PARADOX #3
Joshua, Book of Redemption
Bro. Lee Vayle
March 18, 1984
Shall
we pray? Heavenly Father, we come to You again in hope, Lord, through the
precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by the open door provided by the Holy
Spirit, to ask your grace and favor at this time, to help us to understand, as
never before, what an ordained and vindicated prophet taught, because Lord, we
need to know, not just what he said, we need to understand what he said. And
hopefully, Lord, You will help this morning to take another step forward,
another higher plateau, another higher ground, than previously; not that we
want to arrogate to ourselves something in pride that we are arriving or we are
somebody but, Lord, because we need it. We are not satisfied within ourselves,
at this point, and never will be, outside of You. And we are not satisfied that
we have even begun to know anything at all about something which You have set
forth here. So, we want to know more than we've ever known before, spiritually
understanding It, and It providing life for us. Rebuke the enemy for our sake.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
1.
1.
We are continuing in the subject of paradox; and this will be number
three. And back in paragraph 12, where we started, Bro. Branham mentions two
things. He mentions the ministering of the Word and the ministering of healing.
And then in paragraph 13, he makes a very strong statement on his ministry. He
said, "Now, the message that the
Lord has allotted to me, it's sometimes, you know, these things get pretty
touchy. And it's been that way in every age. And I have tried my best to stay
with It." That's what God allotted to him: the Message. "It's something. And if I did not speak
that thing that God told me,..."
Everybody reads, but this man was told. He
didn't read it. "And if it wasn't of
God, then it wouldn't be in the Word." Right away, you know, people
say, "Well, boy, that's pretty presumptuous. Who does he think he
is?" Well, he knows who he is. See? This man speaks with authority. He
doesn't come around you know, like some denominational clout he's got, with the
bishop to back him up, you know, some little human thing. But this is where God
is in the picture. God‑‑prophet.
Prophet‑‑God. See, never forget that. God and His prophet or the
prophet and his God.
2. Now, "If
it's in the Word, and a promise for this hour," then that's the
Message, the Word for this hour, the Promise for this hour. What is this hour?
What is it all about? "...then I
feel that I'm doing what's right, because I'm only trying to keep what He
promised for this hour." So
therefore, what God told him, is in the Word, but "pointed out" in
the Word. And Bro. Branham did not even know that Word, per se. So when God
spoke to him (as you understand when the angels came in the embodiment of the
Holy Spirit, seven angels came in‑‑one per day), he said he went
instantly to his concordance to check it out. It was there. He didn't even know
where it was. There are many things that we didn't know where they were. And he
never even told us where they were, but by the grace of God, we've been able to
find them. So, all right. A very strong statement.
3. Then in paragraph 18, he makes a
statement concerning divine healing. And he said, "Because, healing is the children's bread. We realize that it's in
the atonement, and the atonement first is applied to our souls. And healing has
always forerun every message, and it's also been a means to gather the people
together.” So he tells you that healing is a minor, unless it's used in the
major context which is to direct you to the Word of Almighty God. All right.
4. Then we'll notice in paragraph 20, he
mentions, and also in paragraph 19, the last statement. "As Bro. Bosworth said concerning healing, 'It's the bait on the
hook.' You show the fish the bait, not the hook." And in paragraph 20
he said, "And that's just the thing
to get the people to listen, till you can really present them to your message
or present the Message to them. God has done
that in every age," Now, listen. "Through
every age, there's always been a healing campaign. And if it's a genuine
healing campaign…” Therefore, there can be a phony healing campaign. See, a
genuine healing campaign..."behind
that campaign, always, is a message. There never is a sign given just for a
sign; it's forerunning a message." And we saw how that worked over
there through the Scripture, but we don't go into it today again.
5. Now then, going further, we go to
paragraph 25. And in there he makes a joint statement or a compound statement
basic to healing and to salvation.
(25)
If
you're sick, I wish I could heal you, but no man can do that. It's already done. Healing lies in you.
And remember he said, don’t take that too far. It’s your faith in the finished works that God did on Calvary, with
Jesus. And outside of that, there is no healing. So, that takes away the
statement that people say that healing can be of the devil. Shows they are a
bunch of ignoramuses concerning the Word. Now, And outside of that, there is no salvation; no church, no denomination,
no ritual, nothing packs salvation. Jesus Christ, “He was wounded for our
transgressions, with His stripes we were healed.”
6. Now, soon after this, he refers to an incident
that is related, or it's related to himself, that refers to a Bible that he is
using--a brand new Bible. And in there he said there were two markers as there
usually are in a Bible; little silk markers. And then there was a third one.
Now the first marker was at the dedication of Solomon's temple where the Glory
of God came in. The second marker was over in where Ezra rededicated the
temple. But you will notice that there was no Pillar of Fire that came down. It
was a discovery or a rediscovery of the Word. So therefore, you will notice:
Pillar of Fire‑-Word. And then the third marker was concerning Mk 11:22,
"Speak to this mountain, and then it will be moved." Now, you'll
notice, that in there, the third illustration, when he talked about Mark 22, the
moving of the mountain, and he said, "You people, familiar with the tapes,
will remember the squirrels that were created." All right.
1)
Presence of God;
2)
The rediscovery and understanding of the Word; and
3)
Creatorial act.
7. Now how do squirrels get created? Now,
this is the thing we're going to look at. And I tried to show you last
Wednesday. So we go to Gen 1:24‑25, and in there we read.
(24) And
the Lord God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,
the cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
(25) And
God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Now you know, as well as I know, that nobody
can stand in this pulpit or anyplace else and tell you that God said, "Let
the earth bring forth," and the earth brought forth of itself. Hogwash!
The animals were already there in the form of a spirit, the same as Adam and
Eve was. But, wherein God used His own hands to bring forth Adam and Eve in the
physical, He did not do that with the animals. He simply spoke. And when He
said to Bro. Branham, "You speak," the squirrel life was already there,
and all it had to do was for the earth to clothe it, just the form come forth.
What we are looking at is that the Word created the animal spirit, and the
earth clothed it, giving that life its manifestation and its part in the cosmos
system.
8.
8.
Now, you'll notice that that typifies a resurrection. See? But our
resurrection is not that way, although it is that way. See? It's coming forth.
This proves the resurrection is at hand. And let me read you what Bro. Branham
said. [From the message "Marriage and Divorce," February 21, 1965, by Bro. Branham, top of
Page 33.] "That's the reason Jesus
had to come through the woman, to bring it back to it's original beginning
again, without sex desire. He's virgin born. But, hallelujah! There'll come a
time when there won't be no more sex, but God shall call His children from the
dust..." Now, he says, God will do it.
Now remember, He said to William Branham,
"You speak." He said to Moses, "You speak." Now it was
already there for the earth to clothe it. It was all there. Now remember, in
our case though, it says here, "but God shall call His children." The
children are there; just need to be clothed.
9.
9.
Now I know a lot of people say Bro. Branham is going to come out of the
ground and call us up. I doubt that very much. I can't buy it. I'm sorry. You
say, "Well, what if he does it?" Then I guess I'm lost. You see, you
haven't got a fence to sit on anymore. Lots of things we don't know. Bro.
Branham said, "We turned a
corner." So, you're not going to fool around.
10.
10.
Now here is what the prophet said: "God
shall call His children.” William Branham was not God. And he isn't God. He
can be God to the people, and that's an entirely different subject. Now he
said, "God shall call His (people)
children from the dust of the earth, back like they were in the original! Not
through any woman, but through the molding of the clay and the cosmic lights
and the petroleum, He'll create again like He did Adam at the first time."
So, what he's telling you here‑‑Shekinah Glory, Word of God,
Resurrection.
There you are, right into the resurrection. The
creative act of God proving It is here; that is, this is the hour of the resurrection,
and creation of "life manifested" proves it.
Because if a man can stand there, like the same
as Moses did and say, let there be fleas, and the flea life was there and [ ]
created without sex; then God is going to call His children from the ground
without sex. See? We're right at the time. [ ]
11. All right. Paragraph 40. He mentions then the personal message that
God gave to him in Joshua. He said,
(40)
(40)
A few years ago, I would take a
Bible, and let you hand me your Bible, just like this here; and when I first
started my ministry; and just take your Bible, or my Bible and do this…Now
I missed it this time. It was Numbers. It’s got to be Joshua. It was always
Joshua, chapter 1, and always right. Now, he could hold a Bible like this way;
and there it was again. Hold it that way; there it was again. Never failed.
Interested. And all I would have to say
is, “Lord, where is the Message to me?” What are you trying to tell me? It
would open up at Joshua.
(41)
(41)
Then one night a vision came. He
said, I told you about it, how that an
arm reached down with a cuff and all hand with a collar or cuff, went down and pointed to the first nine
verses of Joshua.
(42)
(42)
That’s where I’m reading from,
this afternoon, and I’ll take my text from Josh 10:12-14.
12. So, all right. Now. However, in paragraph
46, before he reads, Bro. Branham prays.
And this is the fantastic prayer we went into last Wednesday.
(46) And we pray, Heavenly
Father, that this will be a great hour for all of us, that we might sense the
Presence of the Holy Spirit, the Writer of this Word, back in the building of a
tabernacle of flesh;
And anybody
who claims to have the Holy Ghost and think Bro. Branham is talking about the Baptism,
doesn't even know what he is saying. Because you and I cannot write a Bible.
You and I cannot even receive a revelation collectively. It takes the prophet
of God. Remember when I went to Peter
and took you to 2 Peter, I said there's got to be a prophet come on the scene,
get a revelation just like the prophet that got the original saying? I didn't
realize, but Bro. Branham actually made that same quote. I used it in the
Rapture tape and took you through 2 Peter 1; and Bro. Branham actually makes the
very same statement. He said that the revelation has got to come in the
identical manner that an original prophet brought it. Which means an original
prophet stood there and opened his mouth, and his mind became a literal blank.
I know a lot of people don't like that. [ ]
13.
13.
He says here, "that we might sense the Presence of the Writer of
this Word." Now remember Paul was full of the Holy Ghost, and that gave
him nothing (as to the Gospel of Grace). It took God Himself to stand right
there and give the revelation--give him Word by Word. So, he's not talking
about the presence of you and me full of the Holy Ghost making the Presence of
God.
Look,
brother/sister, let's face this. If nine‑hundred‑trillion people
were full of the Holy Ghost, that wouldn't make God. And it wouldn't make any,
collective bunch of us to get together with nine‑hundred‑trillion
minds and wonderful ideas and sit down and write a word as though the Word of
God could come that way. [ ]
14. Now
listen. Watch what he said. "We
pray, Heavenly Father, that this will be a great hour for all of us, that we
might...” Now one. Number 1 especially “...sense the Presence of the Holy Spirit, the Writer of this Word, Who is
back in the building of the tabernacle of flesh;” William Branham. God to
the people, veiling the Word...manifesting
Himself to us, in the pardoning of our sins, the forgiving of our iniquity, and
with the assurance that He will not impute sin to the believer, with the
assurance of that.
Now you
heard. That's a mouthful. Well, I'll tell you what we're going to do. I'm going to prove to you, bless God,
your sins are forgiven, because when I pull this curtain here, you are going to
see a jack‑in‑a‑box jump out. Whoop! Didn't jump out. Let's
try again. Doesn't work, does it? But
he's not talking about that. He's not talking about that. But how many people
will believe Bro. Branham and accept this statement? Oh they say, "Well,
you see, Bro. Vayle, what it is, is this. There's going to be a great revival
here where people are going to come to the altar, and that is going to do
it." I don't know about that. As far as the prophet understood and told
us, he said he agreed with Billy Graham, that if the Holy Spirit ever got taken
out of this world, they'd still have altar calls and go through the same thing
and think they've got it. And Bro. Branham said, the same thing is going to be
going on when we're gone. So he can't be talking about that; not in my books.[
]
15. He
says here, that the One Who wrote the Book, back now in a human form‑‑Logos,
Original, Elohim, into a prophet--bringing us Word in manifesting to us,
through that (It has to be through that, because that's what he's talking
about.) the assurance that He will not impute sin and make it stick. This was
written in 1965. October 23, 1964, Bro. Branham had the experience, where he
became guiltless before God.
And he said, "I'm praying, Heavenly Father, that
when I preach 'The Paradox' that Your Presence will cause people to know, through
this Message that I have, an absolute sinlessness." Now he said, "I can not do it, and no man can do
it.” Therefore, it's a very special hour that we're in and a very special
Presence, that this becomes reality to us. "And
also that He would heal our infirmities and take the people out of the wheel
chairs and off of the crutches; and give them sight to those who are blind; and
extension of days, of those dying with cancer or horrible diseases,
tuberculosis, advanced diseases our physicians cannot curb. It's beyond that.
You go beyond all scientific research." Right. Let them find that in a
test tube. You go beyond all reason. "Paradox." “Grant to Your servant, this afternoon, the speaking and hearing of
Thy Word, on the subject of ‘Paradox.’” In other words, it can be there,
but you can't believe it's there, but yet you'll know it's there. And you can't
prove it's there. But you know it's
there. Perfect faith!
16. All
right. He said, "You'll manifest
yourself." Now I'm going to show you what I believe that he is
speaking of in this particular respect. We go to Jn 14:21‑22:
(21) He
that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be
loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will manifest myself unto him.
Now this is to somebody who is already in. So
we cannot be looking at the proposition of a meeting wherein sinners are coming
in. We're looking at another proposition.
(22) And
Judas, not Iscariot, said Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto
us, and not unto the world?
(23) Jesus
answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: my Father
will love him, we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Now remember he said, "with you and in
you." In this case it is "with."
17. All right. Let's go back here to 1 John.
Now we go to 1 John 4.
(5) They are of the world: therefore speak they
of the world, and the world heareth them.
(6) We are
of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
(Now in other words you have to be full of the Holy Ghost to get this.) Hereby
we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Now, this is what we're looking at. How are we
going to have a manifestation of God, that the world cannot get? You are going
to have to already be in it in order to apprehend it. And it's always on the
basis of revelation. Matthew 16: "Who do men say that I, the son of man,
am?" Oh, they said, I'll tell you what. This bunch over here says you're
Isaiah. You're the fulfillment. That could have been almost anything‑-reincarnation,
God knows what. Same spirit coming back; who knows. Well, somebody says,
"I believe, really, that with this bunch over here, Jeremiah." And
somebody said, "Well, I really believe it's John the Baptist come back
from the dead." Now how about that? That's interesting, but I don't know
where to carry that one, except something is wrong somewhere. Well, he said,
"Who do you say that I am?" And Peter said, "Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the Living God." And He said, "You never got that
from yourself. You never got it from those groups over there. You got it
strictly by a revelation so that you know who I am and what I am. It's been
manifested to you." All right. Now let's show that this is correct.
18. We go to Heb 11:14. The words are these:
"For they that say such things declare plainly." They manifest by
their words.
Now remember, no man has seen God at any time.
The Only-Begotten, who lives in the bosom of the Father, hath thoroughly led
him forth, declared through the process of exegesis, which is to lay out there
completely through Word, through revelation; He has done it.
Now that word, 'manifest' is that word which
has to do with shining light. How will You, therefore, manifest to us? How will
You illuminate Yourself to us? "I will do it," He said, "through
the Word," through the revelation. So therefore, this Bible, which is the
letter form of God, and It's no different than another book, when It just lies
there, and part of It is already dead and gone, but the Word of the hour, the
revelation of the promise of this hour is the manifestation of God Himself,
even as the prophet is the living Word of God manifested in this hour. There he
is right there. [Bro. Vayle points to the picture.]
19. Well, wasn't he alive? That's Elijah which
was to come. That's the Bible.
"William Branham, who are you?"
"I'm
Malachi 4.”
"Come again?"
"That's
who I am. Malachi 4."
"You mean you're the Word of God that came
and formed a human flesh."
"That's
it exactly. Now you got it. And I'm living."
"What are you here for?"
"Illumination.
To manifest Him. To introduce Him, so you will know Him."
You say, "You're carrying things too
far."
“Unfortunately
I don't carry them far enough.”
20. Let's go back to John 15, and begin to see
the same thing. First of all Jn 15:24, "If I had not done among them the
works no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and
hated both me and my Father." And look at the context. Verse 22, "If
I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not sin." Now listen. The
speaking brings sin. Then what if you listen and believe the Word right. Then
there's no sin. Sure that's right.
Listen, brother/sister, we're on a toboggan ride; reverse. We move fast. We
move fast. Listen. He said, Now they've got no cloak for their sins." We
don't need any cloaks. We've come to the light. We've been searched. We've been
X‑rayed. No problem. The verdict has been guiltless. That's what Bro.
Branham prayed for.
21. [ ]
(23) He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
(Ah, just a minute!)
(22) If I had not come and spoken unto them, they
had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. (And now they hate
me. So therefore, the words that he spoke was the perfect revelation of God. It
was just the same as God, or how are you going to hate It. You see a man is his
word. God is His Word.)
(24) If I had not done among them the works no
other man did, they had not sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me
and my Father.
Therefore, when the superior walks amongst the
inferior, or the whole walks among the part, man rises up like the devil and
says, "Huh, Michael is going to have the great kingdom eh? I'll have a
better kingdom than he's got."
22. The minute God comes into view, in
whichever way God has chosen--and until this hour He came by preaching of Word
and this, that, and the other thing--but today He stands here, fully exposed,
with no creed and dogma veiling Him, and the people stand there and look at
Him. They're going to love Him or hate Him.
See? "Now, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father."
(25) But
this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a
cause. (But watch.)
(26) But
when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Now watch, Pillar of Fire, not the Son of man.
William Branham, not the Son of man.
Son of man in the form of the Holy Spirit. Spirit of God begin to move
in the prophet. Watch him move down. And He comes right out here. There He is.
Oh, that's not the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I'm sorry about that, because if
that was, we'd all have it. Moses said, "I would to God, you were all
prophets." Ain't no luck. Forget it.
23. Then It says,
(27) You'll
bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Now we're being taken back to the beginning to
have the same witness. Same Pillar of Fire Who wrote the Book is here
delivering It to us.
24. All right. We have now come to 1 Cor 1:7‑8.
This is the time of the apocalypse, because the Presence is the apocalypse, is
a part of the epiphania, is a part of the Parousia. There's nothing that hasn't started here now. Or I ask you in the
name of my God, where is the entering in, or the ushering in of the Millennium?
"Oh, Bro. Vayle, that's down the road." I beg to disagree with you.
It is now, and I am in it! Oh, I know they're going to cover up and say,
"Well, the Seventh Seal wasn't open." Maybe to them it wasn't. It's
fine by me. You have it your way.
(7) So
that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the apocalypse, the unveiling of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(8) Who shall confirm you unto the end, that you
may be blameless in the day of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Now they've got the cart before the horse. It
says the unveiling must take place to make you blameless, so you won't be
judged with the world and made guilty. Somebody's messed up. I'm messed up.
I'll tell you right now. You do what you want about this. That's your business.
25. Now. Let's go to John 8. How things like
this cut us all. I don't care any more about cutting. You do what you want. People are going to hear this tape. It goes
to many places. I don't care what they...They don't have to believe anything.
Do what you want about it. Jesus said here in John 8 to the Scribes and
Pharisees,
(38) I
speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have
seen with your father. (Oh, you say, that's a figure of speech. Well, the whole
Bible is a figure of speech. Who needs it? See?)
(39) They
said Abraham is our father. Jesus said if you were Abraham's children (doesn't
deny the father) you would do the works of Abraham.
(40) But
now you seek to kill me, a man that told you the truth, which I heard of God: this
did not Abraham.
(41) You
do the deeds of your father. They said, We be not born of fornication. (They knew serpent seed. He's the
fornicator.) We have one Father, even God. (Oh, don't tell me they didn't know
serpent seed. You bet your sweet life they did. You got a bunch of people down
here that don't know it.)
(42) Jesus
said, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
(43) Why
do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot
hear my word. (That's right. They couldn't get it.
Now what are they like? He describes
them.)
(44) When
you can't get that Word, you have the devil for your father and you'll do just what he did. (Which is your
soul lifted up in pride that you can't bend your mind for one minute. All
you've got is questions, questions, questions. And every question comes from a
creed and a dogma. Doesn't come from a divinely revealed source, or there
wouldn't be a question. Faith doesn't question. Faith believes what has
already been set forth. Faith does not presuppose.
Faith does not suppose. Faith is functional, foundational, doesn't run around.)
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there
is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own. (He doesn't
have the Word of God. He doesn't know the first thing about It.) He is a liar,
and the father of it.
(45) Because
I tell you the truth, and you believe me not.
(46) Which
of you can convince me of sin. If I say the truth, why don't you believe me?
(47) He
that is of God heareth God's word.
Just what John said. They said, "Give him
the acid test. Let's find out if they are from God." Well, first of all
let's find out who is of God. You've got them right there. The works were done
nobody else could do.
26. They say, "Well you see, Bro. Branham
was a great prophet, but he's off the Word." Hunh, hunh, hunh, hunh. You know. Mohammed Ali was a great
boxer, but he couldn't knock anybody out. But, oh didn't he? He knocked Liston
for a loop. One shot in the mug, and he was gone. Oh, Jessie Owens could really
run, but he couldn't win a race. Oh he didn't? Listen, the church may do what
sports did to Jim Thorpe, which they did to him. Well, I'm going to tell you
one thing. The guy still won the decathlon; still one of the greatest athletes
that ever lived. Hah! So much for your lousy bunch of stinking church members.
Filth of the universe. You waste your
time praying for America. You're sick. Pray for individuals. Oh, you say, you
have no place for the Word in there. They didn't have it. Now Bro. Branham
read. (Paragraph 47) Josh 1:1
(1) Now
after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son
of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
(2) Moses
my servant is dead; now therefore arise, and go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the
land which I do give to them, even to
the children of Israel.
Now this is the Message that was to Bro.
Branham. What is my message? You're not thinking are you? If you are, you're confused right now. I
want you to be confused, because I want you to be so confused [that] you're
going to let your own thinking go for once, and you don't give this much to anybody
elses' thinking but the prophet. Because I can prove right now, before I even
start, God giving me grace and help, you don't even know what the prophet said
anymore than I knew before ninety-six hours ago. And I've been a long time,
nineteen years on the road, since the prophet died.
I'm going to show you, that you can read
everything, and when you read it, you read it with your mind according to what
you think you know or what somebody taught you. And what happens when you draw
a little blank, you just gloss over it like that. I know what I'm talking
about. See, you didn't sit with the prophet four and a half hours on one point
like I did. Try to blow your brains twelve days in a row, all the time you
could get, to see if you could just make one point, and write it up. And he'd
say, "No, you haven't got it yet. Write it down. No you haven't got it
yet." You say, "Oooh. What have I got here?" Nothing much. But
you have all it takes to get there. You just listen.
27. Now I said, this is what it is supposed to
be concerning Bro. Branham--the message to him. Moses is dead. Goodbye Moses.
Joshua is alive. Take him in. And right now, you're thinking..."Bro.
Branham is not taking us into the Millennium, because that's the promised
land." Huh? Oh come on. I know positively you were thinking that. Don't
kid me. You're not that smart. But now you're thinking, so now you know you're
in trouble. You were thinking wrong. Or either I'm going to lead you into a
peck of trouble, one of the two.
Okay?
(3) Every
place that the sole of thy foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. (No guilt.
No fear.)
(4) From
the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites,
and unto the great sea toward the going
down of the sun, shall be your coast.
(The sun sets on the west coast.)
(5) There
shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life (Oh, how nice they were before he died,
then suddenly bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang): as I was with Moses,
so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
(6) Be
strong and of a good courage: for unto this people thou shalt divide for an inheritance the land, which I
sware unto their fathers to give them.
(What land? That would be the Word in this case. One came down and stood upon
land and sea.)
(7) Only
be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my
servant commanded thee: turn not from it
to the right hand or to the left, that thou may prosper wherever you go.
(8) This
book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth (So, therefore every sermon Bro. Branham preached was the
Word of God. Yes. [He] said, “that's all
you'll see when you believe the Message, in the Bible”); thou shall
meditate therein day and night...(Now just a minute. He told me. I didn't read
it. He told me.)...that thou mayest observe to do according to all that's
written therein: for then thou shall make thy ways prosperous, and then thou
shall have good success.
28. And because you've chosen the hard way,
there is laid up with thee a monumental portion of heaven. Because you did it
in love. He'd bawl the women out all the time. Couldn't stay off the women's
backs. And his poor wife couldn't say a word." Now where's your love? Perverted phileo. Now true phileo,
brother/sister, is of God, same as agape is. But you can pervert agape, and you
can pervert phileo, because I've showed you already in about six sermons. I'm
not through yet. There'll be the rest of this year likely, if the Lord gives us
grace.
29. On Communion night we're going to just
criss-cross that thing back and forth to show you where there has got to be some
true milk of human kindness that God put there, that can come out. And I don't
mean for one minute that you get to the place where you've got soul mates, and
the men can hug the women and not feel anything. Don't get that crud in your
minds. But there is a place that you can look at a women and love her as a
sister in Jesus Christ and treat your wives as sisters. And vice‑a‑versa.
We ain't got it. We're going to get it.
Because if there is a God that could just let William Branham say "three squirrels,” and that
squirrel life was there, and God brought it out of the earth, because that's
where He got it, and put it on squirrels that William Branham could eat, then
God can do this! Because that's part of the assurance that I've got to have. I
never saw those squirrels come into existence. I don't have to. But it's not
hard to believe.
30. I had an awful job with that squirrel thing
until just ninety-six hours ago. I knew I believed it, because if I saw William
Branham make three turns, revolutions, and this cord come around his feet and
me stand there and watch that cord, and I didn't even see it, but suddenly it's
straight. I can believe for a hundred squirrels. No trouble. But I could never
understand what happened till now. "When we walk in the light as He is in
the light, there is fellowship, one with another." That's Him and me, you
and Him, then with each other. "I stand all amazed in the Presence of
Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how He could love me, a sinner condemned,
unclean.” [Bro. Vayle begins crying.] Forget the emotion. Have to endure
hardness as a good soldier. Make sure you got your powder. Don't worry anymore
whether the fuse is wet or not. There ain't no wet fuses to fizzle. The powder
is all dry. [End of the first side of the tape.]
31. Now, he said, (9) "Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not
afraid, neither be dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee." And in
the vision He saw the Mumba, turned him into absolute glass, as the Word stood
there. Now he said, "Loose him. Turn him. Loose him. Let him go. Don't be
afraid." Yeah.
I believe what he saw. Sure. Back
there in John 8, there was no place for the Word aside from what they decided
they wanted as manifestation, which was a bunch of their own so-called
miracles, which I mean they called the trick on the miracles. There were
miracles. They didn't want a revelation of Word. Now this prophet here, and
he's a prophet, because he brings the Word...
32. [Paragraph 48] And then in Josh 10:12‑14.
(12) Then
spake Joshua unto the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun stand
still upon Gibeon; and Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. (Now listen. The first
part was to William Branham, but the text is to us. "The Paradox.")
(13) And the sun stood still, and
the moon stayed, until the people had avenged
themselves upon the enemy. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the
sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
(14) And there was no day like
that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened
unto the voice of a man:
The Lord harkened to the voice of a man? You
said, "Three squirrels?" Now he's going to go back and say,
"Hey, listen. I was called from a pyramid of seven angels."
They said, "You and who else?"
They said, "There's the one. He's the
Judge."
"Ah, come on. Pbbt! What are you trying to
tell us?"
"Seven days in a row an angel swept into the
room," the embodiment of the Holy Spirit.
It was the embodiment, because he said, "Oh, what a mistake I would have made,
but the Holy Spirt swept into the room.”
And he said, "What was it? All week long, seven angels coming.”
Therefore, the seventh one, which meant the
most, was the one that was his figurehead, the true in Heaven that came down
here. That's right. God literally moved on down here. You bet he's talking
about this one. This was 1965. This was not 1963. This was later.
33. All right. Paradox. Paradox. (50) "The
word 'paradox,' according to Webster: 'something incredible, but it's
true.'"
I've got a dictionary meaning here myself. It's
'a figure of speach.' It sure is. 'An
incredible statement or opinion. Something you can't believe.' You say, "I
just can't believe that." 'Incredible, beyond belief. A statement or
proposition which at first view seems to be absurd or at variance with common
sense or which actually or apparently contradicts some ascertained truth or received
opinion, though on investigation or when explained, it may appear to be well
founded.'
In other words, you say, "I can't believe
that." You go into it, and you say, "Hey, there's got to be something
to that." 'As a rhetorical figure, it's use is well exemplified in the
Bible as unknown yet known. Paul was known all around the world, but he wasn't
known to the hot shots. Oh they said, "No way is he part of our
crowd." Jesus was known around the city, but the Pharisees: [Have]
something to do with that bird? Forget it."
"As chastened and not killed. As
sorrowful, always rejoicing. As poor, yet making many rich. As having nothing,
possessing all things." That's a 'paradox.' That's right.
34. Now, he said in plain English, "Truth
is stranger than fiction." (51) "I
have a friend of mine, up in Colorado. The conservationist came by and he had
to buy fancy snowmobiles and everything else, to go back and count that herd of
elk. There were twenty‑one.” He said, "Well, the figure is nineteen
now, because I killed two of them." They laughed and said, Ha, ha. They
went back and found nineteen elk. He said, "See Bill. Tell them the truth.
They don't believe you anyway.” Truth is stranger than fiction.
35.
35.
Now. Listen. We're going to start reading, getting into the rough spots.
(57) Joshua here is a Book. Now you
thought it was a man, didn’t you? You read that, but you said Joshua was a man.
Because all you can think of is Joshua, when you think of the book. So right
away, you went right to Joshua as a man, although you knew it was a book. But
you’re wrong. It’s a Book. I’m sorry about that. “…actually, it’s a Book of redemption, to be that, the Book of
redemption. Joshua is the Book of redemption, of the Old Testament. We have to
consider it to be that, the Book of redemption. Because, redemption has two
parts. Now, redemption, anywhere, has two parts. That is, it is ‘out of’ and
‘into.’ It takes two parts to make redemption: ‘out of’ and ‘into.’ Like
out of death and into life.
Okay?
Now. [Rev 5:1‑7]
1.
1.
I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written
within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Written on the back and on
the inside. (Okay. Now, Bro. Branham said that’s the Book of redemption.)
2.
2.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to
open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
3.
3.
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to
open the book, neither to look thereon.
4.
4.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the
book, neither to look thereon. (In other words, you couldn’t even look at it,
because it would just blind you.)
5.
5.
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to
loose the seven seals thereof.
6.
6.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent
forth into all the earth.
Notice, the seven all came down at one time.
One at a time, then all at one time. Which meant, number seven did not get two
trips. Got one trip. Right? Right! He wasn’t here before. So this is part of
the Word that never was before. This is where they knocked the cap off the
pyramid and looked inside, and nothing was written. I don’t care what anybody
says. Anybody can say what they want. It’s good enough by me. They can say what
they want to. It’s fine by me. I’ve got no problem. He came and took the Book
out of the right hand of Him that sat on the throne. Okay. Book of redemption.
36. So that tells you, now if it's the Book of
redemption, there has got to be a coming out and a coming in. (Right?) for this
hour. Okay. Let's go to Eph 1:13‑14:
(13) In
whom also you hoped, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that holy
Spirit of promise,
(14) Which
is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Redemption has two parts. Well, does it or
doesn't it? So therefore, there's two
parts here. Huh? Well, don't you
believe what the prophet said? Look, if I'm going to believe what he said, I
have to say, "Well hey. Let's give it the old whirl." What are you
afraid of? If he led me astray, he's got to stand in judgment for me. He said
redemption has got two parts, and It talks about redemption right here. There
has to be a coming out and a going into.
37. Well, you say, “That's pretty good.”
“That's pretty good.” What we've got in redemption there, they have to come out
of the grave and go into a body. That's sounds very nice. I like that. They've
got to come out of paradise and go into a body. That's very good too. That's
very nice. I like that. But we got two parts too. And we ain't coming out of
the grave either--and going into. We're not even going to come out of our
bodies and go into theophany form. That's going to pick us up yonder. Well,
didn't he say two parts? So, I shrug my
shoulders. Sounds good, whatever it means.
38. Okay. Paragraph 58. "Moses represented
the law which brought them out of Egypt, whereas Joshua represents grace."
Now you've got the two leaders that you're talking about, indicating two
specific things. Now this time he's talking about personalities, but they're
only represented. Anybody here sells tinker toys, you represent the Tinker Toy
Company. You are not the tinker toy company. William Branham represented Jesus
Christ. He was not Jesus Christ, but he was Jesus Christ to the people the same
as the Tinker Toy salesman is tinker toys to the people.
Now, "Moses
represented the law which brought them out of Egypt, and, whereas, Joshua
represented grace that took them into the promised land. Another way was the law
and grace were two different aspects of God's command.” In other words,
there were two different aspects to God's Word. That's why the law is Holy even
though it condemns you. There's nothing wrong with the laws. It's the guy that
gets caught. See? There's nothing wrong with the merchandise of the purse lying
there, it's the bird that comes by and snitches it.
39. “Now,
the law brought them out.” And in this book here, they've got, "Now (comma) the law brought them out (semi‑colon) Moses and Joshua took them in." I don't know that that's
right. I don't think their punctuation is right. Because he said up here, "The law brought them out Moses
(comma), and Joshua took them in." And I still don't know
what he meant by it. I'll be honest
with you.
Actually, if I'm looking at it my way, the law
was a purgative. It was an actual purgative. Purges you. You drink something
here that'll make you vomit. God had to do something to get them out. In other
words get them so fed up, or whatever it was. A little strange this is. I'm not
going to worry about it. But anyway we're not involved with personalities, only
covenant content and the ministration of it; in other words, how God ministers
it. You got word; two forms of it. One God, two men representing. Two different
men. Two different reasons. All going to work to one end. But they're
different, different, different, different, indissolubly different, and can't be mixed.
40. It. Joshua, the Book of Joshua. Not Joshua. The Book. And he's talking in
terms of Him having a Message to him, and him bringing It to us. And this is
that Message. We're dealing with It.
41. Joshua also represents something for our
day. I showed you already. See? Joshua, the Book of redemption, has a parallel
now. Absolutely. [Josh 1:2] "Moses
My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all
this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of
Israel." Is it sinking in? Do you see what I see, that Bro. Branham
was telling you, "You and I, Bride,
I'm going to take you into the promised land." Now I know your thoughts there. Oh Bro. Vayle, that
means so and so. Shut up with your stupid thinking will you. Sit there with
your minds a blank. I told you how discernment used to work in me. It's like I
say, "Hey. Do you know the exact hour of the day I was born?" And
your mind goes blank. And you are waiting for the answer. I don't know
myself. But supposing I did know, and I
say, "Three o'clock in the morning." You'd say, Bro. Vayle, I had no thoughts
on it, but you see I know people that get born at an hour, a minute, and so on,
I realize those things. But I had no thoughts about this. So I opened my mind,
and it just went blank and I heard it. Well, do the same with this.
42. Now, if I'm leading you astray this
morning, we're having a lot of fun anyway. I can tell you that. I'm happy as a
lark. If I'm not in my right mind, Glory to God, Hallelujah. He'll forgive me.
He'll forgive the idiots. Especially if you fell on your head from your birth.
Unless your mother deliberately dumped you on your head, so she'd have an
excuse for you. Ever think of that?
(2) Moses
My servant is dead; now therefore arise, you, and take this people in over this
Jordan. (Jordan signifies death unto life. I've crossed over Jordan to
Cannaan's fair land. I don't want any trouble when I see Jordan's banks. Go
over to Jordan. The Rapture will take you up. William Branham, take the people
over Jordan.) Unto the land which I give them, even the bride.
( 3) Every place
that the sole thy foot, (that William Branham overlooked. I don't care what he
said. It's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine! He gave it to William Branham, who
gave it to me.)
(4) From the wilderness...(From the chaos. We'll
go into that shortly.) "Unto this Lebanon even unto the great river, the
river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the going down of the
sun, shall be your coast." (Right. The end time Message! Till He takes it
back to the two prophets, It is mine, on a platter. I hope I'm preaching the
truth.)
43. (59) It represents something for our day. Now it
presents, as they were in the journey, coming from Egypt into a promised
land...Into "a" promised land. Doesn't say "the"
Promised Land. He said "a" promised land, because there's more than
one...so have we come out of the world of
Egypt, chaos. All right. (Genesis 1)
(1) In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(2) And the earth was without form, and void
(chaos).
44. We're coming exactly out of what God
started--perfection, and went right down to the abyss. Because that word
‘chaos’ in the Hebrew is ‘abyss’. See? Going to the Millennium now, "out of Egypt on our road to a promised
land”. “In My Father's house there are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. Coming 'out of’
and going 'into.’” So therefore, we
are in a journey which is taking us out of Egypt and Babylon right into the
Kingdom of God, and it's going to be likened to the promised land, because he
said this. This is what we're looking at in the New Testament, from the Old
Testament.
45. All right. Let's keep reading.
(60) It's the law that brings us to recognize we're
wrong. That's diagnosis. But it's grace that forgives us.
That's prognosis.
Let's go to 1 Jn 2:4 All these goodies keep coming back eventually. I read it to you
before. (4) "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him." Verse 7: An old commandment in
the beginning. Verse 8: A new commandment. For what is that authoritative
prescription, the true druggist, the true doctor? Doctor Jesus with healing in
His wings, gives us the prescription of immortality, and we're going through a
promised land, of sorts, in order to get there.
"In
My Father’s house are many mansions." The law had no hope. Diagnosis
never cures you; never did. The law has
no hope of redemption, because it has no grace to it. The law only points that
you're a sinner, but grace tells you how to get out of it. Law is the policeman
that puts you in jail, but redemption is the one who came and paid the price
and paid your fine to get you out and into grace. Now this is a paradox.
You say, "What do you mean, a paradox?" Because it's the truth. But it's
in such a peculiar way, nobody can figure it.
46. Now listen to me. Get the picture, why I
preach the way I preach. This is not the baptism with the Holy Ghost, because
if you are born again, what are you locked out of? I thought the baptism with
the Holy Ghost locked you in. That's why they say, "Who needs Elijah? Ha.
He got puffed up like the rest of the jerks, because God gave him a great
ministry. It went right to his head, and he couldn't take it. He did what
everybody else did." They're talking about their own stupid selves--what
they would do. Lifted up by the pride of the devil. That man wasn't lifted up
by the pride of the devil. He put it all back on Christ every single time. Laid
it all back on him.
47. Who needs Elijah? "I'm born again.
Hallelujah! I have spoken in tongues, and my life is very fruitful." You
mean fruity. You see why our language is what it is today? They call a
homosexual 'a gay' and 'a fruit.' Joy, love. Just go every name you know that's
dirty--and that's not dirty. That's just language--and you'll find everything
has a meaning. "A meaning," you say. “Why?" Because Bro. Branham
said so. Elvis could not be before today; nor could Oral; nor could Ricky. And
then he put the females with them and called them Rickettas and Elvisinas no
doubt. That's a nice name I just figured out. I got my inspiration from a lot
of sources. I don't claim they're all of God, but I think that one was.
Yeah.
48. Yes, if we are born again, what are we
locked into that stops us going in? "Except I send Elijah the
prophet." My! [Bro. Vayle gives a whistling sound.] Everybody
burns--that's standing there--that can
burn. Now, dead people can't burn. You can't burn spirits. Can't even quench
them. But you can burn us. We're here. Locked. Paradox.
49. Oh, free! Born again! But hold it! Now
remember, I took you to Ephesians.
Redemption has two parts. Sealed to the day of redemption. Then what
hasn't been sealed, has been sealed in to Egypt. You don't think so? Let's read
Revelation 3:(14) "And unto the messenger of the church of the Laodicean
write; These things saith the Amen, (the winder upper) the faithful and true
witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" the Omega to the Alpha,
appearing to the Gentiles in the form of the Holy Ghost, doing the same things
identically to what He did in Israel. Except it's the Holy Spirit has to borrow
a body. Do you believe that?
50. [Paragraph
46] "Heavenly Father, that this
will be a great hour for all of us, that we might sense the Presence of the Holy
Spirit, the Writer of this Book, back in the building of the tabernacle of
flesh;” Oh, you say, "Hallelujah that's the bride." Hallelujah,
it's not the bride. Or call her together, and let's have the Word of God. Come
on, listen. I'll take every single child and woman and man in this building
here, and I'll ask you a question, and you'll all come up with a different
answer. You've got to have the Pillar some where, brother/sister.
Rev
3:15: "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would that
you were cold or hot." Now remember this, "Amen," was the
faithful and true witness, at the beginning of the creation of God, which when
God began to form Himself in human flesh, and now, at the end time, He has not
yet done it, all the way. Because He's
got to go back to it. So this is still
the Spirit of God.
(15) I know
your works are neither cold nor hot, I would you were cold or hot.
(16) So
then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I'm going to spue you
out of my mouth.
(17)
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need
of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor,
and blind, and naked: (You're shot.)
51. This is supposed to be bride, and on her
wedding day I suppose she comes running into the church nude. Hey, I should
have brought this picture of...I wanted to show you. They republished it of [Barbara] Streisand. Oh God. You talk
about a pervert. I mean, she'd make you puke. Now, no man could desire her
sexually taking one look at her, the way she came up there. Her looks make that
pool hall rape look fairly decent. I'll bring it to you. Maybe I shouldn't.
(18) I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire (They don't have any), and white
raiment (They don't have any. Miss Methodist) the shame of her nakedness
(Caught right in her adulteries) and anoint your eyes.
You say, "I've got the Holy Ghost."
You still don't have It.
52. You've got The Token, but you don't. Still
asleep. The Great Token Himself could only come at evening time. At evening
time it shall be light. How will You manifest to us and not to the world? Oh,
you'll know. Something that's done, I say, "Hey. Hey, hey, hey; something
should be listened to. There's something out there." That's why Pentecost
could never take this Message. There's no way they could take it. They couldn't
see the prophet. They couldn't see anybody. Blind.
53. All right now listen. [Quoting again from
"The Paradox," Paragraph
61.]
(61) The Ephesus. Now we find the same thing,
the Old Testament, I think this Book of Joshua fits. A fitting word for it,
would be, the Book of Ephesus of the Old Testament. The Book of Ephesians
of the Old Testament, would be a good
thing to title this Book, Joshua, because it's fitting.
So he's talking about a book. This is why his
MESSAGE foreruns! He's not talking about a person. He's talking about a book.
He's talking about a word. This Word not depart out of your mouth. Just be of good
courage, and you just keep walking in, and the people walk right in your steps.
Everything you get, you divide to the people. Well, "Bro. Branham, you
don't have any fear." Praise God; no fear. "Bro. Branham, you don't
have any guilt." Praise God; no guilt. The blood's there. You see that's
one reason I can't stand one thing where anybody says one thing about the
blood. Don't ever put it negative. I'm resting on it. I don't know what people
rest on. I'm resting on the blood. I haven't got anything.
“Nothing
in my hands I bring,
Simply to thy cross I cling.”
“Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.”
54. Now, then Ephesians has to be a repeat, has
to be a repeat of back there in Joshua. It has to be an omega actually, doesn't
it? Now listen.
(62) (62)
Now we find Joshua representing grace…Why? Because he’s the man it
fell upon. God’s got a Word. What good is that Word unless there’s something to
receive the Word. God doesn’t need His Own Word. See? He only needs It so far as
He is the Word. See? Brings out His attributes. Now we find Joshua representing grace, or some propitiation, that it
could not exist in the same time that law was in existence.
Now watch. Bro. Branham is preaching a principle, an axiom that the world doesn’t understand. And I’m going to tell you, it boggles my mind. This is one of my big hurdles right here. It’s a big hurdle. It’s tough. I’ll be honest with you. Hey, it’s tough as nails, but it’s true. We showed you that by Peter.
55. Now, "could
not exist." Now watch (63), the next paragraph, will explain (62),
which is a message, which is a paradox. "Now
we find Joshua representing grace, or some propitiation, that it could not
exist in the same time that law was in existence." And he's talking
about today. Right? You bet your life it's right. You better be, because he
said, "I can't preach..." "Moses couldn't preach Noah's message.
Christ couldn't preach Moses' message."
56. (63) Neither does any message, that forwards the
people on, ever coincide with a past message. It will not do it.That's where
you have the trouble today. Jesus said, "Does a person take a new piece of
garment and put it into an old? Or new wine in an old bottle? They perish. It
bursts open."
Now that's exactly right! Oh they say,
"But Bro. Vayle you understand this. That this Word has gone along, and
what you're talking about always was here, and we're just coming to it's
climax." I beg to differ. I beg to differ. Because Paul himself wanted to
know Christ and the power of His resurrection, and he didn't know it; and
nobody knows it at this point. I beg to differ. They can't stand it.
57. "In His Presence:" "This is the time to shake the people.
This is the time that God said there would come a time." This is the
time now that God said there would come a time. Right? Well, does He say it, or
doesn't He say it? He shook Mount Sinai one time, but there would come a
shaking again that He said He wouldn't only shake Mount Sinai, but He'd shake
everything that could be moved. "Oh Bro. Branham! Oh Bro. Branham!"
Oh shut up and listen to Bro. Branham. Chapter 12 of Hebrews.
(16) Lest
there be a fornicator, or profane person, like Esau, (God hated him) sold for
one morsel of meat his birthright.
(17) For
you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected (He joined a church. He went to fornicating): for he found no place of
repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. (Why? Because there
wasn't any repentance left. How can you change your mind when you've stuck your
ear to the door, and they put the awl through it?)
(18) For
you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire,
nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest. (Not some earthly thing
anymore.)
(19) And
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard
entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(20) For
they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch
the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
(21) And
so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I quake exceedingly for fear.
(22) But
you are come to mount Zion (You can't touch it. Come on. Be honest. Put your hands on this. Go ahead.
Try to do something. Forget it), and
unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of messengers,
(23) To
the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all (Right here [Points to picture of the Cloud], beard
and wig by the angels, right? Right? Then wake up and smarten up.)
People don't want to believe that
He is here, exonerating the bride. They're just looking for some things to
happen out there. I'm going to be gone when it happens, because He said,
"Hey, you're the righteous bride." I said, "You mean that?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Hallelujah, look at a righteous
bride." You say, "I don't see it that way." Well that's
fine. You see, I'm looking from the
inside out. And you're looking from the outside, trying to look in, but you
can't do it. You're looking from an outside to an outside. I'm looking from an
inside to the inside. That's beautifully put. Okay.
(23) ...
and to the spirits of just men made perfect...(I'm just a man, justified and
made perfect. Praise the Lord),
(24) And
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Oh listen. You can't speak much
better than Abel, but you've got something better.)
(25) See
that you refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him
that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him
that speaketh for he is from heaven (the One that came down):
(26) Whose
voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, (Now, listen.)
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. (Because when He
starts to shaking things, the bride is going to be gone; he's going to shake
the old devil right out. Revelation 12)
(27) And
this word, yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken
may remain. (So in other words, He's going to get ahold of us too and shake
the, what we call the life in us, out of us: the creeds and the dogmas so that
what can remain is the Word. We're going to be the living Word of God in human
flesh.)
(28) (Now,)
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, we have grace...
Yeah, grace. What is grace? Unmerited favor.
God giving you something in spite of yourself; God looking past all your sins
and all the manure head you are. God's taking a lot of old beggars off the
manure heap, and they can't even get enough brains to delouse themselves to get
some perfume. [ ]
59. That's the way people are when they join
the church. It's not enough to smell like manure and be a manure head, they
have to pour more manure in. Oh, look, I kid you not. I'm telling you the truth. That is right from the Apostle Paul's
lips. This Bible, brother/sister, is pretty trite. No, it's not trite. Terse.
Very pointed.
(28) ...we
receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, we have grace, whereby let us serve
God acceptably with reverence and godly fear (Now it tells you right there that
the service starts with reverence and fear, which means great, deep, and much
respect)
(29) For
our God is a consuming fire.
60. Now Bro. Branham, is talking of that right
here. Now he says there's that time, today, that's coming. He said he'd shake
everything that could be moved. But did you notice the rest of the Scripture?
"But we receive a kingdom that cannot be moved." That's Hebrews 12.
God speaking now. You say, "Just a minute. You, William Branham?"
Yes. Yes. It's shaking time. Hallelujah! Everything that can be shook will be
shaken; heaven will shake; earth will shake. Heavens and earth will pass away,
and My Word will never pass away. For upon this rock I'll build My church, and the
gates of hell can't prevail against it. Everything that will be shook will be
shaken, but we receive a kingdom which is the Word of God Himself. And God is
His Word. He won't shake Himself. Amen. Oh my, "but we receiving the
kingdom which cannot be moved," Paul wrote the Hebrew letter.
61. Such a person. Such a man. Such a time. How
they felt. We have also ourselves.
William Branham puts himself right with all the big prophets. They said,
"Shame on you Bro. Branham. You think you're somebody." Well, what little
pipsqueak are you that thinks you're somebody. Fap. You grow a watermelon the
size of a lemon and think you're somebody. He grew one a house couldn't
contain. Go cut yourself a piece, bless God. I could say a lot of things, but
it's foolishness.
62.
62.
Such a person, such a man, such a time and how they felt. We have also ourselves. We've seen the glory of God like these men did, sure. We saw it.
We saw the glory of God like Abraham saw. Pillar of Fire, the picture was taken
to prove it. We saw the Glory of God like Moses saw it. Same Pillar of Fire.
Same power of God. Same Christ unveiling Himself; revealing Himself; showing
Himself; keeping His Word in the last days.
How can we come by, then, and walk and treat It
so lightly? How can we walk around and hold to our creeds and denominations and
not take the Word of God? What'll it be for us in that day? How will it happen
to us when we see the glory of God? I'll tell you what. Some people stand off
and make fun. They laugh at It; call It fanaticism; call It mental telepathy;
call It Beelzebub; call It one thing or another. The old proverb is 'fools
walking with hobb nail boots where angels fear to tread.' Call them fools.
That's right. The foolish said in his heart, there is no God. If you laugh at
this, you're a fool too; because you made God nobody.
63. This tape about done? Oh, I'm sorry. I have
to let you go. Promised I wouldn't preach past one o'clock. Come back
Wednesday. Lord bless you. Were did we get to? We got right down here to
paragraph 63. Wednesday night, seven-thirty, back to paragraph three, and we'll
go on. We'll try to recap a little bit, but I hope you're beginning to
understand.
64. Hope you're beginning to understand,
brother/sister. We're in the land of promise now, per se. What promise? Of this
hour, and we're battling. Yes. The scroungers are trying to scrounge us,
everything else. The devil is trying to be devilish, but Christ is trying to
Christ us. And He's going to do it. And God is going to glorify us. And we're
going to make it. Do you know why? Because we understand. You say, "Bro.
Vayle we're not ignorant." That's exactly right. Let the ignorant be
stupid, but the wise will understand. Right? So now we know what he's talking
about. And it's a paradox, because people say, "Oh, that's too strange to
be true." Well, it is true, because the prophet said so. I don't believe
I've told you one lie. I don't believe I've perverted one thing the prophet
said. I believe I've told you the truth before Almighty God.
65. From what I have read, I cannot change my
mind. There's no other way I can go. I've got to stay right with this. Paradox.
Paradox. Paradox. Right? Let's rise.
Heavenly Father. Again we bow and embrace You for Christ Jesus our Saviour. We
thank You, Lord, for Your wonderful Presence. We know, Lord, we say a lot of
things that may, Lord, detract from You and minimize Your Glory and put them in
our own vernacular is to say the least as idiots; but Lord, I know that down in
our hearts, our hearts speak a whole lot louder than our voices do, and, to be
that way, hypocrites ought to be the worst thing in all the world. But You know
and I know, Lord, that no matter what I say and how I say it, I really believe
that this is what the prophet said. And if I'm wrong, I don't know how in the
world I'm going to change it. I don't know what I'm going to do about it,
because if some prophet said, I'm Joshua person of the Holy Spirit, what would
I do about that? The Pillar of Fire is going to lead us in to the Millennium
and then apart from this, Lord, as far as I know, that this is an hour of
promise, a promised land to us,…[End of tape.]