Shalom #21

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father, we are so happy we recognize Your Presence, Lord, understanded here by signs and wonders but even more particularly by the vindication of Your Word and the beautiful pictures that we have hanging on the wall that have meaning Lord, because it has caught a representation of Your Own Being, Lord.

And we thank You Father, we’re simple minded enough to believe that, that we can stand on these things that the world calls trash and foolishness, thinks we’re under some kind of delusion or heresy, Lord, but that’s the way it always was.

And Father, we know that even though You appeared in the burning bush to Moses and went down to Israel, You knew they wouldn’t believe that without some signs and then even there were those who didn’t really believe because then they turned on Your great leader Moses.

And we appreciate all of these things, Lord, as references from the Old Testament to us in this our hour we see the same thing happening. Deliver us from that Lord, that unbelief, that curse, Lord, that’s upon the earth, that turns good meaning people, well meaning people, into haters of the truth, all the time claiming to believe the truth.

Father, may we be spared from that great hypocrisy and the condemnation that follows it. May we be one with You, Lord, one with truth, O God, because we know that’s what it’s going to take. Let the Word live within us. We’ll give You the praise Lord, as You teach us tonight further, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now tonight we are on number twenty-one of Shalom, so I guess this is getting pretty well now toward the very end of the month and here we are just on number twenty-one. Tomorrow morning Brother Roger will be bringing you a message, and that’s one reason I wanted to take tonight, was not to be heard, but in order to progress with what we had got into last week.

Now, last Sunday morning we found ourselves dealing with paragraphs 161 and 62, which certainly is only not very far down the line but is hardly halfway through, about halfway through the message. And we saw Brother Branham delineating upon the wondrous promises of God, which are ours at this very hour.

Which promises are in progress of actually being fulfilled even now at this moment, although it’s quite a bit like Jesus said in Luke 17, “The Kingdom of God cometh without observation.” In other words, it will be going on and progressing as it is supposed to, but you won’t be aware of it.”

And I’m sure, except for the fact that Brother Branham taught us as we have been taught, there’s none of us tonight would actually believe what is going on, because we are not actually aware of it.

Now, with Abraham and Brother Branham, and if you just listen, you’ll find this is very true, that Brother Branham came to the faith of Abraham.

With Abraham and Brother Branham we have entered into a vindicated faith in the Presence of God, and our confession is the same as theirs, in that we too believe in God Who raises the dead and especially calls those things that are not as though they were, because in this very hour their fulfillment has started and none can stop it, for its completion is guaranteed.

Now Brother Branham told us that. Their finalization is upon us, as far as God’s ability and reliability is concerned, it is already done, and we are there at whatever place His vindicated judgment has assigned.

And Brother Branham assigned according to the Word of God an absolute vindication to the Bride, you’re the righteous, sinless virgin Bride of the Lord, you didn’t even do it, and pronounced us at the White Throne, where we are literally advocates, and also taking the place of those who are lawyers or attorneys, Brother Branham said. All right?

Now, these realities of which we speak are derived from the Presence of the Day Star, as Brother Branham said that was He amongst us, His Word being vindicated, which is the Light of the hour. In other words it’s the Light to the Light to the Light.

God does everything in threes, and the vindication was to bring us to the Light, which in turn would bring us to The Light. See? Now that is the guarantee of it all, that is the vindication amongst us. It is made manifest the promise to us that it is ours.

The Judge has made His Own decision and contrary to normal law the Judge will carry it out. Nobody else will do that. Now, we know that this is true by vindication; we accept that. That’s the vindication, the premise on which it’s built, and that is faith. That’s exactly where our faith is.

The Light is come and so we arise and are no longer virgins asleep as concerning His Presence. And we look up to the Word of the Voice of the One Who is from heaven, and Who is now speaking according to Hebrews 12, which is just at this doorstep of Mount Zion.

Now this is the Word of Light that Brother Branham is telling us. It is set forth in the Bible, it is vindicated, and made manifest to us today. But even as this Light is spoken of in the scripture and now revealed, there is also a Word about the darkness.

This is also revealed and as today it’s revealed to us today, the same as the Light has been revealed and it requires a revelation, and not merely a statement. Now many people feel that Brother Branham speaking of darkness do not need a revelation concerning the scripture word ‘darkness’ and all it is to them then is a statement..

It must be revealed to us, you cannot take the Bible simply as statements; it will not work. It must be a revelation. So darkness is revealed to us, as to what it really means, and it requires a revelation so it is not just a statement.

Now these two revelations are running parallel, which you know I’ve branded or called the parallelism of scripture, such as there’s good and evil, there’s blessing and darkness I mean judgment, they always go together, they are never separated except perhaps in the time element, but when they are put in the Bible they are never separated and so it is with light and darkness, we find that in the scripture and they both must be revealed.

Now last Sunday, with this principle in mind, we began to teach on arising and looking up and shining with the glory of the Lord. And of course, that actually is taken from over in the little tiny book of Zephaniah, very hard to find, but if you thumb through enough of the small books you’ll finally come to it, that’s what I do.

Anyway, because when I think I got it memorized I find it’s some place else. And it’s not Zechariah, that’s a bigger book. Zephaniah, little book after Habakkuk, and get down to the 3rd chapter, small chapters, verse 14:

In other words, any reference to Zion and Jerusalem, whether literal or as in symbol, and they’re all here, God has a Word.

So, this is where that scripture was taken from, as well as over in Isaiah. So, we’re going to go over what we took last week, because we couldn’t finish it for the sake of continuity, and we’ll see the promise of God to the Bride in its pure form and original intent without the interpolations and various interjections that are there, that actually give us problems as we deal with scripture.

So then we’ll deal with the parallelism of scripture, where we see active and passive faith, or rather passive faith and active faith running together, and thereby causing great confusion unless we learn to separate them. For this is where Calvinism and Armenianism came from. Calvinism could separate the passive from the active.

They could understand exactly what God said He would do and what God did, and they left it within the realms of sovereign grace. But the Armenian cannot do that. Now we realize that Calvinism went to seed under Luther. And God allowed Wesley to come on the scene and swing the pendulum, as great a distance out as the pendulum swung, away from the truth of Calvinism.

But under the prophet who came to us you can see these laws and begin to understand exactly what is of God as per the grace of God and the gift of God, and what is incumbent upon us as per a manifestation toward the Word of God in obedience and in an active faith. If we have a true revelation we will have an active faith as James said.

So that’s what we’re looking at. We’re looking at a passive and an active faith running together. Which will not any longer cause us any confusion and divide us into two camps or cause us to have doubts as to who is right, but we’ll know what is right and then we’ll progress in a way of a conduct, which I trust will be glorifying God.

Confusion disappears only when we see God’s Own purpose and plan that can never be altered or limited or negated. Injunctions, interjections, commandments, though they be a part of the Word and Christian life and experience, that’s all fine. It is there.

And they have to do with a life of faith. But what we’re looking at really is to understand the passive faith, then the other will follow in its line. So all right, we go back and we look again at last Sunday, before we take up again where Brother Branham says, “Look up… with joy… and shine with the joy of the Lord.”

Now the specific reference to looking up, if you want a specific reference that says, “Look up,” because you’re supposed to look up according to the Word of God, is found over in the Book of Luke, the 21st chapter. Now, here it says in verses 25 to 28:

Now, you cannot separate this portion of scripture from the hour in which we live. Because you’ll notice that the Great Tribulation is on its way, but also you’ll notice it says that there is absolutely the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And Brother Branham took the scripture where He cometh with clouds, he said, “What if that should happen to be a cloud of glory?” Which he is indicating that it definitely was. Which we can say positively, if this is not the whole of it, this is the part of it. [Brother Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.]

Now it says, when that takes place you are to look up. That’s what the scripture tells us. Now it is not necessarily meant to take the place of arise when it says to look up. But to me it’s an admonition that having once arisen, conditions are such in a world of darkness that the one who has arisen must look up.

He’s got to look beyond what is going on in order to survive the darkness and overcome the darkness that is present. As Brother Branham said so many, many times, “I the Lord have planted it, and watered it, lest any man pluck it out of My Father’s hands.”

Now, what will be that understanding to you and me? In here you will notice that there are certain things that nobody can do anything about. No matter how hard you try you can do nothing about these things that are indicated here. Now you might be dying with cancer.

Cancer can be healed. If you’re dying with AIDS, I don’t believe you can be healed, because I believe that is a plague that you entered into, and that is just your tough luck. I’m not saying that God couldn’t do something for somebody, like you got a bad needle, or it was inflicted upon you.

I can see mercy and grace there. I can understand that. But these things here, you can do nothing about the cataclysms that have come upon the earth, you can do nothing about the gross darkness and these things that are here.

All right then, what is it to arise and to look up? Well, look it, as far as I’m concerned you go over here to John… the Book of Luke, the first chapter, and you can understand then what my thought is. This is concerning John the Baptist. And it says here that after John’s birth, here’s what he will do in verse 16:

Now you know the many is always the elect. It doesn’t say everybody; it says many.

Now that’s the Lord God of Israel. Before the Lord God could come down and inhabit a body, there was a man who went before Him. Now so therefore before, and this is Alpha, Omega must follow in line, because He said, “I am Alpha and Omega.” And this is the Alpha. So you’ve got to look for the Omega.

So therefore, before there can be an incarnation, which is a reincarnation, this must then happen, something has got to go before it. And we know that’s Elijah coming the fourth time, and we believe that was William Branham. Now,

Now that was already done. What was not done in Malachi is turning the hearts of the fathers back to the children. Now notice,

Now, that is an understanding! It is not a matter of people doing, as I’ve said many times, contrary to the will of God! It is not a people in rebellion against God! It is a people who don’t know what God wants! They’re in a state of darkness, which is a state of misunderstanding.

So therefore, John the Baptist, simple, crude, little Kentuckian, because that’s what he was down there you know, in his own home state of Israel, kind of like a Kentuckian, hillbilly type of guy.

Comes out of there rougher than a cob, with no education, and he is actually going to teach the people something they need to know, which will get them ready even though they’re the prepared vessels of the Lord.

That blows you Baptists plumb out of the water, because you think you got your own priesthood, you are ridiculous! You are sick and insane spiritually. You and your hogwash priesthood. That you can go to God. You can no more go to God on your own than the pope goes and know he’s got some authority.

In the Alpha, so is the Omega. God has to send somebody who has the ability to tell us. And I’ll tell you, he won’t be like the average theologian, he won’t be a kind of a fellow that is going to make everybody happy, and sit down and have a drink, and be in king’s palaces and soft garments, and tickle the babies, and chuck them under the chin, and get a bunch of votes.

He’ll tear them to pieces just the way John the Baptist did, but he’ll bring the elect where they ought to be. Now this is the Bible I’m preaching!

And if you’ve got your own idea that Omega’s different from Alpha, you tell me where it is, and it proves you don’t believe the Bible at all, you’ve got a bunch of creeds and dogmas, and hogwash is all you’ve got, and you better repent before the night’s over. And that’s just as plain as it is.

Now listen.

And there’s only one place you’re going to find that word and that’s over there in the Book of Romans, the ninth chapter, where it tells you God has a prepared people. God doing the preparing. Now He’s going to get them ready.

Now, let’s go with this to John the 5th chapter. And we’re going to understand here what we’ve said many, many times, taking this scripture positively from Brother Branham who was vindicated. Now I know a lot of people don’t believe in vindication, we’ll show you where that comes from too.

John 5 and 39. He says,

All right, what does it mean to look up? It doesn’t only mean to elevate your understanding beyond what is here earthly, looking for God to do something, and you better know it’s going to be God, I also believe as Jesus said, “Why don’t you go to your Bibles and begin to look things up?” Look them up. He said, “Search the scripture. Look up in your Bibles what it’s all about.”

Now with that, we go over here to John 7th chapter verse 52. Now here’s old Nicodemus. He said the Pharisees, he said, “Hey, are we going to judge this fellow?”

He said, “We don’t know anything too much about Him, He could be a prophet,” and here’s what the Pharisees said, they said onto him:

Now they were right concerning the fact no prophet came out of Galilee. But Jesus did not come out of Galilee; He came out of Bethlehem of Judea. Now you say they’re going to have some excuse.

What excuse could they have when a few short years before, almost every family in Israel lost a baby in death to Herod? And they knew the story of the wise men and the shepherds. They knew plenty. That is why they were held in judgment at that time.

Now, Brother Branham uses Isaiah 60:1-2, where we noted already that speaking of arising in the time of darkness wherein light comes, that’s according as I see the scripture, in Matthew 25, where you’re looking at the virgins. Now it tells you here that the Bridegroom tarried and so the virgins went to sleep. Then it says in verse 7,

But you’ll notice, in the arising, only five looked up! There was only five that could have looked up. Because the only five, what they had was a vessel that could contain oil. Now you know, as well as I do, vindicated prophet tells you, that the conduit of the Holy Spirit is the Word. So these people here evidently had a place for the Word.

Now Jesus told the Pharisees they had no place for the Word. Over there in the Book of John, the same very Book we’re looking at, he says, “You don’t have any place for that Word.”

Now, we saw then here, they were tarrying and sleeping, there was darkness there, and they rose and trimmed their lamps at this time of midnight darkness.

Now, we also went to Ephesians the 5th chapter, and as we did we read only one verse, because we were going to come back to Ephesians 14 at a little different time. Now Ephesians 4… 5 and 14, and he says here,

What you’re looking at here then is a great sleep at a certain time and Paul wants them to come out of their slumber, to arise, and it says, “Christ will give thee light.” Now listen, it is very evident that Paul could not give that light! Or it would have told them what it was. It wasn’t to be given. It must be something mystical and mysterious.

Because Paul had a commandment from God to bring the Word, and he said, “I’m clear of the blood of all men because I have held nothing back.” That’s the Book of Acts, about the 20th chapter, I think it is. So Paul held nothing back.

But Paul did say at the time of the raising of the dead, there was something he did not have pertaining to a revelation. He didn’t have it. So all right, there’s something here then that Paul tells about that’s down the road.

Now, in all cases you’ll notice where I read, we are told of gross darkness. Now that gross darkness at the end time, and let’s notice how gross it is, it’s not just concerning depth, but the things that we call gross have to do with such poor judgment on the part of a person that in acting he is literally stupid, he is dense, he is gross, he is absolutely like you might say, unforgivable in the way he acts.

Now, you look at the third chapter of the Book of Revelation, and you will see a people in gross darkness. They are utterly gross. For it says here in the 14th verse speaking, God speaking, He said:

Now you know the Bride is not in the mouth of God, and the church never was in the mouth of God. So what is He talking about? In the very beginning, He lets you know they have left the Word!

Paul said, “You have left the truth!” So therefore, you’ll notice in here that this church cannot be the mouthpiece of God when the church is supposed to be the mouthpiece for God. They’re absolutely nauseating Him.

Notice he said,

That is a gross person! Because he is acting as though he were all the part that he says he is! Now that’s a pretty gross individual; you talk about a hypocrite. He said,

There is a gross darkness there in that particular area, and then He says:

As Larkin said, and Brother Branham vindicated Larkin, Christ was outside the church trying to get back in. And remember, Christ is the Light of the church. So how in the world is He going to get back in and give the church Light? All right.

It is self-evident then, from Revelation 3:14 to 21, that the awakened one is awakened both to light and darkness! Because he doesn’t know one from the other! He thinks he’s in light and he’s in darkness! He thinks the blessing of God is upon him, and anything but the blessing of God is upon him. They are in pitiful condition.

So all right, we see here then that both light and darkness must be understood. Darkness is necessary to be truly understood just the same as the light. One is not without the other. There is always light, there is always darkness. You will notice it’s only in the New Jerusalem that it says there is no need of the sun, and there is no darkness.

So all right, as long as we are here, even through the Millennium, you are going to have it, though there will not be a darkness amongst the people as per a judgment, which is a spiritual condition, it is not that way. And Brother Branham in the sentence up here, reading in paragraph 161, mentions both of them.

Now, I just want to review this condition of darkness that we’ve come to, but before I do, I want to show the parallelism of scripture, that I spoke of, that Brother Branham said in his Message that the Bible was like a jigsaw.

Now, a jigsaw puzzle is where every piece is a part of the picture. And those pieces must fit exactly right in order to give you the true picture, the true understanding.

Now why I’m going to go into this, reading carefully from the Book of Ephesians and other scripture, is because if we do not understand what I am talking about, we will not forget our own conditions or ideas, and look to God’s Own plan and purpose for us. Now, do you remember when I preached the Ultimate of God? What I brought out was that God sovereign in His sovereignty dedicated Himself to what lay within Him.

And what lay within Him was to bring forth a family of God children and place them where they would be completely benefited by not only the Fatherhood, but everything that lay in Him, as to both omniscience and omnipotence, there was nothing too good or too vast in God, but what He dedicated to His children. And we saw that that plan and purpose was not something that men like.

As Brother Branham said, “God has a plan and man always has a better plan.”

It was just like God had a plan in the Garden of Eden, and in the Garden of Eden, whether you know it or not, and you’ve been taught well enough to know, when they went to grasp the Tree of Life, where there was immortality, they could not get to it.

So therefore the Ultimate of God was not Adam and Eve living in the Garden of Eden and pruning the Garden and doing such and so and so, but way beyond it into immortality. That’s exactly right. Now, that immortality is to come six thousand years later, which is even now. So what am I trying to tell you?

I’m trying to tell you this: if you don’t stick with the plan of God per se, never mind fringe benefits, never mind injunctions, never mind commands, never mind anything but the plan of God, you will find yourself confused or even bemused if you get cynical, and say, “What is this all about?” Do you understand what I’m saying? This is what we are looking at.

So we’re going to go to the Book of Ephesians, and remember I am not a prophet. I’m a very poor teacher, very radical, I try to get Brother Branham to hold me down and just see just what he’s talking about. So I can be making a mistake here in the sense of a perfect delineation.

Which means I am going to look at a plan, and I’m going to look at nothing else but that plan! That’s all I’m going to look at. And I don’t know I’m going to do it perfectly. But I’m going to try the best I can. So get your Bibles, we’ll open the Book of Ephesians, which is the great Book of the Bible. There is no Book like it.

All right now, blessed be God Who hath blessed us in the heavenly. What is heaven? It is an elevated place. To an elevated place you look up. So it’s telling you here now, we are blessed in the looking up.

This is where the blessing is going to come. From the divine wisdom, from the revelation of Almighty God, from that which is inherently in God through Jesus Christ, that is what you are to look at. Understand? So we’re looking at it.

Now watch.

Now if you’re not chosen in Him it’s not going to do you any good, you can’t do it. You will try. You will fool around. You’ll dip your toes in the water. When the net is cast through the Word of God, some minister, and the net is pulled in, there’ll be as Brother Branham said, crawdads and turtles and other things, crustaceans which are not fish, but there’ll be some real fish.

And what will happen? The frog will start croaking; he’ll go back to the mess. The crawdad will sidle along; he’ll go back to his mess. The eels will go along and go back to their mess. But the fish will be happy in the net of the Lord.

So this is what we’re looking at, according as He hath chosen us. If you are not of the many of the Lord Jesus Christ, that is a true child of God, being seed, you’ll never be able to do it. According now, you’re looking up to this Word. The Pharisees couldn’t do it, but the simple people who were of God could.

Now,

Here is a loving Father, determined to have children, and He’s going to have children, then He’s going to have to have the very best for them. As Brother Branham said, before God made a fish with a fin, He made water to swim in.

So before there would be one child born to God, there would already be something that God had prepared for the child. Now that is true predestination. And that’s the way a Father would do it. Now watch.

Now this is actually thrown in there. We can jump down to where it says:

So therefore, I see a plan here in verses 3 and in verses 4 and in verse 5. Then it goes down to verse 9 and to verse 10 and to verse 11. It’s telling you something. Now, let’s go a little further and find this: it’s in Ephesians the 2nd chapter verse 19. What is up here is a blueprint through the Ages.

Now we start concerning ourselves. These who were in Him, chosen, and elected, foreknown, positively to be placed as sons. Now they’re sheep gone astray. Let’s take verse 19 then of chapter 2:

Now it elucidates that this great plan God had evidently is going to require some redemption, and in the doing of it, it becomes a building and a habitation to God, just the same as Jesus was a building and a habitation to God. See, he’s telling us something here.

Okay, let’s go to chapter 4, and we read 4-16.

Now watch what’s thrown in here, telling us, which we can leave out if you want to leave it out, it’s an interpolation of where you’re coming right down here, and it says here that this body is coming into a place of which we are, to a perfection.

Now then, you can leave that out, the 14th verse, you get to verse 15,

So all right, we see back here in chapter one that God has a plan. And that plan absolutely is a body or a church, which God is the head of.

And he tells you He’s going to bring it right to perfection, and it’s going to have an increase of itself by the Spirit of Life that started the whole thing. Okay, where do you want to go from there now?

Okay, we can go then to chapter 5 the 18 verse, and we’re going to look just at the middle of it. And now he says to this group here,

Now that’s something that’s thrown in there. The major thing is to know that this church, this Bride, will be filled with the Spirit. Now this is not something you merely hope for, this is not something that’s incumbent upon you, this is because you are seed, you will receive the Holy Ghost!

That’s in the Book of Galatians. All right, let’s go a little further now, and see this same church. We go to the 5th chapter of course, in the middle of verse 23:

Now that’s very good, we won’t go any further there. We drop down to verse 30:

Now in here you’ll notice I’ve done my best to steer you away from every single thing that you think is incumbent upon you. I am merely trying to show you everything that God planned and everything that God is doing! And you’ve got to keep it separate!

It’s not that they don’t go together in the Bible. But here’s your jigsaw. If you start throwing the pieces in that belong to passive faith, into the active, and vice versa, you will get your cow picking grass on the top of a tree.

Now Brother Branham came to bring us the doctrine. To give us an absolute understanding. Now, I read in verse here:

All right, now let’s go back to chapter 1. And in chapter one, Paul tells you how this is going to be done. Now let’s go not to verse 15, 16, 17, but let’s go to verse 19. This is God doing it, not you and me. Up above is giving us a clue to how He initiates it. But here it says, and we are going to know:

When? The time element has told us, when God Himself, by His Holy Spirit, comes down and gives us a revelation. And that doesn’t have a thing to do with you and me. It is the sovereign grace of God, the same as with John the Baptist, but it’s the throwing of the net, the Shout, that will bring in the elect. Now let’s keep watching.

Now as we read in 4:16, the increase of the body. We saw it likened to a husband and wife, and this is it! Now let’s go and see the husband and wife. To do so we go to Revelation 21. And you can see the purpose of God as I’ve taught a whole series on it. 9 to 14.

Now here is God’s picture. And you will notice it is a completion of what God wanted done. And what God did. Of which we are the recipients, and unless you have a true passive faith revelation, you and I cannot understand this. We’re going to buck back and forth between the Calvinism and Arminianism.

And I’ve seen it in so-called Message. I’ve seen it where people say, “I believe Brother Branham, believe this Message, prophet anointed of God, blah, blah, blah,” right up and down the line, turn right around and go Seventh Day Adventist. Seventh Day Adventism is a cult! Led by a woman! All right. I’m not vindictive about it.

All right:

He now shows you where the Bride is. Now, here is what I say is the parallelism of scripture, where you see passive faith and you see active faith. Now listen, we were there in God at the beginning but had nothing to do with it.

It was God’s Own reproductive forces that brought us forth. We were a part of that Word. A very meager part of omniscience and omnipotence, but nonetheless we are genetically connected to Almighty God. Generically and genetically.

Because that which is the seed is our soul, and it took that material, which God had at His disposal, in the way He wanted it, to bring us forth into a body. And the body’s not commensurate with the soul!

So when the body dies, then the soul can go to a body, which is commensurate, which is theophonic, which it formed, and in itself is eternal, because if the soul is eternal and the soul is forming from the only substance which there is there, which is spirit, you’d have to be eternal.

Now that’s a mind-boggling thing, but so what’s the difference it boggles the mind? Just get your answers right. Then you see you’re moving in the realm of the complete and true revelation.

All right, but notice what happened. Let’s go back to what happened in Revelation 2, now here’s where the trouble comes in. The same as in the Garden of Eden. Revelation 2:1 to 7.

Now what did they fall from? They fell from the Word. They had enough on the ball to know that they could come against anybody who denied the Word of the Apostle Paul, because this is a Gentile Church. But they themselves were beginning to lack in revelation and slightly changing the Word.

Now, you think that can’t be done? “Oh, I believe Brother Branham absolutely,” go right and change his Word. They’re doing it everywhere. They’re using the same schematic that the devil used, and the Pharisees used, and the theologians used, they pit scripture against scripture, the same as Calvinism against Arminianism, you know that’s got to be a lie, because God’s not divided!

They don’t understand passive faith from active faith. Passive faith is a complete revelation of exactly God’s relationship to you and your relationship to Him. You say, “What about these other things?” Never mind until you got that right! How are you going to come into my family if I leave an inheritance, and you try to get it, unless you prove your bloodlines and you are a child of mine!

So you better shut-up. And until the Bride knows who she is, and Brother Branham said there’ll come a time when she does, he said, “The mule doesn’t know the mammy and the pappy,” he’s a bastard, he’s a hybrid, but God’s children know their Father.

Now you see, they didn’t repudiate the Apostle Paul, but they began going away and drifting. We’ll get to that. We get to that very, very shortly. How do we get to it? We just turn to 2 Corinthians the 11th chapter, nothing to it. We’ve been there time after time. Now Paul said,

Now where did her virginity lie? You can find out by finding where her dis-virginity lay. Where she lost it.

Now, that’s where the church was in the beginning in the Book of Ephesians. They had the Apostle Paul, and he brought them the true, vindicated Word of Almighty God.

And though they believed in him with all their hearts and they could tell absolutely where certain people were radically wrong, they now began to get a little mold in the eye where they couldn’t see all the truth and a little drifting. A little drifting from the Word. Now here’s what Paul said is happening, and this is horrible, really.

He said,

So here they’ve got now, they’ve got another Jesus, maybe several, they’ve got another spirit, who knows how many, now they’ve got another gospel. Now, how far has this church fallen? At this point not very far.

How far will this church have fallen before it’s over? Wretched, miserable, naked, blind, everything against you, not some little thing against you, but everything against you. Now that’s where they’re standing.

Now this brings us to Ephesians 5. Now we’re talking of light and darkness, remember? We’re talking what the light is, we’re talking how darkness comes in, the 5th of Ephesians tells us this and we’re going to read now, we’re going to read 14 surrounded by 13 to 15. Now he says here:

Now, it tells you right in there there’s a obedience and a disobedience. There’s a children of God that are ignorant and can be taught. And there are those that claim they’re children of God and they go right against God. The Bible says in Peter they’ll deny the very Lord that bought them.

Now,

Now it cuts the fruit of the Spirit down to three. Number one: all goodness, righteousness and truth.

In other words, it’s absolutely a shame that these things are in existence. You even got to spend time about them. Not something that the Swaggarts and the Bakkers are doing in a motel. Sleazy sleaze scumbags, with their sleazy people.

That could be part but that’s not it. He’s telling you here, it’s a pity that this is so! That’s how I’m looking. You can look any way you want, but I’m looking at this way, especially for the sake of the gospel tonight.

Now it says here, watch.

Now, in there you have absolutely God’s beneficent Word that says, “I will give My children a revelation.” And when they get the right revelation, they’ll be doing works also! But without the revelation, your works don’t amount to a hill of beans, but they put you in debt.

Now, you’ll notice there’s light and darkness right here. All right. This is none other than Matthew 25. See? Which we looked at. The virgins arising out of darkness and some of them have something whereby they can get the light.

Now we’ve already seen the condition of the Seventh Church Age, which we read about right tonight in Revelation 3:14 to 21. The virgins are completely asleep as to their condition until the Appearing of the Bridegroom. And only the wise has what it takes to get the gold and the raiment and the eye salve.

Now let’s get over here to John 8, I mentioned we’d look at it. And in,

That’s the same as Jesus saying, “I know you’re Christians. I know you believe what you call the gospel of the Word. I know you believe in incarnation, virgin birth. I know you believe all those things.

How come you want to kill Me?” How come they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh? Because you got the Alpha and Omega situation. You couldn’t have an Omega without a complete Omega person and the Omega situation. Here is the Alpha. Now they seek to kill Him.

And they had the same Word, they’re looking at the same Word now, brother/ sister, don’t try to kid yourself. Jesus picked up the same Bible they read from cover to cover. The first thirty-nine Books of the Bible.

Now down here he says in 47:

Now it tells you right there exactly how revelation comes and who is going to get it; therefore who is going to have the light and who is going to have the darkness! Now, remember He said, “When your light becomes darkness, how great is that darkness!”

That’s exactly what happened to the Roman Catholic Church, it happened to Luther, it happened to Wesley, it happens to the Pentecost, and it’s happening to many people who say, “I believe Brother Branham’s Message.”

Where do you get the two souls and polygamy and all that stuff? Why, they show exactly what they’re of; they’re whoremongers. And a whoremonger is a type of the spiritual adultery against God! The turning away of the Word and the perverting of people. Why they’re no different whatsoever.

Now, at this particular time the parable of Matthew 13:31 to 35 takes place. So let’s go take a look at it.

Now, this particular time when the parables of Matthew 13:31 to 35 are fulfilled, which take place at the same time as Isaiah 60:1-2. Because it tells of the mustard seed, in other words, the tiny little seed that was sown in Christianity spreads over the entire world, and the birds of the air are lodging in the branches, and birds are a symbol of evil.

There’s no two ways about it. So now this takes place at the time of Isaiah 60, arise and shine for light has come upon thee, but gross darkness upon the earth.

These parables is none other than the Book of Revelation 18. So let’s go back and see it, because all scripture runs in continuity. Not because I say so, as though I’ve got some discernment or judgment, this is what the prophet taught us. 1 to 8.

Now listen, every place the gospel has gone, the beauty of civilization has followed, so-called beauty, so-called civilization, with merchandise. When the Roman Catholics went into Spain what happened?

They brought out all the gold and destroyed the people. And when they left their religion they didn’t care two bits if the natives put their own religion to their religion, which was already polluted!

And there’s no student who doesn’t know that Catholicism is nothing but the renaming of gods and giving them names out of the Bible and making them saints. Anybody knows that! Don’t tell me the Catholics don’t know it!

They’re willfully blind. Willfully blind! Check it out and see what’s happened to America under Spellman and Joe Kennedy got us into Vietnam. Check it out and find these things. And Jack Kennedy rises up and kills Diem, a Catholic. Even got rid of him. Then from that time on, downhill, downhill. Look and trace the Catholic Church.

And the Protestants have endorsed it! They are accessories, therefore after the fact. And according to American law they’re just as guilty as the perpetrator. Absolutely, there’s no difference between Protestants and Catholics, it’s one great big stew pot of filth. Just like it was in the days of the Lord Jesus Christ. No difference at all.

Now, these parables are none other than Revelation 18:1 to 8, based on Romans 2 I mean, Revelation 2:18 to 23. Notice what he said:

In other words at the end time leaving neither root nor branch and burning up the chaff, at the end time the foolish virgins have all been killed, the Bride is gone, and there’s nobody left except the serpent seed for the lake of fire, and the church is full of it.

And the heathen have never accepted Jesus Christ. You got a billion Mohammedans right there and the rest of them. And God knows what. You got a billion Christians and better, and a billion Mohammedans that have been heathenized, right down the line you see the whole thing coming to the end here. They’ll end up in the Great Tribulation, they’ll be killed.

And he said,

In other words, at the time when the church is fully organized, and you’ve got every single last denomination and there won’t be any more, God sends a discerner on the field according to Hebrews 4:12, he discerns the hearts.

You say, “Why didn’t the church know it?” Because your clergy, your ministers, your priests stopped you from knowing it. I’ve been independent like a hog from the ground up and thank God I’ve got a spirit that’s independent.

The only voice ever spoke to me, “Listen to a man,” was listen to William Branham. And I’m listening to William Branham by the grace of Almighty God. That’s what you’re seeing right here, the deadly leaven of the woman, the church. What is a leaven?

Let’s go back to Matthew 16 and see it. And a couple more scriptures with it. 16:1 to 12.

Now that was said by Jesus Himself having done every single thing the Father told Him to do. And He said, “What I have done, commanded of God, has gone right over your heads, it doesn’t mean a thing to you. And what you do see you turn around and demand something else,” let’s look at it.

In other words, “Hey listen, what are you worried about your belly for? I’m not telling you to lay up store on earth. I’m not telling you to worry about your stomach. There’s something else that’s different you worry about.”

He said, “Fear not him that can destroy the body but not the soul. Fear him that can destroy both body and soul in hell.” He’s telling them where the trouble lies. There is a certain leaven; there is certain something that destroys. Now, you take meal and you induce leaven into it, it’ll just go through the whole thing, because leaven is a type of a… well, it’s not a virus, it’s a bacteria.

It’s a yeast, it’s a mold. That’s what it is, a mold. Something formed. And it just takes the whole thing over. Because it’s eating the food that somebody else should have. It’s taking something that’s good and it’s destroying it. And if you eat it, it will kill you! That’s right, it’s very septic.

Now,

Now, that lets you know what I’ve been teaching all these years to you. If your doctrine is wrong, you can’t understand the Bible and you can’t understand William Branham. You can quote, quote, quote, quote, and I’ll quote right back at you and laugh in your face, because unless you know doctrine, you can’t place it.

These men could not understand doctrine. They could not place the doctrine! So everything was a jigsaw puzzle and the cow was eating grass on the top of the tree. That’s exactly what took place. So you see how important doctrine is? If you can’t understand Brother Branham’s doctrine, there is no use you trying to be a Branhamite.

You’re just wasting your time, go on out and get drunk or something. You say, “Brother Vayle what about it?” If you’re really sincere you’ll listen to me and know what I’m telling you, you better watch out. If you got your doctrine wrong, you’re finished. That’s what He says right here. Now, I’m not quoting you my own idea, I’m telling you the Bible.

Let’s go to the Book of Mark the 8th chapter, because there’s another little bit of scripture in here we could take a look at without overburdening ourselves at this time, when I get finished with this we’ll just quit and call it an evening. Mark 6, here. And verses 14 to 16, if I got this down right, which I think I have:

Now, very good. Now, let’s go back to Mark 8 again. Or maybe we weren’t even there. Mark 8,

The disciples hadn’t taken bread so they got worried. Now watch verse 15:

Now who was Herod? Herod seems to be a title that people took successively in a certain office from Rome over Israel. Because Rome was ruling Israel, and consequently ruling also politically their religion when they could interfere.

And you’ll notice that this man Herod actually believed in reincarnation. In other words, it’s a simple story of the Catholic Church today where they take the names of saints from idols. Because in the idol is supposed to be a spirit. And now they got a type of idolatry.

And the Protestants don’t do any different. The leaven of Herod, the leaven of the Pharisees. And that leaven is 2 Corinthians 11, where it all begins for the church and this Age. Now what do we see back there in leaven? We see Rome and the church.

That’s what it was. The leaven of the Pharisees, those that had a more correct and proper understanding join up with authority. Now what’s happening at the end time? Rome’s got all the gold. The Protestants have a much better doctrine and understanding.

Although they are wrong too. They have the Pharisaical, and Rome has Herod. So now they both get together. And what is going to happen? The church is going to rule the world, just like you see here. There is no two ways about it.

Now what did Herod do? Herod turned because of his religion to destroy John the Baptist, and he destroyed him. Herod said, “I am going to have all the flesh that I desire.” And notice, he wanted to live in adultery when he wasn’t allowed it.

And if these guys like Jones and Woodwards and these other guys that practice polygamy, and God knows how many more, they’re right in the same mess, the doctrine, the leaven of Herod. You say what you want.

I name names, they shouldn’t have done it. If I go out and do it, you name my name. The court will catch me anyway and name it. If I murder somebody, my name will be in the paper. So what’s the big deal? You lay it on the counter. And you let the people know what’s going on, the Bible said it was going to go on!

So there’s your leaven of the Pharisees and Herod! Rome, the whole bunch. And you show me where there’s not a licentiousness within the Catholic Church. How many priests have AIDS right today? How many are homosexuals? Even pick up your magazines today, your magazines will tell you the same thing. What a mess we got here.

And what will they do? They will crucify to themselves the Lord Jesus Christ. They will put down the Bride. What is going to happen to the Bride? I don’t know, but there is going to be a pressure come upon her, especially if we preach the truth like we try to preach it here.

And notice, after Jesus was risen from the dead, what happened? The church and Herod got together to suppress it. Who suppressed Brother Branham in Europe? Norway.

He said, “Switzerland, why did you turn me down? Finland, why did you turn me down?” And then, Ewald Frank has the nerve to say the Pillar of Fire returned to Europe. Forget it, brother!

The Pillar of Fire left! Left with Wesley. Came to America! And it doesn’t mean America’s got anything! But it means nothing will come out of Europe, it’s already come out of America, and the next truth is now over in Israel. Let’s get the thing right.

These men lie about everything. Then always watch how they run to women. Ask Terry, right in his city’s the woman the man shacked up with years right under his wife’s nose. Call himself a man of God? Well, you sit here, you be the judge. Is that what you want? You Herodians?

Another thing about Herod, he wanted another man’s wife. You think the church doesn’t want to get the Bride? There’s your leaven right down the line, it’s right amongst… well, say, “I believe leaven has to do with Trinitarians. Three measures, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”

That’s not what the Bible says. Now if I can find where Brother Branham categorically says it, I’ll say, “Well I know by revelation.” He’s got something from God. Not between the lines, but telling you. But the Bible tells you right here what it is, “Beware of the doctrine.”

And beware what Herod did. Beware of the molding together for the convenience sake. And the catering. And I’m going to tell you, when the chips are down, the Protestants and Catholics, and the world will get together, they will cater each other.

Because they started way back in 1948! When they said, “Have a God of your own choice, just be this, just be that. Let’s get together and never mind religion.” And right today in the schools, there’s no way there’s no room for prayer.

That’s why you got a Buzz Lukens talking about morality and a home, he had his home already in an apartment, and girls went there, and he committed adultery. Do you think for one moment America’s going to change? Why have they kicked prayer out of the schools?

Because they kicked the prayer out of the government, that’s what they did. And they kicked God out. You see that little leaven back there of doctrine, the state getting together? It’s all right to the end where they’ll positively take over.

Now the Pharisees refused manifested light and demanded their own unscriptural signs, though claiming to base them on the scripture, just as Satan did back in the Garden of Eden. And that’s what the Pentecostals have done.

Let’s take a look at Pentecost today, the world system, in Matthew 23; let’s take a look at it. Because they’re the ones that had the outstanding revelation of the ministries of God. And it says here, Matthew 23, you could start almost anyplace, it says concerning… look it, 29:

Now just a minute, do you realize that a man who doesn’t talk doctrine, doesn’t understand doctrine, makes no pretense about it, just says, “Hey, I’m going to write it out,” you can be with the scribes and the Pharisees and the hypocrites.

And you know what? You can say, “Well, I’m going to interpret this Message.” I’ve got a great… in America right now, over there from Europe. I don’t got no time for him, I’m not going to bother seeing him, he wanted to see me, why should I bother seeing him? He’s already said… he’s an interpreter. But he’ll tell you he knows the doctrine.

A scribe does not know doctrine; he cannot handle the Word. Come on. That goes to the Branham Message. Let’s not pretend we’re above the Word of God, brother/sister, let’s not sit here tonight and say, “Well, I’m above the Word of God.” You’re not above the Word of God, you’re condemned by the Word of God if you come against it. There’s a judgment there. So all right.

Notice He says here,

Now listen, the wise and the foolish virgin escape but those that are burned don’t! Come on, the righteous will not perish with the wicked! Now remember, that was at Sodom, Abraham was outside of Sodom.

God took care of Lot, in Sodom! Even got him out of it, and everybody died there. That’s the way the foolish virgin are! They will come out, but they will die outside. Only the Bride gets out of here. No foolish or wise virgin perishes with the wicked. It’s going to be serpent seed; you better read your Bibles right and listen to the prophet.

Matthew 23:

That happens under the Great Tribulation. In Her is found the blood of all the martyrs, Rome. Rome, the Vatican, Vati-ca-in, the House of Cain. They even know their own name. Do you know a dog that doesn’t know its own name? Pretty dumb dog. They know their name. Vati-ca-in. Look it up for yourself. I’m not against them. It’s just what they are.

I didn’t have a thing to do with it. Protestants are with them. There’s no difference between the Protestant and Catholic. A sinner that kills or a sinner that commits adultery that’s not born again? There’s no difference; if you’ve offended one point of the law, you’re guilty of all.

Now look it here. He sent, He said, “I sent you prophets, I would have gathered you by the prophets.” Now, if God sent a prophet in this day, He did it for one reason: to gather the people. What does the prophet bring? A vindicated Word. A Message right from God. That’s Pentecost right today.

All right. Then Rome and Israel got together. To kill the very Christ of God. And from that time on, Rome began taking over and over and over and over, until she becomes supreme. And in it you will have the leaven of the Pharisees, you’ll have the leaven of Herod.

Church and state together. There’s your leaven, there’s what you understand. I don’t… three gods brother/sister, it’s just a part of the leaven. Don’t let anybody tell you that’s all of it, because it’s not. They got another Jesus, another spirit, and that’s God’s Spirit. “Handle me and see a spirit hath not flesh and bone.”

You can’t take that. That’s a body. God’s Spirit, and another gospel. Where’s the world today? If a prophet doesn’t come onto the scene, brother/sister, we’re lost. What if a prophet does come on the scene, what are you going to look for? You got to look for vindication; you just can’t let anybody suck you in.

So there’s Rome and Israel got together, crucified and destroyed the Christ of God, took over the whole system, then what did they do? Destroyed it. Put Israel under complete bondage. And destroyed every single one that wanted to say his own little say and was willing to stand up for it on a spiritual principle. You don’t think they’ll kill the foolish virgin? They’ll kill every one of them.

Hunt them down with dogs or anything else, like Nimrod did in that system. They take over the whole system of religion and destroy it by killing and subverting. Remember, the destruction of the souls of men and the selling of the souls of men, is not killing the body, but it’s killing the soul through the immorality of the doctrines which they’re putting upon the people.

And here we are today, ending just where we started. Even back in the Garden of Eden.

You say, “Brother Vayle, here’s a Message that you claim to be God’s holy Word, a prophet that you say you knew him, literally ate and slept with him, you saw the kind of life that man lived and you know the testimony concerning him, how then is this Branham Message so completely messed up with people who are so completely messed up?” What a message.

Then what about the Garden of Eden, my brother, my sister, where Adam and Eve, pure from the hand of God, and God Himself there, Satan came right on the scene and defiled the whole thing? And you tell me. Are you so naïve tonight and so foolish?

As to believe that all filth is not all around us? Are you so foolish as to believe that God will not give you strength to overcome? Let my string be, if every preacher goes down the drain, I’ll stand alone with that Word. How you going to do it? I don’t know, but I’m going to do it. I’m not here with a perfect conviction. John the Baptist, how perfect was his?

When he said, “Hey, were You really the Christ or do we look for another?” I’m going to tell you one thing: I don’t look for anybody outside of Brother Branham having come, if he comes back that’ll suit me fine. And he will come back, of course, that’s just great.

He’ll do what he’s supposed to do; I don’t know what he’s going to do. And I’m not big enough fool to stick my neck out. But I know one thing, this is real to me and that’s real. And I know I don’t need anymore of anything to let me know like Elisha, who followed old Elijah, and it’s just the same as old Eliezer did.

Abraham knows You by the fact that there’d been some kind of beautiful intercourse here, and demonstrate that there’s something real there, and I’m talking to You.” That One. Elisha came behind knowing what Elijah had done, and he said, “Where’s the Lord God of Elijah? Not of Israel, not of Jacob, not of the nation, I want the One that stood behind Elijah.”

I’m sold out on what stood behind William Branham. God if I can just have that. I’m satisfied. What if something greater comes along? I’m not interested, I’m seventy-five years old, in just a few months. Say, “What if something does?” Ever heard of a counterfeit? I’ve seen the original as far as I’m concerned.

The Name of the Lord Jesus Christ answered back to that man, and I saw discernment like you people never will see discernment. I’m not kidding, I’m not lying to you, telling you the truth. And you can listen to my witness and I’m not lying, if there’s a million hells hotter than the fiery furnace the Hebrew children were thrown into, I tell you before Almighty God, this Bible open, I’m not lying to you.

I know what it is to be discerned. Where you couldn’t hide if you tried. And there’s only one source that knew that. That was that something above him. [Points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire] And I’m not ashamed to close my prayer and my life with saying, “O Lord God of William Branham.” And you can have the Pentecostal gods and everything else.

Poor ignorant, foolish, stupid people, who take the word of some stupid doctor, not even investigating many doctors, some little two by four stupid doctor. And pit him against what Brother Branham taught us. What have they got?

I’m not trying to rouse you up, brother/sister. You can do what you want. But something occurred in our generation. Something happened. And I don’t want to be guilty for asking for any sign other than the sign that was given. And I saw plenty.

That’s all I want, let’s bow our heads in prayer.

Heavenly Father, we didn’t get back again into the Word the prophet brought, trying to show the people, and I hope they have been shown, very, very clearly, concerning what the prophet said, Your Word is a jigsaw puzzle, until the prophet comes by and brings us the doctrine.

And we have the doctrine, then it’s no more a jigsaw puzzle. But it’s separating the revealed faith from the little faith we try to offer You in gratitude, yes, and not just in gratitude, because I think I’ve overstated myself there, Lord, and I’m a liar, trying to get something out of You, what the real meaning is.

When already if we understand what You’ve given us by grace and is ours, we would just in a relaxed way walk into the meadows of God that are deep in the fruit and the goodness of our Lord. Father, we’re remiss. I’m remiss, I know it, I know it.

I wouldn’t want to try to fool You here because I couldn’t anyway. I saw a prophet I couldn’t fool. Why would I try to fool You? And I wouldn’t try to fool the people, Lord, because that’s ridiculous. I might try to wax eloquent, Lord, which I admit, try to over prove a point and many things I have no apology for in the sense that I’ve done them and I’ll no doubt do them again.

But Lord, tonight, we know that You are out there. We know that You spoke back and You’re the One we’re talking to, to William Branham. And we’re standing on that, Lord, that somehow we have a liaison with You, we have beyond that even further, we have a kinship with You, we have a bloodline, we have a spirit-line we have a lifeline.

And we want to be linked up with You on the grounds of what we saw and I’m here telling the people, Lord, and they’re believing me, and I haven’t even begun to tell them hardly anything that I saw.

My memory’s pretty poor but I can still tell them different things I saw and different things I heard, because I was there. And a lot of times I wasn’t there, but I believe and I’m trying to believe, Lord, exactly what I know when I wasn’t there, because I was told by the vindicated man.

And I never knew, Lord, where You’d back a liar up, because You said all liars are going to find themselves in the lake of fire, and this man You lent Your Name to. So I believe, Lord, we’re on real believing ground tonight, if we just sell out to the Word that the prophet brought us, receiving the blessed doctrine of the Holy Ghost, the Word of God coming together, Lord, where there’s no more cows picking grass on the top of a tree.

There’s no more faith fighting faith, there’s no more works fighting grace, but there’s a real people who stand right between the parallel lines of scripture, of light/darkness, blessing/cursing, passive/active faith, and Lord, willing to be channels of all of it.

Grant Lord we pray a blessed after-service tonight, communion, foot-washing we give you the praise, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

[Brother Vayle continues with communion service]