Stewardship Q&A #7

Satan Is Leading in the Worship of God

January 31, 1998

	Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Presence, and we know as the
prophet said, when someone has deceased, gone on, and you speak kindly
and sweetly of them, their sweet presence enters the room, as though
they were with us. He didn’t stress that too much, but it seems as
though there was a reality there that we’re missing, a part of a
dimension. But we do know this, Lord, when we talk about You, You being
here, You are here, and that is absolutely certain and sure. You have
not left us, for You have not yet raised the dead, and even when You
raise the dead, You will still be here to take us with You to the great
Marriage Supper, when You Yourself become incarnate to us, we crown You
King of kings and Lord of lords. And we know that to be the truth, Lord,
and yet as Bro. Branham said, “If we’re not Bride there’s a Bride
out there somewhere and by the grace of God I won’t stand in her
way.” 

	We know these things are true Lord, positively, absolutely certified,
identified, we know with reality. And that reality, Lord, we have, we
are grateful for it, and, if we can see this reality, Lord, we know
it’s going to go from reality to reality, until one day we land in
that place, Lord, with You, where there is that absolute perfection,
from that point on. We cannot praise You enough for Your goodness, and
may we learn much tonight. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, before we go into questions and some answers here… Of course,
I don’t guarantee I’m one hundred percent right, I just do my best
from what you ask, and going to the Message and taking that back to the
Word. But there’s something that we want to look at very, very closely
here, and that is that when it comes to worship, you have to realize
where worship started. Now worship starts up here, first of all; you
start with God, and there isn’t any worship. There’s no worship
there whatsoever, but there is a self-identification. Because God knows
Who He is, and God knows What He is, and God knows exactly what He can
do and what He cannot do. 

	Now I realize when people talk about God in sovereignty, they say God
can do anything. Now that is not true. That is absolutely not true.
Every single thing has to manifest according to what His essentiality
and intrinsicality is, what it actually, positively is, and different
you can say from anything else, so that when you identify this, you have
identified whatever it is to the nth degree. There isn’t any less, and
there isn’t any more. Now I know that some people may think that God
is becoming more and more. Well, I don’t [believe] that. I don’t buy
that for one minute. I will [receive] this though, that God can
manifest, and God can do every single thing within His Godhoodedness
[that lies within Him],  that we don’t even have a clue to--that we
don’t even have a smattering of an understanding what lies there.
“Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither entered the heart of man,”
nor the mind of man, nor anything else. It’s like comparing one drop
of water with all the oceans in the world. 

2.	Now the earth is 25,000 miles in circumference, and only one-sixth of
the earth is a land mass. So, by the time you begin getting a land mass,
and you got ocean depths someplace, (I suppose as much as five miles
down.) and you figure the vastness of the trillions of tons, I suppose,
of water, and then, you take one drop in comparison, that would be you
and me, just from this Word of God, and the illumination we have thus
far by the Holy Spirit, I would consider that a drop to what is there. 

	So, God is bound by Himself, and whatever lay in God, and whatever God
desired by that which lay within Him, He has every right to bring forth.
And that’s exactly why I’ve always said when you come to the Bible
you must keep the Word within the framework of the Word or forget it!
And I can prove that by the fact that God will not accept anything
outside of the true revelation of His Word. Anything else He will
reject. So, if He rejects anything down here, apart from His Word, then
everything up here must be according to His Word. It’s got to start
somewhere, got to start right up here. [Figure 1]

	So, now with God there’s absolutely nothing, nothing but God. Well,
now what kind of space does He fill? That has nothing to do with it.
What kind of knowledge does He have? Well, that has a little bit to do
with it. But I won’t know, because it’s infinite, and how can my one
drop of water compare to the billions of tons in the ocean? So, I just
give up. That’s wisdom and knowledge. What about His power? Well,
that’s the same thing again. What I would have would be… Well,
it’s wonderful and marvelous when you consider God giving us these
things, but it’s just the teeniest amount so to speak.

3.	So, here’s God all by Himself. Now here He is, and the first thing,
there comes forth a light. And we’ll put that forth in blue, and
we’ll use a blue crayon on it… at the same time, well what do you
say we do this? The red signifies God, really we usually use blue, but
we’re going to do this way. So, we’ve got this signification up
here, and now this light comes out. Now it’s not a blue light really,
it’s an amber light, but I don’t have amber, and I don’t have
enough colors here… I don’t have brown, if I had a brown I could do
an amber.[] I just got to do this, and you know what I mean, you’ve
got to know what I’m talking about, it should be an amber light. But
it’s not amber. 

	So, all right. Now, here we come out here, and this light forms, and
we’ll call it a royal purple, that’s maybe what we should do…
that’s a good idea right there. Now that’s not too great, but you
got to believe it is. See, now faith is believing. First thing it will
turn out green. We don’t want that. 

	Now here is where, as Bro. Branham said, Sonship begins, and God in
Sonship begins. The beginning of the creation of God, where God creates
Himself in human flesh, it starts right up here. See? That’s where it
is. Now this one here is a logos. It’s a logos, and it’s a beautiful
expression of logos, because you cannot really appreciate the word
‘logos’ apart from what we’re looking at. Because when you talk
about logos, as Bro. Branham used it, not superficially, but he used it
like most students use it, most people think of it, that we have the
Word. In the beginning was the Word, which is Logos. And the Word is an
expression of the thought. So, if the Word expresses the thought,
you’re looking at something, which is an expression! See? As an
expression. And it must contain whatever it should express! Well, this
should give you the idea right away why God put the Ten Commandments,
“Thou shalt not make unto you any graven image whatsoever, because you
don’t have a clue!” But the Bible said, “Christ is the image of
God.” 

4.	So, this one here was going to be the expression, he’s the logos
that came out of God. Now remember, in Jn 1:1, God’s His Own Logos,
because He indwelt the flesh and manifested through it. And Jesus said,
“I and my Father are one.” 

	And Bro. Branham said, “You’re looking at me aren’t you? It’s
not William Branham that says those that comes to pass so perfectly, or
those mighty deeds that are done, it’s God.” 

	So, you understand what I’m talking about? That’s logos. Logos;
real logos. See it’s got to contain a part of the intrinsicality. So
all right, he calls that a logos, which is certainly very, very true.
And this one here is going to be the image of God as He comes on down
here. 

5.	Now this Son, as Bro. Branham said, and here is what Bro. Branham
said. That this prophet in the end time, not only reveals--and he goes
back to the serpent in the garden, to the prophet in the former
rain--but Bro. Branham says on top of that, and here’s what people
simply don’t want to understand, they think Bro. Branham’s a
Kentucky hillbilly--a nut who thinks he’s so smart because he had a
big ministry, and now he’s blowing his mouth off. But this same
prophet said he would reveal the things which were not known from before
the foundation of the world. Show me one place in Scripture where
anybody could have placed what I’m talking about now, this light came
out. A light formed when there was nothing to form from. 

	Now see, there’s where they got all [confusedabout] Godhead. This is
the Son of God! Show me one disciple that was [wrong] in his thinking.
Tonight I just went through the Scripture for [proof]. Well, you know, I
[got a blessing from it.] The inspiration. And there wasn’t one
disciple who ever called him God [after Pentecost!] No!  There wasn’t.
They called him the Son of God, and when Peter preached after Pentecost,
categorically, he said, “Jesus, a man of Nazareth, anointed by God,
the Holy Ghost, went around doing good, healing the sick, casting out
devils, and raising the dead, and so on.” 

	[] When Jesus said to the disciples, “Who do men say that I the Son
of man am,” they said, “Well some say you’re Elijah, some Elisha,
some Jeremiah, one of the prophets,” so on, so forth. 

	But he said, “Who do you say I am?” 

	Peter said, “Though art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” He
never said “You were Christ the living God!” Or a living God. He
said, “You are Messiah!” 

6.	So, all right. You will notice there that none of them ever called
him God. The closest it came is when Philip said, “Show us the
Father.” And he said, “That will be really good.” 

	Jesus had said, “No man can see the Father, no man has seen the
Father, no man can see the Father and live, no man can see God.” 

	He said, “Show us the Father.” 

	He said, “Have I been so long with you Philip that you have not known
me? You haven’t seen the Father?” He said, “Who do you think is
doing these works here?” 

	Now that’s the place you will find him identifying himself with the
Father, but only on the grounds that the Father indwelt him! He didn’t
say the Son was indwelling him! It wasn’t God the Son indwelling this
piece of flesh! It was God the Father indwelling this piece of flesh.
See, here’s the point: if you read your Bible you will not [go wrong].
But you listen to a bunch [] preachers and teachers….

7.	All right. Right up here you see that Son. Now, the Bible gives us a
mystery, in Paul the Apostle. John says, “In the beginning was the
Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God. All things were
created by Him, and there wasn’t anything made that was not made by
Him.” Now that’s exactly true. The same John that said that, had
also written down, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Don’t
you recognize the Father in me is doing the works, and speaking these
words?” Don’t you also recognize the fact that Paul himself said,
“God created all things by Christ Jesus”? And don’t you recognize,
also, the fact that God was in Christ redeeming the world? 

	[] The Jehovah Witnesses came the closest according to Revelation 3:14,
the beginning of the creation of God. They said that God created Jesus,
and he became the agent of creation. They missed it. God did not create
Jesus; God birthed him. Now at the same time, when He birthed him, God
gave birth to Himself, on what grounds? As God. Because God is an object
of worship, and God is sovereign. Fathers are not sovereign, only God is
sovereign. Fathers are authoritative, but God is above authority,
because He is the authority. And God in His Word is one. 

8.	So, now God by Christ Jesus creates [] everything in here. Now at the
time of creation He created cherubim, He created seraphim, He created…
Well, the cherub and cherubim I think are the pretty well the same
thing, although there might be somebody want to split a hair over that.
I don’t. Cherub and cherubim to me are the very same thing. So, He
created the seraphim and the cherubim. He created the archangels. He
created the angels. And there was then in heaven around here a vast
number. And one of the great creations up there that led in the worship,
was this person called Satan. Now Bro. Branham and other people
categorically state, but Bro. Branham is the one that states it; also
Seventh Day Adventism believes the same thing that Jesus took on the
personage of Michael, the archangel. [Figure 2]

	So, all right. We have in here then, the picture of this one here, and
this one here, who are leading in the worship, and we’re going to find
that the plausibility of that, and I say plausibility, but it’s not
only plausible, it’s actually the fact, because Bro. Branham said so.
And Bro. Branham was not one to quote other people as authorities unless
he was led by God to quote those people, knowing that they were a part
of the former and present system of religion and perhaps fundamental,
and even the extent of being born again, but without having a true and a
perfect knowledge, but they had a good knowledge to the point where they
came. Now I hope you’re following me there, because a lot of people
were full of the Holy Ghost before Bro. Branham came on the scene. 

9.	Now, let’s look at the picture. At the same time hold everything in
mind, because I’m trying to get a lot of thoughts in here. Bro.
Branham said that this age needs to return to Pentecost. If this age
needs to return to Pentecost, then you better believe something and
watch it. We’ll bring you back here.[] Let’s go to the fact here’s
Pentecost. Here’s the Pillar of Fire coming down. This is Elohim. God
dividing Himself, not all of Himself, dividing Himself here. At
Pentecost, right? Now then, what happened after Pentecost? They went
everywhere preaching Christ crucified, Messiah, risen from the dead,
demonstrating in many signs and wonders as it was in the Day of
Pentecost, and you know the record of the Book of Acts. But at the time
of Pentecost, and the record of the Book of Acts, this One here appears
to a man called Saul. He knocked Saul down, takes him over here to
Arabia, gives him the Word.[] Did that Word come at Pentecost up here?
No! They never had the Word! It was Paul that had the Word! So let’s
get back to Pentecost! That’s Pentecost. Not speaking in tongues and a
bunch of gifts, which are fine, nothing against it. Nothing against it.
But this is what happened. [Figure 3]

10.	Now, just hold that in mind and put it to one side. We’re back
here now in the beginning. All of this up here is created, the earth
down here, all of these good things were in order, but we don’t have
any [ ] man, anywhere doing anything. We just have God. Now God… And
remember, all the time, it’s “Blessed be the God and Father,”
because remember, fathers are only authoritative in a very limited
manner. There’s no way. There’s always a law above a father. Now
[with] every country, there’s a law above the father, and above the
country there is another law, which is God. And you’ll find a lot of
things in there that can be legal but not lawful, in the sense that
there’s a precedent up here somewhere that makes people to think well,
this is okay [when] it [really is]n’t okay. It’s a good thing we
have the Blood, brother/sister. You better believe that, or we’d all
stand here condemned before Almighty God.

	So, fine. We’ve got up here, then, the system in heaven is a system
of worship. That’s what we have now. This makes it the way it is. And
there’s no such thing as man down here yet. But man will be down there
shortly, because he’s going to be down here on the earth, and he will
be there.  [Figure 2]

11.	Okay. Now we go to the Book of Isaiah 14:

(12)	How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, (thou) didst weaken the nations!

	Now he’s a son there, but he’s a son by creation. He’s only the
son of the morning. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
You’ve got something in here that has to do with time. And evidently
there was a light, and there was Son, and there were these other things
there before Satan was created. Otherwise, why would you have a figure
of speech, when there wasn’t any figure? Right? You can’t have
figure of speech, unless there’s a figure. You can’t say a woman’s
as thin as a broomstick, unless there’s a broomstick [or] a man’s
sour as a lemon, unless there’s a lemon. So, how can Satan be a son of
the morning, without there being a morning--without there being some
kind of light? 

12.	So, this is ephemeral. In other words this one is not eternal.

(12)	…how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! (It didn’t say kill them, it said weakened them. What
weakens? Sin.)

(13)	For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God: 

	“I’m going to get above the very elect of God. I’m going to be
above everything. In other words, I am going to institute myself, not
only as God, but I’m going to institute myself as father.” Well,
come on. [“I’m] going to be above the stars, the children of God.
You’re going to have to have a bunch of children somewhere. “I’m
going to take over,” he said, “the family of God.” 

(13)	I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, (He’s not
going to be content to sit in the congregation and worship God, because
that’s what he’s doing. He’s going to take over and be as God.)

(14)	I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the
most High.

13.	Now God being a Savior, Satan will come along, and he’ll institute
some form of forgiveness. God being a healer, the devil will come along,
and he’ll institute some kind of a healing, which will be by drugs and
everything else, because drugs take over at the end time. And drugs are
drugs. That’s your pharmaceutical [industry]. 

(16)	Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,

(17)	They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider
thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, (and) did
shake (the) kingdoms;

	Now you can find right here that this creation of God has to at some
time or other take the form of a human being. Because It says it right
here. This will be an incarnation, of course. Well, it was with Judas.

(18)	That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
thereof; that opened not the house of (the) prisoners?

	In other words, at the very end time, when the whole thing’s
[falling]; everybody’s a prisoner, and everybody’s looking to this
man to make them all free. Even Castro shook hands with him. [He] put on
a blue suit, put away his fatigues, and confessed the next day he’d
made mistakes; there should be more freedom. “Hail the pope.” Oh
he’s riding high. Why he’s God to the people. He’s the Vicar of
Christ, so says he. And Malachi Martin says he’s got the fisherman’s
ring. What in the world is a fisherman’s ring? And the shepherd’s
crook! Well, I admit there’s crookedness there. Those [people] don’t
make one bit of difference to me. []       

14.	Isaiah 28. Now here now is a parable. Here is now a figure of
speech, also. This is Ezekiel 28.

(2)	Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, (Now this is a prince, not
the king of Tyrus now.) Thus saith the Lord; Because thine heart is
lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in
the midst of the seas; (that’s peoples,) yet thou art a man, and not
God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

(3)	Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
hide from thee: (Now Daniel was a very wise person. He dealt in dreams
and visions and things. He could even tell things that a person dreamed.
Certainly had great insight.)

(4)	With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

(5)	By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy
riches, thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

(6)	Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou set thine heart as
the heart of God;

(7)	Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy
wisdom, they shall defile thy brightness.

(8)	They shall bring thee down to the pit, thou shalt die the deaths of
them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (Now we’re looking at
end time history here, whether you know it or not.)

(9)	Wilt thou say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt
be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

	Now you see, Jesus is coming back with His Bride at the end time, and
they’re actually people, and they’re going to be meeting people. And
this is where Satan is taken.

(10)	(And) thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord. (This is also history
and history to come.)

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 

Son of man, take up a lamentation (against) the king of Tyrus, and say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 

	Now here’s the devil himself; up here is the antichrist. Here’s the
king; here’s the son of the king. Number one, the son of the king, now
the king himself. And so, who is the father of this man? Satan is. And
how is he the father? By a beast. And remember, at the end time it is
found by science that the human race is 99.99 of one breed. 99.9. And
also, the Bible said they’re nothing but brute beasts made to be taken
and destroyed. So then, what is this man? He is in the form of a beast,
and he’s called the beast in the Book of Revelation. And all those
around him are beasts. 

15.	Now watch:

(13)	Thou hast been in the Eden the garden of God; (Now, how in the
world was he there except in the serpent? He took the most intelligent
creature, the subtle one, the sly one, outside of man, very beautiful,
very [intelligent], and used him. He was in Eden.) every precious stone
was thy covering, the sardius, (the) topaz, the diamond, (And remember,
this is the ephod showing that he is the high priest that approached
Eve.)

	Now, what is a high priest? He leads in the worship of God. So, Satan
right up here was leading in the worship of God with Jesus. He was the
cherub that covered. He had the distinct privilege and the stewardship
of keeping the ranks in order and perfect before God, so that nothing
would be defiled.

(15)	(And) thou wast perfect in (all) thy ways… (until) iniquity was
found in (you).

	Which means the perversion of the Word. And a perversion of the Word
perverts the person. Now notice, he’s the high priest leading the
worship of God in the Garden of Eden to Eve. Now, if you don’t think
that, well, let’s just read a little further. He’s the high priest.
And notice, he was created to do it. Now that’s what I want you to
notice. He was created to do it! 

16.	Now, if this pen were made to put blue marks on the board, and it
turned up green, then it was not created to put blue marks on the board!
Right? Amen. Now, get what I’m talking about. 

	You say, “Well Bro. Vayle, there could have been a mistake
there…” 

	[Quiet!] [There’s no mistake.] He was created for the purpose to lead
in worship. Right? That’s exactly right. “I made you that way;
that’s the way you are.” He had a deep within him, but it went
wrong. And with everybody, there is a deep. That’s what I said a while
ago, if Bro. Branham said, “How you ought to love each other, you that
love this Word.” That’s why some folk hate [me and hate you]. They
don’t love this Word! If they did, they’d know everybody’s got
fishhooks on his elbows! This is brotherly kindness! This is the age
where you and I are not going to be perfect by love, except Him Who is
love! But I’ll tell you one thing, “When somebody gets in
trouble,” (And we may have our problems.) “we will come,” Bro.
Branham said, “and we will help, and we’ll show we are brothers.” 

	But, forget this kissy, lovey stuff, that covers up lies and sin. Now,
if you want that, fine! [You’ll find it.]   []

		Now he was created for this purpose. He said, “I made you this way.
And you came right down in the garden, and you led in worship.” 

17.	(14)	Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.

	Now I looked up that word ‘anointed’. I went to the Greek. Do you
know that word ‘anointed’ is hardly in the Bible (in the Greek)? And
you will find this: the anointing actually means ‘positioned’ and
‘smeared by God with abilities to perform’—‘separated’. Paul
uses the word ‘anointed’ concerning himself. John uses the word
‘anointing’ concerning those that are Bride; they can’t be fooled!
Because [they]’ve been smeared and positioned! Hallelujah. We ought to
be shouting right now! []

	18.	(14)	Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; I have set thee
so. 

	Anointed, see? Positioned. Smeared by God. The oil upon you. “I have
set thee so.” He was created, and he was set. Tell me when he was
uncreated and unset! []

	 (15)	Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee. (Till you changed the Word.)

(16)	By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence. 

	Remember my sermon, when I took you to the Garden of Eden, and took you
outside the Garden, with the four rivers where civilization goes? And
what did I tell you we found there? Gold. Gold. And we found synthetics;
we found commerce; we found industry. And the minute they left the
garden they had to take up industry. They had to take up wealth and gold
for Satan’s kingdom. And here it is all outlined, right from the
Garden of Eden! 

	Now, I read it. “Thou wast in Eden! You were a high priest [and
teacher] to Eve! She took the bait! She bore the infants]! She’s the
mother of all living!” [It] didn’t say Adam was [father]. Now
99.999% [is] all serpent seed, and then some. [Are] you going to tell me
that manifest in the flesh today that there’s 99.999 of one father,
and they’re going to make any kind of a Bride? Those are beasts.
They’re beasts. [Brute beasts]. 

19.	 Now:

(16)	And thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of
the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire. ([Has] he been destroyed? Not by a long
shot. Was he kicked out? He certainly was. No problem. Let’s keep
watching.)

(17)	Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, (Bro. Branham
spoke often of that. He complimented the Pentecostals, their crying, and
their [praising God] at the same time. But the smart people can’t
stand it, they got to have something beautiful, something [serene].
Something kind of lovely, you know. Now he said,) thou hast corrupted
thy wisdom (Now watch, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom) by reason of thy
brightness: (by reason of. He destroyed what he had gotten from God in
the beginning, the wisdom of God, and he turned it into reasoning!
Didn’t he get Eve reasoning? He certainly did.) I will cast thee to
the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

(18)	Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries. Thou hast defiled thy
sanctuaries) by the multitude of thine iniquities. 

	Oh, he’s got sanctuaries.

	“Let us go into the sanctuary. We’re merely in the foyer. Come in
the sanctuary, where we can worship God around the altar, and I’ll put
a little round thing on your lips, and I’ll drink the wine myself.” 


	And it’s okay. Like your Lutherans, and you want a nude woman
dancing. That’s okay too. Or you’re like the [Wierwell] bunch that
say, “I can do anything I want in the flesh, because the flesh profits
nothing. It’s the spirit that counts. And the next day, after having
my adulteries with another man’s wife, I can talk in tongues and
practice gifts and things. It’s all fine. I can be a Swaggert! No
problem. [Just cry. “Forgive me!”  Cry. Listen. anybody can turn the
waterworks on for a million dollars. If you think I can’t cry for a
million bucks, tempt me! I won’t betray the Lord; I’ll just cry.
Bring on the onions. I’m just kidding, of course.

20.	(18)	Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, (the multitude of perverting the Word!) by the iniquity of
thy traffic; (buying souls and selling souls. Paying for a novena, mass,
everything else. The Protestants are just the same.) therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold
thee. 

	[Do] you know the best of Satan’s wisdom [is] now in the church? The
atomic bomb. It’s everywhere now. You can even get little bombs that
will take a whole city out. Carry it in a suitcase. You talk about
terrorism? Now where is terrorism coming from? It’s coming from
religion. 

20.	Now here’s why I’m talking this way, and spending all this time.
It’s because I want you to realize that Satan is still leading in the
worship of God in his sanctuaries. He’s pointing always to God, be it
Allah, be it this, be it that. It doesn’t bother him. He’s pointing
to a trinity. He’s pointing to God that’s His Own Father, and His
Own Son. The oneness and the threeness and the who knows what[ness].
He’s pointing to it, using the Name of Jesus. It doesn’t bother him
one little bit, because it’s all perversion, and he’s got nothing
but this Word to pervert, because that’s all there is in this world is
the Word of God! And it’s all gone--perverted. 

	So, Satan is leading in worship right today, because he was created to
lead in worship. And he was kicked out of heaven when he got the angels
to follow him. And when he gets mankind at the end time to follow him,
as they’ve been doing for six thousand solid years at the end time,
after his final incarnation, he will be brought down low and kept there
for one thousand years, then loosed, and his power’s so strong, and
his hatred’s so great, that he will rally every single resurrected
beast against God and all the unholy angels, and attempt to take the
holy encampment. And fire will come down and destroy them. 

21.	So, my position tonight is this: you are going to hear on every
side, “Oh, we believe in God.” “We believe this.” “We’ve got
the Bible. “We have this, and we have that.” 

	Oh, do you now? How many sanctuaries in this land without knowing it,
dedicated to God knowingly, but the unknown God because they don’t
know Him, because He’s neither a trinity nor a oneness, as the oneness
people preach Him to be, because He is not His Own Father. 

	They said, “Bro. Branham what’s the difference between Jesus Christ
and God?” 

	He said, “[There is] no difference, except one had a beginning.” 

	And that’s exactly true! Because tell me, except the beginning here,
what was there a difference? No difference at all! Because he was the
substance of God, the very life of God. And that’s where Israel got
mad, because he declared himself to be a Son as no one else was a son.
See?

22.	So, get the picture. Having come on down here, this whole earth is
now defiled, using the Bible. “In vain do you worship me having for
traditions the doctrines of men.” The word ‘tradition’ means
‘teaching’. ‘Trado’, that which is taken across and given. See?
“In vain do you have it. You haven’t got it,” He said. “You’re
worshipping me, but it’s all in vain. It’s all vain. Now listen to
me. It’s all in vain.” And you know what everybody’s looking for
now? They’re looking for the rapture, and Bro. Branham said, and we
didn’t even know we were, even as we didn’t know Elijah was going to
come, didn’t know it was William Branham, he said, “The Bride is
waiting for the revelation of the Rapture,” and we thought we had the
revelation. And we didn’t. And we were waiting for it. And do you know
why we were waiting for it? Because it wasn’t yet given! Now we were
longing for a rapture! Hallelujah, get me out of here, Lord. We didn’t
have the revelation. We didn’t know about the Appearing! 

	Oh, they said, “The appearing and the coming are two different
things.” And they’re right. 

	And they said the appearing is the rapture. It was a big lie! Anybody
[that] can read John ought to understand that.

23.	Let’s go back to 1 John 3. [End of side one of the audio tape.]

(1)	Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God: (that’s the children of God, the
born ones.) therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew not
(him).

(2)	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, (and neither has it come into
being, or hath) appear(ed) what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

	You’ve got to see Him to get your change! But everybody knows that
you got to be changed to get up in the air to see Him. Now, how are you
going to get up in the air to see Him without your change, and you’ve
got to be changed by seeing Him? Are you kind of getting what I’m
talking about? It says right here, you’ve got to see Him to get your
change. And He’s going to appear, and you’re going to see Him. Now
just a minute. 

(1)	Behold, what manner [of love] the Father (who is God) hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called (his) sons: (his children.) therefore
the world (doesn’t know) us, because it (didn’t know God).

(2)	Beloved, now are we the sons of God, it doth not appear what we
shall be: but we know that, when (God) shall appear, (we’ll) be like
him; (because we’ll) see (God) as he is.

	“When you see God descend from the heavens and stand before groups of
men and declare Himself as ever He did,” then you saw God. 

	[They] said, “Bro. Branham what does it mean, Jesus said, “He that
hath seen me hath seen the Father?”” 

	“You’re looking at me aren’t you?” he said. 

	I didn’t know he said that, but preaching in Don Ruddle’s church, I
heard myself say, “You weren’t looking at a man. You’re looking at
God.” I was so stunned; I kept right on talking, knowing I had to
cover up in a hurry. They said I was deity. And I said, “What was
it?” It was God in the man. [One] hundred percent right. 

24.	He appeared. He didn’t only appear in mighty signs and wonders
when He went to Egypt with Moses, but He Himself appeared in a Pillar of
Fire upon Mount Sinai, and so today. And we have His picture. [Bro.
Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire on the wall.] That’s
not the Lamb. That’s the Father of the Lamb. So, they couldn’t
understand that one. 

	So, Bro. Branham said, “The Bride was waiting for the revelation of
the Rapture.” 

	And they said, “Hallelujah, we got [it], because He’s going to
appear. That’s the Rapture.” 

	But you see, you’ve got to see God, before you get changed. You’ve
got to see Him as He is; every generation in His Word, Seven Church
Ages. And at the end time He comes down from heaven with the prophet on
earth. And the Seventh Seal was Rev 10:1-7. And, when Bro. Branham
flipped all the pages open, took all the Seals off by the power of God,
he said, “The seals are off, number seven, but it’s not open to the
public.” 

	And they’re still going around saying, “The Seventh Seal isn’t
open.”  []

	They didn’t hear him say, “Revelation 10:1-7 is the Seventh
Seal.” That’s when Elohim came down, and the prophet William Branham
was on earth.  

	“When you see God descend from the heavens, stand before groups of
men…” Oh, they hated that. They couldn’t take it. And the pope
will stand up and say, “I’m the vicar.”	I know you should be nice
to these dignitaries; I never could reconcile myself to Paul apologizing
for calling down the high priest. I wish I had his spirit, you know, be
nice and sweet and kind. But you know something, if I were just that
nice and sweet and kind, like a lot of people are, they wouldn’t even
have any idea of what was actually said, though I don’t claim I’m
the only one doing it. 

25.	Now listen. It tells you right here that we’re going to see Him as
He is, and we saw Him as He is, completely revealed. And you know as
well as I do, when the Bible says, “The Only-begotten hath declared
Him,” that Word is made to bring Him forth perfectly, a description by
words. Because there’s no such thing as anybody ever knowing anything
from God, no matter what it is, until God comes behind and explains it.
And we saw exactly Rev 10:1-7, the Seven Seals; we saw It open, and we
saw It as It is.

26.	So, there’s my picture tonight. And I’ve taken all that time,
because it’s been on my heart all week, and more than one week. It’s
been on my heart for weeks, now, to bring this to a place where I want
you to know that Satan is leading in the worship of God. He’s leading
in every single church in his sanctuaries. And every word is full of
iniquity. The whole thing is a complete mess. The whole thing is
completely wrong. See? 

	Now, let’s look at the Word: Satan is leading in the worship of God.
And things are going on. He’s got his sanctuaries that have been
dedicated to God. Unwittingly, unknowingly, he that worships without
spirit and in truth is worshipping God in vain, and if he’s
worshipping God in vain through this word’s perversion, through whom
is he worshipping God? Satan. 

27.	Now let’s go a little further, because I’m bringing some loose
ends together, in a certain way, introducing you to some of my thoughts
that I want you to get. Because these come to me, and as they come to
me, I take them to heart, because they’re Bible. And I wait and see
what the Lord may possibly show me. So, I’m looking at this now.
We’re going to go to Gal 4:19, because we’re talking about now the
two churches. Satan’s church and God’s church; God’s wife,
Satan’s wife, and so on.

(19)	My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ
be formed in you,

(20)	I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I
stand in doubt of you.

(21)	Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the
law?

(22)	For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a bondmaid,
(one) by a freewoman.

(23)	But he who was of the (bondsmaid) was born after the flesh; but he
of the freewoman was (born) by promise.

	Now remember, Ishmael was born because Sarah said, “I am not
evidently going to have a baby, and I don’t want to deprive you of a
son, and God doesn’t seem to be answering this word of yours He gave
to you. And I tell you, just take Hagar, you’ll have your son.” 

	28.	Now:

(24)	Which things are an allegory.

	That’s an extended parable. You get something here that’s, as it
were, a long way off--really almost desperate like--to get your point
across. But Paul, speaking by the Holy Ghost, you better believe he’s
one hundred percent in the clear. 

(24)	Which things are an allegory: for these are two covenants; 

	Is it not true that there was a covenant for Isaac and a covenant for
Ishmael? Absolutely. Was there not one for Jacob and one for Esau?
Notice how the one came right down, parallel, two vines, right? Okay.

(24)	Which things are an allegory: for these are two covenants; one from
mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondange, which is Agar.

(25)	(And) this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, (which) answer(s) to
Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 

	And Israel was absolutely worshipping God through iniquity. And the
traditions of the father under the thralldom of Satan, absolutely.
Hagar. The traditional, fundamental, reasonable, and reasoning from
Scripture, and reasoning from the mind, and reasoning from humanity,
reasoning from philosophy--because Paul mentions philosophy. All of
these things they were reasoning. 

29.	So, their religion now was entirely void of God. The smoking flax he
quenched. The bruised reed he broke. It’s over. They haven’t
anything, till they say, “Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the
Lord.” And they’re all calling on Jehovah. Some mighty wonderful
things are going on as God brings them back to the restoration. They
even got the red heifer. I think it possibly could be that which
they’re hoping to be able to start temple worship with the ashes.
Looks very good. 

	But watch.

(26)	But Jerusalem which is (from) above, which is the mother of us all.


	Now that’s not a true rendition of Isaiah, and it couldn’t be from
what Paul is saying. It says, “Which is our mother.” The New
Testament true Bride under Paul. Now, let’s keep reading.

(27)	For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break
forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more
chldren than she which hath an husband.

(28)	Now we, brethren, as Isaac, are the children of promise.

(29)	But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that
was born after the Spirit, even so now. (Yeah, it was going on with
Paul. The Jews hated him. Do you think the denominations loved Bro.
Branham? They hated him; they hate us. They can’t stand it.)

(30)	Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and
her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of
the freewoman.

(31)	So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the
free.

	Now what was it that God said to Abraham? “You will have a son by
Sarah, and nobody else.” 

	And Sarah said, “Well, I think Hagar will fit in very well, because
there’s no use in me trying. I’m way past trying. It’s okay for
you Abraham. You can still get by with it, bring forth a son.” 	It
could have been a daughter. 

 30.	Now, let us go to Scripture. The son, a bastard son, cannot enter
temple worship for ten generations. Now what is a bastard child? A
bastard child according to Scripture is where you have the man married
to the wrong woman and bringing forth a child by her. Because Abraham is
the start of the covenant people: Isaac, Jacob, the twelve sons, and
from thereon. And, if any Israelite married any woman outside of being
an Israelite, that was a bastard child. Do you follow me? So, the first
bastard child was Ishmael! Why? Because his mother was an Egyptian! Now
you show me any Ishmaelite, or Esau, that’s a true Semite, that’s
with the Jewish religion, even though the Jews have very little today,
if anything, except for the 144,000 coming. 

31.	So now, what I’m going to tell you tonight is this: this woman had
the semen, the seed, sperm, of something genuine. And it brought forth a
bastard. Now, the Bible says distinctly Satan has synagogues, it
mentions that right in the Bible, Revelation, synagogue of Satan. He’s
got his sanctuaries. And he’s got Hagar. Many more are the children of
the desolate than she that hath a husband.

	So, you’re looking at a perverted word church that has a life in it.
Now listen carefully, they grafted an orange branch into a lemon tree,
because it was so close, and the orange branch bore oranges living on
the life of the lemon tree. Okay? You have everything living off of God,
and all these grafts in there. And you have Ishmael living off the life
that came from Abraham, but he was a bastard. 

32.	Now you, the church today, where the two spirits are so close, you
have that church anointed; it has been set aside. They are the
synagogues, the sanctuaries of Satan, but they are living off the life,
branches that don’t belong, showing manifestation of fruit, signs,
wonders, miracles, acting just like Christians, living off the life that
is there. But remember, they are perverted the same as Hagar was, and
they are bastard children, because the life that is in those churches is
not Bride life, which is a truly revealed Word of Almighty God. 

33.	Now remember, I showed you, when Jesus said, “Who do men say that
I, the Son of man, am?” 

	“Some say Elijah, some say Jeremiah, some say Isaiah, one of the
prophets.” 

	“Who do you say?” 

	“Thou art the Christ, thou art Messiah, the Son of the living God.”


	Any Trinitarian church is living off the life of God, bearing bastard
children. How, then, can God respect any organization? How can any
organization be a part of the Bride? That’s why the foolish virgin are
out there, but you’re not going to have any Bride out there, because
the Bride has to come out from among them. Now get the picture again.
The Bride started with the Ephesian Church. Branches began to be grafted
into it, but the life kept moving on. Finally, the little life was come
down to a hub, the Bride tree cut down, but it began to come back, but
they still graft in the branches. And Bro. Branham said, “If another
branch ever comes forth it will be a Pentecostal branch.” But listen
now, when he said a Pentecostal branch, he also said, “Ephesus must
repeat.” So, Pentecost is Ephesus, with God come down leading a church
by His Word and a prophet with the Pillar of Fire, exalting the Lord
Jesus Christ, our elder brother, our High Priest, and our Savior. 

34.	Now we have no [relationship] with anybody but the Ephesian Church,
and neither has any other Bride member, because the motherhood--in other
words, that which God puts His life in, bringing forth children in
continuity--has to come to those that have the seed, coming right on
down. That may not be as clear as you want it, but that’s as clear as
I got it from God at this time. If I get it any clearer, I’ll tell
you. But that brings your picture. Satan leading in the worship, Satan
allowing, God allowing, Satan gifts, [or] manifestation. 

	How many people today have a rayon blouse? Anybody got a rayon?
You’ve got one [made of] rayon? Well, you’re not wearing the tree
though are you? No, you’re wearing something from the tree, though.
That’s the way the Holy Ghost is. You can have a gift, and believe me
it came from God. You bet it did. Don’t ever blaspheme. I’ll tell
you one thing. You don’t necessarily [have] God. Simple as A-B-C.

35.	So, all right. What I’m going to do is let you ask questions. Is
anything not clear on this [subject] of worship? So, you can see the
pope, you can see every single church, and you can see the devil is
actually where God put him in the first place, though He kicked him out
of heaven. He came right down to Eden, and led in the worship, and
he’s been doing it ever since. And, when they went outside of Eden,
they went for the gold and the silver, and the chemicals, and all [that
produces wealth]. 

	And then, when God began to separate a people, what did He do? He said
to Isaac, “These are yours. You’re a pastor, like a shepherd.
You’re out here in nature. You’re a farmer, back where it was.”
But, to the other people He said, “Oh you can have the abundance. You
can have all the blessing out there.” Then, it came to Jacob. And
Jacob got the birthright [that] was given from God. He had the right
mother; he had the right father. Very good--he had the right genes. Esau
didn’t. 

	So, what happened now? When Isaac began giving the blessing… Poor old
Isaac. Oh, he was in bad shape. But he thought that Jacob was Esau. So,
he opened his mouth, the Holy Ghost came upon him, but it was Jacob. The
Holy Ghost couldn’t do anything but bless Jacob, the way the Holy
Ghost, God, wanted it. Then, Esau came. So, what happens? He gives him
an earthly blessing, all kinds of blessing, “We’re increased in
goods. We’re rich. We don’t lack a thing. We got it all. Look at our
beautiful place. Look at this!” 

36.	That’s why I say; I always wanted a nice church. Today, forget it,
I wish I had a storefront. I’m not interested. Who needs a nice house?
I got a nice house, who needs the [cumbersome] thing? It costs me more
headaches than [one] knows what; nothing but a drag. Who needs it? You
don’t need it. With food and clothing therewith be content, and strive
to please God. See? 

	Oh, here it is, starts as soon as they left Eden, money, money, money,
riches, riches, riches, gold, silver, precious stones. Why they say the
Vatican cannot be valuated. It’s priceless. 

	Let me show you how precious things are. I once had a Honus Wagner
baseball card when I was a kid. I had more than one. You know what
they’re worth today? Five hundred thousand, minimum. [] Five hundred
thousand for a bunch of junk? I can’t believe it. I can’t believe
it. But that’s what it’s worth. I heard on the radio, this fellow
had comic books, and he had a pile from the origin, I think, of
Superman. They said, “Oh boy that’s worth a bundle!” A bunch of
comic books worth a million or three, four million dollars? A Van Gogh
worth 70 million dollars? Where’s that going to go? It’s going to go
up in smoke. It’s going to go where Van went. If you want to know the
truth. 

37.	Now shame on people. Shame on the churches. Rich beyond compare. You
know they kicked Bro. Branham out. I had the same experience. I was over
in Finley [Ohio] years ago. I’d go over there and preach in a place,
and the rats could come through the holes in the floor, and stuff like
that. [It] didn’t bother me any, you know, during the day they
weren’t around, and I wasn’t there during the night. And a little,
nice Presbyterian lady came one time; and she came, because she wanted
healing. And so, I prayed for her, and she got healed. 

	She said, “Oh thank you, now I can go back to my own church. It’s
sure much prettier than yours. I don’t like this dump.” 

	That was her idea. 

	I said, “Well fine,” that was fine by me. She was a poor old girl.
[She] didn’t know any better. Oh, you know, back to your beautiful
buildings. She wasn’t as close to God as we were though, and the devil
didn’t let her get very close. Why didn’t they have some healing in
their church? I’m sure if old John Knox was alive, he’d have prayed
for her and got some results. I’m sure if Wesley was alive, he’d
pray for the Methodists. He’d get results. 

38.	But you see, they’ve gone for the gold. Once outside the
government of God, once outside where God comes down to speak to us,
it’s gone to gold! It’s all over. Materiality means everything
today. They’re going to sell everything out to the pope, and to the
church. They talk about the international money fund. I got nothing
against it, except I don’t believe in it. There’s a criticism come
in Congress right now, or the Senate, one of the two places, and
they’re not sure they want America to do too much about it, because
they say, “Well look, it’s going to fall back on the taxpayer, like
the S&L’s did.” And the big shots say, “Oh no it won’t, we have
40 billion dollars in gold.” 

	What can 40 billion dollars in gold do against hundreds of billions of
dollars in debts? Easy. They’ll just suddenly make the gold twenty,
forty, fifty, sixty times, or one hundred times more than what it’s
worth now. And they won’t charge 280 [dollars] an ounce; they’ll
charge 10,000 dollars an ounce. So 40 billion [dollars] of gold, at the
present rate of 300 dollars, let’s say, and now 10,000, huh? That’s
a lot of [money]. And they want to make it 20,000, and they’ve got it,
they’ll do it. And when Rome corners it all, and she said, “Well
gold from now on to run the world is going to be one million dollars an
ounce,” it will be one million dollars an ounce. And it’ll run the
world. [Certainly]. 

36.	Now let’s go a step further. Do you think for one minute that
Castro didn’t know what he was doing when he called in the pope? Do
you know that Castro was raised like Joe Stalin was in the Catholic
Church; he was the bright boy that would have made a great Jesuit
priest? But you see the very Catholic Church that brought about
communism? Communism is now come back to mother, and the Catholic Church
is saying to you and me, “Come back to mother.” She ain’t my
mother.  She [isn’t] my mother. She’s communism’s mother. The
churches have gone communistic. As soon as the door was open in Russia,
what happened? Evangelists came in for a little while, but the same
church with its Rasputins and its tsars that brought Russia to its knees
in destruction has taken over again and said, “Now just a minute, you
people can’t come in any more, because we’re back to orthodoxy.
We’re the Greek Catholics, and you can’t come in.” 

	And Mr. Yeltzin signed the bill and says, “Yes that is so.” So,
communism and the church is one. 

39.	Now Bro. Branham made a statement. And the statement is very [true].
He said, “If I weren’t a Christian, I’d be a communist.” So,
what’s everybody going to be, but you and me and us folks? Communist.
Part of the crowd.

	Now that’s enough for tonight, I think I covered every single thing I
wanted to cover. Every single thing at this point. Except we go a little
more tomorrow, if the Lord willing. Now let’s just bow our heads in
prayer for a second.

	Heavenly Father we want to thank You for the time we’ve spent
together just talking about these things, and I must admit [] that I
used to get [] very happy, even when I preached error, because there was
some truth in it. But tonight, Lord, I’m very happy, and I don’t
believe there is error in it. I may not have expressed it too well, but
I believe, we have come to answers tonight and to grips with things,
which show positively these things in the Word of the living God. 

	And so, Father in heaven, I just trust now that whatever has been left
out, You’ll give us the understanding to put it together where people
could understand more and better, if there’s anything left out,
anything Lord that needs correcting, we know the Word will correct it.
I’ve depended on that, and I’m depending on it now, so that
whatsoever’s been said in error, if there [] has been anything
whatsoever, we will not be found in error trying to worship you in
spirit and in truth, when indeed we do not have the truth, but perhaps
we wouldn’t even have the spirit then. 

	But we’re trusting tonight, Lord, that everything is right, and what
isn’t, if there should be some margin, which we have had before, come
right back and correct it, even a slip of the tongue, no matter what,
correct the whole thing, to know we are walking in the light as You are
in the light and are shedding that light for this hour down upon earth
here, waiting for the Bride, [] coming to the place of perfection to
bring those out of the ground, Lord, to bring them together, and bring
us all together for a great Rapture, the great Wedding Supper. 

	Father in heaven, we just thank You for the measure of health You’ve
given us, the measure of strength. But above all we thank You, Lord, for
the great privilege of knowing Your Word, even as little as we know it.
It’s so wonderful to know that what we do know is vindicated, it is
the truth, and we’re striving [] to make our minds truly filled with
that Word, expanding, therefore, the life within us, until it just
[illuminates]--the last part that doesn’t move, Lord, above the eye,
is that mind. 

	O God, baptize our minds, our brains, our spirit, right down deep into
our very being, as never before, as the life floods out from this Word,
and then may we never be ashamed, but always strong, and full of grace,
and that our moderation known of all men, and always of the Word in
season. In the Name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

[Bro. Vayle continues with a Communion service.]

Communion Service

1.	We’re going to read a little bit here in the Bible, and I like the
Book of Hebrews, if I can see something in the Book of Hebrews that we
want to look at here. All right, in the Book of Hebrews 7. It’s
talking about the priesthood of Jesus Christ. And in verse 23, it says:

(23)	And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to
continue by reason of death:

	Now you can stop right there, and we’ll go back to some more
scripture, but you can stop right there with me, and let’s read that
23 rd verse again. 

(23)	And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to
continue by reason of death:

	Now this was a legitimate priesthood in Israel. And they had a high
priest every so often. And how often it was depended upon when the high
priest died. And I’m not sure how they actually elected the high
priest, or how he got there outside of the first one, which was Moses,
and then of course there’s Eli down the road, and then God raised up
Samuel, because he became the right hand man to Eli, just like Elisha
was raised up as the right hand man of Elijah. And what we see here are
people coming and going. 

2.	Now I want to ask you a question. If Satan had his church back there,
and he had his high priest back there, and now he’s doing more damage
with the Gentiles than he’s ever done, and he can do with Israel,
because they’re just a little tiny drop in the bucket, can anybody
think of anything that Bro. Branham said that would make you to realize
that the false vine also has a continuing priesthood, when one dies
another takes over? Huh? Remember the Book of Revelation, Bro. Branham
talked about the bottomless pit, talked about the beast, which was and
is, and was and is not. One pope succeeding another. See why did they
need those guys? See that’s what he said, “There’s no great ones
amongst us. There’s no popes, there’s no bishops,” now there’s
bishops in the sense of elders, but Bro. Branham talking about these
extravagant ways of you know, running a church. This is your Hagar
bunch, your Jerusalem which now is, which is under a law, which is a
perversion. See? 

3.	Okay. 

(24)	But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood.

	Now how many times have the Catholics changed their word through a
pope? Then the pope even gets so big for his britches, “Why,” he
says, “I’m infallible.” 

	And Pope Pious comes along with the funny look on his face, having seen
something, or heard something, or thought he did, I don’t know, he
said, “Mary has risen, she’s ascended.” 

	And the bishops and every cardinal said, “No, no, no, that’s
entirely fallacious, don’t do that, we’ve got enough trouble now.”


	“Oh no,” he said, “she’s risen.” So he gets up before all the
people, and with that look, “She’s risen.” Three times,
“Risen.” That’s ex-cathedral, out of the throne. Now the
infallible pope, so Mary’s up there. Like fun she is. 

4.	So now you’ve got a high priestess. And now don’t fool with the
Catholics, because you see, now the Protestants come home to mother, so
now they got a high priestess. They got Mrs. Jesus. Do you believe in
God? “Yes I believe in God,” said the woman, “she’s
wonderful.” Blasphemy. Just filth, that’s all. 

(24)	(See) this man, continueth ever, (having) an unchangeable
priesthood. 

	Now how can anybody then that say they believe this Message believe the
Lamb came down? You wouldn’t have a High Priest. You got nobody
interceding. Now,

(25)	Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession…

	Now just a minute. It says, “seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession.” Now he’s different from all these other guys who
lived and died, lived and died, lived and died. This one lived and died
and lives forever more. Now the part of him that was eternal never died,
it couldn’t, because that’s a part of God. The body died. Now the
body rose, and there he is. 

(26)	For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

	If you’re made higher than the heavens, means then you’ve got a
seed above everything that’s in God’s government. That’s why
he’s at the right hand of God. Now if you had a table set, where would
you put the guest of honor? To the left hand or right hand? To the right
hand. So he’s the highest honored person in heaven. Now there’s sons
of God there by creation, archangels, cherubim, many things, and those
dead that got raised when Jesus rose, where are they? Don’t ask me,
they could be right there too. Why not? No problem. 

(27)	Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this
he did once, when he offered up himself.

5.	Now he didn’t offer up himself sins for himself, because he
didn’t have any. Because it said he was sinless, harmless, never
harmed anybody. What about the time he beat the daylights out of those
guys in the temple, didn’t harm anybody? Certainly not. He didn’t
harm anybody. How can you harm anybody when you’re living up to the
Word of God? Drastic measures were needed, because he was that one to
take the drastic measures, you and I don’t, but he did. Paul never
took them; Paul apologized for any measures he took. He said,
“You’ve made my Father’s house a den of thieves.” He didn’t
say, “You made God the Son’s house a den of thieves,” he said,
“you made my Father, and I’m the Son of God.” Remember he’s the
Son of God according to the resurrection. Absolutely proven, manifested,
like Bro. Branham said it, “If he’s alive he’ll do the same things
he did back there.” Now he never did anything back there. God did it. 

(27)	Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
sacrifice, for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he
did once, when he offered up himself.

(28)	For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the
word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is
consecrated for evermore.

	Now see you’re right back to the oath where God made the oath of the
covenant with His Own Son. Bro. Branham speaks of that in different
places. And that’s the covenant that he came to put into effect for
you and me. And he died upon Calvary; the shedding of the blood gives
remission of sin. And where there is the shedding of blood of the Son of
God for remission of sin, for that covenant, and we acknowledge the
covenant, the blood scatters sin till there be no sin or evidence of it.
How can you call a man a sinner? The blood perfects. And the next
perfection is through the five-fold ministry, which is the Word. Where
you become perfect. Where Bro. Branham said, holding the Bible, “When
this, the Bible,” pointing to his head, “and this,” and to his
heart, “become one, that’s it.” And there we are. There we are.

6.	So we thank the Lord for the blood tonight, and when we take the
emblems we realize the body had to be broken, the crown of thorns had to
pierce his brow, because they say the blood doesn’t come out unless
those certain veins are pierced, they pierced his side showing he had a
broken heart, the pericardium had broken, the fluid came down, serous
matter came down. Jesus Christ died that we might live, and he actually
died. But God could not let that holy one suffer corruption. Why? It
shouldn’t suffer corruption, there’s no way, because what was
required was the blood. And when the blood was shed, that was it,
because the body had done no sin. So the life now released, and the
blood upon the mercy seat, or the blood there atoning for sin, then the
heavens can be opened, and right back to the Garden of Eden for a
thousand years, and then on. And there you’ll have the gold and
trample it under foot. It will still be God’s government. See, it’s
not God’s government to dig it out of the ground and hurt people. But
it’s God’s government when they trample it under foot, and it’s
like a transparent gold, beautiful reflection. That’s what the blood
does for us tonight. 

	So, we praise the Lord for it. Let’s rise at this time so we might
take communion. The brethren come forward. And tomorrow morning service
as usual, at ten o’clock. Now you know how we come from around the
side and around the back, and then we have two brethren serving the wine
here, and the bread at the end. Let’s pray.

	Heavenly Father, we commit ourselves to you tonight, and we pray, Lord,
as we come before You, may judge our hearts and realize that only
through the shed blood do we have any perfection whatsoever scattering
our sin. But there is a perfection Lord we need to attain to, day by day
as we go look at ourselves in the Word, which is a perfect mirror
reflecting us and showing ourselves, showing what we have and yet what
we further have need of, even as the Bride was waiting for the
revelation of the Rapture. Lord we know that day by day there is a walk,
and there is a revelation Lord that keeps filling out the Word, keeps
showing the dynamism, the beauty, the fullness of it, getting right back
to the truth… [End of side two of the audio tape.]

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