Shalom #07

Shall we pray.

Gracious Heavenly Father, Almighty God, we thank You for Your Presence tonight, and we know by vindication [we saw it ourselves] that all things were possible. We know all things are still possible because of Your Presence.

But, Lord, we know the great possibility of this hour is the transforming power of the Shout the Word that was delivered to us vindicated, proven to be the very Word of God for which we thank You, that You perfectly and by Your Presence delivered, showed it to us, and we’re very, very grateful.

Now, Father, may we not only believe, to the extent that… what we have believed in the past but may our faith be increased, Lord, at this hour in the Truth of the true doctrine and then meeting issue with that doctrine by stepping out into life believing that we’re part of that great Word of this hour the great Bride of Jesus Christ.

Bless everyone, Lord, in Divine Presence. May there not be one sick one amongst us we pray, Lord, but that sweet Spirit of Christ that’s in that Word and in this place, Lord, heal the sick because the prophet told us, and we try to obey, to take this Message for our healing. Heal our souls, our minds, our bodies.

In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, we’re at number seven in this Message of Shalom. And since having finished commenting on Brother Branham’s opening remarks, and having also started on the actual Message itself, Shalom which of course was based on the Scripture of Isaiah 60 and Psalm 62 we have already discovered that this sermon follows the pattern of the majority, if not all of Brother Branham’s Messages.

And that pattern is: to bring forth doctrine and conduct, or passive faith and active faith, based on vindication. And the vindication is not a matter of men understanding the infallible Word as they study it, but it’s a matter of God demonstrating His Presence and power as the basis for the revealed Word of the hour making Rema and Logos ‘one’.

And now, nobody can do that outside of God vindicating His own Word. Now, the churches try to do it ever since the gnostics.

We have fundamentalists and orthodox believers, and they feel that if they can match Scripture or they can bring into play the ingenuity of the mind understanding Hebrew and Greek, understanding customs, understanding many things that this would have to be, definitely, the Word of God, and so therefore, Logos and Rema would be one. And that’s not true.

The only way anybody would have even the faintest belief that Logos and Rema was one to them would be based on the fact that some kind of supernatural… a vindication by supernatural intervention, which of course then would put the mind to one side completely and the people would come to the place of where Moses prayed sincerely, “Would God, all the people of God were prophets.”

Do you realize that the fact that you have a vindicated Message puts you in the prophetic class? It’s a tremendous thing that we have seen in our day. Man’s understanding is bypassed entirely as God rivets man’s attention by manifestation in order to attract to, and teach him the Truth.

In other words… ‘vindication,’ which we call vindication, is a manifestation which is to attract the attention to the people to the Truth.

The great Holy Spirit is here, personally, to reveal the Truth, as He was once two thousand years ago when He brought the Truth to the Apostle Paul. To see this perfectly, as pertaining to this Message, Shalom, we’ll simply go to Philippians, the 4th chapter, verses 5 to 7, and we will read…

So, this lets you know, here as Paul has already told us in 1 Corinthians 2, that God bypasses the human mind this peace that Brother Branham is speaking of… for 1964 and also for consecutive years, does not come by an understanding of the human mind.

Although the human mind will be an instrument that God uses as a receptacle, but it will not be the originator or the discerner in itself of any Truth of the Word of God. It’s going to be based upon a supernatural revelation.

Now, with that also, we notice as I’ve said here, looking at verse seven again, the peace of God which passes all understanding could say bypasses the understanding perfectly and entirely and is completely a revelation, we can hook up or link up to Galatians, the 5th chapter 5 and 22, to prove our point. And it said…

Notice, it says, “The fruit of the Spirit is peace.” So, therefore, this peace is generated by the Holy Spirit. Now, what is the conduit of the Holy Spirit?

It is not simply Word; it is revealed Word… because you could be so clever, and you could be so understanding as to memorize every verse of Scripture and say, “This is going to do it”, and it won’t do it. It’ll bring greater and breed more horrible confusion than ever because now you know a whole lot more and don’t know what to do with it.

It’s just like having a whole lot of sand on your front yard and somebody comes by and says, “Well, that fellow must like sand, so I’ll dump three more truck loads on.” If you didn’t know what to do with the first truck load, how’re you gonna handle the three?

Well, that’s what we’re looking at here. So, what are we trying to tell you? We’re trying to tell you: Brother Branham’s sermons never failed to bring across the vindicated Word, which is the conduit of the Holy Ghost, which is the energizer which brings forth His energies. So, we’re seeing Brother Branham is running true to form.

Thus we see again the revealed Word revealed by vindication as the conduit of the Holy Spirit and from there the Holy Spirit brings us His own peace, the same as He brings us His own love…

Now, the world can take the Word of God as Brother Branham said, “Any man’s hand can open this Book, but he said only the Holy Spirit can truly open and reveal.”

So you see, we are cutting ourselves down to where I don’t know any other Church has ever cut itself down. And I’ve been preaching for a long, long time now… just about fifty solid years. And looking at all these things and all the theologians, they do not understand what we are trying to see tonight.

So, the Holy Spirit brings us His own peace. So, let us ingest very carefully what Brother Branham said, going back to Isaiah, chapter 60, and a couple verses there…

All right. So, we’re seeing here what Brother Branham is setting forth. In this Scripture he is talking about a light rising upon the people and darkness arising upon the people. With that in mind, let’s go back to Galatians, the same chapter, beginning at verse 17.

Now, “the fruit of the Spirit…” and you automatically must link the Spirit of God with the human mind. Because it tells you, “Though, the human mind cannot produce the revelation that God requires, yet the human mind is necessary as a receptacle for the revelation.”

So, all right, you’re looking in here what the Spirit can do through the Word. Up here, is what the Spirit cannot do because there is no Word… up here is what human spirit does in the flesh because it has not got truly revealed Word. Now…

So, what we’re looking at, here, is the ‘parallelism’ of Scripture. As Brother Branham brought us the text…”

There is light arising upon the people; there is gross darkness arising upon the people.” And at the end-time, then, “the path of the righteous shining more and more to the perfect day” more and more perfection must come even though to fewer people.

But even then, grosser grossness must come at the end-time… you see. So, we can see here, how Brother Branham has brought us this Truth so carefully, showing us, vindicated Word is the basis.

Now, let’s go back again and see the Book of Romans, the 1st chapter, beginning at verse 16 and we cannot give enough attention to these Scripture although, I guess, we’ve read them many, many times. Paul said,

All right. So, therefore, the gospel, which is the Word the good tidings has everything to do with faith, and faith… is a revelation. So, now we have the Holy Spirit and the Word together, converting the sinner and bringing that man into the peace where God wants him. Now, watch,

Now you say, “Brother Vayle, you’re putting something in there.” You… Come on! Read your Bible. He tells you, up here, that “the Gospel is a power of God to salvation”, and he says, “The wrath of God is against all ungodliness and unrighteousness.”

So, therefore, the Gospel alone has righteousness and godliness in it and anything else doesn’t have it. And one word off is not the Gospel… and that takes a revelation. And the revelation had better be by vindication or you don’t know where you’re standing.

Now, this is at the end-time because you can neither add nor take away at the end-time that’s the Book of Revelation. And you’re coming right to the Tree of Life. One word, and the Tree of Life vanished. We’ll be seeing that shortly, from this Message, don’t worry… everything is in here. Now…

Now, the Word of righteousness in the day of Adam was this: “After so many years, in the conditions you’re in, having obeyed me multiplying, replenishing the earth, and so on you will then turn into immortal people.” See? And they turned it down.

Now, what destroyed immortality? One word off… and how’re you going get it back? Now, the people say, “Well, by this lovely revival, by this great thing, and this and that.” I’m going tell you something: They must be insane. We are not insane; we have the mind of God.

Now, let’s look at Isaiah, chapter 57:15-21. Now, what I’m doing… I’m backgrounding for this Message because we’re gonna hit the Message tonight as Brother Branham starts it… 57, and we’re looking at verse 15.

Now, let’s look at verse 19,

Now, that tells you there, a promise at the end-time is to the Jew and the Gentile, because that which was near is the Jew, and that which is afar off was the Gentile.

Now, let’s go back to the very last Book of the Old Testament. “I create the fruit of the lips…” Malachi 3:16,

Now, I hope you caught what I was saying here. In verse 16: the talking of the revealed Word at the end-time will bring the peace of God into the lives of people.

Because, there’s only one thing can do it, and that’s the Holy Spirit, and He’s only got one conduit. Now, you can try every measure you want, and go every way you want, but as I read the Word of God tonight, there is no way you will get the true thing. You can get a counterfeit but you cannot get the real peace of God.

Notice also, it says Hebrews 13:8 holds true as Alpha and Omega, we ought to consider Ephesians, chapter 2:14-22.

So, there we find at the end-time, according to this Scripture, an Omega situation… an… Omega situation… look at the verses 15 and 16.

Now, in other words, the enmity lay in the fact that man could not do according to any Word even under the best conditions, which was in the Garden of Eden. They gave in everything to a small time of pleasure… sold right out.

There is no way, even under the best conditions, that man can ever, of himself, live up to that Word; he can’t do it. So, therefore, God comes by His own way, gives a revelation, that Word becomes a conduit, the Life of the Holy Spirit begins to work through the individual.

All right… reconciliation has been made… “for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.” So we find, what we’re looking at here is the peace of God. Now, watch… what I have in mind.

Now, what happened in the beginning? God and man split asunder, and there had to be a reconciliation. And in the Garden of Eden there could not be a reconciliation. All there could be was an atonement where somewhere down the road something could work out to put man where God wanted him which was immortality.

Six thousand years down the road, we have come to immortality. That means we have come to a perfect reconciliation where God says, “I will now let a man, in his present condition, See? come to the very Tree of Life and live forever.”

But, of course, the condition changes because of the power of the Life of the truly revealed Word in a Bride who takes the Word of God, knows what to do with It, and doesn’t leave It.

Now, I’ve been preaching all along here now and… last… recently more than ever, especially down at Beaumont, that you have a vindicated Word. And you don’t need to stand on anything else but the understanding of vindication.

So, what we’re looking today is, we’re right back to Eden. We are right back to reconciliation. In other words, let’s face it. What Calvary bought and paid for was not dispensed at one time; it was dispensed to… it was actually dispensed by bringing up those who looked forward to it and is being dispensed today.

And the last point is a reconciliation not simply an atonement. Now, atonement is wonderful. Thank God for the Atonement! There couldn’t be reconciliation without it. But you’ve got to remember, we are now, at the end-time reconciled.

Notice, Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. And if any man hear my voice and come on out and sup with me and I with him…”

That is a perfect reconciliation, because it doesn’t tell of a future departing. That speaks of the hour of John 14 when he said, “I’m going to go away, but don’t worry, in my father’s house are many mansions.

If it weren’t so, I would have told you. But, he said, I’m going away, and the place is prepared for you. And when I come, that next time, we will never, never part.” This is reconciliation reconciled to a Bride that fell away.

And the Appearing, over in Matthew 25, the Shout comes… “Behold the Bridegroom!” not ‘cometh,’ “Behold the Bridegroom. Come out to meet him.” And those that came out to meet him were two-fold: a Wise and a Foolish.

But one had the conduit, which had the Word for the Holy Spirit. Like he said to those Pharisees, “You can’t have the Word because there’s no place in you for the Word.” Consequently, they could never have the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Spirit could not fall upon that seed because there was no seed there to bring it to life. So, you see what you’re looking at here: You’re looking at the very end-time.

All right… so here we… we see where we are going into this Message that Brother Branham preached on Shalom ; it is a vindicated peace. For the conduit of the Holy Spirit peace, which we have tonight is based on vindication. Today, it is peace with God, and peace of God, entering into Millennial rest and thence to the New Jerusalem rest.

Vindication says it’s all here now, fully exposed, fully operational, changing our mortal frames and all frames of the entire universe, all going back to original harmony of God. And beyond the original, because the original was not the consummate plan uh, uh! Immortality was.

Now, we’re into process. So we see this going on now by vindicated, revealed Word. Now, remember, Brother Branham was telling this to us on page thirty-seven… I beg your pardon, paragraph thirty-seven, on page seven.

Now, with the understanding background you’ve got, what you’re looking for in this Message, which was Brother Branham preaching a vindicated Word… and from this Word there has to be a constant manifestation.

Now, it’s not a ‘manipulation’; it’s a manifestation. Paul, the Apostle, said, “I never manipulated anyone. I never manipulated the Word. I laid it out there by vindication, proving the power of God. Now, he said, let it go to work and bring us right to the place of transformation, transfiguration.”

We’re in that hour right now. And some of the things we’re getting out is like… number one, was love. I preached on that, many a sermon, and I know that the brethren would literally hate me for preaching it.

I almost hated myself because it sounded like I was trying to duck an issue, trying to destroy something that God had for us this love, you know but, I’m going to tell you: the Bible said, “The love of God, shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost…” And there’s only one conduit for the Holy Ghost that’s the Word.

So, therefore, brother/sister, if a man hasn’t got that, he hasn’t got the genuine, true love of God. As Brother Branham said, “Compassion is, doing the will of God.”

And what is the will of God? It’s got to be ‘revealed Word’! It cannot be ‘Word’ because that can be misdirected and mis-divided Word like Cain had. He said, “You offered well.

But if you have not rightly divided, have you not sinned?” In other words, “Doing God a service, as Brother Branham preached, was an absolute sin in the face of Almighty God.” It was an insult to God without a revealed Word.

Then, where does it leave the world?… you tell me! See? Listen… you think I’m fired up? I’m not fired up; just standing here plain, natural, normal. I know what I’m talking about. Of course, you help me… that’s all right.

Okay…

[37]  …David speaking here, “God is our rock…” [Now, watch what Brother Branham says…] God is our rock when God has been revealed to us.

He’s not your rock if He hasn’t been revealed. Well, say, “Bless God, the Word says so and so.” And then one person’s got one God; one person’s got two Gods; one’s got three Gods… God knows how many they’ve got to know, then. All right… let’s find out if you’ve got a rock tonight.

Ephesians 1:17, Paul praying

Now, there’s the real God…” the God of our Lord Jesus Christ” Now, who is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ?… I’d like to know. Well, they say there’s three of them.

Well, if Jesus is God, how could… how could God the Father be his God? Do they take turns worshipping each other? “Ahh, you didn’t worship me this time; it’s my turn now. Let’s put our names in a hat… see who gets worshipped first.”

Yes, I make fun of these things; you bet I do. Sarcastically, I make fun of them because they deserve nothing but contempt. Listen to what it says…

Now, let me tell you something: If you haven’t got that rock in the last hour that precedes the resurrection because the resurrection comes right after this and the rapture you haven’t got a rock. You have got sinking sand… and you’re not going to make it; I’m not going to make it.

Oh, you got to… listen, you got to get down to ‘live or die, sink or swim this is it’. You’ve got to become an identified cult. You’ve got to become a heretic… according to the way you worship. See?

Now, he said, “God is our rock only on condition that God is revealed to us.” Now, what about… what if it’s a wrong revelation? What if you end up like Khomeini and his gang of cut-throats, the Iranians, and all those illegitimates?

They were fostered by Abraham listening to his wife. That shows you where the woman takes you. She represents the church. Oh, she can produce, all right. You talk about the mule reproducing… she’ll out-produce the mule, and out-work him.

That’s that world-church. I [don’t] want sisters getting mad at me; but I’m going to tell you one thing: The men type certain things, and women type certain things.

So, don’t think I’m pushing on you, tonight, if I take a crack at female sex on the ground of a type, because let’s face it the antichrist is a man, and the Devil takes full control of him. So, we’re not hitting the sexes; we’re hitting the fact of what’s what. See? You’ve got to look at the picture.

So,

[37]  [Paraphrased] God is only a rock when He’s revealed, and that had better be the right revelation. [Now Brother Branham starts on his sermon.]

[38]  Now, my text for this morning is an odd word: Shalom. Shalom, in the Hebrew, means “peace”. And that’s what I say to the Church this morning, “Shalom”. That’s peace.

Now, he makes a little statement here, as though Brother Branham would like to impress you with the fact that he knows different languages. I’ve seen him look down in the audience after seeing a man twenty-five years back, maybe seen him once-a-year… so and so, so and so. Now, why do you think Brother Branham talks about Finland?

[39]  In Finnish it’s called Jumalan rauha, which means God’s peace. [The rauha would have to mean of course, I’m sure, ‘God’; Jumalan, I think would mean the ‘peace’ part… I don’t know]. “God’s peace” upon you. Rauha. God, see, God’s peace, shalom.

Why would he say that? Well, I’m not positive, but I do know that Brother Branham said, “Switzerland, why did you… ahh, how did he put that?… reject me?” And was it not Finland, he said the same thing about… or was it Norway?

Let me tell you about the Finns and why he literally said this. I was over there in 1970 and the Finns came into Norway where we had the camp meeting. And because I dared to preach about a vindicated Prophet, they called an early morning prayer meeting and literally asked God to kill me, because I dared to say something other than “O Great God! Hallelujah, Jesus!” You should go to Finland now, and see what they got.

They took… Ewald Frank hook, line and sinker a whoremonger who put himself above Brother Branham. Talk to people who go there now and they’ll say how illegitimate it was. Did they miss the peace of God? You bet they did!

Let me tell you something… Ewald Frank can tell you that the Pillar of Fire… will return to you… Ewald Frank is a liar! And with his Doctor’s degree, he’s a bigger liar than ever.

You might not like the way I preach; I care two-bits what you think. The same God who gives me strength to open my mouth will give me strength to keep my mouth open, and a backbone to match it… if I’m a child of God. Yeah, he said, “Switzerland, why did you turn me down…” those are the words.

Norway turned him down. He couldn’t even pray for the sick. Where are the proud Swedes? Where is Europe? Where is Finland? Well, let’s be honest… they come from the East and the West; there may be a few there. But as far as the nations concerned, they turned it down.

He says here, “Shalom, God’s peace.” You know, I like to take my time with all these things, which I know is not right, in a sense of the word, but let’s have my way.

Let’s go to John, chapter 20, and let’s start at verse 14.

Mary didn’t know. He revealed himself to her. Let’s go to verse 19. We won’t read everything; it’ll take too long to take all the Scripture.

Now, everybody likes to take this Scripture, and they like to tell you that they don’t have to see anything to believe because they are the world’s greatest believers. Hogwash! You talk about insipid, stupid pride!

Let’s go over here to the 3rd chapter of the Book of Revelation, at the very end of the Age… verse twenty.

What if the wrong man knocks on the door? I like what Brother Branham said, “John turned to see the voice… to see if it was a Scriptural voice.”

How would he know it’s a Scriptural voice? By vindication! Because he said, “Thomas, stretch forth your hand and put it in… put your finger in the nail-prints of my hands and my side.” Vindication proved who it was standing there. Now, remember, Jesus Christ prayed for those who believed his own words.

They were the disciples. And he prayed for those who would believe the words of those who knew him, as being disciples. Now, let’s just say and we don’t just say; we know it’s true that this must be fulfilled.

And at the end-time, Christ comes knocking at the Church’s door. Is the Church so stupid it will listen to any voice? Or will it look for a Scriptural voice?

Now, you know, as we get in here, he greets the Elect, not the world church. The world church could be fooled because it is fooled, with its Trinitarian dogma and corruption. But if you are going to sup with Him, that shows the Wedding Supper.

And it shows a Bride of the First Century who was unmarred at the time of Paul for a little while, as to a ‘false’ word. She was there as a virgin. Now, do you think for one minute, that Christ will consort with a whore?

Now, I tell you, I’m a funny guy and I’m one of the last breed, but thank God, there’s young men here today of the same breed I am. You might look at a woman, but it was ‘touch not, handle not’. I’ve had one and that’s all that I’m interested in.

There are brethren here of the same category, and young preachers which weren’t before, they’re men, sterling in their morals. If my wife had had another man before me, I’m sorry, I would have booted her out… period. I think, I believe I would.

I’m getting a little softer now, a little milder, because we’ve had about fifty years together. But I tell you, except for the last maybe ten years, she’d have been booted out, regardless.

As Brother Branham said, “If you married a woman [that] lied to you, you could have ten children by her you can divorce her and marry somebody else that is a wife.”

Do you think for one minute, if my integrity which is so low which my consorting with a woman would be actually based upon sex because that’s what attracts people, do you think that Jesus Christ would consort with some whore?

Do you think He’d knock on her door, then say, “Open to me…” as in the Songs of Solomon and say the beautiful things about her? Why, unless she was a virgin of the highest order, he wouldn’t give her the time of day.

How do you know it’s a Scriptural voice? By vindication! This is the last Church Age… where they’re going to sit in the Throne with Him, reign as a queen. Now, let me put it this way: You can be a Mary Magdalene, you can be a, you know… Salome but if you are, you’re a ‘salami’ which is a bunch of horse meat cut up and put into skin. It’s the same thing… Salome, salami.

Mary Magdalene’s seven, fourteen devils… run riot with a thousand men and be born again… no problem. But one word off, you’re no longer virgin. The Roman Catholic Church, Oh… they’ve got it all doped up. You want to be a virgin? Well, it’s okay.

If you pay the priest or the Pope enough, he’ll sprinkle holy water on you. Listen, there’s a Prophet by the Word of God who sprinkled the Holy Word of God upon the people, that brought her back to virginity.

Certainly. He wouldn’t consort with some miserable prostitute, and put her on the Throne. Do you think Ahasuerus, the King, when his wife turned him down, what did he look for? He looked for the fairest, finest virgin amongst the Jewish ladies. She was beautiful; she proved to be a real queen. What man loves a slob? Do you think God loves slobs?

Listen, we’re getting to the nitty-gritty in the points here, Brother/Sister. God does not overlook His own principles… not for one minute. It was a Scriptural voice, and the Scriptural voice spoke of ‘peace’, because it said, “You are the sinless, spotless, virtuous, righteous Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Now, if that doesn’t give you peace, what will? You say, “Well, Brother Vayle, how do I know? Because the Prophet was vindicated. You say, “Well, do I take all those things he said?” Yes, you take all those things he said, because if you’re not ‘all glorious within and without’, you are not Bride.

So, if your humility, which is gross pride from the Devil would say, “Well, Lord, I just can’t believe that about myself.” you ain’t fit to be Queen. You… I’m going to tell you something: Many a woman better examine what kind of a ring her boyfriend gives her because it could be ‘paste’ as they call it.

Many a woman who has fabulous jewels has imitations made up of even cheaper grade zircon set nicely after the real thing. But do you think for one minute, that the Lover of our souls the Lord Jesus Christ, the Heavenly Bridegroom would give us a lot of paste?

In other words, are the promises of God the pure jewels of God that are really rich, or is it just some junk that He makes up? In other words, can you rely upon His Word? Because It’s vindicated, you can. Now, if It wasn’t vindicated, you couldn’t.

Look at Eleazer… he went down and he spoke to Rebecca and he said, “Listen, little girl, I want to tell you something: I’m here for my Master. He’s got a lovely son and he wants to marry some girl from your household.

You could be the one; in fact, I just asked God to… little special thing, that you’d offer me water and even say you’d draw for my camels also.

And that’s exactly what I asked God, and He did it.” “Now”, he said, “Look, if you think I’m selling you a line, I’m just going to give you a little token here a handful or two of what I brought you to let you know what’s in my Master’s hand, that belongs to His son, if you marry him. And I think you’re the girl that should.”

Well, do you think Eleazer gave her a line of some sort? Was it some kind of paste jewelry he gave her? Now, do you think that when he finally got her on the desert, he didn’t take her to Isaac?

And when she got to see Isaac, don’t you think he was just as handsome and even much more so than the old boy said? Why, they had a love-match of more than a century!

Paul said the same thing about the ministry over here that’s going to transform the Bride. In the Second Corinthians, and we read it time after… you know this is my favorite portion;

you can almost tell where I’m going these days if you have a… you know… not like one fellow came by one day and said, “Oh, Brother Vayle, I know every Scripture before you said it.” Well, that’s a laugh, to me.

You sit here for eight solid years and you still don’t know some of the things I’m saying. So, he never came in and knew that. Paul, himself, said 4th chapter, 2nd verse:

What could Paul possible show them this was the Truth of God? Not something he could produce. Hey! Listen… if I was younger and had the agility some of these Pentecostal ‘hoopla’ guys, I could get up here and demonstrate to you I’ve got the Word of God, ‘Bless God’, by kicking my feet over the pulpit Yah!

They’ve done that, too and all these crazy things. That doesn’t prove anything. I might be as strong as Brother Branham said his dad was… lift up five hundred pounds, or suddenly have the strength that the woman who couldn’t lift the front end of the car but she sure could, because her son was under it, and she picked up two thousand pounds and she was about seventy pounds.

Something happened to her; the adrenaline began to flow. I… I might do a lot of things, but I’m going to tell you one thing: This is not what the Word of God says. If you fall for just something a man says and can’t back it up like at the beginning here… and Alpha and Omega is the same thing you know, you’re sick.

In fact, you ought to stick around; I think I’ve got some Sky Blue stock I could sell you. I could buy it for a nickel and sell it to you for a dollar-and-a-half. You’d just be… be no problem at all, because I’d be very convincing.

What does it matter how good an orator you are? Paul was not an orator, He was exactly like Moses; he tripped over his tongue… when it came to verbalizing. But he said, “I want to tell you something: I had a vindication to commend everything I’ve told you.”

Samuel stood there by vindication… “When have I told you a lie? When did I take your money? When did I do so-and-so?” And Brother Branham based, not on prophets who brought the Word like Moses, but based on prophets like Samuel, who could stand there and know from God, and prove it by discernment and so on he said the same thing: “When did I ever defraud you, tell you a lie, take your money… do so and so?”

Never one time did the vindication ever fail. Now, there’s where we stand today, Brother/Sister, on this peace. You say, “When am I going to get this peace, Brother Vayle?” When you and I really, really, really, really understand vindication and stand with it.

Yah… everybody… most people sit right on the fence… sit right on the fence. If anything happens, they want to just turn flop right over the other side of the fence.

Just like the little bat: When the animals were winning, he said, “I’m an animal.” When the birds were winning the fight, he said, “I’m a bird.” Big fat liar, was all he was. Bats in a dark cavern, hanging upside down… can’t stand the light.

I don’t want to be in the ‘bat’ crowd, Brother/Sister. I want to be out there in the sunshine of God’s grace. See? They turned it down… it’s too bad.

Now, he said,

[40]  My new year’s Message… to the Church elected in Jesus Christ [Didn’t say, “This is my Message to the church.” He said, “…to the Church which is elected in Jesus Christ.”

He was defining to whom he was speaking. And he said it] was for 1964. Not… just… church groups; but the Elect… the Lady… of the Church, Christ’s Bride, see, that’s whom I am addressing.

Now, back in 1964, Brother Branham talked to the Elected group. In 1965 on Thanksgiving Day, in Invisible Union, he talked again to the Elect Lady. And I’m going to tell you: The man didn’t pull his punches.

He stood right there, and he said, Now, you people… [talking in Jack Moore’s church], he let them know ‘plump and plain’ that they didn’t believe… but they could if they wanted to. But he’s speaking to the Bride that came to that meeting and filled the church up, and on the telephone that Brother Perry Green had put in… got the hook-ups.

Now… in November, ‘65, he spoke to the same Invisible Union. Now, in this Message, it is ‘peace to the Bride’ that Brother Branham is saying, and it is a salutation for 1964. In 1965, it is a Thanksgiving for a union of that same Bride with the Word. See?

Not just peace with God, but the peace of God, because the Bride had turned back to being a virgin of the Word… according to Second Corinthians, the 11th chapter, and verse two.

And now, that Bride is in Matthew 25, and she goes out to meet Him, and therein she recognizes Him. And in that meeting she recognizes the Shout which is the Message. Now, watch what happens in 2 Thessalonians, not 1st, now… but in 2nd Thessalonians, the 2nd chapter, and in verse 13.

And I want to say… that word ‘kai’ [kaih], in there, can be used as a preposition the same as a conjunction which would then read “…chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit even belief of the truth.”

How is the Spirit of God going to do any sanctifying apart from the Word? Can’t do it, brother/sister; there’s no way.

Now, Brother Branham goes on in Paragraph 41.

[41]  We are facing here, in our two… [Scripture readings] a… contrast, one to the other. In Isaiah, it says, “Arise, and shine, for the glory of God is come upon you. The Light is here.” And then the very next verse, he says, “Gross darkness is upon this people.”

[Now… And now that we are in this period of a mixture] of Light and darkness… then my address to the Church [at this particular period of Light and darkness] is “Shalom, peace”, let’s find out what it’s all about, see.

We’re facing this year, with both darkness and Light… the world is in one of the most chaotic times of darkness that it’s ever stood in… and yet again, it’s standing in the most blessed Light that… did ever shine…

What you got here is the two vines coming up. You have got the Church in contra-distinction to the world image which was from the head down with Nebuchadnezzar to the filth of the Roman Empire which was revived under Catholicism, making it a ‘religious’ empire.

Now, with the Bride it’s from the feet up. In other words, it narrows and narrows to the place of Headship. So, what you have, then, a Bride approaching the Headship of God and you have the world approaching the complete headship of the enemy; they’re growing side by side.

So, there is a Light that shines at the end-time that is the brightest Light that ever shone in Church history, and there is a darkness that spells a chaos as there never was chaos in these two thousand years and, I believe, ever since the world began; in other words, there’s a coming to the top.

Now… notice, Brother Branham said… the world is in one of the most chaotic times of darkness that it’s ever stood in; and yet… again, one of the times of… most blessed Light… Now, in this chaos, the Bride is involved in the chaos but will not remain a part of it.

We go back to Luke, the 1st chapter, and notice in verse 17, the time of Elijah, which was John the Baptist, number three.

Now, notice that… God is their Lord but they have turned from Him. So, therefore, it took a man to come on the scene to turn the people to their God, which they said they were worshipping. Now, something was very wrong because they weren’t turned to God.

Luke 1:

Through this man they will acquire an understanding, and understanding disperses chaos. In other words, Light will disperse darkness because the Bible said John the Baptist was a bright and shining light but he was not that Light.

But he was a light to the Light Therefore, if a man claims to know the Light of the world, which is Jesus, he had to have a previous light of some description pointing to It. You say what you want, but that’s the Word of God.

Because the Bible distinctly says the Elijah of this hour is going to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers.

Now, what does ‘turn the heart’ mean? It means, even the disobedient those that don’t have an understanding. This is not willful disobedience; this is the product of the hour, which is chaos coming out of darkness… every table full of vomit… the Book closed. And this Book has been closed in a certain area, under the Seven Seals.

Now, notice what it says,

It tells you right there that they do not know God as they ought to know God. They’re the people of God; they’re the children of God, but they are far from God in their understanding. And that’s what the Bible teaches: “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”

They are not knowledgeable in that which is of that hour. They didn’t have to know what was back of them. They didn’t have to know what was ahead of them. All they had to know was at that hour… that’s Alpha. What about this hour?

They have to know. There has to be an understanding. Now, the understanding does not come by men opening the Book and reading and making comparison and think they can draw conclusions. You got to take it to where Alpha is. And Alpha sent a man to go before the Lord God to give an understanding.

If William Branham didn’t do that, I want to ask you: Who’s going to do it?” Oh, they say, “Well, bless God, it just worked out that Bill Branham happened to be on the scene, and you bunch of idiots, you know, you took it to be ‘He’ll point you to the Light’… you know.”

Well, Hallelujah! I’m glad you say that, because I don’t think my ark could hold that number of people. I’m not mean; just tell you the Truth.

You give me one reason why I should applaud what God hates. Give me one reason that I should stand what God will not stand. You give me one reason that I should not take my side with a vindicated Prophet of God, a vindicated Message God, Himself, coming down and doing it! You know what I’ll tell you? You and I don’t mix, honey.

Get yourself another preacher, another church, really, for your own good because the more you sit here, there’s going to be a greater condemnation because I’m going to just keep pouring it on. And keep pouring it on and say “Oh, that Vayle, he preached twenty-four sermons on one certain thing.”

I’d say, “That guy’s a liar; I preached forty-eight.” If he had hot tacks in his shoes back there, what kind of hot tacks he got then? But he’s the guy that made Brother Branham a liar. I’m going to tell you: If that man told a lie, Brother/Sister, you and I are in trouble.

And I’m going to tell you: Whatever’s behind him is in trouble, because the same thing is in the Word and the Name of Jesus Christ. And if God… whatever, God’s there… And I’ve never seen Him, but I’ve seen His manifestation what He can do. That God doesn’t lie no way, shape and form, no way, See?… chaotic times of darkness.

[42]  [Now] The difference is just like it was in the beginning, when there was gross darkness upon the earth.

Well, was there gross darkness on the earth? It was on the water; the water covered the earth. The people cover the world today. God cleaned the world up. They say they had about five billion people back in the days of Noah I don’t know.

They didn’t have all the water masses they’ve got today… we got the land mass. Before it’s over, how many billion there’ll be, I don’t know. We’re up to close to six billion now, I guess. Seven makes some kind of perfection who knows. Darkness is upon the face of the deep.

[42]  …Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water… [He said,] “Let there be light.” And God separated the light from the darkness. And I believe… [we’re] now living in that hour again. [What hour? The hour that Light and darkness are separated. In other words, it’s no longer chaotic because Truth is vindicated as Truth, and therefore, anything else is error. No big problem… no big problem. God separated] Light from darkness, and He’s pressing it to the other side of the world, that the Light might be made manifest.

All right. The Bible teaches, that when God set the lights in order, the ground itself began to produce because the seed was there two kinds of seeds, different kinds of seeds.

So it is in this hour, when the Light struck the masses of people, the good seed was already there, and the wrong seed was already there and there weren’t too many good seed, and the good seed had to respond to the Light.

And so did the evil seed respond to the Light. But look what they both brought forth: One brought forth the Korah, Dathan and Abirams of Pentecost, and the other brought forth a Christian people who were content to place their whole lives in a passive faith which is the doctrine of Almighty God, which is the true Word then seeing whatever comes out of it.

Because Brother Branham said, “The Bride will have the Word and know what to do with It, or she’ll keep quiet…” which means she won’t try to manifest anything; she won’t try to do anything.

She knows she’s got that Word, and coming more and more not just in contact with the Word, but more in a harmony and communion with that Word.

The Bride will be a Word-Bride, which Brother Branham said she already is because he said, God is piling Word upon Word. And he said the same… he said, “If God starts making an animal, He doesn’t take a cat cell and throw in a dog cell, and a chicken cell; neither does He take a Bride and throw in any cell but Word by Word by Word.” If He’s Word, we’ve got to be Word. See?

Okay, the seeds were already there. This is what brings forth Matthew 24. Now, this is the time of the chaotic darkness upon the world, because there’s Light and darkness. It would… Listen! One or the other wouldn’t breed chaos. But you put them together, there’s chaos.

Look! If all you ever knew was a black piece of cloth and no one ever heard of a brown suit, there wouldn’t be any trouble. You’d be like Henry Ford, he said, “Paint all the cars any color you want [as] long as it’s black.” That’s it.

Amish, Mennonites it’s the same thing. Of course, they go a little haywire, then they try to buy the finest cloth with the pretty… silkier threads. That was explained to me by a former Mennonite lady; she said, “Don’t ever sell them short on their pride.”

She said, “They’re proud as all get-out. See? Watch the men look at the finest cloth, you know.”

But… look-it, put it in an illustration what I said, though. If there was no light, how could you have a chaos? If there’s no darkness, how could you have a chaos? It’s when the thing is mixed, which way you going to go? Well, according to Brother Branham, The Light shines so great in the last day, that you don’t have a doubt. Why?

Because the glory of the Lord comes upon you, and then, as you talk the Word, the peace of God fills you. And you just keep on moving, as jewels in His crown.

Now, that’s what I’m looking at, brother/sister. I’ve got to look at it that way because that’s the way it was in the Garden until man got off the Word. He’d have just gone on and on and on.

Now, we’re back on the Word; we’re not going to ever leave It. Brother Branham said so. Are we… talking about Matthew here… didn’t we?… 24th chapter. All right… about the false prophets arising all of these things in here. And then, in verse 40, Brother Branham said.

Over in Luke 17,… “one taken, one left”… That’s the actual rapture. There has to be a separation. Why, you know, in the days of chaos way back there… says that’s what the actual word is. And “darkness upon the face of the deep” like an abyss.

It was chaotic See? but then God begin to separate. How’d He do it? Did it by the Word… and He’s still doing it today.

Notice how gifts are bringing people back together, doing a great job. But the Word of God is separating us. And the Word of God is ‘pressing’ that’s a good terminology it’s an actual ‘pressing’. It’s like it was back there in the land of Egypt.

Goshen, there was plenty of light, but in Egypt there was total darkness. In Goshen, with Israel, they didn’t lose one first-born; in Egypt, they lost them all. Or in the cross-over, there wasn’t anybody drowned in the Red Sea; all the Egyptians assaying to do so got drowned.

But I’m going to tell you something: When it came to the final going in to the Garden which God had prepared… you know, the land of Israel, Canaan Land, only the very Elect went in. See? Why?

The Word had separated them. God said, “Go in and take the land. You can do it.” And they stood back and they said, “We can’t do it.” Joshua and Caleb said, “Bless God! We can more than take that land and ten more just like it. Come on! Let’s get moving.” God let them all die off, because they didn’t believe. They didn’t believe in vindication.

Now listen… Let me show you how serious vindication is. The show-down with Moses in Egypt proved God. Crossing of the Red Sea proved God. The bread from Heaven proved God.

Everything proved God, and they still stood back and belly-ached! They would not take the vindication. Oh, how people hate vindication! “Well, bless God, if that’s it then I’m left out.”

Well, shut-up, you fool, and get in! No, they’d sooner go down, like the prodigal son, and eat with the pigs. You know, he got so low he even ate what the pigs left. That old farmer was too smart to give him the kernel, so he took the kernel out of the husk and gave the idiot the husk. Any prodigal sons here tonight?

Start with vindication, bless God! Say, “Hey! I’m not so smart.” People simply can’t take it. They can’t take vindication, but they’ll read every book and say, “Well, the scholars said so.”

I get a phone call every now and then from a certain guy, some of you met him. He let’s me know, you know, the Parousia doesn’t mean what I said yet the finest Greek students say so. But, oh! He’s got his stooges all lined up.

“Well,” I say, “The trouble with you is you don’t believe Brother Branham’s vindicated and I do. But, I said, you go your way and I’ll go mine.” That’s right. He’s just about half my age but he thinks maybe his thirty-some, forty years is smarter than my seventy-some.

I’ve got news for him. I’ve been where he’s never been. He ain’t never going to get there either. I’m not boasting; just telling you the Truth. Pshhh! I’ve seen things in my own ministry he can just hope and pray for but never ever… I’ve seen miracles, Brother/Sister. The first time I prayed for the sick I asked God for a miracle.

That woman had great big… she [inaudible] full of diabetes, her legs just like this. So I just took upon myself to command her leg to go down, in the Name of Jesus and I saw it go… [Brother Vayle makes a noise indicating that the swelling disappeared instantly] and the leg was normal. Cheesh! Well, that’s great for a start. He hadn’t even come near that. What does he know about God opening a book and reading some scholar?

“So, I believe in one God.” So does the Devil. At least he’s got the brains to tremble. I’m going to tell you something: that Devil believes in one God and he knows one God is a whole lot tougher than three gods or four hundred gods.

That’s why he sells Trinitarianism. Because, when you deal with one God you’ve got one Mind going one way and look out of His Mind’s ever against you. But, praise God, if your mind’s with His Mind, you [wouldn’t] have to worry anymore. There’s only one God. And where’d they get this idea there’s two or three gods?… I don’t know. Gross darkness, but Goshen was light.

[43]  [Now, to]… the Church, the reason I’d say “Shalom” to them, is because… it’s God’s Peace. That’s what I want to bring to you this morning, for the new year… [See?].

Now, listen… God’s Peace. Okay… the rock revealed, ‘God revealed’, is something to stand on and you are now placed. Let’s go to Colossians the third chapter, and I’m going to quit. I’ve been meaning to quit for a long time or I won’t be able to preach tomorrow morning.

If it’s preaching like this, you might not want to come anyway, but that’s all right. I’ll be here with a few of my buddies. We’ll look at the Word of God just in case some beautiful thing comes out which always does. Verse 12, 3rd chapter, Colossians.

Now, listen here… Everybody in this Church believing a vindicated Word of God and submitting to the doctrine, which is passive, looking for that life to come forth, every single person will have that kind of a church, one body.

If you sit here and I’ve warned you, time after time and you do not become a true part of what I am preaching and do, you cannot expect this. You’re not going to have it. You’re not going to have the Holy Spirit moving in and healing… healing everybody. Little Josh needs healing. Aaron already got his healing just sitting in his seat.

Pete, the same way; if he’s sick, it’s not what he once had. I’ll challenge any… the devils all the way to Hell and back. I have my perfect healing; he’s got his perfect healing; Pete’s got his perfect healing.

Let me tell you something: You are in a realm today, you never were in. You say, “Well, Pentecost does the same thing.”

This didn’t come through Pentecostal people; this came through a Word. This came through a Church where the Spirit of God moves that sweet Spirit of Christ bringing forth the manifestation. And we can have it, and have it all the time… what it tells you right here.

Churches know splits; they know this and they know that. I’m going to tell you: There’s be a Church that never splits because she’s already done split away from the ‘splittingest’ she’s made her split. You know your hearts, Brother/Sister.

And I’m not so stupid; I know them pretty well, too, because I preach this Word all the time. Examine your hearts and begin to understand: Do you understand vindication? Or is this a catch… a phrase? Are you standing on it or are you still with some little position where maybe you could just fall over somewhere… you’re sitting on a fence? There’s no fence anymore; we’ve turned a corner. Time and eternity is mingled.

Do you realize what I’m saying tonight, brother/sister? Although I maybe sound rough, I’m preaching very, very kindly to anybody that… is here and hears me on a tape. Actually, I’m trying to tell you: It’s all over.

If time and eternity is blended, where is your soul now?… Where are a people? Plead with you young people, plead with your homes, I’m going to talk more and more about these things that must be brought to light.

And you’ve got to begin doing them. Now, that’s an active faith. Your passive faith is in a vindicated Prophet who could not tell you anything but the Truth. It was this One who came down with a whole ring of angels, embodiment of the Holy Spirit, brought a vindicated Word.

And when you truly see that, accepting the Truth of the Word and I believe I preach it as Brother Branham preached it, then there must be a product of the Life of the Word within the vessel.

I don’t care if it’s just an earthen vessel! What’s that got to do with it? The same Light, Brother/Sister, that’s shining on the earth, that brings forth a seed, is going to bring forth a body that was brought forth by seed also, and it was a seed of God that brought it forth, coming in the resurrection, changing our very bodies.

This isn’t some little ‘hoopla’. And I’m going to preach it this way, and preach it until it gets a hold of me, Bless God, like I want It to get a hold of me.

[43]  Now, unto the Church, I say it’s God’s Peace, not some other peace but God’s Peace that’s what I want to bring… you this morning, for the new year, not looking back… [oh man! just on page seven] but looking forward… the breaking of a new day.

[See? Eight, number eight, going forward into the Millennium… breaking forth in there, See?] There is something great [lying] ahead of us, over the years it has been with joy… we’ve looked forward to it, the pressing, coming of the great Light. And now we can see it breaking over the [horizon into a realm beyond it… breaking between mortality]… immortality.

We see it breaking between heaven and earth, and from an earth bound with sickness and troubled… into a bright shining day of an immortal Life… an immortal body and an immortal earth That’s at… Man! That’s at the dissolution that’s White Throne and all… shall never pass away… it’s “Shalom”… unto the Church. Now, it’s Light time…

Brother Branham’s saying, “I’m telling you “Shalom”. I’m giving you the vindicated Word of God that you’ve got Peace concerning these things, know that time and eternity has blended. You will be a part of the resurrection. You will be a part of the Millennium. You will be a part of New Jerusalem. This is it!”

The Seven Seals have been opened… absolutely. He’s speaking now… the darkness and chaos of Revelation, chapter three “…wretched, miserable… blind, naked… don’t even know it” are coming now, supping with Him in order to reign with Him. That’s what he’s talking about.

And he said, “You can have Peace concerning it.” [See?] Absolutely.

Where are we at? We’re at,

Brother Branham talked about Paul looking that right in the eye. It didn’t mean one thing to him just get out of here. Bless God! It was all over, far as he was concerned. William Branham, the same way. See? Brother/sister, listen…

That’s what faith in a vindicated Message does because no other Message can do it. Nobody understands 1 Thessalonians 4:16. If we’re wrong, let me tell you this: There is no other explanation except the same dead, dried, old junk they fought over for years.

And that’s the great brilliant minds…” Oh, it’s before the Tribulation; oh, it’s in the middle; oh, it’s at the end; oh, there really isn’t one until after…” Oh, forget it! Brother Branham said, “Thus saith the Lord, the Bride goes before the Tribulation.” [See?]

Absolutely, Revelation 10:1-7 has taken place. And the Word is gone before all nations. “Well… he said to John, ‘You must go before kings and nations and so on.’ Brother Branham, what is that? Is that you?”

He said, “No, that’s the Word.” And the Word is gone around the world. It’s in Russia; it’s everywhere. And all the world screamed and said, “Oh, look-out for Russia! Look-out…” Brother Branham said, “Look-out for the Church.”

And now Russia is like a little puppy-dog. He said, “Don’t be afraid of Russia… don’t be afraid.” We were all afraid. I was some afraid too. Said, “Well, hey! How far could you take it?” Now, he shows us. Say, “Well, he said [inaudible] They’ve got our name on one of their bombs.”

I won’t be here; it’s not my name on the bomb. If the Roman Catholic Church is on it, too… they’ll try to pull… pull a double-cross, don’t worry. They always have. All right, that’s as far as we’re going to go, and that’s too far.

I’m going to leave you at a kind of a… Naughty place here. And I’ll see tomorrow morning I can get our thoughts back to where we’re going. Time for Communion…

[Brother Vayle continues with communion.]