PARADOX #3

Joshua, Book of Redemption

Bro. Lee Vayle

March 18, 1984

Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we come to You again in hope, Lord, through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by the open door provided by the Holy Spirit, to ask your grace and favor at this time, to help us to understand, as never before, what an ordained and vindicated prophet taught, because Lord, we need to know, not just what he said, we need to understand what he said. And hopefully, Lord, You will help this morning to take another step forward, another higher plateau, another higher ground, than previously; not that we want to arrogate to ourselves something in pride that we are arriving or we are somebody but, Lord, because we need it. We are not satisfied within ourselves, at this point, and never will be, outside of You. And we are not satisfied that we have even begun to know anything at all about something which You have set forth here. So, we want to know more than we've ever known before, spiritually understanding It, and It providing life for us. Rebuke the enemy for our sake. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1. 1. We are continuing in the subject of paradox; and this will be number three. And back in paragraph 12, where we started, Bro. Branham mentions two things. He mentions the ministering of the Word and the ministering of healing. And then in paragraph 13, he makes a very strong statement on his ministry. He said, "Now, the message that the Lord has allotted to me, it's sometimes, you know, these things get pretty touchy. And it's been that way in every age. And I have tried my best to stay with It." That's what God allotted to him: the Message. "It's something. And if I did not speak that thing that God told me,..."

Everybody reads, but this man was told. He didn't read it. "And if it wasn't of God, then it wouldn't be in the Word." Right away, you know, people say, "Well, boy, that's pretty presumptuous. Who does he think he is?" Well, he knows who he is. See? This man speaks with authority. He doesn't come around you know, like some denominational clout he's got, with the bishop to back him up, you know, some little human thing. But this is where God is in the picture. God‑‑prophet. Prophet‑‑God. See, never forget that. God and His prophet or the prophet and his God.

2. Now, "If it's in the Word, and a promise for this hour," then that's the Message, the Word for this hour, the Promise for this hour. What is this hour? What is it all about? "...then I feel that I'm doing what's right, because I'm only trying to keep what He promised for this hour." So therefore, what God told him, is in the Word, but "pointed out" in the Word. And Bro. Branham did not even know that Word, per se. So when God spoke to him (as you understand when the angels came in the embodiment of the Holy Spirit, seven angels came in‑‑one per day), he said he went instantly to his concordance to check it out. It was there. He didn't even know where it was. There are many things that we didn't know where they were. And he never even told us where they were, but by the grace of God, we've been able to find them. So, all right. A very strong statement.

3. Then in paragraph 18, he makes a statement concerning divine healing. And he said, "Because, healing is the children's bread. We realize that it's in the atonement, and the atonement first is applied to our souls. And healing has always forerun every message, and it's also been a means to gather the people together.” So he tells you that healing is a minor, unless it's used in the major context which is to direct you to the Word of Almighty God. All right.

4. Then we'll notice in paragraph 20, he mentions, and also in paragraph 19, the last statement. "As Bro. Bosworth said concerning healing, 'It's the bait on the hook.' You show the fish the bait, not the hook." And in paragraph 20 he said, "And that's just the thing to get the people to listen, till you can really present them to your message or present the Message to them. God has done that in every age," Now, listen. "Through every age, there's always been a healing campaign. And if it's a genuine healing campaign…” Therefore, there can be a phony healing campaign. See, a genuine healing campaign..."behind that campaign, always, is a message. There never is a sign given just for a sign; it's forerunning a message." And we saw how that worked over there through the Scripture, but we don't go into it today again.

5. Now then, going further, we go to paragraph 25. And in there he makes a joint statement or a compound statement basic to healing and to salvation.

(25) If you're sick, I wish I could heal you, but no man can do that. It's already done. Healing lies in you. And remember he said, don’t take that too far. It’s your faith in the finished works that God did on Calvary, with Jesus. And outside of that, there is no healing. So, that takes away the statement that people say that healing can be of the devil. Shows they are a bunch of ignoramuses concerning the Word. Now, And outside of that, there is no salvation; no church, no denomination, no ritual, nothing packs salvation. Jesus Christ, “He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed.”

6. Now, soon after this, he refers to an incident that is related, or it's related to himself, that refers to a Bible that he is using--a brand new Bible. And in there he said there were two markers as there usually are in a Bible; little silk markers. And then there was a third one. Now the first marker was at the dedication of Solomon's temple where the Glory of God came in. The second marker was over in where Ezra rededicated the temple. But you will notice that there was no Pillar of Fire that came down. It was a discovery or a rediscovery of the Word. So therefore, you will notice: Pillar of Fire‑-Word. And then the third marker was concerning Mk 11:22, "Speak to this mountain, and then it will be moved." Now, you'll notice, that in there, the third illustration, when he talked about Mark 22, the moving of the mountain, and he said, "You people, familiar with the tapes, will remember the squirrels that were created." All right.

1) Presence of God;

2) The rediscovery and understanding of the Word; and

3) Creatorial act.

7. Now how do squirrels get created? Now, this is the thing we're going to look at. And I tried to show you last Wednesday. So we go to Gen 1:24‑25, and in there we read.

(24) And the Lord God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, the cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

(25) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Now you know, as well as I know, that nobody can stand in this pulpit or anyplace else and tell you that God said, "Let the earth bring forth," and the earth brought forth of itself. Hogwash! The animals were already there in the form of a spirit, the same as Adam and Eve was. But, wherein God used His own hands to bring forth Adam and Eve in the physical, He did not do that with the animals. He simply spoke. And when He said to Bro. Branham, "You speak," the squirrel life was already there, and all it had to do was for the earth to clothe it, just the form come forth. What we are looking at is that the Word created the animal spirit, and the earth clothed it, giving that life its manifestation and its part in the cosmos system.

8. 8. Now, you'll notice that that typifies a resurrection. See? But our resurrection is not that way, although it is that way. See? It's coming forth. This proves the resurrection is at hand. And let me read you what Bro. Branham said. [From the message "Marriage and Divorce," February 21, 1965, by Bro. Branham, top of Page 33.] "That's the reason Jesus had to come through the woman, to bring it back to it's original beginning again, without sex desire. He's virgin born. But, hallelujah! There'll come a time when there won't be no more sex, but God shall call His children from the dust..." Now, he says, God will do it.

Now remember, He said to William Branham, "You speak." He said to Moses, "You speak." Now it was already there for the earth to clothe it. It was all there. Now remember, in our case though, it says here, "but God shall call His children." The children are there; just need to be clothed.

9. 9. Now I know a lot of people say Bro. Branham is going to come out of the ground and call us up. I doubt that very much. I can't buy it. I'm sorry. You say, "Well, what if he does it?" Then I guess I'm lost. You see, you haven't got a fence to sit on anymore. Lots of things we don't know. Bro. Branham said, "We turned a corner." So, you're not going to fool around.

10. 10. Now here is what the prophet said: "God shall call His children.” William Branham was not God. And he isn't God. He can be God to the people, and that's an entirely different subject. Now he said, "God shall call His (people) children from the dust of the earth, back like they were in the original! Not through any woman, but through the molding of the clay and the cosmic lights and the petroleum, He'll create again like He did Adam at the first time." So, what he's telling you here‑‑Shekinah Glory, Word of God, Resurrection.

There you are, right into the resurrection. The creative act of God proving It is here; that is, this is the hour of the resurrection, and creation of "life manifested" proves it.

Because if a man can stand there, like the same as Moses did and say, let there be fleas, and the flea life was there and [ ] created without sex; then God is going to call His children from the ground without sex. See? We're right at the time. [ ]

11. All right. Paragraph 40. He mentions then the personal message that God gave to him in Joshua. He said,

(40) (40) A few years ago, I would take a Bible, and let you hand me your Bible, just like this here; and when I first started my ministry; and just take your Bible, or my Bible and do this…Now I missed it this time. It was Numbers. It’s got to be Joshua. It was always Joshua, chapter 1, and always right. Now, he could hold a Bible like this way; and there it was again. Hold it that way; there it was again. Never failed. Interested. And all I would have to say is, “Lord, where is the Message to me?” What are you trying to tell me? It would open up at Joshua.

(41) (41) Then one night a vision came. He said, I told you about it, how that an arm reached down with a cuff and all hand with a collar or cuff, went down and pointed to the first nine verses of Joshua.

(42) (42) That’s where I’m reading from, this afternoon, and I’ll take my text from Josh 10:12-14.

12. So, all right. Now. However, in paragraph 46, before he reads, Bro. Branham prays. And this is the fantastic prayer we went into last Wednesday.

(46) And we pray, Heavenly Father, that this will be a great hour for all of us, that we might sense the Presence of the Holy Spirit, the Writer of this Word, back in the building of a tabernacle of flesh;

And anybody who claims to have the Holy Ghost and think Bro. Branham is talking about the Baptism, doesn't even know what he is saying. Because you and I cannot write a Bible. You and I cannot even receive a revelation collectively. It takes the prophet of God. Remember when I went to Peter and took you to 2 Peter, I said there's got to be a prophet come on the scene, get a revelation just like the prophet that got the original saying? I didn't realize, but Bro. Branham actually made that same quote. I used it in the Rapture tape and took you through 2 Peter 1; and Bro. Branham actually makes the very same statement. He said that the revelation has got to come in the identical manner that an original prophet brought it. Which means an original prophet stood there and opened his mouth, and his mind became a literal blank. I know a lot of people don't like that. [ ]

13. 13. He says here, "that we might sense the Presence of the Writer of this Word." Now remember Paul was full of the Holy Ghost, and that gave him nothing (as to the Gospel of Grace). It took God Himself to stand right there and give the revelation--give him Word by Word. So, he's not talking about the presence of you and me full of the Holy Ghost making the Presence of God.

Look, brother/sister, let's face this. If nine‑hundred‑trillion people were full of the Holy Ghost, that wouldn't make God. And it wouldn't make any, collective bunch of us to get together with nine‑hundred‑trillion minds and wonderful ideas and sit down and write a word as though the Word of God could come that way. [ ]

14. Now listen. Watch what he said. "We pray, Heavenly Father, that this will be a great hour for all of us, that we might...” Now one. Number 1 especially “...sense the Presence of the Holy Spirit, the Writer of this Word, Who is back in the building of the tabernacle of flesh;” William Branham. God to the people, veiling the Word...manifesting Himself to us, in the pardoning of our sins, the forgiving of our iniquity, and with the assurance that He will not impute sin to the believer, with the assurance of that.

Now you heard. That's a mouthful. Well, I'll tell you what we're going to do. I'm going to prove to you, bless God, your sins are forgiven, because when I pull this curtain here, you are going to see a jack‑in‑a‑box jump out. Whoop! Didn't jump out. Let's try again. Doesn't work, does it? But he's not talking about that. He's not talking about that. But how many people will believe Bro. Branham and accept this statement? Oh they say, "Well, you see, Bro. Vayle, what it is, is this. There's going to be a great revival here where people are going to come to the altar, and that is going to do it." I don't know about that. As far as the prophet understood and told us, he said he agreed with Billy Graham, that if the Holy Spirit ever got taken out of this world, they'd still have altar calls and go through the same thing and think they've got it. And Bro. Branham said, the same thing is going to be going on when we're gone. So he can't be talking about that; not in my books.[ ]

15. He says here, that the One Who wrote the Book, back now in a human form‑‑Logos, Original, Elohim, into a prophet--bringing us Word in manifesting to us, through that (It has to be through that, because that's what he's talking about.) the assurance that He will not impute sin and make it stick. This was written in 1965. October 23, 1964, Bro. Branham had the experience, where he became guiltless before God.

And he said, "I'm praying, Heavenly Father, that when I preach 'The Paradox' that Your Presence will cause people to know, through this Message that I have, an absolute sinlessness." Now he said, "I can not do it, and no man can do it.” Therefore, it's a very special hour that we're in and a very special Presence, that this becomes reality to us. "And also that He would heal our infirmities and take the people out of the wheel chairs and off of the crutches; and give them sight to those who are blind; and extension of days, of those dying with cancer or horrible diseases, tuberculosis, advanced diseases our physicians cannot curb. It's beyond that. You go beyond all scientific research." Right. Let them find that in a test tube. You go beyond all reason. "Paradox." “Grant to Your servant, this afternoon, the speaking and hearing of Thy Word, on the subject of ‘Paradox.’” In other words, it can be there, but you can't believe it's there, but yet you'll know it's there. And you can't prove it's there. But you know it's there. Perfect faith!

16. All right. He said, "You'll manifest yourself." Now I'm going to show you what I believe that he is speaking of in this particular respect. We go to Jn 14:21‑22:

(21) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

Now this is to somebody who is already in. So we cannot be looking at the proposition of a meeting wherein sinners are coming in. We're looking at another proposition.

(22) And Judas, not Iscariot, said Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

(23) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: my Father will love him, we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Now remember he said, "with you and in you." In this case it is "with."

17. All right. Let's go back here to 1 John. Now we go to 1 John 4.

(5) They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

(6) We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. (Now in other words you have to be full of the Holy Ghost to get this.) Hereby we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Now, this is what we're looking at. How are we going to have a manifestation of God, that the world cannot get? You are going to have to already be in it in order to apprehend it. And it's always on the basis of revelation. Matthew 16: "Who do men say that I, the son of man, am?" Oh, they said, I'll tell you what. This bunch over here says you're Isaiah. You're the fulfillment. That could have been almost anything‑-reincarnation, God knows what. Same spirit coming back; who knows. Well, somebody says, "I believe, really, that with this bunch over here, Jeremiah." And somebody said, "Well, I really believe it's John the Baptist come back from the dead." Now how about that? That's interesting, but I don't know where to carry that one, except something is wrong somewhere. Well, he said, "Who do you say that I am?" And Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." And He said, "You never got that from yourself. You never got it from those groups over there. You got it strictly by a revelation so that you know who I am and what I am. It's been manifested to you." All right. Now let's show that this is correct.

18. We go to Heb 11:14. The words are these: "For they that say such things declare plainly." They manifest by their words.

Now remember, no man has seen God at any time. The Only-Begotten, who lives in the bosom of the Father, hath thoroughly led him forth, declared through the process of exegesis, which is to lay out there completely through Word, through revelation; He has done it.

Now that word, 'manifest' is that word which has to do with shining light. How will You, therefore, manifest to us? How will You illuminate Yourself to us? "I will do it," He said, "through the Word," through the revelation. So therefore, this Bible, which is the letter form of God, and It's no different than another book, when It just lies there, and part of It is already dead and gone, but the Word of the hour, the revelation of the promise of this hour is the manifestation of God Himself, even as the prophet is the living Word of God manifested in this hour. There he is right there. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture.]

19. Well, wasn't he alive? That's Elijah which was to come. That's the Bible.

"William Branham, who are you?"

"I'm Malachi 4.”

"Come again?"

"That's who I am. Malachi 4."

"You mean you're the Word of God that came and formed a human flesh."

"That's it exactly. Now you got it. And I'm living."

"What are you here for?"

"Illumination. To manifest Him. To introduce Him, so you will know Him."

You say, "You're carrying things too far."

“Unfortunately I don't carry them far enough.”

20. Let's go back to John 15, and begin to see the same thing. First of all Jn 15:24, "If I had not done among them the works no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father." And look at the context. Verse 22, "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not sin." Now listen. The speaking brings sin. Then what if you listen and believe the Word right. Then there's no sin. Sure that's right. Listen, brother/sister, we're on a toboggan ride; reverse. We move fast. We move fast. Listen. He said, Now they've got no cloak for their sins." We don't need any cloaks. We've come to the light. We've been searched. We've been X‑rayed. No problem. The verdict has been guiltless. That's what Bro. Branham prayed for.

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(23) He that hateth me hateth my Father also. (Ah, just a minute!)

(22) If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. (And now they hate me. So therefore, the words that he spoke was the perfect revelation of God. It was just the same as God, or how are you going to hate It. You see a man is his word. God is His Word.)

(24) If I had not done among them the works no other man did, they had not sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Therefore, when the superior walks amongst the inferior, or the whole walks among the part, man rises up like the devil and says, "Huh, Michael is going to have the great kingdom eh? I'll have a better kingdom than he's got."

22. The minute God comes into view, in whichever way God has chosen--and until this hour He came by preaching of Word and this, that, and the other thing--but today He stands here, fully exposed, with no creed and dogma veiling Him, and the people stand there and look at Him. They're going to love Him or hate Him. See? "Now, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father."

(25) But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. (But watch.)

(26) But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

Now watch, Pillar of Fire, not the Son of man. William Branham, not the Son of man. Son of man in the form of the Holy Spirit. Spirit of God begin to move in the prophet. Watch him move down. And He comes right out here. There He is. Oh, that's not the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I'm sorry about that, because if that was, we'd all have it. Moses said, "I would to God, you were all prophets." Ain't no luck. Forget it.

23. Then It says,

(27) You'll bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Now we're being taken back to the beginning to have the same witness. Same Pillar of Fire Who wrote the Book is here delivering It to us.

24. All right. We have now come to 1 Cor 1:7‑8. This is the time of the apocalypse, because the Presence is the apocalypse, is a part of the epiphania, is a part of the Parousia. There's nothing that hasn't started here now. Or I ask you in the name of my God, where is the entering in, or the ushering in of the Millennium? "Oh, Bro. Vayle, that's down the road." I beg to disagree with you. It is now, and I am in it! Oh, I know they're going to cover up and say, "Well, the Seventh Seal wasn't open." Maybe to them it wasn't. It's fine by me. You have it your way.

(7) So that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the apocalypse, the unveiling of the Lord Jesus Christ.

(8) Who shall confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now they've got the cart before the horse. It says the unveiling must take place to make you blameless, so you won't be judged with the world and made guilty. Somebody's messed up. I'm messed up. I'll tell you right now. You do what you want about this. That's your business.

25. Now. Let's go to John 8. How things like this cut us all. I don't care any more about cutting. You do what you want. People are going to hear this tape. It goes to many places. I don't care what they...They don't have to believe anything. Do what you want about it. Jesus said here in John 8 to the Scribes and Pharisees,

(38) I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father. (Oh, you say, that's a figure of speech. Well, the whole Bible is a figure of speech. Who needs it? See?)

(39) They said Abraham is our father. Jesus said if you were Abraham's children (doesn't deny the father) you would do the works of Abraham.

(40) But now you seek to kill me, a man that told you the truth, which I heard of God: this did not Abraham.

(41) You do the deeds of your father. They said, We be not born of fornication. (They knew serpent seed. He's the fornicator.) We have one Father, even God. (Oh, don't tell me they didn't know serpent seed. You bet your sweet life they did. You got a bunch of people down here that don't know it.)

(42) Jesus said, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

(43) Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot

hear my word. (That's right. They couldn't get it. Now what are they like? He describes them.)

(44) When you can't get that Word, you have the devil for your father and you'll do just what he did. (Which is your soul lifted up in pride that you can't bend your mind for one minute. All you've got is questions, questions, questions. And every question comes from a creed and a dogma. Doesn't come from a divinely revealed source, or there wouldn't be a question. Faith doesn't question. Faith believes what has

already been set forth. Faith does not presuppose. Faith does not suppose. Faith is functional, foundational, doesn't run around.) He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own. (He doesn't have the Word of God. He doesn't know the first thing about It.) He is a liar, and the father of it.

(45) Because I tell you the truth, and you believe me not.

(46) Which of you can convince me of sin. If I say the truth, why don't you believe me?

(47) He that is of God heareth God's word.

Just what John said. They said, "Give him the acid test. Let's find out if they are from God." Well, first of all let's find out who is of God. You've got them right there. The works were done nobody else could do.

26. They say, "Well you see, Bro. Branham was a great prophet, but he's off the Word." Hunh, hunh, hunh, hunh. You know. Mohammed Ali was a great boxer, but he couldn't knock anybody out. But, oh didn't he? He knocked Liston for a loop. One shot in the mug, and he was gone. Oh, Jessie Owens could really run, but he couldn't win a race. Oh he didn't? Listen, the church may do what sports did to Jim Thorpe, which they did to him. Well, I'm going to tell you one thing. The guy still won the decathlon; still one of the greatest athletes that ever lived. Hah! So much for your lousy bunch of stinking church members. Filth of the universe. You waste your time praying for America. You're sick. Pray for individuals. Oh, you say, you have no place for the Word in there. They didn't have it. Now Bro. Branham read. (Paragraph 47) Josh 1:1

(1) Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

(2) Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, and go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

Now this is the Message that was to Bro. Branham. What is my message? You're not thinking are you? If you are, you're confused right now. I want you to be confused, because I want you to be so confused [that] you're going to let your own thinking go for once, and you don't give this much to anybody elses' thinking but the prophet. Because I can prove right now, before I even start, God giving me grace and help, you don't even know what the prophet said anymore than I knew before ninety-six hours ago. And I've been a long time, nineteen years on the road, since the prophet died.

I'm going to show you, that you can read everything, and when you read it, you read it with your mind according to what you think you know or what somebody taught you. And what happens when you draw a little blank, you just gloss over it like that. I know what I'm talking about. See, you didn't sit with the prophet four and a half hours on one point like I did. Try to blow your brains twelve days in a row, all the time you could get, to see if you could just make one point, and write it up. And he'd say, "No, you haven't got it yet. Write it down. No you haven't got it yet." You say, "Oooh. What have I got here?" Nothing much. But you have all it takes to get there. You just listen.

27. Now I said, this is what it is supposed to be concerning Bro. Branham--the message to him. Moses is dead. Goodbye Moses. Joshua is alive. Take him in. And right now, you're thinking..."Bro. Branham is not taking us into the Millennium, because that's the promised land." Huh? Oh come on. I know positively you were thinking that. Don't kid me. You're not that smart. But now you're thinking, so now you know you're in trouble. You were thinking wrong. Or either I'm going to lead you into a peck of trouble, one of the two. Okay?

(3) Every place that the sole of thy foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. (No guilt. No fear.)

(4) From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. (The sun sets on the west coast.)

(5) There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life (Oh, how nice they were before he died, then suddenly bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang): as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

(6) Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people thou shalt divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. (What land? That would be the Word in this case. One came down and stood upon land and sea.)

(7) Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou may prosper wherever you go.

(8) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth (So, therefore every sermon Bro. Branham preached was the Word of God. Yes. [He] said, “that's all you'll see when you believe the Message, in the Bible”); thou shall meditate therein day and night...(Now just a minute. He told me. I didn't read it. He told me.)...that thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein: for then thou shall make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shall have good success.

28. And because you've chosen the hard way, there is laid up with thee a monumental portion of heaven. Because you did it in love. He'd bawl the women out all the time. Couldn't stay off the women's backs. And his poor wife couldn't say a word." Now where's your love? Perverted phileo. Now true phileo, brother/sister, is of God, same as agape is. But you can pervert agape, and you can pervert phileo, because I've showed you already in about six sermons. I'm not through yet. There'll be the rest of this year likely, if the Lord gives us grace.

29. On Communion night we're going to just criss-cross that thing back and forth to show you where there has got to be some true milk of human kindness that God put there, that can come out. And I don't mean for one minute that you get to the place where you've got soul mates, and the men can hug the women and not feel anything. Don't get that crud in your minds. But there is a place that you can look at a women and love her as a sister in Jesus Christ and treat your wives as sisters. And vice‑a‑versa. We ain't got it. We're going to get it. Because if there is a God that could just let William Branham say "three squirrels,” and that squirrel life was there, and God brought it out of the earth, because that's where He got it, and put it on squirrels that William Branham could eat, then God can do this! Because that's part of the assurance that I've got to have. I never saw those squirrels come into existence. I don't have to. But it's not hard to believe.

30. I had an awful job with that squirrel thing until just ninety-six hours ago. I knew I believed it, because if I saw William Branham make three turns, revolutions, and this cord come around his feet and me stand there and watch that cord, and I didn't even see it, but suddenly it's straight. I can believe for a hundred squirrels. No trouble. But I could never understand what happened till now. "When we walk in the light as He is in the light, there is fellowship, one with another." That's Him and me, you and Him, then with each other. "I stand all amazed in the Presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how He could love me, a sinner condemned, unclean.” [Bro. Vayle begins crying.] Forget the emotion. Have to endure hardness as a good soldier. Make sure you got your powder. Don't worry anymore whether the fuse is wet or not. There ain't no wet fuses to fizzle. The powder is all dry. [End of the first side of the tape.]

31. Now, he said, (9) "Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee." And in the vision He saw the Mumba, turned him into absolute glass, as the Word stood there. Now he said, "Loose him. Turn him. Loose him. Let him go. Don't be afraid." Yeah.

I believe what he saw. Sure. Back there in John 8, there was no place for the Word aside from what they decided they wanted as manifestation, which was a bunch of their own so-called miracles, which I mean they called the trick on the miracles. There were miracles. They didn't want a revelation of Word. Now this prophet here, and he's a prophet, because he brings the Word...

32. [Paragraph 48] And then in Josh 10:12‑14.

(12) Then spake Joshua unto the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun stand still upon Gibeon; and Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. (Now listen. The first part was to William Branham, but the text is to us. "The Paradox.")

(13) And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon the enemy. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

(14) And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man:

The Lord harkened to the voice of a man? You said, "Three squirrels?" Now he's going to go back and say, "Hey, listen. I was called from a pyramid of seven angels."

They said, "You and who else?"

They said, "There's the one. He's the Judge."

"Ah, come on. Pbbt! What are you trying to tell us?"

"Seven days in a row an angel swept into the room," the embodiment of the Holy Spirit.