Shalom
#22
Accelerated Beat of the Symphony
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father we realize that many, many
people can recognize the hour in which they live to the extent that they really
do believe that Your Coming is not far off, the physical return, but they’re
missing entirely Your Presence which is the Appearing. And we, Lord, are guilty
also because we do not reverence that enough to the degree that we should and
put all things in proper perspective, Lord, as it should be. Which we understand
that You’re here in the Shout, previous to raising the dead and taking us away,
Lord.
Help us to therefore, solemnize ourselves as Bro. Branham
solemnized himself and consecrated himself to the angelic visitation. May we be
such to the visitation of Your Word, Lord, which we are experiencing. And truly
it’s wonderful, but we have not even begun to plumb Its depths. We pray You’ll
help us tonight, therefore, in such manner, O God, that we shall enter further
and further into this Kingdom which is present amongst us, Lord, in our very
midst going beyond the days of the Son of Man, the vindication of Your
Presence, and going right into that Word, becoming a part of It and It a part
with us even as the prayer of Jesus, in John 17, set forth that it would be so.
And we know it’s going to be so for somebody. May it be us. May it be we as a
people here this evening. We’ll give You the praise, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
You may be seated.
1. Now, we are into number 22 of “Shalom.” And in the
last two messages, we did not get back to paragraphs 161 and 162, as we really
intended to in order to continue Shalom, which is God’s Peace. Now, as we read
in paragraph 161, we will notice that the birth of the “new age”—Bro. Branham
calling it the “new year,” the Millennium and all that follows—is identical to
Lk 1:26-37, Isa 9:6-7, which we’ll read. Now, the words in paragraph 161 that
give us this understanding that this is the Omega of the Alpha (which Alpha is
in Lk
[161] ... He will be here. Then, he also says: He showed Himself here with us (which is exactly what is said in Lk
So you won’t be mystified, you can turn with me to Luke
1, and there we will read what I spoke of, beginning in verse 26.
(26) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God
(into) a city of
(27) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the
house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.
(28) And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
highly favoured, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women.
(29) And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast
in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
(30) And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou has found
favour with God.
(31) And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a
son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
(32) He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest:
and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
(33) And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever: and of his
kingdom there shall be no end. (And you’ll notice, nothing is said about him as
Redeemer—simply as King.)
(34) Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know
not a man?
(35) And the angel answered and said unto here, the Holy Ghost shall
come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore
also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of
God.
(36) And behold thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son
in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
(37) For with God (“being present personally” ... That’s exactly what
that says. “ For with God being present personally”— God, Himself) nothing
shall be impossible.
2. Now we can read over here, then, in paragraph 161.
[161] Look up,
and shine with the joy of the Lord, to know that you’ve been privileged, your
eyes having come open and seeing this day. Trust in Him for the future. You’ve
seen Him vindicate His Word in days past. He that vindicated His Word in days
past and made all these other things happen just exactly to the hour that we’re
living in, everything exactly, to the seventh (messenger’s) Message, both showed It in
heaven, and on earth, and made It known three ways so that it can be no slip
up, remember. He promised He’d come again.
Now, you’ll notice already, without using those other
words that we’re going to look at, that are a little more to the point, you
will see here, that Bro. Branham is speaking of His Presence, which is ‘present
and now’, and a Presence which is ‘future’. In other words, the same One that
is here, you’re looking for Him, but of course, will He be in another form?
That’s what you’re looking at.
[161] ... He
promised He’d come again. Hallelujah! That Word will be ... vindicated. God’s
promised Word, with two thousand years of waiting, He will arrive on time.
Don’t worry, He’ll be here. As He has a-vindicated His Word in every age, the
Church Ages show the same thing, and the revealing of our Lord by the seventh
Message, and so forth. God revealed it, and manifested it, and proved it. And
He in among us today... (Now, you’ll notice, each time
he’s quoting a future and a present. So that the One who is coming is already
here.) He
showed Himself here with us ... which is the One? The One that’s coming, and
proved and... vindicated His Word. So will He ... be here again, as He’s here
now. (And remember, when He appeared
to the disciples after the resurrection, He was in another form. There will be
a Millennium!)
3. Now, before we read that, let me point out to you the verses
Lk 1:30 and
(30) And the angel said ... Fear not, ... for thou hast found favour
with God.
(31) And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a
son, and ... call his name JESUS.
Now she is talking about the future One, who
is also said to be Emmanuel, who is ‘God with us’ ... or as Bro. Branham
absolutely called Him, Elohim and Jehovah. Then It says down here,
concerning her conception:
(35) The Holy Ghost ... shall overshadow thee: (Now, was He there or
wasn’t He there? And “shall come upon thee” ... Did He or did He not? ... “the
power of the Highest ... overshadow thee”) therefore also that holy thing which
shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (... an actual
description of the conception by divine intervention and in verse 37 ... now,
he’s talking of conception, even as Elisabeth conceived, Mary will conceive
and, the thirty-seventh verse...)
(37) For with God (being actually Present) nothing shall be
impossible.
So you’re looking for a future ‘coming in flesh’ of the
Son, and already the Presence of God in the form of the Holy Ghost is there.
This is Alpha; today is Omega. Now,
people can say what they want; we’ll look at this later on. But this is what I
wanted to show you.
4. Now this brings us then, what we are talking to in our hour
which is the Omega. It is over here in 2 Th 1:7, as we all know.
(7) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty (messengers),
(8) In flaming fire taking vengeance ...
Now many people take that to mean an instant outpouring
of the wrath of God. That is not so. The word ‘vengeance’ can mean ‘vindication’
as well as taking judgment. And you cannot have vindication and judgment unless
there is a Judge there to pronounce the decision. Now, this is the way it is in
Scripture, even as God stood with Abraham, and Abraham said, “Shall the
righteous perish with the wicked?” And God would have let Abraham come right
down to one man. Now, Abraham stopped at ten because he thought he was
presumptuous— which goes to show, even the prophet doesn’t know the grace of
God. Even when a man is confronted by God, as a Pillar of Fire, there [Bro.
Vayle points to the picture on the wall.] that man did not know any more than
God allowed him to know. and did not receive any more by way of grace than God
allowed him to receive. And he had his problems, the same as Abraham did.
Without recognizing the true grace of God, Abraham did not say, “Well, Lord,
will any righteous parish?” and God just dismissed the fellow and said, “Hey,
I’m gong to tell you, Abraham, I never destroy righteous with the wicked.” You
see your picture here so perfectly.
5. Now a judgment came; that is, destruction judgment. But
there was no destruction until the Word was pronounced, the die had been cast
by God Himself present, on the scene. When He said, “I will go down and see for
myself,” He didn’t have to go down and see for Himself. God just went down,
because that’s the way of God doing things. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture
of the Pillar of Fire.] And so He tells the people, “Look, I’m here telling you
for myself: I’m on the scene. I can see what’s going on, and I’m telling you,
personally, what’s going on.” Isn’t that marvelous?
There’s nothing mixed up in the Scripture. There’s
nothing mixed up in this Message. It’s the most wonderful thing anybody could ever walk into. And we didn’t even walk into
it; we didn’t have enough brains to walk to it. It walked to us. I don’t know
any Scripture where Abraham walked to God; God walked to Abraham. And when
Abraham came to, then he jumped to his feet and began busying and worshipping
God. That’s wonderful! I like that. And he didn’t jump up and down and holler
and dance. If he had, it would have been okay by me. But, you know what I’m
talking about. (I had to throw that in for good measure, because I don’t like
some things that people say.) All right.
6. The same thing we find over here in Isa 54:10-17.
(11) O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with
sapphires. (Now, look ... come one, what’s he talking about? He’s talking about
the Bride on earth.)
(12) ... I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
carbuncles, ... all thy borders of pleasant stones.
(13) And all thy children shall be taught of (God); and great shall
be the peace of thy children. (How are they going to get peace until they’re
taught? How are they going to get peace in a troubled time unless they are taught? So, Bro. Branham
comes on the scene – “Shalom. I’m going
to teach you.” )
(14) In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shall be far
from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not
come near thee. (That’s the Great Tribulation and these things on earth.)
(15) Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me (World
Council of Churches in all nations): whosoever shall gather together against
thee shall fall for thy sake. (Now, there’s a two-fold reference there. This is
also to
(16) Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the
fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy. (Notice your parallel lines—blessing and cursing.)
(17) No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
God’s not going to condemn them. We are going to condemn them. It’s White Throne, right now. See?
You’re not going anywhere, brother/sister. You think you’re going somewhere. If
you’re in the rapture and you’re going to be immortalized, you are not going
anywhere; you slip into a dimension. You don’t have to worry about what’s up or
what’s down; what’s near or what’s far; what’s east, what’s west; north and
south. Forget it. You’re not going anywhere. You’re just going to be changed.
It’s a dimension, as Bro. Branham said. (See?) Like he said, “They’ll find out one of these days that all
of these stars that are millions and trillions of light years away, they’re
just going in a circle.” And science has already come to that conclusion,
[that] that’s what it could be. And they don’t even know they’re going in a
circle. That’s how much they know of true science.
No, the Bible is not a scientific book, though, when it
speaks on scientific things, it’s correct. The Bible is not a medical journal;
though, when it speaks on medical things, it is correct. The Bible’s not simply
a book of psychology, but when it gives you something that is psychological or
some line in the particular order that which refers to the ‘psyche’ (the mind),
it is correct. [Isaiah 54]
(17) ... This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their
righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. (“Little
Bride, you didn’t even do it. You are the righteousness of God.” The Bride
must learn these things. All right)
7. Today, now, is the Omega of Lk 2:13-14. So, let’s go back to
Lk 2:13-14...
(13) And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and saying,
(14) Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men.
Now, we have entered into a phase of the peace. And the
peace is the assurance that we have, that we are part of the Bride. And you
will notice in here ...”good will toward men.” This is the Seventh Church Age
of brotherly kindness, where we are still quite prickly. As Bro. Branham said, “We are prickly,” but if someone’s in
trouble, we would immediately rush to help that person.
I was talking to somebody not long ago, and I said,
“Look. Our people can be a bit ‘ouchy’ and I can be ouchy.”
And not simply excusing myself ( though I admit that I do
excuse myself, and you can do what you want about it, and I’m excusing you with
it.) We do not do anything else other than be a bit ouchy. …[Where]?… are we
doing the things that are crass and wrong? One of these days, though, we won’t
even be ouchy. Now, Bro. Branham said, “We’re
scratchy.” Am I supposed to stand up here and tell you different? I’m not
going to tell you different, because that’s the Truth. So don’t pretend
anything. Get with it. (See?) Not saying now, be ouchy and scratchy. I’m just
saying recognize what you are, and go on from there.
8. Now notice, It says ... “good will toward men with peace.”
Why do you think I keep on talking about a family? Why do I want you together?
That I can sit around and be a grandfather and pat the little babies, and put
my arms around girls and young women and all? (I got no feeling toward them for
nothing. Don’t worry about it. My heart’s clean, and my life is clean.) No! I’d
sooner be home, someplace else (to tell you the truth) taking it easy,
reserving my strength and my throat, maybe lying in the sun and doing something
else. Don’t think for one moment I’m doing this for a show. I want to teach you
... It’ll teach you something and you will learn. But some of you may never
learn; that’s your business. That’s your business. If you want to keep your
elbows out, go ahead. I challenge anybody in this building here, that I’ve not
taken you to my heart. Now, I bawled Laura out before she came here. (That’s
right; she knows that.) I said, “We don’t want you even coming here. If you
come, there are certain precepts and things you follow, “ I said, “I’ll love
you, and I’ll help you. But you make one kick-up here, we’ll throw you out the
door.” I am not trying to bring people to this church, here. (You don’t mind me
using your name. It’s just the Truth.) We’re not trying to bring people here,
but my heart goes out to certain people that I love very earnestly. And I know
they’d be a help sitting with you people, because you have taken the bait and
seen what is real and what is true. And I believe we have a family here and
understand some of this peace that’s here on earth. The rest of you that
haven’t caught on. I’m sorry for you.
9. I like what Bro. Palberg told me about certain preachers
that are supposed to be seeing the Presence now; he said, “Lee, after so many
years?” Of course, Alfons was a good ol’ Catholic boy ... like Joe and like
Dave, like Brian and some of you people here; and Jan and Chris and Chad—you
don’t have any trouble. But these other people, they have a lot of trouble with
catching on and understanding. Alphonse took a good hard stand, and I kind of
laughed a bit (you know). I take a much easier stand because I’m much older and
some people don’t catch on very fast. But I wonder if he isn’t right, that
their ‘catching on’ is a ‘put on’. Now, I’m talking to you all tonight: if you
are [a] put-on concerning what I’m saying, you will never get what I’m talking
about. “By the grace of God, I am going to get it.” I care less, because I
stand here knowing there’s only one thing—and we’ll show you by this Message,
here – there is only one thing that counts, and that is, that Message. And that
came by His Own divine Presence, and the proving. And they can laugh at those
pictures and call them silly nonsense. Go ahead, be my guest. Whatever God ever
did in the eyes of the wise and prudent was ridiculous, stupid and full of
folly. And it debased the [Bro. Vayle adopts a mocking tone.] “wonderful mind
of God and His supreme unplumbable wisdom that He should do something so
stupid” So much for your manure brains and your manure head.
And you young kids, let me tell you something: you watch
your lives; and you young boys, because it’s pretty close, and you will end up
in the Great Tribulation. You’ve got your protection right now of the Token of
your family. Your fathers and mothers better smarten up, and you kids smarten
up with them. I’m not mad at you. You do what you want. I haven’t any feeling
at all but just preach this Message. All right. We see it very, very clearly.
10. I was looking at Lk 2:13-14. This is the Alpha; that’s the
Omega—the announcement of peace. Do you think Bro. Branham simply came on the
scene as the prophet of God and he said, “Now,
I preached to this folk, and I’ve
learned to love ‘em; they’ve learned to love me. And so what’ll I preach on at New year? Well, I’ll preach on Peace.” Do
you think he said that? Why, you don’t know prophets. This is a Message
ordained of God.
11. Let’s keep reading now. Paragraph 162.
[162] There will
be a Millennium. The old will be young there forever. Sickness will fade away
and death will be no more. (He’s telling you
right there, there’s going to be healings as there has been, as a type of the
immortal resurrection facing us.) They shall build houses, they will inhabit them. They’ll
plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof. They’ll not plant and another
inhabit ... his son take it, his son will be living by him.
(Now, listen. Families at this point ... somehow—I don’t know how it’s going to
be done, because it’s going to be few, but—there’ll be people and their
children move right into the Millennium.) He’ll not plant and another eat, die off and somebody else take it; but he’ll live
there. Amen! ... There’ll be nothing can hurt. We’ll be changed from what we
are now, to that glorious image of the Son of God which is immortal ... who is immortal. Years can never touch Him, age can never do
anything to Him, He’s the immortal Son of God. (Not
the immortal God the Son. None of that Trinitarian hogwash that came from
Now notice, when he said, “We’re at the end time,” he is telling us that the end time is a
junction. It’s like he said concerning the pyramid: There’s a flange at the top
to keep out the dirt and all. And when you come to the top of the pyramid, it
has got to be perfect for the headstone to sit on it, because the headstone is
the corner stone (spiritually speaking) of the temple that God made, and the
Gentiles. Physically He is the Cornerstone set at naught Who is the Headstone.
So there’ll be a perfect neck and a perfect flange even before the rest come
up. Because we don’t go down to come up; they come up to us. Call it what you
like; the Bride is on the high level where the Prophet was. Do you hear what
I’m saying?
12. I like Robert. You know, he’s a dumb boy from a Catholic
place, and I believe he believes, when the rest of us sitting here cannot
believe as good as Robert. Now, I’m personal tonight. I don’t mean to be rude
to anybody, but I want to lay this across: I believe that Robert knows what I’m
saying. The rest of us know, but we don’t know like he knows, because (you see)
he doesn’t have that background. How could it be otherwise? Bro. Branham said, “The ministry has to be so perfect that the Capstone can come down upon it.” And William Branham had the perfect
Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Holy Ghost to demonstrate and
manifest that it was He, and to bring the Word, and now with the Bride of that
caliber, the actual material, God Himself, can come and take over as the
finalized Capstone. As Bro. Branham said, “Then,
that Spirit amongst us become incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him King of kings
and Lord of lords.” And who will
be sitting on
13. Now we’re talking of the physical building of the Pyramid. Now
the physical building of the pyramid ... it began to mess up in 2 Corinthians
11. But notice what you find here in Ephesians 4, after the Ministry has been
fully efficacious, and It says here…the Ministry, God giving the Holy Ghost and
through the Ministry the Holy Ghost doing what? It says here ...[Ephesians 4]
(12) For the perfecting of the saints (the equipping of the saints),
for the work of the ministry, (... now, to what end? To) the edifying of the
body of Christ: (That’s building up the entire Bride).
(13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith (even) the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fulness of Christ: (Now Paul couldn’t have that, because Eph 1:17 hadn’t come
to pass, nor could it come to pass. The Spirit couldn’t come in that hour, as
He’ll come in this hour.)
(14) That we henceforth, be no more children...to and fro (They were
going to be ‘tossed to and fro’.) carried about with every wind of doctrine, by
the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive;
(15) But (holding) the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, which is the head, even Christ:
(16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by
that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself
in love.
And It says right there: When the final measure is poured
out, there will be that Love. And that’s where John 17 comes in, “They’ll be
one, as You and I are One. That all the world may know” …And the world will
know, because they’re going to be entirely destroyed as the physical being, and
then the next thing they’ll know, they’re brought up at the White Throne, and
they stand before the whole world, and He said, “There, you know whom I’ve
loved.”
You don’t think the world’s going to look at you and me
and say, “Hey, they’re Bride.” Huh! Pbttt! That’s ridiculous. You women with
your funny hairdos, your tires at the back and all, your long clothes. And you
men dressing as though you’re modest instead of modern, prating about a prophet
and a stupid bunch of stuff like that. The world may know that you’re Bride? Go
on, get some more Scripture. “If they’d hated me without a cause, it’ll hate
you, because you do have a cause to be hated.” How many times has each one of
us looked as though we weren’t Christians? Did Christ ever look it? Well, they
thought he did, but they were wrong. (See?)
14. (Okay, where were we here?) We were in His glorious image,
where the years cannot touch Him—the immortal Son of God. All things thoroughly
identified, so it’ll be identified again. Now, let’s just take that statement:
When was there anything thoroughly identified by God to the world? It wasn’t
even thoroughly identified to Eve. Was it? No way. Was it thoroughly identified
when Jesus came to earth—God in flesh? No! Is it thoroughly identified today?
Not according to the world. But if you know your Bibles, if you can catch the
beat of the drum and the maestro conducting the orchestra, as Bro. Branham will
bring out (Awe, we won’t get it tonight; we never get anywhere). When you get
to the symphony, it’s just a bunch of jangling sounds.
Most symphonies are old productions of yesteryear by the
Masters, and it’s known as the contemporary music of their hour. What was the
contemporary music of Jesus’ hour? Tin pans, wash-boards and God-knows-what.
Will it be different today? Nope. You have to have the trained ear, as It says
in Isaiah, “All thy children shall be taught of God.” John the Baptist brought
the understanding to the Bride. William Branham, therefore—or somebody, if it’s
not William Branham—has to bring an understanding, because Alpha’s Omega. I
choose to believe that I have the mind of God through a prophet.
You say, “Bro. Vayle, what if you’re wrong?”
So, I’m wrong. No problem. I can’t be right by myself.
God doesn’t talk to me; doesn’t talk to you. He only talks to prophets, deals
with the prophets. So this man looks like a prophet to me. So I’ll go along
with him.
15. [163] Now, the future, He holds it. How do I know
when He’s coming? When is He coming? I don’t know, but He’ll be here. (He said He’s already here. That’s the Appearing.
Appearing and coming are two different things, but by the same Person in
different form. “I don’t know, but He’ll be here”.) That’s right. when will He
do thus and thus? When will the curse go off the earth? When will these blessed
reflections of God’s love, of (the) trees standing here and
shining out, and the flowers and things, when will they immortal grow? I don’t
know, but they will. When will all the reflections of man’s hearts desiring to
live ...
Now notice, the reflections of God are in nature the way
God made it in its pristine purity though man has defiled it. But in it all,
you will notice that there are certain groups of people very volatile and very
loud in demanding the government take steps to preserve nature. (See?) They’ve
caught it. Already the earth is responding and does respond to the call from
Heaven—the Heavenly One—Who is going to, as a Fire, burn up the earth and
restore it. Now, what are the reflections of men? The reflections of men ..
[ ] …hearts desiring to
live...hospitals and doctors and operations, and crying and grief, when will it
all cease, to a glorious reign with Jesus of a thousand years of Shalom?
Now, right here, Bro. Branham is letting us know
that God has reflected Himself all out here, as Paul the apostle said, “God is
seen in Nature.” And we know that Nature by itself is absolutely marvelous
until man gets to messing with it. And man, in messing with life, he’s crying
and said, “When am I going to come to my place? I’m supposed to be in the image
of God.” (They don’t actually say that, but there is an understanding they’re
one with nature. Whatever’s out there, they are a part of it.) And they’re
crying, “When will all this go? We’re seeing Nature go down the drain; we are
going down the drain. When is it going to stop?”
Man is reflecting that. Why? Because as a reflection out
there which [is] so wonderful and marvelous, even as deteriorated state, man
says, “Oh, if we could really get in harmony with nature, whatever that is, how
wonderful it would be! We’d live forever. We wouldn’t be sick, [or] anything
else like that.” Well, when’s it going to be?
16. [ ] He said, “I don’t know.” (I don’t know.) He said it would be there. I don’t know how
He’s going to do it, but His spoken Word will be…vindicated when the Sun of
Righteousness shall rise with healing in His wings. (That’s from Malachi.) And the healing part there
will not be a physical healing as you think, as saying somebody’s got a
sickness, and it’ll be taken away from them. (Now
that’s not it. That’s what He’s doing now. What He’s doing now in Bro.
Branham’s ministry as the Son of man was the vindication of the ‘healing in the
wings’, which is immortality.) That’s what He’s doing now, in type. But the whole creature
will be changed! This mortal will take on immortality. This old age will jump
into youth.
And he’s talking about people, not about nature, because,
when the land is purified and we come down upon it, it is only for one thousand
years and the land will be repurified, reconstituted as it goes back to the
original building blocks. Some think it’s hydrogen. I wouldn’t say it was. I
think it’s the Word of God. See?
[163] How will it be? I don’t
know, but it will be there.
[164] I’m getting
old, myself. This year, if the Lord lets me live to see the sixth of April,
I’ll be fifty-five years old, an old man. But, I don’t want to go back to be a
boy again. I want to press towards that mark yonder, for what purpose I came
for. (Now we’re going to have to read
on to see if we can discover the purpose; it may have a two or three-fold
meaning.) ...
About thirty-something years now I’ve stood behind this desk, from a little boy
of twenty-something years old, about ... twenty-two years old, I’ve tried to
proclaim this Message. And every ounce of my strength I’ve put to It. If my
shoulders stoop and my hair turns gray and falls out, I don’t look back to
that, it’d come to them again. I’m looking yonder to the break of a day where
the vindicated Word of God said “not one hair of your head shall perish. I’ll
raise it up again at the last day.” How is he going to do it? I don’t know.
So, he’s pressing towards the mark of immortality, the
same as Paul. The complete identification to Christ, which Bro. Branham has
already reached spiritually in this juncture, but not the ultimate of the
physical, which is immortality. He has reached Rev 10:7. He is the messenger of
the Seventh Church Age meeting with God, the One that came down from Revelation
5 into Rev 10:1. Paul could not press to it. He wanted it; he couldn’t get the
full identification. The full identification is here now, going on, and will
continue to go on, because time and eternity has come together.
17. But now, let’s keep just, that’s one point in mind, but let’s
keep moving.
[165] The new
year, I don’t know what it holds, but I know He holds it. That’s the hope of
the new year I have.
Now, he’s not talking of a new year, of the flipping of a
calendar, or going from 1988 to 1989 or from 1963 to 1964. (He preached this in
1964.) He is not doing that. He is speaking in the broad terms of the year
being a type of the juncture in which he is, and we’re, going to the
Millennium. And he doesn’t know exactly when, and he doesn’t know exactly how.
He just knows it’s going to be that way. Now, that’s real faith, you
understand. Now...
[165] I don’t know what it holds,
but I know He holds it. That’s the hopes of new year I have. If He comes, Amen.
If He doesn’t come, I’ll still be working if He spares me. I just trust the
future to Him. I don’t know what it is, I just trust it to Him. You’ve seen Him
vindicate His Word, so you know it’s going to be done. His Word!
Now, listen. Just stop here a minute and understand that
Bro. Branham says, “I am going to be
preaching, and I’m going to continue to be in this groove, in this vocation
that I am in, and I’m going to just keep moving.” Now, that’s a lesson to
you and me. And He did it. He preached on Sunday and he was injured fatally on
Friday. And the admonition he says to you and me, “If I knew Jesus was coming tomorrow morning, and I was planting
potatoes, I would not stop planting potatoes. I would keep planting potatoes.
If I were pounding nails, I wouldn’t stop pounding nails.”
18. Now, I don’t know if anybody’s going to get this tape, but I
know people who look pretty foolish just about now, because they thought He was
coming in 1977. And people laid up plans as if He’d come in the next year or
two, and they wiped themselves out, you see, not listening to the prophet. What
have you got if you don’t listen to the prophet? You could jump up and down and
scream and say, “ I listen to William Branham. I’m a believer.” And then turn
around and mess up on a little thing like that?
“Why,” Bro. Branham said, “If He comes by ‘77, why, He’s going to really have to press, because
the signs aren’t in.” I took that one little saying, “the signs aren’t in,” and I knew He wouldn’t come in 1977; and I
knew He wouldn’t come in 1988. And
unless more signs come in, He will not be coming in 1989. But the signs in 1988
begin to turn favorably, proving every journalist, and every historian and
every present-day, so-called political scientist, put them in their place,
because Russian turned toward democracy.
19. The Reader’s Digest wrote not long ago about the
nomenclature, and said there’d be no way that
20. So, he says here ... “You’ve seen the vindicated Word. It
never failed; It’s not going to fail in the future.” Now:
[165] You say,
“Bro. Branham, how do you get that?” ( How
do you get that? How do you get that way that you can say this thing; and how
do you get there to where, you know, you’re talking?)
[166] Well, let
me give some thought here just a minute. Do you know what a symphony is? I know
you do. It’s a musical drama. See, they act it out.
In other words they play impressionistically, by music,
that which will bring to your attention and mine what could be going on
physically. In other words, what does running water sound like? “Clumpity,
clumpity, clumpity, clump?” No! By no means. It’s “tinkle, tinkle, tinkle” over
the rocks. Or if you want the pounding of the waves, the crashing of the waves,
you wouldn’t hear “tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.” So what he’s talking about is a
symphony; a musical drama is what it is.
21. Now he says:
[167] Now, you
little children, so you’ll understand. You remember in school, I believe you
have a… What is that little Russian symphony, sometimes they act out on the
drums, you know it’s called... about the little woodpecker? The one that got
down in the woods? And they had the fluttering, the beating of drums and
things. Well now, if you want to get in
music, the fluttering of birds’ wings, you wouldn’t have the cymbals going
“clang, clang, clang” unless it was a four hundred pound canary made out of
sheet metal [Laughter]. You know, stupid ... you know. And you hear it all as you
go through the symphony as they play it. I forget the name of that, “Peter and
the Wolf.” Yah, That’s right, “Peter and the Wolf.” Now, that’s a Russian
symphony. See, they don’t have little figures flying around, they just play it
out, they play it on drums, and then make drums and sounds and things other instruments. It plays it out, it acts it out. So you’ll
understand what I’m trying to say.
Now he begins teaching the fulfillment of the Word by the
Author Himself who alone knows exactly how to conduct the score that He has
written, to teach and to harmonize it for the people and to prove it by its
playing it out. Now, that is the Spirit of the Composer who is amongst us. The
Author of the Word is revealing It through a Prophet. And what the Prophet says
is in a Message that tells you what God is doing. Now, in plain English, he is
saying this: “Look, this is a difficult
thing. It does not require an imagination; it requires a revelation. You have
got to know something about the score.”
22. [168] Now, to you adults, the Scripture … is God’s
Symphony. Now, he’s saying here, then, The score is the
Scripture. And you must be careful ... and he
tells us the following:
Yes, Hallelujah. Only the Composer knows what it really means, and He reveals
it to those who are listening, who are interested in knowing what the drama is.
Now that’s why so many pianists or musicians will play
the same score different from the other person. There is a different
interpretation of the score. It is not that they don’t know what the original
author or musician intended. It’s just that they can’t put it together the way
he wanted it with the exact meaning.
Oh, you can take any leader of any symphony, and
conductor, and they’ll tell you just about the same thing—just about the same
thing: “Oh, He’s coming soon. Hallelujah. And, before He comes, there is an
Appearing. Oh, we all agree.”
Now tell me, what is that Appearing?
“Oh,” says Mr. Leader, conductor of the Philadelphia
Symphonic and the
“Oh”, says Charles Ford. “I will tell you Sunday morning
whether there is going to be a rapture before the Great Tribulation or
afterward.”
He never got to it, because he was a politician. Nice
guy, wonderful Christian, but political, that’s all it was, because he ducked
the issue. I tuned the radio in to get him for sure. And he just flapped his
mouth. (See?)
23. Now listen:
[168] Only the Composer ,only God, knows what His
Bible really
means and He reveals it to those who are listening, who are interested in
knowing what the drama is from the original
Composer of the Script.
Not having gone down through Seven Church Ages—through
seven conductors. Or, let’s put it this way: The first conductor, Paul, was
true to the Score. Iranaeus wasn’t. Martin, Columba weren’t. [End of side one
of the audio tape.]
Luther tried; he failed. Wesley tried and failed. And the
Pentecostals got in one great big cacophony of sound with their tongues. And
they took nothing but experience, never mind the Truth. Now, will God restore
His Word at the end-time? Will we get a true interpretation? What in the world
are the Thunders? My God! Have pity. What is the Seventh Seal? In fact what
are, really, Seals number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and what did they really mean? A
white horse, a red horse, a black horse, a green horse ... well, just
about—it’s a brindle horse. What about those images and those horrendous
creatures under the Sixth Seal?
“Well,” says somebody. “What it is, man really getting so
close to life, he will bring forth” (And the Jews believe this.) “a creature,
manufacturing him, and the devil will inspire him (that is, breathe into him)
and take over.”
“Oh,” says one. “This will be a giant one and he’ll have
great feet and huge legs like a skyscraper and he’ll take those seven league
strides.”
“Oh,” says another. “There’ll be minerals and vitamins
out of the
Now, they’re all reading the same Script. Now, if there
was a problem in Age number one —and according to God’s Word the problem
increases—how far will the Church be from reality from year 200 to year 2000? I
wouldn’t want to guess. It’s too horrendous to think about it.
24. Now Bro. Branham said, here, you’d have to know something.
[168] ... you’d have to know about the symphony first ... Now, the symphony
here, he says, is the Scripture. Now, you’ve got to know something about It
first. Every Christian does; he knows something about it. He can tell you ...
read you chapter by chapter, verse by verse. It’s not just something you see, (Now watch what he says the tough part is in the
drama, in the symphony)
it’s not just something you see; it’s the changing, the junctions of the Word,
of the music.
Now you know that’s true when it comes to a symphony.
Musically, it’s constantly changing, as a drama is constantly changing when you
present a visual play.
[ ] It throws; something, it throws you like ... it’s going this way for a
while, a certain beat; after a while it changes all around.
Well, that’s true. What kind of music do you have,
for instance, in the symphony which may depict “The Charge of the Light
Brigade”? Well, all right, first of all there’s got to be some kind of music
that indicates there has been a message to the Light Brigade that they must
prepare to go through that valley— the Battle of Balaclava (the valley of
Balaclava), the war against Turkey. That would be some type of music. Then
there’d be the music where the soldiers are mounting, having put their armor
on. Then, there’d be the light prancing of the horses as they line up. Then
there’ll be the command of the voice of the man, the General giving it. Then,
there’d be the gallop of the horse’s feet. Then there’d be the crashing of,
like thunder, the cannons’ volley—six hundred men going, literally, all to
their death. Now, that’s what we’re talking about—the change.
25. So Bro. Branham is talking about, from the start to the
finish, as there is in music a tempo, a change, in order for you to get the
drama, it’s the same way in the Scripture; and you have to know where the
changes are. That’s why Bro. Branham had to preach the Seven Church Ages, and
the Seven Messengers, and bring us to this hour—if indeed he did do it, and I
believe he did. And it’s my prerogative.
What the world says is their business. Of course, to them
I’m utterly stupid. To me, I will spend any time they want and prove everybody
that writes against Bro. Branham is a complete jackass on just one thing
alone—cellular therapy. Oh, the American doctors hate cellular therapy! In
fact, one real outstanding idiot—a Pentecostal (and his wife)—wrote a book, and
in it quoted their doctor (who is a complete fool) and said, “If you give
prenatal cells injected, it could clog the heart.” My wife and I sit here
tonight with about eighteen needles of eighteen different cells, as Brian
Bower’s baby was …[six]?…—and I’ve got as good a heart as any body sitting in
this church with the same blood pressure. Do you want to go to a doctor and
find out? So much for jackasses. Man, according to physiology, is a mammal, the
same as animals, and the prenatal cells have been proven by isotopes and a
Geiger counter to go absolutely to the organ to which they’re destined. And the
idiots that wrote that book, how can they believe what they have written when
they’re using transplants right now in order to cure Parkinson’s disease, or to
give it some release? You want to ask Audrey Guy if cellular therapy
works—dying of Crohn’s Disease—dysentery, bowels flowing like water.
The doctor says, “If we cut, she’ll only die of cancer
quicker.” And he told Nelson, he said, “She will die of cancer.”
He said, “You’re telling me that my wife is finished?
That’s all; she’s going to die of cancer?”
He said, “Yes; I’m sorry.”
Then he said, “I’m going to take her to
He said, “You stupid blankety-blank idiot! They’re a
bunch of quacks down there.”
In less than a month her stool is forming normal. And
she’s got a health and a happiness she hasn’t had for years. She’ll go back in
six months for more cellular therapy. And, when it’s proven that it really
takes, (They won’t believe it anyway.) she’ll go back and get a complete scope
of the bowels, and they’ll find the lining back there. Because, Crohn’s disease
is an immune problem, and they build up your immune system with fiber blast.
26. Do you know the ancient people used the umbilical cord of a
baby and saved it as medicine, because it helps the immune system? Oh, we’ve
got smart doctors in
You’ve got [a] kid smart right here and works for Honda,
getting up there. [Bro. Vayle speaks to Bro. Chris White.] How many men do you
have under your control right now? Yes, are you the head of some kind of
division? Well, you’ve got an uncle that’s a doctor. You check out what I’m
saying. It can be checked out. I’ve got books at home on it. There’s a Doctor
...[Koono]?... down there in
27. Serpent Seed is real, brother/sister. The beast got with Eve
and brought forth Cain, as the Jews have believed for centuries. It’s in the
Bible. They don’t know their junctures.
And they said, “Bro. Branham really fouled up when he
denied the blessed Holy Trinity.”
They’re like the woman in
I said, “That was the three bears.” [Laughter]
Where’d you get such nonsense... three Gods? A woman had
a vision. You sisters, you know I love you, but listen: Don’t ever, ever around
me, ever talk about handling the Word. I’m not a mean guy; I just sound mean.
I’m not; I love you dearly. But don’t fool with the Word of God. Eve was the
first flaming evangelist, as little old Dick Talgenoff said.
[168] You wait
for the junctions the Word or the junctures of the music. It throws;
sometime it’s going this [way] for a while, a certain beat, after a while it
changes... what is it? To you who wouldn’t understand It or don’t know nothing
about It, not interested it It , it’s just a racket, it’s a fuss.
Now I tell you, I do not like certain kinds of music—and
even a symphonic. I don’t understand it, and I don’t like it, and I’m not
interested, and it’s tinny and horrible. It’s just a big blast of noise. Others
that suits me, I love it. I love this!
When I first met Bro. Branham, I was so tickled. I said,
“This guy is as goofy as I am. I love him.”
He wasn’t afraid of predestination. Not for one minute.
He wasn’t afraid of no eternal Hell. Not for one minute. He wasn’t afraid of
anything!
And I thought, “My!”
And this fellow with his ministry? I loved every minute
of it. I loved it, because, you know, you’ve got to break away from the crowd,
brother/sister, because there’s something wrong with the crowd.
28. Now he said:
... But to those who know
about It, they’re watching for It, they know It’s coming.
In other words he says here, if you have something in you
that responds to the drama of the music so that you are in tune, that you are
literally, then, a part of it, you enter into it, and you are expecting certain
things; you know they are coming. In other words you must be educated in the
realm of the music—not necessarily being a musician, but you must have
something in you, and an education (in other words an understanding) and you’ll
get somewhere.
This is what John the Baptist did: He gave them an
understanding. And William Branham is trying to tell you, “Now, listen to me; I’m going to help you in this juncture of the
Scripture, and I’m calling it a symphony.” And that’s beautiful, because a
symphony spells harmony, even though
there may be, as sound to our ear, a ‘clash’. It is not a ‘clash’. It’s a
‘crash’. Like the roar of the cannon, the clanging of cymbals. It all fits in:
the ringing of bells. It is not discordant; it is a part of it.
29. [169] So we have these times of symphonies of the
Symphony ... in other words, these
junctures, these parts of the Symphony of God’s Word, that the whole drama changes. You
who are interested listen for that change.
Now, what does he mean “you who are interested?”
Let’s go back to Daniel 12, and we’ll begin to see what we’re talking about.
Dan 12:4
(4) But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even
to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased.
(5) Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the
one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the
bank of the river.
(6) And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
(7) And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto
heaven, and sware by himself that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time,
times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of
the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Now I’m getting to what I want to go to.
(8) And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord,
what shall be the end of these things?
(9) (Then) he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed
up and sealed (until) the time of the end.
Now the time of the end is
(10) Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time
is at hand.
The One that raised His hand and swore it was sealed up,
the same One must raise His hand, having come down, and sware, “It’s over. Time
[has] run out.” So when time runs out, it’s the end of time, and the revelation
will come. Now watch what It says... [Dan 12:10]
(10) Many shall be purified and made white, and tried: but the wicked
shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall
understand. (And there’s ten virgins.)
Now, between the wicked and the wise, there’s a third
group called ‘foolish’. And they have the chance but they turn it down because
they don’t have what it takes to get the oil. Their oil has run out. They’re
still in organization and denomination. And even if they have pulled out, they
haven’t left the organization and the denomination, even as Luther who was
introduced to the Oneness of the Godhead and put it aside. He brought the
Trinity with him. The death was contained in it and it’s come on down. So
there’s got to be a clean mental sweep, which the Book of Revelation calls
repentance. “But the wise shall understand.” Then what happened to the Wise
Virgin when they went out to meet the Bridegroom at His Appearing? They got
smart. Yeah, they got ‘wised up’. That’s exactly what John the Baptist did.
30. Let’s turn to the Word of God and see what we’re into. How
marvelous is this Scripture to us, brother/sister, when the Prophet revealed
it. Look what It says, then, in Lk 1:15 concerning John. He’s going to be a
great man filled with the Holy Ghost even before he’s born. And he’s going to
turn the many of the children of
(17) And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of (Elijah),
to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (even) the disobedient (the
ignorant) to the wisdom of the just: (And what’ll it do? It’ll ) make ready
(the prepared) people ...
Now, that’s sheer folly and stupidity to people.
“Well, bless God, I’ve got the Holy Ghost. I spoke in
tongues. I’m ready, Hallelujah!”
Well, do you know Malachi’s going to come, and he did
come?
William Branham—oh, that guy, full of the Devil.” You
say, “I would never say that.”
You’re a liar!
I’m not talking to you folks. These tapes go all around
the country. I’m talking to the Pentecostal chaff from whence I came out,
because I was a wheat-seed. I’m going to tell you something: the wheat never
comes out of the chaff; the chaff kicks it out. I was booted out—lock, stock
and barrel—from my knees down and my knees up. And you know where they hit
me...right in the stomach, blew all the wind out of me. Oh man! I hated them
with a passion, because I thought they’d done me a disfavor.
31. I don’t need organization. I don’t need you; you don’t need
me. That’s right. We just need God through the prophet that He sent—the Wisdom,
the Word of Wisdom. And, if we both have this, we will love each other, and we
will be kindred to each other. And we’ll, in honor, prefer each other, and our
eyes will light up, and our faces and our hearts. And we won’t have a
hypocritical faith with a rotten heart. We’ll have a heart and a hand and a
walk. Everything is going to be one with each other.
Not one of those Abner tricks, bless God. When old Joe
...?... died—Abner was a fool—old Joe ...[Eb]?...came by and said, “You’re my
brother, bless God.” Then ...?... right in the fifth rib. I’ve got a fifth rib
that’s been so scarred up, I don’t know whether it’s going to hold out till the
Resurrection, or not. But so did Bro. Branham. Ho! don’t you think he didn’t.
If my ribs are scarred, you ought to take a look at his. He’s going to get a
whole new rib cage. I just need one replaced. It tells you right here—John the
Baptist. What do you think is going to happen today? The very same thing.
32. Now:
[168] To you who
wouldn’t understand It or don’t know nothing about It, not interested in It,
it’s just a racket, it’s a fuss. But to those who know … It, they’re watching
for It, they know it’s coming. Hallelujah!
[169] So we have
these times ... Now, in here, Bro. Branham
is beginning to really launch into the new year—the substance of what he’s
talking about which is this hour which is being accelerated ... you who are interested,
listen for that change ... that’s from Daniel. You know it’s getting
close. You hear the way the drums are beating, amen, want something to happen.
You know this is a change, see, it’s going to break out into a burst in a few
minutes. See? In other words it’s
accelerating...
You’re watching for it, (to tell you) the way the drums are timing.
That’s the beat. In other words, has something slowed
down? Is it accelerating? Where are we going? Well, he tells you, “Time and eternity has blended.” Well,
does that mean that eternity slows down or time speeds up? Well, I’ve got news
for you: Time speeds up, because “all flesh will be destroyed except the Lord
shorten the time.” That’s the Bible.
[ ] Oh God! If you can hear the
drums of the finish, now ... if you can hear the drums of
the finish —the “finale”, the curtain ringing down ... if you can hear the echo
of the music of the Heavenly Word singing Itself out, “And it shall come to
pass in the last days!” That is the name of the
Symphony, “This day is this Scripture fulfilled”. this is the last day; he’s
telling you that.
The Symphony of God’s great drama that He’s playing, It changes Him ... Now, what’s he talking about? The Role! He’s in a
change. His
Symphony at the junctions, the composer of those who are interested ...
Right today He’s down here in a Pillar of Fire in the
form of the Holy Ghost. It’s the same One that talked to Paul on the road to
33. [169] ... at the junctures. The composer of those
who are interested ... The composer and those who are
interested ...
listen for the change. In other words, God’s going to back His own Word and we are privy
to it. That’s
what all this stuff is about. That’s about this
vindication, and this Message ... we’re listening, we’re watching. Every time He appears,
something happens.
All right, you go right back to Genesis 18 with Abraham,
which is Heb 13:8.
[ ] Every time He appears,
something happens. We see the time getting close.
And that also refers to every time He appears, when Bro. Branham said, “We
don’t know if He’ll come. We’re going to ask Him to come. He’s here now.” See?
“We see the time getting close”...We see back yonder not long ago when the Church Ages were
being drawn out, we were listening. They
went to church. Three hundred saw the Pillar of Fire write on the wall. We saw it was right with
the Word, beating with the Word. After a while, what happened? Here He came,
Himself, and vindicated it. (See?)
34. Now, watch what he says about the vindication in the next
paragraph.
[170] We heard
the Word say that, “In the days of the seventh Messenger”. In the Church Age,
He just said, “ the seventh angel’s Message would be the last Message. and
then, oh then , we find ... over here in Revelation 10, “In the days of the
Message of the seventh angel, the mysteries of God should be finished,” the
Seventh Seal would be pulled back.
Now, what’s he talking about? The Appearing which is Rev.
10:1, the Mighty One with the rainbow around His head, the feet as pillars of
fire, come down one foot on land and one foot on sea. That is that One! He’s
appearing. And remember, He’s coming more and more into His Church. He came
there as a Pillar of Fire. That’s when they saw… There they see Him, right
there [Bro. Vayle points to the picture on the wall.] coming with His angels.
That’s when He comes fully into His Church. [He] starts appearing back there in
1933. And previous to that, to a little boy, as a wind and a voice in a
tree—which is a hundred percent Scriptural. Though the devil can imitate it,
the devil didn’t, because He was in
the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And God doesn’t give His Name to [just] anybody. No,
brother/ sister. You be careful with this bit. There’s a “new name’ stuff going
around now. I could [not] get head or tail of what the guy was saying. He
doesn’t know himself, but he’s getting some people convinced. You fool with
that, I’m going to tell you, you’re on dangerous ground. I’m standing here as
an authority on that. You’d better believe it. You can believe anybody you
want. If you do, get out of here. And you’d better believe me. I wrote the book
for Bro. Branham.
I said, “Bro. Branham, I haven’t told them anything.”
He said, You told them just enough.
I said, “No, I haven’t told them anything.”
He said, “If you
tell them any less, they don’t even know about it. If you tell them any more
they’ll run and get fanatical.”
35. Do you hear what I said? Did you hear what I said? Some of you
aren’t nodding you head. You don’t give a rip. I don’t give a rip about you
either. [If] you’re going to play ball with me, play ball; play it straight.
I’m telling you about the “new name”, so you be careful. You say, “Vayle,
you’re mean.” You bet your sweet life I’m mean. One day you’ll thank me. Or one
day you’ll stand at the White Throne real; we’ll look each other in the eye,
and you’ll say, “Lee Vayle, you said that on May 31st, 1989 about ten ... (What
is it? Is that clock up there right? I knew it was an hour slow),
36. [ ] Every time He appears,
something happens, we see it getting close.
All right. Now, what is close? Right down here in the
last day...
[170] ... “In the
days of the
All right, according to God Himself, through a vindicated
prophet, that there, [Points to the picture of the Cloud.] that happened out in
37. Now, right today, many people say the Seven Seals weren’t
open, because they’re confused about the Third Pull. The Third Pull has many
aspects, one of which—in the Third Pull and under the Seventh Seal
particularly—is the literal physical appearing of Jesus, “...of which nobody knows
nothing,” Bro. Branham said. But
since the Seventh Seal is Rev 10:1-7, which is the Appearing which precedes the
literal physical coming which depends upon that Spirit of Rev 10:1-7 ascending
with us and incarnating Himself, we don’t know—and you don’t need to know. But
don’t get all whipping yourself to death, because you don’t know and somebody
says, “Well, the Seventh Seal wasn’t open.” The Seventh Seal was open. Anybody
tell you that. The Thunders have thundered. That we don’t have a perfect
understanding, a perfect explanation, [as] far as we’re concerned that doesn’t
mean anything. We just haven’t come unto it yet. One little Word… We might spy
one little Word one time—like Eve took one little Word and changed everything.“We might just see that one little Word,”
Bro. Branham said. All right.
Shalom. What is Shalom? A new year, a juncture—entering a
new period. He came down and did it Himself. The same One there [Bro. Vayle
points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.] that was appearing, having
started [to] appear, June the eleventh.) It was the seventeenth person being
baptized. The seventeenth one came down began moving in and moving in until He
came here. And in there, He places Himself at the Head of the Church. There’s
your John the Baptist. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Cloud.] There’s
the One fore-ordained—the Lord Jesus Christ, in the form of the Holy Ghost.
Okay.
38. [170] ... it appeared in the skies ... It’s
a-changing the beat, the Symphony.
Now, what beat was changed? To acceleration when time and
eternity mingled. And that’s why you call those things which are not as though
they were, because when God came down and stood before Abraham and said, “You
are the father of nations”, Sarah has that son locked up. It was a juncture in
the Presence of Almighty God and the accelerated beat brought the son in flesh.
The accelerated beat brings the Son in flesh.
[171] Then one
time He said about the third pull; how it was come by this one ... that’s first of all, the sign in the hand, then by knowing the heart that’s discernment, then the spoken Word.
So, we see Message, Seven Seals, Seven Thunders, and
‘speaking into existence’. What’s that signify? Complete re-creation. Now you
look at a little squirrel. Now I don’t know if Bro. Branham would go along with
this or not. I’m going to tell you what I see, because he didn’t explain it.
But I’m going to try to explain it as though I know what I’m talking about.
This is my own little idea from the Scripture. When God said, “Let the earth
bring forth the cattle and the beast,” the earth did not bring it forth. They
were like you and me in a spirit form and the earth clothed them. The earth
brought them forth in a clothing. So, I believe, as Bro. Branham said, in
“Marriage and Divorce,” that man is going to come in this earth recreated not
by sex, but by the creation of God. God is “re-creating” because of the life
that is already here. And I believe that’s why the squirrel creation signifies,
absolutely, resurrection more than anything else. And also, it signifies the
bringing forth of the future of those things of which we don’t know. Because
Bro. Branham, speaking of Jesus turning water into wine, said, “...
through a due process of the chemistry of nature, the water going into the
roots of the grape vine and then into the grape would have turned into wine.
And then when he took the fishes and
loaves, he used a substance.” But he said, “In this there was no substance.” True enough, but there
had to be a life there or the squirrel wouldn’t have run out and chattered.
39. So I’m looking at something very deep here, in the sense that
we are seeing the Resurrection; we are seeing Almighty God in our presence. We
are seeing all these things building themselves up, even to beyond the
Resurrection, right into the Millennium, right on to the Great White Throne,
right into the New Jerusalem and into those things which ... who knows? It
signifies the tremendous change that is taking place. Just as I said awhile
ago. Verse [Paragraph] 172.
[172] Jesus
said, “Greater works than this will you do; for I go to my Father.”
Now Bro. Branham is the one who is explaining the
Scripture and he’s linking everything to his own ministry having told us about
the Pillar of Fire, having told us about this, [Bro. Vayle points to the
picture of the Cloud.] he is referring to himself and what God has done through
the man which he himself said, “Jesus had
more success in my ministry than he had in his own.” It was a multiplying. So, what he’s saying here?
[172] ... “
Greater works than I do, because I go to my Father ... The
works that I do, shall you do ... greater than this, because I go to my
Father.” Just as I said a while ago, when Mary tried to identify Him as
Joseph’s son, He corrected her. His Words cannot fail! He said so, “Heavens and
earth will fail, but my Words will not.”
Now, what’s it doing here? He is letting you know that,
as Mary tried to identify Jesus as an ordinary son of an ordinary man, William
Branham is telling you, “Though I am the
son of an ordinary man, this is the ‘unordinary’ God, the extraordinary God.
And I am correcting the Scripture in view of the fact that men and women have
mishandled it. And the theologians
have corrupted it. And I’m going to bring It back to where It was, by the grace
of God.” Why? Because he’s going to direct the Symphony according to the
Spirit of the One Who wrote it.
40. Now there’s a guy. I told you about him one time. He’s a
Hungarian Jew, and there’s nothing better than a Hungarian Jew, believe me.
He’s a prodigy, tremendous pianist, tiny gaffer. [At] seven or eight years of
age, his mother introduced him to the music of [Frantz] Liszt, another
Hungarian. And he’s the dirty bird that composed compositions that he knew
nobody could play outside of himself. You talk about these guys that are shrewd
and lewd and crude. So, anyway, he used a genius. And I think the man might
have had a spirit on him. Now, when this young kid got Frantz Liszt’s music, he
stayed at the piano on that bench, and he played hour after hour after hour
until he fell off the stool in a trance. And when he got up, the spirit of
Frantz Liszt was upon him. Not the spirit itself, but I think a familiar
spirit. And he played identically to Frantz Liszt. Now, it is my fortune to
have one of his records. Now, if you think there is not a spirit on that man
and on his piano ... I tell you, I’ll bring that record here, if I can find it.
(I think I can find it.) He came to
41. In this house he begins playing the composition which I have.
And I will challenge you, that suddenly you will hear an organ, not a piano ...
I challenge you. Anybody here with such a lousy ear, I’ll give a hundred
dollars to…
You say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re getting pretty bold.”
Yes, I am bold, because a music critic, a woman, said the
strangest things happened. Suddenly you are hearing an organ and not a piano;
and I know I wasn’t mental. So, I’m not afraid to tell you what I heard,
because I thought I was hearing things... the spirit of Frantz Liszt in a man.
That’s not a real piano, [Bro. Vayle points to the
picture of the Pillar of Fire.] but let’s pretend it is steel and wood and
ivory or plastic. What could the Spirit of God, then, do through a man that’s
dedicated? Do you think that he couldn’t interpret the composer? The spirit of
Frantz Liszt got on this man. (I can’t remember his name ... It’s not
Esterhazy. That’s another name. But I’ll get it later on. It’s a real old
tongue-twister.) A spirit got on that boy. It is known, truly, from the Word of
God that a Spirit, even God Himself, came upon the Lord Jesus Christ in the
River Jordan and sat, there. What is above this man’s head? [Bro. Vayle points
to ...?...] What came down there? Then you tell me, if that could happen in the
world of the world and the devil, that God is so bound by our understanding of
what God must do, and our understanding of God’s protocol. We’re going to say,
“Well, God simply can’t come down and take a man over so that he, really, in
the Spirit of God, can bring forth the Truth, and the real revelation of God’s Word.”
42. I’m trying to let you people know: Hey, listen! We have got a
vindicated Message. We have got more than
a vindicated Message; we have got a vindicated life. And you may be sitting here a little far away from what I’m
saying, and I know it’s a struggle. And I’m going to be honest, I gotta
struggle too, but I am going to keep telling this and telling this because “ a
man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the
increase thereof shall he be filled.” And, if I can take a fish story of an
eight inch fish and bring him to two feet and be happier every time, and he’s
bigger every time. I can take this Word till It’s bigger and bigger and bigger
and yet simpler and simpler and simpler until It becomes a Life-Principle. You
know, I’ve not shun to declare to you the counsel of God in the way I operate.
I’m happy I’ve used this method. I’ve used this method all the time, and by the
grace of God, I’m in a certain groove, and in that groove by the subconscious
to the conscious. I have no fear. I can tell you not only the Truth of God, but
I’ll tell It many ways—diverse ways in diverse manners. It’ll all come to the
same thing.
43. You say, “You’re boasting.” Let my boasting be as a fool. I
want to ask you a question: Can you boast? You can if you want to. It’s up to
you. Your boasting can be in Christ, because mine is and in this Word. And
honest, I won’t lie to you; it thrills me! This is my kicks. This is my
satisfaction. And I’m going to tell you something: It’s changing people’s
lives. And it doesn’t stop on the shores of America. It’s gone many places; and
it’ll go many places. And, even those who hated it have had to admit it. But
they don’t preach it like we do. And people don’t hear it like we do. I have
nothing to do with that; but I’m standing here, believing with all my heart
that [what] we’re saying here tonight, the prophet said. And faithful brethren
preaching it and faithful brothers and sisters believing it are going to come
to a place where the dead will no longer wait on us. They’ll come up to shake
our hands and say, “You’ve kept us waiting a little longer, I think, [than]
necessary, but I’m sure glad at least you got there, because now we’re here.”
44. You see, they want to come back. We want to get out of here,
and they want to come back.
You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle.”
Don’t Bro. Vayle me. They’re going to come back to the
exact condition the world is in, and we’re sitting in it. But it won’t bother
them, because they won’t have to eat the junk and wear the lousy clothes and
associate with the mess and be a partaker. We’ll all be above it, and we’ll be
standing here rejoicing in the same lousy mess—and all the stinking smog and
all the sewage and all the corruption—we’ll be sitting here, and we’ll be
owning it all and say, “Well get away to the Wedding Supper and somebody get
strength and come back and clean it all up.” Then we’ll take over.
You say, “Well, that’s presumption.”
Is it presumptuous if God said so? I don’t think it’s
presumption. I believe it’s the Truth.
Let’s rise and be dismissed.
Heavenly Father, again we take a lot of time tonight on
these few verses that the prophet gave us, these little paragraphs. And we’re
glad that we can, Lord, because we know that it does something to us.
Positively, Your Own Bible said that, “A man will be satisfied with the fruit
of his lips. His belly will be satisfied ...”—down in that inner man, down in
that inner context, down in there, what ancients called the ‘solar-plexis
mind’. Yes! Two consciousness, as it were; one consciousness out here in the
Word, struggling with the world; one consciousness, down deep within. And the
one within suffering or being blessed by the words of a man’s mouth, being
filled, as Bro. Branham said, “The soul
would be filled; every channel filled, until it reversed and came forth.”
And, Lord, we know the Word at this hour is
‘immortality’. Therefore, help us, Lord, to have our mouths filled with the
immortal Words of the Immortal God—the Great One amongst us—until down deep the
very soul and being becomes satisfied with the increase, knowing, having
studied Bro. Branham’s Messages, that every single Message literally said the
same thing. It got clearer; it got bolder; it got richer; it got realer; it got
simpler, until it came right down, Lord, to the absolute basic Truth of the
purpose which You brought in here for which was: To bring us a Message—sign in
the hand, reading the heart, bringing the revealed Word, which we know is key
to all of it, Lord.
We know that this stumbles the world. We know it stumbles
us, too, because we’re not that smart. But, Father, we believe in vindication.
We saw it. And I know, Lord, I thank you from my personal presence—being there
with the prophet and a few people in this audience having been there too. But I
know these people believe me as an honest witness to what I saw and what I
heard and what I’m reading before them tonight; that they believe that. And,
Lord, we know positively that it’s just as good as though they were there. In
fact it’s better because [on] the very ground they might have been stumbling
around wondering, but they don’t have to today, because we take so much time
bringing out the Word that goes in their ears, comes out their mouth, goes down
deep in the inside, goes all through the process again; which, until one day,
Lord, we’re going to be that Word just like the prophet said.
So, Father, I can understand as never before who the
prophet was concerning there would be this thing in our lives to take us away
from the real in-depth dedication and consecration to Your Word. How we ought
to come together more and more, Lord, to talk it in our homes, meditate upon
our beds ... “communing with You,” Lord, as David the Psalmist said; being with
each other and reveling in what You give us.
Father, take us away from all other thoughts of doubts
and criticism and anything whatsoever, O Lord, that would come against the
positivity of this Word, because we know it is positive, because we saw it
vindicated. And, Lord, we did see the answer coming back in the Name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. What more could we want?
Father in Heaven, if I had as many answers to my prayers
in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ as I know we saw in the prophet’s
ministry, I don’t know what we’d be doing with ourselves. What would we do?
We’d boast to the multitudes until we made ourselves literal demi-gods in our
pride and our arrogance, that we saw you move on our behalf. Lord, then, if
that’s true, (And it is true.) and it’s the same God, and You’re doing this
with the purpose of unlocking the Word —when it’s whereby You’d be just doing
it to serve a purpose in our lives and making us feel good and happy— then, Lord,
we ought to be more submissive to the prophet’s Message and glory in it as the
ultimate. And by Your grace, Father, and because of You, we’re going to do it.
And, Lord, I don’t care what ever is happened in my life.
It’s really zilch when you compare what happened to Bro. Branham. So I’m only
too glad to lay down what little thing that You’ve ever done for me to take up
what You did through Him and to give it the pre-eminence. And I believe, Lord
God, that’s going to mellow all our hearts down. We’re a little bit sticky, but
we’re going to have to endure that for awhile until that sweet Spirit comes
more and more and more and we become Lord, as just one breath, one Word, one
hearing, one thinking, one talking, one breathing, one walking, because that’s
what our body is composed of billions of little cell. And I can believe this
church here Lord, can get that way for I’ve got what people have often said
spurs on the elbows.
Lord, I pray that You’ll help me to get the spurs off and
everybody in the congregation right the same way just mellow right down and
realize that we’re all human beings. That’s just the vessel. Inside [we’re]
sons of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ marching on to glory, Lord. Let me
put away everything in my life that is not of you. I’ve said that many times,
Father, publicly, Lord. I’m asking it, and I hope …? … Get rid of all these
things, and just keep in the sweetness and love of the Lord Jesus Christ and
honey in the Rock which is in Your Word, Lord, because we know You’re coming
soon.
You’re coming here to take over in the body of Your
flesh, Lord. We’re going to rise to meet you in the air. I know somebody’s
going to do it. It’s too late Lord. We can’t turn back. We know this is
juncture, and we pray Lord, that not one will miss it.
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
wise God be all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ of Savior. Amen.
The Lord bless you.