Questions and Answers #11

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father we realize that our song concerning Your Presence is not a lie, it is not something that is vane, it is not something that we have conjured up in our own understanding any more than the apostle Paul did.

We recognize reality and as we recognize Your Presence, we recognize also the fact that as You appeared to Moses as literally in a flash and revealed Yourself, it was thus the same with the apostle Paul, it was thus the same with Brother Branham.

And we’re not asking to be their stead, but we’re asking Lord, that Your same power of revelation be granted us tonight Lord, because we know that we have with us even within ourselves the greatest enemy of all, that is the mind which cannot be subject to God on the grounds that it is not part of God.

But we know that it can be subject Lord by the Holy Spirit, and we would yield to Him tonight; that You really help us as the Teacher who is the Teacher and guide us aright that we might not make any mistakes, giving anyone a false hope, or taking away from that which is true in any way shape or form.

Because Lord, we know without You we cannot survive, there is nothing we can do or think that is of us Lord.

You certainly put us in a place like a strait-jacket and yet it’s for our own good, because if we can put our hands in Your hands tonight speaking concerning revelation that which is contingent to it, we know we are in the safest place in the world.

We’re safe in the Rock, and that’s what we desire tonight. Help us we pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, I got a question tonight here, and a brother writes me this letter and he said:

“I am one recently by the grace of God that’s had the opportunity to hear the ministry of God’s true Word in the Message.”

“I was wondering if I could possibly solicit your advice on a topic which has been troubling me. Since this initial exposure I have found that something has really ignited within me, and find that I have an insatiable desire for the Word.”

You see, that alone would let you know that brother definitely has the Holy Spirit, because that’s the evidence.

Now this is something that he doesn’t really realize as you’ll see as we go along here, but you just follow with me we’ll see what we come to which is going to be a very difficult situation.

I’m going to read a lot, and we’re just going to see how the Lord will help us.

“I now feel that I have been saved, but I find myself longing for more. I have tried to read as much of Brother Branham’s books I have been able to get hold of. In the course of this pursuit I’ve read on many occasions where he stated that the natural course of salvation occurs in three following steps. Repent one, two be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit whereby you’re sealed unto the day of redemption.”

“Now in the course of my studies, I’ve listened to Brother Branham’s Seven Seal series and believe it, and the rest of his ministry with all my heart as the truth.

But, I’m somewhat puzzled at the Seven Seal Message. In seeking to find out more of this mysterious seal and the half hour of silence which follows which Brother Branham himself was under and unable to elaborate on, I’ve listen to some recent tapes put out by some various preachers in today’s Message.

I’ve found that within the Message today there appears to be a split in some of the fundamental teachings. Mostly in particular is the fact that some feel that 1963 mark a dispensational change which precipitated the coming Parousia of the Lord.”

“This meaning that the church is now in the rapture cycle and that the Holy Spirit presence has been replaced by God the Father’s presence, Logos, which occurs before we meet Jesus in the air at the time of the Rapture. On the other hand, other ministries state that we shall meet the Lord in the air and there’s no dispensation change before this occurrence.”

“Therefore, my question is such, that in my search for the truth I was wondering what your stand is on the matter as one who knew Brother Branham personally.

In my own personal life as I stated earlier, I feel as though I’ve been saved but not reached the sealing spoken of by Brother Branham.

If in fact there has been this dispensational change whereby we’ve entered a new relationship with God the Father in the soul-to-soul context, then what are the signs if any that God has received our sacrifice?”

“I’m told that this relationship, intercessions by the Holy Spirit are replaced by direct communications outlined in Romans 8:15, under the spirit of adoption of God’s elect.

This being the case, as Brother Branham earlier statements about receiving the Holy Spirit in lieu of God’s acknowledging and sealing His elected son or daughter changed in regards to this new relationship.

And if so, what are the signs and/or manifestations of the course of salvation under this spiritual Parousia?”

Now, there are many thoughts in there you can see that he has read a lot of Brother Branham’s sermons, and at the same time he must have had some fundamental teaching, on the other hand that gets in his way of understanding of some of the things that he is anxious to learn about.

Plus the fact in his anxiety no doubt he’s trying to find various ministers who teach what Brother Branham teaches, and try to get their understanding of the revelation that God gave to Brother Branham.

And of course this is alright, but it can also lead to difficulties, because one person will say one thing and another.

Now, to begin with considering my personal relationship to Brother Branham, let me assure you what he’s asking you about in this particular question, or these questions, I did not have any contact with Brother Branham as to go through these particular questions that he has in mind and get an answer from Brother Branham apart from the Seven Seals themselves, and the other sermons which he preached even before or after that particular series.

Now, it is true that Brother Branham does seem to leave us in a sort of limbo based upon his own inability to give us definitive understanding of the Seven Seal when he preached it to us back in 1963.

But, according to other Messages which Brother Branham brought to us we find that the questions that he did not answer in the definitive as we wanted them more definitive, or the greatest definite answer, he actually did answer down the road in ‘Questions and Answers’ or he brought it out in the various Messages which he preached later on.

Because you’ll notice that Brother Branham particularly put under the Seventh Seal the sermon that he waited so long to preach, and even that did not seem to do us a great deal of good; unless of course you have been married and divorced and remarried and then left you in a limbo also in my understanding, because I never got to the bottom of it in the most definitive matter I would like.

Except to just say, “Hey, I take you back to the Bible back and forth where he took you, and you’ll have to sit there where I’m not a prophet and can’t direct you further.”

But, he put that Message of ‘Marriage and Divorce’ under the Seventh Seal, as well as in his last series in Jeffersonville when he brought out the sermon on ‘Melchizedek’ which we found to be absolutely in a depth of revelation that no other person could possibility bring to our attention.

Because it was something that only Brother Branham could bring us being designated as to actually who he was.

Now, what I’m going to do, and I hope I don’t read too fast, and we’re going to have to have time to finish this tonight, is to read out of the Seventh Seal and I will not be doing what I would like to do which is to take literally every single sentence and to number it and to weave it back and forth to see just what we can get out of it.

But since the brother’s question is ‘The Seventh Seal’ and he feels perturbed that Brother Branham under the Seventh Seal was not able to express himself as to the definitive revelation, and others have brought him other teachings on the subject.

He’s wondering just what has happened and what is happening, and what is going to happen according to what era, or what stage; he calls it a dispensation in which we are in.

First of all, I do believe he’s a fundamentalist, because he uses the term ‘dispensation’. That is a term that Brother Branham did not use as people use it.

If you go to dispensations under men like Schofield you find innocence and conscience and human government and law and grace and so on. But Brother Branham never expressed that, he was not a dispensationist.

Brother Branham used the term ‘dispensation’ once in a while concerning the Godhead as to the major role of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, where God Himself was revealing Himself and operating in that particular area, at that particular time.

So when we use the word ‘dispensation’ we cannot use it as the fundamentalist used it. If we wish to say something like a ‘dispensation of grace something dispenses to me’, we could do that.

But in the understanding as I have seen Brother Branham he was not a dispensationist and of course that is the only way you can truly study the Scripture.

I know dispensation seems to make it easy for people, but it is not the way that Scripture must be handled.

Now, Brother Branham in the Seventh Seal on page number 536.

536-4]  Now, the 8th chapter only reveals the scene… the scene of the Seventh Seal where nothing else is revealed. [In other words it’s in heaven and that’s what you’re looking at and nothing is mentioned.] Now, it has nothing to do with the 7th chapter of Revelation.

Now, it might be wise to just go back and see why he’s saying this if there is anything that we might find something I don’t know.

In the 7th chapter you’ll notice in chapter 6, the First Seal, the Second Seal, the Third Seal, the Fourth Seal, the Fifth seal, the Sixth Seal.

And then the Seventh Seal does not appear in the 7th chapter because there is an interpolation. Brother Branham is telling you the Seventh Seal doesn’t have one thing to with the 7th chapter.

The 7th chapter is the numbering of Israel and he speaks a long time on it, and brings out many, many things that are very pertinent before he even goes on to the Seventh Seal, all the while telling you the Seventh Seal has nothing to do with the 7th chapter.

Now, that’s where man put his fingers in, I guess God allowed it; God even could have even been behind it. But the whole Bible has never been in chapters and verses.

It started out in chapters and verses by a very clever Roman Catholic priest who was making his rounds riding on horse and he found out it was, very difficult to read the Bible, so he began marking it off in divisions.

And of course, these divisions then have been later on taken up by the Protestants where men like Schofield began making divisions they should not have divisions with. And then you find a lot of interpolations that they didn’t explain.

And say, “Leave out the interpolation and get the sense.”

So by the time you have where the prophets are revealing the things of God a mystery and yet containing a mystery even then they are revealed, and you got man putting his hand in and messing it up. My you’ve got a mess on your hands like heaven knows what.

So all right. This 7th chapter though is very much an interpolation.

And what you could do is you could just rip it out of your Bible as concerning the Seventh Seal as to their chronology and their revelation at this end time.

Now Brother Branham did some very fine revealing on this. But, hey, that’s down the road. Nothing to do with us, that’s Israel.

So you could say then as far as the Gentiles concern you just deal with chapter 7. And then it says here under that great Sixth Seal, which is the great tribulation, verse 17.

And when he opened the Seventh Seal there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour.

So that’s all you have to read about is the Seventh Seal is that one little verse and it doesn’t tell you anything except there was silence. It is the revelation of the Seventh Seal, it’s perfectly mute.

Now, he says, “I’ll try a few places and show you all the way back from Genesis this 7th chapter and then he said this Seventh Seal is spoken of.”

Now, the Seventh Seal has nothing to do with the 7th chapter so why talk about it? You see what I’m trying to tell you?

So he’s not saying here in my understanding, I’m going to take you back and go through the Old Testament on the 7th chapter, because that’s not what we’re looking at.

I’m not here to discuss it, except I’m telling you about it. Remember he tried to preach on the trumpets, he was going to do it and God says, “No way, they don’t belong to you.”

So he preached on ‘The Feast of the Trumpets’ which has much to do with us.

Great information, but on the trumpets themselves, no! That’s under the two witnesses Moses and Elijah, the two other prophets that’s a different period entirely. So you leave it alone.

That’s none of your business, it’s none of your business. You know much learning doesn’t make us mad. A lot a people want to know too much.

That’s why these guys in Europe are so messed up. “Oh, Brother Branham didn’t preach this, he didn’t preach that, oh my, I see this, I see that Brother Branham.”

Forget it ‘dummkopf’. Shut up and sit down. And I mean it. You’re trying to put two or three recipes to the cookie batch.

First thing you know you’re going to pour in some cement, then watch it break your teeth out. Oh you made your cookies, eat them, break your teeth out. Make your fruit out of sour grapes, set your teeth on edge.

See what I’m trying to tell you? If the prophet speaks and if he doesn’t speak keep your nose out. Don’t pretend you know something.

That’s where you get all the trouble in the world, see? I don’t pretend to know anything; I just try to go to the prophet.

Now, he said, “The Seventh Seal,” that what he wants to talk about, he said, “I can take it back there. I can take you back to the Seventh Seal, and show you in the Bible right in Genesis; for the Seventh Seal is a book of silence on mysteries.” 

“Ok, tell me, give me the mystery of the serpent?” All you can do is guess.

“Oh I know is that the beast had intercourse with Eve.”

“Oh, do you? Maybe it was an apricot.” See what I’m trying to tell you? All right the seed of the woman go ahead and tell me. You can’t do it.

You say, “Brother Vayle I can, because I heard the prophet.”

Yes that’s right you can, because you heard the prophet. But what if you hadn’t heard the prophet vindicated?

There’re lots of things in Scripture that are absolute silence, unless God chooses to do something about it, the seed of the woman.

So all right Isaiah said, “A virgin…” He did not. He said, “A young woman.” Go and look at your Bible.

And Brother Branham correctly said. “Every man wanted his daughter to be that one.”

Oh, it would take a man for his daughter, because they didn’t believe in the heathen concept the gods coming down and having intercourse with women and bringing demi-gods into the world.

They said, “Forget it. That’s heathenism; we don’t go for that tripe.”

So the angel came on the scene, he said, “Mary you’re chosen to have a baby by divine intervention.” Uh? Mysteries. Mystery, the silence of the Seventh Seal.

So okay, Brother Branham said, “I’ll take it back.”

Now, I’m literally telling you, I’m guessing based on what Brother Branham taught, and I know what he taught, not saying as I know finally as nobody else knows, but I know what he taught.

I’m literally standing here believing I know what was in his mind, because he said, “The prophet that comes in the time of the latter rain, will be the prophet of the former rain, the same original teaching and he will sow the seed of the entire Bible from the serpent to that prophet,” as he himself standing there. See.

Okay, I have to talk about these things… Shee, I can see 3 sessions if we don’t if we don’t get another one.

Seventh Seal The 63-0324E

[536-5]  Could you remember this morning bringing these things up? And watch tonight bringing them up, and you find out when it gets to that Seventh Seal, she cuts off. Jesus Christ, is speaking Himself, told of the end time and when He got all six Seals [Now that’s back in Matthew 24.] when He got to Seventh, He stopped. There it is. See? It’s a great thing. 

Now, it’s a great thing that’s under that Seventh Seal of silence. Okay. Now, he’s going to go back to the beginning:

[537-3]  When the first went forth, [the first beast] was a lion. That was [the] prophet– Word. The next went forth the work, sacrifice. The next come forth was the cunningness of man. [You see, was the ox then the face of a man.]

But we are promised in the last day that to return to the Church again for the benefit of straightening up all that has been misled–misundone– [that means] left undone. For it’s predicted here that the seventh angel’s Message would finish the mysteries of God.

And then we’ve went through It all. [And] we see that It’s perfectly in harmony with the Scriptures. That’s the reason

What’s the reason? What’s he talking about? Under the Seventh Seal of silence it’s going to take a prophet to go back to the beginning, because if the Word came by a prophet and there’s something in this Book that needs attention, it going to take the same anointing of another prophet to get it.

So he tells you, “Hey, this is a blank, this is a silence, who can know it?”

“Oh God, send a prophet.”

Isn’t that exactly what you need?

“Oh,” they say, “Well it’s an educated man, it’s this guy, it’s that guy.”

Oh, shut up.

Who wrote the Bible? Prophets. Who understands His Book better than the Author?” Nobody! Bring on the prophets.

You say, “Bless God, I’m my own prophet.”

“I know that honey, I’ve watched you.”

Twenty two years old when I knew it would take a prophet to open the Book. I waited until 1963, to see the culmination.

In 1963 I was what, forty nine years old. Seven, sevens, rings pretty good doesn’t it?

I’m kidding you, because you see sevens are perfect numbers and I’m putting myself in a seven just to kid you, and see if you can see through my little ruse here.

No, it’s nothing, cause seven times seven makes me anything, I just like to kid a bit.

They went through it all. Okay.

Now, there’s only one person could fulfill that, only one Spirit that’s  ever been on earth that I know; it would either be… It would have to be Elijah in his time.

And it was predicted that it would be, which is nothing but the Spirit of Christ. [Because that’s the spirit of prophecy.] Which Christ come, He was the fullness. He was a prophet. He was the God of the prophets.

Now notice:

[538-3]  Called, in perfect harmony with the Scriptures of Daniels last three and one half years. Notice, Israel’s believers only are told, in the Old Testament, to believe their prophets after the prophet have been vindicated.

[That’s Deuteronomy 18.] “If there be any one among you spiritual or prophets I the Lord thy God will make Myself known to them, and speak to him in visions and dreams.” Through the interpretation of dreams.

I could to jump around here, don’t mind me. Now notice: But when the seals were announced they were all in one great divine thing to call out a group of people. Who said so? Prophet said so.

“Well, bless God, I can read, I take Him up, my opinion’s different.”

Have your opinion, who cares. You don’t even know if tomorrow morning you’re going to wake up, let alone produce an event down the road by the power of God. People are so stupid yet they think they’re so smart.

Listen, the devil sealed up the sum of wisdom in beauty, and he’s a four portions rotten lousy crook. So that’s what you are? You’re going to be smart?

Be my guest, I’m not so dumb old Vayle up here. No problem, I would to God I could get my brains plumb out of the way. See, call out a group.

Okay, let’s go over here now. Now he said,

[555-6]  We’ll turn to the 1st verse 8th chapter. I know you’re tired. Now, just try to listen just for a few minutes now. And God of Heaven help us, is my prayer. 

We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time, of all things. “We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things.” 

Who said so? Where do you find that in the Bible? The only place is in Revelation 10:7. So 10:7 must be the Seventh Seal, right?

Well come on, you give me a Scripture. The prophet is teaching the Bible.

He tells you flat, “It’s Elijah, which is the Spirit of Christ.” The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, not a man, God, but it comes by a prophet. By a man which is a prophet.

“When you see God descend from the heavens stand before groups of men and declare Himself as ever He did.” You don’t believe that, fine. Have fun.

Remember there’s something down the road and I’m going to meet you there. And you’re going to meet me there too, so it works both ways.

All right.

[555-7]  The Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things. [The end of time of all things.] That’s right. The things written in the Seven-Seal Book, sealed up of the plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world, it every bit ends.

It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It’s the end of struggling nature. It’s the end of everything. In there, it’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials.

It’s the end of the earth. It’s the… It’s even the end of time. Time runs out. The Bible said so. [And that’s after the Millennium. Seventh Seal. Now he said so.]

[555-8] Matthew, the 7th chapter… I mean, Revelation 10th chapter 7th verse. Time runs out. The Angel said, [There it is.] “Time will be no more,” when that, in the days of this great thing to happen. Everything runs out in this time, the end of the Seventh Seal.

[555-8]  Matthew the 7th chapter–I mean Revelation 10th chapter 7th verse. Time runs out. The angel said, [There it is.] “Time will be no more,” when that–in the days of this great thing to happen. Everything runs out in this time, the end of the Seventh Seal.

Now, on what authority does he say it? “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” Never having failed.

And if you can’t trust that, you can’t trust anything. And if you trust anything different you’re going to die with your trust.

Let’s keep going,

Notice, it’s the end of the church age…

Who said so? You know the end of the church age? Well he’s getting pretty close anyway, I can take that by Scripture myself and make a pretty good… pretty good case of it I guess, I suppose, I don’t know, I’m not too good at making any case.

But he says here in verse 25 of the 11th chapter.

Not the times of the Gentiles, the fullness. The Bride is completely made up. Israel will be back in the homeland and according to Paul the Resurrection must, and will take place.

Now, if there’s only seven seals then it makes completion. The Seventh Seal has got to occur at this time, because its run out there’s nothing left. Mysteries are gone.

So therefore Revelation 10:7 is the Seventh Seal. Particular, but Brother Branham went further, being a prophet he was a hundred percent right; Revelation 10:1-7 is the Seventh Seal.

Because the Mighty One that comes down does it all with the prophet standing there and it’s only in the days of Voice of the prophet, because God does not have His Own Voice.

When the Lord descends with a Shout, the Greek absolutely shows it is not necessary and it is not the Voice of the One descending. It is the One that is already here.

All right.

[556-2]  It’s the end of the church age. It’s the end of the Seven Seals. It’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the vials, and even ends the ushering in of the Millennium; that’s on the Seventh Seal.

Now listen,

[556-3]  It’s just like firing a rocket [a Roman candle] into the air. And that rocket explodes here, and it goes up, then it explodes again. It puts out five stars. One of those stars explodes and blows out five stars from it; and then one of them stars explodes, blows out five stars from it. See, it fades on out.

That’s, what the Seventh Seal. It just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It ends the time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time… Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal. 

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[556-4]  Now, how is He going to do it? That’s what we don’t know. Isn’t it? We don’t know. It’s even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the Millennium.

Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great, that, Heaven was hushed by It,” in silence for the space of a half hour”. Now, is It great? What is It? It was hushed, Heaven. There wasn’t a thing moved for a half hour. 

Now, [listen] a half hour might not be long if you’re having a good time. But, in the suspense of between death and Life, it seemed like a Millennium.

That’s what happening right now; believe me the people can’t take it. The kids can’t take it, too many wild hormones. Some of you get offended, because we talk about it.

But the Bible said, “It’s a shame to speak of those things which are done in secret.”

But when you do it in your own house and out there in the street and all, it’s no longer a shame to speak of it, yet better talk about and do something about it.

You might be happy having your kids messing around not sitting down telling them the truth, letting them know the truth.

But I’m telling you; now that AIDS, they got the same consequence of AIDS they can’t even find the virus that kid came home messing around. You’ll die with those AIDS, because you didn’t put your house in order.

“So I believe Brother Vayle, a thousand fall my left hand, ten thousand on my right, I’ll be alright.”

Listen, you may be a Kentucky concernedly eat your chicken, but that’s not the Word of God.

I got Scripture that says, “You louse up God will take you out of this world.” Brother Branham said, “Something has to take you out of this world,” what’s going to take you out of it?

All right, a long time.

“Oh, too long to wait, I can’t wait.”

Uh? You’ve got to wait. What are you going to do about it?

“I’m going to leave it.”

That’s like the guy said, “Go down to the ocean, poke your finger in the ocean and pull it out and see how big a hold you left.”

You think you can get God upset? I’ve got news for you, God never gets upset, nothing to get upset about. He’s in perfect charge.

Now listen: when it’s between life and death it might feel like a thousand years.

[556-5]  It was so great! Jesus never mentioned It. None of the rest of them. John couldn’t even write of It. No, he was forbidden to write here. See, just didn’t write, just is silence.

[557-1]  Four and twenty elders that stood before God there harping with their harps, they quit playing their harps. Angels hushed their singing in Heaven.

Think, holy Cherubims, Seraphim’s, that Isaiah saw It in the temple with six sets of wings [two over the thing and so on, crying,] “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.” [And so on, just] they shut up.

[557-2]  No angels singing. No praises, no altar service. No nothing. [No altar service nothing. Part of that last one didn’t need child training.]

There was silence, hush, deadly silence in Heaven, for a half hour. All the host of Heaven was silent for this half hour, when this Seventh-Seal mystery in the Book of Redemption was broke open. Think of it. But, It’s broke. 

People tell you it wasn’t open, wasn’t broken, what about it? You know what a sealed book is like? Here you take the seal and roll it up like this and put seals, one, two three, four, five, six.

Now if the seventh seal is still hanging there, it’s still sealed, right? Now, come on, come on.

People don’t want to believe the prophet, they want their own ideas. They can have their own ideas, who gives a rip? I try to do my best, but what can I do.

The Lamb breaks It. You know what? They were awed by It, I believe. They didn’t know; there It was! They just stopped. Why? What is It?

[557-3]  Now, none of us know. But I’m going to tell you in my revelation of It. And now, I am not prone to be a fanatic. If I am, I’m ignorant of it. See. I’m not given away to such as “leerious” [or] carry-ons and imaginary things. I have said some things might been kind of strange to some people. But when God comes around, behind It and vindicates It and says It’s the Truth, then that’s God’s Word. It may seem strange that way.

He’s letting you know, “Hey, listen, I’m going to tell you something that you better believe I got it from God.”  Kind of what he calls, “Throwing the old curve.” 

“Oh I see, Brother Branham didn’t really know. So now nobody knows.”

Keep reading.

[557-3]  Now, as certain as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the revelation that revealed. It’s in a threefold manner.

Hey, hold it, just a minute. He knows he’s there. I was there. I knew he was there, I knew I was there. Don’t try to kid me; I wasn’t there because I wasn’t? I’ve got witnesses.

I can even tell you where I stayed, who stayed with me. One man’s dead, two are living. Get the tapes; you’ll hear my name on it. I was there.

Then this is a revelation. No problem, He’s going to give you the real McCoy right from God.

[557-4]  I will speak to you, by the help of God. Let’s go over there first. Here’s the revelation to begin what… I want to tell you what it is. What happens is that those Seven Thunders heard thunder and was forbidden to write, that’s what the mystery is laying behind those Seven consecutive Thunders rolling out. 

Now, what is he talking about? The Seven Seals. Now he’s up to Revelation 10:4. “Seal up those things.”

So, all right, we’ve got the Seven Seals and from verse 7 up to verse 4. Now, if that’s the case, then the One in verse 1 that came down and did the talking makes the Seventh Seal all the way Revelation 10:1-7.

And in there, there’s the Seven Thunders. Now, let’s prove it. 

[557-5]  It’s the secret that no one knows about. John was forbidding to write about it, even, even write a symbol about It. Why? This is why, there was no activity in Heaven; it might give away the secret. Do you see it now? If it’s so great it must be included, because It’s got to happen

It’s got to be there. It’s got to happen, but its put under wraps. It was already written in the Book, it can’t be something further to be written, because it’s already written in the Books, “Thy Word oh God is forever settled in heaven.”

It was there, but the Rapture put on it. This is the same thing that happened to Daniel. “I am putting wraps on it,” says God, “because it’s for a future time, and at the right time you’ll get to know it.”

[557-6]  Now, notice, when the seven Angels come forth to sound their Trumpets, there was one thunder. When Israel was gathered, there was a trumpet. When time shall be no more, the last trumpet… One thunder, but here is Seven straight Thunders right in a row: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven… Now, why?

[557-7]  If Satan should get ahold of this, he might do great damage. There’s one thing he don’t know. Now, he can interpret anything he wants to, and impersonate any kind of a gift (I hope you’re learning.) but he can’t know this.

Now he can impersonate any kind of a gift, except he cannot have what vindicates the prophet to the people, otherwise the false prophet is equal to the true prophet and God is no longer the Tree of Life, He’s the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God cannot vindicate a bum steer at the same time vindicate a true steer.

Nope, He can’t vindicate a lie the same time He vindicates the truth. He can only vindicate that which is no Word or one iota off, and that happens before it’s spoken.

So okay, don’t let a gift get in your way now. Remember Brother Branham started way back before anybody did. See? But he can’t know this, it’s not even written in the Word, it a total secret.

Now, what does it mean it’s not written in the Word? It’s not written anyplace in the Word where you can see, one, two, three, four, five, five, six, seven.

And it explicitly talks about this, but it’s got to be in the Word somewhere. Otherwise you’re adding or taking.

Now, Brother Branham absolutely said that after he preached the Seven Seals, so don’t talk to me about it. I know what I’m talking about.

All right

[557-7]  It’s a total secret. The Angels, everything shut up. If they made one move it might give something away, so they just shut up, quit harping; everything stopped.

[558-2]  Seven, God’s perfect number… right down the row. Seven thunders uttered straight together like they’re spelling out something.

Notice, at that time, John started to write, and He said, “Don’t write it.” Jesus never spoke of it. John couldn’t write it. Angels know nothing about it.

[558-3]  What is it? It’s the thing that Jesus said even the Angels of Heaven didn’t know nothing about It. See, see? He didn’t know It Himself, said only God would know It, but He told us when we begin to see these signs coming up…

Now, you getting somewhere? All right. Notice, we can see these signs coming up. See? If Satan could get a hold of It…

Now, he’s telling you right there’s signs leading to it. If you can get hold of the signs you’ll know automatically what it is.

And he said, “The things that Jesus didn’t talk about was the hour of Him coming, which only the Father knew,” nobody else knew.

He took you right back to Matthew 24 on that. Now, he faltered and stumbled from his notes, he didn’t get the verses a hundred percent correct on his delineation.

But remember, other men have seen the same thing, those same division of Scriptures where you could see the: one, two, three, four, five, six seals, but coming to seven nothing was said; and that’s the hour of the coming. Put that any way you want to do it.

[558-4]  If you want something to happen… [Now notice,] If you want something to happen… Now, you’ll have to take my word for this. If I’m planning on doing something, I know better than to tell anybody about it.

Not that that person will tell it, but Satan will hear it. See? He can’t get it in my heart there, as long as God’s got it closed up with the Holy Spirit, so it’s between me and God. See? He doesn’t know nothing about it until you speak it, then he hears it. 

[558-5]  And I’ll try… I’ll people I’ll do a certain, certain thing, and watch the devil cut off every wheel he can to get there (See?), to beat me to it. But if I can get the revelation from God and just don’t say nothing about it, then it’s different.

[558-6]  Remember, Satan will try to impersonate. He will try to impersonate everything that the Church will do. He tried to do it. We’ve noticed it through the antichrist; but this is one thing he cannot impersonate.

Now, come one, let’s go right back to where there’s one thing that the devil simply can’t do. He cannot stand as God when it comes to Almighty God giving His Word in the channels that God gives it.

Because God Himself vindicates and manifests Himself to the prophet; the prophet is manifested and vindicated to the people, and then vindicated Word comes and there is no way it can be any other way.

This is something the devil cannot do. And Brother Branham tells you, he cannot handle the Word of God.

Oh, but you say, “He does handle the Word of God. The prophet Paul said so; he makes himself an angel of light.”

But, he’s a liar in doing it. He hasn’t got a proof. Paul the apostle… I’ve showed you Scripture after Scripture where the man stood there vindicated and said, “Prove where I’m not vindicated.” Stood there.

You call a guy’s bluff you better have something to call it with.

“Oh,” you say, “I’d love to see Brother Branham that time up there in Chicago, some of those men come forward and carried feet first.”

Why? We don’t need anybody carried out feet first. We need people standing here going up. It’s been vindicated. Who cares about anybody falling dead? Fap! They’re going to fall dead anyway.

Now, if they would have come forward as Brother Branham said, I think it might be on a tape… no, it’s not, it can’t be on a tape.

He told me, he said, on the tape he said, “You’re smarter that I thought you were.” And he said, “Lee, see they were smarter than I thought they were. The first man that came forth, they would have carried him out feet first.”

I don’t think you’ll find that on a tape. No, he told me that privately. See?

Okay, he cannot impersonate,

[558-6]  There’s no way for him to know It. It’s the Third Pull. He just knows nothing about It. See? He doesn’t understand It.

Now what is there a mimic to? There’s a mimic to the false ones that are anointed with the genuine Holy Spirit as pertaining to the giving of gifts, but not to the giving of the definitive passive revelation, the passive faith where God reveals Himself. No Way!

You see, that makes all the difference between righteousness and unrighteous.

Now,

[558-6]  There’s no way for him to know it. It’s the Third Pull. He just knows nothing about it. See? He doesn’t understand it.

[559-3]  But there’s a secret lays beneath that. Glory to God in the highest. I can never think the same the rest of my life, when I seen…

Now, I don’t know what… I know the next step there, but I don’t know what, how to interpret that. It won’t be long. I’ve got wrote down here when it happened, if you can see here, “STOP! Go no further than this right here.” 

[559-4]  I’m not prone to be a fanatic. I’m just telling the truth. But you remember, the little [Now watch this,] shoe that I always tried to explain, how that the soul laid next to so-and-so and the inner conscience and all that kind of stuff, which it only made a big bunch of impersonations start after it.

Now, that’s the vision which is a hundred percent spiritual where he was casting in, and the angel said, “Cast in and you pull your lure just a little bit and that will get the little fish coming, but don’t hook ‘em, [that’s the teaser] and when the big one hooks it, you did it, you do it.”

Brother Branham threw the line and the Pentecostals preachers [said,] “Aw, come on, Brother Branham you know how to fish, come one there boy show us how to do it.”

“Oh, I can show…”

He got real puffed up. He made a circus out of it. Threw it in and the little old fish came and he gave a jerk, and the fish barely covered the lure, and what the spiritual interpretation? “You cannot teach Pentecostal babies doctrine.”

Now when you come to the soul, the spirit and these things that are uniquely wound up in the ministry that Brother Branham had, even going to Melchisedec, you can’t teach them any- thing.

And that goes for a lot of Branhamites right now too. No mentioning names, doesn’t need to. See? Now, he’s telling you right here in that particular vision:

[559-4]  How you’d have to take up the hand, and hold the people and have vibration, everybody had a vibration in their hand. But you remember when He took me up there and said, “This is that Third Pull, and no one will know It.” You remember that? Visions (will) never fail. They’re perfectly (true). 

What’s he talking about, “Took me up there?”

Well he was up there and his feet were trying to get on down and he was trying to get on down to that particular room, in that particular building.

Even at the time when the Seventh Seal, if my memory is correct, he said, “All the visions have been fulfilled, but that one.”

And maybe that one was fulfilled also and he didn’t know it. Now I’m going to try to give you an interpretation here, but the fact of the matter is he said he was caught up with those angels.

I want to know: was he, or wasn’t he? Now you’re trying to teach Pentecostals babies doctrine that won’t take. Now he’s come caught up and he wants to get down here and that’s the Third Pull.

Let’s learn a little later what the Third Pull is all about. There’s three kinds. There’s three levels in this.

I’m just looking at the picture; I’m not saying Lee Vayle’s got the perfect understand that you’d want to look at it.

You remember that? Visions never fail. They’re perfectly the truth. 

[559-5]  Now notice, remember the vision of the constellation? Charlie, I… Here you are. Something going on, I told you, this week that you… It’s been all around you…

What vision, what constellation? Constellation of angels. Now is William Branham so gross that his understanding of English and preaching a sermon that he cannot preach in continuity?

In one place he said, “Oh, look at the beautiful giraffes and the zebras and the lions out there,” and suddenly without you know he’s even changed his position, he’s no longer talking about those things, but he’s talking about something with feathers. Feathers?

My God, I never saw zebras with feathers. Do you understand what I’m talking about? If he’s talking about this here in this paragraph and he’s talking of this particular thing, has he changed his point of view?

Not in my books he hasn’t, or he merely compounds the mystery. How can he make clear to me when he throws mud in my eye?

Look I’m not so spiritual and neither are you so spiritual that suddenly that we can understand everything as though, “Hallelujah, we didn’t have to hear and it doesn’t come by the mind.”

I can prove to you and I’ll do it by tomorrow morning. It’s got to come by your mind before it gets down here in your heart, because the prophet said so.

“Oh, Lee Vayle gets criticized, he’s mental.” I wouldn’t be in those boots for a billion dollars. Those other guys the sit back…

Listen, I was in Pentecost. Don’t give me that nonsense. You’re talking to an old timer bless God.

You see, I’ve got a vehement and a vengeance none of you have, because I was being crooked and destroyed. You can it if you want it.

Let me tell you something: Going to bed starving and dreaming you are eating will not fill your guts. So dream on little children if you want to dream, and fill your sky with pie that doesn’t exist.

He said, “This is the Third Pull and no one will even know it.” And visions never failed. He said,

[559-5]  The vision of the constellation, something going on it’s been all around you I wonder if you noticed it. Remember the constellation of the vision of the Angels when I left here to go to Arizona?

You remember, “What Time Is It, Sirs?” Do you remember that? [This is it.) Notice, there was only one great burst of thunder, and seven Angels appeared. Is that right? One burst of thunder.

Isn’t that what he said? One burst in seven seals. Seven Messengers bringing seven Messages on Seven Seals. Every mystery going to be revealed and what about the mystery of silence? It’s no longer silent, the revelation.

[559-5]  Only one burst of thunder [the angel] appeared. And I saw the Lamb when He had opened the First Seal, and I heard as it was a voice of a thunder, and one of the four beasts said, Come and see.

[Another] thunder [even] seven messages that’s been sealed up and cannot be revealed until the last day, at this age. See what I mean?

Now, if only six seals were open there’s only six Messages. It says seven.

[560-1]  Now, have you noticed the mysterious parts of (the) week? That’s what It is. That’s what It’s been. It’s been, not a human being, a man; it has been the Angels of the Lord.

Aw ha! Bringing seven Messages, and what did he say the first Message? He said, “Oh what a mistake I would have made, but the Holy Spirit came into the room.”

So you’ve got the embodiment of the Holy Ghost in the form of angels and that is not improper, because Jesus Himself at one time was Michael.

Let you’re thinking go, come on… get fundamental junk. It’s been the angels of the Lord.

[560-1]  Notice, there’s witnesses of three setting in here, that a week ago a little over a week ago I was up way back into the mountains, nearly to Mexico, with two brethren…

Now, in the last “Only Believe,” [magazine] we haven’t got enough for everyone to get it, take them there’s about eight or nine copies. Take a copy and bring it back.

In there you will find where Brother Norman gives his story of that particular time, it’s worth you to read it and you will find all this talk of what’s supposed to happen in Dayton here, of where the dates are not correct, you will find that Brother Norman agrees with Brother Branham. We went into that some-time ago.

[560-1]   I was up way back into the mountains, nearly to Mexico, with two brethren that’s setting here, picking cocklebur–or sand burrs off of my trouser leg, and a blast went off that almost, looked like, shook the mountain.

[Now, Brother Norman, Gene Norman will tell you about that.] Now, that’s right. I never told my brethren, but they noticed a difference. And He said to me, “Now, be ready [and] go east.”

[560-2]  Here’s the interpretation of that vision. See? “Now, to let you know, Brother Sothmann has not got the game that he went after.” We was trying to get it for him. And He said, “Now, tonight, for a sign to you, he isn’t going to do it.

You must consecrate yourself at this time for the visitation of these Angels.” And I felt beside myself, you remember. And I was in the west; the Angels was coming east. And as they come by, I was picked up with them (You remember that?), coming east. 

[560-3]  And Brother Fred in here tonight is a witness, and Brother Norman. As we went down, I almost persuaded that man to stay and get his game. Is that right, Brother Sothmann? Yeah, there he stands right there.

I persuaded… but yet, He said, “He won’t do it.” I never said anything, went on. Something setting by the side of the tent the day that… You remember, Brother Sothmann, that I, as soon as some things was being told that I put you and Brother Norman… Where’s Brother Norman? Back there.

Put them under oath that they wouldn’t mention what was taking place. Is that right? Did I turn around and walk away from that tent, like that? Is that right? Because this is what it was, exactly what it was, and knowing that I couldn’t say it till it happened. [Always after the fact.]

So, what’s Brother Branham telling you about the Seventh Seal? After the fact. It’s not before the fact, it’s after. Notice,

[560-4]  Did you notice that one Angel, I said in there, was a strange Angel? He looked more to me than any of the rest of them. You remember that? They were in a constellation–three on a side and one on top.

And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would’ve been the seventh Angel. [For the Seventh Seal.] He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of them.

You remember, I said he had his chest out like that, and was flying eastward. You remember like that? And I said, “It picked me up, lifted me up.” Do you remember that?

[561-1]  Here it is. The one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen. The other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what this has meant.

For one time in life. I prayed; I cried out to God. After that Phoenix meeting, any of the people there with me know; I laid in the mountains. One morning I got up and went up in Sabino Canyon; it’s a great rugged high mountain.

And I’d went up in there, and there was a little foot trail after you lead off–go on up into Lemmon Mountain which is a thirty mile walk, and there about thirty foot of snow up there. [There is, there’s a lot of snow up there, it’s one of the best places in Arizona.]

[561-2]  So, up in the mountain real early before day, going up through this little foot trail, rolling rocks along, I felt led to turn this a-way. And I turned and went up into some great jagged rocks, oh, my, hundreds of feet high.

And I knelt down between those rocks. I laid down this Bible and laid down this book, this little tablet. I said, “Lord God, what does this vision mean?”

Now listen, Brother Branham always crying to God, “What about me? What about the ministry? Is this of God? Is it of the devil? What is it” I’m confused, I’ve got to have some-thing definitive.” 

Now, you read Brother Branham, many times you’ve heard him say, he was going to go out and he’s “Got to find the answer, got to find the answer, go to.”

Just crying, “Got to have answers, got to have answers.” Remember? Come on. Go back and hear the tapes. You’re going to hear his voice in there very pathetic.

[561-2]  “Lord, does it mean my dying?” You remember I told you I thought it might mean my death, because something exploded till it just shook me to pieces. [You see, Norman will tell you about that.]

You remember. You heard it sure. And I thought it could mean my death. And  I said, “What was it, Lord. What does it mean? Does it mean I’m going to die? If it is, all right; I won’t tell my family. Just let me go… my work’s finished.”

Now, what was it? But He sent a witness back. You remember me telling you?, that it wasn’t that, it was a furtherment of my work.

And he knew he couldn’t die, because Joseph was there. And Joseph would have been blown higher than a kite.

[561-3]  Oh, do you get it. See? And setting up in Sabino Canyon… The Heavenly Father knows this, just as true as you see that come to pass, those Angels come right down and vindicated every message to be the same.

Then you know whether it comes from God or not. It was foretold you by a vision. I couldn’t tell you until the service was over, because I was forbidden to.

So what is he telling you? Under the Seventh Seals he couldn’t talk. He kept it to himself. Now he can go ahead and tell you.

No matter what the devil does then it doesn’t matter, because here it’s vindicated. The woman now has a seed in her mind, it makes her pregnant to God and no other seed will come in, she’s got a mindset. See? Yeah!

Do you get it. See? And setting up in Sabino Canyon… The Heavenly Father knows this, just as true as you see that come to pass.

All right now,

[561-4]  In Sabino Canyon, sitting up there that morning, I had my hands up, and the wind had blowed my old black hat down. When I was standing there with my hands up, praying.

I said, “Lord God, what does this mean? I can’t understand it, Lord. What am I to do? If it’s my going home time, let me go up here where they’ll never find me. I don’t want nobody to be mourning around if I’m going.

I want just the family to think that I just took a walk, and they won’t find me. (Good old Enoch, see, let me, or Elijah.) Hide me away somewhere. If I’m going to go away, why, just let me go.

Maybe Joseph will find my Bible laying here someday, and let him use It. See? If I’m going away, let me go, Lord.”

[562-1]   I had my hands out, and all at once something hit my hand. I don’t know. I can’t say. Did I go to sleep? I don’t know. Did I go into a trance? I don’t know. Was it a vision? I can’t tell you.

Only thing I can say is when I… Just the same thing like them Angels were. And it struck my hand, and I looked, and it was a sword, and it had pearl handles, real pretty; and had a guard over it with gold, and the blade looked like, something like chrome, like silver, only it was real shiny.

And it was so feather-edge sharp, Oh, my. And I thought, “Isn’t that the prettiest thing?” just fit my hand. I thought, “That’s awful pretty.” But I said, “Hey, I’m always afraid of them things”–a sword. And I thought, “What will I do with that?”

[562-2]  And just then a Voice shook down through there that rocked the rocks, said, “It’s the Sword of the King.” And then I come out of it. “The Sword of the King…”

[562-3]  Now, if It said, “A Sword of a King…” but It said, “The Sword of the King,” and there’s only one “the King,” and that’s God. And He has one Sword; that’s His Word, what I live by. And so help me, God… [Bring on His holy vesture with] the holy Word laying [there, oh God in heaven, can’t you see that’s prophesying?]

What’s a sword got to do with a dress? The Word of God to dress a Bride. Third Pull. I don’t know what people are worried about? Holy mackerel!

I love this, you’ve heard me say it many… “The Sword of the King, and that’s His Word. Bring on His holy vesture with the Holy Word of God laying there.”

In other words, that Bible laying there, sword in his hand. I’ve taken it from the Word. Put the life in your hand now and, “Cursed be the swordsmen whose sword doesn’t draw blood.” Right? That’s the Scripture.

“Oh be sweet Brother Vayle.” I’ll be sweet all right. I feel real sweet right now, and I’m not vengeance minded, this is the truth.

It’s the Word. Amen.

[562-4]  Oh, what a day we’re living in, what a great thing. See the mystery and secret? The third... [Third what? He would have said pull, wouldn’t he?] Standing there, when this left me, something just come to me and said, “Don’t fear.”

Now, I didn’t hear any voice, like on the inside of me spoke. I just tell you the truth, just exactly what happened. Something hit and said, “Don’t fear. This is that Third Pull.”

And the last time I saw Brother Branham he had no fear whatsoever. I could see it on his face, didn’t know what it was, but he told me.

This is the Third Pull. “God has not given us the spirit of fear,no.” no sir, but of courage, sound mind, sound mind, sound mind. Can’t get it outside of the Holy Ghost.

[562-5]  [The] Third Pull, you remember it? He said, “You’ve had so many impersonators on this, what you tried to explain.” [Now, this is what the Voice said.]

“You’ve had so many impersonators on this, what you tried to explain.” But said, “Don’t even try this.” Do you remember it? How many remembers that vision?

Now that’s it out, anybody can say, “I’m here to dress a Bride. I’m here, you follow me.” Ha!

You know, I’m not a brave person, I could be like Galileo I think, I don’t know, But by the grace of God I wouldn’t be, God’s bigger than that.

When the pope told Galileo, “If you keep on preaching the world’s round and everything else, he said, we’re just going to go ahead and take your head off. And you tell us that the earth is circulating round about the sun, you’re a dead man, because the earth isn’t round, it’s not doing it.”

So, Galileo said, “You’re right it’s not doing it.” And he walked away, under his breath he said, “But it’s doing it just the same.”

What are you supposed to do? You cannot boast until you’ve taken your armor off my brother/sister, but by the grace of God there’s something bigger than we are.

Oh yes,

[562-5]  Do you remember it? How many remembers that vision? Why, it’s all over the tape and everywhere. That’s been about six years ago–seven years ago: been seven years ago. Said, “Don’t try to explain that.” Said, “This is the Third Pull, but I’ll meet you in there.” That right? He said, “Don’t try…”

[563-1]   I was standing with a–a little baby’s shoe when He told me, there, “Make your first pull; and when you do, the fish will run after the lure.” Said, “Then watch your Second Pull” said, “because there’ll only be small fish.” He said, “Then the Third Pull will get it.”

[563-2]  And all them ministers got around me, said, “Brother Branham, we know you can do it. Hallelujah, Brother Branham.” That’s where I always get tied up–with a bunch of preachers. See? I love people; they want you to explain everything, [Explain this, explain that, you see.]

This is the thing about revelation, you don’t need it explained, you just believe it.

[563-3]  (And) I said, “Well, I don’t know.” I said, “I’ve understand fishing.” Now, the first thing you do… Here’s the way it’s done. You see all the fish around; you got to jerk the lure.” (Well, that’s exactly the tactics of fishing.)

So I said, “Jerk the lure.” Now, you see when I jerked the lure the first time, now the fish takes out after it, but they were little ones. That’s just like they were catching.

So then I said, “Then you set…” and I jerked it out on the bank and I had a fish, but it looked like a skin over the lure; it just–he was so little. And then I was standing there and something said, “I told you not to do that.” And I started crying. 

[563-4]  All the line was tangled around me like this…

In other words, Brother Branham’s ministry began to go down the drain. He said to me one time, “It’s been like so and so… stop, keep my true ministry from coming out.”

And I use to doubt that, until one day I read in Scripture and I knew it was there all the time. “Jesus could not do many mighty works, because of their unbelief.”

Showing that you can hinder the true ministry coming out; even though it will eventually reach those it’s suppose to reach.

But men like this throw the glory of God back in God’s face. Yeah! What would it be like if you turned down this Living Word? That’s up to you, you do what you want.

[563-4]  …crying… “God, oh, I… Forgive me. I’m a stupid person. Lord, forgive me.” And I had this line and that, what I had in my hand, was a little baby’s shoe, about that long. [I suppose, you know, a few inches] And I had that string was about as big around as my finger, about a half inch, like.

And the eyelet in this shoe was just about one-sixteenth, probably, [like an eyelet is.] And I was trying to lace this little shoe up with this great big inch cord. [Or whatever it was.] And a Voice come, said, “You can’t teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things.”

Can’t teach them the doctrine, the supernatural things. You can’t do it. Why? Because they run after it.

That’s why we don’t run after all these signs and wonders, because we’ve had them. If they are going to come out of the Word, praise God we want them.

We’ve seen them here in this building, healings like I couldn’t even believe for. I could have people standing on their feet right now that had absolutely a hundred percent miracles that nobody did but God.

I’m not lying. I could call them by name. You want to call them by name? I got one here that’ll blow your mind. See? But, we don’t run after it, you know it’s there.

“Now, let them alone.” He said.

Why? Because like Ephraim they’ve joined to their idols. Demos Shakarian, the big shot for Pentecost, the great big ‘gazooba’. Oh yeah, he’s got Dr. John Bertolucci the priest, he’s made him a prophet.

Turned down Brother Branham flat, but made a Catholic priest a prophet. Now, this Catholic prophet is going to make him a great saint, take him to Rome. “Hallelujah, Brother Demos, hallelujah, hallelujah.” Phttt!

I’m irreverent kiddo, so don’t start thinking too much other then I’m irreverent. I didn’t say I’m ‘a reverent’. I’m that too, by what they call me, but I’m ‘irreverent’ when it comes to that crap. Call it what it is. See?

“Let them alone.”

[563-5]  Just then He picked me up. [Pick up, notice,] He took me up and set me way up high to where a meeting was going on, looked like a tent or a cathedral of some sort. And I looked, and there was a little box-like, little place over in the side.

And I seen that Light was talking to somebody above me, that Light that you see there on the [platform]. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over to that tent, and said, “I’ll meet you there.” And said, “This will be the Third Pull, and you won’t tell it to nobody.”

Until when? After the Third Pull comes into manifestation, then you explain and tell them. Now listen, everything was leading up in this man’s ministry of vindication to this.

No different form Moses, and no different from Paul, this is the way God does it. “But, oh hallelujah, I’ve got the Holy Spirit. Oh yeah, yeah look at me.”

If it would’ve been you, you’d of said, “Oh yeah, yeah, this is how God does it.” But it wasn’t. You said therefore, “It’s not how God does it.”

You talk about a lousy stinking hypocrite spirit of hell that you’ve got. I’m going to sauce you down where you belong.

Because I wouldn’t sit with you and shake your hand take communion, foot washing and eat with you. Forget it.

You go to where the spiritual harlots and daughters are the whoremongers. The preachers, pimps and the rest of them, that’s where you belong.

You don’t belong here at the table of God, let’s hit that flat. I’m not just preaching tough, it’s the truth. Don’t be a sham in this Message, be ashamed maybe, but don’t be a sham. See?

Now,

[563-6]  And in Sabino Canyon… [Now notice the same thing in the catching up and the tent vision.] And in Sabino Canyon, “This is the Third Pull.”

And there’s three great things that goes with It, and one unfolded today, or yesterday, the other one unfolded today, and there’s one thing that I cannot interpret, because it’s in an unknown language.

But I was standing right there and looked right straight at It, and this is the Third Pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God… Oh, my. That’s the reason all Heaven was silent.

Was silent, perfectly what? Because it would have have to dwell on this which has taken place in our day which was hidden until this moment.

Now remember, everything is after the fact, unless you’re a prophet, and is after the fact to you, because first of all there’s got to be vindication to you.

Then when you bring it to the people it’s after the fact. Then the explanation comes. God has a perfect method laid out, people don’t want it.

[564-2]  Now, I’d better stop right here. See? I just feel checked not to say any more about it. See? So just remember, the Seventh Seal, the reason it was not opened, the reason It  did not reveal It, no one should know about it.

What’s he talking about now? That time, two thousand years ago. But today is different; every mystery to be made known.

“Oh well, what it is, it’s every mystery to be made known, but there’s a big silence, of what it is, no mystery’s made known, and you just pretend it’s made known. And say, ‘Lord, thank you, I’ve had it made known’.”

Huh? You just went to bed dying of famine, and you had a dream that you’re full. You see how you cannot take what people are trying to tell you about the Seventh Seal.

Hey, merciful God, it can’t be open and unopened. What’s this man trying to tell us? Now if he’s just a guy to confuse you, I’ve got news for you, you’re crazy.

You just want to be confused that’s all. That’s all. People are just so afraid of the truth and so afraid of simplicity that they just want something else.

Why do you want something else? You know beans and brown rice make a perfect protein? Now if you really believe that, you’d just go on brown rice and beans and save yourself all your money and have a good time on other things.

“Oh, it’s too simple. I’ve got to have puff-paste and whip cream you know and frog legs and butterfly tongues and got to pretend I’m Nero, you know. Understand?”

Oh, I do understand, but for us I don’t understand. See. He said, “This is the Third Pull, I’d better stop right here.”

Now watch,

[564-2]  I just feel checked not to say no more about It. See? So just remember, the Seventh Seal, the reason It was not opened, the reason It did not reveal It, no one should know about it. [Is that a fact? Two thousand years back.]

And I want you to know before I even knew a Word about that, that vision come years ago. You remember that? And here it is just as this other has–slides right into the Word exactly where it was.

Now, he’s telling you these visions that he told us slid into it and we still know nothing.

“I know nothing, I’ve heard nothing, I find nothing, oh, revelation?”

That’s like the woman she read in the Scripture one day, “And such an hour you think not the Son of Man cometh.”

And she phoned her preacher, “Oh I’m excited, I’ve had such a wonderful day. I’ve just read in Scripture, where it said, ‘In such an hour as you think not, the Son of Man cometh’ and I’ve been trying all day long not to think.” Is that it?

You cannot be definitive and have that attitude about the prophet. When the question was asked, “What is the Seventh Seal?”

He said, “It’s Revelation 10:1-7.”

So he’s a liar here? Then he’s a liar there. You can’t have your cake and eat it. Brother Branham himself said, “There’s got to be an absolute.”

What is an absolute? Confusion? Absolute confusion. Is that what you want? Then listen, not to Lee Vayle, but what the prophet said.

“Slid into the Word.”

What vision? Tent vision. He’s talking about it. The little kids with the cart, the booties, Third Pull. One, two three, and he talks about birds, he talks about signs; hand, reading the heart, Word, little birds, doves, angels. What do you want?

“I don’t know.”

What’s the Message all about? The One that came with Him, the Presence.

Slides into the Word right where It was. And God knows my heart; I never one time thought of such a thing as that, and here It was. It’s later than we think. 

[564-3]  Oh, my. Just shows it’s from God, for (See?), it fits exactly in the promises of God from the end of the Message. [What Message? His Message.]

Now notice, for the end of time Message this Seal, after all… He’s revealed all the six Seals, but it doesn’t say nothing about the Seventh.

It doesn’t in the Bible. There’s nothing said. Then if he’s going to know what is there somebody’s got to tell him. Then he better be vindicated so he can tell us right.

Even Dr. Bloomfield understood this and he said, “Somebody someday has got to reveal those thunders.”

But dear old daddy Bloomfield’s dead, so that takes care of that. Pentecostal fundamentalists don’t need guys like him around, he be a thorn in their flesh. Oh yeah. 

[564-3]  And the end time Seal, when It starts will be absolutely a total secret according to the Bible. [But what about when it’s over and the time it starts to its progression? Well it couldn’t be a secret then.]

And remember, Revelation 10:1-7, at the end of the seventh angel’s Message, all the mysteries of God would be known. We’re at the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal.

He tells you right there, Revelation 10:1-7 is the Seventh Seal, if we’d didn’t catch it until he told us flat.

You say, “Hey, there’s a watch I’m wearing. Well, I didn’t know it was a watch, Brother Vayle told me.”

Well, that fine, I’ve no problem. Well, you’ve got smarts; you know what it’s about.

[564-4]  Now, how did I know the other day, last Sunday, a week ago today, when I was preaching on “Be humble, be humble; remember God deals in little thing? I didn’t realize what it really was talking about, and now I see it.

It is in such a humble way. You’d think that something like that would be revealed to the Vatican, or, but it comes just like John the Baptist. It comes like the birth of our Lord in a stable. Glory to God. So help me, the hour is at hand. We’re here. Oh, my. 

We’re here what? He’s talking the Seventh Seal. He’s not talking about, you know what, something way back in the book of Exodus.

[564-5]  Do you see it? The Truth of God’s vision, the seven Angels, bringing me from the west. [Now, he’s got to pin that down.] They were coming from the west, coming back east, bringing here for this Message tonight. [See, because all the rest were in the past.]

[565-2]   Now, the Voice of that great thunder and the mission that was brought here has been revealed and proven that It was of God. Just think now.

I knew not these Seals, and they been revealed this week. Did anybody think of that? Of those seven Angels, being this being the Message that was coming forth, them Angels bringing me back here for that?

[565-3]   [Now] remember, the seventh Messenger… The seven Messengers… The noted one to me, the seventh Angel, it seemed more to me than any.

Now, see, they were standing like this… I was standing here, and I was watching those other… See, one… First bunch of little birds, feathers all beat down.

You remember them? And they all flew eastward. And the second bunch were brighter, bigger birds, looked like doves, pointed wings; they flew eastward: first pull, Second Pull. Then the next was Angels.

What was that? That was the Third Pull. And what did they bring? The Word. What was in there? The Word. So what’s the climax of this man’s ministry? The Word.

What’s he going to dress the Bride with? The Word. Remember the Wedding Supper, “Friend what are you doing here, you don’t have a garment on?”

Brother Branham let the people know, they come and sit right in his services and walk out without the garment.

[565-4]   I was standing right there, and this explosion left, and I was looking this way, towards the west, and they come and just picked me up in there, and I went plumb out of my knowing.

And the one of them coming was the one that looked so strange to me, was the one on my left where I entered the constellation, but counting from the left to the right, it would’ve been the seventh Angel (See?), coming across.

[565-5]  Now, remember the seven Messengers. Do you remember the pyramid of white rock of Junior Jackson’s dream that I interpreted to you?

Notice, the night that I left… There were six dreams came, and every one of them directly to the same thing. Then the vision started and sent me west. Junior he was watching… Why, notice. Look how perfect.

[565-6]  Now, I’m hoping and trusting that you people realize that I’m trying to put this grace on Jesus Christ, Who is the Author of all of It; and the only reason you never heard me talk  this (way is the) hour is approaching.

That’s all I’m going to read right now, because he goes into other things I don’t think too pertinent.

Now notice in here: We might not get this finished. He says here,

“I found within the Message today there appears to be a split in some of the fundamental teaching, most of you predict the fact that some feel 1963 mark the dispensation of change which precipitated the coming the Parousia of the Lord.”

That’s not true. What 1963 was, Revelation 22:10, and it’s not so much a dispensation, it’s a winding up of all the mysteries and those things; which started under the Seven Seals, back in the Garden of Eden. Adam could not go to the Tree of Life and live forever.

Revelation 22:10

So therefore, He’s coming quickly at this particular time when the Word divides the people from the non Word. Matthew 24, into those who are now in the Rapture of Luke 17.

So therefore this is not of something concerning the Parousia, He’s already here. He came in 1933. But he never set Himself the head of the church until the church was set in order by the Word; coming more and more into the church.

No problem, just the same as you’re going from Israel. If they would have gone on and on, the kingdom… God that was in the holy temple that left the tabernacle, would have been right there to go to the Millennium and right to the New Jerusalem. The coming God, the becoming God, moving on, moving on.

Well, I’m going to stop here, because, hey, I’m going to go into this tomorrow, because I won’t give this boy a fair answer. To cutting it down to ten minutes, we’re going to let it go.

So all right, foot washing and communion… Now I trust you’ve got some good out of the service at this particular point. And tomorrow we’ll go into more of it and try to finish up maybe a last little question and see where we go.

The second question is also very involved in detail, because he makes them… not a mistake, but he misunderstands how it is that you cannot take a certain thought from Brother Branham and dislocate it for a meaning that is not contingent to the rest, and you do the same with Scripture.

And so we can take what he’s interested in from Brother Branham to the Scripture and see what it says.

Now with foot washing and communion, now let’s bow our heads in prayer, because we’ll close this tape off, because these other tapes don’t go out.

[Brother Vayle refers to the procedure of foot washing]

Heavenly Father, we want to thank you now for giving us help tonight, we believe Lord You really did help us, not to declare ourselves or something we think we believe, but yet Lord that could be true also, but we believe what we’re seeing what the prophet said, and bringing it to the place where he brought it knowing Lord, that there was much more after that even, because he did put some of those mysteries and they had to be cleared up at the end.

Even the very fact that of explaining the perfection of it and the Rapture tape; which Lord we know he previously called the circumstances or events of the Rapture.

And so Father we thank You that we’re standing here tonight in this place here, with holy, holy trusting You, that whatever is requisite, needed, You are the one who will supply it.

And God by Your grace we will receive it, if our names are written in the Lambs Book of Life.

We are of the Wise Virgin, we know positively we shall be called out, that we are called out, we are being dressed by this Word of God, we are being separated and brought into the realm of the Rapture.

These are the things Lord that we believe are in here and we thank You for it.

And we know Lord whatever is vital and necessary for us, You will never let Yourself  down, and that means we will never be let down, because You stand behind Your Word to perform it, and there is a Word in us that must be completed.

So hallelujah Lord we lay it all back on You and we thank You that we can lay it on You and You are wonderful and glorious.

And may we come more and more to that particular understanding and position until Lord You’re glorified in us, and through us, and we in You, until both of our hearts are satisfied.

Oh God, that’s one prayer that You know that’s in my heart and I believe in the hearts of all sincere people we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

[Brother Vayle continues with the Communion Service.]