Thanksgiving 89 #2

So we pray, Heavenly Father, we're happy to be here with these people gathered in your name, and we know, Lord, it's way more serious than we want to actually admit to ourselves, and that is that they are your people, Lord, and we're responsible to you and to them for them, Lord, and we know that's a very big order. But we know, Father, that you made a provision, such as when Brother Branham quoted in Matthew 5 .48, be perfect even as your Father, which is in heaven is perfect. He said, since God commanded it, God made a way for it. He had to do it, and he gave us a blood which scatters sin until there be no evidence of sin. Then how can you call a man a sinner when there isn't any evidence of the sin? And so, Lord, we rest in perfect grace tonight and we know that if we're full of mistakes and we make mistakes and things are said that shouldn't be said, your word will correct it just the same because your word is beyond our word. Help us to settle down tonight in the peace of the living God and just look at your word, Lord, and see that we might see something. Not anything, Lord, that's going to be a circus or a great display, but rather, Lord, to see the timbers in that building word itself that builds a church, that is the word built together. So we commend ourselves to you now, Lord, in hope and faith. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated. Now, it's nice to be... I always lie about that. You know, it is nice to be here in one way. Another way it's not nice because there's responsibility attached to it. And I'm away from home where I'm kind of used to being over the last several years. They always say there's no place like your own bed, but boy, you don't believe that until you come to the place where you find out it's true. And it doesn't mean that, you know, you made your bed and you're lying. It doesn't mean you've been so sick at one time that when you get used to a certain thing, you don't want to give up your home comforts. And when you get sick, the first place you want to run is back home. And when you lose your temper over things, you think about how great it was back home, and you know what it is. It ain't no place like home. And when you consider that you talk about a home in heaven, then you wonder why we want to go there. Because the home on earth, I'll give it up any time at all for what lies over yonder, where we have a full assurance now. I can't see everybody, but at home we have much fewer people, and that's much more comforting. And I can usually see all the people there, and I can greet them, and I'm always so happy to see people like I see Dave Wall as he gets down from Cleveland. I was happy to see Dave. And then I see Sammy come across with his parents. And I see Mitch come down there from Chicago with Rose. And I look around at all, and I get very happy to see the people and ask how they are and what they're doing. Those are none of my business. But it actually makes everybody feel good because we know we've got an interest. And in our church, we do have the... The atmosphere in the sense that we believe and thereby and therefore inculcate within the church as much as we can. A real family relationship where it isn't where everybody simply knows what everybody's doing because we're such a small church. But we'd like to see everybody interested in what everybody's doing in order to be a family, to be helpful. to be nonjudgmental, but to really believe we're a part of each other and belong. And that feeling, how could we possibly say that we have that feeling toward a bride universal because we are such lovely brides and we don't have it in our own home church. That's like saying I can love God and hate my fellow man. And the Bible says, how can you say you love God and you don't love your fellow man? Brother Brandon said you serve God by serving man. And you love God by loving your fellow man, which, of course, is your brother. And remember, your fellow man is not Cain. When John spoke of, you know, you're supposed to love your brother or you're a murderer if you hate him, he talked about Cain and Abel. And he turned right around and he made king of the world. And you're not supposed to love the world. So what you see in there is that you tolerate the world. You're good to the world. You don't give reproach upon Christ. But you love your brother. It's like a family wife and husband situation.

I'll get to preaching tomorrow night. I'm going to be here.

You know me, I'm sneaky. Jack, you, I ain't as bad as you. I'm ten times worse. Listen, man, you flatter yourself. You really get to my age. But you know these preachers that preach this spiritual husbandry stuff. And they're rough on their congregations, you know. Well, there's a lot of that going on, you know. Well, we despise that. Well, we ought to despise it. This bit where Christians in their local churches can't come together in real love. They want this coming together, but they don't pay the price of being family. Listen, brothers and sisters, we're moving on a tide whether you know it or not. I've not been a loving person in a way, but I love people like I've never loved people. I feel for them. I've seen God move through the love of God. Where we've had healings and nobody prayed for anybody. There was an absolute miracle. And I'm looking for that. For me and for everybody. So I greet you with the same affection, all of you. And I've known a lot of you, but I don't see you tonight because I don't particularly look for you. And if I did, I would be taking all night doing it. But I want you to know I love you. and I have great affection for you, and I'll see Doc Cash tonight, and I tell you, I've never seen Doc look so good. You know, this fellow, he calls himself a friend of mine, Joe Raskin. You know, Brother Bailey says, you're just like my daddy. You're going to live to be 85 in good health. I said, oh, Joe, can you tell me you love me? Well, I love Doc the same way. I can see you're going to live to be 100 the way he's going.

I don't hate you, Doc, but it'd be all right if you lived to be, you know. The Lord carries and could use you. Now tonight, I'll be about three and a half hours to four. I'm just reading my notes. Try to take this sort of slow and try to give your reasons for what I say. I don't know if I'll be that fortunate, but I hope the Lord will help me. But I want to talk about Thanksgiving because as much as over the years I have not been open, to using occasion messages, I found that Brother Branham was. And you can't take a better illustration or example than Brother Branham. And so I want to talk about Thanksgiving from the word of the Lord. And I'm going to start and maybe use much of the Book of Revelation, that is, in the sense I may go there, than to other books. And in Revelation 11, 15 to 19, it says, And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and we shall reign forever and ever. Isn't that fantastic? That's like me saying, Hey, I want to reject Bell, me and my family, and we love this house so much, we just... So happy Jack's got it. We're just going to live right with him.

Either that is amazing grace or crass impertinence.

You think so? We shall reign with him forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their seats fell down on their faces and worshiped God, saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was and art to come. Because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and has reigned, and the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come in the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and thou should give rewards unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, even small and great, and should destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of the testament. and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake and great hail. I really should read that twice, but I read it slow enough I don't have to read it again. Now in verse 17, we notice here that John has made special note that the four and twenty elders are giving thanks unto God because of a very special event which he names a little later. A day of great thanksgiving has been set aside and now is being celebrated by those four and twenty elders because of that very special event. Now, these four and twenty elders that are mentioned here are mentioned in three other places in the Bible. Number one, we won't read it present, but later. In Revelation 4, they are thanking the eternal God as creator and rightful owner of all creation. Now, they must have been seeing something that you and I are not looking at at present because this creation is hardly worth thanking God for. All we can do is ask God to do something about it. But they're thanking God that he is creator. And they're thanking him for this wonderful, great creation. And let's face it, they are a part of it. Now, in Revelation 5, at the opening of the sealed book, they are playing their hearts. They are singing a new song. They are offering incense in worship. They speak of their redemption and happily give back to God his covenant of promise of reigning on earth. And they're holding up the covenant before him in happy anticipation. And it is a fate to complete as far as they are concerned, and they are ecstatic. In Revelation 19, a vast throng of people begin screaming, Hallelujah, and praising God for the judgment and burning of the great whore, because they realize that these are the just and righteous judgments of a just and righteous God, are now not only avenged as righteous themselves, but God has avenged the blood of the martyrs. The whole bride will soon be coming together in one place and one mind. As the smoke of judgment rises, this great song screams hallelujah and great thanksgiving. When this happens, the 24 elders join in with their happy, righteous, and just endorsement.

You'd be too good to believe this, wouldn't you?

See, I'm known as a preacher without love.

I'm brutal according to those who don't understand.

But you're all going to sit back and say, I wish it weren't happening.

People think I'm a bloodthirsty preacher. I

got news for you. Whatever God does, I hope I'm in agreement with it.

And I am not some silly, inane, foolish individual who thinks he can teach God a lesson. In

short, I am not Cain.

And I cannot say with Brother Branham that I will love him just as much now if he throws me into hell forever, if I have the same spirit. I cannot say that.

But I can say this. I believe I've got something within me that says God has got to be right.

That he's just and holy and loving. When the smoke of the torment goes up, they scream, Amen! Hallelujah!

Millions now living will die.

They won't live. And I'm not happy. My voice doesn't mean I'm full of disgust and bitterness. I'm just telling you as it was in the days of Noah.

And Brother Branham said, typed one out of eight, but he didn't explain it. And that's not going to either. But when the smoke of the harlot, she

is behind it all, goes up, they get very happy. Then everyone gets real excited because the great marriage supper of the Lamb is announced. And that means the harlot church is gone forever. And the last Adam and the last Eve. First

Adam was a cross. The

second bride could not wait to be messed with, could

not wait for her husband. The

third bride will not

stand on the last eve, will take over the millennial Eden according to the covenant. On

to the new Jerusalem according to the same covenant. Now, since the book of Revelation does not run in strict chronology, and in continuity, but repeats itself as it unfolds itself and has many interpolations, which the prophet showed to us and we, by his example, can also do a little. I am not interested in trying to work a chronology, but just getting out to you what I feel it says here and apply it to us tonight. All right. The four times we see the elders is where we read in Revelation 11, 15 to 19. And we will now go to those other places where we see them in Revelation chapter 4, 9 to 11. And when those beasts gave glory, give glory and honor and thanks unto him that sat on the throne who liveth forever and ever. The four and twenty elders, and I'm talking about them specifically. fell down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they were created. Now, we might read all the other places too in which we will come to, but there's a very remarkable thing here. And that is that as we read in verses 9 to 11 in chapter 4, we see a very remarkable thing that is going to take place next in Revelation 11, 15 to 19, which we read. And that is in Revelation 4, 9 to 11, we see God as creator and therefore lawful sovereign of what he created. But in Revelation 11, 15 to 19, it is very apparent that God is not legally ruler.

He's not legally ruler. So he made it all. And it's all his. And what Christ bought by his blood was not yet in his possession, but it had to be wrested and wrenched away from Satan and his cosmos. in spite of the fact of true ownership and true redemption to get it back. It stands right there that something needs to be done. Revelation 4 gives the case. Revelation 11 shows the position. Now, I'm sure you know positively that Revelation 11, 15 to 19, can only reestablish Revelation 4, 9, and 11 through Revelation 5, the opening of the seal. Right? It's exactly true. So we go to Revelation 5, 1 to 10. This is where Brother Branham took us. I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals. Completely written in seals. I saw a strong voice. A strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? No man in heaven, no man in earth, no man under the earth was able to open the book, neither to look thereupon as though he had some idea as if he were to look at the book, he could open it. Now, isn't that strange that all the preachers for 2 ,000 years have thought that they could look on the book and perhaps do something about it?

Well, come on, you've read all the books on the book of Revelation.

Why, there wasn't even anybody in heaven that could do it as pertaining to a man. But boy, that didn't stop all the birds from taking a crack at it.

I wept much. The

most loving man in the world was John. He just stood there and cried like a baby. Because no man was found worthy to open the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders said, wait not. Behold the line of the tribe of Judah. The root of David hath prevailed to open the book and loose the seven seals. And John thought, well, goody. If no man can do it, bless God, there's something in creation able to do it. Because that's what he was told.

See, this fellow was just sitting here as a scribe looking at things. He didn't have much understanding of anything. He just wrote down what he saw. That's right, he was only a scribe. He wasn't a prophet. And I beheld and lo, in the midst of the throne, under the four beasts, in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb that had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits that God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand to him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. They sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book. You opened the seals up where thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation, and hast made us unto our God, kings and priests. And we shall reign on thee. Now, notice in Revelation 5 and 6 that a lamb came, a bleeding lamb came, and there was a bloodshed which gave the enablement of that one to go and open up the book. Now, let's take a look at the lamb and the blood. Revelation 1, 5 to 6. And the Lord Jesus, who is the faithful witness, And the first begotten of the dead, even the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion and honor forever. All right. We go now to Revelation, the seventh chapter. And in verse 14. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the man. Now in the 12th chapter and in the 11th verse, it says here, And after three days and a half the Spirit of life... No, that's not the one I want. The 11th chapter. I've got to get to the 12th chapter. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto death. Revelation 13 and 8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names were not written in the book of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Now what I'm looking at here is this man that was the Lamb that crucified one that was able to open the book. And I want you to understand, we're looking at the crucifixion, the great Christ paid. You understand what I'm doing? So follow closely. All right, be careful. This vision purported by Usher to be 96 AD and conceded by Brother Brannon to be correct, perhaps not perfectly, but within that order, this vision is about 60 some odd years after Jesus died and rose from the dead. And this same vision could not be fulfilled by Jesus, by the shedding of his blood, and his resurrection per se.

Not even by his office as mediator, as in Hebrews 9, 11 -15. Now let's go back and look at it, and I'll tell you what I've got in my mind. Hebrews 9, 11 -15. But Christ being come, and high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us, the whole thing wrapped up in that one act, for if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purged your conscience from dead works to serve the living God, and for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Pardon me. Now that's very good. You notice that goes back. takes care of everything back as they look forward. The same thing set the foundation for what was in the forward, but it wasn't evidently time. Now, all right then. The vision which is about 60 -some years odd, 60 -some odd years after Jesus died and rose again, and this same vision couldn't be fulfilled then, even though he died and rose per se by itself, even through the office of mediator, but must now fulfill that part of his before the foundation of the earth covenant.

You hear what I said? I know you all don't get the taste on covenants. You haven't gotten yet, you who heard them. That there was the covenant of the Father and the Son before the foundation of the world. And it says in 13, slain from before the foundation of the world.

So know what I'm saying here. There's a part of his before the foundation of the earth covenant that he did not fulfill on earth as a lamb and in heaven as a mediator. But that which he does in Revelation 5, which he could not do unless he was both lamb and mediator, he is now able to do. Now, what I say is based exactly upon Brother Branham telling us that Jesus could not fulfill. all his ministry when he was on earth in the flesh because there was not yet time. He didn't have time to fulfill it. And he referred us to Luke 17 and in Matthew 4. He couldn't fulfill Luke 17. He predicted it. He knew it would happen again. And he knew that he would go to the Gentiles in the form of the Holy Spirit. You see, there was something he couldn't do. Although what he did laid the foundation for us. He's looking for it. So you can see what I'm building on. Is the truth vindicated by Brother Branham, the great vindicated prophet himself. So here we see as Brother Branham said, Jesus had to leave the mercy seat. Take the sealed book, open it, tear off the seals, hand the book back to the one on the throne. Then the one on the throne comes down. Revelation 5 and 1. comes down to Revelation 10 and 1, and the Lamb, in Revelation 5, 6, and 7, from behind the throne on the mercy seat, in the midst of the elders and the beasts, having come forward and taken the book, he now climbs upon the throne of Almighty God, fulfilling Revelation 3 .21, which is in the 7th church, where in it says, He that overcooketh will I grant to sit in my throne, even as I am set down in my Father's throne. And at the same time, the voice says, Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

All right, let's face it. You've got one down here knocking on the door and one up there sitting on a throne, and they're not both gods. I've been accused of teaching two gods, the persons that say that as a liar and doesn't know the book. Because if I taught two gods, I'd say Jesus. God the Son, I wouldn't say Son of God, and sons have beginning. I don't care what you're made out of.

It's so simple, this is what Stephen tried to illustrate. Let's go now to the book of Revelation, the 11th chapter.

In the 15th verse of the 11th chapter, the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord. and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, of course, began worshiping the Almighty God. Now that statement there, concerning Jesus Christ seated on the Father's throne, and the kingdoms of the world becoming his own personal possession, if you want to, you can turn over to the book of Psalms, and there in the second chapter, verses six through eight, you will see what is said. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion, I will declare the decree. The Lord has said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee a heathen for thine inheritance, and the utmost parts of the world for thy possession. Now that's pretty mixed up in there.

You put them all together, you can see absolutely there is a promise for all of them based upon a certain condition which are other than Scripture. Now in Psalm 40, and I haven't got time to do this. In Psalm 45, We're dealing with the very same thing again in 6 and 7. And he says here, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of thy kingdom is the right scepter. Thou lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity. Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. So this one here has got to be under God.

In other words, God is his God.

Now, and the exact and perfect revelation by vindication of what we are talking about is over here in the book of Hebrews beginning in verses 1 to 14. God in many ways and in many parts spake in time past unto the fathers in the prophets. Just like Brother Branham said, it's right there in the Greek. It's not by but it's in. Has in these last days spoken unto us in son. Whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages. Who being the brightness or the effulgence or the outflowing or the outreign of his glory, even the expression of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power. Now he's talking about that one who in this day, that day when he took flesh, God spoke in him. When he had by himself purged our sins and sat down the right hand of majesty on high. Being made so much better than the angels, he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And again, I'll be to him a father, he shall be to me a son. And again, when he bringeth in the firstborn into the world, he says that all the angels of God worship him. And of the angels he said, Who maketh his angels spirits, his ministers flames of fire. But unto the son he says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. And the scepter of thy righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated nakedness. Therefore God, even thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou remainest. And they shall wax old as their garment, as the vesture thou shalt fold them up. And they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy ears shall not fail. But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, and I make thine enemies thy push -to. Are they not all ministering spirits? Then forth and minister for them who are the heirs of salvation. And in Hebrews, the second chapter, 5 to 8, as far as we'll go. But on front of the angels hath he not put in subjection the word to come? Whereof we speak. But in one place testifies what is man you're mindful in, the son of man you visit him. You make him the Lord of the angels, crown him with glory and honor. Set him over the work of your hands. You put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all things in subjection under him. Let nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. All right? Now, what we're looking at here, as we say, is this one that you're making a great, Thanksgiving time over because his time has come in order to take over that which the Father has promised him and we are going to share in it. Now, we're going to look back and show you that this was said by absolute vindication. In the book of Romans, the 15th chapter, verses 15 to 9, Paul claims vindication for having said and written every single thing that he said and wrote. Okay, beginning at 15. Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in the same sort as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. I have thereof wherefore I may glory. through Jesus Christ and these things which pertain to God. For I will not dare to speak of anything which God hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. Paul said, I came fully vindicated before all the Gentiles. I never told them one thing until, first of all, God manifested to me that I was a mouthpiece of God and what I said was right. This man stood exactly as the Apostle Paul. I mean, William Branham, the Omega, stood exactly as the Apostle Paul through the pillar of fire. Now, let us also notice in that, we're looking at 1 Corinthians, the second chapter, verses 1 to 5. And I, brethren, when I came to you, he is this to your Gentiles. Came not with excellent to you speech or wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, saying, Jesus Christ in him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and fear and much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and the power, that your faith should not stand simply in me saying something, but it was backed up. An absolute vindicated message. So what we're looking at here then, when Paul is teaching from the Old Testament that this is the Christ who is going to be ruling in the future kingdom under the power of God, wherein we are priests and kings unto him, it is absolutely vindicated. And now John breaks up into a vision which visions... does not vindicate the Apostle Paul because vindication does not vindicate vindication. Vindication is vindication. It is simply a vision of what was already vindicated and put in proper and true perspective and more like what was already vindicated. All right. So the son who was the recognized son of David, son of man,

Man of Revelation 5, recognized by God, is now truly Melchizedek because he took the book out of the hand of the one on the throne and climbs on the throne. Okay, John saw that. So let's go to Hebrews, the sixth chapter, where a vindicated man talks about it. Now, we're not just here to say, hey, I'll tell you something. That Old Testament that the Jews had, that was a mighty fine book. Now, there's a lot of things in there people don't understand. But you better believe it. Jesus came on the scene, fully vindicated who he was and his ministry. Right. The apostles and others endowed after the resurrection also had a sort of vindication, which was great ministries. And Paul calls it... Signs and wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost. But Paul comes on the scene and by absolute vindication takes the same Old Testament scripture, vindicates Christ, opens the door for a vindicated gospel to the Gentiles. And now at the end time we have a further vindication and men stand back. and arrogate to themselves a stupid so -called authority, a premoral agency, to say, I don't believe that. Let me tell you tonight, you that hear my voice, you are under condemnation. And so am I and under judgment.

You can play with vindication. I've been criticized. A man told me right today, a fellow criticized me all the time. All he can preach is vindication. William Grant preached 80 % of his message is vindication. And you say you believe the prophet and want me to change. You're lying. Why don't you come and face me?

Just come on and face me. I'm not afraid. I've seen these guys fall by the wayside.

Well, let's go to Hebrews. And I'm nobody. I'm just telling you. I stick with this word. You do what you want. Hebrews 6, 19 and 20. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. Now hold it. Which entereth that within the veil, whither the forerunner. For us is entered, even Jesus, made an high priest after the order of Melchizedek. Now, did you hear what I read? You didn't hear what I read. You thought you heard what I read. You're going to hear as I go down the road, though. It says right here, Which

hope we have is an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which entereth into that within the veil. And Brother Brannon said, Here comes the stinger. He said it was death to enter into the veil at one time. And now it's death not to enter in the veil. Now it says right here, we have a forerunner who has entered within the veil. And he's speaking of the temple where the veil was rent from the top to the bottom. And I understand that veil was literally about four feet thick.

Revelation 5 and 1, which is Revelation 10.

God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. fulfilling his part of the covenant, comes down in 1 Thessalonians 4, 16, and fulfills 1 Corinthians 15, 20 -28. Now, Revelation 5 and 1 is the one on the throne that had the book. He wants that book opened by a man. And there isn't anybody in sight can do it.

Now, the mediator Jesus comes forth from off of the mercy seat behind the throne. Takes the book out of the hand of God. Who is his father. And brother Branham said we are not Trinity. We are not oneness. And neither are we two -ness. Now you try to accuse me of teaching to God. You might be sitting right here tonight. And you are not right. Because Jesus is the son of God. And sons have beginnings. And I don't care if sons are the exact substance. and the literal image and the outrage of the Father is still a son.

Now, you do what you want with your missions, but you oneness are wrong and you Trinitarians are wrong. So you better start changing your doctrine or you're simply not with the truth. I'm sorry, but that's it. But I can't be too sorry because, look, I'm not fooling with God.

I spent too many hours and years examining my soul to be fooled with this one. All right, Revelation 5 .1, which is Revelation 10 .1. The great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is going to fulfill his part now in the covenant. And in the covenant, he comes down in 1 Thessalonians 4 .16, For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangels of the trumpet of God, and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. You've got two lords. And the Bible has many, not many, but several places of two lords where the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand.

and God even thy God. He mentions the place of God, and one of those places is Adonai. I haven't got time to go into Hebrew and Greek because I'm not a student of it. I'd have to go look the whole thing up and run a chain on it.

And Brother Branham correctly said, when that spirit that's in the midst of us becomes incarnate to us, we're crowned in king to king and lord to lord, and you tell me what spirit incarnates itself in what person.

Well, you believe or don't you believe?

See, I don't fuss with anybody. I just lay it out. You do what you want. My wife and my kids, my congregation.

I love them, and I can get sorry for them. But to compromise, no.

I've turned the corner. You know something? If I'm not right, I'm a dead duck. I'm worse than a dead duck. Because a dead duck, God can raise back and bring in the millennium as just a duck.

Because he loses nothing. But he will bring me back and throw me in the lake of fire where I will be destroyed with the finality.

Now it hasn't fully sunk into my consciousness, but I know that much.

So we're going to get to real Thanksgiving before it's over. That's what I'm talking about, whether you know it or not. Now the Bible says this one comes down with the kusma, which is the shout, which is the voice of the cock swing giving the time to the rowers. But also in 1 Corinthians 15, the word subdue comes from that very word, which means to put into order. So therefore the Lord came down with church order.

Now what about all you Pentecostals that you've been defending for so long they can't even put tongues in a little room? And you that think church order is putting tongues in a little room. You're wrong. Church order is headship of God. Bringing all things under His feet for the sake of Jesus Christ so we can have a millennium. And after the millennium, go to the new Jerusalem where they hand the power back to the Father. Come on, let's understand Scripture.

These folk in heaven were shouting an empty wagon Pentecostal shout to be shouting. Like I heard a guy's tape not long ago and he just wanted people to scream and scream. Don't do it around here. Unless when I preach the unsearchable riches and bring you to the depths of the things in Christ, you rise and shine and scream, then I'll take it. Well, I don't want this other stuff. I'm not interested. I was Pentecostal too many years. You're not talking to some kid up here that hasn't gone through it.

This is the scripture.

At the presence, the coming down. That's when it starts putting the church in order. So there can be a bride. And she's not going to fall.

She's not going to be as Brother Brandon called the prostitute Eve. You say, well, that's an awful strong term. I've just learned to love it. You think it didn't show me that I don't love my sisters? You come to my church and find this.

That's right. Brother Branham's right. I can contradict him for 15 seconds. I just can't wait for him to get back. I can't wait. I've got to wait. Now listen. Revelation 11 and 17.

I've got to turn to it before

I can read it. Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned. Now notice, it never was a time when he didn't have his great power. God never was bereft of any power. It was just a matter of a legal assessment that he had to live up to, being God. So now that legal assessment time is over. And he can take back what he allocated, put it back in his hands, restore everything, and bring everything to the peak that he wanted to. Now he listened again. saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and art to come, because thou hast taken to thyself thy great power and reign. Now, I'm talking about a Thanksgiving Day in heaven. What John saw as ascribed in a vision. He saw the day when men, the four and twenty elders are men. I am dealing with men. Of which Brother Branham said they were the patriarchs and the twelve apostles. That's what he said. Don't ask me to explain it. I'm not in the explaining business. I'm in the preaching business. That's what I mean. And they rose up and they have a mighty Thanksgiving day. There is a great Thanksgiving day in heaven. Christ, God taking over for his Christ to give to Jesus the entire cosmos system of Revelation 11 .15. And the seven angels sounded. There were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. And the actual fact is, you can read it this way, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, even of his Christ. In other words, you see the direct relationship, what God is doing, and he's pointing it right to Jesus the Christ. In other words, the entire system is about to be handed over to the Lord Jesus Christ, which absolutely is the millennium. Now, notice in Revelation 11 and 18, And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged. And thou shouldst give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and should destroy them which destroy the earth. All right? The nations were angry. Now, remember what is going on. What is going on? The Lord has descended with the show. Is that right? Now, what does he do? He is putting his church in order, in order to get them out of here into a rapture and to the millennium. And he has a prophet standing on earth. Now, the prophet brings this message of Revelation 10, 1 to 7. And he begins bringing the church into order and the nations rise up against it. Now, I know you're fumbled right there over the thing called nations, aren't you? Don't worry about it. I don't have one bit of trouble here. And I'll show you why. Revelation chapter 17. I told you to be here for a while. And I'm not going to call a recess and preach the rest tomorrow because my job's over.

I have an easy job tonight because a lot of you came here tired. You're going to fall asleep on me. Somebody had so much turkey, you'll fall asleep. And you'll sit there sleeping and then when it's over, you'll say, that was a great sermon, wasn't it? So you see, I can't lose from winning.

All right, let's go back to 17. There came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked of me saying, come hither and I will show thee the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters. And with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. And he carried away in the spirit and the wilderness. And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast. For the names of blasphemy have the seven heads and head and horn. Now you know that beast needs power. And he's talking the world power. He's talking about real power here kid. Now he's not talking about. Something symbolical. And something that is rather under the covers. And something rather unpleasant. And something that's there that you know about me. Listen. It's power. Authority. Dynamite. He's got control. He's running things. She's running things. You hear what I'm saying? I'm not saying finger food.

The womb was covered in scarlet and purple and scarlet. And decked in gold and precious stones and pearls. Having a... golden cup in her hand full of abominations, children of fornication. Upon her forehead is written, Mystery Babylon, the great, the mother of hearts, the abomination of the earth. The abomination of the earth. I'm going to destroy those that destroy the earth.

Boy, she's a part of this stuff.

Are you listening? Huh? You better stay awake and listen. I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. and saw her in a wonder with great admiration. The angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and the beast that carries her, which has seven heads and ten horns. And the beast that thou sawest, and is not, shall ascend out of the barn of the pit and go into perdition. And they that dwell on earth shall wonder whose names are not written in the book of life, hidden from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the seven women set. And that's Rome, of course. And there are seven kings, the five have fallen, one of the yet to come. And one cometh, he must continue the short space. The beast that was and is not, even he's the eighth of the seven, and goes into perdition. And the ten horns which are soft are ten kings, which receive no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These that have one mind should give their power and strength unto the beast, and they shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them. and for he is Lord of lords and king of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen faithful. And he said unto me, The waters that you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and

tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, which shall hate the whore, shall make her death and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire. And for God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God should be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. And after these things I saw another mighty angel, another angel come from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lighted with his glory. And he cried with a mighty strong voice, saying, Babylon, the greatest fallen has fallen, and has become the habitation of devils, the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean hateful bird for all names.

Now listen, brothers and sisters. I want to ask you a question. What was the fourth kingdom that Daniel saw the stone come down, not made with hands, clean the whole thing up? Rome. Can this be different? No. No. It's the one that died, they thought died with the sword and came back. Rome died as a world power figure with its navy, its armies, and everything else, its great generals, and all it could produce was a stupid Mussolini that the allies didn't even have to take over and hang by his heels. His own people hung him up upside down. But this is that fourth nation, and it's controlled by the church. And notice they're playing footsie together. And so now the nations are angry. The whole church system is bugged. It's mad. It cannot take the prophet. It cannot take church order. It will not believe that only a few are going to make it. Already because they speak in tongues and they're all speaking in tongues, they say, see, we can't miss it. We have got to make it. Millions now living will never die. That is a lie and they know it. And when you deliberately deceive yourself and believe a lie, you are finished. You are twice dead.

Do you understand what I'm saying or shall I start over again?

Do you understand what Brother Branham talked about the beast that was wounded and came back? Do you understand this is Rome?

Do you understand in history, as far as Italy was concerned, it was always Rome, the capital.

It wasn't just a funny figure of a boot down there in the Mediterranean, although they were there. It is talking about the vested authority. And the vested authority lay in a person who could lead. And they had Caesar. They had Anthony. And they went downhill. And they recovered themselves by a pope. And now Bush is kissing his toe. And Golda Meir went there. They're all going there. Here's a man who's not worth a plug nickel.

And a church that was dead except for American money under the Marshall Plan.

Right? I'm

not a hater of Catholics or anything else. I just believe the word of God. I want to teach you something. That's what he's talking about, these nations here. Jesus is going to come and take the church over. Remember, the church says, I don't sit as a widow. I'm the bride. I'm the wife of the living God. And the Pope says, I am the prelate. I'm the vicar. And vicar means instead of. And ante means instead of. It doesn't mean against. It means instead of. And the Pope says, I'm here instead of. He claims he's the Holy Ghost. And

where are the Pentecostals? They believed in tongues. And now the preachers, the priests will speak in tongues. They've got it.

Now they're confused. We're not confused. We're talking about nations. Rome went into. What did Rome go? From physical to a spiritual.

From a Roman Empire to a Holy Roman Empire. And they're coming back because Khrushchev has apologized. Not Khrushchev, but Gorbachev has apologized. And he says, I was Christian. My mother took me there. She's religious.

1988 was the great turning point. How long, oh Lord, I don't know. But the nations are getting angry. And now they're blaspheming the name of the prophet. No longer William Brown was a great man. Now he's some great deceiver.

Like that German Antichrist, there'll soon be more books than William Branham operated by the power of the devil. And we're all in the same boat. Don't think we're going to escape it.

Now, let's go to 19 chapter 1 to 6. After these things, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Hallelujah, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. Now this is great Thanksgiving we're talking about.

Now he's telling you right here, if the Catholic Church had not joined up, the church system had not joined up with the merchants, we would not have all the pollution and all the problems with our environment. I

know you're sitting there bum -puzzled. Come on. Go back to the Garden of Eden.

Where did you start to get polluted?

Where did all this start? Cain's religion. And what is the Vatican? The house of Cain.

So what do you think?

Want to go home now? Is this kindergarten or do we want to college?

In other words, are we moving with the prophet?

Or have we yet to turn a corner?

Why did Brother Branham say he didn't pray for America any longer?

We'll get to that too if we have time.

All right, listen. We should corrupt the earth with your fornication. Prevents the blood of his servants at her hand. Again they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever now. The four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God. Sat on the throne saying, Hallelujah. And the voice came out of the throne saying, Praise our God, you servants. Ye that fear him both small and great. Listen, that came out of the throne. It was taking them on.

You think God doesn't love himself? You think God's got some kind of complex?

I'm not being mean. Look at, I'm looking at this thing here.

You know what humility is? It's believing God, what God says about himself, and believing what God says about you and what anybody else. And you don't think you've got a better idea. I

don't know how far we've got, but we've sure got to go a whole lot further. And I heard as the word voiced a great multitude, the voice of many waters, as many witnesses, and the voice of many thundering, saying, Hallelujah, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. So we see God in headship, in control, and he has started the countdown in the time of Brother Brown. Revelation 10 and 7 is based on Revelation 10 and 1. The seventh seal book is open.

That's right. Many people teach the seventh seal is not open. They fail to realize that the seventh seal has more than one part. And the part that is not open is the literal descent. of the Lord Jesus Christ coming back with the bride. And the part that is open is Revelation 1 and 10 where God came down to his prophet with the pillar of fire, revealed what he was supposed to reveal, and he is here. For Brother Branham said, my ministry is to declare that he is here and his ministry was a message. And Brother Branham said there's no such thing as a true healing revival unless there is a new message. So therefore, God is not backing up the old tired message of he's here, he's here, he's here, and he's in my heart. He was talking about the one who came down because he said in the third Exodus, just think, he said when God sent Moses down to Egypt, he did not only appear down there in signs and wonders, but he himself appeared upon Mount Sinai. So today, and he pointed to the pillar of fire picture. Now either look, you believe or you don't believe. Well, I'm looking for something else. Well, I'm happy for you.

That makes it easier for me. I don't have to worry about you. I'm looking for nothing else.

Because that pillar of fire hasn't gone. Or said somebody, well, I've got the pillar of fire. You're a liar.

If you've got the pillar of fire, you stand up on this platform, and this tape goes around the world out of places. You show me one sign that shows you got it.

A fellow came from Norway one time, picked my brains and then sat there and told me he had the pillar of fire. I don't ever shook his hands again if I did. It was purely accidental.

You understand when the real thing comes, anything else to counter it? Come on, wake up.

Don't spend your money and your life on that which isn't bread. And don't try to fool the people. What you see here is what you get. I am telling you what I believe from God's word based on the prophets. If I am wrong, I am wrong. I'm sorry.

But I'm not nearly as sorry as I'm going to be.

Except he knows I tried to do it. And honestly, that gives me credit and blocks me out quicker. But

I've turned the corner.

The seventh seal book is open. The seventh seal especially. The loosing of the seals brings Revelation 10 .1 to take back the title deed of what God owns, which they praised him for. passing it on to Jesus so that he and us, we, could be kings and priests unto God along with him, fulfilling what it says in Philippians, the having laid aside his glory. Now listen. He that laid aside his glory said in John 17, Restore to me the glory I had with you. And God said, I will certainly do it. And Paul came on the scene and said, Jesus now had a greater glory than

when he was in his theophonic form. And you and I, carp and grouse, because we passed ours to get this, and

then we would turn down the greater glory.

Romans 8. Am I telling you the truth? If you don't believe me, read your Bible.

God has highly exalted him above where he was exalted previously.

And we're going to share in that glory. The Bible says so. It is thanksgiving time in heaven according to John's vision. But wonder of wonders. Notice what it says in 11 and 19. Are you still with me? Am I going slow enough and logical the way you follow? I'm doing my best now. If I'm not getting your answers, well, you pray about it because I'm doing my best. 11 and 19. And the temple of God was opened in heaven.

Now, what was in that temple? There was a veil. Now, watch. And there was seen in the temple the ark, which should have been hidden behind a veil.

Isn't that nice? That's interesting. Very interesting.

When the veil on earth in the temple that was patterned after the temple in heaven, the veil was rent by God from top to bottom.

And Brother Branham said, the whole mercy seat came in two views.

Now, this is contingent and perfect with that. Because it says here, the temple was there, and there's no mention of the veil. And the Holy of Holies, whither Christ entered, and we are bidden to follow, John sees this. And there isn't any veil, but there is an ark. there and it says the ark of his testament and the testament is a will which was procured for us and it's now come into full sight in other words the will has been discovered and now it goes through probate or whatever in order to devote and give to those who would inherit hey

listen I'd get really dizzy happy even to think someone would leave me a hundred bucks. Not that I want to see anybody die, but my wife had a dirty deal pulled by these Norwegians. See, I ain't got no use for them. I'm just kidding. My wife's Norwegian by ancestry. She had this rich family over there that had a lot of goodies dying, and she was in the will with her sister and her brothers and all. So the lawyers wrote over here, and we thought, well, we'd get a couple bucks out of this. Because she was in the will and she was entitled to what, you know, she was supposed to have. But the Norwegian government, they're tricky.

Evidently, they said, well, she lives out of the country, so we'll just take it. Because, see, money can't go out of the country. Something like that happened. I don't know because that's after I ever heard.

I'll tell you something. This ain't the last you heard from this.

I hope I haven't blasphemed the Norwegian government, but something sure happened somewhere.

After all that, we just figured that after all those letters came, she was supposed to get the money. That would have been great. I'd have had a bunch of innies. That's real Thanksgiving.

You know what real Thanksgiving is? That you wake in his presence and you see what he procured and how that you're in the kingdom of God. This is the Thanksgiving here to try to give us some idea. All right, now listen. It's a real Thanksgiving time in heaven. And we read this here. Revelation 11, 19 of the temple opened in heaven. All right, now. And over here in Hebrews. The ninth chapter, Paul tells us about this. Now, what he says about this is 22 to 24. Almost all things are by the law of perjured blood. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. It was therefore necessary, the pattern of things in the heavens. Now, hold it. The pattern of things in the heavens should be purified with these. But the heavenly things themselves. With better sacrifices than these, for Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, which is only a figure of the true pattern that came down from heaven, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. For not that he should offer himself often as high priest enters the holy place every year with the blood of others, but it tells you he died and he enters the holy place. Beyond the veil, and there's no veil there anymore. Okay. With that, we're going to go to Hebrews, the sixth chapter.

And if you get tired, stand up and walk over. Hebrews 6, 13 to 20. Don't try to hold anybody. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no great, he swore by himself, saying, Surely bless him, I'll bless thee. And the multiplying, I'll multiply thee. And so after he had patiently adjured, he obtained the promise. For men barely swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherefore God, willing more abundantly unto his heirs to promise and you to deal in his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth, And to that within the veil, whether the forerunner for us is entered, even Jesus Christ, named and high priest forever, after order Melchizedek. Now, just a minute, he isn't there. Not

there behind the veil in the temple. He's out of it. He's on the Father's throne.

You now have come to the place of the perfect Melchizedek. In the human form. But remember. The original Melchizedek. Was Elohim Jehovah himself. Looking forward. To when the time he would be. Melchizedek in Jesus body.

Now. He's not there in the mercy.

He's taking his place. He's king of righteousness. King of peace. And he's going to stay that way. Until the mighty one who came down. Puts the church in order. And everybody, the whole church system, which is the fourth kingdom, Rome, in its degraded spiritual condition, brings everybody together to destroy what the prophets stood for, which was one God and his son. Now, you can do what you want with that, but I can take you right to the teach to the trumpet. And Brother Brannon said, we are not oneness, we are not trinity, we are not truth.

So would I. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He that breathes in the Son breathes in the Father. Without one, you don't have the other. You do what you want about the Scripture. I'm not brilliant to explain anything. I only know what's there. All right, now you see what I'm looking at. In Hebrews 9, beg your pardon, Revelation 11, 19, the temple of God is open to us. God is not in it, but an ark is in it. And it's called the ark of the testament, which is a will or a covenant.

An ark is a chest. The word chest comes from the Hebrew, which means to pluck and gather together. So therefore, like Jesus was plucked up as a tree, as a plant by roots. Saw him down. Killed for you and me. You and I plucked out of organization what have you. Come into the ark. So the ark is that which was plucked up and brought together. The ark also then contains something. What was it the ark contained? It contained the word. That word is the full covenant of God as it's epitomized in Genesis 1. 26 to 28. Now don't get your covenants mixed up. It's very important to know this. Because this is the covenant that God himself instituted and we had nothing to do with it. So therefore if God fails in it, we don't fail, God fails. Like if I say tonight I'm going to give Chad and Steve here a Rolex watch. And they don't get that watch. They don't fail. I fail. All

right, let's look at it. 26 to 28. God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fishes, the sea, the fowl, the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and every creek, and in the creeks upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, and God created him male and female, created him, and God blessed him. God sent him to be grouped with multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue, and have dominion over the fishes, the sea, and the fowl, the air, and every fowl, and everything that liveth and moveth, and so on. Let me tell you something. They didn't ask to come on this earth. They never asked for the covenant.

That was already settled in heaven.

So you better leave it just the way it is. Now that was in that original ark because it says now comes the time to reign over it all.

The first and original covenant of which everything else accedes to it is brought to our attention. The ark is revealed in the temple of God. Therefore Christ is the mystery of God. for he is all the attributes of God revealed in flesh, and in him are all the covenants of God, and it is those covenants that make our destiny. Therefore God was in full view as in John 14 and 10. Now let's go to John 14 and 10 and see what Jesus said there. Now remember, you do not separate Rima from Logoth, even though you have people trying to do it. Let them do it. I'm not going to fight with them. I just have no time for them. Revelation 14. Believe it sound not that I am in the Father, the Father in me, the words that I speak unto you. I speak not unto myself, but the Father that liveth in me, that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. In other words, God spoke the words. And God did the work. His brother Branham categorically said, speaking himself, how do you make the father and son one? The person said, when you look at the father, how do you see the son? Well, he said, the same as you look at me.

He said, there's the Holy Ghost in me. Now, he said the words of William Branham, thus saith William Branham, wouldn't work. But he said, look, he said, look, thus saith the Lord, that little child was leukemia. He said, that was thus saith the Lord.

Now, can you take that tonight?

Ha!

How many people, Jack? 600? 500? 600? Let

me tell you something. That's a hard thing.

Do you believe that God really was in William Branagh? It's

a hard... Well, he could have a little bit, you know. He

could have had a little something.

He said, you're looking at me. That's the way it was with Jesus.

Well, now, see, Brother Vail, let me try to explain it to you.

Come on up here while I baptize you.

You ain't going to explain nothing. William Branham was not a stupid jerk.

Remember the time he stood before the people and he said, Yes, all I have is a seventh grade education, but you better believe I knew what was in those books.

Beautiful sarcasm. Loved that man.

In other words, don't cross your stories with me, buddy.

They carried him out of peace first.

You know something? You sitting here and me up here tonight, I have proved conclusively that not one of us is sincere enough.

Not one of us believe in us. We

are here tonight hoping. I don't want to rob you of faith. Because we're getting there.

But I want you to measure yourself tonight. Can you really take and understand?

God was in William Branham. I did my double take. Oh yeah.

I'll tell you about it. I'm not ashamed of it. I was in Brother Ruddell's church.

And I was preaching.

And like you hear me speaking, I heard myself say concerning Brother Brannon, you weren't looking at a man, you were looking at God.

And I froze.

And I didn't say because I said that it had to be right because Lee Dale said it. I was scared stiff, I was wrong.

And I quickly, without a break, and nobody but Neville noticed it. And I said, what was it? It was God in the man. And I was 100 % correct because I read so many tapes. I don't have it here. Where Brother Branagh said, just like God in me, you're looking at me with the same word Jesus.

That brings us to a most marvelous, eloquent question. How high did the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ elevate us?

How high was the promised death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in its power? that God could indwell prophets like Moses just looking forward. And

what could he do to the human race looking backward to what the cause is?

It's marvelous just to think about it.

1 Corinthians 13, 10 to 12, that which is perfect is come, it explains it. 2 Corinthians 3, 17 and 18, when the Spirit is in our midst in the veils of denomination and being removed from us, we shall see Jesus.

We shall see that ark in the temple open to us and see Christ the Word. As Brother Branham said, the bride doesn't know her mate, but she'll have her mate revealed so she'll know him. That's right.

Hebrews 1 -3, the very outflowing of Almighty God has taken place because Brother Branham said, just think God has given us again to get to the Son in the form of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 24 is fulfilled. 27, the light has shone in the east.

Now listen, if we can believe Luke 15 and 5 where the parable says that the shepherd went out to find the one lost sheep and there was rejoicing in heaven, then how much rejoicing do you feel there is now that Revelation 11, 15 to 19 is in literal existence in this time place? Where the elders are thanking God. You have taken your power. You are putting your bride in position. We are going to come back and reign and rule under Jesus Christ. Now I'm going back to Revelation chapter 5.

Revelation chapter 5, 1 to 4. You will notice that they were looking for a man. That was the whole thing. Revelation 5, 1 -4. The emphasis is on a man. The four and twenty elders were men. The psalmist enjoined men to praise and to thank God. And these men were up there praising and especially thanking God. And the psalmist had spoken of it even before John. Now the psalmist was inspired.

by the very written word of God, the first five books especially, the law of Moses, to tell men to thank God because the first five books of Moses had instituted the thanksgiving ceremony, given it to Israel to know about it and to practice it when they reached the promised land. It is found in Leviticus 7. And it's called the Thanksgiving oblation or sacrifice. And it is voluntary even more so than all other sacrifices are voluntary. Though if you fail to fulfill them, you're lost and cut off.

This Thanksgiving ceremony is a matter of choice. Now listen carefully. It is a ceremony that is an extension of another offering. So that if you didn't have this first basic offering, you couldn't have a Thanksgiving offering. In other words, if I don't have a chicken, I don't get eggs. Right? Pure and simple. If there is an offering missing.

that he preached to his fathers. You know that which is happening in our hour. If you realize that it has never been seen in history yet that any great number of people ever did realize what was going on in your hour. And those who should have known were the least informed. Those who should have known better and done better were those who always would persecute the prophets and find the peace of God Jesus Christ. And at the same time, Jesus had himself the same God of faith. We recognize that. And we're grateful, Lord, that we have known you. We might have missed some of your acts. And we might even have just known, Lord, your business call. A lot of the performance of the mixture of gifts and miracles and things, we recognize that. But we know that we could have all of that in the very meaning of our souls and miss you. We're happy tonight that we have had to do a confrontation, a revelation of Him who is our God. Let's put the seats all up for this hour, for this will be a great for this hour. And so we count ourselves a very true people, living and not poor in the things of God, but living in the things of God, having given admonition to buy that which is of true gold, of true value, of true love. On the T .I. side, we appreciate that, and as always, we are exceedingly grateful. We're just tremendously thankful, and cannot praise by me enough. We commend ourselves to you this hour for further blessings in Jesus' name. We pray in the name of Jesus. I

guess everything's in working order up here. I've got a different personnel along the way. Works as good as they think it's going to work, I mean. I know that you and this church here and our church up in Ohio for some time have been studying about the presence of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the blind in the last day. And you're totally aware that Due to a terrible error by the translators, the word Perusia has been misinterpreted as the word coming instead of present, which of course would show an entirely different light on the context meaning of that scripture where you are depending on the translators to give you a proper understanding. Now, in 5th and 2nd chapter, In verse 12, it says, Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always believed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out the own salvation which be intended. Now, the word presence there is literally the prep translation, and it is perennial. And the word absence is appesial, which means And since he is not present. Now, these changes were consistent. And this word was clearly to be translated as coming. It will be well shown on the letter. Again, always a day, not as in my coming only. That reminds me when we were little kids. We never had much, but anything we had. It always was a little tricky, and that's when I wasn't around, and we couldn't mess with it. So if the mob go to town, and he was on the left side, and he could see her coming towards that tree there, we'd do that. We'd come on and walk. And I remember one time that my sisters decided to try to move. Now, that was all well and good. I'm sure it was a modest thing, but they knew they shouldn't be maybe doing it. So they walked in. and throw all the old mosques out on the horizon and bring him into the, uh, uh, town. Well, you know, that's the city where the African holy wooden post goes. Now, you see what I'm trying to do to cross you is this. When we saw my tummy, we arranged it. Now, this picture was written in my tummy. It would mean that the church was running in the water. The thing is, they found good old Paul coming. Now that he looked very good, got to be fine. Everybody got changed a lot. But you can see how he's different.

The word is present, period. It has nothing to do with time, see?

Let's go back to that first lesson in the New Testament, which we're talking about in 24 and see the last little part of the third verse. And what could be the sign of thy presence? Now, the word is not coming. It is present. And this word must never be used to denote an arrival per se. For a person or event has always come and is there present. The individual who sees that person or event present has to know nothing of how it got there or even when it got there. All you have to know is that he sees it because it is there. That's what you're looking at. And if you have anything different, you're going to confuse the authority of the meaning of what lies in that word. Now, not only did the translators make a terrible error, but the theologians and ministers made even a more devastating doctoral mistake. Do pause on 6th of that Matthew 24, 27, 31, and 36, 44, which I'll read. Okay. Paul is the lightning that came upon the ancient Chinese in the end of the world. So shall also the coming, no, prison, of the Chinese in the end. Oh, the rest of the caucuses, they wouldn't even be gathered together. And you leave. After the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not be light. Thou shalt fall from heaven, power of heaven be shaken, and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man's head. And shall all child's ears mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming, and the child of heaven with power and grace born. That word coming is right. And he said that he came to the great child of the shepherd, and he said, God, we're together, we're together, we're together. And one of the heavens be the other. 36 to 44. But as they now know no man, know not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of no, so shall also the presence of the Son of Man be. And as in the days that were before the flood, the eating, and drinking, and marrying, and giving, and marrying, until the day of the end of the hour. And when the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the presence of the Son of Man be. And to the people in the field, one taken, and the other left, to the grinding in the mortar, one taken, the other left. Watch therefore if you know not what hour the Lord doth come. And know this, if the good man of the house had known that what the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken out. Therefore be also ready, for in fact the hour will be taken off, the time of man's punishment. Now, because of things like this, this person is denoted here, is set forth, is set forth by these theologians as the rocker. For Jesus, our high priest, made him a defense in the atmosphere and catches up the blight to himself. Now, that's what they placed this as. They say, now look, he's talking about the rapture. And this coming, this present, is when he is up there in the atmosphere, in the heavens, and we are caught up under him. Now then, At that rate, we're going to look at Acts, I'm sorry, 1 Corinthians 15 and 22. And it says here, that every moment is on order. Christ the firstborn, after the word David of Christ had his appearance. That is, a man appears here, that is his presence. Now, the vast statement is that at the presence of Christ, that the good in Christ, has already reached out of the earth. That would mean that the dead could not come out of the earth until Christ came into that upper atmosphere where we are supposed to be caught up in the air. Then also, look at James 5,

7 and 8.

Now, what we're looking at here is that this statement says that there is no way that the dead are going to be raised out of the ground until that personal presence. And that's what it says. In case you're dead for a better, the presence of the Lord. Behold, the husband and wife of the precious fruit of the earth. All right. Now, who is best known to raise the dead according to 1 Corinthians 15 and 22? Christ. Now, he is long -tasting it until he receives the earth in high range. Be all -sufficient. God be to your heart. For the presence of the Lord draws man. Now, he's telling you here that you've got to be patient for that particular presence of the Lord. when the dead are going to be raised. Now, how are you going to put Jesus into a quick second of time? Now, this scripture here that I'm looking at, if I understand any scripture at all, is beginning with a period of time when, according to the theologians, Jesus, in his body, would have to be up in the atmosphere somewhere.

A certain thing could transpire. Down here on earth. He himself is in control. On earth. To bring the bodies out of the grave. I hope you get what I'm saying here. Because. In the 15th chapter. 1 Corinthians 23. It says Christ is going to raise those first. And I would tell you here. Again the same thing. The same person is going to raise them out of the ground. But if you leave. is patient on the part of the people waiting. He's

not talking to the dead, but he's talking to the living concerning the raising of the dead. Now, he said there's going to be a time that's going to require and

that is going to involve the early in the morning.

Now, according to the theology, there will be a period of time when Jesus literally borrowed It's in the air in that period of time. And you can't get away from it. All right. Let's go back to after 9th chapter. 9th chapter, I'm sorry.

9th verse, you're going to read about. When he spoke of these things, where they'd be held, he was taken up, and a child received him out of their sight. All right. He's supposed to be a child, child to glory. Whatever you want, he's coming to you. It says right here that he was taken up. And he wrote, both were to be taken up at that time also. Now he's speaking. Now he looks dead fast. He told heaven he's going up. The whole team went to him. They said, you know, Galilee, while saying you came to the heaven, you're saying, Jesus, if you're taken up from you into heaven, shall no time like man as you have seen him go into heaven. Now, right now, he's going to come back. He's going to be above those clouds. Now, this is what the theological teaching, what this passage is all about. Okay, let's go to the first Thessalonians now. And the fourth chapter.

And verse 17. All right,

let's read some more verses. We go to 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 19.

I not even meet in the presence of our Lord Jesus. Not your presence is in the sight of our Lord Jesus Christ as it proves them. We are going in joy. 3 and 13. I think we missed it. We were getting together later. To the end you may stand with your hearts unbindable and have fallen before God even a father at the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his faith. Now, I hope you're catching something here.

Because these verses are the same. The Word says it is the same. And in one place you will find that he is waiting in the air until something happens, which is the forming right of rain, which will in necessity be poured out upon the living, because there's nothing in the Scripture that says the dead of God is the ones in order to know the Holy Spirit to get them out of the ground. So it's going to be the living. And then it says to the ruler, you're going to be caught up to those crowds. But let's face it, before they get caught up, they've got to have this one in mind. And that's going to be a matter of person. You're going to be tried during that time.

And you say, well, hi, James was looking down the road. I've got news for you. James was no more looking down the road than he was apparently trying to arrest him. They did the right thing. The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ brought the rest of us in. I think the Bible states and tells you. And Jesus Christ himself seemed to preach it. That was, I told you last Sunday, age number one. The finger is tired, a little bit cut off, and it's going to be by age number seven. We've got to talk to you. In the 19th century, that was our joy, the hope of town rejoicing. I'm not giving the fact that our Lord Jesus said to be present. Well, keep the story up that Dubai, on the grounds of Paul, is going to present at that time the first church day for Jesus Christ. But what are you going to do here until the end? You may stab me so much I'm blamable in the whole of this. Before God, even our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence. In other words, if you've got to get caught up there in his presence to be a scourge, blameless, in the sight of God, some of your folks could have to sit there. I don't understand. I don't want to understand it. I understand that the time I get to this, if I was a bunk driver, you could see some of the files and open files. I wouldn't be drinking.

I'm already not thirsty. If

that went wrong the way they're talking,

it doesn't work out. We'll

admit to it. That presence cannot signify only the presence of God, although we admit there is a presence of God.

So just keep the presence of yourself in its presence,

so not only will you be living in your own, but the presence of yourself will be present to person and being, such as is said in 2 Thessalonians. chapter. And so we'll look at that. Now it says in verse 8.

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You have to be up in the air and set this out to yourself. But that's exactly what they're saying. Do you not remember that to me? Is it possible? And people won't know. Not at all. And they're not too positive to know. They weren't grounded to let the Gentiles in. But the Gentiles are grounded like that.

Matthew 24. Paul in the third verse. 1 to 23 to 26. If any man shall say that all here is church, you know they're doing it now. You're

talking about church, and all

your church is just a rock.

I'm not doing a rock.

You're going to stop telling me that all here is church and all there is a rock. I thought when you got to the rock, you were going to do all the other things all over. I've got to stand up here and get through to them men. I was about to come to them men. They're

going to do it.

They're going to do it. They're going to do it. Instamuch as across the barrier that would be the sea. Where are these people at this time? They're down here on earth.

There's something down here on earth.

I said there's going to be something up there in the air.

And there will be. That is not obvious, but that's what's happening. There's going to be down here. And behold, I've told you before. Now the chastisers say I'm only a year ahead of them. I'm hard -blocking. I've told them before. And now you've got this there.

There'll be rows of sick children and false prophets. They would be absolutely identified by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth, by their truth.

And the clock always doesn't improve because there's no need for that. You know what? There's going to be a crowd that really does run around.

They'll be under their noses and they won't even know. They

say, well, it happened back there. It won't happen now. That will pass, be shall be. It never changes. History talks and it repeats. waiting to be kicked and following to be kicked. There's going to be a change in that government. And it tells you, when he comes out, he's going to be associated also with the person, the guy on these. It will be strictly liberal, of course, and nothing else. So,

2014, 2016, 2016, does not point out that he is actually here, but that this is the time for it only. That is the time to relax. Now these funding members are convinced that Persia is referring to and can only mean the glorified body of Jesus Christ. They are absolutely sure that the risen and glorified Christ cannot come down until Revelation 19, 11 -21 and 2 Thessalonians 2, 8 -9. Now they know that. In fact, I don't suppose there's anybody that doesn't know. They understand, man. God heard it all. Behold, a white horse. And he that was called faithful and took that upon himself, faith and truth. He was asking if he doth trust and make war his eyes, a flame of fire, and tell him any crown. He had a name written, and no man knew but himself. So the rest were dipped in blood. Nameless power, the word of God. The army sits in heaven, silent, for a white horse is sold and signed. Now, that's got to be the saints, because they alone have the word of God. And, of course, the horse needs power.

Now, they agree and understand that this is at the end of the great tribulation when he is coming back to this earth to take over in his glory and life left. They know that this is a time when something hands you tight and destroys those who did not believe him. and obey his word. That is true and true. They understand that. But they believe that he is there at the wedding supper in the new year before that and at no time does he come down to the earth before this specific advent in which we see him in the 19th century. Now, it is true that this is the time that he does descend to the earth. And it is true there is a time he descends to the clouds. And it is true But at that time, the bride is talking to him. That is not true.

That is, at that present,

it didn't happen to the believer. Because

it's already happened, but he's not going to get there. See, that's exactly where these things are. And they do not have fear to it. Now, this case is not necessarily, it does not make the bodily presence necessary in all events and all places. Now that's what I want to get across. That they take this present and they put it in a body and they say whatever that present is you cannot deviate from the body. Now that's where we make our difference. They've overlooked one thing. They make a traffic blender for the doctrine absolutely because John 1 and 18 no man will see God at any time. The only divine son. which is an ablution of the Father, he hath betrayed him. Now they're forgetting that this

one that they talk about, this little guy, the one that became flesh and died and rose again,

positively does not help to identify himself exclusively with the human body, but absolutely denies the human body. And

he's still the same one. They say if they weren't ten of ten, they wouldn't be so fired up in their thinking. But they're ten of ten. That's their whole trouble. They can't comprehend it. Also, when they're gone, 16.

16. A little while, you shall not see me. And again, a little while, and you shall see me because I go to the Father. Now, you say, well, I hold it. The thing is that they saw him, they didn't see him, and he came out of the grave and they saw him. I've got news for you. He says, you're going to see him. And I'm going to my father. Take that with John 1, 18. The only begotten. He is in the bosom of the father. That's what he did. He perfectly returned to him by word. Now he says, you're going to see him. Now he didn't say, let's play a little game here. I want you to feel happy. I know you'll feel happy if you do the next day. Let's just pretend that a little while that you won't see me. And then, I don't know why, you will see. We'll play a little game. God is a play game. Even he knows that they will see him who went to the body and will be a supernatural being. Why does he talk crazy? This Bible's stupid. How

did he even begin in here?

In the sense of it's going to be a body, I'm a body, this thing is nothing. You've got to believe he said it. And if he said he was going down, he would have seen it. You see? All right. Let's do a little purgatory. In other words, he's going to come down. And we go to the book of Ephesians. We take a little peek in the book of Ephesians. There's more to happen. I believe that every Trinitarian knows. But they don't know well enough.

What is it about that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? You can take it one way or two ways. The body went into the ground, absolutely. The soul went down into heaven, exactly. It's got to be the lower parts. Now he's a decent.

That's why he's an ascended. Now that's the question. What went up into heaven? And I would say, well, he just descended into the lower parts of the earth. All that will do is soul. So you see, it ain't about to die. What happens if it dies? Maybe it'll just hit you up.

Just save it in a cycle, save the body and eat it. How you gonna believe that, do you? It's over here now. It's a good man, dude. What's he gonna send me?

It's about like a sheep. I don't know if I'm being a sheep. I love it. Now what if it has sent the wrong descendant? But he first of all went and did. It means he died and then he rose again. Now that's him. He would do something. It's all. It's the same offer that's asked of him. The one that went up hasn't died. He's dead. You see something there. Second Corinthians. If you've got the 15 words, we're going henceforth now. We're going forth. No we, no man after the cross. Yea, though we have known Christ after the cross. Yet now henceforth know we him no more after the fall. What

can I say about that? What

can I know that will tell you that Jesus Christ came back as the Holy Ghost? Because that's what he did. I asked you a question. Did he come down or didn't he come down? Did they know him or didn't they know him?

Let's go to Acts. In Acts chapter.

Let's go to John 6 chapter. Get back there where Paul's getting the testimony.

I said, who are you, my Lord? And he said, I'm Jesus.

I don't believe that at all, because that's not the presence I'm talking about.

I'm talking about a person that erases the dead and makes me stand boldly before all these gods so nobody can run after faith in it with me. Can I go to a creole and find a witch for it, huh? You know, they say, you've got that in your resurrection. I've done that. I've done the baptism with the Holy Ghost. You're lying. The

Holy Ghost, my brother, my sister, guarantees you a resurrection.

But it doesn't guarantee you that thing. And he said, there's the Jewish satellites and I want the resurrection unless you can believe it's in these bones and again, yes, there is. And he brought Lazarus back. And he said, I've never brought one person back yet. Oh, God has changed. One single person yet. And this earth is to immortality. And that's where he said, I am the light. And he said, live again. Believe in me. You'll never perish. Do you believe this? Certainly that land will be full of the Holy Ghost. Certainly will be. But what does it?

God is there. We don't have to look at that. Let's go to 1 Corinthians. If you're marveling about that, tell her to sign. Let's see what Paul said about it over here.

That's one thing you know.

Lord, the brethren, I return to the gospel which I teach unto you, which also you will see, wherein you stand. Your standing, my sisters, is not what we call honor to God. It is based upon what you are hearing, by which you are also saved. If you keep in mind what I teach unto you, honor this, you believe in me. Oh, a lot of people rush to the gospel. A lot of people rush to the scriptures right now. But I wanted a little while for me on the feet to come down. I wanted a little while when God begins to move that certain peculiar way of his within you that makes you, you don't stand there and say, don't call him a part of this, or you'll get discouraged and walk off. I told you some of you could go on a few ways. I wasn't lying to you.

I'm not lying to you now because of what we're going to do. Now listen, I remember first of all that which I also received. How the church died for us is according to the scripture. That he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scripture. And that he received three percent of the child after that he received about five hundred thousand at once. And after that he was seen again. Then and all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also. Is

one more.

Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we're very grateful to know that you revealed yourself to us in this end time and given also not only of your name to us, but a thorough exposition of yourself whereby we might know you, that word form, having come to life. And there's a reality here that absolutely has not been since the beginning or even in the beginning because they... did not know you as we know you in the power of the resurrection, which is going on now, which is going to be responsible for bringing the dead out of the grave and changing us. And we know, Lord, that if we're not of that group, there is a group that's certainly going to receive it. So therefore, Lord, we are happy to know at least we are those who are in the light to that extent that we have perceived through your grace this knowledge. And Lord, that brings us to the point that... We cannot believe then that we are blind, and we are not blind anymore, but have the light, your eye having shined upon us, Lord, and that glory revealed to us then, Lord. We just count ourselves part of that privileged group, and we thank you for it, Lord. We have made it personal because we believe you've made it personal. We believe all the signs are in concerning that, all the earmarks, and therefore we stand in a place not just of faith, but... in a revealed knowledge. We know that we have come this far. We thank you, Lord, therefore, for grace and mercy. We rejoice in it. We praise you for it. We commend ourselves to it this morning. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. You may be seated. Now, we're going to continue in the rapture. Of course, we're really slowed down, but that's all right. We'll take our time. We want to read again from page 14. This is message number 5 on about... eight pages so hopefully we'll get maybe 10 more done this morning now he says here in page 14 did you know that the protestant and catholic church is predicted in the last days to be blind the same thing through the scriptures with christ on the outside trying to get in because thou sayest i'm rich and of need of nothing he's quoting you now the word the blindness is in scripture And if need of nothing knowest thou not that thou art miserable, poor, wretched, naked, blind, and don't know it. Now that word miserable, poor, wretched, they're actually words that pretty well have their meanings closely united on the grounds that here is a group of people who contend that they are exceedingly wealthy and they're literally literally living in the delusion of the insane who feel that they're like the intelligentsia, the cream of the crop, the noble, the rich, they've got it all, and they don't know that really they live down the back alley without any goods of this world at all. They're just beggars in a dream world. Now, that's exactly what this is bringing out. You can see that today in the sense of where you might run across a poor bum in the gutter, and he'll tell you that though he's begging you for a dime and he's closed your vermin infested, that he's really the son of Rockefeller and he just hasn't got his money yet. And that's what this church is. They really think they're somebody. They think that they're rich, and they're actually beggars, destitute, and they don't have it. Now, then he says here, quoting Revelation 3, there you are back to blindness again. Now, what does he mean blindness again? Well, when Christ was here on earth, the Pharisees counted themselves to be Those rich in the things of God, that they had everything going for them, and that they saw, they understood the revelation, and he said, because you say you see, you're blind. They were blinded to everything which would have wrought their salvation, for salvation had come to them and they turned it down. So there's a blindness once more, and of course, what is that blindness that was there? The blindness that was there was... The very Christ that they wanted to see, the very Messiah they talked about, the very one that they looked for all these centuries, they had it entirely pegged wrong, though it was in Scripture, it was entirely pegged wrong as to how he would come. Brother Branham said so truthfully that he came according to the Scripture but not according to their interpretation of it. So therefore there is a blindness because how could Christ be wanting to get back in the church? If he wasn't there, he'd be kicked out. So therefore, there is a coming at the end time, which we call the presence, the appearing, that the people are absolutely unaware of. They're blinded to it. Now watch what he said. They're blinded. They're trampling over the things of God as if they didn't mean anything to them, scoffing and making fun of it. Now remember, the scoffers were to appear. at the time of the revelation of the rapture doctrine. So we're on the subject of the rapture. And this coming then is the phase of the Lord himself descending from heaven with the shout, the voice of the archangel, the trump of God. And this actual coming is what the church is not aware of. And so thereby in their blindness, They're trampling over the things of God. Now, let's find out what the trampling over the things of God are. And I know that, look, you can get very excited over this message. You can get very vindictive. You can put on the boxing gloves or better still take the boxing gloves off and pick up a rock or anything you can to smash people's skulls in. I recognize that, that this message has taken on a militancy which I hate to see.

We can't help what we preach so that people militate against us. But let's find out what trampling underfoot is so we know what we're talking about. Hebrews 10, 26, beginning. For if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. Now let's let that sink in. There's a sacrifice standing there. A knowledge of the truth comes after the sacrifice. The knowledge is turned down. There is no more sacrifice. You say, well, I think I'd like to disagree. Well, you may disagree. I'm not here to stop you from going to hell or to put you into heaven. Now, this is the kind of preaching people don't like because it's too militant.

It's too one -to -one. I want to tell you something. We are not going to make it as a group unless every single one of us is bright.

Because a fellow snuck in without a garment. He thought he was going to make it as a group. They said, hey, where's your garment? I don't have one. How'd you get in? Quote the same way you got in. With your stinking creeds and dogma. That you knew something was going on.

Now you'll see Brother Branwell hit this down the road a bit when it comes to baptism of the Holy Ghost. How'd you get in? Now he said here, There's nothing but a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary. Adversary?

What adversary?

Those that haven't received the truth.

Say it willfully. Set it to one side. Now listen, we are talking about Moses and Moses' exodus and Exodus' rapture, right? We went into that, didn't we? The subject was rapture. And no matter what we looked at, it had to do with the subject. So therefore, every illustration and every scripture had an overtone, if not an absolute element of indication, rapture.

Now we went into the exodus, we saw it. We

saw how God interprets His own word. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. I don't care if he had the blood or not.

They caught the man gathering sticks on Sabbath in order to cook some food. And they said, now just a minute. We've got a feeling that this is wrong. Is it wrong or not? Moses said, I don't know, but he said, I'll inquire. Moses being the prophet inquired and he came back as the verdict. He said, stone him with stones till he dies.

You say, I don't think I like that. Where was the sacrifice? Where was the sacrifice?

Or where was the sacrifice? They did it down in Egypt and brought them plumb over to here.

Now, the blood sacrifice standing there, they went against the word of God? Absolutely. Now, you say, just a minute, what was that willfulness? That guy didn't even know. That's exactly what I want you to say.

Let's go to Luke, the first chapter.

Now, it says here in Luke 1 and 17, And this John the Baptist shall go before the Lord God of Israel and the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. even the disobedient to the wisdom of the just. And disobedient there are not those who are willfully disobedient, as though they're going against an actual command, but they don't know any better their ignorance.

Now, these people know better, because

they had Moses, they had Jesus, now they have William Branham, of which even the classical historians of the Scripture will tell you no man in 2 ,000 years produced what William Branham produced. Now we've got a few people of the ilk, of the Satan, of the spirit of hell, who now want to denigrate a man of which they're not worthy to even clean up his latrine.

Right.

Spiritually, physically speaking. Because I know those birds and I knew the prophet. Now we're going to get right to Jesus the Christ. Of how much to our punishment suppose you shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and done desperate to the Spirit of grace. You can go plump as far as the blood and go to hell.

You can acknowledge the sacrifice and talk about your hope in God, but it doesn't mean one thing if you turn down late. Now,

anybody can say amen glibly, and some of us can sit and wonder what I'm talking about. Well, I'm doing my best to explain it to you. For we know him that said, Vengeance belongs unto me. I will recompense that the Lord, and again the Lord shall judge his people. It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of God. Now, where does the judge come? The judge comes by a prophet. The prophet comes to get the word, and then he tells you what the word means, and then he begins to apply the word. All right, let's go to John, the third chapter. And

here we're talking about the sacrifice. For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish in everlasting life.

And then it says subsequently, For God sent not his Son of the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Now he tells you there is no condemnation, then he tells you there is condemnation.

And he tells you the condemnation is they haven't believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Then he explains what that is. And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.

Now, Then it goes on to say, For everyone that doeth evil, hateth the light, and he that cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Now, there's not one of us sitting here but doesn't know that adultery is wrong, and smoking is wrong, and drinking is wrong, and killing is wrong, and slander is wrong, and lying is wrong, and coveting is wrong, and all those things are wrong. Exactly right? Anybody knows that?

That's not the deeds you bring.

Not the deeds you bring. Now, it says that they won't bring their deeds because the light has come, and they simply will not bring those deeds to the light, and therefore the blood does not avail. That's what it says over here in Hebrews. Now let's go back to John again. We go to 1 John. We read in the third chapter, which you read before.

It says in verse 7, Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that commiteth sin is of the devil. The devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God is manifested, that he might bring to nothing the works of the devil. In other words, the works of the devil and these people that are sinning. Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him. He cannot sin because he's born of God. Do you have anointing? Come the Holy One. You don't need an anti -teacher. You're going to be always right. That's what he's talking about. And if the children of God are manifest, the children of the devil, whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. Now the emphasis is always put on he that loveth not his brother. And they get it all mixed up with the fact thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not destroy, not slander, not covet, not commit adultery, not this, not that. Just be nice and be a good fellow. That's not what evil deeds are. Let's find out. This is the message you heard in the beginning, way back in Genesis. We love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one who slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous. It was the two sacrifices.

Absolutely. One had the light and one didn't.

Now the blood only avails for those who are in the light.

Now people can say what they want, but I'm not a fool and you're not fools.

The organization can say what it wants. Anybody can say what it wants. But this is what the Word of God says. Light

depends on a revelation. A revelation depends upon grace. Grace depends upon more knowledge. More knowledge helps out working in the election. Election goes to predestination. Predestination brings a ride. You can say what you want, but that's exactly the truth.

The people don't know it is not my fault.

And they become adversaries of this simple truth.

And when they do it, they're trampled under the blood of the covenant. And they make Jesus Christ a dirty thing. You say, oh, I can't believe that you believe what you want. Because I care less. Please say, you really don't mean it. No, I don't really mean it in one way, but I really do mean it in another way.

Because that means you can do what you want. What that preaches out of my hand. See? That's just the way it is. Now, scoffing and making fun.

What are they making scoffing and making fun of? The light of this hour.

And the scoffing comes under the rapture. You say, what about other doctrines? Absolutely. Predestination. When the prophet hit that, where did they go? Every major split and error that's in this message started with predestination.

But now the last one is here. Because the last doctrinal sermon that Brother Brannon preached was the rapture. Now notice what he says about the rapture. This is the subject. But to the church, the bride, the rapture is a revelation to her.

It's revealed to her.

That's the revelation the true bride of Christ was waiting for, that revelation of the rapture. Now, he says right here that this is what he's on to. This is what he's talking about.

That the bride is waiting for it. Now, whether she waits or not or

knows it or not, that's

right. Whether she knows she's waiting or whether she's waiting, she's waiting for it. Now, here's a man telling the condition of the people. There are those who swear. We understand. They say, we positively know the rapture.

We understand his appearing and his coming. And they don't. They're satisfied that they've got it.

But he says, the bride, the true church,

there has got to come a revelation of it. It has got to be revealed to her. And a true bride will be waiting for it. In other words, no matter what she's previously believed or what she's been taught, she will break with it. when the revelation comes.

Now, it, what it, the rapture, is a revelation. For the revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation because it's something that's revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something that's been revealed to you like it was to Abraham. Now, here's the good part of it. Because you can take this first part, and become an absolute idiot, a spiritual malfunction. Well, it's a revelation. Well, the rapture is a revelation. So if the rapture is a revelation, I now put myself in a spiritual, ethereal,

esoterical position in a never -never land, and I just wait here sort of entranced, and I say, revelation, revelation, revelation. I'm being raptured. Revelation.

I know what I'm talking about because I dealt with Celts in Florida. There's nothing I despise more than Celtism because this is not something which is bland and shapeless. It is tremendously factual and deals with the literal resurrection and a transformation of human body and attaching away into the millennium of Almighty God.

And you don't get it by nice thoughts.

as though the rapture were simply a thinking process.

It is an inevitable spiritual reality that's going to change us. And

we don't have to get into some nether neverland. See, this is what hit the people, and Brother Branham brought this out, that the rapture was a revelation, so they wanted to put themselves out here in some kind of never neverland. Forget it.

The rapture is the most fundamental thing that God will have done in 6 ,000 solid years. Solid... Solid, solid. Now he says here, faith is something that has been revealed to you like it was to Abraham. Now here's where your faith is. That could call anything contrary that what had been revealed to him as though it wasn't so. So everything that's contrary to the rapture doctrine doesn't exist to a person who has the revelation of the rapture doctrine. You just say, I'm sorry.

I'll see it that way. Now

listen. Let's get this flat. The body natural, which was Abraham's body, and Sarah natural, which was his wife, was very militant against the idea that Abraham and Sarah could be changed and have a son. Now, the fact of the matter is, I don't think even the thought of being changed entered their minds.

The word had come to them as far as they knew, look, you're going to have a baby boy. So they kept looking at their bodies. There came a time when it wasn't any use looking at her, so he picked up Hagar. That didn't do it. And there came a time when there wouldn't have been any use looking to him if she was able because he wasn't any good.

So now the revelation comes, you're going to have a child anyway. Well, what's against them, old age? Now, something's got to happen somewhere.

It doesn't matter how it happens, but something has got to happen so that child can come. So now the revelation breaks on them at this time. And he was speaking concerning the fertility period of Sarah, which she hadn't had one for a long time. So now she's got to think that one over.

Well, she said, you know, that's going to put me back where I was.

And she got to thinking, she said, I just don't understand it because she said, do you mean to tell me that Abraham and I are going to have pleasure like young people?

Because it's a sexual instinct that brings on children. They're born from sexual desires. Or there wouldn't be any. She got to thinking it over. Exactly right.

Now, everything that was there that was against the revelation had

to go. Now, what is the doctrine of the revelation of the rapture? Shout, voice, with

the specific understanding that Jesus does all three in descending.

That the one who comes down in Revelation 10 and 1 is here at the same time Revelation 10 and 7 is here.

Now, they're going to say, just a minute, I can't believe that. Because, you see, our understanding is, He suddenly starts, and there's a shout, the voice of trouble. Whatever they mean, God knows. We don't, but we know we're going to get caught up and taken away. Now, you blew it.

You blew it, because what came in is contrary to what the prophet said.

Now, the bride does not take it down, turn it down. She takes it. Now, if this true revelation of the rapture is what she believes, and she has got to believe it, whatever it is, and I could be wrong when I'm teaching, which certainly I'm not.

If I'm wrong, I want to know why the prophet said what he said.

I'd like to know. I've heard some of the exorcism sermons other men preach against it, and I can't buy what they say. It's right back there at Pentecost.

Remember, Pentecost is what turns it down. So if you preach any Pentecostal doctrine, you're shucked, you're finished.

You say, any doctrine? Yeah, because they've all been corrected.

Now, he said, that's

what faith is, is the revelation of God. The church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire body. All right. If it began with revelation, then it has to continue with revelation, and it's got to end with a revelation.

Now, what part of the body is built upon revelation in our day? The very last part. So there's going to be a revelation. Now, therefore, what evidence is here visible or produced? There is something here because it says, Faith has something been revealed to you like it was to Abraham.

Now, Abraham did not get a revelation wherein he is a type of the elect outside of the visible, definitive, proven manifestation. That's

the reason he could call anything contrary, though it wasn't so. Now, the entire body is built on it.

So, therefore, we are to apply everything and anything that we've ever heard. that's contrary to this doctrine, apply it as though it's not so, because it is not so. Now, a few weeks ago, he said, I was talking to a Baptist minister. Came up to discuss with me, and he said, I like you as a man, but you're all mixed up.

Now, he's talking about William Branham, who was at the end of time, and we're a part of the body. All right? And Brother Branham said here, I pray you help me get straightened out. Now, he said, with the Scripture. And the man said, we'll never be able, Brother Brown, to get the things together until we get every word upon word exactly Greek and so forth. And I said, oh, sir, you know better than that. Even the Nicene Council way back as far as that 300 years from the death of Christ, they were still debating which Greek scholar is right. You cannot. It's a revelation. The whole thing is a revelation. I cannot accept a revelation. He said, Brother Brown said, then how can you accept Christ? Now watch. To turn this down is to turn down Christ. And here he is to take us up.

You see? He said here, I cannot receive a revelation. And Brother Branagh said, then how can you accept Christ?

Now, the point is that the people that are looking to get out of here in a rapture put the whole thing on Jesus the Christ, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven to show the voice of the Son of God. Then Christ will rise first, and we shall meet the Lord in the air. See? Now, at this point, the blood is in remission. You don't have to worry one bit whether the blood's on the mercy seat or not. It doesn't matter if it's on the mercy seat or you name it. I don't care where it is.

If you trample underfoot the light of the hour, and remember, contrary to what anybody says, Paul did not have the light of the revelation of this hour. I don't care what anybody says. I can prove you're right by the Scripture of Almighty God. which makes every single man a liar, but William Branham and those who believe exactly like him, which is people like you and me. For it says right here, Paul himself declaring that I may know him and the power of his resurrection. He didn't know it, if by any means. Now he said, and the fellowship of his suffering and being made conformable to his death. That won't do it.

The only way to be conformable to his death is to have the revelation of his death, which is the shed blood. which is inactive in our behalf unless we're in the light.

This is where your foolish virginness has come up. Under works. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection from among the dead. Not as though I'd already attained. So he hadn't attained there. Either we're perfect, so he wasn't perfect.

He hadn't got it finished off. But I follow after. If I may apprehend that which I'm apprehended in Christ. To come out from amongst the dead. Then what about the one standing there? Paul didn't have it.

So there's an end time revelation that's going to put us into the rapture.

Now brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do for getting those things which are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before. The old manure head had become a non -manure head. The

human intelligence had gone to the eagle of revelation. Now he said, listen, at any time that I am faced with life, I put behind me. What I thought was right. I want to ask you people a question. How many of you are interpreting the rapture, the brother, brother, and priest in the light of any understanding you previously had? Now, if you think you had understanding, let me tell you flat. You are manure heads. I'm sorry, but I'm just going to name you right down a bunch of manure heads. I'm sorry for you. But I'm not apologizing. Because I think I know the scripture better than anybody here. Maybe all of you put together. And I was absolutely a manure head on this doctrine.

Absolutely. I had no idea, period.

Concerning truth. I had everything wrong concerning truth. I want

to ask you a question. Is Jesus Christ the righteous? The one that went up there and is up there right now? Is he in the light? Do you think he doesn't know this? He's the one that does know it.

Who's the one that was standing there to give the light as the judge at the end time?

Paul was judging, not as though I'd already attained. He made a judgment.

He knew.

No age but this age attained. Your

heat's on. Turn it on.

That's the thermometer back to me, not heat here. The pulpit can sizzle, which it does.

Reaching for the things which are before, there were things that were ahead of Paul that he himself hadn't apprehended. This was it.

Then you tell me that Pentecost will be in the rapture. I tell you, somebody's wrong. That's not the prophet. It's not we who believe the prophet.

He said, why the Bible said he that believeth on Christ in everlasting life. I said, that's true. It also says that no man can call Jesus the Christ. only by the revelation of the Holy Ghost that is revealed to him. Now, where are you going from there? You say, well, what God gives with one hand, he takes back with the other. That's a lie from the pit of hell, what God gives from his hand. He stipulates how you get it.

And any man that has anything worth an inheritance, he's going to pass on to his kids, also stipulates. Well,

there's something wrong with the man. Then the Bible came and Abel didn't have a Bible to read.

But it was revealed to Abel by faith, which is a revelation. Abel offered unto God a mercy and sacrifice, and that it came, which God testified that he was righteous. Now, remember, not religious.

Oh, they won't deny the rapture. Absolutely not, because they're religious. See?

But they don't know how it takes place, and they claim they do, because it's, oh, we're rich and creased in goods and don't have need of a thing. Well, if you don't have need of a thing, you're going to make the rapture. And you aren't going to. Few there be. Maybe 500 out of, what, 5 billion?

See? Now, when Jesus was asked here in Matthew 16, 17, 18, you haven't got time to read it. You want to write it down. He said, Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? All right?

Now, he's talking about a revelation, how you've got to have it, and the rapture must be revealed, or you couldn't be a part of it. That's what he tells us. Absolutely. Now, he goes to the Bible to illustrate. And we know what we read already in 1 John. That third chapter, how that Cain was of the wicked one with an excellent sacrifice.

Taken right from the Bible. That guy was a real Baptist.

Seventh -day Adventist, Jehovah's Witness. No problem.

Don't worry. He was convinced there was no eternal hellfire. He wouldn't have killed his brother. He knew it.

That's the doctrine of the Roman Catholic from Dante's Inferno. Nothing to do with the Holy Word of Almighty God. Because hell is a created thing. It's going to go out of existence. It doesn't have the seed of God in it. Remember, it was one of those things ordained or written of because it says the hell was created for the devil and his angels. So therefore, it's part of the afterthought, so to speak, or that which would be in there to further manifest the goodness and grace of Almighty God as was necessary. Now, He said, Who do you see I am? They said, Moses, Elijah, somebody. Who do you see I am? He said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Now, He said, Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you. Upon this rock, the spiritual revelation of who God is, who Jesus is. And he's the revelation of God. God made in flesh and revealed to the world. He was in the world. God was in Christ reconciling the world himself, revealing what God was in a body of flesh. Thou art the Christ, the anointed one, the Son of God. Now, he's telling us what a revelation is. Now, over here, he says to the bride, the rapture is a revelation.

All right, here stands Jesus. He said, okay. He said, I've been around here to the extent that I've caused a lot of furore. I've caused people to take thoughts and double thoughts. Now, he said, they're all guessing and talking who I am. He said, it's very interesting. I've heard the reports, but I haven't heard a report from you. Now, he said, let's make it unanimous what's going on in the world. If I hear a report from you, then he said, it's come across the board. He said, who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? That's right. So they said, this is this. Now he said, who do you say? Well, Peter said, thou art the Christ. Now watch what I'm trying to get you. He was there with a universal report having gone out.

Now comes the hour. Who is this man anyway? What is going on anyway? What is it all about?

And the revelation from God was, this is the Christ, the Son of the living God. This is that one of whom John said, this is the Lamb. Now, let's watch the same thing. William Branham is down here on earth. God comes down out of heaven, the messenger above all messengers, which we'll see in the rapture here. Revelation 10 and 1 has come on down, and William Branham is standing there. And William Branham has had a ministry that no man can duplicate. There is nobody who can do it. He's the one man who can tell it as it is. He could see it, and he alone could tell what he saw. He could hear it, and he alone could tell what he heard, and nobody else could. But they're all out there lying that they can. They're lying, filthy blasphemers. Well, you say, Brother Bale. Don't Brother Bale me. For

then they gladly see me burn. To be a truthful child of hell, a prostitute. Well, a proselyte, because they're prostitires, and a prostitute's the same thing. They glad to see me. They rejoice in my flesh. Well, let them go down.

Let them go down.

So William Branham stood there. Two thousand years, not a man like him. And he stood there and he said, tell you what, he said, do you people know what's going on? He

said, you know what's happening?

Do you know who I am? He said, more than once, if you knew who I was, you'd all be healed. He

felt worse. But he proved it. He said, bring me your worst. Bring me 24 of your worst cases. They wouldn't do it. So down around the Mexican border, he said, bring me your worst case. And they did. And the little girl was healed.

Proving he had nobody else had. Because you see, he made a guarantee on God. And remember, nobody can swear by God or even say, tomorrow we will go to such a city and have such a good time. He said, if the Lord will. And this man stood there and he said, I challenge you. That wasn't William Branham talking, come on, don't be a doozy. I don't care if that would have come out of a barn door. That was God, the word of Almighty God. And William Branham stood there and he said, now he said, what do you think is going on?

I'll read what he said. But to the church, the bride, the rapture is a revelation. Now

listen, Jesus stood there, and he said, Who do you think I am? Who am I? And they said, Thou art the Christ. And he was standing there in the light of everything that everybody had previously thought concerning the Scripture, the Scripture of fulfillment, and what was going on now as what could be a Scripture of fulfillment, and to who he was. And then he said, What is your revelation? Well, they said, everybody says you're this, you're that, the other thing. Well, he said, all right, who do you? And Peter said, thou art the Christ. He nailed what was going on. It took a revelation. And the prophet stood right there and he said, the bride is waiting for revelation. I'm going to tell you about the rapture. It is going on now.

And they said, horse feathers,

pickle smoke, as old Amos Hoople and... The funny paper fireman. Remember those good old boys? You don't because you're too young. Norm remembers one or two of them. Fap, pickle smoke, and horse feathers.

Nice language.

Claptrap, balderdash, and God knows what in our day and age. No way.

No way. Now you see what I did, and I hope you caught it. I was bringing in last Wednesday's message of God interpreting, which will be read to you, hope, before it days over, by manifesting what is going on. By manifesting the Word, literally what's going on is manifesting the Word, bringing it into observation, and then telling about it.

And Brother Branham did it. Now, thou

art the Christ, the Anointed One, the Son of God. Now, that was fine in His day of flesh. What is He today? Son of Man.

Now, what is Son of Man? Now, here's where the little weak -hearted ones go, and the others go too strong. Son of Man? Brother Branham said, the question was, Brother Branham, somebody called you the son of man. I thought the pillar of fire was the son of man. He said, I am not he. The pillar of fire is not he. It is in spirit form.

Now, just a minute. The pillar of fire stands there. William Branham stands here. And where's the son of man? Operating through the prophet. The same God moving through a prophet. And they say, now, just a minute. I don't know if that's the way it'll work. Because you see, now, God would have to get in the prophet.

How much?

But then maybe not. Who

knows the answers? But we know one thing in the form of the Spirit. It was the Spirit doing it. And because Son of Man is linked with the prophet, the prophet would have to be there telling it.

But he said, he's not the pillar of fire, and I am not he, but he's here. And how is he here? Pillar of fire is here. Son of Man is here. Prophet is here because God works in three. So who is to say that God doesn't take of his Spirit? and put it in William Branham, and manifest God. Let me show you something. God one day came down, and he put his spirit on Moses. And the old father -in -law said, Moses, you're going to wear yourself to a frazzle. Get smart, boy. He said, get yourself a bunch of men, and he said, let them do the odd jobs, and judge, and then you do the big jobs. So God said, that's pretty good. I'll let you do it, Moses. And so Moses stood there, and God took the spirit off of him, put it on 70 men, and Moses had more on him than the 70 had on them. That's 70 people's ministry. And here stood God. Tell me, was God diminished? Was he any less God? Then you try to explain these things. I don't. I just believe them. So, pillar of fire, William Branham, son of man, in the spirit form. But we can't see spirit. We can't see pillar of fire. We see prophet. When you saw prophet, you saw God.

Do what you want. Saw him in the form. Now, son of man, he said, flesh and blood never revealed this to you, but my Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock I'll build my church. What part is being built today? It's being built upon the revelation of what? Son of man and the rapture. The little appearing. That's our revelation. I'm going to build my church. And Brother Branham in parenthesis, the revelation of the word in its season. What is seasonable?

Now you know that the health baddest, they've got a theory that if you want to be healthy, you should eat the food that's in your area here. Like they say, well, look, oranges don't grow here, so you shouldn't eat oranges. Well, maybe some of us can't afford oranges. That lets us out. But you've got carrots, and Brother Branham saw a bunch of carrots. I don't think he saw oranges and apples. He might have. But he saw a bunch of carrots and fresh green vegetables and things. So let's go to the vegetables. They claim you're supposed to eat what's in native to you. Well, that's all right then. The light began to move west. We don't have the light that was back there in Pentecost. That was inception.

Any woman and any man will tell you that conception, which is inception,

And gestation is a million miles from delivery. Although it's only nine months, it's a million miles in the sense you can't even see the sperm and egg without a magnifying object like a microscope. But anybody's got to be deaf, dumb, and blind, paralyzed, not to see a baby that's anywhere from four pounds to nine and ten. Years ago they had them even 14 pounds. I'm just trying to tell you this. Let's get it across flat. That what you couldn't see in the beginning is full -fledged as it comes down.

All right? There's a difference between the end and the beginning. So, therefore, the season and the place of this word is the end time in the West because the light moves West.

Now, you say, how do you know it? Well, the prophet said so, but then again, I'm not stupid. I can read history. And with history, I can understand geography. And the gospel has always come West. And anybody knows when it goes full around, that's the end of it. Anybody would know that. Or they should. All right. Now, the rapture is the literal descent or the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for his own. For the Lord himself descends from heaven to shout with the voice of the archangels, the trump of God, and then it says the dead in Christ are going to rise first. But remember, before you get to that point, you've got to read in 2 Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians, that fourth chapter, these verses. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, He's talking to the living at the time of the resurrection.

Will not sleep, even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring forth with him. This is said by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain under the presence of the Lord shall not take any exception or precedence over them with our sleep. And that's right today. You've got the same thing like a fellow wants to preach it. If you die, you're not bride. Hogwash, I can be dead in five minutes and I'm bride. And I'll prove it by coming back and confronting him with his hogwash. Because the prophet said so. I'm not caring what he said. Take his mysticism and do what he wants with it. That's where you come to this stupid idea that the rapture is some kind of a little revelation. If I just get a revelation, some goofy -boofy in my head here, I'm in it. You're nuts. You're out of it. I'm sorry, but let's get pragmatic, dogmatic, and God knows what. Because you've got to get rid of all this nonsense. Look, brother, sister, we are into the stage of reality. And let me tell you something. Spirit is more real than physical. Because the Spirit was here first. God

couldn't even do one thing until He began to manifest in a physical.

So let's face it. You've got Spirit, now you've got physical. Because the end time revelation is Jesus Christ, the beginning of the creation of God, God forming Himself in the human body. And the human body is all but finished. It is finished with the bride because Israel blew its day. Let's face it. Israel blew its day. Gone. 144 ,000 are not brides. They're their eunuchs. Virgins, they take care of the bride in the bridal chamber. All right, now listen. The Lord descends. He is here. And the gates of hell are against it.

Listen. Let's get this flat. The devil used everything in the book he could do to destroy you and get the human race down. Don't you think you'll do every single thing in the book to stop man going to the tree of life and walking into immortality?

Sure he will. And you're going to be based upon an argument. Well, God said we shouldn't eat. Now, he said, I know God said it, but he didn't explain it. Did he tell you how life would come? Did he give you the ins and outs? Oh, no, he didn't. Well, let me tell you, God knows when you eat this fruit and you enter into this act of carnality, then your eyes are open and you know good and evil. And it's a wonderful thing. And I'm explaining it. He says, oh, you don't mean to say what he said. I just told you I wouldn't. Well, certainly I meant it, he said.

Gates of hell are against us today. So they come along and they say, no, come, come. There's no such thing as him being present. There's no such thing as the rapture being threefold. There's no such thing as being a progression. It's bam, bam, bam. Well, I'm going to tell you something. In 18 million years, it may look like bam, bam, bam. But it's been going on since 1930 C. And Jubilee has expired 50 years.

We're in the ushering in of the millennium, whether anybody wants it or not. So the gates of hell are against him. They were against the revelation back there, which was a manifestation and a proof of the hour. And he's against the manifestation of proof of the hour.

God with a skin on it.

Oh, the same people jump up and down. I'm God with a skin on it. I'm God with a skin on it. Well, for heaven's sake, do something that's God -like.

Oh, they say, well, I'm a beautiful creature. Ah, fat. Satan is much more beautiful. Sealed up the sum of beauty and wisdom. Well, I got great miracles. Ah, forget it. Judas raised the dead. Don't give me that poppycock and nonsense.

Amen. Now, see, you stand with the revelation. Gates of hell aren't against your gifts. Gates of hell aren't against character. I'm not against character either. But I'm not being deceived these days, brothers and sisters. The booker is there against the revelation of the Son of Man because that's the season. The season of the Son of Man is pre -Sodom and Gomorrah.

And that's when the rapture takes place. We get out of here before the burning. The book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible. It certainly is. It's sealed to unbelievers. In there the Bible says in the 22nd chapter, whoever takes one word or adds one word, it'll take his part from the book of life. What part? You're left standing here. No rapture. Every

place you go where there was out the wedding garments or something has gone on which God has to condemn, it's outer darkness, outer darkness, gnashing of teeth, great tribulation. So what'd they do? You missed what you could have had.

Now they're going to scream blood. They're going to scream works. They're going to scream gifts. They're going to scream character. They're going to scream everything.

Scream the revelation.

Because Abraham stood there. And he said, hey, he said, do you know?

He said, Sarah. Got to wake up, kid. He said, look, do you understand? Man, I just can't believe it. He said, girl, you're getting this thing. You see, you laughed at it. He said, I just don't think you can. He said, man, he said, look, it's because he said so. Do you

realize that?

People, listen, they quote the scripture. He stands behind his word to perform it. God can do anything but lie. And then comes right down here, he's a liar. Oh,

we got a lovely bunch of coconuts.

standing in a row. Big ones and little ones. Wouldn't you know, I forget that song. It was the first, Second World War one. What a lovely bunch of coconuts. Anybody remember that except me? Oh, you bunch of birds here. We ought to have somebody that's a little bit past 25 or somewhere. Norman nods his head. I think Norman must have been a dirty dog like me singing all those songs. I didn't sing too many, Norm. But I remember them anyway. Pitiful. That's the way the church is. I'll take his part. Remember the part today is rapture. First resurrection. Millennium. Gone. We realize that then it was all together for believers. That's this revelation. Certainly not for unbelievers. Because evidently believers won't add or take. A lot of people get an idea what I might add or take. Look, and the word always corrects the word. And I say the word, you and me being word. The word, this here, given by a prophet, will always correct that. Don't worry. We realize that then it was altogether given for believers, and it opens the book of Revelation, reveals who the author of this entire book is. He's to look upon as Alpha and Omega from Genesis and Revelation, Jesus Christ the same, right straight through, and reveals his complete mystery of himself and his plans for the church ages that's to come, and was sealed in there by seven seals. And part of the coming was... The rapture in the present. It was all sealed up. Now, history took us into the past. Brother Branham used the church ages to bring us to the present. But where do we get the present, especially if it's a sealed book? And remember, the rapture is under the seal.

And remember, the rapture is an integral part of the literal coming. So, therefore, the rapture is under the seventh seal. Now, the book was written.

But then remember, it was sealed with seven seals. And those seven seals were not to be opened, Revelation 10, to the sounding of the last earthly angel on earth, Revelation 10 and 7c. And in the days of the sounding of the last angel's message, seven angels, the mystery of God was finished in that age. That's that age we're living in. That's why the seals will give us rapturing faith. Because you cannot have faith outside of a revelation. And you cannot have a revelation unless it's pertinent.

Your father said it's got to be pertinent. Because if it's not, then the blood doesn't apply. And if the blood doesn't apply, then the high priest can't apply.

The mediator cannot apply. The intercessor cannot apply. The high priest cannot apply. Nothing can apply.

I'm sorry.

But this is all that opens the book to me is to preach the way I preach. I see nothing except when I see this. I see everything in disarray and a God who didn't know what he was doing.

But I'm sick and tired of quoting John 3, 16 without going three more verses.

You might as well read the Bible where it says, Let him that steal stole no more, but rather let him labor with his hands. You may have to get it forward. A lot of people want to read it this way. Let him that stole steal. No more laboring with his hands.

If you don't believe that, you don't believe anything. But I've seen it happen.

What's to come? Okay.

We all know we're living in a Laodicean age. There will not be another age to it, can't be.

We're living in that Laodicean age. The seven seals that held that book is a mystery to the people. Should be open at that day. That's our day. That's what he promised. Now it won't be nothing outside the word because you can't add to the word or take from the word. It's got to remain always the word. But the revelation is to reveal the truth of it.

of what it is, to make it fit with the rest of the Scripture. Then God vindicates that to be the truth.

Do you understand what he said? I'll read it again. This revelation, this mystery, which is the rapture, that's the subject. And remember, under the mysteries that were to be revealed, immortality and the raptures are two mysteries. And the resurrection from among the dead.

See? All right. But the revelation is... No. It can't be anything added to the Word or taken from the Word. It's got to remain always the Word. In other words, the way it's written here in the book of Thessalonians is the Word of God. Now watch. But the revelation is to reveal the truth of it. Do you know what I mean? To make it fit with the rest of Scripture.

Now the rest of the Scripture distinctly says Elijah is going to come and restore. The rest of the Scripture says that the presence of God is going to be here in signs and wonders. The rest of the scripture says that that one cannot come down here in flesh. No way. Even though he is going to come down, he cannot come down until first of all the word is restored. And he tells you at that time when the word is restored, there's a division that those that don't go all the way die. They go to the great tribulation. They're finished.

All right. So there's a continuity here. So this has got to be in continuity.

Your bride's got to get out of here before the burning. Well, that son of man comes in the picture. A prophet comes in the picture.

Revelation 10, 1 to 7 comes in the picture. Matthew 24 comes in the picture. The whole thing comes in the picture with Thessalonians here that goes to Ephesians 1, that goes to 2 Thessalonians, the mighty one coming down with seven angels enhancing him. All of it's there. The whole thing, see?

Now, he said, and God vindicates that to be the truth. Now remember, Brother Branham categorically struck. vindication as per the pillar of fire and the seven angels which I don't think we got hung up here. He said the camera took it and

he put them down as scientific evidence so that not only did nature attest to God but man in his scientific ways attested to God whether he knew it was God or not. See? Making it fit. Now listen. So God don't need no interpreter. He's his own interpreter. He does his own interpretation by bringing to pass the things that he said would happen. Like in the beginning, he said, let there be light, and there was light. That doesn't need any interpretation. It was vindicated.

All right? Alpha is omega.

Always you can't help it. So therefore, God is going to interpret by bringing the thing to pass. There's got to be a light that is absolutely revealed to us at this end time. Now notice,

in here it says, The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. And Brother Branham said that one in Revelation 10 and 1 was right down here on earth the same time Revelation 10 and 7 was.

And it's at that time of that mighty one that comes down, when Revelation 10 and 7 is here, that every mystery is clarified that we need.

because Revelation 10, 1 to 7 goes with Acts, the third chapter, the middle of the 19th verse, to about verse 22 or 23.

Now, let's look at the picture even more closely. The rapture brings him down to earth in the form of the Holy Spirit.

Because Brother Branham kept putting that before our attention at all times. It's the form of the Holy Spirit. He comes down. Now, I want to go to the Psalms, the 24th Psalm, for a little bit here.

Now it said, lift up, verse 7, lift up your head, ye gates, lift up the everlasting doors, the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty. The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your head, ye gates. Even lift up the everlasting doors, the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts. He is King of glory. Now that was the ascent of Christ with the Old Testament saints, the first half of the first rapture, right? He went up there with them. Is that correct? All right, my brother, sister. Let's go back then to Jude. And we'll look in Jude 14. And Enoch also the seventh man and prophesied of these things. Behold, the Lord cometh, not goeth. In Psalm 24, the Lord wenteth.

Yep, he went. He wenteth with thousands and thousands of Old Testament brides. But in Jude 14, he cometh with

tens of thousands of these saints, which is all the brides. With 144 ,000 coming back. Now listen. He's coming to execute judgment. Upon all. And to convince all. That's to convict. All their ungodly among them. Of all their ungodly deeds. Which have ungodly committed. And all their hard speeches. Which ungodly sinners have used against them. And every word. Every telling of fact. That every single diabolical tradition. And doctrine.

which was inspired by hell. When Jesus comes down on earth with his bride, we're going to stand right here and eyeball the whole bunch and tell you all a bunch of liars.

You've lied about everything.

You bet. He's going to convince them. He's going to convict. And the man that's convicted is judged. And Christ's going to come right down here in a human form. God and his bride are going to come right down here and face that whole bunch. Now you say, well, brother, I think I'm too nice. You ain't going to make it in the first place. I'll tell you that right now.

You don't have to be nasty to make it. I'm just telling you, a lot of people got the wrong idea.

They are so far away from the Word of God in this hour where judgment has struck. Who will tell a clean thing to be unclean? Who will tell an unclean thing that is clean? Let me tell you, Fat Brother, that's dangerous. The Church has done it.

Well, I'm not part of the Church.

I'm standing here in His integrity and what He said.

Putting the dress on, He told us to dress in. See? All right. Let's look at the picture then. When you are talking about the physical of Jesus Christ, He

went up with the physical bride around Him. It was in existence at that time. When He comes back, He will come back with the physical bride around Him.

Where do you find that He comes down right to earth here and picks us up in the physical?

No. He went up with physical. He comes back. with physical, and we had better get up there where he is physical and we physical because that's the only way it's going to be because Alpha is Omega. See, I don't care which way you type this thing. You can't do one thing with the doctrine of the revelation that Brother Brandon brought us. Old people say, I don't believe that. They don't have to believe nothing. They don't anyway.

Now, he said it was vindicated.

Then in paragraph 78, now he promised certain things in this last day. What's this last day? This day we're living in. Which was up here that I read about, Laodicea. Where he's going to interpret his word by bringing it right to pass under our noses.

Well, listen. If interpretation of the word of God is bringing the thing to pass, and we are not privy to it now, what good is it going to be when it's all over?

He said the bride's waiting for the revelation.

Well, where are you going? You're going to get the revelation. When you're going to have the faith to get out of here. I don't have any faith to get out of here. I have faith that I am getting out of here. And I'm on my way now. You do what you want. I ain't no trouble. Because I know I'm going.

Now he promised certain things in his last day. In the scripture. Why there it was. Now he's going to give an illustration. That's how Jesus the son of God. He promised to send him. That God promised to send that one. Back in that day. Now it's going to be the same thing today. When he was in the days here on earth. The people couldn't believe him. He said search the scripture. For in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they that testify me. If I don't do the works of my Father, then believe me not. But if you can't believe me, believe the works that I do, because they testify who I am. And then you do that, you start moving up, getting somewhere. Now, he's referring to the same thing today. At the end time of rapture time, his ministry proves his presence, that he is already here, which is the light.

Because he said if he's the same one, yet they deign for him, he'll do in the spirit what he did in the flesh. So I know he's here in the spirit. Now what's he here in the spirit for?

To shout, the voice, the trumpet.

You can't get away from it. Well, then in Wesley's age, the works that he did testified who he was. Testified who he was. Wesley who he was. In Wesley's age, on the Reformation, why sure, it testified who Luther was, not Jesus.

Testified who Luther was. The days of Pentecost were restoring back gifts, restoration of gifts, beating of tongues, casting out devils, and the gifts testified. Who did they testify? Pentecost. There was no joke about it. Now that was back there, see?

Their works testify who they were. Just what people they were. They also testified to what Christ had for that hour. Now then, what about this hour of presence with William Brown and the prophets? Now people said when Pentecost first raised up, I read the books in Pentecost, they said it can't last long. It'll burn down. It's still burning. Why? It's because you'll never put it out. God said it would be there. It's that portion of the Word, and no more could you put that out. Now listen, and when the bride is being called out, which she wasn't being called out in Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, how are you going to put it out? It's the revelation of the manifestation of the Word made true. In other words, every single thing Brother Branham did was to indicate it's going on now.

Look, don't you believe that... The redemption of man through Jesus Christ was going on the very minute that the angel came to Mary? Certainly. And when the Holy Ghost impregnated her, that is by reason of putting the two cells in there. Don't you understand redemption was going on? And don't you know one day redemption was full -fledged that after the cross he went down into Hades, preached to the souls in prison, took them out, took his blood up there? And redemption stands? Now you tell me redemption wasn't going on. And you tell me there aren't a thousand types in the Old Testament. Now you try to tell me that the rapture is not going on.

Certainly it's going on. I can't help it if people don't see it. But it's my job to send you down here. Now, and when the bride is being called, how are you going to put it out? It's a revelation of the manifestation of the Word made true. In other words, we have had manifested to us 1 Thessalonians 4 .13. Ephesians 1, 15 to 23, and so on right down the line.

Now, and we're living in that day. Praise be to God. The revelation of the mystery of Himself who is being testified to. The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ. What is the revelation, the mystery of the revelation? It's over here in Ephesians. We've read it time and time after again. I've been preaching a whole series on it. I'll get back to something later on again when that Lord lets me get back to it. The eyes of the Spirit are revelation and wisdom and the knowledge of Him. Eyes are understanding your heart being enlightened. It tells you right there. The revelation that He is here tells who is here what is going on. The Lord Himself has descended. Now, the rapture is only. This rapture that we're talking about is only for the bride. So who's going to get a revelation? Bride. Who's going to fight it? Gates of hell. Who's going to fight it? The willful. Who's going to fight it? The scoffers. And all the time they're going to say, Oh, we believe, we believe, we believe. What do you believe?

Just ask him, is he here? Well, he's always been here. Then he didn't come down this trip. I say, well, you say to me, Brother Bale, get off the ceiling. I say, stupid idiot, I'm down. Oh, Brother Bale, come down. Oh, God.

Jesus does not visit insane institutions to bring out his bride. The prophet said they're intelligent.

But intelligent people soon become dupes of the devil just given the chance.

So -called intelligence.

Something's wrong somewhere.

It's only for the bride. Remember, the Bible said the rest of the dead didn't live for a thousand years. This great rapture. If there's not a rapture, friends, where are we at?

Well, he's the messenger revealing it.

He said, what's going on if I haven't been here to tell you about it? What do you think I came for? What do I think I came for? What is it all about? What age are we living at? What are we going to do? What promises do we have? See, he's talking rapture, the subject.

We're into it.

There's going to be a rapture. The Bible says there will be. It'll only be for the elected. The elected lady. The bride of this day that's pulled out. That's the living church. Pulled out of the church. Now, that bride is living amongst the dead. The dead ones that are gone on that are saints. They've already had their word. Their word is if you die, they'll live. Our word is you won't die. So, all right. There's two different words for two different seasons. I don't care what anybody says. The word church means called out. As Moses called a nation out of a nation, the Holy Spirit is calling a bride out of a church. Now, remember, Moses is a prophet. You understand that? Now, who is it that... Well, let's go over here to the book of Revelation, chapter 18.

We've got to see something here. Verse 1, I saw a mighty angel come down from heaven. He had great power, and the earth was lighted with his glory. And he cried mightily, and a strong voice babbled, and the greatest fallen upon him became the habitation of devils. hold of every foul spirit in the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Now, another angel came down and said that. Now, remember, for every messenger here, there's a messenger there and there's one above all. Right? Absolutely. Seven church, eight messengers, seven angels came as counterparts in the middle of Jesus Christ himself. The one above all. Now, don't try to kid me. That's what the prophet said. I'll share it a little later on. All right? Unclean become the hold of all in the cage and so on. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Come out and hear my people. Okay, there is a messenger and there's got to be a prophet with the messenger because people do not hear the word of God, the voice of God. Only a prophet can do that. So therefore, the messenger of this hour is a prophet. And he screams to the church to come on out, the bride to come out. So she's called out. Now, notice

what he says over here. When you see God come from the heaven, Stand before groups of men and stand there and declare himself. Just as ever he did. And that's the truth. His Bible opened. So, all right. We got that one coming down. The one was on the throne. And there's a prophet there.

That's when God gets into the prophet and the prophet talks and that's God talking.

All right. As Moses called the nation out of the nation, the church is calling it. The spirit's calling a bride out of a church. A church out of a church. Members from every denomination making up a bride. A bride tree. That's in tape form. A bride coming out. And that's the one that the bride tree is. The bride, rather, is the one that's going to be in the rapture. That alone. Nothing but the bride. The elected one foreknown by God from the beginning. The father spiritual gene. Now, he's going to reveal here from this point on for a page or two who the bride is as to its source which they are the spiritual genes of their father which is God. But notice, look, each of you people. Do you know years before you were born, you were in your father as a gene? Where were you? In your father. Now, you might not agree, but you're going to have to listen because this prophet will know. It's not about your earthly father. That's right. A germ of seed was in your father. It comes from the male sex, not the female. So that's proof it's earthly. He's speaking of the earthly father. See, female furnish the egg, a bedding ground, but the germ comes from the man. Now, say, in my father, or rather my... Son sitting here. He didn't really mean that. He's talking about his son. When I was 16 years old, my son was in me. Now, the point is, was he or was he not? That's where people get all mixed up on natural and spiritual election. They want to have it made that you somehow get here accidentally. The whole thing was something that worked out and you got a free choice somewhere and this, that. Look, you ain't nothing but an ignorant.

Until you come to understand these things, you do not understand predestination and the sovereignty of God. Now, he categorically says that his son was in him. So maybe a son wasn't in him.

Maybe it's just a bunch of poppycock, a bunch of tripe. You know what tripe is? I'm

not happy about it. Scots make tripe soup. Black men eat chitlins.

The best I'll do is eat casing, but it's got to be on a sausage. But

tripe's really that thick lining of the stomach, and it even seems worse. All right? A bunch of tripe, as far as I'm concerned. When I was 16 years old, my son was in me. I didn't know him, but he was there, was he? Or wasn't he? Now through abetting grounds, through holy wedlock, he becomes in the image of me. All right? Who's me? William Branham. Doesn't become me, it becomes in the image.

Was that scripture? Sure. Seth was in the image of Adam. Where was Seth? In his father's loins.

All right? He becomes in the image of me. I know him. I can fellowship with him. He came just at the time when it's the right time. That's true. Born right. So now you, who's you? What he said you were.

If you've got eternal life, you were in God there before there ever was a world. You are a part, a son of God, an attribute of God. Now, the word attribute means it's a mark of distinction from the source. It's got to indicate something about where it sprung from. Because the attribute is not the thing itself, but it's a part of the thing. of which many attributes literally make up the whole thing as to manifestation. Now he said, you were a part, a son of God, an attribute of God. He knew the very age you were coming. See? Now, so we'll conceive then that we must be a part of the revelation of this hour because he knew the hour would be coming in and there's a revelation to the bride for this hour and the bride being one with the word. then has got to be a part of this revelation. You follow what I'm saying? Then we are a part of the rapture. Care what anybody says. You say, I might die. Go ahead and die. You'll be up. I'll be standing waiting. And because you're not believing, I'll hit you with the club.

You've got to put that in there to let you know we're not fooling. A lot of people, you know, they think, well, if you go down, you're coming back. Certainly. I'm not going to miss what's going on here. What was I born for? I was born to get over there. I'm not sure which course I take. He knew the very age you were coming. He predestinated you to the age to take that place. What place? Rapture. And no one else can do it. I don't care how many impersonations and things you've got to be there. I don't care what he said about the impersonations, the phony balonies, if there's billions of them. You have got to be there. Because he knew you'd be there. Now you are made manifest. Now you can fellowship with him. How can you have fellowship? outside of this revelation.

Well, come on, wake up. Get your thinking caps on. Don't blame me what you missed.

Look, I read it here. I'm breaking it down to you. Now, if you want a Pentecostal toe dancer, some Methodist hogwash and claptrap, you're looking at the wrong guy. Because I was glad to leave Pentecost. Oh, bless God. They were glad to get rid of me too, no doubt. The Baptists, a whole bunch of them were. You know, like the poor old whale Jonah got jumping up and down there. Because he thought of the holy city. You know, we'll belch them out.

Okay, you cannot have fellowship apart from that. That's true. Because if we're in the light, he is in the light. And the light is he is here for after. Then if you're in that light, you've got fellowship.

And tell me people turn this light down. They say, well, that's not the way our church taught it. I don't care. William Brown stood here. He said, do you know what's going on? He said, tell me what do you really think? Are you catching what's going on? And he stood back and explained it. You take a bus. I'm going to tell you. The devil can no more get the victual rest than nothing. This is something he knows nothing about. He's out of it. Period. Because everything he ever built on has gone down the drain and he cannot build on revealed word because he doesn't know the first thing. He cannot handle the word. That's why the churches can't. Now you're manifest. Now you fellowship with him. Only under the blood to the bride now, see? That's what he wants. He's longing for fellowship. to be worshipped. But if in your life did not always, but in, if, it's a little mixed up here, but in, if your life did not always was as an attribute in God, you're just a mimic. In other words, he said, look, if you weren't there in the first place, you are just a counterfeit and you're mimicking Christianity now. And you can be a mighty fine mimic. You can out -mimic the ones that are real. There'll be billions and billions of them mimics in Christianity. See? Now notice, He's talking about the fact of this end time, which is that light we mentioned over in John 1, 1 John 1 and 7. We have fellowship and we have the blood cleansing us. And that's the same as Matthew 24, 27, the light coming at the end time. And the light at the end time is the Son of Man and the entire revelation. And at the time of the revelation, there's a separation. And those that belong to the true word are getting out of here. And those with the false caucus are going to stay here. That's where you stand today. We're going to let you go right here because it's one o 'clock. The tape's almost run out. Now, next Sunday, Lord willing, we'll start on the fact that he talks about mimics to Christianity that will act as though they're part of it.

And they're no more part of the election than nothing.

See? And he goes into the fact of the insemination of the cattle in Demashekarian's big dairy herd, and he tells you how that actually, The thing works. And he said, that's exactly the way it is. And he goes into the eagle story. And the thought coming up is this. If you were not one of the genes of the Father, you are not one now. If you were not in the foreknowledge, you cannot be in the predestination.

There's no way. And you see, the rest come in as that which is written.

There'll be those that don't make it and those from the second resurrection. That's right. It's all written out there. But they're all adjuncts, as it were. to show the perfections and the glory of God as God takes the bride through. All of these things line up as Brother Branham taught us. So we're getting that next week. I don't think we'll go into it Wednesday. We just try to run this on Sundays in continuity. And let me see. We got from page... We got from middle of page 14 to middle of page 18. All right, there we are. Let's rise at this time.

Heavenly Father, again, we are so happy to... Say, Lord, we appreciate your goodness, your love to us to come into your house here and see what we believe to be the truth, Lord. We cannot prove anything, and Father, we aren't about to prove anything. We believe. We believe we've heard your voice. We believe we've heard from heaven. We believe all these things, Lord. They were right into the rapture now. It's coming, the grand turn for the dead to come out of the graves, and we're going to see them because we're part of them. We're all foreknown to this end by election and predestination. It'll be proven. In fact, Lord, we know the proof is here in this hour. The manifestation that we are not scoffing at the rapture. We are 100 % for it, O God. We believe you, Lord. And there's no changing to the left or to the right. And we love it, Heavenly Father. Sweet, delicious manna. Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous. Trade it, I don't believe, for billions, Lord, and for anything under the heavens or under the earth, because God in heaven, we know that you would never put a part of the Word here and manifest it if it wasn't going to go all the way through, just as the prophet said. So we don't care whether it's high tide or low tide, life or death, principalities and powers, whatever it is, is not going to separate us from you. From this moment on, we're going right up into the resurrection, having been already judged righteous. having, Lord, the blood of Jesus Christ scattering sin. And we're not glorifying ourselves as though we can do anything, but, Lord, we are glorifying You because You are overlooking us as human beings and seeing us through the blood, through the everlasting covenant, seeing us as those sons going into mortality, Lord. Our hope and our rest and all is in Thee, O God. We don't have a battle with anybody, Lord, not even with ourselves anymore. We've entered into your rest, into your marvelous grip upon us, Lord. We know we're going up with you, going to take us up there. We're happy, Lord, in your happiness. We delight in your delight. Father, there's nothing we see but you as far as we know. And what there is missing, if anything, in the depth of the revelation, in the in -depth, Lord, we believe that there's no limit to those walks.