Trees, Books, And Fountains #12

Heavenly Father, we know that You’re here in the form of the Holy Spirit tonight. We realize that; we appreciate it. We’re like the disciples, the people of old, who knew their hearts were strangely warmed, although at that time they didn’t know. Then, they knew and they were glad to know where that warm feeling came from, where that intimacy came from. Something about You, Lord, that made them feel that there was something in them. And we appreciate that, because that’s how we are tonight, Lord.

We’re depending on You to help us. We give You our hearts, our minds, our very souls, and, trust also, the fullness of our body. Our very lives, Lord, to You, that we might indeed be tabernacles of the living God; we might do Your will; we might be living epistles; we might be known, Lord, not so much of men, but known of You, Father. Although, we would hope that men might know something also. At least they would know, as far as they are concerned, that we are very strange people (very peculiar, very different) from how we worship, O God.

Which we’re very grateful that You brought us that place of worship just, we know, the same as when Egypt was having its death throws over the Bride of God in Egypt, there. They knew Israel was a very different people (very very peculiar people). Lord, may it be that way with us, too, that there will be a difference. We ask these mercies in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, tonight we’re looking at Fountains again. And last Sunday, you’ll remember that we read especially from Zechariah 13:1, concerning “the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness unto the house of David.” Now, from this Scripture, dealing from the aspect of the cleansing of the Blood of Jesus Christ, we went, then, back to the Book of Exodus, to the shedding of the lamb, which blood was shed in order to escape the death of the first-born from dying and staying behind in Egypt.

Now, we’ll read, then, Zechariah 13:1

And in Exodus 11:1-7

And you know, of course, that’s the plague of death. And it’s typical for the last hour. The last plague that’s going to hit is death. We’re seeing evidence of it, of course, in the physical.

Now, of course, you’re looking at a type, here, of the Exodus. And after the Exodus comes the great Tribulation where, you’ll notice, the first-born of Egypt are destroyed. Which means Egypt, then, will be destroyed with it.

And you’ll notice, also, he mentions the beast. And that’s exactly as Brother Branham said to you: that Israel goes through a purging, the church goes through a purging, and all nature goes through a purging. So, we’re looking at what Brother Branham said there.

Now, this reading from Exodus, we found to be particularly of interest to us for several reasons (and we’ll just give you some of those):

(01.) It was given for the purpose of separating one nation under God from the midst of another nation that was not under God.

You’ll notice that. And remember, we are also a holy nation, a royal priesthood, a nation of kings and priests dedicated unto God. And we are under God, and we have a particular lineage. And our lineage, of course, is the lineage of Almighty God. And to us has been given the Pillar of Fire and the prophet. And you’ll notice that the lineage… and first-born speaks of lineage. Always the speaking of lineage.

You notice, Jacob spoke of Ruben. He spoke of his power. And this nation, Egypt (of course), turned down God. And it was a lineage that saw the things of God and could not apprehend them. And so, they rejected God in favor of their own idolatry. Now, the difference, then, between Israel and Egypt was simply… not just simply, but basically the Exodus, depending upon who accepted what, and who rejected what.

Now, because there’s a little misunderstanding as to exactly what happens at the end-time in comparison to what happened at the time of Noah and the rejection of God… and that’s not just a type but a picture of, and a duplication of the type of the very extreme disregard for God, going into idolatry, all of these things.

People have maybe not got a proper understanding of what really takes place at the end-time as regards to the wrath of God coming upon the world at the very time that we have the type of the Exodus, or the Exodus being fulfilled unto us and at the same time we have these types of the days of Noah, as well as the time of Moses, Jannes and Jambres.

Now, in Romans 1 (to just get you into this thought, here), it said,

God gave them over to these vile affections, and all this terrible immorality that you see today. Now, this does not repeat at the end-time in the sense of the rejection of God, the exodus, the world going into complete idolatry and sinfulness. They don’t go into the worshipping of beasts and images.

Although we have images that are supposed to be representations of the saints of God, and Mary and so on, like that. The Catholic Church is full of it. But, of course, they just tell you what it represents.

So, we’ll let that go. But watch what it says in Colossians 3:5-7

Okay, now, you’ll see the immorality coming upon the earth. So, let’s go to 2 Timothy 3, and see the idolatry that is brought to our attention.

Now, notice in there, you don’t find one thing about four-footed beasts. You don’t find anything about very strange types of idolatry. You don’t find that. You’re finding a people who are worshipping God. But notice what they’re like:

So, you’ll notice in here, this is woven right into our exodus, because it goes right back to Moses. And, you’ll notice, they’re not going to four-footed animals and beasts and things that they worship that are inanimate; they go into another area.

Now watch, in 2 Peter 2, you see the same thing.

Now, this follows Matthew 24. In Matthew 24, the warning is: there are going to be false prophets. And a false prophet is one who was false to the Word of God but could do almost the same thing that any genuine prophet can do. Now, he cannot have the vindication of a prophet that God gave to Moses and to Paul and to William Branham, he can’t have that. But he can have signs, wonders, and miracles and gifts.

And you notice what happens… because these people, here (these prophets that are false, in Matthew 24), themselves cannot be vindicated as were Paul and Moses and Brother Branham, they, then have teachers who vindicate them. They’ll have the teachers come behind. (See?)

Now,

Now, that tells you right there, they’ll even deny the very Lord that bought them. Now, how in the world are they going to do that? Because they’re casting out devils in the Name of Jesus Christ, they’re religious people, they’re very fine Christians. They’re like James Watt, what was he? The secretary of the Interior under Mister Regan and he got booted out. Now he’s been a very wonderful Pentecostal, tongue-talking Christian. And he bilked what for roughly 600,000 dollars. Wonderful Christian! You just can’t beat him.

I’m sure they talked in tongues all the way to the bank. [Laughter] Listen, I’ve got a bow and arrow for those guys. So, if you have sympathy, I appreciate you having sympathy. And you should talk nice, but don’t ask me to. Don’t ask me to. I know Pentecostals. I know what’s going on. It’s right here in the Bible.

Do you believe that’s the Lord Jesus Christ? Brother Branham said it was. That’s the picture. What do you think they think it is? And do you know who backs them up? Their teachers. Their organization. They’re not one bit different from the Roman Catholic church of which Polycarp said, when from the voice thundered… actually repeated the voice that thundered from heaven, “Leave her alone (concerning Ephraim).

She is joined to her idols”. A man in his nineties went all the way to Rome to turn them around, turned nothing around. This is Hebrews 6:[6,] “…crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh.” You say, “It couldn’t happen!”. You don’t believe your Bible. You just sit here; you don’t believe. I love you, but you don’t believe.

Now, anybody can [be] nicer than me, but you can’t be nicer than God. And that’s where the whole church is today: they’re nicer than God. Kind old priest… Brother Branham preached the ‘kind old priest’ sermon. Everybody thought, “Well, that cantankerous stupid little Kentucky hillbilly! That dumb little jerk, because he had some kind of ministry, has to stand up and mouth off as though he’s somebody. So he preaches about the kind old priest.

Why wouldn’t he be kind?” I can tell you, William Branham… never saw a more loving, gentle, kind creature in all my life. And I’ve been around a lot of them. Don’t look at me as though I’m a loving, kind creature. But I’m his kind of a teacher, because I’m going to spill it on you [Inaudible], one thing I’ve got to say. I back everything about what God said , and what His prophet said.

Neither adding nor taking from it, except I’m a little tougher than they are. But that’s all right. I can be forgiven for that. But you can’t be forgiven for taking out of the Word. Makes it kind of different, doesn’t it! Makes you know you’re riding a camel instead of a horse. No camels in the Book of Revelation, chapter 19… Come on! Yah.

2 Peter 2:2

“The way of truth”… Whose truth? Jesus’. “I am the way, the truth and the life.”. Psalm 103 tells you they never did learn the ways of God. They just saw His acts.

And then it tells you about the days of Noah. It tells you about Sodom and Gomorrah. It doesn’t even talk about the rottenness of the people. It just said poor old Lot was vexed with the filthy behavior, what he saw day by day. But the Lord knows how to deliver those people.

Then it goes on telling you more. You can read it [2 Peter 2:] all to yourself because it’s the whole chapter, there. That’s what they go into at the very end-time. Because why? They rejected the blood. Now listen: they rejected the blood which was based upon miraculous vindicated ministry.

Just the same as the people today reject the Holy Ghost, reject the revelation of the Word, because they reject the true vindication and they take their own. The separation of Israel, that is, Israel separated itself. It was by accepting and displaying the sacrificial blood upon the door. They accepted it. They displayed it.

(02.) Formerly, in the Old Testament, we saw the blood offered up for individuals, or a family (like in the time of Job, who offered for his family). But in this event, it was for all Israel, all the families of Israel. And they came out of Egypt.

Now, if you want to turn in your Bibles, you’ll see something quite exciting. It’s over here in the third chapter of Ephesians where Paul is speaking of the grace of God extended to the Gentiles, as it says, “In Abraham, all the seed, all the children of God should be blessed.” He’s speaking of Abraham, and his children which are the Gentiles. And beginning at verse 13, he said, [Ephesians 3:]

As you see, the family, here, Israel as a family, taken out by the blood, one united family, the seed of Abraham, so you have identical. The Blood allowed the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the Pillar of Fire to descend and draw nigh to us in order to take us out of here.

Because Brother Branham said, “Jesus does all three in descending. It is the Shout, the Voice, and the Trumpet”. And the trumpet is the taking us home with Him. When that Spirit that’s in the midst of us becomes incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords.

So you notice, here, this family… the great Father, the great Head of the family. Remember, Brother Branham had that vision. When he began to ostracize and criticize in his heart the woman who was actually a seed of God (as far as we can understand from Brother Branham’s vision), and he saw a circle of blood around the earth. And said, “Now, there you are. Except for that circle of blood, you would be destroyed, too. Why are you criticizing her?”

So, we see the efficacy and the power of the Blood. It is not just to the individual who has the Blood upon his heart (so-to-speak), in reference to your being born-again, you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, the Word of Almighty God knowing therefore you’re a child of God.

But now, the whole family… in fact, all the families of the earth can be taken out of here in a wonderful rapture. It is now to the place of John 17, the sanctifying Word, the sanctifying Blood, the sanctifying Spirit, all of it, three in one, has now come together in order to get us out of here. The same as God took Israel out of Egypt… one nation under God.

(03.) It was given to protect the first-born.

We’ll talk about the first-born a little later on, as we read in Hebrews and come to the resurrection. It was given, therefore, to protect the first-born, guaranteeing his life, so he would not stay behind the Exodus in death and fail to replenish the earth or the Land of Promise, as it tells us in Isaiah 65, “We shall be there with our children”.

So, what are we looking at? We are looking at the fact that the first-born has not stayed behind in graves. It says, truly, that Paul himself was speaking and he said, “I am aspiring to the out-resurrection from the dead. I want to come out when all the rest are there behind”. And so, we’re looking at, now, a picture of the out-resurrection, the first-born, which, as I say, we’re going to talk about.

So, the first-born were given a lineage. They’re given the rights to take the family name and to go down through the generations… and in this particular case, now, was to enter over into the Promised Land. And you know, whether you want to believe it or not (and I’m sure you do believe it), you understand that we are the last ones that are born-again.

We are the last ones in the lineage. And the strange thing is, we’re going to be standing right here when all our predecessors will not be, but yet they will be as they come up. And we’ll be going into the Promised Land together all a part of the great first-born of Almighty God who take the lineage.

Even as Abraham, we take our lineage from Jesus Christ because, although we have a natural election, it is not a natural election the same as Israel’s was. Ours is a natural… as Brother Branham said, “God picked out your great, great, great grandfather, great, great, great grandmother and so on, all the way back”.

And he said, “The virgin birth is nothing to be compared to the complexity of an ordinary birth where God has been tracing down His own family through multitudinous generations, to bring you to this exact spot where you are”. Not only as a child of God, but get this: to have your peculiar nature.

You say, “Well”,  You know, you’re just like me; you say, “ Brother Vayle, why don’t we go home now, because you hit a sour note. The thing that I hate is my nature”. Join the club! Are you looking at a hypocrite up here? I’m not a hypocrite. It’s the very thing we hate. And it’s the very thing that God gave us. True. Now, it doesn’t mean to run riot. Doesn’t mean to run riot. You come out, come out, because you’re a sheep. You’re going down the road with the Lord Jesus Christ.

(04.) The ceremonial rite was never to be repeated again except as a memorial.

The ceremonial rite of slaying the sheep, and striking the blood upon the door-posts and the lintels was never to be done again. Never repeated. It was only as a memorial that the blood could be utilized in that respect of the Exodus.

Notice: for no king of Israel set up by God would ever lead the people back to Egypt. Remember, that was one thing that the king could not do. The Book of the King could never take you back to Egypt. Our King could never let us go back where we were. The dog can go to the vomit. The hog will go to the wallow, but a child of God will never go back.

Now, he may fool around, but he’ll never go back. Because, Jesus Christ himself said, “My Father which gave them to me is greater than all. And no man can pluck them out of my Father’s hand”. He said, “I’m the absolute surety”. So, no king would ever allow them to go back into Egypt, ever requiring, therefore, another Passover. No! When you come out, you are out to stay. And from that point, you are going in.

Now, we notice that some kings did make alliances with Egypt. And we know some did go down and get some help (recall the chariots and horsemen of Egypt). That was allowed, to the degree it was politics and it could obtain. But, you notice, God said something about Egypt. He said to Israel, “They gave you sanctuary when you needed it. So don’t ever turn on them”.

And we don’t turn on the world either, as far as trying to destroy the world, trying to make it tough for them. But we take our stand: we are not going back! And when you’re talking about not going back, remember: it comes out of a Book! Do you hear what I said? The king couldn’t take them back because it comes out of a book. Now, if you’re in the right book with that book, the Book of Kings, you’ll not want to go back.

You’ll have to take your stand and say, “No way can I go back!” Because it means idolatry. And it doesn’t mean the kind of idolatry with the fish-face god of Baal, and the sphinx and all those things they had in Egypt there the bull and those things that they worshipped. It’s not going to that. It’s not going to their false teaching because you’ve received a revelation from the King of kings, Himself, brought down through a prophet.

Now, perhaps, the most pertinent information we find, then, is this that we’re looking at:

(01.) The Passover rite was for the guarantee of the life of the first-born… the guarantee of the life of the first-born. They, of necessity, had to come out and then go in. And the others would follow in their places, generation after generation. Even as the Church Ages for seven ages in the Old and seven in the New have done the same thing. It took an initial act of some people of God in order to lay a foundation to perpetuate what God had in mind. And then generation upon generation, age upon age, until the final ones were brought in. It would then constitute the entire Kingdom of Almighty God.

So, you see what we are dealing with. We are dealing positively with the first-born. And the first-born, in the sense now, of course, we look at us, we say, “Well that’s the Life of the Holy Ghost brought down by the Word”. And that’s true. It is evident that in the plan of God, if there were no first-born to go into this land which God has, His ultimate, the whole purpose and plan of God, then, would be terminated.

God did not, for one minute, want to build a city. That wasn’t it. That’s not true. If anybody thinks that God wanted a city, that’s not what He wanted. He only wanted a city for the people. The ultimate was a people that He predestinated. And in the predestination, as a Father, He had the utmost all lined up for them.

So, therefore, the first-born had to go in. There had to be definitely a coming out of somebody in order to start the ball rolling. That’s exactly why we have a foundation built upon the apostles and the prophets of the Seven Church Ages. And remember, it is a platform that it was built upon. The Gentile Church is built upon that but, remember, to the Jew first and then to the Gentiles.

And that’s what Jesus said, “To the Jew first and also to the Gentiles.” For he said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel…” [Mark 16:15] “For the promise [is] unto you and your children (that’s Jews and the children of Jews), and to all that are afar off (that is the Gentiles)… as many as the Lord our God shall call.” [Acts 2:39]

So, there had to be a coming out. And we are built upon that very thing. Then, if built upon it, it means that whatever they had as the Life, every successive generation until the last generation is brought in, and they all go in under the same guarantee, all brought under the Blood, all motivated by the Holy Spirit, all kept by the same God.

As the first-born sons were the begetting fathers’ strength, and the perpetuators of his seed, and the possessors of the inheritance, so these must go into the Kingdom for the Kingdom of God to be established and to survive.

Look what it says in Ephesians 1:3-4, you can see for yourself:

It was God Who said, “I’m going to have a Kingdom of My sons and My daughters, and here is what it’s going to be like.” And somebody had to start it. Now, remember, when Adam fell from it, it took blood for to get him back on the trail. (See?)

Now, you couldn’t stop the fact he was going to die before he was a thousand years of age. But it did restore the fact of the communion that God had with him. Didn’t have it the way he once had it, but he’s going to have it again at the end-time, just like you and me.

Now, it was the shedding of blood, and the placing of the blood just prior to the Exodus that was this guarantee. And that’s the way you have it today. Brother Branham mentions the Token. He said, “You don’t have the Blood anymore. What you do, you have the Holy Spirit Himself, because our Token is the Lord Jesus Chris.”

And so, therefore, we apply the understanding of what has happened in this hour. We have faith in exactly what has happened: that God came down to bring forth His children out of Babylon into a glorious exodus which is going to take us to the Millennium.

Now also, we want to notice, here, in Exodus 12:12-13, 26-27 (which I’ll read), that God Himself was present and not only brought His Own out in deliverance, but He stood watch and guard over them so that Israel had full advantage of the blood, because the blood was merely a token. Now, the blood wasn’t the real thing. The blood was a token.

So, let’s go back to Exodus and see that in here, the 12th verse. And we’re going to read [verses] 12 and 13,

Now, with that we read [verses] 26 and 27:

So, what you’re looking at, you’re seeing God laying down, here, as a memorial. It couldn’t take place again. There’s no way, because it couldn’t go on back. And so, we see here… what you’re looking at, here, is the fact that God Himself was present in order to watch over them as He was smiting. Now, there you see the law, again, of the parallelism of Scripture. With every blessing there is a curse and with every curse there is a blessing.

Now, let’s go to 2 Thessalonians 1:7

Remember, Brother Branham in that great vision beyond the curtain of time when he saw the people and he was accosted as to what his actual ministry was, he said, “I preached what Paul preached.” And they said, “We are counting on that”.

Now, notice what I read to you over here, then, in the 12th chapter, [of Exodus]

In other words, it is the night that God stood guard. It’s the night that God Himself delivered His people. So you can see what you’re looking at. You have got to have the mind completely cleansed, reoriented (which is your redemption) to understand that God never changes. He always does exactly what He did. And people don’t understand that God has to come on the scene and do the delivering. They don’t understand.

That’s why Brother Branham categorically placed Jesus as an exodus, to lead the people out. It was by the shedding of Blood. This time it is not by the shedding of Blood, because the blood cannot be shed again. But the same God comes down and leads His people out. That’s not strange.

What do you want for a spiritual nickel? Do you want to get God to change His mind and change His Word? There’s no way that God is ever going to do it. And you’ll see, right here, that He comes right on and he says, “…with his mighty angels.” (They’re ministers.)

Came right down Himself in order to deliver His people. God Himself was present, and not only brought His Own deliverance, but stood watch, Himself, over Israel by reason of the blood.

You’ve got the same thing right today, the Judge. That’s the mighty Judge, right there. He came down and pronounced a sentence upon the world, which He must carry out. (See?)

But He’s got to deliver His Own first. Take them right out. Just as Abraham said… absolutely. He said, “Will the judge of all the earth, the righteous God, destroy the righteous with the wicked?” He said, “Certainly not.” Now, from these two particular points of interest, we can draw a conclusion that the shed blood ceremony of the Exodus types our day of deliverance.

Let’s take a look at it and this is fantastic! over here, in Hebrews 12. Let’s start reading right through 18-24, and you’re going to see it:

You’re not come unto that, so forget it!

“Well, bless God, why doesn’t God do something like He did back in that day, where there would be a mountain burning, and this and that?”

Shut up! He’s not going to do it. “Well, I want to come to it.” Well, go to hell!

That shocks you, doesn’t it? Do you think you’ve heard tough preaching? Then listen to tough preaching. Be my guest, go on. Nobody needs you. You just think somebody needs you. Sit right with the destroyed. You are not going to tell God to duplicate Mount Sinai or anything He did upon Mount Sinai, or duplicate anything He ever did!

As though you can draw the signs which you want, or some particular thing that you think will justify you and say, “Well, bless God, I’ll take that now as an evidence.” It says you are not come unto that! You’re not come unto something you can touch.

Hebrews 12:19

He said, right there, “If I came on the scene this way, you would not just turn your back on it, you would plead with me not to do it!” Think it over, think it over. You say, “Well, I’d be different”. Brother Branham said, “The minute you say that, proves you would be the one that crucified Christ”.

“If I was back there, bless God”… said those false accusers, those false prophets, Caiaphas and that whole bunch of renegades, they said, “Bless God, if we had been back there, we wouldn’t have killed the prophets”. He said, “There! You just condemned yourself by your own words. Fill up the cup of iniquity, until I blot you off the earth!” Absolutely. But you’re not come to that.

So, now you’re stuck. I can’t touch it, I can’t feel it, I can’t smell it. I can’t tell what God is going to do. My spiritual senses, my spiritual integrity, everything about me is cut off, and I am left as a person stranded. What am I going to do? I’m going to have to search the Bible and find out how God ever did anything.

In continuity, going back to the beginning (See?), He used the prophet. So, you’ve got to start looking for a prophet who doesn’t have all of these things as though he’s going to take you right there and says, “Feel, taste, touch, smell… this, that”, and lead you right in where you’re going to stand there and see it all as though you could see it.

Now, notice.

Here, lik Israel under Almighty God, every first-born going into the Kingdom of Almighty God. How perfect! Every point of type is covered.

Now watch, in Hebrews 12:18

Sinai and Moses. New Jerusalem and who? “Aah! Pope… good old Pope John. Must be the Pope. Nah. Un-unh.

“Well, at least the president of the general assembly of the Assemblies of God, the great poohbahs in Springfield.” Nah. Nope… nope.

Don’t you understand? If Sinai deserved a Moses, how much more does the New Jerusalem deserve a prophet of even a greater caliber? And hold your horses, right now, because John the Baptist was even greater than Moses. Sinai and Moses.

New Jerusalem and who? You can say what you want, but there’s only one that can do. That’s Revelation 10:7. And there’s only one in the whole Bible that’s ear-marked. And that’s somebody with the Spirit of Elijah. And whether you like it or I like it or anybody else likes it, Elijah has to identify himself. Then witnessed to by Jesus.

That lets out the Pope and the Pentecostals, and the whole bunch. God and His prophet. The first-born, all under the Blood, and the Headship of the Token, which is Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Now, let’s go to some Scripture, the Book of Colossians. We’re going to read Colossians 1:12-18.

First-born, first-born, first-born. Okay, let’s go to 1 Corinthians 15:20-23

First-born and first-fruits indicate positively that he was the first one in this particular mode and manner. Nobody came before him, but many more can come after him, because the first-fruit signifies ‘more to follow’. (See?) First-born signifies life, giving a genealogy. Right. First-fruit signifies a whole race just like him.

Until He came back, as He did there, there was no way there could be a resurrection. No way at all. There could not be.

Okay, now. Let’s go to James 1:18

There you are: first-fruits and first-born, absolutely one and the same. Not a different person at all, but only concerning the position of the person or the events. One has to do with birth, and one has to do from out-resurrection from the dead.

So, what I’m looking at is the first resurrection, or ‘out-resurrection from amongst the dead’,  even as Israel came out of Egypt, and we out of Babylon. Absolutely. Had to be. And as they were first-begotten and first-fruits, so are we first-begotten and first-fruits. Absolutely.

Now, as I said last Sunday, where was this blood? It was not on the mercy seat, but on the door posts and on the lintels. Now, when the blood was on the door post and the blood went on the lintels, at that time there was no true religion left in Egypt. The separation took place right there. Their religion was a farce unto Almighty God. It was sheer idolatry and blasphemy.

Now, let’s look at Matthew 26:28-29.

Now, here absolutely was the promise that God gave concerning this shedding of the Blood, the same as Jesus was in an exodus to bring his people out. So, Brother Branham categorically had his exodus exactly right, though until you see and understand this, you cannot place Jesus in that exodus. But he was in an exodus, and he had an exodus.

And he brought them out in order to take them in. And it was the Blood that was efficacious. And there, there would be a memorial to it. Now listen: It was at that particular time that there was nothing left in Egypt because Israel was coming out under the safety and security of Almighty God, Who could now work the work of His Presence and bringing His Own into His Own Kingdom there to establish them in a theocracy upon earth. And it was the blood upon the door posts and the lintels.

Now, listen carefully. And I’m going to now illustrate different from what I illustrated last week. But you can take Scripture and use it a hundred different ways. It doesn’t matter, as long as you’re applying it in the sense of the understanding. Because, we’re not creating a doctrine; we’re showing you what the Bible distinctly says, “All of these things are examples to us.”

So, I’m using it as an understanding to help us. Now, listen carefully: the two door posts are actually two pillars and, therefore, part of the foundation. Is that true, or is it not true? It’s true… you people that build houses. It’s right. The door posts rest on the foundation.

As Brother Branham said, “The pillars of the church are part of the foundation.” It’s right. All right… and the lintel is the beam above the pillars, and carries the weight of the super structure.

Now, we’re not building several-story houses. We are building a house. And the house of God, what form is it? Tell me. Is it a two-story house? Does it have four corners? Does it have lintels? It’s a pyramid, it’s a pyramid. Now, when you get so far up… and the lintels are pillars, that’s what they are.

You can go to your dictionary, go to your Bible. Forms a door, and at the top is a lintel which now becomes a flange. And the flange is the place that seals off the whole structure, waiting for a capstone. Now, I’m talking not about the houses you’re building. No, not about your buildings, which are split-levels and tri-levels, and everything under God’s high heaven. (I’ve got a basement, even, with subterranean passages.)

We’re not talking about that. We’re talking about the building of God. And we’re talking about the pillars. We’re talking about the lintel. And we’re talking about the fact of the blood. We’re talking about the fact when this happens there isn’t any more religion left that’s worth a plug nickel.

We’re talking about nobody else is going to come into the promised land. Foolish virgins do not make the Bride of the New Jerusalem. They bring their glory in, like farmers on the outside, and workers. You’re talking of a sealed-off building. So, we have, then, the door posts which are the pillars and the lintel. And they are positively covered by the Blood. Absolutely.

From the very foundation from the first person born-again, there had to be the shedding of the Blood, consequently, to bring about the baptism with the Holy Ghost. So, we see here in perfect type, the Holy Spirit coming up from the very beginning right to the top by the Word. So that Jesus Christ himself, bodily, can sit upon it. But before he does, there must be that flange, which is the Holy Spirit in the Word of the last day. We’re seeing it a hundred percent in type.

Let’s see this in Ephesians 4: it tells you that, speaking concerning the ministry, Holy Ghost coming through the Word by a five-fold ministry. A lot of people don’t believe in a five-fold ministry. They say this, that it’s taken out. How can you take from the Word of God and not have your name taken out of the Book?

I’m not telling you that because I’m mad at anybody. This is what bugs me! All the time I hear I’ve got such a rotten spirit. My spirit would be wonderful if I kissed people’s feet who disagreed with these, “Oh yes, you’re right. Yes, you’re right” and compromise my soul. I won’t compromise my soul, and kiss somebody’s feet! You… if you want to, go ahead and do it!

I’ll meet you before God and Judge… like meeting you right now. If I’ve got to have a sweet spirit and deny He’s the Word of God or toady to somebody who is in sin and fighting the Word of God, you’re looking at the wrong guy (by the grace of God). It doesn’t work that way. What’s in the Book, brother/sister, that’s what counts, and not what I say about what a prophet says about it.

Now, it says, here, Ephesians 4

It tells you: “We are coming up”. We are coming up. Now listen: we’re coming up through Babylon. We’re coming up through error. And as sure as you are alive, those pillars are coming up for the Capstone. And they’re the same material the foundation is. The same as the Cornerstone is, the Capstone in a different position.

You don’t believe that? Where have you been all these years? How can you believe other? There’s no way you can believe other and be born-again. You’re coming right up to the full stature. And the stature was positively in Peter. And the last is ‘love’. And the best that you and I come to is ‘brotherly kindness’, which is sandpaper on the elbows.

You never get that. Un-unh! All we know is: faith, hope and love is abiding. And the qualitative factors as outlined in the Bible, when you talk about ‘God is love’, you are not talking about conduct! You’re talking about a Person. You’re not talking about attitude! You’re talking about a Person.

Let’s remember the kind old priest again. Oh, he was kind. He was there to circumcise the little boys, bless the little girls, and help the people who needed help. And lead them by the hand, and do this. But when it came to Jesus… “That renegade, do you know what he did? He whipped us out of the temple. He said awful things about us. I think we ought to kill him… (Hee-hee-hee).”

Such a jolly spirit when they killed him. The gamblers had a hay-day. They shot dice for his garment. (That cured me of gambling when I read that.) The soldiers, the boozers, the drunkards, said, “Hah! Let’s get him tight so he’ll at least fall asleep up there and maybe he’ll help me. Give him a drink”. While the bankers went home; paid Judas the money. That was a good deal.

What are you doing tonight about Jesus? What are you doing tonight in this church? What am I doing? Has He come, or hasn’t He come? I came out of Pentecost; I came out of Babylon. What about you, has it come out of your heart? Or are you still Baptist, still Methodist, Presbyterian? You can’t be a son of God and be one of those, brother/sister. That’s idolatry.

“Oh, they wouldn’t do that.” God said they would. I could be up here making a sucker and a jackass out of you. Yah! That man [ Brother Vayle points to a picture of Brother Branham] could have too, except I know God is no fool. He’s not going to let a man have THUS SAITH THE LORD and back him up.

Now, He’ll let you cast out devils. He’ll let you prophesy, like Balaam. But you won’t have THUS SAITH THE LORD stand time after time. They lie in wait to deceive. They can’t wait to pounce on you. And it’s all ‘love’,… love: “Let’s get that Jesus and (Hee-hee-hee) kill him.” [Inaudible]. Wake up. Wake up.

You’re not even hardly born-again, or hardly born dry behind the ears. You’re too naïve, you’re too nice, you’re too sweet, you’re too pretty. Do you think they wouldn’t? The Bible says they would. And they know what they’re doing. You say, “I can’t believe it!” Shall I spit on it? Got a match I can light on it? Shall I trample it? It’s still true, no matter what I do.

But listen,

Yah?… what kind of love? Truth and love, brother/sister. It’s just not truth, and love’s not just love; it’s a new breed, here. It’s a new breed, where there’s no more cunning, there’s no more craftiness. It’s just laying it on the line. There’s no more pretending, no more cover up. I’m talking about the Word. I’m not talking about sweet, nice people, now. I’m talking to where they come by the Holy Ghost to this flange at this very top.

Now listen: all through these dark ages, all through these troublous times, all through these wicked people, all through gangs over the years who have known exactly what they’re doing and why they are doing it, because they’re shysters!

They’re the seed of the serpent. They know what they’re doing. But the pillars have been coming up, up, up, up… a little at a time. And as they get to the top, the pillars narrow. Right. And the flange sits right on top… Headstone, come on down. Said,

Now watch: we are also at Hebrews 12:22-24

Right on down the line…(we’re there)… speaking of the blood [Hebrews 12:20-21]. A beast couldn’t touch it; should be stoned, or thrust through. Nobody dared to draw near. That’s right. That’s the way it was.

Now, over here, right back in 1 Corinthians, what does it tell you? 1 Corinthians 15:23

Then what?

Nope. Standing on your feet. Not drawing nigh to Sinai, but Horeb. Remember Moses at Horeb; remember God’s prophet under grace. Speaking, you’re coming in. You’re going into the land. You won’t be mortal any more. You won’t be corruptible any more. You’ll be immortal. You’ll be incorruptible, passing right into the glory land.

So, when the pillars of the house that God builded come to the lintel or the flange, we are back to the restored Word. We’re back to being restored virgins of the Word. We are now one Word-house of Almighty God. As it tells us in Hebrews 3: (we’ve come right up to it).

That’s right. When you talk about the great architect, Wright [Frank Lloyd Wright], they mention some of the houses, but always they talk about Wright. But when you come to being a Methodist, you don’t talk about Jesus; you talk about being a Methodist. When you’re in Pentecost, you don’t talk about… you talk about being Pentecostal.

That’s why it’s dangerous to be called a Branhamite. We do it loosely to identify we follow the teachings of that man. But I’m a Christian and I allude to Jesus Christ as my Savior. William Branham could not save me, no way, shape, and form. He was sent from the Savior, from the Deliverer. And the onus of me getting out of Babylon, standing on my feet (if I’m allowed), and to walk in… the onus was upon Him. Moses was faithful.

Hebrews 3

In other words, brother/sister, exactly what they had back thee we’ve got now in our day at the end-time.

Go to Hebrews 9… [How much time have we got? (Someone says twenty minutes) Good, we can finish it.]

Hebrews 9:11-23. It’s talking about Christ being a High Priest of good things to come. And the ‘good things to come’ is the Blood of Jesus Christ. The blood of bulls and goats was sprinkled way back there over the tabernacle, over the people, over the books (… everything else), couldn’t reach to heaven.

But we’ve got a Blood of sprinkling that reaches right into heaven itself, and gives us a new heaven on earth bringing us back in Revelation 19 with Jesus Christ to reign and rule. In Revelation 21, to be a part of the New Jerusalem, to sit upon the thrones, judging. Absolutely. Why?

Let’s go back and see what happens. (I’m cutting it very short on purpose.) 1 Corinthians 15… look at it. We read verses 20-23, on first-fruits. Verse 24 says,

In other words, at the very Parousia, the same One that was in Jesus, the same mighty God, comes down to earth here. That’s Elohim. That’s God Himself, coming down putting all rule and all authority under Him, bringing the church into a divine order.

Now, look at it. It says in verse 26

Death is under His feet now, but not destroyed. He’s reigning over it. Brought us right to a place to take us into the land of immortality. There’s no guess work about this. This is true. And this is also  1 Corinthians 15:51-57, again, which is based upon Revelation 10:6-7, which is the time when God comes down to earth and stretches His hand toward Him and swears by Himself, that time and eternity mingle.

There’s a prophet on earth. And it says, “Every single mystery is finished”. And this is one of the mysteries, immortality. And it depends upon the Presence of God. Exodus depends upon the Presence of God to get you out and to get you in. So, don’t let anybody tell you He’s not here.

See, that’s what they fought me in all these years. A guy out West says it’s the doctrine of devils and blasphemes it. I want to ask a question: Who came down? Whose picture is that? Tell me. Well, I could name you some names who they think it is. But I’m not in that rare good mood, tonight, where I’m going to do it. I’m going to spare you.

We’re back to the Tree that couldn’t be touched, in Genesis 3:22-24. We’re at Revelation 22:10-14, when the Book cannot be sealed up again. So, therefore, it must have been open. And at that time, the righteous are righteous, the holy are holy. It’s over. And the filthy are filthy. And the death angel passes through the land, but the righteous go to the Tree of Life, having washed their robes and become immortal.

So, where do we stand tonight? We stand where Brother Branham took us, Revelation 5

Now, that’s where we are, right where Brother Branham put us, the opening of the Seals. (See?) Now, what does that do? That takes us automatically to Isaiah 65, because that’s what it’s all about. It’s not something else. It’s about this. And what is that? Isaiah 65:22-25

That’s from the fountain being opened to the house of David. That’s the first-born coming in.

Let’s go to Romans 8: Look-it, this is not the people of up above in the other verses. They are the sons of God.

What happens when we come back? There’s a renovation, but not a restoration, just a renovation. Not a meltdown, a re-building… we came back, but they’re waiting on us, you see? They’re waiting on us.

Now, how can this be? How can Isaiah 65 be? And those verses, all the scriptures we read. The first born, all these people coming in, all these things taking place. What is back of it all?

Let’s go to Isaiah 53 and read it

How did he do it? He died upon the cross. He shed his Blood. This is the truth of how you and I come to this place of which we are speaking. That we are the first-born delivered, we are the first-fruits, all of these things, to the very image of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself because we’re going to have the very same body He has.

So, God so loved His Own cosmos, all of it; every bit of it, that He gave His only begotten Son to redeem it in death by the shedding of Blood. And the Blood fell upon the earth. And we’re a part of that earth. Absolutely true. And we come up in the resurrection by the fact of Him who said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

I’m going to close, now, in reading Acts 3, where Peter is speaking to the people after the healing of the lame man. And he said:

Now, what did He speak of? This is where the whole bunch miss the boat. This is exactly where the argument starts in. Unless you had some special vindication from God, you could look at this and fuss about it until you died, and you sorrowfully found yourself in the Lake of Fire, having argued all the way through the Millennium and didn’t know you went through it, because you’re someplace else.

Now, here, you’re getting to something, right there… something doing with the hearing. What is God going to restore? Something to do with what you hear.

Now, this word, here, is not ‘destroy’; it’s ‘utterly destroy’. That’s Malachi. That’s not John 3:16. “God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son.” This is not Acts 3 that Peter is speaking here now, “The one you crucified.” This is ‘utter’. So, therefore, He is going to have to be heard until He has been heard out. Now, how are you going to know when He has been heard out?

Because, that’s what it says in Ephesians. That’s what it says here. There has got to come a time when this same One that was taken in ignominy and shame, was not understood, crucified, all in the will of God, now comes once more somehow to a place all in the hands of God, where it’s all over concerning him. When is it going to be? Hebrews 12… Hebrews 12. You can’t get away from it… Revelation 10:1-7.

Acts 3

Now, watch: Moses said it. But you look what starts with Samuel. Samuel never brought one Word! Had he added to the Word of Moses, he would have had to be a false prophet. Had he taken away, he would have been a false prophet. And they would have had to destroy him by stoning or fire or some way, in order to save themselves, that they wouldn’t perish with him.

So, therefore, what was Samuel? Samuel was a man who was vindicated by God to have the answers for the people in that hour, which was supposed to have been a theocratic kingdom. And the Kingdom of God in the midst of us right there. And it’s still not a truly theocratic kingdom, because we lack the answers. We have the answers today.

Do you follow what I’m trying to tell you? It starts with Samuel. It doesn’t start with Moses. What started with Paul does not go back to Paul; it goes to Samuel. It goes to Elijah. Elijah never had any Word to add. Elisha never had a Word to add. John the Baptist never had a Word to add. No time did the Spirit of Elijah have a Word to add or take from.

He stands in the gap, proving the theocracy and the headship of God, though it doesn’t appear to anybody. And there, standing with that Word, stands by vindication, a prophet of God.

You wonder why Brother Branham always talked about Samuel, and said, “When did I ever take your money? When did I ever tell you a lie? When was it ever wrong?” He had to.

Now, you’re starting with Samuel! You’re not dealing with Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and those men. You’re dealing with Samuel. He was not a giver-of-the-Word prophet. He was a revealer of what was given. So, you’re talking… this is entirely different.

And do you know what happened? This man, Samuel, without having given a Word, foretold. It says he “foretold of those days, spoke of them”. So, you’re understanding that at the end-time, in the time of Jesus, the time of the end, there has to be a prophet who doesn’t bring the Word… un-unh. He tells the hour in which you live and the Word that belongs to you in that hour. And he’s dealing with the theocracy, coming right to the Kingdom of God.

Now, listen: you are the children of the prophets. Are you a child of the prophet, tonight, and of the covenant which God made with our father, saying unto Abraham, “And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed”? “In thy seed”… and the righteous seed of God in the New Jerusalem will be the blessing of the entire universe! What bought it? The Blood. “Nothing in my hands I bring; simply to the cross I cling. Rock of Ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in

Thee.” Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. Turn any way you want to go, the Blood paid the price for God to institute His Plan in you and me, giving us that blessed appointment to be first-fruit, first-born unto Almighty God.

Let’s bow our heads and pray:

Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Word, Lord. We know that we do a poor job ourselves many times, speaking. Had we something, Lord, more in the sense of an ability to bring it out even more, Lord, we’d appreciate that. But we know, Lord, that You are able to take even poor words like mine relating back to the Scripture and the things that Brother Branham said, which are the Scripture, to see the wonderful fountain that was opened unto the house of David, unto the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and uncleanness.

As the prophet himself said… You speaking in Matthew 5:48: “Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”. And so many men, Lord, put that down to some type of conduct. But the prophet said, if You demanded it then You had to make a way for it. And You did, by the Blood what scatters sin till there be no evidence. Then, how can You make a man a sinner when there is no evidence?

Father, to realize that, tonight, and to take it to heart is a wonderful step in the right direction. Not to stand here and think we’re some eternal security people [that] never had anything in the first place can do what we want. For, as they say, “The flesh profits nothing; the spirit is everything. Do what you want; it doesn’t matter”. We don’t believe that, because You never taught that. But You did through a prophet teach us. And it’s true: there isn’t any evidence of sin, because You see us through the Blood. And You see our risen Mediator. And we, in turn, see what You see. And then, Lord, like a camera that’s out of focus, by sheer believing, pretty soon it comes into focus. And one day, Lord, we’re going to awake in Your likeness, like the Apostle Paul said, the Psalmist said. All through Scripture, Job saw it, David saw it, Brother Branham saw it, and we see it, by grace.

One day, shortly, we believe every first-born will stand with You, the Great First-Born, identical in those realms in which we can be identical, with You, the Perfect Head. And that’s what we desire, Lord, to come under Your headship and to be entirely submissive to Your way. Help us tonight, Lord, through the shed Blood and the power of the Holy Ghost. We’ll give You the honor, in Jesus’ Name in which we pray. Amen.

[Brother Vayle proceeds with the communion service]