Who is a Fivefold Minister

Heavenly Father, we welcome your presence here, knowing that the prophet said most truly, being vindicated by you yourself, that the same pillar of fire that brought the word to Paul is here revealing it. And we believe, Lord, we're a part of that because we believe that very statement which has been vindicated. We also know that you yourself said when you were here in human flesh that when you gave forth the Holy Spirit, be given to us to lead us into all truth and teach us all things, even those things which are to come. and surely that same Holy Spirit would always see him into the Word of God. And we, being one with you, Lord, then we'll be one with that very Word. So help us tonight to learn truth, Lord, and to obey that truth, to just walk in the light, and whatever is incumbent upon us as children of God, to realize that we are more than able to perform what you have set before us and enter into that great land that lies ahead. And to you we give the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Now, before we get to some questions here, and I think we will get to them. I don't know about the answers, but at least we'll get to the questions.

I just want to read an article here. It's written by a Mr. James Glassman. I don't know what nationality he is. I kind of might guess he might be something or other. But he is voicing. What I am particularly interested in concerning the depression and what is coming as the money problem intensifies, which it really will. Now, of course, I'm particularly interested because for the first time they're talking about deflation. And since this article came out, I noticed that more than one are speaking on deflation as in contrast to inflation. And the great joy that Greenspan has and the president, he's taking credit for all the great good luck that America has, and Congress and the whole government, there doesn't seem to be anybody really recognizing deflation. They're just so happy that inflation is under control, so -called, but it's not. inflation properly seen from what you might call a standard of a proper price is really astronomical. And since everything is built upon lies, and there's no greater liars than we have right in Washington, and I say that without too much fear of contradiction, when you can see that people like Thompson and these guys that are actually out there, controlling the discussions and the investigations in the Senate and so on, those men deliberately killed any chance of reform of financing these men who are running for government. When what they simply should vote in, whether we like it or not, is that each person should be allocated something from taxpayers' money, only so much, and then the rest then would be up to whether the man... is honest, intelligent, and capable, or whether he's a fraud with a lot of lobbies. You see, so they're not going to do a thing about it. Now, so I'm going to read this to you, and you'll see where I'm coming from, because I came from the last depression. God knows I don't want another one. But it's not inflation, it's deflation. When you're going to have goods and no money to get them, because that's what happened when the stock market fell in 1929. Farmers burnt their wheat. The economist said, what we need, Hoover had already said, two chickens in every pot and two cars in every garage. And Roosevelt came along and he said, well, what you do, you kill one chicken and sell the other for 50 cents. To the man that made the shirts, he said, well, you only make one shirt and sell it. Instead of selling for a dollar, you sell it for two dollars. So it ended up with the farmer having one chicken and one shirt instead of two chickens and two shirts. And you've got a system here that the government cannot do a thing about it. And there's no way that anybody really knows anything. So let's move into this. With the economy growing at better than 3 % annually, unemployment below 5%, and the stock market rising more than 20 % for the third year in a row. Of course, it went down some. But there's barely a cloud on the horizon. Inflation, Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, worries about it. That's his job. He warned a House committee October 8th that the economy has been on the unsustainable track and that higher prices are likely to show up. But he couldn't point to any. I have a different candidate for a party pooper. Not inflation, but the opposite, deflation or falling prices. The United States hasn't suffered from deflation since the Great Depression of the 30s, and it's hard to remember why it's so terrible. When prices fall, business, farmers, investors see their profits shrink. They then disappear. They can't meet their debt service or their payroll, and unemployment rises. Once deflation starts, it's hard to stop. Imagine you're thinking about buying a new washing machine. It costs $300, down from $320 the previous month. So you wait another month to see if the prices fall further. They do, and you wait some more. Meanwhile, the appliance dealer goes broke. No major nation suffers from deflation, but Japan comes close. For the past six years, Japanese consumer prices have risen an average of 1 % annually, and the stocks have plunged 50%. The economic growth has been minimal. Retail sales were down 4 .5 % in 1997, and the second quarter gross domestic product fell 11 .4 % annual rate. The normal cure for slow growth is an interest rate cut, which encourages consumers and business to borrow and spend. But as the headline in the Bridgewater Daily observations of financial news letter put it last week, how do you stimulate an economy when interest rates are already at 0 %? That's almost literally true in Japan. Last week, the Japanese short -term lending rate was 0 .4%. Compared with 5 .5 % in the United States, the prime rate for the best corporate borrowers was a mere 1 .6 % against 8 .5 % here. Inflation has secured. The Fed boosts interest rates. An overheated economy comes to a screeching halt. But economists still aren't sure how the world managed to claw its way out of the 1930 Depression. Unfortunately, the remedy may have been war. If inflation is too much money chasing too few goods, deflation is too little money chasing too many goods. That's what we had. The farmers burnt the wheat.

People ate almost anything. I think even the states were worse off than Canada. People eating roots and grass or anything to get their hands on. A friend of mine crying because he used to go to the various stores and pick the lettuce and things out of the garbage tent and say, well, I got some rabbits at home. He took it home so his mother could cook it and they could eat. No money. It's not there. Prices rise when demand surges ahead of supply, but prices can fall when supply zooms ahead of demand. In the past year, U .S. industrial production risen 4 .7 % while retail sales were up only 3%. The pressure is for producers to lower prices, said Brian S. Westbury, chief economist of the Chicago firm firm Griffin Cubic Stephenson Thompson Incorporated. This is already happening. Car manufacturers cut prices. The furniture prices fall on 1%. During the 12 -month sending in August, look at McDonald's. With an oversupply of fast food outlets, it slashed the price of Big Macs to 55 cents. Of course, Big Mac's trouble is no service. You can go to Wendy's and get good service. Any place you go to McDonald's, forget it. The other day, we were in a rush to get a Big Mac. They served us cold hamburgers. This guy's right, but he's still wrong on that point there. Everybody knows what's wrong with McDonald's. They're just not producing anymore. Wendy's is a million miles ahead of them. Around the world, there's a glut of things, a supply shock, an orgy of production. Why? Says Jane Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rates Observers. Booms, in fact, cause busts. Encouraged by low interest rates, a rising stock market, the government that wants to increase exports, capitalists will build something. They seem to build too much. When there's a glut of something, you mark down prices to sell it. Intel Corporation last week announced disappointing earnings. after being forced to cut prices on microchips. The problem is someone else, often a foreign country, also has too much and marks down their price further. Barton Biggs, Global Strategy Chief at Morgan Stanley, Dean Whittier, Discovering Company, calls this the ICE scenario, an allusion to the Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice, which described the world as just likely to end in fire, for Biggs inflation, as in ICE deflation. ICE writes Biggs as a loss of pricing power. ICE is an erosion of profits. ICE is excess capacity. ICE is developing countries with low -cost factories and huge new labor forces. ICE is creative price destruction. Why isn't it going down to Mexico? You've read some of the accounts down there and some of the senators went down and they saw the most abysmal thing in the world when NAFTA is supposed to have some kind of agreement for the ecology, open sewers. You ever been to Mexico City? Go there sometime. The sewers are running in the open. That means about 14 million people an hour, 21 % of it is. My Lord, it's the biggest city in the world. Open sewage. It's a complete mess. The source of this new ice age seems to be Asia because local demands for goods is weak. Asians are sending cheap products abroad at furious pace. Economist John Macon of the American Enterprise Institute recently wrote, the best way to cut prices in the global marketplace is to devalue the currency.

It's going to get where Brother Brown has said they should call it in, and they won't.

Goods involved in a devalued currency are then less expensive for foreign buyers. This is called exporting deflation. Right now, the United States is benefiting from this process. Low prices are good for consumers. They foster low interest rates, which are great for the bonds and stock markets. But this happy scenario could change drastically if deflation grabs hold. An antidote? Yes, companies without pricing power can still make profits if they can increase productivity. In other words... making things at lower cost. Well, that's fine. Jobs begin to get scarce. What's going to happen? People are going to start working for less money and longer hours.

You've got something in here. The economic system is a tiger by the tail. And there's nothing they can do about it. Technology and the plans and the plain old American ingenuity may be our salvation. What about the last stock crash in 1929? My question now is this. All right. What really happens? There's no liquidity. Right now, there's a bit of liquidity. We understand that. There's money. How much? We really don't know. But if you have money, you can literally buy almost anything. The last stock market, then the big one in 1929, suddenly money disappeared. There was no money to buy anything. Major Douglas came up with the economic theory in London, which is perfectly true. And the Federal Reserve is supposed to do it as all governments. When there's plenty of goods, you watch the money to keep it back so that you don't inflate things. And when the goods are down, you've got to let the money out in order to be able to buy things. But what happened to the stock market? The people that were in the know, even as in 1987, and even at this time, this was not too bad. The percentage is not so great. But what happened, those people like, and one employee is Joe Kennedy. Knew the market was going to go. He made $400 million as far as I know. Now, the point is that that particular time, those men that made all that money simply sat on it. There was no money plowed back into industry. Therefore, the government had to then go ahead and try to tax or take that money away to get that money out there again. But you're living in a democracy. You're not living in a kingdom or a dictatorship. Now, when you have a kingdom like a strong king or you have a dictator, that man has a military. And the military then can say, look, you're going to do this. You're going to do the other thing. We're going to get your money. They take it. They do what they want to do. But this is a democracy. Now, remember, iron and clay cannot mix. So there isn't anybody at this time that's going to solve our problems unless there's a man strong enough who is militaristic in the sense. He's got some kind of power. If it's not military, it's political or spiritual. And he's going to say, this is what it's going to be.

Now, nobody knows exactly what caused the 1929 depression in the stock market. But we knew no tremendous fortunes were made. And you've got the same people beating their gums right now. And they're telling you like Marvin Weiss. But boy, has he missed it. He knew positivity. Solomon Brothers was a great firm they should invest in. They've been swallowed up by travelers. And Smith Barney. So where's Marvin Weiss now? Recently, a while ago, charging $5 ,000 for you to get his newsletter so that you could make a lot of money.

His own son said it won't work. But Marvin made a lot of money. What's going to happen to Marvin Weiss's money? He'll sit on it like all the rest. Now, the point is this. The people being democratic and the church now gaining ascendancy. And we're going to read this about Russia. Don't worry. And their ascendancy. They're going to demand. that somehow the people get the goods they're entitled to because they've got to live.

It's not going to be like the last depression. It's not going to be like the last one. The great one did not end up in a world dictatorship, but it began to foster world dictatorships.

Now, those dictators could do things, but their days are numbered. But don't worry, they're still here. You've got your money barons, you've got all these guys, but you can see what Brother Branham said. He said what they should do is call the money in like Cuba did, but they're not going to do it. There's no way they can do it, actually. So I just wanted to bring this to your attention to show you that, hey, look, the big thing is to watch what happened back in 1929, and it's going to start all over again, and that people can make billions of dollars, they can tuck it away, but it's not going to work like it did back there where you have actual dynasties and you have great family fortunes. Because it won't work this time. Because the Bible distinctly says, and Brother Brown has explained to us, it's going to head up in the dictatorship of the Antichrist, who is the Pope, and they're going to control by the gold standard. Now, gold is at the lowest it's been for a long, long time. Say, let's buy some. Forget it. Sorry to buy it. Have a little bit on hand. Who cares? Let's just take it away from you. Get by for a little while. The big thing is to get out of here.

We'll be here a while yet. Don't worry. Brother Brown, what did he say to the unions? Some question came in. He said, all right, is it okay to join a union? Some people were saying you can't join it. He said, yes, it's okay now, but we know when to get out. It's when the church takes over. Was he talking to the foolish virgin? Was he talking to just nice people? Was he talking to you and me? Well, that's a good question. I didn't answer that question. He did. So I really don't know. But what I'm trying to show you here, we are getting real close now in the stock market. Jerking around. And Brother Branham said, when you see the jolting around at the west coast, know the coast is going down. So when you see the jolting on the stock market, you better realize something's going to happen.

The Christians need to be fortified in this hour to realize these things are going to happen. Terrible things coming upon the earth. But remember, it's the same as the diseases and those things that are out there. Gathering up their force and their power. The bad bacteria is overcoming all the good bacteria. They can lick it any day of the week with their hands in both pockets. That's right. We've got a terrible situation going on. But remember, God's hand is upon us. Never forget who is with us. Never forget that God is our head. Never forget that God himself is our capstone. Never forget that God himself is the great sealer in the ceiling. The Holy Spirit's been sealing us in. But the great sealer himself is here. or Brother Branham lied, and he couldn't have lied because God would never back up a liar. There's no lying God. There's no variable or shadow of turning. It's not yea and amen. It's yea or nay and amen. It's yea and amen, but never nay and amen. In other words, God doesn't say yes one time and no another time. When it comes to His Word, that Word does not return unto Him void. He is the Word. In other words, God fulfills everything that lies within Him, everything He brought up before us. So, all right. we can see what is coming upon the earth. Now, Brother Branham said there's coming a day when Russia's going to use those bombs.

So let's read a little bit what we've got to say here about Gorbachev. Now, you know, I like Gorbachev. When I first saw Khrushchev on the scene, and I know he was the murderer. There's hardly any murderer worse than Khrushchev was. But there's something about the guy that I knew. rang true when he talked to Nixon and he talked to America. And it came out later that he was not fooling when they kicked him out and he wrote his memoirs. Now, I'm not saying he's a nice guy. I have no time for the fellow. I'm not a friend of Gorbachev. But I really believe that Gorbachev was one of the really great leaders of the 20th century. And he knew what he was doing. And he couldn't get it done because there's no way you're going to get it done. Even Walter Cronkite, going overseas, understood that American democracy, though it was the best, was still not good enough.

He almost got really blackballed for that. Fairly misunderstood.

People still misunderstand. Because they try to be extreme left or extreme right.

And you go to the scripture, the Bible just simply says we're known for our moderation. Not our extremities. The only extreme place you can stand is with this word of God. And if you die for it, fine. If you don't, well, some don't. Now, here's an account from Paris. In case you're wondering, America and the West haven't won the Cold War.

You hear what that fellow says? In case you are wondering, America and the West haven't won the Cold War, the jury is still out. At least that's the views of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union. He argues that the West is barking up the wrong tree if it assumes the collapse of communism was the final chapter of a historical process.

In other words, it ain't over. Remember what I read the other day, quoting Brother Branham on communism in the church?

Don't you know that the church brought in communism? The czars with their dictatorship? Leaving out the policy of the rotten, filthy church?

Rasputin the monk? who had healing power and great powers of knowledge and all.

You know, they did their best to poison him. They did their best to stab him, but they finally threw him in the river. Well, I guess he couldn't swim, and they proved that he drowned. They gave him enough poison to sink a killer horse and enough stabs, I guess, to heaven knows what, but he still drowned.

So what brought in communism? Well, if you know the history, you know the history of positivity that's determined in Jewish background. Lenin and Trotsky went in a sealed boxcar with American money. That's as far as I know history, and I'm not trying to run anybody down.

And they threw the church out 100%, and what everybody thought was Antichrist was the denial of the church influence and trying to get rid of Almighty God.

But you couldn't convert Russia to atheism, not even 4 % were atheistic. The majority were Gnostics, because that's what orthodoxy is. Now, orthodoxy is not only sweeping Russia, as the main church granted by Yeltsin and the Russian government, they're right back in the driver's seat, which makes all the fundamentals very, very angry.

Perhaps fulfilling a revelation that the Pentecostal said they had, though I don't know they had it, because after Gorbachev came on the scene with that blot on his head, you know, that blood... Blot up there, which they could erase with a laser, and he didn't want to erase it. So Pentecostal said they had a vision of this man with that trademark or that birthmark up there. Trademark, birthmark, doesn't really matter. Up there. And they said that what they got from God was Russia would open up for a while to the gospel, then close down 100%. Well, I don't know. Anybody can always tell something after the fact. It was like many years ago back in Canada. We had one of the mildest winters in all the world. The chickens were out there bathing in the dust, and they were so stupid they didn't know it was winter, so they forgot they shouldn't lay eggs, so they laid eggs all winter long. We had a ball. The weather was nice. When the sun came up for the spring and all, the Minions said, we knew it all the time. Anybody can prophesy once it's done. But here's the point here. At least that's the views of Mikhail Gorbachev. The man we used to call Gorby claims, in fact, the opposite is true. When the Soviet Empire began crumbling with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 89 and finally disappeared after the failed coup by Moscow hardliners in 1991, it marked a beginning, not an end, he declares. Not much has been heard lately from Gorbachev, but he remains as voluble as ever. He's been in France promoting the local editions of his autobiography and still talks a great game at great length. He said at a news conference recently that Western expectations of capitalism sweeping the world in the wake of the communist debacle will turn out to be false. Now listen, this guy's more on the scripture than the rest because iron and clay don't mix.

Democracy and totalitarianism don't mix.

So now how can you have a true laissez -faire capitalism is what we're looking for and expect to have.

type of loose -kneed, loose -jointed fascism. Government -controlled industry, which they're doing by taxes, and all these laws are laying down, and OSHA coming and putting some people out of business, but taking money out of the table, no doubt for the ones they don't put out of business.

Rotten crooked lawyers interpreting laws that never were meant to be interpreted that way. And what does the Congress do? Sit back and say, Oh my, isn't that awful? We didn't know we were doing it.

And they sat as though their hands were tied. The same nuts that did it don't die. You lock a prisoner up, take the key that locked him, unlock it. Not those birds. Too much money is involved. How much money do you need these politicians? According to what I understand, my understanding is not very great, but I think maybe it's better than some people's, not as good as most maybe. What do you think these guys that get kicked back on a million dollars, 10 ,000 bucks? Maybe on $10 million. The kickback of it, they just get $10 ,000 out of the table.

You say the love of money is not the root of all evil. It's the essentiality of man's soul. His money, money, money, right down inside his heart. It's a great big empty space in there without a soul of a human being, but a soul of a devil in there. It must be a beast. Money, money, money, money, money, money, money. Remember I showed you outside the Garden of Eden, the first thing they said was what? Transportation and gold.

World economics. This

kingdom is, this is not God's kingdom here on earth. We're praying that God's kingdom will come. We're the closest there is right now. In fact, all right.

Gorby himself hasn't done badly with capitalism. His lecture circuit career and books have almost made him a millionaire. His wife, Rasa, dresses even better than she did in the old days when her spouse was master of the Kremlin, visited the West, equipped with an American Express gold card. But the one -time Soviet leader refused to accept the idea to the free market. has worldwide application.

How free is it going to be under the Antichrist? That's my question. So how close is Gorby? How far out are the others?

Well, come on.

What's Nixon doing right now with the American Congress in China? Oh, we're going to have liberty over there by opening the doors to trade. Oh, that sounds nice. The ends justify the means. But they're not going to get the ends. Do

you think for one minute that China's going to come along for a few bucks. And that's the only reason they're dealing right now is because of the dollar situation. Commerce.

The one -time Soviet leader refused to accept the idea that free market is worldwide application. He especially questions whether it will ever really work in Russia. As he explains it, the abrupt switch to capitalism carried out by his hated rival, Boris Yeltsin, following his own downfall, left the Russian people derailed and deeply distrustful. And what has Yeltsin done? He's signed the bill that excludes foreign religions. So now the same devil is back in the driver's seat that brought communism. And if you haven't read the recent articles, you'll find out that many of Billy Graham's converts are converting to orthodoxy, which is the eastern leg of Roman Catholicism, which is the Greek Catholic Church or the Greek Rome Church.

And they say, study the history and you'll find that that's the place to worship. Now, these men are supposed to be born again. What has Billy Graham's message spawned? You

answer that. I can tell you right away if you don't know.

He's hated rioters. He's owned downfall. Left the Russian people be rooted in deeply distrustful. They remain, he said, highly suspicious of Western motives and gripped by the siege mentality inculcated in them by decades of Soviet propaganda. Now, isn't this the same as China?

He's talking for Russia, he's talking for China. The Russians will never accept becoming a kind of slavicized America, he declares. And they won't.

Western leaders are partly to blame for this attitude, he added. The West is still frightened by Russia and seeks to keep it down. He claimed exhibiting a substantial hunk of Russian paranoia of his own. Oh, isn't it nice to call the man paranoid? I'm such a smart guy. Yes, Mr. Kaplan.

I see connotations in that name, too.

This is a real smart guy. He's got all the answers.

He's quoting Gorbachev. The West, led by the United States, proclaims friendship but tries to isolate Russia.

Sooner or later, it will be predicted these tensions will lead to fresh antagonists in beating Russia in the West. There's where your bomb's coming from now. With an outcome that is by no means assured. On the whole, Gorbachev, never a man known for his immodesty. thinks the situation in Russia and its relations with the West would be better off today if he had remained in charge. And I agree 100%. Oh, Brother Vail telling you so, it's authentic and it's wonderful. Listen, I'm just telling you what all along the line, to me, this man has rung the bell when the others haven't. The same as they could have opened the door with Khrushchev years ago, and they didn't do it. When he said, we'll bury you, they insisted he meant... He would kill us in war, which is merely a Russian saying means you will die and we'll still be living. We'll outlive you. People right today still use that saying when he said we'll bury you. They will not take the axiomatic. Yet we expect them to take our idioms and love them. Oh, we are obnoxious. This reminds me of a marriage where the man is bossing the woman around and beating her into submission to make. her feel -good that he's the boss. You catch what I'm talking about? This is pitiful. This is pitiful. He

said here, thinks the situation of Russia's relations with the West would be better today if he'd remain in charge. Not many of his compatriots agree. Certainly not.

Who's taking over the mafia today in America? The Russian mafia. It's almost in total control. Oh, lovely. Lovely bunch of coconuts. See them standing in a row.

In last year's presidential election, he won just over 1 % of the vote. Certainly the guy would never make it. Still, it's hard not to admire him for refusing to bow to his own drastically diminished political fortunes.

Why would they expect this man to change his mind when he's the one that set this in motion with certain goals, and though he couldn't achieve them, is he now to step aside and say, okay, we will just discontinue? Then what about Jesus Christ? Do you think there's more than 1 % of 5 billion people that know him as Savior? Well, there's less than that. Well, then why doesn't he step aside?

See how foolish these people are? Oh, you're supposed to abandon it. Well, how many are believing this message we teach? Well, that's just good preaching.

Well, nobody's got morals. Let's join the crowd. Now, I'm not a lover of Gorbachev. Get this flat. I'm not a lover of this guy. I admire what he started out to do. I admire him sticking to his principles. I don't agree with him. Period.

I'm talking politics. Now the world situation was going to lead up to that atomic bomb that hits the Vatican, hits Washington, how many more places I don't know. And it tells you why it's here. And I've been anxious to know this. And I'm happy I got this little article because this answers my questions and I hope it answers yours.

He continues to talk like someone who believes the world retains the key next to what he has to say. You can't be much more thick -skinned than that. Well, hey, I like that. I'm that way too.

If people don't like what I preach, I'm still going to preach it. I like preaching it. I like to talk about the presence and who's here. I like to quote William Branham and all these good things that came from God. All right. Both of these belong to the money situation. What's going on now? Economics. Now, remember, the economics started. Outside of God's government. So therefore, you better not expect God to have a thing to do with the governments of this earth and the money system. Stand right back and watch the conclusion. They reap what they sow and they're sowing destruction because they turned their back on God.

Now, I haven't got the question and answers yet. What time is it? Three quarter hour gone by? Well good, we could just go home and have foot washing. Because I'm not interested in... and taking too long here, although

I like the subject. Okay. We're going to take the Alpha to the present Omega, which we could do many, many times. In the book of Romans, it says in verse 18, For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodly unrighteousness, the men who hold back the truth in unrighteousness.

It's not a bunch of men here now that hold the truth in unrighteousness. It's the holding back the truth is what we're looking at. And it's the unrighteous bunch that's doing it. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has showed it unto them. It's manifest in them. What do you mean? It's manifest in the human race exactly what God is, what He has been, and what He will be. Not

by the stars and the skies and all these things in the universe.

It's God dealing in... and in and amongst people and particularly in the church. And there are those whose attention he engages and they deny the very Lord that bought them and say no to God and they're walking out. And the very truth that comes to that people which came back there, they hold it in unrighteousness. They hold it back.

Like Brother Branagh's confrontation with the Methodists and the Pentecostals. Now, for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. Even his eternal power in God, and so they are without excuse. Now, right off the bat, it tells you there, the next thing is you can go to creation.

God manifesting in man. As Brother Branagh said, when you see God descend from the heavens, and stand before groups of men and declare himself as ever he did. And William Branham, a prophet, was saying, God came down from heaven and you saw him in me. And God declared himself by me. Oh my, I can't take that. Oh, that's fine. Just get out of my hair. Go someplace else.

Don't bother me.

I'm rough and I'm tough and I mean it. Because this is all I know. I don't go by feelings. I don't go by anything. I can get roused up, you bet your sweet life.

I'm getting madder than a hatter, whatever that is. But

I don't go by feelings, experience, or anything else. I go by what is real. You say, that's an experience. But it's not mine. I'm an observer.

And I can see this same God that came down from the heavens and stood before groups of men and declaring Himself, proving it is God. I can see Him in the universe out here. And have you noticed how that atheism has taken hold and creationism, apart from God, has taken leaps and bounds since the prophet came on the scene and God manifested himself.

Well, come on, study your courts, study your law, study your schools. You can't pray. If you try to teach creationism by God, they'll boot you out.

They are holding back the truth in unrighteousness because they know there's got to be a creator.

Now, with the Hubble up there, They're looking at stars coming into being and all these galaxies out there so -called. They don't even know that Brother Branham said they're running in a circle and some scientists didn't find that out. Well, let's keep reading. Because when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God. Now watch it. He's putting the two together. Brother Branham, now listen, come on now. Brother Branham kept saying God in nature, God in nature, God in nature, God in continuity, God in nature, continuity, God manifested. Here He is right here, right? Put the two together. Now what happened? Kicked him out.

Now don't tell me they didn't know God because the Bible said they didn't know God.

Again, Brother Bassett, every man's word be alive, but let mine be true. Paul the Apostle said the same thing. Now, they wouldn't glorify him as God.

You know, Elijah did. He said, where is the Lord God of Elijah?

How many of you have said, where is the Lord God of William Branham? Oh, we knew him all the time. Hallelujah. There's three of them. No, there's one of them. Why, the father is his own son, the son is his own father. Like

the Chinese version of slit eyes. Under the caption says, the child is the husband of the mother.

That's Jesus only.

Now listen, don't you be able to get steamed up like me, because you don't have the gift of sarcasm. But I want to tell you what, this burns me to a crisp.

Because they can read. They're educated. They can split the atom. They can put in a cyclotron and watch the atom disappear and come out another place. They can put the Hubble up there in space and they can tell you all about those galaxies.

Watch a little asteroid streak through like it did in Texas and they get the chippers. And they say, oh, is the world going to come to an end? No, it's not going to come to an end. There's years down the road.

Now it says they weren't thankful. Have you thanked God that God manifested himself and you know there is a God? The God of William Branham, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Right back to the God that created Adam and Eve. Made and formed them. Set the universes in order. Set them back there so you and I can come upon the scene and be manifest as sons of God? You thank God that he's here? Or they're arguing about it.

Now, I'm not going to tell you people to get on the network because if I ever do get a computer, I'm not going to bother getting on it. But if you want to know just how ridiculous it is, talk to Lloyd and to Gerald and to, you

know, all the Ralph back there, Joe White, Joe Bates, a few of them. And he felt bad about it. I said, why bother feeling bad?

Now it says here, they became vain in their reasonings. Foolish heart was dark and professed himself to be wise. They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like the corruptible man to birds, four -footed beasts, and creepy. And he's way back there. They did it.

So they're going to do the same thing today. The only change will be what? They'll go. They will take. Now watch what they're doing now. Back there, they made a bird, a thunderbird. Indians did. They made idols. They took animals. They took it all. Right? What do they do today that's exactly the same? Evolution.

So what's their God today? Slimy lizard? Slimy toad? Some little slime in the primordial soup? As they called it. Coming up, up, up. Four -footed animals, chimpanzees, orangutans. Hey, if I was a monkey, I'd sure get insulted. Bunch of jerks. Creeping things. There it is. Don't tell me it's not the same. They haven't changed. Wherefore God gave them an uncleanness in the lust of their own hearts, in the honor of their own body, in themselves. Changed the truth of God into a lie. Worshiped and served the creature more than the creator. So what's the highest order now? The highest order? Oh, they love this image of God stuff. Today,

everything is a social order. Mrs. Clinton's out there rattling her bones to the public. Fifty years old now, making a big scene, getting back to the family, getting back to kids, getting back, getting back. They should clean their lives up first before they start talking about somebody else, doing something else for anybody else.

If you think passing out clean needles is going to stop AIDS and every disgusting thing, you're a nut.

If you think you're a billionaire Jew and give Russia hundreds of millions of dollars, a billion or one crack, and pass out clean needles, that's going to do something. I've got news for George Soros. He better go back to Jewish religion and repent. Because he's sure nothing near a Christian religion.

So God gave him up to vile affections. Women did change their natural use to that which is against nature. And so Ellen DeGeneres gets on the TV, understand, kissing this woman. It's a long, passionate kiss. But you men don't get revolting. Men get on the TV scene. They tell me, too. I haven't seen it yet, but I'll maybe tune in sometime and get the news and see one man kissing another long -passing kiss. Oh, yeah, I did in Canada. I did now. I remember now. Right. Can't lie to you. Yuck.

Likewise, the men leave the nasty use of the woman, burned and lost one toward another.

Now, the woman was made for the man. I could go into 1 Corinthians on that. I'll just leave it. Brother Branham explained it.

Men are turning to men. Working, that was just unseemly. And notice the men are the ones that are bringing about the AIDS. Receiving in themselves their recompense, their error, which was me. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave more to reprobate minds to do the things which were not convenient. Well, why not? Because the thing is, they made a God of their own imagination. They put themselves in the driver's seat. You've got women preachers, and that's not bad enough. They're lesbians. Like that Mrs. Mote down there that lost her daughter in Cincinnati. They're all over the place. I heard of Pentecostal women preachers chasing each other like a man chases a woman, giggling and laughing and having a great time. A young Pentecostal boy told me all about it. Well, he wasn't a Pentecostal guy, but he's a believer in this message. He knew them personally.

She denied her husband, but she's fooling around all the time.

Come on, can you... Listen, do you believe the grace of God would tolerate that?

The blood does not cover anything. That's not covered by the Word. You

go outside the Word, you tell me you're covered by the blood. You are insane. You are fooled by the devil. You didn't come as a good foolish virgin.

Come on, don't play with the Word of Almighty God.

You've got to stand with Paul. Though an angel from heaven or I myself changes, I'm gone.

Of course, Paul knew that there's no way. He just wanted to impress it. But there was a way because some people would go that way. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, decovenance, maliciousness. And they've already mentioned homosexuality. Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity. That's cancerous things in their very nature, morals. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents. Without understanding, covenant breaks out, without natural affection. That's covered now. Implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God. that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Now, don't tell me that Stalin didn't know something about God because he was trained as part of the orthodox system. And

don't tell me Hitler didn't know either. And Clinton boasts about being a Baptist.

These guys know. There

are cities set upon a hill which cannot be hid. Lights sit or not under a bushel.

Then what about God himself?

There's no way they can deny Almighty God in this generation. Now, who's to blame? The leaders. Blind leaders of the blind.

And all those people say, well, we're without sin. We're fine. We got it.

When Jesus talked to the serpent's seed, when they said, we see, he said, your sin remains.

Now, the thing is, they did see. And they say God in operation. Like William Branham said it. When you see God descend from the heavens and stand before groups of men declaring himself as ever he did. That is one of the most beautiful, explicit, marvelous statements. Condensing the truth of God bringing forth his word to the people. That you can ever possibly have. It's all of this epitomized. The divine revelation. In one fantastic sentence. Is that too hard to memorize? Is that too hard to receive? Is that too hard to stand upon? Is that too much to take a hold of? I don't think so.

If it blows your mind, thank God your mind is blown.

Paul only counted his manure anyway. Why should you and I count ours any better?

We've got a couple of minutes here. Here's a question. Now, in answering questions, I want you to know one thing. Unless I can quote Brother Branham word for word, you know that I'm going on my own and doing my best to find why Brother Branham said things that he said and getting it out of the Scripture. And there are times that I find them absolutely right word for word. But there are other times when they are a little oblique in the sense that I have to look at them. Start

writing and see where it goes. Because if I don't start writing, I can't get my thoughts together. That doesn't mean my thoughts are right because I write. That'd be William Branham, not Lee Vale. But anyway, I'm

trying not to speculate. What I'm looking at is the definitive that Brother Branham said. Is there something that I can put my hand on or look at that actually clarifies what is... not abstract, but concrete, though obtuse to our minds. In other words, we can't just walk eye to eye and thought to thought. We have to think around it, knowing what he said was true. And we could just leave it at that. Sometimes I think that's the best. I don't believe in probing. Brother Branham didn't. I don't believe in telling you to probe. In fact, I would be... Very cautious if I were you. So you must, you know, understand if I answer certain things, I'm answering from what Brother Branham has said and how I would treat what he said in the light of any scripture that I could come across to see where we are going. So I'm

going to leave this here for a second. In fact, I won't touch it today, tonight. And I'll go to a question that was handed to me, and I didn't write it down. I should have written it down. I've written it all down here. And the question comes up, well, in the light of a five -fold ministry, which is genuine, and a five -fold ministry, which is parallel, because the two vines are parallel, you have in Scripture, without a doubt, especially the Old Testament, And in the new, you have the false prophet. You have the next person in the New Testament, the false apostle. Old and new, false prophet, true prophet. False apostle, particularly in the new. Then you've got the teacher, false teacher, particularly New Testament. Also mentioned from the old, because Jesus himself spoke about it. Then you've got the false pastors, shepherds, Old Testament. You've got it in the New. And you have the evangelist, particularly in the New, but also false.

Now, all of those actually come together. Because though it is the prophet who brings the vindicated word, it is the same prophet who is the apostle, the messenger. actually also then the evangelist, and also the teacher. And since he is the judge, he also becomes a pastor. So you have an interrelationship where there's no denying that through the seven church ages of Israel, and I say that not with exactly tongue -in -cheek, but I can't say it with the same perfect knowledge of the new, that you have through the seven New Testament church ages, You have every one of those. Prophet, apostle, teacher, evangelist, pastor. And then if the new comes out of the old, you could qualify that, that those offices were back there somehow, somewhere interwoven. You certainly had the teachers because they were men like Prophet Samuel. He's linked right up with Moses in the book of Acts. And, of course, you also have the spies that went into the cities. Pretty Jericho brought the good news of the coming kingdom. Right down the line, you can see how God worked. But with us, of course, we see more specifically in this hour. So the question would come up, say, Brother Vail, how can you tell if a person is really a five -fold minister? Well, I look at that question. that comes to me, and I say, first of all, I don't want to be put on the spot as though the person were asking me, do you believe they'll know? Because I could answer that flat right now, I don't know. I have no way of knowing if a man is a true five -fold minister. I have a lot of times, without flinching, certainly thought, and without declaring forthright, hinted very broadly, that

if I know some true five -fold, That person could not be a true FIFO.

I can be honest with you. But for me to know, I really don't.

If they're decidedly off the word, I can know and you can know, because that's in the first church age, they are commended because they knew the apostles were false. And they said to these people, in Brother Brannon's words, you are false apostles. And they said now, Just a minute, how can you say that? And they said, because you're not saying what Paul said. So we're looking at that in the light of our little situation here in the Seventh Church age. And though it's a little situation, it's very intense with the pure light of God and God himself. That anybody that speaks contrary to Brother William Brannan vindicated, that person would have to be false. And no equivocation. Now, let's say the person didn't know any better, but was willing to learn. Well, that's fine. He's on the grade up. We just don't shut him. We just wait and see how things begin to turn out. But as for myself ever knowing and ever being able to tell anybody and say, I know that you are a true member of the fivefold ministry. I can't do it. There's no way I've ever told anybody. There's no way that I could ever tell anybody because I don't know how it's done. I just don't know. All I can ever tell anybody myself that believes they have some kind of a ministry, the fivefold is this. I say, look, I have to believe what I believe concerning myself. And if you believe that you're really called, I accept what you tell me because you have to accept. what I tell you, if you want to. Because I'm not vindicated. You are not vindicated. And I would never dare to be as bold concerning teaching if Brother Branham had not said so. Because these are things that are best left undone. We just don't want to get entangled with who is and who isn't. Now, on the other hand, we look at this thought. If there's a true, there's got to be a false. If there's a false, There has certainly got to be a true. Now, Brother Branham brought out something that used to be puzzling, as far as I'm concerned, for quite some time. And you notice that when he said when Moses went down to Egypt, Pastor Pharaoh came against him. Now, it is true that the people looked to Pharaoh. Even as he looked to the priesthood and the ministers of that priesthood, and he could call Janice and Jambors. But believe me, as the head man over the nation, which was a religious nation, if he hadn't have called them, they'd have still sat back there in their barracks or wherever they sat. So as I look at the entire picture where Brother Branham called him a pastor, I begin to realize since... The Word of God tells us, and Brother Branham reiterated that many times in teaching predestination, God said, for this cause have I raised you up, that my power might be manifested in you. In other words, the wrath and anger of God is the attributed justice of God because of these things that this man did. This man was raised up. Now remember, Brother Branham even went so far as to say while Eve was not in the original creation, and she was what he called secondary or byproduct, was on the grounds that he said God told him it was not complementary to God to have a son of God which would fall. And so, therefore, the fall came through Eve, which it most certainly did. Now, that's a hard thing to take in the sense, can I just take that? Well, let me tell you something. Brother Branagh said this man, Brother Branagh himself, raised up for the end time, would even reveal secrets which were not known from before the foundation of the world. And so therefore revealing, and he said, even if you do not find it in the word, and the prophet tells you, and that's under vindication, thus saith the Lord, you know that that thing is right. Now most of the times that refers to certain acts which were done and certain things which are historical. But at this particular time, Brother Branham being what he was, in the mold of Moses and Paul, where Paul did not act as a historian because he was right mixed up in the situation, Whereas Moses was a historian because he was not mixed up in it at that time. William Branham, looking back, was able as the historian of God to place the seven church ages and then in the present bring forth the seals, the thunders, the mysteries, and all those things in there. So, we find then that definitely there is a ministry that God has raised up. Now, it's not the same as God raising up a five -fold ministry. But if God raised up Pharaoh, then that which was contingent there, Brother Brown, I'm calling a pastor, head of religion, and enforcing it like we're looking at today, enforced religion. The Mohammedans, if you change, they kill you. You convert to Christianity, they've got every right to kill you. If you come in and you try to teach Christianity, they've got every right to kill you. And the man that killed all these Israelites, and he had a young man. He persuaded to put bombs on him and go down to the city center and blow himself up and kill maybe 23 or 30 some Israelites. He praised God that God helped him to do it. He had no trouble praising God for all of these things. So you can see right there, there are those that are positively raised up, you see, both vines, and God's hand is upon it all. It's just the same as Peter tells you. that these men that are in the Justice Department, now they're supposed to be, that would be the enforcing staff, not just the prosecutor, not just the judge. It would be mostly the staff like those who are in position to make arrests or do those various things they're supposed to do. And Peter said, as long as you do good, you never need to worry or have any fear, because these men are raised up as ministers of God. in order to dispense justice, keep freedom, and those things in operation, which should be amongst the people, in order that they may live peaceably. Because he said, remember they are not a terror to good, but they are a terror to evil. Now that's greatly changed at the end time. I don't know how Peter, I think, would have to stand up against all the things that our people are doing. Actually, he did back there, because he called them natural group beasts. And he said they'd be the same thing today, predicting at this hour. We'd have these people. So my point, what I'm writing at is this. We have, without a doubt, men that are raised up, true fivefold and the other in the false.

So what do you do? The easiest thing and the best thing in all the world is what Brother Branham said. Just ignore what's going on in the bad vine out there. Just ignore it. Don't have a thing to do with it. Walk away from it. Don't even consider it. And maybe even go so far as to remember, who art thou a man that judges another man's servant? Unto his own master standeth or falleth, and yea, God is able to make him to stand. So leave those things alone. So I cannot tell anybody. My closest, I say, is if you feel you're really led of the Lord in a ministry, that's sure fine by me. Just the way I felt led myself, I couldn't get around it. Brother Branham said, if you're called to the ministry by God, It's one thing you don't want to do, but you know you've got to do it. And so you do it. And remember, this is not as bad as you think because you're gifted. There'll be gifts there. And if you go contrary to the gift wherein God placed you and called you, you've got problems ahead of you because you have enough problems being at the right place at the right time without being at the wrong place at the wrong time and you being the right person. That becomes a square peg in a round hole. And there's many, many people in ministries. have hurt themselves and hurt others because they are not qualified by God to do the work. That's why if you ask me to be a pastor, there's no way I'd do it. Now, I could do a certain amount because what I have in my ministry allows me to do a certain amount. But to do what you would require, you've known all these years. It's been a long time now. It's about 1981, somewhere in there. That's 16 solid years. You sat here and you know. that I have told you and I still tell you, I am not a pastor. If you want to hear teaching, that's fine by me. I'm happy to be here because I'm not on the road. But pastoring is not my ministry. I don't want anything to do with it except in a peripheral manner, which would fit in without hurting anybody, maybe helping a little bit in a certain direction. So another thing I want to bring up is the fact, That you can also desire to be a deacon or an elder. Now remember, Brother Branham did what Paul didn't do, but remember times have changed. And he said he wanted deacons to have to teach. Whether he got them, I don't know.

But he sort of combined the two of them. Now the Bible says those that desire one of those offices, desire is a good thing. Now in the one case, the five -fold ministry, now this is a strange thing, don't desire it. They don't want it, they fight it. The other person desires it. He wants it, and he can do a very good thing because he's really helping the church. And what it really means in there, if you want to get right down to brass tacks, is the fact is that a person can feel that he'd like to serve the Lord, but knowingly and knowing that there's not that definitive call, woe is me if I preach not the gospel, the fight, knowing he'd be isolated to God. and taking that office and going out there and doing what he's supposed to do, no matter what happens, and just standing like a sheep for the slaughter. But he'd like to serve God in that other way, knowing he is able to handle the Word, to live a life. And remember, Brother Branham said, the qualifications for the elder and the deacon, character -wise, are much higher than any five -fold minister. In other words, you're building on certain things that are there, that you have, and they are from God. and you're yielded to God, those people literally, though not fivefold, actually can minister. And Brother Branham said, handle the word even. And that is true. And they certainly can. And there are those that are elders, maybe not called a pastor, yet with abilities given to God, even they are able, under the conditions the word is, I see it in Timothy, where it says, thou shalt not muzzle the ox or tread without the corn. that they are able to actually receive of the tithe if it is necessary as a part of their living because they are devoting so much time to the Word. I would say a person like that might be kind of self -employed or part -time employed. And he knows that he has this urge in his heart to serve the Lord, to visit, to comfort, to help people in distress, help get their problems in order. to do the things that they might not be able to do, and just be right there with the Word of God and the love of God in their hearts? Absolutely. They could be, as I see it, and I could be wrong, but I don't know where I would be wrong from a book of Timothy, that they would be allowed a certain subsistence. So I just wanted to cover that one little bit there, that one question, because it came in a way that would say, well, Brother Vail, you were able to tell people that they have ministries. No, I'm not able to tell anybody. The only person I know has left the scene is Brother Branham. I can't tell. But I'm like you. I can look around and I can see those that follow the Word and follow what is the pattern in the Bible in that particular office, knowing how to keep themselves in there, apart from the world, joined to God. ministering to people, and you don't have to say, well, I wonder if that person is really called to God. You say, sure, I know that person is called to God. I don't know all about the person, but I received that person as a faithful brother, pastor, teacher, evangelist, apostle, prophet, whatever it is. That would be missionary, whatever it is. And you don't need to go further than that person's testimony. Because whether I would say it or you would say it doesn't make any difference. If I were to say, well, see, I wanted to be evangelist many years ago because I was saved and I love to see people saved. And I told you I used to preach those real tough sermons. And I'd see people lean forward and clutch the back of the bench. Their knuckles would get white and they just sat there like a bump on a log. And I thought, my Lord, what's going to move these people? When I preached the word as a teacher, they opened up like flowers. And then that made me very angry. I didn't care two bits about God's people opening up like flowers and watering them. I wanted to get the good old sinner by the back of the neck and shake him over the flames until he came in. I did my best. I shook him over the flames. They got white knuckles and sat there. So why would I possibly want to be an evangelist? Why would I want to be a missionary? Why would I want to do anything but what I'm doing? Maybe not doing it too well, but I'm doing it. So there's it. I've answered that one question. Tomorrow, we go into where we get into some real interesting material, which is going to be not supposition, but just looking at it in the light of what we may possibly consider. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly Father, before we go to the communion foot -washing service, we just ask you, Lord, to bless what little word we've talked about tonight. And I hope, Father, that people really understand now, as never before, just what's happening. And how things are moving in the world out here. Clarifying what Brother Branham said concerning that which is to come upon the earth. The gold standard coming back. The money just not being there to be utilized anymore. Worthless. And now being backed up. And Russia will still have the atomic bombs. And we see, Lord, the whole thing laid before us now. And even those visions, five great visions come to pass. We didn't even need them to come to pass as though we needed them because we saw a prophet. But we're very glad that you gave them those visions to show us more and more the vindication of the man that you sent us, that you, Lord, yourself were in this. And you, Lord, were here, descended from the heavens, stand before a group of men declaring yourself. And that just blows our minds with the simplicity and the awfulness of it, the great awe, to think there would be a man stand here, God in that man. Lord, we're grateful that it's so wonderful to see the Word all line up so perfectly and beautifully. And we pray, Lord, as we go to the foot -washing communion service, we ourselves will line up so perfectly and beautifully with the Word. They just melt into it as it melts into us. We into you and into each other. Coming to that place of such love that the prophet said, how you should love each other. You that love this word. God, my heart's open to it. I want it. You know that I wanted that all my life above anything in the world. But I know it wouldn't be worth one nickel if I didn't have the truth. I'd be completely fooled by a philosophical love. by a false love, by a hypocritical love. What we want is a genuine. The prophet said, don't settle for the spurious when the heavens are full of the genuine. Tonight, Lord, we don't want anything less than a genuine in everything said and everything done. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen. I'm going to read tonight from the book of Peter for the communion service, 1 Peter 1.

And 18. Oh,

one of the wrong chapters.

For as much as you know you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers. Now, you know that's a warning for the end time because you realize that 1 and 2 Peter, like 1 and 2 Thessalonians, actually deal with the second coming of Christ in the hour they're in. Now, What's going to redeem the world in this hour? Silver and gold. Ha, that's God. Glory to God. That's going to make the Pope God. Huh? Well, come on. Is a bride redeemed by that? No way, shame, farm. We don't care two cents about the gold and silver and the river that splits into four heads and the worldly commerce and the culture and everything else. Forget it. Science falsely so called.

Why, we are foolish.

Because we believe in Christ crucified. But they forget one thing. He's risen.

If he hadn't been crucified, he couldn't rise. So

Peter says here, knowing full well what he preached the day of Pentecost, for as much as you know you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, you tell that to the scientist. He'll tell you, come on, silver, silver and gold, gold are elements.

I don't care if they are.

It's not that the element is corrupted. It's what people do with it. How do they use it? Lighting a candle, giving money for penance, building a church from your vain behavior received by tradition from your fathers. Oh, my. He's telling you right here, we as Christians, we got away from the past.

We got away from the religious maneuvers of the past. We got away from the vain things that our fathers gave us. You know why the fathers gave us vain things? Because our fathers are second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, fiftieth generation bunch of junk from the day of Pentecost. But you know we're first generation with the one that appeared recently amongst us. Now, but with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish, without spot, who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. And we look at the second chapter, 24 and 25. who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree. Watch. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live under righteousness, by whose stripes we're healed. For we were sheep gone astray, but are now returned. Notice, now returned.

Well, people say, well, you know, bless God, I was out there and... You know, some kind of orphan apart from God, never having had anything to do with Him. I was a poor old donkey out there. I was a poor old dog out there. I was a poor old goat out there. And you know what God did? He just turned me into a sheep. Hallelujah. It doesn't say that. Redeemed means to buy back. We have returned to Him. How can you return to Him if you hadn't come out of Him?

If you're going to get back into Him, it means you're once in Him. How are you going to say, well, you know, I'm getting back in the house if you never were in the house?

They look and say, boy, you've got to be nuts. Do you think this man, though a fisherman, was nuts? Do you think he was so stupid?

We say, you know, people, it's wonderful. We were in God. You know, we really weren't, but the thing is, I like to put it that way, you know. Come on.

This man, an apostle, full of the Holy Ghost, opened the doors to the Gentiles as well as to the Jews. You think for one minute he's... He's talking here in little circles, little illustrations. You

were sheep going astray. But now you've turned back to the shepherd and the bishop of your souls. And the bishop is in the driver's seat. The minister. Another name for him is intercessor. So

there you see mediator getting you back. Intercessor keeping you in. Now that's nice. Now let's go to Hebrews.

And in Hebrews, the 10th chapter, that's a nice chapter. It said, For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Now, you know, I just think about this. It says here that the law was a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things. Now, images... Not the real thing, but it's the manifestation. It's putting into substance some substantive form that you can look at and get a hold of. You see, the law couldn't do that, but now there's something you really get a hold of. There's some reality. Well, do you know that the Scripture for 2 ,000 years has been talking about the appearing and the presence? And these good things, and today we got a hold of them. You

realize that this scripture is a lot like the law?

Yeah. It showed reality coming. Now this word that we have today was spoken and has to be manifested, and it is. Then it said, for then they would not have ceased to be offered, because that the worshippers once purged should have no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices is remembrance again of sins made every year. Well, just a minute now. If He's already appeared, what are people talking about further appearance?

If He's already appeared, if the Word is fulfilled, and God is fulfilled because He's the Word, and that part of God is fulfilled, and is fulfilled in us, Then what's all this looking down the future? Like Brother Branham says, all the time looking back, all the time looking forward, never knowing what's going on. I'm just here to refresh your memories. For it's not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offerings thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifice for pleasure, thou hast no pleasure. For sins thou hast no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come.

In the volume of the book it's written to me to do thy will, O God. Above when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering to send thy woods not, neither had pleasure in them which are offered by the law. Now Jesus was not burnt or anything else like that. It wasn't the bone of his body broken. The flesh was scarred and marred. But they couldn't even kill him. He had to give up the ghost. He could have laid there as a bleeding pulp in a mass.

Entirely unrecognizable. That there wouldn't have been one bone in his nose broken. one bone in his hand or his finger, and he could have laid there as a bleeding pulp.

He couldn't have died. He gave his life. Into thy hands I commend my spirit. He gave up the ghost. The Bible said he did it. He said, I give my life and I'll take it again. It's absolutely true. So, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He'd taken away the first and established the second. See? Takes away the first. Now, what are we looking at? We're looking at Scripture that's been fulfilled. passes away. So

has there been Scripture fulfilled for our day? You bet. Yep.

Then what are you supposed to do about it? Look at it. Receive it. Believe in it. Know you're a part of it. And stand there with it. And there's a life with it also. But remember it comes first of all with you believing it and confessing. By the which we were sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all. Now, the body, now you're sanctified, you're set apart. Now, I want to tell you something, or I'll ask you a question. Do you think you are set apart or not set apart by the presence? I can tell you one thing. You tell people you are. You believe in the presence. You're set apart already. They'll even spit on you. You think you're not set apart, you better start looking in the mirror of the Word.

You're not reading Ephesians, the fifth chapter, right. The waters of separation. The washing of water by the word.

Sanctified. Here said a poem. Unto God.

And every priest standeth daily in ministry and often times the same sacrifice never take away sin. But this man after he'd offered one sacrifice for sin forever sat down in the right hand of God from henceforth expecting to his antigenated footstool. Now just a minute. That's repeated over there in 1 Corinthians in this hour.

Somebody's putting everything under this man's feet. And everything gets under his feet except the one that's putting it under his feet, which is God. I do believe the church is being put in order. We're getting ready right now by God himself to be the pyramid complete where Jesus the man stands forth, God incarnate, takes the full church.

Headstone is here. Capstone is here.

Absolutely. Capstone ministry has already been here. It had to be here for the capstone to come down. Brother Branham said so.

Yep. God had to prove he was God before he would be received to be as God. Now, how many of us tonight are really receiving God as God? That's

a good question. Kind of makes you think, doesn't it? Say, well, what am I feeling in here? What am I doing? What's my attitude? The point is this. Even if you didn't know, he's still here.

Yeah.

Doesn't depend on how you and I feel or what you and I think.

Was he or wasn't he? And isn't he or isn't he right now? Okay. Pretty soon, the enemies of the footstool. For by one offering you have perfect forever them that are sanctified.

One offering. One setting apart by the blood. Setting apart by the Holy Ghost. Having previously set apart by your uniqueness with God being a part of him. Sanctified, sanctified, sanctified, sanctified, sanctified, sanctified, sanctified, sanctified. Why not?