WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC? # 8

Bro. Lee Vayle

August 28, 1988

Shall we pray? Heavenly Father we’re very happy to be allowed and priveledged to be in Your Presence Lord in this hour and especially to recognize it, because we know the whole world is really in Your Presence now, by Your omniscience and omnipotence but Father we realize there is a greater Presence which is You Yourself, the person of the Holy Ghost in the Pillar of Fire to lead Your people into the Millennium and You’ve been here Lord, descended in the Shout by voice of the prophet and we’re thankful for that Lord. We only pray now that what You’ve told us through the voice of Your prophet, these messages, we’ll apprehend, O Lord, absolutely make them ours by reason of the mechanical power that lies within us through the instrumentality of our minds and the Spirit. But then by the Holy Ghost Lord to make it live, we pray that we might be living Word Father because that’s what it’s all about.

We ask You to help us Lord to understand therefore that it might be right, that You might O God as You could not inhabit the temple until it was made according to the pattern absolutely given, You would not come down, be in the ark of covenant either Lord, no way would You come. And so Lord we know this Word’s got to be right within us or there’s no way that You’ll bless It, It’ll come alive in us. Help us Father to not take one word, add one word, but just leave it the way it is and understand our portion for this hour, Father. That’s what we desire and we’ll give You the praise. In Jesus’ name. Amen. You may be seated.

Now we’re continuing, it’s number eight in “Who Is This Melchisedec?” Preached by Bro. Branham and in this message Bro. Branham showed us that the principle utilized by God wherein He Himself came down as man amongst men is the same way in which we came down, and come down, though the order is not perfect chronologically. We’ll look at that in a little minute or two. The order is not chronologically perfect with the order that God Himself came which you’ll notice the bypassing of the Word body, the Spirit body, the theophany, which ever you want to call it.

Now to give us insight, he started with God first taking the human form of a priest. It wasn’t a true man as far as we know, not flesh and blood as we know it, couldn’t have been. It was a theophany but it was the form of a man of the human form of a priest and then forming Himself into in the flesh--the Lord Jesus Christ. He said,

[68]"He didn’t appear as Melchisedec anymore, He came as Jesus Christ."

So, we’re going to go to the drawing board to see this and see what we can do with what we have in mind here. I’ll get some proper pencils. Now, we go back to the very beginning where the Lord was just all by Himself, God was all by Himself. We’ll put that green up here. [1] And then Bro. Branham mentions that, "God begin to manifest Himself, to come forth,” to a degree." And we’ll just put this over here. [2] Now this shouldn’t be blue but all we’ve got here... I can’t draw amber, and so we’ll put this in over here as the Logos, manifestation coming from God.

Now, I want to read to you from Questions and Answers in Genesis what Bro. Branham brought and what you do when you hear this, you just simply believe it because we’re into a very, very difficult doctrine here of the Godhead. The simplistic doctrine is that there is one God, He is Spirit and He had a Son. But all that was said about God manifesting and having a Son is where the problem comes, the differentiation. I’m not going to try to do it as this point, now.

[22] He was in other words, Adam, the first man in the lower creations of God. He’s talking about man here. So we’ll read.

[21] Now, if God created man in His own image and His Own likeness. What kind of a man did He create? And the answer is, A spirit man. See? Now if you’ll notice, after He had made all creation, and He created a spirit man, and reading close of this now to the one that asked the question, we find this, that God gave dominion of the cattle and the fishes and everything to the man. But, in His making up there, He made man in His own image to lead the cattle, lead the beasts of the field, just like the Holy Spirit leads the believer today. See?

[22] He was in other words, Adam the first man in the lower creations of God. The first creation was God Himself.

Now I don’t think he means by that, that God was created but he’s putting the order of the cosmos of God, and the creation of God and God began of course to create Himself into human form, into a form which He did first. He could have the double meaning here that God was first, there was nothing beside Him, and then He began to create Himself. Bring forth something which would be, as Bro. Branham said, The veil,” which according to him, “hid and yet revealed. And that’s exactly what the Bible teaches. There is nothing that has been hidden except that it might be revealed.” In other words, God’s principle holds true. Bro. Branham didn’t know one thing about that verse of Scripture in a more modern English form but he sure hit it on the head.

[22] The first creation was God Himself; then out of God came the Logos which was the Son of God. So we have up here, [2] notice he said, the Logos was the Son of God.

So when you talk about the Son of God, you’ve got to go all the way back here [2] whether you like it or not. Now, there’s no mention in the Old Testament, except in one place about God having a Son and that’s in the book of Proverbs. “Can you name His Son?” To my knowledge there’s no place. It does say though, “Thou art forever a priest after the order of Melchisedec.” So you have an understanding of the prophecies concerning what we understand to be way down here, [5] four thousand years later at least, down here [5] in Jesus, the Christ. And that simply means the Messiah, the anointed One. Okay.

[22] The first creation was God Himself; then out of God came the Logos. There you are right there [1] and there you are right there. [2] which was the Son of God.

Okay? We’ll put it down, Son of God because that’s what It is. Now remember when you deal with Spirit of God, Son of God, let’s just stop right here and go to the book of Romans which Bro. Branham went to when he talked about Jesus Christ coming back as the Holy Spirit. Now remember that is exactly what the Bible says. In Eph 4:9-10, he said, “The One that came down [5] and went into Hades is the One that went up, is the One that came down.” Understand what I’m saying? Don’t try to figure it, just say, “Sure, I see that because that’s what the Bible says.” In other words, when He came back as the Holy Ghost it’s the same One that went down into the ground. Now you say, “Well that’s true.” Now don’t figure it, there’s many things you and I, we may figure but we may not figure too. But that’s the Bible. That’s Ephesians the 4th chapter. Now in Romans here, the 1st chapter, it says here, the 3rd verse.

(3) Concerning Jesus Christ our Lord, (That’s His Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Lord. Now notice what it says there.) His son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now He wasn’t the Lord of the people really until He came down in this form [5] and associated Himself with the people because now you’ve got literally, since God is an object of worship, there is nobody who cannot worship Jesus Christ. So that puts Him in the category of God but it doesn’t put Him here. [2] Bro. Branham said, "The difference between Jesus Christ and God was one had a beginning.” So there again, don’t try to figure it. Just say, “Amen. That’s the way it is.” You know, it’s the same as punching a light switch on the wall. Just punch it and see what happens. In other words, just believe this and let it go.

(4) Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. (Not previously but from the dead.)

So now God has given us His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost. Right? Prophet said so. Now don’t try to figure it. Don’t try to figure it, just believe it. Up here [1] then, to here. [2] Logos, the Son of God. And remember Bro. Branham tells us, which every student will tell you, Jesus [5] did not identify Himself as the Son of God. [2] He admitted that He was but He identified Himself as the Son of man. [5] See? So all right, we got that far. Okay.

[22] …The first creation was God Himself then out of God came the Logos, which was the Son of God, then out of the Logos, which was the Word… came forth the man.

Okay, we won’t make him such pretty colors, put a little black down here. Out of here [6] comes forth man. Just think it over. Don’t try to figure it, say, “That’s the way it is.” Now I’m not your teacher, the Holy Ghost is through Bro. Branham. I’m just trying to help you a little bit here. When you go and sit under a scientist who has been noted for his ability to prove his case and thereby knows what he is saying, you listen attentively, respectfully and credulously, you believe that person. All right? Notice, here, [1] to here, [2] now here.[6] That’s what he said right?

[23] Oh, now watch. I’ve got a beautiful picture in my mind now if you can take a little trip with me. I believe I’ve talked on it before, but to get to this place where you’ll be sure to see it. He’s going to say it again. Now, let’s take a little trip and go back a little while. Now don’t think about how hot it is, let’s get our minds right on what we’re going to talk about and think now. So don’t think if you’re cold how cold it is and above all don’t think how hard this is. See? What if it is tough? You’ve got good teeth, just grab a hold of it, chew it. Okay?

[24] Now, let’s go back about a hundred million years before there ever was a star, moon, or anything in the world. That’s a fair piece to go back. He could say trillions and be on the dot too. Now there was a time when there wasn’t anything here, [1] it was just all forever [1f] and Eternity. [1e]

So, all around here, [1] because of in here, there’s forever—[1f] we better put eternity [1e] first. I think he put forever and eternity first because we’re used to forever which is a designated number of ages, or an undesignated number of ages, until God calls a halt. It has a start and a beginning but eternity always was. So you understand what we’re saying here. Let’s cut it from eternity [1e] and forever.[1f]

Now why do we say, “And forever?” Because within eternity, within God, [1] is Zoe [1z] which is how God begins doing all this. [2] This is a form of Zoe whether you want to believe it or not, although Zoe is really out here. Okay? Now we’ve talked on this plenty.

[24] ….Now there was a time when there wasn’t anything here, just forever and eternity and all of ever and eternity was God. He was there in the beginning.

So therefore, all though I’ve got this on the outside,[1e – 1f on the outside of the God circle] it’s really on the inside but He can put it outside. Well just like you’ve got words on your inside and you speak words out. See? Okay, let’s...he was in the beginning.

[25] Now, let’s go stand on the edge of this banister and look over and see these things happen.

[26] Now, “No man has seen the Father at any time.” No man can see God in bodily form because God is not in a body form. God is a Spirit.

Now that’s speaking of the essentiality of God Himself. Just God period. Never mind talking about this [1] now, where God did something about what was within Him so that you, if you would’ve of been there and fortunately of the composition that allowed you to see something, you would see it. We are not of the composition to see this [2] but we can see this [6] and we can see this. [5] You’re not of the composition. You could have a vision, God allowed it, and there’d be something in there, strike you where you could apprehend some thought maybe; but no, you can’t see God period.

He’s a spirit. All right. “No man has seen the Father, but the only begotten of the Father that’s Jesus Christ the Lord, hath thoroughly declared Him.”

Which means, shown by his action and his words, his living and all, the whole composite. You see God as much as you need to see God, or as far as God is going to let you see. That right there [5] is the visible God whether you admit it or not. But it was Jesus Christ [5] that did it on the grounds not of the flesh but what lay within the flesh and demonstrated through the flesh. Ever seen a beautiful woman? Oh boy, you think you’ve got the world by the tail. Get a beautiful woman, turns to be a bag of sour beans. I don’t think there’s anything much worse than sour beans. Do you? Yeesh! See what was inside starts coming out. So you see, you don’t worry about that figure. They couldn’t see Him. God was veiled in His temple [5] but everything God wanted to show He could manifest through the temple. And as every temple block had to be perfectly right, and to be perfectly resonant to manifest God, this One here [5] was perfectly God in flesh period. Marvellous, and we’re going to get there too in our own little sphere.

[27] Now, but notice now, there’s nothing there up there [1] at that time. There’s just space. There’s no light, there’s no dark, there’s no anything. No nothing he says, that’s good. It just seems nothing. But in there is a great spiritual Being, Jehovah God.

Known originally as ‘el’, ‘ela’, or ‘el ela’, the Eternal One, the Strong One, bound by an oath. In other words, God and His Word, God and His thoughts--look out because that’s all that’s needed. That strong One speaks of Omnipotence and the, bound by an oath speaks of His Word. That’s why Bro. Branham always used the Rhema and the Logos interchangeable and so does the Bible, and don’t you get mislead by these birds running around that think they know something. If you don’t know who I mean by now you’ve been under four feet of dirt for the last four years and don’t even know it. I doubt that.

[27] …There was nothing there [1] but Jehovah God, Who covered all space of all places at all times. He was from everlasting unto everlasting. He’s the beginning of creation. [1b] And He’s the beginner of creation. That’s God. Can’t see nothing and can’t hear nothing. Not move of an Atom in the air, nothing, no air, not anything, and yet God was there. And He could be right here in the form of the Pillar of Fire and nobody could see Him. He’s somewhere--you bet, He hasn’t left the church. That was God. (Now let’s watch a few minutes…) No man has seen That, now, That’s the Father. That’s God, the Father.

[28] Now notice, That after a little while I begin to see a little sacred light begin to form like a little halo or something and you could see it only by spiritual eyes.

Because that’s a theophany. It can appear and disappear. You wouldn’t know it anyway...what do you mean appear and disappear? We can’t see it in the first place. But it can make Itself visible. Like you know, when Jesus came back after the resurrection, He could appear and disappear. He didn’t do that before. You say, “Well He did too. They tried to get a hold of Him.” Oh no. He just blinded their eyes and just snuck around. Wasn’t Him disappearing. No, He wasn’t in that form right here. [5] This form here [2] is different from this form here. [5] That form [2] can’t bleed, this form [5] does bleed. This form [3] doesn’t have real flesh and bones although it can sure look like it. This one [5] does have because they grown in a womb. See?

Okay, “See with your spiritual eyes…Little sacred halo.” Now, what we could do here is sort of show this something like this here, you know, little dots around here. [2h] I should have some artist up here making an aura. All right.

[29] But look now, while we’re looking, the whole church now. We’re standing on a great big banister, watching what God’s doing. And we’ll get right down here to this question here and you’ll see how he brings it in. “Let’s make man in our image” and so on.

[30] Now, no one has seen God. And now, the next thing we begin to see, by eyes of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light forming out there. What is that? That’s what was called by bible readers, “Logos,” or “the anointed,” or “the anointing.” That’s right. Or as I was going to say, the part of God began to develop into something so human beings could have some type of an idea of what it was.

So a part of God, now, we listen carefully to Bro. Branham’s language. He says, a part of God. In other words, the question has always come; was Heaven [1] emptied when God took on the form of Jesus Christ? [5] Bro. Branham always seemed to indicate in his preaching that God Himself, period, everything that was here, [1] came in there. [5] I can’t honestly tell you that that was one hundred percent what he had in his mind though I think it was.

Now I’ve quoted you before without the exact words and I was very remiss because I was so sick at the time I didn’t take them down from a friend of mine, where Bro. Branham says concerning the same thing. There is a part of God that never ever changes or ever moves in the sense of what we speak of, this anointing that came out of here, [2] veiled in a Pillar of Fire, manifested in here, [5] came down here [2p] at Pentecost and divided Himself. I’ve always spoken of that as the sperm, [2s] giving life to the female counterpart which would be you and me. Don’t ever believe that the Holy Ghost is female--It’s male. There’s teaching going around about that--hogwash. Bro. Branham said, “It’s male.” You don’t have to chew your cabbage twice -- you know -- to prove you’re a sheep.

Okay. It’s then like Father, here [1f] the great cloud. Father. Here’s the entire cloud let’s say, or, He’s even part. I don’t care, pure Holy Ghost at Pentecost coming down here. [2s] See? You call germatizing, quickening, and the quickening is, well, I’ll just say what it is really, I might’nt use it later on again. The quickening power really is the energizing to you as an individual who has no memory of this, [1a] no memory of this, you’re brought down here [2p] and then you’re quickened by the Holy Ghost to the complete mentality, wisdom, and understanding of God, the Word, in your order down here [2p] because you always were a part of what’s up here. [1a] But you see, you didn’t have the chance to go into this area here [4] which would give you the memory and all those things necessary. Okay.

[30] …The part of God began to develop into something so human beings could have some type of idea what it was. A little Light moving. [2] That was the Word of God.

See? What was it then? The Word had to be literally what lay in here [1] coming into manifestation. So that [2] has to be God. That’s why if you try to make Jesus [5] the Logos [2] you get into three gods. Now I maybe shouldn’t have said that but Bro. Branham said it and that’s the tough part right there. That’s one of the tough ones because right now you’ve got like a cloning. You think maybe for… it was an accident, the twentieth century has a revelation by the use of languages that no other generation had. Did God clone? Good question, just let it sit. I’m asking questions here, I don’t have all the answers but we study this together, that’s the beauty of it.

[31] Now, God gave Himself birth to this Son.

Is he saying, God gave Himself in birth to this Son, or is he saying, God Himself gave birth to this Son? Now I’ve no punctuation, no way to know. So I would say this, God Himself did it because there’s nobody else there. [1] And at the same time God was giving Himself birth in a limited sense because birth is a perpetuation of species. Right? So you’ve got a limited sense in the one and a more dynamic confirming sense in the first one--it was God Himself who did it, which was before there was even an atom. So this person here [2] is not made of atoms. Got to be solid God. Well you say, “Lights not necessarily made of atoms. It’s made of energy.” I won’t argue anything. I’m just saying that’s what’s said. I’m not a scientist and I don’t pretend to mix science with it. I wouldn’t be smart enough anyway see?

[31] …There’s no air, there’s no atom. Now watch, Bro. Branham quoting

from John. And Jesus said in the New Testament, this One here [5] said, “Glorify me, Father, with the glory that we had, Or I had with You, which is we had. before the foundation of the world.”

That’s up here. [2] Now he said, “I came from God I go to God.” This [5] did not come from God per se, though it did come from God because this [2] came from God, before there’s atoms or anything else. This is supernatural. A hundred percent something which nobody can figure, but there it is. No atoms. After this will come the atoms. Down here [5] will come the atoms. And we will get changed in our atoms. And when we leave our atoms we go back to our own theophany [4] which we’ll put up here later on.

We’ll never get to it this morning I can see that. What’s the difference? Long as you enjoy yourselves and you get some light. Just see, it’ll trickle in and God will...every word has power especially for our hour that the prophet taught us. Whether we understand perfectly is not the thing. It will come together because we believe it. And it will work in us because that’s the secret of this whole ministry of Bro. Branham’s is to bring us into a place of immortality under the Seventh Seal. The Bride has everything she needs to put her in a Rapture so therefore she has everything to make her immortal. Some of you kids sitting here are going to be immortal. I’m happy for you. I think I’m going to turn into a pile of compost the way I’m going, which...it’s all right. Glorified compost by the grace of God. See?

[31] …Now, He said, “Glorify me,” [2] before there was ever an atom.

[32] Now in Saint John one, “In the beginning was the Word,[2] and the Word was God…The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Now he’s combining 1:14 with those. God unfolding Himself, down to a human being. [5]

Now that’s what God was doing when He did this. [2] When God sprang out of His own unique, I can’t use the word separateness because there’s nothing to separate. So when God sprang out of His own, [1] owness, began moving, right here, [2] coming down to here, [6] so that He could come here, [5] and bring redemption. See? Now God unfolding Himself. How did God unfold Himself? He unfolded Himself with the understanding in His own mind, it would be with His own children. That’s what you’re looking at. And the parent must always identify the child the child cannot identify the parent. Well you say, “I don’t know about that. You take the penguins and little babies know right away their mothers.” Well mother has some kind of a smell or something so she’s a source of identification before the chick comes along.

So you see what we’re looking at here? We’re looking at the fact then. God begins to identify Himself and He will only identify Himself with what He makes to be identified. It’s got to be His offspring. You see it in nature. Baby calf runs to his mother. You know really, except for a few oddities like dogs and cats and something like that, and you know, some aren’t too high up, most babies will be nudged away by the mother. Say, “Get out of here brat. You belong to somebody else.” That’s why God being El Shaddai, the Breasted One, do you think God’s going to let the devil’s crowd feed on Him? Come on, they can no more get this Word than a hog can go ahead and you know, stand up and play a fiddle. Fact I’d bet on the hog if you want to know the truth. I had to put that in there because it’s the truth. You know let’s face it, the other is completely impossible my brother/sister. No way. Now,

[31] … God unfolding Himself. See? God unfolding is God revealing Himself. Now watch how He did it.

[33] Now, back there, [2h] when that little halo comes. First came. Now we can’t see anything yet, but just with eyes supernatural we see a halo standing there. [2] Now, that’s the Son of God, the Logos. Now that’s what he said. See? Let’s keep reading. Now I can see Him playing around like a little child before the Father’s door with all Eternities. [See 2lc in diagram drawings #6] See? And now, then in this imaginary makeup He begins to think of what things would be, and I can hear Him say, “Let there be light.”

Now you say, “Well Bro. Branham’s just imagining this so there’s really no Scripture and truth to this.” [2] There isn’t? You kidding yourself? Then why is he using Scripture and calling it imaginary. He’s not a prophet of God, he’s a hoax. He’s just telling you that you sit back and imagine you were there but what’s going on is not imaginary. But you’ve got to imagine it all because you ain’t there and if you were, it wouldn’t do you any good.

Now the word imagine is a very strong word. In the original Greek it means ‘reasons’. Casting down imaginations, reasoning. So he’s saying, “Let’s reason this out and we’re going to have to go a little beyond the processes of true reasons. We’ve got to enter into a place of let’s pretend we were there and let us be seeing what we would see if we were there but we’re not there but this is as close as you’re going to get.” See? All right, now that’s my understanding. You do what you want. See? I’m just up here talking to myself. You listen in if you want. Now,

[33] …Now in this imaginary make up He began to think of the things that would be, and I can hear Him say, “Let there be light.”

Now, out of this here [1] now you come a word and He said, “Let there be light.” [2] You’re getting into the picture how God created all things by Christ Jesus. Not the flesh here, [5] not even that halo of light [2h] - it’s what was in it. That’s my understanding. See?

[31] …”Let there be light.” [2]

[34] And when He did, an atom burst and the sun came into existence. She whirled for hundreds of millions of years, forming clinkers, and burning, and forming like it is today; still burning, still breaking atoms. If the atomic bomb would ever let loose the atomic chain would take this earth like the sun yonder just bursting and blowing it apart. If you would stand yonder on another planet and look off at this, it would look like another sun where the atoms were a burning, this earth, if the chain were ever to get loose, it would just start whirling and turning, burning. Millions and millions of miles reach those big flames of billions of Fahrenheit of the heat that goes off the sun.

[35] Now, He made the sun. And then, the first thing you know a big clinker fell off… just staggered on, spewed down below somewhere. Now then this Logos here, [2] now the Son of God, now watch it he never changes the name. Now this Logos here, the Son of God is watching it, He let’s it fall a hundred million years then He stops it. Then another flies off, He let’s it, flies off, falls a million years then He stops it. Now we’re watching what’s coming into existence. See? Something now has got to be there which wasn’t there before and how it’s changed from one form to another.

[36] Now, He’s got something in His mind. What’s He doing? He’s writing His first Bible. The first Bible that man ever looked for was to the stars. He looked to the Bible in the stars, the Zodiac. It’s perfect, it dovetailed with this Bible here. The one right here on the desk. It starts off, with first the sign, the first sign of the Zodiac is a virgin. Is that right? The last sign of the Zodiac is Leo the Lion. That’s the first coming of Jesus who came through a virgin; the second, He comes as a Lion, the tribe of Juda. See? Now he’s talking about the flesh here [5] because He first came up here. [2] But he’s talking now of creation and what was done. Okay. He comes from the virgin, the next is the lion. Now He puts all the things in the sky placed out the way He wants it. All meteors, pieces of earth, sun etc. hanging there.

[37] Now, when science goes to looking for those missiles that fall, that doesn’t disprove God, that just proves it to me. See, that just makes it more real. Now notice, all these missiles hanging out there away from the hot sun, and going through the air because they’ve collected. And the first thing you know, it began as an iceberg. What he’s saying there I image he’s talking about comets and things.

[38] Now, that was this earth coming into existence, just a big old piece of cinder flew off yonder. Down beneath it now, is nothing but a turning, burning volcano completely, they erupt and some of them are volcanic. The science claims that this world, the crust of it, we live on it, like the peeling of an apple. Now it’s about 25,000 miles around, 8,000 miles across. And think of it, in there is this great big burning volcano in the middle.

[39] And two thirds of the earth, better than two thirds, is in water; one third of it’s land, about one third. And just look at this crust we’re living on. It’s full of dangerous explosives.

“Now look at the crust itself,” he said, there’s a volcano inside and on the crust there’s gas, gasoline, oil, there’s sulfur, there’s everything in there that can just blow you higher than a kite. You get enough sulfur and water joining, you could rip, that’s where they say could rip the whole coast of California apart. See? Just all it needs is to get in there, water to get in there. You just need certain things to happen and man she’s gone.

[39] ...What’s the formula of water? Which is two thirds of the earth. Two parts hydrogen and one of oxygen. They’re explosives--that’s right. Oxygen, man, that’s burn, that’ll really burn you.

[40] There’s enough electricity in every room to separate the heat from the cold, and it’ll make enough electricity to burst the room. You can put enough atoms in a golf ball to blow New York off the face of the earth. And then man, sitting on a pot of hell, hits himself in the chest, defies God’s Word, and says, “There’s no such place as hell.” You’re sitting on a big pot of it everyday. And while you’re here you’re sitting on it, and hell is just beneath you. The Bible said, “Hell is the move beneath.” That’s what the Bible teaches you.

[41] And now notice, but now, that was the first thing found, when Jesus…Now watch the little halo yonder. Now I see It move out to this earth and get over the top of it and begin to move it over here close to the sun. It’s nothing but a big ball of ice and when it begins to get melting, then great big glaciers begin to cut through up in the northlands and come down. And then it did, it cut Kansas and Texas and all those places out, and went to the Gulf of Mexico. And the first thing you know, the whole thing was covered with water.

Now, what you’re talking about here then is Bro. Branham is saying, before God did anything He had to move into a place Himself of some type of something that approximated material. So the light came out, which was already in there, [1] and from that [2] comes all of the other creations. So God created all things by Christ Jesus, because without Him coming here [2] He could not have done the rest, He would not have done . So you see what he’s telling you how He’s going to get down here [6] to us.

[42] Now, we get to Genesis 1 we get the Bible now, and out of our picture, the Bible. Genesis 1. “The world was without form, and void; and water was upon the face of the deep. Well darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Then he said, “The Spirit of God moved upon the waters.” Now, He separated the water, brought up the hills, the lands and so forth; dried it off. Vegetation and everything else, He made it. And He made the moon. Set the boundaries of the seas so it couldn’t pass.

[43] He got all these things together and made...everything. Made all other things on it, animal life, bird life, bees, monkeys, what ever. Put it on here on earth. Then he asked the question like a question asked. “Let us,” (Who? Father, Son.) “Make man in our own image.”

“Let us”; plural. Why not? Because you know what? He had evidently run out of the first phase of exactly what He wanted. Which is as Bro. Branham said, Hey, God before He ever made a fish with a fin, had the water to swim already. So God would have everything ready before there could ever be something said about, “Let us make man in our image.”

So, we could see phase number one through Christ Jesus--all things created. Then does God stop and say, “Now, there’s been a good job done in this [2] manner so now I’m going to go ahead and I’ll just block you out,” take you back here maybe, [1a] so to speak. Whatever He wanted to do, that’s His business, “and I’ll go on my own.” No. Now, “Let us make man in our own image.” Before it was, “Let us do all this here.”[5] Now it’s, “Let us make man in our own image.” Right? That’s how it’s going. Okay.

[44] Now, if a man was made something like that little sacred Light yonder, or something like that, it could not be seen because that’s a spiritual being. He manifested or unfolded Himself a little more to make a trinity...

Really a triunity, it’s not the word trinity, it’s not the right word. Although it’s a good enough...it’s a right word but if you want to get down to the definitive expression, my understanding is and Bro. Branham I know would agree, it’s tri-unity. Like we are a tri-unity yet we’re a trinity. In other words, we’ve got like a composite. We’re one person. Call it a trinity and notice it’s going to offices, not people, of Himself. By Father, by Son, and by Holy Ghost constituting offices.

[44] ...And here was God, unfolded Himself now down into, “Let us make man,” which was His Son, an offspring from Himself, “man in our own image.” He was a supernatural being. “Let him have dominion over the cattle of the field,” and so forth. That’s how you’re supernatural.

[45] Now the man led the cattle and everything, just like the Holy Ghost Spirit leads the real, true believer today. The voice of man could speak and say, “Call the cattle this way, call the sheep to this pasture, call the fishes to this water.” See, he had dominion, everything obeyed him.

[46] But then there was no man to till the soil until Genesis two.

Now, if you want to know the exact truth then, man though himself created still in the sixth day, his original creation was in the meat and heart of the true original. Making a body is literally a step down--literally a step down. You say, “Sure it is because that’s where all the problems came in.”