Token no 60
The
economic Judgments and the Third Pull no 4
February 21,
2016
Brian Kocourek, pastor
Revelations 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel
come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his
glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out
of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached
unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward
her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her
works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so
much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen,
and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore
shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she
shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is
the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of
the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall
bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her
torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in
one hour is thy judgment come. 11 And the
merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their
merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold,
and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and
silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and
all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And
cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and
fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and
slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed
from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee,
and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15 The
merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off
for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And
saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and
purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to
nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as
many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried
when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city
is like unto this great city! 19 And they
cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas,
that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason
of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven,
and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath
avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up
a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into
the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown
down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And
the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be
heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound
of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;
and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all
in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy
sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her
was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon
the earth.
Let us bow our heads in prayer...
Now, let's pick up at where we left off on Wednesday night. "The wealth of the world," the Bible said,
"was found in her." Just think of the great places, the
billions times... Why did Communism raise up over here in Russia? It just makes me sick at my stomach to hear
so many preachers hollering about Communism, and they don't even know what
they're crowing about. That's
right. Communism ain't nothing. It's a tool in the hand of God to bring revenge
upon the earth for the blood of the saints that... That's right.
{349} And
after the church is taken away, Rome and the Jews will make a covenant with one another.
The Bible said they would, with the holy people. And now notice, they'll make
it, because why? This nation is going to
be busted, and the rest of the world that's on the gold standard is busted.
You know that. If we're living off of taxes, due bills for forty years from
now, where are we at? There's
only one thing can happen. That's to call in the currency and pay off the bonds; and we can't do it. Wall Street owns them, and Wall Street's controlled by the Jews;
the rest of it's in the Vatican,
and the Jews has got the rest of it
in Wall Street with the commerce of the world.
{350}
We can't call it in. And if we could do it, do you think these whiskey guys and all
these tobacco people with billions times billions of dollars a year and write
off all their income tax for old vulgar pictures and things like that. Go out
in Arizona there and buy thousands
of acres of land and dig them big wells at fifty thousand dollars and pay it
off with income tax? And they'd put
you in jail if you don't pay yours.
In an article from the New
York Times, January 13th, four days before Obama was to be sworn in on
January 17, 2009 as president of the United States, we see this article shows
us exactly what brother Branham was talking about.
By JACKIE CALMES
Published: January 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — Timothy
F. Geithner, President-elect Barack
Obama’s choice for Treasury secretary, failed to pay more than $34,000 in federal
taxes over several years early this decade, and also faces questions about the
employment papers of a former household employee, suddenly complicating what
had seemed to be an easy confirmation process in the Senate.
Mr. Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
huddled privately with members of the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday
afternoon to explain that he had now paid the back taxes and interest. Senate
Democratic leaders quickly released statements of support lest the controversy
threaten the nomination. Two senior Senate Republicans likewise gave
endorsements, echoing the argument of Obama transition officials that Mr.
Geithner’s failures were innocent mistakes
or technicalities.
They don't pay, and then when it is necessary to pay in order to have a
position in Government, then they say it was just an innocent mistake. But if
you don't pay, it is straight to jail you go. That's what brother Branham was
telling us that there are two standards, theirs and yours. And you are held to
a higher standard than our own government leaders are.
But
they write it off and throw up wells and
send bulldozers in. And what do they do?
They put housing projects in there, and the next turn around with their money
they made (they have got to make an investment) and put houses, projects in
there and sell them for millions of dollars. Do you think
them guys is going to compromise to change the currency?
Here is another article showing 36 administration personnel delinquent
to almost a million in taxes, and Federal government workers
1/26/2012 8:18 AM EST
Article by: Andrew Malcom
"How embarrassing
this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign
season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay
their “fair share” of taxes.
Because
how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren
Buffet’s secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people
with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax
rate.
Or, worse, skipping their taxes
altogether.
A new report just out from the
Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office
staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair
Share apparently haven’t paid any share, let alone their fair share.
Previous
reports have shown how well-paid Obama’s White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That’s
up seven workers and nearly $4 million
from the Bush administration’s last year. Now, contrast that to the
Eisenhower administration that had only 88 aides. That is a 510 percent
increase in people working in the administration over what President Eisenhower
had.
The
IRS’ 2010 delinquent tax revelations
come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees’ tax
compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not
paying their own income taxes.
The report finds that thousands of
federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes.
That’s up 3% over the past year.
The tax offenders include employees of the U.S. Senate who help write the laws
imposed on everyone else. They owe
$2.1 million. Workers in the House
of Representatives owe $8.5 million, Department of Education employees owe $4.3 million and over at Homeland Security, 4,697 workers owe about
$37 million.
The
Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up
$42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has 1,181 other employees with delinquent
taxes totaling $9.3 million.
As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000
workers, has the most offenders (25,640),
who also owe the most — almost $270
million. Veterans Affairs has 11,659
workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500
million to the Solyndra folks has 322
employees owing $5 million.
The country’s chief law enforcement agency,
the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million
behind in taxes. Like Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric
Holder has apparently missed them too.
As with ordinary people, the IRS
attempts to negotiate back-tax payment plans with all delinquents, whose names
cannot be released. But according to current federal law, the only federal
employees who can be fired for not paying taxes are IRS workers".
So it looks like we have a lot of crooks working in the government now
days. NOw, back to Brother Branham on how the Catholic church will come into
power again, and control the New World order.
{352} Like
this fellow down here, Castro did.
He done the only smart thing he ever did
do then, when he destroyed the
bonds: paid them off and destroyed them. Notice, but we can't do that. These guys won't let us. The rich
merchants of the earth hold it, and then
there's only one thing to do: The Catholic church can pay it
off. She's the only one that's got
the money; she can do it, and she will do it. And
in doing this to get it, she'll
compromise with the Jews and make a covenant, and when she makes
this covenant with the Jews... Now, remember, I'm taking this from the Scriptures.
And now, when she does this and makes
this covenant, we notice in Daniel
8:23 and 25 he
will cause craft to prosper (And craft is manufacturing.), in his hand.
{354}
And he makes this covenant with the Jews, and in the midst of this three and a half years, he breaks his covenant as soon as he gets the thing
wrapped up and gets the money of the Jews tied up. And when he
does that, oh, my, oh, my, he's called the antichrist until
the end of the church age, for he and his children are against Christ and the Word. This man's called the antichrist. Now, he's going to hold the money. And that's where I think he'll come
in. Just a minute, while I say this, then I want to go back to it in a
minute. He's called the antichrist
and will be called the antichrist in the sight of God until the end time.
Now, but then he'll be called something
else. {359} Now, when he
gets the money all under control, then he'll break this covenant with the Jews,
as Daniel here said he would do it, in
the midst of the last half of the seventy weeks of Daniel.
Now, brother Branham quotes verses 23 and 25 so we
will read each.
Daniel 8:23 And in the
latter time (the last days) of their kingdom,
when the transgressors (transgressors are rules breakers) are come to the full (completion), a king of fierce
countenance, (or a mighty presence) and understanding
dark sentences, (double dealings) shall stand up.(shall come on the
scene)
25 And
through his policy also he shall cause
craft (manufacturing) to prosper in his
hand; and he
shall magnify himself in his heart, (in other words, he gets puffed up) and by peace (quietness, ease and
prosperity)shall
destroy many: (corrupt, pervert and ruin) he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he
shall be broken without hand.
And
then, brother, what will he do? He will have all of the world
trade and the commerce, a pact with the world, 'cause he'll hold the wealth of
the world completely. And during that time, them two prophets will rise on the scene and call
that hundred and forty-four thousand. Then what'll take place? Then the mark of the beast of Revelations
13 will set in, 'cause he holds all
the commerce, trade and everything
of the world. And what will take place then? The mark of the beast will come in that no man can buy or sell except
him that has the mark of the beast. Thank God, the Church will be
enjoying a great three and a half years in glory. Don't have to go through that.
Life
57-0602 P:26 E-26 026 You see, if Satan has a kingdom, he's got to have a false economy. He's got to have something that he can
present to them to make them think they are living. But it's absolutely on
the vice versa side. It's death in the
form of life.
Now, you might be asking, why is this important for us to know? what
does it have to do with our salvation? Well, let me read you the next quote,
because when these things begin to manifest themselves, the economy, and New
World order, the financial meltdown, the squeeze, all these things, then that
is the hour also that the third pull will openly begin to manifest among us.
6-1 Look Away To
Jesus 63-1229E So
now, I am going to say something to you now, that I haven't said all along. And
that is, the thing that we have looked forward to for so long, or at least many
years, four or five years or maybe longer, 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? Now, I must continue in
evangelism, just as I was commissioned first; I must continue on.
Therefore,
you've had the Word, and you know what to look for, how to stand. I must continue on in
evangelism. And friends of mine, keep still and just keep moving on, for the
hour is approaching swiftly (See?), that when something is going to be
done. Now, you might see some little odd things happen from
me, nothing sinful, I don't mean that, but I mean something odd to what the
regular trend, because what I have reached to now in the ministry, I'm dropping
back here, watching that spot and waiting for the time to use it. But
it's going to be used. And everyone knows that for as certain as the first
was identified, so has the second been identified; and if you'll think real
closely, you who are spiritual (as the Bible said, "Here's to him who has
wisdom.") the third is properly identified. See? We
know where it is. So the third pull is here. It is
so sacred that I mustn't not say much about it, as He told me in the beginning.
Said, "This, say nothing of it." You remember that years ago? It
speaks for Itself. See?
But
I've tried to explain the others, and I made a mistake. This will be
the thing that, to my opinion (I don't say the Lord tells me this.)--this
will be the thing that will start the rapturing faith for the going away.
See, see? Now, I must lay quiet for just a little while. Now,
remember (and who's listening to this tape) you might see such a
change in my ministry right away, dropping back... Not going up, dropping
back... We're right at the age now, and it can't go any
further. We have to wait here just a minute until this happens over
here to catch up, then the time comes. But it's
thoroughly identified. There's coming a time--in this nation, to where
this nation is going to exercise all the power that the beast had before (which
was pagan Rome, when it become papal Rome. See?) that this nation will do that.
Revelations 13 plainly explains it. The lamb came up out of the earth. The
other beast came up out of water, thickness and multitudes of people. This lamb
came up where there was no people.
A lamb represents religion--the Lamb of God.
And remember, it spoke like a lamb; it was a lamb, and then after while it
received power and spoke like a dragon, and exercised all the power the dragon, power the dragon had before him;
and the dragon is Rome always. So
don't you see, Roman denomination, a marked Protestant denomination, an image
unto the beast, making a power that'll force all Protestants like a union.
You'll have to be into this council of churches, or you won't be able to have
fellowship ... Well, it's practically that way now. You can't go to
a church and preach, 'less you have a fellowship card or some identification.
And now, on persons like ourselves, we're going to be cut out of all that
altogether. That's exactly, because they won't be able to do it. It's
tightening; and then when that time comes, and the
press comes to a place to where you're pressed out, then watch (what
I am fixing to tell you in a few minutes) watch the third pull then.
It'll be absolutely to the total lost, but it will be for the Bride and the
church.
Now,
we're closer than it seems to be. I
don't know when, but it's real, real, close. I may be building a
platform for somebody else to step on. I may be taken before that time. I don't know.
And that time may be this coming week that the Holy Spirit will come and bring
Christ Jesus. He may come this next week. He may come yet tonight. I don't know when He will come. He
doesn't tell us that. But I do believe that we are so close, that I would never
die with old age. Yet at fifty-four years old, I'd never die with
old age until He's here. See? Unless
I am shot, killed, or something, or other, some way killed; just old age
wouldn't kill me, until He's come. And I believe that... And I want to say
this; I have never said it before, but according to Scripture, according to
what He said thirty years ago, thirty-three years ago on the river down there (in
1933, rather), what He said, everything has happened just exactly. I may not do
it, but this message will introduce Jesus Christ to the world.
"For as John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first
coming, so is the message to forerun the second coming." And
John said, "Behold
the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."
See? So it paralleled it in every way,
and I know it will. The message will go on.
57-1 Stature Of A Perfect
Man 62-1014M this present government
now is spending money for what? For tax money that they'll be collecting forty
years from now. She's done. That's
"Life Line" right out of Washington D.C., across the nation. Taxes,
they're spending and trying to buy
foreign... Why, they're just giving
it out any way. Don't you see,
that's exactly what they're going to do? See, what is it? Now, if this nation goes busted, the only
thing it can do is go busted. The
only thing that it can do is go bankrupt. That's the only sensible thing to do: change the currency.
But they won't do it.
Under this present ministration, Roman Catholic church owns the gold of the world, and what they'll do
is sell out. These rich men and so forth of the earth, as the Bible
said, what will they do before they lose the Brown and Williamson tobacco
company (Most all of them's Catholic anyhow.), and all these other
things, what will they do? They'll accept that and they'll
take the money from Rome, and then she's sold her very
birthright. Rome backs her up.
Yes, sir. She'll back it up. And they're getting enough policy now, getting enough around them,
bring it in his cabinet. Look what Mr. Kennedy's asking for. And
when you seen this the other day... There's
no need of voting any more. What's the use of voting? When they put it in
the paper and proved it before the public, and they refused to do
anything about it; when they proved that the machines across the nation was set up, that they elected Mr. Kennedy by a false vote. Don't the Bible say that
he would come in by deceit? A falsehood. Now,
I'm not against the Democrat party no more than a Republican party, but I'm
just stating facts from the Bible. What's the use of voting? They know who's going in there.
313-2 Philadelphian Church Age CA Book "I will
keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to
try them that dwell upon the earth." This verse is not
a declaration that the true church will go into and through the tribulation. If
it meant that it would have said that. But it said, "I
will keep thee from the hour of temptation." This
temptation is exactly like the temptation in Eden. It will be a very inviting proposition held up in direct opposition to
God's commanded Word, and yet from the standpoint of human reasoning it will be
so very right, so enlightening and life-giving as to fool the world. Only the very elect will not be fooled. The temptation will come as follows. The
ecumenical move that has started on what seems such a beautiful and blessed
principle (fulfilling Christ's prayer that we all might be one) becomes so strong politically that she
bears pressure upon the government to cause all to join with her either
directly or through adherence to principles enacted into law so that no people
will be recognized as actual churches unless under direct or indirect
domination of this council. Little groups will lose charters, privileges,
etc., until they lose all property and spiritual rights with the people.
For
example, right now unless the local ministerial association approves in many,
if not most cities, one cannot rent a building for religious services. To become chaplains in the armed services,
hospitals, etc., it is now almost mandatory to be recognized as acceptable to
the trinitarian ecumenical groups. As this pressure increases,
and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to resist is to lose privilege. And so many will be tempted to go along, for they will feel it is better to
serve God publicly in the framework of this organization than not to serve God
at all publicly. But they err. To
believe the devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him
Jehovah. But the elect will not be deceived. Furthermore,
the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the "Image erected to the
beast," the saints will be gone in the
rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that
started out in fellowship at Ephesus will become the monster of Satan that
defiles and deceives the whole world. For the
church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will
control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its
religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and
selling whereby they would make a living. This will be
accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her.
In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the
supplies of gold. The
Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all
the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot
church will take over the whole world.
Now, listen, they've already tried to do this back in 1971 when Charles Degaulle a
very devout Catholic and at that time the President of France demanded the USA
pay their debt to France not in cash but in Gold.
The de Gaulle family had
been devout Catholics for generations, the Maillot family perhaps even more so.
Charles de Gaulle would always retain the imprint of the traditional world of
the genteelly impoverished Catholic bourgeoisie which kept intact "the faith of ancient days" even if, as a matter of
obedience, it accepted the rallying call of Leo XIII. In this stratum of
Northern French society, people were sensitive to the need for Catholic action on
social problems. As a boy, Charles attended Catholic schools
and his first historical work ever published was dedicated to the congregation
of his secondary school which dedicated itself to the worship of the Virgin and
taking up collections for the missions. The officer cadet at Saint-Cyr
continued to perform his religious duties regularly and with piety, without
ostentation or dissimulation;
QA On The Seals 63-0324M 504-5 {288} 139 28. See,
the Catholics is the richest group in
the world, nobody like them. And what they don't have, the Jews has the rest. That's where the economics of
this country now... We're right now living on tax money, according to "Lifeline," that will--off
of taxes, that comes right from Washington, D.C., that'll be paid in forty
years from today. That's what we're spending now. That's how far back we
are--giving notes. See? On taxes that will be paid in forty years from now... The nation is broke. She's done.
Now, Castro, the only
sensible thing that he ever done, was when
he counterfeited the currency and paid off the notes, the bonds and burnt them and changed
the currency. That's the only thing
he could do. And there's only one thing left for
this United States to do. Now, remember, this is William Branham
(See?), speaking. This is my idea. It's only presuming. Just looking at it in
the natural standpoint, which may be a million miles off, I do believe that
right there in that money... The love of money is the root of all evil. And I believe that right along in there will start
the ball a-rolling. Now, the
Catholic church back there from charging for mass and so forth, holds the
wealth of the world. You remember, the
Bible said she was rich, and how she was. And remember, not only just on one nation, she's rich on
every nation there is under heaven. She reaches out. She has the money. Now, what they don't have, Wall Street has which is controlled by the Jews. Now, and you
remember he got the money.
When Jacob returned, last night we find out, and become Israel, he really had the money, but his money
wouldn't buy him nothing (See?) to Esau. Esau
had it too, see both anti and--and the one... See, just as perfectly. Now,
watch here. I said they might want to
consolidate together on the money, and the Roman power take the Jewish power in
of money, breaking the covenant. That might not be so. See, I know they'll break it, but I don't know
what reason, 'cause it's not revealed to me about
what they'll do. But look. Now, if today... Now, what if today,
the only thing that we can do would be to do... If we're drawing taxes, if that
statement is right, off of the currency off of the tax money of forty years
from now... You see, our gold is... We've done spent it. We're broke. We don't have any money; and we're only
living off of a past reputation.
Now, we read in the Church Age Book
Chapter 9 - The Laodicean Church Age P:15 a prediction brother
Branham made based on his own private study of the Word along with Divine
inspiration. He said, "I still maintain this
prediction after thirty years because, Jesus did NOT say no man could know the
year, month or week in which His coming was to be completed. So I repeat, I
sincerely believe and maintain as a private student of the Word, along with
Divine inspiration that 1977
ought to terminate the world systems and usher in the millennium."
Many have criticized
this because they are not aware that these things have already taken place, and
that is because they have misinterpreted what he said. But his words were very
accurate and they have as well been very accurately fulfilled.
His statement
speaks of two things. 1st the termination of the world
systems, and 2nd an ushering in period before the
millennium can arrive.
The first one concerns
the world systems. There is only one world system that concerns
the entire world. It is the financial monetary system in which the world was brought
together during WW2 at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to work out a world banking
system for exchange between nations. It was Called the Bretton Woods System. In it all nations would be
tied to the US dollar and the US dollar was to be tied to gold. Thus stability
in world currencies could be assured.
WIKIPEDIA
states: The Nixon Shock was a series of economic measures
undertaken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971,
the most significant of which was the unilateral cancellation of the direct convertibility of the United States
dollar to gold.
While
Nixon's actions did not formally abolish the existing Bretton Woods
system of international financial exchange, the suspension of one of
its key components effectively rendered the Bretton Woods system
inoperable. While Nixon publicly stated his intention to resume direct
convertibility of the dollar after reforms to the Bretton Woods system had been
implemented, all attempts at reform proved unsuccessful. By 1973, the Bretton
Woods system was replaced de facto by a regime based on freely floating fiat currencies that remains in place to the present day.
In
1944 in Bretton Woods, New
Hampshire, representatives from 44
nations met to develop a new international monetary system that came to be
known as the Bretton Woods
system. Conference members had
hoped that this new system would “ensure exchange rate stability, prevent
competitive devaluations, and promote economic growth."[1] It was not until 1958 that the Bretton Woods System
became fully operational. Countries now settled their international accounts in
dollars that could be converted to gold at a fixed
exchange rate of $35 per ounce, which was
redeemable by the U.S.
government. Thus, the United
States was committed to backing every dollar overseas with gold. Other
currencies were fixed to the dollar, and the dollar was pegged to gold.
For the first years after World War II, the Bretton
Woods system worked well. With the Marshall Plan, Japan and Europe were rebuilding from the war, and countries outside
the US wanted dollars to spend on American goods — cars, steel, machinery, etc.
Because the U.S. owned over half the world's official gold reserves — 574
million ounces at the end of World War II — the system appeared secure.[2]
However,
from 1950 to 1969, as Germany and
Japan recovered, the US share of the world's economic output dropped
significantly, from 35% to 27%.
Furthermore, a negative balance of
payments, growing public debt incurred by theVietnam War and Great Society programs, and monetary inflation by the Federal Reserve caused the dollar to become
increasingly overvalued in the 1960s.[2]
In France, the Bretton Woods System was called "America's
exorbitant privilege"[3] as it resulted in an "asymmetric financial
system" where non-US citizens "see themselves supporting American
living standards and subsidizing American multinationals". As American
economist Barry Eichengreen
summarized: "It costs only a few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to
produce a $100 bill, but other countries had to pony up $100 of actual goods in
order to obtain one".[4] In February 1965 President Charles de Gaulle announced
his intention to exchange its U.S. dollar reserves for gold at the official
exchange rate.[5]
By
1966, non-US central banks held $14 billion, while the United States
had only $13.2 billion in gold
reserve. Of those reserves, only $3.2
billion was able to cover foreign holdings as the rest was covering domestic
holdings.[6]
By
1971, the money supply had increased by 10%. In May 1971, West
Germany left the Bretton Woods
system, unwilling to revalue the Deutsche
Mark. In the following three
months, this move strengthened its economy. Simultaneously, the dollar dropped 7.5% against the Deutsche Mark. Other nations began to demand
redemption of their dollars for gold. Switzerland redeemed $50 million in July. France
acquired $191 million in gold. On August 5, 1971, the United
States Congress released a report
recommending devaluation of the
dollar, in an effort to protect the dollar against "foreign
price-gougers". On
From 1977 to 1981 the inflation in America hit 50%. This would be considered hyperinflation. By 1978 President Jimmy Carter trying to
stabilize the US dollar, issued what is known as the Carter
Bonds. Carter bonds were a series of Treasury bonds issued by the United
States in 1978 to prevent a fall of
the US Dollar. The name comes from the US President Jimmy Carter. It was
enacted under the Exchange Stabilization Fund.
In contrast
to typical Treasury bonds, which are denominated in US dollars and so did not
expose the US Government to currency risk, Carter bonds were denominated in West German
Deutschmarks and Swiss Francs. The US dollar was dead.
It has been floating ever since.
Now, let's look at the 2nd part of brother Branham's
statement. Notice he also said there will be an "ushering in
period" before the millennium can arrive. Since the root is to
"usher" we must look at what it means to usher in. As a
noun, An "Usher" is a person who greets the people at the door
before the drama begins, church service, wedding etc, and he takes each person
from the door and walks them to their pre-assigned seat, where they are
positionally placed for the event. This is to take place before the event
begins.
Since Christ is the door, and He is the Word, there
must come a ministry that will do the same. There must be a ministry of the
Holy Ghost that will take us from the Door, (The Word) and then bring us up to
and positionally place us before the millennium can begin.
Therefore this ushering in period will not be instant
but will require a period of time.
Brother Branham said in his sermon "A Third
exodus" the following concerning that ministry that is to lead us to the
Millennium.
Third Exodus 63-0630M P:126 Now, I want you to notice, this same
Pillar of Fire is leading, the people again to a promised land, the millennium,
where we found under the inspiration of this Sixth Seal, that's never been
taught before, how the earth has to be purified for the millennium. The
Pillar Fire is leading them to a millennium. And notice, the Pillar of Fire
that led Israel from the bondage in that exodus, the Pillar of Fire, under the
leadership of God, God was the Fire, and the Pillar of Fire only anointed the
prophet. The Pillar of Fire was to stand as a heavenly witness that Moses was
called out.
Third Exodus 63-0630M P:130 Where
did that Pillar of Fire lead them? Now, remember, Moses was not the Pillar of Fire. He
was the anointed leader under that Pillar of Fire, and the Pillar of Fire only
vindicated his message with signs and wonders. And that Pillar of Fire led
them to the land that God promised them, where He, Himself, would be made
flesh among them someday. Is that right? What did they do? Murmured and
squirmered and everything else to show it was under the blood of an ordinary
lamb. But this time (Glory to God.) the Pillar that we see among us, the
Pillar of Fire will lead us to the millennium, where He will return to His
people in that great millennium reign after this exodus, where we'll live
eternally with Him. He always has the Word of the Father, always proves that
It's right.
The purpose of this ushering in period is to get the
people positionally placed before the Millennium can come.
In his sermon, Ephesians Parallels Joshua 60-0515E P:19 Brother
Branham said, "Now, the Book of Ephesians,
as I was just saying, to my opinion, is one of the greatest Books of the New
Testament. It leaves us on where Calvinism runs out on one limb, and
Arminianism runs out on the other limb, but the Book of Ephesian draws it together and positionally places
the church. Now, I've typed it with Joshua. If you notice, Israel was
brought up out of Egypt, and there's
three stages of their journey. One
stage was leaving Egypt. The next
stage was the wilderness. And the
next stage was Canaan."
And in his sermon A Paradox 65-0117 P:33 brother
Branham said, But we're promised, according to Revelations
10, and according to Malachi 4, and Saint Luke 22:17, and so forth,
that there is got to come an Ephesians to this. There is
promised it, friends. There must come an Ephesians, that these
sevenfold mysteries of the Word of God must be unfolded. And it's in the
Laodicean age that this takes place. I believe that we're there. I believe
we're right in the shadows of the coming of the Son of God. And as Joshua, just
before the Ephesians raised up, so did John the Baptist raise up just
before the next Ephesians. And we're promised another, another
Ephesians. It's predicted here in the Scripture; therefore, I think
that we are living in the Ephesians again. Back again to... We are promised
that what was left off during those seven ages...
Notice, that he says,
Joshua was raised up and John was raised up just before the Ephesians was to
come. So we see there must come another Ephesians and he says concerning this
that Ephesians parallels Joshua because it positionally places the people.
So Brother Branham is
speaking of a period of time where a ministry would lead the people where they
would be positionally placed just before they were to enter into the promised
land which is a type of the Millennium.
And in his sermon, Position in Christ 60-0522M P:15 brother Branham
said, "And now, the purpose of these lessons
is to anchor those that have already come across the land. The purpose of
this study in this Book of Ephesians is to positionally place the church where it
absolutely stands in Christ. It is a type
of the Old Testament and the Book of Joshua, where Joshua 'where Joshua
lotted the land to each man'. And he done it by inspiration. How Moses brought
the people out of Egypt, the garlic, leek, out, and gave them a place to where
God had promised four hundred years before, that He would bring them into a
place, a goodly land flow with milk and honey. And Moses led the children of Israel right up to the
land, but did not take them over. And Jesus, to the spiritual, to
the people that will... We been promised a Holy Spirit since the beginning; Jesus led us up to the promise.
But the Holy Spirit
came as Joshua to take over and lead, and direct, and to possess the land, or
possess the church.
Now, listen, during this ushering in time, the prophet would be off the
scene just as in the anti type, Moses was already off the scene while Joshua
was positionally placing the people.
Hear ye
Him 57-0125 P:28 But
Jesus was transfigured before them, God placing His Son. And He robed Him with
a garment that glistened like the sun shining in its strength. And a voice from
heaven said, "This
is My beloved Son; hear ye Him". Moses is gone. The law is gone. But "this is My Son; hear ye Him." That ought to tell you. God
placing His own Son... So the law has finished. And all of the Old
Testament has been lived. And there's none left but Christ. And God's someday,
if the people who are borned again of the Spirit of God, and the Tutor
brings message to Father one day it's called to the side, and visited by
God, and positionally
placed into the body of Christ as a teacher, prophet, evangelist, teacher, pastor,
whatever you have been obedient since he's been born, God places
that person. You see it?
So that is what God is doing, and He is that Pillar of Fire that is doing
the placing of sons.
Hidden
life 55-1006A P:22 Now,
after this child become of age... Now, he's still a child. But if the child was
reckless, and never paid any attention, and wasn't so interested in the
Father's work, that child never become adopted to that family. But if he
was a correct child, a good child, and loved the work of his father, and was
interested, and tried to do all he could to progress his father's work, then
the tutor brought that word to the father, and there was what's called the
placing of the son or as Paul gives it in--over in Galatians, "the
adoption." That we was predestinated into the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ, the adoption. Now, the same son that was born into a family could
be adopted into the same family, or placed in the same family, or give a
position in the family that he was borned into. And I do believe that that
is the work of the Holy Spirit today among the church, is trying to place in
the church positionally apostles, teachers, prophets, and so forth, as...
And we've seen many
false alarms and so forth moving amongst the people, which only
indicated that the real genuine adoption was at hand. I believe it. God
has to place into the church. That's the business of God, not of man.
Now, we are covering these things because I want you
to see that during the time the world is
going into a squeeze, which is a financial meltdown, this is the same period
which br. Branham called the ushering into the millennium, and as the world
system melts down, the sons of God are learning how to enter into their roles
as sons and daughters of God. We are laying in the presence of the son and we
are ripening or maturing. getting ready for adoption.
According to the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4 and brother Branham is
the role of the five fold ministry is to take the word and positionally place
the people.
Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting (equipping an maturing) of
the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying (building
up) of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of The Faith, (The
revelation of Jesus Christ) and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, (His obedient nature tot he Father) unto a perfect (fully mature and finished off) man, unto the measure of the stature (the
character) of the fulness (fulfilling) of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no
more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of
doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning
craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him (not
unto him, as though we are a separate from Him, but grow up INTO Him for we are
the body and He is the head and the body must fit the head) in all things, which is the head, even
Christ: 16 From
whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every
joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every
part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
So you can see the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the
five-fold ministry is to positionally place the children, the body of Christ, getting
them ready to join to their head, and we can see the rise of the role of the
five fold ministry, both true and false since 1977 that has since that time
been the main thrust in the Message. Where there are false there has to be
true. The true will be identified by those who say only what the tapes say. And
their focus will be to get the people ready for the resurrection ministry, and
thus the rapture, which will lead us to the Millennium.
The false will become distracted from this positional
placing of the people and will separate themselves by giving the people a wrong
focus, on wrong doctrines which do not point the people to the head, Christ.
They will point the people to many other doctrines that distract from the Head
which is Christ. They will focus on camps, and personalities, and isms, but not
on Christ which is the head of the body.
That would be like trying to dock the space shuttle
with the space station, but getting mixed signals and because of all the mixed
signals it cannot make it's connection. The true five-fold will hone right into
the life and nature of Christ while the others only bring distractions to keep
that honing, that positional placement from taking place. All the while
thinking they are doing God a service.
This period of ushering in is a work of the Holy Ghost
but must come through men, and since brother Branham said in the Third Exodus
that the Pillar of fire will lead us to the
Millennium, then the Holy Spirit is still here as our teacher to
usher us into position with the head.
Jehovah-Jireh
58-0127 E-36 And the same Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, will have to be operating in His church to make them coincide together
at the rapture, or it won't go up at that time.
The Spirit that was in Jesus, will have to be in His church, or the two pieces
won't dovetail together, the life of the church and the life of Christ cannot
dovetail together.
Hear ye Him 60-0313 E-32 And the church will have to have the same
Spirit, doing the same things that Jesus did; or it'll never go in the rapture.
Abraham's
covenant confirmed 61-0210 P:41 So you see, the great solar system speaks of Christ. Everything
that you see speaks of Christ if you just look at it. Look at the church today in
its condition, weak, backslidden, gone back into the world. That speaks of
Christ, exactly what He said. He'd stand at the door and knock. And put
outside, organized Him out, and set Him outside, their creeds and so forth took
Him out. But He still stands at the door and knocking and said, "Everyone I love, I chasten and rebuke." That's right. Trying to cut them
down and bring them to a spot to where when the great Capstone comes, the ministry that's in the
church when the Capstone is come right straight together like a magnet.
They just seal right
in together.
Oh, God, help us to have... It'll be there; don't worry; it'll be there. He said it would be
there. So let's us get ourselves to meet that Cornerstone. Let us
love and project our lives in Christ and be sincere and stay with the Word,
until when He comes we just fit right in like the glove over the hand, like
that, with Him. Oh, that's the church that God's a waiting for. Yes,
sir.
In closing, I believe
we are supposed to be coming to maturity to the place where Christ is seen in
the Church in the people, and therefore, Christ needs to be preached in our
pulpits like never before. We need to steer clear of all other doctrines, and
anything that divides, and focus on Christ and His attributes in the church,
getting us ready to fit to the head. To Grow up INTO
Christ in all things. Little Messiahettes, conformed to the
image of the eldest son in a vast family of brothers.
Let us pray...