Before Service Dedication

of Andrew William Keller

Sam 1:20-23:

(20) Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and she called his name Samuel, being interpreted, Because I have asked of the Lord.

(21) And the man, an Elkanah (that’s her husband), and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

(22) But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide forever.

(23) And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word.

Now with that in the Book of Psalms, the portion of the verse 3, Psalm 127, “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord.”

Now the word heritage means an inheritance. And so It tells you here that children are what God inherits from His people and, of course, this was strictly a people who were genetically set aside by God, having the… certain traits and genes that came from His two elect; Abraham and Sarah, and then, down through the line. And they were positively ordained after a certain lineage of the flesh.

And Abraham, of course, traced his lineage right back to God, and so, actually then, Adam, Abraham, and all those descendants, were as we are today, even as Jesus, a part of a human election, which was started by God when God instilled into Adam the breath of lives, which was definitely a portion of His own Holy Spirit, His Own life, giving God Himself, then, children upon this earth.

And children, of course, then, come by their parents. They come by the descendants of Adam and Eve. Of course, you understand the injection there, which we simply bypass, and we look at these descendants coming down… They are actually God’s inheritance. They actually belong to Him.

So now we have Hannah here, marvelously enlightened. And, of course, her problem was that she could not conceive and she desperately wanted a child from the Lord, and particularly she wanted a son which would not simply gratify her, but would gratify her husband because the first-born is really the beginning of his strength; that’s his lineage, his type of immortality going from generation to generation. So actually, today, six thousand years after Adam, step forth fresh from the hand of God with Eve in order to propagate, Adam is immortal, right today, six thousand years later, in us who are the elect of God and predestinated and so on.

So this woman must have had a… Well, you might call it intuition, but it wasn’t really. It was definitely inspiration of the Holy Spirit that said to her, “Give this child back to God.” And she did the right thing, because it was God’s child. Do you understand what I’m saying? Because children are the inheritance, the heritage, of the Lord. So, she was led of the spirit to do that.

Now you notice, also, in the time of Jesus that the women were led of the spirit to do it and the men said, “No, no, no; don’t do that, don’t bother him.” But they were led of the Lord to bring the children to Jesus, because they were his, because they were in him—if they were elect—way back as God handed it down to Jesus, God bodily, would appear in a human form in Jesus, bring it right down to Adam. What was in God, handed to Jesus, down to Adam, and then down right to this very line.

So the women had a divine inspiration. They recognized something. And I think that’s marvelous that they recognized that. That they recognized what others didn’t recognize. Now they didn’t say, “We heard of you, because John the Baptist talked about you.” They just knew. And you know, if you’re a real child of God, many things will come to: ‘you just know’; ‘you just can’t help it’. And it’s not intuition, it’s not ESP. It’s in the definite realm of a revelation.

I claim that in my own life, especially with Bro. Branham. What made me suddenly hear within me say, “If you ever listen to any man, that’s the man you listen to.” And I listened to Bro. Branham. I don’t listen to anybody else. I wouldn’t waste my time. And so, therefore, I can understand perfectly this Scripture here, that this woman knew: “I’ve got to give him back to God because that’s who he is.”

Now I want you to notice, further, that Samuel was born in a very, very troubled time. The judges were, in the vernacular of the street, very kooky—a lot of them. It even came to the place they had to have a woman prophetess judging the nation, which was politics, not the church, as Bro. Branham specifically stated, which was so marvelous to get that real understanding of the prophetess. It wasn’t a woman serving in the church; it was a woman with a divine gift in politics. Oh my, I hope you’re catching my thought. Is it possible that our senators and congressman have divine gifts? Very possible—and the riff-raff of the enemy.

Anyway, at this time, there was great disorder. Everything was like it is today, hundreds of denominations, thousands of different churches and millions of different interpretations. And Samuel comes on the scene, fully vindicated by God, who could stand there to interpret the law to the people.

Now, in our day we had William Branham, and he’s mentioned in scripture, not by name, but in Acts, where the Bible mentions Peter talking, the third chapter, where God raised up a prophet like unto Moses, and then said, “Beginning at Samuel,” it jumps right from Moses, Bro. Branham’s placed with Moses, with Paul, and down at the end time, and then he said, “A ministry like Samuel, discerning, prophetic, invincible, incontrofutable, demonstration, that the knowledge, it all came from God. See?

Now, there’s a strange thing about William Branham. He was not dedicated, I’m sure, by his parent. But his grandmother was a godly woman, to my knowledge. He always talks about her being a real saved, godly woman. And in her death, a dove came at the window, and her spirit was taken. And a dove appeared to Bro. Branham, and his spirit was taken also, within a very, very short time. So therefore, though other than… The mother, I doubt, dedicated. The father, I’m sure, likely put, you know, white lightning, which he manufactured in a still back out there, and the boy was born, maybe, on the table, and had a real type of Irish communication through liquor and the Catholic Church. But somehow, I believe, that that grandmother dedicated that little boy and that halo, that aura, was in that room in this hour when we needed him.

Now, my point is that dedication. Little Andrew Keller, Andrew William, is no different from William Branham, and no different from Samuel, and no different from Paul, and no different from Jesus Christ even, as being a product of the human race that God ordained, would be His inheritance and His heritage.

And so therefore, as they were already ordained by God to be here, and this child ordained at this time. How that child came is God’s own business, how these things all come about. But here we have, in this hour, another dedication unto Almighty God in this troubled time. And it is only logical that the parents recognize the fact that though they bore him. This indeed is really not their child.

And you’re going to find one day, when all the world is judged, and all the wheat is separated from the chaff, and all the tares have been diminished; there will be a solid group of people standing there, and only standing there, that solid group that came from God Himself, a part of God, and they are His heritage. And in the midst of the Bride on the Holy Mt. Zion, when they stand there worshipping and praising God, that precious Son, Jesus, the Only-begotten one, will recognize every single one of us as he leads in worship, and we all praise God together on the holy mount, while all the others outside, praise the same God, and bring their glory and all those things in which are in the future.

So what we see here this morning, then, is a child. When Jesus was born, he was just a baby; he was just a child. But look what happened. How marvelous that he grew in stature and wisdom, in favor with God and man, the grace of God upon him. How marvelous that here was a child like Samuel, and here was a child like Paul, and here was a child like William Branham; just children.

But I find no place in Scripture where one is esteemed above the other as a heritage, position-wise, that’s a different thing; that’s up to God. And even in the position, if it’s given, and the talent given to demonstrate and to appropriate those things and manifest those things that God give, it is still all of God and there is only humility and gratefulness because we were allowed to be born into this world, into God’s kingdom, and then come to the place of… in His presence and glorified like Jesus Christ.

So we have a wonderful prospect this morning, and I want you to know that. That this child belongs to God, lent to them for a little while, how long—I do not know. I believe things are rapidly coming to a close. But I do believe that there are people right here, even little children, that one day are going to be shaking hands with their dearly beloved departed ones, grandmothers, grandfathers, great-grandmothers, great-grandfathers. Some standing here also, lost their parents; they’ll be shaking hands, hugging, embracing, and loving, because this day of the resurrection and rapture is right at hand and none can stay it.

How long? I don’t know, but I am looking forward with all my heart to see what Bro. Branham said, “Apply the token and believe for your family, believe that God is going to take you in.” Will the chain—will the circle be unbroken? I hope not. I hope this morning that every child that has been dedicated here will see the light of that glorious dawn in the resurrection of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in which we share.

So that’s my thought this morning on this dedication. Take it to heart and keep it close within you, and believe it with all your heart. And then, as you live that life before the child, to simply believe with all you heart, because that’s all you can do, and applying that life within you, the scriptural life that God’s given you, to see that child reared in the admonition of God, and to see all the family brought in to the fold with the Lord Jesus Christ. That is something we can look forward to, even difficult as it may sound; there is no difficulty with God. He promised and the only promise, what He was able to do, and then He swore that He would do it. That should be enough for us.

All right, shall the good… Why not bring the whole family up there, Mark and Barbara, and we’ve got Grandma and Grandpa. We don’t have two sets of Grandma and Grandpa’s here; we’ve got the camera rolling. We’re going to dedicate the baby. Hey, that’s a honey! Now we got to have him so the whole crowd out… the whole church can see him. We’re going to get you all… take a look at baby Andrew here. And that’s a good name. That’s a Biblical name. Bro. Branham said, “Every good Bible name is what you want.” Just don’t name a child Judas; I don’t think that’s good, that’s one of the names I’m not too happy with, or naming the girl Jezebel.

Have we got… where’s… hey, let’s get turned around a little bit, shall we? Hey, hello Andrew. Good morning. Would you like to be dedicated this morning? He’s kind of non-committal. Does he look like Grandpa? A little bit. Does he look like Grandma? Who does he look like? Himself? Well, the main thing, he’s happy and I think he’s going to love the Lord.

Ok, we got everybody in here, that’s good. Get us all in here now before we take the baby, dedicate it. That’s fine. Come on Don, turn around so we get a good look at you, we don’t like your back, Don. Your back cannot smile. Now here’s the happy family, and only two people missing, that’s Grandma and Grandpa from Barbara’s side, but we got enough here to have a good little dedication. Let… Hello Andrew, you come to me for a second? That’s a good sweetheart. Let’s bow our heads in prayer. [Baby Andrew reaches out for Bro. Vayle’s nose!] Now my nose is mine, I… now leave it alone, so I’ll leave yours alone. [Laughter] I leave yours now you leave mine. Ok?

Heavenly Father, we take little Andrew in our arms and we know our arms are not Yours but its kind of a proxy, Lord, and we just believe at this time as we dedicate him to You, give him back, and ask Your blessing upon him and keep him Lord so he may grow up as strong and healthy, away from the things of the world, guarded and sheltered by the peep… brother and sister who are his parents, bringing him up knowing that he is Your child. [Baby Andrew grabs the microphone causing a muffling of the audio.]

Father, we ask You to help them, and we dedicate him, Lord, to Your honor and to glory, that when You come back upon Earth, he will come back with You and then reign in that future in that glory being a child, a part of the Bride. We commend the whole family to You, Lord, knowing that the family will have a great influence, and knowing already that Grandma and Grandpa have a tremendous influence of good upon all their grandchildren. We thank You for this family here, Lord, seeming almost intact, we know it is truly all intact, but we know a great number of them are here, we appreciate so much what You have done and believe Your continuing blessing and mercy upon them. In Jesus Christ’s Name we pray. Amen.

Give him to you… good buddy, we give them back to Momma because that’s where little babies belong in case they cry. Lord bless, Lord bless. Lil, good to see you, Lord bless, you’ve been a good Grandma, and I see it coming. Hey, you’re a pretty girl, where’d you grow up so fast? And look at her. How did you get so tall so quickly? There’s another basketball player. Hey buddy, how you doing? [Bro. Keller says, “All right.”] There’s my good friend, Don, Lord bless you. Take care. Did he get the micro… [Congregation laughs – baby Andrew made off with the microphone cover] Oh no, the mike [microphone] is here. Yeah! [Laughter. End of baby dedication]

Stewardship #12

Commercialized Religion

August 3, 1997

Heavenly Father, we realize You are here and we are in Your Presence, that we have crossed over to Your side, even as the cry came, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” We are happy and anxious to be on Your side, Lord, and be approved of You through the—not only through the blood, by the sealing of the Holy Spirit, but of walking in the light even as we are living in that light. Not living in a glare but living in the truth of the revealed Word of Almighty God, which is shining upon us and helping us to come to a place of maturity.

Lord, mature our minds, mature our hearts, our souls, our very lives, O God, before You that we might be those mature Christians, strong Christians in the adoption, even as Paul spoke of that, strong food for strong people able to bare. Peter knew that many people could not bare the strong food that Paul gave, but Lord, we know we are able to bare it and we hunger for the depth of revelation of that which You desire to give us. Not hungering Lord to go beyond it, simply hungering to know the truth, the truth to set us free, Lord, and we to walk in that light.

And one day walking down the road of this mortality, to walk into the path of immortality, changed in the twinkling of an eye, and then caught up with the redeemed to meet You in the skies, Lord, at the great wedding supper, the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Help us this morning to apprehend truth within the inner man and then display it in the outer according to Your Will. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

1. Now last night we were looking into the fact of stewardship. And there was a great office given to Adam upon earth when he was given the charge to raise up children to Almighty God, to populate the earth, and then, actually, to take over what God had already created. Even as the Scripture said, “What is man, that thou are mindful? Son of man, that you visit him? You made him a little lower than the angels, and You set him over the work of Your hands.” [Ps 8:4-6] And we know that God gave Adam that promise, and It was a command promise. It was a command promise on the grounds that God told him to do it. That’s a command. And the very fact that God told him to do it was his enablement.

2. And you found that, and Bro. Branham did bring that out when he spoke of his own ministry paralleling that of Joshua’s where God gave the command to Joshua. “And be thou strong,” He said, “of good courage.” [Josh 1:6a] And, when God tells us to be strong and of good courage, then that automatically is our enablement, because, if God said it, then it can be done, and It will be done. And, of course, it’s a matter of learning to get out of the way.

3. Well, Adam did not discharge his responsibility. And after God created all these things he says in Gen 1:26, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” And of course, we know that was God speaking to His Son. You could, if you want it to be like the Queen of England and the editorial ‘We,’ ‘Our Majesty’ is displeased, or ‘we’ are displeased. Well who cares about ‘we,’ you know? I mean I’m not a—really a queen basher but I want you to know this is not the editorial ‘we,’ this is God speaking to His Son and they are communing together.

One fellow I heard of—and evidently he went to Australia according to reports I got—[ ] said that this was God speaking to Satan. Well now, maybe… Well, I won’t finish that thought. You can guess what I was going to say.

(26) Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: (And then you know, he’s got the…) let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, (That’s mankind.) and over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

(27) So God created man in his own image, image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

4. Now you notice, there’s a certain portion in there that God creates. And there’s a certain portion that God uses to form from the earth, which was already created, having within it all the elements that the body would require to be sustained. And Bro. Branham even likened that, when God got through fashioning Adam, [to] a tree, with his roots in the ground like Adam, with his feet in the ground there, then coming forth like a great tree. And it is true, because we’re like trees in that particular respect. And you know, they [use the phraseology] ‘tracing the family tree’. So, there’s likeness there. It’s just a little bit of a thought.

5. And anyway, He created them; but there’s a part, of course, that wasn’t created and formed. That’s when God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life, (The breath of lives is what it is.) and he became a living soul. So you can see the distribution of God, which is the part of soul, the spark, the gene, the part of God, the bit of God. [It] comes by human, you know, production. It’s produced, and that life blood is in the veins—the life is in the blood, coursing through the veins and all. And we have, therefore, then, a remarkable relationship to Almighty God.

That’s why I could say in the dedication service this morning that giving a child back to God is not only legitimate, it is actually mandatory, because children are the inheritance of God. And actually God Himself is the great Creator; [He] has an inheritance. That [ ] sounds awfully strange [does]n’t it, but it’s true. They’re an inheritance. Why? Because this life of God comes through the parents, and the parents give the children back and rear the children for God, and we have a godly race of people.

6. It’s a pity we have so many portions of our will not under the actual tutelage… Well it’s under the tutelage of God, but we don’t actually respond as we should. In Adam, of course, doesn’t respond correctly either. Actually we find Adam giving up what God gave him. And so, we took that back last night, and we went back to the beginning to see where Satan was the great beginning of things of God, created so perfectly, everything in a divine order, and we saw how that Satan just ruined the whole order and became the first one who fell from his great position, because he perverted the Word of God.

Now, when you pervert the Word of God, what you’re saying is this: “I am destroying that which is perfect,” because remember, the Word of God is perfect converting the sinner. That Word of God was so perfect it brought forth children in a sinful condition, the Word coming right around and bringing it back. Why? Because the Word corrects the Word. If there’s any error, the Word will correct it, because any error comes from iniquity, which is a perversion.

Like you and I today, we have problems with our doctrine. Well, I don’t have any problem with a few things.

Is that mike going? [Bro. Vayle speaks to someone about the microphone losing power.] Okay.

So anyway, we find that Adam, not inadvertently, but fooled by Satan, gave up his great position.

7. So as I say, last night we took that back, and I want to read some of my notes, and I’m going to try to work in where I can catch us all up to date on where I want to be and finish this message. So, last night we read for quite some time, we have viewed and reviewed the stewardship of Satan and angels and spirit beings, and we have seen how they have failed in their offices, though endowed with tremendous gifts from God, with Elohim Himself standing behind those empowerments that Elohim Himself had ordained unto them, even to the extent that when Michael the archangel contended with Satan over the body of Moses, he could not do anything but say, “The Lord rebuke thee.” And in there you see an example of the fact the Scripture says, (And I meant to look it up to get the context, but I didn’t.) “the gifts and callings of God are without repentance.” [Rom 11:29]

8. Now, if anybody would try to tell you that Satan is a different creature from the time that God created him, you will be in error, because the Bible already tells you, “You were perfect in all your ways until iniquity was found in you.” [Ezek 28:15] In other words you began to pervert the Word. It doesn’t say one thing about Satan any other way. Now from that time on, of course, you see a deterioration in the character, in the ways that Satan conducted himself, because now he wants to be above God. And you see that right in religions today.

And you have to remember that Satan was a marvelous creation who led in the worship of God. And he had an ephod. He had everything in line to do this job. And he was doing it right. He was doing in the presence of God with Michael. And Michael was the body that the Son of God, Jesus, used at that time. So we have Michael, an archangel, and we have a higher order, even in creation. And that higher order of creation was the cherubim.

9. Now, if you’re looking at creation, you’re going to find out that we are a little lower than the angels. We’re much lower than a cherub or a seraphim; much lower, as far as creation is concerned. But you cannot get higher than sonship, when it comes to reality, because anything created [had] a beginning and consequently, except for the breath of God, the desire of God, the privilege of God extending that life in those created beings, they’re going to be gone, because they got a beginning. And Bro. Branham said in one place, “That which has a beginning has an ending,” but, of course, he… And that’s true, except if God intervenes. But, when it comes to us, and the Only-begotten son, that’s eternality. There’s no beginning, and consequently, there is no ending.

10. But, when it comes to positioning, God Almighty can take and place in a position a cherubim or an angel, which gives him seemingly a position greater than [that] which a human being would have. But that is not true. It’s only in the sense of the greatness of creation. And remember, that would be greater than the spirit that we got—created by God—or the forming of the dust, when it comes to the application of reality. You’re on this side; not the left side. You’re on the right side—the blessing, which is the lineage of God and the inheritance of God. And then, everything else must then come and bow to it. You see?

In one area there’s a superior side—forget it. If you take that side, then you’re going to find yourselves involved in materiality, when the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but joy and peace and the Holy Ghost. And the fruit of the spirit [is] entirely different from the fruit or the manifestation of flesh. And they’re both outlined in the Book of Galatians. You see a vast and tremendous difference there. So, all right.

11. You’re looking, then, at a created being, and he’s called Satan or Lucifer. And that one was the greatest created being that God had ever created; and I suppose at this time he’s still the greatest created being that God has created. And that hasn’t changed. See?

What he was made for hasn’t changed. Now that he has defiled it and used it in a wrong way, which he has, does not change the fact that intrinsically, he is that one. See?

12. Now, [ ] the same thing with you and me. I don’t care what we went through and Paul went through and anybody else as sinners. That has nothing to do with it. Like Bro. Branham said, “You didn’t do it in the first place,” [You were] tricked into it. No imputation there at all. As David said, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.” [Rom 4:8] Didn’t say the man wouldn’t sin; [It says] God didn’t impute it to him.

Then, there’s the Scripture [that] comes along and explains it. John explains It, and he tells you the seed of God cannot sin. There’s no way the seed can sin. The Son of God can’t sin, because his seed remaineth in him. And what is his seed? His seed is a gene from God. Show me where God can sin. Show me where God will pervert His Word.

13. At the same time a child of God, then, has the greatest faith in the world. You don’t have to measure it: “I got a lot of faith.” “I got a little faith.” Shut up! You’ve got faith. Because you see, that seed will never deny the Word of God. Can’t do it, because, why? It’s a part of it. How can God deny you and me, when we’re a part of Him?

And people often say I have disinherited my son. I disown him. Hah! You and who else? That’s the stupidest thing in the world. Well I don’t agree with my son. I don’t have a thing to do with him anymore. He’s still my son, but we just don’t walk on the same level. We don’t walk on the same plane. We don’t think the same thoughts. We don’t do the same thing. And, as far as the flesh is [concerned], he’s my son. But spiritually, oh, brother, I got a problem. There’s nothing there. But [he’s] still a son. Can’t do a thing about it.

You see, people will argue, and they will advise, revise, cogitate, then think again, and come up with some half-baked solution, which isn’t a solution. Just adds to the problem. And that’s what they do with the Bible. It’s a pity. It started all back in the Garden. Okay.

14. For quite some time we talked about Satan here and even when Michael, the archangel, at the time of Moses’ death, rebuked… He couldn’t do anything but rebuke him. And you notice what Michael, who was actually in [ ] an archangelic form that Jesus was inhabiting, you know, kind of incarnating himself in like you kind of call that… Although the word ‘carnoose’ [check this Hebrew word in final edit!] has to do with flesh, but he’s in the spirit being. And he contended with Satan; and he didn’t say, ‘I rebuke you’. He said, “The Lord rebuke you.” In other words it was a prayer to the Father that the Father would have to do something, because this was a great personage with great authority.

15. Paul had, as I mentioned last night, the same problem. He called, you know, a high priest a ‘whited-wall’, and a soldier struck him, and he said, “Why did you do that?”

“Well,” he said, “You don’t talk to the high priest that way.”

“Well,” he said, “I’m sorry,” he said, “I didn’t know he was a high priest. I would not have said it.”

See? There’s a recognition of authority. There’s a recognition of position. There’s a recognition that God is over all and has set everything in order, even to the extent, as Peter tells us, that the very officers of the government, the arm of the government—which is the law, the legal department—[are] all ordained of God, and they are all messengers of God. And, if you obey them, you will have no fear, because they are those that set in order to keep the physical things in order. And we realize that that has spun out of control, too. That’s spun out of control. But you see, all of these things are of God.

16. Then, we saw Satan, via the beast, invade Eden, the headquarters of God on earth and take into captivity Eve, and consequently and subsequently, Adam, through means of a perversion and a misapplication of the Word, turning a curse into a blessing, and the position they were not to assume, because it wasn’t theirs. Now remember, Satan came and said, “You shall not surely die. Eat of that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, [and] it won’t kill you. Why you’re going to have your eyes opened, and you’re going to be as gods. You’re going to have a greater position. Now come on: do what I say.”

Now come on, don’t tell me the church hasn’t done that and is not doing it. Now Satan did it. He even told them things that God hadn’t told them, and God had to stand by it. Didn’t God say “Now he’s become as one of us knowing good and evil?” So you think the devil can’t come along and trick you?

Hey, if I didn’t have a vindicated prophet, I would blow my brains out. Not just figuratively speaking. I think I would have to do it. Now, of course, I likely wouldn’t do it, because I’d have a self-delusion of grandeur: “I came to the Lord, I found Him, and I believe, and look at me.”

Yeah, don’t look too hard. I’d advise you it could maybe turn your stomach.

17. So, Satan came as an angel of light. He came down there in Eden with his ephod on as a high priest. And Satan is the high priest to his own religion. Now let’s face it. Didn’t God come down and inhabit the form of Jesus Christ to turn people to Himself? Then, don’t you think Satan will come down and do everything to turn people to himself? Oh, come on. What’s worship all about? Huh? Makes you think doesn’t it? Well, I’m only trying to help you. All right.

Satan came into Eden through his subtility, and he converted these people to himself—to his own interpretation of the Word, turning death into life, a curse into a blessing, promising them a position that they weren’t ordained to. See? Now, if they’d a been ordained to it, they’d a got it from God.

You say, “Well, perhaps they were ordained.”

But not at that time. See?

See how the devil takes Scripture, misplaces It, puts It in a wrong time slot, gives It a slant, turns a blessing into a curse, a curse to a blessing. Now how can he do it? He was made that way to lead in worship. And what one word off, although Satan had many words off. One word off took the human race—the true children of God—away from the position God put them in. Now the Word of God can’t return void, so you’re going to see that position restored, and you do. And you see it through Jesus Christ, the elder brother.

18. So, okay. Then, Satan, turning a curse into a blessing, gives them a position that wasn’t warranted. And you find that over here in 1 Cor 12:1-3. Now we didn’t go into this last night. I know I’m on a treadmill this morning. Set the turkey’s back three hours, and we’ll see what happens. Okay.

(1) Now concerning the spirituals, the gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

(2) You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.

Now this speaks of a compulsion, of an entrapment, of where people worship idols and come under the influence of spirits that they have identified those idols of clay and gold and silver, wood and stone with, saying, “The spirit dwells in this idol and the spirit now can come into me.” And you’ll see that they were being led by spirits, which is actually, then, devil religion.

19. Now, “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” [1 Cor 12:3] So, when you have Satan coming on the scene, you will find that the devil has the ability to turn the Word of God that’s accursed into a blessing and turn the blessing of God into a curse. So, he says here now, the devil can come on the scene with idolatry, and he can take this very Word, because Paul had brought them the Word, and they knew the Word, because Paul explains that in the first two chapters how the Word came, and how they got it.

And there were people that [were] fragmenting the body of Christ, and they were giving way to traditions of men, to fables, and they were finally giving away to the false prophets, the false apostles, and everything which was positively the devil. And Paul says, “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” And he said, “I want you to know one thing: there is no way the devil can take anything I say here concerning Jesus Christ, which is a curse—if you turn him down—and make it a blessing, or make it a [curse], when it’s a [blessing].”

So that’s what I’m looking at: what 1 Corinthians 12 really means, and I catch it back here in Genesis. Why? Because this is an infant church started by God through the apostle Paul, the Apostle Paul through God, and the Word. So, if I’m not making myself too clear, let’s go over it again.

20. Back here I told you that Satan took a verse of Scripture, and that is; God said to them, “Eat of this Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and you will die.”

And Satan came and says, “On the contrary, you will not die.” He said, “I will tell you what will happen. You will now have a status just like unto Almighty God. You will be a part of that. You will definitely be a part of it. Your eyes will be opened, and you will know good and evil.”

He turned what was death to life. But you can’t do that.

That’s the same as saying, “Okay, Jesus Christ,” you use the terminology concerning him and you say, “Look,” and he’s talking now to the Jews and those that didn’t believe in Jesus and others that had their philosophy. He said, “All right, you’re making… I’m going to tell you one thing: this… I can show you Scripture, “Cursed is everyone that hangeth upon a tree.” [Gal 3:13] And I’m telling you, and I’m informing you, the Holy Ghost to you, that this man is accursed.”

And he twisted the whole thing, so that you could no longer come around and say, “Jesus is Lord though he died upon Calvary, he is risen again, and he’s Lord of Lord, except by the Holy Ghost.”

There is not a genuine living Jesus Christ on the throne of God today, unless you’ve got the Holy Ghost. Get that flat.

21. Now I’m speaking about revelation, because this did not come to me until this morning and at this time. And my revelation is correct, and don’t think it isn’t, because I’ll challenge you. You take you Bible and prove me wrong on those three verses right now, because you cannot make him Lord, except by the Holy Ghost. And what did he do? If you can’t see him on the Father’s throne right now, then you’ve got a curse on him. Why? Because he’s cast off from the Father’s presence, the Father’s down here. See, Scripture doesn’t lie my brother/sister. And there’s no Scripture that doesn’t reveal Itself in this end time.

22. Now in the day of Paul, he was on the mercy seat. Take him off that mercy seat before this hour and you do not have Jesus exalted by God, you have him set aside; then he’s accursed. Isn’t that true concerning Adam and Eve? The minute that they went against the Word of God and took the word of Satan, that they became accursed in that legitimate sense that they had to die? Didn’t the Word of God go negative? Then, how can you and I have the Word of God positive, if we don’t see Elohim down here and the Son, who took the book, the Lamb, coming behind the throne, took the book out of the Father’s hand, ripped off the seals, turned the book back to the Father, climbed on the Father’s throne and the Father came down here, and there’s a reflection, that’s the Shekinah glory reflection of the presence of God behind it, and the prophet William Branham. Yeah. Okay.

23. So Satan started up his kingdom on earth and established a religion and a religious system by the very endowments and gifts and the very essence of his being and his original calling, which we note was of the highest order of creation in heaven, and was exceeded only by the seed of God and God Himself (That’s the Son of God and God.) as to not only essentiality, but preeminence and authority. There was only one higher than God [Satan], that was the seed of God and God—two. See?

Now, you notice that he used everything he had that God gave him, to nullify worship to God, to set at naught the children of God, to bring confusion and disorder. I ask you a question: who was doing this in the Corinthian Church? “I speak with tongues, hallelujah.”

And Paul said, “Yeah? I speak with tongues more than you all, what does that mean?”

“Oh,” they said, “We prophesy.”

Yeah, how many were boasting about the gift of healing? I don’t doubt but what some had it. What about the gift of the word of knowledge and wisdom? What about faith, miracles? No doubt they had it. Bro. Branham said, “Any local church could have all nine gifts in operation.” But first of all, you’ve got to have a man at the door discerning of spirits or the devil can come right along and twist the whole thing into a, you know, a breeze.

24. So who do you think were speaking up against Paul? Those that said, “I got some too,” the same Korah, Dathan, Abirams, who said, “Who is this guy Moses anyway to tell us he’s got everything? Why we’ve got things too.”

I’ve had them throw that in my face about Bro. Branham. “Well you know, Bro. Vayle, I’ve prophesied…” Oh, forget it, forget it, forget it.

Paul called their bluff, and he said, “Okay, you’ve rested the Scripture. You’ve taken the curse to be a blessing. You’ve taken the blessing to be a curse.” Remember, its always left hand-right hand, blessing cursing. You never get away from it. And they had it exactly opposite. They had it all messed up. And they were backed up by the gifts that God… with which God had endowed them.

25. Now he said, “You that think you’re spiritual, full of the Holy Ghost, and you that call yourself a prophet, you will have to acknowledge that the word that I write unto you, and that word alone, is the commandment of God.” [1 Cor 14:37] Vindicated one hundred percent. That’s where we stand this morning.

So, don’t think for one minute Satan’s not here with his ephod, with his brilliant light, with his seduction, with his charm: “Oh you people have no love.” Is that a fact? Am I to love you more than God or do I show my love to God by loving you? Then who do I love of you? Bro. Branham said, “How you should love each other, you that love this Word.”

So, now I have become categorized, I’ve become bounded. You think you’re unbounded? God Himself is bound by His Own Word. Do you think God is limitless like the air? Don’t be ridiculous. God’s a person.

I wonder how many children Adam has by natural generation here on earth, which was supplied from his loins in the beginning? Through 6,000 years there could be two billion. That should answer some questions, maybe yes, maybe no. All right.

26. We saw Satan in Ezek 28:12-18 as actually being the summation of what God wanted to do for excellence in a created being. You notice I did not say what God ‘did’ on the grounds that God could not do more and better. I don’t know. I only know that he was the one of the supreme ranking in the creation.

27. Notice carefully and indelibly the words of Gen 3:1, and the first part of it, “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah-Elohim had made.” Satan now uses the highest totally created and highest order of mammalian life on earth to get at the children of God, to induce iniquity within them, wherein they, like Satan, could now use their marvelous endowments contrary to the very purpose of their being and be in a fallen condition and used of Satan to originate and nourish a system of worship that would eventually lead to the enthronement of Satan, as spoken of in Rev 13:8.[1]

So he induces the highest form of creation to get to man who was created, formed, and eternal—body, soul, and spirit. What did he do? He applied to their reasoning. As Bro. Branham said, “Eve wanted wisdom.” As [ ] James said, “The wisdom which is from below is sensual,” [Jas 3:15] and she went straight for sex. I’m going to get to that one of these days. I want to clear a lot of things up I possibly can from the Scripture. Not that I’m any great authority, but there’s Scripture on it.

28. So, the highest order of animal life on earth, outside of the human being… Remember, the beast had no soul. The serpent had no soul, but he had a place for one. And, when that life of Eve, which came from Adam, which came from God… Because remember, she was outside creation. Bro. Branham didn’t say she was outside from the beginning of eternality. He said creation, not in the original creation.

But she had to be inside of God, the same as Adam, or no woman could ever be seed. And that’s ridiculous, because she had the same life that Adam had. And she has to produce life, and that egg has to have life in it, even though it’s a human life, there still is an element of the supernatural. There has to be, or how in the world could a child be born the seed of God? It just couldn’t be.

Why would God take Abraham and say it’s got to be by Sarah? See? Why did Isaac have to go down and get a Rebecca? Why did Jacob have to go down and marry outside of the …?…where he lived? Because he had to get the seed. He had to get like-to-like. See? So, all right.

29. Now Satan uses this highest order to get what he wanted which was to bring forth that religion which culminates in Rev 3:13.[2]

And you notice the words of Paul, and that’s our day, because it’s the same Bride, the same Church, that started back there in the first century with Paul. And he said, “Satan himself is transformed into an emissary of light, a messenger. [2 Cor 11:14] Therefore,” he said, “Don’t think for one minute that his five-fold ministers, and his deacons and his elders, his presbyters, his people, also have transformed themselves the way Satan has.”

30. And it was Satan who transformed himself as an angel of light to Adam and Eve, because he came through the beast, the intelligent creature, and he said to Eve, “Look, I’m talking for God. I’m the one that can tell it to you. Why,” he said, “I was up there and I led in the worship of God.”

And, believe me, he did lead in the worship of God.

And since Moses made all things according to the pattern, which was in heaven, there was an ark up there, cherubims over the ark, there was everything up there that was brought down here naturally. There was a system; everything was informed.

And, if you read the Book of Revelation, you’ll find that there in chapters 4 and 5. It’s all outlined. Get into Ezekiel; you’ll see it there. Get into Isaiah; you’ll see it there. Right down the line. You’re going to find what is in heaven, there, originally, in creation form, eternal form. You’ll find it right down here on earth in a form which is either identical or is going to be typed on it.

31. Now then, we find that Paul told the Corinthian Church, “You’ve already been seduced by Satan, the same as he seduced Eve, because your minds have now taken in that which is of Satan,” which is, what? Perverted word. I told you before, Satan never had a word of his own. He always perverts God’s Word. There is nothing on this earth that Satan has that was not originally created by God, even devils from hell as you call it. But there are those which were fallen by; I think Bro. Branham said two thirds of the angelic population.

32. Now these emissaries, these people that are in Satan’s religion and under Satan, these are those men of whom James spoke, in James 3; of whom Peter spoke when he said, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God;” [1 Pet 4:11] let him say what God said or shut up. The same order of Moses that said don’t add a word or take a word. See?

They have made themselves, these men, who were already told, and the church told; don’t alter one word. Peter warned, as I said, against it, if you speak; speak as the oracles of God. Paul said say what I say. That’s in Philippians: “Be of the same mind.” “Say the same thing.” Right on down the line. But no, they won’t. What will they do? They will be as James said. They will use the Word of God, and It will be the Word of God, and then out of the left hand corner of their mouth, they will put their interpretation upon it. You cannot have a fountain bringing forth sweet and bitter water. You cannot have a tree bringing forth figs and brambles. It cannot be done, unless it’s grafted in. Then, it lives on the life of the original vine and bares it’s own fruit, which is what? False prophecy—the Word of God changed and backed up by a manifestation which are signs following the Word, which God cannot deny, because they take that Word.

33. Listen, I came out of Pentecost. I came out of… O God, I came out of Presbyterians, Methodists, Presbyterian combined Pentecostal, Baptists… aye-yaye-yaye, you name it, all over the world. And you talk about a mish-mash and a mess up. And they’ll quote, and they’ll say like the Baptists always said, the old dear old little old lady down there in Kentucky smoking her corncob pipe, “Why,” she said, “Bless God, I believe the Bible ‘kiver to kiver’, and everything that’s written on the ‘kivers’.” Oh yeah, they’ll quote it too. Then, they’ll turn around and tell you what it means. Doesn’t mean that at all.

The devil quoted God. Make no mistake about it; he quoted It. Then, he turned around, and he took a curse and said, “Ha, not so. Really. When I give you the mystery of this, your eyes will be open. You’ll be wise. And you’ll be as God, because now you know what God knows about it.” Huh? You think they’re not doing that? Come on; come on.

34. Paul says its these guys here that give you a false Jesus, a false gospel, and a false spirit. The Oneness people, they’ve got a Jesus that they make God. Jesus is not God. He is the Son of God, otherwise Bro. Branham would not have told us clearly, “Jesus, why sometimes he’s God and sometimes he’s not God.” In other words he’s God, but he’s not God. Well, if he’s God, but he’s not God, just answer one question: when is he God, and when is he not God? Simple as a-b-c: God is down here; the Son is up there. He’s not God. He’s the Son of God.

Now let’s face it, when that spirit that’s in our midst becomes incarnate to us, he’ll be incarnate in Jesus, then he’s God again. And that will be the Son of man, the Son of David, the Son of God, the altogether lovely, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—you name it. Oneness got a wrong spirit. [It’s] not only mean, it’s a wrong spirit. Trinitarians got a loose spirit. They’re a bunch of fornicators. I didn’t make them that; they made themselves that.

35. So when James speaks, he calls them double-souled, and Bro. Branham called them duals. You got the same thing in this so-called message today. They’ll tell you what Bro. Branham said and interpret it to you. Why not just go back to the Bible and find it? Bro. Branham said, “I got a little gift; I can get out of the way.” I took you to the Word of God and showed you how Paul got out of the way. Do you think Bro. Branham did any different? No, by no means, no. The same thing. See? The Bible lines up brother/sister.

I told you years ago: the Bible’s like a pie. I don’t care where you cut it; if you cut it straight across (properly), it goes right through the center. There is no doctrine that does not lead to Christ, the full manifestation and revelation of Almighty God. No way. And there’s no doctrine that ever cuts another doctrine; it always end up right in the centrality of Christ, right back to God. In other words they all blend and they center; they don’t cut. You don’t cut a pie into little goofy sections. Well, you can if you want, but that’s not how to cut a pie. Spirit of God would never teach you that.

36. We saw, then, James telling the people what Jesus said. What did Jesus say? He said they’ll come with the signs that follow the Word, casting out devils, raising the dead. They’ll be prophesying, doing many wonderful things, and they’ll say false to the Word of God through misinterpretation or misplacing, where giving a little time element that doesn’t belong therein. See? The whole thing lines up.

Everything, brother/sister, has to do with stewardship, God giving offices and endowments to created beings, to His Own children, freely around the whole world. And what do people do with it? They take it out of the framework wherein it must exist, because it was all made by the Word of God and is maintained by the Word of God. You cut that Word, it’ll bleed to death. The life goes out of It. You can’t have it. Now do you see what we’re talking about now? This is where religion is everything, [ ] and I’m trying to bring you to the place where religion brings in economics and show you where it came from as I did last night. Okay.

37. Now Isaiah saw this, the same as Ezekiel. And in there we saw how that the devil fell from the place that God had given him. And then, I read an article last night, Malachi Martin, how that the article read plotting world order in Rome. He plotted it. They’re plotting it. Now I want to ask you a question: is there any difference between the pope and his cardinals plotting a world order different from Hitler with his army plotting a world order? None! None. Didn’t Hitler make it work? Hitler and his German cohorts did not have and could never have the backing of Satan to make it work, as will Rome, because Hitler was in economics exclusively. He didn’t care two bits about spirituality. But Rome blatantly screams spiritual, and is now in economics, and has always been engaged in war.

Christianity gone awry is no different from Mohammedism and Buddhism: they both take the sword to destroy, when necessary, screaming, “We’re making converts to God.” And the Catholics have justified themselves since St. Augustine, all the time, by saying, “If God smote down Paul in His raging against God, then we can smite down people and tame their raging against God, too and convert them through those tactics.”

38. Well, you see where we’re at brother/sister? You see, that’s why Bro. Branham talked about Hitler and Stalin and those guys loosing the two hundred thousand horsemen at the river Euphrates, the devils as a prelude to what is going on now. For everything goes into communism as Bro. Branham said, but he said, “Don’t fear it, it’s politics. Watch out for Rome.” And what happened? America, that has built the image, is a prime reason that communism fell.

The pope had a lot of guts going to Poland. I’ll admit he’s a pretty strong fellow. But he couldn’t have got to first base except for Reagan, and the American economy driving communism into the ground. And, when communism explained that they would drive our economics into the ground, and they would destroy us… Yes, the communists said that. And we followed communistic lines to do it, but God didn’t say it. God said opposite. So hallelujah, I’m on God’s side, and I’m happy, I am. Okay.

39. Now, as Rome had it’s Constantines to give them prestige and power, that is what we are looking [at] today, that Rome is looking [at] today, to have this union, and Rome has rightly declared, and everybody knows politically, you can’t find anybody that will deny it, there is no world power and authority today. There is no world statesmen. Roosevelt is gone. Churchill has gone. There simply isn’t anybody. Margaret Thatcher did very well in Britain, but from there on she was nothing. And there is nobody today in Europe. There is nobody in Asia. There is nobody in America. There is no central figure except the pope. Let’s admit it. Otherwise, why did Reagan go? Why is Clinton going? Why are they all going? Because it is “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

God has told us in His Scripture here what happens when people leave or take away the Word out of the framework of the Word, which means they’re giving it a wrong understanding. As Paul said, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who can prepare to battle? That’s exactly why we’ve been given the certain sound in this hour, where there’s many voices in the air and the airwaves are full of them. We’ve only got one certain voice, and that’s the voice of this Word, the Word of God that William Branham brought us. So you better just take that and put it to your heart and believe it.

40. So, all right. I’ve showed you last night where all this began. It began in Genesis 2, where after the world is created, and God is ordained by creating, but not yet forming, man, who at that time was a spirit being, male and female both… And remember, the spirit was created for both male and female for one reason: propagation. In other words there was a division of life in order to proceed to make life come in a form. And that’s all there is to it. For, if there was neither male nor female in Christ now, then there never was in the beginning—right? Alpha and omega.

That’s why you’ve got people teaching a female Holy Spirit and a male Holy Spirit. Alpha’s omega and omega’s alpha, and my Bible tells me there’s neither male nor female in the Resurrection. There’s neither male nor female in Christ; but, genetically and physically there is—there are male and female—because females cannot handle the Word of God. The church cannot handle the Word of God, it’s up to God to handle His Own Word in His Own way. But the church carries a seed. In other words the church brings forth the children unto Almighty God—the Jerusalem which is from above.

41. All right, we went to Genesis here. We saw in Genesis where:

(7) The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, (chapter 2:7) breathed in his nostrils the breath of lives; and man became a living soul. [He could be a propagator now through the flesh of the children of God.]

(8) And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

(9) And out of the ground he made the Lord God every tree that is grow to the pleasant of sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Well the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil didn’t come out of the ground, because it could kill you. So it’s figurative. It’s death. But the tree of life, then, has to be the Word of God, because all things are formed by the Word of God, and the former stood there and the adversary stood there. You see Word of God, you see perversion; left hand, right hand; God, Satan; good spirit, bad spirit; wisdom, wrong wisdom; true knowledge, wrong knowledge. What is it? It all comes from the original. Everything came from God. Who do you think made Satan? [He was] perfect in all his ways, until he just perverted that Word. So now you see it standing there.

42. Now what do you read? You read an interpolation here in verses 10-14, because after it says the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was there, God put the man in the garden to dress it and keep it, to prune it, and bring forth food to eat. And He said at the man, “You can have every tree that I give you to eat, but the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you’ll not eat of it, because you do then,” He said, “you’ll die.”

But what’s thrown in there? “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it parted into four heads.” [Gen 2:10] One river, and now it’s got four heads or four branches. And It tells you here, one compasseth Pison, compasseth the land of Havilah, there is gold. And there the gold is good, there is bdellium, onyx stone. Second is Gihon, and the third compasseth Ethiopia. The next is Hidekkel that goes down, and so on.

Now that’s an interpolation. But that’s part of Genesis that I read over here, where he said in Gen 1:26, “Let’s make man in our image and give them dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, the cattle and over all the earth.” So, Adam was given dominion over all of this earth, which he did not take dominion over, because he flunked the test in the Garden of Eden. He took his position with Eve.

43. The devil came along and said, “Hey, how about a better position?”

And Eve looks around, and she said, “My, my, my, could there be a position better than this? Do you mean to tell me I could know more? Do you mean to tell me I can have more? Can I have more pleasure? Can I have more this? Can I have that? Can I have …?…”

“Oh,” he said, “Be my guest.”

She blew it. How many elders today aspire to be pastors, when they’re not called to be pastors? How many deacons take an authority they’re [ ] not given? How many people know better than the five-fold ministry? “Oh Bro. Vayle, I spoken in tongues. Oh, I had a vision. I had this.”

Yeah, did you? Well, maybe you may get worms some day, like hair, and get eaten up by them too. Wouldn’t be the first time; [it] wouldn’t be the last time.

44. She wasn’t content with her stewardship. How many women are content with their stewardship of being mothers in the home and faithful to their husbands? And how many husbands are faithful to their stewardship to keep unto one woman and to protect her and the children and live for her?

How many men and women have a proper vow before God? No, most people who take a vow before God, and I’ve had it done before me; simply lie in my teeth. And the woman had no more intention of living up to her vow than a hog, at least at that time, and I haven’t seen much evidence since.

No, a woman wants something better. Oh yeah, and man wants something better, oh yeah. Boy, she ended up something better having, my God, intercourse with the beast. Not some big elephant covered with hair or something else. [It] looked so much like a man it could mix and propagate. Usually hybrids can’t propagate. Very unusual if something ever happens where one could. Once in a while you hear of it.

But they got to be terribly, terribly close in order to really propagate. And that’s what this was. The highest creation, mammalian creation, didn’t have a soul. [If] you don’t have a soul, you don’t have a conscience. You don’t have your morals right. That’s why there [are] no morals today; they’re amoral. Natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed. Notice the Word says, ‘made’; not even created. Of the flesh here today is formed; it’s animal, with an inhuman soul. Whatever soul it has, it’s not a part of God; I can tell you that. And the Bible rightly says, “Natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed.” Bro. Branham called it ‘cannon fodder’.

45. So why do we have this here? We have this here as an explanation where Adam and Eve and their progeny would’ve left the Garden and be here in perfect control. Now you know that’s so, because he was given dominion over the fish of the seas and over the whales and everything else, and there were no whales, as I understand, nor any fish, in the Garden of Eden. So he had to get outside to it. This was his domain. And notice what it says concerning that domain. It particularly mentions gold (twice), onyx, and bdellium, which is a product of nature, an exudation, like myrrh, essential oils, flaxseed oil.

Ever hear of flaxseed oil? Flaxseed oil is the best oil in the world for you; [there’s] nothing like it. You talk to Dr. Budwig, the German doctor. She’s a marvelous scientist. You’ve got to combine sulfur with the oil, and it’s got to be fresh. It deteriorates almost instantly. It’s best that you grind it and put it with your food, (And cottage cheese is one of the best.) and you have a good meal on it every single day. Flaxseed oil.

You ever heard of sunflower oil? [It’s] good for you. Pumpkin seed oil—great. What about the finest oil there is today on the market, if you get in the right source: grape seed oil. [If you] take grape seed oil, your good cholesterol goes up, your bad cholesterol goes down. It’s aromatic. It’s great to cook with, [and] delicious in salads. Huh?

So what about the fact ambergris, that comes from the sperm whale, makes the finest perfumes in the world? What about lavender oil? What about peppermint oil? What about mint oil? What about all these things in nature? Tells you right here. Adam/Eve, you’ve got control over it. You want to bring oil out of the ground? Bring oil out of the ground. You want to raise certain kind of trees? Sure you can do it. You’ve got control of the animals. You can cross breed them and get certain products.

46. Everything today was available, but the devil has taken it and made man, with his inventive genius, which is from Satan, which is the knowledge and the wisdom from below. What has he done? He’s perverted every single thing. But you take it back to real original nature, untrambled or unharmed by pesticides and the rotten junk in the universe, you’ve got the most marvelous food in the world for your body. What did Bro. Branham say? “There’s no minerals left in the soil. There’s nothing left anymore. Therefore, there’s nothing in the food.”

So, if the body turns to mush—which it does—what about your brain? Oh the brain, now, becomes very fertile for the devil. So drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs. Here in the beginning.

47. Now I’m going to cut this short, because we don’t have time. Gold, here’s your gold standard. It’s mentioned twice. Look at gold. People die for it. Look at diamonds, onyx; look at it. They kill for it. It’s called the great assets.

How did the banking system start? Well, in England, the nobles and lords had gold plate, and they had jewels and things. And people were able to steal from them. So they took them to people who had literally some vault or somewhere where they could take their plate and their jewels and their good things. And the man would write out or say this is owned by so and so and so and so, give you the paper, and then, they learned how that, if you wanted some money, you could borrow on it. Then, the bankers learned how that they could use it and lend on it, and you’ve got your financial system—a means of exchange. You simply can’t use barter; it doesn’t work. It wouldn’t work under civilization.

48. And we have grown along the rivers and the lakes and the oceans. Civilization has always gone there. And you notice civilization always goes to the beauty spots; Lake Tahoe, Kiser Lake. If they didn’t stop you from polluting it, it would be polluted. [For instance,] they [can] stop you [from] having boats (not even [allow] electric boats) [and limit water activity to] little sail boats and canoes.

But you look at the rivers and the waters; everywhere is polluted by the rich people. And they got Riparian rights that the government grants them, and they can have the beaches, and they can go down there and have a swell time, like the Kennedy’s with their sticking adulteries and immorality. Because they got the money; they got the gold; they got the silver; they got the fiduciary. But American’s fiduciary doesn’t have any backing anymore. See? The gold is not owned by America any longer. It went off the gol