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Lee Vayle (September 28, 1914 - June 23, 2012) was a close personal friend and acolyte of William Branham. He assisted in the editing (what William Branham referred to as "grammarizing") of the Church Age Book. Lee Vayle was a message preacher and over the years taught a number of heretical doctrines including the ''Parousia doctrine'', the denial of the deity of Jesus Christ and the espousing of bizarre hybrid of [[Nestorianism]], [[Arianism]] and [[Adoptionism]]. Some of these doctrines are remarkably similar to certain of the foundational beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses. | Lee Vayle (September 28, 1914 - June 23, 2012) was a close personal friend and acolyte of William Branham. He assisted in the editing (what William Branham referred to as "grammarizing") of the Church Age Book. Lee Vayle was a message preacher and over the years taught a number of heretical doctrines including the ''Parousia doctrine'', the denial of the deity of Jesus Christ and the espousing of bizarre hybrid of [[Nestorianism]], [[Arianism]] and [[Adoptionism]]. Some of these doctrines are remarkably similar to certain of the foundational beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses. | ||
As a result, we much conclude that those that follow Lee Vayle can not be considered Christians. | |||
=Lee Vayle's Teaching= | =Lee Vayle's Teaching= | ||
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Here is a summary of his teaching from a former Vaylite: | Here is a summary of his teaching from a former Vaylite: | ||
:''I grew up in a church that followed Lee Vayle in _________ from being a young kid through to adulthood. I remember Godhead being taught as the Father God being very separate and distinct from Jesus the son. We believed that God the Father came to indwell Jesus his son when he was | :''I grew up in a church that followed Lee Vayle in _________ from being a young kid through to adulthood. I remember Godhead being taught as the Father God being very separate and distinct from Jesus the son. We believed that God the Father came to indwell Jesus his son when he was baptized on the river making him the Christ, the anointed one. The Father and the Holy Spirit were seen as being one and the same. The Father was the Holy Spirit. | ||
:''William Branham's ministry was seen as being a repeat of Jesus Christ's ministry in that the Holy Spirit (God himself) came down and indwelt William Branham when he was on the platform; making God himself present in the body of the bride. Only William Branham, being the eyes of the body, could reveal the Holy Spirit himself. | :''William Branham's ministry was seen as being a repeat of Jesus Christ's ministry in that the Holy Spirit (God himself) came down and indwelt William Branham when he was on the platform; making God himself present in the body of the bride. Only William Branham, being the eyes of the body, could reveal the Holy Spirit himself. | ||
:''Every member of the bride had a baptism (or small measure) of the Holy Spirit but not the Holy Spirit himself, which was God the | :''Every member of the bride had a baptism (or small measure) of the Holy Spirit but not the Holy Spirit himself, which was God the Father. The Holy Spirit appearing on the platform through William Branham was the 'parousia' or appearing of God before the physical return of the man Jesus. Anyone not recognizing the presence of God himself on the platform did not have "rapturing faith" and was locked out of the rapture. It was likened to Abraham having to see Melchizedek before Sarah's body was changed. So the bride had to see God himself appearing amongst them to have a body change. | ||
:''Ugh. Thinking of all this nonsense has wound me up! What a lot of rubbish. So glad to be free! | :''Ugh. Thinking of all this nonsense has wound me up! What a lot of rubbish. So glad to be free! | ||
Lee Vayle was also known for his extremely vulgarity, to the point where he stated that it was better for a man to rape a woman than to seduce her. | Lee Vayle was also known for his extremely vulgarity and misogynism, to the point where he stated that it was better for a man to rape a woman than to seduce her. | ||
==Denial of the Deity of Christ== | ==Denial of the Deity of Christ== | ||
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:''...'''it really comes right down to not believing in incarnation'''. And I think it is strange that both the Jew and Moslem can believe that a man can be inhabited by evil spirits, or the devil himself, but they deny that God inhabited a man called Jesus His son. And to me they give more power to the devil than they give to God when they believe like that.<reF>Brian Kocourek, #4 How Jesus And God Are One, August 7th, 2011</ref> | :''...'''it really comes right down to not believing in incarnation'''. And I think it is strange that both the Jew and Moslem can believe that a man can be inhabited by evil spirits, or the devil himself, but they deny that God inhabited a man called Jesus His son. And to me they give more power to the devil than they give to God when they believe like that.<reF>Brian Kocourek, #4 How Jesus And God Are One, August 7th, 2011</ref> | ||
==The Parousia== | |||
William Branham stated: | |||
:''As a minister of the Gospel, I can't see one thing left but the going of the Bride.<ref>William Branham, 64-0726M, Recognizing Your Day And Its Message, para, 66</ref> | |||
:''It's at the end time. There is not another thing that I know to happen but the Rapture, the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all ready.<ref>William Branham, 65-0427, Does God Change His Mind?, para, 124</ref> | |||
These quotes present a problem for people in the message and it certainly did for Lee Vayle. With William Branham gone, why had the rapture not happened? To explain this, Lee Vayle borrowed a heretical teaching straight from the Watchtower Society, the Jehovah's Witnesses - the parousia doctrine. | |||
One of the more remarkable phenomena of human religious behavior generally is the apparent willingness with which religious movements shake off the disappointment of failed prophecies. Indeed, some of the more vibrant religious movements, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, have their roots in end-time predictions that went unfulfilled.<ref>David Fergusson and Marcel Sarot, The Future as God’s Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000), 81.</ref> | |||
According to Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Lord has already returned. A fundamental tenet of Watchtower theology is the claim that Christ returned invisibly around October 4 or 5 in the year 1914. Instead of the early disciples asking Christ “''when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming...?''” the '''New World Translation''' has them asking, “''When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence...?''” (Matthew 24:3) The Watchtower Society interprets this alternative rendering as meaning an invisible return.<ref>David A. Reed, Answering Jehovah’s Witnesses: Subject by Subject, electronic ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1997).</ref> | |||
Lee Vayle "borrowed" this false teaching from the JW's and applied it to William Branham. Vayle even quotes the New World Translation, the Jehovah's Witness terribly flawed translation of the Bible. Lee Vayle clearly taught that Jesus Christ returned in 1933. | |||
Here are some excerpts from Lee Vayle's sermons on the subject of the Parousia: | |||
:''Now in '''2 Thessalonians 1:7''', It says, "Those who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels." ('''That has taken place already in 1963'''.) <ref>Lee Vayle, Rapture, #10 Rapture, November 16th, 1983</ref> | |||
:''Which so many people don't understand where we stand here in this ministry of Bro. Branham's, on the Presence, which is the Appearing. Every single one of those words has started, and is moving, and moving, and moving--as '''Christ started to appear, and move into His Church, in 1933! But it was in 1963, that we saw Rev 10:1 join with Rev 10:7, you see, bringing forth the Seals and all.''' And at that time Bro. Branham said he had to decrease, so that Christ would come more and more, and God would take Headship--God in the form of the Holy Spirit in a Pillar of Fire. | |||
:''Now this running of the... looking as though the Millennium and the New Jerusalem are run together, so you can't differentiate--you can. This only appears so, because time and eternity have blended. And New Jerusalem is, actually, only a continuation of what we are about to enter into by way of the Resurrection and Rapture, as '''Christ started coming into the church, through His Appearing in June 11, 1933, and finally took Headship, in about 1963''', right when He came down. See? That's the idea. He's got to come down to take Headship in order to raise the dead, finish off that Shout.<ref>Future Home, #2 One Plan For All, May 1st, 1988</ref> | |||
:''Now God left him. The body was raised up and put behind the throne on the mercy seat. But '''in March 1963, He left the mercy seat''', went to the Father's throne, took the Book of Redemption out of the Father's hand, ripped off the Seals, put the Book back in the Father's hands, the Father vacated the throne, and that one climbed upon the throne. Now that's what the Bible teaches according to Bro. Branham. And that's "THUS SAITH THE LORD", because he is a vindicated prophet. All right. <ref>Lee Vayle, Shalom, #10 Peace: Revelation Of God, April 9th, 1989</ref> | |||
:''In these places '''the New World Translation''' renders Paramia as ‘be present’ or ‘present himself’ from the contrast that is made between the presence and the absence of Paul, both in 2 Cor 10:10, 11 and Phil 2:12. | |||
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:''The terms Paramia and Parousia are never used for the coming of Christ in the flesh. And Parousia never has the sense of ‘return’. I think it’s the word ‘Parousia.’ Because its put in the Greek there. Let me see if it does? Yeah. I’m not a Greek student. The idea of more than one Parousia is first found only in the latter church not before Justin a basic prerequisite for understanding the world of thought of primitive Christianity is that we should fully free ourselves from the notion of more than one Parousia. I tell you; it’s just one and that’s it.<ref>Lee Vayle, Does God Change His Mind, #11 Complete and Perfect Revelation, 5 Jan 1992</ref> | |||
:''Let’s read you some more about this presence here. The Greek parousia, means ‘along side’. The expression being drawn from the preposition power along side and ...?... a being. Cursed twenty four times in the New Testament, rendered presence in the '''New World translation'''. The verb paramya (??) literally means being along side, cursed twenty four times. And then it tells you the place that it’s all found. It means presence or Himself present or present Himself. | |||
:''It quotes Mt 24:37-39, “As it was in the days of Noah,” see? That word is a literal presence. The word parousia, presence is different from the Greek word, ‘il-li-ci-ous’(??) meaning coming, which occurs in the Greet text, that’s what Rotherham said. The words parousia and illicious are not used interchangeably, they mustn’t be. For the terms ‘paramya’ and parousia are never used for the coming of Christ in the flesh, parousia never has the sense of return, never has the sense of return. So whenever it happens it’s over with. See? That’s according to the Scripture here.<ref>Lee Vayle, Questions and Answers, #4 Declaration on the Parousia, 17 May 1992</ref> | |||
:''I found within the Message today there appears to be a split in some of the fundamental teaching, most of you predict the fact that some feel 1963 mark the dispensation of change which precipitated the coming the Parousia of the Lord. | |||
:''... | |||
:''That's not true. What '''1963 was Rev 22:10''', and it's not so much a dispensation, it's a winding up of all the mysteries and those things; which started under the Seven Seals, back in the Garden of Eden. Adam could not go to the Tree of Life and live forever. | |||
:''... | |||
:''So therefore, He's coming quickly at this particular time when the Word divides the people from the non Word. Matthew 24, into those who are now in the Rapture of Luke 17. So therefore this is not of something concerning the Parousia, '''He's already here. He came in 1933.''' But he never set Himself the head of the church until the church was set in order by the Word; coming more and more into the church. No problem, just the same as you're going from Israel. If they would of gone on and on, the kingdom... God that was in the holy temple that left the tabernacle, would have been right there to go to the Millennium and right to the New Jerusalem. The coming God, the becoming God, moving on, moving on.<ref>Lee Vayle, Questions and Answers, #11 The Seventh Seal and Third Pull, August 1st, 1992</ref> | |||
==General vulgarity== | ==General vulgarity== | ||
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:''But, after the fifth generation, it's all blotted out. It's gone. God says that's all for this. So now, where does your fornication take you, if a mixed marriage, which is legal…? And they are legal, according to the law of the land. There is nobody who fusses about them; just leave them the way they are. Whatever they do is their business.<ref>What A Man Soweth - Inferring One Flesh 1 Cor 6:9-7:6, May 1st, 1999</ref> | :''But, after the fifth generation, it's all blotted out. It's gone. God says that's all for this. So now, where does your fornication take you, if a mixed marriage, which is legal…? And they are legal, according to the law of the land. There is nobody who fusses about them; just leave them the way they are. Whatever they do is their business.<ref>What A Man Soweth - Inferring One Flesh 1 Cor 6:9-7:6, May 1st, 1999</ref> | ||
=Did Lee Vayle have a Ph.D?= | |||
William Branham gave the impression that Lee Vayle had a doctorate: | |||
:''Now, this may go a little deep unless it's some of you '''theologians, Dr. Vayle''', probably Brother here, and some of these ministers here from Arkansas, and the—my good friends around, they'd probably know.<ref> William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2, para. 105</ref> | |||
:''Dr. Reidhead came in. ...And I think Dr. Vayle here is a... You know Dr. Reidhead, well know him. ...He said then when he had his other degrees give to him, he said, "I thought maybe that in each of these degree I would find Christ."<ref> William Branham, 57-0126B - India Trip Report, para. 16</ref> | |||
One of our colleagues wrote to Lee Vayle a number of years ago, and got this reply from his assistant: | |||
:''Brother Vayle only attended post high school for about 6 weeks at the age of 18 years old. He attended a Baptist Bible college and proceeded to get kicked out for teaching the young men to speak in tongues. He received his doctor tag from Brother Branham who said Br. Vayle was a profound teacher and began introducing him as Doctor Lee Vayle. Who better to give him the title of Doctor, than the prophet of our day?" | |||
Of course, this makes absolutely no sense and is, at best, deception... making someone appear to be more than they actually are. | |||
=Marriage and divorce= | |||
Lee Vayle stated that: | |||
:''... I do know that [William Branham] never would marry a person who was married and divorced; no matter what they said or did, he would never do that. Once you're married, divorced, he would not ever marry that person. And I appreciate the fact even after Marriage and Divorce, the sermon, the opening of the Seals, he never deviated from that.<ref>Lee Vayle, Questions & Answers # 2, September 29, 1991</ref> | |||
This comment was made notwithstanding the fact that William Branham officiated the marriages of these divorced family members: | |||
#His brother Jesse Branham’s second marriage - to Agnes Gulleth (also divorced) on August 1, 1938. | |||
#His brother Jesse Branham’s third marriage - to Mary Merryman on February 1, 1941. | |||
#His brother Melvin Branham’s second marriage - to Catherine Hendricks on January 27, 1945. Melvin divorced Charlotte Brumbach (the sister of William Branham's first wife, Hope) in June 1944. | |||
==Paul was not a Christian?== | ==Paul was not a Christian?== | ||
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:''I believe it was about 1956 and no later, that Leo and Gene, Leo Mercier and Gene Goad, '''God told Bro. Branham to hire them; two homosexuals'''. So I want you to get the drift of what I'm saying. This, what I'm talking about here, where God made Himself known, and through a prophet, is where men turned back and the homosexuals were standing right there to take over. And you're going to see more and more of it, and you're going to see more and more corruption, and you're going to see more and more people dying from AIDS. Bro. Branham said there'd come a time when people standing on this ground here-and I said it even, I think even before he did-because when I saw that the Scriptures said that God repented He made man, I looked very closely in the Hebrew to find out what that word 'repent' means 'to be sorrowful'. And God was very sorrowful concerning the state of man which man had found himself, and so, therefore, God did not let the last man suddenly gasp and fall into the ooze and scum of the universe and gag and die with his last breath. He cut them off.<ref>Lee Vayle, Godhead P19, July 1, 2000</ref> | :''I believe it was about 1956 and no later, that Leo and Gene, Leo Mercier and Gene Goad, '''God told Bro. Branham to hire them; two homosexuals'''. So I want you to get the drift of what I'm saying. This, what I'm talking about here, where God made Himself known, and through a prophet, is where men turned back and the homosexuals were standing right there to take over. And you're going to see more and more of it, and you're going to see more and more corruption, and you're going to see more and more people dying from AIDS. Bro. Branham said there'd come a time when people standing on this ground here-and I said it even, I think even before he did-because when I saw that the Scriptures said that God repented He made man, I looked very closely in the Hebrew to find out what that word 'repent' means 'to be sorrowful'. And God was very sorrowful concerning the state of man which man had found himself, and so, therefore, God did not let the last man suddenly gasp and fall into the ooze and scum of the universe and gag and die with his last breath. He cut them off.<ref>Lee Vayle, Godhead P19, July 1, 2000</ref> | ||
=Current status of Vaylism= | =Current status of Vaylism= | ||