Resurrection

Resurrection

Bro Lee Vayle – June 15, 1975 p.m.

Shall we just remain standing for prayer.

Kind Heavenly Father, again we come into Thy Presence through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, knowing that we have access at every moment of every day. And there is no problem, and nothing Lord that can stand in our way, because we know that Your Word is greater than all. And so Lord we just commend ourselves to You now in this moment and pray that You’ll guide us in our studies and may we understand even a little better those things that were brought to us by vindication. And so we just pray now that you will do that. Open Lord, Thy Word to us by Your Holy Spirit. May Jesus Christ be glorified. We’ll be careful to give You the praise. In Jesus name Amen.

You may be seated.

1. I just want to read in the book of Ephesians 1. What we discovered was, the ‘resurrection accomplishments’ of Almighty God in Christ, were given to the Church. And It says in the 19th verse: [Eph 1:19-23]

(19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-word who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places,

(21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

(22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

(23) Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth (all things with all things).

Now we want to just change our thinking on the subject of the Resurrection, from this morning’s thoughts to other thoughts on the same subject, to bring out a little more truth as Bro Branham gave it to us.

2. Now since this portion of Scripture which I read here, Ephesians 1 19:23, is the ‘resurrection story’ to the Bride, then it is certain that the Bride church, while living under the authority of the Resurrection, is always in the presence of death and encompassed by death. Now we seem to tend to think that since Jesus died and he rose again, that this would suffice. But you can understand from the sheer principle of logics, that it's impossible to have a Resurrection without a death. So therefore if the church is continuously under the authority of the Resurrection, then it must be continuously encompassed by death. There is no such thing as a Resurrection without somebody dying. There is no such thing as a healing without somebody getting sick. There is no such thing as a salvation without somebody being in sin. And we do not deny for one minute that people are being healed, because we know people are getting sick. We do not deny that people are being saved, because we know they're living in sin. But we seem to forget that the church itself, as a whole, must also be in the presence of death if the presence of the Resurrection is with her. For if there be no death, there would be no need for a Resurrection.

3. Now we'll just look at this Scripture on this for a little. It's beginning, say in 2 Corinthians 6, and I'm not going to belabor this because there is a tremendous amount of material we could cover. But in 2 Corinthians 6:9, It says here:

(9) …as dying, and, behold we live; [ Repeats], as dying and behold we live;

And then in 2 Corinthians 4:10:

(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

4. So if we were having or are having, the manifestation of his resurrection, there must be a dying as Paul said. And you’ll notice how he puts it; ‘always bearing about in the body’. And I don't believe he was speaking only concerning himself, because he was speaking, I think, concerning the body of Jesus Christ which is here on earth. And I would say it was only fitting that he’d be saying this, because if it's a dying of Jesus, it would have to be in his body. It wouldn't be in ours in this respect, it would be in his which is the Bride. See? And Paul was an example:

(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also, …(now notice), that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Now you can see here, that he is speaking of the life that Jesus presently has, which is given him through the power of the Resurrection, “And put him above all principalities and power and dominion and every name that is named.” And if this is filtering down in through the church, then the church must be in the presence of death and dying the same way Jesus did according to apostle Paul.

5. Now also we might go to the book of Romans 8:36. It says:

(36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

(37) (But) in these things we are more than conquerors….

And you couldn't possibly have the conquering aspect then of the Resurrection, without the principle of the death that's daily and for two thousand years has been surrounding the Bride.

6. Now also we must understand that this ‘resurrection story’ which is dealt with here in Ephesians, is the story of a virgin life in the midst of harlotry, abomination, and all spiritual filth that spells death to the spiritual things of God. We go to the book of Matthew chapter 13 and I would use other Scripture on this, but I just… this is easier read and it'll bring out the point, what I have in mind. Matthew 13:31-32:

(31) Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven, (This is the king of heaven on earth now mind you.) is (liken) unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took. and sowed in his field: (Now right away that signifies death, because the seed you know, has to die. But just leaving that point…)

(32) Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Now It tells you here that the perfect life of Christ, the mustard seed or the Lamb life, was sewn[sown] on this earth in perfection. But likening to a mustard seed, which is pure in itself and cannot be hybridized, it will actually be taken and somehow through a phenomenal growth, which is not of God because; “Narrow is the way and straight is the gate and few there be that find it”, this tree will cover the whole earth by its branches. Now It doesn't say that the root and the stock does it. It's the branches. And according to the Book of Revelation, we know that when birds begin to flock to the trees and the branches, it's every foul and rotten bird that does it. So we have the Presbyterian branch, and the Methodist branch, and the Oneness branch, the Pentecostal branch, and all the branches that have been grafted in to this little tree that should have been very small. See? Because you see, it far out produces it’s size or what's in it, showing you that God is retained in a much smaller element than many people think. See? …cutting it down. Well It says that these foul birds come in there and it covers the whole earth, which is what it does at the end time.

7. So you can see here, as Bro Branham brought out by illustration, which wasn't exactly covered in the parables, but he brought out and it's in the ‘Church Age Book’ where it's little more specifically said perhaps than any other place - how that the Church coming up, you see, it's bypassing through that which is dying, dying, but it's coming up and coming up, you see. Then therefore, as we view this, we want to understand that we're coming to an end time and when you come to an end time, the Bible specifically speaks of a harvest. So therefore at the end of the harvest, there will be a greater abundance of the two definitive principles that we're talking about. And the principle of death will be greater than at any time the world's ever seen and the principle of life will be greater than anytime the world's ever seen. See? But remember for this harvest or this life to come up to the Resurrection, - which we're talking of the end time when righteousness shall prevail, and all things which were of evil and to offend, shall be gathered and shall be destroyed, and the chaff burnt but the wheat gathered in the garner,- you can see what we're dealing with here; that the church has always lived under the shadow and company of death, and encompassed by death, that daily, the life of Christ might be visible and manifested in her. Now that's what we’ve got right here even at the very end time. The life and righteousness and the goodness of God is at a very peak whether people believe it or not; but so is also the terrible destructiveness of death and sin at its peak too.

8. So the power and authority of the resurrected Christ is not diminished. See? Now many people would think it would be but it's not diminished. No it's not. It's very small but it's like that mustard seed - like the mustard seed faith, what Jesus said; “If you got faith like the grain of mustard seed you can move a mountain”. And then Paul comes along and he says, now he said; “If I got all faith to move a mountain…” so if I put the two together I've got ‘all’ faith and ‘little’ faith is the same thing, it's faith. But you can see at the end time, when Christ was saying there; “Say to this mountain be moved…” the same thing is to transpire in this age. See? And it will be in the face of all the Jannes and Jambores [Jambres] out there but it will be in accordance with the Word; and this is a time of all deceitfulness.

9. Now in Matthew here, the 12th chapter, just to take a look at it, you’ll notice that Jesus is speaking about the very things I'm talking about this afternoon. For he said in the 12th chapter here… (and let me see, sorry not Matthew – John.) Will never get what I want in Matthew. In John 12:24 Jesus said;

(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Now this is spoken concerning him but it’s spoken concerning the Church; that the Church must be in the presence of death. And this is what throws so many people today even concerning Christianity. They just don't understand that the Kingdom of ‘heaven on earth’ is an admixture; now not the Kingdom of ‘heaven in heaven’. Because Jesus himself prayed; “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven...” and the very heavens themselves have been purified. So we have ‘the glorious Kingdom of God in heaven’ is different from the ‘Kingdom of God’ or the ‘Kingdom of heaven’ on earth. And the ‘Kingdom of heaven’ on earth is what people don't understand. Because they see the grain of mustard seed or I better put it as Bro Branham put it… I mean they see the grain of wheat is in a cocklebur and many people look at a Christian and they say; “Now look if that fellow is a Christian, I don't want it or I'm offended with this person.”

10. They don't realize you see, that the life of Christ, the Church of Christ and that which pertains to the purity of God, is at this time on the earth surrounded by all the evil, and all the filth and all the perversion. And even the very best of life, I mean the very best that a person may produce - and you could say that person is the most godly person in all this world - he is still in nature a cocklebur. See? … because you're waiting for the redemption of your body which you don't have at this moment. Because I don't care how sanctified a man is, how holy a man is, how full of the Holy Ghost he is, he dies. And the Scripture says; “The body is dead because of sin”. See? There isn't one of us living in perfection. That's the exact reason why it is, that the life of Christ in our bodies is surrounded by death. See, but it's in this death, that God can shine forth and be seen in His Glory in every single facet. How could He be a mediator to bring you in; how could He be an intercessor to keep you in; how could He show grace and all these things. See? So the Church is living under the shadow of this death that is set forth here in the Word. Now no matter how much this death is, or how bad it seems, we must know that it does not diminish the virtue of the Resurrection Life in Jesus Christ. As I read here; “Except the corn of wheat fall in the ground and die, it abides alone. But if it dies, it brings forth fruit.”

11. Now let's refer this to the Church. Paul over here in 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 and he said;

(8) …we would not… have you ignorant (brethren), of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch… we despaired even of life:

(9) But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which (raises) the dead:

(10) Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust… he will yet deliver us;

See? And Paul recognized the principle of death, and he knew that the principle of death was the only way the principle of life could shine forth. As Bro Branham said; “You wouldn't know light except for darkness and you wouldn't know a good woman except for a bad one.” See? So here we are. Now it wouldn't seem by experience that this should be so. But it is so. And following along with this understanding, as Bro Branham mentioned to us, we can see why the church Bride must die and fall into the earth and then be brought forth like Christ. Many people find it hard to understand that. Why should the church die?

12. They say; “Well Jesus died” …but it's his body and we've got to fill up the sufferings that were left. And if we're going to be bearing in the body the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ, then those sufferings have to be according to the Word that revealed what his sufferings and his death was. It can't be anything else. See? Now remember what was it that killed Jesus and put him in the ground? It was the religion of the hour that both crucified and killed the Lord Jesus Christ and buried him and God raised him. See? So Bro Branham taught us; “That the Bride must fall into the ground and die - but it must have its own death and its own resurrection to be in his likeness”. See? Now just keep that in mind. We’ll show you just where it is. It happens to the Bride standing here on earth. You could have caught it just by the very words that I said. See.

13. Now Paul mentions those sufferings even further, in the book of Colossians 1:24:

(24) Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Now we can see right here, that there's going to be afflictions in that body because Paul was not the only one who suffered. The Scripture distinctly said; “We can only reign with him if we suffer with him.” So there is no such thing as a vicarious suffering. I cannot suffer for you. You cannot suffer for me. It's utterly impossible. There is a suffering that must be filled up in the Church and even as Jesus Christ suffered and was blameless and came forth in his glorified… the Bride Church absolutely has to do the same thing. It is also crucified. It is also thrown in the grave. See? Look at here in Philippians 3:10. Paul said:

(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

See? He stresses it - that it's not possible for anybody to know the resurrection power of God unless there is a literal suffering and death that is going on in the Church. And this is a thing that most Christians have never understood and especially Pentecost has been dilatory. My, the nonsense that Pentecost taught - come and get saved, Hallelujah, speak in tongues, from then on glory to God: there's not a trouble, there's no clouds in the sky, and there's no death. No one's going to die - Hallelujah!

14. Hogwash! My brother, my sister, let me tell you flat, there is only one type of evangelism and that’s to knock on your neighbor’s door and say; “Come learn about Christ and learn to suffer with him that you might be glorified with him.” But they sold the people a bill of goods in a God that does everything and there's no suffering and if you're suffering there's something wrong. If you're not suffering, there something wrong. If you're not dying, there is something wrong because a life of Christ can only come forth through suffering and death. Now let me show you what it's done. It has prepared them for Laodicea – “Rich increased in goods and don't lack a thing - away with your nonsense - your church dying and these things - millions now living will never die!” That's a lie from the pit of hell. And they've been sold the goods because nobody wants to suffer with Jesus Christ and die that there might be a Resurrection.

15. That's our trouble. That’s what's wrong with our spoiled brat kids that live on drugs. I'll tell you why! Men and women wouldn’t withhold themselves back in depression day, illicit sex and all the nonsense till you can't condemn your kids because you have done the same thing yourself. Right! I tell you there’s something wrong my brother, my sister, when men and women don’t see the ‘way of the cross leads home’. ‘Must Jesus bear the Cross alone and all the world go free, no there's a cross for everyone and there's a cross for me’ and now we’ve got to receive that blessed cross of Jesus Christ. There's got to be a death. Now you see the nonsense going over the pulpit. See? Such murder. It's murdering the souls of people. …now not understanding, they don’t understand; the way of grace, the way of the mediator, the way of the intercessor, the way of the cross. These things are not explained. No wonder the church is dead. What word have they got? …creeds, dogmas and nonsense. See?

16. Let me tell you something brother/sister, this generation would be a million times better off if each one of us had a little farm out here and from morning till night we struggled to get a living. See? …struggle against the elements. Everybody wants to live on the government and so on. Oh we're going to reap for it my brother, my sisters. There’s a lukewarm generation. There's your lukewarmness. They're trying to hang on to eternal life; the life of Christ, and then turn down the darkness, and the sorrow, and the coldness of oppression that comes upon us by bearing the cross. Who wants to do it? See? Oh yeah I know, years ago I thought I was treated bad – many, many years ago when I used to pray the food on the table and pray the patches on my patches. If I could turn the clock back, I'd want to pray every meal on the table and put patches on my patches ! But who wants it? See? We’re rich Laodicea - nobody wants a cross. Too much! Too good! See? But listen, we're coming into it my brother, my sister - such death. That's why Jesus said; “I'm going to kill her with death”. Oh you say; “Well kill …?... be killed. No he talks about eternal separation, all the time talking about their union with Jesus Christ. See? Now let's get the picture then.

17. And the Church Bride? died in the sins of her creeds and dogmas even as they took Jesus and hung him upon a cruel tree. See? The first cruel tree in the garden was that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, see, that crucified the human race because Satan perverted the Word. See? Right from there, he was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. And the earth began to bring forth it's thorns and it’s briers to crown him, see, under the curse. Now the church itself today falls into the same crucifixion. How? Because the church crucifies that seed. See? They want to kill the Word of God. Paul himself, knowing what would happen over here in 2 Corinthians… let's read It. See? Paul understood. 2 Corinthians 11: [1-4]

(1) Would to God (you'd) bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

My, this poor old fellow had to get plumb down, right sarcastic. That's not my excuse but I sure like it anyway. That's how I teach… the only way I know how to get it across. Christ was sarcastic. Job was sarcastic. Paul was sarcastic. You say; “You’ve got to be…oh sweet.” I am sweet. I'm sweet to be here preaching, letting you know the truth. Sure I could be working maybe someplace else. This is no big picnic. Oh I love it, don't mistake me there. But it took wild horses, almost, to get me to it. Now listen, he says;

(2) …(I'm) jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband…

See, this man's walking in fear and trembling. He knows what lies ahead. Why? Because he's been with Christ and he knows that if you're going be the body, you're going to have to go through the same thing. See? Ahh, people are still dying.

(2) …for I’ve espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (Get you to the Marriage Supper – see - to the ceremony.)

(3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And remember when corruption sets in, it shows that life has been contaminated. See? He knew there'd be a contamination of the Word of God which would bring her to the grave. See? And it began to happen and from this moment on, what happened?

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(4) For if he that cometh preaches another Jesus….

What did Paul preach? He preached that Jesus was Jehovah - God manifest in flesh. He preached the great mystery of God - that God was in Christ and Christ was in human flesh. See? He preached the truth; “There is one God”. See? He laid out; “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”. Yet you get all your trinitarians around here, they will read that verse and they’ll make it say there's one mediator between God and man, the God Christ Jesus. He wasn't God! Jesus was a man. God cannot be born. God cannot die. He was a man. But when God indwelt him - the fullness - he became God. If all of God were in this book, this would be God and I’d fall down and worship. I’m not sacrilegious; I know what I am talking about. See, no problem. Jesus was not God. No sir. He was a man. The Scripture says so. He was a second Adam. He was the last man. See? Now, but Paul knew they were going to change it. So they preach another Jesus. If you preach any other Jesus, than God manifest in the flesh, it’s another Jesus because that’s Jehovah Savior, Jehovah-Jehovah. And there aren’t two Jehovahs, three Jehovahs, four Jehovahs or an …?... of Jehovahs. See? Say what you want to …or another spirit . See? The Scripture distinctly says; “He that came down, went up and came back again - same spirit.” See? …or another gospel, changing it. See. Paul knew it would happen, see… and death setting in.

19. Now you don't get better by death. Hmm. No sir. I don't go for that idea; you cure VD by injecting malaria. Forget it. They tried it. I don’t buy it. See? I don't see death bringing life. I can see death… and life will bring forth from death, see, because the Word of God patterns it.

20. Now this church began to get sick. It began to go down. The Word became more and more corrupted. In 325 AD, in the Nicene council, the Roman church went entirely pagan and the people had to leave. But remember, they went away contaminated. See? Now that life was struggling, going down, down, until the Fifth Church Age - which is even remarkably named by the historians – it’s called the dark ages and it was dark. You talk about perversion. So she fell in the ground and remember there are Seven Church Ages and it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And it's one, two, three – see – four - five, six, seven, because ‘seven’ if divided in the middle is number five. One, two, three on the left hand; four, five, six on the right hand. So the Fifth Church Age, was the furthest age from the truth. That's where she fell in the ground and died…. nothing commendable said about her. The only thing was said was this: “Don't you take the oil and the wine away from her”. Oh what a mess she was. See?

21. But the oil and wine had to be there, which as Bro Branham said; “The Holy Spirit falling on the Word bringing forth revelation - stimulated by revelation.” In other words, though she fell into the ground, it was still like Christ - “Thou will not leave my soul in hell, see, nor my body [to] suffer corruption.” It didn't look… how far Christ was gone… it didn't matter what they said about him; how dead he appeared; how rough they treated him; my brother, my sister, there was a life of the purity that went down into Hades and God was duty bound to raise it. And the Church looked as though it were completely gone and she was buried under that fourth church age. But she wasn't gone. There was a spark of light, as it were under-the-cover; as it were in ‘Hades’. Now God has got to do something about it. And when He began to work on the soul of Jesus, then he brought him forth out of the ground. See? Now he did that in three days. Alright you got three ages – one two three- so therefore in three church ages… then God has got to bring the Church out of the ground into a resurrection standing here on her feet and bring the rest out. See? Now that's what you call ‘the Church coming to maturity’. See?

22. Now under the fifth age, God began to restore. And you will notice the historians are right again. See? They called it reformation; the Lutheran Reformation; the Protestant Reformation, and it was a reformation. …that little old shoot coming up, my brother, my sister. And as Bro Branham said; “The Lutherans potentially had the Holy Ghost”. That's right, they potentially did. See? Now that's the first little sprig. Now the resurrection life of the Bride unto, now watch my language, the resurrection life of the Bride - coming unto, see, unto the Rapture and Millennium, - sent up a shoot. See? And then under Wesley… there was the additional truth coming. See? Truth coming back and it sent up a further shoot. See? But remember now, as always in the presence of death, the Lutherans dogmatized, organized, and the life went on in another form; but it's the same life. And that which they once had, was dead. See? And you’ll notice, that those that came to life, came out of those that were dying - just the same as Luther came out of dead Catholicism.

23. I'm going to tell you something, you study your church history and during the ages, until that dark age had its fullness, there were fine godly men in the Catholic Church, that God will not hold their sins against them being in an organization - no sir - because the time wasn't yet. You see? They were going down, dying. They've got to die. You understand now, why it's different today. In the old days, they could get away with it; they were dying. But now you're coming to the Resurrection. You’ll not get away with your creeds and your dogmas, your ideas of water baptism and three gods and so on….makes you heathen. Do you follow me? See? …?... helps to make the message, the prophet’s message a little clearer. So now, we find Resurrection Life coming up in the shoot. As Bro Branham said; “You had the potential of the Holy Ghost, but didn't have it.”

24. Let me show you something here. This thing really puzzled me. I don't say my understanding is as perfect as it ought to be, but let me show you here. Paul speaking of… in the book of Ephesians: [1:12-13]

(12) That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

(13) In whom (you) also (that's) trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:

And it doesn't matter how much Word of truth you heard because you only get what's allotted to your day. See? The first church age had the whole thing - responsible. The next, they began to die - not so responsible. The third age, further debt - still not so responsible. And the fourth age, bless God believe one thing even, you can come on in.

When that begins to turn around though, and light begins to strike the west, see, and the reformation begins to go more from the east to the west again, more light, more light, more light, until why, you see, at the end time, you can’t add one word or take away? We're back to where we used to be. You're responsible. And you got one bit of death you're gone – see, because the Resurrection, …there's no more death. You understand? Alright.

25. Now reading this here, It says [Eph 1:13-14];

(13) ….after that (you) believed, (you) were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

(14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Now watch what It says here. It says this baptism with the Holy Ghost, this sealing, is an earnest. It's a down payment. See? It's what is shown, that a price has been paid. It's a token. Sure. But you study here, you're going to find that it's like a down payment; something more to follow. Now my thinking is this… now listen carefully, who is getting paid for what? Now you can't say, it was the blood of Jesus Christ paid this price, because it's not blood. It's the Holy Spirit; a payment has been made.

26. What is that payment? The Holy Spirit. Now to whom was He given? Given to you and me, right? Then God must have given us a down payment for our lives or our bodies, because now your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. See? Right? Now the down payment will do you; it will allow you to go to the ground and you’ll come out - when? When the full payment is given. That's why Bro Branham said; “We're growing up into the Holy Ghost,” which is Resurrection, when the full payment is given. And the full payment is when you and I no longer walk in flesh and blood; “for flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God” - but flesh and bone will, …motivated by the Holy Ghost. That's what I see - you see what you want - but that's how I see this. [That’s] how you could say, “Your Lutherans had it potentially - but they had the Holy Ghost; you Methodists it had potentially - you had the Holy Ghost. You see.. and you Lutherans… but this age, my brother, my sister, He is here in order to raise us from the dead, and take us over the river Jordan without going into it. The waters of Jordan are going to roll back. See? We will not be dying. Now that takes a Resurrection.

27. So we have the Word of God coming up: justification, sanctification, restoration of gifts, the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the full revelation of God Almighty's Word, because that's how the disease set in. That's why the Holy Ghost is bound for two thousand years… because of the disease of the Word. How are you going to have the true fruit on the vine, and true fruit on a tree, if there's disease in it? Someone has got to cope with the disease. See? Now remember the life always was there. So all it has got to do, is to take the proper grafting by the teaching. Open your minds as a womb to the Word of God and then man becomes a proper limb that's on that tree. No wonder Bro Branham said; “If that tree ever puts forth another branch, it'll be, Pentecostal-book-of-Acts, all over again.” It's going to be too – see, can't help but be.

28. Now in this final age, for the final stage, restoration under the last age by a prophet sets in. It says so in the book of Acts the 3 chapter. (And you'll notice, that certain chapters of the Bible are my favorites. I can't help it, because I spend months and months of study, sometimes years, and then it breaks. And when it breaks, praise God, I just live on it! It's all I can do. See?) [Acts 3:19-20]

(19) Repent you therefore and be converted,

The word ‘repent’ means change your mind. I don't care what a man told you at the camp! I'm lashing back a bit. I've got it right to. The word repent is not Godly sorrow. Godly sorrow worketh repentance - not to be repented of. Repentance is ‘change your mind’. Why did the prophet appeal to our mind? What is this age all about? Get your minds on the Word of God! Get the right mechanics and the dynamics will hit it. You know the dynamics will hit anything my brother, my sister. You better get those right mechanics in there or God have pity on you. You’ll be right out there in that Pentecostal age - that Laodicean age - when the march is on for the Bride, …and the age of adoption because Bro Branham said we're in it. Now where do we stand in it?

29. I'm not here to fuss at you and harangue. I'll be gone, goodbye. Yeah. I don't believe in beating you over the ears and try to bulldoze you and take over. Phooey. Forget it. When I'm gone, Lee Vayle is gone. You’ll say; “Haha, old Vayle, pttt to him”. Good enough. I mean it. I'm just trying to tell you and let you know, exactly where I stand. You believe what you want. See? But the prophet wasn't just kidding, and talking, when he brought these things out. I'm doing my best to lay them down by the Word of God because that's my job - it's got to be in the Word if a vindicated prophet said so. I don't care what a man says. I don't have to read between the lines either. It is right here. See?

30. Now you repent - change your mind - just like He said; “Be converted” - that means full of the Holy Ghost, not what some dogma says or some man's idea. How are you going to have the Holy Ghost fall on a mind that’s full of corruption and crud? Come on! I told you a while ago - it'll be false anointing. Huh? They’ll show more than you and I ever will. …not mad …just telling you - trying to nail it down. Look, watch your minds in there. Paul said I'm afraid your minds are going to be corrupted. Then what ‘great thing’ to bring it back, except the mind back to the mechanics of God? My brother, my sister, don't you understand? See? I’m not here to fuss at anybody. That’s okay, you'll know more about it later on. …get there and find out.

31. He said;

(19) …your sins (will) be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

The word ‘presence’ in the Greek there means, anything that's visible to the naked eye. And listen let me tell you, that Jesus Christ said; “If I had not done the works that no other man did, they had not sinned. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.” The mighty works of God that that man did, showed God to the people. So it says right here, a tremendous miracle revival is going to come and men's minds will be changed. Then the revival of God can break in a Bride. And then it says here… then he's going to send Jesus Christ. But He said; “Hold it. Can't come yet.” Sure, can't come yet. Why? The heavens He said…

32. Just a little point of interjection here – see - because the Bible is full of interjections. Just like, well… let's face it. You got the sealing of the 144,000 between the Sixth and Seventh Seal. Won't work. Seventh Seal is on right now. Sixth Seal is not in existence - chronologically. See? You got interpolations in here. Alright, you got an interpolation.

33. He said.. now hold it right here… He said;

(20) …the (heavens have got to) receive (him – or retain him) - until the (restoration) of all things spoken by the mouth of (all the) holy prophets since the world began.

Now that's the key right there. So therefore, what is ‘all the mouth of all the holy prophets spoken’? The Word of God. So there's got to be a restoration. So that's why he [referencing Bro Branham]said, listen he said; “You are going to see God appearing amongst you” - the prophet said; “By mighty signs and tremendous wonders. And this is what's going to swing you back to realizing something's going on.” That's when you open your mind and say; “Just a minute. This man's got something”.

34. I'll tell you how it comes too. I never could see short hair being wrong, because I'd seen all these girls you know - God bless them, well they're fine ladies. But not to me, they weren't. They had long hair and long sleeves but they had a wicked look in their eyes. They reminded me… I don't mean to be mean about it, but they reminded me of something wasn't nice to be reminded of. And it was positively wicked. And I told Bro Branham and I said;

“Now look Bro Branham, I've seen those gals with their long sleeves and their long hair and this and that and the other thing” and I said; “They can be positively wicked.” I said; “Some got tongues which could lick the jam off of a doorknob.”

Well he said; “Brother Vayle, I didn't say,” …he said; “They were righteous for it. I just said that's the will of God.”

We used to fuss… you know - kind of laugh back and forth and he’d just… would … you know, just be nice about it. And he’d say to my wife, “You stick around us Sister Vayle, you’ll let your hair grow.” Now, and I thought; “Well fap, who needs long hair?” You know - just more hair in the soup when one falls in. You know - like you have to… Some of these poor boys got wife and five daughters - wall to wall hair, you know. Who needs it? And then one night, well it struck. It said; “Just a minute now. This man's a prophet. He doesn't deal in foolish things; in tiddlywinks things. I don't understand it. But I know this man.” And so I said to my brethren… I said;

“You know something?” I said; “I’m under conviction that the women ought to let their hair grow.”

I said; “I don't know why”, but I said; “I know William Branham. I know his ministry and he does not deal in tiddlywinks - foolish things. If he said It, It is right.”

So I went home and told my wife. I said;

“Now you can do what you want”. I said; “It's up to you.”

I'm not going to tell her what to do. She's a free moral agent. But I said;

“You know Bro Branham as well as I do; that he does not deal in foolish things. He's not a tiddlywinks prophet. There is a man of God. Now I can't figure why you should let your hair grow, but I think maybe, by the fact of the man saying It, your hair ought to grow.”

And she said; That's right!”

35. Now you see, that's exactly what it's all about. That's what this is all about - to get those minds lined up to get the mechanics. Of course, I can preach a whole sermon now on why hair… I wouldn't even let you ladies, as far as I'm concerned, …clip the ends. You’re just kidding yourself. Let your hair split. Phooey on that noise. You let the door down for the camel to get his nose in, the camel soon comes in and you move out. See? What he said… what the prophet said you can do, don't be afraid to do. I mean it. What he said you could do, don't be afraid. Don't try to take advantage, say; “Whoopee I can do this and maybe sneak something else in.” You see? No. What… if he said you can do a certain thing, you're allowed to do it. When he said; “There's no Bible to it, I can't go by Bible” - he said; “I’ve got no Bible”, then don't try to out-Bible the Bible, or out-God God, or out-prophet the prophet. Open your minds - every thought into captivity See? Alright.

36. Now, here we find in the Scripture here, that there's going to be a restoration of the Word of Almighty God. What does that mean? It means in this day, the Bride comes forth in a resurrection from her creeds and her dogmas, and is now in the end time revelation heading up into their Resurrection with Christ as their Head. The prophet said so. We've already had a resurrection and let me tell you flat, there will be no physical Resurrection until the Bride is absolutely free from her grave clothes of creeds and dogmas and she stands in the perfect mechanics, in faith in Jesus Christ – because the apostle Paul said so. See? Now we can't gainsay what the apostle Paul said, and William Branham said what the prophet Paul said, because in his vision he said; “I’m saying the same thing.”

37. Ephesians 5:10-14;

(10) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

(11) And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Unfruitful works - that means works that you're doing as a fruit and it doesn't pan out. Who was it? Cain. Cain took the Bible and he said; “Bless God, there's a first fruit offering and that signifies it wasn't sex. It was therefore by nice fruity-fruity that my mother fell and my father and so on, so I’ll offer the fruit.” And Abel got a revelation – and It said it took blood. It was death. A life had to be shed. Now, notice the unfruitful works. You watch it, see? And then it goes to a place, where it gets into such gross sins of immorality, that;

(12) ….(it's) a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

38. See? The drift from the Word will always end in slothful sin. See? Because why? Because Eve got from behind the Word and it [sin] set in. And notice what happened here. What was Eve’s sin? Sex! What is this sin? Sex! See, …now physical and spiritual. Now bring it back. But you and I come to the ‘unfruitful works’ - in other words, these things that will not workout - God says they won't - we try to make it with …?... I'm Baptist, I'm Presbyterian - I believe this, I believe that - creeds and dogmas. See? It’s spiritual fornication; filthiness. Here it is right before your eyes. See?

(13) But (in) all things that are reproved (listen), but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:

And It says right here, when the Light of God strikes, It reproves! See? It doesn't make it, “Whoopee, all glory! I'm in the light”! It makes it, “Oh God, I'm away from the light! What are you doing Lord? I'm wrong!” See? People want a little gospel preached around here, Latter Rain nonsense, where, “Hallelujah, you know - we're going to take a vitamin pill and go into the Millennium. There isn't any rapture.” Oh my God have pity! They sit around on their own drunken …?... The prophet Isaiah said, [Isa 28 7-8] “The priests are altogether staggering with strong drink. Their own strong revelation of the Word has got them drunken and debauched and full of vomit.” See? That's the way they are. But oh how nice they are before the world; how sweet they think they are. See?

39. But it's wrong! The Word of God comes to show you up! And when a person comes in a meeting, and the Word of God begins to hit, - and you're being hit, and you know you're being hit - …and say; “Something has got to be done”, you should rise up and say; “I'm blessed among the people because God's Light is shining; because I'm reproved.” Who wants to be reproved? Well let's face it – one of the hardest things in all the world. My God. ..one of the hardest things in all the world is to say; “I'm wrong” and take reproof. See? You can take the love; you can take the sweetness, and thisness and thatness and all the healings and miracles. See? ….but, …forget it.

40. [Eph 5:13-14] Now;

(13) …whatsoever doth make manifest is light. (See? Now,)

(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ (will) give thee light.

See? In other words, listen to the voice of the prophet coming on the scene - Paul himself being in that age. And he said; “Listen you're not dead, but you're asleep”, see, “And you're lying with those dead people. Now come out of her my people, and be not partakers of her sins lest her plagues come upon you.” See? And he said here; “Christ will give thee light” and that's what I'm trying to get across today. See? Never mind how hard it is to understand these things; never mind how perplexed. Just believe it until the light breaks. … may never be your lot to get some of the light. Bro Branham one day told his son… he said; “Billy they can believe this much and make it and then believe that much and not make it.” That’s what Paul said; “Though I have all understanding of all mysteries and I haven't got that which really counts”… - in other words, “The true baptism with the Holy Ghost; living in a measure of faith that God bestowed upon me; fulfilling the ministry that God called me to…” And there's hundreds of ministries in Christ - not just the five-fold and a few gifts of the Holy Ghost - like tongues, interpretation, and all - but every man under the headship of Jesus Christ serving God in this body.

41. It says right here, he said; “Christ will give thee light”. Whatever more man needs, God's going to give him. God never came to your life and mine to say; “Here's a little bit of light. Now I'm going to trick you - now just try and get your own.” I’ve got to talk this way otherwise you go away believing nonsense. I'm trying to analyze and show you, did He come to give you light and then say; “That was fun for a while but huh huh huh huh, now,” He said; “Just ….?.. it.” Why do we act that way? Huh? Why doesn’t our faith rise up? He that brought us thus far will take us further. We take little medals …?... like Ebenezer [1 Samuel 7:12] and say; “Oh how sweet.” Oh how sweet – nonsense! We don't believe it. Huh? Oh come on! We're not just talking about barely crawling to Zion, I believe we're ready to run to Zion; marching upward to Zion, see? God sending His messenger.

42 And then Bro Branham did the same thing as Paul here. He said; “Don't you fool with organization. Don't you be caught in their fornication” - and remember, the light corrects. He said; “We don't come to church to have fellowship. We come to be corrected.” Yet you have the teacher slap your kid, you’ll fire the teacher.

Boy if you put old Lee Vayle in the judgment seat for forty-eight hours, you wouldn't have much crime in America - United States. I'll tell you, if It hit me, I'll go to the Lake of Fire. If It hit me, I'll go and die for it. I mean it. If I'm found in those sins, shoot me down or make me suffer. My brother, my sister, let's face it - if there is no penalty for crime, then there's no law. Forget it. Before the prophet died, he sure blazed that one out. And he said; “These guys that kill people in a drunken stupor,” he said; “They are murderers”- and a murderer got him. And no murderer is going to find his place in heaven, they go to Lake of Fire - not condemning the boy – just telling you the truth. But let's find out about the guy that sold him the liquor and the state that allowed it. See? Come out of her my people. See? But they wouldn't listen to the prophet.

43. Now, after this, during this age when this is going on, it won't be long now till all the dead come out of the earth and march to the wedding supper, because this is the age it happens. Now during this last age in which we're talking: this age of adoption, age of the resurrection, age that moves on for the Bride and so on, the Bride is to be born out of the ground into redeemed bodies [and] a living Bride to be redeemed from death itself, and this is a resurrection. See? And the living Bride standing here will be redeemed from death itself because death will not touch her.

44. Now let's face it. Where did death set in? …creeds and dogmas. Then, you get rid of your creeds and dogmas, the ‘process’ back to eternal life can start and will end right up. Alright. Now how are you going to defeat that? You can't do it. That's not logic, that's the Word of God and you know it. You know brother/sister if a dog bites you with rabies, you have to have the antitoxin to get rid of the rabies. Now we know what caused the ‘bite to death’. The dog bite, absolutely was that false doctrine and there is absolutely no return until the false doctrine is gone. There is a resurrection that we're in at this very moment. We have been raised from our creeds and dogmas and as Bro Branham said; “Set in heavenly places in a meeting like this in Christ Jesus; with the glory of the Word of God surrounding us and the revelation coming to us and we feasting on the manna which has been hidden for ages but now is revealed.”

45. Remember, Moses ate the same manna that the people did. People talk about Bro Branham… let me tell you flat, the Scripture distinctly says in Peter, It said; “The prophets did not get the Word for themselves. They got it for the people but they ate the same food.” Yes, I don't care who brings the manna down my brother, my sister, I'm going to tell you one thing, he's no different from you and me; he’ll eat the same manna because Paul the apostle said; “If I turn on what I preach, I become a castaway myself”. So how can any man say he is not eating the same thing the prophet ate. You say; “I don't understand it the way the prophet did.” Well certainly not. Who do you think you are? When do the people teach the teacher? I don't care how well God helps me to put it together, do you think I know what Bro Branham knows? Oh come on. It took me two solid weeks to get a little thimble full of knowledge from that man. One fellow said he sat thirty days and didn't get it. Well maybe I did pretty good getting it in two weeks but I still didn't get too much. No. No, there's no man is going to know perfectly anyway until he is over there. But we believe and God illuminates as time goes on. See?

46. Now the power of the resurrection is here today for Christ has proved that He is alive and has appeared amongst us by signs and wonders and that's exactly what Acts 3:19 said… that He has appeared amongst us. And now let's go back to Acts 3:19 [21-26] because I didn't read It all. Now It says;

(21) Whom the heaven must (retain) until the restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

(22) For Moses truly said (to) the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto (me) of your brethren, unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

(23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be (utterly) destroyed from among the people.

Now that belongs to Malachi because remember Christ came to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. The day of the vengeance of our God was postponed. Now who's to come on this earth before the utter destruction? If he doesn't come, there will be… Elijah the prophet. Now who is Elijah? He is a man with the spirit of Jesus Christ in him because remember there's only One Prophet and that's God Himself because He was the First Prophet in the garden - when He prophesied to Adam about his wife and He prophesied to Eve and to the whole human race. It was God - It wasn't even a Theophany as far as I know, It was God - call Him what you want - Pillar of Fire - just A Voice, God speaking out. I'm not going to try to elucidate, not my business to… but remember God was the First Prophet then He's duty bound to be the Last Prophet. He's always been The Prophet. God was in the prophets. Who is The Prophet? Not the prophets. That's just a designation. God's The Prophet. See? So that's what Bro Branham taught us… that… we know this - he said; “The Prophet of this day is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, not a man but it will come by a prophet – see, come by a man.”

47. Now, He says here; “They will be destroyed”. So therefore that comes down to this day. Now, [Acts 3:24]

(24) Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

What days? The days in which Christ was crucified and the days of His coming again back to earth in human flesh. Now watch.

(25) (You) are the (sons) of the prophets,

How? By the seed - yes sir – seed. Abraham had a lot of children, a lot of seed, in the sense of the word that he had seven sons by Keturah, one by Hagar, and one by Sarah. But there's only one called his child; only one called the true seed and that was the one of promise. So therefore the Word came on down. When God speaks a Word, that Word has got appear in whatever person it is supposed to appear in – see, coming down, picks the man He wants it in. Now, It said;

(25) (You were) the children of the prophets.(How? By the Word.) and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Now notice, “these days” and “all kindreds”. In Jesus day, all kindreds weren’t blessed. Now notice;

(26) Unto you first…

If there's a first there's a second. Yes sir. There couldn't be a first without a second. We’d have to leave the first out if there’s not a second, or third, or fourth… however God is going to it.

(26) Unto you first God, having raised up His Son, sent him to bless you,

48. Now you show me where Jesus Christ, in a body form, went to Israel to bless it. You can't do it. There's no Scripture for it. He came back as the Son of God, which is the Holy Ghost that God raised up to Israel, and they turned the Holy Ghost down. Now It says, “And to kindreds”. “So He's got to appear again,” as Bro Branham said; “According to this Word, to the Gentiles, in the last day, because it's only ‘these days’ in two places - at the time of the cross and in the end time.” Now, that's what Bro Branham said. Didn’t he say; “He never appeared to the Gentiles. He’s got to do it now.” Here's your Scripture. What more do you want? Now he said; “He's going to appear. He’s going to appear in mighty signs and wonders.” See? And this will appear in the face of Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah - end time - the very ministry of Jesus Christ returned to this earth in William Branham. And if you can receive it, he was, as he said, “God with a skin on it.”

49. Now you don't need to worry about it - I'll tell you something. Be out of here pretty soon, but as long as I think of things, might as well just tell you. John said; [1 John 4:1-2]

(1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: (That's 1 John 4:1) because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

(2) Hereby you know the spirit of Christ: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

Well I know what we've done all the years. We go to …?... and say; “Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh?”

And the devil says; “No, no, no.

And we say; “There's your test.”

Hog wash! It has nothing to do with Jesus ‘did’ come in the flesh. It says ‘i-sss’ come in the flesh - present tense. And in every single church age my brother, my sister, Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and He’s in the flesh of the Bride and in every age He has had a messenger. Now listen to me. 1 John 4:5-6;

(5) They are of the world (and therefore they hear the world) and the world (hears) them.

But It says in verse 6:

(6) We are of God: (and) he that knoweth God (hears) us.

And that's what Jesus said in the book of John. He said; “He that is of God, hears me”. Now then Jesus came back in the flesh of John and He said the same thing: “If you hear me, you're of God”, and Paul said; “If you hear me, you're of God”, and Peter said; “If you hear me, you're of God”, and William Branham said; “If you hear me, you're of God” - a hundred percent correct - Jesus Christ come in the flesh. See? People deny it. Now there is your test. See? Right. But they don't want to admit that Jesus Christ came back. Oh you say; “You're making him Jesus Christ.” I never said that. The Word came in his flesh by the Holy Ghost and remember the Word descends by the ‘Prophet-Spirit’ and you and I don't have that Spirit. Word cannot descend by your spirit and mine. It descends by His. Now do you see why He said; “It’s so close.”

50. John said it. What did he say? He said what Jesus said.

Pharisees said;

“Shut up you big mouth. I’m supposed to hear you and that makes me a God. Hahaha. Well we’ve got Abraham to our fathers. We’ve got Moses. I've been in the temple. I've been circumcised. I've danced in the Spirit. I've talked in tongues. Shut up, blah, get out of here, you bunch of crud – you devil you – you’re a Samaritan - you're an illegitimate child.”

They did too. Don't kid me for one minute.

Then John went right behind. He said; “He that hears me is of God.”

And they said; “Shut up. You sound like that stupid jerk that you're supposed to be following.”

Come on. I challenge you. Get your thinking straight and your sincerity before God… People just smirked and talked and they didn't begin to believe ‘nothing’ the way they should believe. Let me tell you straight, my brother, my sister, that messenger, Jesus Christ, came to every church age messenger as they had “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” the great I am. And that man had the voice of God - and God was dwelling in his flesh, even Jesus Christ to say; “He that hears me is of God.” There is your test.

51. Now where’s your false anointed to come and all your stuff out here? That's right. Let’s go to the Bible. See? These other guys can't prove one thing. But bless God, we have the Word that has been vindicated and lines up. As Bro Branham said; “Once you see this Message, that's all you'll see.” That's all I want to see. The rest is death. Let me look in the mirror and see Christ shining back at me – the only hope I got. Why? Because He's got to appear to me before I can be caught up in a Rapture. And if He doesn't appear, I’ll never make it. If I wait to see Him to be caught up first, I’ll never get there. Because my brother, my sister, you get your change because you see Him as He is. Listen, I've been trying for years - trying to get a sermon on associating God and man. Some day it will break through. This is part of it. This is part of it. I'm not kidding, this is part of it. If we don't understand this, we will never understand the rest. See? God associating with man - using man. See?

52. Now, the Word is fully revealed and demonstrated by “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” I was …?... with a friend of mine because Bro Branham brought out in some Scripture… some tapes rather, where he said he was in Mishawaka, you know down Indiana there, and this Pentecostal bunch were speaking in tongues, interpreting, prophesying and so on. And then he said;

“They say; ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’.”

I said; “Unh uh, he was wasn't saying they were saying ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’. He was telling you and me that they ‘had’ THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

And he said; “No, no. He said so.”

I said; “No I can't believe that. No it won't work, because there's only one man that has got ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’.”

Now it's in, what is it… ‘The Oneness’ or ‘The Communion’ what is it - one of those recent ones - no it’s not that one - my memory is like a sieve… But anyway I marked it down - could be ‘Feast of the Trumpets’ - anything I’ve been reading - it could be anything I was reading recently - so forget it. [Bro Vayle chuckles] . But I got it marked down. And in there, he said flat; “That he was the only one with ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ because he was the only one that could have the vision and tell it exactly as it was.” See I knew nobody else could have it. Don’t try to lead me astray. You can go to the devil yourself but don't to take me with you. No.

53. Now I'm not just a friend of Bro Branham, I loved him. …[but not] like I loved him like I could just believe anything. No, no, my brother, my sister, I watched him for ten solid years like a cat watches a mouse. Paid off too. So now if I tell you something now, I'll stand with it. See? I’ll stand with it because I know what I'm talking about - see, not some foolish little sentiment - see - no complexes. No, not at all - just the living Word of Almighty God. See?

54. The Word is fully revealed and demonstrated by ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’. See? Now what brought ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ to pass? The resurrection power of Jesus Christ. How could it be brought to pass if He was dead? He said it; “In Jesus name”. Let me tell you brother/sister, if that man's not living, then it would never come to pass. Go to the corpse and say; “Speak to me”. …little child, his mother's dead - crying and screaming; “Mother speak to me.” Mother won’t speak to him. See? Mother bemoaning her husband. …can't talk to her. Dead. I want to tell you when Jesus Christ speaks back, brother/sister, He's alive. Then if He's showing forth His Resurrection of these days, what is it? It’s Resurrection time - Resurrection time where they kill Him again. They kill the Word. Sure. But it's also Resurrection time, the hour in which we live, where Jesus is coming to take away a waiting Bride.

55. Now sure, it is Resurrection time today. Even chronology proves it. The chronology of history proves it. Let's go to Romans chapter 11. (Man I came to Canada to get cooled off but she's getting hotter than a firecracker in here. [Bro Vayle chuckles.] …have to incorporate in your fan pretty soon. Maybe I can sort of get cooled off while you are looking for the 11th chapter of Romans there. I'll see if I can read it.) Alright the 13th verse; [Rom 11:13-15]

(13) For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

(14) If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are (after) my flesh, which are my flesh and might save some of them.

(15) For if the casting away of (Israel) be the reconciling the world, what should be the receiving of them but life from the dead?

Now go down to 25;

(25) I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Israel is to be blinded until the last elected member to the Bride of Jesus Christ comes in. Now listen. It said if the casting away of Israel, be the reconciling of the Gentiles, the world, what shall be the receiving of Israel but life from the dead? But notice, Israel's not dead. It's blind. A blind man is not a dead man.

You said; “The man's blind, let's bury him.”

And they said; “What are you trying to do, you rotten heathen you. The poor guy is blind and now you want to bury him. What kind of a monster are you?”

“And what kind of Bible student are you?”

56. Israel is not dead. She’s blind. All Israel is saved. If they were dead, they'd be lost. They’re under the Fifth Seal; under the altar. Right? Alright, simple as ABC, they're blinded. See? Now It says, when God turns to blinded Israel, giving them the Light, our time is over - it’s life from the dead - Resurrection time. Now, God cannot deal with Israel until she’s in the homeland. Right? It’s a nation born in a day. And Israel, for the first time, is in the homeland - for two thousand years or so - real as a nation. So therefore God has told us by the chronology of the clock… Remember when he got the six Seals done, he said; “Now take a parable of the fig tree…”. He told you where the Seventh Seal would appear - at the time that Israel became a nation – and William Branham received his Commission in 1946. And Israel had already been a nation and then declared so in two years. Now Israel is in the homeland where God can deal with them. So therefore, the blindness on the part of Israel is about to depart and the Scripture distinctly said: “When God receives Israel, what is it but life from the dead.” And remember, when a man gets his sight back, he doesn't get life from the dead. He gets a part of his members brought back. See? But this is all the members coming back – of the Bride of Christ. Life from the dead. So therefore chronologically, according to history, my brother, my sister, we have been living in Resurrection season since 1948. And this generation shall not pass away until the Resurrection takes place. If you had to wait until 1988, it would still take place.

57. I don't know what a generation is anymore. Of course a generation is usually about twenty years but they call it forty. Because when a person is twenty years old, they marry and start raising children. That’s the next generation and so on. But they put it at about a forty-year span. If you want to put it in a seventy-year span, go ahead. And you go back where Israel was priming itself for a nation, you'll go back maybe what…about 20 years. Alright you’ll get back to 1926. Now you add seventy years onto twenty-six, you get ninety-six. Brother/sister, I don't care how you cut it, this is according to God's own Word, which cannot lie, and by a vindicated prophet: that the Holy Spirit was amongst us, that Christ had proved Himself the same yesterday today and forever, and that He is risen from the dead and visited the Gentiles, because Israel is first and now we're second and last - of course He goes back then, when we’re gone, He goes back to Israel - two witnesses… You first, you first, you first, and then He said Gentiles - then back. Right? So ‘second’… He’s already appeared amongst us. What are we waiting for? We're waiting only because of the long suffering of Almighty God until the last elected member comes in and receives whatever he needs from Christ to put him in that Resurrection.

58. Now the Bride has always been the recipient of a potential resurrection. She's always had it - the potential. Look in the book of Romans 8:11, It said;

(11) But if the spirit of Jesus…but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus, (That means the Spirit of God that raised up Jesus) from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ (That's God) from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Right. Now we go to the 15 verse and It says;

(15) (We) have not received the spirit of bondage again but the (Spirit of almighty God which is) the Spirit of adoption, (God placing you as a son. See, not your ‘borning” now, that you've been ‘born in’ normally speaking, but God Himself doing it.) whereby we cry, ABBA Father.

And then we get on down to verse 23;

(23) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,

That means, the Spirit of Resurrection is in us. That's the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead - made him the firstfruit. That means he's the first one - many more to come. How many? We don't know. Only God knows by election. Now He said right here, He said; “We have the same spirit that Jesus Christ had” and if we have, why did he have it? …raising him from the dead. Then therefore we have the same spirit in order to raise us from the dead. That's what it's all about. See?

(23) …waiting for the adoption, the redemption of (the) body.

See? When God finally takes the purchase possession to Himself, He does it by what Bro Branham called; “That final true baptism with the Holy Ghost” which comes upon us by getting rid of our creeds and our dogmas. And people come along and try to mess us all up again. Come on. Don't you believe nonsense brother/sister. See? If I'm wrong, don't you listen to me. See?

59. Now listen, Lutherans had the potential. Wesley had the potential. But Pentecost had the potential. But now It's here. See? Let's go to Ephesians chapter 4. (I'm sorry to talk this fast but when I got my voice back, I’m just going to ramble. See? …long as it is working, then I can go home and fall down. That's the truth too. [Bro Vayle chuckles.]) Ephesians 4:14;

(14) That we henceforth be known more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; (See?)

(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, (See?) in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

(16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,

…in every single church age, my brother, my sister, a portion of that Word by the Holy Ghost. And It works. It's bringing a Bride by the predestinating power of the head, Jesus Christ, Who foreknew and said; ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’, and It was. See? Now remember what I read to you, “Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head even (Jesus) Christ.”

60. Now let's go back to Ephesians 1 again. Read It again, this time with understanding - little more than we had before. Now watch what It says. Eph 1:19;

(19) And what is the exceeding greatness of power to us-word who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

See? Remember now, there's something that you believe according to the working of His mighty power. In other words, it is just not faith, my brother, my sister, it is a special kind of a faith. Look at it. He's been talking all along about: you got faith, you believe, you trust you got the Holy Ghost. But now there's something else – ‘a Spirit of Revelation and the Knowledge of Him’. Now you're coming to a new plateau; a new era. Now listen;

(20) Which he wrought in Christ,..

In other words, your minds are now geared to the Resurrection. They couldn't be before. These all died in hope.

See? Something better was down the road. Now;

(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places,

(21) Far above all principality, and might, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named,

What is he? He's the head! See? “Put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head”. See? Now watch. He gave him to be the head. How? Through the resurrection power of almighty God. Now we're growing up into the Resurrection as Bro Branham said; “Word piled on Word until we burst into… a sweep goes over us into the Headship Himself. See? Now there's your maturity that Bro Branham spoke of - the Word. Now you see, we're talking about the Holy Ghost. See? Now at the end time and we're in it now my brother, my sister. And let me tell you, I say with Bro Branham; “If I don't make it, and you and I don't make it together, somebody is going to make it because God's got a Bride.” Let's just have the spirit of Bro Branham… and we're not going to stand in somebody else's way.

61. Now do you understand that First Church Age, when those false apostles came through, and they said; “Un uh, sorry bud, you go down the road.” Where’s your preacher’s guts to do that these days? I challenge you. I'm laying the challenge… I got no friends this afternoon: not the pastor, not you, not my wife, not my kids, no friends this afternoon - not this moment on - no loved ones… No, brothers/sisters, I stand alone. And I'm telling you, where is your spiritual fortitude? Where is mine? In the First Church Age they said… Bro Branham said; “My that was flat - you’re false apostles,” because they wouldn't stand with that Word. Huh… oh getting kind of fine now, getting kind of quiet. That's the way I like it.

62. Never did ask people to say ‘amen’ because I talk awful fast, awful hard. … it’s best to listen. Now remember I’ve got to stand before God …what I said this afternoon. I'm going to be judged. Now I'm not kidding you. I've already told you; I teach. Bro Branham said I was a teacher - didn't say I was a true teacher. I could be a lousy false teacher. That’s okay by me. It's my destiny. Let me tell you something, James said; “The teacher has the greatest condemnation. For as there were false prophets among the people, so shall there be among you, false teachers.” Now here's the Bible. Here's what Bro Branham taught as far as I know. You show me where I'm wrong. Listen brother/sister it’s time to quit all the foolishness. It’s time to stand with this Word one hundred percent. …?... through all the nonsense people are preaching.

63. Because let me tell you flat, there won't be one person make the Resurrection, who takes one word or adds one word. That goes for Lee Vayle. That goes for your pastor. That goes for every person here and Brother Pete down there pastoring; Brother Menno on the field, got evangelists, pastors here. Let me tell you flat; it goes for me; it goes for every single person - add one word - take one word… To add one word is the plagues - could only happen at the end time. No other time where, brother/sister… because God will not have a Resurrection to throw you in a Great Tribulation. That Great Tribulation, my brother/sister is at the end time - once for all. There’ll be no Resurrection for it. It will be the end-time people who turned down the Revealed Truth that was absolutely vindicated and manifested, and proven by ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ infallibly known to the world. And they say; “I don't like it” because they take pleasure in their own little creeds and dogmas: and their own little frills, their own little fancies, their own little superstitions and their own little emotions. Come away my brother, my sister.

64. I'm not going to preach what a man ‘thinks’. I have only one calling; that’s to stay with this Word. I care not what Bro Branham preached until I can prove it by the Word. Because every one of those seven angels came to him and he went right to the Word. That’s right. That's a safeguard you and I got; the only safeguard. Not what men try to shove down your throat and say what they ‘think’ he said. See? What did he say? He said; “Once you see this message, that's all you'll see in the Word.” Then how come more aren't seeing it? I'm not trying to take some little gift God might have given me - hold it over somebody's head. I'm just telling you what he said and why he said it. See? Nobody is going to have a corner on the revelation of Almighty God. It’s not given that way. It's not meant to be that way - any shape or form. See?

65. Now, notice in here, It says; “We’re growing up into the Head.” See? How is it being done? By a fivefold ministry that takes the Word as was indicated and vindicated …?... at an end-time messenger - growing up into Christ. And he said; “There will be no more persuasion of any sort. There’ll be no wind of doctrine and there’ll be no cunning of man.” Now why did man get cunning? Why does a man want to be cunning? Because he wants to be somebody; because he wants to make a show in your flesh or my flesh; because he wants your money; he wants leadership or he wants prestige. Now I can see the necessity of a certain amount of money and no more - but for prestige and leadership, forget it. You know why? Because any man that makes himself a leader or even receives a compliment… that's why I don't like people to say; “Brother Vayle, you preach good.” Forget it. Tell the Lord about it …?... Don't tell me. I'll tell you why? Because the minute you compliment me, you put me on the spot to produce. I can't produce. Only God can produce. See? That’s right.

66. You know, Herod one day thought he made a pretty good speech and God filled him full of worms. That’s right. We don't know how good we do, or don't do, until Judgment day. But you see, that cunning… a man wants to be somebody. Why? …the bigger the cannon they’d use to knock you down. The more sorrow is going to be bred. But the devil is going to do it just the same. See? You and I might stand back and not understand - why would a man do it? I don't know? But it's being done and it's going to be done, because Jannes and Jambres came against Moses and once the false prophets took the field, the false teachers went right out. There’ll be true; there'll be bad. You pick who you want. I don't care who you want. It’s okay by me.

67. Now listen; let's go to 2 Corinthians 4, a minute. (I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here but sometimes you get a bit rough. I'll repent.) Paul said; [2 Cor 4:12]

(12) So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

The reason I'm using this, is to show you what I was talking about all the time. There's death but there's life. And remember, I don't care how virulent death is, life is greater than death. I don't care what disease there is in the world - and disease is a form of life. Do you know that human life is greater than any disease there is? Because human life has the element of the eternal in it by the grace of God? And though this body die, that life goes on. You know it's very strange that people say; “Why do you listen to a dead man’s tapes.” And you know what? They don't even know what they're saying. Because if you said;

“Was your mother saved?”

“Oh Hallelujah! she's in heaven”.

“Is she dead?”

“Oh no! She's alive!”

Well she has got to be dead. If Bro Branham is dead, she's dead too - because God said He's the God of the living not the God of the dead. So if you are hearing William Branham’s tapes, let me sure William Branham is not dead. He has just moved his office upstairs - because Doctor Branham was the greatest doctor of all ages. He was a chiropractor. He adjusted the neck in order for the Head to come down - but they didn't want it. And you know there are certain things only a chiropractor can do, that an MD can't do because an MD won't do it. There's only certain things a prophet can do, and he's a chiropractor, Christ doctor, you know - ‘CD’ you know, that an MD - kind of ‘monkey doctor’ kind…. I've got nothing against them, but let's face it brother/sister all of these things have a little bit of a type or shadow if you just watch them.

68. And remember, restoration is a medical term which means ‘to bring the members of the body together’ and the greatest member of all my brother/sister is the Head. He's the best of the works. Without that Head the body can be beautiful corpses lying there. But you get that Head and I believe that Doctor Branham did adjust the neck because he had to be - that's the last part - see? Sure it is. And he said; “The last moving part was the eye” …even got the eyes focusing. You see, we are in the end time age right now - the age of the Resurrection waiting for Christ, the head…. the physical one I am talking about now, to come down and pick his Bride up in life. Death is working amongst us brother/sister. Death is virulent - never was this bad - because it’s so cunning and so deceptive. See? But life is working in that Word because it's the Holy Ghost - the Word of promise has never changed. Today we're in the midst of the manifold proof, that this is the hour of the Resurrection. It is.

69. Now watch this also - in addition to what has already been said… According to the revelation of Jesus, given to John, Christ has been in the midst of the Bride for seven ages and in the last age, He's the beginning of the creation of God. Let’s go and look at it. Revelation 3:14. He said;

(14) …unto the (messenger) of the church (which is in Laodicea) write; These things saith the Amen,

Alright. Who's the Amen? Isaiah 65; ‘The God of Truth’ should be translated ‘the God of the Amen’ that brings in the Millennium. God has had the six days of man. Remember man messed up God’s seventh day so God had to let man run his six. God never did get his seventh day. He's going to get it now. Now the God of the Amen… because He looked at everything and said; “It's all good” and it's coming back to all good again. Why? Because there's nothing but ashes of the wicked. Satan is bound. Animals are back on the earth. Man is back on the earth. He’s digging in the ground: planting trees, working the way he should work - happy. See? No sin. Beautiful…

70. ‘THUS SAITH’ the God of the Amen, the God of Truth, the faithful and true witness. See? Yes sir, He’s been witnessing for Seven Church Ages. He’s faithful. He’s true. And at the end time, in spite of the fact that men didn't know so they couldn't believe, He was all the time lying in Scripture waiting to come back as Malachi 4:5-6, with the return ministry of Jesus Christ, vindicating Himself with signs and wonders and showing He’s right here for the Resurrection. And He did it. And what’s He call Himself? The beginning of the creation of God. God creating Himself in human form. It wasn't good enough to be in a Pillar of Fire. It wasn't good enough to be in the Cloud. It wasn't good to be in a stone. It wasn't good to be in the rock. It wasn't enough to just be in the Son, but the Son was the forerunner bringing many sons to glory. God creating Himself in human form to create us all in His own form in the Resurrection. At the end time revelation of Jesus Christ, the entire body my brother, my sister, is going to come out of the ground. So here He is, in the last age, as the ‘beginning of the creation of God’ which is God creating himself in the form of human flesh.

71. And remember the Son of Man is the Bride in every age. The Son of Man in human flesh is a Bride in every age. And remember, when the prophet did it, the Bride did it. I can’t have my hand do something and me not do it? What if I went uptown and I stole a beautiful… well I may as well make it good… what would I get? Oh, a diamond… what.. a necklace? That would be better than a wrist… - than a band …?...because they're bigger - diamond necklace. And the judge would say…you…and I’d say;

“Oh no, your Honor. Oh no, Lee Vayle didn’t steal it. The hand did it”.

[Congregation laughs] And he would say; “Come again?”

I’d say; “I thought you’d see it my way.”

He isn’t really seeing it my way though, see? I just delude myself.

I said; “The hand did it. I didn't do it.”

Well he’d say; “You better cut that hand off.”

Something is wrong somewhere… So if Bro Branham did it, the Bride did it. See? Proved it – see, proved that he was wheat. See? …showed what God could do. What for? To make us understand it's the time of the Resurrection. See? Not something way down the road, but the hour in which we live. See? Now if He is here, see, which He is, in the age of the Resurrection: of the adoption, and all of these things that Bro Branham told us, the march is on for the Bride and so on… If He is here as the proof of the Resurrection… and listen at this hour nothing is impossible to ‘him who will believe’. Now we better get geared for that. Because Bro Branham said he kept looking over Mark 11, looking over, looking over, and the Word said; “You say to this mountain…” and that's the faith of God. There's a manifestation of that Word and Bro Branham had it.

72. He said; “Oh I wish I had some squirrels to shoot. There are no squirrels”.

And the Voice said; “How many would you like?”

“Hey” he said; “I’d like three squirrels”.

You know how you can kind of talk to yourself? And God was in his, ‘talking to himself’. (Not like you and me would be - you know - like a little fantasy kind of thing you know..)

“How many would you like?”

And he didn't think… he thought, it was kind of himself, kind of talking back and forth.

And he said; “Three”.

And the Voice said; “Now where would you like them?”

And he said; “Now what did You say?”

Now you see, he's getting in a bind now.

“Well uh, I just thought it would be nice…”

“No,” He said; “You said it. Now where do you want them?”

Isn’t that something to think God would hold a man to a word? Well if that's got to be in our day, I don't believe that just happened in the prophet alone? According to what he taught in ‘Spoken Word is the Original Seed’, see, “Say to this mountain”. See?

72. Now this was proven at this hour, that all things are possible. Why? Because the Ultimate is in the midst. See remember, ‘the less is blessed of the better’. And what God had been aiming to, in all the ages, is the Resurrection - …and the Resurrection is amongst us. Now brother/sister, listen, if we can only get these minds of ours to subdue themselves, to what the Word of God says and the constant affirmation until we bring every thought into captivity… And it can be done because the Scripture says so; “The renewing of the mind by the Holy Ghost”, which is the Word, because that's how it's done. There's no other way about it. It has got to take this Word to do it and thank God we're growing up into It.

73. And it may take the squeeze, and I hope it does if that's necessary... It may take the squeeze to finally squeeze us to where there's only one thing left and that's the Word. It is going to be worth it. ‘It will be worth it all’, we sing, ‘when we see Jesus’. But it is going to be worth it all just to see that squeeze come right down and squeeze everything out that doesn't belong. If it takes it, praise God, I want it. See? No matter what it costs: money gone, everything gone, praise God, let it go. “Because if God be for us, who can be against us?” It is just one more proof that the Resurrection is in the midst of death. If there isn't any death, there isn't any Resurrection.

How in the world can you and I, (Just using this illustration here…) … how in the world can you and I have a resurrection from creeds and dogmas if we don't kill every thought that’s in our mind and bring it into captivity to Jesus Christ - and let it die, the same as he died so that God can raise it. How can a man have the revelation of Christ the Word until he dies in his mind so that God can raise him?

74. Huh, how could Abraham, until he died… He was dead, seminally speaking. His wife was dead, but he said; “I’ve got a Word, we will have that son”. Many people don’t understand why I preach this way. One of my best friends thinks I'm negative. But let me tell you something flat, I am not negative. I am positively telling the truth that Abraham and Sarah were in the worst shape in their entire lives physically, one minute before they were changed. But the inner man had been renewed by the revelation. See? Sure. God beat that man down. He said; “You’re Abram alright” said; “That means high father.” He said; “The best thing you could do, is have a son by that little maiden out of Egypt.” But He said; “I'm going to go one better.” “Now” He said; “You're the father of nations and you don't even recognize that boy. It's all over.” That's a squeeze brother/sister.

75. Do you know that Sarah never believed God as she was rebuked? She said; “Ohh… I… I… believe all about the promise, hallelujah, you know”. …had a little ole’ tent there carrying on, you know, making stew, mulligan stew and all that stuff like she supposed to do - taking care of Abraham. She was a sweet old girl - called him Lord, you know. …said nice things, you know. When the Lord said she'd have a son, she just chuckled inside. Huh, huh, huh, huh… twenty years too late or so.

He said; “What are you laughing about?”

“…I didn't laugh… ”.

Boy, she sure got believing faith in one minute when she got that rebuke. Huh?

76. What if that squeeze is our rebuke? I'm not saying it is. I'm just wondering. See? In the midst of death, is life. “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” That is not the death that you die going over Jordan my brother/sister. That is the experience of a man in the wilderness - when it looks ‘death’ to every ambition, every plan, every hope. “Yea though I walk through…. I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me…” The full power of the Holy Ghost - Revealed Word - like two staves, one in each hand, going down the road – comforting - being our guide.

77. So here we are in the midst of death, but Life, is in us. Oh, we can be called the deadest thing this side of creation. We can be excoriated because we want to put gifts in a little room under the proper motivation of the Holy Ghost, that our brothers might be helped, so that we as humble, sweet, people may do His will. They can laugh at us. Let me tell you; they may call us dead my brother, my sister, they called Abraham and Sarah dead too… a bunch of fools. But one morning they woke up, and they were eighteen years old. One morning there's going to be a sweep go over a Bride. One sweet day, the dead are going to come out of the ground and they’re going to knock at our door. We're going to have resurrection faith brother/sister or it's going to go into a tailspin - one or the other. Yes sir. I know the Bible there.

78. We are in ‘this day’ my brother, my sister. It has been proven that all things are possible. When the prophet said; “I challenge you. Bring me twenty-four of your worst cases,” they wouldn't do it in Vancouver. They turned it down. On the border of Texas, he said; “I challenge you. Bring me your worst case.” and they did and God healed the little girl. But of course God said; “You should never do that because that's what the people all want. From now on, they want you to do it. I want ‘them’ to believe.” See?

79. Kept singing that theme song - ‘Only believe’. Only believe what? He's here in our midst. He's risen from the dead. He's the same yesterday today and forever. He has appeared amongst the Gentiles; God in human flesh. That same Word now to bring us to the Resurrection. “Eat my flesh and drink my blood or you've got no life.” That Word my brother/sister, is more pertinent in this hour than it ever was… than it ever was. Because the Word, for the first time since Paul… and remember they couldn't have a Rapture then and a Resurrection because the Bride wasn't ready. But today, for the first time, because ‘all things are ready’ - remember Bro Branham preached on that – “All things are ready, let the fire fall”. …first time in ages, all things are ready. “Eat his flesh and drink his blood or you’ve got no life”, then if “eating his flesh and drinking his blood by this Word” is His Life, then my brother/sister where is our rejoicing? It should to the highest heavens; screamed from the highest rooftop. There ought to be such emotion through the ‘wine of stimulation’ of the Word of Almighty God, that brother we ought to excel ourselves and exceed ourselves, in what we have in our hands.

80. In other words, let us receive from God now what has been purchased for us by His death and guaranteed by His resurrection and proven to be true and amongst us. One of those is healing. One is rest and peace. One is confidence and assurance. One is victory and power. All those things, the seven virtues, lie within it. All the understanding we need to know, lies within it. There is nothing my brother, my sister, that hasn't come to the foreground since the opening of the Seventh Seal, which is Revelation 10:1-7. And the prophet said; “You have everything you need to put you in the Rapture”. Sure it's in seed form. But you know something, when I close my eyes or open my eyes and blank out the thoughts of people, I see a wheatfield. I don't see a wheatfield - little green grass out here as we see it. I see a wheat field ripe unto harvest - that the day is far spent, the night is at hand. But at evening time, there was light. And it was the same light that started the grain that ripens it. Same Word, the same everything, for He is “The same yesterday, today and forever.”

81. My brother, my sister, may God help us to be quickened by the Holy Ghost - what we stand for. Because this is one thing I know the prophet wanted above everything in this world. He said; “Brother Vayle, I must get alone. I want people to do what they must do, and leave me alone”. But he said; “My thoughts are of God. I've dedicated myself to this Message, till it’s nothing but thoughts of God.” See? How prosaic and humdrum that could be to some people. But brother/sister, listen there is no life that's real but God's Life. Then to have His life, what more could a man want. See here we are in the Resurrection but there's death on every hand.

82. The spirit that fell upon Elijah, then fell upon Elisha. One day, the house of the prophets, all those great students, those great men of God, went out in the field. They began gathering food. And suddenly somebody realized, ‘some inexperienced person that didn’t have the revelation’, threw poison in the pot.

And they said; “Oh man of God, the whole thing is messed up. It’s poisoned.”

And he said; “Hold it right there.”

Threw the Word in. No more poison. Listen brother/sister the sting of death is gone, when the revealed mechanics are taken over by the God given… I mean the revealed mechanics are taken over by the God-given dynamics. There's no more death: death is swallowed up in life, corruptibility into incorruptibility, mortality to immortality. See? And the dead will come out of that ground.

83. I wonder if they are just a little bit anxiously knocking at the door right now? Don't you think they must feel excitement up there in that dimension? I believe it with all my heart. I can't believe for one second that they don't feel some excitement; that they don't know something's about to happen. How could they not? We as prosaic, as common, as unctionless you might say, as anybody could be seemingly, we're excited. We know something's happening. Everybody knows there's something happening. Don't tell me that they don't know something’s happening. Well… let's all know together, so that ‘heaven and earth might together know’. Huh? Sure. Because they know that He's got to go to them. Then He'll send him down while He waits for them to come back. They're going to get their bodies. Oh my, my. I wonder if they just… sort of hopping up and… on one spot like a bunch of kids.

You say; “Why?”

Because that's what they were looking for. See? That's what it's all about. See? That's what all this sonship has been about all these years. Brother/sister it's ours today.

May the Lord bless you. Shall we rise.

Kind heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ we approach Thy throne again Lord - closing off this little service. But oh God in heaven what a tragedy it would be, if I as your servant, and I try to be, and believe somehow I could be just a teeny-weeny bit of a servant Lord, would preach the truth and then somehow Lord, I wouldn't apprehend it myself. But oh God, somehow I feel that You just wouldn't let your people somehow glimpse some of these things, knowing they’re hanging just there within our reach, and yet perhaps not just the moment, Lord, and then turn us aside… [End of tape]