The End Of The Serpent Seed

It's good to be back in the house of the Lord and feel His wonderful presence. I notice some of the things that we spoke of they're still writing articles in the paper about it. It's amazing how God does in so many things we speak about. This little article says, Banks hope to stamp out paying by check. You remember what we said about the number, and how that antichrist would make craft to prosper? The house association and ACHA plans promotions urging consumers to pay bills electronically and not spend money for a stamped envelope and check which could total up to fifty-five cant. So sounds like it's coming right down the line getting everything just like we said. So it goes on, this little article goes on to say that bankers for years have been trying to break the USA's check writing habit, because it costs them ten to fifteen cents to process one, as opposed to a nickel for an electronic transaction. Frequent billers like utility and insurance companies are willing to pay banks for the service, because it costs half the twelve to twenty-five cent cost of mailing and processing bills. And of course, we could go on reading this but I just drop in a little bit of it ever once in awhile to kind of let you know that things are going along as we said, and you can always get the articles. You can always find the articles if you'd like to find them. Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, that's the satellite telescope that they have set up, up in the heavens somewhere. Hubble hitches a headache. More trouble from Hubble threatens to dampen hopes and hypes for the space telescope after five days in orbit. They've discovered that Hubble has a problem. 1.5 billion, that's what the telescope cost, and I'll skip along here. Mr. Goddard says, speaks about a problem. It's suppose to relay data to earth. It's a jammed antenna, and it would cut off about seventy-five percent capacity. Strangely enough this thing that's to be repaired in June of 1993 is falling again right on a date that we spoke of. Have to pull it out and won't do anything until 1993. Now they suppose, you know, they're going to study some of clusters of stars in our milky way, and they suppose that they will be able to see, it's about a fifteen year mission to study stars and they are supposing that they will be able to see 14 billion light years away. And of course it's not coming in until'93. It's held up. Whereas, you probably don't understand what I'm saying, and my wife, when we discussed this she said, Well, I understand some of it. We got into light, light years, and 14 billion years away, and I talked a little bit about it, what we understood as to God and what He was doing and what it had to do with. And some of the things I think got over Betty's head, but otherwise she understood fairly well. I noticed another little thing that was kind of phenomenal to me, and that is that up in Massachusetts, I believe it is, dating way back in to the years that, was it Mary Sawyer's little lamb was stolen. Anyway, Mary had a little lamb, remember? And sure enough history says Mary did have a little lamb and off to school she went and it went with her. So, the story, it's not just a fairy tale about it, or some kind of a little rhyme, but it actually happened, and they still have a statute of the little lamb over in Massachusetts that was made years later. Somebody had picked up a coupe of thoughts and made a couple of lines, I believe it was to form a rhyme of Mary Had A Little Lamb. And years later, I believe there was a man years later, or a woman, she got a hold of it, or vice versa, whatever, and they made it into a poem. Then later in raising money for a church this thing kind of become famous in that Mary was trying to do it. But as a little girl she took the lamb to school with her unawares. She didn't know it was with her, but she took it with her. It followed her to school one day and she hid it up under her desk so the teacher couldn't see it. They said she actually had it hid, but when they called for her to come up front, the little lamb he just come right up with her. And of course, they took him out and put him in a shed and the sad fate, of course, was that later a cow gored the little lamb to death and killed it. And I think he wound up in his fleece as a couple of pairs of stockings, was it? Which later some of these things were wrapped as gifts and whatever and some of the threads that came from the stockings; a real touching little story. Of course they were planning to build another one and replace this one, and put this lamb that they had made, they were planning to put it in the archives for a keepsake and somebody came along and stole it, and they can't figure out why. Nobody can learn where it went to, or who stole it, or whatever. But I thought it was really symbolic. The little story is symbolic anyway, and I thought it was real symbolic in that about the time we spoke of a rapture, or a translation and all of those things, that involved about four Marys, or five Marys at the time that Mary's little lamb got stolen. And the thing, of course, the Lord let little things happen like that to be symbolic as to Mary, the divine conception of the true Lamb of God, and God giving a little nursery rhyme as he does many other things like the Little Glass Slipper and other things as to project, or to tell about this thing. And of course, the historic things as to having this little statute, and then about this time Mary's lamb goes away. So I thought about that. You know the church being the body of that Lamb, members in particular, and being Mary's little lamb then all of a sudden Mary's little lamb comes up missing and they can't find out where it's at. So it's phenomenal how that little things happen. I was also thinking about something I mentioned to the brethren that seems to be highly allegoric and Paul spoke of some things in his day where he said, And these things being an allegory, or we call them types and shadows of things to come. You know, you see the sun shining and the sun strikes you, like for instance, if I'm walking down the road the sun strikes me from behind and my shadow is out in front of me, and I am looking in the darkness, and I'm looking at the shadow, and there has to be something, kind of like the vision we had in Miami. As a matter-of- fact, we were right there in Fort Lauderdale, right at Miami when we went down on the strip, brought it back to my memory. But you know, you are looking right at the shadow and something has to happen to cause you to turn around. And then, of course, when you turn around you are looking right straight into the light. You are not looking into the darkness anymore, it,s gone. And of course, if you keep on walking about high noon then the sun will bring the shadow back of you. See, you kind of pass upon, as we say, as to Calvary. A darkness on one side, as to as David said, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. And this world being a valley, and of course we see clouds between earth and heaven as to the day star, which is our sunlight. Spiritually speaking we walk through a valley of this world and God is setting within the heavenly realms and the shadows of sin, as to death, Calvary falls across our path. For the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And man is under the penalty of death and has been, and Paul said we have the sentence of death within us. That is to say, within my body there dwelleth no good thing, and he spoke of the eradication of sin, as to taking away what he called the body of this death. And so it's gone by Calvary. But anyway, I just thought, you know, the shadows, the types and the shadows, and the shadow of Satan falling over us as to death, and the fallen angles between the day star, as to what we call God, and the recipients of the earth. So, God prepares a table before me in the, while I'm in the presence of the shadow of death and He makes my enemies to be at peace with me. He leads me into the green pastures and beside the still waters and therefore I fear no evil from the shadow of death, because His rod and His staff, which means the Word and the Spirit comforts me, as to Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Jesus, my atonement as to consolation, the Holy Ghost resurrected, as to give me life and to be my comforter. Well, anyway, I was just saying that it is said of Sarah and Abraham they are symbolic, and when it speaks of Sarah as a woman it speaks of her as being, allegorically, a type of New Jerusalem, and it's called the mother of us all, which is of course the church; the lively stones of the church that's built up into a pyramid ascension toward the capstone, which is Jesus Christ, which is the spirit being revealed in the end time as the revelation. In the beginning, as Brother Branham says, we find over here he called his ministry the Spoken Word. That is, in the beginning was the spoken Word, and then in the end over here we speak of a revelation. And in the end it's called the revealed Word, or the Revelation, John said, of Jesus Christ, as to a beginning and an end. But anyway, as to these allegoric things it's really phenomenal, because he referred to a bonds maid as being typical of Old Jerusalem which now is. That is they're in existence and is in bondage with her children. Said, And this answers to Mount Sinai, which now is, and is in bondage with her children. That is, to say to the law, or we say, as to the world, they are in bondage to the beggarly elements of the world, as to the love of the world, the love of the flesh and all these things of the world. They love these things in that the love of the world is in there. And you've got the mind of the bonds child, which is the mind of Lucifer, the mind of death for he savors the things that be of the flesh. But if you've got the mind of Christ then you've got the mind of God, which is life and it is the thoughts of heaven and you meditate in His laws day and night. And all of these things are from heaven that you are interested in, and you are they that dwell in heaven and you meditate in His laws day and night, and being in heaven you rejoice forever more. So I look at things everyday of my life and I see so many outstanding allegoric things, types and shadows. In doing that it really moves my heart, and it thrills my heart to know that I can see those heavenly things. Sometimes we make mention of those things. Let's read from chapter 10 St. John if you've got your Bibles. I appreciate your being here this morning. Glad to have you with us. Always glad to see Gerald from over in his area from the other side of Athens, and I saw Bonnie out here also. She's here today. Is that a little one there? Is that your little one. My she's so pretty. All right. So we're glad to have her, too. Of course they're extra special. Let's give the Lord a hand, can we? There are parents in the world, and then there are parents that are grand. And of course, it's good to be a grand parent. Let's give the Lord a hand! All right. Reading from Chapter 10, it says, Verily, verily I say unto you (Reads the entire chapter.) Now, reading just a little farther, it says, Now a certain man was sick ( reads on through verse four.) Now that might sound a little strange, because he did die as we say, and yet he did not. (Reads on verses 5 through 26.) Now you know Jesus said things that were so parabolic and so staggering until it was hard for people to understand. Now it is not hard for me to understand, of course it should not be hard for you to understand, because we're children of light and we understand life, but the world doesn't understand because they are children of darkness. And Jesus would say, I am the resurrection, though he was dead yet shall he live, and he that believeth in me he shall never die. And then He'd say, you know, this sickness is not unto death, and of course, you find in the writings of John where he spoke of a sin unto death. And then he said, this sin is not unto death. He spoke of that where it was not unto death, and that of course was baffling, you know, unless you understand what He was saying. It says, And at the coming of the Lord every eye shall see Him and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess. And then it said, And the wicked shall not see when good cometh, and then again you get baffled unless you can understand what the Lord Jesus is saying. But anyway, He was saying here, what He was actually saying to her is that Lazarus sleepeth. Or He was saying to His disciples, Lazarus sleepeth. And that is Lazarus did not die as a sinner. This is not unto death, as He said unto John. This sin is not unto death, because there is only one death and that's the Lake of Fire. And this sickness is not unto death as to being cut off and cast into the Lake of Fire. It's a sleep. It is a death, you know, as you term it in your terminology and He said, Lazarus is dead. But really, when you understand spiritual things he said, This is not death. And he said, I go to awake Lazarus, which is becoming, because you can awake a person. If a person is not dead you can awake them. I mean, we know that if a person sleeps we can awake them. Which means that if there is a person out in the grave if he is not dead, if he just sleeps, we can awake him. We can go out there and call to him and he will awake, because he is not dead. And on many occasions the men of God, or the people of God went by and they would call to one that was asleep, and of course, he would come forth. And even as Dorcus, that was so beloved by the sisters, Peter realized that she wasn't dead and he woke her up. And as the little child that had no sin, Jesus just went by and awoke the little child. And this is what Paul is trying to tell us in his writings as to the mystery. I hope I can just talk to you a little bit this morning. But anyway, you know, he said, Behold I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. He never referred to anything there as death. He said, We shall not all sleep. And Jesus will come to awaken us if we do sleep. See, everyone that sleeps he will awaken us just like He did Lazarus. He'll come buy and the Bible said everyone that's in the grave that shall hear His voice shall come forth. He shall awaken us and we will awake and there'll come a day when he will actually bring the wicked dead out of the grave to stand for judgment. But this doesn't happen until after the thousand years millennium reign, but before that Jesus awakes those that sleep in Him. So if you go to sleep in the Lord you really don't have to worry. And of course, Thomas, he had this in mind to some extent as to whatever he might have understood. Now, there is a good possibility that Thomas did not understand what I'm telling you. Even though he walked with the Lord Jesus, but the thing is it's your day to understand it. It's your time to understand it. And like Jesus said when He went away, he said, Now. He said, These things that I do shall ye do, He said and greater things because I go to the Father. Or that is He said, I am going to make these things possible so that you can do these things. I'm going away. The atoning of blood will make all this possible. And then of course, we get baffled because we say, My God! Nobody is ever going to do anything greater than Jesus. But a lot of times we don't think right, and a lot of times we don't understand right. For instance, where did Jesus ever open up the sea. And yet Moses did it before he ever got there. And where did Jesus ever look up at the sun and tell it to stand still, and yet a man did it before He ever got there. And where did someone ever say, Open up, as to the earth and people just fell right straight down into the pit. That is, in Jesus' day, or did Jesus do that, or was it with Moses back in the days of the law. See, when you stop an think, somebody says, My God! They did greater things than Jesus did even back there. Well, no they did not, because again we have to stop and remember that Jesus stopped the widow of Nain as he went out of the city and raised her boy from the dead right out of the coffin. And that He went to Lazarus when Lazarus supposedly was already corrupt, as to the deterioration and brought him forth out of the cave, out of the grave. See, which they did not do, nor did anybody else do. So He proved Himself infallibly to be the Messiah. Some of you have been down to the grave, and been down into the cave where Lazarus lay. And you've been to Bethany where He talked with Mary and Martha who was the friend of Jesus. See, but here it is. The brother is dead, and they are bereaved, and Jesus said, Don't cry. And yet He was telling them not to cry though the Scriptures doesn't give it like that. You know, everything is going to be all right, but yet; He Himself cried. The Bible said when he stood before the tomb, He so loved Lazarus, and of course, He loved Mary and Martha, it grieved Him. See, the Holy Spirit is touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And there their loved one was gone and it grieved Jesus because they were bereaved of their brother. And it grieved Jesus and he just, you know, tears no doubt began to twinkle out of the Master's eye and drop down on His cheek. And then He said, It's going to be all right. Everything is going to be all right. I'm just going to wake Lazarus up. I'm just going to say, Lazarus, it's time to get up. You know, it's morning, Lazarus. You've been asleep through the night, but now it's morning. I'm the Day Star, and I'm here now, and it's morning, and I'm calling to you. It's time to wake up. And of course, just like that Lazarus awoke and came. And right now, see, as the morning star dawns we have to really, really understand and remember if it happens to dawn everybody will wake up. Because in the morning they'll wake up. Only the dead will not wake up. But just as quick as the morning star comes, like He said, And in the morning I will despise, or hate, thine image. So then, Calvary is the morning. It's the dawning of the morning. It's the coming of the day star. It's the rent veil, and the light breaks forth, as to say that which is the ark of the covenant on the inside, or the cherubs, as to the curtains, are awake and the High Priest no longer is just going in there, but they that love the Lord have access now to go into the holies or holies, boldly before the throne. Not boldly, as arrogancy, not boldly as going demanding, but boldly in that there is no relinquishing of the spirit, or there is no drawing back (Begin tape one, side two.)..saying Lord thou hast perfected me forever. Lord, thou hast made me without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. Lord, you said I've kept myself by your grace and the evil one has never touched me at any time. So I come with this confidence, as to boldness, knowing that thou hearest me always. What I have ask of thee then thou hast given it unto me. So then, you rejoice in the Lord, and you say, As to my heart's desire it shall come to pass that even before I ask ye shall answer, for you've already answered in Calvary and this was given to me in Christ before the world ever was, brought to light at Calvary, as to the rent veil and preached to us down through the church ages that we might comprehend the heights, the depths, the width and the length. So then, God, it's all mine. Having given me all things that pertain unto life, I just desire and I start enjoying things. You know, God  It's like this. God desires and thus it comes forth. Everything emanates from God. God just desires that there be a world, He desires that there be a man, whatever it is, and if He releases His desire then everything emanates, and all of a sudden He becomes as what we call the spoken word, and God says, Let there be, and there is. Let there be light, there is. Let there be a man and a woman, and there is. Let there be a beautiful earth, and let there be an ocean, and let all the species of the earth and the waters, see, let them be and there is. Stars, moon, whatever it is. Let there be light. So God wants you and I to be one with Him like Jesus. See, to be one with God that when we desire it comes forth. And the Bible said whatever you decree in your heart, don't doubt, just believe, it will come to pass. And he said, as to the spoken word, He said whatever you say, believe it, don't doubt, you can have whatever you say, because we are gods. And Jesus said, Ye are gods. Therefore if ye be gods then ye have the desire of your heart, because what a god is, a god has the desire of his heart. He doesn't worry about dying, he doesn't worry about poverty. He isn't worried about getting sick. He isn't worried about those kind of things, because he is a god. See, those things are all together beside the point. Why should he worry about something that hath no power over him? Jesus said concerning these things, as to you and I, He said, Behold I give unto you power over all the powers of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. So then, we have power over death, because death is an enemy, the last one to be conquered. That is to say, after the millennium death having to do with the separation of the spirit from God, as to the Lake of Fire, there won't be any more, as to you and I, the threat of the Lake of Fire or anything else. Hell will be gone. There will be no more threat of Hell. Death will be taken into bondage. There will be no more threat of death, and Satan will be bound and there will be no more threat of Lucifer. So, no more threat of insanity, no more threat of problems with heart attacks, and all these kind of things, and of something happening to your little ones, or to your loved ones. See? You won't be oppressed in mind, never again, no more. You'll be altogether free from the encumbrance of life. So, we find that we are gods. Someone says, Well, now, Brother Pike, I believe what you are preaching. I believe it. I believe it. And I'm looking forward to it, because I believe it. And some of these days, one of these day, after awhile, but see, it's not like that. That's not what I'm preaching. You are not my subject because you don't hear my voice. See, my sheep know my voice and a stranger they will not follow. And the trumpet is giving an uncertain sound to you and you are not able to prepare yourself to the battle because when good comes you can't see. The eyes of your understanding has ben darkened by the foolishness of the lust of the flesh and the gullible desires of the world and you haven't made that crossing, you know, over the Jordan. So you are still under the constraint of Calvary, as to death, because Calvary is the Jordan. All right. Now. If you understand what I'm saying, I'm saying, Now, beloved, are ye the Sons of God. It doeth not yet appear, as to the change of your body as to what you look like, but what has that got to do with it. The body of this death is gone by Calvary. He was crucified. He became my sin that I might become His righteous body, my body, the body of this death in sin to be smitten of God, that God might be abased in the sense of destroying the body and the image of the bastard child, that of death. See, and now I am no longer that body. I am buried with Him in baptism so then I am risen with Him in the likeness of the resurrection and though I once was dead; yet I'm alive forever more now. And I am now made a god. I am now made a god. See, and as I say, I am not waiting to be made a god. I am not looking forward to becoming a god. I am already a god. You are already a god. You know, God has already made you a god. Somebody said, Oh, my God, my God, my God! I'd never think that. I'd never say that. Well, I say, Brother Taylor, I want to give you a million dollars. So I give him a million dollars. I say, Shhhhh. Don't tell nobody. Don't let nobody see it and one of these days I'll let you pull it out and let them see it, but right now  So, Frank, he goes around, you know, I say, Now Frank you're a millionaire. Remember you can testify to being a millionaire. And then Frank says, But if they don't see my million dollars they'll think I'm a pauper. Don't matter but you've got a million dollars what's that got to do with what they are looking at, Brother Taylor? You know, any time you can buy you a tuxedo, you can buy you a fine automobile, whatever you want. How many of you understand what I'm saying? See, Jesus said, Let's don't make it known right now. Said, It'll just create a complication. So I'm not going to make it known right now. But at the same time should Brother Taylor say, My God! My God! I'd be lying. I'd be blaspheming if I told anybody I was a millionaire. Is he a millionaire? The definition is, if you've got a million dollars you're a millionaire. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. So then, we say that we are now, beloved, the Sons of God. Am I going to be ashamed? I say, Brother Taylor, I'm a Son of God. And Brother Taylor would say, Well, you sure don't look like one. I say, What's that got to do with it. You know, besides that, have you ever seen a Son of God outside of me, anyway? Unless it was another human being? See, and all of them look like human beings. All right. So then, we say, Now, beloved, are we the Sons of God. Somebody said, Well, so what? Six of one and half a dozen of another sons of God, let's go on. No. No. That ain't the way it is. See, you don't hear my voice. Now, somebody would say, Now, Brother Pike, am I really a of God? Yes, of course. You know, if you are a Son of God, then you are a god because gods begat gods, as we have said in the past. So then, you are a god. Now, couldn't you just as, So what? Put it in the bag and let's go on. You wouldn't do that. You'd say, Now, this is where we're going to stay, right here. We don't want to go forward. We don't want to go backward. We don't want to do anything. This is the part I like better than anything, is I'm a god. Now, if there is anything better that you can get to be then you can go on to that, or you can go back, or you can go wherever you want to. I'll just stay right here. Let's give the Lord another hand! All right. So, it's not a king, it's not a president, it's not a queen. It's a god. And not only a god, but one with the Father, who is the God of God's and the King of Kings, as to membership; members in particular, the great God body, the eternal God body. And not only to the extent that we say, Well, praise God, you know, we're going to be around where He's at, but to the extent that the Bible said, He that overcometh shall sit down in the throne with me, even as I have overcome and set down in the Throne with my Father he that overcometh shall sit down in the Throne with Me. So, if we're going to do any ruling from a Throne we'll just do it from the Throne of Thrones with the God of Gods and the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. Let's give the Lord another hand. All right. So, Sarah, symbolic of the New Jerusalem, you being the lively stones members in particular, other foundations can no man lay except this which christ laid as He chose the twelve foundations, which was the apostolic leaders. And when we see New Jerusalem coming down, then we find out right away that that's the foundations. God won't accept anymore as to the foundations of repenting of your sins, being baptized in Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. And this, of course, brings us to the fact that we are lively stones built upon these foundations up into a holy priesthood toward this great capstone of the all seeing eye of Him that will tell us all things when He comes. So then, we find that other foundations can't be laid, and that when we get a warning from the chief apostle, as to the overseer of the Gentile church saying the Lord gives the warning, Be careful how you build upon this foundation, for is any man build hay and stubble the work, remember, is going to be tried, and that as if by fire, because God is a consuming fire and if it isn't the right thing then all of his labor is going to be burned. And if he make it in it will be as if by fire. That is one fiery trial right after another, one heartache right after another, one disappointment right after another, one chastising right after another. And then he doesn't bring any works to perfection, in that the Bible said we are to go on to a full reward, or a full measure, or that a man is rewarded according to his labor. So then, we see first heaven, second heaven, third heaven. We see thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold, and the Bible said concerning the parable, and this one brought forth thirty-fold, and this one brought forth sixty-fold. But, anyway, when we see the great challenge that God has given us, and we see the great opportunity that we can have, and like in school or college you pick out your subject, you study for whatever you want to be. And when you come out, if you pass the exams and whatever, then that's what you are in life. All right. So then, we see Jesus said, Martha, no need to weep. Mary, no need to cry. He said, Your brother, why, he'll rise again. We know that he will rise again in the resurrection. Jesus said, Martha, I'm the resurrection. I am the resurrection. And the woman said, When Messiah cometh we know that He will tell us all things. Jesus said, I am He. I am He. I am the resurrection. I'm the truth. I'm the life. How could He do that? How could Jesus say that? I could say, Jesus, you're just a man. You're a man like I'm a man. And He would say, Yes, the Son of Man. I'd say, But, you're a man just like I'm a man, because you told Thomas to feel of your flesh and to feel of your bones. Said, A spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have. But in John, the forth chapter, He said, My Father is a spirit, and He differentiated between the Son and the Father. So then, I could say, Well, you're a man just like I'm a man. I could feel of your hands and tell. See, but there was one thing about Jesus and that is; though He was flesh, He was the Word made flesh. And the Bible said, In the beginning was God, the eternal spirit, as to the Word. Before the beginning was God the eternal spirit as the great light, but in the beginning, in that you and I have a beginning, in the beginning was when He said, Let there be and natural things came into existence. So, in the beginning, in the beginning as Genesis, which means beginning, in the beginning then a man came forth. But there was a Word that came forth. See? And that Word was God that was made flesh. So then, who are we today? Jesus said, Who do men say that I am? And He said unto Peter, Simon Barjonah, and He said unto James and John, Son's of Thunder. And He said, Who do men say that I am? So I said that to say this: Who are you today? Who am I today? Somebody would say, Well, this is Franklin Taylor. I'd say, Well, I beg your pardon. I'd say Franklin deceased a number of years back. Say, Well, how do you know? I'd say, Well, I buried him. Let's give the Lord a hand. Somebody said, You don't know. I was there at the funeral. I do know. And somebody said, Well, you know, you understand, Brother Pike, we say these things, but you know, it's just a little saying, you know. It's not a little saying. He died. He was buried. No little saying at all. If you dig him up it won't be good. See, so he's dead. Watch somebody that has a fuss or a feud with somebody else, you know, they've done dug up somebody, and watch the stink. See, so he's dead. He's buried. Now, someone out yonder in the world say, Well, I know him. He's Franklin Taylor. Well, that's okay. That's okay. Don't bother with them, that's okay. See, they're having strong delusions, and they're see lying vanities. And God is sending them strong delusions so that they can believe a lie and be damned. See, but if he ws Franklin Taylor then I would say, Franklin Taylor, it is appointed unto you once to die, and after that the judgment. But I can't do that, see because, the Bible tells me as a Son of God, and you as a Son of God, that we are to know no man after the flesh. So I don't know him after the flesh. And being in heaven I see him as an angelic being, for the Bible said he's no longer in the world. He's no longer in the flesh. He died and his spirit went back to God at death and now he is rejoicing forever more in heaven. He dwells in heaven, and heaven is God's Throne. So he has overcome to set down in the Throne with God now to overcome to eat of the hidden manna, if he holds fast to that overcoming, as to believing, studying, growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord he will eat this hidden manna as to the revealed revelation, as to tell who he is, where he's at, and what has happened to him. Now, he that overcometh I will give to him to eat of the hidden manna. They said, Jesus, you're beside yourself. You need to eat. He said, I have food, or manna, to eat that you know not of. And as to the manna that was in the wilderness when it come down to Moses and they tried to hold it over and it bred worms, know that is to say, Worms, I will help thee, thy worm Jacob, or you get out of the spiritual word of the manna in that Jesus said, I am that manna that came down from heaven. I'm the manna. I'm the resurrection. I am that manna that your fathers ate in the wilderness, and lived. But if you try to do it another way, then you get into your own body, your own mind, as the worm Jacob. Your own mind gets into it which is a Satanic mind of Lucifer that got into Adam and Eve at the fall, and that's the old snake, the old worm, the old dragon. So thus you become the dragon's body as a generation of vipers. See, like we say concerning Brother Branham. Look at Brother Branham, for instance. Here is Brother Branham a great mighty prophet of God, here he is sent in this time and he comes to do a great mighty work in the end time. Now, at this point Brother Branham's ministry is over. Now, I say, Can I say, can you say that Brother Branham's ministry is over? Someone would say, Well, of course. Well, if that be true, then I say Paul, the apostle's ministry is over. John's ministry is over. It's all in the past. See? But you can't do that, because they are the ministry. The are the Word that's made flesh to the measure of His body. It is God made flesh. He is the resurrection. That's why He could say I'm the resurrection and the life. I am He, because He was the Word made flesh. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, it's for sure that we can't do that. Well, if we can't do that then our overseer mislead us, because him being our example, he said, It's no longer I that liveth, but Christ that liveth within me and the life I now live I live by the Son of God. He said, And they glorified God within me. They loved me so much they would have plucked out their eyes for me. And he said, And besides that I'm bone of His bone and I'm flesh of His flesh. It's not be living but him. And it's not me speaking but Him, for I am a member of His body in particular He said. And I've been caught up to the third heaven, whether in my body, or out of my body I don't know. He didn't use the terms "I" to conceal things to keep it away from the flesh. He said, I knew of a man. See, it's like Jesus here. They said, Tell us. Don't keep speaking parabolically, and don't keep saying these things. You know, when Jesus talked to His disciples like in secret, they said, Why do you speak to these people in parables seeing that they understand not what you say. He said, Well, it's not given to them to know the mysteries of the Word. To you it's given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom, He said. Having eyes they see, and yet they don't see. They see not. Having ears they hear and yet they don't hear. They hear not, in that they don't hear what the spirit is saying to the churches. So they said, Tell us for sure. Don't, don't toy with us now. Said, If you be the Christ tell us. Someone would say, Well, why didn't He tell them, and just let them know once and for all that He was the Christ? Didn't he want them to know it? He wanted you to know it. That's why He told the woman at the well, is because He saw that she was to be a believer, and He wanted her to know. He said, I am He. Otherwise He would speak parabolically and they would say, Are you the Christ? He said, Thou sayest. All the time He spoke parabolically. He would say things in such a way until they could not lay hold on His words. He would give a parabolic speech saying a certain man had a vineyard, and then they would perceive that He spake of them. And many things that we could relate to you, that we have in the past. See, how that he evasively spoke. Why did He do this? Because He knew that they would not believe that He was the Messiah if He told them, that they were only trying to force Him as to a point of charging Him with blasphemy so they could kill Him, for the very moment that He would have said that He was the Messiah they would have killed him, because He was dealing directly with the Jews. Someone one would say, Well, why did he tell the woman? Because He was not dealing with the Jew. It was a different situation altogether and it was now going to the Gentiles to bring a bride. See, He was dealing with a different thing altogether. So then, we find here that, as to a Jew by body and a Jew by spirit, it's altogether different. As a Jew by nationality we could still say that this is a Jew, but when we consider as to a Jew it wasn't the one that was within the Jewish radius as those that belong to the little clique, as we say. Like we've got a Brother here that's a Jew, and yet he is a true Jew, because he is a spiritual Jew, and he is a natural Jew and yet he is not a natural Jew, because there is no natural Jews. There is no such thing as a natural Jew. Paul made that very clear. There are Israelites, but not Jews. There is no such thing as a Jewish nation. They are not registered as a Jewish nation. No not even in Israel, because there is no such thing as a Jew except you and I which are spiritual Jews, the true Jew, or the Bible said, And the grace of God and the peace of God be upon the true Israel of God. So all that was types. All that was allegories. All of that was shadows of this that was to come. That was within the veil, this is out of the veil. And this is why a lot of times I refer back to Brother Branham. See, we say, even as to Brother Branham's ministry being finished, yes, Lazarus, he is dead. No. He's not dead. Yes, Brother Branham's ministry is finished. No. His ministry is not finished. And somebody said, You know, I don't understand what you say. Well, it's just like this. Brother Branham's ministry is finished as to the ones that followed his ministry, as to what he done, and now this coming Christmas would be about twenty-five years, whereas, when I saw the vision and it spoke of a man's death and it spoke of things that were to transpire, said, And it will take twenty- five years. All right. That's coming from a time that we predicted Brother Branham's death in the early part of sixty-five, then comes sixty-six, and Brother Branham is dead. It was very early in the morning according to the records that Brother Branham quit breathing and they put him on the machine, and then in the evening he expired. And about 4 o'clock in the morning as it was, and four as in the evening, and then about 5 o'clock they told them that he was passed on. Well, anyway, we could say a whole lot about that. We had spoke of his decease just before Christmas day and the Lord spared his wife and spared his daughter. Which that came to pass. God spared them, and at 5 o'clock in the evening, which was just before night set in as to bring forth Christmas Day, that he passed on. Now, all of those things are still allegoric. I look back on the life of Abraham, and I look back on the life of Elijah, and these different ones, and their lives are allegoric. Still I look back on the life of Brother Branham and many others and there are allegoric purposes in their life. All these things happen for my admonishing, or my admonition upon whom the ends of the world has come. Like for instance they say Brother Branham was Elijah, and you wonder where they get that. Like I ask the Lord, Where do they get that he's Elijah? Why do they say he's Malachi such and such? Somebody says, Why that's what he was, that's why we believe, and that's what we teach. Well, that's great. I mean, so complaint. That's your business, that's his life, that's his ministry. You know, I have no complaint, but there is a complaint from people that don't know and don't understand, because they wonder where you're going and where you're coming from, as the world says. And they don't understand it. Now, I'm kind of one of those people I have to know something, I have to understand it before I can believe it. The Bible says the righteous shall understand. So, there's no such thing as the righteous not understanding. The wicked shall not understand. Now, so I said, Lord, where do they get this? Why do they refer to this great man as Elijah? And then the Lord spoke to me. Said, When he was baptizing in the Ohio River, said, it comes from there. I thought, Well, I don't see that. I don't see how it could come by that. I don't know nothing about that. But it is true that in the Ohio River where we baptized Brother Cobb right there, same place. In the Ohio River a voice spoke, and the voice said, according to the record, that as John, the baptist, was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ you are sent to forerun, the terms are used, the second coming of the Lord. So then, they put that together, no doubt, and said John came in the spirit of Elijah. So if it says Brother Branham is coming now he's got to be in spirit of Elijah. This is the spirit of Elijah all over. And so from that they call him Elijah. But nevertheless, whatever it might be I see great mighty things in his life, and I believe the things. And I know of a surety that he was God's man. He was sent for that purpose, because the Lord let me understand the coming of the man, and his life and let me understand the decease of the man and when he was to leave. Like it could be said, you know, if you see Elijah when he leaves, then Elijah said you can have a double portion. And like I told Brother Branham one time, I said, You know, if there is anything I'd like to have it's a double portion of what you've got, Brother Branham. And of course, I did see him when he left. But the thing is, we're not disputing as to whether it Elijah or Elisha, because I confess to be a Son of God. And that's far beyond that of a prophet, because as John, he that is least is greater than John. For the Kingdom was after John, and you are the very body of Almighty God, which makes you the very ultimatum, even as the child of God, the Son of God. Not only that, do you desire to be a prophet, or do you desire to be a God. Jesus said you are a God. We're on this side of Calvary, so we're not going to dispute over whether we're Moses and Elijah, or whoever we are. But as Paul said, if you want to boast in some things, you know. Now, I said that it was real phenomenal that at this time the cave should be found. Whereas there's a good possibility that they'll publish the cave in Only Believe. That was the theme song of Brother Branham. And I have a letter down at the house, I spoke to you about it. It is a news letter, and a little old print out on the back of a picture that apparently is the cave. From all I can tell it looks like they've walked around the cave. It's a little walk around, some of you being familiar with it, and they look down, like this, and William, who is Rebecca and George's son, little William was standing right here and he took a picture at this angle. And they put a little footnote saying, What has William got himself into this time, and later we'll explain. So I suppose they mean by that that the coming out of this Only Believe, which they usually send us, probably will have an article on it. I can't say that it will, but it looks like that. Anyway, finding this cave at this time, twenty-five years later, as we say, Brother Branham, according to the records this is the way he said it, and I've checked; that's the way it is. He said, No man will ever find this cave. So as of a certainty twenty-five years, or there about, no man found it. Someone would say, Yes, but you found it, Brother Pike. No I didn't. I'll be honest with you. I went out there with some brethren, and Brother Bob Wells said, We'll find it. I'll show you where it's at, but we didn't find it. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and we were just like another pebble on the beach with all the rest. We didn't find it. But it is a true fact that I had made the statement that God would show me the cave. He said, I will show you the cave, go to Green's Mill. And I'd heard of Green's Mill but I didn't know much about it, and I went to one of the Brothers and I said, What is this about Green's Mill, and he told me. And related some things to me. He was familiar with some books, and I said, Well, the Lord has told me that if I go to Green's Mill He'll show me the cave. Well, about that time Brother Grady Pike come walking up behind us. We was coming down from BCR over here, and we were talking to Brother Gary and some of them. I don't remember who all was there, and Grady said  I guess he heard us talking about the cave, or whatever, as he walked up, but nobody had talked about it to him before. Nobody had told him before. He could not possibly have known about it before, because nothing had been said about it. But he walked up behind us, and he said, You know, I had a dream and in this dream, or night vision, he said, we went to Green's Mill and the cave was found. So of course, all of us went to Green's Mill, because Bobby said he'd show it to us, but when we got there we couldn't find it. So I just went my way, and I said, Well, Lord, you know, whatever you do it's okay with me. I know your voice. I'm your sheep and I know that You said You'd show me the cave, so I just dismissed it from my mind for awhile, and then I was praying and fasting, talking to the Lord, having to do with my meeting, and being wherever I was at, or where I was going, and the Lord spoke to me. And when He did he dealt with me about a Brother that I was to take with me, and nobody else. So I said, Well. So I went and got the Brother and we went on our way and of course, I took my wife. I took my daughter Susie, and I think Joseph. Some of them was the bus with me. (Begin tape two, side one.) And I took them with me but they remained in the motor home, in the bus. And as I told you before, when I got down to where Billy Paul fished I was told that I could find the cave from there, or that we could find the cave, or that is, the brother said he could find it. But when I got to this place when I went by myself, or that is, I and the Brother. When we got there something said to me, Don't stop here. Don't stop here. And I thought, Well, this is, you know, this is where the cave is suppose to be, because Brother Branham says that from the cave he can hear Billy Paul if he calls, in that if he should be out there fishing. And I thought, This is where the cave is. But,anyway, it said, Don't stop here. So, I just on past there, went on over the bridge, and went down to a pasture quite a ways over the hill there. And when I got to the pasture there was a gap that lead into the pasture and the Lord said to me, Said, Now, this is where you go. I went into the pasture, which sounds foolish to the natural mind. Whereas, the Bible said the things of God are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know it, because they are spiritually discerned. And for twenty-five years, as we would say, people have been looking for that and never found it. And even when we discovered it they were looking for it then. Because as we told you, after we left the cave walking along here, up at another level up here somebody says, Is that you, Brother Pike? I said, Yes, and I looked and it was Brother Ron Beebe and some people with him and a little boy by the name of Moses. And he said, What are you doing here? I just looked back and I said, What are you doing here? He said, Why we're looking for the cave. Well, Brother Mike and I we were just, we probably wasn't, what? Fifty feet from the cave? When Brother Branham said you could stand right on top of it and never see it, and no man would find it, so I never did tell them anything. I just said, You folks look tired. And they were. I said, Well, whenever you do whatever you're going to do, you know, if you'll come on down I've got my bus down here and I'll give you something to refresh you, which we did. And of course, I told you how that when they came down they gave me a book. And this book was a book that had just come out and it said, My Son Joseph, Thou Art A Prophet. And at the same time my son Joseph, I believe it was came in with a book, and this book was as to the light that I believe Sister Lambert took down at the river, or the lake where Bobby Marable used to let us baptize. And Brother Taylor, of course, is standing in the lake with me, as to a full image, and in this she took as to two or three shots, and in this it is a picture of dissipation, whereas it is from one light to another, and the image starts to dissipate and the last picture that she took it was completely dissipated. It was gone, there was no more image. And Joseph walked up and handed them a Day Star that Brother Stevie had printed and this was the picture on the front of it. Whereas, quite a lot of those went out at the meeting of Brother Branham. And I believe it was the following day along about that time that we went. I had worn the boots that Brother Bob Wells, I traded him some new boots. I had give him some new boots and in return he gave me these boots, because I had looked at his boots and his boots were kind of rugged. And I come to find out that these boots where the boots that he wore down into Houston, which has to do with our pilot right now, down into the Houston area to the place where the confrontation with Brother Branham took place and the light appeared above Brother Branham's head. George C. Lacey, out of Washington, being an expert on it said it actually was a phenomenal thing, because they did not see any lights around it anywhere after examination. So this thing as the proof of this light, and here was the boots that Brother Wells had worn going into that place down there where this light had been at that time. And here I had them on, and I was there in the creek with them when the Lord spoke to me. I didn't find the cave. He spoke to me to walk down the middle of the creek, which seemed erroneous to me, you know, but I got in there because the Lord said so. Like Peter said, We've toiled all night and we've taken nothing. The Lord said, That has nothing to do with it. Throw in the net. He caught so many that the nets were breaking, and the ships were sinking, but anyway I stopped right in the middle of the creek on my way down and I said, Right here, Brother, right here. The Lord is saying something to me here. And I turned to my right and the bank, the incline, as you very well know if you've been there, is a way, way up. And nothing but shrubs and whatever and jagged rocks, and I said, Right here. There was no sign of a cave, nothing. I said, Right here. He's telling me something is right here. I said, I feel like that cave is right here and I pointed up the hill right here, in this area right here. And there was no way to get up the bank, because it was so steep. So we walked on down the creek, or a good ways farther, and then we started up the bank. It was way up, had to hold to the little old shrubbery the best we could. Slipping and sliding, we kept going up at an angle, coming back to the area where we were, and finally when we got up on a little plateau that was still not up to the top, I looked and there wasn't a cave. And I thought, I know that Lord spoke to me. That cave is in this area. So we got a little closer, and a little closer, and suddenly I recognized that there was a cave that had been here and it had caved in, and two great rocks over the top reminded me of what Brother Branham said about in his vision about the Georgia boys uncapping that thing that he saw when nobody else could. But anyway, here was two big rocks like this and it made a cave and there was a little opening that didn't quit touch and it was filled with hard clay, and that had caved in and it had covered up the thing there. And I saw a rock laying right there at the mouth of the cave. So then, when I looked upon close examination I thought, This is the cave. This is the cave. Brother Branham always referred to it as his little cave. And I thought now this is the cave. And I didn't even know until yesterday the ultimatum of the cave, as to what had happened there. But there was what I believe to be the cave and I began to look at the surroundings, and it fit real good because Brother Branham said being there nobody could find it. And the cave mouth rather than out this way was turned with the bank, and run with the bank. And so much shrubbery this way and so high up and caught between the top and the bottom, and the mouth this way and shrubbery everywhere that there wasn't no way that we could have found it. It had to have been the act of God. And he said that you could be standing right on the top of it and couldn't see it, which our men did. They stood right on the top of it and couldn't see it and turned around and walked off and left it. And of course, David paul, I had told him what to look for and David had seen it and called them back and they found the cave. Whereas, I think Brother Taylor and Brother Lambert went out there and cleaned the cave out to a great degree and we have pictures of them; a number of people setting back in the cave. And one of the things Brother Branham said was, A little walk around to where you could walk around the top of it. It was there. And if you reach up you could grab a man by the leg, and you could just stand on the top, you couldn't see it. He could pull the bushes in with. Every bit of that fit, and I then I thought, Now, this I'm beginning to realize that this creek is a horse shoe. It makes a horse shoe and I'm on this side of it over here, and that I crossed this creek, I came here. Now, I'm on this side of the creek, but I'm still on this side of the horse shoe, as to the creek, and that if Brother Branham was standing here and Billy Paul from over here around the horse shoe, up along about here, if he called this would be straight across and Brother Branham could hear him without any problem. I thought, That fits perfectly. And then he said, as to another thing, when he came out of a cave, the cave, the little cave, he said that there was a tree laying out in the front of it, and he would set down on the tree. And sure enough I looked and from way up at the top of the bank this tree, apparently by wind, had up rooted, jumped off and laid down right in front of the cave. And of course, when I sent Brother Mike up to show Brother George Smith, the tree is almost rotten now, but it's still there. Of course, after about twenty-five years, you know, it would. But, anyway, all these things fit. And then another thing was that Brother Branham said that in this cave there was a pyramid that come down from the top. And of course, the picture shows it very clearly that comes out inside into a pyramid. And just numbers of other things that he spoke about the cave that all fit together, and Brother George Smith wanted to come down here and talk with me. And I just sent him some pictures of it and wrote him and told him about it, and he went out and Brother Mike showed him the cave. Brother Mike said, Well, I don't know whether I can find it or not, but he did. He found it. I tried to tell Brother Smith over the telephone, but he couldn't find it. He looked everywhere and he just couldn't find it. Finally he and his wife came to an embankment where he thought it was and him and Becky was going to try to climb up, and she couldn't climb. And he and his son climbed up, but they didn't really find it until I sent the Brother up. He ask me if I would come up, and I told him I couldn't at this time. Whereas, he really wanted to come down here, but he got so excited when he got the pictures and whatever that it was about time for Only Believe to come out and he had to stay to make the book, because he's working on a documentary of these things. I thought it was real phenomenal at this time that the cave should be found. And little William, I'd said it had to go with the resurrection of Brother Branham, and that last thing speaks about a third pull and little William was standing there by the cave. And of course, George Smith and Becky was out in Arizona, had taken the home there, and at one time had Brother Branham's office there at the tabernacle. And of course, they're putting out, as to his theme song, Only Believe, and they of course, were the ones that came to know about the cave, and have the publication. I thought that was phenomenal. But the thing that happen on Utica Pike when this great phenomenal thing took place as to the Ohio River and the voice, see, it relates back to this cave. And the cave, whereas, Brother Branham uses the terms that when the commission came as to the angel appearing to me that he was down in a little cabin and it had to do with the little cabin. Well, I just took it for granted, as we say, that he meant he was in some little old house, or hut, somewhere off in the woods, because he had considered going hunting and while him and his buddy made ready all of a sudden out on 8th Street, which is right behind the tabernacle --You've been there. I've been there. There's a house that Brother Branham used to live in. There's a maple tree there, and of course, it was primitive around there then. There was no city like, or whatever, but anyway, here he laid the cornerstone for the building. You remember the things we said about the cornerstone. We could go on because we could write a great commentary on just his life and these things God has revealed to us revelation wise. But anyway, here a noise came. He said there was a wind that was whirling in the top of the maple tree, or the tree. I think he said maple tree. And said with this a voice spoke and it shook him up so bad, or whatever it was it shook him up so bad, maybe a voice, or something, shook him up so bad that he told his wife, said, I'm going away by myself and said, I'm not coming back until I find out what all these strange things are about, and he went away. And when he refers to the angel coming and the light coming, he says he was down on his face praying and speaks of the Ranger's cabin which has rotted, deteriorated. It's gone, but in this thing, as to what has been stated according to Brother Branham's statement, he was at the cave when this angel appeared. He was not in that building, and he was in the cave and the light appeared to him, in this cave that we found and he was down on his face when this angel came. And of course, this fits perfectly with what I said that the cave had to do with and what I understood, not knowing that his commission had come from the cave. But he referred to the Ranger's cabin because it was close by and that kind of threw people off trail, as to have to get into a lot of explanation about the cave, and whatever. And one of the things that confirmed that the finding of the cave was right, as I told you not too long ago, is that Brother George Smith said, I recall that when I was with Brother Branham one day, we were going, I believe, into Green's Mill and as we went in,just at random Brother Branham said, George, said, that cave is right over here, this way. And they went on by, because there was no way find it just saying it was over here, because people had looked for years over there and couldn't find it. But I thought it was strange that his name was what it was, and he said, It's over here. Then marrying Brother Branham's daughter, and what he said about Isaac and the veil. And I thought, now here's Brother Branham, and these people have all these years looked at this great wonderful thing of God through the veil, having to do with the prophets, in that the law and the prophets until John, the law until John. And now all of a sudden there is a rent veil that's called the revelation. Getting everything ready for the church. Brother Branham spoke of the third pull and spoke of the thunders. I thought it was strange that the very day that we come in with the plane, here, or they come in with it that I kept seeing the sign saying, The days of the thunders. And supposedly as to the marriage and all these things, and Sunday morning, those things that we spoke of. And us going down, and we could say a lot of things about 3 or 4 o'clock, as I told Betty, that it had to do with David being caught up, having to do with the man child. And sure enough about that time something happened. Brother Ron was down there, the pilot from out of Houston that relates back to that light. You know, God does strange things like we spoke of coming on down to the year of 66 and Brother Branham just before Christmas Day passing away. And like Betty, she said, I can't understand, said here there's some things happening. Like for instance, we bought a ship, allegorically speaking, and the ship, the Marturian, which has to do with the witnesses, we find out it's the sister ship to John Wayne's ship called the Blue Goose. As a matter-of-fact, if you go up to Winder you'll see a picture of him, and he says, John goes where the Blue Goose goes. They have a picture of him there where he's on board. But anyway, then we find out that we buy a plane, that is a commander, and of course, like this morning I just picked up a publication that came out in the last few days, of planes, and here is a jet commander the same model, the same plane, and it was the plane that was owned by John Wayne. Got the name down there on it. And then of course, when the man came out from the Atlanta Constitution to interview us he said, This is strange. Said, I just got through interviewing John Wayne. And everything see, like John Wayne was chosen to be the All American, but anyway, there are types, there are shadows, there are symbols, there are all kind of things that point to certain things. Well, here's Brother Branham typically, and like the thing on Utica Pike, and we had made a statement that there will be a meeting on Utica Pike, and we'll be involved in it and so it came to pass. All of a sudden somebody invites us to Utica Pike to a church. And then it had to do with the lost and the found. We could go into a lot of things even as to the cave lost and found. Some of these things, sporadically or in pieces, we have on tape and some of the things we spoke of that were to happen, like I said Brother Branham and God will spare his wife and daughter. And then all of a sudden they will move the Spoken Word out of Arizona, move it back to Jeff, and then we spoke of it going out, it being the end and all those people beginning to die, and Brother Branham's brother dying and all these kind of things. And then Brother J. T. saw this vision were they had made themselves a dummy and were worshipping the dummy and it was suppose to be Brother Branham. Whereas, they did get into things to where they set a recorder out, maybe still doing it, I don't know, and you'd lay handkerchiefs down around the recorded and the tape was suppose to play over, or Brother Branham was suppose to, through the tape, pray over the handkerchiefs, which is heathenism. And which, of course, is paganistic. And I'm sure that those people with their loyalty and love hasn't considered that that's paganistic. It's not paganistic to listen to those tapes, but it's paganistic to do things like that. So God showed it as paganistic, in that He showed it as this dummy. But see they were looking at this thing and they were looking at it through the veil. Beyond Calvary, John, as I was with Moses, and here the lesser light, as this veil over Moses' face, which light was to be done away with. Or that is to say this came into quotes. Still as the law, of the quotes, and then when this gospel, or this ministry of Brother Branham, even the Word, saying stay with the Word. Here when it was published all over the world, then once it got into the hands of the intellectuals they begin to think on this thing and it was no longer spiritual, and it wasn't hid from the devil. Every denomination and every move of God, every great man that came up, after it comes out of the spirit and is put into books and print, then the intellectuals get it, and of course they put it into quotes, and they put it into numerical order and fixed it to where the intellectuals could just study, study like a lawyer and take these things and then if there was a spiritual person, even if it was just a young spiritual person, they feared Brother Branham and his word so much that when they would get up if some of those fellows with quotes would say, No, it's not like that it'd scare them half to death and they would just hold what they did have from God. See? And the devil took full advantage and finally Brother Branham's ministry come to the end, as going to seed as we say. Now, because they were looking at the veil as it was with Moses, faithful in all of his house, a great man, made God unto Aaron and the people, but yet, had to do with the serpent, had to do with the smiting. It went ill with Moses because of the people. And so then, all of this and suddenly it sprang up. And there is was, the seed of the serpent. Not Brother Branham's ministry, but the seed of the serpent. Satan's ministry. It sprang up, and here these intellects, all of these with the quotes, and all of these with these books, and all these things, like my Brother Junior said a voice said, Tell them to leave those books alone! You know that God wasn't saying that you shouldn't get what you could get out of the books, because the Bible is a book. The word Bible has to do with book, means book, 66 books. See? So that was good. Many good things. But because they had turned it into the serpent seed, into lust, all of these things was no longer Brother Branham's ministry. See? And Brother Branham's ministry lives on, but it lives on as the Word, just like Paul's ministry lives on it lives on as the Word. And all of these other things happening and now, just like it was the other day when the man came over. And I wish we had plenty of time. I'm barely scratching this. It would take hours to get into it. You are being read good and we're going to let you go in a few minutes. But anyway, the Brother that was here the other day from over in Singapore, Chinese, beginning with the black man, and as to the dark continent of Africa in with the yellow man, as to chinese. That is, it has to do with, well, I'd have to go into it to explain it, about the dragon and the different things there, gross darkness covering the people and the dragon coming in, and of course, those two locked up. Now, they locked up and one said the other is a fornicator and he practices it, and he's been exposed and all these things. Which I'd already got that report and we were waiting to see the confirmation, but as Jesus made allowance for Judas, a devil, he obtained a part of that ministry, everything was to go right along. So then, it had to do with the serpent seed. And here it was, it had to do with the dragon. We just let everything go right along and the one that was high lighted in the coming, as to the missionaries, and I wish we had time to do this just as a present day truth. It's the revelation of what we see in heaven, or in the spirit. But I hate to ask you to stay here eighty days and not eat anything. I think I'd have a problem. But anyway, the high light of the whole thing,as to the missionaries, was Chris. Chris came in good color, as everything looked, and the high light of it was, having to do with Christ, and coming of course, the others are gone and he's still here. And he is one of our workers over in the Philippines. He said they are dropping some bombs over there. It's got him troubled a little, and I want to treat Chris right. And I want to be sure that we do something extra good for Chris before he leaves. I've had him on my mind for a day or two and he's suppose to leave Monday. David Paul is wanting to get with him, too. We need to get some thing straight, but everything has been crowded. But getting back to our subject so we can close. So then, speaking of Brother Branham, here they are looking at it through the veil. All right. Now. I could just say so many things in detail to revelate things that would show that was true. Brother Branham said that in this third pull he was way up yonder looking down. Cathedral, couldn't tell whether it was a tent or not. Big. One of the most outstanding tents he ever saw if it was. And people lined up all down the streets, and then it seemed to be a tabernacle with a little booth on the inside of it, and the angel of the Lord there, and this thing done in secret to where it wasn't made a public thing. And maybe some of these days if we have plenty of time, you have plenty of time, that we can just take our time and teach for an hour or so, and explain the date and times of these things to let you know what we're speaking of. But anyway, said they went into this little booth, and said, Brother Branham and them made a show of the other. Got himself all entangled in the vision, and I remember it. I could relate it to you, but we won't get into that. Said you caused a lot of impersonation. The third pull won't be like that. The first pull when he put his hands on somebody, vibrations or whatever, he could pick up something he could tell something was wrong with them. Second pull, it was said of the angel, as I understood it, said, And if you remain faithful it shall come to pass you shall know the thoughts of peoples hearts. He could tell them the thoughts of their hearts, which it came to pass. And then the third pull, shockingly enough, you know, I always refer back to Mark 11:22, just like I did even this morning, and my ministry centers around talking about this, as to say what you will, believe and don't doubt, and these kind of things. Well, I never knew until yesterday that this even had anything to do with Brother Branham. But I found out something about the squirrels where he's speaking of these squirrels and in connection with these things the Lord spoke to him about this thing of Mark 11; 22, or as to the gospel in one of these passages; it refers to this. And he said, Why, I've never preached on that before. And said, he said, I'll have to preach on this. And then when he came around with it it was obvious, as he explained what he did that that was the third pull. And so there are numbers of things spoke about, about the third pull where we were up here and he saw this and he saw that and all those kind of things. And about the thunders. He saw the thunders but it was in  He couldn't interpret it. It was in an unknown tongue when it went by. And of course, he says the things would rapture the church was in the thunders. Whereas, I referred to the thunders that the thunders would come out with the mystery as to the sounding of that last trump, which was sounding in 11;15. And that with that that would be the finishing of the mysteries and it would be in the revelation that would translate the church. And it had to do with the detailing and the revealing of those things that were hidden from Brother Branham's following in that veil that stood in between the light being so great that was to be done away with. Whereas, the light of the lesser light, as to Christ's expose, as to the light of the church, the light of the world. This light is not to be done away with as to the revelation, Paul being a revelator, as Paul the revelator, our overseer, as to the end time, the spirit of God in Paul, not him living but as Christ in the end time, the capstone of this great pyramid city. Not it is built through evangelism, and it's built way up here in the heavens. The man, foot on the land and the sea, coming in like a pyramid. His head up here, as to the throne, and the rainbow about the throne there, see? And these things  I could explain a little more about the star, but you understand. So these things confronting us at this time, this light is the unveiled light. It's not to be done away with, but the reason that light was done away with was because that light was within the veil of Brother Branham's body, and could not get out to the people. All they could do was turn it into the intellectual quotes. Eventually, rather than going on with God wound up in ball games and all kind of problems. Like Brother Branham saw in a vision. He got entangled. He was fishing and he was going to show the others how to fish, and when he did all of a sudden he was entangled and the angel of the Lord appeared and said, I told you not to do that. Said, You've made a show out of it and now an impersonation. And Brother Branham said, I'm just stupid. And he said the third pull won't be like that. See? So here I feel he was saying, Brother Branham, you're going away. Because he told him to go to Arizona. Within a couple of years he had gone away. We saw that thing of his death and it going away. And spoke of the revelation of Arizona, and whatever was to be, his wife and the changes and how they would go out. See? But when Brother Branham went away the light went away. Because what he did was signs and wonders and miracles like Moses. by great signs he picked up the people,s minds out in the world, out in the flesh, out in Egypt. And then brought them out of Egypt as to the world, but they went into a wilderness in that he was a hunter and the people got their minds on hunting, and represented that as to the hunting, and when he'd say something it was unabridged. And sometimes he would say something and go to something else, and it was still camouflaged to where they couldn't get a hold of it. And then being within Brother Branham and all they could ever get was quotes, they saw the miracles, they came out of Egypt, but they never did get over into Canaan, as to this revelational mind of Christ. And then when he went away the light went away with him. We spoke of that cornerstone, we spoke of Brother Branham, those different things, the Christ, the body, you know. Some of it's on tape. But anyway, as I'm saying, with these things we see that the light went away. The veiled light of that over Moses' face standing between the light, as to the veil, standing between the light of God in Moses, or on Moses and the people's mind to comprehend the heights. And at Calvary, the prophet like unto Moses comes again, and the veil is rent, and the Christ that's doing these things for Moses, he appears. The shadow dissipates and there is the very image. See? And so the veil was rent. That is to say, within his body, bringing (Begin tape two, side two.) All right. You can't get that because to you that's a saying, that's a word, that an intellectual concept, and you can't get it unless you are a child of light. See? Because if this be hid it be hid to them that are lost. Satan has blinded their eyes because of their gullible desire for the natural. They'll never see good when it comes. So, we find that with that of Brother Branham, My! what we could say about the pillar of fire and the light. As that light appeared to Brother Branham as a pillar of fire, having to do with the night and the children of Israel. When we say the vision and the light came to us, came down out of heaven and we saw the cloud as it lead the children of Israel. We saw that the fire left it when it came and stood over our head in the vision. The fire left it, because I said, Why is this? And the day was so bright. I thought it was the brightest day I had ever seen in my life it was so bright. And the Lord spoke and said, This is the day of Lord. This is the day of light. This is the day of the revealing. There is no fire in the cloud, because this is over the Jordan, to the new harvest, as to the mind of Christ, away from the Jordan, the death as to man's mind that which is interwoven that came by Eve. In the day thou eatest thereof, to be carnally minded, now you are over that. See? And this is the cloud that lead them by day when the wrath of God was not upon the body, as to the blood life, as to take it to the Jordan, as to Calvary, to smite the people, as to the body of the Lord Jesus, the earth opening up, the elders dying in the wilderness, even as that Jesus had to do with that being made sin. But this is the resurrection of Christ, resurrected in another image. And the Bible said they saw him in another form, coming up, and when he came up then it brought justification as to you and I. And sure enough we are preaching the justification. As ye are God's ye cannot sin. You've passed from death unto life. You've been perfected forever. Now you are in heaven. The translation took place and you didn't know anything about it, but it took place all the time through your believing, and now it's been revealed to you because you believed that your innermost being has been translated into the marvelous Kingdom of God. You are hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the manifestation, the change of the body, or the restoring, or the millennium, all the species coming back in. That is to say, the law and the prophets until John, Brother Branham same as John. And since that time the Kingdom of God has been preached, to say, as the Kingdom of God is at hand, and of course, men pressing their way into the Kingdom. Suddenly you find out that you have believed yourself, as they took a natural journey from Egypt through the wilderness over to Canaan, you have taken a spiritual journey by faith from the mind of man through the mind of Satan, in that it's interwoven, coming through that veil of darkness going into the mind of Christ which is out of the wilderness to where the serpents cannot bite you. Taking the shield of faith, quenching all the fiery darts of the wicked. Anyway, this is what I'm saying. A lot of things we would like to say and it would take hours and hours just to explain in detail, but I felt I was suppose to mention this this morning. And that's why Jesus said, I am the resurrection. I am the light. I that speak unto thee am He. Because this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Can we stand together? It's getting kind of late. I know you're tired. I'm a little bit tired from all of my running around, or whatever, you know, and being up. But things are happening in a great mighty way. Even about this check, the number of the Beast coming on in. Mr. Bush being in, the dragon going on out. And right now they are fixing to give some aid to the Soviet Union. Mr. Bush has decided to give them some financial aid and the lust of the eye, the pride of life, the desire of the flesh, all these other things, and thus you become blind, can't see afar off. Having eyes you can't see. See? I'm looking through my heart, through eyes of understanding. That's why I saw those things in heaven. I saw the whole heaven full of all those beautiful things because I was dwelling in heaven. And I saw all these kind of things and I believed. I'm a believer. And I saw all these kind of things and I'm still seeing these wonderful, wonderful things that are in heaven. I see them all the time. All day long every day I see these things. So I, being less than nothing, as Paul said, the revelation of Jesus Christ was made known unto me that I might understand. You know, him being your overseer that spirit coming for the church that I might understand our days, times, and seasons, and the catching up as to the rapture of the church, Paul, and as to him being God in the midst of the candlesticks, over in the end it's Jesus. And the church and the body being one and the same,and of course there are so many things, just like I said it would take hours just to detail, as to what has happened in the last few days as to the revelation, as to how you are involved, and I'm involved, and we're involved. And yet I know you don't have the time because you are busy and you have to get to your lunch. And there's lot of things that human beings have to do. And I don't want to weary you. I don't want to take up your time. I just try to drop in a few things once in a while to encourage you and to enlighten you that while your so busy with all these things and so preoccupied don't get careless and rejoice by saying, Well, I go to Bethlehem, and now I've got all that as to God, and now I'm enjoying eating and drinking and being merry. Because if you do enjoy eating and drinking and be merry too much, you'll find out you didn't get what was said at Bethlehem. And you are a reflector and all you did was reflect it and lit up during that time, but in all reality you are not a real star. You don't have a real light. The only thing you have is the love of the world and the desire of the world, and your joy is in the things of the world, and that you are in darkness as wandering stars to who the mist of darkness is reserved forever and you are out there in that darkness. Though there is light, as to grace, will be done away with and you'll go into that reservation for darkness. So in that you need to be real careful, to fear God and keep His commandments. And as Jesus said, you need to concentrate on feeding on the hidden manna, having the things of God, thinking more on the church, on the things of God, on the work of God, and on the revelation of the Lord, on the Word of the Lord and less on eating and drinking. Don't delight in eating and drinking. The Bible said blessed is the nation when the king eats for strength, not to party. See, don't get carried away with the surfeiting and cares of this life less the day come upon you unawares. I'm almost sure that some of you when you leave, I know that you're whole joy is just getting away from this church, knowing that you did come, you got it off of your mind now, and you think, Well, praise God, I did make it to church and I feel better, now I'll eat, drink and be merry. See, don't be of the world, because if you're love the world you are not of that great wonderful place. But if you are of heaven, then you are not of world in that He has chosen you out of the world and your delight won't be in the world. You'll still eat, you'll drink, you'll thank God, but you won't be running around worrying about your ministry, worrying about your great day and money and buying and selling and physique and appearance, and all these other things. You'll think about God. Your mind will be on God. You'll meditate in his laws day and night. You'll cast down every thought until you come into the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ with everything, as to say there won't be any thoughts for reveling and joy and eating and drinking and laughing, and riding, and visiting. There won't be any thoughts like that. You'll be done away with all those thoughts, and you'll be like Jesus. You'll think different, you'll talk different, you won't laugh and joke, you won't be in the gullible desires of the flesh. Folks, to say the least it's getting late. I'm sure you can agree with me cause it might be past your lunch time. But it's getting late in another way. Parabolically speaking it's getting late, much later perhaps than you understand and the discovering of this cave has to do with that. As I said, the angel appeared there. The angel appeared there, maybe May the 7th of forty-six, year of forty-six or something. When he come up off of his face he saw the light. And he moved toward the light. There stood a kind, gentle man, as gentle in face and appearance, that told him that he was an angel of God that had been sent from the very presence of God to make known to him these things, and that God had a work for his life, and if you can believe and be sincere and get the people to believe not even cancer shall stand before your prayer. Whereas on this trip it reminds me again when the angel came the Lord Himself came to us, put the ring on our finger, and then in the vision the angel appeared. And when we saw the angel we was made to know, about the time of that, about Brother Branham's death and the change just before this over in Hialeah. And then in Miami the angel of the Lord appeared in the vision and showed us that this had to do with a great thing, even the red acrylic above your head come from this same area where the angel appeared. It's phenomenal. It'll take the red lettering right out of your Bible if you understand how to do it. But anyway, it has to do with that and there is a number of other things that we could say about Hialeah and these things, and even the people that come up from Florida. We had a call yesterday from Florida, Vickie's grandmother, that had to do with some these things. But there are great mighty things taking place and that's why that the commander come up out of Fort Lauderdale. It came up out of Fort Lauderdale because it's right there at Miami. And in the vision I saw of Israel David Paul was a commander to Israel, and in the vision I was a prophet to Israel. Whereas, I don't claim to be a prophet. We've had a number of visions where it showed us to be a prophet in the vision. But I don't claim to be no prophet. I'm just a minister, a helper of your faith, and less than the least. But I do say this, the Bible said, And the peace of God be upon the true Israel, which this the Israel that David is the chief of staff among, and a commander as to the days of the thunder and caught up, as the church and it's rapture. Your plane sets up there in a hanger, and I'm going to close. We put it in last night. This hanger, Ronnie, a boy that's in racing that, as I was reminded yesterday about Fason having to do with that movie about the thunders. It come to me about his hanger. They have just built it. It's a new one. I thought, I can't covet that man's hanger. That wouldn't be right. And then of course, this thing. He just contacts us and said, Look, my plane is gone out of the hanger. Paid over four thousand for his turbine, which it has props. It's a nice plane. And now they've got him charged with about 50 thousand dollars repair. He said, My plane won't be home for at least a week, and anytime my plane isn't in the hanger you put your plane in there. Whereas, they can't quite get the nose all the way back. The tail is so high that we're going to have to build the hanger a higher. It barely goes in, and it's almost touching on the wings, maybe a foot and a half on either side, two feet or something. But we have it in the hanger and it looks like brand new. It's beautiful. Even the pilot said it's beautiful, with all the planes he's flown, and he's flown even the 747, which takes the big loads overseas. I think I mentioned it to you, just recently he flew a Hansler, which I really like a Hansler. He flew it out to Clint Eastwood to Hollywood to blow up in a movie. And he's been flying Mr. Jackson around. He was about 12 years a pilot for Nassau, which is outstanding. It's really something the planes that he flies. He flew that one for Shoney, their executive plane. The man that sold us the plane was trying to get him to come up and train him in his King. And he is so outstanding, his reputation is so outstanding that it's a great miracle that we have the man for a pilot. David Paul is a jet pilot, as to co-pilot, which is unreal. He can't be. If he had fifteen hundred hours, as far as I know, he may not have enough hours then. He hasn't even finished his instrument multi-engine. He hasn't finished it on the single. He's going back to finish it. He has to go over in Houston to train. That is again phenomenal as to the light. But anyway he has to go there to train and be there for maybe a couple of weeks, three weeks. But I said all of that to say this. We do have a nice plane and there are a few people around about/ that own the jets, in a family or an individual, and a number of times a corporation. But even in this a lot of times they are paying on the jet. But you are not paying on a jet. You own a jet. It's paid for. It's worth about a third of a million dollars and there is somebody wanting to buy it right now. Said, I'll give you a profit if you'll sell it to me. Said, I know the plane and know the history of it. But anyway, it's got about 25 hundred hours on it, and as far as I know, I've heard it said, there is no another plane in the world that is like it with that low time engine, as to the commander. And Wells Fargo, which is the money thing that's been here since the days of the pioneers, they were the ones that owned it. So it's really outstanding and I know that the man that's flying it for us he is a sinner, but he's very nice, very courteous, very respectful, very congenial, very willing to work for us. And I know Brother Branham got into problems when he let his brother drive his truck, because they said something about it. He said, Well, I just hired him for a truck driver, you know. I know he's a sinner. And I know people, you know, they really work on my case, but that's okay. Maybe my case needs worked on. Maybe if you start working on it one way you'll discover you can help me another way. At least I'll catch your mind and you interest. But still at the same time I think of it like this. I know that sometimes we get more holy than thou, but I do think, you know, that we do need a pilot, and we don't have one. You say, Well, Brother Pike, I think of it like this. I think that perhaps that the most of you, a number of you bought you a car from a sinner. Let's give the Lord a hand. But you drive it right on and you still pay him right on, and you're dealing with a finance company right on, and I notice that when we dismiss around here that when you go to lunch it don't bother you because it's a sinner that runs the cafe, and the ladies that's around. Let's give the Lord another hand. And on and on and on, with the light bill and the rent and buying homes and working on jobs and whatever. And some of you even letting your children and family work in a terrible condition. You know, I believe I got my point over. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right. Somebody said, Someday I'm going to get my car paid for and I won't be connected with that fellow. I know, but you'll just get connected with another one. You know, you'll be trading. But even if that be so we're planning to get us a pilot too that will be a christian pilot. All right. Let's sing a little chorus together. There's a lot of things we could say, but I just thought we might drop in one or two little things here, as to considering what we're saying. Let's sing that chorus, This Is The Day. (Leads in singing.) How many of you believe that this is the day that the Lord has made? Ever since Calvary this is the day, and John, being a type of the church, entered into the day that the Lord had made. I've entered into his rest. I thank God that I've entered into His rest and they that have ceased from their own works have entered into His rest. Swearing that they were not in the wilderness and that beyond Calvary we see a problem even with Brother Branham's following. But as I said it has changed, not that his ministry is over, the Word goes on even as with Paul and the great men. But the ministry, they published his ministry in books around the world, and now the serpent seed comes in as the old intellectual. There is always the denominations. He said and after his death they'd make a denomination out of it. So they've done it. It an ecclesiastical thing with the quotes. Now they are fighting with one another, as the Brother said from Singapore. And you can't hardly find any of them because they have switched it over from Brother Branham, as to the spiritual, and now we're back in the veil as the worm within the bread and now they are fighting with each other to see who is going to be the chief among them. Let's sing again. Jesus said that's the way they do it in the world, and He said, James and John you don't want to do that. (Sings This Is The Day.) One more time. (Continues singing.) Do you love the Lord? The Lord is so good. Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings Precious Memories.) Can you sing it with me, now? (Continues singing.) Sing it again. (Continues singing.) The altars are open. Ever alive those precious memories, of children, husband, wife, happiness, mother, daddy, times that were spent of inspiration. Memories of the church, the congregation, the neighborhood, children, friends, they are there, and of course, precious memories of men like Paul and Brother Branham and other great ones. (Continues singing.) One more time together now. (Continues singing.) It's so wonderful to be a Christian. Sing that little song, there with mother we went and our Sundays we spent with my friends at the Old Country Church. It's all Precious Years Of Memory. Let's sing a verse of that. (Sings The Old Country Church.) Glad to see Chuck back. He was in pain this morning his back was hurting. (Continues singing.) We were praying for him. (Continues singing.) Let's lift our hands up together, close our eyes as we sing the last verse or so of the song and let's just meditate, search you hearts and see if we're in the spirit, in the faith. It's getting late, real late. (Continues singing.) Let's sing this little chorus together, I Will Praise Him. (Leads in singing.) Can you lift up your hands and close your eyes? (Continues singing.) I'm going to ask Brother Tony Patin if he will to come up and dismiss us. While Tony is coming to pray ask yourself the question, Am I ready? Do I really believe in what Brother Pike is saying? Is it true that this is the revelation of the Lord Jesus? If not where in the world is he getting all of these things? Is the time really at hand? (Continues singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord