Who Is This
Melchisedec? # 5
Bro. Lee Vayle
August 14, 1988
Shall we pray. Gracious Heavenly Father, we take great
comfort in the knowledge of the fact that Jesus Christ is here in the form of
the Holy Spirit, both as a person and as an indweller, giving part of His
Spirit to those who are His own. We pray
Lord, that we shall acknowledge Your Presence Lord, and also the teaching voice
of the Spirit within us, O God, to teach us the things of truth Lord, to utilize
gifts that You send among us Lord, all those things we would draw on from You
this morning and ask You to help us in the study of Your Word Lord, where we
know we’ve come together not simply for fellowship--though we do appreciate the
fact we have that--but above all for correction of the Word Lord that the right
Word might dwell in us by faith O God, and the life then released according to
Your own heart’s desire Lord to mould us and make us into the Christians we
ought to be.
Help us Lord to resume
our responsibility but with the faith that You put in us, and not only that,
but actually Lord, the strength and the power that You give us that we might
perform that which You ask us to perform.
So Father, we commend ourselves this morning, each one of us. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated
Now we’ve been studying
of course from the sermon preached by Bro. Branham, that we take as
authoritative, as a God given theologian, prophet, from the book of Hebrews
where it says in Hebrews 7,
(1) For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
(2) To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
(3) Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Now, of course Bro.
Branham brings out the thought that there are those people who believe that
Melchisedec was simply an earthly priest without a genealogy and they claimed
that when the words are used, “With out father, without mother, without
descent, and neither having
beginning of days,” terminology like that would suggest that this King
is unknown historically, there is no genealogy for him.
But, when you consider
the fact it says, “Neither beginning of days nor end of life; but made like
unto the Son of God,” you’re getting on
very dangerous ground to simply put that down as an ordinary human being, and,
or as a priesthood because it couldn’t hold water when you begin to check the
names which are King of Righteousness, King of Salem, King of Righteousness and
King of Peace, positively refer to God Himself.
Also, “Not having beginning of days nor end of life,”
could only refer to the fact that this would be God in some manifested
form.
Now, we realize also it
says,
“Made like unto
the Son of God.”
Which also is God in a manifested form because Isaiah
says that, “He would be God with us,
Emmanuel, God with us or God manifest in the flesh.”
So Bro. Branham’s attestation as to who this is, I
would concur with most heartily on the grounds that it is absolutely
Scriptural, plus the fact of course that we know that Bro. Branham was
vindicated as we see the picture on the wall. But most people wouldn’t really
appreciate even though it is understood that George G. Lacey said,
“That this is
an absolutely a phenomenal picture and that is a supernatural being.”
And
he was head of the FBI documents and photography and all those things that are
so vital in courts of law.
Now, of course this
picture was taken when Dr. Best presumptuously shook his fists under Bro.
Bosworth’s nose when Bro. Bosworth was showing forth that Divine healing is a
part of the Word of God, is not necessarily tantamount to salvation, it’s not
necessarily on the same level as the rebirth, but it is part of the Word of God
that which is paid for by the Lord Jesus Christ where it says in Peter,
“By whose
stripes we are healed,”
And also over in Isaiah where ..?.. positively show,
“Surely he had born our sicknesses, not merely our
griefs and our sorrows, but our sicknesses and diseases,” where those original
words in the Hebrew come from. And of
course he had this photographer all lined up to take the picture of him shaking
his fist. Here’s a young preacher shaking his fist under the nose of a
venerable old man that’s in his what? Sixties.
Can you understand? That’s real
Christianity, that’s what I’d call real Christianity.
They tell me that
there’s a certain sister that I know a little bit of, and her aunt I think it
was, made the remark,
“She’d like to slap her in the face.”
I would suggest this sister, if she could hear my
voice at any time, would write the aunt a letter and say, “My dear aunt, if
this is the Spirit of God in you, I will help you to bring it out. Shall I come to your place or you come to my
place, or go to your church, you can slap me soundly.”
You
think God’s that kind of a God? That’s
the Spirit of Jesus Christ?
That is [Bro. Vayle points to the Picture ]
the Spirit of Jesus Christ to my understanding, the Pillar of Fire that Moses
saw, that Paul saw. The same voice that
spoke to him as a tiny child who says, “Don’t ever drink or smoke and never
defile yourself with woman. I’ve got a
work for you to do.” The same one who
thousands, thousands and thousands of times said,
“THUS SAITH THE LORD,”
By vision and prophecy, never one failure. I never knew a more kind and honorable and
wonderful person than William Branham.
And I’m not here to eulogize him, but I want to tell you some little
thing brother/sister, God dwells in the prophets.
I want to ask you,
“What kind of men are those prophets?”
If God should
give a little of His life to you and me and dwell in us, what kind of people
should we be? Somebody’s messed up in
this life, and it sure is not God. Trouble is people just don’t understand the
way God does things.
So anyway, Bro. Branham
telling us about this Melchisedec, his understanding of this man. And remember, Paul could not reveal the truth
about Him in his day.
He said, “They were not mature.”
And you cannot become a mature Christian until the end
time. People can say what they
want. We have little girls in our
congregation here, they’re growing up.
One little sister in particular, we say,
“She’s very mature for her age.”
That’s very,
very true but I’m going to tell you, she’s not mature as a twenty-six year old
person is. She’s not mature as a person
down the road is of the next generation.
And when you speak of knowledge and understanding, though they had
tremendous understanding of the Word for their hour in the days of Paul, they
could not have possibly had what comes by the maturing of the church over the
centuries, of the suffering, the deprivation and all those things that count
for something in character.
And so God has reserved
to the end time and any Bible student knows it that under the Seven Seals, or Seven
Thunders and sometime they must be revealed and this then is one of those
things that cannot be revealed until somebody reveals what’s in the
Thunders. And who’s going to do it? It would have to be a vindicated man. I wouldn’t let anybody sell me a bill of
goods and say,
“Well I’ve come to tell you this is true.”
I’d say, “Hogwash.”
Let’s show you’ve got some authority to tell me these
things.
You know how it is,
people come and they get bilked every single day. Well it was just the other day in
“Heh,” he said, “I’m from the FBI.”
He comes by and flashes a little card and a
badge. I think a badge or maybe it was
the Dayton Police anyway, but it’s always the same old story.
And say, “Look
here, we suspect that somebody is going to write money on your account and you
know, we’ve got to check it out. So what
you do is you take the money out.”
Or some foolish thing like that. And the poor old boy takes his money out and
loses four thousand dollars.
You come to my place,
I’d just keep you hanging long enough to phone the police and get out my double
barrel shotgun to hold you--if I had one.
Don’t be stupid. Because somebody
flashes a badge? Let him have,
“THUS SAITH THE LORD.”
You sit in a meeting where I sat under that man. And I
just like you here, it was very few people in Vermont, hardly anybody turned
out--yet every night he stood there and told many, many people exactly who they
were and all about them, and he said,
“THUS SAITH THE
LORD.”
Now I remember one
woman especially, her husband was in the hospital, he was in the services and
the doctors couldn’t tell one thing wrong with him. They couldn’t find it,
whatever. And she was terribly, terribly
sick with worry and Bro. Branham looked at the sister and he said,
“You worry about your husband. He’s in the hospital now in
And he was. How
did he know?
What about that lady in
“Sister,” he said, “Your sister’s been insane, a raging maniac
for twenty-five years,” I think it was, “in
the hospital in
My wife is a psychiatric nurse, been for thirty solid
years. You get up and tell them, would
any doctor in your knowledge ever allow a raving maniac to get out the next
day, the next morning? No way, shape and
form. He’d have to be the raging
maniac.
Now, not that there
aren’t enough stupid ones to pull a stupid deal as they’re doing today like
Dukakus and the rest of them. But back in those days which is thirty years ago,
thirty-five--let’s see, what is it? From
forty-six, that’s forty-two solid years ago--that couldn’t have happened
forty-two years ago that a doctor would allow a raging maniac out. And she was in the meeting the next night.
Telling world-wide
events that never failed. So we believe
in a man that’s a prophet. You say,
“Well Bro. Vayle, a lot of folk have believed those things.” Yes that’s true. I have no cover up. But how come the religious historians say,
“Never since the time of Jesus Christ was a man like
this one.”
Go read the books.
I knew him very well. I knew many
of the men of the Twentieth Century, and some of the great men. Never was a man like this one. God took him, of course, as God takes all His
prophets.
Now, this man telling
us that this was God in a form of a man that was not a human form which would
marry, beget children, and have a lineage.
You say,
“Well I don’t think that God did that.”
Who was the fourth man who was in the fiery furnace,
honey? You think God can’t take a form
and walk into it? You made a big mistake
because God took His own form in the form of Jesus Christ, created the egg and
the sperm, placed it in the womb of Mary, and she became the mother--not of
God, she became the mother of the vessel that harboured God.
And because you and I
can worship Him, and God’s an object of worship, we can make Him God there’s no
problem. There aren’t two gods, three
gods, there’s one God. Always has been
one God--He’s Spirit. You try to cut up
the Holy Ghost and give Him to a Jew in three parts and see what he does to
you. Yet funny thing is the Christians
say,
“Well we believe in Judaeo Christianity.”
And they claim
a kinship to Judaism, which is a very farcical word anyway. Claim a kinship to the true doctrine of
“The Holy Ghost shall come upon Mary.”
Then he said,
“God was His Father.”
So now He’s got two fathers? That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard
of. A child having two fathers? Oh brother.
A child having two fathers? Who
was it then that caused Mary to bring forth a child? Insanity, utter insanity.
God in human form. God in a form. If God who made the first Adam cannot make
another Adam, so to speak, but not physical to the extent He would procreated
them, then you don’t worship the same kind of God I worship. You don’t have anything to do with the God
I’ve got to do with because my God can do anything. And he tells us what He does. It says distinctly here,
“That this One without father, without mother, without
descent.”
Jesus had a
Father, Jesus had a Mother--this is not Jesus.
It said, “Made like unto the Son of God.” A pattern.
What was the Son of
God? He was a human being, not a hundred
percent human as you and I are because He came from created egg and sperm, the
life from almighty God, that’s a little bit beyond you and me, it’s quite a lot
beyond you and me, but He got born. This
is not--this is the type of the one coming in flesh and that would be, there’d
have to be a body for God to step into, as the same as there was a body for God
to step into at the River Jordan. And
then this same Jesus on the cross said,
“My God, my
God, why has Thou forsaken Me.”
God was no
longer indwelling Him. He was left there
was a human being to suffer. And then
Scorcesse has the nerve to have Jesus
Christ hallucinating having sex with Mary Magdalene. And the church thinks it’s great that this man’s
marvellous imagination.
I’m so happy that this
world is going to be blown higher than a kite into smithereens, and if I
deserve it let me go with it brother/sister.
You say, “Why Bro. Vayle?”
Because one day there was a man under the leadership
of Joshua and they went into the promised land and God defeated everybody
around but one day they couldn’t defeat anybody and they said,
“There’s something wrong in the camp. What is it?
What is it? What is it?”
They begin
going down, “Who is it?”
They took Achan and his family.
“What did you do sir?
Well I took a Babylonish garment. I took the silver, I took the gold. I did a wrong thing.”
See? And do know what Joshua said before that man
confessed?
He said, “Give God the glory and confess.”
And as soon as
he confessed and gave God the glory--whatever that means, you figure that one
out--and they took him out and stoned him and his whole family..
I say the same thing,
let’s give God the glory and honestly say,
“This world is not fit to live in, in the eyes of God
anymore.”
“Well my son is a real Christian, born again.”
Is that a
fact? If he’s born again, I don’t want
to be because in my wildest hallucinations and nightmares of sin I could never
believe that claptrap and balderdash.
Neither could you.
Prophet of God. I believe in him implicitly, base my whole
doctrine and life upon it. And he taught
here in this wonderful message, “Who Is This Melchisedec?” which comes under
the Seventh Seal, which was opened by a man like him, to give forth these
mysteries which even the great Dr. Bloomfield who is now deceased said,
“Somebody’s got to come sometime and tell us.”
He’s revered,
respected man from Indiana, Hoosier.
This Bro. Branham tells
us, that this is a mystery and it is because Paul could not explain it, nor did
he explain it, tell us all about it. He
just let it sit there, that at the end time we would know all about it. And Bro. Branham explains thoroughly how this
man, which we call a man Melchisedec, was on the scene and how that this man we
call, King of Righteousness, King of Peace, actually was indwelt by Almighty God.
And this should not be
strange that people believe that you and I can be born again, which rebirth
comes by the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.
If that is possible that God Almighty could give us, even a little
modicum, an iota, of His Holy Spirit, what in the world is wrong with man’s
thinking that they cannot believe that if God prepared this, could He not also
prepare that, and in His entirety move within that vessel? That’s just what He did with Jesus. So you see, our type is all laid out
here. This is God Almighty who has made
Himself a tabernacle.
Now, Bro. Branham has
been describing this and I’m going to start reading on page...I’m going to go
into my notes here a little bit to give us a background so that you’ll
understand what we’re into. Now,
concerning the question then as to who Melchisedec is, Bro. Branham
unequivocally testifies that Melchisedec is God in what is called a Word form
body. In other words, He simply spoke a
Word, it formed a body. Why not?
If He said, “Let there be light,”
There was light.
If He said, “Let there be a fish,”
There was a fish.
He could say, “Let there be a body.”
There was a
body and He could step into it. A Word
formed body which is called a Theophany and a Theophany comes from the two Greek
words, ‘theo’ means God, and ‘phanero’ to show forth God in a manifested
form. So concerning the question as to
who is Melchisedec, Bro. Branham unequivocally testifies that Melchisedec is
God in a Word form body which is called a Theophany. That’s absolutely true.
This is one example of
the process whereby God enters into the worship and communion by men. Listen again.
This is one example, there are many in the Bible where God did something
like this, to enter into worship and communion by men wherein God makes Himself
known by some visible manifestation. He
uses some form that conforms to His purpose for that occasion.
He used the Pillar of
Fire to keep
Now let’s look at Heb
l: l.
(1) God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past (Not unto the fathers--that is not the original Greek. It’s in the fathers. God was in the prophets.)
And if God was truly in
the prophets, then the prophet or prophets had to be God to the people. Now you know that’s how authority is
relegated and delegated in our society.
The president of the
Then you say, “You make Bro. Branham God.”
I do not make him God.
No way, shape and form, anymore than I make the ambassador as the
president, or the government, or the people.
But if that ambassador is obligated to stand for, and speak for, and to
visualize, and conceptualize, exactly the American people concerning them, and
remember government is by the people, and for the people, then that prophet
would be the same for almighty God.
There’s no big hassle there, you know, if you really want to be just
commonsensicle, you know. What does it
say? Commonsensicle. That’s just a word I’m coining in a hurry..
Let’s go to John the
10th chapter. We’ll find out what the
Jews actually thought of prophets. And
you’ll look at the 13 verse.
(30) I and my Father are one.
(31) Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
(32) And Jesus said, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?
(33) The Jews answered Him saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
(34) Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
(35) If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
(36) Say ye of him, whom the Father hath set apart, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
There it is right
there. Now the question is, to whom does
the Word of God come? It has to come to
the prophet. So
Now people today in
Christianity don’t believe in vindication.
They say, “Who needs prophets?”
Well, where to you find that God said we didn’t?
They say, “Well just a minute now. There’s no such thing as a prophet that’s not
a Hebrew.”
Then Noah...Noah wasn’t a Hebrew. What are you going to do with him? See, you don’t make your own rules up. You don’t make your rules up. What you do, what you’ve got to let your mind
go an become like a little child and go to the book like Bro. Branham. He didn’t conceptualize this thing and
fantasize about it and say,
“Well I think maybe this Melchisedec, well he’s got to
be some kind of a myth. He’s got to be
some kind of a personage that’s really not a personage, it’s kind of an order,
and it’s got to be this.”
He said, “Look it, here’s what the Bible said. No Father, no mother, no beginning of days,
no end of life.”
“What are you talking
about?”
“Well I’m talking about
God.”
And those say, “Oh come
on now, far be it from that be God.”
Well then you tell me,
and stand up here and give me some sign that you can prove to me I should
listen to you. Fap! I’m likely the smartest guy in the room when
it comes to theology, I shouldn’t be standing up here. And I should have the glibbest and best
tongue of anybody amongst you. Would you
take anything I can give you against the Word of God that’s just simply, plain,
doggedly says--I’m going to change that around?
Where would your contract with God go?
No, it’s Word by Word and don’t take a Word, and don’t add a Word.
The Bible said, “This Man did not have a father, did
not have a mother, He never had beginning of days, He never had end of life.”
Who was the fellow
inside the shell? Jesus had beginning of
days. He was born, yet He was no
different from God except in the fact He had a beginning. But He wasn’t God. No--He became God on the grounds that God was
in Him. We’re talking about a man. See?
Okay, no matter what form God used He is always the one and the same and
the only God there is, and He’s the One that does it. There are not two gods, or three gods, or any
number of gods, just one God. He uses
different offices and forms, f-o-r-m-s,
the En morphe, to suit His revelation.
As Bro. Branham deals with God progressively declare Himself in this
message, God becomes a man.
Now what Bro. Branham
does, he takes us in this message and he shows progressively how God did it,
removing a mystery, how God became a man, indwelt a man. How that you could point to Him, and say,
“This man is God and yet he is not God.”
And Jesus Himself said, “The Father in me doeth the
works.”
Now did He lie, or didn’t He lie? Why did He pray? Do you think God would pray to God? I thought two or three gods together might
argue the point unless one god had a bigger club, or a bigger say than the
other guy. I can’t buy the three god
symposium, brother/sister.
No, no.
God said, “In whom did I take council.”
With my son, or
my friend or something?
Would you become a
gnostic, the next thing you’d
become. You turn that down, you become a
gnostic. Not agnostic but a gnostic, which means; I know
everything. And pretty soon you hear a
female voice from heaven say,
“Shut-up. You
forget I’m up here and superior.”
I’ve got the
books on it honey, I’m not telling you a bunch of hogwash, there right in my
library. No, no, no, come on, don’t be
fooled by people that go around with their trinitarian doctrine and dogma, and
the apostle’s creed. Find me the apostle’s
creed in the Bible. See, I’m an old
trinitarian from way back. It just won’t
cut brother/sister.
Bro. Branham deals with
God progressively declaring Himself in this message until God becomes a man,
comes down through certain steps. From
the thought form, which was merely God in omniscience, determining to bring
forth what lay within Him as the omniscient God, to the Word form body where
God begin to speak things into existence, to the human born body. Then he traces our position in Christ to our
present earthly abode and then on into our spiritual embodiment just after
death, and finally at the resurrection of New Jerusalem.
Now if you didn’t follow what I’m saying, I’m saying
this, that Bro. Branham traced how God did it through Jesus Christ, turns right
around and traces us right from God into the same pattern. Do you understand what I’m saying? Whether you do or not, I’ve said it, don’t
worry about that. And I think you know
what I’m saying.
Now to begin with we
are genes of God. Now let that thinking
come into your mind. Genes--actually you
could use the word ‘seed’, attributes.
To begin with we are genes. I
like that expression just for the minute.
God has thoughts about these genes, or future sons, so He brings them
forth according to His thoughts and they enter Adam’s race through Adam’s race,
through natural generation. Want me to
read it again? To begin with we are
genes, we are actually potential sons of God as male sperm with the XY
chromosomes can unite with the female egg with X chromosome, she has doesn’t
she, to bring forth either a daughter or a son.
So you have a life line in God which contains seed that God breathed
into Adam the breath of lives and Adam became a living soul and from that time
he was able to propagate with what came out of him, which was Eve.
You’re looking at the
same with God. Within God are the genes,
or what we would call seed or sperm. In
the Greek, for concerning God it is ‘spora’ for mankind it is ‘sperma’ and God
likens us to the grass, or to the seed of the grass. Okay?
To begin with, we are
genes, or sperm, or seed of God. God has
thoughts about those genes or future sons.
So He brings them forth according to His thoughts and they enter into Adam’s
race through the natural, normal channels that God started way back there in
the garden. Even before the garden when
He said,
“Be fruitful and multiply and bring forth sons and
daughters unto Me.”
Now at death these
souls, these genes, this from God, leave
their bodies and enter into Word bodies.
2 Corinthians, the 5th chapter I think it is, the 10th, whatever it
is. We’ll look it up.
He said, “When you leave here you do not leave
disembodied as though you don’t have a place to go to. You go to a place that is a Spirit body. Not spiritual, but a true Spirit body.”
So they go to those Word bodies which they
bypassed--they were already there.
The Bible says, “Already waiting.”
Now physically speaking the sperm and the egg uniting,
before they could even do that, they had to have something down here to go to.
The life to go to the sperm all had to have something to go to, so before there
was ever a male and female, God had the earth from which He’d take it all
out. Right? By chemistry.
So okay, God had a body
prepared for these sons, that a body they bypassed to come on down here and
live in the flesh and when they died, they would go back to those bodies that
God had prepared that they’d bypassed.
Now, I’ll just take my time and read it.
Come on this sounds to crazy to be true.
But we don’t deal in crazy things.
Now Paul says;
(1) For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Now that doesn’t...now
just a minute. That’s not the glorified
body because that body glorified is not eternal--it has a beginning. This one doesn’t have a beginning. This is something so radically of God the
human mind cannot grasp it. It’s just
got to say, “Yes that’s so.” You’ve got
to believe it.
Paul says, “We know it.”
(2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
He tells you the second
time now, “In the Heavens.”
(3) If so that being clothed we shall not be found naked. (We will not be naked.)
We leave here, we’re
going to go to a place we know nothing of and it’s not the New Jerusalem. It is not a house, it is a body and we bypassed it.
You say, “Why do you think the prophet tells this and
why does God tell us this, and what good does it do?”
That’s a good question. Stick around and find out. We’re pretty stupid in dealing *inane, and ridiculous things--but God
doesn’t. One jot, one tittle changed and
you lose out. [* Inane –
void of intelligence]
Now this is something
we’re supposed to know at the end age and everybody admits this is the end of
the age. Can the world go on with Aids
alone? We’ve got over 300,000 cases and
doubling once every twelve months. By
the year 2000 we will have killed off 315 million Americans and there aren’t
that many. Now you don’t even dare get
acupuncture, and I’ve been getting acupuncture.
Good-bye Chinese remedies. Do you
know that if you’ve had acupuncture recently you can’t give your blood to
anybody? So Dr. Kim, do you hear
me? And Dr. Kay?
Say, “Bro. Vayle, you’re going back?”
If I felt like
it. They can use alcohol or anything
else to kill them, or heat. And you that
want to be promiscuous, I’m just warning you, I’ll never pray you for your
healing. Pray for your soul, but you’re
asking for it. I know preachers don’t
think anything of going with women messing up.
Disrespect God and see what happens to you.
Proven conclusively
that mosquitoes can bear it.
Book of
Revelation, “Gnaw their tongues in pain and curse God.”
And Aids, you
rot while you live. One big
pustule. And when you rot while you live
you’ll be dropping puss on the ground pretty soon. Animals get Aids. Yes.
Strange, isn’t it?
Okay? We’ll just drop that, go back to
subject. You’re not a disembodied spirit
when you leave here. People can’t
believe these things we teach. They
don’t want to believe anything no matter what it is. They’re not interested. You come back to the earth though later on
and get your physical glorified body which means your theophonic structure and
you in it pick up the glorified body and go on to the marriage supper, and
eventually the New Jerusalem.
In this discourse Bro.
Branham insists that these Word Bodies, which he calls theophonies, are
actually present but invisible, but soon all will be made manifest for the
Millennium is upon us.
Like he said, “We
have just discovered the laws of television but the laws were
always there.”
So it is, there
are spirits could be passing through this room, it’s all a dimension. Perhaps the camera can catch things that we
cannot catch. Everybody knows that to be
true.
Now on page thirteen,
paragraph 60-62, Bro. Branham speaking on God in His own metamorphosis, or
change, speaks of God using human bodies for His purpose and applies that to
Melchisedec and then moves on to show that once in awhile there is a cross over
from the invisible side proving that there is a reality over on the other side
that people do not die, they simply change their geography and their
forms. So we’re going to start
reading. Bro. Branham said,
[60] That
God reveals Himself in His great form of what He claims as He En morphes or
goes into a mask, or a figure which hides Him but at the same time reveals Him
so that this figure can come by, or to His servants wherein God proves Himself.
Let me read it again
now so I get the thought to you.
[60] He
reveals Himself in His great form of what He claims as He En morphes Himself in
His servants and proves Himself.
Now what is he talking
about here when He said, God Himself
reveals Himself in a form which He claims.
What would you make by that?
You’d say, “Well, He’s making claims. God is making claims.”
And so God made a claim, especially concerning the
fact that He would come and live in the form of a man called the Messiah, the
Lord Jesus Christ. God also made the
claim that He would be with the prophets and the prophets would be God to the
people as we read in Scripture;
“That God was
in the prophets.”
So God according to
what He desires and sets forth in His promised Word, He will accommodate
Himself to that for the sake of the people.
And again also I think the thought lies in here that the prophet is
bringing to our attention, that when God claims He will do a certain thing
concerning His own people, the prophets and those that are His children, there
is nobody that has the right to say;
“Hey God, You
cannot do that because I don’t think that’s the way it should go. We would like to deal with You on our own
terms.”
Now remember
They said, “Look Moses you tell God we don’t want to
see the Pillar of Fire anymore. We don’t
want to hear His voice anymore. We don’t
want to have contact anymore. You tell
God this, ‘That you will stand for us and when you come back we’ll listen to
you as though we listen to God.’”
Moses went right back to God and God said,
“That’s exactly the way it’s going to be.”
Well you say, “I don’t
think that’s fair that somebody would do that and the book then is closed to
me. That’s how it’s got to be done.”
There’s where you’re wrong. You can’t tell God anything. And you can’t even tell me anything around
here. You going to tell me how to spend
my money? How I should preach? How I’m going to conduct myself? You may come and hint but you aren’t going to
get to first base.
Say, “Look, you don’t know Lee Vayle.”
If you don’t like it go on home and stay there. I’m not being hard nor mean, I’m just trying
to tell you about me. And you’re just as
obnoxious. You know, let’s face it,
who’s going to tell you? You know, look, tell you...now the government steps in
and tells us how to spend money and all but the devils telling them how to do
it even more so.
Let me show you what
I’ve got in mind here. Mt 20:15, we’ll read a couple of these things in
here and you’ll get what I’m driving at here.
(15) Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? (Now that’s what Jesus is saying.) Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
He says right here,
“What are you trying to tell me to do with what belongs to me?”
Do you
follow? Okay, let’s go to Romans the
14th chapter now and see something else in here about God.
Rom 14:7-8
(7) For none liveth unto himself, and no man dieth to himself.
(8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
Now it tells you right
here that God owns everything. Therefore you don’t tell Him anything.
He said, “You’re mine, I bought you with the price, I
can do with you what I want to do and you can’t say a word about it.”
Now if you don’t think that’s true, turn back to
Romans the ninth chapter. This is God.
Rom 9:19-21
(19) Wilt thou they then say unto me, Why doth God yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? (That’s on predestination. See?)
(20) Nay but, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
You cut Moses and you
cut Pharaoh and watch them bleed. You
get the smartest men of the world and analyze them--just exactly the same. Why did God choose Moses and why did God not
choose Pharaoh? That’s God’s business.
“Well I don’t
like the thought that God says, ‘I love Jacob and hate Esau.’”
That’s God’s business.
If you say that, you haven’t got a clue concerning the love of God
because election is the love of God.
That He should love you and give you a chance to hear His voice and come
near God. From that point on any man should
just let God have His way in his entire life.
I wish we understood this. That’s
love.
If you think love is
some gishy, gooshy something you contrive and concoct out of your own
bosom--you’ve got to be wrong brother/sister, it’s the Word of God. And if your love doesn’t line with the Word
of God you haven’t got the love of God.
You’re just kidding yourself. I
mean you are kidding yourself. Please
don’t talk to me as though you know something because you don’t. Not as I know anything but I know this Word
here. Now listen, He said this.
(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, one to dishonour?
(22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
(23) That he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Now who’s to argue with
God?
Say, “Well I don’t like it.”
Nobody asked
you to. And you’ll never like it unless
you’re born again because you can’t understand because you look around, you
say,
“I don’t understand.
My brother is a nicer man than I am, why can’t he see God, and
understand God, and receive God? And
here I am the cruddiest one of the whole family, the most ignorant,
misbehaving, bunch of corpuscles that are rotten from center to circumference,
and God picked me. Now if He’s smart He
would have taken my brother.”
See? You blew
it.
You say, “ Man alive, what kind of God is He?”
Sovereign.
That’s the word, sovereign. He
does what He wants, when He wants to do it, to whom He wants to do it, under
the condition He wants to do it, and any time He wants to. That’s right.
God is sovereign.
Let’s go a little step
further. Well I don’t have to
really. I might just take one here
in Rev 10:7, just to show you something
here because you know this, it says,
(7) In the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as God has declared (the good news of the gospel) by his servants the prophets.
God wants to do that,
He’ll do it.
People say, “I don’t think God will do that. I don’t think that’s going to come.”
The Bible said it’s going to come, there’s going to be
a prophet come on the scene because He’s talking about prophets, and He’s
talking about the gospel, and the Jews never took the gospel--so He’s talking
to you and me.
He said, “There’s going to come a time when a mighty
messenger comes down from Heaven and stands upon earth. This man is going to be standing here and
he’s going to be a prophet and he’s going to close it all up.”
Now, before he can
close it he’s got to open it. Oh, yes.
Because the
Bible says, “Close not the sayings of the prophet in the book.”
And over in one
place it says,
“Close it.” Rev
10:4 says, “Close it” [End
of side one]
Rev 22:10 says,
“Open it.”
This man’s going to open it. I believe this man opened it. [Points to the
picture]
You say, “I don’t believe he did.”
Well that’s all right, you look for somebody to open
the book later on then.
I say, “It’s
over.”
You say, “It’s going to come.”
No
problem. Let’s find out. See?
It’s up to the individual.
Okay, now, he says
here,
[60] God
reveals Himself in this great form.
Whatever form God wants to reveal Himself, you see? Whatever His claims were in setting it forth
to do it, He does it, He reveals...He En morphes Himself, He actually
places Himself in His servants and proves Himself.
Now the servant could
be a cloud, but it doesn’t say that here.
It says, “His
servants the prophets.”
You say, “You really believe Bro. Vayle that Pillar of
Fire, if that’s really a reflection of God, God’s there in the form of the Holy
Ghost. That God could actually get into
that man?”
Why not? Tell me why not?
“So, the man’s not worth anything.”
Who said so?
You say so, or God said so? If
that man’s not worth anything and he’s really a prophet, then you and I aren’t
worth anything either because God didn’t get into him, then God couldn’t get
into us.
Listen, you’ve got to
draw your conclusion. You’ve got to do
something about this thing here.
See? You’ve got to do something
about it. I’m trying to build your faith
to let you know--look, if there is such a thing as this you better believe it. If there ain’t no such a thing as that, fine,
you haven’t been hurt at all. I’m the
guy that’s being hurt. I’m going to have
to stand before God for telling you
lies. You’re just merely
accessories after the fact and of course you could have a little bit of a
problem but nothing like my problem.
All right, let’s look
at paragraph 61.
[61] Now,
here He is in the form of the Spirit.
Now he’s talking about way back when there was no nothing except God,
Himself, with His thoughts in what you might call the void. And
here He is in the form of the Spirit. Now
then He comes in the form En morphe
at the time of Genesis 14. This God
takes an actual human form, or the form of a man in Genesis 14. It’s not known previously to that. And
he appeared to Abraham encapsulated, or in this form. When Abraham was returning from the slaughter of
the kings, here came Melchisedec, and He talked with Abraham.
In other words, let’s
go back to the form of the Spirit. This
could be called the thought form. The
thought form of God. Why? Because He’s nothing but Spirit and He’s
thinking. Now He hasn’t started moving,
He’s simply omniscient, omnipotence follows omniscience. And if anybody isn’t omniscient, I would hate
to believe he could be omnipotent because you’re gone and he’s going to go with
it--wouldn’t work. Omniscience is the
key. What lies within the mentality, or
the heart, or the thoughts of God.
Now it will never look
good to you and me--the Bible warns us.
So way back in the thought form, He hasn’t spoken a word, that’s the
form of the Spirit, original, all by Itself.
After the thought form, there comes a Word form which is an
expression. Now that’s what we’re
looking at way back in the pre-existence of Jesus and our own pre-existence
right there in God but nothing coming forth.
Now let me… Bro. Branham now gives an illustration that happened in
[62] The
other day in the
[63] Well,
each one testified the car chugged, hit the old man. He went up in the air, everybody saw it. Witnesses, two or three carloads saw it
happen. Come to find out, five years ago
there was an old man with an overcoat, (Likely in the winter time see?) hit and killed on the same spot.
Now you know the
records are replete with those peculiar incidents. Just the other day I read in the Enquirer
magazine, which I very, very seldom read because most of it is hogwash, this
could be too. A woman in her forties now
tells when she was sixteen years of age she was in a room and she was
baby-sitting a little tiny baby for the first time the parents had gone away
and left a baby-sitter. I think she was
about sixteen. And suddenly she was
wakened up by a man in the room and she could describe him clearly how that he
said;
“Go in the room
there and look at the baby.”
And she saw her body
lying on the bed and yet she went in there with that man and the baby was
turning blue, dying, and the man said;
“Now just take
the baby, put him over your left arm, with the head down. Now reach in the throat and take out the
object.”
And when she did, she took out a little locket. The baby’s colour came back.
When the man and the
woman came home the girl tried to tell them and they wondered if she was
hallucinating until she described the man and they went in to look at the
locket. Opening the locket was the
picture of the woman’s, that is the mother’s father, exactly what the girl saw
that came in, in some spirit form or apparition or something, and wakened her
to save the baby’s life. What happened,
the mother’s locket had slipped the chain in the baby’s crib and the baby
inadvertently clutching it, you know, little baby putting it in it’s mouth,
eight month old baby and was dying. What
did it? See? What did it?
The world is full of
millions of phenomena that no body can understand, knowing but there’s
something over there. And if something over there it runs a rigid course the
same as it runs here and people still want to deny God. And you know why they do it? Well they do it because they don’t want to be
responsible. It’s just like men and
woman run together, shack up, because they don’t want to be responsible to
marrying each other, being faithful, and raising a family. They just want to be dogs, animals. When you see these animals around the world,
let me tell you something brother, you’ve always had them but not like now.
Now listen, Bro.
Branham says,
[63] ...When
you leave here, you’re not dead. Now
watch what he says. You’ve got to come back even if you’re a
sinner (That means the Christian has got to come back. See?
Absolutely. Sinner has got to come back.) and be judged according to the deeds done in the body.
In other words, the
same one that went away has got to come back and it was just like Samuel,
remember the Bible says the witch of Endor, I’m going to bring up somebody to
help you out, Saul. And she didn’t know
that she...it was Saul the King, and she didn’t know that she was going to get
the old double cross. And she actually
brought up Samuel and he was a white haired, white bearded old man, and he
said;
“Why did you
disturb my rest?”
You’re the same person. Evidently you will not get your beautiful
physical change until you come back so it’s all right, you can leave here
completely bald headed, you’ll come back with nice curls no doubt. Providing you had them here to begin
with. Okay.
[63] ...”If
this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we have one waiting.” Another figure,
a spirit body, a word body, which God has waiting for us in the heavens. See?
Now, just as God covers
His own Spirit with a body to make Himself available, so you and I have bodies
when we leave this world to be available in the world to come. Bro. Branham was beyond the curtain of time.
He tells us how, “that
in a vision he saw his body lying on the bed, whether a vision or not, like
the apostle Paul said. Whether in the body, out of the body, I was
caught up. I do not know, only God
knows. I was caught up and I was there
amongst them.”
And Bro.
Branham was embraced by a woman most beautiful, young woman, hair flowing down
her shoulders. She’s sixteen years old
and all her beauty and the voice said to her;
“Don’t you
remember her?”
He said, “No I
don’t remember her, who is she?”
“She was ninety-one years old when she got saved in
your meeting.”
At ninety-one she
wouldn’t be necessarily *wizened up
and terrible. I’ve seen some fine
looking ladies at ninety-one. There’s
Grandma Cox just died at ninety-four. I
saw her about age ninety...let’s see, what was she back there about four
years? About age ninety. My, she was chipper as a chipmunk. Looked wonderful! And yet she dying of cancer about, back in
what? 1960 something, Bro. Branham
prayed--she was healed. And so already
she can look in her spirit form, around sixteen years of age because the spirit
looks good, and if she were to be brought back where you could see her maybe
she would look old so you’d recognize her because who knows about that? But she’s coming back one day soon as a
young, young lady.
[*Wizen – hard, dry
and shrivelled]
Now 64,
[64] Now
God in this stage of His creation later formed into flesh which was Jesus.
Now he said, God applying the principle to become a part of creation, specifically bringing Himself through His metamorphosis, into man, which is downward, you know, coming down. He then used this form as a stepping stone to the other form which meant He would be in the physical form of what He was in now which was the figure of a man. Now,
[64] ...From
the beginning Spirit, that’s in other words where God was just Spirit
entirely, then He came to a Word form,
or to the Word, bringing Itself out. The
Word doesn’t make Itself yet.
In
other words, it’s not spoken out, and later it becomes flesh. What I see Bro.
Branham telling us here is, that; God had this precept of what He would do and
He does it exactly by steps, and each step is something that He takes in order
to bring it to this conclusion and we see it unfolded by Scripture and
especially today.
And
then he says, after this body, this;
[64] ...
en morphe body, which is not true flesh just the form of a man, he said, He becomes flesh man, Jesus, is mortal, to
taste death for all of us sinners.
Now, leave paragraph 65
alone and drop down to 66 because that’s where it belongs.
[66] Also
we see Him revealed in Ruth and Boaz as the Kinsman redeemer, He had to
become flesh, come as flesh.
So
what he’s saying here now, what you’re seeing in Melchisedec is a type, or a
figure of when Jesus would be a man and God would indwell that real flesh and
blood man, the same as He indwelt this one which was not flesh and blood. And it wasn’t even glorified flesh--no. When Jesus came back glorified;
He
said, “Handle Me and see, a spirit hath not flesh and blood.”
He didn’t say, “Flesh and bone.”
Now because He was flesh and bone but He
wasn’t flesh and blood. Neither was this
flesh and blood. Neither was it
glorified form. It was merely as Bro.
Branham said,;
“I suppose He took the dust, a handful,” (Bro. Vayle makes blowing sound) “ blew on it and there was a figure to step into.” So that’s what you’re looking at. So now, He was made a man in order to shed blood.
Now, paragraph 65.
[65] When
Abraham met Him, He was masked in the character of Melchisedec. He unfolds here
what all the attributes will do in the final end, every son of Abraham. Now this is the key to why this is a mystery
to this hour. It explains to you and me
exactly what has happened and is happening.
It clears up a revelation. And
listen to what he says again. When he met Abraham, he was masked in Melchisedec. The character Melchisedec. He
unfolds here what all, that’s you and me and all of us, the attributes will do in the final end,
every son of Adam. Every son of faith will do absolutely the
same thing, or come the same way.
But I want you to watch how we have to come. Now he explains to us how this takes place.
How many minutes we got
left? Thirty. No good.
Going to let you out early today.
We get back next time we’re going to start with the black board and
we’re going to show from the blackboard by my horrible drawings, but hopefully
my speech will help you to understand how that God deals with every single one
of us the same as He dealt with His only begotten Son. One is the great level of the containment of
all the attributes, or fullness of God, the other are little jots and tittles
coming on down but they all line in the same way showing forth how it is that
all of these things fit right back into God and His divine plan. And never was there a time until this hour
under a prophet that could explain this that it comes into view.
Look, I’ve read the
books and if you don’t believe me phone Morris Ungren. Just get old Morris up here for a week. He’ll name you every author and every book
and about every sermon of the last one hundred and fifty solid years--right
back to Luther. And you haven’t got
it. There’s nobody...
“Well I say, I just don’t believe that man that you
believe in.”
Look, that doesn’t bother me one little bit. That’s up to you as a person, you do what you
want about it. But I teach here what
Bro. Branham taught because look, I’ve read the books and, at least a lot of
them, and every now and then I continue to read books. Not too often anymore. And look, I’m not a smart man.
I’m not saying, “Hey, Lee Vayle he’s got it and nobody
else has because he believes this fellow.”
I’m not saying that.
Look, I am satisfied for me having read the books and having gone the
ways that I’ve gone, that this man alone has the answers that are complete with
the Word of God. The others don’t have
the answers.
It’s actually...he
tells you as nobody else tells you how God can actually take a Pharaoh and
predestinate him because Pharaoh always was Pharaoh. You don’t take a dog, brother/sister, and
pardon the loose expression. You don’t
take a dog and try to make him a man, to fill a man’s place. Neither can you take a reprobate, a serpent
seed that God says, in His book declares, and ever try place him with a child
of Almighty God and in the heart of God--it won’t work. No man like a Pharaoh, or like a Stalin, or a
Genghis Khan, and these men we know in history, Hitler and the rest of then,
Mussolini, not one of those men ever came from the Soul of Almighty God. And don’t tell me because they didn’t or they
would have been converted.
That explains a lot of
mysteries and this is why we’re into this subject the way we are and so next
time around we’ll put something on the board.
I hope you haven’t been too bored this morning, just trying to bring us
up to date so we can move on into the hard facts that Bro. Branham presents to
us. In the meantime, the Lord richly
bless you. Let’s rise and be dismissed.
Our gracious heavenly
Father, we thank You now again for the privilege we’ve had of coming together,
giving us this three quarter hour, a little bit better time that we could study
Your Word Lord which we believe has been given by a vindicated prophet.
And now Father as we’ll
start the next session, I believe that You’ll help us to really begin to see
how all of these were in Your mind and how they’ve all transpired, they’ve all
come to pass by the divine sovereignty of Yourself. And then in the last day Lord bringing us to
a revelation, knowing that very, very soon, there will be a tremendous wakening
of the dead, a resurrection amongst us Lord, and there’ll be a group of people
that are going to be changed that’ll be taken to a Wedding Supper and then come
back to a renovated earth for a thousand years and then go on, and on to the
New Jerusalem, the city of our God.
Lord, we believe these
things, we’re confident of them and we thank You Lord that our confidence is
not based upon some book that somebody wrote but a living ministry that we
ourselves were a part of in the sense of being right there with him and seeing,
and knowing so much of these things, and some of the people right here also
were involved in it Lord. We thank You
for it. And now by Your grace Lord we
believe that every body in the building would be involved in the understanding
of the Word of God. That Word Lord which
is able to make us wise unto salvation, which becomes our armour, which becomes
all the things that It’s suppose to be to us.
So Father, I just pray
now that the sweet Spirit of Jesus Christ rest and abide upon each one of us
Lord God, bringing us back together again with even a sweeter more wonderful
Spirit of Jesus Christ, the love of God not only shed abroad in our hearts but
coming forth from our hearts Lord until the very sick amongst us get healed.
And the graces of Almighty God showed that there are a people who can be lead
of the Spirit, the living God. Father we
want that, Lord You know I’ve hungered for it, I’ve hungered for nothing else
Lord. If it came to a showdown, it’s greater than life itself. And what is life without it Lord? So shower upon us of thyself O God, thy
divine graces to come forth in our midst to manifest in our hearts, minds, and
lives. We’ll be careful to give you the
praise. In Jesus’ name we ask it. Amen.
‘Take The Name Of Jesus With You.’