Rapture #15

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father we’re again very, very grateful and appreciative of the fact that You’ve allowed us to come together, and all the more Lord knowing that You are here and You are nigh unto those that call upon You, especially those in Spirit and in Truth, and we believe, Lord, that we have had revealed to us by Your Spirit, through the Spirit that dwells within us making it one Spirit, that revelation of Yourself, Your Presence, and we’re grateful, therefore, that we have a special fellowship with You tonight based upon this kindred understanding.

We believe that.

We believe, Lord, that You’re here as we have been taught by a prophet, vindicated somehow. We accept this whole thing. We don’t understand everything, but we accept it.

And we stand here tonight, Lord, in faith in You that You just keep increasing the knowledge of Yourself in our lives and the revelation, especially the understanding of the Presence of Him who came, and how He came, and all that devolve upon it, and we are involved in.

All of these things, Lord, we appreciate. We thank You for helping us. We commend ourselves to You through this evening hour. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now tonight we’re going to study again the doctrine of the catching away of the Bride, which is, of course, the Rapture. And this will be about the fifteenth message, at least, on that subject.

Now we just kind of watch the volume tonight, because my throat is a bit sore and I’m going to try to keep from a bothering myself with that condition.

And we’ll try to recap tonight what I feel we should recap, and then very hopefully, but actually no hope at all, we’ll get back to page 22, where we left off November the 20th. That’s what I’d like to do, but I’m not going to do it.

Just get through the recap, with some more thoughts presented in that special area.

Now, to begin our recap, we’re going to go to page 6 of “The Rapture”, and there we read what Brother Branham read, which is Psalm 27:1-5.

Now, that’s what Brother Branham used for a background, which is identical to what Paul used in 1 Thessalonians 5, where he is continuing his treatise on the time of the resurrection of those that fell asleep, in conjunction with those who are still living and are changed and caught up together in the air.

And then he says, concerning that very thing:

Now you notice that the difference between the two is, that one in the light, the other is not in the light, and that is going to make the difference.

Evidently your understanding, and your knowledge in that day and hour, is going to make the difference whether you are taken into trouble, or whether you are taken out of trouble.

Now, you notice in here that he mentions this salvation that you acquire by being in the light, and your catching away has nothing to do with your salvation in the realm of justification, sanctification, even re-birth, but this has to do with the end-time.

It is a significant part of salvation which is continuous, until you’re actually either taken in death and come in a resurrection, or you’re at this particular point. 

So, you can see in Brother Branham’s backgrounding here, that the Bride will not go through the great tribulation. That is what he is saying.

But you will notice here, the Scripture let’s you know, as did the prophet, that there is a squeeze coming down, and the enemies evidently are not necessarily personal enemies.

Let’s face it, there’s none of you here, but is very well-accepted, except for what you believe. Jesus was well-accepted, except for what He believed.

And don’t tell me Paul would not have been accepted. He was a brilliant person. He had wonderful facilities concerning his own personal being.

What they couldn’t stand was what he believed. And so therefore, they are going to get you because of what you believe.

Now, if you’re uncomfortable, I would say, “You’d better change your religion,” because you will anyway. Because, either you’re going to have to be a child of the light and get out of here, or, if you are not a child of light you’re going to stay here.

Now, that’s evident from the Scripture.

Now we’re going to read on page 6, and we’re going to take paragraph 30.

[30] Now today, speaking on this subject… And now, some of you may differ from the avenues that I take, but how many in here believes the Bible teaches there will be a rapture of the church?

A catching away of the church? Whether you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or whoever you are, Pentecostal, there will be a catching away.

Now Brother Branham makes here a never-to-be-forgotten statement. And he said, “My avenues that I take on this subject will be different from yours.”

Now, let’s consider; if I’m going to take an avenue wherein I am going to assure myself of the catching up; what avenue has been taken by everybody that is a fundamentalist?

Well, it’s very simple, you’re what they call born again, and if you’re a Baptist you’re born again when you believe, and if you’re Pentecostal you’re born again when you’re full of the Holy Ghost, and you say, “That is going to do it.

That is what is going to do it.”

Now evidently, according to William Branham, that is not what is going to do it, because the avenues that he takes, means that his approach and understanding of what this doctrine involves, will be radically different from what the others believe.

So, when he makes that statement, he continues in paragraph 31, he let’s them know, even before he launches into the subject, that he does not indulge in sensationalism. And he says:

[31] And I think that in speaking, [Now he’s going to go into these avenues.] I just don’t try to get up here to say something I think would please the people. I’ve never been guilty of that.

I want to get up here and say something as I feel led to say, that I think would be a help to you, something that would further your experience with God if you are already a Christian, and if you’re not a Christian, make you so ashamed of yourself that you will become a Christian.

And that’s the purpose that I’ve always tried to line up my thoughts as the Lord would lead me.

Now Brother Branham would say, “I don’t have lerious, or delirious thoughts.” He said, “I’m a rational person.”

And he was not given to sensationalism, but this teaching that he will teach, will be categorically definitely sensational when you think how different it will be from what you have been taught.

Now, as the embodiment William Branham has the embodiment of Revelation 10:7,  he add affirms the Rapture differs from the rest of the teaching of the scholars, or the interpretation of other scholars, even as did “Marriage and Divorce” and could cause real problems. 

In paragraph 32 he said:

[32] We are warned, as in the doctrine of this in the last days will be scorned… 

And he also says here, which I was thinking of even more to the point than that, where he says that, “If Satan were to get a hold of this, he would do damage.”

Now he’s letting you know here that this message on the Rapture, that his teaching on the Rapture is going to cause real problems, and it will actually leave a loophole for the devil to come in and cause havoc in the church by reason of the people, of course, not believing it.

Now, he proves that problems are going to rise by going to 2 Peter 3:3-6, reading.

He makes it a point to tell us very, very, assuredly that this Scripture in 2 Peter, regardless of what the scholars may think, absolutely deals with the Rapture, though, of course, others may disagree. 

And he says that, in paragraph 33:

[33] Now, we see that the reason that this subject is so made light of, is because that the prophet here said that in this last days these scoffers would come saying these things.

It’s predicted. The reason the people are acting today the way they’re acting… Why, we’re expecting it, because the Bible said that.

And then he goes to 2 Timothy 3:1-9. So, that’s where we’ll go.

Now, this is going to be a perilous time. In other words, people will be in great danger, and the Bride would be in danger, because of people of this order.

Now It tells you something at the end time here.

These people that are this way evidently know a lot about gifts and the charismatic things that are involved in the things of God, because it isn’t that they resist the miracles and the signs and the wonders.

It tells you what they resist: Truth. So, they go along with all the miraculous and all the things that they like to see, but they’re reprobate concerning faith.

Now they’ve got more faith than you’d ever believe possible when it comes to the miracles.

Well, they get up there and prophesy, and they’ll tell you what your dreams are, and they can do about anything, but they’re “reprobate concerning the faith.”

It tells you, it’s this generation that’s going to die because there won’t be another generation to come behind it, not to pick up the pieces so much, as to get deeper involved.

God’s going to cut it off because the cup of the Ammorites is going to over out.  See? It’s going to be over. 

Now, remember; Jannes and Jambres faith was made manifest when the death angel stalked the land.

The first born of Egypt died and the overthrow came in the Red Sea, which tells you, the Great Tribulation is going to be the witness against these men.

They’re going to be right here. And they’re going to say, “Just a minute, you had all this great power.

There was a fellow down the road called William Branham, yeah, the hillbilly, the Kentuckian, that you said was wrong, who never made one mistake, and he said this was going to happen.

Now, where do you guys stand?”

Well, I can tell you right now, the chariots of Pharaoh are going to go down in the Red Sea. I want to tell you, no man can tango my God, the Pillar of Fire.

You say what you want, and I challenge any man in this message to prove me wrong. He can’t do it. My challenge is a bluff because He’d have to stand here and give me a sign, the sign that I say, “Where’s your vindication, son?”

And do it my way, come I’m going to tell you something, “The last sign has already been in. There aren’t anymore signs. Now it’s up to believing the Word of God as the prophet taught It.”

Now, in the last sentence in paragraph 33, Brother Branham says:

[33] Can we look for an impersonation of Truth?

Now an impersonation is a hypocrite. Can we look for the hypocrites to come with their hypocritical word? Now you say, “I don’t know.

I kind of think that that’s a pretty rough statement to make that those people are hypocrites, because you see a hypocrite is a man that wears a mask. He knows better.” These people do know better.

The Bible says, “They lie in wait to deceive.” I hope by now that you people have heard me all these years that you’re not some of those sweet, sweet people. 

You say, “Oh, Brother Vayle, I just can’t believe that sweet man would lie in wait to deceive me.” 

That’s what Eve said of the beast. She didn’t know what he was doing, seducing her mind. She was more than willing to enter into an act that condemned us all.

And people are still just as stupid. A woman sees a man, blandishing something whereby he may assault her, she’ll scream and run.

“But if he comes with those cute little feet, as Brother Branham said, and little black mustache, and he’s so handsome and nice because he can dance so pretty. She’s only too happy.”

Yeah. You think that fellow doesn’t lie awake at night? Do you think men out there – Listen, you women, are you so cotton thick and still stupid that you don’t know young men will talk to each other about you young girls, and tell how they’re going to get you?

If you don’t know that, you’re dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, and stupid idiots and you might as well know now, because they were doing it back in my day, and I’m 69.

Now you men don’t sit here and tell me you’re so awfully, God awfully, virtuous either, and that you didn’t have your pipe dreams and your crud, too, like I had mine.

And I’m still, and always have been, a one woman man. That’s how you put it. Yes, a one woman man. My wife’s been the same way. We aren’t boasting about it; it’s just a fact.

It isn’t going to get us to Heaven above anybody else, either.

If I had one thousand woman, she had ten thousand men, which is impossible, that isn’t going to put us out or put us in. I’m giving you something on Scripture here that tells you what it’s all about.

Now these guys are hypocrites. They know what they’re doing, and they are out to destroy any hope that anybody would have in the Rapture, of getting them out of here, and it’s on the principle of light.

“The Lord is my Light;” He is my instructor and my instruction, for the Message and the messenger is one. “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and He was. [John 14:6]

Certainly He was, because, way, truth and life signifies one thing, and it signifies the whole thing in action. Now, that’s what Brother Branham is bringing to our attention. See?

Now, let’s understand this, that when you look for an impersonation of truth, it is not that the doctrine of the Rapture will be repudiated in the sense that there will be a rejection of the ‘catching away’.

The rejection will be in how, and under what conditions, and to whom it is done. Now, that’s going to be what it is, because you see the lines are drawn: light against darkness, truth against error. See?

So, the ‘catching away’ is not what’s repudiated; it’s what is taught about it, such that he says, “The avenues,” or what he teaches concerning it, will be held up to mockery and repudiated by the people.

They say, “No that has nothing to do with it.” See?

Now, paragraph 35. He says:

[35] Then, if this Rapture which is coming to pass… And anything that God has in line of His Word, there’s always something to come out to upset that if they can. It’s Satan’s purpose to do that.

Now, remember; back in the garden, Eve said, “You won’t surely die.” See? Now, what about this Word on a Rapture?

Well, we go to 2 Peter, where Brother Branham was talking about it, and he says here, in verses 4-7, about these people walking in their own lusts, impersonating truth: they’re hypocrites.

They know that they’re not vindicated as the prophet was, but they’re going to talk anyway – just like a bunch of Seven Day Adventists.

The truth is not in them anymore than God knows what, but oh boy they’ll sure tell you it is. They’ve never had one ounce of proof; their prophet is a female, which shows they have had no part or lot with God at any time.

They’re cults. And where God won’t acknowledge them, the devil will. Now it says here about them, these people walk in their own lusts, these impersonators of truth.

2 Peter 3

Now, notice; we might not understand everything that that entails. We know enough from what the prophet said to understand it, but I want you to know something, It says right here:

Now, listen. This is on the Rapture, and Peter says, “Our beloved Paul also teaches on the Rapture.”

But he said, “Men don’t understand what he’s saying, and they wrest to their own destruction, and everybody else’s destruction, the word of truth that Paul preached, because they couldn’t understand it.” 

Now you tell me if we’re any smarter than that bunch back there.

Here is one apostle who knows what the other apostle is saying, and he says, “Paul teaches on this subject, and he’s teaching right, but they don’t know what he’s saying, and because they don’t know what he’s saying, they’re destroying themselves.”

Don’t tell me it’s any different in this hour than back there. 

And people say, “Well, it really doesn’t matter if you know or not.” 

Well, why does he say it? Why does he talk about light? The prophet went up there in his vision, and they said, “Well, you can’t see Him. He’s going to come to you and judge you by what you taught.” 

And he said, “I taught what Paul taught.” 

And they said, “We’re resting on that.”

Now he says:

At the hour of the Rapture, you better know just where you stand and why you stand, or find out tonight. Too many people are still sitting on the fence.

Oh, they think at the next minute they can just fall over and fall over. Well, if He’s on this side, fall on this side. I’ve got new for you: You are stuck on your fence, and the devil will come at the end time and knock you off with a club.

But, if you think God’s playing some game, you’re crazy. You want to play games, go and buy a game of Lotto or Monopoly or something, and have a ball – or a pair of skates and go skating.

Do what you like! When it comes to this, this is different.

Now Brother Branham said, “I am not a sensational preacher,” but he’s letting you know that what he was going to tell you was the “THUS SAITH THE LORD” on this Word from Almighty God,” and he was going to let you know what people by themselves took from the apostle Paul and wrested to their own destruction.

It means they ripped it out of the context and put in an interpretation which was spurious.

Now we read this tonight here, and I’m going to tell you, since I can read this the way it is written:I’m glad there was a prophet, or something or somebody I can rely on.

They say, “Well, see, Brother Vayle, I’ve got the Holy Ghost, and I can do it.” So, fifteen hundred thousand people that’ll prove they’ve got the Holy Ghost, a million times more than you and I’ve got.

They haven’t got the truth because they’re arguing back and forth. Now he goes on to say.

Such as, “Well, you see, Brother Vayle, the Church Age book is entirely wrong on the sovereignty of God.” 

I’m going to tell anybody in this building, or any place in the world: You say you believe the prophet and you challenge that Church Age Book, you’re a bear face liar, unless you grow whiskers. Because I’ll challenge you right down the drain that that book is one hundred percent right, because I went over every word with William Branham, what was said in there.

And at the end time, that which is perfect comes. Then they try to tell you, “Well, you see, we got revelation. We have the original revelation.” 

Hogwash! Three gods: some original revelation that is. I’d a like to know where they got that from – right from the heathen. All right.

Now, let’s go back and very carefully read and fully grasp two verses that are very easily slipped over, or entirely ignored. We want to read in 2 Peter again.

We’re going to look at a couple verses that are just so easy to ignore or slip right over because they really don’t mean a thing. Or do they? Not one Word of God is without some significance.

See? Now, verse 1 says, that epistle number 2 is a repeat of epistle number 1, with a severe warning that goes with it. So, chapter 3 warns of judgments that accompany any disregarding of chapters 1 and 2.

And remember; 2 Peter has got to be a repeat of 1 Peter. And this subject is so important that he said, “I’m going to make you remember it. I’m going to bring it to your minds.

I’m going to go over it for you, and this time I’m going to show you the great dangers that are involved therein.”

So, chapter 3 warns of judgments that accompany any disregarding of chapters 1 and 2. All right. Let’s notice 2 Peter 3:1.

Now, let’s go to:

Now he’s telling you categorically that number 2 is a repeat of number 1 so that, therefore, both of those books, have to do  – according to Brother Branham, taking chapter 3, have got to be absolutely a part of the Rapture.

So, that’s what you’re going to look for.

So, we better understand that. Now then, we must understand that 2 Peter is a continuation, and elaboration of 1 Peter. So, tonight, we look at a recap, go into a recap of 2 Peter 1 and 2. All right.

Let’s read 2 Peter 1:1-11 to begin with because here’s where we’re going to look for our keys.

Now, that’s what you’re going to. That’s what it’s about; it’s the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Now in verse 12:

Now he said, “There were two things there that have to be considered.” That’s what we’re looking at. Two things you’ll notice in verse 12.

So, we have great and precious promises that are given to us, whereby we will come into the perfection of the divine nature and go into a Kingdom which has been prepared for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Now, with that, we are going read verses 13-16; and remember; verses 13-16 is verse 11.

Now, the emphasis that I’m looking at here is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, that this man Peter is talking about, and he’s telling you how you’re going to be in there with an abundant entrance. All right.

Now, what is the kingdom? He said in verse 16:

Alright. Let’s go back to:

Now, that’s what Peter is talking about. Now he said, “This is what these epistles are all about: that you’re going to get there; that you’re going to make it.”

Now he tells you, he says, “What I’m telling you about the kingdom,” he said, “absolutely is not a fable. I was there with him on the mount when these things, which I tell you about, transpired.”

Now, let’s keep reading 2 Peter 1:17-18.

Let’s go back and find out about it. We’ve got to go back to Matthew 17 now.

Now, that’s what he saw. That’s exactly what it was. That’s the kingdom which is coming: the kingdom of glorified living people of the First Resurrection.

Now, notice; they heard at the time of that vision the voice that said, “Hear my Son. Hear my Son in whom I am pleased, well-pleased.”Alright.  Now Peter said, “We heard the voice in the excellent glory.”

Now, you notice that that voice was heard at that particular time, in that particular vision that he had. But we’ll keep on reading;

Alright. We are aware that the subject matter of 2 Peter is glorification and kingdom appearing.

That’s what we’re coming into. Now, Peter illustrates from personal experience in a vision of the future, the very thing that is the present truth.

And the present truth under consideration was, the kingdom that was coming of the resurrected saints, just like Jesus Christ our Lord, which would be Old Testament and New Testament beings, and at that time, of course, there could only be Old Testament because the New Testament hadn’t come into existence.

All right. There they were, and they were with him.

Now, Peter says, “The vision did not bring in the kingdom.” Didn’t bring it in. “The vision did not make certain the kingdom.” Now, let’s read over there in Peter, what he does say. Now: 

Now, the vision did not make certain the kingdom because the kingdom had not yet come in, nor has it yet come in. It’s not here at this point in the sense that of the dead all are out of the ground, and we glorified and taking over the earth.

But Peter is telling us here something that is going to make it sure. Now you can have a lot of visions, you can have a lot of prophecy, you can have a lot of things, but It says here concerning this:

He’s telling you something. That at that time, there is going to be a condition which evidently is total darkness, unless some kind of a light comes in order to help the people. Now, that’s what we’re looking at here.

Okay. What does come, to make it sure, will be rejected. Now, that’s what he says right here, because he’s talking about light. He’s talking about scoffers.

He’s talking about men withstanding men, and the prophet epitomizes it. He brings it right down to a capsule form, and he said, “Like in the days of Jannes and Jambres, men will not take the truth.”

Now, here’s something that we’re looking at. Whatever this is here,  because you’ve got to be in a resurrection and be in a Rapture, or you can’t have thing. Whatever this is, is going to be scoffed.

Now he said, “What is under scrutiny I am telling you about, and I’m stirring your minds up that you will understand this, so that you won’t miss it.”

He said, “It is made sure unto you. It’s surer than the vision that I had, because,” he said, “what I had did not bring it to pass, but what comes will bring it to pass.”

Now see, that’s what you’re looking at. “The word of prophecy made sure.”

Now, remember; Jesus Christ Himself said, “You’ve voided my Word by your traditions.”

So, whatever is made sure at this point is going to be the unadulterated truth, however it gets here, and they’re not going to like it.

They’re going to impersonate it. All right.

Now, the word of prophecy is made sure to us.

Now, however it is done and whatever is done, you will do well to take heed, and you’ll do very badly if you don’t.

You can’t sit on the fence. You can’t put a new patch on an old garment. You’ve got to get with it, or you’re against it.

2 Peter 1:

In other words, this will stop you groping. This will stop you wondering. This will stop you beating your gums in arguments and trying to feel your way and figuring out something.

This will be it, because this prophecy is made sure at the end time. Now that’s what you’ve got to understand what he’s saying here, because that’s what he’s saying.

“Now,” he said, “when it does, it’s going to bring a light to a dark place, the day is going to dawn, the day star is going to arise in your heart.”

But he said, “You’ve got to know this, before you get what I’m talking about.”

Now he’s got two this’s in there: Number one ‘this’ is the sure thing. “Oh, hallelujah, we’re going to know.”

Number two ‘this’;there’s something that brings on the sure thing that is sure. That’s right. That’s what he says right here. There’s two things you’ve got to consider.

Now he said, “Know this first. This is the big thing to know, and if you know this, you will get the other.

No matter how much you want the other, that’s under surveillance, that’s under the critical eye, that’s under the teaching that Peter’s talking about.”

He said, “Get this flat. You want this, but you aren’t going to get it, unless you get this.” Now that’s what he’s saying, or I don’t know what I’m talking about.

You say, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

That’s fine. That’s my business, and you’ve got yours. So bet it.  I didn’t want you on that first place. I’m not trying to build a crowd or win a popularity contest

Now he said, “Knowing this first,” so this is second. Why is it second? Because the first ‘this’, which he put second, is how the other one gets here.

Now, watch.

Listen, this is already prophesied. You don’t need a prophet to re-prophesy. What you need is a prophet to tell you what it means. That’s exactly what it’s all about.

Now, my brother my sister, there is not one of us so stupid we can’t understand exactly what we’re talking about at this point, because we’d have to be terribly, terribly stupid not to go back to Matthew 17. 

And here Peter sees Him in his Glory in a vision, and he says, “Hey I thought Elijah had to come before this took place.”

And He said, “You’re right.” He said, “Elijah’s got to come. He’s got to do some restoring.” Right!

Now I want to ask you a question then: What prophet is going to be here telling you what this is all about, except Elijah? There’s your answer – simple as ABC.

You don’t need to be a brilliant scholar, a brilliant logician. Anybody could figure this out, because if I could, anybody could. Because you see, it’s the simple things. “Elijah must first come.” Now, what’s Elijah going to do? He’s going to bring light.

And when he brings light, the dark crowd is going to come against it. So, there will be, whether we want it or not, a raging controversy as to what brings on the Rapture.

Now I’m preaching this for years, and I’ve gotten enough sand thrown back on me to start a sand storm in the Sahara desert, make it look like a small shower, to say the least.

And I say to my brethren, “Do you believe that any man will be in the Rapture if he turns down this message?”

And they say, “No.”

And I say, “That’s what I’m preaching.”

But they don’t believe it. But they don’t believe it, because I’m going to tell you something.

I don’t care what prophet comes on the scene, if God doesn’t tell that prophet what to say, or tell that prophet what it means when He says It, that prophet has nothing to say.

Now you tell me where God is all the time the prophet is. There it is right here. You want to know the truth? Come on, take a look at it. You say, “I believe William Branham.”

I don’t think you do believe William Branham. How many really believe? Don’t raise your hands; God knows your hearts. I don’t have to. But I make you a challenge tonight: How much do you really believe? 

“Oh, that little light.”

I showed you last Wednesday: the object, messenger form, how God communicates.

“But, you see, God’s not around.”

I don’t understand what they’re talking about. He tells you right here that, “Holy men of God can only speak as the Holy Ghost moves.” 

And those men… And, listen; let’s get this straight now. Peter is talking about Paul, and what Paul preaches, people aren’t getting.

It was the Pillar of Fire, just like that, [Brother Vayle points to picture of Pillar of Fire on the wall.] that stood with the apostle Paul and gave him the Word, and it’s going to take the same Pillar of Fire to reveal the Word because Peter said, “At the end time…” and even Peter didn’t know.

That’s right. And Paul didn’t have all the answers. 

Oh, people say, “I believe Paul had them all.” 

He couldn’t have had them all, because he was waiting for some of the answers himself. He was waiting for the power to come in that was going to raise him from the dead, that’s just coming in at this point.

So, here we find the categorical truth that Elijah has got to come on the scene absolutely ordained of God to bring the light of this hour on the subject of the Rapture, in order that we’re going to be in that Kingdom, just as Peter saw it in a vision. Alright.

Now, you will notice that Peter says here:

And remember; the prophet said, the same as Peter says, [We’ll read chapter 2 tonight before we get away from here.] “That men impersonate the truth.”

They’re liars; they’re hypocrites. They come and say, “We’ve got the truth,” and they know they are liars, because they don’t have the truth.

They can’t prove anything. But the prophet could because he was vindicated. Now:

Now, the words ‘dark place’ means ‘squalid’. A squalid place is full of filth and misery. Now the lights got to shine in there. Now It says:

Whatever comes making the prophecy sure brings the people into a heart condition. He “turns the hearts of the children back to the fathers.” Well, doesn’t It say so? Well, come on, let’s read It again. “The day star rise in your hearts.” 

Well, how’s it going to take place? Through this. 

What’s Elijah supposed to do? “Turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers.” 

What are the fathers? Prophets. You’re the children of prophets. 

Why? Because this is a prophecy. And people can’t get to it until Elijah comes. The Elijah ministry is necessary to the Rapture whether anybody wants it or not.

Now you people like to put your money in the bank to get interest. Let’s have some fun. I’ll challenge any of you to go to any bank and put a deposit in without an IRS number.

Now, go ahead. You can’t do it. Neither can you make the Rapture without Elijah. “Elijah must first come!” Look, I hope you’re catching things.

He, first of all, tells you about it. The first thing he tells you is that the Kingdom is under scrutiny; that is the subject. I want you to get there with an abundant entrance.

I’m telling you the formalities and those things which are intrinsic to you, but at the same time, get this flat: I don’t care if you’re the most wonderful person God ever had on this earth, you could stand before God and say, “God, listen, and you look at me, and You know that I’m the greatest person outside of Jesus Christ.”

And He said, “That’s exactly right; that’s exactly right.” He said, “I’ve got news for you: I’ve got to send Elijah, or even you don’t make the Rapture.”

 “Oh now, come Lord. I couldn’t take that.”

Certainly you couldn’t, because you aren’t half the man you thought you were. 

Well, I hope you see the point. They want the Kingdom first; that’s what’s under scrutiny. The subject is getting there, getting there abundantly, but you don’t even consider it.

Why? Because it’s a squalid place. It’s so miserable, wretched, miserable, naked, blind. And if Elijah doesn’t come, the prophecy of God cannot be made sure. 

People say, “Well, Brother Vayle, look, God is…” Ah, shut up.

The same God said, Elijah must come! [Brother Vayle bangs on pulpit.] than shut up.

I get so sick I could vomit, and God gets sicker than I do. Mealy-mouthed hypocrites. Talk about the Word of God and then say, “Elijah isn’t going to come, or already done come.”

“Oh, nice guy” And people say, “Well, you see, Brother Vayle, they’ve got to be.”

They’ve got to be what? Tell me what they got to be; tell me what. Impersonators. I don’t care what you say, God said different.  Because you nicer than God. I like nicer people than God, Phap! I do. I get tired of these ‘nice’ people.

Now ‘nice people’ are different. I mean real, nice people. People that love, that got compassion.

I’m going to tell you something, people. You know what’s wrong with this world? They got God mixed up with politics. They’re a bunch of liars.

Now you’ve got a bunch of Republicans doing the same thing, getting in somebody else’s pocket, telling somebody else what to do. Do it yourself.

The Kennedy boys want to help people let them help people. Let the Rockville boys give out a fortune. The Kennedy’s are a bunch of Catholics, then go on emoted Saint Patrick [inaudible]. Put your millions down and a keep the birds and feed the people. Give your millions away .Not many Protestants do the same thing. Get sick and tired of these nice people.

Brother/sister, let me tell you something: we don’t need favors; we need God, and we need God exactly how God comes. If it’s a big package or a small package, or if He comes with a sword, we need to get cut down. 

Now in this age, this is the time He is going to come: squalid, miserable, dirty, vermin infested, wretched, miserable, blind, naked and don’t even know it.

In other words, He comes when the cup of the Amorites is being filled up. He comes at a judgment time. He tells you… Because, look; don’t you understand?

The judgment has already been indicated; it’s in a squalid place. There’s a light shines. Corruption, filth, as Brother Branham would say, “Wiggle tails.”

Now, verses 20-21, which I’ve already read, and showing you where it is in Matthew 17. To explain it, let’s go back to 1 Thessalonians. All right.

Here’s what Peter saw, that Paul is talking about.

Now, what was the shout on the mount? It was a word to a confused people. They said, “Oh, let’s build three tabernacles.

Hallelujah. One for Moses, one for Elijah, one for Jesus, and bless God, that will put us into the Kingdom. Hallelujah.”

And God said, “Hold it boys; I’ve got news for you. I want to talk about an important subject. This is my Son; you hear Him. Then we’re going to hear from Heaven again.”

God’s going to put us straight. That’s exactly what He’s saying. The Shout will be God putting us straight. But who puts us straight? Elijah puts us straight.

How are you going to be part of the Rapture without Elijah? I want to know. I’d like to know, because the Bible says so. 

“Oh,” you say, “Brother Vayle, you’re going to take glory from God.” 

Hogwash, I’m going to give glory for God.

God told a prophet to sleep with a whore: “Make her your wife.” How’d you like to have a whore in the house as your wife? That was the Word of God.

Isn’t that right? Sure it’s right. More than one prophet. He said to one prophet, He said “I want you to eat human manure with your food.” 

“Well,” he said, “Lord, I’ve tried to live clean.” 

“Well,” He said, “okay, get some cow dung.” 

How do you like that? You say you know God’s Word? Well, come on, how do you like it? I don’t think the people like the Word of God at all; they’re just frauds.

Well, did He say it, or didn’t He say it? 

“Well,” you say, “you just take the rough stuff.”

Well, we need the spots knocked off us. It took he prophet to hew us out.

Something wrong with people. Something wrong with us; better watch our step.

Those three elements are absolutely necessary in there. And remember; the Bible says, “One more time we hear from Heaven,” and when that time in Hebrews 12 we hear, everything else is knocked down.

What does that mean? Everything else we thought we heard, Elijah’s going to do it. You’ve got the Shout, you’ve got the Voice, you’ve got the Trumpet.

And then, It tells you that you are going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and so will you ever be with the Lord. Now you run that to 1 Corinthians 15, you can see the Resurrection comes out of that.

Now, let’s just go back to Ephesians 1. Now you know I preached on this, and preached on, and preached on, then I got side tracked. That’s okay. Never saw an engine yet that couldn’t be put back on track. Verse 17:

So therefore, whatever comes before verse 19, which is the Resurrection, is something God’s got to do for us. Well, we don’t get resurrected; the dead do.

So, what about it? That would tell you right there that the Holy Spirit is going to be responsible for bringing us a revelation at the end time, just before the Resurrection.

Now we ain’t going to get resurrected. So, this is for us.

Now, how does God talk to us? By a prophet. Now people say, “Well, I believe God’s going to talk to me.” 

Well, here’s good old Charlie Fuller; he’s dead now. And here’s Barry Lou Schaffer; he’s dead now. And there’s all the rest of the big moguls, the great big wonderful fellows, and they’re wonderful men of God.

And I’ve got nothing against them. But go to Billy Graham, go to Oneness preacher, go somewhere, and you say, “Tell me exactly about the Rapture,” and they will all differ. 

You say, “Those men got the Holy Ghost.” 

Some Holy Ghost they got if they can’t speak the same mind. Something wrong somewhere. God’s not a fool. So, what’s going to happen? There’s got to be somebody come on down here.

There’s your picture right there. [Brother Vayle points to picture of Pillar of Fire on the wall.] There’s Elijah doing his job.

Now, let’s go to 2 Peter, because we want to get you out of here before it’s too late tonight. Let’s go to the:

Now, notice; at this time of this prophet, don’t bug yourself about the prophets, bug yourself about the teachers.

Why? Because the prophet is absolutely known to be one hundred percent correct by anybody who looks at the prophet with any understanding at all. He’s vindicated.

God speaks back, and you know, whether you understand that prophet or not, whether you got your answers from him or not, it doesn’t make any difference, that man is vindicated.

So, there are no more prophets. You couldn’t have anybody come by us today and perform a miracle and fool us. Oh, come on. We don’t even go near those boys. What would we go for? But the teachers, that’s a different breed.

Now, up here It says, “No Scripture of private interpretation.” But a vindicated prophet stands there and tells them what it is, and they, on their own little initiative, come by and they say: “Well, that’s not so.”

So, I say to people, “Do you believe that you have got to be in this Message to be in the Rapture?” 

“Yes.” 

Well, that’s all I’m teaching, and I take them to C.O.D., page 1019-22, and I say, “Tell me what it is.” I want to know their answers. So, they come up with a lot of answers, and pretty soon it’s all in here.

Well, I’ve got news for you: the Pillar of Fire is not in here. I’m sorry, and I don’t care what any Christian tells me who believes this Message, what you and I have got in here was not that answer, because we were part of the squalid place.

We need it to come to repentance. We needed an Elijah.

And, let me tell you flat, Elijah needed God, or Elijah was a flop. Not necessarily a phoney, but a flop.

Because I’m going to tell you something, if we were of His original seed, none of us were phonies to begin with, or phonies are now, but we’re flops, because the sheep that’s astray, though a sheep, is still a sheep that’s astray.

So, we’re flops. You know, we can’t fool ourselves.

It says here:

Well, how are you going to decline Him? I’ve got my ideas on that; they don’t believe it. I say, “You turn down the One who’s here,” I say, “you’ve lost out.”

I wish you knew the history that I know in this movement here; you’d have a lot more understanding. ‘Denying Him’ means ‘to refuse Him’.

Now, what’s he talking about? The Rapture. Basically, the Rapture according to Brother Branham. Yeah, because it’s in three parts.

2 Peter 2:

Why, this is an old bunch that Jesus spoke of. He said, “You are of your fathers,” He said, “the men that murdered the prophets.” Now, watch where God takes them back.

Now, how does He deliver the godly out of temptation? It says, “Everybody’s in squalor.” The Laodicean church: wretched, miserable, naked, blind, and boasting as though they are somebody wonderful.

Squalid filth and misery. Now, how are these people going to get out of here? God knows how to get them out. Light through a prophet, a Shout, God speaking again: “This is it. This is my beloved Son.”

God letting the world know, the very One that was here in human flesh is here now without that human body, doing the same things, proving who He is.

The Lord knows how to get us out of here and reserve the unjust to the day of judgment.

Notice: unrighteous, unjust.

2 Peter 2:

Who are they talking about there? Well, let’s read a little further.

I don’t know who they are, but they’ve got to be around us. There’s no way you can get away from it because once the light shines… Remember, Brother Branham said, “The raven will flock to the dove’s food.” He’ll eat it.

2 Peter 2:

You say, “What does it mean, Brother Vayle?” Well, I’m glad the old apostle Paul could explain Peter. Peter tries to explain Paul, as Paul explained Peter. Well we got a real racket going on here. Okay

That’s what he’s talking about. They come right to the message, and they come right and say, “Why, that’s exactly right. Here’s a great prophet, here’s this, here’s that.”

Then turn right around, no more one with the prophet’s word than nothing. So, what happens? They’re worse than ever. There’s no place for repentance. They cannot repent again.

2 Peter 2:

To ever turn back on this Message is a literal blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. It’s all over. There is no way you can be forgiven. Brother Branham said the same thing about Kadesha Barnea when they – Yeah … no.. No the place I was thinking of was when they turned back from Kadesha Barnea – but the other place there where they got into the sins of Baal Peor.

He said, “Never were they forgive; they died.” And he said, “God commended the man that got rid of them.” You think that God’s not going to be commendable the day He comes back with His Bride and cleans up the earth?

You see, people don’t like that. They say, “My, my, my… Vayle’s blood thirsty.” 

I’m not blood thirsty for anybody’s blood.

But I’m going to tell you one thing: let’s be honest, because I don’t think any of us is so noble, if we had to lose our shirts tonight, wouldn’t you sooner have somebody else lose his than you lose yours?

Oh, come on, don’t be babies. I don’t want to see anybody get hurt either, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be a fool and throw my lot with those that disbelieve.

Come on, you can’t pay a price like that, brother/sister, and call yourself a Christian.

You know, I’m no farmer, and I don’t think I ever saw Brother Evan’s is a pretty good farmer I know that. We got couple kind of farmers here but I don’t think of one, I saw Brother Evan’s bringing his dog in the house. Of course, Isabelle wouldn’t let him. Poor dog got to bring, poor dogs got to bring. Now I know that Greg wouldn’t bring his hogs in the house.

Now he’ll do it just to keep the hogs warm; that’s fine. Keep them in their own house. Sure. Now, look; anybody can understand that. Who wants a dog? Who wants a hog?

Hog is hog, and dog is dog. I’m not running anybody down. This is what the Bible says. The Bible says that they couldn’t get it in the first place.

Now, this chapter we read is what 2 Peter 1:19 refers to.

Which is Revelation 3. Also the scoffers are 2 Peter 2:1-3, which are the teachers. This, in the face of the proven mystery of the Rapture.

Now the question comes: How do you know it’s proven? Because Brother Branham categorically said that “God only reveals His Word by manifesting it. The interpretation of revelation is the manifestation.”

And I ask one question: [You know the answer before I ask the question.] What part of the Rapture has been manifested as the revelation? The Shout.

The next is the Resurrection; that’s out of our hand entirely. Within seconds, or how long I don’t know, comes our change. It is the same as the Resurrection.

And the last thing is the ‘catching away’, and brother or sister, let’s understand this, that as soon as you are changed. Are you listening everybody? Are you?

Because everybody’s worried about this business of Him coming, and I’m not worried, because He’s already here, and when He does come to pick me up, I’ll be changed.

Now, listen; get this clear! Are you listening? Brother Branham categorically said that, “When the dead come out of the ground, we are going to be hugging and kissing each other, and loving each other.

And it’s going to take some time.”

Right? Right? He will not catch us away, because He wants us to hug each other, and kiss each other here, and talk it over down here, so we can have a ball and get it out of our system, so when we get up there you won’t have to say, “Oh, I forgot to shake hands with old cousin Joe.

Got to rush over there, bless God and see Aunt Maude.”

You’ll come there and say, ‘Hallelujah Jesus, hallelujah Jesus!’” 

Well, come on. Do you get the picture? Oh, boy if you don’t get after this. If you want my mic here you can preach, Mary you always wanted to preach, two lovely ladies here.

If you can’t see tonight what I’m talking about, “Coming as a thief in the night,” you might miss Him. “What are you talking about?” It’s missing Elijah with the Shout, my brother my sister.

And He came suddenly to His temple on the river down there, like I understand through Bob Brown that Brother Branham said, “He came suddenly to Israel, twelve years of age.” 

I said, “I couldn’t see any sudden coming to Israel, but if that’s the sudden coming, which I’ll accept that very much, let me tell you this: the same prophet said, “He came.

It wasn’t supposed to be secret, but, [he said] who knew it? Not a third in Israel.’ He said, ‘What about this one’?” This is the secret one. 

He did come down unexpectedly. Yes, he did. Did the prophet know it? No, he didn’t know it. Did we know it? We didn’t know it. Nobody knew it, or what it was all about.

But the prophet heard himself say, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming, so your message will forerun the second coming.”

And the Lord Himself descended with a Message, because God always was the Messenger of the covenant, which meant He took on a form. I told you that Wednesday night. It’s very, very simple.

Yes, brother or sister, we have already seen the interpretation and know the revelation of the Shout. It’s the light that shines in a dark place. It’s a light that we saw over here in the book of Ephesians.

We’ll go back and look at It again, because we can never look at It too much because these great men of God, Peter and Paul, both said, “I’ve got to repeat; I’ve got to repeat; I’ve got to repeat.”

And I know some may get sick of the Parousia. Some may get sick of this. Well, be my guest as Brother Branham said, “I’m eating real good.” If you don’t like it, well you sure ate good down there with the hogs. Here is where you come to get the best, because this is the Word of God. 

He said:

And you’ll see the dead come out of the ground, and you’ll be changed.

You’ll be caught up to meet Him in clouds of glory up there. You’ll be caught up to the Wedding Supper, and you’ll find then that it’s absolutely true, everything is under His feet and under your feet.

And there is nothing that will not give way, and you’ll come back in that great day, and you’ll be here at that time to take over the world that was sold from under your feet, but is yours, because it was given to you, and now you’re getting it back.

Well, the Lord bless you. We are going to go to the supper of the Lord tonight, and tomorrow morning I’m simply just going to read from Peter, 1 Peter, because 2 Peter is based on 1 Peter, and you know I haven’t covered this epistle.

Let’s face it, I’d have to go to the stature of a perfect man, and everything else, and I’m not even about to do that at this point.

But we’ll show you some of the things in 1 Peter that have already transpired through the Shout that we’re already in to.

The very thing that Brother Branham said, these men were saying, but they could not put it into effect, or bring it effectually, because the Word of God is interpreted through bringing it to pass.

Let’s pray.

Heavenly Father, we come to you now in Jesus’ Name, always grateful Lord, to be with Your people, to know these things that You’ve set before us.

To know the truth, O God, we are very grateful, and we know Lord that there’s no way that we can show our gratitude.

How could we do it? If we were the most wonderful people in the world, Lord, fully obedient to You, that would be a good start.

That would be the place to start, Lord, but it would only be a start, because we know actually Father God, that how are we going to just glorify you, Lord?

Until the whole thing becomes of You, as it were when the great Elijah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, those men of God lift up their eyes, and they saw the very pillars of the temple swaying, moving in the glory of God.

How could we do it? except You Yourself, Lord, be our full motivation, and not just our motivation, but the very action that comes from motivation. Lord, really that’s what we’re looking for.

We, we’ve always had a little, maybe bit of a laziness, Lord, in ourselves especially in this hour at the end time, where we’ve got generations of people who always want to let George do it, or the government do it.

But it’s funny when it comes to religion, they want to do it themselves, except people like us, Lord, we want to let You do it. We just want to get out of the way, Lord.

Oh God, just help us to get out of the-eee way, Lord, that You can begin to do it.

And then if we’d only catch a little glimpse Lord, how wonderful it is to just get out of the way and let You do it, that would be a great thing to have tonight dropped into our souls.

Maybe that could happen in the communion service, Lord, tonight as we think of the Blood that was shed, and the Word that is now given, the Spirit enlivened Word, feasting on the body Word of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Maybe, Lord, tonight You could drop into our souls, this great tremendous freeing thing that so many of us are afraid of, when it is the one thing that we shouldn’t be afraid of, is to get out of the way and let You do it.

Perhaps tonight, Lord, we could get some help. We’d like to approach you, Lord, in this hour asking for that help, because we already know it’s the right thing. What’s wrong with us, Lord tonight?

Little things here and there help us to get rid of them now. The things the prophet worried about. Little things in there Lord, that’s making us turn aside, so many things look so big, and what are they compared to You?

Nothing, but nothing. The inhabitants of the earth are just like cheese mite in Your sight.

Dust upon the earth, just dust of the balance that you’ve got to bong the shovel real hard to even get the dust to look like something, hardly notice it.

What are we? Drop in the bucket. Lord, we recognize that. Help these little drops to get out of the way tonight. We’re asking You; we believe You will.

You’ve heard our prayer all along, and we know that we’re a part of You. We believe that. We’re so happy for that Lord; we’re so privileged.

But now we’d like to go a little further, and could we just do that, Lord, somehow, that You might get the glory?

They might know what it is to have that joy, that beautiful, beautiful joy that we are living temples, as Brother Branham says, “Statues, living idols unto God.”

And this is the hour he said, “It could and would happen.” Nothing to be afraid of, because when You’re called to the Wedding Supper, you supply all the food.

You supply all the wedding garments. You supply all the invitations; there is nothing that You don’t supply.

You said, “Everything’s ready; come on.” And Father, help us to break loose tonight. I know, Lord, we’re not afraid of You, really, and we look at… we’re afraid of ourselves.

We just say, “Could we really break loose Lord?” Look, You break us loose and that’s good. We’d ask You to do it, Lord. We’re not going to try ourselves because it’s just never worked anyway.

But we’ve got confidence that You’ll break us loose. Help us to get out of the way, and we thank You that You’ve heard us.

And, “Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.” Amen.

The Lord bless you.