Who Is This Melchisedec? # 7
Bro. Lee Vayle
August 27, 1988
Heavenly Father, we want to say we appreciate Your wonderful Presence Lord, we know that You are here in the form of the Holy Ghost in the Pillar of Fire. Picture caught by the camera, Lord, authenticated as supernatural being, a super natural visitation. We don’t feel the full impact Lord, but we know that Your Word is true and Your Word will be fulfilled and You’re here to fulfill it Lord. We’re very grateful for that.
Now we pray
Father that You’ll help us in the study of Bro. Branham’s message. We know that he was Your prophet and we know
that many things are difficult to understand because we cannot stand in his
shoes, Lord, or know by his spirit, but we can know with Your help Lord what he
was saying to us and we know it’s very, very necessary to know what he was
saying, even in this message Father which in many places is difficult. Help us today to get what we have need of and
we know Lord what we particularly might not have need of Lord at this moment
but perhaps down the road You can show us that at that time. But we just cast ourselves upon Your mercy
Lord to show us the truth of what has been said. Help us we pray. In Jesus’ name. Amen. You may be seated
Now, also I think we have with us, brother you’re from
Now, we’re
into number seven of, Who Is This Melchisedec? And I’m going to go into my notes here to sort
of catch us up as I usually do. Now,
this message that we’re studying is based upon the question, Who Is This
Melchisedec? And we know that Bro.
Branham categorically states that it is actually God in the form of a man. Now that’s the answer to the question. It is God.
He is God in a form and of course it was a King.
Now
surprisingly he does not deal at any length proving this thesis. He simply takes the Scripture that he read in
Heb 7:1-3 where he mentions, “This one had neither beginning of days nor
endless life but He had an endless life.”
And he said, “There’s only one
could qualify for that and that was God.
It wasn’t Jesus Christ even, it was God.” But we know of course that
he says, “Melchisedec became Jesus.” In other words, we find where God was
embodying Himself, he now embodies Himself in the Lord Jesus Christ. You have actually a perfect picture here in
the sense of God coming in and indwelling His temple. The Lord coming to His temple, like on the
River Jordan.
Now
however in showing us that this is God manifested by an incarnation of sorts,
because the word ‘carnous’ means flesh and this wasn’t true flesh as far as
human flesh was concerned, it was a form.
So it was...he showed us that God manifested Himself, incarnated Himself,
and in that he informs us that this particular event is a major step that God
has taken whereby He finally becomes a part of His own creation in the body of
the Lord Jesus Christ which then is truly God manifested in flesh, which is
human flesh.
And of
course this is taken from his thought in Rev
3:14, where the Scripture tells us one of the definitions, or
descriptions of Jesus is, “The beginning of the creation of God,” and Bro.
Branham said, “God creating Himself in
the form of human flesh.” And so,
when you’re looking at that, you’re looking at an ultimate, an ultimate that
God wanted in the plan of redemption.
Now, we
fully understand how Jesus was born.
There’s nobody here I’m sure that misunderstands it. Bro. Branham said, “That what God did, He created a sperm and an egg and then He reduced
all His attributes into that particular form so that Jesus was the fullness of
the Godhead manifested bodily.” Now
the term, manifested bodily, cannot be relegated to...just put outside of our
thoughts. It can’t be put aside. You could have many thoughts upon that which
we won’t go into this morning but many people hold the idea that if they’re the
attributes bodily they wouldn’t necessarily be all the attributes of God. And I can agree with that to the extent that
God was preparing a body and so therefore the attributes having been compressed
might have been of necessity, just, you know, looking toward the body. But when God came in everything was there. In my understanding, I see nothing left to
the outside, I see all in. God was in
Christ. That’s my understanding.
Now having
shown us this, Bro. Branham then states, “That
all God’s sons come this way. The way
Melchisedec--God came through Melchisedec and on down through Christ. But all of God’s sons come this particular
way.” And we know that this is very
true because it’s verified in the book of Hebrews the second chapter, which you
know we use a great deal, and we read from 9 to 16, and of course we
particularly read, remember 11 to 13 out of those verses.
(9) But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Now of
course the word ‘man’ is not in the Greek and it should be in italics. It’s ‘every’ and it’s for ‘every son.’
(10) For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Now, it
says, “By the grace of God He tasted death for every son.” Now it said, “It became Him.” Now who is the Him? The Him is God. It became God. Now Bro. Branham said, “It could not be becoming to God.
It was not becoming to God to have a son who would fall. So therefore Eve was left out of the original
creation in the sense that she was not a part of that at that moment but she
was in the original creation in Adam.”
You can’t get away from that because she was but you see later on,
because she never appeared at the time Adam appeared in flesh, she wasn’t in
that creation. And so Bro. Branham
brought us that but you couldn’t find God doing anything in the vulgar or
anything which would be second rate.
There’s no way there’s a second rate program going on. It’s all first class.
(10)
So it became God, from whom are all things, and
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, (And remember Jesus
was a son. See?) to make the captain
(That’s Jesus) of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (And notice it’s
in the plural--not just suffering but sufferings. In other words, He went through all
temptations and testings.)
(11) For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: (So notice.) both he that sanctifieth (That’s Jesus.) and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause Jesus is not ashamed to call them my brethren.
(12) Saying, I will declare thy name (O God)
unto my brethren, in the midst of the church (In the midst of the Bride, the
(13) And again, I (Jesus) will put my trust in God. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
Now there
you are, the children are given to Jesus.
They’re God’s children, but they’re given to Him. And you understand why--because He paid a
price for them.
(14) Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part...
Now He never took it all. He never had any serpent flesh in Him. He’s a different breed so you can never get confused there. He took a part of the same and he took part in the same, He came by a physical birth. He could have come like Adam came but He didn’t. He came by physical birth to be the seed of the woman.
(14) ...That through death (His death, the death of Jesus.) he might bring to nothing him (Satan) that has the power of death, that is, the devil.
(15) And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
(16) For
verily he took not on himself the nature of angels;
Now He was Michael at one time and Michael’s still living. You’ve got a lot of peculiar things Bro. Branham brought out and I’m not going to try to explain them as though I’ve got all the answers. I’ll talk about them and remind you they’re there but I don’t have all the answers though I can put it all together but we’re just waiting to see what God will do. Now He didn’t become an angel.
(16) ...But
he took on him (Became) the seed of Abraham.
Abraham
was a man. A very fallible person. Wonderful, wonderful man but very
fallible. Like Adam, he listened to his
wife and he shouldn’t have done that.
And when he listened to his wife, that’s all the problem right now in
(17) Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, (Now in all things He was made like, although He wasn’t one of them to perfection.) that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, (So He was a priest of the people unto God when He took on this body we’re talking about so He could die.) to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Now back
in Melchisedec’s day, He was a priest of God unto the people. That’s a reverse. He gave communion, bread and wine, to Abraham
and He was a priest of the most high God but you’ll notice He was serving the
man. He reverses in flesh, He becomes a
priest of man, He takes upon Himself even though of the order of Melchisedec,
He must present blood to God as Aaron did.
So now He’s a priest of man unto God and we’ll see where that comes out
more, and more in what we’re talking about here. But you’ve got to bring all these things to
your mind and stay with them.
(18) For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.
So when
Bro. Branham is telling us that we look in his studies of Who Is This
Melchisedec? how that God began forming
Himself in flesh, he says, “It is the way
also that we come to a degree.” Now
he’s not saying we’re identical--that’s true.
But he’s saying there is a pattern and this pattern is what we’ll be
looking at as we did the other night.
Now, so
Bro. Branham began to trace the descent of God into flesh. Why it was done and the results? And of course we know how it was done as he
tells us, we know why it was done, and we know the results. Like today the blood of Jesus Christ scatters
sin until there be no evidence. Then how
can you possibly call a person sinner and how can you not be perfect in the
sight of God through the blood because if you are perfect there has to be a way
to make perfection, as Bro. Branham said;
“Be ye
perfect in the image of Him which is perfect.” And he
said, God had to make a way, he said,
“He did it by the blood” and then he
said, “Blood scatters sin until there be
no evidence.”
And if there be no evidence then how can you
call a person a sinner? Then he showed
us our descent, which we studied the other night, and wherein it differed from
Jesus the Christ and why it was, and what the end results are. And we know the end results are going to be
New Jerusalem.
Okay, so
let’s go and look at some things here that we looked at last Wednesday and to
finally get back into the message which we’re taking our time with because I
think later on we can read rapidly and just zoom through it. I hope, I don’t know. I almost...most of the
time I get grounded on my zooming, I think, “Hey, praise the Lord, maybe ten
pages tomorrow night or fifteen pages,” and I’m bogged down with two paragraphs
because something interesting comes up.
And so, you know, I’ve just got to warn you. Don’t get happy that this is going to be over
in six, three more messages. We’re at
number seven now, you know, just kind of simmer down and be patient and we’ll
feed you. That’s your reward. I don’t know if it is or not but, all right,
you know what I’m saying.
Okay, so
to begin with Bro. Branham had in mind certain Scriptures when he’s dealing
with this parallelism of us coming down from Him and then ending where He wants
us to be and it’s got to come in a measure in the same way that Jesus because
we are brethren and from the same source.
So you’ve got to expect something that is identical though the
personages themselves will not be identical.
Now, actually you look at it--I want to clarify that remark. Looking at Jesus, looking at us, it’s the
same old story of the baptism with the Holy Ghost. The baptism with the Holy Ghost is like a
thimble full of ocean water compared to the ocean. And we are looking at the same thing because
you can’t deny we are from the same source with the same Father. If that’s the Bible, that’s the Bible.
Now it
hasn’t got a thing to do with our feelings because our feelings make us to know
we’re crummy. But the Word of God makes
us to know we’re sons of God if you’ve got the Holy Ghost. Now if you haven’t got the Holy Ghost you can
look at that and say, “Well that’s, that’s lovely. Didn’t the Lord really want something nice
for us and look how we blew it?” In
other words, “Look God, let me tell you something. You’re a nice fellow but look what you’re
dealing with? No way Lord could it be
what you say. Just leave us alone and
maybe by grace do something nice, but please don’t tell us we’re sons as though
we came from You.” How would you like to
go out and tell your father that? He’d
slap your chops right around wouldn’t he?
At least your mother would. “You trying
to tell me that I had an illegitimate affair?” Huh?
Better think. You know words are
expensive, brother/sister.
All
right. Let’s look at some Scripture
here. First of all we go to John
fourteen and we see what Jesus said about Him and His relationship to God. We could use others but Bro. Branham liked
this and I like it and if he liked it we’re bound to like it. Jn 14:10.
(10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? (Now that’s great. Look at that.) and the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Okay? That’s good.
You like that one? All right,
what about Hebrews the 1st chapter, take a couple verses there, 1 and 2.
(1) God who at sundry times (in many parts, in many ways, or different times, and different manners) spake in times past unto the fathers in the prophets.
(2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us in Son,
In other words, He spoke as He spoke in the prophets. He got into a man, His own man, after His own Spirit creating and forming in the womb of Mary this One now in office of Son. In the office of Son He is speaking. That’s why the prophets are called Son of man. That’s why He had the Son of man ministry return to earth, seventeenth chapter of Luke--all of those things.
Now let’s
go to Ephesians one and we’ll take a look at us and that’s a nice thing to look
at. And it says here in verse 3.
(2) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
(4) According as he hath chosen us (within him, or) in him before the foundation of the world,
There you
are. You have a perfect picture of those
Scriptures coming together. And then he
brought out Colossians the 2nd chapter, and maybe we’ll look at verse 9 and a
couple of verses. It says,
(9) For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
(10) And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
(11) In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Jesus:
Now what
was that? That wasn’t circumcision eight
days old, that was His death when He’s cut off.
He died with Him, rose with Him.
(12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
It tells
you right there, if you are willing enough and just humble enough and childlike
enough and in the eyes of the world, stupid enough, you’re right there. That’s a pretty high status that God gives
those that are willing to believe and nobody is going to believe except the
elect. You might as well know that. See?
Nobody going to believe but the elect.
See?
Now his
own expression for this was, “That Jesus
was the fullness of the attributes of the Godhead bodily.” He used the term attributes and you will
notice that he also used the term attributes concerning us. And we’ll look at that later on again.
Now,
furthermore, then in his comparison of Christ to us he made us individual
attributes of God. So we might sort of,
if you can see up here, I guess I better not try to put this--or maybe I better
you don’t see too well over there do you?
How we going to make this work for you people here? You know, not that my artistry is so great
but just maybe...no she’ got a camera over there. By a little luck you know we might do
something. What about if we turn this on
end? If I can turn this on in let’s see
what we can come up with. Then what I’m
thinking of, I can raise my arms up in here, this is going to be kind of
confusing to those people that get nothing but just tapes, not the visual.
Okay, see
now if we can sort of, maybe, I said here, when you concern God Himself, we’re
looking at the comparison where Bro. Branham said, “Christ was the fullness of the attributes bodily,” and then mind
you he said, “That we were attributes.” So we put up here and we understand then that
God was in Christ. That’s the
Messiah. We understand that He came down
in a bodily form. But we’re looking back
here in the beginning. So therefore we
have all these sons in here, up here you see?
And they’re attributes. Now, you
know what I read over here in Colossians.
(9) For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
(10) And you are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power:
(11) In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
(12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
(13) And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all your trespasses;
So you can
see that you were actually were in Christ.
And as Bro. Branham said, “When He died I died, when He rose I rose”. And there’s a perfect identification in there
that is very, very hard to understand but you’ve simply got to take it by faith
and you can’t figure it out because what you’re going to try to figure, “How
could I be up there if I’m in Him, then in here?” Now God has a natural means of doing it. Now remember the Bible called Jesus
elect. Right? Peter, the word elect is in there so let’s
not...I’ve got a bigger concordance back there.
You know I’ve got a lousy memory but I know, listen, I know what it
says. I maybe don’t know the verse and
the chapter, but I know what it says--and Jesus is called elect.
Now when
you are dealing with election you are dealing with a choosing. And Bro. Branham said, “There was a natural election and there is a spiritual election.” Is that right? Exactly what he said. All right, so therefore you have a spiritual
election in here. [2se] Now down here you’ve got to have somewhere a
natural election. [6ne] So we’re going to call this ‘SE’, spiritual
election, and we’re going to call this ‘NE’, if I remember what it is, you tell
me if I forget, a natural election. Now
the natural election is where God makes choice amongst people as He did with
Esau and Jacob but already it was a spiritual election because before they were
born, “I loved one and I hated another.”
You follow?
Okay, so
what he’s telling you here, the fullness of the Godhead bodily, everything that
God was, was poured into Jesus Christ so every single thing up there had a
manifestation in one single Man. Just
like there is one single God. But all of
these little individuals here, [1a] see?
They have a right to come down and they’re [1a] called attributes.
They’re [7s] called sons of the spirit. They’re called sons of God. They’re called sons of faith. They’re called sons of Abraham. Five at least and everyone of those is the
same and also you’ve got another appellation which is called seed. See?
There’s
only one part of you that was of God and you’ve got three parts. One part was flesh, and you get a spirit
allowed of God but not of God, which shows it’s not the Holy Ghost, so when you
come down here [6] you come down as the seed which is soul. And the home that the soul should have had,
or the seed should have had, or the son should have had, sons of God, sons of
the Spirit, call it whatever you want, should have been a theophonic form [4]
but it was not. There’s only one
got the theophonic form and that was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And that’s a ‘TF’, theophonic form, ‘Th’, put
a small ‘h’ there, [4] theophonic form.
Now, so
let’s go to the book of Galatians and we’re going to look at the 3rd chapter
and we’re going to start with verse 26.
(26) For you are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.
Now that
let’s you know how that you know that you’re a child of God. But you cannot be a child of God simply by
faith because every single person that’s in Christendom wants to believe he’s a
child of God through a process of faith.
You have got to go beyond that.
Your faith does not literally bring anything to pass. Your faith acknowledges. Right.
Our faith acknowledges brother/sister.
Not the great moving force people think it is, it’s just...all though I
agree, faith is a tremendous power. I
agree looking from the human side but when you look from this side here it is
an acknowledgement. “By His stripes I’m
healed.” If you and I could acknowledge that with understanding is making the
same confession Jesus Christ made, we are healed. See?
That’s what you’re looking at so let’s keep looking.
(27) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
In other words, you’re baptized into the mystical body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(28) There is where there’s neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male no female: for all are one in Christ Jesus.
Now that’s
not women preachers.
(29) But if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Now he
tells you who a real son of God is, a real son of Abraham, you’ve got to be
baptized into it. Now when you’re
baptized into Christ remember one thing, you are quickened. Now what are you quickened to? You say, “All right, we were dead in
sin.” What does the word dead mean? It means separated. And that’s exactly right. When all of this came down...when these [1a]
were coming down in here [6]
there was a separation. And remember
Jesus the man was also separated from God because He said, “My God, my God why
has Thou forsaken me?” There’s a
separation.
Now
there’s a natural separation to get down into here [6] and that came by Adam because in Adam were the souls. There is a natural election and when God
chose they were already in Adam, the ones who were in Christ. Now that’s why the prophet says, Sex had to come, but you know as well as
I do it came the wrong way. I’m not
going to denigrate sex at all and childbirth the way it came. Bro. Branham brought it out very, very
clearly but he cleared the atmosphere by saying, “They would have come to it anyway.”
They
positively would have had to come to it but she wouldn’t have let that beast
get to her first. It wouldn’t have been
multiplied childbearing. It wouldn’t
have been all the suffering and pain.
There wouldn’t have been all this mixed breed and everything else. Homosexuality--all of this junk, it wouldn’t
have been there at all. Even the sin
that we did went back upon the animals because an animal got in the act. As Eve brought the human race down with Adam,
the beast brought all nature down. The
whole thing went into corruption.
There’s nothing wrong with what God laid out here, what man went to
do--it was a separation. That’s
right. You separate any one Word of God
you shot the whole works. See? We’ve got to get back to the integrity of God
which means an integration, which means a truth. Now these [1a]sons [7s] left just like He [2]
had to leave.
Now when
you’re talking about Jesus we’re going to get into some things here that are
rough to get into but we’ll try to deal with them. Now I’m going to go to the 4th chapter.
(1) Now I say, that the heir as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he’s lord of all;
Amen. You just believe it.
(2) But is under tutors and governors until
the time appointed of the father. (Amen. Seven solid church ages
we went through now since the time of Jesus.)
(3) But even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
(4) But when the fullness of the time was come, (Now watch what God did at a specific period and you’re going to see something bigger than another period.) God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
Now notice
He wasn’t made of a man. God sent forth
His Son made of a woman. The creation
was of God but the making was of the woman.
She was a chemical factory. And
His body came out of the ground the same as your body and my body came out of
the ground. Say what you want, that’s
the Word of God.
(5) To redeem them that were under the law,
Now the word ‘redeem’ actually means to ransom. To bring back the kidnapped. Too many times look at the word ‘redeemed’ and you go off on a tizzy and a tangent. It means to buy back, it literally means to ransom. The word buy back is okay like redeem. It’s good enough, I mean it’s good but it’s not good enough. It actually means to me the victim was kidnapped. I’ll give a little illustration later on if we ever get to it. Sometime, maybe today or tomorrow. Who knows? All right, it says here.
(5) To redeem them (To buy back, to ransom) those that were under the law, (They didn’t want to get under the law, evidently somebody stuck them under the law. Didn’t belong under there, they weren’t part of it. But they got kidnapped and they were stuck there.) that we might receive the placing of sons.
In other
words, you have Jesus coming by way of a woman in order to get us away from our
kidnapper and identify us with our owner.
See the...all right let’s talk about it.
Here’s a woman, she’s kidnapped, she’s a wife and a mother. And some filthy individual kidnaps her and he
sends a letter and he says,
“Now I’ve got your wife and I’m going to tell
you what, I want ten million dollars for her.”
The guys rich so he says, “All right, she’s
worth everything I’ve got so I’m going to give you the ten million dollars.”
I want to ask you a question. Was the wife kidnapped and in the possession
of the kidnapper any less the wife when she was in the arms of her
husband? The answer is no. She’s the same person under different
conditions. And what about us as
children of God? Amen, that should make
a stonewall begin to climb if we really believe it. So now the kidnapper’s been paid a
ransom. This way we can be identified
now and back in the arms of God. Now it
says,
(6) And because you are sons, (And known to be sons, identified in Him.) God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba Father. (Our Father.)
(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; (He always was a son but he was labouring under the bondage of the kidnapper.)
The
Pharaoh that took the children of God and made them slaves and Moses came
down. He said, “Pharaoh, let my people
go.” And Jesus came down, He said, “Let
my people go Satan.” He said, “I’ll let
your people go like nothing.” So as
A kind of
type, the only type I can see in Samson, every Pentecostal preacher, he always
screamed about taking the gates off the city and climbing up a mountain. I say, “Oh you bunch of birds you make me
sick.” Who wants to rip a gate off? Jesus ripped the gates off. You and I don’t rip any gates off, we walk
through the gates that are ripped off and if we think we’re going to go around
ripping off the gates we’re just right back to the old Pentecostal hooliganism. Who needs it?
You don’t need it. You want
something different. You want God to rip
the gates off.
As Bro. Branham said, he said, “You just,” he said, “my
vindication is so perfect, if God said tomorrow you go to the graveyard and
raise Abraham Lincoln I’d call the arms of the world to shoot me down if I
couldn’t do it.” William Branham
didn’t rip any gates off any city and climb a hill. William Branham didn’t rip any gates
off. He stood aside and let God rip the
gates off.
That’s our
cotton picking trouble brother if you want to know the truth. Pardon my vernacular but it’s the truth. That’s our trouble, we’re pbbst. But hallelujah we’re still sons of God. We’ve
got a lot to learn, haven’t we?
Millennium’s a place where we’re going to learn a lot of this. You don’t
go there and just fold your hands and [Bro. Vayle makes a snoring noise] “Nice time to sleep, I’m a sleepy type of
person.” You won’t sleep for a
thousand...you’ll go to bed at nights I suppose because...when it comes to the
New Jerusalem you ain’t going to sleep at all.
You’ll be too busy having too great a time. Who wants to sleep and let anything go by
you? You know like little kids are? Poor kids they rub their eyes, they hold them
open because they don’t want to miss a trick, you know? That’s the way are.
All
right. Now it says here then, you were a
son all the time and you were an heir all the time but you’re under this
tribulation and now you’re free. Now,
next we notice Bro. Branham used 1 Jn 1:3.
Now we’re following down, Him coming down, and us coming down. And you’ve got to admit it’s true.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2) The same was in the beginning with God.
(2) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
(14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,
Now it
tells you right there, there was a process and Bro. Branham completely told us,
If you make Jesus the Word you make three
Gods. Jesus is not the Word. God is the Word. God became flesh and dwelt among us. There’s a process there of God coming down [5] to be human flesh. And God is still becoming human flesh by the
individual attributes that He let come down through the human race. See?
He allowed that, that life there.
Now,
we...now as God expressed Himself and finally in Jesus became the expression,
now here [3] was Melchisedec up
here, [Bro. Vayle changes drawing from up to down] down here...well we might as well
come on down here [3] now and we’ll go to Jesus Christ. Jesus the Christ we call Him. Okay, now He came to here [2] and on down.[5] Now we come over here,
well down here [6] in this area
here. Let me see what I got, some
different pencils and things. We could
make some more in here,[ adds more *
* * Attributes 1a] this here.
Now, notice what we do, we don’t come that [4] way. Now we just leave
that for the time being we’re going to come back to it.
Now at
this point we must see that the expression, thoughts of God, in His thoughts,
must be understood. Now, thoughts of God
and in His thoughts, they must be understood.
We’re going to talk about and before we get into reading what Bro.
Branham said here we’re going to make a note again; we’re called attributes,
sons of Abraham, sons of faith, sons of His Spirit, sons of God. All of those *appellations up there, [7s]
I won’t write them down you heard me say them.
*[Appellations = to address – the word by which a
thing or person is known]
Then he
says, “God was in Christ and decided by a
set process to become flesh.” In
other words, God was in His out-raying so that when you look at the fact of
what the Scripture says, “In the beginning was God,” now He took upon Himself a
form and the visibility of the form perfectly expressed God so that the form
and God were one and the same. So when
you look at Melchisedec here. [3]
You say,
“That is Melchisedec, that is true.”
That is
the human appellation, and the human or physical
application that God was using but it was God.
And looking forward to coming down here. [5] “He that has seen Me has seen the Father.” Now He said, “You take that or just forget
it. If you want to be a part of Me,” He
says, “you’ve got to take that.”
Okay then
right now we might as well put in here, we’ll put red this time, and we’ll put
in through here [5] because this is the outward body we’re going
to put this all in here [5gh] and
we’ll make this God Himself. And we use
the Latin, ‘sese’, or per se, whatever you want to use.
Okay, God
Himself. Now, then...now the first step
was to take on a form, [2] or a
word, or a spirit body which is a theophany.
Okay now we have here [2swb]
is a spirit body, with that spirit body and it is a Word body. Call it what you want. It’s just like the third pull. The third pull is...has different meanings to
it. And it’s just like opening the
Seventh Seal. Was the Seventh Seal
opened?
Well they
say, “It wasn’t opened because the Seventh Seal is the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ.”
Well now
listen, don’t be confused because Bro. Branham said, “There’s a coming before He comes.”
That’s the Appearing. And
Rev10:1-7 is the Seventh Seal but it’s not all of it because Matthew 24, the
silence concerning the literally descent, where we meet Him in the air and come back, that’s still part of the Seventh Seal. And the Seventh Seal goes plumb to
eternity, right to the New
Jerusalem. So just don’t get, you know,
messed up in your thoughts here.
Okay, now,
the first step was to take on a form, [2]
or word, or spirit body, a theophany but with us we bypassed [4]the
theophany. Okay, now we’re going to read
from page, what page do I want? Page
fifteen and I’m on page sixteen, better turn...let’s see now, fifteen got to be
it. That’s right. It has to be on one side of sixteen, I can
tell you that or I’m lost for sure.
Okay, we’re going to start at the top of the page on page fifteen and
it’s really paragraph sixty-nine but we won’t go all the way back.
[69] See? You can’t be the Word unless you’re a thought.
Now we’re
going to talk about thought. So okay, he
says up here, [1a] “You were a thought.” So let’s... these are attributes and it’s the
same thing, really, thought,
sons of God, [7s]
everything else in there, [1a] it’s all one, here we are up
there.[1a] We got all these thoughts in there. [1a]
Now, a thought is a product--product of a thinker. Now thoughts come from a thinker and you must realize that when Bro. Branham equates thoughts to attributes and to sons, he is not using the terminology concerning his thoughts of us which pertain to the human existence. It’s the same like it says concerning the wicked, the perverse, they were foreordained for this. In other words, they were previously spoken of it but they cannot be considered the thoughts of God. So I want you to understand when you read Bro. Branham, you must be very careful that you do not confuse God’s thinking, His predestinated plans, and get them mixed up with the predestinated ones. There’s a big difference. I am a predestinated one. You are a predestinated one.
Bro. Branham said, “That he was one.” Just like
Jesus Christ in the divine election and God had plans and the person and the
plans would be together, but the plans were in the physical. But the original thoughts are the attributes,
or the seed. See? Or that which causes to conceive and
bring forth the physical which at the
same time is a spiritual being that come on down into here. [6] See?
So you be careful about that word thought because Bro. Branham uses it,
not indiscriminately but at times it’s a little difficult to follow.
Now, the
thinker, the omniscient God, had within Him all these [1a] seeds. Now brother, now
notice, it wasn’t something God made, it was something that already was. For the very reason Bro. Branham said, “If God let you get lost and sent you to
the lake of fire, He’d be destroying a part of Himself.” So you’re looking at a reality here [1a] of what sons really are. They’re a part and a parcel of the Father. [1]
Now they got to come on down
to this
area here. [6] Okay, now he says,
[69] You
can’t be the Word unless you are a thought.
In other words you could never come into here [