Who is this Melchisedec? # 33
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we know that amongst the
people in Christendom, there wouldn’t be one that would deny that You’re here
or that You are present, and that You are watching over creation and doing
great things in so far as You’re taking care of all things, Lord, answering
prayer, and doing much for the people, but Father many of them do not realize
that You are here in a way that You haven’t been here since the time of the Apostle
Paul and are lingering near in the Pillar of Fire to raise the dead and to lead
us into the Millennium. And we thank You
Father that we know that that was the ministry of the Prophet, to declare that
You are here. And we appreciate that. We
just pray Lord, that we might know the true significance of it, and not only
know the true significance, but go beyond that, which is the revelation be so
deep and so pervasive we would honor You
and we would worship You Lord, and we would be more serious and sober
concerning our relationship to You and also to each other, because we know that
Your own Word has said, “How can a man say that he loves God if he doesn’t love
his brother?” So Father, we want to be
in that great position that we can be in Lord, to be true servants of Yours,
true worshippers, and true brothers and sisters, a true part of the Faith. So
help us this morning in our studies Lord, to understand what the Prophet said,
to receive what he said as living reality, whether it be for an impetus in our
spiritual life, the proper understanding, or healing, whatever it is Lord we
know it all lies in this Message, there’s no doubt about it. And we just leave
it in Your hands, in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated.
Now we’re on number thirty-three, and it’ll be the last
message I believe, on Melchisedec, and before I go any further I forgot to
mention we get together next Sunday about one o’clock to sit down and have
dinner, it’ll be just about right.
Now, we left off last Wednesday, about paragraph 162 on
page 32, and Bro. Branham had just finished explaining, again the end time sign
of Messiah, which took place way back in Genesis 18, and then repeated itself
in Samaria and other and various places. Now, he mentions particularly that
Sarah was in the tent, back of God, and God speaking in the form of a man to
Abraham, and He read her heart. Told
what was in her heart. Now that was in
paragraph 160. Now 161 he says,
[161] That Melchisedec (that
Melchisedec) was flesh, represented himself in a human body; and then
later He was made flesh. Or
actually, the word is “became” flesh. And
now tonight, He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And Bro. Branham was using that of course as the
illustration the springboard to show Matthew 12 in evidence and Luke 17 in
evidence in his ministry to the people, that they may know that this was the
end of time, and time was just about all over.
Now, that word “represented.” The word “represent” in a
fairly good dictionary has about nine different points of meaning to it, of
which unfortunately, I myself am guilty of using almost exclusively, rather
than using the meaning that Bro. Branham himself was using when he uses the
word “represented.” Now we often use it as number seven: to act or stand in the
place of, to be an agent, a proxy, or substitute for. You say, “Well, he
represented me, the lawyer represented me in court, the ambassador represents
the king,” and so on. Then it says: to
speak and act for duly conferred authority as an ambassador. Well, we use that one. Then: to serve as a specimen, example, type
or instance of, exemplify or typify.
But notice, there’s a bunch
ahead of that -- number 1) to represent is to present or picture to the mind,
put clearly before the mind. 2a) to present a likeness or image of, portray or
depict. (We use that to a degree.)2b) to
be a likeness or image of as a picture or a statue is. 3) to present in words,
describe, state, or set forth often, to do so forcefully or earnestly so as to
influence action, persuade hearers, make effective protest, as he represented
the war already lost. 4a) to be a sign for, stand for, denote, designate,
symbolize, as x represents the unknown.
(They use that in algebra.) 4b) to denote or express by symbols,
characters, as represent mathematical quantities by letters. 5) to be the
equivalent of, correspond to, as in different place or time, as a cave
represented home to these people. 6) to present, produce, or perform a play, to
play the part of, impersonate, as in a drama.
So Bro. Branham often used the term “represented” or
“impersonated” and what he had in mind I can see from the dictionary is, to
present or picture to the mind, put clearly before the mind, to present a
likeness or image, portray, depict, to be a likeness or image as a picture or
statue is, to present in words, describe, state or set forth often, to do so
forcefully, earnestly so as to influence action, persuade hearers, and so on.
So when Bro. Branham said here, “That
Melchisedec was flesh, represented
himself in a human body” he’s
speaking of God doing all these things in order to present to us an actual
understanding of what we cannot see, but is made visible to us by some means,
and by actions thereby we can really know what is behind it all. So Bro.
Branham was very concise in this word, and it’s missed me so many times
because, I say, of my own usage of a word, and there again is the example that
we are so fallible in using our own understanding to comprehend what he said,
and it can’t be done unless the understanding has been changed sufficiently to
get what he is saying.
Now let’s just hit this a minute, you know I got a
problem in doing things like this, I never know I’m going to stop where I’m
going. But just hang in there, and we’ll get through today, somehow, or the
next day, or the next day, or the next day. All right, it’s in Luke. And it’s
in the 1st chapter, of course. And it speaks of John the Baptist. And it says
that John the Baptist will have the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb, of
course, he won’t drink, he’ll be a Nazarite. And verse 16,
(16) And many of the children of
And that let’s you know that the people have already been
turned away from God, whether they know it or not, whether they believe it or
not, whether they want to know it or not, whether they want to accept it, what
has been shown to them -- they’re turned away.
Now I used that because this is our age. Now,
(17)
And he shall go before (what, the Lord God) in the spirit and power of
Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (Even the ignorant,
that were disobedient, is not a willful act contrary to what somebody wants. It
signifies ignorance and misunderstanding. So therefore, he will turn the hearts
of the fathers to the children, and the word “kai”, I don't believe is a
conjunction, I believe it is a preposition, and should be called “even.” Even
the ignorant and unlearned, the un-understanding), to the wisdom of the just;
to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
The people prepared, as I’ve many times said, would almost signify to us, and would signify a redundancy here. Because if you’re ready you’re prepared. That isn’t true. The preparedness goes plumb back to the beginning. See? But when you reach the state that John came, you are looking at predestination in an unready state. So you’re looking at a prepared people who are predestinated, but they’re unready for it. Now if it happened back there under one nation, one people, understanding one God, with one priesthood, with one theology, with all one looking, for a Messiah, and they blew it! Then don’t tell me a universal church, spread around a globe that’s 25,000 miles in circumference, with five billion people, and one billion claiming Christianity, are going to see it. That is ridiculous and asinine, and anybody who thinks different from that, you know I’m ashamed of you. I’m just ashamed of you. You’ve got to be some Pollyanna, sweet Susanna, composition, which doesn’t understand God. Because look, we’re at the end of the trail. And millions now living will die, with the billions that are going to be atomized.
There is no such thing as a
large number of people going into the kingdom at the end time. It just isn’t
true. You say, “Well, look at the time of
So here they are, we’re looking at the thought here of Bro. Branham teaching us, and every word really needs to be scrutinized, to know just what we’re looking at. So we see what God has done here, through Melchisedec, and you will see what God has done through the prophet, because the same God is in the prophet, to the extent -- now watch it. How much of God was in Melchisedec? Now this kind of blows the mind but I can’t help it, because my mind gets blown too, and I just look at it. How much of God was in Melchisedec? You say, “Well, it is quite agreed that every bit of God could have been in Melchisedec.” Now the question comes up. Tell me how much of God was in Melchisedec and necessary at that particular time? Well, if you are going to look at it in the light of present scripture, where He is King, that is synonymous with King David. So therefore, all of God is in Him. Because when that Spirit, that’s in the midst of us, becomes incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. That is the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, all wrapped in one. We could say all of it. All right?
How much was in the same personage, not designated
Melchisedec now, and an entirely different ministry, prior to the burning of
So we’re looking at this thing, Bro. Branham is showing
this here, in this message, very very strong. Then he says, “He later became flesh.” Who became
flesh? We know it was God with us. And we know at the river
Now I’m going to say this
because Bro. Branham said it. You know, they criticized him, they said, “How
can you, without even a grammar school education go before kings,” and so on.
He said, “God said so.” And then he said, “Sure I only went to the seventh
grade,” and he stopped and said, “But you better understand, I knew what was in
those books.” Don’t sell me short in other words, like I’m some kind of a dumb
bunny. Bro. Branham was so smart, that he underestimated the intelligence of
the preachers in
He became flesh, the same one we’re talking about became
flesh. Literally was not made, but became. To become is a period of
transformation or evolution. It’s like mutation. Do you realize that? The life
in the soul uses the material that was created, it utilizes it and forms the
form to its own specifications. That’s why God redeems these bodies. How can
God redeem a soul, unless you look at that soul in the sense of the whole
context of the being, but if your soul is a part of God, how can it be
redeemed? In the sense of it having sinned, it is bought back to it’s position,
but the body is the one that goes to the grave then comes out. Where’s the
change in your soul? You say, “Well, I’m going to change my soul.” Then you
change God. You’re meddling with seed.
All right, “Represented
Himself in a human body; and then later became flesh.” What did He do with
the body of Melchisedec? Depends on what substance it was made out of, just go
back to a substance that’s all, to its utilitarian position. What if this is
purely a theophonic form that God used? Like Bro. Branham said, Jesus kept His
theophany, theophonic form, we bypassed ours. What if this was it? What do you
think God did, what would God do? He would merely from Himself begin to
interpose Himself, from what was within Him. Make Himself manifested, so there
would be nothing for God at all to just simply unmanifest, you might say. No
problem. Then, when it came to producing a body down the road for Jesus,
there’d be no problem there at all. Because it would just merely take the same
life, and now instead of utilizing the life in the Spirit that was within
Itself, He would now begin to utilize that which was around Him. Because you
notice, brother/sister, when God ever used the word “create”, it means to make
something out of nothing. When He uses the word “form” it means He makes
something out of that which has already been created. But there is a part that
never was created, there’s a part that always was. This is a great mystery,
tremendous mystery, what are we going to say about it. Not too much. All right,
[162] Who is this Melchisedec
then, Never had a father, never had a mother, He never had no beginning of days;
He never had any end to life. And He met Abraham, and what kind of sign did He
perform? Then when he was made flesh, (or became flesh is what it should
be), He said it was to repeat again just
before the end time. You believe that? Let’s pray.
Now people do not believe that that’s to repeat. They
don’t believe it. They don’t believe the authority of Luke 17. They are merely
interested in transposing it into an illustration rather than a reality. And
all they ever look at is the bad part, the negative part,
[163] Dear God, I believe the
Scriptures, that You have said You were
the same yesterday, today, and forever. And as sincerely in my heart, Lord, I
know that something's fixing to take place.
Now I don’t know what he’s referring to. Is that a
further revelation that came forth before he died, or is it a matter of William
Branham decreasing that God may increase. Now remember, for John the Baptist to
decrease he was murdered, his head was cut off. Bro. Branham’s head was not cut
off, he was injured in the head, and thereby died. It could be the decreasing
of William Branham, and the increasing of God. I don’t know. He doesn’t say.
[163] I'm afraid to say anything,
Lord. Thou knowest the heart of Your servant.
[164] And how many times down
through the age when You sent things, (Now watch,) people failed to get it. Man is constantly praising God for what He
did, and saying what great things He's going to do, but ignoring that which he
is doing.
Only a Bride can know what
God is doing because this statement holds good all through the ages. It doesn’t
only hold good to the day of Bro. Branham. “Oh, great Bro. Branham, look at the
great things that were done. Oh, great Bro. Branham coming back, great things
are going to be done.” In the meantime, just sit there, fold your hands. But remember to get it out to everybody,
that everything’s at a standstill until Bro. Branham gets back.
Now listen, even if that is
the truth, the attitude is completely wrong, because what is going on now? What
is going on now? God didn’t leave here. He’s not some yo-yo on a string. He
came down, He goes up, He’ll come down and go up, and come down, and go up. It
doesn’t say that. Bro. Branham categorically said, “Jesus does all three in descending.” And he doesn’t say ‘descendings’, he said, “Descending.” Now if it’s supposed to be descendings, Bro.
Branham better come back and tell us, because he blew it. It’s in descending.
The same one that came down is here to raise the dead.
Anybody knows that. The Holy Ghost in a Pillar of Fire. He’s going to raise the
dead. When Jesus was lying there in the grave, and His soul had gone to Hades,
that Great One went on down there to preach, He preached in a theophonic form.
The Bible said, “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ raised him.” God raises the dead.
And the dead have to be raised before there’s a Rapture. So who is here? The
same God that Abraham saw in chapters 14 and 18, because Abraham believed God
who raises the dead. And that was not in a human body, it was represented in a
human body. The very fact that God will represent Himself through a prophet
shows that He is here to raise the dead. Why? Because this is the end time.
This is Rev 10:1-7.
And notice, that with the
going of the prophet, after Rev 10:7, there comes the fact that John said, the
Word of God came and said, “Come, eat this book.” And then it said, “For thou
shall appear before Kings,” and so on. And I said Bro. Branham, is that you, or
what is it? He said, “That is the Word.” And the Word has been doing it. Certainly, there’s been a tremendous increase in
the Prophetic Word. A tremendous increase in the spirit and power of God. You
say, “How?” Because for the first time we’re learning the true Word of God, and
God is bound to dynamize His true Word, because His true Word is the vehicle of
the Holy Ghost. There is no other conduit! That’s why you don’t pray all night
anymore. And fuss and fume all day as you used to do. And have Pentecostal
worries, and Nazarene, what have you. You pile Word upon Word upon Word. And
the life gets released, something happens. I tell you, I’ll never cease
thanking God for the healing I got by the life released in His Word. That’s the
way it’s going to be.
Oh, one day, death is going
to flee from us entirely. Listen, every bit of decay. And listen, did you know
that AIDS; it’s like worse than cancer, because the body decays. And there’s
decay going on in us now. Job said, “Skin worms eat my flesh,” they ain’t going
to eat ours. Oh, we’re going to give them the arsenic of the Holy Ghost, you’re
going to watch them all die. Oh yes, the fumigating power of those heaven-sent
breezes is going to come in and get all rid of that stuff. Somebody’s going to
get it. Might as well hold your cup. Like Mark Twain said to a friend of his,
he said, “Is money getting close?” “Sure,” he said, “If it gets any closer grab
me a handful.” Then why sit out here and not grab your handful when God’s
Spirit is moving? And the Word of God is moving, grab your handful. Bring your
empty earthen vessels, bring your buckets not a few, sure. What for? For the Holy Ghost? No, for the
Word! Because He is here! [Points to the Picture of the Pillar of Fire] Don’t ask God for what’s
already here. Just ask God to make good use of what’s here. That’s what’s wrong
with the world, never did make right use of anything. Poor old Adam fell into
sin, everything went down the drain since, until there’s nothing left but
pollution. Tell you right now, there’s no way that this nation, this whole
world is going to get out of here except by cruel, terrible death, if God
doesn’t do something. Everybody knows it.
What happened? The ozone’s moved over to
[164] So has it been through the
ages. Why did the Roman Catholic church fail to see Saint Patrick as God's
prophet? Why, because he was
different from them. Why did they kill Joan of
They can’t tell a witch from a saint. Can’t tell a
prophet from a soothsayer. Ho ho, listen how far the church has fallen. William
Branham, soothsayer, came on the scene and could out soothsay all the
soothsayers, put them all to rout, that’s a laugh. Now is the
Bro. Branham said, “Draw
closer together in these closing hours,”
not further apart. We’ve got one
Word to stand on, and I’m doing my best to stabilize it with you, that’s where
it all starts, because that’s where God is. You can say a lot of things in your
heart and mind brother/sister, but you’re not saying what the prophet said. Why
was William Branham that man? Because of that Word; both Logos and Rhema. Same
as Moses said, “You’re going to a land,” and he said, “it’s the Word that’s
going to get you there.” And the people are going to say, “Oh my, what a people
of Word.” Listen, perhaps in that great day in the White Throne, and all the
people stand back and see a Bride and they’ll say, “That was the people of the
Word.” You know why? Because the foolish virgin didn’t have it. Oh, my, my, my.
What’s in this hour? Bro. Branham like a prayer said,
[164] Father, it's always past.
You hide it from the eyes of the wise and prudent. No wonder You said to those priests, "You garnish the tombs of the
prophets, and you're the one(s) that
put them in there." The very
same ones that said, “If I was there in the day of Jesus I would have known, I
would not have crucified Him.” That’s a lie, it makes you a crucifier right
there. The prophet is right. After they're gone, See, it’s too late
then to call up anything, they see their mistake. It’s too late to
catch up. Now he said, After they're gone it’s too late to catch
up see, they see their mistake. They
always persecute You, Lord, in whatever form You come in.
Now that’s in Acts 9, why persecutest thou
Me, Paul -- Saul? Why do you persecute me? Now, let’s go to Matthew 23 and in
here you’ll notice 34-39:
(34) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall
ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:
(35) That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of
Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
(36) Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.
(37) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her] wings, and
ye would not!
(38) Behold, your house is left unto you
desolate.
(39) For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye
shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Now listen, how does He gather the people? By the
prophets. And how do the prophets do it? By the Word. So the people are
gathered in one way. Now you can say what you want but we are talking about
destiny, because He said, “Upon you may come all the righteous blood.” We’re
talking about an end. We’re talking about the finish. And therefore at the
finish, there has to be a prophet or the people will not be gathered to God.
You say, “I don’t believe it
Bro. Vayle.”
Listen kid, you believe what
you want. Lee Vayle is going to look you in the face. Every single one, the
youngest to the oldest. I’m going to eyeball every one of you, and I’m doing
it. Let me tell you something. I’m giving you Thus Saith the Lord, the Word of
Almighty God. You do what you want with it. You do what you want with it. But
I’m going to tell you, you and I are going two different places if you don’t
see the Word of God.
Because you’re saying, “The
church is going to do it, a preacher is going to do it, my understanding is
going to do it.”
That is a lie because there is 15 million
people, believe 15 million different ways. And anybody that doesn’t look for
some sort of vindication is a jackass. Oh, I know people wouldn’t like that
from the pulpit here.
“Bro. Vayle, you should say
something else.”
I just said jackass. And I’m
sorry I insulted the jackass. Because he doesn’t know any better. But he knows
his master’s crib. Yeah. But God said,
“My people don’t know Me or My ways.” I can’t help what I preach.
Now listen to me.
The spiritual condition of that hour, of [Matthew] 34-39, is the whole chapter 23. I’m not going to take
time to read it, but I’d advise you to read it. Especially if you play this
tape over. And in there you will find the ultimate of the age is hypocrisy.
Pretending what isn’t there, and actually knowing it. That’s where you can have
love with dissimulation, which I have talked about many times, which is a
hypocritical love. There is only one true love my brother/sister, let us
understand that, and that is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost, and there’s only one way to get it, and that’s by having the Word
or you are nothing but a foolish virgin at best. And I don’t mean to say
nothing but a foolish virgin as though that’s a bad thing, because they’re
coming up in the White Throne judgment which we may have time this morning --
we’re not going to have time this morning, no way. If I get this read I’ll be
doing good. We’ll cover it another time.
All right. Remember, 34-39 is in the context of the 23rd
chapter, verses 1-39. Bro. Branham says, “I
pray tonight, God, just one more time.” Now what is that one more time? That one more
time is for the manifestation of the Messianic sign, the last sign the church
gets before there’s a rapture. Now let’s understand that. And they’ve seen it
so many times, he has to keep praying, one more time. Because he knows as God
knows, once was enough, but they saw it thousands of times. And he prays, “One more time,” because to not pray one
more time in humility, to attempt to use it could be very bad, because then God
could send sudden destruction upon a wicked and adulterous nation. But if he
prays, then God in mercy will let it be shown one more time. This is a sermon
of mercy that Bro. Branham preached. Because the actions could not be merciful,
if the sermon was not a sermon of mercy. You say, “Every message on redemption
is.” That is true, but this is particular, because we’re dealing with judgment,
we are dealing with God and His Presence.
[165] He said, Tomorrow we're
scheduled to go to
All right, notice in there, “Fools, slow of heart, don't you know that
Christ should suffer these things and enter into His glory.” Now, only the elect can receive the
revelation or explanation after the Word has been manifested. No matter what
you see or think about it, the real meaning takes a revelation. See, right,
that’s the Truth, only the elect can receive the revelation or explanation
after the Word has been manifested. Always there is the explanation after
manifestation. Jesus manifested, then explained. Even then, they couldn’t get
it. Even then, they couldn’t get it. It took all their thinking, concentrating,
it didn’t work until God allowed the real meaning to come forth from the
revelation. This message and William Branham is no different because Heb 13:8,
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. And what he did and
how he did it, and how it was received. So there’s action and counteraction,
understanding, misunderstanding, then true understanding. All of this has never
changed, always God must manifest something, something must be done, then it
must be explained, for the revelation to come out. And even then, if God
doesn’t quicken it, it’s not going to work. It alone can put us into action,
that’s …?… He is risen, they went quickly.
[166] Father God, I believe that
You're still alive. I know You are. And You've proved it to us so many times.
Could You do it just once more for us, Lord? Prove He’s alive. In other
words, if He’s alive, He’ll do the same things He did in the flesh and do it
now the same way. If we found grace in
Your sight, let it happen once more. I am Your servant, these are Your servants
in here. Lord, all I've said wouldn't mount to anything. Just one word from You
would be more than I've said in all these five messages. It would be more, just
one word from You. Won't You speak, Lord, that the people might know that I've
told the Truth? Grant it, God. I ask it in Jesus' Name once more. Amen.
Now notice how he prayed, “God, I ask it in Jesus’ Name.” So let’s stay with the way he prayed. I hear
there’s people who want to change this. All right, now notice him, “Won't You speak, Lord, that the people
might know that I've told the Truth? “
Speak… 1) Speak by showing, 2) Speak
by the prophet’s explanation, 3) Speak to the heart as in Eph 1:17. It didn’t
say the prophet would do it, it said the Spirit would do it. So the Spirit can
come into full manifestation and deal in a prophet. But unless the Spirit, the
born again is speaking within our heart and witnessing, there is no revelation.
How could anybody look at that and say, “That is the spirit of the Devil.” [Points to the Picture]Oh I’m just going to say one
thing. If they can say it, that’s fine by me, and if it’s the spirit of the
Devil, that’s great for them, that’s fine. I can’t see it that way. Nothing in
me ever said that was the Devil. Nothing in you says that either. See?
All right, now notice Bro.
Branham is addressing Father God. He’s addressing the Father. Not addressing
the Son now, this is… especially looking at that the whole message, God,
Melchisedec, the Elohim came down. You’re looking at the fact of the very
Presence. Paragraph 167,
[167] Now, I don't know you; I know some people. I know
this boy setting here. I know Bill Dauch setting right there. Here's Brother
Blair, Rodney Cox. It's hard to see out there. On this side right at the
present time I can't see anybody I actually know.
[168] Now, how many in here know that I am a stranger to
you, raise up your hands, knows that I know nothing about you, raise up your
hands on both sides. How many in here that has something wrong or something
that--that you know that I know nothing about, would you raise up your hands.
Now, it would be totally, absolutely, totally impossible for me to know
anything about you. Otherwise, then it would
have to come from some revelation of Spirit.
Now Bro. Branham doesn’t say
revelation of the Spirit, he said revelation of Spirit. That could be an evil
spirit, Spirit of God, or your own spirit. He just tells you flat, it would
have to be known some way. Now he has the Scripture behind him, that when a prophet
comes in the Name of the Lord and says something, and the thing come to pass,
you listen to that man. So Bro. Branham is come with double proof at the
beginning and the end, his ministry was full of proof that he was that prophet,
and now he’s proving again. So the Word of God is sandwiched between absolute,
irrefutable, scriptural evidence which means nothing to the hypocrites. The
Pharisees. So forget it. Don’t try to prove a point, no way. [End of side 1 on
tape] We don’t have to fool with anything at all, we just leave it right there.
Now notice,
[168] Otherwise it would have to
come by some revelation of Spirit. Jesus said the same thing. Back there in
the 12th of Matthew. And being I've told
you all these nights, and tonight that He is not dead; He's here and promised
to do the same thing, God, the one that was in Melchisedec, and
promised there would come a time in the last days according to Malachi and to
St. Luke, that He would appear again in a
human form among the people, and do the same things, and reveal the same
things, the same Messianic sign... How many knows that, you Bible readers. Now
he doesn’t say students or theologians. You
bible readers, and he says I’m a servant of God, you’re a servant of God.
So he’s appealing to the people that are in one spirit with him.
Now, the Son of Man revealed
in human flesh, I know of no theologian who has ever said that. I’m not saying
someone hasn’t. I have not read every single book of course. I’ve read some of
the books. I’ve read enough books. But, the Son of Man revealed in human flesh.
I asked Bro. Branham what that was, he said that’s
the Bride in every age. And of course if your hand does it your body does
it. So that’s right, if Bro. Branham was the hand doing it, then we have done
it. The Bride has done it. The Bride is manifested. And remember, if William
Branham did it according to Scripture, and it’s Divine, then God did it. So
therefore it is neither Bride nor prophet,
it is God. So that’s what you’re looking at. In other words, Headship has
returned. Okay.
[168] How many knows that, you
Bible readers--knows that's the Truth say, "Amen!" [Congregation
replies, "Amen!"--Ed.] Must all be Bible readers.
[169] Now, I know it's foreign
to the people today, but still it's the Truth. That's the reason they didn't
know Jesus of
Now he’s emphasizing the
point of the prophet and as I said, maybe last week, I forget, Wednesday or
whenever it was, that because of so many titles that God has, the least
effective one as far as we are concerned in the light of redemption, is
prophet. And that’s wrong. Because if He weren’t the Word, He couldn’t be
Redeemer. Because we also are Word. We’re Word. We’re soul. We’re gene. We’re
attribute. We’re a part of God, Spirit sons, Spirit of faith, children of
Abraham, designating the flesh. And showing association with Jesus by flesh.
Right down the line, see?
All right, can’t know Him
except as a revelation. And it takes the Son to reveal Him. Now what have we
got in our heart? The Spirit of His Son. That’s His Own Spirit. That portion,
designating Sonship. Joined up with that little seed within us. Makes us able
to receive a revelation from God. Now the world’s going to… everybody’s going
to claim it. So there’s going to be a showdown. I got news for you. The
showdown is
Let’s take a little peek at
this thing. You all believe the Bible, sure you do. You believe the White
Throne Judgment. And you believe that Satan forms an entire camp to try to
destroy the Saints of God and the
[170] Now, if God will keep His
Word, and if it happens to fall on someone that I know, that’s the light
coming out then I'll get someone else.
See, I want somebody I don't know. And I want you to pray.
[171] Now, look, there was a
little woman one time had an infirmity. She had spent her money on doctors; and
they could do her no good. And she said within her heart, "If I can touch
that Man's garments, I'll be made well." You remember the story? And so
all of them tried to get her to stay back, but she pressed through until she
touched His garment, and when she pressed the garment went back and set down.
[172] Now, listen close. And
Jesus turned around and said, "Who touched Me?"
[173] Why, Peter the apostle
rebuked Him. He might have said something like, "Lord, don't say a thing
like that. The people will believe there's something wrong with You, because
when You ask them to eat Your flesh and drink Your blood. That’s bad
enough. They already think there's
something wrong with that. And You say, `Who touched Me,' why, the whole
crowd's touching You."
See, the prophet’s ministry
to become stronger… The prophet’s ministry became stranger and stranger to the
people. William Branham did like Jesus. Until it seems ridiculous for religious
people to believe. And now William Branham is making himself look like Jesus by
quoting this and going to do it, he’s going to do the very works. These people
do not want enlightenment. The people do not want enlightenment. Lk 1:53;
(53)
He hath filled the hungry with good things; the rich he hath sent away
empty.
Luke 6, now you know what I
am driving at. If you’re coming and saying, “Well I’m full, I don’t need that.”
You’re a Pharisee. You’re going to get sent away empty. Going to take away
everything you got. You’ll go out of here and you’ll have a dream of glory,
like a person who ate a big meal while he was starving, he had a dream. Next
morning his stomach was killing him with pain, because he hadn’t eaten a thing.
That’s all. Can’t bring to birth or anything else. Lk 6:22-24;
(22)
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate
you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil
for the Son of man’s sake.
(23)
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is
great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
(See?)
(24)
But woe unto you that are rich!
For ye have received your consolation.
(25)
Woe unto you that are full! for (you’ll be hungry. Woe unto you that
laugh. Your scorn will be turned into weeping and wailing, don’t worry.)
Ephesians 5. You can put
this all together for me, you’re good Bible students. Eph 5:13;
(13)
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for
whatsoever (And I don’t care what it is.)
I can make light to you that
it doesn’t pay to put your finger on the anvil when I’m going to hit it with my
hammer. You’ll be full of light, instantaneously. So God can send light with a
swarm of bees, a plague, a rainbow around the sun, a hurricane, a Pillar of
Fire, a prophet. Or anything He wants to do, that is light. When something is
made manifest. When it was made manifest, William Branham could read our hearts
and our minds, and our diseases, and do what God wanted, that was light. So
there is light here. Now, let’s go to Jn 3:16 and look at it. William Branham,
light. John the Baptist was a light. L-i-g-h-t in front of the capital
L-I-G-H-T. There’s a difference. Jn 3:16, wonderful. Read 17;
(17)
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that
the world through him might be saved.
(18)
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. (Now watch.)
(19)
And this is the condemnation, (this is what clears all of redemption by
the blood. This negates the blood, and puts God to an open shame for what He’s
done.) light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
In plain English, they will
not follow the glow and see where it went. Bro. Branham loved that little
phrase, “Come and see. Why, he said, can any good thing come out of
I ask you, how much light
are you following? Are you following right on down? Come on, it’s up to us. We
can turn it away, we can turn that away, and turn that away. You say, “Well…” You find
something else. “Oh,” they say, “that was a rocket or something.” [Points to the picture] Oh come on now, a rocket
my foot. They know they’re lying. That book against Bro. Branham, really it’s
against him more than for him, it’s supposed to be a compendium, a regular
history of Pentecost. It is. And it’s a good book. But it isn’t going to get
any marks for him in heaven, I don’t think he… He’s never going to get there.
Or he would have written a different book entirely. “Well,” you say, “the
casual spectator is not bad off.” You’re a liar. Don’t get confused with
American justice. Where if you interfere, like the poor doctor stopped on the
road, and helped somebody on the road, hoping to do some service, and the guy
sued him. They should have taken that skunk and tarred and feathered him. I not
for doctors getting off with their bloody murder like they’re doing. Today you
don’t even dare to try to help somebody that’s being abused, because the law
could turn on you, and at the same time the law says, if you don’t report a
crime going on or help somebody in a crime, you are guilty. What kind of law we
got in
If you’re hoping for
anything in this life brother, I’ll tell you. I’ve got some nice sharp knives,
and I will help you cut your throat. You know, as a favor to you. I hate to do
it, but you know, if I have to. I’m a very accommodating person. I want to show
you, how ridiculous can you be in thinking there’s anything outside of this. [Points to the picture] You say, “Well, I don’t
think much of that. I don’t think much of…” You don’t have to. Just please
produce something! But you better because I was there, I saw the prophet. I saw
her go blblblblblblb… crazy as a hoot owl like. Bro. Branham said, put her
outside until I get to her. I made sure the girl was by the door as he came out
of the meeting. She was blblblblblbl… making noise like that. She stood with
Bro. Branham, and terror stricken for one minute. And he put his hand around
you, she melted, was a perfect baby. Show me that! I’ve seen it hundreds of
times, that you know nothing of. Hundreds in one night, and not a miss. Then
tell me any Pentecost, Baptist, Methodist, Nazarene, anybody got that…[Points to the picture] I haven’t got time to spit
in your face. No way. You say, “You’re judgmental, you’re rotten.” I’m taking
sides with Jesus today. Take any side you want. Anything less would not dignify
him. Anything more just might make me realize that I haven’t gone anywhere, a
millienth mile closer …?… People can do what they want. He said,
[174] He said, “Virtue went out
of Me." That was a different kind of touch. Now, anybody knows that virtue
is strength. "I got weak; virtue left Me."
Bro. Branham got weak.
Daniel got weak. “Oh, that’s a sign of the devil.” Well, come on hot shot, full
of the Holy Ghost, you do something. Anybody can talk, and talkers are going to
hell. There’s only one kind of talker that God looks at today, and those that
talk this Word. You do what you want.
[174] And He looked around on the
audience until He found the little woman and told her about her blood issue.
And she felt in her body that that blood issue had stopped. It was right. And He said, "Thy faith has saved
thee." Now, the Greek word there is Sozo, for healing and… Salvation
is the same thing because He's your
Saviour.
[175] Now, if that was Him
yesterday, and the way He acted to prove that He was among the people, the
Messiah promised, and that's the way He identified Himself in promise by the
Bible, He'd do the same thing now. Wouldn't He?
Notice, ‘among’, not ‘in’.
‘Among’, in the midst. So God is not in the people, God is amongst the people.
As well as in the people. And God isn’t in the people per se, but the tiny
speck of the Life of Almighty God, Spirit Life. Where soul came, identified, to
build a body around it. That’s why we should be temples of the Holy Ghost and
live for Christ. And not be ungodly and do wicked things. Repress all the
world, the flesh, and the Devil, pride of life and all.
[176] He will do the same thing.
You say, "Did He say it's about healing the sick?" Yeah! The Hebrews,
the Bible that I just read from said that Jesus Christ now is our High Priest
that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
Now you see, there again you
are watching the very touching. Making a demonstration of fact that God is
absolutely knowledgeable through the efficacy of the Lord Jesus Christ and there
is absolutely a door open that cannot be shut. We’re looking at that. And
remember, today there was a healing revival that was to preface the literal
second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Bro. Branham shows us that healing
revival is absolutely identified, and is the Alpha of the Omega, when Jesus
Christ in human form, or Elohim, call it what you want, in human form did these
things, was touched. [Points to the picture] And as High Priest at the day of Pentecost He was
touched. And He’s still touched. But after Pentecost brother/sister, after the
Apostle Paul you do not see Him in the midst, He went back. But He’s come back
to the temple. That’s beautiful because that’s exactly the way it always is in
scripture. The temple gets defiled and God goes away, but there is always a
time when He comes back to another temple. He left the Ephesian age, He had to,
but He’s come back to this age. Oh, praise God, and there’s no stopping the
Bride getting out of here.
[176] He’s touched by the feeling
of our infirmities. How many knows that true? The Bible said that. He's
the High Priest now that can be touched
by the feeling of our infirmities. Then if He's the same High Priest that He
was then, how would He act now? He'd have to act the same way He did then, if
He's the same High Priest. Now, you might... I'm not your high priest. You
might touch me, and it'd just be like touching your husband, or your brother,
or whatever, some man. But you touch Him and watch what happens. Now, if I be
God's servant, the prophet and have
told you the Truth, God will vindicate it to be the Truth. Because you see
He’s speaking, God do it one more time. You see.
Now, here is why the
counterfeit followed. But none was perfect. Because… “Well, I’m God’s servant
too.” See. “God vindicate me.” But only it happened to Bro. Branham. They also
claim the inheritance like Esau, but the younger has it. William Branham was
not born in Pentecost. The younger brother, identified with Pentecost, but he
wanted the birthright. He wanted the power and the Message, power and the
vindication to bring a vindicated Message. He didn’t want Pentecostalism to
vindicate a rightness. “This is a door, see, we’ve got it! Something you say or
do.” No, something you believe. God’s already done it. That’s why the doers are
adrift in a sea of works, and it’ll get them nowhere. Now,
[178] Somebody just look to God,
and say, "God, that man doesn’t
know me. He knows nothing about me. I'm a perfect stranger to him. But let my
faith touch You, Lord. And You know what's the matter with me, Lord. You know
all about me; You know who I am, the same as You knew who Peter was, and
Nathanael, as You knew what was wrong with the woman with the blood issue. And
this man tells me that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then,
Lord, let my faith touch You." And if He'll do that and infallibly prove
Himself here, how many of you will believe Him with all your heart, if He'll do
it one more time, two or three people for a witness. God bless you! They raise
their hands. Now of course, what’s he saying. That you’ll believe what I’m
telling you about in this Message, which is vindicated today.
Now, those who never had a
clue to do this, that is to reach out, for something that would touch God and
bring them the Light over their heads, and Bro. Branham speak to them. And some
of them called, never had a clue. I believe this is a reason from scripture
that says, “The spirit strikes everybody.” In the last day, the spirit upon all
flesh. The Pillar of Fire did not seek out the elect. No. The Pillar of Fire
was merely doing this to vindicate His Presence and the power of the Word that
was given at that particular time, see.
[180] Now, don't be nervous, just
humbly, reverently say, "Lord, I'll serve You. And that'll be a Truth and
if I touch Your garment, then You speak back through the man. And That will
prove that what he said's the Truth." Is that right? That’s the
evidence of the Message and the Power of God.
[181] How many ever seen the
picture of that Light? It's all over the country. Science has took it and
examined it and everywhere. Now, He's right here now,the very same One that
said about Marriage and Divorce. [THE SPOKEN WORD, Vol. 3 No. 13--Ed.] Now
he talks about the vindication of Marriage and Divorce. The same One was on the
mountain and shook the hills back there, the same One that came down the river,
the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now you notice in here, he
talks of three definite appearances with manifestation of 1Th
4:16, the one that came down with the Shout, the Voice, and so on. In
Marriage and Divorce up there in
[182] Now, there's a woman; and
she recognizes something's happened. That Light's hanging over her. She's
setting right here, green sweater on or something on. I don't know the woman. I
suppose we are stranger. That is right. Do you believe that God...
You're--you're in need of something, and you believe that God can reveal to me
what your trouble is? And if He does, then you know it'll have to be a
supernatural power, because I don't know you. And it'll have to come through
supernatural. Depends upon what you think it is, see. You can take your side
with the priest, call it the devil, or you can take the side of the believer
and call it God. Which ever you believe,
that's where your reward will come from.
Now that’s exactly what I
see about this fellow, Weaver, and his book. He ends up as though he’s cautious
but he spills the beans. He’s a Baptist. He has no faith in the doctrine, which
is vindicated, which is one God.
[183] If God will reveal to me
your trouble, will you accept Him as your atonement for that trouble? I don't
know what the trouble is, but I know and you know that something's going on.
[184] Now, just let me tell you
how you're feeling, then you'll know, a real warm, sweet, comfortable feeling.
I'm looking right straight at It. It's that Light, Amber Light hanging from the
woman. And the lady is suffering with a trouble in her stomach. It's a kinda of
a growth like in her stomach. She's not from here, she’s from
[185] Now, who touched the woman?
I'm twenty-five yards from her. She touched Jesus Christ, the High Priest. You
believe God?
In other words, he’s telling
you the living reality of God in every role He ever had, He’s here and He’s
helping people.
[186] I'm looking at a woman that
I talked to. Her name’s Mrs. Waldrop. He
tells about how she died of cancer, 18 years ago, and she’s living right
today. Her doctor’s brought her to the
meeting… “How can the woman live?” No sign that she could live. And I met her and saw her myself there. She brought a man from
[189] Here is a woman, I know
her, Miss McKenny, from down there in
There’s a man sitting back
of him, his name is Mr. Cox, and he prayed for Mr. Cox. Told him to stand up. And then, also some of you might have met Mr.
West.
[191] Across the aisle, a little
further back, there’s a man come from
Bro. Branham faced one
auditorium and the gym back of him where people were. He is
from
[192] How many of you believe
now with all your heart? Now, isn’t
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever? I’m going over this rapidly because I
have no notes here.
[193] Here is a person setting
here, crippled, laying on a cot. Can you hear me…something’s wrong. I can’t
heal you. It’s a man… it’s his
child. I don’t know you. You’re a
woman, I’m a man. This is the first time
in life, I suppose we’ve met. That brought you. Frankly, this is your first time here, you
came from a long way. You’re shadowed to
death. You have cancer. The doctors can do no more. It’s true.
And you’re sure to die; doctors can do no more for you.
Now, he enters into
desperation, where people can enter into.
Three lepers sitting at a gate in
[195] Now, you’re going to die,
you can’t live, but you’re not asked to
go to the camp of Gideon, you’re
invited to the house of the Father.
Now, you don’t have to fight anymore, you can just lie there and get
it.
[196] You’re dying with
cancer. You can’t live outside of
God. You’re not from this city. You’re not from around here. From a long way,
[197] Somebody hold her so she
can get her strength. That’s the one. Do you
believe God? Just let her get a little
strength; she’ll be all right. That’s
it, sister. There she is, in the Name of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us stand
up and pray, he said.
Now, there you are. We don’t have time to bring out a highlight,
I was going to look at, to try to help you out with another part of the
message. But we did get finished and we’re wide open for questions. I’ll be back in the pulpit on New Years’. And, we’ll have a New Year’s service in the
morning. Next Sunday, one o’clock, we
get together, remember. And, you’re free
to stay for dinner, who’s here.
And so, that’s how we close
really fast this morning. I wouldn’t
have read so fast but I took time on other things, that I felt led to talk
about, to build us up spiritually, to build us up in faith, to give us a little
more impetus, knowing -- look, we are on the glory trail, we are on the winning
side, we’re on Jesus’ side. Jesus is not
on our side, we’re on Jesus’ side. Look,
I don’t want Him to cross over, He did that once. Let’s give Him the benefit, let’s cross over
to His side. How many times He’s crossed
over here, [Points
to the picture]
no one will ever know. Once is all we
need to cross over. You take a firm
stand and conviction. And I’m glad, I belong
to this old cult. The cult is not a bad
name. It’s just what you want to
insinuate. I don’t mind if they call us
this and that, and the other thing.
Women-haters. You know we don’t
hate women here. Now, we ain’t going to
be polygamists and think we over love them.
No, we don’t believe in that Jones stuff and that Woodra stuff. We don’t believe in that stuff. That’s not of God brother/sister. No, no, no.
A man says he can get in this pulpit here and have two wives at one
time, he’s a liar. I’m standing before
all, look, knowing that there, this Bible open.
Bro. Branham said there’s a God in heaven, I’m telling what the prophet
said. Polygamy, out. Now, if a member of the congregation tried
it, it’s still wrong. But you wouldn’t
be in half bad shape the other guy is, who’s doing and teaching others. That man’s
wrong. Those people are
wrong. Don’t you ever believe
otherwise.
The wrath of God has come
upon this world because they love the creature, more than the Creator. They go right to creation and say, “There’s
no God, it all happened.” That’s my God, you watch what’s going to happen. If you think AIDS is bad, wait till it really
takes off. It mutates. One serum will never be enough anymore for
one person. Oh they’re playing it down,
that’s all right. We’re going to play
this up. [Points
to the picture]
And get out of here. Let’s rise and be
dismissed.
Gracious God, Eternal
Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank You again for the joy
and privilege we have here of coming together, and talk Your Word, to go over
and just love it, Lord. It does so much
for us. Truly Lord, we realize that if
we can just get out of the way Lord, our words and our thoughts, and let Your
words and Your thoughts begin to expose themselves and develop themselves in
our lives, mature themselves so the life comes out. There is going to be a people who do not need
to go down in the ground and get resurrected.
There’s going to be a people right here Lord, everyone’s going to be
healed. I know that Lord. The prophet prayed it, I know it to be
true. And I know Lord, that people are,
already the body cells are forming around the life of the Word. They had to form around a life before, now we
know they’re forming around a perfect life.
A perfect Word, bringing us into a place. Death steps back, everything steps back. Father, we cannot praise You enough for this,
we thank You oh, God.
May we leave here with hearts full of joy, respect, love,
tenderness, mercy, doing justly, loving mercy, walking humbly, manifesting our
love and our service to you by loving and serving others, doing everything we
can oh, God. Father, God, we know, we’ve
seen the example. Now let it come forth
in us, because we want to praise You and love You more, Lord. For our sakes, it doesn’t seem to matter so
much Lord, speaking humanly, but for Your sake, Lord, when we see what You’ve
done, it just makes us want to go all the way we’ve never gone before. Now unto the King Eternal, Immortal,
Invisible, the only wise God, be all power, honor, glory through Jesus Christ
our Saviour, Amen. The Lord bless you.
‘Take the name of Jesus with you