Presence #06

…You reveal Your Word by bringing It to pass, and then when It is brought to pass to be explained that we might know these things. And we thank you Lord, that this has been our privilege in this hour so that we can know the things of God.

They have been demonstrated as it was in the days of Paul, the Word did not come in man’s wisdom in demonstration and power of the Holy Ghost, God Himself, performing His Own Word thereby proving His Presence and showing It to the people.

And Father, we thank You that we have the duplication of It, so this age does not come behind any age, but rather now the full fullness coming upon us we’ll be ahead of any age.

And we thank You for that Lord, and we just know it’s just a matter of grace. It’s not a matter of anything we have within ourselves, but it’s a matter of foreknowledge and election unto predestination. And so we simply thank You for amazing grace in Your goodness.

Now, be with each one of us tonight Lord, and every way that it is necessary in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

[Brother Vayle makes local church announcements]

Now, we’re going to continue tonight with the Presence of God sermon number 6, and the sub title is, ‘Presence Revealed’ part two. And this will be very simple, but should be interesting as we look at the very simplicity involved therein.

Now, in two portions of the gospel we found that the Son of Man was both Present here on earth with the Saints, and revealing Himself to them. He was Present, He was revealing Himself.

Notice His Presence in,

And in Luke 17:, we go to find the revelation of that One that is Present, for It says,

Now, you see two portions exactly of Scripture dealing with the Presence and the revelation that settles it. He is here, and He is revealed.

Now the prophet said, “That is so.”

One, quote: The Called Out  01-09-58

[21]  The Son of man has already come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy, showing them His great Presence, doing the same thing He did when He was here on earth, revealing Himself like He did to Abraham.

Number two: “After almost two thousand years God has visited again.” [You’ll notice interchangeable, God and Son of Man.]

Three: Trying to do God a Service Without His Will 11-17-65

[57]  The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. [Notice again, interchangeability of title.] He is to come according to Luke 17:30. He’s the Son of man that’s to reveal Himself among the people.

Quote four: [Leadership – 12-07-65]

[36]  That’s right, the Holy Spirit is here. [Notice quote four, you have another appellation.] The Holy Spirit is here. It is Christ in Spirit form; His Spirit, the anointing is here.

Now, we need to understand how He will be revealed. This is what will be interesting as well as to understand how He is Present.

And we’ve already seen how He is to be Present and spoken of in the various titles or names delegated to Him. Son of man, God, Holy Spirit, Christ, and so on.

Now, to understand the idea of revealing anything, immediately we understand that whatever needs revealing must have been hidden. Now I know that that’s very simple, you say, “I knew that all along.”

Well not as you’re going to know it tonight, because you see, we’re using words without really getting into the depth of it. And we say, “Well hey there is a revelation.”

And we think in terms of you know, something brought to view, and we don’t stop to realize, hey, if it’s got to be brought to view, then it’s something that must be hidden, or at least obscured to the point where something must be done about it, in order that it might be correctly perceived.

Now, get the picture. Don’t let your minds get away from this, because… revelation will not mean one thing until first of all you understand that something has been hidden, something has been obscured. Now that sounds very easy, and it is.

Now, we already understand from Matthew 24:37-39. So let’s go back to It. And I’m going to add to what I said a minute ago.

So, we, I’ve said already understood from sermon number 1 on Revelation that according to Matthew 24:37-39 that we just read, that the very Presence of the Son of Man would be all but unnoticed.

Now do you see why I’m impressing you with the fact that He is obscured or hidden. He must be so obscured, or so hidden as to be unnoticed, and therefore relegated to what He should not be relegated to.

It’s the same old story, had the princes of this world known they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Had the people known you see, there is something that is covering up.

In other words, as Brother Branham laid the importance on us, some or one of the last sermons he preached: ‘Recognizing the Day and The Hour in Which We Live’.

In other words, the recognition of the person, the recognition of the eminence of the person, the recognition of the revelation of the person is all but completely nil.

In other words, it would just about be as though he hadn’t been there when it comes to majority.

In Luke 17:26-30 we read about the revelation, and how it was to effect, or be non effective.

It didn’t matter anything that God was out there with Abraham and two angels came down. Nobody paid any attention.

Now if you think for one minute that they were paying attention, let me just tell you what that age was like and what this age is like with this sexual dilemma of immorality which types false doctrine idolatry.

All right, now back in those days the angels came and they were looking around for some place to stay, knocking on doors, and old Lot came out, he’s the mayor of the city and he brings them in the house.

And the men came by and the knock on the doors and say, “Hey, bring those men out so that we may know them.” Homosexuals.

“Why,” he said, “No, he said, that’s not the thing to do if you’re going to be that kind of a person, you must not do that terrible thing. At least you can take women, even daughters, and so on, women, and use them for a natural use, but don’t do this horrible thing which God abominates.”

Now the angels struck those people blind, and in their lusts they still tried to get through the door. And you’ve got the same rotten condition right today.

People don’t care two cents that the Son of man has been manifested. They don’t care two cents been proven anything, they are still going to stick with their creeds and dogmas.

And it was just as though He hadn’t been here, and just as though He hadn’t been manifested, and just as though He hadn’t been revealed.

In other words, nobody is going to actually know about it, to amount to a hill of beans. The number of people who know about it are going to be so few as to be literally nothing.

And yet at the same time it’s the one revelation that the devil can’t stand and will not abide. It’s the number one gates of hell, destructive advances in war that the devil is perpetrating against the Bride on this very doctrine, because the Bride knows it. See?

Now, the revelation of the Son of man consequent, or subsequent to the Presence, mostly consequent will go all but unnoticed.

In Matthew 24:23-24, let’s read It.

Now you notice, It’s clearly seed. That’s the false presences’, and the false revelations will win the day while only a few Very Elected will be aware of the true Presence! And the true revelation of Him, Who is Present.

Now, under the false anointing, there will be no problem for the people who are false prophets to point out the power of the Resurrection which healings and miracles testify to.

They will also have no problems pointing out that this is the work of the Holy Spirit which is true. But they can’t separate the Logos dividing Himself into men, and the Logos standing amongst men. See, this is the difference.

No one denies that people are full of the Holy Ghost. No one denies that abiding Presence of a comforter to the individual.

But nobody except the Bride understands the mystery of the Seventh Seal of the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the Spirit to the Bride and dwelling amongst Her.

And this is the Seventh Seal, otherwise Revelation 10:1 is a false scripture. And Revelation 10:7 was a false prophet. There’s no way that you can get away from It.

Now, they will be correctly anointed as to proving His Resurrection, but incorrectly anointed as to revealing Him, because they’ll say, “Lo here, lo there. Here’s the One, come over here.”

And they’re going to be entirely confused as to the Holy Spirit of this hour being with us.

Now, I want you to notice something very special in Luke 17:22-30. So we’re going to go back and read It again.

Now, we’re going to take 22-24 first.

Now, 22 “You will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you won’t see It. You will want to see one of the days of the Son of man, but will not see that day.”

Verse 23: “And they shall say, ‘Lo here, or see there, [see there, see here,] go not after them’.”

Now, He’s talking about the day that they want to see, that they are not going to see.

All right. Deception is going to set in. Very major deception. “Don’t try to find that day,” said Jesus, “by searching for it. And above all, don’t follow the crowd.” It is not a community revelation. It is not a community manifestation.

Now, verse 24: “For as lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part of heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.”

Now, we will read and note carefully the last phrase of verse 24. “So shall the Son of man be in His day.”

It seems to contradict the last part of verse 22, “The day of the Son of man you shall not see It.” Because in one place He says, “You won’t see It.” Then He describes how It’s going to be, so somebody’s got to see It.

Notice verse 25 is the key: “But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.”

So verse 22 is saying: “There will never be another day when the Son of man, Jesus of Nazareth will be here on earth in His flesh showing Himself to be the Son of man.”

Never again will It ever happen in flesh, once He is destroyed, and killed upon Calvary. Once He dies upon Calvary that’s the end of it. After Calvary, and He rises and goes away, then there will come a time.

And in verse 23, lets us know that there is going to be a time when the Son of man will have His day, the same as He had on earth, and that day is surrounded by deception. He will not be here in the flesh.

He will appear as a light in verse 24. “For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, [shines] the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.”

Now, that Light is spoken of more clearly in,

So, He’s talking in here concerning the Light. He is talking of the Presence, and He is talking in terms of the revelation.

Now, It is the same Light from the east where He was flesh that Appears in the west by the Logos. Now you can see that according to John.

Now, the Logos then would be that which Appears in the west, and It would be identical in Its manifestation even as It was in the flesh in Its manifestation.

So therefore, the Son of man Coming at the end-time would come as the Logos which He was in flesh, but now He is not in flesh.

Now, the word ‘light’ of course as we view this word in both Matthew and in Luke is not Logos. But we know It is the Logos, because Paul called It Lord when It struck him down in Acts 9, and the Lord answering back said that He was Jesus.

So we know exactly what the Logos was. The Light that shone, the same Light, the Logos, would Appear in the west, and light up that section geographically which was necessary to be lighted up.

Now, the word for ‘light’ of course is not necessarily ‘lightning’, although it’s used as such per se, but it involves more than just a speedy movement, it involves the shining.

It’s a bright light, but in my understanding here this is not so much of a description of the light itself, but the geographical situation or description concerning it.

“The gospel of illumination,” as Brother Branham said, “going from east to west.” Its movement has always been from east to west and is likened to lightning in the eastern countries where the lightning moves across the skies from the east to the west.

Now, to prove this, we ask a question, was Jesus in the mans day on earth a flash from east to west? In no way. He was only in the east.

So therefore, we see the actual word means ‘a shining’ which has to do with the illumination, but with a brightness which cannot be refused in a denial.

So, what I’m trying to see here, looking at here is the fact that as Jesus in His day the Logos, was clothed in human flesh and what He did was not done in a corner, what He did manifested.

Like He says in John, “If I don’t do the works of My Father then condemn Me.” But He said, “If I do the works,” then He said, “let the works speak for themselves.”

Now, He said, “If you won’t accept me as a person, then accept the works and see where you go from there.” Because He said, “Let’s face it, there’s nobody that can do the works that are being done, unless God Almighty is with him and doing those works.

So, you got the same thing at the end-time. The same Son of man day. The same Presence, which was doing the works, the Father, the Logos would be manifesting at the end-time, and that same One would be declaring Himself through the manifestation and revealing Himself to the people, and that Light would continue to move from the east to the west.

And finally the Light in the west would be identical to the Light in the east, because the same One was doing It, manifesting and declaring Himself; which is not flesh, which is God.

The flesh was merely there as a tabernacle, as a convenience. It was there as a sacrifice, but the sacrifice is over.

The body is now used as a high priest. So you have God back to where He was dealing with people in His Own realm. His Own ‘milieu’ as you might say, or how God has usually done it which was with the Pillar of Fire.

The gospel to the Gentile started with the Logos in the east in Act 9, when the Logos addressed Itself to the apostle Paul.

Now, let’s take a look at what Paul said about It over here in the Book of,

Now you noticed at this point what he’s doing, he’s preaching the crucified Christ. At the end-time it is not preaching the crucified Christ. It is preaching Him risen.

Now, you’ll notice in here, that whatever was coming forth from the Logos was demonstrated to be the Logos. In other words God. It was not something that man could lightly turn to one side and say, “Hey, there’s nothing to this.” Because there was plenty to it.

They knew that God was there. There wasn’t one people that Paul went to, but was manifested that this was indeed was God manifesting Himself.

Now you notice how Paul then begins to do something about what was there.

Now you notice in here, he tells you that man of himself cannot receive the revelation, but it takes God to give It.

And Paul said, “I never received this revelation about the Logos. I never got anything on my own or from somebody teaching me. What I got was from God Himself, and now I am conveying to you in words which God have given me so that you will know exactly what I know from God and by God without you seeing Him.” See?

Now, that’s how it was in the beginning. And you’ll notice that the Book of Acts bears out what I am talking about here, because the Book of Acts is the demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power amongst the apostles as the apostle’s missionary, the people on out yonder.

Now, It is the same Logos at the end-time that comes to the Gentiles in Revelation 10:1-7. No difference whatsoever. There was the Logos manifesting Himself to a prophet.

At the end-time there was a prophet who receives the manifestation of the Logos. And that same One Brother Branham said, “What you cannot see by natural eye, I tell you by vision, I have seen It.”

The apostle Paul was able to do the same thing. He said, “What I saw, and what I heard, I am telling you.”

Now the very same thing happened in the west has happened in the east. The Pillar of Fire came, and in the Pillar of Fire was God Himself.

The same One that started the Message to the Gentiles ends the same Message in the west. So, the Son of man Who is Christ, Who is the Holy Spirit must be revealed.

Now, we took you to Matthew 16 on that for just a second, so you’ll understand what we’re talking about.

“Jesus said, ‘Who do they say that I the Son of man am?’

And they said, ‘this and that.’

But He said, ‘Who do you say?’

And Peter answered and said, ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'”

Now, you will notice that the two terms are synonymous. Son of God in Christ. Christ is the Anointed One. Now Son of man is that One, and He is called the Son of man because He was in flesh. But that does not alter anything.

It simply means that that One Who did what He did and manifested in flesh will come back without flesh and manifest Himself again to be that One. And what is that One? He is Christ the Holy Spirit.

Now, watch carefully. To be revealed He must be Present. He is Present, but His Presence is obscured from the world, and since one cannot see the Holy Ghost, he must be proven Present.

Now, then and only then can He be revealed. He’s got to be proven Present first, then He can be revealed.

In other words, that He can be identified if He can be shown to be there, then you can say, “Alright something is there. Tell me what is there?” See? “Tell me about it.”

So, He must be proven Present first of all. Then and only then can He be revealed.

Now notice how He is proven Present. We go to the Books of Acts 3, and you’ll see here why Brother Branham always said exactly what He said. Every single time he said it hundreds and hundreds of times. Peter after Pentecost, the great miracle at the Gate Beautiful.

And he says here to them, he said, “You killed the Prince of life, but God raised Him up. I know you did it in ignorance, as did your rulers. These things are written in Scripture that are now fulfilled.”

And then he says in verse 19,

You will notice here that It said, “When times of refreshing shall come from the Presence of the Lord.”

Now the word ‘presence’ means any part of the object that is visible to the eye. God is not visible to anybody’s eye. God is not visible to the prophet’s eye. No man can see God and live.

The only thing that anybody can see, even a prophet is that which God creates for Himself to tabernacle in, a creature form in order that that person can safely see Him.

So therefore now, he says here, “That part visible to the eye of the person concerning the Lord.”

Now, Jesus Himself did not even say, “My body is the visible contact.” But He said, “If I had not done the works that no other man did, they had not sinned, but now they have both seen and hated both Me and my Father.”

The works absolutely that no man could do and were proven to be authentic and genuine which no man could do that had to be from a supernatural Source, those works were the Presence visible to the eye of God.

As Brother Branham said, “Started a revival,” that at his day has lasted over thirty years and has not run out yet.

Now, that word ‘refreshing’ means ‘a fresh breeze blowing’. And there has been a worldwide revival, ever since the Presence of God came through the ministry of Brother Branham, which was literally the Presence of Almighty God identified and manifested by the works.

That is why invariably he went to the Book of John and talked about the works in the 14th chapter.

And invariably in every meeting he said, “If Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, and is the same yesterday, today and forever, He will do in His Spirit now what He once did on earth in His flesh.”

Now that is exactly what this is all about.

Then It says, “Even He the Lord, shall send Jesus Christ which was appointed after that revival. But, before He comes, there’s got to be Elijah who brings the Word of God to restoration.” Then It tells you what is going to happen.

So therefore, the Presence of God has been proven through a miracle ministry. That’s exactly why Brother Branham had ‘Thus saith the Lord.’

It wasn’t simply… now that Scripture there manifested in Him wasn’t simply just to prove that God was on the scene, though God was on the scene, was to prove that he was a messenger from God who would then bring the restoration.

So therefore, when you have ‘Thus saith the Lord’, and the thing came to pass, you were to hear that prophet, you were to fear that prophet, see?

And It says at the end-time that those who would not listen would be everyone destroyed, utterly destroyed, as It says in the Book of Malachi.

Now, they were not utterly destroyed back there in the days of Israel, because a remnant, or ‘a’ seed was left. But, and remember there is a seed and a remnant for the First Resurrection who come under the Blood and full of the Holy Ghost under the Sixth Seal or the Great Tribulation, but with the Gentiles it is over.

The seed is being gathered now, see? and there is no seed left. There’ll be nobody born-again when the Bride is closed off. There’ll be nobody saved after the Bride is closed off. All the foolish virgin will be saved now, or they’ll never be saved.

Now this is one reason you better start talking to your children. I think they’ve got an idea if the tribulation does come they can start calling upon God and God will do something for them.

Let me insist now, God will do nothing for your children. And they had better be told at your family breakfast, or at your supper hour.

You must begin to tell your children before it is too late, because it’s going to up to you and God. It’s out of my hands when I deliver my soul on this thought right here.

Let us understand that flat, it is all over when the Bride is closed off. There will be no more saved, no more foolish virgin it’s all over. But at that time foolish virgin can keep coming in, people can still be saved.

Now they’ll come up in the Second Resurrection. Now all of this is part of the Presence of the Lord and the revelation of God as per His Word which is being restored so that God’s Word can become effective.

And when God’s Word becomes effective it means our children can be saved. But who’s Bride, that’s up to God, that’s election. That’s where the woman takes the pattern as Brother Branham put it so beautifully on the cloth, it’s all the same fabric. The cloth is allotted out as to what goes in the garment, see?

Now, it is proven by His Presence that He is here. And it must also be proven that He is revealing Himself.

Now God does not talking to individuals, He has to use His Own special method which verse Brother Branham quoted back over here in the Book of,

All right, the prophet and the sign of the prophet, which the major sign is “Thus saith the Lord,” and the other sign is like the woman at the well, at the time of Abraham also where God was discerning through the human flesh.

But we also note, that this revelation, there was a revelation, at the time of Noah, and the time of Sodom. Both of those areas had prophets. God Himself came down in the one, and Noah was a prophet, and he was also preceded by Enoch who was a prophet.

And there is a prophet today to reveal Revelation 10:1-7. Verse 1, the mighty Messenger clothed in a Pillar of Fire that comes down as the Logos.

And verse 7, in the days of the Seventh Church Age messenger, that man is also a prophet, because he’s numbered with the prophets, for the Scripture declares, “The mysteries of God run out, as God has declared the good news by His servants the prophets;” numbering this man with the prophet.

Now he can’t add one thing to the Bible, there’s nothing he can add, nothing he can take away. So therefore, he is specifically a revealer.

Now that lines up with the Book of Acts the 3rd chapter. “For he shall restore the Word, all the Word from that day on.”

Now, that makes it Elijah. Now that’s why Brother Branham said, “The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.” That’s exactly why he also said, “It is God not a man, but It comes to a prophet.”

In other words, there must be the Logos and the prophet at all times, or the Logos… amounts to nothing. It’s the same old story, they say that noise is made by sound waves that hit the ear drum.

Then the question arise, if there be no ear drum, then is there no noise if an earthquake takes place? Well, I’d say I’m not going to argue the point, as far as I’m concerned there was noise, but the thing was, it was wasted.

So with the Logos be wasted without a prophet. There’s no way that you could have one without the other. That is no way the Logos can appear. So therefore, we see the Logos coming and we see a prophet.

Now, how does a prophet communicate from the Logos? Well, we found that over here in the Book of 1st Samuel.

And you noticed we constantly repeat this Scripture and that’s because that’s the only way you’ll become familiar with these Scriptures by the constant repetition.

So therefore, a vision can come by hearing. In other words, when we say, “I see,” it is because we understand.

So when the Word of the Lord becomes pertinent to us, and becomes available to our senses to understand, then we literally see and we are into the vision as deep as the prophet.

Now, the 21st verse to prove it.

And therefore the revelation is complete when the Word comes forth. So we’ve got Logos, Present. We’ve got prophet, present. We’ve got knowledge of the Presence, and the Presence revealed. Just that simple.

Now, let’s go read the back of the Bible, what I’ve got down here Brother Branham said in,

Anointed Ones in the End Time  07-25-65M

[118]  Now, I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this tape, you might have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, being that I was packing [or preaching] this Message. I have no more to do with it than nothing, no more than just a voice.

And my voice, even against my better judgment… [And his best judgment he] wanted to be a trapper. But it’s the will of my Father that I declare to do, and determined to do. I wasn’t the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared.

Now he tells you what the Appearance was at that time, and that Light was reflected I believe and seen by many people. Like Brother Branham said he’s baptizing up to five hundred, upward to five hundred.

The seventeenth person was being baptized on June 11th 1933 when that Light Appeared with a roaring sound. It’s the same roaring sound that I heard in Iowa in Waterloo, back in 1958.

Now:

[118]  I’m not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that [happened] as perfect as they are; I’m only one that’s near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used to say It.

Now, that’s exactly right. The voice that Sister Branham heard on June 11, 1933 was the voice of Brother Branham.

Now I’m not saying that Brother Branham himself spoke out as though he himself were doing it, but I have no doubt at all that God used his vocal organs.

For It says, in 1 Thessalonians the 4th chapter, it is not said the voice, the Shout is not said to be the voice of the Lord. So therefore, It’s somebody else’s voice. And that’s exactly right when He Appeared down there at the river.

[118]  I’m only one that’s near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used to say it. It wasn’t what I knew; it’s what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn’t me. It wasn’t the seventh messenger, oh, no; it was a manifestation of the Son of man.

It wasn’t the messenger, his Message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It’s not a man; it’s God. The messenger was not the Son of man, he was a messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ.

Now, that’s got to be right. “Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God.” He’s the One that you’re feeding on.

Now he explains it, “You’re not feeding on a man. A man, his words will fail, but you’re feeding on the unfailing Body Word of the Son of man.”

In other words, He’s telling you right there, “Eat my flesh and drink my blood absolutely at this hour is the most important of all.” Because without it you’ve got no life within you.

And we’re swing now from the type to a reality which is the Word and the Holy Spirit is One and feasting on the Word of God at this hour.

For this day will take a man right into the Resurrection without even dying, and those that are here now will guarantee to be in the Resurrection, because there’s a union going on which we will discuss later on in these messages, because there will be nine or ten more before I finish.

Now, so He is Present to reveal Himself amongst the people exactly as It says in the Book of…

Now, Brother Branham mentioned that spirit, the spirit of wisdom in the Church, the spirit of wisdom comes into the Church to make known to the Church by the revelation of the Holy Spirit.

Not by a man, no way. “I was only a voice, the One standing there.” Bringing the Church in and revealing what day we’re living in.

Just the same as Gabriel came to Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to the Church in the last days to reveal these great deep secret things.

Now, what great deep secret things is he revealing? He’s revealing, “the hope of his calling, the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,” which prefaces and… is the foundation of, the main spring, the power of the Resurrection. See?

Now, that’s why Brother Branham said, “This Message will bring a Resurrection.” Why It’s got to bring a Resurrection, because the One Who performs the Resurrection is here revealing Himself.

And remember, He did not say to Mary and Martha outside the day and the hour that there was to be a Resurrection, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that believes in Me, though he were dead yet shall live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never perish, do you believe this?”

Now, that was given to the First Church Age, because there would have been a Resurrection and a Rapture had the Church been completed. So that goes to this hour. So He’s got to stand there to raise Lazarus… see there’s no way you can ever stop it.

Now, so He’s amongst the people, exactly as in Ephesians 1:17, is by the Holy Spirit. Now once the Logos Presence is proven, and the prophet proven to be sent of God, God reveals Himself to the Bride and reveals all the mysteries.

Now, once She’s convinced that God is there and the prophet vindicated, the mystery shouldn’t be hard to take.

But isn’t funny so many people came, “Oh, I know God’s there, hallelujah, God’s working in Brother Branham. Oh yeah, he’s a prophet, but you know when it comes to doctrine, he’s way off.”

How could anybody be so sick, except Lindsay and du Plessis, and those who believe like them. You say, “You’re using people’s names.” Certainly, because they were the ones that said it.

I’m not going to shut up. The Bible doesn’t shut up. Why should I shut up? They’re the ones that said it. Except you can’t believe it, except when he’s in a trance telling about your toe nails and your stomach problems.

Could you think that God sent a prophet on the scene with that magnitude to tell about your toe nails and stomach problems, when there’s a problem of souls in the last church hour when men can’t see, but they think they see, they think they’re rich, and they’re poor wretched, miserable, blind and naked? See?

Women in the Presence of the mighty Angel caught with their hair chopped off, which is a type of the Church shown caught in her adulteries, and her unfaithfulness to her Husband, and she smarts off about it, and she’s happy about it.

She’s like the prostitute that actually commits her diabolical act of intercourse for male pleasure, that is his pleasure no more than taking a piece of bread and eating and wiping her mouth and say, “Well, that’s over with, so what?”

You talk about filth, you’ve got it right today. Now I’m talking about spiritual filth. Certainly a prophet came. Certainly the Logos was there. You’ve got to have an intermediary, and God’s always used a man. There has to be a prophet, see?

Now, then when He reveals Himself and all the mysteries are there which the Bride believes.

In other words, He shows Her, Her potential which comes through the prophet and She believes the same as Eliezer brought the magnificent gifts and laid them at Rebekah’s feet, she was more than convinced.

Then the Bride can behold Her Mate the revealed Word and share in His glory and go to the Marriage Supper.

Now let’s read in 1 Peter 1:2. It’s going to be a short message tonight, don’t need a long one.

Remember, these people understood the reality of the Resurrection and the Rapture in their day, but It couldn’t happen. He’s not talking about something millions of years down the road, although it’s two thousand years down the road now, hes talking to us.

That’s the Apocalypses which takes place in the revelation that we’re talking about, because the Word revealed is apocalypses. Something under wrath, something obscured, something that should come out.

Now he tells you, he said, “Because of this revelation which is coming, he said, there shouldn’t be anything because you know of that Presence that is to be there; there shouldn’t be anything that’s going to deter you, you just plow right on.”

As John said, “You won’t be ashamed of His Presence.”

Now, they understood that Presence, there was to take place in the first age had the Bride not gone astray, had the Bride been all in, but it’s put off for two thousand years.

So therefore, there was a grace that would be manifested, see? at the time of the Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, let’s go over It again to see. Now, It says here:

Now, Paul said the same thing. “You don’t sorrow for those that have gone on, because you’re looking for them to come back, and you’re going to mingle with them and you’re going to be changed. You’ve got a living hope, not a dying hope. You see what I’m trying to tell you, the same One that said, ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life’.”

Now listen, He didn’t say, “I am the Resurrection, which is the Life.” He said, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that believeth in me though he were dead, resurrection shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me doesn’t need a resurrection, he’ll live forever.”

Now, that’s what you’ve got here, and it’s understanding the Word of God that the Presence does it. Now they say, “Where are we going to put the Presence?” They say, “We’re going to put It up there.”

That’s a lie from the pit of hell, the Presence is here. Because that’s what he did, He came down His feet’s on earth. The Holy Ghost doesn’t stay up there, He descends. You see?

He’s going to walk amongst us. I’m not up there. You’re not up there, we’re here.

Now, he tells you right here that you’re kept by the power of God ready for you in the last-day.

Now, the same thing occurs in this hour.

That’s why I took you to Romans 8 a week or so ago and I showed you in there, that tremendous justification, that blamelessness, I think that was last week maybe, that blamelessness that reigns you charge-less before God, that Brother Branham came to up there in the Colorado mountains after the great blizzard was stopped.

And there the vision appeared to him, and then the little fawn, the doe and the fawn came. And he said, “I could kill you, but I won’t.” He said, “I made a vow to God I wouldn’t do it.”

And a Voice said, “If you kept your promise, how much more do I keep Mine?”

And he said, “Lee, from that day I do not have a sense of guilt.”

And I’m going to tell you, and I’m not boasting, but Lee Vayle is the one man who looked at the prophet and knew something had happened.

And he told me, Lee Vayle is the same man out there in Tucson, who looked at the face and knew that something else had happened, and he said, “Lee, since I’ve been to the mountain, he said, I don’t know the meaning of fear.”

Perfect love having cast out fear that same Spirit I saw in his wife before she died.

Let me tell you something, it’s real brother/sister. It’s real and people don’t care two cents about it. Sometimes I wonder if I care if you care. See? Time to get stirred up. See? Time for people to understand what’s gone on.

Let me tell you flat: It’s always as Brother Branham said, “He’s coming, He’s coming, He’s coming. He’s here, He’s here, He’s here.”

There’s certain things he said, “I do know, He’s coming, He’s coming. Certain things He’ll do, He’ll do.”

Then he said, “He’s here, He’s here, He’s here. He did it, He did it, He did it.”

And that’s what exactly took place under the Seventh Seal, and nobody cares two cents about it, looking way down the future somewhere. He’s already come and done it.

What do you care two cents about the fact that He’s going to come in physical body and you’re going to have a physical body if you know today that you’re united with Him by the Word, by the Holy Ghost and you’re part of Him now. It’s axiomatic.

If you had Rockefeller’s money you could spend like Rockefeller. The thing is to have it. You’ve got to have that first rung, and the Presence is here tonight.

That’s the way I bend every effort to cause you to understand, and this Word is full of it. He’s here, but He’s obscured.

The world can’t see Him. The Bride can see Him, but the Bride goes on looking around. God have pity. What kind of a Bride? Holy mackerel.

Listen: I’m married forty two years today. So you can congratulate and that takes care of that.

Now look, do you think for one minute I didn’t know who she was, and she didn’t know who I was? Or there’s some peek-a-boo, “Are you ready? Are you ready Alison? Are you ready? Are you ready Alison?

What about [inaudible] How about you? [said in a high pitch voice]

What’s the Bride doing? I ask you, what’s the Bride doing? Where are you tonight? Where are you tonight? Are you consumed with trying to get understanding and see where you’re are tonight? Merciful God.

Preachers still engaged in business. Everything under high heaven. Showing the rat race. Something’s wrong somewhere, it’s not with Jesus. It’s not with what He did, let me tell you flat, because I saw what He could do.

Do you say He would do it for you? I certainly hope so. I’m banking on it, because if He don’t do it, it ain’t going to be done. I’ve made up my mind on that one tell you flat.

That Spirit will be here like it was before… that Brother Branham saw in the ‘Curtain of Time’, it was on him. I wasn’t boasting a while ago when I told you. I’ve been allowed to see these things. See?

One of the roughest things is the illusion of easy times, easy going, deception, the constant comparing. The constant fact that the mule can outwork the horse. They’ll show more everything. Don’t worry, they will, but they haven’t got Him.

Now, he says,

Brother Branham looked at that writing on the wall in his home and he said, “Lee can you see those flames of Fire?”

I said, “No, but I can see the one that does see It, and that’s good enough for me.” And I stand on that. I don’t have to see any Pillar of Fire.

I was sitting at the table the other day after Sister Mede’s funeral, a guy from Tucson, got a work out there, supposed to have a Bride Church; he’s got that silly photograph, that’s supposed to have that, you know, the clouds on it.

And he talks, I say, “You still back in Pentecost?” I can be brutal and I care less. What’s it going to do for you?

“Well, he said, it could encourage people.”

I want to ask you a question: What encouragement can you have tonight from some picture, or some miracle, or something or other? What’s [inaudible] encouragement. How would you interpret it?

Then I say, “Tell me how you know what you’re saying is right? Just because you say it?” Hogwash! Shut up and sit down.

When God’s here all mouths are silent. Then somebody has some little picture. You’re going to encourage the people. Encourage how?

It’s one year ago and I preached in this pulpit and I told you God showed me, no more signs in heaven. No more signs down here as far as Lee Vayle’s concerned. It’s Word, Word, Word, Word. God in heaven, when are people going to smarten up?

This is the apostle who was there at the Transfiguration. Now we’ve got some person [with a] picture. [In a high voice Brother Vayle says,] “I could be [inaudible] because we have a picture. Oh I feel encouraged.”

Merciful God I can go to a spiritist meeting and beat that [inaudible] I can go to a false anointed and be fifty million miles off.

And It tells you right here, don’t listen, or see anything at all unless It’s in the Word. Brother Branham, man of God, we talk about him today.

Brother Evans… there that… Brother Branham sat in that room, mighty Angels of God, embodiment of the Holy Ghost swept in there seven days in a row.

The Shekinah glory, the Presence of God, all was there every single hour. That Man standing there and that mighty Holy Spirit in angelic form came and said, “So and so and so.”

The prophet said, “Hold it, let me get my Bible, my concordance.”

And somebody wants a little funny picture. Take your picture and get out of my sight. We haven’t got time for such nonsense. Such utter nonsense. Vulgar, mimicking a once and Eternity thing, even.

Oh yeah, he [Peter] says, “It’s a rough time at the end time.”

Now listen, he’s talking about the end of your faith, the salvation of your soul the prophets prophesied about, but couldn’t figure it out. It’s here today, and It’s figured out. It’s figured out, and they don’t even know He’s here.

And John the Baptist said, “There’s One standing here alone, I’m going to tell you about Him.” Told them about him.

“Oh how do you know him John?”

“Because He said, he told me how to recognize Him.”

“You wouldn’t of known him otherwise.”

He said, “No way.”

“Identify him.”

“The Lamb of God taketh away the sin of the world.”

That was such a puzzling thing that when John got put in prison and sat on his haunches for a year, or whatever it was, he said, “I better send messengers, hey, were You really the One?”

You talking about a tough proposition. Those old boys had it hard. Holy Ghost spoke, well those fellows they couldn’t believe it themselves. And they beginning messing around, we’re going to see what’s going to be.

You can’t challenge until it happens, and somebody’s got to tell you what happened. You don’t try to figure it, it’s laid out in front of you, and the prophet laid it out.

And he said, “All the time looking back, all the time looking forward, don’t know what’s going on.”

I say, “What’s going on today?” See, that’s the whole thing. They couldn’t tell even then.

What does that mean? When Paul spoke of the Resurrection, he spoke to us, he ministered to you and me. It’s for this hour! When he talking of the Rapture, it’s for you and me, it’s this hour!

Now, they didn’t understand, even Paul didn’t understand, and John did not understand what Brother Branham understood. Tells you right here. They didn’t know what you and I know.

Angels tried to look into It, and we’ve done seen It. I’m telling you about, He’s here and He’s revealed Himself. The mysteries of God, the great deep secret things are revealed to us.

Oh, brother/sister, It’s got to be here this side of the grave. This side of the Resurrection, because who needs it on the other side? When you’re changed in your flesh, Satan is bound by a chain of circumstances.

We’re talking about that today also. Why, the devil’s bound in the Millennium. Why is he bound? There’s no way he can appeal to us. No way. The grace that is brought at this hour, “Amazing Grace how sweet the sound.”

A grace that annuls the Scripture that says, “It’s appointed to man once to die, and after that the judgment.” A spiritual resurrection, [inaudible] Because a spiritual resurrection and a spiritual Word always precedes the flesh coming around him.

Now the flesh begins to come around the spiritual resurrection and there will be a group of people standing here ready. They won’t go into the grave, and the dead will come out of the grave and begin to appear to those who are ready to put on immortality. Wonderful thing.

Now, what’s doing it? Who’s doing it? You try to tell the people the Presence and Revelation is obscured. It’s a revelation all right, but you better have a telescope that’s big enough to count the fleas on Mars to be able to see It.

And you better start recognizing this, there’d be one out of a million if there’s that many going to see It. Maybe one out of a million. See? Because if a Thing must be revealed then It’s got to be hidden.

That’s what those Seven Seals did. They obscured, let just enough light to shine through to say, “Hey, something’s here, something’s here. Can’t quite make it, but there’s something in there.” That’s right, ripped those Seals off.

Then when they’re ripped off who’s going to tell you what’s there? It’s going to take God Himself.

So God came down, ripped all the Seals off, under the Seventh Seal Revelation 10:1-7. Brought forth the grace of Almighty God. See? He’s been revealing Himself. The Lamb of God.

Okay, let you go. Quote one more time what the prophet said:

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[21]  The Son of man has already come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy, showing them His great Presence, doing the same things that He did when He was here on earth, revealing Himself like He did to Abraham. [After two thousand years, God has visited again.]

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[57]  …the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Luke 17:30. He’s the Son of man that’s revealing Himself among His people:

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[36]  That’s right. The Holy Spirit is here, which is Christ in Spirit form; His Spirit, the anointing is here.

There’s other quotes where he tells you distinctly what I told you tonight already, the appearance came, showed Who He was. He revealed. It wasn’t just some great presence was here, It was that Presence, God Himself.

So there you are brother/sister, let’s get this and understand, when you talk about revelation it is not going to flash across the sky then millions might behold and believe.

It will be done not in a corner, so that the world will be condemned, because they didn’t come to it; let’s get that flat.

When Simeon took the little child he said:

It literally told you, done right in the open so everybody could see it, and they turned their backs on it. They didn’t bother going to the Word. The same thing was done today.

As Brother Branham said, “Jesus Christ had more success… the light in his ministry, in my life than He had in His Own life when He was on earth.”

He’s not talking as though he was a great person. Just saying that the Christ Himself, it was more wide spread influential. This same gospel of the Kingdom has gone forth, it’ll soon all be over. That’s right. But no man can deny that It was done.

Let the world try to deny Him. Do you think for one minute that this was done in a corner that God would have the right to judge the world at this time? No way.

What it was, the prince of this world did not know, “so they gladly crucified the Word of God, the Son of God to themselves afresh.” Then went on, “tasting the good Word of God, the powers of the world to come,” the things of the Holy Ghost.

But you see they ended up with a false prophet. “Narrow is that way, strait is that gate, few there be that find it.” See? All but the Very Elect will be deceived. Sure it was done before the whole world.

They said to Brother Branham, “Why are you preaching to the Pentecostals? Why do you go there?”

He said, “Because your church won’t let me in.” Now he said, “You’re Methodist why don’t you get the bishop of your church get them all together have them let me in?”

They wouldn’t do that. Finally got to the place where just the Full Gospel Business Men let him in. Then it got to the place where they organized.

They said, “We’re Trinitarians, drop dead Brother Branham.” So he had to drop dead.

Wasn’t no use to him living any longer. What’s to live for? How long do you think the Bride’s going to be here? Not very long. She’ll soon preach to the eternally lost.

When the Holy Spirit ceases saving people, the last one’s in, the Bride will preach to the eternally lost. But the prophet said that’s going to happen. See? And then they got to go on home.

But you get the idea what I’m trying to tell you? He is Present and He is revealed, but people don’t know that He’s here, and they don’t know that He is revealed. It is obscured, and it’s obscured by the falseness, the falsity.

It’s obscured so that only the Very Elect, and I mean not just elect, Very Elect, those that are going to be right here the end-time, will not be deceived. They’re the only Ones that are going to see It.

Now, I want to ask you a question: How are you going to see with your heart and mind if you don’t even know about It? See?

Let’s rise.

Heavenly Father, we know Lord that we might pose many questions tonight. We might give many answers Lord, that are not too satisfactory to a lot of people, but Father tonight I know that You’ve got around all of that by Your Word that You said that You revealed It to babes.

You didn’t reveal It to the wise and prudent, but to the simple You never called in many mighty, You might have called in a few which You did, they had to unlearn what they learned, and undo what they’d done which was the right thing to do.

And so we’re grateful tonight Lord, that we can be here with the simple to You, the nuts as we might be called, which is alright too. Those that are in heresy according to their way of thinking that’s all right too.

The off-scouring of the earth, that’s alright too. But Lord, we believe we can also say rich in faith, and heirs to the Kingdom, and whose faith may be tried tonight, yet it will be tried, that’s fine.

We’re in that day when manifested grace is coming forth, the day of the Appearing Lord, when it’s time for the inheritance which has been reserved in heaven. And not only in heaven, but one breaking forth on earth at the same time that we have access to. What a great thing that is.

Lord, it’s so nice to be with Your people that get stirred up with them in Your Presence. That our minds Lord can begin to rotate and revolve and get excited, and our heart begins to leap a little bit. It does us so much good Lord, to have stimulation.

Merciful God, and You are merciful and in Your mercy Lord, tap us a little more upon these hands and upon these heads, because we need them to be more stirred up day by day in our homes, and in our work and everywhere as we think constantly upon Thee and Thy Presence to ripen, and to joy with a joy and a rejoicing we haven’t had before, so that these things can be put to one side that are consequential anyway, there’ll be no memory of them.

So why do we want to fool with them?

Let there be only that which is eternal, which is He Who stands here tonight whose declared Himself to be “I am the Resurrection and the Life. I’m going to bring forth the dead, and I’m going to stand here as the living will not die.”

Father, that’s wonderful, that’s tremendous. That is so tremendous oh God, but only tonight by faith Lord can we count ourselves apart and that’s fine by us, because that’s the way You said it would be.

Now that’s the way You said it would be, that’s the way we want it to be. Thank You for it. Lord, may Your grace and mercy be with each one. As we go my God, we pray You’ll strengthen us to the end of our faith and our souls, and our spirits, and our minds.

Now, let it trickle down into the bodies, which would be great, to put wings upon our feet. To put joy and gladness in our tongues and our mouths.

A light in the eye Lord, and a flame in the mind. Hearts will leap up with earnest desire and ripen in the Presence of Him Who is that great Son. Lord God, bless those that aren’t with us tonight. We know some couldn’t come, we know some are sick, we’re sorry for them.

We pray especially for the Grant’s, ask You my God to bless them. It was so nice to see Nelson out, and yet so sick Lord, bless him we pray for his effort oh God. Be merciful now at this time Lord.

Let the sweet Spirit of Christ among us in his behalf Lord, go forth oh God, and do that beautiful work in his life, and her life Lord, to raise him up and give them the strength that they have need of we pray oh God.

And for others Lord, we pray that You’ll pour the oil upon the troubled waters which we know this is the troublesome time, but we know Lord it’s really inconsequential, especially since He Who stills the storms is walking on the waves at this hour, and approaching our little frail craft that He might take us safely over.

So Father, we thank You tonight for mercy and grace and continue with us Lord, lead, guide and direct.

Now, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the Only wise God, be all power, and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

‘The Lord bless you.’