Appearing & Coming I - Quincy OH

Let us just pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your love and mercy, which is beyond our comprehension. Knowing, Lord, that you have already said that it would be, for I have not seen or heard neither in the heart of man the things you prepared for them, that you have revealed them by your Spirit, but in such a way that it is infinitesimal, it is merely potential, according to what actually lies there, yet every now and then we see. consider your grace and mercy in our own lives and your gracious provision in all things. So we can thank you, Lord, that in it all, no matter what is happening, your faithfulness abides true in what you have promised. You will perform and it shall be seen. We're just very grateful, Lord, that that day when we see these great promises of God fulfilled, such promises, Lord, that we had a good evening of and... We just could not really believe for them, and there they will be. And we know there will not be a time of shame. Faithless, we don't believe that's going to happen, Lord. It's just going to be element of surprise after surprise for the goodness of God. So we thank you, Lord, for your mercy and grace this morning. May we be like Jacob, who when he thanked you for your goodness, your care, your provision, thanked you above all for truth, which is what really matters today. So we pray, Lord, that we may be part of that truth and our ears will be able to hear and comprehend what lies therein, which is what lies within yourself. So we commend ourselves to you this morning and commit ourselves to you in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. I

just think, you know, those drains that you see me walking a little late, I think I'd have got here exactly on time, but the drains get me back one minute. I think I'd have made it. But that wasn't what stopped me getting here. I had so many phone calls to make to try to get some things signed up for some people. I don't like being late, but if I am late, there's usually pretty good reason for it. One day I will be late, so if there's a late leave in, I'll be good. I read

a little article in the Reader's Digest. It's so true. A fellow looked up under Dover. He looked up for the place he used to go to get his glasses, and he couldn't find it. It was under Vision Center. So he looked under government, everything was center, you know, right? And then he's in the bowling alley, it's recreation center. Well, he said, there's going to come a time when there's going to be a quote that'll end all quotes on centers, and that's when the mortuary is called dead center. And I thought, always

somebody hits the nail right on the head. Too bad the preachers don't. My brother Branagh said the Ten Commandments. He said, that's a whole lot better sermon than most preachers ever preached. I was about ready to quit right then, because I was ready to quit a long time before then. I want to let you know it's always good to try to get the leading of the Lord. Before I left to go west, I had a date set up for the 29th, and I knew I could go on the 29th. And after I phoned and said, well, I don't think I can make it. What about an appointment later this year? Well, what it is... You get here in the morning at 7 o 'clock and we'll work you in any morning at all. So I said, that sounds great. And I went out there and so I preached on Saturday night. And I won't tell you what my community was. It's all right. Everybody's got a lot of help. But I've been too long in the ministry not to know certain things. And so it was all right. And the next Sunday morning, I started to feel kind of funny. My eyes were going kind of funny. I felt kind of dead in the head, and I couldn't shake myself, and I preached Sunday night. It was all right. I got through it because I'm pretty good at concentrating on the Sunday. So I had to get to work until Wednesday night. I don't know, my wife might have caught it, but I was ready to vomit or pass out in the pulpit, so I got out of there before I could finish my sermon. Thursday, time to go down to Mexico. I lay in the back seat of the car all day, Thursday, Friday, all day in the back seat of the car. Saturday about the same thing until about Monday it starts to get a little better. And I'm trying to get across this. The Lord lets you get a little feeling about a thing. Don't put it aside, because he'll let you do it. I mean, you pay for it. You always pay for things, maybe not too seriously, but you just don't put aside the leading of the Lord. I should have been there. The 29th, that was the time, and I should have left earlier, and everything would have been much better. Although I must admit everything worked out wonderfully because God's good and helped us anyway. But everything can be that much better if you just will listen to the voice of the Lord. That's what really counts, what I really was leading up to with all these other little remarks, to get you in a good frame of mind. So next time you feel any leading, make sure that it's of the Lord, it's really a leading of the Lord, not something you want, and then you just go right ahead. and God will bless you. Now, this morning is the beginning of a series which I may not get to, second portion, for a long time, because hopefully I'll be gone again by next Sunday. I simply can't put meetings off and put them off and put them off. It's already the end of February. Future's coming right around the corner and things like that, which, you know, doesn't affect me, just a matter of a kind of a letting you know how the seasons are going. But we want to talk about the appearing and the coming of the Lord. And to do so, I'm going to recapitulate by going over material we took three years ago, which I'd be willing to bet $100 to hone a donut. You haven't got it. You forgot it by now. Things don't sink in. I mean, let's face it.

I'm going to read something that Brother Branham said here to start us off, and then we'll get into two or a couple of more sermons, hopefully, sometime down the road. And Brother Branham says here, in speaking in end -time evangelism, and I can't read too much because I've got just a small portion of the text just written out here. It says here, see, they had a testimony that they had seen the Lord, and the others didn't believe it. And he upbraided them because of the hardness of their heart. They didn't believe these people who had seen that he was not dead. He's alive. Same thing today. When you see his work. Now we know we have already seen and are witnessing the appearing of the Lord. Now remember appearing and coming is two different words. To appear and then to come. Now is the appearing. He's already appeared in these last days right here with us in the last few years. Now it's the sign. The appearing is the sign of his coming. He's appearing in his church in the form of the Holy Spirit, showing that's him because people cannot do these things that you see the Holy Spirit doing. So that's the appearing of the Lord. Now remember, it's both places, appearing and coming. Now this is a most accurate statement. Perhaps not couched. in the most brilliant language, but absolutely, plainly, and perfectly put. Now, what we're going to do is go to the 1 Thessalonians, the fourth chapter, which I took extensively, as I proved you, almost three years ago to the date. And we're going to see here what is called the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ by every fundamental group and so -called group that's full of the Holy Ghost. And I say this not to mean that everybody believes it this way, but it is the majority opinion, which, of course, is always wrong. And you know that ever since the days of Noah. Eight people God saved, the rest died. And that shows the minority is very, very small. All right, verse 13, but I would not have you again, 1 Thessalonians 4. Brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you are sore or not, even as others which have no hope, briefly, please. Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring forth with him. The word is bring forth there, and I absolutely relate this to the opening of the seals where Jesus comes forth from the midst of the throne. Because they could not possibly come forth until after the opening of the seals and Christ coming forth. Now Christ is revealed at this time in the throne, in the midst of the throne, but he has not come forth. But there will be a coming forth. Not just that God brings forth the dead with him because Jesus was brought forth, but that is not so. It is also the bringing forth can only come at the time when Jesus is brought forth in the appearance. You follow me? Listen carefully to what I'm saying because you're not going to get it otherwise as well as it takes. Now we go further. For this we send you by the word of the Lord. As thus saith the Lord. We which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent. Now that word, the Latin word prevenio, which means to go before. Brother Branham used the word hinder, which is also perfectly fine because it is true that there will be nothing in the living that will hinder the dead and so on. But really it means prevenio, which means to go before or to ascend up ahead of those that are in the ground. The coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

Let me just say this first before I talk about the original. You will notice in here that it says, The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with the voice of the archangel Trump of God. Now, then it says, after it says that he descends, we'll be caught up to meet him in the air. Now, the point is, what I want to look at is, if he has already descended, if he has already descended, See? Then, who is up there to get caught up to? You follow me? Read it again. We'll take our time. I'm going to cut the sermon any place I feel like cutting it, and we're going to go. I won't try to keep you too long. Let me look at this again. For as this we say, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a ship. He's going to descend. He is talking about the living and the dead. And the dead will be rising here on the earth. So he's talking about Jesus descending. Then it says, we are going to be caught up to me. Now, if he's already descended, how are you going to get caught up to me? Now, the fundamentalists get around it very, very nicely, and I know there's some of you here this morning who are fundamental, and perhaps you're still fundamental because you haven't had the chance to think it out. And on the thought is simply this. They say, well, you see, he comes down so far and he stops.

See? Then we get caught up after he stops. I would like you to prove it. Anybody can talk. And if I were as vulgar this morning as I usually am, I'd make some very pithy statements here. They'd be, as Mary said, really R -rated statements just to stir you.

Because people cannot be stirred unless you either make them laugh or hit them with a 4x4 or you show stun them that

they've got to start singing. I'd like you to prove it.

Can you show me any stops?

Let's just go to the book of Ephesians. Let us see why the fundamentalist is nothing more than a funnymentalist. Pardon the expression. I don't want to get too crude. And no more got the Holy Ghost than us. For he knows. Fourth chapter of Ephesians. And I've gone over this many, many times with you, and there is no Trinitarian who doesn't understand this. Because it was a Trinitarian that showed me this. It's

an 8th verse. When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Who? That's Jesus. Now watch. Now he that ascended on high. Now he that ascended. What is it? But he also descended first in the lowest parts of the earth. That's right. Jesus died, right? Then he rose again, right? Now watch the next verse. He that descended is the same also that ascended. So therefore the one that came down was the one that went up. So therefore the Son of Man came down, took upon himself human flesh, died, went into hell, rose again, came back. Now how did he come back? The Holy Ghost. Now

you've got rid of one God right there. God the what? The Son. No? God the Holy Spirit.

Right? Simple as ABC. Any Trinitarian knows this. And why are they Trinitarians? Why does Vincent remain a Trinitarian when I have Vincent's volume on this? He said he came back as the Holy Ghost. Vincent killed one God. Just like that. But he still got three. Now we just got to go to the Bible and hit the Bible just the way the Bible hits us. There's no use kidding. We got the same thing right here. I want to ask you a question. Is Jesus up there? What is he? What is he? Certainly. The body was raised as a memorial. And what is it? The eighth psalm, and they said, who is this? He lifts up your head, he gates everlasting doors, and let the King of glory come in. Who is he? Jesus. Jesus, a man resurrected, is up there in the midst of the throne pleading for you and me. He is a man. I want to preach on Jesus. My Jesus is a man. One day they just cleared the atmosphere because I'm sick and tired of all this crud they preach about him. And all the junk you preach about Brother Branham, I want to get it where it belongs, where the Word of Almighty God, because I love Jesus and I'm depending on Jesus.

And if he's shocked, then I'm finished. And if he's misplaced and I've misplaced him, I'm finished. Because you don't cabber with God. Now, he's up there in a human form, but

he's here in the Holy Spirit.

Now, there's a big difference between being here in the Holy Spirit as

the Father of all creation and as the Father... Of individual human beings by rebirth. We'll get that later on. We're going back to 1 Thessalonians again. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. Then there has got to be a time concerning the scripture that says, I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them which are, see if you soar not as them which have the hope. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring forth with him. Now, and then it says that they will not go up ahead of us. So he's talking, as I mentioned three years ago, he is telling what is going to happen at the time of a certain coming of Jesus concerning the living and the dead upon this earth when they mingle right together. And Jesus is going to be there. And they're going to be caught up to meet him to be there.

See? Now what Jesus is here and what Jesus is there.

Jesus told you. But

if you see a son of man ascend up where he was before, Father, glorify me as the glory I had before the beginning of the world.

It just strips you together. It all lines up. So therefore there is an appearing.

And the appearing is not becoming. Part of it. Precedes it.

Okay? We understand this much. So now we're going to look at the word and it says remain unto the coming of the Lord. And the word coming is not coming. Any more than that grand piano is a horse or a tractor. One

of your silos is full of corn. It's not a bird feeder. Piano,

right? This word coming is not coming. Period. It is not coming by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever, because it is the word parousia, which means present. And it is not the event of the arrival or the exact time the person came, but the person having come, the same person is here, remaining present for an extended period of time, and perhaps never even leaving. So it has nothing to do with coming.

Levi is not coming. He has already come. He is present.

The word present has nothing to do with the time of my arrival. It is a specific word focusing entirely upon the fact of the person being there. I don't care if he came by dog slayer, by airplane, or by a car, or by a train, or if he dropped through the ceiling, or if he materialized. The Lord

himself is going to be present with the sleeping that are no longer sleeping and with the living that are already there. Now, why don't you read it right?

You know why? They don't daring it right.

Oh, no. How did this happen?

We don't got no theology to explain. Have

our preachers ever said it? Well, fine. I'll take you to where it's found in Scripture. I'll take you to where some people have the guts to say it. What about this?

Say? Mine

says this word is so peculiar, it's a pity anybody ever translated it. They just say Prusa and then go to the Greek and find what it means and say, hey, that's strange. The

Lord's going to be present. They're

going to say that. But he always was prayer day.

Always the same old story. Man never lets his mind go to find out what the Word of God really says. I can preach rough and hard because you had to vindicate a prophet. You think I'd preach this way without understanding on something solid? Come on. I'd be worse than a dead fundamentalist. No more guts than a rubber chicken.

Come on, listen. I'm not up here bold and brave because of Lee Dillon or something. Don't re -kid yourself. I don't preach it because I know anything.

I look. I'm not smart, but I ain't stupid.

The person, Rotherham, says, this word cannot be interpreted, but must be left until God himself does it. Then we'll know what it is.

Yeah. Rotherham. He was full of the Holy Ghost. The rest of them. So was Vincent. He said, how could a man like those fellas be full of the Holy Ghost and be so wrong in their doctrines as we know it today? Because it wasn't the hour.

Look, if you don't know something, you're not going to be held accountable. It's when you face it and walk away. is when you're accountable.

You can do a lot of things in this life. A lot of people, some of you right now, are doing wrong things. And you don't understand what you should be doing. God will reveal it to you, or you'll pay a little price, but they won't meet you down the road. It'll be under the blood. Boys, when you turn on the light, when you refuse to bring it to the light, why do you think women today turn down the fact of the way our women dress? They don't dare bring it to the light because they're going to be condemned. There is no place they can turn and hide when you bring it to the light. So they just turn and walk right away to the light. Why do you think homes are being split left and right? They've always been split in the message, in the word of God of the hour. Don't think that we're unique here. They spread in Luther's day. They spread in Wesley's day. They're always split. You know why? Because three people can't sleep in a bed.

Just as soon as the woman's born again, there's three in the bed. There's Jesus there, too. And I'm not talking on a carnal sense. I'm just telling you that in a plain, flat sense, there's another presence there. And if a man gets born again, the woman isn't born again. That third person. And that woman will hate that man if he's not born again. And that man will hate that man if he's not born again.

You don't have to set a plate at your table and say, the unseen guest is Jesus. And put a chair there. He's there anyway. See? You don't want to bring it to the light.

Start bringing things to light. It's a different matter entirely. Now, Rotherham says here that we've got to wait until God himself brings it into view. Then we'll know what it is. It

always is. The apocalyptic, which I won't talk about this morning. That's another message. It's something that's under a cover. Like he's

been sculpting and now he's got this beautiful piece of work and it's failed and nobody can see it. But suddenly he pulls the string and here it is. Nobody knew what it was going to be. It was a piece of marble, a piece of rock, a piece of granite or something. But he was working behind curtains. And one day he pulled the string and said, there it is. That's what this is all about. This word coming. The word coming means present. For the Lord himself shall descend him with a shout. The Lord shall be present. That's where we get the understanding of the word appearing, which I will discuss with you so you'll understand later, but not this morning, exactly what that is all about. See? Because you just simply cannot bandy words and get away with it. And say, this is the appearing. If this is the appearing, tell me about it.

See? Well, they say, well, I can tell you what the appearing is, you see, Brother Dale. What it is that Jesus comes down partway, you know, he comes screaming out of heaven, you're like a madman. And before he gets down here, he stops, and he raises the dead, and he blows a big trumpet, and then we come up to meeting.

Habit your way. But

what about this word presence? Because if he's there, I'm here. Then there's no presence. They say, well, Brother Dale, that has to do with, he's always present. Hogwash. He's

always present. He's always there.

And there's a resurrection going on all the time.

Well, there's a right or wrong. Come on, let's get our thinking caps on and just see what we're into. If we leave all this hogwash that's been preached all these years and don't stand with the vindicated prophet, stand there and say, thus saith the Lord every time he said it came right to pass. Stand there in every meeting and say, we'll ask him to come and say he's here.

And then say, Hebrews 4 and 12 and 13 go into effect that no other person could ever even begin to affect.

I'm going to read you what Hebrews 4 and 12 and 13 is. You begin to understand. I don't want to get ahead of myself here. It's easy because I'm not watching my notes.

If I don't watch my notes, I can get ahead of myself and preach six hours.

Some of you can't stand ahead of the late breakfast this morning. Your heads couldn't stand it either, so let's get that straight.

I know what I'm talking about. I can preach these sermons 10, 12, 14, 16 times in a row and just... begin to understand what I'm saying. For hundreds of scriptures begin flashing and adulterating until there's nothing left else. All right? For the Word of God is quick and powerful. Now, the Word of God is quick and powerful. What are you talking about? The Word of God.

Okay, let's find out what it is pretty soon. Sharpen any two -edged sword, pierce any divine asunder soul and spirit, joint in marriage, discern in a soft inch in his heart, and neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his, not it, but his sight. And what's the Word of God of Jesus Christ?

Brother Brown stood in that crowd and he said, you couldn't hide if you tried. You

know what? Some of you sitting here, you don't know what I'm talking about. You don't even begin to know what I'm talking about. You couldn't hide if you tried. I sat in the car one day and he said, I'm talking about this fellow, this Church of Christ guy that came and said, well, Brother Brown knocked on his door and he said, I've come to take the $1 ,000. What do you mean $1 ,000? He said, you offered anybody who could prove a miracle that God healed, they'd get $1 ,000.

And as he's telling the story, he suddenly stopped and said, hold it, hold it, hold it. He said, you just thought at this second that God had said that. It was I who said it. In other words, I thought that God had told him to say a certain thing. And God hadn't. He said it on his own. Caught it just like that.

You couldn't hide if you tried. He said, I'm going to go to that meeting. And I'm going to check him. Church of Christ man up here. Went to Windsor out of Detroit. And Brother Ben, you know the story, very tired that night. And the man appeared to him. And Brother Ben said, sir, there's not a thing wrong with you. Oh, but he said, there is. He said, didn't you read the prayer card? And Brother Ben said, sir, the prayer card is only numbered. So you get in the prayer line where you have order. He said, perhaps everything you had was healed because of your faith. And then the man muttered something. I forget the exact words. And something like, oh, so that's how some of this, what did you say?

Oh, he said, your Church of Christ priests are from Detroit. You had an elder sit in your study. It's a wooden table with a green cover on it. And you determined to see if you could defraud God and food. And you put all those diseases, he said, sir, the diseases you put down are now in your body.

I don't think I like eating paper, but I'll start now. I challenge all of you. Bring me one person that can do it. I'm not eating this Bible. Bring me your Baptist, your Methodist, your Fundamentalist, your Pentecostal, your Trinitarian, your Wonder. Bring me one person.

You say, William Branham did that hogwash. There's no man living can do that. Only God can do it by using a vessel. That man I was telling you about. Now, get the trend in my thought. He said, we'll ask him to come. We don't know if he will.

Then he says, he's here. And you couldn't hide if you tried, he said. 5 ,000 people, half a million people. And we're going to go. Now, I want you to, I'm doing this on purpose so that you will remember the place exactly. Luke 13 and 1. There were Perugia. They

got coming.

was a time coming at the season, some people told him, of the Galileans whose blood pilot would mingle with their sacrifices. Ha, we got a witch doctor here, you can tell the preacher. Or a prophet. So

either the prophet or the witch doctor. And I know a little bit about both, being a witch doctor myself. And then the prophet is

present. Not coming.

You're already there. And nobody was saying, you notice that gang arrived. They're

coming around the mountain when they came. They were driving six white horses when they came. And we killed the old red rooster when they came. You're

not getting what I'm ridiculing.

They never saw them come. They

weren't interested how they got there. They were all... You

knew that we killed them when they were sacrificing to God? Yeah. Yeah, we escaped. Then

you might say, how'd you get away? They

were present. You follow me? They were present. Don't get all mixed up this morning and say, well, Brother Dale, how do I know? I haven't got that far yet.

The orientation of this subject demands the complete acceptation of the fact that he is present. He is present. He is present. Whether he is present now or not, he will be present.

And that presence is necessary in the Holy Spirit so that you'll see him there.

No, I don't worry about this, that, here, there, because it's all a dimension anyway. Go

to John 11 and 28.

And hopefully I will not be as rotten, but hopefully I might be too. For it says in the 28th verse, And when he had so, she had so said, she went her way and called Mary, her sister, saying, I have just had a revelation. Jesus is coming.

Actually, the word has come is okay because it really means his presence. She said, did you know that Jesus is here? So

how did you know? I saw him. Did you see him come? No, I didn't. Didn't

even know anything. The dogs didn't bark. The chickens didn't cackle. The rooster didn't crow. The ducks didn't coo. There was nothing to let me know. I just had a few. Opened the door. There he was.

Oh, I heard that knock. Oh, there he was. Now, she said, the master has come. It may have been that didn't happen that way at all. She was grieving in one room. Her sister was in another room. And somebody came in the door and said, hey, it's too bad word got too late to Jesus. But he's here now and he wants to talk to you.

Now, the point is, she didn't say, well, why was he so many days late? Where was he in the meantime? That did come up in the conversation. Lord, if you hadn't been here, he hadn't died. So she would say, it's just too bad you know that you weren't around when we needed you. Oh, that's a good thought, isn't it? That makes you think, doesn't it? How many times have we said, where were you, Lord, when I needed you? Ha, ha, ha, where were you looking? All depends on where you're looking, kiddo. There's never any trouble with Jesus. The Master is present. He's here. He arrived. Then get this one in Acts 10 and 33, which is the one I love. And you love it, too, because it's telling you everything I've been telling you. This is when Simon Peter goes down to the...

Peter goes down to Simon the Tanner. They're both Simons. Peter went to Tanner. Verse 30. See?

Okay.

Let's just check further. 1 Corinthians 16. Just to show you how this works, every single time there is no difference. 16 and 17, I am glad of the coming of Stephanas. He wasn't glad. He was happy the boy was coming.

I'm going to get right down to human emotions again. As I say, I'm kind of nuts, I admit it. My wife comes up the stairs and she still makes my heart go pity, pity, pat. What for? I don't know. It's a very fact she's around, but it was worse even years ago. Maybe I'd be on the road somewhere, and maybe she could have time to come fly down or something. You know, we had a family to raise everything else. And boy, I was just kind of like, she's coming.

So when she got there, and I could put my arms around her. Boy, that's sure a difference, I tell you right there. That's the way it was with this fella here. You think that Papa was glad he was coming? Sure he was, but nothing like when the boy got there. That was his son in the faith.

I've got sons in the faith, and daughters in the faith, and grandkids. That's one reason I would try to live right, a little bit at least. Thinking of them. Now, we get another verse here. I just want to correct my wife now. Don't get too happy. I like to tease. It's a good thing she can take the teasing. I didn't have someone to tease me an awful life. Now, let's see. There was another in here somewhere, but I sort of lost it, but it doesn't matter that much anyway.

Yeah, it's over here. 2 Corinthians, the 7th chapter, 6th and 7th. He knows everything. I give up my left hand. I take away my right hand. I'm known as the left -hand compliment giver. All right. But I do you the same way, so it's okay. You've got no... Nobody's got any kicks. See if you all like what you're doing. 6th and 7th, nevertheless, that God that comforted those that are cast down comforted us by the coming of Titus. Not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you. There again you notice it was the fact of him being present. You know, like they said, now, Brother Vail, we know you're coming because you haven't got here yet. And you know, that's just beautifully put. It's so nice and sarcastic. So gently sarcastic because some places I'm overdue four years, five years, ten years, and fourteen. I'm a liar, you can tell that. Of course, I never did set a date, so I'm not that big a liar. So I'm still coming. Now look, the thing is, it's not the fact of the approach which could be deferred as hope deferred. It's a grievous thing. But the fact is, the boy was there. See? That's exactly what we're talking about. And this is something that is known. Not guessed at, but is known. And in each time, something occurs which is beneficial in the ministry concerning Christ and those in the ministry. And I'm not talking about a five -fold ministry. I'm talking about every single one of us because we're all priests and kings under God. You following? Okay, very good. Now, what I'm presenting here, of course, is the only true revelation from the first century or the first age when this got lost as to what exactly the Scripture was teaching concerning the fact of the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is the revealed teaching of a vindicated prophet who cried screaming. I'm not riding the midnight trough screaming he's coming. He's already come. The same prophet said, when you see God come from the heaven. When you see God come from the heaven.

Stand before groups of men. Stand there and declare himself just as ever he did. That's the truth in this Bible open. Now put that together with what he said concerning the angel coming to Gabriel or Gabriel coming to Daniel. You can see exactly what he's saying here. that as it happened in the close of the Jewish history, last prophet Daniel, because that's the last one he laid it all out. I don't care who followed after him. That's nothing. They just filled in here and filled in there. See? The same thing happens at the end time. Now, let's face it. There's only one time it can happen, and that's in the seventh church age under the seventh church age messenger. It couldn't happen anywhere else.

Now, you see God just come from the heavens, stand before groups of men, stand there and declare himself just as he did. Even just as ever he did. That's the truth in this Bible open. I want to ask you a question. When did God ever come down from heaven and stand before a group of men and declare himself in the person of Jesus Christ?

When did he do it before? In the person of Melchizedek. When did he do it before? In the person of a theophany when he stood to Abraham and told him what's going to happen down in Sodom and Gomorrah. See? When did he do it? A time when the handwriting went upon the wall and the bell choused his teeth and they said bring in Daniel. And the hand stood there and the hand appeared. God came down in the hand, the form of the hand. God came down in a whirlwind. God came down in a fire. God came down in a still small voice. God came down in an earthquake. God came down in the back of man. God came down in a man. And people say God can't come down. What are you talking about saying you believe the Bible? What

are you talking about saying you believe the Bible? You believe a bunch of nincompoops out here that talk about the Bible.

And if he came down, he came down. What's to stop him putting the handwriting on that wall? I say what's to stop him? I'll tell you. I'm dealing.

Nobody believes he'll do it.

Nobody wants to do it, wants to believe it. My jugger.

Brother Branham didn't know the Greek. Listen. And today he's standing amongst us. That means present. Today he's present, standing amongst us, in the person of the Holy Ghost, manifesting himself more and more, coming into the church, making himself known. I want to ask you a question. What way has God used since the death of Jesus Christ to reveal himself, the Holy Ghost? Is that right? He said he would teach you all things and show you things to come. And the things to come is definitely in the line of a prophet. It is not for the average person to know. It has got to be in the prophetic line. So let's get that flat. People say, well, Brother Dale, I've got the Holy Ghost. He'll show me things to come. Sure, he'll show you if meeting's going to come and visit you. He'll show you if you're going to have a stomachache. He'll show you if your kid's going to get hurt. But he will not show you the revealed word of that hour because that's something special. You don't belong in that class. I don't belong in that class.

I'll teach you when I get there. You bet that's my job then. I've had lots of things I've prophesied about. Come right to fact, just like that. Ray knows it. Happened down in the church in West Boston all the time. We had definitive messages from God. But not this. The Son of Man has already come from glory. Notice the terminology. The Son of Man has already come from glory. Well, great Caesar's ghost. Why would the prophet make a statement like that?

As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the Son of Man.

It's what the Bible says. He has already come from glory, revealing himself for the past few years in his church in mercy, showing them his great presence. Why didn't he say his great presence? Why didn't he say his great miracle, his great ministry? He doesn't say presence. Why? Because if he's got the same Holy Ghost talking to him that talked to the Apostle Paul, he will say the same thing, and he'll say it in 20th century America. They understood Paul back there. That was a cuneiform Greek. Sconefield, one of the rottenest birds living. He wrote the Passover plot and all that kind of stuff. Brilliant man. Get his New Testament, though. He's a scholar through and through. And he'll tell you the Bible is right.

It's one of the best translations I've ever gotten my hands on. He's got two of them. I like one so well, and this lady bought another one. Did I like it so well? I bought two in case I lost one. I guess that was it.

He said the language, the language of the Bible is perfect.

You know, you can like a guy no matter what he says and does. If you see his good points, Brother Branham is right. I can't get mad at the guy because, you know, he says such awful things about Jesus. I never saw him on the Joe Pine show, but a friend of mine, you know, Joe Pine's been dead a long time now. But Joe Pine had him. And, you know, Pine was wrong, the way he conducted himself. You know, America's the land of the great sneer. And I'm kind of bad, but I mind mostly sarcasm, not a real sneer. And if God's got a real sneer, may God forgive me because I'm a hypocrite to do that. But when they tell me Schoenfield was on his show, that Pines sneered and just gave him the word. He just sat there very nice and very calm and smiled and just answered the question. I wonder who had more from God. The man that said it was a Passover plot or the man that defended it?

I don't know. Well, I would hope that Joe Pines had a lot more than the other fellow did, but then who knows? The guy might be saved yet. He did a good job in the New Testament.

You never know. He might be one of the elect to come in later. I don't know. I have no understanding. Brother Brandon used 20th century American language. He said the Son of Man has already come from glory and he's revealing himself for the past few years to his church in mercy. Isn't that beautiful? Mercy. Showing them his great presence. Doing the same things he did when he was on earth. He explains the presence. How do you know it's there? Revealing himself like he did to Abraham before the destruction. When God comes down from heaven, stands before men. Declare himself as ever he did. The next, now listen. The next time he reveals himself, it will be in judgment on the world and nations that forgot God. There he is in the human flesh. There he is here in no flesh. We'll show you how it's the word before it's over. The headship is here. Amen. The Christ, the risen Lord, is here in the same power of his resurrection that he ever was, manifesting himself. Now we know that Christ is here. Maybe you don't see him with your eyes, but through vision I tell you he's here because he could see the pillar of fire. He was actually caught by the camera. And when the seals are broken, the mystery is revealed. Down comes the angel, the messenger Christ, setting his foot on land and sea with a rainbow over his head. That's Revelation 10 and 1 now, remember? Now remember, the seventh angel is on earth and he's coming. That's Revelation 10 and 7 is the last eight messenger. The seventh seal brings him back to earth.

It's under the seventh seal that brings him back to earth. Now he's talking in both places. That means the spirit and the physical. Because the seventh seal was silenced, no one knew that was the minute or hour that Christ would come. as He would reveal it to us. And so, therefore, the seals revealed everything about Him who was already here, and we didn't even know He was here until

we were told. Did Mary know that He was there until Martha said? No. Did she know what somebody said? No. Nobody knew. And nobody can know until somebody tells, because you cannot see the Spirit of God. After almost 2 ,000 years, God has visited again. That brings the entire fullness of the Godhead bodily among you. In other words, the same yesterday, today, and forever. No change. The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Luke 17 and 30. That's the Son of Man. He's the Son of Man that's to reveal himself among his people. Not a man God, but it will come through a prophet. Just as Gabriel came to Daniel. In other words, we are not left to know this ourselves. It will take somebody to do it and to point it out. And I've done that many times and showed you how that works in Scripture. We'll do it again before we're through here. The headstone coming into the body, that's the Redeemer coming to take His own. He is here with us, present. That life is present here tonight. That's right. The Holy Spirit is here. It is Christ in spirit form, His Spirit. The anointing is here. How it's said that he shall appear in the last days is to bring the people back to the word so the bride will know her husband, her mate, to reveal word.

Now, I know everybody thinks you're going to get married when you get there. That's the supper. That's not the marriage. The marriage is here in visible union. Why

do you think he's here? For he's bride.

When this Holy Spirit that we have, now listen, when this Holy Spirit, spirit that we have becomes

incarnate to us not incarnated in the individual but incarnate to us the one that's in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost becomes incarnate to us in the presence of the person of Jesus Christ will crown him king of kings so he does come down to earth in a spirit form but he stays there in his body that is the body stays there and when the dead are to come forth Then he leaves the midst of the throne. It's over because there's nobody else coming in. Now that's when he in the personal, human, immortal figure is up there. Rise

to medium. Does all three things in descending. The shout, the voice, the trumpet. Now, Brother Branham categorically said he which hinder will hinder. He's taken out of the way with the Holy Spirit. The question now comes, how can a prophet make a statement like that when everybody knows 144 ,000 Jews are going to be sealed in with the Holy Ghost and you cannot take the Holy Ghost out of the world for a second or to fall apart.

You talk about the person that came down here goes because he takes his bride with him.

Certainly, there's a big difference. You've got to understand where Scripture lies. Don't be weary. Jesus is here. He is here today manifesting himself doing the same things he did. No, doing the same he did then. No, let me read it again. Don't be weary. Jesus is here. He is here today manifesting himself, manifesting himself, doing the same he did then, just the same, doing the very same thing. In other words, what he did then, he's doing now. And is amongst us today. He showed himself here with us and proved and vindicated his word. Now let's just begin to see what he's saying here. which is our proof that he's here. How do you know he's here if you can't see him? What about the fact he said the wind blows where it lifts us? That's a wrong translation, although it's good in the sense that the wind blows where it lifts us. You can hear the sound of where he's coming. You can't hear where he's going, but that's not the Scripture. The Spirit breathes where he willeth. And you cannot tell whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is everyone born of the Spirit. It is a mystery. Now, the only way you can solve any mystery of God is to find out how God himself has given us the clue to the mystery. And that means you've got to go to the Word. So Brother Franham is telling us right here, vindicating his Word. In the evening time it shall be light. That's when comes Christ, the Holy Spirit, Jesus comes down and sets himself at the head of the church. Now then how can he say then comes Christ, the Holy Spirit, and call him Jesus? Because that's the name of the Holy Ghost. You're going to call his name Jesus. then he will resurrect the church, being his own body. That's right. The Holy Spirit is here. It's Christ in spirit form, his spirit anointing us. See? That's the teaching of the former and the early and the latter reign. Now, going on, we're going to take some verses of Scripture that has always been used to express the sudden coming of the Lord and has nothing to do with that coming that they talk about. But it has to do with his presence here.

So, we're going to go now to Matthew 24. And you should all recall this even though you heard it three years ago. Or my goodness me. We have to go over our notes, don't we? Matthew 24. Now, Lord, it's the first third verse. And he sat upon the Mount of Olives. And the disciples came unto him privately saying, Tell us when shall these things be? Number two. And what shall be the sign of thy presence?

coming. The word is not coming. It's parousia. What are we going to know when you're here?

Now, they knew something that the theologians don't know today. And they knew it because they weren't a bunch of dumb bunnies. And I want to tell you why they weren't a bunch of dumb bunnies. Because John the Baptist came on the scene and they said, hey, you must be the Christ. He said, hold it, hold it, hold it. I am not the Christ, but there standeth one among you who is. Well, who is he? I don't know. But

God told me how I would know. He said, you go baptize him. And you just keep baptizing and baptizing. And one day there's going to be somebody come, and when he comes up out of the water, you are going to see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove and remaining on him. And that all will come like a pillar of fire. So the fiery dove came down. Beautiful dove of fire just came down. And he said, that's the one. The disciples knew that.

They knew it would take somebody to point out what was already there because they couldn't see it. Remember the time of Nehemiah? It was Gehazi, Elisha, and Elisha. The Syrians were all around them. So God let the Syrians catch up to poor old Elisha. And Gehazi opened his eyes. The old master, 200 ,000 Syrians, the old master, what do we do? They finally caught us. And Gehazi said, Oh, God, what if I picked up a turnip for a Christian? Has this kid been with me so long he still can't figure anything out? He said, Lord, just have pity one more time and open his eyes. So you can see there's more of what's left of it. And pretty soon the kids' eyes opened and the mountains were full of the chariots and horsemen of fire of all that you've got. It's a defeat.

So, runs true to form. I'm sure glad I didn't write the Bible. I enjoyed preaching it. Man, I'm sure glad I didn't write it. I'd be on the spot. I don't even have to back it up either. God backs his own word up. Tell us the sign of your presence. They

knew that he was going to be there and nobody would know it. and they wouldn't know it.

Now listen, do you think this might have happened after John 20? Let's go to John 20. I just suddenly got a thought here. It might be interesting. Before

John 20, And when morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore, and they saw him.

They didn't know it was Jesus. And Jesus said, He got me meat. And they said, No. And they still didn't know it was Jesus. And he said, Cast your net on the right side of the ship and you'll find him. And you know something? How come they didn't say, what kind of a nut is that anyway? We've been fishing all night long, and as Dr. Price said, how wide is the boat? Four feet? There's no fish four feet here? And there's fish four feet here?

Say, well, we won't do that. We'll just move the boat.

Or join another church. Go on over here. You know, a lot of little things come up to you. Hit your mind if you just, you know.

And you'll find that they cast there for, and they couldn't draw it in for a multitude. And Peter said, that's God.

Now they looked right at him and didn't recognize him. They only knew him by what he did. So therefore they knew him by the sign. So now the apostles, they're not all fuckers.

We're on to this. How you work things out and how you do things. You know something? Again, my memory's lousy. I might have to call on Ray if I can't find it. His memory's as bad as mine. And we're stuck and I've got to ask somebody who's really smart. 7

Psalm 103. He made known his ways unto Moses his acts. Out of the children of Israel, they never ever caught on how God did things. Never ever caught on. Never learned His ways. All

this, and God didn't pick up a bunch of flukes when He picked up these apostles. He picked up some real sharpies. They weren't even full of the Holy Ghost, and they came by and said, Hey, how

are you going to know when you're there? He must have told them something. In fact, He did. They caught on to Acts 17 right off the bat. You and I took 2 ,000 years. They caught it just like that. They said, Hey, how are you going to know? How are you going to know? You're here. Let me go back to Matthew 24. Here we are. And Jesus said, I'm going to take truth that no man deceives me. Now, right off the bat. Deception. Right off the bat, he equates his presence with deception. Oh, my. How are we going to know then, Lord? How are we going to know? You

really made it tough on us now. Take

truth that no man. You

get what I'm saying? Man. Man will try anything. So, therefore, there's got to be a certain way that only God is going to make known certain things.

See, that's what I'm standing on this morning. I maintain certain things that only William Brannan can do, nobody else can do, and I'll live or die in it. And I expect to have no trouble.

Many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.

Now, many people I know come right along and they try to brand that as a false little cult and religion today, which in a sense is, you know, a little bit true, but it's not all true, because we'll show you why. Many will come in my name, you'll notice. And you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. Don't be troubled. These things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Nation rise against nation, king against king, and famine, pesters, plague, and dire places. These are the beginning of sorrows. Now, he's telling you the earmark of when he is going to be there, but you won't see him. But he's there. Now, they would be afflicted and so on. Many betray, many false prophets to see, many love iniquity bound, and iniquity shall abound, love many shall wax cold. That's Laodicea.

Now he's run a lot of things in there. Then he's getting very, very close now. When you see there for the abomination of death, they spoke to Daniel. Then in Judea, feed the mountains, let them not come down, and so on. Some of this took place already, and some of it is yet to take place, because the great tribulation, verse 21, has not yet taken place. The little tribulation took place. Except those days be shortened, no flesh, they be elect, they should be shortened. Now watch. We are now dealing with what hinges on you and me. Now he said, Take to no man to see him, and he shall come. Now the very elect. Now the very elect can only be one type of elect. Those that do not die. The only ones that can be. Then if any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, believe it not. For there shall arise false christs and false prophets, and show great signs and wonders. In so much repose shall it be very like. Behold, I told you before. Now before is over here in Matthew chapter 7.

Verse 15, Beware of false prophets come to you and shoot clothing in rewaving the wood. He tells you at the end time. Now watch what I said here. Verse 15. Now let me go back to Matthew 24 again. And let me read that verse I just read to you. And it said, Take heed no man deceive you.

Deception by men.

Beware of false prophets. They will look absolutely on the outside to be Christians. Inside they are devils. But

are known by fruit. Now hold man, oh man. I love the way Jesus talks, but he would never pass out of grade six. He makes people, animals, and then suddenly talks about fruit. How did he get fruit off of animals? He's

not doing that. He's going way back to the garden. He always took people back to the garden. You'll know them by their fruits. The men gather grapes, the thorns, the figs, the sips. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. What is the evil fruit? The knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge of evil is a mixture.

It's a mixture. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, cast afire, therefore by the fruit you know them. Now watch. Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord, and the King of heaven, that he that doeth the will of my Father, the King of heaven, many will come in that day and say, Lord, Lord, do not prophesy in thy name, cast out devils in thy name, done one of the worst, and all profess, I never knew you, you did nothing but iniquity. Now that's what he's talking about where deception lies, right in that field. And only the very left will be able to tell what is a real sheep. And what is simply a wolf in sheep clothing? Now the question comes up. Let's go back to Matthew 25. We're going to go to the question again because we don't want to get all fooled. I've fouled up here. It's too late today to get fouled up. And in Matthew 24, it says here, reading again, If any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not, for there shall arise false Christ, even lying prophets. That's exactly what the Greek says. Now listen. Lo, here, lo, there, false prophets. It isn't the prophet that says I'm Jesus Christ.

No, that's not the thing to be worried about. You say you're Jesus Christ, they say put him in the nut house. What is a false prophet? He's off the word. But boy, can he prophesy.

But he's just one stumbling stone. If he ever says thus saith the Lord, he can't possibly come to pass in this cause behind us. And that's the only, this is what the very next thing nobody else can see. If you still go around saying, well, this fellow said thus to the Lord, that fellow said thus to the Lord. If anybody ever says thus to the Lord and comes to pass, you better hear him. And then if he says contrary to what William Branham said, you better raise William Branham to find out if he is false or what's false. And I wouldn't even worry about God anymore. I'd just say, well, look, there's something out there. Forget it.

See, look, we're down to the wire, brother. Sister Rita, this word is true all the way, or we might as well forget it. We're here this morning either because it's real, or we're here this morning just for fun, to be a little nicer to people, which is very good. Because if you little nice your people, little sweet little gentle, then there's something out there that really matters. There's something out there that's moral, though I wouldn't call it moral if you pulled a knee like this. You're just stuck. So you better say to yourself, let me try to get in touch somewhere so I won't be half as stuck as bad, you know, if I'm going to be stuck. You follow what I'm talking about? I mean, listen, where's the deadline? Where's the end of time according to this Bible here? Now it says, Therefore, if they send you beholds in the desert going out forth, in the secret chamber, believe it not.

Well, look.

How much time we got? No time at all.

No time at all. No time at all. Luke, Luke, Luke. Don't say stick him to me because I'm going to quit. I'm going to quit because I want to quit. Let me see if I can find it.

I've got to find it somewhere. And

Luke, for

mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast ordained before the face of all people, witnessed before the eyes of all men. So when somebody says, go here, it's a secret thing. Go there. Ask a little sex over there.

It's going to be done wide open and in public. And

the world's going to see it.

And it's going to be turning down facts. And they're going to forget it. And the elect goes on. And you say, did that happen to William Brown? Listen, kid, I am witness to what I saw in 1947. One year after the great angel, the God James, had taken a gift of healing to the whole world and told him what it was all about. And I saw, and it was not done in a corner. The newspapers played it up. There was no way you could ever stop the African revival. Everybody knew about it. There's no way you could ever deny what happened. But the denomination said, well, he's Jesus only, and he goes to those stinking Pentecostals. Well, I'm going to tell you, Pentecostal folk may stink, but I do too. Yes, I take it back. I think they're a pretty good bunch. That's just it, Brother Brown. That's where I'd go if I had no place else to go. I just wouldn't imbibe in their doctrines and things. But let me tell you, Brother Sitger, I love it. Now listen, here he said, in the secret chamber.

That's where three people go together and come out and tell you just what. In other words, Nicolaitanism is at the highest height at this period right here. And they're going to decide everything for you.

Oh, you talk about the Constitution and freedom of religion. Why don't the people down in our Congress and Senate have the guts to rip it out and spit on it? Bunch of rotten, stinging hypocrites. That's all there, Governor. There's a bunch of rotten, stinging hypocrites. There's no freedom of religion today. Except in a very minor sense. Your biggest guy to talk, the most like Goldwater. He's the guy that put that, had that thing enacted. We're up in Alaska, hundreds of thousands of acres to put nuts like you and me. And Congress denied it until they found oil. And they said, you can't put them nuts where the oil is.

So it came out in the open. Why is your daughter news over the kibbutz? I'm just telling you, politics is finished. And so is the church.

This thing is done eyewitness before the people. I was there. I saw what happened.

As lightning cometh out of the east and shineth the west, so shall also the presence of the Son of Man be. It tells you right there, as the light was in the east, it will be in the west. And that's how you will know that He is there, because He does the same things here that He did there. For the Scripture distinctly said, If I had not done the works no other man did, they had not sinned. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

The presence, the same presence of the four gospels and the book of Acts must appear in the West. And you'll know that he is here. Not the church now. Not the church. Not the church. Not the church. Hang the church.

Somebody.

Jesus didn't have a company of men. He was one. When Brother Branham used the term there's only been one major prophet of time, he wasn't really right at that time. Because I think Daniel and... and what you call Jeremiah were alive at the same time. But what he was trying to tell everybody, look, you get your eyes on one man at a time. It is never a company.

One person at a time. Now, then notice, wherever the carcass is, the eagles are gathered. Where the word is, where the fresh meat, where what God is feeding us is. Then it says, immediately, immediately

comes the tribulation.

Now, Ray, if you couldn't order lunch for 30, 40 people, 50 people.

Time to bring it here in two hours. We'll eat and then we'll keep talking. I don't know where to quit, so let me see now.

Come at the angels are gathered in the hour. You have tribulation. Now listen, come on.

My thoughts are okay. I'm going to, I'm going to, they're in line. It's okay. Listen. Second chapter of the book of Acts. It shall come to pass in the last days that God will pour my spirit upon all flesh and your sons, your daughters prophesy, your men's young seed vision. All men dream things, and on my men servants, and on my women servants, I'll pour my spirit. Everybody can get in the act. I will show wonders in the heavens above, signs here beneath, blood and fire, vapor, smoke, the great tribulation. He says the same thing here. He says over here in Matthew. Now listen. Listen, brother, sister, beware, he said, of that false prophet business. Beware of the dividing line. where men can prove you the age of great deception. Now hold your finger there and quickly go to 2 Thessalonians, the second chapter, and notice, and for this cause God shall send them. God, God, God, God, not the devil, shall send them strong delusion. They'll believe it, eh? Only

the very elect cannot be deceived. All of this going on. Everybody's happy. The Roman Catholics, the Neopentecostals, all giving the Holy Ghost. That dear old folk. What was his name again? He was a tough old egg. Pius? No, Pius. Paul. Old Paul, was he Paul VI? Oh my, he kissed the Sunians as they were fighting over the gifts, you know. And now the gifts are back in the Roman Catholic Church. And his great father's own, so up here in Notre Dame, he said, now you people are wondering how the Holy Spirit feels in the Church of Rome. Why, he feels just at home. And Geraldine Ford, I guess that's her name, or something like that. She's a Ford anyway. And she sure ain't no Catholic.

She gets up there as a theologian and she lets the people know right flat, brother, sister, that don't you trifle with my theology. Then Pentecostal people, you hear these people speaking in tongues and prophesying and gifts and wonders and miracles even greater than the Pentecostal church got. And they're tipping the Pope's tone, praying to Mary. Well, it's got to be real because that's the evidence for holiness.

God sending delusion. God. I said God, not the devil. God sends delusion. You know why? Because he turned down the truth. Now you say, well, how could God do it? Brother, sister, it's already done if you turn down the truth. How does God send strong delusion? By sending the truth. So when they turn it down, what do you got? Don't blame God.

Okay, brother, sister. You don't pluck thistles and plums off of God. You just pluck plums. Apples, pears, and beets. It's all manner of fruit with healing for the nation. See? Oh, yeah. So long days. Look at over here. 37, 39, but as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the coming of the Son of Man. Days, the length of time, the presence. How

long is he going to be present before he raises again? Ten years? Twenty years? Forty years? Yes, a hundred if he wants to be present that long. But the people are all confused about 1977 and everything Brother Brown has said because they can't understand this. It's a prolonged period of time. And then when Noah got in the ark, he slammed the door in seven days. He just sat there.

Seven days of darkness except for a little light inside.

Seven days except God brought a little breeze in like stifling and wondering when's it going to happen. Do you feel like suffocating? Well, you haven't even caught up to know yet. We don't know. I say you, I say we. Victory. Listen, Brother 50. See, there it is. It's all laid out there a prolonged period of time. It's all coming. It's all in order now. So therefore, we can stop at this point. I preach long and I intend to do so. Attend your faith. You don't have to give me that hog to pay your own wages. And nobody has to go away too mad for too short a sermon or mad for the too long a sermon. But I want to let you know, brother and sister, that the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the rapture. It's what we're talking about. He is present and appearing down here. And then I want to take and show you next time, which I don't know when it's going to be. I want to take you and show you that next time, exactly how that appearing takes place and has been, and we're getting to the finishing line even more. Because this is what the Word of God teaches, and it is based upon the reality of the Word being revealed to us and coming to pass in our hour, and God being gracious to send a prophet to stand back with the Word of God in his lips and prove that it is God. So we've got no worries. And I just wanted you to remember me, but this thought I just closed with a minute ago. It was a long time before that ark floated. And as they shut those doors, except for the grace of God, they were stifling inside. It was hot. It was miserable. And as Abraham stood there as a witness to the resurrection, which means your change and mine, he was in worse shape one minute before his change than he was in his whole life, brother, sister. We in his presence can be here a long time until we ripen. until we recognize His presence. But we're not recognizing His presence. We are not recognizing the appearance of the Lord Jesus, the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. And one of these days, as Brother Branham said, as Brother Graham, they all say, one of these days it's going to be over. And then they're going to say, hey, what in the world happened? Look what's going on here. Should not have that happened? Should not have that happened? It's already happened. And you didn't know. Let me say this, Brother Sister, He is here. Not because I brought him in my heart and you brought him. That is a lie. That's been going on for 2 ,000 years. But he is here in the person of the Holy Ghost, setting himself as the head of the church. And until he can be the head, and that's why you women have an awful job with your husbands, I'm going to tell you facts. Because you type the church, and the church doesn't care that. For the headship of Jesus Christ. I want to ask you this morning, And I want to know if you're in the same boat as I am. Are you not driven crazy day and night with yourself? I spit out words I should never spit out because I hate myself. I am battling everybody and everything, and I know I shouldn't be doing it for one reason. I know I'm telling the truth that he is here. And what am I doing about it? What am I thinking about it? What is happening? And I say, oh, God.

And I want to ask you this morning, where are you standing? I'm trying to convince you. I'm not going to give an offer because you do what you want. God have mercy on all of us. I do what I want. I am no longer responsible for you, Brother Sister, and you for me. It's an individual walk at this hour. There's nothing we can't want. I'm going to do what I want. I told you years ago, dirty old men are nothing but dirty young men that got old. Mean old women ain't nothing but mean young women that got old. Disobedient old hags ain't nothing but disobedient young hags. We've got three old hags left. I'll lay it right in your mind. Look, don't kid me this morning, Brother Sister. I ain't kidding you. If in one place, I can kid up here and fool. I do it on purpose, maybe in my nature. I don't want to let my truth get out. Like Francois Cotte, he said, why do you present that facade when you're not that guy inside? I'm that guy inside that's talking this morning. Where do you stand this morning? Where do I stand this morning in the faces? See?

Is there intellect out here somewhere? Is it three little, is it a couple old women with a wash tub and a, that guy kid about and said, I got to get me a wash tub and apron and a scrub board maybe? Get that certain thing? I don't look at it. I love Billy Paul, but I don't care if he had a dream 19 tapes or 1900 tapes. Don't give me that stuff. Don't give me anything about being a prophet's wife or a mother or a husband or anything else. Or anything about that my mother knew I was going to be born. What stood by her bed and told her? Why did the prophet say, I saw you coming to the flame of fire over here, the spirit of prophecy? I'll tell you, I'm true to this word, but I sure am true in fact to what my mouth offers me. I can't explain these. I've got no answer for you. But I tell you, I've got one hope. And that is one day God will answer back and say, yes, I'm here. For all the time that you've said it with your mouth, but couldn't keep it with your heart as you should have, but you'd say it because you know it was there. You stood up for me. I'm going to stand up for you on it. And then when he does it, he offers a gift back to us. What the divine revelation gave us. Because we've got the same revelation. We've got no different revelation when he says that, when he says he's here. But it took Christ to speak back and say, and I say unto you, you are a part of that revelation.

Now, I've said some rough things, some discouraging things. I'm saying the comforting thing now. Stay with us. There's no place else. If this isn't it, brother, sister, so what? What are you going to do about it? Where would you go back? Oh, for Jesus. Go back. Look. Get a letter from the Baptist headquarters every day. I heard more from them than I heard in one week than I heard from God in 70 years. Forget it. Go back to Pentecost? Try

to wear myself up working up something? At my age, working up something?

Not even Bogomolus' bone marrow shots are going to do me any good at my age. Didn't do Stalin anything.

Work up something? Where are you going to go? Tell me, where are you going to go?

Who's got 20 -20 vision this morning? At 20 -20 hindsight, you know where you're going. You

saw something didn't appear. I don't understand it all.

Brother Brannon said when you're in his presence, you don't get angry, you don't cuss, you don't tell lies, you don't act up.

He's here just to say it. But you know what? It takes the recognition to do it. People are organizing prayer meetings for Brother Brannon to come back. Look, I'm going to tell you something. I'd organize a prayer meeting around the world for people to say, God, Help me recognize the presence of your presence today. Not the presence we talk about of Acts 2 and 4, Matthew 28 and 20. But I'm talking now about 1 Thessalonians 4 and 16 and Ephesians 1, 16 to 23. That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Colossians 3 and 4, 1 Peter 5 and 4, right down to 9. I'm not talking about those other things. I might not go to the scriptures right there.

But I'm talking about the fact the Lord himself has already descended from heaven. Coming

more and more into his church.

Making himself more and more known.

Brother Branham stood in that pulpit and I said I stand with him. Not, not, now look, not like Brother Branham. Let's get that flat. But I stand with the spirit of William Branham, the sentiments of William Branham, the heart of William Branham when he said as a man and wanting to be a man of God. If we're not brides, there's a bride out there somewhere. By the grace of God, I won't stand in your way. Lord, bless you. That's right. I just want to keep saying all this. Merciful God, Heavenly Father, we know, Lord, that we would never be able to touch a subject like this concerning your appearing, your actual coming, the actual revelation, these things, except, Lord, it is because of something else that has been done on my part, Lord. It would be presumption. It's even presumption, Lord, you can get here and talk about such a sacred subject except you. allowed me in my craft and carnal and the goodest ways to somehow be able to see these things and try to get the people to see them somehow, Lord. I know only you can make it really real. But in the meantime, Father, if I can contribute and have to the mechanical, I do not feel too bad, nor neither can they feel too bad, because they know unless God himself raises the dead, they're going to lie there, and they're just as dead as dead can be. This world is, and the dead came from the ground. But there is a God who said, I'll raise them at the right time. And, Lord, you're here to raise them. And if you're here to raise them then at the right time, I believe you're going to change the people that keep changing. I believe at the right time, Lord, they're going to have this great resurrection faith, which I know they will have. Those are going to belong in it. And so, Lord, I'm trusting this morning that you who have brought us yourself by your Holy Spirit and given us a man to walk amongst us who would be the soundest Lord, for that's what he was. that 7th church 8th messenger to hear what he said and then break it down and bring it here Lord I have hope this morning that because of this very thing transpiring it has not been Lord in vain but we shall yet hear you say and I say unto you that you are a part of that presence that revelation and then Lord what a great time it's going to be the fountains of the deep will be broken up not just looking anymore for the hidden things to be manifested the spirits Lord have already been manifested But, Lord, we're looking for that greater manifestation, that is, that Spirit of Christ in us. All those things, Lord, that reside in us by virtue of the fact that we were born rich with that seed, by virtue of the fact, Lord, of what the Holy Spirit has come to bring to life. I'm looking forward to that hour, Lord, if I should be here upon earth living, and it's all right if I'm not. But I believe, Lord, there'll be a bride who is going to be that very essence of the word, for the word is becoming flesh, the flesh becoming the word, and the word itself coming forth. It manifests the word. That bride that the prophet spoke of, that bride should only speak of, Lord, because of in your word. I believe, Lord, that people strike in this building that are going to be a part of that. Absolutely. I pray for all of them, Lord, to be a part of it. I pray just as even for myself and my loved ones, Lord, to be a part. And God and I have faith, Lord. In my measure of faith, looking forward to that day, we should tell you. But I believe, Lord, there will be people standing right here who positively will be changed. And they'll have the answering call back, yes, you are what I say. And that's absolutely going to be fantastic. Lord, there's nothing that we can compare to you. Your word, Lord, your full power. There isn't anything, Lord, anywhere near shape or form that would even begin to touch anything that we have just heard. from your prophet and tribally else this morning, to the goodness and mercy of God. Lord, how great is our God. How great is his word. Just nothing of every touch or every grace of God. Lord, I just pray that you'll give us sweet spirit of love and grace amongst all your people. Compassion, Lord. A spirit of obedience. A spirit of humility. Lord, God, in honor for freeing each other and in just being humble, sweet, Christian, sincere. Lord, also we pray for the sick amongst us. might continue to be and knowing that all things are of you. There's so many things, Lord, are said here propitious for our healing. Until now, Lord, it would seem that there isn't one of us should be sick under any consideration whatsoever. It's just everything is so gracious and so good. And we thank you, Lord, for what you're doing. We thank you, Lord, for how you help certain brethren that have been needing help and sisters as well. It's been marvelous. And now, Lord, I just pray again that we go for every home here that it may be the kind of a home. It's in the Word. A home, Lord, where the husband is the head because Christ is his head. It's just the same as the bride, Lord. And with you in our TV and knowing that all things are in you, that so many things, Lord, are said here propitious for our healing, until now, Lord, it would seem that there isn't one of us should be sick under any consideration whatsoever. It's just everything is so gracious and so good. And we thank you, Lord, for what you've done and what you're doing. We thank you, Lord, for how you've helped certain brethren that have been needing help. Sisters as well. It's been marvelous. Now, Lord, I just pray again that we go for every home here, that it may be the kind of a home that's in the Word. A home, Lord, where the husband is the head because Christ is his head. Just the same as the bride, Lord, with you and the bride. A real definitive outworking of the Spirit of God, Lord, where people just recognize. We know, Lord, that's the prophesied recognizing, He said, but they weren't recognizing. God, help us this morning to recognize. Lord, this morning may we recognize starting right in our lives with the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Recognizing in our homes where the homes lie. Recognizing in the church where it lies. Right up to the very head where we see Christ and beyond that you all may be God. Lord, I pray that. That's what we want, Lord. That great theocratic kingdom not just established on earth but established in the church. in the home, and in each life. And that's not asking too much, Lord. Maybe it's asking a little bit too much to have all of it here on this side of Jordan, but I don't think it is, Lord. I don't think it is. I know it's not too much for the other side, but I believe there's a whole lot here. So we commend ourselves to you, O God. Give thee praise and give thee glory. And just thank you. And humble us all now, Lord. Keep us at the foot of the old rugged cross. Jesus, Lord Jesus, open hearted, open ears, open mouth where necessary, pertinent, so that you get some glory. And we'll be careful, Lord, to praise you in Jesus' name. Amen.

We pray, Heavenly Father, again we thank you for the presence of the Lord Jesus, who by the Holy Spirit is here not only in individuals, making us one body, but actually here in our midst as the person himself. Here, Lord, reveal himself to show us the deep secret things of God which lie within himself, to show us the hour in which we live, to make us realize, Lord, that this hour is the same as the hour when he was here in person physically. When Paul said that the prince's world had known who he was, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But when we see the same thing at the end time, Lord, if they had known your personal presence, what it was all about, they would not have crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh, but they have already done it. And we know, Lord, therefore there is one course left in that is judgment, when soon all things shall be wrapped up and over. And, Lord, we know that... Although it is a strange thing in our intemperance of impatience at this hour that we feel very much put upon that time has extended greater than what we think it should be. We know that it is not so. That things are already running their course exactly on your schedule and it will soon be over in spite of the fact that it seems so long and then looking back. These days that have been spent have seemed so tedious, so long, and so fruitless. It will be less than a breath, less than a heartbeat. God, Lord, help us to understand your ways today, your truth. We carefully give you the praise in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Now, we're going to continue with the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ in this hour. And the last time I preached, I tried to show you that the parousia, which most people call the rapture, is not so at all. A parousia is not being with Jesus in the rapture and at the waiting supper, but has to be with the personal presence of Jesus for an indefinite period prior to the rapture. That's what the scripture teaches, it's an indefinite period prior to the rapture, but it is not the rapture itself. So the parousia... which is the personal presence of Christ precedes the rapture. And the rapture then, of course, will take place at a later time. And this parousia concerns the living who are about to be changed and the dead who must come up out of the earth. Now, this was seen in Matthew 24, beginning at verse 3.

Those who are mistakenly but wound up in the fundamental understanding of the rapture do not even consider. For it says, As he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy personal presence? It isn't what will be the sign of your coming. Can you tell us something that's going to happen to let us know that you'll be coming? It doesn't say that. It says, what will be the sign that you are here? Now, you can't read into Scripture what doesn't belong there, so if you're fundamental this morning and you haven't progressed to the place where you understand this message, you're going to have to get the cobwebs out of your mind as Brother Branham said, let your own thinking go, which has been biased anyway by wrong teaching. What will be the sign that you are there? Ah, what's the sign that I'm here? You can see me. No sign required.

Oh, you say, I know today will be my close. Wonderful, you're getting sharp. You're getting sharp. Because that's exactly right.

You don't even have to see the individual. What is the sign that you are personally present? Well, that's what it says.

Now, sign, S -I -G -N. I'm going to read you a couple thoughts on it. He's very liberal, very literal, very extended translating. He said, what should be the attesting miracle? which will indicate your parousia. Mark.

He doesn't get all involved. He just says, what will be the attesting miracle that indicates your presence? Well, all of you can see what he needs a miracle for.

Now, he's supposed to be there, but what about?

Does something like the Spirit breathe as where he willeth? Now can he hear the sound of his voice, but knoweth not whence he cometh, where he goeth? Fine, says concerning the sign of tokens. portending future events. Example, Matthew 24 and 3, where the sign of the Son of Man signifies subjectively that the Son of Man is himself the sign. The

Son of Man is actually a sign. Now,

I didn't write this. I'm not a Greek student. But I like the Greek students. I don't care if you're a Trinitarian or anything else. You always attest to what Brother Branham taught. There isn't one... that you can find him off on the Word of God.

All right? Where the sign of the Son of Man signifies subjectively that the Son of Man is himself the sign of what he is about to do.

Bullinger. A sign by which anything is designated, distinguished, or known. In other words, something has got to be there in order to identify something. Or the something that is there would go unnoticed, would go passed by, or could be horribly mistaken

unless it is identified.

Reading again, a sign by which anything is designated, distinguished, or known, hence used of the miracles of Christ as being the sign by which he might be known as the Christ of God. A sign authenticating his mission. A sign with reference to what it demonstrates. As Jesus said, if I had not done the works that no other man did, they had not sinned. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. The sign identified the Father. The Father was there, but nobody could see him. But the sign identified by the works. He said, if I had not done the works. Now, how then can you make Perusia the actual rapture? No, I want to know, because just the fundamentalists make this mistake. The Pentecostals, they all make it. They say the Parousia is actually the appearing of the rapture. They put it in there, but it isn't so.

Because there, in the rapture, you're face -to -face physically. And if you need a sign to recognize Jesus, you ain't even in the rapture.

I couldn't see how stupid can you get. And I mean that spiritually. What in the world? You just couldn't.

So how could you make the proof of the actual rapture and physical confrontation of Jesus with all the bride present, both living, that which are present living and those resurrected are now living. Now, I want to go to 1 Corinthians 1, 7 to 8 to see more what the fundamental version is as set forth by Dr. Schofield because he is a very fine student. Nothing wrong with his teaching in the sense of having your axe to grind. I just can't believe what he says. A lot of these footnotes. And he says, so that you come behind in no gift waiting for the parousia of the Lord, the personal presence, who shall also confirm you unto the end.

Huh?

Now what? Confirm you to the end. What's our end? When you make the resurrection, you made it.

And it's got to be there before the resurrection. Right? You don't have to say right if you don't want to say right. It's okay to me. You're wrong. Because I'm right. This is right.

The presence confirms you. Like as I mentioned in different sermons here, and I got the sermons on simplicity. Why were you brought in at the reading of the will? Don't

bring every Tom, Dick, and Harry off the street to hear the will. They bring in those that are in the will. They

shall confirm you. A confirmation that

that proves you. That you may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now. Watch the very words blameless in here. Because you can take these words and begin linking them with other scripture as we've done before very simply. Now, here is what Dr. Schofield says and I have no fuss with him. These three words are used in connection with the return of the Lord. Peruse your personal presence. Also used by Paul of the coming of Stephanas. 1 Corinthians 16 and 17 is true. Titus. also of Titus 2 Corinthians 7, 6 and 7 of his own coming to Philippi and also Philippians 1, 26. The word means simply personal presence and is used of the return of the Lord as that event, the personal presence, relates to the blessing of the saints and to the destruction of the man of sin. It uses 1 Corinthians 15, 23, 1 Thessalonians 4, 14, 17. In 2 Thessalonians 2 and in verse 8. Now, you'll note that he uses six epistles and eight verses. There are actually 24 verses in the New Testament where the word peruse is found. And I'll give them to you quickly. Don't look them up. Matthew 24 and 3, verse 27 also, 37 also, verse 39 also. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 23, 1 Corinthians 16 and 17, 2 Corinthians 7, verses 6 to 7. Also 2 Corinthians 10 and 10. Philippians 1, 26. Philippians 2 and 12. 1 Thessalonians 2, 19. 3, 13. 4, 15. 5 and 23. 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1. 8 and 9. So three verses there. James 5, 7 to 8. And 2 Peter 1, 16. 2 Peter 3, 4 and verse 12 also. And 1 John 2 and 28. And you'll see they're mentioned there. There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Nine actual divisions of Scripture with 24 distinct verses. Now, we're going to go back and we look at Dr. Schofield's notes again. And he said the word parousia means simply personal presence and is used of the return of the Lord as that event relates to the blessing of the saints. And he goes into 1 Corinthians 15, 23, 1 Thessalonians 4, 14, 17, and the destruction of the man of sin. Now, notice. He uses the word personal presence and you know he's talking about the bodily presence because it's at the bodily presence that the Antichrist is destroyed in a face -to -face confrontation. And

he's suggesting to us and telling us that the other part of the proof of the verses indicated here will demand the very body of the Lord Jesus Christ to be present.

And what are you going to do in Matthew 24 and 3?

Now, this is an oversimplification. Because you cannot join 1 Corinthians 15 and 23. Let's look at it because we'll take it in verses. 1 Corinthians 15 and 23. But every man in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's that is coming. That is a physical resurrection. An absolute physical resurrection.

Because Christ is the firstfruits. Afterward they that are Christ's at his parousia.

Now that means right there that... Christ himself is risen from the dead in a physical body. And at his coming, the personal presence, there are going to be other physical bodies just like unto him. That's what it's telling you there. Okay? In 1 Thessalonians 4, 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. Doesn't bring with him. It says it's going to bring forth with him. And in verse 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, I said this is an oversimplification because you cannot possibly join 1 Corinthians 15 and 23 and 1 Thessalonians 4 .14 and 1 Thessalonians 4 .17 that we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Because in 1 Corinthians 15, 23, Christ is present to bring about the resurrection and is therefore with the first fruit. Then in 1 Thessalonians 4, 14, it is not God bringing the bodies with Jesus back to the earth. Now

look at it. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, he even sold them off to sleep in Jesus, will God bring forth with him?

If I'm going to believe in what Schofield teaches and the fundamentals teaches, then I must believe that Jesus Christ is going to bring back to earth with him the bodies of the sleeping people to mingle with us down here. Let's just find out if that's true or not, see? All

right, let's find out now. Because it says, for the Lord himself shall send us his help with the voice of the archangels, verse 16, now the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Now, you or anybody that believes what Schofield believes, And as the fundamental is so mixed up as to be pitiful.

Because it says, it says Jesus is the first fruit. There's going to be many more like him. This tells you here that God will bring them forth. See? Those which sleep in Jesus. And then it says over here that the dead in Christ shall rise first. He's talking about the dead bodies. Christ is not going to bring back a bunch of bodies with him. The bodies are going to be brought out of the ground. and he's the one that's going to bring them out of the ground.

So how in the world is he going to be here in a physical, personal presence? He

can't be here in a physical, personal presence.

It's impossible. Now, let's go over, let's just look a little further again, read again now, verse 13. But I would not have you, brethren, be concerning them which are asleep, that you soar not, that he and his others have no hope. Now, he's talking about those friends and loved ones that went right down to the ground, and they're sleeping there in their body form. Now, they're not sleeping there spiritually because they're very much alive. It's the body that's sleeping. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which are sleeping, God is bound to bring forth the same way as he brought Jesus forth. Now, how did he bring him forth? Out of the ground. He raised him plump from the dead. That was the dead body.

Now, for this I understand you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive remain under the prudence of the Lord, the very presence. shall not go before them which are asleep, those that are down there in the ground. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, the Lord himself. The trump of God and the dead in Christ shall be brought out of the grave when he comes down.

Then it says, we which are alive and ancient come together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

So how could it be the personal presence of the body when the word parousia is used? It cannot.

Because the personal body is not down here. The personal body is where we go somewhere in the dimension to meet Him. Now, let's just look at these verses again. Concerning them which are asleep, brethren.

Verse 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also sleep, and Jesus will God bring with Him. And in verse 16, the dead in Christ arise, showing you that those who are asleep, are actually dead corpses, and they are going to be brought out of the ground at the presence of the Lord with the living. And it doesn't say it's his physical body. What people are doing is taking for granted it's a physical body. That's why I keep hammering over there in Matthew, what is the sign of your presence? How do we know that you are actually there? There must be some way that we'll be able to tell. Now let's look some more at this resurrection for a minute to show you that Jesus does it. We go to John, the fifth chapter, because that's what the thought is, what it's about on this particular portion. John 5 and 39. John

5, 25, I'm sorry. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. For as the man that says in verse 28 to 29, marvel not at this, for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, and they that have done good unto the resurrection of life. And they've done evil unto the resurrected damnation. And the question is, who raises the dead? Jesus does.

He is raising the dead. Now, that proves then what we saw over here in the book of 1 Thessalonians. All right, let's go back to the book of Daniel, the 12th chapter, verses 1 to 4. And at that time shall Michael stand up for the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people. And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation in the same time. And at that time the TLC delivered every one that is found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. Some do everlasting life and some do shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shine as brightness of firmness. And they that turn men to rights as stars from the earth. Now the only thought I'm trying to bring out here is the fact that many that sleep in the dust are going to awaken. So the dead bodies are going to come out of the ground just as the scripture says. Also, in John...

11, 43

to 44, Jesus at the graveside of Lazarus. And when he thus spoke, a crowd of loud -voiced Lazarus came forth, and he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face bowed and apkin, and Jesus said unto him, Loose him and let him go. Now, Philippians, the third chapter, 20

to 21. For

our citizenship is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body. Now that's 1 Corinthians 15. I show you in Israel not all people will all be changed. So you notice the one who brings them out of the ground is the same one who does the changing of the living. You change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glory's body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. This is one thing that he is able to do. He is able to subdue the body which naturally dies. and subdue it to himself, making it like his own glorious body, the same one who can subdue the gases and the ashes to those that went down in the grave and bring them back exactly like him. In other words, he has power over all life and over all death. Now, I mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15 that that is what he was referring to there in Philippians. 50th verse. Now this I say, bread and flesh and blood cannot hit him. God need a corruption and corruption.

Now notice that this verse is exactly the same as in Thessalonians. And you'll know who is doing it. It is being done by Jesus because no other one has the authority, for he says that authority was vested in him by God. Now then, back again to 1 Thessalonians 4 and 15.

Under the parousia, the personal presence, the presence of the Lord, shall not prevent, hinder, or go before them which are asleep. This verse demands the actual presence of the Lord, but not necessarily the bodily presence, which would be the glorified body of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. But now, then, what would we do with verse 17? Then we which are alive remain to 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, since Jesus is already present, you see, since he's already present, what would the fundamentalist do with the verse that says you get caught up in the air to be with him when already in the preceding verses he is already with them? Now, you see, that's what we're looking at. If he's already here, then what's the catchy up to do and see him there? Now you can begin to see exactly that this personal presence of Perusia has an element about it that is mysterious, but it is not necessarily a secret. Now, we'll go back to Matthew 24 again, because we want to use Matthew a great deal. The third verse.

And it says, what shall be the sign of thy presence, your personal presence? Remember what Vine said, of tokens portending or showing forth future events. That's what a sign can be. Especially of Matthew 24 and 3, where the sign of the Son of Man signifies subjectively, that's evidently something to do with the Greek in there and the way it's phrased, that the Son of Man is himself the sign of what he is about to do. In other words, he himself has got to be there in order for certain events to take place. Now, that's exactly what we showed you in Thessalonians. If he isn't there, the dead cannot be raised. If he isn't there, the living cannot be changed. If he isn't there, nobody gets caught up to meet him in the air. See? Now, that's what this is about. Now, they said here, what is the sign of your presence? Okay? Could this be what we see over here in the book of John, chapter 21, 1 to 14? After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at Thea Tiberias, and on this wise showed he himself. There's Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael, Canaan, Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples. And Simon Peter says, I go fishing. They said, we'll go fishing with you. They went forth, entered the ship immediately, and that night they caught nothing. And the morning was now coming. Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Now, see, he was there in his resurrected body, but they didn't recognize him. Jesus said, do you have any meat? And they said, no. He said, cast the net on the right side of the ship and you'll find. They cast therefore, and now we're not able to draw him from all the Judah fishes, and therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, it is the Lord. Now, there you will notice that the actual physical presence, though it was there, is not what was indicated. and recognized by the apostles, though they had lived with him for roughly three and a half years. But what they recognized, they recognized him by what he did. Now, remember, Mary never recognized him in the garden, and on the road to Emmaus, they never recognized him. All they could do was recognize him by what he did. In other words, there was a sign, something was given. in order for the people to know that he was there. Now, you could turn around and say, all right then, Brother Bailey, he could well be there in the physical form, but you can't see him. Now, let's just find out. See? Now, back to Matthew 24 again.

The third verse. And what shall be the sign of thy presence, which, of course, would signify the coming of the very end. Now, watch verses 4 and 5. And Jesus said, Take heed that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many. Now, there's the key and part of the sign.

23 to 25. Then if any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, is there, believe it not. For there shall arise false, Christ, even lying prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch were possible, and see the very elect. Behold, I told you before. Now where did he tell them before? He says I'm telling you ahead of time. But you can take that translation if you want. But I like Matthew 7. Verse 15. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep clothing but inwardly ravening wolves. Now it tells you right here there are going to be false prophets so closely identified to the real Christian that

he passes for everything a sheep is. But inside he's a ravening wolf. You'll know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even as every good tree brings forth good fruit and a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Even a corrupt tree brings forth good fruit. Now, let's just look at this. That just sounds terribly confusing. It's not if you listen to what he's saying. He's talking about false prophets,

see, who are so completely genuine as to the exterior manifestations of a Christian that

they'll confuse just about everybody. Now, watch what it says. you'll know them by their fruit. Now, he's talking about animals and suddenly swings to fruit. Now, that's okay. He's just letting you know what is the real nature of that fellow that looks just like a Christian. That's a false prophet. He's a wolf. His nature is a wolf. He is not a sheep. You're going to know them by fruit. The men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistle. Every good tree brings forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. What was the one tree in the garden that was rocked?

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And what is a false prophet? He's a fellow who's got just enough truth and enough authority and enough power to get you following him and destroy you. Because it says here, every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn and is cast down to fire. And that's exactly right. Anybody that doesn't eat of the tree of life and cannot get to that tree of life has got to go to one place which is the lake of fire. That's even after the white throne judgment because those that are judged... on merit, are allowed to come in with a blood standing there in the Holy Ghost to give them eternal life. Now, you know that as well as I do.

Wherefore, by the end of the day, he says again, by your fruit you know them. Now, not everyone that said, Lord, Lord, and the King of heaven, he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven. And many will say, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And thy name cast out devils, and thy name don't reach. And I'll profess, I never ever knew you. Depart from me, you that work iniquity. And yet, you can't lay a finger on these guys.

But they're off the word. Because that was the original tree of life, a tree of error. The knowledge of good and evil was the word of God perverted by one word.

Now, let's go on back. Wherefore, if they say, behold, he's in the desert, go not forth. Behold, the secret chamber, do not believe it. For, as lightning cometh out of the east and shines even to the west, so shall also the prusia, the presence of the Son of Man, be. Now, there again, you're getting a further indication.

All right, we're getting the signs lined up. What is the sign that you're there? What is going to be going on? Because we won't even know you're there by being able to look at you. And if we could, we couldn't recognize you. So what is this personal presence that's supposed to come before the end of the world? And you know that's absolutely not referring to the great white throne and way down the ages. That's referring to the three -and -a -half -year tribulation and then the final blotting out with flames of fire, the atomic bomb and all. and then God bringing the saints back on a recreated, not a recreated earth, but a renovated earth, like after the flood, see? Now, what about it, he said? Now, he said here, if they shall say he's in the desert, go not forth in the secret chamber, do not believe it.

24th verse, these false christs shall show such signs and wonders that only the very elect will not be deceived. Now, it doesn't say the elect, it says the very elect. That's a very special group of the end time. So,

Let's just take, let's read again then.

And we'll connect up here. See, I've got 20, I've got these verses ready.

They'll say, Lord, here is Christ. Don't believe it. Just watch carefully. They don't get you off balance here whatsoever.

And verses 4 and 5 again. And Jesus said, Take heed, no man deceive you. Many come in my name saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many. See? All right. Now with that, we have read the other verses. And now again, we'll read 26 and 27. Therefore, if he says he's holding a secret chamber, don't believe it. Don't go for it. As lightning comes out, he shines away so shall all. So the truth is the Son of Man beats. Now, so listen. This is what I'm trying to get to your attention. The fundamentalists say that the prusia, which they call the rapture, the literal coming of the Lord when he appears to the saints, is secret. How can it be secret in the face of these verses? I want to know. That's what I mean when I try to get across your attention. Somebody's all messed up and he's thinking.

You cannot attribute to the word that presence what is not there because it is not secret. The actual coming of the Lord cannot be secret. First of all, you've got, when he is present, you've got a bunch of false prophets. You've got tremendous signs and wonders. Put it with fantastic characters, fantastic ministries. Only the very elect will not be fooled because they've got an insight in the word that nobody else has got because that's the tree of life as against the tree of the knowledge of an evil. Cut down the tree. And a false prophet is a man who goes off the word. There's all kinds of signs and wonders. He doesn't come saying, hey, hey, there's no God. He doesn't come saying, hey, there's no such thing as a resurrection. He doesn't come along saying, there's no such thing as a rapture, no such thing as this, that, and the other thing. He comes right along, and he's just so close.

But the Bible says, if Satan is transformed to an angel of light, how much more he ministers. In other words, there is at the end time a complete religion that is so close to Christian, because it is Christian, but anti -Christian, that only the very elected are not going to be deceived. How in the world... Can it be a secret for you? It cannot be secret. However, there is no way you can figure it out in the sense that you can bring it about, or you could have anything to do with it. It's got to be there. Then as Rotherham said, this word is so confusing that God must bring it to pass, and when he has brought it to pass, that's the time we'll know what it's about.

Rotherham's exactly right. See, remember what Vine said. Sign said here where the sign of the Son of Man signifies subjectively. That's the very Greek itself shows that the Son of Man is Himself the sign of what He is about to do. In other words, the rest of the coming events, absolutely, and what are the rest of the coming events? Resurrection, rapture, great tribulation, coming back.

See? No, this is not secret. In fact, it's very, very visible. So, when they say here, He is in the desert in some little place out here. Don't believe it. Or in the secret room. Don't believe it. Why? Because it's got to be done in such a manner that the people can catch it.

Now, I'll show you that a little later on as we get into some more verses of Scripture. Now, we go back to Matthew 24 and 4 again.

And Jesus answered and said, Take heed that no man deceives you. See? And connect this with verse 27. For as lightning... cometh out of the east, and shines even the west, so shall also the Prusia, the first and present Son of Man be. Now, go back to verse 5. Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many. See, that light follows verse 27. The lightning comes out of the east. Now, verse 26. Wherefore, they'll say, Behold, in the desert going out forth in the secret chamber. Do not believe it. And verse 28. For wheresoever... The carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered. Now listen, this verse 28 is a real stinger for this reason. Brother Branham never ever used this verse right, though other students agreed with him. This verse is really, the verse he used is in Luke. Let me read exactly what the Greek says. For wherever the corpse might be in that place, the carrion birds will be gathered together. Now

look, you see, people are reading the Scripture all wrong. That's the whole trouble. We've read this all wrong all these years because we didn't have a prophet to help us. That's the only reason I can read it right to you this morning with even any sense of right understanding because I have an understanding by a vindicated man. Now let's look at it. He's telling you the sign of the parousia, of the presence. And you know what the sign is? False anointing, exactly what the prophet said. He

says here, when the Son of Man... is present. He

said it is going to be exactly as a corpse surrounded by buzzards. These

verses by Jesus right here are no different from what Paul says in 2 Thessalonians, the

second chapter, 1 to 12. Now look, and I know you're going to have a job following me because this is pretty tough material, but

I hope if time goes on, it'll all come together in your mind. Now we beseech you, brethren, by the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the prudence. And even by our gathering together unto Him, the bride has to be gathered unto Christ personally right here. He's not talking about the dead. He's not talking about them. He's talking about them. And of course, they died. He's talking about us. That you soon not be shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter. From us as that day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive any means. Now the day of Christ there is that great day of judgment. Not the fruit of it. Let no man deceive by any means. For that day shall not come except to come a falling away first. Now watch. The falling away first and the man of sin be revealed. The son of perdition. Who opposed and exalts himself above all that's called God or that's worshipped. So that he is God. Sits in the temple of God. Showing himself that he is God.

Alright. All but the elect are going to get sucked in. Remember you not when I told you these things? And now you know what withholds that he might reveal in his time? For the mystery of the nickel is already worked. Only he that now hinders will hinder the taking out of the way. Then shall that wicked be revealed, and the Lord shall consume the spirit of the mountain and destroy it by his coming. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. Well, isn't that exactly what Jesus said over in Matthew 24? It doesn't say the wonders and the signs are lies. They're genuine.

And this fellow will be so close to Jesus, I got an idea, that he can palm himself right off as an incarnation, a reincarnation. Now, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because, now listen, because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

The presence of the Son of Man surrounded by false prophets is a sign. Paul says the same thing. The truth. I am the way, the truth, and the light. I

am the light of the world. He that follow me shall not walk in darkness. And notice at the end time he's called the God of truth. Not amen, but the God of truth. Although amen is in the scripture, see there. When it comes to, I'm talking in the book of Revelation. He's the God of the amen from Isaiah, but he's also the God of truth. See, of reality. Now, he said, for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe the lie. Not Eli, but the lie. that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but that pleasant unrighteousness. Now, now listen. You got your thinking caps on this morning? All right, you've been listening to what I've been saying this morning. Matthew 7. Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you will know them. What tree was it that destroyed, that cut down the human race? The tree of the word of God perverted.

man bringing life in a way apart from God, from which God signifies.

People are so identical to the real, can

tell the difference. What is the difference?

Receive not the love of the truth, and it would have saved him. I am the way, the truth, and the life. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word is with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh. But the Word cannot become flesh and come down here, or He'd have nail prints. But

you still got the Word.

Well, to take it easy, make this evening terrible. But now, do you begin to see that this is nothing more nor less than what Jesus said in Matthew 24 and in Matthew 7? It's the same thing. It's the one Spirit showing the same thing. See?

And remember, 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1 is the parousia.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, by gathering together unto Him.

Don't be shaken. Don't be worried. Then it says, The day of the Lord cannot come until the parousia. There's got to be a personal presence of Christ with His own. Then it says, that's when you begin watching what is coming because

there's going to be a parousia of the Antichrist. Revelation.

And it tells you right here, what saves the bride is the revelation of the truth. And the rest turn their thumbs down and are caught by the Antichrist. Now listen, that couldn't come in the first days. It could not come in the 70s or the 30s or the 40s or the 50s or the 60s but the end of the 70s. No other time. So therefore you can say what you want. But

when you talk about the prusia, the present, you can't bypass the revealed word of Almighty God because that's the one thing that saves you. And it doesn't say one thing about the blood of Jesus Christ or the baptism with the Holy Ghost.

See what I'm trying to tell you? I'm trying to tell you there is a sign at the end time. And the sign at the end time is the false prophets. off the word, signs and wonders legitimate, which will lead right to an antichrist, the overthrow of the whole world, Christ coming back, but the personal presence of Jesus signifies what? Truth.

So, therefore, the truth has got to be somewhere. All right. So, we say here, as we saw here, that the parousia of 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1, and that parousia is identical. Now, watch. The parousia that's talked about here in... In chapter 2 of 2 Thessalonians, coming right before the Antichrist, for he comes on the scene, people turning down the truth, I told you before, wrong tree, act like Christians aren't, is the very same one over here in 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 to 17. Now I wouldn't have you even brethren concerning them which are sweetly sore not, even such as have the hope. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so also we sleep in Jesus, will God bring forth with him?

He's going to come right down to the earth. He's going to have a shout. He's going to have a voice. He's going to have a trumpet. And it says right there that we are gathered unto him at that particular time. And then he'll bring the dead out of the ground. And then they'll all go up a series. Age 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And the seventh church age will be caught away in a little handful. That's your secret. So -called secret proves your secret rapture. You're going to do it a little few at a time. No one will even know. And they're all gone. See, it's the same parousia. No different to Matthew. What will be the sign of your presence? And the first thing you hit was false anointed.

Now, how are you going to know false if you haven't got a change? How

are you going to know that it's Jesus? has him identify himself. Let's

identify himself. But he's not here physically. You can't see him. But you can tell that he is here. Because the disciples said, how will we know that you are here?

I hope you're beginning to get the Scripture together. Now listen.

And, now listen, 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1 proves you, is identical to 1 Thessalonians 4, 13, 17, is identical to Matthew 24.

Reality, reality. Deception, deception, deception. How are you going to know the difference? Now that's the clue. Now that's what the clue is all about.

Now this, you'll understand why, that when Brother Branham began instructing me personally on the anointing ones of the end time and preached that sermon, that sermon meant life and destiny. It meant life from death. Because nothing made any sense until

he explained the presence and the sign of death.

And nobody's going to catch it because nobody wants the truth. And without the truth, you die. And without the truth, you can have every single other thing that God has in His entire catalog, from character to manifestation, and you're still gone. Do you follow me? Now, I see why when you see this message, that's all you ever will see. Reality, reality, reality, presence, deception, deception, deception.

Okay? Let's do some reading. We go to the book of Jude. It's a tiny book before the book of Revelation.

Beginning at verse 3.

That was the time of Paul.

How are you going to deny him? There's only one way to deny him, and that's to deny what he said. I will put you to remember, though ye once knew this, how the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, now what? Afterward destroyed them to believe not. Now we're getting right down to Exodus. And Exodus is in our time. A bride coming out of a church. And the angels which kept not their first estate left their own habitation and reserved an everlasting change of darkness the day of judgment, the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of bottom and like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh. That's homosexuality. That's bestiality. are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominions, speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when containing the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him reigning accusation, but said, The Lord is beauty. But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally, and those things they corrupt themselves. One of them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, ran greedily after the heir of Balaam, for reward, and perished in the game, saying, Zechariah. Now just a minute. One fellow's a prophet up here, and the other fellow's an elder who prophesied.

They're pretty rotten bunch of guys, but they're not entirely bankrupt as people think they are. There are spots in your Feast of Charity with when they feast with you. Three kinds of believers in every church. Make believer, unbeliever, and true believer.

You want to look around and see who might be true believer this morning? Pick out the unbelievers? Go ahead. Have fun. Brother Vance at every church. You say, Brother Bill, will you pick them out? Ain't got the least clue. Ain't got the least clue. Every time I think somebody's really great, they're not so great, just like me. Every time I think they're not so great, they turn out to be pretty good. I wouldn't have a clue. Don't let it bug you. You just believe you're one of them. That's all I keep going on. Feeding themselves without fear. Clouds are without water. Carried about the wind. Trees with fruit with it, without fruit. Twice dead, plucked up at the root. Raging waves of sea foaming up their own shame. Wandering stars. Tumors reserve the blackest dark river. And you knock off. So the reason I'm reading this now. is because Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these things, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousand saints. Now, of course, that's after the Great Tribulation. You execute judgment. What I've read it for is to show you how the sin is coming to a head and what people are missing by looking at the bestiality in the world, they're missing the razor edge that God had ran and preached about in the false anointed. So how can you call that man anything but a real saint? Well, give him the word test.

Just find out where the truth is and put it down in the Word. Because there's a showdown between Christ and Antichrist and the showdown is between truth and lies. Because the lie that says you shall not surely die.

Right today there's a streaming. Oh, millions now living will never die. Oh, there's hundreds of millions of Christians. Oh, bless God, California's not going to go down. And oh, bless God, that rapture, they talked about the choo -choo train. The big choo -choo train is going to go down the track. And the engineers are taken away. Now, there's no choo -choo train.

Doesn't God make fools of everybody who thinks they can smart off? Oh, they wrote their track, but they wrote the wrong track. The next thing they'll be telling me, they'll be telling me about the pilots in the plane. Oh, the pilots got automatic control. Look, don't romanticize God's word, brothers and sisters. Just look at it and believe it. Don't fantasize, romanticize. Just take it away. What? If God wants to romanticize and fantasize, he could have done it for us. Why can't we just see the truth? We're looking at the ripening of sin, the rottenness of sin. But at the same time, you've got your chorus operating definitive, positive gifts of Almighty God. But they themselves went against Moses. We'll read about him a little bit later on. Let's go to 2 Peter. Let's see what Peter says about the end time.

And now, of course, we get to 2 Peter, 2nd chapter.

Starting the first verse. But there were false prophets among all so many people. Even there could be false teachers among you.

Now, what? There you are. At the end time, there's going to be two major things to watch out for. The false prophet and the false teacher. Privately bringing Daniel to Herod. He's even denying the Lord to Bostom. Bringing Bostom to destruction. Isn't that what Paul said over there? Even denying the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is here and they say he's not. Are they denying him? It's

a sweet life. I don't know what I'm talking about.

And many shall follow the pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be spoken of. That's all that's been in history. Paul said they make me a heretic because I worship God in a certain way, which is prescribed by the Word. Through covenants shall the same words make merchandise of you. How would you like to be a piece of merchandise to somebody? I'm going to tell you something. The black man sure huffs and puffs about the fact he was made merchandise of. But the white man is so stupid, he's made merchandise of the devil, and he's proud of it.

I'd sooner be a black man saved than a stupid white man unsaved, I tell you that.

Very strange, isn't it? Makes merchandise. Why

am I a Baptist? Tell me this morning on the radio. Well, I don't know why you Baptists care less. Why am I independent? What's that? I can be ten times worse than the Baptists organized into being independent.

Why are you a Christian? Did you forget to light your candle this morning? If

Christians, the whole thing has gone crazy. Whose judgment now the long time lingereth not, and damnation slumbereth not? For if God spared not the angels of sin? Notice a repeat of what we read.

That's what Paul said. That's what Jesus said.

That's what Paul said. That's what Jude said. But was rebuked for his iniquity. You see? Let's go to 2 Timothy now. I'm just lining this up for you to show you, brothers and sisters, exactly what we're into.

3, 1 to 9, 2 Timothy 3. And this knows in the last days perilous times shall come, for even men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud blasphemers, as being the parents of the unfangled holy. And this is the end time. This is not the age of martyrs. This is the end time. Without natural affection, true spades of false accusers, incontinent. What he later shows out on incest.

Now,

listen. Verse 8 is what I want.

So do these also resist truth, men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith, but they'll proceed no further for their following may manifest unto all men, even as theirs also was. All right. No difference. Scripture lines up scripture upon scripture. No matter where you turn, there is a T. There is a sign. What is the sign of your present? Reality. Deception. Grossest deception. Finest deception. You never saw an H with the two extremes of this H.

You couldn't have. Oh, I know that. I know that there's a temple in India. I've never seen the pictures, but I guess I could buy a book if I knew where to get the book or find the library. There's supposed to be every act, sexual act, on this temple until love and all. But you can go down to any one of your stores right here that sells the pornographic magazines, and you can pick up one magazine that'll beat the spots off any temple in any place else as far as I'm concerned.

They say the temples in Pompeii are the same. It's got quite a few postcards and things made up of them. I noticed some of them when I was there three or four years ago. We don't have them over here yet unless you buy them in some shop in New York. I suppose that you can get them. But I'm trying to show you that even as the Bible could not have it spread until the press came on the scene, neither could the rottenness of the world and the immorality reach its peak without the presses.

And so now we have got the fruit of both. We have got where incest is common and will not be dealt with pretty soon by the courts because so what? It's my daughter. I can do what I want. It's my son. I can do what I want.

Okay? You can get away with anything today. Why? Because of the press.

You've got growth of immorality on the one hand. On the other hand, there never was a time when you had such fineness of religion.

Right now, the 700 Club, what I understand is they sent me a little letter in the newspaper. I mean, one of their little clippings or... No, they sent me a little letter telling me what they're going to do. I suppose handing for money. I don't know. Now they've got in Israel every... room in the hotels and motels in Israel will now have the gospel in it. Preaching the Lord Jesus Christ Pentecostal style, no doubt. Which is alright, I'm not going to fight it. See, what I want to show you, that you could not have this age of the age of Pentecost where the gifts are.

So you've got the finest group of people perhaps the world's ever seen the furthest from the truth.

Because they bring the lie.

Right back at the beginning, see? Now, Watch as we go back to Matthew 24, 27.

I'm belaboring this point on purpose because this is where we are in the Word. There's nothing more you can do about it. Just stay with the Word. It says, For as lightning cometh out of the east, shines the west, even so shall also the personal presence, the presence of the Son of Man be. Now, this word lightning is actually a bright shining even as a lamp. It doesn't necessarily mean lightning. It's a bright shining as a lamp shine. Okay? So if that's the case, maybe we could compare. Of Matthew 24, 27 to Luke 33 to 36.

No man with the light of the candle puts in a secret place, neither under a bushel but on a candlestick. The day which come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is single, the whole body is full of light. When your eye is evil, the whole body is full of darkness. I didn't write that, he did. Paul said the same thing. They believe the lie, no way out. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. Now

what if you're charismatic?

See, this guy in Michigan keeps going. He doesn't bug me, but he bugs me in this respect. He said, I hurt his feelings because when he asked me, Brother Dale, what would you do? Or how would you feel if people received the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues? I said, I feel suspicious.

Now, he gets offended.

If the Holy Spirit baptism comes today without evidence or sensation, then why do you want it?

Let me tell you something flat, buddy. When I went up there to get this hernia operated on at Shaughnessy Hospital, I said, look, I'm pretty nervous type of guy. I know I've got to walk to that table. They're going to give me a pretty good shot. So they gave me a pretty big pill and a pretty good shot. And I went on that table, and I'll tell you, I couldn't even feel cut, cut. Or so, so, the least I could feel was just again a tap, tap, tap as they fixed me up. And let me tell you, if I'd have felt that knife, I'd have howled bloody murder.

The evidence of Shawnee Hospital is you don't feel a thing and you don't. Now that's the baptism with the Holy Ghost. I'd have been very suspicious about that hospital if they hadn't done what they said, but they did what they said. That's why it's the world's greatest. And that's one thing right here, brother and sister, this is the world's greatest. And this hour, to stay exact is what is taught in this word, see? Now, I was reading along here. If the whole, if your body, yeah, it's dark. He said the whole body is full of dark.

If the whole body there be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light as when the light shineth of a candle that doth give light. And as he spoke a certain, well, that's as far as we need to go on that one. Now, You can see how this follows perfectly with Jesus and Paul. Truth and error. See? And he said, if that is dark in you, how great is that darkness. Indication in them. Now, we want to go further? So we go to Matthew 24 again. And this time we advance to verses 37 to 39. But as the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. No, sir. The presence of the Son of Man.

What do you got there? Too extreme. You don't know who's the only perfect man in his generation? That word perfect meant genetically pure.

That's what it is in the Bible, genetically pure. Now, I'm not going to say you couldn't be married to someone off color and not make it because the genes are everywhere. That's why we have elections.

But you can see why the prophet made certain statements. He'd have to make to be cohesive and

run in line with the scripture that some of those things are not right. And I'm talking in terms of mixing of the white and black race. Brother Branham was not happy about that. God set the bounds and all. And today, of course, in my own understanding, if something like that has happened, it's no reflection on the children. It's something that God did not want done. Now, again, it's the days where even before the flood, they're eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day no end of the ark. And you not till the flood came and took them all away, so as also they prove you the presence of the Son of Man be. And then it says two shall be in the field, one taken. Now it says in here, then notice, I don't want to really read on. past that, about to where they're being taken. But you'll notice, brothers and sisters, that the present is not the taking. He is already present. Then comes the taking away. Why? Because He takes them away by the Holy Spirit. Now, I want to read that to you here. Now, 37 to 39. So, let's, we just read on then. 40, 40, 44. Okay. Two men still grinding in the mill. One taken, one left. Watch there for an hour. The Lord has come. But know this, the good man of the house had known. what time the thief was coming you would have watched it would not have severed his house be broken up and there'd be ready for in such an hour as you think not the son of man cometh now you see in one place he's already there the other place he's not there you see when they try to tell you that the privilege is where Jesus comes down part winds and stays there that's a lie he's got to come on down all the way down to raise the dead and then he takes us up then you say what happens well it's very very simple it's the Holy Spirit and when the Holy Spirit which is God, period. Not the sons of God, but God, period. Slides in that body. We'll see him face to face, God incarnate, the Nail Prince, the whole thing. Different story entirely. See, that's coming. Notice coming and appearing. See, everything's entirely. But the appearing of the Perugia is not what the fundamental teaching is. Entirely wrong on his doctrine. Now, let's compare this with Luke 17, 35 to 37. And we're going to get the very same picture.

Two men to be grinding together, one taking one left. Two men to be, one taking one left. And the answer said, where, Lord? And he said, wherever the body, soma, is, not corpse, there will the eagles be gathered.

You've got one gathering to the true word of God, the clean eagles. You've got the other gathering to that which is dirty by the buzzards, the unclean eagles. I'm not going to name anybody buzzards, but I just know to tell you one thing. I admit that, as Brother Branagh said, the dove and the crow can sit right down together and eat. The crow can eat dove food, but the dove can't eat crow food. I'm not going to talk any more than that because I don't know who eats crow food and dove food at the same time. And I don't know who gets sick if they try to eat the crow food, being the dove. I'm not going to try to distinguish.

I've got to let it be, but it says right here, eagles are gathered with the soma, the unadulterated food. There was death in the tree. This tree does not have death. That's why there'll be a people changed. and won't even die. They'll go down the road in eternity. See? Now, let's go back to Matthew 24, but this time we're going to hit Matthew 25.

Then the king of the heavenly legion unto ten virgins, which took their lambs, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. All right? Now, this is going to further embellish our theme here, a little bit further, because it's at the end time. Five wise, five foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, took no oil. The wives took oil, and the vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight their cry was made, Behold the bridegroom, and cross out the word cometh. It is not in any Greek whatsoever. And it doesn't say, Go ye out. It says, Come out. These are two of the most glaring inconsistencies in the King James Version. I am not devoted to the King James Version. I never have been, never will be. I think it's the best there is, but it's certainly not letter perfect. And right here it simply says, Behold, the bridegroom, come out and get acquainted. Come out and see him. Come out and meet him. Now listen, he's got to be there to be met.

See? So this is the people coming out. And it's got to be bride because it's bridegroom. And it says, Behold him. How do we know it's you? How do we know you're there? We know it's going to be some kind of a sign. And

the sign then must point to who is there. Then who is there must be seen.

Okay? We just think of that, eh? Okay, now then now. Let's go back to Matthew 24 again. Verse 3. What shall be the sign of thy presence?

24th verse. There shall arise false, trite, even lying prophets. Show great signs and wonders, insomuch as were possible. It is not, thank God. They would deceive the very elected, but they can't. Verse 27. As lightning comes out of these signs, even so shall also the presence of the Son of Man be. 37. But as there was in the days of Noah, so shall the presence of the Son of Man be. Verse 39. And you not till the flood came and took them all away, so shall be the time of the presence of the Son of Man. See? Now, and the cry comes at that time, Behold the bridegroom. Well, that's sensible. That's

sensible.

Because once they'd seen the sign, the picture, all the signs in the room of Emmaus, they said, well, that's the one. He was identified.

Now, to this time, all this is going on this fall, and nobody pays any attention. Only those that have the truth. But he is here. And he can be identified. Because it says come out and meet him. To the God of the holy. Now verse 13. Matthew 25.

Watch therefore. For you know. Neither the day nor the hour. When the Son of Man cometh. Now this also precedes. The very fact of the Son of Man coming. We're talking now the little coming in the flesh. So therefore. This is not necessarily. Christ coming in the flesh. Now, I want to cover something in 24 and 27. For as lightning comes out of the east and shines out of the west, so shall also the presence of the Son of Man be.

We're looking at that light. Now, let's go back to Luke chapter 2, 1

to 20. It came to pass in those days when a decree was seized or dusted, the word should be taxed. And that tax was made when Serenius was governor. They all wanted to be taxed. Everyone in his own city, Joseph, went up to Galilee, to Nazareth, and so on.

Now listen, we're going to hit verse 8.

And unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord, and this shall be a sign unto you. They could have walked in and said, well, who is this kid? Oh, some poor peasant had him. Couldn't afford a hotel, couldn't afford a motel, couldn't afford a bed even. There he is, some little kid, poor little kid. You know, who knows, he might even, just some couple even living together, who knows.

Now there's going to be a sign. The sign? No, no, it's a simple sign. Wrapped in swabs and clothes in a manger. So they went in. Well? The first place to go is to go to a barn. A cave in the hillside. And maybe the first cave, there's nobody there. There might have been four or five caves. Here's some people there. Well, let's find out. Here's a woman who had a baby. Here's a baby in swaddling clothes. He's in a manger. Well, that's got to be the one. See signs. See pointing to identify. Suddenly there was an angel, there was an angel, I'm going to do the heavenly host, praising God. saying, Glory to God in the highest, and preached on earth goodwill to men. It came to pass the angels were gone. The shepherds said, Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass, at which the Lord has made known unto us. And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the same which was told them concerning the child. And they all heard and wondered at these things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things upon them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen as it was told them. Now you notice right here, that these people became messengers to the sign, to the one who was pointed out to them. Now, you'll notice here that in this case, Jesus was his own sign, a baby, but a special baby because he had the swaddling clothes and he was in a manger. Now, I wonder when we talk of a sign, which we do talk of signs that are going to point to him, I wonder why people... could not take what Brother Branham mentioned when he kept talking about the sign of Messiah. Let's go to John 4.

The woman at the well. 16 to 26, I don't have to read it to you. He said, go and tell your husband. She said, I don't have one. He said, you're right, you had five. The one you've got now is a living boyfriend. He's not your husband. And she said, man, she said, you've got to be a devil.

She said, I perceive you're a prophet. And of course, she wanted to argue a little bit to find out what was really right. And he said, no, he said... It's not that way at all. And the woman said, in verse 25, we know when Messiah comes, which is called Christ, he'll tell us all things. And Jesus said, I that speak unto thee am he. Now, how did she identify him? She identified him on the grounds of him reading her heart, of actually knowing her life. And she didn't say, well, a fortune teller can do that. See, why? Because there's something in there that responds it. The very elect cannot be deceived because there's something in there that responds. Jesus said to Pharisees, there's no place in you for the word. See, this is why there is a problem at the end time. There is no place in there for that word. Now, with that, we're going to go again to 2 Thessalonians 1 to 12. Now, I'm not going to read it because you know the content of 2 Thessalonians 1 to 12 and also 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1.

Now he said,

don't be troubled and don't be shaken. In other words, it's going to be a very precarious time. It's going to be a very rough time at that time because the spirit of Antichrist is there. The spirit of Christ is there. It's all going for a showdown. It's all coming for a showdown, see? Now, what is the showdown? We told you the showdown was where they are going to... One will receive the truth and the other won't receive the truth. Now, I want to just look at this 2 Thessalonians, though.

The first chapter, 2 Thessalonians chapter 1. Now, I think I'll start at verse 3. Let me see. No, start at, yeah, verse 3. We're bound to give thanks also to God and your brethren because your faith grows exceeding in the love of every one of you toward each other bound so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God. for your patience and faith in all persecution and tribulation that ye endure, which is a manifest token of righteous judgment of God, that you be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, which ye suffer, seeing as a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation, to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obeying not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction in the presence of the Lord, and from the glorious power. when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, because of our testimony among you has been in that day. Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our Lord God will count you worthy of his calling, and fulfill all good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may gather together, and he may not be shaken, and so on. Chapter 1 is actually verse 1 of chapter 2. And it's not Jesus coming with his saints, as it sounds like in chapter 1, but it's Jesus coming to his saints, for it says in verse 10, when he shall come to be glorified in all his saints. See, he's not coming back with his saints. He's coming to his saints. Now, they could say, well, that's when he is dropping down out of heaven. But that isn't so. Because the Holy Spirit is here to raise the dead, to change us, to take us up.

So you see, when we look at this scripture here, this is the parousia. Now, also, in 1 Thessalonians 3 and 13, 12

-13, And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in the holiness before God, even our Father. at the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Well, he's saying the same thing over here.

Cruzius.

Not coming back with his saints, but the presence with the saints. That's the same again as 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 to 17. It's the same word. And therefore, it's not Revelation 19 when he comes back seated upon a white horse with the sword coming out of his mouth. Thus, if 2 Thessalonians 1 is a cruzia, And not the coming back to the earth with these saints. What about verses 7 to 9? So let's read them. And your trouble rests with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed to him with his mighty angels and flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God that obey not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ be punished with everlasting destruction in the presence of the Lord and with the power of his glory he shall come be glorified in these saints and be admired of all that believe because their testimony among you is beaten that day. All right? Now that sounds safe. Well now that's going to prove right there that that is not to prove you whatsoever. That is, Jesus Christ himself coming back at the time of Armageddon, taking vengeance, and the bride's coming back with him. Is that so? Let's just look at the Greek. To you are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall reveal him to heaven with his mighty angels in flames of fire, taking vengeance. All right? Immediately, we see that a period of rest is to come at the time that Jesus shall be revealed from heaven. Does

it sound like rest when he comes back with fire and destroying people?

I thought they were going to say... Mountains fall on us. How does the wrath of God? You know what that word rest is? Now, hold on to your hats. It's relaxation. The very thing Brother Brandon said under the seventh season. It's not in your books. You see, when Mr. Soften made the tapes, he did the very poor thing. And you can send him the tape if you want. In fact, he should be excoriated for it because he no more believed that he was talking about a prophet or literally God's messenger this hour was giving this or he had two tape recorders sitting there to get everything the prophet said.

I'm going to hit real hard here. Who did Brother Branham have around him as the tape boys for years? Leo and Gene? Homosexual. Complete pervert. Who

shaved little kids' heads off and beat some so unmercifully that they're crippled. Did

you catch what I'm saying? Truth.

Deception. A real prophet, so to speak. He

said, if I didn't have this around me, I knew I had the wrong ministry. Come

on, I tell you, the whole thing comes together if you've got the guts to take it. If you're going to follow Scripture, I'm not your preacher. I'm going to show you something here. It says relaxation. Brother Branson, under the seventh seal comes relaxation. This is not the rest that Job speaks of in Job 3 when he said, Would God, I was born premature in the time of birth, death. Then he said, I could be like everybody else at rest. He is not talking about that kind of... Let me show you something here. It says relaxation. Brother Branson, under the seventh seal comes relaxation. This is not the rest that Job speaks of. In Job 3, when he said, Would God, I was born premature in the time of his birth, death. Then he said, I could be like everybody else at rest. He is not talking about that kind of rest. He is not even talking about men ceasing to be afflicted, but a special rest or relaxation is coming when Jesus and his ministering angels are revealed. That's what he said.

Now, our time is not gone. We're doing good. We'll get out of here before. Three o 'clock in the morning. Great. I've got time. I'll read this for you. I've got a lot of Scripture, see, because once you see this message, the whole Bible comes together. Now, according to me it does. According to anybody else, who cares? I've got my own life to live. You've got yours. You do what you want with it. Now, watch. The seventh verse of Hebrews 7. I'm going to read a lot of Scripture. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost said, Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation. You know something? This goes right to Hebrews 6. For they turn down the word. In the day of the temptation of the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years, wherefore I was grieved with the generation that they all drew in their heart, they have not known my ways. So I swear on my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, and depart from believing God. But exhort one another daily, while it's called a day, lest you be hardened through the deceit and sin. For we are made partakers. No, sir, we're made fellow companions of Christ. If we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast in the end, While it is said today, if you will hear his voice and harden not your heart, as in the provocation for someone you had heard did provoke, how be it not all that came out of Egypt and Hosea? But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcass fell on the earth? And to whom swore he that should not enter his rest, but to them that believed not. But we see they could not enter because of unbelief. That is therefore fear, lest there being a promise left with any in his rest, any of you should believe that you come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith, nor heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my veracity, if they shall enter into my rest, although their works are finished, the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place a seven day in this wise, and God did rest a seven day from all his works. And this place again is to enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached enter not in because of unbelief. Again he limits a certain day, saying in David today, after so long a time, as it is said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart. For if Joshua, not Jesus, Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have afterwards spoken another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that entereth in his rest, he also seeks from his own works as God did from his.

Have you? You say, just in a way. Okay, let's watch now. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharpeneth a two -edged sword, piercing and dividing us under soul and spirit. and join in there and discern the thought and intents of heart neither is any creature that is not manifest in his not its but his sight his sight but all things are naked open are the eyes of him with whom we have to do when did that take place in this age this is the age of rest an

age when Christ is revealed from heaven that

the bride enters into it's all through the scripture he's in a filthy filthy still he's righteous righteous still her garments are washed she goes to the tree of life

There's no more any doubting.

We don't care if a person is a believer, a make -believer, or an unbeliever. It makes no difference.

Like Brother Brown has said, if we're not bride, there's a bride out there somewhere, but the grace of God won't stand in the way. But right here at this is the time. Seeing then we have a great high priest of the pastor of the heavens, Jesus, Son of God, let us hold fast the confession. If we have not an high priest, it cannot be touched if we are infirm. But if it was in all points of life without sin, let us therefore come bold and join with grace. We obtain mercy and grace in every time of need. For every high priest taken among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifice for sin. Let's watch now. For who can have compassion and ignorance on them that are out of the way? For he himself also is comforted with infirmity. By reason thereof he ought, as for the people, also for himself to offer for sin. And no man takes this honor in himself, but he is called to God even for therein. So also Christ glorified not in himself the name of the high priest, but he that said unto him, Thou art my son, to thee have I begotten thee. As he said in another place, Thou art a priest for him after the order of Melchizedek. who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, strong crying and tears on him, was able to save him from death, and was heard and he feared. Though he was son, yet he learned obedience by the things he suffered, and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that call him, obey him, saluted, not called to God, but saluted, screamed out, Melchizedek, and I, priest, have the order, Melchizedek, now watch, of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered, seeing your dull of hearing.

When did he say it? He never did.

When they're going to be said. For when the time you ought to be teacher, you need one to teach you again, which be the first prince of the oracles of God, and to become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

Nicolaitan and Pentecostal church age. The other scene. That's where we are right today. For everyone that uses milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness before he is obeyed. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age. Even those that by reason of use have their senses exercised the term of good and evil. Paul said he couldn't even talk about milk yesterday. Who did? William Brannan.

All right? There's a rest. There's a relaxation. At this hour, because we were called in to the reading of the will, to the opening of the seals, the

book of redemption opened before us by faith to see that we were a part of it. Now, notice in verse 8 what he says about the angels.

In flaming fire, taking vengeance.

No? He doesn't

really say that, but people think he does. Let's read it again. In dear trouble, rest with us.

There's a time of relaxation coming. When the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. Now watch the mighty angels in flames of fire. The

angels are in flames of fire. What does that remind you of? It reminds you of Exodus 13, 21 to 22 of the pillar of fire. It reminds you of Exodus 3 and 2 where God was in the burning bush. It reminds you of Judges 1, 1 to 23 when the parents of... And Samson saw the angel in the flame of fire and said, My name is not secret but wonderful, which is Christ the angel of God.

Now let's go to Revelation 5, verse 6. And I beheld on the midst of the throne of the four beasts and midst of the elders to the Lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

All right? Seven spirits of God sent forth on all the earth. Seven eyes. Okay, let's go back to Zechariah chapter 3.

Brother Branham preached this under different circumstances than I did. When I heard him say certain things, I knew it came from here. And that's how he preached this later on. Zechariah 3, 8th verse.

And that day, saith the Lord of hosts, ye shall call every man his neighbor under the vine, under the fig tree. Now, he's telling you about the day when the millennium is going to come.

And it has to do with those seven eyes. And great. Now, brains that walk would talk with me, came again to walk and wake me. The man waked up. He's sleeping. He said, what's he? I said, I looked and I said, behold, a gold candlestick of all gold and seven and a bowl on the top of it and seven lamps. They're on seven pipes of seven lamps, which are on the top thereof. And the two olive trees by the right side of the bowl and the other side of the left bowl, left side of the bowl.

Now look, we see seven eyes here. We've got seven eyes identified as seven spirits. We've got this identified for the end time. And we got this identified at the end time by saying, not by might nor of power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Now, what then are these seven angels in flames of fire? Theophanies. See? Theophanies. And they come down. And they will be the spirit of age one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. See? They'll be creature. What you see here then is that... These we can say they are the sophonies of God. The Holy Spirit in a creature form now assumes the form of angels or messengers because angels are messengers. What came and opened the seals, brought the seals? One angel per day that Brother Branham identified as Holy Spirit.

Now, taking vengeance is not what it sounds like, but it means that when this takes place, That which proceeds out of justice must take place. It is not revenge or vindictiveness.

When this takes place, when he is revealed with the mighty messengers, the theophanies, the spirit that stood before the throne for each one of those messengers, it wasn't Paul that came down.

It was what the manifestation was, came down, Paul, Raines, Martin, Clumber, but not them personally. It's what stood there for them. The Holy Spirit bringing it. Now, let me show you something here. And I want to cut my time down, so I won't read. Well, I guess I'll have to go to Revelation 1 and start at verse 12. And I turn to see the voice that spake to me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks. And this is seven candlesticks, one like the son of man. Closed the garment down his foot and curled it up past the golden girdle. Head and hair like wool. White as snow. Eyes like flame of fire. Feet like being burned to fine brass. They burned the furnace. The voice was found in many waters. Right hand at seven stars.

Now, what?

In verse 13 and 8, in the midst of seven golden canisters, one of the son of man, verse 16a, and his right hand were seven stars. All right, seven church, eight messengers. Now, long as this one, which is the judge, is in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, how could it be possible that he could move without the seven stars?

He can't do it, because he's got a spirit for every age, which constitutes a spirit for all ages, which makes up the entire word of the life of all the ages. Now, in the seventh church age messenger, in the seventh age messages, there are seven church age messages, and every single one of them, and you will notice, has a judgment message in it.

And the judgment message in it is not God in anger judging. It is what has happened and now is required. So when he is revealed from heaven, see, it is a revelation. And remember that the thunders were on earth. What took place in heaven was brought down to earth. How is it brought down? It's just a time is coming when he is revealed. and with him the seven mighty messengers. And at that time, justice must proceed, not revenge or vindictiveness of any description. Now, we see Revelation 1, 10 and 11. I was in spirit and Lord's day, heard me on a great voice of trumpet, saying, I'm Alpha and Omega, the first and last, what you see right in the book, and right in the seven churches, which are in Asia, Ephesus and so on. Written to the seven churches, seven complete messengers, seven complete agents. Now, verse chapter 3 and 14. Unto the messenger of the church lady he writes, These things set the aim in.

The finishing one. Now, in Ephesus he was Alpha. He is Omega. Now, let's go to Revelation 22, 10 to 15. And he said, Feel not the things of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. The book becomes unsealed. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. He that is filthy, is filthy still. He that is righteous, is righteous still. He that is holy, is holy still. Relaxation.

See, at that time, the church comes to a perfection. Got you. That's 1 Corinthians 13. I haven't got time to gritter. Now, behold, I come to you in my words. Give me according to what you need. Verse 13. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Now, this is the last.

So this belongs to Laodicea. This belongs to first. 2 Thessalonians chapter 1, verse 8. No place else to go. Now watch. Verse 14. Here's your relaxation. Blessed are they who have washed their robes and have a right to the tree of life and may enter the gates of the city because without are dogs and sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers of daughters. In other words, as I read, I read it to you. I read it in Jude. I read it in Timothy. I read it in Peter. And every place it enunciated the very same thing here. But at the same time, there was a bride

that was undefiled and could not be deceived. Here it is right here. Now she's entered her time of relaxation because it's all over. That's why I can say to you this morning, I'm not looking back. None of them look back to you. I'm not looking forward. None of them look forward. I'm looking right now. Here's why. Well, I can't go back. I'm not going to go back to it. I just came out of it. You know what you want me to do? Go back to what? Did I already came out of it? Where would I go? I don't know where I would go. Oh, you know where to go. This is not a kind of nervous tension concerning what has been done. You and I can be nervous because there's things out here. Paul doesn't say that we're not going to get, like Brother Brandon, that the devil's not going to get a lick in. He's not talking about that.

Relaxation time is a place of faith coming to full fruition under the knowledge of God, knowing the hour in which we stand, knowing the things which we know in Jesus Christ, see? All right. So, verse 8 is things. When those angels of flame come, the word of condemnation, becomes effective as a matter of course. How

are you going to stop it?

Things are moving. Moving. Countdown. Bursting.

See where it comes from?

10 to 14. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, to be admired in all them that believe. That's just coming to them, you see. Because their testimony among us breathes in that day. Wherefore, we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good treasuries, goodness, the work of faith, the power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be glorified in you and you in him, according to the grace of our God. and the Lord Jesus Christ. And remember, when I preached that series here on the Holy Spirit, Christ in you, and you in Christ, the vertical to the horizontal, the immersion in Him, and He in us, Brother Brown said the same thing. He said that bride is going to have the Word, she'll know to use it. For the Word's becoming flesh, the flesh becoming Word, and the Word becoming Word. Paul speaks of this end time, Brother Sister. Now, that's verse 9 here. When He shall come to be... No, verse 9. who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. Now, that word punished is not punished. It means meted out justice.

The meting out of justice. When this takes place,

the word of God goes into effect where everything that He said must come to pass relative to the end time. Not just the bride. He's speaking now of those that are out there in the world and are lost. Now, the word... The eternal ruin is destruction with no hope of recovery. All right, let's find out about that one. Therefore, even the principles, verse chapter 6 of Hebrews, principles of the doctrine of Christ, go to perfection, not laying down the foundation of repentance, but from dead worship, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptism, laying on of hands, and the resurrection of God, the eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. What if God doesn't permit?

In other words, there's a time when it's all over.

And you've got to go someplace else.

You've got to go on to perfection, to finishing. a drawing of the last little threading, the last little polishing, so the bride can go. Now listen. This will do God's end, but God wouldn't prevent it. For it is impossible for those who are once for all enlightened and taste of the heavenly gift and partake of the Holy Ghost and taste the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, having fallen away, to ever be renewed again to repentance, seeing they crucified themselves as the Son of God of Christ, to put a note within. Just what it says here.

And there's no turning back. It's all over. What is he talking about? The age of deception. Reality. Reality. Reality. Deception. Deception. Deception. God himself bringing deception. How does he do it? By bringing the truth. And they say, forget it.

And then the great crowd, when the prophet of God was vindicated, then everybody rose up with a bigger program, with a bigger ministry, with a bigger everything. And they said, don't tell me that's not God.

Millions now living shall never die when a bare handful are going to be in that rapture standing there. Somebody's messed up, Brother Sister. See? It's all over. The presence of the Lord. It says here, and from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.

Okay? Let's go to Acts 3 and see the presence of the Lord.

I know I'm really dissing you all too much, but it's all right. I just preach my notes and that's all there is to it. Now it says here, when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

mighty, tremendous revival. 30, 34, how many years have been going on since 1946?

34 solid years. Tremendous ministry before that even. Never died out. But you know something? I'm

standing here to do it. But it'll be gone.

I'm trying to show you there are two things going on. True vine, false vine. Reality, deception. The real anointing of God, the anointing on the wrong group. You've got the whole thing here. Then when you've got this, you've got the bride coming and growing up right into, I've got a bunch of Christ where she can be taken away and over here you've got the other thing going on at the same time. Righteousness being fulfilled. Sin being fulfilled. I'm trying to show you the whole picture and you can only see it in the light of Christ himself here to see that it's done. The parousia is not what people think it is. It's what the prophet taught it to be. He proved his presence by the great miracle ministry. And then it says in Acts 13, soon as the great miracle ministry took place, what did they do? They turned down the revelation, the word of God revealed by Elijah the prophet. Then what was left? Nothing. But the false anointing. And what happened after the false anointing of Acts 2? Your sons and your daughters. My sons and your daughters. And it said the moon turned to blood and the sun to darkness. Great tribulation. See, in other words, brother, sister, once that judge appears, he has got to judge the world by one Christ. Jesus, the Word. It's not God hopping up and down in anger. No. God's Word's got to be fulfilled. It's got to come right down here, down the line. Meeting no justice. Meeting no justice. How can God not meet no justice? Now, the only time he comes in anger is when the cup is completely filled at the end time in Armageddon. That's the one time when wrath comes. He just blocks the whole thing out. But this is not that time. It's pointing toward it. Now, and from the glory of his power. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Verse 15. After heard of your faith, chapter 1. The Lord Jesus Christ, love and all things, not give thanks, make you in prayer. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of him.

We're talking about his presence. The spirit comes into the church. Not bodily. Christ bodily comes in. The proof is the spirit of God himself.

The Lord God. The eyes understanding, being enlightened. He may know the hope, his calling. The riches of the glory of his inheritance. And what is exceeding greatness, his power to us who believe. according to the word of mighty power, which he wrought in Christ. And when the resurrection is over, they've missed it. That's what he's talking about here in Thessalonians. How are you going to be in a rapture if you miss the resurrection? You've missed his presence. You've missed his power. You've missed him. Missed the parousia.

Sucked in by lies. See? People are still being sucked in by lies. I can mention no names. That's their business. They missed it all. Too late. No recovering.

Now, let's go to verse 10.

when he shall come to be glorified in his things. No. Whensoever he shall have come.

It tells you that at the time, there's a sort of a future perfect tense here. All

this will take place

if the word is becoming flesh. There's only one place it can become flesh. That's in the bride. It's already in flesh indeed.

See? The word in every age has always become flesh. That is true. But we're talking about this end time. Whensoever. That takes place. All the rest falls into line. And you couldn't stop it if you tried. People are getting weary right now. I predict if Jesus does not come back in the sense that we meet him in the air in the physical, there'll be people fall away from this message. They're going to have to because they're going insane in it right now. When you can make William Brown in the logo, and

people assume and take leadership. He's

been in the church for 2 ,000 years going on amongst us now. The

world's all but insane. You listen. You wonder why I explode up here and you... That's rather language than everything else. I'll tell you why. Because I'm fed up past here.

But I'm going to stop it.

Nothing I can do, nothing you're going to stop, going to stop anything. Not going to change anything. You can pray and fast all you want. The most you'll get is an empty stomach and a headache.

You take every means, you'll never stop the hand moving. Because when he shall have been revealed with those mighty angels,

justice began getting meted out. And a true bride goes into a state of relaxation. Not comatose. I'm

not talking about that. Not that she's not going to have pressures. But she said, this is it.

See, she'd walk in different places. Nobody understands her. And let's face it, she doesn't need to worry. And you know, women today worry about their husbands being snatched or the boyfriend being snatched. Let me tell you flat, the Jesus that I know is my husband. I speak in the female tense now. No woman would want to snatch him or grab him. I'm perfectly safe.

And the husband the bride has today has been revealed. The church does not want him. There is no danger. they wouldn't try to make love to him or let him make love to her. That's what Brother Branham said. They turned down. For Christ cannot make love to the church. She turned him down flat.

Once over, he shall come. Now listen. This has all happened. It is already accomplished by his presence.

We are, no, now are not, can and be, because our testimony is made among you. Therefore, we always pray for you that God would count you worthy. and fulfill His good pleasure. The name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and you in Him according to all the grace. Isn't that just what we read over there in, or could have read in Ephesians 1?

In whom you trust after the word of your truth, the gospel of your salvation, and now full of the Holy Ghost, now you've got your inheritance, wherever else I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and love unto all the saints, cease not to make mention of you in my prayers. This here in Ephesians is the same thing He said in Thessalonians. But where one He identifies as the parousia, He identifies what the parousia is, which is the Holy Spirit, the Logos Himself comes in amongst the bride. She does not come into the bride. He does not come into the bride, sister. We are all, the Spirit of God is already in the bride as the life of the fathers and the children. But He is amongst us as the Father can stand amongst His family. Now, chapter 2 and verse 1 of 2 Thessalonians is the parousia. We saw that. And verse 2 begins to deal with the day of the Lord. which follows the Prusia.

And that actual great day when the kingdom is to be taken over by the fathers

and the children, but he is amongst us as a father can stand amongst his family. Now, chapter 2 and verse 1 of 2 Thessalonians is the Prusia. We saw that. And verse 2 begins to deal with the day of the Lord, which follows the Prusia.

And that actual great day when the kingdom is to be taken over by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Now, he said, let no man deceive any means. That day shall not come first, come falling with first the man of sin, dear Jesus, not of perdition. You don't have to worry about it. All these things have got to be fulfilled. But remember that the presence of the Lord comes before that time. So therefore, the presence or the prusia is before the coming when he has the showdown with the Antichrist. It is not as people have taught. We are going to go and confront him in the air and see him. Now, Now, what is that presence and what is he doing? Okay? We go to Colossians, the third chapter.

You don't have to come back this afternoon. I can see that. If I'm going to be back anyway, if you want to come back, it's fine by me. I'm going to be missing. Watch Colossians 3 and 4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, future tense, then shall he also appear to him in glory. That's the same thing he said in Thessalonians. I'll

say one thing here and one thing someplace else. Crucius, Crucius. This is not Crucius, though. This is finiru. What does the word finiru mean? It doesn't

mean appear. It means manifest. Because it means to more than appear. Because a person may appear in a false guise without a disclosure of what he truly is. I hope that she told me. To be revealed is to be manifested in one's true character.

A bunch of wolves. Let's

go to John 3 and 21. Let's

just take a look at this. I used this verse before. But he that doeth truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested. The theory of God.

Identifying. Let's read the verses 16 to 21. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, who said, For God sent not His Son to the world that He could condemn the world, but the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned. He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Now that sounds real good. Now let's get the explanation. And this is the condemnation that light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light. Because it needs revival. What if you beat all about a wrong Jesus, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11, another Jesus than what he preached? Are you willing to bring what the revelation of the Word of God says to the light and find out? I want to find out why the Trinitarian cannot come to the Word of God and find there's only one God. I can't understand the Trinitarian. He'll tell you every stupid thing under high heaven. Ended up saying, well, it's a great mystery. You know what the Trinitarian says? It's always the same old story. That was a jug of water. Put on three glasses and you pour it and it's all gone. They said, there you are. He's one God. Because you see, the one God is in three glasses. Well, that's three.

Where do you get the third one? The Bible says Jesus is a man.

Well, you only got two.

Ephesians, the fourth chapter, said he came back as the Holy Ghost. Now we got one.

Bring it to the light. See? You can talk about Jesus all you want. When the word test comes. Do you hear what I said a while ago here? Listen. He that believeth on him is not condemned. He that believeth not is sin ready because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation. This is where condemnation comes about the believing bit or the unbelieving bit. Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. For everyone that doeth evil hates the light. He that cometh to light lest his deeds be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light. And I said doeth truth cometh to the light. His deeds might be manifested in the rod of God.

All right? That's that word manifest right there. It said that Jesus at the end time, in the time that the saints are glorified, He is going to be perfectly revealed as to His true identity.

Isn't that what Vine said about Himself being His sign?

Okay. 1 Corinthians 4 and 5. I hope I'm not losing you now because it's all right. Just try to get some thoughts out of this and then you can always get a tape and if you're not too bored you can hear it again. Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and manifest the counsel of the heart and every man shall have praise of God. Right there, you're going to find out exactly what you did, but more particularly, why you did it. What was behind it.

Now, with

2 Thessalonians chapter 1, when

he's going to be revealed, that's

what he is, he's appearing, exposed.

Let's look at some more scripture. Just to let you know what scripture is involved here and what these words really mean. When you talk about... These words, these fundamentalities, they just bandy around ever so easily. I was the same both years ago. When the chief shepherd shall appear, he

manifests who the chief shepherd really is.

Now, why do people believe in some pope? Now, Brother Brown could stand back there and say, the very fact he's here.

They say, now, who's the great one? Some pope? No.

There's a time coming when Jesus has to absolutely reveal exactly who he is. Now, you say, well, that's going to happen over the other side. I'm going to prove he doesn't. No, sirree. No. Let's go to 1 John now, 2 and 28. This is that same word now. Manifest or appear. Now those children by him that when he shall appear, when

you really see who he is, you may have confidence. In other words, that you can be a part of the revelation. All right? Now come on, let's get the real tough one, the real goody, goody, goody gumdrop. Second verse of the third chapter. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and ever yet appear we shall be. We know that when he shall be manifested at the time of the definitive revelation of exactly... true character.

The unseemly. You'll

be like him. And if you don't see him, you'll never get to change. Revelation

3 and 18. I

tell you by me, go try the fire. Do you need a rich and white raiment? You may be clothed. The shame of thy nakedness do not appear. You

know something? There's coming a day when this bride won't have any thought or concept of what she is in herself. It'll just be God's concept. Because it says right here, the shame of your nakedness. If the See, the world will never, ever get a true concept of what it really is. The world sure can't do it. She never will. She won't see her neighbors, but we're worth increasing goods and all that kind of thing. You get the charismatic movement. There are millions and billions of dollars. There are great, vast churches. They're in the Catholic Church. They're running a worldwide revival. Everybody's speaking in tongues and having a great time. There'll be millions upon millions. The Antichrist can come on the scene any time. A great, religious, fantastic movement. You

think that she's going to get a real picture of this? No, it's impossible. but the bride does. She gets a real revelation of him. She doesn't worry anymore about the fact of what she was. See, she's under relaxation. Now, there's another word that they use. That's the word epiphany. The shining fort. Like Matthew's shining fort, eh? Okay? Let's go to 2 Timothy 1 and 10. Just want to run some words on it. I'll try to get into the coming. There's another time I preach, which I don't know when. I've got other meetings to go into, so... Don't just want to get around that. 2 Timothy 1 and 10. But now is made manifest by the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ with abolished death and brought life and immortality to life through the gospel. Now, you see, some say, well, that's actually when Jesus Christ is here in the flesh. It doesn't say that. It says the appearing is since that time because it was by the death that he abolished life and immortality and brought on life.

Now, what did Peter say at Pentecost? He said, this one was raised up first to you. And Christ was manifested. He said, the one that you crucified and killed, here he is doing the same thing that he did when he was here upon earth. See? There he is. Shining forth. Okay? Let's go 1 Timothy 6 and 14.

I think. Is that what I want? Yeah.

That thou keep this commandment without spot, on rebuke, until the appearing, the shining forth, of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, with that, we want to get, well, I can get 2 Timothy 4, and I want to get another one later on. 2 Timothy 4.

I charge thee for God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who has judged the quick and the dead disappearing in his kingdom. Same thing. Eighth verse. Henceforth I crown thee righteous in the Lord, the righteous judge giveth thee that day. All the love is appearing, is shining forth. Same thing. Now with that, 111

to 12. But I certify you, brethren, the gospel preached to me is not after man, neither is it of men, neither is it taught about by revelation of Jesus Christ. What

is that time? That time of the shining forth is once more replaced with the light of the word, the light of truth. In this hour, he's not only appearing, but he's being revealed. Luke 17 and 30. Even so be when the Son of Man is revealed, a period of time as in the days of Noah. And we read over here in 1 Corinthians 1, 7 to 8. Said

to come behind a nose waiting for the proofs of the Lord, who shall confirm unto you, confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. See, there's your relaxation. There's your rest. There's the bride coming to place. She'll go into the tree of life and live forever. 2 Thessalonians.

Second chapter, I think you'll see. Second chapter, third verse. Let no man deceive any means. They come falling away first. Let man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. All right, he's going to have his revelation too. But watch down here in verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for your brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has again chosen you to salvation and sanctification and belief in the truth. We will not be in that mess they're in because we have the word of Almighty God to help us. Second Thessalonians, I'm just hitting these rapidly, one and seven. You are troubled, rest with us. When the Lord's revealed to heaven, these mighty angels.

Revelation 10 and 1. Ephesians 1, 17. All the way down the line, you can see that He is being revealed because He is appearing. He is appearing, which is the apocalyptic. That's what happened in Luke 17 and 30. He's being revealed. In 1 Corinthians 1, 7 to 8, He's being revealed. The curtain is being drawn back on Him. Right down the line, Christ has been revealed. Now, and how has He been revealed?

Ephesians, the first chapter. And in verse 17, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you, church, the spirit of wisdom, revelation, and knowledge of Him. It is done by the Spirit of Almighty God. Acts, the third chapter, the revelation, comes by, at the end time, through a prophet who is vindicated for the word presence. The presence of the Lord in Acts, the third chapter, is that which is visible to the eye. Anything visible to the eye? And Jesus said, if I had not... done the works which no other man did. They had not sinned, but now they both seem to hate about me and my father. The presence of God was seen there by the mighty works. The presence of God was seen at the end time by the same mighty works.

I see again, it says in John 1 and 18, the only begotten is the bosom of the Father, and he has declared him or exegeted him. And over in Luke, the second chapter, 30 to 32, For

mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared or ordained. before the face of all people. In other words, this was not something beholding a desert and a secret place. It's not God never does something in a little corner and says, now come on over here. You've got to be one of us to get it. I am not the product of William Branham taking me aside and showing me something. I stood there time after time among thousands of people and saw what God did and saw the evidence of the vindication. And when he went to Africa, he literally shook the world. But the denominations turned him down flat.

When he refused to ordain a woman preacher, the Baptist kicked him out, and the Baptist ought to have known better.

It's not done in a corner.

The miracles and might of Jesus, what he did, said the world's libraries could not hold his books. William Branham, in one meeting, by myself being there, saw more than what the history book contains. And I've got to have the history books before I begin writing for him. I've got the history books. In one meeting, there's more than what the history books contain through the ages. As

he himself could say, Jesus Christ had more success with his ministry in my life than he had in his own.

Not something done in the corner. He said before the face of all people. This is what it's all about. Not something done in the corner. Some little group that you've got to come join us. You've got to be here. That's why I keep telling you. Nobody has to listen to me. I preach hard. I preach as though I believe it because they do believe it. But you don't have to believe it. No problem. In fact, if I got 20 people believing me, I know I was wrong. It's just that simple. Don't worry. They don't believe me. To

lighten the Gentiles. Christ always was a light to the Gentiles. He himself never, ever came to them physically. Nor will he. All

right? His presence. He's got to be here before one solitary dead is raised. He's got to be here to appear amongst the bride. He's got to be here to reveal himself to the bride. He's got to be here to give the light to the bride. And he doesn't. And that's what it's all about. And there's only one thing left. After that, that is the resurrection. Then the rapture. And the one thing I'm really referring after this whole series, because the prusia goes right through to the end, to the catching away, to the marriage supper, right through to the end. The only thing left then is coming back, the coming back. And they've got it all messed up on the prusia. Oh, they say, you see, the prusia and the phaneru, all that, that is the rapture. I have news for you, my brother and sister, and the news I read in 1 John 3 and 2, that if you don't see him as he is, If he has not been revealed to you or revealed himself exactly according to the word and vindicated and proven. What was the sign? Did you know he revealed himself to you? Tell me. Oh, Brother Dale, I got this, I got this. You have what you want. I've got the Bible. Why don't we know the sign? How are we going to know the sign? See, they're right down the line. That a vindicated man stood on the scene with the word of God and God spoke and answered back and he had it. And the rest of them turned it down flat and took ministries and went around saying, we've got it. Many will come in that day and say, Lord, Lord. Have we not known so -and -so? I never knew you. Why? Because you're whooping sheep floating. But now hold it. How could I be whooping sheep floating when I had every manifestation of sheep? Because you said you had the wrong fruit. You got that tree that brought death, the perverted word. Oh, brother, sit to this, folks. Well, the baby I've

given you, and

I didn't read an awful lot, but I could have read, but you can crisscross this Bible back and forth and back and forth until every time with only one message, a message the prophet brought, not somebody that got himself steeped in the theology. For the word of the Lord comes to the prophet. I've got to go to the Bible and study. I've got to try to understand.

But when you're a prophet, it doesn't work that way.

The word comes. That's

the word of God. It'll lie right in there. Because you can't add or take from it. So brothers, let's get this flat. There's a certain portion of Scripture that defers or is relegated to every age. And in this age, the greatest of all is the prusia, the presence, the logos. Himself coming down.

Why do you think that we're... I even got the pictures already. Maybe it's somewhere else. The pillar of our brother Van's head? Logon. The

same one that brought the word to Paul, which

is perfect is coming. Then in part, it is done away. In other words, all of the part doesn't matter anymore. Come to the end of the trail where you are. We are with God.

That's the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. I didn't go into the last part as heavy as that might have. I did that on purpose. I'll repeat another time. And we'll go into the literal coming of the Lord Jesus. Christ, which is nothing to as simple as ABC. Because once the bride is gone, there's three and a half years tribulation, three and a half years marriage supper, and a bride comes down at the end of the battle of Armageddon, and the flaming fire of God cleanses the earth. After Christ is thrown into hell, the earth is renovated in the days of Noah, and the people come on down and live in a millennium of a thousand years with David sitting upon the throne and the whole bride in that air with 144 ,000 surrounding.

It's almost like anti -climax. It's so simple. But isn't it strange how the world cannot believe what a prophet taught. And yet it's the only place that the whole word would line up. I've taken this Bible and criss -crossed it as a fundamentalist. I've taken every word and I've just gone crazy. And every time I had it, I'd find that a word over here plumb took me out of orbit and out of my skull. But the minute that you see what the prophet taught, every word lines up. It's clear. That's the way it's got to be. The Lord bless you. Shall we rise? Heavenly Father, we thank you again for your goodness and mercy to us, for the patience of people, Lord, how they love the Word, and I do such a terrible job, Father, with it so many, many times. But I know, Lord, there is in it just the same, a cross -current, a theme that they cannot fail to catch, Lord, with any perception. If they have any perception, I believe they do. They'll catch that cross -current in there. Where it goes all the way through that it has got to be that one thing even as declared by the prophet. Because it is that one thing. It's scripture lining up point by point. Lord, we know there's only so many words. There's only so many verses. And that is very wonderful. We can see that each time we look at it, it just becomes clearer and clearer. Because things open up more and more. Because the understanding is there. Therefore, it lies now within the realm of what man would call logical and clear. But it isn't. It's a revelation. And that revelation is good for us. Father God, I pray that there won't be one person here today who's been hurt in any way, shape, or form. We'd rather help build up. And I pray, Lord, also because Your Word is taught here and it is Your Word that heals. And Lord, if Your Word can heal our minds of the abuses of the doctrine which we have known now to be wrong, Lord, I have to repent so much over all the doctrine I have. And Lord, then how much we know too that that which can heal the mind can heal the body. And so we're praying, Lord, that those here this morning will have a touch from God. Lord, I believe for it for myself. I believe for every person here. There isn't one missing out on the hand of a God, blessing and helping, that's being gracious and kind and good for you certainly are. And we praise you for it, Lord. Oh, what a day we're living in. What an hour we're living in. It's a tremendous, tremendous hour, Lord. And the greatest thing of all is that here the Logos is in the midst of the church, revealing himself, showing the perfections of himself. Oh, Lord. And it's not finished yet because we haven't even come to the resurrection. What an hour that's going to be in the resurrection. What an hour that's going to be when the bride starts to go up. What an hour that's going to be at the entering in to the great hall of the supper. Lord, surely it's marvelous to know that we have entered into that relaxation Paul speaks of. You're in the flow of it now. You're in the swim of it. There's water from Ezekiel's temple to carry over. And we thank you for it this morning, Lord. So bless every home here, Lord God, and every need I pray might be taken care of. And whatever your will is in our lives, Lord, may we be able to hear from heaven and do your complete will by the leading of God. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Let's sing a little song. Take the name of Jesus with you.