah) must first come? 

	Now, remember; Jesus had already said in Mt 16:28:

(28)	Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not
taste…death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

	And they saw him in his kingdom, which was the glorified Millennium:
state of glorification. They said, “Just a minute. We thought Elijah
was going to come.” Now, remember; this is a vision. This is a
preview. This is a picture. This is not the real thing. This is yet to
come. They knew that. He said, “Let’s build three tabernacles.” He
said, “No way.” 

43.	Now, we thought Elijah... [Matthew 17]

(11)	…(Yes, Elijah must) first come, and restore all things. (It’s
true he’s got to come.)

(12)	But I say unto you, …(Elijah) is already come, and they knew him
not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed (that they wanted to
do). Likewise also the Son of man shall suffer of them. 

	Now, he’s putting the two together. The Elijah of that hour foreran
the suffering, and the kingdom didn’t come. So, there’s got to be
another Elijah, whoever he is, (And who cares?) but he’s got to come,
and he’s going to restore the Word. Now, that’s the whole secret:
restoration of the Word. And that restored Word can bring back Jesus in
flesh—the very thing Bro. Branham said. He said, “The Church cannot
produce Him. They cannot produce Him in flesh. They can’t produce God
in flesh. There’s no way.” See? Now, we understand that. So, we have
the correct testimony: this is Elijah which was to come before the
burning. Now, John had no burning. He was the voice crying and going
before God manifest in flesh, and they killed the flesh. They would have
nothing to do with the flesh. Oh, the spirit, hey, they didn’t have a
clue.

44.	So, her testimony was spurned. Now, our testimony, called
believer’s supremacy, (And we are.) is going to bring forth the Son of
man according to Heb 11:40 that says, “They without us cannot be made
perfect.” Now, Heb 11:40. We’ll take a little look at that. Now, I
don’t want to get too involved here because I can prove my point as I
go along, but I don’t want to get too involved. All right. Now look
here. It says here in verse 39.

(39)	…these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received
not the promise:

(40) 	God having provided some better (things) for us…

	Now, Paul is speaking in terms of the people that are in the New
Testament Church; they’ve gone. There’s no longer any Jewish
religion sequel. The bruised reed he broke; the smoking flax he
quenched; their religion is gone—never to be restored. I don’t care
what Israel tries to do—build a temple, build a thousand
temples—there is no way the Pillar of Fire is going to come to them
under their conditions. It’s only going to come when they say,
“Blessed he that cometh in the name of the Lord, and if that was Jesus
we crucified and rose again, then he better get here.” And there’s a
bit of a ground swell even now in Israel concerning Jesus of Nazareth.
But the haters are still there; the seed is still there. 

45.	(40)	…(Now) they without us (cannot) be made perfect.

	Now, the word ‘perfect’ in there, of course, cannot be brought to a
conclusion. See, in other words, they cannot be placed in the
Millennium. There’s no way that you’re going to get them there
without us, because we are the New Testament church; they are the Old
Testament church. They had their Seven Church Ages; we have our Seven
Church Ages. They had the tabernacle in the wilderness; we have our
tabernacle now. And Christ was our tabernacle, and we, of course, are
like the church in the wilderness, because we ourselves have no
appointed resting place. There isn’t one as far as this earth is
concerned. We can only claim where our feet touch on this earth, when we
come to the Millennium. We don’t have a claim. Why? Because it belongs
to Satan. Even though the price was paid, Satan has the lease for a
certain length of time. 

46.	Now, [Hebrews 12]

(1)	Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, (What is that sin? Unbelief.) and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us, 

(2)	Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 

(3)	(Now, It says,) For consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest you be wearied in your mind. 

	Okay. Now, as you get to Hebrews 11, you’re going to peter out, of
course, in chapter 13. But chapter 11 shows the heroes of faith and
shows these ones that ran that gauntlet before us; they showed
themselves to be great and mighty Christians. Now, they cannot be made
perfect without us. We already told you that. So, what does It say here?


	Wherefore seeing we also like them go through the trial of faith, prove
and vindicate God; and God vindicates Himself. We must lay aside the
besetting sin, and the besetting sin is unbelief. Adding a word, taking
a word, turning down a true revelation; you must not do it. Now, watch!
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher, the ‘alpha and omega’.
Now, he’s ‘alpha’, so he’s got to be ‘omega’. Now, Paul
traced him as to who he was and he showed, positively and absolutely,
that this one had a priesthood after the order of Melchisedec, and he
was begotten from the dead. Prior to that, he could not be a high
priest, because the priests only came from Levi. They were Levites. Now,
we have a new high priest, and he comes from the tribe of Jacob, so the
order of the priesthood has changed. 

47.	Now, you’ll notice that over here in chapter 5: [Hebrews] 

(5)	So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest;
…he that said, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. (Now,
that is true, but watch again.) 

(6)	As he said…in another place, Thou art a priest…after the order
of Melchisedec. (See?)

(8)	(And) though he were a Son, …he learned obedience by the things
(that) he suffered;

(9)	And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation
unto all them that obey him.

	Now, if he’s the ‘author’, he’s also the ‘finisher’. If
he’s ‘alpha’, he is ‘omega’. Now, look; he’s a high priest
after the order of Melchisedec by the resurrection from the dead, and
nobody else can do that. 

48.	Now, let’s go back over chapter 5 again.

(11)	Of whom…many things (are hard) to say, and hard to be uttered,
seeing you are dull of hearing.

(12)	For when…the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one
teach you again…the first principles of the oracles of God; and become
such as have need of milk, and not…strong meat. 

(13)	For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a (baby). 

(14)	But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those
who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good
and evil.

	Now, It tells you right here, there’s coming a day when you’ll be
able to discern between good and evil. You will understand exactly what
1 John 3 is all about when It tells you about Cain and Abel, that Cain
was of the wicked one, his paternity was of Satan through an animal, and
Abel was through the paternity and maternity of the two children of
Almighty God, though they had gotten into sin and now death reigns in
them. But remember; Abel would be in that first part of the First
Resurrection. 

49.	Now, he’s telling you here that that age is to come. And he says
here, therefore, in here, now, is a prophecy, an interpolation which was
in Heb 6:11-14.

(1)	Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrines of Christ, let’s
go on to perfection…

	Now, there again you’re looking at conclusion, and perfection is the
end. So therefore, if you’re looking at perfection, you are not
looking at the first principles; you are not looking at the time you
first heard it; you are not looking at the first place of where Jesus is
the author, which is the ‘alpha’. You are going down here to the
‘omega’. Now, It says at the end-time omega: 

(1)	…not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,
(Now watch!)

(1)	Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, (which
is the Logos of Christ, which is that beginning; you’re going to leave
It. Now, it goes right on down here.)

(3)	…this will we do, if God permit.

	Permit what? To go to the end where there is the ‘omega’, which is
not only the ‘author’ now, but the ‘finisher’. And he tells you
what happens at the time of the ‘finisher’—See?—because the fire
falls then. 

50.	Now, in verse 13.

(13)	For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no
greater, (and so on, right on down the line.)

	He’s still talking to you about Melchisedec all the way down to
Hebrews 11 and down to the end of verse 40. We get into chapter 12
again, then It tells you here:

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

	“Lest you be wearied and faint…” See?. Now, looking unto Jesus
the ‘author and finisher’. Now, you can’t look at the finisher
unless He’s there to finish it. 

	“Well,” you can say, “I can look at Him, because He’s All in
All: He’s the Author; He’s the Finisher.” 

	It’s not telling you that. It tells you they “cannot be made
perfect without us,” because God has provided something better for us.
And what is that better thing? A people that are not going to die.
That’s part of it. That’s just part. 

51.	Now, he says here, then, concerning the end time, concerning
Sonship, the scourging, the training, and then It says, “now no
training or chastening seems good for the time being, later on it brings
forth peaceable fruit of righteousness.” [Hebrews 12]

(12)	Wherefore lift up the hands (that) hang down, the feeble knees;

(13)	And make straight paths… (and so on.)

(14)	Follow (after) peace with all men,…

(15)	Looking diligently lest any man (fall) of the grace of God; (Now,
there you are. You’re getting right back to the first principles. They
have left it.) lest (a) root of bitterness spring…up trouble…
trouble many…

(16)	Lest (you) be (like that) fornicator, Esau, who…sold his
birthright (for a morsel of meat, a morsel of bread.) 

(17)	…(as) he would have inherited the (kingdom), (but there was)
found no place …(Now, It say here in verse 18.)

(18)	For you are not come unto the mount that (can be)…burned with
fire, (brimstone and so on, and so on,right down the line.)

(22)	But you are come (now) to mount Sion, …unto the city of the
living God, …

(23)	To the general assembly (and now…)

(24)	And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

(25)	See ye refuse not him that speaketh. (Doesn’t say he spoke once.
It says, now that speaketh. Now, all right.) 

	Now, what I’m trying to show you here, just briefly, is the
understanding that there is an ‘alpha and omega’ in the matter of
faith. There is the first time that faith was laid down, based upon the
fact that Paul could preach, “This one appeared to me in the form of
the Holy Spirit, this one that you killed and crucified, that rose
again, that over five hundred people saw him in the matter of several
weeks—what was it?—forty days or so. They saw that one and the
miracles that you understand now, positively proved that that one is
risen from the dead.” 

52.	Now, that is ‘alpha’. Now, if that’s ‘alpha’, ‘omega’
has to be the same thing. And this is where people do not follow Bro.
Branham in the world. Only we follow him. Matthew 12 proves, as Bro.
Branham said, “It’s obligated by Almighty God to come here in the
form of the Holy Spirit and do now in this hour what He did back there
in flesh.” That, then, is the ‘omega’. So, you’re looking unto
Jesus, the Author and the Finisher. All right. 

	Who is the Finisher? Oh my, if you don’t know where I’m going to
turn now, you certainly don’t follow Lee Vayle or haven’t all these
years. You still don’t know the difference between a hen and an egg,
and the Baptizer and the baptism. I’m going to go right now to
Ephesians 1. 

(15)	Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus,
and love unto all the saints,

(16) 	Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my
prayers;

(17) 	That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him:

(18) 	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may
know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints,

(19) 	And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

(20) 	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead. 

	And It tells you right there, at this particular time, the omega
revelation will bring about a Resurrection which the alpha could not do.
Now, remember; ‘alpha and omega’ is the same. But alpha is the
starter, and omega is the finisher. So, don’t get all messed up in
your minds. This is exactly why I said, to begin with, tonight,
remember; in the gospels, ‘alpha’, and at this end, ‘omega’. And
at the time of the omega, greater works than these shall he do. 

53.	And that’s exactly why you’ve got John 5 over here. And Bro.
Branham used it on different occasions. And he explained It in this very
message we are looking at, and he says over here in Jn 5:19:

(19)	(And) Jesus answered and said, (Truly, truly,) I say unto you, The
Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for
(those) things (whatsoever) he doeth, these also doeth the Son... 

(20)	For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that
himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that you
may marvel. 

	Now, he doesn’t say that he is doing them. It just says he’s seeing
them. So now, God Himself, not in the form of a human being, the Son,
because the Son is up there, can’t come down—until the restoration.
And the restoration is built upon vindication. So you see, right here in
the ‘omega’, the ‘omega’ is greater works than these, that you
may marvel, which is the same as over in Jn 14:12 “Truly, I say unto
you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do; and
greater than these…” So, the Father showeth him these things.

54.	Now, listen! When those things are shown to him and come to pass,
they’ve got to be for one reason only, and that is for vindication.
And what vindication? The vindication of God through the Word, so
therefore, when this is restored, Elijah having come, then Jesus Himself
can return and not before. Now, this is our testimony. We are it!
William Branham came and preached. That was our angel. Let’s make no
mistake about it; we are not going to have a visitation of angels.
That’s a bunch of hogwash and be carried right to hell with that
cockamamie idea or any revelation that you have, that you think you can
twist this and make that Pillar of Fire the soul of Jesus and all the
junk that’s been tried to be peddled around this church behind my back
and behind yours. And if you believe it, you might as well beat it.
I’m not going to kick you out, but it’s not going to be very long
until you’re going to miss the Rapture, period—or I’m going to
miss it; one of the two. 

	Now, there is our messenger. And he said it. Now, you and I’ve either
turned the corner, like Mary, and say, “Be it unto me according to
that Word. That’s my Word. I’m it.” Ha, nobody else but us talks
that way. Mary’s was the ‘alpha’ testimony. Ours is the
‘omega’ testimony, because there’ll be no other people arise to
testify to God.

55.	Now, if you don’t think that I’m right, let’s just get right
back to 2 Thessalonians 1 again. I’m going to quit because we don’t
have anymore time. And Paul says at the time:

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

(8)	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

	Now, listen! Don’t get this all messed up. This is the same thing
that he’s talking about in 1 Corinthians, when God begins to put
everything under the feet of Jesus. 

56.	Now, just a minute, let’s just go ahead and look at that. Where is
that in the Book of Acts? Is it chapter 3? No, it’s got to be chapter
2.

(34)	For David is not ascended…but he saith (to) himself, The LORD
said to my Lord, Sit thou (by) my right hand,

(35)	Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

	“The Lord said to my Lord.” The Lord descends with the Shout, and
we meet the Lord in the air. Which Lord is he talking about? See, not
Jesus-Only now. Jesus is not his own Father and vice-versa. We’re
talking now about the one that is His Son that said, “Restore to me
the glory I had with you.” and the voice said, “I will certainly do
that.” So now, he says here, “This One is going to have the kingdom
put under His feet.” But It also says, in chapter 3, there is no way
that can happen until Elijah comes and restores the Word. Now, who’s
the Elijah of this hour? The Lord Jesus Christ. 

	Now, is he talking about the man that’s on the throne? the one that
had the preexistence up there? He’s talking about God Himself. It
doesn’t matter how you try to understand this, get this flat: the
Jehovah of the Old is Jesus of the New, and he’s not talking about
flesh. And he’s not talking about Son. He’s talking about Joshua, or
Jehovah Savior, which is the word ‘Joshua’. And that Name was given
to that Son, the Son bearing His Father’s Name—come in his
Father’s Name. He said, “You won’t take me.” He said, “I’m
Jesus. I’m Jehovah Savior. I have my Father’s Name.” 

	Now, he tells you right here, that flesh cannot descend. The Lord
Himself descend from heaven. He’s going to put all things under the
feet of Jesus, and when that is done, the church is under him, and we go
back to the Marriage Supper. God appears to us in the symbol, likely the
Pillar of Fire, because He appears in a symbol. Israel comes in, comes
back and destroys the rest; all under his feet. Then at the end of the
Millennium, he turns the kingdom back to the Father, the Father becomes
All in All. 

54.	No, It says right here. [2 Thessalonians 1]

(7)	…you who are troubled rest with us, ….the Lord be revealed from
heaven with his mighty (messengers),

(8)	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, …obey
not the gospel…(and so on.)

	But here’s the main thing. You who are troubled rest with us when the
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty messengers. 

(10)	When he shall (have) come to be glorified in his saints, and…be
admired in all them that believe (Now, he’s coming for this hour.)
(because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

	That tells you right there, the very One that brought the Word to Paul
is here revealing It, and that was the Pillar of Fire. As Bro. Branham
said, “He left the flesh, and went back to the Pillar of Fire.”
That’s why you got people misunderstanding everything about Jesus.
“Oh, he’s in comatose. He’s here. He’s evaporated. The body
dis…” Oh, come on, don’t be a nut. Time’s gone. So that’s it. 

55.	We were looking at this over here. Was that the…way back in page
30 over here.

[31-2]	He said, all right, Jehovah’s bride, well, …Jehovah’s
bride, got into the mixed seed...what have you. 

	We can continue tomorrow morning without reviewing hardly
anything—just start working there—concerning the virgin Mary and her
testimony, because that’s what we were up against at this point. She
had the testimony. She believed the messenger. She never equivocated.
She said, “I’ll take that.” Now my question is this: how many are
going to be in that Bride? Very, very few. 

	Let’s bow our heads in prayer.

	Heavenly Father, we come to You tonight now, at the close of this
preaching service, to enter into the Communion and Foot-washing, Lord,
which has been ordained of You and commanded. And Father, we are happy
to obey this commandment. We know there’s very little in your Word
that’s a direct commandment. It’s actually a matter of life and
revelation that comes, because of that life, guiding and helping and
Lord, we know that Your Word never fails. And Father, we don’t want to
fail Your Word, so we just open our hearts now at this time, and may we
gather truth and understanding from Your Word, even more, as we study a
little bit, and then, we have these elements. Help us, we pray, in
Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

	[Communion and Foot-washing service follows.]