Stewardship Q&A #8 February, 1, 1998 Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for Your Presence and we know Lord, that Your Presence in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ, when You were there, incarnating Yourself in His body, aroused more questions, Lord, than answers, because we saw so many people turn from You, perhaps there were two million people, and maybe fifty people at the most believed at that particular time; then later we realize that those from the outside did believe, and we appreciate that, but we know it’s the same thing today, that Your Presence, Lord, has caused more problems through the people who do not know You, but has caused great rest and peace to us, for we have an assurance knowing that You are with us, and if God be with us and for us, then who can be against us? And we thank You for that, knowing also, Lord, that as they said many, many years ago that if God be with us, then where are all the miracles? And we know again today people are asking the same thing, where are all the miracles? And we realize Lord that there again, we do not need those miracles, because You’ve thoroughly vindicated Yourself, Your Presence, and Your Word, and the people who believe, and all things will fall in divine order, Lord, as we believe, and You take us into that progression of faith. So, we are happy this morning to know that You are here, that You are for us, and we’ve crossed over to Your side, even as Moses said, and Joshua said, and all the great men of God have said, “Who is on the Lord’s side, step over now and make yourself known.” And, Lord, we are of that group who have considered this thing, and by the Spirit of God have stepped over, binding our union with You, for which we thank You. Open our eyes, Lord, to further truth that we might not be a part of blind Laodicea, but seeing, believing, and going on into the Resurrection and the Rapture, to immortality of which we are now partaking. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Now last night we were into looking particularly at this system of worship, which we have in the world today, which culminates in the antichrist incarnating himself, or reincarnating himself in a man, and he then will take over the world in universal worship. And you’ll notice that if you don’t understand this, you simply cannot understand the antichrist in the principle of religion, you know actually running the universe. Since the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant churches, which came out, essentially are what is spoken of in the Bible, it’s kind of vague to many people to really believe that from, Christianity, which is the focal point, will spread the wave of iniquity that engulfs the world, so that the antichrist can take over and direct worship to himself finally. But, if you just stop and think for a moment, you’ll begin to realize that there are very, very few people, as we’ve pointed out many times, [that] are atheistic. I didn’t bring an article with me, it’s possible I’ll remember it and bring it and just underline certain portions of it, but even today where we have found the critics in the educational system, who are so adverse to teaching creationism, and the belief in God, because they claim there’s no scientific proof, have begun to relent. And you’ll see that they’re beginning to bring the curriculum in closer alignment, even as Rome has said, and said many, many years ago, that there is really no problem with evolution. To think that Pope John Paul II was the one that formulated that opinion or that dictum is entirely erroneous, because I’m 83 years of age, and I knew that, when I was about 24, well, right around 26 maybe. 2. So, this present pope is merely repeating and confirming that evolution and creationism have no difficulty in surviving together as long as you actually consider what the original dictum was, and that is if you believe in God and He created the original spark. And so, you’ll find now there will be a shift more and more toward the understanding that there is a mastermind, or a God somewhere behind the universe, and creation, because of the tremendous complexity, and the completely pure coordination and synergy that lies within everything in nature even down to a rock. Everything was in harmony, and everything still is in a type of harmony as you well know, by at least our environmentalists, [who] bring that to our attention. So, when you consider that there are very, very few atheists, and that people actually believe in God, even to the extent where communism presented man as his own god. There is that definitive belief of that high authority. So, it will not be difficult at all for the ones who control the power and the ability to supply people with sustenance. Now remember, the Bible has already said, “With food and clothing therewith be content.” And, of course, it means a roof over your head also. So, if you’re going to content the masses, you simply give them bread. And they will believe anything whatsoever, to palliate the gnaw in the stomach. 3. So, with India believing various kinds of religion, Buddhism, and they also go beyond Buddha, there’s Mohammedism there, and you have China with inroads of Christianity, Buddhism, many types of religion, regardless [of] the fact that they’re communistic, and try to suppress religion, they are beaten down right today to begin to make amends with human rights on the grounds of commerce. And with the depression coming in line, and it’s predicted it could hit any time, the soothsayers and the seers are saying it will be this March. Who knows, I don’t know, and what am I going to do about it? But the point is, Greenspan has [already] mentioned, that there will be a wave coming out of the East. So, with all of these things coming together, the human rights being especially set forth by the pope, Castro admitting he’s made a mistake in doing the things that he’s done, you can see that religion is going to be a religion of the belly, and that’s all it’s going to be: a religion of the belly. And there’ll be no difficulty for anybody to change his religion on the grounds, not on the majestic vindication that God gave to His Word of this hour, to which the people were totally blind, but to the loaves and fishes premise that Jesus Himself set forth when He multiplied the loaves and fishes, and the people came together, and He said, “I know why you’ve come; you’ve come for the loaves and fishes. And I can stay here the next million years and produce loaves and fishes and everybody’s happy. But the minute that I don’t produce loaves and fishes, and begin to give you the Word, even by vindication, then you put your hand up and you say, “Kill me.” ” 4. So, you can see exactly where we’re going. We are going right to the place where religion, which is focalized in Christianity, will take over. See? Because remember, Christianity comes from Judaism. We are called Judeao Christians. Which I do not like the term whatsoever. But the point is this: we do have our roots in the God of Israel, not the God that they know today, because it’s the one of their imagination. But the fact of the matter is we have our roots in the God of Israel, because Jesus is the Son of God, and it was Jehovah-Elohim Who appeared in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ, and manifested Himself. So, therefore now the great conflict, and the conflict has always been, right from the Garden of Eden. Where Satan became the high priest, because he was created to worship, and he led in worship, and there he seduced Eve to take her away by means of reasoning, and we’ll get to Galatians, show you the same thing, that he took her away, and Adam consequently followed. Because it says, “For this cause will a man leave father and mother.” And you know the father and mother of Adam was God. Now he has this woman presented, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. So, what does he do? He simply follows her. That’s where he goes. And there is that following instinct, which is absolutely horrible, because this is the first case where man implicitly decided to depose himself from headship. And ever since this time man has been sort of relegated through sex to the woman, and his headship has never been truly acknowledged, and even today you cannot find the headship in man that is in Christ Jesus. That’s why we got such a terrible problem. Of course, you understand that the headship of man is worth hardly a plug nickel, because he’s supposed to be like Christ, and he’s no more like Christ than a, you know, a windjammer is like an ocean liner out there, or the Queen Mary, or something. Some little old tug. 5. So anyway, we see where this all started in the Garden of Eden, and it is now then the battle of Satan enjoined with the reality of God. He’s already got these others out there seduced. Now therefore if Satan can take over the little remaining reality that there is of God, one God, and that looks to Israel, and that looks to a few people like you and me. Now he’s not going to take us over. But he’s fought his last… well he’s fighting his last battle to take over. And the take over is almost complete, because within Christianity, the seventh church, lays all the wealth of the world in Rome. The billions and billions of dollars in gold, the billions and billions of dollars in property, and all they’ve got to do is to assess that standard what they want. If it’s gold, it could be worth ten thousand dollars an ounce; it could be worth a million dollars an ounce. As long as there is some form or standard by which you gauge your currency. And you notice today that all the currency of the world is dependent upon America. What is the yen worth compared to what? American. What does the rupee want? What does the ?reald? want? It doesn’t matter what it is, the ?pengo?, anything you want to match. There is no comparison outside of the dollar, and the dollar controls over seventy percent of the entire commerce of the world. 6. So therefore, America, positively is in the driver’s seat, and must be taken over by the devil, and the currency system has to be. I know people talk about a Eurodollar. That is the stupidest thing in the world, as far as I’m concerned. I’m not interested in the Eurodollar. The Eurodollar hasn’t got off the ground, isn’t going to get off the ground. You watch everything with the dollar. Because that’s what is counting. So the next thing now you will be seeing, as I’ve mentioned many times, deflation. And deflation has set in, there’s no two ways about it. Why? Because they can’t buy the goods in Asia. Now where’d the money go? Don’t ask me. It didn’t go to a sinkhole; it’s somewhere. I’ve asked the question time and time again. If the Jews were so absolutely dispossessed in Europe, how come they had all the money to come over here? They must have had money to come over; there must have been money somewhere. If they’ve got all the paper right now, how did they get it? See? What paper are you talking about? What are you looking at? See? These things make you to understand there are two absolute forces in the world, one is the Jew and one is the Roman Catholic Church. And it will soon boil down now to the Jew and to the church. And the church alone will be able to provide the gold that is going to set the standard whereby people can live and eat. And this is going to demonstrate the true God to the universe, which means, “Take care of my belly, because I believe in a God of the belly.” Never mind a God of the soul, never mind a God of the brain, never mind a God of the spirit, just a God of your belly. Now you watch, because that’s what’s happening. Deflation has set in already, and it’s going to get worse and worse. Now I don’t want to scare you, but the point is this: what are you going to do? We should praise God He allows us to be here in this crucial time calling us worthy to suffer and to bear the burden, or whatever it may be, for the glory, as we’ll be princes of glory with Him. That’s indeed what we are looking at. 7. Now we brought to your attention last night the fact that Satan’s church started way up there in the beginning. He was created in order to worship. But he wants to be worshipped. Now the point is this: if he was created to worship, and lead in worship, and he still wants to worship, does it alter the fact that his pride now, or rather can his pride alter the fact that he was called to worship, rather than be worshipped? It doesn’t. You are called, let us say, to be a blacksmith. That could be your actual calling. Let us begin to set these things in stone. We have a baker; he’s called to be a baker. He isn’t called to be a blacksmith. Now, let’s say the blacksmith decides to dabble to be a baker, but he’s called to be a blacksmith. That he dabbles in baking doesn’t unmake him as a blacksmith. And the baker that dabbles in blacksmithing doesn’t undo the fact that he’s a baker. 8. So therefore, Satan decides to dabble and venture without authority into a realm in which he has no authority. Does that dispossess him of the fact that he was made to lead in worship? And the answer is no! Now is he now in the face of what we know, and Who God is, deter him from wanting to receive worship? And the answer is no! So, what is this person going to do? He’s going to lead in worship until he gets the worship he wants. It’s not enough that he’s the chief cherubim and God could look down at all the worshippers and say, “Here is the one I created, beautiful, full of wisdom, the finest of the works, My masterpiece of creation; here he stands right here.” That doesn’t suit him at all. He wants to be worshipped. And so he will work at it, and even confronted Jesus, the Son of God, and said, “If you be the Son of God, you fall down and worship me, and I’ll give you every bit of this and I control it.” And you notice that Jesus never denied it. He never denied it. He said, “Get out of here Satan. It’s written you shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” And Satan could not take that, and he disappeared, because his final act was to want worship. Now he couldn’t use Jesus at that time in worship! But, if you think he’s not doing it now, you are bereft of any intelligence spiritually. Because you see, Satan can only use those things, which God has set in order. And he takes it, and he uses it wrong. He perverts it. 9. So, all right. We see Satan today in the Seventh Church Age, and we looked in the Book of Galatians, and we were in chapter four, and I want to go back over that a little bit with you, to show you some things here. Now this is an allegory. In other words, it’s a little far-fetched; not a hundred percent true, but it gives a good illustration. It makes you to see something in nature, in history, in the Bible you can apply to yourself, and say, “Look, I don’t belong in this category; I belong in that category. There’s something going on over here that I’m not a part of, there’s something going on over here that I am a part of. 10. Now you talk about seeing yourself in the Bible, this is a tricky one, but you see yourself, because the Bible says so. And Paul speaking, said: [Gal 4:19] (19) Little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, Now therefore, Christ was not formed in them. The anointing had not done the work forth to bring them, as Bro. Branham said, Messiahettes. Because Christ is Messiah. There was not enough of the image of Jesus in them. So, they were on their way to being Messiahettes, because you see the Bride’s feminine. (20) I desire to be present with you, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. 11. He said, “I want to come and recognize Christ in you. I want to come and see the work of the Holy Spirit and the Word in you.” He said, “I’m not seeing it.” He said, “I want to come and see it. I want to be able to change my voice.” Because this man had already… And we’ll go into back here in Galatians and show you what he said. Tell me, (you) that desire to be under the law, do ye [not] hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Take that right back to the garden.[I’ll] Ask you one question. How was Cain born? Absolutely of the flesh. Absolutely of the flesh--animal, human mixed up. [It’s] proven right by science, two fathers, one mother. Now how was Abel born? Abel was born unto two human beings through the instrumentality of sex, which came previous to what God wanted, which was to bring forth the spoken Word son, with true headship with all others following, which would have certainly come by sex. But, you see, they got the order reversed. Now, you see, everyone’s brought forth by sex. They all have to die, and God brings them all forth now through a resurrection, through the power of Almighty God; not by sex, as Bro. Branham said, “God will create again, not by sex, but by the resurrection, bringing all the elements together which were once there.” (22) For it is written, Abraham had two sons, one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 12. Now, what he’s showing you here is this, the allegory, is showing you the two vines, the shuck and the seed. Where Bro. Branham preached the shuck shall not be heir with the seed. It shall not be so. Now one was born after the flesh, (23) …but he of the freewoman by promise. Now you’ll notice right in there that that promise is a word. So therefore, Ishmael, [was] born entirely of the flesh, of entire human instrumentality--now get this flat--entire human instrumentality, it’s true Isaac was not. He was born of the Word of God. Which meant categorically, that God had to take that sperm and egg, which were there, of which there are two hundred and fifty thousand eggs through a woman’s ovary, and many more little hairs that could actually count for millions, and the male’s sperm there’s hundreds of millions. So a virgin birth is nothing compared to what takes place here. This son was born by the Word of God, nevertheless having come by sex. Because he was born of promise, and he had to come from one male, and from one female, and nothing else would do. This did not make him a true human being, the same as Adam was, and Eve, and Abel, and Seth, and those children which were born. Don’t worry, the problem is there, and you can see it. Because even though Abraham had a child by Hagar, and positively he was an heir of God in the lineage through Adam, right back to God Himself, the child brought forth was a shuck. Absolutely was not of a Bride element. 13. Now: Which things are an allegory: Now this picture here is looking at two covenants. And the two covenants, and he’s talking about Ishmael and Isaac, that one has to be spiritual and one has to be physical. And no matter if you have the physical and don’t have the spiritual, you are not that seed of God. And that’s just simple as ABC. And remember, every single time a covenant was given spiritual, there was a physical. And you can look around and see that absolutely that physical covenant to Israel owning all the paper is extant right now, but all Israel’s not Israel. Out of perhaps fifteen million Jews, for all I know, they claim there’s nine million or better, only a hundred and forty-four thousand are seed. So you’re looking at an allegory. Many more are the children of the desolate than she that hath a husband. I’ve got kids by you, but you sure [aren’t] my wife. I’ve got kids by you but I don’t have to look out for you. I’ve got kids by you, but they’re on their own. Huh? Ah, look at the human race today. Why it’s even the best thing in the world to have a child out of wedlock; look at the Hollywood whores. The HH’s. And they’re not the only ones, it’s all over the country. The male doesn’t have to look out at all for it. Oh, he may provide a little money or something, but what a terrible mess in… now this is an allegory. (24) …two covenants; one from Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. (And) Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage (to) her children. So, you can see right here though these people are claiming that they are the true seed of God, all Israel is not Israel, every Jew is not a Jew. They can claim it after the flesh, they can claim descendants, they can do anything they want, but unless they are of the promise, of the Word, being born of Word… see? Now remember, you’ve got one birth that you’re born of Word you’re not even aware of. And that is the promise of God to His Son, that all of us who are His children, there’s that little Word in us, we are born of that Word, whether we want to recognize it or not, and then having been improperly born in the flesh, we are now born again of the living Word of the living God that has nothing to do with the flesh, sex, or anything else, placing us as sons in the adoption, which we’ll look at also. 14. Now he says: But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is (our) mother. Now I told you this is taken from Isaiah, and is not really correct here. The translators or somebody made a mistake. Because except Paul is saying, “Of us all,” in the sense of a true Bride, it can’t be so. It says in Isaiah, where it really puts it right, talking of the true Christians, the true believers, the true children of God, “Our mother.” And remember only the Bride carries the seed. And unless that Word comes through the Bride, absolutely the child is bastard born. Now a bastard born child is the wrong mother, but has the right father. Ishmael is bastard born. Absolutely. This speaks of organization. Remember Israel could not be a member of the nations. The true church of God has nothing to do with organization, and the Word that it has, does not come from the Roman Catholic Church, believe me; she is not my mother! She keeps on saying, “Come back to mother.” Come back to hell! That’s what it is, because she came from there; the devil and her ilk. I have nothing to do with Rome. I have nothing to do with her daughters. I’m freeborn! And the reason I know is because my mind is so purified and cleaned, the best I can at this point and the best that God can do with me, as a human being that I am, even a child of God. My mind is entirely unfettered from any doctrine or dogma that any church has presented to me, even the truth that I got from them. Which I stumbled and staggered, knowing they had truth, but couldn’t apprehend it. Today every single thing that Bro. Branham said is superimposed upon every thought I ever had, and correlates with the Bible. This is why I can see a hundred percent why Bro. Branham said, “The seed will not be heir with the shuck, and the shuck will not be heir with the seed.” Entirely separate. That’s why he could preach The Invisible Union from the divorce, not the divorce, but the death of the woman, or the death of the husband so the woman could remarry, or vice versa, but really the death of the man so the woman could remarry. 15. Now we keep reading here. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; (that’s Sarah,) break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now it says here you are to rejoice in the fact of being barren, unless God steps in and does something. It’s far better to be barren, and then have one child, or no children, than to be filled, the womb filled with the children that are of Hagar, or Jerusalem, which is upon earth, which is bound by a covenant. And remember the covenant of the law was merely a schoolmaster to bring them to Christ. And they couldn’t see him in the types and the shadows. Just like allegories, they couldn’t see it. It was too far fetched; they couldn’t believe it. They still today haven’t got it. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. If you’re children of promise, then you’re a child of the Word! The Word that came from God that brought you here in the covenant that God had with His Son! And I believe that was before there was a speck of stardust. I believe that was made before the Son stepped forth and created anything and made anything, even though God did it through Him. That great covenant. We should look again at Bro. Branham’s Abraham Covenant Of Grace, to see this in its perfection. 16. Now, But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Now, if it was back in the First Church Age under Ephesus, and we have returned to Ephesus, seven has a repeat at the end, number one, bringing us into number eight, which is the Millennium, then we are right at this very place in the Twentieth Century. In the Seventh Church Age. That the flesh knows nothing of the spirit. And like Ishmael, can only put at [naught] those that are the children of promise; the children of the covenant; the children of the Word, the children that are the Word; the manifestation of God in the particular area of which God wanted to be manifested, which was in His children. As Bro. Branham said, “You were in your father’s loins, and he wanted to have fellowship with you, but he could not until sacred matrimony and the bedding grounds of your mother’s womb, you were brought forth and had fellowship.” And he said, “The church has turned down a sexual, spiritual affair with Christ in order to bring forth the Son in flesh!” 17. So, God came down and talked to William Branham face to face in the day of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the Twentieth Century, Seventh Church Age, Laodicea. And face to face brought forth a Word that makes us to know, and in this hour the Son will once more come forth in human flesh as God takes us up in the Rapture, and incarnates Himself in that Presence, and we see Him King of kings, and Lord of lords, and crown Him thus and so. And it couldn’t be other wise. So, here you’re looking at your allegory. In other words, it’s farfetched. It doesn’t really fit it. But it’s the best you can do to see there are two churches, and one was always under a law, and the other was always under grace. One was under works: do this and do that! The other was always under grace: I’ve done this for you, come and receive it. And Bro. Branham said [it] will always happen from the Garden of Eden, and it’s doing it right now, “Man’s always wanted to put something to it!” Just like the devil did up here, “I’m going to put something to it, I’m going to take over.” Like mischief you’re going to take over. Hell’s going to take you over, the Lake of Fire eventually. 18. So you see your picture here. Now persecution sets in. And Bro. Branham described that, God sends forth His vindicated messenger in every age. He brings forth the Word of God, the elect receive it, the rest turn it down, a war goes on, the messenger’s laid away to rest, a plague hits it, and that generation is wiped out. And after seven church ages, which brought forth the seven church messages of the ages, the history and the contents, and the Presence now in God here, you will see under six, the plagues loosed! The whore will be burnt with fire and stoned with hundred pound hailstones. And men’s flesh shall rot upon their bodies. And as they’re doing with AIDS, they’ll be screaming for an outlet for their sex, because sex started in the garden, and it’s going to end it. 19. Now, Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: (get rid of the devil and his whole church, because it’s all but over.) the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the… freewoman. Again you’re looking at an allegory. The extended parable that goes beyond, it goes too far. But take the truth of it. The truth here are two vines. God bringing forth, and humanity cannot come forth except through male and female! A union to produce a child. So what has happened? Again we find Abraham is the male. Now his life is in Hagar, but it’s strictly flesh, it is not a child of promise. And you can see every gift in the church, and every manifestation, and every fruit in the church, and it will look just the most wonderful thing, and John looked upon the end time church, and he was amazed at her beauty! 20. That’s what happened when Israel left Egypt. The Egyptians with all their pomp and ceremony, and all their beauty, Pastor Pharaoh, with his two great magicians, and they were very powerful, and don’t think they weren’t. And Israel left Egypt, ragtaggled, and the people saw them coming, and Bro. Branham said they looked up from the high mountain, he got old Balaam up there, Balak did, gave him a lot of money, said, “Come up here, look at the people, and curse them.” And he said, “All they could do was look at the fighting in the backyard, he could look at all their rotten parts.” And they said, “Oh look at us, we’re a great people!” And Balak got Balaam all inspired, “Oh hallelujah, we’re going to get rid of this ragtaggle bunch, this bunch of people there that don’t know left hand from right hand, and upside down, inside out. They look like a motley crew, a mess. Why,” he said, “they’re nothing, [go] curse them,” he said. But he said, “God looked down the height, and he saw the beauty and the glory of God in their midst, and he blessed them, and they couldn’t do a thing about it.” Yeah. Oh, I love the way the prophet preached. He knew grace from works. He knew works from redemption. So, this woman, this Egyptian, these Babylonians, these great churches today, they got great swelling words, massive, beautiful churches, all dedicated to God, and the devil running it and owning it. You think God owns this building? Well He does in a way. But I wouldn’t blame Him if He just burned it down on us, not wanting it. Because God’s not interested in buildings. He’s interested in tabernacles of human flesh that compose a Bride for the glory of God, that are covenant children; that [were] covenant children before there was a speck of stardust, who came forth manifested as seed in their own time to do the work that God wanted them to do. Fitted, absolutely fitted for the present hour in which we live. Where everybody’s screaming about gifts and this and that and the other thing, and don’t have a clue. And they’ll never have a clue, because it’s not in them to have a clue. 21. So, he says here: (30) …(for) the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. So, he’s telling us here with this allegory here. He said, “Look now, it’s not that these people were born of women that made the big thing. The thing is: they’re children, and children come a certain way, and which were the children of promise, and which were not the children of promise? Of one lump He made us all, and we all are one lump. And now of one blood are we all. The blood’s all intermingled, everything’s intermingled.” But only those coming forth that were in the original covenant are coming forth today under the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the rest, as Bro. Branham talked about the cloth, the tailor putting out the whole cloth, the bolt of cloth, he sets a pattern upon it, and he cuts the material that’s in the pattern is the Bride, and all these outside foolish virgin, they’re virgins, and they’ll come in, in the second resurrection. In the meantime they have no oil in their vessels, and I ask you a question: where is the Holy Ghost? It’s in the Word, and they don’t have the Word, and if they don’t have the Word, then they don’t have what is right, and they sit amongst people like you and me, as Bro. Branham said, but they don’t have the wedding garment on. They don’t have it. 22. So, all right, the shuck is not heir with the seed. The twentieth century Laodicean Age is what we’re looking at, because this is harvest time. Now it says, “Cast out that bondwoman.” And she was cast out. And remember it’s an allegory. So therefore now this is the casting out. And at the end time remember, in Matthew it says, “I know you not.” See? In other words, as Dr. Hoyer pointed out to me, and it’s so beautifully said, “I used to know you as my wife, but I don’t know you as my wife anymore.” The divorce that’s spoken of in Thessalonians, because that word can be ‘divorce’, as well as the catching up, be a casting away. Sometimes words work both ways, just depends on the context and what the revelation is. So therefore, it’s final. The divorce, it is all over, and now God has nothing to do with that church. The devil today is possessing it all, and the only thing he can do is come against us and try to hurt us. 23. So, we see here then this portion of scripture, Bro. Branham actually used it along with Romans 7. And of course he’s speaking of the fact here: (1) Know ye not, brethren, (I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband (as) long as he liveth; Now you will notice that Abraham was not the husband of Hagar. He [was] kind of a boyfriend. She wasn’t his wife; she was a concubine. She wasn’t even that. She was Abraham’s wife’s handmaid. And Sarah said, “Look, you take her and have a child by her.” Well that got him interested, it shouldn’t have, but he did. So she’s desolate. And her desolation was proven when she was kicked out with her boy. See, it’s an allegory. (2) …(as) long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. (3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she (is) married to another man, (she’ll) be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Now that tells you right there where the law went! Israel had the law, but as soon as Jesus died, it was over. 24. Now it wasn’t divorce, and him living. It’s gone. When Jesus died and rose, that ended it. The bruised reed he broke, the smoking flax he quenched. It’s over. Israel can do all its want to get temple worship back, it won’t do one bit of good. They may never get their temple built. I don’t know that they will. In the Millennium we will build a temple. What these things are, I don’t know all about. People say the temple’s ready to go up, who knows? They’re nowhere near at this particular time as far as I’m concerned or anybody else can see. Now, so she’s an adulteress, and be married to another man if her husband is not dead. (4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; Now, see, he’s throwing the males into the female context, because the Bride is a woman. “So brethren, so sons of God, I want you to notice this, you have no truck and trade, any liaison, any relationship whatsoever with what you once had, because Christ died absolving you from any relationship whatsoever you had.” Now you’re moving into the truth; under God Himself. And so you could read, but anyway, Invisible Union, you know that as well as I do. 25. Now, go back to Galatians 4, and we read verses 1-7. (1) Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (The placing of sons.) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, (Father), Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. And It tells you right here the baptism with the Holy Ghost absolutely proves that you are a child of God; absolutely proves that you’re not under law; absolutely proves you’re under grace; absolutely proves you have nothing to do with any church organization, or anything that was previous to you that had a hold on you. What Bro. Branham gave us is absolutely a superimposition upon every single spiritual thought or scriptural thought, whether it be of God, or that which is in connection with God, and any relationship we might have, it’s a superimposition so that no longer do you see once you once saw. You are completely blind to it, and completely aware of, and awakened to what is now yours by the Spirit of the living God. 26. So therefore, Word has come to Word! Now you’re double Word. You’re no longer Word that was in error, you’re Word that is now… you are a part of the Word and you are a Word that is in perfect freedom for whom the Son sets free is free indeed, and remember the adoption goes into the resurrection; the placing of sons, the major portion. So therefore, the adoption and Sonship is about to be absolutely recognized and noticed, not just notable, but noticed, made known, through the resurrection. As Bro. Branham said, “We’ll be here waiting awhile to see who all made it.” So now we’re at the age of the adoption, the age of Sonship. 27. Now ‘born ones’ is what it really is. Let’s get the gender out of the way; it’s born ones; absolute born ones. The scripture speaks of it in Corinthians as sons and daughters, and there are sons and daughters, and the sex has nothing to do with it, because we’re neither male nor female in Christ, and now if we’re neither male nor female in Christ according to the placing of the body of Christ, you had to be that way before, because you were in Him already, in that singular part of the seed. So let’s get rid of all this junk about sex; female parts here, and male parts there, and all the other stuff. Just pin it where the prophet pinned it and forget it. And, when it comes to God being the breasted one, a child… everybody says the same thing, Bro. Branham said it also, the fretting baby placed upon the mother’s breast to feed, and therefore is at rest, let’s also understand the word ‘breast’ in there originally means ‘a harbor’, ‘a sanctuary’, ‘a safe-keeping place’. And let’s get another thing flat too. How long should you be on milk? When you ought to be on meat and strong food and manna? I’m not trying to run down anything the prophet said, or anybody else said about the breast, the breasted One, but I’m certainly not going to give way to anybody trying to tell me that God’s female, any way, shape, or form. If He is, I have no recognition, I have no scripture, I have nothing Bro. Branham said. And you can’t take any obtuse statement and make it that way, because even I am quoting Paul who used an allegory, which means, “don’t stretch it too far, or you will get in trouble.” 28. All right, so we see here the adoption. Now I’m still talking about the two vines, and Satan’s church and God’s church. Two women, and remember one man, because only God can give life. And remember the lemon grafted into the orange tree producing lemons, is taking from the life of the tree, which is orange. So all these churches with their gifts, the Charismatic’s, the neo-Pentecostals, all of these who talk about love, and conversion, and “my life has changed and turned around, look how wonderful,” I appreciate that, I’m all for it. But I want to tell you something, I want anybody here this morning take your Bible, get your concordance, and find me one place where God says He will take away any habit you have that’s wrong. If you eat too much, He said, “Put a knife to your throat.” If you’re committing adultery, stop it! If you’re lusting, stop it! If you’re cursing, stop it! And getting angry, shooting your stack, stop it! You do it! Doesn’t say God’s going to do it. Well, you say, “God did this and God did that.” I ain’t buying it. I don’t even want it. I like what happened when my wife asked Br. Brewer over there in Missouri, on the Arkansas border. She said, “Did God take away your smoking?” She said, “Did you ask Him to?” “Why should I?” he said. “He didn’t tell me to start.” Or he said, “I didn’t ask Him if I could start,” or something. Now that guy, simple, just had the right perfect answer. Whereas Ned Iverson would say to people, “Couldn’t you do it just to please God?” No, they want to whine about their bad habits, you know, “Smoking is just a drug, I can’t stop and that.” You can’t? You get thrown in prison; you’ll stop, for there’s no cigarettes. You know they stop the people smoking in jails now. Huh? Oh yeah. What are you going to do now? What are you going to do about your habits? “Well, I’m a kleptomaniac.” Are you? They throw you in jail, what are you going to steal; the bed bugs or something? Show me where God says, “I’ll take it away.” See; take away your sins. But you’ve got a job. Now let’s go to scripture. We’re going to go now to Hebrews 12, but we just want to go all the way through this church here and get a picture. All right. 29. (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 so easily beset(s) us, (that’s unbelief,) and 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, is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (3) (And) consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (He got it, you’re going to get it, I’m going to get it.) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Jesus did; great drops of blood formed on his brow. [] His resistance was so strong, his blood vessels broke. You ever had a blood vessel break, striving against sin and fighting yourself to the last inch? Not one of you, not all of us put together. “So God take it away. Lord I got this habit of smoking, take it away.” I knew a doctor… you know Lawrence, Dale, his son, were you there that time? They said standing against the wall, and he wanted to quit smoking and Bro. Branham said, “Your smoking left you.” Does he believe the message? I don’t believe he believes nothing. You know if God does something for you, honey-child, you are so obligated, you better not start asking a lot of things, but just living that life and let God bless you and see how He leads you. You live that Word and see what happens. Put a knife to your throat. It’s one of our favorites, we don’t do too much about it. You have not resisted against shed blood resisting. (5) And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the (training, the) chastening (the correcting) of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: (6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son (that) he receiveth. 30. The Greeks have a saying for that. Childtraining is scourging. Existentialism says, “We’re here to suffer.” You know that isn’t true, we’re here to have our characters molded to bring out the best in us. And you can’t build up a muscle without resisting something. Why do you think they put cars in air chambers, aerodynamics? Because they build up a resistance to see how slick they can get it, so the resistance now goes. But they got to do something to get rid of the resistance. So you and I have to do everything we can to get rid of the resistance, which means stop fussing and fighting, learn to relax and rest. And let God deal with our problems. And let us suffer joyfully and do the things we ought to do and look up, because our redemption draweth nigh. (7) If ye endure chastening, (training, childtraining,) God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father (doesn’t train)? And Bro. Branham brought that out in the adoption in Galatians. He said, “The man that has a lot of money and he takes his favorite son,” and he said, “he hires the best tutor he can, and he said, “Now you take my son, he’s in your hands, I’m going to pay you good, and you bring him back a man.”” And that’s what the Holy Ghost does; brings us back mature. And there’s no maturity till the end time, till the exposure of Melchisedec, according to Hebrews 5, I guess it is, is fulfilled. Hebrews 5, which Bro. Branham preached in 1965. Okay. 31. Now, watch. (7) If ye endure chastening, God deal(s) with you as with sons; (Children. Children of the promise, His own genes, His own life. See?) for what son is he whom the father (doesn’t) chasten? (8) But if (you are) without (correction), whereof (we are) all partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Here are the true children of Sarah and the true children of Hagar. Here’s the seed and here’s the shuck. Here’s the wheat and here’s the tares. Here’s the grapevine and the sour grapevine. Here is the sheep and here is the wolf in sheep clothing. Here’s the tree with good fruit, and here’s the tree with rotten fruit. And God’s the author of it all. He made it all. And the devil stepped in with perversion. Now who did he belong to? The perversion or the other? Now, it says here that they do not receive correction. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, “Two and two make five.” “Johnny sit down, two and two make four.” “Well daddy the teacher said I was doing pretty good, I got close within one, five’s a pretty good answer.” “Shut-up Johnny, it isn’t an answer at all, except it’s the wrong answer, and that’s no answer. Two and two make four!” “Well I can’t take correction.” Under the law, they took [them] out and killed [them]. You know why? So they couldn’t pollute others. Let the rapist go free, the murder go free, doesn’t matter, we’re nice people! We’re telling God what to do now. Illegitimate. Illegitimate to the Word of the living God, and you better believe it, and only those who were Word seed, and in the covenant promise between God and His Son, in the Father, passed down through the Son into Adam and on down the line, brought back into Christ the body, only those will ever believe the Word and want it. And the rest will have some great excuse or they’ll use it as a stepping stone to make you think you ain’t got nothing. It’s like the devil did to Eve, she ain’t got nothing really, till I’ve put you right on it. 32. Now we were corrected by our fathers of our flesh, (9) …we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, We got our daddies mad, they beat us; got our mammas mad, she slugged us. God doesn’t do that, we don’t get God mad. It’s impossible for God to get angry with us, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, that means God’s at peace with us. We couldn’t get Him mad if we tried. But He wants us to be men and women. He wants us to grow up. What do you want in your kids growing up? The thing that a father wants above the mother, a million times more than even a mother does, “Kids for heaven’s sake grow up and take your place in society, earn your living, be respectable, serve God, bring up a good family of your own; get off of my shoulders.” 33. Now come on, everybody here this morning, sit here and think what I’ve just said. What’s your family like? Think it over. You’ve got enough guts to do it? You know God’s children are gutsy. But not bread and butter gutsy. They’re Word gutsy, they love the Word, they eat the Word. They get strength and they do the will of Almighty God. They want things right. (11) Now no (correction) for the time (being) seem(s) joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. (Which mean from that time on you begin to do right. It’s stepping stones, stepping stones. Right down the line now. It said here then in 15:) (15) Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; (16) Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. (There you got the two mothers again, Sarah and Hagar. Also you got one mother, bringing forth the two seeds; one which was of God, and one which wasn’t.) (17) For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. There comes a time and this is the age, when there is no longer repentance! You can’t repent! Hebrews 6 says so! Once Rev 10:1-7 comes, you can’t repent! You ever turn on it, you’re gone! The tragic thing is most people think they’re part of it, and they’re not; they don’t even believe what the prophet said! I take his message word by word and I’m excoriated as though I don’t know what I’m talking about. Oh I’m a brainy person, sure I’m a brainy person; I’ve got my brains baptized with the Holy Ghost. You might not believe that, but I know I have. 34. Now, listen. (18) For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, This is chapter 12, the age of the adoption, the age of the correction, the age of Hebrews 6, the age of Melchesidec, strong meat. There’s no nothing to repent for anymore, there’s no place to change your mind. I’ve told you time after time, I can’t get it out of my mind, I can’t think another thought! Where would I go? What would I do? It’s heaven or hell and that’s it! “Oh Bro. Vayle, you should look…” You look! You look! Leave me alone; I’m on my way out. I wouldn’t listen to my wife or my kids or anybody; you couldn’t pay me. I’m like Peter, who said to Simon the sorcerer, “To perdition with you and your money.” Phyllis went further. He said in modern English, which means, “To hell with you and your money.” 35. Go ahead and laugh, laugh all you want, but that’s how I feel. Because that’s the way I am today; it’s heaven or hell. I am or I ain’t. Say, “Bro. Vayle do something.” There you are once more, you’re trying to put something to it. God have mercy, where are we this morning brother/sister, where are you? We haven’t got long to take. What if this woman is right that said the crash is coming in one month? I don’t believe her. I don’t care when it comes. I don’t want to see it come in my time; I’d sooner see you left here and suffer than me. You know why? I’ve been through it all already. I’ve been through my private hell of the thirties. I’ve been through where you couldn’t get a job, you beg, “Let me even learn to work,” they were afraid you might do better than they would, so they wouldn’t hire you. Wouldn’t let you do anything for nothing, even. Yeah I was there when we prayed the food on the table. I thought I’d been euchred by God, and hurt. How many of you can say you prayed and God put the food on your table? I thought I was abused. But I bit the bullet. What’s He going to do now? I don’t know. I can’t change it, I can’t change me, I can’t take from, I can’t add to. And if I did? What good would it do? That’s grace. That’s grace. Say, “Well Bro. Vayle sounds like disgrace.” That’s your definition, not mine. 36. Hear what he said here, (19) The sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them (again): (That’s where they said, “Moses you come and tell us.”) (20) (For they could not endure that which was commanded, if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: (21) And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) (He trembled.) (22) But ye are come unto mount Sion, (not Sinai.) unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, an innumerable company of angels, (and the whole thing’s getting back together now.) (23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, (see? That’s that mother bit.) and to God the Judge of all, (you tell me the Judge never came? I tell you don’t know your Bible. You don’t know what’s going on.) and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (coming right to the resurrection, they without us cannot be made perfect.) (24) And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, (oh, God’s here, going to take us right to the Son.) the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Scattering till there be no evidence of sin, the blood perfecting, the Word perfecting.) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. (Right today.) This is where we are today. This is for the Bride church. This is Bride manna. The foolish virgin doesn’t have a part in it. And the wicked, the shuck, has nothing to do with it; they turned it down flat. We are now dealing right today with Satan’s kingdom, and God’s Kingdom, Satan’s church and God’s church. And Satan is using every single thing he got from God and can get from God to confound and confuse the people, and it’s a perversion. Absolutely. 37. Now, let me take you back to Galatians, and we’re going to quit with a couple more remarks, because time goes on. I haven’t answered all your questions, I’m taking time with my own, because you see I sense what’s needed, by the fact I’m not sure you understand some of the things I’m saying and they must be understood. So let’s go to Galatians 1. And he said here, (6) I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you unto the grace of Christ (Messiah) unto another gospel: (7) Which is not another; (it’s no gospel at all.) but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Now the word ‘pervert’ means to ‘transmute’. Now the word ‘transmute’ is a verb. It means ‘to change from nature, substance, or form into another nature, substance or form’. Transmutation is a noun, which actually means ‘alchemy’. Like turning tin to gold. Isn’t that a nice thought? We’re going to turn all the tin to gold. What if it’s a reverse process and all the gold is turned to tin? Huh? What if everything turns to gravel in your mouth? The stolen bread that’s so sweet. The bread that Satan stole and perverted and fed to people turns to gravel. Everybody thinks alchemy, “Oh we’re going to turn iron into gold, and tin into gold, and brass into platinum, and we’re going to turn coal into diamonds, hallelujah.” What if your diamonds got turned into coal? Isn’t that what the Book of Revelation says? You just think you’re clothed and got everything, and you’re wrong. It’s been transmuted by the alchemy of Satan. And you don’t have gold that’s tried in the fire; you don’t have it at all. You’ve got no refined faith; you’ve got nothing there. 38. Now then, it follows naturally it changes life to death, joy to sorrow, health to sickness, vitality to corruption. Now if the original two words in the Greek, it means to ‘transfer or sequence’. It means to literally transfer or sequence, which is to put in a position, which it wasn’t in the original. You’re going to say, “Well this is this, so now watch where it comes and watch how I bring it out.” Isn’t that what the devil did to Eve? It actually means therefore then ‘to twist as to turn around or reverse’. Gold goes to tin, life goes to death, health goes to sickness, vitality and vigor and vim goes to corruption. Until at the end time men’s body will rot and women’s body will rot as they walk around, the puss falling on the ground, and the ground cannot cleanse itself. Humanity cursing God in the throes of agony and death. It all started in Gen 3:1-5, where Satan came and said, “Yea hath God said?” Notice what he did, he twisted the Word. He turned it right around. He sequenced it to his own desire. He took her from the gold of God to the muck, and the mire, and the slime, and corruption, and the filth, filthy death, from the Garden of Eden. See? You read what he said, and then read what God said, because they believed what he said instead of what God said. “From now on the ground doesn’t bring forth unto you as it did in the Garden of Eden. You’ll be working; it will bring thistles and briars.” The very thing that they jammed upon the very head of Jesus, those thorns that pierced his brow and let the blood flow forth. Now that’s perversion, so let’s go to 2 Corinthians, where it’s explained a hundred percent. He said it’s not another gospel. 2 Corinthians 11, we’ve read it hundreds of times, I know. 39. And he says here: (2) For I am jealous over you with (a) godly jealousy: I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (You haven’t been meddled with. See? She hasn’t been meddled with.) You know, the test of a virgin was a menstrual cloth. It meant when the man got her, she wasn’t pregnant with some man. That’s a very poor definition, you might think, but the fact of the matter is, in the ovulation she drops a fresh egg down so she can be impregnated. And that Word keeps coming fresh to the people, the children of God, that they can be impregnated with the Word of the living God, the womb of the mind so thoroughly closed that no other seed can come in. Do you hear what I said? Live, die, sink, swim, I couldn’t change if I tried, I couldn’t believe another thought if I tried, there’s nothing there to believe. And I’m going to warn you, if you try it, you will die. If you try it, to think you can tempt God with what I’m telling you, go ahead and do it, and you’ll suddenly become so blank, and so sick, and so confused, that you would to God you hadn’t smarted off and tried to tempt God. You even get sick and not having tried it, and the devil will come by and say, “Just a minute, you could be wrong you know, who are you? Maybe you’re not quite right with what the prophet said; maybe he really never came. Maybe you’re seeing something that isn’t there.” You’ll die. Be my guest. I’ve been through it. I’ve been through it; be my guest. Do you people believe me? I’ve never tried to fool you; I’ve never lied to you, I’ve spilt my guts. But I’ll stand before God, like I’m doing right now; I’ve got no fear. I maybe overplay it a little bit, but so did the prophet, he admitted it. But I don’t think I’m exaggerating. Because I couldn’t describe to you what I have gone through by trying to be nice. I am not nice, nor will I be nice. We might as well admit what I just read in the Reader’s Digest. We have laws to keep each other from killing each other, and we have etiquette to make us polite. All right? 40. (3) (And) I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through subtility, so your minds should be corrupted… So, your minds would be not pregnated. Eve’s mind was pregnated before her womb was pregnated. Before she could receive serpent seed, she had to receive the word of the serpent. The curse causeless cannot come. Had her womb been sealed with the seed of God, as Mary, there is no way there could have been another seed. But she blew the whole thing. (4) For if he that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, receive another spirit, (we would not receive another gospel, which really isn’t another gospel.) In other words, if anybody comes and twists anything, he’s perverting it, turning it backwards, telling you he could make it better, make it nicer, you’ll be nicer people, you’ll have it made, he said to Eve, “I’ll teach you what real love is.” But he blew it. Now, let’s go back to Hebrews 12, and in Hebrews 12 Paul is speaking here as I mentioned, and we read as far as “Refuse not him that speaketh from heaven,” that’s God coming down, standing before groups of men declaring Himself through the prophet, “You’re looking at me aren’t you?” Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 41. So, now you’re going to see big things happen in heaven, you’ve got to, because for the first time now the heavens are polluted, we’ve got stuff up there in space, they’ve been on the moon, they’re going to go back again, even Mr. Glenn’s all hepped up, that big democrat who doesn’t know right hand from left hand when it comes to politics; he just thinks he does, he going up there again. That’s his business; he can go. This word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Now you can only make something out of what is there. So that means that everything as God put on earth, and the whole thing’s got to be shaken down. Why? Because they’ve turned away from the Word, which maintains, and when we go, there’s nothing left to maintain. Except the hundred and forty-four thousand. It’s going to be all over. 42. Now, notice It says here: (Receive) a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: (In other words we’re right back to grace, Abraham’s covenant of grace, covenant with God and His Son, we’re a part of it, it’s all of grace; it’s handed to us. Now he said, “Because you’re grateful, live a reverent life.”) For our God is a consuming fire. Everything that’s not right’s going to be consumed, we are going to have to stand there one day completely perfect just like Jesus Christ, going to be all burnt out, everything cut away. 43. Now: [Hebrews 13] Let brotherly love continue. What? Let brotherly love continue. Is that what it says? Look at your Bibles. Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained (messengers) unaware. Remember them that are in bonds… (and so on. And right down the line.) Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: (doesn’t say that outside of marriage is.) And that brings the question. Bro. Branham said, “When you pledge yourself, vow yourself, you’re married.” But he also said, “How can you be joined together by some justice of peace? Some drunken bum?” Now, if I ask my wife to marry me, and we’re married, then I can have intercourse with her. I understand that’s called premarital sex. How far did Bro. Branham take that thought? I want to know, I got to have some answers. Because I’ve seen lives ruined, I’ve preached and said, “You’ve proposed and you’ve accepted, you’ve got to marry each other.” And the marriage blew higher and out. A rocket. When are you married? There’s a law in this land that you got to obey. They gave up marriage, lived together, concubinage, crud, companionate marriage, by a guy named Russell in England, started the whole thing. Do you remember that Russ? Russell the philosopher? Bretrand Russell. Companionate marriage. He started it. But you notice how when this fellow… I forget his name now, Lee, I guess, yeah. He had this girl for years, living with her? She called it palimony. She was his gal pal, she wanted money for her services, I’d want it too, because she’s a prostitute. Think the question over seriously, before you make your mind up and shoot your mouth off about things. I’ve seen lives wrecked, I don’t see lives wrecked. You better take everything that he mentioned also engagement at one time too. Okay, marriage is honorable. And the marriage bed is undefiled, anything else is. 44. But you notice: (4) …whoremongers and adulterers will (God) judge. Let your (behavior) be without coveteousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he said, I will never leave (you), nor forsake (you). May (we) boldly say, The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man shall do unto me. That’s for this hour brother/sister, because this follows coming to this mount Zion. At the time we come to mount Zion, here’s what’s going on, and here’s the record of our behavior. Get married, keep your sex life there. Well you’ll be tempted, don’t worry, that’s natural for everybody, but you don’t have to give in to it. Like one person once said, “Look,” he said, “I believe this desire for sexual intercourse is one of the things of nature of man.” The fellow said, “Yeah, so is drinking water, but you don’t have to drink water out of a dirty cup.” 45. (6) Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: (that qualifies where the rule is, it’s in the Word, not the preacher.) whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. (He’s a five-fold minister, you better believe the revelation he’s giving you.) Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. (That’s what? Genesis 18, Sodom and Gommorah.) Be not carried away about with divers and strange doctrines. (And so on.) Now I want to go about to 2 Peter, so we can close. In 2 Peter 1, Paul is enumerating what Bro. Branham said is birthed into us by the Holy Spirit. And he says this, verse 5. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; Faith is number one, virtue is number two, knowledge is number three, four is temperence, five is patience, six is godliness, and seven is brotherly kindness, and love is God, the capstone coming down. The Seventh Church Age is brotherly kindness; it is not love. If there’s any perfection going to be from Bride to Bride it’s going to be brotherly kindness, and that’s the age of [which] Bro. Branham said, as Bank Woods put it, “Fishhooks on the elbows.” He said, “You’re very touchy, you’re very testy.” 46. And that was Sister Shepherd’s dream, or vision, that Bro. Branham brought before the public. And it’s the sweetness of the Holy Ghost, with this Word, that helps us to get along. Because this is an age where it’s not love as people think it is, it is brotherly kindness. So don’t think for one minute I’m going to do anything through brotherly kindness that’s going to be so monumental, so wonderful, you are going to just simply come radiantly to a maturity. The best I can do, and you can do, is to so live the life that it will excite others, and believe this Word, and talk this Word. The whole gambit of what Paul talked about, so that people get as excited as we are, and want to go on and on. It’s not what people say, it’s not what people think, it’s what the prophet said, it’s this Word. So don’t get carried away. Don’t sit here all these years, and look at me as though you’re absorbing. Because I’m going to tell you one thing: your sin will find you out. Every fruit will be manifested. Every nature will be manifested. As we stood before the prophet, five thousand, to fifty thousand, to five hundred thousand, nobody could hide if he tried. That’s omniscience, not the prophet’s, but God’s. Neither can you and I. You know, it’s what Mohammed Ali said, “You can run, but you can’t hide.” And I don’t doubt, but for a heavyweight, he was the greatest boxer in American, if not the world history. And you know you got the great heavyweight standing amongst us today. You can run, but you can’t hide. From Adam, he ran, but he couldn’t hide, he just thought he could. And so, brother/sister, here we are at the end time, and I’m finished now outlining to you that I wanted you to know with a degree that I did not believe that I had impressed you, that Satan has a church with all his sanctuaries, and he’s leading in worship, he’s using the name of Jesus; he’s got his so-called beautiful, gallant co-workers, angels of light in pretense, wolves in sheep’s clothing; preachers, and they’re there perverting the Word of the hour, twisting and turning it, and promising you what God has not promised. Trying to get you to believe a covenant, which is not confirmed. There is only one covenant confirmed, there is only one confirmed Word, this Bible as vindicated through William Branham, prophet of the living God. And nothing else matters. And so there’s where we are. 47. Now the rest of the Word of this life, we can deal with it later, has to do with the simple walk, as Paul said, “When you come to this end time, let brotherly love continue.” Watch your behavior, but never forget this is the same hour when God visited Abraham just before the coming of the promised son in flesh, when Sodom and Gomorrah burns. Therefore listen carefully and obey the Word that is given to you in this last hour as you approach to Mount Zion, vindicated prophet, listen carefully, and listen; be very careful to whom you listen. And if that man does not stay with William Branham, and I am not with William Branham, then you leave; it is your obligation. And if I am with him and you leave, you are in trouble, because you will find a people you love, and they will love a certain word, which is not the Word that we love. And you will have a great time, and I could name you a hundred at least who are having a great time. Some of which are embezzlers, and liars, and crooks. Others live in filthy sin. Should I name names and lay it out? Of course I won’t do it. But I’m standing here with the Bible open before me. And I’m not lying to you. I’ve no reason to lie. Say, “ Well Bro. Vayle you believe you’re some kind of an authority.” To myself I am, or I wouldn’t be preaching the way I am. If I wasn’t some authority in myself, what right would I have to preach to you? If I didn’t believe with all my heart this Message and take it right to the Word of God what Bro. Branham said, what am I doing? And if I’m sure, then I’m as sure as Paul is, I’m as sure as William Branham is. I’m as sure as sure can be. If I’m wrong, God help me, and God help you for listening. 48. Now I’ve not preached you morals except obliquely. But I’ve preached you that which Bro. Branham said the prophet in the former rain would do. He preached from the serpent seed to the prophet in the former rain, revealing the great mysteries of God, showing the time in which we live, the hour in which we live, even those things which were not known before the foundation of the world. Anybody can preach morals. There’s not a religion that doesn’t, and there’s not a religion that keeps it. So you’re bound up to one thing, the grace of God. I trust we stand in grace today, in fact I know we do. If I didn’t stand in grace, I stand nowhere. All right, till we meet again, thank you for your prayers and your help, because the road is getting tougher, and how many more times I’ll be in the pulpit I don’t know. I’m here today, who knows what happens tomorrow, because there are things are shutting off rapidly, and that goes in many ways, but we appreciate as far as we’ve come together, we appreciate, we love this Word, and we love each other in the measure that that has been granted to us. But above all we love God; we love this Word. And anything else by way of love must come from it, in the proper place, in the proper manner, in the proper measure. And we can have it, because we’re part of it. Let’s rise at this time and be dismissed. Gracious heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for the time we have had together here, exhaustively, the best we can, perhaps not to an uttermost limit, but as far as we can go, showing Satan’s Eden, Satan’s church, the trail of the serpent, the two vines, the disparity between the seed, the wheat and the shuck, all of these things Lord we’ve tried to bring out and show wherein they lie, how that at no time when Your Word came, could these children of Hagar take instruction and take correction, and neither could they do it in the days of Jesus or Paul, and now they cannot do either. And many Lord, who attempted to believe and thought they were believing, have turned aside, even as they must, because it happened in Ephesus, Paul’s days, it’s got to happen now. But Lord we know that there is such a thing as a fortification, where the old oak can be not tempest tossed in the whole, but rocked right down to the very roots, until the roots take a deeper grip and go deeper and become far more solid anchored upon the solid Rock of revelation. And Lord, we know without a doubt when our revelation comes to the place in every area of our lives where we really see truth in the inner man with brains truly anointed and baptized with the Holy Ghost, the Word of the living God taking precedence to every Word wherein grace lies, life lies, it all lies then we know, Lord, that every single one can rise to that occasion [putting] on Christ, forming Christ and [coming] to that stature. It is now impossible. Even as the Bride itself through the ages has come to that stature, the last age [in ]which we are now, brotherly kindness crowned by Him, the Capstone, Who has come down even Jehovah Elohim to claim the Bride for the Son of the Lord Jesus Christ where it becomes all in all a beautiful manifestation of the entire mystery. And Lord, it is so good to know we’re a part of that at this hour. Father, we just ask you as Bro. Branham always did, to heal the sick amongst us to give strength, to give energy, to give us the help and the health whatever we need to do Your will, and not live in a realm of confusion that we have been given these things… the health the stamina and whatever You’ve blessed us with, to use it upon ourselves for any self aggrandizement, but rather Lord to serve You, by serving others and to love You by truly loving others and to just do what Your Word has told us to do and by the prophet’s final admonition to live the good Christian life, just as Paul said, “Let your brotherly love continue… remember the day of the Son becoming flesh, the presence of the living God with judgment to follow walking in the Light.” Thank you for that. Now unto the King Eternal, immortal and invisible, the only Wise God, be all power, honor and glory through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord. Where you see, ‘Take the Name of Jesus with you’, do you notice how I finish my prayer? “And now unto the King Eternal, immortal and invisible…” Do you know that I have been mocked for saying those words? That was known as my trademark and they mocked it. Can you believe that people who believe this message and say they have anything to do with God would mock a man using the Word of God? That’s life in the fast lane of the synagogue of Satan. That’s out there that I don’t have any part in, and I don’t want any of that to have a part of me. So, unto the King Eternal, immortal and invisible the only Wise God, be power honor and glory ever more through Jesus Christ the Son.. Amen. “Take the Name of Jesus With you.”