Unveiling of God no 29

There'll be just a handful

June 14, 2-18

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

1 Peter 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; 15  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17  For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 18  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19  By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Let us pray... Dear Father, we just read from Thy Word that in Noah's day only 8 souls were saved. You also said as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days when the son of Man returns. Therefore knowing that in a day where we have nearly 7 billion people and the potential for only 8 to be saved from the end time destruction, we ask Father to be among that few in number, and we pray that you would "work in us oh God to will and to do thy will" in preparing our homes for that great day that we are now at that juncture of time. Help us in our study of Thy Word this morning as we prepare ourselves to hear from you in Jesus Christ's name we pray. You may be seated.

Notice Peter said " wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water ".

So by this we see that the same water that God sent to deliver Noah and his family is the same water that destroyed the world. And Since the Apostle Paul tells us that "we are washed by the washing of water by the Word". Therefore we see that it was your word that you gave to Noah, and by that Word his family lived, and by that same word that wqas rejected the world perished.

So by God's Word of promise (the rain) washed and cleansed the earth thus saving Noah and his family from the filth and debauchery that was prevalent in the world in his day.

And of course water types the Word, as Rain types God's doctrine as we see in Deuteronomy 32.

Deuteronomy 32:2 "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:"

Now, during the time that Noah was preparing the ark he was also preaching a Message of Grace to the people of his day, "Come into the ark and live, stay away and perish". Now, here is the strange thing. Only his family entered into that ark. Out of perhaps 7 billion people on earth at the time of the great flood, only 8 were saved.

Therefore we know by Scripture that there will be very few who make it in the rapture my brothers and sisters, and this morning we are going to look at that very small group.

In fact Jesus said in Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: 14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Again we read in Luke 17:26 "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Now, let's move forward to br. Branham's sermon The Unveiling of God and pick up at paragraph 57 Before, if any man walked in behind that veil, it was sudden death. Amen. Oh, we're going to get a lesson here in a minute (See?), if you can receive It. To walk behind them skins, even one of the priest's sons tried to do it one time and died. Don't go behind that veil. The man that walked behind... Why? There's no redemption yet in that. It was potentially; it was just potential; and anything potential's not the real thing yet (See?), just potentially. It was redemption. Sin was covered, not remitted, not remitted. "Remitted" is "divorced and put away." And so the blood of sheep and goats could not do that, so Jehovah was hid behind a veil. Now, back behind this veil where He was hid, to enter into that, a man dropped dead to try to enter there into it.

Now, I want you to notice the serious nature of what brother Branham is telling us. It's about Life and death. Back in the Old Testament days, to enter into God's presence without the Holy Ghost it was death, and since they didn't have the Holy Ghost back then, only the High Priest was allowed to enter in. But now, to not enter into His Presence is death, and His Presence is His Parousia, the Great Appearing, which is His Token, He is the Token. That is what

Brother Branham taught us in his sermon called Desperation  63-0901E  P:16 he said,

The Token is Christ.

Token the 64-0308 P:24 "The blood," you say, "well, I killed the lamb and I put it in a jar. I've set it back here." (just like a lot of people do the tapes and their Bibles).

Then brother Branham says, "That's not what He said. It must be on the lintel and on the door place. It's got to be displayed. And your life has got to display the Token is in you. Oh, you Pentecostals, what's wrong with you? Bobbed hair, painted faces; men, dirty jokes and things, where's that display the Blood of my Lord Jesus Christ is the Token of the Holy Ghost? You, having a form of godliness and calling witchcraft and everything else, the works of God (And I'd like to add, that's John 14:12, and he says and you call it) a witchcraft, how do you display a token? They say, "I'm Pentecostal..." I don't care what you are. "I'm Baptist. I'm Presbyterian..." I don't care what you are. That Token's got to be there. God requires It, and nothing else but that.

And I have news for you, the token is not the tapes, it is the Holy Ghost, His personal Presence here and reflecting in you the life of that presence.

You say, Well, I've got the Word... but brother Branham in The Token 64-0208 P:60 said, We read in Ephesians 2nd chapter and 12th verse, about what God said about it when we applied this Token. Notice, serving the living God with living works, and with living signs, with a living Token; not dead works, and carnal, not dead works. Hebrews 9:11-14 tells us again the same thing, not dead creeds, but a living Token. They... These creeds deny that there is such a thing as a Token. They don't even believe there is such a thing as a Token, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But we who believe the Word know better, know it. And it's His living Presence for us in this day. We separated from dead works, and the Holy Ghost comes in to confirm the Word and make it so. Hebrews 13:8 proves that to us, proves that God has raised Him up for us according to His promised Word. Thousands of years has passed; two thousand years almost has passed. But what is it? The Token still holds that God raised Him up on the third day. If you just got the Word, that's all you got. But when the Token is applied, then Christ is reality to you. And He does today like He did then. (And that is John 14:12 which is also Hebrews 13:8) So it throws it right back in their lap again. They can't get around it. God promised it, and here it is that the Token's got to be applied. He takes the Token and when...

Token the 64-0208 P:73 He expects us now to display the Token over our faith, to Satan's group, the unbelievers, and cults, and so forth, that don't believe in it, that we, believing what He has said of His promises, and that Jesus Christ has raised up from the dead, showing Himself alive... And that is the badge, the Token of identification, because it's Christ's own Life in you identifying the Word. It doesn't need anything else. That's the Token. Without the Token...Shows the fare is paid, shows that you're a subject for the resurrection, that God, that same power that raised up Jesus from the grave, you're holding within yourself as a Token. The Holy Ghost in you is the Token that brings you from the grave, because the Token is God, the Holy Spirit, which is Eternal Life, coming from the Greek word "Zoe," which means "God's own Life," in you. That's the only thing that paid the price. If that Token isn't there, how are you going to raise?

And he can say that because that is what God's own words says in Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of^] his Spirit who lives in you.

Now let me read this from the Message Version of Romans 8:9-11 But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells, even though you still experience all the limitations of sin, you yourself experience life on God’s terms. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!

Token the 64-0308 P:26 If it was not displayed, the covenant wasn't even in effect. A Jew could absolutely say and prove himself to be a circumcised Jew. He could take the brethren out and say, "Look here, I am circumcised." That didn't mean one thing. You say, "I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. I'm Pentecostal. I'm this. I'm that." That don't mean one thing. You've got to have the Token. And when the Token comes, it testifies of Christ. He said it would. And Christ is the Word. And how can you deny that the Bible's true, part of It, and still say you have the Token, when the Token is the testimony of Jesus Christ? There's what I wonder."Oh," say, "I don't believe; I believe the days of miracle..." Oh, look out, there's no Token there. The Token punctuates every Word with an "amen," everything, 'cause it's God Itself. See? All right.

Token the 63-1128E P:67 Oh, God, let us open our hearts and receive the message, that Jesus is alive tonight. He's right here among us. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Open up your house and let the Messenger, the Holy Ghost, come in and identify you by His Own Presence, the Token that's upon you. Then you don't have to take anybody else's word for it; He's there to speak for Himself. And He is the Word. That's right. It's God's Token, to identify His Own-self. She used her house for the messengers. Then she got all the city that would believe under the same token. And that's the way the church should be doing today, getting everything that will believe under the Token. The Token is the Holy Ghost. Just remember; they must get under the Holy Ghost.

And how can you get under the Holy Ghost if his presence is not here?

Token the 63-0901M P:84 Oh, little people, my brother, sister, get under that Token quickly. See? Don't, don't take no substitute. Don't, don't, don't, don't do that. See? Don't just imagine it. You stay there until you know that the Token is applied, until your whole--the mind that was in Christ is in you; until all the nonsense of the world is gone, until the whole heart's desire is Him. See? Then you know, then you know something's happening. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe," not make-believers, but believers. See?

Token the 63-0901M P:49 "Now, the very Spirit Itself is the Token. The Holy Spirit Itself is the Token", not the Blood. ... and then later on in this paragraph he says, "But the Token is the Holy Ghost upon the church, that they see Christ."

Jehovah Jireh 2 64-0403 P:29 Now, the token is not the Blood; it is the Life that was in the Blood, the Holy Spirit. And that's the... I don't care how religious you are, unless you've received the Holy Ghost, you'll perish. It's the only way. There's not another Scripture to do anything, only that alone. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption," Ephesians 4:30.

Token the 64-0308 P:62 The Token is the Word identified in you, living Itself out. That's God being His Own interpreter. You don't have to say, "Well now, you interpret my tongue." That ain't it. He interprets your life by the Word. When He takes your word, what you are, and identify His Word through there, it don't need any interpretation; it's already there. God does His Own interpretation, and we've had these promises for the day.

Voice of the sign 64-0214 P:13 And the token, that's the only thing God recognizes. And the token must be there, or the covenant's even annulled. Just the token, and the Token is the Holy Spirit.

Notice he just said the Token is the Holy Spirit in you, and then he tells us it must be there displayed, and then he tells us what the Token is, He says the token is the Holy Spirit in you.

Therefore the token is not a tape. How do you think you can just set the tapes out on display and some say that is the ribbon (the tape) that God saw over Rahab's window that saved her household. That is wrong. Her faith in the promise is what saved her house.

And The Token is the Holy Ghost in you displayed in your life, yes on display in your life, "living as Christ lived", "talking as Christ talked", and "doing the works that Christ did", which is John 14:12 and Mark 16 and various other Scriptures.

Token the 64-0208 P:77 The Token is a confirmation of His Word, that shows He is the Word. Now, the Word said He raised up from the dead, and He's alive forevermore. He lives in His people, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe that? If you believe that, then you have a right if you have that Token, the Holy Spirit in you, you have a right to everything that His death purchased for you. Won't you believe it? Now, look. So it...

And then notice carefully what he says in The Token 63-0901M P:54 "It's yourself gone. You are no more... You're, reckon yourself dead, and the Token is what lives in you, and it's not your life; it's Him. Paul said, "The life that I now live..." He lived a different life from what he once did. "It's not me, but Christ liveth in me." There is the identified Token that God required. Identified with our, identification with our sacrifice. The Life of our Saviour in us, the Holy Spirit... Oh what a... A positive Token. There cannot be any more Token. Oh, my, if you'd only could catch the thought of it. If I had the power this morning with words to express and place into your soul that's on the in, not your ears, but your soul. If you could see the guarantee of it. It takes... It makes you so relaxed.

And here is the best thing, notice he says in his sermon The Token the 63-1128E P:77 When they seen that wonderful display of the power of a resurrection, he (Peter) got up there and quoted the Scriptures of Joel, and so forth, give the promise for that age, and showed the requirements of that age had been met in Jesus Christ, and that He had sent back a Token of His death. And that Token was upon them. And He said, "The Token is to you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call will have to have this Token." Amen. It's not they "may ought to" have It. "They shall have It. You shall receive the Holy Ghost."

And that is why in Isaiah 65 he can tell us, "and all of thine offspring with them."

Token the 63-0901M P:58 The Token was God's Life, ...

Token the 63-1128E P:28 "And these signs shall follow them that believe," not just professors, but identified believers. "They may not follow. They probably will, and perhaps they will"? Jesus said, "They shall follow them that believe." Just absolutely impossible for it not to happen. "The works that I do shall you do also." That's the identification. Jesus' identification was to manifest the Word of God, which He was. And the Church's identification today is to manifest the promised Word of this day by the same Spirit that manifested and quickened the Word then. The same Spirit quickens the Word to the believer today and manifests the same thing, showing that the Token is on this person, which is the resurrected Life of Jesus Christ living in His believer. Oh, that ought to set a church afire. And that's true, just as true as it could be.

Desperation 63-0901E P:11 Now, we have sometimes allowed It... The Lutherans allowed It to accepting the Word, accepting Christ as personal Saviour. The Methodists said, "When you get happy enough to shout, that's It." The Pentecostals says, "Speak in tongues, and you got It." And we find out that all of it was wrong. See? The Token is the Token. It's you and Christ as persons together. See? It's the Holy Spirit, His Life in you working His own Life through you. And it's for the rich, the poor, or for whosoever will receive It.

Token the 63-0901M P:122 while you're under the anointing of it, it'd be better to get it right now. Only when the token is displayed... Then the whole family must be under that token blood. Papa, mama, I know how you feel. I've got children too. I got to see them saved. I'm talking to myself today. See? I got brothers; I got sister; I got loved ones. I want to see them saved too; but remember, without the display of the Token, they'll perish. There's no resurrection for them. That's right. They're gone. Only when the Token's displayed...

Token the 64-0208 P:67 A minister said to me one time, said, "Brother Branham, Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness."And I said, "That's true."Said, "What more can a man do but believe?"I said, "That's exactly right.""Then where do you get this Holy Ghost outside of believing?"I said, "But He give him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation of his faith." Amen. And if He's never give you the baptism of the Holy Ghost yet, then He hasn't confirmed your faith that you say you have. But the Token is a confirmation. I say, "I got the money. I paid it in the office down there." But you've got to show the Token. That's right.

That is why John 14:12 is so important, because that shows the very Life of Christ is on display in your life. It shows that "you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God,".

It shows that "when he appears you appear with him", because "you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God", and what people see in you is him.

In fact you become Him. That is what the Token does for you. You become him.

Identification 63-0123 P:28 You cannot no way ever produce a Character like that, only accepting that Character in you. A church cannot do that. A creed cannot do that. A denomination cannot do that. An education cannot do that. It must be a birth. It's got to be a dying out, and let God in it. By the grace of Christ, mold this type of character in you, that you become Him. And your life and His is the same. Then you are sons and daughters of God.

And when your life and his life are the same then you are manifested as a son of God, then you are conformed to his image, then you are ready for adoption, and that is when John 14:12 is fully on display in your life.

Now, does that mean you will be politically correct? Nope. Does that mean that you will always be sweet and pleasant? Nope. But it does mean that you will live, die, swim or sink, standing with God and His Word, no matter if it takes the hide right off your back.

People get the wrong understanding of what the Holy Ghost life is. They think you will be sweet all the time, and that you will just go with the flow, but that's not the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost manifested in Jesus as a man who got beside himself with rage when he saw men using the temple to make merchandize of the people, selling in the temple, and he braided a rope and whipped them out.

The Holy Ghost in the Apostle John called Marcus for what he was and spoke of his evil handling of the Word right in his face.

The Holy Ghost in Martin of Tours burnt down the groves where the people worshipped Satan.

The Holy Ghost in Martin Luther made mockery of the Pope and his false doctrine, and battled him on the Word and withstood the savage attempts at his life, but he stood defiant.

The Holy Ghost upon Shadrack, Meshack and Abednigo stood defiant of the kings laws.

The Holy Ghost in Elijah mocked the 400 prophets of Baal and called down fire upon the soldiers that came to kill him.

The Holy Ghost in Paul rebuked Peter before everyone not worrying what people would think of him.

The Holy Ghost in Moses called for the waves to come crashing down and wiping out the entire army of Egypt.

The Holy Ghost upon Samson slew 10,000 soldiers with so much power and savagery that a brittle dried out jawbone of a mule cut through the brass helmets of the enemy and he slew ten thousand of them.

So the Holy Ghost is not passive to anything but God's Word. And It is not timid to anything except to the Will of God. But when called into action The Holy Ghost in men has shown Himself to the a fearless warrior. A mighty conqueror.

Yet the Holy Ghost when it comes to Itself, showed the spirit of a lamb, and a dove.

In 1 Corinthians 13 the apostle Paul said the following concerning the Holy Ghost in your life:

The Holy Ghost never gives up.
The Holy Ghost cares more for others than for self.
The Holy Ghost doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
The Holy Ghost doesn’t strut,
The Holy Ghost doesn’t have a swelled head,
The Holy Ghost doesn’t force itself on others,
The Holy Ghost Is never “me first,”
The Holy Ghost doesn’t fly off the handle,
The Holy Ghost doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
The Holy Ghost doesn’t revel when others grovel,
The Holy Ghost takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
The Holy Ghost puts up with anything,
The Holy Ghost trusts God always,
The Holy Ghost always looks for the best,
and The Holy Ghost never looks back,
But The Holy Ghost keeps going to the end.

The Holy Ghost never dies. 

Now, in getting back to our text sermon The Unveiling of God, brother Branham said in pp. 58 But since Pentecost, since the crucifixion, when that veil was rent from the top to the bottom, for that generation... Jesus was that God, veiled. And when He died at Calvary, God sent fire and lightning and ripped that veil from top to the bottom, that the whole mercy seat was in plain view. But they were too blind to see it. As Moses said here, Paul said, reading of Moses, "When Moses is read yet, that veil is still on their heart." Oh, brother, sister, that's what the Jews did when the veil was rent and brought God into plain view, hanging on the cross. He was in plain view, but they couldn't see It.

So the mercy seat which was the presence of God's Life in the man Jesus, they couldn't even see it. And when Jesus died that God life came out of him, and rent the curtain in the temple that contained the ark of the covenant wherein the mercy seat had been for Israel, and that curtain was rent in two revealing that He had become the Mercy seat.

Now, listen? If you have the Token, then you have the mercy seat in you as well, because it is the same God life in you as was in Him. But how many people reject the "Christ in you which is their only Hope of Glory"

Let's read on with pp. 59 Could it be possible that the Gentiles has hit the same thing? (Oh, God.) When they've had the church ages of the Son of God, but when now the veil of this denominations and things, this veil of tradition that we've got since Pentecost, when the church traditions has been rent, the things that the people said, "Days of miracles is past," and these things, and God has took the veil off of it and brought It in plain view, and they're ready to crucify It again. Just exactly right.

60 The unveiled God, plain view, they should've seen Him standing there. Yet He was too common; He was an ordinary Man. They couldn't see It. See, there stood a Man. "Well," they said, "this guy, what school did He come from?" But remember, when that spear struck His body, that Spirit left Him, the temple of sacrifice blocks turned over, and the lightning whipped down through the temple and rent the veil. What was it? There was their God hanging on Calvary, and they were too blind to see it. Brought Him in open view, and still they don't see It. They're blinded. God, veiled in a human being...

Now, listen, when God has come in this hour and done greater in one man than he did in his own son, and they still don't see it. Then God took that man off the scene. But God in His mercy placed that mercy in you, His Spirit in you, His presence in You, to go forth one last time like Samson, who cried out "Once more Lord, Once more". And you as sons are to shine His presence to the world and shine the light of Christ to them, and still they don't see it. Then what will take place?

God always shows mercy and then when they reject the mercy he sends, there is only one thing left and that is judgment.

The wave sheaf has been waved over the people, through a God ordained people and the people have rejected His message even though 2 million claim to follow his Prophet. And just as 2 million people left Egypt which Egypt represented or was a type of the world in Moses day, and Moses was God's mercy to those people but they rejected it and they all perished. So too in this hour God has raised up a prophet to manifest His presence too, His mercy seat, God's presence, once more to the people, and they've rejected it and as Israel worshipped the brazen serpent that God sent them as a sign of healing, but just as in Moses day, they rejected the Teaching. And they worshipped the creature more than the creator. So what is left?

Then God sends forth the same teaching by an anointed Five Fold ministry declaring the same doctrine of Christ and the people reject God's mercy to them until the 2 million people again who claim to believe the Message are dying in the wilderness of sin, of unbelief.

So what is next? They have turned down the Shout that would have prepared them for the Voice of the resurrection, and thus very few will actually make it.

In closing, let me show you many quotes where the prophet of God said just that. He said very few will make the resurrection and rapture.

World again falling apart  63-1127  P:63- "I look for a rapture, for just a handful of people (That's right.), just a handful of people.

Perseverant P:16 There'll just be a very, very few in that rapture that'll be changed.

Now, in his sermon the Rapture he defined the Rapture as three stages of God's Presence among us at the end time. He said the Shout is the Message, the Voice is the resurrection, and the trump is the catching away. And the Lord does all three during his Parousia-Presence.

Rapture the 65-1204 P:75 Three things happen, a shout, a voice, a trumpet, has to happen before Jesus appears. Now, a shout. Jesus does all three of them when He's descending. A "shout," what is a "shout"? It's the Message going forth first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride. Now, God has a way of doing things, and He never changes His policy. He never changes His... He's the unchanging God. In Amos 3:7 He said He would do nothing on the earth until first He revealed it to His servants the prophets. And just as certain as He promised it, He'll do it.

Rapture the 65-1204 P: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:88 No, it's... The first thing is the sounding--or the first thing is the a shout, and then a voice, and then a trumpet. Shout, a messenger getting the people ready... The second is a voice of the resurrection. The same voice that, a loud voice in St. John 11:38 and 44 that called Lazarus from the grave. Getting the Bride together, and then the resurrection of the dead (See?), to be caught up with it. Now, watch the three things take place.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Now, Paul says I don't want you to be ignorant brothers so I am going to tell you what things are going to take place at the Parousia of Christ. That time of Gods great presence when he comes down from heaven and he will come doing three things.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

So he begins by telling us what God is going to do when he Comes.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming (Parousia - Presence )of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

Now, remember he is speaking here of the Parousia which is the presence of "The Lord" so he is not talking about the man Jesus but the God of the man Jesus. And remember he tells us there is but One Lord. That is God himself, Jehovah which in the Old Testament the Hebrew Word Jehovah is translated as "Lord."

16 For the Lord himself (Jehovah Elohim) shall descend from heaven with a shout, (that's a Message) with the voice of the archangel,(that's the resurrection) and with the trump of God:(that will be the catching away) and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

So if we are to comfort one another with these words he means we need to preach the Parousia presence of God in which God is here to do these three things, and we should be comforted by knowing this.

So when we read the quote where brother Branham said, Perseverant P:16 There'll just be a very, very few in that rapture that'll be changed.

He is telling us that the Shout will change very, very few who will then receive the voice which will be the resurrection ministry of the same God who has come down. Because let's face it, in Romans 12: 1 The Apostle Paul tells us that we will receive our transformation by the renewing of the mind. So if the mind is not renewed by the shout, the Message, then the body will never receive a transformation. So he in essence is telling us here that very few will be changed in the mind first by the Shout, in order to enter into the The resurrection ministry.

Questions and answers COD P:56 It'll be one here and one there, it will not be a bunch  of people gathered together in a little group, " They'll never be missed in the world. When they go, you'll never know it's gone. That's right. It'll come like a thief in the night." Not them, but him, an individual: not a group, an individual. All hell's against it. just one here, and one there, and one over here.

Invisible union of the bride That's what the church is today everyone disagreeing with the other. A big mess of just exactly what the Bible said: Babylon. The Bride knows where She stands. She's very few. There won't be many saved. Just a Very, very, very few.

God in simplicity.. I want to shock you a little bit. The rapture will be... So few go in that Bride. There'll be just a handful.

Christ is the mystery P:229 Not say, "My church done..." My church has nothing to do with it. It's an individual, one person. All hell is against this teaching. All hell's against this truth, but it is the truth. Jesus never said, "Now, Peter, you, and John, and all the rest of the people, you've got the revelation  (of who he is ) now; the whole church is saved." No, it was to him personally. Not them, but him, an individual: not a group , an Individual. All hell's against it.

Mighty God unveiled P:52 He never revealed It to a group;   He revealed It to an individual. You say, "I belong to a church. I belong to this." But that won't work.

Doors in door P:92  [65-0206]  Jesus is knocking in this Laodicea age. See where they put Him out? He's trying to get to individuals, not organizations and groups of people. He's trying to get one here, and one there, and one there, trying. "All that I love, I chasten."

How Can I Overcome Daniel, a man, a prophet. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel was the prophet, and that was the size of the Church in that day, I mean, the Bride. There's lots of church, about two million of them went down there. But there was... That was the size of the over-comer.   And them over-comers was put to the test.    And every over-comer has to be put to the test. When they said, "You take back what the Word says, or either  be thrown in the fiery furnace." They refused anything but the Word.

Mighty God unveiled It is an individual affair; it's you and God. You have to go in, not your group, not your church, not your pastor, ... Identified Christ of all ages  God never used a system, never did use a organization, never did use groups. He uses one single person. God deals with you as an individual. It's you, not your church.  You are the one that's responsible, not what your church says. What God said to you, it must be with the Word. God deals with individuals. He's always did.

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