The Subject is Rapture

So we pray. Heavenly Father, we're very happy to know that we're just not singing, but it's actually a prayer unto you of communication and respect of your presence, knowing that you are here. And we know that one day it's going to be such a reality that this will not, though it might fade in a way, it won't fade because it is word piled on word, reality piled on reality. Coming closer and closer, it will just be a complete and perfect realization of the revelation which has been given us. We are very grateful for that. We ask you to be with us in the study of your word. May it be far -reaching down to the very depths of our souls. May it be spirit -shaking, O God, so that we are more in line with you. We know there has to come this hour, and we're longing for it.

comes with it, but because of the grace and because of reality, we believe, Lord, we have been positioned by you and strengthened with might and inner man to cope with all the other things now. Since we believe that, Lord, and we're calling upon you for the help we need at this moment, we believe you've already answered us and we take this now as a special privilege from you that we have this petition that we're... part of this word and also that part of the overcoming which comes with it. We give thee glory in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. Now, you could just switch the tape off a second. Now, I'm going to do something which I haven't done previously on a Sunday, as much as I'm going to do it for at least two Sundays now. which is this and next Sunday, which we're going to go into reading Brother Branham's message, and we're back to the rapture. I cannot get away from it. There's no way. Now, first of all, on page 6, Brother Branham said, I want to speak on the subject of the rapture. What is the subject you're going to speak on? Say it. Then everything he says is about what? So the subject is rapture, right? All right. When we started this a while ago on the Wednesday night services, you'll notice that I brought the attention back. It is a revelation. And it is a revelation of the hour, so therefore no previous hour understood the revelation. Is that right? So therefore any thoughts you and I had on the revelation of the rapture were what? Wrong. So therefore, Brother Branham said, get rid of your thinking. Is that what he said? Get rid of your thoughts. You don't have any thoughts on the rapture if you do their manure head thoughts. Right? Your thoughts are wrong thoughts. My thoughts are wrong thoughts. It was constantly the idea, look, your thinking is wrong. Get your thinking lined up. Don't think anymore the way you used to. Listen to Brother Branham. Those are the thoughts. Is that right? All right. For the next two meetings, it'll be subject, subject, subject. You understand what I'm saying? Keep in mind what the subject is. I am not going to be talking about a horse then without any reason to switch to a motor car. I'll not be talking about a motor car and weaving an airplane. It's going to be rapture, rapture, rapture. Do you understand? What is a rapture? A catching up. Do you understand what I'm saying? Not mad at you. Just getting right down to business because we're not fooling. All right. The subject is the rapture. Not horse and buggy pentagon.

Not your thinking. But this is the thinking, the subject, rapture. Now, he said, I believe there'll be a rapture. All Christians believe that. Anybody who doesn't believe is not a Christian.

Sorry about that, but that's it. Well, you say, what about it? Where are you going to place that catching up? Before the tribulation, after the tribulation, before the millennium, after the millennium. I don't care where you put it. There's a catching up. It is Bible doctrine concerning the witness to Christ. Everybody who's a Christian believes in a rapture of some sort. Now, if they don't, well... They might not be Hindus, but they might as well be. Now, to read for a background. For what? A background. For what? Thank you. Very good. All right. A background is a setting that complements and enlarges the understanding of the subject to be presented. So he said, I'm going to start a background here that if you listen, you will know that what I am going to deal with from this background lines with this.

All right. Psalm 27, 1 to 5. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

Something about the Lord, and the Lord's the light and the salvation. And whom shall I fear? The disappearance of fear. The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? Well, there's something to be afraid of, but God becomes the strength. When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, come upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumble and fell.

That's what it says.

And the rapture brings us something and causes men to stumble, they'll fall, but we won't. Though the host should encamp about me, my heart shall not fear.

Brother Vance said he had no fear.

Though war should rise against me, and this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord. Now this is the attitude. That I will seek after. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Alright? We know the body is the bride. To be a part of the bride. To worship as a part of the bride. To behold him. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in the pavilion. There is going to be a refuge at this time. And in the secret of this tabernacle shall he hide me. Now that's a mystery. That could be the mystical union of the bride and the tabernacle. He shall set me upon a rock, the rock of revelation. Now he said, this is the background, which indeed is the root of 1 Thessalonians 4, 13. And reading into chapter 5. So we read it. But I would not have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep, my brethren, that you're sore or not, or be troubled, even as others that have no hope. In other words, you don't get to be in trouble. You don't get to that Jacob. that Jacob's trouble, that time of sores, the great tribulation, as others that don't have this hope that we're talking about. Now, there's a certain hope or expectation that lies in the rapture, which is the spirit of the Lord's day, which is something that you get imbued with. All

right. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, the basic premise of all Christianity. Even so them also which sleep in Jesus, God has to bring forth with Jesus the same as he brought him forth out of the grave. Uncorruptible. For this we sound about the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord. This is the scripture. This is the affirmative expression. That we which are alive and remain unto the presence of the Lord shall not take a preeminence over them which are asleep. We'll go into that later on. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, 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. So we escape the trouble, having entered into a previous rest of hope and expectation, wherefore comfort one another with these words. This will be the same as Malachi 3. Them that feared the Lord and thought often upon his name spake often one to another. And the Lord hearkened. The bride has a language.

See? She talks different from others. She talks truth. See? But of the times and seasons brethren you have no need that I write you. Now he says in this are times and seasons.

The epical season.

Where you're moving into something. So therefore within this there are periods of progression. I am being fought on that. Listen to me. I am prepared to die for it.

We're in a progression now.

You have been caught up into something wherein you will be caught up.

And the Lord does all three.

Look, I can sit right here and I don't read your minds, but I know you.

I know where previous influences have come from. You don't have to believe this. The less that believe it, the better. Because

then I'm more sure I'm right. I'm not trying to hurt you. I want you to know one thing. I'm not fooling you.

You'll know later on why. I'm a monkey's uncle, one of the two.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall cometh at the feet in the night. Now you will find that Brother Branham hit that rapture. You heard I said? I'll take you to it.

It's right here. Page 238 on the third seal.

For when they shall say peace and safety, comes sudden destruction upon them as they prevail upon a woman's child, and they shall not escape. They're being birthed into something.

bringing forth the human, which is the devil. Don't

be nervous. I'm not. Excited yet, but

not too nervous, and they shall not escape.

You believe what you want.

Ye brethren are not of darkness, that that day shall overtake you as a thief. He says it twice.

The day that brings forth the Antichrist in vengeance is not your day. You get out of here like a thief.

Ye are the children of light.

They know something. The Lord is my light and my salvation.

What's to forgive?

Once you've been told something, then you disobey. You're the one that needs forgiveness. See,

you're so alarmist. I'll find them a line. You see, you aggrandize it, aggravate your condition. That's what they told me, but they're the ones that threw the knife at me. Don't

give me that hogwash. I wasn't born yesterday. You might have been, but I wasn't.

You're the children of light, not the children of the day. We're not of night or darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others.

A little falling in half, a little slumbering, goes down the drain. For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunk are drunk in the night.

It's not that we're not drunk. We've got a different wine. A

wine of stimulation. A revelation. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and of love, for in the helm of the hope of salvation, for God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He's our light and our salvation. If He's a light, then He is our salvation. If a light has come, salvation has come.

Get people trying to talk about a salvation apart from life. Hogwash.

To obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us. That whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort one another together. Comfort yourselves together. Edify one another even as you also do. In other words, there is an edification in talking this message. There is no edification anywhere else. If you want to get built up, never mind what the neighbors are doing. We're out there in the world, the world church for anybody else.

Here's the one place where edification is. All right, that's the background. Now, today, speaking on this subject. What subject? Is this part of the rapture, Psalm 27? Fine, thank you. That's good. Now, speaking on this subject, the rapture. And now, some of you may differ from the avenues that I take.

Now, I said, you're going to be different from what I'm going to tell you.

They said, you're wrong.

I don't care what you believe about the rapture. Post -trib, pre -trib, pre -millennium, post -millennium. This thing, that thing, the other. I don't care what you believe. You're wrong.

Because you differ. How many here believe the Bible teaches there'll be a rapture of the church? Yes, that's right. A catching away of the church. What is a rapture? A catching away of the church. And Brother Branham differs on it from everybody else.

The only man that's not of a reprobate mind. We saw that in the third Exodus.

Everybody else's heads are full of vomit. And manure.

Don't worry, they don't like that one. Now, whether you're a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, whoever you are, Pentecostal, there will be a catching away. In other words, it doesn't matter what your church believes. There's going to be rapture the way I tell it.

See? Now, he's different. Absolutely. And

I think that in speaking, speaking what? Concerning the subject of rapture, which you will differ from me. And I don't care what you believe. You're wrong, I'm right. Because I just don't get up here to say something that I think would please the people. What he's telling you, you're not going to be happy with what I say.

And we'll show you in a few minutes who we're going to be saying what. And I told you I sat there when he said what the shout was. And I said within my soul and my heart, Brother Branham, I've heard you say a lot of funny things, but this is the clearest of all. I can't go along with it. Suddenly something in me against my will said, but when was he ever wrong? And I said, that's right. He's right. Praise God. The rapturism.

Shout the message. I don't care what anybody else said the shout was. I don't care how many theologians. I don't care how many smart brains. I don't care.

I'm going to tell you, if William Brown is wrong, I'm wrong. And if he's right, I'm right. And I'll throw my lot with it. And I have thrown my lot with it. Now, he said, I'm not going to please you. He said, now, get up and say something that just would please the people. I've never been guilty of that. You better believe that. He hit him hard with a four -by -four.

I want to get up here and say something as I feel led to say it. Otherwise, he ain't going to say it. That I think would be a help to you. Something that would further your experience with God if you are a Christian. And if you're not a Christian, make you so ashamed of yourself, you'll become a Christian. Now, of course, that's impossible. Unless the person has seed.

All Brother Branham could do is throw seed out in water. If there wasn't something in there to get it, forget it. And that's the purpose I've always tried to line up my thoughts as the Lord would lead me. Now, we are warned as in the doctrine of this. The doctrine of what? Thank you. In this last day will be gone. Now, what are they going to do about the doctrine of the rapture in this message? They're going to what? Thank you. That's good. They're going to scorn it.

I don't fail to see that. That the scoffers in 2 Peter 3 have to do with Psalm 27, the

secret of the rapture, which is God sending his power into the church to raise the dead and get us out of here. Let's find out. I don't care what anybody else says. I say, Brother Vail, you teach it wrong. Fine, I'm wrong. Praise God, I'm wrong. I'm going to go to hell screaming glory. I'm sorry. There's no way I can change.

Now, as I cease not to make next to you my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, verse 17, may give unto you the revelation of the knowledge of himself, given to the spirit of wisdom, and revelation of the knowledge of himself. And Brother Branham said, the spirit of wisdom comes into the church to make known to the church by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. In other words, no man can do it. The Holy Spirit comes himself, and he himself gives the revelation. William Branham did it. And there is no revelation that is word revelation until that Spirit comes and that Spirit gives it and the Spirit had better be identified.

Because in the end time they're so close only the very elected will not be deceived.

We'll hit that a little while. Don't worry, I'm coming to it. Maybe not this morning. It's going to be a long, drawn -out season on this. So I'm going to take my time bringing the church in and revealing what day we're living in. The day of the rapture. The day of the resurrection. And it takes the revelation of the Holy Ghost himself giving it a spot today in the hour. And if he doesn't do it, that's not today. That's not the event. Just the same as Gabriel came to Daniel. Daniel 8, 16. The Holy Spirit comes to the church in the last days to reveal these great deep secret things. All right. He comes in in order the eyes of the heart might be enlightened that we may know what is the hope of his calling. And what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us -ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. That's the living bride.

And shame when the dead come out of the ground and they're taken up in a rapture. Now, he says this doctrine is going to be scorned. Now, let's read it just a minute. 2 Peter. Let's see if it's not right what I'm saying about the scorning of it. Knowing this, first there shall come to the last day scoffers, walking after their own lusts.

In other words, they built everything upon what they want it to be. Not

what God says, Trinity. But what they want it to be. And saying, where is the promise of his coming since the fathers fell asleep? Now what is he placing this? Rapture. The subject is the rapture. All things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. All right. That is, just go along with salvation and baptism with the Holy Ghost. And one day with nothing else, that is needed. Nothing else is to take place. Suddenly they didn't come out of the ground. Suddenly will be changed. Hard wash.

That's a lie from the bit of hell. Things will not simply go along. Because the baptism with the Holy Ghost peters out.

Something's going to happen. A corner's going to be turned. But they're saying, oh, who needs this? Who needs that? Who needs Elijah? Who needs the presence? Who needs this? Well, shut up! And say you believe in William Branagh, the prophet, you're lying. The truth isn't in you. Ride him on his coattails, but you're riding to hell. Because the coattails of William Branagh don't make the rapture. William Branagh makes the rapture.

Coattails get sawed off.

Yep. Scoffing. That's what they're doing. Now, they said, who needs anything? Let's find these scoffers. Before we talk too much about them, going into what Brother Branagh said. Revelation, the third chapter. Unto the message of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things set the aim in, the favor and goodness, the be in the creation of God. Tell them about these scoffers, Brother Branham. I know your works. They're neither hot nor cold. You sit on a fence, try to jump on either side at the right time. How many people in the Brown and Message tried that? That's where I got in my fight with preachers. Church of the revolving door. I simply walked out. Take your stand, put up or shut up. The pressure's not even on yet. Fact. Because you say, I'm rich, increased with goods, and have need of nothing. And no, not your wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. They're scoffers. Why? Because the truth is, you're poor, wretched, miserable, blind. And you say, hogwash, you've got it all.

Yeah. Why, they say, the path of righteousness shatters more and more in the perfect day. We've walked in the light. We're in the light. I remember Pentecost years ago when I was there. 21, 22 years of old. No, not that. 20 years of age. 21. And they said, listen, our fathers came out of these churches because there was light. Let us not turn down future light. And they turned it right down.

Oh, they said, Bethesda, everything continues fine. Luther said, the Lutheran said, everything continues fine. Forget it. The Catholic said the same thing. Wesley said the same thing. Continue. Everything's fine. Now Pentecost said, everything's fine. Keep going on. They're liars.

further light. And this time a truth revealed. And scoffers come against it. They come against the truth of the rapture as enunciated by William Branham. Maybe not by me. I could be teaching her off. I admit it. I could be fooled. I could be fooling you. But I'm honestly fooled. And you're honestly fooled. And we're not scoffers. We're doing our dead level best to be at least least of the scoffers.

But they're fighting. Somebody's got to fight this thing. Well, they said everything's just fine. For this they are willingly ignorant of. Now this they are willingly ignorant of. That is by the word of God the heavens were of old. And the earth standing out of the water and in the water. Whereby the world that was then being overflowed of the water perished. Now he's telling you something. Judgment has to come. And the judgment evidently has to come because of the betrayal of the doctrine of the rapture. I'm sorry about that, but that's where it lies. Otherwise, why did the prophet say this? Look, I can't have a house in Cleveland at the same time I've got one in Cincinnati.

In other words, don't you dare, as the prophet said, rest the scripture and take a thing out of context. Then he's not taking this out of context. Somebody else is. I don't care what anybody says. Goffers. Now we see the reason this subject is so lighty. In other words, there's two ways you can take this. It's made light of, or at this hour, we've got the light on it. And the both are true. Because at the hour we've got the light on it, people make light of it. See? All right. Because the prophet, that prophet here has said, in his last days, these scoffers would come and say these things. Okay. Now watch. These scoffers would come and say these things. Where's the promise?

What do you mean, this thing? You're talking about something that has to take place that's going to trigger this when all the while it's just going on and on. See, that's not true. Now, see, it's predicted. Say these things. It's predicted. The reason the people, now who are the people? The scoffers are acting today the way they're acting.

He's going to tell you something.

Now see the reason this subject is so lightened, which could be both ways, is because that the prophet here has said, in the last days these scoffers would come saying, these things, all things continue, we got it made, who needs anything, see? It's predicted. In other words, predestinated into manifestation according to what was said and resolved in heaven.

Now, it's got to be. The reason that people are acting this way today is the way they're acting, scoffing. See? There is a spirit released that brings three responses. One, from the elect. Two, from non -elect. And three, from the reprobate. Three classes.

One man will walk away, you see. The next guy will stick around. And he'll play with it to destroy it. Believer, make -believer, unbeliever. And there's a spirit release.

See?

Now, remember, now the reason this subject, rapture, is a target for the true light, all those looking at it, not getting the true light. The prophet said, there'd be scoffers. So therefore, when you use the word lightened, it really makes light up. And the scoffers make light. It's predicted. Now, the rapture becomes a subject of derision.

God help us.

The rapture is a subject of derision.

We've got to watch our spirit.

In the last days, they'd be heady, high -minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God over the rapture. You mean just over doctrine? Ha! The Lord himself shall descend. False accusers. You think I haven't been lied about? I'll get you the tape and prove it. I don't know why my good buddies never send the tape. They know it's on there.

Where my name is mentioned, lies told about me. Bob Brown came out clean. He told me flat I was lied about in Europe.

Why? Why am I worth to be lied about?

All I want to know. You don't have to lie about me. You just follow me around a while and you'll find that I betray myself every moment of the day. You don't have to lie. You can find out the goodies.

Incontinent. Despises of those that are good. Having a form of godliness. and denying the power thereof from such turn away. What power? The power sent into the church by grace.

Ephesians 1 .19. That spirit. Now listen.

Let's look at it. These are scoffers. Now watch.

Denying this power in the church from such turn away. Two

men from Africa came over here trying to get me to kiss certain people's feet. Oh,

I'm not supposed to fight. I'm not supposed to tell the truth. They lie. Yes, they lie. I'm not kidding you, brother. I let this tape go. Any Supreme Court in America, you bet your sweet life.

I got a house here and furniture worth over $100 ,000. I'll mortgage you $50 ,000. You know my book here. Don't ever bluff me. Don't ever call it. I'll raise $50 ,000 in mortgage. I'll go to Supreme Court. Don't

you think I'm lying? I lied about you.

I'll call any man's blood. And I'm not mad. I'm just saying the fact. I'll call any blood. Such

turn away.

When did light have fellowship with darkness?

You say, what if you're wrong? I'll take my chance on it. They took theirs.

For the whole thing, my brother, sister, is a matter of revelation. Whether you've got it or not. And then it goes from there. Because if you've got the right revelation, you've got the right spirit. And they're two spirits. And they're so close. Only the very left does not get deceived by what is Satan and by what is God. We'll get to that. Don't worry. Keep all these things in mind because we're going right down the path this morning. I don't care. We'll be out of here by one o 'clock. I'll quit way before my book. Here's what it looks like. I haven't got one third through yet on one little bit here. Twenty pages to go. All right. Now listen. From such turn away, can we look for an impersonation of truth, said Brother Branham? Certainly.

Then where is the duration against the truth? Not against the catching away. But the truth of the catching away.

An impersonation. What

is an impersonation of truth? The devil's lie, creeds and dogmas.

So are you a manure head this morning? Head full of vomit?

Do you know anything but the fact of rapture? As Brother Branham said, he descends. Jesus does all three in descending. And the shout is the message. And the voice is the resurrection. And the trumpet is the catching to the married supper. The wedding supper. And he does all three in defending.

Is that a progression, isn't it?

I'd like to know. I'd like to be put right if I'm wrong. I'd have a lot of apologizing to do, but gee whineker, if apology is not half as bad as burning, a red face is not half as bad as getting your hands and feet burned off. Now listen, talking about the rapture, the subject hasn't changed. Now he illustrates. And he illustrates with the alpha that goes to the omega.

Do you follow me? All right. If there's an alpha and omega principle, I'm not going to put you on the spot. Look, you wouldn't give me the right answer anyway. It's not because you don't know it, because you wouldn't know what you might want my answer to be. If you've got an alpha and omega, you don't worry what's in the middle. That is merely illustration. Shadows of shadows. But when you've got an alpha, you've got the demonstrable, proven fact. I wish the omega must take the same channel.

When Moses went down to Egypt, talking about the rapture. To deliver. Talking about the rapture. The children of Israel. Talking about the bride. With all the astig in his hand. For vindication.

Then somebody's got to have something in his hand for vindication.

Or else it's not an angel. Or it's the brother there. I don't go for that. Then go someplace else.

You'll be the prophet. You're a gas bag.

I can tell you what kind you. Methane.

Methane comes from manure.

Breathe out the mouth. Set it on fire. It sings your lips.

It's got nothing to do with that nonsense.

The greatest battle ever fought in the mind.

Shall I do, shall I not? Shall I breathe, shall I not? Will I want it, will I want it, will I want it?

Something like Alice in Wonderland. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join it in. Or would not join it in?

The head sitting on a fence. That's why you're next to Pivot. The great chiropractor came down and got the neck in a proper swivel. But nobody wants it.

To bribe the pain of the neck to God. Not now. God has straightened out. So Moses, Alpha. of the rapture, went down to Egypt to deliver the Elphah, type of the rapture, the children of Israel, type of the bride, with all his stick in his hand for vindication, with the God of heaven behind him. God and man.

Alpha and Omega. Moses

didn't take him in. God took him in. William Branham doesn't take this in. God takes this in. This

is the Alpha and Omega. Then he says, there come the impersonators behind him doing the same thing.

Matthew 24. The third verse, you don't have to change. Just listen to me and don't worry about your Bibles. I'll take care of your Bibles for you. It's on the tape here. And he said, what will be the sign of thy presence? And he said, I'll tell you the sign of my presence. Many shall come in my name. False Christ, false prophets, the same thing. Do great signs and wonders inasmuch if it were possible. Thank God it's not the very elected, not just the elected, but the very elected. Those that don't die. Those that are raptured. all but them will be deceived. For as lightning comes out of the east and shines to the west, so shall also the presence of the Son of Man be coming as the light to gather the bride, the presence of God.

Now, let's watch a little further. There comes these impersonators. Pretenders is the word. Imitators is the word. Now they come second after he did it first. That's the alpha. After Moses came, Cora, Jason, and Byron, they rose up from the very ranks which he was in.

Dover and Crow sits on the same roof. I don't know who's on whose roof, and I'm not making any differentiation. I'm just telling you the truth. Then they come around because they were copying, imitating, after what he did, impersonating the original. What was the original? Vindicated authority.

And the vindicated authority led to the word. That's what it's all about. And then they got some authority and they said, now listen, we don't care what Moses said, bless God. We're in this thing too and you listen to us.

And that's the one time Moses lost his cool. Before, no matter what they did, they could go out there and commit adultery. Blaspheme the name of God by open sex. Yeah.

And Moses said, now Lord, stand back. He said, don't destroy him. And God said, okay, at this time I won't. I'll get him down further down the road. And he did. But this time when they came against Moses, who was the word of God made flesh, he said, God, if these men die the common death, then you never sent me. How come he got mad? Because everything depended on it. If he was food, then where was he?

If William Branham was food, never mind us. We can say, there you swine. Look what you did. You got us in this thing. And what's he going to say?

Oh, no. There'll be no place to hide. Because I'll be there.

Moses is running scared like William Branham.

That's why John the Baptist said, will you really do one? And Paul said, did I really preach the truth?

And William Branham said, I've got to find out. I've got to find out. I'm satisfied we found out.

William Branham was just a man.

Fine man. But he was a Branham. That tells you a lot right there. Except for God.

Sorry about the Branham. You'll find out what he would have been.

The only defense he had, Lord, he hadn't been adulterated at that point. He hadn't. What about down the road? God hadn't had his hand on him.

That's all you've got to offer to God. I haven't smoked. Go out there and do something. You might as well. You've got to have anyway.

You're guilty. You're guilty. It's either go there in perfection, which you've got to borrow, rent, buy, or steal. It's out. He

was a goner too. Now he's got all this compounded on him. He's got all this in his back because he said, if I'm wrong, I'll stand for all of you. Moses was the same way. Now he said, God, if these men die a common death, he said, the chips are down. He said, the chips are down.

And you'd happen. Brother Branham didn't die a common death. And now they say, so there, so there. His judgment fell upon him. Oh, beautiful. Like they said, upon Jesus, so there. The malefactor died.

Oh, lovely love. I love the way he's got everybody fooled by the bride. He said, what if they're fooled? Well, hallelujah. Bless God, he can fool me too. Of course, that's an easy one.

Oh yeah, now he said they come around second after he did it. Imitating the original. We find that. And now you say, well, that was in Moses' day. But the same scripture for the Alpha said they'll come again in the last days for the Amiga. As Janus and Jambres withstood Moses, so these men of reprobate minds concerning the truth of the rapture. Because what's he talking about? What truth? Rapture. Or you say, Brother Bale, I think he's talking about many things. Well, you think he is, that's fine. So there you are again. I'm to give a dissertation upon the organ, and I say the organ is a fine instrument, and I turn and talk about Japan. You say, well, he's not very smart. Then don't you choose the property, being a dumb idiot.

He's got more shrewds than I got.

I don't have the Holy Ghost got me in a pipe. William Branham was in a pipe. A lot of people are in a pipe. They're in a pipe dream.

Demanders of their own goose pimples. They felt something. Some sort of thing. Tap on your feelings.

Adultery is the best feeling I think there is.

A list of bread, but it turns to gravel.

Your creeds and your dogmas are adultery. They follow their lust.

You follow what I'm saying? Shall I write it out? Fornication is a type of idolatry.

Adultery is a type of the bride planning with somebody else which belongs to a certain man. And we've all been in our adulteries and our idolatries which are false doctrines and understandings of God.

Right. Reprobate mind. William, though you think it may line up, it can't line up if you're off on this one. Sorry about that. Because God does not add a pig ear to a sheep or a sowlet or

the dog's tail, letting you know what's wagging behind even the tail. And notice how they like to cut the sheep's tail off. Oh, yeah, they'd cut his head off. They could get wool.

Save your feet. Come on, let's get down with the nitty gritty, brothers and sisters. All right. Moses, Alpha. So will these men of reprobate minds concerning the truth of the next exodus, the rapture. See, impersonations, all kinds of things to upset the people. They don't deny the rapture, brothers and sisters. They just give you a team it for it. And the people get vexed.

And when you get vexed, you get mad because that's what vexation is. You're irked.

so we're irked by the irkers

reprobate reprobate mind has to do with the scoffers who reprobate the understanding of the rapture and those who reprobate the understanding of the rapture by creeds and dogmas are reprobate minds because he's not talking about the gray matter he's talking of what's in the spirit that's stored in the gray matter. See, impersonating upsets them. Listen, whatever that truth is that he's talking about here is,

whatever it is, there

are those that are reprobate, those who oppose it. And remember, the sign of the prophet, the signs of the prophet of Matthew 24 goes from the prophets to the false teachers. Of 2 Peter. I

believe it's the 3rd chapter. We'll soon find out. 2nd chapter. But there were false prophets also among the people. Your Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Even so there should be false teachers among you. Who privately bring in their damnable. Their heresies that bring destruction and judgment.

That God cannot overlook. What is it? The great tribulation. What if everybody took to the understanding as Israel could have took to Christ? They'd have been that holy nation. But they didn't. Neither does this age. So the millennium is aborted for three and a half years. And judgment sets in. Bringing swift destruction. Many. It says denying the Lord that bought them. Refusing him. Turning from him. So he's not here. Oh, well, he always was here. What are you trying to tell us? since Pentecost it's always the same oh yeah it's always been here you can't tell him anything you can't tell him anything there's no way if he always was here how come he comes down I don't understand English anymore deny refuse say no to the Lord and then it tells you what's going on the Balaam the money grabber all of these things Then they get to the point of saying the rapture, as Brother Branham taught it, is pure hogwash. Why, he just made himself somebody. And the women prophetess it, get up and prophesy against it.

The Amy McPherson's so

many further miles down the toll gates to hell that it's pitiful.

Impersonating all the kinds of things to upset the people.

Now,

2 Peter 2 and 15, I

think is what I want. I'll soon find out.

Which have forsaken their right way, gone astraft the way of Balaam, the son of Bozer, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. All right. 2 Peter 2 .15. It's not 2 Timothy 3 and 8. I made a little note there. Let me see if I'm right on it or not. You know, I could be wrong. 2 Timothy 3 and 8. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses. Now, not the same people. But it's the same thing. In other words, it's the same time.

See? Because it was in the Exodus, getting out to go in. See? That first of all, Janus and Jambor stood up. Then came Balaam. Then came Chordate the baron. Prophets. Powerful men. Magicians. With poison. Impersonators of a true prophet. Then it says, watch your teacher. Why? Because they got itchy mouths. waiting for itchy ears and itchy palms to get the money. They only knew they could trust God. What a joy it is. And then if this rapture, which proves our comments on paragraph 34, that says when Moses, Alpha, went to Egypt to deliver, type of rapture, Alpha, the children of Israel, type of the bride, with a stick in his hand for vindication. Brother Bram had the sign. With the God of heaven behind him, he performed miracles. There came the impersonator. Right? All these came. Now then, think if this rapture, talking about here in paragraph 34, which is coming to pass. Which is coming to pass. Not going to come. It's in process.

And anything that God has in line of his word, there's always something. to come out to upset that if they can. It's what Satan's purpose to do that. It's Satan's purpose to do that. Now, to upset God's plan. This is part of Matthew 24, 24 because the elect have Matthew 24, 27.

And Matthew 24, 24 just stands out there. Watch the false prophets. Then it turns right around and says, go ahead and watch them. You're going to get taken anyway. You'll get sucked right in. Their vacuum cleaner is so powerful. With this great revival coming on to turn the world to God. Hallelujah.

Suck you all in. Why, Brother Vail, don't you know the Catholics are reading the Bible? So what? What's it done for the Protestants to read the Bible? They might as well have not heard it. Because they're going to miss the rapture anyway.

Because they took creeds and dogmas. And say, well, we're above the Catholics. Hogwash her ten feet below them. You are too, because the Catholics are going to leave the whole bunch. Don't think the Protestants know anything. They're stupid ignorance and what have you. The Catholics are the smart ones. Sure. This is the part of Matthew 24. This thing that upset. Put the link. They've got the light. They know what to do because they have Matthew 24, 27 because they know it takes the presence. And it's the presence that comes as light. And this subject has been lightened about.

I told you about back in the days of Dr. Charles Fuller and Barry Lewis Schaefer. Oh, Fuller, he was going to tell all the dope on the rapture. Oh, yes. Now, I'll pat myself on the back. Now, you folks, you think you heard something about the rapture. Now, the thing is this. There's a lot of prone con. Is it before? Is it after? Is it in the middle? What is it? And he gets up and going to tell us. Well, that old boy died not knowing that on that doctrine he was a phony. But that doesn't make him a phony. But he shot his mouth off. And he's the reason why the Pentecostal age and the Western age can't make it.

Because they weren't in the truth of it. I'm sorry. Like Brother Branham said. He said, oh, he said that these roses came on the sea. And he said, now listen, we'll slay the lamb. And we'll put the blood on the lindels and on the doorposts. And they said, oh, great rabbi, that's the thing to do. The rabbi said, now, why don't you do it? Oh, I believe it's the thing to do. I believe it's wonderful. Put the blood there. He said, then put it there. Oh, well, I think it's wonderful. Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap. So never do a thing about it.

See? Let's face it. That age couldn't apply. What's for this hour?

The blood only obtains in the light. If you walk in a wrong light, the blood isn't there.

Fellowship's not there. Worship's not there. I proved that by sermon 17 years ago about. 15 years ago. Bill knows. Norm knows. You were there.

Now, we'll get in here and show it to you. Now, he said it's Satan's purpose to do this. See? To throw a phony light on the rapture as it was back there. Not just a minute. Didn't he say the same thing about the seven seals?

Well, he sure did. Don't worry. We'll get there a little later on.

Paragraph 36. As the brother here from the meeting up here in Las Vegas said, Satan, he said the world was his dominion and that being his headquarters up here. That's Las Vegas. That's not really true. I don't care what Las Vegas does by reason of crime or anything else. Rome is the headquarters. Because Las Vegas can't do anything. It's going to buckle. When Rome says buckle, they'll buckle. They'll find their slot machines don't turn the money on unless you put something in them. It'll be gold. I know that Satan is the god of this world. Now, just a minute, brothers and sisters. Let's read the next thing. Every nation under heaven is controlled by him. That's exactly. How exactly? Because the same prophet said, I think, in communion. Maybe no. No. Another one. One word off is Satan's kingdom. Now, what about the rapture for one word off? Where are we going?

Now, listen, that doesn't mean just one word. That means changing it. I've said that for years. I finally found one picture of Brother Branham said it. I forget where it is. Don't ask me. I don't remember anything. I lose the notes I make, but I can tell you flat he brought it up. I knew he had to because I can throw a double negative in there. It doesn't change a thing. So it's not one word adding. It's one word added that throws it out of continuity. And one word can do it.

So don't you dare take a thing out of continuity.

Now remember, the subject is the rapture.

Are you off on the rapture? You're in the wrong kingdom. You're making claims that won't hold.

Now look, either this is the rapture or it's not the rapture. I don't care how my fellow preachers read it. Why do you think I don't go on the road anymore?

You ought to know by now. Why do you think I don't even want to bother preaching anymore? You ought to know by now.

It's a tough road.

This world belongs to Satan. But Jesus will take it over. Hallelujah. And if I'm not one word off, I'm going with him. Satan offered it to Jesus one day and Jesus refused it. But he said, he said, because he knows he'd be heir to it when the times came. See? Now listen. Scoffers. What's he talking about? Those in Satan's kingdom. One word off. Right? I don't want to be unkind, but come on. What are we talking about? Tell me. Are you sure? Then don't let your minds wander.

Getting out of here. You want to get out of here? I hope we do.

Let's just take a few minutes on that one word before we go further. Scoffers. You can tell you about these scoffers. I was reading a paper about two weeks ago in Tucson where some Englishman from England had made a statement. Now he's going back to the Westian age and the other ages and the Pentecostal. But he's talking about us. Relative to it. It was in the headlines of the paper that the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ was only a fate between Pilate and Jesus. that he came to make just to make himself something. Now, what's he talking about? Thank you. Well, he said, no brother, that's crucifixion. You're wrong. He's illustrating. But he's talking about the rapture. You follow me? Okay. Still love me? I don't care if you do or not. You better be scared of me. That's what all I want. A little fear, a little respect, and then we'll get to love later. Because you'll find out I don't lie to you. No, sir, I don't ask for your money or anything else. You want your money back? Tell me how much you gave me. I'll give it back to you.

You say, well, I sat in your church and listened. What do you want to get paid for? Tell me, I'll pay you.

I'm not kidding you. You think I'm bluffing, making a joke. Don't ever think I'm bluffing.

Don't ever think I'm bluffing. Because there's a spirit to this thing, brothers and sisters. There's

a spirit to this thing. I could tell you something, but it's all right. You'll get it later on. All right, listen. Now listen, he says, what they believe about the crucifixion, what they have faked in their own minds by being the scoffers of Satan's kingdom. There's no way that we could disprove that to them. Because all the things of God is received by faith. We must believe it. Now, he went ahead to give a description of how it could be done. That man that said that. Now, notice carefully here. This is my own thought. He is comparing the crucifixion to the rapture. Now, Jesus Christ was really there doing what had to be done in the sacrifice. And they say it's faith. Now, then he's got to be here doing something that people are going to call a faith. To crucify themselves the Son of God afresh. Because after this comes the burning. When the rapture takes place, the burning takes place. Do you understand what I'm saying? You don't. Do you understand you're going to burn?

I'm not burning them, my brother says. I don't have a thing to do with them. You say, well, if we really beat them, we ought to be up there screaming to them. How are you going to scream to what's lost when the prophet said, I don't pray for America? I'm not using that as an excuse. I'm just telling you. I don't excuse us for not praying or anything else. We're rotten to the core by being indolent. Not serious enough. Well,

how serious are we? You have to just remember my preamble before we shut the table.

Now, this faking, they're going to say about the rapture.

What if I should be out of here? Well, they say they'll fake it.

Well, I don't care what they say as long as we get out of here. Now, listen. Here not long ago, that great nation, London, In England, rather, were John Wesley, church age messenger to number six.

And many great preachers of the early days, Spurgeon, them that preached the gospel in Haymarket, everywhere. That was Whitfield. Went out there and showed Wesley how to do it out in the hay fields. Preached in fields to thousands and thousands. Everywhere there, they turned down that message of their day and look what they are in this today. The crucifixion is upon them. He

said, there's where Brother Williams is tonight. It's one of the lowest degraded countries in the world. I've been over the world. I don't even think it's so illegitimate as England. It's as Billy Graham said the same thing. Why he had to take his wife from the park. How the act between men and women were publicly in the park. What about when the students up in Chicago did it? On the street.

What's the difference between them and the streets and pornography on the film? When I was there, I never thought such a thing would break a person's heart any more than what was going on in England. Which had the opportunity. And one time... led the world in reformation. What about Pentecost? We'll talk about that later on, the big fire burning. Just showed how it can fall. But you see what that does? The message that went forth then, the Englishmen tried to hold to the same message for two days. And what is the message on the rapture that came out of England? Under the Irving lights, a woman in a dark room fell on the floor in a trance, spoke in tongues and interpreted. And out of it came the false doctrine of the true rapture. And they hold to it right today. Fundamentalism.

And Satan has already done great damage so that those who believe wrong cannot make it.

He'll do everything he can for you and neither we won't make it.

That's why everybody's screaming conduct, conduct, conduct. I showed you over in Columbus 15 points and 14 were not conduct.

One was on how they behave. The rest where they went off. Their things went off in unbelief one word.

That won't work today. It won't work, he said. No, their message won't work. They had a wrong thing. What if Moses would have come and brought Noah's message? We'll build an ark and float down the Nile. In other words, what if you tried to take the alpha and take a message of the ark when there wasn't going to be a flood? There wouldn't be waters come down. There'd be waters rolled back. It

wouldn't work. Two different things. We'll build an ark and float down the isle.

See? So therefore all previous teaching on the rapture is out. He said it wouldn't have worked. Neither would Jesus' message have worked by Moses. No way. Moses couldn't bring it. He typed it. Neither would his message work in Luther and Luther's message vice versa. And today, our last great reformation was Pentecost. Yeah. Now, we'll just keep reading.

And today we're moving from that. The Pentecostal message won't mix with this because it's another day. It's all the Word of God, but it's building.

And it wasn't time to incorporate that.

See? Men like Rotherham, truly full of the Holy Ghost, from the last age knew you'd have to wait and find out what certain things were in the Bible. I don't care if it proves your presence or anything else. The prophets said God reveals His Word and interprets it by manifesting it, bringing you to pass. Those people that say they believe this message, turn that down flat. Tap.

Merciful God. Listen. I

wasn't the one. He says, let me get it for you. I wasn't the one that appeared down on the river. I was only one standing there when he appeared. Oh, he didn't appear. He didn't appear. See how they go? Just start denying one thing, and you add a word, and you add a word, and you add a word, until the whole book is thrown at you. Why does it say, then this way? Because the cup is filled.

They've taken everything. Every rotten, wrong thing he ever said. And

abused it.

Now, it's the word of God building. Like feed arms coming up, it's forming a bride for the rapture.

Then it takes this message and truth on the rapture for the bride to get in the rapture. I'm sorry, but that's what he's saying. Oh, brother, then you don't know. He's only drawing our attention to it. Oh, shush.

Now we believe there will be a rapture. All Christians believe that.

So Brother Brandon says, now I've got this great subject, and it's very alarming, and I'm going to tell you things. And he said, because you people don't believe in rapture.

You know, I'm tired of them. I realize William Brandon had only seven grades education. I wish I'd have got out of school that smart and very drunk.

And they aggrandize him. Oh, great prophet. Then they make a fool out of him. I don't understand that.

That's like a woman saying she loves her husband, and as soon as she gets behind his back, tells every rotten thing about him, from their sex and everything else on. And a man does the same thing.

Not even human. You ever see a gopher do that in his mate?

Or a beaver splash the water with his tail to make sure all the beavers come running to listen to his gossip about his wife? Or she flaps her tail on the water, bang, to get all the female ladies coming to gossip? Not even animals do it. Let's face it. No wonder James said what he said. Probably won't go into that.

Now he's talking about messages.

And the message that formed for the rapture wasn't there previously. It was there building to it. But it couldn't form it. For they without us could not be made perfect. And we're living. All right. So see it don't. Don't displace them people back there. They live to their message. All of them will come out that was in the bride, just like life going through a stalk of wheat. It leaves the wheat the hull, but the wheat forms itself like the wheat of grain that fell on the ground. And this is the time, not that the resurrection forms the wheat, but we standing here form a wheat without dying. All right. The body for the rapture is built from feet up. Each word age built that part of the body. And it's all of it word. But it's different parts, such as arms and trunks, etc. But they're all part of the same flesh of the Word. But they're all positively different. The

same life, through the genetic code of the sperm and the ovum, makes a body.

Right. And it forms itself in a certain area first. And then it moves until ready for delivery. So does this life. that's come up through the church ages.

They weren't ready to move out. This is moving out time. Watch your alphas and omegas. Here not long ago they're reading a book that some German wrote in criticism. He said all of the fanatics of the world, William Branham tops them all. Nothing but a magician. That's how he does those things. See, the man not knowing. The man was a critic. He didn't even believe in God. He said a God that could set up in the dark ages. hold his hands, or fold his hands, or hold across the tummy, and laugh at a bunch of Christians being martyred. And his own disciples were supposed to be mothers of little children, and things would let the lions eat them up and never turn to hands. You see where the carnal mind, where education and things can't catch the vision. That corn of wheat had to fall in the ground. Now, remember, important, how Brother Brannon keeps trying to get to them. There is a word for the hour, and it is a revelation of it, as it was with Luther and the rest of them, that take you in the rapture, for that is the subject. We were coming up to it, and the truth got the bride this far. And they say, well, if that's the case, there's no further truth. That's where they're wrong. It isn't that you add to the Bible or take from it. It isn't that the seals are something added to the word. It's the revelation.

And something's got to happen in this hour that it doesn't get perverted. And

it won't in a bride. Now, just like Jesus had to fall to rise again, so did the church of Pentecost had to fall. Now that's something that people can't get in their minds. That's a tough one.

Now if we can't get it, we're menoraheads reprobate. You say, how are we going to get it? Keep saying it. The church had to fall on the ground and die. The church had to fall on the ground and die. Bang, bang, bang. Hit your head. The greatest battle ever fought. After I take a four by four and you take one to hers too. The greatest battle ever fought. The church had to fall on the ground and die. Did the church fall on the ground and die? Ha! Yes. But I will not leave my soul down there. Remember, she touched him all the way through.

Jesus had three and a half years. Put that down. There's one day free churching. It was in the fourth church age that she went plunder. The prophecy was gone. They had Jezebel. But it's got to come back because she's like her Lord.

Now, that's the key. The mind sets you at the end. Is she like the Lord? Yes, she is. Well, I don't know any verse for that. Well, she came out of him.

You've got to let your thinking go to the Word. In other words, you've got to start a whole new chain of thought. Not just to refute anything, but to come to where he said.

Now, I'm talking about this because these are the things that bother me.

And if I figure I'm bothered, I figure just about everybody else is bothered. Not that everybody is bothered like me, but let's face it. One man can relate to another man or to another woman because they're human beings. One's male, one's female. It doesn't mean they're all perfectly just alike and every have just the same thing, but there's a thread that runs through that makes a man a man, a woman a woman, and we've got the same thing in the bride. There's a thread that runs through.

There's problems. It's right in the mind. Greatest battle ever fought. Faith in the mind.

Faith doesn't does it we'll get that later on this whole thing here on Abraham Can't meet you right now. Oh my seven minutes to go three

pages Not even just three pages. All right Had to fall on the ground and die in the dark ages any week that any grain that goes in the ground? It has to lay in that dark time to bring forth but it started sprouting in Martin Luther Why'd it have to win the ground and died? It had to lose everything but the life So that when the light would hit it It would start coming back right. But take the same process as what it went to go down. And remember, the bride fell by reason of corrupt mind. She became a prostitute unto God. The adulterous harlot wife. Through the mind.

Wrong Jesus, wrong spirit, wrong word. She's got to come back in that order.

So there it was. So that's your understanding now. It's cleared up, I hope.

Come on through, Wesley. No. But it starts sprouting in Martin Luther. See? Come on through, Wesley. Out into Pentecost. Out into the grain. Now the denomination system, they left behind their stock. That's all. It's to be burned. Denomination system. But the real grain of wheat that comes out of each one of those reformations will be caught up in the bride. It all together will make the bride. Now we find out in England, they impersonated the crucifixion not long ago. A bunch of those people, them long, kids with long hair, them kids with long hair. Hollering and calling Jesus daddy oh such scum. Now you say that's not in England. Watch. What's in the paper here in America? Some doctor divinity from a fine school said the crucifixion was a fake. That's bone keel. Very brilliant but very mistaken. Said that Jesus only tried to make himself like that. That he drunk this mandrake weed. We find in Genesis where it's spoke of. It's a weed like marijuana or something. Found in the Orient there. If you drink it puts you to sleep. Maybe like you did. Slump over. Every two or three days of the time. In other words, put you out there for three days of the time in a coma. Now listen. He said they gave him vinegar and gall. It's all possible. That was the mandrake weed. And when they did, they gave him that. He went and slumped like he was dead. Put him in a tomb. And they laid him there. And after two or three days, sure, going back, he was awake. Was all right. Said he went to India and died somewhere in Northern India. Trying to fake religion. The first place, that critic. What's the matter, people? See? It's just that they were living in scoffers. See, the day to fulfill the prophecy. He lashes out at it. See, the scoffers fulfill the prophecy. Now, the cup is now full. That's my thought. And the cream of the crop scoffers are here like the cream of the crop, very elected.

God allowed these words to be changed. And each of those ages has to manifest. That's why you've got this manifesting. And also foreordained men, that's the Jews, written to this end, have to fulfill every word. Every time he allotted his word, he allotted a man for it. 7th church ages. When he allotted Moses' time, he allotted Moses. When he allotted the time for the Son of God to be born, he allotted it to him. What about the day of the Son of Man? Who's he allotted to that? He can't come down. There's a spirit for him. Got to take a prophet, right? Every age he allotted his men. 14. As the Bible said, nothing. If God's infant, almighty, all -powerful, omnipresent, omniscient, why he knew all things at the beginning? So he knew. There's nothing out of cater. It's just us that thinks it is. Everything is running right. In other words, truth and error are here at the same time in the purpose of God as the cream of the crop elect and the cream of the clock of the reprobate. See? Most don't see this because they don't understand the true dispensational teaching of Brother Brown. They go back just to Larkin and these guys that said, all right, and the first dispensation was innocence. The next one was conscience. The next one, human government. The next one was law. The next one... was this or that. They're all wrong. There's dispensation of the Father, with the Father, of the Son of God, who was back there as Son of Man, Sonship and Fatherhood, and now back as Son of Man, and then comes Son of David.

This is true dispensational teaching. The allotted Word and the manifestation of the Holy Ghost commensurate are in that allotted Word. Because the Word can't come to pass out the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost can't do a thing about the word quiet because they're one. Come on. All right. Truth and error. All right. This leads us to paragraph 48, which I'm reading. Look back in his word and see what he's doing. Then we'll have an understanding. See what? Moses. And the first excerpt. The Alpha. To get to the Omega. I guess what time is it? Five minutes? Now just think. The first place. If that minister would have thought, when they put that vinegar and gall in his mouth, he spit it out.

So if you believe one part of the record, believe the rest.

If one part's manifested, the other's manifested. But you see, they can't wait for the unmanifested part to take place, though everything else preceded them to prove this wouldn't take place. All of Brother Branagh's ministry pointed to the rapture, as I'm trying to tell you. Everything he did pointed to the presence he's going to get us out of here. And this is what it pointed to. And because it hasn't happened, all they do is look back and look ahead and scream there's nothing to it. Well, I'm going to tell you one thing. If he came down here to shout, he came down here to raise the dead. He came down here to get us out of here. And I'm going to tell you, if he ain't here to get us out, I ain't getting out. I've been flapping my wings, God knows. All I can go to hell that way.

But I can't make the rapture.

He spit it out. Didn't take the first place. It's just scoffers, right? Can't or won't take the word, or to leave out a word, or this or that. Another thing, how did Jesus of Nazareth, how did his life fit every prophecy, the old testament? How could you have him doing everything he did when he was on earth and not be here?

If he was here before, why didn't he do it? It

couldn't

have been without him being ordained to God. He's like every prophet of the Old Testament. Another thing, if those disciples had faked him, why did each one of them die and martyred him? Are we ready to die for this? Peter said, when it was his turn to die, he said, turn me upside down. I'm not worthy to die like him. Now listen, the rapture of the revelation will do the same to us. Remember when Peter... gave the revelation of who you are, he later denied him. But when it came the time for this to take hold, what took hold of him, he died. There was a spirit to it. See? It was the lion spirit going into the calf spirit. And the man spirit has never gone to the eagle spirit. It's two separate things. You've got to hit the eagle spirit. And when you do, brother, sister, you'll die for it if you've got to die.

See? In other words, when the revelation becomes absolutely one with you as it was not at that time with Peter, which will become one with us as the revelation of every age is one with the people, the rapture revelation, we are one with it. We're gone.

Oh, you say, Brother Vail, I don't believe that. That's fine. You believe what you want. I'm gone. You say, hold it, hold it. I say, you hold it. Abraham believed a God who caused things which are not as though they were. who raises the dead.

You say, if you believe Brother Brown said you're the spotless virgin bride, then you can believe you're gone. I like them both. They believed, everyone sealed their testimony in their own blood. They believed him. They loved him. They gave their life for him. We get changed bodies. We're giving our lives this way too. If he was a faker, how would they have done that? See, the spiritual application that people don't get it. What's he talking about? That's a spiritual application that you look in the Old Testament. And you look all through the Bible, and you see it, and you apply it right to this hour of the rapture.

Possessed men. Okay, that's right. See you

next Sunday. Forgetting all we're going to do. Wednesday. Coming

up shortly. Heavenly

Father, God of all grace and mercy, we thank you for your love. And Lord, that we may preach hard.

I thank you, Lord, that I have not actually had in my mind any one particular person in such a way that you really zero in as I've done previous. Although those people in my mind were there in a form. But Lord, by your grace, you answer our prayers to go beyond those things. It's not man anymore. It's your word that has been given, the integrity of our God. And our integrity, Lord, if we're a part of that integrity.

Heavenly Father, I believe you. I believe you, O God, as I've never believed you before.

And I know, Lord, as never before. When you send your power, it isn't by obedience. And I know if you don't send your power, your power hasn't been sent. then there's nothing that's going to be done, at least for me, that much I know. Because I cannot get out of here without bootstraps or any other thing, Lord, that I would ever attempt to do. I've given up.

But, Lord, we look to you today, looking back to that 27th Psalm that backgrounded it, looking back to the enemies, looking on all these things, the scoffers, the whole thing. But our eyes are upon you.

Lord God, we look to you for such an abundant mercy coming out of these little measures, hopefully of true enlightenment.

As we talk about the things the prophet said here, that when we're finished, we will have done once and for all for thoughts of men or what men will do unto us. What does it matter?

There comes a day, Lord, when all the memory of these things that gave us our complex is what we've done or what's been done to us is going to be forgotten by a bride when those who did it will lift up their eyes in hell and regret it. And I don't wish anybody any bad luck, Lord.

But I guess I'd be less than human.

If I didn't believe your words that said all judgment is yours and you will repay, you've

got to help us, Lord. I'm terribly, terribly fallible in myself, Lord. And everything that lies in a human breast that tends toward a degradation, Lord, I admit to it.

But I admit to something else, too.

I admit to your Spirit, your revelation. I admit to all these things, O God, that I can't admit to. Right down the line. I already put myself in a special position, Lord. By Your grace, no such way. But I believe, God, You do deal with me and I believe You deal with Your people. And until You cast me away, for sure I'm not part of that rapture simply leaving me here. I'm going to stand with it. And by Your grace, Lord, if I'm not a part of that, then I pray that something I might have said somewhere which would be Your truth would be pertinent and valuable to those that are blind. But, Lord, I cannot believe other than what I believe today. Somewhere, somehow, I see that resurrection. Somewhere, somehow, I see beyond, Lord, anything that is visible, and it doesn't matter anymore what is visible. By your grace, O God, I say this because not in my own strength I'd be down in the drain before I even walked out of here. So would everybody else. We commend ourselves to you, O God, to your grace, to your honor, to your glory. through majesty, not to make us fighters of men, but to realize when the gates of hell rise up, the gates of truth also rise up, that those who love the Lord speak often one to another. Now, Lord, in this crux of that thing, speaking often one to another, help us now to change our very words and our very tunes into

real solemn assembly, all with solemnly assemble around you, that our words now become a matter of meat and of grace. Words! of season, words of this message, everything else by the board. Father, by your grace, God, don't let me be wrong for one -fifteenth of one -fifteenth of a second. I believe, Lord, it's happening already somehow that we are on our road to the unspeakable victory which lies in Jesus Christ. A bride that speaks nothing but that word. Meditates on nothing but the word and stands in her revealed faith.

Lord, we've tried not to be scoffers. You know my own mind, Lord, when I said at that time, Brother Branham, this is the most peculiar and far out thing you've ever said. I don't think I can take it. But Lord, repentance set in, granted by the Holy Ghost. There's lots of tough things, Lord. I don't pretend for one minute before you I'd be a hypocrite before you and the people. Some of these things even today just... drive me literally to a frenzy. But Lord, by your grace, my mind can calm right down and begin to take the things that you say and the spirit and the soul can begin to absorb them until the very atoms become alive with the life of this hour, rapturing faith, O God. Father, do us please now, Lord, help us in this last moment. In these days, Lord, months, whatever is left to us because we know time is running out very rapidly. It's like when the tide Runs in, runs out in some places. It's precipitous. Tremendous, tremendous dangers. Except to that which cannot be endangered. We pray, Lord, you guard our thoughts and our minds than ever before.

May we not only live in the light and the spirit, but walk in it, O God.

So there is no defense of ourselves, but there is that breath of proclamation of the word of the Lord becoming our testimony. Your thoughts, your words.