Why Is He Here #5C

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Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father, we’re very grateful that You’re in our midst today, that we are gathered around You in a way which it has not been possible but before for there was always that distance, what… how approachable through Jesus our blessed High Priest but now there has come a difference when You set Yourself the Head of the church in order to raise the dead, then You’ll raise us up with You.

And we are of the full knowledge and accord with You this afternoon, Lord, through the revealed Word of the prophet coming to us.

And we’re grateful for that, we thank You for it, oh God, we have no hope in anything else but that Your blessing is upon us; we revel in it, Lord, we stand in it on Christ that solid Rock of revelation and nothing else.

And we praise You, Lord, we bring nothing to it but You bring all things to us and we thank You, Lord that this is the meaning of grace in Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.

You may be seated.

Now we want to continue in the subject of ‘Why He is Present’, that’s 5, number 5C, continuing with the thoughts of the Judge and sometimes you never realize how important a subject matter can be to you in the lives of people.

I’ve received a phone call Saturday from a brother I have known over a period of time, casually by acquaintance but also by letter and by phone call, and he asked me some questions which I would not have been able to answer except I had been going deep into this subject of which we intend to go much deeper as time goes on as to why He is Present.

And we’ll be bringing out some of the thoughts again as to why I was able to answer his questions and what I really had in mind which was helpful for him but it might not allude to it directly in that way.

Now just before we begin, this last week I was thinking as I go back on Brother Branham’s life and I remember I gave you a quote where Brother Branham said, “Things were happening out there in the desert so fast I cannot keep track of them.”

Well, now, I know the grass wasn’t blooming or growing underfoot. The desert remained the desert, and I know that the cactus wasn’t particularly unfolding into leaves, and I knew that he wasn’t up there prospecting for gold and finding the… the lost Dutchman mine because that’s merely a legend. There’s nothing to it.

The prophet said so. If you ever get anything or hear anything else and some lady prophesied they’re going to find it and make money.

She’s a phony as a three-dollar bill, the same as the Dutchman that fell on his head or something during the war and came out a psychic and he said they were going to find it. It ain’t no Dutchman’s mine to be found.

So now nor the pot… the gold pot at the end of the rainbow but there’s eternal life in Christ. So, I just want to let you know, but anyway nothing like that out there in the desert and I got to thinking one day, “Well, what’s happening so fast?” It was in the man and the revelation.

Now then it came to me and as I thought Brother Branham on more than one occasion, he said, “I’ll never be the same.” And then he said another time, “Plumb changed my thinking.”

Now you see if you put it together you’ll understand that Brother Branham was talking about God doing something in him.

Now you say, “Well, the great thing that he’ll never be the same; he’ll have a bigger ministry.”

Ah, ah, look, prophets fizzle, ministries fizzle, they don’t come back. Now look it I’ve got history for it. Don’t kid yourself. Jesus had a ministry, great ministry; it fizzled. It never came back. Dr. Price had a great ministry; it never came back.

Heaven bid, I should mention her but Mrs. McPherson had a great ministry; it never came back. Ministries only indicate and in the prophet’s case, vindicate, but the Word of the Lord never fails and stand assure.

So, God was never telling Brother Branham, look, a bigger ministry, a bigger this, a something here, a something there. It’s, well, what we’ve been talking about all along, it’s this inside by revelation.

I just was going over the tape yesterday, I put the little books in my own little volumes, most of the time, loose-leaf style and on my desk a certain book and I thought, “Well, I’ll look in there,” to look at one of Brother Branham’s sermons, and I picked up this special message.

It’s funny it just left my mind, I’ll get it later on in a minute or two, and it had to do with him recounting the snowstorm in Arizona on the anniversary of his marriage to Mede, October 23rd, that was ’64, whatever anniversary that was, and I watched carefully the words that he said because he never ever told the people all of what he told me but he mentioned in there that change.

And in there that change was that Brother Branham, he hints it but he doesn’t put it outright that there’s no guilt. Now you see, the prophet is the sort of a first-fruit. The husbandman must be partaker before he can give anybody anything.

Now how can a person preach born again if he’s not born again? Now I know it sounds like he could and something could happen. Maybe there is some little trick in there I’m not aware of, but Brother Branham said, “Phillip had the seed. The incorruptible Word.” All right.

Now the man said to Phillip in the desert, that eunuch, he said, “Of whom does he speak? Of himself or another person.”

And Phillip then gave him the Word of the Lord and the man said, “What doth hinder me from being baptized?”

And he said, “Nothing, if there’s any water.”

And evidently there was water. When I was baptized… you don’t baptize a man in sand. It would be impossible. You’ve got to come up.

Not with his eyes full of sand. Water. Ah, ha. You can stand on sand, but if it’s water it clears the eyes, clears the head and so on. It gives life. So, Phillip was carrying that seed.

Now we’re looking at a reality today that is over the heads of the people because of the sheer simplicity and not realizing that the prophet is the living Word of God made manifest. Quote: Feast of the Trumpets 64-07-19

Now as the husbandman of the Word to the Bride and the keeper, the One to dress a Bride she said.

The One to help this Bride to bring this Bride in, you watch his life and you will notice that what I have said stands true that God gave him revelation for the purpose of the man’s own life as well as the believer.

Because as I’ve said many times, Moses ate the same manna and it did the same good and no different and judged by the same Word because he struck the rock twice, as the people who got the manna because he brought it down.

Now so you know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about you according to Scripture, and according to prophet.

In a moment in a twinkling of an eye in the change in the atoms occurs by our flesh building around the Word of God in human vessel.

Now this is why it is so important that the messages coming forth must have that understanding, otherwise you will simply call it a message, not a Word of life.

“It is no longer, ‘Let there be light,’” said the prophet, “when the light comes, the Word is gone, it is now reality.” We are not walking anymore in a Word, we are walking in a life.

The Word once more is becoming flesh, many membered and that portion of the Logos which remains upon earth in human flesh will take on glorified structure. See.

Not because the blood and not because you’re born again, that opens the door. It is He Himself as the One that went down in prison.

Now those who didn’t get Tuesday’s tape you better get it, you know what I’m talking about. Wednesday’s tape. We’ll go back lots, let’s just get the meeting changed to Tuesday because my mind is completely phttt.

I’ve got a reason for it too because some Thursdays you’re going to get there and talk about the Lord.

I’m going to tell you something; I was so torn up this week, if I had not made phone calls this morning I would have come here and bitten heads off. I’m not kidding you.

I wouldn’t have liked that… the foot-washing, but you’d have heard some pretty murderous things said from this pulpit but I softened it down, I’m waiting for a message to come.

I’m going to say some things that is going to put the church right on its toes because you’re lagging. You’re still playing games and it’s too late. It’s too late. See?

Now look, this is dead serious time we’re in. We’ve got to realize we are not dealing with a message or a subject per se; we are dealing with reality. The Roman Catholics take a little bit of bread and they say that’s God.

Let me tell you this Word spoken under anointing is the Spirit of Almighty God. And that Word from your mind and Brother Branham said, “I will never think the same.” And he said, “I will never be the same.” I kid you not. See? I fool you not. This Word is real. See?

Now I’m not standing here as though I’m some big shot. Don’t ever think so but I’m going to tell you something, He takes the beggar off the dung-heap.

I never knew till this hour what he meant when he really said, “Paul said, ‘Don’t get a smart man to figure anything. Get a Dumbo.’”

You almost got decapitated today because of smart men but I’ll draw my horns in. Now I want you to know I’m serious. I’m not here to be a dictator.

Now let’s get this… I’m not here to intimidate you, but I want you to know one thing, I’m not fooling. Look, you meet face to face with reality; there’s one place you don’t fool here.

I don’t handle this Word insincerely and foolishly up here; I may be a fool out there but here, and I might cut up a little bit, relax you but you know my seriousness and my intent because I’m responsible and you’re responsible. Everybody’s responsible. It’s not talking about Him as though it’s a myth. There’s reality.

Now the fight has just been engaged. We’ve got our cut a little bit quicker than most anybody does because this message has come down through my ministry, taken from a prophet and without the prophet I would have no more idea about this than I would have about the spiders on Mars if there’s any up there, or if they do have any spiders up there.

We’re in a serious position and Brother Branham said, “My thinking has been changed.”

Well, where’s ministries, where is character, where is fruit? Huh? Where’s the power of ministries? All these things. Where are they? They’re gone. They’re gone. You see they forget what He’s here for, to put Himself at the head of the church.

Now Brother Branham made a quite a thing, wacko, head of the church, boom, now your mind can go fifty thousand directions and every direction is wrong until you go to this Word and he made another statement, “In order to raise the dead.”

What’s that got to do with you and me? Nothing, not if you hit the dead but he didn’t go to the dead, he went to the living. So, the living has got something to do with raising the dead.

That’s what Brother Branham said, “The Bride will raise the dead.” Ah, she’s not going to raise the dead, go out there and pick them out of the ground. Come on. No, it’s what’s in the Bride. See?

Now this is what we’re dealing with, we’re dealing with His Presence and in this Presence, is Judge. And I’m going to take a lot of time with this subject. I have two reasons: one, I’m lazy.

Now you didn’t think I’d say that but I’m lazy. Secondly, I’m smart enough to be lazy because if I push I’ll miss it and I’ll hurt you. So, my lazy nature is very admirably suited to receive revelation because I can sit and think or fall asleep.

I’m very much like the guy who said, you know, “When I works, I work; when I sits, I sits; and when I think I falls asleep.” I’m suited because I’m lazy.

And you haven’t caught what I’m telling you; I’m telling you plain and simple I don’t want to hurt myself and I mean I’m talking personally about my little… own little feelings of energies and all.

I’m not going to push myself to hurry the subject and if you sit here and you’ve got on your minds, judge, judge, judge; please go now because you may be getting tricked by what I’m doing, because it’s already happened but not with Judge.

If you can’t talk about Him and think about Him, why do you want to go see Him? If you can’t stand Lee Vayle, why would you come to my house?

Or why would you say, “Come to my house, Lee Vayle.” I’m talking about Jesus now, Logos and the Parousia. Touché? Huh? Are you with me? We’re not guessing.

Now if you don’t like it, you have little pink feelings, you’re in for a rough time. Now I’m a little rough today but that’s all right we’ll get the edges off shortly. We’ll put them all on real good or one of the two. Now I’m lazy.

Now that’s why there’s no smarting off, see, because He’s here. Brother Branham said, “There’s no sincerity in His Presence.”

When He was here in the Pillar of Fire, not ministering to the body of the Word; they chewed gum, they walked around.

Now I told you how I was in Chicago—I’ll never get to preaching, don’t worry, you need this—in Chicago when Brother Branham said, “Lee, after the Seals, he said, I want you to go on the platform and tell the people who I am.”

Now if he hadn’t of said that, it would have been easy, but I would have loved to go and shot my mouth off. Tell the whole world everything I shouldn’t be telling them.

But the minute he said, “You tell them who I am,” fear gripped my heart. Well, I can’t talk about a man. See? When you’re supposed to talk, you shut up. When you ain’t supposed to talk, you open your big fat mouth. Right? Sure, every time.

So, I got myself under control, I told them who He was. That night in the after service there was milling, there was the gum chewing, there was the running around, the inattention, and he was discerning and the Pillar of Fire hung there.

I told them the next night and there was only fifty percent of movement.

I told them the third time there was stillness through the whole meeting, and by the last meeting, the miracles were moving all over the place because they knew who He was and Brother Branham on different tapes said, “If you only know who I am you’d be healed.”

I’m looking at three girls, I’m looking at some more girls, and I’m looking at everybody, and every one of you need something from God the way your body is, and want to get up and get something.

You know I’ve been beefing for a long time about my arthritis and I am the alpha because ‘a’ alpha starts with alpha, so, I got the alpha disease.

Just knowing who he was as a prophet you’d be healed, then if you know Him who He is, and you will, and when you know that sweet Spirit comes into the church and He’s right around the corner, be my guest, I’m telling you; it’s right around the corner, you’ll all be healed.

Nobody’s going sick into the Promised Land, and I’m not even talking about your person. All right.

First, to know who He is and become obedient unto Him. Look, I make phone calls. People make me phone calls.

I should make recordings and just explain to you, see, you know really people have thought I fooled when I talk about these changes and these things going on until Lloyd in the meeting quietly testified what happened to him, and Lloyd will tell you I saw it on his face and I came and talked to Lloyd, and I’m going to tell you three Wednesdays ago I looked and I relaxed because I knew, and when they sang “Beulah Land,” I saw that Spirit cutting in as it left us from yonder with our problems.

Now that’s why I’m uptight today. I don’t want any more problems of any kind about anywhere because I intend to preach this afternoon, …get moving yet… And that calmness, that Word is going to start cutting in, It’s got to because it’s His Life in His Word.

I want to tell you brother/sister, God’s moving, and we moved from what I have taught you to the prophet which is transitional.

Brother Branham said, “It takes a prophet to turn the corner; God is His own Prophet. He’s also His own Judge.”

There comes a time when there must be a time and that time has got to be right in this hour as the prophet said, “The judgments of God are in the earth,” we are going to see that transition.

Now I hope you understand now where we stand but I’ve come a little bit tough on you, you know one thing it isn’t going to hurt you one little bit; it’s going to make you smarten up if you need smarting up.

It’s going to smarten me up by the grace of God we’re all in the same boat. But we cannot, we cannot waver, see. Your minds must be set. If your minds aren’t set you will get nowhere. All right. Our minds are set by the grace of God.

We read again in the Book of Revelation, then on the Judge, and I’ll weave some of this… these things that I’ve been talking to you about in preamble and I want to be right in my heart with what I say now in these things, he said here in the 12th verse,

Now he turned and you’ll notice that the voice or the purveyor of the voice, the conveyor, the speaker was in the Bride. He wasn’t any place else. Stand at the door and knock. The spirit and the bride say come. He’s not anywhere else. Down on the Lord’s Day.

Seven church ages have gone by and all the witnesses had to have one voice which was His voice or it didn’t mean anything. Standing there was the light.

Men bringing their deeds to the light. What light? Their religious output.

We ain’t never going to get going. Look.

In Ephesians it says, “You must bring your deeds to the light.” I am talking of spiritual understanding of worshipping God according to this Word. That’s evil. That’s the real evil.

You said, “Brother Vayle, it’s adultery.” You’re wrong. It’s not adultery. It’s the perverting of God’s Word, making God a liar.

And the first thing said in the Garden was a lie, and the next thing said by Cain was a lie. And the first sin in the Bride was a lie. Ananias and Sapphira.

I know preachers who lie day and night. And I know people who lie. I’m not talking about your hand in a cookie jar. I’m talking about the premeditated lies.

You say, “Brother Vayle, what is the difference?” Because a man born of God does not premeditate sin: he can get caught, and he’s weak.

It wasn’t Eve that premediated it: it was the serpent that premediated and it was Cain that premeditated. And Ananias and Sapphira premeditated.

And the light through the ages has stood there revealing God’s order of divine worship in the church, stood there for seven church ages until at the end time looking into the day of the Lord, He was a Judge.

What do you think today with women with cut hair exposing themselves and men cheering them on? The church full of blasphemy idolatry.

You’re going to judge by the Word. You’re going to judge, here He stands, feet of brass. See?

The light of seven church ages, now in judgment, and you say, “Well, how can it be?” because you read in the book, “Fill up the cup of iniquity, and I’ll bring upon you all the sins from righteous Abel.”

The first liar of a human mixture, Cain, killed the righteous Abel who stood in the truth. Yup. Right on down, the cup of iniquity being filled.

I’ll require the blood of everyone of this generation. All the light of seven church ages ends in a lie because it starts in a lie.

And the original lie in the Bride was “We believe what is going on,” but their actions show different and their words, and they lied, they conspired.

Now we’ll move on from that one. All right.

Right hand, seven stars: God entrusting the power of His whole sovereignty to the lips of men, then sending one final Spirit at the end age in a man to make sure it didn’t fail or he said, “With feet of brass, the Son of righteousness standing there, that Sword ready to destroy.”

He said, “I’ll still rise with healing in my wings for those at the end of the age. Though, it would just about look like that there isn’t any use, I’ll wipe it all out.”

Do you follow what I’m saying?

It’s at the end time, the Judge, placed in the Bride. It was the Bride inadvertently, of course, but it was, the Bride that lost her virtue in the first church age, the three-fold loss of a wrong Jesus, a wrong spirit, a wrong word.

Seven ages after He’s down here in the midst to bring her back. Standing in her midst the same light and notice, He perpetrated that through seven men. The last age he uses a man called Elijah which was one of the seven: it’s a spirit.

Out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword: it cuts both ways. Countenance as the sun. I saw and I fell at his feet as dead. Signifying the Day of Judgment, the day of death.

The day of the plagues of Egypt where death comes in, spiritual and physical. And He stands in the Bride and He takes John by the shoulder and He said, “Don’t be afraid.” Put His right hand on him.

Now God… Jesus is at the right hand of God and in the right hand, seven stars, then upon John was put the full weight of the Word that would come in seven solid ages and he puts it right down here, and he said, “Don’t be afraid.”

Now have you lost your fear or do I intimidate you? Now if you are intimidated by Lee Vayle, and so you should because I’m not kidding. But God doesn’t intimidate you. No, no.

I can be pretty rough and you can sit there and well, you might think soberly and so you ought to think soberly and you better think soberly, because you’d better till your minds are completely filled with This because this is what it’s all about.

This is what the prophet said, “My thinking is entirely changed. All my thoughts are of God.” It’s not beyond any of us.

He said, “Fear not.” And I’m going to tell you from that moment all of John’s thoughts were changed. John had no fear for he saw himself in the Lord’s Day and he is representative of us, and especially the prophet, William Branham. See?

Because Elijah stood with Moses in the preview of the kingdom, wherein both grace and law or the law and the prophets and grace was manifested before the kingdom. Now here He is.