Day Of The Lord #02

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father, we’re very grateful that we’re living in this hour, Lord, one of the great times of all history, perhaps the greatest of the Seven Church Ages of the New Testament and of the Old all time, being gathered up now, and getting ready to be replaced by Eternity, though there’s a little lapse left.

A day with the Lord a thousand years, one day left as it were and we’ll be right then into the eternity of God back to our representation started as a seed coming to a full maturity. And we appreciate that, Lord, that we’re a part of this history.

We pray that you’ll impress it upon us through the knowledge that You impart to us. May it live, and because You are here living we’ll live with You.

Guide our thoughts and minds this morning, Lord, help us in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

[Brother Vayle goes through some local announcements.]

Now, I’m going to just of talk a little bit before we get into the notes on the message this morning, which is ‘The Day of the Lord’ continued, message number two. And of course this is a sub title of ‘The Day of the Lord’, which we’ve been going into.

Now, what I want to do to talk with you a little is this: we’ll go to Book of Ephesians, again the 1st chapter, and we’ll read in there and bring some things to your attention.

Now remember, I told you from previous studies that this is the entire eternity to eternity, as Eric Sauer called it in his theological discourse which I didn’t bother reading all of it.

It’s very good what I did read of it. But in here it’s from ‘Eternity to Eternity’ in a nut shell. And so, we’re going to read the 3rd verse.

Now, he’s putting this group of people to whom he addressing himself, or to whom the Lord is addressing Himself through the Word that He gave to Paul. They are the ones presently involved.

As Peter said, “The present truth.” In other words, the truth that is presented to you.

Now, he’s going to acquaint these people with a reality. Now, notice he says that their blessing with which they are in Jude at that time, is:

Now, you’ll see in there that this tremendous thing of being seated in heavenly places with all these spiritual blessings is according to a plan of foreknowledge and purpose which is literally being brought into manifestation.

Now, he says, “that we should be without blame before Him. In love having predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself.”

Now, that’s the thing right there that he is causing them to be aware of that makes them to rejoice. This is the great thing to them at that particular time.

Now, there isn’t one Age that ever bypasses that. There’s no one Age that doesn’t participate in it. See?

Now notice:

Now, notice the plan way back there, that this was to be. Now, you can see that something happened in the purpose of God that caused an intervention in order to bring to pass what His purpose was.

Now that’s Redemption. Lost sheep. See? Going to be brought back.

Now notice what he says there: that these people are aware of the mystery of His will. They’re aware of it, which was also a purpose.

Now notice, in the beginning He had this thing all marked up this glorious wonderful people. Something happens. Something caused a problem, a snafu, sheep that went astray.

Now then, what He does He has it all laid out to bring them back. Then He makes them privy to the revelation which places them as these sons that went astray and are now brought back; and are now returned to the purpose of God.

You follow me? Okay. Now, you better follow me, because that’s what is going on today.

And that’s exactly why Brother Branham said, “The rebirth is a revelation, it’s a revelation to you. You’re hearing from your theophany.”

He said many things which I’m not going to get into, because it could just confuse the issue by too much being thrown at you.

Furthermore, I’m not smart enough to throw it at you. I’d be just talking over your heads and my head to make you think I know something. And fap!

That I’d make you think I had ten thousand bucks in my pocket, and suddenly we needed ten thousand dollars and I couldn’t produce it. What so what? What a jerk I’d be.

So I’m not going to pretend I know all these things. What I know I tell you. What I told you says right here. Quote the things I can quote and let it go at that.

Notice: This is purposed in Himself. See, all of this was way up there in a blue-print, then He had it all lined out how He would bring it completely to pass through the possesses of redemption.

As Brother Branham said quoting Irenaeus, “God being a Savior, it was necessary to predestinate a sinner in order to give Himself a reason and purpose and being.”

And remember, God could only be what God is. “Oh,” you say, “I think there’s something different.”

Well you see, you don’t know your theology. You just goofed right there, you aren’t even born-again.

You haven’t got the least idea of God-head. You don’t know anything. Oh, you even have God goofing up like you and me goofing up. It won’t work. See?

Everything purposed. Now everything purposed in Himself.

Now, that’s why he stopped Adam from reaching to the Tree of Life and living for six thousand years.

Because at the end of six thousand years, He had to do something to bring into effect. See? Which was, to gather all things together in Him.

How is He going to gather all things together in Him if He’s got people six thousand years old that are all messed up? Well, He stopped it.

But at the end of the six thousand years, so He didn’t leave from the Ages to the Ages, the purpose of God makes a change. He has go to start to doing something about those families that was in His plan.

Well, if Adam could reach forth his hand live for six thousand years, where’s redemption? Where’s anything? So He’s cut him right off.

But He said the end of six thousand years I’m going to have to deal with immortality. And you’re dealing with it right here, because you see way back in His mind you were merely a thought.

You were unexpressed. It was predestination that brought you to expression through the process of foreknowledge and election. Oh yes, election is in there. You bet it is. See. Based upon a foreknowledge.

Now, watch:

Now, It tells you right there that this is going to run to the place when He’s able to bring everything together that is in heaven, that is on earth making it one tremendous government, theocratic government.

All right, now: we’ll go a little further. He tells you how you get into that by the Baptism with the Holy Ghost which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.

You see, that’s why He had to stop Adam. It’ couldn’t be until a purchase had been made. A price had been paid, that was the Blood, releasing the Spirit upon the man to seal him back to God. Now you’re sealed into the family.

Now:

Now, the people in the First Church Age didn’t have this. They never had verses 17 and 18. They had verse 13 and 14.

And so has every Church Age, even Age number seven plus, because the Baptism with the Holy Ghost gives way to the Holy Ghost Himself. And here He is right here.

In other words, the Father amongst His children.

But listen: at the time that this takes place they’ll be people living at the Seventh Church Age, end-time and there’ll be people who come up out of the ground.

And the people who come up out of the ground will have a glorified body before the people standing on the ground get theirs.

Now, you hold your finger there and we’ll go to 1 Thessalonians, 4th chapter.

Now: verse 13:

Okay, he’s talking over here in, that 1st chapter

Now, he’s talking to living people that they are going to be struck by the same power that brought Jesus Christ out of the grave.

Okay, let’s read on in,

Now, he’s telling you right there, the dead are going to come forth in resurrection power, and we are going to feel the same thing. Now, how is it going to happen?

That’s what Adam tried to do. Lest he stretch forth his hand, no way! All the dead are going to die, supposed to die, and then they are going to come forth.

Then at that time he can stretch forth his hand, if he’s in the election. If he’s in the predestination. If he’s in the foreknowledge. If he was in the Seed of God, mind of God, and he was. Okay, because he’s a progenitor of the human race.

Okay:

Certainly, how else is he going to hear, be here, and get present? Then they say, “Some people say that’s a Baptism of the Holy Ghost.”

Hogwash, that’s a Baptism with the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost has run out when this takes place. The last one’s in.

According to Irenaeus which Brother Branham confirmed, “When the last one is in, then can He descend, then He can come.” But Brother Branham also said, “When he’s child trained.”

Now, It tells you right here that He is going to be on earth at the time the Holy Spirit runs out giving way to Him.

And so, in the Seventh Church Age that One will be here standing when the last one that is brought in is here in child training.

Then what happens?

Now, It tells you exactly what is going to happen. When He is Present: there’ll be a ‘Shout’, there’ll be a ‘Voice’, there’ll be a ‘Trumpet’.

And then, and then only, can those that have been raised from the dead, and we changed taken up in the air.

For It says here: “And the dead in Christ shall rise first.” Well, he just said he’s going to bring them forth. So they’re standing there, and they are going to up ahead of us.

Then It says:

Well, right away the question comes up, say, “Well just a minute. I can’t understand that, because you see, It says, ‘the Lord is going to be Present’.

Now Present is present, not up there. Descend is descend, not up there. What is it here?”

Well, evidently people don’t know their Bibles. Jesus came with the same thing. And there were the Pharisees were smarting off.

They said, “Who are You?”

He said, “I’m Messiah, I’m here.”

The said, “Hogwash, You’re not here. Out, out.”

So they crucified Him.

Oh no, He wasn’t there according to them. Then He turned the tables.

He said, “Listen you guys are so smart. I want to ask you a question: of Whom was David speaking when he said, “The LORD said unto my Lord, sit Thou at My right hand?” Now he said, “Was that David? What was it anyway?”

And they stood there like a bunch of people struck dumb. They shouldn’t have opened their fat trap before anyway in the first place. Now He shuts their mouth.

Now, it’s the same thing right here, “The LORD said unto my Lord.” Our LORD is here that’s going to take us to that Lord.

Because the Bible said, “God hath made Him both Lord and Christ.” So there’s two of Them.

Now, which One is going to bring the dead out of the ground? God, the same as He brought Jesus forth who is now Lord.

So, Who’s going to change us? God! Who’s going to take us up? God! Who’s going to present us to Himself? God, when That Spirit is amongst us, incarnates Himself in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now listen, that’s been hard to understand. But people don’t want to understand. Do you know why?

Because they can’t interpret Brother Branham’s preaching in the light of what he preached and how he preached it.

It’s got to be always in the light of their own understanding. Who told you that you had an understanding?

I’ll guarantee I know this Scripture and doctrine five and six times better than any sitting here almost all of you put together; and I know nothing.

And I had to let my thinking go and it has to continue, and my thinking has to let go, or I’m just standing around just standing around like everybody else.

I’ll interpret everything else, a prophet ordained of God, and believe me, he was an ordained vindicated prophet.

I’ll be just like the rest, I don’t even know what he’s saying. And you know I argued with him for four and a half hours on just one point. Time after time I found I had to let my thinking go.

Now he said, “Jesus Christ does all three in descending.” Which is exactly true, He came down and did it.

Now listen: I’m going to go on back to Ephesians now. I’m talking this way for a purpose, because we know we’re in a certain hour.

Okay, he tells them through revelation that they are to be aware of their position and a future position which would come in which they would not participate as living members. He said this also to the Thessalonians. Thessalonica’s.

Now watch: The nut-shell of the gospel is a preordained plan and purpose that God positively is bring into a literal manifestation the same as He said, “Let the earth bring forth the flowers,” and it did. There is definitely a coming forth of this purpose and plan of God.

Now: that purpose and plan of God is this:

Now, there are Seven Church Ages that deal with the fulfillment of the revelation that have been given to the Gentiles through the apostle Paul to bring them to the place where the fullness of the Gentiles is over. There is not one more member to come in.

If there’s not one more to come in, there’ll be not one more to come into the Bride. I’m sorry about that, but that’s exactly the way it is.

And the reason it is, it’s like a body, and you cannot have one cell too many, or one cell too little and it would be a perfect body.

Now, anybody who believes the body, the Bride, would be imperfect is very, very foolish, and doesn’t give any credit to God, because the mind is completely numb by the devil, because God cannot deal in anything but perfection.

Now remember, He will go through the root of Redemption to bring it to perfection. But no matter what it looks like it will come out in a perfection.

Now a lot of people just can’t get that in their minds. They’re looking for trouble down the road, even the Resurrection. Look, let’s get all this stuff out of our minds except what God said, and how God said it.

Now, what I want to bring to your attention is this, why I’m talking this way: is that in this plan there are stages, there are junctures, there are great turning corners, or turning points.

Now, the thing is this: is there any way that we could know what hour we’re living in? Now see, that’s the thing. Is there any way to know?

Is this an hour that is crucial? Every church member that has anything at all in the way of a spiritual perception will tell you that things cannot keep going on, and yet they’re keeping going on.

Now, if things are going on, I want to know what is going on. When does God start to apply the brakes to the downhill pull of unrighteousness and start the upward swing of righteousness?

Because there’s got to come a time when the chaff is separated and the tares are separated, and the righteousness are separated from the wicked, so the wicked are wicked still, and the holy are holy still.

There’s got to come a time. There’s got to come a time when God deliberately stops everything and begins blending everything into His plan to make the whole family in earth and in heaven one. See?

Now, he categorically tells us that there is no way that the family in earth can be family outside the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. In other words, there cannot be a Bride.

Furthermore, there cannot possible be a consummation of everything that is relative to a Bride so that is also gathered in, so that He can become Head to everything, and everything in a supremacy.

Now, I don’t think you caught what I said, but you’ll catch it right now. We’re going to go to the Book Revelation chapter, let me see, what I want here likely 21, all right, this is a New Jerusalem, in chapter 21 of Revelation and verse 23.

All right, now, Who’s the glory of God? Christ is the glory of God. All right, categorically then the Lamb is the Light.

What’s he talking about? New Jerusalem, which is the Bride. So there’s a family inside the Gates and there could be billions outside the Gates.

Now, this is where everything that is named in heaven and in earth comes to its consummation, where everything is joined together in the great pyramidal City fifteen hundred miles on four corners, and fifteen hundred miles high, and the Throne of the Lamb is on the very top, and the Pillar of Fire is over the very top of that, and before they call, He answers.

In other words, the mind and the out flowing, and the working of God is so perfect that there isn’t an exigency, there isn’t one time of a frustration.

There is everything flowing from the Divine God in Whom is ultra to perfection. See? Now, this is what you’re looking at.

Now, the point is: when does this thing start the wind-down and the wind-up? Are we in it, or are we not? See, that’s the thing. That’s what we’re looking at.

Okay, let’s go back to Ephesians again. Now Paul has explained this thoroughly, and he said here:

Now, he tells you that there is going to be a separate Spirit come into the Church for a separate reason.

This is not to bring you into Christ, this is to come to inform the Church the Bride of Christ. This is a revelation. This is to those who are already in.

All right, “The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout.”

Now, the voice of the archangel is to raise the dead, but “the Shout is the Message,” Brother Branham said. And you can tell from this that he’s right.

Because Paul said, “I would not have the living people ignorant concerning the time when the dead come out of the ground, there’s something going on, for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout.”

What is the Shout? How many spirits are there? One Spirit, that’s God, period. That’s why we’re not Trinitarians. That’s noting by pure idolatry.

Open your book a million times a day and try to find me three gods, you’ll never find it. You’ll find it, you’ll find the Bible says ‘one’.

And then don’t try to cut Him into three parts and make three people out of Him. That’s cloning, or equally ridiculous.

There’s one God, period, and He’s Spirit! And that God could manifest in fifteen million ways and It’s still one God. Just like there’s million of things out here in creation, but there’s only one Creator.

Okay, now It tells you right here when the Holy Spirit has in the Seventh Church Age when the living are still on earth, It says the Spirit is going to come into the Church, which is: “The Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.”

“And what He’s going to do is going to open the understanding of the heart, and they will know is the hope of His calling.” It doesn’t say their calling, It says, “His calling.”

They’re going to know at that time what is His actual divinely appointed mission in the economy of God. And the word ‘hope’ means ‘earnest expectation’.

They’re going to know the fact of the earnest expectation of Christ is being fulfilled. And He’s expecting every enemy under His feet to take over, so you’re going to know at this time that He’s getting ready to take over.

I’m not giving you some hogwash out the Bible. That this disorganized mind, call it what they will, I’m giving you the truth. Anybody can say what he wants. Then It says:

Now, what happened when Jesus got raised from the dead? He came back glorified.

“Handle me and see, a spirit hath not flesh and bone.” Phfft… through the walls like that! Phfft… come right in! Glorified Body. Could ascend to heaven, come on down again.

He said, “It’s all mine.” He said, “I’m a glorified creature. Nobody, but nobody can stop Me if I wanted to take over.”

Satan said, “Bow down at my feet, I’ll give it to you.”

He said, “I’m in the position now to take it and ring his neck. And take every cell and burn it slowly.” He said, “I got it all, I own it all.”

You tell me a glorified man doesn’t own it all? One glorified man, my brother, my sister, can defuse every bomb and drive everybody crazy and then stand back and laugh. And he owns it all. But God’s no fool.

Now, this One is waiting, He’s expecting now to take over. When this happens, and we’ll be changed, He will say, “Come to the Tree of Life become immortal.”

The dead will come out of the ground and we’ll be caught up to the marriage supper. There’s your ‘Shout’, there’s your ‘Voice’, there’s your ‘Trumpet’. Who’s doing it? He’s doing it.

Now, It calls It a Spirit. How many times did Brother Branham say, “If He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, He will now do in the form of the Holy Spirit which He is here now what He did when He was in flesh.”

Telling us, that when He turned back from the human body to a Pillar of Fire and he said, “He’s right here now, I can see Him hanging there.”

“Oh,” you say, “Oh, I don’t believe that could happen.”

You don’t believe your Bible. Spit on It. Call Moses a liar. What are you, some denominational misfit and call yourself a Christian, just because you went to some church? Fap!

I’ve been to dozen of churches almost, Pentecostal’s, Presbyterian, you name it. I didn’t stick with them too long. Longer than I should have. Went to Nazarene’s, that was out.

Methodist, they just believe in no drinking booze, except when you could hide it. The Presbyterian had something on the ball, then they gave the ball away to the Methodist, and drown it in unrighteousness, loss out there.

I found the Pentecostal’s had too much of the world, what have you. I went to the Baptist, I don’t know where I all went, but anyway that doesn’t make me any expert, don’t worry.

Now, It says here that at this end-time we’re going to have what puts us into a Rapture. Let’s go back to Acts the 3rd chapter, Peter is preaching concerning the Resurrection of the Son of God.

He says here: verse 19, the middle of It.

Now, let’s watch this carefully. It say, “That Jesus Christ is to come back here upon the earth.”

But It said, “Hold it, He can’t come, until there is a breath of revival from the Presence of God, anything visible from God, which is the healing ministry.”

For He said, “If I had not done the works no other man did, they had not sinned. But now they have both seen and hated both me and My Father.” See?

Many infallible proofs of Him alive and Present was the great miracle ministry. Now, the Bible tells you right here that’s going to go ahead of the literal Presence of Him coming down to earth here and taking over.

Now, It says, “The heaven’s got to hold Him there.”

Now, It said:

Now, just a minute, there’s two things important here: one is Moses, and one is restoration. And restoration comes by Elijah, because Jesus said so.

Jesus said so! Before, or rather on Mount Transfiguration, Elijah stood there as indicative that the Kingdom of the Son could not come on this earth until Elijah was there with Him.

Now, It says right here:

Now, that’s in Malachi 4 utter destruction. An utter destruction there’s not under John, it’s under another Elijah. Now, church members close their eyes to that and say, “Well, I don’t believe that.”

Fine, don’t believe it, it’s okay by me. You your own boss. Don’t think for one minute I’m going to stand here, stand in judgment for you. Only thing I’ll stand in judgment for, if I tell you a lie and you believe it, I got to answer for you.

But if I tell you the truth and you turn it down, I’ll face you at that day. And there’ll be trouble, and I’m telling you the truth. Because It’s right here in the Word. You try to make this Word line up any other way. There’s no way.

All right, now: It says here, “They’ll be utterly destroyed.” Now, watch what It says:

He shall make Himself known through a miracle ministry. Which will indicate that He is here in the Spirit. It’s at that time, He that was the Prophet is prophet again.

How? Through Elijah this time. You turn him down, it’s all over. Utter destruction, and that’s what It says in Malachi. What more do people want?

I’ll tell you what they want. They want their creeds and their dogmas and still the promise of God. It won’t work. Because the minute you put your creed or dogma there, and change one Word, you negate what God said.

Man turn out here and say, “Well, I want to make the Rapture,” then negate what He said about It? You missed it.

“Oh,” you say, “I don’t believe that.”

Listen, I’m going to tell you something, you don’t believe in grace, you believe in disgrace.

What grace it there if you keep telling your kid, “Hey kid, look I want to tell you something kid: don’t steal anymore, please don’t. You dishonor me, you dishonor yourself. From now on I’m going to give you an allowance; oh what allowance do you think you’ll need so you won’t have to steal?”

“Well, I’ll tell you mom and daddy, you give us twenty dollars a week when I want to steal.”

So, you give him twenty dollars a week, and the kid steals some more. You’re going to beat the tar out of him, or he’s a child of hell to begin with. You ain’t going to save him. You’ll smarten him up.

But I’m telling you about grace and disgrace right now. That kid was… he got grace, but he turned it into disgrace.

And there’s a lot of people right now don’t know that the grace that God came down and fulfilled the Scriptures that I’ve been telling you this morning fulfilled a hundred percent, and they still want to go their own way and say, “I’m still going to have it.”

You want, in other words, like a stupid little jerk, you want your allowance and still steal. You want your unbelief and say God is going to be faithful. I’ve got news for you, there’s comes a time when it’s over. See?

Now, this is the time it’s over, because It says, “Utterly destroyed.” Now, utterly destroyed, is utterly destroyed.

There’ll be nobody left. There are people say, “Oh, there’s going to be a great crowd left.” I’ve got news for you, don’t you bank on it honey. Don’t you bank on it. It’s going to be too late.

Now, the thing is this: where are we today? Where are we in this great plan? See? Now, let’s just take a look at the Seven Church Ages. That’s back in Revelation, the 3rd chapter, we’re going to look at. Now, It says right here:

In the Seventh Church Age, every student that know anything about the Bible, knows that Christ has been put out.

Now listen: anybody knows that He is not on the Throne, He’s on the Mercy Seat behind the Throne.

So therefore, at the end of the Seven Church Age, He is then somehow on the Throne and at the same time He’s pleading for people to come in to the security of Resurrection and immortality and Rapture. See?

Now, you got to understand that. Because look, don’t try to blow the Scripture and run with It. See?

All right, now with this in mind we’re going to go back to Revelation, the 1st chapter. And this is under the day of the Master, which is the Day of the Lord.

And we’re looking at the Day of the Lord specifically, because there’s certain pertinent things that we should know about it.

Now:

Now, what is at hand? The time is at hand concerning this prophesies fulfillment down the road.

In other words, he says down the road there are certain things that are going to start moving and are moving right now, they’re going to move right to a climax.

All right now: let’s first of all, let’s go back to the first verse of chapter 1, the first part, the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him.

There are two people mentioned here. One: God. Two: Jesus Christ.

So, William Branham was not Jesus Only. Isn’t it strange that people try to make William Branham Jesus Only when he categorically said, “I am not Jesus Only. I believe in one God.”

Now, the Jesus Only people then have got to throw away their thinking, because that’s not it. You say, “Why?” Because Brother Branham’s vindicated.

You show me a person that can say, ‘Thus saith the Lord’, and then God stand behind him and bring It to pass if that man is not of God. If God would bring It to pass when the man’s not of God, then God doesn’t have any integrity.

The very thing He said, “The Elect wouldn’t be deceived.” He’s lays them right open for deceit.

All right, there’s God, there’s Jesus Who is the Christ. Alright, notice verse 8.

Now ask: Who is this one? It is verse 4, because of the description.

Now, down there:

So, verse 8 is verse 4. And verse 8 says, “He’s the Almighty.”

All right, you notice carefully in verse 4 the last part:

Now, let’s go over to,

Okay, now,

Okay,

All right, very good. That is Revelation 1:1, that pertains to God. The revelation God gave. God gave a revelation. That’s God.

Okay, Revelation 1:1, speaks of a revelation given to a Person called ‘Jesus Christ’. Who is He? All right, He’s,

Now, we go to Revelation chapter 5, and we are going to read all of It.

Now, It doesn’t say God’s man, doesn’t say, man’s God. Okay?

Now listen, Juda was a man. He was of the root of David. In other words, somebody born in the tribe of Juda, direct linage to David. A man prevailed to open the Book and loose the Seals.

Now, you can see right here there’s a hookup with God. Now, He stands there:

Okay, that’s good. That’s a drama acted out between God and this Man.

Now notice: they had to find the Man. And that Man evidently was a connection between everything in heaven and everything on earth, and everything under the earth.

Now, if you found that Man He could bring the whole family of God together. So at this time at the opening of the Seals you have the start of the bringing together of the entire family of God, and nothing, but nothing will stop it.

There’ll be the dead come out of the earth. The living are going to stand here. We’re all going to be caught up. It starts with the opening of the Sealed Book. The loosing of the Seventh Seals.

Now remember, what is this all about? The bringing the family together. Bringing the purpose, foreknown, elective, predestinated people of God together. The whole family. That’s right.

And it’s going to go right on down to New Jerusalem and those outside the City. It’s the start of It.

Now, I know people don’t like talking about that. They say, “Well, Brother Vayle, when you talk about that, you got to realize there’s a Millennium. There’s this, there’s that.”

So, I do realize it! What do you think, I’m stupid? When did this all start? Six thousand years ago! It started back there in humanity and it’s winding down in order to start winding up.

As God said, “Lest He stretch forth His hand and live through the ages.” And He could have had six thousand years, then something would have had to happened.

Which was what? Got to be a change, because the time run out, from the ages to the ages. There’s another age going to start. What is that age? Age of Millennium. The age of glorification.

Remember, the Kingdom of God is not only not meat and drink, the Kingdom of God is such that there is no corruption in It. So, corruptibility cannot inherit it. Flesh and blood cannot inherit it.

There’s only one to inherit the Kingdom of God, you got to be immortalized somehow down the line. Now, It says right here, this is the start of it.

Okay. Now, especially we’re going to go to 9 and 10 again.

In other words, the promise of reigning which was unfulfilled in Adam and Eve, replenish the earth, multiply, take it over was aborted.

Now it’s going to be fulfilled in Him Who died for us and shed His Blood, “and He shall see the travail of His soul, He shall see His Seed, He shall prolong His days and the pleasure of God shall prosper in His hand.”

The great Redeemer that brought this about by His Blood and the signal is everybody screaming, “The Book is open, this is it, we shall rule in the land.” We’re back to the original.

Now, the thing is: how do we know that this is taking place? How do we know anything? See, that’s the thing, if people say, “Well Brother Vayle, I agree with you, but I don’t know that that’s the very thing.”

Well, let’s just over this again.

Now, we go back to,

Now, It says over here… we’ll let’s look at It. Now, alright let us see something here that helps us understand Godhead; even the relationship of God and Jesus Who is the Christ.

So we go back to Revelation 1, and the first part. Expanded translation says: “A revelation possessed by Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him for the purpose of making known to His bond-slave that which must surely come to pass.”

In other words, Paul says, “I’m a bond-slave.” The First Church Age messenger. Every single messenger was a bond-slave and he had this Word to pass on that God gave a part of the Word for every Age.

Now watch: We say God, in verse 1, to be the Almighty. In verse 8 described, in verses 4 and 8 as the identical description.

Now, I’m just telling you what you already know. Verse 1 talks about God. Verse 8, describes Him as the Almighty. Verse 4, describes Him, “which was, and is, and is to come.”

But notice, in verse 4, It does not say in verse 8 what It says in verse 4, “and from the seven Spirits that are before His Throne.”

Then, in Revelation 4:5, It says concerning this One on the Throne: “thundering’s and lightning’s proceed voices, seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”

Now one place… notice in here: It says, “from the seven Spirits which are before His Throne.” Then over here, It says: “from the seven Spirits which are burning lamps.” It’s the same one. They called ‘burning lamps’. Very good.

But notice: In,

Now notice: you’ve got the seven burning lamps, the seven Spirits before the Throne. Now over here, they’re attributed to the Lamb. What does It say?

It says, “A Lamb having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”

Now, It tells you that categorically. Evidently, there were seven Spirits there that have to do with Jesus Who is the Christ, and one at a time they’re sent out into the earth.

Let’s find out. We go to what Brother Branham said in the ‘Breach’, page 101. Now it’ll take a while to get this put together, but I’m sorry, I’m just going to it my way.

Okay.

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[64]  Seven horns was the seven churches (See?), the Seven Church Ages, because that was the Lamb’s protection. What He protected His rights with on earth was a God-sent group of people that’s protected. See, the horn on the Lamb…

The horn on the Lamb. What’s a horn for? To protect. To do battle. Who’s He got down here, except the people for His Name? All right:

Seven eyes are the seven messengers of the Seven Church Ages: seven eyes, seven seers. All right, we read Zechariah 3rd chapter.

And you can read that about the seven eyes in Zachariah which we read previously.

I want to go now to page 109 and paragraph 6. And it says:

[10]  “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne of the four beasts,… in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, [we just explained it] which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”

See, Seven Church Ages, seven messengers that kept that fire burning. So, what you’re looking at here, is that this revelation that God gave of Jesus Christ has been carried on through Seven solid Church Ages.

The Light has never gone out in the attestation that He is the great Redeemer. That it is by His Blood that He purchased salvation and what He intends to do for us and with us.

Now, at the end-time here, you will notice that this One that is set forth as a Redeemer, and God has beautifully put in the Church that which is necessary to reveal and to manifest, and display that One through spiritual power, which is in the Church.

Now, at this very end-time, He of Whom It is all about as pertaining to redemption has got to come forward and claim what He redeemed. Now that’s what this is all about. Seven Ages have gone by.

They’re the process of fading out. There’s a juncture. There’s a turn in the wall. There’s something that has to happen, because you can’t go on redeeming, and redeeming and redeeming, anymore that two people going on having children, having children, having children.

Sarah and Abraham, he couldn’t even get her pregnant, because she was sterile and he was sterile; by the time, after at least after Hagar. She said, “Well, we’re going to have family.”

No you’re not. Family’s run out. So does God’s. You say, “Well, God’s infinite, He could have any number.”

So was the woman. She’ll have at least a quarter million eggs that could be fertile, and literally millions of little ‘cilia’, little hair like things in there. And a man can have billions.

Try to get a woman and a man have billions of kids. Runs out. So it runs out sometimes. See, that’s what we’re looking at, because there’s got to be a gathering.

Now, everybody know it started at the first half of the First Resurrection when Jesus opened the graves and opened Hades and brought them out with Him. And He took them up in glorified bodies and they are in the Presence of God glorified!

You say, “What are they eating?” Manna no doubt, and enjoy it. I don’t care what they’re eating.

You say, “Well, Brother Branham, he didn’t see them eating.” Sure, he wasn’t with them. He’s in another group. Yeah, that’s right. Think of that. These are glorified.

People got an idea that those people that came out of the grave sort of went ‘limbo, limbo’. I want to tell you, it’s no limbo, limbo. They’re up there. It’s wonderful.

And it’s so marvelous, that the group that Brother Branham saw in a vision, they’re just chomping at the bit to get there. And frankly, so am I.

You say, ” Brother Vayle, how?” Because I believe the Word, that’s all. I’m gone pass experience and all this other stuff. You say, “Well, I hear you talk about.” Sure, anybody’s got to talk about experience.

Look, I eat, I drink, I get up in the morning. And I feel worse in the morning than when I went to bed at night a lot of times. But so what!

Phffft! I’m not going by that. Fap! I’m still living, not as well as I’d like too. But I’m going to live good one of these days. I’m going to be changed.

You say, “How do you know?” I’ve got a revelation. I’m sorry… listen, I’m sorry, I don’t… people look, I’m telling you, we have come to a time and I’m staking everything on it.

You say, “What if you’re wrong?”

Well, then God’s wrong. Just put it that way. Because, Who sent a prophet? Who sent a prophet with ‘Thus saith the Lord’, that never, ever made a mistake? All the rest are false anointed making their mistakes. And I can prove it to you.

The most anointed person in the world is just in the state of Ohio, and he makes mistake, after mistake, after mistake.

Now, I got the record, I’m sorry. There’s nobody can touch him. You walk in a room, he’ll tell you your dream, all about it.

“Well,” you say, “how come?” You know, Daniel told one person a dream he’d forgotten, and everyone went huh huh Daniel, huh huh. William Branham told dozens and everyone right. This kid tells them too, but he makes mistakes.

My God doesn’t make mistakes. Maybe yours does, you go ahead, you serve him. I got a God that doesn’t make mistakes. I fool around, I’m an idiot, but He’s not. No, bless God, we’re on Bible ground today.

Revelation 5:

Okay, let’s go back to,

Now, in the settings are two different settings. Over here He’s behind the Throne, over here He’s in the Church. See?

All right, they’re the same, but two different offices. Over in Revelation 1:12-13, John sees Him as the Judge.

Over here, He’s the Lamb, preparatory to turning judge, because It’s going to take somebody with authority to start the ball rolling.

And evidently, He’s the One that’s got the authority, because He alone can open the Book. Because He closed It.

In Luke the 4th chapter, “And It closed at the day of the vengeance of God.” In other words, grace is in the land until vengeance. And when the Book opens it signifies grace is closing out and vengeance must come.

So, over here He’s a Judge. And a Judge meets out justice. A judge decrees. A judge ordains. A judge doesn’t enforce, unless he’s a dictator. This One is. We’ll get to that later.

Okay: He’s a Lamb or Mediator, an Intercessor that’s going to be the Judge, and then he’ll be king. He’s actually both, but you see, the time hasn’t run out yet as far as we know. See?

Now, good, let’s be very careful to see something as pertaining to chronology.

Okay, 1 and 5 is a description of 1:1, the revelation of Jesus Christ you’re seeing Him revealed. That’s at the beginning of this Book.

That’s that revelation you’re looking squarely at, and the emphasis is on redemption unto reigning, what the total purpose is, the whole family in heaven and earth.

He, the Head of the Church, the Bride. The Bride with Him in the Millennium at the White Throne and so on.

Okay, but notice,

Now, that’s at the end of the Seven Church Ages. Because there aren’t any more Ages. That’s at the time of the wind-down. See, when He’s coming to the living. See?

Now remember brother/sister, that’s at the time when the scream goes forth, “Come out of her my people, and the Spirit and the Bride say come.” Salvation is not over, it’s winding down.

Many people thought Brother Branham said there’s no more blood, or anything else. No, he wasn’t, he didn’t say that. When they questioned, they thoroughly misunderstood.

And he said, “Oh my, did I say that? Did I give anybody reason to believe that?” He sure did. Sounds just like he was saying it. That’s why, you see, you got to get rid of your own thinking.

When you listen to William Branham, your theology had better go, or you’re going to be dead sitting there listening. You say, “Well, I don’t know what I’m going to do about it.”

I’ll tell you what you do about it, let your thinking go. I’d let mine go; I wish they were all gone. I wish I could say, all my thoughts are of God.

And every thought of mine would be of God if I knew what the prophet said on every single thing in this Word.

I got to take what he said, and then I’ve got to watch, go back and forth in Scripture in what he said, trace It down the way he did the best I can. And then the Light begins to be a little bit more confirmed to me.

Now, but notice in Revelation 5:5-7 is at the end of the Seven Church Ages. And at that time It is not Revelation 1:5, but Revelation 1:10. Now, It’s not over here just that encounter, but It’s over here:

Now, what I’m trying to show you here, is we’re dealing with what he saw here and the projection at the end of the road.

Now, here’s what he saw; here’s what he’s introduced to. Then he looks down the end of the road to 12 and 18.

Okay, now notice: we put Revelation 5:5-7 at the end of the Seven Church Ages. Because you see, the Book is going to be open. It’s opening Book.

And opening Book we showed you categorically from Isaiah 61 and Luke chapter 4, the Book was closed.

The next opening brings the day of vengeance of our God and the Millennium. Covered those that morn. So you see, we know where we’re standing. Sealed up. Opened to a new era.

And notice, it’s opened to the Bride. It’s also opened to the rest of the world, but mainly to us, because it’s redemption.

That’s why Brother Branham called the Book of Redemption, because It is a Book of Redemption.

Now notice, the end of Seven Church Ages; we do so chronologically, because we notice Revelation 5:8-10 is not Revelation 4:4-8. All right, look at It.

Now, let’s go to,

Now listen, go back to the 5th chapter verse 8:

All through Seven Church Ages this has been going on. And when John gets caught up, type of the Rapture, he sees what is there. But when the Lamb comes forward the beasts and the elders fall down before the Lamb.

Now, I’m not making this up, look in your Bibles, see for yourselves, look. Brother/sister, you got a juncture here. You got a time of something going on. Okay?

Notice also:

Over here, they’re not even singing. They’re just screaming out “holy, holy, holy.” Over here, they’re singing a redemption song.

Now watch:

Not two sets of thrones, and not two sets of this and two sets of that. Not to my knowledge. If there is, I’m unaware of it. Okay?

Over here they’re singing, because He was the Creator. Over here they’re singing, because of Redemption. Over here they’re screaming out, because they’re being:

In other words, you can see that there is a moving up positionally from Priest, Mediator, Intercessor, though He is all of that, there’s a moving up. Okay?

Let’s check that out with,

Now, we know that was absolutely Jesus Christ. We know, “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the Word became flesh.”

Listen:

And how can you be baptized in the Name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost? Because, it’s at this time everything is going to give Him glory. Because God leads Him forth in His rightful position.

Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 15:22. Now I could be preaching this thing wrong, I don’t know. I believe I’m right.

At least one thing, I’m going to get God on the scene here. He’s in the scene, but He is, in a way He hasn’t been before.

Now, let’s get this thing right. Okay.

I’m reading It right. You’re reading It wrong. Check the Psalms. Everybody’s read this wrong until this hour, except Paul the apostle who wrote It.

What’s he talking about? God! Highly exalting Jesus to the place of a co-equality in every measure and every department. Except God is still God, and the Lamb is still on the Throne eventually and the Pillar of Fire availing The Spirit is above Him. Now, be very careful to see this.

1 Corinthians 15:

See, I read It right. You didn’t read that last verse, that’s the trouble. Read for the first time; or maybe the second, or third time, because I’ve read It several times to you already.

But if you never read It this way before, you better read It the way It’s written, not the way you think; or you’re going to have God standing on His Own head.

Come on, come on, don’t be ignorant anymore babies. Too late for this kind of nonsense. You all’s puffed up with Oneness doctrine and Pentecostal doctrine. This stuff and that stuff. Get back to the Word.

Brother Branham was not Jesus Only, let’s get this down flat. And if he wasn’t Jesus Only my brother/sister, there must have been something else.

The same prophet of God said, which is true, “Jesus and God are not alike for this reason: Jesus had a beginning.”

And he said categorically, “Jesus was not Melchisedec, because Jesus had father and mother, Melchisedec didn’t.”

Where does that leave you?

“Oh, in a great mystery.”

What’s a mystery? He just got done told you. You’re really a Trinitarian dogma. Your Trinitarian hogwash, because that’s what it is. Show me one place in the Bible that says three of them?

“Well.” you say, “Father, Son and Holy Ghost.”

Is that a fact? What is the Father Jesus? It was the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit came upon Mary didn’t it? Didn’t He say God was His Father? Did He have two fathers? That’s great.

That’s the stupidest thing that I ever heard in my life. Listen, the Bible doesn’t make sense, but goofyism, then forget the Bible. It’s not goofyism. What it’s people. People are messed up.

All right, listen: I read to you 24 to 28, starting with the Presence. It says here: at the time of this Resurrection, the first-fruits, you can then understand that this is going on now to see that everything is fulfilled which was looked at in Revelation where they fall down and worship.

They are not transferring worship from Him that sat on the Throne to the Lamb, Who was behind the Throne, and opens the Seals, and by the way crawls on the Throne.

And the One Who was on the Throne come on down here, because that’s what’s down here. But you can see that the worship is wide open. God and the Son.

We understand both, and we know what is going on now. God has come down to finish off Redemption as a Bride to get us up there to the Son.

And when He gets us up there, the Spirit that’s now amongst us, that takes us there, will incarnate Himself in that Body. Yep! He’ll lead being the Pillar of Fire again.

And that’s not Jesus Only, my brother/sister, that’s God in a human body, and the Body is our Lord Jesus Christ that God raised and “highly exalted and gave Him a Name above every name, that at the Name of Jesus, every knee should bow.”

In other words, something has happened in heaven at the opening of those Seals that gave Him a Name that made them fall down, which they couldn’t fall down before. Evidently, they didn’t. Evidently, they didn’t.

They’re beginning to see God in His great plan of Redemption. “God being a Savior, it was necessary that He redeem His Own, to give Himself reason and purpose of being.”

And He took that Logos, that which came out of God, formed into a cell of a male sperm, and a female ovum, placed It in a virgin’s womb and brought forth a man.

And He said, “This is my Son, that same One.” And He said, “I’m going to indwell Him.”

And that’s what It said on the River Jordan, “This is my Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell.” Can’t you understand that? That’s how God took up Son-ship.

That’s how God shed His Own Blood. And God raised Him, that’s how God made Himself His Own High-Priest in an essence and an understanding we’re trying to get across to you.

Now, let’s go a little further now. I want to start, read this to you. Now look:

It said here:

Don’t you understand the preeminence depends upon Resurrection? Then if the Seals are opened the Resurrection is at hand, because we’re going to crown Him Kings of kings, and Lord of lords. We’re going to reign with Him. This is that hour.

Now, the question comes: has the Seals opened? Some say, “Well Brother Vayle, you don’t understand, you see six open but not seven.” Then the Book wasn’t opened, because It’s still got a seal on it.

Then Brother Branham lied when he said, “Revelation 10:1-7 was the Seventh Seal.”

Here we had a great man of God who could say, “Thus saith the Lord,” and prove it and let you know that that all these thoughts were of God.

And a Voice speaking out of him said, “This is My servant William Branham that I’m using, it’s his voice, But I’m Speaking through him.”

“Oh,” you say, “that’s spiritism.” Wonderful, I’m sure you’ve got all the answers. You just blasphemed the Holy Ghost. So, go on back.

You say, ” Brother Vayle, you preach awful tough to us.” That’s to keep you on your toes. You know I don’t believe that about you for one minute.

Not to keep you guessing, but to keep you on your toes. Don’t give way to creeds and dogmas and some stupid thing; some book. Look, like I told you how dear Daddy Bosworth… oh precious man of God.

Brother Branham loved him exceedingly. No man was ever loved like Daddy Bosworth.

He gave me a book one time, “Oh Lee,” he said, “you must read, he said, Intermereoff’s.”(?)

And he got me so excited about these dear sweet ladies having visions. Oh, I lied, I couldn’t wait to get the book and a sister said, “Well Brother Vayle, I’ve got it, but I loaned it; I’ll try to get it back.” She said, “I’m sorry, it’s gone kaput.” Couldn’t get it.

I said, “Surely this book is somewhere.” I couldn’t get it.

On day I see it advertised, David Cook Publishing Company from Chicago. All these, you know, these lithograph and (you know,) pictorial Sunday School papers and all, and it now has the beautiful Intermereoff between the walls.

And I said, “Goody, goody, gumdrops.” And I wrote right away, special delivery I guess, bring the book to me now. Open the book, two sweet little old ladies in spiritism. Phfttt! Hogwash, female angels raising babies. Yuk! Merciful God.

I’m not dealing in that clap-trap and balderdash. Neither are you. We’re not dealing in spiritism. Don’t tell me for… that God Almighty can’t give visions and God Almighty can’t speak through vessels.

God spoke through a… He put words in a mouth of a donkey one time. At least it seemed that way. The prophet said, “Thy Word is altogether in my mouth.”

Balaam said, “I can’t speak but except what God puts in my mouth, I don’t make up things to tell you.” Paul said the same thing. Moses said the same thing. You tell me Paul didn’t?

Okay, now what I’m trying to show you here: this tremendous revelation of the opening of the Seals positively indicates if it’s proven the Seals are opened, vindicates the hour of the Resurrection.

Let’s you know the last ones are coming in, “For the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come’! Let him that is athirst come!”

When did they stop? I don’t know! I don’t know. All I know is, there’s going to be a High Priest and an Intercessor, Mediator somewhere, even at the Wedding Supper, because 144,000 Jews have got to come in.

So, what you’re looking at is everything preparatory in this hour to us being caught up in a Rapture through glorification, immortalization, and reigning and ruling with Him.

Now, it started. Now I said this to get to the title ‘The Day of the Lord’. Fiddlesticks. So, what do we do next Sunday? For Tuesday? Recap on page in an hour and a half?

One page and a tiny bit on top. Sorry about that. You’re anxious to go home I guess anyway. I’m anxious to preach. So, I’m closing my book… now, trying my best by the grace of God to try to help recap.Why don’t you, okay, no, no why not. We couldn’t turn our tapes anyway, I would say why don’t you take home a tape and listen to it. But its all right you don’t need to do that.

I’ll try to gloss this over for next time and catch up to where we are, and then we’ll read in here. And I want to show you how it is that I keep warning you, I… many times hit a thing right on the head the first time.

I have to keep preaching and preaching, watching it, but suddenly there comes a time when I know, I feel I know. Now, you don’t have to feel that way.

Look, you’ve got your own revelation as far as I’m concerned. You know what I mean? Look, I don’t ride herd on anybody.

There comes a time when I feel I am in that area where it is really opened. I think we’re getting there now by the grace of God.

So Lord bless you, let’s rise.

I got to stop at 1o’clock exactly cause you haven’t gone yet, I’m just going to dismiss you to a degree.

Heavenly Father, we come to You now in Jesus’ Name, again thanking You for the wonderful time we have together studying Your Word. Knowing, Lord, that just talking about these things make it as though we were there.

And we are here at this very hour, and what can we say, except it’s real. We accept it. We believe it. We’re a part of it by the grace of Almighty God.

We’re not anymore in an area, Lord, as far as we know, that in an area where we don’t know, we’re in an area where we do know, that this is that hour that the Bride, absolutely is being gathered in, finally through a Message.

Restoration of the Word. Exodus that brings death. One hand death, the other hand life. And we’re looking of it today.

We believe it, O God, we’re completely immersed in it. What are we going to say except, except the four and twenty elders and the for beasts and just fall down and worship and say, “Thank God.”

Now is the great plan of Redemption. The God of all creation, vindicated Himself through this blessed, glorious Son, Kinsman Redeemer, ripping the Seals off the Book.

Receiving now the exaltation, knowing, we’re waiting for just one thing, Resurrection for us to gather unto Him.

To the great Marriage Supper, the Wedding Supper, and then comeback in the Millennium and further proceed down the corridors of eternity. And we believe, Lord, we’re in It right now; that we have been caught up into the ascent.

And, Lord, as Brother Ungren brought out which so many scholars do bring out, the song of ascent, the higher it gets until the mighty Rapture takes place. “Who are these coming up?”

They’re the children of the Most High. Rulers and reigners with Him was the Creator of all of it. Sharing the Throne as His promised in this last hour.

These things are ours, Lord, and it just gets better and better, more thrilling and more exciting. More dynamic, more living, more everything.

There’s a mind that’s exhilarated and the heart is illuminated. And we know, Lord, that the flesh also must come under that subjection in a moment within the atoms, there’ll be that change. Lord, we thank You for it.

You know our hearts, Lord, we just praise You and we love You, and we love You more and more, especially as we see the truth of it, that You loved us before we ever loved You, and this is another example. How can we help but love You and honor and glorify Your great Name.

Bless Your people abundantly, O God, from this day henceforth as never before, because we believe that it’s accelerating more and more, caught up into the very whirl of the whirlwind of Elijah.

Blessed be the Name of our God forever and ever. Amen.

In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

Remember that old whirlwind into Elijah came down there and smote the rocks? There’s a whirlwind caught him up. Yep. What about that whirlwind that smote the rocks out there in Arizona?

That’s absolutely seen by dozens of people. Same whirlwind’s going to come and pick us up. Sure, brother/sister listen…

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