Shalom
#25
Twelve Thoughts on “Shalom”
Shall
we pray. Heavenly Father, we’re grateful that You have
given us Your Word whereby we might be sanctified by the Truth of it, revealed
and vindicated, knowing, Lord, that Your Presence did not sanctify a
people—many people thought It did—but it was Your Word, Lord, that actually did
it. You being in Your Word now, today, have given us a double seal. We are
sanctified by Your Word, even as Your Own Son said when He was here on earth in
the
And
now, again, in the days of the Son of man, we have the same great privilege of
being sanctified doubly by the Word, which, if we receive, we know, then we’re
sanctified by You, and we’ll be vessels that can go with You, for You said, “Where
I am, there you may be also.” But we know that those who turn down the Word
cannot have that promise.
So,
we praise You for Your Word today, Lord, and we just believe It as the prophet
gave it—even as the Bible. We know that this has been vindicated for this hour;
we appreciate it. Help us in our studies. We’ll give You
the praise, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
You
may be seated.
1. Now,
this is number 25 of the message that Bro. Branham preached, Shalom. And
we’re nearing the end of this Message which was “God’s Peace,” or as he
entitled it from the Hebrew, “Shalom”—with only three pages left to read and to
discuss, shortly. But before we read them, it might be well to go over some of
the thoughts contained in the Message.
#1. It is a new year’s message. However, it is not such a message
that it deals with the year ahead, which was 1964, or this year, 1989, but it
is dealing with a new era that eventually encompasses the Millennium and the
New Heavens and Earth. But at the same time, dwells on the interim period we
are in until the Resurrection and Rapture take place, which will lead us
directly into Eternity and all that Eternity means.
So,
when Bro. Branham is speaking of the new era—and he mentions the Millennium,
and he mentions the coming eternity of the New Heavens and the New Earth, he
absolutely—because he has made God’s Peace a present-day offering to us—has to
include this interim period, which is the major period (as far as you and I are
concerned) because once we reach the Resurrection and see the dead come out of
the ground. (That’s just a figure of speech.) we know
that we are a part of the Rapture. And from that point on ... Why, there isn’t
anything to even think about, because we’ll be under the absolute guidance of
Almighty God in perfection. So, the proffering of peace is in the interim
period, where it means so much. And we have to know about this peace: where it
comes from, how to get it (to obtain it), and to let it be in our lives.
2. #2. It is in this interim
period which is one of intensely focused Light and terribly concentrated and
pervasive gross darkness, that God’s prophet declares God’s Peace is now
available because the days of the Son of man, the Day Star arisen, God amongst
us vindicating His Word (His Kingdom in our midst) has all come, which is
indicative of the great separation under the Rapture. For healing is in His
wings at this present time, and going on, and the burning oven that leaves
neither root nor branch of Mal 4:1-6 .
Now,
let me go over that again. It’s in this interim period of light and darkness…
And the Light is concentrated, as it has never been before, even though you may
go back in your minds, and you may believe that the great concentration of
Light came to
Now,
categorically, Bro. Branham said, [Jn
3. So,
we are looking at, then, an intensely focused Light, concentrated Light, in this hour. And at the same time there is a
pervasive and concentrated darkness as there never was before. And it is this
time, that Bro. Branham, through the authority of God, declares Peace to us.
And we believe it, knowing it is given on the grounds of the vindication of the
days of the Son of man, the Day Star arisen, which is God amongst us
vindicating His Word—“His Kingdom in our midst,” according to Lk 17:20. These have all come, and are indicative of the
great separation of the world through the Word, the sanctifying power of the
Word, not through the Presence of God. The Presence of God, if that were what
was right, in the sense of the sanctifying power, then the whole world would be
saved, because He’s here to the whole world. But it’s the Word that
sanctifies—the Omega of the Alpha of the ministry of Jesus when he prayed in
the
4. We
see that, then. And at this time, then, with “healing in His wings,” which is
the Rapture about to take place, which in turn leaves the burning that leaves
neither root nor branch. And that’s over here in Mal 4:4-6.
(1) For,
behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, all
that do wickedly, shall be stubble: the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the LORD of hosts, it shall leave
them neither root nor branch. (In other words, it’s extermination of the human
race as we know it, going right to the great
(2) But
unto you that fear my name shall the
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth,
and grow up as calves of the stall.
Now,
how does that fit to this day? Because it’s in the Name of Jesus [that] the
Gentiles trust; it is a Name that Bro. Branham brought with him “THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the Name of the
Lord Jesus Christ” ... and he issued forth the proclamation that that was
the Name you’re baptized in, the true oneness of the Godhead—not Jesus only,
now, but a true oneness of the Godhead—and the people did not fear that Bro.
Branham had “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” and that people died by coming against his
literal ministry. Only those that ‘fear’ the Name of the Lord will have any
opportunity whatsoever, and that leaves out all the Trinitarians. (Let’s
understand that).
5. And
It said:
(3) (You)
shall tread down the wicked; (Those that fear His Name.) they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord...
(4) Remember
ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all
(5) Behold,
I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the LORD:
(6) And
he shall turn the (hearts) of the children (back) to (the) fathers, lest I come
and smite the earth with a curse. (The reason I left out the first part is
because that’s already happened.)
Now,
notice
(10) And
he (said) unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the
time is at hand.
(11) He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still; he (that’s) filthy, be filthy still;
he that is righteous (will be) righteous still; he that is holy (will be) holy
still.
(12) And,
behold, I come quickly; (Now remember, this is the Presence, speaking of the
literal second coming. “I come quickly.”) my reward is with me, to give every
man according as his work shall be.
(13) I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
(14) Blessed
are they that (wash their robes) that they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in through the gates into the city. (All right. You’ll notice,
then, that the Tree of Life will be the gates that open to the City. Now...)
(15) For
without are dogs (male prostitutes), and sorcerers, and whoremongers,
murderers, and idolaters, whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Now,
I said that that cancels Rev 10:4, for Rev 10:4 is in the midst of Rev 10:1-7.
Let’s look at it: [Revelation 10]
(1) And
I saw another mighty (messenger) come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: a
rainbow was upon his head, his face was as it were the sun, his feet as pillars
of fire:
(2) He
had in his hand a little book open: he
set his right foot upon the sea, ... his left (upon) the earth,
(3) And
cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: (... that, of course, is Amos,
the prophet. So, as Bro. Branham said, God’s
His Own prophet. And the One that comes down, then, is acting as a prophet,
but He has to have someone to act through—which is Rev 10:7)
(4) When
the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a
voice from heaven saying, Seal up those things which the seven thunders
uttered, and write them not.
(5) The
angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to
heaven,
(6) And
sware by him (who) liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things
that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea,
and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
(7) But
in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,
the mystery of God should be finished, as he that declared (the good news of
His Gospel by) his servants the prophets. (That’s the literal translation. All
right.)
6. You’ll
notice in there: ”Seal up the seven thunders.” That
has been canceled by Rev 22:10-14, bringing to pass 2 Th
1:7.
(7) And
to you who are troubled rest with us (at what time?) when the Lord shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. (There it is right on that
picture.) [Points to picture of the Cloud.]
(8) In flaming fire taking vengeance
(discerning and making a difference, passing judgment, and exoneration.)
You
say, “Well, I believe He just comes down and this is fire let loose from the
Great Tribulation.”
You
believe what you want. You’re wrong. There never was a time when God did not
bring both the blessing and the cursing. Always being a just God, He set before
them an open door. “I have set before you an open door of blessing and cursing.
Take your pick of law or grace, or works or faith.” Now, if you think you can
sit here and tell me this just means cursing, I’ve got news for you: You’re not
even born-again.
You
say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re arrogant.”
No,
you’re stupid. Read your Bibles. Listen, don’t believe me; read your Bibles.
[You’ll find me...]??? You say, “This is end time.” I read Malachi end time.
Tell me when the fire comes? After the good prophet of God leaves. So, blessing and
cursing, right? Is this any different? It’s no different. I’m not being mean,
but I feel somebody needed that jar this morning—a jolt—just to let you know,
you don’t know what you think you know. You’d better listen to the prophet.
Alpha is Omega. He’s never changed.
(8) In
(flames of fire taking judgment) on them that know not God, and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
(9) (And
it tells you ...) Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction (neither
root nor branch) from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power;
(10) When
he shall come to be glorified in his saints ...
So,
there you are. Before
7. Here’s
what I said: He has risen with healing in His wings at the time of gross
darkness, because all Light through the Ages has focused under the Seven Seals
and the Seven Thunders. For It says, “Every mystery
that’s in the Gospel that has been declared by the prophets, given to them by God, is brought out into the
open.” And this One, therefore, that comes down has the roar, as it were, of a
lion. Now, we know what that is; that’s over here in Amos. And remember, God’s
always His Own prophet. He cannot change. It says here in Amos 3.
(6) Shall
a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people (be not) afraid? shall there be
evil (done) in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
(7) Surely
the Lord GOD will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the
prophets.
(8) The
lion hath roared, who will not fear?
In
other words, “The Lord has spoken, but who can prophesy?” So, if He’s coming
down as a roar of a lion, it’s got to come through a prophet. Just the same as
it says over there in 1 Th 4:16.
(16) The
Lord will descend with a Shout.
It
categorically does not say in the Greek that the voice is the one of the One
that descended, but it’s the Word of the One that descended. I see I’m shaking
some of you. Stick around. Get rid of your creeds and your dogmas and your
wrong thinking. That’s exactly what the Bible teaches. It is not said to be the
voice of the One descending. How does God always speak
to man? Ever since the time of Moses, the die was cast, and He cannot change. I
don’t care if God came down this morning and turned every bit of water into
wine, gave every single one of us something; except a prophet was here to tell
us, you’d better look out until you are completely glorified, because there
isn’t one of us that isn’t cautioned in this hour of darkness to watch.
Because, just as sure as the Light has intensified and focused to the point of
burning—take a magnifying glass and let the rays of the sun come through and
you put it on any object that can be burned, that object will be burned—so [it
is] with the shining Light of God upon this earth. If you haven’t got the seed
that takes the burn, brother/sister, you’ll burn. True.
8. #3. From the in-depth
dissertation on gross darkness of this hour, we find Bro. Branham emphasizing a
final total eclipse of Truth, which in turn leads to a final total eclipse in
spiritual and physical of all but a few Bride. The
concentrated light in the concentrated darkness brings about a total emphasis
of the Word of God as it has never been revealed before. As Paul said, “I am
pressing toward the identity, the full identity, of Christ,” which he could not
achieve. Only the end-time prophet could do it; and now [the] Bride. This Light
shines in this terrible darkness causing a total eclipse. It will move out all
darkness from every Bride. It’ll move out all Light from anybody else. This
total eclipse rises from the refusal of all but the Bride to receive the
Revelation of God’s Own Presence and Truth, which Truth comes through a
prophet.
Now
remember, the foolish Virgin will die for their neglect to respond to the
vindication or spiritual progression. You say, “What do you mean by spiritual
progression?” Well, I’m glad you asked the question so I can tell you.
Spiritual progression is none other than the Word of God through the Ages which
will go through a certain channel until it comes to the time when
9. Now
listen, It says here: [Romans 11]
(13)
For I speak to you Gentiles in as much as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
I
like that! There’s a fellow that knew what he was saying and why he was saying
it, because he had an office. He says, “I’m going to nail something down to you
people, because I’m the one to nail it down.” I like that. Bro. Branham did the
same thing. All right.
(14) If by
any means I may provoke to emulation them which are (of) my flesh, and might
save some of them.
(15) For
if the casting away of (
10. #4. This
revelation comes to us in like manner as a conductor would get into the spirit
of the composer of a symphony, and through that Spirit, bring out the hidden
but revealed real Truth of the Word of God—the written score—as It says in Rev 10:7. Let me repeat it: this revelation we’re
talking about, this concentration of Light... That’s why Bro. Branham didn’t
have time to preach as much as he wanted to. He didn’t have to preach the whole
Bible; it was given to Him to sow the entire Bible, from the serpent to the
prophet in the former rain. So he took... And he started there and took us
right to it. He wasn’t going to take every verse and Job and Nehemiah, Isaiah,
Revelation. Why should he? He had an object to take us to show the “seed of
discrepancy,” right from the Garden of Eden: why all these things took place,
why they are. And he did it. And in
doing it, he brought us the full concentration of God, (as I’ve tried to show
you in message after message) the ultimate of God which is to have a family! and that family placed where God wants it. That’s why at the
end of the Ages—after the great Wedding Supper, and every tear is brushed from
our eyes—there will be a forgetting of every single solitary thing in this life
outside of, somehow, redemption. Just the same as you and I
forgot everything that was back there when we were in Christ, having bypassed
our theophanic form. Now, getting back to a
glorified form, we will forget everything down here. The Bible says so. You
see?
11. Now,
that’s the ultimate. We’re looking at an ultimate. So I say,
this Revelation comes to us in like manner. Bro. Branham said, “As a conductor would get into the spirit of
the composer of a symphony, and through that Spirit bring out the hidden but
real Truth or meaning of the Word of God, which is the written score (you
know) of a symphony ... even as it says in Rev 10: 7.” Now, what does It say in Rev 10:7? Because Bro. Branham is talking about himself. It says:
(7) In
the days of the voice of the seventh (Church Age Messenger) when he shall begin
to sound, the mystery of God (shall) be finished (finalized, completed,
polished, perfect has come!) as (the Lord has declared the good news of His
Gospel, through) his servants the prophets.
So
therefore, this is a Gospel Message, and it is through the prophets. And
remember, to
12. #5. Though the entire Revelation of God is
revealed by vindication, only the Bride receives it. Therefore, as Bro. Branham
said, “This Message is only to the Elect
Lady, the Bride of this hour.” It is a riddle to all else, as in Mt
(10) And
the disciples came, and said unto him, why speakest thou unto them in parables?
(11) He
answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
(12) For
whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but
whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
(13) Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear
not, neither do they understand.
Now
notice, that the Serpent Seed in the Bible is actually a parable. It is, in the
sense that man cannot understand it. It is a puzzle. It is. It’s a reality just
the same what the beast did, but nobody knew what the beast did. They figured
it was just a bit of a temptation, something that came—eating an apple, who
knows? As long as it was some disobedience, who cared what it was! But Bro.
Branham came and made the mystery known.
And
verse 14. [Matthew 13]
(14) And
in them is fulfilled the prophecy of [Isaiah] which saith, By hearing (you)
shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing (you) shall see, and shall not
perceive: (Now, there it is right there—two pictures on the wall. And the
ministry of Bro. Branham: “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ.)
(15) For
this people’s heart is waxed gross; (Then, will their hearts be turned back to
the fathers? The answer is: No! They can’t do it.) their eyes they have closed;
lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears...should understand with their heart (and) be converted, and I should heal
them.
(16) But,
blessed are your eyes, for they see: your ears, for they hear.
(17) For
verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see
those things which (you) see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things
which (you) hear, and have not heard them.
So
therefore, there comes a time when these great mysteries will be revealed to
us. But they will be revealed only to the Bride. Absolutely.
Remember, it was only the five wise virgins that went in to the Bridegroom.
13. #6. But even though the Lord rises upon the
people giving Light, the darkness presses against the Bride. And Bro. Branham
uses Psalm 62 in a warning and as a bulwark to the Bride. So we go to Psalm 62.
(1) Truly
my soul waiteth upon God (What are you going to do when the Word of God’s
coming to pass? What’re you going to do in the midst of darkness, and Light has
come? What’re you going to do? All you can do is wait on God.): from him cometh
my salvation.
(2) He
only is my rock and my salvation…
And
as Bro. Branham says so correctly, He is
not a rock to anybody unless He’s been revealed. Only a truly revealed God is a
rock. How people fight back and forth about ‘oneness’
and ‘threeness’.
And Bro. Branham said, Why (he
said) we come between the Oneness and the
Trinity. But he didn’t make a multiplicity of Gods. He preached “God and
His Son”, the same as Paul did. Then why do you want to preach ‘three’?
Certainly there’s one God, and there’s a whole race of God-people—sons and
daughters of God.
14. Now,
listen.
(2) I
shall not be greatly moved.
Why,
he says, “Certainly, I’ll have some problems.” You show me one person [who]
didn’t get nervous waiting upon God. Oh, Elisha, he
was a great man of God, a great prophet. He had twice the miracles Elijah had.
And trouble came by him one day; he couldn’t get an answer from God.
“Why”,
he said, “Bring me a harp and get someone to play for me.”
Just
like old Saul did. So he played on the harp to get his soul quieted down. He
still couldn’t hear from God.
“Well”,
he said, “I hear the footsteps of that butcher coming. I know what that lousy
King’s going to do when he’s here. Let’s get out of here!”
Do
you think Elisha wasn’t nervous? But he wasn’t
greatly moved.
He
said, “Nothing’s going to happen and going to make me leave my rock. …[Some of you]?… may get nervous and jump up and down on it
a little bit. Try to stand back and figure something out. I won’t be greatly
moved. (He said.) I’m not going to leave it.”
15.
[Psalm 62]
(3) How
long will (you) imagine mischief against a man? (you) shall be slain all of
you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
(4) They
only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they
bless with their mouth; they curse inwardly...
Now,
if you ever saw that happen to a man... I saw it happen to Bro. Branham—ol’ mealy-mouth [David] Du Plessis, and the whole bunch of them—Pentecostal frauds.
All they wanted him for was to fill their churches—get their seats filled with
Trinitarians, after Bro. Branham came in the Name of the One True God. And I
know one fellow, he said, “We’ll have Bro. Branham here, because he can draw
the crowds; from that time we’ll take over.”
(5) My
soul, wait thou only upon God (... in other words the truly revealed God); for
my expectation is from him. (Why? Because He’s vindicated Himself as to His
Presence.)
(6) He
only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be moved. (Now
watch him getting stronger.)
(7) In
God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in
God.
(8) Trust
in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge
for us. (Notice what they’re saying/)
(9) Surely
men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: (as old Doc.
Buckman said, “You get ‘colder’ by degrees.) to be laid in the balance, they
are altogether lighter than vanity. (That’s your theologian that Bro. Branham
excoriated.)
(10) Trust
not in oppression (That’s the Roman Catholic Church; and the Protestant will do
the same thing), and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not
(thy) heart upon them. (
(11) God
(has) spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. (God
manifesting Himself in power, and the prophet explaining it.)
(12) Also
unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: (You get Peace from that.) for thou
renderest to every man according to his work.
What’s
his work? What’s the work that God delights in? And what is the work? Cain’s
works were evil—worshipping God apart from a revelation. This is for the Bride:
Take confidence and put your trust in the hour in darkness since Light has
come; You have a revealed God. He’s not going to let
you down. Bro. Branham said, “I, the
Lord, have planted it and watered it, lest any man pluck it out of my hand.” That’s
exactly the truth.
16. #7. According
to Bro. Branham, the darkness—world-wide—gathers together in a World Council of
Churches headed by the pope, making a church of its own counseling, thereby
putting Christ out completely, categorically denying the Head, Who is present,
and taking dogma for Truth, and thereby installing Satan, the god of this
world, as their god.
You
heard what I read? Want me to read it again? I’ll read it again. (I think I
heard somebody grunt, or say something. So, okay, I’ll read it again to you.)
#7. According to Brother Branham, the
darkness—world-wide—gathers together in a World Council of Churches, headed by
the pope (And remember, America does it; America gets her pope.) making a
church of its own counseling (coming together, talking it over), thereby
putting Christ out completely, categorically denying the Head, Who is
present—Peter said they’ll deny Him, deny the Head—and taking dogma for Truth.
In other words what they rattle their brains together and come up with, that’s
fine.
A
fellow phones me up all the time, and he can’t believe
Bro. Branham’s vindicated. Yet he reads every book and smirks at every man that
tickles his intellect. And the stupid bird hasn’t got enough brains to realize
there’s a bunch of other theologians out there that are tickling somebody
else’s brains with exactly opposite interpretation from the Greek and the
Hebrew. I would sooner have one teensy-weensy, weensy, weensy, weensy,
weensy—God knows how weensy—vindication of one “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” instead
of all their idiotic revelations.
17. Brother/Sister,
I believe when old Luke [Rader]? said the right thing
(I think it was Luke. It may have been Paul. I’m not sure. I think it was
Luke). One day a man came. He said, “Bro. Luke,” he said, “Listen. I’ve got a
gold mine up there in the
And
Luke said, “Brother, have you got a nickel?”
He
said, “Yuh.”
He
said, “Give me [it].” Put it in his pocket and said, “Thank you! I’ve got that.
I’ll never get a nickel out of your gold mine.”
That’s
the truth. I would sooner have a nickel’s worth of vindication than a million
dollars of the asses’ heads coming together, because it’s the scrapings of an
ass-head you’re going to get. The Bible says so. We don’t need it.
Now,
“they’re own counseling” (See?) thereby installing Satan, because they worship
him. Do you realize that Eve inadvertently became a worshipper, an … [sound
like ‘a deity’]?… of the Devil, listening to “one Word
off” through the beast? Well, did she or did she not? Now, what about Cain?
Who’s he listening to? His own division
of the Word! Therefore was he worshipping God? According to his own understanding
he was, but according to God he wasn’t, because Jesus said, “In vain you
worship me, having for commandments the doctrines of men.” Now, he didn’t say
that indirectly they weren’t worshipping Him. But he said,
it didn’t do you any good. Why? Because their high priest was
the Devil, himself. Well, come on. Come on. Who was the high priest to
Eve when God wasn’t around? Come on, did she go to her husband? No! She went to
the beast; that was her ‘pope’. The beast in the garden, the beast at the
end—and don’t think it ever changes.
18. Now,
listen to me: Let’s go to see what we’re talking about—this counseling, and
we’re going to go to Psalm 1.
(1) Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel (c-o-u-n-s-e-l) of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor (sits) in the seat of the scornful.
(2) But
his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and
night. (Now, you can tell there’s two sets of laws here—one which is by man
that comes from Satan, and one which is by God which is by revelation.)
(3) And
he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper.
You
know, that doesn’t hold good until this day. They all
sought it; they all missed it. But every man’s leaf withered, because the Bible
said, “We wither and fade as a leaf; we all die.” Read what Job said. So, this presages, as Bro. Branham had correctly placed it, in
this hour of “Shalom”, the interim of God’s Appearing in the form of the Holy
Ghost in a Pillar of Fire, with the prophet revealing Himself.
(4) The
ungodly are not so; (they) are like the chaff (That again, is an end-time
prophecy. John the Baptist said, “His fan is in his hand thoroughly purging the
chaff; gathering the wheat in the garner. But burn up the chaff that) the wind
driveth away.
19. I
want to ask you a question. (Let’s be honest.) How many heard that tape from
I
ask you a question now: What drove the people away from the prophet?
“Oh,”
they said, “It was his manner!”
Unh-unh..
“Oh,
he just excoriated everybody, and he treated the women like dirt. He was a
woman hater!”
Unh-unh. The Wind blew the chaff. The Wind blew the chaff
and scattered the chaff. It’s true. I was there. You weren’t there. Maybe you
don’t believe m. That’s fine by me. But, you see, this is White Throne, and
I’ll meet you very shortly, brother/sister. You see, I don’t have a bit of
problem up here because I don’t lie to you. Once in a while, you know, I get a
little disgusting, because I hit things too hard. But that’s all right. That’s
my business. I’ll answer to God. All right.
20. I
want to find a verse here. Isa 30:1.
(1) Woe
to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me;
... that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit (they’re not covered with
the Word. The inner garment is the Word. Bro. Branham said, “Bring on your holy vesture”—with the
Holy Word of God standing by. How do you dress a woman with a sword? Well,
you’d cut her dress off. But the sword is the Word of God, so he stands there
to dress the Bride. He said, “I believe
I’ve been called to dress a Bride, but not of my spirit.” that they may add
sin to sin.
There’s
another picture. Let’s go to Isaiah 45. [End of side one of
the audio tape.]
Isaiah
45 Notice verse 21.
(21) Tell ye,
and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared
this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD?
and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour.
Now
notice, “Tell ye, and bring them near; let them take counsel together:” In
other words why don’t you people come together and find out if this was from
God, when He begins to take you from ancient times, the One who had the secrets
before the foundation? And Bro. Branham, by “THUS SAITH THE
LORD.” Listen! I hope you’re getting what I’m saying. Bro. Branham was either the most atrocious, bigoted, proud, arrogant, phony
with a phony God anybody’s ever seen, or he was a servant of God with God
behind him. For he stood up, and he said that, “He reveals secrets unknown; they were from before the foundation of
the world.”
Now
he said, “You people, why don’t you come together and discuss this thing and
find out? “
Do
you know how they’re doing it now? They’re taking counsel by their stupid books
that the stupid Pentecostals are writing. Sheesh!
Don’t even talk about them. I wanted to read the whole chapter. I don’t have
time. Let’s keep moving.
21. #8. As Bro. Branham shows us the separation
of Light from darkness, he is speaking of vindicated Revelation as against the
theology of the seminarian. And at that point he spends a great deal of time on
his own vindicated ministry—one man against all others; God using one at a
time, no other in this hour.
22. #9. As he completely unites
God (What God? God vindicated) and the prophet (What prophet?
Vindicated) and the Word (What Word? Revealed)… let me read it now this way: As
he completely unites God (God vindicated) and the prophet, (the prophet
vindicated) and the Word (the Word revealed, and known to be a true revelation
by vindication) he explains the greater works of Jn
14:20 as one of creation, and categorically declares himself to be the
Messenger of Rev 10:7 and Mal 3:6 “to turn the hearts of the children back to
the fathers.” He again warns us of the darkness and its pressure, with the
antidote of trusting in God, as we read in Psalm 62. This leaves us one
conclusion: The principle of vindication is the only antidote for Lk 18:1-8.
23. Let’s
go to Luke 18.
(1) And
he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and
not to faint:
(2) Saying,
There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
(3) And
there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of
mine adversary. (Right now to 2 Thess.1).
(4) And
he would not for a while: (rest with us until the right time) but afterward he
said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard men;
(5) Yet
because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual
coming she weary me.
(6) And
the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said. (Now, he said, “If you can
understand what is being said—the widow and the judge, and what the judge
did—then understand this...)
(7) And
shall not God (the great Just Judge) avenge his own elect (... unh?), which cry
day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
(8) I
tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man
cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Now,
It tells you right there: Nevertheless, though God is
going to judge His own, at the time of the Coming of the Son of man—the
Appearing— will there be that faith that is requisite? And the answer is “No”!
There won’t be rapturing faith. He comes in order to
give rapturing faith so that no matter how much you
pray or I pray or anybody prays, and continually day and night without ceasing,
crying against sin, proving you’ve got the Holy Ghost—where the great angel
comes by and puts the ink-horn mark on you, “There’s one crying against
sin.”—you cannot have rapturing faith until He
descends with the Shout to give it to you. You can’t have it; it is just that
simple. That is 2 Th 1:7-10.
24. #10. After much
time spent on his vindication through the Presence of God, he rhetorically
asked the question: how does one get this Shalom? Now, evidently the prophet
has already come into it, and he advises us that as a conductor gets into the
Spirit of the composer by the Spirit of the composer getting into the
conductor, so must we do as he did. Now then, to receive the interpretation of
the Score as revealed by the Spirit of the Composer through the prophet, is to
get into the Spirit because the Words of the Score are Spirit-filled, and we,
as we accept Word upon Word, are also Spirit-filled and come to the same place
of the prophet where every channel to the soul is filled with revealed Word and
we by It rise and shine for and from the Glory that has come—Shalom. In other
words rapturing faith comes at the time of the
opening of the Seven Seals, because before his departure Bro. Branham said, “You have every single thing you need under
the Seven Seals to put you in the Rapture.”
Do
you want me to read it again for you? All right (I’m sure I’ve got the right
page): After much time spent on his vindication through the Presence of God, he
rhetorically asked the question: How does one get this Shalom? Evidently, the
prophet has already come in, and he advises us to get into the Spirit of the
Composer which he already has. Now, then, to receive the interpretation of the
Score ... in other words, to take it to heart and believe what the prophet
said, because you’ve got a glimmer of Light concerning vindication (“This man
has got to be right” ), what do you do? You take everything the prophet said,
pile it Word upon Word, until you’re plumb full of the Holy Ghost with every
channel to the soul plugged. And then what comes forth must be the Life of the
Word which will work upon your mortal cells right now and put you into
immortality.
25. #11.
From this point Bro. Branham, true to Psalm 62 in its warning, narrates the
trials of Abraham who stood true to God. What trials are we going to have? I
don’t know. He speaks of his own trials—his wife dying, his baby dying, all
these things—and yet, he went on through those trials to receive the final
revelation of the Word and determined to preach it and live by it until he
died, which he did.
So
must we be dedicated to vindication which guarantees the Light whereby we rise
and shine, and whereby the Sun of righteousness has risen with healing in His
wings. Now remember, “with healing in His wings.”
S-u-n, he said, was immortality. Bro. Branham said, “Oh, what a mistake I would have made today except the Holy Spirit
swept into the room. At the end of the series he said, “Charlie, did you get that—what it was?” He said, “It was them angels.” So, therefore,
those angels which were literally embodiments of the Holy Ghost—the One and
same Holy Ghost made seven appearances to Bro. Branham, and It had wings. [Points to the picture of the Cloud.] So, what rose in that
room of darkness with the blinds closed and the light on? He didn’t …?… in
total darkness. What came in that room? The ‘Sun’ of
righteousness with healing in His wings. Immortality is our portion in
this hour; and do not think that it is not, because it is.
26. # 11 [continued] As he closes, in the final
pages we are about to read, he points us to the very Bible, the very Word, that
God has vindicated to us through him and he seems to be saying, “Here is the Light. It is in the Bible and
it comes from the Bible by the vindication of God.”
Now
I want you to remember something. Remember, Bro. Branham had a vision in which
there were two climaxes—two climaxes. He was preaching out there and the people
got very tired and very hungry as the sun began to go down. The shadows were
lengthening. So, they all left him. And he said, “Wait, don’t go. You have just heard one climax; there is a second
climax coming.” But he knew even though they didn’t listen, they would be
back. What was the first climax? The Pillar of Fire writing
on the walls of the church concerning the Church Ages. What was the
second climax? The second climax, he already told you in many, many
sermons—“Blasphemous Names.” (There’s three or four I
got written down at home.) “Sirs, What is the Time?,”
was another one—different, two or three more sermons—in there he says
concerning his vision and the thunderous shaking of his body, (he said, which
would kill a man) he said, “Is this
visitation the second climax?”
27. Now,
let me tell you something: I was with Bro. Branham in 1958 for the year. We
never actually separated, but our ministries did not seem to go together. We
had our differences. One thing was, I guess of course, our personalities,
because I will grab something quicker than he will. Where he believes you go
ahead and let a man do what he wants and mess up your meeting ... Like he let
this certain preacher… He was defiling women. He just let him defile women. Not
Lee Vayle. [Oh, no!]. [If] you’re going to be crooked,
I’m going to call your attention to it. Well, we didn’t get along too good on
those points, because I didn’t understand Bro. Branham. If the world wants to
go to hell, let them go to hell. You’re surrounded by believers,
make-believers, unbelievers; what are you going to do? Try to convert the
make-believer? Try to convert the unbeliever? Come on. Who are you kidding?
See, let them just do what they’re going to do, and they heap up their miseries
to the end time. I was going to stop them [from] getting those miseries. So we
had a personality clash. That’s where it was. But we always got along good. I’d
visit him. Always, it seemed, I just knew when he was home and when to go and
had a great time. Back in 1962, I came back, because I knew I wanted to know what
he knew. And he said, “See, Lee, I knew you’d be back because you’re seed.”
28. The
second climax is this: Can you take that? [Bro. Vayle points to the picture of
the Cloud.] Can you take angelic visitation? Do you know the Seals are “THUS
SAITH THE LORD?” Or are some of you still sitting here trying to put a new
patch on an old garment? I want to know. For your own good, it’s up to you. I
don’t know what it’s going to be.
Now,
let me tell you something: “The human
body has four rings of light,” I believe Bro. Branham said. He correctly
said that“Your body’s made up of cosmic light.” Scientists
have just found that out. He correctly said, “When they take an x-ray, it isn’t the light from a machine, it’s the
light of your body and the x-ray drains the light which is your vitality, your
actual life.” That’s why people die from x-rays. I’ve had a lot of them.
I’ve got news for you: I’m on my fourth ring now, and I just may not die from a
thousand x-rays, because my mortal fourth ring is going to be subdued and
overcome by God’s Own Light of this Word. And I just may go marching in,
standing on these two feet which don’t have many corns but will have none when
I get there. And my throat won’t bother me when I scream the hosannas. And I’ll
feel so good. The fourth ring of light which diminishes, which means liberation
to go to your theophonic form… We might not even need
it. I don’t think that we will.
29. #12. Then
heed what you hear. “You are looking for
the new year. This book, as revealed by vindication, is the book for your new
year. No other person can honestly say that, but I say it for the living Word
of the living God has come to me, by me to you—the revelation of the hour. Many
will make that claim, but they are not vindicated. Now, listen to me: Place
your lives and futures in the hands of the God Who vindicated Himself to you as
to His Appearing, and has vindicated His Word through me to you. Now, take the Truth and march on
with God, Who is present with His Truth.”
30. This, indeed,
is Shalom! Page 39.
[244] The Book of this year is
the Bible! What Bible? What the Christian
Science have? The Methodist have? The Seventh Day Adventist? Forget it! It’s the Light of the
world. It’s God Himself. Our Book-of-the-year is the Bible. For this 1964 (for
this 1989), our Book is the Bible. All other years to come, our book is the
Bible. Even in Eternity. All the years that’s
past, It’s been the Book of the years passed, the Book of the years to come—the
Book of Eternity. It reveals it is God. Yes, It reveals God. Every year that is
to come, it’s the Book-of-the-year. Whenever you hear the Bible say anything,
it’s promise is (And it’s vindicated.) there will come an Eternal, some day. The Bible is the One
(notice) Who give us... [He] doesn’t call It ‘It’ or
‘What’. He makes it personal, the Bible. The Seals were Christ revealed. The
Bible is the One Who
gives us this promise, when you hear the Bible say that there’s coming a day
when Jesus will come. That’s true. And I say now
[245] I got to
close (because it’s) two hours.
[246] Look, if the Bible tells us
of these things that are to come, speaks of all these hours ... that we’ve
passed through. The days of Noah are predicted. The days of all these others,
the Scripture predicted. The days of Martin Luther were predicted, the days of
Wesley (predicted), the days of Pentecostal (predicted). This hour that we’re living in was predicted.
Everything happened just exactly (as) it was. Then what is it? It’s the spoken Word of God which
is vindicated by God, makes the Light of
the hour. See, just like the sun is. When the Word, the Word itself, is the
Light when it’s vindicated for the time that it belongs to. It is the sun to us when it’s vindicated—not before. And even in vindication,
the prophet has to explain it. See, it’s vindicated, then it’s the Light of the hour. (And
you know what hour you’re living in then.)
[247] John was the Light. He was
more Light than Elijah and (others were) ... Elijah. That “others had more light even than Elijah,” he’s
saying. John
wasn’t Elijah’s Light, but he was Elijah in another form; a-vindicating for the
Light. See, he was. And when Jesus came, He said, “He was a bright and shining
Light for a season. You love to walk in that Light.” See?
[248] And John said, “Now I must
dim out. I must go out now, my Light’s finished shining. I must go out. He must
increase. He’s the Light.”
31. Bro.
Branham was speaking of his own demise. He said, “You loved John the Baptist, but I’m here to take over.” So we
loved Bro. Branham. We wanted his ministry. We said, “He can’t leave us.” But
he did. Now Jesus has taken over.
[249] Jesus said, “I am the Light
of the world.” Amen. Not Bro. Branham; he was just a light pointing to It. That’s right. “The same
yesterday, today, and forever.” And He’s still the Light of the world. And what
is He? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” Why was He
the Light of the world? If He’d come, said He was Messiah, and He didn’t do
like the Bible said the Messiah would do, then He wasn’t the Light of the world.
See, it’s a vindicated word that makes it the Light of the world.
That’s
true. Bro. Branham fulfilled the Scripture of Elijah. But notice, when he
literally was the Word fulfilled as to Rhema became
Logos, few saw. When Jesus literally became Rhema and
Logos, they didn’t see it. And when Bro. Branham literally became the Elijah of
this hour, they couldn’t see it. All right.
32. [250] And in this hour that we’re living in now, the
a-vindicated Word of this hour! Pentecostals, you say, “Speaking in tongues,”
and so forth. That was the day of Pentecost, that was the Light of the hour
then. That was okay back there; not
now, see?
...He’s the Light of the hour today. What
is it? That’s the Appearing. Okay.
[251] The Seventh Church Age, all
smothered out, with Christ on the outside. The moon in identifying it, all the
darkness coming upon the earth. The Light pressing in now, begins to show
what’s going to take place. The thing will be destroyed. The Light will come in
and destroy it. Why, light always destroys
darkness. Darkness can’t stay where light is. And the Saints shall inherit the earth, and
the meek shall inherit the earth. And the earth, and the moon darkness will be
taken away. The darkness of the night will pass away, the darkness with their
death and creeds, and away from the Word of God, perverted these things that
they’re saying. And the Light will break forth upon the day.
How
do you know? Because the Word’s been corrected; it’s got to come to pass. Not
just we be corrected, but when we’re corrected all nature becomes corrected. Romans 8.
[252] And remember, when the full
Bible... Listen, in closing. When this full Bible has been thoroughly
vindicated, then there will be an eternal Shalom, eternal Peace. Now, when’s the Bible thoroughly and completely
vindicated? After the Resurrection—[the]Millennium. Don’t even wait for the
White Throne.
[253] He came and He said it was “Peace on earth, good will towards
men,” but the world didn’t receive it. See? He was Peace to everyone that come
to Him for Peace. See? Peace on earth, good will to man, He was the Peace of
that new year, beginning new day of God. For why? He was the vindicated Light of that hour. So, right today He’s saying the same thing.
[254] But there’s more Word to be
vindicated. He’s got to vindicate more Word. And when the last Word is
vindicated, then, death is swallowed up
in victory.
Now
then, what’s to be vindicated before that time?
“Well,”
you say, “Well, death’s swallowed up in victory. What’s to come?”
Well,
I’ll tell you: The Word to be vindicated before His Coming; that is, before
death is swallowed up and mortality gives way to immortality. We have read it
many times in 1Corinthians 15, which I won’t take time to read now, because I
haven’t got time. It’s when He appears and puts the Church in order. It wasn’t
in order when Bro. Branham left. He couldn’t even get them in a little room to
put the gifts in there. But under the full Headship of Christ, the Word—and
we’re coming to it more and more. Don’t you see?—it’s more death to our
understanding, our own word, our own ideas.
[255] Remember, the Bible is the
fountain of all wisdom, and holds all hope of the future. To the Church,
Shalom! Let us pray.
[256] The little group present
here now. It’s been two hours— this little new year’s Message. You been very
patient. Is there one in here this morning, this afternoon, rather, that
doesn’t have Shalom, the Peace that’s spoken of, that identified Word of God when
you and the Word become one? Now he says right
there: you and the Word become One is where you get that Shalom. Now he’s
telling us what happens and how it happens. And I read it in John 17 last week,
when the Bible
says one thing, you say, “no, I can hardly believe that that’s right,” then you
haven’t Shalom.
33. Remember,
I was there.
I
said, “Bro. Branham, I don’t think I can believe that.”
Then suddenly... “When was he wrong?”
Now
you come to the place where it’s got to be right, because what else could be?
If anything is right this has to be right, because nothing comes to it. Look...
My God! If I had a loaf of bread that had the life of the food in it, and
everything else was an imitation, and I knew that everything else was a phony
but one loaf of bread, because only one loaf of bread had any life in it, do you
think I’m going to ‘frig’ around with this lousy stuff out here that’s
imitation? No! I want reality; and there’s the only thing that’s got it. Maybe
in that loaf of bread there’s only one little mouthful of life, then give it to
me. At least—my God!—I’ve got something. “Don’t
disagree,” he said.
[ ] You’re not at peace with God, because His Word says
one thing and you disagree. You can’t have
that Shalom. You can’t have the Shalom of 2 Th 1:7—relaxation under the Seventh
Seal.
[257] And if the Word says,
“Shalom, Peace,” and you have that Peace, that every Word that God says, you
can punctuate it with an “amen”, and you believe It according to what Bro. Branham said. And when you see It
vindicated, you say, “Amen, that is the Word!” But does a creed, a light, a
false light, the world sweep across in the shadow of the light that’s being
reflected to darken it out, some creed, to say, “No, I -I that that—that that
was for something else. This means this; that means
that”. That’s when their light becomes darkness—total darkness.
[258] Here and in the tapes,
whoever will listen to them, think it over just a minute. And if there’s one
present here that would like, that doesn’t have that Light, would you raise
your hand to identify yourself, that you are ready to walk in that Light today.
End time evangelism, what he’s doing right there. That’s end
time evangelism! Do you want to win souls? You can’t win them any other way.
They’ve got to identify with this Word to get the Holy Ghost, and it’s Word
upon Word until we’re filled. All right.
34. [ ] And if there’s one out in the land ... where this tape goes ... you don’t have It, ... raise your hand ... God’s right there with you. Turn off your recorder in just a moment and when we pray, get down on your knees [and] say