Who
Is This Melchisedec? # 9
Bro. Lee Vayle
September
3, 1988
Heavenly Father, it makes our hearts solemn and I trust also tender and believing tonight, Lord, knowing that You are here in the form of the Holy Ghost, in the Pillar of Fire, taking supervision over Your Church, leading It into the resurrection, and to the Rapture, to the Millennium, we know all this is true Lord, and we trust that we’re a part of it, each and every one tonight, in Your divine Presence, O God.
Help us Lord to study Your Word, to know what you gave us for this hour,
it might be meat and drink unto us Lord, it might be life and health, we know
it is life, might it also be health Father. We know in it are all things
supplied, O God, may we learn how to take that Word to heart, Lord, and that
the Life of that Word supersede our own lives that Your glory might come forth,
Lord, and not only that but we receive some of those things Lord which You have
said are ours. We commend ourselves to
the You night now, thanking You for the lovely spirit in the song service,
Lord, giving the correct anointing for it, we pray now for the correct
anointing for the Word. In Jesus’ Name
we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now we are, I believe, number nine of this message of “Who Is This Melchisedec?”
and I’m going to have to try to pick up where I left off the last time and yet
with some repetition, no doubt, and not exactly deviate from the message, but
to keep utilizing thoughts that are in this message by Bro. Branham, that we
can apply to ourselves in particular this hour.
Now, you will notice here that what we have been actually looking at is
God from the beginning and then God in creation and God coming down to become a
man amongst men, all of which has to do with the family concept of Almighty
God. Well maybe we’ll just read a little
bit about this family concept so we’ll be able then to go to the board and
perhaps we can do some drawing that isn’t very good but because you’ll be able
to see and hear it might help you a little bit.
Now in Eph 3:14-15, 14 and 15,
Paul says,
(14) For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
(15) Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
So evidently here we have Paul telling us that there is a God, who is
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and actually there happens to be a whole
family of them and they are named through the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, this is what we all the time look at in
Hebrews the second chapter, speaking of Jesus, beginning in verse 9.
(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 son.(The word man is not in the Greek, that should
be in the italics.)
(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 you’ll see there that God ordained that Jesus Christ would bring
many sons, that’s God’s own sons, into glory, and He’s the captain, He’s the
head brother.
(11) For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified (That’s Jesus and all the brothers.) are all of one: (source, which makes God their Father.)
Might as well stop here and just tell you that if you are simply a
fundamentalist, and you have an idea that you were a reprobate, or you were
anything but a son of God, and you were made a son of God, to become a brother
of Jesus Christ you are spiritually insane.
You’re just spiritually insane, that’s all. How do you think that you could be of one
source, that’s God, and be any different from the Lord Jesus Christ, as a son,
except as in stature? Sons are
sons--you’ve got to make up your mind.
It’s tough preaching but I’m sorry, you make up your mind. You can’t, you can’t go back to being
Baptist, Presbyterian, Nazarene, Pentecostal, or what not. We have a vindicated message by a vindicated
prophet. See?
Now if it gets too cold for the people there watch back there Bill and
lower it...I mean just raise it a bit because I can stand the heat but I think
a lot of people are getting cold down there.
Okay, now listen, he said here.
(11) For he that sanctifieth, both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified (all have one Father.)
Now, we’re trying to tell you something here, you can’t be like a woman
who when her husband died begin shacking up with people. And she has six or seven kids after he’s
dead.
“Well these are all my sons by my
husband who is dead.”
Well you might as well say
that. Did you hear what I said? “Both he that sanctifieth and they who are
sanctified have one Father.”
You say, “Well how did it get that way?”
We’re going to try to show you
something on the board how it got that way.
I don’t know if I can do it or not?
I’m not very smart but I’ll take a crack at it. See?
Because that’s my job.
(11) ...For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Now you think, “Well maybe I was a bad person and I got wonderfully
saved, hallelujah, and Oh Bless God, I love Jesus and I love my fellow
man. I don’t drink and I don’t smoke and
I, oh everything is just so nice and that’s the reason He’s not ashamed of me.”
You are stupid, spiritually speaking.
You’re not reading your Bibles.
Now let me tell you something, if
we don’t understand what’s behind this Word, the way God said It, and understand It, we will get
nowhere in the graces of God because you’re barking up a wrong tree.
He said, “I’m not ashamed because
they are my brethren. They went astray,
it was ordained that they go astray, they never had the same body I had to
begin with,” we’re going talk about that.
See?
But He said, “They come from the
same source.”
Now I know that we look at
ourselves, say, “My God, I look in that three way mirror, Ooh, ooh I couldn’t
believe I came from God.”
It is shocking, isn’t it? Say,
“God couldn’t look so ugly.” You’re
right. Fallen sons.
(12) Saying, I will declare
thy name unto my brethren,
* Exegesisied , “I’ll bring out the glory and the wonder that lies in
the Name is what they know because Lord Father, they can’t know You, as I know
You, but one day they will.” See. Really
what we have in the whole Church Ages is a growing revelation of God until at
the end time it is the perfect revelation of God that belongs to us, and in it,
that revelation puts them...puts us in immortality, brings the dead out of the
ground, and puts us into a Rapture, the Millennium. * [Exegesis – The
exposition or interpretation of scripture]
You say, “Well just a minute.”
No, don’t just a minute me, just wait till you see Him face to face and
get the revelation. Then just wait till
you’re a thousand years with Him and after the White Throne, and you go through
the White Throne, and then see the new Heavens and the new earth and the New
Jerusalem, then you’ll begin to really see what we’re talking about here and so
will I; in the meantime, we had better put to God’s seal that He is true. Why do we make God a liar day in and day
out? You know why? Because we are liars.
We’re so false in our humility, we stink, we are arrogant, proud,
presumptuous and rotten, when we dare to stand up against God and say, “Well
God, I don’t believe your Word.”
Let’s say it, “Jesus is the Son of God and I am a son of God.”
Let’s say it, “Jesus is the Son
of God and I am a son of God, [Congregation repeats]we have the same Father, we have
the same Father.” If it makes you feel
good or not, at least you told the truth for once in your life--scripturally
speaking.
Some things are hard, I know, but you’re not all that hard. Why listen,
“Jesus is going to do a solo.” He has
actually come and going to do a solo over us.
So we can’t be so rotten after all.
Huh? Can’t be quite so bad, (hee
hee, hee) in spite of the three way mirror.
See? The image is being formed in
us, the real true image that Jesus was the fullness of the image, the
expression of God, we bypassed that, we’re coming into it because we’re going
to be like Him. Wouldn’t be wonderful to
see about 50 billion Jesus’? I don’t
suppose there’s going to be that many, but wouldn’t it be just wonderful to
think, “Hey, that’s what lies ahead.”
(12) I’ll declare thy name unto my brethren, (and I will sing a solo unto thee O God) in the midst of them, (because I am so happy to be the captain of their salvation. I am the elder brother.)
My, you couldn’t get that boy by joining a church. You couldn’t get that unless you’re born to
it, unless you were back there in God.
To have the same Father you’d have to be back there in the same
Father. See? God has laid it out beautifully in nature if
we’d just believe it. Okay, we read
that.
Let’s go back to Ephesians, and you know I usually take my time and
never get finished; I don’t intend to, to tell you the truth so sit and
relax. Let’s go to Eph 1:3, and read a
little bit.
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (Or in the heavenlies in Christ, which are in Christ.)
(4) According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
(5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption (placing) of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
(6) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Now it tells you right there that we were actually in the Christ of God
before the foundation of the world and God knowing we would bypass that
theophonic form, the Word form, the spirit body, knowing we would get into sin,
already had it all prepared that He would place us as His sons because we are
sons. Now He can’t place anybody that’s not
a son. If I had half a dozen sons, and
some of your sons came along, could I place those children as my sons? No way, they are not my sons. They’re not. How can I do it? I could make some charade or something but it
isn’t going to work. They’re not my
children. So you see what we’re talking
about here? The 10th to 12th verses.
(10) That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, (What all things in Christ? A whole bunch that were in Him. He’s not going to lose one, Bro. Branham’s going to quote that. “I’ll raise him up and I won’t lose one.” See?) both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
(11) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
(12) That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Now He said, “I’m going to predestinate.” He said, “I’ve got a destiny all lined up for
them in spite of the fact that they’re going to bypass the spirit body that
Jesus never bypassed,” we’ll put it on the board in a minute or two, He said,
“They’re going to come exactly where they really want to be and I want them to
be. They’re going to get there.”
Okay, let’s go to Revelation 21,
and let’s see where we’re going to go.
And this brings us back to the future home of the earthly Bride, and
notice how everything works, dovetails here, it’s just one glorious message
that we have here, which is God all in all in a predestinated plan. All right?
Let’s read verses 1 to 4, 21 of Revelation.
(1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
(2) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(3) And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, (Now, who’s the tabernacle of God? That’s Jesus, is the true tabernacle. Now He’s right there with them.) and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them. (Notice that now. The Father and the Son and all the children; the big brother.)
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, nor anymore pain: for the former things are passed away.
See? All right, let’s go to 9 to
11, same chapter.
(9) There came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
(10) And he carried me away in the spirit to a
great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy
(11) Having the glory of God; and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, (And on, and on he goes.)
And then we jump down to chapter 22, the first 4 verses.
(1) And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
(2) In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
(3) And there was no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
(4) And they shall see his
face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Now we’re looking at a picture there of exactly what God wants for us,
as His family, He tells us where we’re going to be, He tells us the place,
everyone that’s going to be there. There
isn’t going to be one that is missing.
Now, what we want to do then is very grotesquely, but hopefully we’ll
get by with it, do a little drawing here, and we’ll start, oh, somehow, some
way, maybe I’ll get my little drawings here,
let’s start way over here to the right hand side, is this thing going to
work? Have we got a pencil here that
doesn’t work? Let me see, no, I think
we’re drying up. I’ll just start
something else here. That’s it, which
ever you want, you manipulate that and I’ll try to manipulate this. Okay, maybe we can do it now.
Okay, here we go over here, and this is God. So, we’re going to put here God, because I
can’t reach that high, His Spirit. It’s
a pity to rip a new church down but I’m going to get you boys to take a little
piece right out of there and make me a blackboard that, well, it’s got to be
here. It’s got to be somewhere, a little
better than we got so they can see it.
Now, up here is God, [1o]
omnipotent, I won’t spell it all out, and omniscient. Now, that’s what we know God to be. When there wasn’t a speck of stardust there
was nothing but Almighty God, Who Himself never had a beginning, never has an
ending, He is spirit, Holy Spirit, and He’s omniscient, and He’s omnipotent,
and that’s the combination that only God can have and that’s the only
combination God would need to have to be God because you don’t need to be
anything but omniscient and omnipotent and you are God period. Understand what I’m saying? Because He knows everything, can handle
everything and He’s big enough to do it.
See? You and I can’t do that.
All right, now that’s God; the beginning. Now over here, we’re going to put, whoops,
that’s not very good is it? I want that
letter ‘p’, potential. The potential
defined, [1pd] and I’m not going to
do too good a job because I’m not that smart.
Now here’s God over here [1pd]
with all these potentials in here, [1a] His attributes, characteristics, qualities,
everything in here that comes from here, [1o]
and I wrote this down and I’m going to read it the way I wrote it and then I’m
going to correct it because it is not really true what I’m saying. See? So
I’ll try to make it true so you’ll understand.
Now these [1a] we’re going to call attributes here just to
begin with. Now, attributes that make up
God, that’s not true, it’s only true in the sense that He has attributes and an
attribute constitutes only on the ground of what was there previously to have
attributes. You don’t have attributes
and then have God, you have God with attributes. You see?
And the attributes defined are really from our viewpoint so that we can
get to know about God and the things of God.
So we say, well put it this way, attributes that make us to know God, or
make us know that He is God, you’re all in here [1a] in the potential, this particular point. So there are abilities and properties that
lie within Him. See? And those abilities and properties are all
able to manifest because He’s omniscient and He’s omnipotent. He knows everything about Himself [1pd]
and what’s in Himself and He knows exactly what to do with it [1a] and He can do it. Sovereign God! See?
Oh people don’t understand sovereignty.
There’s a book out now by a man, Douglas Weaver, that wrote me and
phoned me, but I was so sick in ‘84, I couldn’t keep up the
correspondence. So he got in touch with
a lot of people and he wrote a book on Bro. Branham particularly, and he’s made
some terrible mistakes if we could have sat together I could have helped him
but he is like all theologians, they’re blind.
I’m sorry for the man, he’s a nice man.
I’m going to take his book, and get it, and we’re going to have some
real Armageddon’s with it because he’s wrong.
He’s like every theologian, he argues back and forth but he can’t prove
anything. I challenge 50 billion people
come up and hang...come up here and pray over my fingernail and make this
fingernail stop splitting. Just tell me
right now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ it will never split again. Can’t do it--William Branham could. Stand right there and raise the dead. I saw him on two occasions. I can’t...don’t get me going.
All right, attributes up in here, [1a]
that make us know He is God, abilities and properties that lie in Him and all
possible to be made manifested because He is omniscient and omnipotent. Okay?
Over here we see God in government. [1g] In government, or,
pardon that awful writing, office, but I not only can’t write good but I can’t
reach. Now, over here we see, oh that’s
not
very
good to divide that, that way, over here we see a tripartite, a triunity God.
Now He’s all of this, [1a and 1o] not one bit of change but He’s into
government now, that doesn’t look too good does it? that’s better, God in
government or God in office. These [1t ] [F – S – HS ]are not three persons.
See? Not at all. I’ll just put the abbreviation there, Father,
Son and Holy Ghost. See? They’re not three people. You can never find Scripture that designates
God as three individuals. No way, shape
and form.
Now, here [1g] is God in
government. Now, God in government, we
can just keep moving this way because we’re learning a little bit as we go
along. [Draws arrow from [1o to 1a] [another arrow from 1a to 1t] Now in the
beginning here [1o] there’s complete
nothingness out there. In here [1a] we find God collecting all of His
thoughts, forming all His plans because
He took counsel with Himself and nobody else,
He tells us that in the Bible. Now over
Here [1g
and 1t ] He’s beginning to move into this
realm of the office of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One God and this concept is
down here to the family concept. [1fc]
You see we talk...what I read about?
Now, here is what happened and the mind can boggle, I care less. My mind boggles, just join the crowd, just
don’t worry about it. So here [1c]
we have, now, God in creation plan.
Okay, we’ll start here. Now it’s
all the same God, it’s just a matter of how God’s going to manifest
Himself. We’ll put Son, Father, Holy
Spirit. Now, we can start with John.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And we understand,
(3) All things were made by him; and there’s nothing made that wasn’t made by him at all.
And one of the great things you watch, most everybody, not *denigrates or denies the third verse,
but they forget; [*Denigrates – to blacken, soil or defile]
(4) In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
In Him was Zoe. [1z] In Him, now let’s go over it again.
(1) In the beginning was the
Word,
Now what is the Word? The Word is
the expression of the thought or concept, but when it is the expression of the
thought or concept it must literally contain the thought or the concept. It cannot be a mumble jumble word. Now we make up words, see? People began spearing things, “Oh, let’s make
that a fork,” or they’d adapt it, from maybe spearing fish to spearing food on
the table. It’s not the way God
works. God had to work from what He is
Himself because He is the great conceiver.
He’s not a concept, He has concepts.
He’s the great conceiver. So
therefore when God is going to come forth as it says in the book of John, “In
the beginning was the Word,” now he’s talking about a beginning; back here [1o] there isn’t a beginning so there’s
got to be a beginning when all of this starts to come together and to bring it
down into here, [1fc] the family concept. So there’s got to be a creation. Now, God’s got nothing to start with except
God. See? Now, watch.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
So therefore we have this understanding that God is going to begin to
project Himself. So Bro. Branham brings
out here, and we have here, [2] like
Logos. He called it a light. In another place he called it the Son; we
went--that is S-o-n--we went through different thoughts on that. Now, remember...I’m going to use another
colour here, remember this One up here [1o] is this One here, [1p] is this One here, [1g]
Who wants to, have a family. So
He’s going to have to manifest somehow as a Father. This is where His office is. He’s got to get down in here. [1fc] Now, at the same time as we’ve
been taught so thoroughly by Bro. Branham, He is a Saviour, He’s a Redeemer,
He’s many things, so therefore He’s got to manifest somehow what lies in
Here [1g]
down in this area here. [1fc]
So, everyone of these little attributes, they’re seeds, or sons, up in
here, [1as] see? Now, when He begins moving it will be because
of what is in here, [1g] in there, [1t] in relationship to this [1fc]
and He Himself. Now I hope you followed
what I was saying. God wants a family,
God’s a Father, there’s got to be a relationship, He’s got to do something
about it. So okay, they’re all in here.
[1ar] Now, God begins now to move
and this is here [2] where God
begins, if you’ll try to get with the expression because it’s a tough one, God
begins creating Himself. Now God cannot
create Himself, we’ve got to use an expression, but because this [1c] is God, God begins to move into
this area here [2] where there is an
expression. See?
Now, this Logos here, [2]
we’re going to call it Son also, Bro. Branham said, God came down here, [3] this is the sermon of Melchisedec, and he,
the Scripture says concerning Melchisedec, “No Father, no mother, no beginning,
no ending.” Now it can’t be Jesus per
se, we’re talking about the man, down here [5] this one becomes Jesus, down in here, [5] and He does have a Father and He does have a
mother. I hope that’s not too far down.
Okay, now what we’re looking at here then is, the coming down from this
area [2 to 3] to redeem
the children of God [1fc] and to
understand a certain amount of God becoming flesh--how there is one God, and
that’s all there is, there’s not two, there’s not three. So let’s begin to try to understand...to look
at this.
Now, if I want to... (just kind of delete that), I learned a little
trick years ago when I was in high school and this is a trick the teacher never
taught me, but teachers do it today, and every one of you could have learned it
by yourselves but it’s likely you were taught it because you’ve got a better
education than I had, better teachers.
When I was given a question in mathematics and I couldn’t understand how
to solve it, I would work from the answer plumb back to the question. Now teachers teach that method nowadays. I learned that when I learned it the hard
way, they didn’t teach me and we did final examinations and those examinations
were corrected not by your teacher but somebody in the capital of our province
and a teacher that you never saw or heard so they were very, very tough on
you. So to get the best grades possible
I would always work backwards. So I’m
going to work backwards.
Here is, maybe I better raise this a bit here and not make it so far
away. Here’s Jesus, [5] the Christ, this one was born of the
virgin Mary. Now, what we see here is
the body [5 ] that was born by
Mary. Now, where did this body actually
come from? Body...now here we go to
nature again. Where does a body come
from? The body of every specie, and all
species, there’s no difference, the body has to come from the life that *predicates
the specie. You’ve got, look it here,
you’ve got dog life, you’ve got bird life, you could put animal life, bird life
in there, hundreds of thousands of species in there, [6al] see? So we’re looking at the fact that there is a
life source. [Predicates – to affirm, to declare]
In the book of Genesis it tells you, God said, “Let the earth bring
forth the beast.” The earth cannot bring
forth a beast--no way. The beast spirit
was already there and so God put a body on it from the earth. He made man to be a spirit form, which is
life, and He said, “Be fruitful and multiply.”
But He didn’t give him a body as He gave the animals body. So then He gave man a body. That won’t do any good because the female and
the male is in the one body, so He splits them.
So therefore they can propagate according to the life. But where did Adam get his life to
propagate? “God breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life and, breath of lives,
and he became a living soul.” So here’s
God passing His own life down to Adam and Adam was responsible for passing that
life on.
So therefore we find here God, [1c]
through nature is bringing down here to Mary, [6m] [Draws arrow from 2 to 6m] well God
wants to be a Father, and God is Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is the great
Creator; He was the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the earth--didn’t
He? So what happens? The Holy Spirit visits Mary, [6m]creates in her womb the sperm and
the egg which is the carrier of the Life, and the Life is all of God and has
nothing to do with Mary or anybody else.
That’s all there is to it. Now,
watch what happens when this One comes forth, here Jesus. [5] I’ll just wipe that off
the line so we get a little closer to what I have in mind here. Write this in again, virgin Mary. Now, we’ll just leave that here, just rub
that all off.
Now, this One here [5] is a
baby, a human body, He grows in stature with favour in God and man, and He
comes to the time when He’s thirty years of age. At thirty years of age His cousin, who is six
months older, appears on the scene [6jp]
and it’s John the Baptist. And that’s a
true human being, this one [5] is
not a true human being, though He is a true human being, never came like Adam.
[6] When He said, “God is my
Father,” read the Wuest translation, and
the literal translation is, “That Jesus claimed that God is His Father as no
other person could claim God as his Father.”
And that is right because the Holy Ghost did this in the womb of
Mary.
Now, watch this man come here, [5]
this One is The Christ. So what happens? God comes down [5fhg] in the form of the Holy Ghost [Draws
arrow from 1t to 5fhg] and He
has the office of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and at this particular time now,
being the Father that brought Him forth, He is now ready to manifest Himself in
the offices as Son so there can come a time when this Son [5fhg] is in the congregation and praises God for every one of His
brothers that he rescued.
Now, let me read you something to get the picture and I haven’t got the
picture perfectly clear yet but I’m working on it and I’m going to tell you
something, brother/sister, the things of God are so simple that we’re so stupid
it’s pitiful. I can’t even find what I
was looking for--oh, here it is, 2 Corinthians, can’t find it in Phillipians, I
want Phillipians too, but I don’t want it that bad. Let’s look at the fifth of
2 Corinthians, and let’s read it. And it
says here now in verse 17.
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (a new creation): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Now watch,
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ,
You get the picture? “God was in Christ.” [5fhg] What’s that? The mask. Okay, here is why I’m trying to show you there are not two gods, three
gods, there’s one God. God was in
Christ. Now look it, “In the beginning
was the Word, [2] the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.” Now I’m
going to go from this area here, [5fhg]
the answer, because Christ is the answer. [5ta] I found this, here [5fhg] is the mask, and God is in Christ. Now watch, the life and the whole fabrication
is of God, period, and God indwells it. [5fhg] You’ve got the same thing right here. [2]
Christ came out of God, which is the anointing, coming out of God, God
now indwells this, [2] positively making it so that God Himself, by
Jesus Christ, [2] creates every
single thing. You follow me now? There’s only one God, there’s not two of
them. I can’t teach and relate perfectly
all of this [2] yet but by the grace
of God I’ll go further maybe not all of it.
Now, let’s look at this here, here comes Melchisedec. [3] Where did this Melchisedec come from
here? [3] It is another mask that
God uses, it’s a theophany which means God is going to show Himself. Now God doesn’t have to show Himself to
Himself and there’s no use God showing Himself at all if there’s no one to show
it to. So therefore God will adapt to
whatever the subjects are who are looking at Him.
So now He gets a human form here [3]
in Melchisedec. That’s why Bro. Branham
categorically said, “The same One became
Jesus.” [5] But Who is this in
here? [3] It is God.
That’s how it is with Michael, when Jesus was Michael. It is that anointing, that spirit, call it
spirit, call it anointing, that’s what it is because, “It’s
the anointing,” Bro. Branham said,
it’s that Logos [2]that came out of
God that God inhabits. So therefore
Jesus said, (we’ll put it here), [5fhg]
after thirty years of age, “He that has seen Me, [5fhg] has seen the
Father.” And He said, “I and my Father
are one.” Now, as we said in here, [1o]
all of this that you see here, [1a]
in little dots and forms I’ve talked about, was already in Him.[1o]
So therefore, Bro. Branham said, “In
Him was to be; Father, Son, Holy Spirit, healer and so on.” [1ih] Now, if in Him was, then that’s all He could
be. That’s why you don’t have three
gods, Father, Son, Holy Ghost--you’ve got offices: and in the offices you’ve
got manifestations; and the manifestations you’ve got government.[1g] And I want to ask you now, Who came
down and set Himself at the head of the church as the government to take
over? Logos![Bro.
Vayle points to the picture of the
Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham] What’s in the Logos? God!
And He came down in this last little while to be manifested as the Son
of Man, which is a ministry.
So the Son of Man is not the Pillar of Fire, it is not William Branham,
It’s in the form of the Holy Ghost. So
God has given us again the gift of His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost and
we’re talking about God. Who do you
think is in that Pillar of Fire? [Points to the Pillar
of Fire picture again]
God is. See? That’s just an expression the camera
caught--you and I can’t see it. That’s
theophany, you maybe see it one time, you don’t see it the other time, goes
through wall, goes through anything else; now this is kind of tough to follow
but it’s not all that tough. See?
Now, in him was to be, and of course what was to be, had to be, and had
to be manifested. Now let’s get the
picture. God’s always had prophets [Points to the picture again] and He’s always had His children, and the serpent seed can’t
understand it, and the foolish virgin walks by it, but a son of God knows it
because the “Deep calleth to the deep,” and “Sheep know the voice.” Let me tell you something brother, we’re not
living in some pipe dream, some theologians’ stupidity. Let them show me one
THUS SAITH THE LORD. They can’t do it,
they’ll stand around pontificating.
We may burn for what we believe, praise God let’s burn, let’s get the
spirit of it brother/sister, get it right.
Let’s understand this, we can burn, if they want to burn us, we can
suffer and die if we’re supposed to suffer and die; you bet we can sons of God
do. That’s right. The squeeze hasn’t
come down yet. I get a whole lot more
than you do and it’s nothing yet. I just
get angry, disgusted and hurt, my nerves go pooey on me and potty on me and
everything else, then I snap out of it, come out fighting again. I’ll soon have myself shucked of all the
preachers, they can drop dead. You spill
your guts and they just run and tattle on you.
They don’t believe you anyway so why fool with them? God didn’t send me here to teach
preachers. Anybody listening can do what
they want to do with it.
In Him was to be, in Him was to be merely means that
whatever is there will be manifested in its proper role and time. In Him
was Father, Son and Holy Ghost. That
merely means the roles to be utilized as God’s sovereign desire, when and
where, and as often as He pleases and in what way He wants to do it. That’s all.
All right, we saw Him coming down
here
starting here, [2] bringing
us down as sons. That’s where God begin
to form Himself into human flesh. He
doesn’t do it until down here [5] in
the sense that it’s the fullness of God.
These little fellows [1a]
came all down through here, [1a to 2 to 6] through
the human race of Adam.
Now, let’s go to Ephesians. Now
one thing you’ll get some thoughts, you won’t get them all but you’ll begin to
get some thinking in your mind now and getting some things come together. Just keep bearing along until we get to where
we want to go which won’t be tonight.
All right, and in verse nine of Ephesians says, [Chapter 3]
(9) And to make all see (The word ‘men’ in there is again, is not men at all. It doesn’t belong in there, it’s talking about the saints.) and to make all saints see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Christ Jesus:
...did it, but where was God? In
Christ Jesus because we took it back from here [5fhg] and God cannot change.
He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, and God does not change
intrinsically, and the way God does it does not change--That’s why we’re
liable. So if God used that man [Points to the picture again] as He used other prophets, then we’re liable. Say, “I didn’t know.” That doesn’t cut any ice with God. Thing is you didn’t want to know. I don’t say you.
Let’s go to Colossians one, you see what I meant when I said, “Let’s
work it backwards?” Now if you we know
what we’re talking about here, [5fhg ] I don’t care if we understand it
here [2]
or not, it’s got to be that way. You
understand what I’m saying? You really
understand what I’m saying? You still look kind of dumb. You’re not getting it. Look, God doesn’t change, so if I know one
time perfectly what God did I’ve got Him right there.
All right, God was in Christ, [5fhg] then He always was in Christ, [2] because Christ means “The anointing”
or “The anointed One, Mashiyach, Messiah, Christos,” it’s the same thing and so
therefore that is the Logos because it said, “The Word became flesh,” the full
identification of God in a mask. Call it
what you want just remember this, and don’t forget it because that [5fhg] is our key. I can’t go back to
the time of Moses, I don’t have to, God has spoken in the Son--so look at the
Son.