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.

Now let’s read a couple excerpts. I won’t take all day like last day. Too hard on you; too hard on me.

Paragraph 165, well, I’ll go to 160, let me see what I want to read here. Page 102, beginning at paragraph 100, all right. I’ll go up a little further here.

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[168]  Now here’s more proof that this doctrine is right about…being the Lord’s day. Did you notice Him? He was not a priest during this time, neither was He…king. He was a judge. [Now I want you to notice the words; priest, judge, king.]

Notice, a priest, a high priest when he went into the sanctuary…to minister, [See, he didn’t have that girdle, although he had it about] …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.

Now that may think that I’m at least contradicting what I’m saying here, you wait awhile.

[170]  That’s right? He is…judge, the Supreme Judge. And John sees that He wasn’t in the day of His prophecy,….

You’ve got a prophet that’s so mixed up he can’t tell? He’s talking in the Holy Ghost. I don’t think William Branham even knew what he was saying here. I’m not saying he didn’t know as though he did know.

I’m just saying he didn’t know the impact, because a person just sitting there would say, “Just a minute now,” he said, “What are you talking about there, William Branham? You say He’s priest over here and now what are you talking about.

What is this prophet junk? What is all this prophet stuff? What are you talking about over here? Now make up your mind. What is he?” Oh, I like this. I tell you what I think it’s good stuff. Yeah.

[169]  You believe He’s…judge?  …John 5:22 … (22) For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto His Son.

[170]  …He’s…judge, supreme judge, John sees…He wasn’t in the day of His prophecy, as a prophet, neither plumb out into the days of His kingship, but He was in the day of the Lord as Judge. [That’s about the girdle.]

[172]  That’s right, right up…here, He was the Judge.

Daniel 7, and here he is showing again that John’s over in the Lord’s day and saw him as judge, amen, and not as priest, not as king, not as prophet.

Now he really messed that up. Not as priest, not as king, not as prophet. Judge. As he said in Jn 5:22 and He’s judge now come to judge the nations.

[198]  Someday those…feet [of brass]… He’ll tread the anti-Christ, and all of His enemies. Hallelujah!

[227]  …two-edged sword… Take Hebrews 4:2, just right back a page or two and you’ll get it, see. Hebrews is just…behind…Revelation, [here] Jude, and then…Hebrews… [and so on.]

…the word of God is quicker, and more powerful, and sharper than a twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

[228]  And then they call you a “mind reader.”

What’s he talking about? Himself. Who’s he talking about? Judge. Who’s he talking about? One that’s here.

“Well, I never saw him outside the Bride.” You don’t see him outside the Bride or down the road. That’s king, judge, prophet, priest, Bride.

Not mixed up. Not mixed up, no. People are mixed up. They’re Jesus only. That’s the whole trouble with a lot of people. They think they believe one God: they’re Jesus only. God can’t be born. God can’t die. Jesus was a man.

But you can’t cross… you can’t stop… you can’t separate any part of redemption from him, the man, not having a part in it but you’ve got to watch which one does which, and under what conditions.

[228]  …I just happened to think of something [of a scripture here again. Revelation 19:11] …behold, a white horse, (he comes white again, judgment)… [Now He’s not in the Bride now is He? Sat upon a horse,] He was called Faithful and True, …in righteousness He [judges] and makes war.

Now he wasn’t making war in the Bride. Now he’s making war with the Bride. Yeah. Wouldn’t try to say some cute little things in here, a little different.

[231]  “A sharp two-edged sword.” What was going on…what was going out of the mouth of this person? The Word of God. It’s a sharp two-edged sword.

What’s it doing? Discerning the thoughts of the heart, the intents; going even deeper than the meat, the flesh, the blood cells and the bone, in down into the marrow of the bone, plumb…beyond that, …[discerns] the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And that’s what it’s all about. To get down in here, and it won’t get there until it’s here in the mind. See? It’s got to come by the proper channels.

[Discern] the thoughts and intents of the heart. That’s what the Word of God does.

[253]  “The sun shining in its strength.” Oh! The strength of the Son of God shining in our midst tonight. Standing in the middle of the seven golden candlesticks, in His sevenfold personage here as judge.

Where did he say he was standing? Right here.

Now listen!

[253]  As One who was suffered and died for us, and taken the Divine judgment upon Himself, and has tread the winepress, the fierceness of God. To the sinners He’s a horrible cataract, and a loose soul upon the sea of life. And to the Church, the sweet Savior, anchored in rest, and 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 which was, which is, and shall come. I’m the Almighty, besides Me there’s none. I’m…Alpha and Omega, …I’ll give unto him…the [fountain] …of Life, I’ll give unto him that is athirst of the fountains of…water of Life freely.” Oh, what a promise…what a love affair it is! And the Lamb in the middle of the City… [and so on. All right.] …the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings.

Where does that take place? Now. Now it cometh, He was the judge. He was over in the Lord’s Day. Everybody thinks the Lord’s Day when He comes with a sudden big blast and judges all the nations.

You’re wrong. I’ve showed you that in Isaiah; it’s a period of time. The Lord’s Day… the Lord’s Day has facets. The Lord’s Day has got two sides of a coin.

Don’t you want to be in the Lord’s Day? I do. I want to be in His great Day on the right side of the ledger. You bet your sweet life. I want to be riding those horses with Him. See? Now we’re getting somewhere. See?

[256]  He was a judge, or another thing to show that he was over into the Lord’s Day… You believe that? He went over into the Lord’s day and saw the Lord as a judge; not as priest, not as king, [not as judge,] but as a judge. He is the Judge. Don’t you believe that? The Bible says He is the judge. …all dressed as the Judge, showing what He had done; what He was: what He was to the sinner, what He was to the Christian.

Then that’s now. Here He stands now, and you say, “Well, he’s talking about the Scripture just standing there now.” He didn’t say that a while ago. Uh uh.  He didn’t say that a while ago. He wasn’t talking about Scripture; he’s talking about us.

[256]  And here He stands now with the voice of many waters, and His countenances …shining in its strength.

[260]  [No. When he gets here why should] we fear? Why would the Church fail to keep His…Word? Let’s stop [and think] a minute, …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 a hereafter? “Fear not! I am He that was, He that is, and will come. And I’m the first and the last. I have the keys of hell and death…here.”

Who needs keys of hell and death after you’re over there? Who needs to be resurrected once you’re resurrected?

My wife puts dinner on the table to eat, she’s she says, “Now put the dinner on the table.”

I say, “You got to get up. I ate my dinner.”

“Oh, well, ha, ha, ha, I’m religious you see. I’m spiritual minded you see, my dear husband.”

Oh God, you see what I’m saying? I hope you see what I’m saying. What’s done is done. What do you want with the keys of hell and death when you need them on this side, you don’t need them on that side? You need them on this side.

I need to get out of here. It’s on this side the exceeding greatness of His power is manifested. The same thing that raised Jesus is going to get ahold of us. Why? It’s the promised Word: ‘thou wilt not leave my soul in hell nor see my body corrupt.’

We’re not even going to go beyond the curtain of time. It’s going to come to us. Woo man, you talk about a ball.

Listen. Then people think this is some dead thing without talking in tongues and running and jumping. That’s what’s dead. The Word has gone out of it. The life is out of their word. The life is in this Word here. See? That’s what it’s all about.

[260]  [Why he said,] I have the keys of hell and death right here. Why? “I’ve overcome and conquered both death and hell. (that’s both grave and [the] hades; death to self, Hades itself) for you. I’ve overcome it all. I’ve overcome [how] …grave.”

Now wouldn’t that be good? Wouldn’t it be good if He came to give a revelation that we’re already a part of, in its manifestation? Why, you mean to tell me that I’m going to be absolutely changed in my members and I won’t know it?

Now if you don’t know it, you just ask me and I’ll pick you with a pin and if you bleed I can tell you right there you ain’t changed. Or if you ain’t fast enough to get through that wall if I was going to hit you with a crowbar; you wouldn’t have to be worried because the crowbar would just go through you or you would go the crowbar so what’s the difference. You ain’t changed.

Come on. You know if you’re a part of this revelation or not. You know, come on, this is reality. We’re not…we’re not sitting in some bygone day, brother/sister. Look it was just a word till this hour but it’s no longer a word.

Immortality is no longer a word. It’s a reality. Never dying is no longer a word. It’s reality. Some of us today have got to be standing here, never die.

See Him standing there in the supreme of His deity. He’s the judge, the priest, the king, the eagle, the lamb, the lion, the Alpha and Omega.

Say, man, what is He? He’s everything. He which was, which is to come and shall come, tread out the winepress of the spiritual of God, He’s everything.

Pleased everything… until God settles the cross and He raised him up; it’s finished. Pleased God in the spirit that left him and came back on Easter morning, picked him up and raised him again for our justification.

There John looked up and saw him standing there with the feet of brass, the eyes the flame of fire, running to and fro and then Daniel saw him seven hundred years before in the same position, the same kind, the same man but the not the same time. But that’s not the White Throne. That’s the prelude to it.

All right.

Now we’re going to read, well, I think I better just read two paragraphs here and then we’ll… we’ll go to the Scripture again.

That’s right, He’s the judge, the supreme judge, and John shows he was in the days of his prophecy as a prophet neither plumb out in the days of his kingship but he was in the Day of the Lord as a judge.

Now with it I want to read over here. All right.

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

He went over into 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. Don’t you believe that? The Bible says He’s the Judge. All dressed up as judge showing what He’d done; what He was: and what He was to the sinner, and what He was to the Christian.

Now you can put that any place you want at the great White Throne and all but I’m going to tell you something. The Christian knows that ahead of time. See? The Christian knows those things. All right.

We’re going to read,

Now notice, he said, he called the attention to religion. Here is dear old Abel talking to Cain. Watch out brother because there’s going to be a hot time in the old temple tonight because he’s treading on the spiritual toes of their religion. All right.

You’re superstitious. You’ve got an inscription TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. All right. You worship him ignorantly, I will declare him or tell you all about him because he said, “You really haven’t got a God; you’ve got a god of your minds, you’re smart.”

What in the world, the Greeks seek after wisdom and then they do this? Smarts is smart but they ain’t got too much. God takes every smart thing and just shows how stupid it is. Oh, brother.

In other words, if God ever manifested Himself into an image He would have to take the image of a man. That’s what He did. Sure, a fire is not an image.

Moving, moving, moving: clouds aren’t an image, moving, moving, moving. Rock is not an image: it shows stability, it doesn’t move but it shows stability.

But, God’s not much liken unto a rock, that’s just stability. But you talk about a cloud, the moving, the moving, the wheels within the wheels. The flame of fire moving, turning, turning, moving and that’s what this Word of God is doing. It’s just moving constantly before us.

Look if we ever gave ourselves over to this Word, if you deacons ever get together and plant your little meetings where you get and talk about the Lord this Word’s going to start moving and moving in your lives, It’s going to do something for you.

It’s not going to do you just coming to church here. It’s not going to do you just sitting here and hearing me preach. You’ve got to enter in, and of course, when I get tough on you I kind of scare you, you don’t do so good.

I don’t get the reports that… just, you know, take the clamps off now, no more getting mad. I wasn’t mad at you anyways, just a little bit sore at a few conditions. It burned me to a crisp at times.

My God, I don’t understand people’s ignorance say, “Well, I’ll get away from it”.

Look it, he said, look here people, you call yourself an offspring of God? Don’t children look like their parents? Don’t they have the same color hair and the same color eyes right now?

Look, he said, God has related Himself to man. I’m going to tell you about Him. Tell you what He did, how He did it, now He said.

People in this message no more believe this message than nothing; are no more a part of it than nothing. They can’t be. There comes a time, the big shots write books and always it’s against predestination.

And they just love to hit it because they think I wrote that book without Brother Branham’s permission or he didn’t read it or something else.

And on predestination I phoned him at my expense and talked for forty-five minutes and I read it and he said, “I agree, Brother Vayle.”

I said, “Hold it, Brother Branham, hold it. I want you to really know what I’m saying. I’ll explain every single word,” and in forty-five minutes with my money. Yeah. I explained it word by word.

“Well,” he said, “that’s exactly right. And here’s some more scripture to back it up.” Repent, mind; one message of this church: repent, change your mind, change your mind, change your mind, and the prophet said, “I’ll never think the same again.”

“Phooey about thinking, Brother Branham, let’s get them gifts rolling.” Hogwash. “Let’s have a super character, and super fruit.”

I’m going to tell you something, Jesus looked pretty bad against the kind old priest. You know I’m going to change the Bible to make somebody feel good, and when they persecute you in this city, do not flee but go to the people and say, “Here I am, kill me. Here I am, step on me.”

How many of you got that complex today? Oh, I’ll close my eyes when you raise your hands. Come on, I’ve nailed you and you know it.

You’ve got something in your heart that says, “Oh, I better not run if they persecute me. I don’t have to understand that and stand that and say… I think you have something wrong with you. I’m going to tell you right to your face because I’ve got the same stupid thing. Yeah.

Oh, no we could never even use the law. Paul appealed to Caesar. When those guys made a vow, and shaved their heads and said, “Hey, we’ll… we won’t eat until we get Paul.”

Why they say, “Boys, I’ll tell you I hate to see you go hungry. Here I am, come and get me.” Sheww, brother/sister, Pentecostal hogwash.

When they persecute you, flee. Why don’t we just revise the Bible and go home and have a ball? Phttt! Who needs God?

Who needs anything? Repent, change your mind. You say that won’t do it. I say it will do it. See, it’s so simple it goes right by…over everybody’s head.

The knowledge that you get under the revelation of a prophet constantly brought to your attention revealing Christ will have an effect upon you and that effect is immortality. Okay.

Repent…

Now listen! The resurrection and judgment are put right together. If there had not been a resurrection there could be no judgment. “I am risen.” All judgment committed unto him in the resurrection. Resurrection and judge go hand in hand.

So, when He is revealed as Judge, the resurrection is imminent. He has gone from prophet to judge, pardon, I’ll retract that, He is going from prophet to judge and going from priest to judge.

And I might as well say it, the one role of priest is always a man, but God Elohim has always been the Judge.

And, so therefore, a man to be a judge has to have something conferred upon him for in himself he is not judge, but in that God raised him he will be judge, so therefore, there is a transition going on.

The transition of Almighty God in a man which office is in God. All right, that will blow your minds. Don’t let it blow your minds. Nothing to it.

God always was judge but a prophet is judge. How is he judge? By the Word of God. See, it’s the office, delegated.

John 5:

Now there is something that explains something. The first born, listen, the first born is equal with daddy because he can say, “Father, one half is already mine, give it to me now.” And papa has got to give the boy one half.

Then if God is judge, the Son has got to be judge. If God is redeemer, the Son will have to be redeemer. If God is King, the Son will have to be king.

Begin to see light now? Prophet, priest, king: prophet, judge, king. One is God the Father; and one is not God the Son. It is simply the Son. One is God the Holy Spirit. One is the Son of God who is the Son of man. All right.

John 5:18 we’re reading 19.

I just told you that. Do you think it ever changes? Now if the Son sees the Father turning Judge, then the Son is turning Judge. If the Father is claiming His, the Son is claiming. No problem.

Hey, I like that. Everything that God is going to do is going to do to tickle my spiritual sensibility. Huh? You didn’t know that about God did you? You thought God was just trying to wop you around.

He’s trying to make you so happy, you just can’t contain yourself. Even when persecution comes, this is good for me. You just lift up your head and you say, “Hallelujah, what marvelous things coming.” Oh yeah.

Okay, now watch. What if God told the prophet to say, “Little Bride, you didn’t do it?” What about it? Where are you?

Listen. He said,

All right then, how can he judge… now listen, how can he judge the Bride’s past, what the Father tells him to say on the basis of what the Father told him to do?

Wouldn’t that be nice if the Father said, “Son, give your life for these men. I’m with you to fortify you, you know,” and he said, “That’s fine.”

After he gives his life and the blood is supposed to be there to perfect the Bride, the Father now says, “Son, I think I ought to change My mind.” Wouldn’t that be something? No?

He heard the Father, he saw what the Father wanted, he did it, and for what purpose? For this very thing, we’re talking about because the proof of the pudding is always in the eating.

The proof of anything is always according to a standard. Right? We’re here. Judge. So, there it is. Judge and judgment. What in the world do you want to judge for if there’s no judgment?

Do you know something, they tell me they got a commission here in the States, I don’t know how Proxmire hasn’t got rid of it yet, I think I’m going to lose faith in his Golden Fleece awards or something.

It’s a tea tasting commission, when you know the good old line, “Don’t you know when the thirteen colonies drank tea, the Swedes hadn’t come with the coffee.”

So, they had a commission, for years in America so I’m told, that gets many thousands of dollars for sitting there and doing nothing because there’s no tea… tea to taste, I guess. Then if there’s no tea, you don’t need tea tasters.

Now who needs a judge if there’s no judgment? There’s no judge, there couldn’t be a judgment. Now, there is supposed to be a judge and a judgment.

Now he didn’t say, “Here now look, look it here, this goes without saying concerning a Bride, this goes without saying; it says, “No siree, everybody comes under the judge and a judgment,” and He’s in the midst of the Bride.

Open the door. Come in, light. “Oh, I don’t think I want that light. That’s judging light.” Out!

Every prophet fizzled. I like that expression. I coined it and I think God gave it to me. I’m proud of it because it’s the truth. Every prophet fizzled. Every ministry fizzled. The Word of the Lord endures forever. All right.

So, there it is: judge and judgment. When? The day of the Lord. Acts 17:31 we read it. Make no bones about it.

“Because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness,” that’s the inhabited world, the people, “by that man that He ordained and gave assurance unto all men in that he raised him from the dead.”

He will judge inhabited world now and a thousand years later He’ll bring them all back to inhabit the earth and He’ll do it again. They’ll judge in heaven. You better believe it. Oh yeah, we’ve got this Scripture right down pat. There’s nobody can argue that.

What city? The city that turns down the salute. See? Now, shake the dust off your feet, get out of there. Okay.

Revelation 19:11 Brother Branham used the same Scripture. Here’s the judge.

Now those are designations. See? That’s the incarnate One. That’s the One who is here incarnated and He who is here has gone from prophet to judge.

Now he’s King Judge. Prophet Judge: King Judge. It’s a catalyst. It’s a carrier, a transition. And He who was prophet is high priest judge king. See? Now they’re one.

“Before Abraham was I am.” Who said that? The Father in Him said it.  The body wasn’t. Come on, the body was born of Mary, a little tiny baby born over a manure heap.

So, God could take the beggar and make a prince out of him. He had to smell like the stable. Like Brother Branham said, “A birth is a very messy thing.”

Well, people want to be so nice like Cain and offer fruit. That’s evil. See? Evil, evil, evil, evil: evil lies in any way you take that Word anyway and then it will bring forth an action.

And anything in the realm of the Spirit that is a perversion is death, and it always causes a war, and it always causes those that pervert the war to try to kill and get rid of those who have the pure Word of God. It will always be that way. See?

Now, judgment and judge when? The day of the Lord. When? At the time of the Resurrection, both first and second. Go back to John 5.

Now we’ve been hitting this all the time but now we’re hitting it with the Scripture. Just nailing it down by Scripture.

He said, “I can’t set the day of the Resurrection; it’s already set.” He said, “It’s as good as done.” Don’t let anybody kid you.

That Word has a time and a season for all men and all occasions. Oh yes, now that’s what people stumble at. They can’t understand how God has a Word for this age, and a Word for that age, and the other for that age. They simply can’t understand.

Nobody but us can understand that. I’ve never run across anybody. That’s one of the hardest things I’ve learned in this whole message. If I could adjust my theology almost anywhere because lots of fun doing it.

I enjoyed adjusting my theology, if I can find something that’s more right, and more happy inclined to my inclination and the further out the better. It took me awhile to get serpent seed but now I think that’s tremendous.

I always was taken up by the fact there’s no eternal hell because there couldn’t be two eternal lives just nowhere and God wasn’t going to put Himself in hell, forget that.

He’d put himself in somebody that’s going to get us out of hell, He’s not going to put Himself enough to burn in hell. That’s of all the stupid things I’ve ever heard in my life.

Look, I’m not very smart but look, neither am I completely gone. No way. See?

Now everything… everything is in the time and the purpose of God, of Him and to Him and for Him and by Him: that’s right in here. Judgment, everything lined up perfect.

Now, oh, now we looked in the second Resurrection came over the earth. Well, this might still be the first. Revelation 19: yeah, this is at the time of the first. Verse 20

Now,… Revelation [20:] 4-15 now after one thousand years,

In other words, the book of the Lamb’s Book of life was already taken care of. The Book of life is next, that’s taken care of: there’s no record of serpent seed, out. Their names are already blotted out. They were there but they’re gone. All right.

Thus we see,

Number one; the prophet turned judge.

Number two; the priest turned judge.

Number three; the judge turned king.

That’s right. That’s it. Just that simple. You haven’t got fifteen gods: you’ve got one God.

Hey, look it. How many organs have you got? Vital organs? How many? Five vital organs? I don’t remember anymore, it might be a dozen vital organs as far as I’m concerned. My ears are vital organs.

At least I think they show signs of life, I’m still hearing. My tongue is a vital organ. How vital, that’s… I’m not going to talk about that. Because that… could mean it’s unto death. At this point it’s just kind of sharp and mean.

You know, I wouldn’t lie about it. It would be awful to stand in the pulpit and deliberately lie about my tongue. But as long as your vital organs, everything is vital as far as I’m… anything that’s got life is a vital organ.

But look it, it’s all an integrated part but my heart is not my liver. My liver is not my lungs. Lungs are not kidneys. But they all function in a certain way.

Now I admit there’s no such thing as a period of hearts and a period of lungs and a period of this, but we did see the same thing in a young man or a young woman.

A young man he’s a boy, he’s a son, grows up to become a husband, becomes a father, becomes a grandfather, great-grandfather, you name it.

The same person could be a lawyer, the same person could be a doctor. The same person could be a mathematician, but it’s all the one person in offices. See?

Now God brought forth an only begotten Son. God can’t be born. At the river Jordan, God came into him making him the fullness of the Godhead bodily: “I and my Father are One.”

In the Garden the Father left him, and upon Calvary he said, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”

Now how is anybody going to hang upon the cross and God’s in him and said, “My God, my God, why have you left me?”

Well, you see, well, it couldn’t mean this that God just stopped doing certain things. Well, I don’t buy that. I don’t buy that at all. No way.

Now God cannot be born and God cannot die. See? God cannot be His own Son. There is no such thing. What it was, are that that which accrues to God by reason of that which was in Him, He was to be Father so He became Father.

In Him was to be Son, so He manifested through Sonship: In Him is to be the Prince of David, this and that and the other thing, the Mighty God, all those things so He manifests them.

Now when God left him He did not forsaken him completely. He said, “You cannot leave my soul in hell. You cannot make that dead body corrupt.”

So, God took the man out of upper Sheol, led the people with him, put the life back in the body, the body walked out of the tomb, bodies enfolded those theophanies that came forth. Now God raised the body.

Now listen! Let’s get this flat, if that one, William Branham was the prophet of God and he had to be a prophet of something out there, because a man’s word will never do what William Branham did or let’s get together and do something.

Let’s build our tower to Babel and get up to heaven. Ha? You betcha. You’ll never fool with the prophet of God.

Now and he being a prophet of God would have slandered God when he said raise the body, if that was God because I can find a nicer expression that’s saying God raised the body as a memorial to the Resurrection.

I’m going to tell you something, that prophet had to say those words to jar people to reality that ‘Jesus Only’ is a false doctrine. Do you follow what I’m saying?

Now look it, I… I don’t even like the term. I’m a nicer man than Brother Branham. Do you think so? Hogwash.

If nice is nice, well, I could be three foot underground alongside just about anybody, I’ve got to admit that, right up there with the branches. If I wasn’t the branches I’d just be a nut.

Do you understand what I’m talking about? Look, He said, “Raise that body.” It’s all He called it. Raise the body and put it on the mercy seat. I’m going to tell you something, that’s an intelligent person that’s on that mercy seat. That’s a man that’s on the mercy seat.

Now in the meantime, God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit; he names all the titles and lets you know he’s talking about that One in Hebrews 13:8 that One in Genesis 18: that One in Genesis 1.

And he said, “A spirit of God is not a spirit coming out of God, it is God Himself, that One comes down here, sets Himself at the head of the church in order to raise the dead; prophet, judge, king.”

The other one was prophet, not anymore; is priest, until, now he’s turning judge and king because he stepped on the throne when He rips the seals off.

Now when that One leaves us, that’s here. Do you follow me? Is going to incarnate Himself in that one that steps down and God steps into him.

He’s King of kings, and Lord of lords, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, Emmanuel, He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon, the Altogether Lovely, and He is Judge King.

Now you say, why do you belabor this? I have a lot of fun doing it. Spiritual reality energizes me. It’s the wine of stimulation. And except for repetition you will not get what I’m saying.

It must be repeated until it becomes real because we’re going to talk of Him as Judge in the Bride and then Judge out there. And if you do not see what I am saying and understand, absolutely this you will not be saying the right thing to God and He will not come back on it.

Because God will not answer back to any word but His. You’ve got to say the right thing concerning Godhead. The prophet said so. You don’t make games with this. It’s not a rabbit’s foot.

Just because as I told you we got the statement concerning Hattie Mosher.

“Now Brother Branham that’s nothing but the truth.” And according to Fred Barker she had to say the right thing. It becomes a rabbit’s foot. It is not a rabbit’s foot!

Immortality doesn’t come that way. You’ve got to give back to God concerning Godhead, concerning this Word, and it’s got to be one with God or it doesn’t come back.

Do you understand what I’m saying? Now, so we’re careful to understand and bring this to the place of our understanding.

Now notice a valuable key in John 5:22, 27. Again we’re here all day long. That’s right, got lots of sandwiches upstairs, we’ll feed you real good to bring you back to pound you some more.

Nothing like fatted turkeys,… goodie goodies, or doves. We’ll just put you in the dove class. You can put me in the mean class up here and I’ll put you in the dove class. All right.

That’s why you see right there, in a glorified figure. It has to do with Son. You see? Now let’s watch a second. I’ll go a little further. The 27th verse.

Hold it, what Son of man? Now you know that there is a key there. And that key, of course, is the fact that as Son of man he raised the dead Lazarus, to prove that he could bring them out of the grave which was God who brought them out.

And as Son of man again there’ll be another Resurrection. And Son of man is prophet and Resurrection means prophet and judge because, you’ve got to know who to bring out.

As one person said, “If Jesus had not have named Lazarus by name, they all would have come tumbling out.” All right.

So, where’s… see where this leads.

Number one; Son of man constituting a ministry and making him the prophet. I’ll read it again. The Son of man, number one, the Son of man constitutes…this term ‘constitutes a ministry’ making him the prophet.

Number two; Son of man that is the seed of the woman, the Redeemer.

Number three; Son of man makes him the second Adam. And the last man which is the new creation in the Millennium which is by glorification.

Number four; Son of man, Emmanuel and Kinsmen, God has identified Himself as part of His own creation. See?

Now, so the Judge in Revelation 1: is seen as the man to whom all judgment is now committed. And that commission is as we said because he is, one; the prophet that is the prophet brings the knowledge of God.

Nobody else can bring a knowledge of God. There is nobody else. I don’t care what you say.

Paul sets us straight, he said, “If you think yourself a prophet or you think you’re born again, you will admit right now that nobody but nobody gets the knowledge of God except by a prophet.”

That’s why this book is so important, and that’s why God can wink at ignorance under certain conditions. When a prophet comes, the winking is over. There’s no more winking. See?

Now, listen, no, number two; he is one of us. Now he is one of us in order that he may apply his wisdom and knowledge in the perfection of which it must go which is amongst people.

Now look it, what right would God have to judge us if there’s no way we could ever come near a standard? If there is nothing truly related to us?

So, God doesn’t put anything out there that can’t be met. That’s where your moral agency comes in on us. See?

Now listen! From a prophet, one to whom the Word comes and the same One who gives the Word to others he is letter perfect for he knows God’s side exactly. God was in the prophets, in many ways, many parts, the Word came forth in many times to the fathers.

2 Peter 1:21 tells you; they were windswept. They were moved by the Holy Ghost as the prophet said, “Thy Word was altogether in my tongue.” You have put my… And God said, “I’ll put my words in your mouth.” All right.

So, be as a man. Let’s look at the man over here. Now because they run together you can’t change this.

Now that’s what a judge is all about as well as a priest. The judge is there to get conditions right. Any judge that merely condemns isn’t worth his salt.

The judgments of God are not there to condemn people. The judgments are there to keep things in order.

They’re there to help, even Sinai exposed, so that man would understand his own sin and come to God for any… that man must throw his hands up and say, “It can’t be done, then God will do.” You see?

Now, he brought that letter Word that perfect from God but he also is a man because he’s got to deal with men, so therefore, there’s no such thing as a hardnosed case from either side. The judge is to bring things together, like a mediator.

A mediator is a judge but when you get down to the end of the time when the mediator is finished doing the work of a judge as mediator, then it’s time that the ends of the string have got to be exposed and it’s over.

Now what has followed, there’s a consequence. So, you see him as high priest all these years and the Holy Spirit coming to us and helping us.

He’s the high priest helping us in spirit form. There’s a high priest sitting as a propitiation. They’re one and the same. Then at the end of the time they both got to come together to be judge.

Do you see what I’m saying? There’s always this in between, you can’t make God just a judge. You’ve got to make Him a mediator, a helper, and you’ve got to bring the two together.

But at the end of the season, there’s a separation. Then the judgments of the judge stand on one side and on the other side sheep from goats, Bride from church. You bet, you see what I’m saying now? Okay, good.

Now this makes him a perfect mediator between God and man and thus the priest and then the judge. Remember the priest first, then the judge.

Remember the judge is always the interpreter of the Word and then from that He balances out and makes decisions which are allowed only by the Word and can only come from the Word.

That’s what Jesus said. He showed me he was a judge. He said, “I don’t say a thing but what I heard. Don’t do a single thing but what I see. I and my Father are one.” See? Do you follow what I’m saying now? All right.

The Word has always contained the decision. The judge is necessary to set only at such a time as the decision must be made to end the problem and give satisfaction to the parties involved.

You don’t have a judge at any other time. You’re sitting there working things out. Now notice I said the word ‘set’.

Let’s go to,

Now he’s not sitting down, he’s standing up, but he’s judge. See? The judgment isn’t set. See, judgment constitutes authority. So, he’s in between.

Let’s find out where he’s in between. I thought I heard somebody ask that. I’d like to answer your questions. 9th chapter of Acts, I beg your pardon, 7th chapter of Acts, verse 54-60.

He wasn’t sitting on the mercy seat, he was standing indicative of the end hour. See? He’s standing, now what I’m showing you in ‘standing’ concerning a judge is still mercy. There’s mercy.

Now go to Acts 9: Now this is that one standing, and yet he’s on the… yet he’s on the mercy seat, so-to-speak. He is on the mercy seat, but notice, he’s standing there.

Now notice in there, the One standing and He’s standing in the midst, He’s got all authority but He doesn’t do anything about it because in the Bride He stands there in mercy, and His judgment is still according to the Word.

That’s why I can see people being brought into Christ even now. See? Because the One that was on the mercy seat, rose to take the book and he climbed on the throne indicating the transition period was in effect but he’s not plumb into it. See?

And he can’t be plumb into it until the hundred and forty-four thousand are in. Now this is the important thing I’m trying to establish in your minds.

Don’t… You can’t get a chronology that’s watertight, one, two; two separate from one, three; three separate from two; four, and four separate from three. It don’t work, just like the Seals.

One, two, three, four, chronological; under four is number five, under four is number six, and under four is number seven and five can be even under number three, as well as, four. You can’t…you can’t establish chronology.

These were in visions, revealing the seven-fold glory of the Lord and one of the glories was judge. But the same judge was the Lamb, the same Lamb, the prophet.

All through the ages these threads have been going in this man but there comes time as a boy is born a little son goes to maturity, gets married, becomes a father, the same one all the way down the road but there comes a time when a superior, necessary quality is manifested.

And that’s doesn’t obviate the other qualities for one minute. Any man that thinks because he got married and got a wife he’s no longer a son is a little bit kooky. Now if he’s something of a momma’s boy he’s kookier still. All right.

Here’s some examples of judgment. Let’s take a look at them. We go to Exodus, I’m sorry,

Now he saw what was required of God in the end time concerning this condition. Now notice, it’s already written. All it needs is the hour to be spoken. That’s what a judge is all about.

You get a judge to pick up a book and he say, “Well, there’s nothing in here about this situation. I’ll make up my own.”

You better believe that’s not the Bible. You better believe that’s nothing to do with God. That’s the church. That’s why Brother Branham took us right back to the beginnings.

That’s why I see the extreme importance of learning to go back to the beginning. This is like I said, this is the message you’ve heard from the beginning that you have love one for another.

Right away I said, “Oh, that’s about Jesus’ day.” Look at this great love. Look how they love.

Look it… Shut-up and listen, ‘not as Cain’, he took you back to the beginning. Now don’t talk about love, don’t talk about anything until you go to the beginning or you’ll be a bunch of idiots.

You won’t care two bits for the Word as long as you’re sweet and you’re nice and you’re gushy, oh boy, oh boy, drop dead, don’t come around me. Get out.

I’ll preach for two thousand more years that Eve was not raped, she was seduced. “You know this brother Vayle, but, I think she was raped”. You’ve got to be kidding.

She went off the Word, my brother, my sister. Cain was off the Word. It is off the Word it didn’t matter that the murder was not the evil deed; the murder was not the evil deed, the slaying was not the evil deed: the evil deed was going before God in the face of a vindicated revelation, and he killed his brother.

You watch when the pressure comes on us, Brother Branham said, “…be hunted like wild dogs.” I want to get out of here. Lord, I’m a sheep. Ha, ha. Don’t even talk to me about wild dogs. Get me out of here.

Do you think the gates of hell aren’t going to come upon you? Phttt. It’s already back in Lima that I’m preaching false doctrine.

And the beautiful part is the preacher there is preaching the same thing. Good old Geoff. I love that kid. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It’s going all around the country now. False doctrine and they think they know the prophet.

They don’t know the prophet I know I can tell you that. The 18th chapter and the 5th verse, Revelation.

You get another judgment, getting… just get out of her. Just getting out of the harlot. But how do you do it? In the head. Repent! Your thinking has got to change. Ah, yeah.

Revelation 11:18 I hope I didn’t get that reversed. I don’t suppose I did.

That’s what Brother Branham said behind the curtain of time: “You can’t go to him, he’ll come to you and judge you according to what you taught.” And they said, “We’re resting on that.”

Many should come in that day and say, “Lord, lord, did we not cast out devils in thy name, prophesied in thy name, and done many wonderful works, and in thy name Lord, we showed such love and we did such wonderful things, we laid down our necks and we did…”

“Ah, shut-up and get out of here.”

That follows in the 15th chapter… 7th chapter of Matthew, “Beware of false prophets that come to you in sheep clothing, inwardly they are ravening wolves.” They’ve got every earmark until it comes to the Word, then watch!

Oh, I’ll spare some feelings, not yours. It has nothing to do with you as a people here but it has to do with other people.

So, I’ll just… I’ll let that out another time, on another occasion. I’ve told you I’ll be nice to you. How long? Don’t…don’t ask me how long. Now look, just count your lucky stars. All right.

Revelation 14:

Notice, harvest time, judging time, death, Resurrection, the judgments of God. Okay.

Now with that we go to Daniel, we’re talking about examples now of the judgment. Now what I’m doing I’m relating to you the consequence of the performance of God’s Word which is relative to our hour and something’s happening to us. We’re in process.

See, let me tell you again, all the time looking back, all the time looking forward, never knowing what’s going on. I do know what’s going on because, I’m not in darkness anymore. The light has come. It’s risen upon me.

You say, “Brother Vayle, you boast.” I don’t. I bear… I bear testimony to my Christ and my God.

If you want me to say something else you just…just hold your breath which you wouldn’t dare anyway because well, it wouldn’t do you any good. Now you know me too well; I think I know you pretty well, too. We’re in this together. All right.

Let’s read the 7th chapter of Daniel, 8th verse

Now it doesn’t mean this took place instantly. He said, “I saw where the thing went.”

Where did this bunch go to? Right to the second Resurrection, the White Throne judgment. That was it. Why? The only place they can go. They’ve missed it. Well, they’re not in the Millennium. Are they? No.

The beast and the false prophet thrown in the lake of fire. Right? All the rest killed. Right? So, he beheld, and the next thing after blotto… White Throne. We don’t go blotto. We go to the Millennium.

Do you follow the chronology?

Now notice,

We’re not going to pass away. That’s us. Why? Those that tried to wear out the saints of the Most High God, blotto, anti-Christ, false prophets into the pit, up to the second Resurrection.

Saints of God that can’t be wore out: Resurrection and Millennium, thousand years, priests unto God, kings unto him, glory to God. Judging at the White Throne.

You see judgment? No, because he is the Son of man. He came right down here identified, became one of us. Got every right to judge us.

Got every right and he’ll say the same thing as the Father. The Word of God comes in a man says, “Well, hey, what about this?” Never mind what about that.

Listen to the Word of God because the Son will come right behind and say, “Yes sir, I stood there as a man.”

You’ve got judges today, those judges let everybody off because their own kids might get in trouble and they might get caught taking money. You haven’t got a righteous judge in the land. Eat my… or I’ll eat my shirt.

First of all, he can’t be righteous because he really doesn’t know what the law says, and he himself is not the word but he’s supposed to be the word.

One can, that’s that One He’s identified with us. And I’m going to tell you He’ll judge the world by righteous with One Christ Jesus who is the Word.

Yes sir, there’ll be no hiding in those days. It was proven by the fact the judge is here now because the prophet stood there and God was in the prophet, William Branham, like He’s in every prophet, and He read the thoughts and the intents of our hearts and He took every spirit under control. That’s judgment.

And there wasn’t one could hide. That’s judgment. And there wasn’t one time he gave condemnation: it was help, help, help, in the Bride. See? See what I’m talking about? Okay. All right.

Revelation 20: I think we read it. 12 – 15. No,

Now where does that come from? Matthew 25: Okay, beginning at verse 31.

That’s not the time he comes in Revelation 19: he wipes them out. This is second resurrection. That’s exactly what it said in Daniel. He looked down the road and he saw the whole thing and he saw the wicked explode, whomp, blotto. Then come right back.

If Brother Branham said, “Sin reappears at the end of the Millennium, as sin was carried over in the ark, sin reappears.” That’s where they reappear.

What about the Christian? No, he approaches the Ancient of Days. The Holy Spirit going up to incarnate Himself. Him coming down to meet us. He becomes incarnated, presents to Himself a Bride.

Wedding Supper, three and a half years in glory. Coming back with the strength of the wine and the fury of God eyeballing the devil, incarnated, coming down here in the strength of God getting justice back upon a world that knew not Him, and taking over one thousand years, then comes judgment again. See?

No longer prophet. No longer priest. No way shape and form. Now the judge king, and after judgment what? King! Yeah! And the constant revelation of His beauties and glories.

Now he said here, “Depart from me, do this, do that.” See, the books open. Everything judged out of it. Everything just exactly right.

Now listen! In this case here as in Revelation we are introduced to books. Now we’ve got something to do with books. Now that’s the authority of the Word.

All right, with books in mind we have to look at our subject again: judge, Son of man, Resurrection. Okay.

Let’s go to Luke 6: I’m sorry, Luke 4:16-20. I hope I’m not boring you because I’ve got to go over and over this until this thing settles in your mind a hundred percent and you just know where you sit and that’s it: you just go on.

You know what it’s all about. Because if you don’t give it back to God, He’s not going to give it back to you.

Listen, I’m going to tell you one thing flat, let’s get this, the teacher is the judge. And the judge and the teacher comes up at the time of the examination.

Now you pass the paper in and the paper is not right, now a lot of teachers don’t even give a rip, they just put on and say I’ll throw it in the junk heap. Who cares… get you some, keep the kids busy. But a conscientious teacher will go over that paper and see if that kid made a mistake.

Now the teacher says, “Now you correct that.” That’s judging according to the book. Now if the paper is not acceptable it’s got to go back and get a correction.

That’s why Brother Branham came as a prophet to get the Bride back to where she should be and she had to come back to the specifications of the book: the right Jesus, the right Spirit, the right Word.

Show me where that’s your character. Show me where that’s your proof. Show me where that lies in a gift. Show me where that’s nearness to God or obedience or anything else. It’s revelation.

It’s a girl believing the boy and the boy ain’t one lousy loud-mouth seducer.  We’ve got them cotton-picking jerks around here but you better look out for them. Yeah.

Enough said on that subject for five minutes. We’ll get back to that later.

Notice he stood up to read. He stood up. That means I’m going to tell you something. It’s still the prophet. When he sits down whatever he said swings into action.

See, the judge is already been in the books. Right. He’s been back in his chambers. Now he comes out. Here comes the judge. Yup. Everybody stand!

Over these judges forget it but it’s protocol. …?… but when He stands it’s a different story. But when He sits, that’s a whole lot different again. That’s when it’s too late.

That’s when there’s no more plea bargaining. That’s when what the book says is it. Yeah. Do you follow me? Okay. He stood up and he read out of the books.

We go back to Revelations 5: and we read in there.

All right. Now that’s… there you see right there, judgment is about to set because, he stood up to inaugurate another period. Right. The same One that tore the Seals off sat down again to see that that was enforced. Judgment.

Do you follow me? See, it’s going on right now. The judge, see, right hand signifies power. Okay.

Revelation 10:

That’s the One that got the book back, that’s the One on the throne as a Pillar of Fire.

“And that’s the same One that” Brother Branham said, “is Revelation 1:12-18, the same One.”

Remember the Lamb handed it back. The One on the throne came down. Now what see when He comes down? He’s standing up. A prophet to deliver.

You let Him leave here brother/sister, it’s all over. You say thank God, He’s here. That’s where people are all mixed up, blood off the mercy seat, this, that and the other thing.

Just as long as He is here, as long as the dead haven’t risen, you just be mighty, mighty happy. He’s here. Tell everybody about it. See?

Now at this time the Thunders are on earth and at this time, time runs out, and every mystery is finished. Christ the mystery of God. All right. Christ the mystery of God, revelation, pre-eminence, back to Eden. All right.

We’re under revelation. And pre-eminence. Why? Because the Judge is pre-eminent. Put him right with the King.

You’re not talking just about a prophet now because the prophet is right down here and any time there’s a man and that seventh church messenger is a prophet, and any time there is a prophet that Pillar of Fire comes down, you’ve got the prophet, God Himself, you’ve got the prophet here, you’ve got the Word Itself, and you’ve got the reflector of the voice of the Word.

And you’ve got the prophet saying, “I myself judge nothing but the Judge is here and I’m watching Him.”  Resurrection time: things have run out.

Every mystery and one of the mysteries is “I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep.”

And that’s what people simply can’t understand. They simply can’t understand that the Blood is there and the Holy Ghost baptism is there but that does not do it per se: it takes Him revealed.

And they see it in greatness of power that raised Christ from the dead, comes from Him to raise those dead, to bring them forth as He brought forth Jesus Christ, and bring us forth.

You see? Always notice, notice the books are there. Notice what is happening. The Resurrection is there.

Revelation 22:

All right. Now, verse 13.

That’s,

Now over here, he said, “I and the first and the last, beginning and the end,” He does not say, “I am he which was dead and am alive.”

Over here He tells you simply, “I am Alpha and Omega.”

In other words, the same One that says over here in the verse 8 of the 1st chapter,

Is the same God who is giving that revelation of the One Jesus Christ who is God incarnated. Over here you know it’s the Holy Spirit. It’s not the incarnated One.

It is the incarnated One in this sense, it is the One who got in a man’s flesh but the flesh isn’t there.

Why? Because that’s the One in Revelation 10:1 that came down, that’s the revelation… the One in Revelation 5:1 that had the book, gave it to the Lamb, ripped the seals off, put it back in his hand, came on down here, came down on earth, and the thunders are on earth.

And when they’re opened on earth: it’s all over, every mystery, every secret. “Behold, I show you a mystery.” It’s a secret and it takes a prophet to bring in the secret.

Now what’s the hour in which we live? This is the hour of Sodom repeated. This is the hour of Gomorrah. This is the hour of Elohim visiting Abraham.

This is the time for the Son to come back to the earth. This is the time when the Son is to be formed in the woman to bring Him back to earth, who said to Abraham, “I am coming again.”

Now I want to ask you a question: when did He come again? There’s not even a record of it. Nobody knows when He’s going to split the heavens.

And nobody really cares if you’re Bride, because you see what does it matter? Because you see, you’re Bride and you’ve got confidence in Him. What if He comes in the morning? Wonderful, I’ll be there waiting for Him.

What if He comes today? What’s the difference? Just as long as He’s coming I’m just ready for Him to come. I’ve got confidence in His coming. What does it matter? It doesn’t matter because she’s ready. That’s the first visit.

Yeah, and in between they had some problems. He gets turned back to a young man and she gets back to a pretty young girl and they get down and see this old boy down there, what was he?

Some Philistine or something, you know, down in Gerar, old Abimelech, is what his name is. And instead of getting sheep’s eyes he gets wolves’ eyes. He’s a wolf in sheep clothing. Real nice guy but he liked the ladies.

And Abraham gets a bit scared, yeah, you’re still human. You don’t change that. There’s still fears, and doubts, and everything else.

But let me tell you something when Sarah… when He came that next time she knew by what had been going on and He said, “That’s the time I’m coming.” See?

Now look, that’s what we’re looking at now. Nobody has a record of that time but was He standing there at the birth of Isaac. Just think it over.

Will He be here when that Son bursts upon the scene? Oh sure, because He’ll be in Him. See? Sure, we’re looking to these things. They all type out perfectly. There’s no trouble at all.

Now, notice also, here it says, “I testify to every man that hears the prophecy of this book.” The book is involved.

Now do you understand what I’m saying? Son of man, books, judgment, judge. See? Okay. All right.

So, we see a chronology here in modern day Bible events. John 5:22,27.  22nd verse.

Hey, that’s great. He’s here, the Judge, the great One, not doing anything about it. He’s separating chaff from wheat in His own way but there’s no fire to burn. See?

…Just waiting, waiting for that One to be manifested in power. When the fire will break upon the earth and the vials and everything else beginning bursting around, verse 27.

Now listen! A lot of people don’t believe that they’re sitting here, well, all right, a lot… you’re not a lot of people, maybe you’re sitting here this afternoon and you don’t believe God… what God said about you. “You’re blameless, you never did it.”

Now you say, “Well, just a minute, I know what I did. …I’m not feeling that stuff.” So, you say, “Well, I didn’t do it.”  You committed adultery: well, I didn’t do it.

“Well,” I say, “who had the fun?” Don’t give me that hogwash. A bunch of filth out of a bunch of barrels. Call the Word garbage sin, you’re right down the line with it. This is the pronouncement. See? They didn’t do it.

He said, “I say what my Father says.”

Now you tell me what the Father is saying. I can only tell you on one condition. Has there been a prophet? Has there been a vindicated prophet? Is it proven that this prophet is one with the Word? Is he that real prophet that should come?

Then if he’s come, he’s going to restore, then she’s got to be a virgin, and not by the sprinkling of holy water but by the Word of God she’s washed and she is without spot and without wrinkle.

In other words, she’s a young beautiful bride, she doesn’t have a wrinkle and she’s so neat and clean and so perfect, she hasn’t got a spot.

And she’s no little Dutch Mennonite girl with a little thing on her head running around because, that wouldn’t qualify.

She’s got long beautiful hair that signifies her Nazarite vow, not some stupid church order. She doesn’t grow it because Momma and Papa said so.

She grows it because there’s something in her heart that makes her to know that’s the only thing that would work, and she’s judged absolutely beautiful because her Nazarite vow is by the Word that she saved herself for it and nobody but the Word of God, not for creeds and dogmas.

Now we read this in John.

Let’s go to Luke 17:22,30. Now I’m just taking you step by step to show you how this thing works out.

Now you notice I go to the Gospels a lot because there’s where the Son of man is. It’s in the Gospels. So, I’ve got to keep going to the Gospels.

Okay. 22 and 30.

How is that? That doesn’t apply to them because it tells you He’s going to die as the Son of man, be rejected and the days will return in the days of Noah.

So, who is the ‘you’ He’s talking to? Well, you can take it personal. It could have happened there as far as the purity is concerned and everything laid out but it wasn’t the hour.

So, who is the ‘you’? We are the ‘you’ who see the days of Noah and the Son of man. Now it’s going to be in the Son of man, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, and didn’t know it until the flood came.

Those that entered the ark alone were saved. The day of Lot, the same way, doing the same thing, only worse. Didn’t know a thing.

He’ll be there and they won’t know it. The prophet will be there and they won’t know it. That’s why when He strikes as Judge they won’t know it.

Do you follow me? That’s what we’re talking about. If they didn’t know the prophet, they didn’t know the judge.

Come on, if a man doesn’t know the Word, how is he going to judge? Oh well, this judge will judge by the pocketbook.

Jim was telling a case where a kid with no money came before the judge and the judge said, “Son, I want to ask you one question, “How much money you got in your pocket?”’

And he said, “I ain’t got nothing.”

“What? Did you dare to come in this court without any money?”

I’ll tell you where that judge is going to go. He’s going to go to hell and burn, and his money will go with him if he doesn’t repent and get right with God and I can tell you right now I don’t hold any hope for a man like that.

Not saying that he couldn’t have hope. We’re too near to the end of time. All right.

Notice, the Son of man again. Notice, at what time. 34 to 36.

Two: [one] taken, one left. What is it? Where the… where the… health… the body is. What body? God’s body, the immortal body. The eagles flutter off and take up there. This is rapture time. See? All right.

With it, 1 Thessalonians 4:13 okay.

No pre-eminence, no nothing, no hindering, no anything: there’s just a neuter. They’re just simply there in a neutral position. See? They ain’t going nowhere. They ain’t doing nothing.

Now if we were doing something then we could be pre-eminent. “Hey, look at us, bless God, we stand right here, hallelujah, and we’re going to be changed and nobody else could get changed before us and ain’t we something. We done it.” Yeah, you big bunch of dopes.

You stood there. Well, that’s pretty good to stand because the Bible says, “Having done all to stand, stand,” well, I’ll let you have that one. Okay.

Oh, brother, see the Word of God puts everything right. Doesn’t it? It’s beautiful.

The Commander of the Host of the Bride comes down to lead her in. A shout is a military command. Now He’s Commander. Why? Because He’s got the right Word.

Well, come on, you get a man in the field and the commander, and the commander gives commands. You get a man in the field and he can’t give commands, what happens? The poor army is gone.

Now who gives word? Prophet. Who snaps decisions? Judge.

Now Brother Branham said, “The angel came down and said, ‘Don’t get your lines all mixed up this time. Don’t try to teach Pentecostal babies doctrine.’” Well, a prophet judge standing right there.

You see what I’m telling you? There’s no way that you can have a judge outside of a prophet, and there’s no sense in having a prophet if he doesn’t come to be judge.

And what use is a judge if there’s no authority. So, you see what we’re driving at and how we’re coming? To lead this into a place, brother/sister, where…where the countdown is now.

All right. Now fine, that’s what’s happening. Okay.

Revelation 5: again. Just keep weaving you back and forth until you just finally become a part of this thing. You see? 6 to 10.

Now Brother Branham said, “That’s the scene of the Bride”. Sure, because it’s down the road. It’s going to happen.

Now let’s get this flat, the book’s open, the prophet comes down, the prophet’s a judge, he’s going to bind the wheat, he’s going to bind the tares.

He’s going to collect the sheep, by our gathering together in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Prophets do the gathering. What? The word of the prophet does the gathering.

Now it’s happened, so therefore, now this scene in heaven that John saw is now. You say, “Here, I don’t know about that.”

Don’t you understand this is a book of redemption that’s opened? Yah, the dead know who they are and where they are.

We are the ones who don’t know who we are and where we are. Now we’ve got to know the same as they know. We’re not going to have any pre-eminence but they’re not going to beat us either. They without us cannot be made perfect.

Now with the book opened, how are you going to know that you’ve passed from death unto life? Because you’re a Bride that’s not going to die.

It’s because the books are opened and the prophet came down, and the prophet’s the judge, and with the authority he says the same as John, “You’re Bride.”

Now I see myself right here and I say, “Well, praise God, look for the first time the book is open, the Seals are off, and I know that He was slain, I know I’m redeemed, I know I’m under the blood, I know I’m one of those under every kindred, and I know that I’m going to be a priest and king unto God and I know I’m going to reign because I’m part of it.”

Now that’s how you see yourself in the Lamb’s Book of Life but you see what you are here because you see yourself right now the books are open and this is the scene.

And this scene cannot be one simply there: it’s the scene of the composite. “You that are alive and remain” are seed right here.

Now those that have gone on before, they got the prophet sitting there in their groups, seven church ages up there now somewhere in a paradise of God.

Now they got no trouble knowing that this is it for them. They got no trouble knowing. We’re the ones.

How are we going to know? I’ve been telling you all the time: prophet. And the prophet fizzles. Thank God, he fizzled. I’m going to tell you flat if William Branham had had a following when I knew him I would have walked off.

Like I told him and I meant it as a… as a compliment and he took it that way, I said, “Brother Branham, I wouldn’t walk across the street to see you raise the dead except I know what kind of a man you are and I know who you are.” He said, “Thank you, Brother Vayle.”

I think those were his words. I’m not interested in sideshows.

Look, I want to know the record, brother/sister. Do I get in or am I kicked out? Do I get off or do I pay? I can’t wait at the time of my income tax return to come back: they got me for $680 this year, the worst ever.

One time it was $470 but a lot of times they give me a few bucks back. See, when I pay them ahead they forget that, they still want to soak me for interest in some penalty, see.

You talk about a bunch of birds. Huh, buzzards and eagles aren’t the same thing. Okay.

The books, Revelation 10:1-4. Books, Revelation 22:10. Books, now Revelation 10:7 prophet. Revelation 22:10-14 prophet open the books.

Now watch closely, I’ve already done this for you. Do it again.

Okay. I showed you over here, that’s Revelation 1:17 we went into it.

Now he tells you, “I am the first and the last,” and I am that One in the human body where the body died and rose again.

I am that One that’s here now, and I am promising you I will incarnate Myself in him again, and when I do I will come back here upon the earth taking judgment and justice, and I will put you here in the Millennium, you’ll be my priest and my kings, and you’ll dance around the throne, and you’ll sit in the throne, yup. You wonder why I say God’s doing it, God’s doing it, God’s doing it.

People say, “Well, I’m doing something, too.” Yes, you’re getting in the way.

Brother Branham said, “Get out of the way. Let your own thinking go.” That’s the only way He gets to me sometime will bring me a thought and I’ll stand there and say, “That’s right. That’s right.

Now what does it mean that it’s right? And tell me and show me how it is right.” I’m answering your questions. Why? Because it’s a divine gift. You’re getting help.

Let me tell you I wouldn’t waste my time. Why should I take your time, take all this time? Beat my gums out, get a sore throat and everything else, get madder than a hatter, when people say the ungodly things they say. But I should know one thing I’ll be sitting in judgment one day.

I’m going to tell you something flat, brother/sister, let’s get this, somebody, some of us are going to be on the throne and some of us could be standing in front of the throne. I want to be sitting in it.

Not because of Lee Vayle, but I want to be there just the same. And I’ll never get there by Lee Vayle, you better believe that.

Remember what the prophet said. He said, “My thinking will never be the same.” Has your thinking changed?

Some of you people I look at you and I know your thinking’s changed. The way you talk to me: I know your thinking has changed.

That’s why I tell you when this business with those saints talk one to another they’re speaking a certain language, a certain way that was brought out by the prophet, they know righteousness from wickedness and they know it’s not out here in the filthy act of adultery.

That is merely the symptoms or the evidence or the manifestation of unbelief: that man, wicked man, Cain killing his brother in line, that was not the… that was only the manifestation of unbelief.

See, where real wickedness lies, wretchedness lies? It laid back there with Satan, says, “I’m going to be somebody.” And when you get off that Word, you try to be somebody.

I tell you I thank God, I had to get off the road for two years around here. Oh, I went through my own private hell but never was there such grace there. Let me tell you something, let me confess to you and let you know something, yes, I went through my problems.

One, I asked for. Number two I didn’t ask for, but I got it for good measure and it still makes me angry within myself. I can still blow my stack but underneath I want to tell you this the grace and the glory and the love of God makes me so grateful.

See, and He walks with me and He talks with me. Oh yeah, I learned something this week I won’t tell you about it yet.

There’s a day coming down the road I’ll tell you but let me tell you this this afternoon I lie not, by the grace of God whatever measure of Holy Ghost and gifts I’ve got: it’s just around the corner.

You said, “The prophet said so, too.”

Well, he turned the corner, lucky guy. Whether I turn my corner and get out of here, leave this body here which is fine by me, I just like to go now because you see I’m convinced I know what I’m talking about.

There’s something checking it but one of these days that check is going to go, and by the grace of God I’ll go with it, and leave the body or I’ll take it with me. I don’t lie to you.

Why would I lie to you? I’ve got to face God. I’m not up here as a fool. I know I’m going to face God. I don’t dare not tell you the truth. I don’t dare not tell you what He’s telling but He talks to me.

You say, “Brother Vayle, He talks, blah, blah, blah.” Well, that’s fine. They can sneer if they want. I don’t know what talks with them but I know… I believe I know what talks with me. Oh yes, it gets gooder and gooder. See? All right. We were looking at this.

Now we saw over here in Revelation 1:17, Revelation 22:13 was the same thing and with it Revelation 22:14-17.

Now we’re weaving it through and I’ll be able to close in the next forty-five, or fifty-five or eighty-five minutes, somewhere between now and midnight, and I’ll give you a snack and I’ll tell you I ain’t going to wear you out except part way.

I promise you but I always tell lies, I was born a liar and I’ll live a lie, I’m sorry. I can’t preach a forty-five minute, sermon anymore. If you want them just get yourself another preacher and I’ll come and listen to him myself. I’m tired. Okay.

Notice the Spirit is there, too. But he’s not the spirit that’s telling you that. That’s the man. It says there’s a spirit there too, although the spirit is in him. It will be pretty soon now.

You know why they tried it back in Jesus’ day? They wouldn’t take him. They added their own word. A mini tribulation. Yup, thousands died.

Titus wiped them out. Their blood flowed like water. They ate their own children, I guess, or almost did. I understand some turned cannibal. I don’t know. I can’t understand those things. I don’t know my history that well.

But at this time, brother, the great tribulation hits: we’re adding to It. And it says you take away… now what’s worse than adding to the taking away?

There’s nothing worse than taking away the… that’s the worst thing because you get your part taken away. If you add you simply get plagues.

In other words, you take everything that was said and you add something, you’re not in half as much danger as taking away because then you take away from the life of God.

And if you can take away from that life there’s no life left. That’s crucifying the Son of God afresh. You’re gone. You’re finished. That’s what it says here. I don’t read the Bible except the way it’s read. There’s got to be a difference.

See? Okay. The foolish virgin can make it. Why? Because she added. She gets the plagues. The life has gone out of the Word. She tried to make her own way.

These take away, they say, “There’s nothing to it. Forget it, good-bye.” Deny the whole thing. Turn anti-Christ. Finished: there is a difference, brother/sister. Okay.

22:10-11. Now see, first of all we see the book was closed, then it was opened. All the time you’re seeing books.

The 10th verse:

What time is at hand? Separation, rewards, judging, presentation. All must appear before the bema: the judgment seat of Jesus. It’s not so much that the bema is a judgement seat, it’s bema is called a judgment seat, it’s not so because people don’t understand that judging can be unto merit.

I told you about my turnips and my carrots when I was a kid. I used to bring always bring into the first of the fair the turnip that had an extra turnip, the carrots that had an extra carrot, and I thought great Caesar’s ghost, this will win double first prize. They got thrown out.

I’d go home and I’d get just so mad I could never want to go to a fair again. One year no rain, so I never had my pretty little goofy things and I put my nice little mature ones in, the best they were and I got first prize. I got madder than ever.

Now I was really mad. I wanted my own standards. See? It won’t work. See? Unto merit, the first merit is given us free, the righteousness of God. That’s a nice thing, isn’t it?

The first one entirely apart from ourselves standing there blameless in His righteousness, then the next thing how we conducted ourselves, redeeming the time and those various things that crossed our paths we laid up treasure in heaven.

The presentation will be glorious but with the presentation a crown. See? And jewels, she’s like a Bride there. Now that’s unto merit. There’s not one bit of condemnation.

Now somebody says, “Well, hey, just a minute, the Word of God distinctly says in there that gold, silver and precious jewels and also wood, hay, and stubble, and wood, hay and stubble get messed up.” All right.

Let’s read the record and find out how that works. Come on. I just dare you to do it.

Let’s go to Hebrews… I mean Romans, Hebrews 11th chapter. Let’s read verse 23, beginning.

Hogwash! He messed up. He boo booed. He flattened out. But there’s not one record here of anything he did wrong. The hay and the stubble were burnt up. There’s no record.

The gold, the silver, precious jewels are manifested. You don’t find Brother Branham in that presentation, he said, “There went Brother Neville, and the people cheered and said, ‘Hurrah, hurrah.’” Presentation. Then he got called up, a presentation. There’s no fear.

You’ll not be condemned in the judgment but you’ll be appraised in the judgment. And the appraisal is not unto demerits; it’s unto merits.

There’s a big difference, brother/sister. See? So, we’re seeing the picture in here and understanding it better and better.

Now, at this time in Revelation 22. I should have taken more time to get my notes more careful because I get my notes more careful in preaching a lot of times. 22 and the 13th verse.

Now they’ve been sealed up. Nobody could hear them. Nobody. The book is handed …the man says, “I’m ignorant, I can’t read it.” …. “Sorry,” he said, “I’m not a prophet. I don’t know. It’s sealed.

Now for the first time, let me go back here.

Anybody can read but not everybody can hear. Blessed are they both that hear…read and hear.

Now anybody can read it and for two thousand years almost, it’s done some good but those that hear it under the thunders, seven seals, last prophets, God speaking: they’re the ones that get the blessing.

Now it says, “They that hear,” when this book is open anybody can sit down and get those tapes, anybody can do it. They’re spread clean around the world. People just mock them, turn to one side.

I know a guy that walked out during those Seven Seals and they said, “Brother Branham is making a big mistake,” he said, “It’s wrong.” I hate to be where he is today. He doesn’t know hardly foot from hand as far as I know when I talked to him last time.

Now we’re at this time that the plagues can come or the life will be that is manifested gone on into the Millennium and on to the last time.

Now these books open book by the prophet brings the book of decision because decisions are right here. All right and all decisions. A book of judgment into full view as Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal when the two people, stood upon the giving of the Word, one went to the cursing, one went to the blessing.

Now remember, they were Israelites as to who pertained the adoption, to whom were the laws and statutes, the giving of covenants, unto whom Christ came concerning the flesh.

So, don’t think we’re going to get out of this either, the church has the books opened to it and the Bride was on Mount Blessing, and the church was on Mount Cursing. It’s exactly.

Now destiny is set. It is opened or shut right now for the prophet is already judged with the future only as evidence. You say, “What do you mean?” The future will prove. The future will prove it.

Let’s go to,

Now what does this parable have to do with the appearing of the kingdom of God which means the Son of man? Prophet ministry, right? Sure. Absolutely, let’s get this flat.

Matthew 17: brings it out.

Now that’s tribulation and the end of the tribulation. That’s the days of the Son of man before the kingdom.

And there right now he’s telling you here, now listen, this actually in this portion of scripture follows Luke 17:

Now watch! 28-40 of the same Luke 19: which follows what I just read here in a parable.

Now, notice, 22 verse,

There are those that received, blessed is the King. Everyone gets judged according to what comes out of his mouth pertaining to the Son of man ministry.

Where do you stand today, brother/sister? Now I’m not kidding. See, I told you there’s no fooling in these messages.

The prophet said what you say about Him you give back, is what comes on you. You’ve got to say the right thing.

What is he? He’s prophet, not priest. That’s priest. He’s prophet. He’s judge. He’s king. And the lap-over is right now.

And in the lap-over my brother/sister, the lap-over goes right into the Resurrection. It’s going on right now. Separating chaff from wheat. The fan is in His hand. See?

It’s a serious day in which we live. Judged by the words of your mouth and there are those who are going to have to say, “Yes, I knew that was going on but we didn’t make him King.” See?

All right. I didn’t write the Bible. I just preach it.

Now brother/sister the judgements of God are in the earth. Now Brother Branham said so. For the prophet judge is here, soon to be judge king.

The office of judge is contingent with the prophet and the enforcing of decisions is the power of the king. Now, let’s look at it. It’s as simple as a-b-c. David, prophet, king. Not priest king, prophet king.

Okay, let’s go to 1 Corinthians 15: now I know I’ve thrown an awful lot of material at you but look, I’ll try to rework it for Tuesday, the Lord helping me, this was already reworked for, I mean Wednesday, it was already reworked for last Wednesday, I started talking and I couldn’t quit talking. I almost did the same thing today.

I don’t know what’s the trouble, just must have a pretty healthy mouth or something. I’ve got you, didn’t I? You thought I was going to say something else. Ah, ha.

You thought I was going to say something bad and I was going to praise myself just a little bit. No, a healthy mouth and a healthy tongue is always saying the things of God. All right.

Notice, he is here present as prophet but he is the judge because when the… when he shouts, when the voice comes and the dead are to be raised, do you follow me? it does not bring forth the wicked any more than the shout which is the message brings the wicked. Huh?

It separates the living and the dead. Now that’s the scripture. He’s the judge of the quick and the dead.

He’s the judge of those right now and those that have gone on, and those that are in another place will not hear that voice to come on out, they never will because He’s going to call His sheep by name and if your name is not of the Lamb’s Book of Life you aren’t going to come forth and now I’m not going to come forth and that’s just that simple.

And the Shepherd puts them all before Him and He walks behind for He leads every one.

Now He’s already got a group behind: this group is going to be ahead because the first Resurrection bunch up there from the Old Testament, the second are coming up they’re behind, now comes the head. Right? So, the Shepherd’s in the middle.

Now who’s the big one? Popes? Preachers? People? Come on. You see why it’s so simple to give Him pre-eminence?

Look, brother/sister, you… you just believe this Word: you give Him pre-eminence. You just talk this Word: you give Him more pre-eminence.

You just put everything out of your life that’s contrary to belief, and that’s what I read the other day, and I read also another one. I read two sermons.

One is… one is ‘Faith 61-0813’ you know has nothing to do with unbelief at the time, now separation, ‘Complete Separation From Unbelief 64-0121 or 55-0228’.

Well, here He is.

Now, He’s come down here to do a job. See?

Now David said to his son Solomon, “I’ve got news for you. I’m going to tell you something. Son,” he said, “I’m going to tell you what,” he said, “Died Abner as a fool die?”

“No,” he said, Joab killed him.” He said, “I want to tell you I wasn’t for that. That was…that was righteous blood.” Now he said, “You be sure to get Joab for that.”

So as soon as David died, Joab ran right for the temple. He ran right for God. Oh, enough people run to God for the last minute. How do they know He will help them? Too late.

“Well,” they said, “don’t kill him in the temple. We’ll just pull him out and kill him.” They’re tough boys. They pulled him out and killed him. Why? Because Solomon was king-in-training.

Now what kind of a king have you got if he can’t be a fit judge? Well, you got a louse on your hand.

What kind of a judge have you got if he can’t play the word? But he plays another tune? You’ve got an idiot on your hand. You can see how God is prophet, Word, judge, king: and He’s got an incarnation to go to.

And notice how that incarnation works right up and we’re a part of it. See?

Now listen, you’ve got to be to be a part of Logos, if you’re part of Logos how are you going to miss it? Because in Him was the Logos, the Logos was God, the Logos was God.

Now we were back there, minuscule. That’s what… that’s when we’re going to reign with Him, that’s when we’re going to judge with Him, that’s why the whole thing is as it is.

That’s where you get the training in the Word now and the separation right now is over the Word.

Everything comes out of the prophet, he’s the Roman candle and they’re always fizzles because it’s meant to fizzle because, the savor of life to life is radically few but the favor of death to death is multitude: what the Bible says so.

Paul speaking there in the Book of Corinthians, that’s the 2nd(?) chapter. All right. He says here, the last enemy is death.

Now you see here at the presence of the Resurrection, the Son of man ministry, the judge, the ruler Himself God is down here and He’s making everything propitious for the Son to step down and Him, God to step back up into him, incarnate him.

And from that time on there’s a forward movement to bring everything under, under, under, under in the beauty of holiness, the love of God, the wisdom and glory of God, the Bride coming up, up, up, up and the others going down, down, down.

The servants coming in, in, in, until everything in divine order, wipe those out and get away forever and sets the Lamb on Mount Zion and the Bride, Mount Zion, and the others coming around Him and God above.

See the harmony we’re getting into? And it’s going on now, my brother, my sister, it’s going on now and we’re a part of it. See? We’re a part of it. You’ve got to know where you’re at and what is going on.

I am not going to be with those by the grace of God who look back, who look ahead: I am looking now. I refuse to find myself in that place because it is not a part of me.

The books are opened in full view and interpreted to us, to believe is to be a part of those books especially the Book of Life of the Lamb. The book of redemption and it’s going on now.

If the prophet Elijah came, then judgment is next. That’s Malachi 4: You say, “Where do you get it?”

I get it from 1 Kings 18:36-41 for when the fire fell showing God was there they took the four hundred prophets of Baal and they killed them every one because the hearts were turned back.

Once God gets the hearts turned back and the Bride is a virgin again, does He think He wants her out with a bunch of wolves? A bunch of jackals? Too many people think they’re Bride and they’re playing footsie with that bunch out there.

I’ll tell you what, brother/sister, if you think you go through a bit of hell right now, you just stay behind for the great tribulation. Just go ahead if you want to see something.

I think Brother Branham categorically said, “The oath of Columbus,” which I suppose, I don’t know what the oath of Columbus is really all about but they say it’s authentic in the Congressional Library and you can go there as far as I’m concerned, but I suppose it could be really real.

I don’t know about it, but they’re supposed to cut your belly open while you’re alive and pour in sulfuric acid and God knows what, mutilate you until, they decimate you and bring you down to nothing while you suffer and suffer.

I think I could think of better things than that almost. And he said, … “He would sooner have that than ten minutes of the great tribulation.” That’s what I understand that’s the quote but I don’t remember the whole quote.

Where do we stand now? With or against the Word? Christ or anti-Christ? You see?

Now I don’t dare say this we’re winding down but you better believe I better wind down, after three hours. I think somebody had better give me a dose of vitamins of another sort. All right. Winding down.

In John 5: the Son of man or the prophet is on earth when he says John 5:24. Now he is on earth when he says it. Now I’m in the Gospels on purpose.

In other words, when he was on earth he said, “Listen, if you hear my words,” and there’s a key here, this is revelation, the same John wrote the same book.

“He that heareth.” And you don’t add, you don’t take; you ain’t going to die. You ain’t going to die. No way. You’ll never have a judgment. Fear is gone.

I’ll tell you about that sometime. I can’t do it right now because I’m not just clear.

John 13:

Matthew 23: let’s find out all about this, this business ascending.…

How does He gather them? By the prophet. How does He gather them? By the Message. By our gathering…

Now listen, just hold your finger there and go to 2 Thessalonians because that’s my next verse of Scripture logically, you know it as well as I do. You’ve learned these things by now. We’ve gone over and over them.

Vengeance that which proceeds out of justice. We don’t get justice, brother/sister, thank God because we don’t die for our sins, He died for us.

When that One comes, the same One will be in that hour the avenging angel of destruction upon the wicked.

But to us He is the righteous God avenging us, giving us our right according to the Word which is we shall not be in the destruction for we are not ordained to it. We’re ordained unto life.

2 Thessalonians 2:1 is Revelation 10:7 the prophet, is Revelation 22:10-12, the open book, the justified separated from the unjustified; it’s 18 and 19, those who believe the book as it is, say exactly what I say.

Give back to God exactly as It was given us. The rest won’t do it. That’s all prophets. Nothing but a prophet can do it. But watch!

That is Revelation 10:1. And look at Revelation 10:1 rather, that’s the One that came down. Revelation 5:1 is the One on the throne. Revelation 1:12 is the voice.

Revelation 1:14 describes the voice. That’s Malachi 4:5,6. Yeah. “Behold, I send you Elijah before the fire and he will turn the hearts back,” and the judgment is already set because, come on, let’s read it.

Let’s go back to Malachi. Say I can almost quote these things I’ve been to them so many times you can too, like you can quote them for me.

But we’ll just go back because at this point I know my mind will go blank so I’m not going to even fool with it. The 4th chapter, verse 1.

All right. Verse 16, of chapter 3.

“Oh, this brother serves God because he’s got such a sweet spirit, hallelujah.” And they found out he had about six women in the backyard. Drop dead. Don’t give me that junk anymore.

I’m going to tell you something, brother/sister, you don’t know this, I’ll bring it out later on but a trap was laid not long ago so that they that make the traps will fall into them. I’m going to preach a sermon, don’t worry.

I’m not over my little tizzy I started out with in this meeting. And we’re going to get back to it because I want you to know once and for all you don’t make another decision around Lee Vayle.

You’re either sitting here because once and for all you believe, if you don’t believe it’s time to leave now because I don’t want any more headaches.

Now I speak tough and all, but don’t bother looking quizzical. I’ll bring you message and look, explain why what is going on right today and there are too many people right in this hour even you sitting here, you are not aware by the time you should be aware. There is no time to fool. I have not lied to you.

Now if I’ve lied to you, you come and show where I have lied. You monitor my phone calls. I’ll give you my letters.

But I’m going to tell you something, I don’t care what happened in this church or Quincy or any place else, something is happening and there’s a Bride going to get out of here.

Now I preached real hard today to show you what the prophet said. You watch, this mouth had better be the same mouth as the prophet’s, and this tongue the same tongue because God is listening—not to men’s prayers who would still try to tell you in legalism, “Well, we’ll pray so many hours.”

Well, bully for you. Go ahead and pray. I’m all for it. At least it will keep you out of the bars but, it ain’t going to put you in heaven. No, it’s not going to. Even the blood of Jesus won’t do it.

The baptism with the Holy Ghost won’t do it because when He died and shed his blood and the life went out of it that was to come back upon the saints that are living today, putting them under this covenant but He Himself came down and went into upper Sheol, tore the gates of hell asunder, took death and squeezed his throat until his Adam’s apple popped.

And He said, “I am the mighty conqueror.” And He led them out. Oh yes, I know, He… the Blood allowed it. Yes, the Blood allowed it but it didn’t do it. And it’s not going to do it today. God is going to bring them forth and He’s here to do it.

Now we’ve gone back and forth and crisscrossed. See? Prophet, judge, conqueror, commander, king, captain. Each one is a manifestation.

Now I’m telling you, you get your minds in order. I’m not saying you won’t have little problems.

John the Baptist said, “Are you the One that should come?” After fourteen years Paul said, “Hey, did I make a mistake?” Look, bigger problems.

But I’m going to tell you something, this hour is the greatest hour there ever was. This hour is the greatest manifestation there ever was. And people are always looking back, and when you look back, you will go back.

And if you fool around and engage in conversations with those who are back you will soon kiss them and go back with them. I’m not running any shunning campaign here so don’t get any ‘to leave’ ideas in your head.

Lee Vayle, I’m telling you the truth. You do what you want but I’m telling you flat that ‘they spake often one to another’.

The devil’s too smart for anybody in this building, not excepting me, more than including me because I fall flat on my face every time somebody throws me a spit ball.

I pick it right up and I spit it right back and I throw her back and I get very disturbed, and I get very angry, you can see, and I get up here and I preach and I ain’t too nice but I never deviate from the Word, never leave you hanging on a limb.

Look, the judgments of God are in the earth because the Judge is here. And He’s not been an unfair judge, brother, let’s get this flat: He’s been very, very fair.

When a prophet stands and takes thousands under his control in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and not one spirit not under his control, and not one thought can be hid.

Who’s standing here? Not William Branham. Prophet. And what does the Word begin to do? Judge. This two-edged sword begins to come out and draw blood. And cursed be that man whose sword does not draw blood. See, it’s over.

Now by the grace of God I hope by next Sunday we can take you to the Bride and the Judge to come out finding…