Who Is This Melchisedec #01

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we’re very privileged people to be allowed to gather together in freedom, our choice of our thoughts and our actions, Lord, up to a certain degree, in a nation that You had set apart at one time, and we’re still happy to be a part of it, identified with it but, above all, identified, with the Light that has shone in the west—the last light of the last age.

We’re grateful for that, Lord, and we pray that that Light might shine in our hearts and our minds and be the only Light we walk in and the only Light we go by. Let that be what shows us right from wrong, separates all the darkness, Lord, makes us children of the Light and of Life.

Give Your blessing to us this morning, we pray, by the study of Your Word, and may we grow there by It.

In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now in this message, “Who Is This Melchisedec,” as Brother Branham brought to us in 1965—and before we go into reading it word by word and commenting upon it as we usually do, we want to note, first of all, Brother Branham placed the identifying of Melchisedec, or his identification of Melchisedec, as an end time revelation under the Seventh Seal.

Now there is a quote before Page 9, but, the quote I like to use is, I think on Page 9 and paragraph 42. He says:

Notice, like the sculpture, he hides, his work of art by placing a mask over it. That’s what God has done to this age. It’s been hid. All these things has been hid, and are suppose to be revealed in this age. Now, the Bible said they would be revealed in the latter time. It’s like a sculptor keeping his piece of work all covered over until the time he takes the mask off of it and there it is. 

And that’s what the Bible has been. It’s been in there, the Bible, see, hidden. It’s been a work of God that’s been covered up. And It’s been hidden since the foundation of the world, and it’s sevenfold mystery. And God promised in this day, at the age of this Laodicean church, He would take the mask off the whole thing and we could see it.

So, in introducing this message or speaking concerning it, identifying this person; Brother Branham states that this is only found under the Seventh Seal, and definitely is either one or a part of one of the Seven Thunders.

Now the prophet is one hundred percent correct in his assessment concerning Melchisedec as seen by reading the Book of Hebrews; starting there for a background, Hebrews 5:5, and reading to Hebrews 6:14.

Now you will notice that what he says to the First Church Age church, because this is Paul, the messenger to the First Church Age. And though he is speaking to diverse churches, it is still the Word to that age. And he is speaking to them in,

Now you understand in there the thought is that there can and certainly we would believe, will be, must be, a people who will mature to the place where they can handle this. And up until the time that this can be handled, this revelation could not be given, because the things are difficult in here.

Now you’ll notice in verse 11:

So we learn that the subject matter pertaining to Melchisedec is difficult to explain because of their inability to grasp it. They have not progressed to the place in the Word of God Itself from principle to principle, until they reach the status through the understanding of the principles to receive what revelation lies here.

Now you are going to have to accept that, because that’s the Bible truth.

Now, could this teaching be a teaching that Peter referred to in 2 Peter 3:10-17, and Paul has brought in question?

Now that word ‘dissolved’ means; set free from, broken loose from. So now, when you’re broken loose from anything, wherein in the principle of condemnation is set forth, the principle of promise and avenging, which will be exoneration, will set in. Understand what I said? The law of parallelism, blessing and cursing.

Okay.

Now you’re hasting unto it, which means time and eternity have blended at that time. And once you hit eternity it’s just… bluey. You are in an emanation. You are in a radiation particularly using the word ‘radiation’, the day of the acceleration of the ray to where you even have faster vibrations than the speed of light.

In other words you have literally come up with a glorified body. Light travels at what? 186,000 miles per second. Well look, that’s nothing compared to this. See light has to travel; this doesn’t.

In other words, how can I express it? Just like God, all things open to God. God omniscient, God omnipotent. God is where He wants to be. Brother Branham said, “Faster than the speed of thought.” See?

Now you begin to realize this is happening here. Looking to the day that when before they call He answers. God has already anticipated your thought, so therefore, you’re ahead of the thought. That’s deep. I just let it go, because it’s the truth, and who cares?

I’m like my sister-in-law, she says, “I don’t care who owns it, as long as I can use it.” I don’t care whatever God says, as long as I’m a part of it. It’s got to be good! That’s what you’re looking at see.

Now, when does the day come when people can not be wrested? W-r-e-s-t-e-d. Who knows the Chapter? Who knows the Book? What Book? Come on yell it out. Don’t leave me standing up here. I’ve taught you all these years; you still can’t guess? Ephesians. What Chapter? Fourth Chapter.

It says here, “God is giving a ministry, and the ministry will not be able to accomplish it until the last day,” although they have looked forward to it, and it was being done in the measure of acceptability of the hour, of the grace that they had. This is a different story today. It’s running out.

Now:

So, when there’s no more measure, and you’ve come to the place mentioned here, we understand that there will be no wresting of Scripture at the last day. But as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:2.

Let’s go there, 4th chapter, verse 2.

And Paul says, “It’s been proven, I am worthy by vindication and the life I live, for you to listen to me. So, there’ll be no more wresting of it.”

Somebody will come on the scene that positively is so vindicated, he doesn’t make a mistake, and you and I will not make a mistake; and we’re coming right to the place of the Second Coming. Now that’s what we’re looking at here. Do you follow what I said now?

Let’s go back to Hebrews again then, because I’m reading in,

Now we find that they are Pentecostal babies and have not been able to receive the doctrine of the first principles. Brother Branham’s vision said, “You can’t teach Pentecostal babies doctrine.”

As he told the woman when Brother Branham was chided by the great hierarchy, “Why do you keep picking on woman? Why don’t you teach them how to use spiritual gifts?”

And he said, “How can I teach them algebra, when they don’t know their ABC’s?” So you’ve got a Pentecostal condition in the Book of Hebrews.

Now I know for years we thought only the Corinthians were that way; but these people are that way. They are legalists. They haven’t come up from under the law.

And as long as you’re a legalist, you’re going to look for something to do instead of relying on what has been done, so you can take the honey out of it and have the energy out of it. That’s the trouble, see? I won’t have to go any further on that. That’s the truth.

All right now, milk-Word or first principle doctrines aren’t sufficient to give them the true revelation of Melchisedec, nor is it sufficiently foundational. Just can’t work it. Now, is the first principle and the foundation of Hebrews 6:1-2 based on a specific dispensation allowed of God?

Now let’s read here a little further. Everyone’s unskilled. Now verse 14, they’ve got to come of full age in order to discern between good and evil. Now notice, and we’ll just go down into Hebrews 6:1-2.

Now notice, and we’ll just skip that a second and go down into,

Now you can understand here that Paul the apostle must have in mind these people, or somebody, to have the ability to grasp the first principles and then go on, because these people up here didn’t. See? Okay.

Now, so we’re asking the question here that the first principles here: are they sufficient as a foundation? They would be if they had them, but they didn’t have them, so there’s something wrong.

Now, will God then commit to anybody the truth without the correct principles and the correct understanding which will be basic to the understanding of this man Melchisedec, whoever He is, according to what Brother Branham brought us?

Okay, let’s go to Colossians 1:25.

And he said:

Now, from here you will notice that Paul had a dispensation or a stewardship committed unto him, to do a specific thing, and not to do another specific thing. Now the specific thing he had was the dispensation committed unto him of the grace of God in the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But as pertaining to the Resurrection, a dispensation was not committed unto him, because he said, “I want above everything else to be a part of the first Resurrection—to know the power of God in the first Resurrection.” And it wasn’t given unto him.

That’s Ephesians 1:17-23. That Spirit was not given unto him. The Spirit given to him in the Pillar of Fire to give him all the grace and understanding for his hour and the ages to come, was given at that time to him, but it wasn’t given to him to know what was going to happen in this hour, that is, the dispensation or the stewardship of that Gospel.

All right, let’s find out who got it. Let’s go back to,

That was the One that was absolutely in Revelation 5, the One seated on the throne, because the rainbow was round the throne. And you’ll notice He brought His rainbow with Him, though He didn’t bring the throne.

In other words He brought the promise of government, but He didn’t bring it with Him for the government on earth was not yet given to the Bride, only in potential, but the promise was.

So the covenant of the rainbow for the preservation of the saints for the earth, and the saints in condition to have a preservation was brought down by this mighty messenger, God Himself in a Pillar of Fire.

Now that’s simple A-B-C, if you’ve got an ounce of revelation. If you’ve got no revelation, you just pick your nose and go home. That’s all right. Just be careful that you don’t touch the food when you pick your nose. Oh, I’m a tough dirty preacher up here, but I do it on purpose.

I want to rattle your brains this morning. We’re into something, whether we know it or not. See by faith I’m looking to this Book to do something for us. That’s all there is to it.

Now listen:

The Pillar of Fire came down to earth. Now we are built from the feet up. And this is a picture of headship returning to the Bride, not Jesus the man. He wasn’t on the throne at that time. This is the One that was on the throne.

This is Revelation 1:12-13, the Judge. This is God the Judge of all the earth, and the question of the Judge is: “Will You spare the righteous when You destroy the wicked?” That’s the question.

Do you understand what I’m talking about? That’s Hebrews 13:8 you’re looking at. Now this has to do with Melchisedec. I’m backgrounding everything with Melchisedec here. I’m doing it on purpose, showing you that Brother Branham had every right to tell us this was under the Seventh Seal and one of the Thunders or a part of the Thunders; and we’re placing it. See?

Now listen; he’s telling you here now… when you can hear what was sealed up. These aren’t in apposition. This is where it is stopped, and he tells you how it is going to begin again. See?

Now the One that came down, also with the voice of the lion, told Paul, “You can’t write certain things,” and told John, “You can’t write certain things.”

So when the same One comes down, as it were with the voice of the lion, He has the thunders which opened the Books He sealed up, because you are looking down the road two thousand years from the time It says, “Seal it.”

That’s the same One that was in the presence of Abraham, because God swore by Himself, swearing by no greater. So that when God swearing by Himself.

In other words, vindicating Himself upon His Own promise, and vindicating Himself in the promise, so that both God and the promise are vindicated. What more do you want?

I don’t understand people. They’re twice dead spiritually, and they’re already rotting because of AIDS. By the year two thousand, over three hundred and fifty million Americans will have AIDS. See? We’re getting pretty close for something. See?

That’s the literal translation. Never mind this here one in the King James, because it’s not right. Oh, it’s right, but not really right, because you can’t understand it. You don’t know what he’s saying.

Now he said, “At that time the Gospel is going to run out.” Remember, the Jews never did have the Gospel, really. So this is to the Gentiles.

All right, now let’s go back to the Book of Hebrews again. And It says here:

Now verse 14.

So there’s going to come a time when there’ll be a people that are strong enough to take it. I’ve already thrown a tough one at you already to see if you’ve got the guts to take it spiritually speaking. I’ve already said that Melchisedec must have had a city on the earth.

He had a retinue; He had soldiers. You stumble to think for one minute that God Himself was in that form and that God had a retinue of angels, and everybody looked like men, and Abraham came by—and acted like He was a man. If you can’t see that that’s a picture of the Millennium.

Look, you don’t belong here. Go on home please. Do yourself a favor. You know why? Because the day will come when you are going to get so condemned, you can’t take it.

How are you going to stand in the presence of God, the great Creator in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ, a human body up there at the Wedding Supper, because that’s going to be so totally strange it’s to be pitiful.

Remember, He said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways for as high as the heavens above the earth.” Say, “I’m so different from you.”

He said, “Did you think I was a man like you?” We’re not limited anymore, my brother/sister, by senses and sensibilities. Who wants to be sensible? What has it got you for being sensible?

All right, listen.

Now, strong, or full revelation belongs to those of full age and we saw that in Ephesians, or truly mature and can judge between good and evil–which is evidently taken from the book of Malachi, chapter three, verse 16.

People can’t do that today, because it’s a Word-based doctrine and principle of Cain and Abel. And I’ve preached that, and out of that comes everything, or I want nothing, or God’s Word lied, and He had a vindicated prophet as the biggest liar of all, because He said, “One Word off.”

And it doesn’t matter what you’ve done, because you’ve done the one thing you shouldn’t have done. See? And the whole things shot. Eve had one little miserable word. That’s all: the word ‘not’.

But the devil came along with his little greenery, and he said, “Surely, surely not?” Then he began to argue, and people argue about this. Is this an end time revelation? Well the prophet said it was, and I’m showing you by the Word of God it certainly can be.

You might not believe it. Or people that might hear my voice out there on tapes, they might not believe it; but I care less.

And he goes on to say:

It’s not that they weren’t already there. Your bodies and mine were already in the ground, just waiting for the touch of life in the proper manner to bring us out. So this… Just waiting for the right time, for the life to pick everything up. We’re looking at it this morning here. See?

Now let’s go back to Hebrews again, and remember Hebrews 4 precedes Hebrews 5, and in there It says in 12th verse:

Now that’s what It says it is. But listen, who says when it’ll do it? Now think it over. Think it over. You might not take this as a strict principle.

You may say, “Well bless God, the Word does that, and the preacher gets up, and he preaches it, and don’t you know It really discerns hearts?”

Who said that’s all there is to it? What if it’s the Logos come down and does it? What if every Scripture has compound meanings? What if you miss the meaning for your hour? I’m not taking the chance.

Let me ask you something here: when was this ever proven? Paul said he had a proven ministry. Try to prove this. Let the Word of God discern. Have three thousand people here, and Billy Graham gets up to preach and fifty people come forth. And they say, “Hallelujah there’s the picture, bless God.

The God Word discerns. Yes It does; Amen—look what happened.” I’d say hogwash. I can take fifty thousand bills with the old Raj Nishi, a whoremonger, stupid, heathen, and his word will bring out ten thousand. Pbbbt! Hogwash for your stupid ideas. Let’s see it work.

And “the whom we have to do” tells you right here that it’s going to be done amongst us; because if God does this in Heaven, who gives a rip. I’m not interested in pie in the sky. You can have it.

If I can’t have a ham sandwich down here, don’t tell me God’s giving me roast turkey beyond the river. Brother/sister, I’m a skeptic when it comes to high faluting theories and ideas.

Let me tell you this, the Apostle Paul must have proved this. “Well Paul you sure sound good, but let’s see you do it.” And William Branham said, “I challenge you. Bring me twenty-four of your worse cases; I guarantee every single one.”

He said, “I challenge you.” You couldn’t hide if you tried. His eyes dart back and forth.

I wish you’d been with me in my position, when he tried me right through the middle, looped a whole through me back and forth and you knew you couldn’t hide if you tried. The beady eyes maybe looking at me this morning.

I don’t mean to be mean to you. I’m not preaching to you as a people. I don’t care two bits what you do. Go on home and do anything you want.

I preach the Word of God, because it’s the only way I know to get my food and my thrill, and it becomes a double testimony from God to the prophet to me to preach it to you the way I preach, because I know what I’m talking about.

And if I don’t have it, I’ll stand in judgment, and the greater judgment, because I know more than most people do. Not boasting, just telling you: I know what the prophet said. I’ve been with him.

There’s your picture right here. Now let me ask you a question: when is there a people that can stand scrutiny? Only at the end time, because the Bible says so.

You say, “Brother Vayle, they’ve always had scrutiny.” Not on this they haven’t had, because this, the doctrine, is under the Seals. When a man adds and a man takes, it’s finished.

You’re right back to the same old principle of the Garden of Eden. What are you going to do about it? Do you want immortality or don’t you want immortality? If you want it, you don’t add a word, and you don’t take a word.

If you want to fool around and live the rest of your life in the Lake of Fire until you’re annihilated, that’s your privilege. See what I’m saying? Repeat. That’s all there is to it.

Now I want you to notice that actually, Hebrews 5:11-14, and Hebrews 6:1-12 is an interpolation so that you can read from Hebrews 5:10, and skip entirely down to Hebrews 6:13, and you won’t miss one beat. It’s an interpolation.

Exactly the way Revelations 10:1-7 is. There’s no difference. Let’s read It beginning in Chapter 5, then, starting at verse 5.

Let’s read it beginning in the 5th chapter then, starting at verse 5.

Now remember, that’s said as Jesus came out of the grave. He wasn’t talking to a boy that’s just begotten. ‘Begotten’ means ‘to be started in life’. To beget a child is the day of conception.

So this is from the earth. Begotten again from amongst the dead is what this is. As He also said in another place, “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.”

Now, you’ll notice in there that if He said, “This day have I begotten thee,” He also has to say, “This day You’re a priest after the order of Melchisedec.” In other words there’s two salutations. See?

And then It says in verse 10.

Now watch; verse 13.

Now what he says right here, where God swore by Himself and by His Own immutable Word has to do with Melchisedec. Doesn’t do with anybody else.

And then He said, “For this Melchisedec tells you why what we read above here obtains.” Say, “Well what is all this about Melchisedec have to do with the above Scriptures?”

Well, read It.

So now we have a history of Melchisedec being linked into a priesthood and with a destiny of people. Now… see how far do I want to go down here? Well we’ll keep reading a bit more.

Well I can tell you why. In the first place, the Melchisedec is the original priesthood, and the Aaronic is super imposed. And the law after four hundred years could not annul the promise. So how could the law ever annul this priesthood? Yet Christ had to become an Aaronic priest by the presentation of blood.

So all right. Levi is in the loins of Abraham. Where do you think Jesus was according to the flesh? In the loins of Abraham too, because Judah was in the same loins. Read the genealogy of Jesus. And we get a lot of deep teaching here, which I’m not prepared to follow up, because I’m not that smart.

When Brother Branham comes back, you can ask him to do it. I’m sure he’d be glad to. Jesus came back, and He preached concerning the things of the Kingdom—answered their questions.

Now, what Brother Branham will do when he gets back, I don’t know, except I think he would be happy to answer a lot of these things. He’ll answer a lot of questions by just being here. You won’t see him, unless you’re elect. I don’t think you’ll see him otherwise.

Now:

Now It tells you some things about Melchisedec, and then in the interpolation It says, “There are things I cannot tell you. They are far too deep. I can’t explain them. You can’t get them at this time. I’ll hit them loosely, and I’ll leave It until the dispensation of the Gospel is committed to somebody else.”

Now that we see this, we must return to,

Now he tells you these people up here couldn’t even apprehend it. Down here there’s a people who can apprehend it, but it does not take in the revelation and understanding of Melchisedec. They haven’t got what it takes. See?

That’s the law of the parallelism of Scripture, the blessing and the cursing—Ebal and Gerizim. And he said, “Though I speak thus, you don’t need to worry, because you don’t belong to the burning class.” Why should we worry? Do you think for one minute the wheat out there worries about the tares? I see the tares trying to take over.

I’ve been ripping up the weeds every now and then out back of our place out there, and you should see some of the roots. They’re this long.

Not the plants, the good plants, you’re going to eat. No; the tares. “Neither root nor branch.” I like that, bless God. I like to put poison on weeds. “Leaving neither root nor branch.” That’s what God’s going to do. He’s smarter than we are. He’s got it all figured out.

In other words there’s no such thing as full assurance—a full understanding—until the very end. He tells you this right here. He said, “You can’t take it, but don’t be too alarmed about it, because,” he said, “You can be sitting there as foolish virgin, as well as wise virgin.” Sure, there’s something here in the Word of God.

Now It says here:

All right now, verses 1-3 and especially verse 1:

So I say, therefore, in verses 1-3, especially verse 1, must be seen in contradistinction to,

Now that is said in one, in contradistinction to eleven of chapter five. Do you see what I’m telling you? Don’t just read your Bible and read through as though it’s a hunk of wood. You’ve got a chronology here. One time you can’t because you’re the wrong people, the next time you can because you’re the right people.

God never put hair on the baby’s feet. You’re looking at something out of the cartoon Popeye. God puts hair on the baby’s head. So you’re looking at the time of the head. To what belongs to the head like hair, ears, eyes and nose and all, is what you get at the end time.

Not as though they weren’t already there, as Brother Branham said, “You Lutherans potentially had the Holy Ghost.”

Don’t tell me Luther wasn’t full of the Holy Ghost or I don’t know the Bible, I asked Brother Branham about that. Surely God, he didn’t misunderstand me. So I read the last chapter of the Church Age Book as written.

Maybe it went over people’s heads; I can’t help that. Wesley must have had the Holy Ghost. They had the measure for their day. But he said, “Luther looked for the Pillar of Fire.” That’s the clue!

Because that is the Holy Ghost. They looked for a return to headship. We’ve got it. That’s what you’re looking at in the form of the Holy Ghost in the Pillar of Fire.

So therefore I want you to notice here, that verse 1;

And then he names it. “Up here,” he said, “you haven’t got a chance.” Do you follow what I’m saying? There’s a time lapse of two thousand years, and two different groups of people, and somebody’s got to have it. There’s only one time you come to full stature, and that’s in age seven.

So this is the message of the Seventh Church Age. That’s why it’s hard to understand, and people wrest it to their destruction. They put it every place, but where it belongs. Larken brought that out.

Don’t misplace Scripture; don’t wrest it; don’t put it in the wrong time slot. Brother Branham came right behind him and said the same thing. He said, “Yes sir, Larken’s right. Now I’ll prove it how it’s right.” And he vindicated it. So we’re in the right time slot.

And Paul said, “We’ll do this if God permit it.” How could God permit to put hair on the baby’s feet? God is not stupid. “First thing a baby forms is the spine,” Brother Branham said.

In other words you’ve got a network right there for every single thing. But at the end time the baby develops the neck. That’s all it does, because the head always belonged to God and always will. So God didn’t put the Adam’s apple down there on the ankles, or the voice box down there on your big toe.

Well He’s not going to do this either, because you’re building the stature of a man. The days of Nebuchadnezzar, from the head down to the feet, and this is from the feet up. And there’s where Jesus took His place, was with the feet.

And the first time with Paul, He was the corner stone. Now He’s the headstone. So therefore, now, if this is the hour, God must permit the revelation, whatever it is, and what ever it’s suppose to do, and I’m hanging in there with you depending on God and the prophet to tell us what it’s all about.

Then he turns right around now, notice, the advance to perfection, which Paul desires, has already been revealed to us, to a Corinthian church in the same condition that the Hebrews are in.

A tongues-talking bunch of Pentecostal babies. I’m not against the tongues; it’s just the baby part I’m against. That’s all. Notice in,

Now It tells you right there that there will be no more parts, because there’s no more parts to come. When the completion is there, there’ll be nothing veiled. Then don’t tell me that God will have a veiled people. Why should God unveil anything to a bunch of blind people or veiled people?

2 Corinthians. Let’s take a peek at It. We see more and more of the truth here. I love the Lord. Don’t you love the Lord? I get so happy up here. I’m having a great time, and I lay it on to you guys, and I feel dirty about it.

I feel mean, because I’m having such a good time, and I don’t know if you’re having the same good time I’m having, and I’ve got a kind of whip you around to see if you’re getting it, because you’re a little too Pentecostal.

You’re too scared to talk out at times. Don’t be afraid to risk your neck, if I call for a Chapter. At least you’re thinking; bless God. This way I don’t know if you’re quite comatosed or not. Whether you’re believing, disbelieving? Join the crowd. I’ve got a lot of questions unanswered. Oh boy. You better believe it. I’m looking at Godhead. I’m sorry.

Now he says here in 2 Corinthians 3. It talks about the veil on the heart and the mind.

Now there comes a time, like Israel, the church turns a hundred percent away from the Lord, but there is a Bride that turns to the Lord. There’s the Bride that comes out and meets Him. That’s right, that’s the Bible. And there’s a wedding supper. So therefore, this is the time.

He tells you, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit on my right hand.’” That’s the Holy Ghost talking to Jesus. This is not Jesus. This is the Lord Who is Spirit. Jesus, the man, is not spirit. Oh God he’s more… Oh listen, he’s so physical he makes this physicality look like nothing.

So what does It say, “The Lord at this time is spirit.” That’s God the Holy Ghost. And when the Spirit of the Lord, and the same Spirit that was in our Lord Jesus Christ, comes here, you’re loosed.

What is it? It’s the loosing image. The dissolution image. The untying by the Spirit of God. The same thing that’s going to dissolve the earth and loose it.

Now what does Paul say?

Paul didn’t pull his punches. Brother Branham stood there like a little old person, little tiny guy up there, and he wouldn’t pull his punches, if you came and mowed him down with a Howitzer. He just stood there. Why?

“Who’s William Branham?” You might as well say the next thing, “Who’s Lee Vayle?” Because I dare to stand up here and count myself one of his best friends to preach exactly what he preached, and I’m not vindicated.

I don’t need any vindication. If I need vindication, then you need vindication. And you know what I’ll do? I’ll hire the biggest toughest guy to come and bang you all in the head with a four-by-four.

Then I’m vindicated, and you’re assassinated. Do you see what I’m telling you? Oh come on, when a thing is vindicated, you forget everything but just what the man brought because of his vindication. So It tells you right here; see what we’re dealing in.

Okay. That perfection is come. And Brother Branham said, What is perfection? He said, We believe by the grace of God we have the perfectly revealed Word for this hour.

And what is that? That’s Revelation 10:7, which goes over to Revelation 22:10, the opening of the Seals. See?

Now, let’s go back again to,

Now listen, that is absolutely,

And remember, fear His Name, how? When a prophet comes to you in the Name of the Lord, and he tells you, the thing comes to pass, and you believe it, you become a part of him. But when you turn it down you will burn. People don’t like that.

But it’s always been a prophet that had to do it. Jesus Christ was a prophet. Never forget my brother/sister, we’ve preached it time after time, that we have missed it.

Everybody wants to say, “Son of God, nice man, great man, this that.”

Prophet! That’s exactly what He was, and always will be and that made Him the Judge. Yes sir! The Word of God made flesh. People don’t want to believe that.

They want to believe, “Nice little Son of God, nice little man, nice little Savior, nice this.” Oh listen, I want to tell you, that’s a lie from the pit of hell. He’s no more that than God’s some foggy old grandfather.

Brother Branham said, “Dotty old grandfather.” We’ve got to understand that, because listen, that’s where our salvation lies.

Now listen, this one comes to the church, a Laodicean, Nicolaitan church in Revelation 3. Look at their condition. It is the most horrible rotten condition. Not one good thing said about it. Every other church has something good said about it, but not this bunch.

And he says here,

You know what, what do you think a man coming to a woman he’s going to marry, and she is wretched, miserable, blind and naked to every single thing that he stands for and what he wants in her, and she comes to the door, you know, and she’s like this, you know, hair all down?

You’d say, “You make me ouggh, puke.”

They don’t even need to get that bad, before I want to throw up. It’s just exactly… I’m not going to say it, because it’s a joke that Phyllis Diller paid a hundred dollars for. So I might as well tell you.

She said, “She came home with rice in her hair one day, and they said, ‘Have you been to a wedding?’“ She said, “No, a china man took one look at me and puked all over me.” He threw up. True.

I’ve got one bad habit. I don’t want to make the pulpit a place to joke in, but I have a way of teaching, sometimes it’s not too nice. I’m going to tell you, Jesus said here, “I took one look, and I wanted to vomit.”

“So I can’t believe that lovely sweet Bride,” said Duplessis at the west coast: “That great judger of people… He got judged himself. He got smeared across the road.”

“Oh those sweet Christians.”

What sweet Christians? Short haired, slack wearing, bobby shorts wearing, God knows what prostitute and woman preacher; the women out there—those who laugh in a prophet’s face. I don’t know how Brother Branham took it. I don’t know how he took it.

He said, “I want to vomit.” He said, “I’m going to vomit, too.”

Now He says, “Look, I’ve got a Word for you just the same.”

They’ve got one chance to do it under the dynamic outflowing of the Spirit of Almighty God, where every man and woman under God’s high Heaven can be anointed by the Holy Ghost and receive, if they want to, something from God; and they turn it down flat.

Now listen, this has to be the same as Hebrews 12, because it’s in the Book of Hebrews. What is he talking about here? Talking about a people who could not understand Melchisedec. Talking about a people that couldn’t understand the deep things of Almighty God.

Now he comes here in Hebrews 12, he’s ready to close off, and he says here after dealing with the fornicators like Esau; all the profane persons, all those that turned back on Christ having held up a few of the wonderful saints of God in the chapter of faith.

He says here in,

That’s what they did in Hebrews 6. They didn’t want It. They turned it down. Same as in Moses’ day and Christ’s day.

Listen, that’s not something on earth. That’s the one that’s going to come down. In other words It’s here in a dimension, in a figure. You’ve come right up to It, because the Owner, and Creator, the Head, the Pillar of Fire, is already here. Then how far away is He sitting? It’s right with us. It’s in the midst of us.

Who’s he talking about? The Pillar of Fire, the Judge, the Voice from Mount—from Jerusalem. Listen, “Before they call, He answers.” And He proved it to this day.

When did we call for Elijah? When did we call for the Appearing, as supposed to be the Appearing? When did we call for Him? We didn’t. He said, “I’m found of them that sought me not.”

That’s the dissolution spoken of by Peter and as Brother Branham said in the spiritual, “manmade religion.” It’s going to shake the boots right off the people, when that gets shaken down, and they find they’ re sitting here, and the Great Tribulation is on them.

They say, “Well, you told us we were going to make the Rapture. You told us we had the Holy Ghost. Where did you preachers make your mistake? What have you got? Nothing!”

They’re going to take them right into the great whore, brother/sister. Yes.

You know what they’ll be prostitutes to? A priesthood. A stinking, rotten, carnal, filthy, miserable, God hated, Satan spawned priesthood.

And you’ll get the love of Satan, and the love of Satan that seduced Eve and take her right away from the good things of God. Put her in a place of torment and thousands of generations down the road.

Then he’s got the guts to sit in the Lake of Fire and scream, “Well I got you here. You can be with me now.” You’ve seen enough murder, raping, and everything else in this age to know what I’m talking about, to know it’s no good to serve the devil, brother/sister. It’s no good to turn away from the Word of God.

He said:

Now, what is he talking about all this time? He’s been talking about Melchisedec. Who is Melchisedec? What is there at the end time that we need to know?

This is Ephesians 1:17-23 when the Spirit of God comes into the church. This is Acts 3:19 when Elijah comes on the scene and brings forth all the Word of God.

This is also in context of Luke 17:20-30, the Kingdom being on earth and not even recognized. The Son of man appearing, the Bride being separated and finally taken out of this world.

And Luke 17:30, by the way, goes plum over to Luke 18, because there’s no chapter. God doesn’t deal in chapters. That’s man.

And in verse 8, the last part.

In other words, at the time of the appearing of the Son of man, will there be a true understanding of the Word of God? And the answer is, “No.”

But God will bring the faith of the people back to the fathers, and there will be a true understanding of all the precepts, which we find in the first three ages, Luther… I mean the last five, six, and seven; Luther, Wesley, Pentecost and then the seventh church age messenger coming with the full Word of God.

Now then, let us extend our knowledge about the order of Melchisedec. Not just so much about Melchisedec Himself; let’s look at the order. I read it to you in Hebrews 7:17. Now I hope you’re following, because all this is vitally necessary.

See? Now he doesn’t say, “You are Melchisedec.” He says, “You’re a priest after the order of Melchisedec.” So there must be a Melchisedec and a priesthood. See? That belongs to that order.

Okay, where is this quote taken from? It is taken from Psalms 110. So let’s go back to,

Now It tells you right there, brother/sister, that God is going to do something for somebody that’s after the order of Melchisedec, and it’s going to be a time of blessing and cursing. Right? Look at it.

Okay? Hold your finger there, and let’s go back to Hebrews. We go to Hebrews 1:13.

Well, my goodness where is that anyway? Well you can leave your finger mark there, and you can just swing right on back to 1 Corinthians 15:20. I think we’ll find something there very interesting.

And the 20th verse.

All right, now he says, “Sit at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” In other words he said, “Sit here until I get up and go down and settle their hash. Now I’m going to leave you here.”

The second verse says:

Who’s the rod of the strength of Jesus? God is. Who is going to rule in the midst of the enemy? God is, because He’s got a job: put everything under the feet of Jesus.

Now he said:

Here comes the…

Now remember, Melchisedec sat on the throne as King, and Jesus was merely on the right hand until a certain time came, when the Father got off the throne, and the Son climbed on it.

Now this One that says:

You see right there now it’s coming back at the great… not the White Throne now, but coming back on the rider, the white horse.

Okay now, let’s go over here to,

So It tells you, there’s two sitting down. There’s one sitting down, as Brother Branham said, “Behind the throne on the white throne as a mediator, but there’s another sitting down now.”

Let’s look at it: already told you about it. It’s in,

He has moved from the mercy seat to the Throne. Now God is putting everything in His order. Okay, what you see here then is an established order of a priesthood. Now, where did this priesthood come from?

It came from,

All right, now, we read all about it, this very thing here, taken over to,

But it’s not. And remember Jesus was the Levitical priest who presented the blood, because remember, Melchisedec does not present blood. He presents the emblems.

And remember, we drink anew of the emblems in the Kingdom of God. The blood has been shed, period. It’s redeeming work goes on and on.

You tell me, brother/sister, that Brother Branham could open those Seals and perfection come without the Pillar of Fire, without God coming down here and the Lamb taking the Throne? No way! No way!

1963 with the opening of the Seals could not come until the right time, and when it did, the One on the throne came down here; same as in Revelation 1, the Judge, God Himself, Elohim, the Judge of all the earth under Sodom conditions—came right down—opened the Seals.

And Brother Branham said, “The Lamb took the book from off the One that sat on the throne. Ripped the Seals off the book, gave it back at the One who sat on the throne and climbed on the Father’s throne.”

He wasn’t there before. Where’s God? Right here. What’s He doing? Bringing everything into subjection. Bringing on a church order, my brother/sister.

The world knows nothing of church order in Brother Branham’s ministry, except those people that caught the understanding.

But he was in the loins of Abraham when he paid tithes also.

So who was Melchisedec? One with an endless life. That means no beginning, no ending; and the son had to have the same thing.

And we’re suppose to draw nigh to New Jerusalem, to God, and you can only do it on the grounds of Melchisedec. See? You can’t do it on the Aaronic priesthood. It won’t work.

See, Christ fulfilled the letter of the law under Aaron. See? He was the sacrificial Lamb, but also he could present his own blood. But you don’t have to worry about that anymore. See?

Now, 11-17, we read the same thing over here in Revelation 3. Read It again. And we’re just going to be finished in perfect time to start next Saturday night. Okay, and he said here:

Now It tells you right there, “Therefore you be sure that you hear the one from Heaven that is speaking to you, because you’re approaching now unto the Holy City.” Who’s going to make it?

Don’t you see what Brother Branham said, “There’s nothing outside this Message come to life.” And this message identifies you as whether you are habited by the Holy City or not.

Listen, don’t you worry, what anybody says. We at least have got some vindication, and if we’re going to go to hell, we’ll go to hell at least with bells on. Yes. Yes. Because we know there was something out there speaking back to Brother Branham.

What have they got? Nothing! But their Jimmy Swaggarts, and their Bakkers. The Assemblies of God by gifts and franchising, or unfrocking.

The great Mister Swaggart hasn’t done one thing to the Assemblies of God as though they are now righteous, because they’ve got the same junk in them that brought forth the Swaggarts and the Bakkers.

A crocodile brings forth crocodiles. And bastards last for ten generations. Didn’t like that, did you? Let’s like it. There isn’t any hope for Pentecostals, Baptist, Methodist, the whole bunch.

Only body got any hope, as far as I’m concerned, is we’ve got a little bit of vindication. And in this world nobody’s proved anything, because nobody’s come back that we know of.

I can understand brethren wanting Brother Branham back even more than looking upon Christ the way they do, because they know until he gets back, there isn’t anything proved no how.

But you know, I believe it’s already been proved, and I believe that Jesus appeared, William Branham is going to appear out of the dust, and I believe I’m going to appear with him.

I can’t believe for one instant, for one minute, that I can so perfectly see this Message that he preached in this Word, under every single solitary condition and show you people that, that there’s any chance that I’m going to miss it, because it’s not by Lee Vayle doing anything or having anything. It’s because God showed it.

There’s something in us that believes it. All right.

“Receive the priest after the order of Melchisedec.” But we asked a question as Brother Branham, “Who is this Melchisedec? Who is Melchisedec Himself.” And this is what this sermon is all about.

And with the answer to that question, which has to come under the Seven Seals, which is part of the Seven Thunders, if not one of the Seven Thunders, we hope by the message that Brother Branham brought us, and we’re going to study word by word, to find the necessity for such an answer under that Seventh Seal and what it is going to do for us, and I’ve backgrounded it. You’ve got a lot of stuff to go over. You go over it.

Now we have a unique way of teaching the Word of God here, you won’t get it in the books. It’s taken from the prophet, and I believe it’s inspired by the same living God that inspired the prophet. We in our measure, as he had his measure.

And I’m going to tell you, brother/sister, I don’t care what anybody says, but until the day of Noah, there was a pure line of pure people, and they got smaller and smaller, until just one person left.

And there are pure believers somewhere in this world, and the trickle will get smaller and smaller, until the last one is brought in and child trained. But it doesn’t matter how small the numbers are.

They’re going to make it all the way to the Holy City and sit under the eternal Light of Almighty God. We’re on our way, brother/sister.

Peter said, and Paul said, “Hey, you’re already there. You just don’t realize it, because the day after tomorrow, with hardly three minutes left in this day… hardly three minutes left in this day. The day after tomorrow, twenty-four hours, you’ll be climbing the beautiful steps, the terraces of New Jerusalem.”

What manner of people we ought to be? That’s what I say if you believe this Word. Now listen, there’s something wrong somewhere; if we all believe this Word as I’ve tried for six or seven years, there should be a love and a power in this church that is missing today, because some of you are still skeptical.

Now if I’m in your way, you’ve got a vote, you get me out of here. If you’re getting in somebody else’s way, you better repent and get your heart wide open for the truth. I speak rough at times, but God is my Judge. I’ve got to tell you.

I went more quickly, I’ll be speaking on the spirit of the promises, show you where we must come in. You say, “Brother Vayle, is it changed.”

I’ll tell you today, no boast, no pride, no nothing. I’m a changed person from what I was a few years ago. It didn’t take sickness to do it, that helped a little bit.

My sickness always helped me because then I relax. The only time I can relax is when I get so sick I can’t do anything else but just sleep and relax. But I tell you, this Word is doing something. It’s got to be, brother/sister.

Brother Branham said, “If we’re not Bride… [now listen carefully] there’s a Bride out there somewhere and by the grace of God I won’t stand in her way.”

Questions, questions, questions. It’s no longer a question, it’s answers, answers, answers.

I no longer have a bill to pay, Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe, sin left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow and the blood of Jesus Christ scattered sin until there be no evidence.

Then how can I be called a sinner? How can I be judged and put aside as Paul said, “Who dares condemn me?”

When he said by the voice of his prophet and he was vindicated. I believe those clouds, I believe that Pillar of Fire.

He said, “You are the righteous, virgin Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. You didn’t even do it.” The price of that is one thing, brother/sister–faith. Only believe all things are possible, only believe.

Can you believe this is White Throne? You’ve already passed it. Can you believe twenty‑four hours and three minutes, you’ll be walking those streets of glory? Three minutes to go for all I know, shaking hands with Brother Branham and the saints that come out of the ground.

A breath going over a people and be changed. Nothing else is worthwhile. Now if I die tomorrow, and I go to hell, I still believe I’ve told you the truth.

Let’s rise and be dismissed.

Gracious, Heavenly Father, again we thank and praise You for Your love, Your mercy, and grace which has been bestowed upon us in this hour. And we know Lord God that without You none of us should stand.

There isn’t any of us could do it, and only because of Your foreknowledge are we amongst those who do stand, if indeed we do stand. But with thoughts of grace, as the prophet said that one time, “I take my place with you people, believing you’re Bride.” And of course we take our place with him, believing he’s Bride.

This morning God, give us a church that doesn’t want to cow-tow and doesn’t want to defer, that doesn’t want to be sickly, that doesn’t want to be lukewarm and pukish, but give us a church that does know how to understand the truth of a church order, the power of Almighty God, God Himself in the midst and this Word Lord, and enter in, then Lord, to those graces that can come by the Word of the living God that has been nurtured in us.

Because Father, we, at least I am—I can’t speak for anybody else—but Lord God, I am sick and tired of all the disgraces that lie within us by the wrong Word that we inherited from our ancestress, Eve, who has been known even by science to be the mother of all.

Father, that mix up in our flesh, that mix up in our genes, all those things in the physical cause such a problem to the little sheep even, that they many times act like wolves. To see Elisha come out and get so mad at little kids he could curse them and a bear come out and kill them.

Maybe they deserved it? I don’t know but looked like he wanted to act like White Throne, look like we do too many times, Lord. There’s just too much in us that shouldn’t be there, Father.

Help us O God, to get rid of that old soulish nature, thoroughly annihilate it, absolutely burnt out by the Power of the Holy Ghost, until Lord every sensibility lies within Your Word comes forth with a pure love unfeigned. Without dissimulation, loving the brethren. Walking upright Lord and knowing there’s no, “God bless you brother, I love you,” one arm there’s a hug, the next there’s a knife, Lord.

Father help us to get rid of all this junk that’s amongst us and in us Lord, and I would suppose that every individual here has got his problems, her problems, Lord. In fact, I would know it.

Father as we’re looking to that great day and seeing the power of the Word being fulfilled, and Lord may Your Word be fulfilled in us in the Name of Jesus Christ, our God, until Father God in Heaven we have a pure Spirit and a pure nature, and by understanding Your Word Lord, Your Word living in us.

If it doesn’t live in us Lord then it really doesn’t matter, does it? So Father, right back again to the great cry of our hearts, restore Your Word within us O God, breath upon It Lord, and let It be a Word to delineated life of Word, life that comes forth.

And unto Thee we shall give You the praise, because we ask it in Jesus Name. Amen.

The Lord bless you.

“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”

[Brother Vayle continues with Communion.]