Face To Face

I didn't recognize our Brother while he was playing the guitar up here, until he walked over and spoke to me. You know, on the way up here-. I'm going to let you stand, well, let you stand for a minute. Started to say set down, but maybe I'll let you stand for a minute. On the way up here I spent a good bit of time talking to my wife, and expounding a few things as to what was going on and why we were coming up. The Lord had spoke to me to come to Jeffersonville, and I had told Betty, and I had mentioned it to one or two, sometimes I confidentially speak to, and within a few days Brother Woods called, and he asked if we would come to Jeffersonville, and at that time I couldn't answer him. I knew the Lord had told me to come but I didn't know just exactly what He was wanting me to do, so I talked to the Lord about it, and then after a few days of talking to the Lord, I told Betty, I said, He's wanting me to go to Brother Wood's, Betty. How many of you believe there is a real God? Real genuine God. I was watching the beautiful things of God take place coming up, and I watched them this morning as they've taken place, and coming here it kind of reminds me of the Tucson Tabernacle. I've been out there and you can't see your folks. They set around the corner. So, I see we've got some folks setting around the corner. But anyway, it's good to be here this morning. It's a real privilege to be here. If you'd like to set down you may be seated. Is this mike turned up right here? Okay. It appears that it is not exactly hooked up, because it's real loud and clear. I might say something here, a word or two while we're waiting, waiting on this. Of course, this mike, this is what you call a cordless mike. That is, it doesn't attach to the P.A., where you pull a cord around like this. And they bought several of these. Actually they only bought one, but different ones brought me a wireless mike, and I couldn't get them to work like I wanted them to. I had some that was long range that people gave me, but then, if they was-. (Trouble with the mike.) This is considered the best that you can get. This is the same kind of mike that they use in the movies when they've got a man way over yonder and there's a mountain in between them. And it cost a lot of money, folks. In the thousands, I believe it was. But they bought it, and they gave it to me, and it has been nothing less than superb. As a matter of fact, if I have a pillar under the tent, or anything in front of me, makes no difference. You know, that's the kind of life we need, is a life that when we are faced with obstacles, doesn't stop it. It just penetrates and goes right on through. Now, I ask the Lord. I said, Why did you give me this mike? You know, there's a purpose. There's a reason for everything. And I said, Why did you do that? And I heard something say, Because the serpent is cast out. And I thought, Well, I wonder what he means by that. And he referred back to this cord. You know, everywhere you go you drag this thing. And He said that's the end of it. So, I thought, you know, how wonderful it is, God using the foolish and abase things of the world to confound the wise. Revealing Himself in simplicity so that we'll be able to comprehend and understand Him. He also told me, said, with this mike, He said, it's a little unusual. (Trouble with mike.)... giving you a frequency with this mike. This mike carries a frequency. And said, I'm giving you a frequency, and, said, a frequency all of your own. (Trouble with mike.)... used in the foreign countries....frequency. I discussed it with somebody and it's real allegorical. But I thank the Lord for this mike, because there's one thing that a preacher needs, and that's some way to express Himself to the people. His throat gets tied up, especially if you preach hard under the tent, or wherever you're at. And it makes it, it makes it bad when you get tied up in your throat. There it went on. I could tell. It's an excellent mike, and it's very sensitive. Whenever it is on it is highly sensitive. Now, there's a lot of things I'd like to say, just a lot of things. I have for years, just about all of my ministry, I have always been the type person that I haven't, I just don't plan to do things. I tried years ago to plan things and it just didn't work out. I mean it just didn't work out at all. It didn't make any difference what I planned, Brother Woods, it seemed like the devil found out about it, and he always crossed me up. And I read one time where the Bible said not to let your right hand know what your left one was doing, you know, and I thought Well, maybe that's my trouble. Maybe I let that thing out and then the devil finds out about it and he causes me problems. So I thought, what am I going to do about it? I would say something to somebody and they'd say, You said. I remember you said, and then I'd think, Well, that wasn't the way I told it to them, but that's the way they got it, so I said, Well, I know what I'll do. I won't say nothing. You know, the Bible said when you go to the house of God, said, keep your foot. Keep your foot, said, and be careful, you know. Said, Let your words be few. Said, Because you're on earth and He's in heaven. A lot of times we say too many words. And I thought, Well, you know, I just won't say anything. I got to where I wouldn't even say nothing to my wife. Wouldn't say nothing to my children, you know. I said, I'll just wait until God tells me what to say, and then that's what I'll say. And then the Lord let me know that, that, you know, He wanted to use me, and He wanted to use me the way that He wanted to use me. And we're filled with ambition and zeal. You know, it's written, the zeal of thine house has eaten me up, and the zeal in our natural being, it just completely does away with God in our life to where God can't do anything through us, and I always felt betrayed. In my heart I felt betrayed. I had a feeling in my heart. All my life I felt betrayed, I just felt like everybody had betrayed me, and I felt let down, and I talked with the Lord about it. It was kind of like Paul's thorn in the flesh. I, as a matter of fact, when I said that I picked up a man's spirit. He feels the same way. He feels like he's been betrayed. And I thought, Why do I feel like that, you know? I said, I just don't understand why I feel like that. All the time I feel like that. And the Lord spoke to me. And I said, you know, Lord, I don't understand why that a man should feel that way. I said, You've blessed me and you've been good to me, and the Lord spoke to me and said, I want you all to Myself. All to Myself. Said, I want all of you. And I want you, the Bible said to yield your body as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God. And He said, I don't want anybody to have any of your attention. I want you all to Myself. But, folks, that's what it's all about. In this day, if you'll check yourself, you're finding that you seem to be cut off from everybody. It's kind of a withdrawn sort of a thing. And even your closest friend, you'll feel cut off from them. And the reason for that, is the death angel is getting ready to pass through. And God is calling you into your little house, so that you'll withdraw. Paul said, I keep under this body. And He's calling the inner man to withdraw from this outer activity, and He's wanting them to come in and close the little house. By Calvary the blood has been applied over the door posts, and the death angel is getting ready to strike the first born. Whereas, you know that you're born of the flesh to begin with, and then when he strikes the first born that's the end of mankind. See? Without the life of the first born, there is no life to mankind. Because mankind is the first born. And the Bible said the first shall be last and the last shall be first. That which is in power now, and which is in preeminence now, that which has the glory and the sparkle, and the money and the education, that's first. That's preeminent. But God's going to smite that. That's the first born, and He's going to bring up that which is born of the spirit. The new man from heaven will have to come forth. God's going to bring Him forth. And when God brings him forth, then that means that the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ, and He shall rule and reign forever and ever. Brother Branham was smitten. The reason he did that, the Lord did that, it was to show us the smiting of the first born, and Jesus, Brother Branham related to Jesus, his life related to Jesus, and that's why he was smitten. The smiting, and I hope you don't mind me talking to you like this just for a few minutes. Sometimes down at home, you know, I talk to the audience like this for a little bit, and this is what Jesus did, you know, and He just set down somewhere and talked with them. Lot of times we scream, and we holler, and we dance, and we shout, and the Lord sends the anointing down, just pours out heaven on us. You know, I've done that. I've danced and I've hollered, and I've screamed. And this is wonderful, but this is for the children. But then there comes a time, the Bible said, the meat is for the strong. They who have exercised their senses to be able to discern between good and evil. You say, Well, now, Brother Pike, does that do away with the milk of the Word? It certainly does not. The Bible said, If you love me, feed my lambs. And you want to feed them lambs. That's necessary. For there's a lot of them in this world. Well, anyway, that got me off of the trail of the anointing just for a few minutes as to what as to what the anointing was saying, and maybe we could pick it back up. You know, I've learned something in talking, or in following the Lord. You can talk or He can talk. There's three minds. We preached this sermon of the three minds, and I just thought I'd drop this in as we go along. There's a mind of man, there's a mind of God, and there's a mind of satan, which is a fallen angel, and you're the only one. Now, I want you to think on this. You are the only one as a first born that has a brain. Not either one of those have a brain. Though God created all the brains,and He does have a supreme brain, which is the brain of the Lord Jesus Christ through which He'll transmit throughout eternity. But right at the present time that brain is missing in the world as an individuality. And you are appointed in His place as the brain. As men that go to the moon, the astronauts, they transmit from there through the medium of the television and you see it, and you hear it, and you set before it, and you get it through that brain work. See? And the only way God can transmit from that great foreign world, as it would be, not to you and I but to them that are in the world, See? To that other dimension, the only way He can transmit to it is through your brain. And the Bible said that you are in His stead. That is, in the stead of Christ as this time. Beseeching the world to be reconciled back to God, who is the Holy Spirit. And God is transmitting through your brain. And this is what we really need to come to understand as to which spirit is transmitting. As to find out which spirit is transmitting. When you find out which spirit is transmitting you can perceive people's thoughts in your spirit like Jesus did. And then when you perceive them, by the Word, the Word is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Bible said it cuts so deep that it even divides the marrow from the bone, and the spirit from the soul. Did you know that the Word, when you get into the Word and you come to understand the Word, that the Word will actually make you to understand the difference between the marrow of the bone and the bone, and the difference between the spirit and between the soul. It's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. See? Everything centers around the Word. In the beginning was the Word. And in the beginning it was the spoken Word. For He spoke, He said, Let there be, and there was, but in the end it's not the spoken Word. In the end it's called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. You can read it in the beginning in Genesis. It's the spoken Word, You can read it in the the end and we're going to read that in just a little bit, but I still want to say a few things if I can. If I can take my time and say them. Okay. Now, Brother Branham represented the first born. You know, if the anointing, if we can get back into the anointing like I said about those three minds. You know, I get into my mind and I start telling you something, and then if you're not careful Lucifer'll get in, you know, he'll get in his word, too. How many of you know that when children of God, come to fellowship and they come together, how many of you understand that Lucifer also comes? Just as sure as you come together so comes Lucifer, and so comes the children of Lucifer. And he's in the heart, those spots and blemishes that's in your feast of charity. And those people, men and women alike, they are filled with Lucifer, and you can recognize it if you can discern it by the carnal mind. The carnal mind is enmity with the Word., enmity with the spirit. It loves to eat. It loves to drink. It loves to pimper and pamper it's face. It loves to put on new clothes. It loves new cars. It loves to think of, you know, the musical sounds of this world, the ball games, and the frolics, and all those things that pertain to the flesh. Satan savors the things that pertain to the flesh. A lot of people would say, Brother Pike, do you mean to tell me that three minds can actually use a brain, one brain? They sure can. They can use it. Someone would say, Well, now, I can understand how man's mind could use a Christian's brain. You know, he could use his own brain. He has access to it by God. And someone would say, I could understand how God, as a spirit could come into the heart and use a Christian's brain, but for satan to use a Christian's brain, I don't understand that. Well, let me ask you a question. Do you believe that Peter was a Christian? When Peter took the Lord, and began to rebuke the Lord, first of all, who could rebuke God? But he began to rebuke the Lord, saying, Nay Lord, be it far from you. And the Lord looked at him, and what did He say? Did He say, Get behind me, Peter? No. See? Somebody else was transmitting. That's what it was. See? Peter was the great wonderful man that He'd give the keys to the kingdom to, or he did give them to him. But see? That power was a foreign power. How many remember David of old? When the spirit came to David and misled David, was that then God's spirit? Didn't the Bible say that David was a man after God's own heart? But what did the prophet say when he came to David? He said, A stranger came by. And what does the new testament define the stranger as? A stranger, He said, You're my sheep, and a stranger they will not follow. You say, Well, then, Brother Pike, how was it that David followed it? Because he didn't have the infilling of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost had not yet been given. So, we that are sealed with the Holy Ghost, our inner man has become one with the spirit. We are an angelic being inside. Our spirit is inside as it was when Peter got out of jail, and he came to the gate, and Rhoda ran out and said, Peter is at the gate. They said, It is his angel. So, in heaven we are as angels because we are all spirits. If I look around and see these little children sitting around here, these little children that are sitting here, they are in heaven. Now, I know that would be hard for you to get ahold of, but they very definitely are in heaven. They are not going to heaven. They are already in heaven. See? Jesus said less you become as a little child, the innocency. And when they refuse the little children to come unto Jesus, they forbidded that the children should come unto Jesus. He said, Don't do that. He said, Suffer those little ones to come to me. He said, For of such is the kingdom of heaven. And then He went further. He said, Not only that. He said, But I say unto you that their angel, which means their spirit, doeth always behold the face of my Father, which is in heaven. Which means, they have never yet come to the age of accountability. And until they come to the age of accountability, that means that they have never left heaven. They've never left that place that is perfect. Nothing is charged to them. Jesus said, Less you become as a little child, which means that I've got to go back to my childhood. You've heard the saying that when people get old they go into their second childhood. That's very, very allegoric. So then, I have to go back to my childhood. Now, I'm not talking about through old age. I'm talking about through Christ. When I'm born again then I am a child again. Isn't that right? When you're born you're a child. So, I have to go back to my childhood. Then when I go back to my childhood, I've defeated age. I've defeated death. And we might talk about a little of that this morning. But anyway, I go back to my childhood. Now, when I go back to my childhood, then what am I? I am again in heaven. See? You say, Why? To become as that little child. You shall in no wise inherit the kingdom unless you do. I've become as the little child. I've entered in the second time. I have entered back into what Adam lost as the second man Christ Jesus. I go into that great millenium of God. And I asked the Lord why I put on a certain shirt coming up here, and when I got up here I looked and in the back of it in the neck it said the millennium. But anyway, everything that you do, as a child of God, it's highly allegoric. It's revelational. It's great. It's marvelous. It's thrilling. It's exciting. Serving God is joy, peace, and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. That's what makes us live forever. See? The world has got the ball games, and they've got the radios, and T.V.'s. And this thrills them, but that thrill dies down and after awhile they've got to get another one. So you find them back over at the well, and they are trying to draw another bucket. But Jesus said to the woman, said, now, if you'll just take some of this I've got, said, you won't have to come back to the well no more. Said, That'll be it. This thrill it don't wear off. It just lasts and it goes on and it goes on. So, in this I'm saying I have to return to my childhood. Then what am I? I am then perfect. Perfect. I am then perfect. I know, you know, old people say, well there's no perfect people you know, no perfect people. I know that. But if you'll read in Job the first thing it says in the Bible there, said, And Job was a perfect man. So there's perfect men. Abraham was a perfect man. Lot of great, perfect men. And the Bible said concerning the day that we're living in, it said, Mark the perfect man. Isn't that right? So there must be some people here. Perfect men today. Everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. No one shall be above his master. He's the head, but everyone that be perfect shall be one with Him. So then, I said all of that to say this. And that is that I go back to my originality. And the Bible said he that is born of God keepeth himself, and that evil one toucheth him not. Never. Never. Now many of you know that you are without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish? Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, if I'm like that why then is the preacher preaching it? Why doesn't he just leave me alone? What does he keep preaching to me for? Isn't he trying to clean me up? No. He's not trying to clean you up. It's obvious that if the blood of Jesus wasn't sufficient then it's a total loss. He cleaned you. He cleaned you. Altogether He cleansed you. You are clean. Now are ye clean, He said. So you are altogether clean, for God hath, once and for all, now. The Bible said, for God hath perfected forever them that sanctified. Made them perfect. You say, Well, where do we get sanctified? It says and He has sanctified you once. Not twice. Somebody said, Daily sanctification. No. The Bible says sanctify yourself daily. But that's for your service to God. That's yielding your body. Bringing your body under subjection to where He can move through you. That's not for salvation. Has nothing to do with that at all. He has sanctified you once and for all by the offering up of the Body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary. One time, that's all. And if you get into a routine of feeling that you are daily sanctifying yourself unto salvation you are going to get that more holy than thou. And your going to get off like some of the Pentecostals did, and you are going to get like the Jews, and the first news you know, God's going to cut the limb out from under you. And really you are going to find out that you sawed it off yourself. Because when we get more holy than thou, this is what causes trouble. We take preeminence among the people, and we lord over God's heritage, and we get the people into a bondage and put a yoke on them that even the Apostles wasn't able to bear, and others. So, we come to perfection. We are spotless. Does God then keep me? No. I keep myself. Does God then keep my heart from being troubled? No. He said, You keep your heart from being troubled. Then, does God then go forth and heal the sick for me? No. He said, You go forth and heal the sick. Then does God make all of these things happen that I want to happen? No. God said, You command thou Me concerning the works of my hands. So see? There's a great secret. There's a lot of things to found out. People are great. You know, people have thrown themselves to the wind so much and they've went to the frivolous things of the world until they have got more holy than thou by having long hair. It's amazing they didn't include long finger nails. But, anyway, they've got more holier than thou by long dresses. You ever heard of wolves in sheep clothing? How many of you believe long dresses for women is sheep clothing? But a lot of wolves run around in them. So, they have gotten more holy than thou you know, by fasting a few days. Let me say this. I think I'm safe in saying this. Not too long ago I had a vision of a man that kept following me, following me, following me. Kept saying things. And all of a sudden I saw a wreck, and the wreck tore his mouth out. Tore his whole mouth out, and he was a pitiful sight. I thought, My God, what kind of a vision is this? And then all of a sudden I was having a tent meeting in the Carolinas and God was really blessing us. And all of a sudden there was a wreck, and some people was involved in it. And all of a sudden a person, not a man, but a woman had her whole mouth tore out. But it was the man's wife. The Bible says they are one. And of course, the woman had really been saying some things. You know, and this is one of the finest women that we've got. She probably has fasted longer than any woman I've got. Fine woman. But I just said that to say this. Your righteousness is not by what you do. You say, Should we fast, Brother Pike? The Bible said the minister should fast often. If you are a minister and you're not fasting often you are not going to be used in the work of God like you need to be. And you should pray continually. If you profess to be a Christian and you're not praying continually or fasting as the body of the Lord Jesus, then you're not going to be used like somebody else as to the submission. But if you are fasting and you're praying, and you are still gossiping, you're back biting, and you're depending on your works as to your righteousness, you're in bad shape, folks. That's where the church is today. More holy than thou and God's just withdrawn. To the Jews, more holy than thou, so God just withdrew, and He left the Jews all by themselves. Isn't that right? And He went over there to that bunch of dogs. They said, Gentiles, a bunch of dogs. Jesus said, dogs or no dogs, that's where my brides at. And He went over and got His bride. And He said, I'll provoke you to jealousy with a people that's no people. The Gentiles wasn't a people at all. Wasn't even recognized of God. Said, I'll provoke you to jealousy with a people that is no people, and the Bible said, He went to the Gentiles to take out of the Gentiles a bride for Himself. And when Paul came, how did Jesus go? Through Paul. He said it's not me, Paul. Said, it is Jesus. Saul is dead he said. This is Jesus. Paul, the revelator. And he said, I'm here. He could have said I'm here to fulfilled the Scripture. That I've set thee for a light unto the ends of the world. To the ends of the earth. It is Christ as a light. Even Christ. Even Christ in you the hope of glory. So, I say this to you. There's so many things, you know, if I really talked to you. Like Paul, It took him all night long. And if I really talked to you, it would take a long, long time. Took the Lord, it took God eighty days to talk with Moses on the mountain. Seemed like a long conversation, didn't it? Took forty days for the Lord to talk to Elijah over there in the cave. But, folks, when he started talking with Paul it took Him over three years. They had a long, long conversation. And what Paul learned about was so powerful that it didn't take him up on the top of the mountain like he did Moses. Took him up into the third heaven. So, there's a lot of things that we could talk to you about, and that's no exaggeration. Paul spoke of his much revelation. There is an abundance of revelation that has been given to us to the filled up and overflowing, and this is for the Church. Like Brother Woods said this morning, this is for the Church. That which is revealed is given unto mankind, and this has been revealed. Like the thunders was revealed to John, that's for the Church. Somebody said, That's the secret. He said, Seal them up, John. Yes, He said seal them up'til the last sounding. Say, well, when the last sounding comes. Revelation ten and seven said, And when He sounds the mystery of God shall be finished, the angel that set one foot on the land and one on the sea. You say, Well, we're waiting for that time. Well, if you'll just turn the page, Revelation eleven, fifteen said, And He sounded. He sounded. So there's a lot of things for the Church. The manifold wisdom of God that is in the heavenly places has now been made know to the church. How could Paul say that? Because he was the one that received it. Now, he couldn't speak about it. He said, It's not lawful for me to talk about it, but said, it's there. Now, the reason he couldn't speak about it, because it would have done the same thing to the church it done to him. The Church would have been translated and went into the third heaven, and God would not have had time to finish His program and to multiply and replenish His kingdom. Well, there's just so many things we'd like to say. There is a couple of places that I'd like to read from and just see what the Lord would continue to say to us. See? God is a spirit and as long as you are hungry, as long as you are thirsty, even if it takes you three years to get through with your meal, God will keep on feeding you. He'll keep on feeding you. But if you do not hunger, and you do not thirst, the door is closed. And what He will do, He will preach to you. See? By the foolishness of preaching it pleased God that men should be saved. So a preacher, he will stomp, and he will beat, and he'll holler, and he'll jump, and he'll scream, and he'll shout. He's busting up the clods. He's taking the plow. He's breaking up the fallow ground. He's getting the weeds out. He's running the devils and demons out. They'll just jump up and scream and run to the alter, and cry and bawl, because he's getting them out of the field. God does that. He's getting ready for the planting. Then after awhile when the plow gets through, the sower comes through, and it....(Begin side two of tape no. one.) starts sowing. And once he's sowed it down, Paul said, I plant, then comes the baptizing. Apollos, you know, the others, they'll come through, they'll start watering them. They'll start watering. And once they water, then will come the light, the understanding, the unveiling, the breaking forth, and the little leaf pushing it's way out. Because the bright sunlight of heaven will begin to caress and it'll begin to woo, and it'll begin to touch until that heat, heats up the ground, heats up the seed, heats up the moisture, and through that moisture as it draws the moisture, pulling the moisture, coming out, making the water to vaporize, those heated molecules will take the little plant and it'll pull it right out of the ground. It'll make the ground real soft. The rain, and then the sun will pull it right out of that soft ground, and the little blade will cut it's way right through. The little knife is as the rending of the veil, and it'll come right up, and the sun will just continue to pull that moisture and when it does that little green, tender branch with the strength of the moisture will just come right on up. Right on up. And then when it's finished it's course-. You know, people they come real young and then as they finish their course they begin to age, age, age, age. And they are getting more like their maker. See? When John saw Him on the Isle of Patmos, His hair was as white as wool. And see? When you see a person losing the color of their hair it means that sin and infiltration, and darkness is leaving. They are being purified, and they are growing more and more into the stature of the Ancient of Days whose hair was as white as wool. It also has to do with the judge who used to put on the grey, the white wool, you know, the judge, the judgment. Come into your judgment, your change, you know, as to whether you're going to make it over, or whether you are not, or whether you're going to be justified, or whether you aren't. Come into the judgment. So, I said that to say this. You are coming from your youth, and you seem to be dying, but really what you are doing, you're coming into life more and more, and you are leaving death. When you come into this world you come into death. And it appears to be life, but it's nothing but heartaches and sorrow, and you find from the time you come into this world, you know, it's a problem. You get a spanking. That's the first thing you get as a rule. You know, if you by-pass that, well, something will happen to you a little further down. And something a little further, and then a heartbreak, and then a wreck, and then a problem, and then you owe a bill, and then, you know, it just kills you. Finally, you're just dead. You're dead. It kills you. And then when you're dead you come to the old age, and you can't hardly go anymore, satan, the parasite, the prince of this world, has latched onto you until he's sapped every bit of your life through the frivolous beggarly elements of the world. And through that he puts you in bondage. He puts you in bondage, but God breaks it. After awhile He breaks it. And your passions aren't so frivolous anymore. They aren't so stimulated anymore. When you look in the mirror you're not so excited over your face anymore. And when you go to put the pretty dress on, and the suits on, you're not so excited as to how they fit anymore. And the jubilance of jogging kind of leaves, and playing ball, you know, and skipping rope. And having a million dollars. You begin to think, Well, I don't know, my million, as Solomon said, Who's going to get all of this. I labored for it, and who knows but what I'll leave it to a fool. So then, all of this begins to happen. Then you begin to think, My God. My God. I've been working toward something, and all of a sudden this is a horrible nightmare. And you say, but I've got a lot of things. I got a lot of things. Satan says, You've got a lot of things. You say, I know I've got a lot of things, but I don't have any strength to enjoy it. I don't have any health. It's no jubilance to me. All the pretty clothes, and all the money, and all the other things. Why them young folks is enjoying all of that. And I perceive that the devil is getting the good out of that, because they don't know much about what's going on, and by wisdom Solomon said I got all these things, and now a fool is getting the benefit of it. How many of you understand what I'm saying? So, you get to thinking. You think-. Satan says, Don't worry now. You'll come. You're only sixty-seven. Like I read about Sam Walton. He's the richest man in America. Two point eight million, is it? Wal-Mart? Sixty-seven years old? And satan says, Boy, you've got it. You've got everything. You've got everything. Just be calm, now. You're the richest man in the land. You understand what I'm saying? And then, you think. Oh, my God. The richest man in the land. How hardly shall they that have riches inherit the kingdom. Where can I-. What can I do with these? Who can I give them too? I've got to get rid of these things fast. Sixty-seven. I'm getting near the crossing. How many of you understand what I'm saying? And then, what are they? Solomon said, Vanity and vexation of my spirit. They vex me. They are vanity. They vex me. Somebody is enjoying them. Somebody is going to get them, and here I am. I'm going to die. Oh, my God! My God. All these things are going to witness and reckon against me. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Al right. So then, I said lot of things here just kind of as a preliminary sort of thing just to open your thinking to make you stop and think. You know, we get a lot of letters from different parts of the world, Africa, and India, and South America, and out of the Islands from our radio broadcasts, and from our T.V. work and from our evangelism under the tent and from the printed page. Jesus said, Write it, put it in a book and send it to the churches. And we got a letter from somebody. Betty read it the other night at church. From Trinidad, was it? No. Aquila. An island. And this person had heard us on the radio. The Caribbean Beacon. And she was telling us how much the broadcast meant to her. She said to get the meat of the Word. Said, to be able to get the meat of the Word. She told how much it meant to her. As our Brother Woods said we need the meat of the Word. Now, Jesus, if He was here He'd just continue to talk to you, you know. And I could go on, and go on, and go on. Wouldn't be no problem for me to go on and go on. This is an inexhaustible supply. Like my daughter said one time. They tried to get me to give my songs, you know. We write a lot of songs, and they tried to get me to give my songs to BMI, Broadcast Music, Inc., which is the largest in the world, so far as I know. And I didn't do it, because I know that they let them out to whoever, and they got fussy with me. They sent me several contracts, and the last time they really got upset with me,'cause I didn't let them have'em. And I was talking to my daughter one day out at lunch, and she said, Well, Dad, what it is, said, they know that they have struck and inexhaustible supply. And that means money. And you know, that's the way it is with God, with Sons of God. The world tries to get ahold of you, because they see that real God on the inside of you. They are going to school and college and making money and they're still dying all the time. And they are tore up and they don't know what to do and they don't know where to go. And so they are trying to tap hold, or trying to tap on to you, get ahold of you. And the Bible said, In that day they will look at you, and they will say, Hey, wait a minute. God's with you. God's with you. Let me go with you. I hear that God is with you. See? Because the prosperity is going to shift from Egypt. How many of you know that the prosperity is going to shift from Egypt, and going to shift over to the children just before they leave. It's going to shift from Egypt and go over to the children and they're going to take Egypt's wealth out with them. The blessings of the Lord is going to make rich. It's profitable for this life and for the world to come. Godliness. Al right. I'm going to read this. Over in the book of Zechariah, if you will, you can read with me. In the second chapter we'll read first. Seventh verse. "Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon," How many of you know that you are Zion? How many of you know that you are in the midst of a Babylon? A lot of folks say it's not Babylon, but it is. Read it. "Deliver thyself, O Zion." Now, I want you to really notice this. Deliver thyself. Why did Peter on the day of Pentecost say, Save thyself? Why is it turned toward you and I? Why is it God wouldn't say, I'll deliver you? Why does He say, deliver thyself? Why did Peter say what he did on the day of Pentecost? Save thyself. See? It goes back to what I said a little bit earlier. Can we do that? If we don't do that we'll be lost. Can you prove that, Brother Pike? Just one little thought. Draw nigh to God and He'll draw nigh to you. That's the first step of saving yourself. "Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the the daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you; for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of His eye." Al right now. After the glory He hath sent me. He didn't send me for nothing else. Jesus said, I came to seek and to save that which was lost, which this is Christ Jesus saying I'm coming after the glory, now. We are His glory. He appeared in glory on the Mount of Transfiguration. We're changed from glory to glory. This is that great, wonderful glory. He hath called us unto glory, and unto virtue. We've got to leave off with the things of the world and come into this virtue if we're going to have the glory. Christ in you is that hope of glory. He alone is made heir to the glory of God. He alone is made heir to the glory of God. And Christ in you is that hope of glory, because he alone is made heir to the glory. And you are changed into that glory, in that Christ is within you. As He, bit by bit, gives you of His Spirit as to the measure that you are able to receive, as you are able to receive it, this glory comes forth in you. And from bit to bit, from revelation to revelation, understanding to understanding, from transformation to transformation, you are changed into the very glory of God on the inner spiritual man. And it's kept under a veil so that nobody can see the masterpiece until the sculptor finishes it. But one day, Thessalonians change, He'll unveil it, and there it'll be. Not you living but Christ Himself. And the life you're living will be God, and the glory will be revealed, and you'll be changed until you will outshine the noonday sun. Chapter three. "And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and satan standing at his right hand to resist him," Remember when I would do good, Paul said, evil is present with me. And the Lord said unto satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O satan. I want you to notice that now. See? Is there a real devil? Like Billy Graham said one time, a man, a man that refuses to believe that there is a devil makes himself an open target for the devil. Is there a real devil? Can you talk to God? Is there a real God? Can you talk to God? Sure you can. Can you talk to the devil? You sure can. It says, And the Lord said unto satan. And the said Lord said unto satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this a brand plucked out of the fire. Now, Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. How many of you know that your righteousness is as filthy rags? And that in your first birth you are clothed. Your garment, your outer man, this body is filthy. It is filthy garments and yet it was Joshua that was in those filthy garments. You are clothed with a filthy garment. That's why you are baptized. He runs you through the washing. The washing of regeneration. That is to wash away your filth, O daughters of Zion, He said, by the washing of the water of the Word. The washing of the water of the Word. Remember, God in the beginning is the Word, and God does all things by His Word. God sent His Word and healed them. God cast out the devils by His Word. God gives us that discernment by Word. God brings us salvation by Word. God created the world by Word. All of it's by Word. Every bit of it's by Word. Now, see? So He baptizes you, as many as have been baptized into Christ has put on the new garment. They've put on Christ. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. So you put on the new garment. And it is no longer your filthy body of fornication and ugliness. It's no longer your filthy body of gesturing and jealousy and talk, backbiting, fault finding, gullible desire of this world. No longer that. That body is dead by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible said reckon yourselves to be dead in deed to sin, by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and alive through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, out of the watery grave, having been raised for our justification, after having been delivered for our offenses, there our offenses are gone. So then, peace on earth and goodwill toward man. One attitude from God throughout eternity. I made the statement the other night, preached the sermon, The Right Attitude Toward God. Because unless you know that you have the right attitude toward God, and know what it takes to have it, unless you know that God has the right attitude to toward you, and what it took for Him to have it, you can't have faith because faith rests in the fact that you understand the attitude of man and God, and the attitude of satan to know how to escape it. So then, you see here we're washed. Now are ye clean. Old things are passed away, the burial, and now all things are new. And you are standing to live, not you but Christ. And the life that you had you lost through sin, and now you have the life of Christ who gave you His life in that the Father smote the Son, gave the Son, that the life may pass on to you. So today you are not a make belief, you are not a counterfeit, you're not a religious proselyte, you don't belong to some religious power. You don't have a name that you live as some denominational power, and yet you are dead. But on the inside it is not you living. It is, really and truly, without make believe, Christ Himself. Someone would say, Brother Pike, not really Christ. It's just that we believe, you know, because the Word said that, and we believe in Christ. No. It's not that. It's God. Eternal God Almighty that is living in a human body. And like Brother Woods said, if you can't accept that then you are anti to the teachings of reality, which is the teachings of Christ. And everyone that is anti to the truth soon will come under a great leader that will be anti to the truth, and he will be the AntiChrist. He will be anti to the fact that there was a Christ saying that he, himself is Christ. So, we are washed. We are clean. And now Calvary has put satan behind us, and we can say now, satan, get thee behind Calvary. Get thee behind us. See? It's behind us now. I said this before, that we are walking, we are walking, walking as we say, backwards, going away from the east, the sun rising in the east, going away from the east, we are walking away from God. And I want to say something about that in just a few minutes. Notice now, he said. "Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by. And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways. Remember this now. And if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men wondered at, for behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree. Notice this now. I want to comment just a little bit. But I want you to notice this. In the book of Revelation notice what it says. Chapter one, the book of Revelation. It starts off reading like this, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant John; Who bare record of the Word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein; for-. He says, for the time is at hand. Al right, now. For. When is the time at hand? When the Revelation of Jesus Christ comes. Read it. Read it. When is the time at Hand? When Paul received the revelation of Jesus Christ, God would not let him make it known, but it was at hand for him and he was raptured away into the third heaven. When John received it, he said, John seal up the book as to the thunders. Remember John did not seal up the book as to what Daniel had sealed up, that was in Daniel's day. It was sealed up then. See? Remember. You say sealed up? It was sealed. How was it sealed? There was seven seals on the back side of the book. It was sealed up. See? As unto the seal, as unto the mysteries, Paul saying that all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear even to that of the eternal Godhead, so that we are without excuse. But he said even though this is true, in his day, after Calvary, your day, after Calvary, he said, even though there is now made known to the church the manifold wisdom of God from the heavenly places, he said, yet in spite of all of this, there remaineth a veil over the eyes of the people, they that read Moses' writing. There remaineth a veil over the eyes of the people in the reading of the Old Testament, the middle wall of partition, the veil, the intellectual darkness, the glass that you see through darkly. He said it remains over the people the veil that was over the bride's face, over Rebecca's face. There remaineth a veil over your face, he said, because you've never been taken into the secret chambers. You are seeing through a glass darkly. You have not become the bride as of yet. Now, I know I'll get a repercussion out of this, for sure. But see? The veil being over the face of the bride, the veil over the face of the bride until the time appointed, until the time is at hand. Reading, trying to understand, you are looking through a glass darkly, but now, the Bible said, when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away with. And then the Bible said, You won't be looking through a glass darkly anymore, not anymore, but said, you will see face to face. As God said concerning the things of Moses, I will speak face to face with my servant Moses, because he is, the Bible said, faithful in all, all, Miriam, Aaron, Aaron the high priest, Miriam, said, now wait a minute, you know, God doesn't care no more for him than, no better than me. No better than me. But they found out it was different. God said, Was you not afraid to speak against my man Moses. There is none like him. Now, that was a real rebuke. No better than me. God said, You're not like him, Miriam. You're not like him, Aaron. None like him in all the land. What was the difference between Aaron and Miriam? There was a difference. Somebody said, There it is. Respect of persons. No, it wasn't. That wasn't what it was. Moses was faithful in all things. That's what makes the difference. Said, You're not like the faithfulness of Moses. You've got your own thing going. You've got some things on the side. Thirty fold. Sixty fold. Hundred fold. He said, but as Paul said, Let's get a full reward. A full reward. There's a full reward. Paul said, This I do, forgetting those things that are behind. He said, I'm pressing forward to the prize of the mark of the full reward. The fullness of the stature of the perfect man, Christ Jesus. Let us go on to perfection. Then we can be as our master. I don't say that I've obtained unto it, he said. But this I do, forgetting those things that are behind, I'm going on. Moses, you can se my hinder parts. You can see my hinder parts. Al right. So then, some of you've been looking at the hinder parts. I've got some people at Bethlehem, I've been preaching to them a good little bit, in and out, and they are positive that they understand, but they are only looking at the hinder parts. So, I read this now. It says, And the time is at hand. Here is the problem. In I John, Chapter two, fifteenth verse. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. Then it says, Little children, the Antichrist shall come. Al right, so then, you see the secret of Jesus. Doing always the things that please the Father, the prophet like unto Moses. Now, let's comment just a little bit right here. Here is Joshua. I brought these other Scriptures out in connection with this so that you can realize that on this side of Calvary is Moses. On this side of Calvary is Moses. How many of you remember I said that Brother Taylor had to do with Moses? Somebody'd say, Brother Pike, how can you look at somebody and tell who they are, and what they are, and where they came from? We're suppose to be able to do that. Isn't that right? If you went to a doctor wouldn't you expect him to use the x-rays and whatever and tell you what kind of condition you had? How could he offer you a remedy if he didn't know himself? So then, up here this has to do with this. You say, Brother Pike, how can it? Will you listen if I talk to you? Now, if you ain't going to listen I don't want to talk to you. You're listening real good, but I'm talking about, are you going to get like the babe, you know, nursing on the breast, and after while it gets full and it goes to sleep on me? Because I do have some things to say to you. I could preach to you. I intend to preach to you from the Word of God, but I also, here, down home I don't do it much. Once in awhile if the atmosphere is right, I bring out what's happening right then. And here, it's necessary, unless God says no, for me to bring out a few things that's happening right now, that has to do with this. But I want to comment on the Scripture first. Al right. Now. He says here, he said, to set the crown on, you know, the little holiness unto the Lord thing that he wore, the little miter. Here he says take away the dirty garments. He said here, ye shall judge my people if you walk in my ways. Now, this is the ordination of Joshua. Where does it come in. After Moses decease. Why did God turn me to this this morning? I never looked for this. I never had this. I told Betty, I said, I'm suppose to use Willie's Bible. Or in connection with Willie. When I came in a Bible was offered to me. I took it and I opened the Bible. Not to this. It had nothing to do with this. It was nowhere in the neighborhood of this. But, what it had to do with had to do with this. Okay, now here I am, and that's the way it is. And this is the sermon that I was suppose to preach. By getting the right Bible I got the right message. I parked I suppose, in behind Willie's bus out here, where the others parked over here. Now, you say, What does that have to do with, Brother Pike? It has to do with Brother Branham. How many of you know they used to call Brother Branham, Willie? So then, there's a great significance in us being here. How many of you know that William Branham also had to do with Moses? Do you know that? Living in Jeff, do you know that much about this place? How many of you know that Brother Branham is buried over here in a grave right close by? It had to do with Moses. Brother Branham wasn't just another man. Somebody said, Ah, just another man. A nobody. No. You're wrong. He wasn't just another man. He was one of the most mighty men that ever walked the earth, and still is in the sight of the people. Even after Moses decease, he was so great, and mighty, that a nation came up from him. And it is springing up the same way from Brother Branham. All over the nation. All over the world. Now, but ever though that was so astoundingly great. So astoundingly great. Even though it was so astoundingly great, yet Moses could not get them over the Jordan. There was no way. He could not get them over the Jordan. See? Where did Brother Branham lead his people? He lead them into the wilderness. He was a hunter. Their mind went to the wilderness. What does that have to do with? Esau. Check back and you'll find out it has to do with Esau. See? Going into the wilderness. The hunter. Why was that? Somebody would say, But, Brother Pike, Brother Branham was a great and mighty man. I know he was, but did God go hunting, or did Brother Branham go hunting? Somebody tell me. See? Did God go hunting or did William Branham go hunting? Brother Branham went hunting. God didn't go hunting. God used the natural thing to get him away to where he could talk with him. A lot of times God will get me and you to go somewhere by using our appetite or our personal desire and we will fleshly, ambitiously go to that place and then when we get to that place we will find out that that wasn't what we wanted at all, God wanted to do something. Now, it's sad that we can't hear no better than that. Isn't it? But, see? God does it that way. Sometimes I go to a certain place, and I'll have certain people that will come with me. And I'll say, Now, I wonder why they went. They didn't go the last time. And then, I'll hear something say, Don't you know? Son, they've got relatives up there. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Get thee out of the land of thy kindred, He said, and I'll make a great nation out of you. And so then, Brother Branham would go hunting, because it had to do with Esau. It represented that he was to lose the birthright. Someone would say, Brother Pike, you're crazy. You're eccentric. You're slap out of your mind. No. No. I know what I'm saying. I might be rude in speech, Paul said, and sometimes we do get rude in speech. We kind of holler and scream, but we're not rude in knowledge. We know what we're saying. So then, it represented that he lost the birthright. Then do you mean Brother Pike, that William Branham lost his birthright? No. I'm not saying that. See? There was an outer, and there was an inner man. And the outer man loved to hunt, and the outer man related Esau. There was Esau. There was a Jacob. There was a Moses. There was a Joshua. There was an Elijah. There was an Elisha. There was a Jesus, and there was a Christ. So then, there is an inner man, and there is an outer man. And I made the statement one time. I said, Brother Branham needs to leave them guns alone. I said, If he don't I said, something is going to happen. Something bad will happen if he keeps on messing with those guns. And sure enough all of a sudden one of them blowed up in his face and like to have killed him. See? Because he loved to hunt, and satan was taking advantage of Brother Branham through the hunting and Brother Branham came to realize it, because God finally told him. Said, Don't go out and kill all of those deer and take them to the Full Gospel Business Men, and these people that don't need those things. God doesn't like for you to do that. You know, the Indian used the animal for cattle, and they just ate from them just like you would from your cattle. Kill one. But the white man, he just come in and he's crazy. He just kills and kills. Do you understand what I'm saying? And Brother Branham was killing those things and taking them to people that didn't need them. If he'd been taking them to the poor then God would have favored it, but otherwise why commit murder? Why kill something? Why go out and just slaughter something for sport? You know and do those evil things? Why do that? God isn't pleased with that. If you fish because you need something to eat, fine. If you fish for sport you'll go to hell for that. (Begin tape no. two, side one.) And do those evil things. Why do that? God isn't pleased with that. If you fish because you need something to eat, fine. If you fish for sport, you'll go to hell for that. If you hunt to eat then God will bless you, but if you hunt for sport you'll go to hell. God is against sports. You walk out here and you take a bow and an arrow, and you grin while you drive a stick slap through something that God has made and go off laughing about it with no feeling and grab him and slit his throat, and God's in that? You know better than that. Like a man that killed and killed and killed animals, and he told me, he said, I feel like a murderer, Brother Pike. I've spilt so much blood. Is God in that kind of thing? No. He's not. You say, Well, the animals are made for us to hunt. Where did you read that in the Bible? Where did he ever make an animal for you top hunt? He gave Noah a new covenant after the flood, and that was a meat covenant so that he could have that. Isn't that right, but if you had a herd of cattle, if you had a herd of sheep, if you had dogs and cats in your yard, or something that you thought a lot of, and somebody walked down and they drove an arrow into the side of it, would you rejoice over it? Would you be happy? Would your little one be out there crying because the dog is gone, or the animal is gone, or the pet is gone? Oh, but they say, you know, why worry? Plenty more dogs. Do you understand what I'm saying? Folks, let me tell you. God is a God of precision. The Bible said that God actually marks the fall of a sparrow, and that every hair on your head is numbered. Every hair on your head is numbered. God is a God of precision. Jesus said concerning His people, He said, I've not lost a one of them, Father. Everyone that you've given me, I will raise him up in the last day. The only one that's gone is the son of perdition, and before he was ever born into the world, said, it was said, Let another his bishopric take. So then, God is precision. God is precision in our life. He says you are a sacrifice. You are a sacrifice. My sacrifice. A sweet smelling savor. The body of the Lord Jesus, killed all the day long for my sake. Accounted as sheep for the slaughter. He said, Don't bring me the halt, and don't bring me the blind. Don't bring me the lame. Don't get your own thing going. Don't do something on the side. Don't be just a part of what God wants. Let us go on to a full reward. A full reward. Why was Brother Branham cut off? Because it was to show that the full reward had not yet come. The full reward. You say, Brother Pike, why do you say that? Because it's obvious the Thessalonian change had not taken place.

See? But what about us? There is a people that isn't going by the way of the grave. There is a people that's actually going to be translated. They're not going by the way of the grave. Paul said, I show you a mystery. What heals a person? The Word. The revealed Word. What gives a person a gift? The revealed Word. Paul said, I show you a mystery. It's a mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness. You know, some people will say, Brother Pike, the gospel is just so simple. You don't have to try to figure it out. It's just so simple, they'll say. But the Bible says, Great is the mystery of Godliness. And I am made a steward, Paul said, of those mysteries. And it's required of a steward for him to be faithful, that he shouldn't use those things for personal gain, shouldn't Lord over God's people, shouldn't try to project himself and lift himself up. He is there to magnify God in God's people. To bring Christ out. I'm here today. I'm so grateful to be here. Grateful to be here. I told my wife, I said, According to what I understand, Betty, it will be in Jeff. God said go to Jeff. And I said, she said, Albany. Albany. Said, The Brother said Albany. I said, I know that. He said the amphitheater was in Albany. I said, And it had to do with the new. That's why that it happened like that. I said, But, it's Jeff. I said, Now, Betty do you know where his church is? She said, No. I said, Well, that's what we've got to find. So I come into Jeff. I pulled down here last night. I said, Betty, we can look and look, I said, but it won't work. I said, It's in the morning. Tomorrow. I said, It has to do with tomorrow. I said, Today is the Jews Sabbath, which is Saturday. I said, And that goes to the rest. Back to the grave, back to the burial. I said, But tomorrow has to do with their morrow after the Sabbath, which is the resurrection, and I said, That's what it has to do with. And so, we rode and we looked diligently, Brother, and we couldn't find it. I rode until I was wore out. I had driven all the way from home, and over here, see, I thought I was going to come over in our little twin engine plane just run over here, but I didn't get to. And I drove over here and I went just about everywhere. So I come into Jeff, and when I come into Jeff, just before I went into Albany, you know, where I went to? Now, we're speaking of a present day truth; something that's happening right now. That's why I said something about Brother Branham and the others. I wouldn't even have mentioned that had I not wanted to bring out something here. I have to do it to bring it out. So then, I hope you don't mind me taking my coat off here. So then, thank you. Can you set something under that so it won't mess your organ up? So then, I came into Jeff. When I got into Jeff things were already taking place. Great, wonderful things were already taking place. So I got into Jeff, and you know what I did? I knew that this was down near the river somewhere and I thought, Now, Lord, you want me to turn right down here, and I turned and there I was on Spring street. I wound up on Spring street. Utica Pike isn't too far out where Brother Branham saw the pillar of fire. When I got on Spring street, there is a little road that runs down to the boat dock. You that live here you're familiar with this. Right there is where I baptized Brother Cox. I don't know whether you remember that or not. I baptized Brother Cox right here in this certain place. Now, and as a matter of fact, that's where Brother Branham baptized also, right there. You remember when we was here out at Utica Pike, I had predicted that meeting. I had said that there would be a meeting at Utica Pike. Not at Utica Pike. Yeah, at Utica Pike. That's what I said. It'll be at Utica Pike. So then, I said there will be a meeting at Utica Pike. I said, I don't know what. I don't know how. I don't know why. I didn't even know there was a church around there. I said but there'll be one over there. Well, sure enough, we went over to Utica Pike. We had a meeting. We had a full house. They said it was the biggest crowd they'd ever had. I think even the newspapers said it. So, we went to Utica Pike. We had a meeting. An outstanding meeting. It was at that time that something was lost here in Jeffersonville. If you remember it. The little pamphlet that we published carried an article about it. There was something that was lost. This was lost here in Jeffersonville. Now, you'll have to bear with me, because there are so many things to be said that I'd have to write a book and take all the week to tell you. So I'm just trying to compact a few things in a few words, just in a little sermonette, and in doing that I just have to stumble about and stagger until I get to the main parts and put them to where you can get, you know, and once you get a glimpse of it, then the spirit will work everything in it. So then, there was something that was lost. Later Billy Paul ask me if I'd ride down to the Spoken Word with him. I went into the tabernacle over there. They'd taken some pictures and I have a picture that was taken behind the sacred desk. Billy Paul was there. I'd gone in there. Billy Paul said I got one of your brochures on the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Brother Pike, and he said, Will you ride down to the Spoken Word with me? Which I did. It was down at the Spoken Word that a black policeman and a white policeman came. And they confirmed the loss of something that had to do with Sister Betty, and me, was it a purse? With every thing that we had in it. Cause we didn't have nothing, you know, except a few little personals. But anyway, it meant something to us. It was lost. It was at a Texico Station. And these two policeman confirmed the lost at the Spoken Word. So, I said, I was trying to explain this to Sister Betty, and Betty got excited. As I got into the revelation she begin to get into the revelation and she got excited and she said, I know. I know. I said, What is it? She said, That purse, that which is lost is going to turn up at that Church down yonder at Utica. See? That was as wild as an Indian with a bow and arrow that shot at the moon. But, anyway, here we are way over here, and way across town a purse is lost, and she says it's going to show up out there. But she was right. She was right. So as time went on, sure enough, over here at Spring street, where Brother Branham baptized, where the star appeared, and the voice said, as a forerunner, and He said unto to Brother Branham, as with Moses, so then, over at this place a little widow, she finds the purse. How in the name of reasoning could that happened? It was lost way over here around the graveyard back on the other side. She finds it way over here. She's at Spring street, and it comes to be restored way out yonder at Utica Pike and was confirmed as to the loss down at the Spoken Word. Folks, there's no way those things could be coincidental. The divine providence of God. Just before that a Sister came along and she witnessed in that meeting. And she said, God spoke to me. Said, I was coming down the road and God spoke to me. Said, And God said, There is something that has been lost, and this thing is concerning William Branham, and said that will be found at Utica Pike. And the whole thing, now, being confirmed at the Spoken Word, both by the black man and the white man. How many of you remember the vision that I had when I was down in Hileah, Florida? I had a vision here in Hileah of the death. I woke up one morning and I was laying on my bed, and I looked up and when I did I saw two caskets, and it had to do with light and darkness. Had to do with the veil. How many of you know that the black man has to do with the veil, the covering. It has to do with light and darkness. The veil has to do with the Jew, which has to do with the law, even the law of Moses, and behind the veil is the arc. It didn't sound like he was on it, then, did it? Behind the veil is the arc. So then, now, you say, Brother Pike, what do you mean by that? I mean that the gospel is sent to the poor and the black people have, in the past, been very poor. I said this down at my church here a while back, I said these black folks that have just got to get rich, and get all these things, and they've got to get equal rights, I said, they don't know what they're doing. I tell you what. It's like the man that stood out there on the ice and denied Christ. You probably heard the little story. I won't go into it. And the man that was holding the gun guarding him, said, Hey, wait a minute. I'll take your place. I'll take your place. There's going to be a lot of folks that takes the place of the black folks that want's to be in the upper escalom of life. You just watch what I'm telling you. It's going to happen, because God sends the gospel to the poor, and they were so poor and so pushed down and so uneducated, the arc was behind the veil. See? But the veil is being rent now, and the black man ain't down there no more. He drives limousines. He's got millions of dollars. They've published their names in the papers. Millionaires. See? What is it? The veil is rent. What do you mean by that, Brother Pike? There's no difference between the black man and the red man and the white man and the yellow man. They're all alike. And they're happy. And it should be like that, but, folks, you shore lost a whole lot. I tell you when Jerusalem was that rejected stone and the rest of the nations didn't want her, and all those nations was fighting against Jerusalem, she was a pearl of great price, and when she got out and she went into Canaan, and God said, to here, said, You're going to have all that you can eat, and all that you want, said, but beware. When you do, you are going to forget God. And she did, and she went into Babylon, and she's suffered ever since. There's some hard roads ahead, folks. Not just for the black folks, but for the white ones, too. You wanted to be like the white ones and you're like them now. And all of you'll can be together. Somebody can say amen or oh me, cause all of you'll are going to be together. Them red folks, and black folks, and white folks, and all kind of folks, them yellow folks, they're all going to be together, now. And they're going to have their riches and they're going to have their education and they are going to have their football games, and they're going to have their recognitions, and they're going to be Senators, and they're going to be President, and they're going to be in hell. Though thou climbest up to heaven, and make thy nest among the stars, from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. This is the hour of it. The little thing that made the nest among the stars, you know that, you know what we preach. You know that America has to do with the woman and Russia, or China, the dragon, Communism. You know about Jimmy. You understand. I wish I had time to preach this morning. But all we have time to do when we come together like this is to testify. But, anyway, this is the rent veil. You know, it's not strange that today, in coming over here, that Johnny should bring me a little article, Johnny is our chief security. Law. Bring me a little article. And this little article says they have found the ark. At last they have found the ark. It's unveiled. They've discovered it. On this very day of this morning that we're here, the resurrection, the unveiled, the breaking forth, they've found the ark. And said it's outside of Jerusalem on the outer skirts, and said it is really causing, you know, something. Really causing something. It's probably the most priceless piece in the world. Probably nothing in the world that could be compared to it. So then, I said that again, to say this. Something as pertaining to right now. Something that's pertaining to you. Something that's pertaining to me. Something that's pertaining to the move of God. I came in here, and Brother Woods is here. How many of you know that woods, we speak of wood we speak of Calvary? The rending of the veil. I felt sure that when we come here, I said, God according to what I understand Brother Cleveland will be at that meeting. We've been invited to Olive Branch. Back to the Mount of Olives, and I hope you can put these pieces together. I don't have a chance to piece them all together. Here is Brother Cleveland, sitting back here, for which I'm very glad. I think an awful lot of Brother Cleveland. He was at our Missouri meeting. And it all started with Missouri, the gateway of the west. That's where the meeting started. The great revival of mankind started at the gateway of the west. Right there at a place where two people came together. One of them had to do with Zebulon Pike, that also discovered, or had to do with Pike's Peek, and the Silver Rio Grande River. The Mississippi River. And this was a trading place. This was an interchange. We had a meeting there. Charles, is it St. Charles, right our from it? Was highly significant. Highly significant which had to do with Brother Charles coming over. I spoke to my wife about it. Outside of Missouri, the city, or along in the city somewhere, the suburban area, I guess, they've got a great archway. Have you ever been up in it? We went up in it when we was there. Brother Cleveland has to do with this. He's from Missouri, though he's over in Kentucky at this particular time, and near the cave. We talked with him the other day over the telephone. I think they timed us. It was six hours. But anyway, we talked with him, and there was a great, wonderful, phenomenal thing taking place. And this is why that we got to talk to him, cause as a rule I won't even go to the phone. When they say you are wanted on the phone I go out the door. I go somewhere else. I can't hardly talk over a phone.'Cause, just like this Brother here, we talked six hours and I don't know where I ever said what I was suppose to have said or not. It took me six hours. But, anyway, the Brother was patient while we communicated, and then somebody broke in. It was an emergency call come, or they said it was an emergency. Broke in. But Brother Cleveland's here. Why is he here? Why is Brother Cleveland here? The Bible speaks of the mountain cleaving in half. The foolish, abase things of the world to confound the wise and the mighty, them simple things that you'll never see unless you walk with God. And if we had time to take and fill in in detail, like a puzzle, ever step of it, you would utterly be astounded. You'd say, My God, it couldn't be no way but that way. But I'm just skipping about from thing to thing to where God, as the Holy Spirit, can guide you into the other thing. So then, Brother Cleveland's here. Why is he here this morning? Because it has to do with the cleaving in half. Brother Woods, it has to do with Calvary. That's why it was to be here at his Church. I knew that it had to be here. Why are we preaching from Joshua? See how beautiful everything runs together? Not one thing is out of sequence. Everything runs together beautifully, because God works all things after the counsel of His own will. And so then, here we are. We're speaking of Joshua. Someone would say, Well, where is Moses? How many of you remember I spoke of Brother Taylor who had to do with Moses? Somebody said, Moses! Well, the Bible said he was faithful in all of his house. There's one thing about Brother Taylor, he may make mistakes when it comes to the things out there, but as to me, you just about have to pull his teeth out to get him to go contrary to me as far as leaving me. He tried it one time. But, anyway, where is Moses, Brother Pike, if you're speaking of Joshua? There's a stick right behind there where Moses was. Where Brother Taylor went, there's the stick and the serpent, right over there. He took off his shoes because it's suppose to be holy ground right here. Isn't that right? So then, we're here with Joshua. I say we're here with Joshua. I meant to say we're here speaking of Joshua. We're here speaking of Joshua. Now, I wasn't going to say that. I didn't mean to say that. Honestly, before God, I didn't. But, anyway, we're here speaking of Joshua, is what I'm saying. So then, here we are speaking, if I blushed a little bit on that you'll ve to forgive me, because before God that got me when I said that. We're here speaking of Joshua. Why Joshua? Because Joshua has to do with Christ. See? Moses has to do with Jesus. But over here, it is Joshua. When you speak of Moses, the Bible says he was faithful in all of his house. And it was said to Moses, Thou shall see the back part. Isn't that right? Said, Now, I won't let you see my face. No man can see my face and live. No man can see my face and live. And he could have said, Moses, I want you to continue to live'cause you've got a big job to do. Isn't that right? I want you to continue to live because you've got a big job to do and if I show you my face you're going to die. So he didn't show Moses his face. He said you can behold the hinder part. Now, what is the hinder part? You know. The hinder part is the law. The hinder part is before Calvary. Isn't that right? You say, Brother Pike, that couldn't be the hinder part. Why isn't it the hinder part? It's behind. It's the hinder part. So then, why do you say that it's the hinder? Because when Jesus came to Calvary He finished it. He said, It is finished. And the book, He closed the book. Isn't that right? He closed the book. There was no future at that time. There was no church ages at that time. He closed the book. Isn't that right? And the Bible said the book was sealed with seven seals on the back side of the book. Now, doesn't that bring in the church ages? Doesn't that bring in the church ages? The back side. The hinder part. Moses saw that. He was excited over it. The whole mountain shook and burned with fire. And God said, Moses, I'm going to cut a place in the rock. And I'm going to put you in the cleft of the rock. And you'll be able to see me as my glory passes by, you'll be able to see the hinder part. What glory was it? And I'll let you see my glory, Moses. But it'll be the hinder part. But, remember now, speaking back of Jeff, the tabernacle, Brother Branham, speaking of the move of God. Now, we're not speaking of personalities. We're just speaking of-. You know, you have to use Moses, you have to use Paul, you have to use Joshua to bring out these things, because God uses men like our Brother Woods said. So we say, He saw the hinder part. He saw the glory and the glory of God passed by Moses. What glory was it? It was old glory. You know, when they took old glory out of here they put it on the moon and God wrote Ichabod over the door. Isn't that right? When that flag went to the moon Ichabod is wrote over the door of America and she's been on the decline ever since. So then, what glory was it? Old glory. Not old glory, in that God is ever new, in that He is, but old glory in that Paul, in the revelation, when he laid aside the veil of Saul, which was on the other side, and we could say, my, we could say so much, we could write a book on it. But when he laid aside the veil, on this side he said, It's not me anymore. Now it's different. This is Christ. This is the body. John, the law, the prophet, said, but the prophets end. That's what this meeting has to do with. The law and the prophets. They may quote you the Word, and they may tell you the Word, but as Brother Woods said, you can't put God in a book. God's not in a book. God is a spirit, and God lives in human beings. God lives in human life. And God is still working this very day, right here in this tabernacle, or any other tabernacle. You know, you would say, Brother Pike, now if I get excited you forgive me,'cause I do. I get excited. Willie gets excited. So I won't feel bad. But, anyway, to shed a little light on what we're saying; out here at this grave, not very far away, the body of one of the greatest men that ever breathed the breath of life is laying there. William Branham. It's there. You remember the vision I had of the grave, where Brother Branham's following was lined up at the grave, one behind another, and darkness was coming. And the Lord let me know that that wasn't right. That wasn't what He wanted. Moses' followers, as Moses went down they went down. Someone would say, Brother Pike, don't you know? They went on into Canaan land. There's no record where any of'em went into Canaan land. See? When they got to the crossing of the Jordan, they didn't get into Canaan land. If you remember on the mountain they rejected what God had given Moses. When the mountain burned like fire, and God said later, I've shook the earth. I've shooked the mountain with this great glory. He said, But the next time I'll shake heaven. He said the next time we'll have a star war. It won't be fire on the mountain. And the umbrella won't keep it from coming. You can put all the umbrella's up you want to and I admire the President fo doing that. I think it's a great thing that he's done. I saw the picture of it. But John said I saw the cities of the nations fall. It doesn't matter how many umbrella's you got, John said those great buildings like the skyscrapers of New York, and the places in London, and around the world, they are going to crumble to the ground. They're coming down and every high hill shall be made low, and every valley shall be brought up. And the mountains were moved out of their places. Okay. Let's look at a present day thing now. Brother Branham, here he is laying over here. It was said-. You know, we've got a picture where he laid the cornerstone of the little building, in this, probably, little old village around here. You remember the tent meeting coming, and the significance of our tent meeting, and that's when the Brother saw the vision. Here Brother Branham had put within the stone, within the cornerstone a message for his people, according to what was said. And they wasn't suppose to mess with that until after his decease. So, when he died they immediately went there and took that stone and they took it out, and they found the little can. The little can had deteriorated, and that that was in the little can was gone and they didn't get anything and they were disappointed, because all of those years they had waited for it. And I said to the Lord. I said, Lord, tell me something. I said, Now, you know all things. When Daniel talked to you and he besought you, when there was problems in that day, and lives were to be lost and lives was at stake, I said, you explained to him. I said, Now here I am, and I said, The church world's here, and this man a great milestone. I said, And you showed me his death, and you told me that the man would die, and I told them that he would die in the early part of sixty-six, was it? Or sixty-five the latter part he died. I said he'll die just before Christmas day, and God will spare his wife and his daughter. I said, Now, seeing that you told me this, I said, What is this? I said, What in the world could this be? I said This man left a message in the cornerstone. I said, God that was the cornerstone. I said, And it was left there, and I said, there ain't nothing in it. And God said to me very plainly. Said, Son, the cornerstone had to do with William Branham. Said, He laid that stone. Said, The little container on the inside, said, that little container, which was Brother Branham, said, It's deteriorated. Said It's gone. It's in the grave. And he said, And the message that was in Brother Branham is no longer in William Branham. Said, They can't find it. It's gone. Because when a man dies, he doesn't preach anymore. He doesn't preach anymore. So then, the message wasn't in the little can, because the little can had deteriorated. Somebody would say, You can't prove that, Brother Pike. Yes, I can prove that. The Bible said at death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it, and the Bible said the body without the spirit is dead. Now where is the message? Is it in the body, or is it in the spirit? Did Brother Branham go hunting, or did the spirit of God go hunting? Brother Branham went hunting. Do you think God would take a gun, bow and arrow and go out and kill his own animals when he attends the funeral of a sparrow, and said every hair of your head is numbered, and not one of them shall perish? How much more does he want the animals spared. So then, I said that again to bring out something. The message was gone and where was the people in the vision? Lined up right there at the grave site of Brother Branham. We could just say so much on this, but we won't do it. I'm just going to say a few little things. One day Betty and I came up here. That was when we were having the meeting. The Lord sent me over to the graveyard. I went to the graveyard. I tried to get in, and I couldn't get in because the graveyard was just lined with people, and I went in over this way. I said, I'll go in from this side. So I went in on this side, and when I got over to this side, I went around, or I thought I was going around through the graveyard. I went around just a little bit through the graveyard and there was a fresh grave. It stopped me. I couldn't get pass. And I looked over here and here was a whole line of people. I thought, God, those are Brother Branham's people. I recognized that they were Brother Branham's people and they were in a line just like I had seen it in a vision, and it was getting late. The evening was coming, and there I was. I couldn't even get around in the graveyard. I was cut off over here, because a fresh grave was here I couldn't go straight through. I said, Oh, God. I said, I can't disturb those people. I said, There is their prophet, and the one that they loved out there, and I said, here they are visiting and taking their time, car behind car, I said, I can't bother them people. I said, if I did I'd feel horrible. I can't go that. I said, I'll go straight out this way. And I tried to get around that truck, and tried to get around that fresh grave, and I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I said, God, I ain't going to bother them people.'Cause I have a great fear of God, and a reverence for God's people. I said, I'll back this thing out of here. I think, it might have been my coach. I don't know. But, any way, I was trying to back out, and I thought, Oh, I can't do that. I'll run over those graves. I can't do that. And I sat there, and I thought, Lord, What in the world am I going to do? I was really tore up. And then, all of a sudden I heard something very clear. Said, This is the people that you saw at the grave when the sundown was coming, and darkness was coming, and said, You go right around behind them and just push them right out. And I went around behind them, and God knows this is the truth. When I got up behind them, those people reverently, respectively, without any problem whatsoever, got in their cars and moved right out in front of me, and I went right out behind them until they were gone. Now, I said that to try to bring forth some thoughts here. I come into Jeff. When I come into Jeff, where did I go to? Down...(Begin side two, tape no. two.)...death, the Sabbath, the rest. They took him down on a Friday. The bus was suppose to have left Friday. Had everything ready. It was highly significant. So then, I went down to the place where I baptized Brother Cox, and I heard something say, They know not the coming, whether at the cock crowing. And I expounded a number of things to my wife that I won't say here. I went out. When I went out I went to New Albany, whereas, the Lord said, The new, and the old is passed away as to baptism, and behold all things are new. Ye are a new creature. So then, that which is old is ready to be folded up and laid away, even the law. Even old glory. What kind of glory did Moses see? Moses saw the glory that had passed on the back side, but Paul speaks of the light of the latter house, this house. Said, It's greater than that of the former house. Said, Though that had a glory, he said, the glory of this house so excels, and so exceeds that the brightness of this latter house, this greatness of the latter rain and the former rain all coming together, said, that light, that former house, will have no light because of the greatness of this light. You know, you've got a candle, but when you bring a fluorescence you can't see the candle to the extent it has no glow. You can tell it's there, but it's like the moon. When the moon comes up it is a glory. The glory of the moon, one thing. The glory of the sun another thing. And there is the glory of it. But when the sun comes up there is no glory, no glory in the moon, as to that of the sun. And we find out that the moon was just the back side of it and all we saw was the back side of the sun. Isn't that right? That's all we saw was the back side of it, and through the darkness of the night it's bright and it looks good, but Brother, when that day star comes out and it dawns in your heart, you say, My God! My God! Lord, what is this? See? That's not the back side. As long as I'm looking at images. As long as I'm looking at individuals, as long as I'm looking at people I'm seeing the back part, but if I can walk up to an individual that's been born again, that's a Son of God, and I walk up to this individual as a Son of God, and I don't know them after the flesh, but I know them after the spirit, once I know them after the spirit, then I'm no more looking at the back side. I'm not looking at the back side. Once I know them after the spirit I'm not looking at the back side. So then, Brother Taylor comes over. He sits here behind the organ. Here is the stick. Here is the serpent. And I heard the Lord very clearly say to me. Said, This is why I took you down to the baptizing. And Betty remembers I said this yesterday. Said, Do you remember Brother Taylor when they come up out of the baptizing, you remember Brother Taylor getting the stick? You remember Brother Kuhn? And I said, Betty, you remember this road, and the stick that Brother Taylor had in his hand? And do you remember when we was baptizing over at Bob's place down in, from Little Bethlehem at Mount Vernon? You remember when the light, in the phenomenal way, now, of the day star, which is the sun, caused the image to completely dissipate until the atomic particles of the image became one with the day star. Do you remember that? And a friend of mine, Bucky, which was a judge, a retired judge, wrote a little article under that, and he wrote about Brother Branham as a prophet. And when he wrote it, I picked it up one day. I'd never paid any attention to it and they put the light there, and Brother Taylor was standing over there and where I was standing it was nothing but a light, and the image was gone. And I picked this little thing up and looked at it, and I noticed Bucky's article, and I heard the Lord say this real clearly. Said witness by the law and the prophets. Brother Branham, Bucky, the judge. Said, It's witnessed by the law and the prophets. And so then, that light, it was a light because there was no image. That was a light. You know, in heaven we're all as light. We're all as angels. In this world we're human forms, but really this human form is combustible. This human form can turn into a flame of fire. When they drop that bomb on Hiroshima little bodies became human torches. So this is nothing but a light. If you ignite it it'll be nothing but a light, and the coming of the Lord, the change of the glory, the light of the latter house, not the hinder part, not what Moses saw, but face to face, for the Bible said when He appears we shall see him as He is. See, Moses couldn't see that because to see that Moses would die. Moses would die. Somebody would say, Well, Moses did die. You can't prove it. Where is his body? Where is his Body? The Bible said he was seen on the Mount of Transfiguration with Jesus. Jesus wasn't dead. Say, Well, Elijah was there. Said, Elijah was taken away in a firey chariot. Elijah wasn't dead. What makes us think Moses was dead? I don't believe dead people are in glory, do you? I believe that glory folks are living folks. Moses was alive when they saw him. So then, Moses, on this side it's not Moses, it's Joshua. What is the difference? When God said take the dirty garments off of Joshua it meant that the same Christ that walked in the body of Jesus came out on the other side, left the garment laying there. The dirty garment, mind you. Jesus that knew no sin was made a dirty garment, your dirty garment, my dirty garment. He was made sin that you might be made the righteousness of God in Christ. This is what the prophet was looking at. See? Lay aside the body of sin. Not Jesus anymore. We have known Him after the flesh but from henceforth we know Him no more after the flesh. I don't know you after the flesh. I know you as a quickening spirit, for in heaven they are as angels. They are as light. In heaven they are exceeding bright lights. The angel that appeared to them on the hillside, it was a great light that came round about them. When Christ appeared to Paul it was a great light that blinded him from heaven. So then, the dirty garment, God smote the dirty garment, and the garment was laid aside, and then Joshua, the great priest, the high priest, Joshua stepped out. The great priest of God came forth, Christ. He came forth. Somebody said, Well, what He did, Brother, He picked up the garment and you say He left the dirty garment. He picked up the garment, but the Bible said He appeared in another form. It was that same Shechaniah glory that over shadowed Adam in the garden. The same covering cherub that was over Adam in the garden, it had reappeared for when God put Adam in the morning, in the morning of the bright dawning of the act of creation in the garden he was called the Son of the Morning. He was called the Son of the Morning, or that is in God's sight he was the first that came in the morning. That was the first act of creation. He came in the morning. The Son of the Morning. Lucifer. How hast thou fallen O, Son of the Morning? The Son of the Morning. Adam, how did you fall? Why did you fall, Adam, when I made you perfect and upright? In the day that I made you, Lucifer, he said, I made you perfect. I made you upright. All of your organs within you was perfect. How is it, O Lucifer, thou hast fallen? How was that that this come to pass? He said thou wast the most beautiful, the most beautiful tree in the garden. The most beloved. The most outstanding. The most desired. The most beautiful tree in the garden, he said, that what you are. Now, don't get alarmed when some go out. Some have to go out, two or three of'em, and some don't understand. They're at a complete loss when you talk about spiritual things. They're just babes, and if you were shouting and praising the Lord, and having a good time they'd really have a good time with you. They're little babes, they don't understand. So then, the Son of the Morning. How art thou fallen, Lucifer, thou Son of the Morning? Adam fell. The expulsion. God put him out of the garden. How did he fall? He fell because of the dirty garment. His wife represented his flesh. The Bible said the great mystery concerning Christ and the church, that Christ is the head of the church, and the man is not found in the transgression, but the woman, which has to do with the garment. The Bible speaks of the filth of the woman, in that he speaks of the time of the birth, and how he swaddled the child and how he cleansed her from the filth of the skirt. So then, the blood of Jesus, the travail of the woman, the cleft of the rock, the spear in the side, the water, the blood, the spirit, and then came the church. The book sealed on the back side. Seven seals, the church ages, the angels, or the candlesticks that stood before God, those church ages. Down through the church ages. Having to do with messengers. Down through the church ages, but the book was sealed with seven seals on the backside. How art thou fallen? Adam fell for one reason. He was made in the image of God. He was overshadowed with the Shechinah image of eternal living. The eternal blessing of riches and power and splendor. He was the God of all the world. Adam was the God of all the world. He wasn't just a man. He was God. He was God. They said to Jesus, said, You make yourself God, and we know that you are a man. But see? He said I'm the second man Adam. Who was God? Didn't He say Moses I've made you God to the people? Can a man then be God. Someone would say, Brother Pike, do you believe a man can be God? William Branham was God. When William Branham walked in this earth, William Branham was God. No doubt about it. Somebody said, That couldn't be, Brother Pike. Absolutely. It's a fact. Revelation shows it. He was not God as the Lord Jesus. Jesus was God without measure. The fullness of the Father dwells in Jesus, but according to the measure of an individual, even Brother Branham, whatever his measure is in the earth, he is God to that measure. And God said, Moses, you know, you're a man but I've made you God unto Aaron. Is God then respect of person? Would He make Moses God, and then could not make you God? Remember we're talking about great things, now, folks, we've come to a new world. We've come to a new era right now. Not the backside, but I'm talking about face to face. And so then, can a man be God? Indeed he can. According to his measure. Whatever his measure of the spirit is. Whatever his inner man has surrendered to. Thirty-fold, sixty fold, hundred fold. Can my finger be my body? It can according to it's measure. Can my hand be my body? It can according to the measure. But everyone of these measures must be subject to my brain. And my brain is subject to my heart, for as a man thinketh in his heart so is it transmitted through his brain. So then, life is in the blood stream which is in the heart. And without that life and that spirit there is no life. So then, Moses, you can see the backside. But what about the frontside? What about the frontside? According to the measure. They said to Jesus-. Jesus said, Why do you want to stone me? Said, For a good work we don't stone you. He said, What good work have I done that you would want to do that? For this we don't stone you. Said, But you being a man. Now, think now. Brother Woods, you being a man. Brother Willie. Brother Frank. Said, You being a man. How many of you believe Jesus was a man? The Bible speaks of the man Christ Jesus. Isn't that right? He said-. Some body said, God. He said, Feel of me. They said a spirit. He said a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. I'm talking about after the resurrection, now. So then, you say you believe that He was a man, and I say, Jesus, you being a man you make yourself God? You know. Here's a brother. He's going to stand up out there. Johnny's going to stand up. Johnny's going to say, Here I am. Here I am, folks. Look at me. Look at me. Come and feel of me, now. Somebody says, Oh, no. Oh, yes, come and feel of me, he said. Feel of me. Feel of me. Flesh and bone. Said, Come and feel of me. And we're going to say, That's God? Somebody's going to say, That's God? What is God? God is the object of worship. That's what the word means. Object of worship. So then, What is God? He's the object of worship. Somebody would say, Well, bless God, they ain't going to worship me. The Bible said, I will make them to come and kneel at your feet. Didn't say His feet. I'd make them come and kneel at your feet and know that I've loved you. And Paul said they glorified God within me. And the Bible said I will praise you. You ever been praised? Somebody said they hit a home run. Brother you know what I'm talking about. We've got a ball player setting here. A professional ball player. Do they praise them? I tell you they come slap out of the balcony over at the game in Atlanta, Georgia. They fell clear out of the high balcony and was killed. That's right. Praising them ball players. Ball players. Football players. I picked up an Armstrong magazine coming on, and Armstrong had about four or five pictures in Plain Truth and it was fight and killing at ball game, all kind of ball games. It was astounding. People holding their little ones, loved ones, where they'd been killed. Little bitty ones. I didn't mean to get off on ball games. I'm just saying this. That which is highly esteemed of the flesh is abomination in the sight of God. Because it draws God's people away. Satan magnifies himself in it. And in doing it, it draws souls and it causes people to be damned and put in the fire. So those people, like Elvis Presley and great people, they become repulsive in the sight of God. So then, do you praise anybody? Paul said in a god thing I praise you. And so then, we are praised in a good thing. We are magnified in a good thing. God praises us in a good thing, but you being a man you make yourself God. See? Are we the temples of God? Does God walk and talk in us, or is it a figment of imagination? Or is it just some wild thought we got? Are we coming to something like the world has never seen, or are we just up here at Brother Woods, and we're having another chat? See? Did Brother Branham go all the way around the world just to preach and let everybody see him and know that he was William Branham, or was God doing something? Does the minister come to church on Sunday morning just to tell you something and everybody goes away and they don't have no respect for him, no reverence. And they don't pay any attention to what he says when the Bible says give the more earnest heed to what you've heard lest at any time you should let them slip and take heed how that you hear. If he's just there to get a meal ticket, or he goes to the trouble of trying to rent a building and have a place to where you can gather, and go through all these pangs of travails and problems and whatever, as Paul said, I travailed until Christ be formed within you. Is he trying to travail to bring forth something within you in an image unto God? A greatness? Or is this some kind-? What is it, folks? So then, here we are. Brother Branham's dead. Brother Jack Coe's dead. Other great men are dead. Men of the foreign fields that stood up for Christ, they're dead. Is then God's program vain? Has it come to an end? Has everything stopped. We don't go any further? In all of these years that a dead man lays out here in the grave, you mean that God hasn't done anything else at all? He just stopped? Did God stop when Abraham passed on? Wasn't Abraham a great prince, even the father of the faithful? If God had ever been going to stop, Brother Willie, he'd have stopped then. Did God stop when Moses went on? Did he stop when the others went on? No. Did he stop when Jesus died? No. He was just getting a running start then. So then, is God doing anything? Has God done anything? Is the light now greater than it was? Doesn't the Bible say that the end of the matter is better than the beginning? Am I then sacrilegious because I say that now it's better than in Brother Branham's day?

Somebody'd say, Oh, my God! That's sacrilegious, Brother Pike. But yet I say to you, I say, Folks, God said concerning Moses, there is no man in all the land like him. Come on now, folks. There is no man in all the land like my man, Moses. He's faithful in all of his house. But I stand up here and I say, Now folks, it's better than Moses' day. You say Amen, so be it. God bless you, Brother Pike, you're preaching truth. Moses. The greatest that ever lived. A nation came out of him. God said, Moses, I'll make a nation out of you. And then when I stand up here and I name another fellow, or mention Brother Branham or somebody, oh, my God, that can't be. And then comes John, the Baptist, and the Bible said there never lived a greater. None greater among men than John. But I say it's better now, folks. Amen, Brother Pike, that's right. You know you've got it right. But then if I speak differently, even of a man that it was said unto him, as it was with John, as it was with Moses. What did God mean by that, a typical thing? Was Brother Branham a son of God? Most assuredly he was, but what did he have to do with? The end of the law and the prophets. That's why all the quotes are there like they are. That's why the thing is like it is. See? So then, this is a greater light. It's not a greater light to you, or some of you that hear, because you don't hear. It's not a greater light to some of you that see, because you don't see. Having eyes you see not. Having ears you hear not. Ye hear sounds from an individual. Ye hear sounds from a preacher. You hear me say things, but see? The great light of God that shines within the heart, that day star has never dawned in your heart. You are looking on the backside. As long as you look at the ministers, long as you hear the natural word, and as long as you don't have ears to hear what the spirit is saying to the church, you're looking on the backside. But, Brethren, this is not the backside of the book. Hallelujah! The Bible said, In that day we shall see face to face. Somebody would say, But, Brother Pike, you can't see God and live. I died a long time ago. Reckon yourselves to be dead by Calvary. So, today I can see God. We are they that dwell in heaven. We rejoice because we are in heaven. Brethren, we are not in the earth. You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. Somebody say, Hallelujah! Glory to God, we are dwelling in heaven. This is not the backside of the book. Those seals have been loosed. Isn't that right, Brother Woods? He spoke today of them being loose. Those seals have been loosed. And what is it? Christ in you the hope of glory that has loosed those seals to the members of His body, even the Church. And the church has taken the veil off, now, and loosened those seals to the world. And you know why, what that is in the loosening of those seals? If you'll go back and check those seals, it brought the white horse rider. It brought the red horse rider. It brought the black rider. It brought the pale horse rider. It brought the locust up out of the earth. It caused the nations of the world to fall. Are you listening? All of these things, go back and check it. Death came into the earth. The locust covered the earth. The moon and the stars. The moon turned to blood. The stars fell from heaven. What is that? It is God causing you to finish the mysteries, as the body of Christ. The angel with one foot on the water, one on the land. His hand raised to heaven, swearing by him that lives forever and ever that time will be no more. It's God. What is God doing? God has exalted you. He's raised you up until Paul, the headstone, that which was Christ, is way up here in the third heaven. You know, the Church is in the second heaven, but God is in the third heaven. See? The woman is down there in the second heaven. John, Revelation twelve. Read it. The woman is in the second heaven, and the dragon is laying there ready to devour the child. We brought out an allegoric type concerning America, Jimmy. And, I wish we had time talk about the star war and Reagan. But here is the second heaven. The dragon laying in there waiting to devour the child. What is the dragon? What is the dragon? John said, You generation of vipers. Said, You're on your belly and all of your labor is for your belly. It started with with your belly as to the tree of knowledge. Said, And you're still on your belly, and he said, The ax is laid to the root of the tree. Said, We're going to cut that tree down. All the way from Calvary, cursed is he that hangeth upon a tree. And we're going to do away with this curse. Take away the evils. Cut the tree down, all the way back to the expulsion, and then I'll let John write the Book of Revelation and show you in Revelation twelve what happened in that garden. That was the expulsion. When the battle between Michael and his angels, contrary to satan and his angels, out went Lucifer. Revelation twelve, the expulsion, how art thou fallen, oh, Son of the Morning? What caused this? The weakness of the woman. The flesh. The Flesh. That's the weakness of the woman. See? You're not in the male gender unless you've passed from death unto life. You are not the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as the male species. As long as you are in this world you're the feminine. You're the woman. So then, when we come into the other realm, we are the rod of iron ruler. We're the Sonship. So then, the woman in travail in carrying the child she's in the second realm. And the red dragon is right there. What is it? It's heaven. What is Heaven? Grace. How did the red dragon get there? Through grace. When Lucifer walked up into the presence of God, how did Lucifer come into the presence of God when he's wretched and when he's evil, and when he's been cast out to be the ruler of the darkness? Because through Jesus all sin was taken away. And every human being that lives in this world today has grace. They are under a dispensation of grace, and the devil living within them that puts them right in the presence of God, which is a second Heaven. And I've said this a lot of times, and I repeat it here, at Brother Woods place, You may say this isn't Heaven, but I tell you when you get into hell you'll know that you've been into heaven. You'll be able to tell the difference. You may say this is not heaven, but when Antichrist comes and God pours out of His wrath upon Antichrist and they gnaw their tongues for pain and there are no doctors and no healing medicine, you'll know the difference between the dispensations. And you'll know that you've been in heaven. Not the third heaven, but the woman, which is the flesh, the woman herself, she is under grace right now. That's why America has been blessed like she has when other countries have starved and little bellies swollen, people starving to death, murder, hatred, war, everything's without the gates. And American eats and drinks. She's plush. Why? Because it has to do with heaven. So then, a place prepared for her. We can't get into those things. But, heaven. So, the woman. She's there. Where? John saw her in heaven, the second heaven. There's third heaven. Paul was caught up into it. There is a first heaven, and these two heavens make up one heaven, but there is a middle wall of partition here that forms a second heaven to bring this into view, that is. So then, what is the dragon? If the woman is travailing, if she's got her foot on the moon, which is the lesser light, the backside, the glory of that which is receding, that of the former house, this same woman, if you remember, was crowned with twelve stars. The Apostolic teachings, the crown of life, she was crowned with it. The moon, the Old Testament, the lesser light, that that was in the veil, which means God as an indoctrination, a word, an indoctrination within the human reasoning, which is considered knowledge, darkness. Paul, turn my people from that mind to the mind of Christ, which is light. And so then, this woman had something else that was outstanding and that is she was clothed with the sun. That's the glory. She was clothed with brightness of the noonday sun. Her garment, Revelation nineteen, all of a sudden she changed. She changed into this beautiful garment, and the old passed away. Zion put on you beautiful garment. Joshua, I'm going to bring forth a headstone, going to have seven eyes. The church ages. I'm going to bring it forth, Joshua. You're laying aside the dirty garment. I'll never look at the body of Christ again as being dirty. Once and for all I've sanctified you by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary. You are every wit whole. You are clean now. You're my body, you're my bone. You're my flesh. You're my wife. The secret. No longer twain, but bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh, as it was said to the woman and man. So then, this garment is passed away. This is Brother Woods. This is a calvary. Going down to the baptism, the cock crowing, the rod, coming back to the present day, even Reagan, when the man that made the Moses picture took Him the rod, having to do with the prophet like unto. This man that played as Moses, that's passed. That's gone. That's over. What was the movie that Brother Branham high lighted so? Spoke of, and said everyone should see it? Why did he do that? You know that wasn't right for him to do that. To point somebody to a movie, especially a movie like that. Brother Branham probably didn't realize why he did it. But he said you need to see that movie, the Ten Commandments. Why? Because Brother Branham was on that side. It had to do with the hinder parts. It had to do with the Moses part. It had to do with the rod. It went ill with Moses for the sake of the people. So then, this man that played the movie in the conveyance took the rod, he took it to Reagan. We'd spoke of Jimmy. We'd spoke of what it had to do with concerning Georgia, and we spoke of Jimmy and why he didn't get in the second term. And then Mr. Reagan was given this rod. Why did the man give it to Mr. Reagan? Because it had to do with the prophet like unto Jesus. Him and Mr. Reagan was fellows. Both of them was movie stars. So then, he gave it to his fellow. What did it mean? It meant Moses was going out. America. The eagle nation. That which is projected as the spoken word. That it was going out. You said that couldn't be, Brother Pike. But look at the perfectness of it. When Mr. Reagan come in what did they do? Was it one candle? Are you understanding what I'm saying? A new birth. Didn't he change sides from over here at the White House? You remember the rending when the bomb was dropped? Didn't he go over here because it had to do with getting back into the East? Isn't that right? Wasn't Brother Branham a westerner? Didn't Mr. Reagan come for the west? Didn't Brother Branham join the Full Gospel Businessmen? Isn't that the head of it with Sharerian? I know him personally. In California? See? And Mr. Reagan coming? Why did he come to the east? Why was that? There probably never lived a more feminine man than Mr. Reagan. Mr. Reagan, I remember, even years ago he was one of silliest actors. Are you listening? He'd dance his little jig, you know, jitter bug and whatever dance he done and he was sillier than any woman you ever seen. He was just as feminine and repulsive to a real masculine person as anybody I've ever seen. I'm talking about Mr. Reagan. You may not know that. Go back and check it. I mean he was a silly fellow. He was feminine and so silly. I used to think, My, that silly man. I didn't know he was going to be President. But, you know what? God changed him, and before he left the movies he become a rough, rugged westerner. Admiring John Wayne, you know, who became the all American, whatever he was suppose to be. Anyway, that's just about an all American. Everybody dying with cancer and everything else. That's just about the way America is. There wasn't a dirty, more filthy, evil, fighting man, probably that ever lived than John Wayne. And I don't mean that against anybody...(Begin side one of tape no. three.) or anything, but I had the newspapers to come and interview me when they were doing all the write ups over there on us, and this reporter said, George, I tell you, that was the cursingest man. Said, That man was a huge man, and he told how big his hand was, and said, As I interviewed him, said, all he could do was drink and curse. And then some priest went up there and prayed him into heaven. But, anyway, that's typical America. Rock Hudson, these things, the stars falling from heaven, you can see it. It was conveyed over. The rod. Moses. Mr. Reagan. Mr. Reagan would have been one of the worst Presidents, probably we have ever had. He'd a probably got our heads blown off of our shoulders, but he thought to much of himself. It wasn't playing cowboy anymore, you know, when you get up there. But, when God let the bullet ricochet after Mr. Reagan cursed, I believe, on television, stood up and cursed and told them what he'd do. You know, he'd get in office and he'd do such and such, and told them how they'd release those prisoners. But when God let that bullet ricochet it took a lot of starch out and it humbled him, and he began to realize he was fixing to meet God, and that God had put him there for a purpose. As Mordecai said to Ester. It might just be God put you here at this time. And Mr. Reagan changed, and he began to give his heart to God, and I read an article where they said the man looks like he's turning over to God. Said, He's changing over to God. The article, it was astounding. And then he began to pull for God's cause. What was it? It was the death. The prophet like unto. The ruler with the rod of iron. The Christ. The star war. What is the star war? The casting out of Lucifer. I made the statement not too long ago. I said the star war is the war in heaven. It's the last war. I said it's the third pull that Brother Branham spoke of. I said that's the end of it. You say, What do you get out of it, Brother Pike? As being the casting out? I told them, I said, All of this Elvis Presley thing, all of this witchcraft, all of this rock and roll, I said, It's of the devil. And I'd seen it in revelation where Elvis Presley was leading it. And I said, God's going to get rid of it. I said, The people are going to reject it, and all of a sudden it's published that the senate rejected it. Right here now, the star war, Lucifer casting out, or the casting out of Lucifer, the man child being caught up, that is the members of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ going up and this time. Reagan representing the one to rule with a rod of iron, won't listen to nobody. Says it's going to be this way. Just like we said he would do. The prisoners, he said, They will come forth. But, remember, Jesus was the body, and when the prisoners come forth, they come forth with Jesus. Jimmy Carter went and got them, didn't he? He was the one because he had to do with the body. And that which had been crucified, and that which had been mocked so that Reagan could come into power. Let me say just a few more things and I'm, going to close. So then, Mr. Reagan got the rod. It was passed on from Moses to Mr. Reagan. He got it. Why? It had to do with Christ. It had to do with Christ, and his wife wanted to turn the White House into Hollywood. Betty remembers when we were up there in the White House. A beautiful place. Turn it into Hollywood, but here he is, Mr. Reagan, the star war, the casting out of Lucifer, Washington with it's sovereignty over all the world, and here it goes out, the witches. Here goes out the rock and roll. I read the article concerning the rock and roll, and they told how devilish it was and how it had wrecked the human mind. And how that even the other day, Lady Gaberiel, as she calls herself, worshipping the white unicorn, all these devilish things.

Paul said, Who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth. All of a sudden the White house rejects that and said we will not give tax exempt to that. That's of the devil, they said. I mean they brought it out. Said, It's of the devil and we won't do it. We will to the church, but we won't to that. Why is that? It's always been that in your body there's been an infiltration and no good thing was inside of your flesh. Always been corruptible flesh, and a continual warfare between the body and the soul. And Paul said, When I would do good I find the law, that there's evil present with me. Always evil thought bombarding your mind while on the inside you have a will to perform and yet you can't find the performance in the body to do that which is good. But by faith of being sealed in, and patiently waiting for the change of the creature, the whole world is waiting for the change. Waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God, even the creature itself. It's waiting. So then, Mr. Reagan, the star war, the casting out, who hath bewitched you. It's gone. They are casting it out. They are not going to give license to those things anymore. It's going out of our society. They won't have it anymore. See? God. The preachers have opened their eyes. Mr. Reagan, a leader that's become religious, having to do with Christ. But it's the end of the world. Calvary. Moses going out. Christ on the other side of Calvary. No wonder Mr. Reagan said, I feel like I'm coming in and the world is going out, giving him the candle as to a new birth. See? Everything just perfect. The woman with her feet on the moon. America. Emphasizing the footprints on the stamps and different things. They call that the little nest when they set it on the moon. That's what they called it. The eagle. She built her nest and she landed on the moon. The lesser light. Moses. Conquered. It came to pass. But, see? As it was said, a dove leading the eagle. A dove. An eagle is a war bird. It's a war bird. It's fight. Moses fight. Fight, Moses. It's continually fight. Fight, David. Fight. But, in the days of Solomon there was a peace, because the lively stones had to come together to build up the fallen down house of David, which was Solomon's son, even the temple that Solomon built. See? The lively stones built up into Paul, the Apostle. The head stone. Somebody would say, but, Brother Pike, you don't really believe that do you? I sure do. You can look at it. Seven church ages. Ephesus, Smyrna, go down the line with them and what do you find? You find the churches that Paul established. How may of them was there? Nine of them. How many did Jesus use? Seven of them. Who was it in the midst of the churches? Paul. At the end of the church ages, who is it in the midst of them? Christ. Because Paul said, It's not me living but Christ. Down through the church ages, what was that Christ part? The Revelation of Jesus Christ. The time is at hand. The time is at hand. Let him that is holy be holy still. You don't believe that read in the book of Revelation, the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the time is at hand. And then turn to the last page and get over to the end of the book of Revelation and see if it don't repeat it and say the time is at hand. Let him that is just be just still. Him that is holy let him be holy still. Why? Because we're on this side of Calvary. We're not in the earth. Somebody says, but Brother Pike, the rapture has got to take place. Jesus said to Nicodemus, no man has ever come down from heaven except the Son of Man who is in heaven. A man being God? The woman in heaven. Could this be heaven? Is there a heaven? He said the Son of Man, which is in heaven. You being a master of Israel and you don't know these things, how are you going to teach it to the people, Nicodemus? So then, He said, you are not in earth. You are not in the flesh. Your flesh is dead, buried, gone, in the water. You are not in the flesh. If you was you couldn't please me. Your carnal mind is no more. It's no more. It's Christ on the inside transmitting through your brain. You don't have your carnal mind. There's nothing wrong with your body. God made it. There's nothing wrong with your brain. God made it. But the infiltration of that which came from the tree of knowledge, even Lucifer through knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up. The carnal mind killing, being death, the old tree of knowledge. That spirit coming into your body, into your brain, is death. It's death. It's the curse. It's appointed unto him as to the regions of the damned and of the darkness. That's death. That's death. To eat and drink, to sleep, to ride, unless you do it out of necessity, unless you do it for the glory of God, giving Him praise in all things. If it's in the world you're dead. They that live in pleasure are dead while they live and some of them twice dead and plucked up by the roots. On their belly because their belly craves it of them and all of their labor is for the old serpent's belly, the generation of vipers. God said cut the tree down all the way back to Calvary, that old tree of knowledge, get rid of it. And we're going to start a new thing and here is the beginning of the creation of God, even the second man Adam, Jesus. Going to be a new thing. A new generation, changing over. So then, we are in heaven. Someone would say, But the rapture, Brother Pike, the translation, the change. See? That's where we get off. There ain't no such thing as the teaching of the rapture in the Bible. All these churches that teach rapture, and talk about a rapture, this catching away as to a rapture. They aren't any such teachings in the Bible. You are not going to find it there. It's not there. It says a change. A change. And that change that we speak of there is in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, but there is a change, Brother Woods, before that comes. A change from glory to glory, from the inner man that's to swallow up the outer man, and from glory to glory as a child that goes through school until it graduates, until it's gone through it's last stages of graduation. We are living a graduated life. We graduate from glory to glory. We graduate from glory to glory. A gradual thing of going into God, through graduation of the ultimatum of the change of the body. Someone would say, But you've got to wait, Brother Pike, You've got to wait for that Thessalonians change. How is it that Enoch got there even before Calvary? Somebody say, Well, what it is he's got to go there, but he's going to die, Brother Pike. You know, he's gotta die. Someday he'll come back. He's going to die. No. No, he ain't. no, he ain't. See? That couldn't be. That couldn't possibly be. The Bible says the scriptures is not broken, and Enoch was translated that he should not see death. Being of the church, the seventh from Adam. Enoch, he won't come back and die. Moses, he will come back and die. Elijah, he will come back and dies. Why? Somebody said, Moses was already dead. Why can't they find his body? Tell me this. If Moses is dead and buried why does the Bible say that when the angel came they had a dispute over his body. Why didn't they they dispute over his spirit? You know what it was? Eighty days on that mountain and the grave couldn't hold his body is what it was. If they'd a put him in the body that place would have shown like a lamp. People would have been scared to get near it. That's right. Just Elisha in the grave, the Bible said they throwed a dead man in on him and they had a resurrection. He was so full of the fire of God. Shut up in his bones the writer said. And I am going to close in just a few minutes. I just felt to exhort you a little bit in a kind of teaching way this morning. Lot of things I'd like to say especially as pertaining to this area, the church, and the many things that are here that's happening right now. Now, folks, this don't have to do with a little congregation setting in a church. This has to do with the supernatural and all of eternity, from everlasting, to everlasting, and with dignitaries, and with the angels, Gabriel, and the great things, as when the angel appeared to Mary. As to the war when the angel appeared to Daniel. This is the great moment. This is the great hour. This is the great thing. You know, we can go on like a bunch of children and keep shouting and running and dancing and turning flips, and not get into the meat of the Word and never be strong and we'll die and go to hell. Miriam beat that timbrel and she had a good time. A Pentecostal time. They had a good time and was nothing wrong with it. God was in it, but Brother, let me tell you. When all the cancer starts and all the other things starts, and all the problems start, you don't have a good time no more. Somebody said, But, Glory to God, we'll shout and somebody'll lay hands on me. I know, but while you might get your healing, there are ten million others that ain't getting no healing, and they don't feel like shouting. They are in hospitals. They are in mental institutions. They are everywhere and you can't shout through there and get them out either. I say again, that doesn't mean that it's wrong to praise God and to shout. David said praise Him in the dance, but there's more to do than just dance. There's more to it. We praise Him in the dance. You have a little jump rope. You have a little swimming pool out front. You have some marbles. You have a few things so the kids can have a good time, because they don't know anything else. They are just going to school. They are trying to learn, but I'll tell you what. When that kid graduates from school and they get their diploma and you are setting there in the audience, and all of the things are taking place and everything is so dignified and your's comes out on a pair of roller skates popping bubble gum and says, Give it to me. You'd feel out of place. You'd feel out of place. That means that there is something for the children, but folks, as the Brother said, I did like that when I was a child, when I become a man I put away childish things. There is more. Daddy can throw a ball once in a while to his child. He may holler at him and pop a glove and say, Throw it to Pappy. You know. But I'll tell you when Daddy gets his zuit suits on and he goes out there and starts wallowing in the mud and hitting each other with a ball bat you are going to feel out of place. You say, You don't know this. Yes, I do'cause my Daddy was a ball player. Somebody's say, Well, them ball players don't do no wrong. I know better than that. I've set up in what they call the monkey pen, way back up in here, and they was with the ball bats and that was as close as I wanted to get. My Daddy was out there. My uncle was a manager. An outstanding manager. So then, I know that it's of the world and I know that it's wrong, and I know that if the love of the world is in you, the love of God isn't there. Folks, we've got to have the meat. Let there be meat in my house. The meat is for the strong. They who that have by thinking, by reasoning, exercised their senses. They've exercised their senses. They've not just clapped their hands and sang hallelujah and glory and go home. They've spent some time on their knees. They've spent some time in study. You know the startling thing is, is when men get up and they have you to shout and they have you to sing, and they dance and they get the music right to get you into a spirit to where you can worship and get the milk of the Word. The startling thing is that same man may have spent days and months and hours crying and praying, and looking to God just to come out here and give you a jug of milk. He may could care less for it, but he knows that you are not going to listen to anything else. He knows human beings. He knows you've got to have a football game, and you've got to have an organ, and you've got to have a pop, and you've got to have a clap, and you've got to go to the dance, so that's why he does it. He wants to be popular. He wants a ministry. He wants a following, and he knows if he acts like the world he's going to get it. And when I say that I'm not talking about true ministers 'cause the milk of the Word is there, and there are true ministers. These true ministers have spent many days in travail just for you to get milk. They'd much rather change the audience and come down the line with something that would be godly but you are not pulling enough. You don't expect it out of them. And because-. The only reason I'm able to say the few things I am, and this is few things, it's because you expect it out of me. You know my type ministry. You know what I believe in. So you expect to hear something like this, so I can do this. If I go down into Mexico somewhere, it use to be, it's changing now. In India, I tell you what, I had a big room in a modern place, and it filled up with those Indian people and they set for hours and wouldn't let me go, listening to the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And I thought, My God. These are suppose to be heathens over here. But they knew, and they understood. I thought America is the one that's becoming heathenistic. I mean they knew, Brother. They knew what I was saying, and they said, Brother Pike, said this will change all of India. All of India. And see, but when I go into those places, or down into Mexico or somewhere like that, you know I just shout a little bit with them, and sing a little bit with them and pop my hands a little bit, and tell them what little bit I can, and we have a jubilee and I pray for the sick like over in Haiti, and sometimes the sweat is just pouring and people just pushing in, and we're just having a good time, and people are hollering and screaming, and just going wild because they don't know nothing. We are trying to get them to God. You know, the world doesn't know. It's the foolishness of preaching and they're being saved. And their little ones are getting some milk and they're just having a time. Just splattering in the water. But, folks, you're suppose to be grown ups. You're grown ups. Paul said when we ought to be teachers, we have need that we be taught. This is the beginning of the Principals of the oracles of Christ. Let's us go on, folks. See? There's more to do. You say, What else is there to do? There's the laying on of hands which some do. And then there is the resurrection of the dead that we are heading for and that we should be doing. And then there is the judgments. Going on to the judgment. Eternal judgment. You may speak to an Ananias and Sapphira. That maybe eternal judgment. Those people are dead at your words. You may do like Elijah. Say, If I be a man of God let fire get the fifty. You may do like Moses, and Moses said, If I be a man of God, or that is, Father, if this thing is right open up the earth. Let them go down to the pit quickly. And they went down. Now, we're talking about power. Like a vision I had. We pulled in on our ship after three days at sea. Come into the rainbow. Went into a place called the rainbow. Went in and had a vision. And the thing was taking place as with Moses there, and the bridge that was there. Some of you know about it. It's on tape. And there when I had the vision, I was walking along and I felt something next to me. And I couldn't see it, and I kept doing like that and I couldn't see it. What is this? There's such a thing. It's a strange thing, and it's right here with me. And I thought, My! It is so unbelievable strong and mighty, so I'll see it, you know. But I couldn't see it, and I kept walking and I felt it there. And after a while I got to walking like this in the vision. I want to see that. I'm going to find out what it is. And I turned right quick and I said I'll see it. And when I did there wasn't nothing there. And all of a sudden something like a strong wind went inside of me. It just said, Shoo! And went into me like that. And I said, My God! That thing that was walking with me is on the inside of me. And I was fearful. I said, Oh God! This is a fearful thing. And then something said, This is Christ. I knew it had felt wonderful. Said, This is Christ. Christ in you the hope of glory. Said, He's in you now. And said, the awesome thing of this is, said, you have to be careful from now on what you say. Said, whatever you say, you have to be careful. And he said, I'll illustrate it. And there was a bridge, there's a great bridge down there. It's a turn bridge, like this. You know, it sets like this and it turns to let the ships under. We've been under with our own ship, and there is a lot we could say about it. It'd be phenomenal. Some of it's on tape. But anyway, the Lord said, Like this. If you said to that bridge, be no more, it would be gone. I thought, Bridge, thou art no more. If I say that it'll be gone. And you know what? No more than that vision. No more than I thought, they are taking that bridge down. After these may multiplied years, the only source of coming in. A tremendous bridge, hundreds and millions of dollars it would take to build it, and they are taking it down. And they are putting a causeway over it. See? We are coming into a fearful place, folks. We are coming into a different place. We are coming into Sonship. We are those that dwell in heaven. We are not waiting to go to heaven. We are already in heaven. Your inner man is already in the third heaven. Now, I'm speaking to the Son. I'm speaking to the child that was caught up. Paul was that capstone. He was the capstone of that city and the Apostles was the twelve foundations and the church was the lively stones that was built up to that all seeing eye, that revelation. If you don't believe it, you check your Bible. You study. Your read. You as God to open your eyes. You'll find out that the gates to that city was the twelve tribes. Of three gates. Of three tribes. You will find them around that tabernacle back there. Three here and three here, and three here, and three here. That means that the allegoric type of intellectual indoctrination will bring you into a transformation of mind. Paul said be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind. Through a transformation of mind, it will bring you to a translation of your spirit into the kingdom and the transformation of your mind into the mind of God, and it will then transfigure your body as it was with the body of Jesus that glistened on the mountain. It's a one, two, three process, and we got some on tape where we speak about it. But, we are those that dwell in heaven. Remember that. We are those that dwell in heaven. Somebody'd say, My God! Brother Pike, you must be crazy. You're eccentric. Talking about us in heaven. I see you up there, Brother Pike, You don't see me. Somebody said, but now you are telling me I'm blind. No. Jesus said if you were blind your sins would remain, but now that you say you see that means that you are guilty. So then, you are looking at me, and you say, You mean to tell me that I'm looking at you and I don't see you, Brother Pike. Jesus said, He that has seen me has seen the Father. How could he be him and then be the Father? He made in Himself twain. The veil rent in two. We are not going to go into that but it has to do with your salvation. But we do have some tapes on it. So then, what are you saying? I'm saying that all is vanity. All is vanity. Everything you see is lying vanities. Jonah said the belly of the whale is vanity. Solomon said all is vanity. Not to know a man after the flesh. That's vanity. He's not fleshly. He's buried. That's gone. You're not to look at him like that. That you are still down there in that low land of sorrow and you are looking through a glass darkly, and all you are seeing is lying vanities. All that passed away with Calvary. The world is gone and the people of that world is gone, and the judgment is gone. And the crow went out of the ark and it's feeding on the dead carrion, but this is the dove that went into the new world and found the new olive leaf. Brother Cleveland. Brother Woods. Olive Branch. In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful for I shall bring forth my branch, saith the Lord, even Joshua, the High Priest. I'll take away the dirty garments and it won't be a pillar of fire by night. It won't be a pillar of fire by night. Somebody said, Did you see the pillar of fire? Didn't it appear down at Utica Pike for the first time? Wasn't that the lost and the found? Didn't they change the books at Brother Branham's tabernacle when we had the Revelation of Jesus Christ, didn't they change it as to the lost and found to show that of the Spoken Word going out and the Revelation coming in? Didn't they change it to about then issues? And they didn't call it the Spoken Word. They called it the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And then didn't it go back to the Spoken Word? And now they're even getting to where they are not even having the meetings. They are beginning to do away with the meetings. Isn't there something to that when Rick came up here and got the same school for us? From then on we were to have the school. And on the time when we discovered the cave when nobody couldn't find the cave. Brother Branham spoke of his little cave, and when I went out there with some people that said, We'll find it. They couldn't find it. We looked like a needle in a haystack, and then God spoke to me. He told me before I ever left home, said, Go to Green's Mill. And he said I'll show you the cave. I didn't even hardly know nothing about Green's Mill. Didn't even know there was a Green's Mill except what I'd heard. Something that I had heard and known from somewhere that said something about a Green's Mill. So I done like any natural person would do. I come up here to Jeff. I said, Betty call Sister Branham and ask her where the cave is. So she call Sister Branham. No she didn't, Brother. And Betty said, Sister Branham, where's that cave at? She said, Honey, I don't know. She said, I remember going to it one time when Billy was a little boy, I believe she said. But she said I don't know whether I could ever get back to it again or not. And, said, I don't know of anybody in this world that knows where the cave is except one person, and said, I'm not sure he knows, said, That's Joseph. Said, I'm not sure that his Daddy ever told him. But, you know, God said to me, said, Go to Green's Mill and I'll show you the cave. I went out there one morning and I'd been seeking the Lord a little bit. I called for a boy by the name of Michael Bradley. Said take this one boy. I took him and I said, Michael, we're going out to Green's Mill and God's going to show me the cave. Of course that's a big mouthful when everybody's looking for it. But I went out there and we went down to the regular place where we ordinarily would go and I said, No, we're not going to go there. You know it's a strange thing. Before we left home, Brother Bill, and some of us was walking down from the little BCR, our little bank. Walking down, talking about this thing, and I was telling about how God was sending me over to find the cave, and Grady, my brother, walked up behind me and said, you know, I had a dream. And he didn't know what we was talking about. He just walked up and started talking. Said, Well, what was the dream? Said, I dreamed we went to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and we found that cave. Well, that set the boys on fire that I'd just talked to, you know. And anyway, when we got out there I said, We're not going in this way. I said, I'm going all together a different way. I said, Let's go over here. So we went down the road. We went to a different place. Went into the field and went down into the creek. That's the way the Lord led me. I said, Now, what we're going to do, we're going to get in the middle of the creek, and by then I guess Mike was wondering what was wrong, cause it was raining and the rocks was slippery, you know. It had been raining and was drizzling. But we got in the middle of the stream, and I said, Now, we're just going to walk right down the middle of this creek. We started trying to step from one stone to another. Finally when we got down so far, I said, Right here, Mike. Right here. And I looked off to the right, and if you've ever been out there, there's a high hill almost like a mountain, and it's rocky and it's covered with shrubbery and all kind of things and everything looks cavey. Everything looks odd, and I thought-. I said, Now, right, here, Mike. I said, Right up yonder at the top. Well, of course, when Mike looked there wasn't nothing up there. I said, Right there. The Lord let me know something. I said, Mike we need to get up there. God's trying to show me that cave. So we went down a little further down the creek. Got up on the side of the mountain, and we had to hold to little bushes, and had to hold to whatever we could climbing the slick side of that bank and it was real deadly dangerous, and we got up a little at a time coming back until we got up to that spot, and when we got up there the cave was staring me right in the face. And I thought, Dear God, no wonder Brother Branham said what he did. Brother Branham said if you come from this side you can't see it. You come from this side, he said, you couldn't see it. He said if you was standing right on the top of it you still wouldn't know it. And, folks, it was the truth. I had people that I sent out there. I sent them out there to find the cave after that I had found it so that they could see it, and they walked up on the top of it and walked off and couldn't find it. But I told David Paul, I said, The only way you're going to find it, you'll find fresh dirt where we dug and we rolled a stone away from the mouth of the cave. I said, And that's the only way you're going to find it. But see what it was? The cave wasn't turned this way with the bank. And up here it was a flat rock that you walk out over and you couldn't see it, and the cave was turned this way, and the mouth was from the side. And there wasn't no way you could walk all around and you never could see it'cause it was so high up here you couldn't walk around the cleft. You know. So you just couldn't see it. And I analyzed it real good. I looked at it and there it was. From here, though Billy Paul was way over here somewhere, you know, where Billy Paul went to fish, and said Brother Branham could hear him from there. He was way over here and it wouldn't be no way in the world Brother Branham could have called to him. But I looked at this and the way it went and the way it passed the curve, and the place it was at, sure enough if Brother Branham had called it would a went right across the top. If he'd a stepped right up on top of the cave and called and it would a went right straight to Billy, and Billy would have heard him right there. And, of course, they found the file there, the little file there, and, well, that has to do with a whole lot of things right there. But I said that to say this. The Lord did that because it had to do with resurrection, and as I come out of it, and as I was walking back down here, I looked, and up here I heard somebody say, Brother Pike. And I looked up kind of startled like, because there wasn't nobody suppose to be there but me and Mike. I said, Yep. I said That's me. And it was a Brother from out of Illinois or Cincinnati back up there somewhere. (Begin side two of tape no. three.) And this Brother said, What are you doing out here? I said, What are you doing out here? I didn't tell him, you know. He said, Well, we're looking for the cave, and he had somebody with him, and lo and behold, there they were with a stick and the man, or the-, ones name was Moses. There it was. I never did say nothing about finding the cave. I said, Ya'll tired? They were just wore out. Yeah. I said, Look, I've got my coach out here at the road. I said, I've got refreshments. Let's go out there. We'll get some. We went out to the coach and I gave them some refreshments and when I did they handed me a book, said, it said something like this. My son Joseph, thou art a prophet. And I handed, I had something laying there and I picked it up and I handed it to them, and what it was it was where Brother Taylor and I had been baptizing and the light that was on the front of this paper and they'd been passing these pamphlets out. I said that again to say this. The time is at hand. When? When comes the revelation. The time is at hand. This is why that God, while I was in Jerusalem, and I am closing. While I was in Jerusalem, there Betty was asleep, and I stepped out on a little veranda outside, and a couple of stories up, and I looked out over Jerusalem, and while I was standing there, people asleep, over in the morning, whenever, I'd been talking to the Lord on my knees, got up and I looked out over Jerusalem. And when I looked out over Jerusalem, I looked and I could see where Calvary was and I could see the Mosque of Omar. The Dome of the Rock, where Abraham offered his son. And I looked out there and when I looked at it, I said, Oh, My God. Jerusalem. Jerusalem. How oft, you know, would I have gathered thee. And I began to think like that. And you would not. Now your houses are left unto you desolate until you say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And I looked out there where the blood of the Lord was spilt, or where He gave His blood, in that He didn't spill it, He gave it. It wasn't an accident. So then, I looked out there, and when I looked out there I thought, Beautiful Jerusalem. Oh, lovely Jerusalem. And I heard something say to me. Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah. I said, Oh, my God. Sodom and Gomorrah. I thought, Lord don't let me think no thoughts like that about Jerusalem. I thought don't let that come into my mind. And I heard God emphatically say, He said, It's Sodom and Gomorrah. And said it shall be trampled down under the feet of the Gentiles until the day of the Gentiles is over. And I thought, God, hundreds and millions of people are going through there, of Gentile people. You can't hardly get through the city because of it. Trampled down until the time is fulfilled, and I heard the Lord say, This is why that I had them to put the book in your valises and whatever. And I thought, The book. The book that you gave me. The name of that book says, And the time is fulfilled. The time is fulfilled. And I thought, Lord, this book has gone out all over Jerusalem. I didn't have a guide. We rented cars. We went clear up to Mount Hermon. Down to the dead sea. I said, This book has gone all over Jerusalem. He said the time is fulfilled. Spoke to me real clear, said, Sodom and Gomorrah. I said, Lord, how can it be Sodom and Gomorrah? And this is what He spoke to me. Back to the revelation. Said, And the place where our Lord was crucified which spiritually is called Sodom and Gomorrah. And I thought, My God. They've turned this place into a hog wallow, and God has got to purge it. I heard something say, Tomorrow walk down the streets of Dela Rosa, and say, Thus saith the Lord. The time is fulfilled. I heard something say, Take this robe. Well, I had a robe there that Cynthia, my daughter, she runs a spectacular place in revelation. This robe had been given to me, and I had never worn it. Never paid any attention to it. So pretty. A purple looking robe. And a kind of a bluish purple. Said, Take this robe and I had took the robe. Took it with me. I didn't tell Betty nothing,'cause my wife knows that I'm a sober minded person. And I don't believe in foolish things. And I thought, Lord, if I tell Betty this she's not going to understand. I said, And if I tell the ones that are with me they're not going to understand. And I said, What must I do? So I took the robe with me. We went in through the Lion's gate into the old city. Went up near where the street Dela Rosa was. Where Jesus dragged His cross. Fell under the load of it. I stopped'em down here at another place, and there was a little rocky road that run up to this one. And I got out. Betty had wondered about the robe, I'm sure. And I said, Betty, give me the robe. And she gave me the robe, and I put the robe on me. I'd been in Jerusalem before and had a vision, had a vision concerning the stoning of the prophets, and it was unbelievable the thing that happened even at that time, and the prophecies and things that came forth. But, anyway, I took the robe and when I put the robe on I turned to Betty. I said, Don't you follow me. And it just cut Betty to her heart. It tore her up. I said to the kids, I said, don't you follow me either. And, you know, I usually never spoke to Betty like that, you know, and it hurt Betty. I said, Stay here. Don't follow me. Stay behind, you know, don't get close to me. So, I put the robe on, and Betty was astounded. She was looking at me. She didn't know what to say, And I guess she thought I'd lost my mind. I put the robe on out there in the middle of the public and I started up the street and I told her not to get near me. I guess she thought, Well, he's done lost his mind. And I started walking up the street. And you might say why did you do that? Well, I'd had a vision, and they'll stone you to death over there in a minute. And them streets are just like this. And when I got to where Dela Rosa was, one or two people tried to speak to me on the way. I didn't speak to nobody. Just passed right by them. That is the foreigners. And I, when I got right in the street of Dela Rosa, I begin to speak as loud as I could scream, to the top of my voice, and I begin to scream out, and I can't remember the exact words now, and no recordings of it that I know of. I begin to scream out. The time is fulfilled, and the desolation is at hand, to repent and believe the gospel, and I don't know what else. There was a number of things that was said. I wish I could remember it, but anyway, there was some other things said. As I went on up the street people stared, and people was astounded, and people started to running after me. And it caused the people, some of them, just about to go wild. You know, and they couldn't figure out what in the world was going on,'cause I was screaming and it was like I had a built in PA system,'cause the anointing was strong. And I went up to the end of Dela Rosa, and the people following along, and all of this thing going on. All of a sudden there was a stairway that lead up this way to another level, and before they had a chance to know what happened, I just kind of darted like that, was up the stair way, and by the time I hit the top I had the robe off, folded up, and they couldn't find the man in the robe anywhere. And then I went back to my family and explained what happened. And I said that to say this, folks. That's why I'm in Jeff right now. The prophecy of the street of Dela Rosa. This place right here has to do with Jerusalem. And even though a tomb was there we went into, Jesus has risen. It's the same way. You won't find Brother Branham in the grave. Now you say, Brother Pike, you mean to tell me that he is not there? Yes. He is to you that observe lying vanities. The Bible says, you that observe lying vanities, you forsake your own mercies,'cause you can't believe in the supernatural as calling those things that are as though they are not to bring in that which is not. That is, the invisible as though it is. So, to observe through the darkness, not seeing light or goodness when God cometh in that Satan, even the prince of this world, has blinded your eyes, your understanding that you cannot see when good comes. It is a true fact that the little can is deteriorated. It's laying out there. You'll find it. If you observe lying vanities, if you go dig you'll find it. A grave robber could find it. But the Bible says the spirit goeth back to God who gave it at death. And Christ was in the spirit because he was not in the flesh. His spirit had withdrawn from worldly things, and was solely enveloped within the spirit of Christ, the dove that took it away. The dove, leave the eagle, and the war over, as to bring in the millennium. And I am going to close. This one little last thing here. Just a few words. I started to leave home, and when I started to leave home the Lord said to me-. I stared to put on a shirt. I went ot the pantry. Betty had given away some of our clothing. I don't like for clothes to pile up. And I looked, and I started to get a shirt, and something said, This shirt. Whereas I've had him to do that a number of times. The one with the millennium. I didn't even think about it being the millennium. Didn't even look at it. You know, in the millennium. The Lord comes to rule in the millennium. But I looked at the shirt, and I thought, Well, I'll get the other shirt. Something said, This shirt. So when I saw it was God I took the shirt and put it on. Real colorful shirt. Numbers of colors. And I heard the Lord say, This is Joseph's coat of many colors. And then I remembered that somebody had given me this shirt, and when they give it to me they said, Brother Pike, said, Do you know the name of this material? I said no. They said, the name of this material is Joseph's coat of many colors. So they made me a shirt out of it, and they gave it to me. So I put the shirt on, and I started up the road and the Lord said, Joseph, rejected by the Brethren. Said, Son, you know this message has been rejected as it was with Jesus and the Jews. Said, It's been rejected. Said, Because the others couldn't understand, and like children they couldn't see into it, and they were full of ambition for fame and popularity and they didn't want the way of the travail and they didn't want to die out. They didn't want to preach dying out and decreasing that He might increase, but they wanted to be preeminent and they wanted to be out front and they wanted to be on TV and all these other things which God has blessed us with. We've not come short in riches or whatever. But, anyway, He said, You know that it's a rejected thing. That's why we came here to Brother Woods. Because of the same outlook He took toward Brother Woods. See? A lot of times God will suffer some of you to be blinded and say things, and it'll put mud on the water. And it is mud. It needs to be got off. But it'll put mud on the waters to keep the others away from you until the mold is final, and then He'll crack the mold and rend the veil and it'll bring out the personification of that which is not mud. Like it was with Jesus when he was baptized, not in the rivers of Pharpar as the prophet that got healed, but in the muddy river of Jordan, and then came the healing to the man as the prophet said. Then came the deliverance, knowing that as he looked down through the telescope of time that Jesus wasn't coming to the rivers of Pharpar. He was going to the muddy river. Even the little pentecostal streams, we would say. But, anyway, I just said that to say this. And I wore the shirt and brought it over and I told Betty, I said, You know, Jesus-. Oh, we could say so much. But anyway, Jesus laid that aside. Remember? At Calvary. Pulled it off last night, laid it aside, and then came over this morning. See? To show that this move, right here, how many of you know that Billy Paul is the move of God in Brother Branham's ministry for the first part of it? His name is Billy Branham just like his Daddy's. He's the president of the evangelistic association. How many of you know that Joseph, his son, who, he said, Joseph, thou art a prophet, or to him he said. How many of you know that he is an executive trustee in the William Branham Association? This is not heresay's. I've got the writings on it. In the beginning of this little pamphlet that they published as The Voice of God, and we could say much about that. Some of it's on tape. Over here is Billy Paul, Joseph, Brother Sophman, Brother Robertson. Then through the book over here is Joseph by himself. These men are aged men. Over here in the back of the book Joseph is standing with the grandson, and with the children. See? Joshua over Jordan. And He just has started his own ministry. Though he is in the evangelist ministry of William Branham, he has his own ministry called The Voice of God, and he is the president of the organization. You understand what I'm saying? The third pull. Joseph. We're waiting for the son Joseph. See? And the typical thing is the bonds child, or the bonds woman, the baptist. The free child Joseph, of the free woman. The body. The spirit. And over here Joseph has started his ministry. Right here in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and he's taken up his daddy's ministry in the sense of cleaning the tapes, reproducing the tapes and doing all these things. See? The first and the latter part. The first part Billy Paul, Brother Branham. The last part, Joe. The move of God in the earth. See? Something is taking place. That's why the coat of many colors. That's why we spoke of it. Something is taking place. Nobody can stop it. Nobody can change it. Somebody'd say, I don't believe it. I didn't hear it good. I don't understand it. It can't be like that. That don't amount to a hill of beans. What's that got to do with God. The Bible said can your unbelief make His faith of none effect. Why, it wouldn't matter if you went like a, you know, an ostrich, and stuck your head in the dirt. The world would still go on, still go on. See, I'm just saying one thing, folks. Is this thing is still going on and God is still doing something, and this has to do with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, members in particular, and the dirty garments being taken away. Because it is a Joshua on the inside of those garments, and the recognition and understanding of the light of the gospel with the brightness of His coming and the light as to face to face. It will eradicate the shadows and do away with the glass darkly, even your intellectual reasoning, as to that that Adam's mind fell into through the tree of knowledge, and the veil is being rent, and the sun is melting the snow, and the undergrowth is beginning to be seen, and Joshua coming out of the dirty garments through the change, even Jesus appearing in another form, even Thessalonians as to being like Him when He appears. The heavenly creature. This tabernacle being dissolved with the brightness of His coming. The image of the perversion, even Lucifer, the beast. And then the brightness of the revealed, the unveiling of this light, even Him, Himself, this great wonderful, wisdom of understanding, in that light to God is understanding. So, the great light is appearing. He's appearing suddenly within you, as in His temple to be glorified in you that the world may come and kneel at your feet and know that you are His body, and members, and image, as to what you'll be changed to, as to when they see you, and you outshine the noonday sun. And you set as on the throne and they kneel at your feet and know that you are the one and the only God unto all people. Lot we could say. Hundreds and thousands of things without exaggeration, and the Lord knows that's the truth. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Ghost, I could say hundreds and thousands of things to you concerning this great thing in the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. But these few things, and I;ve kept you a little longer than I ordinarily would keep you, but this has a special significance. That's why I'm doing it. Otherwise I'd have let you go, because I lost some of the audience a long time ago. They are little babies, and they don't understand. They've looked right at me as to try to make me think that they was right with me and understood, and they wanted to go a long time ago. They're completely lost. That's why two or three of them had to go out. But it's okay. God loves you. There'll be some milk. You hold on. You'll get to clap your hands, and you'll feel the spirit, and everything will come along. You'll get it, and everything will be alright. All right. So then, this is for the Sonship. Scientist leads the world. They are the brilliant ones. They are the great ones. And they're the ones that have to look out for the children. All the children wants is the frigadaire, the refrigerator with the mild and the honey, and the ice cream. That's all they care about. They could care less about what scientist do to make it. All right. So, let's stand together if you will. You that can receive it, Jesus said, receive it, for no one can receive anything save it be given him of God. And there are hundreds of evangelist, brethren, big figures on television that multiplied thousands, and tens of thousands of people are following and making a fuss over. And millions of dollars are coming in. Even to a hundred million dollars maybe a year. But I tell you in the name of the Lord. They don't understand and they've not got it. They are preaching the gospel and they do have a following and it's great and mighty. It's such a thrill to see their following, and to see all the great things, but they are just babies themselves. Just babies. But there is something for you. The seventy left Jesus, and Jesus said, Where is the multitude going? so to speak. Oh, they are leaving. He turned to twelve. He said, Will ye also go away? They could have said, Why no. We're the foundation, Lord. We're the foundation of this. We're the stones that was laid when they crossed Jordan as the proof that Joshua made it over, so the children could see it to read us like an epistle known and read of all men. We're the crown of the head. We're the stars of the woman. So, you that can receive it. You that can understand. You that have excelled. You that went up into the third heaven. Some of you are in the second heaven. The third heaven is the third mind. There is a first heaven that was given to man. It had to do with Canaan and garlic and onions. It had to do with Canaan. It has to do with man. Plow a field, plant a seed. Eat a banana or a cucumber. And that was heaven. No worries. No problems. They didn't know anything about all the world of mechanics, but then after the old stone age of scribbling and scribing on rocks and slates, even today they still call it the ledger slator or the slate of ledger, or the ledger that is a slate. The old stone age. You know, soon they came into the wilderness. They got out of Egypt. Remember they were in Canaan to start with. That's where the fall was from the garden. But they went down there and they got them a ruler. Even Joseph. And Joseph was raised up to such a place until there was no food without him, because during the time of the famine, I mean during the time of plenty, Joseph had been laying back. The rest of them had been splurging, frivolous, extravagant, but Joseph was conservative. He had come across a vision and a plan, and when this time came he become the head of the corner, this same Jesus that you have rejected. Peter said, this same has become the head of the corner. This is marvelous in the eyes of the Lord. All of the world's in mourning. But, like the song we wrote, The Lovely Pyramid Of Time, and when they got to the end they could not find the right thing. They could not make it fit together. If just wouldn't fit. Everybody tried. You know, they get on television, they say, I'm he. I'm he. I'm he. And somebody gets on the radio and say, Not him, but me. It's me. It's me. It's me. And as somebody said the other day. I believe it was Brother Cleveland that was telling me about a number of men over the telephone, that said, I'm he. I'm he. But you know, when He come, He went over by the well, and He said, Now, folks, or He said to the woman, Six, seven, said, He that you've got, that's not the right one. You've been passed from one to another, but that's not the right one. Said, But, I'll tell you something. Unless you believe that I'm He, ye shall die in your sins. Said, Because there's only one way out, and that's the way. And Jesus said, I'm the way. Said, Now, there's a way that seemeth right unto man. Every man's ways are right in his own eyes. That way seemeth right, but He said, I am the way. The truth. The life. No man cometh to the Father but by me. So then, if we would give Jesus, as the song say, His right place, He would make everything right. He would made everything right. It's called the Chief Cornerstone. Has to do with the same book that we wrote. Put a picture from Israel on the front of Spiritual Conquest. But I'm saying to you this morning, you that can hear my words, then you are my sheep. Jesus said that. And my sheep will follow me, and where I am there my sheep will be also. And my sheep will do what I tell them to do because Jesus said, I do always the things that please the Father, and you're bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, even the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, denying your ownself. Even to the casting down of imagination and every high thing that exhalteth itself against the knowledge of God bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ even as David saying, Father, to the intent of my heart, as a man after God's own heart. My ways don't please you but my heart is perfect before you. And what we're trying to do is redeem the body so the ways will please Him, for He has made the heart perfect by the sanctification of Calvary and sealed it to the redemption of the body, the purchased possession. So then, you're coming out from under tutors now. Coming to the Barmitzvah, the place appointed to the Father, to be no more children tossed about by every wind of doctrine. You're not doing that anymore. You are coming into Sonship, and the Son is in command. Command thou me concerning the works of my hands, He said. When you get into this place you can command God. Stop the sun. Stop the moon. Like the vision I had. Speak things out of existence. Speak them back into existence. See? Why is that? Paul said, children of the devil. Subtle. And they were blind. And Peter said, lying to the spirit and they yielded up the ghost. It was eternal judgment. So, you that do hear, you that do understand. The wicked shall not understand, now, remember. Good comes but the wicked will not understand. And the wicked shall not understand. There was a veil between them and Moses, and the Shechaniah. The wicked, even the body of Jesus, the veil between God, who is the spirit of Shechaniah, and the people that sought that light. It had to be rent. It had to be rent. You are the members of a God body. I'm speaking to the God body now. You say I don't believe. I don't see. I don't understand. I'm not talking to you only in the sense that what I say to one I say to all. I say it to you in the sense that you have opportunity. Let whosoever will come, but not in the sense that ye are, because it's the foreordination of God. So ye are not that body, but ye that are the members of that God body, remember what I'm telling you. There is but one God. Just one God, and you are that God. And the world is waiting for you. And the world is waiting to hear from you, and the world is waiting for you to control the sun, and the moon, and the stars. Why did the Lord speak through a donkey? Why did he speak as through a dove at the baptism? Why did he speak in a burning bush? Why did He let Joshua command the sun, the moon, the stars? Why did He do that? Because He wanted you to know that God was in man, and that every measure of God through the fullness is in men. Jesus the full measure, distributing that, as to resurrecting, giving unto man measures that man can receive, as unto each man his measure, dealing unto every man a measure, giving gifts unto men. Ye are the members of that great body. He is the head. You are the wife. Ye are one. Ye are heirs and joint heirs together. Whatever He is so are you in Him. And the world is waiting for you. All of creation is wanting to get out from under the regime and power of Lucifer, and the sons of the devil which are in government. Presidents, Senators, Kings, Queens, Professors. Out from under the schooling of the devil, the old tree of knowledge. They are wanting to get out from under it. And they are waiting for the sons of God to rise up and take the kingdom. The Christ that God in His members, which is His Christ, may possess it forever and ever. Revelation eleven, fifteen; and He sounded. And He sounded and the mysteries were finished, and the people understood. And it was no more wilderness. There was no more mystery, and they did understand. And they did understand. They did. Only them to whom it is given for no man can receive it, save it be given from of God. And they did realize that something was happening, and they did realize they were in heaven, and they did realize that there was a body of Almighty God, and they did realize that all things are theirs, and that they are the commander even of the life that prompts him to say and to do. I want to sing this little chorus together with you. Let's sing this chorus first. Give me another key, Frank. (Brother Pike leads in singing "The Unveiled Face".) Give me a little trebble, Chuck. (Continues singing.) Glory to Glory. (Sings more.) Sing this now. (Sings "Let Thy Will Be Done, Lord".) Let's sing this. Give me another key, Frank. (Leads in singing "Time Shall Be No More".)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christs Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord