Why Is He Here #5B

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We’re grateful to be on Your Presence this afternoon, Lord, and this place that You have given us to worship You, believing it is in Spirit and in Truth, Lord, to be here and a partaker of the whole counsels of God of Almighty God, to give them the pre-eminence even as this is right at this hour, or You desiring to bring Yourself to us in a way that we can apprehend You, come by revelation.

And then through the revelation we give You pre-eminence, and then we get right back to Headship. Back to the Garden where we’re supposed to be in the beginning.

We thank You for that, Lord. We really appreciate it, and we believe this is in the process now, just getting ready to turn the corner, if that corner has not already been turned into the Resurrection Itself.

So, Father we just commend ourselves to Your grace at this hour, knowing that You are that great, great Creator. And about to create again bodies to come out of the dust, and clothed men and women to bring it into that place, Lord, which was in Your thoughts in the beginning.

So, we’re grateful we’re part of that today. We declare ourselves to be a part of It in this great unity wherein we stand, that I and we and the Father are one, Lord.

We say that, we believe it, and You know our hearts, Lord, that they are open before you. And that’s been proven in this late hour, we don’t have any doubt about that. Our hearts, Lord, are one with Your Word by grace, in Jesus’ Name we thank You. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, before we get into the message, and I want to tell you that I’ve got to sort of go back on my word from last Sunday.

I’m not going to get to what I wanted to today, we’re going to take more time in coming to the place where we present Him in the light of ‘The Judge standing amongst the Bride’. We’re just taking further aspects to see just where we’ll go.

Now… we’re a little group here and, you know, it’s very friendly little group and the way the church is even. It’s kind of like you’re sitting in my lap, and I’m sitting in your lap and that’s nice. So, the preaching is not like I’m preaching so much as we’re having a conversation.

Now, you say, “Brother Vayle, it’s a one-sided conversation. No, the Holy Spirit is talking to you like He’s talking to me. It’s a three-sided conversation.

It’s not one of these just… you know, and then again I’m just thinking I get your stool one of these days. You bring it over, and I’ll sit up here, and so I can kind of lean over the pulpit like a desk, and just talk with you.

Because sometimes there’s things I want to tell you that I feel you ought to know in the sense of how myself am feeling out toward this subject.

Now, I mentioned sometime back, just a couple of weeks ago, that I felt the great possibility of having turned the corner into the Resurrection, or as I previously stated the gravitational pull, the Spirit leaving the Word.

In other words, the Word having run Its course as to the Message, and the usage of It is now coming to the place where the Bride will be transformed as the dead come out of the ground.

But before they can come out of the ground, that Word has to be in a position so that the Word in us becomes flesh.

I wonder if I got that sort of written down here somewhere. I never know what I write down, but I write things down somewhere, I wrote it down, but I’ll get it to you later on.

Now, what I’m trying to get is this: two or three years ago, was longer than that now, several years back… back in ’75 actually what it was, I was as I told you sort of moody and puzzling as to Brother Branham’s statement that the Message was so simple that It was going over people’s heads.

They’re passing It by, and I said, “Well, the way these preachers are writing in-between the lines, it would take a telescope to count the fleas on Mars, to give you the revelation that the preachers are trying to give you, because it is so… Brother Branham said, “Gommed up.”

Now, because I resented what was going on, and spiritually so, one day a voice said to me, “The Resurrection proves His death.” And I’ve never ever heard anything like that ever expressed in my life, or having read it to my knowledge.

And so I said, “Well, that sounds like there’s something to that.”

And that evolved the series of ‘The Blood’, wherein I saw things that I don’t know that were ever printed or said, at least I don’t know of any books that are extant at this hour, that said some of the things that were said and gone into, because of what came to me.

Now, the other day… maybe three weeks ago, well… let’s go back further, in-between that series of messages, and what is happening now you remember that it also said the church will go either forward or backward, depending on their understanding of the series I was teaching.

The theme of which was, ‘the vertical to the horizontal’.

Now, the vertical to the horizontal is a term, that I don’t know where I got it. I might have got it from business magazines, I might have got it from a sermon, I might have got it originally. I don’t think it’s original.

But, the idea is that the Spirit of God coming down moves from the vertical, from Him, into the horizontal, which is out here in the world, in the Bride, every place else.

Now, how that Spirits moves will depend upon in whom It is moving, and for what reason It is moving, and furthermore, whether anyone will try to stop that moving.

Now, we’ve got a couple of engineers here, especially we’ve got Dave. So, what if Dave’s got a job as an engineer at Wright-Patterson, and people start coming by and say, “Well now, Dave the thing is we need the floor swept, sweep the floors.”

Now, you say, “Well, he should prove that he’s humble in doing it.” He’s stupid to do it. He wasn’t called to sweep floors, he’s called to be an engineer.

Now, see reason I hit that that hard is, you go to ministries. Now, ministries are millions and millions of miles above engineers. Because engineering is strictly in the carnal, the same as every other job in this world is in the carnal, and it’s all got to go.

But there is a calling in the Holy Spirit that cannot be shaken down. That’s in every single one of us.

See, now the minute a ministry is interfered with somebody is going to get hurt, and there’s a lot of people hurt, because ministries are interfered with.

Now, you know what I’m talking about, it’s too late to fool around. I’m telling you flat, what happens. See?

Now, let’s go further, He began dealing with me, the next subject was as Brother Branham said, “Always looking forward, always looking back, never know what’s going on.”

Now, I have never deliberately sought God for these things. If I were to seek God, I would disobey the prophet. He said, “The harder you try the further you get from it.” And the time you think you’ve got it, that’s the time you haven’t.

Listen, that does not obviate the fact that you’ve got to get it, and you’ll have to know that you’ve got it. Now, come on, he didn’t say one thing to mess us up and leave us in a never-never land of the hodgepodge. Goodness me, we’ve had that for six thousand years, forget it!

You’re coming to the “place of face to face, and know as you’re known.” “No more children tossed to and fro, with every wind of doctrine and cunning, and sleight of fancy of men,” and the devil and all these things. We’re coming to a place of knowledge.

Now, I went along and enfolded you the best I could, grouping and feeling and letting you know that there was certain things in the atmosphere, as you’ll recalled, I brought back.

I was in Canada, and it came back, and I had felt that we were… with possibility of moving. Even then five years ago, about four, five years ago, from the Word of the mechanics into the dynamics, which would bring the dead out of the ground, which is the corner I’m looking.

You see, always looking at that corner. Then, I began looking at it and studying with you, showing you what He is doing now under the precept of when He came down, that Jesus had climbed on the Throne, the process now is all things under His feet.

Because remember, the Head of the Church is Christ. And the Head of Christ is God. And God owes Jesus a debt, and that debt is to bring everything back to the Millennium with the last Adam is our Head, the Bride and Groom in the Millennium.

Now, I said, “Well, it’s possible we’re right in here now to the place.”

I preached four times or so to you, and I suddenly realized that we don’t look in the heavens as signs, because you see, when I came back, I preached that and Brother Gene came to me and said, “Lee, did you know the astronomers have found a star that’s standing still?”

And I said, “No.”

So, what I was… we’re wondering, were we standing still? Were we with the Message as to the mechanics had we moved over to the dynamics?

Well, I thought maybe the best we could be doing would be either standing still, or moving, because the gradational pull is equal on both sides.

Well, when he said the star was standing still, we’ll you know that old trick, you know, you take a balloon and you’re in school, a special balloon, they had in physics class and they’d blow it up and then they’d hold both ends and let it go and the balloon go putt-putt-putt up and down.

Didn’t go anywhere, because he had, you know, two force in equal directions. If they’d had had four it would have, you know, balanced off even more.

So, the star is standing still because the forces are there that kept it there. Now, I haven’t heard of that star and I care less. But I began thinking, well now maybe God’s showing me things in the heavens.

Because Brother Branham said, “Things in the heavens, then in the earth,” and then so on.

Well, then he showed me, He said, “No, you’ve missed it, I don’t want you looking at anything in the heavens, because it’s not for you, it was just that one time to start you moving. It’s not in the earth, at least that’s my understanding of that, it’s in the Word.” See?

Now, we keep looking at the Word, and I’ve been looking at the Word, and looking at the Word.

And then He said one day, “I don’t want you looking at anything except what’s the Bride’s, not even in the church out there.”

I hadn’t known that Brother Branham has said that, but he did. Not out there, nowhere. Get to the Word.

Now, what I’m leading and taking my time is this: the other day it suddenly came to my mind out of the blue. And what came to my mind will disturb… won’t really, because it shouldn’t, but could disturb the people who have a wrong understanding of Godhead, that’s one group, and a wrong understanding of pre-eminence, and worship in some of these things that you just might not get what I’m saying as I caught it myself.

Now watch: I ask you a question, and listen carefully and think.

Exactly what did Jesus intend to do when He came here?

And your major answer is, “As John the Baptist, behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” And you come right to the point of redemption by Blood. And that’s interesting. I believe that’s true, He came to do that.

And you know, if you believe that too strongly you’ll begin to throw everything else out of balance, because that’s one thing, the main thing but, you’re missing it, so was I.

You see where your minds are going right now? Your mind says, “Well, is he preaching heresy, what’s going on?”

See, my mind doesn’t question, because right away when I know He speaks I know there’s something to it. See? And I knew there was something there.

And what there was there is this: now let’s watch carefully, from Abel… I won’t find it all here in Hebrews 11:, from Abel right up to mentioning Samuel, David, Jephthah, Barak, and the rest of them, Rahab and right on down the line, those Old Testament Saints.

Now I ask you a question? What did they have to do with Jesus coming in the flesh and dying? They’re already dead.

Now, listen carefully, then the Blood wasn’t atoning for them as It atones for us. There’s a difference. See?

Now, let your minds go a bit. What did He come to do for them? Death is separation, right? All right, death is separation.

Now, upper and lower Sheol, is in one place. Luke 16: shows you that, It’s a vast gulf, but it’s in one place.

That’s why spirits could come back before the New Testament. They’re moved. They’re in different places now, upper and lower. Don’t have upper and lower anymore, they’re way apart.

Now, He died upon Calvary, and they’re in prison separated from God. See? Now, the shedding of the Blood meant He had to die in order to get to them. Because He couldn’t get to them physically, He had to get to them spiritually.

Now, does your mind begin to pick up a little better now? So, when He came to die on Calvary and you look back in the Old Testament, now He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, what He does never changes.

He was involved in coming not to die, to raise the dead. But, He couldn’t raise the dead until he died. Now, does your mind begin to function now?

He never just came to die upon Calvary. He came to get those dead out of there. You follow what I’m saying? It’s abstract. You understanding what I’m saying?

Now if you don’t, go over it in your minds. Again, it’s hard to tell you these things, because look, I’m only looking at them now, they’ll start coming out in message after message, because I know what I’m talking about.

He came to do many things, see? of which the death, the shedding of Blood was the prerequisite, the great prerequisite, or the great need, but He came to get them out. And the shedding of the Blood didn’t do it.

You follow what I’m saying? Because they never popped out of the grave because He shed His Blood. You follow me? You get it?

He had to go and get them. Now, “He’s the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” And He’s got to come and get us. And it was in the Spirit He did it, and He’ll do it again. Now, you see this, is where this is coming from.

Now, if you understand then what I’m saying, a lot of this which I feel will be coming, and I don’t know what all is going to come, is based upon the premise that He is everything. And He is doing it all.

And it is not functional as in one aspect. It is functional in the whole, and I don’t care if somebody did die and rise again if God wasn’t in it. It wouldn’t mean anything. Because salvation is of the Lord. See?

Now, you’re getting to understand grace better, and understand sovereignty, and understand yourselves. Take a good look in the mirror and spit in your face and forget it. And look it to Him. Because you ain’t getting nowhere unless He does it. See?

Now, I don’t speak to you as a prophet, I don’t even know if I’m a teacher.

Brother Branham never said I was, he said, “You have a gift of teaching.”

That gift maybe a lot different then what people think for this reason: it will see the Scripture in the light that a prophet brings it.

He’d have to bring it first, but it’ll go into the prophetic, and the prophetic Psalm is “Jesus Who is this King of glory.”

And the King of glory is coming up to the gates of Heaven having led captivity captive. See?

Now, the Blood opened the door, but He had to do it. the Blood opens the door, but He’s got to convict you.

The Blood opens the door, but the Spirit has got to bring you step by step, justification, sanctification, baptism with the Holy Ghost sealing you in. God is doing it.

So, I’m not taking from the Blood, I’m just showing you this that you can’t get lopsided with God.

The revelation is a complete revelation as to redemption. And the redemption was already played out fifty percent, actually, I’m going it leave it at fifty percent, because there’s more than two parts to the First Resurrection. Hard to explain.

The First half has already taken place. Call it a half, it’s really not, Old Testament Saints.

Number two: comes us. Number three: comes in two witnesses. Number four: comes the 144,000. They’re in it, but they’re not Bride.

So, you have got literally twenty-five percent over with at least when it comes to chronology, and fitting in of the pieces in the chronology. But really, it’s fifty percent over with. See?

You understand what I’m driving at? You have got to see that what’s many people in the fundamentalists’ sees.

He does not see what I am telling you, because he says, “Well hallelujah, the Blood was shed.”

And then he thinks there is a normal sequence because of the Blood which is not true. The normal sequence is sovereignty, and what He did back there He’s going to do again.

So, there was the apostles, the ones waiting and they were standing there. They saw the dead coming out of the ground. Yeah. I don’t know how many they saw, but they saw them. The saw Jesus.

Now, the same thing with us, we’ll be standing here, we’ll see the dead come out of the ground.

Now, you tell me how come they come out of the ground? It wasn’t because of the Blood. And yet it was because of the Blood. But the Blood didn’t do it, but the Blood did do it. See?

In other words, it’s basic, redemption is basic what you have always believed. But you haven’t got far enough, you see, to interrelate until you become right at home with grace and sovereignty, you become relaxed.

See, that’s why I like what we got here, we’re just like family. Sometimes it’s worse than family. But it’s that way.

We can talk to each other, and I get time that you can sort of get me your responses back. I can look at your faces and what have you, and get your responses back.

So, what you see accomplished there when he died, he can never die again, but He will raise the dead. See?

What was He doing down there in the prison? He first went down to raise the dead, Abraham and those standing there waiting for Him.

He said, “Look, He said, now that you’ve seen Me, He said, I’m in a hurry I’ve got to preach to those in lower Sheol down here.” He went down preached to them in prison which were disobedient.

And He said, “I’m going to confirm to you what those prophets said is true, here I stand. Now, I’m going to go back to them that believed it and get them out of here. You think He’s not doing that now? Come on!

See what I’m showing you now? The fundamentalist is so strong on blood he’s not even born again. The Charismatic’s are so strong on tongues they’re not born again.

There’s only one group born again, those that stay with the revelation. And when the revelation begins to break they follow right down the road. They know where they stand.

Now, do you know better today and you’ve ever known He’s going to get you out of here? I hope you do, because if He don’t get you out of here, you’re gone.

If you and the Father aren’t one by the revealed Word, the Life that’s in the Word, come on you ain’t going nowhere. I’m just going to be honest with you.

Look it, we’re not here to pat each other in the back, you know, as have a nice time. If we were, I don’t know a nicer time I could have myself. I don’t know about you. But I mean, that’s up to you.

I feel that you must be having a pretty good time, you wouldn’t be here either. But if were just here to have to have a nice time, you know… you know just be, you know, pretend we’re living while we’re dead. That’s a bunch a hogwash.

So, okay now with that in mind I believe it would help you to understand as time goes on, a lot of what is being brought to our attention the things that Brother Branham said.

Now, it’s going to be a long service, and I don’t like reading at length because, you know, I just don’t, but I’m going to do it anyway. And you sit and listen we’ll see what we can do with the Scriptures as we get into It.

All right, reading,

Remember, you can see a voice. It’s what it is. A voice is a vision according to 1 Samuel 3:15. Samuel hesitated to bring the vision to Eli. He didn’t see a thing, he heard.

So, if you hear the Word of God you are seeing. And when you see through revelation it’s ‘the eyes of the heart’. And it’s the eyes of the heart that the Message reflection is all about.

“Now, all things work together for good.” Now you might get tired of me saying this, but it’s alright. I’ve no malice when say it, my feet were cut off and I couldn’t preach it, ‘the eyes of the heart’. There’s no way I could do it.

I’m going to tell you, the first time I preached that was in anger.

You say, “Brother Vayle you shouldn’t get angry.” Moses got angry. I’m not Moses. He’s nice I’m not. He had a Pillar of Fire and talked face to face, I don’t, I got problems.

Honey, let me tell you, I’ve got problems up here preaching, because if I’m leading you stranded, I’ll answer for every single person I lead astray.

Not in this building, but those that hear the tapes. They’re pretty well worldwide at this point. I don’t’ sent them out, people want them, they can get them.

I’m not even traveling anymore, I don’t know if I’ll ever go anywhere in the world ever again, I don’t know. But it’s very, very serious.

As soon as I preached it about twice in a row, a voice said to me, “See, this is what you would have preached if you’d have preached about ‘the eyes of the heart’.”

But it took the fifth time before I knew why He said it, and I’m telling you today this is ‘the eyes of the heart’ we’re talking about. Where in here you understand and you are a part of it.

Now, this is hard for me to tell you this in the sense of the word. This sense of the word is hard to tell. Easy to tell it. But you see, if I had a spiritual can opener, which I wish I did… can opener, heart opener. Mind opener, heart opener.

I could tell you I could do something for you. See? But I can’t do it. You’ve got to give back to God from this Word either in understanding His Names, His Titles, or part of this revelation that suddenly jells with you where you come to the definitive.

And when you do, something will happen to you, and you can’t help it. There’s nothing that you will do yourself, but suddenly you will know. That is the relaxation under the Seventh Seal. That’s ‘the eyes of the heart’.

That’s the Word that your body begins to build around for the Resurrection. Because the blood goes through the heart and the heart is known as the ‘life station’, where the life is, pumping out. It’s where the soul is.

And the soul affects the spirit, and the spirit the flesh. See? We’re coming into the Resurrection.

Now look, before God I lie not to you, if there’s isn’t one of us make it, that’s going to happen to somebody. See? Now, this is the vertical to the horizontal, do what you want with it.

Now [you] say, I’m getting a little hard again. But I’m not really, I’m kind of smiling. Like when the dog wags its tail, he’s going to bite you anyway.

Don’t you kid yourself, nobody will stop my vertical into the horizontal, because it goes in here. I lie to you not, and I’m serious before God and you know I’m serious, I’m not kidding one moment.

That vertical lies in a gift in this Word, and it’s not the word of Lee Vayle that changes anybody, it’s got to be God in that Word.

I can’t do anything for anybody. If I could do it for you, I would do it. But I can’t do it. But I can tell you what’s going to happen. If not to us, to somebody else.

That’s the prophet said, “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere, and by the grace of God I won’t stand in her way.”

But, I got faith for every single person until you kick your heels up, and your creeds are greater than the Word, or your loyalties and affections, be they flesh, be they blood, be they paper, be whatever they are… get in your way you’re finished.

Now, families can be ripped up on this Message. Husbands may never see their wives in the Millennium, wives never see their husbands.

You see where you stand today? Now, I stand right myself, there’s only One stands with me and that’s God.

As David said, “My son, you cannot come back to me, but I will go to you.” Boy couldn’t come back. We lie in a desperate channel right today.

You got to be…where do you stand today? I can’t read your heart. But I can tell you one thing:

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We’re going to read:

Now, here’s where we do a lot of reading, this is why the message is going to take so long, and I’ve taken longer than I should have, but it’s alright.

If we get too tired we won’t have a service on Wednesday. And I’ve been tired ever since last Sunday and I only got feeling a little better yesterday.

So, all right here reading in,

The Patmos Vision 60-12-04

…and continuing for a long time.

[87]  And I turned, and I saw seven golden candlesticks; in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks one like… the Son of man, …My. Did you notice? Stars, candlesticks, lamps, what does it mean? What does this mean?

That the dispensation that we’re living in is night-time; candles and lights and stars mean night. And what does a star do? It reflects the light of the sun until the sun returns.

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. And a true minister of God don’t reflect some flashlight, some match stem, some shuck a-burning; he reflects the golden rays of Christ to the church, that “He’s the same, He’s alive, and He shines on me.”

Now, I’m going to stop here, Brother Branham was talking on this one time, and I think you’ll find in the Church Order Book, …they were sort of casual like we are today, and people begin talking back to the prophet.

I want to tell you something right now, I have noticed that every time anybody ever spoke up in the meeting of a prophet William Branham, the person turned haywire. You never talk back to a prophet.

Men talked back, and I doubt if one of those stayed with the Message or near it. I don’t know, I just doubt from what I’ve seen and heard.

Many called by name, where are they today? Where were they even at the time I was around with him all those years?

Now, Brother Branham said, “That a star reflects light.”

And a man spoke up and said, “Brother Branham, a star has its own light.”

Where did he get it? The same place the sun got it. Would there be a star that didn’t have that same light in him that was in the great Star-holder? They misunderstood exactly what Brother Branham was saying.

The star does reflect the light, and it is his own light that God gave him. That’s why Paul said, “My Gospel.” But, it was God’s Gospel. Hallelujah. So much for these guys that, phfft! you know, they know everything. Fap!

…true minister of God don’t reflect some flashlight, some match stem, some shuck a-burning; reflects the golden rays of Christ to the church, that “He’s the same, He’s alive, and He shines on me.” Amen. That’s the Light he reflects. The star reflects the light of the sun See?

I think they might as well have put capital S-o-n here instead as s-u-n, because he’s talking about ‘messengers’.

…so, we’re reflecting the Light of the Son of God, doing the same thing He did, giving Light. What kind of light? Gospel light to those…

[88]  Now, let’s watch Him just a little further… take the 13th verse. And in the midst… (the middle.)… of the golden candlesticks one like… the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, golden girdle about the paps…

And,

Now, here’s proof that this doctrine is right about being the Lord’s day. Did you notice Him? He’s not a priest during this time; neither was He a king; He was a Judge.

Notice, a priest, a high priest, when he went into the sanctuary went in to minister, to serve, he tied himself around the waist. Tying his girdle around the waist, meant that he was serving: never tied it over his shoulders.

But here He comes out, walking out with the girdle tied around the top, with a sash over the shoulder, [you know the veil over the shoulder is symbolic of the taking authority. That’s why the woman takes the veil from her face and puts it on the man’s shoulder, where the authority goes. You’ve got his authority, you see.] girded about the paps, the breast, with a golden girdle, girded up high.

What is it? An attorney, a judge. [Isn’t that cute, he slipped that attorney in there.] The judge with his sash over his shoulder, girded up here, not down to the priest. See, that shows He wasn’t in His priesthood now. John went all the way over into the Lord’s Day and saw Him coming as the Judge.

[89]  You believe He’s Judge? Let’s read Saint John 5:22, right quick, we’ll see whether He’s Judge or not. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: That right? He is the Judge, Supreme Judge.

Now listen:

And John shows that He wasn’t in the day of His prophecy, as a prophet, neither was He plumb out into the days of His kingship, but He was in the day of the Lord as a Judge.

Now, how many knows that the priest having his girdle, his string around his waistline meant he was in service? Anyone who reads the Testament, who knows the Old Testament, knows that.

When a priest is girded around here, he’s in service; as a servant… [he’s] girded up here: [he’s pointing one to the waist, one to the shoulders. Girded up the shoulders He’s] a Judge.

[90]  Let’s read a little farther… a golden girdle was about the paps. That’s right, up around here, He’s Judge. Now, we’re going to read the sevenfold glory of His Person. Oh, my. This makes me shout before I get to it. Notice this, …this is such a wonderful thing. Just listen…his head…

Now, watch. He’s seven things here… head, hair, eyes, feet, voice. Seven things He mentioned here, the sevenfold glory of Jesus Christ. Let me read It.

His head and hair was white as wool, as white as snow; … eyes a flame of fire; … feet like fine brass… they burnt in the furnace… the voice… sound of many waters.…had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword: countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

What a vision. What did he see here? The glorified Son of God and a symbol. Now, let’s be ready now.

All right:

[92]  Notice the first thing…notice how His head was His hair was white like wool. His head and His hair was white like wool. Now, it does not mean that He was aged that did this. That wasn’t the reason. He wasn’t old to do this.

He was… It was because of His experience and qualification and His wisdom. Because He’s eternal, and eternal cannot age. You understand this? The spirit of wisdom, He comes to the Church the last time.

Let’s first turn, and we’ll picture Him out here as this, and we’ll find out what He is. Now, let’s turn to Daniel 7:9, just for a minute; you see the same picture in Daniel where He comes from over here at the Ancient of time.

Most every-body, Bible scholar, knows exactly where we’re heading for Daniel (now) 7: and 9th verse; [8th] [And I considered the horn, and, behold, there came up… another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like… a man, a mouth speaking great things. And I beheld thrones were cast down,…

Now, 7:9

[93]  And I beheld until the thrones were cast down, the Ancient of days did sit, whose garments was white as snow, and the hair of his head like… pure wool : … (Ancient of days)… his throne was like a fiery flame, wheels of burning fire.

And fiery–fiery streams issued came forth from before him: and thousands… thousands ministered unto him, ten… times ten thousands stood before him: and judgment was set and the books were open. “White hair…” All… Anybody knows that’s the old judges in ancient days, like English judges used to wear a snow white wig.

How many remembers that? Old ancient judges wore a white wig because they was… And here He is, showing again that John’s over in the Lord’s day; saw Him as the Judge (Amen.), not a Priest, not as King, not as Prophet, but as Judge.

Now, right away your mind says, “Well, if that’s the case then He’s no longer prophet. I thought He didn’t change. See?

Man becomes a father, he was a son, but he never ceases being a son. Man becomes a husband, still a son. He’s got his own father, and he’s a father, then he becomes a grandfather. He doesn’t cease being any of those. See?

No way! God doesn’t change. These are aspects, you see, what we’re looking at. And that’s what we’ve got to watch and see the aspects at a certain period. Okay:

…not as Priest, not as King, not as Prophet, but a Judge. The Father, Saint John 5:22, committed all judgment to Him. And He’s Judge now, comes to judge the nations. Oh, for that day when you see Him like that. His hair was as white as snow; Daniel saw Him coming to the Ancient of days. Watch Him blend these two together.

[94]  …the judgment was set, the books open. And I beheld them because… And I beheld then because of the voice of the great–great words which the horn… And the fiery stream issued forth and came from him: and tens of thousands came and ministered unto him, …

And I beheld them because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: and I beheld even until the beast was slain, his body was destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

As concerning the rest of the beasts, they all had their dominion taken away: … (That’s all the Gentile powers and kingdoms will fall.) … yet their lives were prolonged for a season at a time.

And I saw in the night vision, behold, one like the Son of man come in… clouds of heaven, … (How did we see Him come in this morning in the 3rd verse? Coming in the clouds of heaven, the Son of man.) … one like unto the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, and He came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him nigh before him.

And there was given him a dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all people, nations, … languages, serve Him: this dominion, is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall… his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Now,

[95]  Come to the Ancient of days His hair was white as wool. [He’s just showing you the same vision with the same two prophets, John and Daniel.] John turned and he saw One like the Son of man standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, with snow white hair: the Judge, not girded around the waist, but girded around the paps, up here, a judge.

With the sash of the judge over His shoulder, He stood with a golden, pure, holy, refined girdle that held His righteousness, His cover. He was covered all the way to the feet. Watch the sevenfold manifestation…

[96]  …14th verse: His hair… His head and his hair was as white as like wool, as white as snow; and his eye were… flames of fire;
Head, hair, “eyes were like flames of fire.” Think of it. Those eyes who once was dimmed with human tears, now has become flames of fire.

In anger, He stands there as the angry Judge. Why did you reject Him? O sinner, think of this. Think of it, lukewarm church member. Think of it, Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal. Think of it, Catholic.

Your virgin Mary had to go up to Pentecost and receive the Holy Ghost, and stagger and act like a drunk woman. The very mother of Christ had to get that before she’d be permitted to heaven. How are you women going to get there anything less than that? Think of it, men, each of you.

Now:

[97]  His hair, and His eyes once dimmed with human tears, yet I want you to notice something about those eyes. When He was on earth, they were dimmed with tears like a man, for He cried at the grave of Lazarus. Right.

Full of sympathy, His humanity, He was clothed, He was God clothed in humanity in order to take away sin. But yet behind that humanity, He had something behind that could look right down into the heart of a man and know all about him. Why?

There was something behind Him, yet He was clothed in mortal flesh. But they didn’t know Who it was, “If you don’t believe,” He said, “that I am He, you’ll die in your sins.” [Really that’s the I Am] That’s right.

“If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not; but if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works if you can’t believe Me.”

In other words, didn’t believe His Words, believe the works, they had to say something.

Oh, how He tried to get the message to them, the revelation. Could look right down into the heart of a man and know all about him.

Now you see, you realize he’s talking in terms of his own ministry. The discernment.

How I think of that: Those eyes that once pierced over the mountains, looking into the face of suffering, and could weep like a man; but yet could take the Spirit of God behind that human vision there and see all things, things which was, things which were, and things which would come, foretell the end from the beginning, that’s ’cause God was behind them human eyes.

Let God come into your life and take control of you, and He’ll show you things to come. For it’s not you no more; it’s the Holy Spirit in your life back there looking through them mortal eyes to pick out things.

[98]  O glory to God. “I’ll pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy; young men see visions, your old men shall dream dreams.”

Some-times He has to put you to sleep so He can look through you, and He’ll sure show you many things. “Your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams; upon My handmaids and maidservant will I pour out of My Spirit.

Not upon My deacons and pastors, and upon My… Upon whosoever will, upon all flesh, I’ll pour out My Spirit.” [In other words, He’s not a priesthood, it’s every-body.] You wonder why I scream that out, but it’s coming in these church ages.

[99]  There He was, those eyes. And remember, one day those eyes that were dimmed with tears, those eyes will stand at the judgment. Now, they’re like fiery flames running to and fro through the whole earth, and there’s nothing happens but what He knows it.

Oh, my, it’s recorded. Running to and fro through the earth watching every move, perceiving every thought, knowing everything you’re doing, the intents of the heart, what you intend to do. He knows all about it. He knows whether you love Him.

He knows [whatever] your intentions are right to serve Him. He knows all about it. And what will it be when you stand that day when every sin’s naked before Him, and He stands there at the white throne judgment?

Now,

[100]  God, deliver me from that place. I don’t want to see that. When an angered God walks out there with fire flashing from His eyes, with the righteousness, the white wig over His head like that, His eyes flashing with fire that knows every thoughts of your heart, and everything you ever intended to do. Hide me over in the Rock of Ages cleft for me.

The old fellows used to sing, “When this world’s on fire, stand by me. Stand by me, and let Thy bosom be my pillow. Hide me over in the Rock of Ages.” God, I don’t want Your judgment. I don’t want Your… What I want is Your mercy, Lord.

Give me Your mercy, not Your justice… give me Your mercy, not Your laws, not any of that. Just give me mercy, Lord; that’s all I can plead for.

Nothing in my arms I bring (I’m no good, no account.), only simply to Thy cross I cling. Lord, that’s all I know: One come to take my place.

Sure see, that’s the thing that people don’t want to understand. “Well, I believe He took my place.” Well, if He took your place then He’s taking your place now.

Why won’t He take your place? See, this is what grace is all about, is God plus nothing. See?

[101]  Watch His sevenfold Personage now of His Person, and you’ll see that what He did. His head… white as snow; … (like wool, white hair)… and his eyes were… flames of fire; And his feet like fine brass…burnt in a furnace; Watch now, we just noticed where He’s covered, you know.

Now, watch. His head, His eyes, and now He goes down to His feet like brass. Watch the contrast to that image there that John saw of Jesus, and what Daniel saw of the world empire, the head of gold and so forth.

Look at what this was here, standing there, brass. What does brass speak of? Brass speaks of judgment, Divine judgment.

It shows that His full purpose is coming here on earth as God to be made flesh, and He died for us and took the judgments of God, the Divine judgment, and has received a Kingdom that’s brass, and solid, and it cannot be moved.

Nothing harder than brass, they never found nothing yet that would temper it.

Okay,

[102]  Judgment. Brass speaks of Divine judgment passed on. Look at the brass serpent in the wilderness. What did that brass serpent represent? The serpent represented sin; but being brass, judgment already passed on sin.

Notice the days of Elijah, when they had rejected Elijah as prophet, that little thread of the ancient church age. One of these days I’ll bring up and show you Israel had seven church ages too, and typed exactly with these. [That means our Church Ages]

And in their church age, in the days of Elijah, they refused him and there’s three years and six months there was no rain. The ancient prophet said the skies looked like brass: Divine judgment upon the nations that rejected God and listened to Jezebel.

See, she represents the church systems.

[103]  Brass also represents Divine judgment at the altar where the sacrifice was killed, brazen altar. Killed… The very foundation was brass, the judgment. He tread the winepress of the fierceness of God and took our judgment upon Him.

Turn to Revelations 19:15, just a minute; …His eyes a flame of fire, on his head was crown, many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but… himself…clothed with the vesture dipped in blood: his name was called The Word of God… (Now, remember, His Name wasn’t the Word of God, His Name was called. See? )… his name was called The Word of God.

And the armies… of heaven… the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:

Now, you noticed that that’s not the White Throne. But it’s the same One. That’s not White Throne. That’s the end of Armageddon. That’s when the Saints come back with Him. Three, and a half year tribulation. See?

Now, just watch where he’s putting these things.

[104]  What did He do? The wrath of God was upon us for being sinners. Is that right? No one could save himself. There’s nothing we could do; we’re all born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. What did He do? He came to the earth (Hallelujah.) and tread the winepress.

All the wrath of Almighty God was poured out upon Him. “Thou art worthy, O Lamb…for You were slain.” Taking the sins of the world upon Him, and He bore our sin, and God poured out the fierceness of His wrath upon Him.

“He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace upon Him, and with His stripes we were healed.”

Never a man died like that man. He suffered until the Blood and water separated in His body. And drops of Blood dropped out of His brow before His death…. the winepress of the wrath of the fierceness of Almighty God.

See, that’s why I said a while ago. You can get so carried away with what He did on Calvary that people almost forget that He rose again for a certain purpose.

That even when He went down to Hades He was fighting a mighty battle in order to liberate those which could not have been liberated, except for the shedding of the Blood. But notice, He had to do it.

See, in other words we’re dealing with God Who is Life. There’s isn’t any life a creed or a dogma, or a church, or in a performance, in a baptism, in anything, it’s in God.

And if you don’t have God you haven’t got it. You see, that’s this Message is all about. See? It’s Life. And we’re not talking Word anymore in the sense of a word. We’re talking Life. See?

[105]  Someday those brass feet of justice when He comes as Judge, He’ll tread the antichrist,

Now, already He went into Revelation 19:11.

All right, let’s go back there to 2 Thessalonians 2:8, and you can see the very same thing when It says,

Same time, see? He’ll tread the antichrist…

…and all of His enemies. [You see, what Brother Branham did was put the two together.] Hallelujah. He’ll walk through the earth with a rod of iron in His hand.

Now, that’s when He rules the earth with a rod of iron. The fundamentalists believe children will be born in the Millennium, and Jesus and the Bride will rule with a rod of iron.

And cause such hatred that this is what is going to cause the rebellion of the devil who is loosed after the thousand years. No way, this is the ‘rod of iron’ right here.

See, …watch your chronology, because if you don’t you’re going to fine your own old fundamentalist chronology will constantly just rip up this Word that the prophet taught.

He’ll walk through the earth with a rod of iron in His hand. Amen. Oh, repent, sinner friend, while you got a chance to repent. [Of course, by that time it’s too late to repent.]

[You’re trying] to put it off and think it’s just a little story that won’t happen; it will happen. “It just couldn’t happen to me.” But it will happen to you. Feet of brass, tread down His enemies. Because He suffered and tread out the winepress of the fierceness of God to pay for our sins.

But, just a minute, you remember what he said there. He said, “Every sin and every word against the Son of man can be forgiven.”

That’s right, so you got to be careful even when you hear Brother Branham here. There comes a day though, blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.

See, we’re coming in that hour, we’re in that crucial hour right now. That’s why judgment is coming on. All these years there was mercy, mercy, mercy. But you see, we’ll get to it, we’ll get to more things yet.

…then we, guilty, poor, miserable sinners as we are, stick our little nose up, and read some kind of atheistic book, and try to think there’s no God, and say there’s no nothing like this and judgment can’t come.

He’ll take those brass feet and crush out His enemy. He’ll wade over the antichrist. He’ll take those apostate churches and sling them into the eternity yonder, somewhere into a consuming fire where they’ll be consumed and done away with. And He will reign on earth, Him and His church forever. Glory.

[106]  “Head, white as wool,” righteousness, experience, eloquence, sufficient, wisdom. Aged, white, speaks of wisdom, old. Knows what He’s doing, He’s the fountain of wisdom. He’s the fountain of experience. [That’s true.]

He’s the fountain of every good thing; therefore, He’s represented in this One like the Son of man, was clothed with this white hair hanging down.

Daniel saw Him many hundred years, seven hundred years, and said, “He was the Ancient of days. And One like the Son of man come in power and united with this Ancient of days, and the judgment was set.

[107]  Now, I want to just ask you something. I’m speaking to you lukewarm church. Ten virgins went out to meet the Lord, five…wise, five foolish, as we took this morning, that grafted tree. Now, remember, as they went out to meet God… Now, watch, the Bible said, “The books were open.”

Now remember, the foolish virgins. He talks about the ten virgins went out.

Now, watch what Brother Branham says in,

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[135]  …when this Holy Spirit that we have, becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the form of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings.

Now, we’re looking at that here of this One, at this moment that is the Judge, He’s going to be King of kings, and yet notice, He’s going to be linked up to the foolish virgin.

See, you’ve got one God playing His roles. Doing His work, and there’s no way that you can separate His roles in the sense of the definitive to where you can just say, “Well, this happened, this will never happen again.”

The shedding of the Blood is the only role. You’ll never find the shedding of Blood again. But, you will find they tried to crucify Him the second time and they can’t do it.

See, because there’s no flesh to crucify. It’s the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Now, he says here:

[107]  …remember, they went out to meet God… Now, watch, the Bible said, “The books were open.” Daniel 7:9, “The books were open.” That’s the book of the sinner. “Another book opened.” Who came with Him? The church from the rapture.

“Tens of thousands, times thousands times thousands of thousands came with Him and ministered to Him,” His wife, the Bride. His wife came with Him, the Church. Judgment set, the books were opened.

Another book opened, which was the sleeping virgin, and every man was judged thus from the book. You’d be asked to give a reason why you didn’t, and then what then? You know better now; you know better.

You might not have knowed it before, but you do now. See? Where if this righteous will scarcely be saved, where will that sinner and ungodly person appear? [An unrighteous be scarcely saved, where is the ungodly appear?] The one who rejects, knows better and then rejects it, where will they appear?

[See,]  feet like brass, Divine judgment.

Now,

[108]  …to the end of the page now.: … hair like wool,… eyes were… flames of fire; His feet like brass,… burned in a furnace; voice…sound of many waters. “Voice of many waters.” What does that represent?

If you want to mark it down, turn to Revelations 17:15, and you’ll find that the Bible said, “The waters which thou sawest is thickness, and multitudes, and people, and tongues.” All right.

“Voice…” What a horrible thing for a drifting soul on the sea of life, no pilot to guide him, a-loose, floating with the tides, to hear the roar of the great cataracts, the falls, what a horrible thing it would be to a soul drifting.

“Voice of many waters.” What is His voice? It’s the judgment; the voice of the ministers through the Holy Spirit, that’s cried out to the people in every age, standing there. The voice of many waters cried out, thickness and multitudes.

The voice of those seven stars in His hand to every church age, preaching the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the baptism in Jesus’ Name, speaking in tongues, the power of God, the resurrection of Christ, the second coming, Divine judgment.

The voice of many waters coming forth from this One that looked like the Son of man, many waters.

Now:

[109]  What it’ll be to know that you sat in meetings and heard that you should get right with God and receive the Holy Ghost, and a drifting soul to hear that voice speak out in that meeting that you sat in, and heard the judgments of God preached, and refused it, the great falls is just below you, the great cataracts that’ll take you to your eternal doom.

Voice of many waters, fourth Personage of Him, voice of many waters… How you going to do it when it’s recorded in glory, when the voice tonight is recorded? Your voice is recorded.

Your thoughts are recorded. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” [That ought to give you a clue to why you get transfigured too.]

Notice, your voice is louder in heaven than your… I mean, your thoughts are louder in heaven than your voice is on the earth. [That’s right, the Bible says.] Certainly, it is. God knows the thoughts and the intents of the heart; He knows all about it.

How does He know? Because He can discern and judge between.

He said to the Pharisee, “You hypocrite, how can you speak good things, when out of the abundance of the heart your mouth speaketh? Calling Me, ‘Master, good,’ and I know; I can look right through you and see that you’re hypocrites. You don’t mean that.”

Don’t mean what they say, see? How many times had that happened to Brother Branham? Not to other people, except Paul and William Branham.

[110]  Now, I want to ask you something else. Let me say something to you people that’s saved, let me say this to you. Now, you drifting soul, you poor drifter that’s drifting over that great cataract, be careful.

It’ll be a horrible thing when you know that there’s no saving for you then. You can’t get saved then; you know your doom lays right before you.

When you know within a few minutes you’ll hear that voice speak out, “Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, into everlasting fire which is prepared for the Devil and his angels.”

Now, you see, now look it: you’re looking down the road when I read this, Brother Branham said in his vision he preached to souls in prison, and there’ll be a time when the Bride to the eternally lost. See?

I’m trying to lay a foundation to help you, because always in hearing something like this, you’re going to project down the road.

And I’ll read to you why later and show you what I read here, why you don’t dare project too far down that road. You see?

That’s why I believe the Lord told me to look at it and consider did Jesus just come to die upon Calvary. That wouldn’t have done it. He had to go down and get them out. See?

I hope you’re catching what I’m saying here, because this is where you’re going to get more and more in the Seals as you go along, and see why Brother Branham said the things that he said.

And why you’ve got to understand revelation, pre-eminence and then you’re changed. And if you don’t come in that sequence of revelation and pre-eminence, you’re never going to get changed.

I’m sorry. You’re not going to do it. Not because I say so, but the Word of God says so. Now, I’ve got nothing to do with it. I’m just glad I don’t have a thing to do with it. It lets me off the hook. See?

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[109]  …Oh, what will that be on that day when that Voice thunders out as many waters, many church ages forming out?

Now, that’s goes plumb out to the White Throne. See? Judge at the White Throne. But, already He put it in revelation 19. See? I showed you that from Daniel last Wednesday.

Now, I hadn’t even realized that he said this, because I don’t always go over these books, see.

[110]  …Now, you drifting soul, you poor drifter that’s drifting over that great cataract yonder, be careful. It’ll be a horrible thing when you know that there’s no saving for you then. [You’ll know that right after you die.]

You can’t get saved then; you know your doom lays right before you. When you know within a few minutes you’ll hear that voice speak out, “Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.”

Now, that’s in a type of resurrection body, not like ours. But be durable. Something like asbestos in a flame. That’s right, it’s going to be durable. No fooling. See?

“…the Devil and his angels.” You’ll know when you hear that great falls a-roaring of those voices of those meetings, while you’re passing out of this.

Now, you remember one time I said my idea what could happen is because there’ll be a Judge there, that there will be witnesses called.

What if all these people… and that’s right, the Bride will witness, be a great court room drama which might last hundreds of thousands of years. Because look, we know time in a little achy miserable way.

Over there, there’s no achy miserable way, except those who are going to suffer. We could go by through one million years and not even know it. I suggest we’ll go through trillions and not even know it.

So, look we’re not dealing with something here which is infinitesimal in its timing. It will be in its time unit when you compare eternity, but it’s going to go on a long, long time. See?

Now, I want you to understand that these voices, and notice it’s voices… you didn’t catch it, did you? It’s not character. It’s not charismatic.

No, it’s not fruit, Word. And It’s not you word and mine. It’s His Word that He gave us. You see, these things become more clear all the time as we just take out time. See?

…what a horrible thing, what a nightmare. Don’t let it happen to you, people. Repent, get right with God now, while you can get right.

Now notice, repentance is a change of mind. Now, you know, I know a lot of people they just thought Brother Branham was a little bit stupid, you know.

Like he talked about this man that was down there in the basement.

Somebody said, “Hey, there’s a sun shining out there.”

“Oh, I don’t believe that.”

“Well, come out and see.”

“No, I wouldn’t believe it if I saw it, I ain’t going out there.”

You know, they thought that he was more or less a little far out. Come on, that is going to be mild at the judgment day.

That is going to be a little typical, human, little expression, but fulfilled under the wrath of God.

So, you sat there and literally you saw it, but you didn’t make a budge. See, it’s… where this is serious, you see, what we’re dealing with.

Now,

[111]  I want to ask you something else. What is any sweeter to a man [now listen, this part of it,] that’s anchored, laying back under the evergreen tree, to hear the rippling brook?

Now, I want to tell you, there’s nothing sweeter to go to sleep by. I’m terribly a nervous guy… [blank spot on tape]

…there was a room upstairs when there was a little bit of water was flowing it would tinkle over these rocks. I was in that little room upstairs and as long as that water trickled and tinkled over the rocks, man I slept great.

So, I know what Brother Branham is talking about in a way maybe you never had that privilege of knowing, because you don’t have nervous sleep like I have see.

Man that… he’s so true, that… oh that sounds great, you know, that water. In fact, I got a little thing that makes noise on my bed, it’s supposed to sound like water.

And I said, “Haw, phony, phony, phony.”

I’m not settling for imitation, I’m settling for the sound of His Word. Yep. That moves around us, the little rocks. Hee, hee, hee, I’m not talking about Arkansas either, I’m talking about here. Yeah.

Oh. That’s the church setting in heavenly places with the voice of God rippling sweetly and talking to them in… See what it is? It’s condemnation to the sinner and blessing to the saved.

Remember what I told you the Scripture runs in parallels? Blessing, cursing, blessing, cursing, blessing cursing. People get all mixed up, because they don’t realize Scripture has run in continuity since the time of Moses.

Mount Ebal cursing, Mount Gerizim blessing. And the twelve patriarchs were on the tribes, you know, making the twelve patriarchs. Twelve tribes made up, they had the representatives on those mountains. See?

Well alright, the Christ that’s in the midst of the Bride represents the blessings on Gerizim, but it’s the same Word that’s going forth that’s a curse on Ebal. See?

So, one place He’s the blessing… to the one that’s coming in, the other place He’s going to be a curse.

Now:

A man who’s safely anchored his boat upon the Rock Christ Jesus…

And that’s a contrast, that’s what a bad verse in there? Anchoring a boat on a rock. You anchor a boat to a rock. Right, but it’s all right. I like the thought of it.

Just see this, water all around in my boat on a rock, I never did want to anywhere near it anyway. Hee, hee, hee, just stay with that Word until He gets me out of here. Yeah, I like that.

…and just lays and listens, how he can rest. Enter into that rest. [Well, maybe the boat is on a rock. Now you got off the water, and the water is all around you, you feel great. That’s how I took this anyway.]

Enter into that rest. [That’s under the Seventh Seal.] How I like to get where the water’s a-running. If we ever go fishing or anything, I usually try to find me a place where the water’s rippling, [now, I’ll buy that] ’cause it just makes you rest.

You know, you ever want to feel good, go up to Niagara Falls. Sit on the Canadian side to watch the American side, and just sit there when the crowd’s down and close your eyes and listen to that water.

Man, you can just relax, and you can just get plumb out miserable itchy crawly skin, spiritually speaking… and you feel so good. And then you leave the Falls, who turned the water off?

You don’t feel good again. But, you get back where the waters, that’s under the Seven Seals. Keep under that Seventh Seal.

Now,

[112]  Isn’t it beautiful when you can really anchor your soul into Christ, in such a place till you can get quiet before Him, and hear His Voice speaking to you, “I’m the Lord that healeth thee. I’m the Lord that giveth thee Eternal Life.

Now, just a while ago, he’s talking about that same One riding forth destroying. See, He hasn’t changed any. See? Hasn’t changed at all. That’s what we’re leading up to, within a few sermons it’ll get covered.

[Now,] “I’m the Lord that heals you. I’m the Lord that gives you Eternal Life. I love you. I knew you from the foundation of the world. I put your name in a Book; you’re Mine. Fear not, it’s I. Don’t be afraid; I’m with you.”

Then I sing. I’ve anchored my soul in a haven of rest,
I’ll sail the wild seas no more;
The tempest may sweep o’er the wild, stormy deep;
But in Jesus I’m safe evermore.

Remember, the very voice [now listen] that speaks sweet to you, will condemn the sinner. The very flood that saved Noah, destroyed the sinner. See what I mean? The voice of many waters…

Watch,

[113]  …hair like wool, eyes flames of fire, feet like brass… many waters. He had in his right hand seven stars: …mystery of the seven stars you saw in my right hand, seven golden candlesticks… seven stars… seven… messengers, seven church to the seven churches: the seven candlesticks… [what they are is lamp stands, they’re actually lamps.]

It’s like Brother Branham said, “The candle would soon smoke.” What it is, it’s the life coming through all the time. The wick.

You could take the wick as it were, the souls of men if you wanted to put it that way. Those stars as they were. God anointing each one, bringing His Word to each age and light shining. See?

Look it, it doesn’t matter if God’s Voice is in the door knob. See, people get carried away with… that’s what Brother Branham couldn’t stand.

He couldn’t stand anybody that made himself something in the Presence of God. That’s why that man was so humble. You see, because he was in the Presence of God.

I’ve talked to different people, and there’s nobody… well, who has a modicum of sense, but would tell you that Brother Branham is the most humble man he ever met in his life. The most humble man he has ever met in his life.

Well, you see, when you understand the Presence as he did and walk in It, you’d have to be terribly meek, or you didn’t have anything in the first place. Maybe just a fluke. You know, it just wouldn’t work.

And you’ll notice that people who really got something form God they never ever claim anything.

Now:

He interprets it for him so there’d be sure to be no mistake. An angel for each church age… Oh, that’s going to be beautiful, this week, we go back in history and pick up those messengers and see the ministry they had. They had the same ministry, exactly the same all down through the age in that little church.

[114]  Sometime ago, someone said, “You know, the Catholic church, there’s a good saying that it’s the real church because it stood all down through the ages.”

I said, “That’s no mystery, when it had all the government and everything else behind it, and how it stood and waved the storms. But the mystery to me is how that little, bitty minority could ever wave the storm, that was sawed asunder, and thrown into lions, and put on stretchers, (you know, like the rack) and eat, and burnt, by lions–and killed and everything else, and how they survived it.”

It shows that the hand of God was with them. That’s all. And still today her Light’s still burning. Amen. Yes, sir.

Now:

[115]  “The seven stars that was in My right hand.” He had seven stars in His right hand, which means the seven ministers of seven ages… it’s beautiful.

How we go back and get the minister that brought the message to the Ephesian church, the minister who brought the message and held with It until death, right down to the Smyrna age, the Pergamene age, the Thyatira, on down through the age, even into this age now.

The ministers that kept and brought the Light, and held It back like the original at the beginning, and brought the Light through…

Now, it didn’t mean they brought all the Light. Remember the Light is Christ, and they never deviated from the fact that He alone was Life and Light.

They had a lot of mistakes about Him. But they never deviated. You see, that’s why He came to a place, the dark ages took almost all the oil, all the wine, but it didn’t destroy them. See?

Now,

He held them in His right hand. Think. Right hand doesn’t exactly mean like Christ setting on God’s right hand. It doesn’t mean that God’s got a right hand, because God is a Spirit. [Not a hand like ours.] But Christ was the right hand of power. Your right hand… the fellow stands by you, the closest to you…

In other words, that the right hand of power, that’s Christ with His right hand. See? His authority is power manifested.

[116]  And, remember, the seven stars was in His right hand. Just think, they were drawing their current, their Light from Him. They were completely under His control in His right hand. Oh.

Every true servant of God is the same way. Held in… Who can harm them? Who can harm? …”Angel” means “messenger.” And he said, “What can separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ? Can sickness? …peril, nakedness? Can sword? Can death? I am persuaded,” said Paul, “…nothing can separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ,” for we are completely yielded to His right hand.

Somebody said, “Holy-roller, holy-roller.” That don’t bother them a bit, “You’re a religious fanatic.” They don’t even hear it. They’re completely yielded and drawing their Light from His right arm of power: reaping His Light in meekness, kindness, gentleness, patience; signs, wonders, and miracles.

Let the world call it witchcraft, whatever they want to, [see, that was in the first and last age] makes us no difference, because we know we’re yielded and in His right hand. Isn’t that wonderful?

Now:

[117]  …let’s hurry, ’cause we don’t want to wear you out. “In His right hand, seven stars.” Seven represents the last representation of His Person… out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword:… out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword:…

Now, voice of many waters, and out of His mouth… right hand seven stars…He had the stars…. two-edged sword:…

Now, do you know what the sharp two-edged sword of the Bible is? Let’s just catch it so you’ll know. Hebrews 4:2, [It’s really 4:12] just turn right back…here It is, the 12th verse.

…the word of God is quicker, and more powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the divide asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner… [which is a divider, or judge between thoughts.]

So, what is it? It’s a judge. Now, you tell me He’s not a Judge? You see, look, He always is everything He’s ever been, or will be, but in certain periods and times He manifest it more than other times and periods, because it is necessary and proper to do so.

You follow that?

Okay,

…then they call you a mind reader. [Who’s he talking about? Himself.] It’s the Word of God made manifest in His church. [See, a Judge.]

Oh, why not? See, because there’s a division, that’s what a judge is all about is to make a division. See, so let’s just keep all these things in mind now.

It’s the Word of God made manifest in His church. Sharper than any two-edged sword.

[118]  I just happened to think of something out there. I don’t know whether I wrote a Script… Get Revelations 19: a minute. …I saw heavens open… a white horse; … (Here comes white again, judgment.) … sat thereon called Faithful and True, righteousness He does, judges and make war… His eyes a flames of fire ,… [uh-huh] (on his head were crowns; … (He’s got His kingdom now.) [we’re in His kingdom,] … [He’s a King? Yeah. But He’s Judge.]

and he had a name written, that no man knew, but… himself. …clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: …name called The Word of God.
What went out of His mouth? What went? The white horse rider. Revelation 7: [and so on.]

And a sword went out of His mouth. What was He? The white horse rider of Revelations. Notice, “Out of His mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword.” And finally, by His Word, when It’s made manifest to all the sons of God, He’ll tramp every nation down with His Word, by this sharp sword.

Now, he talks about being manifested to all the sons. Means all the sons will be in the manifestation too. Because the fullness of the manifestation comes in the resurrection.

…And… his right hand… out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: his countenances was like the sun shining in its strength.” A sharp two-edged sword.”

What was going from the mouth of this Person? The Word of God. It’s a sharp two-edged sword. What it’s doing? Discerning the thoughts of the heart, the intents; goes even deeper than the meat, the flesh, the blood cells, into the bone, down into the marrow of the bone, plumb on beyond that, discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart. That’s what the Word of God does.

Now, everybody knows, every doctor knows that the semantic diseases really are the pre-eminent diseases in almost everything flows from that. The psycho-semantic problems.

In other words, the word ‘soma’ really means ‘healthy’. It has to go down here. But psycho-semantic has to do with the fact of something has gone wrong in your psyche, and this brings this on. See?

All right, now, what if the Word of God is not down there? Where are you going to end up at? You’re not going to be in the judgment which is unto righteousness.

Now, I’ll show you by Scripture later on, on that one. You’ll end up in the judgment unto condemnation. See? So, that Word has got to be down in there. Watch, he says:

[120]  “…the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us.” And now the Word’s made flesh in His church, dwelling among us: His angels in His hand, minister. God depending upon His church.

God is relying on us of this age to bring this Gospel Light to a dying, demon-bound, traditional world. God’s laying the burden on me and you. Woe unto us if the heathen dies without knowing.

Oh, they carried reading, writing, arithmetic, and a few religious pamphlets, and they’ve made no more than a bunch of proselytes. I mean the Gospel. The Gospel is not the Word only. Paul said so.

The Gospel didn’t come to us through Word only, but that Word made manifest. When the Word, by the Holy Ghost, is… The Word is planted into the heart that’s got the Holy Ghost and produces what the Word says it would.

And the Word can discern the thoughts of the heart. A Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, the Word does that.

Now;

[121]  Goes from His mouth, a sharp two-edged sword, [Now, he’s talking of his own ministry again, the same as a minister of Christ.] wake up the heathens… Something’s got to happen in these days. The Word of God, His Name was the Word of God, the Word made manifest…

“Go into all the world,” Mark 16: His last remark to the church… “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel… “Preach…to every creature.” What is that? … demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost:

Now, watch:

[122]  It’s not just teach the Word. He never said go teach the Word; …

The Scripture does say ‘teach’, but doesn’t say, but in this case, he’s bringing out the thought here, “go preach.” Not teach, you don’t teach the Gospel, you preach the Gospel. You teach the Word. See? Once they get the Gospel.

“…these signs shall follow them that believe this Gospel; in My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; …take up a serpent or drink a deadly thing it wouldn’t harm them; if they lay hands on the sick, they’ll recover.”

“And they went forth preaching everywhere,” the Lord working with them… That’s the Gospel, the Gospel on display. These signs follow the people… little flock, the minority always minority, never a majority.

Now:

[123]  All right, one more quote: … And he had in his right hand seven stars: … His countenances: Out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword:

Let’s see: Now, he says here, now watch.

…let’s turn to Matthew 17. …after six days, He took Peter, James, and John in a high mountain apart… And was transfigured before them: and “His face did shine as the sun, raiment white as the light. He was transformed. What did He do? Passed Himself into transformation, over into His coming day. [See?]

[124]  Now, watch, just a few hours before this, Jesus had made this quotation… “Verily I say unto you, that some stand here…” How many knows what I’m going to say?

“Some stands here shall not pass away, not die, until they see the Son of man coming in glory.” Is that right? And He taken Peter, James, and John, the three witnesses, ’cause in the Old Testament everything, every word was established by three witnesses, took them up on the mountain.

[Now:] Notice what come first. I just can’t stop here, just got to see this. Look. What’s the first thing they saw? Jesus took them on a mountain–He had taken them taken up, was transfigured… transformed.

Raiment shined like sun in the middle of its strength, there appeared Moses and Elijah. What form is the Son of man coming in now? At first will appear will be Moses and Elijah.

Now,

[125]  Notice, before Jesus returns to the earth… a little ahead of time, but the Spirit of Elijah will return back to the earth and turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. The Bible said so. Jesus saw him here;…

Now see, what you’re looking at is what I’m trying to bring as the prophet brought it. There is a chronology here, there is a revelation here of the person.

But notice, that before this One that He has placed as the Judge and described Him, and even taken the same One to be the King, He said, “Elijah has got to come.” See?

So, just watch everything. And who was standing there? Elijah and Moses. Bible said so. Jesus saw him here.

…the apostles saw him, the order of the coming of the Son of man glorified. He’s to be glorified and coming back. The first thing, before they saw Him, was what? Elijah. Then what? Moses; Israel returning yonder, the law-keepers, and then the glorified Son of man.

Now, that’s the same One he’s talking about, that’s the Judge. Doesn’t say He’s Judge all the way through. But He is Judge all the way through.

But the aspects take their time in coming out, like the white light that’s separated by a prism makes a rainbow. It’s what’s in the white light that comes on in the rainbow.

Now

…then the glorified Son of man. Do you see the order of His coming? The Spirit of Elijah, the witness of the last church age See?, coming in power to manifest Him.

[126]  Then a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews on Mount Sinai… Where Israel has become a nation itself, oldest nation, oldest flag, oldest army, oldest everything. They are one of the members of the leagues of the nations, because they are a nation. Jesus said they should never be cast away until all things is fulfilled.

The mystery of how that bunch of Jews, persecuted everywhere, turned out, run out, throwed out, like the church through these ages of rejection, and yet Jesus said, “When you see the fig tree putting forth it’s buds (nation back in the homeland), the time is at the door…this generation shall not pass away until all these things be fulfilled.”

This strain… This people shall not pass away. [That’s a strain of people] Hitler tried to kill them; Mussolini tried to kill them; Stalin tried to kill them, everybody else, they’ll never be abolished, or banished from the earth; they will be a people a nation standing yonder. Amen. There will come Moses and Elijah. Oh. Hope you get it.

All right:

[127]  All right. “Sun shining in its strength,” His countenances, transformed, transfigured…. another thing, in Revelations 21:23, if you want to put it down, the New Jerusalem He is the Lamb that’s in the city that’s the Light thereof shining;

[Now, he said, “He’s the Light.” He was a Judge, He’s the Lamb, He’s glorified, He’s King, He’s back Lamb in New Jerusalem] …in the midst of the city shall be the Light… the nations that’s saved shall walk in the Light.

There’s only one Light. There haven’t been seven lights. There’s been one Light. How could have been Seven Church Ages.

How, doesn’t matter one little bit. It’s been that same One. They did very thing to destroy the Light, but they can’t do it. The Bible said nothing could be don about it.

Not only that, but He’s also in the coming (John saw Him in the Lord’s day.), the Sun of righteousness.

As Malachi saw that. Malachi didn’t have a vision, he just said it. John saw the vision.

All right, now just admit it: Who’s here? Sun of righteousness. Same time as Elijah. Well Who is He? He’s that Judge he’s talking about.

He’s that King that’s coming. He’s that white horse Rider, It’s called ‘The Word of God’. He’s that Light. See?

I had to read all this to get this across to you, to make you understand. That you pick one thing and you run with it, and you divide it into pieces. How many pieces has Jesus’ got? He ain’t three gods.

Now Jesus is ‘Jehovah Savior’. And Jehovah is a collective Name to you and me concerning Elohim.

Now remember, I showed you that Scripture. Way back there, God said to Moses, “By My Name Jehovah was I not known.”

Now don’t you give me that stuff, because on the Mount Moriah where Abraham took his son, the Word came, they called the place Jehovah Jireh, which means ‘God provides’. That’s over four hundred years.

For about… over four hundred years before Moses got that. What was it? Elohim was only known individually and privately. God of Abraham, one. God of Isaac, one. God of Jacob, one. Now, it’s time for a nation.

So now the name is given collectively. God wasn’t telling any lies. Israel never did know Him as Jehovah.

Abraham knew Him as Jehovah. Isaac knew Him as Jehovah. Jacob knew Him as Jehovah. Noah knew Him as Jehovah. Individuals.

Even back in Noah’s day, there might have been a collective revelation and got lost. Just send a big flood, a lot of these get lost.

One man doesn’t remember too much in a big flood. Seven more and that much help. Took God to give us the knowledge we got, right?

Now,

Not only…saw…He’s…coming John saw Him…the Sun of righteousness.

“The Sun of righteousness rising with healing in His wings.” That’s immortality. That’s now. See?

Let’s go to Malachi, …4th chapter.

[128]  Got a little story to tells my precious wife setting here. [I want to read this to you, and I’ll tell you something about it, I told you before.] I gave her a rough time before we were married; I’ve tried to make up for it after we were married.

Isn’t that nice of him. I think most of us give our wives a nice time before they’re married and a rough time afterwards.

I like this old boy, he’s my kind of a prophet. I’m not kidding you, I love Brother Branham, because he was so human.

Now, these goodie, goodie boys, I can’t stand these inhuman guys. I don’t know, maybe I’m nuts. But he was very, very human. And we’re supposed to be, you know’

And I didn’t know whether I wanted to be married again or not, so she got all broke up. And I thought she was too good a girl just to leave go, let some good man…take care of her. And I thought I even wasn’t worthy of it; and I am not, of her kindness, anyhow.

So, she was all tore up and didn’t know what to do. This has been years ago, about twenty years ago. She got stirred up, she started crying day and night.

And I was trying to break away from her, not because I didn’t love her, because I didn’t want to take her time; ’cause, let her find somebody, some good person, ’cause she’s too good a girl just to let go like that, and me take–and just you know, go out, [I guess he means date with her, do things with her,] And I thought she loved me, and I knew I loved her.

And then I thought, “Well, I’ll try it… I’ll get a date with some other girl, and go out, and make her feel bad about me.” I liked to killed her; I hated it awful bad afterwards; she got all broke up. I told her. “You’re too good a girl. I don’t want to take your time like that.”

And she said, “But I just love you, Bill, and that’s the only one I can love.” And I said, “I’ve always loved you.” And said, “I appreciate that. But, you know, I’m a hermit. I’m just going to live like a hermit. See, I ain’t going to get married at all.”

Okay,

[129]  And she was so set on it, you know, poor little fellow. And she went out to the shed.

And she got out there, and she got down on her knees, and she said, “Lord, I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to disobey You, and yet I love Bill. And I don’t know what to do. Lord, will You just give me a little bit of consolation?

Will You just help me a little bit? I never did ask You this before this day, Lord, and I hope I never have to ask You again, …but if You’ll just help me, and let me open the Bible, and You give me a Scripture. I’ve heard people say You did that.”

And she opened it up, she came to Malachi 4. Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD.

That’s not what the Bible said. In black words in front of her, said, ‘Behold I send you Bill Branham, the prophet.” It’s what the Bible said. Of course, it was a vision. It wasn’t an optical illusion.

Actually, I learned that when I saw her the last time. She looked and, “Behold, I send you Bill Branham the prophet.” This is why she knew she was going to marry him.

Because, let’s face this flat, “Behold I send you Elijah the prophet?” This is one time I blew it, Russian roulette. Bible roulette. I gunned myself down.

No, It said, “Bill Branham.” Well, sweet hallelujah. She’s a good girl, I’m glad she got him, she’s a wonderful woman.

Now,

She said, “I got up from there just as well satisfied that we was going to get married as anything.” See?

Not Malachi, not Elijah the prophet. “Bill Branham.” That’s sure cute. That’s how the Lord is, He’s good isn’t He?

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; all the proud, … all they that do wicked, shall be stubbles: and the day cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

But unto you that fear my name… the Sun… (S-u-n) … Sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in his wings; …

[130]  “The sun shining in its strength…” [See?]

Now, where’s that strength gone? To the Bride. How is she going to get out of here without that strength?

See, God arose on this earth to shed the Blood for remissions of sin. Right! Then the next thing, He sends the spirit and soul down identified this was that One.

Preached to the lost and said, “You missed it.”

Now there’s judging right there, in separation. Then power of God falls, and He just rips the gates of hell apart, and takes them out captive. And as He swings into His uncorrupted body which won’t corrupt, their theophanies go into a body which demands since its creation.

Now this God multi-faceted, hundreds of titles, literally two hundred names, I think they call it in Scripture, maybe four hundred. In Australia? It’s hard to say, ‘because I never bothered looking it up, and don’t think I ever will.

But everyone of those is resident in God, and it’s two-fold. Gerizim, Ebal… not evil. And Ebal sounds like evil. See?

So, now the Son of Righteousness arises with healing, or immortality, is the same One incarnated, on the white horse of strength. …not two people, one. He becomes incarnate to us.

“The sun shining in its strength…” Oh. The strength of the Son of God shining in our midst tonight, [He’s talking about that judge. He’s talking about that rod of iron, He’s talking about coming back at the White Throne.]

Oh. The strength of the Son of God shining in our midst… standing in the middle of the seven golden candlesticks in His seven fold Personage here as a Judge: as One Who has suffered and died for us, and taken the Divine judgment upon Himself, and has tread the winepress, the fierceness of God. To the sinner He’s a horrible cataract, and a loose soul upon the sea of life.

And to the church, a sweet savour, anchored in rest, and the hearing the bubbling brook as you lay and rest perfectly satisfied in Christ. What a time. Shining upon us with His warm rays, “Fear not, I am He that was, which is, and shall come. I’m the Almighty; [I’m that Judge.]

Now, you see why it said a while ago, why I took my preamble as long as I did to tell you why He begins speaking to me? I because she does opposite with me.

Everybody’s screaming about the Resurrection, the death this, the death that, the Resurrection. God spoke and turned around backward.

He said, “The Resurrection proves his death.” Didn’t become negative, He became absolutely positive. Because if God hadn’t raised Him, He would not have been that One. Then you take everything and work from that premise.

Now, we’re working on the same premise that the shedding of the Blood didn’t do it, per se. See? Now, we’re back to the Roman candle.

Start with the Blood and watch everything move. Start with the prophet watch everything move. Leave the Blood, it dies. Leave the prophet, it dies.

Now, you’re going to have to put the last two sermons together. See? Now, I’m sorry we didn’t get Tuesday’s tape out to anybody, but you’ll have to try to get them today if you can. Because we’re always bringing things up, see?

“Fear not, I am He that was, which is, and shall come. I’m the Almighty; besides Me there’s none. I’m Alpha and Omega. And I’ll give unto him that is athirst of the fountains of the water of Life freely.”

[Yeah, we already had a drink already.] …what a promise and what a love affair it is. And the Lamb in the middle of the city that don’t need a light, and He’s the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings.

Puts Him way down there. Puts Him here. Puts Him here, where is me?

He’s the Lily of the Valley,
The Bright and Morning Star,
He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.
In sorrow He’s my comfort, in trouble He’s my stay,
He tells me every care on Him to roll.
He’s the Lily of the Valley,
The Bright and Morning Star,

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,

The altogether lovely,

The tribe of Judah,

The Day Star.

[131]  Yes, sir. Oh, that great Morning Star as it comes out to shine, hailing the day coming on, heralding it, saying, “The day is fixing to break; the Sun is coming close…”

So, He’s already here. What’s coming close? Flesh. That’s where people in this Message don’t understand right now the Capstone is here, but the Headstone is not.

Because we get caught up to the Headstone, but the Capstone comes down. One spirit, one flesh. The One that’s in the Spirit here now becomes incarnated to us. When He gets up, goes up, incarnates Himself the Body of Jesus.

See, not three gods, one God.

The day is fixing to break; the Sun is coming…,” [the son, S-o-n is coming close] and He pulls Himself out of behind all the other stars with healing in His wings. [When the Word goes forth, then He can take over.] Now, back to our message.

And we’re closing now, to get ready for tomorrow night, because the time is quarter till nine, and we don’t want to keep anyone too long, just so we can be here. [In other words, for time sake.]

[132]  All right, “the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings…” Now, His countenances. He was a Judge, or another thing to show that he was over into the Lord’s day. You believe that?

He went over in the Lord’s day and saw the Lord as a Judge; not as priest, not as king, but as a Judge. He is the Judge. Do you believe that? The Bible says He’s the Judge.

Here He was all dressed as Judge, showing what He done, what He was, and what He was to the sinner, what He was to the Christian. Here He stands now with the voice of many waters, and His countenances was like the sun shining in its strength.

[133]  Now…17th verse. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead… The prophet couldn’t stand no more, see just a vision…sapped his strength…right down there… He laid his right hand upon me, saying, Don’t you fear; I am the first and the last: …have the keys of hell and death.

Now,

[134]  Don’t get scared. Why would we fear? Why would the church fail to keep… to think of His Words? Let’s stop here just for a moment, ’cause we’re closing.

Why would this church ever fear? What has He ever promised that He hasn’t manifested before us? Why would you fear a punishment or hereafter, “Fear not. I am He that was, He that is, and will come. I’m First and Last. I have the keys of hell and death right here.”

Why? “I’ve overcome and conquered both hell and death (That’s both grave and hades; death itself, hades itself.) for you. I’ve overcome it all. I overcome hell, death, grave.” When He was on earth,

[135]  Man has set out to conquer. Did you know that? Napoleon set out to conquer the world, and he did at the age of thirty-three. At the age of seventeen to twenty-five, Napoleon was a prohibitionist, he didn’t believe in drinking or anything.

He went to France (He was not a Frenchman; he come from an island; [it was Corsica, wasn’t it?] he went over there to get even with France, ’cause he didn’t like it, didn’t like France.). But he was conquered. And he went forth and he conquered France, and he took them Frenchmen and conquered the world.

At the age of thirty-three he sat down and cried because there’s nobody else to conquer, and died an alcoholic, defeated. He couldn’t even conquer himself. See? And then met his waterloo at Waterloo; he met his end at Waterloo.

I’ve been out there and seen the old signs, the relics and things out there, when he was in the land. Now, we take (you) that conqueror; he started as a young man and he took the wrong side to conquer, and he died a disgrace.

In other words, he was a conquer, but he went the wrong way.

[136]  There’s another young Man come into the world…He died at thirty-three and He conquered everything that could be conquered. When He was on earth He conquered passions, pride; conquered sickness; conquered devils…conquered death.

When he really died, He rose, He conquered hell. He went up in and conquered everything that was against mankind, tread the winepress of God, crushed it down and conquered death, hell, grave, sickness, formalities, everything else, overcome it all, rose on the third day, and conquered it all…

All right, I’ll just skip a bit, and read it.

[139]  Oh, it’s breathtaking, friends. See Him standing there in the supremity of Deity. He’s the Judge, the Priest, the King, the Eagle, the Lamb, the Lion, the Alpha, the Omega, the Father, Son, Holy Ghost; He that was, which is, and shall come.

Tread out the winepress of the fierceness of God, and pleased everything, till God said at the cross… “It’s finished.” Pleased God so, till the Spirit that left Him come back on Easter morning, picked Him up and rose Him again for our justification.

There John looked up and saw Him standing there with feet of brass, eyes like flames of fire running to and fro throughout the earth. Daniel saw Him seven hundred years before that in the same position, the same kind, same Man standing there, the Ancient of days, and One like the Son of man…

I wonder what he’s telling you Who It is? Who’s this one Who was in flesh that died? God took upon Himself a human form that the Blood might be shed.

God gave Life, literally gave a Life to that egg and that sperm. And Mary became (as it were) the chemical faculty that brought Him on earth, so that man could have a part in His Redemption. The Election of God was manifested.

Daniel saw Him…the Ancient of days, One like the Son of man that joined in with Him, and all judgment was committed to Him, stand at the white throne judgment. Seeing these things, what kind of people ought we to be… God bless you is my prayer. Do you love Him? You believe Him?

Now, that’s a lot of reading, that’s alright, we haven’t got home yet. I haven’t started to preach yet. It doesn’t bother you, it doesn’t bother me, if it doesn’t bother you. If it doesn’t bother you, I’m sorry for you.

All right, now you noticed that I read, that I used the very same Scripture did Brother Branham when I taught last Sunday and Wednesday, which I did the same Scripture.

Took John 5: Matthew 17: Hebrews 4:12, Daniel 7: and It came out exactly Brother Branham said on page 169, paragraph 169-172, and a litter further on.

Now, to be sure we get this exactly right, we want to read what Brother Branham said which I just mentioned. All right.

He is the Judge, the supreme Judge and John saw that He was It, in the day of his prophecy as a Prophet. Neither was He plumbed into the days of His Kingship. When He was in the day of the Lord as a Judge.

Now,

[139]  See Him standing there supreme in His Deity. He’s the Judge, the Priest, the King, the Eagle, the Lamb, the Lion, the Alpha, the Omega, Father, Son, Holy Ghost;…

Now, just what would it please Him to manifest Himself as, at any particular given moment as is required. As in necessary. So, He stands there. He’s the Judge, supreme Judge.

John saw He wasn’t in the day of his prophecy as a Prophet. Now, that doesn’t mean He’s not a Prophet. Neither in plumb into the days of His Kingship. That doesn’t mean that the elements of the King aren’t there.

Now, he says, “Now, that not a ‘never-never’ land.” Uh, uh. But he was in the day of the Lord as a Judge.

Now, that’s where he saw Him, and the emphasis as Judge goes over into the Day of the Lord, which is signifying at this time the winding up of all things.

Now, if words mean anything at all from what Brother Branham said, this is a transition time, from Prophet to King.

Now, let’s just look at Scripture. We’ll hold it right there, we go to,

Now, Hebrews 1:1-3 which makes Him Prophet for three and a half years, places Hebrews 2:9-17 between Hebrews 1:1-3, and Hebrews 1:4-8.

Now, let’s read on 4-8 for a minute.

All right, now, between the Prophet and the King,

Army. You figured out why He descended with a Shout? He’s Captain. Army. Oh my, when are we going to stop talking about this One? Everything. He’s everything.

The Captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. Now, It didn’t say He’s the Captain of suffering, he says, He’s the Captain of their salvation.

That’s why it’s not character. That’s why it’s not fruit. That’s why it’s not closeness. That’s why it’s not obedience. That’s why it’s not charismatic’s. Life, yep. Yeah.

All right, let me tell you something: something neat… if I can find it. Oh yeah, I’ll read It to you, so you don’t have to get it.

You know what you can do with the Scripture? You can have a man that’s married to a woman and she can have a lot of sons by him, then mess up with some dame out there and she have a son by him.

Now, they’re sons, you can’t deny the fact that the illegitimate child, so called, is a son, because he’s a son. No, there’s no way you can get away from it.

He’s still a son, but he’s not in the son, he’s not in the sonship of this. See? Just like Abraham has two sons. But God said, “Only son.”

Now, you see, He’s not ashamed to call them brethren. See, God’s not ashamed of any of us. Now a lot of people I’m trying to get this point act like illegitimate.

In other words, there’s no way you can… they don’t want to take correction, they get headstrong, they get belligerent, they get a mess, God cleans them up, takes them off the map. Now, He’s still not ashamed to call them sons and brothers.

Now, you see we chicken out there. We chicken out. The whole bunch of us. See, we’ve got our own ideas. I’m not talking to being tolerant toward sin, I’m just talking God’s Word. That’s all, what God says goes.

Not what you and I think. Not what you and I do about it. It’s what God says, and what God does about it. Because He’s intrinsically God and one with His Word.

We’re not one with our word. Haw, haw, we’re one with our word. Phfft! Except we’re liars, put it that way and just call it a day. My heavens, that was a good one wasn’t it. Just get out of that pretty neat. Just liars, forget it.

Hebrews 2:

Now, He wasn’t our flesh and blood, He was like it, because He didn’t have our flesh, He had God’s through the genes that God put in there. Mary was just the chemical factory.

Listen:

Between Prophet and King, He’s Priest, by expression. When He became Priest He’d lose the Prophet. Now when He becomes King, does He lose the Priest? No way. No way. See?

Now, so Hebrews 1:1-3 makes Him Prophet three and a half years, and places the High Priest between the Prophet and the King. So, the chronology is basically three-fold as the fundamentalist tell us. Prophet, Priest, and King.

However, as Son of man He was Prophet. And a Son of man Who was Prophet, He was a Lamb. But He never became a Lamb until the day of the trial, the flame, and the crucifixion.

The Lamb became the High Priest, which is High Priest after the order or Melchisedec which was to be King. See?

Now, the Lamb became the High Priest, which High Priest after the order of Melchisedec was to be King is also and cannot help but be the Son of man Who is the Prophet. And He came from God and went back to God.

In other words, Hebrews 13:8. “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.” Now, that’s not the flesh.

The unchanging Elohim Who becomes. Now, the word ‘Elohim’ doesn’t only come from the word ‘El and El Ella’ which means ‘the strong One,’ and ‘the strong One bound by an oath’.

It means, and not only the unchanging One, it means ‘the God Who becomes’. “Oh, you say, you can’t become if you are.”

But, look, I’m up here, a preacher. Now, bring me some food and I’ll become the eater. I’m getting hungry standing here all of a sudden. That’s why I don’t like coming to church this time of day, I prefer to have a great big meal. Why have a great big meal?

Now, why they say the music starts and if we’re Pentecostal’s we become the dancers. I’m the same guy eating? Drinking? Dancing? Talking in tongues? Preaching? Telling jokes? Writing a book? Same guy. See?

Now, I’m becoming or manifesting what is necessary as that time.

Now, you know God being omniscient, which is infinite to the depths of the inner being Who is love, my what is He becoming? The wisest Lover of all ages, and the only wise Lover. Who is able to do everything His heart of love desires, and He’s the becoming God.

See, in other words, the manifesting. The changing of the veil. The changing of the role. See?

All right, He becomes or manifests and describes as titles what He becomes and manifests. Why, He could manifest His Judge. His judging qualities. Because He’s Judge.

God was a Judge, He wasn’t born a judge, He didn’t make Himself a judge, He’s Judge. He is Judge. I’m not going to say was judge, because He is Judge. Wasn’t is, it shall be, see, Is.

Now, those titles describe what He is in the process of manifesting, or what He will manifest. Son of man. He’s got to be a man. Judge. He’s got to be Judge. Savior. He’s got to be a Savior, what all that entails. Conqueror. He’s got to conquer. See? All those things.

All right, He manifests them as is necessary. That is, His many roles and titles. And they are not all manifested exclusively in the flesh form. No! Now, back in Hebrews 1: to 2: He was a man, a Prophet.

Now notice, It does not say the One Elohim became a Prophet in flesh, that the role of Prophet was all over. Now, that’s where people make a mistake and the fundamental. They just die at this moment on. No more prophet!

I’m going to tell you something: they have certainly run out of spiritual gas as far as I am concerned.

Because let me take you right now to,

Jesus literally came to him in the Pillar of Fire. Now, He is in the role of a Prophet, God is. Holy Ghost and a Pillar of Fire. He’s not in a man now. Where’s the man? He’s a man! High Priest, on the right hand.

So, prophet is not exclusively of the flesh, but God can only get to somebody exclusively by somebody’s flesh when it comes to prophets. So, He uses men.

But the Pillar of Fire stands there. One day God came down Himself in the form of a man. Theophany stood there, He said, “Abraham, He said, this is that hour.”

All right. Those who believed that, in other words they exclusively God had to deal in the flesh, so it’s all over, are getting mixed up with the body of sacrifice.

Let’s go to,

It says, “This man.” In the form of a man, it ended it. Was all over. See? They can’t understand that Jesus is not a second person of the trinity. The Son-ship of God in a man. God in a man.

Now, it’s hard for anybody to understand, “In God was to be Son. In God was to be Father.” Never grand-parents. That’s right. No, it’s none of that.

“In Him was to be Savior. In Him was to be Healer.” See?

Now, they’ll take everything except when it comes to personalities. When they see this One here in Revelation, you say, “Well, hey that is Jesus Christ personal flesh.”

Now you see, we’ve got to watch that one. Because Brother Branham said, “In between Prophet and King.”

And He never came back here as a Prophet, not in the flesh He didn’t. See, what I’m telling you is fundamentalist because it’s Trinitarian theory.

They cannot see what we are seeing. There is no way they can see what we are seeing. Now, they might get so far as to see Almighty God and a man stand on earth.

You say, “Well, that man should be a prophet, or could be a prophet, for he’s a prophet.”

But, you understand Godhead and the prophet, there is no way they’re going to do it. See? They can’t understand it.

Now, however neither will He ever cease to be known as the Lamb. Even though He is actually absolutely King on the Throne according to Revelation 22:1-6. Now, let’s go back and take a look at It.

Now, I’m going over this very, very slow the best I can. And what I’m trying to show you is the changing of the mask. And at many… that sometimes there are dual roles. There are dual roles.

Well you see, He’s just a man now, He died upon Calvary. That took care of the Lamb. Can never be anything but Lamb. Never be anything but Judge. Because you’re dealing now with the intrinsic qualities that lay in God.

Now, if you want to relate this to the man of the flesh, you can say, we’ll He was the Lamb, He was also the Prophet too. So, you can’t get by.

Do you notice, God is still Prophet. And He is King right now. He’s King of our hearts, not of something else.

All right, so once a Prophet always a prophet. Brother Branham even said that about a man. Samuel came back, he was still a prophet. William Branham, still going to be a prophet.

Why? Because there’s four and twenty elders up there, they’re human beings. They don’t change. Once a prophet always a prophet.

And that manifestation of that office lies within God Himself at His Own discretion of and for His Own purpose, and however He wants it to be manifested.

You see a prophet doesn’t come on the scene and say, “Hallelujah, I’m prophet.”

I got letters, I saw those letters when DeCourcy and men wrote Brother Branham, said, “Brother Branham with your great gift you can look beyond the curtain the same as Elijah did, we would like you to look into Russia and tells us what the Russians are doing.”

And Brother Branham thought it over and he was interested. But he couldn’t do it. Why? Because God’s a Prophet, not man.

Like years ago, a fellow came and he told me, this friend of mine in a… he used to be a friend of my anyway, but since I wouldn’t go eat with him, he couldn’t tolerate me anymore.

He said, this guy came over and told him how he would sell his motel and for how much money. And the guy was ready to kiss this false prophet’s feet, because that’s what the guy was.

I’m not lying about it, just telling you the truth. I know the guy personally, know him very well. Brother Branham told what he was, it’s okay.

And I said, “Listen Charlie, I want to tell you something, did that man’s word make that property sell, or was God just letting him in on a secret and he told you?”

Shocked that guy. No wonder he believes in ‘Deity’. If you can’t understand a little simple thing like that, and figure that out himself. He can believe anything, fall for anything.

See what I’m trying to tell you? A prophet isn’t a prophet can say, “I’m a prophet.” Look, how did he do it? Words of a man will not do what those Words did.

Then when the man said a thing in the first place that came to pass, that wasn’t his word. Then neither will the next thing be his word. See, no way.

So, what is it? God in His Own discretion, in His Own time, in His Own manner is doing things. See? Manifesting, bringing things to pass. See?

Now, to get back to the words, (of paragraph 170) Brother Branham does not say, “Priest then King,” he said, “Prophet, then King.” Yeah.

And John saw Him, and He was in the form of a Judge, the role of a judge, and He was King, Eagle, Lamb, Priest, Lion, Alpha, Omega, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. He that is, He that was, and He that was to come.

At the same time of being a Judge in a transition period. He had just previously and immediately been a Prophet before. Prophet, Judge, King. That a hundred percent true. That’s a chronology.

Let’s go to Luke 17: now, I’m using this Scripture, the point is that you say, “Well, you used that before Brother Vayle.”

I’m going to keep using It, until you’re just so thoroughly conversed in this subject as I am, because that’s what it’s all about.

And if I’m wrong you’d be just as wrong as me. If I’m right, you’d be just as right as I am. No problem. See, we’re in this thing together.

Now,

Now, It doesn’t say there won’t be something to observe. Certainly, if it’s a Kingdom it will be observable. But it all depends, what the Kingdom really is.

See, first of all you’ve got to have the right understanding. All right.

He said, “I’m right here, right now, I’m It.”

In Him is the Millennium. In Him was the Kingdom. In Him is Eternal Life. In Him is the Judge. In Him is the Savior. In Him is the Son of Righteousness. In Him is everything, and He’s here. Said that in Columbus.

In Him is the Millennium. A certain preacher, not too far from here, said, “Does Brother Vayle believe that the Millennium is already on?”

If I believed if the Millennium is on, heavens spare me from the Lake of Fire. Ha, shee! Boy listen, I want to tell you we got troubles. Not just with this microphone, but what’s ahead of us, if this is the case here.

Let’s read It here:

Come on, they ain’t going to see it, how’s anybody, what’s the used anybody going to say anything to him. It’s for a generation down the road. I’ll tell you how It says that.

And they were part of that generation. So, the generation to see it was another generation. And it would repeat exactly. Right there, and they wouldn’t even know it.

“Tell us when these things shall be?”

That takes a prophet. The prophet comes… phfft! they blow it. He fizzles. Roman candle fizzled. Why? Because the Roman candle didn’t say and didn’t shine the way their church shone. Which is a lot of hogwash.

Look at these Catholics with their robes, and the Anglican’s, and all the people with their robes. The dress up like the Roman candles. They’re the Roman candles. What came out of them? Nothing, except death.

Christ’s candle wasn’t like that Roman candle. Couldn’t stand it. Paul, the washings and everything else. Hail fellow, well met. Phooey.

John the Baptist came and he said, “Listen you birds, I got news for you, he said, you’re rejected.” Boy, did they like that? They didn’t like that. We wouldn’t like it either, let’s be honest.

Now listen, he tells you about that generation:

So, now I could read you right to verse 30, but I won’t do it.

In other words, the revelation of Him. He’s brought into full view again. That’s what It says. When was that? The day of His Prophecy. All right, a hundred percent true.

It’s a real chronology at the time of this prophetic ministry of Elohim, the man, the body is still Melchisedec in flesh. Yep.

At the time of this when Elohim must come into a man who is a prophet. And becomes a prophet by virtue of the fact that Elohim’s Presence. He will still be sitting there as High Priest.

Now, watch how it goes from Prophet to Judge. We go back to,

Now, It says at that time the desire will be to see one of the days of the Son of man, those disciples won’t see It, but this bunch will see It.

Who’s the Son of man? Prophet! Now, there again is where your thoughts can fool you.

As I started out before the message, you get your mind on “Redeemer, Redeemer, Redeemer, Redeemer, Lamb, Lamb, Lamb.” And you forget, got to be a Prophet first.

Because the Prophet was the Redeemer. A Prophet-Redeemer. The Word becoming flesh and blood.

Now, the word flesh and blood in a real prophet in the sense of the prophets from Noah on down and so on, that wouldn’t do it. It would take God in flesh to do it. That Prophet’s Blood. That would be, Redeemer.

So, here they’re talking at this time, the Son of man, the prophetic ministry comes back.

How does it come back? As its always been, in a man. God is there, and the Word comes to that prophet. The Word is in the prophet in that measure of God; or the Spirit is the measure of the Word in that individual.

It’s a revelation, it’s the same Light, It’s the Gospel, the same Pillar of Fire. As Brother Branham said, and I don’t know how people can deny the Presence of God.

He said, “Just to think, [he said] the same One Who was here in the Pillar of Fire giving the Word to Paul, is the same Pillar of Fire, the same God that’s revealing the same Word.”

Now, how are they going to deny It. How are they going to turn their back on the Presence? No! They can’t! Verse 37.

Now, it’s Presence. He’s there as Prophet. All right, who was there at the time of the flood? Noah.

All right, it’s going to be at the same day… It tells you over in Luke. It’s identical to the time of Sodom.

Who was there? Abraham, a prophet. Who was there? God was there. So, It tells you categorically, you’re looking at that time.

Now notice, you can read It quickly:

Now, that is after the Presence. And the word ‘coming’ is different from the word ‘presence’. That is after. See?

So, One is the Holy Spirit in the prophetic office. The other is the Holy Spirit in the Son of God, the man rather, the Lamb, the Prophet, the Priest, all of it, the human being part, incarnated.

Now, notice, verse 48,

That’s the tribulation. That’s not the Lake of Fire, that’s tribulation. See?

Why? Because He’s talking of the human element. Not after the judgment, this is not the White Throne no way, shape or form. This is the Great Tribulation.

All right, now let’s go to Matthew 25:

Keep reading… At that time, see, He gives you the chronology.

Now, what time? At this time of the Presence of the Son of man. At the unveiling of the Son of man. See?

At the time that follows this prophetic unveiling when He will come in flesh. He’s talking about that period. They’re going to be liken to the spiritual church, will be liken to two virgins, two groups, five and five, ten virgins.

And It says, “At that time a cry is going to go forth. Come out, behold Him.” Now, at that time they’re going to be looking for oil.

Now, Matthew 25: we said, the kingdom like the ten virgins. At that time of the prophets the kingdom comes into view, and we are told what Matthew 24:40-44 is all about.

Now, what’s going on there? There is a taking of one, and the leaving of the other. On what grounds? There’s got to be a ground. Then if there’s a ground, there’s a judging. You just can’t take one and leave the other.

You say, “Well, I believe that’s sovereignty.”

Oh, don’t you give me that stuff. There is no such thing as salvation without a means. Saying, “Well, He died upon Calvary. God foreknew this, God foreknew that, and so therefore it doesn’t matter if you get born again down here.”

You had better be born again. Even those elect Jews under the Fifth Seal. It isn’t just the sovereignty of God, it’s a fact that Jesus died and they were blinded. And there’s a genealogy and a chronology. See?

It’s not you just don’t go by haphazard that God threw a bunch of fish in the kettle and brought forth a boogie-best or something that said, “That’s going to be good.”

He had these thoughts all stored up for trillions of years and all laid out, and everyone is coming to pass into divine order. Absolutely tremendous.

Now, so that’s,

Who gives a bill of divorcement? Go to the priest. Go to the judge. Yeah. Divorce took place.

See, what I’m trying to tell you. You’ve got here this transition period. When he died He didn’t judge them. When they crucified Him afresh, He’s got to judge them. See? Oh, this is judging.

Now notice, Matthew 25:1-13, concerning the virgins, is further spoken of in Matthew 25:14-30, which is about the five talents, the two talents, the one talent, and the judging of the servants.

That ends in verse 30, tribulation. “You’ve been faithful.” “You’ve not been faithful.” On what grounds? Well, they gave you money. “I gave you something. I want you to do something with it, and you didn’t.”

How in the world can you make separation and anything without judging. See, I’m trying to show you something here. He always was a judge.

But, there comes a time when the quality become predominately manifested contrary to other qualities.

The One that hung upon the Cross, the Lamb said, “I can call upon My Father, and they’ll send twelve legions on angels and blow you higher than a kite.” Roman Empire and all, and she’d have been gone.

But He said, “I’ll die and pay a price.” Wham! You talk about power and authority.

What was that song that said He could have… the one that could have formed then thousand worlds, hanged upon a cross there and just died for world? Sure, see?

All right, Matthew 25:31-46, this in on the Great White Throne, and ends in the New Heaven, and earth and Lake of Fire.

Thus we see once the prophetic ministry is over judging sets in. The repeat of the Son on man ministry brings judgment.

Authority to execute judgment is not only to sit in judgment, but to bring it to pass, because He is the Son of man.

Without the prophet God couldn’t not bring on the Great Tribulation, take a Bride out of here, or anything else. That’s what I said about the Roman candle. The first rung on the ladder is the prophet.

And they say, “Prophet, heh! Ranting and raving, heh!”

Every prophet fizzled. Yup, when it came to the pretentious, the predominate when we’re talking about popularity and churchianity, but there wasn’t one person ever made it without a prophet, starting with God in the Garden of Eden. His Own Prophet.

No way, I don’t care what anybody says. There’s no way. The Prophet God veiled in the Word becomes robed as a Judge to separate.

Come on, Revelation 10, come on let’s look at It. That’s the same Brother Branham says this.

Let me tell you something flat: I didn’t know this until the other day, but the Louisville Carrier that carried the description of the mystic Light that Appeared over Brother Branham described It as It was, which It was, a ‘Rainbow’.

Now, they just try to find somebody somewhere that’s got a copy somewhere, or something. The ‘Rainbow’ came down. What was under the Rainbow, the invisible One.

The prophet saw Him in a Pillar of Fire. Now, He come down.

Now, Who is He that came down? The same One. “Face as it were, the sun.”

I read that the other day, out of the book. Showed you, Brother Branham said It’s the same One. Because he put Revelation 4: as Revelation 1:, Revelation 1: is Revelation 4:, is Revelation 10:

Why? Because it’s not the form, the human form. No, here’s that Great One, God in the role of a Judge. And here at the time this One comes down.

Lo, and behold there’s a Prophet on earth. So, God’s back to being His Own Prophet again. See?

And a Voice. Say, “Hey, John the Baptist, who are you?”

“I’m a Voice.”

“William Branham, who are you?”

“I’m a Voice.”

“Moses, who are you?”

“I’m a Voice.”

The Voice of many waters. The cataract is at the last stage. Brother Branham mentioned cataract. Didn’t mention any more floating around did he? It’s all over. She’s gone.

“Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet.” She’s all over. If it weren’t for him, it be all over for everybody. But now that He’s here, I’m here with Him, I take care of you few.

Now, we can talk about the One likes the water. The ones who sit back, and hear the voice, it’s just rippling. It’s not a cataract roaring to us. Not, anymore it’s not.

It was once, because it roared out the danger signals. It’s not anymore, it is become the joy of living.

All right. Now, there is no other way it could be, no other way. See, how this Prophet, Judge, works through.

Let’s go back to John 8: Now, that’s the unveiling of that One we’re seeing in the last hour.

Now listen: The day of the Lord has two sides.

Everybody says, “The day of the Lord, oh my, that fearsome great dreadful day of the Lord going to burn everything up, do so, so, and so and so.” That’s exactly right, when you talk about that side.

What about the part, “The sun rising with healing?” You can’t have that fire falling and not everybody get blistered. I don’t care, that’s why He said, “I’ll send Elijah.”

And we’re not going to be in that fire. Uh huh, uh, uh, uh, no, no, no, we’re coming back. We’re coming back with Him in the Fire.

John 8:

What if the prophet came? Who’s going to hear the words from the prophet, they’re God’s Word? I don’t care if a door knob said it. Balaam had a little old mule. An angel spoke through the mule.

Oh, I don’t know if he really did or something. But the angel stood there, the mule talked. God could speak through a tin can. Oh, what’s the difference as long as it’s God. See? People don’t even want to know that.

Oh brother, you talk about an answer that doesn’t cut. You know that… what could you expect anything. Stupid is stupid. “Wisdom is justified of her children.”

Who are those that are not going see death at this end time? Will not die.

That’s what He’s talking about John in Matthew 16:[28] when He said, “Some of you standing here, shall not taste death, until you see the Kingdom of God come in power.” Or they didn’t die.

Well, evidently there’s only one group of people that are going to have something to do with something concerning the Word, that It will be judged. Say, “Okay, Tree of Life.”

I don’t care what you say, you can say anything you want. But, you can’t get by that one, because the Blood doesn’t do it, and the baptism with the Holy Ghost doesn’t do it, because they’re dead. God opens the door to it. That takes a prophet.

Look it, they cast themselves right with Him. They’re dead and we’re dead too. [laughter] You think I’m going to say, “I’m going to die?” I could die tomorrow, but I ain’t.

Nothing tells me I’m going to die, for He said, “I’m going to live.”

And you know the way I am, I’m such a perverse creature, I don’t know if I’m happy about that or not. I’d like to get out of here in a hurry. I praise God He kept me this far.

So, I know He’ll keep me the rest of the way. This has been a rough time this last while, but I tell you, He got me through this mess, I’m… I can go through anything with Him.

Whoa, that boy. Not by myself. Not by myself. forget it, I’m more and more useless. Oh, brother, that’s the way it should be. Now I know it should be other places, it should be. That’s what it is.

And,

Now, if you don’t say, “I and my Father are one, you’re a liar.” Especially if the reflection came. You know people sneer at that. They don’t want that.

You know why? Because they know they aren’t it. That’s their testimony. Fap! Kind of nonsense. Sure, don’t bother saying what He said.

Let’s take sides with Jesus. There’s the place to take sides with Jesus, right here. See?

Let’s go back to Genesis 18: and see the picture.

That’s the quickest way, just kill the guy. Get rid of the prophet. phfft! Don’t just spit on him, kill him. Watch him die. Lots of fun killing a prophet. That is if you are of the devil.

Abel was a prophet. Abel was a prophet unto Cain. See, he wouldn’t take it, he killed him. Isn’t that true to life?

God doesn’t change, man doesn’t change. Thank God, God doesn’t change, He’s going to change man. Wow! That’s great, see?

Now, if He came down here, what would He be? Especially before Sodom? What would He be? You can’t change Him.

Now, I was going to read all of Daniel 7: but man oh man, I don’t think I can read all of Daniel 7: It’s just such a long, long chapter. For we read a lot of It there.

But look, now, he’s beholding the vision of the four great empires, and he says in verse 9,

Now listen, that’s an interpolation. Something thrown in. He saw way down to the White Throne.

Oh, watch the next words:

That’s Revelation 20: the taking of the antichrist. That’s 2 Thessalonians 2:8. Who’s doing it? This One! Yeah.

Let’s keep reading:

Now, you’re talking about the Lamb over here. “He’s brought to the Ancient of days.”

What is it? This One that’s seen here is the same One in human form, coming back in Revelation 19:.

Over here, takes you right to the White Throne and shows you that same God, the Judge of all the earth, the One in Abraham’s day incarnated Himself. See?

And He’s hired the One that was the incarnation, or the human body, is the High Priest now. The Holy Spirit’s down here. God Himself is Judge and Prophet, because you could not be Judge unless you’re a Prophet.

There’s no way anybody can be a judge without being a prophet. Oh, there’s no way now.

Now, this stupid system in America, if you’ve got enough popularity to be elected as a judge, or some justice of the peace, you can work a racket with a cop.

And he’ll arrest you for speeding, or not speeding and pull you in, so that he’ll cut the fine with you. God doesn’t do things like that. God deals everybody with Himself.

Everything is dealt with by God, Holy Spirit, Almighty God, Elohim Himself. You’ve got to come through the Son. Through the work the Son did. But God Himself deals with you.

“No man can come except the Father draw him.” See, the Son said, “All the Father gives me will come to me. And the Father said, I’ll raise him up at the last day, to make sure he gets it.”

The Son was speaking, the Father and the Son was speaking. Hope you caught that one.

Let’s keep reading here. Now:

Now, here’s the Prophet turned Judge. What’s He doing? He’s already judged the Saints. He’s as yours as the Kingdom. See? You got a dual role going on.

Brother Branham said, “From the days of the prophet He made a transition He’s not come into.” He’s not come into? What is He? He’s some of both. See, sliding in.

The thing is, we’ve turned a corner. People don’t realize we’ve turned a corner. They better start realizing they’ve turned a corner, because we have turned.

Brother Branham said, “It takes a prophet to turn a corner.”

See, once that prophet hits the scene, the elements of the judge were there. You see, the prophet is the element for the Judge, and the Judge is the element for the King.

Because He’s going to tell you who’s going to be in His empire. Because He’s absolute. He’s going to put it all foreign matter.

He says when this Prophet comes on the scene and the Seals are open, everybody outside qualifies as a dog, or a whore monger, or liar, or thief, or something else. As Judge, that’s Judge talking.

And you know that Judge talking, He’s the Fellow that wrote the Word. Our congress men and our people write judges… write books of law, then they call in the judge.

And say, “Judge, what did we mean when we said it?”

The judge says, “Well, here’s what I think you mean when you said it.”

And they said, “Yeah, but that isn’t what we really meant, is not working that way.”

“Well, they said, that’s too bad, because that’s what you said, that’s how it works.”

Oh, merciful God, can you see three gods, or forty gods, or the church and assembly try to figure out anything? One God! Whew… Oh, I’m glad He’s one God.

…the old fellow down in South Africa said, “I don’t know which present, which one He was, but, he said, you know, Moses had have been a committee, Israel would still be in Egypt.” See?

Now:

What judgment? The Word judging. And the judging Word is the Word falling into place and doing what God said It would do in this hour for saint and sinner.

Oh my, look at what’s going on right now, that’s what I’m trying to get across to you.

All right, the Judging God has always been and always will be Judge, Hebrews 13:8. You can’t change It. He was the Judge in the Garden.

That’s the Judge, that’s the law and the pronouncement of the law.

Now, did He bring it to effect? He said this is that hour, pointed right to Adam, right there, said, “It’s over.” He said, “There it is.”

Now, He was the Judge in the Garden of Eden.

Okay, I read Genesis 2:16.

Now, It tells you right there we have become judges, and we’re rotten judges, because we know both good and evil and we get them mixed up. God only knows good. Our intentions maybe good, but we’ll always mess around.

“Oh, I’ve got you see, what it is, you see my child may suddenly may become a dope-head. So, if my child becomes a dope-head, I can’t make this guy on dope for killing and raping. I can’t sentence him to very much, except a slap on the wrist, because maybe his mother, or his dad might have said, ‘tut, tut son, you shouldn’t do it’.”

You say,” I’ve got a kid too.” So, the judge… he said, “To perdition with the law and anybody else, my kid might do it.” And the judge take money under that table.

I told you about my friend Beaujour, in New York. He was great in politics and everything else. His uncles were really tough Italians. So, one time they got in the business of making money fast. Which is their own printing press.

But you know, they forgot to turn the fan on long enough and they’re slightly sticky and the Feds got them. So, they brought him into court and the judge knowing them, brought him in the back room.

He said, “Listen, you blankety, blank, blank so and so, why didn’t you cut me in on it, and I’d have told you how to do it?” Fine him twenty-five thousand bucks and got him off.

So, they said, “Well, we should make some booze and get away with it.” So, they began making booze and cut the judge in. And every time there was a raid, four or six hours ahead of the raid they moved out.

So much for the knowledge of good and evil. That’s what it is. See, we’re miniature gods, we’re miniature judges. We’re pretty cruddy at both, except for the grace of Almighty God. See what I’m talking about?

Okay, let’s go to,

Now, you’ve got to leave the tree of knowledge of good and evil to get into that Promised Land brother/sister. You got to become one with that Word. And when you do, you become a true judge, because you will know the difference between righteousness and wickedness.

Now, you’re identified with the Judge. Identified with the Lamb; Identified with the Eagle; Identified with the Judge; Identified with the Lion; Identified with the King; right down the line. Identified as Priest, because He’s a man too.

And we also bear intercession for others. You’re identified with the prophet. Because you’re the Word, the fulfillment of the Word that he brought in his measure. You’re identified right now with the Judge.

And this is one of the greatest days in history, because it’s the only day that a group of people can go to the Tree of Life. Then for once they don’t know good and evil, they just know good. Why? Because the Word,

All right, He was Judge in Abel’s day. (Yep) Cain and Abel. He was Judge in Abel’s day, and that judgment was because of religion. Abel was righteous, Cain was wicked. Both religious, only one had the Spirit of God.

The original antichrist is Cain, because of Satan, he distorted the revealed Word. Right back there, he put the flowers on the altar. He put the fruit on the altar. It was a first-fruit offering he put there.

He had no business putting it there, because the lamb came first. So, the Prophet comes before the Judge, and the Judge before the King.

Now, if you don’t say the right thing back to God as Brother Branham said, now after what these very things I’m talking about, he said, “You’ve missed it.”

Now, I’ve read that last Wednesday I think to you. Was it Sunday? I read it right out to you. “You’ve got to say the right thing,” he said, “like Hattie Wright.” I read it to you, so were the very thing I’m talking about.

You got to know what we’re talking about. You see. Now, remember the judge that says, “You’re free, not guilty.” Is the same one that says, “Twenty years in jail.” Yep.

Now, the original antichrist was Cain, that’s in the flesh. God judged between righteousness and wickedness. Yeah.

Go back to 1 John 3:11, everybody gets all messed up here.

Now, he’s talking about love. This is the Message, the beginning of the Message of God’s love. We should love one another. We should have the same revelation that God has, and revelation toward each other.

We should openly listen to the Word of God, the same revealed Word. Then we’d have real love. This other stuff is hogwash, unmitigated tripe. It’s not even fit for soup, because it’s too stinking rotten. Because they’ve left the junk inside of it.

“Wherefore slew he him?” Because his own works were evil. The evil work was not killing his brother, the evil work preceded the killing of his brother. What was his evil work? Worshipping God, outside of the division of the Word.

You say, “Well, he didn’t love God.” Ha! Judas gave Jesus a kiss, and it wasn’t a peck. In the Greek it says, “An affectionate kiss.” You have a lot of affection toward people that’s wrong affection, if it’s not based on the Word.

Now listen, There, one’s man’s deed was righteous, and one was evil, and they both approached God. And what they did was in the Bible. Cain’s was in the Bible.

Because the Scripture said, “Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain’s,” so Cain’s sacrifice was excellent. Why? Because it was Bible. Joining a church is excellent.

Why listen, even… not paying for mass, but doing your own mass. That’s good. Do your own praying. That’s fine, ain’t going to get you nowhere.

Because there’s something better. See, the part gives way to the whole, and the perfect will gives way to the permissive.

In other words, it takes over rather. Permissive gives way, because the perfect takes over. “That which is perfect is come.”

Now, this was the first genuine perfect revelation given to born people. What did they do with it? One man went haywire right now, next man said, “This is it.”

And it wasn’t what they really did, it was what was behind it. Which one had a revelation, one didn’t.

Because Able would come the next day, if he’d lived, maybe he did live long enough to present the first-fruit. And God bring the fire down on that again.

He devoured the sacrifice. He devoured the first-fruits, and Cain stands back and says, “Well, well, well. ” Umm, something’s answering back to that guy.

No, I can’t get back to what’s answering back to that guy, but I can get back at the guy that that thing is answering to.

He said, “Look, I’ve put the flowers there, I put the fruit there, and I didn’t get a bit of fire. So, I’ll just kill him. When I’m the only one left, He’ll have to take what I’ve got to offer.”

That’s why the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant churches have killed consistently. Because they think they can bluff God. And the devil said, “I’ll kill him, then He’d have to turn to me.”

I never heard that God, or I never heard that any child that had a father was an orphan. And you can’t kill God’s, see, ain’t nobody going to be an orphan.

And you can’t kill the kids, so God ain’t going to be without children. The devil pulls every rotten trick in the book.

Now, God judged between righteousness and wickedness. Now, let’s go to Malachi, I might get through too soon, but it’s alright, I can always turn back to It.

As soon as the thing strikes me, I want to read It. Malachi 3:18. Speaking of this last day, these people that talk a common language which is the Word.

First of all, you’ve got to be one with that Word. Then intuitively, instinctively by spirituality you’ll hone right to it, like that Dove fell upon Jesus. Didn’t fall on John, fell on Jesus. Yep, see? It was the revelation that made the difference.

The beautiful manifestation was evil, though based on the Word and a part of the Word, that is the why of Hebrews 1:1-2, and the foolish virgins with the lamps. See? God spoke in different ways at different times till it came time to do this.

Now, the Word of prophecy had left the prophet. And He was there, the Word of Life of seven ages had gone out of the plant.

Now, He was there. It’s not that that Word isn’t good the Lutheran’s have. It’s not that the Pentecostal’s don’t have genuine gifts, but the life is gone.

You follow what I am saying? No longer will it work, Seven Church Ages of Israel. He came, Seven Church Ages of us, He comes. Hope you’re getting it.

Hebrews 6: Understand what I’m saying. People’s hard to understand, I don’t know why, it’s clear as mud they say, it’s just like crystal water from the Throne to me.

Listen, you mean to say there’s coming a time when that is not necessary? Well, try feeding a Jewish corpse chicken soup. Cures everything but that.

Is there ever a time when this doesn’t work? Yes! When there’s nobody left to get it. How about making some more Edsel’s? Nobody wants them. That’s when you leave this.

No, not even resurrection. You ain’t going to have one. You say, “It means I’m going to die?” No, you ain’t going to die. Perfection. See, the Life has moved on.

He stood there as a Prophet, “I am the Resurrection and Life, he that believeth on me, though he were dead. This is that hour, but he that liveth and believe he shall never perish. Do you believe this?”

That’s a Prophet. And the Judge is there at the time of resurrection. But we don’t get resurrected. Huh? We’re separated, “Come out of her my people.” Prophet, Judge. See?

Now, the full manifestation of Judge is yet to come. But we’re under it, trying to show you this.

Okay, now the understanding of that great key is in Genesis 18:1. We’re talking about this Judge for this hour and the effect of It.

Now listen, “I will return unto thee according to the time of life.”

Who was there when Abraham and Sarah got their change? Who was there when she got pregnant? He said, “I’m going to return.”

That means, I’m going to come back again and see you again. Made a promise, said, “This is that day.”

He was there with the promise and He came back again to fulfill it! Appearing, Coming. Sarah laughed. Who needs that junk about a prophet? Yep. Verse 14.

This is indicative and prophetic of the Royal Seed Jesus! I believe at that hour God stood there, and gave back Abraham the ability to create, to bring forth sperm again, and Sarah’s womb to come forth in life. Not that he created egg and sperm, but he brought it back, turned back the clock.

Why? Because… why, certainly he was going to be. Now, He’s going to bring forth nationhood. I’m their Appearing, I’m coming back to do it.

I’m going to make you a nation. There’s your picture. Who’s doing it? Elohim! Who’s doing it? Lamb! Who’s doing it? Judge! Who’s doing it? Eagle! See?

Genesis 19:

Now, there’s a great destruction. It said, “God remembered Abraham.”

In other words, there is no time under any consideration that the Saints aren’t under the pre-eminent and primary consideration of God and all else falls in line.

So, that the flood that took the world out kept it for Abraham, and the fire that’s going to fall at this point. Remember, God remembered Abraham.

He said, “Abraham what I destroyed down there, you can have it back. Give it back to you now, you can have it.” And the fire that falls is going to bring us back here on the earth.

Now, He is Judge of all the earth. As It says in Psalms 50:4, “God is Judge Himself.” Why is He Judge? Let’s go over here to John 5.

Now, we’re moving right along, we’ll get there before two o’clock in the morning. If I keep you here to two o’clock in the morning I will buy you lunch, or dinner.

If I keep you here till one o’clock, you will take me out and treat me. That’s a very, very good little system I got worked out here.

All right,

Now, It tells you right there that life absolutely is a guarantee at the time of this Judge. See? Now remember, judgment on the earth does not come until after the First Resurrection. See?

Now, He’s telling you that this judgment is at the time of life. So therefore, the Judge in the First and Second half of the First Resurrection is entirely different in His pronouncements, then as Judge after.

See, how did He treat Sarah? Not the way He treated Lot, the rest of them. The rest of the folk.

Now, let’s keep moving. Now, why is He Judge? I read it. He is the Son of man again. Luke 17:30 in the day He is revealed as the Son of man.

That is the time: “two will be sleeping in a bed, one taken and one left. Two grinding in a mill, one taken, one left. Two in a field, one taken and one left.” Where? at the Rapture. At the ‘soma’.

At the bringing of the Word, and the fulfilling. He is Judge now following the revelation of Elijah in Revelation 10:1, and 6-7, because remember, in Revelation 1: that same One comes down.

In Revelation 1: in Revelation 4: comes down in Revelation 10: It’s the same One, because Brother Branham put it there.

Said it’s the same One in Revelation 1: And you know he called that “the Holy Spirit.” He didn’t call It anything else.

He said, “God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit comes down, sets Himself at the Head of the Church in order to raise the dead.” He’s judging right there, because He’s saying who His Church is.

“I saw a mighty messenger come down.” There He is.

Now listen, “time’s no longer.” “In the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he’ll begin to sound, the mystery of God should be polished, finished, absolutely done with, as God has declared the good news of the Gospel by His servants the prophets.”

All right, you’ve got it right there.

Now, let’s see about that. Let’s go to,

Notice the judging. Appearing and kingdom. That’s ‘ Epiphaneia’, and you can’t take the Epiphaneia and solely put it as a blinding light.

Because people were blinded at the Appearing of the Pillar of Fire in the day of Paul. Was revelation. The same Light Appears in the West.

All right, there It is. The Judge. I didn’t say it, he did. That’s Luke 17:20.

Let’s go back and look at It, let’s get our Scripture all lined up. Because it’s saying, it’s talking about it.

All right, His Appearing and His Coming. “When is the kingdom of God coming?” It’s here right now. What is He? Judge! See, all the potentials are there for the rapid movement into it.

This is also seen in,

All right, now what about 2 Thessalonians. I read It for you before, now, I’ll read It to you. 2 Thessalonians 2: I want to put these together.

Notice, here’s where He comes, and He’s dealing with the Bride. Here’s where He comes and He’s dealing with the wicked.

Now, who’s going to decide that? That’s the Judge. You go to the judge, a man sues you, and before you can even go to court, the judge has got to know you’ve got a case.

All right. You came to my house, and I got mad at you, and I sue you in court because I said you scared off the little men in the flying saucers which was just coming in the back door. I got no case.

I’ve got no case, and I’ve no name, in the case of little men coming in the back door from flying saucers. See what I’m talking about here?

When you’re dealing with judge, you’re dealing with law, statute, judgement, ordinances. And former pronouncements that have been valid according to what was said. Cases are built on precedence.

You tell that to a Christian. He doesn’t believe He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, and does what He used to do. He’s got his own ideas. He’s not a Christian, he just thinks he is.

Okay, look at it, here it is. I say, “Watch.” The love of the truth to them that perish. They didn’t have the love of the truth, and they perished.

“For this cause, God will bring them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”

Why shouldn’t He? What right has God got to do it? They turned down the other. So, what right has the Judge got to put me in jail? Because you did it!

Now, a dirty judge can put you in jail when he didn’t do it. But God’s not a dirty judge. We’ll find out what He’s like in a minute or two.

Just a couple words, is all we’ll use. “They all might be damned that had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

They had pleasure in unrighteousness… that’s Cain. Dividing and acting on the Word without authority. What authority? True revelation. Yeah.

Now watch. “We’re bound to give thanks to God, always for you. Brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning, chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief in the truth, where unto He called you by our gospel. To the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Paul had to interpret his word to the people, and they turned it down.

Now, this same gospel is what he is talking about, when anti-Christ is here, and we’re gone and we come back. Now, what make the difference? Getting back to original Word. Who’s going to do it? God’s going to do it.

How’s He going to do it? By a prophet. Now… He’s going to take a Bride away. You say, “What right has He got to do it?”

You mean to tell me that He wouldn’t be Judge? Don’t you understand this is what this is all about. We’ve been hearing the Seals and everything else, is so we can judge between. He is the Great Judge, and we are the minor judges.

That we’ve been set up to have truth within ourselves. Because the truth is in us, by the Words of the Living God, which is revealed Word.

Our gospel alone, can do it. It’s the same Gospel of Galatians 1:11 and it’s the same Pillar of Fire that wrote the Book is revealing the Book in this hour.

Who gave the Word to Paul, is here now as Prophet turning into Judge. Revealing it as exactly as He gave It, in the understanding of It, to see that we make the Rapture.

He is here, the Judge is here, He is separating the wheat from the chaff. Let’s find out.

“Who says so?” Says right here. On what grounds? Who’s fan in is His hand, and a fan creates a breeze. And the breeze separates.

All right. Let’s go to Acts 3:19 middle of the verse.

That is like a fan. A person uses a fan to get a breeze because the room’s too hot. You’re creating a breeze. All is a revival breeze of miracles and signs, and wonders and healings.

It’s that which hath stirred up the atmosphere in the church. The Judge is there, exposing Himself. It’s separating time.

Now, before He can separate, He’s got to be prophet. So, the signs and the wonders, give the people something to look at.

And if they’re like you and I, and I was in his meetings where you weren’t, you knew if you had what that man had, in a measure.

You’d say, “Hey, got to watch that guy. He’s got It.”

Well I sat there, just as hard as a rock, and was back-slidden as they come. Oh, I’m not as back-slidden.

Look, I never was out drinking and whoring around like a lot of guys, and robbing banks… I might as well have been. Should have been, but I wasn’t.

I was more or less a pussy cat kind of guy. I always said, and it’s the truth… I always had them rotten kind of sins, not those good ones. You know, shooting up the town… that’s a whole lot better. Stuff I pulled off. Phfft! Forget it.

You know, you could be ashamed of what I did. But the guy out on the street did, he didn’t have to be ashamed, because he had guts to do it.

You know, not ripping off little old ladies and… I didn’t do that. But I tell you, I was hard. Hard as the hubs of the proverbial Hades, I tell you I was.

I sat there, when I saw him, I knew that was nothing but God. That did it. You see, the fan in the hand, stirring things up, was the great revival of power that pointed to the restoration ministry, which was the Word, which you had to be a part of, for Jesus to come and get you.

That’s what It says here. He can’t come, until you’ve been restored. No way. Got to have that Word. That is where He is Prophet-Judge.

But you see, the chips of Judge bang, bang, bang, aren’t down until the Bride’s out of here. But He’s already started, because in Him is everything. In Him is creation, Millennium, the whole thing is in there. See?

All right. Now, it is separation time, as it says in Revelation 18:4, “Come out of her my people.”

As it says in Revelation 3:20, “Behold I stand at the door and knock. And he that heareth my voice…” He says, “Come in, I’ll sup with him, and he with Me.”

And He said, “I’ll grant this to him that sit in My Throne, as I am overcome and sit down in my Father’s throne. That’s the Lamb off the Mercy Seat Melchisedec, but still Priest, with the Father pointing us to Him. See.

In time, and He said, “Look, I sat on the Throne, and I’m going to give you the chance, to sit on the Throne.”

Now, the people that are God’s, take that opportunity, they receive the Word, which alone has Life. And that Life bursting from the Word, and your cells forming around It, automatically, is like the particles pulled to the magnet.

Now, a magnet is a judge. You go into a shop, like Brother Branham said he was in… and they were doing steel, and doing aluminium works.

And they had the great big lathe, and Brother Branham said, “Man, that’s a lot of work [he said] to clean up those shavings.”

The man said, “We do it, I’ll show you.” He pushed a button, and the shavings went [makes a sucking sound] the magnet pulls up all the metal shavings of the steel.

There were some other shavings lying there, Brother Branham said, “Well not, just a minute, why don’t those go up?” He said, “Those are aluminium,” he said, “Those won’t be drawn by magnet.” The magnet was a judge.

The Spirit will draw. He’s a Judge. Huh. Listen, it’s simple as a-b-c, right from the very beginning, He always was a Judge. See?

And when He went down to Hades, He proved it. He went right by the door of the wicked, looked in the window, and preached to them, and walked back and emptied the cell of the righteous. See? He always was Judge. The Judge. And He manifests.

And this hour, He’s coming more and more into it, as Brother Branham said, “As we are coming more and more from the shadow to the substance, the substance is coming more and more into His substance.” The reality, and we’re attracted to It.

Now, remember Genesis 18:23-25 said, “Will you destroy the righteous with the wicked?” “And shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Has become the order of our day.

Now, watch it. 1 Thessalonians 4: Now, hear what I’m saying, I won’t have to read it all to you. This is where he talks about the Lord descending with a shout.

Now, let’s go on down further. It says at that time, in verse 3 of chapter 5, “They’ll say peace and safety.” Comes sudden destruction.

That’s exactly what He said in Matthew 24: and what He said in Luke 17: “But you brethren are not of darkness that that day should overtake you.”

You’re going to miss the destruction. You’re children of light, the children of day, not of night. Not of darkness, we’re not sleeping, we’re not drunken.

We put aside all these things. Why? Because, verse 9, “God hath not appointed us to wrath…” We’re going to miss it. The Judge said, “Come ye, blessed of My Father.” See?

In other words, the attributes of the Judge within Him, is responding to the last day before Sodom and Gomorrah, when He personally came down and took charge.

Now listen, it is Luke 17:30, “So it will be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”

The Apokalupsis, when He’s unveiled. And that is followed of course, by chapter 18, in the Book of Luke, verse 1. All right.

Now, that word ‘avenge’ means; that which proceeds : one: from justice, two: to vindicate a person’s rights. Now, she was the widow, as in the days of Elijah. Elisha had a widow too.

Now, “…avenge me of mine adversary.” That was, “I demand justice.” See? “I want to be vindicated, as to my rights.” She went to a judge.

He can’t hear their prayer to get out of here, and own the land. Until a certain hour. See?

In other words, when the Son of man ministry returns is there anybody to be looking for It? Will they, believing this is really the hour they’ve looked for It for years? I’ve looked for It ever since I was born again. Fifty years ago. This is the hour.

Now, he says here what the judge said, “Shall not God avenge? Shall not that which proceeds from justice to vindicate My Elect, take place?” Sure! In the day of the Son of man. When He’s here as Prophet. See?

Now, I’m going to let you go. One quote: No, we’ll talk about it, maybe.

The Called out  01-09-58

[24]  The Son of man has come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy, showing them His great Presence.

Past few years? Then, why do they try to make it two thousand years? According to these big meat-heads that I come across and want to fight. I can retaliate in kind, don’t worry, and I’m liable. I do too. Yeah.

He says,.. what does he say here?

“Showing His great Presence, oh, for the past few years.”

“Then He’s been here for the past few years.” That was said in 1958. A few years is from ’33. Twenty-five years, quarter century went by. That’s just a few years. Man, quarter century, twenty- five from sixty-eight, that’s forty-three.

That’s not very long ago, in Ohio here. And man, sure did have any back aches then. I don’t have too bad a back ache now to tell you the truth. The Lord’s good to me. There’s sure a big difference for twenty-five years. Phfft! What’s twenty-five years? Nothing!

He’s been here for the past few years showing His great Presence. Sometime later he said, this healing ministry has been going for thirty some years already.

And he said that, “That Appearing was in the healing ministry.”

In other words, the visibility of God on earth at one time was a human body. And the visibility today is in these specialized miracles that Brother Branham had, ‘Thus saith the Lord’. Then the Word came forth.

Now, showing His great Presence, doing the same thing that when He was here on earth revealing Himself like He did before the destruction in Abraham’s day.

He has come now in mercy revealing Himself to the Church. The next time that He reveals Himself will be in judgment on the earth, on nations that have forgot God.

Now, this thought here I want to bring you to so we can proceed further.

Now, He’s Judge. He’s Judge of the righteous as well as the wicked. Because He’s Judge. He can’t change from being Judge, just because there’s some righteous folks that he died for, rose again, gave him the Holy Ghost. Can’t do it.

Because we all appear before the Judgment Seat of Jesus Christ to give account. There’s no reason He’s going to change it.

Now, there’s a transition period as Brother Branham said, “From Prophet to Judge.”

It’s also told us in the Scripture that that One that descends with a Shout and a Voice, right after that comes wrath. Right? Three and a half year tribulation, then comes the last day.

Now, the judgments of God gets set in the earth in three and a half years. That’s judgments on the earth. But the Bride also is judged, but she’s not purged. See?

Earth is purged, church is purged, Jews purged. Bride’s not purged, she’s already got a purging. Because you see, she is a true child, and she’s receiving her training. See?

But we’re looking at the Scripture today, and the major reason I took this as long as I have, is to get you acquainted with the fact that in Him was to be Judge.

And He’s always been Judge. And He can be a Judge again and again, and again if He wants to be. Because He is. See?

Now, He couldn’t be Judge on less first He was Prophet. There’s no way. Because where there is no law there is no sin! Now, there’s no way that you can judge a man if there’s not something to judge him by.

Now, how could you judge this generation today, if He wasn’t already here with something whereby you can judge it, and that intrinsically automatically sets forth a judge.

So, what I’m trying to tell you is this: in this period, there is the moving from the Prophet right to the Judge. It’s been going on, and at anytime, I don’t know when, the pressure could start to come.

For the squeeze comes down, the false church starts coming right against the Bride. Things are getting tougher, which shall mean the demand of the Bride out of here, and the Judge crack that whip. In the meantime, He is Judge.

And that’s what we want to go to next Sunday, like I thought it go this Sunday and show you where Paul calls Him the Righteous Judge. The same as Moses did.

But he goes further, he said, “The Righteous Judge shall give me a crown at that day, and all them that love His Appearing.” He is already Judge to the Bride.

But remember, it’s pretty hard for a Judge to sentence His Own wife. Because He cannot receive evidence against her. Can’t do it.

So, the Lord bless you. I hope you begin to see now that… the great multiplicity of the titles, the names, the whole thing lies in Elohim the great God.

And though He incarnated Himself in Jesus, that did not mean: “All right, it’s all over, there’s nothing more He can do, you simply got to just look around, maybe Jesus will come back, everything will work out.”

That’s not true at all, they missed the fact that God Himself, for Revelation 10:1 has come down with a prophet. And manifested Himself once more, in and through human flesh has brought us this Word.

And this Word is the criterion, and where that Word is seen, in whatever person is seen in, makes the difference to the great Seer. He becomes the Judge see?

All right, that’s fine, the Lord bless you, let’s rise at this time.

Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your mercy and grace. And we know, Lord, the time is running out. We know, Lord, perhaps You have not said in Your Word we ought to have long meetings, You said we ought to have more meetings.

The more we come together, the better it is, we don’t wear ourselves out. But at least, Lord, we thank You we have had the opportunity at this hour You’ve given us strength, to bear one with another.

To go more and more into Your great Word which shows us that You are the same yesterday, today and forever. And no way in shape or form, is there any change in You, but You being God.

You manifest, reveal and do those things which are absolutely identical, or identified, or one with Your characteristics. Which great One now is to be Prophet again in our midst.

And not just Prophet, but You’re the actual God, Elohim Creator. Creating around these old dead cells because of the Word. New and living cells getting a people ready for the dead to come out of the graves. Going to create bodies for them.

Going to create new ones for us, Lord, so we won’t have these same old bodies. And take away all those things that absolutely have no right, and can have no right, because in a glorified body they don’t exist.

All these things, Lord, we know they’re there. And we know You’re the Judge, You’re judging between. For You said, one is going to be taken, and one left. That means a judging between.

And Lord, it is quite possible, if fact we would believe as the prophet said, that once more at this hour the fullness of God is seen once more.

And even put it in the form of saved bodily, whether he meant that the Bride it formed a figure for him, or he in himself a figure of Jesus Christ, temporarily knowing that he was no redeemer, but a great prophet of the hour. Absolutely. Could be the carrier of Elohim.

Even as God was in the prophets. We don’t understand all these things.

But, Lord, we do appreciate the fact of Your Word, and we accept Them. Maybe a little later on, You’ll help us, that our minds might be let go and expanded, to where we can see the infinite beauty.

Not the Infinite Himself, but the beauty of it, and understand more of the Infinite in Him being His Own applier, and Him being the application, You, Yourself.

See that, and rejoice in and understand through revelation a little more of the depth to it, maybe we won’t get that far. We know, Lord, by Your grace we’re going to get all the way to the Rapture.

Because even now You’ve showed us that there’s no way that the Elect that are meant to be caught up without dying, there’s no way that they are going to be part of that resurrection, except to be just like them.

No pre-eminence given them, they’ll be like them, but they’re not going to see death. Going right on beyond, because that’s the promise of this hour.

Lord God, to Him we appreciate that, and we thank You for it. Now, Lord, be with those as they go on the road, we pray that You’ll give them health and strength, Lord.

And give Your people great rejoicing perhaps as never before, Lord, knowing we’re coming into the final moments of the ultimate. And we just praise You for it, Lord, that You have given us health and strength at this hour.

And we know, Lord, that very shortly that sweet Spirit is going to move amongst us. And we believe without a doubt that’ll be very, very soon now.

When we look at time how it’s gone on by, there isn’t… there’s simply can’t be too much more time left. That sweet Spirit be amongst us, the dead out of the graves and we’re all changed.

We thank You for it, Lord, every desire of every heart is going to be met, and we know that’s the hour that You standing amongst us, getting ready for that great Rapture.

Before You go back to incarnate Yourself in that Person, that great One the Lamb. The people will be in that position to say, “Death hath no power, there’s no fear, absolutely nothing.”

And that people should never be ashamed. Never once again, because they’ll stand here sowing Your will, but they won’t the world over till You let them take it. But they’ll stand here so in Your power we know like Jesus hanging on the Cross that I could do it right now.

We know there’s a Bride going to stand here and say, “We could take it over, but we don’t want it until Father says so.”

We know that, and we appreciate it very much that we’re coming to that place where there will be fit subjects once more to take the earth over. That’s wonderful to contemplate. And we praise You, Lord, that we have within us the witness and that does it.

Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Lord bless you.

Let’s just go singing, ‘Take the Name of the Lord with You’, because I think that’s about the best we can do. You take that you’ll be fine.