LIFE (PART 2)

Your politics. What happened to Russia? See? Don't fool with it. It isn't worth whining. So what do you see there then? Now, Brother Branham said categorically, we are now Easter.

Did he or did he not?

Didn't we just finish Easter Seal a while back? We finished one of them. I never remember what I preached on. What, 23 Thurmans on Easter Seal? It wasn't the rising of the sun. It had to be Easter Seal because it's right here.

He said we are Easter. The resurrection is on via the shout.

Right. John 5, we read it. 28 and 29. The hour is coming and now is. When the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. He said it's coming and it is. And he said the same of Elijah. He's coming and he is.

With the shout, who came down? Jesus. Not the Jesus that you see in the body.

We're talking about Jehovah himself. Elohim. With a redemptive understanding, role and title.

He's down here. and he's putting all things under the feet of jesus which means he's making everything propitious for the bride so that she's a hundred percent susceptible and ready for the married supper see that hour now is because there is a repeat it has occurred and is occurring by first thessalonians 4 16. we know that and in second thessalonians 1 7 -10 we have the mighty angels coming down and the vindication that you that are troubled rest with us when the lord and relax when the lord jesus christ shall be reviewing these mighty angels in flames of fire taking judgment on them that believe not the gospel the lord jesus christ but he says he's going to bring you in at the same time that exactly is the judge brother brandon behind the curtain of time he was up there and in there when they he said well They said to him, you're going to be judged by the gospel you preach. He said, I preach exactly what Paul preached. And they said, we're resting on that. See? They were waiting to come back in a resurrection. Now listen carefully. Brother Branham had another vision. Not a vision, I beg your pardon. He was standing on a platform and Brother Organbright took a picture in, was it, it was in California. I'm not quite sure where it was. Anyway, out there, California. It's a picture of those lilies became magnified through the camera. Now, this was not a Polaroid, to my knowledge. It's a regular good camera. Polaroids can fool you.

The lilies were magnified. There were nine licks of fire upon the altar. There was a special buckler around him. There was a man that looked like a death head in the back. There was another man that looked like a young man in front.

And one day, Brother Branham was sort of being critical. Well, a lot of it was self -pity is what it was. He was feeling sorry for himself. And he thought that he wasn't being encouraged enough. And God said, well, just a minute. Why should I further encourage you? The angel came and said, why should I further encourage you when you disregard the encouragement I gave you? He said, what encouragement did you give me? He said, pull out the picture from under your bed in your briefcase. So he pulled out the briefcase, and there was his picture magnified. And he said, see? And he explained. He said, see those nine licks of fire? There's the nine gifts of the Spirit. You haven't lost one of them. Then he told what the buckler was all about. And then he said, see that in the back? he said that's the outer man perishing and the one in front is the new man being is the inner man being renewed now

listen he missed standing here because prophets invariably die they're

taken away but it was a picture that you and i now glory in now

the inner man doesn't go by feelings it's the outer man inner man only goes by revelation and the outer man can help him because you got a skull you got a got a brain in there And you've got a mind, and the mind is part of the spirit. And it's the spirit that brings you contact out here. Now remember, before you were born, you did not have a certain physical life that you got when that spirit was there waiting to receive itself into your body. But you did have another kind of life there, which was the soul life.

Remember the Mormon that Brother Branham talked to, flying him around? The young Mormon, he was bemoaning the fact that his wife just about brought a baby to birth and then lost it. And he said, don't worry. He said, you'll see the baby in the resurrection.

The baby wasn't born. It was jerking muscles and nerves. The soul had built a house. But you're tripartite.

So now you've got a soul that built a tabernacle. And the tabernacle must now have that which is able to contact out here in the sensate, yet being spiritual. So a spirit receives it. And Brother Branham intimated, it could be a doctrine. I can't say. It sounded like it was a doctrine. And God made all those angels and one -third fell and two -thirds stayed right. That they're actually those angel beings that inhabit the bodies as we come down. That sure could tell a lot of things. And that sure explains to me exactly why homosexuality is in the land. The dirty, rotten, homosexual devils down there in Sodom and Gomorrah, they're taking millions of kids right from birth.

Science is saying, hey, it's genetic.

Oh, I love the Bible. It just opens up everything. All right. Beyond the curtain of time and the vision there shows we are in what Brother Branham said, Easter. Now let's conclude, and I'm concluding with maybe a few minutes. From this day on, may God give us grace or a gentle shove, or better still, a body and soul shaking dynamic shove in our spiritual conscience to look at our hands and faces and see them before us as Naaman. or Job, Abraham, and Sarah, through the God -given faith that's vindicated and lies within us, our footsteps becoming light, a spring in our walk, and a vision of all of our loved ones coming up to our doors to greet us. And they knock on the door, and we see them. And it's instantaneous mutual joy because we know we'll soon be in the resurrection with them. And all of us.

resurrected in an ultra sensate glorified body, that's our portion, going to the marriage supper and crowning that great God Spirit that's in our midst, King of kings and Lord of lords, who will be the Son of God, the Son of man, the Son of David, the altogether love of the Alpha and Omega, the ever -living God. Today is Easter, it is resurrection. The very presence and ministry of the Son of Man has proven that Jesus is risen from the dead. And if as Alpha he brought forth the Old Testament bride, as Omega he's obligated to bring forth the New Testament bride. According to Brother Branham, it is going on now. The scriptures of Roman 8 and 11 that tell us the spirit that dwells in us now is the same spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, has guaranteed us the resurrection, even as it says in Ephesians 1. 13 and 14, the same Ephesian book tells us that that same spirit that's in us in a modicum way, showing that we are the sons of God, sealing us back to God, the very progenitor, the very creator, the very God himself is here in our midst revealing himself to the end, that there will be a resurrection. Now brother, sister, listen to me. Let us ask God this morning to believe this as we never believed it before. When Paul said, you received the Holy Ghost, which is the earnest of your redemption, of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory, which means the resurrection of our body. He said, listen, I always praise God for you, making mention of our prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may it be your portion, he said, as the true bride, that the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. Now, this is not the baptism. This is the spirit of God coming at another time. And I'll tell you when he comes, the eyes are understanding, being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him in his own right hand. It says right here, when that spirit right there caught in a picture is in the midst of the church, he is here for the purpose. of giving us a true revelation which is going to bring about a resurrection. You say what you want. That's the Bible. That's thus saith the Lord from the written scripture, and that's exactly what Brother Branham taught.

And who's going to say we're not in the resurrection now? Well, Brother Vail, I don't feel it. Well, actually, you're not asked about your feelings.

You're not asked.

You and I are not asked to advise God or give a comment.

You know when heaven is full of what? Holy, holy, holy, amen, amen, amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. You say, well, God's got a bunch of yes men. Oh, God. And I hope I'm one of them.

I hope I said no too long. You think my mind doesn't go haywire? Come on, I'm human, more human than you are, more gullible.

I came out at Pentecost, you know. Open the refrigerator door, your wife doesn't, it's black. You say, oh, my God, my wife's a bachelor. Then you go over there and open the refrigerator door and the light goes on. Ho, ho, thank God, thank God. She's backslid. I'm okay. Or vice versa. Oh, pray for me, dear, because I'm backslid. The light didn't go on.

What a foolish thing to compare any gift or anything we have or might have along with the understanding of God speaking by a prophet, giving an absolute vindication that it is God, that it is his man, that it is his word. And Brother Branham said, listen, we are resurrection. And I have news for you from the judge himself. You are the perfect. righteous, sinless, spotless bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. You didn't even do it in the first place. It was all a trick foisted upon you. And Jesus stood there as a scapegoat. He didn't do it either. He took the blame. God taking full responsibility. Listen, is God responsible for that? Is God responsible? Who is? What is?

You that have had your troubles, mostly up here, rest with us. Calm yourself down, relax. You're in the resurrection.

The judge stood

at the door, standing at the door.

You union guys, don't worry about your wages. You're not going to get them.

Forget it. Go to your rich men, weep and howl. Your misery has come upon you because you held the wages back.

Listen, let's get to the Bible. Come on. Let's open our hearts this morning and say, God, bring us back to your word. Just bring us back to your word. Clear all the debris out. I want that. I don't know if I'm going to get to this side of the resurrection, but if there's anything I've cried for all of my life and all of my days, and Brother Bran has said, if there's a deep calling here, there's got to be a deep out there to answer. God, just get me one with your word and away from everything else because nothing else is worthwhile. Job came to the same place. I know one thing. I'll be satisfied with David when I awaken your likeness. And his soul cried out, I know that I'm going to stand on earth. And we already are standing with him for the pillar of fire will lead us to the millennium.

Now, I'll ask you one question. Jesus gave a parable. He said to Israel. He said, Israel, I'll tell you something. I found a piece of land for you. I cleared out the stones. I fertilized it. He said, I made it beautiful. I had irrigated. He said, there wasn't anything I didn't do. And I planted you as a vine. But when the time came to get the grapes, just a few sour grapes.

And he said, what more could I have done? Now let's answer the question once and for all in the light of what we believe to be a vindicated prophet who brought a message. What more could God have done? What more could you and I ask?

And the first thing your lips will come to is the lips of a human being that said to Jesus, give us a sign. And he said, you've had it.

And Brother Branham said, you've had your last sign.

Say, Brother Bale, you leave me in a kind of a numb condition.

Huh? I can't do anything for you. I can't do anything for myself.

But there is a thing we can do is make a decision.

To give one last look to the pit of denomination, fundamental theology, corrupt divinations, and all else. One last look. We don't even need it, but if we have to. To look at the pit from whence we are digged.

And from that time on, march toward the greater glory.

Because there isn't anything else left. We're going on. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for the... time we've had together in your Easter morning and we know Lord that because it signifies resurrection and that is what you want for us and that is what your children are going to get then anything else short of that's going to be an abortion and anything over that's going to be a cancer or tumor so

we're not between a rock and a hard place we're in a good place we know what your decision in your omnipotent and omniscient essentiality has brought forth as a true parent for his own issue.

Lord, we may be talking just with our tongues and off the top of our head, but thank God at least we're this far to believe as the prophet said, we've got the mechanics, we're waiting for the dynamics, which is true now, that

the dynamics are coming even more and more into the true mechanics.

Because he said all the seed needed was to be properly fertilized and properly brought together under the correct fertilization, which certainly would be the soul of man, the spirit of God coming together. Put in the correctly fertilized ground, which we know positively. We're in that particular hour and period at this point. All it needs is the sun and the rain, which we certainly have. Because we're in your presence, it will bring forth. As he said, I, the Lord God, have planted waterless. Any man pluck it out of my hand. We believe, Lord, that's our lot this morning. we're making confession with our lips no matter what any influence might bring anything might be a contraindication it doesn't matter we stand with vindication as the Prophet said we would have to come to live die sink or swim the

minds the hearts the souls are closed to everything else

And like blind people who know they're ethically blind, no longer seek something that pertains to a natural light. It's gone.

There's only one thing now, and that's the inner light down in our hearts that can lead, guide, and direct us. Which word we've hid in our heart, the revealed, living, vindicated word, we might not sin against thee, but walk in the directed paths with the light and the lamp of your word. that we might not stumble correcting our ways when dubious knowing that there is a voice now within us based on that uncorrupted word that

teaches us as we go down the way of life this is the path walk you therein lord we're casting all our cares upon you this morning according to scripture that you said you that are troubled rest with us and there never was a more troublesome time than this especially in the hour of understanding through the ignorance of mankind and the perverted theology of the churches there never was a more troublesome time and yet Lord in the highest tempest upon the sea you went right to sleep knowing that you're going to go right through every single storm help us Lord to become absolutely sleepy and just sleep in the boat As it progresses through the storm with you at the helm, as Brother Branham said, the boat absolutely is able to crest every way. The sails have been properly set. The ballast is exactly right. We're going right on through. We say to Brother Branham, Lord, which is the truth, he said, if we're not bright, there's a bright out there somewhere. And by the grace of God, we won't stand in the way. That's our stand this morning, Lord, is that people, one, all of us together. We thank you now. Father, we believe you heard and answered our prayers. John told us if we know you hear us, we know we have the answer. And I know, Lord, you always hear your word in me. And if we're wrong, you'll correct us because that was told us by vindication. Accept us this morning, Lord, just as we are. And may we turn over to you the full responsibility of our lives and respond to your grace in every measure. That's what we really want, Lord. We just don't want eyes that look out and look in at the same time. We're getting cross -eyed doing that, Lord. That's no good for anybody. It gives double vision. Puts stumbling blocks out there. God, we want an eye single to you this morning.

I believe that's guaranteed to us. So we praise your name. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Now, I hate to keep you long, but you know how it is. Let's rise at this time so those that are going to go out and start getting things ready. can get things ready because we want to give you a little bit of a meal. Our bad eyesight, we go into shock when we look in the mirror. But somehow we can take it. So we'll all look different over there.

Everyone young.

Everybody commensurate with that life that came from God. Just stop and think of that. Stop and think of it. God made nice flowers and the beautiful things out here. What did he have in mind for you and me? He made that pretty and made you and me ugly. He made that lovely and you and me gross and vile. Uh -uh. No, brother, sister. There was an interruption, and it's over. Won't you love them this morning to know the interruption's over? Eve caused it, then the church caused it. And you know something? Ain't nobody going to cause it any longer because it's over.

Where's the song leader? Quit hiding behind the measure. Okay, you can sit down now because the others are gone. And just bide your time a little bit. You be real sweet. Make up for me. Where

is he? Yes. Brother Peter, would you play for us? You may not know them all, but you can just play right along anyway.

You gonna play? You not gonna play? Yes.