The Masterpiece Part 10 (THE WORD, LIVING AND IN ACTION, THE BIBLE
BRIDE)
SHE IS JUST A SMITTEN PIECE OFF OF HIM. THERE IS THE MASTERPIECE.
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Notice, the Bride. If the Bride, in
the beginning, was the Word, or the Bridegroom; and then if the Bride is taken
from the Bridegroom, It must be the Word also. Notice, the Bride must be.
156 Why, why must the Bridegroom be the Word
manifested, made plain? Is because the
Bride and the Bridegroom are One. She is just a smitten
piece off of Him. There is the Masterpiece. It was smitten. Say...
157 Michelangelo could not reproduce that
again. He could not put it back.
But God is going to do it. He is going to bring this
little Bride, that's smitten, right back to the side of the original Word. And there He is, there is the Masterpiece, the family back
again in garden of Eden.
HE WILL RESTORE THE
HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE FAITH OF THE PEOPLE
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How is this Bride going to do this? How is this Wheat going to
do this? Malachi 4 said, in the last days, it would be restored back, (what?) restored
back like the beginning; take it back!
"I will restore," saith the Lord, "all the years the
palmerworm, and cankerworm, and all these other things has eaten. I will restore again." Malachi 4 said, "He will restore the hearts of the people,
and the Faith of the people, back to the original fathers again."
See? We see
this right before us, Church. Where are we at?
THE BRIDE IS SMITTEN FROM THE CHURCH, BECAUSE SHE IS THE WORD.
159
Now, closing in a few minutes. I want you to notice real close of
something that just happened.
Malachi 4 is to bring back, back to the original.
160 She
is smitten from the church, from the church body; smitten with Her Master, for
the same purpose. She is the Word. Just the same as Joseph was smitten from his brethren, because he
was the Word. And Jesus was smitten from His brethren, because He was the
Word. The church is smitten... The Bride
is smitten from the church, because She is the Word. There is your stages again; one, two,
three, see, just exactly.
THE WORD, LIVING AND IN ACTION, THE BIBLE BRIDE
161
The Word, living and in action,
the Bible Bride, not some man-made bride; the Bible Bride, smitten and
afflicted of God. "No beauty we should desire Her, but yet we did esteem Her smitten
and afflicted of God." That's right. She stands alone. She is smitten from all the denominations, according
to Revelations 3. She is smitten out of the
Laodicean Church Age that She was raised up in. See? This Church was raised up in the Laodicea
Church Age; that's the husk. But if them others went...
IT'S HIS MASTERPIECE, SEE, IT'S THE WORD THAT HE CAN WORK THROUGH, MAKE MANIFEST.
164
Stands alone, like the
Bridegroom, "rejected of man, despised and rejected of the churches." The
Bride stands that way. What is it? It's His Masterpiece, see, it's the Word that He can work
through, make manifest. Rejecting!
165 So,
the stalk, the tassel, and husk, never become Seed, no, but are all the time
becoming more like the Seed.
166 Now at the harvest time, the Seed is back to its original
Life, back to the Bible. Malachi
4 said it would be brought that way. Oh, oh, my! Must have all! To be this way, It must have all
of the Word. Is that right? [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
THERE IS ONLY ONE THING, THE HARVEST IS HERE.
167
Now what did He say, in Revelations 10, that would take place?
Why was the trip to Tucson? To open to
the Church. "In the days of the messenger, of the seventh angel, the
seventh angel Message, the whole Word of God would be made manifest. The Seal, that what all the stalk has left off, of why and
all about It, would be made manifest in this time."
Is that what the
Word said? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then, we see it. Then
where are we at, see, where are we at? There is only one thing, the harvest is
here. She is dead ripe. She
is ready now for the Coming. Notice.
AT THE HARVEST TIME, THE SEED IS BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION, AND MUST HAVE ALL OF THE WORD
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No, it'll never be It. At the harvest time, the Seed is back to its original
condition, and must have all of the Word, in order to be the Seed. Now,
you can't have a half a Seed; it won't grow. See? It's got to be the whole Seed. It's got to not manifest... Say,
"I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah! I believe in
speaking in tongues." That's just
part of the Seed, uh-huh, but now there is added to that. Hallelujah! See? The Life, not the gifts; the Life of the
gifts. See, see what I mean? We're
at the end time, brethren.
169 Stalk,
tassel, husk, is dead and dry now. There is only one thing that has to happen
to that, is to be gathered in the World Council of Churches for its burning.
THE SEED, THAT WENT IN, HAS COME THROUGH A PROCESS AND BECOME THE SEED AGAIN.
170
The Word has become flesh, exactly like He
promised in Luke 17, Malachi 4, and all, see, that's right, Revelations.
171 All true Life that was in the stalk, tassel, and husk, is now
gathering in the Seed, ready for the resurrection, ready for the harvest.
The Alpha has become Omega. Amen. The
first come last, and the last is the first. The Seed, that went in, has come through a
process and become the Seed again.
The seed, that fell in the garden of Eden, and died
there, come back. From that
imperfect seed that died there, come back to the perfect Seed, the Second Adam.
THE FIRST MESSAGE AND THE (SECOND) LAST MESSAGE IS THE SAME THING.
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The first Eve that fell,
and was used in the second
reformation... second coming, as
bringing forth a child, now has become the true Bride again, the Seed, right
back with original Word again.
The Alpha and Omega is the same. He
said, "I am Alpha and Omega," He never said anything in
between. Uh-huh. "I am Alpha
and Omega, the First and the Last." Yes, sir.
173 The
first ministry and the last ministry is the same. The first Message and the (second) last
Message is the same thing. "I'm,
I was in Alpha; I'm in Omega." "There'll be a day that won't be called day nor night, but in the
evening time it shall be Light." See, Alpha and Omega, it's become the first and the last. Oh, my, brethren,
we could stay hours on that.
NOW HERE SHE IS BACK AGAIN; WITH ALL NATURE, THE BIBLE, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, SHOWING HERE WE ARE.
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The great masterpiece of a
family, the Second Adam and the Second Eve, now ready for the garden, the
Millennium, amen, back on the earth. Hallelujah! The
great Sculptor didn't leave them lay there. He took time, as He did through the
millions of years, molding the first perfect couple; and they fell.
Now it's been
through thousands of years, He's molded again, and now here they are ready.
175 The
Masterpiece was come and struck down; from His side come forth the helpmate.
And She is brought up in the same process. Now here She is back again; with all nature, the Bible, and
everything else, showing here we are.
AND NOW THE MASTERPIECE FAMILY HAS COME AGAIN, CHRIST AND HIS BRIDE, READY TO COME.
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Notice the great masterpiece,
of the family. The husband and wife cannot be truly a family unless they are
one. They have to be. If
they're not, they're not a good family; wife pulling one way, and the husband
another. That would make an awful family. But in agreement, with love one to the other, that's a family. And now that was God's masterpiece, and now all the true
family here portrays that. See?
And now the Masterpiece family has come again, Christ
and His Bride, ready to come. The
Second Adam, Second Eve, ready now to return back to their Home. And the whole
picture has been redemption. From where it was, bringing it back, see, just exactly bringing it back
again. After…
OH, HOW THE WORD CUTS, BUT IT PRODUCES MASTERPIECES; UH-HUH, TAKES ALL THE HUSK AND STALK AWAY. IT BRINGS FORTH MASTERPIECE.
183
Now, someone said to me, said, "Brother Branham," said,
"there's one thing I can't understand about you."
I said,
"What's that?"
184 Standing out there in a hall... I guess,
Sister Dauch and them, after I shook hands with Bill, and standing there; and
all went around the corner, and the whole bunch of people. A minister pressed
his way in, collar turned around, he said, "Why is it that you're
always bawling the people out?" He said, "Them people believe you to
be a servant of God, and be gentle and sweet to them, and everything."
Said, "Every time I hear you get up, you're bawling women out, about
having short hair, and about wearing shorts, and wearing makeup, and all this
other stuff; and bawling the people out, and tell them how cold and formal and
indifferent they are." Said, "Why do you do that?" Said,
"Them people love you. How can you be a loving son of God and do a
thing like that?"
I thought, "Lord, let me answer this smart man.
See? You just let me answer him, somewhere, that'll hang him on his own
rope." Yeah.
I said,
"Well," I said, "sir, did you ever read of the great producer
of music called... the great composer called Beethoven?"
He said, "Oh,
sure, I read of Beethoven."
185 I
said, "He probably tore up wastebasket-fulls of scrap paper, but he give
the world masterpieces." He never opened his mouth and said another
word. I said, "When he was
setting in his study under the inspiration, he would write something down. He'd
go into his study and pray. It wasn't right, he'd scrap it up and throw it in
the wastebasket. But when he got through, in all inspiration, the world had a
masterpiece."
Oh, how the Word cuts, but It produces
masterpieces; uh-huh, takes all the husk and stalk away. It brings forth
Masterpiece.
I FELL INTO A TRANCE.
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I fell into a trance. And, when I
did, there was somebody with me. I didn't see the person. It was just a Voice.
And I--I looked. And as I--I looked this way, He said, "The Bride will
come in view for preview."
And I looked,
coming to me, and I seen the most--the most prettiest bunch of clean-dressed
women I ever seen in my life.
But each one of them, looked like, was dressed different. They all
had long hair. And they were longer sleeves and skirts, and so forth.
Young women, they looked kind of, I'd say, about maybe twenty.
188 Now I have the Bible open here before me.
See? I can only say what I seen.
If you say,
"What are you looking at?" I'm looking at a clock. "What you
looking for?" I'm looking for people, looking at people. "What are
you looking at?" I'm looking at the Bible. That's what. I'm telling the
Truth. That's what I see. And I can only say what I seen. I don't--I don't know
what it... all about it. I just have to tell you.
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But, when this Bride, She was
looking right at... The one was talking to me, and I, standing together. Her
eyes, She was the cleanest, sweetest-looking people I ever seen in my life.
Look like it could have been a dozen, or more, just... I don't know how many
was abreast, but there just in a group of them. And She passed by, sweetly, with a air. And Her eyes up, watching, as
She passed by. Oh, She was
beautiful! I looked at Her, and as She passed by. He said, "Now we shall
review..." Said, "That's the Bride."
"Now we
will review the churches." And they come. I noticed them coming up. And
when they come up, each one, look like, got worse. I never seen such a filthy
bunch in my life.
And when He
said, "Next," I heard a noise. And It said, "Next," said,
"here comes the American group."
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Now, I am an American, but this--this made me sick. I am not eloquent
enough to, in a mixed audience, to say what was taking place. I--I--I... And
you'll have to read between the lines. But when the women were coming, the
leader of them was a witch. She had a great long nose and a great big mouth.
And all of them was dressed with some kind of lower clothes down here; but
the top just had a strap, that, just a little, about a half-inch strap that
moved up and went around them like this. And each women had something on a
order...
191 Many of you, years ago, used to remember
when we used to cut that paper, you know, newspaper, and make an old fly-bush?
How many remembers it? You know. Why, I think they use it in carnivals, you
know. Hanging down like that, fringed paper, lace paper.
They had something
holding below them, like this, holding below them. All this part was exposed.
And each one had
hair cut up real short, and frizzy-looking things all over it like that, real
short-cut hair; and full of makeup. Absolutely nothing but looked like street
prostitutes.
And they were
walking with this paper, and, the vulgarity! Now, the paper was what was
holding in front of them. But when they passed the review stand, in the back of
them... And to see the way they were going on, in their foremost and their back
part, and how they were acting!
I said, "Is
that the Church?"
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And there she went. And they were singing this here twist-and-roll
songs, you know, or ever what you call, going down, singing that and going by.
I said, "Is
that the Church?" And I was standing there, and in my heart I was crying.
And, this witch, to my notion it's nothing else
in the world but she's a... She is that
World Council of Churches, leading them right straight down the road where
she was going. They went off to the left, and disappeared in chaos; still
beating this music and making real funny sounds, and shaking their bodies, one
side and then the other side. And then, like that, carrying on like that, walking.
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And I just started to bow my head, and He said, "Wait, the Bride must come again."
And I looked,
and here they come again. And they passed by, a sweet-looking little ladies. They was all looking right at me, as
they passed by. And I noticed each one was dressed different. And one in the
back had kind of long hair hanging down, and had it rolled around like this;
might have been German or something like that. And I watched them.
And then as they started leaving, two or three of
them, in the back, kinda get out of step, and I was going to holler at them.
And they was trying to get back in step again. And I seen them, just the vision
just fade out and change, from me.
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Now here is the interpretation thereof. The reason... Now, remember, I
had just got through writing... I hadn't finished, I hadn't wrote these notes
yet. But in preaching, this morning, I
caught what it was, right in my sermon. Did you notice, the church only came in
view...
Now, that's the Truth, friends. The Heavenly Father,
Who writes the Word, knows that I tell the Truth. See? I know I just say the
Truth.
And not knowing it
till just a few minutes ago, looked like, or just recently, see. Did you
notice? The Bride come in view twice;
the first Seed and the second Seed, both of them exactly the same One.
And the reason they were dr'iff... dressed
in different parts, She'll come from all nations, it'll make up the Bride. Each
one had long hair, and no makeup, and real pretty girls. And they were watching me. That represented
the Bride coming out of all nations. See? She, each one represented a nation, as they marched perfectly in line
with the Word. See?
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And, then, I have to watch Her. She'll
get out of step with that Word if I don't watch, when She is passing by, if She
gets by. Maybe it'll be my time, when I'm over, see, when I'm finished, or
whatever it is.
196 What? They
was getting back. Trying their best, and was getting back, just get in line;
'cause, they--theywas looking out somewhere else, watching about that church
that just went out into chaos. But two... The front ones, never. The back
ones, just two or three of them, was kind of stepped out a little bit to the
right-hand side, and looked like was trying to get back in line as they went
by. They was just past me, oh, far as here to the wall, past me. And I was
standing there. And then I just seen it all move out and leave.
But, you
notice, the church only came into view once, each nation, the church. But
the Bride come in twice. See, see what it was? Now, not knowing it, but look at
it with my Message this morning. Not knowing that. See?
THE MASTERPIECE IS BROUGHT UP
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The Seed fell in the ground at
Nicaea. That was the original Seed. And She's come through the process of these
denominations, which only comes in existence once. But the Bride returns back
again in the last days. "I will restore." See, the Masterpiece is brought up. That's the reason
She was in view, reviewed, the second time. She was reviewed the first
time, then she was reviewed the second time. And She
was perfectly, the second time, like She was the first time. O God, have mercy! Hurry, hurry, hurry,
Life, get in the Grain, right quick! Uh-huh.
THE MASTERPIECE AND THE SON OF GOD, THE MASTERPIECE AND THE BRIDE, AND IT'S A PIECE OF HIM, WHICH MUST BE THE FULFILLING OF THE WORD.
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All others never appeared no more. They went out, never to come back
again.
But the Bride came back, 'cause She was Alpha and
Omega. God, the great
Sculptor, has made Him a Masterpiece, for It is a piece of His first
Masterpiece. Like He made in
the garden of Eden, and took a piece from, and made another piece and that was
marred and fell, now He's been all this time building it up again. And
He brought forth this Masterpiece, and was smitten, in order... That part that was
smitten, was in order to bring back again that Masterpiece, again.
199 So, the Masterpiece and the Son of God, the Masterpiece and the Bride, and It's a piece of Him, which must be the fulfilling of the Word. The Word has been fulfilled, and we're ready for the Coming of the Lord.
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O Church of the living God, bow
your hearts and your--yourselves before God. These things are true. I know
that it sounds like that, as such a great a thing as that would be, would be so
spread out over the nations. It never was. He doesn't change His way. Just be
thankful, Church, be thankful that you are where you are today if you're in
Christ. Because, you see, now,
and when that...
201 Remember,
all that Life will be gathered right into the Grain, for the resurrection, but
the stalk must be burned. The rest of it; the husk and all, must be
destroyed, and it will be. Don't trust in your, them denominations. You stay in the
Word, the Life, God and His Masterpiece.
202 Then
what is it in the Millennium? Christ and His Bride, back in the garden of the
Millennium. Amen!
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