RAPTURE #6

Blinded by the Presence

Bro. Branham Alone Can Tell What He Heard

October 9, 1983

 

                                                                                                                                    Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we are very grateful to know that You have revealed Yourself to us in this end time, and given also, not only of Your Name to us, but a thorough exposition of Yourself whereby we might know You, that Word form having come to life. And there is a reality here that, absolutely, has not been since the beginning, or even in the beginning, because they did not know You as we know You in the power of the Resurrection; which is going on now; which is going to be responsible for bringing the dead out of the graves and changing us. We know, Lord, that if we are not of that group, there is a group that is certainly going to receive it. So therefore, Lord, we are happy to know, at least, we are those who are in the light to that extent that we have perceived through Your grace this knowledge. 

                                                                                                                                    And Lord, that brings us to the point that we cannot believe, then, that we are blind, and we are not blind anymore but have the light. Your eye having shined upon us, Lord, and that the glory revealed to us then, Lord, we just count ourselves part of that privileged group, and we thank You for it, Lord. We have made it personal, because we believe You have made it personal. We believe all the signs are in concerning that, all the ear marks; and therefore, we stand in a place not just of faith but in a revealed knowledge that we know we have come this far. We thank You, Lord, therefore for grace and mercy. We rejoice in it; we praise You for it. We commend ourselves to it this morning. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

1.                                                                                                                                    Now we are going to continue in “The Rapture,” and of course, that’s where we really slowed down, but that is all right. We’ll take our time. We want to read again from page 14. This is message number six on about eight pages. So hopefully, we will get maybe ten more done this morning.

2.                                                                                                                                    Now he says here on page 14:

[64]  Did you know that the Protestant and Catholic church is predicted in the last days to be blind, the same thing through the Scriptures with Christ on the outside trying to get in. Because thou sayest I am rich and have need of nothing…” He is quoting for you now that where the blindness is in Scripture: “and have need of nothing knowest thou not that thou art miserable, poor, wretched, naked, and blind and don’t know it.”

                                                                                                                                    Now those words ‘miserable, poor, wretched…’ They are actually words that pretty well have their meanings closely united, on the grounds that here is a group of people who contend that they are exceedingly wealthy, and they are literally, literally living in the delusion of the insane who feel that they are like the Intelligentsia, the cream of the crop, the noble, the rich; ‘they’ve got it all.’ And they don’t know that really, they live down the back alley without any goods of this world at all. They are just beggars in a dream world–a delusion. Now that’s exactly what this is bringing out.

                                                                                                                                    You can see that today in the sense of where you might run across a poor bum in the gutter, and he will tell you that though he is, you know, begging you for a dime, and his clothes are vermin infested, that he is really the son of Rockefeller, and he just has not gotten his money yet. And that is what this church is. They really think they are somebody. They think that they are rich, and they are actually beggars, destitute, and they don’t have it.

3.                                                                                                                                    Now then, he says here, that is quoting Revelation 3, “there you are back to blindness again.” Now, what does he mean blindness again? Well, when Christ was here on earth, the Pharisees counted themselves to be those rich in the things of God, that they had everything going for them, and that they saw—spiritually discerned and understood the revelation. And he said, “Because you say you see, you are blind.” They were blinded to everything which would have brought their salvation. But where salvation had come to them, they turned it down.

4.                                                                                                                                    So, there is a blindness once more, and of course, what is that blindness that was there? The blindness that was there was the very Christ that they wanted to see, the very Messiah they talked about, the very One that they looked for all these centuries. They had it entirely pegged wrong, though it was in Scripture, it was entirely pegged wrong as to how He would come. As Bro. Branham said so truthfully, that He came according to the Scripture but not according to their interpretation of It. So therefore, there was a blindness, because how could Christ be wanting to get back in the church, if He wasn’t there once and then kicked out? So therefore, there is a Coming at the end time, which we call the Presence, the Appearing that people are absolutely unaware of. They are blinded to it.

                                                                                                                                    Now watch what he said, “They are blinded. They are trampling over the things of God as if they didn’t mean anything to them, scoffing and making fun of it.” Now remember, the scoffers were to appear at the time of the revelation of the Rapture doctrine.

5.                                                                                                                                    So, we are on the subject of the Rapture. And this coming, then, is the phase of the Lord Himself descending from Heaven with a shout, the voice, the archangel, the trump of God. And this actual coming is what the church is not aware of, and so thereby in their blindness, they are trampling over the things of God.

6.                                                                                                                                    Now let’s find out what the ‘trampling over the things of God’ are. And I know that you can get very excited over this message. You can get very vindictive. You can put on the boxing gloves or, better still, take the boxing gloves off and pick up a rock, or anything you can, to smash people’s skulls in. I recognize that this message has taken on a militancy, which I hate to see; but we can not help what we preach, so that people militate against us.

                                                                                                                                    But let’s find out what ‘trampling under foot’ is, so we know what we are talking about. Heb 10:26: “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” Now, let’s let that sink in. There is the sacrifice standing there. A knowledge of the truth comes after the sacrifice. The knowledge is turned down; there is no more sacrifice.

                                                                                                                                    You say, “Well, I think I would like to disagree.”

                                                                                                                                    Well, you may disagree. I am not here to stop you from going to hell or to put you into heaven. Now, this is the kind of preaching people don’t like—because it is too militant. It is too one-to-one. It is live or die.

7.                                                                                                                                    I am going to tell you something. We are not going to make it as a group unless every single one of us is Bride. For the fellow snuck in without a garment. He thought he was going to make it as a group.

                                                                                                                                    They said, “Hey, where’s your garment?”

                                                                                                                                    “I don’t have one.”

                                                                                                                                    “How did you get in? Go out the same way you got in, with your stinking creeds and dogmas.”

                                                                                                                                    But he knew something was going on. Now, you will see that Bro. Branham will hit this down the road a bit, when we come to baptism of the Holy Ghost—how do you get in?

                                                                                                                                    Now he said here, “There’s nothing...” “But a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.”

                                                                                                                                    Adversaries? What adversaries? Those that haven’t received the truth. They willfully set it to one side. Now listen. We are talking about Moses, and Moses is Exodus, and Exodus is Rapture, right? We went into that didn’t we? The subject was Rapture, and no matter what we looked at, it had to do with the subject. So therefore, every illustration and every Scripture had an overtone, if not an absolute element of indication—Rapture.

8.                                                                                                                                     Now we went into the Exodus. We saw how God interprets His Own Word. (28) “He that dispised Moses; law died without mercy under two or three witnesses.”

                                                                                                                                    I don’t care if he had the blood or not. They caught the man gathering sticks on the Sabbath in order to cook some food, and they said, “Now, just a minute. We have a feeling that this is wrong. Is it wrong or not?”

                                                                                                                                    Moses said, “I don’t know, but I will inquire.” Moses, being the prophet, inquired, and he came back. As the verdict, he said, “Stone him with stones until he die.”

                                                                                                                                    You say, “I don’t think I like that. Where was the sacrifice?” Where was the sacrifice?

                                                                                                                                    Well, where was the sacrifice? They did it down in Egypt and brought them plum over to here. Now with the blood sacrifice standing there, they went against the Word of God? Absolutely.

                                                                                                                                    Now you say, “Just a minute, wasn’t that willfullness—known disobedience? That guy didn’t even know.” That is exactly what I want you to say.

9.                                                                                                                                    Now It says here in Lk 1:17:

(17)      And (this John the Baptist) shall go before the Lord God of Israel in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, even the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.

                                                                                                                                     And disobedient there, are not those who are willfully disobedient as though they are going against an actual command, but they don’t know any better. They are ignorant.

                                                                                                                                    Now these people know better, because they had Moses, they had Jesus, and now they have William Branham; but which even the classical historians of the Scripture will tell you, no man in two thousand years produced what William Branham produced. Now, we have a few people of the ilk of Satan, of the spirit of hell, who now want to denigrate a man of which they are not worthy to even clean up his latrine. That is right, spiritually, physically speaking, because I know those birds, and I knew the Prophet.

10.                                                                                                                                    Now we are going to get right to Jesus, the Christ.

(29)      Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the Spirit of grace? (You can go plum as far as the blood and go to hell. You can acknowledge the sacrifice and talk about your hope in God, but it doesn’t mean one thing if you turn down light. Now, anybody can say amen glibly, and some of us can sit and wonder what I am talking about. Well, I am doing my best to explain it to you.)

(30)      For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

(31)      It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

                                                                                                                                    Now, where does the judge come? The judge comes by a prophet. The prophet comes to get the Word, then he tells you what the Word means, and then he begins to apply the Word.

11.                                                                                                                                    All right. Now, let’s go to Jn 3:16. In here, we are talking about the sacrifice.

(16)      For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (And then It says subsequently:)

(17)      For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

(18)      He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (Now, he tells you, there is no condemnation; and then he tells you. there is condemnation. And he tells you the condemnation is they have not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God. And then he explains what that is.)

(19)      And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (Now, then It goes on to say:)

(20)      For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

                                                                                                                                    Now there is not one of us sitting here but does not know that adultery is wrong, that smoking is wrong, and drinking is wrong, and killing is wrong, and slander is wrong, and lying is wrong, and coveting is wrong, and all those things are wrong. Exactly right? Anybody knows that it’s not the deeds you bring; not the deeds you bring. Now, It says they will not bring their deeds, because the light has come; and they simply will not bring those deeds to the light, and therefore, the blood does not avail. That is what It says over here in Hebrews.

12.                                                                                                                                    Now let’s go back to John again. We go to 1 Jn 3:7, which we read before. It says:

(7)        Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

(8)        He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might bring to nothing the works of the devil. (In other words, the works of the devil in these people that are sinning.)

(9)        Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (You have an anointing from the Holy One; you don’t need to have any man teach you. You’re going to be always right. That is what he is talking about.)

(10)      In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. (Now, the emphasis is always put on “he that loveth not his brother”. And they get it all mixed up with the fact: thou shall not kill, thou shall not destroy, not slander, not covet, not commit adultery, not this, not that. Just be nice and be a good fellow. That is not what evil deeds are. Let’s find out.)

(11)      For this is the message you heard from the beginning, (way back in Genesis) that we should love one another.

(12)      Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, who slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. (It was the two sacrifices. Absolutely. One had the light, and one didn’t.)

13.                                                                                                                                    Now the blood only avails for those who are in the light. Now, people can say what they want, but I am not a fool, and you are not fools. The organization can say what it wants. Anybody can say what they want. But this is what the Word of God says. And light depends on a revelation, and revelation depends upon grace. Grace depends upon foreknowledge. Foreknowledge has out‑working in election. Election goes to predestination. Predestination brings a Bride. Now, you can say what you want, but that is exactly the truth. See?

                                                                                                                                    If the people do not know it, it is not my fault. And they become adversaries of this simple truth. And when they do it, they trample under foot the blood of the covenant, and they make Jesus Christ a dirty thing.

                                                                                                                                    You say, “Well, I can’t believe that.”

                                                                                                                                    You believe what you want, because I care less.

                                                                                                                                    You say, “You really don’t mean it.

                                                                                                                                    No, I don’t really mean it in one way, but I really do mean it in another way. Because that means you can do what you want. Once I preach, it is out of my hands. See? That is just where it is.

14.                                                                                                                                    Now—scoffing and making fun. What are they scoffing and making fun of? The light of this hour. And the scoffing comes under the Rapture. You say, what about other doctrines? Absolutely: predestination. When the prophet hit that, where did they go? Every major split and error that is in this message started with predestination. But now the last one is here, because the last doctrinal sermon that Bro. Branham preached was “The Rapture.” Now, notice what he says about “The Rapture.” This is the subject.

[65]  But to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to her. It’s revealed to her, that the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture.

                                                                                                                                    Now he says right here that this is what he is on to. This is what he is talking about, that the Bride is waiting for it. Now, whether she waits or not, or knows it or not. That’s right. Whether she knows she’s waiting, or whether she doesn’t know she’s waiting, she’s waiting for it. She doesn’t have it right.

15.                                                                                                                                    Now here is a man telling the condition of a people. There are those who swear they understand. They say, we positively know the Rapture. We understand His Appearing and His Coming, but they don’t. They are satisfied that they’ve got it. But he says to the Bride, to the true Church, there has got to come a revelation of It. It has got to be revealed to her. And a true Bride will be waiting for it. In other words, no matter what she had previously believed or what she had been taught, she will break with it when the revelation comes.

16.        [66]  Now, it, (What it? The Rapture.) is a revelation, for the revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it’s something that’s revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something that has been revealed to you like it was to Abraham.

                                                                                                                                    Now here is the good part of it, because you can take this first part and become an absolute idiot—a spiritual malfunction.

                                                                                                                                    “Well, it’s a revelation. Well, the Rapture is a revelation. So if the Rapture is a revelation, I now put myself in a spiritual, an ethereal, esoterical position in a never-never land, and I just wait here, sort of in trance; and I say, ‘Revelation, revelation, revelation. I am being raptured, revelation’”—like a mantra.

17.                                                                                                                                    Now I know what I am talking about, because I have dealt with cults in Florida. And there is nothing I despise more than cultism, because this is not something which is bland and shapeless. It is tremendously factual and deals with the literal resurrection and a transformation of human bodies and a catching away into the Millennium of Almighty God. And you don’t get It by nice thoughts as though the Rapture was simply a thinking process. It is an inevitable, spiritual reality that is going to change us. And we don’t have to get into some never-never land. See, this is what hit the people when Bro. Branham brought this out, that the rapture was a revelation. So, they wanted to put themselves out here in some kind of never-never land. Forget it. The Rapture is the most fundamental thing that God will have done in six thousand solid years. Solid, solid, solid.

18.                                                                                                                                    Now, he says here, “Faith is something that has been revealed to you like it was to Abraham.” (Now here is where your faith is.) “that could call anything contrary to what had been revealed to him as though it wasn’t so.” So, everything that is contrary to the rapture doctrine doesn’t exist to a person who has the revelation of the rapture doctrine. You can just say, “I am sorry. I do not see it that way.”

19.                                                                                                                                    Now listen. Let’s get this flat. The body natural, which was Abraham’s body, and Sarah natural, which was his wife, was very militant against the idea that Abraham and Sarah could be changed and have a son. Now, the fact of the matter is, I don’t think that even the thought of being changed entered their minds. The Word had come to them as far as they knew: “Look, you are going to have a baby boy.” So, they kept looking at their bodies.

                                                                                                                                    There came a time when there was not any use looking at her, so he picked up Hagar. That didn’t do it. Then, there came a time when there wouldn’t have been any use looking to him, if she was able, because he wasn’t any good. So now, the revelation comes, you’re going to have a child anyway. Well, what’s against them? Old age. Now, something has to happen somewhere, and it doesn’t matter how it happens, but something has got happen so that child can come.

                                                                                                                                    So now, the revelation breaks on them, at this time, and he was speaking concerning the fertility period of Sarah, which she hadn’t had one for a long time, so now she has to think that one over.

                                                                                                                                    Well, she said, “You know that is going to put me back where I was.”

                                                                                                                                    And she got to thinking. She said, “I just do not understand this, because…” She said, “Do you mean to tell me, that Abraham and I are going to have pleasure like young people?” Because it is a sexual instinct that brings on children. They are born from sexual desires, or there wouldn’t be any. She got to thinking it over. Exactly right.

                                                                                                                                    Now everything that was there, that was against the revelation, see? had to go.

20.                                                                                                                                    Now, what is the doctrine of the revelation of the Rapture? Shout, voice, trumpet, with the specific understanding that Jesus does all three in descending. That the One who comes down in Rev 10:l is here at the same time Rev 10:7 is here.

                                                                                                                                    Now they are going to say, “Just a minute. I can’t believe that, because you see, our understanding is He suddenly starts, and there is a shout, the voice, a trumpet. Whatever that means; God knows. We don’t, but we know we are going to get caught up and taken away.”

                                                                                                                                    Now you blew it. You blew it, because what came in is contrary to what the prophet said. See? Now, the Bride does not turn it down. She takes it. Now it, this true revelation of the Rapture, is what she believes, and she has got to believe it, whatever it is. And I could be wrong in what I am teaching, which I certainly am not.

                                                                                                                                    If I am wrong, I want to know why the prophet said what he said. I would like to know. I have heard some of the excerpts and sermons other men preach against it, and I can’t buy what they say. It’s right back there with Pentecost. Remember Pentecost is what turns it down. So if you preach any Pentecostal doctrine, you are shuck. You are finished. You say any doctrine? Yes, because they have all been corrected.

21.                                                                                                                                    Now, he said, [66] That’s what faith is, is the revelation of God. The Church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire body. All right. If it began with revelation, then it has to continue with revelation, and it has to end with a revelation. Now, what part of the body is built upon revelation in our day? The very last part. So, there is going to be a revelation. Now therefore, what evidence is here, visible or produced… There is something here, because it says, Faith is something been revealed to you like it was to Abraham. Now, Abraham did not get a revelation, wherein he is a type of the elect, outside of a visible, definitive, proven manifestation. That’s the reason he could call anything contrary as though it was not so. Now, the entire body is built on it. So therefore, we ought to apply everything and anything that we have ever heard that is contrary to this doctrine, apply it as though it’s not so, because it is not so.

22.        [67]  Here a few weeks ago, he said, I was talking to a Baptist minister. He came up to discuss with me. He said, “I like you as a man, but you’re all mixed up.” Now, he is talking about William Branham, who is at the end time, and we are a part of the body. All right, and Bro. Branham said here, “I pray you help me get straightened out...” Now, he said... “with the Scripture.” And the man said, “We’ll never be able, Bro. Branham, to get the things together until we get every word upon word upon word exactly the Greek and so forth.”

[68]  I said, “Oh, sir, you know better than that.” “Even in the Nicean Council, way back as far as that, three hundred years from the death of Christ, they were still debating which Greek scholar was right. You cannot... It’s a revelation. The whole thing is... He said, “I cannot accept a revelation.” Bro. Branham said, “Then how can you accept Christ?”

                                                                                                                                    Now watch. To turn this down is to turn down Christ, and here He is to take us up. You see? He said here, “I cannot receive a revelation.” And Bro. Branham said, “Then how can you accept Christ?” Now, the point is that the people that are looking to get out of here in a rapture put the whole thing on Jesus, the Christ.

23.                                                                                                                                    [1 Th 4:16]

(16)      For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with the shout, with the voice, with the trump of God: then Christ shall rise first:

(17)      Then we which remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. (See?)

                                                                                                                                    Now, at this point, the blood is in remission. You don’t have to worry one bit whether the blood is on the mercy seat or not. Doesn’t do me any good if it is on the mercy seat or you name it. I don’t care where it is. If you trample under foot, the light of the hour... And remember, contrary to what anybody says, Paul did not have the light of the revelation of this hour. I don’t care what anybody says. I can prove it to you, right by the Scripture of Almighty God, which makes every single man a liar, but William Branham and those who believe exactly like him, which are people like you and me.

                                                                                                                                    For It says right here, Paul himself declaring that “I may know Him and the power of His resurrection.” He did not know it. “If by any means...” Now he said, [Phil 3:10] “And the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.” That won’t do it. The only way to be conformable unto his death is to have the revelation of His death, which is the shed blood, which is inactive on our behalf unless we are in the light. This is where your foolish virgin miss it—come up under works.

(11)      If by any means I might attain unto the out resurrection from among the dead.

(12)      Not as though I had already attained (so he had not attained there), either were perfect: (So, he was not perfect. He hadn’t got it finished off.) but I follow after, if I may apprehend that which I’m apprehended in Christ. (To come out from amongst the dead. Then what about the one standing there? Paul didn’t have it. So there is an end time revelation that is going to put us into the Rapture.)

(13)      Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto things which are before. (The old manure head is become a non-manure head. The human intelligence is gone to the eagle of revelation. Now, he said, listen, “At any time that I am faced with light, I put behind me what I thought was right.”)

24.                                                                                                                                    I want to ask you people a question. How many of you are interpreting “The Rapture” that Bro. Branham preached in the light of any understanding you previously had? Now, if you think you had understanding, let me tell you flat: you are manure heads. I am sorry, but I am just going to nail you right down to a bunch of manure heads. And I am sorry for you, but I’m not apologizing, because I think I know the Scripture better than anybody here; maybe all of you put together; and I was absolutely a ‘manure head’ on this doctrine. Absolutely. I had no idea period—concerning truth. I had everything wrong concerning truth.

25.                                                                                                                                    I want to ask you a question: is Jesus Christ the Righteous, the one that went up there, is up there right now; is he in the light? Do you think he doesn’t know this? He is the one that does know it.

                                                                                                                                    Who is the One that was standing there to give the light as the Judge at the end time? Paul was judging, not as though I had already attained. He made a judgment. He knew. No age but this age attains. See? [ ] Reaching for the things which are before. There were things that were ahead of Paul that he himself had not apprehended. This was it. Then you tell me that Pentecost will be in the Rapture? I tell you somebody is wrong, and it is not the prophet. It is not we who believe the prophet that are wrong.

26.        [68]  He said, “Why, the Bible said, ‘He that believeth on Christ has everlasting Life.”

[69]  I said, “That is true. It also says that no man can call Jesus the Christ only by the revelation of the Holy Ghost that it is revealed to him.”

                                                                                                                                    Now, where are you going from there? You say, “Well, what God gives with one hand, He takes back with the other.” That’s a lie from the pit of hell. What God gives from His hand, He stipulates how you get it. And any man that has anything worth an inheritance he is going to pass on to his kids also stipulates, or there is something wrong with the man.

27.        [70]  In the Bible...Cain and Abel didn’t have a Bible to read, but it was revealed to Abel by faith, which is a revelation. Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain, which God testified that he was righteous.

                                                                                                                                    Now remember, not religious. See? Oh, they won’t deny the rapture, absolutely not, because they are religious. But they do not know how it takes place, and they claim they do, because it’s, “Oh we’re rich and increased with goods and do not have a need of a thing.” Well, if you do not have need of a thing, you aren’t going to make the Rapture: you aren’t going to. Few there will be; maybe five hundred out of what? Five billion. See?

28.        [70]  When Jesus was asked here in Mat 16:17-18... We haven’t got time to read it, but if you want to write it down. He said “Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?”

                                                                                                                                    All right. Now, he is talking about a revelation, how you have to have it; and the Rapture must be revealed, or you couldn’t be a part of it. That is what he tells us, absolutely. Now, he goes to the Bible to illustrate. And we know what we read already in l John 3 how that Cain was of the wicked one with an excellent sacrifice. Taken right from the Bible. That guy was a real Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah Witness; no problems.

                                                                                                                                    Don’t worry, he was convinced there was no eternal hell, or he would not have killed his brother. He knew it. That is the doctrine of the Roman Catholics from Dante’s Inferno. Nothing to do with the Holy Word of Almighty God, because hell is a created thing. It is going to go out of existence. It does not have the seed of God in it. Remember, it was one of those things ordained or written of, because It says that hell was created for the devil and his angels. So therefore, it was part of the afterthought, so to speak, or that which would be in there, to further manifest the goodness and grace of Almighty God as was necessary.

29.        [70]  He said, “Who do you say I am?”

One of them said. “You’re Moses, Elias, or somebody.”

He said, “But who do you say I am?” 

[71]  He said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”

[72]  He said, “Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you; My Father which is in Heaven has revealed this to you. Upon this rock (this spiritual revelation of Who God is, Who Jesus is, and He is the revelation of God, God made in flesh and revealed to the world. He was in the world; God was in Christ reconciling the world Himself, revealing what God was in a body of flesh). . .” “Thou art the Christ, the Anointed One, the Son of God.”

                                                                                                                                    Now he is telling us what a revelation is.

30.                                                                                                                                    Now, over here he says to the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation. All right. Here stands Jesus. He said, “Okay, I have been around here to the extent that I have caused a lot of furor. I have caused people to take thoughts and double thoughts. Now,” he said, “They are all guessing and talking who I am.” He said, “It is very interesting. I have heard the reports, but I have not heard a report from you. Now,” He said, “Let’s make it unanimous, what’s going on in the world? If I hear a report from you, then, He said, it’s plum across the board.” He said, “Who do men say that I the Son of man am? Others say this, this, this. Now,” he said, “who do you say?” Well, Peter said, “Thou art the Christ.”

                                                                                                                                    Now watch what I am trying to get to you. He was there with a universal report having gone out. Now comes the hour: who is this man anyway? What is going on anyway? What is it all about? And the revelation from God was, this is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. This is that one of whom John said, “This is the Lamb.”

31.                                                                                                                                    Now let’s watch the same thing. William Branham is down here on earth. God comes down out of Heaven, the Messenger above all messengers, which we will see in the Rapture here. Rev 10:1 has come on down, and William Branham is standing there. And William Branham has had a ministry that no man can duplicate. There is nobody who can do it. He is the one man who could tell it as it is. He could see it, and he alone could tell what he saw. He could hear it, and he alone could tell what he heard; and nobody else could. But they are all out there lying that they can. They are lying, filthy blasphemers.

                                                                                                                                    Well, you say, “Bro. Vayle!”

                                                                                                                                    Don’t Bro. Vayle me! For them, they would gladly see me burn, to be a twofold child of hell; well, a proselyte, because they are proselytizers; and a proselytizer and prostitute are the same thing. They would be glad to see me. They would rejoice in my flesh. Well, let them go down. Let them go down.

32.                                                                                                                                    So William Branham stood there. Two thousand years; not a man like him. And he stood there, and he said, “Tell you what”, he said, “Do you people know what is going on?” He said, “Do you know what is happening?” “Do you know who I am?” He said more than once, “If you knew who I was, you would all be healed.” Pretty stout word; but he proved it. He said, bring me twenty‑four of your worst cases, and they would not do it. So down around the Mexican border, he said, “Bring me your worst case”, and they did, and the little girl was healed. Proving he had what nobody else had. Because you see, he made a guarantee on God; and remember, nobody can swear by God or even say, “Tomorrow, we will go to such a city and have such a good time.” He said, “If the Lord willeth.” And this man stood there, and he said, “I challenge you.” That wasn’t William Branham talking. Come on; don’t be a dolt. I don’t care if that would have come out of a barn door. That was God.

33.                                                                                                                                    The Word of Almighty God and William Branham stood there; and he said, “Now, what do you think is going on?” I will read to you what he said, “But to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation.” Now listen. Jesus stood there, and He said , “Who do you think I am?” Who am I?

                                                                                                                                    And they said, “Thou art the Christ.”

                                                                                                                                    And He was standing there in the light of everything that everybody had previously thought concerning the Scripture, the Scriptural fulfillment and what was going on now as what could be a Scriptural fulfillment, and to who He was. And He said, “What is your revelation?”

                                                                                                                                    “Well,” they said, “Everybody says you are this or that or the other thing.”

                                                                                                                                    “Well,” he said, “All right.” “Who do you?”

                                                                                                                                    And Peter said, “Thou art the Christ.” He nailed what was going on. It took a revelation.

                                                                                                                                    And the prophet stood right there, and he said, “The Bride is waiting for a revelation. I am going to tell you about the Rapture. It is going on now.” [ ]

34.                                                                                                                                    Now you see what I did, and I hope you caught it. I was bringing in last Wednesday’s message of God interpreting—which will be read to you, I hope, before this day is over—by manifesting what is going on. By manifesting the Word, literally, what is going on is manifesting the Word, bringing It into observation, and then telling about It. And Bro. Branham did it.

35.                                                                                                                                    Now, “Thou art the Christ, the Anointed One, the Son of God.” Now, that was fine in His day of flesh. What is He today? Son of man. Now, what is Son of man? Now, here is where the little weak hearted ones go, and the others go too strong.

                                                                                                                                    “Son of man…” Bro. Branham said. The question was, “Bro. Branham somebody called you the Son of man. I thought the Pillar of Fire was the Son of man?”

                                                                                                                                    He said, “I am not He. The Pillar of Fire is not He. It is in Spirit form.”

                                                                                                                                    Now just a minute; the Pillar of Fire stands there, William Branham stands here, and where is the Son of man? Operating through the prophet. The same God moving through a prophet.

                                                                                                                                    And they say, “Now, just a minute. I don’t know if that is the way it will work, because you see, now, God would have to get into the prophet.”

                                                                                                                                    How much? But then maybe not. Who knows the answers? But we know one thing in the form of the spirit, it was the Spirit doing It, and because Son of man is linked with the prophet, the prophet would have to be there telling It.

                                                                                                                                    But he said, “He is not the Pillar of Fire, and I am not He, but He is here.” Then how is He here? Pillar of Fire is here. Son of man is here. Prophet is here. Because God works in threes. So, who is to say that God doesn’t take of His Spirit and put it in William Branham and manifest God.

36.                                                                                                                                    Let me show you something. God came one day down, and He put His Spirit on Moses; and the old father‑in‑law said, “Moses, you are going to wear yourself to a frazzle. Get smart boy,” he said, “get yourself a bunch of men, and let them do the odd jobs and judge; and then you do the big jobs.”

                                                                                                                                    So God said, “That’s pretty good. I’ll let you do it Moses.”

                                                                                                                                    And so Moses stood there, and God took the spirit off of him and put it on seventy men; and Moses had more on him than the seventy had on them. [End of the first side of the tape.] That is seventy people with ministries; and here stood God. Tell me: was God diminished? Was He any less God? Then you try to explain these things. I don’t. I just believe them.

                                                                                                                                    So, Pillar of Fire, William Branham, Son of man in a spirit form. But we can’t see spirits. We can’t see Pillar of Fire. We see prophet. When you saw a prophet, you saw God. Do what you want. Saw him in a form.

37.                                                                                                                                    Now ‘Son of man’:

[73]  He said, “Flesh and blood never revealed this to you, but My Father which is in Heaven has revealed it to you. Upon this rock, I will build My Church.”

                                                                                                                                    What part is being built today? It is being built upon the revelation of what? Son of man and the Rapture. The literal Appearing; that’s our revelation. I am going to build My Church, and Bro. Branham in parenthesis (the revelation of the Word in It’s season)... What is seasonable?

                                                                                                                                    Now you know that the health faddist, they have a theory that if you want to be healthy you should eat the foods that are in your area here. Like, they say, well look, oranges do not grow here so you should not eat oranges. Well, maybe some us can’t afford oranges; that let’s us out. But you have carrots, and Bro. Branham saw a bunch of carrots. I do not think he saw oranges and apples. He might have. But he saw a bunch of carrots and fresh green vegetables and things. So let’s go to the vegetables. They claim you are supposed to eat what’s native to you.

                                                                                                                                    Well, that is all right then. The light began to move west. We do not have the light that was back there in Pentecost. That was inception. Any woman and any man will tell you that conception, which is inception and gestation, is a million miles from delivery. Although it is only nine months, it is a million miles in the sense that you cannot even see the sperm and egg without a magnifying object like a microscope. But anybody has got to be deaf, dumb, blind, and paralyzed not to see a baby that is anywhere from four pounds to nine and ten. (Used to be big; years ago. They had them even fourteen pounds.) I am just trying to tell you this. Let’s get it across flat, that what you could not see in the beginning is full‑fledged as it comes down.

38.                                                                                                                                    All right. There is a difference between the end and the beginning. So therefore, the season and the place of this Word is the end time in the west, because the light moves west. Now, you say how do you know it? Well, the prophet said so, but then again, I am not stupid. I can read history, and with history I can understand geography, and the Gospel has always come west. And anybody knows, when It goes full around, that’s the end of It. Anybody would know that, or they should. All right.

39.                                                                                                                                    Now the Rapture is the literal descent or the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His own. For the Lord Himself descends from Heaven with a shout, the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God. And then It says, the dead in Christ are going to rise first. But remember, before you get to that point, you have got to read in 1Thessalonians 4:

(14)      For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, (He is talking to the living at the time of the resurrection.) even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring forth with Him.

(15)      For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the presence of the Lord shall not prevent (take any exception or precedence over) them that are asleep.

                                                                                                                                    And that is right today. You have the same thing. Like a fellow wants to preach that if you die you are not Bride. Hogwash. I can be dead in five minutes, and I am Bride; and I will prove it by coming back and confronting him with his hogwash, because the prophet said so. I am not caring what he said. Take his mysticism and do what he wants with it. That is where you come to this stupid idea that the Rapture is some kind of a little revelation.

                                                                                                                                    “If I just get a revelation some goofy woofy in my head here, I am in it.”

                                                                                                                                    You are nuts. You’re out of it.

40.                                                                                                                                    I am sorry, but let’s get pragmatic, dogmatic, and God knows what, because you have to get rid of all this nonsense. Look, brother/sister, we are into the stage of reality. And let me tell you something: spirit is more real than physical, because the spirit was here first. And God could not even do one thing until He began to manifest in a physical. So let’s face it: you have spirit, and now you have physical, because the end time revelation is Jesus Christ, the beginning of the creation of God; God forming Himself in a human body. And the human body is all but finished. It is finished with the Bride, because Israel blew its day. Let’s face it, Israel blew its day. It’s gone. The 144,000 are not Bride. They are there as eunuchs—virgins. They take care of the Bride in the bridal chamber.

41.                                                                                                                                    All right. Now listen, the Lord descends. He is here, and the gates of hell are against It. Listen. Let’s get this flat. The devil used everything in the book he could do to destroy Eve and get the human race down. Don’t you think he will do every single thing in the book to stop man going to the Tree of Life and walking into immortality? Sure he will. And you know what it is going to be based upon? An argument.

                                                                                                                                    “Well, God said we shouldn’t eat.”

                                                                                                                                    Now, he said, “Tut, tut, tut, tut. I know God said it, but He didn’t explain it. Did He tell you how life would come? Did He give you the ins and outs?”

                                                                                                                                    “Oh no, He didn’t.”

                                                                                                                                    “Well, let me tell you. God knows when you eat this fruit and you enter into this act of carnality, then your eyes are open, and you know good and evil; and it is a wonderful thing, and I am explaining it.”

                                                                                                                                    She said, “Oh you don’t mean to say...”

                                                                                                                                    “Well,” he said, “I just told you I wouldn’t have... Well, certainly I meant it,” he said.

                                                                                                                                    Gates of hell are against It today.

42.                                                                                                                                    So they come along, and they say, “Come, come, there is no such thing as Him being present. There is no such thing as the Rapture being threefold. There is no such as being a progression. It’s bam, bam, bam.”

                                                                                                                                    Well, I am going to tell you something. In eighteen million years it may look like bam, bam, bam, but it has been going on since 1933, and jubilee has expired—fifty years. We are in the ushering in of the Millennium, whether anybody wants it or not.

43.                                                                                                                                    So, the gates of hell are against it. The gates of hell were against the revelation back there, which was a manifestation and a proof of the hour; and they are against the manifestation of the proof of this hour. God with a skin on it.

                                                                                                                                    Oh, the same people jump up and down, “I’m God with a skin on it. I’m God with a skin on it.”

                                                                                                                                    Well for heaven sake, do something that is God-like.

                                                                                                                                    Oh, they say, “Well I am a beautiful creature.”

                                                                                                                                    Ah fap! Satan is much more beautiful. Sealed up the sum of beauty and wisdom.

                                                                                                                                    “Well, I have great miracles.”

                                                                                                                                    Ah forget it, Judas raised the dead too. Don’t give me that poppycock and nonsense. Let’s see you stand with the revelation. Gates of hell aren’t against your gifts. Gates of hell aren’t against character. I am not against character either, but I am not being deceived these days, brother/sister. They are against the revelation of the Son of man, because that is the season. The season of the Son of man is pre‑Sodom and Gomorrah. And that is when the Rapture takes place. We get out of here before the burning.

44.        [74]  The Book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible. It certainly is. It is sealed to unbelievers. In there the Bible says Revelation 22, “Whosoever takes one word from It or adds one word to It, I’ll take his part from the Book of Life.”

                                                                                                                                    What part? You are left standing here. No rapture. Every place you go where they’re without their wedding garment, or something has gone on which God has to condemn: it is outer darkness, outer darkness, gnashing of teeth, great tribulation.

                                                                                                                                    So what did they do? They missed what you could have had. Now, they are going to scream blood. They are going to scream works. They are going to scream gifts. They are going to scream character. They are going to scream everything.

                                                                                                                                    Scream the revelation; because Abraham stood there, and he said, “Hey, do you know, Sarah, got to wake you up kid.” He said, “Look it. Do you understand?”

                                                                                                                                    “Man, I just can’t believe it.”

                                                                                                                                    He said, “Girl, you get in this thing.” You see, she laughed at it.

                                                                                                                                    She said, “I just don’t think you can.”

                                                                                                                                    He said, “Man, look. It is because He said so.”

                                                                                                                                    Do you realize that?

45.                                                                                                                                    People, listen. They quote the Scripture: “He stands behind His Word to perform it.” God can do anything but lie, and then comes right down here. Pst.

                                                                                                                                    “He is a liar.” [ ]