Why Is He Here #1

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…we are grateful to be allowed to gather together this morning in Your house commemorating the Resurrection of our blessed Lord and Saviour that You raised from the dead.

Now interceding for us, for which we are very happy to know on this day that that is so, the Blood of Jesus Christ scattering sin, lie in Your Presence here with us in a personal way that has not been for many many years perhaps as a time where literally Moses getting ready for the exodus into the promise land of God.

Into immortality, into the great things which have not been known until this hour. We appreciative of that Lord, we thankful for it, we cannot express our love enough. Just help us with Your love toward us so we might in turn reciprocate.

Grant every blessing necessary this morning, Lord, in the study of your Word, to build us up in the most holy faith of the hour, to come to the full assurance of faith, Lord, and even beyond hope right to the Presence of the Living God, He Who is love.

Lord, we commend ourselves to you this morning, we know we walk in the reality as never before. The Saints have longed to be here, and we look down upon ourselves and we realize that this may be the most rag tangled bunch the world has ever seen to come into the grace of God.

But, all the more magnificent is Thy grace at this time for which we’re very, very pleased to acknowledge that we’re a part of it by faith, in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, this morning we want to start with a series within the series of the ‘Presence of the Lord’, And this is entitled ‘Why is He Here’ #1. Isaiah foretells His Presence at the end. Isaiah foretelling His Presence at end.

Now, it is absolutely unthinkable that the doctrine of the ‘Parousia’ which is the Presence of Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit is not set forth in the Old Testament.

Now, I hope you got that, so I’ll go over it again. And this is going to be just a straight down to earth teaching message that you need, we all need in order to understand why we stand, where we stand.

So, I repeat, it is absolutely unthinkable, and I mean it, it is unthinkable. In other words, it could never come to anybody’s mind that this doctrine of the Presence of God is not found somewhere in the Old Testament which doctrine is that God is Present with us in the form of the Holy Spirit. Or very correctly to say to say that Jesus is here in the form of the Holy Spirit.

Now, this will leave some of you I know a little bit cold, because… well look, I’m going to have to kind of leave my notes quite a bit of the time to talk to you that you’ll understand.

You’re sitting here today and I’m afraid that the majority of us because we have been so constantly bombarded by the fundamental conception of God that it is very difficult to apprehend exactly what Brother Branham said.

Now, he spoke many times of the Logos. He spoke that this One came in the form of human flesh, and He’s called Jesus.

Now then, this One he said, “returned to us in a Pillar of Fire.”

Oh, what’s he talking about? Now you see, this is where we draw a blank. About Whom is he speaking?

Well all right, in the beginning, God. Never mind the thought of Logos. In the beginning God. This One became flesh as was explained in ‘The Unveiling of the Mighty God’ in Philippians.

In other words, He took upon Himself a mask, or a veil, as Brother Branham said, “God veiled Himself in order to reveal Himself through the veil.” Well, that’s not too hard to understand, if you realize that you cannot see God.

Now, you may thing that you feel God, but what if something else in there and you thought it was God?

What if you said, “I heard God,” and something else slipped in there and you thought it was God, you said, “I heard God?”

Now, He made Himself a form whereby we as sensate creatures could see that form, and then realize what was in the form.

Now, what I’m saying here is, that this Jehovah of the Old Testament became the Jesus of the New, and He only became by reason of putting on the flesh.

See, the Word, when you deal with the Word ‘God, Elohim, Ella, El Ella’, those words, you’re dealing with the understanding of not just self existent, but becoming.

Well, look were you a bunch of tad-poles that became people? He’s not saying that. He’s talking about the One that was able to become to us, to be something to us. So this One became flesh.

Now, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”

Now, that’s not the flesh, because the flesh of yesterday was human. It could bleed, it could die. The flesh of today cannot bleed and It cannot die. It has assumed the immortality of God. As long as there’s God that flesh will be here.

So, when you speak in terms of Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever, you’re talking about Jesus Jehovah Saviour. See? The One that indwelt the man.

Now, that’s why we’re saying here, as Brother Branham mentioned that Jesus returned and divided Himself as the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

But in this hour He has not returned as the One Who have divided Himself and is dividing Himself and remains in that capacity. But, He is the One Who has divided Himself as the Father siring children, and He, That One, is here now in a way He was not, or has not been here since the time of the apostle Paul.

And He is here, our Joshua, to lead us over into our Canaan land, which is the Millennium.

Now, the fight and the flack is on now concerning the Presence of God. And I’ve warned you, and I’m going to keep warning you, you know nothing of It the way I know.

Because I get the telephone calls, I get the flack, I get the people who are upset, because of false anointed preachers who wouldn’t know God if they met Him in their porridge.

Now, I’m just going to lay it on the line, and we’re going to lose customers in this building. Not from this morning perhaps, but we will lose people.

Now, if you’re worried about losing people, I challenge you now please don’t bother of coming back, because I can do with just four people to preach to.

And if they want to get too chincy I’ll close the place down and preach into a microphone, and if they don’t want the tapes, I’ll stay home and look out the window.

Because the battle has been joined and it’s going on. Is He here, or is He not here? Then the question is: Who is Here?

Well, isn’t pity after all this time, I’m not blaming you, after all this time, we have amongst us who claim to believe this Message those who believe in any number of gods, as the previous pastor said, “Lee is preaching two gods, Christ is God.”

How can he be God, when God made Him both Lord and Christ? And he’s got a God. The trouble is, that boy was Jesus-Only.

And he hadn’t dumped his doctrine until one day he came and said spearingly, “Well, one of these days Lee will be saying, ‘I and my Father are one’.”

That day is here, I am saying it. Now, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry for you. But really I’m not. Just gives me one more reason to be nauseated.

Let me tell you about John the Baptist: “Concerning him many of the children shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before the Lord God of Israel in the spirit and power of Elijah.”

Now, that wasn’t the flesh, because God cannot be born. God cannot die. Only in a body can He walk, sit and stand and speak to us.

And as Brother Branham said, “Eat the flesh of the calf, and drink the milk of the cow that produced the calf.” See?

We’re talking now in terms of what the Scripture has said. And the Scripture has spoken concerning God, El, El Ella, Ella, Elohim Jehovah, Spirit, the immutable unchanging God Self-existent, Who not only exist, but reveals and becomes. Becomes what? Whatever is within Him, He becomes as He does it.

“With Him was to be creator.”

“So,” she says, “He can be creator, so what?” Ha, when the hour strikes He begins creating. See, becoming. In other words manifesting. That’s what Logos is all about, God manifesting.

So, we’re looking now at the Scripture that Brother Branham, or the premise that Brother Branham brought to us.

He said unequivocally, “That this same One had to come again, but this time in the form of the Spirit, having gone back to the veil of the Pillar of Fire.” Now, a prophet said that.

So, if you’re going to talk about Presence, and we’re talking in terms of Elohim, and Elohim was in a human form. This time He’s not in a human form.

It’s absolutely unthinkable that this doctrine of the ‘Parousia’, oh they hate that word, which is the Presence of Jesus in ‘the form’.

And remember, Jesus is Jehovah Saviour, and God says, “I alone am Saviour,” but He had to make a way [inaudible] so, He made Himself a coat of flesh to shed blood. And even then that didn’t do it.

Because the Spirit had now to come back upon that lost one and bring him back. It was the Blood that scattered sin. Okay, it’s unthinkable.

In other words, it’s totally unthinkable that any one should suggest that this is a doctrine that is not found in the Old Testament. Did you hear what I said? Now, I took twelve minutes on just one little sentence.

Notice: I am not saying that the Presence of Elohim through personal visitation is set forth in the Old Testament. So that we established that the Logos made flesh and visited, and dwelt amongst men in the Presence of Christ, also visited and dwelt amongst men in the Old Testament.

Now, I’m not saying that. I don’t think you knew what I said, when I said it. That’s a long involved sentence.

So, I’ll say it again: I am not saying that the Presence of Elohim through personal visitation is set forth in the Old Testament.

So that we established that the Logos made flesh and visited and dwelt amongst men in the Presence of Christ, also visited and dwelt amongst men in the Old Testament.

Which simply means, I am not saying I can find you places where Elohim visited in the Old Testament, and that same One that visited men in the Old Testament became flesh and dwelt among us. I am not saying that. Although that’s true.

Let’s go to John 8:51-58, and we’ll see the one of the Old Testament, was one of the New Testament in a form.

What do you think people say about me when I say, “I’m not going to die?’

Now, they don’t know what I’m saying. They don’t know what I’m saying. There’s no way they’re going to know. Because it’s a revelation.

Because I don’t say I couldn’t die tonight. What I’m telling you that’s a promise of the hour.

And like Abraham who said to his wife, “How do you feel this morning honey?”

She said, “No different.”

He said, “Bless God, I’ll still go out and buy the booties and the diapers, because we’re going to have him anyway.”

See, they don’t understand what I am saying. I don’t expect them to.

Now listen, they knew he was pitting himself against God. A man standing there was talking like only God can talk.

I want to ask you a question: Who was that one speaking at that time, was it Jesus the man, or God in Him? It was God in Him.

He said, “The One talking in me that you claim to be your God is the One that’s telling me to say these things.”

In other words, He said, “I Am that one, I Am the I Am that appeared to Abraham.”

Now, when did He appear to Abraham? We go back to Genesis 18:1-5. Now, we’re not going to take time and read the whole thing, because it becomes too involved.

Now, a lot of people tried to make that a Trinitarian hogwash, but how can you, because It said two were angels, and One was God? Now, here’s a lot of bunk.

Now,

Now, Abraham was a prophet, see? and God does not do anything that is secret to him, but should be made known to the people without a prophet.

“Shall I keep secret that which I’m about to do?” In no way! That’s what Amos said. See? You got to have a prophet, and he’ll show you the things of God. I know him…

All right, 24-25. Umm 32-33. I’m sorry.

Now, you can see the power of a prophet with God, right in this very instance here, and the power of the people with God.

All right,

Now, watch what It says in 24-25.

Now, what I’m trying to show here is, that this doctrine of the Presence of God is not simply found in the illustrations in the Bible where we know that in the beginning was God, and this God became flesh, that this God here Appeared in human form in Pillar of Fire, in angelic form that He appeared to people. And the same One is that One called Jesus Who is the Christ in the New Testament.

Now, that’s not what we’re saying. See? Now, you may think we’re saying that, although this is true, that is not exactly right. Neither am I saying that the personal Presence of Jehovah in Exodus 3:1-6, and 33-34 has a counterpart.

Now, in Exodus 3:2. This is where God meets Moses in the burning bush.

Now,

What was it? He entered in behind the Pillar of Fire. He was right in there, the Pillar of Fire shining all around about him.

Now, we go to Acts 9:1-6. Here’s where Paul meets Jesus on the road to Damascus, and He’s turned back into a Pillar of Fire, the Holy Ghost, Elohim, Almighty God, Jehovah.

For that is what Jesus is, Jehovah Saviour is in the Pillar of Fire. Having gone back to simply being the Holy Spirit with a Cloak of Fire round about Him.

Now, with that we go to,

And then he said,

He went to the desert where God taught him, as It says in Acts 9, God was going to show him what great things were to come to him and what he would suffer.

Now, the three things I brought to your attention.

Number one: it is unthinkable that if this Presence is taught by Brother Branham as it has been taught, and we are teaching here, then It’s got to be in the Old Testament somewhere.

Number two: we have long understood that this One that was in human form and Appeared in the person of a human being, virgin born, Son of God, Jesus Who was the Christ, also Appeared many times in the Old Testament. So that the Jesus of the New, is the Jehovah of the Old.

Also, we understand, that, the same God that spoke to Moses in the way that He spoke positively reveals the doctrine to the apostle Paul in the same way He gave it to Moses which was in a Pillar of Fire and face to face revealing Himself and His Word.

Now, the two that I mentioned subsequent to the fact that the doctrine has to be in the Old Testament, does not suffice us, because there’s no way that you can simply say, “Well, I can appreciate this and I’ll receive this on the fact that this is in the Bible, at least to the degree where we can say, ‘hey, I’ll buy that’.” No way. No way.

For these are true, all these are true, and merely establish the fact of the doctrine being legitimate. It has to be, so that God personally, can and does visit at His sovereign will, because of Hebrews 13:8, and Ecclesiastes 3:14-15.

Now, you can take these things that I said, these two, and say, “Well, just a minute, it’s certainly true that that One that Appeared in human flesh was back there in the Old Testament, and He Appeared to people.

And it is certainly true that that One that gave the Word to Moses is the same One that gave It to every prophet.

And particularly there’s a parallel between Moses and Paul, and you could say that’s the way it had to be, because you see, Hebrews 13:8 says, “He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.”

And also, the Book of Ecclesiastes 3:14, says,

Now notice, God giving the Word to man. God spoke in the Son and gave the Word to man. God spoke in a Pillar of Fire and gave It to Moses.

Now, Paul says, “I saw Him as one born out of due season.”

Who did he see? Well, I am not saying that he couldn’t have seen a vision. That’s true. I’m not saying that he wasn’t caught up to the third-heaven. I believe that.

He could have actually been caught up and seen Him there. But remember, we do know that Paul absolutely saw the Pillar of Fire face to face, and he heard what He had to say. So, whatever God does He does forever. And you cannot change it that mentioned fear before Him.

What does it mean to fear? It means that whatever they see this thing happen, and they know it has happened, man have got to come to attention and acknowledge it. He has got to be responsible.

In other words, that fear in his life which is reverence and awe, supersedes any other responsibility. Now, that’s where we are today in this Message.

And that’s why people are turning on It. They don’t want that responsibility to supersede all other responsibility. See? Now, the responsibility is one of grace, but they still don’t want it.

Now, we’ve looked at the negative, see? but what we want to know is this: is there definite Scripture in the Old Testament that reveals His Personal Presence for this our hour, of which we speak? And the answer is categorically yes!

Now, you will notice, that what I have already brought to your attention Brother Branham has brought to your attention. But I do not know of one place where he categorically nailed the Scripture down.

It doesn’t mean I’m going to do a better job than he does, no way, shape or form, but it’s my job to take the Scripture and do what he didn’t do. All right, is there Scripture? And the answer is, categorically yes.

Now first, we will go to the New Testament portion of the Old Testament that sets It forth. That’s the first thing we’re going to do, and we’re going… we have to do it in order to establish a chronology.

All right we go to Luke 4. Now, you understand we’re not dealing in types and shadows from this point. We’re not dealing in comparison. We’re not dealing in method.

You understand? We’re dealing in a point blank categorical scriptural doctrine. See? All right,

In other words, they threw out what He had to give them, because they said we know him.

Now notice, in verse 21 which follows 18 and 19.

He said here, “This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

He said, “I am causing you to understand that I am announcing the event of, and the literal fulfilment of, of certain portion of Scripture at this time. It is my mission to do the proclaiming of what I am here to do. I am telling you what I am here to do, and I will do it.”

Let’s read It:

Now, let’s go back to Isaiah 61: from whence this is taken. And we read the original prophecy in the first three verses, particularly verse 2.

Now, there is no student that does not know that Luke 4:18-19 is only a portion of Luke [Isaiah] 61:1-2. For Luke 4:18-19 is cut off at the first half of the second verse of Isaiah 61, and Jesus quotes only, “to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

And He did not go on and quote, “the day of the vengeance of our God, and to comfort all that mourn, and so on.”

Now, He didn’t do it. Now, nobody denies it, He didn’t do it. Every fundamentalist, every teacher, every, every preacher, Brother Branham, everybody else says It. He stops in the middle of a verse. And there’s a ‘period’ there. And from that period there’s a great span of time.

Now, God does things like this. Let’s go to the Book of Luke, same Book, this time we see the servant John.

Now watch:

Now, let’s go back to Malachi 4:6. Let’s read 5.

Now notice, he says, “Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”

Now, hold it, and listen carefully. Are you ready to listen? All right, now listen and listen carefully: Over here this One in Luke that is this One in Malachi, listen to what It says:

All right, listen and get this carefully so you understand what I am saying.

Over here:

And I want you to know that your mind humanly speaking begin thinking of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, as Jehovah stood over here one million miles away, and said, “Hit it, thunderbolt, hit it lightning-bolt, hit it atom-smasher, hit it, hit it.”

That’s not true! God is there doing it! God is there doing it. You still miss it.

You still miss it, so I’m reading It again.

What you’re doing this morning, you’re just like everybody else. I’m not being rough on you, I’m just telling you, because I got to preach this as it comes to me the way God gives it.

And I’m going to be honest, I never saw that till this moment either. That’s why I’m bearing down on you, because if I didn’t see that, I bet you a million dollars you haven’t seen It.

I just gave the hint the other day that He comes down and eyeballs the antichrist, and we come down and eyeball the devil’s gang. Oh, hallelujah, I’m all for it.

You say, “Brother Vayle, you’re vindictive.” Oh, what are you, a bunch of milk-sops? You’re so cotton-pickin’ sweet, you cut each other’s throat, but you wouldn’t cut the antichrist’s throat.

You still love me? I don’t care if you don’t. I love me. So, I’m going to agree with every single word he says. Right on.

Listen, he said, “I’m… actually he said, “I’m going to be right here when Elijah’s here, when that great One is here.”

Now listen, He said,

And over here, this portion has been done in the Presence, when that great One was already there, standing there, but unknown to the people. John stood there to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.

And remember, he does not turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. That’s for another time!

And it will be in the Presence of God, Who is there to receive and prepare the people of God, and to destroy the rest.

Don’t worry, God then never leaves the scene of action once He comes on it. He’ll lead the scene of action down there at Sodom and Gomorrah, no way.

But, you’re going to find people saying, “Well, He was here in the Pillar of Fire, but now He’s gone away.”

Brother Branham categorically said, “The Holy Spirit is our Joshua to lead us in.” And that is not a leadership of many people full of the Holy Ghost. That is the leadership of God in His Word at this minute.

The fully revealed Word, and He the Life of that Word, that the whole Word is here, and the whole Life of the Word is here! You can’t get away from it.

So, therefore this is not something unique we’re looking at. We’re looking at a fact. That when the Word is quoted by Jesus, I am here to do this much and no more, then that’s it.

Now, and there is no fundamental believer who does not agree that Jesus was referring to His Own ministry of grace as Saviour when He quoted that limited portion.

For Jesus said, “This day, is this portion of Scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

Now, let’s go back and read It in Isaiah, because that’s what he’s quoting from.

All right:

Now, in here you’ll notice, he announced His present purpose, and consequent actions of carrying out that purpose.

Now, let’s read what Scofield says on that:

Isaiah 61:2

“Observe that Jesus suspended the reading of this passage in the synagogue at Nazareth in Luke 4:16-21, it’s a coma, in the middle of Isaiah 61:2. The first advent, therefore, opened the day of grace, “the acceptable year of Jehovah,” but does not fulfill the day of vengeance. That will take up when Messiah returns.”

Now, notice what he says in here. “That will take up when Messiah returns, and he believes what he is saying there to mean this, that God is now going to come back in a day of vengeance.

Now, every fundamental believer believes that, and we believe it to a degree. But, you better be careful, because your faith in that statement is erroneous, because there’s a lie in that statement, as the statement is.

Now, we want to show you the error of the fundamental revelation. For verse 2 says, “Proclaim!” Two proclamations, not one. Three proclamations, not one.

He’s going to do what? Proclaim! Proclaim a ministry. Proclaim a day. Proclaim a cession from mourning.

I want to ask you a question. When did He proclaim the other two? So, so much for your fundamental hogwash. See, I’ve been warning you.

You can’t… brother/sister the day is over when you can use your own thinking anymore and say, “Well, believe this, we believe that. We think this, we think that.”

What do I care what anybody thinks. I don’t care what I think… My thinking’s changing all the time. I knew I had to preach this sermon, but I didn’t know I’d see this. I sit there and I see It. I’m not standing here boasting, I’m just telling you how it operates.

It says: to proclaim: One: The acceptable year of the Lord. Two: The day of vengeance of our God, and also to comfort all that mourn.

Now, all right, the word ‘proclaim’ means: listen; the word proclaim means: ‘to encounter’, whether accidently, or in a hostile manner. It means to encounter.

I encountered a person going down the road. I won’t call him by name.

“What did you do?” I walked across the other side of the street.

“Why?” Because I was hostile. I was walking down the street, and I accosted, encountered, a very charming person.

“What did you do?” I was all smiles and gracious the same as that person was. You can be friendly or hostile.

It’s an encounterment. So, the idea here is accosting a person-meant(?) that is to call out to, to address by name. It is widely used to mean ‘call’.

Now, that’s not the Indian love call, “I’m calling you… who, oh who, who, who.” And some imagination down the road. The call is to, “Hey Bill, we need you down here, get off the ladder.”

To address by name. It’d be by groups or anything else. Preach, cry, pronounce, etc. This meaning of proclaim then categorically pronouncing a personal Presence, of both which will be God and the called, or whoever listens.

But notice, since it is on the basis of encountering, it would be a confrontation of the Spirit of God upon the anointed as It says in verse 1.

Are you listening, because this is very important. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.” Uh?

Now, God’s always His Own Messenger, but He’s got to get where His Word across to somebody.

The key is: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.”

Now, because He has anointed me? I don’t believe that rendition is exactly right. And yet It is exactly right.

What I’m trying to show you is this: He says, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because, in other words, this thing that I am doing absolutely shows it’s God.” Do you follow me?

Say look, Brother Branham could say, “All right, we’ve got the evidence that little Mexican baby that died at eight o’clock in the morning, and stood out there in his mother’s arms all day until twelve o’clock at night, literally coming to the place could even be starting stink as far as doctor’s are concerned, was raised.”

Now he said, “Because that baby was raised, or that baby was a spirit of God is upon me, because the baby was raised.”

In other words, I am that minister, because those things were done. Now, that’s the way you read it.

On the other hand you can say, “The Spirit of God is upon me, and therefore this will be done.” But, he was referring to his ministry. The might works which showed that the Spirit of God was upon Him, because the words a man cannot do what the Words of Jesus did.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach the good tidings unto the meek; sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives…”

Now notice, He’s telling the people that he’s going to die for their sins, that He’s the Messiah. “…the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”

Take back bringing about the First Resurrection. “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord…”

Now notice, not one of those things could be done without the Holy Spirit. See? It is actually God doing the confronting and God doing the proclaiming. Because if this man is a prophet then it is not the prophet, It is God.

And this man was not only God to the people as a prophet, but this man would absolutely literally God in the fullness of the Godhead indwelling him.

Now, he was to do this, it is according to verse 1. God both doing and speaking exactly as It says in John 5:19.

Now let’s go to John 5:19 and see how this is turning out from Isaiah 61, and Luke 4, the interpretation.

Now, It tells you right there that’s Isaiah 61:1. There isn’t one thing said or done, but what God is doing it.

All right, over here let’s look at It in Hebrews 1:1-3, you got the very same thing brought to your attention.

Here was a copy, and here was God in the copy.

Okay continue reading, I shouldn’t have turned back so quick. It’s chapter 2 of Hebrews. Beginning at verse 1.

Now, right away you can say, “Well hey, I want to tell you what that means.”

That means everybody is going to get hit by a four by four in the day of judgment. Hogwash. That’s only half of it. Everybody that’s a part of that Word, and receives the Word, you get benefit of It. Don’t ever read this Bible negative.

Now, let’s go back to,

Now, we clearly see that He, the vessel is actually a channel for God, but going far beyond it, just a prophet. He was the embodiment of God, and was redeeming men in and through Him. And was redeeming men in and through Him.

You can clearly see what I’m getting at in,

Now, it was a confrontation of God with the people as God indwelt the Son. Now, why shouldn’t it be? God was in the prophets speaking to the people. God was in confrontation. So, God was in confrontation. That’s exactly what he says He is. It was a confrontation.

Let’s go to John 14 and see It, and in verse 7.

Notice how the words go back and forth. It’s whether the Son is speaking, or God is speaking …?… it adds up.

John 5:17-19 which we read before.

Now, He said, Listen, God’s always been doing the things that I’m here doing. He was the One that wasn’t doing it before He indwelt me.

Now, you’re seeing Me doing it. Now, if the Father was doing the very things I’m doing, Who’s doing it now? It was a confrontation.

Now, at this point, It didn’t say they made him God. It said, they made him equal, because the first born in the heir. And he can take any time He wants, one half of the Father’s Kingdom. The devil knew that.

The devil knew that, that’s why he said, “All these things I own, I’ll give too,” he owned a half of the Kingdom, because it fell away from God. It was God’s, then God owned it.

Had Jesus sold us down to the river, that half would have gone. The devil made a legitimate temptation to Jesus, and Jesus made a legitimate turn down.

You’re only getting half of everything here, He gets the other half yonder, then you get it all. See?

Now, He’s telling you right there what you’re seeing manifest in Me is nothing but God. God was there encountering the people with His Message that grace was to be loosed upon the people.

Now you see, He was showing the works to back the Message. The confrontation was a proclamation of that Word, and the manifestation showed It was the Word of God. God was in confrontation.

And that confrontation was over the grace that was to be loosed upon the people. Let it be known that God Himself proclaimed the advent in Acts 2:22-39.

Now, what I’m saying here is that what God proclaimed in the Person of Jesus absolutely was loosed upon the people at Pentecost. You follow that?

Now, what I’m trying to tell you is this: the confrontation was the proclamation of the day of grace.

Notice, He said, “Year.” He didn’t say day. He said year. I’m going to proclaim a period of time of grace loosed upon the people.

The opening of the eyes of the blind, the coming out of the prison houses. All these things are loosed upon the people for the acceptable year of the Lord, and this is the proof.

Now, let’s go and get to the proof.

Didn’t say the Son did it, It said God did it. See, it had to be, the Father and the Son were one. They had to have the same mind, the same Word, or it never would have taken place.

So, therefore the acceptable year of the Lord in a proclamation, a confrontation was proven. Okay.

Now, you notice, the Lord said to my Lord, that’s why you can worship Jesus. That’s why He’s literally God to you. But He’s not God. All power in heaven and earth is given unto Him. Why? Because He’s backed up by God.

God will put everything under the feet of Jesus, except God Himself. And when New Jerusalem comes, Jesus is the Lamb on the Throne, and God in a Pillar of Fire above the Throne, and They’re all one.

And we’re all one too, not in the way He’s one, except in a certain specific way, and don’t carry that too far.

All right:

There’s that same verse. “The Lord said to my Lord, sit there and I’ll make the foes Your footstool.”

I want to ask you a question: Who are the enemies of Jesus? Serpent seed.

Who’s going to bruise His head? Serpent seed, I mean his heal. Serpent seed is going to bruise his heel.

All right, who’s Head is He going to bruise? He’s going to step on him under His feet, they’re going to get thrown to his head, serpent seed.

All right:

All right, there it is. See, that’s the proclamation. And Jesus said, “I’m telling you about it, and I’m putting it into effect by proving that the proclamation is accurate.

Which proclamation is: “I’m going to die for your sins and rise again for your justification.”

All right, and don’t miss this now.

And Luke 4:19, read the two together:

Is based on Luke 4:21-30, which is vindication:

They said, “We know you boy, you’re a city salesman, you’re a fast slick talker. He nailed them down. Oh yeah, that’s what they were saying.

You think they are not saying the same thing today about the same One that stands amongst us?

Oh brother, men haven’t changed one little bit. Just watch where you stand in your adoration this morning, and in your worship, lest you be caught off base.

Oh sure, “Boy, you don’t heal anybody in our church, bless God. You don’t get away with nothing around here. Because if it doesn’t come from us, it’s got to be a heretical thing.”

Look at the Church of Christ blaspheming day and night. Serpent seed. If that whole bunch isn’t serpent seed, merciful God, I don’t know what serpent seed is.

And don’t tell me different, because Cain had an excellent sacrifice and went to the Bible too. But, his deeds were evil. Mis-dividing Scripture, the first serpent seed did it.

Don’t tell me this world is going to burn with righteous people out there. Don’t tell me there’s millions of foolish virgins going to die, when the world’s gone downhill, and Pentecost itself is chaff, there’s no life in it.

People want me to believe a lot of junk. The can believe if they want. My mind’s been renewed, hallelujah. Yes sir!

John 14:11 said, “Believe me for the very works sake.”

His great vindicated ministry of the Gospel is over here in 61:1b, “He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, opening of the prison to them that are blind.”

Healing a man born blind, which is never done in all of history. Doing the mighty works.

Now, at this point, not this is our point, the same Proclaimer, the same Coventor(?) [Comforter] the same One who initiated the first encounter, must do the same in the hour of the fulfilment of the proclamation of the day of vengeance of our God.

And this is what the fundamentalist missed.

I want to ask you a question: what proclamation did Nagasaki and Hiroshima get at the time of the atomic bomb?

Oh, Mr. Truman, our President, got on the line and he phoned that great General, I’ll remember the name when it’s too late, and he phoned, I’m sure he phoned the Emperor, and I’m sure he phoned the town.

And I’m sure he phoned everybody and he said, “Evacuate, evacuate, because the bomb is going to fall.” Hogwash, there wasn’t any proclamation and the bomb fell.

All right, apply that to the judgment day of Jesus Christ, and these fundamentalists say, “There’s no proclamation.” They’re liars. They’re liars.

There’s a proclamation, because It says so. He’s to proclaim three things, He’s to do it. If He did the first, He’ll do the second.

Now, Who was doing the proclaiming, a man Jesus? No! God was. For God is His Own Messenger. Come on, let’s prove it.

Let’s get right over here to the Book of Exodus and begin to look at these things the way they are in the Bible. Not some loused up person who thinks he’s a theologian.

I’m accused of being a theologian you know. I’d like to stand behind with these guys right now in this Message, let them challenge me.

With whom took He counsel? God took He counsel with Himself and made His Own covenants. See?

Over in Galatians It tells you that God is a Mediator. It says, “There cannot be mediator.” One, no man can be his own mediator, it takes two men and the third becomes a mediator, but God became His Own Mediator. God was doing His Own proclaiming.

That’s what It said, because the Spirit of the Lord God is indwelling me, It is God doing it, He said so, It was God proclaiming.

Now, that same God said, “I’m going to proclaim again.” And notice, that Jesus stepped right out of that picture on the next two… stepped right out, and the same theologians know they’re all messed up.

And they only stop to think, because the day of the vengeance of our God is entirely different. Sure. So, they just put it down to when He comes without a proclamation. Just suddenly blasts them.

Ha, how come those in the great tribulation know it’s the Lamb and His wrath is turned on them and say, “Fall on us.” Oh yeah!

Brother Branham categorically said, “This Message will be in the great tribulation.” But It’ll be too late. Read it for yourselves. ‘Souls Are Now in Prison’, I think that’s where you get it.

All right listen, “To proclaim the day of the vengeance of our God.” This is what the fundamentalist missed, they pass by His Presence. Here’s what they missed, the missed 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.

Now, let’s look at It and understand what we’re talking about, because they miss It. Why? Because they’ve got three gods. A bunch of idolaters.

Verse 18,

Now, notice It, notice what It says, notice a superior your terrific language,

See, God did the reconciling to Himself. A mediator is not of one, but God is one. How did He do it, He filled the body of Jesus at the River Jordan.

The fact of the matter is showing you that Jesus is not God. But, He is on the grounds that God indwelt Him, and God’s going to do it again. And there’s nothing that God does without the Son, there’s nothing the Son does without God.

Now, that’s the same over here as in John 1:18. We read It time and time again. We must understand as never before.

Now do you see it, the Anointed Prophet, Jesus of Nazareth with the spirit of wisdom and revelation, confronted the church as to the hour it was living in, and brought them into it. That’s what He did.

It was a spirit of wisdom and knowledge in revelation, revealing the deep and mysterious things of God. What God was doing in bringing Israel the church into it. See?

The revealed Word of the hour had to be fulfilled in that hour. It had to live. It was vindicated, so It became manifested.

Now, listen carefully: both sections of Isaiah 61:2, stem from Isaiah 61 ministry. Let’s go back and see It.

In other words, It’s the definitive God ministry. It gives the power and the authority to the proclamation.

And just as sure as there was that which vindicated the proclamation, the proclamation itself must be more effective than the vindication.

Because, the vindication is only a sign, but the Word Living is the real thing.

So, therefore:

Now, the ministry of the proclamation of the acceptable year. The proclamation of the day of vengeance. The proclamation and this is not just literally a proclamation, this is He Himself comforting those that mourn.

Now listen, this has to be done. Now, both sections of Isaiah 61:2, stems from 61:1.

Are you listening? From that ministry which is a spiritually anointed vindicated ministry with the same evidence of God giving the good news, the healing and the deliverance.

Now, let’s see if It runs in continuity: we go over here back in the days of Moses… I won’t go to It, he said, “I’m going to give you these signs and that’s going to bring you out.”

In the days of Jesus He began to do and to teach. But notice over here in 1 Corinthians 2: which we’ve gone into before, Paul the apostle speaking and he said:

Now, here’s what he said about his revelation, in verse 12,

Now, It tells you right here you would have to be in the Election to even begin to get what was absolutely proven to be the truth which is the proclamation. Which proclamation is the Word for the hour that Lives.

Now, what Word is living for this hour? The day of vengeance is on hand, it’s here. But, what else is here comforting those that mourn? See? You’ve got the two, they run hand in hand.

That’s why It says, “Elijah must be there to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers.”

And He said, “In that day when the earth burns like an oven, Elijah will be there, the hearts are turned back, and you’ll be like… grow up like calves of the stall, and you’ll go forth, and you’ll tread down the wicked; they’re going to be ashes under your feet.”

And in that day those people will be talking the Elijah Message, and they’ll know the Name of the Lord and the things of Almighty God.

All right, thus, if Alpha is Omega, Hebrews 13:8 is true, if God can’t change, then we have a repeat of the Spirit of God. The same Jehovah Saviour, Jesus’ Spirit comes upon the scene at the end time.

And not for the announcement of grace extended, for the times of the fullness of the Gentiles has run out, but the end of it.

God is rejected in Revelation 3:20, and now announces the day of His vengeance, because they put Him out of the church.

Now, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.”

That’s grace, that’s mercy, that’s for those that mourn. See? The others are going to have vengeance. Now, I’m sure you can see what I’m getting at.

So all right, we turn back to Luke 4: again, 16-21.

Now listen, If the Spirit was upon Him to do that, the Spirit has got to be somewhere to do the others.

Now, let’s get this careful: It didn’t say the Spirit of God was upon Him to die upon Calvary’s Cross. See? It was a Spirit upon Him to do those things which showed Who He was, and what was to come, would come, and He would be the One Who did it.

Do you follow me what I’m saying here? There’s a difference. It’s not mentioned here about Him dying on Calvary. That will come forth. That’s part of the announcements.

But the specific announcement is this: Grace, grace, grace, grace! Four times. See? Getting the people out of the sin and the bondage and all.

Now,

Oh brother, just wait unto we get to this, verse 28, notice carefully: “He closed the Book, and gave it again to the minister, or the administrator, and sat down.”

When did He close the Book? At the time of the running out of the acceptable year of the Lord. And who did He give It to? To the Administrator which is God.

The Book is closed at the time, not at the end period of grace, I’m sorry, It is closed at the time of the announcement and inauguration of the age of grace.

That Book was closed. Close to what? Closed to judgment. See? Closed to the grace that would come at the end time to the Elect to bring them away from destruction.

Now, He closed It at the time of the announcement and the acceptable year of the Lord. When can He open It? Only after the time of the acceptable year runs out, at a juncture time when there is no grace except for the Elect, and wrath comes upon the earth.

Now, let’s go and check It out. The devil almost tripped me on that one. He wants to trip me, don’t worry, I ain’t no prophet, I’m just teacher. But he didn’t get away with it.

All right, Revelation 5:1-4. See, my notes say different.

Now, the Book is absolutely closed.

Okay, lets’ go back to,

All right, now listen, he tells you right there it’s going to be sealed up until just right before the three and a half years of great tribulation. Before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, the Book remains sealed.

All right,

Now then, this is the beginning of the Seven Church Ages and He said, “Seal it.”

But notice in verse 7, “But in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, the whole mystery is going to be resolved.”

So, the Book has got to be open.

Okay, Revelation 22:9, this is like Daniel.

Notice, the Book is open, between Revelation 10. Between the first five, first four verses of Revelation 5, Between the last chapter of Daniel It’s sealed. Now, it’s open.

So, when It’s open, there’s only one thing can happen, “The day of our vengeance, the comforting of them that mourn in the Millennium.

Now, that’s got to be announced. It’s got to be proclaimed. There’s got to be a confrontation. Don’t tell me there wasn’t a confrontation at the time of Noah, there wasn’t a confrontation at the time of Sodom.

There wasn’t a confrontation at the time of Jesus. There’s got to be a confrontation now, or God lied! But, He didn’t lie!

Now, from this morning you can see how simple this Message is, and how confused the people are. Because it’s just too simple. See? It’s just too simple that’s why.

Now, back to Revelation 5, reading on from verse 5.

Now, they couldn’t do it. The seven messengers with an anointing of the Spirit in seven ages couldn’t do it, because it wasn’t time. There’s only One can do it. God Himself must bring about His Own confrontation.

He said, “I’m going to go down and see what’s going on down there.”

You think He didn’t do it down there at the time of Noah? He certainly did. How come Enoch got Raptured? Confrontation, see?

Let’s go back to,

All right, we read and we notice there three things involved. Now, the third we did not say too much about, but was to comfort those that mourn.

Notice, the comfort of the mourning, in,

In other words, right here there’s going to be immortality given to us, because if we eat of the Tree of Life, we become that Tree of Life. Immortal in our own flesh.

All right, notice in 2 Thessalonians 1:7, we brought this to your attention.

And It says,

Everybody thinks that’s vengeance, is going to knock somebody brains out. It doesn’t. It means, ‘that which proceeds from justice’. As when the widow came to the unjust judge, and she said, “Avenge me, avenge me, avenge me.”

And Jesus said, “Is that man going to avenge her just because she’s got a cause?” No! He’s weary of her coming.

And there’s coming a day when Seven Church Ages when God wearies of the cry of the afflicted, and vengeance comes, justice begins to proceed forth.

And God begins to put the world aside separated the righteous from the wicked, and getting us ready to go in. Hallelujah!

He came with seven flaming angles out there in Arizona. I could start shouting now and screaming.

You talk… I tell you, talk about Pentecost. This is what gets me steamed up, because it’s something to get steamed up about.

So, we see there is an Old Testament prophecy on this matter in Isaiah 61:1-2.

And with that in mind, you cannot help by go now to Acts 3, and understand It as you never understood It before, because It says here concerning this time, the Presence of the Lord, the mighty miracle, wonder ministry that Brother Branham had, which was Christ’s ministry, not William Branham.

Then It says, “God after that will send Jesus which was appointed…” But, hold it! “The heaven’s got to keep Him until the restoration of all things, spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets for Moses truly said, “A prophet shall the Lord God raise up like unto me, and him you’ll hear in all things. It’ll come to pass that every soul, that will not hear that prophet will be destroyed.””

That same prophet that brought grace, is the same prophet now bring destruction. And the announcements thereof, don’t you understand what I am saying? And get it.

Absolutely, this is the Word of God this morning. There It is. It is spoken up for this hour. God is here in Person at this juncture period.

It is again seen all the more clearly in Ephesians, the spirit of grace and of revelation, and wisdom comes into the Church, to let the Church know the hour it’s living in. To bring them in, that the revelation might be there. Oh yeah, sure, that it might be there. See?

Now, just the same as it happened back there in Exodus, it is happening right here at this very hour. He’s to proclaim… the vengeance of our God to comfort them that mourn.

Now listen, verse 10.

In other words, we see Him today as the Bride, and we comforted because… I mean the Bridegroom and we are comforted as the Bride.

What’s he saying, “As a garden is sown to a certain thing, it brings forth that thing?”

We have been sown to righteousness, and we are righteous this morning. And there’s nobody can take it from us. There’s nobody can put a figure on us, no way, shape and form.

There’s something I want to see here… It wasn’t in Acts, it’s okay I’ll get it another time. It’s a verse that skipped my mind, I just read awhile ago, and It mentioned the fact about seeing Him.

See, that’s what I’ve been trying tell you. I want this church to understand this thing. I’m not trying to plead with you to understand my ministry, you can do what you want.

But the reason I left, and I have no preachers around me will ordain an elder and deacon.

I will not have any man cut my feet off from preaching this Message. Because you’ll never be changed, unless you see Him. And you cannot see Him unless He’s presented in this Word.

And when a man stands in the pulpit and says, “Logos, too much Logos.” Because some little woman either hasn’t got God, or so backslid she doesn’t want cut my feet off from talking to you folk.

Let’s get this straight this morning. One of you try to cut my feet off, I’ll being you before the church. Or, I’ll say the truth, I’ll put five thousand in the bank Brother Evans in your name. And you burn this place down, because it’s going to burn anyway.

Now, you see I’m not fooling, Lee Vayle ain’t up to nothing, never was and never will be. But there’s one thing he knows Him Who is Live Eternal. I got a gift and I preach that gift out of my heart, and that’s why I’m serious.

And I’m not worried about a crowd here if it’s reduced four to six people, I don’t give a rip. And don’t anybody get his eye on a crowd or anything else.

I have preached you this morning, ‘Thus saith the Lord’ from the Word of Almighty God. That this one who was here, because of Him Who always was in that flesh, always was not.

That Great One is here, and as He made His Own proclamation and it came to pass, that Word came to Life for that hour and is living now.

There is that same One here with the proclamation of the day of the vengeance of our God, comforting those that mourn, and establishing a people for Zion, who have one outlook, and that is upon Him Who is veiled in that Word.

And this is where we stand; and this is why this teaching is here, because I know will all my heart there is only one way we’re going to be transfigured, that is transformed.

And that is by that Living Word, for God is in His Word. And you can no longer talk about Word my brother, my sister, you must talk about God, because that’s what It’s all about.

So, if I scold you, you understand why the minute we leave the building I’ll go out and roll dice with you if that’s what you want. We’ll talk jokes. I’ll broil you a steak. I might put some arsenic on it even.

I’m trying to get something across to you. When I leave this pulpit, that’s a different story. In this pulpit I’m God’s man. And I know what I’m saying, and no one will cut my feet off if I can help it ever again.

Because I’m telling you things and nobody else I believe understand, except me by the grace of Almighty God and a gift given to me. And where this goes forth men’s lives are changed. They’re being changed constantly.

And one day, one day that life within the Word is down deep in our hearts and our minds is going to bring forth the atoms. And if it doesn’t, we’re going to walk into a way we never walked into before.

As Brother Branham said, “I’m not longer afraid.” Why was he afraid? Because he was afraid that he wasn’t meant to be William Branham.

He was afraid that he was to be somebody else and he missed the boat, and he found that he was meant to be William Branham.

And he walked in behind the curtain that time, and he saw that he was William Branham, the way William Branham was meant to be. We don’t have fear brother/sister, we have life everlasting, immortality now through Jesus Christ.

No matter what comes, be ready for it, because the acceptable year of the Lord has run out.

The Seals have been opened, the day of the vengeance of our God has been declared, and the comforter has come.

Not as He came at Pentecost. No, He’s come here, and He’s coming to Israel to comfort those that mourn in the atonement of mourning’s.

See, how you Feast of Trumpets come in? It’s all coming in. There’s no guess work anymore, we know where we stand.

The Lord bless you. And Wednesday night we’re coming here again, I’m going to re-preach this. How many want to hear it anyway? Well you better, because you’re going to get it.

[Brother Vayle goes through some local announcements.]

Let’s rise.

Heavenly Father, we’re very grateful to know that You’d never, never let us down in Your Word. There is nothing that does not in continuity. There is nothing here, Lord, in Your Word that absolutely is not a hundred percent dovetailed, Lord, we appreciate that.

And I just pray, Lord, there won’t be anyone leave this building thinking I’ve trying to aggrandize myself before them, Lord. Even though a little gift lies there that the prophet said did. An ability to see things in the Word that bring out what he said.

I appreciate that very much, knowing, Lord, that if I could do it, it wouldn’t mean anything anyway, either to me or to anybody else. Unless there was the definitive revelation of the Holy Spirit, to transform it from the mechanical right into the literal living. For once It has been said, now It must come to life, and It is coming to life.

We’re so grateful, Lord, to see these things before. See them proven so thoroughly by Scripture, and then, Lord, we know in that there lies this rest, this understanding.

Lord, when You said that day of vengeance that wasn’t for us, but You were here to comfort those that mourn. Even for Israel in the atonement of mourning. The whole thing is just falling into line.

There’s just nothing that they have a part from us, or we apart from them. Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. Nothing but the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit, It’s been God all the way through. Lord, we appreciate that, we’re just so happy for it.

Now, Lord, I pray that as Your Own Word told us, that how easy it is for the Word sown can fall upon concrete, can fall upon thorny places, stony places, and can fall in good ground. Lord, by Your grace may it have fallen in good ground this morning, Lord, to bring forth.

You said, just as a garden brings forth, My people have been sown in righteous. That’s exactly what happened, for the prophet screamed out believing the Word for this hour, the evidence of the Holy Ghost.

Righteousness, it has been sown, a re-sowing, it will bring forth righteousness, and it is and it does. Unto Thee be glory and honor, Lord, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

The Lord bless you.

Let’s just go singing, ‘We’ll walk in the Light’.