Word Made Flesh

Heavenly Father, we are again grateful to be in divine presence, knowing, Lord, that you have descended to the earth in order to bring forth a message, in order to bring forth the dead, in order to change us, in order to bring forth a rapture, in order to bring forth a wedding supper, and a great coronation, a great understanding, in order also to come back here to this earth. These things we know, Lord. We also know, Lord, that the depth of intensity of our emotion, our reaction toward you depends, Lord, on how great that revelation is, what it means to us. And, Father, we don't know in any way it could mean anything to us except you reveal it, Father, it become something of your spirit. So help us, Lord, to learn, as the prophet said, to get out of the way that it might indeed, Father, be your spirit leading us, guiding us, and showing this truth and bringing our own spirits on the subjection to the life of this word, O God. So, Father, we commend ourselves to you this morning in asking for your help. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated. Now, we're on number 31. Who is this Melchizedek? And in this message, we have heard many astounding revelations, especially of life principles set forth by Brother Branham. Now, there's a basic statement that he made. in this message, and I forget just what page it's on, but on page 22, I guess it is, and that this statement in this message in a great measure summarizes what is particularly revealed about our lives. And he says in paragraph 113, now we see here plainly the complete secret of our lives in journey. That would be your starting point to where you're going. And death, and where we go after we die. So you have here the thought of where we're coming from, what we do when we are here, what happens at the end of this earthly journey, where we go to start another journey. And reading on, he says, the stages of the eternal purpose he had in his secret have now been revealed. So let me read 112 and 113 again. Now we see here plainly the complete secret of our lives in journey and death, even death, and where we go after we die. The stages of the eternal purpose he had in his secret have now been revealed. So, I believe these two paragraphs actually mean the same thing, but they enlarge each other and illuminate each other. Now, it is that this message reveals to us the eternal purpose of God from eternity to eternity. and details our beginning to our glorification so that we can know our entire life, that's eternal history, and how God is accomplishing it in us step by step. Now, that's exactly a major factor and the doctrine of the life principle set forth in this message. Now, Paul understood this revelation so perfectly that death and the grave could not challenge Paul, but rather he challenged them. Now, that's what we're looking at. It is a depth of revelation that is so inundating and powerful that life and death does not become a challenge to us, but we challenge it. Now, you'll notice that that is not simply a poetic statement or a philosophical statement,

A great figure in this world, thinking in terms of the laic or the prosaic. And in terms of the spiritual, you will know that every single person did not accept a challenge, but challenged. The fact that we are here and there is a life is a challenge in itself. The reciprocation is to challenge it.

You notice that Daniel did. He threw open the window and positively stuck his neck wide open, not just for the window to come down and bang him on the head, but for the king to cut his head off or throw him in the lion's den. The three Hebrew children, Job, Jesus, Paul, William Branham, none of these people waited for life to come to them or waited for death. They stood there simply challenging it. And that's what I'm a little afraid we are lacking this morning. I'm not just a little afraid. I am more than afraid. We are not simply challenging as we should be. Now, when the life of God took over the life of Paul, which is the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and with it the understanding of his purpose and destiny.

You say, well, I don't know that I've got that particular role, or at least I've got that particular clarity in my life. Now, that isn't true. That is not true. There is a life purpose and a clarity to it, as Brother Branham set forth, to every single person, to the men and to the women. Even saying how that concerning marriage, there is a way we can marry and get along with our wives as though it were something going on all the time we couldn't get along with them. But he's trying to put it in the highest order and challenge the people to challenge those things. that are challenging them. In other words, to put the devil on the defense, to put life on the defense, because we are coming through. Now, that's the truth. Brother Branham did that for us. And that occurs at the baptism with the Holy Ghost. And the Bible is very clear about our lives if we just look at what the Bible says and follow it. As Brother Branham said very succinctly, he said, women have their place. But women don't want their places. Men have their place, and men usually don't want their places. And it all boils down to being consistent, strong Christians. And consistent, strong Christians are always challenged by the devil, the world, the flesh, and the devil, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. Those things are a constant challenge. And instead of being challenged back, people are succumbing to it. So when the life of God took over the life of Paul, And that is through the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Paul died to the world, the flesh and the devil, and he lived from then on according to his realization of who he was and where he was going and how he would come back in flesh like Job and be in the glorified image of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because he was a son of God. And he wrote, because you are sons, because I am a son, God sends forth his Spirit into our lives. So Paul understood what he was, who he was. what he was doing, where he was going, how he was going to come back, in what form, and he understood the eternal ages ahead. Now, Brother Branham set that forth in what we saw last Wednesday night. Now, on page 23, paragraph 119, Brother Branham begins illustrating how our life coming from God and going back to God is like a dewdrop's destiny. Now, listen to some of the things he says about the dewdrop. Number 119 and page 23. Just like a little dew drop. If I understand, I don't know too much about chemistry, but it must be from the congealing of humidity or atmosphere. It's a condensation, actually, of moisture, which is invisible to the eye because it's like part of the atmosphere of the air. And when the night gets cold and dark. Now, you're going to understand the trauma. The doctors tell us, go through a baby as is dropped from the womb. And everything is suggested. How that you could maybe prepare the child for it. Certain types of singing. Certain talking to the baby. Certain this and certain that. And when the baby is delivered, you put it in a crib that has a certain rocking motion like the mother has in carrying it. The murmur of the heart. And all of those things. Now, what do you think? What do you think about a child of God? Dropped from the womb of God in this life into darkness, into death, into sorrow, into pain is identical to that baby. What kind of a trauma is it in? Well, it's pretty rough. That's why Brother Branham says, falling from the heavens to the ground where it's dark and cold. See? Now, if people know enough, To attempt to provide a proper delivery and a proper existence. How much more does God? But no matter how the parents try, the children cannot be freed from the subjection of the elements which are cold and cruel, but the only way the child can ever learn. So God allows us to be subjected to those things that are difficult to our minds. may be difficult to our bodies, may be difficult to our spirits, but nonetheless, we are brought down here as literally a condensation of Almighty God and all that is in Him, a little tiny dewdrop. Now, he said it fell from somewhere and leaves heaven, drops on the ground, it fell from somewhere. But the next morning, watch, when the sun comes up, lying there, the little fellow shivering, but just let the sun come up. Watch it go to shining. Actually, shimmering. Not just shining, but shimmering. It's happy. Why? The sun, S -O -N, S -U -N, the sun is going to call it right back to where it came from. That's the way with the Christian. Hallelujah. We know when we walk in the presence of God, something in us tells us that we came from somewhere and we're going back again by that power that is pulling us. Now, you'll notice in there, Brother Branham had likened this to the dew drop, which is a condensation, which is, and we notice the moisture in the air before it's in dew form, absolutely is invisible. Now, you can know it is there, but it's invisible. Then there's a condensation, and the condensation comes due to the critical condition, which is a flesh condition. So, every... Child of God. Like Jesus. Who was brought into a form of a condensation. Not Melchizedek now. But in Jesus the Christ. Was brought into the form of suffering. And though he were a son. Yet he learned obedience by the things he suffered. But when God's spirit filled him. And he became God with us in flesh. Totally all absolute God. In a human manifestation. Watch. what began to develop and show forth in the man's life. Of course, far better than you and I ever will, because he didn't bypass his theophonic form, which would have given us enough information to not only trample on the devil, but to chew him to bits before time. Oh yeah, we likely wouldn't have waited for anything. But he said, hey, who needs this rascal here? Let's get rid of him. We might have gotten in trouble even then, see, with the theophonic form headers. See, Jesus could be tempted, but no way would he fall. So, he became the savior to all those that fell. Now, Talking about this then, the condensing and manifestation. Christians, like Jesus, are literally manifestations of a condensation of God. Like a little tiny part of God. Like a dew drop may be just summarized as a portion of the entire ocean. Where God himself is the entire ocean. And being Jesus Christ, he had that embodiment of that entire ocean. Now he said he's going to be shining, shimmering. It's happy. Why? The sun is going to call it right back to where it came from. Now. Looking at water.

Actually, if you go back to the beginning, the Garden of Eden was watered by a mist. There were no chemicals that were harmful. Man had not interfered with his brilliant mind to bring about a chemical reaction which will destroy us. So what I'm trying to say is this. Brother Brand is speaking in the terms of dew. He's speaking in terms of pure, desolate, nothing but H2NO. Not one thing in there. The air was not full of dust. There was nothing in there but pure water. Now, what we're looking at here then is the fact that it's speaking at the end time. Before this Jew drop, before the Christian can be pulled back to the place from whence it came. And this is dealing with the whole history of man. That must be pure H2O, or pure everything from God, God himself, plus the creation. There will be nothing out of order. Now, Brother Branham telling this makes us to know this is a message for the last day. I am not looking back at those people over yonder. I am not looking back at the people dying, although that is good. I am looking at the people. And I'm looking to this as the people who are not going to die. They are the dew drops. And they are in a shivering condition and have been because of the dark ages. But the sun began to shine until the sun of righteousness has risen with healing in his wings. And you can say what you want, but that is thus saith the Lord. That is the revealed scripture that has been proven to be absolutely identified and correct for this hour. So, we are the dewdrops. And in us, we are completely blameless by reason of the blood and by the Holy Spirit. So that everybody today is truly a child of God of whom the record says you didn't do it at all. Then if you didn't do it at all, there was nothing in you doing it.

So the bride is looking today to lay in the sun of the Word of Almighty God. And if you are wanting to lie in the sun, if you are wanting to shimmer, and you are wanting to, as Brother Brannell later on says, glisten and be drawn up by God, let me tell you one more time, the conduit of the Holy Ghost is the Word. And you turn aside the Word to your own detriment and destruction. Do what you want. I don't feel any opposing spirit this morning. I'm just saying because these tapes go out. A lot of people I don't even know about get them. When they stand around, of course, they get mad and say naughty things, but it's all right. I'm a witness here this morning that I'm standing at the white throne. That's what those boys don't realize out there preaching a gospel contrary to William Branham. This is now the white throne. We'll bring it out and show you.

Oh, yes. Yeah, this is not something you can just play around with, brother, sister. When you run out of gas, you run out of gas. And we'll know if we run out of gas in this church. Let me tell you right now, I will know that I've run out of gas and you will know and we will know very shortly if you've been hearing truth or not.

It's a serious thing. You bet we're going to know. Now listen to what he says here. That's the way with the Christian, hallelujah. God calls it right back. Let's just talk about a call right here. Let's go to Psalm 147. Let's

talk about this call here that God, because we're dealing with sons of God. We'll read verses 1 to 4. Praise ye the Lord, for it's good to sing praises unto our God, for it's pleasant in praises comely. See, it's a good thing. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. Now, that's not physical, that's spiritual. You know what that is? That's Zion. He heals a broken heart and binds up the wounds. You know that's said concerning him in the first coming and the second. Now watch. He telleth the number of the stars. He calleth them all by their names. That has to do with the bride. The names in the book, then spoken, and in their turn manifested. So, all right, that's the first call. Let's go to Romans, the ninth chapter.

Verse 11.

For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. That's another call. And you know what that is? That's your earthly call right there, which you're predestinated to it. Okay? Let's go back to Job. And in Job 14. 14 to 15. If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee. Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands. Now he's speaking here of the resurrection. All right? What about today? Shout voice and trumpet. What did Brother Branham tell us? Let's go over here to the second Thessalonians, the second chapter. And we'll see exactly what is going on. In the first verse, Now we beseech your brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him. That's a calling together. How is he doing it? By the gospel call. No other way. All right. So there's the call. The Son is going to call it right back. Now notice, it's going to call it back to where it came from, where it was. A portion of the life of God. That within it. Had the Zoe. Which could produce. And did produce. From physical things of body. For it to dwell in. See. Called. Even before it was born. It had that process lined up for it. And it was called. Into the service of Almighty God. And now there's a call. To get ready. For the marriage supper. Notice he said. We know when we walk. Into the presence of God. Something in us tells us. that we came from somewhere and we're going back again by that power that's pulling us. Now, you know, of course, that's good for every single age. That's absolutely wonderful for everything. But listen, what about our age? Our age is over here in Ephesians, the first chapter, beginning of 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. There it is again on that picture. That is a picture distinctly of the pillar of fire, which literally is a picture of the Holy Ghost, which is at this time the Son of God. Now, you've got to get used to certain appellations. When you do, you've got to let your mind go. There's no way you can think of Jesus at the right hand of God at the same time you can think of that.

You've got to just absolutely, as Brother Branham said, say the right thing or you're out of luck. And only the bride can say the right thing because only the bride knows the right thing. We'll show you that some more in just a little while. We get to it. All right. The spirit of wisdom and revelation of knowledge in the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what's the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance is. Now, you don't know that because you passed the theophonic form, the spirit body. But you're going to know it in this form, what you didn't know before. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power? To us who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set in his right hand heavy places five of all principalities and power and might and dominion and every name that's named not in this world only but the world also to come. And put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things of the church which is his body the fullness of him that filleth all things that filleth all in all or all things with all things. Now it tells you right there we are going to be absolutely caught up to where we were As a little molecule, an unexpressed individual, yet entirely individual. And when we do, God, having dealt with us, will express himself in his entire fullness concerning us. Right back where you came from. Little dew drop. Now, in the meantime, it's tragic, but when sin came into the world and infiltrated everything, the little dew drop, like today, is full of... Poisons.

That's what's wrong with distilled water. Because the point is, ether will also distill. Gasoline will distill. There's lots of things that distill. And when you condense the distillate and drink it, you are not drinking H2O.

God knows what you're drinking. Because nobody's going to tell you. They'll say, well, that's the closest we can get. Maybe it is, but it can kill you.

You know, I'm going to tell you something. If you had the ground perfect once more, and Jesus is that perfect ground. And let the water of life run through him. There's no problems. Overcomes every sin, sickness, and disease. Unfortunately, the water that we drink cannot be run through him. But the word sure can. And remember the last day he said, come unto me and drink. All you that are thirsty. He said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of water. This speak ye the Spirit. Which was not yet given because Christ was not yet glorified. Now I'm going to tell you something. When Christ was glorified back there. And the river began to flow. What will happen is glorified the second time, which he has to be glorified, and which he has been glorified already in that great ministry we've seen. Here are waters of life, and rivers of life can flow from the individual, and the individuals in turn can flow such waters of life. That's why I say keep talking the word and coming together and put our lives on it, and this you'll begin to see how this message heals the sick. You'll see that sweet spirit of Christ come into the church, because it can only come one way, and that's by the word. I don't care. We can practice under high heaven everything we want. But to have reality, brother, sister, is not dependent upon emotions or a bulldog faith, but is to depend upon the living God and the living word. Then we'll begin to see the things that really count. Brother Branagh said, stay away from that stuff. If I was dying tomorrow, I'm sorry, I just couldn't go near them. Of course, to them, we're going to hell. Fine, I'll go to hell this way. It's pretty hard to get where Brother Branagh said. He said, look, if God wants to put me in hell, if I love him like I do now and have this same spirit upon me, I'll go to hell loving him. That's the truth. Now, that's an awful mouthful, but that means there's a big life in there, brother, sister, from God and from us to be living in. All right. Now, this

explains here this walking in the presence of God, knowing as no other age has known where we came from, the mysteries of the journey and being pulled back to it as we do and is now happening under Ephesians 1, 17 to 23. And he says, walk in when you committed that presence. you know you came from somewhere.

That's a statement which I don't think is general for just everybody. It

could make a person realize that there's something there that he ought to know about. But I believe this can only pertain to a bride, the true sons and daughters of Almighty God. So that this great ministry of Brother Branham's, where people could feel the sweet presence of Almighty God, was a great part of his ministry. And it laid the groundwork for the message that gave us the truth of what we wanted to know. So that that tremendous spirit in the meetings did not have within it the elements to produce only an awe and a wonderment, which is not always explained, but it had within it the ability to stop us. until Brother Branham could teach us the things we know today, where we come from, and where we are going.

You know, he says here, the sun calling it back. We've had the scream of the eagle to call us, and we know that the Bible teaches us very distinctly. My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me. So God calling to the sheep will absolutely have a people, according to 2 Thessalonians 2. That are gathered together over by the call of the gospel. Which it indeed is. Verse paragraph 120. The little dew drop. He glistens and shines and shouts. Not glitters now. Brother Brown didn't say. He said glittering things are different. This glistens. Because it's really a shimmering. Again he's shimmering and reflecting. Shouting. Because he knows he came from up there. And that sun's going to draw him right back up again. And a man's an attribute of God. Born of God. Knows. Hallelujah. When he comes in contact with the Son of God, he's going to be drawn up here someday, from here someday. For if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me. So he said the little dewdrop just glitters and glistens right there. I mean, it shimmers and shines. It's a reflection. See what it is. There's a reflection there. And he shouts because he knows where he came from. The hour is here for that because he knows where he's going to be drawn right back. And Brother Brown has said, the seventh seal has given us everything to put us in a rapture. How many people believe that? Oh, no, they don't. They believe, well, something more has got to be done.

It says he gives us everything. Now, if we've taken this word of God, not in part, but in whole, and say, look, I don't understand a lot of things. I don't care if I ever understand a lot of things. I just know one thing, and that is the word of God is true. I know Brother Brown's vindicated. Now, I've heard a lot of things, and I believe them. It's just hard to really understand them. But they've been said and said within the context and shown by the Bible as best as man can do. So, therefore, I know that this here is right. See? Now, and I know the seventh seal. Now, a lot of people say the seventh seal was not open. That is not true. Because if the seventh seal was not open, then the book is not open. Neither are the rest of them.

And remember, the seventh seal, according to Brother Branham, was Revelation 10, 1 to 7. Now tell me that hasn't been opened. Then you better look for somebody to be the prophet. And I wouldn't look for Joseph and Billy Branham. Because it doesn't run in families. Nothing against them. It just doesn't run in families.

The closest anybody came to having anything run in any family was David and Solomon. And Solomon was a complete mess alongside of his dad. For all of his brilliance, He didn't have what his dad had. There is no way. You're never going to find only one son in all this world ever had completely what his dad has, and that was the Lord Jesus Christ. The seventh seal has to have been opened, but everything concerning it has not been. For instance, the literal coming is the thing they're stumbling at. But he said you've got everything to put you in a rapture. Now remember, the rapture is not the literal second coming. You've got to get up there to get in it, because we come in it. The literal second coming of Jesus Christ cannot eliminate the bride. He comes three times in mortal flesh. That's human flesh, rather.

And the point is, tell me, when did he ever come with a company of people? So while he came out of the ground, he did not come with a company of people. He came out first and he came afterward. And he brought them out. They were no coterie or some revenue. Although they did constitute that to a degree. But Christ was the one, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, the little dewdrop. Now, he says he's born of God knows when he comes in contact with the Son of God. Now, how does he know that? What is the Son of God? The Son of God today is the Holy Ghost.

That's the great baptism, the great baptizer. Now, remember, the Son of Man, not the Son of God. These are the days, and the days are over, by the way, of the Son of Man. As Brother Brandon distinctly says, he says, Are you the Son of Man? I thought the pillar of fire was on me. He said, I am not he. The pillar of fire is not he. It's in the form of the Holy Ghost. In other words, it was a ministry that was given by the Holy Ghost through a prophet. That was exactly what happened on earth. Jesus was absolutely motivated and wrought everything, his words and all, by the Holy Ghost. He never claimed one thing for himself. That was the Son of Man. Now he said, If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me. That's what he's saying. And Jesus Christ has already been lifted up upon Calvary. So what you see here is the consummation of Calvary. The shedding of the blood. I know many people quote Brother Branham, the blood is off the mercy seat. They make some big thing up. They scare people right sick to death. Look, Brother Branham also said the blood fell upon the ground. It was literally absorbed or decayed. Then he said the blood is taken to the mercy seat. Look, the life was shed and given. That's what counts. And the blood means nothing unless you're born again. Now it doesn't mean nothing in the sense of the foolish virgin. But I'm speaking in a general term. To the bride. The blood opened the door for the Holy Spirit to come. Because only perfect cleansing could come that way. Now we're going to go to paragraph 121. Now here we're going to get into some of the details again on Godhead. I was hoping we could get this all cleared up, but it's all right. We'll look at it some more. Now notice. Now we see Melchizedek. Now, not Jesus now. We see Melchizedek. And why that Mary wasn't his mother. Now, Mary was not the mother of Melchizedek. That's absolutely true. And yet he came in the form of Jesus. But we'll go back over that later on. That's the reason he called her woman, not mother. And yet the word woman is not a word of disrespect. It's a word of endearment. But it's not the same as mother. Now, if you said, hey, woman. You said, hey, woman. I don't like to say that. But if you had the Aramaic language and said woman, it would be a sign of respect and affection. A friendship extended. Love offered. It wouldn't be some chintzy thing, see? Now, he had no father, for he was the father. The everlasting father, the three in one. The triunity. Not a trinity, but a triunity. He had no mother, certainly not. He had no father, for he was the father. As the poet said one time, speaking a great compliment of Jesus, he said, I am that spoke to Moses in a burning bush of fire. I am the God of Abraham, the bright morning star. I'm Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. From the end, I'm the whole creation in Jesus' name. That's right. Oh, who do you say that I am, and whence do they say I came? Do you know my father, or can you tell his name? Now, if you're going to get kind of really wrapped up in here, if you said, do you know me as the father? Didn't say that. Didn't say, do you know the father? He said, do you know my father?

You're getting not a split personality here exactly, but you're getting pretty close to something very, very peculiar. All right, let's go ahead and read it again. Now notice, now we see Melchizedek and why that Mary wasn't his mother. That's the reason he called her woman, not mother. He had no father, for he was the father, the everlasting father, the three in one. He had no mother, certainly not. He had no father, for he was the father. As the poet said, Paying Jesus a compliment. All right. Now, before I read some more, in spite of what we have just read there, we're going to read some more. And then we must never forget as we read this further on page 14 and some other page I forget because I've got them over

here. We must never forget that or what was also said by Brother Branham. Or we will begin to fear, and that's the devil doing it, fear we understand wrong or we misunderstand. Or we wonder Brother Branham changed his mind or was saying something entirely different from what he had already said. Now remember, when we talk about this, you begin talking about Jesus, Melchizedek right down the line began talking about Godhead. Brother Branham said Jesus did not bypass a theophonic form which we did. He had perfect recall. He had a beginning. He said there's a difference. And he wasn't talking just in terms of a human body. Because he talked of a pre -knowledge and a pre -position. I don't like the term so much pre -existence, although that's what you might say. Or you might say pre -creation. Or you might say pre -historical. All right, now Brother Branham read it. He said here, now notice. We see Melchizedek. Why? That Mary wasn't his mother. That's the person he called her. That's the reason he called her woman, not mother. He had no father. He was the everlasting father, the triunity. He had no mother, certainly not. He had no father, for he was the father. All right. As the poet one time speaking, a great comment of Jesus said thus and thus. Now here we got on paragraph 68. We heard no more of Melchizedek because he became Jesus Christ.

Melchizedek was the priest, but

he became Jesus Christ. All right. Let's talk about Jesus for a while.

Let's go to the book of Luke, first

chapter, and we're going to read 30 to 35, I would believe. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive, and thy woman shall bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. Now that's somebody doing something for somebody, and he's being named by somebody. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. And Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? The angel answered unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, the power of the high shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Period. Okay, let's go to Matthew, the first chapter.

Now that's exactly what the Bible teaches, and you're not going to change it. I don't care what you do about it. You can go blow your brains out trying to figure it, but I'm sorry for you. Matthew 1, 18 beginning to 23. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise one as his mother Mary was the spouse of Joseph before they came together. She was found the child of the Holy Ghost. The father of the baby was the Holy Ghost.

Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her public, he sat with his mind and put her away privately while he thought on these things. The Lord appeared to him and dreamed, saying, Joseph, the son of David, fear not to marry thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is by the Holy Ghost. That's what it says. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, which is Joshua, which is Jehovah's Savior. For he shall save his people from their sins.

Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Notice, spoken of the Lord by the prophet. Notice, Behold, a virgin shall be with a child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall... Called his name Emmanuel. Which being interpreted God with us. Now remember back in the Old Testament. They began calling their children by the names of God. Now that was a preview of this. Now this is different. Now let's go to Colossians 1 and 19.

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell.

Now you notice it says here. It didn't say was born. It says dwell. In him. There is somebody, there is a vessel, there is a body. And notice what happens, somebody dwelt in it. Let's go back to John. And in John 1 and 14, it said, the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the glory of his glory. Now it tells you, God with us, the fullness of the Godhead, God becoming flesh. In other words, we have very simply here, Jesus was the carrier of the entirety. of Almighty God, who is definitely Holy Ghost. Now, with that, we're going to go to the book of Hebrews again.

Let us begin to see once more. It says here now, we can read in verse 1. In many parts, in many ways, God spoke in times past unto the fathers in the prophets. Hath these last days spoken unto us in Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the ages.

Now that's what you're talking about.

Now you know very well that God doesn't have blood. Now Chesedek could not bleed. So what you're looking at right now again is the very same thing. You are seeing now A certain man in whom God absolutely and entirely could dwell in order to give a complete revelation and do his complete work. Now, that's paragraph 95. Now, the true revelation of Melchizedek, which comes into view, is he was God, the Word. In the beginning was the Word, the Word is with God, and the Word was God. In the beginning was the Word. In other words, every single thing that could be expressed was already lying there. And so what does he do? He begins to express. Now, the expression came to the place, not of Melchizedek, where he could bleed and die. Melchizedek could not bleed and die, I beg your pardon. He went beyond it to the place where literally there could be blood and flesh, a bleeding and a death. Now, the true revelation of Melchizedek which comes into view is That he was God the Word before he became flesh. God the Word. Because he had to be. No one else could be immortal. No beginning and end. See, like him. See, I had father and mother. You did too. Jesus had father and mother. Notice in paragraph 121 which we read. I mean 121. Now we see Melchizedek and why that Mary wasn't his mother.

That's right. Melchizedek. Not Jesus now. See. And the Melchizedek came back at her saying, woman, what have I to do with thee? I have used you as an incubator. And that's as far as it goes. He was the word before he became flesh. God the word. He had to be. I had father, mother. You did too. Jesus had father, mother. But this man had no father, had no mother. Jesus had a time he started. This man didn't. Jesus gave his life. This man couldn't because he was life. And it's a self -same man all the time. I hope God reveals it to you, the self -same person all the time. God in human form, not another kind of form. Now notice what he's talking about here.

The fact of Jesus having a time to start, a father -mother. This is not Genesis 14 of Melchizedek. This is not Genesis 18, when he appears before Adam and, I beg your pardon, Abraham and Sarah. This, I would say, is here in Luke chapter

1, 30

to 35. It tells exactly how this one was born, with a human body. And it comes to the place of Melchizedek, of Colossians 1, 19, the fullness of the Godhead indwelling him. Now listen to me, and we'll see what we can do with this. Putting this together,

Hebrews 13 and 8 is not the flesh -born person, but the one true God who adopted or adapted to the various forms that could reveal him, foster and further his great purpose according to what lay within him. That's what you're looking at. Hebrews 13 and 8. Now connect this with 2 Corinthians 5, 5, and 16. Now let's go to 2 Corinthians.

5 and 16. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh, yet though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Now remember, Christ was Messiah specifically sent to Israel, but with a mission to the Gentiles. And Messiah to Israel was to put a king upon the throne. But they killed him. And he ascended into heaven. And by the Holy Spirit came back the soul of Christ to Jesus. And Brother Brown said, came back in a pillar of fire, began dividing himself, set his church in order to get out a Gentile bride. Now Paul says, you don't dare think of the flesh anymore. It's over.

But is Christ just the same?

Now, you've got a body sitting on the mercy seat now on the throne, of course, because it's changed order. He said, I'm going to come back. Who came back? That same one came back. The Spirit came back. And God is Spirit. Now, we connect this with 2 Corinthians 5 .16 in the light of John 1 .14 where He became flesh. So flesh served its purpose. The purpose was to die, shed the blood, make an atonement, and be taken up as the high priest.

Right. From that time on, it's finished. You recognize it. Know it is done. That's it. But now you don't consider the flesh anymore. You go right to what? Son of God, which is Holy Ghost. You are through then with Son of Man. It repeats. See? You get through with Son of God also because the baptism runs out. So

now you see what you're looking for, Son of David, when you put it all back together. So, all right, now listen. Connect with this, what we said about Hebrews 13 and 8. It's not the flesh -born person, but the one true God who adapted or adopted himself, adopted the various forms that could reveal him, foster or further his great purpose according to what lay within him. That's what he did. And connect this with 2 Corinthians 5 .16 in the light of John 1 .14 of what he was in flesh. And you get Revelation 19 .11 -16. And Revelation 19 .11 -16. is Him coming back with the bride, a full entourage of all the bride, Old and New Testament, to take the earth over, which is based on 1 Thessalonians 4, 16. The Lord descending with the shout, the voice of the archangel, the trump of God, then we rising to meet our Lord in the air, which at that time, the Spirit that's amongst us, reincarnates Himself, and we crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords, the Son of God, the Son of man, the Son of David, the valley, the altogether lovely, all of it.

Now, that's what you're looking at. All right. God revealed Himself by His Son. John 14 and 10 claims its visibility. But with us, it is the Son of God, the Holy Spirit, revealing God to us sons. Now, God revealed Himself by His Son. Now the Holy Spirit, God has given us again the gift of His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost.

And He reveals Himself to us, two sons, but through a prophet. God in us is not at all God creating things and maintaining all things and giving us any place in those roles or having a thing to do with redemption. But God in us is His seal, proving our possession of all that He has now. or will have, and whatever he chooses to manifest and do, all is ours by grace. God spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up for us all. How shall he also with him freely give us all things? Not one iota of his omnipotence and omniscience can bypass us or fail us any more than we can fail to be a part of God. And you will find that in Romans 8, 28, right on through. Based upon Romans 8. 14 to 17, which lets us know we are sons of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ, but we must suffer in the darkness of this world like the little dewdrop. And remember, we're looking at original dewdrops. We are not looking at contaminated, full of poison dewdrops. There is no foreign distillate. By the time that we are glorified, believe me, there is nothing but pure God in a pure God. Race the way God wants it. Don't worry about the bodies. They're perfectly pure and wonderful because they are recreated out of another substance entirely. So, all right. We're looking then at the fact that he said he didn't call her mother. Jesus could call her mother on the grounds that she bore him by way of the womb. But this one, when it came to the showdown, because she tried to take authority over his life, and his life... The life we're talking about now is God himself. There is no way. And you know that's what the church continually tries to do? The Roman Catholic Church started and the Protestants carry right on. They make some big deal about making saints that will come between them and God. Or make Mary them and this and that. Listen, don't make anything out of anybody. As Brother Branagh said, there are no great ones. And we've got great metropolitans. We've got great archbishops. We've got great presidents and great presbyters and great popes. Great bishops. Great everything. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. There's not one of them. Not one of them going to make it.

You say, oh, that's condom. I'll tell you something. They better change. When you cannot recognize the presence of the very God you purport to worship, you've got to be dead in trespasses and sins and blind. Let's face it. All people can walk by that and nothing to it. Be my guest. What do you got?

I'd like the Pentecost to give me something. I've got more visions than any of them. Just like I'm looking right at you.

Just exactly. You don't scare me, but that one did. That one shut my mouth for two days. You wouldn't. Unless the guts of man wouldn't talk to you. But that wouldn't be everybody. You couldn't put a holy hush of fear upon me. Nah, you ain't got it. I haven't got it either. Come on, let's be honest. Somebody's got it.

Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes, my beloved friends. Listen. Who do you say that I am, and whence do they say I came? Do you know my Father, or can you tell his name? Hallelujah. That's the Father's name. What? Jesus. Yes, I came in my Father's name. The Father's name, Jesus, Jehovah's Savior. And you received me not. See? Sure, he's the same. Yesterday, today, and forever. Going back to Hebrews 13 .8, talking about Melchizedek, talking about incarnation, reincarnation, talking about a God taking a form. Take any form you want. And this Melchizedek became flesh. Now, come on. This Melchizedek. Who is he saying? Melchizedek is God. So God became flesh. Don't get thrown. He said if it's God, it became flesh. It's as simple as saying this tree became sawdust. Hey, I don't see no tree. That's not a tree. That's sawdust. Or put it backward. This seed, this little acorn, became little tree. What an acorn. I got a picture right here. You mean that? Talking about God life. God himself. And remember, God is living. He's known as the living God. And in Him is Zoe.

In Him is that to manifest. And to do it correctly. That's why the appearing, see, is Perugia and Phanero. Because He's got to come in such a way that you recognize entirely the character not being fallacious or fictitious, but being real. I wonder if Brother Branham ever fooled anybody. I'm going to tell you. You couldn't fool William Branham. And the point is, did he try to fool you? These people that write books against Brother Branham are missing the entire point. Nobody but nobody could hide from him.

Didn't you think that man was fallacious? Then God is fallacious.

The devil never had the power William Branham had. You look at some little thing about Brother Branham and say, hey, you've got a letter in your pocket from your mother. And some stupid spiritist can do it. Those jerks. You know what I'd like to do? I'll challenge before God. This is on record. I will go to any spiritist with them that's got a record. The spiritist can tell nothing about me. He'll tell plenty about them.

That's a challenge. I'll maybe meet it down the road, but I'm believing God.

The devil can tell all about me. And I believe I'm a child of God with the Holy Ghost.

There's something wrong with me somewhere.

Stop. He doesn't know a lot of things. You say, what are you talking about? I had been in the presence of those people that could tell me nothing.

That's why I'm such a hard head. I like the word pragmatic. It's nicer. Sounds more erudite. All right. This Melchizedek, God became flesh. He reveals himself as son of man when he comes as a prophet. He came in the names of a son, son of man, son of God, son of David. Now remember, becoming flesh. And he doesn't become flesh like he became flesh at the virgin -born child at any other time. Never, never, never. Everything pointed to it. Everything points back to it. How is he going to come? In the person of the Son. The Father in the Son. I and my Father in the Son. Believe it or not, the Father dwelleth in me.

124. When he was on earth, he was a man to fulfill the scripture.

Yeah. When he was on earth, we're talking now of the 33 and a half years of human life of Jesus on earth and God in him. For those three and a half years, the complete temple of Almighty God. Not just the son now, but God himself coming in. It's just like you. Let's say for one instance, you're a father. You've got a nice son. There's no doubt that son's the son of your loins. Not your mother, because your mother is part of you. Mother's part of you. He was part of Adam. Don't ever, ever fool yourself. Brother Branham's right on the hemoglobin. Maybe used the wrong terminology in the sense of this great sign. This is wonderful. We better kowtow to those rascals. They're the ones that put the distal into your water. We're supposed to kowtow, though, you know, the doctors and all. They're God. Brother Brandon made a mistake. No, not really. He's talking what starts the life. It's the male. It is not.

So where were you? In your father. Now, let's say that you suddenly died and your soul and your spirit went to that son of yours, which couldn't happen. Devils could do it, but not true humans. What would it be? That would be you in your son, the father in the son.

Not just the life of the father now in the son, but the father life in the son.

Now, what is hard for God to procreate? It's your created sperm and egg. And that life go in there and be nurtured by a woman and then walk into the body that was made. Now, you've got two, literally two.

Brother Branham, the woman said to him, Brother Branham, you make Jesus God. He said he was. You make him more than what he was. Oh, she said, I can prove he's a man. He whipped. at Lazarus' grave. He said, yes. But when he said, Lazarus, come forth, that was God. Sure. It says God in man. It says incarnation. Does God dwell a corpse?

Prove it to me.

Jesus' body couldn't even corrupt.

Not too great a mystery. And yet it's a great mystery. He was a man to fulfill Scripture. What was to fulfill in Scripture? Prophet. Judge. Land. See? They had to be fulfilled and they were fulfilled.

Moses said, The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto me. So he had to come as a prophet. He never did say, I'm the Son of God. Over in verse 10, John 10, 36, it is said that. But it's because of the defense. It was not Jesus saying, I am the Son of God. But he made a defense. And the defense was, Say ye of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God. Yet the prophets were sons. They were sons of God. God spake in them. They were son of man, right down the line. God's book. What's wrong with him saying it? Because the word came to them, the word came to him. All right. I'm the son of God. He said, I am the son of man. Do you believe the son of man? Because that's what he had to testify of. Because that's what he was. That's right. Now he's come in another son's name. Son of God, the unseen, the spirit. And when he comes again, he's son of David to sit upon his throne. Now you notice right in here, as much as we might not want to, In the beginnings, God was purposefully setting himself out as father. But now you'll notice it's almost completely son. Why? Because of the relationship that God places himself in with us. And that's a tremendous condescension. See, the spirit of his son, God's own spirit, called God the Son, now ministering. What more spirit would you want in spirit sons? The very life of the Son is the very life of the Father. Now, the point is to believe it. Not so much as to try to figure it, but as to believe it. And this is not hard to believe because we understand this very thoroughly. When he comes again, he's the Son of David to sit upon. He's thrown in Revelation chapter 19. 125. Now, when he was here and was made flesh, he was called the Son of Man. Now, how did he make himself known to the world as Son of Man? The prophet. In other words, the flesh brings the word. The flesh must always bring the word. It doesn't matter. Look, it doesn't matter if God appears to some person in flesh and brings the word. That's just the one. From then on, it is spread out. It's by man. It's by man. See, God wants his word to the flesh. Okay, let's go to John 6.

And we're going to read this and we're going to close because this is just going to barely do it. John 6 and we're going to start at 27. I suppose you better start there.

Now,

the God, the Father had sealed Jesus, proving exactly who he was for this purpose of giving the meat of everlasting life. Now, the meat of everlasting life simply means that the meat then is something to chew on because of what's in it. To digest it, to swallow it, digest it, assimilate it. Of what is in it. See. When he talks of bread of life. He's using a language in there. You eat bread. And it gives forth life. And his brother Brandon said. If somebody's going to live. Something's got to die. Something's got to die for someone to live. Now. They said unto him. What shall we do. That we might. Work the works of God. And Jesus answered. And he said. This is the work of God. That you believe on him. Whom he has sent. Now the greatest work of faith in your life. Is to fight your own instincts. Your own mind. and to believe whom God has sent. Now that's a dilly right there. They said there from him, What signs showest thou that we may see and believe thee? What work doest thou? He'd already done bushels of them.

Our fathers had eaten out in the desert, as it's written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them, Now that's what they gave back to Jesus. He said, Verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. In other words, Moses only gave you a type. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. Then they said unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger. He that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you that you have also seen me and believe not. You've seen everything you need to know and you don't believe. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me in spite of it. And to him that cometh to me I will no wise cast out. Now he couldn't do it anyway. For I come down from heaven, I came down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me. Now notice, I came down from heaven. And this is the Father's will, which, this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Now remember, in John, 14, he said, he that seeth me hath seen the Father. You're looking at the mystery of God in a man or God in flesh, period. And that's a living, genuine person. The Jews murmured because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, well, it's not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know. How then, he says, I came down from heaven. And Jesus therefore answered and said, murmur not among yourselves. No man tell me except the father which has sent me John I raised him up at the last day It is written in the prophets and all they say shall all be taught of God every man Therefore the heard and had learned to the father coming to me not that any man has seen the father save he which is of God He has seen the father yet. He said over there. He that has seen me has seen the father There's no way you can see a spirit being Something's got to be done about it and it will not be as Melchizedek Which was some kind of a form that who knows? But this other form we know. See? Now, they could have well believed, the Jews, that God came in an angel or something. Or a manifestation. But to believe that he came like they came is something they couldn't conceive. There's no way. Verily, it is unto you that believeth on me as everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Now, I am that bread of life. I am the substance in which the life is.

See? Now, we keep moving. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna with us or dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat of and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. Now we know that the body of Jesus did not come down from heaven.

So who's doing the talking?

He said, My Father in me speaks. He said, I speak the words I hear my Father say. Who's doing it? And he shall live forever. The bread that I will give him is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world. I'm telling you right there how it breaks.

The Jews therefore stormed on themselves, saying, Can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus said, Now notice what again he's saying, calling the fact of the life.

Now he said, In other words, if you don't do it, it proves you haven't got it. It doesn't say you get it. It proves you haven't got it. You can say what you want, but that's what it says over here in John 3, 17. It said,

For the world's end might be saved. He that believeth not is not condemned. He that believeth not is condemned already. Because he that believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is a condemnation. Light is coming to the world. Now listen, when light comes to the world, the Bible said, that which maketh manifest is light. So therefore, anything that makes manifest or shows its character by what it looks like or what it does, that in itself is light. And Jesus said right here, I am that bread.

I am that one that's absolutely in whom there is life and light. And if you don't accept me, you don't get any of it. And he said right here that those that have eternal life positively are those that engage in it. See, my flesh is meat indeed, my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh drinketh, my blood dwelleth in me and I in him. I am the living Father. As the Father liveth, rather, sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me shall live by me. This is that bread which came down heaven. Not as your fathers ate man and so on. Then he turns right around and he said, eat and drink in memory. So he's telling you, eat and drink is blood. You've got to have some priest turn in a wafer. That's the blood and that's the body. Hogwash. He's telling you the truth that when you've seen me, you've seen the Father. When you see anything which indicates and vindicates, that is light. That's exposing something. What's it exposing? It's exposing the truth. You better go to the truth. And he said, I've showed you that I am the carrier of God. And if you don't take me now, what God has said, you have turned down life and light. It's over. Got the same with this here. People hate us for this. I don't care, though. I'm not much worried how they hate us. What they'll do, they'll do. He said, now, he said, verse 58, this is that bread which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate manna and are dead. He that eats of this bread shall live forever. Remember one, the bread they took was a manifestation of life and they ate it, they got along okay because it was physical. Now you take a manifestation of life and take it on you, you get eternal. What's the record of the last day? The record of the last day is nobody's going to die. And what kind of bread are you going to eat? The eating of the bread of the word of God never gave immortality until this time so something has been added or allowed to come forth which was in it which couldn't come forth before. That's under your seals. It was there, but you couldn't have it.

Now, the blood and everything else goes down the board, goes to one side. Unless you take what is manifested. That's why Perugia, Phanero, Apocalypse, Epiphany, all of these words are so important because they're here right now. They're not down the road.

A man's epiphany is his finest moment. Brother Branham said, Jesus had more results in my ministry than he had in his own.

The finest moment of God is to bring it all together and see a group of people standing right to the tree of life. By pasture, theophany form.

Don't even need it. Go pick it up. I use the word term need in the sense of it doesn't have to be here. On what condition? Eat the flesh and drink the blood once more.

It's an emblem. It's a symbol. What do we got today? Where's the life today? It's in the word. This vindicates the living word. You want the word? Fine. And the more you want the Word, and I want the Word, and the more we pile Word upon Word, somehow saying the right things, you watch the healings and everything manifests. I tell you, I get so burdened at times here for healings, people healing, because I used to be on the road doing it a lot. I think, well, maybe I should take time off once more, reorient myself, read the books, go ahead, start dealing with healing. Ah, there's something far greater than your healing and my brother's sister. We're going to die anyway. Not that we can't get healed. I'm looking to see people healed. Same like I got healed. Pete got healed. You people are getting healed. Maybe next time Pete and I will be smarter. We'll lay the whole thing out before God. Not just part of it. He came for his bad stomach. I thought, I think of my wrist all the time. His bad stomach is okay. My wrist is good now. So let's start thinking something else. Let's hold it up before God. But above all, hold this up before God. That your soul prospers. And there is no prospering soul today outside of a word in which there is life. And remember, Brother Brandon said so correctly. It's the Bible. It is the Bible. He said the rest has got wiggle tails. It's rotted. It's no good for today. And the Bible says, there's no word of God that's void of power. It's heaven or earth that passed away. But my word shall not pass away till it be fulfilled. And a fulfilled word of seven, six church ages, brothers and sisters, passed away. There's only one word. That's a vindicated word. It's going to put us in rapture. Come on, it's going to do it. I don't care. It's going to put some in rapture. If we miss it, you watch and see. All they laughed at Noah, that stupid old fool, 120 years. Who needs a goofball like him? Build a mountain. Now they're making a joke about it. you know, making some little joke about it. It's a dog food commercial. I don't think it also smothers brothers in it or not, but it sure sounds like them. They're so stupid, it's beautiful. I hope nobody has their sense of humor. Some of it's not too bad, but my God, some is worse than fire out. And Doonesbury and Bloom County, if you know what I'm talking about, Bloom County. I guess I'm in the old school. All right, listen. These things he said in the synagogues he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore just happened when they had heard this, that this is a hard thing, who can hear it? Uh -huh. Jesus knew in himself that he set up a murmur to say, Did this offend you? What if you should see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before?

Who is the Son of Man? God, the human form. What if you see him go up now? What if we really see all this going on?

Hmm? The world's not good.

How many saw it? We don't know. Maybe 12, maybe 11, 12 people saw Jesus go up. Now listen. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profits nothing. All right, what's that moral to you and me? Jesus himself said, my flesh doesn't mean anything in spite of all the things I'm saying.

Only the Spirit can quicken. The flesh of Jesus Christ could quicken nobody. It was only the life that did it. Then why are people looking at the flesh all the time and forgetting about the Holy Spirit who was so kind as to allow his picture to be taken? The Son of God.

It doesn't put his body aside as though it's nothing. But the point is, who is here today? God. And the role of Son in the form of the Holy Ghost with perfect indication. The words I speak to you, they are spirit and life. Now it tells you what you're getting at. What is the flesh? What is the bread? What is it that contains the life? That's what you're eating. It's gone back to word. Why? Because the word was made flesh. It's

gone plumb back again. But there were some of you who believed not. Jesus knew from the beginning where they were to believe not. He knew it would betray him. And then it says in 6 .6, from that time, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. When he said, listen, I've got a message.

And that message is what you've got to have. They balked. Read all the books. Oh, they said Brother Branham was a great forerunner in the great revival, identified with Pentecost. But when he got lifted up and said he had a message, he had to pull all kinds of strings and all kinds of deceptions, say all kinds of things so that he'd be fooled. And they walked not. with William Branham. But you know what? He was years ahead of those mugwumps. Here's what a mugwump is. He's a Branham believer that sits on the fence. With his mug on one side and his wump on the other.

And they're worse than that. Brother Branham said, I hear 10 ,000 believe this message. I've got to shake them off.

Why do you think we take a strong stand in this church? Because if you don't believe the strong message that Brother Branham gave, and you don't let your thinking go to realize, nobody's smart. Nobody understands. Every table full of vomit. Every mind void. Every bit of distillate complete with the pollutions. It's gasoline and it's ether and everything else. A pure H2O of God is a hard thing to stomach. And I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you very, very flat. You drink pure H2O. It is flat. It is insipid. You

won't like it. You'll like your condiments, your gasoline, and your ethers, and your chlorines. And it won't taste good without it. Pure word of God fell flat in Jesus' day. It falls flat in this day.

But except you eat the flesh, you eat the word of Almighty God, not full of pesticides and condiments the world likes. It's creeds of dogmas. But the living word of God is given without adding one or two. There is no life in us who misses life the rest. Let's rise and be dismissed.

Heavenly Father, again we thank you for the opportunity to come together. To study your word, Lord. To see what the prophet brought us. To see the truth, Lord. To see it brought out in so many, many facets the way he did it for us. We're very grateful, Father, that he didn't lay up a whole compendium, a whole encyclopedia. Thousands of books. No, we don't have to have those, Lord. It's just like he said, the little old washroom with one to three tapes are going to make it. Because everything loosed by a divinely inspired prophet. Call it the seven seals, Lord, which you do. The thunder's coming forth. Absolutely will put us into rapture. We know that. Will bring the dead out of the ground because it's the end time. The fullness of Gentiles. All these things have to happen. Going to bring it all out. And here we are, Lord, sitting in this position. We know, Lord, you're helping us. These messages, Lord, people hear them over and over again. Hear the same old thing until it sounds like an old song. They maybe don't like it anymore. The prophet. God and the prophet. And this word that he brought. But, Lord, one day we're going to need it, I believe, desperately. One day, Lord, we're going to need that word, Father, because the squeeze hasn't come down. Nothing's really started yet. Now is the time of rest and relaxation. Now is the time of getting to rest like poor old Elijah, so worn out there by the brook. He said, hey, take 40 days off and just let I'll feed you and take care of you so you can get strength to go on. Lord, the strength was needed because he had to go face Jezebel and Ahab. Lay it right down, Lord, and they died literally at his feet. Father, we know that you're giving your people a chance to get rest, but to get built up. to get taken out of here, then let all the great tribulation loose. It won't matter. We don't have to even face it, Lord. Squeeze, come down. We'll come through it too, Father. I know, Father, right now it's easy to say these things, but we're not saying, remember, vada, Lord. We're saying with a little bit of faith, a little bit of grace, Lord, believing that somehow we are a part of your greatness, your goodness, Lord. And if God be for us, who can be against us? Unto thee we commend ourselves, Lord. the days this day and the days to come, Father, to grow more and more in your lovely grace and more and more like you somehow. It's a great, great thing to think of these things, Lord, but it's the most wonderful thing in the world to come to them through you, Lord, to just even a little bit of it, day by day. Father, be with everyone that's sick, everyone that's afflicted. Help them, O God. Help us all, Father, to bear each other's burdens, to love each other, be kind, considerate, especially to others. We want others to do unto us, Lord, to understand. Not misunderstand, but always understand. Be kind and yielding, O God. Help us in these things, Lord. But never let us, Lord, deviate from one word of thy truth. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Take the name of Jesus with you.