Omega Reflection #03

Let’s bow our heads in prayer.

Heavenly Father, we come to You this morning, very grateful for Your loving kindness, Your consideration toward us, that we are the flock of Your pasture, the sheep of Your hand, Lord, we’re engraved upon Thy own hands, carried in Thy bosom, having been known eternally, and we’re so grateful for that.

And what therefore man can do against us, or anything whatsoever is nothing, for we’re persuaded, Lord this morning of Your goodness, and our oneness with Thee which is very, very unique. We’re grateful, for that, Lord.

Help us this morning, as never before to realize that, and be very grateful for Your graciousness on our part.

In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, I’m going to try to take the message as easy as I can this morning. And try to keep my voice down, keep my strength up.

I’m kind of like Job on the ash heap this morning, I’d sooner be sitting down, much more sooner be home in bed.

But, you’ve got to get up anyway, so I might as well get up and go to work. So, that’s what we’re going to do this morning.

And I hope you won’t be disgusted with me, but, I’m going to keep looking at 2 Corinthians 3:4, for this reason.

I’ve already preached this message in three different places outside of this church. And I’ll be preaching it in several more places. I don’t get tired of it. Because, I’m always learning from it. I’m always seeing what I haven’t previously seen.

And it would be nice if we could have something worked out, where this was like I had hoped, that to preach a sermon on Sunday, discuss it on Wednesday, come together on Friday, and then pick it to pieces.

In other words, you’re welcome to ask questions, and I was even going to ask you to re-shuffle yourselves this morning, but I won’t. Putting all the adults up front so that if you wanted to ask me some questions, I don’t mind.

See, when you teach, you can just sort of take a lot of liberties. And I take a lot of liberties. And you know that, you know, so I don’t mind you taking yours.

So, let’s go into the Scripture, and just see what we see this morning. And I’ll try to cut some sections down. But, I have one awful time for this reason.

See, I’ve always been able to walk into a building, and literally see everything at one shot. And I used to practice to walk out, and know where everything was at that one shot. Now, that’s the way Scripture is.

I’ll see so many things at one time, in one Word, or one verse. That, if I bug you, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to bug you. I don’t mean it, you know, to take a handful of buckshot, or you know, a pump gun or something. I don’t mean that.

It isn’t what I mean, I can’t help it. See? I think I was born to eat like a dog. I eat fast, a lot, and in big gulps, and nobody can figure how I taste it.

Well, I’ve got news for you. I can… not that I burp afterwards… that’s like cucumbers… but, when it gets down so fast, it tastes good going down. And I still seem to taste it all through my whole system.

I’m inviting you to the party. So, you just have to try to relax with me, and try to feel good about this. Because… look there’s volumes in just one verse sometimes. Now. Paul says here in this in chapter 3…

Oh hey, before we go any further; I want to mention that Brother Gunther, because he has been anxious over a period of time, to get the burden of a camp meeting off of himself.

Because of our dates which we could not help. Because, many people had planned this for a year ahead.

He’s closed his meeting, and there’s going to be I guess, a large number of people coming in, so some of you liked the thought of going over Saturday night, or Friday, and staying a couple of nights. I think it might be good to get a reservation.

I understand there could be as many as five hundred. I hope there’s only sixty, myself. Because look, I’m not asking for a big crowd, but if that’s what God wants, He wants hundreds.

I want you to pray with me, maybe sometime in the future, we can get together and have some prayer meetings in some homes, where we just seek God for the meeting. Because, look, it will be difficult.

And I’ve only one thing I’ve got in my mind, can something to be said to help the people. That’s all. Look, so much has been said, so much has been done. That it’s just something now some little thing, that just may help somebody.

You know, Brother Branham said under the Seals, “There would be the faith to the going away in the Rapture.” Either he lied, or, he didn’t lie.

See, you’ve got to begin to take things ‘by the horns’ as it were. Get ahold of the horns of the altar. And stand with it, no matter, what happens.

Let me tell you, it’s happening brother/sister. Look, I could be deluded, I could stand here this morning as a fanatic, or fool, deluded, devil possessed. I could be all those things. I’ve never pulled my punches, I’ve never stood up here and lied to you.

And I don’t intend to do it now. But, I know something is happening. Something’s happened, where never in my life has it been as today. Never been. You say, “Well, I don’t see it.” Who said you had to see it?

This is between me and God, and, I don’t invite you to my bedroom to see my love life with my wife. I don’t go to your bedroom. This is a love affair with Jesus Christ, by the Holy Ghost.

And the prophet said it is veiled from everybody, but those that are in the Bride. I’m not emotional just for the sake of being emotional. I’m a hardboiled Canadian that has always been so conservative.

Emotion doesn’t go very far with me. Except in one way, anger. I blow my stack and then, that’s it. This is different. This isn’t the realm you’ve got out here.

Looks like it’s pitch dark, but, it’s not dark at all. Looks like everything is shifting sands, but, underfoot there is the Rock of Ages.

I’m talking about a reality. Okay, let’s go into the Scripture,

This man stood inviolate, all by himself. Disassociated from man, associated with God, for the sake of man. Listen carefully, how I use my words and my terminology.

Do you realize he said, ‘ministered by us’. I’m going to dwell with these words after a while, because, it takes many sermons to go into many words, and many facets.

Now, this is what these messages, for the past year, have been pointing up to. That you are in the unique position of being the gems for His crown.

But it has nothing to do with you intrinsically of yourself, or, by yourself, it is the choosing and making of God.

For the vessel cannot say to the molder of that vessel, “Why hast thou made me thus?” It’s entirely up to the potter.

In other words, he says, “I am fully enabled to do that which is set forth here as concerning yourselves.” To be those epistles, written of God. But I stand here as the one that God uses. 

Now, I told you before, a man saying a thing like that, they’d take him out and shoot him. I wouldn’t give the apostle Paul one chance out of one billion, of getting out of any church, making this statement and clarifying it before the churches, but they grab him at the door, hog-tie him and, boil him in oil.

They jump up and down screaming, they’re doing God a service. Let me tell you something: the Roman Catholics, yes Rome; has more of an understanding though perverted, than all the Protestants put together.

For the pope would not hesitate to say this. And the Catholics would not hesitate to give him credit.

You know that I am telling you the truth. For the pope has unlimited power in heaven, earth, and purgatory. And the people believe it, but, you tell a Protestant, he believes nothing.

Pope says he’s the vicar of Christ, in human flesh. God has had seven vicars… in human flesh, through Seven Church Ages. They’re not voted upon by a bunch of cardinals; designated by God.

Now, let’s watch the word ‘glory’ here, although I can’t take much time on it. Because, in Ephesian, He is Ephesians He’s the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father of glory.

So, therefore there is a glory to be beheld in this hour. There never was a time when there wasn’t glory. There’s always been a glory, but, there’s a special glory in this hour.

Are you with me? Well, keep with me, because we’re going to keep moving right along. All these points will come up later on. Hope not today, they’ll come up later.

He’s the Father of glory. And it’s guaranteed that He is that Spirit that is here today to bring about a resurrection.

Now, if you don’t know what to look for as it pertains to glory, you’ll look straight at it and you’ll miss it.

Say, “I didn’t see that does it?” What were you looking for? What are you looking for? (See?) Jesus said that about John. You missed it.

Oh, you’re in for a bad time this morning. I’m sorry. Too many thoughts… too many thoughts… too many thoughts.

Therefore, just before the Kingdom comes, God is going to bring on the scene, something that cannot be shaken, something when everything else is shaken down, we’ll stand there unmovable.

You watch the glory of It, we’ve already seen It. But, men don’t recognize it, so therefore not recognizing the glory, they cannot place, Him who is there with His glory, and what He is doing.

You understand now why over two years ago, it goes years back, but, most especially, I keep telling you people Brother Branham said, “The Church always looks back, always looks forward, never know what’s going on.”

And I set my heart not to know as though I was seeking something, that perchance something might trickle through, to let us know what God was doing. See?

These are the answers that have come to me. I say, “I could be a fanatic, I could be telling you a lie.” But, I’m happy with it. I’m happy with it.

I’m seeing people’s lives absolutely changed, I’ve seen faith escalate. I’m seeing those things which could be shaken, that are no longer shaken anymore.

As far as I’m concerned, this is it. And remember the husband must be partaker of the first fruit.

As Brother Branham said, “Any preacher that hasn’t been behind the Pillar of Fire, has no right being behind any desk.”

It’ll soon be manifested, it’s being manifested. I’ve got faith in that brother/sister. I’ve got absolute faith. Harvest time. See?

Not peek-a-boo time anymore. Face to face time. It’s not looking through a glass darkly anymore, it’s looking through the glass with the clear light shining, to bring back a perfect reflection.

It is no longer you muddled anymore, it’s you know where you’re going. And you know how you’re going to get there. That’s right, I’m not fooling. These words I’m saying, are calculated.

Now there’s some authors who say, “This in the Greek literally means, the veil was put upon Moses’ face, because they could not stand the day, which they knew was fast approaching. When the glory would no longer be upon Moses’ face.”

That’s fine by me, if that’s what it is. That could be part of it, all Scripture has compound meanings. Of course, Brother Branham brought out the meat of it.

Now, It says, “their minds were blinded.” Let me tell you something: when this great ministry of Brother Branham struck, they thought it was like a flash in a pan.

Something… merely indicated, the graciousness and the goodness of Almighty God, but they did not stop them for one minute to analyze, “Thus Saith the Lord.”

So therefore, to them it is abolished, it’s ended. And when William Branham left, many people enjoyed it. And many people said, “Well, you see, this is just an era started, to where we are going to believe God all the more.”

I’m going to tell you, that’s a Roman Catholic version of where the world gets so much better until Jesus Christ has got to come and take over.

Let me tell you, “Millions now living will die. Billions living will die.” They will not live. Certainly, that’s the way it’s going.

Don’t get confused with the dogmas and doctrines of hell. Know what’s yours this morning, as people of Christ.

And this is not built upon someone rising up amongst us that has some little feeling, and saw some little Scripture, and therefore, put two and two together and came up with five.

This is vindicated Word! You say, “What vindicated?”

Show me, anybody in history, outside of Jesus Christ, when a multitude stood there and all were healed!! Only William Branham. I saw it with my own eyes.

You’re not looking at a scarecrow. I’ll meet you at the White Throne. And you better be sitting with me there. If you know what’s good for you.

You say, “Vayle, you boast.” Why shouldn’t I? Tell me, why shouldn’t I? My standing here this morning, as some far out church member know, “safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle breast.”

I can say like Job this morning, “I look backward I can’t see Him, I look forward where I can’t see Him, looking to the left or right. Darkness, around me. Will He use His great strength against me? No! He’s there, to put strength within me.” Their minds blinded. Blinded minds.

Oh, when Mary Baker Eddy came on the scene, she dealt the church a death blow almost. Because, she said, “God is universal mind.”

And she linked up faith with the mind. Everybody went crazy, they said, “No way, no way, it’s feelings.” Ha, yeah.

Notice, we behold the glory, but, if you don’t recognize It, you won’t know Who is there in that glory. You missed the image.

You say, “Brother Vayle, how is it that I will not miss it. How can I know that God sent a man.” Wait until we get the Scripture. We’re just surface skimming right now. Hitting a few waves.

Now, it doesn’t mean you’re beholding as in a glass, that this is something, just a little old metaphor. This is reality! Now, we behold Him!

I quote William Branham, “Now we see Him. Now, we enjoy Him.”

Do you? I think it’s great. Never been so happy in my life, when it comes to the things of God. Never been so sure.

You say, “Brother Vayle, what if it fails?” Ain’t going to fail. You say, “You going to make it?” Nope, God’s already done it. I’m resting in Him.

In other words, this glory we also share in His glory. “I shall be like him; wondrously like Him, when in His beauty.” Outshine, now in His glory, of His Presence. The change comes therefore,” seeing we have this ministry.”

Now notice, bringing out the point again, Paul talking of himself with this ministry. Notice, ‘this ministry.’ And I said the Catholics have more understanding in their perversion, than the Protestants?

The Protestants wouldn’t say, “Hey. Man, stands up there in the pulpit and he’s got the power of the Holy Ghost, and the ministry to do that.” They went for the charismatic. They blew it.

They left the Word, they blew it. Paul said, “We got a ministry.” Let’s get some Scripture, I’m not talking through the top of my hat.

I’ve got Scripture to back this up and down, weave it back and forth. Say, you know I do that. It’s woven back and forth.

Now, let me show you something here, about William Branham. Said I told you, you in for a rough morning. I might just throw my notes away and forget it.Look, he went to Africa with glory of God, gift ministry. He stood there under doctor’s noses, psychiatrists, psychologists, premiers, men of a state, and wealth, and brilliance and everything.

And they stood there questioning, in their hearts. And, he’d whirl on them and tell them what was in their hearts.

And say, “Doctor, if this is psychology, or hypnotism, you do it, because you know more than I do.” Pulled the same thing in Bloomington, Indiana, University.

Now listen, he went there with the glory of God manifested in the healings, and wonderful ministry that God gave that man.

And even Daddy Bosworth, and the people said, “Now, Brother Branham, let’s go to the interior where the vast multitudes of the populace is, the native populace. There with this ministry you will convert them to Christ.”

Now, he could have said, “Hey boys, you’ve got a point, let’s go, let’s go fast.” He said, “No way. God doesn’t work that way. God told me to stay away.”

Now, do you see what I’m telling about? A ministry. We have this ministry through mercy. A man with a gift like William Branham, had to have an awful lot of mercy, from Almighty God.

Because, he’d be tempted in his mind and in his body, his whole life, to take what God gave him, and use it in his own way.

He had the ministry. The men wouldn’t let him go. After three signs that he said would happen, the next morning, to prove they shouldn’t go, they cared nothing about those three signs.

They took him to the interior, and the whole thing was washed out with storms and lightening. The worst in Africa’s history, at least in that recorded history. Nothing was done.

Now, these men, and there be such men, have ministries. The Roman Catholic church says, “Come up here, I will give you a wafer, I minister God, the Holy Spirit.” Is that true?

You know it’s true. ‘Le Bon Dieu’, the French saying, ‘the Good God.’ I read that in Chiniquys book, I know it. Roman Catholic priest broke down one time, almost had a nervous breakdown. Because, he had put ‘Le Bon Dieu’ in an unsafe place, and the mice ate God.

But, the Catholics know more in their perversion, than the Protestants. Because, they admit a man can minister the Holy Spirit. But Protestants admit nothing. Then who is deader, the Catholics or the Protestants?

If my name was death, and if I had a son called death, he’d be twice dead. And if he had a son, he’d be four times dead.

The Protestants don’t even have the basic of a good perversion. Pitiful, isn’t it? God told me to keep away from that stuff, so I’m not going to hit it too hard this morning.

But, I’m telling you on purpose, to bring you back to what is ours. To let you know where you stand this morning. To let you know where you stand in spite of yourselves. See, that’s what grace is all about. What we’re talking about.

Now, he said, …now listen, how Paul stands there before the people;

In other words, he had a vindicated ministry. And he did not fool with it. He was honest and upright concerning it. He did not have an axe to grind. If people threw him out on his head, he didn’t get mad and then withhold bread from the children.

Don’t think I haven’t felt that way at times. You know my nature, you know jolly well I felt that way at times. You ask my wife. You ask people I talk to in the church here.

Now I said, “Look, I’d just quit tomorrow, but one thing I cannot withhold bread from the children. It’d kill me.” You say, “Brother Vayle, how do you know you’ve got bread?” How do you know I don’t?

I’m eating, and very happy. That’s why I’m preaching this the third time to you. If you don’t get it, then I’ll preach it four more times.

If I feel good doing it, then I’ll preach it five more times. Compare the tapes, they’re always different. They’re never the same. Not that they should be. Just centrally in the truth.

Notice, old William Aberhart out of Canada, up there in Alberta, he was a school teacher, but he was a good old Baptist boy.

He had the greatest Sunday school on the air for years, ten thousand students… or was it five, I forget, it doesn’t matter, good bunch of kids anyway.

One time he said something that was very, very relevant I thought, in a way; and he said, “You people out there, you better watch your prayers. You stand up, or you kneel down, and say, ‘Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thine name’.”

And he said, “let me tell you something, that the God of this world, is the Prince of the power of the air, you could be, and most of you are, praying to the devil, because he’s your Father,”

No wonder he was bald-headed, they sure must have rubbed his head his head on a lamppost, for that one. The God of this world, is in the church, not opening eyes, but, blinding eyes.

My! Just let that sink in. Let us understand this, that Judas was the devil incarnated, and he had gift ministries, just like John and all the rest.

What is the devil trying to blind people’s eyes to? The Light of the Gospel of Christ. Notice, it’s a glorious Gospel. It’s not just a Gospel, it’s a glorious Gospel. Because, God is the Father of glory.

Now remember, they could see glory on the face of Moses. Jesus was the glory of God.

And He stood there and said; “If I had not done the works other man did,… Notice! If I had not done the works no other man did, they had not sinned: but now have they both seen and both hated me and my Father”.

The glorious works of Almighty God, done through a human being called: Jesus Christ, was the glory of Almighty God. Why was this man born blind?

Really the question is: why is this man blind? Was he born blind because of some sin of his parents, or did he get blind later on down the road.

And Jesus said, “Neither one, but, for the glory of God, was he born blind.” And He touched the man, the man was healed, and, never in history until that time, was a man born blind, ever healed.

Never. Glory of God. Glory of God. Now, the beautiful thing is, whatever way God chooses to manifest, that is His glory.

You say, “Well I think He ought to choose it my way.”

Well, what’s your way, my way got to do with it? Man, we botch things up so bad now, I’m happy that either God, or the devil takes completely over.

And I’m going to be gone, when the devil takes completely over. Even then, he’s not going to take completely over. Don’t you ever think that. There’s no way. It’ll look like it.

For now It says;

This man is telling them. “Look, I am here to describe it all to you, to tell you all about it, and, that’s it.”

Do you follow what I said? Now you see, that’s why the Catholics are more right than the Protestants. But they’ve got such a horrible perversion.

And Brother Branham said, “Every time you see a scarecrow, the devil has got you beat to a pulp. Because, you run off screaming in horror.” 

The Roman Catholics came to Brother Branham and said, “We have the power to forgive sin.”

He said, “Yes sir. As long as you do it according to Acts 2: 38-39.” See? He didn’t back away from anything.

Oh, they said, “We have water baptism.”

“That’s great,” he said, “tell me how it’s done?” Never backed away from anything, don’t worry.

I’m not here to fuss at him, I’m just here to tell you, that there’s plenty in this Word here, that people are scared of. They’re plumb scared of.

“And, when you’re scared of a thing, you can’t have faith because, your faith ends where your doubt begins.”

Now, Brother Branham said that. So, if you think that’s a clever saying, don’t, don’t, lay it on me.

Now, verse 16.

There’s seven great days in the week… six days in the week of man, that God has. You got to watch, every day there is a light.

Now, we told you that this Scripture rests firmly upon verses 14-17 of  the 2nd chapter, and I’m not going to read all the 2nd chapter, though it would be good to read chapter 1 and 2 to get where we are.

In other words, he said, “We have something that works, and is proven out.” What did he mean? People got born again. People got right.

Now he said, “Who can do this? Who can handle it? Who would be qualified?” And notice, every single time, is qualification.

In other words, this man’s ability lay in one thing. An uncorrupted Word. That’s all it lay in. Why? Because, God was obligated to come right behind it.

Look, God said, “Let there be light.” And He stands back and while He said, “Ha, I must have blew that one, because, there ain’t no light.”

Can you see a stupid god like that? Pardon my preaching this way. But, it’s the only way I can get the truth across anymore. It’s to be sarcastic, and irreverent. Because, it goes over your heads.

There’s a time for a Word, there’s a time for Reality. The Reality proves if it’s God, behind the Word.

This man said, “All I have to do is be sincere.” Do you understand what I said? That’s what the prophet said, “There’s a lack of sincerity.”

That’s the thing that used to blow my mind about Brother Branham. When Brother Branham talked about the Lord, it was just like this. I’m getting just a little tiny chip off of the block myself now. So, I can understand a little bit more.

To me, God is so different than He was, eight months ago. The reality of a Presence. I count on It. I know It, the best that I can. But God, just like this, spoke to Brother Branham, and he was so reverent. He was so sincere.

Well you said, “Brother Vayle, a lot of people, can be that way and mistaken.” He was vindicated!

The glory came with this. There’s a difference my brother, my sister. Oh God, when His glory shines, I don’t care what form it takes.

The glory can be like God Himself. To take any form, but, when It shines, and the shewbread comes to life. He can by a godly priesthood. See? Christ alive to them.

Now, he said here;

Now, I told you, and, I’ll tell you again. This is a picture of the Roman general who comes seated upon a white horse, with beautiful white robes.

He’s just made a famous conquest, behind him are slaves that will go to the dungeons and the arena, and into death. And in front of him are slaves in white who will be given citizenship, and freed.

Now, the theologians of this hour, will no doubt associate, and correctly… and correctly, in a certain viewpoint, designate this as John 3:16.

So, let’s go back and look at,

Now, they’ll tell you that, that’s what that verse means. And that through Seven Church Ages it literally does mean that.

But notice, this foundational illustration is taken to Moses, in a ministry of death. The same God. And this same illustration is taken over here to life.

And under life, now watch carefully… under life it goes… the image goes from glory to glory, until it’s the same image.

Now listen;

The first man was of the earth earthy, the second man was the Lord from heaven, so therefore, by this foundational illustration, ends in the resurrection. Do you follow me?

So therefore, I am placing this illustration very correctly. Because, as there was a coming out of Egypt, that brought death, there’s a coming out of Babylon, that brings life. Do you follow me?

All right. We go to 2 Corinthians again the 3^rd chapter verse 7-8 and we read;

In other words, that which caused it to take place. He who was there, doing It in His own way, manifesting Himself, and His Own rite, in His Own way. It was fantastic. It was glorious.

Now, you’ll notice here,… if I’ve read enough verses… yeah. You’ll notice in here, from what we have read.

That Paul identifies the Spirit in verse 8.

In verse 18, He calls Him the Lord. And that, is Jehovah. Now, just sit still and think. This would’ve been much better to have had you all around the table talking to you, than, preaching at you.

He said over here;

Now, he doesn’t call it life. He calls it Spirit. The spirit being ministered. Now watch, Moses ministered. Now the Spirit, is being ministered.

What Spirit? Now, the Lord is that Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:

Paul identifies the Spirit is the Lord, and of course, we don’t have to doubt which Lord that is because, we already know it is the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. That Israel refused to see, in their day.

He came down in fire, in thunder, and lightening, earthquake, and in voices and trumpets upon the mountain. And Israel refused to look, so He watered it down.

The Pillar of Fire simply shining upon Moses who went within the veil. Now, Moses’ face is shining, and it’s literally emanating forth those rays, almost like a blinding light. And Israel runs from that. See?

Now, these are ministrations, what we’re talking about. Now, they not only ran from God, the Presence of the God, the Pillar of Fire.

But, they ran from Moses. In Exodus 34:30, we read It. All right.

Listen, the anointing upon Moses, which was by the Anointer Himself, mantling Moses. Now, sometimes my sentences get kind of long and involved, I’m not a Westbrook Pegler. I’m glad that I’m not Westbrook Pegler. But, I wish I had his gift.

The only man living in the Twentieth Century, that writes one sentence about twenty pages long, that made sense. I find it hard to understand the apostle Paul, it’s hard to understand me, so I’ll try again.

The anointing upon Moses, you know he had an anointing right?, which was by the Anointer Himself, mantling Moses. That Light on Moses was not Moses’ Light, it was God. See?

Brought forth a glory which vindicated the word of Moses to be the Word of the Anointer, Who is the Lord God Jehovah of Israel.

Now, he’s telling you flat that, “This one I’ve got is not of me,” said Moses. “ I am here, participating as an administrator.”

See? We’re looking at ministries, of administrators. One ministry administrated, was by Moses the administrator. Another ministry was of the Spirit, how was it administered?

Now, he didn’t just come on the scene and do it. When I use that, I’m using a term as a shot gun. He had to have a certain individual.

All right. Don’t be afraid then, to associate God with the man of God’s own choice. Now listen, in spite of the living, and I emphasize the word ‘living,’ because, God is the Author of life.

Too many people want to make God, the author of death. God’s not the author of death. God’s the Author of life because He is Life.

In spite of the living Presence of God,… that the message was clearly from God to the people, this Word in spite I say, of the Presence of the living God, brought death not life.

Now get the picture, God Himself is not death, He is life. And there He stood, and there should’ve been life, as at the graveside of Lazarus. But there wasn’t. See? So, something was there besides God.

Death was there. Let’s check it out and see it.

Now notice, God said, “That thing which condemned, that Word that came forth. Don’t come near me. Don’t try to see me.” Why?

“My revelation of Myself, is not available for a full manifestation of Myself. For I am here to reveal you, as you really are before Me.”

That’s the thing. God wasn’t revealing Himself the Author of life, He was revealing the people. Do you understand what I’m saying? I hope you’re getting it better and better, because this is your third time round now.

If you don’t smarten up, I’ll come back two more times. When Brother Klassen goes for vacation, it’s going to hit you! Three times in a row if I’m sticking around here.

So, you better get the whip on them Brother Klassen. If they don’t want to get killed, commit adultery and do all manner of evil.

Now, let’s just get a picture of that. Who is the same yesterday, today and forever? In,

Now listen, He had his eyes opened toward that people. He read every one of them. But, they didn’t have their eyes open toward Him. They just saw the glory.

Because, they didn’t see him, all they saw was themselves. Because, what else is there to see?

“Oh Brother Vayle, I’m going to go out here and look at a tree.”

Well, go and look at your tree. And when you’re finished looking at your tree, you’ll still have the roots of an adultery in you. And thievery, and idolatry, and everything else. You understand what I’m getting at now?

All right. Let’s just keep these thoughts in mind.

Now, he brought them out of Egypt and let them know, that in themselves, they were no different from the sinful Egyptians, who were now dead. Do you like that? You’re going to love this.

In any way, receive unto ourselves some kind of a compliment. None of us is any different from a Roman Catholic, or a dead Protestant, in ourselves.

And when God showed that to Israel, they were no different from the ones that He killed, except, through grace. Wasn’t a very pretty picture. No wonder they were so nervous, and couldn’t stand in the glory of His Presence.

Let me tell you something: a woman was eating in a restaurant, and she recognized Brother Branham, she came over very nervous, She said, “Brother Branham, do you mind if I talk a minute? I’m so terribly nervous.”

“Well,” he said, “Sister, sit down,”

She said, “See that man over there, he’s trying to pick me up.”

Brother Branham looked, and he said, “That’s true, and you know what your trouble is? ”

He said, “The same spirit that’s on him, is on you. You both have an evil spirit on you, a sex spirit. But, [he said] you sit here for a few minutes, and I’ll make that man leave the restaurant. Don’t say one word.”

Brother Branham looked at his ring concentrating. The man began looking around, kind of ‘fish-eyed’, owl eyed, looking around, looking around. He dropped his napkin, picked it up.

Dropped his spoon, picked it up. In a few minute he just… his order should have come to him by then… he just threw everything to one side, and bolted out the door.

He got awful nervous in the right Presence. Especially when the Presence has found you out.

Dr. Conant said one time, in a lecture on personal evangelism. He said, “A little girl one day, her hands were full of mud, and she was all kind of filthy. Cute little kid, you know she was playing in the mud, and she looked in this florists’ window, and, there was this beautiful white Easter lily. And, she looked at her hands, and she put her hands behind her back.”

Can’t even fool a kid. They got pretty nervous, even in the glory of His Presence. Because, from the glory of His Presence, came the revelation about themselves.

People got nervous under the prophet, when he said, “There’s one God.” It was not the revelation of God Himself, that God brought forth, but, the revelation of the truth about man.

“Oh, wretched man,” said Paul, “That I am, who is able to deliver me?” You see?

Now, listen carefully to what I’m saying. There was life in God, for God is life, but, death in man. And God came forth in glory, and by His Word in Moses, revealed what man was.

Notice, there was nothing wrong with God, and the law given, was holy, because, in God there was no evil, and He gave the law. The evil was in man.

Let’s go and take a look at It. You want to know about yourself, let’s find out what the Bible says.

Don’t try to take what God has given you, and you build on it and say, “What a beautiful person I am you see, because really, I’ve done something with what God gave me.”

Now, that will hold a little bit of water, but not… Well, come on. I don’t think I’d like to carry drinking water around in a paper bag. If I’m going to have to drink water all day long.

Now;

Now, he’s telling you something here. He was alive, how? Alive unto God? No way. No way.

He could just say within himself, “Now I’m all right. Somewhere down the road I’ll make it. I’m one of God’s children. Everybody’s going to be fine, don’t worry about anything.”

But, this pinned him down because he knew he coveted. “Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife.” Oh, brother, that’s a killer right there.

You don’t have to look at you actual neighbor’s wife, just see a pretty girl going down the road, that belongs to somebody else. That’s all. You say, “Well, I really don’t mean it.”

You know well, talk your way out of it. You ain’t going to talk your way out. You got… you are born sexual people. Which can lead to sin quicker than almost anything under God’s high heaven. Just admit it. See?

So, he comes to the place where he would like to do good. He’s come to the place where he’d like to be entirely right.

And he said, “There’s no way.”

The prophet said the same thing said, “You backslide a thousand times a day, there is no perfection this side of the resurrection.” You see?

“Wretched man, how am I going to get rid of this thing?” Something is horrible going on.

All right.

Yet it brought death. There’s nothing wrong with the Word of God that says, “You’re an adulterer.” Own up to it, don’t be a legalist trying to get around it. 

I’m going to tell you something, it’s not in my nature. It’s a good thing it’s not. It’s a good thing it’s not. Many a time I would have said, “What’s the use? ” Phfft. At least that’s fun.

But, always something said, “You’ve got no right to defile somebody.” Something in there, there’s a tie post.

And I’m going to tell you something, that tie post has got to be put there by God, or you’ll commit adultery, you’ll be a Hugh Hefner, and boast about it. Rotten, filthy, scum of the earth.

That’s true, but I’m just like him, except I wasn’t smart as he was to get with the two thousand. And God had something else planned. Might not have got two thousand, but, I sure tried for two hundred perhaps.

And the only reason I wouldn’t knock a bank over, it’s too hard to get to. I’d knock that over too.

And it sure know hard… no job lying, because, anybody can lie, it’s very simple. White lies, black lies, green lies, big lies, little lies, fat lies, thin lies.

You say to a little kid, “Don’t break that.” Why shouldn’t he break it? Don’t lie. Why shouldn’t he lie? He doesn’t know, you see? but, the minute he knows, something goes to work.

See, God let man know what he was. And that’s always haunting us, because, we know what we are. But, you see, do we know Him? See? How well do you know Him? See?

This is what I’m trying to teach, all this last year. I started one year and two weeks ago. Preaching what I’m preaching this morning. To let you know this truth. That He is here.

And He is taking full responsibility, and He’s doing it in such a way that you can’t miss it. That you will know what is being done, and, how it is being done.

Now, okay, let’s go to to 2 Corinthians again the 3rd chapter verse 18. We get down the line here, and put this grace on the Lord Jesus Christ, where you want to put it.

Now, he tells you, that you are going to get it right back to the image of God. Now, that’s what he said.

This tells of a scene, like in Moses’ day, where we can look on the glory of the Lord, and be changed into His image.

Now see, you’ve got to recognize the glory of the Lord, which means to recognize His Presence, as Who is here doing It. Whatever is being done. Something’s going to catch you. See?

John came in from the wilderness and he’s screaming “Repent, for the time is at hand.” God gave something that caught their attention. But, not very many for very long. See? All right.

Now, this is a time that in the Presence of the glory of the Lord, and in the Presence of the Lord of glory. Because, you can’t have a glory of the Lord, unless the Lord of glory is there.

For the Shekinah glory, is that glory which is personally attendant upon God. Do you follow me? Well, now look, you could have my clothes here without me being here. I could send down a bushel of them.

That doesn’t work with God. Does not work with God. Period. Sorry. If you’re going to have glory, you’re going to have the God of glory. As the Bible said so.

You see now what we’re dealing here with Ephesians. I could tell you something here, but, it’s just too involved, so just forget it.

But, just keep that in mind, we’re in Ephesians. “The God of our Lord, Jesus Christ the Father of glory.” The Begetter of a glory is here.

And, that Begetter of the glory that you are going to see manifested, is attendant upon Him, because He is here, and He’s that God. See?

Oh, listen, we’re dealing just as it was in the days of Moses. But, thank God by grace, you see? Okay.

So, this is the time that in the Presence of the glory of the Lord, and in the Presence of the Lord of glory, there is no veil, and, no fear, and no guilt and a radical change from our image, the earthly image, unto His image.

Which is heavenly, it is no longer death, man’s image, but God’s image which is Life. Now, do you understand what I am saying?

The image of death is gone. Let’s get down to nitty gritty. Look, my sins are no more remembered against me.

So, I say, “Lord, do you remember the time I got so mad, and I killed that man?” No? Don’t remember nothing. Uh?

Your God, an infinite and knows all things, and You don’t remember anything? Well, I’ll tell you what, Ah man, am I glad. But, would you mind explaining it? “Certainly. It wasn’t imputed to you in the first place.” Whooooo man!

You mean, I can just run around and do what I want, and, get away with it? No, it doesn’t say that at all. It doesn’t say there’s no fruit and no character.

It just says, “That isn’t what does it.” It says, “That God does It.” I’m not preaching license to anybody this morning.

Look, you show who you are, I’ll show who I am. Don’t you worry about that honey child. That’s just as plain as we’re in the building this morning.

Everything is being manifested. But, I am talking about Him who is life. I’m not interested in you and me anymore, per se as human beings.

I’m talking in the realm of the divine. The seed which came from God. Which was in itself, eternal, took upon Himself a human mask, and is brought back to Him, and, is now ready for the image that it missed.

So, do you understand what I’m saying? All right. Now this is exactly what verse 18 is saying, the unveiled Bride, receiving the revelation of God, which is Christ, Revealed, the Word.

As does a mirror that reflects light, and consequently an image, finds herself,… finds herself by looking into that the very image of Christ.

The Bride is looking into the mirror, of the revelation of God, by the Spirit that is given by a man. “Oh, I can find that for myself. Oh, who needs this stuff about Paul, about prophets. This stuff about messengers.”

Let’s read something here, that’s absolutely ear tickling.

It says this very plainly, my beloved children this morning. You ain’t going to make no Rapture, unless there’s a five-fold ministry.

Now, you do what you want. I’m not boasting for myself. Let’s get this flat, because I’ve just got one thing in my favor, if indeed I have it, and that is to hold this Word truthfully, and not try to use It in any other way. Except to point to Him for your sake.

You say, “Brother Vayle, how do you mean, that you won’t make the Rapture?” Because, It says, “You grow up ‘unto’ Him, you don’t grow ‘into’ him.”

A baby must be born before it grows. And to grow up, is to come to the place where you meet Him in the air.

Because, the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the body being the Bride, He does not come down to it physically, we go up to Him physically. See?

All right. The Bride is looking into the mirror, the revelation of God, by the Spirit. That is, the revealed Word given by a man.

Paul said, “There’s absolutely no mysteries left. I talk very plain. And when I talk very plain, and I am in a certain Spirit myself having been vindicated, that God is here Present, let me tell you, there is going to be a change.”

And this word here in the Greek, says here ‘changed,’ is ‘metamorphosis.’ There never has been a metamorphosis. But, there’s going to be.

In other words, the First Resurrection of the Seven Church Ages, has not come to pass. But it will. And a Bride will be changed.

Looking at what Somebody, gives us to look at. Catholics are more like the Protestants.

I’ve just got to keep digging, you see, because I’ve got to keep your memory, to never let that go out, never, never, never, never let your memories go. That this is done by men.

Oh, nobody wants that. Protestants they stand up in holy horror against the pope. And the pope has more brains than they’ve got. He doesn’t use them, that’s the only trouble. At least for God.

And It says right here. Paul said, “I’m unveiled to you, and you’re unveiled to me”

And do you know why I keep using that expression, ‘spill your guts’? Jesus did, Paul did, William Branham did, I try to do the same.

That’s why some of you people have seen me lose my cool, and I go right through the roof, when certain things are done.

Now, you might want to do them in a certain way, say a certain thing meaning no harm. But, you better watch it around me, because I’ll come out swinging. I’ll be honest with you.

The days are over that you’re going to fool with me. I warned you, don’t try to use me as a yo-yo. The minute you try one more time, I’ll walk out that door.

You say, “Brother Vayle, you said you wouldn’t withhold the children’s bread.” There’s other children down the road too.

I’m telling you flat this morning, unless you spill your guts this morning, you stay right in line. I don’t say there’s a parting of the way.

I want you know one thing, I won’t be in this pulpit with the nice lovely spirit I’ve had. Ha ha, you think I’ve been tough. There’s a tougher day coming perhaps. I want to be nice.

I want to help you now, see. Look, I’ve laid my life on the line. I’ve not said one thing to ever direct toward you, but toward Him. Trying to get you plumb away from all legalism, all eternal security, and all that stuff, which is not in the Word of Almighty God.

But show you where it merges. And I’m telling what the Scripture says here, William Branham did not have a veil over his face.

And neither do we have veils over our faces. “We are not looking in a glass darkly, anymore.”

Now listen, my brother my sister, let us understand in 1 Corinthians 13: as the prophet taught us here.

Look, a part is not a perfection. Which means a whole, and a whole means a conclusion, because, you cannot add to It.

And It means it’s polished and refined. Seven Church Ages are gone, see, the six days of man are finished. It’s come.

All right. What in part is done away? Let’s just come and take a good look at it.

Unless I’m going to quote you something wrong this morning. And I don’t think I’m going to.

You say, “ Hey, hey, hey, what in the world are you talking about? When do we leave those things alone?” Why even a prophet brought out the doctrine of baptism, and laid them cold on the line.

He said, “The great revelation in this hour, is that there is one God. His Name is the Lord Jesus Christ, and baptize in that Name.” Okay.

And what about this business about the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgement, and all these things?

And It says, “This we will do if God permit.” So, there’s coming a time, when every single doctrine, every single thing will reach its peak.

And it will come at that time, of the false anointed. And, the true anointed. It’s here now. And the Elect cannot be fooled. Because, the veil has been cut asunder.

And we’re looking eye to eye, to the revelation. Now, that’s what’s happened my brother my sister. Parts, there is no more parts.

Little child always says, “What am I going to be when I become a man? What am I going to do? How’s this, how’s that?”

You’re going to the place where you’re matured, and you know. You know that He is here. You know who you are. You’re in the light as He is in the light.

That’s why the spirit of revelation of the knowledge of Him, comes into the church. And that’s as the Greek said, “Makes the profound impression upon the knower.”

Not the Knowing One, that’s God. Giving the knowledge, the knower, that’s you and me. Makes a profound impression.

What is that impression? We see Him unveiled, and seeing Him in His glory. Knowing His Presence, knowing the revelation. We know we’re ready for the Rapture.

You say, “Well, Brother Vayle, I just don’t have that kind of fruit.” Don’t you understand it isn’t fruit. But, there will be that sweet Spirit, come into the Church. See? Sweet spirit, I’m going to have it, if I’m standing here.

That’s going to be the joy of my life. Why? Because, that’s been the cry of my heart all these years, and I absolutely can’t change my ways of doing things.

Wouldn’t I just love to be sweet and nice and just cut my sermons down, and just, you know, pat you on the back, and, you know, do everything so nice and so sweet. It’s impossible, I can’t do it.

I went to God about it. If you want to… listen, if you want to know the truth, you just pray, maybe God will have mercy, and let you off the hook.

But, I’m going to get off no hook, I’ll tell you that. Because, I went to the prophet about it. There’s no way. It’s just hammer, hammer, hammer. I’m sorry about that.

If I hammer you, don’t think for one minute, that I don’t hammer myself. I never saw a man yet, if he’s got any integrity at all, didn’t hammer himself three of four times as hard as anybody else.

Now listen, any Bride looking into a mirror should indubitably, undoubtedly see herself, as she is. I speak in the natural, for if I look into any ordinary mirror, I see the ordinary earthly image of myself.

But, the light of the revelation, which has been vindicated, by the glory of God. And we have seen His glory so we know it’s God. And we know the Words are of God.

And we know that Light in the gospel has struck us. And in the Light is life. And we’re no more dealing in death. The Bible says the Spirit is life because of righteousness, but the body is dead because of sin.

But that’s the past hour, it’s not this hour. For the body shall not die. Don’t you understand we’re all wheat before God.

There was a time that the corn of wheat like Him, had to fall on the ground and die. But, there is a corn of wheat that’s ripe, that’s taken to the garner. It’s not taken my brother/sister, to the ground and buried.

In a moment, they say that in the Greek means, ‘in the atoms, in a twinkling of an eye’. I’m going to put on a new form, a new figure. Now, the light of the revelation, that strikes the Bride, is the rainbow of God’s great covenant.

The seven lights, you know, the covenant promise of,

Then It says;

He’s here now to raise the dead. For you say, “Brother Vayle, Brother Branham’s gone, he had the Pillar of Fire.”

I’ve got news for you, the dead aren’t raised, so, He is here, not Brother Branham, but God. Oh, people get so scared, they get so twisted.

Look brother/sister, forget it. There’s nothing wrong. The Bride is now completely Christ identified. Ah ha! That’s the secret, the Christ identified Bride, I preached on It one time, laying the foundations of this very hour here.

There isn’t one thing that she is, but that He already was. And He made her. Now, she’s Christ identified. Her life which is Christ has appeared. She is like Him, for she sees Him as He is. That’s the Bible.

But, He said it’s going to happen when He appears, His Presence is going to do it. Remember God raises the dead; and only God, can change the living.

You say, “Brother Vayle, Brother Branham told of his own brother that was called by God to preach, he wouldn’t go preaching. So, God cleaned him up and took him away in death. Will he be in the first resurrection?” Sure thing.

But, what about you? Same God raises you. Don’t get looking at yourself. You ain’t worth looking at.

Now, I looked in a three-way mirror when I was twenty years of age, I went into shock it was so traumatic, I didn’t look for twenty more years.

Thirty more years maybe, God knows. I couldn’t stand it. I’m trying to get you educated this morning. Quit looking at yourselves.

I’ve told you already, not one of you would win a beauty contest. But, in the resurrection, you all will be winning beauty contests. So get your eyes on the Resurrection.

Now I hope you see it. Christ and the Bride are one. That is why the image is one. Her image once was death. So He gave her His image.

Now, she has no image of her own. You believe that? Certainly.

I once had an image of death, He took it away. I don’t have any image of my own anymore, I simply got His image, yet I’m here in my image, if people see me, but I’m not my own image.

Yep, I told you, God said, “ Let the earth bring forth the horse.” So horse came out of the earth. Hogwash! You mean there’s a bunch of horses in the earth? Phfft!

He was already there, so God just said, “Earth, clothe him.” And there stood, ‘horse.’

Now you said, “That’s horse.” No, you don’t see horse. But, you do see horse. Now, you see Lee Vayle, but, you don’t see Lee Vayle.

I saw Lee Vayle for so many years, I got tired. My wife and I married forty-three years… poor woman! My Lord have pity.

Waking up every morning with your breakfast with a face like mine, a breakfast and going to bed, same face at night. No wonder she’s nervous. Break out in a rash.

Listen, that’s what’s wrong with the Bride, she keeps looking at herself, instead of Him. No wonder she’s nervous.

There’s something to get nervous about. The anointed eyes don’t see any more. It’s so good to come to terms with yourself, especially His terms.

Now listen, lets’ see it open over here in Philippians. I told you, you were in for a bad time this morning. I’m sorry for you, but, I’m not that sorry. Okay.

All right, wonderful. But, don’t stop there. Turn back to Ephesians 1, the Book of tremendous, divine grace, that we really love.

And that’s going to bring about a resurrection. That’s your changed image. What did He do? He came down to change our image. He took ours, to give us His.

Now listen, I don’t like using bad terms. But, you know, that denigrate in an ethnic way. But, just bear with me. God is not an ‘Indian giver.’

God, is not an ‘Indian giver.’ That’s the term that means you’re going to take it back. He came down to take our image, and gave us His.

As the prophet said, “He became us, that we might become Him.” You see what it’s all about? But, it is. That’s what it all is.

Look, now listen, if it’s in those verses over here in Ephesians, “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory.”

Listen, the One that sired, and was responsible for all previous glory, is here now.

Now listen, if Brother Branham could say correctly, and it’s correct, “That the devil comes with the repeat of all diabolical cunning, so then does God come with the repeat and a manifestation of all the former glories rolled into one.”

For He stands here to be the Mighty Conqueror, and take over in the person of Jesus Christ in the Millennium. These great universes that He raised up for you and for me. And to stand amongst His children.

Oh, don’t think brother/sister, that image is going to escape you. No, don’t sit here with anything in mind, “Well, yawn, and perhaps it’s so, perhaps it ain’t.”

I got nothing to yawn about. I just look at you people and say, “Look, if a bird like me can believe, and know in his heart, you shouldn’t have one bit of trouble.”

That’s right, because God, sent me here, not as a laughing stock, but sent me here as an example in my own crony, the crude, cruddy, two-bit way.

So, if Lee Vayle can believe, anybody can believe. If he can stand there and enunciate the glory of Almighty God, and know that He participates, and it’s nothing but God Himself, then surely, you would have no trouble at all this morning.

Paul the apostle, stood there the same way, and he said, I am least of all you bunch, because I have persecuted unto death, the very Bride of Jesus Christ. Thinking, I was doing God a favor.

But, he said, “The chiefest of sinners, and I know I have believed, and am persuaded…”

I don’t have a life anymore, don’t have an image anymore. I’ve got His. But, we’re coming to the hour of immortality, that’s the beautiful part of it. Oh, listen, that’s what this is all about. That’s what you were made for. That’s why you’re here this morning.

Oh, what a day that will be. I often think to myself, I spill my guts, and then I realize, when I talk about the Millennium, I know I haven’t spilled a third of it yet. I still cover up everything.

What about the day when you cover nothing? What about the day when the devil is bound by a chain of circumstances? What about the day that you can express Deep unto deep? How often have you tried to love somebody, you just couldn’t make it?

How often have tried to do this and that you did it for Christ’s sake, but, somehow, you know, it just tasted more like rhubarb, that’s pretty sour stuff you know? And honey in the rock. Don’t worry, one day it’s going to change.

One day you’ll walk down those streets, and you’ll put your arm around a woman, you won’t have any bad sensations. And she won’t have any bad sensations. Won’t be anything there to bug you.

You can see somebody’s beautiful palace, and say, “Well hey, I’ve got one just as nice.”

Nothing is going to bother you. You were meant for that. You were made for that. See? Don’t let your faith go down the drain. Build it up this morning. You have been overcome by God.

I said, “You have been overcome by God.”

Let’s read it over here. How He pursued us. How He overtook us.

And remember,

Now listen, that’s firstborn from the dead. Oh, thank God for death. Well, I’d like to get out of here tonight.

Now, I like to say that, but my wife feels bad, I don’t care if she feels bad about that, because that’s my business.

In my heart, I’m sure if I go, she’ll go too, she’ll just fall over the top of me, and they’ll just carry us both right out. Like I’m sure, if she went first, I’d just drop dead too.

I don’t say that’s a faith from God but, it’s a mighty good faith, and I think it came from that direction.

Now listen;

What do we say to these things? We haven’t got a chance, to escape it. “Oh, I ain’t going to get lost.” How about somebody make me a dare.

Let’s have a little bit of fun. Let’s get excited this morning. Somebody go outside and get lost, don’t look at me. I’m been through it. I tried it once.

Forget it. You try. Go ahead. Uh, no takers? Oh, come on. I thought it was a pretty sporty crowd we had here this morning. No takers.

Isabel, no takers? I’ll tell you about how it happens, if you want to take it up. I’ll tell you all about it. You won’t get away.

And once He gets through with you, you will never want to get away. See I had to go the hard way, some of you folk are nice easy.

You go the easy way. Wonderful, you’re lucky. Ah ha. I should have been so lucky. Whew. My wife will tell you, what I went through.

What do we say to these things? If God’s got His hook in you Jonah, you better believe that you is hooked. On what grounds?

Now listen, if God says I’m righteous, and you come along and say, “I know better, Lee Vayle, is unrighteous.”

And do you know what? You’re perfectly right as far as you are concerned and the law that kills this. But, you’re perfectly wrong as far as God is concerned. Because, He has been revealed to me.

Now, here’s the thing where we really need to go in grace towards each other. And at this point we are woefully lacking. And I will spill myself, my innards.

Come on, let’s get that down to it, I’ll spill my guts for you, and for me both. We are woefully lacking, at mitigating, you lost that, didn’t you?

At making easy, and nice for people, who are in circumstances that are problematical. Or, they themselves, are problems. We do not like to make excuses for them, but rather, hold them over the fire.

We are like the woman who read Scripture wrong, when the Scripture said, “heaping coals of fire on the head.” The preacher asked if she had done that to her wicked husband.

She said, “No, but, I tried pouring hot water in his ear.” Now, Ah ha.

This assembly is too much like that. Who says that any member of this group this morning is unrighteous?

Who dares to say, one thing about a genuinely revealed Bride, who is trying, now, if they’re not trying, you know jolly well, they have nothing to try with… but, when an effort is there, and a testimony is there, and a revelation is there, you have got to bend many times, and we are not bending enough.

In the face of this Scripture that says, “Who is he that condemneth?” There is only one that can judge, that’s God, and He says, “I won’t receive a charge.”

I talked to a brother the other day, and he kind of bemoans himself, and I told him how the last few months God has made Himself so clear to me that I don’t have any guilt, and I don’t have any fear.

And I said, “Well, He’s the same yesterday, today and forever,” and I talked about Abraham, how that Abraham, you know, right in the hour of the bringing forth of the son, he just turned back a young man, he should be full of vim and vinegar, that he could take up a sword and whop the ears off of everybody in the country.

But, he goes down there, kind of ‘cowed out’ and I don’t know what happened He was down there, alone with his beautiful little bride. And the king said, “My she’s pretty, I think I’ll make her one of my wives.”

And Abraham who caught that look in the guy’s eye, and said, “Look honey, I think you and me have got trouble. Especially me, he said, because, unless you say you’re my sister, he’ll just take my head off, to get you. So why don’t you just go along with that.”

Now, he never should have done that. He should’ve got out of there as quick as he could’ve got out. You don’t stick around Sodom, you know, just to see if the fire is going to fall or not.

Oh, brother. Don’t be a nut. And so, he stuck around anyway, and pretty soon the king got her. That night, God got woke him, and said, “You’re a dead man.”

You know the story. He said, “Everyone in your tribe is dead. You’re seminally dead. Everyone infertile, none will have any kids.”

What he said, “Lord, it was the integrity of my heart I took her, he told me that was his sister.”

And He said, “Yes, but, he is my prophet.”

Now, the man could’ve said, “You’ve got a lying prophet, in the hours?”

God said, “Shut your mouth. I’m going to tell you something boy, you looked at her, such a way as to scare him. You’re dead. Because you provoked the reaction, in my servant.” Woe unto him. Bah unto whom offences come. Not to whom.

And God said, “He’ll pray for you, or you’re dead.” How do you like that Abimelech with your wolfy eyes and your leering looks?

See? Get the picture brother/sister. Wonderful Lord this morning.

All right. I’m going to take this page out; I’m take some more pages out.  Listen, in 2 Corinthians 3: it was Moses and the Spirit, or Moses in contra-distinction to the Spirit of God. Moses was there, God was there.

Now God manifesting, and anointing a man, …rather God manifested and anointing a man, revealed death of all mankind.

But, when God became man, the life of God was loosed to come back on man, so, that God’s life now accounted for man.

Not man accounting for man, and not man accounting for God. But, God accounting for man. 2 Corinthians the 4th chapter: followed by 2 Corinthians the 5th chapter: right?

So, let’s read chapter 5, to get some continuity of what we’re talking about.

It tells you flat, there’s no way you can judge any man any longer. There is no way, under his own servant, master of standard, has fallen.

Now,

There you are. I want to tell you something: This is the hour of freedom, where a man can say without fear, “I am the very righteousness of God.” And he’d better say It.

Now, that is how the image can come unto immortality. Just as it says in 1 Corinthians 15:20.

Now, Moses took that Word that revealed man, it was death. Now, Paul took the Word that revealed Christ, and It brought forth light.

And today, we had a prophet, that removed all the veils, and, anointed our eyes with the light of divine revelation.

Revealed the Son of man, which brings the resurrection, and the change of the entire Bride into immortality. The living Word, of the revelation of Christ. And, we in Christ, released the entire life of the Holy Spirit into the Church.

Exactly as It says in the book of Ephesians, where we’re put into the Resurrection, and caught up in a Rapture.

Now, we thank God for the revealed Word, It is not a Word, or a treatise, or a sermon any longer. It is Reality. Okay. There it is.

God told Moses what was happening, and, why it was happening. Way back there in Exodus. Pillar of Fire stood there and Moses had to stand aside and see this thing.

So God said, “Take your shoes off Moses, you’re in My Presence, I Am, the great I Am, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I’m the God of Israel, and, I have heard the cry of the people, and I want to bring them out with a high hand.”

Now, He, all the conditions God made Moses know, what was happening.

Now, in a nutshell. God was now obligated at that time, and, ready to fulfill His Word of Promise of deliverance, from Egypt into the Promised Land.

Now listen, the time was exactly right; four hundred years. The church in Egypt, was exactly right; time to be destroyed. The Promised Land conditioned for cleansing, was exactly right; the cup of the Amorites was filled.

So, you’ve got, a world system of religion, pitted against communism. You’ve got the Bride coming out of the world system. You’ve got the bombs, ready to fall, they’re going to fall. Everything is right, ready. See? Conditions in. Okay.

The condition of Israel, is exactly right. Because, all the other conditions were met. Then God came down to a man, not a committee, not a group. But, He came to a man. See?

That’s exactly where the Roman Catholics are right. An infallible pope, and no matter what he says, he is right.

But, the Catholics, have got more on the ball than the Protestants. Because, when old pope Pius X11, was he the twelfth one? I think, when he said, “Mary is ascended.” And, she really isn’t.

Oh, the theologians said, “That’s going to be the greatest mistake.” Oh, my oh my, don’t you ever say she’s up there is a resurrected form.

And, the pope stood there and said, “I am the pope, and if I say, it is so.” And he said, “Mary is ascended,” and the Catholic church has to believe it, whether they want to believe it or not.

Now, God comes on the scene in a prophet, vindicating Himself by His glory. And showing who William Branham, the prophet is. And people standing by and saying, “Phooey.” Then the Protestants, talk about the Catholics.

Let me tell you something, we can learn a few lessons from one man. God went with that man, and vindicated him as head of the Bride, which was in the world church in Egypt.

Let’s take a look at it. John chapter 13: now likening Brother Branham to Moses. What’s going on in Egypt.

Now in;

Now, that’s settled. There is a condition there. I want to ask you. When has God stopped sending people?

You show me the authority, or that authoritative one who knows, and the people consequently know, he was the sent one, go ahead and find him. Go ahead. See? That’s the challenge.

I can read any book, and the man says, “Oh, this is so, or that is so.” I opened a book, just the other day, and he talks about the Bride, being the 144,000.

I knew right away he came out of either ‘Armstrong’ or ‘the Jehovah Witnesses.’ Crazier than a hoot owl.

But, he’s got people believing, just because, he said so. Hogwash! They didn’t believe Paul just because he said so. That was way down the line.

When you listen to those who have been with Him and it was handed down that you were listening to a man who was with him, for he saw Him, after the Resurrection there was a Pillar of Fire.

Stood there vindicated, as Moses was vindicated. Now, at the end time we’re promised, ‘Elijah shall return’ to restore back. Will he be vindicated? The answer is, “He better be… He better be.”

Because, you can go to nut houses, they’re full of people who are ‘John the Baptist’s and ‘Elijah’s and God knows what, even, ‘Jesus Christ’.

And the churches are full of squirrels, they’re even nuttier, than the nut houses. You’ve got to get the biggest squirrel to get the whole bunch of them too.

Whosoever I will send, therefore I will send. Who’s sent? Prove it. Then, “If you receive him, you receive Me. And, if you receive Me, you receive the Father.” Do you understand? Father, Son, prophet, you and me; one.

Do you understand what I said this morning? We’re all one. That’s what It says. If He said, “Whosoever I send you receive, you receive Me.” Right?

Now He said, “You receive Me, you receive the One, that sent Me. Father, the Son, the Prophet, the Bride.” Now, that’s where God had Israel, and Israel wanted a law.

Let me tell you something: life is not law! There is a law of life, but life is not law. Life has laws, but, law does not produce life. Do you follow now? You have life this morning. We’re dealing with life.

Let’s read,

A prophet to whom the Word comes, the wise man who brings the Word and teach It. And scribes who simply write It. Or those who cannot do better because, they’re not gifted they simply tell the Word, and leave It set there.

How do we get gathered? By a prophet. Ah ha, listen brother/sister, see, that’s my trouble, I can see the whole Bible, almost, in one crack.

And, it’s not going to see you a bit good, oh, it’s going to do you lots of good, so, hang in there with me.

I’m going to get you out of here in a hurry. But, remember you still have to wait for the Rapture. Ho, ho, ho.

And It says, “It gathers by the prophets.”

Then, who will be there when He comes down? Who will be here in His Presence, to reflect the glory and the majesty, and make us one? A prophet. You tell that to people that don’t believe it.

Now listen, let’s go back, I said I commend the Catholics for certain things. In other words, even in their perversion, they are started on a major principle.

Listen to,

I want to ask you a question. Did Brother Branham do miracles? Did he minister the Spirit?

Now that’s the question, “Brother Vayle, I don’t think he ministered the Spirit. You see, Hallelujah, I already have something myself.” Well you sweet darlings, little thing you. Bless your heart.

I’ve done wasted your time this morning, didn’t I? Too bad you even bothered to come. I wasted your time. I haven’t wasted my time. I have preached the truth, it took a man. It took a man, my brother my sister. But, it took God’s man.

And that’s where the church went wrong, they appointed men, they elected members, they did this and they did that. And they were a hundred per cent astray, they couldn’t wait.

And that’s what marriage is all about, you kids that are sitting here. Have you prayed about a future wife? Have you women, you young girls prayed about a future husband?

Do you know the one you’re going to get if the Lord tarries, will be your mate? Have you done something about it? Or, are you drifting upon the sands or the waves of the ocean, waiting for a catastrophe, and a thing called a marriage.

See? Oh yes, there’s a right one. There’s the one that God sends. Oh yeah, there’s the one that God sends. You’ve got a certain nature should be just the right nature, where you’re not cat and dog all the time.

Now, I wouldn’t be cat and dog all the time. But, I never married a cat or a dog, I married quite a lamb, I must admit. She’s got her own ways, that’s all right. I don’t begrudge her that.

But, my wife full well knows, the old proverb, ‘There is not a fight, until the second blow is struck.’ There is not a fight, until the second word is said, for an argument, until the second word is said.

So, we have a lot of peace in our home. Because, I prayed. Smartest prayer I prayed in my life. It was short and to the point, I said, “Lord I’m the marrying kind, You better get me the right wife, or I’m going to botch up, because I’m getting married.”

I meant business, God meant business. I want to tell you something. There’s a right one, the right one a prophet, has come in our midst, to bring us into union.

You say, “Brother Vayle, do you mean to tell me, that there has to be someone there, to really consummate that union? Are you kidding?” It says, “Whomsoever I send, receiveth me,” How are you going to receive Him, if someone’s not sent?

And it’s laid out here in Scripture, we’re going to an image where one brought death, the other brings life. And we have not come to the image of life. Because, the body is still dead because of sin, and we’re dying.

But, this is the hour when we’re not going to die. I want to ask you a question: has He sent somebody? Did you receive that one? Do you believe what he said?

If you believe that one brother/sister, then you believe the One that sent Him. You have the One that sent Him. And you have the One that sent that One.

So, therefore now, God the Father, Creator, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ… follow me?

The Father of glory, who is one with that One, who has left the Mercy Seat to set upon the Throne, as a greater high priest than ever, Melchisedec, with Him, with a prophet, with us. Four, is deliverance.

You don’t have to say, “Let me out of here.” You’ve been done let out. Do you love Him this morning? Do you see what I’m trying to get across? I hope it’s helped you.

Look, I’m not here to take your time and be rough on you. God knows I smack all the time, because, that’s my rotten nature. And, just forgive me for it.

I said a few things a little bit off. Just forgive me for it. Because where that Word is concerned, I’m just as sincere as I can be, look something’s happened, and I’m a part of It. I’m a part of It, in spite of myself.

How did I get moved down from Canada, down into Florida, where I had to meet a certain woman, who was a sister of another certain woman, who had a son that got to Brother Branham, because of Dr. Wallace Cobble, and I did the same thing?

How did the Baptist church in Ohio, vote me in, when I wasn’t even wanting to be voted in? I wasn’t up to vote as far as I was concerned, and they said, “We just made you our pastor.”

And they got me a house full of furniture, and I had to go back and tell the folk, I said, “This is kind of ridiculous, I’m embarrassed that I’ve been voted in, as a Baptist preacher up in Ohio. I guess there’s nothing I can do but go up there.”

Within two hundred miles of Brother Branham.

I want to ask you a question: do you think that it’s just a fluke that I’m here this morning? That’s no fluke. Not just an idea I had, or somebody had.

See look, I’m living in a realm today of predestination, and Reality. And I count myself a part of It. So, I just say, “Brother Vayle, how?”

These things are not explainable, it is a revelation. See? Now, I don’t doubt this morning, and I have no right to doubt. There’s is no way I can doubt that you are a part of the same revelation.

You might not know some of the things that I know. You might not have some of the assurance I know. Look, I don’t know the things that Brother Branham knew. I don’t have the same assurance that he had.

Yet, in my own measure, it is identical. See? Therefore as far as You are concerned, you’re not out of your depth this morning. Don’t worry. I’ve preached this three times in a row now.

Suddenly it’s going to cut across you in such a way, as to say, “Hey,” And you’ll know that you’re a part of that very thing, in a greater measure, than you ever realized before. See?

Let’s rise.

Heavenly Father, we’re so grateful for the time we could come together. Time well spent, time of joy, and rejoicing in Thy Presence.

Time, Lord, of fellowship divine. Wonderful time in Jesus Christ, knowing, Lord, understanding as we’ve never understood before.

And I can say this, Lord, You know it from my heart, that it was such a tremendous revelation just the other day, and it’s even greater this morning. To realize the simplicity that whosoever that I send, You receive, You’ll receive me.

And then receive, the One that sent Me, all one God, Son, Prophet, Bride, all one. Absolutely, no way can it be dissolved, that it’s been dissoluble.

And You’re gathering us together at the same time, making that great invisible union, veiled to the world, but absolutely known to ourselves individually.

And Lord, I know that soon that sweet Spirit coming into the Church, is going to make it known to the individuals not only individually, but individually to each other.

Oh, we know that, Lord, that’s absolutely that’s wonderful. That’s wonderful, Lord, to know that every veil has been taken away.

And O God, since veils of creeds and dogmas have been ripped asunder, and we’re gazing at You now, Lord, we pray the veils of malice and anger, deceit and anything, Lord, that may lie within us, which is not of Thee, may it also be ripped asunder.

Because, we know, Lord, though it is not fruit, we know fruit must be commensurate somewhere. Though it is not character, we know it’s in there somewhere. Though it’s not obedience, we know that’s in there somewhere.

And we believe, Lord, that these things will peak, in the perfect day. So Father, we have not laid aside these things which are so important, but rather, Lord, we look upon them now with the understanding and light.

Oh God, that the things will come forth now, are spiritual, wherefore, whereby before they could well have been, and no doubt were carnal. But now, we’re looking for the spiritual all the way down the line.

And Father, we praise You for that this morning. Oh blessed be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love. And that tie certainly was that great prophet, with the Word of God that You sent among us. And we’re thankful for it.

Thank God, we’ve got a rallying point, a place, Lord, where we know we met, and gathered unto Him, by the Voice of the last Trumpet, calling us unto the Wedding Supper.

How marvelous it is, Lord, Your grace manifested to us. And we’re thankful for it. We cannot praise Thee enough, but except that little praise we have, and, O God, may it be magnified moment by moment, not hour by hour, but moment by moment.

May It be accelerating us as the prophet said, Things were happening so fast out there, I can’t even keep track.” Lord, I know that’s the way it is, with us not being prophets it’s a whole lot harder.

But, Lord, we’re willing to believe this morning, that time was accelerated.. Seventeen years later, almost, O Lord, going on so close. Twenty years, pretty soon.

And how much more has time accelerated, since that hour that he left us in Your wonderful care? It’s been a great time, Lord, it’s been a wonderful time.

We look back we wouldn’t want it any other way, except, Lord, we would want ourselves, in a little better way of understanding, and some of these things that are getting refined to us now.

These things that we’re just grateful we’re standing here in the hour we are in. Where we are, we just thank You for It, Lord. And bless Your Holy Name, we cannot praise You enough.

May It show forth, God may It show forth. Now, unto the eternal, immortal, invisible the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

May the Lord bless you. Do you feel good this morning? Brother Branham said, “If you feel all scoured out.” I can’t say that my sermons do that. But, at least I feel one thing.

You feel in your spirits, a better spirit, toward everything, better understanding. See? Understand now, what’s been out there in the world church. Why it had to be that way.

Understand how that spirit out there in perversion, is coming right in brother/sister, to where you’ll see without a doubt, so close only the Very, Very Elected. See?

Knowing you stand is in Him alone. See? You don’t need to look to anybody anymore. [Inaudible]  You don’t look to yourself anymore, that’s the biggest treat in the world. My that’s the biggest treat in the world.

No more three-way mirrors. Forget it. I’ve got a one-way mirror. I trust you love the Lord. Well we’ll just let you go, someone’s in voice, without a doubt. There’s always someone or two.

We got a few, solid voices. Pete’s always in voice, he’s got a good voice, so we’ll sing ‘We’ll walk in the Light.’ Remember, don’t let your minds think that walking in the light is what you previously thought it was.

You’ve got to have light. The Light is a big thing, it’s not the walk, although walking is very important. It’s that Light. And if that Light is shining, you’ll be walking in It.

Because, what else could you do? Because, you can’t see without a light. And if it’s His Light, you’re bound to be walking in It.

So, let’s walk in the Light.