God Of This Evil Age #21

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father, we recognize Your Presence this morning and yet how shall we approach Thee, Lord, and in what way shall we recognize You? We recognize You as King of kings, and Lord of lords, and yet that date is a little time off where we crown You King of kings, and Lord of lords.

That we recognize You above all, we believe as that One who came down even as You came down to Adam and Eve because the work was too important to trust somebody else to it.

And now there is a time you cannot trust another but You trust only in Yourself to come forth to bring Your Bride out of Babylon to get Her ready Lord, for the Resurrection which Resurrection will take place and a Bride Lord, shall be immortalized because of You.

So Lord, we honor You this morning and we pray that as Thee, we listen to the prophet’s word Lord, which we shall study that we shall honor You even further because we know this is what You came to do, to bring us the Shout at this particular time which is the message which is true church order.

Help us to be one with Your Word in this difficult passage that Brother Branham talks about concerning the Bride that we may see the truth and not be carried this way or that, but be carried strictly with It, and we’ll give You the glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now we’re at number 21 and we covered a little ground last night, not a great deal but anyway, last night we came to page 38 and paragraph 160 to find Brother Branham is now speaking in terms of the true Bride church that is without spot or blemish and which church is to reign and rule with Christ a thousand years in the Millennium, wherein he said, “Jesus sits on the throne of His father David.”

Now since he spoke in such detail in describing the antichrist church he now wants to speak concerning the true church which is the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ and, of course, to do this we’re going to go back to the middle of paragraph 159, on page 38. And he says,

[159]  And the kingdom of the antichrist will be taken and destroyed, and Christ shall take the throne and sit upon the throne of His father David and reign upon the earth for a thousand years, and then present the Church to God without spot or blemish. 

Now the next paragraph says,

[160]  Now, notice the Bride’s long hair, Nazarite vow…

And, of course, that’s one phrase; he’s not just saying, “Notice her long hair which is a Nazarite vow, and so on,” but it’s a “long hair Nazarite vow” which means there’s hyphens in between it and it’s in italics or inverted commas.

[160]  Now, notice her long hair, Nazarite vow to the Word.

So what does long hair then signify? It’s a type of dedication to the Word which means a union to the Word which means a faithfulness to that union which is literally a wedding; the union of Christ, the Word to the Bride, the Word.

Now he said,

[160]  I want to picture the Bride of Christ… We pictured the antichrist where she is, religious and everything, [scientific, more religious and everything scientific.]

You could read this different ways but I suppose I read it the right way the second time. She’s religious and everything scientific. In other words, something is brought out in the realm of a knowledge with which you can deal due to a physicality.

Now anything which is beyond the physical is called metaphysical. And you’re looking at what they might term as an essentiality if there is such a thing beyond the physical but when you get right down to what is called pure science which is pure humbug, pure baloney, [and] pure sewage.

They do not recognize anything but materiality and they try to sell you the bill of goods that as long as you can find protein, there’s got to be life. Now that’s ridiculous.

Protein does not bring forth life; life demands protein. But it doesn’t bring forth life. Life has to have something wherewith it can deal and so life demands a protein.

So now if they find a protein on Mars, or they find some way it’s here or there, look it, if they could even go to the Sun and bring back protein, they’d say, “Well, there has to be life.” “Oh,” then they’d say, “not really because you see there’s extraneous circumstances and this and that.”

You see, science is pure humbug.

Now it’s the human mind that deals in science at the behest of Satan and the church has gone scientific. And I don’t mean Scientology, and Christian Science and things like that. I mean the church is not capable of dealing with spiritual things, period. That’s what we’re talking about.

Now the church figures it can but it cannot. So, the church is involved with this education that Satan brought to Eve and to Cain and on down. But Brother Branham says,

[160]  But the little humble Bride of Christ just simply believes the Word,…

Now let’s face it, the Bride is a part of the world church system until she’s called out. So therefore, she has been instructed in scientific principles and the knowledge of the world and she isn’t a fool.

So she’s well aware of all of the these things so, knowing though within her heart that science is not the answer, materiality is not the answer, even though you may combine the human soul elements with it, and live what is known as “a good abundant life, and you’re your own boss, and everything is in control, and it’s great until you die.”

That’s a lot of hogwash. But they’re trying to believe something is there. If this woman has anything on the ball at all she will know that there’s got to be some sort of vindication or what’s the use of trying to believe.

Now, that’s not what the church wants to hear. But when you take the context of the church, the true church, in Babylon, “Come out of her, my people,” you know that she’s got to stand with Paul somewhere, “All of these things I was trained in, every single thing they know I know and I’ve come out and counted it pure unadulterated manure.”

How? Come on, don’t be stupid. By vindicated revelation. So, Paul came out of Babylon at his hour. And you know the Word of God actually calls Jerusalem Babylon; calls it Egypt, gives it various significant nomenclature that shows certain aspects.

So Paul came out of his Babylon and he had the knowledge of the hour which was the philosophy of religion and the highest respect of education and he said, “It is manure.”

Now why would you call it that? Because it is! The man stood before a God who vindicated Himself. And when the finest mind sitting upon the throne at that time, he said, “Paul, you are mad. Much learning has made you mad.”

He said, “I beg to differ with you. It isn’t learning. It’s a vindicated revelation.”

So you see when Brother Branham makes this statement about the… this humble little Bride, just believes the Word, he’s not some spell binder sneaking up on the Bride that has enough on the ball to know, “Hey, I better watch this, there’s something there. This is different. This has to be the ministry of Christ returned to earth in the form of the Spirit.”

Like Daddy Bosworth, I sat in the same platform in 1953, in December, with me in West Palm Beach, and he pulled my coat tail and he said, “Brother Vayle, I’ve prayed for the ministry of Christ for forty years to return to this earth and there it is in that man.”

How did Daddy Bosworth know that? Oh, come on, I’ll challenge any theologian, smart man under God’s high heaven to find it in the Bible. He can’t do it. You know why he can’t find it? Because when it’s in the Bible, he can’t even see it.

Matthew chapter 4, Matthew chapter 12, absolutely shows the ministry of Jesus Christ to return to the Gentiles as Brother Branham said, “He’s obligated.” Where do you find He’s obligated?

In the Word: He said, “I stand behind My Word to perform It.” He said, “I’ve exalted My Word above My Name.”

So Brother Branham, he comes along like a little pussy-cat and he fools everybody and he said, “Now here,” he said, and they say, “That stupid Kentucky guy because he had a little ministry, you know, he just… Phttt! There you are.

There you are always the same thing, always the same thing. God gives a man something; he’s got to blow it.” I beg to differ. There are people that don’t blow it. Just because Dowie and somebody said he was… Elijah. That doesn’t make it that Elijah is not going to come.

There’s where Israel stood. “Oh,” they said, “virgin birth. Phttt! Virgin birth. We’ve had a million virgin births. Every time some lousy monk, or some dirty dog got into a religious situation; he got a girl pregnant and conveniently said, ‘Oh, the gods came down, and I got a child by the gods’.”

The stupid so-called Christians, they say, “The sons of God got in bed with the daughters of men, angels who pressed themselves into human flesh and co-habited and brought forth these people.”

Hogwash! They’re as stupid as the idolaters. I’m going to tell you something. I’m looking at the finest minds in America, and chuckle. I count myself with some of the finest minds in America.

And I stand with Paul when he said, “You are not aware… unaware of these things,” and I’m not at all unaware. I’ve studied the books. I’ve read what the theologians have had to say.

I studied a certain amount of scientific material which doesn’t interest me too much because I’m not scientific minded, I’m more philosophical which could be to my downfall.

But when I saw Brother Branham, something said to me, “If that’s anybody you listen to, you better listen to that one.” Why? Because of what he had!

Paul was a vindicated man and so was Brother Branham, and he said,

[160]  Now, the little… Bride of Christ she just simply believes the Word,…

Everybody says, “Bless God, I believe the Word.” Not based on That! I believed what he said and if he missed it, I missed it. Yea!

[160]  Now, and… whoever She is; now it’s individuals. [Not churches, not groups, although they’ll form one at the end.] I hope and trust they are… many sitting present, and many listening in. [He’s on the telephone hook-up.] And I hope that myself and every one of you… are all part of that Bride. [Then he said,]… all that’s… ordained to that will be that, because it’s their nature.

Now, what did he say? He said, “The soul is the nature of the spirit or the person that has a body that is living.”

Because remember, Brother Branham said, “The body as its ready to descend from the womb is nothing but twitching muscles and nerves, and there is a spirit standing there allowed of God but not of God, ready to take in and that baby begins to cry, breathing, as God breathed into Adam the breath of life, so that baby breathing in signifies crying, that has had really come to life. Yet there was a life there before that and it is a soul life that if that child was premature, that’s why abortions are so terrible.”

I never knew these things till Brother Branham trained us.

That’s why the anti-abortion and pro-life people are right, and the rest are murderers; and I’m sorry, that’s the way it is. Because Brother Branham told that Mormon grieving over his baby that was born prematurely and, therefore, stillborn, he said, “You will meet it in heaven.”

Now your theologians and doctors can do what they want about that; I prefer to believe vindication, not some stupid theory. And when you begin to see what the doctors and scientists do; you can’t trust them. Yup.

What about the doctors and scientists who used thalidomide and all the babies were born terrible conditions, some without arms, legs and everything else?

What about this woman in America tried to make a name, like the doctor in America made a name over thalidomide? And so she began to analyze, what is that junk in Canada now,? they barred it here; it isn’t aspartame; it’s the other sweetener.

And so this woman, she made out a lot of false documents and the actual truth is, you’d have to feed about a carload of it to a bunch of rats to kill them, but the Canadians didn’t sucker for it, but America did and this stupid woman, scientific, in the name of science, fooled the government, the FDA, and everybody else that it was going to hurt you, and it doesn’t hurt you. And we got saccharin that they have to absolutely say will kill you. Oh God, you want to trust science, you go ahead, and be my guest. Sheee!

We got a good brother this morning, he paid a big price for a heart by-pass, and he’s still suffering. What about your mother, Mel, with chelation? Fine, eh? Because chelation only costs maybe seventy bucks a treatment, for thirty… twenty-one hundred: a by-pass will cost you thirty to fifty thousand dollars.

The doctors got invested about fifty-four billion bucks in it, so how are they going to let you get off the hook? Oh boy. I ain’t smart but I ain’t stupid. It’s their nature. It’s their souls.

He said here,

[160]  …all that’s been ordained… will be that, because it’s their nature.

And the nature lies in the soul so it gravitates toward It. Let’s put a bunch of birds out here. Fifteen thousand birds and that would mean seventy-five hundred varieties. Would you find one robin mate with a crow? No way!

You can even get hummingbirds that are so closely identified that you’d say, “Well, hey, that’s the mate,” but he’s smarter than you because “the birds of the air, the fowls of the air know the path that they take but man doesn’t know,” because you see, he’s got an education.

God didn’t educate the birds. He didn’t educate Adam. But the devil came along and educated Eve; everything got messed up.

So, he said, “It’s ordained to be that way because it is their nature and the soul gives the nature to it all.”

Now, he said,

[160]  …See, the Word can only recognize the Word.

Now what is he saying? Is he saying, “God recognizes us?” No! We recognize God. The sheep hear the voice. So Brother Branham said, “Hey, a Bride has the instinctual [now I’m using the word ‘spiritually instinct’] the spiritual instinctive power to just reach out and say, ‘That’s God’.”

And billions will say that’s the devil. Isn’t that cute? The devil will not admit and indulge himself, or the people rather, in letting them catch on that’s it’s the devil. No. The people don’t believe that they’re worshipping Satan.

They don’t believe that they got a devil religion. They don’t believe that at all. They say it’s God. Then when God comes along, the devil says, “Hey, watch it, that’s the devil.”

Now listen! That’s exactly what happened to Jesus. “The Pharisees;” he said, “You are of your father the devil. You are serpent seed.”

And they said, “We are not born of fornication.”

He said, “Oh yes, you are.”

“Well,” you say, “some will say they’re just jibing at Jesus, and say, hey you’re born of fornication.” You prove that. Unless Brother Branham said it and nailed it down, I don’t go for it.

I’ll tell you why because he said, “All of Abraham’s children are not necessarily… that’s the seed, rather, is not necessarily children.”

And they aren’t because he had a child by Hagar and it didn’t work; didn’t work right down the line. And then came along Rebekah, the son Isaac, and they were the same blood, they were supposed to be and they were actually suited to each other and mated, and they brought forth one bad and one good. Two different eggs, two different seeds from the very same people and she was a part of him. So, all right.

Now, we’re looking at this here and it says,

[160]  …the Word can only recognize the Word.

So what is that? That is the seed. So you’re looking at two things here. He says, “Their nature is what causes it,” then he said, “See, Word can only recognize Word, so therefore, the soul is intrinsically Word.”

You can’t get away from it. I read it. Unless I’m reading it to you, I’m not a dummy. I may be stupid but I’m not a dummy. That doesn’t sound good, does it? Anyway, listen again, whether I’m here or not.

[160]  …all that’s been ordained to that will be that,…

That’s Bride. Because it’s their nature, and he explains it, “See… Word can only recognize Word,” so therefore, your nature is a Word nature and that means you will mate with the Word. What does that mean? It means only the Word of God has life, and He said, “The words I speak unto thee they are spirit and they are life,” and that cinches it.

Brother Branham said, “Nothing outside this message will come to life.”

And don’t you know they will run around the country telling you the Souders(?) who started it, the sons of the prophet bunch, he’s the one that’s supposed to have said it, and of course, Brother Branham came behind mimicking him, and took up with what Souder said.

Ray, you know a bit about those things. Study them further. I get lots of phone calls on them. I could tell you my source, don’t worry. You don’t even know the guy but he’s been a pipeline to me of all the manure that’s been going around about Billy Branham being Pentecost and Billy Branham being the son of the prophet, Billy Branham going there.

Billy Branham told me, he said, “Lee, I was going to go their convention and the angel of God met me at the door and said, ‘Where are you going?’” he said, “I am going to their convention.”

He said, “No, you’re not. Unpack it.”

I’ve heard all the lies, and you’re going to hear more lies about William Branham as time goes on until you wonder whether you should believe it. All right. Who spoke back to him?

Tell me! Who spoke back? A man in the Name with THUS SAITH THE LORD comes, in Jesus Christ’s Name, something spoke back. Tell me what it is!

If that’s the devil meant to fool us, out of one billion Christians, and billions of Moslems and everything else, the devil did one rotten job of fooling people, and he ain’t the deceiver. He’s not even a ten percent deceiver. He’s not even a one percent deceiver. So I got no respect for him. He ain’t nothing.

Who answered back? You’ll hear more and more as time goes on; I keep warning you because I get all the input. Saturday alone, I had a phone call six thousand miles away, seventeen hundred miles away, twenty-seven hundred miles away, not to mention the local ones; I get my letters.

I know what’s going on. Do you think the devil’s going to let you off the hook? Come on, come on, come on, temptation by filth is nothing to what the devil will do to you spiritually, to destroy you and take you away from the things of Almighty God.

Listen! He equates the nature to the Word, and he said, “The soul is the nature of the body,” which means it gives it that nature to the spirit, and it can only recognize the Word, so therefore, if you were Word, in other words, what is Word Logos, the Rhema, that lay in Him became manifested, being Logos, and therefore, if you are a part of Him, you are a part and a manifestation and, therefore, you are mini logos.

As Brother Branham said, “You’re Messiahettes.” So therefore, the Word calls to the Word in order to come to life. It’s mating season.

Now notice!

[160]  It can’t recognize a denomination or a perversion.

What is he saying? He’s saying the denominations are perversion. We had a woman there in Norway when we over there in 1970, she claims she had some arthritis or something, so she had to cut her hair. Well, she had a husband who wasn’t a jackass as far as I know but he acted like one because he let her cut her hair when he could have… He could have combed her hair.

Come on, what’s the matter with men, are they so macho men, they can’t comb their wife’s hair and change the babies and do the dishes? I figure I’m part of a man; I’ve done all that stuff, and I’d do it again. Maybe sat around with the wrong preachers too long. If you saw my jaw set; you saw right.

There’s certain people I utterly despise. You say, “Brother Vayle, you shouldn’t.” Shut-up! You mind your business; I’ll mind mine. I despise people like that.

God said, “They’ll end up in the lake of fire.” You think God loves them? You don’t understand the blood. You don’t understand limited atonement. You don’t understand anything. I’m not trying to be better than you or anybody else. The thing is this; “Hey, get with the Word of God!”

He said, “Denomination’s a perversion.” And that woman turned around and told my wife and she’s wearing slacks and all, she said, “Don’t you dare tell me those lovely Pentecostal people are not going to make it.” I tell her nothing. Vindicated prophet told her if she’d have enough brains to realize it. No, she cuts her hair.

“A denomination is in perversion, so therefore, denomination equals perversion.” Now, a prophet said that. Now let’s find out about a prophet. I hate myself taking all this time but I love this Word. I don’t care if I take a year and a half more on it, I like… see, this is the stuff I like. Okay.

The Book of Galatians.

Now literally Paul is speaking concerning himself because he’s talking about “removed from him that called you to the gospel.” Paul is saying, “How come you ditched me? There was a time when you would have given your eyes for me, not just the shirt off your backs. Why have you left me?”

There isn’t another gospel. There isn’t another Word. There isn’t another anything of God because God is one, and His mind is one and His works are one and we’re one with Him. So, you’ve got to go to the Oneness.

Now, that’s mighty big Word. Years and years ago I opened my mouth and began you know taking pot shots, I guess I shouldn’t but, I’m not too worried about it; hey, look, they did it in public.

Now if it was behind closed doors somewhere, maybe I should be a little more cautious. But these preachers preached in public all this rotten damnation; so I’ve got a right to come against it.

They said, “Now listen, you should not do that.”

I said, “Brother Branham… well, Brother Branham is a prophet. Well, Paul taught Brother Branham, I think Brother Branham might have taught me. Let him be accursed.”

I’m supposed to stand up and say, “Oh, nice, nice people.” Somebody get in this pulpit and tell you junk and I don’t come behind him, then you’ll believe that I believe what he believes and you could fall for it, and my job before God is to stop you doing that.

You say, “Brother Vayle, you put yourself pretty high.” I never put myself high at all; it’s my job and I’m going to be judged for it. Now if you want to dismiss me and say, “Oh, Brother Vayle, we’ll let you off the hook.”

Thank you, thank you; I appreciate it but God didn’t. I’m going to be justified by what I say and unjustified by what I say.

You say, “Well, that’s God job.” Who do you think is behind this guy? Who do you think he’s an ambassador for? Why you’d put him with the devil? This is a man of God. Now he said,

And he said, “You’ve heard of my conversion.” He said, “It was a mighty manifested conversion.” Now that’s what Paul said; I didn’t say it. All right now.

Let’s go now to Corinthians, and it’s the 1 Corinthians, the 4th chapter, listen to the first five verses.

Now he said, “You people, I withstood Peter to his face because he was to be blamed.” He said, “I set that Jerusalem council in order and they said, ‘Paul, you are right’.”

Now he said, “I’m going to tell you something; you better get with this, and you better account me, give to my credit, and acknowledge that I am the steward of the mysteries of Christ.”

“Ah, bless God. That was Paul. God wouldn’t do it again.” Who said so? John a scribe came behind him and faithfully wrote the Book of Revelation, which people said, “Ha, forget it.”

Like Brother Branham’s friend said, “Well, John must have had some hot peppers that night to have a kind of crazy dream like that.” That’s people!

You can’t judge a prophet and a prophet can’t judge himself. A prophet is a hundred percent absolved before God, that’s why he is God to the people. You say, “Brother Branham judge yourself. Brother Paul, judge yourself. Man, they got to judge themselves.” Why don’t you shut-up?

You’d make a dog puke if you had that attitude. You don’t believe in an omnipotent God with an omnipotent Word with a power that’s going to get you… you don’t believe in a Word that works. You believe in… you’re still in denominations if you don’t understand me this morning.

I’m not pleading for Lee Vayle. Who cares about him? Let him go to hell where he belongs but don’t you dare stand before William Branham, and the Pillar of Fire, say, “Well…” This is White Throne, brother/sister. You don’t believe it.

Some of you don’t believe it. You sit here, you don’t believe it. I don’t blame you. It’s not your fault perhaps. You’ve never understood the Judge; you never will. I don’t say I know too much about it but He that judges me is the Lord.

Brother Branham categorically said, “A prophet cannot be judged,” here’s the Scripture.

You can’t judge him. Sometimes it’s hard; I’m going to say it again so people will get mixed up again, so the women will run home and phone their preachers if they got one and lie as usual because they will lie. They’re doing it in Africa; and they’ll twist it again.

But I’m going to tell you again. For years I’ve studied under men like Dr. Bosworth, and Aarons and those compatible with him, who forcefully taught that the Bride goes through the Great Tribulation, and believe me, Scripture by Scripture they do go through the Tribulation if you don’t have a revelation.

I sat with Brother Branham for roughly, maybe close to an hour; we batted the Scripture back and forth until the room began to get dark. I caught it right away and I said, “Brother Branham, look, I can’t follow it, maybe I studied too many years, too long. Can I ask you one more question?”

“Certainly, Brother Vayle:” always gracious, always delightful.

I said, “Brother Branham, is it THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now listen carefully because you’re hypocrites if you go different from what I’m saying, and you’re liars and you’re sitting here and wanting to be liars, and that goes for the tape, any place in the world I’m saying it, I said, “Brother Branham, just forgive me, I can’t catch it but is it THUS SAITH THE LORD the Bride does not go through the Great Tribulation?”

He said, “Brother Vayle, it is THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Now listen, brother/sister! I said, “Thank you, Brother Branham, I believe you. The Bride does not go through the Great Tribulation and I will find it in the Scripture.”

Ten years later by revelation I found it but I believed from that moment. So don’t go out of here saying, “Lee Vayle, Brother Branham different,” because that’s what they say around the world, and they’re liars and they know it. So, you’re not going to call my bluff on the Word, brother/sister. Not on what the prophet said here.

Now listen! You cannot judge a prophet. You cannot judge the Word. There is no way you can do it. Now, let me show you something. Who cares where the time goes? It’s all part of eternity and this is the best part of eternity on earth we’re spending.

So, 2 Thessalonians, that’s where I want us to go. 2 Thessalonians the 1st chapter and it says here at the end time. Here it says,

Now we know that is to be the truth; that is the truth. Now that’s the end time message.

Over here we read in Romans and this is a tough one, I might not be able to find because I maybe can’t put my finger on it, oh yeah. Now it says in verse 5 of Romans 2, those who could not take Romans 1, they took and said, “Well that was in their day, we’re going to be different.”

But now watch what it says,

Okay, now you turn to Hebrews, the 4th chapter,

When? In this hour. So what I’m telling you is this: William Branham was the definitive prophet, Elijah in this hour. He restored the Word.

He cannot be judged and it’s vindicated to be so because God read every man’s heart in his presence, and that’s the day the Judge came down when He exonerated the Bride, and condemned the church, he said, “I indite… [What?] Not the church, but this generation.”

He brought it out in full truth. Now here’s where we stand.

Now she cannot recognize perversion which is denomination.

[160]  It knows better; It’s a Word. See? It can’t recognize anything else. Now watch! A wheat can’t be anything but a wheat. It started a wheat; it’ll head up a wheat.

Jesus said, “I came from God and I go back to God.” And He did it. And Brother Branham said, “Jesus came exactly as we came except He did not by-pass the theophonic form.”

So therefore, we came from God, we are going to go back to God. And you cannot go back unless you have God essentiality in you, because Jesus was the essential God as… as to Godness in the Godhead. He was not God; He was the Son of God.

When God said, “This day have I begotten Thee,” He said, “This day have I started my genealogy: this day have I started my sons and my daughters.” And the Bible distinctly says by Paul; every one of us was in Him from before the foundation of the world.

In other words, before there was a speck of anything, then our lives in Christ separated and turned out life sperm, would unite with material which is protein and the elements to bring forth a body commensurate.

Now this may blow your mind entirely but if we came from God in that form and the Bible distinctly says that we’re going to be fashioned after our Progenitor, the Bible does not lie when it speaks of God having hands.

Yea, having eyes and ears and mouths, and loins and everything else, not as though He were like us but within God Himself must have been the genetic pattern that He passed on to us, Him being life, and the pattern, the omniscience being in Him and the… and the omnipotence being in Him; He passed it right on down, exactly why Jesus could take our form. Sure.

You think a son of God, God… him coming from God would take on the form of a bird or a duck or a horse or something? Do you think He’d have taken on the form of a serpent?

No way, the serpent was close to a man, that’s true. So He just took on… What did He do? He took on part of us. Yes sir, the rest went back to pattern.

It started to literally head up a wheat…

[160]  And a tare can never be a wheat, yet it’s watered by the same anointing.

Which means, a wolf in sheep clothing, Now watch it! a wolf in sheep clothing… What is that? That is a false prophet. What is a sheep in sheep clothing? Now that’s a laugh to the world. Oh, the world got a big kick out of that.

They say, “This man is a wolf in sheep clothing, but that nerd is a sheep in sheep clothing, ha, ha, ha.” So, now with that sarcasm you are ill equipped to listen to me. If you… and I laughed at it myself because it’s… you know.

A wolf in sheep clothing brings forth wolves in sheep clothing. And a sheep in sheep clothing brings forth sheep in sheep clothing. But the wolf in sheep clothing is the child of disobedience, the child of the devil.

And the sheep in sheep clothing is a child of God, and you don’t find a sheep in wolf clothing. You know why? Because he’s not at all anxious to imitate the wolf; he wants to be like Jesus, his Creator and Maintainer, his future home, his everything, but you see the wolf is different.

Now then, therefore, the prophet, William Branham, like Paul, like Irenaeus, because you go on down, right to Wesley, they brought forth sheep in sheep clothing for their day. What about our day? William Branham will bring forth sheep in sheep clothing.

Now what is the wolf in sheep clothing? He is off the Word. What is the sheep in sheep clothing? He is on the Word. What will the Word do for the sheep in sheep clothing? It will give him precisely what he needs in order to be in the Resurrection of the just and part of that Holy City because he’s a part of the Bride of Jesus Christ; Word answering to Word.

Now what about the end time? (Turn the light off, hey?) What about the end time when you have got a wolf in sheep clothing? Listen to what Brother Branham said.

[160]  The tare can never be a wheat, but it’s watered by the same anointing.

What is it going to bring forth? It is going to bring forth a corrupt but identical looking fruit of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, temperance, goodness, long-suffering, and it’s going to bring forth gifts; healing, miracles, tongues, interpretation, faith, prophecy, wisdom, discerning of spirits.

Now where are we at the end time? What do you want to be dressed in? Do you want to be dressed in fruit? It’s your choice. Because the end time the manifestation is identical. I’m not against fruit. I’m all for it. I’m not against gifts; I’m all for it.

I want to ask you a question. Where did you learn about gifts? Then why don’t you go to the Word. If I want pears, I say to the willow tree, “Oh, willow tree, I’m a son of God, now I want you to give me pears.”

Willow tree says, “You nerd! I don’t have pear life. I’ll tell you what though, you bring me a branch of the pear tree and you will graft it in me and I will give you pears.”

Brother Branham spoke of that. “At the end time the anointing is so close there’s a razorblade difference.” I’m not against these things; I’m all for them. But if they’re not according to the Word, I’m not interested.

Brother Branham never took anything away. But he said when… He said, “The life coming up through the stalk, now let’s get this flat! the life coming up through the stalk started out of the grave with Luther,” now you get out there right now and you see at the time when that ear is actually forming, the bottom of the grain is brown, but there’s still life going up. Why?

Because He comes up through Seven Church Ages; the life comes up through Seven Church Ages and the life passes on but what remains is nothing but the dead hulk which is the vessel in which the oil was once.

So justification is over; not that we still don’t get justified. Sanctification is over; the life is gone out, not that we still don’t get sanctified. The gifts of the Spirit, the life has gone out, not as though there aren’t gifts available but you better have the life with it, and you better realize the life takes preeminence over the fruit.

Without life there is no fruit. Without a pear life there is no pear. Without a dog life there is no dog. Without God you don’t have life, you’re going to hell. You can take your gifts and do what you want or do anything else you want.

I’m steamed up. My glasses are getting steamed, but I’m not. You think I am because I raise my voice in shouting. No, there’s calmness in my heart. I know where I stand. See? I don’t have to worry about that. All right.

We’re reading. He said, “Same water, same anointing.”

[160]  See? But it isn’t a wheat, as I said the other day about the tree with the different branches…

I forgot that was in here. But I said it and so it was in my mind. Now, the church started with long hair, the Nazarite vow. What is a vow? It’s two people making a covenant.

Now, unless the groom and the bride are deaf and dumb, or especially dumb, so here’s the dumb groom and here’s the dumb bride, that sounds silly but it’s true. I speak now, can’t talk.

So, the… we’ll just say they’re both dumb not deaf, so the preacher says to you so-and-so, to the groom, “Do you take so-and-so to such-and-such to be your lawfully wedded wife to have and to hold and to minister this and do that and so on? He gives a sign. He hasn’t got a word; he’s got a sign.

Now, the sign says, “Yeah, to the word.” That’s like the prophet, he hasn’t got a mouth; God’s got to give him a sign, then He gives him the Word. So we’re looking at the Bride with her covenant. She can make a sign, do anything she wants. What I’m trying to say is this, it boils down to Word. You see what I’m saying?

Now, if this church had a Nazarite vow by long hair that signified that she was one with that Word, the groom, it is a covenant of Word, because no matter how she answers back, “Do you take so-and-so, under such-and-such conditions?”

“Yes, I do.”

Now when you receive Jesus Christ as your Savior, I don’t care what you thought, and I don’t care what I thought, we received the Word. So here’s what we’re looking at; the long haired vow.

Now, when the Word began to be given back to the church it went through justification, it went through sanctification, but in the restoration of the baptism with the Holy Ghost, as a doctrine, Now watch it!, with the restoration of gifts, it’s the first time she cut her hair and put on men’s clothing.

Now you say what you want, kid, but I’m seventy-six and I’ve lived through it. I wasn’t even a teenager when they started doing it. I’ve come from the horse and buggy to the jet age, to the supersonic age; and I’m a witness.

I know the first woman in our town that wore a man’s suit; it was a man suit, period, from there on it was a take-off. Now I say, “Bless God, men don’t wear those flimsy-flamsy things like women do with those nice pretty suits on. They got those slack suits on so pretty.”

I’m going to tell you, brother/sister, you want to get a jackass, you get a mule, What is it?, you get a burro and a mare together; they’ll give you what you want. Your slacks, I don’t care what you’re made of; they’re a take-off. I don’t care what men trunks are, they’re a take-off.

Never mind the material. Don’t try to justify yourself because we’re looking at the Word of God by a vindicated prophet who cannot be judged. Say, “Well I think Brother Branham made a little mistake there.” He never made any mistakes; didn’t make one mistake at all.

And you watch his life, didn’t make mistakes either. That’s where you guys are all goofed up with this marriage and divorce stuff. You think you got engaged, you’re married to somebody.

Then how come Brother Branham married people, who especially one boy I know, that had two or three engagements. He said, “Now you got the right one.” You watch the life.

Here’s a pear tree and an apple tree; they look just alike as far as I’m concerned. I’ve got to wait for the fruit season. You think a prophet’s going to go back on his word? The Bible condemns a man that teaches one thing and does another.

So somebody screwed up and it’s not the prophet. Do what you want. If you’re smarter than the prophet; you’re smarter than anybody, so go ahead. Paul said he set an example after Jesus Christ, and Brother Branham said, “Follow me.”

People are so narrow; they don’t even know about a Christmas tree, say, “Well that condemns everybody. Does this, does that.” You’re just a bunch of legalists that’s all. You’re waiting for some little thing to throw you, and say… and you walk on and say, “Well, that wasn’t really…” See, it’s a make-believer.

I am stuck with William Branham the same as I’m stuck with David, with four hundred and ninety-nine wives, and had to take another beautiful woman, and not only seduce her but literally rape her, another man’s wife, have a baby by her, kill the husband.

“Well, bless God, the Psalms.” Puke on the Psalms. Yeah, I’m trying to rip them out of the Bible. “Oh, Brother Vayle, don’t do that.” Why not? He’s a skuzzball.

David’s a man after God’s own heart; I love him. Not because of what he did, not because of what he did, but in the Psalms I hear a human voice calling unto God. I hear a sheep calling unto his master.

I hear a soul wanting to go back to his source. I see somebody calling for that which God ordained him, no matter how many devious ways he took and what the path was.

Let me tell you something. David isn’t lost. No, he’s still the progenitor of the flesh according to the Word of God of Jesus Christ our Lord, and one day will sit upon His throne, and don’t you try to tell it otherwise.

[161]  Her long hair, Nazarite vow shows… She’s vowed to God the Word. Her beautiful gown of His promised Word for the age that She’s living in wrapped around her,… [Who’s her?] vindicating Her… [Who’s her? Soul, nature]… with Himself, [vindicating her with Himself] of Hebrew 13:8, [which Brother Branham invariably went, where to?]

Genesis 18, where God came down and said, “The promised son is on the way now. This is it!” And Sodom was burning. And Sarah was in the tent behind the back of God.

And He said, “You’re going to have that son by Sarah.”

And Sarah said, “Ha, ha, ha, me and who else?”

He said, “Sarah, why did you laugh?”

“She laughed up her sleeve,” like Brother Branham said, “but there’s a hole in the elbow.”

“I didn’t laugh. I didn’t laugh.”

“Ah, ha,” He said, “but you did laugh.”

And there at that time she had just fed God with her husband. Think of it. Come on, let’s let our hair down.

How do you know that morning when David lusted after Bathsheba, he hadn’t been quoting a Psalm that God gave him fresh off the top? “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He leadeth me beside the still waters, into green pastures.”

And his body said, “He leads me to beautiful women,” but he said, “I think I’ll go with the body.” Did that annul the 1st Psalm and the 23rd? I don’t think it did.

So Sarah laughed up her sleeve. There in the Presence of God she made God a liar. Come on. She’s part of Abraham. Who do you think you are this morning? Somebody nice? Ha! See, I could go to the rogue’s gallery and find better pictures. You could, too.

Where I was at I looked at a three-way mirror, “Oh Lord! I died. That’s the ugliest creature you ever saw” Just like Al Arnett said, “I was so ugly my mother had to tie a bone around the… my neck so the dog would play with me.”

Oh course, that’s an old joke. It’s the truth; never looked in a three-way mirror again until I was about thirty years past, inadvertently one said, “Oh, the nose isn’t so bad, something caught up.” Maybe my eyesight was failing by then. What does it matter?

Say, what does it matter? You’re either Seed or you’re not Seed. You cannot find perfection in yourself and of yourself; there’s only one part of you that came from God and came down by natural generation as Brother Branham called, “natural election,” and you’re stuck with it.

But I’m going to tell you one thing, if you’re a true child of God, you’ll wrap yourself in His Word, and you’ll want whatever comes out of His Word, no matter what it is. You’ll want it within the framework of the Word, and you’ll look to Him and you will not be a scoundrel. Put it that way.

I still cannot believe in these preachers who taught adultery by way of what they call polygamy. As the man in Europe said, he said, “I’ve done more for this message than any man living,” he sure did; he loused it up. He’s now a doctor of divinity. He’s had his women living right under his roof and his wife knowing it. She had to suffer it.

You say, “Brother Vayle, just awhile ago, you said to look at the man David was, could this guy be the same?” No, he’s off the Word. He said, “Brother Branham is wrong, and he’s right.”

You lift your finger against the prophet; you know just where you are because you can’t judge a prophet. This man said, “Well, you see, I had this dream years ago, storing up food, and I went to Brother Branham, and then Brother Branham later on had the vision,” I say, “Oh, that’s great, but I happen to know that Nebuchadnezzar had a dream before Daniel had his vision.”

Was Nebuchadnezzar now a great man? Phttt! Check your Word, brother/sister, check your Word. You want an answer? You don’t need to be fooled by people. You can tell I’m not trying to fool you because I go to the Word, Word by Word.

I’ll stand up here condemned, look, brother/sister; I’m not trying to make myself somebody. If I am Seed, I’m Seed, and I’ll go toward God, if I’m not Seed, I won’t do it.

[161]  As She is a part of the Word Groom, true to Him in every point…

She’ll be true to Him in every point. Now who’s he talking about? Last day Bride, not first day Bride. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. He said, “There’s got to come another Ephesus.”

We’ve come full turn now to where the Bride was pure, and over here I read it dozens and dozens of times, it’s one of my favorite little verses, and you know where I’m going, 2 Corinthians 11, and he said,

You’re already messed up in your minds. You’ve become pregnant by another word. In other words, you’ve got a seed in there like Eve, and it’s going to bring forth because you went to the flesh, away from the revelation, you are going to bring forth a bunch of bastard children.

And the church did it. Eve took… I beg your pardon, the serpent took Eve’s mind before he took her body. Before he could reproduce himself by her body, he took her mind, and so that’s what the church did.

It’s not that this Bride… they were children of disobedience. They were not. They were children of God, but they opened their mind.

But at the end time, the Bride will not open her mind because this time when she gets pregnant, she’ll be like Sarah. It will be by Abraham. And the mind will be closed. What I’ve called a mindset. How are you going to believe opposite to that?

You know something? If I had to do it, I’d just sit and look at that picture hours a day if I knew I had to do it to get a mindset. And say, listen, that is a picture of God, of a manifestation of God, put it that way, not a picture of God. It’s a picture of a manifestation of God.

It’s a picture of a theophonic form which means God shown, God manifested. “Theo, Phaneroo,” God showing, seen upon Mount Sinai, caught by a camera: it’s the same Pillar of Fire or the prophet lied.

Oh you say, “I think the prophet lied.” Now you’re judging a vindicated man. And the same people that say they believe Paul, they wouldn’t buy this for a billion dollars. They can’t. Their head’s like a noodle. There’s a hole in the middle, everything goes right through; doesn’t catch anything from God. All right.

[161]  …She is a part of the Word Groom,…

Eve was a part of Adam body; He took a rib out. She was a part of Adam dually. He took that out. So with us, then if He is the Word, “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh,” then we too are in that. We’re identified. You cannot change it. So, why try to change it?

[161]  …She is a part of the Word Groom,…

Who is the Word Groom? Complete Word. Brother Branham said, “The prophets were a part of It. Jesus was the whole of It; coming up through Seven Church Ages, seven messengers, a part of It, today is the whole of It.”

“Brother Branham, what does it mean; that which is perfect is come?”

He said, “That which is perfect is come, I’ll tell you what it is.” He said, “What is perfect but God? And who is God but the Word; therefore, by divine revelation we have the perfect revelation of the hour.”

Headship! Here you are. What time we got? Twenty. Well, okay, we’ll read this paragraph.

[162]  Now look. If a woman… out here is married to a man, and she goes out and makes love with another man and has an affair with him, and comes back to her husband, he should kick her out.

What about that? Is that right? Well, she made a vow. When she breaks her vow there’s no contract. Then she’s no longer a wife. If he breaks his, he’s no longer a husband. Why is it all put on the woman? Because it’s a type!

The man, inadvertently,… pardon, that’s not a real right expression, it’s not inadvertent, he’s lucky, the man luckily is a type of Christ, will He ever be unfaithful? Oh, come on.

Paul said, “I’ve been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” And he said, “I live by the faith of the Son of God.”

He didn’t live by his own faith in God, he lived by the contract, the oath, between Jesus and the Father and he’s living by the faithful God; the faithful and true witness. Not living by anything he thought or anything he believed or anything he did.”

He said, “I’m living by His faith, He is faithful who promised.” So you will never find in Scripture as though the man went out and did it.

Brother Branham knew it took two to tango. A woman in London came over here years ago, and she said, “Brother Branham, what am I going to do?” She said, “My husband is running around, and running around; woman after woman.”

Brother Branham said, “Look, he’ll give you a social disease. You must divorce him but you can’t remarry.”

He recognized man as men, but we’re typing here. It wasn’t Adam who failed. Adam was faithful, he went to her rescue. He even got her pregnant. What do you think Jesus did? Went to our rescue and got us pregnant with the Word, the life in that Word.

So you see when you talk about a man, you’ve got to go to sources. We talk about a woman; it becomes terrible. With a man it looks good. But the man’s a jerk; he ain’t nothing. How could he be if the woman came out of him? What was in him? No, you can’t look at the flesh; you’ve got to look at the Word.

See that’s why with me it’s always Word, Word, Word. You know why? Because I believe someday this Word in me is going to take life, and if it doesn’t, kiss it good-bye anyway. I’m shot. I’m gone. I’ve been all through the gifts and things.

Look, I had a good ministry here. Brother Branham said, “Lee, you had a lot of true discernment, you made some mistakes. Get away from it.” I got away from it. I’m not against those things. Come on, it doesn’t take the place of this. See?

Now, what about a man kicking a woman out? Matthew 25, those virgins came and they didn’t have any oil in their vessel. They ran around looking for it. It was too late. The door was shut. And watch what it says.

And he said, “I used to know you as my wife, but I don’t know you as my wife anymore.” Literal translation, Dr. Hoyer gave it to me, the greatest Greek student of the twentieth century, taught by Dr. Ivan Panin who was the greatest.

Now,

[162]  …Not even wink at the other side or a man, a woman should not even wink at another man. She should make no signs, no emotions at all toward him, for she is absolutely a bride to one bridegroom. [Now you think the Bridegroom here’s going “Hey,” wink, “baby? Hey, baby!” Hey, Bathsheba. Listen, David was only a type. The prophet is only God to the people, or as God, he’s not God. But we’re talking in types. She’s absolutely, a bride to one bridegroom.] We don’t want any of your mixed trees, your denominations.

Mrs. Methodist, Mrs. Baptist, Mrs. So-and-so-and so-and-so. See? What you want here then is a true woman, true loving marriage. When she’s got a true loving marriage, she isn’t going to be enticed.

Why do people get enticed in religion? Because they’re not happy with what they’ve got: do you think I’m going to go back to Pentecost? Hey, I’ve tried Pentecost from a kid up. I went with the Methodist. Not well, I was a Methodist as a kid. I was a hybrid.

I was a Presbyterian Methodist, called United Church of Canada, crazy bunch of jerks, into politics, denied the virgin birth of Jesus Christ but the minister’s daughter said, and she… I was under her control because I was sixteen, and she was my teacher in high school, and she said, well, she said, “You know, the Book of Genesis in the Bible, that’s just mythology, you know like the Greeks and the Romans and the Norwegians.”

And I thought, “Well, she ought to know, she’s the preacher’s daughter.” Then God came on the scene, and I knew she was a skuzzball with her dad.

You say, “Brother Vayle, you talk mean about people.” Hey, they would have destroyed me, stupid! Come on; give me credit for having an ounce of brains. A proper marriage isn’t going to dissolve because he loves her, and she loves him. And what is he? The Word.

“Oh, Brother Vayle, don’t talk that Word, Word, Word.” Well, He’s the Word. He’s the Word. He’s the Word. He’s the Word. He’s the Word. He’s the Word. And I can’t talk Word without talking about Him and I can’t talk about Him without the Word because that’s all I know.

Say, “Brother Vayle, I didn’t see that. It never talked to me.” I sat there in the room with the Pillar of Fire plain upon the wall, and he said, “Lee, do you see It?”

I said, “No, but I see the man that sees It.” What do I need to see all the rest? Sheee. Come on, brother/sister. Fiddle-de-diddle.

[162]  She should make no signs,… We don’t want any denomination from… mixed trees,… Be true to Christ, the Word. He’ll vindicate It to be true.

What’s this hour we live in? I’m closing now because I know the time’s run out.

Malachi, the… 4th chapter, and it says,

Hey, you know why there’s neither root nor branch? Satan didn’t have a root in heaven like Jesus had. He blew it. He didn’t have the root there, so he’s not going to have it. It’s all burnt up.

Where’s that? The Millennium; further sanctification: you say, “Brother Vayle, what do you mean?” I don’t know what I mean, the prophet said it. Do we always have to have the meaning? Don’t have to have the meaning.

He said, “Further sanctification.” Say, “Praise God, I need it.” I’m going to tell you one thing; I know I am not ready for New Jerusalem. But I can get ready.

I’m not ready to eat a big gallon of ice cream but I could get ready in a hurry if you bring on the right flavors. And I’ll forget my sinuses. They might not forget me but I’ll forget them. I’ve got a marriage. I’m a Word-aholic. True to Christ, He vindicated to be true.

What is he saying here? He said, “The Word for this hour that you’re wrapped in which is immortality, which is an inner vesture, which is a vestment which places you as Bride; He’s not going to fail.”

That’s it. He’s not going to fail. He’s not going to fail. You see why you got to have faith in His faith, not your own? Not even the faith He gave you because hey, look it, all the world out there is claiming the same thing.

And listen, they can talk sovereignty better than you and I ever thought of it. The scholars out there are smart. So, forget it. Just have faith in His faith.

Have faith in His contract with the Father because the Father came down to put the church in order and put everything under His feet, and one day He’s going to raise the dead and change you and me, and He’s going to take us there. And you know why we know it? I talked about it last night on foot-washing.

Because He said, “You call me Lord and Master, you recognize me, so I recognize you, too.” Yes sir, foot-washing is emblematic of the fact that He recognized us and put us right in It and we recognize Him. You see, the sheep hear the Voice and they follow.

Let’s rise and be dismissed.

Heavenly Father, we thank You for what the prophet gave us. It thrills our souls with gigantic waves swirling in upon the dry beaches of our souls. Watering the Seed, giving us joy, giving us exaltation, enlarging happiness, and yet concentrating it right down to an atom that could explode and then reconstruct itself into eternal immortal flesh.

We praise You, God for Your kind love and mercy. Praise You for the Word that You gave through a prophet that cannot be judged. Only God can judge. We know that, just like You judged David. Oh Lord, it’s wonderful to know that You are the Judge.

And it’s wonderful to know that the sheep hear the voice. It’s wonderful to know identification. It’s wonderful to know it’s Word going to Word, and it’s nature going to nature, and it’s all laid out here, and there’s no more mystery left to It.

I know people want some big explosion Lord, some big emotion, some this and that, but You never said she had that. You just said she stayed with her contract, the Word, and “her long hair Nazarite vow.”

Oh God, I believe today there’s a beautiful woman called the Bride because there’s a beautiful man called the Bridegroom. And I believe, Lord God, somehow, I not know somehow… I know that by Your grace You allowed man and woman to type it, and we see the sin out there, women undressing, men undressing, men having long hair, women having short hair, we look out there and we see that, that thing, the milieu of the church which is insidious and rotten and they call it God, completely fooled by the devil.

But we’ve awakened unto righteousness as Paul said, “Awake, thou that sleepest, arise amongst the dead and Christ shall give thee life.” And whatsoever maketh manifest is light and we’ve seen it today that You’re Hebrews 13:8, You’re Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.

You discern thoughts of hearts. You brought all things to light, and to judgment and yet men turn it down but there’s a Bride that doesn’t.

God, I’m identified with that, at least in the understanding, if we are not Bride we are at least then friends of the Bridegroom, and we rejoice with Him as the strongman that ran a race and is now coming to the finish line, to grasp his Bride, and take her away from this hellhole and get her up there in the glories.

And if we’ve got to die in the meantime, Lord, then it’s been a good death and a good race. It’s been a good thing, Lord. Whatsoever the Lord doeth, it is good. And in Him there is no shadow of turning. In Him there is no evil, there is no unrighteousness, Lord, and yet You said at the end time, the opening of those Seals, the righteous would be righteous still.

Oh God, there wouldn’t be a change in that Seed, there wouldn’t be a change anywhere, walk right to the Tree of Life, able to do it Lord, what a wonderful, wonderful thing is here before us. Help your people to realize that.

Lord, don’t let one sick one be amongst us, the prophet prayed that I can follow his example Lord, send Your sweet Spirit amongst us, people get caught up in that Sweet Spirit of Christ, that beautiful life within the Word, not our own lives, and our own judging and all this junk that is so foolish and so insipid, so infantile, but in full maturity know the truth of Melchisedec and these things.

Lord God, Your sweeping power amongst us, gifts as it were on the shelf, not thrown out but as they were on the shelf. Sweet Spirit heal every single one amongst us. No more hiatus hernias in the place, we’ve got a bunch of them here this morning, Lord, that’s not in Your Word.

No sir, that’s a travesty against Your Word. That’s a discrepancy. That’s something the devil is doing, not You Lord. God, You said, You made the mouth to speak, the eyes to see, the ears to hear, then You made the diaphragm to breathe, and not get full of holes and things. I believe it, Lord. And I thank You for it.

Thank You, Lord, for all the other things that You do for us. Above all Lord, You clothed us with Your Word in the inner man, to give us garments of light and white, and to come forth Lord, into the Millennium for further sanctification.

Oh hallelujah, what a… tremendous thought the prophet brought us. I don’t judge it. I just love it. A further sanctification, man, thrills my soul Lord! If I don’t get it, somebody else will. Thou art great and greatly to be praised.

We thank You for Your love and Your mercy in Jesus’ Name. Amen.