Who Is This Melchisedec? # 10
Bro. Lee Vayle
September 4, 1988
Shall we pray. Gracious Heavenly Father we remember the words of Your faithful angel, came to Mary and said, “All things are possible in the actual presence of God.” And Lord we know we are in Your actual Presence by the descent, according to the Word of the hour, “That the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven,” and if that Personal Presence brought forth the conception and the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, we marvel now at what your Presence can, and will break forth, Lord, in a Bride. To bring forth a Word Bride, Lord, and a people out of the ground that might be completely resurrected and glorified, the start Lord of eternity which we have already been in, and always were in, but in a new form, a new formula, new mode--we know that’s happening now, Father.
We thank You for Your
Presence, and we pray that You’ll teach us the Word, Lord, that’s supposed to
come forth wherein You said, “The Spirit of God, the Spirit of wisdom,
revelation, and knowledge of Him,” would be in this hour Lord to do what it is
supposed to do, which we believe is the Shout.
And so help us Father in the messages that Your servant left us, we
might understand what he said, and might be applied into our inner most being,
that every channel of our mind, our soul, and our spirit may be entirely filled
with the Word of God and the life thereof until it begins to flow forth from
vessels that are truly sealed into Thee and by Thee. Lord, we know that that seems very far
fetched in the light of the Laodicean concept but You said it Lord, and we
agree that it’s true, and we trust we’re a part of it, so we’re looking for the
fulfilment in our lives. In Jesus’ Name
we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, we’re still on the
“Who Is This Melchisedec?” and I think we shall be for some time, and we’re
taking various facets of it where Bro. Branham would make certain statements
and then we begin to look at them. And
Bro. Branham in mentioning how that Melchisedec was actually God in a human
form, and then he said, “You never see
Him again until He appears as Jesus the Christ, and he made a specific
statement there that, Understanding how
that this One came down in human form and then of course ascended going back,
would help us to understand how we came down, or how we came as the attributes
of God into existence in human form.”
So, again I’ll take my
terrible artistry before you and I think that’s all I can do because I’m not
adept at this,[ Bro. Vayle begins his outline on the board] but we’ll start with the precept and understanding of God. And we won’t take all the diagrams as we did
formerly, and we just start up here with God
[1] who has within Him
certain characteristics, attributes, and qualities which are Godlike and
because He is God He’s not solely attributes. When you get a dictionary
definition on attributes, I like that one, if I can find it here, if I have my
notes in order which I don’t know if I’ve got them or not, on attributes by
Daycart, he mentions that an attribute can never ever be taken for the whole,
at no time but the whole itself has many attributes.
So you might say, God
has many facets within Him and He being God, which always was, and even God is
not responsible. Now this may sound
strange but we’ve sort of got to get some thinking in here to understand a
little different from our own human thoughts that...look, I’m not responsible,
somebody else is responsible, for literally the reason I am here, or I am here. And there’s...God is responsible in main, for
every single thing that’s in the world by creation, government enforces and
all, and it all has a purpose in being until God brings it to the final
conclusion of what God wanted.
Now let me put it the
same way, God is not responsible that He’s God.
Now you understand what I’m saying?
He’s God. He’s what He is and the
question is, “Did He ask for it?” No He
didn’t ask for it--He was. Now this
boggles the mind. I’m sorry we’re being
boggled but that’s the way it is. I can’t
help it. So as Bro. Branham said, “It was in Him to be a Saviour.
It was in Him”. Okay, so
that’s up here, [1] “In Him, was to be a Saviour.”
Now notice, it was to be. Okay.
What was, “Was in Him and it was to be.” Now not in the sense that it already
wasn’t, it was, being potential but it had to manifest. See? It has to come forth.
So that’s why Irenaeus
said, “God being a Saviour,” in Him to be, He was, your mind boggles, it’s just
a fact that God has no control but God is defined, He’s not amorphous, He’s not
the breeze, He’s not everywhere. That’s
a lot of stupidity. God is defined, He’s
got limits. See? Everything has. So, He was what He was, now, it’s all in
Him. What was there, [1] was in Him and it was to be. Now, it can’t help but be, so therefore God
must, as Irenaeus said, “Him being a Saviour, and it can’t be helped.” See?
Now, that’s if anybody
then turns around and says, “Oh I believe in God, yes I do. He’s a sovereign being but I want to tell
you, this stuff about man, and he’s a sinner is a lie because man is not a
sinner.” That man’s a fool. He better shut-up and not ever mention the
name of God again. Hear what I’m
saying? You know why I’m saying it? You don’t?
You know why I’m saying it?
Because look, God is. You can’t
change Him. He can’t help being what He
is. Now that sounds strange but just
keep it there because I mean to say what I’m saying.
Now, so Irenaeus said,
“God being a Saviour, it was necessary that God predestinate a sinner in order
to give Himself a reason and a purpose of being.” So therefore, what God wanted was to manifest
every single one of these attributes, [1a]
or characteristics, or roles, r-o-l-e-s, which was in Him--He wanted to do
it. And remember He can’t help doing it
because He’s God anymore than you can help eating and breathing. Now I’d just like to see you stop breathing
at will. Will somebody please
demonstrate? Then I’ll give you twenty
minutes to die. Please somebody stop
breathing at will.
Okay, in Him then was,
and it would has to be. Now, God...and
now I’m not going to try to review everything from last night because it’s not
going to work. Up here [1] in God were all, these little things
up here, [1a] we’re just going to
call them His life, His life potential.
His life potential because in Him was Zoe. And that word ‘life’, takes in the human
being, takes in the caterpillar, takes in the tree, takes in everything that we
say is animate and not necessarily animate but has some type of life flow
wherein it is able through a process to eat, to give off waste, and to
propagate--stones don’t do that.
In Him was the life
principal. See? In Him was everything we see out there that
is in a living form and everything else was a product of Him as He spoke it,
but not necessarily in Him. It’s just
like the sinners, the reprobates, they were in His mind and written concerning
in a book, but they were not in Him--we’re talking what was in Him and we know
that we were in Him. At the same time
was in Him to be. A division here [1] and I have to put it way up there so
you can see what I’m doing. We’ll get
this, we’re going maybe to have to get a new pulpit, maybe roll it to one side
and get this because it’s necessary I show you.
All right, in Him was to
be. I’m going to put Father in here. [F]
In Him was to be Son, [S] in Him was
to be Holy Ghost. [HG] Now He was Holy Ghost but in speaking of a
specific office, left for the Holy Ghost as designated such. This [1]
is all Holy Ghost but it’s specifically designated as such being Father because
it’s a role and this is also the very same here. [1]
Now, we we’re all up in
here in Him and the Bible teaches us that Jesus will get up and sing a solo in
the midst of the church, or He will join in the great anthem, lead it, amongst
the congregation, singing, praise unto God--and He’s not ashamed to call us
brethren because we’re of the same source.
So here you’ve got out here [2]
what we call the Logos, where God begins to manifest Himself and bring out from
the inside what’s in Himself.
You follow what I’ve
said? That’s going to boggle the mind,
so your minds are boggled, so what?
How’d you like to talk about a cyclotron of smashing atoms and putting
together? I don’t know if even Gene can
follow those things? I don’t know, he’s
about the best educated one here with maybe understanding a lot of things in
science and all, maybe he’s not. Maybe
it takes the whole bunch put together, all the engineers here? Can you come up with answers? Well you say, “We’ve got scopes and we’ve got
ways of knowing things.” But I say, “Ha,
ha, can you create it? Do you know what
to do with it?” And the answer is no
because they built an atomic bomb, and now they’ve got atomic waste and the
whole thing is going to blow us up.
See? So you can’t understand
these things but we can read, and I’ve going to read Dr. Wuest, and get a
little bit of an idea of what I’m talking about up there. [1] Now, I’m going to try to get this in a hurry because we did a
lot last night.
[John 1]
(1) In the beginning the Word was existing,
Now, the word is an
expressed thought and within the expression must be the essence of the
thought. Now you just can’t call God a
thought. You can call Him the thinker,
the conceiver. So, the essentiality of
whatever is in the thought, and to become manifest, must be placed in
this.
[1] You hear what I’m saying? The essentiality of it. You don’t just say fork and an elephant
appears before you, or you say elephant and a fork appears. If the concept is elephant something is sure
got to have the elements of the elephant in it.
So listen,
(1) In the beginning was the Word existing, (Right up there [2] in that beginning.) and the Word was in fellowship with God the Father, (Okay.) and the Word was as to His essence absolute Deity.
Now there’s not a second
Deity there [2] as though God split
up. This is not Trinitarianism. See?
Where God is three tumblers of water poured into one pitcher--we’ve got
one nice God now all muddled together.
Now we’re going to pour Him in three glasses again, we’ve got three
God’s and He’s unmuddled so to speak.
That’s hogwash. That’s not what
it says here. There’s one God--the
Bible...everybody knows that.
(1) ...And the Word was as to His essence absolute Deity.
(2) This Word [2] was in the beginning in fellowship with God the Father.
Now notice, was in
fellowship. [1] Now that’s going to
boggle your mind. So let it boggle, no
problem, that’s just it. You can’t plumb
all these depths, but just look at it.
(2)
This
Word [2] was in the beginning in
fellowship with God the Father.
(3) All things through His intermediate
agency came into being;
Now notice, “All things
through His intermediate agency came into being.” He’s telling you what Bro. Branham said. This is the beginning of the whole thing
where God began to form Himself down here [5]
in Jesus Christ, and He had to have, as Bro. Branham said, “God before He made the fish with the fin, had to have waters to swim
in.” So in order to get down here[5] in humanity, He had to start up here
[2] and bring man down into
humanity, and at the same time you’ll understand why man bypassed this
theophonic body.[4]
Now let’s look at this
picture here because I want to get an understanding if I possibly can so you
know what I’m talking about. Okay, we’ve
got in here—[1a] we’re going to put
these in red along here--these are sons.
All sons of God on the grounds that they are the lives produced by God,
even as God breathed into Adam the breath of lives, and he became a living
soul. He became a human being absolutely
able to propagate because within his body lay his own wife, his own bedding
ground. See? So therefore, when they were separated, had
he got to her before the serpent, and he would have had to get there eventually
because that’s the law of propagation, they would have brought forth
essentially, according to nature, a true human being and they did when it came
to Abel. That’s exactly why Cain killed
him. One was essentially absolutely a
true human being.
Now, where did he get
him, where did he come from? Bro.
Branham said, “From the Logos”--up
here, [2] which he calls also, “Son”--came man, and that man of course,
was down
Here
[5] in Jesus the Christ. But also came man, [6] “Let us make man in our image,” which was Adam.
See?
Now, you will notice
that Adam came via the Logos, [2]
but he was not a direct essential being with the essentiality of God that this
One [2] was, because remember,
whatever came out of God, [1] that’s
all there was. So this, [2] came out of God, but this [6] did not. What came out of God concerning this? [2] This [6] came out of God. Then out
of here [6] we find the propagation
of the human race all over the place.
Now, “You bypassed this here [4] in order to be tested and tried,” that’s what Bro. Branham said. Now that’s what we’re looking at and he said,
“Now if you follow this here [5] you’ll
be able to understand a whole lot more about yourself.” And maybe that’s about as far as we’ll
go.
Now look it, in the
beginning up here [1h] is
Heaven. Now, we were in Him in the
beginning, right up in here. [1a] In other words, we all had to channel
through, [2] everything, because by Him, and for Him are
everything, and as Wuest said here, “This [2]
is like an agent of creation.” I do not
buy that although it is true in a limited sense of the word because remember,
we start down here [5] to work
backwards, and in here [5] we found
that God was in Christ. See? And Christ was this, [2] no longer that form, [2] which could have been a light, or a Pillar of
Fire, but was now an egg and a sperm. [5]
Can you take that much of it, and absorb that much?
He’s changing His form
and it’s going to be a propagation form [5]
though He doesn’t marry. And yes let’s
answer the question, “Was He tempted sexually?”
Yes He was tempted sexually. If
you think He wasn’t, you’re stupid. But
we’re no Scorceses’ or that renegade, blasphemous Greek, so much for the
Greeks, Popodopolus, and what’s her name?... Well you know, the song singer who
sang, “Everyday but Sunday,” she’s a prostitute, I think she’s a prostitute on
Sunday too. Let’s be honest. I’m not here to throw mud but I’m sick and
tired of their junk. They’ve blasphemed
God enough.
All right. The egg and the sperm brought forth a
complete God man. [5] Now let’s find out what he Bible says here,
we’ll read Wuest on this again, as to this one here, [5] in contradiction to that One that stopped off here [3] in the form of Melchisedec, wasn’t
seen again until He came down here. [5]
God in some type of flesh, same One that met Abraham, could eat the calf, drink
the milk of the cow, and everything else, like Bro. Branham said, and come on
down here. Okay?
[Hebrew 1]
(1) In many parts and in different ways, God in former times having spoken to the Fathers, by means of the prophets, (That’s “in the prophets,” we should not have changed that.)
(2) In the last days spoke to us in One who by nature is Son,
Now he’s speaking of a
nature. A nature is what? That which emanates, literally, you say, “The
nature of a thing is how it is in touch with everything else.” See?
So now God is absolutely in touch with, and touching everything. I hope you catch what I’m saying here now?
(2) ...One who by nature is Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he constituted the ages;
(3) Who being the out-raying, the effulgence of his glory, the exact reproduction of his essence, and sustaining and guiding, and propelling all things by the word of his power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high;
(4) Having become so much superior to angels as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.
Now what name did He
inherit? “I came in My Father’s
name.” So you’re seeing once more what
we looked at here, [1] a great
mystery and Christ is the mystery of God revealed. So what you do, you’ve got to start right
back here. [5] Now we have the
complete premise, the complete understanding.
God was in Christ, Christ is the Logos, Christ would be the anointing,
Christ is that manifestation--so therefore God was in Him. [2] God was in here. [3]
Now, He was also, Bro.
Branham said, Jesus was Michael. I
don’t have to figure it, I just have to believe it. He was in him and He moved on. Now, the same One that was in him
here,
[5] moved on and went back. [2] Now, down here we found, here we
found in here that this bypassed...the bypassing of the Logos. [4] So, well, we don’t have to worry,
the Logos is up there [2] so we’ve
got a straight direction down here.[5]
Now remember, Jesus came
by a human line. In other words, He used
Mary which was a daughter of David, going all the way back from the male
lineage and the female lineage, you can trace it all the way, that is both
sides of the family, you can trace it all the way back and absolutely was in
the Divine order and God--what did God do?
As He came down now, when Christ laid aside the glory, [2]
laid aside all of this,[3] [Bro. Vayle draws a series of arrows from 2 down to 5] came down through human instrumentality, God
chose one, [C1] and He chose the second one,[C2]
and the third, [C3] and all
the way down God choosing, [C4] God
choosing, God choosing right here and brought it right down here [6j] to this point so that the earthly
father of Jesus, so called, was Joseph.
The true Father was God, there was no sexual intercourse there.
So Mary now is a
descendant [6m] and she supplies the
body which brings forth the chemical processes that bring forth the child but
the life was of Almighty God and it says, “This One here [5] is the essentiality of God Himself,” so when men looked at Him they were looking
at God. “He that has seen Me, has seen
the Father.” In other words, He was God,
very God, but He wasn’t. Why? Because He [5] had the shell, He had the veil, He had the mask, He was the
hider, He was the skin, He was the tent, He was all of those. And Who was in the holy tabernacle? God was--God was in Christ.
God can never cease
moving from His original way.[2] I don’t care how many times He moves, I don’t
care if He moves a million times. [5]
He can’t cease from moving in His original way.
He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever and His ways do not change,
nor His essentiality, nothing changes so therefore you don’t have to second
guess, you don’t have to think, you don’t have to fool around, you just get the
hold of a principle. And we build every
study, and everything in this church upon principle. Alpha and Omega, parallelism of Scripture, all
of those things. I’ve given my own words
to them, that’s my business, not somebody else’s, but taken right from the
prophet and the Word of Almighty God. I
believe God gives them to me, I don’t know.
All right, so therefore
God has this principle of doing this.
Now, look, this One up
here
[2] coming from God is the only
begotten Son of God. He is a Son of God
as no other one is a son of God, “For it pleased God that in Him should all
fullness dwell.” It did not please God
that you and I should have it. It
pleased God that you and I should come on down here [6] in these bodies that could go into sin. And as He picked every ancestor of Jesus
Christ, He picked every ancestor [C1 –
C2 – C3 – C4 – 6j ] of you and me.
Now some of you kids may
hate your parents. Have a good time,
drop dead. I’ve got no pity for you, I
don’t like mine either. It’s immaturity
and stupid. Call yourself a child of
God, take communion--you better get your thoughts lined up kid. The first commandment with a promise is, “Honour
thy father and thy mother,” because you’re going right back to God in doing
it. Remember, God is not female but He
recognizes Himself as El Shaddai, the breasted one, and males don’t have
breasts that you can feed on or I don’t know what I’m talking about. I don’t think even with hormone injections
you can get a man to get that far--women.
So who’s our father and mother?
Just the same as God said, “For this cause man will leave father and
mother.” Who is the father and mother of
Adam? God was, the entire property.
So therefore what we’re
looking at, all right now, we came down ] 6[ bypassing the theophonic form [4] which normally we should have had
because essentially being in God we were essentially God--seed. Not fullness of God--God’s seed. Now the mind boggles again, say, “How could I
have been in God?” Well go ahead and
blaspheme God, be my guest. That
eliminates some of you right now.
You know you think,
especially strangers, think I’m awfully tough.
I’m not tough, this is just my way of preaching--to smack the people so
they wake up. Right? Just smack them, you go pop, you know, pops
the mucus out. Clears the eardrums and
you get to thinking, “Heh, I better watch what I’m thinking, what I’m
doing.” That’s the reason I preach this
rough, either you make them laugh or you hit them so hard they don’t dare
forget. Remember, there’s two ways to
teach. You make them laugh, they won’t
forget, and you hit them so hard they’re afraid to forget. See?
So all right, now
listen, we were in Him, [1a] but
listen, it was in God Himself to have a role of Son but we were in Him under
the role of sons of the fatherhood, many sons.
So that precludes us ever taking a role of God because remember it’s God
in the form or the role of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So it precludes us ever getting there but it
doesn’t preclude us from being essentially God and bypassing this [2] essential.
So that essentiality,
which is our soul or the seed, was relegated to Adam and we come down by
natural elections, the choice of God as Bro. Branham said, “The virgin birth is nothing compared to a human birth that God has
picked out,” well He hasn’t picked out, it was God’s own life coming down
and He’s tracing the sperm and you can put 15,000 sperm across the cross
section of one hair. The male ejaculate
of one life time, I understand the figures could be screwy because I got them
from Armstrong, but goes thousands of miles out into space. God knows every sperm and every egg. Brother/sister, you talk about a computer,
130,000 bytes, this is trillions of bytes.
Then God just goes, spoof, just hits His computer. Man alive, you’re a part of that.
Now, Bro. Branham said
categorically, “The reason you bypassed
this [4] is because you shouldn’t have a memory of what’s up here.” [1a] That’s why Jesus said, “Restore to
me the glory [2] that I had with You in the beginning.” What beginning? Well you can go back before there was a
beginning even and God took from Him, and He didn’t diminish Himself one little
bit by doing it, and bringing forth the Son, essentially God, but image,
image.
You say, “Hey, my son is
a splitting image of me.”
“Oh, you mean you carved
him out of wax?”
“Oh no, no, no, it just
means well, he’s another me. But he’s
he.”
Yes that’s the same
name. You’re looking at this, [2] and God indwelled it coming right
down here. [5] Now God doesn’t do that with us. But we come right down here [6] and we bypassed the theophany, [4] whereby we are able to be tempted, [6t]
and worse luck--that’s a kind of a bad expression--we can fall.[6f]
And the reason we can fall is because God now will be a Saviour. So that’s the big reason He puts Himself in
the form of human flesh, comes down here [5]
and He sheds blood because the life is in the blood. In other words, there is a literal carrier
for that which is spirit and cannot be seen.
Yet look it, let’s take
the life that’s in the seed. [Bro. Vayle draws a
cut-away flower]
Little old seed here,[Fs] sun and
rain falls on it, moisture gets hold of everything, there’s the soil there,
starts coming up--Look, I haven’t got the right color crayons and all, you’ve
got to visualize this. This is green,
I’m sorry, my green pen ran out, so this is green. Here we’ve got a little
green plant come up and we’ve got a green leaf over here so you folks can see
it. Now, past the green leaves coming up
here and we’ve got a flower that’s yellow.
I’m going to make a cut away on this flower here, so that you’ll see more about it. Now that’s a yellow flower and this is a
yellow calyx, I mean it’s a green calyx, I beg your pardon the calyx is
green. Now, in this cut away which those
petals are cut away, they’re yellow, there is a white pistil. [Wp] So this is white. And from that white pistil there comes
stamens. Is that what they call them,
those little filaments in there? They
bear the pollen. How in the world does
this little black seed here, how did that come out and know to produce a stem,
a stalk, and some leaves of green, and different colour and different texture,
put a bud on it with a calyx, and all those colors? Now you’re looking at God whether you know it
or not. You can’t figure it, but it lies
in there.
So therefore God, Who
can do all these things, brings us down here [6] to be tempted though there’s millions, and millions of people
and they all have pretty, well, they have the same nature but they have
different natures. They’ve got the same
features but they’ve got different features.
All down the line.
Now, God now has these
sons here [6] that fell and He’s going to restore them back to what was in
here [F] in the original, [Fs]
which is up here. [1a] See?
Now that’s what He’s got in mind.
Now, these [6] people then
are born again and they die. [6d]
Now, when they die, remember, the original was to put the sons in this form
here, [2] the true essential of God,
which Bro. Branham said in 2 Corinthians 5, “That
building is a spirit building, a spirit body, and it’s eternal,” and his definition of the word eternal, “That which never had a beginning.” So therefore we were predestinated to begin
with to have eternal bodies with our eternal souls, which is eternal God and we
got side-tracked on purpose.
So what does God
do? Now that you’ve missed your
theophany down here, [4] your theophany
here, you missed it, so you just zoomed around it like that and you came down
here,
[6] into here, and now you die, [6d]
so you go down here, [4] go
this way, you can go up, it doesn’t matter, we’re just putting it down, now you
have a theophany to go into. Now you’re
back. In other words, the whole family
in Heaven, [1a] that was named, has
to be down here, [6] go the way God wants it to go, and He’ll
bring it right back to where it was and exactly where this is [2]
so that every single one of us end up identical to Jesus Christ because
we’re brothers, all having the same source.
That’s right, the one Father, and there’ll be millions of Bride and
He’ll be in the midst of them, and New Jerusalem the tabernacle of God which is
Jesus, will be with men, they won’t need a temple. Now that’s kind of what
we’re looking at as we studied what Bro. Branham brought us here.
Now remember, I could
also quote, I’ve got many Scriptures written down here and I could quote
different Scripture but I’m not going to.
I’m just going to say this, that Jesus said, “Believest thou not that I
am in the Father and the Father in Me?”
And then He said, “If you can’t believe that,” and you know why they
couldn’t believe it? Because it didn’t
make sense. It couldn’t justify in their
thinking. There was no way they could
relate it. You know what He said then,
“Look, believe Me for the works sake.”
Now there you are.
Now your mind boggles,
my mind boggles. You know
something? I’ve thought of these things
for years, they’re constantly on my mind.
Why? Looking at it, every single
time I get a clue from God it’s in the Word and it’s so simple I just get
sick. And I say, “What have I been doing
all these years?” Many things come slow
and Jesus with those disciples, and they were so slow, even after the
resurrection He said, “Oh fools and slow of heart, to believe all that the
prophets said, shouldn’t this One that’s the Messiah have died?” He said so, so stop your thinking, stop your
asking questions, look at what happened, and there’s where the people are
wrong, they can’t see what happened in that man’s ministry. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of Bro. Branham with the Pillar of Fire]
You don’t have to
understand it all. You don’t have to
figure it all. The thing is, “Are you
convinced he was vindicated?” That man
was. He was so convinced of his
vindication he said, “If God tells me to
raise Abraham Lincoln from the dead, I will challenge the armies of the earth
to shoot me down if I don’t do it.”
Then these pea headed, stupid theologians, these book writers, have the
nerve to talk about William Branham and criticize his doctrine. Well, they’re going to go to the Lake of
Fire. I suppose I should feel sorry for
them and for them I could feel sorry but not for their authors and where they
came because it’s just another thing of the devil. See?
Now, “I and my Father
are one.” People couldn’t believe that
God’s in the prophet though the Bible said so.
Let me go back to Hebrews and read it again. Bro. Branham was very strong in this.
(1) God, in many parts and many ways, spake in times past in the fathers by the prophets.
Even the translators
wouldn’t put that there. They were too
humble. “Well God couldn’t surely be in
a prophet.” David the great psalmist, a
prophet, 500 wives and couldn’t be satisfied until he got the most beautiful
blond, or whatever she was, for his wife and killed a man to get her. Snort, snort, you know, “Pbbst. God wouldn’t
do that. Pbbst, God wouldn’t do it. No God wouldn’t. We’re such mortal people Lord.” Pbbbst, oh brother/sister, how rotten can
people be?
“God couldn’t be in the
prophets.”
Then God couldn’t be in you.
“Oh that’s
different!”
Is it different? Now you really stink. Pass the gas mask I couldn’t even stand
Limburger cheese let alone sulphur, what is it, dioxide? That stinks to high
heaven, worse than rotten eggs. It’ll
kill you won’t it? How about that Peter,
will that sulphur finally kill you or just make you so sick you wish you were
killed? Same difference--if you’ve got
to pray you hope you die what’s the difference?
It’s in there. Listen, God was in
the prophets.
(2) Hath in these last spoken unto us in Son, (It doesn’t say, in a Son or the Son, it’s in Son.)
God in His own
essentiality. I can’t figure it but I
know it’s there. Some might call it
ectoplasm. Call it ectoplasm, call this
plasm, call it that plasm, I don’t care what you call it. God somehow projected God essentially, and
there it was, and He slid right into it, came right down. People can’t stand that, can’t stand that
He’s in, that God would be in, then making all the worlds in there because God
did it. Jesus Himself said, “I don’t do
the works, my Father does it.” And if
He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, then up here [2] God did it--the Father did it up there. [2] In what? Son form. Why?
Hey, I think I’ve got some verses here.
Wrote them down somewhere, oh yes.
Let’s go to John 16, I think. If
this isn’t it, they’re here somewhere.
Have we turned over yet Joe? Well
you can let me know. Sixteen, all right
I think maybe it’s here. Yes, 27-28 of
John 16.
(27)
For the Father himself loved you, because ye
have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. (That I literally
issued out of God. Do you know
when you’re born you issue forth out of your mother because that word ‘born’
means, ‘to issue forth’?)
(28) I issued forth from the Father and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. (Issue back)
You like that? All right, let’s go a little further. Let’s take Jn 17:8, if that’s the right verse
now.
(8) For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they received them, and (they) have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou did sent me.
If you can’t believe
what the prophet said, you can tell all you want and say, “I believe he was a
great prophet, hallelujah, but you see, he made a mistake in his
doctrine.” You’re a liar. I’m sorry, you’re a liar. I’m not saying that to you, people around the
world get these tapes and anybody accidentally gets a hold of one, if you
should be sitting here I’ll tell you to your face you’re a liar because the
Bible calls you one. There’s no way you
can believe he’s a prophet sent from God unless you believe his words.
Dupleisis and the whole
bunch said right around here in Middletown, “That could be the deadest place in
America outside of Jeffersonville and Houston.”
Where the Pentecostals under Dupleisis
and the rest of them, I forget the other guys, came on the platform,
maybe it was Lindsay, and they said, “Bro. Branham’s a prophet all right when
he diagnoses your disease and prays for you, but don’t believe his word because
he’s messed up in doctrine.” Dupleisis
was glad Bro. Branham died. He said,
“Now,” he said, “that great judgmental character, he got judged himself,
smeared across the road.”
I’m glad Bro. Branham
went that way. I’m sorry we couldn’t be
there to see him die a natural death but I’m glad he went that way, and I’m
glad everything’s going the way it is because it let’s me know one more time,
“As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of
man.” Only eight people were saved. You say, “Bro. Vayle you’re vengeful.” I am not, you’re liars to say that, you think
that in your heart. I’m a believer in
the Word of Almighty God and I want it that way in spite of myself. That shows you there’s got to be something in
here from God.
I’m not judgmental, you
do what you want. When I’m out of this
pulpit you know I’m very easy to get along with, I crack jokes and everything
else. In this pulpit it’s a different
story. I operate under a gift, outside I
operate Lee Vayle. Pay no attention to
Lee Vayle. See?
All right, let’s look at
Jn 8:42 and see what it says there again, He came, He issued forth from
God. Jn 8:42.
(42) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
I want to ask you a
question, did you come from God? If you
did, I want to ask you a question, did you come by yourself or did you leave
because He sent you? Now if you had your
choice up there, [1a] which you
didn’t have because God made choice, ha, ha, and He said, “You’re going to
bypass this.” [2]
“O Lord, I want to
bypass, O Lord ...?..., please let me be that.”
You can’t remember.You even doubt that you
were up there.[1a] Your body wasn’t up there.[1a]
The soul with the cry of an eagle, that wants to get out of here! That
hates the flesh and yet indulges, that hates anger yet gets angered! That doesn’t want it; never did want it, but
you got stuck.
All of this thing has a
purpose outworking to God’s glory like
the man that was sick all those years, blinded, and they said, “Was this boy
born blind because his parents sinned or did he get blind because he did some
rotten sin himself and now it caught up with him?”
And He said, “Neither
one. He was born blind for the glory of
God” and now, He said, “He’s going to be healed,” because God is a healer. The girl that died, the man that died,
all...[End of side one]
...?..., ...The man that died, all of those,
they died for one reason, the same as exactly with Lazarus--for the glory of
God. God did it because God is what He
is. So therefore...so when you
understand these things, now Bro. Branham said. It helps us to understand our
own peregrinations--that’s our own wanderings, our going around in circles--but
the main thing is to understand this, that we were in the thoughts of God, we
were the thoughts of God, the seed of God, call it the soul, call it the life,
call it all these things. God brought it all down here [6] in a form which could fall and thereby God would utilize Himself
100% perfectly for you and for me.
Now, let me show you
something here. We’ll go to 2
Corinthians then we’ll get back to Bro. Branham’s sermon, I promise you. I didn’t say what day. I promise you we’ll back to it. 2 Corinthians, you’ve got to forgive me
because, look, I don’t want to be up here and lie, time goes very fast,
forty-five minutes are gone. All right,
2 Corinthians 5, and it says here in verse 18.
(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;
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto him,
Now listen, “He has
reconciled”...watch, how beautiful this is.
(18) He hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
(19) To wit, God was in Christ, (He created the worlds by Christ Jesus.) to wit, God was in Christ.
He healed the sick by
Christ Jesus, “To wit God was in Christ Jesus.”
And God’s in us, but not this way.
No, we don’t have the fullness of the attributes. No way.
We have the attributes in here that allowed us to have Zoe to take on a
human form, to be tested and tried, to fall into sin--and we’re not judged
because of Adam’s sin, brother/sister, that’s the truth because a baby dying
goes straight to the good place. And the
reason I said the good place and not Heaven is because I don’t exactly what
bracket they go to or what dimension.
They likely go exactly where Bro. Branham was because he saw his
daughter there. You see?
Now that theophonic form
will look just like you but resplendent.
No more sickness, no more pain and it’s just waiting to come back and
pick you up--that is if you die, it’ll come back and pick you up because you’re
in that form. You pick your body up,
you’ve got to have your body and we’ll find why, and what happens in a minute
or whatever time we get there.
Now listen, “God was in
Christ.” Now let me go to Galatians and
see the same thing here. Oh yes, Gal
3:19 and 20.
(19) Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
(20) Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
It tells you right
there, there’s no such thing as a one sided affair where a man says, “Hey, you
and I’ve got trouble and I’m going to mediate.”
You say, “Hold it boy, hold it, I’m going to call in the National
Relations Board, Labour Board,” because one person doesn’t mediate against
another. It’s two people standing there
and you bring in a third and this one says right here, “When God needed a
mediator, God became His own mediator.”
God in Christ Jesus again. Can’t
you see one God in various forms? It’s
no tremendous mystery.
It’s a mystery to a
degree but it’s no tremendous mystery in the sense that Christ is the mystery
of God revealed. And you look at Christ
and see Him, you will see absolutely God manifesting Himself and how God acts,
and people have a hard job realizing that God was angry with those Pharisees,
that bunch of serpent seed that had crept in His temple and desecrated the
things of God and He took a rope whip and I’ve told you before, binder twine is
one of the stinkiest things in the world to get cut with, you get cut with a
piece of paper, or a piece of string, it’s worse than a piece of glass many
times, it’s horrible, and He just took all that binder twine, those thorns,
whrrp, just like that whipped them.
“Would God do that?” He did it. He did it.
It tells you something and that’s what we’re looking at. The essentiality of God brought into
manifestation.
Okay, I think I’ve read
enough Scripture here. Let me go to Jn
5:36, and some day maybe we’ll take the whole thing, maybe in a nut shell;
5:36.
(36) But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
[Bro. Vayles starts a new set of drawings for pages 14 to 20]
Now look it right
here. It says, “The Father hath given
Him certain works to do that God didn’t finish.” Hey, way up here, [2] Logos starting out in
creation, down, down, these other things, way down here, [6] and He comes down here in
a man, [6] and He said, “Hey, there
were certain works that God never did do; I’m going to finish it.” Now that tells you something because He said
in John 14, He said, “The Father doeth the works.” God by Christ Jesus today is doing
works. God by the Logos and the prophet
is doing the works. [Points to the picture on the
wall] Do you believe He’s doing works? Well you better believe He’s doing
works--He’s not dead. I know to some
people God’s dead and sometimes I even feel maybe God is dead because I’m a
fool. He’s doing works. I believe what Bro. Branham said, he said, “People always looking back, always looking
forward, never know what’s going on.”
I’m going to tell you
something, the greatest revelation from this pulpit concerning the Godhead is,
“God the Judge,” and I’m telling you, just the other day I caught it. You go to your concordance and you will find
the word ‘God’ in both the Hebrew and the Greek is ‘magistrate,’ and magistrate
is a judge. And the first thing we have
is God up here, [1] is Judge, [1j] because He began to judge within
Himself. Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
then He chose and He chose all His children would come back. All of them down here, [6] O Hallelujah, going to get way up here again [8nj] in the New Jerusalem. Glory to God.
And the trials of this world will seem nothing when we get to the end of
the way. You won’t even remember it.
See?
I’m going to tell you,
this is true what I’m talking about.
This is gospel truth vindicated through a prophet. People are guessing, we don’t guess anymore. Do you know why Bro. Branham had that great
rest after the, beyond the curtain of time? Because he saw exactly what it was. Why he said, “That’s what I missed and I’ve been looking for it, and I’ll be so glad
to get it. And he said, I could never
be the same again.”
Brother/sister, let me
tell you, once more we’re looking at the vindication principle. It was vindicated by him, and to him, and
through him, then we say, “Hallelujah Bro. Branham, we’re going to be right
there with you because we know you’re a prophet, we believe you’re sent from
God, we believe your word.” That’s all
you’ve got to do.
That’s what’s wrong with
this whole message, they don’t believe it, they can’t because all they can do
is quote it. They haven’t got the
doctrine. If you don’t know doctrine, brother/sister,
quote yourself plumb to hell. Eugene
built a house here, he ordered a house, it was all by numbers. Right? What if you couldn’t read numbers
Gene? The basement on top and the house
down below--right. All the parts are
there kid, right? Every part was there;
lucky you could read numbers. You people
have got to know the doctrine. If you
don’t know the doctrine you’re stuck.
Sorry, we teach doctrine day and night here. I have one hope in this Word, my brother, my
sister, one hope in this world, that the true mechanics of God’s Word invades
our minds, our spirits, and our souls until by the grace of God nothing comes
forth but the Word. That means, and I’ll
prove it if we ever get to it, you’re going to be in the Resurrection. You won’t miss it.
Okay? All right, the prophet said, we study this,
we talk about us. We go now finally, and
I wasn’t lying after all. It’s sure nice
to prove I wasn’t quite as bad as I thought I was. We’re back to page 14 though, we haven’t
moved for three weeks, or something like that.
Now listen.
[69] ...You can’t be the Word,
You cannot be this body here, [2] the Word body, like Logos, whatever you want
to call it, spirit body, Word body, you
can’t be that unless first of all you were here. [1a]
Why? Because you’ve got to come exactly as He came. You could never be it. You had to be in the thinking first, unless you were a thought, you had to be in the thinking. Now it says,
[69] ...You had to be in the thinking.
Actually you had to be in the Thinker and you were a part of His thinkings’ so therefore you were a thought and now you’re going to get manifested and you should have had that body. Do you see?
[69] But you see, in order to be tempted,
Which you can’t be tempted there. There’s nothing there--can you tempt a rock? Can you say to this rock, “Rock, how would you like to be hurled at somebody’s head and see the splash?” There’s no use; it would be stupid. There’s nothing to tempt. That’s why in the Millennium Satan is bound by a chain of circumstances. There’s nothing to tempt. You just go on further sanctified and raised up in Christ.
[69] ...But you see, in order to be able to be tempted you had to bypass the theophany; [4] you had to come down here in flesh, [6] In Christ, not in theophany. in flesh, tempted by sin.
Now, Bro. Branham, and you know all preachers are guilty, not of sinning and blasphemy, but they take little bypaths, and even you do in your conversation because you want to fill something in and you really shouldn’t do it, you should stick to your thought to the end, then come back, get rid of all your interpolations, it’s much better other wise it’s tricky. Now we’ve got a little bit of trickiness here.
[69] ...Then if you sin,
See, By reason of being in the
flesh. Now just a minute, do
you think you really sin if you’re [1a ]
a part of God? No, it’s guilt by
association. It’s guilt by association--do you know why? Because when you come in this world, as the
baby drops from it’s mother’s womb, God gives it a spirit allowed of God but
not of God. Not the Holy Ghost, no,
no. It’s another spirit, and with that
you have the combination of flesh, and with that you have a physical brain
through which the spirit moves, and the spirit will tell you all kinds of hoaky
things, because the spirit is not of God.
See?
That’s why if you don’t
have the Holy Ghost baptism, the poor old soul down in here’s [Bro. Vayle points to his chest] got a real problem because in
spite of the fact it’s the seed of God it is now obscured and testing will come
against it, and in the soul lies the power of decision and if it doesn’t have
revealed Word it’ll make a wrong decision.
So you see, you’ve got a problem in this area here. But nobody’s going
to tell me that a soul from God would ever really sin. And Bro. Branham said, “See little Bride, you didn’t even do it. You were tricked.” And I want to ask you, “What did the
tricking?” It couldn’t happen in this
one, [1a] it could only happen down
here. [6] See?
Only happen down here, [6]
physical body. No other place. See?
All right now listen.
[69] If you sin... by reason
of being in the flesh, now watch, “All
that the Father hath given Me will come to Me.”
Now what’s he telling
you about sin? Sin brings death and
what’s death? Separation. So therefore everyone that gets separated,
not only by the fact of Adam, but he continues in separation because he’s born
in sin, shaped in iniquity, and he does sin, because you know you’re not judged
according to Adam’s sin, you’re just brought in it--what does it say? Well he said, “I’ll raise him back up.”
Okay, let’s have a little bit of a nice picture here. I like this much better. Aha, that’s a great big blob of mud. Now where’s my? Oh here’s my...here we are down here [draws arrow from 1 to 6md] in the mud, came all the way down here, [6md] bloop, hit the mud. Right? He said, “I’m going to, Whrrr, raise him up.” [draws arrow from