Questions And Answers -Pastors Series #15

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Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father we’re again grateful people knowing we’re privileged to gather together in Your Name, this late hour, Lord, with the privileges that You’ve extended to us, even through civil laws where we have the right to assemble, and to bring out those things which are upon our hearts, Lord, in which we believe are in consciousness of the Holy Spirit, speaking not hopefully of ourselves but speaking for You Lord, as ambassadors.

And we pray, Father, that our studies will be profitable, knowing that many things Brother Branham said were so contrary to the thinking of the hour, so many things, Lord, with so many connotations to them that others have not thought, or believe could be possible.

Lord, we study today this Word that You left us, Your Word, Father, which we believe You gave us.

We pray that You’ll help us to understand It, and be settled in our hearts and minds concerning It, that You’re Name might be glorified.

In Jesus Name we pray Amen.

You may be seated.

Now the question was, “What about the White Throne as of now.” Brother Branham did make a statement concerning the fact of the White Throne going on, and we standing before it.

So, the question then is, “What about the White Throne now in this hour.”

Well, we are actually asking ourselves how Brother Branham could speak of the White Throne Judgment in the present tense as being here now, and we standing before it, when according to accepted Bible chronology, it is at the end of the Millennium, at least one thousand years from now.

So, that’s the thought: with the chronology set forth one thousand years from now, how could the White Throne, then, be at this particular time?

The proposition of the reality of his statement, and our getting attuned to it, depends on two things.

So, there are two things we consider, so that we can begin to look at the question and come to grips with it and find what he was actually saying.

Number one: accepting it as a categorical statement because the author was vindicated as a prophet. Now you have to do that. You simply can’t say, “Well, I wonder.”

Although we wonder about many things, the way to have faith and to keep abreast of the Word of God—which was given to us, because It’s marching on—is to accept It as a categorical statement, that is, an absolute, fundamental fact.

Then, number two is: letting our minds go free from all previous thoughts on the subject as to its still future fulfillment and looking at the proposition as to how it fits today and as a basis for that great judgment at the end of the Millennium.

In other words, what is going on now, which is literally a part of what you will see in consummation, which has been called the Great White Throne, which is to be set up at the end of the Millennium.

Now, to begin our study, we should note that this doctrine was introduced as early as 1960, when Brother Branham preached “The Seven Church Ages”.

And at that time he literally placed Revelations 1:12-15, with Daniel 7:9-14, and thus, by this placing, Revelations 1:12-15 with Revelations 20:11-15.

Now, what I’m saying there, and I’ll read this to you is, when Brother Branham introduced Revelations 1:12-15 as the Judge, he immediately took it down to Daniel 7:9-14, the Ancient of Days.

That being the case, you would also have to take Revelations 1:12-15 and place It with Revelations 20:11-15, which is where the White Throne is set up.

Now, of course, this stunned me, and I could not begin to conceive of this as being possible, except under the principal of prophetic projection, which Brother Branham would be projecting to the end of the road, though it could also be under the true principal of multiple or compound fulfillment.

As It says in Matthew 2:12-15, concerning the quotation of Hosea 11:1, “I have brought my son out of Egypt.” It was a reference to a past fulfillment and yet to another fulfillment, which was Jesus being taken to Egypt, then brought back.

And you have in Scripture many compound meanings.

In fact, Brother Branham went so far as to say, I don’t think so much categorically, as a basic statement… that you should get used to understanding Scripture: all Scripture has double fulfillments.

Some Scripture he gave even to have three, which perhaps we’ll look at one today.

So, what we’re going to do is read where Brother Branham saw the Judge in Revelation 1:12-15, then we’ll go on from there.

Now, Brother Branham was wondering about this, and he phoned his friend Jack Moore, whom he considered quite a theologian in Pentecostal circles, and said, “Who is that?”

And Jack said, “Well, that is Christ in His glorified form.”

And he said that did not strike as an answer that was correct with him, so he sought the Lord and the Lord revealed to him that this was a picture of a Judge.

And you have it today symbolized in the courts of England, and you have the judge with the long wigs on and so on. And this, then, was a picture of the Judge.

Now Brother Branham immediately, then, went to,

And then in verse 13:

Now, with that we go to,

Now we read these verses. But, what we’ll have to do now is, go back and read Daniel 7:9-14 in the light of the entire context, rather than just pick out Scripture and relate them.

Because you’ll notice, if it’s a judge in Revelation 1:12-15, it’ll be the same person as the Judge in Daniel 7:9-14.

Now you know positively that ‘wind’ speaks of spirit. So, it means that there’s going to be an actual move, an actual spirit move, a spirit move upon the people, because the seas are considered to be people. They type people.

So, coming up from the people will be a spirit, and you’ll notice It says there were four winds strove. Now this will be allowed of Heaven, will be allowed of God, coming upon the Earth.

And you remember that Joel speaks of the locust, the caterpillar, the palmerworm and the cankerworm, and it’s all one life in four distinct stages.

And so what you see here is, literally, four manifestations, starting with the ancient Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar, coming right up to the end of time.

That’s why you’ll notice, when we speak concerning the Roman Catholic Church… And it’s a power, which is in all the earth. It’s in Russia and everywhere.

People, don’t kid yourself that it’s not everywhere, it is. It’s that beast that was wounded unto death, but came back again, not in an empire which would be simply political, strategically military to take over, but would be like the Hitler’s Fifth Column and the column in Spain.

We’ll talk about that. In other words, it’s more subversive.

Daniel 7:

Okay, you’ll notice then, we’ll begin typing and seeing that these are going to be dominions that are headed up by men, who are able to form them and to mold them into what they want them to be.

In other words, take even further dominion and authority over the world.

Now, watch the thing begin to spread, because from the beginning, you’ll notice that it starts in an isolated area and begins moving and moving until it covers the whole world. All right.

Now you’re getting like the same picture back in the beginning, “given a heart of a man.” You’ve got the association to a man again, a man having this great power, even though it’s world-wide.

You could tell that there’s no one person could possibly run the whole world from a strictly military-political viewpoint.

Then he says:

Now you’ll notice he saw through all of these great empires, finally there came a time when the throne of man would be abdicated, and the throne would be taken over by God, eventually.

But notice; it’s not a throne of take-over here. It said the thrones were set up and the Ancient of Days sit.

So, you can see that this One now, God Himself, is superseding all of these men. And remember; the last man up here in the last age was literally in full control. You’ll see that in the Book of Revelation.

Now the one God Himself begins to take over control. And then, you’ll notice in here continuing… that’s like a little interpolation in there, I saw this going on until…

Now we could say here, back to verse 8 again:

You see, that’s the Antichrist. That’s where you go back to the Book of Revelation again. That was an interpolation. That’s how long it’s going to be: it’s going to be for a judgment and a throne set.

Now, do you understand what we’re saying? You’re not looking at a thousand years down the road. So, you’ve got to get your minds disabused.

You’re looking for something to take place which is not a thousand years down the road but supersedes the Roman Empire, which is now a Holy Roman Empire, which is based upon the authority coming out of Rome. It does not come out of Italy.

If anyone this morning is sitting here or hearing my voice anywhere or hear it on tape, if you think it’s coming out of Italy, you are wrong. It is coming out of Rome! Because Rome has bluffed Italy plumb off the map.

That was seen in the big banker over there who took so much money from the Italians and everybody else, and it’s nothing but a Roman Catholic, crooked, fraudulent scheme, the same as the Palatine elders or brothers down here in Philadelphia.

And it came time to expose them; they gypped the public out of four million dollars. And this great pope presently, he’s a great man, all right, he shut the whole thing up.

So, where’s the four million bucks? It’s coming out of Rome. It’s not coming out of Italy. See? Always it’s been Rome, not Italy. It’s the city set upon seven hills or seven mountains in there. See?

Daniel 7:

In other words, it’s going back now showing you that they lost out. The Babylonians lost out to the Medo-Persians, the Medo-Persians to the Greeks, and the Greeks to Rome. It took a while before this all took place.

But now at this time, there is nobody left but the Roman Empire. It’s never been called Italian. It’s based upon Romulus and Remus, right down the line. They all went to Rome.

It’s just like you have the whole thing epitomized with Israel; it’s always in Jerusalem. It’s no place else.

Now:

Now you notice that it is not necessary to believe that verses 13 and 14 are literally 9 and 10. Not literally, because one can predate the other.

And we’ll go into I Corinthians 15, and you can see the great possibility of what I’m talking of. The machinery is set up, absolutely, for Christ Jesus to come back on this earth in a glorified form and reign in a Millennium.

Daniel 7:

In other words, utter conquest, no giving. If you think that you’d like to be in the Great Tribulation, that’s all right, but you’d better watch it.

Now, in other words, I want to ask you a question. When did persecution start against the saints of God? Under Rome… to the Bride; to the Church. That’s where it’s always been. Then it became a church unto itself.

Daniel 7:

All right, now. The Ancient of Days has to come. We don’t get a stand until the one brought near to Him, and we with Him, to come back and take over, as time to possess.

So, before the saints take over the Kingdom, you understand, there is some kind of a judgment. Well, look at your books. This is where Brother Branham got it.

See, we’ve been too back in Pentecost, Methodist, Baptist and every ungodly doctrine which came out of Rome, the whole stinking mess.

So, we simply parroted everything anybody ever said, and we didn’t bother thinking the thing out.

When the students tried thinking things out, they found they couldn’t do it, because there’s no man living ever figured this out.

Whoever believed there’s three and a half years tribulation instead of seven? Everybody’s got it down to seven. It’s only three and a half. See?

I wouldn’t believe that, except the prophet said so, and I found it in the Bible.

Daniel 7:

The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom. Now ‘beast’ is a power. And remember it came up out of the people. So there’s something in the people that wants this. Sit here this morning and think it over.

What you want is what you get out of this pulpit. Not what you caterwaul about and everything else, you got some little idea, some little thing. But what you really want, a spirit could rise out of you, the same as a spirit could come out of me.

The spirit of the pastor gets on the people, but believe me, it had better be a good kind of a spirit getting on you. And you better have a good kind of a spirit for something to come out.

That’s why exactly, I don’t care whether we’re believer, make-believer or unbeliever. We had better get a real anointing of God upon us, the genuine Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that lovely Nature will come into the church and the people get healed, my brother/sister. See?

Now you’re fine people; we’ve got to go further. There’s a long way to go yet.

Daniel 7:

Now you can see right here that this whole chapter deals with judgments. You’re dealing with judgments poured upon judgments.

So therefore, from the time of the Appearing in 1933, when the Judge came down and was fully manifested to be the Judge through the vindicated, revealed Word in 1963: judgment, judgment, judgment, judgment!

Who came down as the Judge? Right there. [Brother Vayle points to the picture of the Cloud.] Jehovah Judge came down as the Judge. See?

And that’s going to take us plumb into the Millennium, which is a period of time, and there is still no difference.

It’ll come right at the end of the Millennium, at the Second or General Resurrection and go right into what is already started. And it doesn’t call it all kinds of names.

Now, you wait; there’s some very peculiar things coming out… thanks to Brother Branham.

Daniel 7:28

All right. We’re going to look now at,

Now It doesn’t say back there that the heaven and earth fled away, but are you going to tell me it’s another throne? Or is it the same throne under a different condition? See? That’s what you got to look at.

Now, without reading further… because I’m going to read the whole thing in a context, we’re going to go to,

What’s he doing? He’s judging. And from the consequential judgment comes war. There’s nothing to do but fight and take it over. So, these rascals, you’re not going to do a thing with them. They blasphemed the God of Heaven.

And they’re very churchy, too, by the way. Because the big shot is claiming he’s the real vicar of Christ. He’s God’s man on Earth. ‘Anti’ means ‘instead of’, not ‘against’. Antichrist spirit—all churches have them, but it’s got to come to fruition.

Revelation 19:

So therefore, whoever the Word of God is, He’s evidently the Judge and the Warrior. And it’s time to execute the judgment, which has already been passed.

But seeing there’s been no repentance, because there can be no repentance; from Hebrews 6, they’ve got to die.

That’s why nobody’s here on the earth in the Millennium. People have some kind of an idea… That’s what the fundamentalists teach.

Why, they say Matthew 25, the judgment of nations where everybody nice to the Jews is going to get in, and those not nice to the Jews will be kicked out. Hogwash.

It’s going to “leave neither root nor branch.” Our soles are going to walk on the ashes of the wicked.

Okay, let’s keep reading.

Now… Well, we’ll keep reading.

And, of course, a big fight ensues. What happens? The Devil is bound. Now, I want to ask you a question. Who can let Satan out of his prison? Who has the authority? Only a Judge.

If anybody acts apart from a judge, he’s in trouble, though America’s no example anymore. You can do anything without a judge anymore. You’ve got enough money, you can buy a judge and the whole cotton-picking nation. It’s gone.

You don’t fool with this One. One thousand years the Judge just sits there. After one thousand years, the Judge brings about a resurrection; the Second Resurrection.

He says this time, “This fellow gets let out.” See.

Revelation 20:

So, you’ve got a perennial picture here, continuation of a Judge and the judging, and He doesn’t cease. In other words, you see a dominant role. Now then, Revelations 1:12-15.

Way back when the Seals were opened, I was under Brother Branham’s ministry listening, seemed very farfetched to me, and I know others also, because my understanding of eschatology, prophetic scripture fulfillment, and Biblical chronology in no way ever envisioned any advent of Judge or any necessity even for the advent of a Judge before the Second Resurrection, unless you would include the Bema, which is in 2 Corinthians 5 and spoken of in 1 Corinthians 3.

So, let’s take a look at It. 5:9-10.

Now the word ‘accepted’ is not accepted in the sense, whether He’s going to boot you in, or boot you out. It means whether you’re pleasing to Him.

So that means something’s got to happen as a criterion down the road, which lets us know which side we fall on. Are we pleasing, or aren’t we? Do we meet the standards? Watch.

Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 3, and we’ll read verses 11-15.

Now, notice; the foundation is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now you can liken this to the whole church, or you can liken this to the individual, because they both work in the same manner.

Now, notice the foundation, but watch what you can build upon it: Wood, hay, stubble, gold, silver, precious stones.

Now you’re going to have two fires. You’re going to have the fire that comes down in the Tribulation at the end of it, and you’re going to have a fire which is going to burn out all the dross and the individual’s life—the purging. And this is not Purgatory as many Catholics try to make it.

There’s no such thing as Purgatory; no way shape and form. Purgatory’s a place where you’re put in for a while and somebody’s going to try to get you out.

Believe me, if you get there, there ain’t anybody going to get you out, because you shouldn’t be there in the first place. It’s a pagan doctrine. Jesus never spoke one word of it. No man ever did.

1 Corinthians 3:

Now, remember; the Scripture distinctly says at the end time, John preaching of Jesus, whose fan is in His hand, He’ll thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner, and the chaff He’ll burn with unquenchable fire.

So, you can see, there’s two purgings going on. There’s a purging of the people—a purifying. There’s a purging of the world to bring a purified people back.

So, you know something? Every one of us that dies is purged by the fact of death, because the body is dead because of sin. We pay a price. But there will be a people here that won’t die. They’ll pay a different price.

And the price they’ll pay is the eternal vigilance of repentance by bringing their thoughts under control and not deviating from what the prophet brought us. That’s one of the big prices you’ll pay; there’s others, no doubt, too.

1 Corinthians 3:

What you’re looking at here is a life that is entirely and thoroughly sanctified. Now, that’s the only judgment we had any inkling of; we really did not understand the rest.

But the Scripture is there to substantiate the Judge of Revelation 1:12-15 as Brother Branham taught it, though we never actually saw it because our minds were fixed on the White Throne and the Lake of Fire after the Millennium.

Now, just turn with me to,

That’s true. You watch; when things get really rough, like when we had depression… You know, during depression, it is my personal estimation from what I saw, that promiscuous, sexual actions were far greater than the day when people had jobs.

Then, after the jobs got back and the war and all things, you find it took a higher trend because people had all kinds of money.

Always when you see a harvest time, when you see something like a turn, you’ll notice how things begin to accelerate, accelerate, accelerate.

You can tell right now something dreadful is going on in the earth because of the AIDS plague, which is brought in by homosexuality.

That’s exactly where it came from, and I don’t care what the doctors tell you. There are a few honest doctors and a few honest politicians, but most of the rest of them are liars.

Johnson and Masters might not be as far wrong as people try to make them. Let’s understand that. The AIDS virus can be in your blood for eleven solid years, at least that much they found out, before it appears.

How many are carriers even in this hour in this church? We don’t know. I don’t say anybody’s doing anything or carrying anything.

I’m just letting you know plump and plain: ‘Hey, don’t kid yourselves. For God’s sake, don’t be fools—especially you young people.’ You think, because you’ve got strong power in your flesh, you can do what you want.

You do what you want; you’ll die with it. You’ll die with it. They’re not going to cure you. They get you over the hump this time, something worse will come upon you. It’s never failed yet. See.

You keep your virginity, your virtue before God. It’ll pay you. You might think you’re losing something by not getting in the flesh pots.

Sure you’re losing one thing: you’re losing crime. Nobody wants that. You’re losing death. Nobody wants that. You’re losing sickness. Nobody wants that.

It said here:

At that time… What time is that? Well, everybody knows it:

Who’s coming in? The Judge is coming in. Everybody has a picture of the Good Shepherd. I got news for you: it is not the Good Shepherd. It is the Judge. And the Judge will make the difference.

Yet people say… many people say, “So, He’s here. So what?”

And I say then, “Who is here?”

The Judge is here.

You can hardly get a preacher in this Message, so-called, to preach the Judge.

I want to ask you a question. Why not? Those that say they do preach it, why aren’t they preaching it harder?

I’m not trying to set up a standard; I’m reading the Bible, I’m reading the prophet.

We’re not here playing little games. I don’t know what all that this is going to do. I’m telling you the truth, as is in the Word of Almighty God by a vindicated prophet, this is the Truth.

It is the Judge that stands at the door. Sure He’s the Chief Shepherd. Certainly He’s Jehovah God, but He’s Judge.

That’s what started on June 11th, 1933 and was brought into consummation in ‘63, one foot upon land and one foot upon sea.

When He came down, coming more and more into the Church, until He came into the Church and now the decision is there.

Who receives the Judge? Nobody wants the Judge. You know why? They don’t want to be judged.

“Well, bless God, our church has got this.”

This church here has nothing, and never will have anything, unless it’s got the real, true Christ and the Word of that Christ. Absolutely! We stand on no heretical dogmas and creeds.

We see, then, here a role change. We see a role change. The role change is God not on the Throne anymore, but God coming as Judge and setting up His Own throne of judgment.

At this time, His throne has been in our hearts for rulership. We’re looking forward to it.

But there is a judgment that started and is taking place even now by the revealed Word of Almighty God, because the Bible says, “He will judge the world by one Christ Jesus.”

And, as Brother Branham said, “He is the Word.” And we’re looking at that this very morning.

Now, with this in mind, there can be no doubt that Revelation 20:11-12 is found in, and actually started in, Revelation 1:12-15, because that’s the truth.

At the end of the Seven Church Ages, He steps forth, categorically as the Judge. He was all along, but it was a subdominant role; now it becomes the dominant role and is also Revelation 4:1-3.

And let’s take a look at that. You’ve only got one God, brother/sister; you haven’t got three, four, five or six.

All right.

And therefore, categorically, Revelation 10:1-6 is the same person.

Well, that’s the One on the throne with the Book; He came down here now. And who is He? He is Judge! And as Judge, what’s he do?

He raises His Hand to Heaven and He swears that time is no longer; it’s blended with eternity. It’s run out. What’s run out? The fourth kingdom is running out.

That’s what you’re looking at; the whole thing’s now where we’re soon going to take the whole world over.

Now, as Pat Robertson… He blew it when he went against Brother Branham. And in 1984, he got a voice like Joe Coleman did.

Brother Branham’s supposed to been silent for 21 years; nobody’s heard from God for 21 years according to Coleman.

Now he’s the archangel Michael. Hogwash he is. And neither is Pat Robertson going to take us into the Millennium.

He can’t even get in the President’s office. Ha! You talk about man’s folly being exposed. Why don’t they just sit back and wait for God to show them things. See?

So, categorically, this One here is the same Judge. Now, do not be confused here, for we’re dealing mainly with Jehovah in the dominant role of Judge, and not so much with the element of time and chronology.

Now on page 35 of “Future Home”:

[240]  Now… or after time has been fulfilled, all sin is gone, taken away after the Millennium, at the great White Throne Judgment—a type of the Holy Ghost. After the world is on fire and baptized, [It’s baptism of holy fire from heaven.] all sin is gone, all germs are gone, all devils are gone, and temptation and everything’s gone.

In other words, what he’s saying here: at the end of the Millennium, the Second Resurrection, General Resurrection, will come about and there will still be that; but it’s already started. See?

Now, let me read here, too,

“Future Home”, page 30.

[04]  All right, “I’ll come again,” [Jesus says] now, as King with His Queen. And the second two thousand years, what does He do? [See, one thousand gone by, another Millennium coming up.] He comes and gives His rest period and then burns her off and claims it for His Own, puts His Own back on it.

[Now, this is “Future Home” we’re talking about—coming back to earth again, the second time, when it’s redone.] And notice, not the perfect world, this Millennium is a type of the seventh day. Then comes the White Throne judgment. See, we still have judgment; we’re still in time in the Millennium.

So, he lets you know that as long as time is going on, what starts there in judgment, continues with the Judge. Yep. And only at the end of that period does the Father disincarnate Himself from the Son. Still remaining Judge, He goes up above the Throne where the Lamb is, as the Pillar of Fire.

Now try to just roll with the punches on these things, if you don’t quite get them. All right.

You can recognize from this fact of Revelations 10:6, that’s the One that raised His arm, and also Revelation 10:4. That’s the One there that told John to seal up the Seven Seals, and you compare that with Revelation 22:4, which we have done many times.

The Book is unsealed… Revelation 22:10; I mean, He said, “Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this Book.” When He comes down, He said, “All right. Close the Book.” He opens the Book, and notice the result of the two.

Now, first of all, I want to get the picture, because I know I’ve lost you. We’re talking about Revelation 10:6.

That’s the One that said, “Time shall be no more.” The One that raised His Hand and swore, “Time shall be no more.” That’s the Judge that came down in Revelation 10:1. All right.

Revelation 10:4: that same One says, “Seal up the Book.” Now the same One that sealed the Book up, comes back to earth here, puts His foot on land and sea and unseals: Revelation 22:10.

Let’s read Revelation 22, beginning at verse 5.

Now you know, at this particular time, when the Seals are open, it was the Judge that came down, and He tells you now, that He’s going to give you rewards according as the works shall be.

And the holy will be holy, and the righteous will be righteous, the filthy will be filthy, and so on.

So, you can see in here the elements of what they call the Judgment Seat of Christ or the Bema, where you get rewards for what you have done, which are in the Word of God, and the other is crossed out. The others will forfeit with their life.

But the picture I’m trying to show you is: Judgment has already started.

Revelation 22:

Now Revelation 22:15 I wanted to get to.

Okay,

Now, did you notice that verse 8 is the same as verse 15, for all intents and purposes. So, outside the Holy City, what have you got? The Lake of Fire, which will destroy these.

Now, what have you got today with the opening of the Seals? The same thing: 22:15.

Now, if that’s not White Throne, you tell me what it is. That’s not judgment; the judgment is sealed up.

I’m going to tell you something, brother/sister: When those Books that were sealed were opened, the judgments were sealed to this earth.

Now, notice I said in,

It’s already lined up. The judgment has been pronounced. We’ll get to another Scripture to show you that in just a minute.

Now, I won’t read Matthew 12, but Matthew 12 refers to the time when God returns to the Gentiles in the form of the Holy Ghost in a Pillar of Fire and does the works that were done back in Palestine.

At that time, to utter one word against the Holy Ghost is blasphemy, which can never ever be forgiven. Also, Hebrews 6, where they turn down the Word, they can never be forgiven.

Now, listen to me! Paul was a blasphemer. Let it sink in. He says he was a blasphemer, I think in the Book of Timothy, and he isn’t going to the Lake of Fire.

So, there’s only one time you can really blaspheme the Holy Ghost, and that’s today. And any man that does this is already at the White Throne, because it is going on now, not just in a figure of speech, but it is actually started to the intent it will wind up at a certain time in a certain place under a certain condition.

Today, it is a certain time, a certain place, and a certain condition. And everything in the Word of God is a certain time and a certain place and a certain condition. And it’s going on now; otherwise I don’t know why Brother Branham said it was. We know it was.

So, to me there is no doubt that Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire,” is categorically, Malachi, the little Book in the Bible,

Now you know, the only place that could possibly happen would be in the Lake of Fire at the final judgment.

And Brother Branham used that very Scripture and said, “Now you try to show me there’s an eternal hell.” Then what’s going on now? Judgment. Designation. Assignation.

It’s been designated and been assigned, but, as the world was kept to be judged, so souls in prison are kept to be judged.

In the sense of the assignation, they’re already judged. It is the hour of Malachi 4, which we just looked at.

Malachi 4:5-6, that’s God sending the prophet, guarantees Malachi 4:2-3, which we know to be our escape.

And it is spoken of in Acts 3:19-23, the middle of the verse:

What is the restoration? I will restore what the locust, the caterpillar, the palmerworm, the cankerworm all have destroyed.

God is going to bring back a Garden of Eden condition, whereby man can go beyond Eden, because being placed in Eden was not an end in itself.

The end of Eden was immortality: ‘lest they take of the Tree and live forever’, which they could’ve done. So, now you’re going to be restored to be able to get to that Tree, which is what we saw in Revelation 22.

Now It Acts 3 said:

Well, how can… Why would a prophet do it, unless he’s a judge? So, what do you see at the end time? You see invariably the reference is always to the Judge.

And the Judge always has a judgment seat. It isn’t three or four different kinds.

You simply call it what you want to call it, according to the conditions or the time, so you can illustrate and focus your understanding a little more clearly.

But as far as I can see, when that Ancient of Days begins moving, which is right there, it’s set up. And you’re just going to keep moving and moving.

Then there’ll be a little bit of coming back during the Millennium. But the Judge will be watching plumb out there in the pit, and watching for the Resurrection, watching what’s going on in that world where they’re down there in the netherland, the lower earth, you know.

He’ll be watching; the strong and mighty angels of God in charge of everything. And the day comes, when He’ll say, “I’m the Judge, open up.”

See, God’s going to stop it. That’s why He could go down there and bring out the living righteous. Sure, there’s no two ways about that one.

Now, let’s go to,

Now, with that there’s,

Now, do you know what I think that is? I don’t think that’s looking for the promise of the Coming.

I understand that to be, “Hey, what is all this about His Presence? What’s going on? What’s it doing for us? When are we going to get out of here?”

Now, if I’m telling the truth, which I believe I am, giving the right slant on this, I’ll feel pretty sorry for these pulpits, and I could start naming some right now, that sneer at what we understand here and say that they believe It, but don’t preach It. They’re too busy rolling in people’s money, I guess.

2 Peter 3:

Now, what do we know anything about the beginning of creation? Nothing! Except human history, and that doesn’t go back very far.

So, all they can say here is, “Everything is just going on the way we’ve known it, either by God’s having made a creation, the Devil messing it up, or the whole thing has been buzzing around here merely by the matter of evolution.”

In plain English, we’re standing here because God’s not ready to hit the earth with fire. That’s all; He’s not ready to do it. Why? Because Sodom and Gomorrah’s not completely filled; the cup of the Canaanites isn’t overflowing.

In other words, the last message is repentance. The last one brought in and child-trained is when God can begin to do what we’re wanting Him to do. All right.

With this, we want to go to,

The verse I was looking at that I want to repeat again is verse 24.

In other words, you can settle this outside of court. You can settle outside of judgment; you can have a judgment in your favor at this particular time. Otherwise, they’re going to catch up with you, and it’s going to be a pretty rough time.

Now, that’s Revelation 3:20: “Behold I stand at the door and knock.”

Now, with this we want to go to,

All right. Back to,

And that’s exactly right: the whole decision of God depends on what you do with Jesus. It depends exactly what you do today with the Pillar of Fire having come down, because that is God in Sonship form to us, because it’s the hour of the Son.

John 5:

In other words, if you say you honor the Son that’s sitting upon the throne now, you’re wrong. You don’t honor Him at all. He that hath the Father hath the Son. You don’t have this, you don’t have the Son.

You’ve got to make up your mind which way the Bible’s going, not the way you’re going, which way the Bible’s going, then try to catch up with It. See?

Now, there you are. What if God spoke again today in the form of the Holy Ghost, as the gift of the Son once more, because He’s got to be crucified to the people themselves, and He comes on the scene and He speaks; what then? The world’s judged.

Now I want to ask you a question: Is the White Throne going on or isn’t it going on? See? Don’t get the idea way down the road now. It started, it’s going on.

Now, especially 19 and 20, It says in John 5 which I didn’t read; start up there about verse 19.

All right. We’re looking at the fact here of what He said, and with it we go to,

That is in the personal, singular and devolves upon one man, which Brother Branham was the one person who could arrogate unto himself properly by Scripture, God giving him that revelation of this hour, which is absolutely the one of judgment.

Now we saw, in Matthew 12, the fact that He’s got to come back here. We saw in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 that He has to come back: “The Lord Himself shall descend with a Shout, the Voice of the Archangel, the Trump of God.”

And we see in 1 Corinthians 15, the ministry that He is doing right now, to bring the Church in subjection and the world into judgment, categorically, at the presence of God, which we all know to be in verses 20, 21, 22, 23: “Afterward, Christ at His Appearing.”

That’s His Presence; “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God.” That’s a future perfect tense showing that something is already spoken of as though it has taken place.

In other words it’s an absolute committal and commitment to the future on the basis of the present. “For He must reign till He put all enemies under his feet.” In other words God Himself taking Headship of the Church.

And you notice, It says in verse 27:

And this is that ‘Kalusma’; “the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout” is what you’re looking at right now.

God already has brought His Church into judgment, and the test has been passed, “You are the pure and righteous sinless Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ; you didn’t even do it.”

So, you can see that right now judgment is going on, and judgment will be going on and judgment will continue until the complete finalization, and that One right there that came down, is the same One that is going to be on the great White Throne. There isn’t any difference.

It’s a matter of time. God’s not more than one God. It’s just what God is doing in this hour. Time and eternity have blended, and it’s moving on.

And you can see that our White Throne is here now, and we have it made. There are no problems. We’re not going to lose out.

White Throne is here for the make-believer, the unbeliever because there’s no change in the judging Word. No difference; this Word’s not going to change.

There’s just a final disposition at a certain time, according to Rev 20:12, and they were already judged. The records were opened. That’s all.

Now, you know my stand on Revelation 22:18-19, which I have categorically taken.

And that is this:

And that has to do with the opening of the Seven Seals. Now my stand… The reason I’m bringing this out is this: I say what Brother Branham said.

He said, “We’re standing before the White Throne now.”

Now, let me read again, which I read a little while ago. We’re going to close.

Future Home, page 30

[04] Now, as King with His Queen. And the second two thousand years, what does He do? He comes and gives His rest period and then burns her off and claims it for His Own, puts His Own back on it.

And notice, not the perfect world, this Millennium is a type of the seventh day. Then comes the White Throne judgment. See, we still have judgment; we’re still in time in the Millennium. It’s one day, one thousand years. It’s a time element. Not… Don’t get that mixed up with the new earth now.

You see what he’s saying? It’s a time element. You’re looking at reality, but it’s a time element. Now, watch again.

Page 35, paragraph 4,

[04]  …after time has been fulfilled… All sin is gone—taken away at the Millennium, at the great White Throne judgment—a type of the Holy Ghost.

Now, let that sink in. If the White Throne judgment is a type of the Holy Ghost, where everything is absolutely gone, there will be nothing left but the purity of Almighty God Himself, the Holy Ghost.

And remember now; he says that White Throne is typing the Holy Ghost. Then, what if the Holy Ghost came now? Now reverse it.

I know you’re looking puzzled, but let your thinking go. You’re not babies anymore; let your thinking go. You’re back in your old types of tradition.

He said White Throne judgment is a type of the Holy Ghost. Now, if the Holy Ghost Himself came—the White Throne type—then Him coming… you’re at the White Throne right now. Try to just let your thinking go.

People will hear what Brother Branham said, but they’re not going to believe it. I’ll read for you in the “Future Home…”, where we better understand, to be a believer. You don’t sit here and say, “Well, I believe, and don’t understand.”

Now this is the key we were looking for all along, is the little quote of Brother Branham’s here. Except God brought me to it, I wouldn’t have got it; but I had underlined it before.

All sin is gone—taken away at the end of the Millennium, at the great White Throne judgment [complete purification, complete purging].

That’s what you’re looking at, typing the Holy Ghost Himself—everything falling in type. Then, what if the Holy Ghost Himself appears on the scene? Where are you at?

You say, “Brother Vayle, what does it do for me?”

Takes away your unrest and your worry. You don’t have to look down the road.

See, that’s what people are… always looking down the road. They even have the nerve to look one thousand years down the road.

Why are we looking one thousand years down the road? See, if the King is here, the queen is here, the throne is here, the kingdom is here in a complete potential.

If the Judge is here, tell me, what’s His position, in the literal? What’s he doing? He’s on His Throne of Judgment, judging. He’s knocking at the door and saying, “Listen, you’ve got your chance right now.”

So, when Brother Branham said, “Don’t go looking down the road,” he said, “we’re standing before that Throne right now.”

You say, “That sure changed my theology around.”

It’s going to change mine a whole lot more than it’s already done. It keeps changing. But I believe what the prophet said, and I believe always that you’ll find in the Word of God, you’ll find those little places in there that nobody could ever get, outside of a prophet.

And he told us the Truth, brother/sister. It’s hard to understand in a certain way, because we are so finite.

But, if we just begin to let our thinking go, we’ll begin to see that time and eternity, all these things blended together, and see the fortunate position we are now in, because the results are in—the assignation to see that judgment has taken place; the assignation is right at hand.

What is that assignation? The dead come out of the ground, we’re going to get our change, and we’re going to be gone, come back and rule and reign one thousand years and sit with Him. That’s what he said.

I believe with all my heart that it’ll do us good because the word of a prophet is a good word.

Let’s rise and be dismissed.

Gracious, heavenly Father, we want to thank You again for Your kindness that You bestowed upon us in this last day, Lord. We can hear so many things the prophet said, and always we’ll find out how he said them and why he said them; we’ll see them in Your Word, Lord.

And we realize now, Father, that, perhaps as never before, and I believe as never before, that we can see the windup; it’s really winding up. We put all these things together.

I know it’s not perfect, Lord; there’s lots of things in my mind that aren’t settled as I want them settled and they may never be settled. But I’ve taken the word of the prophet that we’re standing before Your Throne right now, seeing the beautiful type and all that he laid before us.

Help Your people, Lord, at this time to come into a place of rest, and not just a place of rest, Lord, which is a good feeling, a good spirit in our lives, where we know that we can count on You.

But, Lord, we believe it transcends even that. It goes past a feeling. It goes to the place, Lord, where we see the utmost of the work of God has been done now in our hearts, minds, and lives, if we only receive it to bring forth a fruit that this world has never known.

And that is the fruit in Your Presence, Lord, where many standing here shall not taste of death, but shall enter into the Glory Land, absolutely in the same glory that You went away in, and coming back to receive us.

Father, forgive us our sins this morning. Let there not be one sinner amongst us this morning, Lord, not one, who hasn’t repented and wants to go all the way with You in Your Word. Grant, Lord, that the sick amongst us be healed, Father. We’re looking for that.

We’re trusting, oh God, that what we talk about in this church shall be more and more a reality of a love and an understanding and a helpfulness in all ways, shapes and forms, oh God, putting others above ourselves, Lord, until Your sweet Spirit does the work that we want to be done.

Now Father God, just keep us as we go our separate ways. Bring us back on the Saturday service and the Sunday service, Lord, and may it be a blessed time in Thee, Father, but may the days in between be ones that are hallowed by Your Presence, Lord, sanctified by Your grace and Your mercy, oh God, and we a sanctified people walking in the hour that You’ve given us to live in.

Help us to number our days, oh God, and thereby present ourselves before You in that day, knowing that our lives are not full of wood, hay and stubble, but rather, oh God, that there had been some gold, silver and some precious stones in every single life here.

We ask these mercies, for Your honor and glory, in Jesus, Name, Amen.

“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”