Who is This Melchisedec? # 31
Bro. Lee Vayle
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we are again grateful to be in Divine Presence, knowing, Lord, that You have descended to the earth in order to bring forth a message in order to bring forth the dead in order to change us, in order bring forth a rapture, in order to bring forth the wedding supper. And a great coronation and a great understanding in order also to come back here to this earth. These things we know, Lord. We also know, Lord, that the depth of intensity of our emotion, our reaction toward You, depends, Lord, on how great that revelation is, what it means to us, and, Father, we don’t know that any way it could mean anything to us except You reveal it Father, it become something of Your Spirit. So help us, Lord, to learn as the prophet said, to get out of the way. That it might indeed Father, be Your Spirit leading us, guiding us, and showing this truth and bringing our own spirits under subjection to the life of this Word, O God. So, Father, we commend ourselves to You this morning in asking for Your help. In Jesus name Amen. You may be seated.
Now we’re on number thirty-one of
Who is This Melchisedec? and in this message we have heard many
astounding revelations especially of life principles set forth by Bro.
Branham. Now there’s a basic statement
or there’s a basic statement that he made in this message and I forget just
what page it’s on, page twenty-two I guess it is. And that this statement in this message in a
great measure summarizes what is particularly revealed about our lives. And he says in paragraph 113, [112]
[112] Now, we see here plainly, the complete secret of our lives in journey,
that would be your starting point to where you’re going, and death, and where we go after we die.
So you have here the thought of where we’re coming from, what we do
when we are here, what happens at the end of this earthly journey, where we go
to start another journey. And reading
on, he says, “The stages of the eternal
purpose He had in His secret have now been revealed.” So let me read 112 and 113 again.
[112] Now, we see here plainly the complete secret of our lives in journey,
and death, even death, and where we
go after we die.
[113] The stages of the eternal purpose He had in His secret have now been
revealed.
So I believe these two paragraphs actually mean the same thing but they
enlarge each other and illuminate each other.
Now, it is that this message reveals to us the eternal purpose of God
from eternity to eternity and details our beginning to our glorification so
that we can know our entire life -- that’s eternal history -- and how God is
accomplishing it in us step by step.
Now that’s exactly a major factor and the doctrine of the life principle
as set forth in this message. Now Paul
understood this revelation so perfectly, that death and the grave could not
challenge Paul, but rather he challenged them.
Now that’s what we’re looking at; is a depth of revelation that is so
inundating and powerful, that life and death does not become a challenge to us,
but we challenge it. Now you’ll notice
that that is not simply a poetic statement or a philosophical statement, but if
you look at the life of anybody who became a great figure in this world,
thinking in terms of the laic or the prosaic, and in terms of the spiritual,
you will know that every single person did not accept a challenge, but
challenged. The fact that we are here
and there is a life, is a challenge in itself.
The reciprocation is to challenge it.
You’ll notice that Daniel did.
Threw open the window and positively stuck his neck wide open. Not just for the window to come down, bang
him on the head, but for the king to cut his head off or throw him in the
lion’s den. The three Hebrew children,
Joel, Jesus, Paul, William Branham, none of these people waited for life to
come to them or waited for death. They
stood there simply challenging it. And
that’s what I am a little afraid we are lacking this morning. I’m not just a little afraid, I am more than
afraid, because we are not simply challenging as we should be.
Now, when the life of God took over the life of Paul, which is the
baptism with the Holy Ghost, and with it the understanding of his purpose and
destiny… Now you say, “Well I don’t know
that I’ve got that particular role, or at least I’ve got that particular
clarity in my life.” Now that isn’t
true. That is not true at all. There is a life-purpose and a clarity to it
as Bro. Branham set forth. To every
single person, to the men and to the women.
Even saying how that concerning marriage, there is a way we can marry
and get along with our wives, as though it were something going on all the time
we couldn’t get along with them. But
he’s trying to put it in the highest order, and challenge the people to
challenge those things, that are challenging them. In other words, to put the devil on the
defense, to put life on the defense, because we are coming through.
Now that’s the truth. Bro.
Branham did that for us. And that occurs
at the baptism with the Holy Ghost. And
the Bible is very clear about our lives if we just look at what the Bible says
and follow it. As Bro. Branham said very
succinctly, he said, “Women have their
place, but women don’t want their places, men have their place, and men usually
don’t want their places,” and it all
boils down to be consistent strong Christians, and consistent strong Christians
are always challenged by the devil, the world, the flesh and the devil, the
lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. Those things are
a constant challenge. And instead of
being challenged back, people are succumbing to it.
Now, so when Paul took the life of... when the life of God took over
the life of Paul, and that is through the baptism with the Holy Ghost, Paul
died to the world, the flesh, and the devil, and he lived from then on
according to his realization of who he was, and where he was going, and how he
would come back in flesh like Job, and be in the glorified image of his Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ because he was a son of God, and he wrote, “because you
are sons, because I am a son, God sends forth His Spirit into our lives.” So Paul understood what he was, who he was,
what he was doing, where he was going, how he was going to come back, in what
form, and he understood the eternal ages ahead.
Now Bro. Branham set that forth in what we saw last Wednesday night.
Now, I’m on page 23, paragraph 119, Bro. Branham begins illustrating
how our life coming from God and going back to God, is like a dewdrop’s
destiny. Now listen to some of the
things he says about the dewdrop. Number
119 on page 23.
[119] Just like a little dewdrop. If I
understand, I don’t know too much about chemistry, but it must be that from the congealing of humidity or atmosphere... It’s a condensation actually, of moisture
which is invisible to the eye because it’s like part of the atmosphere or the
air. And
when the night gets cold and dark...
Now you can understand the trauma that doctors tell us goes through a
baby as it’s dropped from the womb. And
everything is suggestic, how that you could maybe prepare the child for it,
certain types of singing, certain talking to the baby, certain this and certain
that. And when the baby’s delivered, you
put it in a crib that has a certain rocking motion like the mother has in
carrying it. The murmur of the heart,
and all of those things.
Now, what do you think, what do you think about a child of God? Dropped from the womb of God, in this life,
into darkness, into death, into sorrow, into pain, is identical to that
baby. What kind of a trauma is it
in? Well, it’s pretty rough. That’s why Bro. Branham says, “Falling from the heavens to the ground
where it’s dark and cold.” See? Now, if people know enough to attempt to
provide a proper delivery and a proper existence, how much more does God? But no matter how the parents try, the
children cannot be freed from the subjection of the elements which are cold and
cruel, but the only way the child can ever learn. So God allows us to be subjected to those
things that are difficult to our minds, maybe difficult to our bodies, maybe
difficult to our spirits, but nonetheless, we are brought down here as
literally a condensation of Almighty God, and all that is in Him, a little tiny
dewdrop.
[119] Now he said, it fell from somewhere and leaves
heaven, drops on the ground, it fell from
somewhere. But the next morning watch,
when the sun comes up, it’s lying there, the little
fellow, shivering, but just let the sun come up, watch it go to shining. Actually shimmering, not just shining but
shimmering. It’s happy. Why? The sun s-o-n, s-u-n, is going to call it right back to where it
came from. And that’s the way with the
Christian, Hallelujah! We know when we
walk in the presence of God, something in us tells us that we came from
somewhere and we’re going back again by that power that’s a-pulling us.
Now, you’ll notice in there Bro. Branham in likening us to the dewdrop,
which is a condensation, and we notice the moisture in the air, before it’s in
dew form, absolutely is invisible. Now
you can know it is there, but it’s invisible.
Then there’s a condensation, and the condensation comes due to the
critical condition which is a flesh condition.
So, every child of God, like Jesus, who was brought into a form of a
condensation, not Melchisedec now, but in Jesus the Christ, was brought into
the form of suffering, and though he were a son, yet he learned obedience by
the things he suffered. But, when God’s
Spirit filled him, and he became God with us in flesh, totally all absolute God
in a human manifestation, watch what begin to develop and show forth in the
man’s life. Of course far better that
you and I ever will, because he didn’t bypass his theophanic form which would
have given us enough information to not only trample on the devil, but to chew
him to bits before time. Oh yeah, we
likely wouldn’t have waited for anything, we ‘d just say, “Hey who needs this
rascal here, let’s get rid of him.” We
might have got in trouble even then see, with the theophanic form ahead of
us. See, Jesus could be tempted but no
way would he fall. So, he became a
savior to all those that fell.
Now, talking about this then, the condensing, in manifestation,
Christians like Jesus are literally manifestations of a condensation of God,
like a little tiny part of God, like a dewdrop, maybe just summarized as a
portion of the entire ocean, where God Himself is the entire ocean, and being
Jesus Christ he had that embodiment of that entire ocean.
[119] Now, he said, it’s going
to be shining, shimmering. It’s
happy. Why?
The sun is going to call it right back to where it came from.
Now, looking at water. Actually,
if you go back to the beginning, the Garden of Eden was watered by a mist. There were no chemicals that were harmful,
man had not interfered with his brilliant mind, to bring about a chemical
reaction which will destroy us. So what
I’m trying to say is this: Bro. Branham
is speaking in the terms of dew, he’s speaking in terms of pure distillate,
nothing but H2 and O. Not one
thing in there. The air was not full of
dust. There was nothing in there but
pure water. Now, what we’re looking at
here then, is the fact that is speaking at the end time. Before this dewdrop, before the Christian can
be pulled back to the place from whence it came, and this is dealing with the
whole history of man, that must be pure H2O or pure everything from
God, God Himself, plus the creation.
There will be nothing out of order.
Now, Bro. Branham telling this, makes us to know. This is a message for the last day. I am not looking back at those people over
yonder, I am not looking back at the people dying, although that is good. I am looking at the people, and I am looking
to this as the people who are not going to die.
They are the dewdrops, and they are in a shivering condition and have
been because of the Dark Ages. But the
son began to shine, until the Son of Righteousness has risen [Bro. Vayle points to the
Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham] with healing in His wings. And you can say what you want, but that is
Thus Saith the Lord, that is the revealed scripture that has been proven to be
absolutely identified and correct for this hour.
So, we are the dewdrops, and in us we are completely blameless by
reason of the blood and by the Holy Spirit, so that everybody today is truly a
child of God, of whom the record says, “You didn’t do it at all.” Then if you didn’t do it at all, there was
nothing in you doing it. So the Bride is
looking today to lay in the sun, of the Word of Almighty God. And if you are wanting to lie in the sun, if
you are wanting to shimmer, and you are wanting to, as Bro. Branham later on
says, glisten, and be drawn up by
God, let me tell you one more time: The conduit
of the Holy Ghost is the Word, and you turn aside the Word to your own
detriment and destruction. Do what you
want. I don’t feel any opposing spirit
here this morning, I’m just saying because these tapes go out. A lot of people I don't even know about get
them. And they stand around, of course
they get mad, say naughty things, but it’s all right. I’m a witness here this morning, that I’m
standing at the White Throne. That’s
what those boys don’t realize out there, preaching a gospel contrary to William
Branham. This is now the White Throne,
we’ll bring it out and show you. Oh yes,
yeah. This is not something you can just
play around with brother/sister, when you run out of gas you run out of
gas. And we’ll know if we run out of gas
in this church. Let me tell you right
now, I will know that I’ve run out gas, and you will know, and we will know
very shortly if we’ve been hearing truth or not. It’s a serious thing. You bet we’re going to know.
Now listen what he says here, “And that’s the way with a Christian.
Hallelujah!” God calls it right back.
Let’s just talk about a call right here.
Let’s go to Psalm 147. Let’s talk
about this call here that God... because we’re dealing with sons of God. We’ll read verses 1 to 4,
(1) Praise ye the Lord: for it is food to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. (See, it’s a good thing.)
(2) The Lord doth build up
(3) He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (You know that’s said concerning Him in the first coming and the second. Now watch,)
(4) He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
That has to do with the Bride. The names in the book, then spoken, and in their turn, manifested. So all right, that’s the first call. Let’s go Romans the 9th chapter. Verse 11.
(11) For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;
there, which you’re
predestinated to it. Okay, let’s go back
to Job. And in Job
(14) And if a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
(15) Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Now he’s speaking here of the resurrection. All right?
What about today? Shout,
Voice, and Trumpet. What did Bro. Branham tell us? Let’s go over here to 2 Thessalonians 2, and we’ll see exactly what is going on. In the 1st verse,
(1) Now we beseech you
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together
unto him,
That’s a calling together. How’s
He doing it? By the gospel call. No other way.
Alright. So there’s a call. “The
sun is going to call it right back.” Now notice, it’s going to “call it back to where it came from,” where it was, a portion of the life of God
that within it had the Zoe, which could produce and did produce from physical
things a body for it to dwell in. See? Called.
Even before it was born it had that process lined up for it. And it was called into the service of
Almighty God, and now there’s a call to get ready for the marriage supper. Notice he said, “We know when we walk in the presence of God, something in us tells us
that we came from somewhere and we’re going back again by that power that’s
a-pulling us.” Now you know of
course, that’s good for every single age.
That’s absolutely wonderful for everything. But listen, what about our age? Our age is over here in Ephesians the 1st
chapter, beginning at 17.
(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:
There it is again on that picture. [Points to the picture on the wall] That is a picture distinctly of the Pillar of Fire, which literally is a picture of the Holy Ghost, which is at this time the Son of God. Now you’ve got to get used to certain *appellations, and when you do, you’ve got to let your mind go. There’s no way you can think of Jesus at the right hand of God, at the same time you can think of that. [Points to the picture on the wall] You’ve got to just absolutely, as Bro. Branham said, say the right thing or you’re out of luck. And there’s only the Bride can say the right thing, because only the Bride knows the right thing. We’ll show you that some more in just a little while, when we get to it. All right. [*Appellations – an identifying name or title]
(17) ...the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:
(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Now you don’t know that, because you’ve passed the theophanic form, the spirit body. But you’re going to know it in this form, what you didn’t know before.)
(19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
(21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
(22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
(23) Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. (Or all things with all things.)
Now it tells you right there, we are going to be absolutely caught up
to where we were, as a little molecule, an unexpressed individual, yet entirely
individual, and when we do, God having dealt with us, will express Himself in
His entire fullness concerning us. Right
back where you came from. Little
dewdrop.
Now in the meantime, it’s tragic, but when sin came into the world and
infiltrated everything, the little dewdrop, like today, is full of
poisons. That’s what’s wrong with
distilled water, because the point is, ether will also distill. Gasoline will distill. There’s lots of things that distill. And when you condense the distillate, and
drink it, you are not drinking H2O.
God knows what you’re drinking.
Because nobody’s going to tell you.
They’ll say, “Well, that’s the closest we can get.” Maybe it is.
But it can kill you.
You know, I’m going to tell you something. If you had the ground perfect once more, and
Jesus is that perfect ground, and let the water of life run through him,
there’s no problems. Overcomes every
sin, sickness, and disease. Unfortunately,
the water that we drink cannot be run through him, but the Word sure can. And we read the last day he said, “Come unto
me and drink, all you that are thirsty.”
And he said, “Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This speak ye the spirit.” Which was not yet given because Christ was
not yet glorified.
Now I’m going to tell you something.
When Christ was glorified back there, and the river began to flow, what
will happen when he’s glorified the second time, which he has to be glorified,
and which he has been glorified already in the great ministry we’ve seen. Pure waters of life, and rivers of life can
flow from the individual, and the individuals in turn can flow such waters of
life. That’s why I say keep talking the
Word, and coming together, and put our lives on it, and this you’ll begin to
see, how this message heals the sick.
You’ll see that sweet spirit of Christ come into the church, because it
can only come one way, and that’s by the Word.
I don’t care, I mean we can practice under high heaven everything we
want, but to have reality brother/sister is not dependent upon emotions, or a
bulldog faith, but is to depend upon the living God and living Word. Then we’ll begin to see the things that
really count. Bro. Branham said, “Stay
away from that stuff.” If I was
dying tomorrow, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t go near them. Of course to them we’re a cult, we’re going
to hell. Fine, I’ll go to hell this way.
It’s pretty hard to hear what Bro. Branham said. He said,
“Look it, if God wants to put me in hell, if I love Him like I do now, and have
this same spirit upon me, I’ll go to hell loving him.” That’s the truth. Now that’s an awful mouthful, but that means
there’s a big life in there brother/sister, from God and from us to be living
in.
All right, now this explains here, this walking in the presence of God,
knowing as no other age has known; where we came from, the mysteries of the
journey, and being pulled back to it as we do, and is now happening under Eph
1:17-23. And he says, “When you come into that presence, you know
you came from somewhere.” That’s a
statement which I don’t think is general for just everybody. It could make a person realize that there’s
something there that he ought to know about.
But I believe this can only pertain to a Bride... the true sons and
daughters of Almighty God. So that this
great ministry of Bro. Branham’s, where people could feel the sweet presence of
Almighty God, was a great part of his ministry, and it lay the ground work for
the message that gave us the truth of what we wanted to know. So that that tremendous spirit in the
meetings did not have within it the elements to produce only an awe and a
wonderment which is not always explained, but it had within it the ability to
stop us, until Bro. Branham could teach us the things we know today; where we
come from and where we are going.
You know, he says here, “The sun
calling it back.” We’ve had the
scream of the eagle to call us, and we know that the Bible teaches this very
distinctly, “My sheep hear my voice and they follow me.” So God calling to the sheep, will absolutely
have a people according to 2 Th 2:1 that
are gathered together over by the call of the gospel which it indeed is. Paragraph 120,
[120] The little dew drop, he glistens and shines and shouts, not
glitters now, Bro. Branham didn’t say, he said, glittering things are different.
This glistens because it’s really a shimmering again, shimmering and
reflecting, shouting. ...because he knows he came from up there and
that sun’s going to draw him right back up again. And a man that’s an attribute of God, born of
God knows (Hallelujah!), when he comes in contact with the Son of God, he’s
going to be drawn up from here someday!
“For if I be
lifted up from the earth, I’ll draw all men unto me.”
So he said, the little dew drop
just glitters and glistens right there, I mean it shimmers and shines, it’s
a reflection, see, what it is, there’s a reflection there. And he shouts because he knows where he came
from, the hour is here for that. Because
he knows where he’s going to be drawn right back, and Bro. Branham said, “The seventh seal has given us everything to
put us in a rapture.” How many
people believe that? Oh no they don’t,
they believe, “Well, something more has got to be done.” It says, “He gives us everything.”
Now if we’ve taken this Word of God, not in part but in whole, and say,
“Look, I don’t understand a lot of things, I don’t care if I ever understand a
lot of things, I just know one thing, and that is the Word of God is true. I know Bro. Branham’s vindicated. Now I’ve heard a lot of things, and I believe
them, it’s just hard to really understand them.
But they’ve been said, and said within the context, and shown by the
bible, as best as man can do, so therefore I know that this here is
right.” See? Now, “And I know the Seven Seals...” Now a lot of people say, “The Seventh Seal was
not open.” That is not true. Because if the Seventh Seal was not open,
then the Book is not open, neither are the rest of them. See?
And remember, the Seventh Seal, according to Bro. Branham was Rev
10:1-7. Now tell me that hasn’t been open. Then you’d better look for somebody to be the
prophet. And I wouldn’t look for Joseph
and Billy Branham. Because it doesn’t
run in families. Nothing against them,
it just doesn’t run in families. The
closest anybody came to having anything run in any family, was David and
Solomon, and Solomon was a complete mess alongside of his dad. For all of his brilliance, he didn’t have
what his dad had. There is no way. You’re never going to find... only one son in
all this world ever had completely what his dad has, and that was the Lord
Jesus Christ.
The Seventh Seal has to have been open, but everything concerning it
has not been. For instance, the literal
coming is the thing they’re stumbling at.
But he said, “You’ve got
everything to put you in a rapture”
Now remember, the rapture is not the literal second coming. You’ve got to get up there to get in it,
because we come in it. The literal
second coming of Jesus Christ cannot eliminate the Bride. He comes three times in mortal flesh. That’s human flesh rather. And the point is, tell me when did He ever
come with a company of people? Say,
“Well, He came out of the ground.” He
did not come with a company of people.
He came out first, and they came afterward. And He brought them out. They were no *coterie or some retinue, although they did constitute that to a
degree, but Christ was the one, the Lord Jesus Christ. [*Coterie
– an exclusive group of people]
Now, “The little dew drop,” now, he says, he’s “born of God knows, when he comes in contact with the Son of God.” Now how does he know that? What is the Son of God? The Son of God today is the Holy Ghost. That’s the great baptism, the great
Baptizer. Now remember, the Son of Man,
not the Son of God. These are the days,
and the days are over by the way, of the Son of Man. As Bro. Branham distinctly says, “Are you the Son of Man? I thought the Pillar of Fire was the Son of
Now he said, “If I be lifted up, I’ll draw all men unto me.” That’s what he’s saying. And Jesus Christ has already been lifted up
upon
Now, we’re going to go to paragraph 121. Now here we’re going to get into some of the
details again on Godhead. I was hoping
we could get this all cleared up but it’s all right. We’ll look at it some more.
[121] Now notice! Now we see
Melchisedec -- Now not Jesus now -- we
see Melchisedec and why that Mary wasn’t his mother. Now Mary was not the mother of Melchisedec,
that’s absolutely true. And yet He came
in a form of Jesus, but I’ll go back over that later on. That’s
the reason He called her woman, not mother.
And
yet the word ‘woman’ is not a word of disrespect, it’s a word of
endearment. But it’s not the same as
‘mother’. Now if you said, “Hey, woman,
hey woman.” I don’t like the sound of
that. But if you had the Aramaic
language and said, “Woman,” it would be a sign of respect and affection. Of friendship extended. Love offered.
It wouldn’t be some chincy thing, see.
[121] Now, He had no father, for He was the Father, the Everlasting Father,
the three in One. The triunity, not
a trinity but a triunity. He had no mother, certainly not. He had no father, for He was the Father. As the poet said one time speaking a great
compliment unto Jesus. He said,
[122] I AM that spoke to Moses
In a
burning bush of fire.
I AM the
God of Abraham,
The bright
and morning Star.
I’m Alpha,
Omega, the beginning from the end.
I am the
whole creation,
And Jesus
is the Name. (That’s right!)
Oh, Who do you say that I
am?
And whence
do they say that I came?
Do you
know My Father,
Or can you
tell His Name?
Now, if you’re going to get...
You can get kind of really wrapped up in here if you said, “Do you know
me as the Father?” Didn’t say that. Didn’t say, “Do you know the father?” Said, “Do you know My Father?” You’re getting not a split personality here
exactly, but you’re getting pretty close to something very, very peculiar.
All right, let’s go ahead and read it again.
[121] Now notice! Now we see
Melchisedec and why that Mary wasn’t his mother. That’s the reason He called her woman, not
mother. He had no father, for He was the
Father, the Everlasting Father, the three in One. He had no mother, certainly not. He had no father, for He was the Father.
As the poet said, paying Jesus a compliment. All right.
Now before I read some more, in spite of what we have just read there,
we’re going to read some more, and then we must never forget as we read this
further on page fourteen, and some other page, I forget because I’ve got them
over here. We must never forget that, or
what was also said by Bro. Branham, or we will begin to fear, and that’s the
devil doing it, fear we understand wrong or we misunderstand. Or we wonder if Bro. Branham changed his mind
or was saying something entirely different from what he had already said. Now remember, when we talk about this, you
begin talking about Jesus, Melchisedec, right down the line, you begin talking
about Godhead. Bro. Branham said, Jesus
did not bypass a theophanic form which we did.
He had perfect recall, He had a beginning. So there’s a difference. And he wasn’t talking just in terms of a
human body. Because he talked of a
pre-knowledge and a pre-position. I
don’t like the term so much, preexistence, although that’s what you might say,
or you might say, pre-creation. Or you
might say, pre-historical.
All right, now Bro. Branham read it.
He said here,
[121] Now notice! Now we see
Melchisedec and why that Mary wasn’t his mother. That’s the reason He called her woman, not
mother. He had
no father, for He was the Father, the Everlasting Father, the triunity.
He had no mother, certainly not.
He had
no father, for He was the
Father. All right. As the poet said one time speaking a great
compliment unto Jesus said thus and thus.
Now here we got on paragraph 68,
[68] We heard no more of Melchisedec, because He became Jesus Christ. Melchisedec was the Priest, but He became
Jesus Christ.
All right, let’s talk about Jesus for a while. Let’s go to the book of Luke, 1st chapter,
and we’re going to read 30-35 I would believe.
(30) And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God.
(31) And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
(32) He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: (Now that’s somebody doing something for somebody, and he’s being named by somebody.)
(33) And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
(34) Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
(35) And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Period.)
OK, let’s go to Matthew the 1st chapter. Now that’s exactly what the Bible teaches,
and you’re not going to change it. I
don’t care what you do about it. You can
go blow your brains out trying to figure it, but I’m sorry for you. Mt
(18) Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. (The father of the baby was the Holy Ghost.)
(19) Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
(20) But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of (by) the Holy Ghost. (That’s what it says.)
(21) And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: (Which is Joshua, which is Jehovah Savior.) for he shall save his people from their sins.
(22) Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, (Notice, spoken of the Lord by the prophet. Notice,)
(23) Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Now remember, back in the Old Testament, they began calling their
children by the names of God. Now that
was a preview of this. Now this is
different. Now let’s go to Col
1:19. Now,
(19) (For in
Him all the fullness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell.)
Now you notice it says here, didn’t say it was born, it says “dwell, in
Him.” There was somebody, there is a
vessel, there is a body. And notice what
happens, somebody dwelt in it. Now let’s
go back to John. And in Jn
(14) And the Word (became)
flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father,)
Now it tells you, God with us, the fullness of the Godhead, God
becoming flesh. In other words, we have
very simply here; Jesus was the carrier of the entirety of Almighty God, who is
definitely Holy Ghost. Now, with that
we’re going to go to the book of Hebrews again.
Let us begin to see once more, it says here now... We can read it… verse 1.
(1) (In many parts, in many ways, God spoke in times past unto the fathers in the prophets.)
(2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us (in) Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the (ages),
(3) Who being the brightness (that’s the effulgence or the outraying) of his glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, (now that’s what you’re talking about) when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down of the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Now you know very well that God doesn’t have blood. Melchisedec could not bleed. So what you’re looking at right now again, is
the very same thing. You are seeing now
a certain man in whom God absolutely and entirely could dwell in order to give
a complete revelation, and do His complete work. Now that’s paragraph 95:
[95] Now, the true revelation of Melchisedec which comes into view is –
He was God, the Word.
In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. In the beginning was the Word. In other words, every single thing that could
be expressed was already lying there.
And so what does He do? He begins
to express.
Now, the expression came to the place -- not of Melchisedec, where He
could bleed and die, Melchisedec could not bleed and die, I beg your
pardon. He went beyond it to the place
where literally there could be blood and flesh, a bleeding, and a death. Now;
[95] Now, the true revelation of Melchisedec which comes into view is -- that He was God, the Word, before He became
flesh, God the Word. Because He had to
be; no one else could be immortal
(no beginning and end, see) like
Him. See, I had father and mother; you
did too. Jesus had father and mother. [End of side one of tape]
Notice in paragraph 121 which we read,
[121] Now we see Melchisedec and why that Mary wasn’t his mother.
That’s right. Melchisedec. Not Jesus now. See?
And the Melchisedec came back at her saying, “Woman, what have I to do
with thee? I have used you as an
incubator, and that’s as far as it goes.”
[95] He was the Word before He became flesh, God the Wor