Secret Bride for Rapture

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we're grateful again to be in the house of the Lord, our minds, our world, with so many thoughts that you give us, thoughts that have not yet come in perhaps to their proper place, and yet they're in their proper place on the grounds that they're real, and they mean something to us, but perhaps continuity, a certain amount of chronology according to the word be missing, but we know it's there, Lord. We praise you. Help us to be so imbued and endued by it, Lord, that we'll be completely ready for that rapture which we know we're getting into now, Father. We believe we're a part of it. We believe it's going on. We believe it's a great secret. We believe it's the working of God. Father, we're absolutely convinced of that. We simply don't have any other thoughts because we know that if you don't do it, then it's not going to be done. You started it. You're going to have to finish it. You positively said, I have chosen you. At the end, it's the same thing. You do choose. It is the will of your Father which you do. All that come are given, and all that are given will come, and there will not be losing of any. We know this is the way it is. It's word piled upon word until it's all over. It's all of God because it is of God. It is from God. It is for God. It is to God. We recognize this, Lord, and we're very grateful it causes such a shout deep within our souls. Rejoice in our hearts and our minds. We magnify thy great and holy name. We commend ourselves unto you in this moment. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.

I don't know, Brother Evans, if the amplifier got a voice compressor on it. I noticed that they listened to a tape. When my voice went down, we almost lost it on a tape. It should have a compressor, I guess. If there's something there, you can kind of work. It'll be fine now.

It's kind of difficult. I don't know just what I'm going to do this morning. I'm not going to do anything other than start to read out of the chapter, I mean out of the rapture message as I did last Sunday because there's just so much that can be said and I oftentimes don't know just where to place it in the saying of it. But we'll just start off anyway here in the rapture tape now. We got to page 11 from page 6. And you notice that we started with Brother Branham in the backgrounding of the rapture. Now remember that the subject is the rapture. Now that's what you're dealing with. And this is far more extensive and intensive than most people realize. Now we started sometime back on Wednesday night bringing you to the position where you understood that Brother Branham said that the rapture was... a revelation that the bride was waiting for. Now, what people don't understand when Brother Branham says that, he goes back to the fact that every age has its own message. Every juncture has something that is vital to that particular period. Now, he also said that God reveals His Word or interprets His Word by bringing it to pass by manifesting it. And in this particular hour, the majority of people have no concept that it takes a prophet. And so, therefore, they don't understand that there is a turning of the corner through that prophet. They don't understand many things that we stand for. So, when he brought out the fact there that this is a revelation the bride is waiting for, he is telling you that though you understand the fact there is to be a rapture, You don't know what the rapture really means. Now, there comes a time when you've got to know. It's as Paul was dealing with the sovereignty of God with the Gentiles. And I brought this out to your attention before in the book of Ephesians. And I suppose it's the second chapter. If not, we'll soon find out. It's the third chapter. He said, Here for this cause I call the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. So this is for the Gentiles. If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you. Now, there's a special dispensation, a period of time, that is given to the Gentiles that Paul was privy to. And whatever Paul had for them, when it runs out, then it's all over. You follow? All right, a lot of people don't even know that much. How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in a few words, whereby when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. Well, there's a mystery there that they are already into that has been explained to them and he's going into it more fully. Now watch. Which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. Now you see the intimation was there. The facts were there. But they were obscured and clouded until the actual entering into it. You follow me? You really follow me? Because if you don't, you're just like the rest of us. You've got to know you're in it. If you're not in it, you don't have a revelation. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't care if you're male, female, or child. Let's get this flat this morning. I'm not mad at anybody.

You follow me? The prophet himself didn't know until he was into it.

You've got to be a part of us before the foundation of the world. You've got to have had your representation. You have got to have been that minister of your word.

Now, I know you're a little bit scared right now. It's not to scare anybody. But you see, we're not fooling.

Everybody out there is fooling. We're not fooling. See, we've got no reason to fool.

We're not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, which in other ages was not made on the sentiment, as it is now revealed. See, it wasn't revealed. It was simply pointed to. They couldn't figure it. They couldn't understand it. They had Israel in there as a great nation, and the Gentiles flowing in, and hallelujah, they were top dogs, and you come through us, you ain't got it. Oh, gosh, we come through Jesus Christ.

That was a nation. We're individuals. So it wasn't redeemed. You follow me? A revelation, my brothers and sisters, not something that suddenly comes on the scene as though it wasn't there. It was

already moving. Remember those birds? Little bits he beat the birds, he saw. Then he saw a bigger bunch of birds. Then he saw the third one, which was angels.

See, one pull, two pull, three pull. And everything had to do with the word. So Paul says back here, he said there was not just an intimation, there was an actual fact of the Gentiles coming in. What does it mean? What does it mean? Well, we'll guess at it. Israel's a great and mighty nation with a king. Ah, hogwash! God didn't want them to have a king. They wanted their own king. Now they said, oh, look at this great nation. Hallelujah. We wanted a king and God gave us a king. And now they're going to come through us. I'm baloney. Stinking bunch of organization.

God says, here's your king. They said, kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him.

God said they would have a king. But getting the wrong king, brother, sister, brought all kinds of trouble.

He didn't wait for revelation. Israel's still all screwed up.

There's a few Israelites understand they don't even believe in that seven -day war. Was it 70 or 60? Who gives a rip? Seven, eight, 70.

There are some old timers in Israel. They say if God hasn't done it, it ain't done.

There's one thing they forget. He makes the wrath of man to praise him.

Rabbis ain't half as smart as they think they are. So they went to the Talmud instead of the Torah. Now listen. That the Gentile should be fellow heirs.

An heir is not somebody that comes in by the same status.

Pardon me. That's true. Let's get it this way. A fellow heir of the Jews means that they both have somebody leading them mutually something.

Then a true heir is not an heir that comes in by another heir.

A true heir that's a brother doesn't come in by his brother. He comes in with his brother.

And they have one father. Now that's what it says here. But Israel said we're going to be the midwives, as it were. Well, they weren't going to be midwives. They were going to be the birthers. A midwife is not a birther. She just stands there to help out. And she takes her credit. Back in.

You know what I'm thinking about right now. Organization and everything else. How many souls does he have? What does he do to the scriptures? He that wineth souls is wise. Well, that's another position.

The Gentiles fell aware and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel. Whereof I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effect of your word and his power. Unto me and least of all the saints in this grace given I shall preach among the Gentiles search for the grace of Christ and so on. All right. It's not that the rapture isn't in the book. Brother Branson, every Christian believes it. Well, pre -trip, middle trip, post -trip, pre -millennial, post -millennial. Everybody believes something about it.

You got it. If you believe the earth's going to get dissolved, where does the people finally go? They got to get caught up. So you can get the rapture in a dozen places according to thinking. But the point is, where is the rapture?

Who has the revelation of the assertion? Who has the revelation of the word of God concerning it? And Brother Branham said, nobody but nobody but me has the revelation. And they said, oh,

Pentecost, a very touchy stomach. They stumble over, they'll vomit over fresh apricots and peaches and delicious fresh bread. But they'll, for vomit. And manure. Well,

I don't have a manure head and a manure appetite. I'm strictly gourmet for the manna.

I understand fully well the manna doesn't cheat.

Yesterday's manna is gone. It was all right to probe and to guess, but when the seals opened, one man had the definitive revelation or this Bible. Forget it. Forget it.

Starting with sin in the garden. Who knew what the sin was? They probed at it. They guessed at it because the secret of the copulation of Eve with the serpent was forgotten. It

died as a true revelation. A little thread was there, but nobody knew for sure unless a prophet proclaimed it. The seed of woman, what about it? It was there, but who knew it?

And who knew it was a virgin until an angel came down and said to the woman, the Holy Ghost will come upon you. You don't need a man if

he's setting you straight. So Brother Branham said categorically, let your thinking go.

Now, I don't know where the Roman Catholics put the rapture, but it's quite likely they put it somewhere maybe at the end of the millennium. I don't know. I can't remember anymore if I ever did know.

Those are put at the beginning of the millennium, which means that it's after the Great Tribulation. It's such a thing there really is.

Now, we put the rapture just before the Great Tribulation, at the end of the Gentile age, and before the two messengers, prophets, come to Israel. Now, there's where we put it. I want you to notice something, and there again we're not going to worry how I get this message across this morning.

Because my thinking is in various channels, and I'm going to just follow my thinking. We're going to go to Ezekiel, the first chapter.

And this may be why I've had funny feelings all this week, wondering if I'd even be able to say something up on this pulpit that I've got here. I've got my notes and everything, don't worry. So we're not going to worry about them. Now it says here, this man Ezekiel.

He was by the river of Chebar, and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. He never saw visions from God. He saw visions of God. He saw God in a vision. Anything that could be seen of God in a vision, he saw. Now remember, this is a prophet that God appeared to in visions, not like Moses.

No, not

like Moses. Never appeared in visions. There it was, apparently. Filler of fire. the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of the King Jehoiakim's captivity. That's great, without a doubt. The word of the Lord came unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans of the river Chebar, and the hand of the Lord was there upon him. Now here's the hand of the Lord upon him, the same like with John. Now remember, we are literally reading the book of Revelation, chapter 5, and literally a part of chapter 1.

And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north. All right? Remember, we've got a vision. A great cloud and a fire unfolding itself. And the brightness was about it. Now, the mister of the color of amber out of the midst of the fire. Now, Brother Brown said it was amber. Now, he could lie to us. No problem. I don't believe he did. Well,

you say, what do you mean he lied? Well, he could have pretended he was Ezekiel or somebody. But he didn't.

It was amber.

Now, the mister thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. Now, watch the unfolding of God.

This was their appearance. He had the likeness of a man. Well, what else should it be? When Moses saw him even apparently heading to the cleft of the rock with God's hand in front of him, he saw the back of a man.

All right? And everyone had four faces. Everyone had four wings. Well, the midst of four had increased. You've got that. And their feet were straight feet. Their feet were like the sole of a casket. They sparkled like the color of the burnished brass. Now, that's typical. Feet of brass. Judgment. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. They had four heads, their faces, and their wings. Their wings joined one another. They turned not when they went. They went every one straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they had four. The forehead and the face of a man. The face of a lion. The face of an ox. The face of an eagle.

That's where their faces. And their wings stretched upward. Two wings every one joined one to another to cover their bodies. And they went every one straight forward where the Spirit was to go. They went. They turned not when they went. As the likeness of living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire. The appearance of lambs. And they went up and down among the living creatures. And the fire was bright. And out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. Do you notice all the things you see in there are actually relative to the revelation of God. in the ages of Israel. And also pertains to this hour, but in a little different category. Now, as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with these four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto color of burrow. The four had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as a wheel in the middle of a wheel. All right? In other words, there's a wheel in the middle of a wheel. There's an inner and an outer movement. And you can see the outer movement. If you don't catch the inner movement, you don't know what's behind the outer movement. In other words, I don't care what God does unless there's a revelation of what he's doing. You missed it. The wheel within a wheel. Now, when they went, they went upon their four sides and they turned not when they went. As for their rings, they were so high they were dreadful. And their rings were full of eyes round about them four. And these are not flying saucers like people try to make, you know, machines run by gas and stuff. And the living creatures went, and the wheels went by them. The living creatures were lifted up from the earth, and the wheels were lifted up. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went. Thither was their spirit to go, and the wheels were lifted up over against them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. In other words, you've got a manifestation of the spirit of God moving in our day in the latter reign, and the spirit of God in the inner wheel moving in the former reign. Because the latter reign and the former reign fall together. One is a manifestation of power. And one is a manifestation, a word, a revelation. Okay. And they're both here at the same time. And you can't have one without the other. See? When those went, these went. When those stood still, those stood still. When those lifted up, they were lifted up. For the spirit of the living creature was there in the wheel. Now that's the part that hit the earth. Considering motion. Manifestation. And the likeness of the firmament above the head of the living creature was the color of terrible crystal. stretched forth over their heads above. And under the firmament, their wings straight, and one toward the other. Every one had two, which covered on this side. Every one had two, which covered on that side of their body. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters. All right? The great waters of revelation is the voice of many men. To say nothing but the word of God. As the voice of the Almighty, as in thunder is coming forth in great things. The voice of speech is articulated so that men may know the word of God. Positively. And the noise of a host. In other words, all of the host encampment in heaven is with that word. And when they stood, they let their wings down. There was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads when they stood and let their wings down. In other words, you're seeing about standing. You're talking about wheels standing still. You're seeing how the revelation is coming forth from the throne. And above the firmament that was over their heads as the sky was the likeness of a throne. As the appearance of a sapphire stone. Now remember, that's the same as Revelation 4, the one to look upon. And the likeness of the throne was the likeness of the appearance of man above it. I think I should have said chapter 4 instead of chapter 5 at the beginning of where the throne is in the beast. And I saw as the color of amber as the appearance of fire about it within it. Notice it's around within. Now notice the fire is around within, the wheels are around within. From the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire. and it had brightness round about, as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain. So was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the lightness of the glory of God. Now, he's talking about the literal Shekinah glory. That was his attendant upon the presence of God that Brother Brown said was here, which it is. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke. And he said, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I'll speak unto you. And the Spirit entered into me when he spake unto me. Notice that when he spoke, the Spirit entered into him. A lot of people don't want that. They don't believe Hebrews 1 and 1 that God was in the prophet and it was the spirit. They don't want to recognize that Brother Bramman was either the son of man or the pillar of fire. But the son of man was in spirit form and was in the prophet. And the spirit entered me when he spoke unto me and set me upon my feet and I heard him speak unto me. And he said unto me, Son of man, I send you the children of Israel, the rebellious nation that rebelled against me, and they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day. For they are impudent children, and stiff -hearted. Impudent means they're actually brazen in repudiation of what will be said to them under divine inspiration and no doubt vindication. Stiff -hearted. I descend unto him, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord God. Now watch. Thus saith the Lord. This is the thus saith the Lord prophet. And remember, he's the one with vision. This is in a vision. This is not apparent as it was with Moses and with Paul and with William Branham.

And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear their rebellious house, yet shall know that they will forbear, they will know that there hath been a prophet among them. Now it says they won't maybe pay attention. But they're going to know this one thing, that you were a prophet. Now you tell me different, Brother Branham. And thou, son of man, me not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words. Though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou distraught among scorpions, be not afraid of their words. In other words, the people that Brother Branham was in the midst of could bite him just the same as they bit Jesus and any other prophet.

Now don't be afraid of their words, because that's where the briars and the thorns are.

You see, you're going to be destroyed by your word and what you believe. or you're going to be kept by your word and what you believe. Don't be dismayed at their looks for they're a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak thy words unto them, whether they will hear, whether they will forbear, for they're rebellious, most rebellious. In other words, you notice how he quickens the word rebellion to most rebellious. But thou, O son of man, hear what I say to thee. Be not thou rebellious like unto that rebellious house. Open thy mouth, and eat that I shall give thee. Now there again you notice the prophet has got to take before he gives to others. William Branham and Moses lived by the same word as Paul did that the people he gives it to. When it looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me, and a roll was therein. In other words, a scroll, which is a manuscript. And he spread it before him. It was written within and without. The same thing in the book of Revelation. Both sides are written thereon, so you can't add or take from it. And therein was written lamentations and mourning and woe. Now, all he's got to do then is open the book that was sealed. and brings forth the day of the vengeance of our God.

This one did the same thing. Lamentations of woe. The opening of the seals, therefore, is prior to the great tribulation. It's Revelation 22 and says. Seal not the saints of this book for the time is at hand. His righteous rights are still filthy, filthy still. And then all these other things. Don't have the plagues around and so on. Your name's in the book. More we said unto me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll. Then speak the house of Israel. Open my mouth, and he calls me to eat the roll. And he said, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll, and I give thee. Then I eat it with honey in my mouth and sweetness. And he said, Son of man, and of course John said it turned to bitterness. Son of man, get thee to speak to the house of Israel. Speak with my words unto them. Now notice what he said right here. He said, You will eat this the same as they do. It's going to bring forth lamentations and woe and mourning, but it's going to be sweet to you. Now, this is where people don't understand the day of the Lord as I'm trying to preach it. I've become an ogre. Every kind of a miscreant and a foul -minded person just wants to see people piled on people until they're rubble and going to hell. That is not it. But this is the day of the Lord. Somebody's going to try to shut my mouth and make me stand back. They're crazier than a hoot owl.

I'll only tell you one thing. Somebody's going to see somebody roast. The dove and the crow are on the same branch. Oh, don't try to change it, people. Don't

get abusive. But don't try to change it. You're just too nice. Let's

get her down flat. As each of you wasn't too nice.

What do you think a prophet feels like to open a book that's going to cause condemnation? That stands up and says there's a bomb written for America. You're going to get it. I don't pray for America anymore. Oh, said that great duplicy when Brother Branham preached to discuss the West Coast. He said that. He said that. Judge. He said he got judged.

He was happy to see Brother Branham smeared across the road or bust up in a car. I got the letter somewhere. Sneering.

The man that brought Pentecost to Rome and condemned millions of souls to hell stood up as a sweet, sweet man,

hobnobbing with the elect of the Roman Catholic Church. Got to booze and buddy.

One of the pseudo -filled men said, Oh, sir, Mr. Duplessy, what message can I give to the Holy Father? A

man stands up, Holy Father, and a Protestant bows down to it, Holy Father.

Let me tell you something. The Catholic people rose up and said, If we'd have had Pope John XXIII, Instead of Leo, Luther was on the left. That's the same thing they said. Our fathers wouldn't have killed. If we'd have been there, we would not have killed the prophets. And he said, prove you're the children of those same lousy, rotten ones that killed the prophets. And you're guilty of the blood. Now where does the Catholic Church stand? Now where does the Protestants stand? Where

do they stand? You

think Brother Brandon wanted to stand up and say, this whole generation is condemned? You

think I like standing up here and I know there's a nice way to be sweet and nice and nice and sweet? Because I'll tell you one thing. You don't draw many flashes in here.

Yeah. Holy priest. Let me tell you something. Hell is not holy. Heaven is holy. Earth is not holy.

There's a holy God. They

stand up and bonk themselves. Sure. He

said right here. He's going to be sweet to you.

I'll tell you something. This man was a judgment prophet.

Brother Brandon was a judgment prophet.

Poor kid Bobby Lambert stood up. He thought he was a judgment prophet. And Brother Brandon said, if you think you're a judgment prophet, you better know what you're saying, what you're doing. He was a judgment prophet of nothing.

I'm going to tell you one thing. He could have preached the prophet's judgment method had he been a pastor. He would have been a pastor of judgment, of discernment. Why do you think I preached in Columbus the way I did? 14 points.

Oh, you discern the side. You can discern all that out there. But isn't it funny? As soon as someone comes on the scene sweet and nice, you're seduced. Let me tell you something. A woman seduced or raped has been taken regardless of how it was done. And I would sooner know that a woman was raped than seduced because it showed she didn't put her mind to it. She was forced to it. Let's

get that flat, you women sitting here and young people.

Men had better rapes than seduce also. If

you're a brother there, don't brother there me. I know what I'm saying. I wait a little time to say this too. I'm not mad at anybody here. I

ain't no judgment teacher. When I preach this message, let me tell you, it's not real judgment. And I'm not preaching for myself because I ain't got one thing to do because I know this about it. I can be condemned as anybody else can be condemned. In the foundation of God's banishment in this field, the Lord knows the image of His. And nobody else does. We can't sit here and say, well, we got it made. We haven't. Let me tell you, He's got it made. And He's for us. We've got it made, but only in that condition. There's going to be sweetness. A judgment message. Why? Because as the prophet said, our prophet said many times, look up, he said, when you see these signs, what signs? Judgment in the land. Rejoice and be glad. But there's a squeeze coming down, too.

Oh, sure. People can't understand we don't run to the excess that they run to.

He said, Son of man, go speak in the house of Israel and speak my words unto them. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech of a hard language for the house of Israel. Now notice he said, I'm sending you to a certain people.

Not worldwide. How

many places did Brother Branham go outside where the English language is spoken? Not very many.

The house of Israel will not hearken. They'll not hearken unto you. For the impudent and hard -hearted, they're brazen, they're brassy. They're smarty pants. We're rich. We're increased in goods we don't have to see. Don't tell us we need dressing. We've got the Holy Ghost. We spoke in tongues.

Sure. We've got the manifestation. Let me take you back, brother, sister. There is only one spirit when it comes to gifts. Yes, one spirit when it comes to gifts. And the righteous have gifts. And the unrighteous have gifts. But there's only one spirit when it comes to the Word. It's real. It's true. You follow me? The word makes a difference. The gifts are bringing the Roman Catholics and Protestants and everybody together. And the word is separating the cat from the wheat.

You do what you want. I know what I'm talking about.

He said, they'll not understand. They won't listen. I've made thy face strong against their faces. Thy forehead strong against their forehead. Isn't it funny? People come from around the world. They come over here and they say, Dale's got the worst spirit in the world. Terry's folks got the worst spirit in the world. Roger Smith got the worst fear in the world. My husband got the worst fear. Why? Because our foreheads are strong. We're not got whore foreheads. Whore foreheads. They can have their whore foreheads. I've got as strong a forehead as a whore any day of the week.

Hester. The same ones like the whore. They partake of their miserable, rotten intercourse. And she says she commits her intercourse. She charges money for it. Join our church. Give so much. We'll pray. We'll pray for it. Get you out of purgatory. All that kind of hogwash and nonsense. And that whore's forehead, you can't stop her from her adultery. Because it's her easy, nice life. She likes it. She's in a business. She's in a racket. A whore's forehead. And when she goes through the act, no more eating a piece of bread and wiping her mouth.

There's your rotten prostitutes of Roman Protestantism.

I'm going to tell you what. He said, your forehead's going to be strong against their foreheads. And these guys say, oh, no. No, no, you mustn't be that way. When they lie about you and they seduce the word and everything else, you're supposed to stand back and say, pretty Jesus, nice Jesus, I'm a nice fellow.

Brother Branham categorically said that those who leave the word, we don't fellowship with them.

You know it?

They talk about oneness with God. How do you get one with God? Until first you're one with the word. Well, they say, I don't believe that. Then you'll be low God. First

forehead.

Jesus said, Face like a friend. How did William Branham feel knowing he was going down that road that day to be killed in that wreck? You

say, Torrey's guts up. You better Torrey's guts up. Oh, but Jesus didn't have any guts. Did he? Let this cup pass. But nevertheless, let it be thy will. And he sweat as it were, drops the blood.

He didn't have any whores forehead.

Why, if you're old, great, quiet, it's all that, all that queer, it's all that sweet. Oh, long as we get together, it's all fine. I'll generate the vipers. Said John, who warned you that Peter asked to come? Christ came on with the same story.

Let them know they circumnavigated the whole globe with their dirty, rotten, filthy lies and tricks to make a more truthful child of hell. Let me tell you, this age goes down with a seven more child, whole child of hell than the first age.

Because a couple of degrees. I'm not mad, I'm just telling you. I'm no judgment teacher, I'm just preaching the word of God. You do what you want with it. As an adamant, harder than print have I made thy forehead. Oh, they'll butt their heads against ours, and their heads one day will shatter. We're going to stand there. Oh, you say, Brother Vail, don't Brother Vail me. Look, I'm still on the rapture, honey, and you don't know it. Thank you. Whether you know it or not.

Yeah, I'm still on the rapture. You didn't know that. You thought I'd gone off the rapture. Yeah, I fooled a whole bunch of you. Except maybe one. Until I jarred your brains and brought you back. What do you say, Pruitt? Just give me time. I'm backgrounded. I've got a lot of background. I've got a lot of foreground, too. You're not kidding anybody. I've made your face, he said, hard in the flint. Now he said, I made that for you. Fear them not. Neither be dismayed at their looks. If looks could kill, we'd be dead. They're rebellious out. The Lord said, Son of man, all my words I shall speak unto thee. Receive in thine heart and hear with your ears. Two places, heart and ears.

You know something, brother and sister? Brother Ben Categorgy said, he said, when this heart and this word gets lined up with him, perfection. We're getting there. and go thee to them, and get thee to them of the captivity of the children of the people. Speak to them. What captivity? Rome. Protestantism. Tell them, thus saith the Lord God, whether they will hear, whether they will forbear.

How many times did Brother Brown say, thus saith the Lord? Thousands of times. Did they listen? Oh no, they had it too. But they didn't. Then the Spirit took man, and heard behind the voice a great rushing thing. Now, great rushing means it's accelerated.

Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.

I already said you're going to see the glory of God coming

on the earth. I heard the voice of the living creatures that touched one another. The noise of the wheels over against them. The noise of a great rushing. The spirit lifted me up and took me and went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit. But the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. Why do you say that? What do you mean? Why this man? This man had inner cavities. He had feelings.

I saw Brother Branham when the handwriting wrote on the wall and the fire wrote on the wall. He looked like a hundred trapped animals. Never saw a man so trapped and scared in my life.

The rest of the world goes around saying, I saw Jesus. He looked from the great to the middle. Oh, nice little boy, nice little girl. Sweet, sweet, sweet. They didn't see Jesus. They saw something foisted on them by the devil. You can't even have a vision, not have the literally the stomach torn out of you.

You can't have revelation hit you real hard, but suddenly you just go to pieces like water. Oh, God. Then watch the strength come in you, though. God lets you get down where you ain't nothing. Then he'll grab ahold and he'll put you up. He said they're terrible. He was right down. But the hand of the Lord was strong upon him. Then I came to captivity of Tel Aviv. That's Tel Aviv. They got over there now, but it's not the same thing. Could be the same city, but we're in our hour. By the river Chebar, I sat where they sat. Remained their son, he's going to seven days. Seven church ages. Now the word, and here's the end time. Now the seven. Son of man, I made you a watchman under the house of Israel. Brother Branham was a messenger under the house of the Gentiles, the end time. And except the Lord watched the house, the city watches, this watchman watches, but in vain. Or watch the city, see? In other words, God's got to be there. The man's no watchman. If God's not there, he's a liar. He's a phony. The only reason this man, the prophet, was a watchman because of God. No other reason. No way. When I say unto the wicked, give him a warning, he said. When I say to the wicked, you'll surely die. And give him not the warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life. The same wicked man died in the city. His blood will I require at your hand. Now watch where the prophet stands.

Now, Balaam was a prophet, but not a true prophet of God. He never stood there.

Never stood there. No, Suri, by the way, he wouldn't stand with that word. He betrayed the word that God gave him and got the people into sin. And he died in battle against Israel. Now, this one tells you right here. A true prophet, he's going to take it. Yet if thou warn the wicked, he turn not his wickedness. Nor the wicked from his way, he shall die in his niggardy. But you've delivered your soul. When a righteous man determines righteousness, commit iniquity, all the stumbling blocks be formed. Now notice this happens in every church age. At the tail end, when the truth is petered out, and those men are living in a place where they could take the word and turn it down, they're gone.

Now the glory of Pentecost was the greatest glory from Luther and Wesley. But this glory won't fade. But

Wesley came on the scene, Catholic died. It was over. Luther, I beg your pardon. But what came on Lutheranism died. When Pentecost came, Westernism died. When this came, it all died. And yet this gave life to everybody, bring them out of the grave even. Now, he said, you've got to warn that person. Now remember, at the time that this prophet comes, the blood of everybody on his own head, the minute the prophet brings the word.

Then why did they get so enamored with the signs and wonders?

Why don't you understand the third pull is the word?

See, they blew it. They shot it. All right. But you delivered your soul. And the hand of the Lord is there upon me. He said to me, rise and go forth to the plain. And I'll speak with talk with you there. I rose and went to the plain. Behold, the glory of the Lord stood there as the glory which I saw before the tree barn and fell upon my face. Then the spirit entered me and set me upon my feet. Take unto me and said, go shut thyself within an house. But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon me and bind me and thou shall not go among them. Now, that's exactly what happened. Who was it that kept Brother Branham from the people? And the people, the clergymen, the preachers, organization. I will make that tongue clean through thy mouth and you'll remain dumb and shall not be to them a reprover for their rebellious house. The day came when Brother Branham had no more to say to them. He said, it's over.

From there on, it was all for the bride. Whatever warning there was there was simply to warn the bride. When I speak, I'll open your mouth and you'll say, thus said the Lord, to warn the wicked in his wicked way to save his life. The same wicked, Or rather, thus saith the Lord God, He that heareth, let him hear. And he that forbeareth, let him forbear. They are rebellious hosts. Now then it comes down to a one -to -one basis. All right, now what I laid this in here for was to show you that back over here where John is speaking, getting

his revelation, in the fourth chapter, it says there were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. They are the same ones that were seen by Ezekiel. Now watch. The first was a lion. The second, a calf. The third had a face of man. The fourth beast was like a flying eagle. Now, remember what you're looking at here to get our understanding. There are seven church age messengers. And the seventh was a prophet. Now those seven church ages are identified with four periods. The lion, the calf, the man, and the eagle. Now, There is no one messenger that was the lion.

There was no one messenger that was the calf. There was no one messenger that was the man. And there is no messenger, 7th church age, that's the eagle, even though prophets are considered eagles. This is not William Branham.

No way. No way, shape, and form is not William Branham. William Branham is Revelation 10 and 7.

This is the Spirit. of four manifestations or spirits throughout the seven church ages. The Spirit of God moved forth at the first time as a lion. He moved forth as a young calf for the sacrifice, martyrs. He moved forth as the face of a man, which was under Luther and to this age. But the last age is God in Revelation. The same is back here with Ezekiel. As Israel had a son of man as a showdown. This age has a son of man as a showdown.

Now, you can't make Brother Branham Revelation chapter 4 no way, shape, and form. But it's in the hour that God takes upon himself the manifested form of the ego. It is the hour of the prophetic. Now, Brother Branham is the prophet, but he's not God. See, that's what I want you to understand here. Because it's very important. Now, in this hour of the prophet, when God is this great revelation, this great creature that is represented, the spirit that is rampant or manifest and demonstrated in the last hour is the word coming to the people. Now let's watch that word. The word coming to the people. What is it? Revelation 10 and 7. In the days of the voice of the seventh church age messenger, the prophet William Branham, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall be perfected, concluded, polished off, as God has declared the good news of the gospel to his servants the prophets. Now he's telling you right here that this man, is going to have the last and telling effect of whatever mysteries are to be concluded in this hour.

God revealed, and

the mysterious God fully revealed as to what is in this hour according to what He is to be in this hour, which is the Word.

In the beginning was the Word in flesh. But one of these beasts is not Jesus. I'm sorry. Jesus is taken up. The body is taken up behind the throne on the mercy seat. And that body doesn't come forth. But the manifestation comes forth fourfold. Number one as a lion. Number two as the cat. Number three as the man. Number four as the word.

In other words, as the word was made flesh, that same word, that was made flesh, now has to manifest in a spirit form. That's what you're talking about. That's why the fourth one has the face of an eagle. He's up there, and he's bringing us this word. And at this time, when he begins to sound, in other words, it is his ministry, which is the message, which is a part of the rapture. The mystery of God should be finished.

All right, remember there was a mystery concerning the Gentiles when they came in. And there's a mystery concerning them when they go out. It's got to be Alpha and Omega. Now the mystery of the Gentiles going out as a rapture. The mystery of the Gentiles coming in as a baptism with the Holy Ghost. You say, prove it. I'll be glad to. I don't have any trouble proving the things that I say. Keep your fingers crossed. If it's in the Spirit, I don't have any trouble. Christ after redeemed is from the curse of the law being made a curse for us as it's written. Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. There it is right there. The baptism with the Holy Ghost. The beginning of the mystery.

Now, it runs out.

And when it's all over, what happens? And there's only one thing. You're back to headship. Why? Because to the Gentiles comes Ephesians, the fourth chapter.

Notice, in that fourth chapter, But unto every one of us is given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. It tells you right there. According to the measure of the gift of Christ. What is Christ? He's all of it. The great anointing. So therefore there's a measure. What measure? The measure until it all runs out.

He came as a pillar of fire. Israel got a little dabble of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But they turned him down. So no way could Israel have the Holy Ghost in there. And priests ministering is all over. No way they bought it. They ruined it. It's gone. You'll never recover. It's over. Israel hasn't got one single David comes down in the flesh. That's King David, our mighty David. They blew it. But you see, the Gentiles didn't get the flesh. They got the Holy Spirit in the form of light. So the measure of the Spirit in every age was the measure of the Word and the infilling in each one till they came back to the Word in spirit form. Because you've got to grow up unto Him. From what comes down goes up to him. Do you see what I'm talking about? I haven't got time to let you all ask questions, but if you don't see this, you are missing what everybody's missing about Brother Branagh's message. There's a portion in every age until it's over. And there's no more.

Now, under the seven church age messengers, it's all finished.

Now, what finishes the Gentiles? Back to headship. Why headship? To raise the dead.

Get us out of here. Rapture. So therefore the mystery of the rapture is under the seals as it was under the seals in the day of Israel and couldn't come out until Acts the 13th chapter. Let's go and look at it.

Verse 46, Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said, Necessarily the word of God be spoken first to you Jews, but seeing you put it from you Jews and judge yourself Jews of everlasting life, we turn to the Gentiles. There you are. Now, that was already given to Paul in the ninth chapter where he meets Jehovah in a pillar of fire.

Verse 15, To bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. And notice, Israel is put below Gentiles and kings.

So Paul was for the Gentiles. All right. The manifestation came in the literal fulfillment. And he said, you Ephesians know my ministry in this because you're a part of it. Now what about Reverend William Brown coming to the end time prophet of God with the minister of the rapture? Oh, you say, just a minute. Don't just a minute me because Paul never put anybody into Christ. Paul never put anybody out of Christ. Paul just had a word.

And you know what that word of sweetness was? Honey to the Gentiles and wrath and destruction to Israel because they fell in 70 AD.

Oh, you say the Gentiles should have said, Now far be it from thee, Lord, to let judgment fall upon those Jews. Oh, they rejoiced so glad that they were a part of it. They were not judgment -minded, my brother, my sister. They tell me certain churches that people are going around judging people. If you ever start that here, I'll knock you under the four by four. And you'll never get back in this church, I can tell you right now. I don't have a judgment to anybody and preach to anybody. What I'm preaching is strictly a word of God. And I go to nobody, I fuss with nobody. That's why you don't find me coming to you and talking to you people. You say, well, you're not a very good pastor. I never said I was.

But I'm a good teacher. Or whatever gift I got. And I'll stick right with it. Because we're not dealing now with the ABCs anymore, brother and sister.

Here's a great sculptor. He's got a, here he is, this great sculptor. You know what? He's just like Michelangelo. And he makes a beautiful statue of Moses. And of course, the word of God, the word that Brother Brandon preached was, he screamed, speak! And he was so thrilled at his own work that he bruised it. He knocked the chip off. Well, let's just take another picture. Here's Michelangelo. He's got his beautiful sculpture of Christ or Moses all done. And he says, well, now he said it's all finished. I think he said, since it's all finished, I'll start on the feet again.

Well, then it wasn't finished. Finished is finished. Finished is finished. That's what it says here. In the days of this seventh man, the mystery, that which must be revealed to the word, that which was hidden in there. Now we don't need what was passed. He only brings it to the forefront. Now to, not to encapsulate, even to encapsulate, but to, what is the word? Put a cap on.

That's exactly what he did. He came with capstone revelation. With a capstone minister. With a capstone word. When he did, he stood before the folks and he said, I will now tell you the rapture of which you have guessed that. Well, they guessed that it was under the seal and locked in there. It wasn't that it wasn't there. It was there. And they said, oh, great rapture is coming, and it's going to be a secret rapture. And he said, aha, exactly right. Exactly right, he said, secret rapture. But he said, you don't know the truth of it. It's in three parts. He said, three parts? Oh, yes, three parts. Don't you know he descends with a shout and a voice and a trumpet? Oh, they said, very true, very true. And they said, now let me tell you where you're wrong. You don't know the first thing about the shout.

And they said, any jackass can tell a shout. Yeah, that's a shout.

Or they say, now, hold it. It's not quite that. It's a military command. Okay, get ready down there.

I'm coming. You're guessing.

What's a shout? Now, the next thing, hold it, hold it. It says it's not even the Lord's voice. Well, that's where the Pope comes in, blessed God.

Because he's a big shot. Holy

Pope, Holy Father.

Get down to Holy Lake of Fire. It will be when God's finished. It

will be.

Oh, yeah. They was too crude, you know. I never said it wasn't. I'll get my point across. You do what you want. It's your life. I've got mine. You know, the strange thing people don't realize, once a man preaches the word, if it is the word, it's all over.

Oh, Brother Branham, come hold my hand. Hogwash. Oh, Brother Branham, great prophet, why don't you deal with me as a person? Because I've got complexes. I had them. He was going to help me one time, but I never got with him. If I only tell you one thing, God by himself can do a million times more than any prophet can do trying to deal with all the people. That prophet bring that word, my brother, my sister. That's all that is necessary because the life is in the word. And if the word is in you, the life is in you. What do you want for your nickel?

Oh, brother, brother, when the prophet brought the word, he does this and he does this and he does this. Oh, come on. You've got them galloping across the prairie into the fading sunset. I've got them caught up in a rapture. Never fading. Glory of Almighty God. Not ambling off in the west like a bunch of stupid cowboys.

who's got time for cowboys. They herd cows. Shepherds and sheep. Get her down pen. Yeah, he said, Here, return to the Gentiles. I've set thee as a light. You should be for their salvation in the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad. They glorified the Lord. And they said, Whoopee! He's left the Jews and will be glad when they all get condemned to hell because they crucified the lovely one. Can't wait for the blisters to fall on them Jews. Can't wait for them to burn. They never said that at all.

They said, praise God that he chose us. But they knew the judgment would come. Are we any different? Are we going to hold it back?

You know something, brother, sister? I just want to bring this to your attention. But I have every reason to believe that Noah had nephews and nieces. He

screamed outside that door when the door was shut. Kind of makes you sick inside, doesn't it? And I can see Noah prying the lid off, saying, bless God, if they don't go, I don't go.

The fear of the Lord, my brothers and sisters, is a funny thing. You don't have father, mother, sister, brother. Neither did Brother Branham.

Oh, you say my uncle, my cousin, my father, my... Oh, I don't care. That's fine. If you want to listen to him, that's fine.

But judgment is stalking the land.

I want to tell you, Brother and Sister, you and I are in our own shoes and we answer to God in our own shoes, not somebody else's. So Brother Branham says here, I'm speaking on the rapture. He said nobody's got the right thoughts about it.

Now look at... Remember, Brother Branham was not Revelation 4, the creature with the eagle face. Uh -uh. That's the Spirit of God in this hour. William Branham was Revelation 10 and 7, and that Spirit, epitomized in Revelation 4, came down in Revelation 10 and 1. In Revelation 10 and 1, Feet were on land and sea the same time the prophet was here. And he's still here. Oh, I know a lot of folk don't believe that. They think kind of like a yo, you went up and down. I've got news for you. The dead haven't been raised. And he came down to raise the dead. And he hasn't got his headship yet. And he's here to make himself the head. And what are they talking about? I don't know what they're talking about and I care less. And they say, well, you see, brother, it's not the doctrine, it's the spirit that goes with it. What am I supposed to have? What am I supposed to have against a horse's forehead? Come on, baby, I'll kiss you and crawl in bed with you. You know something? I ain't got the stomach for other women. Don't say, Brother Dave, you're too old, because they ain't too old. I've never been too old, and I may never be too old. So get that crap out of your mind. I'm talking truth. If

you want prostitutes, you can have them.

If you think some new thing out there is worth your time, you shack up, because that's all you've got in you anyway,

because you haven't even got conyugle. Or conjugal love, if they want love, call it right. Because Brother Branagh said, if I let my wife do that, or I want to, I don't love her right.

Not even filial love. The whole thing is so bastardized. And

why not? Because the whole thing came out of a house of prostitution. Rome. Vatican, the house of Cain, is what he spells out. Exactly what it means. Vatican, Vatican, the house of Cain.

The house of murdered scripture. The

adulterous worship. So Brother Branagh said, there's not one of you got it right.

Oh, he said you knew it was there. Sure. Israel knew there was something about Abraham and the Gentiles. What was it? Well, let's find out. So one day God knocks down Paul, whams him down flat with a pillar of light. He said, where are you, Lord? He said, I'm Jesus. Who do you expect?

Well, who are you expecting? Come on. Everybody says they bleed Jesus, bleed Jesus, bleed Jesus, bleed Jesus, gone back to pillar of fire. Who are you expecting?

See, that wasn't any snide remark I brought up. A little flashy crack was very good, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. Who are you expecting?

Jesus is hard for you.

Very hard. He said, you can't fight me and get away with it. Next, I'm going to send you to the Gentiles. So God raised up a prophet to bring his word to pass because there was a transition. There's a transition now, my brother, sister. And remember, before there could be a transition, the pillar of fire had to be there sanctioning the transition and putting it into effect.

So before William Branham was even born, God was waiting for him. William Branham was going about his life. One day God smote him down, so to speak. Brought him to his senses in the river, a higher river down there by Jeffersonville, appearing over him where people saw the rainbow. The rainbow, I suppose, what was befogged the pillar of fire, so they couldn't see it because no man can see it except in reflection unless it is a prophet. So they saw what the pillar of fire brought out from it, which is the rainbow, the seven -colored rainbow, with no doubt multifacets within it. And said, look, there's time for a change.

The Gentile era is over. We're going back to Israel. But do you know what God disposed of Israel? Do you know how He disposed of Israel? He scattered them.

Yep, now He's bringing them together. What He did to us as a bride, He scattered us all through the earth. That was just natural because He takes one here and one there. That's why Brother Bannon said, You're going to worship God in Africa. The same Holy Spirit in your hearts up here. We're all one. We're one in a greater form than that, and it's our due. I know that for a fact. No one can tell me different from that because we are, because He said we would be. All right, now at the end time, what's happening? There's a word bringing a bride together. And one time this whole body is going to be in one place and they'll start going up and meet up there before his presence. So Brother Brandon said, listen, he said, I'm going to tell you a fact. He said, you talk about a rapture, but not one of you got the revelation. Not one of you know what I'm talking about. Now he said, to understand, you're going to have to let all your thinking go and you're going to have to act as though you never heard of anything, but there was a rapture, but who knows what it's about. It's just like that word thingamabob. Well, what in the world is a thingamabob? Well, 50 million minds have 50 million ideas. Everybody knows the thing about Bob ain't nothing really. And yet it's something. That's the way rapture is. Everybody's got an idea. Everybody's got a wrong idea. There's a rapture. And who knows? Shut up and listen.

Remember Brother Brand said that woman talking in tongues, talking in tongues, and prophesying, blah, blah, blah. He said, woman, shut up and sit down. And that's what he said to the church in a nutshell. Thank you, Brother Brand. I'm a nice boy. I love yours. I love your cooth. Oh, yeah, they thought he was uncouth. Why, they said she's got fresh bread.

Fresh bread. Tongues and interpretation. Fresh bread. Where did the word of God come by people speaking in tongues and somebody in tongues? They were speaking in tongues and turning and Paul said, did the word of God come get you to come out of here? He said, shut up and sit down.

He said, is there a prophet among you? He'll believe what I say. Is anybody full of the Holy Ghost or you do speak in tongues? If you're full of the Holy Ghost, you'll shut up with your tongues, and you'll sit down and say, yes, Brother Paul, yes, Brother Paul, what you say is the commandment of God. And William Brown stood there, and he said, woman, shut up and sit down. I'm going to tell you, woman, about the rapture. And she went, signifying Brother Brown was a jackass. Because that's, I think, the term jackass means. You put your ears, your fingers in your ears, and you wiggle like this, and you've got big ears, big jackass, and you poke your tongue out. That's what a jackass does. Wiggles, ears, and braids. Let me tell you something. A jackass does not sound like a sheep.

You remember the story one time Aesop told about this jackass that he wanted to scare everybody and take the king of the animals over and he knew that the king of the animals was a lion. So one day he went to the pawn shop and bought a lion skin. And he put the lion skin on and crouched down and went too quick and they all scattered until he opened his mouth to tell him he was going to reign over him. But he braved like a jackass. He wasn't a lion anymore.

Aesop's fable. Very true. The church said Brother Branham was a jackass. He

hated his cutting words. They were glad when he died. And they said, wasn't it true, man? That man had such a great ministry, but you see, he got puffed in the head. He got carried away. I got news to tell you, I'm going to get carried away. Because Brother Branham, he got carried away. God have pity. They don't know the first thing about a prophet. Every prophet's got to die, Brother Citron. They got to go. The true prophets coming up are going to die. They're going to get killed. First of all, they can't be killed. Then the magic word is that we have found the Achilles' heel. We know how to kill them, and they'll kill them. And they'll lie there three and a half days and there'll be a resurrection.

God's last warning to the world that's gone down. You see, the rapture is secret. And the resurrection is secret to the Gentiles that nobody really knows. And the bride gets out of here one and two at a time. It's very secret. And the prophet said, yes, there is a secret rapture like the woman in a trap in Irving, I mean, he said. Yeah. Now, how come everybody believes this message? They're not. correct Brother Branham, say, Brother Branham, you know that was a, that secret rapture junk, you know, that was said by a woman in an Irving, I mean, he said, I went to Brother Branham on the same store, I thought I had it by the short hair, that, you know, back, eee, where it hurts the back of the neck. My wife used to do this, she'd take the hair and put her finger like a little ring, you twist, you know, they called that hunger and it, eee, yi, yi, short hair, eee, right

by the back of the neck, doesn't feel too good, my wife was good at her pinches, whatever.

Who's the worst little man, boy that didn't like to be pinched in church, who's that, Christopher? How do you think, Chris? I'm with you, Chris. I like your pinched in church, you're out of church. Oh, yeah, right by the short hair, you know. That's where it is. That's where that pull is. Can't stand that pull. They don't like that pull, see? They don't want that. Can't stand it. Nobody, nobody wants that. Brother Van came right by and he said, now look here, he said, I'm going to tell you something. He said, that rapture absolutely is something that you know about in the sense that you're familiar with the word, but you don't know anything about it. And what you do know about it is wrong. Like I said, I tried to go to him and say, now, Brother Brown, this message that you preached, Secret Rapture, you know, that Secret Rapture, I said, brought up by this woman in an early night meeting, fell flat on her back in a darkened room and spoke in tongues prophesied. And he looked at me and he said, well, he said to me, it's the Secret Rapture anyway. I spoke to him by the short hair, see. Proved my point. Now we're preaching the presence and so they're saying, well, that's what Russell preached. I don't care if the devil with four horns preached it. I

don't care. I don't care if all the devils in hell came down. and had a barbecue and a sideshow. And every trumpet came down gilded and beautiful and swayed and tinkered in the breeze and blew out lovely words and lovely songs. It doesn't bug me one little bit because the presence is still real. As far as I'm concerned, you do what you want with it. Oh, yeah. And so Brother Branham came and he said, I've got news for you people. He said, you don't understand the rapture. And when you hear it, And the people do understand it's going to cause a fight.

Scoffers are going to rise.

Yeah. Now, we talked about that which concerns the rapture, concerning your thinking. But Brother Branham said in page 6, and I won't have time to go into this, I want to speak on the subject of the rapture. So what's the subject? Rapture.

And a subject that nobody knows like he knows it. And if you don't know it like he knows it, you ain't got it. And you ain't going.

Well, you say, Brother Vail, I don't know that. Well, let's put a little joke to it. Here's the goal. When I was going to a certain place to take certain training, a little joke came out. And this guy says to his girl, he said, listen, he said, do you know the difference between a streetcar and a taxi? And she said, no. He said, great, we'll take a streetcar.

So if you don't know the truth of a rapture, you don't know a taxi from a streetcar. You follow what I'm saying? All right, that's the truth of it. You see, I could have said something about a horse from the mule, but... Or a cow. That's not as good as the joke.

Because you see, the streetcar and the taxi are both means of conveyance and will get you home.

And I'm going to tell you, if you miss the last bus you walk home, you'll be here for the Great Tribulation.

The rapture means catching the weight. And Brother Branagh said, we're dealing with the rapture.

And let's say the rapture is the taxi. Then you don't take a streetcar. Because though they both speak of conveyance, one is not the other. And when you speak of rapture being a catching up, the rapture that the world preaches is not the rapture. They're going to stay here and miss the bus. Do

you see what I'm talking about? Now he said, I'm going to background it. And he said, the Lord is my light and my salvation. All right. The word Lord. That's the one we're talking about. He is my light. That means my brightness, my clarity, my revelation.

And the revelation which is my Lord. He's my deliverance because that's what salvation is. Now, if you ain't got the right revelation of him and what he's doing, you ain't got no rapture. You got no deliverance.

So, when this comes upon the earth, you're not going to make it. Now, you say, Brother Vail, I don't like that kind of preaching. I don't like it either. So, I'm not as bloodthirsty as people think I am.

But I got to preach what I got to preach. I got no choice. Now, he says, of whom shall I be afraid? In whom shall I be afraid? The Lord is my strength of my life. Of whom should I be afraid? Now, he tells you. At this time, the bride has Christ in life and deliverance. And there is no fear.

Why are people so scared? I

don't understand. It's just like years ago when Brother Brandon would preach on the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And if anybody doesn't have the Holy Ghost, they'd run to the altar. Every preacher about runs to the altar. I almost sat there. Old reprobate bail. Cruddiest of the cruddiest. Never, never ran for it. I said, just a minute. Either I got it or I don't.

Now, if I don't got it, I better run. If I do got it, I better not run.

Then I said, well, brethren, you see, don't talk to me about you see. I see it's you that don't see.

Why should I make God a liar just to preach somebody? Somebody wants to keep running up and say, well, I don't know if I got it. Well, I do know that I got it.

What if you made a mistake? Well, that's the way it was supposed to be.

How am I going to find out? Tell me. Will I go to heaven and have an audience? Will I pull him down? Is this a dish in me? It's

not even in my mouth, the word of faith.

I do what the Bible says. No, he said, Whom shall I be afraid? Why shall I be afraid?

What's there to be afraid of?

The governor has come. The long, long night has passed. The morning breaks at last. And hush the dreadful sound and fear the blast as o 'er the distant hill. Never mind the distant hill. He's here.

It must be the breaking of the day. It is the breaking of the day.

It's no longer saying, Would God it were morning. Would God it were night. It's morning.

You say, what about these hard times coming? What about them?

What's it got to do with it? See, that's the trouble. People say, well, I think I ought to find something to be a scared of. Go ahead, be my guest. Maybe like a few more diseases. I'm trying to get rid of my diseases. Would you like a few of mine?

Are you looking for more pills? Oh, he said, no, Brother Van. Then why? You look for more fear. Why scared? Now you say, well, Brother Van, you said you're running scared. That's a different type of fear. My running scared is this, to be 100 % with the message. and I fear that one little tiny point I might not be.

The other fears, they

win. When the wicked eat my enemies, my foes shall come to eat my flesh up. They'll stumble and fail. The wholesome chaps about me, my heart won't fear. They rise in war, I'll be confident. For I've desired the Lord, and I seek after it, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Behold the beauty of the Lord, and inquire in his temple. He said, that's what I've always longed for, to know I'm bride.

Sure, we've got a bride message. When you believe the word, it proves you're part of the bride. For in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in the pavilion. Well, if you're hidden in the pavilion, they can't get at you. In the secret of his tabernacle, that's the bride. She's a secret bride for a secret rapture.

He hides me. I'm set upon a rock, the rock of revelation. Why, the bride's waiting for revelation. And the revelation is this. Am I a part of the rapture? Absolutely.

Absolutely. Now, he said, some of you differ from me. Heard they differed. They all differed. Everybody differed. William Branham alone had the revelation. Why? He said it's going to bring on scoffers. Scoffers of what? The message. You

believe that? What's the message? The first third of their answer.

The first third of their answer. And then they say, well, Brother Bill believes it's a progression. I certainly do. Brighter and brighter. It's a perfect day. I'm going on and on. It's more brighter and brighter. I'm not brighter. He's brighter. I'm not more loving. He's more loving. I'm not more graceful. He is more full of grace. I'll accede to Christ any day of the week. He's got it all. And I'm hanging around for the drippies. Oh yeah. Or they're going to say all things continue. Don't mean to tell me that from the first day to the next to the next to all seven it all runs the same. You get born again and you come up and that's the way it is. That's the way it isn't.

Got to have a prophet. Got to have the presence.

Or they say get away with that stuff. Or get away. That's fine.

Brother Brandon said Then look for impersonations of truth. What's impersonation of truth? Now, impersonation, he means, he imitates me to the end that he's going to deceive somebody. What's impersonation of truth? To bring the Bible to the end that you're going to prove somebody. Right with Cain. Why, he said, don't tell me the first truth offering is not in the Bible. Why? He said the first fruit offering is superior to the sacrifice offering. He said anybody can see that. Why? He said, look, let's face it. He said lamb's blood makes good fertilizer. And look what I got out of the fertilizer. Beautiful fruit. Why? He said, I'm there. And Abel said, now hold it, hold it, hold it. The revelation says blood, then fruit. You've got the same people saying the same thing right now. They don't believe in the presence. They don't believe in the message.

They don't believe in the rapture. It makes a difference. This is the hour catching away. This is what the message is all about. This is what William Branham is all about. This is what the presence is all about. Rapture. And they say, let me see now. What is it all about? Well, you see, brother, what it is, it's not that stuff that Baal preaches, that presence, and those other churches like him. What it is, it's those peripheral doctrines.

He tried to pull that on Bob Brown, and Bob said, Eddie, this is the message.

But

we've got to be real sweet.

I'm going to tell you something. I've got a tougher head than a whore. You say, brother, Baal, watch it. You watch it. The chips are down. You do what you want.

You do what you want. And I'm going to do what I want. And when the day comes I can't do it, I walk out. And

I'll take my battle down the road muttering to myself, you do what you want. That goes for anybody and everybody.

Brother Brown stood against the whores.

And he did not take any one person apart. He took the whole system apart. And I'm not thinking of any one person today. I'm thinking of everything that comes against this word because Brother Branham said it would be scoffers over their rapture doctrine of

which shalt is the message. And Brother Branham called it his message that he was packing. And he said, God's message is what he was packing. He said, I was only the voice. And

he said, that's rapture. Oh, you say, but it's not. I don't care what you say. You do what you want.

You see, you're so scribbled up in your minds and so rotten in your mind. with your creeds, your dogmas, and your spiritual whoredoms, and your fornicating with the word, messing everybody's life up, that they simply cannot get to the place of understanding that rapture, the way Brother Branham taught it, is the only way it is right. And everything else is wrong. When

he said, Brother Bale, listen, there's some great fine men out there. I agree there's great fine men out there. My good friend Peter was a great and fine man, a wonderful man. He was a marvelous man. He opened the door to the Jews. He opened the door to the Gentiles. He was a spokesman for the whole company at Pentecost. He had the keys, so to speak. And when James the Judaizer came down, he said, Now, just a minute, Peter. There's that Barnabas there with Paul. I want you to know this one thing. We've all decided that the Gentiles cannot have things. They must not engage in fornication. They must not have things strangled or offered to idols. And this boy hasn't been circumcised. Now, you know jolly well that if he's going to be one of us and he's going to be in the bride, the kingdom, he's got to be circumcised. And they worked on him. And Peter worked on him. Their bondage was circumcised. And Paul came down and said, Peter, what did you do? Oh, now we love each other, Brother Paul. We just love each other. He said, love my foot. Barnabas, out, out. If you've got so little, the Judaizers can take a Gentile and

bring him back to you.

Barnabas was gone. Peter,

who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? You that ate with the Jews, the Gentiles. Now, he said, you're trying to put a burden on them more than we can bear. Who did sin when you went down to the Gentiles and ate with them? You're a god, Peter. And Peter shrunk off. Full of the Holy Ghost. Let

me tell you flat. Men like Bosworth didn't know in the presence of William Branham. Of

another age.

Your doctrines from yesteryear to this message. You can't do one thing about it. Those men full of the Holy Ghost years ago have no part with us.

Because there was no revelation for the Holy Ghost to witness to at that time. Concerning the rapture. The only witness had was it's in the word. It's there. There's a mystery about it. And Brother Branham said the first. Pull of the rapture. And remember, the seventh seal is in three packs.

And he said, the devil could get a hold of this. Great damage would be done. Are you listening, people? Are you listening? I've been trying to tell you for a long time. Revelation 10, 1 to 7 was the seventh seal is the rapture, is the whole thing. Is that coming?

We'll get into more and more. It's because we're going to close now because time's all but over. I want you to understand, understand this. There's a war going on. It's a spiritual war. And the scoffers are there because they can't stand the rapture.

They can't stand the presence. You say, what if you're wrong? Then I'm wrong. You

say, oh, Brother Vail, don't Brother Vail me. I've watched you. I watch you all the time. Don't think I don't.

I'm where the apostles were. If this isn't it, who gives a rip? It's not that you don't give a rip, but my God, what are you going to do? Tell me what are you going to do? Let the women prove they got it by making the prettiest dress. You never compare to the Miller girls, I don't think, because of years of training.

Let me paint a sign instead of my good friend. Brian here. Oh, Brian, you'll see a sign. You'll see the signs of the times.

Catastrophe, my boy, and judgment. What are the women do? Bake a better cake? Fat. We've got mechanics sitting here. I'd like to see you fix some cars today. Got engineers sitting here. A couple of them, maybe. Who knows how many? I don't know. Salesmen. College graduates. What can you do or get anybody to do for you? Nothing. It's faith. I believe this message. This is what Brother Brandon preached. According to my understanding, past

21, I'm an American citizen. I'm democratic in my principles, not politically, but in my principles as a democratic nation, so -called republic. I've got the right to stand and preach what I want and to contradict what I want, to admonish what I want, and do what I want as long as I realize.