Godhead #10

Flesh for Us, Word for God

God with Logos: Inseparable

April 23, 2000

Father, we thank You for Your goodness, Your mercy, Your love, and Your kindness toward us and especially, Your revelation of Yourself this day, thoroughly exposing Yourself to view exactly who and what You are in Your Godhead-ed-ness and Godhood-ed-ness, and also manifesting who You are in Your nature. And we find You unveiled before us, even as we are unveiled before You. And we appreciate this great intercourse, this great love which You’ve manifested toward us, because this would not happen except that You are a spirit of love. We know, then, not only in whom we have believed and are persuaded of Your goodness and Your keeping care, but we are persuaded of You, Yourself, Lord, and not simply by what You’re doing via Your attributes, but the wholeness of Yourself in relationship to us, and we part of it all, Lord, in Your great purpose. We pray, Lord, that’ll unfold to us this morning and we’ll begin to realize more and more exactly who and what we are and where we are, perfectly where the prophet said we would come because of this great end time message wherein we are waiting patiently for the resurrection and the Rapture. So we commend ourselves to You this morning in Jesus’ Name, thanking You for Your grace. Amen. You may be seated.

1. Now, I’m going to continue from the last message that I brought concerning the Word of Jn 1:1. But before we go there, you know how I have this constant gripe with me all the time about what is going on. We’re in a Democratic society, and therefore, the President, with the executive branch, is supposed to be, according to the Constitution, entirely Democratic, which would mean it would reflect the will of the people. And also, Congress, our legislative assembly, is to legislate according to Democratic principles, which would come from the people. And the judicial branch, which also is set in order—we have our checks and balances—also Democratic, being the more or less, almost all, except the Supreme Court, and that also has a Democratic process by their, not only appointment and their confirmation by Congress… And most judges are also elected by the people.

2. Now, I just want to show you where we stand, especially since Brandeis himself said that the Supreme Court ought to legislate rather than to adjudicate. So the whole system is gone to pot, and we’re no more a Democracy than a hill of beans. So let me read to you what I read a while ago: Jarred Sandberg writing on the Microsoft case, which I believe is a travesty against the Democratic principles of America concerning business and whatever.

He says, “Microsoft takes issue with the way the judge conducted the trial. Company lawyers say the compressed schedule, ten weeks between the time the Department of Justice complaint was filed from the original court date, put Microsoft at an unfair disadvantage.” Now what’s Democratic about that? See? There should be a place where they can agree. Of course, if you’re going to stall too much, there’s also a process there, because stalling is not a part of the Democratic process.

“Microsoft attorneys also complained that the judge has allowed an enormous amount of hearsay.” Now that’s the gist. They complain that the judges have allowed an enormous amount

of hearsay, second hand knowledge, into the record. “For instance, one Apple executive testified that he had heard from someone who had heard from someone else that Microsoft wanted Apple to kill a product that competed with Microsoft. But some antitrust observers think it will be hard for Microsoft to prevail on this point because, without a jury” (now there’s democracy – jury), “judges are more willing to allow hearsay testimony on the record.” Can you believe that in America? Can you believe it? Why that’s as bad as a fellow that accused me by hearsay. And he is supposed to be a believer in this Message.

3. A fellow down in the Carolinas, his name was Miller, heard from somebody who heard that I did not believe in prayer, did not believe in praying for the sick, did not believe in Communion. He heard that he heard. America’s gone plumb to pot. Don’t expect justice or anything, except from God. And remember this: the judge has already been here and judged. And we have sung with Bro. Branham, “I’ll go with him through the judgment.” That’s not future. That’s over. We’re doing it, and have done it and will do it here, because some men send their sins on beforehand. The others let them trail and follow them, and it’s too late.

I don’t want to hear my sins repeated from the housetop and find myself remiss. I want to find myself absolved. And I am absolved through the resurrection this morning—and I bring that to your attention—that Jesus didn’t only shed his blood, but it’s the blood of the covenant; and that covenant was originally with the Father and the Son, and it’s now with you and me. And the beautiful thing is, we had nothing to do with it, because we are heirs. Somebody else earned it, somebody else bought it, somebody else brought it, and we’re going to get it. Heirs! Sons and heirs.

4. And the beautiful part is (and I love that this morning,) that Jesus rose; because when a man leaves a will, the Bible calls him the testator; and there is a testament and the testament is not valid until the testator dies. And even then, I’ve told you before, that doesn’t mean a hill of beans if there’s a bunch of crooked lawyers and a bunch of people that are out to get you, filing law suits, take you through court, and pretty soon there’s nothing left in the will to inherit.

But Jesus rose as the executor of his own will. And this morning not only on the right hand of the majesty on high but now on the Father’s throne, right there, instead of the Father, and the Father has come to us. He’s right down here today bringing a Church to perfection. That’s the shout, the ‘keleusma’; putting the Church in order to get her all ready to be taken in the Rapture.

5. Now listen! I’ve just preached a resurrection message. So you take it home with you and believe it, and put in the spare parts, and the Lord will bless you. Also realize that, even though we’re not talking in length upon a message of the resurrection; in a nutshell, you have heard the truth. And all you’ve got to do is read the will. You don’t even need to have somebody read it to you. It’s been read many times. And you can keep on reading. And everything there is yours. And you will not miss anything whatsoever that is by grace and truth.

The only thing you could miss in this will is the fact that many times we do not sow the Word of God. In fact, too many times we do not sow the Word. But every time we do sow that Word, absolutely, it’ll come to pass. And God wants us, not to just have the Word of God upon our lips, but in our minds and in our hearts; and then, that powerful Word, transmitted by the spirit from our soul and then back to our mind, and we fix our minds upon God and just obey that Word.

Tell you what… Listen. That beats prayer a million miles, because prayer to us always—almost always—means, ‘Lord, I want to get You to work for me.’ When did God not work for us? Twisting His arm to think we can get something without sowing the Word; spinning our wheels in the sand, as it were. Now we don’t need to do that.

6. We know that the Son is risen—a mediator and intercessor. All we have to do is plant His Word and stand there patiently until It’s watered. And remember, we don’t bring the rain. We don’t bring the sun. All we’ve got to do is bury the seed. That’s all. Bury it in our hearts and our minds, and then sit still waiting for God’s sun and rain to fall upon it. And no matter what happens, even though it may cost tears and sorrows and trials and tribulations, stand there; for in due season you will reap, if you faint not.

7. Prayer, then, is standing before God, as Bro. Branham said, “In order for Him to change our minds”. Which means we have sown the Word. Now He steadies our minds, even as David said, “Thou will keep Him in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.” So therefore, the trusting of God keeping our minds fixed, and will bring us the perfect peace, will bring us every fruit in the Scripture. God cannot deny His Word. The Bible said so. And He said, ‘Whatever Word He sends forth from His mouth will accomplish whereunto It was sent’—“will not return unto Him void”. And remember: that Word is sown only one place, and that’s in the human beings. That’s in the Bride; where we are today.

8. There’s great cause for rejoicing in the resurrection: Jesus, right now, is our surety that everything in the Will, everything he died for, is ours. All we have to do is to search that Will out, and when we see our names in the Will, that contract: ‘that’s mine, that’s mine, that’s mine.’

Now, if It says there’s a prophet coming in there, that’s not yours! If It says of a ministry that a man is going to come, and he will do the greater things (Jn 14:12), that’s not you. Right? Then what are you looking at it for? You can’t read that Will any other way than by the intention of the one who wrote it. Thank God we had the greatest lawyer and judge on earth in William Marrion Branham. God Himself came down and read the Will and put our names in the right places. Hallelujah! Now I feel real good. I could send you home to have a good dinner, and you should be happy. That is our Easter message.

9. All right. On to something else I was going to read here for my Pentecostal friends in Canada, out there in Prince Edward Island, I think it is. Oh, a pig poultice. Now here’s my weird sense of humor coming up. “As we age, it becomes more difficult for our bodies to repair themselves.” Yeah, tell me again. “Scars from surgery or trauma form more easily and recovering takes longer.”

How true. I’m having trouble myself. For example, it’s hard to see anymore. I just had these glasses changed; and they aren’t worth two bits.

“However, researchers at Purdue University have recently received Food and Drug Administration”… Well hallelujah. “…approval to begin marketing a material derived from a pig’s small intestine that can restore the body’s healing ability.”

And my good Pentecostal friends, in reading the Church Ages said, “if you used animal cells, you’d die”. Ah my, what are they going to do now? They’re going to run for pig intestines! That which goes around, comes around. Don’t mind laughing. It’s good to laugh. The Lord’s going to laugh at a bunch of people in derision one day. He doesn’t mind a happy chuckle from you and me. Why should He? He made us to laugh. We’re supposed to laugh. He’s going to fill our mouths with laughter. Isn’t that Bible? “A merry heart doeth good like medicine.”

“Pig’s intestines that can restore the body’s healing ability. The procedure, which leaves little scarring, can even return lost function in some cases.” Wow! “When the material called small intestine submucosa-SIS is applied, sutured, or even injected...”

They said it would kill you. I’ve probably had about 50 or 75 cellular injections. I had a whole bunch in my spine here, for it to restore the cartilage, because the cartilage was all gone. And I feel I had about 10 to 15 good years out of it. Mine was bovine. They’re going to get piggy. Makes you think why it was that when the devils were cast out of the man at Gadara, they headed for the pigs. They recognized the sort of a life in there. Kindred life? I’m being mean, I know; and, I’m not mean in the sense that I’m ‘mean’ mean.

“Even injected into the body, the material encourages new cells.” That’s what it did in my body.

But the Pentecostals went to some stupid little doctor under the FDA or MA: “Oh no. It can’t be done. It’ll kill you.” I had mine over 20 years ago, and as far I know, I’m very much alive, but not as alive as I was 20 years ago.

“In the body, the material encourages new cells and blood vessels growth by acting as a lattice for the body’s cells to grow on.” That’s the basis of cellular therapy, of which I’m more than well acquainted.

“It simply is a scaffold that serves as an environment for wound healing, says Steven Badylak,” senior, grown up and powerful ‘mind researcher’. “Because submucosa-SIS comes from pig intestines”—emphasis Lee Vayle—“that is normally incompatible with human tissue, tissue rejection is a big concern. But evidence so far suggests that pig tissue is well tolerated.”

Let’s have some more of that other white meat, especially part of the intestines. [Laughter.]

10. Bro. Branham said this message will be vindicated by science. I am told, and this is hearsay, but I think it is correct. He told Sidney Jackson the Church Age book is “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” And I do know Collins still testifies that Bro. Branham phoned him (He wasn’t there.) and he told his wife, “This book is right.” Amazing! That little feeling of vindication that I have this morning, and you have with me, is going to go a whole lot further when we get taken out of here. Now to turn to the message on Godhead.

11. Jn 1:1:

(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

(2) The same was in the beginning with God.

(3) All things were made by him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.

(4) In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.

(5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Now everything in there, as in the Book of John, is based upon the word ‘Word’ or ‘Logos’.

12. Now William Marrion Branham, proven by the vindication set forth in Deuteronomy 18—(and you know where that is) to be Mal 4:5-6: “Behold I send you Elijah the prophet”; Mat 17:11: “Elijah will truly come and restore all things…”—William Branham; Acts 3:21: “The heavens must receive and retain Jesus until all the restoration of the Word…”

Who does it? Elijah number four who was known to us as William Marrion Branham. Rev 10:7—the messenger standing on earth—the prophet—who reveals the complete contents of everything the prophet said. He said, “This is William Marrion Branham, vindicated prophet,” according to what I read. Now if you can’t understand that William Branham became the flesh of that Scripture so that he was the living Word of God made manifest in flesh, you have not let your thinking go, and you do not understand what I am saying. Please ask God to help you, because if you don’t let your thinking go and believe, those things which are entirely outside the realm of human thinking and human reasoning (based upon materiality) which you observe the conduct thereof and what can be done with it, you will never, never ever get off this ground in a rapture. You can’t do it, because the renewing of your mind is the secret of metamorphosis. No metamorphosis without renewing of the mind! But the renewing of the mind brings the metamorphosis, even though you say, ‘I wonder how it can do it?’ We leave the doing of it to God’s Word. And that in itself is really no mystery, for His Word is life giving, even creative when necessary.

13. I’m going to tell you something. Bro. Evans did a fabulous job, just using his brain, putting our generator for electricity in the house. The minute the power goes out, my generator goes ‘zip’ like that; keeps everything running: stove, tanks, everything. When the power comes on, ‘zap’, the generator stops. Russell, I don’t know a thing about it, but I’m sure glad you do, and you did it. Now that’s what I’m talking about.

I can’t tell you how God does what He does and why He does it, in the sense that I am privy to it, as though I am His partner or something. All I know is the revelation; and I stand here to receive it. It’s like the Battle of Balaklava, the noble 600,

“…It’s not to reason why,

It’s but to do and die.

Into the jaws [valley] of death,

…Into the mouth of hell, Rode the six hundred…

Cannons to the right of them,

Cannons to the left of them,

Volleyed and thundered.”

They went there,

“Then they rode back, but not,

Not the six hundred. ”

[from Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”]

How many of you are in the Battle of Balaklava today? And you’re ready to enter into that valley? You think you are, but are you ready to go through and come back when all around you lie the corpses that thought they could do it? They listened. They charged. And when ten thousand people were supposed to believe this message, Bro. Branham stood in the pulpit, and he said, “They tell me there’s ten thousand believe this message, got to shake ‘em off, too many.” You’ll learn, if you haven’t already, that this message is now and forever.

Bro. Branham told a certain man--and I know he did not lie--he said, “Son, I’m up here, and you’re down here. When I’m gone, you’ll be up there.” He just said, “You’ll be up there.” He didn’t say ‘You’d take my place.’ He didn’t say ‘You’d assume something.’ He said, “You’d be where I am now” and left it. And when he was beyond the curtain of time, the voice said, “All that you ever loved, and all that ever loved you will be with you.” I’m going to be there. I don’t have any doubts. Why should I doubt?

14. So William Branham, vindicated of God, according to these Scriptures, said, “If you make Jesus the Word, you have three gods.” Now if a horse can act like a cow, and a pig can act like a monkey, then you might have reason to believe that a vindicated prophet could make a mistake. Now this is the crux: is ‘the Word’ God, or is It ‘Jesus’? Now He said, “If you make ‘the Word’ in John 1:1 ‘Jesus’, you have three gods.” Of course, you could also make it two gods, but the audience he spoke to was part Jesus-Only and part trinitarian in doctrine about Godhead.

Now you may try to take Jn 1:14 and manipulate It. You may take a lot of things that Bro. Branham said and try to manipulate them. But you’d be wrong. “It’s not to reason why, it’s but to believe or die.” Now this is your Battle of Balaklava. Is ‘the Word’ God? Can we adjust our thinking, formulate our thoughts within our mind, resident in the brain, transmitted by the spirit into our soul, and the soul with the modicum of Christ within us, feed that dual personality? The real you, a little bit of God, anointed by the Holy Spirit, sealed back, feed it back to your mind and come to the perfect knowledge that He is the Word. That is revelation.

15. Now it’s going to take adjusting. I’m struggling with it, and you’ll hear this sermon a little different from the last one, but it’s going to be the same basically. Because as I teach, I know what I am saying, but I don’t know it as well as I want to know it. But I don’t have to know all about my generator. I just have to keep my hands off of it and let the processes work that have been put there by a master hand of a master electrician. Now I know Russ doesn’t think he’s a master electrician.

16. Now, all right. Thus, no matter who would argue from the Greek or Aramaic, or history, or doctrine, or the traditions of any people who are prone to worship, have worshipped and do worship, even to manifesting the blessings of God by gifts and signs and wonders or prodigies, or the most brilliant and able users of Scripture or philosophy, you negate them. For they must bow to this prophet’s declaration of Jn 1:1: it is not Jesus, the man, the Son of God, born to a virgin Mary, but is Jehovah-Elohim Himself, period, exclamation mark, amen and amen. That’s it! In other words this is the proclamation of God: it is spoken; it is proven; and there’s nothing more to be said about it. So sit down, shut up, and believe it. Amen! Don’t even try to talk to me. I’ve closed the line. This is of God. Now, I hope you’re getting what I’m saying. Over and out. Why? Because we have had the communication. The speaker has spoken. Will the listener receive it as simply as do communicators in communications? And remember, the prophet is God to the people.

17. Even Lamsa himself, whom Bro. Branham commended, tries from the Aramaic and Hebrew to prove this is Jesus the Son of God. I derive from that that he is Jesus-Only, somehow, somewhere, because he’s not a Trinitarian. And I can’t believe by what I read from what he wrote, that he believes what Bro. Branham believed, or we believe.

Lamsa, dead now—and I have no way of contacting him—uses the ploy that Peter, dumb as a stone… That’s right in the Aramaic, cause that’s what Simon Peter means: he’s a ‘stonehead’, bullhead, dumb as a stone, and declared a ‘stonehead’ by Jesus; for that’s what he called him—a stone. Now we can take the Greek and make it some nice little thing, like a pebble. But literally, according to Lamsa, that’s a traditional saying, ‘This guy is a ‘stonehead’.’ Now do you think Jesus didn’t know that Peter was headstrong? If He knew one fellow, an Israelite without guile, then He knew Peter’s nature also.

18. Okay. Lamsa declares Peter dumb as a stone. He does not use the Greek. And John, who likewise, speaking only Aramaic, would not use Logos, a Greek word, but a word that is from the Aramaic—‘miltha’—which means utterance or Word of God, or Hebrew—‘delgbar’—which means to speak arbitrarily as though ordained of God. In other words it’s an arbitrary statement, and there can be no arbitrary statement made by anybody except God. See? So now, if you’re looking at this through Mr. Lamsa’s eyes, you are saying that Jesus is God. Well Jesus is not God. God is Elohim, and Jesus is the Son of Elohim. Whether you use Aramaic or Greek, it is God or Elohim the Self-existing One of Whom you are speaking.

19. The same man made a cogent point when he said the Jews could not accept Jesus as the Son of God, because all mythology, Roman, Greek and everyone around them, taught that the gods came down from heaven, had sexual intercourse with young women, and the children born were demi-gods or gods. So if anybody said to a Jew that God actually bore a son through a woman, they’d go, ‘Ha, ha, ha; Him and who else?’ because they didn’t understand. The Virgin Birth was not a part of the promise as far as ‘they’ knew or understood.

And no one has understood but us, except perhaps the first age, and a few people, exactly how that Son was born of God. Bro. Branham took us to the beginning, when the Son came forth as a light, and then God forming that body by creating the sperm and the egg, which has to be a physical factor in order to manifest life, wrapping Himself in it to produce the DNA and RNA circuitry, and then the Son could step in and come forth as a born one; but when he did, he had a memory which you and I never had. John 17 reveals that.

Now, who in the world is going to believe what I just said based upon what the prophet said, except you’re renewing your mind? Now we’ve got to learn to do this with Logos. And I’m not perfectly there, so I’m not going to be rough on you; but I’ll be saying some strong things.

20. All right. Lamsa sets Jesus forth as the Word according to Genesis 12. I didn’t even bother reading it. I’ll just look it up, now this morning. We’ll read it together. Genesis 12:3. “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Well now, that’s fine concerning Abraham and concerning Isaac. And remember, Isaac is typed as Christ being seed. Not as if Paul said, seed as of many, but seed as of one being Isaac or Christ.

21. All right. We know what Mr. Lamsa’s saying. Well, you know Lamsa’s wrong. Now I hope it doesn’t meet up with him on the judgment day now that he’s dead; and it might not on the very grounds that I don’t think he discussed anything with Bro. Branham. But I’m just showing you that no matter how brilliant a student you are, exactly how much you know, and exactly how you dare to be adamant and say, “Oh, no, no, well William Branham was a prophet, of course, when he prophesied this and this was done. But when it came to the Word, well, we know better than he.”

Now, we go to Gen 49:10; “…and the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” There he’s putting it on Jesus again. So the man’s wrong, although he knows the Aramaic. So what’s the Aramaic got to do with it? Well I know positively that was the street language. I’ve got no problem with that. But language alone is not the answer. It must be revealed by vindication.

22. Now I want to warn you. I’m going to interpolate here; so just keep your thoughts. I’m talking about the students, the philosophers, the teachers, the this and the that. No matter what you know, you cannot prevail against a prophet who is vindicated by God, because God is eyeballing you in the prophet, and you are eyeballing God in the prophet. And He says right there, “THUS SAITH THE LORD. This is Jn 1:1, which this is Jehovah Elohim. It is not Jesus.” And I don’t care, then, what anybody says, how one tries to finagle around and do this and do that and say ‘But Bro. Branham also said in many, many, many, many places, “that Jesus was the Word”. Yes he was the Word; but Bro. Branham said, “The prophets were a part of the Word, but Jesus was the whole Word”; and this Bible sets forth that One Who is the Word within the Word which is written here. The Bible is a revelation of Jesus! as Son of God—the one spoken of as the seed to come.

23. Jesus as the word is not God-the-Word. But they both better be Word, because I’ve never seen a horse that produced a cow. And I can’t see a God Who’s Word who wouldn’t produce Word sons. It’s just that simple. Now are you getting your minds renewed? You’d better, because you’ve been taught all this junk about evolution, mutation, etc. I do have plenty of doubts that people came from monkeys. I don’t have any doubts at all most came from snakes. But the serpent himself was one hundred percent changed. And do you know how the serpent got one hundred percent changed? Satan worked in his mind; and he went from an upright creature, next to man, smart, intelligent, strong, brilliant, to creeping animal. Now if you want to get turned from your caterpillar existence to a butterfly, how do you do it? The Word changes us back and beyond even that. Get back to the Word. Get back to the Word! That’s the big thing right there.

24. Now, where is Mr. Lamsa’s authority but self-proclaimed erudition (that’s a pedantic display of knowledge, ‘look at me’) making him the judge of Scripture. As far as I know, Lamsa did not speak Aramaic as a native tongue, but he had to learn it. So now, just keep everything in mind that I’ve said. I’m going to take you on a couple minute journey. It is not so much a travelog, although it is that, but a journey made by a very intelligent and able communicator, a Jew, who had the happy thought that in the diaspera, which took place right after Israel returned from Babylon. There were ten tribes that were called lost. And he said, “They are not lost. They are somewhere. They are existing. And I am going to take the Scripture, and I’m going to trace in that Scripture everything said where they took journeys, where journeys are mentioned, and towns are mentioned, so that if I go to those places, I will find evidence that they were there.” Now that’s, twenty-some hundred years ago, maybe 2400 years ago—2500.

25. Now on the day of Pentecost, there were listening around the temple, Jews, who came from Parthia, whatever: Media, Elamites, Mesopotamians, Judeans, Cappadocians, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Cyrene, from Rome, Cretes and Arabians. They were all Jews. And they all have different languages. But, he knew something I didn’t know, and I’ve never known any scholar to tell it. And I haven’t read all the books, and I’m not that smart. But he said, “As we know the street language that all the people in Israel used was Aramaic, so it was Aramaic that these other Israelites, the ten tribes, used hundreds of years before Christ came on the scene.” Well, he began his journey. Very fortunately, he had the money to take cameramen and a staff with him. And he went into India. There he found people who had, and were worshipping according to Moses—now follow me—and inscriptions on ancient stones were in Aramaic.

They heard there was a stone with Hebrew writing on it in Afghanistan. So they went into the war-torn zone, and they found a rock which couldn’t be uncovered, so they couldn’t read it. So they looked around, and they found two more great rocks, and in Aramaic were Hebrew writings. They went to China, they found the Aramaic, in India, all these places they went. Finally they said, “We need to find Cohen’s”. That’s the priests, the two words, Levy and Cohen, signify priesthood. They said, “They’ve got to be somewhere”. They searched and they found an island—I think in the Mediterranean. I’m not sure.—full of Cohens. They had pictures of them all and everywhere they went.

Why is he doing this? Because he wants those millions of Jews to return to Palestine in order to set up a temple worship. Now, you say, ‘just a minute, they came from Egypt. They were flown in from Ethiopia—full-fledged Jews that are absolutely as black as ebony. And some of them that are brown. In China, they were Chinese-looking. But what did the great Hebrew scholar say? Now listen carefully and get this, because this is most fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. You heard what I said, and I’m not joking. Get your ears open. He said, “I don’t care what their physical features are, the soul is Jewish.”

26. They know what William Branham taught us. Yes. The soul goes back to Adam that goes back to God. And I don’t care if a Jew has features that come from Timbuktu, from the tip of South America, though they didn’t go there. They only went where the Bible said. And they found evidence of every single tribe. And they even found tribes with the Ten Commandments, the full Torah, or pretty well the full Torah. And they were even taking lambs and shedding the blood. And one group of Muslims they found weren’t really Muslims. They’d allowed the infiltration of some of the Muslim properties, but they were believing the Ten Commandments which is Mosaic. And the Muslims do not go to Moses. They go to Abraham and Mohammed, and they do admit prophets. They will even say, ‘Well, Jesus was a prophet, but he wasn’t ours, so ours supercedes him’—like the Mormons. This to me was the most amazing thing I’ve heard in many, many, many years. Science proving every bit of this Word that Bro. Branham brought us.

27. Now, why I brought this out at this time was to show you the Aramaic is basic. How did the Greek get there? I can only answer what I was taught for many, many years—and you’ve been taught it, too—that the time of Jesus was especially propitious for him to come, because God had raised up the Roman Empire with its far-flung borders with the good roads and the law wherein the Gospel could spread freely on the waterways, the roads, etcetera. But I have never had any proof that the Greeks had the language. Now we know that Phillip, being a Greek—and you go right down there having taken over—and Alexander the Great, they would have spread the Greek language. And it is true, that when Hitler invaded pretty well all of Europe, into Russia, all over, he was there long enough so that the German language is quite well known everywhere he went. And now, apply that to the English. They went everywhere, superseding the Dutch and the Spanish, and where they did, the English language is there. And that has become a carrier for the western people to receive the Bible as we have It today.

28. But I don’t know that much about the Greek as though the Greek was the vehicle that God chose. On the other hand, the Septuagint is a very remarkable volume, which is the Old Testament by 70 scholars, put into the Greek. [End of the first side of the first tape.] Anyway, the scholars are duty-bound to follow the Greek. But, as it was known in the first century, where a diphthong—which is a double vowel—and you don’t understand it, can change the Scripture radically. Then if a diphthong can change the Scripture, you stand with me this morning, that one word off, taken away, one word added, will destroy you, because one word off is Satan’s kingdom. And as much as you are worshipping God, you are worshipping God in Satan’s kingdom. Then who is ruling you and your worship? Satan. “Oh, well, I’m different.” Yeah, you just think you’re different. That’s always the way it is when truth comes to light. Men love their darkness.

29. So now, with that in mind, then we can trace the Aramaic, maybe 25-, 2700 years. But God put it in the Greek, because the scribe is no different from the teacher, and the teacher is no different from the vindicated prophet, if they’re of God. Because God said, “Behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes; and you wouldn’t listen.” What I’m saying is, I don’t care if you put this Bible into jabberwokky, if there was such a language, God would see that that Word is absolutely correct and definitive in so many places; if there was one little mistake somewhere, you couldn’t possibly avoid getting the truth.

The Catholics have tried to change the Bible. I’ve got the Douay version. Also, I’ve got the Monsignor Knox’s version, which is absolutely fabulous in its translation. And he makes his footnotes that where they got purgatory is from 1 Corinthians 3 where your works are wood, hay, and stubble; and you could get scortched up. Imagine. That’s the stupidest thing I ever saw. There isn’t anybody who could actually change this Word, because God has ordained It. And I could tell you this, and I’ve said it before, if you take just one doctrine in the Bible—I don’t care what you take—you will find you will have to bring in every other single doctrine, and you make it perfect. Can’t help it, brother/sister. You cannot help it, because this is “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Now, with that in mind, you simply cannot study the Bible through education or any channel except through God Himself, having given us the Holy Spirit whereby we can be taught of God. And that does not supercede a five-fold ministry; and the five-fold ministry does not supercede the prophet, because their is no five-fold ministry, and there aren’t any children of the prophets, unless there’s a prophet. 1 Corinthians 13 says so.

30. Now if you’re not a child of the prophet, you aren’t anything to write home about. But God’s got you cornered, and you’ll answer to God. Because Peter said, “You are the children of the prophets.” And the last prophet will turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. And the fathers are prophets. So the last prophet will sow the seed of the entire Bible from the serpent in the garden to the prophet in the former rain. And there won’t be one thing left to chance. There won’t be one slip. There won’t be one dot or one tittle. It’s going to be perfect.

And you know Paul said, ‘”You that are perfect”. And I just want to really see if you’ll let your hair down or not. He said, “You that are perfect”—and the word ‘perfect’ comes from the ancient Greek traditions that ‘you had been initiated into the mysteries and you now belong to the club’. ‘Oh Bro. Vayle. Oh did you say you are initiated into the mysteries and you now belong? Oh my.” And Bro. Branham, by the way, every time he wanted, he could reach in his pocket and take out a quarter. “Oh God, oh God, oh God. I’m going to faint. I’m going to die. Ah, ah that’s terrible I can’t believe that. That’s the devil.” Where is your proof that it is?

31. All right, we’ve taken a little journey away from our subject wherein I again showed you that people believe that Jesus is the Word. And he is not the Word as THE Word. In this case, this is THE Word, Almighty God. Jesus is also Word, and remember, Jesus is THE Son of God, but he’s the only begotten, uniquely born, one-of-a-kind Son of God; but we are also sons of God. So when you see the word ‘son’, do you just talk about Jesus, or do you talk about yourself also in a lower order? So when you see the word ‘Logos’ is it God or is it the Son? And by the way, we’ve got to be a little bit of Word, too. So let us go to the Greek, as did Bro. Branham, who was the authoritative one—who is authoritative by reason of Deuteronomy 18.

32. So we look at ‘logos’ again. Here’s what the students say. Logos – this expression, and notice he doesn’t just say word as a unit of language, he calls it an expression, as a word is an expression of a thought. This means more than just saying cat, cat, cat; dog, dog, dog. It actually could be involved to the extent that, if you’re going to say ‘cat’, what breed, how old, what size, how healthy, how perfect a specimen, how trained, how sweet, how good at catching mice? What I’m trying to show you is: you’re not dealing simply with a word, a unit of language. As Bro. Branham himself said, “A word expresses a thought.” We are talking about expression. Exactly what it is in mind to be expressed. In other words, it has to be that which literally brings it into view in some way transferring from that word to our minds the picture or substance that is really there. Expression.

The expression is the keynote and theme of the entire Gospel.

33. ‘Logos’ (Now listen.) comes from a primitive root word. Primitive means original. Yes? Right? And primitive also means it hasn’t been doctored or gussied-up. This is what it is denoting—saying to you. The primitive meaning is ‘to lay’, ‘put things out’, like this. Then ‘to pick out’, like this; ‘pick it out’, then ‘to gather in one place’, and then ‘to pick up’. Now you’re picking up on what I said. As well as ‘pick up’ means ‘to carry’. Right? Now you understood what I said.

34. This, then, is not simply a word. It is a revelation. It is a revelation! It is meaningful to the extent what this is actually. Hence, ‘to gather up’ or ‘put together words or units of speech’; and therefore, you speak. Now notice again: ‘to lay it all out’, ‘lay it all out’, whatever there is to be expressed. You follow me? Is all laid out. Now somebody’s doing it. Then you pick out, then you gather what you picked out, then you pick it up, you bring it to the front; ‘this is it’. And they say from that, you’re getting into language. So, hence, ‘to gather’ or ‘put words together’ is ‘to speak’—‘to converse’. God communicating Himself.

35. Hence, ‘logos’ is, first of all, ‘a collecting’ or ‘a collection’. That sounds very good. But when you say that, do you forget what is behind it? What about the ordering of it according to place and time and relationship and how it all relates? Did you hear what I said? You can get the tape again, but I’ve made very careful notes here, because I want you to think about this. Hence, ‘logos’ is, first of all, a collecting or a collection both of things in the mind and of the words by which they are expressed. Huh? It, therefore signifies both the outward form by which the inward thought is expressed and the inward thought itself, like the Latin ‘orateo’ and ‘rateo’ compare Italian ‘raggianar’ which means to think and then to speak. A process used to express and then express. God expressing Himself.

36. Now, be prepared to adjust your thinking. And I repeat, be prepared now to adjust your thinking and go into a mind set. And here’s the tough part; because not one of you is likely getting beyond the definition of ‘logos’ which I have read; and every one of you, because of your western philosophy and how you treat language and words, is forgetting that Logos is actually God! Now didn’t you? You all sat there listening to the definition and you took the definition. Right? You did. But you forgot that Logos is God. That’s what they all forgot. So they made it Jesus, or they made it this, and they made it that. But my Bible says right here—and I’m going to read it to you. “In the beginning was the word, and the word was God.” “In the beginning was this Logos, and this Logos was God.” So all right. I just read it to you: “In the beginning was God”. This God, then, expressed Himself by and in and through the expression Word. The living Word revealing Himself.

37. Now, in this beginning was this one God, Jehovah-Elohim, now called the Word. He’s got a new Name, like It says in the Bible, the one came riding, on his thigh is written his Name which is the Word. His name is the Word of God. So God is called the Word because of this particular, peculiar definition, which allows you to begin to really comprehend this great God. God is the Word. His Name is the Word, actually God, God according to Himself, operating and expressing Himself. God named the Word, revelation, actually – progressive revelation; because if I talked about a cat 10 years ago, I’d talk about my little pussy kitty cat that was so active and running around, and I could make him chase his tail and fool him. When I talk about my 10 year old cat, he just sits there looking out the window. He’s too lazy to chase his tail. He wouldn’t bother a mouse if one came between his feet. But it’s my one cat I’m talking about—same cat.

38. So you see, when you use Logos, like we today, we’ve got to be current. We’ve got to be current, because you cannot, under any stretch of your imagination, be dealing with Logos which denotes there is a process within it, where you lay it all out, and after laying it out you pick it up, you know, to examine it and put it in places, and then you gather it all in one place and then you put it in here, where it really begins to be effective and real. Now with seven church ages you can see what I’m talking about. And you can see later on as I talk to you, and you’ll begin to see more.

39. “In the beginning was God”, who essentially... Now listen. I’m using Logos, and I’m talking about God; and you’ll see why Logos is the Word to use. “In the beginning was God” who essentially took counsel with Himself in deference to all His attributes which were aligned according to His infinite wisdom or omniscience. Then He precisely foreknew and ordained and predestinated according to His omnipotence and according to His spirit, which is love, and began the process of manifesting and revealing Himself with the purpose in mind of being the Father with His family, because that’s what exactly what He ends up to be. And you were in His thoughts. Right? And I was in His thoughts. Right? And He arranged His thoughts, and called on His Godhoodedness with us in mind. And here we are 6000 years later; and it’s still God—unchangeable as to Essence and ‘word conduct’.

40. Okay, let’s go again to Ephesians 1:

(2) Grace and peace be unto you from our God (our) Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (of whom God is his father).

41. Now “God’s the Father of Jesus, and God’s my Father,” said Paul, and He’s our Father too. Now this is real—really, really nice, because, you see, this wasn’t the way it was in the beginning. God had to lay it all out before Him, Who He was and what He was within Himself. Then He had to pick it up and lay it where each one belonged. And then He puts it in time and order; and that’s why the Bible said, “rightly dividing the Word of truth,” or you can’t make it come out right. That’s where you’re wrong. So if you can’t divide that, this God the Father, there’s something wrong, because Jesus was part of the plan. He wasn’t the planner. God was the planner. Now:

(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ.

(4) According as God has chosen us in God before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before God

(5) In love, God having predestinated us unto the adoption of (God’s) children by Jesus Christ.

42. Now there’s a doctrine right there. The first thing is right there that we are that family, and Jesus is not even mentioned as what he has to do with this family, though we know that he is our elder brother, and he is part of the family. Now what does he have to do with it? Well that’s what God was doing here, sorting it all out, laying it down, putting it together, and then bringing it into view. Right? Well sure it’s right.

(5) … according to the good pleasure of God’s will,

(6) To the praise of God’s glory and of God’s grace, wherein God hath made us accepted in the beloved.

(7) In whom we have redemption through his blood, (Jesus is the blood of God. Acts 20:28 will tell you that.) the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of God’s grace.

(8) Wherein God hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. Us includes Jesus, I’m sure.

Now doesn’t that tell you that He lays It all out there (what’s within Him), and according to His wisdom and prudence—which means wisdom of the highest order and the ability to do it? Well, tell me. What word describes that, and names God, better than Logos.? Huh? You can’t do it. You simply cannot find a better appelation; and certainly the One Who qualifies for description is God—Jehovah Elohim.

43. Now:

(10) That in the dispensation of the fullness time God might gather together in one all things in Christ, …

Now there you see the whole thing. Gather together, lay it all out, pick it up, sequence it, manifest it. It’s been going on for 6000 years. Then you tell me that’s the Son? You tell me you’re going to wiggle around this and make this not God? Who are you trying to deceive? I have no fight with anybody, but we had a brother leave here, and he used this very Word of God, then he turns around and quotes everything Bro. Branham said about the Son. That’s Jesus-Only. I can’t find Jesus-Only. I can see God in His Son, and I can see a whole lot of us, also. Everyone was in Him and of Him, and that is forever.

I’m so proud of our people here, our young people particularly, and the young ones growing up here that, if I were to say that they weren’t in it, I’d be just cutting my own throat. I’d be trying to think they’re in my sordid image, you know; they’re so nice, and they glorify me. Hogwash. You aren’t in anybody’s image but God’s, if you’re a son of God. Look:

(10) … gather (together) all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth; even in him. What came for from God goes back to God.

44. Well it’s got to be, but when’s he going to do it? At the resurrection, starting with the first resurrection, He’s going to gather every one in heaven, and wherever they are, somewhere in a dimension, and all of us, too. Why? Because as in Adam all die even so, in Christ all are made alive, but every man in his own order. The foolish virgin comes after the wise virgin. Isn’t that right? Here’s God, He lays it all out before him, He picks it up and looks at it, puts it all down and gathers together, and puts it in order, for His chosen. The Son doesn’t do that! No. God does that. Jesus and we are part of the plan—not planners.

(11) In whom (in God) also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of God’s will who worketh all things after the counsel of God’s own will.

(12) That we should be to the praise of God’s glory, for who first trusted in Christ. (Or hoped in Christ, whatever way you want to put it.)

(13) In whom we also hoped, ye hoped, after ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation where after ye believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.

(14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of God’s glory.

Now, at the end time, comes Almighty God Himself into the Church in spirit form, and what does He do?

(17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

Now who in the world can do that but God, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and ours also? Our Father. Who could do it but God? Jesus couldn’t do it, because he said God spoke in him and showed him and revealed all things to him.

(18) That the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of your calling (What you’re trusting in, what you’re calling, you’re called the sons, the children of God.) and what the riches of the glory of the inheritance of the saints. (They’re going to know about that, God and the Son both.)

(19) And what is the exceeding greatness of God’s power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power.

(20) Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead …

Jesus did not raise himself from the dead; God raised him from the dead. And he’s going to do that to us. God put Christ at God’s own right hand, and Jesus said you that are faithful at this end time now, sit with me in my father’s throne. Where’s that going to be? Well, at the end time … I’ll read it to you later—I can’t do it right now—and I’ll show you what Bro. Branham said. And right on down the line.

(21) Far above all principality and power, (and so on. And that bride is the fullness of God that filleth all and in all, wise virgin, foolish virgin, and that’s it; nothing but the human race. Now, there’s where we look.)

45. Okay, now we go to Revelation 22.

(1) And he showed me a river of pure water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the lamb. (Now there’s God there, and there’s a lamb there. And who’s the lamb? But John said “Behold the Lamb of God.” And Lamsa’s got his idea of that too; forget it.)

(2) In the midst of the street, on either side of the river was there a tree of life which bear twelve manner of fruit and she yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Now there’s something brought over from here 12 months of the year from the earth. There’s certain things that God does not get rid of. He merely transforms or glorifies.)

(3) And there shall be no more curse (now watch), but the throne of God and the lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.

(4) And they shall see His face and His name shall be in their foreheads. Now watch.

(5) There shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun for the Lord God… (The Pillar of Fire above the throne.)

There’s where Bro. Branham got it. I didn’t know it until I read this last night. I’ve told you many times, I didn’t know any place in Scripture where the Pillar of Fire was above the throne. But he tells you right there. If the lamb’s on the throne, where is God? He’s got to be above the throne.

(5) … and they shall reign forever and ever.

Now, that is the whole Godhead, Godhoodedness, God everything, as concerning God and His family, that I read to you in Ephesians in here. God, Logos. Tell me can you give Him a better name? You can’t do it.

46. Now, let’s go to the next thought. In the beginning was God, Who is called Logos. And It says “the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. Then we read the definition here, the preposition ‘with’ which, with the accusative case, denotes motion towards or direction, is also often used in the New Testament in the sense of ‘with’ and not merely as being near or beside, but as a living union and communion implying active notion of intercourse. Which means working in union together, denoting existing and working together in such a way that there is no separation as though one was without the other or the other worked without the other. You follow me? That’s ‘with’.

47. Want me to read it again? Oh, I want to read it anyway, because this is difficult. But you’ve got the Holy Spirit. You’ve got to have your minds renewed. Metamorphosis comes by renewing of the mind. And renewing of the mind comes by the Word of the living God given to you by the ministry within the Church. Now our end time ministries, five-fold, elders, deacons, all nine gifts, prophecy, prodigy, doesn’t matter—all superceded by a prophet. Why? Because the prophet comes to put the church in order. That’s 1 Corinthians 15. I’ve showed you that time after time. The prophet turns the heart of all the children back to the father. That’s the prophets. Now if he’s doing that, then everything is out of order. So shut up five-fold ministry, shut up people, put your gifts on the shelf, shut up and sit down and listen, and get in order. Because when the trumpet blows you’d better be in order for the battle to get out of here, or you’re going to miss it. And there are many voices in the air, and always with some significance. Can you tell which one is the significant one? Can you tell the voice of God? You’ve got to have a vindicated prophet to do it.

48. So, we’re going to listen again. The preposition ‘with’, which with the accusative… In other words every preposition is followed by an object: the tail of the cat, the mane of the horse, the fish of the sea, the bird of the air; every single one has an objective case. You cannot have a prepositional phrase without having an object which will be a noun or pronoun. So, the word ‘with’, that’s a preposition. It has to have a noun in the accusative case. So what is it? That’s the objective. It denotes. It doesn’t just imply, it actually denotes. It means there’s motion—direction, and it’s used in the Old Testament in the sense of the word ‘with’, not merely as being near or beside, but as a living union.

49. So when you say “the Word was God, the Word was with God, and the Word is God”; you are telling here that you cannot differentiate one from the other. And how could you, because Logos is God. So you’re talking now about the operational God. He’s setting Himself in view as the operational God. And He does it through Word, which can be revealed to you and me; which is simply telling us what God is doing in His universe, and we are a part of it. And It said every mouth be dumb: ‘shut up, sit down, and listen’. And when you know, get up and go. And if you don’t, sit down until you know.

I’d hate to have any of you people work on my car unless you have listened, by sitting down and really knowing, because those computers in there, and those chips, are way smarter than anybody here; and I’ve got one going haywire. Now a smart person made that chip. It’s come to the place where Kurzweil, the guy that made that [Bro. Vayle points to the electronic piano], is now convinced that he can computerize— computers with chips and everything else—and very subtly, actually evolve into humans, like humans, even using nitric oxygen (I think its nitric oxygen gas, which the brain uses to differentiate and work.) to put it right in something like that, and ho, ho, ho. And the robots will take over. Naw. Never, never.

So therefore, when we talk about this word ‘with’, we are talking about an indissoluble union of which one cannot work without the other as concerning us, for they are integral facets of the unity. And this is God, where people say this Bible is the printed God, God in print.

50. All right. This is a fairly good definition. But if Logos is actually God, how can God be with God? There are not two Gods, only one God. So let us see how this can work. Well, notice:

#1. God is originally defined as Elohim, not Logos. He is merely the self-existent One completely known as that; but also being Logos by nature lying within Him. But He hasn’t done anything about it yet. Now He begins to do it.

#2. He now is Jehovah-Elohim, the Self-existent One with a relationship within Him to those attributes, or thoughts, that are within Him but not yet displayed.

So having the ability and being Logos, Elohim Logos, now He is literally Logos; and He lays it out first, it’s all there, picks it up, puts it together, gathers together, moves in on it. If He is Jehovah-Elohim, He’s now embarked upon being truly Logos. He’s got a relationship to what is within Him as those parts.

Now listen. We don’t comprise Godhead. We are simply His thoughts and a part of Him—miniscule. You couldn’t get a microscope, trillions of powers, to even look at it if you could.

So, in His Godhoodedness, He has got to bring forth the only begotten Son. Now, He is manifestly Jehovah-Elohim and proving to be ‘Logos God’. Jehovah-Elohim. Logos. Godhead.

51. Now, God in and through the Son; God creating all things by Christ Jesus. Scripturally, God created all things by Christ Jesus. It didn’t say Jesus is doing it. It said God’s doing it. The Son is now empowered with the omniscience and omnipotence in a measure. ‘In a measure’ because God doesn’t use it all, just that measure in His Son and through His Son and by His Son as is necessary for the glory and grace of God and getting His purpose done.

Through the Son, the Son now does what Bro. Branham said, and you see the world being made, millions and millions and millions, five hundred million years old. Who knows—40 billion? Who really cares? Only God can tell us.

52. #3. In Him, the Jehovah complex, Jehovah-Elohim, Redeemer, Shepherd, our Peace, our Sanctifier, our Healer, our Provider, our Banner, our Companion, ever-present, “I will give you the Comforter to be with you forever,” our righteousness: this is Logos, this is Elohim with a purpose within Himself, which He will display and do according to His omniscience backed by His omnipotence.

Now you know I’m telling you the truth, because this is exactly what Bro. Branham brought out.

Now, all of these purposes are within Him as Iraneaus said, “God being a Saviour, it was necessary to predestinate a man who would need saving.” And look how He goes about doing it. The lamb crucified from before the foundation of the world, the good Father preparing everything, as a loving father should do for His children, that they would be lacking in nothing; and therefore, He could not be remiss, because He’s perfect. Everything thing He does is perfect. So if you grouch a little bit about what’s going on, just stop and think a bit. The perfect God is doing this to you and me—and for our good. This will, no doubt, be magnified to us right to the White Throne, where all things shall be probed, revealed and proven.

I can look back now upon a life that I thought was full of fish heads and fin tails and, you know, everything else. I thought I was really picked upon. I look back now, and I say “Wasn’t that wonderful. Man alive, I had it so good.” I just wish I’d a been astute enough to know it. Yeah, it doesn’t matter. God’s in the drivers seat. He’s got my life. It’s under control. Hallelujah!

53. Now listen. God Himself completely now, God within His own Godhoodedness, resolves to move. The first move is revealed by Bro. Branham: God begets the Son. That’s over there in Eph 1:3. I won’t read it again. And it ends in Revelation 22. Now we laid that all out. Have you followed me so far? Good. Now I’m going to diverge. And remember, I’ve got to come back to where I diverged. I didn’t do too good a job last time, and maybe I won’t do too good this time, either. So, let me diverge or interpolate.

54. As I said in the last message, man is body, spirit, soul.

A. He is two parts spirit out of three parts of the whole.

B. The one part that is not spirit is nothing but tissue. Every hair in your head, every bone, every bit of your blood plasma, is tissue. Right? Certainly, it is.

C. The true man is the soul. Right? Right! Why? Because that is from the progenitor. The only part that is from God is the soul. The spirit is allowed of God but not of God. And when you die, like Christ, the spirit goes back to God who gave it, and the soul stands in jeopardy. Where will it go? Well, if it’s of God, it’s going to go to the place where God wants it to go—in the dimension that Bro. Branham saw.

And I’m going to be there. Yeah, you say, ‘How do I know?’ The angel said everyone that he loved and loved him will be there. And I’m before God, my Bible open before me, I was willing to give my life to him if God would’ve spared him and taken my life, I’d have said, ‘Bro. Branham, just do one thing, look in on my wife.’ Greater love hath no man than lay down his life for a friend. I’d have laid it down; not for William Branham as William Branham a man, but he represented God. God was in him. I saw God in that man. I looked at God. I’d have been glad to give him my life. I’d a been happy. Just think he’d be here, and I’d be there. I wasn’t selfish. No, brother, I was not selfish in giving my life. No I was not, God knows my heart, this Bible’s open before me. I loved him, more than anyone but my wife, and if I’d have loved him more than my wife, I’d a been a fool. Can’t do that. I’m joined to my wife. We’re one flesh. I’m going to be there. If he makes it, I’m going to make it. You say, ‘how do you know?’ Well, you’d know for yourself, I can’t know for you. I’ve got to know for me.

55. All right, listen. Here it is. God is Himself completely now, God within His own Godhoodedness. And we’ve come all the way down here, in Godhoodedness, the true man is the soul, part of God, and you can’t lose part of God, He’s got to redeem it, bring it back to where it was.

D. Our soul is a Son of God via Adam.

E. The spirit is given at birth (as Bro. Branham said, “When the baby drops down from the womb.”) So body is ruled by senses and brain; connects to the soul by the spirit.

F. Man is not called by soul or spirit but by body. Right? You look at Lee Vayle, you don’t think soul or spirit, you think flesh.

Now, when you start to think ‘soul’, you’re going into personality. When you start talking about ‘spirit’, you’re going into personality, which you’re going into traits that emanate from my body, and you see displayed in my body, because of the life within and the values that are within are visibile via the flesh.

56. You struggle in your flesh. You sin a thousand times a day. You backslide a thousand times, as Bro. Branham said. You’re relying on Christ, but you hate yourself. And like David, your sin is always before you. And the Bible said, “Confess your faults.”

57. A fault is like an earthquake fault, where you have your problems--a weakness. Don’t tell people you did this and you did that. You say, “Well, you know, I have a problem here that bothers me, and I want you to pray with me.”

58. So you are not known by your spirit or your soul, though that is the real you. You’re known by your body. If you were known by your soul, you would say with God, “David is a man after my own heart.” But you know David after the flesh, and you say “With 500 wives, that vermin had to take another man’s wife. He knew you shouldn’t covet your neighbor’s wife. He knew you shouldn’t commit adultery. He knew he shouldn’t kill. He did it!

59. After my flesh, I agree I’m with the Jews. David was a sleazbag. But, no, no, no, no, no, no. He’s a man after God’s own heart. He came from the heart of God. I don’t care what he acted like. And I’m going to tell you, I wouldn’t care if Bro. Branham was an adulterer and a drunk like they accused him. He had “THUS SAITH THE LORD”. You can’t make a judgment against God, the righteous Judge.

60. Man is qualified and quantified by his body, though his body is only one third of him, because the body alone is accountable by visibility to society. You say, I beg your pardon, Bro. Vayle. There’s a man named Einstein and I don’t even know him. I heard he had an affair with a woman, and that his wife actually wrote the great formulas. I’m telling you the truth. This is in the books, that Einstein is supposed to have actually written. And furthermore, Einstein was perhaps dyslexic for all we know. He was kind of a nut in school. He didn’t have much with mathematics.

“And so Bro. Vayle, you see, I’m actually looking at Einstein beyond that flesh, and I know that he wrote those formulas on energy, and actually had a part in the atomic bomb. See, Bro. Vayle....”

See? What you’re telling me is you’re admiring his brain. Huh? You’re admiring his brain. What part of the brain is the man? Tissue. Tissue. You admire what comes out of the pen from the hand. Everything you know and judge about a man is physical, because you have five senses. And you also have the ability of the mind by the spirit and intelligence to put things together. See? You’re made in the image of God. And you put everything out there that you have received from your senses and then elaborate on it. We have nothing except what comes by the flesh. We are identified one hundred per cent by the flesh. And if Einstein didn’t have flesh, there’d be nothing. So Einstein, like you and me and everybody, is reduced to one thing: the one third of our body which is flesh. You understand what I’m saying? All the greatness is imputed to what we see: Einstein the flesh man.<