Last Day Message

Last Day Message

Bro. Lee Vayle - May 5, 1967

...the Lord will help us to bring to our minds those things that we need to know, especially concerning these events of the end time, knowing full well that we are in that end time period. Now, let us bow our heads in a moment of prayer:

Our Father again we ask You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to inspire us by Thy Spirit, Lord, that You're on the mind, may be present, O God, the anointing of the Holy Ghost, the wine the stimulation of the Word as It is revealed to us.

We pray, Lord, the Spirit may be upon the speaker, and upon the hearer that we may all be truly one in need to hear of God to know it is 'Thus Saith the Lord'. We thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your great presence tonight. We know that surely, Thou art here in that, O God, to give us revelation whereby we shall be more than over-comers through Jesus Christ. So, Lord, we commit all things into Your hands now knowing You heard us. Knowing You heard us we know that we have the petition desired of You, and we thank You and praise You in Jesus' Name. Amen.

1. Now, I want to read a little bit tonight in the Book of Revelation given to St. John, beginning at chapter 1:9

(9) I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

(10) I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

(11) Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

(12) And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

(13) And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

(14) His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

(15) And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

(16) And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

(17) And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

(18) I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for ever- more, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

(19) Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

(20) The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

2. I read this portion of the Scripture here relative to the seven churches which are in Asia Minor, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, because there is a dispute which divides the Word into two camps concerning this ...?... There are those who say that these are simply seven churches in Asia Minor, and the significance is purely historical concerning them that they did exist, and John had something to give to them by the Spirit of God, and it have been fulfilled.

But, the others however they are the majority who believe that these are Seven Church Ages, who had in them at that time the seed which would be demonstrated in each successive Age, starting with the church in Ephesus, next in Smyrna and then in Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

3. Now, we concur with the latter group, for the simple reason here that Jesus told John that he was to write the things that he had seen. The things which were, the things that would be hereafter. And He definitely in speaking of the seven churches placed Himself in the midst in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, which He called the seven churches.

Now, Jesus Christ is in the midst of the church until the consummation of the Age, or the Gentile era, and these are Gentile churches. And for Jesus to set Himself in the midst of those churches signifies that He was not in the midst of seven churches at one time. But, He is in the midst of the church which is divided in Seven Church Ages, because that is how God must act. He could be in seven churches, signifies these seven churches, with seven different ministries. It would be one God, one church, because the body of Jesus Christ is not made up of the church over here, and a church over here, and church over there. But it's a great church mystical as it is called. The mystical body of Jesus Christ, which is a real living organism which Christ motivated, and by His Spirit.

4. And you'll notice that He is in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, which signifies the burning of the oil giving light. Now, the burning of the oil giving light in seven candlesticks, is the Light of God through all the time that God is manifested in the Bride, or in the real true Church. And there are seven messengers which are going to be during those Seven Ages.

And we also find no place in history where there were literally seven messengers to those seven churches in Asia Minor. There's not one verse in the Word of God concerning it. And there's not one verse in history concerning it. So, we are of the opinion from the Word of God, and of course the students, those who are men of God, who have studied the Word of God, (an anointing, the Spirit of God) believe that there are Seven Church Ages of which the First Age was the Ephesian Age, and the Last Age is the Laodicean Age.

5. Now, according to this, and as I mentioned the fact of Christ saying, "Fear not I am He that liveth, and I am alive forevermore, and have the keys of hell and of death." [Rev 1:18] And speaking concerning the fact that He is in the midst of those seven candlesticks, brought into the midst of the churches, from the first Age to the last Age. Having as message to each one, speaking of the things which shall be hereafter, in direct conjunction to the seven candlesticks churches, then we know that Jesus Christ has the Gentile church, divided into seven complete Church Ages.

Now, those Seven Church Ages had their original seed in the churches in Asia Minor. They were pictures, but now they each have a very particular Age. Now, the first Age was the Ephesian Age, which was the beginning, the very beginning. The last Age is the Laodicean Age, which is the very ending. So therefore, the Ephesian Age is the Age of the sowing, the beginning of the Gentile church ages. And the Laodicean Age is the culmination, or the harvest of what was sown, and begun in the first Age.

6. Now, everything that comes to fruition, or harvest has to have a beginning. It's just like in the Book of Genesis where everything is bound up in the seed of the woman. There's got to come a time when that seed of the woman must be brought full to full fruition when it runs its course and is run out. There's got to be the seed of the serpent, it's got to go through the Ages, it's got to run its course and be harvested.

Now, the Church Ages today are no different. What started back in Ephesus, (under Paul) has got to run its course, and then it's got to be harvested. And it's got to be harvested in the Laodicean Age. In other words, there's got to come a time, when, we don't know, (except for Scripture showing us) there's got to come a time when what was planted has got to be harvested. Because Jesus said concerning the world that the harvest, (there would be a harvest) and every plant the heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted and destroyed. But every plant that God had planted, will be securely cared for, and it would be gathered and taken into His garner, while the rest will be destroyed by burning.

7. Now, we know then as there are Seven Church Ages, there must come a Laodicean Age, which is the end Age. Now, we are convinced that we are in the Laodicean Age. There will be a great apostasy in it, because there must be a harvest of what came in the First Age, which was the beginning of apostasy, the deeds of the Nicolaitans. Then there must also be the restoration of the church. Because there's got to be a restoration of what there was.

In other words, there's got to be a harvest, and that harvest ...now listen... the harvest is nothing, but the original seed brought out in a more numerous form. You plant a grain of wheat, come harvest time goes through a certain cycle, that grain of wheat may have thirty, or sixty little fresh wheat in it. But, it all came out of the original seed, there's a harvest.

8. All right, you've got two spirits that came forth in the Ephesian Age. There was the Spirit of Christ, and the spirit of antichrist. Now, those represent like plants, or grain. Now, we planted the spirit, we planted the Word, we planted the original ... from God. Now, that's got to come back in this last day of harvest, there's got to be a complete harvest where it makes all of its turn and will come back in multiplied form. (See?)

Now, at the end of the age of the tares, there's got to be the same thing. It's planted, it's got to come to harvest, and it's got to come forth and multiplied form. And then this signifies the end of all things, because the wheat will be gathered in the garner, and then the tares and the chaff and all are going to be destroyed with fire. Now, we know it's the end time. There can be no doubt about it. The reason we know, it's the Laodicean Age, and at the end of the Gentile church, because Jesus said certain personal things that makes us to know this.

9. Now, we turn to chapter 21: in the Book of Luke. And Luke 21:20

(20) And when (you) shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

The desolation thereof is nigh…that is true. Now, that was prophesied in about 33AD, and the destruction in 70AD, thirty-seven years later.

(21) Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; let them which are in the midst of it depart out; (that's Jerusalem) let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. (That's go back into the city.)

(22) For these be the days of vengeance, (when) all things which are written may be fulfilled.

(23) But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

(24) And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Now, Jesus spoke concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the people from that land. Now remember, God cannot deal with Israel when she is not in the homeland. Because the promise to Abraham was: "The land I am giving you, and you will dwell therein." And every time they went to Egypt they got in trouble. (See?)

10. Now, God said here, (Peter speaking, God manifest in flesh,) He said, "No, that Jerusalem is going to be compassed with armies. And when you see Jerusalem being surrounded, flee out of the city. Those that are out, don't come in, you that are in don't take anything, but just get away quick as you can, because you're going to have enough trouble taking your small children with you." Babies particularly, because there's no way to take care of them properly.

Now, he said, "Then the city is going to be destroyed, the nation will be scattered, and they'll not come back until the times of the Gentiles has run its course." Now, God said that. Now, that’s to Israel at that time concerning destruction, and the emptying of the land of the people of Israel.

11. Now, verse 25. This takes up back to end of that time when they're back. Going back to Palestine. (See?) This took place in 70AD, that prophecy fulfilled, (found in versed 24) fulfilled thirty-seven years after Christ said it. Now, this is to be fulfilled two thousand years more? Two thousand get to three thousand? Let's find out:

(25) And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Now, that doesn't mean the waves of the ocean roaring, though that's possible. This refers to the actual people. The sea meaning multitudes of people in the waves showing the frustration and the constant ferment of the nation the people back and forth. No rest, but full of problems.

(26) Men's hearts failing them for fear, (that's heart disease, and many disease on the increase) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

(27) ...then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Now, this is the literal Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

(28) And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

12. What things is He speaking of that must come to pass? Well, He gives this parable:

(29) And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

Now, we know that the fig tree is the emblem of Israel. And God is speaking of the fact that Israel will not be back in her homeland until the end of the time of the Gentiles. Then He says, "There is going to be a time upon earth of cataclysm within the earth and within the heavens." And after they have passed, then the Son of man will come with clouds and with great power and glory. And He'll come back, (as Paul said) with taking everlasting destruction, in flaming vengeance upon the earth.

Now, look at this: It says that Israel, (Jerusalem) shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the lordship of the Gentiles does not exist any longer in the economy of God. I ask a question: "Is Israel back in the homeland? Is Jerusalem being inhabited by Israel? Now, don't worry about that split. My memory is too poor, I can take you to the old Testament and show you that split exists. ...?... Just because Jerusalem ...?... over the earth, so don't let that bother you. That's right in the Word should be split.

13. Israel is back in the homeland. So therefore, the time of the Gentiles, (which is a political period of time) which started with Nebuchadnezzar took away Israel captive, and cannot end until Israel is back in the homeland in her rightful place as a rightful nation which she never was until 1948. Ever since the time of Israel carried away by Nebuchadnezzar, she has never been autonomous recognized nation. But has always been under the dominion of a Gentile, but not now.

You say, "But hold it, Israel is protected by Gentiles." So, what? And they'll kill themselves taking care of her too. But they'll take care of her just like God said. Israel is in the homeland. Israel was put there by wrath of man. She was put there by Gentile money. She was put there by the Zionist, Khazar, Jew people. Who, the peculiar thing is about them is they don't care two cents about going back to Palestine themselves, but they'll raise billions of dollars if necessary to see that Palestine, is free to go back to them.

14. And you couldn't get these people over here in America, they pretty well finance Israel's resurrection under the dominion of God. They literally financed it and brought it to pass. Weizmann put the pressure on Britain, being a great German Jewish scientist, he was able to build up the allied munitions, which Germany couldn't do, though they had processes with nitrogen that we couldn't figure out. But Chaim Weizmann did it, and thereby got the Belfour Declaration, which started a chain of events which has put Israel back in the homeland.

Now, if Israel is back in the homeland, then the times of the Gentiles is over. Now, what age are we living in? It's your generation and mine, that put Israel back in the homeland, because they're there. America particularly, although Great Britain started it and they're there. So, that means this is the last Age. And if it's the last Age, then the Gentile Age, and everything to do with Gentiles is running out.

15. Now, along with this the times of the Gentiles, (which is a political period) there is a spiritual period. And this is called the fullness of the Gentiles, and it is the calling of the Gentile Bride according to Romans 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 my flesh, and might save some of them.

(15) For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, ...

Now notice it, "If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world," the Gentile world system, did God cast away Israel? He definitely did. Did God turn away Israel to the Gentiles? He definitely did. When did He do it? According to Acts 13:48. Paul said, "You don’t want it, God is turning to the Gentiles."

It wasn't until that time that God turned to the Gentiles. Peter opened the door, but God was still working with Israel, and it wasn't until the apostle Paul who himself was the apostle to the Gentiles, he would have to go to Israel first. And then the break would come to the apostle Paul, and God would absolutely turn from Israel rejecting her, and not dealing with her any longer.

And this is when Israel as a nation was destroyed. Jerusalem trodden down, because God cannot deal with Israel except in the homeland. And therefore, if He can't deal with Israel except the homeland, she cannot be in the homeland, she's got to be scattered, God scattered her. Hundreds of thousands were absolutely ruthlessly killed. God cast them away. The Bible said so.

16. Now, It says:

(15) ...if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the (Gentile people, which it is) what shall the receiving (of Israel,) but life from the dead?

What do you mean life from the dead? Just what it says, life from the dead is resurrection. So therefore, if God has received Israel back in Palestine then God is in the process of receiving Israel right now. And if He's receiving Israel He's turning from the Gentiles, because He cannot deal with both at the same time. If He put Israel back in the homeland, He’s off the Gentiles and to take Israel back. If that's the case life from the dead is there's got to be a resurrection, it's right around the corner, because that's what life from the dead is.

Now, here is Israel back in Palestine, and God says, "You feel you're back in Palestine, there's going to be a resurrection. Alright, they're back in Palestine. Now, you can't have a resurrection right now unless you have the Gentile Bride come into the resurrection. So, the Bible says, "When you see Israel back in the homeland, the times of the Gentile's over, Israel which was cast away is being dealt with, and the Resurrection is right around the corner." He mentions the fact that the branches that were torn out would no longer be torn out so that the wild olive branch of the Gentiles be grafted in.

17. Now, notice in [Romans 11:] 25 (you can read all the rest of It when you get home:)

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

Israel must remain blind, hardened. Israel cannot be dealt with until the fullness, or the word in the Greek is 'completion', until the Gentiles be completed. This is the Gentile Bride, the Gentile church, and when it's completed God doesn't deal with it anymore, because He doesn't have to deal with it anymore, (when it's completed) He now deals with the incomplete Israel.

So, we see two things here, we see the political period has run out. We see within the political period running concurrently is a spiritual period. This has run out. So, we know that we are at the end time. We are positively at the end of the day when God must deal in judgment that He must conclude, finish, wrap-up whatever He's doing with the Gentiles. He must also deal with Israel, He must come back and initiate the Millennium. Now, we know it's the end time, and we know we're at the end of the age, the Laodicean Age, because the Bible shows that.

18. Now, at this time of the consummation, (the harvest period) which we're entering into right now, this harvest period God has said that He's going to send Malachi's prophecy of Elijah the prophet. Now, we go back to Malachi 4:5-6

(5) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Now, It says He's going to send him before the day. Does He say He's going to send him the day before the dreadful day? Two days before? A week before? A month before? A year before? Five years before? Ten years before? Who knows? Don't let your mind trick you. It doesn't say. It said, "Before the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Now, the great and dreadful day of the Lord, is when they see Him coming, and they scream and say, "Who shall hide us from the wrath of the Lamb?" [Rev 6:16b]

This is not a love song, they're singing, this is like the squealing of an animal caught in a trap. Hysterically fighting, which he cannot evade and has no hope but extinction, the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Now, this Elijah is going to come sometime before that day.

(6) And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Now, God does something here which nobody will ever understand, but He does it all through the Bible. And that is this Bible has no punctuation, and He mixes it up at will in order to confuse the human mind exactly what He has to say about His First and Second Coming. Because in verse 6, He deliberately mixes the First and Second Coming.

19. Turn to the Book of Luke chapter 1:13, and notice this. The angel is talking to Zacharias.

(13) ...the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

(14) And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

(15) For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

(16) And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

In other words, he shall bring them a true spiritual concept of God and the worship of God. And notice,

(17) ...he shall go before (the Lord God of Israel) in the spirit and power of (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; ...

That's the wisdom of Jesus. Disobedient? How do you know it's disobedient? How do you know they disobeyed God or not? Only one check, the Word of God. See, he's going to turn them back to the Word, is that right? What's the wisdom of the just? The Word of God.

(17) ...to make ready... (to make ready, this will all happen starting with John, to make ready) a people prepared for the Lord.

20. Now, you'll notice here that one half of Malachi 4:6 was fulfilled when John the Baptist came as the Elijah preceding the First Coming of Christ. That's what It says. "And he, John the Baptist, in whom the spirit of Elijah, he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children." That's what the angel said here. "To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children."

But, he leaves out the second portion. So, the second portion does not belong to John the Baptist in whom is the ministry of Elijah by reason of the spirit, but it belongs to the Elijah coming, before the Second Coming of Christ.

Now, this is not at all mysterious. Now, right here is where many people turn their dear little nose. Now, pardon me, I don't mean to get sarcastic, but I've got a great gift of being sarcastic, and I don't think it's especially spiritual, but sometimes it really works. And I don't pretend I want to work it tonight. So, I want to be as sweet as I can, to talk like a sweet fellow, and I'll try to be sweet like him. Now, that’s good too, I'm not being critical about it, he's a good-hearted fellow, he puts up with me. That's nice, I like people that put up with me.

21. Notice in Luke 4:18, when Jesus read from the Book of Isaiah:

(18) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken- hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

(19) To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Then He stopped! Because the very part of the breath of God speaking concerning the acceptable year of the Lord, goes on to say, "And the day of the vengeance of our God." [Isa 61:2] The Spirit of God in Isaiah did the very same thing, the Spirit of God did in Malachi, because he mixes the First and Second Coming in one breath. But, notice that Jesus Christ separated them. That proves you've got to have revelation, know that Word brother/sister.

That's the one thing I can't understand about people. They'll stick to what they think is going to kill them, and that's going to kill them too. They're not interested in finding out if there is such a thing as a spirit in the land that can take Scripture that's absolutely un-punctuated and punctuate It, and divide It as right.

22. Now, no man living, (except Jesus, except those full of the Holy Ghost) who have revelation could take and divide the First and Second Coming. And no one except a very astute student whose understanding would surely and only by the Spirit of God would think of comparing Malachi 4:6 with Luke 1:17, because automatically the mind says, "He's talking about the Second Coming, so this has everything to do with Elijah, before the Second Coming and not a part of it with the First, but they're wrong.

Because the Elijah spirit in John turned the people back to the Word of God. (See?) It got their eyes off what that Jews had taught. Which was tradition, which was corrupted word. Got them to see that they could be a hundred percent wrong and looking for a national spirit. But, the Elect were looking for a Person. Zachariah was, Simeon was, Anna was, and there could maybe been fifty to a hundred more, not recorded. Now hardly that, but there could have been, looking for the man to come who was the fulfillment of the promise of God. Not a national spirit, not a national concept, but a personal relationship to God, through that Man, Christ Jesus.

23. Now, John we said, turned the hearts of the fathers to the children. What children? The children of God. Who are the children of God? They're a prepared people.

Romans 9:23 says,

(23) ...that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, (people) which he had afore prepared unto glory,

The Gentile church by election was already prepared by God before it even came upon the scene. It was John who turned the hearts of the fathers into the channel to receive the Word. When they received the Word, then the Word was revealed which was Jesus Christ, the full manifestation, and the full plan of God's salvation came into full being, just the way God had ordained it.

These apostles are the fathers of the church. The church is built upon the foundation, the apostles, prophets. And also, Peter said in the last Age there’d be scoffers who said, "Where is the promise of His Coming? For since the fathers have fallen asleep, all things continue…" [2 Pet 3:4] What fathers? The fathers of the church. Then who are the fathers? They're your apostles. They are those who fathered the church as Paul said, "You are my children, I've begotten you in the Gospel." [1 Cor 4:15b] (See?) Showing that he had brought them the truth.

24. These people have been brought the original truth which Israel had positively denied and forgotten this Malachi for hundred years. They were bound up a hundred percent wrong. John came on the scene and the anointing of the Holy Ghost, and he said, "Messiah is coming and it's a man, He's the Lamb of God." He's indicated himself, he's authenticated himself. He said, "A Voice in the wilderness told me." And He said, "He's among you right now, you can't tell, He’ll look just like you." But the Voice said, "Upon whom you see the Spirit of God coming, (in a baptismal service) that's the Christ."

"Therefore, I come baptizing and everybody who walks in this water." And only certain number will walk in that water, because he told of them not to come. He said, "You, generation of vipers, what are you doing around here? I want to baptize you." You know, snakes are pretty slippery thing, to handle in the water. Just try it someday. Not that I'm going to try, even fishes are bad enough, let alone a snake. But I'm scared of snakes.

25. John said, "You vipers you, you, generation of vipers, what are you here for?" He said, "I don't see a thing in you." He said, "No, He should be baptizing you." But he watched them has as they came, and he saw that One upon whom..."Certainly, that's the One." And he said, "Why do you come to me now? I need to come to you."

But notice, the Word comes to the prophet. And John the Baptist was a prophet. He was the great prophet. The Word God, came to him and was fulfilled. And there he was authenticated by the Spirit of God coming, because the Word and the Spirit are one. But you know, honestly, if we had taught right over the years, every service would have the baptismal pool open. And as soon as they are baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost ought to descend upon them. Your picture is right in Jesus, and your picture is right in the Book of Acts. You can't get away from it. But anyway, John was this forerunner. Now, the hearts of the fathers were turned to the children. It had to happen, because that's why John the Baptist came on the scene. And Jesus called him the Elijah for his day.

26. In the Book of Matthew 17: when Jesus showed them through the transfiguration the literal glory, and the coming of the kingdom, they said, "Well, how can this be, Elijah has got to come first?"

"Why (he said) Elijah has already did come, but you did what you wanted with him, you'll do the same thing with me. You killed him, you didn't raise the hand when Herod killed him. You'll not raise the hand over anybody killing him, they'll kill Me too." (See?) Then they understood, He spoke of John the Baptist. John the Baptist fulfilled the first part of the commission.

Now, the second part of the commission the turning of the children back to the fathers. Remember, and this will be of the people prepared for the Lord, this group children. They'll be turned back (see?) to truth. Even as John turned from error to truth in the last day.

27. So, there must come a prophet according to Malachi 4:6. Now, people say, "Just a minute, that's for the Jews." It's not for the Jews, not for the Jews at all. Because you can't turn the Jew's heart back to their father, and make sense. Because to turn the hearts of the Jews back to the fathers is to go back to the law. And you can't go back to the law. It won't work. (See?)

So, the Elijah ministry of turning the hearts of the children to the fathers before the great and notable day of the Lord, is to the Gentiles. Because even all that Moses and Elijah can do under the Fifth and Sixth Seal, is to seal a 144,000 and they don't even know it's Jesus Christ. Because they don't know who it is, until they see His hands and His feet, and then they get scared. And they're afraid that this one that the crucified is going to destroy them, come to take vengeance. And He says, "Don't be afraid." He said, "Those wounds are in the house of my friends. I blinded you in order to bring in the Gentiles. The crossed hands, brought in the younger son of the Gentile woman, who had the children by Joseph, under the prophecy of Jacob.

28. So, the fathers are the fathers of the church of which we are now one body both Jew and Gentile, though very few Jews hear the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, not only is this true that Malachi the prophet, mentions that Elijah the prophet would be sent to the Gentile people in the Laodicean Age to turn the hearts back to the fathers, to make them one. (See?) Say why? Because there's got to be the multiplied wheat come forth, right back, twelve people started, (a few back there) up through the Ages, come up the top, now they've got to come back to restoration. You got always go back. You see, what started, those seeds, must bring out exactly what was in that seed. So now, the wheat’s got to come back.

Now, in Revelation 10: which is the chapter of interpolation, the Spirit of God tells John that there is going to be a prophet to the end time church."

(1) And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

(2) And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

(3) And (this mighty angel cried) with a loud voice, (and) when...he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

(4) And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

(5) And the angel (that's that mighty angel) which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

(6) And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, (that's God) who created (the) heaven(s), and... the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

(7) But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

29. Now, you'll notice in here according to verse 7, this time, whatever this time is, (we’ve got to find out) whatever this time is all the mysteries of God would be finished. Now, the Gentile Bride is one of the mysteries. The Book of Redemption must be closed. (See?) That means that this is the end of the times of the Gentiles, because the fullness of the Gentiles must run out.

It will run out about the same time that the times of the Gentiles run out. But the times of the Gentiles has run out, because Israel is no longer under Gentile dominion. It's under Gentile sustenance and care, but not under dominion. She does what she wants to do. She's a sovereign people, she's got her own government, passed her own laws. You try to go into her land and see what happens to you. She'll do what she wants and the nations of the earth will back her up, because she's got a seat in the UN. She sells her bonds, puts her armies out. Publishes her own literature, has her own systems. She's a government.

30. The Bible says that the mysteries of God as declared to His prophets, are all over what Daniel saw and couldn't understand has to be revealed, and it's got to be revealed, because the prophets of God prophesized concerning up to the Millennium of which scant knowledge is available. But, Paul said, "That the end of the Ages has come upon us." So therefore, all governments concerning the Ages will wind up at this time, and then God will start over, whatever He wants to do.

Well, you can depend upon it, it's a system, and the present methods are all going to be gone. All the mysteries declared to His servants the prophets are going to be wound up at this time. So, that means everything pertaining to Israel, winds up. What pertains to the Gentiles, winds up. That can't happen until God turns back to Israel to fill what He started years ago. It can't happen until He cuts off what He's doing to the Gentiles. Israel is back in her homeland, so therefore this is the end time. At this time, there's got to be a prophet.

31. Now, what is this prophet? What is this angel coming in this end time? He according to Scripture is the seventh angel. Where do you find a seventh angel mentioned? In the Book of Revelation 2:1,8

(1) Unto the (messenger) of the (first) church of Ephesus write; ...

(8) ...unto the angel of the (second) church in Smyrna write; ...

Unto the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, now this messenger many people thought it was a trumpeting messenger, with the trumpet, that's not so. Because there are not two accompanying seven messengers, angels from heaven. Because [Revelation] chapter 9:13 says,

(13) ...the sixth angel sounded, (a trumpet) ...

And this word, 'sounded' means to blow a blast, make a noise. And when he blew a blast, something occurred in heaven instantaneously, put something in motion. [makes a clap sound] That was it.

32. Now, turn to the next chapter, [Revelation] 11:15

(15) And the seventh angel sounded; (make a noise on a trumpet) and there were great voices in heaven, ...

It was a blast. It was instantaneous, it was for a moment. [claps hand] It was all over, something started in heaven. [claps again] But brother/sister, this seventh verse is not so. In the first place the translators made a very bad error. I'm not critical, I'm just telling you, they did it. I'd have done worse, because I don't even know the Greek. But you look it up.

Now, notice the wording, the part that is right. "But, in the days of the Voice." These angels don’t have a voice, they've got a trumpet. They aren't talking, they aren't speaking, they're not voicing, they're simply blowing. "In the days of the voice..." Notice, it's a period of time. These angels blow a blast, a loud noise. (See?) "In a moment..." But this is days, (d-a-y-s) how long are days? I don’t know. Ten days, twenty days, three hundred and sixty-five days? Three thousand and fifty days? I don't know, it could be. However long this man has his voice in a period of time, indeterminate, nobody knows.

33. But, It says, "When he shall begin to sound." But he's not sounding, the word is ‘declare’, in the days of the Voice, when this man is heard amongst those days. He will begin to declare, not all of these days, just part of these days, he's going to declare. And when he does, the mysteries of God will be finished. Such mysteries have been declared to His servants the prophets.

Therefore, we know instantly that this man is a prophet, as well as messenger. Because nobody can know the mysteries of God, except the prophet. Now, that's his mantle. I know people think they can, but they're wrong. You know why they're wrong? Because you can't find one place in the Bible where anybody ever knows the mysteries, received from God, except being a prophet.

And this man will be the great prophet with the Capstone ministry of all the prophets. Got to be, because he finishes it off. He's not the Capstone, Christ is the Capstone, but he has the Capstone ministry of the prophet. Now, there is only one seventh messenger with a Voice, and that's the Laodicean messenger. And Laodicea cannot come until the Jews are back in Palestine. (See?) When they are back the times of the Gentile run out; the church Bride Gentile is finished; and you're going to start to look now for God to deal with Israel. That means the Bride's got to get out of the way.

34. Now notice, when does this take place? Start with [Revelation 10:] 1

(1) And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, (that word is messenger, or angel) clothed with a cloud: ...

Now, what messenger do you know that clothed with a cloud comes out of Heaven? The Messenger of the covenant, Jesus Christ, is the only One. Other angels do have clouds, I'm sorry. This One has clouds, behold He comes with a cloud. "In like manner you've seen His go, He shall also come." [Act 1:11b]

(1) ...and a rainbow was upon his head, ...

Who has a rainbow? There's only one who has a rainbow, He Who sits upon the Throne. Who sits upon a Throne? The Lamb, God.

(1) ... his face was as it were the sun, ...

Whose face is as it were the sun? Revelation 1: tells you, Jesus Christ.

(1) ...and his feet as pillars of fire:

Whose feet were found in a furnace, like brass? Jesus Christ.

(2) ... he had in his hand a little book open: ...

Who took the little book? Jesus Christ.

(2) ...and he set his foot upon the sea, and (upon) on the earth,

Who was that? Jesus Christ. Stephen said, "Earth is my footstool, heaven is my throne." [Acts 7:49a]

(3) And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: ...

Who has a lion's voice? Jesus Christ. Who is the Lion the tribe of Judah? Jesus Christ. Who uttered the thunders? Jesus Christ.

(4) And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

(5) And the (messenger) which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

(6) And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, ...

Who's He that liveth forever and forever? God.

(6) ...who created heaven, (and) earth, ... (God. Who created) the sea, and the things... (God.)

35. I want to ask you a question: Who only can swear by God? God. Man cannot swear by God, angels cannot swear by God, only God swears by God. Find It in your Bibles. God swore by Him-self. (See?) And He swore by His Word, which are one thing, sat by two invincible things, in which it was impossible for God to lie. His Word, He couldn't lie, He wasn't a liar. It has to come to pass what God had declared to His servants the prophets, would now be revealed in the last days, have now come to pass.

Now notice it, this God (see?) Who is literally descending from Heaven is speaking, and His speaking is, “I am not going to delay any longer.” Time will no longer be delayed. In other words, what has now started cannot stop, it's the mountain that have the great stone carved out of it. Once it started to come down, it had to keep coming until every nation was broken to dust and scattered. God Himself descending from Heaven. Himself declaring, "Time shall be no longer."

36. Now notice, what is on the earth? His feet, right? Is that, right? Is put on the sea, is put on the earth, is that right? What about His feet, look at your Bibles, Pillars of Fire. What are His feet in the earth? Pillar of Fire, is that right? Well, is that right? We weren't looking for Pillars of Fire, were we though? But, It's here, we weren't looking for It. Looking for the man to come with nail-prints, is that right? I've got news for you, we're wrong. We should look for a Pillar of Fire. Why His feet? Because that's where His feet must come.

And furthermore, all the Gentile age my brother/sister, has head of gold, chest of silver, belly of brass, (see?) thighs as legs of iron, feet of iron and clay. Right? Five world periods, and the feet is the last and final age that the stone carved, (without hands) comes down and destroys. Is that, right? So therefore, the feet age is on, and the feet of Christ, (Pillars of Fire) has to come upon the earth.

37. In other words, he is telling us in plain English, that the Spirit of God in the Pillar of Fire, will come down upon the earth. And when He does He will roar seven mighty thunders, which will start that which must be completed and cannot cease until it's all over. And He swore by Himself that this process cannot end until all be fulfilled.

And at that very time there will be a prophet on earth, and he will be preaching and he will be given the Seven Thunders. Because if these Seven Thunders are part of the mystery, and all of the mysteries will be opened in this man's day, he must have necessity declare exactly what those mysteries are. The Seven Seals will be opened.

38. Now notice: [Revelation 10:7]

(7) ...in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he shall begin to (declare), the mystery of God should be finished, as (God) hath declared...

What's God done? He's declared. What's the prophet doing? He's declaring. What's he declaring? He's declaring what God declared. Right?

So therefore, there will be a prophet with whom there is a Pillar of Fire, which is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ manifested in a final manifestation, and he will be revealing through His prophet, the mysteries of God.

39. Is this scriptural? Let's find out if it's so. Turn to 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

(13) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that (you) sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

(14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (Why? Because Jesus is God.)

(15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not (go before) them which are asleep.

(16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

(18) Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Now, remember the Rapture takes place before Christ comes back upon earth.

40. Now, when Bro. Branham was in Tucson, and you heard the tape and seen the Word, you will notice that Bro. Branham said, "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a Shout." He said, "The Shout is the Message." He also said, "The voice of the archangel was the bringing forth of the dead in Christ out of the grave, and the trump of God was the Marriage Supper of the Lamb."

When I first heard this, I was appalled. I was absolutely appalled to think that anybody would dare to say that the Shout was the Message. When he said it the second time, I still was appalled, and not able to receive It. When he said it about the third time I said, "Hold it, the man has never been wrong yet, so I'll believe that he's right this time too." I accepted what he said on the grounds of Bro. Branham being a prophet with 'Thus Saith the Lord' by vindication, as all the students in the world has not have vindication.

After his death, I began studying. And I went into my Greek studies, (which I have word studies at home) I found that Bro. Branham without knowing one word of the Greek was a hundred percent correct. Because the Word doesn't mean ‘It's a shout’, is not a loud noise. The Lord descending from Heaven with a loud noise is not it. It is not a noise, It is a Word, a declaration, a Message, exactly what was said.

41. Let me show you this: according to Dr. Vincent, perhaps the greatest Greek student that lived, he said, "The word 'shout' in the Greek is ‘kelusma’, is only found in this Book of 1 Thessalonians in only one place, 4:16. It is derived from that word meaning, 'to put in motion by a word of command'. It is the cry of encouragement, urging them on. It's the caller of someone to assemble. It was used in some cases as when the coxswain calls time to the rowers to put them in motion so that they can go ahead, and progress is not impeded. It is never used when you wish to make the term as a loud noise as when Herod gave a speech and Israel shouted, the people shouted. It is not used to gain attention.

We searched out the Greek encyclopedia last December. And in there was found the literal meaning of a declaration message. So, the prophet was right. The Lord Himself descending from Heaven declaring the Spirit of God, in a Pillar of Fire, coming down and declaring to a prophet, and he would declare to the people. And when that happens don't do anything else but realize the Rapture is around the corner. Because the first phase of the literal coming together of the body of Christ, and their presentation to Christ at the Wedding Supper has already started.

42. Now, let's go a little further here's what Dr. Vine says. "The Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout." Dr. Vine says, "According to the Greek rules of grammar, the Shout here is not said to be the actual voice of the Lord." Whose voice, is it? The prophet’s. So, what's the prophet saying? He's saying exactly what God said. Now, was there a Pillar of Fire?

In June 17, 1933, when a young preacher who had a most peculiar life from birth, who had a pillar of white cloud hang over him for forty-eight hours attending him at his birth for those two days. That same One who foretold many, many visions. It was so accurate, it's perfect. And when God spoke to him It was infallible. That same One was seen baptizing in the Ohio River at the foot of Spring Street, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, around 2:30, 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and a Pillar of Fire was seen swishing and whirling out of Heaven and seen by literally three to five thousand people. And a Voice was heard, so they didn’t understand the Voice, just like in the day of Paul. The heard the sound, but they didn't hear the Words. And the Voice said, as a prophet has a voice said to Paul, (spoke audibly.) And the Voice said to Paul, "Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" [Acts 9:4b]

The Voice said to the man William Branham baptizing there in 1933, "As John the Baptist was the forerunner of the First Coming of the Christ, your 'Message', what you declare will be the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ."

43. Now, where are we at? Revelation 10: is being fulfilled perfectly, and with exact accordance as it was in the Book of 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Because the Lord Himself did come down in a Pillar of Fire. And that Coming started a chain reaction which cannot be stopped, and will not be, till Jesus Christ Himself Appears on this earth to the Jews, and ushers in the Millennium, when the Bride and the Groom have a honeymoon for a thousand years.

It is God Himself by His Spirit that has done it. It is not literally Jesus Christ Himself coming manifesting physically, because that is not taking place. Remember, God is Spirit, and He is moving this particular and wonderful way.

44. Now, the Bible says at the end time there is going to be a precedent, peculiar manifestation, in the earth. And that's in Luke 17: so, we go to It, beginning in verse 20.

(20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: (See?)

(21) Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (It’s amongst you.)

In other words, it's a spiritual discerned thing. God is within, it's amongst you. In other word, it's a spiritual discerned thing. Now, here was Jesus Christ Himself standing there and they didn’t know who He was. But the spiritually discerning did know who He was. The Kingdom of God could be coming down on earth right now. And the majority of people will not even be aware until it's too late. And it's already too late for the majority. If they turned down the Message.

If you turn down the First turn of the Second of Christ, will you not turn down the rest? Brother/sister, you can't turn down the First step and make the rest, now let's be sensible. Oh, I know they think they can, but just remember, "In vain do you worship Me,"[Mark 7:7a] having your own ideas. not mine.

45. Now, let's watch it:

(22) And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when (you) shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, (but you won't) see it.

(23) And they (shall say to you), See here; see there: go not after them,

nor follow them.

(24) For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, (shines) unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

(25) But first must he (must die) and suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

(26) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

(27) They (ate), they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

(28) Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

(29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

(30) Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

(31) In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down... (and so on.)

Now, I want you to notice something here, Jesus said, "The children shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man and will not see it." [verse22] And in verse 26, He says:

(26) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Now, human mind wants to read It this way:

"Oh, let's see, there is going to be some great days like Noah's day. What were they doing? Oh yes, they were marrying and given in marriage. They were living it up, nobody paid any attention to Noah, nobody listened to the prophet. Nobody wanted the Word of God, everyone was certainly in a bad shape spiritually. Whatever they were doing we don't know exactly, but they were doing terrible things they wouldn't listen to Noah. And my, those days are going to come back on earth. And when those days come back, one day in the midst of the whole thing, boom! out of heaven they come."

46. That's exactly what It doesn't say. The emphasis is not on the days of Noah. That was put there to fool them, and it fooled us until the prophet came. In fact, I was fooled after that the prophet went. So, I had to go back, because of Bro. Branham's complete emphasis on this chapter. And I went over and over It, and suddenly it struck me!

He was right! The days of Christ must repeat upon this earth. Because It says,

(26) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

The emphasis is: the days of the Son of man is coming back to earth. Doesn't say the Son of man is. Doesn't say Christ is going to come on down here and walk amongst us again. It says, "His days, will be upon earth." And when His days were upon earth, the days like Lot’s and Noah's days will be upon earth. Now, what's the days of the Son of man? The ministry of a great prophet, with a great ministry will be back upon earth.

47. Now, I want to just help you right now, and I wish to God I can get the people to believe that they are in this Message here. And it's going to save them a lot of heartaches.

Jesus said,

(22) ...The days will come when (you'll) desire to see one of the days of the Son of man and shall not see it.

(23) And they shall say to you, See here; see there: go not after them, ...

I want to tell you something right now: this never happened to the apostles. Because when Jesus Christ was crucified, they did not only look for one of His days, they we're looking for Jesus Christ, they ran off and did their own fishing. And Christ had to go and look them up. And when He looked them up the Holy Ghost fell, they never, ever started looking for Him. People can say want they want, but Paul was looking for Christ.

That's as lie, because Paul said, "He [Jesus] can't come until the man of sin be revealed." The people can read the Bible that's so stupid, it's sickening. It's referring to your day and mine. We're going to see the days of the Son of man. Then they're going to stop, and we are going to want to see one of those days, just one! God, that one of those days come back. Let me see one of those days. The Bible says, "It's not going to come. But there are going to be people that say, Lo, He's over here in a tent. He’s going to be a great minister here on a white horse, and so on."

" They're going to be out in the desert, they better all come to this city. You all better go there."

48. He said, "Don't you do it." Because the next step is going to be Himself literally coming back on the earth, as per manifestation. We had the prophet, we had the Message, that's It! Stop looking. Get to the Message. Get with the Message, that's what counts. But the people aren't interested in that. Not even the multitude who believe Bro. Branham, so called, believe in him.

They're out looking for this, new leaders, new groups, learning. Forget it! He said it wouldn't be that way. Now He said, "Even thus, what does it mean ‘thus it shall be in the days of the Son of man is revealed?’" When the day that the Son of man ministry revealed the prophet, but particularly, the Message, because that's what is going to come by the first step. He said, "This is what it is going to be like, the Sodomite condition, and the Noahic condition." But there was a prophet who preceded Noah, and He spoke of the first prophet Enoch. Noah himself was a prophet, and this age will have a prophet to the Gentiles in a Sodomite condition upon the land. That's the time of the Message.

49. Now Matthew 24: gives us a warning. It says here:

(23) Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

(24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, hey shall deceive the very elect.

Now, It says, "In the day when people are running here and there, trying to recover the days of Jesus Christ." Which came upon earth, a ministry, not the man, the ministry now in a prophet, because this the Son of man speaks of the prophetic ministry. He said, "There's going to be people rise up who will show great signs and wonders." And there was never a time on earth when there was so many people with literal gifts around the world. We've got them right now.

You look up in your history, and there never was a time in history when everybody was running around claiming to be the real thing, because they had a real gift. Now you see, the human mind does not want to read the Bible as It's written. They look at It and say, "False Christ, yes, false one." Well, they've got lying signs and wonders, hallelujah. They don't have lying signs and wonders. They had real signs and wonders, but the men themselves are phony.

50. It says, "The anointed one is false." It says, "His teaching is false." But It says, "His signs are genuine." Now, what is it? It's the Spirit of God on two kinds of people. The prophet and the Elect are the real genuine Seed. They're the plant of God, the wheat. But the others are the tares. But, listen to this to clear your minds. What difference is there between the wheat and the tares? Nothing, absolutely nothing but the seed. They go in the same soil, same fertility, same rain, same sun, same cycle, same planting, same harvest, same everything but the difference of seed.

God says He makes His Son come upon the just and unjust. He’s talking about the seed. He makes His rain fall on the just. Now, who needs the rain falling on your skin. You don’t drink with your chin. I think you sure can feel the pressure with a lot of water falling on, but you don't drink with your skin, you drink with your mouth, down your throat.

He's not talking about men going out and getting rain drink. He's talking about the seed. The rain, the spirit and the power of God falls equally on the just and the unjust, but, what they bring forth in fruit depends upon what's in the seed. The wheat Seed will bring forth the fruit of God. And the tares will bring forth not the fruit of God, the Word of God, but they're going to bring forth just the power ministry. That is exactly all that Israel wanted, they wanted the power ministry. And when Moses had it, they had the first woman preacher. That's right, she rose up against Aaron. Now, if she had been caught out there in adultery it wouldn't be half as bad on her. No, it wouldn't have been. (Uh, uh) But, when she turned on Moses, God said it's best her father spit in her face and disowned her. Threw her outside, let the dogs get her. The women want to get in the pulpit.

51. It wasn't only that, but, Korah, Dathan and Abiram turned on Moses. See what happened when God produced the original, the phonies came up. Women preachers and phony false prophets. And what Korah, and Dathan, and what Miriam both had was genuine as far as the spirit were concerned. Just exactly like Balaam, and like Caiaphas, and like Judas. What they produced was real in manifestation. But, that's all Israel ever wanted, Israel never wanted the Word of God, never wanted God's way, only Moses wanted that and Caleb and Joshua. The rest wanted the miracles without the Word.

And we've got the same thing right today in the world. Men attempt to vindicate themselves by the fact they’ve got the power of God instead of the Word of God. And that's what Pentecost brought, that's why they're the chaff. And if you can't see that, you want to fight the Pentecost, you haven't got the Spirit of God, or you better watch out you think you have. Because that's where it came from. Power, power, power, power, power, healing this, that and the other thing. Christian Science can produce more healing than a lot of Pentecostal churches, so, can you.

52. That is not your test. Your test is: are you in the Word? John had to come to turn the hearts of the father's, the disobedient to the just. What's disobedience? How do you know if you disobey God? There's only one way, and that's by His Word. People don't believe that, be we're good to say, "Yeah, that's sure."

Then how do you know it's obedience? Doing the works. God said to the woman, "don't invade the pulpit," they do it. They say, "Well, God told me, His Spirit is upon me." Is that so? You must have a different Holy Ghost than wrote this Book. (See?)

Turning them to the wisdom of the just. What's the wisdom of God? This is the wisdom of God. [Bro. Vayle uses the Bible] (See?) Now, we got to have the man to turn it back. He came upon the scene with the ministry of Jesus Christ. Because the Bible says, "The days of that Prophet, God, would come to earth. And the Prophet God has attracted the people by such signs and wonders that blasted them, and they came running and screaming for this great man. Oh, they loved the loaves and fishes. They were sure the kingdom come. Oh, they loved Bro. Branham too.

53. You know something? The Word of God said, Jesus healed them all. I've only seen one person and I only know of one record in history where they were all healed. It doesn't say the shadow of Peter healed them all to my knowledge, they we healed. I don't know any time that Peter healed them all. I don't know that Paul healed them all. But, I know that William Branham, I saw him, two thousand through a prayer line and there wasn't one that wasn't healed.

And the only man that could make a challenge like Jesus Christ, bring me your worst case, or twenty-four worst cases and I guarantee. The man that was given by the Angel of God a commission to take a gift of healing to startle the world, to waken them, and to give them a sign in the hand. And a sign of the Word reading their hearts which was exactly what Jesus had. And that's exactly what saw in Israel, up today, we have our own ideas. Say, "Well, I don't think that's the right sign. Well now, if I were doing this thing I would certainly have another sign." Oh, would you? You better kick God off His Throne and take a big club and beat the daylights out of Him. Because when He came down here He produced the sign that read their hearts, and He said, "That's the Christ."

54. Another thing when Jesus Christ was upon earth they didn't even need a sign, the others just recognized Him, Simeon and Anna said, "That's the Christ." What sign do you want tonight? I saw the sign that Jesus had, He was Messiah. He raised the dead, so did William Branham. Jesus had visions, so did William Branham. The Spirit of God told Him what to say. So, the Spirit of God told William Branham. Was it William Branham that I'm comparing? No! It's the ministry I'm telling about. Because the ministry had to come back to earth. Now, does anybody know about it? Sure, one man did, old Bro. Bosworth. He doesn't even know this person in the Bible as far as I know. I don't believe it, or he would have showed me.

But he said, "I prayed forty years for the ministry of Christ to come back to earth." Now, why did he pray for forty years for the ministry? When I heard him I thought, …p, p, p, p, p... hold it, hold it, hold it. "What are you doing that for? You got to be sick, man. There's nothing in the Bible that says that where would be ministry of Christ come back without Christ Himself.”

55. But, it was in the Bible, and it's in Bible about a prophet, but the people don't want it. The chaff doesn't want it. What's the last stage before the wheat? What is it? Chaff, right? So, what happens to it? Gets burned, right? What's the last move of God here in America and the world? Pentecostal?

Now, look it, I didn't write the Book. I'm not condemning them. No, I may sound like I am, but I'm not, I'm not their judge. They're already judged. Has there got to be a chaff brother/sister? How close is the chaff to the wheat? "Oh, (you say) the chaff is good to eat. It nourished the wheat, protect the wheat." The brought it forth. In fact, if it weren't for the chaff, there'd be no wheat.

Now, what is God going to do with it? Far be it for you know to burn that sweet little old chaff. You could put it in the grain Lord, and keep it till the cows come. You can't bring ...?... Lord. Oh, we're going to change the Word of God now. Now, here's my sarcasm going on. And I need to be cunning.

54. Now, let's just talk to God and tell Him what a fool He is. Well, that's pretty hard. I can't even see Him and can't get up there, and He won't come down. Well it’s not worth the dying, not when you believe the Word. Can’t ...?... with God, because he said He can do it. Got to come in the last Age.

And remember, it's got to be a spiritual group that gives the power to the antichrist, and it's not Russia. It's a Spiritual people, a religious people. Who crucified Christ? Religious people. What religious people? The religious people of their day, the ones that God was working with. Who has God been working with? You know who He was working with, the last is the restoration of gifts.

You say, "Bro. Vayle, the restoration of gifts." How can you have restoration of gifts, before you have the genuine Holy Ghost? I could type it for you. Did people have gifts before Pentecost? (See?) Come on? He gave them power to heal the sick, and cast out devils. Did He? They had gifts, right? Did they have the real Holy Ghost? (Uh uh)) He was loaned to them, didn't belong to them. Why? Because He hadn’t yet come. He could dwell with them, but He wasn't in them. But Christ could take of His Spirit put It upon them, just sprinkle them, just sprinkle, a little drop here.

55. Now, who was amongst that number? A man called Judas a devil, and Caiaphas, a spiritual pervert in his faith. But at least darkened and hard, prophesying. Did these men have the Holy Ghost? No, they had gifts. Then, the question is this, do gifts precede the real out pouring of the Holy Ghost? Certainly. Before the real Holy Ghost could fall, it had to be that there would be a restoration of gifts and we saw them.

And we've got it right today, multitudes speak in tongues, multitudes can prophesy, they have gifts, even great faith, but they don't have the genuine baptism with the Holy Ghost. Why? Because the former rain is the teaching rain, and you couldn't have teaching without a prophet. Because who was teaching? Who was right, who was vindicated? Who can prove whose got any-thing, except a vindicated man? And that man had a vindication nobody could stand against. And he had a Mount Carmel showdown in Chicago, when three hundred full gospel preachers stood up against him, not one dared to come forward. Not one, of the whole bunch was man enough, and yet he's supposed to be a man of God and a servant of God and have the real thing.

56. You know what, if I were there I'd be gladly come forth with all humility and say, "Bro. Branham, I don’t say you're wrong, but I want to know. Right now, I can't figure right, looks like where I stand you're wrong. But that doesn't mean you're wrong, because I've been wrong so many times, maybe we're both in error, let's see what we can find out."

You say, "Bro. Vayle, would you do it?"

"Sure, I did, I couldn't understand the Rapture."

See, I left the work of the Lord for years, I disobeyed God and I got in bad shape. Then one day out of the blue sky the Lord restored my soul, and gave me my ministry to go back on, and all again. I said, "What about the coming Lord?"

He said, "Don't touch it, and I'll teach you later."

Well, I got ahead of Him. So, I got into wrong teaching by reading wrong material. Because you can read that Word, Oh, listen, one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Hold it, there might be two and a half in there and miss the whole thing. And I missed the two and a half somewhere down the line, got way out in left field, in fact, I got out in the ball park. When it comes to the Word of God, I had to go to Bro. Branham and I couldn't see what he taught, I couldn't do it, he couldn’t do it. And I knew his feelings were getting hurt. I wasn't wanting any showdown, I wanted to learn.

57. So, I said to Bro. Branham, "Look Bro. Branham, I'm not disbelieving what You said, I just can't see it. Just answer one question, just give me one thing to go on. Is this 'Thus Saith the Lord', from the Pillar of Fire, the Rapture before tribulation?"

He said, "It's 'Thus Saith the Lord'."

I said, "Bro. Bill, that's all I need to know, thank God, I'll fine it in Scripture Bill, because It's got to be there." And It is there. I would have done that in that day. I'm not boasting now, but I would have done it. What are you scared of, if you’re right? Not one man took up the challenge. Oh, they could yak behind his back, not one man could produce what he produced. Not one man of the whole bunch with the honesty, and integrity. Because they didn't have the guts to come and stand before him. That's honesty and integrity, that's all it would take of intestinal fortitude.

Now, not one of the forty said, "We'll come down and be baptized." Not one came down to be baptized. One man said, "I'll take three hundred tapes." Didn’t take one tape. And the two boys that made the tape even cut off the challenge, so the world wouldn't hear the challenge.

58. They had their Mount Carmel showdown, and they missed it. And the prophet brought his Message, because that's what he was here for. But the Bible says, "The two ministries were going to be so close, that only the Elect would not be deceived and the rest would be deceived."

Now, what did Jesus say the Holy Ghost is for? To lead you into truth. To take the things of God and show them onto you and to show you things to come. But they've all got the wrong idea what's to come. Now my brother, my sister, if we're down the road looking for somebody to come. And you hear in your little ear, he's going to be driving a white Cadillac with a plastic top. Ah ha, I'm looking for a white Cadillac with a plastic top. But supposing, my little ear doesn't say that. My little ear says, "It's a 'T' model Ford." Very common, very humble. And my 'T' model Ford is going to have a little man in there in a white robe. But your white Cadillac with a plastic top, you're going to have a fine-looking man, with a gold chain. Somebody is going to miss the man that’s coming.

You see why the Holy Ghost revelatory power is the evidence of having the Holy Ghost? Because you can talk in tongues a mile a minute, you can prophesy and hear voices, you can raise the dead, but you'll miss Him, because they already have. The Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven using a prophet's voice to declare what God has declared, wind up missing.

59. All right, let's go a little further. (See, maybe talk longer on this, because this is one of my favorite subjects.) Let's keep moving on the same subject. The next thing It says here: "The Lord descends with a Shout, there'll be the Voice of the archangel. " Bro. Branham says, "The Voice of the archangel was the bringing forth of the dead from the grave, as when Lazarus came forth."

Now, he's like the first time, and we never know when I'm wrong, so we must be right the second time. We go to the Bible and say, “Just a minute, what is it the archangel bring forth the dead? Where is there somewhere in Scripture something about an archangel and the dead?” Well, that's in the Book of Jude. Let's go to the Book of Jude and read it. In the Book of Jude, It says,

[Jude 1:9]

(9) Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, ... (a dead man. Oh, here's a dead man. Here's a dead body, and) durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

Where was Moses seen, before the Resurrection? He is seen in the presence of Christ with Elijah. What's he doing up there? He's waiting to come back with Elijah. But he died. So, what! We have no record of his burial. We have no record of his sepulcher. The only record we have is this, that the Bible said God buried him. And we don't know if God did, in the sense that it was a complete and final burial, which I don't believe it was. Because the Scripture says, "The devil contended with Michael."

60. Now, why would he contend with Michael if the body was going to molder in the grave? Why would he contend anyway? Because the Scripture says, the devil has the power of death." And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. So, the devil had the authority and right to Moses' body. And when the angels tried to bring it up, where is he going to take it and put it, the devil said, "Hold it, I've got authority, put him in the ground and let him rot."

And Michael the archangel knowing the devil told the truth, he couldn't do one thing. He called on God saying, "The Lord rebuke thee." And the Lord rebuked him, and they took the body of Moses. Now, you're going to hear a tape where Bro. Branham mentioned, were Moses stood glorified in his spiritual body. Bro. Branham was not giving you doctrine, he was merely illustrating. If anybody ought to know, because Moses will yet come back and die. And if you have a glorified body you couldn't never die again. His body was taken up, and he was seen in that spirit body, which is true. But there's coming a day when he’ll [Moses] have to put on this old body and come down, and they'll kill him. And that's why Moses body was fought for, because the devil has the power of death.

61. Turn over here to the Book of 1 Corinthians and see It, so we'll understand what we're going into. I'm not changing Bro. Branham Message, I'm merely explaining of what He would have us to do. Now, the Scripture says here in [1 Corinthians 15:] 22-26

(22) For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

(23) ...every (one) in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

(24) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all (under Him)…

(25) For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

(26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (Uh, It says so.)

Now, to the Book of Hebrews 2:14

(14) ...(and) through death he might destroy... (not destroy, but paralyze, or put to naught, bring to nothing, render his) power (void, that's) the devil; (Destroy him that's the power of death, that's the devil.)

62. Now notice, death has not been destroyed. Death has not been put aside. How then can God command the dead to come out of the earth? He can't do it, legally. He hasn't got a right. So, what's He do? Let's find out in Revelation 12: 7-11

(7) And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels Michael the archangel, Michael his angel) fought against the dragon; (that's the devil) and the dragon fought and his angels, (the devil's angels fought with him.)

(8) And (the devil and his angels) prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

(9) And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: (system) he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

(10) And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: (comfort) for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

What's happening? The heavenlies must be emptied out the devil land his gang, because the Wedding Supper of the Bride will take place with the Groom. (See?) And at the same time the war is going on showing Satan that the graves can and will open, because God will do it. Now remember now, notice,

(11) And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

This takes place, the devil cast out and his angels before the Rapture, or the Resurrection, we'll be here on earth. This is when real persecution comes. This is when we're in for real trouble. Because antichrist is not yet revealed and the devil has not yet entered him, as such. Everything is set up for it.

63. Now, the Bible says, "At this time the graves are going to open. Just when, we don't know, but it's in His time. (See?) Because the devil has been cast out of heaven, Michael and His angels prevail, the righteous dead, come out of the graves.

Now listen, when Jesus died upon Calvary His soul went to Hades, his body went to the grave, His Spirit went back to the Throne. The Spirit came down and picked up the soul, went back in the grave, took out the body. And when He did, He took out the righteous dead in Christ with Him. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Caleb and Joshua, and Sarah…and Rahab and the different ones right in that Palestine area. They were seen walking the streets, (see?) they came out of the graves. In their bodies, resurrection bodies. He took them up with Him into Heaven. But remember, death was not conquered and despoiled. Jesus Himself went down and took them up and let them out. And Satan fought Him, and Satan couldn't do a thing to Him, He took them out. But you see, death is still not covered.

64. Now watch this: I want to show you something here. Turn with me to the Book of Philippians, and we'll learn something here which has been hidden for the Ages. But by the Spirit of God through the prophet now, we know exactly the truth. In Philippians 3:10-11

Now, It says here...

(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, (not the resurrection, but his resurrection) and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

(11) If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Now, Paul is saying, "If by any means I may come up in a resurrection." Now, you know that's not true. Somebody's made a boo-boo fool somewhere, there's a big mistake here. Because you're going to be in a resurrection whether you want to be in a resurrection or not. There's a day coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear the Voice of the Son of man, "Come up and be judged." Whether they want to come up or not.

So, Paul cannot be saying, anybody knows, this has to be a wrong translation. Paul cannot be saying, "If by any means I attain to a resurrection," when you're going to be there whether you want to be there or not. He's not taking about that. He's talking about His Resurrection. Which in the Greek is not resurrection, but that, "I may attain to the out-resurrection." There's only one Resurrection and that's the General according to Daniel 12: and Revelation 20.

65. John says there are two in order to clear up and clarify your mind. Now, I'll prove it you. If John didn't say, the First and Second Resurrection just to clarify your mind, then what was the Resurrection of those who come up with Jesus? Resurrection zero, or minus one? Because there's not two resurrections, there are three resurrections.

Jesus and His group, the First Resurrection so called, and the third. There is only one Resurrection, the General. The White Throne Judgment Resurrection. The other is an out-Resurrection, or that which takes previously before death is under dominion of God and trampled, so they all come up. (See?) So, it proves the Rapture brother/sister. And the Rapture takes place before Christ descends upon this earth before the tribulation. Because the Bride goes, just a little teeny after, the dead in Christ come up out of the graves.

Now, the dead in Christ come out of the graves and they will be seen by people. They'll not be seen by the world though. Because remember, when Jesus Christ came out of the grave, it was only about five hundred that saw Him for those forty days. The rest of the people did not see Him. And in here is one reason why Bro. Branham did not come back from the dead... [tape ends]