Christ In The Heart Of The Earth 
 
 … got so much *to say tonight I don't know where *to start. And it always makes it difficult *to get into anything. So I would like for *you tonight *to bear with *me and listen *to the *Word of *God. *You come up *here and *you're so filled with the *revelation of Jesus Christ. And then when *you get up *here *it's hard *to ever strike the right channel. Now I could take just *one or *two *brethren and I could start talking with them and I get *their minds and *their *spirits and the *Holy *Spirit gets *my *spirit and it just rolls out all night. I've had *Him *to do it all night long. But then when *you get before a congregation *you got all kind of *spirits. And how many of *you know the Bible says that the carnal mind is enmity *to *God. If *you're in a natural frame of mind then Satan works through that mind and that is enmity with supernatural thinking. Now *God has placed in the *church a gift called the gift of wisdom. *He's placed in the *church many gifts. For *there is a gift of wisdom that *He's placed in the *church. And the Bible says that wisdom findeth out witty inventions. And *there's nothing that's hid from the gift of wisdom. I don't care what it is, *there is nothing that cannot be explained by the gift of wisdom. And when they brought, when the Queen of Sheba came *to Solomon and tried *him with hard questions, the *Holy *Spirit anointed *him even in that day. And the Bible says *he told *her all that was in *her heart. Now a lot of people have a habit of confusing the gift of the *Spirit with natural reasoning. And they think that the gift of wisdom is something that just makes them a Bible scholar with the natural *Word, but that is not true. A man don't have *to have the gift of wisdom *to become a Bible scholar. Satan don't have the gift of wisdom, and *he's *one of the best that ever, ever tread the earth. But wisdom, the gift of wisdom is something that's supernatural that goes beyond the comprehension of the mortal mind, and it gets into the spiritual depths of *God's immortal Presence, and it searches out things that the greatest Bible scholars in the world don't know nothing about that's in *church. *You say, Why did, why does *God put that in the *church, *Brother Pike? *It's so that the mystery of *God can be revealed *to the *bride; and then the *bride can be changed and taken up into the presence of the *Holy *Spirit *to be with *God forever. That's what *it's for. Now then *there is not a famine in the world for *God's *Word. How many of *you know that that's true? A lot of people say, Well, the Bible says *there will be a famine for the *Word of *God in the last days. But the Bible did not say *there would be a famine for the *Word of *God in the last day. But it *said *to the contrary of it that in the last days I will pour out of *my *Spirit upon all flesh. *Your *sons and daughters will prophesy and the *Word of *God shall fill all of the earth and the *knowledge of the *Lord shall fill the *heavens. But *he *said *there shall be a famine for the hearing of the *Word in the last days. *There won't be anybody *to *hear the *Word of *God. They won't have ears *to *hear the *gospel of Jesus Christ in the last days, the Bible says. So then *God wants *to give *us the wonderful understanding of the mysteries of *God. The world has had *their revival and it is over. Now a lot of preachers won't accept it but *it's true anyway. *There will never be another revival *to the world. *It's over and *it's gone and with it goes the dispensation of *grace. I'd love *to talk about that some night if *God would see fit. But the dispensation of *grace is slipping away. And because of that that the *knowledge of the *Lord is just being multiplied in the world because *God wants the whole world *to become guilty before *him. *He's sending the *Word in every way, that the world might become transgressors and become guilty before *Almighty *God so they'll be without excuse in that day. But how many of *you remember that in the days of Solomon it was, *you remember David? David went out *to battle, a type of the evangelistic efforts that's placed in the world. And David made war. The Bible says, Cursed is the man that holdeth back *his sword from blood. When a ministry takes the *Word of the living *God and *he starts preaching *he goes forth with the *Word and the Bible says *he is cursed in the sight of *God if *he doesn't dip that blood in, that sword in the blood of those that reject *God and those that oppose *God. *He *said, Don't spare any of them, but cursed is the man that will not dip the sword in *their blood. So then in David's day *he was a man of courage and *he went forth and *he would dip the sword in the blood of the people. But that never built the house of the living *God. All of that was *great. All of it had *to be done. The enemy had *to be subdued before *God could ever build *his house because in the dispensation wherein *God would build the house *there had *to be a time of peace like the world had never known. And when *God begins *to work *to build up the spiritual house of lively stones *there has *to come a time when the enemy doesn't bother the people of *God anymore. And so then *God has *to send out *great warriors through the land and they dip *their swords in the blood of the people. They bind evil *spirits and *great wars wedged against the enemy and many men like David after *God's *own heart, having a desire *to see the temple of *God erected and *to come up as a monument before the world, yet they fail *to see it because *God has a specific way of doing things that *His ordination is that a man with *too much blood on *his hands cannot build the house of *God. *He *said, David, *you're a *great warrior and *you have done a *great job, but *He *said *there's *too much blood on *your hands *to build the house of *God. But *He *said, *Your *son will come along. And did *you know that we are the *sons of the past generation? That generation warred all down *their life-time, and they fought vigorously because they had *to subdue the alien armies *to be able *to bring *to pass the message of *God that would erect the lively stones that would build a *holy temple or a tabernacle for *God. But we are the children of them. And we have the *revelation of *God. And *He *said, David, *Your *son Solomon can come and build the house of the living *God. *He *said, *You just gather the material and Solomon will do the building. Well they gathered the material. We've got it. *Revelation after *revelation been handed down *to *us. And I think *one of the most disappointing things that's ever come *to any man was when William Branham failed *to be able *to see this *great building come together. And like Jesus *he died with a broken heart because *he *said, I thought I would bring the rapturing faith *to the *church. But *he failed *to do it. But *he brought the *Word of *God that brings the rapturing faith *to the *church. *He brought the *revelation. *He brought the mysteries. And we are grateful tonight for all of those men that done *their job, but *there was *one thing, just *one thing that would build the house of *God. And that was the wisdom of *Almighty *God manifested through the human lips. And so it is that we are in that place now. How many of *you know that the Bible says, In the last days when they had a council over at Jerusalem, the Bible says that all the men got together with the *apostles and so forth, and *one of them got up *to speak during the times that they was talking. And *he *said, And this agrees with what the prophet *said, That I will return in the last days saith *God and I will build up the fallen down house of David. I'll bring the temple of Solomon back up, lively stones built up into a *holy priesthood, a habitation or a tabernacle for *God. And *he *said, I will again place *my name upon these lively stones. And it shall come *to pass that *whosoever looketh toward this temple shall find healing and find deliverance for *their body. *God has done just exactly what *He *said *He would do. So then we are grateful. I am very grateful for what everybody else has done. Now I'm sure that *you're grateful. But did *you know that while *there is now a peace, did *you know *there's a peace that's settling around the people of *God? *You say, Well what do *you mean, *Brother Pike? I mean *there's nobody else *to fight with. *There's nobody else *to war with. What do *you mean by that? That those that have rejected the message have grown cold and gone *their way and *they're no more religious. But those that have accepted the message of Jesus Christ they are ready *to quit warring with each other and *to form the army that the Bible spoke of when it *said, I will bring forth *my mighty army, saith *God. I will raise up the army of Joel and they shall march hand in hand and they shall not break ranks. But *He *said, they shall move like mighty men across the earth. And *He *said *there shall be before them as it was in the *garden of Eden and behind them it shall be a barren desert. I've talked *to some men that know something about sheep and cattle, and I heard a man say from California. *He *said that *there was always a war between the sheep herders and between the cattlemen. Cattle will go over the ground and they will eat the grass. Then when they leave in the coming season the grass will grow up again. But *brother, I want *you *to know they say that when sheep go across a piece of ground that they even pull the roots up out of the ground; and when they get through *it's like a barren desert behind them. *They're not hardly any *life left. They get every bit of the *life. I'll tell *you the cattle might just graze and bit off the top but men that are *holy bite right down *to the roots of the matter and finding that blessing that *God has for them. *It's a wonderful time in which *we're living in. That's why I'm tired in body tonight. But that's why that I'm so glad that I am living in this *age. I am so thankful that I got a part in this *age. I want *to say this tonight. Reading just a little bit if *you've got *your Bibles I want *you *to turn with *me. Now I want *you *to give *me time tonight. I don't know just what I'll say. *There's so many things I'd like *to say, but it takes a little while *to bring out the *revelation of *God. And *it's hard *to preach a *revelation. Now I preached not *too long ago until I was soaking wet with sweat. *My shirt, I preached until I could wring the water out of *my shirt and *my pants would be just soaking wet. But we want the *knowledge of *God. And the only way *to get that is just *to be able *to grow up in the *Lord. Now I've got some literature *laying out *there. Some of *you might have seen it. And we've got some new literature that's coming out in a little while. But in this literature *there's just a little bit of *revelation alone. But in the other we got coming out I hope there'll be a lot of *revelation in it. And what *we're trying *to do is bring the *church as far as our part into the *revelation of Jesus Christ. And the Bible says the meat is for the strong. Now babies like milk and they love *to if they come *to *church. And now this is not critical of babies. *God *said, Peter, if *you love *me *you feed *my sheep. And then *He *said, Peter, also feed *my little lambs. And *it's with *God *it's not just a matter of feeding sheep but *there's some little lambs that have *to be fed *too. That's means *there's got *to be some shouting. *There's got *to be some clapping of the hands. *There's got *to be some praising of *God. And all of those things that's part of it. The *church would be dead without it. But have *you ever considered this? The little children around the house they play. *They're not concerned about the week end. They don't go out on the job and work do they? Because *they're not worried about meal time. They know daddy and mother will have something on the table when meal time comes. *They're not worried about it. *It's daddy and mother that has *to go through the travail. *It's daddy and mother that has *to labor and see that the house stays clean and see that *there's food on the table. The little babies they don't care if *it's, *their toys can be strode from *one end of the place *to the other. And *it's the same way in the *church affairs, they don't care. The little fellows just want *to jump, holler and scream, shout. They don't care what happens, but daddy's got *to stand *there and labor and travail that *there might be meat in the house of the living *God. And the mother has *to clean all the things up. *She's got *to do it *to keep that place straight. So then the meat is for the strong. And we want some meat of the *Word. I do. I like milk. I like the blessings of *God but *you can give the *church *too much, well *too much sweets and *too much desert and *you'll just have a fat, lazy *church. So they won't do anything because *you can't work off of cake and well *you might try it but that just won't do. *You've got *to have some meat. And *you know according *to scientists reasoning, they say that meat don't fatten *you, but it will make *you strong. But all that other stuff will just fatten *you up and make *you fat and lazy. So then let's see if we can get the *revelation of Christ. And but *to be able *to get this it takes concentrating. *You understand what I mean. It takes drawing. Now like I *said, We can stir *you up. That's the preachers job. *There's all kind of ministries *to do that but when *you do that the rain is going *to come on the just and the unjust and the tares is just going *to drink it in just like the rest of them drink it in. But did *you know that when the meat of the *Word comes that the tare will not get that? *He cannot get that. But anyway let's read just a little bit from the book of Genesis and bear with *me tonight. If it takes *me just a little longer maybe than unusual, bear with *me. I was going *to talk about the *antichrist but I'd like *to explain tonight if I could. *There's so much confusion. I notice that all over the country. But I'd love *to explain by spiritual *revelation what William Branham was *to the *church, *his place in the *church and what *he was not in the *church. Now somebody *said, Do *you know, *Brother Pike? Spiritual *revelation shows *him just as plain as I see those doors back *there. *His place is just as plain as it can be. Now *you might say, Well how do I know that *your spiritual *revelation is right? All right let *me say this. While I was out in California I might have spoke of it last time I was *here. *God spoke *to *me and *said the foreign nations would cash in *their currency, *their American currency. How many of *you know that they done it? For the first time in the history of the world the papers stated right after *God spoke *to *me, for the first time never before has been done, but the paper stated that France was cashing in half of *her American currency and was planning *to cash in the other half. And not *too long ago *Brother David Allen came *to *me with a little clipping from the paper. I still have it and not only was they stirred *to the place of cashing in *their currency, but they also *said that America did not have the right *to *set the standards and the boundaries for money and throw *their money out of balance, that *one dollar would be twelve dollars and so forth and so on. And *they're upset about it. They *said they wouldn't even accept it anymore. That means that *she's losing *her authority and *her place. Now *you can better understand that if *you know what America was in spiritual *revelation. Not only that but I spoke of Abraham Lincoln's ministry or *his administration paralleling Kennedy's and what it meant. And they published it in the paper, it was identical. Everything happened just the same. Then the *Lord spoke *to *me and *said, I will take the prophet away. *He spoke *to *me while I was in Florida at *Brother J. T. Parnell's tabernacle. *He'll verify this if *you want *to find out about it. I was *laying on *my bed *one morning and the *Holy *Spirit showed *me *two caskets. It was a black casket and a *white casket. And I *said, *God, when the anointing came on *me I *said, What does this mean? And *he *said, This *white casket represents a righteous ministry and a righteous *life, and *said it is the prophet. And *said, I'll take *him home. And then *He told *me what the other *one meant. I told *Brother J. T. I *said, *God is fixing *to call the prophet home. Then I told the people I *said, Spiritual *revelation shows that *Brother Branham will come out of the desert. *He'll be *there about three years and *he'll come out of the desert along about the first of the year and *his ministry will be over. And it happened just exactly the way that *revelation showed it would happen. When *he had the wreck I *said according *to *revelation *his wife will not die. I *said *she may die later but not right in the wreck. I *said, But *Brother Branham will die just before Christmas day and *he did about Christmas Eve. Now during all that time I stood on Thanksgiving Day and I *said, This Thanksgiving marks the turning event of the whole world. I *said it will effect especially the elect world. I *said, This ministry of the *church world has at last caught up with the ministry of the prophet. And after I *said it within a few days *God took *him off of the scene. What do *you mean, *Brother Pike? Spiritual *revelation. Many other things I could tell *you about that came *to pass just exactly. But these things *you are acquainted with. And I turned *to *Brother Frank Taylor, *Brother Frank will verify it. I *said, *Brother Frank, *your mother over in Danville, Illinois I had never seen *her. I don't even know what *she looks like other than from the picture. I *said but around the first of the year *your mother will die. Just a little after the first of the year before the first quarter ever got away, *Brother Frank Taylor got a telephone call and that night I had had a dream of *his mother and of *his daddy. The next morning *he got a telephone call, *said, *your mother has had a heart attack and *she's dead. *He went on *to Danville, Illinois and *he just come back a few days ago. It just recently happened. When I made that statement just like always somebody always mocking and somebody always says something about it, but when it came *to pass somebody ran into the house was a lady that mocked it and it like *to scared *her half *to death when *she found out that it came *to pass. It doesn't pay *to mock the things of *God. *God is real. *God is real. *Brother William Branham has a place in *revelation. And that *revelation is clearly shown by the *Word of *God and that place is clearly shown by the *Word of *God *to where even a little child can understand it if *you look into it. Let's read just a little bit *here over in the book of Genesis. I can't, I can't seem *to hit the stream that I want *to hit tonight. And I don't want *to go contrary *to the *Holy *Spirit because if I do then we won't be able *to bring the *revelation out. *There's a special time and a special anointing for things. But let's read just a little and see if we can bring anything out on it tonight. Reading over in the book of Genesis from the thirty-seventh chapter. Reading *here about Joseph, Joseph speaking *to *his *brethren *said *here in the first verse of the thirty-seventh chapter of Genesis. 
 
 
Genesis 37:1-11 "And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein *his *father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with *his *brethren; and the lad was with the *sons of Bilhah, and with the *sons of Zilpah, *his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto *his *father *their evil report. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all *his children, because *he was the *son of *his old *age: and *he made *him a coat of many colours. And when *his *brethren saw that *their *father loved *him more than all *his *brethren, they hated *him, and could not speak peaceably unto *him. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and *he told it *his *brethren: and they hated *him yet the more. And *he *said unto them, *Hear, I pray *you, this dream which I have dreamed: For, behold, we *were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, *my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, *your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance *to *my sheaf. And *his *brethren *said *to *him, Shalt *thou indeed reign over *us? or shalt *thou indeed have dominion over *us? And they hated *him yet the more for *his dreams, and for *his *words. And *he dreamed yet another dream, and told it *his *brethren, and *said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance *to *me. And *he told it *to *his *father, and *to *his *brethren: and *his *father rebuked *him, and *said unto *him, What is this dream that *thou hast dreamed? Shall I and *thy mother and *thy *brethren indeed come *to bow down ourselves *to *thee *to the earth? And *his *brethren envied *him; but *his *father observed the saying." 
 
Now then it *said the *brethren envied *him. But *his *father just took these things at *his heart because *he knew that *God's hand was on Joseph. Now it *said *here that the *brethren would not receive Joseph. Did *you know that in the *church the more *God uses an individual the more jealousy arise from the people of the *church and they will not receive the individual that *God is using. Have *you ever noticed that? They won't receive them. The more the anointing comes on upon a man's *life the more fault they find with *him. The devil sees *to that. The more jealousy that comes up. So then if *you'll notice *here the Bible speaks of Joseph being rejected and despised by *his *brethren. *He'd had a dream and *he *said that it was a harvest time dream, now *you can connect this with the *church if *you'll listen real good. *He *said it was a harvest time dream and *he *said in the time of harvest *he *said I stood as the head. That's what it means. All right *he says *here I had another dream. And *he *said the stars, stars representing angelic beings, *he *said the stars bowed down *to *me. *He illustrated *here concerning the twelve tribes of Israel and also the sun which represents *God and the moon representing the *church, *he *said, everything done obeisance unto *me, that I was over it all. And then *he went on a little further and *you remember how that Joseph being rejected of the *brethren they threw *him into a pit and *he was taken down into the land of Egypt. And the Bible says that a man bought *him *there and put *him over all of *his goods. And just as long as *he was over those things that belonged *to this man, this man prospered. Did *you know as an individual *you can take a preacher into *your house *to support *him or a missionary *to stand by and just as long as that minister is in *your house and *you caring for *him that's just how long *you'll prosper. And the day that *you throw *him overboard, murmur, complain and find fault against *him, that's the day that *you'll start down. *You don't believe that works *you try it. *God *said, I'll bless them that bless *you and I'll curse them that curse *you speaking of the natural and the spiritual *Jew. All right now then *he went down into the dungeon because of *his wrong. Some of *you heard how that I expressed it that *it's like unto the *Lord Jesus when the world tried *to get Jesus *to take up time with *her and commit the act of harlotry, *you remember that Jesus would not do it. Joseph stood and the woman laid *her hands on *him and Joseph must have been real pleasing sort of a fellow *to look at, as *she tried *to commit the act of harlotry with *him. Joseph, before *he would do it, *he rent *himself from *his garment and *he went away from *her, left the garment in *her hands, just as Jesus hung on the cross and the world put *his arms about Jesus and *said, *you will commit harlotry with *me. Satan offered *him everything up on the mountain. Jesus just slipped out of that fleshly garment and left it hanging *there in the hands of the world before *He would commit harlotry and betray the trust and confidence that *God had placed within *him. *He just slipped out of it. Now then the thing *to notice is that because Joseph rejected this thing, then the Bible says they placed *him in the dungeon. Where did Jesus go? When *He rejected the world *He went down *to the dungeon didn't *He into the dark pit? It was *there in the dungeon. How many of *you ever *wondered what Jesus done while *He was down *there? Notice the *life of Joseph and *you can see it real clear. Joseph, the Bible says, *He wasn't down *there long before *He had the keys *to the place. Wasn't that what Jesus done? The very minute that *He got down *there, *God gave *Him such favor in the bowels of the earth that *He walked and took the keys *to the prisoners. Joseph found such favor that it wasn't long before *he had the keys *to the place and *he was walking around *there. And the Bible says, Early in the morning time I wish I could bring out every step of it clearly, but it was early in the morning time that *he came around and *here a baker had been committed *to the prison and a butler had been committed *to the prison. And both of them representing *one type or another type of people they dreamed a dream. Death is somewhat like a dream. They dreamed a dream representing the *two kind of people that go down *to sleep in the dust and how that *God deals with them and when they come forth where they'll go *too. Joseph went around and *he saw the butler. And the butler *said, Joseph, I dreamed a dream. And Joseph *said if *you'll tell it *to *me maybe *God will give *us the interpretation. And I want *you *to get a picture of this. This shows Jesus as *he preached *to the souls that was *there in prison and it shows exactly what happened *to those souls. And *he preached *to the butler and the butler *said, Joseph, I had a dream. And *there came up a vine and three branches ran out from the vine. And then the branches began *to bud and then *there came forth fruit and I gathered the fruit and I was restored back *to *my rightful position in the *church *to offer the fruits of the *spirit unto *God because of being faithful in *my lifetime. *He brought it right down *to that. Joseph *said, *You'll be restored back. Jesus *said, I am the vine. *Ye are the branches. And when faith buds it will bring forth the fruits of the *Spirit that will give the testimony of the blood of Jesus Christ *to the world, and *you can deliver souls washed in the blood of the *Lamb into the hand of the *Great King. Then the baker *he was satisfied with *him. And so *he *said, Joseph, I dreamed a dream. Now then if *you'll notice that in this butlers dream *God delivered certain souls from the prison and restored them back *to *life not *to temporal *life but *to *eternal *life because they had been faithful in *their lifetime. And so then we see *here when the baker heard about it, the baker had a little different story. *He *said in so many *words. Joseph, I've been in the presence of the king. But *he *said, I made *my belly *my *God. And *my mind was always on the substance of the world, and I never had any time *to really give service unto *God. But *he *said, I lived *there. And *he *said, I had a dream. *Said, On *my head *there was three *white baskets and they *were full of meat. And *he *said the fowls of the air came along and took them meat right off the bundle. *You know what Jesus *said? Jesus *said, Gather *yourselves together in the book of *Revelation, *he *said because the fowls of the earth, which was the demon *spirits they shall come together in the last days *he *said and heap upon heap the rich and the poor alike, those that have rejected *God shall lay *there, *he *said, and the fowls of the air shall eat *their flesh. Did *you know that demon *spirits today are literally consuming the flesh right off of *your bones? How many of *you know that? *They're eating up *your flesh! Cancer, TB, paralysis, the lust of the flesh, those evil things are working. Did *you know that *Revelation says that in the last day the *church would become a cage of every unclean and hateful bird? In the last days it would become a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Did *you know that's why *there's so much trouble in the *church? Somebody *said, *Brother Pike, that's the *holy sanctuary of the living *God. It onetime was but Jesus *said, *You've made it a den of thieves. And *it's become the cage of every unclean *spirit and they just war with each other and all *their deeds are causing trouble. The elect has been driven out and *it's become a cage *to where *God can hem up the virtue. Why did they do it in the *church? Because judgment begins in the house of *God. Why is it that the minister's message has changed? Because in the days of Moses *there came in *his day a, *there came a moving of the *law and *God ordained *him the messiah of that *age. *God making *him a *god *to magnify *himself through Moses. *God had *to make a man a *god. *He *said, I've called *ye *gods. *He has *to make *you *gods *to magnify *Himself through *you *to the world. But did *you know that when *God uses an individual and *He raises *him up that *God in the end has *to smite that individual *to kill the flesh *to show the world that it was the anointing and not the human being that done it? Didn't *He smite Moses when *He got through with *him, the messiah of that *age? And then *grace came along and *grace overlapped the days of the *law and the dispensation of the *law and Jesus Christ the Messiah came in. *God made *Him a *god *to the people, magnified *Himself through Jesus. When *He finished *He raised the flesh up before all of them and *He smote the flesh saying, It was the anointing and not the flesh. No flesh shall *glory in the sight of *God. How many of *you know that Jesus was not justified by *His deeds? The Bible says, *Great is the mystery of *godliness for *God *who is the *Spirit was manifest in the flesh, made known *to the world, but *He was justified in the *Spirit of *God. *He was justified by *grace and not by *His deeds *to be our example. Then in this *age the dispensation of righteousness is coming in. And *it's overlapping the dispensation of *grace just like *grace overlapped *law *there come a third messiah William Branham was born a proper child in this *age *to be a messiah of this *age, that *he might be a milestone or a marker in this *age *to where *God could open the *revelation of Jesus Christ *to the world. *God never does anything out of season. *There is a time and a season for everything. *Truth will not be accepted out of season. People's hearts have *to be fashioned *to a certain time and a certain condition for *God works all things after the council of *His *own will. *You know a lot of people say, Well, I'm not going *to work for *God, *Brother Pike. Did *you know that *your work for *God whether *you want *to or not? Did *you know that the *law says *you're going *to obey it whether it be while *you have *your freedom or whether it be in shackles over yonder in the prison *you're still going *to do like we say. And *God works all things after the council of *His *own will. The preparation of man's heart is from *God. *God prepares *your heart *to do *His good will and pleasure. If *He prepares it unto righteousness *He rewards *you if *you do it willingly. But if *you don't *God just makes *you do *you do the way *He wants *too anyway and prepares *your heart unto destruction. *There's nothing *you can do. *You serve *God either by fulfilling a type, a shadow and an allegory of the true *revelation or else *you serve *God. Did *you know that everything in this world, everything in this world down *to the very hairs on *your head are numbered? *God knows each star and it differs in *glory. *He knows the name of each individual. And everything in this world is a counterpart of some spiritual thing in yonder world. And Paul *said that all of the invisible things of *God from the beginning of the world are understood by *us by the things which we see with our eyes, which means that everything in this world parallels with the spiritual. And this thing that we see around *us is a spiritual world made manifest in types, shadows and allegories. And every time *you go *to the store *you went because *God ordained for *you *to go *to the store. I know a lot of people don't believe it, but when *you get into the mind of Jesus Christ *you'll find out that if *you slept three hours it was an ordination of *God *to fulfill a certain allegory. I know these things *to be a fact. I've proven them. I've run them down and they always come out the same. I've run them down in *my *life. I've run them down in the prophet's *life. I run them down in Paul's *life. I've run them down in *Jesus' *life. I've run them down in some of the, our lives right *here in this *own building or *your *own building. And it always comes out the same. That every little thing that *you do, like *Brother Bob *he just bought a Cadillac. Somebody will criticize *him for it. *He might need criticizing. I don't know. But I know *one thing, I know *he couldn't do nothing else. Because it had *to fulfill a *revelation. It had *to fulfill an allegory. *God can't do nothing in the spiritual until *He manifests a natural counterpart that *you might be able by the allegory *to comprehend the height, the depth, and the width and *to understand all things *to receive the mind of *God. I've made the statement numbers of times. *God has hid nothing from *us. Now this is what I want *us *to get. A lot of people say *there's some things that *God don't want *us *to know. The Bible says, *You have an unction from the *Holy *one that *you should know all things. And Jesus *said, *To have the mind of Christ. Paul *said *to have the mind of Christ. The prophets taught the mind of Christ. What I have had made known unto *me, Jesus *said, I've passed it on down *to *you. Now I've made known unto *you. So then that's why that *God never let Jesus know the day nor the hour of *His coming. The *Holy *Spirit never even revealed it *to the fleshly body of *His *Son because would have had *to make it known unto *us had *He done it and *God did not want *us *to know. But now Jesus knows because we have known *Him after the flesh, but henceforth we know *Him no more after the flesh. *He is *God. So then we see that everything in this world is an allegory of something spiritual. Now why has the *church become the cage of unclean and hateful birds? *It's because *God has brought together every individual that rejected the message, everything that will not have the message and *he's causing judgment *to begin from the mouth of the minister and the message that brings the change because *grace was *to a dying world that knew nothing about *God. But now the world knows about *God and *God doesn't give *grace where *there's *knowledge of sin. *There is no more *grace for them if they have a *knowledge of sin if *you willfully go on. *There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but judgment in the *age that had *knowledge. And *God is now making it manifest. *He will judge the world in righteousness. The righteous dispensation has come in. The message of *grace has changed … (?) …, *Brother Pike, I know what all this means. Did *you know that *grace even never comes into *your *life … (?) … if *you haven't done everything within *your *knowledge and within *your power *to surrender wholly unto *God, *you never have even received any *grace … (?) … the *spirit of *truth. I'm talking about *grace … *we're the righteous for now on the *grace of *God that makes *us whole that gives *us salvation. Until *you have done everything within *your power *to live a *holy *life *grace doesn't even begin. But when *you've done everything that *you can *to please *God and *to live *holy then when *you stumble *God looks down and *He says *there is no charge against *you, for the blood of *My *Son covers that. Everything is taken care of when *you begin *to walk right before *God. But remember *there is no *grace until *you've done everything that *you can; and then when *you fail *grace takes care of that. So then the *church world has become a cage, a place *to hold the people. Something that will hold the unclean *spirits and *God will cause the Methodist *church *to be filled up, the Baptist *church *to be filled up, and then they will merge into the Catholic *church and the Catholic *church will become a big cage and every unclean person will go into it and *God will build a wall around it. And *He'll bind the tares into denominational bundles and cast them into the National Council of Churches right into the fiery lust of the flesh and they'll be consumed *one of another. *God is working and bringing the unclean *spirits together just like *He's bringing the elect together. Let *me say this. We are living in a time when the Bible says the strength of the young men shall fail. Now bear with *me. In the time of the strength of the young men shall fail. What is it? *God had *to bring all humanity *to a breaking point *to force humanity *to surrender *to the power that's inwardly pressing outwardly, trying *to get control of this body. Why did *He do that? So that this inward *you and *me whatever it is whether *it's Jesus Christ's nature whether *it's whether *it's the satanic nature, whatever the nature is it has *to be revealed. The end will not come unless *there be a *great falling away and the nature of mankind be revealed. And they that *set in the temple of the living *God, *he that showeth *himself as *God … (?) … I have made the statement *God will let television come before *you, *He'll let money come before *you, *He'll let houses and land and whatever it might be come before *you until *he draws out that deep embedded interest that *you've got and the world will see the *spirit within *you manifested and they'll know whether *you're the image of the beast or the image of Jesus Christ. *It's the breaking point. Men *who are sexual maniacs can't control themselves anymore. They have resisted that thing and *it's clawed at them and talked *to them until they just finally surrendered and go wild. Did *you know that? Men *who are murderers that have resisted it, I read just the other day where a mother was about eight stories up in a building and *she was going about *her housework just a young mother and *she *said something kept telling *her *to push *her baby out the window, push *her baby out the window and *there a little old kid, just a little bitty baby, a little bitty child finally the urge got so strong *she got *to the breaking point and that inward *her was revealed and as it was made manifest and *she shoved the baby out the window. Only the devil would have done a thing like that. That was manifesting the image of the beast. *You may say, *Brother Pike, I'm about *to have a nervous breakdown. Do *you know that *you can't resist any longer. Whatever *you are is being made manifest that the world can see what *you are. If *you just, just some person *to come *to *church and cause confusion *God's going *to make it manifest that *you're nothing but somebody *to cause trouble in the *church. If *you're just somebody *to gossip, every time *you get with somebody *you're just going *to gossip, gossip, gossip and then when *you get away *you're going *to say, I *wonder why I done that? But *God is manifesting *your nature. The rain coming down upon the just and the unjust through the years upon the briar and the tare. It has brought forth a harvest at last. And the tare has come forth just like the wheat, but the thing is they had a different nature in *their harvest. They yielded *their harvest and the world sees what it is now. *They're beginning *to see *who's *who. That's why nobody's trying so hard anymore *to live a Christian *life because they can't. *God is forcing them *to be what they are. So then *God has made the *church a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. And *here in this dispensation of righteousness that's now slipping in and overlapping the days of *grace, right in this dispensation when the world is become filled with the *knowledge of *God, and *there can be no more *grace given *to them because they know *to do good and won't do it, the message of the minister has changed from a wooing, loving message and *it's changed *to *one of judgment except *to the elect of the living *God. And the world's revival is over. *There won't be any more revival *to them. But at the ending of the revival *to the world the Bible says, Jesus will turn back *to the Jews. In the natural *He goes back *to the Jews. But in the spiritual *He turns back *to the spiritual *Jew. How many of *you know that? On the inward part we are predestinated, justified and we've been glorified, perfected forever, the Bible says. Sanctified once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus on the *tree. We are complete in *Him, in the *Son of *God that's inside. The *Son of *God that's inside. But just as our spiritual *Father was made manifest in a fleshly body we as *His *sons will become manifest in this flesh until people will say, *There's something about that man, *there's something about that woman that's different. *There is something supernatural and superseding about them that I don't understand. *It's different from all humanity, the *sons of *God being made manifest. They say, I read a little article not *too long ago, and they say that *one of the *great men that was a ruler back *there in the days of Jesus, *said, *One day *he had been wanting *to see Jesus. And *said, *One day *he met Jesus. And Jesus was coming around a little old walk way. And *said *he walked up *to where the *Son of *God was. And Jesus was just, *He was just a common, down *to earth, ordinary individual but *He never respected an individual's person. If *you was a big man it didn't mean nothing *to Jesus. If *you was a pauper it didn't mean nothing *to Jesus. Just, *He never accepted a man's person. *He weighed the *spirit of man *to see what *he was made out of. And this man when *he met Jesus *he *said *he had never met a man like *Him in all of *his *life. And I read a little article concerning *one of the men that met *Him. And *he tried *to describe *him *to Caesar I believe it was. And *he *said, I never seen a man like this. *Said, *He exceeds mankind in every fashion and every way. *Said, *He's every bit manly, *said *he's just as masculine as *he can be. But *said, *He is altogether different from mankind in *His ways, in *His appearance. Though *He was every bit a man, yet *he *said, *There's something superseding about *Him. And *he tried *to explain it and *he never could. *He just, *words failed *him. Did *you know the *sons of *God are the same way. *There is something supernatural about them. They have an overcoming power that when others can't overcome they do overcome. When others can't walk straight they do walk straight because *it's not them. Paul *said, *It's not I that liveth but Christ that liveth within *me. And the *life I now live, I live by the *Son of *God. Christ in *His appearing the second time without sin unto salvation came into a *Son of *God on the inside of this temple. For the *Lord of Hosts suddenly as the *Word made *Spirit by *your *spirit comes into this temple. But *to the coming of judgment *He'll come back *to the outer man in judgment and it will be judgment *to the flesh. Every time *you see *God in the flesh *it's judgment. *You die. If *God lifted *you up like Moses did and manifests *Himself through *you *to make a *god out of *you, then that means that *you got *to die. *You got *to die. Paul spoke of it. *You got *to die. So then when *He lifted Moses up *He had *to smite *Him in the end. *Said, I'll make *you a *god so I can manifest *Myself through *you. And then when *He lifted Jesus up *He had *to smite *Him in the end. And then the proper child of our *age that was born *to mark the, *to become a milestone or a marker in *his *life lifted *him up as *god and the people called *him *god, *God manifested *Himself through *him. And then when *he finished *his ministry *God smote *him. *You heard about it, what a terrible crash it was, *God smote *Him that the world might see that it was not the fleshly body of William Branham, but it was the anointing within *him. Otherwise the world would have followed *him. Did *you that the world was following William Branham? Did *you know that? A wicked, sinful, adulterous generation followed William Branham in *his signs and *wonders. They followed *him for the fishes and loaves. They wanted *to find favor with *Him like Judas Iscariot did. But did *you know that when William Branham died and *God let *him die for that purpose, that at *his death that caused the tares *to get all confused? They don't know where *they're going and they don't know what *they're going *to do. But did *you know we still have Jesus. We still have Jesus. We saw Jesus in *His *life. Jesus didn't die. *He's still working *there. *He's still with *us. *We're still following *Him. Notice this picture that we've got behind *us right *here. Did *you know strangely enough, most of the *brethren don't know about it, but I've watched it. Strangely enough this little picture with the *light over *his head *here is appearing in the churches. Did *you know that? *They're wanting *to hang it up in the sanctuary. Now I know *you might reject *to it. And I personally reject *to it *myself as a man I reject *to it. But over in the spiritual *revelation of it I understand. Did *you know that though *there *were many men, I brought it out *here in *my last revival, *there *were many men that tried *to get into the *White House, especially three major people. That I got it on tape, I preached *here last time. But did *you know that William Branham got *there by *his picture and that *angel. Now I believe that that is the *angel, the last *angel that was *to sound that *Revelation speaks about. Now I don't mean William Branham, but I mean that *angel over *his head that manifested *himself through William Branham and by the hands of William Branham. That *angel that came with William Branham just like it came with those other men in *their *age, that *angel came and made this mystery known. The Bible says, *He makes *His *angels ministering *spirits *to them that are heirs of salvation and for them that are heirs of salvation. And that *angel ministered *to *him, made known the *revelation of Christ *to *him by the *Word of *God according *to *God's will just inspiring *him *to turn this way. Now the *angel could not preach the *gospel so *he couldn't come and declare *his message. But *he had the message that *God had placed for the *angel *to sound with. So *he just impressed *Brother Branham by blowing through the trees, or *He impressed *Brother Branham by blowing the little leaves over and *He'd say, Look *there. Look *there. Keep watching. Keep watching. And then the *Holy *Spirit the Bible says, this anointing that abideth within *you teacheth *you all things. And then the *Holy *Spirit would say, Do *you understand what *He's saying *son? Now after a while *Brother Branham's heart would be enlarged just like *mine and *yours has been so many times. And *he'd say, Hallelujah! *Lord, I never seen that. And then *you realize that *God had veiled *Himself in something and right while *you was looking at it *He just came right out at *you. *Brother Branham was a milestone or a proper child for this *age, which means that the *Revelation of Jesus Christ for this period was not made known until *God met, *He *set the milestone. *He was not a man *to reveal the mysteries of *God. Somebody *said, *He revealed all the mysteries of *God. *Brother Branham did not do it. No man ever done it. *Brother Branham was a milestone that marked the time and the beginning of the release of the *revelation. And *him being a master in the *Word of *God *he had *to have a *great portion *to show the people what was coming *to pass. But the Bible says, If *you lack wisdom, if any man lack wisdom, let *him go, not *to William Branham, but let *him go *to *God and ask of *God *who giveth *to all men freely and *he don't upbraid men, but *He gives *to men. So then *Brother Branham was not a man that came on the scene *to reveal all the mysteries. Somebody's all mixed up on that. But *brethren around the country have got so beside themselves until they, they say *they're with *Brother Branham and *they're not even in the message and don't even know what *they're talking about. Some of them have went *to extremes and got so hard that they beat *their wife around like *she was a slave and think *she ought *to serve that old fleshly body of *theirs instead of the *God of love within them. Not only that but some of them meet the people as they come in the *church, they say, Do *you believe Malachi 4? No, don't know nothing about it. *You are not in the *bride. That's all *there is *to it. And the people don't even know what *they're talking about. *God sent William Branham *to the ministry of this *age. I had a man *to come *to *me not so long ago, *he *said, Well *Brother Pike, *it's all over. I *said, It is? *He *said, Yes. *Said, *There isn't anything else *to do. I *said, Well, what are we going *to do? Oh *there isn't anything else *to do. *Said, We just, the prophet's done finished it now. And *said, All we got *to do is wait for the evening time. But the Bible says, Occupy until I come. And blessed is the servant that I find so doing, feeding the flock. I'll make *him ruler over everything. *God sent that man with a message *to the five-fold ministry just like Jesus came *to the *apostles. *Brother Branham was a wholesaler. But the five-fold ministry is retailers. And *you're the purchasers. But *Brother Branham's message *to the average individual they can't even understand it. They just get mixed up. If *you're the kind of person that stays home and listens *to tapes, *you'll just die because *you'll get so much of the *Word of *God and so much of the *knowledge of *God without the spiritual anointing until *you decide that nobody else has anything but *Brother Branham. *God never did have any other prophet but *Brother Branham, and *there isn't anything else anybody can do, and *you'll quit giving *your offerings *to the *church. Well *Brother Branham's dead they can't support *him and not support anybody else. What a foolish thing *to get in! But *God, *said, Elijah, about seven thousand have never even bowed *their knees *to Baal. Paul *said, Even so at this time *there is still a remnant called the elect in *grace. See, *we're not the only pea in the pod. *There's a lot of folks that love *God. We just have *to get them together. Now then I'm not getting over the things that I wanted *to get into tonight concerning Joseph. I see that I can't get into it. But I just want *to go along a little further if *you'll just bear with *me. *Brother William Branham is a milestone. *He is a vindicator of the right message. That's what *he is. *He is a vindicator which means that *God, *God *who does not show *Himself *to *His people by signs and *wonders. How many of *you need a sign or a *wonder *to believe that *God's *God and believe that *you need *to serve *God? How many of *you think *He ought *to show *you miracles *to convince *you? *God doesn't convince *His people like that. *He convinces the world that *He's *God by signs and *wonders. So *He sends a vindicator. But the five-fold ministry comes forth and preaches the *Word and the *Word heals the people. And the *Word casts out the unclean *spirits. Why a saint of *God don't need nobody *to pray for *him if *he's a real saint of *God. *He might grow weary but the Bible says, *He's got power over all the powers of the enemy. *He can tread on serpents. The five-fold ministry is just *to stir up what's already in *you. Paul and Peter *said, Though *you already know these things I feel it meet *to stir up *your pure mind. I feel it meet *to bring these things back *to *your remembrance. So then *he was a vindicator *to show *who really had the goods and *who really did not have the goods. *He was *God's Urim and Thummim of today that if *your message did not flash on the vindication of the *Word in *his *life or the *Word made power then *you just didn't have it. That's all. If *your message don't agree with that message that was vindicated by the *angel of this *age, *you just don't have it. I don't care how good *you are intellectually, I don't care how *you can talk, I don't care what *you got, the *angel that's over *his head right *there. *God sent that *angel in this *age *to vindicate that man's message because *God had *to reveal *to *one individual what *He was going *to do. Somebody *said, Well, *Brother Branham was just a special person that was a good man. Why *Brother Branham would have been *one of the worst men that ever walked the earth if *God would have turned *him *loose. *One time *he, *he fired about three or four men and tried *his best *to kill *him. Shot every cartridge that *he had and *God didn't let them *fire. A murderer! *He tried *to smoke, *God stopped *him. Everything, tried *to drink, *God stopped *him, what would *he have been if *God hadn't have stopped *him? What was *he? *God saw a *spirit on the inside of a man that someday would surrender and *God protected that *spirit *to where it would be like a little child, for such is the *kingdom of *heaven. *Their little *spirits have not become accountable and *they're in the *kingdom of *God ever beholding the face of the *Father. *They're still in righteousness. *They're still in *God's power. A lot of folks *said, They die and go *to hell. *You're sure mixed up. Jesus *said, For such is the *kingdom of *God and *their *spirit which is *their *angel doth always stay in the presence of *my *Father and *He watches over them wherever they go. *Brother Branham's *spirit was kept as a child. It was kept in the presence of the *Father, why? Because *God had *to have a proper child. *He had *to keep somebody from the filth of the world that *He might get *to *you and I. Somebody *said, Well did *He think about the flesh? What did *He do *to *Jesus' flesh on the cross? Esteemed *him smitten of *God. What did *He do *to *Brother Branham? Somebody *said, Well *his head was split open. *His ribs was broke. All of *his bodily fibers was crushed. *One of *his legs I believe was broken. *His arms just hanging limp out like that. That's what *He thought of the flesh. Jesus *said, The flesh profiteth nothing, whether *it's *Brother Pike or *Brother Branham or whoever it is. *There is nothing *to the flesh, but it was that *angel within *him, that *son of *God that was on inside. So then *God had *to preserve *one man for *you and I that we might take *his message and gradually bring our *angel or *spirit back *to the condition of a little child, unless *ye shall become as little children *you won't find the *kingdom. So then, *Brother Branham as I *said, *He's a vindicator of the right message. That's what *he is. I wish that we could go on tonight and go through the rest of it. But I know that *you've been real patient. I'm just about half way through right now. I really just got *to the place *to where I can explain *his *life. But anyway *he is a vindicator. *He's a vindicator of the faith. *He's marked the milestone. At last the message has changed and *God has been planting but now *He's starting *to pluck up. Sent *His *angels in the last days *to sever the just from the unjust and pluck up that every plant that the *Word or the *Heavenly *Father has not planted would be rooted up, rooted up. So then *it's just a few that's coming together. Let *me say this. Why is it that the world has had a revival and *God's people have not had a revival? *You know *God's true people haven't had a revival. *You know they've been the most oppressed people in all the earth. If in this *life only we have hope well *we're worse than anybody, *he *said. Of all men *we're more miserable than anybody because we cut ourselves *loose from Egypt. We can't get the garlic and onion. And we can't get *to Canaan land and *here we are in a wilderness. Well *we're worse than anybody else but *we're learning the laws of *God. *You're learning the laws of *God by the contrast of night and day, dark, *light, bitter and sweet. *We're finding out what *God is. *We're finding out what *He can do. So then if we'll just hold on *we're coming through. Why is it that *God's people has not had a revival? *It's because *He *said, I am the first at Pentecost. I gave *you a revival and the *church was in full power because I am the first. *Said, and then all the lukewarm will come in between *there and the world will have *their revival. And the Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian. But *He *said, And I am the last. Over in the end *He *said, I'll come back. I was in *you at Pentecost and I'll come back and restore in the last days the same *church, that that the caterpillar has eaten, the locust worm, the years that the locust has consumed *He *said, I will restore it *here. *You will be the last *one *to have a revival, but it will be the mysteries of *God that will reveal, be revealed *to *you and translate *your body into a glorified body. The world can never get these revelations. That's why I keep telling *you when I preach. Listen *to the *revelation of Jesus Christ. Don't just take the natural *Word. Pharaoh followed them down *to the *Red Sea, but when they got into *revelation, *he *said, I don't understand that. (Tape 2 Side 1) … *you folks talk about baptism in Jesus name, three being *one, *he *said that's confusing *to *me. I can't go that route. Trinity's will go right along with *you. *You talk about the *Word of *God and they'll, they'll *set right *there and they'll they know more about this *Word than *you'll ever learn because *they're anointed of the devil. That's right. They know about it. But *you get into spiritual *revelation and start crossing the wilderness of the intellect and fears and frustration going into the land of faith and the land of the *spirit of *revelation and see if they say, "That's confusion." I don't want nothing *to do with it. They can't go *there. But I'm glad that we can. I am the first and I am the last, Jesus *said. And when the world has finished *it's revival, *He *said, I will enter back into the *Jew. I'll withdraw from the *Jew *to start with, and I'll deal with the *Gentiles and give them a chance. Paul *said, But they'll be grafted back in. Don't *you worry. That spiritual *Jew will come back in, though *he's smitten of *God as the body of Christ. *He's forsaken of the *Holy *Spirit that *he might die that those out yonder in the world might have a chance, the just suffering for the unjust, being the body of Christ *we're killed all the day long for *their sakes, but *He *said, someday after that body has laid in the earth so long, *he *said, I will enter back into it, and it shall stand up as a mighty army. The body of Jesus Christ is fixing *to be resurrected. I get so much *revelation *here, but let *me try *to say this and try *to close *here the *Lord willing. Did *you know that we, *two thousand years has slipped by since the death of Jesus? *Two thousand years, Jesus being in the heart of the earth, like Joseph over *there down in the heart of the earth three days and then *you know. I believe the Bible will bear this out that after three days the body begins *to become corrupt because the blood within a human body will corrupt it. I can't bring this out because *it's another message, but this has *to do with why *God called it the *red *dragon over in *revelation. But anyway, anyway this body begins *to corrupt. But did *you notice that *God let *His people go *two thousand years but *there's coming a Sunday morning just like it did *to the body of Jesus Christ. The millennium is beginning *to peep over the hill. And Paul *said, *It's a type and a shadow, Sunday of the millennium. *It's a type and a shadow of that thousand years reign *one day with *God. *He *said, *You remember Jesus come forth. *He come forth and *he stood on the Sabbath. Remember, we are coming *to the place *to where *we're fixing *to be resurrected. I am the first and I am the last. And oh what a glorious time *it's going *to be! We want *to say just a little bit more *here. *Brother William Branham, how many of *you remember the telephone system that *he had? When *he *set up the telephone system the *Holy *Spirit spoke *to *me and *said, This marks the rapture. As a type of Christ *he is the head returning *to the body inasmuch as Christ cannot come *to the world until *His coming as far as being made manifest *to the sight, then *He has *to use an individual for *His appearing. And *said, *Brother Branham is the head *to the *church in the sense that Christ cannot be made manifest until that part is fulfilled and then *Brother Branham will leave and Christ will come on the scene. The telephone system when *he had the hookup *God *said this marks the rapture of the appearing. *He *said, *Brother Branham has sent *his message out through the ministers, but now as a type of Jesus Christ *he's bypassing the ministry, bypassing everybody, reaching out into each area *setting up the telephone system and *he's rapturing the people right on the spot right into the tabernacle which is a type of the body of Jesus Christ being named after *Brother Branham, *he's drawing them right *to *him which is the rapture. *He *said, After this *there will be no more and it wasn't. *God took *him and when *he finished with that *God took *him. Now a lot of people say, Well that just proved *my theory. I knew that *there wasn't nothing else *to the ministry anyway. I *said, It is the appearing of the *Lord. In the appearing of the *Lord *to the saints. But let's differentiate between the outer man and the inner man. The inner man being perfected, but the outer man is yet *to be perfected by the power of the inner man. *God perfected the inner man. But *it's *your job *to go on *to perfection and perfect the outer man. *It's the ministry, the five-fold ministry making that inner man of *yours manifest in this outer man, for the creature which is the body shall also be redeemed and changed into the glorious liberties of the *sons of *God. Did *you know that? This outer man is going *to enjoy that liberty *too. I want *to tell *you and other people that's saying, *we're already glorified. They better wake up. They better take another look. They better take another look because it isn't. It isn't. Maybe *one night if *God will help *me if we get *to talk *to *you a little bit *here I'll explain *to *you how it can be, and *we're in the *age for it. And *God has already given the *knowledge and *revelation for it. And *we're going *to do it. But those men that's *said they've already done it they better wake up because *they're in bad shape. I don't care *who they are, they've missed the *revelation of Jesus Christ. Now then we've just barely touched this tonight. I want *you *to stand with *me. We just barely touched this tonight. And I wanted so much, I've done it, I've paralleled the *life of Joseph, the *life of Jesus, the *life of *Brother Branham and the *life of the many members of the body, all parallel as *one. If *you'll search it out *you'll find that everyone of them perfectly parallel as *one. And I would have like *to have paralleled it tonight but I could not do it. It just the drawing, the channel just wasn't right for it. We just had *to hit it spasmodic where we could, but I have done, have paralleled all of it. And I wish I could have done it tonight. But anyway the main thought I wanted *to get over tonight is that William Branham because *he is dead, *it's not time for *us *to stop. But I want *to leave this thought with *you tonight in closing. This means by *his death, this means that the *church will have an opportunity *to go *to sleep and say, *We're through. Because at the midnight cry all of them *were asleep. Everyone of them, the wise and the foolish alike. And *they're beginning *to do it now. They say, Well, *Brother Branham's gone now. We might as well go *to sleep. *There's nothing else *to do. But I'm glad *God kept somebody awake *to give the midnight cry. I'm glad *God give, kept somebody awake. *Said, and somebody cried out, Behold, *here *he comes. *Here *he comes. Let's bow our heads for just a minute. *Father, as we come *to the close of this message, *Lord, *there's so many things that we would like *to say, but we ourselves, *Father, like the many others are dull of hearing. But *Lord, we pray that *you would speak expressly. And we pray, *Lord, that *you would express *your wonderful being and presence *to *us. Help *us, *Lord, *to understand. Give *us understanding hearts and make the *revelation very plain, *Lord, so that we don't stumble at it. For *God that the people can line up perfectly and the minister can line up perfectly, that the *Holy *Spirit can feed perfectly those that are *sitting around *his people. We ask *you, *Lord, as *you bring *us into this marriage supper of the *Lamb, which is the *revelation of Jesus Christ. *Lord, as we all *set around at the table *to dip and *Lord, *to eat with *you that we'll not betray *you. And *Father, I pray that in this marriage supper, *Lord, as *you draw *us *to *yourself, *Lord, I pray that *you'll unveil *your truths *to *us *to translate *us and change *us from *glory *to *glory as we see *you through the *revelation. Help *us now, *Lord, we know that we are approaching the very Christ *Himself, *one *revelation at a time, knowing in part, receiving in part as *we're able *to receive. But *Lord, we know that *we're right at the closing of it. Help *us, Jesus, each night *to understand. Let *me speak what's in *my heart. Keep Satan away, *Lord. Cut off occasion from *him. Cut off the carnal mind of reasoning, *Lord, that I might lay it out just the way *it's been given *to *me. I ask *you *to grant it in Jesus name for *your *glory. Amen. Praise the *Lord. I *wonder if the *sister would come *to the piano just for a minute. Think on this while *she's coming. How many of *you want *to be the *bride of Jesus Christ? Let *me see *your hand. Yet some of *you no doubt in this *great congregation will go through the tribulation. No doubt some of *you will. But the *bride of Jesus Christ, how many of *you know what the *bride of Jesus Christ is? How many of *you know what Jesus Christ is? Jesus Christ is this *Word. How many of *you would like *to marry that *Word? *You know the wife and man or woman, now if *you can marry this *Word *to where *you become *one with that *Word, *you think like *Him, *you speak like *Him, *you walk like *Him, *you act like *Him, then that means *your body has married the *Holy *Spirit which is the *Word. That's the *Word made manifest in *your body as a member like it was in the head and *you're married *to that *Word. Now everybody isn't going *to do that, are they? Everybody isn't going *to do it. Some are going *to say, Well, I'd rather do a little bit on the side. *It's okay. That's *your business. But *you'll go through the tribulation. But I'd like being married *to the *Word. I know *it's a crucifying experience. It kills *me. The more I get of it the more I die in the outer man. But I want *to be married *to the *Word because I want *to be in the *bride. And I exhort *you tonight marry the *Word, listen *to it. Let the minister teach *you. Marry it, marry that *Word. Praise the *Lord! Let's sing the song we sang this morning. (Sings) Let's sing *one more stanza. (Sings) Turn the service back *to our brother. 
 
By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr. 
 
Founder and first President of Jesus Christ's *Eternal *Kingdom of Abundant *Life, Inc. 
 
Holiness Unto The Lord 
