Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed #14

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, again we’re grateful to be in this house Lord, that’s dedicated to You at this particular time Father, that Your Word may go forth we trust in the way It’s supposed to go forth, purely, clearly Lord, without any wrong motivation, without anything that’s said that might not be of You Lord.

We pray, oh God, that the Trumpet shall make a certain sound that men shall prepare for the battle of the end time, be ready Lord, to withstand all the onslaughts of the gates of hell which are against the truth of Your Presence Lord.

Help us to realize in humility in the depths of our hearts of gratitude, Lord, what we have been given, what’s been entrusted into our hearts, our minds, and our hands at this hour Lord which of the kingdom of God has built.

We realize Lord that this Church at the end time is approaching unto the very Headstone physically; already we believe the spiritual Headstone is amongst us.

So Father, we just commend ourselves to You tonight asking for Your help and we’ll be careful to give You the praise in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, we’re of course continuing in Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, number 14, and in considering our title that Christ is the Revealer and also, the Dispeller of the mystery in which God was veiled or actually is veiled we might consider reading Luke 10:21-24 and especially verse 22 as part of the Scripture involved in this particular title.

All right.

And, of course, the major Scripture there, “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.”

So it tells you there conclusively that Christ came to reveal the Father and since He has come back in the form of the Holy Spirit He has never ceased to reveal God who in the original is the Holy Spirit, the office of Fatherhood.

Now two thousand years ago when God veiled Himself in the prophet Christ Jesus He revealed Himself to His chosen people but they refused Him for the Bible says, “He came unto His own but His own refused Him.”

And today He has revealed Himself to the Gentiles at the end of their dispensation even as He revealed Himself at the end of Israel’s dispensation.

Now I want you to notice that particularly that Israel at the end of their dispensation when God turned from them is when Christ came and revealed Almighty God to them. And, of course, they turned Him down.

As Brother Branham said, “The token comes at evening time. He comes at the end and He was that token.” See, He was, definitely.

Now, the same thing in our hour, of course, is that we turn Him down at the end of our dispensation when He comes in the form of the Holy Spirit in order to reveal God as it is necessary according to the Scripture that He do so.

Now remember, everything must be according to Scripture, and there is where man fails God at all times. He does not want to come according to Scripture even according to man’s understanding of the fundamental stricter sense.

Now he doesn’t want that, so when it comes to the true revelation he absolutely does not want a part of it.

Now watch again in what we’re saying here and our Scripture is Ephesians 1:17, of course, we read first of all 16.

Now you’ll notice there it tells you that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory wants to give a revelation concerning Himself at this end time previous to the Resurrection.

Now you’ll notice there’s only one way that that can be given and must be given by the Christ who is not here in the form of flesh but He is here in the form of the Holy Spirit in a Pillar of Fire and using a prophet.

Also, we would read Matthew 12:18 which we have read many times to you but this is all part of the message and we cannot repeat it too often.

In other words, he brings justice and the just cause which is his cause to a victory which, of course, you understand it will mean at this time the consummation of God’s plan will come to the Gentiles through Christ Himself. That’s exactly what Paul said.

You know, years ago I went to little kind of flimsy Bible school about six weeks, I walked out before they kicked me out. I didn’t want to get kicked out or carried out, so I walked out.

I knew the axe was going to fall and you know, they have the idea that the gospel of Paul to the Gentiles which was the promise to Abraham wherein the Gentiles would come in, that was not known until Paul brought it to their attention.

And that’s a lie because all you got to do is to read the gospels and you’ll find out that Jesus brought it to the people even as we see it right here.

And so we find that at the end time Jesus is already speaking concerning himself cause he is going to do something for the Gentiles and it’s going to be, of course, by the Holy Spirit because he does not appear to us in a ministry in the form of the flesh.

No way shape and form. See, even every fundamentalist knows that but they cannot place this here.

Now, also, this runs in continuity with Revelation 10:1-7 and It says here,

Now you know that’s got to be God in the form… in the Messenger form, God messaging His own Message, He’s His own Messenger bringing His own Message, and remember the message and the Messenger is always one. All right.

Well, that’s the little book, that’s the One that sat on the Throne, had the book, and nobody could open It so the Lamb took the book and ripped the seals off and loosed the seals and gave It back to the One on the Throne. So this is the One with the book.

And you notice He comes down here with the book open. And that’s exactly the way God came down to Israel, He opened the book in Luke 4.

Then he shut the book and nobody could open the book, only God would open that book. The same One could open the book that had the right to close It and terminate a certain period of time. All right, now He comes down and He does it.

Now you notice in here this doesn’t say the mighty messenger up here, this is another messenger, and this is number seven. Remember there’s seven messengers in seven Church Ages. Now that is as simple as a-b-c because this one here is already on earth when This One comes down.

If there’s… God’s going to come down there’s got to be a prophet, always got to be a prophet ready like we showed you that I think last Sunday how that God had to make man first of all but then you see you’ll notice He put man in the Garden, then He came down.

So always there’s got to be the man here before God comes down and that’s exempting original creation. From that point on you always have the same, there’s never anything out of balance.

Now It tells you right here that the mystery that God started and moved on down pouring it into the church through Christ would be terminated at the end time by God Himself appearing and doing it and a prophet would be there in order to be the conduit for God.

God’s always got to have a conduit, like the Word is a conduit for the Holy Spirit, and also, the man is the conduit for the Word, for the Holy Spirit to come through, and when God gives a Word by a prophet He’s got to have a conduit. There’s always got to be a conduit.

You see, because you’ve got to realize this is what God is all about. The great invisible unknown God wants to bring Himself into preeminence, wants to manifest Himself, but He’s got to have something and somehow to manifest Himself to this people and He’s going to do it a certain way.

And then you see that makes Him God because then He’ll have worship and the preeminence because God means ‘the supreme One’. So, all right.

Today we see the revealed… today God has revealed Himself to the Gentiles at the end of their dispensation even as He revealed Himself at the end of Israel’s dispensation. Always you notice the Light comes at the evening time. See?

Like when the children of Israel down in Egypt, that was evening time. Bible mentions it was pitch dark, only Light in Goshen, Light came at that time. He’s cut off a dispensation, the four hundred years of bondage, now they’re going to go to the Promise Land.

Now you notice what happened at the end of the two thousand years? Israel is about to be completely divorced from God, except under the Fifth Seal of election, Light comes at evening time. God comes down.

Now it’s got to be that way because that’s the way God does things and people because they just don’t look at Scripture and realize how God does things they get lost and they say, “Well, I don’t understand this.”

Then they get their own ideas and your own ideas aren’t any good. If they were any good God would have told you to write the Bible. See? It won’t work. So, all right.

Now, in this message, Christ the Mystery of God Revealed, which we are now studying, we find that Brother Branham takes special pains to show us that in this hour Christ the Anointing, is again revealing God and we are seeing and hearing those things that have been sealed up for about two thousand years, those things in all seven Church Ages have longed to see and hear whether they be prophets, kings or whatever.

That’s what he told Israel. He said you’re the fortunate ones because you’re able to see and to hear that which others wanted to hear and they couldn’t do it, and that’s true. Because, remember David was not alive to see Christ come upon the earth.

Isaiah was not alive to see the virgin that’s going to bring forth the baby without male intervention. They just weren’t. They wanted to see it and you know, they didn’t until the Resurrection and then they missed that.

No matter how they longed it just wasn’t going to work. And you know people have longed for two thousand years to see what we’re seeing and we’re too complacent about it or apt to get a little bit smug about it when all the glory goes to God because God is doing this thing. Though we’re not puppets we got a choice, but we’re allowed to be a part of It.

Now we have read how the prophet dwelt upon God indwelling Jesus, so many times, we quote, “This is my beloved Son in whom I’m pleased to dwell.”

He called it God manifested in Christ, and at that time the serpent seed Pharisees called Jesus, “Satan.” Now that’s true.

Those people said, “Look, we are the children of God. We are the seed of Abraham. Absolutely, we are the in-ones with God, chosen race, hallelujah.” And they said, “That fellow there is Beelzebub.”

And Jesus said, “You are of the devil.”

And here is the devil’s bunch and the spirit of the devil because let’s face it, oh people don’t like preaching like this.

Oh, Brother Branham really rankled the feathers and he got the hackles up on the people. “Oh, Brother Branham you must… oh, you’re crude. You’re terrible to say those horrible things.”

Ha! If he… listen, if that man was in the mold of Jesus as the prophets had to be, God in the prophets, and he was anything but what he was; I’d just walk out on him, period. I wouldn’t be interested because God doesn’t send prophets just to fool around.

Well, Jesus said, all right, “You are of your father the devil.”

He pinpointed them that they were serpent seed in the line of Cain. See, they didn’t understand election. It was there before them but they turned it down.

Now He said, “You are of the devil.”

Now here is the devil bunch and the devil spirit calling God, the devil, and they worshipping the devil as though it’s God. You got the same thing right today.

You think the churches out there worship God. Look it, you listen, brother/sister, you sat under my ministry so long if you’re not catching these things, and the other day I told you it was going over your heads, I knew that but I didn’t know why.

So Dave asked me, I was put on the spot; I had to think fast. But God never lets me down because I’m not up here to make mistakes. Churches are worshipping the devil. Do you hear what I’m saying?

You don’t really hear what I’m saying and I don’t know what I’m saying either, except I know it’s the truth. It hasn’t sunk in yet. It hasn’t sunk in that they are literally worshipping the spirit of the devil because they’re calling this Spirit, of the devil.

Now you better make up your mind which way your bread’s buttered, which way you’re going. Because you see, we’ll be reading in a little bit what the prophet said and there’s going to be a squeeze come on down, and just like his tapes have gone around the world, my tapes have gone around the world.

His sermons are printed, a lot of mine are in print and there’s more going into print. So we’re on the spot. We’re on the spot by being associated with William Branham who was associated with God.

And you’re on the spot being associated with me whichever way you look at it which is pretty tough for all of us but I tell you as long as our association is with God it’s all right.

Now after Brother Branham dealt with God manifested in Christ he turned to deal with God manifested in the true Church, thus we’re going to read paragraph 2, on page 58, and we’ll continue our studies and we’re going to go real slow because I don’t intend to go too fast.

We’re not going to get through in less than twenty sermons anyways, so you might as well… we might as well just forget it. All right.

[58-1]  Notice,… secondly, the manifested Christ in you, the hope of glory. That great manifested God in Christ, now… manifested in you…

All right, he says first of all, “notice, secondly, the manifested Christ,” which was he was really saying God manifested in Christ and this one that was manifested by God also as he manifested God. See? Watch it go both ways that this is indeed the Christ.

Now follow what I said. It’s the same thing as the prophet. The prophet had to be vindicated or manifested for him to manifest God; it worked together, so therefore, God to manifest Christ he had to manifest in Christ. You’ve got to bring them together. All right.

This One then here, the great manifested Christ, this is Messiah, this is the Son of God, this is the Beloved, this is the Promised One, See? and His Name shall be called Wonderful, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, this one in whom God indwelt.

God literally manifested, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am pleased to dwell.” God manifesting the Son and the Son manifesting God and without a revelation you can’t get it. Now, Brother Branham says, here,

[58-1]  …Christ manifested in you, the hope of glory…

Now, that manifestation is not going to be the same manifestation wherein God manifested in Christ manifesting that this was the Christ because you’re not going to have what He had and I won’t have nor will anybody have except an end time prophet or a genuine prophet whether end time or not, who will have this privilege.

The manifestation is of a different order.

So let’s read the manifestation, what’s in the Bride, and what obtains or what devolves upon you and me. Okay, we’ll take It from where It’s written. Colossians 1:19-29… beginning.

Now he’s not talking to the individual there, that’s the Church, that’s the Church, and do you realize that the Church at the end time will not move, period. They all move. The first church was a fallen woman.

Now just a minute, the Elect will never fall. That’s true. We’re talking about the broad spectrum, those that listened to the Pauline message.

You know we talked a couple Sundays ago, how they had the little council down in Jerusalem and you know the false brethren brought in unawares, they pussy-footed in there, got amongst the true believers and the true believers were literally gommed up as Brother Branham said.

You had the same thing happen in the Nicene Council. That’s no sin for preachers to get together but it’s a pretty risky thing unless you know what you’re doing, and follow the Word of God, letter by letter.

Now he said, preach to every creature under heaven. What does he mean there? To every single creature here? No, every creature that was under heaven that heard him. He didn’t preach to every creature under heaven. Fap!

Now notice, it doesn’t say, that the saints were making it manifest; it said, it was made manifest to the saints. That’s why he said, if you move from this faith which was manifested to you, you haven’t got it. Do you follow me?

You better follow because we’re going to get in some pretty heavy stuff here because Brother Branham can sure whip you around if you don’t know what’s going on because you see, your minds will still be back in the dark ages of fundamentalism.

Yeah, if you men think you got it hard what are you going to do with some like my dear sisters, Miller’s sisters sitting here, they went to Bob Jones University, where they get a lot of theology thrown at them?

You’ve all had it. I thought I’d bring that in, they’re well educated girls, but you see, their education didn’t hinder them, they came to the Word.

Notice he said,

Now I’m going to skip the 2nd chapter and go to chapter 3, and begin reading.

He’s not talking here now about a supernatural manifestation; he’s talking about a life. He’s talking about a rebirth that comes from what was manifested, a life that’s now imparted to you.

We’ll read a little bit here if we get to it tonight if we can from Thinking Man’s Filter.

Now the walk is what’s here. You and I don’t manifest God to the world and try to prove anything. We have a walk. That’s where Pentecost made its great mistake. Everybody’s got to be a divine healer.

Every women’s got to be preacher. Every man’s got to be thunderbolt. Well, they done lost their thunder. You know why? Because their lightning went. You better not have any noise unless you got a spark, brother/sister.

You know, the old black preacher said, “What I lacked in lightning I made up in thunder.”

I got news for you; it’s your own lightning if you’re just thundering around. Better think of those Thunders on earth, too, what ignited it; the Holy Spirit, God Himself coming down.

You don’t get a thunder burst without a lightning, and you can tell just how far that lightning is away by the time it takes the thunder to get to you, the sound of it, and we heard Him, I was sitting there when He opened the Seven Seals.

And I wasn’t, I don’t think, two miles from where God dealt with the prophet. It makes you think, doesn’t it? Well, let’s think some more.

Well, there you are. See? That’s an entirely different story from a prophet coming manifesting God, from Christ Jesus our great prophet who manifested Almighty God. See, there’s your hope of glory.

Now he said,

[58-1]  …the great manifested God in Christ, now… manifested in you.

Let’s go a little further. Let’s take 2 Corinthians, as I say we’re taking our time because we want to get Scripture. We’re not against gifts of healing and power in the church. We’re not against that. Those are just signs.

There’s no great virtue there because those gifts, absolutely can be upon wicked people even as these could be but there’s got to be a manifestation but we’re just reading anyways,

Notice that? What makes the life of Jesus manifest? Not signs and wonders and great things. You know that’s not devolved upon you. That’s not incumbent upon you whatsoever. This is, bearing and forbearing and suffering. See, this is the manifestation.

What life made manifest? The humility, the lamb led by a dove. See? There’s where the Bride either’s going to make it or not make it. See, the church has received her last sign, the last manifestation.

Now it’s just go on believing and the only difference between us is this from the rest of them, we have a certain knowledge and revelation of God that was made manifest and proven to be that One. Nobody else has got it.

You’re not different, brother/sister; in fact you’ll be inferior in many ways. The church out there will produce more love, produce more gifts, produce everything and you’ll come back wondering, “What have I got anyway?” Just give it a chance.

There’s a conduit of life there, a sleeve within a sleeve, a conduit within a conduit. Don’t you worry, either this Book’s a lie or It’s the truth, one of the two. May have to wait a bit but it will be there.

Now,

The very same thing: Christ in our midst proving He’s risen from the dead, and we go talking It everywhere because It’s based on a revelation which is irrevocable, which cannot be challenged. Oh, it will be denied. Ha!

There’s only a challenge when they can produce the same thing otherwise there’s no challenge. It’s hogwash. It’s a big mouth running off, the sneer, the innuendo, the great pride of Satan, the fancy words, the numbers. Here’s a numbers racket out there all right, the biggest church in town.

Let’s hold our finger there; we’ll go back to this Scripture again. Let’s go to 2 Thessalonians, go on. Here’s the time of the antichrist. They don’t believe the truth. They got pleasure in unrighteousness which is the way of Cain, worshipping God in their own delusions…

There’s a glory and there’s a glory and there’s a glory at the end time that doesn’t fade. If Luther’s glory was great and Wesley’s greater and Pentecost greater what about this glory? It will never fade.

That’s the glory we’re speaking of in 2 Corinthians here, where we’ve read it.

You know Brother Branham’s… the camera took the picture of that, the outer man perishing the inner man renewing? A picture of Resurrection. We in a spiritual one.

But we’ve already had through the ministry of a prophet and Christ in that prophet making that ministry we have seen the invisible and that invisible says, “Eden’s just around the corner.” See? All right.

Let’s go to Romans 8. We’re going to read a lot of Scripture and when we get tired of reading we’ll… I get tired up here we’ll just quit and we’ll go have the Lord’s Supper. Now, reading at verse 14,

Now you see the manifestation is down the road, so therefore, there was a great manifestation, now there’s a manifestation concerning us, now there’s a further manifestation.

Now the great manifestation what we’re looking for is the adoption of children into the Resurrection when we made it. But in the meantime, there’s a manifestation right here which is suffering. The rest of us suffer, too, but they’re not suffering for Christ.

Now let’s go back again very carefully. If this message indicates only true believers, worshipping the true God, then who are the rest worshipping? As Brother Branham said, “The very God that you say you worship is going to destroy you.”

Now don’t go around making everybody serpent seed and trying to get a chip on your shoulder and trying to start a fight, that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about insight, spiritual insight and understanding, not something else.

This is no time for a brawl or a donnybrook or starting any kind of a thing. This is something between the Bride and Christ, just learn to walk off.

All right. Now,

With that we can go to 1 John 3:7-12. Let’s read It.

He was brought into full view that the devil’s word and the devil’s worship of God would no longer hold. Now you’ll find that that’s what it’s all about.

Now how could he? How could he enter into this unrighteous thing? How could he not know the revealed Word of God? How could he, therefore, sin in unbelief? There’s no way.

Now you got problems with your flesh but you won’t have with this because this is what we’re talking about is the revelation based upon a manifestation.

Now right away that old bit in there about ‘loveth not his brother’ scares everybody half to death because I don’t have enough love, I don’t have enough this. Why don’t you just sit and listen?

Man can’t, he hasn’t got it in him unless God shakes him down real good and burns out of his hide, his inner hide, that stupid thing the devil puts in there. For God hath not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of courage and a sound mind. Now, now he said,

Now that’s what you’re going back to, the beginning of the message of unrighteousness and righteousness, and where hatred comes from. See? What it’s all about.

So therefore, the works of Cain which was to worship God in self-understandings, self-confidence, in his own way, turned down the revelation, that was the unrighteous work, and Abel’s work was the righteous work based upon a true revelation he acceded to, he accepted and he followed it.

He said, “This is the revealed will of God.”

Now listen! If Cain… if Abel had not even made the sacrifice the right way, but he would, he accepted the revelation, and the reason he made the sacrifice the right way was because he accepted the revelation.

And the reason that Cain went the wrong way is because he wouldn’t accept the revelation; he followed his mother who turned down the revelation of God and went her way instead of the revelation of God.

As Brother Hall brought out very beautifully that Sunday morning with us, concerning the Word.

So there we see here a manifestation where righteousness comes to the fore based upon a revelation, “Upon this rock will I build my church and the gates of hell cannot prevail.”

Then something has to follow the revelation because a revelation in itself is not sufficient, true, because God was not God until He made somebody or something.

So God was perfect in His understanding, His wisdom, His omniscience, and His omnipotence, but it meant nothing to Him personally until somebody was there to make the decisions so He began creating.

Now what is the first thing? The devil rose up against revelation. The beast rose up against revelation. Cain rose up against revelation. The Pharisees rose up against revelation and the people were rising up against revelation, always have and always will.

And I know that seems like something very disinteresting and not enough proof, but if God proved Himself in this last hour, this is it, and this is what you must work the works of God which is to believe him whom God sent.

Then what do you want? You still don’t believe this Message. I’ll just be honest with you. That goes for everybody that hears this tape and looks at those cassettes, just to tell you flat. You’re still an unbeliever.

You’re sitting on your… trying to sit on a fence or something. Make up your mind which way it goes. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings but that’s the truth.

Whether I’m a believer or not, I don’t know, whether you are, I don’t know. We’re doing the best we can.

And I’ll be honest I’m trying to hammer this down in your brain and my brain and your heart and my heart till there ain’t no escaping it, you’ll fry with it or you’ll fry without it or you’ll get to Heaven with it or anything else… I don’t know.

But the world isn’t going to have any use for you. And if God’s in this thing He’ll have plenty use for you because there wasn’t one thing Cain could do or Eve could do after that point unless God stepped in.

There’s nothing Cain would ever do, the Pharisees would ever do, nothing denominations would ever do, they don’t have one part of this and your thinking and my thinking has nothing to do with it.

This is what people don’t want. They don’t want that simple word ‘repentance’; they’ll change it every single time, like that fellow in Australia tried to pull on me or in New Zealand, Searle at the camp. He came right behind me.

I said, “Repentance is a change of mind,” and he denied that it was. Where is he today? Tongues all around his church, right back in Pentecost. You can have it, I’m not interested. I held my peace in that meeting; I won’t hold it from now on. It was somebody else’s pulpit.

I can hold my peace here; I don’t hold any peace for anybody, I’ll stand before God because I’m responsible. You take me off… you take me where I’m wrong, show me where I’m off a Scripture, one point the prophet said.

There’s no way, brother/sister, that Flame of Fire. It doesn’t make mistakes. I can make mistakes; I make a lot of them. I tell you God doesn’t make mistakes. That old jackass that Balaam was sitting on didn’t make a mistake either.

If God wants to ride this old ass to market He can do it. Yeah, absolutely, God doesn’t make mistakes. See? You got to have some kind of thing to talk It and never make a mistake. There’s no way. It’s not that within myself I couldn’t make mistakes, don’t ever get that idea.

I can make… I make them day and night like Brother Branham says, “Sin a thousand times a day, backslide a thousand times a day.” All right.

Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 12. We’re talking about the church now as in contradistinction to Bride in contradistinction to the prophet. Okay, the 12th chapter, of 1 Corinthians. This is that Bride here in manifestation. Okay.

How can you have the Spirit of God like the Israelites said they had and make Jesus the devil? Did you know they did that?

Matthew 12, come on, let’s go back.

What do you think? “You got the Holy Ghost and make this the devil,” Brother Branham said? You got the Holy Ghost you can’t make Jesus, Lord, where the Lord said to my lord, sit on my right hand?

You can’t understand the body and God, you can’t understand differences. You can’t tell high priest from God Himself? What’s a mediator? He stands between two people. I don’t understand people. Not my job to understand; I just preach the Word.

1 Corinthians 12:

When God manifests it’s for your profit, and if there’s any gifts in the church and God wants to manifest through those gifts.

In other words, like Brother Branham said, “God coming down with Moses in Egypt and He didn’t only manifest in signs and wonders, but He manifested Himself by showing Himself visible in a Pillar of Fire, same today; they took the photograph,” he said.

But this is where the church itself can have gifts and things but it’s given to profit. Where’s the profiting today, brother/sister? Men with gifts take people right off the Word.

As I showed you a long time ago in communion service, you can come to church and take communion, leave in worse shape than when you came. I’ve seen people come to church and I’ve preached and leave in worse shape than when they came; they got so mad they never came back. Well, that’s their business.

Thoroughly misunderstood what is going on, caused a fight and everything else. Better learn to sit still, brother/sister; this church has learned some good lessons. You learned to sit still. You learn to sit still; I’m warning you because I know what I’m talking about.

You don’t have a gift of a five-fold minister and I’d be sitting here except Brother Pete, well, Brother Kocourek over there but I speak concerning this pulpit where I’m standing right here at this time.

Pete uses the church group and we’re a part of each other but from a distance, but I know certain things. I’ve been a minister for quite a long time and there’s a gift with these things and if you haven’t got it, you just haven’t got it.

Elders, deacons, they got to have a character. They got things about them that are wonderful, far more than a five-fold minister perhaps, but a five-fold ministry is a special conduit of the Holy Ghost to bring a Bride right up to the presence of Jesus Christ and it’s not the individual that’s going to do it. It’s going to be God that does it.

That’s going to lead you there but this can lead you off because you see the manifestation is given to profit and the first profiting is when you take that Word and you receive that Word which is the conduit of the Holy Spirit and moving into your life and moving back and forth. This you can be simply anointed with. See?

Now there’s a difference then we’re seeing here, now this is just one little… I’ve only taken one little paragraph of three lines here in fifty-five minutes, so we got a long time to look at this sermon.

Maybe, we’ll get… maybe we’ll be in a Rapture and get us out of here, but I might be under six feet of dirt which is fine by me, I don’t mind or they can just do what they want. When you’re gone, you’re gone; you’re gone to a better place.

[58-1]  [Notice.]… manifested Christ in you, the hope of glory. That great manifested God in Christ, now Christ manifested in you.

See? Now not to manifest God as did Jesus but to live a life. See, to have the virtues, have the fruits, gifts if possible, live that good clean life but what makes you different is one thing as Moses said to the people, “You are different as you go in because this God has given you a Word.”

I know people don’t think that’s enough. I got news for you, it is enough. It is enough because you see, their word doesn’t live but this Word does live. See, we know better. All right.

Next little tiny paragraph.

[58-2]  Look! What was once God’s great secret, great mysterious secret in His mind, is now put in the hearts of the believers, that comprise the Body of Christ.

In other words, now there’s a revelation in the believer’s hearts and it’s only the Body of Christ. Now notice, it’s those who have the revelation comprise the Body. See, now it goes both ways.

You were predestinated to be the Body, many membered Body, the Bride, predestinated to that end, so therefore, you were the receptacle of a revelation even as the prophet was predestinated to be here so he could be the receptacle or channel of God’s revelation to the people.

You’re in the election. See? Okay.

How does he do it?

And you know his ministry was just like Brother Branham’s? When he went to a certain heathen city they fell down and said, “This is God,” and they worshipped him and they rent their clothes and said, “Don’t do that.”

A woman fell at Brother Branham’s feet and said, “My Lord and my God.” People called him… made Brother Branham Jesus Christ incarnate once more, made him that, the deity group, deity bunch.

John fell on his face to worship, a prophet, a prophet revealed the book to… by vision to John. It wasn’t face to face like William Branham and Paul. Don’t ever think so. No, it wasn’t.

Even like Ezekiel, he saw visions of God. I don’t know about a face to face. You get it? Moses, Paul, William Branham. If this is true we’re on pretty holy ground, certainly controversial. No controversy for us though we’re just believers.

Now why does he say he’s got a revelation of the hidden wisdom and it’s still hidden? Because only certain people can get it.

It’s hidden from the wise and the prudent, revealed to the babes, the sponges, the kids that haven’t learned in the first place. That’s why you got to become a child to enter the Kingdom. To know a thing about it you got to relearn.

The great secret is now in the Body of Christ.

[58-2]  What was… once God’s great secret in His mind before the foundation of the world is now made manifest.

Now that word ‘now’ can go two ways. It can go historically as Brother Branham is going back to the time of God in Christ in human flesh or it can be right now God in human flesh again in a prophet, manifested so, and it’s both because Alpha is Omega.

This could be back when Christ was on earth as a flesh body. Now,

[58-2]  What was… once God’s great secret in His mind before the foundation of the world is now made manifest.

In other words, made perfectly known in Christ Jesus but unperceived by most and it’s the same today He’s still veiled behind human flesh though He’s brought out in the open for all to see but only the Elect will see.

Now let’s look at,

You’ll be known in your true character in that same glory and you’re a part of it. See? That’s what Paul spoke for the end time: 2 Corinthians.

All right, with that we go to 1 John the 3rd chapter and verse 2, the same thing, we know what that is. It tells us,

We’re going to see the real God really manifested, and you better believe He wasn’t three; He’s one. And you better believe He’s not the one described by creeds and dogmas out there in this great love, love bit which is wonderful.

I wish the world would just love each other and they say, “Make love, not war.” But you know what they want there, they want sex, they don’t just want to lay down their swords.

They still got the dog eat dog filthy spirit of hell on them, but they had a real nice church spirit on them like let’s say Christian Science, unity. We won’t take Pentecost because too many rabid women in there; we can’t stand that.

Can’t buy that for one minute I know too much about it. They got that sweet spirit of hell. You know what they believe? I tell you what you can catch more flies with a drop of honey than a cup of vinegar. They’re fly catchers.

Don’t think they’re not, brother/sister, I’m talking not about women as much as the churches themselves.

[58-2]  …God’s… great secret… made manifest. Think of it! And I’m sure we don’t… get it. Well, I can’t see it the way I ought to, and I’m sure you don’t.

What’s he saying? This mystery is of such depth that you just believe It. That’s it. Now this revelation that Brother Branham is talking about based on his text of Colossians 1, brings us to this question pertaining to revelation that Brother Branham brought us.

If I had a choice of the Bible or Brother Branham’s sermons, if I was forced to make a choice what would I take? Now I know the good scholars and the fine Christian ones say, “Brother Vayle, I’d take this Bible.”

Well, you go ahead and take it; I won’t, because if Brother Branham did not preach this Bible for our hour then boy we’ve been sure led down the primrose path. And if he did preach the present truth for this hour, then without those sermons this will not obtain.

One day my good buddy, Joe Raczkovi, he’s grown in grace and I must admit I’m very proud of him, the growth that I’ve seen. It’s nothing to do with me; of course, it had to do with him. [Blank spot on tape.]

So Joe he sort of challenged Joe, he said, “The trouble with you, Joe,” well, this is not the spoken Word books, but it’s the manuscript, he said, “The trouble with you Joe is,… you take this… equal to this.”

He said, “You make this equal with the Bible.”

Joe said, “Sure, that’s right. I do that.” He said, “Why shouldn’t I? The prophet is the living Word of God made manifest.”

And a boy standing by said, “That’s blasphemy, that’s blasphemy, that’s blasphemy.”

That’s what the prophet himself said. What do they think anyway? Brother/sister, do you realize what I’m saying tonight? Is it sinking in? If you had your choice.

I’m going to tell you something I’m almost exclusively in these sermons though I do not disregard this because I know this came out of this and therefore, because of this I’m into this, and I’m into this right which I wouldn’t be if I wasn’t into this which, of course, is the manuscripts of Brother Branham’s sermons.

So I thought Joe did very well. And another fellow said to him, I won’t mention who it was but you can maybe guess it.

He said, “You know, I had a dream last night about snakes,” and he said, “Two snakes and Joe you were one of them.”

“Well,” he said, “I, brother, had a dream last night, too, about my Lord Jesus Christ.” And he did so, too, and he came to the dream and he said, “Joe, what would you like? Ask me.”

“Just one thing, Lord. Just draw me closer to You.” He said, “Brother, you may dream about your snakes, I will dream about my Jesus.”

Brother, if this Message can do that to a man, you better believe I don’t want to be too far behind that man, I want to be right alongside with him. Okay.

So you can see why I love some of these brethren, not more than anybody here in the church but you can see why I love the brethren, period, because I can see something there that I can’t see elsewhere and I’ve been around a long time and I don’t want to be around much longer to tell you the truth but that’s up to God.

[58-3]  But God’s great mystery, what the Eternal God had as a mystery, has now been unfolded in Jesus Christ,…

That word ‘now’ again fits in both places because you got the Seals and you got the Thunders and they’ve got to unfold, and there’s nobody going to do it but Jesus the Christ, the great Anointing, remember, that Pillar of Fire was that anointing that came out from God, surrounding God, the revelation. Okay.

[58-3]  But God’s great mystery, what the Eternal God had as a mystery, has now been unfolded in Jesus Christ, then was given out down [from head down]… given out down to His Church [and, of course, into His Church]. What was once in God’s mind is now in the Body of Christ.

And that’s today because that is a complete revelation that wasn’t given fully at the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, fully revealed God, yes, but not everything as pertaining to what God was doing and about to do.

Now what was He doing? Handing the revelation down, building a Bride according to Ephesians 4:16 let’s read It. You got a ministry and we’ve read this so many times, we don’t have to read other… just first here about.

Now he said that this ministry is given to bring us to unity, the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man that’s concluded, finished, to the full measure, the times of the Gentiles run out.

And that’s when a five-fold ministries right to this point, they don’t run out, they’re right here, bringing us what the prophet gave us to bring.

This is what it’s all about, is to keep you from error. Not to rectify the fruit and all those things, that’s always been there. To get rid of the error! To get you back to God! To get you restored!

It tells you right there, okay.

[58-3]  Jesus making love to the Church, [What Jesus? Holy Spirit, Jehovah Savior,] His Bride, whispering secrets to Her.

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God but those things revealed to us belong unto us and to our children for a thousand generations.”

That’s good. That’s Deuteronomy [29:29]. What about over here now in Amos. That’s the 3rd chapter and the 7th verse; I guess is what we want.

What’s God doing by a prophet? Giving His secrets.

[58-3]  You know… you tell your wife things, you know—the little girl that you’re going to marry. You love her so much, you just tell her the secrets and get her up next to you and love her and everything. You know how it is. That’s what God—Christ is doing to the Church. See? He’s letting Her know the secrets—just the secrets. Not these flirters; I mean His Wife. See? All right. Now look…

All right, now look he says here, “This mystery was given out and down to the Church.” This hour the whole two thousand years and what was in the Old Testament as pertaining to this is all in light today.

And God Himself has appeared taking His picture on two occasions, especially the Pillar of Fire there, many different occasions. See? Okay.

Now this is Exodus time and so as with Moses and Israel, God is manifesting Himself for what reason? To gain favor with the Bride. See?

God giving secrets but first gaining confidence so she recognizes who He is, who the mate is, and on recognition she doesn’t say that’s the devil, that’s ESP, that’s fortune telling, that’s Beelzebub, that’s mental telepathy. She doesn’t say that.

She said, “That’s God,” like the woman at the well.

You say, “Well she didn’t have much to boast about.” Why, I suppose that makes you somebody? What she did she had the guts to do, you just think about it. That was a dirty crack, wasn’t it? I’m a professional at giving dirty cracks. See, I know my own heart.

What other men had did… did sexually I just didn’t have the guts to do it. When men went out and clobbered and mugged old ladies, I didn’t have the guts to do it. I’m not happy I… I’m not unhappy I didn’t do it I want you to understand that. I’m glad I had one wife, one woman all my life.

I’m not… I’m… as far as I’m concerned I think a lot of this stuff is… men are just stupid and women are just as nuts. There’s no need for this hogwash going on at all. There’s no need for it.

God’s going to judge the world, brother/sister, don’t think He’s not going to do it. Listen, if you’re not… “This woman, she’s a nasty woman.” She wasn’t nasty, she didn’t know any better.

As soon as the Light struck she’s a million miles ahead of those that were nice, nice people or thought they were. She never killed Christ. They did.

There’s a lot of folk out there don’t even know about Him like in those days back there; they’re not the Christ killers. It’s the church.

The nice people because they crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame, deny the very Lord that brought them and say, “That’s the devil, that’s something else.”

I’m quoting Scripture, that’s from Peter. See?

That’s what God, Christ is doing to His Church, the anointing, the eagle anointing is back, the Anointed One Himself.

[58-4]  [Now] by having the revelation of His secret made known to them by His grace, the grace of God now. [It’s all by grace, remember, that’s why we don’t have any preeminence over anybody else.]… People, I know it.

I hope you don’t think this sounds personal to a bunch of people, [like people here in my church, he said, my group of folk] or this, that, but the… secret is what God is sharing with the whole Church—if they would just receive it. See?

He came unto His own, His own received Him not, but as many as received Him to them gave He the authority to be the sons of God, not to become, but to be placed and shown to be. See? Remember the light shines in darkness, and the darkness doesn’t want it. We’ll see more about that later on. Okay.

[58-4]  It doesn’t mean just me or just you; it means the Church, that He’s trying to get into it. [because He’s outside the Church trying to get in.] And you say, “Well, why don’t they receive it?” They can’t receive it. [Well, why couldn’t they?]… Because Isaiah said they can’t see it.

You got to be ordained to it. You can no more be a prophet unless you’re ordained to it, and you can no more be Bride unless you’re ordained to it. And if you’re ordained either one, you’ll get it, don’t worry. And if you’re not ordained, you’re not going to get it. See?

[58-5]  The prophet Paul said, “In the last days the people would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; truce breakers,…

What’s a truce breaker? A fellow that starts war already or over again when a covenant of peace has been announced. So what’s the people there? They’re at war with God.

Christ is no longer their peace. Why? They turned Him down, make Him the devil. So the war’s back on again.

We are in a state of war right now, brother/sister, that’s why God like a warrior, mad, angry, His eyes full of blood, the desire for blood is going to come down here and destroy it without pity.

You better believe it because the Judge becomes the Executor. He doesn’t appoint an Executor, He becomes the Executor.

Right now judgment lies in the hands of the prophet and those that preach this Message and all they can do is tell about it. Judgment’s in the land.

The Sixth Seal is open, don’t worry. It’s opened some time ago; Hitler was in on part of it. It was all there.

Just that Seventh Seal was waiting and remember, the event has to happen before it’s clearly understood and by that time it’s too late for the devil to do anything about it. It takes the prophet to give us those keys.

[58-5]  …truce breakers,…

You could read Revelation 19, plus 11, if you want to. Isaiah 61:1 where it tells you. We are now at war with God. Let’s look at this for a minute.

Let’s go back… let’s go back to Romans. Let’s just talk about this for a second.

What time you got there, Brother Joe? Twenty minutes? We won’t maybe finish, we’ll just cut this off pretty quick here. Get back to this Scripture: chapter 5 of Romans.

What if you make Him the devil? How much peace you got? What if you turn Him down? How much peace have you got? You haven’t got any. The fight’s back on. God’s once more at war.

Revelation 19. You think not? Watch and find out. Watch and find out…

And the blood flows to the horses’ bridles. Whether that’s a figure of speech, I don’t know, but it lets you know the blood’s going to flow. War is declared, brother/sister. It already tells you. War in heaven; Satan is kicked out. The Bride goes up.

It says, “Truce breakers at the end time.”

[58-5]  Heady, high-minded [see?], having a form of godliness, but denying the authority thereof; [denying the Word, the power] from such turn away for this is the kind that goes from house to house… to lead silly women laden… with divers lust,… or short hair or bobbed hair,… shorts and bobbed hair, and everything else, led away with their divers lust.

And say, “It’s all right… they’re crazy out there. Don’t pay attention.”… Never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.

That’s what Revelation’s says, they’re wretched, miserable, blind and think they’re happy and everything else. It’s wonderful, just wonderful.

Now watch!

[59-1]  And these men resisted it [two cases now here]…

These men, the Pharisees resisted it back there but this could only happen in this hour when you talk about Jannes and Jambres because nobody on the field performed miracles outside of Jesus and His apostles and that one anointed man called Judas which was a devil. Well, there were a few doing it that He’d commissioned, but this is for this time.

[59-1]  …these men resisted it [this saying here, this Scripture] as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses.

Well, let’s read that.

Now who are they? Men of miracle power, anointed. Men rising up in the Pentecostal ranks and they’ve invaded every church, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, ho, heavy in the Catholics, very heavy, very charismatic, signs and wonders.

They say, “That’s that William Branham, hooey, he got smeared across the road, goody, goody gumdrops. He needed it. That cheat, that false prophet.” That was the Oneness bunch said that, one of their pastors did: “That false prophet.”

The man that led them back to Pentecost, David du Plessis, “Why,” he said, “that judge, he got judged himself.”

Speak evil of dignitaries, speak evil of the prophet and don’t know what they’re doing. Brother/sister, this is serious.

See, God’s got to do something to narrow it down. He won’t wink at ignorance anymore; he could but as soon as light comes that’s a different story. Then how could God possibly judge this world without a prophetic revelation? No way, that’s just common sense.

You can’t beat a man over the head if he doesn’t know something, and you can’t destroy the righteous with the wicked. You got to do something about them, and you saw it, Genesis 18, you saw it in John 1, John the Baptist.

You see it now. You saw it in Moses’ day. You saw it in Enoch… Noah’s day. God doesn’t do things indiscriminately and the secret things He reveals to prophets. So there’s no more secret anymore. It’s just that simple.

[59-1]  …resisted it as Jannes and Jambres… They are able to produce a church… a group of people… But their folly will be made manifest when Jesus takes His Bride and sets Her up here and says, “This is She,” and… goes away with Her. That’s right. Their folly will be made known.

Now watch! He’s telling you something. They, too, like us will learn after the fact. We didn’t know there’s a prophet in the land. We didn’t know the Lord descended with a Shout. We didn’t know there was a Message.

We didn’t know this was the Appearing. We didn’t know these things, the Son of man really, we didn’t know these things. But when He told us, we knew them because we believed them.

Then faith, simple faith is going more to compound faith which is knowledge, what faith can produce that brings you to a knowledge. They learned after the fact even as we.

Now notice, Brother Branham’s consistent pointing to this age, the Omega of the Alpha principle… the Alpha and Omega principle, let’s us realize the secret of God in flesh two thousand years ago is now going on for this age and climaxing in the complete revelation of 1 Corinthians 13:9, “When that which is perfect is come that in part is done away.”

And once more God in human flesh, not in a multiple numbered Bride, or membered Bride but in one member of that Bride because God is still in the prophets; you know, people don’t like that.

No, heaven forbid, that’s all done with but they’ll elect a pope and say, “He’s God to the people.”

Then God would have to be in him. Then let the Protestants elect some presbyter or some you know, elder, some president, some pope, he’s a pope, they’ll give him the authority as though he’s got the great wisdom. But you know who’ll do it? It’s the people gives them that power.

I’m not against Brother Branham. He’d feel very sorry for people, you know. I don’t feel so sorry because I’ve learned one thing. I’m the guy that cuts my nose off to spite my face. I’m the guy that gets me into trouble, not my wife.

I just make her think she does or try to make her think she does. She’s smarter than that; she’s a psychiatric nurse that’s why I married her to take care of this nut up here. She does a good job, too.

But you know, people are crazy that way. See? Sure, I can be sorry for you, like Brother Branham. But look, who elects that pope? Who pays for those grease candles? Gives that money? Who bows down when they know better?

Amongst the Protestants the same thing: They do! There wouldn’t be any hierarchy if men didn’t vote them in.

That’s where Israel made their mistake. “Give us a man. Give us a man. Give us a man. We want a leader but we don’t want God.”

You’ve got the same thing right now. You mean to tell me that I’m going to be a nice guy now and get you off the hook. Forget it. I can’t get off the hook myself unless God does something for me.

Stupid is as stupid does. Brainless is as brainless does. Unspiritual is as unspiritual does. We don’t want a man, you want God.

Say, “Well, we’ll change, we’ll vote a man. You take a man, we’ll vote him.”

No you won’t. You’ll take the man God gives you, a man sent from God or you get nothing. I’m going to tell you something. God will send a cow to a cow, that’s fine. Oh, I can believe that. He’ll send a horse to a horse. That’s fine. But He won’t send a man to a man.

Hm, hm, unless He sends me I know something’s wrong. That’s man. That’s man. Every time that’s man. Something is wrong, brother/sister, something’s wrong. It’s too bad it’s wrong but that’s the way it is.

[59-2]  Look… Having the revelation of this secret made known to them by His grace. [It’s all by grace, see?] Look, when this great revelation… revealed mystery is made known to you, then you denounce… the things of the world.

What did Paul say about the mystery known to him? He said, “Everything I learned is just dung. Forget it.”

It hasn’t got a thing to do with this. Then forget your traditions. It hasn’t got a thing to do with this. And if you’re still interpreting what Brother Branham said in your own thinking; you’re wrong. You’re wrong.

I’ll look at every single one and tell in your faces, “You’re wrong!” I learned this fifteen… I learned this twenty, more than twenty years ago because I sat with him and I knew that I wasn’t listening with his understanding; I was listening with mine and it doesn’t do one bit of good.

This is the hour to repent which means to change your mind like a pair of dirty socks. And please don’t try to wash your stinking socks, burn them. You’re not going to get anywhere with God this… if you got an attitude in any other than that.

When God speaks from Heaven one more time, the One that doesn’t speak from Heaven; He speaks on earth because that’s where the Thunders are. That’s where the Seals are opened, right here, open to us. Everything is shaken down, spiritually speaking. What is shaken down?

Everything that man has as the Word of God which is not the Word of God, because God and His Word alone remains and the Bible says, “Thou remainest, O God,” and He stands behind His Word, so therefore, if you’re going to deal with God you better start dealing with the Word.

That’s why I say you’re going to deal with love, you got to get to the Word, the same with me.

Look, brother/sister, if we never make it there’s one thing there’s a Bride out there, that’s going to be absolutely glorious and wonderful because we’re preaching the Truth here that we haven’t got in our hearts but She has and that Truth is going to come forth.

And I’m telling from what I know from this prophetic Message likened up with taking you out of here, getting an understanding from some Source somewhere, that Bride is without spot and without wrinkle and She’s all glorious within and without and God loves Her and He’s going to raise her up and say, “This is She.”

Say, that’s it. And ain’t nobody going to know until Mount Zion showdown, you or me or they, but by thoughts of grace we believe. And every evidence that we could possibly take on our side we have taken to our hearts that this indeed was the prophet of God. That indeed was the Christ.

What came from his mouth indeed was the Shout or that Message which brought restoration. This indeed is that which two thousand years have looked for and four thousand years before that, this indeed is the completion; all the parts have come together. It is all over.

How many years to go? I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. As the prophet said, “Ten, twenty-five, a hundred, maybe yet tomorrow morning, I don’t know,” [but he said,] “Everything you needed has been revealed to put you in that Rapture.”

There is somebody going to be in that Rapture based upon THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Word of the living God, a predestinated people are not going to miss it anymore than Jesus did. There’s no way.

No more than… there was no time when THUS SAITH THE LORD came forth it wasn’t THUS SAITH THE LORD a hundred percent. They’re not going to miss it.

If we’re not Bride there’s a Bride out there but with thoughts of grace and giving Him the preeminence and knowing who He is to our limited degree and our ability and understanding as far as we can go, believing with all our hearts, “Live or die, sink or swim,” there’s no place else to go. Where could we go? What can you say?

You can say, “This is all I have, nothing in my hands I bring simply to the revelation I cling.”

You say, “I’m going to cling to the Cross.” Brother/sister, the Cross has been done and gone; two thousand years ago it’s played its part because if you don’t walk in that Light, the Blood will not cleanse you.

That’s the Scripture. That’s not what I’m trying to say. I wouldn’t say that for anything.

I’d be an old Baptist, old Pentecostal, chugalug. Oh yeah, when the Light shines it’s a different story entirely, darkness has got to go because in Him is no darkness but it’s all Light.

The Bride is full of Light tonight by the grace of Almighty God. Well, the Lord bless you. Took a little longer than I intended but just about completely through.

Shall we just bow our heads in prayer.

Gracious heavenly Father, again Lord, we just thank You for the time we come together here, spending time, taking all the time Lord, because we know that there’s all the time to be taken and what better time to come together just fellowship, sort of talk it out, like a little communication one with another.

No one above anybody, no, but altogether in this thing, looking at this Word of life, handling this Word Lord, by revelation and our fellowship is with You. Oh God, we don’t get the depth.

The prophet didn’t get the depth with a vision, and the stark reality that just literally a nakedness of God, that nakedness of man standing there, standing just looking at each other.

Then Lord, we’re satisfied with what we got, knowing that everything is in Your hands, You’ll bring it all to pass within us because that’s what the Word is all about.

And Lord, if we’re not that Bride at least Lord, we believe that we friends of the Bride, and we’re happy for Her because we believe this is the Truth, follow Scripture Word by Word.

Help us Lord, to just have a real sweet spirit amongst us now as never before to just go on loving, being loved of You, loving You, loving each other, faith in our hearts for each other, believing powerfully as never before.

God help us to worship You in Spirit and in Truth and the wonderment and the love of God as brothers and sisters in Christ, and unto You we’ll give all the glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Just read the Scripture…

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