THINGS THAT ARE TO BE #2 PRIVATE
Peace of God "According to My Gospel"
Omega Judgment; Ancient of Days
Bro. Lee Vayle
February 27, 1994
Heavenly Father, we're grateful for Your Presence here, Lord. We know
You have not left us. Even if You had, we have the Living Word
indwelling us, Lord, and that great promise made manifest to us: that we
know Who You are, and we know who we are, and we know relationships and
sonship and those things that are so important, Lord, in growing more up
into It, with Christ becoming more and more the Headship. And we know
that's happening, as Bro. Branham said, "in a Bride somewhere. If we're
not Bride, there's a Bride out there, and by the grace of God, we'll not
stand in her way, but like friends of the Bridegroom, stand by to
rejoice and to cheer them on, Lord."
Even the position of foolish virgin would be fine. Anything You have
predestinated us to, Lord. But we believe we have the higher hope and a
calling at this moment, and we give You glory, Lord, that we have
learned those blessed truths and secrets and revelations, Lord, which
had been hidden for so long by reason that they were never fully
manifested and fully run their course; but now they are, and all things
are wound up in You.
And we just appreciate that fact, Lord, and trust we will not only just
believe it in the sense that it is there, because we have some kind of a
conscience, but, Lord, down deep within our hearts, by way of our minds
and spirits, we have this ingrafted Word, which is going to transfigure
and transform us.
And so we appreciate that and trust, Lord, we'll hear more of that
great Word that is doing the work already, proving It can do It, proving
It is doing It, and, therefore, will consummate It. In Jesus' Name, we
pray. Amen.
1. You may be seated. Now we're on to number two of "Things That Are To
Be," and last Sunday we took all our time. We just had one paragraph
there, too. On page three we took all our time looking at the fact that
all the peoples of the earth will be judged someday by the Word of God.
Now this sermon that Bro. Branham preached was the third and last
warning to a mixed crowd. Now he did preach, actually, three times in
California, came home and preached the one time "Communion" in Tuscon.
So this is the third sermon, the first of the last three--four all
together--in that series, and four is completion. He never went anyplace
else and preached anything or said anything.
2. And the warning, of course, was to a mixed crowd. Although he
credited most of them with being Christians, we do know that there was a
mixed crowd there, a peripheral group outside of Los Angeles, and many
of them, we believe, because he was with the Full Gospel Business Men,
who sponsored him when he preached "The Choosing of a Bride," where he
prophesied concerning the fall and destruction of Los Angeles, going
under and sliding into the sea, even as Capernaum.
3. And you may be interested to know that Bro. Branham told Billy Paul,
as they stood in front of the May Store on Third Avenue, he said,
"Billy, if sharks aren't swimming here before you're an old man, I'm a
false prophet." Did you know, which I could have told you, and neglected
to tell you, that an earthquake that followed the one, the recent one,
that devastated a great deal of Los Angeles... Actually, another one,
with its epicenter, its exact center, is in a town... I think it starts
with the word 'North,' but I'm not sure. When it hit, it absolutely
demolished the May Department Store. So you've got a forerunner right
there of how things are happening; and Bro. Branham said, "When all this
shaking really begins to come, you better believe it's going to happen."
And again, they're talking about the "big one" that is coming.
4. So, he's talking to this peripheral crowd, and of course, you know
that they are not receptive. As I told you, when Bro. Branham spoke of
the woman's place and the Word of God, they just laughed him to shame.
Just a big joke. Just mocked him and giggled. And they were there for
one purpose only, if you want to put it down, that was to attempt to
impede the Word of God and seal their own destruction. I'm sorry to say
that Covina is not the only place that is going through this, because
the same message that Bro. Branham preached is being preached by many
people with even greater insight than he gave to the people then,
because one of his last charges was to the preachers to break it down
and feed it to the people, because he himself did not have time.
5. So the sermon, though one not about warning of the judgment to come,
though containing it in a limited manner, his preamble was one of
judgment and warning them that it would be on a strict principle that he
enunciated. So we took all our time looking at the fact that all the
peoples of the earth will be judged some day by the Word of God. Bro.
Branham combined two Scriptures when he made this doctrinal statement
based on Heb 9:26-27 and 2 Corinthians 5. Well, we can hit Hebrews 9 and
then whirl back. You all know, of course, what that is. We've read It
many times. You have a good idea; and It says:
(26) For then he must often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.
(27) And as it is appointed unto men once to die (That includes
everybody in the general sense of that term), but after this the
judgment.
(28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them
that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.
6. So, all right. You've got a second Appearing, It doesn't say
'Coming.' There's an 'Appearing.' And at that particular time, there
will be a people without sin unto salvation; and Bro. Branham brought
that out to us. Now, in 2 Cor 5:10:
(10) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body (or the things of his
body), according to that that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
7. Now, you remember, Bro. Branham said you were given a body in order
to be tested and tried, so therefore, any sin is going to come from the
body. And the one sin, particularly, that you will pay for in this
world, for the Scripture says, "All sin is without the body save the sin
of illicit fornication and adultery in sexual sins."
So there goes your homosexuals and all the filth that would invite them
into the churches and give them places. Now, if they repent, that's
fine. If they can't help what's in their nature somehow, or say they
can't, but abstain and preach against this, they'll be fine, because
they're born again and got the power. But there's also complete
deliverance for those who have had homosexual spirits on them, because
I've seen it done myself. In my own ministry I've seen a woman delivered
who just could not help herself; but from that time on, she was able to
help herself. Verse 11:
(11) Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we
are made manifest unto God; and I trust also made manifest to your
conscience.
That Paul is saying here, "Look, I am vindicated to say this." It's a
vindicated Word.
8. Now, these are the two Scriptures that led him, as a universal
proposition, to make a statement and combine two other verses of
Scriptures, which are in Acts 17:31 and Rom 2:16, also Isa 33:22. That's
peripheral. [Acts 17:]
(31) Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the
world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he
hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the
dead.
9. Now remember, you are talking about judgment. You are talking about
all men must die. So therefore, you are talking in a period, which could
be a lengthy period, that is progressive until every single person dies,
and every single person is judged. Now, I know when you read this you
simply say, "Well, everybody's going to die. They'll come up in the
White Throne Judgment"--giving us a generalization. Hogwash! Because you
can be in the first Resurrection and not die--just stand right here,
change into immortality according to 1 Cor 15, about verse 48 to about
52-53. You don't have to die.
10. What it's telling you here is sure and certain as there is death.
There is going to be that judgment. And, remember, in this last day, the
theme--the great theme... One of the great themes of Bro. Branham's
message--was that which proved his vindication; not just Bro. Branham's
vindication that God had vindicated Himself to Bro. Branham, and Bro.
Branham vindicated to the world, but all based upon the fact that Jesus
was risen from the dead. For if God now was operating in the Flame of
Fire through a prophet, doing the same thing He did when He operated
through the human flesh--not the human so much, but it was human--the
flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then it is proven that that one in whom
He dwelled, was raised from the dead, and He is down here right now
putting everything under that Son's feet. And the Son is not
'comatosed.' He's on the Father's throne waiting.
I know people think we're talking out of both sides of our mouth. You
do what you want to do. Do what you want to think. That's the truth.
"Well, I can read Scripture."
Well, read your Scripture. See? I'm not a hard guy to get along with.
You can believe anything you want. Do what you want.
11. [Romans 2:]
(16) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel.
Now, we'll read, of course, here in Isa 33:22, and It said:
(22) For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, (Then It
says:) the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Now, that's something right there. The Word of the Lord is such that no
man ever lived It outside of Jesus Christ, and no man ever will live It
outside of Jesus Christ.
12. So It tells you right here, when you stand before God, you are
standing liable; but being your King, He'll save you in spite of any
judgment. Also, you'll notice, that because He's your King, He will show
you favor. As the Bible said, "God not imputing our sins to us." David
did not say, "Blessed is the man who doesn't sin." He said, "blessed is
that man who, when he does sin, God will not impute to him his
iniquities." And David was the type of the Prophet-King. And if anybody
needed salvation and knew about it, King David did. All right.
13. In this day... "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men
by Jesus Christ according to my gospel..." Let's just look at the
Scripture and find out a couple of things. We go to Hebrews, chapter 4;
and we know and we can get the two films here where Bro. Branham was in
a discerning line. Heb 4:12:
(12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and joint and marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
(13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight:
but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
have to do.
14. Now, you've got to read the whole thing and understand this Book.
And I don't care who reads; a sample reading of It does not fulfill any
portion of what is said here. It's with "the eyes of Him with Whom we
have to do!" So, if He's not here with His eyes... How many eyes are
there? Seven sets of eyes. Huh? Book of Revelation. How many spirits?
Seven. What are those eyes of the Lord running to and fro throughout the
earth? Spirit of God moving the Word amongst men, some of which are
prophets. Not all. I will explain some of that as time goes by. If you
catch it, that'd be great. All right.
15. With that... Now notice what It says here: "For the word of God is
quick, and powerful; discerns thoughts and intents of the heart." You
read It. The Bible says, "Our hearts are so wicked, who can know them?"
Only God can try the reins of our hearts. And Bro. Branham stood there
and said, "You couldn't hide if you tried." And he proved that judgment
was on now and in the earth by the Word of God. And it wasn't William
Branham trying to tell people, "You've got to come to my standard, and
do what I do." It was the Word of God being proven. "Neither is there
any creature or any sight that's not naked."
16. At the end time they're all naked. Under what conditions are they
naked? Under this condition here: wretched, miserable, blind, naked,
don't know it. "Hee, hee, hee," said the women, when he said, "Every
time I come, your hair is shorter, and you're wearing men's clothes."
"Hee, hee, hee. Isn't that wonderful?"
What if you were before a judge and a jury in this area here that
hated you--wanted to see you behind bars? The judge looks up and says,
"Everytime I've talked to you people, and brought you in here, you've
waxed worse and worse."
"Hee, hee, hee, judge. Isn't that funny? Ho, ho, ho."
Oh, you'd be doing it, wouldn't you? And I would be...Oh, yeah. Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah--showing we're completely insane, completely deluded,
completely chaff, completely no life, completely serpent seed,
completely citizens of hell. It only takes one word off to do that. I'll
explain that later on, too; right in this very message.
17. We go to 2 Thessalonians. I'm not being here dramatic. You wait
till the real drama comes. When the real drama comes, "Hide us from the
wrath of the Lamb."
"We hate Him, but hide us!"
And they'll gnaw their tongues, in pain and anguish and blaspheme the
God of heaven!
18. Well, you look pretty complacent, some of you. So, what'll we have
for lunch? Are we like the whore that committed adultery, like eating a
piece of bread, wipes her mouth." Was nice." I'm going to stand before
the judgment. I'm not blaming you or saying anything about you I'm not
saying about myself. There's where they mistook Bro. Branham. They
thought he was some kind of a prude, because he had a gift. He could
speak down on people. Because I may have a way with words and can use
biting, bitter illustrations, it doesn't mean I'm justifying myself, and
I've got anything. It has nothing to do with it.
19. So we go to 2 Th 1:7, and we read: "And you that are troubled rest
with us." Have
peace. Where you going to get your peace? "Well," you say, [Jn 14:27]
"My peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world
giveth unto you." [Jn 14:1] "Let not your hearts trouble, neither let it
be afraid. [Mt 11:29] "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me." Yoke upon
you? Yoke? That means two people joined together like two oxen or two
horses, two asses, mules, whatever; even goats. You could yoke two dogs.
That means they got something common between them--pulling the same way.
20. Peace! I want to ask you what 'peace' is. Do you know what peace
is? It's fruit of the spirit, right? Right? I'll read it to you. I read
it in Galatians. Come on. How many kind of 'peaces' are there? I don't
say p-i-e-c-e-s. I say p-e-a-c-e-s.
"Well," you say, "Bro. Vayle, that could be the 'peace of God stablish
your hearts and mind' is different."
Aw, come on, come on. The love of God is eighteen different ways. The
peace of God is eighteen different ways. The righteousness of God...
Come on, come on, come on! Fruit of the spirit, right? Okay. How do you
get the spirit? "Well, Bro. Vayle, I speak in tongues, I get sensations,
and I hear from God." Well, why don't you just shut up? You don't belong
in here. You don't belong here. Why do you come? You've got no wedding
garment on. You'll only get chucked out anyway. If I'm in that category,
I get chucked out; and the more I stand here and preach this Truth--and
I know It's the Truth, and you know It's the Truth--the greater the
obligation, the greater our judgment, the harder and further we'll be
thrown for a longer length of time, if we are wrong..
21. "For they that know much and have much, much of them is required."
So, the baptism with the Holy Ghost, the full measure-baptism, comes by
piling Word upon Word upon Word upon Word upon Word. And the conduit of
the Holy Ghost, naturally, is the flesh; supernaturally, is the Word.
How are you going to have the peace of God and not have His Word? Now,
let me prove I know what I'm talking about.
(7) You that are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall
be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. (And that's the truth.
You can't lie about it. It's here.)
(8) In flames of fire taking vengeance on them that know not God... (And
at the same time avenging, or vindicating, them that know God. Right?
Bible...Jesus said so. And Paul said, "You better remember the pure
Words of our Lord Jesus Christ.")
(8) ...And obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who... (Now
what's this Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ?)
(10) When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and be admired in
all them that believe (because of our testimony among you) in that day.
22. And It says right here: "in that day when God shall judge the souls
of men, the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to 'my-y-y-y'
gospel." Bro. Branham was taken beyond the curtain of time, an actual
vision, just like Paul, caught up to the third heaven, saw those thing.
He could come back and tell us. And he said, "Who are all these people?
"
They said, "They're yours."
"Why," he said, "how could they be?"
"Well," he said, "according to the Gospel. You brought them into
salvation."
"And," he said, "I'd like to see Jesus."
"Well, you can't. But He will come to you and judge you by what you
preached."
He said, "I preached what Paul preached!"
And they all screamed, "We're depending on that!"
23. Now, you can say what you want. This is the Scripture. The Seals
have been opened. The Thunders thundered. The revelation is here. Bro.
Branham categorically said, "Just think how marvelous, the same Pillar
of Fire that brought the Word to Paul is here revealing It." Every
single thing he said was wound up by the declaration, "The Bride is
already judged. You are the righteous, sinless, perfect Bride of the
Lord Jesus Christ. You didn't even do it. You were tricked into it." And
again, he said, "Under the Seven Seals wherein the Seven Thunders were,
you have everything to put you in the Rapture." That's Paul's gospel! In
the day of Paul they went off in three different tangents--another
Spirit, another Word, another Jesus. Then today we are back to the true
Word, to the true Jesus, to the true Spirit. That's why Bro. Branham
could preach on the true Baptism with the Holy Ghost, which was not
simply an anointing. So you know where we stand today.
24. With these same Scriptures, Bro. Branham used Jn 1:1: "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God." And he positively said, "If you make the Logos, or the Word,
Jesus, you have got three Gods." So he was telling you right here that
the Rhema-Logos became flesh. Now the thing is, how did He become flesh?
Oh, well, now we become Jesus-Only, or Trinity. Yeah.
Listen, sit with me and listen. I'm going to try to get this across
just as easy as I can. Do you know, brother/sister, I can read to you
what I have already read? Now, Bro. Branham said [from "Attitude" and
"Who is God?"],
Oh, back in the days of...oh, ancient days, You know, looking at the
stars, the zodiac they looked at those things. Today, He's got His Bible
written here. But He wrote It in the heavens, that man would look up and
realize that Jehovah, the Creator, was above... Do you know he used the
word there out of actual chronology? It should have been 'Elohim,'
because the word 'Jehovah' comes later, and the Book of Isaiah is full
of Jehovah-Elohim. But Jehovah-Elohim is the same person. It's just a
matter of the great unfolding drama--the greatness that lay in Him,
which lies in two functions. One is omniscience, and one is omnipotence,
which, in themselves, can be destructive, manic, and horrible! But He's
got a third thing--nature, which is love. Love worketh no ill to his
neighbor, let alone his wife and children. Jehovah-Creator was above.
And then I can see Him; He looked at that.
And I can see the seed of this world... In other words, the start--the
origin of this world...hanging there as an icicle, whatever it was, way
away. He moved it over there. I can see this little Light go out.
25. Now, remember, his chronology is wrong again here. He explained his
chronology: the Light came before there was an atom or any creation by
the Creator. And Paul, the apostle, completely explained it over here in
Hebrews. Let's go back and read It so nobody has to make any stupid
comments, which are not just. [Hebrews 1]
(1) God, who at sundry times and divers manners, in many parts and many
ways, spake in the time past unto the fathers in the prophets. (Not
'by,' though 'by' is correct, but it's still incorrect, because if He
wasn't 'in' the prophets, He wasn't speaking 'by' the prophets. And
that's what's wrong with the church. God is not in the church. So,
therefore, He is not speaking 'by' the church. Huh?)
(2) In these last days God has spoke unto us in Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds or the
ages;
(3) Who being the effulgence, the outflowing, the outraying of his
glory, the expression of his person.
26. It tells you the Son is a 'chunk of God'! Huh? Well, what was He
made of? There's nothing there to make It up, and He's there suddenly.
What if I handed you a pot of clay, and you put some water in it, and
that's all there is is clay and water for being pliable, and suddenly:
ah-h-h-h...magnificent! It's not only gold; no, no. It's not platinum.
It's better still. It's plutonium, and I can blow the world up or get my
fortune by selling it to the North Koreans or anybody else. I'd say,
"Boy, are you nuts! You don't just have hallucinations. You've got
cross-eyed hallucinations. Ain't no such thing. That's still a lump of
clay.
27. So Jesus absolutely was a chunk or a part of God. And that's why I
got challenged. He said, "Well, Lee, you say there's two of them."
I said, "Yeah."
"Well, two personalities make two Gods."
I said, "No."
Well, Bro. Branham didn't say it. Let's find out what Bro. Branham
said.
I can see...now we got two now. (He says "now" twice.) I can see this
little Light go out. Now, we got two now. The Father, and out of the
Father came the Light, the Son.
28. Somebody not only owes me an apology, but needs to apologize to
some of you! Huh? When are you going to stand up for Jesus,
brother/sister? Just not get hot under the collar, but get hot, period.
Rhema-Logos. We've got too many hare-brained theologians that try to
separate Rhema-Logos. If you want, we'll spend an hour, I'll just bring
out my concordance, and I'll show you the words are interchangeable. And
I'll show you Bro. Branham used them interchangeably. Just as I can show
you in Isaiah, all through Isaiah is Jehovah-Elohim, Jehovah-Elohim,
Jehovah-Elohim. Say, "Now Jehovah-Elohim becomes Jehovah." Sure! The
same way as your son becomes a husband, becomes a father, becomes a
grand-father, becomes a great-grand-father and then becomes dead! And
the life that made you what you were goes back to God, and He does what
He wants with it.
29. You see, I'm preaching very, very simple, and I need simple-minded
people to listen. I've been accused of being a brilliant person with a
big education. I've got news for you. Hogwash! My preaching is very
simple. The trouble is, it's different from people's understanding. If
when I say 'red,' then you perceive 'yellow,' then how are you going to
understand? Did you hear what I read? Huh? That was the weakest 'amen' I
ever heard in my life! Did you hear what I said? [Congregation responds
with a louder 'amen.'] Thank you. Now I know we're going someplace. I
can't tell where, but we're going someplace.
...I can see this little Light go out. That is, go out of God. Now, we
got two now. The Father, and out of the Father came the Light, the Son.
30. No Jesus-Only preacher ever said, "The Father talked to the Son, or
the Son to the Father." It was always the Son being the Father, and the
Son being his own Father, and he talked to Himself. And I'm going to
tell you flat right here what confuses people: Bro. Branham did preach
on the Godhead more like he was Jesus-Only than he preached this way.
That's right. All the quotes in the Church Ages, even... Oh, come on.
Where is this beauty right here? All right. [John 1]
(18) No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in
the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
He used that one. If that's not a Jesus-Only, I've never heard it! I
used the same one. He used it, but he wasn't saying what the Jesus-Only
thought, and now the trinitarians have all gone Jesus-Only.
31. [I Jn 2:23] "But he that hath the Son hath the Father." Now if you
don't have the Son, you don't have the Father. And he said, [Jn 14:9]
"He that seeth me, has seen the Father." And Bro. Branham said, "You're
looking at me, aren't you?" That ought to blow the Jesus-only plumb out
of the water and make them go crazy, but no, they're not. They'll not go
crazy, they'll stand right here and they'll say, "Well, I...I... [Bro.
Vayle makes a series of mocking unintelligible mutterings.] I'll say,
"Read it!" [More mutterings.] Say, "My God, that sounds insane." I never
said it. William Branham said, "The whole world's nuts but us."
32. You do what you want. If you don't want my preaching, hey, you
don't have to stay here. I'm rougher than a cob, and I don't care two
bits. I'm not here to offend anybody, but I'm going to tell you one
thing, "I'm not pulling my punches for anybody." And I am not a pastor.
If I were to not pull my punches for things that I know, you wouldn't be
happy with me. This is just doctrine.
33. Bringing it all together, it is evident that God, like all the
judges of the world, would have no status or right outside of a
definitive Word that would either justify or condemn and set the
appropriate degrees of exaltation, honor and glory or demotion, which
would be punishment, disfavor, length of time, in contrast to the
exaltation, promotion, continual pleasure. We found that the first two
chapters in Romans to go into a very detailed account of the judgments
of God, going back to Noah, coming up to this very hour in which we
live.
34. There has to be an omega. You read all about Noah. And I want to
tell you again, many years ago the chronologists said--I don't know if
it was Usher, or who it was, but the chronologists, when I was only in
my twenties, said at the time of Noah--when they took the genealogies,
and projected from the genealogies, they found there were at least five
and a half billion people on earth, when eight people made the ark. And
there's five and a half billion today. It doesn't mean it has to be
exactly that way. We're getting awful close. The very type I used--eight
people made the ark--is the same as eight people standing here truly
full of the Holy Ghost. How many people are there today? That's just a
type. How many? I don't know.
35. But we talked about Malachi, didn't we? And Bro. Branham used
Malachi. So, let's begin to look at Malachi, because now we have a
repeat of the days of Noah; but remember, the Word of God said, "I will
not use water again, but I will use fire." In the fourth chapter,
(1) Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; all the proud,
yea, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall leave neither
root nor branch.
And Bro. Branham said, "How then can you have an eternal hell?" And he
took this right to the White Throne. Why? Because it's a day.
36. Now, listen to me again: a man wrote the other day, and he said,
"Bro. Vayle, I'm confused." He said, "I hear Bro. Branham say the week
of Daniel is seven years." And he said, "People tell me it's three and a
half, and this and that." And I wrote, and I told him, I said, "Listen,
son, I'm going to tell you something: the archaeologists, the
chronologists know that even a part of a day was called a day, a part of
an hour is called an hour, a part of a minute is called a minute. So,
therefore, a part of a week is the whole week. So, therefore, in the
midst of the week, when He was cut off, leaving three and a half, it's
still called a week. And, therefore, in the midst of that... "Now, I
don't think he's going to get it. I hope he does.
37. Now, can you follow me? [You say,] "Well, I don't know if I can
with that." Let me put it this way. The Word of God distinctly says,
"Jesus, Himself, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly
of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth." And yet He was crucified on Friday. Friday to
Saturday is one; Saturday to Sunday is two. He rose Monday morning.
Hogwash! He was crucified about three o'clock in the afternoon. That's
one whole day. He was in the grave the second day. He rose the early
part of the third. Three days. And Bro. Branham said, "It means
'within'" That man did not know what I know. He had not studied what I
had studied. He had not studied any theologians, because the theologians
don't teach that. I got it from a archeologist! Listen, I want to tell
you, I'm Pentecostal right now, but not chaff. I see it all go out the
window except this Word of God that I'm standing on, brought by a
prophet. Amen. That's the truth.
38. As it so happens, these two chapters in Romans are the repeat
Scripture in the Old Testament of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Old
Testament. And it's over here in Dt 28:15-29, and are epitomized as the
omega in 2 Th 1:7-10, which I read. But, going back to the Book of
Deuteronomy. Now, I'm going to leave out the blessings. Remember that
Mount Ebal was blessing, and Mount Gerizim was... I beg your pardon.
Mount Ebal was cursing and Mount Gerizim was blessing. Now, the sheep go
on the right hand; the goats go on the left hand. The sheep, as it
were... They're not the Very-Elect, see, foolish virgin. They go to the
right hand. They are given eternal life. What all that means, I cannot
tell you. I have my own ideas, but I don't know I'm right, so why should
I talk about it. We're not here to 'suppose.'
39. Those on the left hand depart into the Lake of Fire. They're the
serpent seed. See, right down the line, you have a bad situation. So,
therefore, when God comes on the scene, He has got a left hand and a
right hand. He's got a blessing and a cursing. As the man said, "Let us
ask God to come," in the sense, "Let God send something. Let us feel His
presence, let us know that God is with us, and let us see if He leaves
us a blessing or a curse." Now He can't do both! In leaving a blessing,
He can chastise. He can make us appreciate Him more and appreciate His
Word. There's many ways He trains us. As It says, "He that suffers in
the flesh ceases from sin." Yeah, I quit coffee when I had enough. I
couldn't even put my hands like this. Ooh. Talk about pain, my knuckles
just going to pieces.
40. Well, I'll read.
(15) But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the Lord thy God (If you will not listen to His Words, you won't get
a blessing at all), to observe his commandments...
Now, 'observe' doesn't mean to just do them. It means to stand back,
look at them, meditate, understand, then enter in. Bro. Branham said,
"People just don't wait long enough." That's the whole trouble. See? The
guy out gathering sticks... God said, "If they do any work on the
Sabbath, they deserve death." Well, the guy just picked a couple of
little sticks to cook a dinner. They said this was entirely wrong. Our
sense of justice... "Why this," said they, in twentieth century
language, would be "cruel and unreasonable punishment!" Yeah. Everybody
does it. Why should I get AIDS? Yeah. Where do you think those preachers
and teachers and men are going to stand when a little kids got AIDS? And
how they going to stand when you got little boys like White that didn't
do anything wrong. They gave him an injection, like Ashe, the tennis
player. Fine, fine man. They gave him blood full of AIDS. "Oh, well, no
big thing. Other guys didn't get it." Yeah? Yeah? Is that what life was
all about? Tell a lie because... Oh well, shrug it off. It's... Get out
of it. No.
41. [Deuteronomy 28:]
(15) ...To observe all his commandments and his statutes which I command
this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee.
(See, you won't get...Listen. You can do what you want...You can get
all the cures you think you got, you're not going to get rid of it. Oh,
they got rid of TB. Did they? Came right back someplace else. "Oh, man,
we got rid of that scourge. Oh, yeah, we got rid of chicken pox." Oh,
did you?) [End of the first side of the tape.]
(16) Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed shalt thou be in the
field.
(17) ...in thy basket, in thy store.
(18) ...in the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, the flock of thy sheep.
(19) ...when you come in, and when you go out.
(20) The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou doest thine hand unto...settest thy hand unto for to do, until
thou be destroyed, and thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of
thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. (How did they forsake Him?
They forsook the Word. Huh?)
(21) The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he hath
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
(22) The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, with a fever, and
with an inflammation, (That sounds like AIDS, doesn't it?) and an
extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew.
Mildew? Yeast infection! How many have had it? Huh, come on, raise
your hands. I got mine up. You never had it like me. I took an overdose.
I wanted to die. I didn't care to live. I lay for months trying to
sleep, and I couldn't sleep. I went through hell. There wasn't a lousy
Catholic priest even pray to me out of it. And there wasn't a
Pentecostal to pray the prayer of faith, till one day, trying to get a
bit of rest, Harold Marconda (God bless his soul.) driving me around,
like a voice said, "I'll see you through."
I said, "Harold, I'm going to make it."
42. Yeah. I consider myself a Christian, a born-again person, one Bro.
Branham said, "See Lee, you'd be back with me. I know, because you're
Seed." You say, "I didn't hear him say it." I don't care what you heard
or anybody else heard. It doesn't bother me. You do what you want about
it. Take your encouragement out of a bottle of beer or a glass of
whiskey or some denominational junk. Go ahead. I stand with the prophet
of God. You do what you want. You're going to do it anyway. Everybody
does what he wants.
43. (22) ...Burning, blasting and mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish.
Who's "they?" Could be the devil in hell or the devils or anybody
else. He doesn't name it. You say, "Well, he's talking about these
diseases." That's right. They do. You hear what I'm saying? Do you hear
what I'm saying? I can show you this is for the end time. I can be hours
on this subject. I get my concordance out; take every verse of
Scripture. We can take the next six weeks solid, I'm sure. I could talk
a long time. I could make it last. Likely we'd need a whole lot more
than that.
(23) And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass (That's the
Book of Revelation, right?), and the earth that's under thee shall be
iron also. (Between a rock and a hard place.)
(24) The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: and from
heaven it shall come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
(25) The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and
thou shalt be removed unto all the kings of the earth.
(26) And thy carcase shall be meat for the fowls, (Revelation 20) and
unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. (Can't
scare them off.)
(27) The Lord will smite thee with the botch... (What's the 'botch'?
Burning; ulcer; boil; inflammation.)
44. You know today, brother/sister, even the Christians are being
horse-whipped by conditions that the world brought on. Why do you think
I got yeast infection the way I did? Because the doctors pumped me full
of penicillin. And in Canada you can buy it over the counter. In Mexico,
the same way. No problem. Doctors don't give a rip. They wouldn't give
me anything natural. No. Because you can't make much money on nature.
You can't patent it. No. And He said:
(27) ...You'll not be healed either.
(28) The Lord will smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
(29) And thou shalt grope at noontide, as the blind grope in the
darkness, thou shalt not prosper in thy ways...
45. You know what I'm thinking, don't you? Huh? Let's talk: [Malachi 3]
(7) Even from the days of your father are you gone from mine ordinances,
and not kept them. Return unto me now, return ye, saith the Lord. But
you said, Wherein shall we return?
(8) Will a man rob God? Yet ye robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we
robbed thee? in tithes and offerings. (He said, "Have you robbed me in
tithes and offering?")
(9) You are cursed with a curse: you have robbed me, even this whole
nation.
(10) Bring all the tithes in the storehouse, and there'll be meat in my
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of the hosts...
He said, "All the tithe." You say, "There you go, talking for money."
Am I? Want to examine my books and my record? I'll put every one of you
put together to shame. I'm not lying to you. I'm not lying. You
challenge me? Come on. I got books. I'm actually robbing others, like
Paul did. Shall we go to court? No problem. No problem. I'm not afraid
of the IRS, the government, or anybody else, because I'm not afraid of
God. I've made everything right with the Lord, far as I know.
(10) ...And see if I will not open the windows of heaven, pour you a
blessing... You'll be able to receive.
46. Now, I want to ask you a question, "Has anybody in this church ever
heard me ask you for money, to put the bead on you to give money and to
oppress you?" Let me see your hand if you have. The little lady that sat
there writes a lady in Edmonton... See, I know a lot of people. And she
said, "Lee Vayle has got the church under subjection, tyrannizing them,
taking their money." A lot of people are happy to believe it. We have
men in this congregation right today, they will tell you I have no
mortgage on that house there, yet how much money did I put in, in four
installments, Dave? [Roughly one hundred thousand dollars.] Yeah, but
not that first amount. Not that amount. Forty thousand dollars, solid
cash, for one purpose: to save you people. I'm a jackass and a fool to
try to do it all, but I'm going to tell you something. I'll not stand
guilty, and I'll see that woman shortly, and all her friends that
believe all the lies.
47. Well, I shouldn't feel bad, because Bro. Branham said my teaching
ministry, well, it was just as well received as his. And he didn't have
any reception. I've not taught anything concerning money except from the
depth of my heart, and I know what I'm talking about. I don't think
there's one person in this building who has friends like mine, who'd lay
their necks on the line for me and say, "Bro. Vayle, here's $50,000,
without interest. Use as long as you want."
If I said to the man later on, "Sir, I wish I could pay, but I
couldn't."
He said, "Bro. Vayle, I wanted it a gift anyway."
I'm not boasting, I'm just telling you. You can't beat God at His Own
Word. You can't change one Word of God. You cannot analyze and get a
revelation on your own. You must read the Word, and in your heart you've
got to come to that place. My Bible tells me, "If you cannot handle the
unrighteous mammon, who will give you the true riches?"
48. I want to ask you this morning, "What are the true riches?" I have
my idea, and you have yours. And I'm telling you right here: this, what
we're talking about, is the Judge...is the Judge. You'll be oppressed
and spoiled ever more. No man shall save thee. Thou shall betroth a
wife, and another shall lie with her. Marriage and divorce. Can't even
get the woman that belongs to you. Someone else will get her. "So, Bro.
Vayle, I'll get the right one in the Millennium." Nice! But it can be
hell living with the wrong one now, selling you down the river, and you,
fighting and fussing. Come on. Don't think I know that some women
wouldn't divorce their husbands, except they got a conscience. Some men,
the same way.
I'm going to tell you something. My wife and I aren't perfect. We don't
get along to perfection. And most of it is my fault, because she has
problems which I don't have. Her mind is not what it should be, but for
me to want to leave her or not be a part, I'd sooner blow my brains out.
It all started with the Word of God. It all went to hell when they got
off the first Word. All right.
49. That is the alpha. I read again the omega that you might know, and
I hope you'll sit here until I'm finished, or you go home. I don't give
a rip. Turn the tape if you have to. I'm going to cover certain things,
because I'm going to get finished in what I want to tell you, because
I've got to put it together so you'll understand the things that Bro.
Branham said. At least you'll understand what I'm saying from what I
think he is saying or believe him saying, or I've heard him saying.
50. Now, it tells you right here in 2 Thessalonians, "You will have
peace, relaxation, at the time when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed
from heaven with His mighty angels. That's Jehovah, Jehovah-Savior." Who
did Bro. Branham say came down in the Garden of Eden as a Savior to save
His children? God did. Elohim! And he said, "The Same One is here now,"
so shut up and say what the prophet said! Some say, "Well, Bro. Vayle, I
can read." You cannot read, because the Bible said, "There'll come a day
when they say, 'Open the Book and read.'" He said, "I can't read,
because I wouldn't know what I was reading." Is that Bible? Come on, how
many remember that? Oh, thank you. [ ]
(8) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, (and
avenging those that do) that obey not the gospel...
Well, what's obedience to the Gospel of Jesus Christ? There's two
sides: passive and active. Why should you do anything you don't believe
in? And why should you not do what you do believe in? All right.
(9) Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord and from the glory of his power.
51. Right at the moment of that Appearing, His Presence, the banishment
starts until it says, "When the White Throne comes, the heavens and the
earth fled, and there was no place for them." Hogwash! That's not what
it could possibly mean, because they're standing right there on that
earth. The secret is, "There was no place to hide." And William Branham
said, "I defy you. Try to hide; five thousand, five million. It don't
matter. Just raise that thought of yours."
"You can't read me, Bro. Branham."
Zero right in... Say, "Your name is so-and-so; you live so-and-so; and
I'll tell you what's in your lousy, stinking heart." Uh-huh. Yet some of
you would like to do something else. You'd just kind of like to leave
and forget everything. "Well, Bro. Vayle, you said it." Have I left?
Have I forgotten? Then stick around if you want to. Huh?
(9) ...Punished everlasting destruction...and from the glory of his
power. (What's the glory of His power? Resurrection! Ephesians 1. Read
It, from 17 on.)
(10) When he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and be
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was
believed) in that day. (Not that Paul was among them, but the Word was
among them. So that's the omega. Judgment. All right.)
52. Now, before we go into the New Testament or the omega--judgment,
proper, we want to go now to Rev l:12. (How many [minutes left]? Good,
we got enough.) "The Revelation..." No, beginning at 12:
(12) And I turned to see the voice that spake with me.
Bro. Branham said he turned to see if it was a scriptural voice. How can
you tell? Except there be someone there to tell you, and there always
has been someone to tell. Seven church ages, seven messages from seven
messengers.
(12) ...And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
How many candlesticks did he see? Seven, right. What do those seven
candlesticks mean? Seven church ages. Right? Then he saw from the first
age... Right?...to the last age. Right? Huh? He saw it all. Did he? I
want to ask you a question; read the next part.
(13) In the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto (It's really
not 'the' Son of man but) 'a' Son of man, clothed with a garment down to
the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
53. The question now arises, "Whoever This One is, has He been what He
is there from the first age to the last age, or was He only in the midst
of the candlesticks, number one and number seven, if indeed He was?"
Now, we're going to find out just how astute you people are, whether
you follow me, because you sit here, because you love the Word, and you
can follow, or you just have someplace to go. In the meantime you can
blow all your steam off someplace else doing what you want to do. But
you come to church and justify yourself. To get the picture, I'm asking
you a question. "When Bro. Branham..." We'll explain first of all...So,
let's read It.
(13) ...A garment down to the foot, the girt about the paps with a
golden girdle.
(14) His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow; his eyes
as a flame of fire.
(15) And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace;
and his voice as the sound of many waters.
(16) In his right hand seven stars.
Huh? What hand? Ah-ha! He hasn't got a left hand anymore, has he? Huh?
Left hand disappeared. Right? No left hand. Wrong! Wrong! He's got a
left hand. He never had anything but left hand. Right hand. Right hand,
left hand. He's got two feet, though It says, "down to the foot." He's
only got one head; one set of hair; one set of eyes. Feet, fine brass.
Burned in a furnace; right hand; seven stars. What's in His left?
Nothing. So all of His power, and no left hand, to be used... Everything
He has is for this church--the seven churches. And for seven church
ages, He's in their midst. This picture could be what Bro. Branham was
speaking of when he mentioned, "All Christ was, He poured into the
church."
54. Now, Bro. Branham asked Jack Moore, "Who is He?"
"Oh," he said, "that's the glorified Christ."
Bro. Branham said, "That didn't strike me right."
Boy, that'd be bait for anybody. They all said, "Hallelujah,
hallelujah, hallelujah! That's it!" It wasn't it. It's the Judge.
55. Now, I want to ask you a question, "Has He been in the midst of the
churches for seven church ages?" If you say, "No," you're wrong. "Is He
the same yesterday, today and forever?" If you say, "No," you're lying.
The next question is, "What is He?" He's Judge! Then what has He been to
the church for seven solid ages? Tell me. Then why aren't they preaching
it? This is not a phenomenon at the last age. The phenomenon is the
revelation. Judge.
56. Now, let's take a look at the Judge. We read enough, so we go to the
second chapter.
[Revelation]
(1) Unto the messenger of the church of Ephesus write; These things he
that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand...
Unto the messenger... God, using a prophet: the prophet, Paul. Now,
what is He saying? Who is saying it? The Judge is saying it. We, in
America, have a whole bunch of laws made by a bunch of idiots, made full
of loopholes for the lobbyists. And any law that man makes is fallible,
because he reasons, and he thinks he knows the future, and can somehow
by his word hold the future together, and they're all liars. Clinton
knows he's a liar. The leader of the House knows he's a liar. Dole knows
he's a liar. Glenn knows he's a liar. Metzenbaum ought to; he'll likely
swear he isn't. They haven't got one guy there that's not a liar, a
top-notch liar. It's exactly what Goldwater said. He said, "If you're
going to get rid of the men that drink and have women," he said, "close
Washington down." He ought to know.
Now, they may not be liars in the sense that they're deliberately
lying, but they will deliberately go with the party which gives them a
double heart. Hypocrites! You haven't got hardly a man will stand for
truth. They can't do it, or they're out of power. I don't want to
condemn every single person out of hand, but the thing is, we have a
terrible mess there.
57. What I'm showing you here is: the Judge of all the earth, in
Genesis 18, wrote the book, "He is a judge." "Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?" And the law wasn't even written. So the Judge is
telling you here, "I am a Judge in Seven Church Ages, and there comes a
time when I sit finally," and the whole world gets judged. In the
meantime the church is always judged first, because judgment begins at
the house of God. Then It says, "If the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the sinner and the unregenerative, or the wicked, appear?"
Well, you know where they'll appear.
58. Now, He says,
(1) These things, says the judge, that holds the seven stars: the seven
churches, (or that rather, pardon) the seven messengers in his right
hand. (So, therefore, the power and authority of Almighty God rests in
seven people who represent the Judge. Now, what does a judge say?)
(2) I know thy works, thy labours, thy patience, you can't bear them...
(There you are.) You try to say they're apostles, and are not,
(3) You borne, in patience, thy name's sake...my name's sake hast
laboured, and hast not fainted.
(4) Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left
thy first love.
59. Now, He does not destroy that church. He lays to rest His
messengers. He gathers in His sheep, and everyone of the first age, both
wise and foolish virgin are laid away according to the Word of God,
because they are judged. On what grounds are they judged? All right.
(2) I know your labors, (Okay, they did a lot of good things.) and your
patience, (I know how you waited.) you can't bear them that are evil,
(like Cain. Oh, good, good, good.) you tried them that are apostles.
(False.)
"Like I bet that went over like a lead balloon," he said.
And they said, "Just a minute, now we're not false apostles. How do you
dare call us that?"
He said, "Because Paul called you that. And you are the living
manifestation of his description. So, get out."
(2) ...And you made them liars:
(3) And hast borne...(You took what they handed you.) You had patience,
(You waited.) for my name's sake you laboured, you haven't fainted.
(Hold it, though!)
(4) You left your first love.
60. Now, how in the world did God know they left their first love, and
they know from this they left their first love, if there isn't something
somewhere that's a clue? [You say] "I don't have a clue! Oh, I don't
have a clue?" You mean that God wrote a Bible that doesn't have a clue,
and He judges you? You think He's some fricasseed, stupid, half-drunk or
three-quarter drunk, insane judge? And you come by, and you make a
U-turn, and there's not even a sign there. "Ah ha! Fifty dollars."
"Judge, there's not even a sign!"
"Oh... I don't care. The law says that."
"Well, just a minute. I've got to know somehow about it."
"Ho... Doesn't mean a thing."
So God writes something; says, "Doesn't mean a thing?"
"Oh," He says, "had a good joke on you! Ha-ha-ha! That's how I always
do things! I get my little kicks out of that."
"You mean you'd kick me into hell, and it's fun?"
"No," He said. How could He say that when He said, "I take no pleasure
in the death of the wicked"?
I'd be criticized by the great preachers for my preaching, but you get
what I'm saying, and you get it real good; and we'll stand before God
how I preach; lousy as I preach, you get what I say. "You left it."
61. Now, He said,
(5) Remember from whence thou art fallen...
"Well, Lord, I don't even know what I fell from. How can I remember?"
"Well, ha-ha-ha-ha, that's just another way I do things."
62. Catholic priest reads the Bible for you. Like fun, he does. He
reads pornography, and he's a pedophile; drinks liquor until he can't
stand; at least some of them do. They don't know anything, but they'll
judge you, because there's money in it. Now, if you like, I'll fulfill
the little girl's prophecy. I'll forgive you everything I taught this
morning, and you're blameless--just give me a big offering out
there--and I'll offer you the door, and I'll see you don't come back. I
don't need your money. I don't need anything except God's grace.
63. "Remember!" How can I remember when I don't even know what I was
supposed to remember? When did you ever say it? "Oh, when I was in
prison, you didn't come. When I was sick, you didn't come. When I was
hungry and didn't have anything..." Whaaaa! Oh, there's a time they
knew, brother/sister. When? The Judge has always been in the church,
because He is the Word. He is the Judge. [Bro. Vayle inquires how much
time is left until the end of the recording tape.] How long we got now?
How many? [Steve Applegate says, "Fifteen minutes."] Okay. Keep your
fingers crossed, and keep the tape back. Okay. We go to Daniel. Next
week we start on a new sentence. Isn't that fantastic? Number [chapter]
seven and number [verse] nine:
64. (9) I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of
days did sit, whose garment was as white as snow, and hair of his head
like pure wool: and his throne like the fiery flame, and his wheels as
burning fire.
So, who is that One is the midst of the church? Almighty God Himself!
The Ancient of days. Yep. Always standing with His Word, always judging.
And if people forget or they're taught wrong, He is duty bound for that
hour to give them the correct teaching, or how can the sheep hear His
Voice, if there's no Voice? How can they follow, if nothing has been
heard? How can they lie down in the green pasture beside the still
waters, if He's not feeding and leading them by His Word, because
therein the Holy Ghost resides, and therein are the nine fruits of the
Spirit. And you can talk about love-love-love...
You know what love is to all these Pentecostals? Doesn't matter what
you do, He just loves you anyway. But when it's done to them, watch it.
Pentecostal pussy-cat, "Purrrr. Purrrr." But "Rrraaaagh," the minute you
go backwards [Bro. Vayle makes cat purring and 'trying-to-get-away
sounds]. Scratch your cotton pickin' eyes out. ["Amen" from
congregation.] Thank you, Willie [Bill Graham], you're with me. Yeah.
All right, listen:
(9) ...Till the thrones were cast down.
Thrones? When did the throne start to be cast down, and Communism took
over? Huh? When did God begin to come more and more on the scene? Huh?
More and more into His church, until the Spirit was back here, full Holy
Ghost Spirit back here and full Word Capstone? All right. Okay. Verse
13:
(13) I saw in the night vision, behold, one like the Son of man (There,
again, one like the Son of man. That's what John saw.) came with clouds
of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near
before him.
(14) And there was given unto him a kingdom, and glory and honour, came
to all peoples and nations, (It tells you right there, somebody came
before somebody; not two Gods.) and his kingdom shall not pass away and
be destroyed.
65. In other words, that very one has to come before the Judge. That's
in John here, Revelation, the first chapter, and in Dan 7:9, absolutely.
He has to come to claim what's His. Okay. Verse 22:
(22) Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the
saints of the most High; and the time came for the saints to possess the
kingdom.
It tells you right there there's always been a judge; always the Judge.
But at the end time, remember: it is no longer ancient history, it is
now fact. And Bro. Branham told us, "In every single age a prophet came
at the end of an age." Like Israel's gone and with Israel gone, came a
prophet--Paul. They disbelieved that prophet. God laid his servant to
rest. He laid his saints to rest. And he sent a plague in judgment! Then
the next one comes, and the next one, till the last one comes... He
Himself came with His prophet [Bro Vayle emphasizes each word]!
66. Now you try to tell me White Throne isn't here. "Well, Bro. Vayle,
I just don't understand chronology." Who asked you to? I got a little
bottle called Opti-mist that cleans glasses. Now, Peter [Gatchell] isn't
here, Rusty [Evans], and I don't think they could tell me anyway. I'd
like to know: give me the one hundred percent ingredients that's in the
ink on the bottle, the plastic that is the bottle and the gunk that's
inside. Nobody can do it. Yet here it is, and there you see it. And then
you're trying to tell me you got to understand instead of just listen,
when it comes to the things of God. You haven't caught a thing that's
gone on in this age, and I haven't either, if I stand in that terrible
mess.
67. Now, listen. The 'Ancient of days.' The word 'days' means
continually, a continuation, continuity, as in nature, as in day and
night. Day and night, seed time and harvest, continuity. The word
'ancient' means: number one, 'venerable or ancient.' It comes from the
word meaning 'removed,' as in 'weaned' (Huh?), which means 'grown up,'
knows how to act and does it. Also means 'ancient,' the third one--where
the second one comes from--figuratively, 'grow old,' but specifically,
it means 'to transcribe,' 'copy,' 'write out,' then 'leave off, become
old' and 'removed.'
In plain English, God, the Judge, put this Word here and said, "That's
it forever," backed off and stood there and said, "Now, there it is."
Ancient of days. Why days? Because when eternity finally becomes
eternity...You know what Bro. Branham said? "The Bride is around the
throne, the Lamb is on the throne, the Pillar of Fire is above the
throne, and before they call, He answers." There are no more laws, just
answers. Now, Bro. Branham was telling the people everything I'm telling
you this morning.
68. Now, if you care to, and we already did it, we went through the
Seven Church Ages. We are not going to worry about going through them
anymore. And if you want to see the Judge in action, we can turn a
little bit, and this will exhaust our time. In the Book of Rev 6:12-17,
It says:
(12) And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a
great earthquake; and the sun had became black as sackcloth of hair, and
the moon became blood;
(13) And the stars of heaven fell...and so on.
And notice It says in verse 17:
(17) For the great day of his wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
It tells you right there that the judgment, itself, is taking place
since the Judge has passed the sentence. Now you've got in the world
here, everybody is saying, "Oh, the man, even though he's got terrible,
terrible things, he shouldn't die with that terrible death." Why
shouldn't he?
69. Look. Why do you think Israel died? Israel died, because they got a
king. They wanted a king, instead of God and the prophet. That's all
they wanted. And what did the king do? Just what God said he would do.
And so he got all kinds of wives, and he's got all the girls in there to
do all the work, he got all the bakeries, he got the footmen, he built
himself a great and tremendous name, and here was ol' David with 499
wives and committing adultery with another man's wife and killing the
man to have her. Boy! Great! According to the Word of God, David should
have been killed by his own men.
Let's face it. His son committed rape--the son's half sister. "Oh,
boys will be boys." His son rose in insurrection. He wouldn't do a thing
about it, until the son was killed; and then he... "Oh, God, would that
I have died."And his captain said, "Listen, shut up. You're mourning for
your no-good, rotten son, and you're leaving the nation to die." Just
exactly what Mr. Nixon did with his friend, Mitchell. God said to David,
"You'll pay for this the rest of your life."
70. Judge, judge, judge, judge, judge. The question comes, "Who is here
today?" The Judge, the role. The role He played all through the ages is
now in the final stage. Why? Because judgment sets in. And listen. Do
you understand what I read in the third chapter, I guess it is, of the
Book of Revelation, and yeah, the second chapter. He said,
(20) Notwithstanding (He said) these are good, this is good, but you've
got that woman Jezebel, a prophetess, seducing the people, committing
fornication, in idolatry.
(21) And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; she repented
not.
(22) For this I'm telling you, I'm going to cast her and her daughters
into the great tribulation.
71. That's exactly true. Judge. On what condition? The judging Word.
There isn't any condition, brother, other than the Word. We're going to
close, because our time has run out. And let's look at It; and never,
never forget what you heard this morning, because it's the truth. And in
the chapter 19,
(11) The heavens were opened, and behold a white horse:
Now notice, the white horse takes preeminence over him that's called
'Faithful and True.' And what does a horse signify? Power! God coming
forth in power, in and through the Son.
(11) ...In righteousness he judges and makes war.
God is righteous. His Word is righteous. We can't fight with It. I'm
learning not to fight with It. Whatever He does is good by me in the
sense I admit defeat. I may not be gracious in it, but I admit it.
(12) Eyes a flame of fire, head...many crowns; name written, no man
knew.
(13) Vesture clothed and dipped in blood: and his name is called the
Word of God.
72. And what's He do? He's the Judge. And what have we had in our midst
today? The Word of God. And we've had the Judge. The Judge is here. Why
aren't the preachers preaching about it? Why don't they understand
roles? No, they all go back to offices in the trinity, and they all
become Jesus-Only. Well, I don't want to bore you with that. That's my
little pet fight, not yours. I'm not trying to intimidate you. If you
don't know by now what's being preached and all, I'm just crazy wasting
my time. But the fact is, there you see it.
73. And Bro. Branham told this people, like I told you down in
California, "California, it's over; you're Capernaum. It's gone. You
that call yourself by the name of angels; you that call yourself by the
name of Jesus Christ, baptized into a trinity and say you honor that
name, when you pray and everything else, you bear it in vain. You are
judged now and the Word that I'm going to preach shows you, you are
judged, and what I'm going to tell you."
74. Everything in this Word is coming to pass now. Things that are
written here, are now; and they're going to be, because time and
eternity's mixed. Do you realize if you're a child of God, born again,
that little bit of eternity, eternal life, God's Own Life in here has
been visited by the water from on high, more Life to give you that
double-life, no longer your own spirit, no longer your own thinking, but
entirely of God, and Word upon Word getting you out of here? And you've
been judged by Him that's Faithful and True, the Judge of all the earth
doing right.
Said, "Little Bride...'little' Bride..."
Oh, "Millions now living won't die."
Prophet said, "Little."
How little? I don't know. I'm going to be honest. I think when he said
'little,' he meant 'standing here'--standing here that don't die.
75. For years I've said, "The old guard is going." I look forward to
dying; not that I especially want to die. It could be very ticklesome
to, you know, to be here. But hey, let's face it, from what I see, who
needs it?
You say, "Bro. Vayle, what if you go where you didn't think you were
going to go?" What is staying here, prolonging the agony, going to make
it any difference? It's going to be worse, because if I'm lying now, I'm
going to lie more tomorrow; the next Sunday I'm going to lie a whole lot
more. Want to come back and hear it? Oh, who knows, we can really,
really do some real good lying then. I can really tell you what the
prophet didn't say. If you believe that, you'll stay home. If you
believe I'm just illustrating, you'll be back likely. You always have
been back.
But, there it is, brother/sister. Bro. Branham wasn't fooling. He said,
"Judgment's here." Third to last sermon he preached, and the last one
was "Communion," fellowship divine. These people couldn't communicate.
It was all over. Let's rise and be dismissed.
Gracious, eternal Father, we thank You again for Your Word of life,
which we know is true, and we know, Lord, as the disciples finally came
to the place, they said, "You, alone, have the Words of eternal life.
Where else shall we go? We know, Lord, from whence You came and where
You go." At that time they really... I don't believe they really did,
but it was a good confession. They were beginning to catch on, until
they got side-tracked by events. And maybe, Lord, we get sidetracked by
events. If we do, we pray that You'll forgive us and put blinders on our
eyes, and You'll give us a few wasps and hornets to come by to stimulate
us and just drive us out of these places where ignorance and
indifference and the doldrums lie; to get us away from being lukewarm
into red hot. I know you don't want us cold. That's ridiculous. We want
us red hot and we believe that, Lord, there's such as being.
Help us, Lord, to be red hot for You and Your Word, though we have no
testimony for us and concerning ourselves. We are unprofitable servants,
no matter what we do and how well we do it, we're still unprofitable
servants; which is exactly true, because we, in ourselves, can never do
one, single, solitary thing, Lord, because of the flesh barrier, but we,
in ourselves, in our flesh, with the Holy Ghost coming through that
Word, Lord, can be pleasing unto You.
Make us all pleasing this way, Lord, whether in life and death, Lord,
whatever the circumstances, to just... [End of tape.]
(50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
(51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed.
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed.
(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality.
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