Covenants #12

Heavenly Father, we realize that at every funeral service people talk about going to be with Jesus, and there were many times in church services, and in the doctrine Lord of You taking a people away, it’s always been a matter of people going to You, but they miss the truth of the fact that You have come to us, and You’re present, You Yourself.

We appreciate that, Lord, it’s really something to know that we stand here in this congregation as a few of six billion people, and here we know that You have come and You are staying because You will take us across into the Millennium.

And we stand on that Lord with the prophet that if we’re not Bride somebody is, and by Your grace we will not stand in anybody’s way whose part of that wonderful chosen throng of God. Bless our hearts tonight Lord, as we study Your Word, may it be a time of real relaxed faith, and enjoyment and understanding the things of God, placing ourselves Lord with this Word, consequently placing ourselves with the blessing and covenants of God. We ask these mercies in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now we’ve been studying along here and we haven’t been actually going to Brother Branham’s messages, quoting him or taking any one in particular, and you might wonder how it is that we could look at these various thoughts without fear, being confident that no mistake is being made. Well it’s very simple.

If you understand the sovereignty of God and you are dealing with the Word from the principle of the sovereignty of God, and you know enough to be able to read and to comprehend just a little bit, you’re not in any great danger if any danger at all of making any mistakes.

When you consider that Brother Branham put the sovereignty of God to such an extent that he said that God knew how many fleas He would create, and how many fleas there would be, and He knew how many would be batting their eyes around, and how many it would take to make a pound of tallow. You know that he is talking in the extreme of God being a sovereign omniscient God.

Therefore if we believe that, it certainly isn’t difficult to believe that God is dealing with us on the grounds of sovereignty when we discuss the covenants that He has set forth in His Word, those covenants which devolve upon us.

And so tonight we want to particularly emphasize that in all covenants God sovereignly deals with us as the Author and Finisher of our faith and our journey, from start to destination, and He interposes Himself even to the extent of His Personal Presence as is necessary in some instances.

Now in other instances He’s interposed Himself through prophets, through even one time the old mule that Balaam was riding, an angel was allowed to give expression through the little old mule he was riding, but here we’re looking more particularly at the fact that God Himself, and that’s a picture of the Presence of God, Shekinah glory, I wouldn’t make so bold as to say that was actually a picture of Himself, but since you cannot separate God the Father and His Son, or the disciples looked at Jesus and Jesus said, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” and Jesus was the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant of God, what can you say but that is God? You know?

You’re not at all in error. In fact to be loathe to say it would somehow deny your real faith in what has happened in this hour.

So, we’re looking then at the sovereignty of God in these covenants, and you’ll notice how they keep up all through the ages until man comes to the destination wherein or to which God had predestinated Him. So He is the covenant keeping God in complete charge as both designer and builder, that is of the complete house of God and also as the shepherd of the individuals.

Now, in our study of covenants, we saw the definition of covenants embraced promises, oaths, testaments particularly referring to a testator, wherein the covenant would not be in force until the death of the testator, so we saw promises, oaths, testaments, and compacts. I don’t like the word ‘agreements’ quite so well as I like ‘compact’. Compact is a stronger word, though I don’t suppose I have any right to make it that way.

Now, in the majority of cases, they are set forth, that is these covenants, these compacts, testaments, oaths, promises; most of them are set forth actually as promises. And they really amount to God telling us what He intends to do for us without having consulted us as to our wishes.

Now, that’s very important to understand, as the Bible says, “With whom took He counsel? Where did He get His understanding?” And we come to the truth of the matter, and that is that God doesn’t ask us about anything. He tells us, really.

So, we enter into these covenants or oath promises, promises that are definitely oaths as God swears by His integrity and righteousness, letting us know that He is not lying, He is not deceiving, and therein He gave them to us. Now I say we enter into these oath promises, because we enter into them, now we enter into them by faith. And it’s a strange thing, but it’s true, that only those people to whom the promises are given, by revelation, believe them and receive them.

Now, you can find that in the Book of Acts 13. And this is the kind of preaching that most churches do not want because they want to believe that you can go to God, you can bargain with God, you can tell God a lot of things, and God will listen and He’ll do something about it.

Now in Acts 13:48, Paul is turning to the Gentiles whereunto God sent him, because Israel turned down the Word. And he’s quoting what the Lord said to him in verse 47.

Now that’s a pretty tall order for an individual, and it’s a pretty tall order for the individual to receive it and to repeat it, it’s a pretty tall order for anybody to believe him, because everybody wants to believe, if you have any knowledge of Christ and His sacrifice, that “Bless God, Jesus died, and hallelujah, you can get to Him and you don’t need nobody.” You’re a free thinker, but your thoughts are going to be awfully expensive.

God said to Paul, “Look, if the Gentiles want it, they’re going to get it through you.”

Oh my, they don’t like it, but pretty soon a bunch of people get together and elect some stupid idiot over them, and they form a stupid church, and bless God, you got to come to that stupid church. And what do they get mad at this for? You know I don’t understand people. I don’t know that I’m supposed to understand people. I sure hope I understand some of the things of God.

Now, this is one verse of scripture that you cannot translate any other way. And this is the one that crimps everybody’s style who does not believe in thorough going sovereignty and predestination. You, this is one verse, ask the students.

I’m quoting the students, the theologians, the authorities. This is one verse that blows it all. “As many as were ordained.” That’s your foreknowledge, your election, your predestination, they believed, and the rest of them did not.

Now, let’s see the truth of this, and I’m going to read a whole bunch of scripture, and I hope I don’t get carried away commentating or you will be carried home at three in the morning. Romans 9, and we’re going to just start reading.

They had it all as a group of people across the board, and they turned down the promise, the Promised One, and the entire salvation of which they spoke that they were looking for, and not arregated to themselves, bless your heart, but they had it right in the Word that was delivered by the prophets, right from Moses on down.

Now, let me tell you something: Isaac was not an average normal born boy. No way, shape, and form. I don’t care if he came by the actual channels of which is designated in mankind, coitus to bring forth the child, the beginning, the whole process, God was in this in a most particular and amazing way so this one could not have come humanly speaking, he had to be of promise. Therefore as all of us normally are born through sexual intercourse, the desire for it, this one was not.

Now, it was there all right, the sexual desire, that’s actually his mother laughed about it. She said, “Shall I and Abraham have pleasure again as young people?”

Wouldn’t matter how much pleasure they had, or anything else. This was a child of promise, absolutely unique. So that if you were to take one of the words of God, wherein there lies a definitive promise, do you hear what I’m saying? Would be no different from this. This child would be the Word of God, a promise manifested, God’s Word in human flesh, that little Word.

Do you understand what I’m saying? That’s right. That’s how the Son of man is formed in this last age. Has been coming up to full headship. Now these are hard things to understand, I know, but I think some of you have enough background to know what I am saying.

Now watch, Brother Branham said, “The virgin birth is nothing compared to the birth of a child of God through natural election.” If 15,000 sperm can go across the diameter of one hair… In other words, as Brother Branham said, millions of sperm, not millions, but trillions and megatrillions, you’d never count them. And the little peculiar ova that they call ova, two hundred and fifty thousand, that is what they count as potential, what lies behind that little cilia like hairs, millions of them.

And God took what He wanted and brought it together. You can say what you want, but if you don’t believe that you don’t believe the prophet. And you could not be a child of promise; you’d just be a child of sex. And I have my own theory about those things, and I believe that many of us, we’re not really born into the wrong family, but you’ll find maybe on the other side, who your real parents are, because they got to keep coming down. As in Adam all die, even all come through in Christ.

See I told you; God gives a covenant according to His integrity. “Have I not said it? Shall I not perform it?” If you can get two people to sit down, who are literally clowns, when you look at the realization what man could come to, and their word is their oath and they stand by it, what about a holy God? Huh?

And people turn around and say, “If I believed in that kind of a God, I wouldn’t believe.” Go right ahead, be my guest. You won’t evoke any sympathy from me. I won’t come around crying and begging. You don’t even read the Bible. And what you do read you don’t believe. Now does it say it or doesn’t it say it? I’m not just… look at it. Just look at it.

Oh, this is the doctrine that started hating this, the Roman Catholic hates this like nobody hates it. Then you got a bunch of weak livered Protestants that came right behind. And you know how far they’ve gone, to believing the Word of God? They’ll tell you, right now, millions now living will never die, and that is a lie from the pit of hell, because my Bible tells me very few are going to make it. Now where do you get millions out of a few?

Boy wouldn’t I like to go to the store with three bucks, you say, “Hey, and make it three million dollars.” Well, would you do that? It would be nice wouldn’t it? The church is doing it. Eight people. One out of eight ratio. And they got millions. At that rate every Protestant would make it, and every Catholic. Poor Mohammedans.

I can see why the white man has no use for the black men, they’re not going to make it either, because they’re in Africa. Isn’t that hypocritical? I don’t care if it’s red or black or green or yellow. Doesn’t matter to me… If God hasn’t called, they’re not going to come. Say, “That’s a mean kind of a God.” Say what you want.

Now, do you see what’s going on here? These people think they’re getting away with it. It goes on and it goes on and it goes on. Why, they say, “Look at the days of Noah. Why since the fathers fell asleep, nothing’s happening. It just goes on and it goes on.”

I’m going to tell you something; we are in shape right at this hour, as we hadn’t been for the centuries, for the whole world to come together under a world dictator. Because the world’s trying to get together. What for? For their bellies. And Brother Branham categorically said, “There’ll be a starvation for bread.” Then he threw in also, “A starvation for the Word.” But I want to tell you something.

There’s no starvation really for the Word. They don’t want the Word, they don’t need the Word, and we got it, we’re not starving. And the world will get together, and they’re going to find they don’t have enough bread to go around, so they’re going to try to piece it out; you watch and see. You say, “How can you say that?” Because the Bible said it, you can’t buy and sell without the mark of the beast.

I like what the Bible says, “He lets them be, he lets them be.”

Now, right in here in verse 22 it admits that the wicked have fitted themselves. That’s exactly what the Bible says. But in verse 23, it says that God does the fitting for the vessels unto glory.

Now he’s telling you there, hey look. How many are going to make it? Not many. Just those that believe the Word, under the covenant.

So they stumble at the Presence of God, in the human form. They could not take it. See? Always they turn that one down, they couldn’t do it. Peter calls it the Word. Romans 10:1-21.

Notice that. They go to a works program, when they turn it down, they’ve got a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Do you know what this man’s saying? He said, “You just say what I say and you’ve got it.” Brother Branham said, “Say what I say.” Do you know anybody that’s a prophet, a man of that caliber that has to say that?

Now let’s look at this picture here. God separated Israel unto Himself as a nation. And of course let’s face it, the seed ran out. And there was just a tiny, tiny bit of seed; it was the end, it was running out. So now put yourself in this position here. God has presented Himself. Much more so back there under Moses. Much more back there under the time of Jesus when He was there.

But God presents Himself. And remember no prophet could ever go before the people and say, “Hey listen to me, I’ve really got the truth, I heard a voice.”

Say, “Oh yeah? You better give us a sign.”

When that fellow, Joseph Smith, came back, you know the big Mormon, and he said, “Listen,” he said, “I’ve heard from God, there’s been a wagon load of gold plates I’ve interpreted, translated, that God given me.”

They should have said, “Oh yeah?”

You know Brother Branham had have come without vindication, I would have said, “Oh yeah? Who are you trying to kid?” These men all had to be vindicated or nobody would have listened except, except what? Don’t ask me to use the word because I don’t think I could find the right word, it’s too gross.

Now, let’s say that this happens and it does happen. God has come on the scene. And He’s a covenant making and a covenant keeping God. And He has a covenant! Now do you think God could be so stupid as not to have a people somewhere who’d listen? God doesn’t waste His time. He’s not foolish and ridiculous. He knew these would not listen; the seed had run out. But there would be those who did listen.

Now, the seed has run out of the church, let’s face it. Because there’s about a billion Christians, so-called. And no billion people are going to be taken off the earth. So if this is true, and it is true, do you think anybody’s going to listen? Hardly anybody. You couldn’t possibly expect the Bible to change.

Now, Romans 11:1-19

Now, you got to understand what he is saying. This is something that you simply cannot get apart from God giving it to you, and it’s a revelation that you receive and say, “That’s it. I’m standing on it, that takes care of me.” Because if it doesn’t take care of you, then God has not made a proper compact. There is nothing definitive about God then, and there is no guarantee about anything. Okay.

Now listen, he’s not talking to the elect. And about the elect. He’s talking about those that are the seed not according to promise. He’s not talking about those that are born by the will of God. He’s talking about those that are simply born after the flesh. They were not the foreknown. Now,

In other words, what they are attempting to live by is going to destroy them! Now I ask you a question. Has God changed? The answer is no! Then what about this age? You think you can live on dead manna? Brother Branham explained that. The Word of God explains it.

It says, “The Word of God shall not pass away until it be fulfilled.” The minute the Word of God is fulfilled it has passed away, and from that time on it is only illustration. That’s all you can say. That’s exactly what the Bible teaches us. Now he said,

Now notice, it says they’re blind; they’re not dead. So when is Israel going to be full? When will the last Israelite come in? When will the election of Israel be completed? When they’re back in the holy land where they belong. Any time now, there can be a resurrection, which is the first resurrection, takes the Gentile Bride out of here, because their fullness has come, and God turns right to the Israelites.

Then it’s all over! And He only takes out a hundred and forty-four thousand, no more and no less. Then do you think the Bride of Christ is not numbered? Do you think God just takes a bunch of people and whips them all together and says, “That’s the body”? There isn’t one member too little; there isn’t one member too much.

And that’s the way with Israel. And the hundred and forty-four thousand show you the meticulous care of God, because He brings them in out of the designated tribes. And then in the New Jerusalem they’re back in their perfect divine order that God set them out. Now you know something? He doesn’t lose one of them. Not one. He does not do that.

All right, now, you cannot under any circumstances divorce what I read in Romans here, from Hebrews 6:13-20. So let’s look at it. We talked about a sovereign God and His covenants. And sovereignty means just what He says. The covenant are given to those who were predestinated to it! And the predestination is by foreknowledge and election! All right, we’re going to read in Hebrews 6:13.

Now, what was within the veil? The Ark of the Covenant over which was the mercy seat, over which was the cherubim’s, and in-between the blood of sprinkling once a year. Now let’s understand, the manna had long ceased to exist. Right. The almond branch that budded had long ceased to exist. What was in the Ark of the Covenant? The Word of God. Then what is within the veil? The Word of God. What is it you want to identify with? The Word of God.

Now, you can’t do it unless you’re ordained to it. You can never accept passages of scripture like this without some kind of a rebellion in your soul. This Book was not written by a human being in the sense of inspiration and word-by-word. Only by a human being who used a pen and wrote what he was told to write.

And these prophets were never crossed up in what they believed. As Brother Branham himself said, the difference between him and everybody else in the world, was he had perfect total recall when it came to visions in the Word. That’s right.

Now, it tells you right here. Look at it. God Himself came down. Picked out Abraham, and said, “I’m going to deal with you. And in dealing with you it’s going to be on a grander scale than you would ever believe, because I’m going to deal through you with the entire election. And I’m giving you a covenant, and I’m swearing by Myself.” That’s exactly right.

Now watch, did I read far enough? Yeah. Hebrews 6:13-20, comes from the original covenant of promise, which is part of the everlasting covenant, purchased by blood, and that’s how you get to the Word is by blood. Right? He was the Logos; they crucified him. Now entered within the veil.

I want to ask you a question. Can He move in any way outside of the Word? The answer is no. Can you move in any way with Him outside the Word? The answer is no. If you are not one with Him in the Word, you cannot be with Him in the veil. Remember Brother Branham brought it out so carefully.

Once there was a time it was death to enter within the veil, and now it’s death to stay outside. And remember the last plague of Egypt was spiritual death, so in this hour. We understand these things.

All right, we go to Genesis 17:1-8.

Now, He said that. Okay, Genesis 17:15-19.

Now, Genesis 22:15-18.

All right, now, in Genesis 17:1-8 and 15-19, it seemed that this is the principle of God choosing whom He will, and entering into covenant with the one of His choice, and the chosen or elected one accepting by revealed faith the Word of promise, based on manifestation and communication.

Such manifestation as to prove it is God actually Who is there, and such communication based on proof is so full of proffered benefits that the elect are happy to be a part of established covenant with God.

Do you want me to read it over again? What you saw here in Genesis, I read to you, establishes the principle of God choosing whom He will, and entering into a covenant with the one of His choice, and the chosen or elected one accepting by revelation, he understands what’s going on, the Word of promise, which is based on manifestation and communication.

Such manifestation as some miraculous something that the person sees and the voice speaks to him. See? Because that Word has to be based upon something tangible. And the person to whom the covenant is offered is happy because that’s what he wants.

Now, that’s not hard when you realize that God created man in His Own image. Set him up the way He set him up. So God being a creator, He must have created a person receptive to Him! The only trouble is, as the phrase is today, the two children Adam and Eve didn’t go through a real bonding experience.

Now, we notice particularly that God interposed Himself here in Genesis, that is He became the prime mover or actuator, and He does it every time, to authorize and implement these oath promises. Because how could you possibly believe some of the things that are set forth unless God was there authenticating it? See you couldn’t do it.

Now, notice in Genesis 22, God having fulfilled His promise to Abraham, now asked that Abraham give back to Him the very fulfillment of that covenant, which of course was Isaac. Now that’s strange, but it’s true. In other words, God asked Abraham to give back or sacrifice in worship what God had provided by this covenant in Genesis 21. And Genesis 21 is the fact of the birth of Isaac where they separate him from Ishmael.

Now notice carefully, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.” Not Ishmael, only in Isaac, and it had to come by Sarah. That’s what Brother Branham said, “See He went back to your great-great-great grandfather, and great-great-great grandmother, and took it right down to this present time and so on.” And he took that from “Levi was in the loins of his great-great grandfather Abraham.” So here’s you’re looking at this particular lineage.

So, here is Abraham offering up his realized hope. What God provided, what he wanted. But God intervenes by providing a sacrifice through creation. He creates the ram. See? Which Abraham recognizes and takes as God’s provision for his seed. Now you got seed and seeds.

You’re looking at types. God made a creation. And that creation took the place of the seed in whom were all the seeds humanly speaking. After Abraham offers back to God, God’s Own substitute for Isaac, God then swears by Himself and confirms His irrevocable covenant!

Now in other words, this becomes a true testament of the testator. Now the testator has to die before the testament comes into effect. What we’re looking at here is the ram was offered and died in the place of the seed. In other words, to begin to perpetuate the seed on this earth. So then what happens?

When that seed is given, that life, now it’s offered back to the provider. And the time it is offered back, that’s the time that God confirms to that person, “You are it.” Now this should help your thinking in what goes on in the Branham message, so just keep listening.

Now, let’s read a little further. We go to Genesis 22:1-2.

Okay, now in Genesis 21, which is the chapter preceding it, you will find in Genesis 21,

Now remember, Abraham looked like about an eighteen year old kid, and he was a hundred years old. We are going to be millions of years old, and look like eighteen year old kids, so you know, it’s not going to affect the fact that you’re millions of years, millions of millions years old. No problem. He’s an old boy; it tells you right here. He just looked like a kid, because he was a kid.

Now that’s a good kind of laugh, not laughed at, but laughed with, in other words, a real joy and mirth. Do you know there’s a day of mirth coming pretty soon? Right now we’re beginning to draw a little water out of the wells of salvation with joy, but you wait till we start getting really happy. You’re going to get real happy when you see the dead. That’s it, that’s the time you’re looking forward to. All these other things are fine, but that’s the big day.

And right on down the line then they cast out the bondwoman so the son could not be heir with the free son, the freeborn son, and right on down the line.

Now we’re not going to go into all of that, but we’re just going to look at verse 10.

Now, what you’re looking at here is that Abraham has this son that is absolutely given to him by Almighty God, and now he’s requested to sacrifice him. Now Abraham has to come to the point where he says, “Live or die, sink or swim, there’s nothing I can do but stick to this Word.”

Now, it looked like God was taking everything away. As it was in the days of Noah, people’s heart ran out. And in this Message we’re going to have more and more people whose heart is going to run out. And I’m warning you now. We’re not there yet kids, we’re not there yet. And Abraham had to come to the place, in the face of the utmost manifestation, live or die, sink or swim, is this it?

Well you say, “How can you believe a goofy picture and all that stuff?” Well I’m a goofy person. I have no trouble. Just leave me alone in my idiocy and I’m happy. Isaac in flesh is what God had purposed and brought forth. And Abraham was committed to it.

Now let’s go over here in Hebrews 11:17-19.

Now watch, live or die, sink or swim, God is going to raise him up from the dead, and I received that in a figure by what I am doing, live or die, sink or swim, William Branham is going to come back and walk on this earth, which no man has done for two thousand years, and nobody can prove anything, he’s going to come back, we’re going to walk with him!

Now whatever he has with that tent ministry at that time, I don’t know, I’m just going to wait and be happy to find out. I’m not fighting anything the prophet said, any way, shape or form. You say, “Brother Vayle, you’re getting crazier.” Praise the Lord; I’m getting crazier. One day I’ll lose my entire mind and I’ll even sing a little song.

He offered it right back to God! Put it right in God’s lap! Said, “Here it is Lord! This is too big for me anyway! I couldn’t get him in the first place, I can’t keep him in the second place, I’m going to die, there’ll be a day when he dies, God I want Your plan!”

That’s the way the Bride stands right today. Nobody asked for Elijah to come! He came on his own. Nobody asked God anything… oh once one or two people from the scripture, they surmised a couple things. But nobody thought a Kentucky hillbilly, a Baptist particularly in a Pentecostal age, would ever come, with the angel of God, and do the things he did, which are recorded.

But he did it. He offered it back to God. Then notice what happened. God renewed His covenant by guaranteeing it personally by an oath.

Now we’re talking of Hebrews 6! The end time message, when they crucified themselves the Son of God afresh. Let me read it to you. So now that hour is our hour. It says right here:

In other words, they’ve already had an absolute sample of glorification! For a picture right there. It says, “Having turned it down flat, there is no more repentance.” And then it says right here:

‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’, it never failed. And He said at the end time, “I’m going to bring it all to pass, just like I said.”

Now my brother/sister let me tell you this: when you offer that back to God, the covenant is confirmed. You say, “But Brother Vayle, I want this!” You do not belong in this church, you do not belong in the Bride, you might as well leave now because you’re going to the Lake of Fire. And I hate to talk this rough and this mean. But I’m telling you the truth!

There is no argument! People are always looking for a new corner to turn, some fence they’re sitting on, can’t you realize live or die, sink or swim, I’m giving back to God what God gave! And when you give it back to God, it’s in your hands. Because ain’t no more coming.

And God never said to Abraham, “Well it’s okay, boy, well I’ll take this one. Hey man, you’re virile, you’re nineteen years old, you got your peak hormones. And that [Inaudible]… guy down there among the Philistines, who eyed your little sweetie pie up and down because she looked sixteen, you can have ten more kids by her.” I’ve got news. There were no more coming. Neither does anything follow this.

Now, do you want to give it back to God to keep it for you? Or do you want to hang on, think you can make something work? You know something? If I can give this back to God and let Him keep it for me, hallelujah. You ain’t never seen a rooting-tooting-shouting-clobbering-dancing Pentecostal like you’ll see when I start moving. Because at seventy-five I can move pretty fast

. You ask my wife and she’ll tell you. I can do a little jig all around better than these guys ever thought to do. Oh yeah. I’m not ashamed I hang real loose. Not at all. Abraham gave it back.

Now, what I am trying to get is this what I am saying. The seed of Abraham was preserved by a substitute. God Himself intervened for the seed. What is that seed today?

Let’s go first of all to John 1:12-13. And it says,

You people get upset about sex? I’m going to tell you something. Sex is a divine commandment of Almighty God. But it better be used right. Outside of wedlock you watch, AIDS will come more and more and more, showing what condition the church is in. Some of you messed your lives up a little degree already, shame on you, and shame on me, I’m not going to hold you in any account, I’m going to tell you, you watch yourselves from now on in.

And you kids that understand me, you hear my voice. And I’m going to tell you, the day may come, and I’m not that old, I may look you in the eye when you’re wasting away dying, it will be too late. Don’t try to fool with God. Say, “What God? That doesn’t mean a thing to us.” Fine, doesn’t mean a thing. I won’t clobber you. I won’t come and cajole you. No way, shape and form.

What condition is the seed in today? It’s in a Laodicean church that’s wretched, miserable, blind, and naked and doesn’t know it, but there’s a Word of promise at that hour that says, “He that overcometh.” That means to get out of that dump! That Babylon. “And I’ll let you sit in my throne as I have overcome and sat down in my Father.”

What does he mean overcoming? He hasn’t been overcoming anything very great in the last two thousand years, except waiting. How many of us can wait? In the days of Noah they couldn’t do it. What about Malachi 4:1? It’s the day when God is going to destroy the earth. But what does it say in Malachi 4:2? “You that fear My Name, the Sun of righteousness will arise with immortality.”

And He said, “Behold, I’m going to send you Elijah, and he’ll discern, he’ll divide, he’ll bring the children back to the fathers.” In the day, the last day, 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, when He comes with His mighty angels, He’ll bring peace as well as destruction.

So, what I’m saying is this: God is an interposing God from start to finish. He goes to the seed and spells out His covenant promise, that is His plans, and then implements them. Not one Word fails, not one passes away, it endures forever. But you have to believe when He intervenes.

If we don’t accept the intervention manifested unto us in this hour, we will not be under the covenant of Malachi 4, where the Son of man, the Sun of righteousness rises with healing, we will not be under the mystery of 1 Corinthians 15:51, the change in our mortal bodies, we will not be under Malachi 4:5-6, to listen to Elijah, we will not be a part of those that are standing here when He descends and raises the dead and we go away with Him. No sir.

Listen, what we are talking about is Hebrews 6:4-8.

If they fall away, that’s the Pentecostal Laodicean age, it’s impossible for them to come back and look for something to supercede what God is doing at the end hour. It is Luke 17:30, the Son of man ministry having appeared amongst us. It is Matthew 12:17-21, where in the form of the Holy Ghost He comes back to the Gentiles, where He does not quench the flax! He doesn’t break the reed.

But in the silence of God within His Word being spoken by a prophet, He makes His Presence known by manifestation proving Who’s doing the actual speaking behind the scenes. And brings us to the place of faith and belief.

It’s the same one in John 14:12, who said, “Greater works that somebody do than this, than I am doing.” And then he mentions it’s the Father in him. Then listen. If the greater works are going to be done in this hour, according to John 14:12, Who is going to be in the person doing the works but God Himself? Can you believe that? God in the prophet.

“Oh, that’s nonsense,” they say. Some people right now, trying to preach the Presence, sure hated that idea, William Branham, the prophet, being God to the people. I like it, because he was sure nice to me, and he was my friend.

So as we said, it is 1 Thessalonians 4:16, that’s what we’re viewing, Him coming down to us, the same as Malachi 4:5-6, and we must not turn it down, but what do we do? Offer it back to God, and say, “Lord, this is what I bring in my hand in this hour. This is the covenant that You made, that Elijah did come. This is the Word of Your Presence, this is what it is truly all about.”

Now, let me read just a little bit in scripture here, in Romans 16, and I’m going to close. Because I’ve said enough tonight, and you can see it’s the sovereignty of God, you just got to be smart enough, that’s the wrong term. You got to be one of these sheep which is spiritual, to catch that you’re a part of it, and keep offering it back, and God will keep it for you. That’s why Jesus is the great mediator.

Romans 16:24-27. Listen to what he says.

Listen, faith is a revelation. All you’ve got to do is obey it. You say, “What great thing will I do?” Nothing! You believe it; it’s passive. It’s to take it into your being. Say, “This is what I am resting on. It is not required of me to do something about it.” It isn’t required of you.

Your requirement, this is the work of God that you believe in whom He has sent. Now you don’t believe in him who He sent, just on the grounds on believing in somebody, you say what was he sent for? And when you know he was sent, you believe it. And you offer it back to God.

Let me go for it again.

Who understood the Presence of God and knew what was happening? Who understood 1 Thessalonians 4:16? Nobody understood it. That’s the mystery, the great one that Brother Branham said, “Making known to us the secrets that were not known from before the foundation of the world.” The inscrutable mind of God, presented to us by proof, and what do you do?

Just hand it back to God tonight, brother/sister. You know what will happen? Jesus will take right over and take care of it for you. It’s time to place ourselves in a position of rest, and there isn’t any place better for rest than I know, than to following what we’ve taken in scripture tonight.

Let’s bow our heads.

Heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for Your goodness and mercy to us, Lord, whereby we have access to the very Presence of the Pillar of Fire, this evening hour. We know Lord You’re not here particularly in this building, so to speak, as though we had some kind of a corner on You, but we do know Lord that we have received this Word, and we stand with it, because we know that this is all there is to stand with, because it is vindicated, because we believe positively You did appear, and You are still here, to bring us to the place that You have promised, which promises at this time You have descended with a shout to take us back with You, to bring us back again and then a final time, we are going to come back to an earth completely renovated, new heavens and new earth, and we’re already started the last part of human physical journey into it, because the next is the Millennium, the great sanctifying period that is left.

So, Father we know where we stand tonight, and I know Lord this little simple message You gave me was exactly right for this hour, I can understand that perfectly. I didn’t when I began, but I can see Lord where we put our rest, and what it is all about, as never before. Knowing Lord that You haven’t filled up all the gaps yet, we believe You will still give us wonderful things out of Your Word, increasing us in the increase of God.

Bless each one Lord in divine Presence, especially Father anybody that hears the tape, even Lord, whatever testimony comes from here, let it be Father, that as Brother Branham said, it is a healing message, the healing going to our minds first of all, and down deep into the soul, into our bodies.

Yes Lord, one day it’s going to bring forth immortality. I’d like to believe Lord, that I’m a part of it, on the grounds that positively I will be here, but I don’t know. But Lord, I can have just as much assurance that I will here, at a future date if I don’t stay all the way through at this very moment.

So, grant Your blessing upon us tonight Lord, in such a way that it does never leave us, and the increase of faith goes on and on. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

Note: Brother Vayle continues with a Communion Service.