Satan’s Eden no 22
Questions and Answers
December French Ministers Meeting
December 19th,
2021-12-10
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Question no 1. In Souls That Are In Prison Now, the Prophet
says that the 7th Seal brings Christ back to earth. Is this related to the 2nd
coming?
Souls in prison now 63-1110M
P:160 Tape people, that's you that's listening to this tape, I wish you could
look at this congregation at this time. I hope you're feeling the same way.
What if it is? Look at the Scriptures piled in here. Could it be? Is the
Third Pull to preach to the eternal doomed that's rejected the message of
salvation? "Why," you say, "the church is
going..."Yeah, they will. They'll go right on just the same. But
remember, all this time Noah was in the Ark. The Bride is
sealed in with Christ. The last member has been redeemed. Sixth
Seal has produced itself. The Seventh Seal brings Him back to earth.
The Lamb come and took the Book out of the right hand of Him and set down and
claimed what He owned, what He had redeemed. That right? It's always been
that Third Pull.
Answer: I think
this question deserves more than a yes or no answer, even though it is written
that way. So let’s break down what br. Branham said here.
Brother
Branham lays out his statement here with several questions.
1). Is the
Third Pull to preach to the eternal doomed that's rejected the message of
salvation? Now, this is a
very important question, because the message will still be played on tape to
the foolish virgin who miss the rapture, and must give their own blood during
the time of Tribulation. But he is asking the question, “Is the Third Pull
to preach to the eternal doomed that's rejected the message of salvation? Then
brother Branham gives us several clues when this will be as we see from points
number 2 through 6.
2). all this time Noah was in the Ark Ok, so then we know that when Noah was in the Ark
for 7 days, the Door was closed because God had closed the
doors. And we know the door represents Christ the Word. Jesus said, “I am the door to the
sheepfold.” So He is he telling us that the door (Christ, the Message of
Grace) is closed when the third pull is preached to the totally lost. Now, we
also know that when the foolish virgin had gone off to them that sell instead
of laying in the Presence of the Son to ripen. We know that when they came back
to where they had left Him, the door was closed, and they were sealed out,
into weeping
and wailing and gnashing of teeth which is tribulation period. We know also that the Wise Virgins had gone
into the Marriage with the Groom, and God shut the door, and the Bible tells us
that at that time, “he which is righteous shall be righteous still, and he that
is wicked shall be wicked still”.
Since we
saw in last week’s sermon that righteousness comes from revelation, then if
there is to be no further revelation after the door is closed, then there will
be no ability at that time to become righteous or rightly wise after the door
is closed. Thus they will remain foolish.
3). Brother Branham tells us that at that time of the
third pull being preached to the totally lost, “The Bride is sealed in with Christ.” Ok, then if that be so, and the Bride is sealed in
with Christ, and the third pull is preached to the totally lost, which excludes
those sealed in with Christ, then we must ask the same question brother Branham
is asking, Is
the Third pull will be preached to the totally lost.?
4). And brother Branham gives us another clue when he
says, at the time that the third pull is preached, “The last member has been redeemed.” And
if the last member has been redeemed then there is no more redemption after
that time. And we know that there is still a mediator on the thrown until the
last member is in and child trained, and then mercy is all over at the time of
the second coming of Christ when the Bride has been caught up to meet him in
the air.
5). He gives us another clue when he says at that time
the “Sixth
Seal has produced itself. And we know the judgments come under
the sixth seal.
Sixth seal the 63-0323 P:52 For we
know that this Sixth Seal is the judgment Seal. It's the
judgment Seal: exactly what it is. Now, see, we've had the antichrist
ride, seen the Church go, now it's finished, goes up. Then
we see the martyrs of them Jews back there under the altar. Now, here is the
breaking forth of the judgment upon the people where out of this tribulation
judgment will come forth the hundred and forty-four thousand redeemed Jews.
I'll prove to you they are Jews and not Gentiles. They have nothing to do
with the Bride, not a thing. The Bride... We done see the Bride's gone.
You can't place that anywhere else: don't come back again until the 19th
chapter of the Book of the Acts (Revelations).
Sixth seal the 63-0323 P:53 Now, notice,
for the Sixth Seal is the
judgment Seal of the Word.
How can I overcome 63-0825M P:37
And now, he said, "How you going to type that? If that Bride goes
forth, goes up before She goes through the tribulation period..." said,
"I got Scripture that shows you that the Church is in the tribulation
period." I said... "Just read the Sixth Seal. That's all.
She's right there under the tribulation period." But find out just
before that, the Bride's done gone. She's in glory at that time; She
has no purification. See? "He that believeth on Me has Everlasting Life and shall
not come into condemnation or the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life."
Christ gave the promise
that we would not even stand at the judgment. So freely did He take
my place until I'm absolutely free. When I'm pardoned, I'm pardoned. How can He
take me out of the pawn shop and got a clear receipt of... How can He be my
Redeemer and take me from the pawn shop, and the broker still say I belong to
him? I've got a written receipt (See?), wrote by the Blood of Jesus Christ.
See?
6). Now, that takes us back to the last thought and that is what he said, “The Seventh Seal brings Him back
to earth.”
Let me share some
quotes here where brother Branham talks about the seventh seal and the
coming of the Lord.
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:132 Now,
we have in the completion here now, by the grace of God, all the mysteries of
the six Seals that's been sealed up, and we understand and know here that the
Seventh Seal is not to be known to the public. Now, His coming,
and the hour of His coming, when the destruction of the
earth... You know, he said there, "What will be the sign of the
coming of the end of the world?" In Matthew 24…
OK, so the
seventh seal is the coming of the Lord and it is not to be a public display.
Souls in prison now 63-1110M
P:109 The Lamb took His Book when the Seventh Seal, just ready for it to
be opened, the Sixth Seal. Remember, He hid the Seventh Seal from us. He
wouldn't do it. When the Angel stood day by day telling it, but then He
wouldn't do it on that one. Said, "There's silence in heaven."
No one knew. It was
the coming of the Lord."Oh," you say, "it can't
be." I hope it isn't. Just look... Let's go just a little farther here. I
got something wrote down. See?
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:130 Here now, we find that the Sixth Seal
has been opened to us; we see it, and we know that this Seventh Seal cannot be
broke to the public until that hour arrives.
Guide a 62-1014E P:27 And
the Holy Spirit always speaks of the Word. "I've
got many things to tell you, you cannot understand it now, but when He comes,
He'll guide you to it." That's the reason the coming of
the Seals. At the finishing of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of God should
be finished to know Who God is, what He is, how He lives, His nature, His Being.
You're supposed to be all the way up here by that time (See?), bring
us into the full statue of sons and daughters of God, a Church that's
washed in the Blood of Christ, that's bought without money, is paid for by the
Blood of Jesus Christ.
Brothers, that’s exactly what we have been
preaching for the past 40 years. Presence; Godhead; Sons of God; Adoption of
sons.
Feast of the trumpets 64-0719M
P:72 That Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know; that's His
coming.
What shall I do with Jesus
63-1124M P:129 This Book's already opened (That's right)
just waiting for the Seventh Seal to be identified with the coming of Christ.
Souls in prison now 63-1110M
P:84 He's already got it right here in the Book. Take It from His hand... Now,
He's coming to receive what He has redeemed; that's His work He has
done; He's come to receive it.
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:131 We
find that Christ, the Lamb took the Book in His hand, and He opened that
Seventh Seal. But you see, it's a hidden mystery. No one
knows it. But it's right along with what He said: no one would know His coming;
they also would not know about this seven thunder mystery. So you see, it's connected together.
That much we have a understanding of it today, because the rest of it is all
unfolded, but this is not unfolded.
First seal the 63-0318 P:78 Now, what's
under this Seventh Seal, don't go down and tell that, for if I tell John
that, then all down through the age the whole plan will be broke: it's a
secret." See? He just wants to...His coming... He said, "Nobody's going to know when I'm
coming; I'm just coming."
See, see? That's all. It ain't for my business to know when, I'll just be
ready. You see? So...
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:60 All
right. This time was between the Sixth and Seventh Seal that He calls these
people, spoken of by Jesus in Matthew the 24th chapter and the 31st
verse, that we've just read. See? Trumpets here, or the two witnesses of the...
When the trumpet sounds, is the trumpet of the two witnesses of the age of
grace for the Jews? One trumpet sounds; you notice, one trumpets
sounds. He say, "And sound the trumpet."
Now, notice over here: 31st. And he shall send forth his
angels... (not one, see, two of them)... with a great sound of a trumpet,...What
is it? When God gets ready to speak, there's a sound of a trumpet.
That's always His voice calling to battle. See? God speaks. These
angels will come forth with the sounding of the trumpet. And you notice, at
the last angel's message the trumpet sound: the first angel's message, a
trumpet sound; second angel's, a trumpet sounded when he sent it out.
Then when He
descends with a Shout Voice and Trump, and we know the trump calls us together
to the wedding supper, then I wonder also is this the Trumpet that Israel hears
and begins the same Message of Grace to the Jews? In other words is there one
trumpet that calls us out and turns the Gospel to the Jews? Is that what takes
place when the last Trump sounds, so we have a parallelism here. The last trump
calls the Bride together and we are caught up to meet him in the air, as He
comes down to the Jews? One trump two events? Gentiles up and Jews given the
Gospel we had.
Feast of the trumpets 64-0719M
P:100 Pentecost feast finishes at the period of the Seventh Trumpet, for the
next is the coming of the, or Seventh Seal, for the next is the
mystery of the coming of Christ, and also the trumpet is sound for the Jews.
Their Sixth Trumpet is sound, and when it does, it makes known to them the
revealed Son of God. One-half hour is fixed. Remember, all trumpets
sound on this Sixth Seal. The Sixth Seal finishes the mystery, under
the Sixth Seal just before the Seventh opened. Notice, here's Leviticus 23 and 26. How
in order is the Scripture.
And then when
that Seventh Seal opens, Christ returns, but it’s a secret and will not be made
known to the world, only to those who are caught up to meet him.
Fourth seal the 63-0321 P:47 Tomorrow
night strikes the souls under the altar, the next night, the judgments. The
next night, the going away of the end of the age, end of time of all things
(See?), when she's taken up. Therefore, right in that Seventh Seal there pours out vials, and
everything else are poured out. What they are, I don't know.
Feast of the trumpets 64-0719M
P:107 Read in your book here and see if that between the Sixth and Seventh
Trumpet isn't injected in there with the Jews being called out. Between the Sixth and Seventh Plague,
we come over with that one hundred and forty-four thousand (you remember
that?), which was
between that. Do you remember between the Sixth Seal and the
Seventh Seal, there was a calling out of the one hundred and forty-four
thousand. You remember that? Now, there's where these trumpets come in,
right there (See?) and persecution of horses loosed on there. Then between that,
then there was to be the seventh angel's Message that had been preaching and
condemning the Pentecostals. And Jesus had been put out, wouldn't
have no cooperation with nobody, be put on the outside, rejected (The
Bible said so.); for it's Christ made manifest among us, Jesus among us
all made manifest in the purity of His Word, making It known. This is not just
makeup, friends, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Scripture.
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:20 The
Lord let us take the Scripture, the Holy Scripture, what Jesus said would take
place. And how would we have ever found that? And here it comes over and
reveals and bring it just exactly (His sermon there) answering that, brings out
exactly to the point, six of the Seals, but He omitted the Seventh. See? Then
when the Seals were open, God (notice here), He omitted revealing even any symbol
of the Seventh one. See? It's a perfect secret with God. Notice, now
we're going to read in the Bible in the Seventh Seal. That's found in
Revelations the 8th chapter. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven
about the space of a half hour. (And that's all we have
on it.)
Breach the 63-0317E P:127 And
here He is as a Mediator on the altar, "Just a little longer until there's
more has to suffer like you." But now He comes from here at this last
Seal. He's no more Mediator; He's King now. And what does He do? If
He's a King, He has to have subjects, and His subjects is them that He has
redeemed; and they cannot come before Him until He takes the rights of redemption.
And now, He walks forth from a Mediator, where death put us in the grave, He
comes forth with the rights. Amen. And even those who are alive and remain till His coming shall not
hinder them which are asleep, for the trumpet of God shall sound at that last
trumpet, when the last Seal is broke, and when the seventh
angel's given his message; the last trumpet shall sound and the dead
in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them to meet Him in the air. He claims... He's come
forth now to claim His possession. Watch, look at this. My, broke the
Seals, revealed the mysteries... Revealed them where? To the last church
age, the only one that's living. The rest of them is sleeping.
Breach the 63-0317E P:108 If
this Book, mysteries, is the Word of God, the seventh angel has to be a
prophet for the Word of God to come to. No priests, popes, or anything else
can get it. The Word don't come to such. The Word of God comes only to a
prophet: always. Malachi 4 promised such. And when He come forth,
He'd take the mysteries of God, where the church had got all scrupled up in all
these denominations, and restore the faith of the children back to the fathers; and then
the world judgment would strike, and the earth would be burnt; and then the
righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the wicked in the millennium. You
understand it now? All right.
Feast of the trumpets 64-0719M
P:66 Notice, making ready the people. How perfect then the Seventh Trumpet
and the Seventh Seal is. Perfectly together the persecution of the Jews... Note,
in Revelations the 9th chapter and the 13th verse
(Now notice real close.), under the Sixth Trumpet (Revelations 9:13),
under the Sixth Trumpet, note, there was two hundred thousand horsemen
that had been bound in the river of Euphrates was turned loose under the Sixth
Trumpet. Now, there's not two hundred thousand horsemen in the world, but there
was two hundred thousand horsemen. Notice it. (I want you just jot it down, so
you can read it.) They wasn't natural horses. They breathed fire, and they had
breastplates of jasper, and they had tails, and the end of the tail looked like
a serpent, a snake's head on the end of it, stinging. See? It was spiritual horses,
spiritual devils, chargers, that had been bound in Euphrates all these years,
supernatural devils. What was it? The old Roman Empire being revived, the persecution of the Jews.
And they'd been bound for nearly two thousand years at the river Euphrates,
can't cross to the promise, a religious sect that was trying to get to the
other side. Euphrates, you know, come through Eden. But they were bound there, two
hundred thousand devils of persecution.
Fourth seal the 63-0321 P:80 A horse is a beast that represents
a power. His power is all mixed up. Why? It's politics; it's
national powers; it's religious powers; it's demon powers; it's all
kinds of powers mixed together, a mixed pale horse was.
Notice these
spiritual horses represent powers, demons loosed on the earth, and notice they all had a stinger.
Never forget brother Branham said in Jezebel religion 61-0319 P:64Then one day after
sin had took its toll, and God has brought His people to their knees... Jezebel
took everything; she wiped it all up; and she'll do it again. That's Thus
saith Gods Holy Bible. She'll do it again. She's right on the throne now,
behind the figurehead, twisting it anyway she wants to; and nobody's going to
stop her. Certainly, nobody's going to stop her now, because what they couldn't
get in the religious circles they cut it all into politics, and there they done
it. Uh-huh, that's exactly what they done. Which the political will be a
boycott just exactly back to the mark of the beast, as sure as I'm
standing here. See? And the Bible said it.
So these demons
(spiritual horses)
powers, government control, they will all have stingers, needles, and thus we
have words like vials, (germ warfare) plagues (COVID Vaccine), stingers are (syringes which is a vial with a
needles), and demonic power like horses. It’s all happening and Israel was
first to receive these demonic governmental power (spiritual horse) to mandate that
all men, Revelations 13:16 “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom.
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the
number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six
So all men are to
be stung by their stingers (needles) with vials
full of the plagues
using their stingers
or needles to implant all humanity with their human crypto currency vaccine
so they could not buy nor sell without it. And that is what the patent WO2020060606
declares what they plan to do. Just look it up for yourself and understand the
symbolism of the scriptures is so real because God interprets his word by
bringing it to pass.
Comparison Of
The Tip Of A Hypodermic Needle,
A Viper's Fang, A Spider's
Fang And
The Stinger Of A Scorpion
Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; (spiritual
horses are powers. The Apostle Paul said “we war not against flesh and blood but against
principailities and powers in high places”.) and on their heads were
as it were crowns like gold, (crowns represents - rulers)and their faces were
as the faces of men.(so they looked like mere men) 8 And they
had hair as the hair of women, (hair is given unto women for
their glory, so the glory of this power is women ruler-ship) and their teeth were
as the teeth of lions.(and
Satan comes as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, he devours with the
teeth) 9 And they had
breastplates, (In Ezekiel Lucifer also had a breastplate) as it were
breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was
as the sound of chariots of many horses
(the sound of many demonic powers) running to battle. (waging war on mankind) 10 And they
had tails like unto scorpions, and there
were stingers in their tails:
Now the stinger
in their tails is not a long tail on his backside, but it is the tail that he told.
Br. Branham tells us how the scripture uses type but those type are always the
same because God changes not. And we see his explanation of what the tail is.
He says it is not the tail but the tale that was told.
QA Hebrews part 3 COD 57-1006
P:27 Now, if you'll notice when those beings were in heaven... Now, over in Revelations the 12th chapter, He
gives a picture of the woman standing, the moon at her head and the sun at her
head and the moon under her feet. And the red dragon stood to devour the
child as soon as it was born; and he took his tail and pulled a third of the stars of
heaven and cast them to the earth. Did you notice that? Now, that
doesn't mean that Satan has a long tail that he hooked around people, but the tale that he told,
and pulled a third part of those stars. Those stars were Abraham's seed.
Abraham said, "Oh..."God told Abraham, "Look up to the heavens
and number the stars if you can."He said, "I can't do it."He
said, "Neither will you be able to number your seed," the stars.
Therefore think
it not stranger that these 200,000 thousand spiritual horses (demons) are
political, national religious and demonic powers as brother Branham told
us.
Fourth seal the 63-0321 P:80 A horse is a beast that represents
a power. His power is all mixed up. Why? It's politics; it's
national powers; it's religious powers; it's demon powers; it's all
kinds of powers mixed together, a mixed pale horse was.
And think it not
strange that from every form of political, national, and religious powers comes
the tale of the stinger or needle. We ought to see then that God’s Word coming
to pass, is all the world demanding by their talk, the tail, the tale that is
being told, and that tale is to sing the people, jab them with the needle.
Revelations 9:17 And thus I saw the
horses in the vision, (spiritual powers, political, nationalistic,
religious, demonic)and them that sat on them, having
breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the
horses were as the heads of lions; and out of
their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 18 By these three was
the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the
brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their
tails: (the tales that they told) for their tails
(tales) were like unto serpents, (double tongued) and had heads, and with them they do hurt. (look at all the people being maimed and killed by
the vaccine germ warfare plagues) 20 And the
rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues (and how did the
plague kill so many? By the word of mouth the tale that was told that caused
the world to fear, and take the needle, (the stinger) attached to their tail
(Tale))yet
repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,
and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither
can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of
their sorceries, (pharmacea)
nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.
Feast of the trumpets 64-0719M
P:61 Notice, the very first trumpet sound, blood, fire, hail, and everything
scatter the ground. See? What was He doing? Bringing Israel out of spiritual
Egypt (See?) back into his homeland. Now, let me say this right here, that every
trumpet that blowed, blowed under the Sixth Seal. And we'll get to it in a
few minutes where we caught the seal there. All the Trumpets sounded under
the Sixth Seal, because the Seventh Seal there was silence. No one
knew; that was the minute or hour that Christ would come, as He revealed it to
us. But every trumpet sounded under the Sixth Seal, under the persecution of
the Jews.
Breach the 63-0317E P:20 And
when the Seals are broke and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel,
the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon
the sea with a rainbow over His head. Now remember, this seventh angel is on earth
at the time of this coming.
Christ revealed in His own Word
65-0822M P:113 What was the opening of the Seven Seals
to do? What are all these denominations staggering around in this...?... It's
to reveal, bring out. If you haven't got any eyes, then what's the use
to reveal? There has to be eyes first to see. Is that right? It'll reveal Malachi 4,
reveal St. Luke 17:30, St. John 14:12, also John 15:24; 16:13, and to also reveal Revelations 10:1-7, the
opening of the Seven Seals and the Seventh Angel's Message, to open up, to
reveal when the evening Light's come.
Spiritual food in due season
65-0718E P:63 Now, mark that with what the last prophet
said, "Behold I send to you Elijah the prophet,
and he will restore the hearts of the children back to the fathers,"
(See?) a Message to
bring them back to the Bible. And the Son of man will be
revealing Himself in that day. And at that day of the sounding of the last
church age, the seventh angel, the mysteries of God should be made known
in that day. The Seven Seals would be broken; the mysteries of all these
churches and things, how they happened and what, how, what taken place.
Man that can turn on light
63-1229M P:13 See, on the Sixth Seal, all Seven
Trumpets sound right there on that Sixth Seal (See?), just before the
Seventh Seal opens the coming of Christ.
It's always been that Third Pull.
Question 2. Concerning the opening or the revelation of the 7th Seal, the prophet speaks of three (3) points related to it. If possible, we would like to be taught on these three (3) points. What are these three (3) points? This is what he says:
There are three things that take place at the time of the opening of the seventh seal. Now, remember there is a difference between the opening or revealing of the seventh seal and the actual manifestation of the seventh seal. There are three things that take place when the seventh seal is opened or manifested. One – The Lord comes for his redeemed of all ages. 2) He turns from the Gentiles to the Jews. 3) there is judgment for both Jew and Gentile to purge them for their sin which is their unbelief.
248 And now, as certain as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the revelation that revealed. It’s in threefold manner. That I will speak to you, by God’s help, of a fold of It. And then you ... Let's go over that, first. Here is the revelation, to begin what I want to tell you, what it is. What happens, is that... Those Seven Thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write; that’s what the mystery is, laying behind those Seven consecutive Thunders rolling out. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit several times - Ed.]
253 If Satan
should get a hold of It, he might do great damage. There is one thing he don't know. Now, he can interpret
anything he wants to, and impersonate any kind of gift (I hope you're
learning), but he can't know this.
So the question is asked. “Is he talking about the coming of the Lord or the 3rd Pull, that Satan might do damage, if he should get a hold of it?”
Answer: He is talking about the third pull. That is why he said, He must say very little about
it because otherwise Satan would try to impersonate it.
Anointed ones at end time
65-0725M P:189 Notice the very day
when this messenger, not when he starts on the, but when he begins to declare his Message. See? The First Pull, healing; Second
Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the
opening of the Word, the mysteries revealed. No more... There's no more higher order to reveal the Word than prophets. But
the only way the prophet can be a-vindicated is by the Word. And remember the Third Pull was the opening of them
Seven Seals to reveal the hidden Truth that's been sealed in the Word. Do
you see it? It is then, in that day when this thing is to take place that
Jannes and Jambres, the impersonators, will appear again, just like they did
when Moses appeared with the original Word to say it; they appear to
impersonate it. Just exactly right. Now, you see what Matthew 24:24 is? See?
Anointed ones.
Look away to Jesus 63-1229E P:16
“the
third pull has now been vindicated, and I'm sure you all know what it is. Now,
remember, there'll never be any
impersonation of that, 'cause it can't be. It cannot be. Now, it's in
existence, and I am warned of this, that soon, right at this time now, it's just happened, so it could identify its presence among
you. See? But it will not be used in
a great way, until this council begins to tighten up. And when it does,
when that does... The Pentecostals and so forth can almost impersonate anything
could be done, but when that time comes,
when the squeeze comes down, then you'll see what you have seen
temporarily, be manifested in the
fullness of its power. See?
What is a vision 56-0408A P:58 Now, here's something. Notice close. There's a difference
between the Angel of the Lord and that Light, because I heard something a
moving, as it does when it comes at the platform at night, kind-a like and like
a fire whipping around, licking blaze. And It
left me, and it went right down over the top of that audience and went and
stood over the top of that little building, then settled down on top of it.
And then when it did, this One that was standing by me, behind me, the same
voice, the Angel's voice, He said, "I'll
meet you in there, and this is the third pull, but nobody will know nothing
about it."And I said, "Well, I don't understand why in there. Why
there?"He said, "It will not
be a public show this time."I said, "I don't understand going
into that closet, like that."And He said, "Is not it written by our Lord, when thou prayest, be not like
the hypocrites who like to be heard before men, but enter into a secret closet
and pray to the Father Who seeth in secret, and He Who seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly?" It's perfectly to
the Scripture; every time it is. And I said, "I understand."Then He
took me to this place and set me down in this room where I was at, and then He
told me what to do for the third time. Now, Christian friends, when I leave
this world, that'll still be in my bosom. But you mark my word what's going to
take place when that...
So he’s talking
about the tent ministry and the little room, and the angel told him he would
meet him in that room, and that would be the third pull.
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:85 If you want something to happen... Now, you'll have to
take my word for this. If I'm planning on doing something, I know better than to tell anybody about it. Not that that person
will tell it, but Satan will hear it.
See? He can't get it in my heart there, as long as God's got it closed up with
the Holy Spirit, so it's between me and
God. See? He don't know nothing
about it until you speak it, then he hears it. And I'll try... I'll people
I'll do a certain, certain thing, and watch
the devil cut off every wheel he can to get there (See?), to beat me to it. But if I can get the revelation from God and
just don't say nothing about it, then it's different. Remember, Satan will try to impersonate. He will
try to impersonate everything that the Church will do. He's tried to do it.
We've noticed it through the antichrist; but this is one thing he cannot impersonate. There'll be no mimics to this
(See?), 'cause he don't know it.
There's no way for him to know it. It's
the third pull. He just knows
nothing about it. See? He doesn't understand it.
Seventh seal the 63-0324E P:129 Notice, there is a
whole earth is to be purged. There will be such a thing that the moon, stars,
and all nature will be purged. You
see what it is? The earth is renewing
herself, being purged, getting ready for the millennium. The millennium's
coming up. And see, everything that's
got any filth in it is to be purged during the Sixth Seal. Now, now, do you notice on the opening of this
Seventh Seal, it's also in a threefold mystery. This one I have--will speak and have spoke, that it is the
mystery of the seven thunders. The seven thunders in heaven will unfold
this mystery. It'll be right at the
coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would return.
Seventh seal the
63-0324E P:127 Now, we're into the
age of the Eagle, the revelation to be
revealed, the whole thing. Now, compare this with Revelations the
10th chapter, verse 1 to 7, and we'll
see here in this Revelations--the Revelations here, 10: 1-7,
that in the days of the sounding of the seventh
angel's message was to finish up all the mysteries of God. Now, we find out also in this that the Sixth Seal now
being opened, it was for a threefold
purpose. Now, here was the purposes:
The first thing was that the
sleeping virgins had to go through the tribulation period for purification.
She had to be purged of her sins of
unbelief and rejecting the message. This
she was done in the tribulation period. We see they wind up over here in Revelations 7, between the 6th and 7th chapter here, that she had been purged, and she'd been given
her robes.
128 Now, she's not
the Bride, but it's the church, the pure people that didn't have the
opportunity, maybe, to receive the message, or in some way that they were
blinded by these false prophets, and they didn't get a chance, and yet they're really sincere in heart, and
God knows their heart, and here they're purged during this time. You notice that another purging time; that's for Israel when she gathers. That's the second fold. God purges Israel in the tribulation period.
Out of the millions that'll gather there, there'll be a selected one hundred
and forty-four thousand, and they will be purged also. God's purging Israel.
129 Notice, there
is a whole earth is to be purged. There will be such a thing that the moon,
stars, and all nature will be purged.
You see what it is? The earth is renewing herself, being purged, getting ready
for the millennium. The millennium's coming up. And see, everything that's got any filth in it is to be purged during the Sixth
Seal. Now, now, do you notice on the opening of this Seventh Seal, it's also in a
threefold mystery. This one I have--will speak and have spoke, that it is
the mystery of the seven thunders. The seven thunders in heaven will unfold
this mystery. It'll be right at the coming of Christ, because Christ said no
one knew when He would return.
Question no 3. It is written in Psalm 110.1: The
Lord saith unto my Lord, Sit thou
at my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Why then is Jesus called the Son of David in the Millennium when David himself calls Him his Lord?
Answer:
Because it is prophesied that the Son of David will set on his throne, and that
is when Jesus sets on the throne of David to reign during the millennium.
Remember, he comes in the name of a son in three different titles for
three different manifestations. A Son of Man, (which is a prophetic ministry in
which he comes in the 1st age alpha and again in the last age which
is the omega. His ministry is the same
in both 1st and last.
Masterpiece the 64-0705 P:99 The
Alpha and Omega is the same. He said, "I am Alpha and Omega." He never say anything
in between, "I'm Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last." That's it.
The first ministry and the last ministry is the same. The
first Message and last Message is the same thing. "I'm, I was in
Alpha; I'm in Omega." "There'll be a day that won't be called day nor
night, but in the evening time it shall be Light." See? Alpha and Omega;
it's become the first and the last. Oh, my, brethren, we could stay hours on
that.
Then during the church ages he comes as Son of God which is the Son’s
spirit in men, during the church ages, then at the Omega He comes again as son
of man, and as prophet and then during the millennium as son of David.
Modern events made clear by
prophecy 65-1206 P:93 Remember, He comes in three son's
names. He came first in the name of the Son of man. He never called
Himself the Son of God. You know that. See? He came in the Son of man, a
prophet; Jehovah Himself, the Father called Jeremiah, "son of man"; a
prophet is son of man. He come...Now, He come after the day of Pentecost, He
come back in the form of the Holy Ghost, supernatural Spirit. Now, He's Son
of God. In the millennium He'll be Son of David, setting upon the
throne of David. See? He's Son of God, Son of man, Son of David.
Question no 4. What does the Cloud, that appeared in 1963, represent? Some calls it the 2nd Coming of Christ, because the Prophet identified the nose, mouth and lips, and said it’s Christ.
It represents the Headship of the body coming to join itself with the body. The reason some call it the coming is because they are ignorant of the Scriptures. There is an appearing before the coming, these are two different words and therefore they mean two different things.
It is the appearing of the Lord and not the coming of Christ. The appearing is the Parousia of Christ showing the head has come down to the body of Christ. Remember it is a spiritual union. And God is Spirit.
End time Evangelism 62-0603 P:30
Now, we have already seen and are witnessing the appearing of the Lord.
Now remember, appearing and coming is two different words: to appear
and then to come. Now is the appearing; He's already appeared in
these last days, right here with us in the last few years. Now, it's a sign of
His coming. He's appearing in His Church in the form of the Holy Spirit,
showing that it's Him, 'cause people cannot do these things that you see the
Holy Spirit doing; so that's the appearing of the Lord. Now, you remember, it
spoke both places, "appearing" and "coming."
Be not afraid 62-0620 P:66 There's
a different word used. The appearing of Christ and the coming of Christ
(See?), it's two different words altogether. See? Now, Christ is
appearing in these last days in His church, bringing His church together in
unity, and faith, and power in the Word, all together; that when He returns He
will find the same church.
It is I be not afraid 62-0611
P:81 You know, there's a difference between the appearing of Christ and the
coming of Christ. That's two different words altogether. He's
appearing now in His church. We see Him; we know it's Him. It's the Holy
Spirit. See? We know it is. Now. We believe that the Holy Spirit is God.
All of us know that.
Convinced and then concerned
62-0521 P:31 There's a great big
difference in the sign of Jesus appearing, and then Jesus coming.
There's two different
words, means
two different things: the appearing of the Lord, and the coming
of the Lord. Now, the appearing of the Lord is now, when He's
appearing in His people, His Spirit working among them, proving that it's Him
with them, getting them ready for the rapture, for the coming of the
Lord to catch away His Bride (See?): the appearing and the coming.
Question no 5. In many quotes, the prophet said, in 1933, the Voice told him he is the forerunner of the 2nd Coming of Christ, and in some others, he said it is his message that will be the forerunner of the 2nd coming of Christ. What should we retain?
Just always
remember, that you cannot separate the messenger from the Message.
But the main
thing is the Message , not the vessel.
Rising of the sun 65-0418M P:8 I
wish, this morning, that I had much time to spend upon these phenomenas, that's
beyond any shadow of doubt been proven for the past thirty years, or
thirty-five years right here at this church, since down on the river when that
same Light came down here in Jeffersonville in 1933 and spoke those
words: "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ,
your Message will forerun the second." We're at the end time.
And we see it. We wonder sometimes why it hasn't spread over the earth; maybe
sometime we'll have a chance to explain that, if God willing.
Man running from presence
65-0217 P:93 And many I baptized that evening are over
there now. When they stood there and witnessed that Morning Star coming
down out of the heavens, circling around like that, said, "As John the Baptist was sent
forth to bring to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message will forerun
the second coming." How could it be thought? But all
God's words are true. All God's words... We're living in the Presence of
the great King. God bless you.
When brother Vayle first began to work with brother Branham, his role was
to introduce br. Branham’s ministry to the people. The first night brother
Vayle quoted the angel this way. “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ,
you will forerun the second coming of Christ” Later after the service some brethren who
were also working with brother Branham said to br. Vayle, you quoted the angel
wrong. He said “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ,
your ministry will forerun the second coming of Christ.” Well, after service brother Branham took
brother Vayle aside and said, br. Lee you didn’t quote the angel correctly, He
said, “As John the Baptist was
sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your message will forerun the
second coming of Christ”
Brother Vayle in his own testimony said, It's like Bro. Branham said, when the angel of God appeared and said to
him, "As John the Baptist foreran the first
coming, so your message will forerun the second." So I said, Bro.
Branham, you're trying to tell me it's John the Baptist. Nobody but John the
Baptist could forerun the first coming of Christ, so not William Branham, not
John, no not anybody in particular, but a
message would forerun? He said “Now you've got it, doc”! Now I made very
careful of understanding what that man was telling me. 'Cause he said, "You're presenting me wrong, it's neither me
nor my ministry." And yet Bro. Branham said, "My ministry is to declare Him that
He is here." And the
declaration is a message so the message is: “He is here.
Question no 6. In 1 Corinthians 9.27 The Prophet Paul said: “But I treat my body harshly and hold it in subjection, lest I myself be rejected, after having preached to others.” What does he mean? Do we have to hurt and mistreat our bodies, in the hope to obtain salvation?
That translation “I treat my body harshly” is
incorrect, the Bible says, 1 Corinthians 9.27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into
subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I
myself should be a castaway.
This is like a wrestler who puts a man up on his shoulders, when the man
is on his shoulders, he has no leverage against the one holding him off the
ground. And so Paul in some places speaks like he is in a race, and here like a
wrestler, who knows how to control his opponent. He gives his body no leverage
to sin. “I am
crucified with Christ, nevertheless I am living, yet it is not I that is living
but Christ is living in me, and the life I am now living in this body, I am
living by the same revelation a the son of God who gave himself for me.”
Total Deliverance:
59-0712 P:55 Jesus was completely, totally man. He could cry like a man,
He could eat like a man; He could become like a man. He was completely, totally
man in His physical being. And in His Spirit, He was completely, totally God,
so He made His flesh
submissive to the Spirit that was in Him. You see, He was
tempted in all manners like we are. He was man, not an Angel. He was a man. He
had desires and temptations just like we do. The Bible said He did. He was a
man, not an Angel above temptation.
Hebrews 1:4 said He was made lower than the Angels. He was man, completely man, that God took a complete man to bring total
deliverance; and He filled Him with His Spirit;
the Holy Ghost was in Him without measure. And He was tempted
like we were. And He was completely God. He proved it when He raised the dead,
when He stopped nature, the roaring seas and the mighty winds. When He spoke to
the trees, and so forth, they obeyed Him. He was God inside. And He could've
been man, for He was Man, but He totally and completely delivered Himself
as a Man into the hands of God for the service of God. And He is our example.
Question no 7. In a Christian couple, when the wife commits
adultery, does her husband have the right to still keep her as his
wife? And how about if it is the husband who commits adultery?
Answer: Yes, unless she left (divorced) him for another man. Well, first of all, the question is wrong to begin with. It says “in a Christian Couple”, and in a Christian couple neither one will commit adultery. A Christian couple are Christ like, that’s what the word Christian means. But if a church couple has this problem, it is between them whether the one divorces the other or not. Their vow is “until death we do not part.” So if they can find forgiveness in their heart for the breaking of that vow, then yes they can take them back. But if that person left and married someone else, no they cannot take them back. There is only one reason a man can put away his wife and remarry and that is if she lied to him before they were married and said she was a virgin when she was not. Because she lied in the vow, and any contract entered in through fraud is not a valid contract.
Matthew 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him,
tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife
for every cause? And he answered that in verse Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except
it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso
marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That
whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes
her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
committeth adultery.
Question no 8. The Prophet said that a young girl who
commits formication can be forgiven but not justified. Does this mean that in
the sight of God, this sin is still held against her, even if she asks God for
forgiveness?
Let’s read the
quote for ourselves first.
Invisible union of the bride
65-1125 P:36 Marriage is the oldest institution in the
world. Marriage was performed first, and instituted in the garden of Eden. A
woman is entrusted with certain characters that she must not defile. A
woman is trusted to that. There's not a creature on the earth like a woman.
There's no female dog; there's no female of any kind entrusted with a character
that a woman is. A woman was not even in the--the beginning of the creation,
because God knowed that she would fall. All other females could not commit
adultery. She's the only one that can commit adultery. If she'd been
made like the original, that would've been dis-complementary to God's great
wisdom. See, she was made a byproduct of a man; but because she was cast over
in that side, she has also been given a sacred charge from God for
redemption. She's got characters that she must not defile. If she would
mar them, she's defiled for lifetime. No matter how much she's forgiven, she can't be justified.
I'll strike that in a little bit. Got a Scripture on that in a few minutes.
She can be forgiven for her defilement, but she cannot be justified in this life. It's
always with her. Notice, now, she's been given this. She may be forgiven
but not justified.
Answer: No, that is not what it means. Notice he said in this life. In this life. It does not speaks of her in her glorified
life. Justification is as though you never did do it. If she could be justified
for that then if she never did it she is a virgin but since once she has done
the act she is no longer a virgin, then how can she be justified as though she
never did do it. But that does not mean the blood of Jesus can’t take away that
sin, and cover it under the blood of Jesus Christ.
Question no 9. From the following quote of the Prophet, what is the difference with human free will?
64-0416
And When their Eyes were Opened, They Knew Him April 205Just like the word “predestinated”, it's a bad word. I
used it a few minutes ago, and I caught myself,cause I felt the spirit move
back. Many people don't believe in predestination. Predestination is a bad
word. It’s really foreknowledge. God knows, before, who will and who won’t,so
therefore He can predestinate by His foreknowledge. That's the reason He knows
who will and who won’t. See? He don’t... He ... “He’s not willing that any should
perish.”But he knows who will perish. If He wasn’t, then He wasn’t God. He
has to be omnipotent just the same as—as omnipresent;see, omniscient,
omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite. He’s infinite. If He isn’t, He isn’t God. So
He knows all things, therefore He can tell the end from the beginning, because
He is the Word.
Answer: Well, the Baptist will tell you that it is your choice that you are
saved, and puts your own free will above God’s Choosing. But God’s Word said, “I chose you and you
have not chosen me,”
The will is not sovereign; it is a
servant, influenced and controlled by the other faculties of man's being. The
sinner is not a free agent because “he is a slave of sin.” Jesus said so in his own
words. John 8:36."If the Son shall
therefore make you free, ye shall be free indeed" Man is a
rational being and as such responsible and accountable to God, but to say he is
a free moral agent is to deny that he is totally depraved. Because man's will
is governed by his mind and heart, and because these have been corrupted by
sin, then it follows that if ever man is to turn in a God-ward direction, God himself must work in him Philippians 2:13
Both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Man's boasted freedom is in actuality the "bondage of corruption"; for he
"serves divers lusts and pleasures." "Man is impotent as to his
will. He has no will favorable to God. I believe in free will; but then it is a
will only free to act according to what nature we have by seed. A dove has no
will to eat carrion; a raven no will to eat the clean food of the dove. Put the
nature of the dove into the raven and it will eat the food of the dove. Satan
could have no will for holiness as God could have no will for evil. The sinner
in his sinful nature could never have a will according to God. For this happen he
must be born again".
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
This scripture tells us that man will try to choose what seems right, or
the way that he believes to be the right way, but man's choice will always lead
to the way of death. Therefore, even in our choosing, we need a God who will
watch over our choices, and help us to make the right choice.
The main emphasis on the
Foreknowledge of God as taught in the majority of pulpits today has nothing to
do with the true essence of God by Foreknowledge planning and preparing, but
has been twisted altogether to the place where it is being taught that the
foreknowledge of God has to do with man's choice and God's passive acceptance
of that choice, and thus God making His selection of you based on knowing
beforehand what choice you will make.
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Romans 5:2 " By who also we have access by Faith into this
Grace wherein we stand, and therefore we are made to rejoice in the Hope of
obtaining the Glory of God."
So here we see that Faith or Revelation gives us access into the Grace of God. And as we said, the Revelation is given out by God Himself, so we see that Revelation opens the way or us gives access to understanding the Grace of God.
Romans 9:11-16 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any
good or evil, that the purpose of God according to Election might stand, not of
works, but of Him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve
the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I love, but Esau have I hated. What
shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For He saith
to Moses, I will have Mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that
sheweth mercy."
So then your free will has nothing to do with it. It
is not he that wills, so it doesn't matter whether your will is a free or not,
it means nothing concerning salvation.
Question no 10. Is not the physical closure of our churches
by our governments, which will occur in the days to come, the persecution
against the bride?
Answer: The bride does not go through the persecution. The church goes through the persecution.
Feast of the trumpets 64-0719M
P:75 Well, what has it done? In the cunningness, as He said, he'd come in like
flatteries. And what has he done? He's bringing the Protestant ecumenical
council of the world churches, the spirit of antichrist, upon both of them,
bringing them to the slaughter, just like they did the other in a hour to call
the Bride. How? Loosed in the ecclesiastical church, spirit. Loosed upon
what? Not upon the denominations, upon the Bride. But here you'd get it; the
Bride will not go through that time. The Bible says not. The
church will, but not the Bride. Can't you see? Ministers, can't you see
that, brethren? You say the Church has to go through the persecution for the
perfection of it. The Blood of Jesus Christ perfects the Bride. A
man who chooses a wife don't put her through a lot of punishment; he's already
found grace with her; she's found grace with him. He engages to her. And if
there's anything, he'll keep her from every place to turn her hand. His grace
is so great upon them, and so will it be upon the Bride, and so is it on the
Bride.
Questions and answers COD
64-0823M P:154 276. Brother Branham, will the Bride go
through the persecution as the early apostolic church did? No, I just explained
that a few minutes ago. No, next thing is a rapture now. Remember, we're at the
promised land; we're at the border. You understand the march of Israel?
The closing of churches is part of the boycott of Revelations 13. But our church never shut down for one minute during all this COVID mandates. I know many pastors have said, “render unto caesar what is caesars,” but Jesus also said, “and unto Gods what is God’s and the bride does not belong to Caesar, she belongs to God. Now, Cesar has a right to your money, but not to you. When they asked Jesus whether they should pay taxes or not, he said, “let me look at a coin, whose picture is on it, and they said Caesar, then Jesus said, then render to Caesar what is Caesars, but unto God what is God’s.” And God said “I have written your name into the palm of my hand.” That is Isaiah 49:16
Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. And Jesus said no man can pluck you out of His hand.
So we belong to Him and we do not belong to the earthly government, which is controlled by Satan.” The Bride sings, “my beloved is mine and I am His, His banner over me is love.” Song of Solomon 6:2
And our prophet said every kingdom in this world belongs to Satan until
the millennium when Jesus takes over as King. So when these preachers only give
you part of the word that says “render unto Caesar
what is Caesars” and do
not give you the entire scriptural response of Jesus which said, “and unto God what is Gods”, Then they are
acknowledging that they belong to state and thus to Satan. And their confession
will bring them into judgment. For Jesus said in Matthew 12:37 “For by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Let us pray…