Bro. Lee Vayle
October 30, 1988
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father we
realize that for centuries people have been saying that You are here and we
know that You have always been here in a certain particular way because the
apostle Paul said, “In Him we live and move, and have our very being.” That You
have made all things and by You all things are maintained--and then Lord by the
Pillar of Fire You are with Israel though You had to leave them; and then after
the birth of the New Testament Church You are with the saints by filling them,
giving them a portion of Your Spirit. But we know at the end time there was to
be, and is, and has been, an appearing of Your Presence Lord in the Pillar of
Fire which we know was vindicated.
And Lord, here we are at this hour
and we are not yet truly solemn and sober, and believing concerning that Lord,
“That all things are possible now that You are present.” And we know that the
“All things possible,” Lord, are what You’ve laid down in Your Word because we
have not been given the right Lord to ask of You those things which You have
not set forth in Your Word.
So we pray this morning You’ll
encourage our hearts somehow. We don’t know how You’re going to do it; how
You’ll bring forth the Word, whatever Lord, but encourage our hearts in such a
way to exalt Your Presence Lord and exult in it, O God, and to be very serious
and sober concerning it and the Word of truth, Lord, that is come forth in this
hour.
So Father, we just ask You now to
help us bring our thoughts together and say those things, Lord, though they be
deep, might be deep and profound, we don’t know; that’s according to what You
give us, but may they be easily understood. In all things therefore and the
remainder of this service we commit ourselves to you, trusting that You will
help us. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, we’re right up to about number
twenty-two, I believe it is in, Who Is This Melchisedec? and just backgrounding a bit on the subject,
“Who is this particular person?” Bro.
Branham took for his reading in the book of Hebrews the 7th chapter.
(1) For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
(2) To whom (That’s Melchisedec.) also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
(3) Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, neither end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Now we know that the understanding
that the theologian, the scholars have of this particular portion of Scripture
is that wherein it says, “Without father, without mother,” it means that this
man did not have any genealogy that anybody could possibly trace. And then when
it says, “Also having neither beginning of days nor end of life,” it means that
they don’t know when He was born and when He died. And then because He had no
children, no issue, because He was cut off evidently somehow, there is no
record whatsoever of Him but evidently He was some kind of a priest unto the
most high God, which is very strange because God had separated Himself to Abraham
and Abraham to Himself so it is not logical to believe--though the theologians
are very logical thinkers according to their own thinking. It is not Scriptural
nor logical to believe that there would be a priest who could minister to
Abraham, a priest of the most high God.
So, you understand what I’m saying?
That God recognized Abraham and Abraham alone. So how could He have had a
priest to minister to Abraham? It’s ridiculous--couldn’t have. So, when you
look at this person as merely a human being, without a genealogy, without
issue, a once and for all priest and then they have the nerve to go to the book
of Hebrews, the rest of this here, (having studied Genesis) and call it a
priesthood. That’s more than I can figure because one priest does not constitute
a priesthood because you’re looking at a lineage and you’re looking down the
road.
So, Bro. Branham being a vindicated
prophet, and we believe that he opened the Seven Seals and especially number
seven under which were the Seven Thunders, categorically states: That this person Melchisedec was literally
God in a human form. Now this maybe
stumbles people but it isn’t necessary to be stumbled on the grounds of Genesis
18, which follows Genesis 14, where Melchisedec appeared to Abraham. Now it
says here in chapter 18, verse 1.
(1) And the LORD appeared unto him (Abraham) in the plains of Mamre: as Abraham sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
(2) And Abraham lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
(3) And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: (And so on.)
You’ll find out in reading the rest
of this that one of those men that--as Bro. Branham said, “Ate the flesh of the calf and drank the milk of the cow”--one of
those men was actually called Elohim, and two of them were angels that went
down to Sodom to deliver Lot and destroy that filthy city along with Gomorrah.
For it says in the 14th verse after Abraham and this person had talked together
about Abraham having a son by Sarah, which had been promised him by God, that
Sarah laughed. She evidently didn’t really recognize God though Abraham did,
Elohim, and she laughed and [God] said:
(13) Why did Sarah laugh?
(14) Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed will I return...
Now what was the time appointed?
When she would be changed back to a young lady and he to a young man because
it’s utterly ridiculous to think that God would have a ninety year old woman
have a baby. That’s the utmost of stupidity. And it’s utmost stupidity to
believe that a Gentile King, Philistine King would want a ninety year old
doughty grandma for a beautiful young wife.
Now I know the world’s perverted
today and we see that today. Sheez! Well when you see people, like
Now, what we’re looking at here then
is the fact that God, when He so desired, took upon Himself some exterior form
that people like you and me, Abraham and so on because we’re human, could
apprehend it. In other words, say now, “I can communicate and I’m beginning to
understand there is something here.” Then God would begin to communicate His
Word to whomever He desired to communicate it.
Now, you’ll notice if you carefully
read the Scripture in the book of Genesis you will find that God was constantly
appearing in some form to somebody. Maybe a Pillar of Fire, maybe a cloud,
could be a whirlwind, mostly human factor is what He used.
Now when you get to the book of
Exodus you’ll find again that God is using a factor that He can communicate to
man through, which in the case I’m speaking, is a Pillar of Fire in a bush as
He attracted Moses. Then having attracted Moses, He sent Moses down to Egypt to
deliver the children of Israel with tremendous signs and wonders which would
convince Israel and the Egyptians that God had spoken to Moses and would do
through Moses what God said He would do. Now that was the idea. But on top of
that God literally appeared in a Pillar of Fire with great thunderings, and
lightning and earthquakes from
Now
So therefore God was not so much
anymore in a whirlwind. God was not so much anymore in a Pillar of Fire, but
God was basically, and intrinsically in the prophet to speak to the people, he
becoming God to the people but God reserving His rights to be in a Pillar of
Fire, or a whirlwind, or a cloud, or a voice, whatever way He wanted to deal
with the prophet who would then in turn deal with the people.
So, what I’m trying to bring to your
attention here is the fact then that if Bro. Branham came on the scene as a
vindicated prophet with, “THUS SAITH THE LORD,”--and here’s what I don’t
understand about people like this Mr. Weaver writing a book on Bro. Branham and
writing against him, and taking the word of some fellow in Germany who believed
that Bro. Branham was in spiritism, and defiantly told the world that Bro.
Branham was a mesmerizer, that he was maybe a necromancer, a witch, or God
knows what, and dare to defile the name of God to this extent; that William
Branham used the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and God backed it up. What kind of a God is that? I wouldn’t give
you two bits, or a needle in a haystack for a God like that! Because it shows
He hasn’t got any integrity.
Let me tell you something, this man Mr...I forget his name, I can’t
remember it so I won’t try, but that man will perish in the
So therefore a vindicated man, [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham] and that is a picture taken by a
photographer, he didn’t even know he was taking it. Checked out by George J.
Lacey with every single conceivable type of expert analysis and said, “That is
a picture of a supernatural being and the first one in history.”
Now you can do what you want about
it, but when a man comes in the Name of the Lord and the thing that he says
comes to pass, God says, “That is the man you listen to.” And I care for no German theologian. I care for no German period, theologian or
not, or any Irishman, or anybody else, or any colour that comes against the
Word of the Living God.
So we’re looking at a vindicated
prophet who said, “That Melchisedec,
without father, without mother, would have to have been a direct creation of
God.” Not simply one without a
genealogy, without descent. That tells you He didn’t come from anybody and He
didn’t have any issue. So He was made like unto the Son of God as a perfect
type. And I want to ask you a question: did Jesus Christ, when it comes to His
conception, when it comes to His beginning, did He have a father called Joseph
and a woman called Mary for His mother wherein Joseph supplied the sperm and
Mary supplied the egg and brought forth a child? Now anybody that thinks that
Mary supplied the egg is a complete fool. And anybody that thinks Joseph
supplied the sperm is even a greater fool because you’re dealing with a virgin
birth.
And the virgin birth it means:
“Without male intervention,” and goes further than that; a women cannot have a
child by herself. She does not have the proper chromosomes, I think X
chromosomes belongs to both male and female so by parthogenesis she might
possibly have a baby girl which is impossible as far as we know, but she could
never have a male child because woman don’t have the chromosome. So then did
Mary have an egg? No. Then what was she? She was an incubator. So now we have
Jesus without a father and without a mother. We’re speaking now in terms of a
descent. The only father He could possibly have was a creatorial Father or a creator
Father that could have produced that body.
So you see, if you don’t understand
Scripture you can get all mixed up. You could say, “Well this fellow here he
just happened on the scene. Nobody has anything about him, nobody knows. We
just let it go at that.” When you go right into Scripture you begin to
understand when you’ve got a prophet to give you the keys and all the clues to
it; you can find here that this One here which was the beginning of the
priesthood, and there was no continuation, and He would have been the head of
that priesthood; but you notice it says, “That Jesus became the head of that
priesthood.” Now how did He get it? Well we’ll get into that later on if we’ve
got time.
But in the meantime we’re looking at
the statement that Bro. Branham made, “This
One here was literally God. God Himself, who made Himself a figure like unto a
man. It was a human figure, that stood there and God Himself was that person.” Now you notice in plain English what we’re
telling you then: that Melchisedec is another name for God. And the name for
God at this particular point and in this revelation is King of Righteousness,
and King of Peace; and at the same time He was a priest ministering. So we see
the perfect picture of Jesus in the flesh. The created egg and sperm from the
very life of Almighty God Himself, being a King of Righteousness and a King of
Peace and ministering, ministering from God to man.
Now you notice in here that this One
offered the elements of the shed blood and the broken body. And Jesus Christ
will offer again the elements of the shed blood and the broken body, He Himself
to us, when He is King of Righteousness and King of Peace. Now that’s what He’s going to do. So you’ve
got a beautiful reality here and you’ve got a beautiful reality in Christ.
You’ve got a type here and you’ve got a fulfilment in Christ, what we are
looking at.
Now, let’s try to bring some more
thoughts out here. We want to go back to the book of Hebrews again and we’re
going to look at chapter...let’s see, let’s look at chapter 11 and we’re going
to look at verses 8 to 10.
(8) By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
(9) By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
(10) For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Now, what Abraham was looking for,
according to this Scripture, was a city that had foundations, whose builder and
maker is God. But let’s go back to Genesis the 12th chapter and here we find
what God said to Abraham:
(1) ...Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
(2) And I will make of thee a great nation,
Now you notice that the genesis, or
the beginning, is in Abraham and not in his father. So therefore there is now a
genealogy which Abraham himself was heir to a genealogy right back to Adam,
right back to Adam through Seth, right on down the line, but God draws a line
at the time of Abram’s birth. And He said, “Now it’s going to be numbered from
you. It’s no longer numbered from Adam” although it still is by the way because
you go plumb back to him. Remember Adam was a son of God. “But now it comes
from Abraham.” He said:
(2) I’ll make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
(3) I’ll bless them that bless thee, curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
So now we have Abraham here as the
head of all the redeemed of all the earth whether they are going to be Jews,
Gentiles, red, yellow, green, black, white, purple, who cares about colour or
nationality or anything else? It doesn’t matter--he is the one.
(4) So Abraham departed (He was Abram
then)...and Abram was seventy-five years old, he went out of
(5)
Took his wife Sarai, took Lot his brother’s son, all
their substance; went into
(6) Passed through various areas right in there.
And then it says in verse 8.
(8)
He removed himself from thence unto a mountain on the
east of
(9) And then he began journeying.
Now, over here in the book of Acts,
and I want to try to bring this together for you just...we’re looking at Abraham
now and he’s the fellow that met Melchisedec, which was actually God in a human
form. And here’s the martyrdom of Steven in the book of Acts the 8th
chapter...no I want the 7th chapter, I beg your pardon. And the 7th chapter, he
is speaking of Abraham and Moses and the very genealogy of
(8) And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day, (and right on down, and down, and down.)
And he tells you of Abraham. Now
watch, the 5th verse is the verse I was really looking for. You can take number
four if you want.
(4) Abraham dwelt in the land of the
Chaldeans, (He went out of the land of the Chaldeans, dwelt in the
And notice now in verse 5.
(5) And he (God.) gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on (Though he set his foot on it.) yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
(6) And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; (and so on).
Now, you’ll notice that this is the
book of Acts. We looked at the book of Genesis. We came to the book of Hebrews
and we found that Abraham was looking for a city which has foundation, who’s
builder and maker is God and he was heir to a land, though he walked on it; he
did not have the title to it and he could not claim it. So, in his
peregrinations--that’s his wanderings around--he was looking for a place to
settle. A place that had foundations. A place from which he wouldn’t be moving
any longer. A place positively whose builder and maker was God. Now what city
is it that has foundations, whose builder and maker is God? New
Jerusalem--that’s chapter 21 of the book of Revelation.
Now, why I’m saying all this is to
bring you back to the 7th chapter of this King. Now:
(1)
This Melchizedek, king of
High God, (A priest-king.) met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings...
Now, this is the perfect type of the
Lord Jesus Christ. See? God dwelling in flesh. God dwelling in a human
being--and that’s what we’re looking at. Is God, as Bro. Branham said, With skin on it. It’s not badger skins
anymore, it’s not goat skins of the tabernacle, it’s a human skin. Just like
God was in the prophets.
Now, God was in this
Now you’ve got two kinds of priests.
You’ve got a priest of God and from God that ministers to the people. Then
you’ve got a priest of the people that ministers to God. In both cases you’ve
got God and people and somebody between. All right, right here then you have
got to settle, as Bro. Branham put it, you have got to find then, somebody that
He’s ministering from and somebody ministering to. Which we see right here; God
took upon Himself a form whereby He was ministering to Abraham and you will
notice that He ministered the bread and the wine which is symbolic of the
crushed body, the broken body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the shed life and the
shed blood. Now that’s exactly what Jesus Christ did. He absolutely ministered
to man. God ministering to man in the form of a man. Aaron in a man, which was
a man, ministered for men unto God--he offered the blood. So that Jesus Christ
fulfilled both of those roles.
Now, at the time I’m speaking of,
because I was looking down the road a couple thousand years whatever it is, we
are looking at a King who must have had a kingdom upon earth. Now this puts
God, in my understanding from what Bro. Branham taught, into a very, very
peculiar Light because people do not want to believe that God would do a thing
like that.
Now listen to me, what’s wrong with
our thinking is; that we do not think like God and God does not think like us
and He does exactly what He wants to do when He wants to do it. How in the
world could you have anybody born with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb?
Yet John the Baptist was. How in the world could you have a condition like
this? And yet there was.
Now if you’re going to accept this
that this was a King, you are not going to get any historian, you will not get
anybody to ever tell you that there is a king without a kingdom. Never has
been, never will be because the king is the fellow that makes the kingdom not
the kingdom make the fellow. Now if you’d understand that then you tell me who
created God? God the great Creator is a King by virtue of the fact that He has
a kingdom. Jesus is King by virtue of the fact that He has a kingdom. So
therefore by virtue of the fact, there cannot be a kingdom of any description
without a king. There’s no way and I look at this and I see here where God came
down to earth and did something which is absolutely tremendous, which would be
the fore-running of the city which is going to come upon earth with the twelve
foundations.
Now let’s go back to the book...into
Hebrews again. We’re going to go to chapter 13 at this time. Now let’s read a
little bit starting with verse eleven. It’s not going to make too much sense
but it will make sense.
(11) For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Now it tells you right there, there
is a sacrifice made by the bodies of beasts for the sins of the people. The
blood is taken and spilled upon an altar, the bodies are taken outside and
burnt. That’s one of the types of the sacrifices.
Now watch verse 12:
(12) Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
They took Him and hung Him...they
hung Him on a cross outside of
Now watch:
(13) Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, (Go outside of the camp, go on out.) bearing his reproach.
Now notice:
(14) For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Now what are you looking at? I don’t
care where you look when you’re looking at Jesus, you’re looking at a city.
That’s right. When you look at Melchisedec who does not appear again until He
appears in Jesus, which is God in the human form, where God literally comes
down and inhabits a body. Not a body like this one He lived in, back in the days
of Abraham--but a body wherein He deliberately by the Life of God moved out,
and out of that moving out from the cells of the Spirit, there formed around
that, the material of it, which was Spirit--formed an egg and a sperm;
implanted in the womb of Mary that brought forth that child.
Now it says here, “You have no city,
but you go on out to Him and you’ve got a city.” And that’s exactly what
Abraham did. He moved out to get a city, we move out to get a city. Now I’m
trying to show you something here that’s important. Whether you have believed
or not by reading your Bible there is a tremendous importance in believing in
the New Jerusalem. Oh I know you say, “Bro. Vayle, I tell you what, if I could
just be the sweetest, humblest Christian and if I could be this and that, you
know what I’d do? I’d forfeit that city.” You...listen, you shut your mouth.
You are so stupid it’s to be sickening--and I’m right with you. How can you say
contrary to the Word of God, the shed Blood of Jesus Christ, said purchased all
this. How can you not identify yourself?
Let me read some more Scripture here
to show you what happened back in Genesis is real. That God did have a city! He did have a King!
He did have a Priest that ministered from Him to us! And it doesn’t change. Now
I’m going to tell you something, people are so heavenly minded they’re no
earthly good. That’s right--too heavenly minded. Look in the mirror anytime you
want and if you’ve got what God gave you, you think you got from God something,
you’ll say, “I’m a child of God, a son of God, I don’t care what I look like or
anybody else looks like.” You’ve got to say what God said about you and you’ve
got to look beyond your own image. They couldn’t look beyond the sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus Christ and see that He was that Melchisedec. He was that King of
Righteousness. He was that King of Peace. He was that One that ministered.
Sitting here this morning do we really realize it too.
Now let’s go a little further and
read something else here. In the 12th chapter of the book of Hebrews Paul is
speaking of suffering with Christ and I’m going to go into that for another
whole message which I don’t have time right at this point. I’ve left it for
down the road. And he warns us that there isn’t one single solitary son that
isn’t corrected by the Father. Whether you’re physical son born in the flesh or
whether you’re spiritual son born of God.
Now listen: what is the first thing
that correction depends upon? Correction depends upon a rule that was not
adhered to because it wasn’t known, and broken consequently and wasn’t known.
There can be no correction until first of all there is a standard. If there is
no standard there is no correction. I’ve
said hundreds of times, I suppose I’ve said it hundreds of times even to you
people here; that if there’s no answer there’s no problem. See? There’s no
problem. There can’t be. Think it over--there can’t be, it’s impossible.
Another thing is there’s never anything lost, it’s only misplaced. We have a
wrong philosophy.
Now, correction--do you think for
one minute if a father said to his child, “Now look, we’re going to show you
how to saw a piece of wood. Now your eye isn’t straight like it should be with
practice but your hand and your eye will come together eventually. In the meantime
we have a thing here called a square and we have a ruler. Now the best thing to
do before we cut is to see that the end of the 2x4 is perfectly square or it’s
not going to work. So now we put the square at the end of the 2x4 and we can
see there’s maybe fifteen degrees out. This is what fifteen degrees is. We mark
it. Fortunately we’ve got a saw here, we don’t even have to use our eye on it
we just put it against the square because it’s square already and we pull the
saw through.” You’ve got a radial saw you pull it through. Say, “Now the end is square.”
“Now here’s what you do, you be sure
that this 2x4 is plumb up against this square here, this buttress here, because
if it’s off, the saw is going to hit it, you could get cut. The board, the 2x4
come up and knock your head off and if by luck it doesn’t do any of those
things it’s going to be crooked because you’ve got to follow the rules.” Now
the kid’s a kind of a smarty pants and he doesn’t follow the rules and he gets
knocked on the head with the 2x4 and the dad says, “Well that’s bad enough. I
won’t have to correct you because I think you’ve done got corrected.”
Well the boy said...and he said,
“Now son, look all these marks down here this signifies zero number of inches.
This is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, that’s one foot. It goes into twenty-four inches, two foot, thirty-six
and up here it’s an eight foot length. Now however you want to cut that, all
you’ve got to do is put that 2x4 right there and you hold it right there
because the saw hasn’t touched it. By the time you get where the saw is, you
simply put your finger there and press it, run the saw through, you’ve got a
perfect cut.” And the kid’s kind of cockeyed because he’s too fast. He goes down
here and he puts it one inch short. Well the father’s got to correct him.
I’m trying to bring out something to
show you here: there’s no such thing, because correction, unless there’s
something there in the first place, and the correcting of any child of God is
to know the revealed Word of God and to act...first of all to believe it and
then to act upon. Now if that kid had really believed his dad he’d have been
very meticulous. In fact he would have been so close he would have wiggled the
thing back and forth. Dad say, “Now look son, don’t get nervous it isn’t all
that hard. Just take it easy and just push it right up there.” Now if a kid’s
real smart by the time his dad’s through teaching him, now this is just
woodwork, he will have picked up a lot of things on his own. Now you can’t do that with the Word of God.
You can’t take from, you can’t add to It.
Now I’m going to show you something
here. See we’re looking at a correction. Now God has a Word all laid down here,
a Word that is perfectly correct, that was given to us under the apostle Paul.
But in the very first church age men and women began to leave the Word until
right today we have marriages and divorces, churches messed up, people’s lives
messed up, everything completely out of cater, everything out of balance,
everything bad so that now God did not have in this time a measuring rod for
people to measure by. That’s why the prophet said they could get by in all
those church ages under the law of the sacrifice for ignorance. Now, in Jesus’
day and Paul’s day, there was no sacrifice for ignorance. Why? Because they
knew. Later on the sacrifice for ignorance had to come in.
Now, William Branham comes on the
scene as the vindicated prophet with the perfect Word of God. I want to ask you
a question: then is there a sacrifice for ignorance? The answer is no. The
minute you come head on with the Word of Almighty God there is no more
sacrifice. Now God had to correct this Word before He could do anything about
putting a judgement upon us.
Now, after reading--and I’m not
going to go through this whole thing--after reading the heros of faith in
chapter 11, we get into the picture of Jesus suffering outside the gate. We see
Him living the entire Word of God, therefore dying for you and for me because that’s
living the Word of God, to die. Then it’s put upon you and me to believe what
was accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ and what was revealed to us by the
prophets as Paul said, “My gospel.”
Okay, now let’s keep moving. And he
says, now he said, “I tell you what.” He said:
[Hebrews 12]
(13) (You
people live such lives that people cannot be lead astray.)
(14) (Live in peace, be holy without blame.)
(15) (Looking unto Jesus at all times...)
(16) Unless there be a fornicator or profane person like Essau,
Now we know that fornication and
profanity is not the sexual thing and the physically immoral thing, it’s a type
of the spiritual. Now he said, “You be very careful you do not get involved by
going and leaving the standard that God laid down.”
Now Bro. Branham laid that right on
the line for us. This world is judged by one Christ Jesus. He said, “The
Judge is here. The world was already condemned, we’re standing before the White
Throne right now, it’s been all laid out.”
Now we’ll get back to Melchisedec,
we’re coming to Him in that city--don’t worry. Now it says here that this
fellow Essau positively, when it was too late, wanted to get what was rejected.
You know the foolish virgin come and they come too late and they want to get
the oil and there’s only one place where the oil is and that’s in the Word that
they rejected.
Do you mind...well I wonder, can I
stop for awhile and give you a little interjection here, something to think
about? We’re going to come back then to where they reject...the foolish virgin
rejected at this point right here.
Bro. Branham said, “There’s a squeeze coming down.” It’s over the Trinitarian doctrine which
resolves itself in water baptism, Father, Son and Holy Ghost--right? Just a minute; how many people are baptized
in this world in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ or Jesus’ Name? Hundreds and
hundreds of thousands. Are all those people foolish virgin? The answer is no.
You know as well as I do they’re not. Then what kind of a squeeze is coming
down? If they’re in organization, the Catholic church could well go back to its
foundations when they baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You get
what I’m talking about now? Then the pressure may not be just that you’re
baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let’s read something in 2 Timothy
here. Paul says here in 2 Timothy the 2nd chapter, verse 8.
(8) Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
(9) Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of the Lord is not bound.
Where would you and I suffer?
Because we believe that William Branham was a vindicated prophet from God. And
the Catholic church claims that for its Pope. Now what if the Pope has got to
go back and say, “Hey, we blew it. We never should have changed our water
baptism.” You can let a lot of people right in there but you’d never let the
group of people in that take the Word restored in this hour--can’t do it. So
that squeeze is going to be much tougher squeeze than we think it is, much more
devious, much more problematic. I just want to let you know this morning,
there’s things we can look at every now on this squeeze coming up, which will
come.
Now it says here: [Hebrews 12]
(17) ...When
He would have inherited the blessings,
See he was rejected. Now remember
the virgins come, now remember there’s a group of virgins that come to Jesus
and they said, “Lord open the door to us.” And He said, “I used to know you as
my wife but I don’t know you as my wife anymore.” They’re rejected. Now let’s
read on. I’ve said all this to come to this.
(18) For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, that burned with fire, nor blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
(19) And the sound of a trumpet, the voice of words; which voice that they heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(20) For they could not endure that which was commanded,
See?
What was commanded? The Word of God laid out, the plumb line. Isn’t it
wonderful to have instructions, the kind of instructions that you know if you
follow them you couldn’t go wrong? The 119 Psalms speaks of that, the Bible
speaks of that. “What shall I set before the young men?” The Word of God,
they’ll never go wrong. What about the young women? The Word of God, they’ll
never go wrong. What about the old men?
The Word of God, they’ll never go wrong. [End
of side one] There’s no
way to ever go wrong with the Word of God as long as you follow it.
Now see:
(19) And the sound of trumpet, ...they entreated (and said, “Don’t...we don’t want to hear from God anymore. It’s too terrible to think of hearing from God, let’s hear through a man.”)
That sealed it in. Now watch.
(22) But
you are come to
Now look it, over here we read it.
[Hebrews 13]
(14) We
have no continuing city, but we seek one.
How are you going to get it? You’re
going to go outside the camp where Jesus is. In the Seventh Church Age, He’s
outside the church and He doesn’t go into the church. You’ve got to go out.
They put Him out. And they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh. How can
they crucify to themselves the son of God afresh unless He does something, so
radical, because He was a radical, not a hippie, just a radical. He was so
radical from the status quo they said, “Get rid of Him.” Then what’s God going
to do at the end time through a prophet and through a people that’s so radical
they’ve got to get rid of them? “No continuing city.”
All right now, here it says here,
“God having given His Word and it’s not a Word that passes away, because that
glory faded.” And remember
(22)
You are not come to
(23) To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, (That’s Christ’s own church. The firstborn from amongst the dead, the first Resurrection. That’s His own church.) which is written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all,
Do you realize what he’s saying?
Since the Seals are open, since we see the full revelation, the manifestation
and Presence of Christ; you are right now right in face of the New Jerusalem,
right in face of the Lamb upon the throne, right in face of the Judge that
says, “Either come in or get out.” Now look it people, I’m not leading you to
believe something ten thousand years down the road--I’m trying to get you to see
right now and you know it. I’m not a preacher looking down the road, looking
back. I’m a preacher looking now, and if you think I’m not that kind of a
preacher get yourself another one because I stand here and tell you I am, and I
can prove it by my sermons that I follow the prophet right to the letter. No
looking back, no looking forward, looking right now. Now:
(23) To
the general assembly of the church of the first born,
In other words, you’re facing right
now the Resurrection and with it you’re facing the assembling together of every
single New Testament and Old Testament Bride. That’s right, and before you can
come on down here in the Millennium remember, the 144,000 got to be disposed of
because they come up as a part of the first Resurrection and they serve the
Bride as eunuchs in the chamber, but not just one thousand years but millions
of years.
(23) ...And
to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Now, what have you got here? You
have got the resurrected first born and you’ve got the first born standing here
that don’t die. And so justified your spirit doesn’t leave you. This body you
were born with and dropped from your mother’s womb had a spirit right here
ready to enliven that little body which contained a soul. But it’s not the soul
that gives the body the spark of life--it’s that spirit. See?
Now when you die that spirit leaves
first and goes wherever God wants to put it because it was allowed of God and
came from God but is not the spirit of God. The book of Ecclesiastes, “The
spirit goes back to God who gave it.” Jesus said, “Into Thy hands I commend My
Spirit,” but His soul went down into Hades, the body went a third place--He was
split three ways. Now I’m telling you
right here, it tells you here, “And to the spirits of just men made perfect.”
Come to a complete conclusion of child training that God gets everything out of
you that He wants to get out of you, having put everything in you that He wants
to put in you.
Now here’s where your standing is:
Bro. Branham said, I wish I had it with me I could read it to you right now
“Spoken Word Is The Original Seed” and he said, “There’s a super, super, super race approaching unto Christ right now
the Headstone.” And the Headstone is
here in the form of the Holy Spirit. And
perfection has come because we have the perfect revealed Word of God and it’s
not do this, and don’t do that or the other thing, it tells you the Word of
God. What does that perfect Word tell you? Let me read it to you over here in
the book of Ephesians in case you’ve got your own ideas. This will tell you
what the Message is if you want to know the Message. You say, “Bro. Branham
what is your Message?” I’ll tell you what his message is right here. Paul
speaking to the church. Eph 1:17.
(16) We cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
(17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
And it tells you right there, there is an absolute revelation of God Himself in this hour and one of those revelations under the Seventh Seal is concerning Melchisedec. And people go along and say, “Well this fellow Branham, boy did he lay a hard boiled egg. Stupid, stupid, stupid, that shows you what those guys are that get gifts from God and can’t handle it. They get high minded and heady. Now if they were theologians like us.” You bunch of dirty dogs. Why should I talk about a dog—they’re worse than dogs. Oh yes, full of their rotten criticism. Say, “Bro. Branham made a great mistake. He opened the Seals and brought out this junk about Melchisedec.” If you understand what I understand this morning you’ll see something to it the theologian will never see. I’m striving for reality. I know it hangs there and the more I talk about it the more I’m going to get it.
I was a school teacher for a little
while. Any school teacher knows the first law of Pedagogy is repetition--I
don’t care who you are. If you’re not a good repeater you’ll never make a good
teacher. You don’t repeat the same thing like an old saw going ding, ding, ding
or something but you repeat it many different ways--this way, that way. You
teach a thing fourteen different ways, fifteen, twenty times if you have to but
you get it across. Bro. Branham told the truth what it was here. Now here it
is, the revelation of Him.
(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling,
Do you realize that means it’s going
to put you back before eternity, before a beginning? That’s going to begin to
probe the depths of God? You show me a theologian do it--they can’t even tell
you what this means. I read all the books. Every time I go to a Bible store, I
tell you, I pick up the first and see what he’s got to say about Eph 1:17-18.
Some will tell you it’s the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Some got enough brains
to know to tell you, “Well the Spirit will reveal something.” Now what we
should do is get all those books and if the theologians are living, phone them
and write them and say:
“Now tell me kind sir, who’s He
going to reveal it to?”
“Well I hate to, you know, act
proud--could be just me.”
Who’s going to believe him See?
(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
“What the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints.” See? What are those things there. Now notice, when
you get that far and only when you get that far, and until you get that far, to
the absolute revelation, you will never get to the next step which is the
Resurrection and the third step is the Rapture. You won’t get it. Now, let’s
keep reading. [Hebrews 12]
(23) ...the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.
All right, now remember you’re
looking at the Judge. You’re looking at Matthew chapter twenty-five, the ten
virgins--the five wise and the five foolish. And the cry went out, “Behold the
Bridegroom, come out to meet Him.” They all went out. Now five had oil in their
containers. Now what is the container of
the Holy Ghost? The Word. So therefore
the Word was wrong in five and it was right in the other five because God will
not put the Holy Ghost upon a Word that is not properly revealed.
Now you know that as well as I do.
Let’s prove it. Back in the days of Moses there was a man he went out on the
Sabbath. He picked up a bunch of sticks to fry his dinner. They said, “Well now
Moses, there’s something in the Word that you brought us about this man here.
According to the Word that you brought us no man is supposed to work on a
Sabbath.” And this man was working on a Sabbath. So they put him in quarantine.
After the quarantine, during the quarantine Moses went before God and he said,
“Lord, what about this man.” And God said, “Stone him with stones that he die,
he defiled the camp.” So they took him out and killed him--capital punishment.
They all had a hand in it because they all threw stones.
Now you say, “That’s pretty tough.”
It is pretty tough. I’m trying to draw you a picture here. That man did not
have the revelation of the Word. Only one man didn’t have it, the rest of them
did have it. How that one man messed out and everybody else had it is more than
I know. That’s wonderful, you’d think there would have been a bunch of them. We
thank God there’s only one.
Now what we’re looking at here then
at this end time and bringing to your attention is the fact that the wise
virgin have the Word of God with the proper revelation because the Spirit is in
It. The Spirit of God is not in a triune baptism. The Spirit of God is not in a
Trinitarian god. The Spirit of God is not in an organization. The Spirit of God
is in only one place and that is that Word which is properly revealed--and the
wise virgins had it.