RAPTURE #9
Further Revelation of Jesus Christ
November 13, 1983
Shall we just pray? Heavenly Father, we’re very happy to
be here in Your house that You appointed unto us. We’re grateful for it, Lord,
and we just want to express our appreciation that we can come together as
children of God—hopefully, Lord, a part of the First Resurrection and we trust
that we are by grace, and not by any other way—because in ourselves, of
ourselves, we don’t have any hope for we were sheep that were astray. But now
under the Chief Shepherd, Lord, we believe we’re brought back and are ready to
go into that Kingdom which is prepared for us, all of which is by grace. And
we’re grateful for that.
Now help us to maintain the attitude of worship and
respect toward You in love, O God, from the bottom of our hearts that we might
be one with You and with each other because of the power of the Holy Spirit in
the Word which has set this before us, because we wouldn’t claim this except
for Your Word and that this is the hour for It. We believe that it is and we
commend ourselves unto You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
1. Now we’re into the subject of “The Rapture”, and we had a
little spell of going back last time. We got up to page 19, then took you back
to about page 14...came back to page 17. And I thought that was very good when
you consider there are so many things to look at. Now this doctrine of the
Rapture, this message that Bro. Branham preached, was preached on December 4,
1965. I think you’re well aware of the fact that this is the last doctrinal
message that Bro. Branham preached. And let’s face it, this message deals with
the last moments that you and I will have upon earth and being caught away into
something which is phenomenally different. The Rapture literally closes out
everything for the Gentile Bride and sets her into a new realm which she will
be fitted for due to the Resurrection.
2. Now I would contend that this message that Bro. Branham
preached is his capstone messagem because there wasn’t one that followed it
that was pertinent compared with the magnitude of this message. This is the last
message. This is the doctrine. Now
in other words, you’ll find that everybody pretty well understands, especially
preachers, and some people caught it quicker than others, and right away people
were watching chronology. And in their watching chronology, I wonder if they
caught that this was the apex of chronology, because there wasn’t any more to
preach after this, because once you get to the Resurrection, there is no place
that you can go. From that place you don’t have a free will as far as I know.
You are under the complete will of Almighty God, so that you have a free will
and yet you don’t have a free will, because the other will is gone entirely.
You’re in something entirely different.
3. So this message that Bro. Branham preached on the Rapture is
the culmination of all messages. It’s the greatest message he preached. It’s
the message that every other message was leading up to. It’s the climax of
which all ages were leading up to. So you can see it’s a very tremendous
message. And we’re going to go back to page 14 again. Going to like...Bro.
Branham had Job on the ash heap until the people said, “When are you going to
get him off?” And you say, “When you going to get us out of page 14?” I don’t
know. I’ll get out of it, but then I might go back to it.
4. Now Bro. Branham said:
[64]
Did you know 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?
Now this is what he is saying here: in the last day, you
really get the final installment of the repeat of what has always gone through
the ages. Let Him in, kick Him out; let Him in, kick Him out; let Him in, kick
Him out; let Him in, kick Him out—until one day He gets tired.
5. Like Bro. Branham was in his church one day—I think I told
you how it is—and the people being Pentecostal, they said, “Now we have a
revelation by tongues and interpretation, Thus Saith the Lord: ‘Bro. Branham,
you go see your father tonight, and he’ll give his heart to the Lord.’“
And Bro. Branham said, “Now just a minute,” he said, “I
know my dad.” He said, “I’m not trying to fault anybody’s revelation, but,” he
said, “knowing my dad, I don’t think things are quite right.”
They said, “Just a minute now, you don’t doubt the Lord,
do you, Bro. Branham? You’re supposed to believe God. You go and see your
father, ‘Thus Saith the Lord’, he’s going to give his heart to God.”
So Bro. Branham, knowing his father was either inebriated
highly—or not so highly—but no doubt successfully, he wasn’t about to talk
about the Lord to a drunk man. But anyway this is supposed to be God, so he
goes and he talks. He goes to his dad, and he said, “Dad, we had our message in
the church in tongues, interpretation, that you’re supposed to give your heart
to the Lord.”
And he said, “Son,” he said, “this one thing I know,
Charlie Branham may not know too much, but he knows you don’t go to the Lord
drunk.”
So he sent Bro. Branham back to the church. So Bro.
Branham went back to the church, and he told the people. They said, “All right,
you disobeyed God. The reason was you didn’t go in faith. Now get out of here.
You’re no more pastor.”
So Bro. Branham goes out to his car, gets inside, and God
says, “You turn around and tell them to get out.”
So he went in and kicked them out.
Well, what was the point of my story? I think you got it
didn’t you? Kick him in, let him in, kick him out; let him in, kick him out.
One day God kicks them out. Right? So that’s like Bro. Branham did—a living
example in our midst. When they kick you out, wait your turn and then you’ll
kick them out. That’s right! “Depart from me, you that work iniquity.”
6. All right, trying to get back in.
[64]
...”Because thou sayest I am rich in need of nothing, and know not
you’re miserable wretched, poor naked, and blind and don’t know it!” There you
are back to blindness again... Of course they
were blind when Jesus was there in the flesh. ...trampling over the
things of God as if they don’t mean nothing to them, scoffing and making fun of
it; that’s what the Bible said.
Now remember, the subject is “The Rapture”. The subject
is “The Rapture”. And could it be the Rapture message successfully kicks Jesus
outside the church? And then He is waiting knocking at the door and those who
want to be in the Rapture say, “Come on in.” And there He is in the midst of
us. And He says at that time, “Even as I have overcome and was set down with my
Father, in His throne, (That’s the Word that is ours now) even so he that overcometh
will sit with Me in my throne.” Okay?
7. [65] But to the church… So these people are scoffing, and this subject is ‘The Rapture’ and the
Rapture is a revealed doctrine. But to the church, the Bride, the
rapture is a revelation. It is revealed to her, that’s the revelation, the true
Bride of Christ will be waiting for. The revelation of the rapture.
Now he just hammers and hammers this. In English it is
very hard to punctuate that the Bride is waiting for a Rapture, and it is a
revelation. Now I’ve mentioned already, that because it is a revelation, and he
is telling us here that the church has been waiting for it, it is most evident
that the true revelation of the Rapture was not given to Luther, was not given
to Wesley, was not given to Pentecost, but is given to the prophet for the
Bride at this hour. Now I’m not drawing a conclusion. I’m telling you a simple
statement of fact, because he said, “She’s waiting for it.” And the Church was
in death until the time of Luther. And everything that Bro. Branham taught us
starts with the Church coming back to its original and restored condition
starting with Luther and ending in this hour.
8. Now he says:
[66]
Now it is a revelation—that is the
Rapture and that is the subject—for the revelation is faith. You cannot
have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it’s
something that is revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something
that’s been revealed to you like it was to Abraham, that could call anything
contrary to what had been revealed to him as though it wasn’t so.
Now what he’s telling you here is that this doctrine of
the Rapture is going to be a revelation, and when you receive it you are going
to be in the same status and the same company as Abraham, because you will
believe what is contrary to what everybody else says and what is contrary to
the evidence.
Let’s get that over again, because that is not quite
true. It’s contrary to what the obvious evidence is out here, because you can’t
see anything that will say, “Hey! That’s the Rapture, and that’s the truth of
this doctrine.” Now by faith everything that is contrary to this doctrine you
will deny. Now if that’s not what the prophet is saying, I wish someone would
tell me what he is saying.
9. Now he said:
[66]
...That’s what faith is, is the revelation of God. The Church is built
upon a revelation, the entire whole body.
Now the entire whole body has had a revelation in order
to place it in the Bride. And now there is an end time revelation that doesn’t
only place the end time Bride in the body, but literally gets the end time
Bride out of here without dying, which means there will be a resurrection,
which in turn means that whatever we have as a revelation is going to be
necessary to get the dead out of the ground. Now, people are not going to like
that, they are not going to like that at all—that our revelation will be the
last revelation, and whatever is entailed in this Rapture doctrine is going to
be sufficient to put us in a position that we can get out of here. Consequently
it means that this Message is responsible, or this doctrine, or whatever is in
it, is responsible for the Resurrection as well as our getting out of here.
Now that’s not going to be liked, but if you listen to my
words, you’ll remember everything I’ve said was what Bro. Branham previously
said; but I’m trying to throw all the light I can on it.
10. Now in the succeeding verses or paragraphs, you are going to
find Bro. Branham explaining what he means by you receiving a revelation and
counting everything else contrary to it.
[67] Here a few weeks ago I was talking to a Baptist minister. He came
up to discuss with me. He said, “I like you as man but you are all mixed up.”
I said, “Then pray help me get
straightened out.” Now, he said... “with the Scripture.”
He said, “We’ll never be able, Bro.
Branham, to get the things together until we get every word upon word exactly
with the Greek and so forth.”
[68] And I said, “Oh, sir, you know better
than that. Even the Nicean council way back there, it was actually before then,
three hundred years before the death of Christ, they were still debating what
Greek scholar was right. They were debating
over a diphthong, which is a double vowel. You cannot...It’s a
revelation. The whole thing is...”
He said, “I cannot accept revelation.”
I said, “Then how can you accept Christ?”
He said, “Why the Bible said, ‘He that
believeth on Jesus Christ has Everlasting Life.’“
[69] I
said, “That’s true. But it also says no man can call Jesus Christ only by the
revelation of the Holy Ghost that’s revealed to him.” See? There you are right
back around again, falls back on revelation. It’s got to be revealed.
Now he says right here, “I don’t care what you think
you’ve read in the Bible.” And right away everybody... Their hair stands on
end, and they rise in holy indignation against this terrible prophet who would
dare to say such a thing as that, not knowing their deceived churches have done
worse! because they put their interpretation on it. If that’s not the truth,
why are there denominations today? And why won’t we denominate? Because we
can’t! because we’ve accepted a revelation.
Now you’re up against your own mind saying, “Well, I
believe the Bible says this.”
Your mind has nothing to do with it. No way shape and
form.
11. Now he is hitting this very, very hard:
[70] In the Bible...Cain and Abel didn’t have a Bible to read.
Now, you see, you’ve got a Bible to read. And you will
draw a conclusion, and your conclusion is entirely erroneous because everybody
screams about the Blood and the Blood doesn’t do anything for anybody unless
you’re in the light. The Blood can only cleanse if you’re walking in the light.
And men don’t want to bring their deeds to the light because they’re evil.
Because they are built upon Cain which is the Word without a revelation. Now he
goes back to the beginning,
[70] ...There
wasn’t even a Bible.
But there was a revelation. Then revelation supersedes
Word per se. Now we’re talking about Christ in letter form. Christ in letter
form doesn’t do anybody any good except as a source of condemnation because you
can hit it or you can miss it and if you miss it you are doubly condemned even
trying to be right. That’s right, absolutely the truth. That’s where Cain and
Abel stood. What I’m saying is that the manifest revelation of the Word
supercedes your personal interpretation of the written Word.
[70] ...Didn’t
have a Bible to read but was revealed to Abel by faith, which is a revelation,
that is: faith is a revelation. Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than that of Cain. And it doesn’t say
that Cain’s sacrifice wasn’t excellent—it was excellent.
12. Like I’m glad the Methodists are prohibitionists, but that’s
not going to get them anywhere, even though it’s much nicer to have drunken
drivers off the road, or no drivers that are drunk, than drunken drivers, even
off the road.
Now they do a nice job when it comes to some morals. But
like Bro. Branham said, “The Methodist
woman who didn’t fool around with other men like the Baptist woman fooled
around with other men, she presented herself to men, and therefore, she was the
same adulterer as her neighbor was who was living in sexual sin.” But I’m
glad she wasn’t running around because there would be less VD and everything
else...less morals corrupted. It was nice, but it’s not good enough. See?
There’s no revelation.
Now this revelation—the fountainal spring, the well
springs of what Abel did—caused him to be righteous, because down the road, if
Abel had lived, he would have performed the same sacrifice that Cain
performed—the first fruit. See?
13. Now, Mat 16:13‑18—we haven’t read it. We don’t have
time, but if you want to read it:
(13) ...What do men say
that I the Son of Man am?
(14) ...You’re Moses,
Elijah, you’re someone.
(15) ...But who do you
say I am?
(16) ...You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
(17) ...Blessed are you
Simon Barjona: because you have a revelation that never came to you by yourself
or anybody ever gave you; but you got it from God and that is upon what the
church is built which is spiritual revelation.
Now he was describing what Abel had, lined up with what
Peter had, and didn’t line with what Cain had, because one was off and the
other two were not. Now notice, Cain was a religious man, and it wasn’t that he
was denying a sacrifice. No. Neither are the people today denying there’s a
Rapture. They just have a wrong revelation of it. See?
14. [73] Now He said, “Flesh and blood never revealed
this to you, but My Father in Heaven. Upon this I’ll build my church.
Now notice, he said, “Every part of the church is built
on a revelation and the whole body built on a revelation makes up a Rapture.”
So they were progressing to it. And in the last age it’s the Rapture doctrine,
that is central doctrine, because there is no Rapture unless there is a
Resurrection.
15. [73] Now...I will build my church. (The
revelation of the Word in It’s season.)
Now there’s another thing that people don’t understand:
that Bro. Branham taught the Word is in Its season. And they say, “Well, just a
minute, here’s the whole Book.”
If that isn’t the stupidest thing under God’s high
Heaven! How many knew a woman, a virgin, would have a baby without male
intervention? Now Bro. Branham categorically said, “That time after time every man said, ‘Oh, that’s my daughter, she
could bear the Messiah and we’ll buy the bird’s eye, which is the diaper cloth,
and we’ll buy the booties.’“ Why...was Bro. Branham trying to say that
every single Israelite knew that his daughter would be pregnant by God and not
by a man? Hogwash! Bro. Branham could not have been saying that. Otherwise
Joseph wouldn’t have had to have a dream. He would’ve stopped and said, “Just a
minute, could this be that this is the woman that has a baby without male
intervention?” But he didn’t, because he said, “she’s been fooling around I
think.”
So what is it? The word in the Hebrew is ‘amah’, which is
a young woman. Now she’d have to be a virgin; that’s true. But they thought it
would come by the blood lines of David—which the blood lines of David were
certainly true, because Joseph and Mary came that way, so to speak, as far a
human tabernacle was concerned.
16. Now there’s a Word in season. Now the season for the baby to
be born, which was Christ, could not happen at any other time. The Holy Ghost
could not fall at any other time. The Holy Spirit could not come to Paul at any
other time. The Message could not come to Luther at any other time. There is a
Word in season. And if they’d only understand there are epochal seasons. An
epochal season was when there was a flood. An epochal season was when Abraham
came out of Ur of the Chaldees. An epochal season was when Israel went down
into Egypt. An epochal season was when they came out. An epochal season was
when Jesus was born. An epochal season was at Pentecost. An epochal season is
now. The epochal season is what? Resurrection and Rapture, and it’s got to take
place. There is a Word in season, and the church is built upon that revelation
of the Word. Otherwise where is your faith?
17. [73] Now, “I will build my church and the gates
of hell will not prevail against it.”
[74]
Now he said, The Book of Revelation is the last Book of the Bible.
Remember, he’s talking about the Rapture. So therefore,
the Rapture is in the Book of Revelation! We understand Bro. Branham took that
as a type. And remember, Bro. Branham said that one man can type the whole thing, the whole Bride, just as one man can
fulfill everything that is necessary in the Bride. A lot of people want a
lot of revelation. “Let’s get together, pool our resources.”
That won’t work. Elijah is one person. The Pentecostal
latter rain bunch have got him as a company. The Pentecostal latter rain bunch
are dead, dead, dead! which is the Trinity and the Oneness—they’re all dead,
because they don’t believe the Word of God. They say they do, but they
lie—because Elijah must truly come. And they say, “We don’t even need him.”
They say, “Well, we’ve got Jesus Christ.”
Who cares about that nonsense? The fact of the matter is:
Jesus said, “You’ve got to have him.” Then there’s no use saying, “Jesus, I
want You,” when he says, “You’ve got to have Elijah.” Now he didn’t say, “You
don’t have to have me.” He said, “You’ve got to have Elijah, too.”
And the same bunch of people will talk about works.
“You’ve got to have works, works, works, works!” And then when it comes to
Elijah...”Well, we don’t need him.”
Somebody’s mixed up. Shows the insanity of the hour.
18. [74] Now the Book of Revelation is the last Book
of the Bible.
Chapter 4, dealing with one man, John, caught up, shows
the Rapture. But we’re not going to stop there; you’ll find it’s Rev 10:1‑7
also.
Now he said, [74]
“The Book of Revelation is sealed to unbelievers.”
Now he is telling you something when he says.the subject
is “The Rapture”. He’s letting you know, therefore, that the Rapture has been
sealed up in the Book, because in Revelation 10 It tells you, “The Book is
sealed.” But in Rev 22:10 It says, “The Book is unsealed.” And it’s at the time
of the unsealing of the Book, in Revelation 22, the Tree of Life comes into
view—which is immortality. So the opening of the Seals brings it, but the
Rapture also is preceded by immortality, for we’re changed and caught up. So
therefore, we find here, then, that the Rapture has been a sealed doctrine.
19. Now he said,
[74] ...Whosoever
shall take one word out of It or add to It, his part be taken from the book of
life. And he tells you categorically, that
those that turn down the Rapture don’t make it.
You say, “Well, that’s only Rev. Branham. I’ve got my own
ideas.”
Well, stick to your ideas. I’ve got no problem. I don’t
care whether you make it or not.
You say, “Oh, you are too mean and tough.”
You give me one reason why I should be concerned if you
want to turn your back. You want to put your hand in the meat grinder, thinking
you are smart, go ahead. Don’t blame me when it takes it off to your elbow.
Listen, I’m not through preaching. I’m going to get back to Peter in just a few
minutes. Just give me time. And we’ll find out whether I can be tough or not,
and whether God is going to be tough or not, and whether you better hang tough
or not. Or you can sit on the fence. There is nobody here sitting on the fence by
this time I hope. You got pushed to one side or the other by your own volition
or by God’s.
20. Now listen:
[74]
...Whosoever shall take one word or add one word, I will take his part
out of the Book of Life. Now remember, the
Bride is one entire exposed Book of Life in flesh. It tells you right here, you
aren’t going to make it. We realize then it was altogether given for
believers. Well, that tells you the Elect won’t
be deceived. It tells you no Bride that is Bride will miss it. And it
opens the Book of Revelation and reveals Who the Author of the entire Book is. Now he is talking about the Book of Revelation.
(He is to look upon as Alpha and Omega, from Genesis to Revelation, Jesus
Christ just the same stands right through) and reveals His complete mystery of
Himself, His plans for his church ages that are to come, and was sealed in
there by Seven Seals.
And he tells you, he is telling you: this is the
Rapture—you are now going to get the truth of the Rapture which is a further
revelation of Jesus Christ. O God, have mercy.
21. A friend gave me a phone call yesterday. He’s talking to a
certain man and this certain man was talking to a preacher. He met him down in
Bermuda, Barbados, or somewhere, and talking about the Presence and of course
getting hit back at us. “Well,” he said, “Do they,” he said, “bring out in
their talk of the Presence, the revelation of Jesus Christ?”
And the fellow scratched his head and he said, “That rang
a funny bell with me.” He said, “That guy right there just sort of showed me
something was wrong with him.”
And the guy said, “Well,” he said, “when you go back to
your church, and you talk of the Presence, you let the people know,” he
said—hitting then, guys like me—”that we’re not talking about the revelation of
Christ.”
22. What have I been talking about all these years? Who is the
first guy to stand up and say, “The three-fold mystery...Christ, the mystery of
God revealed: number one—revelation; number two—pre‑eminence”? And I
said, “Who is giving Him pre‑eminence? Who sounded the bell across the
world by tapes?”
Listen, that’s what it’s all about! Look, if I want to
know something, or teach it, I always get hot under the collar. You say, “You
can’t teach when you’re mad.” Well, depends how mad you are and what you’re mad
at and how you are mad. See? The point is this: if you’re really irked, and
Bro. Branham did say, “When I knew the
Word, I slashed.” All right, let’s slash.
23. Number one...
That’s the Pillar of Fire. [Bro. Vayle draws on board.]
Let’s put this over here. Here’s William Branham. All right? William Branham
said concerning, when somebody said, “Bro. Branham, some people say that you
are the Son of Man. I thought the Pillar of Fire was the Son of Man.” William
Branham said, “I am not the Son of Man, the
Pillar of Fire is not the Son of Man. It is in the form of the Spirit.” That’s
why it is in green. Why? Because he’s up here. Now that’s the flesh.
Now he said, “If He
is the same yesterday—the Jesus that was—e know as the Son of man—the same
yesterday, today and forever; if He is and He’s risen from the dead, He will do
the same works in the form of the Spirit than when He is here.” Now watch.
He said, “It’s in the form of the
Spirit.” Then nobody can see it. So now what you’ve got here is a prophet
and the Pillar of Fire, which is Elohim, Logos—call It what you want—there He
is. Now he said, “I am not the Son of
man, this is not the Son of man—it’s the form of the Spirit.” What is he
doing? The prophet by that Spirit is revealing the Son of man and the works
that the Son of man is doing, proving he is risen from the dead and is that
Same One, are the works that are manifested from the Word of this man, but this
man’s word won’t do these work. So it’s This
One, His Word and His works that’s coming through here
that brings them into manifestation and pre‑eminence.
24. Now come on. Yeah, they can say what they want, and they’ll
say anything they want. Scoffers. They don’t know what they’re talking about,
but they affirm their ignorance day by day.
So the man went back home, and he said, “I believe that
guy is a bit of a phoney,” or he wouldn’t have said those words. It wouldn’t
have felt funny.
So he talked to this other preacher, and the preacher got
through letting him know exactly what that man was like, because he’d been
around him. The man said, “Boy, I’m sure glad I never went home,” he said, “and
said those words.”
He said, “It’s a good thing you didn’t.”
Because, you see, they’ll take anything under high heaven
to twist what is being said, because that is the way it’s got to be. Now
there’s a lot of folk think that I shouldn’t get on my high horse. Look, if
this isn’t worth fighting for, in the defense of the Gospel, then why should I
preach it? How can I clear my hands of the blood of all men, unless I preach
what I know within me to be the truth? Now I don’t know what’s in them. I might
even be away from God. But to me this is the truth.
25. Now notice, he’s speaking of the Rapture. And he is letting
you know that the Rapture is part of the Seven Seals and the Seven Thunders.
That’s the doctrine and the completion of it. And he’s saying,
[74] That
this One, the Alpha and Omega, reveals His complete mystery of Himself,
His plans for His church.
Now one of His plans, we have known for two thousand
years, is to get us out of here. Now it’s revealed by the prophet concerning
the doctrine of what exactly takes place. Now he says, “We don’t know how He will do it.” And we don’t, but we know He’s
going to do it. Now he said:
[74] ...That’s to come and it was sealed by Seven
Seals. Now already we have had several parts,
and this is the last part, because this is Laodicea. And remember the subject
is “The Rapture”.
[75]
Now, the Book was written, but then remember, It was sealed with Seven
Seals and the Seven Seals was not to be opened, Revelation 10, until the
sounding of the last angel on earth, Revelation 10:7. See? “And in the days of
the sounding of the seventh angel’s Message, seventh angel, the mystery of God
should be finished in that age.” That is the age we are living in.
In other words there’s going to be nothing left after the
revelation of the Rapture, because there’s nobody to come in...nobody. It’s all
over. The dead go out of the ground, and we get changed. We all go up.
26. [76] Now we all know we are living in the
Laodicean age. There will never be another age to it; it can’t be. We are
living in the Laodicean age and, these Seven Seals that’s held the Book as a
mystery to the people, should be opened in the last day. That’s Rev 10:1‑7—you know that—and part of that is the Rapture.
That’s what He promised. Now, it won’t be nothing outside the Word, because you
can’t add to the Word or take from the Word. It’s got to remain always Word.
But the revelation is to reveal what it is really
saying—what the truth of it is. That is
what he calls it. What It is, to make it fit with the rest of the
Scripture. Then God vindicates that to be the Truth.
All right. What in the world is the rest of the
Scripture? Well, we go to Acts 3, and anybody that can read understands this
categorically; when Peter gets through preaching to the Jews in [Acts 3:19], he
said,
(19) When times of
refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. (That which is visible of
God to the eye. Now remember that’s not nature. That’s been visible for six
thousand years. Now what did Jesus say?) [John 15]
(24) If I have not done
the works no other man did, they had not sin: but now they both have seen and
hated both me and my Father. (‘Times of refreshing from the Presence’ means
‘what is visible to the eye’ and ‘refreshing’ is a ‘revival breath in the
church’...the church starting to come back—the great healing revival.
(20) Then He shall send
Jesus which was appointed unto you.
Now he is telling you that, first of all, there has to be
the Presence of God manifested. They’ll know it’s God. That’s exactly what I
showed you here with William Branham standing there revealing the Son of man
and the Son of man ministry coming through William Branham which William Branham
could not do. It’s God doing it. Jesus said, “I don’t do the works, my Father
doeth the works.” As Bro. Branham said, “The works...the words of a man will not do this.” It happens so perfectly. Then
it’s God moving through a prophet—God veiled in the prophet, producing and
revealing the Son of man.
27. I wonder if I can get it over here. [“The Anointed Ones At The
End Time”]
[269] He said here, “I was only one standing there
when He appeared. I am not the one that performs these things and foretells
these things that happen as perfect as they are. For I am only one that’s near
when He does it. I was only a voice that He used. It wasn’t what I knew, it was
what I just surrendered myself to that He spoke through. It isn’t me. It wasn’t
the seventh messenger; oh, no, it was a manifestation of the Son of man.” He’s telling you the words that he said and what
happens are a manifestation of the Son of man.
...I am not He, the Pillar of Fire is not
He. It is in the form of the Spirit. It’s the
Spirit of God doing it from this one to this one, in a human carcass. It
wasn’t the angel, his message, it was the mystery that God unfolded. It’s not a
man. It is God. The angel was not the Son of man, that’s a messenger. He was a
messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ.
Then in another place he said, “He reveals the Son of Man.” He was only revealing. He was not the
Son of man. He was only revealing him.
28. It says here that This One that was preached is going to come
down now. But he said, “Hold it. The
heavens cannot let him go until time of restoration which God has spoken.”
Now restoration comes by Elijah so therefore Elijah has to come before the
Bride can leave this earth. Then why don’t they believe it? Now you tell me
what Elijah is going to do. He’s going to restore. Restore what? Well, what did
John do? He interpreted the revealed Word, or brought them the revealed Word.
“He turned the hearts of the fathers to the children, even the disobedient to
the wisdom of the just,” which means the ones that were ignorant concerning
what was going on but would be aware of it if he told them. So he opened their
eyes.
29. Now, what’s it going to be in the end time? It is going to be
a man come on the scene just the same as John did, and he’s going to stand
there in the Presence of the Lord God of the Gentiles, and of Israel, the Same
One, and whatever the Lord God is doing, He is going to interpret it to the
people. He’s going to tell them, because that’s what John did. He said, “Behold
the Lamb of God.” He said, “Look...whose
fan is in His Hand—thoroughly purges His floor.” That’s yet to take place,
or it’s taking place right now. See? He appears suddenly to his temple. That
never happened back there. There was no secret when he came. He just walked in,
there he was, opened the Book and so on. He talked to the Scribes and
Pharisees, the great authorities.
Now the heavens must retain him until there is
restoration, and Elijah is going to do it. And It tells you at that time That
One is going to be in the form of a prophet like unto Moses. Elijah, that very
great ministry, is going to be there in the Spirit of the living God. And the
people that don’t hear Him are just going to lose out. That’s all that It says.
30. Now he said here:
[76]
...To make it fit with the rest of the Scripture.
All right? Make it fit with the rest of the Scripture:
there’s going to be restoration. That is correct. It is going to be by Elijah,
and Elijah won’t be able to do one thing without the Spirit of God, because It
talks of the Spirit upon him. You go to Ephesians 1, and Paul prays, “That God
is going to send a spirit of revelation, wisdom, and the knowledge of him to
the church.” And when the revelation is completed, it’s going to bring about a
Resurrection.
In other words Scripture is going to fit with what Bro.
Branham tells us as a revelation from God, which revelation is sealed in the
Scripture; which means that a man can read it, and he doesn’t understand what’s
being read.
31. Go to the Jews right now and say, “What does it mean: A virgin
is going to be with child, and That One is going to come forth and be this, and
be that, and the other thing”?
“Oh,” they say, “Well, that’s going to be born. Yes, it
is. And it’s going to come to Israel, and he will be our king at a certain
date.”
It’s already been done. Like Bro. Branham said, “He came according to the Word but not
according to their interpretation of the Word.”
32. [77] Now listen, he said, See, God don’t
need no interpreter. He’s His own interpreter. He does His own interpretation
by bringing to pass the things that He said would happen. Like in the
beginning, “Let there be light!” and there was light.
Now God says certain things are going to happen, and when
they happen, that’s the Word fulfilled. That is the interpretation. So what
about this Rapture? Now the Bible categorically says it’s in three parts. What
are those three parts? What do they mean?
One man says, “Well, the Shout means this, this means
that, that means that.”
Well, that’s fine, but what does it mean? Who’s going to
tell us? Well, actually, according to what Bro. Branham said, and according to
what the Scripture is, there has to be something going on that indicates that
promise—and that promise, by what is manifested about it, brought to our
attention—and reveals it.
So as I have said two or three times here, according to
my understanding of what Bro. Branham said, if I understand the English
language—and I think I am pretty good at it—he said, “He does His own interpretation by bringing to pass the things He said
would happen.” Then for me to interpret correctly, the thing has got to be
happening or has happened! Well, I’m going to tell you something: don’t tell me
about me catching onto the Rapture, after it has happened! Forget it.
What good does it do me, if I know about it afterwards,
that there is no million dollars left? What good does it do me if the Rapture
takes place, and I find out? I’ve got to know what is going on at that hour for
this. Now Bro. Branham said here that “God
brings it to pass so we’ll know what’s going on.”
33. Now isn’t that what He did with the coming of Jesus? He sent
an angel down to Mary and said, “Blessed art thou amongst women.” Told her what
was going to happen, and it happened. Then He confirmed it. Now listen. Let’s
get some more of this:
[78]
Now, He promised certain things in this last day in the Scripture. Now he’s talking, about God fulfilling things to
make us know the Rapture is here. Why there it was. Now watch, he’s going to illustrate. That’s
how Jesus was the Son of God. He promised to
send Him. Now He promised to send him back there, and He sent him. Now
remember, He’s promised to send him again in Acts 3. How are you going
to know? When He was in the days here on earth the people couldn’t believe Him.
He said, “Search the Scripture, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life and
They are They that testify of me.” Now the
whole Bible is a revelation of Jesus Christ, and that’s the Rapture. You’ve got
to have a revelation of Him. Now he said, “Here I am, search the
Scripture and see if I am not that One that supposed to be here and am here. If
I do not the works of my Father believe me not.”
34. If Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, and
he is risen from the dead, He will do here now what he did when he was on
earth. Then Bro. Branham would say, “He’s
here.” Now he said, “He performed the
sign of the Messiah which sign was the Presence of Jesus Christ on earth and
the same sign before Sodom and Gomorrah.”
Now what are you going to do about it?
“Oh, well, that’s just lovely, lovely, lovely. It doesn’t
mean a thing except ‘isn’t it wonderful?’ He’s such a great God-d-d! Hallelujah
to Jee-sus.” And then talk in tongues and jump up and down.
Go ahead, if that’s what it means to you, fine. I can’t
buy it. I just can’t buy it.
If that’s the case, why hasn’t it been going for two
thousand years instead of today? It categorically says, “There’ll be a refreshing
from the Presence of God—what can be seen of God—which is signs and wonders,
particularly healings”—a miracle ministry to the needy world. Then it says,
“That sets the stage for Him to come, the physical One.” But hold it! Elijah
has to restore! Then who do you think God is using as the prophet to manifest
the works? It’s got to be Elijah. Put it together.
35. [78] He said, “If I do not the works of my Father
don’t believe me. But if you can’t believe Me, believe the works that I do
because they testify Who I am.
He said, “Listen.” He said, “Can’t you understand this?
You may not believe the doctrine I am preaching but there’s one thing you’ve
got to admit to, these are the works of God.”
And that’s exactly what they did to William Branham.
“Oh,” they said, “well, that’s really true. Oh,” they
said, “that discernment is great. And when he gets in that trance and he tells
you things.” Oh, that’s perfectly right. But remember, he’s off the Word.”
They could no more swallow what Jesus said than nothing.
And neither could they swallow what William Branham said. And the apex, the
climax, of every Message was to bring us to the Rapture. Now if it doesn’t,
what good did he do? You tell me: what good does William Branham do if he
doesn’t take me to the Rapture? Forget it, I can do without him. Who needs him?
Who needs him? They needed Jesus as we need Elijah to fulfill the promise to us
as Jesus did for His day. Now that answers your question. Huh? It had better,
because if it doesn’t, this age goes on and we all die, and who knows?
“Oh,” you say, “Well, it isn’t the seventh age I guess,
after all. Something else is coming.”
And I would say you have to be right: there is something
else coming, but who cares. It’s not another age and another message.
36. [79] Well then, in Wesley’s age the works that he
did testifies who he was. In Luther’s age on the reformation, why, it sure
testified who Luther was. In the days of Pentecostals, restoring back of gifts,
the restoration of gifts, speaking in tongues, casting out devils and gifts,
why it testified. What did it testify to? The
power of the Resurrection, which is coming around the corner—they were looking
forward now to what we are into. No mistake about it.
[80]
People said when it first raised up—that’s
Pentecost. ...”It can’t last long; it’ll burn down.” Still burning. Why?
Because you will never put it out. God said it would be there. It’s that
portion of the Word, and no more could you put that out...And then when the
Bride is being called out, how are you going to put it out?
Now you couldn’t put out Luther. You couldn’t put out
Wesley. You couldn’t put out Pentecost. Each one was vindicated by standing
right there. And they’re still standing there! Neither will you put this out.
Now they say, “Oh, we’re going to put it out.”
Lutherans said, “Nobody but us.”
Wesley said, “Nobody but us.”
Pentecost said, “Nobody but us.”
Somebody has to come to the place where, “It’s nobody but
us.” You do what you want. But when the final sheep is in and child trained,
there will be a resurrection and rapture.
37. [80] ...It’s the revelation of the
manifestation of the Word made true.
In other words there’s something going on right now that
signifies the Rapture is here! Now this is what people don’t like about me.
“Oh,” they say, “that guy Vayle preaches a progressive Rapture.” Well come on!
The whole thing has been progressive. What are they talking about? How did the
First Resurrection take place? the first half of it? Huh? You mean Jesus didn’t
have to come down, and die, and go down there and bring them out, and take them
up? Hogwash! Somebody is nuts, and it’s not me! They can’t tell they have noses
in their faces.
[80] ...We’re living in that day. What day? When the Bride is being called out. It’s the
revelation of the manifestation, the Word made true. Praise be to God!
The revelation of the mystery of Himself.
38. You can’t preach this Rapture—you can’t preach the
Shout—without understanding it is
the revelation. Now, when you get God revealed, you’ll always find that it’s
God Himself doing what man can’t do and is not supposed to do. But they don’t
like that in this hour. They want their works to testify. They want their
character. And they haven’t got any. I repeat: they don’t have any character!
There are too many people today in legalism. They think humility is saying, “O
God, I’m nothing! O Lord, I’m a sinner! O God...”
Ah, shut‑up! ‘Humility’ is when you say about
yourself what God said. Otherwise, you’re a preverse devil. You rise up, “O
God, I’m not this, I’m not that,” when God says you are His Righteousness. You
make God a liar, and you call that which God cleansed common as though it were
unclean. We make it a common thing. We’ve got the humility of the devil. We’ve
got a stinking pride that won’t say what God says. So much for your stinking
rotten character. Throw it in the garbage bin where it belongs. I’m sick and
tired of legalistic Pentecost and all the junk they hurl. They can’t stand the
fact and say, “I and my Father are one.” Let’s get into that.
“Oh, we get the Rapture. It’s right in here.”
Let’s begin to find these things where people sneer, “But
I am my Father are one.”
Well, if you and your Father aren’t one, I can tell you
one thing: you never had a representation then, and you haven’t got one now!
Make up your mind—you’re going to burn. Yeah.
Let’s get down to the ‘nitty gritty’. I’m not on the war
path, I just want get your mind straightened out. You can’t sit on both sides
of the fence. You can’t have creed and dogma at the same time.
39. [81] Now, the rapture is only, this rapture we
are talking about—not the Rapture other people
talk about, not the Rapture I heard about when I went around the denominations,
but this Rapture Bro. Branham is talking about, is only for the Bride.
Remember, the Bible said, “And the rest of the dead live not for a thousand
years.” He is telling you flat then: anybody
miss this, you’ve shot it. You won’t live for a thousand years, you’re going to
die. See? The Bride doesn’t cease living. This great Rapture ... If
there’s not a rapture friends, where are we at? What are we going to do? What
age we living in? What promise do we have? Now
you keep that word ‘promise’ in mind when we finally get to Peter. There
is going to be a rapture. The Bible said there will be; it’ll be only for the
Elected, the Elected lady, the Bride in this day that’s pulled out of the
church—that’s going to be living. The rest of them are going to die. The rest are living in pleasure and in their sins,
after their own lusts, which means their own pleasures.
Remember the subject is “The Rapture”.
40. [82] The very word ‘church’ means ‘called out’. Now listen: he’s talking about the Rapture. He’s
talking about a called-out people. And, as Moses called a nation out of
a nation, the Holy Spirit is calling a Bride out of a church.
Num 23:9.
(9) For from the top
of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him; lo the people shall
dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
We’re not reckoned amongst the churches. You wait. Before
it’s over, they’ll strip us of everything. Bro. Branham said, “They’ll lock...they’ll take buildings like
we’ve got and use them for warehouses and close down our meetings,” he
said, “as far as they know.” Oh, the
squeeze is going to come down. We read that in Psalms 27, but people don’t want
to believe it.
“All things are continuing. There won’t be any squeeze.”
There’s going to be a squeeze. It’s going to be a rough,
rough squeeze, too. And then we’ll get out of here before the real bad one
takes place.
41. [82] ...A church out of church, members from
every denomination making up a Bride, but they
have to come out, see? ...Bride tree. A Bride coming out called...And
that’s the one that is the Bride. She is the one that’s going to be in the
rapture, that alone, nothing but the Bride, elected one foreknown by God from
the beginning, the Father’s spiritual gene.
Now right off the bat, William Branham, in this
statement, cut off 99 percent of the whole legalistic movement of the world. He
lost all the Lutherans, because they’ve gone legal. They used to believe in
eternal security at one time, but they don’t anymore. He lost the
Pentecostals—lock, stock and barrel—because he said, “Foreknown.” And they’ve got to know that the foreknown are
predestinated. Maybe he used the word ‘foreknown’ to sort of hold them there
because... Well, God knew everything, so He knew what you’d do, but He didn’t
make sure you’d do it.
[82] ...The
Father’s gene... They don’t understand that
because they believe that comes when you’re born again. They don’t believe
you’re born with it.
42. [82] ...Let’s stop a minute.
[83]
Notice, each of you people, did you know years before you’re born you
were in your father as a gene? That’s right! A gene, or a germ, or seed was in
your father, Now he’s talking about an earthly
father. comes from the male sex not the female. See? Female furnishes
eggs, that’s the bedding ground, but the germ comes from the... father. Now he is talking about physical father.
[84] Now, say in my father and my son sitting here. When I was sixteen
years old my son was in me.
Now the question is: was Billy Paul in his father, or
wasn’t he in his father? Now if Bro. Branham was up here just shooting his
mouth off, then how do I know he hasn’t shot his mouth off all the rest of the
time?
“Well, my son was in me, but, you see, that was only
spiritual speaking...he really wasn’t.”
Then who had intercourse with your wife? Let’s get right
down to the nitty gritty—which is vulgar, I care less—because I’m sick and
tired of a lot of hogwash.
Now he said his son was in him—which his son was, because
the male alone carries the Y chromosome.
So Billy had to be in his father. But then so are all
children in their fathers.
43. [84] Now, say in my father or my son sitting
here, when I was sixteen years old my son was in me. I didn’t know him but he
was there. That’s right. Now, through a
bedding ground, through holy wedlock, he becomes in the image of me. Now I like his very words: He becomes in the
image of me.
Why? Because he was there, and it’s a ‘becoming’ thing.
There he was in there and through an egg, which was a bedding ground, he began
to form. And he ‘became’, until he was a fully matured baby and dropped down
from the womb. Now he’s in the image of William Branham. That’s exactly right,
because Seth was in the image of Adam, and that’s in more than one place in the
Bible—two places at least.
[85] ...I
know him, he becomes in the image of me. I know him; I can fellowship with him.
And he came just at the time when it was a right time.
In other words the life that took the form of the male
sperm could not become that image until it was the right time. You see the
predestinating power of God?
44. [85] Now, so were you in... if you’ve got Eternal
Life, you were in God before there ever was a world. Now listen, he said, “My son was in me.” Let’s go back to paragraph 83.
[83]
...Everyone of you people, do you know years before you were born you
were in your father as a gene? As a germ.
Now he says ‘you’.
Now don’t try to get away with your own understanding—you were, and put it down as ‘you’, and leave it sit as ‘you’.
“Later on you’ll
find,” he said, “who is ‘you’,” My
hand, my face...who’s me? Puts it right down to the soul. He doesn’t say one
thing about a soul coming in. He says,
“It’s a spirit coming in allowed of God.” Then where does the soul come
from? Natural. If it’s not natural, I don’t know what he said, or why he even
bothered to say it, or he should’ve explained it. He never did. Here’s his
explanation. He’s telling you.
45. [85] Now he said, Way back there you were
a part of, a son of God, an attribute of God. An
attribute is a mark of distinction from a source. He knew the very age
you were coming. He predestinated you...
Now there’s where the Pentecostals were lost right there,
because they can’t stand that Word. You know what? The Pentecostals are
Catholics. Catholics can’t stand that Word. Yet I don’t understand why ] a Pentecostal trinitarian, has the nerve
to say, “The Roman Catholic church believes in predestination,” when their own
creed says, “Let him be anathema who says, ‘he most assuredly was predestinated.’“
There’s a curse on anybody that preaches predestination. I know where the man
got it. It was because Augustine dabbled in it, and the church would’ve cut his
head off on it. They booted that doctrine out. The Pentecostal church is Roman
Catholic. All daughters. You’ve got to come out to show where you come from.
Predestinated you to that age.
46. Now listen:
[85] ... He
predestinated you to that age to take that place and no one else can take that
place. What about our day? Is this
Rapture day or is it not? Then there’s a predestinated Bride for the Rapture
and she will come out. I don’t care how many impersonations and things,
you’ve got to be there, because He knew you’d be there. In other words everybody around may look very good, everything may look
wonderful, say, “I’m Bride, I’m Bride, I’m Bride,” and be no more Bride than
anything. Now, you are made manifest; now you can fellowship with Him.
Then is there fellowship with Christ outside of the
Bride? The answer is no. Then how many church services are there that are
legitimate? How many communion tables are legitimate?
47. [85] ...Now, you are made manifest, you can have
fellowship with Him; that’s what He wants, longing for fellowship, to be
worshipped. But if your life was not always an attribute in God, you’re just a
mimic of Christianity. See? There’ll be billions and billions of them just
mimics.
[86] And then he talked about going down to
Demos Shakarian where they have the semen bank laid up there for the breeding
of cattle. And saw how these millions of germs are there.
48. Then he said:
[87]
Why, talk about a virgin birth, why, it’s not half as mysterious as a
physical birth, how it’s foreordained, predestinated. And he’s talking about you.
[88]
Now, in the beginning, way back, way years ago before there was a time
began, if you were are born again Christian, you were in God then, your Father.
Now listen: If you are a born again
Christian, you were in God then. Why? Otherwise
you couldn’t be born again. What’s it mean ‘to be born’? ‘Issue forth from.’
What issued forth from God with Adam? Breathed in the breath of life—man became
a living soul. That’s when you become this life and profess Christianity.
And that is when you come into this life here, you know where you are at, that
you profess Christianity. Now let’s find what
he is talking about. Everything else, everything going wrong, you have
wondered about it. Now that life was down there in the beginning.
49. Now he tells a story of the eagle. Now the eagle was an eagle
to begin with, though acting like a chicken. I’m going to skip that paragraph.
[91] When a germ comes into the womb of the female, it doesn’t take on... Now he explains what he means by that. You didn’t become a human germ from your father, the next thing become a germ of a dog, the next thing a cat, the next thing a chicken; it was all human germ. That is the way God is. Every part of the Bride has to be from God. No such thing as otherwise. And the Body of Jesus Christ, the Bride, will be a part of His Body. Now He was the Word, and the Bride will have to be the Word, Word added to Word, Word added to Word. Now that’s exactly right. Being born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible. Now Luther’s justification; Wesley, sanctification; Pentecost, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, restoration of gifts and all the rest that goes with it. Its got to be Word on top of Word, germ on top of germ, life on top of li