Trees, Books, and Fountains # 1
Bro. Lee Vayle
June 18, 1989
Shall
we pray. Heavenly Father, we would
invoke Your Presence, Lord, to be a blessing to us, as the Word might be
revealed to our hearts -- some of the things the Prophet taught us. Those things which he brought to our
attention, Lord, is what we want, we see in Your Word especially for this last
day -- at the time when all the mysteries are revealed from even before the
foundation of the world -- and many of these things are in parables (we know
therein), figures of speech, but You made a way for us so that we are not
looking in a glass darkly, but we’re looking at Truth.
So,
help us in our study this morning. May
it edify our hearts, our minds, our souls.
And with a prosperous soul, come down into the very reaches of our body
-- even as John said, “... we may prosper and be in health as our soul
prospers.” And we know, Lord, there
never was a more prosperous time in this six thousand years’ history; there
never was a greater epiphany. In this
hour, Lord, we believe that; we saw it fulfilled. We believe that, Lord. So we believe that our soul is in a position
to prosper, even to the point of immortality.
Give us Your blessing, then, Your help.
In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, I
want to start on what is kind of a little… hardly a series (it’s not really
that), but thoughts from the Word, entitled Trees, Books, and Fountains
-- trees, and books, and fountains. And
I don’t want to particularly read any Scripture at this moment, but we’ll get
to Scripture in each of the cases.
Now,
trees and books and fountains are three interrelated subjects in the Bible,
with ‘trees and fountains’ being figures of speech only. That’s what they are; they’re figures of
speech. They represent certain other
particular things. Whereas, ‘book’ is
exactly what it says it is, in the fact that it is a record -- which record may
be the prophetic future, or one that is already passed and is history. (Which would mean the book, then, would
contain the past, the future, the present and it would certainly have great
revelation in it if the book could be open to us.) So, we see the three things: trees and books
and fountains. And trees and fountains,
of course, in just about every single case are figurative.
Now,
let it be known that we are viewing these three as being involved with
humanity, but more especially with that part of humanity known as the ‘children
of God’. So, therefore, there is a
lesson to be learned applicable to us (to all the world perhaps, but more
especially to us) as we look at these various figures that are in the
Word. And of course our major interest
is our own identity as to these figures.
In other words: Where are we in the book? What is represented by tree and fountain (
if, indeed, it does represent us)? And,
what relationship would we have?
Now,
since the Bible mentions trees, first of all, in a relationship to man and God
and life as part of zoe... Let me repeat that again: Since the Bible mentions
trees, first of all ( that’s the first mention of any of these trees, books and
fountain)... since the Bible mentions trees, first of all, in a relationship to
man and God and life as a part of zoe, we can start there. In other words, we know that zoe was in
God. He began manifesting Himself,
showing Himself in nature (putting His sons here amongst nature) and all of
these things are a part. And you’ll
notice in the Bible the word ‘tree,’ and
trees hold a very great position.
So,
we’re going to start right back with trees in the Book of Gen 1:11-12. And it says:
(11) And God
said, Let the earth bring forth grass, (and) herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:
and it was so.
(12) And the
earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good.
Okay. We go to
[Gen 1]:26-29.
(26) And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, ... over the fowl of the air, ... over the
cattle, ... over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that (creeps)
upon the earth. (So that would be
animate, inanimate and so on.)
(27) So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them.
(28) And God
blessed them, and ... said ..., Be fruitful, and multiply, … replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that (moves) upon the earth.
(29) And God
said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face
of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for meat.
All right. In
Gen 2:7-9.
(7) And the
Lord... formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(8) And the
LORD God planted a garden eastward in
(...
evidently that took place after verse seven) and there he put the man whom he
had formed.
(9) And out
of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; (and) the tree of life also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (It was in the peripheral. The Tree of Life was in the middle.)
Then [Gen 2]:15-17.
(15) And the
LORD God... took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it.
(16) And the
LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat:
(17) But of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in
the day (of the eating) thereof (dying) thou (dost) surely die (... one
thousand years; he never lived beyond that.)
Now, let’s go then to Genesis 3, and we read it all:
(1) Now the
serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, (You) shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
(2) And the
woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
garden:
(3) But of
the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye
shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest (you) die.
Now,
you’ll notice where the woman placed that.
She put it in the center. The
Bible doesn’t say it was in the center.
According to my knowledge, you can’t have two things dead center. So, she made a big mistake right there. In other words, people think they’re zeroing
in on God, and they’re not zeroing in on God; they’re in a peripheral or
tangential, and they’re having a problem.
[Genesis 3]
(4) And the
serpent said... (You) shall not surely die
(5) For God
doth know that in the day (you) eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and
ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
(6) And when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, ... it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and
did eat, and gave also unto her husband ... and he did eat.
Now,
you notice, “In her eyes”... it doesn’t say God said the tree suddenly became
good. This woman really blew it. What kind of eyes did she have to see
something good when God said it was evil?
Now, the Bible said the tree was evil.
Bible said it wasn’t good for food.
Anything that will kill you is not good for food. “And she saw...” Now, who anointed her eyes? Now, a woman types the Church. This is why you see what you see and why Bro.
Branham taught what he taught. (It
doesn’t mean any sister, here; we are typing.)
[Genesis 3]
(6) ...(she)
gave (to) her husband... and he did eat (also)
(7) And the
eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
(8) And they
heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst
the trees of the garden. (Now, you
notice, they didn’t hide under the Tree of Life or the tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil. They went elsewhere.)
(9) And the
LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
(10) And he
said, I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked;
and I hid myself.
(11) And he
said, Who told (you, you were) naked?
(Have you) eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded (you, you should) not
eat?
(12) And the
man said, The woman (that you gave me gave it to me, gave me of the tree, and I
ate it).
(13) And the
LORD God said ... What is this (you’ve) done?
And the woman said, (Well, the serpent fooled me. He beguiled me; he seduced me), and I did
eat.
All
these people that don’t believe Serpent Seed ... they try to make that simply a
case of mental seduction. Hogwash! You go to the Book of Timothy you’re going to
find that women don’t get pregnant eating apples. What she did in the Garden had to do with
pregnancy. So let’s not try to fool
ourselves and be a bunch of stupid idiots, because they’re idiots out
there. Remember that ‘hinny’ [hybrid,
whose father is a stallion and whose mother is an ass] out there, whatever he
is, he doesn’t know who his mammy and pappy are.
[Genesis 3]
(14) And the
LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed
above all cattle, ... above every beast of the field, upon thy belly shalt thou
go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: ( He completely changed in
every bone in his body. That’s your boa
constrictor. He’s got remnants of hips,
and so on. Conducts himself like another
animal.)
(15) And I
will put emnity between thee and the woman, ... between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
(16) Unto the
woman he said, (I’ll) greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow
(shalt thou) bring forth children; ... thy desire shall be to thy husband, and
he shall rule over thee. (Eating an
apple would do that? It would have to be
a mighty green apple just to get a stomach ache.)
(17) And unto
Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and …
eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
of thy life. (Now, that’s the ground
he’ll eat out of ... what comes out of it.)
(18) Thorns
... and thistles (it shall) bring forth to thee; ... thou shalt eat the herb of
the field;
(19) In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for
out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art and unto dust (thou shalt) return.
(20) And Adam
called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
(21) And unto
Adam ... and ... his wife did the LORD ... make coats of skins, and clothed
them.
(22) And the
LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil;
and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat,
and live for ever;
(23) Therefore
the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken.
(24) (And) he
drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
All
right. Having read these Scriptures, it
is very evident that the trees which were a part of the acceptable, eatable,
palatable vegetation, as mentioned in Gen 1:29, ... let’s look at it:
(29) And God
said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face
of ... the earth, and every tree, in
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, (it shall be to you) for meat.
So
every single tree and herb on the face of the earth was palatable, and was
required to sustain the two individuals.
So, we see, here, it is very evident that the trees which were a part of
acceptable, edible, palatable vegetation (nutrition-wise) as mentioned in Gen
1:29 certainly do not include all the trees that are found in Gen 2:8-9,
because every specie is there in the perimeter.
And in the middle, but particularly dead-center, is the Tree of Life and
beside It is the choice of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is
death.
[Gen] 2:8-9 ... read it again:
(8) … the
LORD God planted a garden eastward in
(9) And out
of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; (... But there was a tree in there that could kill
you! So, it wasn’t good for food. And there was a Tree in there that could give
you Life.)
Now,
having read these verses, you can see that Adam and Eve were already given a
source of food that would feed their bodies.
And this food was to be found world-wide. We read it... “over the face of the whole
earth”. So there was something
everywhere that people can eat in the providence of God.
It is
also very evident that some, or most, of all these trees that nourish the body
were in the Garden of Eden. And you will
notice that the words in Gen 2:9 say the same thing in
Gen 1:11-12.
Okay, Gen 2:9, we read it. The
Lord God had all those pleasant looking and good trees in there to ‘wump up’
your appetite and you’d enjoy eating them.
The same as it says over here in [Gen] 1:11: The earth is going to bring
forth grass, and the herb, and the fruit tree, and all those things, and
they’re absolutely good according to Almighty God. And in [Gen] 1:29, it tells you that Adam and
Eve were supposed to eat them. (See?)
Now, they came out of the ground.
(See?) They were told to eat it
... out of the ground. But in Gen 2:9 we
noticed that there are two trees that could not have come out of the ground because one of them could cause death,
which would be in direct contradistinction to Gen 1:29. Everything that came out of the ground in the
original was absolutely blessed.
And you’ll notice it was after the Fall that even the
briars and the thorns and the weeds came out.
So don’t you try to think your own thoughts. Here’s where everybody goes haywire. They start questioning the Word of God. And when you question the Word of God you
destroy everything that God would ever do for you. Here’s where the first seed of unbelief
was. The belief was: All this is good,
but that is not good; keep your hands off of it. And she stood there and even said it.
Now,
you’ve got young boys that want to start smoking, who have already started
smoking. The Surgeon General ...
everybody tells you, smoking gives you cancer, but you’ll smoke anyway. So, if you die of cancer, that’s your tough
luck. But just like Eve messed Adam up,
kids mess up parents, society and everything else because they can’t be told
anything. I read this morning how God wants
sons, and recognize Himself as Father to those who say, “Guide us”. You can be so hog stupid and stubborn. You won’t do these things you should do. I’m just appalled; I don’t understand it.
So, in Gen 2:9 we notice there are two trees that
could not have come out of the ground because one of them could cause death,
which would be in direct contradistinction to Gen 1:29 that says, “All of these
upon the face of the earth are good for you.”
And further to that, Gen 2:9, as we stated, speaks of a source of
life. And these two were already living
and had everything they needed to keep them living through natural sustenance
that God had provided.
So,
this must have been a life beyond this life as we know it … or have never known
it. And it’s even apart from creation, because it’s something He did
after. Now, you’ll notice, as Eve was a
by-product of man, she was not in the original creation. Evidently, what we’re looking at here,
although in creation, was not a part of the original plant life; it simply
wasn’t.
Furthermore,
we want to emphasize the location of the two trees: They were in
Then, notice ... in Gen 3:22-24.
(22) And the
LORD God said, Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:
(to become conscious of that particular factor which only God knew in His Sovereignty. Only God understood that there could be a
perversion, and now man knows it. And it
said ... unless) he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and
eat, and live for ever:
(23) Therefore
the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken.
Now, Adam was not formed out of the ground which was
in
[Genesis 3]
(24) So he
drove out the man (from the Garden of Eden); and he placed (a cherubim there
with flaming swords) ... to keep the way of the tree of life, (and
But then notice, we see, in Gen 3:22-24, man was
dislocated from
Did you hear what I said? If you heard what I said, you are not
thinking the way the fundamentalist does.
Because he said, “Hallelujah!
I’ve got Jesus. I’m coming in the
resurrection. Glory to God! Who needs a stupid idiot idea of any Elijah,
the prophet? Hah!” What’re you going to do about it? Are you
going to tell the world, and your testimony?
You’ll be called a ‘kook’ if you do.
But if you’re not called a kook and a heretic, then, you don’t line with
the Apostle Paul. You’re just a poor old
seat-warmer, and I feel sorry for you because you ain’t gettin’ nowhere. (See?)
He truly lost something that he had access to, but did
not avail himself of. Yet it does not
mean that the loss is irreparable.
Further more, we must most emphatically declare that -- since the
Scripture reads (as it does in [Gen] 3:22) ... “lest he put forth his hand and
(eat) of the tree of (the) life ... and live forever” -- it is absolutely true
that Adam’s condition that was now in his flesh was no obstacle to immortality
in itself. And in his fallen condition,
he could have lived forever. Now, that’s
true. Thus, God removed him from
So, let
me say again, then: God removed him from
(10) ... if Christ
be in you, the body is (still) dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness.
(11) But if
the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall ... quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that (dwells) in you.
So,
therefore, it’s your body that has to have the baptism with the Holy Ghost in
order to raise it. The same as your soul
has to be united in seed with the Holy Ghost in order to give you the right
understanding of the Word of God to make you to know that you are that one who
will come in the Resurrection. So, the
body is dead because of sin. It’s going to die unless God grants a reprieve
through some special intervention to bring back the Tree to accessibility,
because you’ve got to go by Alpha if you’re going to come to Omega. And the Alpha was, “Yes, immortality is
available -- you blew it.” Now, what are
you going to do to bring it into the position where you can now come to
it? And the answer is: Nothing. It’s going to be by grace. As Bro. Branham said, “If God ever sends His power back into the Church, it is going to be by
grace and not by works.”
All right. In
plain language, immortality -- unless forever denied by God -- can be obtained
by sons of Adam at sometime. And that
time is when they, regardless of physical condition, are supplied with some
antidote, or some screen or something, that counteracts and annuls the sentence
of death in the flesh. From the Word of
God we know that to be true, for “the Son of righteousness will rise with
healing (or immortality) in His wings.”
And at long last the sons of the first Adam -- Adam who was the son of
God -- his sons can come and partake of the Tree of Life and live forever and
go back home to
We go to Rev 22:14.
And here’s what it says:
(14) Blessed
are they (who) wash their robes (... in what?... and) ... may have (the) right
to the tree of life, (even) enter ... into the city.
(15) For
without are dogs... (for without is all the Serpent seed out there. They are entirely out of the picture. And this is just before the second coming of
Jesus Christ.)
Rev 22:20.
(20) He which
testifieth these things (says), Surely I come quickly. Amen.
So, immortality is acquired by us, given to us before
the literal Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And notice the condition of mankind at the
time of Rev 22:15:
(15) For
without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and
idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (There they are.)
Also, Rev 18:23-24.
(23) And the
light of a candle (that’s Babylon, Church world system) shall shine (in thee)
no more at all ...; and the voice of the bridegroom and ... the bride shall be
heard no more at all in thee; (Now watch this condition...) for thy merchants
were the great men of the earth; for by (their) sorceries ...
(See?)
... their prescriptions, their pharmaceutical doings (spiritual, now), the
contrivance of everything man can make to attain to a good body -- or John
says, “That your soul may prosper and be in health”, then your body follows
suit. So, then, there’s got to come a
time when the soul is so set before God, by God, that the body comes to a place
of immortality. It’ll never die.
(24) And in
her was found the blood of prophets, and ... saints, and ... all that were
slain upon the earth. (Now, you’ll
notice that the Bride and the Groom were in that dirty bunch of birds, until
they came out. Until a certain time, the
Bride is in there.)
All
right. Notice also over here in Job ...
way back in the Book of Job, the thirteenth chapter. ( I hope I got it right.) ... verse
four. Job says to these people, here,
that come to him to comfort him (which they don’t.) They try to make him a wicked person before
God -- Job, the righteous. And he said
... [Job 13]
(4) Be (you)
are forgers of lies, (you) are all physicians of no value. (That’s your
preachers, your churches, and your system.)
In this
terrible time, the Last-Age Bride will come to the Tree of Life regardless of
Rev 3:14-22.
(14) ... unto
the (messenger to the Church which is in
Now,
that word ‘Amen’ is Truth. This is from
Isaiah ... “Thus saith the God of Truth”.
And remember, the world receives the antichrist according to 2
Thessalonians 2, because ... “they received not the love of the truth”. In other words, they would not receive the
love of the Lover. They would not receive
the God of Love, who is the God of
Truth, for Truth must come finally to this earth. Why?
Because it was believing the lie that took Eve and Adam away from
God. Now, that’s what the Bible said. The world follows the antichrist and goes to
complete perdition, leaving neither root nor branch … because nobody is left
living at the end of the Great Tribulation because they believed the lie, which
was: “Thou shalt not surely die.” The
Bride believes the Truth which is: “Thou shalt surely live. You’ll surely not be a part of those that do die.
But they will not believe the Truth as it is set forth.
Now,
these physicians, of course, are theologians and what-not who positively have
led the church astray by their nostrums, by their prescriptions which are not
of God.
Now, notice, what it says over here in Jer 8:19-22
(hopefully):
(19) Behold
the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in
a far country: Is not the Lord in
(20) The
harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. (Now, that sounds like the Foolish Virgin,
and the rest of them. Now remember, he’s
telling you right here, the
(21) For the
hurt of the daughter of my people (am) I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath
taken hold on me.
(22) Is there
no balm in
Now, you can see right there that God is likening
Himself to a physician and that the Church needs a physician in the time of her
sickness because sickness is the result of sin (same as death is), and sickness
is just the precursor of death, as it comes out of sin. Now he said, “Where is the physician?”
Now, notice how that Jesus says the same thing over
here, in Mt 9:12, speaking:
(12) But when
Jesus heard (them) he said... they that be whole need not a physician but they
that are sick. (And remember, he was the
healer.)
And
over here, in Lk 4:28, we see... (got the wrong verse there. It doesn’t matter anyway.) The same thought there is merely: Jesus
Christ himself is the physician (...it might be chapter 14... I don’t
know). Now, what we’re looking at, here,
is the person in the Bible, in the New Testament, is Jesus the Christ who is
the same person over here in the form of the Holy Ghost. Now, we’re talking about God incarnated in
Christ; we’re not talking about Jesus the man under any consideration
whatsoever -- that just is not true.
Over in 1 Th 4:13, we see here Paul speaking:
(13) But I
would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,
that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
(14) For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring (forth) with him.
(15) For this
we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the (Presence) of the Lord shall not (take precedence, in any way, over)
them which are asleep.
(16) For the
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, ... the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(17) Then we
which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air: ... so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Now,
you can see, here, that the condition of the people at the time of the coming
of the Lord and the time of the resurrection, will be absolutely just like
those who are going to be in the rapture, because they’ll be immortalized. Now, what am I trying to say, here? I’m trying to tell you that the very same God
that is the Physician is the One that comes down as the Great Physician, here,
in order to change the people’s body. In
other words, He supplies the antidote for the sentence of death, which is the
sickness and disease that is in mankind.
Now, let’s go to Ex 15:26.
(26) And he
said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God …
And remember, in Hebrews 12, we get the
One from Heaven speaking. And remember
in Rev 10:1, the same One that’s in Rev 5:1, comes down and begins
speaking. “If thou wilt diligently
hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God” ... through what? A prophet.
(26) ... and
wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his
commandments, and keep all his statutes.
Now, what’s right in His sight? To receive those whom God sends. That is the work of everybody that’s a seed
of God. You have to receive the one that
God sends.
Now, he said... [Exodus 15]
(26) … I will
put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians:
for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Now,
you notice, the sentence of death was not upon
So,
therefore, when He comes to avenge His Own, He comes to destroy the
wicked. And He does not destroy the
wicked and take a few righteous with him.
There’s no way; it always kept apart.
Now, notice the antidote to mortality -- the healing
power of God , victory over death -- is found over here, right under our noses in
the Scripture in [Rev] 22:14.
(14) Blessed
are they that (wash their robes), that they may have the right to the tree of
life. (So it tells you that.)
All
right. Let’s take that and go back to the
Book of John, the seventeenth chapter and try to get some sense out of it. Now, Sanctification is a work of grace and a
cleansing process. So, therefore, the
washing of water by the Word (according to Paul) is what we are looking
at. And it’s the same thing that Jesus
said, because everything runs in threes and in continuity.
[ John 17]
(17) Sanctify
them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
(Now, remember, it is the love of the Truth that saves the Bride. It is the garment that is washed that saves
the Bride. It is the ‘Truth that
sanctifies’ that saves the Bride. Now,
watch...)
(18) As thou
hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Now,
when Jesus was sent into the world, you tell me how he was equipped? “Well,” you say, “Bless God, he got the
baptism with the Holy Ghost. And anyone
out there, don’t you know, in the wilderness ...”. It was more than a baptism; it was actually
God Himself came in and took up the vessel.
Now, when the vessel was taken up by God, he went out there into the
wilderness. And there he was tempted by
the devil, after having fasted forty days and forty nights. So, therefore, he was in a position for his
flesh to go into sin. Now, let’s face
it, Eve was in a cycle of her life when the Serpent knew positively she would
get pregnant -- let’s face it.
I should stop right here and warn you women to get the
little video cassette that I bought
-- Babies Now and Babies Later -- where you’ll teach
your girls exactly the truth so they know all about themselves. So they do not fall prey to some junk-heap
out there. And even some of you young
boys learn to keep arms length around here, too. You may claim to be saved but I don’t see
much evidence of some of it. And don’t
think he didn’t know. (See?) Man doesn’t know. He knows only within himself when he desires
the act, but the woman is in the danger position because she is excited at that
particular period. (You know what I’m
saying?) Just telling you positively the
truth. So let’s get it down pat and
start doing something about it, because
lives are at stake, families are at stake -- everything’s at stake. It’s about time people did something.
All
right. It is the Truth that the Bride had that absolutely saves her. It is the sanctifying Truth of the Word that
puts her in a position of virginity, because Eve lost her virginity by having
another man. The Church lost its
virginity by going to a false Jesus, a false spirit, and a false word. How deep can you get? That’s like being pregnant by a black man, a
white man, and a red man (and you might as well go further... you get the brown
man in there, too). In other words, the
Church became completely pregnant to bring forth all kinds of bastards and
illegitimate children. And we’ll see
that it did. Now, we’re talking about
trees.
Now, [John 17]
(18) As thou
hast sent me into the world...
Now,
what am I talking about? As God indwelt
Jesus and He confronted the devil, He used the Word and the Word only. Satan twisted every Word... “If you be the
son of God (though he was), make these stones bread.” He said, “It is written, ‘Thou shalt not live
by bread alone...’” When the Serpent
came to Eve, Eve could have used the Word and she [could have?] said, “I’ve got
my husband.” That’s why the Bible said,
“Let every man have his own wife”, if he’s the kind of man that needs a
woman. And you go snortin’ around, you
deserve AIDS... and [if] you get AIDS, I won’t pray for you. I won’t even tell you where you might go to a
clinic and get some help.
[ End of side one]
They
don’t call me ‘the mean old troll’ for nothing.
I don’t have any love for stupidity; I’ve ... [enough]?... love for
myself. I can, you know, cry my own
stupid crocodile tears, but I know if I put my hand in a meat grinder, I’m the
one that did it. Now, if you shove my
hand, that’s a different story. You’ll
answer to God.
Okay. Jesus, the vehicle of God, went and stood
there with one thing -- Word! That’s
all. Now, he said to the Bride, “As I’ve
been sanctified by the Word, that’s all I’ve been given.” Then, that’s all we need! The big thing is: Where do you get a Word
that’s not perverted? You’d better find
something or somebody that can do it!
And you’d better stick your neck out and identify. And you’d better build yourself up in either
your ‘most holy faith’ or your ‘unholy faith’ -- whichever that is. Yah, I could say something, [but] what is the
use.
Let’s keep reading... [John 17]
(19) ... for
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the
truth.
The
Truth was not what Jesus did! The Truth
is what it is, and then you stand with it, because Truth is as eternal as
God! And it’s as powerful as God. That’s why God says, “I am the Truth. The God of the Truth at the end-time comes to
(20) Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe ... through their
word: (providing ... it doesn’t deviate).
So, as
Bro. Branham said, “The Bride of the
He said, “Now that you’re full of the Holy Ghost your
body is absolutely ready to come out of the grave, if you should go in
there. Now, there’s just one thing we
need, and that’s the Spirit of God Himself for a further revelation.”
“Well”, says the people, “Hallelujah! I’ve got the Spirit of God. I’ve raised the dead, and I’ve done this and
I’ve done that. Let me tell you one
thing, you stupid Branhamite bunch of jerks: I’ve got it already, what it
takes!”
That person’s a liar.
That person’s a fool. Now, maybe
some of you don’t like my vulgar language.
Let me tell you something: They’re worse than that. They have denied and said ‘no’ to God. Now, you do what you want about it, because I
intend to hang so tough until one day God does something to this vessel up
here. It won’t be you doing it. It won’t be me doing it.
Now ... [John 17]
(21) That they
may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee...
Now,
that’s a big thing isn’t it? Now the Father’s
in Jesus, and He’s got an actual confrontation with the purveyor of death --
which is Satan, the grand liar. Now,
here’s Satan come against Jesus, against our Christ (and God is in our Christ),
and Satan says, “If you be the son of God, why don’t you make those stones into
bread?” And do you know all God
did? Stupid and foolish God! Why, we’ve got Him beat a million miles. We’d have come out slugging. He just stood there [with] maybe a kind of
silly grin on His face and said, “It’s written.” Now, can you beat God at His Own game? Can you tell the Master General, can you tell
the King of kings, a better way? Come
on. How do you get ‘one with God’? I’ve been telling you: You just say what the
Prophet said. You don’t have to prove
anything. No sweat. That’s where the rest is … based upon a vindicated faith. Oh my!
Listen, this is fantastic.
Now, he said... [John 17]
(21) ... thou
... art in me, and I in thee, ... they ... may be one in us: that the world may
believe ... thou hast sent me.
Now,
the world is not going to believe it at this time. Don’t you ever kid yourself. They didn’t believe Jesus. They didn’t believe him there; they won’t
believe you and me. The only time
they’ll believe you and me is if suddenly God allows us to be completely
changed, with Bro. Branham and the Seventh Church Age people, and we start
going through walls and driving the enemy crazy … because here we are, and here
we aren’t; there it is and there it ain’t.
And you can travel like the speed of thought. And who wants to do that? I’m not interested. I’m interested in this sanctification.
Notice, he says here:
(22) And the
glory (that) thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one: (“I’m giving them the same opportunity to stand with the Word and
nothing but the Word.” That’s real
faith. And it’s not difficult, if we
ever get to understanding vindicated faith.)