Rapture #17

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father we again are so happy to be in Your house Lord, and be with Your people to seek Your face, to know Your words, to understand Your thoughts, and to go on with You Lord, trusting that we are growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Growing up unto Him, Lord, understanding as never before, then Father being more conformed in all things so that Your people are more and more, that Word, proving to the world, not by any great manifestation of power but simply by having the revealed Word, and living according to that Word in this hour.

In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, remember the other day we brought to your attention.

Now also in 2 Peter here, Peter also says in the 1st chapter.

And what we derived from there is the fact that the book of 2 Peter is literally based upon 1 Peter.

But you’ll find more of the actual mechanics, or the literal Presence of the Lord, and the Rapture as Brother Branham brought to our attention, 2 Peter 3 was the Rapture; which would be occurring as a thief in the night.

But it would not have anything to do with us, because we are children of the light, not of darkness, and as Paul said also that we are, “Not of those who were foreordained to condemnation, but unto salvation.”

And 2 Peter, as we showed you, goes greatly into the fact of Elijah appearing on the scene, the revelation coming to us, how that that revelation would be changed by, not the false prophets but the false teachers, and so on down the line.

Then we went back to 1 Peter, and what we’re into in 1 Peter is that there’s more warning there, and more Scripture to show that when it comes to this understanding of the Rapture, it’s exactly as Brother Branham put it.

That we don’t have any message different from Luther, or from Wesley, or from Pentecost, it is just fuller. We at this time receive the full end time revelation, and of course we have the Presence of Almighty God.

Now in there is where we’re going to have to watch 1 Peter carefully, so we’ll see the true relationship of 1 Peter to 2 Peter, that Peter is literally letting the people know that nothing has changed in this hour as pertaining to the doctrine, and as pertaining to the conduct.

And by that we do not mean that we do not have a fuller revelation, it means that we do not set aside any revelation we have, nor do we set aside any conduct that is incumbent upon us.

Now, you’ll notice that when the Exodus of Israel took place out of Egypt, there was a mixed crowd and this caused perpetual trouble so that they actually went into idolatry, into lustful, terrible conditions, and many people perished out of hand because of it.

Now, when Brother Branham brought the Word, and the mighty Angel came down to bring us out of Babylon, you’ll find that the same thing exists.

That there are those who will be literally a blight upon the good Name of the Lord. There will be those who attempt to come into something new, and something very exotic, as far as they’re concerned.

There’ll be those who live in abject sin and claim to believe in this actual end time condition, or season, of the going away of the Bride.

Even Paul got into that in the book of Thessalonians, previous to the 4th chapter when he was teaching on the Rapture, and he brings out the fact, there were literally two things that were very, very, disgusting at that time.

One of which was the sex problem, which is with us today, and is a very messy situation, and Brother Branham had to deal with it in certain respects.

And then there was also the fact that people were not paying their debts, and they were living in a way that literally constituted a very bad situation, and Brother Branham had to deal with that.

And there’s always a dealing with these things wherein people seem to, not understand the perfection that the Blood brings, the power that the Holy Spirit brings, and the grace that is given to us in this rest that we have.

All of these things can be taken by people and they run with them and I’m going to be very honest with you, it’s going on right now from what I teach.

I’ve warned you constantly that under this ministry you could die.

That you could be hurt very, very much by the type of preaching I do, because I do not deal so much with the very legitimate, and very pertinent type of message which the church needs so badly concerning conduct, and worship, and these things that are so precious.

I don’t deal with that as much as I would like to and it just seems that, perhaps, this is the reason I’ve been on the road so much, but now again we have a particular situation here in peculiar, in that the ministry I have from this church goes far greater fields, and to far more people then if I went on the road and tried to preach to them.

So we have a problem here, and you’ll find as we go into 1 Peter that we’re dealing with things that are very pertinent with this congregation, and with other congregations of the ministers who care to listen to tapes that I preach, and then they take some thoughts out of those very sermons.

Now, I was reading of course from the expanded translation by Dr. Wuest because it’s a little more modern.

You know Brother Branham used a very modern language when he gave the Word for our hour. And this Dr. Wuest is very good at his expanded translation, in that it helps us to understand some things a little better.

Now we… when we looked at the Word, and I was reading to you in 1 Peter according to this translation which is good.

In other words, the main springs are the motivation of God, according to Peter, was His mercy was so great that He had to do this.

Now you’ll notice that that’s on par with the 1st chapter of Ephesians. And it takes you right from Ephesians 1:3-14, which is the baptism with the Holy Ghost which keeps you to the time when there is a change.

Now that’s what Peter is saying here, “That the Bride is kept.”

And therefore he is talking now concerning us, and we are the end time people who have come in, and he speaks now of all of those who are kept, and we are kept, and we… our names have been on that book, and we’re manifested now in our due season which Peter calls a last season, which is epochal, and strategic in its significance.

Now there’s a season, that’s called the last season, which is epochal, and strategic.

Now we look at the word ‘epic’. A particular period of time as marked by distinctive character, and events. A particular period of time as marked by distinctive character and events.

All right, this period has distinctive characters, and certain events that no other period had.

Two: The beginning of any distinctive period in the history of anything.

All right, therefore this will be the ushering in of the Millennium, which will be starting a new period. A point of time distinguished by a particular event, or state of affairs.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, the trump of God” and so on. And that’s what Peter was dealing with in the 2 Peter; 1, 2, and 3 chapters.

Now, the word ‘epochal’ simply is: of or pertaining to epics or an epic. Of the nature of an epic, epic making.

Now the word ‘strategic.’ First of all it comes from the strategy, also strategies. Means ‘generalship’, generalship.

We’re going to have then the definitive change in the general-shipping, of whatever is at hand, which is the church. The epochal season demands a change. All right?

The science or art, of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations. The use, or particular use, of this science or art.

Skillful management in getting the better of an adversary or attaining an end. The method of conducting operations, especially by the aid of maneuvering or stratagem.

A distinction is made between strategy and tactics in military use. Strategy dealing with the planning and directing of projects which involve the movements of forces.

And tactics, rather with the actual processes of moving or handling forces.

So we’re looking in here and we understand that there is a distinct change is taking place in the last day which is very well marked so that we can understand this change, wherein there is a marshaling, or the forces of a general are coming into play. Now this is that last season.

It is very significant that this season therefore is epochal and strategic in its very essence. In other words, this is the great drama of the close of the great drama of God in His acts of redemption.

It is where the Gentiles are being closed off and Israel is coming back. It is when time is running out. The ushering in of the Millennium and we’re going on in. It is the time of the Coming, of Revelation 19:11.

Now, at this particular time then Peter is giving them the spiritual food in their due season. Now he also says:

Now watch carefully, this hour is being described.

In other words, at the time of the Token. The great and tremendous sealing in, the Presence of God Himself, we are to be in position of triumphant exuberance, which of course is, the Spirit of the Lord’s day.

Knowing that at this particular time, as we saw the Judge, and we’ll see that in this same delineation here a little later on if we ever get that far, you’ll see the Judge and you’ll understand at this particular time we are in 1 Corinthians 1:7-8.

Which signifies that we are without blame in the day of the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

All right.

What? At the last season.

Now it tells you here that the very prophets, who prophesied concerning the suffering of Jesus Christ, did not know exactly where it would end. Well it’s ending on us.

And they wanted to know the things about this end time particular season, which was epochal and strategic, and which it’s epochal, you might say it’s epochal, the… not the format but the actual epochal drama itself, and the strategy of it, was not to be revealed except through a prophet as Peter designated, who alone had the right to speak for God as God spoke through him, which would be the prophet Elijah.

Now, he did not know how this would take place.

And the angels themselves were very concerned, because remember, angels have a stake in this, because it’s at the end time of course that angels are going to be separated more from angels than they ever were, judgment and all of these things set in.

And now remember, that the angels desired to stoop down and see these things.

Now angels did come and they noticed the birth of Jesus, because as He was born they were allowed to come down and look.

But in this end time you’ll notice the seven mightily angels came down, according to 2 Thessalonians the 1st chapter, and there brought the Word, the whole mystery, the Third Pull, the opening of the Seven Seals, the whole thing back there in about March 19, to about what, 25?

Somewhere there in that area, of 1963, when this was all brought to our attention and the strategy of Almighty God, which was, that the devil could not get a hold of this or he would do damage.

Well there’s nothing can be done now. No matter what the devil does, there is nothing that can be done.

The strategy of Almighty God has completely worked, and we are in this last day period, and the Pillar of Fire is leading us right into the Millennium, and the Rapture is going on right now and nobody even knows about it.

They don’t even know the Rapture started to go on in the days of Luther, because when the church begin coming out of the ground, she began gaining her momentum, that there would be a people here as Luther desired to see the Pillar of Fire, and Wesley, and Pentecostals knew about it but we have had, and do have the Pillar of Fire right now to lead us in.

Now that’s where we stand today.

Now,

Now it tells you right here, that you will now have with this exuberant joy that you carry, because of the glory that has been brought to you, that once and for all you do not impede the free action of your mind.

Which means the action of the mind is impeded through creeds, and dogmas, and a wrong understanding of what the Word of God is.

All right, at this time you can let your thinking go, it wasn’t nothing but a bunch of manure anyway, forget what you ever knew and just listen to the prophet.

Now a lot of people can’t do that, because they can’t stand the idea that the prophet is God to the people, and William Branham literally must have had either the fullness of Godhead, or a measure pretty close to it within him.

Because he said, “When you see God descend from Heaven, stand before groups of men and declare Himself as ever He did, and this Bible open before me,” he was saying that’s what he was.

God to the people. And when they saw him, they saw God. Even Tommy Osbourne saw that. But what did he mean? But he said it.

Now, at the time of this grace of the revelation, you are now in the position to once and for all, one hundred percent, get this Word, and everything else is gone.

In other words, there is a complete dedication. See? By the vindication, you place everything on this Word, His Presence, He’s here, He’s doing it, He’s going to do it, it’s all through Him.

Now, at this particular time, you order your behavior according to it and you’ll come out in His image as the Word guarantees it.

Now,

Now there’s your Judge. Now Brother Branham categorically said, “That that picture of that flame of Fire there, was identical to the one taken of the angels.” If that’s the case, that’s the case. It’s the same One.

Now what’s he saying there? Well he’s not saying that you cannot judge by an appearance, because look, if I see a man walking down the street, I’m not going to say, “Well it could be a horse. Well that could be a car.” Hogwash.

That’s an organ, and a man’s not a horse and a horse is not a man. I’m not stupid. What he’s trying to tell you is: you don’t go judging by the outward, great big programs, great big this, this thing and that thing.

You’ve got to judge according to the Word. Why? Because the Word is now here. The revelation has come.

So you say, “This guys got a great big church. He’s got to be right. This guys got a lot of money, he’s got to be right.”

Then what about the guy that’s got a lot of girlfriends? You say, “Well that’s not church.” Well I can prove it is.

They had polygamy back in the old day. What’s wrong today? What’s wrong with concubinage? Then pretty soon you get way down, get down with the puddles with the pigs and roll with the sows, and the hogs.

No, you have got here the fact of a Judge. Now the Judge is the Word, and when you have the revelation, everything is based upon the revelation.

So a man comes over from Europe and he cuts a great big swath, and he takes in a quarter of a million dollars a year, or better, and all these kinds of things, and they say, “Oh that’s great, that’s great, that’s great.”

What’s great? The guy didn’t take Brother Branham’s message anymore than a pig does.

That’s right, he doesn’t. I know what I’m talking about. Now, you say, “Well that’s a great thing.” Like fun that’s a great thing.

That’s going to meet Almighty God, the Judge stands here. You’ve got the Word for the first time the way It’s supposed to be. It’s an epochal, strategic season.

People say, “Well it’s going on just the way it always went on.” Oh it’s not going on the way it always went on.

There’s a change. People say, “Well it’s going to get handed back to the Jews.” Then there’s a change. Elijah comes, then there’s a change.

The Seals are opened, then there’s a change. The Thunders, then there’s a change. But they act as though there’s no change, and they go by their same old standards.

You can’t go by those standards. Those standards are wrong. See?

Now notice,

Now what’s behind what he’s doing?

A fellow one day said to me, he said, “Lee, I never could understand you, until I got to the point where I understand you judged everything by the Word, not by what was going on.”

That’s exactly what you’re supposed to do.

Now remember, at the end time the church declares herself rich, and she said, “We’re increased with goods and don’t lack a thing.”

And remember, the church will be in a position by its wealth, as prestige and power to literally take over everybody. And that’s what the church wants, bring them all into the kingdom.

The Catholic’s all but did do that. Come over here amongst the Indians and the Indians don’t want Christ, so they tortured them until they want Christ.

That’s the way the Catholics have always done. Protestants are no different, they bombard their brains until they come in, and the next thing you find they mixed their idolatries with it.

Why is the Roman Catholic church the way it is and the Protestants? Because that’s what they did.

They had to step outside of the Word. See? They got their authority and as soon as they got a little authority they just went hog wild.

Now,

Now what’s the difference if you’re going to say, “Well, I’m going to be able to buy my way in.” Whether you use silver or gold, you use your own good works. But watch,

Now notice; what times? When the law was going out and Jesus was once and for all taking away the life out of Israel except for the few elect under the Fifth Seal.

He was stopping them and notice He scattered them. They haven’t had temple worship. They’re back there in the promised land, but there’s nothing really going for them.

They’re just under their own dead laws and understanding. Now their laws, and the law is not going to come back.

Now,

Now, he’s telling you here, even as Brother Branham said, “That the same yesterday, today and forever, Lord Jesus Christ, being raised from the dead, He’ll do the very same things and manifest Himself as He did back there two thousand years ago. It’s close out time.”

Now, there was something that you want to watch here, and that is, the propensity of the people is still to minimize the Blood.

Now, what am I saying? I’m saying what Brother Branham said, “The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ absolutely brings perfection to a Bride.

He said, God demands perfection. Be ye holy as I am holy, and he said, be as holy as God. Now if God demanded it, God’s got to make a way for it. Now how did He do it? He did it by the Blood of Jesus Christ.’

And he said, How can you call a man a sinner when the blood of Jesus Christ scatters sin until there be no evidence.”

Now, I am a little alarmed, that there is too much of playing down of the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, where preachers even talk about songs that have the Blood in them, aren’t as vital as they once were.

Now don’t you ever tell me that nonsense. I make a sweeping statement concerning the Blood, I don’t care if it’s off the altar, or on the altar, or anything else.

Take any statement you want to make of Brother Branham, you’ll get no where without the Blood.

In other words, the Blood is entirely exalted and made much of, and there must not be any diminishing of any man’s thought concerning the price that was paid.

Now Peter is warning, at the end time people are going to be doing that. Now this in a sense is in most of this Message.

Let’s get this and understand it flat, you can say, “Well Brother Vayle’s supposed to be a teacher.”

Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. I’ve got a gift of teaching whether it’s true or false, I’m not here to really say.

All I know is I’ve got it. The prophet said, “His gift was like mine.” So if his is false, mine’s false. If his is true, mine’s true. And he said, “Nobody wants it.”

Which simply meant, they’d like to have it, but they don’t want me to have it, didn’t want him to have it. All right, now we understand what I’m driving at here.

There is no church that can even begin to depend upon Lee Vayle, or a teaching ministry, or anything else, because my teaching ministry can go on a certain direction and in one direction alone if that’s the way I’m pointing it.

And at the same time there is no gift that cannot be used of the devil. Now this church is just as serious as any other church. I’ve never tried to fool you, and I’m not about to fool you.

If you get fooled you’re on your own, because I warn and exhort day and night from this pulpit here that there is nothing in Lee Vayle, and there isn’t any place where you can take anything away from the Word there’s no place.

Now it’s a very serious matter, because I’ve known this has been going on, but it’s beginning to surface very, very, much.

Now I’m going to tell you, I disassociate myself from everything said, and from everybody that says anything. I stand in this pulpit alone, and I care less.

I am not my brother’s keeper when it comes to ministries. Now that may sound tough, but that’s the word of warning going out, and it’s gone out because it’s on tape, it’ll be picked up.

Now let’s watch Peter. This is what Peter is talking about.

Now I’m going to tell you something right here. Let’s get this flat, there is a love in the church, supposed to be in this hour, that supersedes all this humbug out there.

And I tell you, I’m sick and tired of nice people, but I am not sick and tired of loving people, I want to see more loving people, and be more loving myself; but that’s a far cry from niceness.

Niceness to me is a sham and a hypocrisy and don’t think there cannot be a hypocrite love because the Bible said, “Let love not be in dissimulation,” which means a hypocrisy a hypocritical love.

Now what are we to be like at the end time?

Now that’s the local assembly as far as I’m concerned. How can you go loving somebody out of some other church down the road? You’re not even around them.

Why if they come in, you treat them with respect and you find out if they’re brethren. You don’t know.

We’re not given a gift of discernment, bless God, whereby we can look up everybody like an open book, or an atlas, or something. I’m looking at local churches here.

How much pleasure is there taken in each one of us? Now I know we got families and family’s a good thing, but I don’t have family. Now that may shock the britches off of you, mentally speaking. I don’t have family.

You say, “You’ve got a wife.” That’s right I’ve got a wife.

That’s right, but I’ll tell you one thing, my wife does not supersede this Word. It’s good to have family affection but there’s also a family of the Bride, local.

Now you say, “Well you offend me and offend my family, you’ve got trouble.” Well, you’re the one that’s got the trouble, not me.

I’m going to tell you something, in one years time if I know my heart, and I lie not, I have never had such love and tenderness for anybody in my life outside of this group here, and I speak as a very tough old bird.

Not just simply tolerance, although tolerance is there and tolerance ain’t the best thing. Tolerance is one step, but it’s a far step from love. To tolerate a person doesn’t mean you love them.

It’s like one guy said, “The Bible said, ‘Love your wife,’ it doesn’t say you had to like them.”

That’s all right for a little bit of you know, little catchy catch. But there is… but listen, the condition of the local assembly, it must be one wherein they are looking to love each other, and notice;

A certain preacher went to preacher’s house, friend of mine, and so the guy just went all out to give the guy the best offering he could.

So the guy said, “Well,” he said, “I need all this money very much, thank you.” And he wired it right home to his wife.

Now the guy needs a ticket to go somewhere. So the preacher is stuck for the ticket. Now he wants to phone home. So he phones home, runs up a big phone bill soon as he knows he can phone on the preacher’s time.

He takes each kid on prime time and talks, and talks, and talks, and yaps, and yaps. What’s a $50 phone bill? He’s not paying it. Now the next thing is he wants to send the kids presents.

So they go to the airport and when he finds out the preacher will pay for the gifts, he doesn’t buy the kid the gift the kid would really like, he buys a more expensive gift.

Now what happens? His wife breaks down and cries to my wife, and she says, “Sis. Vayle, if he’d of loved us, the way we loved him he couldn’t have done that.”

People wake up. Don’t make anybody a sucker. Spongy, the very word brought out in the Greek, it’s a sign of the end time.

That’s right, don’t take advantage of people’s love. Give I’m a funny guy. I’ve got a lot of funny qualities. You want it, you can have it, but you’ll pay for it.

Now listen, I’m not fussing with anybody here. I’m telling you what’s at the end time, and 2 Peter comes out of 1 Peter.

And many people just don’t know that there’s such a thing as a message of conduct, message of devotion, message of being right with each other.

Now listen, I’ll go over it again.

People, we’re of more value than worlds, and worlds, and worlds. If we caused the Blood of Jesus Christ to be shed for our redemption then how worthy are we?

What is our worth? There is no way, no calculator under Heaven and in Heaven could estimate it. “Because God so loved the world, His own world, His order, God so loved His order.”

He doesn’t even let a sparrow fall. There’s not one blade of grass that grows that He doesn’t know about. Not one hair of our head nothing He’s not going to bring back. God’s order and we’re the choice of all the orders, it’s all done for us.

Now,

Now when I preach rough don’t think I don’t believe that you don’t have this love. I’m sure you’ve got this love.

I’m sure it’s here in our church. I’m positive of that much. Now you take pleasure in them. See? It doesn’t’ mean just to indulge, it means to take real pleasure from the heart,

There is a lot of stuff out there that’s got perishable seed. Doesn’t say to love that. You can be good to it, you can be kind to it but we’re talking of brethren who love each other. See?

Not taking advantage, now we’ll get into that. Not saying anybody does but I just want you to know a few things. I’ve got to preach the whole Word of God and this is part of the whole Word of God.

So if it happens to be devotional, I’ve got to hit the devotional, and I ain’t going to get through with this tonight.

I wish I was going to get all of it done and go start something else but I’m not going to do that. I just can’t do it. Now I want to show you something here.

Now what’s he talking about? He’s talking that the same Word that was sown back there, how they loved each other and died for each other, and gave for each other, it’s coming to perfection in this hour. The same seed, that’s right.

Now listen, there’s a lot of understanding here to go through, and a lot of taking of discipline because this is a bad age.

Out there is every corruption under God’s high Heaven. Nepotism, bribes, spending of money to take advantage. The spurious building up, scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

You love me and I’ll love you, ends up in filthy, stinking mess. But here’s little old Bride, she understands the worth of the Bride, because she’s… they’ve got that seed and each one’s got that seed.

In other words it was said… now look it, we’re coming to this epochal hour. This strategic hour.

This time here when we’re going to get out and the Word that was planted, what was sown, where the life sprang forth from the Blood, you’re going to see the same thing down here on earth.

You’re going to see a people one with that Word, because that Word has got to come to life and that Word was the imperishable Word, that was in God Himself, when He took on a human body and shed His own Blood for you and me and the life came out to come back upon you and me and bring us right back to Him.

Now that’s what we’re looking at. Now let’s not sell her short… sell short. And remember it’s got to line with the Word, it’s got to line with the Word, always lines.

1 Peter 2:

Now they’ve been drawing near for two thousand years. Then what should this group be like that is drawn near, and come to the very Headstone Himself, or the Capstone? In other words, begin to lift our sights.

Now there’s a certain guy, he took Brother Branham’s word, and he said, “I will love my brethren. I will love my brethren.” And he told me, and where is he today?

Oh brother, if that’s love, he can have it. His idea of love is to take authority, and I’ll show you in a little while that’s not what love is.

No way, shape and form. See? This end time it’s to get you out from down and under. See? All right, He’s benevolent.

As Brother Branham said, “He came according to the Word, but not according to their interpretation of the Word.”

So they judged Him according to their interpretation. I’m going to tell you, that’s what they’re doing about this age too.

You can’t do it. First of all you’ve got to get right back to this Word and when you get back to It, you’ll realize Elijah, literally, in figure, took the place of the Pillar of Fire to you and me.

And when that man spoke, God spoke, and we actually heard God, and we’re taught by God.

Now you’ve got to get right back to where you’re able to brace yourself a hundred percent under the authority of God and away from the authority of man.

Because William Branham said, “Those weren’t the words of a man,” he said, “I was just a voice I lent myself to.” See? You’ve got to start way back there.

Now, people don’t like the idea of Brother Branham being what he was. They don’t like the idea that we have to be what we are, which is absolutely in obedience to the Word at the end time.

Now we said… Let me go back over this just a second.

Now you understand the fact that this stone, this living stone, which was of this great character, and he was certainly approved of God and disapproved of man.

He was chosen of God, in the sight of God, and highly honored but the men said, “No,” they said, “No, he doesn’t live up to what we want.” Now that’s what they’re saying right now.

Okay.

Now there’s the great Stone, and living stones. That’s where you get where Jesus said, “Peter,” He said, “Upon this rock, I’m the great rock and you’re a little pebble.”

All right? Now here’s the great rock and here’s a bunch of pebbles. And the reason we’re stones is because we’re from one source. We’re both from the great rock. See?

Now:

Now he’s talking about the last days they’re off of worship. Brother Branham said, “The very God you worship is here to kill you.”

That’s right. The very Messiah they wanted to come they crucified. Now you’re right here at the end time. How you going to… now you’re supposed to be a priesthood.

Now remember Peter said, “As a light that shines in a squalid place; miserable, unkept, rundown, like an old shack.”

Now that lights shining in there. What’s it going to do? It’s to bring order and beauty. It’s to restore, “Give beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning.”

Now, he says going on here,

Now because of what? Because of this very thing that is said, and this very thing that is done. Doesn’t matter which way you look at it. It’s being done so now Scripture speaks on it. It was prophesied.

Willfully ignorant, you can’t tell them anything, you can’t persuade them. They’ve got all the answers. Like I said, they say, “Well, He’s present, so what.”

That!… and so what?

William Branham said, “If you only knew who I was, you’d all be healed.”

“So what?”

Shows they don’t have no more Holy Ghost than nothing. I don’t care, I’m sorry to say these things but, what are you going to do?

Am I supposed to leave the Word for these fellows? They didn’t know the first thing about the fact that the dead would come in a second Resurrection. They condemned me because it was in the book and they found out I was right.

Now they’re fussing at this.

And yet Brother Branham said, “Luther knew the Pillar of Fire would return, Wesley knew,” and don’t tell me Pentecost didn’t know because they thought they already had it.

Don’t tell me, I know what I’m talking about. I was Pentecostal when I was eighteen years old and I’m sixty-nine.

You fool with somebody else, don’t fool with Lee Vayle. You talk Pentecost, you better know your facts and figures kid. Don’t tell me they weren’t looking for it, they thought they had it. Yes, they thought they had it.

And they gloried in the fact that no man started them. They thought it was all of God. But they were the dregs of the face of the man.

And when the Pillar of Fire came, they no more recognized than nothing. They’ll produce love and everything else under high heaven, but it’s not from the Word of the living God. Yes sir.

And people say because, a set apart nation of kings and priests, they say, “That doesn’t belong to the Gentiles that’s Israel.”

Hogwash! Stupid bunch of idiots, spiritually speaking because the same Peter said, “You were a people that weren’t a people.” Gentiles.

What’s the matter with people? I don’t know what’s the matter with people. Crazy, insane, just what the prophet said. See the hand.

“That’s not a hand.” What is it? Same God said, “Can discern the face of the skies,” he said, “You could of told this too.”

I got a little bit… Brother Ungeren sent me a little bit of strong theology. He quoted a man on revelation.

He said, “Well I want to tell you” He said, “The Catholic church says, ‘we judge by the Catholic church.”

He said, “That’s entirely wrong, that’s outside.” The Protestants say, “We judge by the Bible.” He said, “That’s outside.”

He said, “There’s only one thing you can go by,” he said, “Something on the inside, that’s revelation.”

The guy telling Brother Branham perfectly that man had the Holy Ghost. [inaudible name] had the Holy Ghost. What do these people got? Leaked out.

The best you can say is foolish virgin, when you get to this end time, it’s chaff brother/sister. I didn’t say so, the Bible says so. Don’t blame me.

1 Peter 2:

They weren’t subjects of mercy. No, they’re objects of mercy, God’s the subject. Now the subject has a great influence upon the object and the subject is Truth, the Knower, that is the Giver of knowledge.

And the down below one to know, the object of the gift of knowledge that’s you and I.

Now, we are the gems according to the Word of God. Now notice in here it says that, you’re a kingdom of priests. Well, Melchisedec.

We don’t have to belong to Israel, any tribe, we can come from every kindred, tribe and nation under God’s high Heaven and be king priests.

Why? Because Melchisedec, and Melchisedec came down in the form of the Spirit, veiled in a Pillar of Fire, He stood right there. Bringing us into communion, the Great Communion of the end time. And we’re a part of it.

Now,

Now you say, “That’s been going on.” Well, I don’t doubt it has, but at the end time it gets worse. You never saw pornography like you see today. You don’t see licentiousness like you see it today.

You don’t see Women’s Lib and all that junk like you see it today. Listen don’t you realize 200,000 horsemen, spirits were loosed against the Jews not long ago under the Sixth Seal.

Where does it put us? Just 144,000 of them and we’re being attacked worse than they are.

Now watch,

What do they defame you in? The fact that you worship according to the Word of God the way you do. “Who needs this Elijah.

What’s this stuff about One God? What’s this junk about water baptism? Who said this? Who said that?” That’s your heresy right there.

Now it said:

Now there’s no way you can convince anybody. All you can do is witness. The only testimony you’ve got is in the hour of the overseeing care; is when God came down and saved Abraham from destruction and took Lot out.

Now what does he say here?

Now people say, “Well Lee Vayle doesn’t believe in character.” I believe that I’ve told you time after time.

If any hour needed character, this is the hour that needs character but just because it’s not character that’s going to get you out of here. People think, “Well who cares about character.”

And the people who scream character, they make me the sickest of all, because they’re the biggest bunch of liars under God’s high Heaven.

I’ve never heard such lies, deliberate lies from those guys. They’ll do anything to keep people under their control in a church.

Say they believe the prophets Message. They never did know what the prophet taught. Poor old Brother Neville and I think he’s one of God’s dearest saints.

That night I heard myself say, “You weren’t looking at a man, you were looking at God.” He took a double take and thought I was Deity.

I’m going to tell you something, that’s exactly the truth before God or the prophet was a blasted liar.

For he said, “When you see God descend from Heaven, stand before groups of men and declare Himself, as ever He did.”

That’s God in the prophet. When I said, “Blasted liar.” I mean just what I said, “A blasted liar.” Because he blasted himself plumb into hell if he made a statement in the face of God like that one.

You bet the prophet’s God to the people, what do you think? “Oh that’s a tough one.” Sure it’s tough but you say, “I’m full of the Holy Ghost.”

Ha! How much Holy Ghost? Oh sure it’s tough, you’ve been taught all your life. “Have no image, don’t do this, don’t do that, don’t this.”

When the Word of God comes you listen to your creeds and dogmas. Well fap on your creeds and dogmas.

What kind of character do they got? I’m going to tell you something brother/sister, the character has got to come from that Word that’s in there and that Word is Christ.

And any character that’s not motivated by the true Logos within, in the form of the Spirit isn’t worth having. See?

Now there again, never was a time when the government was raunchier now, outside the time of Jesus Christ.

Tax payers, I mean tax collectors, every new type of tax, everything under God’s high heaven. Just another Omega situation from the Alpha. That’s what it is.

They’ve got this mixed up of course today. You could be the most honest man in the world, they’ll take you down the road. But if you have money like a Kennedy it’s okay.

If you have enough money, you can have the AIDS and they’ll call it, well, they’ll call it fungus on the toe nail or something, or herpes and they’ll call it a cold sore.

You can’t win today. All you can do is live to the Word of God and just let God do it. There’s nobody going to win anything today. Nobody can prove anything, he’s stuck.

I’m going to tell you something, people are stuck today, there isn’t one of us not stuck absolutely with the faithfulness of God or there’s nothing to nothing. You think what you want to think.

I’ve been trying for some time now to keep my hair from going out and it’s just about all gone, nothing’s going to work on my hair and nothing’s going to keep me outside of God.

And if God doesn’t do it, it’s not going to be done. That’s exactly why we should just go ahead and just give way to everything.

If they want this give them that, if they want that just give it to them. Go the extra mile. That’s right, I’ve done a little bit of that but I can do a whole lot more.

Now,

See? You can’t reject the situation today, we can’t do it. And in the face of 1 Corinthians 1:7 where the Bible tells us that we come to that place. “We’re holy without blame before Him in love” and so on.

The devil can slip right in and say, “Well it doesn’t matter what you do, it’s okay.” Well it does matter.

Now we don’t have slaves today but we do have this understanding. That we are to be stewards in the House of God and in the world.

And he tells you here that if you do wrong and they beat you up for it and you patiently endure that. “What is that?” he said. He said, “It’s when you do right, they descend on you.”

Now you’ll notice he’s talking concerning the gospel’s sake. Because the same prophet William Branham said, “You don’t need to let people walk all over you, just because you’re a Christian.”

There’s a difference there when he talked about the woman whose husband used to get drunk and be mean to her, because she had a witness for God.

His witness to God… Her witness is what brought on the trouble. Now if the witness to God brings on the trouble, that’s exactly where you learn to turn the other cheek, go the extra mile.

And just stand back, if they do it, they do it. You’ve got to take what they want to hand to you. When it comes to other things, it’s not necessary.

Paul didn’t stand back and say, “Okay then, I’ll let the Jews cut my head off and kill me.” He said, “I’ll appeal to Caesar.” See, you’ve got to put the Bible in perspective.

Now,

Now that was at the end time, but he sure blasted those guys before time. He had his witness to stand up to.

When the day came, he had to suffer, then he said, “All right go ahead.” “Why,” he said, “I could call ten leagues’ of angels, 100,000 angels right now.

I won’t do it though,” he said. See, in other words: there’s differences.

Okay, he came against the Scribes and Pharisees but when the chips were down to take it for the sake of the Lord, he did it. Now it goes on and talks about women.

Many times it won’t be nice, but the thing is the husband is not supposed to be a rude type of person. There are some things maybe a woman wants to have, but she’s got to let it go by the board. But listen:

Now here the woman suffers because her husband doesn’t want to receive the Lord. And the Bible says here, “If he’s ever going to receive the Lord, he’s not going to listen to her, he’s going to watch her.”

So therefore she must not attempt to win him by some lavish display, you know, pretty flowers in the hair which are fine.

Which is fine, but don’t try to win him with it or try to look extra beautiful.

That’s good, look your best for your husband, that’s wonderful, no problem there. But that’s not going to do the work. It’s going to be the inner qualities that do it.

Now,

Now it tells you right there, “Don’t be afraid.” Don’t be afraid, where you’re going to give in and crumble because God’s going to take care of you. And it’s okay to adorn yourselves.

People say, “Well you shouldn’t wear rings, shouldn’t…” Ah come on, if that’s the case… shouldn’t wear clothes.

Because it says, “Don’t wear clothes.” It’d be nice to go out there in the snow wouldn’t it? “Go on girls just strip and go in the snow.” You’ve got to be nuts.

God never said any stupid thing like that. He’s talking about don’t let your clothes be extreme. The Christian is not extreme except in his love of God, love of each other, and he won’t deviate.

What you’re talking about here is this is what the world does. Beautiful big church, lovely offerings, this, that, it won’t work. It’s got to be the way of the cross and the way of the Blood.

Now it tells you right there that men are to respect their wives because they’re the weaker vessel and also because of the fact that they bear children.

They’re not supposed to be just simply a sex pot. Now let’s understand that because that word ‘knowledge’ is carnal knowledge.

Now that’s the same that Paul says. He’s talking about the same subject. A lot of men just think, well, they can do what they want.

That’s not true, that’s why Brother Branham called their bluff in a sermon when people said, “Oh Brother Branham said well a women shouldn’t touch… A man shouldn’t touch his wife.”

And so you know what we do we just go right to the authority and find out. And the authority said no such thing. What he said, Women.. “Men are doing things to their wives that not even a man should do, let alone a Christian.”

Now let’s face it. Today there’s certain books written on sexual compatibility by Christians and I suppose they’re good, I haven’t read any of them myself, but I suppose they are very good, they might discuss this subject.

But I tell you what, men just aren’t so gung-ho that they can do anything they want and women are supposed to suffer. I’ve seen that in preachers lives, I’ve seen in peoples lives and they made me sick.

And it doesn’t go with this Message. It doesn’t go with this Message.

Now it just tells you plain and simple; what you sow, you reap. I’ve said it many a time, if you and I want to start reaping something different, start sowing different.

When I used to preach my series on faith, I never stopped to include that. I’ve done it in certain areas and it always proves out. Men prove it out time, after time, after time, after time.

Now, what he’s telling you here is local problems can arrive, can be aroused in the local assembly. Treat them right. Don’t think you’ll get anywhere by having a fight or a showdown. In the sense of just a war against each other.

It’s to honestly and sincerely look at the problem and do what is right concerning the problem. Because if you don’t do it, I can tell you straight, words are not going to settle anything. They won’t settle anything.

The bickering won’t settle a thing… it’s to do something. And then when it’s done, fine. In other words, he tells you here: there are certain things you ought to practice, certain ways you ought to do things, and you do them.

Now he tells you, “To have brotherly affection for one another, be tender hearted, be humble-minded, don’t start exchanging evil, start exchanging good.”

Then of course if something comes up where you can’t do anything but what you can do, you just, what can you do? I’m not going to say you can sit here and let somebody drag you down.

If there’s going to be a drag down, you’ve got to say, “There’s no way we’re going to let the Word be taken from us, no way we’re going to allow these things to happen.”

But in the mean time, you’ve got to practice love to the place, where nothing more can be done. That’s what you can do.

He’s against evil practice. See, so it’s a practice, what we’re looking at. Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. Do everything you can to be right.

1 Peter 3:

Now he says here, “Who will do evil if you are zealous for good?” Well the answer would be, “Well hey, nobody.” Hogwash, they won’t. No, they’ll do it.

But even if they should, see? turn, and you suffer for righteousness. You watch, you’ll come out happy and blessed in the end.

In other words, don’t ever pretend that you’ve arrived or talk as though you have arrived. Now don’t think for one minute I don’t know that our teaching can go just that way.

Say, “Well He’s here, nobody’s got anything.” We could be wrong. I don’t believe we are wrong.

I’m positive we’re right, but who can prove anything. Take it back to the Word. We took it back to the Word–it bore out what the Word said, if we understand the Word.

Now,

Now he said, “Perchance.” Now there’s the thing right there. Try to find out from God if you’ve got to suffer and take it or you don’t.

Now they kicked Brother Branham out of his church. He got the car and God said, “You go back and kick them out.” He went back and kicked them out.

Now remember there’s one thing nobody but nobody can take from you, what God gave you. And you’re not obligated to be made a fool with it and act as though you don’t have something. Let’s understand that.

Paul the Apostle stood up and was counted and when Peter came on the scene, and Peter was… Peter’s writing this by the way. Peter, who opened the doors and stood there and had Barnabas circumcised.

How much did he know about God in the long run. Now let’s get this flat brother, I’m not excoriating Peter, I’m just letting you know.

Ain’t nobody knows what he thinks he knows, and ain’t nobody as great as he thinks he’s great. There was only one and that’s God.

And we better watch out, we think we know something and are somebody. That’s why Peter is preaching caution. Don’t get too all fired smart. But then, don’t let somebody push you around either, when you’ve got the truth.

In other words, what are we looking at? We’re looking at the subject of temperance in the hour of extremities. Try to find out, exactly every move you make.

And I believe we can know, if we’ll just stand still and listen to what this man learned. Because he wrote this I suppose just before he died because he said, “I’m shortly going to be taken off the scene.”

He got over all his fanangins. I don’t know we ever will. They had more than we did in a sense but they don’t have anymore in another sense.

The death did it. Why can God stand here in the form of the Pillar of Fire, the form of the Holy Ghost and we not be pbbt, just destroyed? Because of Blood.

Don’t ever sell the Blood short brother/sister, think for one minute that death of Jesus Christ didn’t mean something. You’ll never ever take away the Lamb.

On Mount Zion, the Lamb, L-a-m-b, wounded Lamb sits on the throne. You bet, we’re not into a bunch of hogwash.

And that’s the same thing going down in this age. Notice he’s coming back now to this hour. He’s leaving conduct a little bit now. And He’s going back to what’s going on, in this endtime. This strategic, epochal season.

1 Peter 4:

Now that tells you simply in plain English. When you suffer enough for getting in trouble, you’ll stop getting in trouble. You know, you can prove that, just put up a fence with a wire.

Greg, put up one wire with electric shock. How many times does a pig have to be hit with that electric shock before he’s cured? Two or three times, right? One good time will do it.

You know what I used to do to those pigs? I was mean, I was mean, I was meaner than the pig was. I used to stand there by the electric fence, of course it wasn’t much of a shock, just a little bit you know.

And I’d hold the pig some nice stuff and he’d come over and chnnkk, and man he’d squeal. The day came when I’d hold something and he’d just stand there and squeal and squeal.

He wanted what I had in my hand, but you couldn’t get him near that fence, so is a Christian. God’s electric shock fence will teach you as nothing else.

He’ll even stop making you a nice guy. “I was always the nice guy, oh yeah, I love my brethren. I would put them forward, oh yes. I’d help in ministry’s.” Forget it.

Because the day God said, “You’ve taken my place. It is I who make room for men by gifts and ministry’s.”

That’s why you’ll notice; if you want to do something, you’ll do it on your own. There’s a guy trying to get me to do something now.

I said, “I’m not at home,” to him, “I’m sorry.” You say, “Brother Vayle.” Don’t Brother Vayle me. I have had the electric fence treatment. I’m tired of making God a liar.

That’s right. I’ve made God a liar for too many people, I’ve had faith in people. Spit right in the face of God, because I thought I loved people. That’s not love, that’s stupidity.

That’s stupidity, that’s what Peter is talking about. Not some outward thing to make everybody think you’re some nice guy. What have you got inside, that really counts when the chips are down?

Some blow off… I haven’t got very much. And I’m learning… But just, I’ll tell you I don’t feel too bad. Moses had forty years to play around. He had forty years to learn and forty years to do good.

I ain’t even going to get eighty years to play around and learn and do good. So I’m not worried. Grace is grace. I’m learning a little bit. I know He’ll be good to me. That’s perfectly true, He’ll be good to all of us.

1 Peter 4:

There’s the Judge again. See? He’s going to judge the living and dead. How’s He going to do it? He’s going to take them out from among the dead. The Bride.

He knows where their bodies are, and how they’re going to come out. He’s not going to get some other fellows body mixed up.

Any atom the Holy Spirit touches is going to come on back, it’s going to be new and different. Sure, and what about us? He’s judging us now. See?

He tells you: He went down, prison, did the same thing. He’s doing the same thing now. The Word went forth to people here that are, that are going to go to the Lake of Fire.

Souls that are now in prison. Just like back there, it’s going on. Brother Branham said so. See?

1 Peter runs with 2 Peter. Okay.

Now that’s what Paul said. That we’re to minister according to God who is within us. In other words God is the one Who uses His own life and ministry within us.

In other words: you don’t do God a service apart from His will, even though you’ve got gifts.

In other words: if we get really to the place where we understand the pressure is on. It’s normal, it’s common, without it you wouldn’t be Bride. Then you begin to rejoice and exult.

In other words: the word ‘exult’ means to ‘crow’. You’ve got the advantage, you’ve got the upper hand, you’ve got the victory. Why? Because you’re in the faith.

It’s got to be manifest where it’s all at. How could Christ be the one to die upon Calvary, if someone didn’t rise up and hit him? How could we be the true saints of Christ, if someone doesn’t level their shotgun at us?

That’s the one that I don’t like but I’ve got to admit, it’s the truth. I just hate the constant barrage I go through. I get it every single place I turn my head.

And I’m ready to just about say forget it. But I come back. I get mad too, I shouldn’t. I’m honest, I’m not living up to this right here. No I’m not, I’m not living up to it at all.

Better get happy momma, let’s get happy. What are we going to do tomorrow? I ain’t going to get drunk. It says you can’t get drunk.

You get happy in the Lord. All right. Amen, we got that straightened up. See, you got to get right, you’ve got to get happy now in the Lord.

Now it says here,

Now in other words, he tells you. Every single Christian; man, woman, child, five-fold ministry, appointed ministry, elected ministry’s, every one has their role to be a model example to others in Christ.

Now I want you to notice something, Peter knows he’s going to die shortly. This is why he talks that way. He’s made peace with himself.

I want to tell you something, you don’t need to wait till you’re about ready to die to make peace with yourself. It’s one of the saddest things in the world, to even get out of the mouth of an apostle.

I don’t say that Peter was that bad off, but the thing is this: he did have a fight with Paul. He did boo-boo in certain respects, and that’s all right.

I’m not being critical, I just want to let you know that we can take comfort from that, that we’re all fallible. But you don’t take comfort to run around and try to find something to do that’s goofy, or messed up and sinful.

Anyone can be trapped, anyone can be caught. Just don’t let it get you down, confess and try to go on. But he said, “Once for all, come to grips with yourself.”

1 Peter 5:

Now he says right there, he said, “Now look it, God at the end time has promised you a tremendous thing that is reserved for you at this hour.”

In other words, like Brother Branham said, “He’ll make you a pillar in the church of our God.” He said, “What’s a pillar? It’s a part of the foundation.”

And Peter says the same thing here. And he said…

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