Satans Eden no 36

Q & A - March French Ministers Meeting

March 19, 2022

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

Brother Brian, in view of what is currently happening in the world with Russia, as well as some future events, can you shed some light on the battle of Armageddon, Gog and Magog?

And then the brother gives us two quotes of brother Branham’s concerning God and Magog. So let’s first read the two quotes and then we will answer the question.

The first quote is from QA Image of the beast 54-0515 P :129 Will the prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39 be fulfilled before the rapture? I think not. I think the next thing we look for is the rapture of the church. And then that's when Gog and Magog comes down is the Russian armies who comes in after...

And then they gave a second quote from QA God being misunderstood COD 61-0723E P :44 143 Will Ezekiel 38 and 39 come to pass before the rapture? Now if you will notice, Ezekiel 38 and 39 deals with Gog and Magog, which is Russia, the north country.

Answer 1) Now, I would like to say that if you listen to what brother Branham is saying in this first quote, he is telling you that there is only one thing we should be focused on right now and that is getting ready for the rapture which I might add includes the resurrection season. In other Words the Shout has gone forth but we Know during God’s Parousia where He descends with a Shout which is the Message, He also brings forth the Voice of the resurrection and the Trump which is the gathering and the catching us away. A Trump always signifies war, so it should be no foreign thing to our understanding that while the Trump signifies the deliverance from war for the bride, it also declares war upon the earth. So how close are we my brothers and sisters when the nations are beating their suicidal war drums daily in the news.

Now, these two quotes concern God and Magog which brother Branham speaks of and it also concerns Israel and the 144,000, and not the elect Gentile Bride of Christ. So we must keep our eyes off what does not concern us and stay focused on what does concern us, and that is before one bomb strikes we will be in glory. So what kind of life ought we to be living in these last days on earth.

I will tell you what kind of life, it should be a Christ centered Life where He and His Word comes before everything else to us.

And we as ministers ought to be making this so clear to the people that they can think of nothing else if they are to be a chosen people who are made ready. For the Bride hath made herself ready.

Brother Branham taught us the parable of the Armour Ranch Bride so let me just read it to you.

God's provided way 59-0415A 44 Everything's different when you come into Christ. It makes you forsake the world. It makes you forsake the things of the world. You'll turn off your TV anytime to go to church on Wednesday night, if you've ever come in on Christ. When there's a prayer meeting, why, there's nothing can keep you away from that prayer meeting. When the love of God that's in your heart that was in Christ Jesus, will pull you to the church, and when you get there, and you get that overflowing joy, there's something will make you sing out with all that's in you the praises of God. See, we're coming some other way besides the Door. People are coming in, say, "Well, I come in a Baptist." It's all right be Baptist, if you come by the Door and picked up the robe. Say, "Well, I'm Catholic." That's still all right, if you come by the Door and got the robe. But unless you come through the Door, you'll be rejected, because He said it would be. And there's going to be many of them there without the robe on.

45   So remember, friends, when we're taking our people on the street, taking our people in the church, and wherever there is, let not them get by without first coming by Jesus Christ to be borned of His Spirit, robed in His righteousness, filled with His goodness, and then you've got a real convert to Christ. It's later than we think. We've got to work. The time is work. The message is urgent. Did you notice just in the antediluvian world, before that Noah... Before that the first drop of rain ever fell, Noah went into the ark. In the days of Sodom, before one bit of fire ever fell from the heavens, that the Angel said to Lot, "Make haste; come hither. For I can't do nothing till you come out of there." And when the last of the redeemed was come out, then the fire fell.

46  Now, we know that we're close to the end ... We're right at the door of a global destruction. We know that hanging in the hangars, right now, is bombs. Did you read the Life Magazine, I believe it was, a few days ago, or weeks ago, where that general said that just the first one to blow his top (and that's the expression), and would touch off one of them bombs, what's going to happen. They're already hanging there. They're ready. They can time them by radar and the stars.

(Look at what br. Branham just said, and this was way before GPS was even invented. In his day they used the LORAN system of radio signals which were only accurate in 10’s of miles radius, that was LORAN-A, and the main use for these was to send a missile to hit a large city. Because the radius of the blast you didn’t have to be too accurate. Then with refinements through the late 50’s they went to LORAN-B which was more accurate but had a lot of technical glitches, and a very limited distance. But by 1958 they came up with LORAN-C with an accuracy within hundreds of feet. That was what they had in brother Branham’s day. These were still limited to about 1,500 kilometers distance. But The GPS project wasn’t started by the U.S. Department of Defense until 1973. The first prototype spacecraft was launched in 1978 and the full constellation of 24 satellites became operational in 1993.) It is through GPS that accuracy like brother Branham spoke of is now capable.

So let’s listen to what he says next, as we continue to read…

“They can drop one from Moscow right on Vine Street here, and Sunset Boulevard and Vine, exactly on the dot, right on the target. Anywhere they want to drop one, they can do it.

Now, I do not know if you are aware of what he is saying here, but that was not the man William Branham speaking here. That was the spirit of prophesy, and it had to be God speaking, because that technology was still 20+ years away from those capabilities.

“And we're setting right out there in the ocean with these big ships. We could see them the other day. Them submarines come up, and they wouldn't even let us get near them. With that radar, bombs setting there, and they could put one right on Moscow, or anywhere they want to put it. Now, what...One of these days, somebody's going to make a slip, and they're going to pull one. And when they pull, there's going to be pulling on this side too. And what's the world going to do? It can't stand it. There'll be a burst and a shake, and that world'll fly to pieces. And that could happen before the sun goes down tonight.

47 A great general speaking the other day, said, "The next war that takes place will only be three minutes long." Three minutes! No wonder science says it's three minutes till midnight. Three minutes is all it'll take to rock the world completely to pieces and blow it up. We're living on borrowed time. Some fanatic, one of these days, is going to touch one of them off. And when they... Out there, them listening posts and everything, and ears alert, when they hear that first whistle go forth with that bomb going across, they're going to pull them too. And then when that starts, it's going to pull both ways, and here they come. It'll be a constant completely rocking, and this world will go into volcanic ashes. That's all it can do. It could never stand it. One of them bombs will blow a hole in the ground a hundred seventy-five feet deep, a hundred miles square. And how about ten thousand of those turned loose on the United Sates at one time. Where's your living going to be? The world couldn't stand that shock.

According to NTI there is at present 9 countries with over 13,133 Nuclear arms. Russia has by far the most. On the next page I have listed how many of these countries have nuclear weapons.

Which Countries Have Nuclear Weapons?

1. Russia — 6,257 (1,458 active, 3039 available, 1,760 retired) 48%

2. United States — 5,550 (1,389 active, 2,361 available, 1,800 retired) 42%

3. China — 350 available (actively expanding nuclear arsenal) 3%

4. France — 290 available 2%

5. United Kingdom — 225 available 2%

6. Pakistan — 165 available 1%

7. India — 156 available 1%

8. Israel — 90 available <1%

9. North Korea — 40-50 available (estimated) < 0.4%

So really what you are looking at is Russia and the USA for the 90% of the worlds nukes. So war between these two countries will destroy all life on earth.

Brother Branham continues, …48   Even now, till the science is claiming that the earth is bulging out in the middle. You seen that here the other day, and heard them talking of it, that their... The waters in the North has went down so many feet, in the middle of the earth, rather, and getting deeper in the north and in the south, because the earth is a bulging out. The sun doesn't go around its orbit like it used to. Everything is indicating that coming of the Lord. We're right at the door. And remember. Before one of those bombs can drop... Don't forget this. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." And before Noah, 'fore any rain fell down, Noah was in the ark, safely. Before any fire fell on Sodom, Lot was outside. And before one bomb can strike, the Church will be home in glory, gone in. Be sure. Then if this... Just to think, friends, if it's that close, how much closer is the coming of the Lord? 'Cause the Lord comes before that happens.

Now, I think that it is very interesting that he gives us these facts before he tells this next story as kind of a parable to the church. Listen to what he says next…

49 Reminds me of a little story. All of you know, I used to herd a few cattle. And I thought I was a genuine cowboy. And so, I remember at a ranch that we was working on, there was the Armour Company owned it, really, and the cattle out there they was branded, and we grazed them. And so the story goes... Was before I come on the place. But they had a bunch of young girls, the rancher did. And they were all these little flippy type girls in them days. I think we called them "flappers." And now days they're called "chorus girls," or something. But however, they was a... Flapper mothers is what brought forth chorus girls. Now, what's the chorus girl going to bring forth, what I wonder? I'll preach one of these nights on sowing to the wind and reaping the whirlwind. That's what we've done.

50  Now, notice this. Then before that, the ranch got all fixed up nice and everything, because the Armour's boy was coming out to visit the ranch out in the west. And they were going to have a big time. Of course, all these girls was going to vamp the boss's, the head boss's boy. You know, they'd marry him. Well then, they understood he was looking for a sweetheart. So they were all fixed up that night, and they was going to really give him an old Western reception. And the shooting their guns and having a big time. And they happened to have a girl there, which was a cousin. Her mama was dead, and her daddy was dead. And she had nowhere to go, so she came to live with her uncle. And of all that had to do the work, was her. The other girls just stayed all prettied up all the time, and she had to do all the work.

51 Many of you may have had that experience, an orphan. It reminds me of the Church of the living God (That's right.): laughed at, made fun of all the time. So she had no clothes seemingly to clean up in when the rancher's son come, the owner's son came. So that night, they had a great big blow-out. And she had to stay back in back of the bunk house. And so, when they all got out of the dining room from eating, why, she went in and got all of the dishes and washed them. So it happened to be the owner, Mr. Armour's boy, walked out at the back and was looking. And it was true, he was looking for a sweetheart. He noticed that little girl, standing in there washing the dishes. There was something about her that seemed real to him.

52 After a few days visit, one night she was pouring out the dish water at the back of the place, after a hard day's work, and she heard somebody say, "Good evening." And she looked, and it was young Mr. Armour just standing there. And she pulled the straw over her feet; she was bare-footed. And she bowed her head; she felt ashamed. He said, "I've been watching you. And I have found, to what I believe, that you are a virtuous young woman." Said, "I'm out here," said, "I'm so sick and tired of that fancy going on of the city in Chicago and so forth." Said, "I come out here to hunt me a wife." And said, "You just meet that specification."Oh, her heart like to of went... A man of that caliber? ask her, a poor little orphan to marry him? That's about the way I felt one night when I got a invitation to come to the wedding supper. "Want me? a man like me would have an invitation to come to the Lord Jesus?" But He asked me. I imagine about felt about like she did. "Who am I?" But He told me to come, and I come.

53 Then he said to her; he said, "Now, you make yourself ready. One year from this night, I'll be back to get you." Said, "Will you marry me?" She said, "Well, Of course I would. But" she said, "I'm not worthy."Isn't that about the way you felt? "I'm not worthy, Lord."He said, "Don't think of that. I'm not looking for clothes and things; I'm looking for virtue. And I want you for my wife. Will you be?" And he kissed her. And you remember when the Lord put that kiss on your heart, how you felt? Oh, my. Oh, kissed away all my sins, and all my sorrows, He just made something different. He said I could, He's going to bring me to the wedding supper one night.

54 So he said, "Make yourself ready."You remember, the Bible said, "And the Bride has made herself ready," in the robes of the righteousness of the saints. You see? So that little girl only got seventy five cents a week. But, oh, how happy she was that year. Just washing and singing, saving every penny she could. Rest of them went to town and bought new packs of cigarettes, and what-more, you know, and their whiskey, and carrying on new decks of cards, and had their big time. But she's just labored away. Why? She was getting ready, making herself ready. And then finally, first thing you know, she got to town, and she got the wedding garment, and got the money that he sent her, and got the wedding garment, and come back. And did them little cousins make fun of her. Ummmm. That's just about the way some of these cousin denominational religion, social gospel, said, "You bunch of little holy-rollers."

57 Now, this little girl, she got ready. She didn't care what... They laughed. Let them laugh if they want to. But she knowed that kiss that night meant a seal. And so did I, so do you, and every one that had that kiss of the Lord Jesus, that give you the promise, you know what it means. You don't care what the world says. If your cousins wants to make fun of you and say, "You've lost your mind, and you old fashion," just go ahead; that's all right. Make her no different, she just kept getting ready. So then, finally come the hour, the sun was going down. So she robed her little self, you know, and got all prettied up. Oh, my. That's the hour the Church ought to be in right now: all robed in His righteousness, filled with His Spirit, powered with His Being, walking in the Light, waiting for the coming of the Lord.

58   There she was, got herself all ready, all cleaned and washed, and the wedding garment on. And you know what? As it got closer, the more critical got her little cousins.

And you know brothers and sisters, never have we seen on the earth as a whole, the persecution of the church as there has begun to take place during this last twenty years or so. And it gets worse each year. The Schools make fun, the media makes fun, the politicians make fun, saying “we cling to our Bibles and guns” like we are some sort of fools. But God is watching.

“They said, "You poor little simple-minded thing, do you mean to tell you, that if the Armour's son would marry somebody, he would marry somebody like us, somebody who would fit in his society, someone who had education, who had some glamour about them." See, that's what the Church thinks today. But how far off they are. That's right. Way off they are. They...

59 And so, then after while, She thought he'd delayed. It got later, later. And finally, they said, "Oh, where's he at?"

And does not the apostle Peter tell us in 2 Peter 3 that this same scene will take place , 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts And saying, “Where is the promise of his Parousia? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Where are the watchmen that are showing the church what the 84 promises associated with the parousia are and pointing out that 79 of the 84 have already taken place. The countdown is on my brothers and sisters and we that are still following the Pillar of fire are moving on with It to the complete fulfillment of all 84 of those promises.

And brother Branham continues with his parable, “That's what they're saying today. "Where is that One. I heard that stuff forty years ago, He was coming. Where's it at?"Didn't the Bible say they'd say, "Where is that coming of the Lord. All things are just like it was from the beginning?" We're living in that day, friends. Let's take courage now while we're together this afternoon. Go out with a new courage. Go out to win souls. Get ready. The coming's at hand. And the first thing you know, they all got around her, begin to dance, little songs around her, said, "Oh, we'll make fun of her," you know. And made the bride like they was pretending, a bride. That didn't bother her. She watched the little old clock tick around.

Notice she did not have her eyes on the others, she had her eyes on what her Bride-Groom told her to be watching for.

“First thing you know, it was just about one minute. Somebody said, "I thought he was going to be here at such-and-such a time.""Don't worry, he will be here," she says. And that's all I want to know. He promised He'd be here. That's all I want to know. He's coming; that's all. When, I don't know. But He will be here.

60 Right while they were making the most fun, and saying all these different things about her, and teasing her, and making fun of her and everything, they heard the wheels a coming, horses hooves a beating, the old grinding of the sand under the buckboard. My, my, she broke through those lines. Out into the yard she went. Who was it? There he was, dressed. The carriage was ready. She run through the little trellis at the end of the yard like that. He jumped out of the carriage and grabbed her into his arms, and he said, "Sweetheart, all year long I've had people watching you." Oh, I'm so glad. The Holy Ghost: The eyes is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. "All year long, I've been watching you. I seen your virtues. I seen the flirts of other men. I seen all of this, but I seen you were true. Oh, it swelled my heart to know that the woman I was going to marry was true."God, let that be our testimony, let that be our desire today. Live true to Christ. Be true to the calling. Be true to the Spirit.

61 And he grabbed her in his arms, set her up in the buckboard, and turned the carriage away, and on to Chicago. Said, "You've worked and you've toiled, and your blistered hands will never be blistered again. The things that you've done without, you'll never have to do without again. For one of the swellest homes that can be bought on Lakeside Drive in Chicago is waiting for you. We're going to get married now and go live there in peace for the rest of your days."I'm so glad that we might work and toil, and have the spit of the outside, and the frowns, and the scorns, and everything, but someday He will come. Oh, we'll be taken up with Him to meet Him in the air. And those little old cousins just stood there and looked. Oh, some of these days, we'll be caught away. God will catch away His Bride, them who are wearing the wedding garment. Let us bow our heads.

Brother Branham also told this same story in his sermon Revelation chapter 4 pt 1 60-1231 32 41   but he ended that story with these words, 42   Some of these days, brother, those who are making fun and saying, "holy-roller and Pentecostal," and things like that... We're waiting; we still got a little time. They say, "Aw, there's no difference what there ever was." Don't worry, we got a little time left. And at that moment that He promised, He'll be here. And some of these days we'll take a flight and go away. Just be ready. Keep the wedding garment on. Keep all cruel out of your heart.

43 Listen how this Scripture reads here: 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. (Get it?) And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (Praise be to God.) And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me. These are the true sayings of God. So there's going to be a meeting in the air one of these days, in that sweet, sweet by-and-by. Just stay ready. Keep yourself ready. Purge your heart from all evil thinking. Have faith in God, no matter how dark it looks and how many laughs and makes fun and says you've made a mistake. Keep right on living holy and living for God. Just keep moving on; the hour will arrive.

From his sermon Only one way provided by God 63-0731 P:75 brother Branham tells us, “There won't be one building setting by another one in Chicago one of these days or nowhere else. God is fixing to rain out that sixth seal upon the earth, break that seal and turn loose the wrath of God upon the earth. But before He does that, the Church will be gone. The Bride will be gone; the church won't; she'll go through the tribulation, but the Bride will be gone. His little wife won't go through that. Don't you want to be one of them members of Her tonight? If you do, and want to be remembered in prayer, with your head bowed, raise your hand. God bless you. God bless you, and you, and you.

Great coming revival 54-0718A P:56 And remember, it was in the evening time when the Bride was chosen. Rebekah was taken in the evening time. It was the evening time that she met Isaac: he was out in the field. It's evening time. Our Gentile revival is ending pretty soon. The Jews are going to take the revival. As soon as they can see the power of God manifesting and receive the Holy Ghost, they'll take the Gospel. Our Gentile days are ending. Get into the Kingdom while you have a chance to get into the Kingdom.

Now lets examine again the quote the brother shared but let’s read all the quote because he left off some very important information that without it you cannot understand the day nor the hour that brother Branham is speaking about. Because the part he shared in his question does not tell you much except that Gog and Magog is Russia, but here is the full quote from br. Branham…

QA God being misunderstood COD 61-0723E P:44 143. Will Ezekiel 38 and 39 come to pass before the rapture? Now if you will notice, Ezekiel 38 and 39 deals with Gog and Magog, which is Russia, the north country. Now, I do not say that this is correct, but to my way of teaching it, that, it comes to pass after the rapture, after the church is taken up. And God deals with Gog and Magog when they come down before Israel there. And I think that will come to pass after the rapture. Now, that doesn't make it so. See? But that's just my way of teaching it. I suppose that's what they wanted to know, what my idea was.

Seed Shall not be Heir 65-0429B 53 That's why the rapture of the royal Seed has to come first. And the rest of the dead live not for a thousand years, then they were brought up at the white throne judgment. See, there is no judgment to the royal Seed, or the predestinated Seed of Abraham. Now, if you'll take Saint John 5:24, listen to this, "He that heareth My Word, (remember to hear is to understand) and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life."

Question number 2) What is Israel’s prophetic place on what’s going on now in the world ? Though we know that after our going home, Russia will be against Israel,

Ok, in his sermon Questions and Answers 64-0830E 1160-Q-392 392. Brother Branham said, “The church age ending and has blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered into the tribulation period? No, no, no, you're... I wished that I could just have more time on that. See, see? The Bride, when she's taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation sets in upon Israel; and then comes the battle of Armageddon which destroys all things. And then, the Bride returns back with the Groom for a thousand years, the millennium reign; after that comes the white throne judgment; after that comes the new heavens and new earth and the new city coming down from God out of heaven. Eternity and time blends together.”

Now, remember a few weeks ago when I showed you that Revelations 10:1-7 concerns both the Gentile Bride and the Jews. And the only time that can take place is when the Resurrection ministry takes place, the VOICE which follows the shout. You see all the mysteries are complete under the Shout, and then the VOICE of the resurrection calls us all together, the Bride from all seven Church Ages, and then the Trump sounds, e are gathered together and go to meet the Bride Groom as He is coming down, like Isaac met Rebekah in the field.

And let me share something else the Lord opened up to me this week.

You say why a SHOUT, VOICE and then a TRUMP? So what is significant about the timing of all this. Well, we know the Parousia of Christ brings forth all three, right? “The Lord descends with a Shout, Voice and Trump.” Right? And in his sermon “The Rpture brother Branham tells us what all three are.

Rapture the 65-1204 P:73 The word "rapture" in the Bible is not even used at all. We just put that word there. The Bible said, "Caught up, being caught up." We read here in I Thessalonians it is, the order of this great rapture that will take place in the last days. Listen to this here. We're going to begin here with 13th verse. “I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning those which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others that have no hope. For if we believe that Christ died and rose again, even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For we say this unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent... (or that word "prevent" means "to hinder.")... those that are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend... (Now, listen close.).... the Lord himself shall descend from the heavens with a shout, and with a voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 74 Now, I want you to notice a great thing taken place here now. Don't miss this. See? Now, notice, the Word says here in I Thessalonians that there's three things... Notice, from the 13th to the 16th verse there's three things that has to happen before the Lord Himself appears. (Quickly now so we can close. See?) The first thing happened, notice: a shout, a voice, a trumpet. Let's read it now and see if that's right. See? For the Lord himself... (16th verse)... shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with a voice of the archangel, and... the trump of God:...

Rapture the 65-1204 P:82 He ordained these things to be, and He must send this. The first thing come when He starts descending from the heaven, there's a shout. What is it? It's a Message to get the people together. A Message comes forth first. Now, "Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps." What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh. "Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps." And they did. Some of them found they didn't even have any oil in their lamp. See? But it's lamp trimming time. It's Malachi 4 time when you come... It's Luke 17. -it's Isaiah... All those prophecies that it can, perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures, we see it living right there. There's no...?...

Rapture the 65-1204 P:89 The next is what? 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 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, 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?

Now, here is what I want to get across to you. He says the tares will be burned and people think that speaks of the lake of fire. The third thins is the trumpet, right? And the First two things are strictly for the Gentile bride, the Shout and the Voice of the Resurrection, and remember these first two things, the Shout and Voice of the resurrection there is a season for both. The Parousia is God’s presence and Paul lists three things God does during His Parousia. Shout or Message began around 1933, and lasted until the Resurrection begins which is the Voice. So let’s say, 85 years or so since 1933 until present. Then the Voice is a shorter period of perhaps 40 days or 6 weeks which would be 42 days or so. 40 if the last week is a couple days short. But the third things is the Trump which does one thing for the Gentile bride but at the same time causes something to happen that affects the entire world and the Jews.

Remember Revelations 10:1-7 is a two-fold happening. First is the descent of God with the open book revealing all the mysteries in the SHOUT or Message, and then the second half is a resurrection ministry before the Trump takes place, at which time the proclamation that “Time will no longer be delayed”. The trump and the declaration of no more delay comes at the same time. The Trump (the declaration of no more delay) which catches the Gentile bride away, but it turns the Focus back to the Jews, and at the same time declares war.

Brother Branham said the Trumpet always declares war.

First seal the 63-0318 P:33 Notice what happened as we go along. Here's the plan of it: The first thing happens, there is a--a--an announcement in the heavens first. What happened? A Seal is opened. What is that? A mystery is unfolded. See? And when a mystery unfolds, then a trumpet sounds. It declares a war. Or a plague falls, and a church age opened. See? What is the war part? The angel of the Church catches the mystery of God, not fully yet revealed, but when he does, he catches this mystery of God, and then he goes forth to the people (after the mystery has been given to him), goes forth to the people. What does he do out there? He begins to proclaim that message, and what does it start? A war, a spiritual war.

34 And then God takes His messenger with the elect of that age, and lays them away asleep, and then He drops a plague upon them who rejected it: a temporary judgment. And then, after that is over, then he goes on, and they denominate, and bring in denominations, and start off with that man's work like of--of Wesley and all the rest of them, and then it gets all in a scrapple again; and then another mystery comes forth. Then what happens? Another messenger arrives on earth for a church age. See? Then when he arrives, he--the--the trumpet sounds. He declares war. See? And then what happens? Finally then he's caught away. And then when he's laid away, then plague falls destroys them. Spiritual death hits the church and she's gone, that group. Then He goes on to another one. Oh, it's a great plan until it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no certain mystery, but he gathers up all that's been lost in them other ages, all the truths that wasn't truly revealed yet (See?), as the revelation come. Then he reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is: A Revelations 10:1 to--1 to about 4. You'll get it. All right. See?

And with the build up towards war, it should tell us that the lat trump will also be the last war on earth will begin. And that ought to tell us that before one missile flies the bride will be caught up to the wedding feast. So as the world is worrying about the trumpets of war sounding, we, the bride of Christ ought to be hearing the same trumpets as our declaration that we are about ready for the catching away. The same Word that gives life, also condemns those who reject it. The same sun that melts the wax is the same sun that hardens the clay.

The same sun that gives life to the plants is the same sun that dries out the earth getting it ready for the burning. So the same trumpet proclaiming Life for us proclaims death for the world.

But listen that speaks of the great burning of the entire world where the apostle Peter prophesied in 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

And this great burning is to take place after the prophet of Malachi has come and restored the hearts which is the understanding of the Gentile grafted in Children to the Apostolic Fathers.

Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

So that is what is going to happen to the world. And so we want to know what sets this in motion for this great burning.

2  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, (be released, set free) and grow up (adoption time) as calves of the stall. 3  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

So God is promising that even this great destruction is working together for the good of The righteous.

4  Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

So in verse 1 he speaks of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, the fiery burning of the earth and all that is in it. In verse 2 he then tells us this destruction is not for everyone. There are those who are ordained to be taken out before the fire falls. Verse he tells us that this great destruction and burning is to make the earth ready for his elect to return, and ash always fertilizes the earth after a burning off with the needed potash, and nitrogen which are vital nutrients for growing back plants. So you can see that this great burn off is to get the earth ready for the elect to live on it in the millennium. So you see how even when God is punishing the wicked his eyes are on his elect, and he is doing it for the elects sake.

6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart (understanding) of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

So to answer the question further, brother Branham lets us know in his sermon QA God being misunderstood COD 61-0723E P : 44 And God deals with Gog and Magog when they come down before Israel there. And I think that will come to pass after the rapture.

Question number 3 John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Question A) What did the Lord Jesus Christ mean by that?

Question B) Does it have a link with Jacob's ladder Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Answer number 3) We can answer both question concerning this one verse by what our prophet had to say about it. I know a lot of people guess about it, and the internet is full of guesses, but in this hour we want to be sure, and we want to make sure we are anchored to Thus saith the Lord. Therefore, let me read what God’s vindicated prophet for this hour said. And notice the title of his sermon he tells us the answer to these questions in.

Infallibility of God's word 56-0404 P:50 Now, look, look at Jesus. To identify Himself as the Stone that would never let the promise slip, this stone that would anchor forever and forever God's coveted and promised people, He said, "Doest thou believe because I told you these things? Thou shall see greater things that this. You'll see the heavens open, and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of God, up-and-down Jacob's ladder." 'Cause He is God's Anchor. Amen. And as long as I'm in Christ Jesus I'm anchored in God. Amen. The Angels ascending and descending, going up first and then coming down... See, they're taking the message, going up and bringing it back. "Ascending and descending upon the Son of man." Why? He was that anchoring place where Jacob's ladder, where the promised Seed would be, He was God's eternal promised Seed. He was that sure Stone, that perfect Foundation that God's truth would anchored in, and all devils in hell and everything else, could never move it. God had anchored it forever. "You'll see the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man." Amen.

Now, I think that is good enough for me, and I have nothing to add to that. And his answer also answered both of our questions. Yes it does refer back to Jacobs ladder, and that ladder of light was the way up that Jacob saw, right? And who is “the way, the truth and the light of life”? Jesus Christ.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Psalms 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Question number 4) I watched various documentaries talking about reptilians, a species of human kind but who are descended, according to these documentaries, from a reptile. So my question is the following, are these characters the physical descendant of Cain, the physical seed of the serpent?

Answer number 4) No, they are not. Serpent seed is a hybrid between man and beast. These are strictly reptilian or so they claim. They could be demonic spirits, but not serpent seed as we know it from Scripture.

Brother Branham taught us the Serpent was not a reptile.

Future home 64-0802 P:152 You see, through the sexual intercourse here had brought from Satan, the serpent--which was not a reptile; had legs till his legs went off of him. He was the most subtle... the only beast that would, would coordinate with the woman. A beast seed won't do it now, man or nothing else. They tried it; won't work. See? The seed life of a male won't go into a female woman; it won't do it. But that was the closest thing...

Serpent's seed 58-0928E P:63 Notice. Now, here's what taken place. I believe, and can support it by the Bible, that it is the serpent that did it. The serpent is that missing person between the chimpanzee and the man, 'cause, listen, notice this now, that the serpent was not a reptile. He was the most subtil of all the beasts of the field. Now, I went and got dictionaries today from everywhere to look up this word, what the word of "subtil" meant. It means "to be smart, to be crafty." And the best interpretation of the Hebrew from "m-a-h-a-h, mahah" means "having a true knowledge of the principles of life."

Condemnation by representation 60-1113 P:39 Now, on this hybreeding. You know, Eve was the mother of hybreeding. She misbred the human race. You know, after she had did this evil thing and... (I know this is on tape so we'll make it baby form for them, if we want to.) But when she had this affair with the serpent, which was not a serpent, a reptile... The Bible said he was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. Science trying to find now, the bones of some creature between a monkey and a man, and applying it to colored race and so forth like that, they're as ignorant as they can come. The serpent was a man. The blood of a animal won't mix with the blood of a human. No, sir. But this species was so close between there till he did mix, and Satan knew that, a great giant of a fellow.

Seal of God 61-0216 P:18 Now, we find out that the first marking of a human being started in Genesis, Genesis 4:15. God marked Cain. That's where the first mark of the beast was ever put on, was put on Cain; he is the beginning of it. Now, you say, "Cain having the mark of the beast?" All right, let's notice. Now, he said, "Thy seed shall bruise the serpent's head, and his head shall bruise thy heel." Watch the lineage of Cain. As Cain come down, become scientist, smart men, great men, on down like that. But the seed of Seth as it come down, become peasants, sheepherders, farmers. So you see, there is... Now, watch, the Bible said, "I'll put enmity (God did) between your seed and the serpent's seed." Now, so... Now, ministering brethren, just hold your peace just a minute. I know they always climb down my neck on this. But the Bible said that the serpent had a seed. That settles it. The serpent's seed, let it be any way you want to take it, we'll restrain from that; I got my idea too. But they--but le... Be whatever it will, the Bible said in Genesis 1, the first of Genesis, that the serpent had a seed. And now remember, the serpent was not a snake to begin with, a reptile. He was the next thing to a human being. Science has tried for thousands of years to find that missing link between man and beast. The closest they can come is to a chimpanzee. But they cannot get from the chimpanzee to the human being. Why? It was a serpent. Now, if you notice in Genesis 3:1, "The beast--the serpent was the most subtil of all the beast of the field." A beast, not a reptile. He was more like a man. He looked like a man. He was that missing link in between there, because that's the only way. The seed of a human will not coincide with the seed of a animal. But this fellow was the only one the devil could use because it was just between man and beast. And the genealogies...

Questions and answers COD 64-0823M P:62 See, they were, they were Canaanites, these giants; and they were the sons of Cain, which was the son of the serpent. And the serpent was a giant man, great monstrous sort of a fellow, not a reptile at all, beautiful. He was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. And he was the only...See, the genes from an animal into a woman will not breed at all. They tried it over and over; it's unfertile to the woman's sperm. And now, they can't find it. They take a chimpanzee, it's the closest thing they can find to the man, or the gorilla, or some of those close up to the man. As God in His great evolution begin to make fish; and then He made birds; and then He made other things, animals, and they kept coming on up, till one come out to a chimpanzee, and to a monkey, and on down to a gorilla, and then into the form of the serpent, and then from the serpent to a man.

The problem is in the word serpent. The Hebrew word is Nachash which means to hiss like a snake, a whisperer, an enchanter.

But the Bible is very explicit that it was not reptile but was the most subtil beast of the field next to man. Goliath and his brothers were Canaanites (the lineage of Cain) and all were giants as was King OG of Bashan.

Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Deuteronomy Chapter 3 Verse 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

A cubit is 17.49 inches, so 9 cubits would be 157.41 inches or 13 feet 2 inches.

That is why when God sent the ten spies to spy out the land, 8 of the ten returned and said we cannot take the land, there are giants in the land that make us look like grass hoppers.

Numbers 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. 26  And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29  The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. 30  And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Yet we find David reciting in Psalms 135:5 How God sent in his children the Israelites and they defeated the giants. “For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. 6  Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. 7  He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries. 8  Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. 9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. 10  Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings; 11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: 12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people. 13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.”

Question number 5) Ezekiel 37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

What is the meaning of that scripture?

Answer number 5) Again I will go the Message of God’s vindicated prophet for our answer. I believe the vision concerns prophesy of the end time resurrection as brother Branham explains in the following quotes.

Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:286 Oh, how I wish I had time to go back into Ezekiel and pull out them dry bones and show you! He said, "Can these bones live again?" He said, "Prophesy." How can prophecy come? Only through the prophet. It's the Word of the Lord. "Hear ye, ye dry bones, the Word of the Lord." And sinew skin come upon them, and they stood up a mighty army, and they begin to march toward Zion. Glory to God. That's Him; that's Him--the victory. The ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with joy. All His holy Mountains, nothing hurt or shall destroy. He proves His resurrected Life then as He a-vindicates Himself.

Restoration of Bride Tree 62-0422 P:229 Four killers took It, four messengers destroyed It. Four messengers of death took It away in dogmas; four messengers of righteousness restore It back again."Prophesy Son of man, Can these bones live?" (Wish we had time; we got it wrote down here. But I have to miss that.) "Prophesy. Can these bones live?" What's the four stages of that coming forth of that church? What's the four stages of Ezekiel's dry bones coming forth? But the Life only come, not when the sinew skin was on them, but when the wind blowed upon them. That's when come back, that fourth Message of Life was brought back. "I will restore, saith the Lord." Hallelujah. Glory. Praise be to God.

224 Now, the evening Light (exactly according to prophecy), the evening Light come out to restore what? To restore what the bugs had eat up. It started growing, and then what'd it do? It denominated, so God pruned them off, bound them up, laid them back, let them go ahead and organize. Then the next one come up; He bound them up, laid them off; Tree went on. Then He bound them up, laid them off, said, "Now, one of these days they'll be burned." Bind them up in their organizations. But then what? Right in the top of the Tree is where the fruit ripens first (That's right.), right in top of the Tree. So it's the top of the Tree here that sees the evening Light.

225 Now, Noah had three rooms in his ark. One room was for the creeping things. See? The second room was for the fowls; but the top room was where the light was. The light that shined first, it never come on the first floor, second floor, but on the top floor. The tree don't bear its fruit first in the bottom, and second, like that, it was all pruned off into organizations. But it's in the top part where "I will restore, saith the Lord. I'll send forth the evening Light, and It'll bring back, bring back the Word, making It manifest. I will restore all that I've promised. All that I've promised, the same Holy Spirit will bring and bear the same signs. I'll have a Easter, a resurrection, for the Bride, the same as I had for the Bridegroom." See? Evening Lights come out to shine, same as in the morning, same signs, same thing. That same Light will produce the same fruit that they had there, if It's shining on the same tree. Amen. Proves His Word now fulfilled, "I will restore, saith the Lord."

226 Now, listen closely. Now, there was... Listen. Now, don't miss this now. There was four death messengers... (Or would you rather we just close? Would you rather...?...) Listen real close now. Look. There was four, four death messengers killed that Tree. Is that right? What was it? 1) Palmerworm, 2) locust, 3) cankerworm, 4) caterpillar. Is that right? Four messengers of Roman devils, dogmas, killed that Tree. One took Its fruit; one took Its leaves; one took Its bark; one took the Life. Is that right? Four messengers of dogmas killed the Tree, all but the roots. And if four messengers of death killed the Tree, four messengers of Life restores the Tree.

227 Do you get it? Amen. For God said, "I will restore It." He's going to restore It how? By four death messengers killed It; then four Life messengers will restore It. What was the first? Martin Luther, justification. What was the second? John Wesley--by sanctification. What was the third? Pentecost with the restoration of the gifts, the Holy Ghost, baptism of the Holy Ghost. What was the fourth? The Word. What? The Word.

228 There were four great prophets. One of them, Martin Luther, he begin to shine a Light. It was a little Light, just a very small strength of justification. Along came Wesley, stronger: sanctification. After Wesley come a stronger than him, Pentecostal, the baptism of the Holy Ghost in another great prophet. See? But in the last days of Malachi 4, Elijah is to come with the very Word. The Word of the Lord came to the prophet. In the evening Lights is to come forth to restore and bring back. What? Turn the hearts of the children back to the faith of the fathers: fourth Light.

229 Four killers took It, four messengers destroyed It. Four messengers of death took It away in dogmas; four messengers of righteousness restore It back again."Prophesy Son of man, Can these bones live?" (Wish we had time; we got it wrote down here. But I have to miss that.) "Prophesy. Can these bones live?" What's the four stages of that coming forth of that church? What's the four stages of Ezekiel's dry bones coming forth? But the Life only come, not when the sinew skin was on them, but when the wind blowed upon them. That's when come back, that fourth Message of Life was brought back. "I will restore, saith the Lord." Hallelujah. Glory. Praise be to God.

230  The fourth Light is to come that will bring forth the same signs. Watch. Justification brought back the pulp. Sanctification brought back the bark: doctrine of holiness. What brought back the leaf? Pentecostals. What is it? Pentecostals, leaves, clap their hands, joy, rejoicing: Pentecostal. What? The fourth was the Word Itself. The Word made flesh, fruits of the proof of the resurrection sign that Christ has finally, after justification being planted, sanctification being planted, baptism of the Holy Ghost. Organizations died out, and Christ has again centered Himself like that cap of the pyramid.

Oh, my brothers, these are very good questions, and God has given us very good answers. I am rejoicing within.

Question number 6) Brother Branham said to Billy Paul, that he would not be old, that the sharks will swim over Los Angeles, is this related to the season of the resurrection because brother Billy Paul, today is over 80 years old?

Is that coinciding with that great California earthquake, which will also bring the resurrection of the sleeping saints, would it be when He comes when the seventh angel is on the earth at that coming?

Answer number 6) I believe with all my heart Br. Billy Paul will be young again before the coming of the Lord because I saw him in the tent in a dream (a night vision), and we were in the tent and he stood next to me just 2 to 3 feet away and he was young again, dark haired, not thinning like today, he was not heavy anymore, and he looked young, but much more mature than he looked in the pics from his teenage years with his father. And he held up his hands to get the people’s attention and he said, “daddy has arrived and he will be coming through that door over there,” and he pointed to a single door on the side of the tent. And he then said, “let’s be preparing ourselves for the meeting in two hours from now.” And we were in a very large tent that was split into two halves, one half for the people to set in between the meetings and take refreshments and the other into a church style with rows of chairs and a pulpit at the far end. I saw it and it was just as real to me as it is setting before you right now.

I believe that California will be the great earthquake that will signal the resurrection beginning as it did in Matthew 25:50-53. And always remember, “God changes not” so what happened in the Alpha must repeat in the Omega.

Matthew 27:50 “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, (notice as we have already pointed out the Loud Voice signifies the resurrection) yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, Notice the coma here, 53  And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Question number 7) The tree of life in the book of Genesis is it Christ, the man, the Son of God or God himself?

And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is it Satan, the old serpent or Eve, because why did brother Branham said that the woman is a fruit tree...?

Answer number 7) The tree of knowledge of Good and evil was the woman, and the tree of Life is Christ.

I will restore 53-1110 P:11 Now, I believe that the Angel guarded the Tree of Life. And that Tree of Life was Christ, of course. The tree of death was the woman. Through birth of a woman we all die. Through birth of Christ we all live. It's just as simple as anything. But there was that... Now, I have my thought of what sin was and what the first sin was. And if I tell you, you'd disagree with me, so I'll just keep it to myself.

Marriage and divorce 65-0221M P:74 Now, we find out death was caused, death is the cause of sin of the woman, come through the woman and not the man. By her way of living, her life, and by her, all death comes. Her way of giving life is death. How many knows that? Job 14, if you want to put down the Scripture. I got... If you question this, I got Scriptures wrote down for every bit of this. You want to read Job 14 there, it says, "Man that is borned of woman is of a few days and full of trouble." Is that right? "He cometh up like the flower; he's cut down and wastes away," and so forth. See? Every man that's borned of a woman is born in death as soon as he comes, but when he's borned into the creation of God, he cannot die. He's from that other Tree that was in the garden of Eden: Christ. Eternal Life come by the Tree."Oh," you say, "she was a tree?"Sure. What he said it, "Thou shalt not take of this tree," God said in Genesis back there. "Thou shalt not take of this tree." Why, the woman is a tree. She's a fruit tree. You're the fruit of your mother; the fruit of the womb is you. That's right. And then the fruit of the Tree of Life that was in the garden of Eden, is Christ. Through the woman come death. Through the man in the original creation, come Life. To be born of woman is death; be born of Christ is Life. Get the idea?

Token the 64-0308 P:53 But, oh, brother, when that Token's once placed in your heart, and you know it's the resurrection of Jesus Christ in you, something's happening. There isn't nothing going to turn you. You know where you belong. Full obedience to the whole Word of God entitles you to the Token, and nothing else. "Blessed is he that does all of His Commandments, he might have right to the Tree of Life."Then when we pray, we must have the Token to present with our prayers. Now, don't fail to get that. When you pray, you must have the Token to hold over your prayer; if you're not, you pray until the Token comes, 'cause you're not promised to receive it. See, you've got to have this Token first; that's the paying price, your faith to believe it.

Paradox 64-0206B P:30 But we can all know that Christ is that Tree of Life. For one day at the jubilee there, when they was drinking and rejoicing, Jesus said about the Water, He said that He was the Rock that was in the wilderness.They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness."And He said, "And they're every one dead. But I am the Bread of Life (Amen.), that Tree of Life that come down from God out of heaven. He that eats this Bread, shall never die." That is the Bread of Life.

Question number 8) Serpent's seed 58-0928E P:10 Deuteronomy and showed that a illegitimate child, bastard child, could not even enter the congregation of the Lord for fourteen generations. That was under the law, and Christ come to magnify the law. How much more is it now?

Questions and answers COD 64-0823E P:93 But now, in the Old Testament when a baby was born a bastard child, it could not even enter the congregation of the Lord for ten generations, four hundred and something years, that curse was so bad. Just think of that. A innocent baby, its great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren, just think, the baby's great, great, great, ten great grandchildren could not even come in the congregation of God. That's right. But you see, there was nothing there strong enough to forgive that sin. The blood of the Old Testament did not forgive sins; it covered sins. But the Blood of Jesus Christ divorces it. That's different now. When the Blood of Jesus Christ comes in, it's the different.

How can these two quotes match together?

Answer number 8) How can these two quotes match together? Perfectly, they are matched perfectly because he tells us in the second quote that there is now blood that can take the sin like bleach, and bring it back to its origin. Back to Satan from whence it came. That is the difference between forgiveness sins and the remitting of sin altogether. To forgive sin, you did it, and there is knowledge that you did it, but you are forgiven for it. But it is always remembered. But to remit sin means you come to the place where there is no more desire to sin.

Rising of the sun 65-0418M P:66 "Whosoever sins you remit, to them they are remitted; whosoever sins you retain, to them they are retained." Now, the Catholic church picked that up and taken it to their priests, but that's carnal. Watch. It was the spiritual, revealed Word that did it.

John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”

Notice we see this only in the Gospel of John, and then in the Epistle of John he tells us what this means.

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; (he does not initiate sin) for his (God’s) seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

And what is sin but unbelief, and if you are born of god’s Spirit you do not initiate unbelief, you can’t. Oh, you might fall here and there, but though

Psalm 37:23 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.” 24  Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Question number 9) What do you think about these quotes, that seem to support a oneness belief: First seal 63-0318 P:7 I used to think years ago that maybe God was angry with me, but Christ loved me. Come to find out, it's the same Person. See? And Christ is the very heart of God.

Church Ages Book 20-3 CPT.1 Jesus said, "I came from God and I go (back) to God". John 16:27-28. That is exactly what happened. He disappeared from earth by way of His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. Then Paul met Him on the road to Damascus and He spoke to Paul and said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" Paul said, "Who art Thou, Lord?" He said, "I am Jesus." He was a pillar of fire, a blinding light. He had turned back, exactly as He said He would. Back to the same form that He was before He took on a tabernacle of flesh.

Power of decision Chicago Il 55-1007 P: 70 That same God hanged yonder on Calvary's cross and died: "He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes we were healed.

Answer number 9) To understand these quotes like so many you have to understand the fact of the Godhead as brother Branham taught them. Let me just share a few.

God’s Gifts Always Find Their Place 63-1222 93 The man, the body was not Deity, but Deity was in the body.

Identified Christ Of All Ages 64-0617 36 Now, notice now, God... Jesus said that those who the Word came to was called gods; that was prophets. Now, not the man himself was God, no more than the body of Jesus Christ was God. He was a Man, and God was veiled behind Him.

Blasphemous Names 62-1104M .”… Now, they was looking at that little body that was borned of Mary. See? That wasn't God; that was the Son of God, but God was in that body. It was God…”

Revelation Chapter One 60-1204  198  He was the true and faithful Witness to God's eternal Word. He was the Word, was God's Word; and being the Word, He was a Prophet. For the Word of God flowed through Him; He'd say only the things. "I can do nothing within Myself, but what the Father shows Me to do. Not Me that doeth the works, but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. I and My Father are One. My Father's in Me," said Jesus, the Man, the Tabernacle.

Sirs We would See Jesus 57-1211 021 Now, Jesus was born for one purpose, that was for God to manifest Himself through that body. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a body that was made physical, that men and women could see what He thought, and His expressions to the people in His gratefulness. And His attitude towards all mankind, He expressed it through Christ. Christ seemed to be a dual personality. He would speak sometimes and they'd scratch their heads; and they didn't understand Him. He'd speak one thing one time, look like, and something else another time. What it was, was Jesus speaking, and then Christ speaking. Jesus was the man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." See? God will not share His glory with no one.

Question number 10) In Christ is the Mystery of God revealed. In 130 And you inject something in There, that doesn't make Him "the same yesterday, today, and forever," Brother Lee, where do you go to? You got an awful picture there … A minister in the Internet, used this statement, saying that the prophet was rejecting brother Vayle’s understanding of the Godhead, what do you think about that prophet’s quote?

Answer number 10) I would say that brother needs to be born again, because he has no understanding of the Word of God and the way God has worked in this last hour, and the relationship that God’s Prophet had with Br. Lee Vayle.

In that sermon it was as though brother Branham had a one on one with brother Vayle as he mentions br. Vayle by name no less than 6 times, 5 which he calls him br. Vayle and one Br. Lee.

These people that want to find fault are described by brother Branham as the make believer who hangs around the message to find fault.

Jesus Christ the same  58-0323  P:22 And if there's anything you lack of understanding, something that you do not understand, my associate Brother Vayle here, is available at all times to explain anything that seems mysterious to you ministering brethren, or wherever you are, or any lay member, anything. If there's a question, if we ever preach anything, or do anything, that's not a promise of God in this Bible, you got a right to come to us and ask us like brethren. And we ask  you to do that. We ask you as our brothers and sisters to come to us. We want to be servants of Christ. That's what we represent the world around.

Now, He said We and us 7 times in one paragraph referring to Himself and Br. Lee Vayle. So brethren, show me if you can, one other person that William Branham Vindicated prophet of God said that about. Show me one other person that he referred to as We and us when it comes to preaching this Message. You can’t do it. Why, because there was one and only one that worked in that capacity with the prophet of God and could take what the prophet said back to the Scriptures and have it 100% straight. I will repeat, there was no other man that understood the message as well as Br. Lee Vayle. I even got that from sister Meda herself, when I asked her several weeks before she died, I said, “Sister Meda, I have heard that Br. Branham said “there is no man that understood me and my message as like br. Vayle.” Did you ever hear br. Branham says that? And she said, “Brother, since the accident my memory is not very good, but that sounds an awful lot like what Bill would have said about brother Vayle.”

From Br. Vayles sermon the Spoken Word is the Original See no 20 pp 38-39 August 2, 1993 he said, P: 38-39 He said, “I’ve proven this whole thing out Scripture by Scripture.” And remember, he doesn’t call on his vindication, but he’s vindicated. If he’s not, he’s not a prophet; he’s only guessing. See, who needs his guess? His language is tough enough to follow. When he gets up and talks on Godhead and say, “You know, I believed that God always hated me and Jesus loved me. Come to find out it’s the same Person.” Just a minute, you better watch it or you’re Jesus Only. Now just a minute, he said, “Well, Jesus was not his own Father.” Now just a minute, now what’s happening now? Well, he’s not really Jesus-Only. You better realize when Jesus said, “I came in my Father’s Name,” all He had was a Name. Then who is Jesus? Who’s the One that appeared to Paul? What Jesus came down here? Huh? Start thinking. Start thinking, brother/sister. You say, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t know.” I do know this is the mind age. Once the eye moves there’s only one thing left, is the mind. If that mind is not the anointed mind of Christ this Word, you are going to die in your seats. You’re going to find contradictions. You’re going to find yourself on the junk heap. But believe! Don’t gender arguments. You come together in faith. And back as Job said, “When those sons of God and morning stars came together, they clapped and sang; they were in unison.” And Bro. Branham said, “Let ten people be in the same mind, there’ll be a Rapture.” He cut it down to ten. You say, “Bro. Vayle, you mean we need to listen to you?” Who are you going to listen to? Go someplace else. It’s your business; this is mine. Tell me the preachers that are using the principles Bro. Branham gave; Alpha and Omega, the two vines; tell me, sure, where are they? Tell me whose preaching the Judge? Go ahead and tell me. How many? When Bro. Branham died there wasn’t that many five-fold. I wonder if there’s this many, this many, and this many. I’m not trying to set my part and build a wall around like people say, although thank God there’s a wall there. I believe it’s what the devil said about Job, “You build a hedge around him.” I hope it’s a hedge of the Tree of Life.”

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