Woman And The Veil

You can be seated. I tell you what let's stand together one more time and sing a chorus. That's good exercise isn't it? That's the way they use to do us in the army you know. You go down and up, down and up. Praise the Lord. How many of you believe you're in the army? Let me see your hand. Brother Taylor sings that song, "The Army of the Lord." Keep us in good shape. Let's sing a little chorus together and I think after this we're going to let that do for the singing tonight and try to get into a little Bible study if we can. I'd like to say that I'm especially glad to have Brother Al with us tonight and he'll be ministering for us just a little later on. I'm desirous to hear Al minister. I love his ministry and I'm just glad to see him back. I know he's got a lot of good things to tell us about Mexico. Let's sing a little chorus together. Let's sing the old song, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound." We hadn't sang this one in a good long while. Brother Pike leads "Amazing Grace". Can you say amen? We will wear a crown, you can be seated if you like. How many of you are glad that you're here tonight? Let me see your hand. The Lord is especially good to us, to let us live and come together again. I thank God for His wonderful blessings and for His kindness. I appreciate you taking the babies out till you can get them reconciled when they start crying instead of waiting so long because we've had so many tapes ruined that could have gone on the radio because the mothers sit and let the babies cry through them. So I appreciate those that are considerate enough to do it. I know that tonight I've already seen mothers just running here and there and everywhere and it is so disgusting to me, not just disturbing to me, it's disgusting to me to know that you know so much and do so little. The Bible said to whom much is given much is required. The brethren that came in from California was disgusted with some of you. They said they couldn't understand people running all over the church all the time. Just going to and fro all the time like that. I don't remember just how they expressed themselves but they said, the message was wonderful and the people was wonderful but said they just didn't see where there was no respect for the house of the Lord in that sense you know. No matter how much I tell you that you are hindering the gospel and lost souls it seems the more that mothers allow the children to go or, I never seen people have to go to the restrooms so much, never in my life, they seem to be continually coming down at my house and they sit and talk for hours and never seem to be pressed with necessity but in church it's a continuation all the time. All the time, I just never seen anything like it. But I'm not scolding you. I'm just telling you that as I live you'll be in trouble. The Bible said reverence My sanctuary, and that is irreverent. I know there is times when it's necessary to go and I can tell the difference because it doesn't create a spirit. It doesn't cause a spirit but I can also tell when it's not because as quick as you move something starts happening. There's just a difference. The Lord makes allowance for one thing and other things He don't. So I noticed that across here from the nurseries all the time there's a mother going from nursery to nursery or somebody all the time. Now this past Monday night we had a men's meeting and they discussed that and I think they put somebody in charge of it to cut down some of the traffic and to see if we couldn't have a little more reverence and respect for the house of the Lord. Brother Charlie wasn't scolding you tonight about the babies because he understands that we don't have the proper facilities in the sense of accommodating you when it comes to some of the children going to sleep and I know that some of them, well some of them really ought not go to sleep. Some of them's old enough that instead of being sprawled out on the floor they ought to be listening. I notice that sometimes my children will go to sleep you know and they'll sleep all through the sermon and I pick them up and lug them home and as quick as I put them in the bed they're just like jumping beans they get right up and right out to the kitchen they go. They're not sleepy at all. So I believe sometimes that we might remedy a little bit of that. But I do wish that you would consider that it is necessary you know to keep the house of God tidy and work with us. I want to read something to you. I don't know how much of a discussion that we'll get into on this. I've had so many things on my heart that I wanted to talk to you about until I hardly know where to start from time to time. And I try to share the ministry or my pulpit with different ministers from time to time as I feel that God would have me to and sometimes when I didn't feel He would have me to, to try to be a brother and prefer others and a lot of times it's really hindered because all they did was just lambast the people and so forth but anyway I'd like for you to turn with me if you would over to I Corinthians and I want to read to you from the fourteenth chapter. This is concerning the spiritual gifts. But that isn't what I want to speak about tonight. I want to speak about something else I don't know just what it will evolve, or what will get evolved in our discussion. But I do want to drop a few thoughts tonight concerning the woman. I've not really had a chance to minister on this and don't know how far I'll get tonight. But this has to do with a woman's place. This is some of the things that has to do with a woman's place and of course now some people, some ladies they're not interested in a woman's place because they don't have any intentions of staying in it anyway. But there are some that fear God and they realize that if they don't do it that they're going to be lost and they're very much interested in knowing the truth so that they can make their lives conform to it. There's some that you know and I know that are never going to stay in a woman's place and you know and I know that they're not Christians. They're not real Christians. They're under the guise of Christianity and they're not real Christians and they will be lost. But there is some that's really trying to come into the woman's place and inasmuch as there is, then it's necessary for some of them to know and to understand what it is. And I'll do whatever I can tonight in pointing out a few things concerning this. I've been ask some questions concerning these things and now if you don't agree with me when I tell you these things well that's between you and the Lord. I am suppose to teach them and you are suppose to obey them. So you might would say, Well Brother Pike don't you have to conform to them as well as we? Well it's a little different with the minister. He's suppose to be already conformed to them before he ever starts teaching you. The husbandman is first partakers. If the husbandman hadn't already got into these things he's got no business teaching you to start with. That's just like a schoolteacher trying to teach somebody when they've never become a school teacher you know. So here in the fourteenth chapter of the book of I Corinthians, if you've got your Bibles I want you to listen now. We will begin in the twenty sixth verse. Now how is it then brethren when you come together (reads to verse 40). All right now there is another Scripture that I won't read but I'd like to just bring it to your remembrance because it goes along with this. The Bible speaks of the woman having a covering on her head. Now if she doesn't have the covering then the Bible teaches that she is naked in the sight of God and she dishonoreth her head. Now in the teachings of the covering there has been some churches and there are people here that are familiar with the churches to which I'm referring. There has been some churches that has taken those Scriptures and they have perverted the Scripture concerning the woman and her covering. Not knowing the revelation of it, not understanding it in as much as the Bible teaches that the Scriptures are of no private interpretation but they were written as men were moved upon by the Holy Ghost and of course they have to have the same interpretation. Man doing what he felt was right he hath perverted the Scriptures. Whereas the Bible tells us that it is a shame for a man to have long hair but it is a glory unto a woman if she have long hair for her hair is given unto her for a covering. So then we see that it is God's pleasure for the woman to be covered. The Bible said if she be not covered let her be shorn for it is all the same as if she were shaven, speaking of her hair. Down in Mexico they take and put a veil over their head which is a Catholic order and God never intended that. God has never intended for people to wear a veil over their head. Now somebody would say well Brother Pike why then do the Catholic people wear a veil? Or why is that a lot of the Protestants which are still under the powers of the Catholic teaching wear a veil? Because it goes back to the revelation of Jesus Christ where we have taught in the past that these are still in the veil. The Bible teaches that the veil is still over their face and that it's untaken away even until this day. The Bible said it remaineth over their face and the practice of the women in the old age was that before they married a man they covered their face with a veil. Now according to what I understand of this never having studied or read it but just going by what God shows me from time to time this apparently signified a shamefacedness. The women were commanded to be shamefaced in the Old Testament and therefore they covered their faces like this. Now when they covered their face their face was covered and they had no boldness about them until the time of the marriage and it is also a true fact that places like Mexico still practice some of these things. All right now, but it also denotes the time of the law upon Mount Sinai when Moses had to go upon the mountain and cover his face. Now these women they are typical of the covering of the first ordinance that came to Moses. Now there is a terrific revelation message in what I'm trying to say tonight. And how much of it I would be able to bring out I don't know. I know that some of the teachings that I am trying to bring out is needful to you even aside from the revelation of it and I'm sure that some would like to understand. It's good to see Sister Cook back tonight I was a little disturbed because she hadn't been here in a good while but I think she's been working in Atlanta. All right it's good to have you back sister with us tonight, we miss you when you're gone. Now I want you to see this. Gary can I get just a little bit of treble, a little bit of volume so I won't have to talk so loud without making the thing ring? All right now I want you to listen as close as you can. That's just a little high Gary. Now notice this that the woman that had the veil over her face as I just spoke of like Rebekah when she came to Isaac, she had the veil over her face, as quick as she saw Isaac she got veiled. Now and the veil remained over her face until she was taken into the mother's tent, and there became the wife. Now what is the veil? The veil was the veil that was over Moses' face when Moses was standing upon Mount Sinai. Now why was this? There was a specific reason why that Moses veiled himself when he come down from the mountain. You say that it was over Moses as he stood on Mount Sinai in that he was typical of Jesus. Moses never really put the veil over his face till he come down. But the veil being over the face was to show that Moses was the feminine side of God and that as the feminine side of God approached God just as Rebekah did Isaac that they had to come in shamefacedness and humility because of their fall from the garden and because of the debauchery of life having fallen away from God therefore they veiled themselves coming back into His presence. And Moses had to do the very same thing in the presence of the people for the simple reason that the veil was to stand between God and the people. A lot of people would say well you say that Moses had the veil on the top of the mountain. Moses did have the veil on the top of the mountain. When Moses put the veil over his face and as he came off the mountain the veil that he put over his face was only typical of the veil of Calvary which was to be rent in twain. Why? Because the Bible said that as we behold the glory of God that is revealed to us in the face of Jesus, the unveiled glory of God, God unveiling Himself that from glory to glory Brother Bill that we might be changed into the glorious image of the sons of God, into the liberties. So then the veil that Moses had on the mountain was his human body because the inner man is veiled by the outer man. You've heard me teach it in circumcision where Paul said the circumcision of the heart which is the taking away of the old man that is to say in baptism when we take off the old man and we bury the old man then the new man comes out at calvary then we've unveiled the new man and when we unveil the new man then that means that the veil is taken away. But they that have never been born again they still have the beastly veil over their face as they go through life and that beastly veil is the intellectual concept of God and the intellectual concept of the world to come which is an intellectual knowledge that come from the tree of knowledge over in the garden and that veil remains untaken away today unless you get in the Spirit and then in the Spirit as it was with Paul in the Arabian desert God revelates your intellectual concept of life and of God. He turns it into Spirit. I made the statement that Brother Branham's followers they have the message but not the revelation because the revelation is Spirit. Now Moses' followers had the message which was the Word, the Old Testament, the Bible but they didn't have the revelation. They had to wait till John and Paul could come and Paul having the Old Testament, God anointed him and turned it into spiritual revelation, is that right? Then it became something for the people and so it is with Brother Branham and the third dimension he has the message but it has to be turned into Spirit. Somebody would say well Brother Pike you mean to tell me that William Branham wasn't a spiritual man? Well if you tell me that Moses wasn't a spiritual man then I say Brother Branham wasn't a spiritual man. But if Moses was a spiritual man than Brother Branham was a spiritual man. But what does that have to do with Moses followers? Moses was spiritual and the Bible says the law's spiritual. But show me how many of Moses' followers was spiritual. They all died in the wilderness. Somebody said Moses died with them. Not so, the Bible teaches that he went with Jesus, he was found up there with Jesus on the mountain. He didn't die with them. Now what I'm saying is that this veil that's over the face of the people it is untaken away until they get the Holy Ghost. Now you could be a believer and still have the veil. You could come to church and still have the veil but when you get the Holy Ghost, I mean the real genuine Holy Ghost, He guides you into all truths and all righteousness and the veil begins to diminish, it begins to melt away like snow on the top of the mountain when the sun comes out. It begins to melt away. So you see in the teachings of the veil, now there's a beautiful thing hid here. In the teachings of the veil Moses coming down off of the mountain, I don't believe we have Mount Sinai drawn here anywhere but anyway it's typical of Calvary, so we again go back to Calvary like always, the prophet like unto Moses. Here coming off of the mountain Moses put the veil over his face, because he was in the presence of God. Jesus, that is to say the Christ, coming down from the mount of God, coming (Tape 1 side 2 begins) personification of human flesh that He might be able to commune with you and I on the level of a near kinsman. To become a near kinsman that He could talk with us. Moses they said, You talk to God. Jesus, You be the intercessor. How many of you today would love to just say, Jesus You go sit down somewhere and let me do it? How many of you would like to do that? You wouldn't do that would you? No, they wouldn't do it either. They said, Moses, you go do it. See today let Jesus do it. Why? Because to look upon God is sure death. To have the light of God come it would cause us to disintegrate. So then the only way we can see the light, that is, no man has seen God at any time. No man. These people talk about Father, Son and Holy Ghost they don't even know what they're talking about. Talking about someday they're going to see God and they're going to see this and they're going to see that. Why they don't even, that proves they've never even got out of kindergarten. The Bible said that God is the great light unto which no man can approach whom no man hath seen nor can see. Never going to see God because He's the great light. You can't even get close to Him. And Jesus Christ alone dwells in that light. Jesus dwells in that light and the only way that I can get to that light is through Jesus. No man cometh unto the Father but by the Son. So then it's for sure that they don't even know what they're talking about. The Holy Ghost within me makes me relative to that great light. Is that right? The middle wall of petition being broke down by the body of Jesus. Whereas I can not approach the great light as an individual. I become the body of Jesus Christ and then bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh I can by that dwell in the midst of that light. So then the veil untaken away that is over the face of the people today. Now what does it mean for the veil to remain over your face? Somebody you know, the witches, different people, old folks used to say, Well this is going to be some kind of spiritual person. Say Why? Because he was born with a veil over his face. How many of you ever heard that? Old folks used to have quaint things you know. They say this is going to be a special kind of a person, going to have a gift. Why? Said, because he was born with a veil over his face. You ever noticed animals? Dogs a lot of times they're born within the veil. Did you know that? Animals that means that that veil was a beast veil. In other words that veil had to be rent. That veil was a covering and that covering, there's a lot of things that we could say about that tonight, but that veil was a covering. All right now, how many of you remember a book that Brother Branham published an in this book they had caught a picture of a woman? She was sitting out in the audience and when they caught the picture the woman had a veil over her head all the way down here like an execution veil. You ever notice that? The executor always use the veil, pulled it down over the face like this. Why? Because it indicated that if you have a veil you are to lose your head. Now that's what it means. In other words you are without leadership, it signifies death. And so then when the woman was out there she had the veil over her head all the way down here and I don't know how God did it. I don't know how He did it. The woman could have had long hair and she could have turned her head all the way around and she's looking backwards and he saw nothing but her hair. I don't know how He did it. But there's one thing about it, it is a positive fact that it's in the picture and the woman is covered with a veil. Is that right? All right now I want you to see something tonight if you can. This is why that a woman can not be a preacher. Ladies you can say amen or oh me or tell me to shut up, but this is for sure, there's no make believe about it. God does not call a woman to preach. He does not. Why is it that God doesn't call a woman? All right listen in just a few minutes you'll see why. God never has called a woman to preach and God can not call a woman to preach. God never will call a woman to preach because it is perversion and it is exactly contrary to everything that God stands for. It is wrong. All right look at it and let's see. We've got men going through the country that say they are prophets, that say they are apostles, that say they are great men and these people declare that God has called women to preach and prophesy over them to put them in the ministry. But Paul the apostle said, Let your women keep silent. He says now, Brother Pike if you think yourself to be a prophet, or brother whoever you are that says you are a prophet or an apostle, or if you think that you are spiritual, lady or man, I want you to acknowledge that the things that I tell you are the commandments of God, let your women keep silent for it is not permitted unto them to speak. They're commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. Now here is a good question. What is meant by being under obedience as also saith the law? To be under obedience what is meant by that? All right let's just go back a step or two and run some things down and see if we can learn. First one on the things that is meant is that in the garden experience Eve proved to be the weaker vessel. Ladies whether you want to accept it or not it is a proven fact that God put the church to the test and the church failed and He put Jesus to the test and Jesus never failed. The woman failed but the man was not found in the transgression. Anyway you want to look at it that's the way it reads. Now Eve falling in the garden proved that she was the weaker vessel. God let that happen. Eve if she had of never fallen she would have never known that she was a weaker vessel. Why Adam could never have ruled over Eve. God had that little garden experience to get His plan started off right. Somebody would say well God just couldn't help Himself, poor fellow, He put Adam and Eve in the garden and had Him a pretty place there you know and a nice little garden and had Him a patch or two and now all of a sudden here He just couldn't make it and the devil come in and over threw and messed up everything and here they go down the drain. Can't you just picture God like that? No that wasn't it at all. But it was a supreme mind, a power of deity, a great God that had a plan that created the garden to give humanity a taste of what heaven was going to be like. Before He ever subjected them to vanity He wanted them to know that there was another world, and He wanted to place them in the position to where they would have an equality to where nobody could blame nobody with what happens to them. You can't blame God. And Eve she felt no doubt that she was just as important as Adam was and she was in her place. She felt like no doubt that she was just as strong as Adam was. But God wanted Eve to know, God wanted the woman to know, God still wants the woman to know that she is not as strong as the man. Somebody would say well I've seen women that was stronger than the man. By one or two means, either the woman's got a devil, or either it's the Spirit of God she's got strength from the Spirit of God while her husband turned out to be a sissy that's all. You say well if you're married to a sissy I feel sorry for you. I've heard men say well my wife she knows more than I do. Well shame on you, you ought to be ashamed to confess it. I tell you what if you feel that way about it you ought to get away somewhere and pray until God straightens you out or either you ought to go to God and say, Lord I'm a sissy I'm not fit to be a man you better change this situation around because you got us in the wrong place here. Now I don't see how a man can complain about the woman running the house if he says she knows more than he does. I don't see why he should complain. He's already made a confession of defeat to start with. Not only to the wife but to the devil because any man that surrenders to a woman surrendered to the devil. Sure because it's perversion. Somebody said but she's a Christian. That hasn't got nothing to do with it. She's still a woman. All right now let's just look at it a little bit more. God wanted Eve to know that she was weaker because God was going to build a man into a God. He was going to take a dust creature and process him through the years and change him into a god and He had a plan and the only way He could lay down the types and shadows was to take a weaker vessel called a woman and put her in a woman's place and take a man and show the man to be superior to be a type and a shadow of Jesus and to let that woman learn to conform to the man in every way, every desire, obey him in all things to show Christ to the church. Is that right? Now why did He do that? Because God had a plan. Why is it that the woman is commanded to be under obedience? What does it mean when Paul who knew the law said that also saith the law that the woman should be under obedience? It is not permitted for them to speak. I don't suffer my women to teach my men, Paul said. Said, salute my women workers, I got some wonderful women workers. He said, but I don't suffer them to teach my men that's perversion. He knew that wasn't right. Now I know the Church of God and I don't mean this against the Church of God because there's some good folks in there but anybody can get mixed up. I know they use that little theme, you know, they say, well that means you aren't suppose to do that in business. That's what they tell the people they say you know that means that the woman she isn't suppose to take no part in business. Well that's breaking the Scriptures. Paul said, Assist my woman workers in whatsoever business she hath need of you. So that doesn't got nothing to do with it. They just didn't know how to explain or figure it out so that's the easy way out. Just like some of them take this other way, Brother Bucky, they take the outlook where it said over here that the woman speaking of the long hair over there it said, If any man seem to be contentious the church of God has no such customs. So then because they can't do anything with their unruly bunch of women they pervert the Scripture and they turn it all the way around and they say well the Bible said that if a man wants his wife to wear short hair if he's contentious let her wear it cause we don't have no such customs that's against it anyway. But that wasn't what Paul said. That's got it in reverse. Paul said if some fellow wants to be contentious and perverts God's plan and cut the woman's hair off he said then leave them out of the church said because the church don't practice that. We don't have no such customs in the church, let them stay outside. If a man wants to be contentious leave him alone. If he's contentious he isn't no Christian no way. Who ever heard of being a Christian contending with the Word of God. The Bible said that the woman ought to have long hair because it is for her covering. Let the government be upon her shoulders. That is, she is commanded to be under obedience. The government upon her shoulder, if she cuts her hair she dishonoreth her head which is her husband. In other words she's moving the government. She's moving the control. She's rejecting the control of God because she's moving the hair off of her shoulders and the government is to rest on the shoulders. Something just came to my mind. Somebody over in the Carolina's said Brother Pike was down here teaching you could cut your hair. I haven't taught you you could cut your hair. Which one of you folks said I taught you to cut your hair? You know that's a lie. I haven't told you you could cut your hair. My children can tell you, Dale can tell you they never was allowed to cut their hair. My wife hasn't cut her hair till this day unless she done it unbeknowings to me. My children whacked some of it off when I didn't know nothing about it in different places. See I've lived that way because that's been my desire and my rule. I love long hair on my children, my wife. But I am going to say this you don't have to tell anybody or you can if you want to the Bible does not speak against cutting the hair. That is an old Pentecostal tradition that is not Bible and there is no Bible for it. Now I'll say that good and loud and clear where it's to be on the radio and everywhere and everybody will know it. If you can show me in the Bible where God said it was a sin to cut your hair then I'll back up. The Bible said the woman ought to have long hair. Now listen I don't want to bind my people with a bunch of silly somethings that has never been in the Bible to start with. I don't want to put you under a yoke that the fathers couldn't bear. There's no such thing in the Bible as that. But it's just like your finger nail, somebody said, Well I never cut my finger nails. Well after awhile you are liable to look like a cat. There's a moderation. Somebody would say, well you don't think I ought to cut my hair? Why no, if it's dragging the ground roll it up. Stick it on top of your head. I'd love to how how you're going to have it on your shoulders if you do that. Some people get hair so long it saps their strength out of them. I know a little girl her hair was so long her daddy wouldn't let her cut it till it was about to kill the little girl. Sapping her strength just like a parasite. Since when did God intend for women to go around with their hair dragging the ground? God is not foolish. Now but God wants the woman to have long hair and He wants it down on her shoulders. I know some of you wouldn't like that but it's still so. Somebody said, Well mine's to thin. Well put what thin you have down on your shoulders that's where it belongs. You ball it up, you twist it up, you pin it up, you do everything but what the Bible said do with it. It's given to you for a covering. Not to go around with it poned upon your head like a pumpkin. God gave it to you for a covering. God wants the woman to have a covering. Now listen to me just a minute. I'm not going to hold you long tonight but just listen. Isn't it a true fact from the time the woman started bobbing off her hair didn't she also start bobbing off her dresses? When we got over here and the hippies come in and God rebuked the women by letting the men have long hair didn't it show perversion? Didn't it show that the devil had perverted the woman and made a man out of her? And didn't God rebuke the women to their face saying that seven women would take hold of one man saying let me wear your apparel? I'll get me a job. You might as well because them lazy hippies aren't going to get one. If you're married to one of them they aren't going to get one. They can't be a good hippie and work. What is it? You ought to have to take care of them. After all they've become a woman. They polish their fingernails and their toenail and everything else. The poor fellows are to weak to do anything else. Some of ladies are strong enough you ought to take care of them. You're the one that made a woman out of them. You wouldn't do what they told you so God decided to let them do what you told them. Somebody say well I think I can make me a living. Women aren't suppose to work, suppose to stay at home. Sure that's what they're suppose to do. Women are suppose to stay at home. So then you've got the whole thing turned around. That's what the devil always wanted from the very start. He always wanted to get the woman over the man because it shows the serpent seed that took hold in the garden. The woman represents the first broken covenant that Moses had. She is symbolic of the seed of the serpent. That's what she represents. Somebody said, Now wait just a minute Brother Pike, you're slap out of your head. No I'm not. The woman represents the flesh and the flesh represents the natural birth and the natural birth goes back to the seed of the serpent for the Bible said concerning Jesus, He was not born of the will of man nor of the will of the flesh. Is that right? But of the will of God. He was not born, the Bible said, quoting the Scripture, He was not born of blood. Are you listening? The Bible said that Jesus was not born of blood. That's why that I taught the other night the red dragon, the blood stream, He defeated it here at Calvary. The first man Adam was made a living soul and I'm not going to try to get into all that. That'll go into a lot of things. But the first man Adam was made a living soul which was the blood and that's what the soul is. It goes back to the blood. But the second man Adam, He was made a quickening Spirit. He wasn't born of blood. So then the woman represents the seed of Satan. Is that right? But the man represents the seed of God. You know some man he can stick out his chest and say, hallelujah! You know that really makes him feel good he thought I've been trying to get this woman conquered for years this ought to do it. No, you see the woman only represents the seed of the serpent the man really is the seed of the serpent. That really takes you off your perch don't it? In other words what I'm trying to say is that the woman and the man all of us are in the same boat. Everyone of us if we're not born again. Well somebody said well praise God I'm born again and that still puts her under my foot don't it? No, because the Bible teaches if she's born again in the Spirit there's neither male nor female. So you're right back in the same boat. You got to love her as Christ loves the church. God's plan wasn't to try to kill the woman and beat the woman down to get her under the foot. God's plan was to use the woman as the type to show the condition of the church that she might see her low place, veil herself with shamefacedness, come over to her husband, that is the church to Christ and that he might bring her back up to an equality with him say everyone that perfect shall be as his master. Your love, consideration, forgiveness, and allowance toward the weaker vessel is to make her equal with you. That's the purpose of it, that if she be weaker than you and she makes more mistakes than you do and she's not really practicing those but she's trying to do good she ought to be equal with you through the grace that you make allowance for her weaknesses. Now that's what Jesus did for us. Is that right? Now I'm not trying to beat the woman down, but I'm trying to tell you that if a woman will not subject herself to her husband she is a perverted woman. She doesn't have the love of God and if she says that she is a preacher she is a liar. You bring her to me I'll tell her she is a liar. I've told a lot of them that. Now how can God take the one that represents the broken covenant of Moses which is the church in the wilderness? All right now let's just get just a few more thoughts here. When we multiply and go to replenish the earth the man and the woman according to the order of Christ there is a male that comes forth there is a female that comes forth. Why? Because it has to do with the two sons in the garden. It has to do with the two stones that was on the mountain where Moses was. Which has to do with what the Bible says in the Old Testament concerning the man and the stones. You understand what I'm saying. All right now there is two seeds that goes forth. One of them is a broken covenant. Now listen. One of them is a broken stone. Whereas in the Old Testament the man was rejected because of that. One is a broken covenant. One is an established covenant. The woman being the weaker vessel she is considered the broken covenant which is the seed of the serpent because it was the woman that yielded to the serpent. Is that right? So then she is the one that is weak toward the world, and she is under the bondage of the things of the elements of the world which is Israel. Is that right? But the spiritual Jew is the male. That's the quickening Spirit. Is that right? That which is represented as the covenant that is strong, and able to do the things that God commands to be done. Joshua said, As for me and my house we'll serve the Lord. The stronger of the two. All right listen to me just a few more minutes now. I'll try to close, I've been going a good long while. All right now listen. Now you got to read between the lines on some of these things if you're going to get into the mind of God. The covering of the woman if she be not covered then let her be shorn for the Bible said that she is altogether naked before God and God said, Eve who told thee that thou was naked? Couldn't been but one thing. That was where she lost her covering. She lost her covering. You would say, Well Brother Pike in the garden they never had any covering to start with. Yes they did. They had a covering. What was the covering? It was the glory of God and that's what the church lost and that's what they don't have today is the glory of God, they lost their covering, and the Bible said it brought them to shame. They were ashamed when Jesus came. They lost their covering. And what did God do? The Bible said He clothed them with skins. Where does skin come from? A beast. What are you clothed with today? The inner man is clothed with the outer garment which is a skin. Is that right? It's the beast part that must die to get back into the glory of God, into the garden that beast part must die. No man can come in except he take off the covering. Is that right? To get back in the garden the veil has to be rent for in this world we've got to have a covering. In the presence of God we've got to have it, the covering, the veil. Why is it that the Bible said at Calvary the veil was rent in twain? Because we had come back into the glory of God as a church. We'd come back into the presence of God as a church and we did not need a natural covering because we had the body of Christ which was the covering of the glory of God. For the Bible said He's made heir to the glory of God, the wedding garment. Is that right? The old garment of the flesh gone. So then the veil was rent in twain. It was taken away in Christ. The woman without her covering what did she do? Now listen, she dishonoreth her head. Who is her head? Her husband. How did she dishonor him? Because the law says she is to be under obedience. Under obedience where? To her husband. Paul said, Also saith the law she can not speak, she is under obedience. If she speaks it represents the seed of the serpent. It's a shame for that thing to come forth in the church. That's what the Bible said. That's her intellectual thinking. That's the weakest part. The Bible said it's a shame. When you do that you let the woman get up and speak. Now I'm up here speaking what did Paul mean? He said, Let the prophet speak but let the woman be silent. If she wants to learn anything let her learn it from her husband at home. Why? Because he's the head and that's the proper way to nourish her, through the head. So then we say tonight that who's speaking? Say, sister so and so. You're all out of sorts with God. Let everything be done decently and in order. He said that's out of order. You say we got a woman speaker tonight. Said, Let the women keep silent and let the men speak. No we don't have a woman speaker. We've got a male speaker. Somebody say well bless God he isn't no more Christian than I am, if he's a male speaker why that don't make no difference. But let me tell you something, now listen. It does make a difference. Now if I put a man up here that's got a carnal mind and he's not a child of God then he's naked in the sight of God, that's a woman. They are suppose to sit back there, they are suppose to be a spiritual man, suppose to be a spiritual person, suppose to be a prophet. Will you give me just two or three more minutes here? All right listen let's clarify it. She is commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. What saith the law? Obey your husband. That's obedience. Obey your husband wives in all things as also saith the law. She is commanded to be under obedience. That means she is commanded to be under her husband. If she moves that hair it is a reproach to him. She dishonoreth him because she is suppose to have power on her head because of the angels. Now I brought that out here one night concerning the angels what it meant when you say concerning the angels. It has to be that the woman carries a covering. Not a veil, not going to put a veil over your head like they do in the Catholic Church. That's just the old ritualistics. That's a type of it to show what's happened. See, they say why don't the Protestants wear a veil? Because the pro (Tape 2 side 1 begins) and the other people because they do those things even though they're wrong. According to the Bible they are wrong, but never the less God suffered it to be that way. Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. Is that right? Can you say there's unrighteousness with God? All right look at it in trying to find a place to close now. A lot of things I'd like to say but I took a long time. The veil over the woman, shamefacedness. Why? She's in the presence of her husband. Now that's only a type. Wives, when you come in front of your husband, you say, What do you want for breakfast? That isn't the way. You say, My lord what could I do for you this morning? That's the way. When they come to the door in the old country they would knock on the door. The lady goes to the door, wants to know who you are looking for. So and so. Yes I'll see if my lord is here. That's right. How many of you understand what I'm saying? All right now the veil of shamefacedness, let the woman adorn herself in modest apparel. Not with broided hair. That is we braid our hair, you know, we curl it we do everything you know. Not that because you know what it means? Now listen, when that woman paints her fingernails you know what it means? Nails in the hands of Jesus. You say I don't believe it. Yes it is true. Toenails, the blood, the nails in the feet of Christ. Bobbie pins, you know the old woman she used to braid it and wrap it around her head and in goes the pins, the crown of thorns. That's what it was. The crown of thorns. And on and on and on we could go on with the things of the woman why she does it. God works in things like that. We brought out the other day I don't think we brought it out on tape the beauty of the wedding band and what it represented, I wish I could remember all those things, and the engagement what it had to do with. But how many of understand what I am saying? The veil that was over Moses' face those two seeds come to life and the woman when a child is born, the woman, now listen, the Bible said every male that openeth the matrix the first one is holy unto the Lord, because he is a type of Jesus. But it don't say that about the woman does it? No, you know what she has to do? Even at the birth she goes through her time of purification is that right? Check it out and see if it isn't the time of the birth at Calvary and go right through the church ages and come out exactly. Why? Because she can't come into the presence of God until after her bearing until the time of her purification. Is that right? Wash by the washing of the water of the Word. So then the time of life that cometh upon the woman. Ever so often she has a time of life which signifies Calvary, the loss of the blood. Is that right? It has to be that way. When the custom of women was upon Rachel, she lied about it to protect her evil gods. But listen the veil rent, the opening of the matrix is the birth of the child. But the seeds of two kind which is of the male gender because it is accounted for as the stones which was upon the mountain. One being the birth of a woman, one being the birth of a man. One being the law which is a veil, the intellectual concept of God. One being grace, the revelation which is a Spirit. When the woman is born it's a type of the broken covenant because when she comes into the world it signifies that the weaker vessel who broke God's covenant in the garden has been born into the world. Is that right? She was in the transgression. Transgression of what? God's laws. What is that? Sin come into the world by the woman. Why? Because transgression of God's law is sin. Got in through lust the Bible said. Lust, the word means desire. Having the wrong desire. It's called lust, that is, sin got into the world. When the male is born into the world it signifies strength. The covenant of God that's been kept. That's why that if you'll check it out the thing that Brother Branham brought was a great thing because he was a Moses of God, but that the first people that got it they took it and went to the flesh with it, made it a fleshly letter just like the Jews did and it signified the woman which broke the covenant because she made it an intellectual indoctrination and went back to the beast, worms in the manna. But glory to God, oh my, but those who believe this covenant will not be broken. You know why? Because that first covenant, Bill, was called the Spoken Word. The law of the letter and it was strict and they couldn't keep it. But God made this covenant with an inner spiritual man. Somebody that could receive revelation. That's why that I've been worried so about some of my people. I kept telling them for months and months I said you're going to be cut off. We've got evangelist going across the country and they don't know what they're teaching. They don't know what revelation is. How can you preach the Word of God and not have revelation? How can you preach the things of God and not have revelation? How are you going to understand those things when God is a Spirit? That's why women are in the pulpit. That's why they're behind the sacred desk. Why? Somebody say, Brother Pike, why is it here in the establishment of the United States that a woman took up and all through this time that that woman kept going like she did? Keeping the church going, why did God let them women preachers come in? You want me to tell you? Because it represented the seed of the serpent, the broken covenant. America represented the woman who had rebelled against her husband. She's a woman nation. Rebelled against who? The Jew. Who was the Jew? Her husband. Now listen, somebody say now Brother Pike that's confusing to me. Now listen a minute, just listen. I'm speaking of genealogies. I'm speaking of a natural government. I'm speaking of a historical pilgrims progress. You understand. But if we reverse it, just take America out of the way, not talking about America now. America is the woman that's fallen. But reverse it. Not talking about the world which is Eve, the whore. Not talking about that. That goes back to the church of Rome. But I'm talking about the virgin Mary, the church that brings forth the man child. You understand what I'm saying? What is the man child? The spiritual Jew to the flesh is the male and the flesh is the one to be subjected. Now a lot of people would say this, they say, Brother Pike, if it's true what you're saying that the woman is to keep silent then why was it that Philip had those daughters over there and they prophesied. You want me to tell you? Because the Bible said they were virgins. Every one of them. It went back to the virginity of the church. They were virgins, they were holy. See there's only one woman that's not considered the serpent seed. What is it? It's the virgin. If we're the virgin tonight then we're the mother of the very child of God until Christ be formed within you. The womb of your heart. But brothers and sisters if we're not then we're the fleshly whore that sat upon many waters, and the waters are the people that support the evil cause of this antichrist system. She's the great whore. Somebody said that's Rome. Rome is only a type. Come out of her my people, that means get out of the flesh. The whore is the flesh. What is the great whore that sat upon many waters? It's the antichrist system. The entire world, that's what it is. It's the entire world and she's upheld by many waters. There's three dimensional stages of her corruption. Run it out in a natural, physical, and spiritual. Get back there to Babylon to the Jew. Come back over here to Rome in the dark age over there to the Catholic system in the dark age, that's the second. Come back over here to America in the third dimension this religious thing, a spiritual thing. All of it's Rome. She's fallen, she's fallen. Her church world has become the cage of every unclean and hateful bird and the Bible said, Come out of her and be ye not partakers of her sins because she's reached the moon. Her sins has reached up to heaven, and God said I'll make her to drink double from the cup that she's made you to drink with, for the nations they are drunk off of the wine of her fornication the Bible said, but God said, Come out of her. And He sent a light that enlightened the whole earth. The whole earth began to see God. The whole earth began to see where they were going. The gross darkness over the world, but in the evening time there would come light and that light would enlighten the way of the whole world that they would see. And Brother that light is here. That light shined out of darkness but the darkness comprehended it not. And those that sat in darkness the Bible said to them is sprang up great light. Those that sat in the regions of the shadows of death the day spring from on high has visited them the Bible said. Those that are in darkness great light has sprang up to them. John said, I'm not that light, but I came to bear witness of that light for He is the light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world. So then the veil is rent in twain. It's taken away to those that believe on Jesus Christ. The woman is commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law, which means she is under the constraint and the control of her husband therefore if she will learn anything let her learn if from her head because her head is the only thing that can indoctrinate her members, otherwise it is perversion. Let her learn if from her head which is her husband. Let her learn it at home. In the churches let her keep silent for it is a shame. What kind of shame? Shamefacedness, the veil, going back to sobriety. That if she speaks she is out of order, she is not under subjection to her head. Let her head speak, let the prophet speak, let the woman keep silent in the church for Adam was not found in the transgression but the woman being in the transgression let her be under subjection to her husband in all things. Reverence, honor, obey. Subjected to him in all things. Let him have his wife and children under subjection in all things with all gravity for if he knows not how to rule his own house how can he be a preacher and rule the house of God? Now we didn't get into this near like me needed to. But we've got enough over to you to make you do some thinking. I know that you'll do some thinking. If you're a real child of God you'll do some scratching and some digging and some thinking to see just what we was talking about tonight. Want to stand with me? Let me say this to you while they're coming to the organ, piano. Have you ever stopped to wonder why that you've got two of everything? You ever stop and wonder about that? You got two thumbs, two little fingers, two big toes. You ever thought about that? Two lungs, two places in your heart. One gets air and one don't, ones like a dead person you know. Two eyes, two ears, two nostrils. You ever thought about that? You ever noticed that usually a man is stronger in his right arm than he is in his left one? Because one of them represents the weaker side of him. You ever notice that? Check out some of the parts of your body and you'll see that they seem to tend to be weaker. You ever noticed this? That if this hand is in the right position then this one will automatically be in the wrong position. Now you say why? Because it's just exactly contrary to this one. It's just exactly the opposite. That's right. One foot goes this way and another one wants to go that way. You understand what I'm saying? In other words look in the mirror. You look in a mirror you know what you see? A fellow just exactly perverted to what you are. Just exactly. If you comb your hair on the right side he's got his combed on the left side. Look at it. Just exactly contrary. That's the laws of God to let us see where we're standing, looking into the mirror of the law of God. All out of shape just to show that one side of us is contrary. Everything is that way. The moon, light on one side dark on another, hot on one side cold on another. You love the Lord? Let's sing a little chorus together. You know we sing that song, That He's Here, He's here, He's everywhere, a little chorus. Let's sing that little chorus together. There's a lot in that little chorus, because this is a great day. A lot of things that we could say tonight. There's a lot of things that we could say brethren that happened yesterday and happened today. Now they would be foolishness to the natural mind. Maybe over the weekend if they register maybe we'll get to say some things. But they would be foolishness you know to the people that don't understand. But I tell you what, God is speaking loud. You know let me say this to you. If you look back yonder and you see the types and shadows and you take those and you unravel them and you understand the mind of God in them, why is it thought so foreign and out of proportion in our day, to take things that happen in our day and unravel them and unveil them? Why? God will speak to you, foolish and abase things to confound the wise. God will speak to you. You understand what I am saying? God wants to talk to you my brothers and sisters. Brother Zell has got in revelation enough already. I saw in a vision where he wouldn't stay on the other side. He just wouldn't do it. I saw him come up to this judge. This judge you know was sitting here in a place and there was somebody like the secretary you know recording over here and there was a group of people back over here. Well in this vision I was sitting over here on this side and I was all by myself sitting over here. And while I was over there they was paying me real good to be there, but over here they wasn't paying these people much. They was giving them a little bit and Zell was over there with them and he got upset so he got up and he went over there and began to chide with the secretary or whatever it was you know, recorder of the court. They said, No, we can't let you come over here. He just kept on till he finally got discouraged and he was fixing to turn around and walk off and this individual sitting there said well said you're not suppose to be over here, I believe's the way he said it, something to that effect. Said, well come on I guess we can let you over here. So he called him on over to where we was. And I do know for a fact that Zell is breaking into revelation. I do know that. And I do know that on the side of revelation it pay a whole lot more than it does on the carnal side of life. That was Zell's complaint is he felt like he wasn't drawing enough on that side. But I believe that he'll tell you this much being in revelation, he'll tell you this that David said that we are wonderfully made. That if you'll just consider your eyes, your nose, just your body, just your body and get into revelation on you'll be surprised what a great revelation you are just you by yourself. You'll have so much revelation within you, just considering you. Is that right Brother Zell? Just within you that you'll have something to feast off of for a long time. It's surprising to hear people say well I'm not in revelation when you are a revelation. You are a revelation just walking around. All you've got to do is just like a kitty with a ball of yarn you've got to unravel it. You can do it. It's given to you to do it, but you have to do it with the mind of Christ. You can't figure it out. The things of God don't know no man. My, even Brother Marlow, we're glad to have him here with us tonight. Brother Marlow said a voice spoke to him in a vision, told him said you're running to much you need to stop, slow down. So he cast anchor for a while to see what was coming up. And even the fact that he's down there and what it represents and what's happened it's unbelievable immeasurable, outstanding, wonderful, nothing less than wonderful. You know I know you think I'm foolish fellow but isn't it wonderful to be happy? No matter if you are foolish, and I'm happy. I'm happy. That's what you're looking for is happiness. If I've found it it must be worthwhile at least I'm happy. All right let's sing that little chorus. Brother Pike leads the song, "He's Here". Sing it again. Brother Taylor takes over the song and leads it and says. Now listen to these words. I feel like singing it one more time. You know something there was some children that said, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest. Everybody thought they were crazy out there putting palm leaves down on the ground, amen and just having a ruckus because Jesus was riding in on the foal of an ass and they knew the prophecies had come to pass of yesteryear had come to be a present truth in the day that they lived in, they said, Hosanna! Brother Taylor leads "He's Here" again. (Brother Pike takes back over he says) You know what some of you are beginning to catch the vision. I can tell but some of you haven't seen it. You've not seen it but I can tell you, I can tell you with my hand raised to heaven, (Brother Pike begins to sing, He's Here). Let me say this to you tonight children of God. Jesus said to the Jews one time and today I'm making the same statement to the Gentiles. The kingdom of God cometh not by observation. The kingdom of God cometh not by observation but the kingdom of God is within you. (Tape 2 Side 2 begins) in you, above you, through you, God, Paul the revelator said, our apostle to the Gentiles said, He's here, He's here. And He's been here all the time. All the time. It wasn't the absence of God from His people. It was the absence of the people from their God for His hand is not shortened, neither is His ear deaf, but thine iniquities have separated between thee and thou God. What is thine iniquities? The carnal mind is enmity. The beast mind of unbelief became a veil between you and the eternal Spirit that has always been here, and God has been waiting for you to wit the redemption of your body, to realize and we'll sing one more time if you can get it. Brother Pike sings "He's Here" again. Thy kingdom come, Thy kingdom come. The law and the prophets till John, Thy kingdom come. Jesus said to a man, Thou art not far from the kingdom when he answered discreetly. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. Where? On earth in the body redemption. On earth, as in the Spirit so the body is in heaven. So then on earth Thy will be done on earth in my body Father as it is in My spirit. Thy will be done. I be holy in body Father as in spirit. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven for since the time of John the kingdom of God has been a revelation message and has been preached. Men believe it. The Words are Spirit and life. They press into it, and they become transformed and translated. God is transforming your minds by a revelation. Paul said, Be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your minds. Transforming your minds for that's what He's got to do. You that are just waiting for a rapture you're going to be lost. He's transforming your minds by means of an inner glory springing forth into an outer man. God said, My will be done on earth. And I tell you again, somebody said, well Brother Pike I'm just waiting for Him to take me over yonder. Well I'm glad that at least you are acknowledging that there's someone to take you over yonder. But it's a whole lot better when you get over here instead of waiting over yonder when He said Moses, why stand ye here? Go forward. You understand what I am saying? I'm not planning to go anywhere because John said, I saw New Jerusalem descending out of heaven coming down here. You know why it's coming down here? Because, we'll sing it again. Brother Pike leads the song, "He's Here" again. You can believe me folks as I close, you can believe me that He's going to come and turn this earth into a garden. Suddenly appearing within His saints first to be glorified in His saints and His saints will turn this into a garden. This world into a millennium. He's going to do it. He's going to do it. He's going to do it. Because Jesus is a man just like I'm a man. The man, Christ Jesus, and He's going to sit on a throne on this very earth and He's going to rule His people and He's going to turn it into a garden and restore all things. The restoration first, the redemption of the body. Everything through the sons of God that's ever been taken away, every species, every beautiful flower that's ever become extinct, everything will be restored. A beautiful garden, this earth, because He's in His people and you're His temple. He's in you. Let all the world keep silent because God is in His holy temple in the midst of us. He's here. The angels are encamped around about us. The prophet said, Open their eyes Lord. Eyes of understanding to comprehend the heights, the depths, to see God and angels by the eyes of understanding because God is here. And you believe this you're going to hear more and more and more. Not necessarily of the song I sing, "He's Here", He's Here, but of the fact that this revelation is Jesus Christ. This is the Christ returning to His people to be glorified in His saints. And of course I could say something there that would upset the apple cart so I won't do that. It'll shake you up so I won't do that. But He's here, He's here. You, that's never got Him inside, till Christ be formed within you Paul said. Jesus Christ, the hope of glory within His temple. Your bodies being the temples of the Holy Ghost, in His kingdom, appearing within His saints. How could that be? Paul said, He's being formed within you. As He is formed within you that is His appearing within His saints to the redemption of the body. As He is formed as a man child to sit on the throne of your heart, Christ. And when He is fully mature and you become the membership of His body, redeemed fully then that fleshy body that head is going to drop down and you're going to see Him. He's going to suddenly come to life and you're going to say. Brother Pike begins to sing, "He's Here". Can you say amen! Praise God, may the Lord bless you, come back and be with us.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord