Who
Is This Melchisedec? # 17
Bro. Lee Vayle
October 9, 1988
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father,
now that You’re here in the form of the Holy Ghost, in a Pillar of Fire, we’ve
gone through the days of the Son of man, knowing the prophet and knowing God
our prophet. Knowing these things Lord,
that You set forth in this hour we realize we know them not just in a shadow,
we know them in increasing reality. We
also know Lord that without You revealing Yourself to us, we will never know
that You and the truth about Yourself and Your ways and all those things that
are so pertinent.
So Father we pray that You’ll be gracious to us thing morning, to keep
us in truth and just help us with what we need to know, O God, to be not just
those who are thoroughly conversant with this subject but are imbued with the
subject Himself, a real Word, Lord, that the life might come forth through
these bodies of flesh, O God, sanctified to You. We’re asking Your help this morning and we’re
believing at least in a measure Lord for it and we commend ourselves to You
therefore, in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.
Amen. You may be seated.
Now last night we were looking at the fact of a Melchisedec priesthood
and we are not of those people who try to make something of it as though we are
some great people and we’re some kind of a priesthood. I think you got that from the Message that,
that was not my thought. It’s a matter
of being in service even as Jesus came not to be served, or to be ministered
to, but He came in order that He might minister. And we read a little bit from 1 Peter and the
2nd chapter and he said,
(5) You also, are lively stones, built up into a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
And then in the 9th verse.
(9) But you are a chosen generation, (I think that has to do with election, it has to because you see it’s chosen.) a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; (That’s people for a possession--the word ‘peculiar’ signified by a circle with a dot in the middle of it.) that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
And of course the constant praises to God, that Jesus Christ did live a
sacrificial life and He was the righteous servant, He was a servant to all men.
Now, many, many people, I think without meaning to, bring these two
verses of Scripture into line with the thought that we are to give the
sacrifice of our lips and this has more or less devolved into then in Pentecost
a great form of worship which is verbal, and thereby they bypass the true
meaning of what would be a spiritual priesthood, which would be the people
serving God by serving mankind, and serving each other, and loving God by
loving mankind especially loving each other.
And remember, I forget just the incidence but I’m sure that most of you
can remember if you read it yourselves, how that it was said concerning the old
Christian saints in the first century of how they loved each other and that love
can only be manifested by an action, you know, even if it’s an action of the
eye.
Remember how Bro. Branham said to
his mother, he said, Ma, he said, mother if you can hear me, just bat your
eyes, and she’d bat her eyes. He
said, Are you saved? She bat her eyes. Well, sometimes there’s just a little love
light in a person’s eye, just a little, just a glance or something, that’s an
action; and something of sympathy, something of empathy, something doing always
for each other. And we’re not in a rat race
as though we’re trying to win souls, we’re trying to do something, it’s a
natural outflowing of the Spirit of Christ and I’m just letting you know that
Bro. Branham gave many tests concerning the baptism with the Holy Ghost. He said the major one was, “To be in the Word.” We understand that. To believe the Word, to acknowledge It, but
he also said, “All right, let me give you
a test, he said, how many people are
sighing, and crying because of the sins of the country?” Why he said, “God went through the paper with an ink horn today, how many would be
marked by the angelic ink horn showing that people are sighing and crying?”
The best we can do is a little bit like old
So, we looked last night at the principle of a priesthood wherein we
could begin to judge ourselves, our lives, really those lives that we enjoy
doing for people. Like Bro. Branham
said, “You can’t wait, he said, for the church door to open.” You know, I used to look at Bro. Branham and
say, “Boy, I don’t got that. Come times
I kind of wish the church door didn’t open.”
Now it’s come to the place where I could just live in the church. I feel better up here than any place in the
world. I feel, you know, sometimes I
stutter around and I’m not a stutterer but I can be nervous and almost stutter,
but when I get up here something begins to happen because there’s anointing on
the Word of God, and you know...so I can’t wait for the church door to open and
I don’t know when I’ve wanted the church door to close, unless I’m finished
preaching and everybody’s standing around here talking and I want to get home.
But other than that, you know, it’s...but so we look at these things and
we see that there is an evidence of the Holy Spirit and it’s not just a matter
of receiving the Word because Paul said, “Though I understand all mysteries and
have not love,” and Bro. Branham said, “That
was the Holy Ghost,” he said, “I’m absolutely nothing, I haven’t got it.”
So last night we were looking at this thought here of the, of a
priesthood of a people who love each other, and who do for each other, and are
considerate of each other, and put themselves out, and lay their neck on the
block, and things like that; and you know something, that’s so missing,
brother/sister, it’s so missing. We’ve
got a little hard core here in the church and I don’t know it’s in everybody, I
trust it is in everybody. I don’t put
anybody to one side. Myself, my family
as though hey, they don’t have it. But
you look around, and look, we’re not dumb, we’re not deaf, we’re not blind,
we’re not stones, we’re not inhuman, we know brother/sister when we’re in that
divine flow. We’re not kidding
ourselves.
Well Terry always said, “Our people,” you can hear it on tapes, we’re a
tiny church here, and being a small church every body knows everybody’s
business, who are you kidding? You know
all my faults, I know yours. Maybe I’ve
got a few secret sins you don’t know, come around and try to find them
out. That wouldn’t be too hard, I live
outside just the same as the pulpit here except I maybe watch my language a
little better here because I’ve got a little more circumspect, little more
grammatical, you know, a little more to the place where you can really
understand what I’m saying.
But anyway, that’s what we had last night in our minds and I just wanted
to let you know, because a little reiteration, a little going over it helps to
impress it on you that it’s something that you must pay heed to and begin to
check yourself because you can stop the divine flow by your own senses, not
your sensitivity, but your senses. A
sensitivity means you’re really getting behind something, getting where you’re
empathetic to it. See?
So we’re looking at, for people, now God is looking for a people as He
even said to the foolish virgin, He said,
“Look,” He said, “when I was in prison you came, when I was hungry you
fed Me, naked you clothed Me, and so on.”
They said, “When in the world did we do that? When did we do that? We don’t remember any thing at all.”
“Well,” He said, “you did it to my brethren.”
Then if that’s done to the brethren, what should the brethren be
like? Now let’s answer our hearts this
morning, brother/sister. Where are your
lives? Where is everything about you? Look it, you could reduce this thing to a
financial thing--forget it! There’s a
lot things more than financial. We can start
there as an illustration but you’ve got to go deeper. See?
That’s something we look at and say, “Now listen here,”...that’s where
the little widow lady, the little washer woman with her one to three tapes can
make it. As Bro. Branham told Billy Paul,
“There is some in the message this much
make it, and there’s some that much and never make it.” Then again how much is the Message in you and
me? See?
So it’s just a little guideline, a little thought here. Now that’s not the subject, I’m going to go
to my subject which we started last Sunday, and we were looking at the fact
that Bro. Branham said over here, if I can find where he said it, can’t seem to
find anything and looking for it, but you know what that’s like. See, what page am I on, oh I was on the back
of it wasn’t I, or was I? Well somewhere
in here anyway, that’s funny, I saw it a minute ago. I guess I’ve got too many places marked up. But anyway, if I never find it, it’s here and
you don’t know what it is except I tell you which makes it awkward. But anyway, Bro. Branham said, “What we study here in Melchisedec is what
every,...” oh here it is here, I
didn’t mark right. Oh brother!
[65] When Abraham met Him, That’s God. He was Melchisedec. That’s
the character or the role of the act. and
He unfolds here In this what Bro. Branham is teaching from that portion in
Genesis 14, He unfolds here what all the
attributes That’s the sons or the seeds. will do in the final end, every son of Abraham. That would be every
spiritual son, every child of God, every so and so. Every
son of faith will do absolutely the same thing.
But I want you to watch how we have to come.
So what we did here, the last two or three times, what we did was to
realize through the principle of Alpha and Omega, that what was in the end was
in the beginning, and what was in the beginning was in the end so like Bro.
Branham said, “You never bother too much
what’s in the middle, you just watch both ends.”
Now he said, “Up until the time of
the opening of the Seals till this day nobody had to worry too much about the
token.” Well THE Token had not come
because THE Token is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. But the token had come in the sense, and the
true sense, that a token from THE Token was given to each individual because it
started Pentecost when THE Token came, Christ in the form, God in the form of
the Holy Ghost, Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost in a Pillar of Fire, and a
little flame, a little lick came from each one to each one from the central
cloud, though the central cloud was not diminished. It was just like the Spirit of God lighting
the Spirit of man or the soul of man, the spirit of man being the candle of the
Lord, and God binding that one back to Himself, showing that that one was an
original child of God from the very beginning.
All right, now, all through the ages Bro. Branham said, “You could get away with joining a church
and you could do this, and you could do that, the other thing, but, he
said, now without the token you’ll never
make the Exodus.” And that’s
true. There’s nobody going to get out of
here, not that they could be Bride without it before, but there’s nobody that’s
in the will of God and the divine flow of God, and the Bride of Christ, that is
not a part of the baptism with the Holy Ghost, does not have a part in it, and
recognize the Token is here.
Now, so we go back to the very beginning. I thought I had a green, oh I do, I’ve got
one here. We’re going to go back to the
very beginning up here and we’re...that’s not green, it’s got a green, that’s
not right, somebody got the wrong cap.
See? That just shows you if a
brunette dyes her hair blonde, you’ve still got a brunette. Right?
Yes sir, don’t you...Bro. Branham said, “You can tint your hair if you tint it the colour it used to be.”
All right, we’ll start up there [See 1 on the left side of drawing]and this will represent, a circle,
which will represent the eternal God and there was nothing before Him because
He is before all things and you cannot understand eternity, you cannot
understand God. There’s no way. Now if He were visible to us, we could say,
“Well all right, I can recognize God because there is a certain form there
attached to It that gives me the ability to know that God is within that
form.”
So therefore that’s why Jesus said, “He that has seen Me has seen the
Father.” And that’s as far as you go
because He said, “No man can see God and live.”
There’s no way, there’s no man at any time that has seen God, “The only
begotten of the Father who is in the bosom of the Father, He has led Him forth
and declared Him by words,” He’s described Him to you, He’s made Him plain and
if you don’t listen to Word and understand what is there by vindication, forget
it, you never had a part in the beginning; because you’ve got nothing to
understand with.
That’s the same as a little eagle.
Bro. Branham said, “The eagle
couldn’t understand how the chickens could be so happy picking in the manure
heap with the old mother saying, ‘cluck, cluck, cluck.’ ” And he was just
ready to, you know, bounce their heads in, because he ate fresh meat-- he
couldn’t take it. He was just always in
trouble with that bunch of gooks in the barnyard. “And one day his mammy came
flying over and screaming--that did it.
Well she said, ‘Just jump up.’
‘Well,’ he said, ‘I’ve never jumped before.’ ‘Well come on, you were meant to jump,’ she
said, ‘you’ll see what happens.’ He
jumped and pretty soon took off.” He was going back, you see, to his origin.
All right, we’re talking back here of the origin of all things. Now, what we want to do, we’re making some
dots in here [1a] and because Bro.
Branham speaks of attributes: which he speaks of the seed, which he speaks of
the soul, which he speaks of sons of faith, sons of the spirit, sons of God and
right down the line, he used about six or seven different appellations in this
Message alone.
Now, what I want to start with this morning is what I talked about one time before and that is; we are missing out on the understanding of reality. We look at this Bible and the song writer says, “God had a plan. Oh beautiful, lovely, plan.” So now God begins [1p] to work a plan. So as He works the plan He begins to work all things into His plan and everything is nice and so we see a sort of an impersonal, im, i-m, impersonal thing. Now, that’s a lie. That’s the devil’s lie because the devil is a part of that and he is very impersonal though he is personal and one day he is going to be annihilated and all his rotten botched up devils with him. Even every mosquito that bit you is going to be annihilated. I have no use for mosquitoes. Every germ will be destroyed. So we are not looking at the impersonal when we talk this morning, we are looking at the personal. We are looking at the personal God who had a Son.
Now Bro. Branham said, he said, “Let
us just, with spiritual eyes, see a light form.” He did not say, “God created a light.” He said, "It
formed.” Now, when you use the word
‘formed;’ it means something is molded from that which is there. When you use the word ‘create;’ it means
nothing is there and you make something so something will be there. Now he said, “A light begin to form,” So
if a light begin to form, [2] and he
said, “It was like the Son, call it the
Son, call it the Logos.” He said, “All right,” he made it all the same thing, “Son of God,” same thing, right down the line, and he said, “Like a child playing around his father’s
door,” so we put Him there. [2]
Now, look, I’m going to change that [1] morning for a very good reason, [See 1 on the right side of drawings] I’m going to do this. [Draws circle around 1] Now we have a picture of God in the role of
Sonship, whether you want to understand, or believe it or agree is up to you,
this is what I understand myself. We
have in the role of Sonship because this is the Son of God and God is in the
Son because the Bible distinctly says--and always again we use the
understanding that God never changes, when He does a thing once there’s no
argument from that time it’s always the same--and the Bible says, “God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself.”
And Jesus Himself said, “God is in me speaking the Words and God is in
me doing the things that I’m talking about.”
So it was not Jesus doing it, it was God in Christ doing it. And Bro. Branham categorically told that as, “The Christ, as the Son of God, as Logos.” Now I’m just not going to argue with anybody,
I just believe a prophet.
Now the reason I say I put it around here [2ah]this time
instead of out here, although it’s perfectly all right which ever way you want
to put it, is because, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the
Father in me.” Now, let us look at this
thing to begin with and understand where we’re coming from. Well, we’ll do it by going to the Scripture
and we know the Scripture in Jn 1:1.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
So therefore as Bro. Branham said, “If
you make Jesus the Word,” And we’re
talking now of the human being, “You make
three gods.” You have, even with my
speaking here, very close to a Trinitarian concept, that we’re looking at a
great fountain that burst forth into three components--but that’s a laugh. You couldn’t get three if you tried because
the Holy Ghost, Father, Son and Holy Ghost is not God the Father, God the Son,
God the Holy Ghost, because God the Holy Ghost is the whole of it. That tells what it is or as Serbatus says,
what it is doing. So you eliminated one
of them. You might as well come back to
the truth of the Word, It said, “God had a Son,” period.
Now, in other words, God in the form of Sonship is what you’re looking
at, which you’re looking at Logos. Now
let’s look again. The word ‘Logos’ comes
from the word ‘Lego,’ and I’m quoting Vincent and he’s one of the best
authorities. And in the word ‘Lego’
there are four components as root meanings.
1. To lay or to spread out. So that would mean, whatever is there you’re going to lay it all out, spread it out.
2. Is to pick out. You’d categorize, put it in sections.
3. Then you would gather it. In other words, there would be a blending, a unity, a cohesiveness.
4. Then picking up, which would be to package, put it on its way.
In other words, if you’re looking at God here and you’re looking at
Logos, you are looking at the great infinite mind being exactly what He was,
and is, and ever will be, and within Himself deciding exactly what He Himself
is going to do with Himself. Now whether
you like that or not I can’t help it.
And I know it’s over our heads but I still can’t help it, because
there’s nothing there but God. He hasn’t
made one speck of stardust, there isn’t a wind blowing, there’s no leaf on any
tree because there are no trees, there’s nothing. There’s absolutely God.
So we see that Logos is the understanding of what the old Memra was to
the Hebrews, which they equated God to His Word. That’s why Bro. Branham, always equated God
in the Word and that’s exactly theologically correct. But you know, people don’t want to believe
that. So here [1] we have God.
Now, what I’m bringing to, before I go further is this one thing; if we
were...well I’ll use little green dots here, [1a] if we were here, we are not looking at plan, see? We are not looking at plan. We are looking
first of all at sons and then a plan.
Now, married couples marry on the grounds of a physical attraction and
the physical attraction of the likeness brings forth children.
Now, let’s say that a couple, like Abraham and Sarah, have great plans
for this son, because Abraham is a rich old boy, he’s loaded. Now he says, “Sarah, when we have this boy of
ours, and he’ll have at least three hundred camels by the time he’s four years
of age. He’ll have a thousand servants.
He’ll have the pick of all the beautiful girls because look it, I can go
anywhere with my money, get him the finest wife and wives anybody would want.”
But now just a minute, what if he doesn’t have a son? “Well we could have a daughter and I’ll get
her the finest husband in the world. He
doesn’t have to be rich because I’ve got enough for everybody.” What if he doesn’t have a daughter? What’s the use of planning? So you see what I’m trying to drive at, this;
God--it was already here.[1a]
This is where we fail in our relationship to God, we cannot seemingly
come to the place of recognition and this is what killed Bro. Branham as the
prophet: God in the prophets, God with a skin on it.
“Well how could it be possible that William Branham could be God to the
people and God could be in him to the extent that William Branham said, “The Pillar of Fire is standing up inside of
me now.” Oh hogwash, what a
blasphemous, terrible thing.”
But just a minute now, what about you said you received the Holy
Ghost?
“Well you see Bro. Vayle, that’s very impersonal. That’s not making any great claims. That is just the mercy of Almighty God that
He saw a poor blasted sinner, blasted with sin, and degradation, [Da-spots] as dark as dark could be and
maybe some weren’t quite so really black and horrendous and we were just a
little paler, [Br-spots] like a nice
rich brown colour. But God in mercy, Hallelujah, looked down upon a reprobate,
a swine, and a dog and by divine *alchemy
by the Holy Ghost changed me [Wh-spots]
into a lovely sheep.” Pbbbt. Have we ever heard such blasphemy? The changing of the specie. “Because you are sons God has sent forth His Spirit in your heart!” [*Alchemy
– a process of transforming something common into something special]
Now listen, I’m going to tell you something, this is not just rough
preaching. This is hard to understand, I
can’t get it myself --but I’ll preach if it chokes me and kills me; and this is
where your lips sacrifice, and this is where you sweat, and I’m sweating
because it’s hot. That’s Judy’s fault
because she didn’t like my coat last night, she said, “Wear something
smarter.” It was wool last night, it’s
wool now too. But here you are,
see? It [Points
to the spots on the board]
makes you sweat spiritually. To even
dare to claim, “I came from God, and I go back to God.”
I want to ask you, where do sons come from? The Bible pinpoints it from the loins of the
Father and Bro. Branham explained it. He
said, “Because you and your mother are
one” and that’s exactly the Word of
God because Adam and Eve were one, and if you think the same God can’t bring
the egg, the right egg, and the right sperm together, you sit here dense, dumb
and unspiritual, because Bro. Branham said, “The
virgin birth is nothing compared to a birth that God, going way back to your
great, great, great, great, great, great, great,--take it all the way back.” As Levi was in the loins of his great, great
grandfather Abraham. So where did you
and I come from? See?
We are not looking at a plan, [1]
my brother/my sister. We are looking at
God where God is all and in all. Now
that’s the first thought with the little thought this morning, whether we take
off or not, who knows? So let’s get down
here a little lower. We’re going to get
down here to the earth, which is very dark, and put some of you brown people in
there because you just weren’t half bad, you weren’t killer dogs, you were just
dogs, “yep, yep, yep” marking around, you know, cussing and stealing but you
weren’t killing, you weren’t real black dogs.
Down here though we’ll put some of these dark people, these brown people
in there. Yes...not Lee Vayle, ain’t
going to do that. I’ll show you what
were going to do. You’ve got these
people down in here [6ts] and
there’s whole lot of them. There’s just
maybe thousands of them but not millions.
Of course over here [6hms]
he’s got these over here and they look like that and there’s hundreds of
millions of those. See? When the Light strikes this one [6ts] turns all white; Light strikes
that [6hms] turns all black--wrong
seed see?
Okay, He’s down here. Now, how
did He get down here? [6ts]
See? That’s what we’re looking at. We’re looking at the fact that God had all
these seed up here [1a] and we’re
going to put a touch of green here, or is that blue? It’s kind of green I guess. These colors are so poor or my eyesight is,
one of the two. I never know, and then
the caps fall off and I don’t know where I’m at. This is blue, that’s green, okay.
Up here, [1a] now these sons
here got to get down here [6ts] and
they’re real sons of God and they get sealed in by the Holy Ghost and the Holy
Ghost comes upon the body. That’s why
this body [6ts] when the Holy Ghost
comes through the Word of God turns perfectly white. So the whole being is now subject to the Holy
Ghost. And this little part in here,
being eternal, didn’t need the Holy Ghost except to bind the lost son back to
the Father and show that he is now sealed in.
The Holy Ghost comes upon the body making it immortal in the sense that
though it dies and evaporates it’ll come back in the Resurrection.
Now, we go up here [1 refers to the drawing on the right] in the beginning and we see this whirling light around here, [2ah] and what I did in the
beginning I like to take this over here [2u] because this way it becomes unique. See?
It becomes uniquely what I’ve
got in mind. Bro. Branham said, “The only difference between us and Jesus,...” now let’s get this as far as the
pattern is concerned, not the intrinsic essential death, not the true
personality, but all were sons and Jesus was the only begotten son and that in
the Greek signifies one and only, never was, never has been, never will be
anybody with His uniqueness. He is the
Son of God as nobody else is the son of God and God is the Father as God is the
Father to nobody else. That’s what we’re
looking at. So, we have it out here [2u] just for the sake of not argument,
but effect.
Bro. Branham said, he said, “This [1] light
begin to form and appear.” Now,
there was nothing there in the beginning except God. So then, what will this be? [2u] Whatever you see will have to be
God in a form. In other words, God
formed--not God creating, now to make something, but God forming Himself. Now Bro. Branham did say, “Christ was the beginning of the creation of
God,” which the Bible says over
there in Revelation chapter 3, about verse 14.
He said, “That was God creating
Himself in the form of human flesh.”
But you’ll notice right there
this [2u] is not a creation
in human flesh. This is where he said, “God formed.” So therefore it’s something.
Now, he said, “This [2u] is
a theophany, or a spirit-body.”
Right--spirit-body. Now he said, “You and I bypass it.” Come down here; [Draws
arrow from 1a to 6ts] now not
here, [6hms] no, no, no. Just down here to these right here.[6ts]
Nothing, you can’t have any other type. See?
The reason I make that very black [6ts] [Brown on the drawing] is because a son of God is apt to, can do,
and many times will do everything that a sinner, a seed of serpent will do
except he will never blaspheme the Word.
But in his actions he can do everything, just as much and even maybe
more.
Now I realize Stalin never got saved and Hitler never got saved. I don’t know about a lot of others, Ghengis Khan didn’t get saved I know that--but Paul got saved and he was an instigator of murder. In fact he was worse than a hit man because he got the guys to do the hitting for him. And what do you think is worse? A guy egging somebody on or doing it himself? I think the guy that eggs somebody on to get him in trouble is a worse jerk than the guy in a messy stinking mess than the guy that, you know, just on his own does it.
That’s the truth. If you don’t
believe that how come people shouldn’t get onto these drug peddlers? Any man peddling drugs should be
destroyed--kill him. Shoot him, or hang
him, or inject him lethally, whatever it is, I don’t care what it is, and I’m
not out to just kill anybody but look, the Bible is the Bible. So you say, “Bro. Branham didn’t believe
it.” You’re wrong, Bro. Branham
did. He said, “The reason he couldn’t endorse capital punishment too thoroughly was
because, he said, the rich man got
off and the poor man didn’t.” Every
time, usually when they got a black man, then of course they killed him right
off the bat because he was no account, he didn’t have a soul as far as they
were concerned. But that’s a lie,
everybody’s got a soul.
So all right, we find these [1a]
coming down here [6ts] and they are
bypassing this body. [4] See?
They cannot have that. “They come down here [6ts] in order to be tested by sin” Now, Bro. Branham said that. Now, what we find in “The Future Home Of The
Earthly Bride,” is the picture of what is down here [Points to the area of
6ts & 6hms] which
is the consummation of life [Points to 1] in
a physical form according to wisdom. Did
you hear what I said? It’s a
consummation of life. See? In physical form according to the
plan--that’s the consummation--of the life that was up here. [1]
In other words, Bro. Branham told us, that we have a,...
Well we’ll just make this, well I’m going to put this the Lamb on the
throne here [5l] and here’s the
pyramid, down here [8nj] that’s the
city. Across here there’s going to be a
wall, [W] a wall there and out here
are all the non Bride, [8nb] foolish
virgin. [8fv] In here, I just put these different colors
for the sake of contrast. In here [8ve] of course is all the people of God
and we’ll make this in here [5l]
where the Lamb is and above it the Pillar of Fire. [1pf] Okay? God.
Now, at this particular time you will notice that the ages have been
consummated, everything is completely finished, and every son of God that died
in Adam, and that’s going to be virgin wise and virgin foolish because the only
difference is the pattern, Bro. Branham said--there’s no difference--and you
can see on judgement day, White Throne--they enter into eternal life. See?
All of these people here, [8ve]
we’ve come to the place, what do we have?
We have God now with plan, devoid of plan because the plan is
consummated concerning redemption.
And what do we have? We have the
Lamb, [5l] the unique Son,
Only-Begotten One, who is the head of the church; and Christ is head of the
church and God [1pf] is head of
Christ, and down here [Points to 8ve – 8nb – 8fv] we have all the other. So Bro.
Branham said, “We are not Jesus Only, we
are not Trinitarian, we stand between.”
Now it’s hard to understand but that’s the end of it.
Now, if Alpha is Omega this [Points to 1pf & 5l ] is what
was actually there. It was there, [Makes a circular motion around 8nj & below the W] but now
God formed and created and formed in order to do this. [8nj] Now, we’re at the end time, there’s no doubt about it. We’re right at the end time.
So, let me read some notes here.
He said, “We’re not Trinitarian,
we stand in between them and Jesus Only.”
For we saw that through the divine principle of Alpha and Omega, there
is one God. Next there’s God’s
Only-Begotten Son who is also the captain, or our brother captain were called,
of all the rest of the children and finally there is the sons of God and they
are in their own order exactly as Bro. Branham told us, as the Word tells in 1
Cor 15:21 and so on. Well it says in 20.
(20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Now remember they’re several begottens in the Bible. This is one of the begottens from among the
dead.
(21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
(22) For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Now the thing is this, did we all die in Adam because of what Adam
did? Absolutely. Then will we be all alive because of what
Christ did? Absolutely. You see, we’re not dealing with happenstance,
or chances. We are not dealing with the
plan. We are dealing with reality which
alone is God because He said, “I am the way, the reality, and the life, and
there’s none beside me,” and this [8nj]
is reality in view the way God wanted it.
And God can present Himself and do with Himself anything He wants.
Now, let’s understand up here, [1a]
there is a bunch of people who believe this is the Elohim of God and we’re all
gods. We are not all gods, we are God’s
sons. We are God’s children. That’s why there’s one God. And the life of God does not constitute the
making of many gods. It constitutes a
race, a peculiar people, a chosen generation and the Bible tells us, “He shall
have a seed.” And that seed is what you
see right here [8nj] into a
manifestation.
Okay, all right, so we see the divine order--Christ the head of the
church and God the head of Christ. Is
that what the Bible teaches? It sure
does, look in 1 Corinthians. At this
time it can be seen that God is once more manifested, revealed in three because
God is God. That’s what He is, up there
in the Pillar of Fire, giver and sustainer of all life, the Father of all His
children. Number two: and there is the
Son who is a part of God, a part of the Life of the Father because God said, a
part of God went up.
So therefore, essentially you see, when you see Sonship, you see God in
a form and it’s always...that’s why God created all things by Christ Jesus
because He was in that form to create.
This here [2u] really is God
in God’s own Godness. And hey, just a
minute now, let’s understand this; that we bypassed this.[4] And Jesus said, “Give me
the glory I had with You in the beginning,” and He said, “Glorify Me with thine
own Self.” Take Me back to my theophany. Get me right back there, [1] get me right back where the whole
thing was God, not just principle but a reality and the same thing is we
bypassed this [4] and Bro. Branham
did not change the meaning in the King James version because it says, “We have
in Heaven an eternal-body, a spirit-body, a Word-body waiting for us.” So therefore eternal had no beginning and no
end. But we missed it, [4] but if you die you go back and get
it. That’s why Bro. Branham said so
passionately, “ Don’t, don’t, don’t,
don’t, miss it.” Beyond the curtain
of time. Not the miracles, not
Resurrection, not this and not that but that vision was the one that did
something that nothing else could do.
It was the same with the apostle Paul.
You see? Reality struck the man
that he could stand there and say, “I am God to the people.” And we can say the same thing, “I am a lesser
god because I’m a demi-god.” “Well how
do you know you crazy nut?” Well that’s
my business and not yours. You wouldn’t
believe it anyway. Shows you’ve got no
part in there. I’m not talking about me,
I’m talking about all of us giving our testimony. See?
And there is the Son of God, see, on the Lamb, who is a part of God, a
part of...you say, “Well just a minute now.”
Just a minute, aren’t we a part of God?
You know, this thing life is such a peculiar thing. Let’s digress and then I’ll let you go pretty
soon because I’ve got to watch the time.
Life is such a peculiar thing.
Here, [LBS] let me get my
little brown seeds here. Little brown
seeds, little brown seeds, little brown seeds.
And by the way, I have taken hand fulls of seeds and gone, “whew,” just
hands full of different seeds. I have
got flax seed, I have got rose seed, I’ve got wheat seed, I have got oat seed,
I have got all the good things like quinoa and you know, good things like, what
do they have? Millet, you know the good
things that you people don’t like to eat.
I don’t necessarily like them so much but you’d be surprised how good
pancakes are made out of quinoa flour--delicious. If you don’t know how to do it well, you’ll
just have to suffer to learn.
Now, what happens is I’m going to cover all these lovely seeds up with
dirt. [D] Now, the rain comes down and the sun comes
down and what happens? Okay, up comes
this plant, up comes this plant and we’re going to run out of plants but you
won’t mind that. Oops, that’s the
dirt. Where are we? Well now look it, we’ll do something like
this, we’ll get different plants--see?
Now the point is this, this dirt [D]
is one common chunk of dirt and I can get it analyzed and absolutely every
single thing in that dirt, these plants draw on and they take from this one
piece of dirt and they come up with as many as a hundred and fifty thousand
different kinds of plants. What did it? Not the soil, no, no, no, no, no. Not even the genes, it’s the Life beyond the
genes that did it because the life determined the genes when the Life had
something to work on.
So you see what I’m talking about?
A Life up here [1a] and that
Life absolutely determined the genes, determined the characteristics, determined
every single solid thing so it didn’t matter what the substance was--so God out
of one substance, one chunk of clay can bring forth every one of His attributes
in every child until He gets a beautiful church just the way He wants it,
washed in the Blood, full of the Holy Ghost, bring it back [8nj] without spot, without wrinkle and
is the glory of God, the assessment of Almighty God, what lay in that life [1a] that could not be seen. So what am I trying to tell you? The whole thing [1] is of God when it comes to life.
See?
That’s like Bro. Branham said...”Only
a man,”…look at this Jesus--only a man, William Branham--only a man,
Isaiah--only a man, you and me--only a man.”
Always goes by, passes everybody because you see, they cannot see as the
Greeks came to see Jesus, they couldn’t see Him because He was veiled in His
tent of flesh; and the Greeks want knowledge, and the Jews want signs, and
neither one will take the knowledge of God or the sign of God, they want their
own stupidity and the Greeks haven’t changed.
Oh that wasn’t nice. Neither have
the Jews and neither have you and I when it comes to race. So what we’re looking at [1] generically and genetically,
generically and genetically as a race and what lies within it--absolutely God,
and down here [8nj] is the same
thing. That’s why the Bible warns,
“Don’t judge any man’s servant under his own master he standeth or fall and yea
is God is able to make him to stand.” So
here we find here and there...[End of side one.]
And there is the Son who is part of God. A part of the life of the
Father. Amen is. So much as to be the fullness of the attributes of the
Godhead, and generically and genetically. God creating Himself into human flesh
from that start ‘cause that’s where God started, Because the Bible says,
“That’s what it was in the beginning and then it became flesh.”
And you notice the word “made” is always the word “become”. And when you
use the word “become” it simply means a metamorphosis. And the metamorphosis
thin is what was there in the initial beginning. How could a caterpillar go to
a butterfly? It’s because of not what is in the physical but was . . . [blank
spot on tape] .. . filth decay and the horrible minds degrade by hell,
television and everything else and get here. [8nj] Because it always was, it always was. See? The metamorphosis
is a negative one as we come down [6ts]
but as we receive Christ it becomes a positive metamorphosis. Bible says so.
It’s the renewing of the mind.
Now number three: Then all the other sons come. And this is not as I said just a plan but this is the destiny of God. God worked out His own destiny. See I know it makes our minds boggle. The trouble is we are spending too much time on everything but this kind of a subject. That’s our trouble, I kid you not. Now look, I’m involved in it deeply because of my nature and what I have from God as a gift, as I believe it is a gift. I don’t spend near the time on it but I spend lots just thinking, thinking, thinking, looking, wondering, wondering, and I’m not a prophet, I can’t hit the nail right on the head. I hammer around, may go kind of crooked but I’ll get that nail in there by the grace of God. I’m not worried so don’t you be worried either. I tell you the truth in Christ Jesus as far as I know it.
All right, it is to be noted that when the Son was begotten of God the
description is Heb 1:3. Now in Hebrews we’re going to look at some
things here that are pretty fantastic
if we can, if I’m right. Who
knows?
(3) Who being the brightness
of his glory,
Now the word ‘glory’ means the assessment, in a comparison. If you say a thing is glorious you say, “Hey
this beats everything.” See? This is the assessment, this is
glorious. This hits the nail on the
head. This fills the bill. There’s no words for it. How am I going to talk about it? It’s beyond me.
(3) ...Who being (the outflowing of God’s own assessment)... the express image of his person, (That’s where trinity comes in and they miss it.) and upholding all things by the word of his power,
That is in the beginning because God by Christ Jesus created all things
and maintains them. See? Why?
Because nothing was ever done until this. [1a] Always you’ll find the
Son dealing with Word in obedience, manifesting. I don’t care whatever you go to, you’ll
always find it there, it’s always there.
This is the same as in John. Now
he says here.
(3) ...when he had by
himself purged our sins and sat down;
Okay? I read you the first part
and stopped at the last part.
(3) Who being the (effulgence, the outraying of His glory) and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, (Now hold it, He didn’t do that when He was in the flesh, and the flesh didn’t do that. The flesh said, “My Father’s doing it.” The flesh didn’t claim anything. But notice then it says.) he purged our sins by himself. (Spirits can’t purge sins, spirits can’t bleed.)
Let’s go back to John and find what He’s saying. It’s quite simple I believe, I hope it is.
(1) In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2) The same was in the beginning with God.