PARADOX #5

A Man Spoke and Nature Responded

Bro. Lee Vayle

April 1, 1984

Shall we pray? Heavenly Father we realize Your great, and gracious Presence, the One who gave the Book to Paul here, interpreting it to us, not having left us, but here to take us into the Millennium. What a paradox that is. Seems contrary to the senses, and everything else and our own beliefs, but we know It's true. We've accepted It, and It's a part of us.

We appreciate the fact, Lord, that You have revealed these things to us, revealed them to babes, children that didn't have a background to begin with, can take things so easily. Those that become children, who give up their backgrounds, can also receive it. And we believe, Lord, if we have that which comes by the washing of the water unto regeneration, that same sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, released by the Word, can wash and wipe away every preconceived idea, and anything whatsoever we may have had of ourselves or handed down to us by vain tradition, by vain men, now in the Presence of the living God, understanding and knowing the things of God. We believe that Lord. We're just resting on It. All we're going to do is rest on It. We believe It. We accept It, Lord, and whatever comes of It. If we're right, we know we've got to be right with You, and It's going to be with You. And then if it's wrong, Lord, we know that that's not with You, and we won't be with You. So, we just stand here, with no other place to go, not even looking for any other place to go, except keep on going in the place and the way we're going.

And we must say, Lord, whether we are one of this, or one of that, we're satisfied. Evidently we were cut out of a certain cloth, in a certain pattern, for a certain thing, and we feel right at home in It. And we believe we'll feel more and more at home in It. So Father, we believe the destiny has been set. And if we're one of those ships on the tossing sea of life that's heading for the harbor, we know the stabilizers have been set. We'll crest every wave and storm, and maybe some plunges here and there, but we're going to be there. That much we know.

So, we're grateful this morning, Lord, for what we believe to be the assurance of faith, and we cannot praise Thee enough, because we believe It's of You, and You did It all. All to You we owe. So, we just ask You to help us now, this morning, to be as Paul said, "If I'm in folly, and confirmed in folly, leave me to my folly. Leave me to my boasting and my glory." And that's the way we are today, Lord.

We're happy for Your grace and goodness, because we believe It is of You. And we believe we have seen Thee face-to-face in the understanding of what that means today. We have heard Thee and been taught of Thee. And we are in the position of growth, revelation, understanding, love, expansion, going into immortality. So we cannot praise You enough. We just commend everything now, this service, or the preaching into Your hand, asking You, Lord, to bless every single one. In Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

1. Well, as again, it's always a tremendous pleasure to be here, and have folk with us. And there's one thing about it, that we know that people who come here, come here for just one thing: that's the Word. And if it was anything else, well, that's all right, if you want to do it, but, you ain't one of us. Sorry about that, but, I don't know what the word 'finesse' means, except it means that if you're a sort of a kook, you get kookier. I don't believe in being suave. [] I wouldn't have it anyway. Like the guy who said, "Well", he said, "I ain't got no couth." He said, "Let's go out and buy some couth." []

2. All right now. We're into the "Paradox." And today we're still studying the "Paradox," the message that Bro. Branham brought us. And even more than formerly, this sermon, is indeed incredible. It gets more and more incredible, because that's what 'paradox' is. It contradicts absolutely the theologians, the traditions of the denominations. It even runs contrary to what everybody would apparently believe to be right, but it is nevertheless the truth, the only truth, and therefore, then what appears correct to the church world is an error.

3. This message of the "Paradox" is exactly like the message of the "Rapture." It's real strange. Real strange. It just doesn't fit with anything else, but this time with a strange man like William Branham. He said, "I have had a real strange life." True. And he met a real strange God. He found out there weren't three of them. He was of the opinion that God hated him, and Jesus loved him, and so that constituted a little bit of a war. And of course that would be very, very confusing, wouldn't it? He said, "I found out it was the same person." His life was strange. Nobody could figure him. He couldn't figure himself. His teaching was strange. The "Paradox" is very strange.

4. Now we're going to go back, take some time, even though I don't necessarily like to keep taking time, but we go back to Josh 1:1-9. But first we're going to read paragraph 40/41 on page 6.

(40) A few years ago, I'd take a Bible, let you hand me the Bible, when I first started my ministry; He said, I'd take a Bible, or you, it doesn't matter, just give me the Bible. Whether I reached my hand and got my own, or, you got your hand and put it into my hand. Many of you saw me do it. See? No matter how you got the Bible, just like this, anyway, always Joshua chapter one. Never failed, turned upside down, inside out, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Dutch, Yugoslavian, it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't matter. Invariably, without fail, it never failed to open at that point. Now listen, just hold it open like that, and listen to what he said, "Lord, where is the Message to me?"

Now right away everybody thinks, "Well wonderful, wonderful. The prophet is going to have a message for me." Now hold it! It wasn't for you. It was for him. I'm going to tell you something. I bought this suit, and you ain't going to wear it, unless I give it to you. I ain't going to give it to you. This is my suit. Prophet had a Message; "God what are you telling me?"

(41) Until one night a vision came, with which you're familiar, and I saw a Bible come down from Heaven, a hand with a collar. Now there right up to the...Here's where it was. Right down to here. He saw this with the hand, cuff and the collar, right here. That's all he saw. Okay? Went to the first nine verses of Joshua.

(42) That's where I'm reading from this afternoon, for my reading, or my Scripture reading.

5. Okay.

(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...

(All right, you can see here, that this puts William Branham in a secondary category to what has previously taken place. Something had preceded him, and he's a minister to what had preceded him. So now God speaks to a man. Why he said, in the tape which was written, given especially to me: "See Lee, we haven't had a prophet who spoke face to face with God for two thousand years until the time of Paul to now.” Okay?)

(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 he's got something to do, therefore, with an entering into a specified place of promise. Okay? It's a commission.)

(3) Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, I have given you, (and they will follow you. Right? Oh, that's the idea. He said, "You're going to precede them.")

(4) From the wilderness of this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, to the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

(Everything that was in the past, as the sun moved to the west, he said, "You're going to look back on that. That's what you look back on, but you're going to end at the west coast. Your part is where the sun goes down." People say, "Huh, surmise." 'Paradox.' Not surmise. 'Paradox.')

(5) There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.

(Now what about that baby? You show me where that went astray. Couldn't do it. He could read every heart, and he could've pinned every ear back. And if he'd a turned loose, there would've been a lot of people died. I'm going to tell you something brother/sister, you cannot scare people out of hell and into heaven; it is already written. So what would've been the use?)

(6) Be strong and of good courage;

(5) As I was with Moses, so I will be with you, I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.

(6) Be strong and of good courage; for unto this people thou shalt divide for an inheritance the land, which I swear unto their fathers to give them.

(7) Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do all according to the law, which Moses, my servant, commanded thee; turn not from it to the right, or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. (That's when he stood there, behind the curtain of time, and said, "I said what Paul said.”)

(8) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth.

(It didn't say, "His head." It said, "His mouth." Now you'll notice at the end time that God spews the church out of His mouth. The church can no longer speak for God. Paradox. Here's a man speaking for God, and nobody else is speaking for God. Well, how do you think the pope feels about that, or the general superintendent, or some high mucky, muck that really knows? Fap. I'm going to tell you something brother/sister, Hitler might have fooled the people with 'ersatz' coffee, but don't try it with me. Don't try it with the bride, to give somebody 'ersatz.' Word!)

(8) For then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, then thou shalt have good success.

(If you think he didn't, how come a Pentecostal stood up (Although he wasn't a complete Pentecostal. He was a Baptist Pentecostal. I call it a Neopentecostal) stood up and gave a message in tongues that several French people interpreted and said that Bro. Branham had gotten the success that this Word said he would have, and a vast portion of heaven awaited for him.)

(9) Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. (Well, was He, or wasn't He?)

(10) Then Spake Joshua unto the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites (and so on. Well, we'll get to that later on.)

Those first nine verses was God's Message to Bro. Branham.

6. Then you will notice, that He brought a message to us. And he said, "My text,” and that's for us, "is the tenth chapter, and the twelfth verse.” But it wasn't Joshua 1:1-9. So let's get what he said to us. This is in the Bible, to you and me, concerning Bro. Branham's ministry.

(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 thou, Moon in the valley of Ajalon.

(13) And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. 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 or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel. (Now, that's written for you and me. Now please listen, and follow me, and don't fail to get this. And it's this verse:)

(12) Then Joshua spake 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 thou, Moon in the valley of Ajalon.

Now, what I want you to know here is that a man spoke. A man said something. Now, understand the simplicity of what we are saying. That this is to you and me, that a man spoke.

7. Now we're used to people preaching. They preach day and night, and they preach hogwash. Because there's no God so stupid--and that's a picture of Him right there, Pillar of Fire, and over here. There's no God of so many minds, that it takes dozens of major denominations, and hundreds of seminaries that disagree with each other, to try to bring out something about a God that's supposed to know His Own mind, Who's omniscient. But they can't take the paradox of a man speaking. They'll listen to voices, counsels, but the simplicity of a man speaking...A man said something, and what he said caused a response in the universe. It said, "The sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down for a whole day."

8. Now, it is prophesied by Jesus, in Mark 11:22, "Another man will speak and cause a response in nature." Now let's go, and take a look at Mark 11:22:

(22) Jesus answering said, have the faith of God.

(23) For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast in the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatever he saith. (Causing a response in the universe. Page 5 and verse 36:)

(36) And that little marker, that my wife had gotten me and put in the Bible, not knowing with my name on it, and so forth, was laying right to Mark twelve, twenty-two. She just stuck it in the bible, that's where it was at. And that's "If you say to this mountain, 'be moved.'"

The text to you and me, is a man spoke, and a response came through nature, through the universe. Paradox. Another man will speak, and mountains will be cast in the sea.

9. Notice again, Josh 10:13: "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves." Do you know that time temporarily ceased? Because time is measured in eternity by the roll of a planet. The universe in harmony. Time stood still. It blended back with eternity. Paradox.

10. Page 6, 43 to 45. Now remember, as we read this, that Bro. Branham stopped a blizzard, stopped a hurricane, created squirrels by the Word of Almighty God. Now watch, reading 43 to 46.

(43) Now here, the Bible open, let's bow our heads a moment. Now with our heads and our hearts bowed, let's think this. Let's not just this be an ordinary meeting; we have those all the time. But let's pray God, each one of us, for this will be an extraordinary meeting, in so much that the Presence of God will be with us continually through the meeting.

(44) Heavenly Father, we are thankful for this grand and noble privilege to be here in Phoenix this afternoon.Remember the Phoenix is the Phoenix bird that's typical of something rising from the ashes which was a bird. The bird rose, signifying a resurrection, which would be the end time restoration.

(44) We're about to approach the Word. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."

Now that's not talking about people being full of the Holy Ghost. That's not talking about the bride. That goes back right to the fact, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh," that the fullness of the Godhead should appear bodily at the end time. Now whether you like it or not and say, "Well I don't believe a prophet could have that," that's your business. You do what you want with it. Paradox. "Oh, I never was taught, and I simply can't believe that God, that God, very God, the fullness, could go in a man like William Branham." Paradox. He's God to the people. Paradox. Okay.

(44) And may it again, Lord, that the Word will become flesh. Now here's where they get tricked by his next sentence. It'll pour through Thy church and Thy people, to fulfill the promise of the hour. God in the prophet, for one reason; for what comes through the prophet, in that measure, will pour through the people in that hour. Now listen;

(45) And as we realize that we're closing the time, time is running out. It is blending in with Eternity.

Sun stand thou still. The message of the hour to you and me is that time and eternity has blended. Now the people don't believe this. Now I want you to be a little sympathetic this morning. I want you to know why I'm nervous, and I don't care if tapes go out anymore. Just destroy the machines, because I'm tired of being slugged all the time, and yet I know I've got to be slugged. Because you can't get one out of a thousand in this Message, as far as I know, that understands what I'm talking about. There's too many crows on the dove roost. You say, "Bro. Vayle, do you consider yourself a dove?" Would I preach what I am preaching, in line with the prophet, in this book here, if I was a crow? Figure it out for yourself, and do what you want.

(45) And we're at the west coast. The prophet at the coast. And as civilization has travelled, East to West, so has the gospel travelled with it. And now there is no place to go but back east again. It's completed. That which is perfect is come.

(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 book, of this Word, back in the building of a tabernacle, the tabernacle of flesh; manifesting Himself to us, in the pardoning of our sins.

That's not William Branham. That's not the Pillar of Fire. That's the Son of man. Now you tell me, "The bride has got it," and I'll tell you, "You stink." I'll say, "You puffed up, arrogant, anti-Christ," because that's all you are. You're a hoodlum to the things of God and the nature of Jesus Christ. And I don't have any bitterness or hatred saying it. I'm just saying it truthfully. Because look, we don't have room for hypocrisy.

(46) In the pardoning of our sins, the forgiven iniquities, with the assurance that He will not impute sin to the believer, with the assurance of that.And then he goes on, it's beyond that God, You go beyond all scientific research.

Science said, "We caught It with a camera." So what's that got to do with it? You still need a revelation. There it is there again. Science says, "There's no moisture up there, twenty-six miles up, thirty miles across..." Forget it. There it is. Where'd the picture come from? Thousands of eyes saw it.

(46) You, God, go beyond all reasoning. Grant to Your servant, this afternoon, the speaking and hearing of Thy Word, on the subject of Paradox. It's true. It's true. Say, "Well, that's incredible." Still true. "Well, I don't know if it was ever done that way." Still true.

11. All right, now watch again. Josh 10:14: "And there was no day like that before or after it." No day like that, before or after. Now, this singular, attesting miracle, will never occur again. So therefore, it becomes a type, or an example, to the end time, if you believe the prophet.

12. No man speaking will ever cause this to happen again. But another man speaking will cause the mountains to be cast into the sea. Mark 11:22-23. I read it.

(22) Jesus answering said, have the faith of God.

(23) For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things that he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatever he saith.

This is to a very singular individual, and this is not a type. This is a verbatim statement of Jesus Christ, Who, when He cursed the fig tree (and this depends on the example of the fig tree being cursed), nature obeyed Him. Now He said, "There's going to come a day, when a man stands here, and he's going to cause mountains to be thrown into the sea." And He didn't say he was going to it. He said somebody else was going to do it. The same God that said, "Whosoever (he that) believeth in Me, the works that I do, more shall he do than I've done." Where Bro. Branham categorically said, "Jesus Christ had more success in his ministry, in my body, than He had in His own.” When it came to the supernatural things that were done, the tremendous outreach, Jesus was never with the crowds and around the world, the way William Branham was. Now he wasn't trying to aggrandize himself. He was putting it all back on God. But this says here, "There will never be a man, who says ‘Sun stand still.’ But there will be a man, who says, ‘Mountains be thou cast in the sea.’”

13. Now remember, let's get this flat, my brother, my sister. There was a day that Jesus was going into a city, and He saw the fig tree which He knew was not ripe. In other words, it was not the season for destruction. But He cursed the fig tree, and when they got back from their destination, which was the next morning, the fig tree was dead. So we see the element of a time lapse. We see the curse, preceding the hour of the literal ripening. So therefore, before the cup of the Sodomites and the Amorites are completely filled, the prophecy goes forth and it will happen. The mountains will be cast into that sea.

14. Now we look at Luke 18:15-16. "And they brought young children that He should touch them, the disciples rebuked them that brought them. When Jesus saw it, He was much displeased and said, ‘Suffer little children to come unto me, forbid them not: for such is the kingdom of God.’”

15. Now remember, it is at the end time, that the Kingdom is being preached. And people are pressing into it, but they're not making it. Remember the parallel at the time was the Kingdom given to Israel, and they turned it down by crucifixion. It's repeated to the Gentiles. And except you become as a little child, and wipe out your mind, of all the junk that Pentecost, and the Way, and the Baptist, and the Methodist, and the Independents, of all that unmitigated hogwash, which Paul distinctly called manure, whether you like it or not; I'm sorry, but that's what it is.

16. All decayed vegetation is manure. But there's just one thing that's worse than that, and that's rotten fruit. I'd like to see any farmer get a bunch of rotten apples, or Bro. Evans here, he farms, and Bill. You got a couple of farmers. I'd like to see either one go down to a place where there is a whole lot of rotten apples and say, "I want that for my land." Rotten fruit ain't even good for fertilizer. It's good for fruit flies. That's right. Nobody picks up apples for fertilizer. You don't pick up fruit. Just don't. And this generation is rotten fruit, especially in the head. You got to get rid of it. All right?

17. Now notice. He took those children in His arms and blessed them. There came a day, when the same Man took three men in His arms in a rapture to see a transfiguration. Little children don't understand 'Paradox.' They believe.

18. They don't say, "Well..." like years ago, my mother used to try to entertain us kids by telling us bedtime stories, and didn't know she told us whoppers. Aesop's fables, you know, looked like child stuff along side of her imagination. But I remember she told us how, that when she came over from Europe, she looked out and she saw mermaids. I believed everything my mother told me. She saw mermaids; there were mermaids. I went to school, and I said, "There are mermaids." They said, "Ahhhh." Why I said, "My mother saw them." There's no paradox to me. If you're a little child, you believe what the prophet said. He'll pick you up and bless you. Take you up in a rapture. Paradox.

19. "Choosing a Bride."

(35-3) And church member, if your church isn't like to measure up to God's qualification of His Word, get out of it, and get into Christ. This a solemn warning. We don't know what time. And you don't know what time this city one day is going to be lying out there in the bottom of this ocean. Now in sheer prophecy,

(35-4) "O, Capernaum," said Jesus, "thou who exalted thyself unto Heaven should be brought down into hell, for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it would've been standing today." And Sodom and Gomorrah lies at the bottom of the dead sea, and Capernaum is in the bottom of the sea. Now listen.

(35-5) Thou city, who claims to be the city of the angels, who's

exalted yourself into heaven, and sent all those dirty filthy things, the fashion and things, 'till even the foreign countries come here to pick up filth and send it away, with your fine churches and steeples and so forth the way you do-remember, one day you will be lying at the bottom of this sea. Your great honeycomb right beneath you now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He will hold this sandbar, hanging over that, when that ocean puts out yonder a mile deep, will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea? It'll be worse than the days of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles! Repent, the rest of you and turn to God! The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there is time to flee, and come into Christ. Now, he says here:

(36-1) So I pray Thee, Lord, in the name of Jesus, that people shake themselves tonight and flee from the wrath to come, for Ichabod is wrote over the doors and over the nations. A black check mark, is come across it, the Spirit of God is grieved away from it, they're weighed in the balance and found wanting. The feast of King Nebuchadnezzar has repeated again with drunken parties and half dressed woman calling themselves Christians. That's right. Pentecostal meeting, where they claim they worship God, and they're nothing but orgies. Look at them. Look at how they dress.

(36-2) Oh God of Heaven, have mercy upon a sinful world and a sinful people, Lord, as we are tonight. God, I'm trying to stand in the breach and ask for divine mercy, that You'll speak to this crowd tonight, and call Your Bride to attention, Lord, to march not by the sign of any creed, but by the sound of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Grant it, oh God. Let it be known this night, that Thou art God, and Thy Word is Truth. While solemnly in the face of this people, we call them to attention to Thy Word, in the name of Jesus Christ, I pray Lord.

(36-3) They have seen You beyond any shadow of a doubt move across the crowds and tell them what is in their hearts.Now that's not the baptism with the Holy Ghost brother/sister. That doesn't do that. So don't get confused. Put it where it belongs. Put it right back on God - prophet, prophet - God, to a bride. See?

(37-1) My brother, my sister, I don't know what more to say. If I have found grace in your sight by the power of God; if you believe me to be His prophet... This is the first time in public I have ever said that, but I feel a strange warning of some sort. I'm not prone to this. You know I'm not. I don't act like this. I hesitated to speak that Message, and say those things. I run sideways and everything else, to keep from doing it, but it has been said, and it will stand in the day of judgment as a witness I've told the truth. That is THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD. Oh, Pentecost, run for your life! Flee to the horns of the altar and cry out before it is too late, for the hour will come when you can cry and it will do no good. For Esau sought to find the place of his birthright, and he could not find it. I commit you, oh California, oh Convention of the Full Gospel Businessmen, who I love, who I have left and strung to with all my heart. I commit you to the Lord Jesus Christ tonight. Flee to Him! Don't let the devil ever cool you off from this. Stay right with it until you're everyone filled with the Holy Ghost insomuch It will make you come to this Word, and make the woman straighten up and make the men straighten up. If you say you've got the Holy Ghost and won't cope with the Word, it's another spirit in you. God's Spirit is on His Word, the anointed Word. The bride must be a messiahette,so to speak, the anointed word. Of course they organized immediately, and went on to destruction, which we will get into.

20. Now with this we're still not finished with the text to us, the great Paradox. Again you will notice in verse 14, It says: "And there was no day like that before it or after it, for the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man, and the Lord fought for Israel."

Now, you will notice here, It says, "The Lord fought for Israel." But don't forget those words, "The Lord fought for Israel," belong to, "There was no day like it." So therefore, there was a qualification in this understanding that, when this day repeats, it is the day of the Lord again. Now people don't want to understand that. Why do you think Bro. Branham took the Book of Revelation and preached "Patmos Vision, the Day of the Lord?" The Lord's Day, see? Now, so It really says, "The day the Lord fought for Israel."

There was nothing like it. See? And there won't be that day repeat, per se, as to the event. But when a man comes on the scene, and proves that mountains will be cast into the ocean--and we'll show you how it was done, and it's going to be done--you know you're with the day of the Lord, when the Lord is going to have to take over for us. And it's going to be a day when you can't put a new patch on an old garment or new wine in old bottles. You've got to go back to being a child. [Turning the hearts of the children back to the fathers.]

Now, thus we see a great type back there for the day of the Lord, which day of the Lord is now present, the same as that day of the Lord, was present in that hour.

21. Okay, let's go to Isaiah, chapter 2, beginning at verse 6.

(6) Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people (the house of Israel), the house of Jacob, because they replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines¼ (Now who come running in here? People from Europe to try to mess us up. See, creeds and denominations.) ¼like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. (They can't get bride; they'll pick up others.)

(7) Their land is also full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of chariots: (See, they got armaments.)

(8) (But) their land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that their fingers have made. (Their buildings, their denominations, their big multi-edifices.)

(9) The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbles himself, therefore forgive them not. (See the church has gone into commerce and industry. They've bought up tremendous, industrial organizations, and they do it because they say, "This way we can help people." I thought the church helped them out of its individual pockets. Every way they try to circumvent the will of God saying, "Well, we're doing it better." Paul said, "Take up an offering." Paul instituted forms and ways in the church, but the church has dropped it. Now:)

(9) The mean man boweth down, the great man humbles himself, therefore forgive them not. (Now it tells you that; there's no forgiveness.)

(10) Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty.

(11) The lofty looks of man should be humbled, and the haughtiness of men should be bowed down, and the Lord alone should be exalted in that day.

(12) For the day of the Lord of hosts, shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and every one that is lifted up, and he'll be brought low. (Now that's Malachi 4, and this prophet William Branham is identified with Malachi 4, that the day of the Lord comes on the scene, there's a prophet; and except for the prophet speaking, there is no forgiveness. Forgiveness runs out. Because It says, "Don't forgive them." You say, "Well the blood stands there." What has that got to do with it? The minute you turn down the life, there is no blood. You can't do it. You can't have it.)

(13) Upon all the cedars of Lebanon, (that's the great people), and high and lifted up, and the oaks of Bashan (that speaks of great people again, authoritative).

(14) Upon the high mountains, (That's their big institutions) and the hills lifted up.