Godhead #12
The Fullness of the Godhead Bodily
July 2,
2000
Father, we welcome Your Presence this morning, and thank You
for Your instruction in the Word of righteousness, which makes us wise unto
salvation, and literally gets us to know You. We thank You for that, and we
pray the revelation of Yourself shall be so profound, that it will truly
influence our lives, even as Bro. Branham said, “If you really got to know Who Jesus Christ is, your life would change.”
And we know our lives have changed,
even for a greater change, because our bodies will come into alignment with
that Truth. But in the meantime, Father, we know we have the will and the Holy
Spirit to help us to overcome all things, and stand forth, even for Your Name’s
sake, and for Your glory. Help us to do that. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
You may be seated.
1. Now last night we started a little
article on the fact of the spread of the AIDS, which Bro. Branham told us would
be “humankind walking the earth, while
actually their flesh was rotting upon their bodies.” And I just wanted to
make known to you, to make sure you understood from the Romans 1, that the
rejection of God, the True and the Living God, God Who can be known, and then
rejected, leads to the people taking substitutes. It also states there will be
hypocrites who will take the very Word of God to deny the Word of God, to
destroy the Word of God, holding down the truth in unrighteousness, which means
they will substitute their own understanding for true revelation—hold back the
Truth—deny the Truth and turn It into a lie by perverting It.
2. And this will lead to serious problems
within the human race, and then will devolve into homosexuality of the male and
the female, lesbians and homos, positively will bring about the end corruption
and will bring us to the place of Sodom, wherein the government, knowing
better, and perhaps even in cases trying to do better, because they have some
sort of a conscience, like Lot, were forced to give in to the homosexuals, who
are then literally running everything because of their perverse minds. And at
this particular time, Bro. Branham said that “no politician could make a correct decision.” And so therefore,
the decisions would be apart from righteousness, and you have that absolutely
rampant in the land today, as the Scripture says that sin is a reproach to any
people.
3. Now at the time that Bro. Branham went
to India in 1954 (that was a showdown, as I mentioned), where he challenged all
the religions of the earth to come forth in the name of their gods and pray,
and said this man would be delivered from his blindness, which was caused by
worshipping the sun, where the Scripture says, “They worshipped creation more
than the creator.”
And at that time there was with that
group that went to Europe, a Christian Full Gospel businessman, identified with
them, named Faery Von Blomberg—even the name is typical—Fairy? Not trying to be
facetious, but look at it. It’s absolutely true. That was his name, and he was
an avowed homosexual.
At the same time Leo and Gene, two
homosexuals, attached themselves to Bro. Branham’s ministry, tape boys, which
was allowed by God, and when they absolutely showed what they were, God warned
Bro. Branham what would happen to them. And I saw the vision in the vision
book. “Leave them alone. They will leave and go into false doctrine.” Now
watch: doctrine. People hate the thought of doctrine. They don’t want me to
teach doctrine. They despise it.
“They will leave and go into false
doctrine and destroy themselves.” That’s in the vision book. And they did it.
Now the point is this: the greater the light, the greater the darkness. And the
greater the darkness, the greater the light. But remember: the light is merely
greater because of intensification, as a laser. And the darkness is not only
intensified, but is more widespread.
4. So at this particular time in Bro.
Branham’s ministry, you find perverted sexual sins. And Bro. Branham was also
with another man, and he called his bluff in Regina, and he said, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You
were with a blond last night.”
And he said, “You mind your
business, Branham, and I’ll mind mine.” And he handed in his resignation.
Now I’m speaking as an authority,
because I stand before you, my Bible open; and I’m right before the White
Throne. Don’t think I’m not. I know whereof I speak.
5. So I want you to notice at that
particular time, the rejection of God in 1956 is surrounded, or comes to a full
peak of the essential, which will bring on the full destruction, which is
homosexuality. Now always around the darkness, or in the midst of the darkness,
there is light. The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness can do
nothing about it. Neither can it understand it, apprehend or comprehend. See?
It can’t do it. Neither can darkness or excess sin do anything against the
light. For we can do nothing against the Truth, but for it.
So no matter how this Message goes
out, even if not explained correctly, there’s no such thing as deception to the
child of God for that child is foreknown, elected, and predestinated.
6. What I’m trying to show you, that is,
the crux of the whole thing is: there is a growing problem in the whole
universe with homosexuality, and it’s pervasive. It’s everywhere. But in
America, because of our laws and our politicians—we’re not like Africa—we look
at Africa and we say, “Oh, there you are… There you are. God’s judgment on the
heathen. Oh yes, there it is.” And India, the same thing, “Oh, yes, it’s
spreading.”
But it’s not covered up there where
it’s covered up here. We’re very anxious in America to trumpet loudly the sins
of everybody except ours. It’s a beautiful cover up. In other words it’s known
as the best defense is a strong offense. And that’s what America’s done.
So we are in the place now of total
destruction: “As it was in the days of Noah;” “As it was in the days of Sodom.”
And in the days of Noah God pitied the remnant on earth that was standing
there. And the end time the Bible says that God will have to call an end,
because all flesh also has come up before Him, and all flesh would perish. But
of course the Bride is going to be out of here.
7. So, although all the events are not in
concerning the final moments of the Bride here on earth, and the ‘catching
away’ of the Bride, and the revelation of the anti-Christ, and those things
which will be in the great tribulation... Might even be a little space in
between, I don’t know, as there is space on earth between the resurrection and
the Rapture, perhaps forty days, perhaps longer. I don’t know that Bro. Branham
actually specified, but there will be that gap in there. There could also be a
gap, and perhaps no doubt will be, a gap between the time that the Bride is
gone and the great tribulation sets in—that three and a half years. I don’t
know, but I really suspect that there is, because time, as an interval, is not
that important to God, and it certainly won’t be that important to us.
But the major events are in. Israel
is back in the homeland. According to the Book of Romans, when Israel goes back
to the homeland, there will be a resurrection. Absolutely. Israel will no
longer be blinded. They are now turning to the light. And it’s strange, after
all these years, they’re still looking for Messiah. And you’ll notice that when
He does come, the prophets of course coming on earth to prove reality, they’ll
be turned down just the same as they’ve always been turned down. And only the
144,000 will be saved. To them Jesus makes Himself know.
8. So we are at the end time. Make no
mistake about it. Judgment has set in. The Bride has already been judged. Bro.
Branham said that. He said, “When you
sing that song, ‘I’ll Go With Him Through The Judgment,’” he said, “You’ve already gone through it.” You’re
going through it. Why? Because it is the judging Word, because the prophet is
here. He is with the vindicated Word.
The vindicated Word, which is the
revealed Word, is always Judge. That’s why a judge is set in the earth. He has
to know the law; he has to interpret the law; he has to apply the law. It has
been. That’s why Bro. Branham could say, “THUS
SAITH THE LORD: you’re the righteous, perfect, sinless, pure Bride of the Lord
Jesus Christ. You didn’t even do it. It all falls back on the devil, because
you were trapped into it.”
9. These are some of the things that Bro.
Branham said at the end time—that’s the laser light that comes from above. That
is the light that’s shot through the ruby or the gem that excites the
properties within it to the extent that it is completely perfect. That’s the
Holy Spirit, God Himself manifesting through the Word, bringing the Word to
life. God in His Word.
And you’ll notice that they’re using
the laser even on the eye. When the eye, the ‘macula lutea’ is degenerating—and
it could turn from the dry to the weeping—they can focus the laser in there.
Thousands and thousands of a part of an inch, and just sear that completely,
without doing any damage.
And that’s the way it is with the
Sword of the Lord, the Laser Light coming down, discerning and dividing and
separating—not harming, but bringing out the health, and what you might call
the Truth in the body, because the Body of Truth must be restored in the world
in the Bride. And God has done that with His Word. At one sweep He has actually
cut away the putrefaction, and at the same time, laid a layer of health. And
that’s what the laser does. They apply a certain medicine in there to the eye,
and the laser, by the light, excites the medication and the eye can heal. So
God pins His Laser Light of revelation upon the Word within us, cuts away all
the putrefaction, making a perfect Bride, dressing Her at the same time. The
outer man, though perishing, will come back on this earth. And those standing
here will go into immortality.
10. You have everything here that is
absolutely delightful to the inner man, as you begin to relate to this Word,
and know that this is the hour for a certain part of the Word to be fulfilled;
and It is living Word, manifested: the very Word That speaks about the prophet,
who is now the living Word of God made manifest to us and for us, getting us
ready for immortality.
This is the hour for the Bride today, and it will be proven that
she is that living Word of God made manifest via the resurrection and changed
to immortality, and the ‘catching away’.
11. I just wanted to go over that again to
make sure you’re getting what I’m talking about, because we have to relate the
two and make you understand that there cannot be one without the other:
light–darkness and then comes the Laser Light through God’s ordained channel,
the prophet, bringing us absolute Truth. Bro. Branham said, “Find that woman of such character to stand
still in the water of separation and then be dressed by the Word of the Lord,”
where he said, “The Word of God is the
Sword.” Then he said, “The Word of
God standing by,” which definitely is that the Word of God is twofold in
Its message this morning, with the Sword, cutting away everything that is not
of God, and yet bringing to life everything that is of God. And that’s the way
the Millennium comes, and then above that and beyond that, is when the new
heavens and the new earth come. The old is dissolved so that, without
obstruction, the new comes into being.
12. Last night we also looked at Jn 1:1, “In
the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.”
Now you cannot for one minute deny the way the Bible is written. We read: “In
the beginning was the Word,” and then we leave out the peripheral: “and the
Word was with God.” So we now read it: “In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was God.” Thus God, Jehovah Elohim, is the Word.
So therefore, we have something in
the beginning with which God is identified, and is actually of God, and must be
so much a part of God that there cannot be any identification of God apart from
whatever is there, which is called ‘Logos,’ so that God Himself is known as
‘The Logos.’ And we understand, of course, what that is: that’s the ability to
look things over, to see, and to sort them out, pick them up, analyze, parse,
put together, and you see therefore that God is not only the Great Creator of
all, but He is the Great Maintainer, and He is constantly showing and
manifesting Himself forth to whatever He wishes, and to whomever He wishes to
manifest Himself. And it all comes down to His Children. Not the angels, not
archangels, not this, nor any creation, no matter how wonderful.
And that’s the principle of the
omega, because the omega is the New Jerusalem and the new heavens and the new
earth, the Bride in the New Jerusalem, the attendants, the Lamb on the throne,
God above the throne, in the Pillar of Fire. And also the twenty-four elders,
the beasts, and whatsoever God has created and maintains for His glory, wherein
the Bride Itself maintaining, in this respect: she is a part of God, and no
part of God ever dies: It always was. See? So you understand these things, I
trust.
13. We also saw last night that Jesus is not
Deity, but I’ll read to you from Bro. Branham and point out what I could not
point out in Psalm 45 last night, although it was there. All right. Reading
from Bro. Branham, he said,
[62] [GOD’S GIFTS ALWAYS FIND THEIR PLACE JEFF IN V-6
N-13 SUN 63-122] Jesus said
in Jn 14:12, “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also,
and greater than this shall he do because I go to My Father.” Did you notice
that? Notice, now, that was the Son of God promising to the believer, that
greater things than He, the Son of God did, in these last days that the
believer would do greater things than he did. Jn 14:12. Is that right? Do you
believe Jesus said it?
Now Bro. Branham will be totally
denied here by anybody but those who believe in a vindicated prophet and
believe the Truth. This will be denied.
Notice, When Jesus created bread, He took a piece of bread, and
created bread that had already been bread. When He created fish, He took a fish
that was first created a fish, and put another fish out of it. Is that right?
He took water which will—potentially would have become wine, and made wine out
of it. Is that right? Bro.
Branham said, “He simply bypassed the
processes.”—in another place.
But we’ve seen Him in our midst in these last
days create things right out without anything standing there. Is that right? He
can create a squirrel where there is no squirrel. That’s right. Oh, He remains
God. He’s just as much Deity today as He was then and ever was, or will be.
He’s still God, and changing hearts to believe it. “Greater
things than this shall you do, without anything to hold and break off of. Speak
it, and it will be so.”
14. Now he’s relating his own experience
back to the Bible, which he has to, because there can be nothing actually new,
as the Bible teaches us, and we have to always go back to the prophets. And
Bro. Branham is saying here: Jesus himself took that which was, and multiplied
it. But in this case, the squirrels were created from nothing, because God said
to him, “Speak and it will be so.” And he was taking that from Mk 11:16: “Speak
to this mountain and it will move, for whatsoever you say and you believe in
your heart, and without doubting, then it will happen unto you.”
And Bro. Branham spoke it, but
you’ll notice that he, within himself, was not able to carry it through. And
God said, “But you said… But you said…,” and he was held to his word. Now when
God took the fish, actually Jesus, but God in Jesus did the work, he took that
fish, broke it, and multiplied it; he took the bread and multiplied it also.
15. Now when I stood behind Bro. Branham in
1953, in December, in Florida, West Palm Beach, as I told you, I held in my
hand the microphone cord, to keep Bro. Branham from getting tangled in it. He
picked up the chair and made a couple of complete revolutions. And the
microphone cord was around his body, which Billy Paul had warned me, “Never let
that cord out of your hand,” because his dad had a terrible time with the
microphone. He hated it. He’d like something like I’ve got, the wireless type.
But he didn’t have one. And as I held it, and it went around him, I was
horrified, because I was responsible to see that that cord was never wrapped
around him.
As I told you, I gave a one gentle
little tug, and it fell right around his ankles. Now you know the law of the
fulcrum: if my fingers are not quite two feet from my elbow, and I’ll tell you,
it’s much harder to put pressure there, but up here, it’s just zip, and my
elbow goes. See? That’s the law of the fulcrum, you know, the distance times
the weight. It’s always multiplied by the distance.
And I thought, “Oh, God, one little
move from his ankles, he’s gone. It’s going to be disastrous.” And I watched
that line straighten out, just identical to the multiplying of the loaves and
fishes, which is equivalent to a creation. I’m the only man living who can tell
you that. You don’t have to take my testimony. Do what you want. But I can tell
you one thing: except for seeing that happen, I don’t believe that I could have
believed that squirrels were actually created.
16. See? I’m very honest with you people. I
tell you just what I am, inside and outside. And that’s your business if you
believe it or not. But I’ve got my problems the same as you’ve got your
problems. I’m a human being. And I’m no prophet. And I’m certainly not one
who’s ever seen enough to say, “Well, I’ve really talked to God,” this and that
and the other thing. Everything I have is watered down and second hand and
very, very far from a prophet, or anything like that. But I can tell you as I
stand here this morning, “If you don’t believe me, I will meet you down the
road, and even if I go to hell, you’ll be there, too, and it will be proven to
you.”
I was there and I did not blink my
eye. Identical. Bro. Branham brought them both out: they are identical. And if
you can believe that Jesus took a dead substance and multiplied it, you can
believe squirrels were created, and they were. And you can deny me this
morning, all you want, and people will around the world. It doesn’t matter to
me. They’re not denying me—they’re denying God.
You Say, “Oh, Brother Vayle!”
Don’t “Brother Vayle” me,
please
17. Let’s go further. We were talking about
Deity.
[ ] [GOD’S GIFTS ALWAYS FIND THEIR PLACE JEFF IN V-6
N-13 SUN 63-122] …Jesus is
not deity, but He was the fullness of the Godhead as deity, which is godhead
was within Him, which is a person, two persons in one body of flesh.
And if you think that’s hard to
understand, how come you’ve got the Holy Ghost? Huh? Christ in you, the hope of
glory. Isn’t it strange how people can say, “Oh, hallelujah! I’m full of the
Holy Ghost! Bless God!” And then deny God in a prophet. A bunch of hypocrites.
And the Pentecostals are the worst of the worst, because they’re the ones that
foster, promote, and rely upon the baptism with the Holy Ghost.
[102]
Then when He came, He was the fullness
of all the prophets. He’s
talking about Jesus. ...the fullness of all the
prophets manifested, because they were the Word of the Lord. And He said
himself, “If you call those ‘gods’ to whom the Word of the Lord comes, how can
you condemn me when I say, “I’m the Son of God”?
In other words, “I’m a
prophet. I am that prophet of whom Moses spoke. And if you can accept Moses,
you can accept me. I’m the one of whom Moses spoke. Search the Scripture, for
in them you think you have eternal life, and they are those that testify of me.”
And not only that, but he had a greater testimony, because you have to receive
the testimony of two people to be valid. He had the Bible, laid It out, proved
who he was, and God answered back through THUS SAITH THE LORD, the way it is
done in Deuteronomy 18.
18. Now:
[102]
…See, even those in that age were
anointed as gods, small
g-o-d-s, God called them Himself ‘gods’. What
were they? They were manifestations of His Word, and here He was, the fullness
of the Word, Deity embodied (Amen.), Deity manifested in the flesh.
Okay. Now let’s go to Psalm 45, and
here is my answer to Psalm 45, the best I can do. Now It says in Ps 45:6:
(6) Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:
even the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
(7) Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest
wickedness: therefore God, thy God…
So he’s calling one God ‘the great
God of heaven’. He is giving His Name and position to this one. If He gave His
Name and position to complete identification and indwelling, then this is one
of whom he is speaking. So if He called them gods, then Jesus can be elevated
as the fullness of the Word to a position of “God to the people,” as a prophet
never was. And he’s still the same, and will be, because after the New
Jerusalem, he will be on the throne, visible, and the Pillar of Fire above the
throne.
19. So that’s how I look at this, and see
and understand what Paul is saying, quoting from the Psalms. And it is based
upon being not just a prophet, “God to the people,” but actually ‘the prophet’,
the fullness of the Word, not as Moses or anyone else, but as ‘this one’. He
would then take the higher position as ‘God’ over the prophets, even the
prophets having been called that. Because if they were manifestations of His
Word—and you can’t deny that John the Baptist was; he was not only a prophet,
but greater than a prophet. But remember, they said, “Who are you?”
Now Isaiah was not divided into
verses, but if he were here today, he would have said, “I am Isa 40:1-3. I am
that Word. I am the Word of Isaiah, the Word of God, which has the life of God
in It. And here I am, this Word made flesh.”
20. Well, is that wrong, or is that right? I
told that to the people in Greece, the first time that the Message went to
Greece, in Athens, Greece… Very beautiful pastor there, very lovely person.
There were millionaires sitting in the congregation, and generals, what have
you. And I laid it right in the line. I said, “Can you deny that John was the
Word of God made flesh?”
See? They couldn’t do it, because
Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. Then Moses was the Word of God made flesh.
The prophets were the Word of God made flesh. And in our own order, we’re the
Word of God made flesh—in our own disorder or “under order,” as it were.
At the end of the service... We had
a very excellent translator, born in New York. She was the wife of a general
sitting there, Mary Matakalos and she interpreted for me as the man came behind
me, the pastor. And he very gently said, “We have heard many strange things
today, but do not put them to one side, because they could be true.”
21. I don’t know what happened. If any man
would dare to deny that John was the living Word of God made flesh, I’d nail
him right there. Brother/sister, I would nail him like he never was nailed. I’d
say, “I want you out of my sight, because you’re out of the sight of God.”
Well, true or not true? And what
about you and me as predestinated ones?
“Well, Bro. Vayle, I’m so humble.”
You’re not humble. You are arrogant.
And you’re so puffed up like the devil, you couldn’t believe God’s Word if you
tried.
I told you I can slash and be hard.
I’m not here to be mean to anyone in this church here. I’m laying principle
out. I am not talking about anybody in this church, anybody that hears the
tape. I am talking about principle: two and two make four, three and three make
six. God, in Jesus’ body, makes the fullness of the Godhead bodily. The prophet
is the living Word of God made manifest; or put it this way: if God is going to
make the Word living—manifested, It will have to be done by and through a
prophet.
And do you know that even Cyrus,
mentioned 400 years before his birth, a heathen king, is mentioned in Scripture
by name, then he was the Word of God made flesh, whatever flesh that was. He
said, “My shepherd, Cyrus.” Huh? Read your Bibles. Read your Bible. Get to know
It.
22. Bro. Branham said:
[70] [JESUS CAME AND CALLED TULARE CA V-22 N-11 THUR
64-0213] I’ve said
this before. I might say it again. I was talking to a woman not long ago in a
certain church, I’ve mentioned here a while ago, that doesn’t believe He was
God, His Deity. He was just a prophet, an ordinary man. Now you see, Bro. Branham didn’t say he
wasn’t a prophet. He said he was just not an ordinary man-prophet.
He was that truly. Sure, He was a prophet. He
was that plus God. See? He was the manifestation. Jesus is the body, the boy,
the man. God was what indwelled Him.
Now can you have a ‘him’ without the
body? No. At the River Jordan God entered the body of a man, thirty years of
age, who had walked around, who had been circumcised after the eighth day, who
had his diapers changed, who went from breast feeding to normal feeding, who
grew up, who was sent to the temple. At age thirteen, he had to be inducted in
the temple as a man. We’re talking about a man who ate and fished and drank..
…God was in him. He was a God-man. He was a man. Yet He was
God manifested in flesh. Whose
flesh did God manifest in? The flesh of Jesus, yet it was His Own flesh,
because He created the egg and the sperm, wrapped Himself in it in order to get
the blueprint of God. …God manifest in flesh.
“When we see Jesus, we see God.” That’s what He said. “When you see the Father,
you see Me; you see the Father,” because He was the reflection, because He was
the Word (Amen.) that was in the beginning. Bro. Branham called him
‘reflection’; Paul called him
‘the image’. When Bro. Branham says
‘reflection’, go back to
Paul: ‘image’. ‘Image’ was what he was. ‘Reflection’ was what he projected,
because the Father indwelt him.
23. [78]
[SEED OF
DISCREPANCY PHOENIX AZ V-12 N-5 MON 65-0118] “Well, Jesus prayed that we should all be one.” Then He also
said, “Can you walk together, two walk together, lest they be agreed?” He said,
“One like Him and the Father are one.” And the Father was the Word, and He was
the Word made manifest. He was one with the Father, because He was the
manifestation of God’s promised Word. So it is today, or any other day. Yes,
sir. That God is one. He wants us to be one.
How can this be one? This one denying the virgin birth, and
this don’t, denying Divine healing, and this, that, all of them in a mess like
that?
In other words there’s not a common
unity of mind. And so he’s saying, “If there’s not a unity of mind in the Word,
how can God be in the midst of that people? And if there’s not a common unity
of mind, individually with God, how can they be walking together? That’s why It
says, “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship, one
with the other.” And that’s why Bro. Branham said, “How you ought to love each other, you that love this Word.” …See
how It all comes together. Certainly. As God was “the Word” and Jesus was “part
of the Word, they had fellowship and could walk together and be one. And
now we are one with Him and each other.
24. [ ] Some of them even don’t even believe in God,
believe He was the Son of God: believe He was the son of Joseph, called the Son
of God. Certainly. The Zwinglies, the twin brother to the Lutherans, believe
that: that He was absolutely just a good man. The Christian Scientists said He
was a prophet, just an ordinary man. He wasn’t Divine. Now if you use the
word ‘divine’, you’re using the word ‘divinity’ or ‘deity’. He wasn’t Divine. Why, if He wasn’t Divine, He’s the greatest deceiver
the world ever had. He was God or He was nothing. He was Divine. He was Deity
Himself made flesh among us, the Person of the Son of God. Certainly, that’s
what He was.
Now some of the language is kind of
convoluted there, like the last little bit of it. He said, “He was Deity himself made flesh among us in
the person of the Son of God,” which is true. That’s certainly what He was. So when you talk about the two, you
must remember Bro. Branham said, “It was
a duality.” Always a duality. Two in one flesh body. “One time Jesus spoke, one time the Father spoke.” But always the
thoughts of Jesus had to be originated or given by God Himself.
25. [3-2]
[RISING OF
THE SUN JEFF IN V-3 N-12 SUN 65-0418M] Then he said, Well, if you’ll turn the picture like this, that’s the Cloud over here [Bro. Vayle
points to the picture of the Cloud.], he said, (You
can probably see from the audience) it’s Christ. See? His eyes looking here,
just as perfect as it could be, wearing the white wig of supreme Deity and
Judge of all the heavens and earth. Can you see His eyes, His nose, His mouth?
Just turn the picture from this way, and that away, it’s as it’s supposed to
be. He’s the supreme Judge, there’s none other but Him. And that is a perfect
identification of vindication that this Message is the truth. It is true. And
making Him not a third person, but the only Person...
Now if you notice then: if He’s the
only person, not a third person, he’s talking about Elohim Himself. Why?
Because God is the Judge of all the earth. Now you can’t go to Genesis 18, I
believe it is, where he said, “Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?”
and then put the Judge someplace else. Jesus himself said, “Judgment was
referred back to the Father.”
There are more verses on ‘Deity’,
and you can see that Bro. Branham is not making Jesus ‘God,’ as some would have
it. And he’s not making the Logos ‘Jesus Christ’ in Jn 1:1. He’s identifying it
in the singular, because when God left the flesh, He went back to being, or
indwelling, if He so desired into the Pillar of Fire. The manifestation that He
gave to prophets, He gave to Israel visibly for a while, but He never gave to
the public again, which was the Pillar of Fire, which he gave singularly to the
prophet.
26. Now remember, when Bro. Branham had a
meeting in 1960, when he preached the “Church Ages,” the people could see that
the very pictures that William Branham drew, which were the pictures of the
eclipse and of the church ages, and he said, “You saw one, but I saw two.” He said, “You only saw the reflection. You did not see the original.”
And it’s a good thing Bro. Branham
cleared that up or the people would have been mistaken that they literally saw
the Pillar of Fire, which they could not. It was not given them to see that.
Some people say they saw a light. They see this and that… Look, I was in
Pentecost a long, long time, and you look for lights, and you know… Actually,
you’ve almost a psychedelic religion.
I can laugh at it now. Believe me,
it was no laughing matter. I was in error. I was in error thinking I could get
into some realm that only is reserved for certain people, and believe me,
brother/sister, you can get into realms that don’t belong to you, but you
better watch out. It’ll prove one thing: that you are off the Word. Huh? Well?
Let’s take an example from our own bodies? What if your liver tried to act like
your kidneys? Huh? You better get a new set of kidneys or a liver. No different
in the church.
27. [15-3]
[THREE KINDS
OF BELIEVERS JEFF IN V-3 N-6 SUN 63-1124E] God said, “I am the Lord. I heal all diseases. I am God, and
I change not.” Amen. And God is Word, and God doesn’t change. How is the Word
going to change? See? “I am God and I cannot change.” The Scripture says that.
God said it Himself. And if He cannot change, then He is the Word. In the
beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God,
(unchangeable Word) And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Amen. Yes,
sir. See, Bro. Branham puts
Jn 1:1 and Jn 1:14 together, 1:14, which is exactly true. It was the Word that
became flesh, which was God Himself. See?
God raised up bodies all down through: Moses, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elijah, all down where the Word temporarily came, but the
full Word was made manifest in this man,
Jesus Christ.
“The
full Word was made manifest in Jesus Christ.” And so they took Willy, the
whale, and put him in a pool. It was still Willy, the whale, put in a pool. It
is still God put in a human body. Right? Okay. Learn to parse It, because
parsing is very valuable. Parsing is actually revelation.
…Which He was God in the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He
was made flesh. I believe that—every word.
Well let’s face it: Jesus was made
flesh. You and I were made flesh. God was made flesh. God had a body, the body
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He left that body, one body, then the same Spirit,
God’s Spirit, part of God, came back, starting at Pentecost, appeared in a
cloud, and little tongues of fire came down on each person, showing God
dividing Himself, but not becoming less. He only divided of Himself what He
wanted divided, and put It in the vessels, human vessels, cleansed by the
Blood, separated in water baptism, now full of the Holy Ghost, the seal to the
day of redemption. And when the day of redemption finally comes, nobody else
gets sealed in—temporary.
28. Also
Bro. Branham said:
[11-5] [FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS JEFF IN V-3 N-16 SUN
64-0719M] That’s the
reason they failed to recognize Jesus being the Son of God. Their traditions
had blinded their eyes, but He was exactly with the Scripture. He wasn’t only exactly with the Scripture,
He was the Scripture. The prophets were the
same. Jesus said, “Which of your fathers didn’t stone those prophets who were
sent to you?” Then God sends His prophets, and the prophet is the living Word
of God made manifest.
That’s a tough one to swallow. A
certain guy in Canada was kicking up his heels and was literally one of those
who were destroying the Message. And I had just talked to Joe Raczkovy about
this one. And I said, “You know, that’s what the prophet is: the living Word of
God made manifest.” So they got tangling with Joe. Joe quoted that. And the
preacher—so-called—he was infuriated. And the other guy said, “Raczkovy!
Blah-blah-blah! Raczkovy!”
And Joe said, “Just a minute. I’m
going to show it to you people.” He picked up his book and showed them. Those
same two. They don’t believe today—really believe.
See? If you were a real believer,
you’d rejoice. Why, that’s not just spoken about a prophet, that’s spoken to
you and me, so we can understand, and revel in, and have this perfect faith.
People right around the world are still looking at the message, “Perfect
Faith”, and they think, “Oh! I’m going to have that! Oh! I’m going to have
that!
You’ve already got it, because it’s
the perfect revelation for the hour! You’ve already got it. Oh my, my, my. I
don’t understand why they can’t see vindication (perfect) bringing us perfectly
revealed Word—perfect faith.
29. Jesus said, “How can you condemn me and say,
when I say, ‘I’m the Son of God,’ and it’s called in your own laws… You said,
“Those who the Word of the Lord came to”—that’s in the Psalms—(which are called prophets), “they’re
called ‘gods,’ and the Scripture cannot be broken,” then “How can you condemn
me?” They were a part of the law, which is part of the Word of God. They were
part of the Word of God, but Jesus was the fullness of the Word of God, His
whole plan of redemption, God’s whole sufficiency was in Him.
Now this is the quote that I use
where people are misunderstanding Jn 1:1. Now there’s no reason to believe that
Jesus isn’t the Word, because look, if this whole Bible here is concerning him
as to the ultimate of God in the plan of God, from the alpha to the omega,
because he was there before there was a speck of stardust, you have to recognize
that he is the Word. But it is the same as the prophets. He was ‘all’, where
they were ‘a part’. We also are a part—miniscule. But when it comes to God, you
are talking now far above and beyond the Bible. You are talking about the One
above the Bible, the One Who gave the Bible). Without Him, there wouldn’t be
this.
Now if He is Word, and He has
progeny, the progeny must be ‘Word’. You have to accept that. We also are a
part of Word, because we were His thoughts to be expressed. So we were a part
of the Logos. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.” In other words God literally compartmentalized Himself and
set aside that part of Himself, which would come into existence. And He did.
So where Jesus is the full Word, it
is that which you compare to the prophets. But when you talk about God, Jesus
himself is miniscule, when compared to God, and exactly Who He is. And of
course we, far, far, less. But at the same time, if you and I are a drop of
God, that is sufficient—more than sufficient.
30. Reading further, now listen carefully
[“The Unveiling of God”]:
[77] [UNVEILING OF GOD JEFF IN V-9 N-1 SUN 64-0614M] Now, when it said here that He emptied Himself, or poured
out, because that’s the Word
‘kenosis,’ now watch: …this, that He vomited
up. The English word, “emptied or poured out from him.”
In other words, if God poured out,
would He go, “Urp!” and vomit? How do you empty yourself? Well, how do you
empty yourself? You vomit; you void; you defecate. And Bro. Branham is bringing
something to our attention here, and I do admit that this is a little
horrendous. It’s about more like Lee Vayle than the sweet, gentle William
Branham, talking about vomiting. But the word ‘kenosis’ in the Greek does not
mean to ‘vomit up’, or something like an arm went off, or His eye went to
another person. Now here’s what he says the ‘kenosis’ is—and you’ve got to take
what he says, because he’s the authority.
That is, He changed Himself, He “poured Himself into”
(Amen!) into another mask, into another form, not another person went out of
Him, called the Holy Spirit. But it was He Himself. You get it? He poured
Himself into the people. Christ in you. How beautiful, how wonderful to think,
“God pouring Himself into human beings, into the believer, pour out. It was a
part of His drama to do so. God, all the Fullness, all the Godhead bodily, was
in this Person, Jesus Christ.
That’s ‘kenosis’ right there. He was God, and
God alone, not a third person, not a second person or a first person; but the
Person, God veiled in human flesh.
So if He actually, literally indwelt
Jesus Christ to make him what he was, He now Himself indwells us
proportionately, which would be merely a part of His life, sealing us back to
Himself, empowering us, making positive to us that we will be in the Resurrection-—the
first Resurrection, the Bride, and be in that New Jerusalem. And it is God in
you, willing and doing of His Own good pleasure.
Tell me: is that different from
Jesus? Absolutely not. As Bro. Branham said, “He came the same way we did, except he did not bypass his Spirit-form
or Word-form body.” So all right. We’re beginning to understand.
…It’s still the same God. Amen. I hope that gets through.
31. Now, paragraph 281, “The Unveiling of
God:”
[281]
When the Word was in Moses, he was God
in flesh. When It was in Jesus, It was God in flesh. See? Only thing He did was
change His mask, not His Word, not His nature. He’s the same, yesterday, today
and forever. He not only changed His form; He changed from Noah to Moses; He
changed from Moses to David; from David to Joseph; on down until He came to the
Fullness of the Godhead bodily.
It’s still the same God…
So what did He do? He came into
Paul, and at the end time He came into William Branham.
“Oh, I can’t believe that…”
So, don’t believe it. What are you
going to stand on? Your own two little ideas. Why, a theologian could blow
every one of us into a cocked hat, if we don’t stand on revelation, the
revealed, vindicated Word of God. Don’t try to stand on your brains, because
you don’t have any when it comes to matching the world. Why? Because Satan
“sealed up the sum of wisdom” and he can overcome anybody at any time with his
cunning ways of seduction, of flattery, of enjoining you to come into the dance.
And he can defeat anybody at any time—except for God. Even the angels said,
“The Lord rebuke you,” when it came to contending for the body of Moses.
It’s still the same God. Amen. Amen. I hope that gets
through. See?It is God, but it just takes another veil. See? He puts on another
veil.
32. So many times people will not credit
Bro. Branham, that is, what he’s saying about himself. When I wrote the little
book for him, Twentieth Century Prophet, he said, “Bro. Vayle, this is the
greatest weapon placed in my hands, you see, because you can say it, where I
wouldn’t dare say it.” And you bet I said it; and I’m still saying it.
I challenge you: find me one time
I’ve changed anything from the Seven Church Ages book, that he gave me
the material to write, and what I wrote myself. I challenge you: find a change.
And the Seven Church Ages’ book is still the backbone of the entire
ministry that’s out there in the world today. I haven’t changed one thing,
except I have a deeper and better understanding of it. For instance, Godhead
would have eluded me, except I knew there was one God, and He had one Son, and
the rest of us were Seed. But today I can put it all together, as I’m doing
now.
33. Let’s read some more pertaining to ‘the
Godhead bodily’.
[79]
[THE
MASTERPIECE JEFF IN V-4 N-7 SUN 64-0705] The perfect image of the God-man, God En
morphe had changed from Supernatural to the vision. And the vision was
projected into the image. And the image was smitten so that Supernatural could
taste the feeling of death. Now
let’s go over that again: The perfect image of
the God-man... I’m using the
word ‘image,’ God in a man. God...changed from
supernatural to the vision. And the vision was projected to the image. In other words everything that God saw
laid out there—logos—came into the reality of a human being, called ‘Jesus, the
Son of God.’ God’s perfect Masterpiece. He
could not do it in Moses. He could not do it in the prophets. Isaiah, who was
sawed with saws till he was sawed to pieces… He could not do it in the prophets
that were stoned. He could not do it, because He couldn’t feel it. They were
just a portion of Him. But in this perfect Masterpiece He was the Fullness of
the Godhead bodily.
In other words God fully manifested
Himself by indwelling this person, Jesus, of whom Jesus said, “Lo, a body hast
Thou prepared for me.” Jesus indwelt it. Now God indwells this body in whom
Jesus dwells, this body that belongs to Jesus actually belongs to God. So God
comes in. He doesn’t cast out Jesus. He resides within him. You have a duality.
[79] …They
were just a portion of Him but this perfect Masterpiece, He was the Fullness of
the Godhead bodily.
34. Why the perfect Masterpiece? Because God
wrapped Himself in the sperm and the egg, began that body, absolutely, and
because that life had to be there in the sperm and egg to contact the elements,
the blueprint of God Himself had to be in that manifestation. And we’ll go into
that later by Scripture to show you that’s actually what had to happen, because
God is a man. Bro. Branham said so: “God
was the first man; Jesus, the second; and Adam was the third.” And that’s
what you’re looking at.
People think it’s so strange. Is it
strange that a kitten has kittens that look like cats? Is it strange that dogs
have pups that look like dogs? It would certainly be strange to me if God had
children that didn’t look like Him.
You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, that’s a
different thing. Oh, that’s a different thing.”
Well, I appreciate your folly. Don’t
rub off it on me though, because I’m not a cat nor a dog. My life came from God
originally, and you better believe He had to put It in something that looked
like Him, because Jesus was His image. Huh? Well, let your thinking go and stop
being like the world.
[79] ...They were just a portion of Him but in
this perfect Masterpiece, He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He could
not only project Moses, He could project His entire being in this Person and
taste death for the whole human race. God’s perfect Masterpiece, God, so
inspired by seeing It, He became the Redeemer of all ages to speak for those in
the backgrounds who had been there before and even now.
In other words you look back, you’re
present; you look forward, no change. Same God that did it, is doing it, and
will do it. Let me see if I can find that for you.
35. Listen, Eccl 3:14:
(14) I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it
shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and
God doeth it, that men should fear before him. (In other words, you can only
learn, knowing the unchanging God.)
(15) That which hath been is now; and that
which is to be hath already been; and God requires that which is past.
(16) And moreover I saw under the sun the place
of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that
iniquity was there.
In other words, as soon as man got a
hold of it, he changed it. But God remains unchanging. Now this can only come
through prophets. When a prophet comes, you fear him. How many feared Bro.
Branham? They were palsy-walsy; they sneared; they mocked; everything else…
Same thing they did to Jesus. [“The Masterpiece”]
…All the
promises were met in Him. He was the Perfection of the perfection. All types
fulfilled in Him: our Kinsman Redeemer in Ruth and Boaz, our Law-giver from
Mount Sinai; our Prophet from the wilderness, as He came from the mountain, as
He came from the wilderness, as He came from eternity and became man, the
perfect image. In other
words, he followed the perfect, complete pattern, but way above and beyond.
36. [264]
[HARVEST
TIME PHOENIX AZ V-18 N-6 SAT 64-1212] God is a great Sculptor (right); He made man in His image to
reflect Him and He is the Word. Huh?
And what did He do? He tried Adam; he failed,
Moses failed, all the rest of them failed. But there was One perfect.
Hallelujah. What was it? Nothing less than God Himself in flesh, the Word
reflected; in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily, not a prophet, yet
He was a prophet, not a man, yet He was a man. In other words Jesus was the mirror of God. You looked at
him, and you saw God. That’s 2 Corinthians, by the way, too.
Jews, don’t try to claim Him as yours. He was neither Jew
nor Gentile; He was God. See? You are what your blood is. (See?) And of course
your flesh. And Mary, of course, didn’t have any conception with the Holy Ghost
giving her a sensation. God the Father created a germ, or an egg in Mary, and a
blood cell in her also, and it was the blood of God. In other words Bro. Branham is denying the
myth, the mythology of the gods coming down and having sexual intercourse with
women.
37. [19-3]
[BIRTH PAINS
PHOENIX AZ V-3 N-4 SUN 65-0124] Now, we feel and know that this is the
Truth, that the systems were rot in every age, and every one of their systems
had to rot and die out,until she brought forth that church; out of that rotten
mess came forth the Word Itself. That’s “Birth Pains.” The Word of the
Lord comes to the prophet. It never comes to the priest; it comes to the
prophet. And notice, and when it had finally, that word altogether, was born
here in human flesh, the Fullness of God had rested in Him. He was the Word.
Who was the Word? Jesus was the
Word. He had to be the Word. And God was ‘the’ Word. Jesus was all of the Word
allocated to Him, and to you and me. But God was ‘the’ Word, from which the
Word comes. Eggs come from chickens. Huh? Word comes from Word. What will it
produce? The life from the original Word. All this talk: which came first, the
chicken or the egg? If there weren’t any chickens, there wouldn’t be any eggs—stupid!
Evolution… Forget it.
[19-3] ...He was the Word. He said when they were
accusing Him, making Himself equal with God, because He was the Son of God,
they said to Him, “Well, you make yourself God.” Well, how about that? If we’re not a God-race, then
Bro. Branham lied to us. How could he have lied, when he was vindicated by the
One That put us here?
He said, “Isn’t it written in your laws that those who the
Word of God came to, are called gods (or prophets), and they were, then how can
you condemn Me when I say, I’m the Son of God?” Where the Fullness of the
Godhead bodily rested on the Son of God, He was the manifestation of God.
38. [25-6]
[THIS DAY
THIS SCRIPTURE JEFF IN V-3 N-8 FRI 65-0219] What does the Scripture say about today and about the time
we live in? That “This Day
the Scripture Is Fulfilled’—back in 1965. Jesus
speaking… I won’t have time to take them all, but I want to take this one
before we close. Jesus said in Lk 17:30, Jesus Christ, the Word Himself (Do you
believe that?)—Jesus Christ, the Word Himself, made flesh, spoke and said what
the Word would be in the end time.
Now there’s where you could believe
right there that “the Word became flesh” is Jn 1:14, which belongs to Jn 1:1
and makes Jesus the ‘Word.’ Not so, my brother/my sister. Not so. Not so. The
prophets were the living Word of God made manifest. And how was it? In human
flesh. Then what about this? It’s the same thing we’re talking about.
[25-6] Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, spoke and
said what Word would be in the end time, what would be the sign of the end time
world. He told them nation would rise against nation, but He said, “As it was
in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the days when the Son of man is being
revealed.”
Now how was the Son of man revealed?
He’s the prophet; he’s the living Word of God made flesh. The Word for that
hour becoming flesh. How can it be? Only with God in the vessel, and it will
have to be manifested that that’s what it was.
39. And I ask you today: was the ministry of
Jesus Christ, which was back here on earth two thousand years ago, made
manifest in the twentieth century in the life of William Branham? Absolutely.
“Oh, Bro. Vayle, that’s too
strange.”
How come Dr. Bosworth pulled my coat
tail in December 1953, and he said, “Bro. Vayle, I’ve prayed for forty years
for the ministry of Christ to return to this earth, and there it is in that
man.”
How come old Daddy Bosworth knew,
and all the Pentecostals stood around and said, “A man sent from God… Ain’t it
wonderful? But he ain’t nothing to us. He just came here to show us what we can
do. And bless God, we’re going to do it.”
Where are they today? Where are the
Tommy Osborns? Where are the rest of them? Oh, yeah! Back in Trinitarian dogma.
And the whole world will attest to how beautiful their lives were, and how
great their testimonies, and how beautiful their ministries, and how beautiful
they all die. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.” [Gal 6:7] If you sowed a Trinitarian dogma, idolatry,
that’s what you will reap.
“Oh, Bro. Vayle, I believe in
grace.”
I do too, but I don’t believe in
disgrace. When did grace ever operate apart from truth? I want to ask you that
question. Look to your Scripture. It’s always grace and truth, grace and truth,
grace and truth. Huh? Look it up.
40. Now, when Jesus came to earth, He came in
the name of three Sons: Son of man (which is prophet), Son of God, and Son of
David. Now, He lived here on earth; He never did say He was the Son of God.
Only in the fact of the matter that he was the Son of God and the respect of
having come. He said, “I am the Son of
man. Jehovah Himself called Ezekiel in the prophets “son of man,” because He
had to come and fulfill the Scripture as a prophet. And Moses said, “The Lord
your God shall raise up a Prophet like unto Me.” That’s the reason He could not
be the Son of God there because He was a Son of man. He, the Word, came to the
prophets, and He was the Word in Its Fullness. And remember Bro. Branham
quotes where Jesus came to John, and the Word always comes to the prophets. And
so he was that Word that was to come to the prophet. The Word came to the prophets and He was the Word in Its Fullness: Son
of man, the major Prophet, not the major Prophet, but the God Prophet. Bro.
Branham corrects himself. The Fullness of
the Godhead bodily was in Him; therefore, He was the Son of man. Just like
the rest of the prophets, but he was ‘that’ prophet, spoken of, that if you
don’t listen to him according to John 3 you are condemned.
Now remember: when Jesus was ‘that’
prophet, remember now carefully…was ‘that’ prophet, Israel, all of them, did
not die, and the Gentiles did not die. But there’s coming a time, according to
Acts 3, that those who do not receive Him receive ultimate destruction. And
that’s this hour, when the Son of
God, risen from the dead, Jesus, comes back in the form of the Holy Ghost,
which is God Himself, in the prophet, William Branham, making ‘that’ prophet.
It’s all over for the Gentiles.
And when Jesus comes back and
appears to the Jews, it’s all over for the Jews, and the whole earth goes up in
flames. It’s all gone. And the Bride comes back. But the earth, either fully
renovated, or partly—Bro. Branham said he didn’t know which—and there the temple
worship is set up. Christ again, incarnating God, the Bride in all. They have
their own homes; they have everything. And they set the Millennial order up,
which is you and me, and those of the Children of God, who will be there living
the lives we’ve always wanted to live. And the first time, really happy, really
at peace, really free, because there’ll be no body of sin. No. No body of sin.
Nothing to tempt. Millions of temptations could fly around us. We wouldn’t even
know they’re there. We’d be just dead to them.
[
] Now for two thousand years He’s been known as a Son of God, Spirit—that’s what I’m telling you—in the millennium He’ll be the Son of David upon the throne.
We all know that; we believe that. But today the Son of man revealed. In other words the same prophet,
right now, same ministry.
41. [158] [THE RAPTURE YUMA AZ V-5 N-14 SAT 65-1204] One day when
I started to preach these seven church ages, I called Jack Moore, a great
theologian; I said, “Jack, Who is this Person standing there?” There’s one like
the Son of man standing there.”
Actually, the Scripture does not
say, “One like the Son of man.” It
says, “One like a Son of man.” Now
remember: in the Bible every word is explicit; otherwise, it wouldn’t come out
into sevens—very strange mathemathics—but It does. And It couldn’t be done by
anybody, even with the computer, although you can take the computer and make a lot
of things say a lot of different things. That’s fine by me, but let’s see a
person do that. And if you did make it come in sevens, it wouldn’t work anyway,
because nothing would be true.
The only reason a Bible comes in
sevens, as far as I can see it, is everything is measurement. There’s nothing
that’s not measurements. Everything is a measurement. Try as you will, you
can’t get away from measurement. Even though God is infinite in His capacities,
God Himself is measured, and He’s limited by His Own Godhood. And Bro. Branham
said that, and there’s nobody who will disagree with that, if you believe in
theology at all.
42. [158]
…Who is This One like a Son of man, hair as white as wool? I said He was
a young man, how could He have hair as white as wool?
And Jack Moore said, “It was his glorified body.” That didn’t ring the bell.
But when I went to the room and prayed, He let me know what it was.
See, I’ve always preached that He was Deity, not just a man;
He was God manifest in flesh.
Now look. That’s telling you one thing: positively, that God has to be back in
that body to qualify. And when He’s in that body, God is doing it, regardless;
the body is only there as a manifestation. See? I want you to get that.
“God”—God was manifested. He did not say, “Son,” but God.
…He was God manifest in the flesh.
See? Once God was in flesh and then
separated from it. When does He come back into it? Bro. Branham said, “When that Spirit That’s in our midst
becomes incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. That will be the Son of man, the Son of
David, the Son of God, the Altogether Lovely, the Rose of Sharon.”
That’s what he said. I’m not making
it up. See, when you know the doctrine, it all falls into place. If you don’t
know the doctrine, you’re prone to error.
There’s a church up in Canada that
broke away from another church, and they said, “We’re leaving doctrine outside
the door.” You can’t worship God apart from doctrine. So what’s their doctrine
going to be? They can’t be led by the Holy Ghost according to the Word, which
is the authority we go by.
43. Now, He was God manifest in the flesh, in
the flesh, God, the Attribute of God of Love, the great Attributes that came
down here, displayed here on earth of God.
Well, the display was through flesh.
“God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall
believe in him shall not perish, but have everylasting life.” [Jn 3:16] When
God gave His Son, it ultimately ended up in death, but the love gift was to the
people, and had they believed John, the Kingdom would have come unto them. They
didn’t do it. But those that did believe, the Kingdom of God came, but was
delayed in its fullness on earth until all the Bride comes in, which is in this
last age.
Now we, believing Bro. Branham, the
Kingdom of God is come unto us. We know that, because devils were cast out.
Every spirit in the building, if there were one million or five million, were
taken under control. The Kingdom of God is come unto us. And we’re just waiting
now for the Pillar of Fire, the Presence, to lead us into the Millennium. And
He’ll do it by raising the dead, and changing us, and taking us to the Wedding
Supper, and keeping us there for three and a half years or whatever it is, and
then coming down on earth to the Millennium.
44. Now that’s the picture. And time and
eternity have blended. I’ve always preached it was deity—God manifest in flesh,
the attribute of God’s love. The attribute… What was the attribute? Jesus, in
flesh, and he displayed God in earth. Jesus was God’s love, which built a body
that Jehovah Himself lived in. He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. It
took the two of them. Not one of them; Jesus wasn’t the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. It was ‘big’ Jehovah and ‘little’ Jehovah. Right? Jehovah, crying;
little Jehovah... Well, certainly he was Jehovah because, ‘Jesus’ means
‘Jehovah Savior’. See? Jesus came in his Father’s Name. They both had the same
Name. So if you said, “Jesus,” I say, “Which Jesus? Big Jesus, little Jesus?
Father or Son?” And remember: they are identical except sons have beginnings.
That’s it essentially, and we, essentially the same—soul.
We got all muck racked and tripped
up, put here in the flesh, to be tested. And listen, the very command that God
gave, “Be fruitful and multiply” gave you a sex drive. What are you doing with
it? What is the world doing? I showed you last night: homosexuals, lesbians… My
God, six-year-olds know more about sex than when I was twelve years old. We
were told to contain ourselves. It was taught.
45. Do you know that homosexuality was
called “buggery,” and was a criminal offense? Yes it was! Wake up, and go back
to the past a little bit. God hasn’t changed, but the world has. And the devil
hasn’t changed either: he’s the same rotten scuzzball he ever was. And he
seduced the whole world and Eve by sex. And he’s doing the same thing right
today, until there’s nothing left but sexuality, and that’s gone to morbidity
and death, and destruction. And it’s brought every failure and rotten sin upon
the world, because they perverted it, and the perversion came right from the
command of God, which meant simply that you would have a sex drive you could
not deny—there would be procreation. But you control it into marriage and one
wife, just as Adam was commanded...
Mormons tried to fool me on that one
time. This Mormon girl that I knew said, “Well, Lee, Jacob had two wives.”
I said, “Yeah, but Adam only had
one.”
Stupid woman, willing to be in a
harem or something. What foolishness! But women’s lib is the same stupid thing.
Any number of men run with them, or this or that. Hollywood glorifies
childbirth out of marriage. Lesbians, so proud of themselves, they still want
to have a baby. They get artificial insemination or lay with some man. Have you
ever seen such filth? All because of the command of God: “Be fruitful and
multiply,” and every Word of God has been perverted from the moment It left His
mouth—or almost. The command of God is morally perfect and truly righteous, but
men and women have perverted it.
I hope you’re picking up what I’m
driving at, because if you don’t, you don’t see what I see, and you don’t
understand what’s going on. You’re just standing there wondering. I don’t
wonder; I know… At least, what I know that I know. I don’t know everything. I
certainly don’t want to, but I know the Alpha-Omega principle, and I see that
what is sown in sin is reaped up to one hundred fold.
[THE RAPTURE continued …He was the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. What God was, He manifested through that body,
and that body had to die so that He could wash the Bride with His Own Blood. All right.
46. [172]
[MODERN EVENTS
MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY SBD CA V-7 N-6 MON 65-1206] But the real ordained of God,
that real gene, that real germ, a soul of God that was in God before the
foundation of the world… Remember, you that has really got the Spirit of God in
you tonight, you were in Christ, Huh? because He was the Fullness of the
Word. He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. God was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself. Do you believe that? Look, He was in Christ. He was in
Christ—he’s emphasizing it—then if you were in God, a gene, a word, an attribute from
the beginning, then you walked with Him here on earth; you talked with Him on
earth, you suffered with Him on earth, you died with Him at Calvary.
Bro. Branham even went so far as to
say, “You paid for your own sins there,”
Did he not? Oh, he certainly did. That blows people away, doesn’t it? Well,
where is grace? Oh, my! People just can’t take the truth. They simply cannot do
it, brother/sister. They worry about a gnat and swallow a camel. They can’t
take the little fine print that Bro. Branham brings. But oh, they’ll believe
the devil’s lie every single time.
“You will not all die, oh, no!” The
devil’s lie: “You shall not surely die.”
“Oh, millions now living will never
die!”
47. Well, there’s an element of truth in
that they’ll never die, until they’re annihilated! But you better believe the
Word of God. But I’m not a judge here, standing here, and telling you. I’m just
preaching the Word of God, that’s all. And It’s the vindicated Word by the
prophet.
You know the herald—he’s in the
Bible—and the herald was the king’s messenger, and he blew a trumpet, and he
threw the scroll over the wall and galloped on, and they did what they wanted
with the word. It wasn’t his business to enforce it; he merely brought it. But
the king enforced it. Amen. I like that.
It’s out of my hands. I couldn’t
preach anybody into heaven, or give anybody salvation or healing or anything
else. But the Word of God can, and It’s found in the mouths of men that are
sinners: children gone astray, disobedient from their parents, but not children
of disobedience. See? Cain was a child of disobedience; Abel was a child of
obedience. And that’s why we’ve got all this serpent seed and all this mess,
because they perverted the Word of God in the garden, “Be fruitful and
multiply.” Oh, my, you’ve got the means, so go ahead. How tragic.
You’ll understand some day,
brother/sister, what I’m talking about. You’ll understand the way I understand
it, because I do understand it. I’m not fooling myself for one minute, what’s
going on. I only would to God I had one tenth of the teaching I give people
today. And yet I kept my vessel, or God did it for me. Yeah, It’s a great
satisfaction, knowing that you walked in the light.
48. [MODERN EVENTS...
continued] …Then if
you were in God, a gene, a word, an attribute from the beginning, then you
walked with Him here on earth; you walked with Him on earth, you suffered with
Him earth, you died with Him at Calvary, and you rose with Him again; and now
you’re sitting in heavenly places in Christ, communing with Him, the Word, as
It feeds into your soul, “Man shall live by Word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God.”
Not Methodist word, Baptist word; remember, if there’s any
left over in the sacrifice, it must be burned before morning.
The Pentecostal age has gone, the
gifts, and everything else, are gone with it. You are in a new age, which is
the Word age, which is the Ephesian age. Gifts are superceded by the Word. I
personally asked Bro. Branham: “Bro. Branham, the gifts have ceased from my
life. Is it because the age of gifts is over?"
He said, “Yes, Bro. Vayle, the age of gifts is over.”
You think he would lie to me?
Certainly not. Certainly not, when God told him, as shown by the supernatural
picture, those flames of fire, “All of the nine gifts are still in your
possession.”
49. Did he use them? Did he put the church
in order? Well, you answer your own question. Where was it done, if he did? And
he wanted me to work with him, especially because he knew I understood gifts,
to a degree. Perhaps no other person around him understood them, which I wanted
a special service for believers in the morning, where gifts would be operated
and put to the test. And then I said I’d like them in the morning where they weren’t
judged, but in the church local, they would be judged.
He said, “Well, Lee, I agree to a degree with you but,” he said, “they don’t go in the other service; they
just go in this one service.”
And because I was perhaps the one
person who had enough light on the subject at that time, he was willing to work
with me. He tried to get a place in Louisville. It was sold out. He wanted me
to go to Chicago, pastor the church there, and they turned me down. And,
believe me, I turned them down too, when I saw what was going on. So we never,
ever got a church where the gifts would be operated, because he said, “Lee, if you go there, I’ll come up and we’ll
put the gifts in operation.”
So if the prophet didn’t do it, how
am I going to do it? I just refuse to attempt to handle what I can’t handle, as
though I could handle it. And until I know that there is a person positively
identified with discerning of spirits standing at the door… That’s the law the
prophet laid down. I can’t do anything about gifts. And frankly, I’m a little
smug about it, a little flicker of joy floods my rotten little heart to say,
“Well, okay, you’re off the hook.” I only hope I am, because I don’t have the
answers. I don’t have the answers. But I certainly don’t want to refuse any
gifts of the Spirit which God may yet give as long as He instructs me about
them and how to use them.
50. Now:
Not Methodist word, Baptist word; remember, anything
was left over was burnt because tomorrow’s another church age. Remember in 1955 when the stars all
aligned, the birth of a virgin church took place. Right? Exodus, that’s
where the sacrifice was burnt. A symbol, a type…
You get rid of the past the way Paul did. Whatever you were, it’s all over. Are you dragging something with you this morning? Or could you take every thought and bring it in captivity what Bro. Branham said, and judge it by the actual reality of the doctrine: there is one God, and Jesus is not God. He is the Son of God. He can be worshipped and called ‘God’ as the prophet, right up there with Elohim, because even the prophets down here were ‘God’ to the people. Yes, we can do that, but he’s not God, he’s the Son of God. And he was in the adoption, as you and I are coming into it, and are today. There is one God, period. And Jesus is the Son of God, and therefore in his own right, a God. And you and I, to whom the Word of the prophets have come, having received It in our own right, we are lesser, but gods, because we are of God. Right? Genetics. Species. The God race—the Father and His family, directly descended from Him—life of His Life.
There’s absolutely a kingdom set up
with one Father, Who brought forth this Son, Who gave Adam and Eve the right to
produce those children, and there they are, those children, and it’ll all be
made manifest in that day. And even at the end, at the White Throne, at which
the Bride has no part, the sheep and goats will be separated, foolish virgin
from those that never had anything in the first place, because as in Adam, all
die, even so in Christ, every one is made alive, not one missing. And the word
‘even so’ means ‘in identical manner.’ You had no provision of your own wherein
you spoke anything concerning it, and at the end time, it’s the same way, for
God hath chosen and predestinated. Blessed is the man whom Thou chooseth and
causeth to approach unto Thy Throne.
51. And it wasn’t that God said, “I’ll take
this,” and “I’ll leave that;” “I’ll grab this, and I’ll put this to one side.”
No, no, no. It’s lineage. It’s lineage. And out of the bolt of cloth God cut
the Bride and of the same cloth, foolish virgin. They’re all virgins. But, you
see, one didn’t have the Word as the vessel for the oil, and so they come up
out of denominations. But they’ll come in at the White Throne.
And people think that’s the most
horrendous thing in all the world to say that because, “You see, Bro. Vayle,
you must be born again.”
Oh, no, no, no. It’s the Bride
that’s born again. The rest are not born again. But It said, “Adam all died…as
in Adam.” And remember: they were all in Christ to begin with, in identical
manner…predestination, sovereign God, where no one dares to say, “Why do You do
this?” and “Why have You done it?” and “Why don’t You do so and so…?”
And He says, as a kindly Father,
“You’ll learn one day, and I hope it’s not too late, because I’d like to see
you come here, at least thirty-fold.” It’ll be thirty-fold, at least, or sixty,
or a hundred. It’s up to you and me. Now, if we sow the Word of God
continuously, and stand back for God to bless It, we holding steady, the sky is
the limit. It’s the limit—a hundred-fold. That’s perfection. Every sowing is a
reaping, every sowing is a gaining. And remember: whatever you get stops with
you, but with whatever you give—sowing—it goes on and on till it reaches God,
and then see what God does with it. Wonderful indeed.
52. We‘ve got part of this message covered
now, and if we live long enough and something happens where I can come back,
I’ll finish up. It’s very difficult for me to preach. If I’m going to preach,
by Friday I’m upset. I don’t sleep. I hardly sleep Saturday. It begins to wear
me down until by the time I get relaxed again, and I feel better, it’s back to
a very, very, personally, hard problem as I preach again. So I never guarantee
anything these days or tell anybody to do anything. I just have to sort of play
it by ear, and I hope my ear is in tune. And I hope my body can work with my
ears, or whatever it is that’s going on.
So let’s rise at this time and be
dismissed.
Heavenly Father, again we thank You
for the time we’ve had together concerning what the prophet taught us. We know
that the many people may think of it in terms that this is dry fodder, and I
know many do. They might even call it a lie. They don’t even believe what we
teach, but we know, Lord, in spite of it all, It’s the living Word of God. And
if at times, it’s just like a little bit of a poppy seed, hard, almost like a
rock, we know that as soon as You pour Your Spirit upon It, It blossoms up,
becomes a part of us, and is living Food for the Christ within us, and building
up the inner man, though the outer man perishes.
And one day, Lord, I believe that
people are going to be healed, sitting in their seats, by this Word:
absolutely. Father, the potential is there. I believe what the prophet said is
true: I believe we’ve seen the great miracles and power of God that vindicated
the Word, but I also believe that in Your Word lies everything that the prophet
said was available to us and is ours.
And, Father, I hope somehow by us
pinching ourselves awake to reality, that the reality of Your Word, forming in
us, will blossom forth as You want It to blossom forth, not as we want It, but
as You want It. And we know It will be wondrous, absolutely glorious, even
though it may be like a little snow flower somewhere there in the Arctic area,
perhaps not seen by people, but only by Your Eye. But It will be wonderful in
our sight too, because It is of God.
We appreciate it, and down deep will
be so grateful, and so joyful within us, that we cannot sing Your praises and
shout them loud enough or high enough or long enough or great enough, because
Thou art God and Thou art worthy. And so we ask Your blessing in helping us
wherever we fail and make up the difference, which we know You will, but may we
recognize it.
And unto the King, eternal,
immortal, invisible, the Only Wise God, be all power, honor and glory, through
Jesus Christ, our beloved Savior. Amen.
“Take the Name of Jesus With You.”