https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9mKogGyg9jwflFQc2tDT0pFQkNsRTdXRHhKeVRhT3VpaXdxaVh5Z1M1UmtQNmFtTjR4c2s&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpRFdadkdlaVRfSTg&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpTndKYm9CMGRWWW8&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpZlJhdHpYb1VFb2c&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpM0otRXFCSDRZbmc&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpflV4WlExM19aaWtuWEFBbUtrVEw3eDE1VFdYTUFJenQ3Zlg1NndpR0l2aEE&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpfmc5OTNtQWp1cm0wVnhTTllYeXpZcTFlTXhpVDVjRE1LX3h3VzJ6SW04Qkk&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5I5KXZcuAmpVFZSTzFhVUp6Y3M&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9mKogGyg9jwaXB5OThfaG5HVkE&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9mKogGyg9jwfmFiN0wyTmlxaGlGbE5vSDhQZXhzLVpmem5ycmFwLWhzRkdLcHpVVnRqOWs&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9mKogGyg9jwY01leG56dmJSa28&usp=sharing
Monday 6 June 2016
Thursday 4 April 2013
William Branham's Personal Healing
William Branham's Personal Healing
Again we, the editors of the William
Branham Home Page, have found it necessary to 'update' this report concerning
healing experienced by Brother Branham personally. Following is Vision VI
and VII in which Bro. Branham is assured of God's protection, sustaining
Grace thoughout his sickness, and his eventual deliverance. God also confirms
this to his mother, through a dream. These visions and dream took place in
1949.
The 'update' concerns Vision VIII which
Brother Branham had in November 1965 which absolutely confirmed for the prophet that 'he
would NEVER again suffer with the affliction which had troubled him since he
was Seven years old. Vision VIII parallels Vision VII with one exception
- the final outcome. Again we we encourgae you to continue on to the "Surprising
Conclusion" to the whole matter.
From here Bro. Branham himself picks up
the narration concerning Vision VI and VII, his sickness, and his mother's
dream:
Another vision which has meant much to me and which
concerns the marvelous healing that I was to receive, came to me shortly after
the vision I had of Christ. It seemed to me that I was very happy, as if I had
just been converted. I was tripping along, rejoicing and sort of shadow boxing,
as I was going out to the road. It was dark and as I was going along, suddenly it
seemed that a big black dog ran out to me. I thought it was going to bite
me, and I kicked at it and shouted, "Get away, dog."
When I did this, it raised up and I
saw it was a big, tall, dark-looking man, dressed in black. He said, "You
called me a dog did you?" I answered, "I am very sorry. I
thought it was a dog because you were down on your hands and knees."
He snarled, "You called me a dog; I'm going to kill you." And
from under his belt he drew a long saber blade. I pleaded "Please
understand me, sir. I didn't know you were a man; I thought you were a
dog." As he got closer to me, he seemed to look like a demon. He
backed me right up against a culvert, and growled, "I'll teach you.
I'll kill you." I replied, "Sir, I am not afraid to die, for I
have received Jesus in my heart. He's my helper and my strength. Only I want
you to understand that it was a mistake that I said that." But he
still said, "I'll kill you." I was standing helpless against
the wall and he drew back his hand to stab me.
I cried out, but just at that moment,
I heard a noise coming from heaven, and down out of the skies right by
my side came a mighty angel, and he just looked with a stern gaze at that
man with the great knife in his hand. The man moved back, dropped his knife,
and ran as hard as he could. Then the angel looked at me and smiled.
Pulling his robe around him, he went up into Heaven again. This angel
appeared to be the same one that visited me later on. I cried for joy, as I
realized God had sent his angel for my protection.
I truly believe that this vision was
fulfilled about two years ago, when the devil had me backed up in the
corner, with that hideous nervousness that was about to take my life.
When it seemed the end had come, then God sent His angel on the scene
and delivered me.
P receding VISION VII Bro. Branham tells
of the nervous condition that bothered him since he was Seven years old. The
condition returned every seven years - Editor's Note.
Every few years during my life I would
have a spell when I would become very nervous. Of course my meetings -
the long prayer lines were also taking it's toll on me physically. In one
campaign I stayed right in the pulpit and prayed for the sick night and day,
taking only a little time for sleep. In other meetings the services often would
run until two o'clock in the morning. I knew that I was making a mistake in
doing this, but when I saw so many sick and afflicted my heart would go out to
them, realizing that in many cases, for them it was a matter of life and
death.
Gradually I got weaker and weaker,
but struggled to continue. Finally, after the campaigns in Tacoma and
Eugene, I told my brethren that were with me that I would have to cancel all
campaigns that had been scheduled and take a long rest. In fact, my nervous
energy was so far gone that in my own mind I wondered if I could ever return
to the field again.
I went back to my home in
Jeffersonville, but it seemed that I couldn't get my strength back. I
thought I was going to die. One day one of my deacons, Curtis Hooper, came down
and asked, "Aren't you any better?" I replied, "No, I
am not. It seems that I cannot get hold of myself." He said, "Brother
Branham, I have a job to do down at the flying field. Come with me, it will do
you good." When I got down to the field, I felt so bad I thought I
would not even get home again. I went out to the hangar shed and began to pray.
I cried, "Oh God. I know I have made mistakes. I ask you to forgive me.
People want me to do different things. I am all confused. Only You can help me.
Lord I can't stand any more." Somehow I got back to the house.
About this time I went to the Mayo
Clinic to have a checkup just to see what was really wrong with me. So in
the middle of the August heat, I was in Rochester, Minnesota five days. The
doctors were fine men and they did their best to find what was wrong with me,
as they put me through every kind of examination.
During this time I was praying. I told
the Lord that people with every kind of a nervous breakdown had come into my
meetings and He healed them. Also that He had shown me wonderful visions of
the healings of others and they were delivered. I prayed, "Lord, You
have never shown me a vision of my own deliverance over this terrible
nervousness." My strength was so far gone that it didn't seem that I
could get a hold of myself to believe God's Word. The next day was to be the
final day of the examination.
On this morning I woke up and said to myself that in a
couple of hours I would go over and get a report of what was wrong with me. I
will always be grateful to God for what happened next. Suddenly I was in a
vision. The first thing I saw was a little boy about seven years
of age. He looked just like I did at that age. I was standing by him
teaching him to hunt. Nearby was an old snag of a tree, and I said to the boy
that he should not go near the tree because a dangerous beast lived
there. I picked up stick and rapped on the side of the tree. Suddenly, out
on a limb ran a little animal about six inches long. It seemed to be
a weasel, and it had tiny, black, sharp-looking eyes. Oh, he was a sly little
creature!
Next I saw he was going to attack us.
I didn't have any gun; all that I had was a small hunting knife. I knew
I was helpless with that knife. I thought to put the boy behind me to protect
him, but it seemed at this time he had disappeared. Quick as lightning the
beast made a dive at me. But just before he made the dive I heard the
angel of the Lord speak on my right side, saying, "Remember, it's only
six inches long. "
It would be
many years before Brother Branham would understand the meaning of the
words, "only six inches long" - Editor's Note.
Then the animal made a dive for
my left shoulder. He went from my left to my right and back again just as fast
as he could go. I couldn't stab him with my knife and as I opened my mouth
to say something, he ran down my throat into my stomach and began to
gurgitate, over and over and over and over. I cried "Oh what can I
do?" Again I heard a voice saying, "Remember, it is only
six inches long."
When the vision had left, I
looked over and saw my little girl, Becky, and my wife lying in the bed asleep.
I knew that the vision referred to my stomach trouble and nervousness.
At that time nothing would stay on my stomach, and my weight had gone down to
about a hundred pounds. Then I recalled that the angel had said, "Remember,
it is only six inches long." I prayed, "Oh God, help me to
understand the interpretation of the vision." I began to consider. MAYBE
that saying meant I would have the nervousness six months, That didn't seem
right. Then I thought MAYBE it referred to six years, but that didn't
seem to be the answer.
Up till that time I had never thought of
how many times I had had these nervous spells. Just then it seemed that my lips spoke
of themselves. I seemed to say, "Maybe this means that I am to
have them six times." Just at that time, I felt the Holy Spirit
come over me with great power. Then a great baptism of the Spirit swept over me
again. Then three times, four times, five times, 'six' times. I began to
count the number of times I had had the nervousness. The first time had
been when I was about seven years of age. At that time I was crying because
things had gone wrong in our family - my dad drank very heavily, and I became
melancholy and very nervous. About every seven years this nervousness had returned.
I counted and this was exactly the sixth time. I rejoiced, for at once I became
convinced that the Lord by the vision had shown me that this would be the last
time of the nervousness.
I had thought to myself that the doctors
will want to operate and cut some of those nerves to the stomach. But the
doctor's knife was the little knife in the vision. It was helpless.
I went over to
the clinic to get the report. When the doctors came together they began to ask
me questions. I answered them as best I could. Then one of the leading doctors
spoke, "Young man, I am sorry to announce this to you, but your
condition is something that you have inherited from your father. Your father
drank before you were born. You will never be well. Your nerves affect your stomach
and this causes your food to be thrown back. There is no cure for this, and
there is nothing we can do; you are finished for the rest of your life!"
Just think, the best doctors in
the world had told me that I was finished for the rest of my life! But praise
God, just before they had said that, the Lord had spoken to me through the
vision, and said that this was the last of the terrible thing!
I went home. My mother met me and
remarked, "Son I have had a dream about you. Son, the other night"
(the same night as the time I had the vision) "I was asleep and alone
in the room. In the dream I was working and I saw you lying on a bed on the
porch almost dead. I was expecting you to go at any time. Then I heard a
peculiar sound, as of the cooing of doves. I ran over to where you were, and I
saw coming down out of heaven, six white doves in the form of an 'S.'
They lit upon your bosom one at a time. The doves were the whitest I had ever
seen and they were saying, 'coo, coo, coo.' They seemed to act as if they were
so sorry. Then you said, 'Praise the Lord.' After this the doves bowed their
little heads, and again formed the letter 'S', and went back to heaven, cooing
as they went. Next I saw you rise up and you were in perfect health."
Oh how encouraged I was!
In 1949-50 Bro Branham had interpreted
this vision and his mother's dream to mean that he would only experience this sickness 'six'
times. But the Lord did not confirm this. Bro. Branham doesn't speak of this
again until November 1965. In a Message entitled "On The Wings Of A
Snow White Dove" , he indicates that his sickness did return every
seven years to trouble him again. But 'this time' the outcome is different.
From here we let Bro. Branham pick up
the story again, as he related it in 1965, about fifteen years after the
'first vision' concerning the little six inch squirrel:
I've been a neurotic all my life. As
a little boy there was something struck me, that scare me, about every
seven years it would happen to me. Brother Jack Moore remembers when I
first started, come off the field for a year; something just happened.
Coming up the road just as happy as I
could be, all of a sudden it struck me; a year later before I entered the field
again, just killed me. But since a little boy, though I didn't know what a
vision was, I always said, "If I'd only fall in one of those trance,
and see that, I'd get well." That time - I always wanted to go to
Mayo's to find out what was wrong.
My stomach gets sour; Brother Jack's helped me around the
house many times. I walk right around the house; and just a hot greasy water
like, flying out of my mouth. And walk to the pulpit, and pray for people that
was twice that bad, and be healed. I've had them lay my hands on a man with
a cancer on his face, and the cancer left his face, standing there; and I was
so sick I couldn't stand up.
And you don't know what I've suffered; just mental oppression. Every seven
years it's come, all my life. That's where I'm at now, seven eights.
(The prophet was now 56 years old (7 x 8 = 56) -
Editor's note.)
I was so
distressed; I cried, I begged, I pleaded. And I remember (August 1949) when I
finally thought I had enough money to go to Mayo's for an examination; Wife and
I, and Becky back there, and Sarah (she was a little, bitty fellow) - And we
took off to Mayo's. I had just entered my healing ministry.
I went through the clinic. And they put me through every kind of
examination. I was to receive the final examination the next morning. On
this morning I just woke up and was setting there on the bed looking
around. And I looked out in front of me, and there was a little boy,
looked just like me, about seven years old; and looked at it, and
it was me. And he was standing by an old snag tree.
And I was seeing there where that
squirrel had been, and I thought, "What kind of squirrel is that?"
and I rubbed it. And when I did, I looked over and it was me then about
thirty-eight years old, the little boy was gone. So I rubbed that limb, and
out of the hollow log, pole, come a little squirrel about that long,
dark, almost black, and looked like little currents flying from him;
little bitty beady eyes, the wickedest looking thing that I ever seen, looked
like a weasel more than a squirrel.
And he looked right at me. And I opened
my mouth to say, "Well..." And when I did - Before you could've
batted your eye, he flew right into my mouth, went down into my
stomach, and just tearing me to pieces. And as I come out of the vision, with
my hands up, looking, I went a-screaming, "O God, have mercy! It's
killing me!"
I heard a Voice way down in the room,
say, "Remember, it's only six inches long." Well, on and on it went, suffering just the same. Mayo
Brothers, the next day (in August 1949), examined me. Said, "Your
father was an Irishman, he drank. Your mother being a half Indian, that makes
you almost a half-breed. So you're just such a nervous wreck until you'll never
be out of it." Said, "Otherwise, you're healthy."
They said, "The old-timers used to call it `had the blues,' it wouldn't
leave them." Said, "When that hits you, your stomach sours;
you're just upset." Said, "You'll always have it."
Oh, what a discouraging thing!
But the words, "Remember, it's
only six inches long," that's hung with me, as my dear wife
back there can tell you. Year after year, I've thought of that.
And then, before going overseas (Africa)
this last time (July 1965) - Well, I was back home, and I was on a
squirrel-hunting trip. I jumped out of the car with Brother Banks Wood, and I
started to run up the hill, and looked like my heart would jump out of
me. So it happened again in the next year, and I went and took the cardiogram.
He said, "Nothing wrong with your heart," said, "you're
just nervous." It started coming on then.
Well, another doctor said to me, a good
friend of mine, said, "That's your heart, boy," said "you
better be careful." That's the year (1964) I called Brother Moore and
he got somebody to preach in my stead, when I went on that ram hunt with
Brother Fred. I'd go up over mountains just like I did when I was sixteen years
old, mile after mile, running; never bothered me a bit. And I come back and
told Sam. He said, "Well, there's something wrong, you better be
careful."
Then I saw a vision of an
old-fashioned doctor standing with those stethoscopes over his arm. He was
standing in front of me (in the vision) one day, he said, "Don't let
them tell you `that's your heart,' that's your stomach." So, I
thought, "Well, I will just take that word, 'cause it was a vision. Come
on."
I started to Africa (July 1965); to get
some shots, and I had to take a bunch of shots before going to Africa, that's
the law. So, when I was getting these shots, the Doctor said, "Why, I
can't find one thing wrong with you." I said, "Thank
you." So I got a physical test, to take my health certificate to the
board.
So, he said, "Is there anything
you know about it?"
I said, "Nothing but persistent
souring in the stomach all the time. I've been to Mayo Brothers, and everywhere."
He said, "But wait a minute. I
know an old doctor up here that's found an instrument, they got it now;
they can put you to sleep with a little sodium pentothal, put a tube in your
throat, and they just actually look down in your stomach and see what's
wrong. He's your type of people, he's a Christian. Why don't you go see
him."
I took his name: Dr. Van Ravensworth.
So, when I come back (from Africa), I went up to see the old doctor. Oh, he's a
fine old man from Dutch East Indies, out of a big line of missionaries. And he
had heard of me and read my book, and oh, he just shook my hand, he said, "Brother
Branham, I'd be glad to check your stomach for you." He told me to
report to the Hospital the following week.
And then the next morning, I raised up
in the bed and looked around, I looked over in the twin bed; my wife over
there, she hadn't woke up yet. And I was looking out the window towards the
great Catalina Mountains there where I live, and I looked up there where
the Angel of the Lord put that Sword in my hand, where the seven Angels that
you see in the picture appeared, great things taken place. And as I looked, there (in a vision) I was standing by
that tree again, right where that squirrel was. I looked up there, I
thought, "That's that squirrel's den." And I thought (in the
vision), "Wonder if he's still up there?" I raked the side of
the tree, out he come. And before I could even bat my eye (you'll have to know
my ministry to know these symbols and things), he jumped at me but he missed
me, He missed my mouth, hit on my chest and fell off. And as soon as he
did, I heard Something said, "Go to the Catalina
Mountains."
So I turned around, I said, "Meda,
are you awake, Honey?" And I woke her up. She said, "What's
the matter?" About five o'clock in the morning. I said, "I was
looking out here, and I saw that squirrel again, Honey."
"What squirrel?"
I said, "The one I seen up there
at Mayo's." (1949). I said, "You know what? He missed my
mouth this time, he never hit me, he went out on my chest." I
said, "Praise be to God! I've looked, oh, since a little boy, I
have longed to see that happen. If I could ever see that happen, then I said,
`I'd be all right. Whatever that told me, that's what I'd be.' And for forty
years I've looked for that, and there it happened."
Before, when I was at Mayo's(1949),
the same time I was up there when they give me that message, and I saw the
vision - my mother had a dream. My ol' mother's gone on to Glory now - she
was a very odd woman. She had about three or four dreams in her life, and they
were always true.
Now notice. When I come back from Mayo's
Clinic she said, "Billy, come here, son, and set down." She
said, "I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I seen you a-laying sick,
just about to die, with your stomach as usual. You were building a house upon a
hill. And I seen six white doves come down from heaven, cooing, in a
letter `S' and they set upon your chest. And you was looking, and the one
in front was trying to tell you something." Said, "They was real
glossy, white doves. And they took their little heads and put against your
cheek, and going, `coo, coo, coo'. In the dream, I said, "Oh, I
see it, praise the Lord!" And said, "They formed their letter
`S' again and went back up into the skies, going `coo, coo, coo, coo,'
going back home."
Interpretation and Fulfillme nt
Well, the little animal that I
saw was six inches long. The string of doves that Mom saw was six,
six is incomplete. I knew that someday I'd see that seventh one. Six
is the number of man. That was man, suffering; so on and on it went.
That morning, I got up after seeing this
vision; I obeyed the Lord. I took my little boy, Joseph, to school (he's
listening to me now, in Tucson). I took him to school, and told Meda I didn't
know when I'd be back. And I took off up into Catalina, up into the foothills,
and went up into the place where the Angel of the Lord put the Sword in my
hand. Real early; and started climbing up the mountain.
Well, instead of going up in the peaks
this way I turned to my right; Something said, "Turn to your
right." I went way into the peaks; I went around, and I was going
around those great huge rocks. And along about eleven o'clock, I was going into
a little cove, over a little deer trail. And so I turned in there, and as I
turned into that little cove, I felt the presence of the Lord. I jerked
off my hat and looked around. I thought, "He's here somewhere. I know
He's here." I thought, "What is it?" I made a few more
steps. I said, "Lord, You're here somewhere."
And I looked laying on the path, and
there laid that little squirrel; had jumped at something and missed it, and it hit a
bunch of cholla (that's jumping cactus). It rammed through his head, chest,
stomach, and he was dead. That odd-looking little squirrel, he had missed my
mouth and hit that cholla. And the Voice of the Lord said, "Your
enemy is dead." I stood there, and I trembled.
I went back around, set there and
cried a while, and prayed; looking down over Tucson, miles below me. I
turned back around and come back, it still laid there. When I entered that
cove the Spirit of God come on me again. I went on around, went down the
mountain. Went in and told my wife, I said, "Honey, I don't know how,
but I'm going to get over this."
As planned, I went to see Dr.
Ravensworth. And after his examination, he said, "It's totally impossible for you to be
well." he said, "Reverend, your stomach walls are even so
hard, they're dried up.". And I would've been a discouraged boy if
it hadn't been for the vision of the Lord.
And the next day, after seeing the
Doctor something said, "Go back to the mountain." And
that day instead of going one way, I was led to go another way. And I
was standing there; and looking, setting in the front of me, and there set
that seventh little, white dove, looking right at me. I rubbed my
eyes, I said, "Surely, it's a vision; surely, it is." I
looked, and I said, "Little dove, where do you come from?"
Just as pretty and white, could've been a pigeon, whatever it was, a-way in
that wilderness.
God Almighty, Who raised up Jesus Christ
from the dead, Whose servant I am, and His Word laying here open before me,
know that I tell the truth and lie not.
There set the dove, setting there looking at me. I walked
around, I thought, "Surely, it's a vision." I turned my head, I
looked back, and there he set there; them little, white wings, just as snowy as
he could be; his little, yellow feet; and little, yellow beak; setting there
looking at me. He was watching right straight westward. I walked around
him like that, I wouldn't touch him for nothing. I walked on up the trail;
looked back, and there he still set watching me.
Brother, as a son of Abraham, I
consider not what the doctor told me, I'm going to be well, anyhow!
Somehow, I know. I will tell you before it happens. The doctor's a good doctor,
no doubt; I think he's a fine man. But I know I'm going to be over it. It's
done! It's finished, and I'm going to be well!
And I was thinking as Ernie sang that
song a few moments ago, 'On the Wings of a Dove'. I understand Ernie made two
verses of that. I'm going to make you a third verse:
Though I have
suffered
In many a way,
I cried for
healing
Both night and
day;
But faith wasn't
forgotten
By the Father
above,
He gave me His
Sign
On The wings of
a Dove.
The Final Outcome
We marvel at the power, goodness and Grace of
God manifested in the life of William Branham. But we are also caused to
marvel at the Mystery of God's dealings with His Servant. Like Jacob
over Joseph's dreams; and Mary over the words of Simeon and Anna in the
Temple, we are caused to ponder over these visions concerning the
Prophet's healing.
Every seven years, throughout his
life, he had suffered with "souring in his stomach". Through his
ministry, many were healed of worse diseases. Even the dead was raised up. But
yet, personal healing for William Branham remained as elusive as ever. In
1949 after Bro. Branham was forced to leave the Evangelistic field for
badly needed rest, he called on God more than ever for deliverance from
his affliction. In response to his call, God gave him two visions. For
further encouragement the Lord gave Bro. Branham's mother a dream concerning
his eventual healing.
Still the years passed and the
"seven year cycle" of suffering continued. Then during the fall
of 1965, he "saw Again" the same vision of the squirrel he had
seen in 1949 BUT this time when the squirrel jumped at him, it missed
his mouth and was killed on the cactus. In the vision a Voice spoke and
said, "Your enemy is dead".
What William Branham had waited all his
life to hear finally sounded
in his ears - "Your enemy is dead". He was Healed! Never
to suffer again. But, Oh, how far reaching those words were. On that
night (Nov. 28, 1965) when he spoke those things in Shreve porte, NO ONE
(except maybe Bro. Branham) was prepared for what was to happen exactly
three weeks from that night. On December 18th. 1965 a drunken soldier,
driving on the wrong side of the road, smashed head on into a car being driven
by Bro. Branham. Exactly "six" days after the accident, that
which William Branham had often mentioned now came to past - He went Home to be
with the Lord.
On April 10, 1965, in a message entitled
"The Easter Seal" , he said, "What a hope for an old
man like me, knowing that I see my end time right out yonder soon, at
fifty-'six' years old." On December 5, in a Message entitled, "Things
That Are To Be", he said, "...I'm beginning to get old and know
that 'my days' are numbered." In that same message, encouraging
the people to think straight and honest, he placed the possibilities before
them saying, "Dear God, I may be killed tonight in an accident.
I may die in an heart attack..." On December 7, 1965, in a message
entitled, "Leadership", he said, "I'm an old man, I
haven't got much longer to stay." Indeed, God moves in mysterious
ways His wonders to perform!
To God Be The Glory - Great Things He Hath Done
Thanks to:
http://www.williambranhamhomepage.org/sixinch.htm
Monday 1 April 2013
BRIDE AND VOICE
BRIDE
AND VOICE
GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M
14-2 {78}
John, the revelator, over in the Book of Revelation, he saw this
tabernacle (Revelations 21). He saw the new temple coming, descending down from
heaven, adored as a bride
was adored for her husband, and a voice out of the temple said, "Behold, the tabernacle of
God is with men, and God shall be with them, and they'll wipe all tears from
their eyes. And there shall be no more hunger, nor no more sorrow, no more pain
or death, for the former things have passed away."
Then the true Son of David (as we're going to see in this
lessons coming on in this week) will then come to His temple, the temple of
God, the real tabernacle, which He has gone away to construct now. For He said
in John 14, "In My Father's house are many mansions, and I will
go..." What did He mean by that? It was already foreordained, "And
I'll go to prepare a place for you, and will return back to receive you unto
Myself." And of course, we know that'll be in the great age to come. And the true
Seed of David will take the throne, which is Jesus Christ, and there will reign
over the Church as His Bride, in the house with Him and over the twelve tribes
of Israel
throughout all eternity.
SCRIPTURAL.SIGNS.OF.THE.TIME_ BIRMINGHAM.AL
FRIDAY_ 64-0410
E-7 And one day the door of mercy will be
closed, and people will go right on thinking they're getting saved, and
preaching, and so forth, and mercy has done been spurned its last time, and
know it not until it's missing. Remember, there's hundreds of people missing
every day that we cannot find or give an account for them, world over.
"There'll be one in a field; I'll take one. One in the--two in a bed, and
I'll take one." Universal, so it won't take very many to make that escape,
raptured Bride.
Remember the signs. Israel was always relied upon their
signs, instead of intellectual speeches. They were supposed to... God sent them
prophets. The prophets give signs. And signs... Always, when there's a sign, a
Scriptural sign, there's got to be a Scriptural voice follow that Scriptural sign. And it must all
be Scriptural promised.
So see, you get into a trend like Luther on justification.
That's what he knowed; that's all. They was satisfied, and went right down,
ended their doctrine. Here come Wesley with sanctification: went right on past
it. Then he organized. Along come Pentecost with the restoration of the gifts,
and they organized. And God moves right on, right straight on, all the time
(See?) for each day, each church age.
GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_
JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_
65-0801M
161 Her long hair, Nazarite vow shows that
She's vowed to God. Her beautiful gown of His promised Word for the age that She's living in
wrapped around her, vindicating Her with Himself of Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ,
the same yesterday, today, and forever. As She is a part of the Word Groom,
true to Him in every point...
Now, look. If a woman goes out here and is married to a man,
and she goes out and makes love with another man and has an affairs with him,
and come back to her husband, he should kick her out. That right? She must be
true to him, 'cause she's vowed to him. And the Bride of Christ is vowed to Christ, and He is the
Word. Not even wink at the other side, a woman should not even wink at another
man. She should make no signs, no emotions at all towards him, for she is
absolutely a bride
to one bridegroom. We don't want none of your mixed trees, your denominations.
Be true to Christ, the Word. He'll vindicate It to be true.
No, sir. Not even any emotion of anything towards making
love to him, not join his ranks or anything else, or let him get you in his
arms or in his care, or--or talk to you over this way, that way, you listen
to--only one Voice:
"My sheep know My voice;
a stranger, they'll not..." What is His Voice? Any man's voice is his word, and this is It, the Bible. Not
one word to be added to It or taken from It, just stay right with that Voice. A stranger, they
won't follow a denomination.
INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE_ SHP.LA
V-2 N-15 THURSDAY_ 65-1125
45-7 All at once we heard something from the top
of the hill, a voice
come down through the loud speaker said, "All things are ready."
Then this man, standing right there by the side of me, said,
"Let the fire fall."
Here it comes pouring down across that mountain, a glacier
of fire and blazes a licking, a sight to behold.
Brother, let's get all things ready, for one of these days,
the fire's going to fall. We're going up. Now, let's get ready for the
fire-falling time.
We're in the last days. We all know that. And we're ready
for the coming of the Lord. The thing to do is separate yourself from all sin.
Separate yourself from anything that pertains to the world. Don't love the
world or the things of the world. Let no man, by his creed, deceive you. You
stay right straight in the promise of God, the Word of God; and that Word, if
It's the Word, for this day, God vindicates It so. If He doesn't, it's not the
Word for this day. The Word that fell on the day of Pentecost will not work
this day. No, sir, that was for Pentecost. This is for the Bride: going home of
the Bride. We got something different. The Pentecostals represented that again.
We're in the Bride age. No more than the
Word of Noah would worked in the days of Moses. No more than Moses' law
would've worked in the time of Paul, here. He tried to tell them, "You're
dead to that. And you cannot have that."
61-1 PATMOS.VISION
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.2
Now Paul said that the Word came in power as well as voice. The Word preached
actually demonstrated itself. Like a flaming, cutting sword it went to the
consciences of men, and like a surgeon's knife it cut out the diseases and set
captives free. Everywhere those early believers went, "they went preaching
the Gospel (Word) and God confirmed that Word with signs following." The
sick were healed, devils were cast out, and they spoke in new tongues. That was
the Word in action. That Word has never failed in the mouths of believing
Christians. And in this last age
it is here stronger and greater than ever in the true Word bride. Oh, little
flock, you little minority, hold on to the Word, fill your mouth and heart with
it, and some day God will give you the kingdom.
328-3 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Before we close this section on the messenger of the
Laodicean Age, we
must seriously consider these two thoughts. First, this age will have ONE Prophet-Messenger.
Revelation 10:7, says, "When he (singular) shall begin to sound."
There has never been an age
where God gave His people two major prophets at one time. He gave Enoch
(alone); He gave Noah (alone); He gave Moses (he alone had the Word though
others prophesied); John the Baptist came ALONE. Now in this last day there is
to be a PROPHET (not a prophetess--though in this age there are more women purporting to give God's
revelation than men), and the infallible Word says that he (the prophet) will
reveal the mysteries to the end time people, and turn the hearts of the
children back to the fathers. There are those who say that God's people are
going to come together through a collective revelation. I challenge that
statement. It is a bald, invalid assumption in the face of Revelation 10:7. Now
I do not deny that people will prophesy in this last age and their ministries can and will be
correct. I do not deny that there will be prophets even as in the days of Paul
when there was "one Agabus a prophet who prophesied of a famine". I
agree that is so. BUT I DENY UPON THE INFALLIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE WORD THAT
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MAJOR PROPHET-MESSENGER WHO WILL REVEAL THE MYSTERIES AS
CONTAINED IN THE WORD, AND WHO HAS THE MINISTRY TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE
CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS. "Thus saith the Lord" by His unfailing Word
stands, and shall stand and be vindicated. There is one prophet-messenger to
this age. On the
basis of human behavior alone, anyone knows that where there are many people
there is even divided opinion on lesser points of a major doctrine which they
all hold together. Who then will have the power of infallibility which is to be
restored in this last age,
for this last age
is going to go back to manifesting the Pure Word Bride? That means we will have
the Word once again as it was perfectly given, and perfectly understood in the
days of Paul. I will tell you who will have it. It will be a prophet as
thoroughly vindicated, or even more thoroughly vindicated than was any prophet
in all the ages
from Enoch to this day, because this man will of necessity have the capstone
prophetic ministry, and God will shew him forth. He won't need to speak for
himself, God will speak for him by the voice of the sign. Amen.
340-2 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Yes sir. The church is no longer the "mouthpiece"
of God. It is its own mouthpiece. So God is turning on her. He will confound
her through the prophet and the bride, for the voice of God will be in her. Yes it is, for it
says in the last chapter of Revelation verse 17 "The Spirit and the bride say come".
Once more the world will hear direct from God as at Pentecost; but of course
that Word Bride
will be repudiated as in the first age.
365-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
But thank God, at this moment, this age is not over. He is yet crying. And His
cry is not only in the spiritual ears of men by His Spirit, but once again a
prophet is in the land. Once more God will reveal the truth as He did to Paul.
In the days of the seventh messenger, in the days of the Laodicean Age, its messenger will
reveal the mysteries of God as revealed to Paul. He will speak out, and those
who receive that prophet in his own name will receive the beneficent effect of
that prophet's ministry. And they that hear him will be blessed and become part
of that bride of
the last day who are mentioned in Revelation 22:17, "The Spirit and the bride say come." The
corn of wheat (the Bride
Wheat) that fell into the ground at Nicaea
has come back to original Word Grain again. Praise God forever. Yes, listen to
the authenticated prophet of God who appears in this last age. What he says from
God, the bride will
say. The Spirit and the prophet and the bride will be saying the same thing. And what they
will say will have already been said in the Word. They are saying it now,
"Come out from among her now and be ye separate." The cry has gone
out. The cry is going out. How long will the voice cry? We do not know, but one thing we do
know, it won't be long, for this is the last age.
EXPLOITS.OF.FAITH_
CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 53-1213E
E-80 But we're... You say we're strangers. All
right. We don't know each other. But now, we are... You are a Christian. You're
a Christian believer. And there's something strange about you. I see a--a
water. It's a rolling; it's a sea. And you're not from this country.
You're--you're from Italy .
You're an Italian. And you used to be Catholic. And you have turned Christian.
And you're a war bride.
Is that right? Your husband is kind of a little fellow with kind of heavy hair.
Is that right?
And you... You're standing for an uncle, or relative somewhere
in Italy .
It's suffering with a--a venereal disease, syphilitic. And he's Catholic.
That's left. Is that right? What I told you there, what that... You heard my voice, but it wasn't me;
it was someone else talking. See?
SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-2 WEDNESDAY_
54-0512
211 Watch, it's the Church speaking to Him now.
"Waters..." Revelations 17:15, said, "Waters means thickness and
multitudes of people." Now, "His voice," or this Being that was standing there
looking like this, Christ in His Church, as the Bride and Christ being one, like husband and wife
is one; the Church and Christ being molded together with one Person, the same
Holy Spirit.
And the things that Christ did, the Church does also. Do you
see it? That beautiful Church there in holiness, in power, in majesty, with
seeing visions, signs, wonders, everything just like He did, here it is on
earth; giving all praise to God, saying, "I can do nothing except the
Father shows Me; but He showed Me, and here it is." And they come see these
things go to taking place.
Now, Christ molded into one.
... and the voice... of many
waters...
Many people, not just the one; it was the whole Church, the
Seven Churches molded together as one great ransomed Body of the Lord. The
Methodists, the Baptists, the Presbyterian, all that's born again with the Holy
Ghost, speaking with the power of God, that's the Body. That's the Body.
And he had in his
right...
SEAL.OF.GOD_
JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 FRIDAY_
54-0514
243 Where'd they come up from? You seen thee
sealing them Jews at the end; and when the angels were given to go forth to
destroy, said in here, seen them "held." But where did these come
from, of all kindreds, tongue, and nations. They appear on the scene.
... and peoples, and tongues, stood before the Lamb, and
before... were... clothed... the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hand;... (The Bride,
the Gentile Bride
had been sealed away here. Watch.)
And they cried with a
loud voice, saying,
Salvation to our God that setteth upon
the throne, and to the Lamb.
And--and... the
angels that... stood around about the throne,... the elders,... the four
beasts... fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying... (Listen, if
this don't sound like a Holy Ghost meeting!) A... Blessings, amen, glory...
wisdom... thanksgiving,... honour,... power,... might, be to our God for ever
and ever. Amen.
QA.HEBREWS.PART.1_
JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_
57-0925
221-74 Watch. 'Course, I know you go back over
here to the 14th, and say, "Why, they're with the Bride wherever they..." Absolutely.
The eunuchs travel with the queen wherever she went. Truly. But what were they?
They were nothing but escorts, and that's just exactly what the Scripture
declares it to be here.
Notice.
And after this... and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations,... kindreds,... people, and tongue,... (There's
your Gentile Bride
coming up. All right)... these stood... before the Lamb... (There's their
Saviour, the Lamb: not the law, the Lamb, grace.)... clothed with white
robes,... (Watch, in a few minutes, see if the white robes ain't the
righteousness of the saints.)... and palms in their hands;
And they cried with a loud voice,... (If this ain't a Pentecostal revival, I
never heard one.)... saying, Salvation to our God which set upon the throne,
and unto the Lamb.
And all the angels stood around about the throne, and about
the elders and the four beasts,... fell upon the... before the throne on their
faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, Amen: Blessing... glory... wisdom...
thanksgiving,... honour,... might, power, be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen.
That sounds like a camp meeting time, doesn't it? It's going
to be. Who was that? The hundred and forty-four thousand? Not at all. This
great number that no man... of all kindred, tongues, and nations... Can't you
see, my dear friend?
SUDDEN.SECRET.GOING.AWAY.OF.CHURCH_ JEFF.IN
SUNDAY_ 58-1012
E-33 Sometime ago, a story, just before closing,
that struck me as I heard it many, many years ago... This secret coming of the
Lord, sudden secret going of the church... "Watch, it'll be two in the
field; I'll take one and leave one. There'll be two in the bed; I'll take one
and leave one," showing that the coming of the Lord will not be just at
any certain corner, but it'll be universal. One will be in the field working:
daytime, the other one in the bed sleeping on the other side of the world.
It'll be a universal rapture. And it'll come with the shout, with the voice of the Archangel . And the trump of God shall sound, and the dead
in Christ shall rise. And she will be caught away secretly. Oh, I love that.
The great Bridegroom
coming, and the bride
that got Herself ready, waiting for that secret moment that she doesn't even
know herself, but she's ready and dressed, and waiting for it.
WATCHMAN.WHAT.OF.THE.NIGHT_
LAKEPORT.CA FRIDAY_ 60-0722
E-53 Heavenly Father, as the day is growing dim
now, the signs of His appearing is at hand. We see the church, that little
handful of elected, called out, predestined before the beginning of the world,
names are put on the Lamb's Book of Life before there was a foundation of the
world. The Holy Spirit has sought through the nations and around the world,
until It's called this little group. "All the Father has given Me will
come to Me. All that comes to Me, I'll give him Everlasting Life, raise him up
at the last day." We see that little group gathering itself together out
of every denomination, out of every church, out of every village. God's getting
His little group ready, letting the Morning Star shine upon them, as we see the
approaching of the Lord Jesus.
Seeing the ministry come from, "Just shall live by
faith," Martin Luther; sanctification by John Wesley; the baptism of the
Holy Ghost by the Pentecostals, and the restoration of the gifts. And now,
coming into that Morning Star begin to reflect, and all the churches pulling
out of every church, every nation, every people, a Bride for His Name.
O God, their hearts are filled with joy; they're happy.
They'll set in hot buildings; they'll walk in cold weather; they'll walk
through the rain, sleet, snow, anywhere; "For where the carcass is, the
eagles will be gathered. My sheep know my voice."
PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE_
JEFF.IN ROJC 229-285 WEDNESDAY_
60-1207
170 Now, this woman was an apostate. Wasn't
she? Now, this is teaching, so you must put your conscience behind you now.
See? What is that foul woman called whore? Is a woman that's untrue to her
marriage vow. Now, the church, the Catholic church claims to be the Bride and the Wife of
Christ. Even the nuns cut off their hair and have no affections; they're all
affections to Christ. Is that right? Sure. Anybody...
I come from a Catholic background. See? I got their
"Facts Of Our Faith," and their books; and your Protestants, and the
Baptists, and whatever you believe there in my study. So I study it, so if
anybody says anything. "Whoop." I can back you right up to your own
thing. See? So the hour's come for this to go out.
Now, first thing, God had to move across the nation, showing
signs, wonders, and miracles, that the people would know. God's sheep knows His
Voice; they know;
they know exactly. You have to find first... You go out without being known,
then you just... What do you do? You do more harm than ever. Let it... Let God
take care of that. See?
TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_
60-1211M
63 ... after these things I saw four Angels
standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds... that they
should not blow upon the earth, nor on the sea,... or any tree.
And I saw another Angel descending from the east, having the
seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four Angels, to whom it was heard...
it was given to hurt the sea and the earth, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither
the sea, or tree... until we have sealed the servants of our God in their
forehead.
Now, remember, the servants has always been... God's
servants is the Jew. Abraham was His servant. The Gentile is not a servant; it's
a Bride; it's a
son. This is the son, the church is. The Jews are the servants. Oh, if you
could just... If we just had time to comb them words out. A lot of times I do
in the room there, run it all the way through the references and get it up. The
Jews are a servant. If I stand here and take up all that time on a servant, I
don't hit the other spots. You see? So just remember, trace that through the
Bible; you'll find that the Jew is God's servant.
TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_
60-1211M
125 There's your hundred and forty... Now, if
you want to see the Bride
come up after that, to show that the hundred and forty-four thousand is not the
Bride, just
continue to read now on down from the 8th chapter on--or the, yes, the 8th
chapter--or the 8th verse, I mean, from the 7th chapter. Let's start at the
9th--9th verse, 'cause the 8--8th verse is the sealing of Benjamin, twelve
thousand.
After--after this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude,
which no man could number... (Here comes the Bride.), of all nations,... kindreds,... people,
and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed in white
robes, and palms in their hand;
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which setteth
upon the throne, and to the Lamb.
... all the angels stood around about the throne, and about
the elders and the four beasts,... fell--fell before the throne on their faces,
and worshipped God,
Saying, Amen: Blessings,... glory,... wisdom,...
thanksgiving,... honour,... power,... might, be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen.
And one of the elders which... answered and said unto me,
What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence cometh they?
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me.
These are they which have come up out of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him
day and night in the temple:... (See?)
TEN.VIRGINS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_
60-1211M
195 Now, watch, 9th verse.
I beheld until the thrones were cast down,... (That's all
the Gentile kingdoms over. The prophet's speaking. Now, remember, every one of
those things he said has happened right down to this last thing; we know that by
our history that we're taking.)... whose... was--was cast down, and the Ancient
of days did set, whose garments was white as snow,... (You know Who that was
the other night in that vision? Jesus.)... and the hair of his head was like...
pure wool: and his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning
fire.
And a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousands times thousands ministered unto him,... (There's the church coming
back with Him. See?)... and tens of thousands times tens of thousands stood
before him:... (That's the Bride
coming up, and the rest of the world.)... and judgment was set, and the books
were opened... the judgment was set, and the books were opened,
And I beheld them because of the voice of the great words which the horn
spake: and I beheld even until the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and
given unto the burning fire.
And concerning the rest of the dead, they that have their
dominion taken aw...?... the rest of the beasts,... (I mean.)... had their
dominion taken away from them: and yet their lives were prolonged for a season
and time.
REV.CHAP.4.PT.2.24.ELDERS_
JEFF.IN ROJC 585-643 SUNDAY_
61-0101
310 But one of these mornings, friend, one of
these mornings, when that's all over, she'll bloom forth again. The fields with
its whitening clover and the--the fragrance off of the rose will blend in with
the blossom off of the Tree of Life, and Christ will return some morning. When
the big birds, the doves, will set in the trees and coo, and there'll be no
more death and no more sorrow. Christ and His redeemed will return to the
earth, not old people, but young forever, immortal will stand in His likeness,
the sun and the stars to outshine.
I'm bound for that beautiful city
My Lord has prepared for His own;
Where all the redeemed of all ages
Will sing "Glory" around the white throne.
Sometimes I get homesick for heaven
And the glory yet to behold;
What a joy that will be when my Saviour I see,
In that beautiful city of gold!
How I long to see Him. Oh, I want to see Him. I'm bound for
that beautiful City. John saw it on the Isle of Patmos, coming down as a Bride adorned for her
husband. The glory of it I want to behold someday.
I want to see Him, and look upon His face,
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory let me lift my voice;
Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice.
GABRIEL'S.INSTRUCT.TO.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN
DA 1-44 SUNDAY_ 61-0730M
83 Now, he read in Jeremiah the 25th chapter.
Let's turn over in Jeremiah the 25th chapter and read what Jeremiah had to say.
Actually, let's begin at the 8th verse, 'cause it's... I want you to be sure to
get it. The 11th verse is where I had wrote down here to read, but let's begin
at the 8th verse.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;... (I just like
that. When I can hear a prophet stand up with "THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD," brother, that's it. To me that settles it. That's all of it.)...
thus saith the LORD of hosts, Because you have not heard my words,
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them again--against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and
against all the nations around about, and I will utterly destroy them,...
(Remember, them were God's elected that He's talking about. That wasn't
infidels; that was church members.)
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth,... the voice of gladness,...
(Just like we have today, all rock-and-roll, Ricky and Elvis, and oh...)... the
voice of the bridegroom,... the voice of the bird,... (or
the bride,
rather.)... the sound of the millstone,... the light of the candle,
And this whole land shall be desolate,...
Hear that prophet cry out. This whole land shall be desolate.
And not to impersonate this great servant of God, but I prophesy that this
whole nation shall become desolate. God shall punish this nation for her sins.
If God would not let Israel, His elected, Abraham's seed, who He made the
covenant and promise with, if He would not let them get by with wrong doing,
though they were religious to the core, had the great churches, the priests,
and the rabbis, but because of the immorals and things among them, and God made
them reap what they sowed, so shall we get it.
(11th verse:)... this whole land shall become desolate,
and... astonishment;... (That is, everybody just look and say, "There they
are. They were so great. Look at them now.")... and these nations shall
serve the king of Babylon
seventy years. (That's a lifetime. That's when your own blessed old mother was
a baby. They were in there without a God, without a church, without a song,
without anything for a complete generation, till all that sinning generation
died out.)
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon , and that nation, saith the LORD, for
their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldean, and will make it a perpetual
desolation.
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah
has prophesied against all the nation.
For many nations and great kings shall serve
themselves--themselves of them also: and I will recompense according to their
deeds, and according to their words of their own hand.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup
of the fury of my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I will send thee, to
drink of it. (In other words, "Jeremiah, I've give you this message. Don't
set still. Don't stay in one place, but prophesy to all the nations." Do
you follow it? "Prophesy to all the nations. Show My signs and wonders,
and let them know that I'm coming to do this.")
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of
the word that I will send among them.
SIXFOLD.PURPOSE.GABRIEL.VISIT.DAN_ JEFF.IN
DA 45-88 SUNDAY_ 61-0730E
133 Now, after this the Bride appears. After the seventy weeks, the
Bride appears in
Revelations the 19th chapter, the 1st and the 16th verse. She arrives with her Bridegroom, the mighty
King. Oh, my. I don't know whether we're going to get it all or not. Just got
it so...
Let's just read part of this anyhow. Here's where the Bride will come, after
this. See? After the millennium sets in, then Christ comes back with the Bride. Right. One to
sixteen in the 19th chapter...
And after these things... (After this tribulation, after the
Woes, after the Seals, after the Plagues, after the casting out of Satan, after
the setting up of the Millennium. Watch.)
... after these things I heard a... voice of much people in heaven, saying,
Alleluia; Salvation, and glory,... honour,... power, unto the Lord our God:
For true and righteous are thy judgments: for he had judged
the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
And again he--they--and again they said, Alleluia. And her
smoke rose up for ever and ever... (That's the old prostitute church.)... her
smoke rose up...
And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down
and worshipped God that set upon the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
And a voice
came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God--Praise our God, all ye his
servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
And I heard as it was the voice of a great multitude,... (Listen. Here you
are, church. After She went up in the 3rd chapter, here She comes. See?)... And
I... (The 6th verse.)... And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and
as the voice of a
mighty thundering, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
(Hallelujah. Watch. The marriage of the Lamb comes now. Here She comes.)
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. (Here She
comes, both Bride
and Bridegroom.)
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine
linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is... righteousness of saints.
And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are
called unto the wedding supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me. These are...
true sayings of God.
And I fell down at the feet to worship him. And he said unto
me, See thou doeth it not: I am of thy fellowservant,... thy brethren and have
the--thy brethren and have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the
testimony of Christ--of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And I saw heaven opened, and... a white horse;... (Oh,
my.)... and he that set thereon... was called Faithful and True, and...
righteousness does he judge and make war.
And his eyes was as flames of fire, and... his head was many
crowns;... (He was crowned what? King of kings.)... and he had a name written,
that no man knowed, but... himself.
And he was clothed with white vesture dipped in blood: and
his name is called The Word of God... ("In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was God; and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Who
was It? Jesus.)... and His Name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Glory. Here He comes.)
And out of his mouth will go a sharp sword, that--and
that... it... should smite the nations: and... shall rule them with a rod of
iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty
God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KING, AND LORD OF LORDS.
TESTIMONY.OF.A.TRUE.WITNESS_
JEFF.IN V-15 N-6 SUNDAY_
61-1105
32 The lady had just got in. She turned around
to the other people that was there, and just bowed her head. I noticed she was
dressed kindly old fashioned. And the lady turned around to bow to me, just
before... And I'd walked up in the pulpit then to preach. And--and just as she
held her head down, and I turned around like this, to her. And when I raised my
head up, and she raised her head up facing me, it was mama. And she looked at
me and smiled. She was young, real young. And a great thundering Voice shook the place,
and words came forth and said, "Do not worry about her, she's like she was
in 1906."
And when the vision left me, I looked to see what 1906 was.
That was the year she was a bride
to my father. And I--I know now too, that she's part of a Bride, the Bride of Jesus Christ.
MEANEST.MAN.I.KNOW_
PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 62-0127
E-11 And I seen a renowned woman walk in, though
she was dressed old fashion, with a skirt down, and the little things around
the neck, and big hat turned over, and lots of hair done up in the back. So I
seen her walking up through the building and--through the place. This wasn't a
building; it was outside. And there was a box on each side, like where the
celebrity set. And she was in this box in a few moments, bowing to the people.
And I got in the pulpit and was going to preach. And the lady turned to bow her
head to me, like this. When she had her head down, I bowed mine. I was in five
feet of her. And when she raised up, it was mother, beautiful, young.
Just then, like over here, a thunder and a lightning and a
roar, and a Voice
said, "Do not worry about her no more. She's like she was in 1906." I
went away and looked in the old family Bible to find out what happened in 1906,
and that was the year that she was a bride to my father. So today she is part of the Bride of the Lord Jesus,
of which I am a member. Someday I will see her again.
END.TIME.SIGN.SEED_
TIFTON.GA MONDAY_ 62-0319
E-73 Have you noticed the Christian Business
Men's Voice? I
speak for them internationally. I can't pull no punches for them. This is the
Word. Look. What about in the... Looky here at the Presbyterians,
Episcopalians: hundreds of them everywhere trying to seek the Holy Ghost.
They're playing up a great big thing.
A precious minister friend of mine from Africa ,
fine man, godly man, I've asked him, "Don't you know what it is, brother?
What's your ministry?"
He said, "I'm supposed to bring Babylon in."
I thought, "Can't you see, the very time that the
unwise virgin wants some oil to make her seeds to grow also, that's the time
that Christ comes and she's left out?" The great preacher Billy Graham has
just said that we need a Pentecost, we need people back. Episcopalians wrote a
great article, a folder that long, said, "We need speakers with tongues.
We need Divine healers in the church having healing services, people out
praying for the sick." What are they trying to do? Get oil in their lamps.
Exactly. That's a end time seed sign. Amen. While she was trying to do that,
the Bridegroom come
and the Bride went
in, and she was locked out. Oh, what a wonderful day we're living in.
CONFLICT.BETWEEN.GOD.AND.SATAN_ CLARKSVILLE.IN THURSDAY_
62-0531
E-74 The--the Bride must be unified, unified together by the
Word. "My sheep hear My voice,"
and this is His voice
on printed Word. All right. Unified by the Word, she makes herself ready, not
with the regular creed.
Like Esther... When Esther was to be chosen to stand before
the king, she didn't adorn herself with all the things. But she adorned herself
with a sweet, meek spirit. That's what the Bride's adorning herself within, with all of the
fruits of the Spirit following it. What's she got? Assembling together in the
fellowship of the Word. Amen. Fellowship of the Word (That's right.),
fellowshipping, setting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus tonight:
one accord, one place, one Spirit, one mind, one hope, one God, one purpose.
Amen. See, there you are.
Every time the Bible says anything, we say,
"Amen." Punctuating every word with, "Amen." "Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "Amen."
"Repent and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ."
"Amen." Everything is "Amen, amen, amen." Right on down
(See?), in fellowship...
PRESUMING_
S.PINES.NC SUNDAY_ 62-0610M
E-9 And something said while we was just
standing in my room, just a moment before I was going to have prayer and come
over... And I was going to speak this morning--teach on the "Bride Tree," but my voice had got bad. And I
said, "I better bypass that, 'cause it's long."
And I said... Well, I--I walked... Something just said,
"Take Joseph out in the yard." And I just put my arm around him,
walked out into the yard.
We walked down through these big, stately, pine trees. And
seemed like that wind blowing through there sings, "There's a land beyond
the river..." And I, standing there with my little friend, talking, and a
certain thing I was talking to him about... which just he and I to know...
And he said, "But, Brother Branham, where the Lord gave
you this Scripture thirty years ago, but did you ever read this below it?"
It done something to me. I felt the Holy Spirit just come down all around us.
I said, "Thank you, Joseph." I put my arm around
him, walked back to the door, went in, picked up my Bible. It was there just
exactly where... Why, I never read but just them first few verses, I don't
know. Just for this hour, that's all.
You know Jesus picked up the Scriptures one time, and just
read so much of it? Just as much as to be fulfilled then and left the rest of
it; 'cause that part pertained to Him in that time, and the next part pertains
to Him the second time. I may speak on it tonight, Lord willing.
GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M
14-2 {78}
John, the revelator, over in the Book of Revelation, he saw this tabernacle
(Revelations 21). He saw the new temple coming, descending down from heaven,
adored as a bride
was adored for her husband, and a voice out of the temple said, "Behold, the tabernacle of
God is with men, and God shall be with them, and they'll wipe all tears from
their eyes. And there shall be no more hunger, nor no more sorrow, no more pain
or death, for the former things have passed away."
Then the true Son of David (as we're going to see in this
lessons coming on in this week) will then come to His temple, the temple of
God, the real tabernacle, which He has gone away to construct now. For He said
in John 14, "In My Father's house are many mansions, and I will
go..." What did He mean by that? It was already foreordained, "And
I'll go to prepare a place for you, and will return back to receive you unto
Myself." And of course, we know that'll be in the great age to come. And
the true Seed of David will take the throne, which is Jesus Christ, and there
will reign over the Church as His Bride, in the house with Him and over the twelve tribes of Israel
throughout all eternity.
GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317M
15-2 {82}
But let us purpose in our hearts today, that in commemoration and
waiting for that Tabernacle to come, that we will so characterize ourself by
His Spirit that we will worship in this place as if we were in that other
place, waiting for that place to come.
Now, let us stand to our feet, and as I read the holy
Script.
And I saw a new heavens and a new earth: for the first heaven
and the first earth was passed away; and there were no more sea.
... I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adored for her husband.
And I heard the... voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
FIRST.SEAL.THE_
JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
142-1 {166}
But think, now he wrote this, but when he started to write those other
seven thunders, he said, "Don't write it." He'd been commissioned to
write everything he seen. But when these seven thunders over in Revelations 10
uttered, he said, "Don't write them at all." They're mysteries. We
don't know what they are yet; but my opinion they'll be revealed right away.
And when it do, it'll give faith for that rapturing grace for that Church to
move out. We just move through everything that we know of; through all the
dispensations we've watched everything. We've seen the mysteries of God. We've
seen the appearing of the--of the great gathering together of the Bride in the last days,
but yet there's something in there that we just can't lighten ourself with.
There's something another. But I imagine when them mysteries begins to come
forth... God said, "Hold it back now. Wait a minute. I'll reveal it in
that day. Don't write it at all, John, 'cause they'll stagger over it. Just
let--let it go. (See?) But I'll reveal it in that day when it has need to done."
They never uttered for nothing. You remember, like the
little drop of ink, everything is for a purpose. Everything's for a cause. But
notice, the Creator uttered, and he had a--he heard this voice, and he went to
see.
FIFTH.SEAL.THE_
JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322
368-1 {269}
Notice now, though they had tried to get rid of Joseph, his grace
reached to them. Though they tried to get rid of Jesus, He still comes right
back around, 'cause they was blind, and gives them each one a white robe. He's
going to take them right on in home anyhow. It doesn't make a bit of difference
'cause He done said, "I'll save them all anyhow." See?
Now, verse 10. Notice, they asked for revenge. See? Now, if
that had been the Bride,
it'd been like Stephen: "Father, forgive them," you know. See? But
these are Jews that just come in. See? They asked for revenge.
Notice, again... See? Again He said... Notice, it's not...
He said, "It's thy brethren," the Jews, the hundred... Now, they
wanted revenge.
They said, "Oh, we're going to... We--we want you to
revenge us down there."
He said, "Just a little while now, just a little while,
for..." (Notice, let me read it here. It's in the--the 10th verse.) All
right.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given to every one of them; and it was
said unto them, that they should rest yet... a little season,... (See?
Watch)... a little season, until their fellowservants... (See? Now, what is it?
The prophets now are preaching to Israel . See?)... till thy
fellowservants also--thy fellowservant and also thy brethren, that should be
killed... (See, the ones predestinated to be done, so you see, should be
killed)... as they were, should be fulfilled.
SEVENTH.SEAL.THE_
JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
542-4 {127}
Let's just read. Now, listen real close now. Now, I want you to read
with me if you can because I'm going to refer back to this just in a little
bit: 7th chapter, now this is between the Sixth and Seventh Seal.
... after these things... (After these things, these Seals,
this Sixth Seal was let loose, and that's the tribulation period. Everybody
understand that now? Sixth Seal was let loose, and the tribulation was on. After
this, watch.)... after these things I saw four angels standing on the four
corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that... it should
not blow upon the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. (four angels)
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the
seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to
hurt the sea--the earth--the sea,
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the tree,
until we have sealed the servants... (Not the Bride, servants, not the sons, servants. Israel has
always been God's servant. The church is sons. See? By birth. Israel is His
servant. Watch, every place it's always... Abraham was His servant. We're not
servants; we're children, sons and daughters. Yeah.)... of the--of our God in
their foreheads. (Now, watch, our God in their forehead.)
And I heard the number of them that were sealed:... (Now, I
want you to listen close to the reading of them.)... and there were sealed an
hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel .
LOOK_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_
63-0428
E-14 The church, just church, is looking for
more members. But the Bride
is looking for the coming of her Lord. We're all looking.
It depends on what the voice is trying to tell you to look for. Some of
us are saying, "Look for this." And if it's a church, we're saying we
want so many more this year, members. That's all right. But the voice that I'm trying to
say to you this morning is like the writer of this epistle, we believe to be
Paul, which is saying, "looking for the coming of Jesus Christ the second
time," looking for Him.
MAN.THAT.CAN.TURN.ON.LIGHT_
JEFF.IN V-6 N-1 SUNDAY_
63-1229M
267 And this little girl standing there, she's
screaming to the top of her voice,
about to go into hysterics, about like the little Bride is. But you know what, her little brother
cried out, said, "Little sister, don't fear ('cause he's standing right by
the engineer)." Said, "There's a man here who can turn on the
lights." Don't fear, little Sister, there's a Man here Who can turn on the
Light. He can make this Word live. We don't know how He's coming; we don't
how--when He's coming; I don't know nothing about that, but He's here. And He
can turn on the Lights. How we going to get out of it? I don't know, but He's
here, and He's the One that can turn on the Lights. Yes, sir. He is the One; He
is the Light. He just makes Hisself known; that's how He turns on the Light.
Exactly right. It takes Christ to flash away on His Lights, and then all the
darkness scatters. He separates; He's pulling His little Bride out: "I'll
take a people out of the Gentiles for My Namesake that'll have My Name."
What is His Name? All right. Not Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran--Jesus
Christ. That's right.
VOICE.OF.THE.SIGN_ BEAUMONT.TX
FRIDAY_ 64-0313
E-49 All ministries have three signs if it's
sent from God. Jesus had three signs; Moses had three signs; Noah had three
signs; Elijah had three signs. Everything comes in three signs.
Notice. Listen, friends. It's getting a little bit late.
Now, oh, my. I didn't know it was that late: quarter after. If you can believe
the Sodom sign
of Luke (See?) as He promised it... You believe the Sodom sign, then why can't you accept the
Malachi voice that
follows the sign, to return to the Word. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
The Bible said so, and you see it. Then listen at the voice of the sign,
"Flee the wrath to come. Don't think 'Because I belong to the UPC,
Assemblies of God, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, I have a right to go in.'
God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." Turn to the Word.
Back away from your worldlyism, and your organizational systems and things. God
will destroy them from the face of the earth. He'll sink them into the depths
of the sea of forgetfulness, just like He did Egypt when He called Israel , nation
out of a nation. When He calls the Bride out of the church. You'll go through the tribulation, and
drench your blood upon the earth. Flee the wrath that is to come, for it's at
hand.
INFLUENCE_
BEAUMONT.TX SUNDAY_ 64-0315
E-73 Heavenly Father, as the music is sweetly
playing, may everyone that's in Divine Presence, Lord, see that this is the
calling time. It's a--it's a separating time when the chaff and--and wheat is
to be separated. Although the--the wheat has been wrapped in the chaff, but now
it's a calling-out time. It's another Exodus.
I pray, God, as the great sunlight has ripened the grain for
every stage of its life, from the time... Like in Canada now, when the wheat's just
coming up, that hot sun of July would kill it right now. But it has to ripen
according to the way that nature brings the sun upon it. So there's a hot sun
upon Luther's doctrine, Wesley, and the rest of them; it scorches it down. But
it's to ripen the wheat.
It should've matured, Lord, just as it come up. But
remember, all the branches was pruned off, and the bride tree come right out of the center.
"I will restore again all the years that the palmerworm, caterpillar (the
same insect, only in different stages), has eaten away. I will restore
it," saith the Lord. You'll do it, Lord. You promised it. I pray that
You'll do it in every heart this afternoon.
They're Yours, Lord. I commit them to You now. And I may never
see them. If I'd come back a year from today, there's many sitting here... If
I'm living they won't be, no doubt, this size crowd. Next time I meet them will
be at the judgment. Let them see, Lord. Let them open their eyes if
there's--and see.
All these on tape, Lord, that's listened to the voice at this time (many
different languages, even be translated), may they understand. Many men and
women in little houses, and out in little jungles in Africa ,
with those little machines with the tubes in their ears, may they hear, Lord,
hear. Grant it.
The missionary was right in what he said, but this is... A
greater witness than what he had is ready now. Dearest Father, we commit it all
to You in the Name of Jesus Christ Thy Son, and for the calling of His bride. Amen.
VOICE.OF.THE.SIGN_ DENHAM.SP.LA
SATURDAY_ 64-0321E
E-22 It's becoming... Now, you've got one more
picture to develop, that's death. Then the negative becomes positive. Then
you're in the Bride,
and with Christ. As He taught, like husband and wife today, so God, Christ and
the church will be the same.
Now, the elected, called... Moses was borned a proper child.
The Bible said that, one of the prophets, Jeremiah, God said, "Before you
was even formed in your mother's womb I ordained you a prophet to the
nation."
John the Baptist, why, he was identified in the Scripture.
Isaiah, seven hundred and twelve years before his coming said, "He's the voice of one crying in
the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord.'" And about four hundred
years before His appearing, again, we find Malachi said, "Behold, I send
My messenger before my face to prepare the way before the Lord." See, he
was foreordained.
SCRIPTURAL.SIGNS.OF.THE.TIME_ BIRMINGHAM.AL
FRIDAY_ 64-0410
E-7 And one day the door of mercy will be
closed, and people will go right on thinking they're getting saved, and
preaching, and so forth, and mercy has done been spurned its last time, and
know it not until it's missing. Remember, there's hundreds of people missing
every day that we cannot find or give an account for them, world over.
"There'll be one in a field; I'll take one. One in the--two in a bed, and
I'll take one." Universal, so it won't take very many to make that escape,
raptured Bride.
Remember the signs. Israel was always relied upon their
signs, instead of intellectual speeches. They were supposed to... God sent them
prophets. The prophets give signs. And signs... Always, when there's a sign, a
Scriptural sign, there's got to be a Scriptural voice follow that Scriptural sign. And it must all
be Scriptural promised.
So see, you get into a trend like Luther on justification.
That's what he knowed; that's all. They was satisfied, and went right down,
ended their doctrine. Here come Wesley with sanctification: went right on past
it. Then he organized. Along come Pentecost with the restoration of the gifts,
and they organized. And God moves right on, right straight on, all the time
(See?) for each day, each church age.
MASTERPIECE.THE_
JEFF.IN V-4 N-7 SUNDAY_
64-0705
187 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.
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 are 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.
RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY_
JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_
64-0726M
40 And remember the vision of last week, that
when the Bride came
to be--preview of it. There came up the little Bride, lovely, in the vision. And I--not thinking
about it, just setting there watching outside. And there come the Bride. I heard a Voice by the side of me,
said, "Here is a preview of the Bride." And She came by. I noticed Her, the way she was,
very lovely, pretty, young. She was walking just the step as She could, not a
march, just in the stride of a--a woman, how they walk gracefully, ladylike. That's
the way She was walking, coming to my left on this side. And She went out of my
sight.
FUTURE.HOME_
JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_
64-0802
7-1 Now, in the--the Revelation of Christ, in
the 21st chapter, I read these words:
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed away; and there were no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adored for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrowing, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain: for the former things have passed away.
And he that set upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
things new... he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. And... I will give unto him that is athirst of the
fountains of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be
his God, and he shall be my son.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_
JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_
64-0830M
1112-Q-361 361. Brother Branham, please explain Acts 9
verse 7 and Acts 20--Acts 22nd verse. (Would you get it for me, Brother
Neville.) Please explain Acts 9 verse 7.
Now, while he's getting that, I'll see if I can get another
one right quick. Are you getting tired? I know you are.
Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride. How it will take
place and where, the place, the Bride goes. Isn't them lovely questions. That's really nice, I'd
just stand here all day...
[Brother Branham answers question 361--Ed.] Just a minute
now, verse--verse... Acts 9 verse 7 (Thank you, Brother Neville)--9 verse 7:
And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing the voice,
and seeing no man.
IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD_ YUMA.AZ
SATURDAY_ 64-1205
E-90 We know that this wheat's come through the
same process. Every nature works the same. Now, Lord, when we see the shuck now
pulling away from the grain, going worldly, O God, grant that those grains
will... The--the shuck has to pull away so the grain can get in presence of the
sun. And I hear the coming of the combine, Lord. It won't be long. And then the
great elevator will take up His bride into the glory and the Presence of God.
I pray, Father that You'll bless each one of us. Let us
remember, Lord, that this is our opportunity. We may not have one tomorrow.
Today is our opportunity. "Today, after so long a time, when you hear His voice harden not your
heart."
Lord God, I don't know these people. If there's any here
short of this, grant tonight that they will receive the Fullness of God and be
filled with the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Father.
WHY.IT.HAD.TO.BE.SHEPHERDS_
TUCSON.AZ V-6 N-15 MONDAY_
64-1221
185 Yes, that's the reason Moses knew this Voice had spoke to him
was a Word Voice.
He knowed that God had told Abraham, "Your seed shall sojourn for four
hundred years, but I will deliver them." And he knowed the four hundred
years was up and he was called to do it.
Men and women, God promised in this last days that He'd pour
out His Spirit upon all flesh. He promised He'd send the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, and He'd call a Bride
without spot or wrinkle. He promised to do it; He'll do it. Don't listen to
these hireling shepherds; they'll lead you astray. The Holy Spirit is the
Shepherd to feed you sheep food from His Word. It always comes by the Shepherd.
He is our Shepherd. Listen to Him; you are the sheep of His fold; if you are,
you hear His Voice,
not what somebody else says; you hear what He says. A strange voice, you know nothing
about it.
EASTER.SEAL_
PHOENIX.AZ V-2 N-6 SATURDAY_
65-0410
24-5 My friend, if you're satisfied with such
carrion of the world, there's something wrong. My sister, my brother, let me
say to you this in godly fear, knowing that I may never live to see an Easter
again, but there's one thing sure: when a genuine foreordained son of God by
the Word of God hears that voice
of God, he'll rise and go to meet It. It's the potentials that he's going to
meet the real living Word. As He was... The bride will meet the groom. She's a part of His
body.
CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28
THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
37-2 Let us stand to our feet in the Name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. If you never hear my voice again... If God willing, I'm sailing to Africa in a few hours; I may never return. I don't know.
But I tell you with all my heart; I've told you the truth. I haven't shunned to
declare to you everything that God has told me to say, and I've said it in the
Name of the Lord.
It's a solemn moment. I don't know how to express it. I've
tried to leave the pulpit three or four times, and I can't do it. This is a
solemn hour. Don't you never forget it. This is a time that maybe God may be
making His last call. I don't know. He'll make His last call someday. When? I
don't know. But I'm telling you, according to that vision, it looks like that
that Bride's about
finished.
Look at the nominal churches coming in. When the sleeping
virgin come for oil, she failed to get it. The Bride went in. The rapture went up. While they
went to buy oil, the Bridegroom
come. Are you asleep? Wake up quickly, and come to yourself, and let us pray
each one like we were dying at this minute, in the Name of the Lord. Let's each
one pray in your own way.
SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_ JEFF.IN
V-8 N-7 SUNDAY_ 65-0718E
19 But we didn't... They all didn't all die.
They're not all dead. In the days of the Nicene Council, many of you people
that's read The Nicene Council of the early church, when they wanted to make an
organization out of it and break up all the other churches, and come into one,
when they had that Nicene Council, rugged man like Elisha come in there from
the wilderness, eating herbs alone, great rugged men. But the dignitaries, the
higher-ups, under Constantine ,
and so forth, stilled their voice,
because those, being prophets, knowed that the corn of wheat of the church Bride had to fall in the
ground, the same as a corn of wheat in the Bridegroom had to fall in the ground. And there it
laid for a thousand years.
And that's why they're writing the books today, "Where
is that silent God that could stand and look, see little children murdered and
women tore to pieces by lions, and set in the skies and say nothing about
it?" They don't know the Word. That corn of wheat's got to fall in the
earth. How could a righteous God stand and look at His Own Son die and be spit
on, and so forth? But it's according to the Word; it has to be. And that's the
way it is even to this hour.
GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_
JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_
65-0801M
161 Her long hair, Nazarite vow shows that
She's vowed to God. Her beautiful gown of His promised Word for the age that
She's living in wrapped around her, vindicating Her with Himself of Hebrews
13:8: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. As She is a part of
the Word Groom, true to Him in every point...
Now, look. If a woman goes out here and is married to a man,
and she goes out and makes love with another man and has an affairs with him,
and come back to her husband, he should kick her out. That right? She must be
true to him, 'cause she's vowed to him. And the Bride of Christ is vowed to Christ, and He is the
Word. Not even wink at the other side, a woman should not even wink at another
man. She should make no signs, no emotions at all towards him, for she is
absolutely a bride
to one bridegroom.
We don't want none of your mixed trees, your denominations. Be true to Christ,
the Word. He'll vindicate It to be true.
No, sir. Not even any emotion of anything towards making
love to him, not join his ranks or anything else, or let him get you in his
arms or in his care, or--or talk to you over this way, that way, you listen
to--only one Voice:
"My sheep know My voice;
a stranger, they'll not..." What is His Voice? Any man's voice is his word, and this is It, the Bible. Not
one word to be added to It or taken from It, just stay right with that Voice. A stranger, they
won't follow a denomination.
INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE_
SHP.LA V-2 N-15 THURSDAY_
65-1125
45-7 All at once we heard something from the top
of the hill, a voice
come down through the loud speaker said, "All things are ready."
Then this man, standing right there by the side of me, said,
"Let the fire fall."
Here it comes pouring down across that mountain, a glacier
of fire and blazes a licking, a sight to behold.
Brother, let's get all things ready, for one of these days,
the fire's going to fall. We're going up. Now, let's get ready for the
fire-falling time.
We're in the last days. We all know that. And we're ready
for the coming of the Lord. The thing to do is separate yourself from all sin.
Separate yourself from anything that pertains to the world. Don't love the
world or the things of the world. Let no man, by his creed, deceive you. You
stay right straight in the promise of God, the Word of God; and that Word, if
It's the Word, for this day, God vindicates It so. If He doesn't, it's not the
Word for this day. The Word that fell on the day of Pentecost will not work
this day. No, sir, that was for Pentecost. This is for the Bride: going home of the Bride. We got something
different. The Pentecostals represented that again. We're in the Bride age. No more than
the Word of Noah would worked in the days of Moses. No more than Moses' law
would've worked in the time of Paul, here. He tried to tell them, "You're
dead to that. And you cannot have that."
RAPTURE.THE_
YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_
65-1204
130 Three things happen, a voice--a shout, a voice, a trumpet, has to
happen before Jesus appears. Now, a shout. Jesus does all three of them when
He's--He's--He's descending. A "shout," what is a "shout"?
It's the Message going forth first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the
Bride.
Now, God has a way of doing things, and He never changes His
policy. He never changes His... He's the unchanging God. In Amos 3:7 He said He
would do nothing on the earth until first He revealed it to His servants the
prophets. And just as certain as He promised it, He'll do it.
RAPTURE.THE_
YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_
65-1204
152 No, it's... The first thing is the
sounding--or the first thing is the trumpet and a--or a voice--a shout, and then a voice, and then a
trumpet. Shout, a messenger getting the people ready... The second is a voice of the
resurrection. The same voice
that, a loud voice
in St. John
11:38 and 44 that called Lazarus from the grave. Getting the Bride together, and then
the resurrection of the dead (See?), to be caught up with it. Now, watch the
three things take place.
RAPTURE.THE_
YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_
65-1204
153 The next is what? was a trumpet. A voice--a shout, a voice, a trumpet. Now,
the third thing is a trumpet, which always at the Feast of Trumpets is calling
the people to the feast; and that'll be the Bride's supper, the Lamb's supper with the Bride in the sky.
See, the first things comes forth is His Message calling the
Bride together. The
next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride, the--the one that's died back in the other
ages. They're caught together, and the trumpet, the feast in the heavens--in
the sky. Why, it's--that's the thing that takes place, friends.
We're right there ready now. The only thing, the church
coming out has got to lay before the sun to ripen. The great combine will come
by after while. The wheat will be burned, the stalks, but the grain will be
gathered into it's garner. See?
RAPTURE.THE_
YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_
65-1204
164 Therefore, the Message calls the Bride together. See? The
shout and the trumpet, the same morning with a loud voice He screamed out with that shout,
and--and voice and
woke Lazarus. With a loud voice
He cried, "Lazarus, come forth." See? And the voice wakes up--wakes up the sleeping Bride, the sleeping dead.
And the trumpet, with the sound of the trumpet, and when it
does, it calls... Always a trumpet called Israel to the Feast of the Trumpets
(See?), which was the Pentecostal feast, the great feast in the sky and the
Feast of the Trumpets... And now, a trumpet denounced a calling together,
calling to the feast. And now that is the--the Lamb's supper in the sky (Now,
watch.,)--the assembling together in the Bride, the Feast of the Trumpets, the Wedding
Supper.
We have seen it in types. Now, watch just a moment before we
close.
RAPTURE.THE_
YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_
65-1204
169 One rapture is passed. Three's happened in
the Old Testament of them prepared who the Word of the Lord came to. See? The
Word of the Lord came to Enoch. The Word of the Lord came to Elijah. He was a
prophet. See? The Word of the Lord was Jesus. See?
Watch in the Old Testament, them Old Testament saints now
when this rapture first taken place. Notice verse 50: His loud voice awakened the Old
Testament saints just exactly like the loud voice wakened Jesus--or wakened Lazarus. See? The
loud voice
awakened. And the second is fulfilled in II Thessalonians the 4th chapter.
Let's just take a read--read... We just read it a few minutes ago. See? "I
would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that sleep, that you
sorrow not, even..." That's I Thessalonians 4:12-18. That--that will be
the second rapture. The second rapture will be the catching away of the Bride.
RAPTURE.THE_
YUMA.AZ V-5 N-14 SATURDAY_
65-1204
172 David
said over there, "Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted
up."
He led captive captive and give gifts unto men. When the Old
Testament saints went in with Him, they said, "Who is this King of
righteousness?"
"The Lord of glory, mighty in host--mighty host."
Here they come in, marching. Jesus led captivity captive. And here He comes
with the Old Testament saints, and the--went into the new gates up there, and
said, "Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up, and let the King
of glory come in."
The voice
come from the inside, said, "Who is the King of glory?"
"The Lord, mighty in battle." The gates flew open.
And Jesus the Conqueror led captive captive them that had believed on Him, and
the Word had come to them. There the Old Testament saints laying in there
waiting. He led captivity captive, ascended on high, took the Old Testament
saints, and went in. There's one rapture already passed.
The next rapture takes place is II Thessalonians for the
church, the Bride,
to be resurrected to be raptured into glory. "We which are alive and
remain (That's the body that's left on earth.) will not prevent or hinder them
which are asleep; for the trumpet of God shall sound first, and the dead in
Christ shall rise. (See?) And we which are alive and remain shall caught up
together with them."
61-1 PATMOS.VISION
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.2
Now Paul said that the Word came in power as well as voice. The Word preached
actually demonstrated itself. Like a flaming, cutting sword it went to the
consciences of men, and like a surgeon's knife it cut out the diseases and set
captives free. Everywhere those early believers went, "they went preaching
the Gospel (Word) and God confirmed that Word with signs following." The
sick were healed, devils were cast out, and they spoke in new tongues. That was
the Word in action. That Word has never failed in the mouths of believing
Christians. And in this last age it is here stronger and greater than ever in
the true Word bride.
Oh, little flock, you little minority, hold on to the Word, fill your mouth and
heart with it, and some day God will give you the kingdom.
152-2 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
Hold this carefully in mind. Now take the next step. Redeem
means to buy back. It restores to the original owner. God, by His death, the
shed blood BOUGHT BACK HIS OWN. He bought back the Spoken Word Seed Bride. "My sheep
hear My voice
(Word) and they follow Me." You always were a sheep. You never were a pig
or a dog turned into a sheep. That is impossible for every kind of life
produces the same kind and there is no change in specie. As we were in the
thoughts of God and then expressed in flesh, there had to come a day when we
would hear His voice
(the Word), and hearing that voice
become aware of our Father calling us, and recognize that we are the sons of
God. We heard His voice
and we cried out as did the prodigal son, "Save me, Oh, my Father. I am
returning to Thee."
276-1 SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
The question now arises, why are these righteous ones in the
judgment? There is no other place that they can come up, for there are but two
resurrections and since they could not qualify for the first resurrection they
must come up in the second which is a resurrection unto judgment. The ones who qualify
for the first resurrection (the bride) are not in the judgment. John 5:24, "Verily, verily
I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me,
hath everlasting life (that is, the believer is already the recipient of
eternal life which he has in his possession now) and shall not come into
condemnation (shall not come into the judgment, is what it really says) but is
passed (permanently) from death unto life." But notice carefully, Jesus
must have yet another group in mind who at a certain resurrection will receive
eternal life. They will receive it at the resurrection, NOT HAVING PREVIOUSLY
RECEIVED IT AS A MEMBER OF THE BRIDE. John 5:28-29, "Marvel not at this, for the hour is
coming, in the which ALL that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come
forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that
have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." Now we all know that
John 5:28-29 is NOT THE RAPTURE for only the dead in Christ will arise from the
graves at that time along with the living bride who still is on the earth. I Thessalonians
4:16-17, "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the
Lord." But it says in John 5:28-29 that ALL are going to come forth from
the grave. This is the very same resurrection that is spoken of in Revelation
20:11-15 wherein THE DEAD were brought before the Lord and judged according to
their works, and all whose names were not in the Book of Life were then cast
into the lake of fire.
278-1 SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
To further clarify, notice specifically the words of Matthew
25:31-46. It does not say that a shepherd is literally separating sheep from
goats, but it is AS a shepherd dividing sheep from goats. These are not sheep in
this particular area of time (White Throne Judgment). The sheep are in His
fold, they heard His voice
(Word) and they followed Him. THEY ALREADY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND CANNOT COME
INTO THE JUDGMENT. But these do NOT have eternal life, and they are in the
judgment. They are allowed to GO INTO eternal life. But upon what grounds do
they enter into life eternal? Certainly not upon the fact that they already
have His life as does the bride,
but they receive it because they were kind to His brethren. They are not His
brethren: that would make them joint-heirs with Jesus. They are NOT heirs to
anything but life. They share no throne, etc. with Him. THEIR NAMES MUST HAVE
BEEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE AND NOT REMOVED. Now because of their love of the
people of God they are recognized and saved. No doubt these served and helped
the children of God. Perhaps like Nicodemus and Gamaliel they stood for the
children in a time of trouble.
278-4 SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
It is the second resurrection that the "souls under the
altar" as set forth in the fifth seal (Revelation 6:9-11) are given white
robes, and of course eternal life, or there would be no point of white robes.
"And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they
held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not
judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes
were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should
rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." Now
note particularly that none of these under the altar were killed for the
testimony to Jesus. They were not like Antipas who was slain for holding fast
His Name. These are not born again ones, with eternal life as their possession.
They come up in the resurrection and receive life because of their stand on the
Word. And notice how these are crying out for vengeance. They cannot be bride material. The bride turns the cheek and
cries, "Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do." These are
Jews. They have to be because they are in the fifth seal, and it is in the
fourth seal that the Gentile bride
is gone in the rapture. So these Jews aren't born of His Spirit. They don't
even believe that Jesus is the Messiah. But as they were blinded by God for the
Gentile's sake, God gave them eternal life on the grounds that though they
could not come to Him, yet they were truly faithful to all the Word they knew,
and died for it as multitudes died under Hitler, Stalin, etc., and will yet
die.
286-1 SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
"And I will
confess his name before My Father and His angels." Roll call in heaven!
"If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will
I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt call and I will answer Thee: Thou wilt
have a desire to the work of Thy hands." The Great Shepherd is calling His
sheep by name. The creative voice
of God is calling them forth from the dust or changing their atoms even though
they had not fallen asleep. It is the rapture. It is the great Marriage Supper
of the Lamb and His bride.
316-2 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
God is talking about the bride here. Do you want to see another picture of
her? It is over in Revelation 7:4-17, "And I heard the number of them
which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand
of all the tribes of the children of Israel . Of the tribe of Juda were
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed
twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon were
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand. After this I beheld, and,
lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds,
and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation
to our God Which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels
stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and
fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen:
Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and
might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence
came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are
they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of
God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He that sitteth on the
throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any
more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb Which is
in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of water: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
Jesus has come. He has sealed the 144,000. He took 12,000 out of each tribe.
But there is another group that doesn't belong in this 144,000 who are seen in
verses 9-18. Who are they? These are in the bride taken from amongst the Gentiles. They are
before His throne day and night. They serve Him in the temple. They are the
special care of the Lord. They are His bride.
317-3 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE -
CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
Revelation 21:1-4. "And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people,
and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are
passed away." How wonderful. All of God's wonderful promises fulfilled. It
will be all over. The change will have been completed. The Lamb and His bride forever settled in
all the perfections of God. Describe it? Who is able to do that? No one. Think
about it? Dream about it? Read what the Word says about it? Yes we can do all
of that, yet we can only know an infinitesimal part of it until it becomes
reality in the first resurrection.
328-3 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Before we close this section on the messenger of the
Laodicean Age, we must seriously consider these two thoughts. First, this age
will have ONE Prophet-Messenger. Revelation 10:7, says, "When he
(singular) shall begin to sound." There has never been an age where God
gave His people two major prophets at one time. He gave Enoch (alone); He gave
Noah (alone); He gave Moses (he alone had the Word though others prophesied);
John the Baptist came ALONE. Now in this last day there is to be a PROPHET (not
a prophetess--though in this age there are more women purporting to give God's
revelation than men), and the infallible Word says that he (the prophet) will
reveal the mysteries to the end time people, and turn the hearts of the
children back to the fathers. There are those who say that God's people are
going to come together through a collective revelation. I challenge that
statement. It is a bald, invalid assumption in the face of Revelation 10:7. Now
I do not deny that people will prophesy in this last age and their ministries
can and will be correct. I do not deny that there will be prophets even as in
the days of Paul when there was "one Agabus a prophet who prophesied of a
famine". I agree that is so. BUT I DENY UPON THE INFALLIBLE EVIDENCE OF
THE WORD THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MAJOR PROPHET-MESSENGER WHO WILL REVEAL
THE MYSTERIES AS CONTAINED IN THE WORD, AND WHO HAS THE MINISTRY TO TURN THE
HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS. "Thus saith the Lord" by His
unfailing Word stands, and shall stand and be vindicated. There is one
prophet-messenger to this age. On the basis of human behavior alone, anyone
knows that where there are many people there is even divided opinion on lesser
points of a major doctrine which they all hold together. Who then will have the
power of infallibility which is to be restored in this last age, for this last
age is going to go back to manifesting the Pure Word Bride? That means we will have the Word
once again as it was perfectly given, and perfectly understood in the days of
Paul. I will tell you who will have it. It will be a prophet as thoroughly
vindicated, or even more thoroughly vindicated than was any prophet in all the
ages from Enoch to this day, because this man will of necessity have the
capstone prophetic ministry, and God will shew him forth. He won't need to
speak for himself, God will speak for him by the voice of the sign. Amen.
340-2 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Yes sir. The church is no longer the "mouthpiece"
of God. It is its own mouthpiece. So God is turning on her. He will confound
her through the prophet and the bride, for the voice of God will be in her. Yes it is, for it says in the last
chapter of Revelation verse 17 "The Spirit and the bride say come". Once more the world
will hear direct from God as at Pentecost; but of course that Word Bride will be repudiated
as in the first age.
341-2 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Oh, God still has a voice for the people of the world, even as He has
given a voice to
the bride. That voice is in the bride as we have said and
we will talk more about that later.
350-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
"Buy of Me,
gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich." Now these people had plenty
of gold, but it was the wrong kind. It was that gold that bought men's lives
and destroyed them. It was the gold that warped and twisted human character,
for its love was the root of all evil. Revelation 18:1-14, "And after
these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and
the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of
every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all
nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the
earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard
another voice from
heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto
heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded
you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she
hath filled, fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived
deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I
sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her
plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine: and she shall be
utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God Who judgeth her. And the
kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with
her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her
burning. Standing afar off for the fear of her torment saying, Alas, alas, that
great city Babylon ,
that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of
the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise
any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of
pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood,
and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood,
and of brass, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments,
and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and
sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. And the fruits
that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were
dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at
all." This is exactly the organized churches of the last day, for it says
in verse 4, "Come out of her MY PEOPLE". The rapture has not yet
taken place. The bride
is not yet gone when these terrible conditions in this rich, false church
exist.
365-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE
- CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
But thank God, at this moment, this age is not over. He is
yet crying. And His cry is not only in the spiritual ears of men by His Spirit,
but once again a prophet is in the land. Once more God will reveal the truth as
He did to Paul. In the days of the seventh messenger, in the days of the
Laodicean Age, its messenger will reveal the mysteries of God as revealed to
Paul. He will speak out, and those who receive that prophet in his own name
will receive the beneficent effect of that prophet's ministry. And they that
hear him will be blessed and become part of that bride of the last day who are mentioned in
Revelation 22:17, "The Spirit and the bride say come." The corn of wheat (the Bride Wheat) that fell
into the ground at Nicaea
has come back to original Word Grain again. Praise God forever. Yes, listen to
the authenticated prophet of God who appears in this last age. What he says
from God, the bride
will say. The Spirit and the prophet and the bride will be saying the same thing. And what they
will say will have already been said in the Word. They are saying it now,
"Come out from among her now and be ye separate." The cry has gone
out. The cry is going out. How long will the voice cry? We do not know, but one thing we do
know, it won't be long, for this is the last age.
JEREMIAH 7:34
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities
of Judah ,
and from the streets of Jerusalem ,
the voice of mirth,
and the voice of
gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom,
and the voice of
the bride: for the
land shall be desolate.
JEREMIAH 16:9
9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in
your days, the voice
of mirth, and the voice
of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom,
and the voice of
the bride.
JEREMIAH 25:10
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the
millstones, and the light of the candle.
JEREMIAH 33:11
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall
say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth]
for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house
of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the
first, saith the LORD.
JOHN 3:29
29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which
standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy
therefore is fulfilled.
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no
more at all in thee; and the voice
of the bridegroom
and of the bride
shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of
the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)