Shalom
#23
Listen for a Change;
Join in the Music
I
have a few words to say to those that get the tapes, and you sitting here,
because many times I take it for granted that you are following me, as I am
following myself, and that’s not necessarily true. I made a statement
concerning Bro. Branham coming in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, [that] “if
he was of the devil, then the
Now,
in the end time there’s… Because of what It says in the Book of Acts, “I will
pour my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.
And upon my men servants (or my sons) and upon my daughters also, the
Spirit will come, and they will be genuinely correct.” In Matthew It says,
those doing that at the White Throne, He’ll say, “I never ever knew you.” So
you just wouldn’t say that Bro. Branham coming in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ would qualify by what he is doing. If you put it on the devil that would
be a division of God’s Kingdom. But remember, it is a man coming with “THUS
SAITH THE LORD,” with the Word of God. And that makes all the difference. For
every single time that it was “THUS SAITH THE LORD” in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, such and such would follow.
Now
then, if God ever gave the devil that power, the
Brother/Sister,
let’s stand with the Word of God as given by a vindicated prophet. You might
not understand it all; you don’t have to. You might not know it all; you don’t
have to. But stand with that understanding, then you will increase in a
knowledge. Remember, Jesus was born a little baby, and It says that he
increased in wisdom and knowledge. He increased in stature and favor with God
and man. Right? Then, [if] we understand these things, we’ll stay with them.
The Lord bless you.
Shall
we pray. Lord, we pray for Your grace and Your mercy, which we know we already
have because You sent Your power back in the Church—not because of us, our
faith, or our works, or anything else, but—because of grace. So, we thank You
for that, Lord. Now, we thank You, Lord, for Truth which You have given us and
pray it might be with the inner man to bring forth that peace the prophet spoke
of. Help us to know the Truth this morning from his own standpoint, as he tries
to show us. And we’ll give You the glory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
You
may be seated.
1. Now,
we are in number 23, I believe, in “Shalom.” And as we have said many times,
“Shalom” (or as Bro. Branham said, “God’s
Peace”) is a new year’s message that deals, not with one year giving away
to another year (such as flipping the calendar) but actually speaks of a new
era when the Prince of Peace shall reign in the Millennium and then eternally
in the New Jerusalem, which is a part of (actually the major and great part of)
the New Heavens and the New Earth.
Now
today, as one era gives way to another era, there’s an interim space of time
declared in Rev 10:1-7 where the mighty God comes down and through the prophet
opens the Seals (that is, reveals the open Seals ... declares the Thunders) and
time and eternity merge with the last mysteries of the Gospel being revealed,
to the catching away.
2. So,
this interim period spoken of, beginning in Rev 10:1-7 in our hour, goes all
the way over to
(10) Seal
not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
So,
between Rev 10:4 and
(11) He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still; he that is filthy, let him be filthy
still; he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy,
let him be holy still.
Now
I want to ask you a question, (And don’t answer all at once.) and that is: What
made the difference between the righteous and the unrighteous? The opening of
the Seals. The Book that was closed, now open. The opening of the Seals and
Seven Thunders made the difference. That’s why Bro. Branham could say, “In Luke 24, it was a separation by the
Word. For where the eagles are gathered, there is either the ‘soma’ or the
‘toma’, for they both must be gathered.”
3. [Revelation 22]
(12) And,
behold, I come quickly; ( Now, the ‘coming quickly’ is after Rev 10:1, which is
Rev 5:1, Who came down. Because
(13) (I’m)
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (What I did
formerly, I do now ... exactly the same manner. Now watch.)
(14) Blessed
are they (Not ‘who do his commandments’. Where in the world that translator got
that is more than I know, because it stinks. It’s not in the original; it’s not
the Greek at all. “They washed their robes”. Oh, you might get by with saying,
“who do his commandments” if it’s strictly upon a matter of faith. Like “this
is the works of God that you believe on him whom God has sent.” If you want a
hard slugging work, that’s it.) Blessed are they that wash their robes, that
they may have (the) right to the tree of life, (walk to immortality. The very
thing that stopped Adam will now be taken care of by God, so that Adam can be
immortal.), and (they) may enter in through the gates into the city.
So
the gates will be the gates of Life. “Lift up your heads ye gates, ye
everlasting doors.” The people now, are ‘Life’ themselves, in their
immortality. And they go into the
(15) (But)
without are dogs ...
That’s
male prostitutes; they type the preachers, vulgarly expressed by Lee Vayle as
“pimps” because they procure customers for whores, which is organization and
the organized churches. I will likely lose my head for that, but they’re still
pimps and whores. If I should rescind that because I’m afraid, like Galileo,
I’ll still mutter under my breath [that] they’re still pimps and whores. I
don’t think I will. I’ve nothing to lose; everything to gain.
(15) ...
whoremongers, sorcerers, (poisoners) ... murderers, ... idolaters ... whosoever
loveth and maketh a lie.
Homosexuality
is rampant with the result of AIDS, where men rot on their feet, because it is
the type in the raw of the spiritual grossness. So if you’re looking for
something less, you still haven’t heard Bro. Branham and me preach enough.
4. You’ll
notice that light and darkness are separated but co-existent in this interim
period before your change. This is the time of Lk
I
forgot to bring that little excerpt by these lovely Oneness Pentecostals out of
Now,
let’s be honest. Let’s not be super-duper wonderful, so-called spiritual
Christians, because I’d brand each of you as a phony and a fraud. In fact the
sheep can be just as rotten and lustful, and rottener even than a bird out
there. Now, they’ve got some supercilious idea that they’re right. And they’re
wrong, because I can tell you right now, they have used embryonic cells for
years, and they have done miracles with them. But the trouble is, they’re too
cheap, and too many doctors wouldn’t have a living. That’s right.
5. We’re
in this gross darkness--and beautiful Light. Now, it’s in this hour of gross
darkness, and God’s Light that God, by His Messenger, declares Peace to us.
What peace would United Pentecost have if I send them my books on cellular
therapy and challenge the preacher? I’ll write him a check that won’t bounce,
at least for ten thousand dollars cash, if he can prove… And I’ll pay all the
expenses, to come with me to a clinic where they do it all the time, where
they’re giving hundreds [of] shots per day. And the people walk in, so
depleted, dying of cancer and other disease. Within two weeks they start
looking like new people. Ask Audry [Guy] what happened to her: incurable
Crohn’s Disease clears up overnight—so much for Pentecostals. They’ve always
prided themselves on being rugged countrymen. I can’t believe farmers and
ranchers are stupid and flaunt their ignorances [as] though it was
intelligence. The certainty of the Kingdom is proven by the Presence of the Day
Star—He amongst us vindicating His Own Word.
6. In
Paragraph 163, Bro. Branham makes it known to us that the One present is
holding the future of the Kingdom of Peace and Righteousness in His hand and
will bring it to pass in His Own Sovereign will that encompasses both how and
when He will do it. Now remember, this promise is guaranteed and based upon the
vindication that Bro. Branham now has. And the vindication he showed us will
prove the Kingdom will come. But along with it is the guarantee of gross
darkness and confusion. That gross darkness and confusion has invaded the ranks
of those who say they believe this Message. They still cannot believe all Seven
Seals are open, because they don’t understand the parts of the Third Pull. They
don’t understand under the Seventh Seal is the literal coming, physically, when
we meet him in the air. But they refuse to believe that the Seventh Seal is Rev
10:1-7 which is here and now, which has been fulfilled! Nobody knows the hour
of the Second Coming, and we don’t need to know! For, if the good man of the
house had known the hour of which the thief was coming, he would have been
prepared. We know this fact: that we’re ready for the hour, whatever it is,
when He comes to steal us away. Certainly we know;…[what are we worried
about?]?…
Now
remember, this promise is guaranteed by vindication, that it will come. Thus,
we are admonished … now listen, because of this hour of distress, we are
admonished to know and understand that God holds the unexpired time of this
interim period securely in His hands. And thus, as the prophet committed
himself and his life and service to God, so must we until our change. Now, that
doesn’t mean a tremendous act of consecration and commitment which is going to
bring forth any great ministry, or going to make you do anything great. It’s
once more the “Greatest
7. Now,
go back in your minds. Bro. Branham took us back continually: Alpha is Omega;
Alpha is Omega. What they did back there and He did back there in the days of
His flesh, and how they withstood Him, it’s exactly the same today. There is no
difference! (See?) What sustained those people? The fact that they saw. Now,
consider this: As it was when He was here in flesh, it is now so, since He has
descended by Spirit. He will not be recognized. He will be denied. Peter says
so: “He will be put to naught.” In other words nothing comes out of His
ministry, except for a few people who get it. And He says the same thing to the
people: “In vain do you worship me, having for doctrine the commandments of
men.” He said, “It doesn’t do you a bit of good, because you haven’t listened
to the Truth.”
Listen
... coming to church this morning, I can safely say, “We are the only church.”
Now, you can do what you want.
[You]
say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re ignorant and proud.”
Then,
I’m ignorant and proud. What are you? Why are you sitting here listening? We
are the only church within miles who come even near “worshipping in Spirit and
in Truth”, because anybody can worship in Spirit. Anybody can. But can you
worship in Truth? For God is seeking such. It doesn’t say they’re seeking God.
It says God is seeking such. That’s the difference. (See?) Thus, the
vindication, which is our strength, and the Word of Truth will be scorned; and
we with It. But “he that endures to the end shall be saved.”
8. Now,
knowing this, Bro. Branham interjects himself as an example of this perilous
time and says categorically, “If He comes
at this time, Amen. If not, I’ll just keep working for Him.” What was his
work? “My ministry is to declare that He
is here.” How many caught it? He pointed to reality.
“Well,
He’s always been here” [say] a lot of people who call themselves Branhamites
that are still that far back in the woods.
He
said, “If He comes at this time, Amen. If
not, I’ll just keep working for Him. I’ve seen His vindicated Word, so I’m at
peace because since He proved Rev 10:1-7—and I’m a part of it—make no mistake,
He will bring about the Millennium and all else He has promised.” That’s
the gate.
Then
he poses a question as from us, to teach us how he does this: “Bro. Branham,
how do you get that Peace and that assurance? How do we get where you are, in
this respect, and gain the understanding you speak of? How can we be in that
position? What is there to do? Is there a process? Is there some attitude? Is
there something we go through or partake of?” He then answers his own question
by a lengthy illustration of a symphony wherein God and he and we are all a
part, as Composer, conductor, narrator and participating audience. He describes
the Symphony as a musical drama, wherein the actors and their roles are
depicted or played out by various melodies coming forth from musical
instruments—the flutter of the wings of a bird, the emotions of the character,
the roar of the canon, so-on and so-on. But unless one can follow the symphony
as to its dramatic contents, it is merely sounds—good, bad or indifferent.
9. Now
the Composer is God who works the drama particular to His Own character. That’s
a shock, because most people think God is a lovely benevolent God Who let
things get out of hand. But still being a wonderful God, He takes measures
thereby to bring us all back in some particular way they don’t understand. Let
me tell you, I believe with Bro. Branham (and I’m lying, but I like my lie,
because I’m going to get that way) and he said, “God knew how many fleas there would be that could make a pound of
tallow, and how many times they’d bat their eyeballs.” If you don’t believe
that, and I don’t believe, there’s something wrong with our believing. This,
which God is doing, comes out of God Himself. And this is particularly God as
to His character. As Bro. Branham so beautifully put,“If it weren’t for the bad women, you wouldn’t know what a good woman
was.” And as the Bible teaches, “God dwelleth in darkness, and Light shines
out of darkness.” In other words, a great impenetrableness concerning God
Himself, no man can fathom until God comes out to bring it to the darkness that
lies out there. Two types of darkness: one that surrounds God, which is a great
mystery … there’s no hope for revelation until God shines forth; then, there’s
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10. Now,
the Composer is God who wrote the drama particular to His Own character. The
conductor is one who must catch the Spirit of the Composer and enter into it.
Now, I prefer that to be the Spirit of God coming down, (God doing His part now
as conducting.) God conducting His Own drama; and of course, the prophet has a
part in it. But I prefer to call the prophet the ‘narrator’, because you can’t
get beyond Jesus, who said, “I only say what my Father says. I can only tell
what I see Him do. I can only do what He does. And actually I’m not doing it;
it is God in me.” William Branham can’t assume a role above that! So, I prefer
to call him the narrator to let us know what God is doing, what He is doing
with it; what it is all about, and telling us. And, if we are
Symphony-oriented, (Not, as Bro. Branham said, “Some man coming in, sitting down, and it’s just a bunch of noise”,
but we’re part of the participating audience, because it knows we are literally
in it.) then we will catch it.
11. The
narrator is the prophet, who certainly must be aware of the Composer in his
mind and be in touch with the Conductor as He leads the orchestration and
manifestation of the drama. Thus, Bro. Branham, prophet of God, tells us about
his place in this dramatic composition of God, and relates it to us and directs
us to the theme, and our understanding of it and our part in it. To accept this
based on vindication will bring God’s Peace. In other words, we are looking to
be placed with Bro. Branham. We are looking to have what he is supposed to have
brought us.
Now,
the point is: did he bring it? Ahh—there’s the catch! Just like those who don’t
believe the Seventh Seal is open. They are looking at something here which is
entirely passive, as though they look at it and say, “Well, some great day
He’ll come back, and He’ll do this, or He’ll do this, that and the other
thing.”
They
don’t understand that Bro. Branham is telling us, “Come into it! Come into it.
Come into it. Join in the dance, join in the music, join in the song, join in
the party—become a part of it.” You weren’t called here by accident. Now
remember, when the great invitation goes out, there’ll be those sitting there
without a garment. They will not have the robe of the Word. Bro. Branham said, “They’re sitting amongst us now”. So, we
believe it. Come into it.
12. Now,
as we read, remember: it is the juncture between two eras we are talking about.
We are not talking back now; the drama has been presented. We are not looking
future; that is, what the drama opens up. We are looking at the hour in which
we enter into the drama. And though the narrator has gone, the Composer and
Conductor are still here if we abide by the narration or the words of the
narrator. There’s nothing wrong, because the Pillar of Fire is here. Let us
enter into the Symphony with rapt attention, and enter into the rapture of this
blending-together hour. Now, enter into the rapture—the joys, the
participation, the emotional output from the input, the life based upon what He
gave us—this blending-together hour, getting ready for the great immortal
eternity. This is not simply an understanding of Rev 10:7, of the prophet and
time mingling, but it is in fact what I read to you previously in John17. (And
we’ll read it some more.) And we might as well read from verse 13. [John 17]
(13) And
now (I come) to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they might
have my joy fulfilled in themselves. (Now, Jesus was speaking something for an
interim period.)
(14) I
have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not
of the world, even as I am not of the world. (Now, why did the world hate them?
Because they believed this renegade, Jesus. They believed this poor little
carpenter, dumb-bell. They couldn’t stand it, because without any background—as
far as they knew—he could out-produce them! Oh, yah... he had bigger and better
fruit. He could raise the dead.)
(15) I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world (... no time for the
rapture), but ... thou shouldest keep them from the evil ( ... evil one).
(16) They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (Same thing right there
... [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire.] We are no more of
the world than that Pillar of Fire is. Now what does he say ?...)
(17) Sanctify
them through thy truth; thy word is truth. (“THUS SAITH THE LORD!” William
Branham brought us “THUS SAITH THE LORD” by vindication--never failing. This is
what sanctifies us. This is the Truth! This is what sets us apart--the just
from the unjust, the holy from the unholy, the righteous from the unrighteous.)
(18) As
thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
(How? With one main ingredient—WORD! )
Now,
just a minute. You had a chance to let Peace strike your heart like the
fluttering of the wings of angels, and the Pillar of Fire hovering [over] every
heart—what I just said there. And I’m not discerning, I’m just telling you
flat, because I know what I’m talking about. Because, there he stood, and his
prayer was ... “I have sent them into the world the same as I was sent.” There
is no difference. The Word made the difference.
Remember
when Jesus answered Satan? Satan said, “Now, how about some miracles.”
He
said, “No. How about some Word?” “How about some Word, then some miracles.”
Now,
Bro. Branham had to come on the scene and reverse that for awhile. But
remember, what Bro. Branham did was still Word first, then vindication next,
because he couldn’t be vindicated unless the Bible said, “When God raised up a
prophet and vindicated him, then you listen.” Then from that came other
miracles, as we understand it
13. Now:
[John 17]
(19) For
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the
Truth.
Now,
notice this: The sanctification of Jesus Christ is no more complete than our
sanctification. That’s why Paul could say, “We have become the righteousness of
God,” by Him indwelling us. Did you hear what I said? I said here (and this is
the Truth): “He was no more sanctified than we.”
You
say, “Well, he lived a more sanctified life.”
That
hasn’t got a thing to do with it. It’s not what he did; it’s what he’s talking
about. It’s what God did--the position that God placed us in. (See?) Tell me,
is the seed of God the seed of God? Can there be evil in it? Can there be
darkness? The seed is the seed. Never mind the vessel; just get to the seed!
(See?) The Blood takes care of your body. Now”
(20) Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through
their word; (Now notice, it comes to you and me.)
(21) That
they all may be one; as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Now,
that’s down the road, the world’s going to believe that. The world never could
believe, or he’s cutting his own throat. You can’t talk out of both sides of
your mouth. You’ve heard of the guy that could eat watermelon in the middle of
his mouth and spit seeds out of both sides. That’s okay. Not with the Bible
[though]. Watermelon’s fine but not Bible. Christ is not spitting seeds out of
both sides of His mouth, because He said, “They hate me, because they hate You.
If they don’t believe me, they don’t believe You.” Now He turns right around
here, and He says, “When is it that they’re going to believe?” is, as John the
Revelator said, (Jesus speaking to the Scribe, John) “I’m going to make them
bow at your feet and know that I’ve loved you.”
14. Now,
it’s been progressing right down to this hour. He’s speaking now in terms of
this interim period. And like Bro. Branham, speaking of the Judge, took us
right to the White Throne, so Jesus takes us right to the White Throne. Oh,
read it! There’s nobody going to believe that we’re “one”. They’re telling us
that we’re one with the devil. The Pentecostals are the major ones. Now the
Baptists are joining the song and dance. Next comes the Methodists, the
Presbyterians; and finally, the Catholics will catch up. The Lutherans will
take a crack before the Catholics and the Anglicans get around; but they’re the
ones that’ll do it. (See?) [John 17]
(22) And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as
we are one: (It’s already there. Not something he’s going to give. It’s there.)
(23) I in
them, and thou in me, ... they may be made perfect in one; and that the world
may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
(He’s looking down the road again.)
(24) Father,
I will ... they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am (That’s
down the road); that they may behold my glory, which thou has given me; for
thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (That’s down the road.)
(25) O
righteous Father, the world hath not know thee (now, this is different); but I
have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. (Holds right
there, right down ... “Just think,
(he said,) We’ve been given the gift of
the Son in the form of the Holy Ghost”—conducting, while the great narrator
tells us.)
(26) And
(I’ll) declare unto them thy name (Matthew 12) and will declare it (Matthew 12
says so): that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
them. (And remember: under the Seventh Church Age, all you’ve got is brotherly
kindness. But it says love ... and where does that love come from? Right out of
the Word ... right out of the Word. Can’t come any other way ... no other way.)
15. Now,
before we go back and rapidly read what we’ve already read, and try to rapidly
read forward, (because we want to catch this Spirit of the Symphony in this
interim period—how to move in with the prophet; what the guidelines are; what
the drama is.) we want to go to page thirty-seven, (If you’re [taking] any
notes there.) and I’m going to read paragraph 237.
[237] So, for the
new year, be determined to stay with His Word and what It’s promised, like
others (Elected) did in others’ days. If you feel that you’ve seen the Light
that’s broke through upon you, of Jesus Christ, His manifestation of His Holy
Spirit in these last days. And remember, remember, stay with it, what He did,
you are one of the Elected; and what he, the Elected in other days, like
Abraham, when he saw it, when it was all against scientific proof. Noah saw it,
… it was all against scientific proof. Moses saw it, … against all scientific
proof. Those smart ages that’s gone by; but the Elected ... saw it, stay firm!
Amen.
So,
what you’re going to learn, here, in the Symphony is what I’ve read in these
six pages of notes. (Now, I won’t finish this morning; unless you want to sit
here about two and a half hours, which I’ll wear myself to the nub, if you want
it, [and] cancel Wednesday if we have to.)
16. I’m
going to start reading now, [with] this in mind.
[167] Now, you
little children, so you’ll understand (page
27, paragraph 167)—in
school, I believe you have ... the Russian symphony ... they act it out with
drums, you know it’s called ... little woodpecker and so on ... fluttering in the woods ... beating of drums and
things. And you hear it all as you go through the symphony, as they play it. I
forget the name ....”Peter and the Wolf”. That’s right, “Peter and the Wolf”.
...—that’s a Russian symphony. See... they don’t have
little ... figures flying around that play it out, but they play it on drums
... and then they make the drums and ... sounds and things. It plays it out, it
acts it. So, you’ll understand what Bro. Branham is trying to say.
[168] Now to you
adults, the Scripture is God’s Symphony ( In other words, it’s the score of the
Composer. So this is the score of the Bible) 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.
But you’d have to know about a symphony first. (He calls it a ‘sympathy’, but it’s ‘symphony’
first.) It’s
not just (but you’ve got to be sympathetic
to it—that’s the Truth. It’s not just ) something you see, it’s the changing, the
junctions of the Word, of the music. It throws; (...
in other words, it goes this way ... that way) sometime it’s going this way for a while, a
certain beat, after a while it changes ... around. What is it? To you who
wouldn’t understand It or don’t know anything about It, not interested in It,
it’s just a racket, it’s a fuss. But to those who know about It, they’re
watching for It, they know It’s coming. Hallellujah!
In other words they’ve got enough of an understanding of
the drama, of the Revelation—what’s in the Word--to catch it. If you’ve got a
wrong revelation, and you won’t sit still to get it corrected, you’ll go right
the way you’re going, like the Pharisees. Like ‘the Appearance’. The Appearance
is always, to everybody but us, the Rapture, the catching up. To us, the
Appearance is right there. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of
Fire.] Now, if you’re sitting here this morning, and you’re still
fundamentalist, and you believe anything opposite to that, I’m going to tell
you: It could be too late for you, because you sat here for years. The Presence
is the Appearing, bringing on the last Exodus. “they know It’s coming
Hallellujah!”
17. [169] So we have these times of symphonies of the Symphony of God’s
Word, that the whole drama changes. (In other words, they change the time
element. It’s got a different beat because the story has progressed. It’s a
juncture.) You who are interested, listen for that change. You know it’s
getting close. You hear the way the drums are beating, amen, want something to
happen. You know that this is a change, see, it’s going to break out into a
burst in a few minutes. See? And you’re watching ... it, for you can tell the
way the drums are timing (... the beat is accelerating,
getting harder, more pounding. See? ... awareness). O God, If you can hear the
drums of the finish now, 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!” saith
God.
What?
“I’ll pour my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters prophesy;
and upon my men servants and upon my women servants.” The same Holy Spirit with
two different results—one will be taken from the Great Tribulation; one will go
into it. Now, he’s telling you ... he’s fulfilling... he’s letting you know
that hour is being fulfilled of “light and darkness”. You are ‘light’ who have
the Holy Ghost because you’ve got a seed. And you that simply have an anointing
on you, and you’re looking for some big thing other than the prophet, let me
tell you something: you’re darkness. You’re sitting right here as a dark
person. I’m not going to pick anybody out. You know your hearts. You know if
you’ve come to the place where you say, “Well, if this isn’t it, who cares!”
Might as well go to the Ayatollah and sit on his white horse. We’ve wasted our
lives--because these guys out here have got nothing. I mean, they don’t have
anything in the light of Scripture. I hope you understand, brother/sister, what
I’m talking about. You’ll never convince them, but you’d better be convinced.
18. “The Symphony of God’s great drama that He’s playing, It changes Him” (Well,
He’s got roles. He’s not the Lamb anymore. You don’t even talk of Him anymore
just as simply Holy Spirit. You talk of Him as Judge. Now, you tell me people
in this Message who understand that, even.
A
young brother came here a while ago. ( I won’t mention his name.) I gave him a
bunch of tapes. When I got home I laughed my head off. I said, “Isn’t that
crazy; I give him a whole flock of tapes ... [End of side one of the audio
tape.]
...
I’m sure when he went home and he thought of the tapes, he thought I wanted him
to hear them all. But what I really wanted him to do was pick out the titles
that he liked. So he picked out “The Judge) and said it opened a whole bunch of
new doors to him. He’s a young man that’s got his head screwed on right. He’s a
good brother. We may get to hear from him one of these days.
19. “It changes Him” in the roles, “His symphony at the junctions. The composer and those who are interested, listen for
the change.”
Listen,
if you can’t listen for a change and find the change, you are lost in the
woods. You won’t know if you’re in the middle, at the first, or at the end. So,
there are certain things in this great composition, by the Composer, that we
can know about. Jesus said so. He said, “What’s the matter with you? You look
at the sky at night and say, ‘A lovely red sky, a beautiful day tomorrow.’ You
look at the sun in the morning and see a big red sky, you say, ‘Forget it;
we’re not going out to fish.’ Now, if you can discern the sign of nature, how
come you can’t tell something’s going on now?”
20. Pentecostals!
Let’s understand Pentecost. They’re all dead. Florence Shekarian was dying of
cancer. Bro. Branham said, “THUS SAITH
THE LORD, tomorrow morning at
That
one sign will bring the White Throne on the Pentecostals. You say what you
want, brother/sister.
“Oh,
but God is so great!”
Is
He? Like a flea hopping on a griddle? Like some two-bit character that doesn’t
have this resplendent glory, and always had it, has got to make a show? As a
Judge, He does it once, and you listen. She died. Bro. Branham took a message
to Demos Shekarian, and Billy Paul tells me, tears rolled down Demos’
face—because he’s enamoured with Dr. Charles Price, who is now dead and was no
prophet—shuffled his shoes in the sand and walked off.
I’m
not condemning the man. If he wasn’t part of the Symphony, how are you going to
make him part? I don’t know what he is. Foolish Virgin?… I don’t know what he
is. That’s up to God, but I’m telling you people here for your good. Yeah! And
I’m a first-hand witness of those things that were done, so you are under
obligation just as though you were there, because I’m not lying to you. Do you
want to make a stress test of my voice? I’ll pay for the smartest man with the
most sophisticated instruments to come in here and listen to me preach and
measure my voice. I’m not worried. Why should I be worried? There’s no point.
21. His symphony changes at the
junctures--the junctions. The composer and those
who are interested, listen for the change. (In
other words he’s saying, God watches over His Own musical score, His Own drama
so that nothing gets by Him.)
That’s what all this stuff
is about. (Well ... that’s what all this
revelation is about.)
We’re listening; we’re watching. Every time He appears ...
Now
that’s the main Appearing, [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of
Fire.] but now he’s talking concerning people, with something definite in mind
for the Bride, the Body, though it concerns a specific individual in that Bride
and not somebody else; because It’s to everybody as to what It’s exhorting us
toward.
Every time He appears,
something happens.
That’s
in the audience, amongst the people. Every time at a juncture something
happens. Did He appear? Right there. [Points to the Pillar of Fire picture.]
The fact that He appeared there is proven by the way he deals with the audience
saying, “He’s here.” Do you think Pentecost will believe
that? Only in their own way, like all the rest of the fundamentalists, because,
you see, they’re wrong in what they believe.
22. [169] We see the time getting close. We see back yonder
not long ago when the Church Ages were being drawn out, we were listening. We
saw it right with the Word, beating with the Word. After a while what happened?
There He came, Himself, and vindicated it. (Bro.
Branham said, I took a step of faith. I was with the Word. I drew the pictures
on a board for you. What happened? The Holy Ghost came right behind doing the
very same thing.)
[170] We hear 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.” ... then,
oh, we find out ... 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. (He said the Seventh Seal would
be pulled back. He doesn’t say the seven; he said the Seventh would be pulled
back.) It
should be there. Then all at once, what’s happening, a vision broke, It said,
“Go to
In
other words you have now reached a period where He that is here must do what
He’s sent to do, or forget it.
“Well,”
says God, “I’m going down to see Abraham. I like Abraham; he’s a nice old boy.
You know, he’s walked with me through thick and through thin, you know. And I
know he got messed up with that Hagar bit and all, but I love Abraham. I think
I’ll go on down there and look the situation over.”
So
He goes down to Abraham and Abraham kills the fatted calf. And Sarah and he
dress it, and they feed God.
And,
“Well,” He said, “I think now, maybe, I’ve been down here, I really won’t do
what I was going to do. I’ll just go and sleep and I’ll go on back now.” He
said, “Maybe I’ll come back down later.”
Do
you read your Bibles that way? Then, why read them this way today? See what
Bro. Branham’s trying to tell you? If you’re in the Symphony, you’re not stupid
to believe that Act One is going on now when you’re at Act Three. And you won’t
be so foolish as to believe that, if there’s a score and a drama, that the
Conductor will fool around with Act Two, jump to Act Three, then jump back to
Act Two. Then, how can you roll the clock back from Age number Two to Age
number One, or Age number Seven to Age number Six, where this guy (I think his
name is ...[Estie]?) is suppose to be such a great prophetical preacher in California,
he says we’re now just in Age Six. I got news for him: He’s more confused than
anybody I’ve ever heard of. I thought
23. [171] Then one time He said about the Third Pull; how it would come ...
this one way (... that’s the sign in the hand) then by knowing the heart (... that’s discernment), and then by the spoken
Word.
Now,
I want to tell you something: If there is anything as a let-down, as an
anticlimax in the minds of men, it is Bro. Branham’s ministry who went from the
sign in the hand, which was confusion, to the sign of discernment, which never
failed, and then suddenly come on the scene and say, “Bless God, I met with a ring of angels; Jesus came down, and I’m bringing you the Word. Hallelujah!”
And
they said, “What did you say?”
Why,
merciful God! If I had been out here to Marine Land and seen the dolphins
skipping, literally, over the water in a water net, and I had seen a man
straddled, one foot on each dolphin, go 45 miles around a pool—and that’s Act
#2. And a little old man comes out for Act #3 and he says, “Come on, you
dolphins, around here to where I am in this pew,” and opens a book and says,
“Mary had a little lamb; his fleece was white as snow.” You get what I’m
talking about? Sheer stupidity! Surely unworthy of what happened in Acts #1 and
#2.
That’s
why they crucified Jesus, because they’d seen water [turned] into wine, dead
bread and fishes into food, the dead raised, and his Third Act was ... “I
sanctify them by my Word.”
“Oh...
phoo-ey... sheesh! That’s the Kingdom?? Word, shmerd ... we’ve had enough Word
already! Just when the circus was going into Act #3, you cut it. What did you
do it for?”
24. That’s
what it’s all about. Now, can you sit here this morning and not understand
that? That the Word is every single thing, because that’s what It is. And Bro.
Branham proved by “THUS SAITH THE LORD”—the creation of squirrels—it was the
same Word, the same God that brought her all back there in the beginning. I’m
going to tell you: Act #3 was a cop-out to the world. Yeah!
[
] My mother tells a story: (Now I understand it’s true.) a boy came from the
old country, leaving his home in
25. The
Third Act, brother/sister, was what nobody wanted. That’s why they killed
Jesus. That’s why they hated Paul. That’s why they hate William Branham. And
that’s why they hate us, and you’re not going to change it.
[172] Jesus
said, “Greater... than this will you do; for I go to my Father.”
Now
here’s where he’s throwing a curve, right now. Because everybody thinks, “Well,
the great, great, great, great, great, great works—that is the ultimate.” That
is the great thing that will do it. Oh no! That’s just the wrappings on the
parcel! That’s just the pretty paper and the ribbon on the loaf of bread.
So
we’re starving, and we say, “Oh, look at the lovely loaf of bread wrapped in
the lovely paper, and the lovely bread.”
So
we open the loaf and ...pbthhh... throw it in the garbage can and start eating
the paper. I’m not going to do that.
That’s
as stupid as the guy who said, “Did you see the sign that says, ‘To the Bus
Depot’? You don’t jump on the sign; you go where the bus is and jump on the
bus.”
Yet
the same man that said that, has repudiated Bro. Branham. (You know who it is,
Pete [Klassen]. You’ve met him, I think. West Coast ... big fellow there...
“Well”,
he said, “Lee”... he wrote this man and said, ... “You were a business manager
of Bro. Branham; can you tell me about him?” He wrote the letter back and says,
“I never met William Branham in my life. I don’t know one thing about him.
Don’t bother me.”
. What
would you sooner be known for: the fact that your dollar is good or that your
word is good? How many times I’ve said to people: “Listen, fellow, my check
didn’t bounce, but your merchandise did and so does your word.” Yes, sir.
26. [ ] “The works that I do, shall you do also; greater
than this, for 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 won’t.”
Then,
what is Bro. Branham telling you? Before there can be a corrective Word which
will set the Church in order, there must be some kind of a manifestation to
prove that He’s the One to do it. How would He give you a two-bits for fifteen
billion Pentecostals trying to do something?
You
say, “Vayle, you’re vitriolic, and you’re mean, and you’re vindictive.”
Well,
I kind of like them words, the way you tell me, because I was one of them. I
saw their Holy Ghost in action. But at the same time, when they pulled all of
their dirty tricks on me, and I finally quit preaching for that short period of
time—and I backslid. I admit it. One thing held me steady: I knew deep within I
had something from the Spirit of God, would never let me go only so far and no
further. For, the day I saw Bro. Branham, I knew, if I listened to any man, I’d
listen to him. Baptist... who cares what he was! I’ve yet to find where Jesus
carried a card of what organization he was. He couldn’t be recognized as any
authority in
27. [173] When we hear the Symphony beating, changing, fixing to change,
it’s a junction time. (In other words, Bro. Branham is
saying, You saw my ministry. Something has got to happen.) We notice as He began to
beat, and we saw, “The works that I do, shall you do also, and greater shall
you do.” “Greater”, He promised it. We wondered how it could be.
[174] But did you
notice when He performed His first miracle, He took water and turned it into
wine. Is that right? He took water ... potentially (what that might be) wine (but
had to go, you know, through the grape vine first, then so on.)
[175] And when He
fed five thousand, what did He do? He took something that had been like water,
He took a fish ... once swam ... born of an egg, ... broke it, ... another fish
grew onto the creation that was the original creation. He took bread ... was
once wheat, ... a seed ... became bread, ... broke it ... and the creation only
multiplied.
[176] But in the
woods, there was nothing there to make a squirrel ...
Now,
here’s a man comes on the scene ... “and
I’m going to tell you people something: He had greater results in my ministry
than He had in His own. He did in me what He couldn’t do when He was back there
in His own flesh.”
But
they say, “Uh-uh-uh, now that is
blasphemy. We have got Bro. Branham just where we wanted him. We knew he was a
fraud and a phony, because he has exalted himself. Oh, yes! He’s exalted
himself.”
28. I
wonder if I’ve got a Scripture here for you. ( I just don’t know, because my
memory’s so poor, but I think, if I can’t find It, some of you can find it.)
It’s over here [ ] in the Book of Acts. And It says: here:
(40) Beware
therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets;
(41) Behold,
(you) despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work
which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
See?
They’re liars! Everybody’s got a lie. How many really believe that I stood
there with my eyes glued and not one blink, and I saw that cord, without
unwrapping, right beside his leg? If you can’t believe that, you’re [in] worse
shape than I am. I know it; I was there. I’m a man declaring it. Now, if you
don’t believe that, you don’t believe this. If you don’t believe what I’ve told
you, there’s no way that you can possibly believe Bro. Branham’s message.
Because this message comes on the basis of the purely natural, supernatural
Presence of Almighty God, where God Himself is conducting His Own score and the
prophet has been given the ability to receive revelation and narrate it to us.
And, if we’re part of the dance, we’ll start dancing. If we’re part of the
scream, we’ll start screaming. Not like that Donny Regan, who wants everybody
to start screaming …[as if]?… that’s going to do it. I hardly know ...?...
[but] I’m going to tell you what: Even then, he couldn’t get them to scream. If
you people were screaming, you’d be screaming right then. That’s right. Listen,
these things are not phony what I’m telling you.
29. [ ] ... What was it? The same Jesus Christ! See?
“Greater ... than this will you do, for I go to my Father.”
Now,
that’s the meaning of that Scripture. In one place you’ll find Bro. Branham
categorically said, “How could anybody do
anything greater, as per the magnitude of an act?” I’m paraphrasing now,
because I want you to get what he really said. The impression I got from what
he actually said at that time: the
works would be more extensive. Not an individual act, [but] a greater impact. Because
he said, “He had more success in my
ministry than He did in His own.” Now, he turns right around and says, “It’s bigger—as to a solitary act-- the
magnitude.” Well, did he or did he not? Can we believe it? If you’re part
of the Symphony, here’s where you get your rest. You come where Bro. Branham
was.
Bro.
Branham categorically says, “There was no
squirrel there, but the Voice that spoke to me made me to know a creation would
be manifested.” I am telling you, there was a creation. Now, William
Branham didn’t do the creating; but the man and the Message is one. And God forced
him to use his own words and say what he wanted, how much of what he wanted,
and where he wanted it, and under the conditions he wanted it, proving that God
is not indiscriminate. When Bro. Branham tried to chicken out (to weasel out)
to put God on the spot “Well, Lord, any
old squirrel, any old place, is fine, God said, “Hold it! Hold it! Hold it.
It is not that way at all. How many did you say? Where do you want it? When do
you want it? Now, tell me about it.” So, therefore, the words of Bro. Branham
were creative, in the same sense that the Words of Jesus Christ were the Words
of Almighty God, and therefore, productive.
Now
you say, “I can’t believe that.” Well, you’re not in the Symphony. How can you
believe for God recreating, bringing the bodies out of the ground? How can you
and I believe for the Millennium and the New Jerusalem? Now, I know that this
is difficult, but we can just keep working until it’s not difficult.
30. [176] ... Not take something that’s been created, break something ... and
multiply a creation, but absolutely create. Showing that He’s the same Jehovah
that stood back there and said, “Let there be,” and there was. (Now, he’s telling you why it is.) His Word was made
manifest! When He was made flesh on earth, He took His original creation, broke
it ... and multiplied it. But now in the last days, when He comes down among us
again, the same Light that moved down, said, “let there be light, “ see, He
just spoke ... creation into existence. “Greater than this will you do, for I go
to my Father.” ( And remember, that same One says, “All power in
heaven and earth is given unto me”. And remember, it’s also given to whomsoever
he will give it.)
Remember, we’re at these times.
[177] And the
world don’t understand because it’s a “bunch of nonsense”. (Now, listen...) Because they’re not Methodist, the Methodist don’t
understand It. Because ... we’re not Baptist, the Baptist don’t understand us.
Because we’re not Catholic, the Catholics can’t take us. We’re not Pentecostal; they can’t get it either.
[178] But those
who wait upon the Lord...
Now,
peace comes from strength! If you have peace other than strength, you then are
a fast talker and the guy with the gun may not wait for you to talk. Boom,
you’re dead! But, if you know the thief is coming with the gun, then you get
your double-barreled shot gun, and when he steps inside the door you blow him
to smithereens.
You
say, “Bro. Vayle, that would make me a killer.”
Well,
would you sooner be dead, stupid? Is that what you think of your wife and kids?
Or you’ve got a different kind of religion than what I’ve got, I can tell you
right now--different from Bro. Branham’s. When a couple of boys said they were
going to take his daughter and [Collin’s] daughter, he just sat up all night with
a shotgun in the chair, that’s all, whatever gun he had. Maybe you’re too nice
for this crowd here. I’m not trying to make murderers; I’m just telling: what
are you looking at? You can murder your own soul right today; kill your family.
Get them under the Token. (See?) “Those who wait upon the Lord renew their
strength.” Peace comes from strength. There is no strength outside this Word.
This is the meat.
31. [ ] Those who are looking! Not one man ... we have no history of one man or any observatory, knowing
that the Star passed over. (Three stars, they
say, blended to one.)
But the wise men followed It for hundreds of miles, for two years, they watched
It and followed It. See what I mean? It’s to those who are listening to the
Symphony.
Who
listens to the Symphony? The Elect Lady. She alone has ears. And remember, the
Bible said, “Be careful how you hear.” [It’s] not what you hear. I can read
this Bible to you and read it a hundred percent according to God’s original
intent as He put it in Words, and miss the understanding a million miles. It
wasn’t what I heard; it was how I heard.
[179] Remember,
the Composer knows the end from the beginning.
(Ahh... that’s a good one right there—Capstone and Cornerstone. The one that
started by the Pillar of Fire, the great Church of the Gentiles, caps it by the
same Pillar of Fire.)
He knows all about it, that’s the reason He could write it here. Correctly. Now
you must begin Him, you must begin.
“Do what I do, (he said,) Begin.”
That’s where it all starts. In other words, you must attribute what Bro.
Branham is saying—this great Symphony, this great Word Message—right to Him.
[You
should] say, “He’s present. He’s the One that descended from Heaven. He’s the
‘One from Heaven’ listed in Hebrews 12. He’s the One who’s doing it.”
Start
with Him . Who is it? (See?)
32. [ ] If you want to hear a symphony, … you begin with
Him like in the music at the symphony. You listen, you know what it says, it’s
going to be what the symphony says, then you begin to listen to the music. and
you know what it is, so you know just about, “Here’s where certain- certain
things take place ... (Now, Bro. Branham doesn’t
express himself too well here, but you can get the understanding), now it’s got
to change.”
Well,
you read the Bible. Look, what’s in the Bible, anybody can know it.
Now
the Bible says, “Hey, listen!. Time’s running out.”
Now
you know what could possibly be at the end time. Then you start looking in your
Bibles.
“Well,
Elijah must turn to you. Oh, no, Elijah’s turned to the Jews.”
Hold
it, hold it, hold it! How could it be? How could it be? You’ve got to get out
of here before it burns, before the Tribulation. Oh, they’re divided over that.
They don’t know whether they’re coming or going at the end time, but there are
certain clues in there.
Then,
if you are in a state of flux and of argument and indecision—you don’t know
what to do, what do you do? You call on the highest authority there is to get
your help. That’s God! And what did they do?
Like
I said, Bro. Moore (Herald of His Coming) cried, “O God, send a prophet.
O God, send a prophet!”
The
prophet came and ate in their home; the prophet left them ...
“O
God, send a prophet.”
Spiritually
speaking, these people wouldn’t know if they had a bologna growing on their
nose, if the bologna was growing.
As
the old Scotsman said, “You wouldn’t know God if you met Him in your porridge.”
They
know they need something, but they don’t realize that when God sends that
something, God does it in His Own way. And it’s in the Bible, here, somewhere!
And the prophet told us—and I told you how it’s done, and I’d tell you again
and again when he said, “The Shout is the
Message.”
I
said, “Bro. Branham, I’ve heard a lot of strange things, but I can’t take
that.”
Suddenly,
what was in me said, “When was he ever wrong?”
I
said, “The Shout’s the Message.”
Do
you understand why, then, I’ve taken the forefront in the Presence, and these
things that I’ve done—traced it through and showed you church order, and these
things, when other men fooled about a little gift of Spirit? Now, we stand
right here with church order knowing what it is, from Capstone on down, knowing
the major thing that happens when Truth comes. If you are not seed, the first
thing you’ll do is tell a lie! How many preachers are liars? How many people
like to tell lies? First thing you will do is tell lies. Why? Because, when the
Truth was there to Adam and Eve—the perfect bride and groom in flesh waiting to
go right to the great Tree of Life and be immortalized—they took a lie, and
told a lie. Tried to put the blame on somebody else. (See?) Wouldn’t work.
33. Now
[ ] something’s going on.
[179] Now, to
anybody else that doesn’t know anything about what’s taking place
They
just call it junk, and this and that. What about the Seventh Seal? Craziness.
What about that picture? [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of the Cloud.] Just craziness. They can’t make out the
rhythm. They can’t make out the drama. Now watch. [Paragraph] 180.
[180] Man could
close his mortal eyes to earthly sight and live in the Presence of Jesus
Christ, when you see His Word being beat out in the great Symphony that we’re
living in right now.
In
other words Bro. Branham brought us to the place where we can close our eyes to
every single thing in order that we might concentrate on the Symphony. When
people want to hear the best notes, they want to get close, what do they do?
You can just see them close their eyes and try to relax and yet bring all the
sensitivity into the hearing that they might savor what it is all about. That’s
what you do.
[ ] You must begin in the
Symphony. The only thing you can do if you’re in the Symphony, then you start,
you begin to get into the rhythm ... (the
Spirit of it, see?)
that’s the way you do God.
That’s
the way you do God? We get in the Spirit of God. You get the Baptism of the
Holy Ghost. How do you really get it? Piling Word upon Word. What Word? This
Word. There’s no Life in any other word. So you pile this Word upon Word. You
know, we ought to be coming to church every single day in the week. (You can’t
quit your jobs though.) That’s the way you do God.
[ ] You don’t stand off and
look at it. You get to the rhythm of It! How do you get in there? You’re born
into It, into the rhythm of the Word, when you become a part of that Word.
Well,
the point is this: if you’re not seed, you’ll never catch it. If you don’t like
music, you’re never going to want it. If you’ve got two left feet, you’ll never
dance.
Oh,
you can try but you’ll stumble around, like Jack