It is Possible to Overcome Death in This Generation - Preface
IT IS POSSIBLE TO OVERCOME DEATH IN THIS GENERATION
OR
THE FEAST OF THE TABERNACLES
Delivered by
R PAULASEER LAWRIE [Lord Shri Lahari Krishna]
P R E F A C E
The tremendous strides of the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, carried on through His servant Bro. R.P. Lawrie since 1961, are well-known throughout the world now. I am one of those closely associated with the ministry from 1961.
Being a man standing on the Word of God one hundred percent, no one can excel or equal Bro. Lawrie in forthrightness in speaking out very boldly whenever a truth is revealed to him by God. His latest messages are rather too true to be believed by any tradition-bound follower of Jesus Christ still clinging to one of the legion denominations. The mysteries of God hidden in the Holy Bible for nearly 2000 years are now being unearthed by God Himself coming down to the earth and revealing the seven thunder mysteries which represent the voice of God.
The truth about the “Son of man” revealed through Bro. Lawrie a few months before was most exciting and could be understood only by the Bride by revelation. All those who are bound by any form of denominational spirit and are members of the harlot denominations are blinded from receiving and accepting this truth. The ‘Son of man’ message containing this truth constituted the revelation of the first thunder mystery.
The revelation of the Second Thunder mystery unfolded in the following pages would surely infuse in the Bride a deeper and firmer assurance of immortality and enhance her rapturing faith considerably. This is the first time that death has been recognized as an enemy and not as a means of escape from the trials and tribulations of this world. Further, to recognize it as the ‘last enemy’ gives an additional significance in that the Bride will conquer this last enemy and will pass on to immortality without tasting death.
The interpretations in the latter part of the message on some of the important passages in the Old and New Testaments are most revealing. The close association of the serpent’s seed with God’s seed and the difficulty in discriminating the good from the bad except on the basis of the Word of God are well explained in the light of God putting the mark on Cain. The explanation to the ‘Tree of Life’ clearly reveals that the path leading to it, hitherto hidden to the eagles (Prophet’s), lions (Kings) and vultures (Satan and his hosts) during the Seven Church ages, is now kept open for the Bride to tread upon, to reach the ‘Tree of Life’ and eat the fruit thereof and attain immortality.
Yet another revelation relating to the ‘Feast of Tabernacles’ as the type of the Bride Age is significant. It brings home the fact that the Bride should have no attachments at all in this world, which is typified in the Old Testament by the Israelites living, not in well-built tents but, in booths which are temporary structures, to celebrate this feast. Here again, the truth that there cannot be great outward manifestations in the Bride Age is clearly brought out by
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citing the attitude of Jesus Himself during the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Parable of ‘The Good Samaritan’ puts on a new significance in the light of the new revelations. The dictum “The Son of man hath no place to lay his head” is rightly interpreted to mean that the Bride will have no connections whatsoever with the denominations.
The ‘Trump of God’ is explained as constituting the Bride carrying the message of the Kingdom of God. The ambiguity in the fourth Chapter of I Thessalonians, which was originally thought to mean the mid-air meeting of the Lord and the Bride, is now cleared with reference to correct translations from the Greek Bible which clearly states that the Lord will lead forth the dead and the living saints for a meeting of the Lord in the air.
May this message go forth and further gather the ‘Seeds of God’ scattered throughout the world, is my prayer.
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A PERSONAL MESSAGE TO THE BRIDE
IT IS POSSIBLE TO OVERCOME DEATH IN THIS GENERATION OR
THE FEAST OF THE TABERNACLES
(I Corinthians 15:26)
We are all quite aware that we should be on the Word of God for basing our faith. We have heard so many messages of Faith Healing Preachers, but faith without God’s Word as foundation is not permanent. The three Hebrew children Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did not fear King Nebuchadnezzar not just because of audacity or fanaticism or to show how big they were, but they had a definite word in the Bible to protect their stand, i.e., Isaiah 43:2. “When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee”. Therefore, the Hebrew children boldly stood before the King pinning their faith on God’s Word and did not even fear death by fire. God is not bound to honor anything which He did not promise in the Word of God. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were able to bring God down to the pit of fire for their deliverance and the fire had no power over them. Don’t you think that God coming down for the Bride in this age should take our fear away about Death by fire like the Hebrew children! They refused to bow to anything other than God and His Word and even defied Nebuchadnezzar, the greatest King of that period. Although the King ultimately put them into the burning fiery furnace, heating it seven times more than its normal temperature, the fire had no power upon their bodies or it rather lost its natural ability to burn objects like the flames of fire which did not burn the bush when God came down to speak to Moses. Except for these three Hebrew children, all others failed God by worshipping the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up. In these last days, the Bride being totally on God’s Word, has brought God down to this Earth before it faces destruction by fire, and she has a definite assurance from Him that she will overcome everything this time. So let us remain courageous.
Let us study from God’s Word about the last enemy called DEATH so that we may get the necessary faith to overcome it. How did death enter into this world? Is it stronger than God Himself, and what should be done to overcome the same in this Age when God overrules everything to take His Bride? The greatest and oldest problem in the world is that of Life and Death which remains still unsolved by the natural and finite mind. THE LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH (I Cor. 15:26). For centuries science has advanced in every direction, but when it comes to the subject of Life and Death, the great scientists could do nothing but stop and submit. Thus the pride of men ends at this point. The reason is the Tree of Life is within our reach, but the way to it is known only to God. God never gave Life into the hands of human beings and that is the only thing which is beyond human reach unless God himself condescends to grant it. So man wants to find immortality in his own ways. He intends to flee from the oncoming destruction by fire; that is the reason why he is attempting to shift over to another planet where he could protect his seed.
The fleshy mind is always in conflict with the spiritual mind. How often in our experience we have been under the conviction that one was believing some spiritual truth but after all it was only a mental assent to the letter of the Scripture without any faith at all and for that reason there was no life and power in that supposed truth. Consider also the great numbers of faithful Christians who stand week after week sincerely declaring their beliefs in creeds and doctrines unaware of the fact that they are only evincing mental assent to the truths which they mistake for faith. Even when we suddenly lay hold on some precious new truth from the Word of God through revelation, the natural mind tends to oppose it and all too often causes us to relapse into temporary unbelief; the reason being, the powers of darkness will
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allow our natural mind to assent to the truth so long as the heart’s affections are not touched by it. On the other hand, when the heart of faith lays hold, the natural mind is immediately stirred up to doubt and oppose. It has been always thus - the fleshy mind warring against the spirit and we feel it is impossible to lay hold on faith to victory.
To begin with, death is called our enemy. Here again the Christians will immediately oppose. They may accept the general statement that death is an enemy of human race, but their teaching often declares that death is a friend. Is it not the teaching of the Church (I do not mean in the denominational sense) that death is the way to heaven and Glory? Is not death regarded as the Gateway to Eternal Life? No doubt Scriptures flatly deny this. This, in fact, is one of Satan’s lies to deceive and blind us to the truth. If death is the way to enter into Glory, it would indeed be our best friend, and we should receive this great friend as our only hope with both hands. But our human nature tells that this is our enemy. All creatures say that they do not desire to die. If death is to be regarded as friend, then why should not we desire it? We wish to live as long as we can and die only when we could not possibly avoid it. Man, of course, was not created by God to die. It is only the fall of Adam that helped this enemy to overpower the creatures. It is indeed a deception of this Evil One to make people think that there is blessing for mankind to be derived through death. This is the delusion which works in people’s mental faculties inciting them to put an end to their lives by resorting to suicide. We brand such people to be of unsound mind. But what about us? We, who regard death to be a friend to help us enter into eternity, are also of unsound mind. Otherwise why should we call suiciders to be of unsound mind? If death is regarded as the most welcome friend, then we should highly esteem those who commit suicide. Death has always been an enemy to mankind, as otherwise, our blessed Savior Jesus Christ would not have come to destroy death and him that had the power of death (Heb. 2:14). God’s plan of redemption was to bring back life and immortality to light through the Gospel (2 Tim. 1:10) and to deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage (Heb. 2:15). Jesus Christ is the only way to life and heavenly glory. He is the life itself as well as the way. He alone is the door to the Kingdom of Health and Peace. There is no other name given but Jesus Christ whereby we may be saved from sin, weakness, sickness, pain, disease and from death itself. How can any saint think of death, in any respect as a way to life and happiness? It is beyond our comprehension. The power of darkness has insinuated the lie that we cannot have full salvation until death parts us from the body and that our hearts cannot be wholly cleansed from sin here and now but after death. In other words, death is our best friend and not our enemy, as told in the Word of God. It is something like the teaching with regard to healing of sickness etc. In certain places in the Bible, it is said that God sends sickness and afflictions to people. So we regarded them as friends and laid down sick on bed thinking that we were submitting ourselves to the will of God. Later as we studied the scriptures diligently, the light shone on the subject clearly and through the general teaching of our Lord we were convinced that there can be no darkness in God and that sickness is an enemy of God. With this conviction we began to resist sickness as being against the will of God and it had to flee. We can never resist anything so long as we regard it as our friend and as the will of God, thinking that we become enemies of God going against His will. May the light which has started to shine now in these last days make us believe that death should be resisted and overcome by the New Spirit of Immortality in this generation.
Another important fact which we ought to consider is that this enemy called ‘Death’ is the LAST ONE and is to be DESTROYED. We have nothing more to tackle after that. No matter whether we win or lose in this fight between death and life, it is the last enemy confronting us. Satan can have no more power over those few fortunate people who win this fight; he cannot even touch them. But for those who believe death to be the only gateway to enter into heavenly bliss, it is certainly impossible to overcome this enemy. If there has been no
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possibility to overcome death, we would rather gladly surrender and let it have the victory without a fight. Is it possible? This enemy’s death is quite different from those previously encountered and must not be confused with sickness, disease, doubt and unbelief, although it is closely associated with the One we are dealing now. It runs jointly with mental and physical ailments and when they have run their course the last enemy claims the victim. God’s people have learned to use God’s amour of faith to be victorious over all attacks of sickness through the life of Christ and yet the last enemy has to be met sooner or later.
Now this last enemy ‘Death’ is not to be petted or given refuge and shelter but is to be destroyed. This is God’s Word. It should be destroyed by some means or other. There is some greater power which will destroy death. But the question is when and how? This indeed is a subject which confuses almost all the people of God.
We as Christians, exhibit so much contradictions in our beliefs and actions that even the non-Christians who have acquired some Bible knowledge point out that certain things we do in our day to day life are not in line with what we believe or profess. Most of the saints seem to be content with death and what they talk does not sound like the way of faith or it may be, putting in black and white, what our inward thinking is though we are ashamed to express. Does not a small voice from your inmost being tell you that the argument is false, even though you may at present feel unable to grasp the whole truth of the Word and follow it in faith? There has certainly been an inward voice since 1960 when the Lord spoke to me on the shores of Los Angeles, U.S.A. that I would see His coming in this generation and that a group of people who stand for God will not die. After a prayerful study of God’s Word, I have come to a definite conviction that the glorious inheritance of the Lord in me is neither to be sought for through death nor is that the hope of my calling, and if the exceeding greatness of His power cannot destroy the enemy for me here and now, there is no other power in God’s universe that can (Eph. 1:17-20). I find also that many of the Lord’s people in various parts of the world have begun to arouse themselves from sleep and inquire into this problem. When man reached the Moon, his faith increased to conquer other planets as well. When Jesus rose again, He was redeemed in body and soul and spirit. When one is freed from the mental attitude and has received divine understanding, what a flood of heavenly light takes the place of human darkness! Hope is changed to sight and shadow to substance. Every truth in God’s Word seems to have an opposite, and a clever unbeliever can make the whole story of Redemption appear ridiculous as a fable or myth to the ignorant masses. Even our Lord Jesus Christ was Himself a paradox and contradiction to most.
In dealing with the destruction of the last enemy called death, we must not be surprised if we are opposed by mental reasoning or even if the letter of the scripture is used against us. The last enemy will not be destroyed without a stiff fight which is sure to prove to be the greatest of all fights, but in any case it is going to be the last. Hallelujah!! Is it possible for you and me to destroy death, and if not, why not? Or who else will be able to destroy death? Of course, the present day Church might say that you and me cannot do it; but it will be possible only for those who will be alive and remain at the Lord’s coming again when the last trumpet will sound for them to be caught up by the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t you realize that we are now living in a period when the dead in Christ will rise and the living Bride will be glorified without passing through death since the Lord Himself has descended on 20th July, 1969 on the Moon Landing Day and within a few years from then, the Voice of Resurrection of the Archangel and the Trumpet of God will raise the dead and glorify the living saints? The destruction of our last enemy is possible for every one of us in this generation if only we can believe it, for we have on record in the scriptures at least two cases of human beings who did not see death - Enoch and Elijah, men of like passions as we are cumbered with human frailties. What was possible for them is equally possible for you and me. Human reasoning might say Enoch and Elijah were different from us. Yes, even now
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things are different. Perhaps you may not know that. The dispensations have changed. Why so? Are we worse off in our dispensation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Has God changed? Does He refuse to us the privileges that were offered to those two men? Their lives have been recorded to serve as examples for us to follow where they were in the way of faith and righteousness, and as warnings where they stumbled or fell. We are told to be of the faith of Abraham (Hebrews 11) and to carefully heed the cloud of witnesses who compass us about (Heb.12:1). In Hebrews 11 it is recorded of Enoch’s translation by faith; the faith which enabled him to walk with God who ultimately took him. Enoch had a wife and children and was leading the life of a normal man, yet he pleased God. Is such privilege denied to you and me to walk with God and finally claim translation by faith? If so, what purpose is served by recording his example in the scriptures? Enoch was translated by faith because he laid hold of Eternal life through faith in his Redeemer who destroyed death for him. The same thing can happen to every one of God’s children.
Let us now consider the teachings contained in the New Testament. What does Jesus Christ say on the subject of life and death? “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” - John 5:24. “He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.” I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever” - John 6:47-51. “And I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, shall live by me” - John 6:57. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death. If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death - John 8:51-52. The words relating to fathers make it more emphatic. They ate manna and are dead, but a man may eat of this Bread and not die. And plainer still, the passage last quoted says, if a man keeps Christ’s sayings, he need neither see nor taste death. Surely here there is no ambiguity and such language conveys plainly the truth that it is not necessary for a man to die, but that there is a way of escape in Jesus Christ, and that he can have victory over this last enemy by faith on Him. There is no time limit put on these words. The only requirements are faith to feed on Him, to believe on Him and to keep up His sayings. This was all that was required of Enoch - faith. Then why should we have difficulty? Since other passages seem ambiguous and contradictory, we have settled down to say it cannot be. It has been the same in all regions of our Christian experience. Because some people cannot accept the new birth in simple faith, they deny it and say it cannot be. Others cannot lay hold of heart cleansing from sin and say it cannot be. That way leads to sinless perfection. Others refuse to believe that the baptism of Holy Ghost with signs following is for our day. Satan has a bogey or scarecrow in every field and whenever there has been a true revival and a going forward in the spirit, the liar has always brought scripture to oppose it and say it is error.
We know that there are spiritual death, soulish death and a physical death. “The Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead shall also quicken (or to make to live) your mortal bodies” - Rom. 8:11. “That the life of Jesus Christ might be made manifest in our mortal flesh” - 2 Cor. 4:11. Hebrews 2:9 says that Jesus tasted death for every man. What death did He taste? Was it spiritual or physical or both? It was physical death only. If His tasting of death was physical, why when He says He that keepeth my sayings shall not taste of death, do we interpret it as meaning spiritual death only and not physical? About Enoch also it is said he was translated that he should not see death - that is physical death. So when Christ talked about death, physical death was included. We are told that Jesus suffered death - that through death, He might destroy death and him that had the power of death - Heb.2:14. “Our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” - 2 Tim. 1:10. He hath abolished death. I would assert with all heart that
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as long as we put off any benefit, which is ours in Christ Jesus, to a future time in history, it can never become ours in experience. Faith lays hold for the present and claims, but unbelief puts off to the future.
Of course, we have the Jewish dispensation, the Gentiles and the Churches dispensation. The question is: where are we in the dispensations with regard to the truth of redemption for the mortal body and why this truth has not been recognized earlier in the Church’s history? Luke 21 gives us the answer. At the request of the disciples, the Lord there enumerates certain signs of the times for the guidance of His followers. We need not explain them all, but will refer to the times of the Gentiles - Vs.24. I can safely say that all who have any spiritual insight realize that the times of the Gentiles were over on 30th June 1967, and at this point the dispensation is changing once again and a new era is about to be ushered in. We see nations falling to pieces as the “stone cut out without hands” (Daniel 2:34-35) smote the image in the feet on the Moon Landing Day, and mankind from highest to lowest are in fear of those things which they see coming upon the world - Luke 21:26. Jesus said, when these things begin to come to pass, then “look up and lift up your heads”. Why? “For your redemption draweth nigh” - Luke 21:28. What is the redemption referred to? The redemption of our bodies of a truth, that redemption which Paul said, all believers were to wait for (Rom. 8:23); redemption from the power of death and the grave through the life of Christ being manifested in our mortal flesh (2 Cor. 4:11) thereby swallowing up the mortality (2 Cor. 5:4; Rom. 8:19-21).
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THE GLORY OF THE INDWELLING CHRIST
IN THE POWER OF THE TABERNACLES
FEAST OF THE TABERNACLES
The Feast of the Tabernacles typifies a spiritual blessing. It is spoken of in the Word plainly as Passover and Pentecost, and as they each represent a spiritual experience such as Salvation and Baptism of the Holy Spirit respectively. Tabernacles also speak of some divine experience in advance of Passover and Pentecost. Whenever a soul becomes conscious of a hope set before it, or a blessing held out to it in the purposes and promises of God, then, if the heart is right, that soul will give all diligence to lay hold of that hope and to seek the blessing till it is found. All the spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus are first of all individual to the believer, i.e., they must be laid hold of and believed for and experienced by each one individually, before there can be any manifestation collective or otherwise. We have each to lay hold of every truth ourselves. Christ died for me and His precious Blood was shed for me.
I believe it because the Word of God says so. No priest or denomination could do that for me, or give rest and peace to my soul which comes through my own believing. So also with Pentecost. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is an individual matter. When He fell on the one hundred and twenty at once, it was an individual faith and expectancy which brought them all together to receive this blessing. Why many people oppose this blessed experience for the soul is only because they are blind and dead. Why should one fight against something which is our very life in God? When we come to Tabernacles, this also typifies some blessing and spiritual experience (New Wine) which should be also individual. When Jesus gave the New Wine in the Wedding of Cana after the natural wine was finished, it was the best. Satan always gives the sweetness first and then death, but God gives the bitterness first and then at the end sweetness. He has something great in store for His Bride in this overlapping period of 7 years since June 30th, 1967 when Jerusalem came into the hands of the Jews. The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation. The Kingdom of God is within you. The power of that kingdom is from outward to the inward but the working thereof is from the inward to the outward.
Christ’s words mean that we are not to look for an outward observation of the Kingdom and then expect an experience, but there must first be a working and experience of the power of that kingdom within, which alone can bring about the outward manifestation. I have to emphasize this point since so many of the Lord’s people to have the mental idea that the work of total redemption yet to be manifested is something to come down to them from the outward heavens without the intervention of their faith or seeing or understanding. Jesus died for the whole world, but unless people seek God and claim it individually, they can never realize the great work of God. Many have become lazy and if they do not obtain anything from others they call them ‘serpent seed’. If people don’t pay their tithes, they are called ‘serpent seed’. One man calls fate, another election; but they seem to forget that God has a foreknowledge and knows what you are made of, but yet you have to be stirred through the Holy Spirit. It is like a mango seed. It contains everything to grow into a full tree and give fruits provided water and heat and air are available, but it can dry out in the middle also. Its roots have to draw water for all the parts of its branches. Let us turn to II Kings Chapter 8 verses 12-15. Here Hazael is told by Prophet Elisha that he would be King over Syria. Hazael says: “What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?” He denies himself to be considered as a dog to do what the Prophet says in Verse 12; yet when he went back according to verse 15, he did not become King just by sitting quiet at home. He had to fulfill the responsibility of taking the thick cloth, dip it in water and then spread it over the face of
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his Master who then died and Hazael reigned in his stead.
The other day I met a Hermit and asked him about God. He said that He was God himself and whatever he does is good. Then I asked him whether he had committed sin and he said, Yes. (He at least had the goodness to agree unlike the present day Christians who pretend to have passed the stage of any sin in their lives being in denominations). He added that the God in him was committing all those sins. He has no Savior like Jesus Christ who bore away all our sins. You can never know the serpent seed except by the test of God’s Word as otherwise they look the same. In olden days, God said that no garment mixed with wool and cotton should be worn. The reason was wool happened to be Abel’s dress and cotton was Cain’s dress, and these were supposed to be distinctly identified from each other and not mixed at any time. But when Abel was killed by Cain, God made Cain appear the same way in clothing as Abel; one was on God’s Word and the other was far away from it. If I show a chunk of meat to a hungry dog, I know it will come to eat; but the dog can and have power to go without eating also.
There were three important feasts when the children of God were asked to present themselves i.e., Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. We know that Passover was the Salvation experience we enjoyed when we accepted the Passover Lamb, and Pentecost was the Baptism of the Holy Spirit which we received when we surrendered totally and received the second work of Grace. It is like, first seed dying in the ground (Passover), then the sprouting and flowering of the seed (Pentecost) and finally the harvest of fruits (Tabernacles); but the seed contains in it everything to fruit and the fruit is sour and of the same shape till the last minute. When it is ripe, the colour changes to gold which God alone can do. The Jewish feast was instituted under the Mosaic Law and ordained to be observed when the children of Israel reached the Land of Promise. When we ask what does Tabernacles mean for us, the question has hardly had time to cross one’s mind that one feels bowed in humility that it should have been lost to the Church for two thousand years. I believe without doubt that the Book is as full of this blessing from the first Chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelation as it is of Passover and Pentecostal teaching even though we never might have noticed it. May this not be one of the things which eyes have not seen (I Cor. 2:9)?
This experience of Tabernacles is nothing short of the experience and manifestation of Redemption of the Body (2 Cor. 5:2). You may say the old Mosaic Law mentions nothing about this Feast in connection with the New Testament days. Well, does it say about Passover as redemption and Pentecost as Baptism of the Holy Spirit with signs following? When the Holy Ghost was poured on the Pentecostal Day, Peter did not declare it was that which has been written in the 23rd chapter of Leviticus. He said: “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel”. This prophecy was not completely fulfilled at Pentecost since the Spirit was not poured out upon all flesh in manifestation except on those first chosen believers. One wonders whether the disciples associated the blessing with the old Jewish feast at all or whether we would have done so if the Holy Ghost fell on another day and not on Pentecost Day. Jesus also did not say: ‘wait on the Day of Pentecost’ but said, ‘not many days hence’. Leviticus 23rd Chapter tells us of the three great important feasts, i.e., Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. There were other feasts to be kept on various occasions, all typical of spiritual truths and experiences, but these were the three special feasts when all the males had to appear before the Lord. Passover was to be kept at the beginning of the Jewish year in the first month which was calculated from their coming out of Egypt, then seven weeks or 50 days later, they were to keep the second great feast of Pentecost (meaning fiftieth), and finally in the seventh month, they were to keep the Tabernacles.
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When we come to spiritual experience, we do not follow in similar manner. Pentecost, we are not surprised to find, was fulfilled correctly fifty days after the slaying of our Paschal Lamb - it could hardly be otherwise. However, as regards Tabernacles, which according to the ancient ritual was celebrated in the seventh month after Passover, we find no such fulfilment of the spiritual blessing in the Church’s experience! If there was any correctness in the fifty days to Pentecost, might we not reasonably expect there should also be a fulfilment of the Tabernacle blessing in the seventh month of Church experiences? Has history forgotten to record and relate it or has the fulfilment not taken place for some reason? If so, why? The answer comes quickly to the mind that the feasts were associated in the Jewish economy with the ingathering of their crops. They were to keep Pentecost at the beginning and the Tabernacles at the end of their harvest. Similarly the fulfilment of the type of Pentecost should naturally come at the beginning of the ingathering of souls through the preaching of the Gospel after the Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord. But the Tabernacles, it would seem, cannot be till the end of the harvest of the world, for did not our Lord say the harvest is the end of the world (Matt.13:39)? The seventh typifies the Seven Church Ages. So at the end of the Seventh Church Age, the Tabernacle blessing should come to the Bride which is the harvest of the crop planted at Passover and sprouted at Pentecost, taking root through the twelve Apostles. The Seed, Lord Jesus Christ, which is the Wheat, was buried (Passover) and through the water, air and heat the two cotyledons split and the root went down. Then the leaves sprouted out at Pentecost. Finally, after the leaves of the Seven Church Ages and breaking through the Pentecostal Shuck, comes out the Grain as the Original Seed which becomes golden after drying up in the Sun.
If we study the Old Testament, we will find the Israelitish experience to be of help to us at this time. The Israelites did not keep the Feast of Tabernacles as they were directed in the Law. The special feature about this feast is for the people to dwell in booths (temporary residence signifying leaving this world as stranger to this earth) to show they do not possess anything in this world, even houses to call their own. Let us refer to the Book of Nehemiah. The Israelites after rebuilding Jerusalem, diligently tried to understand the word of the Law. They realised that they should dwell in booths in the feast of the Seventh Month. This had been discontinued since the days of Joshua, the son of Nun (Nehemiah 8:13,14,17). Well, why the Feast of the Tabernacles was not kept till then? Almost a thousand years had passed and all the times of Judges and Kings - Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David and also the Prophets - but no feast of the tabernacles. Solomon kept it in some manner and also Ezra, but they did not do according to the Word of God i.e., to dwell in booths. The church also did not keep their spiritual feast. This may be the reason that neither the earthly nor spiritual Israel ever went forward to possess the land fully which was their inheritance. They did not reap their whole harvest. Are we in a better state than the Israelites were under Assyria? The few who remained in Jerusalem were poverty - stricken. Another point is that, when they began to read in the Law about the Feast of Tabernacles, nobody understood it. Apparently it took a considerable amount of time and labour to make the people grasp it. It needed distinct reading and teaching. Hence the little Bible study. Not only that, the people began to weep and mourn instead of rejoicing, not knowing that the joy of the Lord is their strength. They had to be corrected on this point (Nehemiah 8:10-11). Is there not a tendency among a certain class of saints even today, who have a vague idea of coming blessing, to think they ought to get down in the dust and mourn and repent under a sense of condemnation? This attitude comes owing to lack of proper understanding of the Word of God. We are being called to keep the Feast of the Tabernacles in joyful gladness of heart. God is about to pour out such a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it (Nehemiah 8:17 and Malachi 3:10). At long last they understood the day they were living in. What a rejoicing it would be if the Church can only understand the time of her visitation
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(Isaiah 9:3).
If we turn to John Chapter 7, we will find therein the season of the Feast of the Tabernacles. The nearest and dearest to the Lord Jesus according to the flesh, his brethren, were in expectation of a great manifestation at this particular time. They said: “There is no man that doeth anything in secret, and He Himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world”. There was also a great commotion in Jerusalem about Jesus. They were wondering if He would come to the Feast. The Jews in Jerusalem were like the Denominational Churches of today. The Priests and Scribes in those days were to the religious people just as the preachers, evangelists and leaders are to us today. Was there ever a time in the history of Christian Church when there had been so much talk of the Lord’s coming again as now? They are looking for a great manifestation. They say, ‘Fast and Pray, shake the Heavens, a great outpouring and revival is at hand’. What about the many meetings held and the weeping and crying and sitting on ashes in sack cloth and talks about contrite hearts, all to bring heavens down? This was not Christ’s method at the Feast of the Tabernacles.
Wonderful Mystery!! Glory, Hallelujah! The word tells us: “He avoided them all”, the unbelieving and the crowds and went up “not openly but as it were in secret” (John 7:10) into the Temple. The Jews never recognised the Lord when He came to them two thousand years ago to the Feast of the Tabernacles as this is a type of the second coming at the Harvest time when, according to verse 37, in the last day of that great day of the feast (Tabernacles), Jesus stood and cried, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his inmost parts shall flow rivers of living water”. Truly in a measure, the Lord poured His spirit on the Pentecost Day. Rivers of Living Water do not mean drying up in the middle or after eighty years. So can’t you see that this flow of living water (not seasonal) is meant only for this harvest time now when a group of people (The Bride) will get such an anointing that Death will be swallowed by the overflow of the Power of the Holy Spirit in super-abundant measure. May the Lord open our eyes. This is flowing right now in this world for the Bride to drink, during the Feast of the Tabernacles (The Bride Age). Come on, drink of this water which is freely given (Isaiah 55:1). God asks to buy this water without money and without price. That means this water is not for rich and highly qualified, but only to the paupers. Bride has to depend totally on God (Read the booklet “Life that Pleases God” by late Mr. Page, Montrose: Copies can be had from Bro. L. D. Dale at 612 - South Market Street, Troy, Ohio, U.S.A. 45373). The Bride will have nothing of this world, and she will fetch this water. It is like a pearl of great price and a treasure hidden which needs your forsaking all to get it. Do not ridicule this because you will be ridiculed beyond hope shortly. This happened to be the order in Jesus’ day and stands true for this day as well as to get access to this never drying flow of water.
The Chief priests and rulers cursed the people who believed in Jesus at the Feast of the Tabernacles for ignorance of the law. So let us not be surprised if we are denounced by our great leaders and teachers as being in error and ignorant of the Spoken Word books, if in seeking this blessing we appear to go beyond their knowledge and experience. Pentecost was like a river flowing only at the time of torrential rain whereas the Feast of the Tabernacles is a river flowing with steady current of water from melted ice and continuing so when it rains in torrents and without any drying up even during summer - perennial. Now here again the word “Tabernacles” should not be confused with the ‘Tabernacle’ used as a place of worship in the wilderness. When we talk about ‘booth’, it means a simple structure temporarily erected to serve a temporary purpose only, but there is a deep significance. First this was to remember their coming out of Egypt (Lev. 23:42-43 & Deut.8). But here again, why was it observed at the Feast of the seventh month instead of the first or Passover month when they actually came out of Egypt? I believe that the ‘booths’ episode is made part of
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the Tabernacles Feast to type it for the redeemed body which is ours in Christ Jesus and should be claimed in this blessing (2 Cor.5:1-5).
MEDITATIONS
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN” - Luke 17:26.
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them ALL. Even thus shall it be in the day when the SON OF MAN IS REVEALED” - Luke 17:28- 30.
Here there are two points mentioned - Sodom and Gomorrah, and Noah’s days. We all know that United States of America is regarded as the present day Sodom and the Prophet (William Branham) has said that America would be destroyed by fire totally, and that this world order would be finished in 1977 as per the vision he saw. You must carefully note that U.S.A. will be like Sodom when the Son of man is REVEALED (Unveiled or disclosed). When someone discloses a certain hidden thing, that person cannot be the hidden thing. A person while disclosing a hidden thing, which is important, is himself thereby disclosed. Some Great Personality should have already revealed the Son of man and gone, as we are very close to the rapture; already one year has passed since the Bride Age started. Some at once would ask “Is Bride Age scriptural?” Bride Age is the Seven Thunders’ Mystery (God coming down and knocking at the door) which was never allowed to be written in Bible. If this was not sealed by Daniel or Apostle John, then it would have been known or guessed. Since John was forbidden to write what the thunders said, how can we know it? It is something like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream which he forgot. If he had remembered the dream, then the meaning could have been correctly interpreted, or someone could have even guessed. But this had to be clearly found by Daniel himself as others failed to interpret the dream. This again seems to have a connection with this age (Bride Age) as this is the time when the STONE untouched by human hands should have come to this earth to knock down everything and itself become a big mountain. So you will understand that interpretation alone was not sufficient. Daniel had to know even the dream which he was to interpret. This had to be absolutely done by the Holy Spirit. If the King had remembered the dream, then the Chaldean wise men would have tried to guess something. In the same way, the revelation of the Seven Thunders’ Mystery, since it is not written, could be entirely spoken only by the Holy Spirit to take the Bride off the earth. At the same time, it should not be something contradicting the Bible. The Seventh Seal, on the other hand, is found all along from Genesis to Revelation in the Bible.
If you take into account the verse “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN”, you will notice another thing. Here it is mentioned the DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. This clearly shows that the Son of man will be revealed in a place like Sodom and Gomorrah and his actual presence will be in a country experiencing Noah’s days of violence and only all those who listened to Noah went into the ark with all the beasts and birds while all others didn’t heed his advice. People who went in were safe, but those who made fun of Noah were totally destroyed. The clean and unclean beasts, birds and all living creatures heard the voice of God and came of their own accord and were not caught by Noah (Genesis 6:20). So also harlots and worst sinners will hear the Voice of God through visions, dreams and audible voice, and come running to accept this message (marriage), while the invitees and children of the Kingdom will give false and lame excuses and refuse to come for the Wedding and ultimately perish (Matt. 22:2-14). About Abraham God says: “I
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know Abraham, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which HE HATH SPOKEN of him” - Gen. 18:19. God’s promise for Noah also was fulfilled when Noah commanded his children, who also in turn obeyed him implicitly. People of God follow the Lord not individually, but as a household. So command your children to follow God so that God’s promises will be faithfully fulfilled in your household.
Many are under the impression that Unites States of America has not been mentioned by our Lord Jesus Christ. O! People of America, note the destruction predicted by Him for your country. The whole system of Gospel work in your country is based on Dollars as its foundation and not on faith which is founded on the Word of God. If you have had the Word of God as your foundation, your country would exist but now it has passed redemption. So flee and escape for your lives to God’s Word and His place of safety, as destruction will come suddenly. The present period is just like the time when the two angels visited Sodom and Gomorrah and warned the people of the oncoming destruction. When they refused, the angels had to blind them and made them unable to find the door. This being done, the angels went off with Lot and his daughters, his wife becoming a salt pillar. Dr. Oral Roberts and Dr. Billy Graham, whom people have supposed to be the two angels, will not only make the people stay in Sodom and Gomorrah with their Babylonian systems, but they themselves will not be able to come out. They are far deep rooted into the soil of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Before leaving this world, Jesus said: “The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me”. When you leave a country you are held at Customs Office; searched, questioned, and asked to declare the things carried by you. You are then either allowed to pass through paying necessary customs duty or held up if any article or currency is found in your possession which you are not supposed to carry. If you are to be qualified for the rapture, the Customs of the prince of this World will examine you and will have to pass you “finding nothing in you” of this world. How many will be qualified to pass through the Customs of this World? Do not be fooled by your “Circuit riders” or “Prosperity Preachers of World Fame” who are not tested by God’s Word. If you people would have tested everyone by God’s Word, America will not be in this position today and other countries will not be in this sad predicament towards God’s word. When the two Angels finish their work, Sodom and Gomorrah will be ready for destruction by God of Heaven and Earth.
“Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement, than for that city” - Matt.10:1415.
We all know the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a past incident and not a future one. Jesus was sending His disciples, and they were asked to go to the cities of the lost tribes of Israel. Many cities persecuted them. He also said that they would not have covered all the cities till the Son of man comes. They were asked to shake the dust off their feet while leaving the cities that reject the message; such cities would be destroyed and the state of destruction would be worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. It is said “It shall be more tolerable”. United States, one of the foremost countries for the spread of Christianity is kept unto the forthcoming day of judgement (that means they will see destruction earlier than the other cities which rejected Christ) as an example of how God’s judgement will be. Judgement begins at home (I Peter 4:17). Now listen, people of God. Was not Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed in Abraham’s time in which case the wording should be “Verily I say unto you, that it was more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day when it was judged than for those cities which reject your words and whose destruction will be worse than that”. Did Christ’s disciples preach in Abraham’s time or thousands of year later? Which is this land of Sodom and Gomorrah to be judged existing in this end-time?
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“Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” - Matt.15:14.
Blindness means not being able to see. There may be three reasons. Firstly, the person must be blind in his eyes. Secondly, there may not be sufficient light to make the objects bright to be able to see which means he sees alright and his eyes are alright but there is no light to see. Thirdly, there may be light and eyes to see, but people may wilfully reject the light out of pride. That’s what Jesus Christ said about the blindness of Pharisees. “For judgement I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto Him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth” - John 9:39-41. Now if the leaders are blind and the followers could see, the followers would either correct the leaders or would leave the leaders and go away to the place of light. The pity is, the followers are also blind wilfully because of pride and lack of humility. So they do not care to move an inch to know the truth even though it is brought to their very home. They show wilful rejection for the move of God, because it does not come according to their taste and liking. Since the Jews were blind and Jesus did not come according to their thinking, they rejected Him and did not want to advance from their standpoint. Thus they were possessed of denominational demons and were ultimately destroyed. “He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins” - II Peter 1:9. NO PROGRESS. Fellowship on God’s Word is a movement and not a dead monument. The leaders themselves are blind but they believe they are right and their vision perfect because they have some sheep following their blind walk and thus miss the way because they are on a wrong path. The leaders, being under a false notion, presume that they must be right because they have a following, but the Psalmist says, “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Psalms 119:105; Isaiah 8:20). How can the people see without checking any book with the Word of God? If anyone says that they need not check with the Word of God, they are totally blind. Did not the Jews say in the days of the Lord Jesus Christ. “We have Abraham, we have Moses” and were not willing to recognise the move of God? They sing and shout: “We are out of Babylon and are separated people”, but what they actually do is just come out of one street of Babylon and walk on another street. Well, what is separation? Is it coming out of one denomination and getting possessed by another denominational spirit?
When Moses talked of separation, he said: “Wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that THOU GOEST WITH US? So shall we be SEPARATED I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth” (Exodus 33:16). The real separation is knowing God’s move and God going with us. Are you in the move of God with vindication? Does the creation and nature vindicate your ministry? Does the Word of God agree with what you say and do the saints of God, filled with the Holy Ghost and on God’s Word, receive vindication from God through visions and dreams about your work for God when God is moving in your life? When Jesus was brought as a child into the temple, Simeon was filled with the Holy Ghost, recognised the Saviour and was glad. What about other bogus “pretenders” who never were moved by the Holy Spirit; to begin with they had no Holy Ghost or the oil had leaked out. If any group of people, however rich and big they are, do not understand the move of God for this Age, they do not have the Holy Spirit. What will be the result of the blind following the blind? Both shall fall into the ditch. This clearly means that these blind ones, the entire lot, will not be able to walk with God and will fall into the pit of tribulation. Wake up, you blind leaders of the blind lest you fall into the pit of the impending tribulation, rejected by God in this Age, when people of God will be overcoming death.
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FOXES HAVE HOLES
AND BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE NESTS
(Matthews 8:19-20)
A certain scribe wanted to follow the Lord Jesus Christ and said: “I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest”. Jesus said: “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head”. Many times I have heard people say that Jesus did not have a pillow or bed to lie on and so His followers should also be like this and they seem to have a form of consecration over this kind of life. Some say I must grow a beard, cut my hair short, wear only ‘Jibbah’ (an Indian dress), will not marry (supposing marriage to be sinful), will not eat eggs, meat etc., take only vegetarian food, walk like Jesus from place to place, will not wear shoes, will not take medicine (but will send their children to learn medicine or nursing, and take medicines secretly at home). They become lazy like drones and say: “Oh! we have left all” and go on begging from door to door and yet claim they are in Faith Life. But Christ and His disciples never begged. Jesus’ reply to the Scribe did not mean like this at all. He had homes to sleep and pillows and mattresses and so on, and Bethany was a place like that. Then what does this mean? A scribe is a Doctor or Teacher of the Law and Jewish religion was a well - organised denomination and so the scribe envisaged that working under Lord Jesus Christ and following Him as a head of another big denomination should be a paying thing. Then Jesus makes mention about the “Foxes”. Bible refers to Herod as a fox (Luke 13:32). Now Herod was a political figure and was mindful of the world and Jesus says that worldly people are like foxes; they are cunning, wiser, and have their earthly homes built secure for them and have nothing of spiritual desire and are satisfied with their “holes” (Luke 16:8; Isaiah 2:19).
In the parable of the mustard seed, He refers to the “Fowls of the Air” (Luke 13:19). The Kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and cast into his garden and it grew and waxed into a great tree and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. Again in the parable of the Sower, Jesus said that the fowls of the air came and devoured the wayside sown seed. These are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan (the fowls of the air) cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts (Mark 4:4,15). So you will understand that almost all religions start with a fear of God and then later on become a huge denomination where God is pushed out totally and the Satanic hosts pretending to have God roost in the branches of all these huge denominations. Real people of God cannot get a place to lay their heads in any of these huge organisations since Christ Himself has no place there to lay His head. Therefore, only worldly religious people (fowls of the air) have places to roost in these huge branches of the denominational mustard trees which started, no doubt, in perfect faith as Jesus alludes perfect faith to the size of a mustard seed. Once it becomes a plant, that perfectness is gone and becomes an abode and nest for all wicked things and persons in the name of religion who profess to serve God, but at the same time deny the Power of God manifest in the Earth.
Thus Jesus Christ was rejected by all the worldly and political people and had no place to lay His head. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. So also the Son of man who should take the Bride in Rapture will not have a place to lay his head in any denomination of the world or be received by those possessed of denominational demons, or politically acknowledged. This shows that the Word of God is not in any organisation but only on the highways and byways, especially in this Age. God has been sending invitations through His messengers for nearly 2000 years for the great wedding but the invited people have been giving false and lame excuses. So the call now is for harlots, murderers, godless
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people and drunkards who are asked by God to be rather forcibly brought from highways and byways by His servants. The Jews thought they were holy people. When Jesus Christ was in this world, they claimed that they were Abraham’s children. He told them that God is able to raise up children even from “Stones”, which really means “unnatural branches” i.e., people who were out of the Commonwealth of Israel. God is now taking a Bride out of these stones and this “Stone” will knock off everything sinful and devilish in this world.
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HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
While talking about ‘Holiness’, the whole world has a wrong idea over the ‘Righteousness of God’. Both are at variance. We talk about the disease but God talks about the cause of the disease. I have travelled throughout the world thrice and during the past twenty eight years of ministry, trusting only God, I have met great religious leaders and men in the limelight. These so called great men and great denominational Overseers and Heads of huge unwieldy organisations always talk about the straw in other people’s eyes but unaware of themselves carrying huge timbers. They talk about holiness while they themselves have not been delivered of their sins. They talk about “Heathens” and try to give false ideas to others that India is a dark continent. But my dear friends, you ought to know that the Hindu women are true to one husband and most of them preserve chastity even though they are not Christians; whereas the so called Christians in the world talk a lot about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount but when a woman passes by, they look upon her with lust and indulge in so much of sinful acts. (You can see such Christianity under the open sky in Hyde Park, London). What is more pitiable is the fact that they do not seem to realise their own plight. I do not write this as a great holy man; but I believe, as the Word of God says, that no one is good except God. As was remarked once in Los Angeles, “They are angels from far but real devils at close range”. Their talks about holiness are mostly the different aspect of resultant sins of the society, but has nothing to do with the standard of God. The same thing can be said with offerings we give to God. Man calculates the amount of money in figures which he gives, while God considers the ratio between the person’s total earning and his offering. i.e., what he keeps for himself. Let us ponder ‘righteousness’ as God considers it. We say smoking, drinking, seeing movies, gambling etc., make one ‘unrighteous’. Abraham had no possibility of getting a child, but when God told him he would have a boy, ABRAHAM BELIEVED God and this was counted as “righteousness”. Abraham had his own human weaknesses, but in spite of that he believed that all things are possible with God. Further, we as human beings always seek our glory but he that is righteous seeks the glory of God. If we seek the glory of God, we will magnify the Word of God as totally true and not attempt to twist it to our own convenience as what the world-famed false anointed ones usually do. They seem to be God’s chosen ‘Men of the Hour’, and see how we are deceived, dear sheep of God. Those who uphold God’s Word are righteous people. That means we will be rejected by the world.
Now we are waiting for the rapture, to be transformed into glorious beings. The usual talk is “When the press comes, phew! We will fly away”. Yes, you will not only be pressed but will be killed and annihilated. You will have to be righteous, according to God’s standard and believe that your body will be transformed. You who gulp medicines in large quantities even for a small headache, cannot trust God even for a single day for everything and fool those who leave their jobs for faith life, trusting God for all their needs, you mean to say you will have faith to travel all through space with God in glorified bodies? You will need to have a revelation of God’s move after the Prophet is gone and know how He is taking His Bride in the rapture secretly; otherwise you do not have the Holy Spirit needed for this Age. Your oil has leaked out. How can Sodom have any leadership at all? It is condemned for destruction and are you still thinking that any leadership will come from a condemned country!! Come on Bride of Christ, look up in the skies, and the clouds following the Bride will show our redemption is drawing near, and to flee from Sodom and Gomorrah. I couldn’t help shedding tears to think of the so many wonderful and very, very nice people in America who are sincerely wrong in their beliefs and expectations. “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight” - Matt.11:25-26.
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O ye harlots, drunkards, murderers, godless and those who stand in the highways and byways and at crossroads of life without any religion, you have gold in you to purchase the righteousness of God without having to go through traditions and religious red tapism. Wake up, the Lord God of heaven and earth, our Creator, will transform you if only you will submit.
(Read Joshua 2:1-24)
When Joshua brought the people into Canaan, there was Jericho condemned for destruction and Joshua sent spies. They came to the house of “Rahab the harlot” indeed not a desirable woman in the modern sense. They could have said just Rahab, but she was a notorious personality. There were many good people, social workers, Lords and gentlemen, rich people, decent folks, Holy fathers, philanthropists, and they might have even made remarks during their talks that their young people should not go near the house of Rahab. She was rejected by the whole society (Amos 7:17) - one of the curses of backslidden Israelites. When people are rejected by Society, they have in them an inborn character i.e., “Don’t care for the world” which is also very much needed to stand for God’s Word and be rejected by approved religion. When the news about Joshua’s spies reached the King, he ordered his men to search Rahab’s house. Rahab, even though rejected by society, stood firm and was not afraid of the King’s orders. We are afraid of everything from school teacher to pastors and bishops and so on. We are willing to do things even when we know they are wrong, but unwilling to stand boldly even though we are convinced it is right because of our social standing and colour prejudice all over the world. Why did God choose only Rahab’s family out of the whole lot? What character had she and what holiness? She was full of lies. She told altogether five lies consecutively (Joshua 2:4-5). There came men unto me (one truth), but I wist not whence they were (1st lie), and it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark (2nd lie) that the men went out whither the men went I wot not (3rd lie), pursue after them quickly (4th lie), for ye shall overtake them (5th lie). Bible clearly tells liars will be cast out. What is wrong with God on the Standard of Holiness? Why was this liar qualified? People of God, ponder over this truth. She had faith to hide these men even when the King was against them. How bold this lady was? O backboneless men! Ladies and even harlots and drunkards have more backbone for truth than decent men. That is why God lays stumbling blocks for people to stumble so that the unrighteous may get caught. No decent people went to the home of Rahab. Don’t you feel that even now those who are on God’s Word are rejected like Rahab the harlot and people are warned not to associate with them because they are standing true to God. In any case, O People of God, who are walking lonely with God, be courageous to stand even against the Kings and Kingdom of this world if they come against the Word of God. If the people are true to what the Prophet of God said, they would know clearly how the spirit of God would move after the Prophet. It is so clear in the Spoken Word books, but why they cannot see is because they are colour blind. The Jews stuck on to Moses and when Jesus came they wanted to stone Him to death, pretending that they were true to Moses and Abraham. But if they had been true to Moses and Abraham, they would have known the Lord Jesus Christ. O, power seekers and false leaders! Take all the tares with you, the chaff has to fly at the blast of the message for this hour and all the grain will be gathered in the garner of New Jerusalem. Touch not the GRAIN anymore. It will be very hard for you to kick against pricks - Acts 9:5. You can only have the HAY to be eaten by the beasts.
Now I have been wondering all along why God chose Rahab out of the whole lot and why God chose David, a sinner, rejecting Saul who was a better king in the sight of men. The fact is, God is a human gold seeker and has the Stone to test the gold which He wants without any additions of alloy. He is an Expert Jeweller (Mal. 3:17). God has now revealed the answer. Being a harlot, Rahab was able to follow the move of God (Joshua 2:9-11). She
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was following the movement of God for more than 40 years from the time of Moses’ deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. How did she get this revelation? When good people did not get this revelation, how did this sinful woman get it? Will you please humbly find out the reason? Then you will find God in your lives; and at last see this harlot’s declaration of her views. “The Lord your God, He is God in heaven above (this everyone will acknowledge in a general way), and in earth beneath”. How did she get to know the God of Heaven in earth? She got a revelation of how God came down in the bush, spoke to Moses and with a mighty hand led the people in the wilderness up to the border of Jordan. She did not just beat about the bush of talking about Moses but also recognised that God had come into Joshua, son of Nun belonging to the tribe of Ephraim. So instead of stopping like the present day blind sheep, she went on further to accept Joshua by hiding his spies because she knew that by treating them and receiving them she actually receives God and by accepting Joshua, into whom God came down, she really acknowledges the Creator of Heaven and Earth and everything therein. O! See the knowledge and wisdom of the Almighty God in opening the eyes of the most sinful woman in society. By knowing God’s move and God coming down to earth, she became righteous, while the better woman and men were totally destroyed (Joshua 6:17-25). Not only did she make a covenant but was also asked to bring all her relatives, father, mother, brethren and so on. This rejected house, where good people would not come, brought salvation. Unless the people in Jericho agreed to come into the Harlot’s house they had no salvation; not even if they just stood at the door or on the road. It is not known whether her father and mother and brethren were godly, or whether they were drunkards, adulterers, or had led sinful lives. Nevertheless just by coming into Rahab’s house, they were all made righteous. The whole country was at her mercy. When Joshua’s spies came to claim her, the people had to fall on her feet to get mercy, and she was able to save anyone in that city by bringing them into her home and recommending them to the spies. The spies did not ask them which denomination they belonged to or whether they were holy etc. They are the seed of Abraham while the fowls of the air are roosting on the mustard tree and caught in God’s net. Rahab recognised the move of God, and thus became righteous in His sight. Not only that, she later on married Salmon, a prince of Judah and became the mother of Boaz and thus fell in the direct line of David, the King and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Also let us consider Ruth, a daughter of Moab, and born through Lot’s line through one of his daughters against God’s law. Ruth saw the move of God in Naomi and confessed like this: ‘Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me” (Ruth 1:16-17). See where the fully ripened seed of God lies; outside the closed doors of denomination. Ruth then married Boaz in the line of King David. Likewise there are so many ripened seeds scattered all over in this Age, rejected by denominational people. Come on, you Angels of God, gather these seeds quickly as you know where they lie now, so that they could be bound by the New Covenant and taken to New Jerusalem. Let us aim at getting the righteousness of God and not our own righteousness which is nothing but filthy rags in the sight of God. This does not mean that we should live loose lives. After getting God’s righteousness, a man will invariably live God’s Holy life. This holiness emanates from the super - abundant love of God, and not by our own efforts.
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THE BOOK OF REVELATION
I remember the time when I used to read the Book of Revelation and thought it to be a story of Fairy tale since nothing could be understood as most part of it is expressed in symbols and animals etc. Books, dictionaries and commentaries have been written and people write as if they have mastered the meaning, but certainly the mysteries have been sealed up to the end-time. Sometimes people ask, “Are we living in a greater period than St. Paul or Daniel etc?” God is not a respecter of persons. His plans would be fulfilled anyhow and He knows what would become of the people of this world. If the Book of Revelation had been written in plain language, it wouldn’t have existed today; since its substance could not be understood, the enemies of the Bible considered it harmless for their domination of the minds of the children of God. The so called Christian organisations had never known the meaning thereof. The reason for keeping it a mystery is to make God’s chosen ones understand the meaning through spiritual revelation at a time specified by God. It is meant only for the real people of God and the false ones have no share in it whatsoever. For this end-time the light is clearer and so nothing could be hidden. “Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand” (Rev. 1:3).
We know what a great blessing the revelation of the Seven Seals by Prophet Branham has been to the Bride at this end-time. God has carved us a wonderful way to walk which is becoming narrower as we get closer. I remember the time when Bro. Branham came to Bombay many years ago as an Evangelist. He said: “Love God, love everyone and love is everything; love everyone in all denomination: and be friendly and co-operative”. He preached to the Jain Hindus a “Love Message” without hurting anyone. At this time, I had already come out of all denominations and when I heard his sermon on love, I ran again into the Anglican denomination without checking or rather relying on the Word of God. Consequently, for years together I had to go through many heart-breaking experiences and God had to deal with me most severely in bringing me out of all bondage, and spoke to me audibly rebuking me. So we have to grow. In the same way, Christianity is not a dead monument but is a movement. So what we call backsliding is to go back, but we must go forward. After the seven seals, we must go forward as revelation will come only when we go. God is not dead as the present day youth seem to think. Communists also say God is dead. What is the difference between these people and the people who are supposed to be in the message but say everything is finished and started reading and publishing books contradicting the move of God? Why do you bother about old meat when we should live on fresh meat? We must know how to interpret the Prophet’s message correctly.
In one place it is said: ‘God will meet the Bride in SKY IMMORTAL’. So some say: ‘Did he not say IN THE SKY?’ But brother, sky as we all know, is not immortal. Jesus said: “Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my Word will not pass away”. If the Word is settled between Heaven and Earth, the Word of God must be the SKY IMMORTAL. People are expecting Big Golden Trumpet Call and Jesus Christ coming and shaking hands with people in the graves. The Lord Jesus who went down below Adam’s position in Calvary to get the fallen human beings did not remain there forever. Then why should people sing Calvary songs for 2000 years nearly and yet say they are redeemed? The fallen man is not redeemed till Christ takes him out of the mire and places him in Adam’s place, and then go to His throne with the Father. Then only redemption becomes complete. When we buy a house and pay an advance of Rs.1000, we have an assurance of going to possess the house some time or other, but we can never possess the house till the amount is fully paid. When we received the Holy Spirit, it was just the “Earnest” or Advance Payment! But look how people jumped over and talked as if redemption was complete. When the time is fulfilled, then only comes
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the owner to possess it, i.e., we have access to the Tree of Life and New Wine becomes our birthright. ‘To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (Rev. 3:21). Why do you consider it incredible for the Bride to sit in Adam’s lost position when Jesus Christ takes His usual and rightful position as God Almighty in the Father’s throne? Until and unless the Lord Jesus Christ is raised to this position, redemption is incomplete. In the same way, man cannot fully understand Jesus Christ as the Lord and God Almighty of Heaven and Earth till such time as he is raised to Adam’s original position.
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THE NUMBER 7
This is the real number of finality and finished work with God. We read in the Bible about the sprinkling of blood seven times, the rotation of a living bird seven times before it is set free to fly and so on. Silver and gold had to be tried in a furnace seven times to determine their purity. You cannot expect the gold to be pure before it goes into the furnace for the seventh time. In the same way, before the fall of Jericho, the Israelites went round the walls seven times. When they completed going round the seventh time, they had nothing to do but God made the walls to fall. We see the same pattern in the Seven Church Ages also. In each Church age, the Church was tried and purified; the scum and dirt became the denomination of that particular age while the purified metal consisting of the true children was carried on to the next church age (preserved underground), and so on till the Seventh Church Age was over. We are now at the end of the final lap - THE BRIDE AGE. Even now all the dirt have gathered to form various denominations. At the same time, the Bride or the Stone unturned by human hands has started rolling down and will knock of everything soon. The Bride message is very difficult to understand because people having worldly attachments and out of God’s Word, are blind and jealous and without the patience to study the blinding message of the hour. They do not want to come down to the valley but want to be on their mountain tops. They should be like Zaccheus who climbed on the top of the tree of his own righteousness but when Christ passed by, he was asked to come down which he did at once and salvation was brought to him. Come down from your tree of pride, education, qualification, talents, principles, wealth, ability, colour, caste, creed, nationality etc., and become humble to catch hold of immortality. Humility is like a flower. It fades off the moment you say you have it. God puts stumbling block and the Jews stumbled at the first instance and we see before our own eyes what happened to them. The Bride Message is supposed to be a stumbling block to the so called “Great people of the Gentiles”. Why did fishermen and sinners only come to Jesus Christ while others were just fooling around? Don’t you see the same thing happening right now? Nero was fiddling when Rome burned. So also on the verge of immortality and glorification of our mortal bodies and the world burning with non stop wars and violence, the Christians are fiddling with their old stinking theologies and twice dead theories. Thank God, the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ is taking shape already and very soon it will rise up to say: “TIME SHALL NO MORE BE DELAYED”.
Those of you people who are fasting and praying and weeping and crying for Bro. Lawrie thinking that I have lost the way and backslidden from a great ministry, it is time up for you to cry for yourselves and your loved ones who are to be slaughtered like ‘Christmas Lamb or Fatted Calf’. My heart breaks to ponder about what is going to happen to the majority who make fun of the Truth of God Coming Down to the earth on Moon Landing Day to take the Bride to New Jerusalem. What can this be other than the revelation of Thunder Mysteries? This message is not spread by tent meeting, televisions, radios, leaflets, evangelism, house to house preaching, mass campaigns and crusades etc. But it will be vindicated by ‘Thunders’ wherever it is preached. Can any human being, even magicians, imitate heavenly thunders to occur in the sky? Come on, you try it and see if thunders would respond to any of your old messages. It is too late than you think, dear brothers and sisters. Mercy seat is down on the Earth now with the Bride into whom Christ has come or has rather started to penetrate gradually into the body members scattered all over the world. When this is finished, Woe! Woe! Woe! Unto the ones that are left behind. If you people are dead, why do you want others to die with you? I think perhaps that is what you call ‘human fellowship’. Why not live with those who are going to live? (i.e., ‘spiritual fellowship with heavenly beings’). Who are the enemies of the Bride Message at this time? None but the Christian believers and their leaders who, out of jealousy, think they have got it. You blind vultures feeding on carrion, will any real Bride ever associate with you? Come away my people, do
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not go near their death trap. Get ready, packing and disposing of everything that the world might entangle you or your heart is in, and save yourselves. One year has passed since the Lord has come down to this earth to take His Bride and His spirit is providing the assurance of immortality to the Bride.
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GOD COMING DOWN TO EARTH
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THE TREE OF LIFE
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THE SEVENTH SEAL
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SEVEN THUNDERS
God Coming Down to Earth
Man always wants to keep God far away beyond human reach. It is something like when a person wants to gain access to another person, the latter runs away saying that the former is beyond reach. Since time immemorial, God has been trying to reach man in His own ways but man and science always keep God millions and billions of miles away. What should we believe?
On July 2nd, 1970 the following news appeared in ‘The Hindu’ of Madras:14 Feared dead in cloud burst in Village near Leh: “Srinagar, Kashmir: 2nd July - Fourteen persons are feared dead in the unprecedented cloud burst over village Nimoo near Leh on Sunday. The authorities had so far failed to trace 13 persons reported missing following the tragedy. One body was recovered within hours of the tragedy. The army, civil authorities and several private organisations including the Buddhist Association of Ladakh are jointly providing relief to the families of the victims. Altogether 20 families have been badly affected”.
These are the days when we see the actual presence of pillar of cloud and pillar of fire. Hundreds have already seen them in India. Rainbows around the sun and moon have become more or less a common feature nowadays. What do the Western papers say - ‘SUN DOG’? What has a dog to do in the sun? Wasn’t there moisture before, if so why this did not occur? Had it ever occurred in Grandpa’s time? At least for the past 50 years, I have not seen, and my great grandfather also did not tell any such thing. Science cannot give proper answer to such strange occurrences, but when scientists get caught in a dilemma, they try to escape by telling some funny and blunt answers and forget it off as days pass by. Like King David, I believe the whole Word of God to be true, and would call upon the Bride of God to publicly confess that the Heaven and Earth will pass away but God’s Word will not pass away. God’s Word is the absolute truth. The Covenant, which the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ should make in this age, being more important than Baptism and Communion and so on, is to agree with the Word of God and cut away all connections with people who do not base their foundation on it and who are unwilling to meet each other on the Word of God which is our SKY IMMORTAL.
First of all God created heaven and earth; this we all know from the scriptures. There was an Age which is evident in the first two verses of Genesis (Read Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:1-19; Jeremiah 4:23-27). However, we are only concerned with the period when God came down to create man. Although the present generation claims itself to be civilised, do we actually believe like those earth dwellers of ages past whom we have branded as primitives? Our brain might have developed but what and where this development has led us to? Man has started to destroy each other. This is the ultimate result of what we call ‘Civilisation’. We have before us so many past civilisations, each having its own merits. But did the nations ever learn any lesson from the rise and fall of another nations? Man will
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never learn lessons on past failures but would rather want to try and fail himself.
Bible tells us about God commanding ‘Let there be light’, even before creating the sun and the moon which, we know, were created only on the fourth day. The creation of earth and other things may be put in the following sequence: (1) production of Light, (2) division of the mass of primeval waters into two parts, an upper and a lower by means of a firmament, (3) emergence of the dry land out of the lower waters, (4) clothing of the dry land with grass, herbs and trees, (5) creation of sun, moon and the stars, (6) production of fishes and birds, (7) appearance of terrestrial animals, (8) creation of man, (9) God’s rest after His work of creation. There are thus eight distinctive works in creation which with God’s rest at the close are adjusted with remarkable symmetry to the week of seven days. The six days of creation fall into two sections of three days each, and the third and the sixth days have each two works assigned to them.
Everyone talks about sun, moon and stars. Astrologers and astronomers write books about them, but no one seems to have ever seriously considered the remark “God got tired and rested”. Why should Almighty God get tired? Also no one gives through to the LIGHT which came when God said, ‘Let there be Light’. Bible says ‘God is Light’ and ‘Jesus is the Light of the World’. When this Light is not in the world, it is called Night “spiritual”, and when it is in the world it is Day “Spiritual”. Well, what is the secret deeply hidden here which the intellectual person will never understand? This is the greatest mystery hidden since the foundation of the world and called the ‘Mystery of the Thunders’ i.e., GOD COMING DOWN TO THIS WORLD. Some Hindus say there is only one God called ‘Parameswaran’. The Muslims call their God ‘Allah’ and so many other religions call God by different names, yet when you start telling about God coming down, it is turned down as ‘incredible’. This is what the ordinary human brain says but not the predestinated seeds under the foreknowledge of God. When God said ‘Let there be Light’, it was not another God or Messenger sent but it was God Almighty Himself becoming the Logos and making the Earth - Day time. God never gets tired. Why should this LIGHT get tired? Why did God find evening and morning to be good? When he is tired, he finds the night to be good for rest. Although I may sound foolish in this scientific world, I would boldly say that God is not a being far away from human reach. He is very close to us not in an ethereal form but could be perceived by the Sons of God. Why did Abraham give tithes to Melchizedek? People may say God created this world in millions of years. I can tell so many things on this, but I am not dealing with the evolution theory or the so called ‘billions of years’ theory. I only want to deal with what the Bride would need. King David was in God’s standard and was a man after God’s own heart (I Samuel 13:14). Listen to what he says, “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” - Psalms 33:6,9. God had a mouth to speak!
Now God rested on the Seventh Day and sanctified it. Why should God rest unless He had taken the form of man? If man was created in God’s image, it means he should look like God when He came down as a human being. Does man look like God today? He appears and behaves worse than the devil and beasts. When the Jews questioned Jesus Christ about not keeping the Sabbath according to their thinking. Jesus claimed that He is the Lord of the Sabbath. It clearly shows that He was the One who actually started it at the time of Creation. Thus you can infer certain things. When God comes down to the earth, to make it a Heavenly Day time. He comes like a human being, speaks the Word to create, starts a Covenant to be remembered till He comes again to destroy the wicked and to show that He came down; He gives the laws for that particular age and comes with a specific NEW NAME to be carried by His followers. And when God comes down to destroy by His Spoken Word, He breaks the Covenant which He has made as it loses its significance thereof, and starts a new Covenant assuming a New Name and proclaims a new set of laws for the next generation. I know this statement is sure to make the heads of many people reel and call
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me blasphemous, but let us seek the Word of God for a more clear view. Jesus Christ Himself claims to have started the Sabbath. He was tired, rested and blessed it. Apart from this what other significance is found in the observance of Sabbath especially in the matter of the salvation of mankind? People fight over the issue of Sabbath as to whether it is Saturday or Sunday. The real significance of it, O! Bride of the Lamb, is that God (our Tree of Life) is able to come down as a human being and will come down personally to save us from destruction and that He is always near to His people. Science may put God millions and billions of years and light years far away from mankind, but the Bride brings God closely to walk with her and achieve immortality. Science can never give life to man because “Jesus was in the World and the World was made by Him and the World knew Him not. In Him was life and the life was the light of men”. This Light, or God coming down, is the Tree of Life having immortality and very rarely people have access to it. Enoch and Elijah achieved it. Science can never overcome death or find out the secret of life. Also man’s search for the substance called ‘Kayakalpam’ (Medicine to live without death) or the secret of ‘Immortality’ has always been a failure.
“Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever for in six days (not six billion years) the Lord made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed (Exodus 31:16,17).
At this particular time, there was no ordinance or law issued by God. When the generations observed the Sabbath, it only signified the coming down of God to create the world in six days by His Word and that by the same word (Spoken Word and not by bombs or anything else) He could, in a short time, destroy what He created. This significance of the Sabbath was somehow taken out by the denominational fowls of the air who insisted people on complete inactivity on that day. Thus, when Jesus came again at the end of the Jewish dispensation, the very people who were supposed to observe the Sabbath to signify ‘God coming down’, could not recognise Him as the Lord of the Sabbath. Consequently, Jesus broke the Sabbath and introduced another covenant of Baptism and Holy communion; this again is to be broken at His second coming on Moon Landing Day, and a New Bride Covenant brought into effect.
The ‘Light’ in the Old and New Testament applies to the Lord Jesus Christ. Light flashing through space passes unimpeded through glass leaving no hole to mark its passage; and when one physical substance can pass through another physical substance leaving both unimpaired, it is certainly related to the Spiritual.
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great LIGHT: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” - Isaiah 9:2. That this light stands for Christ can be seen also in Isaiah 10:17. “And the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his Holy One for a flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day”. (Also read Isaiah 42:6; 49:6; 60:3). In John first Chapter, Jesus Christ is described as the Light. John 8:12 says, “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”. “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world” - John 9:5. “I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness” - John 12:46. “Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light”. We always talk of light in conjunction with heat and brightness like the Sun. Physicists have been searching for a source of light without heat; the lightning bug, firefly etc., possess that secret. There is light without heat. “For GOD who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 4:6). It is indeed God who has caused light to shine through darkness at creation.
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If God does not reveal Himself to man in human terms, it is an absolute impossiblity for man to have any conception of God and that is the reason why idol worship always sprang up. The Israelites, even after seeing so many miracles, made a golden calf and called it “These are thy gods O, Israel”. That is the reason why man built denominations (Idols of Christianity and all religions) having no perception of God and belief in the ‘Seven Thunders Mystery of God Coming Down’; nor does he believe God’s Word to be able to see Him. If God reveals Himself to man in terms of angelic language, He will remain perfectly unknown to men, for we do not speak that language. How useless would it be for God to seek to reveal Himself to man in a language common to dogs or cats! That is not our realm; so the amazing grace of God is seen in His coming down. For the sake of a contact with His creature He will stoop to express Himself in the terms which humanity can comprehend so that they may establish fellowship and communion with Him. This is the Seventh Seal and Seven Thunders Mystery. After every seventh attempt, comes the miraculous thing. TREE OF LIFE (GOD), which man cannot easily comprehend, is only God coming down. Naaman was healed at the seventh attempt miraculously, and Jericho walls fell at the seventh time untouched by human hand i.e., by the stone untouched by human hand (not controlled by any human efforts but by the Supreme control of the Holy Spirit when men follow the leader hidden in God). Gideon’s Sword was the Lord’s Sword. No more two leaders and two swords. Joshua’s sword was the Lord’s Sword. God and heavenly hosts fought for the people of God united as one man under Joshua and they were able to destroy everything without human effort. What does God want His people to do? He wants them to be still and know He is God. He kills the snake and then he asks us to kill it! We are all actually killers of dead snakes. The Lord has performed everything and gained victory for us. Hallelujah! We just march on. “The Eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and shall say “Destroy them” (Deut. 33:27). To whom does credit go? To Almighty God. Just imagine what great soldiers we are! We do not fight but the Lord fights. The enemy is already destroyed. Therefore, why fear death anymore? After the Seven Church Ages, the Church pure (Bride) overcomes death as God, who destroyed death, has come down to take her. Wake up, people of God. We are right at the time when God will straightaway glorify His people. Do not miss it.
This seventh seal mystery is all over the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. This is like a drama; there are so many actors, but here the real person comes and acts (not somebody like Prophets - that is what is meant by “Word of God comes to a prophet”). The Bride will find out when God comes to act His scene. The mode of God coming down varies at different times as He is not subject to our way of thinking. He knows best, and it has never been in the same fashion. When Jesus came into the virgin’s womb, people said it was impossible, but it happened; and because He came in a poor family before Mary was actually married, the Jews missed this light by billions of miles. They called this ‘Light’ Bastard Child and with so many other names, but as many as received this person we know it brought life to them. Jesus said, ‘Before Abraham was I am’. He could have grammatically said: “Before Abraham I was”, but the Greek word means “breathe into existence”. When God spoke to Moses and was asked the name, He said: “I am that I am”. If you turn to Hebrew, the word is “Hayah, Hayah” meaning to breathe, to come into existence, to walk.
Before Adam and Eve were created, God came down (which is the Tree of Life). When they disobeyed, God chased them away from the garden of Eden; but the Tree of Life was never removed, which means God will always visit this earth in each dispensation but the way is guarded.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – Tree of Life
TREE OF LIFE
“There is a path which no fowl knoweth and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen: the lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it” - Job 28:7-8. God prevented anyone reaching this Tree of Life by putting a guard over the route leading to it. Man was chased away from that place and no one could ever find the way. We know that the people of this world always seek wisdom. Well, what is wisdom? Is it to study a lot, or earn money and become great and then DIE? What is the use if a man should die after attaining all these things? Job 28:28 says: “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding”. Real wisdom is to find the Tree of Life and this is God coming down. You do not learn this in college. God alone knows that path. Destruction and death say we have heard the fame thereof (Tree of Life or Overcoming Death) with our ears when Enoch was translated. “When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: then did he see it (Tree of Life) and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out” - Job 28:26-27. What has rain, thunder and lightning got to do with the Tree of Life? When God came down on mount Horeb with thunders and lightning, people of God were afraid and pleaded that God should not frighten them (children) like that. God listened to their pleas and said that thereafter He would not frighten them with thunder and lightning but would come into a human form and speak through that man and whosoever did not listen to that person would be destroyed. (Please read Deut. 18:16-19). “And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us and we will hear: but let not God speak with us; lest we die” - Exodus 20:18-19. Why should we fear God? It is because we should not sin. Exodus 20:20.
Also read Proverbs 8 & 9 chapters. These chapters deal with Wisdom, but what was wisdom? “Then I was by Him as one brought by with him and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. Rejoicing in the habitable part of this earth; and my delights were with the sons of men” - Prov. 8:30-31. The House of wisdom is finished with seven pillars which are the Seven Church Ages. Wisdom is complete after the Seventh Pillar, and the House is ready for occupation by the Supreme Owner and His Bride. If you see Prov. 9:13-18, this foolish woman (the false church) also calls the passengers (not her own people) and says stolen waters are sweet. What else can they do? They can only steal the people who have the living waters, by money and sheep stealing and they call it sweet; they have no life to impart, and the bread which is not in tune with God’s Word will always be eaten secretly as it will not stand the test; but the passengers do not know the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of hell. Come out of all such death traps. “Come eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled” (not stolen) Prov. 9:5. Again read Prov. 7:6-27. Verse 19-20 says: “For the good man is not at home and he is gone a long journey (that is exactly what Jesus did). He hath taken a bag of money and will come home at the day appointed”. That is why the present day preachers beg for money, money, money and every item will talk about money as if the whole world will perish without them. If the husband is angry with the wife, he does not send money. So they beg but we have a never failing husband. First of all, God is never pleased with all those works that are done without faith (Romans 14:23). If any man asks for money publicly, he is a beggar and not a Son of God. For the past 28 years, without asking anyone for any money, we have seen God meeting all our needs. He never failed even in one instance.
About a fortnight ago, having nothing in my hand to help the poor workers in unevangelised areas who deserve to be encouraged since they depend totally on God, I came out of my room after prayer not knowing what to do but trusting God. Just at that moment a person stopped into my house and I asked: ‘Friend, what do you want?’ He said, ‘Bro. Lawrie, I
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have a great burden this morning to give you some help for the Lord’s work’. So saying he slipped into my hand an envelope, and walked off without asking for reports, accounts, photographs or credentials and recommendations. I opened the envelope and found nearly Rs.3000 (400 dollars) which I sent immediately to those for whom God had put a burden. See! He never fails. That is the faith life belonging to Abraham’s posterity. According to American dictionary, the word ‘Natives’ means ‘Primitive, uncivilised non-white people’. Now only I realise the trick they play with the term ‘Native Evangelism’ in order to collect huge funds. Large sums are collected by these saviours of Natives which never reaches them or only a modicum of the amount reaches. They collect huge amounts of money and send at the rate of only 20 dollars or a little more for on poor evangelist in India towards Native Evangelism and the Indian Benefactors in turn actually pay only 5 dollars per month to the individual obtaining receipt for 20 dollars. This is how the so called great Evangelists cheat the poor ones working under them and yet call themselves ‘Father of Millions’. Besides, the large quantity of milk powder gathered in the name of famine stricken people, never reaches their stomach to nourish them but is sent to black-market for sale in big lorries at midnight through the great religious heads, and police have caught many such people. This is how the name of Jesus Christ is being blasphemed in India. You can see the empty tins sold in the market by poor people. Instead of getting milk, they get empty milk tins only; sometimes they are supplied drinking milk with water added. This is all what is called Christian Social Service and Good Samaritan Work. God by His foreknowledge knew the human nature and how His people would suffer and so for each dispensation changed the laws to preserve His seed.
When Adam and Eve were sent out and the way to the Tree of Life was shut, the land was cursed and so Abel took to being a shepherd. Then Cain and Abel bring offerings to God. During these periods, God talks like a human being and not as an ethereal body or mist. Here it is considering worth certain instances cited in the Bible wherein we infer God moving in a human form. When God created man in His own image, man was not talking to some gaseous matter in which case he, being created in the image of God, should also be an ethereal being. It was not a being without form that took out a rib from Adam to create Eve. Also the skin coats provided to Adam and Eve were not made by God coming in an ethereal form. To kill an animal, skin it, and to tan it, God had to be in a human form. God sends man to a cursed ground and so he becomes a shepherd to be blessed by God. But Cain wanted to bring blessing from the cursed ground according to his thought. God accepted the offering of Abel as it went for beyond to Calvary and real repentance. Cain wanted life without repentance based on human thinking. Jealousy crops up and then murder. God talks with Cain and it is said He put a mark on him and supported him saying that Cain will be avenged seven fold, which is only a law for the real children of God, and not a “Serpent Seed” i.e., Cain was not punished for his crime as God punished only His own children and not bastard children - Heb. 12:8. Jesus knew that Satan was a murderer from the beginning. Lamech also kills a young man and consoles himself. So how can a child of God thrive amidst violence? Therefore, God as a Creator had to use His marvellous wisdom in defending Cain - a real judge is God. Satan cannot create. The mark put on Cain is what confuses people. This word is changed for another in the Bible. The real Hebrew Word “Uwth, Owth” means consented to appearing in such a way that no one will catch and kill him. God cursed the land which Cain wanted to cultivate because he killed Abel, and he was made to appear like the Abel line, so that no one could find the real children of God today.
The bogus and the real, both appear to be the same outwardly, but by the fruits, we should assess them.
Jesus said, “Beware of wolves in sheep skin!” Cain wolf was dressed in sheep skin, without any repentance or obedience, and completely out of God’s Word. Not only this, Cain’s
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children earlier were even named like Seth’s children such as Enoch, Methuselah etc., so that both the groups talk about God and have the same names but one has repentance and the other is not able to repent. So from that time, the spiritual serpent seeds were those out of God’s Word; they do not repent for any wrong thing they do. Thus from that time onwards, you could never spot out the ‘Serpent Seed’ (the term which people bluntly use) except through the Word of God. O! Ye cobras that sing to the tune of music of this world, always crawling in a zigzag course and never knowing the straight path!! Your father was a murderer, your children crucified the Lord Jesus who came to save us, and your grand children martyred millions. Now, you great grand children get ready for your heads to be crushed in your attempt to crucify the move of immortality - Death is your head, sting and Victory! Praise be to Lord Jesus Christ who has now come down to take His Bride.
Abel’s line took up names in Cain’s line like Enoch, Methusaleh etc., just as we take denominational proper names as God’s, but let us get away from their death. When we talk about Jesus Christ, they talk about other religious leaders not realising that there is no salvation from sin except in ‘God coming down’ to fellowship with human beings. Every religion tells man to do good things, but there is no saviour except ‘God coming down’. All talk about their religions but what have these religions done to us? Even Christianity, with all its Western touch, can never save us. Since Western Christianity with all its pompous propaganda, failed to touch the hearts of people, they have turned to godlessness and violence in these days. See the ultimate result of every country where Christ was preached through mission such as in Russia and China. As it was brought into every country with political motives, people lost the significance of Jesus Christ as an Asiatic leader born in Palestine and regard Christians as spies for Western countries. The Communists want to kill all the Christians. The Hindus and Muslims also want to annihilate this minority in India. When Gandhi, Buddha and others are called Lights of Asia, why Jesus Christ alone is not considered by the Indians as the light of Asia or rather the Light of the whole world? He was never a white man; therefore, why don’t you Indians love Him as He is the Tree of Life and the only One Who rose from the dead and is able to give immortality to all those who recognise His move in this last generation? The path to the Tree of life was never known to the eyes of Eagles (Prophet’s), the Lions (kings) or Vultures (Satan). This is known only to God and to those whom He would want to reveal. This is known by Revelation. As a result of the fall of Adam and Eve, the curses on them and the serpent are that the seed of the serpent will bruise the heal of the posterity of Adam and Eve while the posterity of Adam and Eve will bruise serpent’s head. The children of God will get revelation and bruise the head of the opponents of the Word of God. The false anointed ones, being out of God’s Word, will not get revelations and will only attack the children of God on worldly level such as make them lose jobs, kill their bodies, persecute them and so on, all which we should count as dung and dust trampled by the heel as they can bruise only the heel.
We know God came down during the time of Abraham, but was it like wind or breeze or air or mist? God talked to Abraham, ate with him, blessed and made a Covenant to multiply him exceedingly and instituted the Circumcision Covenant. God commanded Abraham to circumcise all his household. Abraham faithfully obeyed and circumcised all, but what about him? Do you know who did the first circumcision? (Gen. 17:9-14, 23-27). Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, who was he? That was God Coming Down to make a Covenant, and every time He comes down with a New Name, a new set of laws is given according to His foreknowledge and breaks the old Covenant which is not kept with due meaning. Now see the significance of Circumcision. It was not just an outward manifestation as we used to think. Like Sabbath it was instituted to make the people of God realise that God is very close and will come down in human form at different periods to make Covenant with His children. But did the Jews acknowledge Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah when he came? No.
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Therefore, Jesus broke the Circumcision and Sabbath Covenants and started the Baptism and Communion Covenants which again were to signify God coming down. The Jews worshipped Jehovah God and their laws were eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, and divorce was granted. They could marry many wives and multiply and they could even murder people in large number after possessing a country. Just imagine, in such a situation, a carpenter’s son comes and changes the name JEHOVAH, and asks His disciples to cast out devils in HIS OWN NAME. His name brought power and not Jehovah’s name. He personally breaks the Sabbath, and even though He was circumcised, yet He broke that ordinance also and made His disciples to baptise the converts. This clearly shows that the man Jesus Christ was Himself the fullness of Jehovah. Don’t you think this would have appeared blasphemous and terrific for the orthodox Jews who stuck to dead denominational thinking, and kept Sabbath and Circumcision? No wonder they killed their Messiah! Also don’t you realise that prayers were never answered from that time in the name of Jehovah and so on, but power was manifested only in the name of Jesus Christ; not even in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit which indeed are not names but titles or common names. There were new set of laws like going two miles, giving everything away, show the other cheek when beaten, looking at a woman with lust is sin, and calling one’s brother a fool is worthy of hell etc. Such laws, of course, made the disciples passive and Jews are still knocking their heads against the wailing wall at Jerusalem in the name of Jehovah sticking on to Old Law and Ten Commandments, and consequently their prayers have not been so far answered. They were killed and annihilated all over for 2000 years. If they had obeyed their God coming down and did what Jesus commanded, they would have been preserved today and be a blessing to the entire world (Psalms 122:6). They are however, the existing seen tribes of Israel who did not follow Jesus.
Jesus has blessed the lost tribes of Israel (hidden) who accepted their Messiah. According to the Word of God, the seen Israelites’ Covenant is only operative inside Palestine whereas the lost tribe’s safety lies entirely in God Coming Down and their stand on the Word of God. Jesus never came for anyone except the lost tribes of Israel and the Holy Ghost gave them a new fleshy and repentant heart filling them with the Spirit of God. When the Bride realises that she is the fruit of the grafted Gentile branch and that not even one of the grains will be lost (Amos 9:9), she will be convinced of the potentiality and power of keeping God’s Word as He is always true to His Word and keeps all what is promised in the Word of God by Him. Since the Jews stuck to their old laws and wanted prosperity at all costs and did not recognise God’s visitation, they got into hot water and millions had to lose their lives. All right, we Gentiles were true to Jesus’ teaching and absolutely obeyed God and stood on His Word. But do we realize that in this Bride Age when God has come down (we are so blind and dead that we cannot understand God’s visitation in this generation), the message of the kingdom has changed and the laws are changing? People still continue to baptise in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ or other forms and faithfully administer the Holy Communion. These ordinances were, in fact, instituted in place of Sabbath and Circumcision to signify that God came down in the Person of Jesus Christ. (The Sabbath and Circumcision ordinances also signified God Coming Down but people failed to realise this and hence when Jesus Christ came, He had to break them). The Holy Communion and Baptism ordinances also have lost their significance and become sort of a bait to catch people into denominations instead of making them realise that these were instituted to signify God Coming Down. Therefore, when God came down on Moon Landing Day, He made these ordinances null and void and instituted the New Bride Covenant which should be in the form given elsewhere in this message. The Jews are still continuing the Sabbath and Circumcision ordinances since they are blind and could not recognise that the Promised Messiah has come and gone. In the same way, the present day Christians are also blind to the new move of God and
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therefore continue to observe the Baptism and Holy Communion ordinances which God has made inoperative for this Bride Age and instituted the New Bride Covenant. Well, no one is compelled to accept this. You may disagree, wanting to continue in your old ways and cheerfully go through Tribulation! But the Bride will get out of all the Harlot systems and be walking closely with God who has since come down. You are at liberty to make your choice in this matter. (My Sheep hear My Voice - John 10:27). All this may sound blasphemous to you. But wait and see.
The sowing (evangelistic) period is over and harvesting work now is more or less only in the hands of the Bride. You do not sow and reap at the same time. People talk about great revivals and so many prophecies, but there is nothing in this age for others except the Bride. Revival with great super-natural vindications is already in full swing and people do not seem to realise that this Bride Message would blast the chaff away, make the hay bound in bundles, and the real grain personally taken by the Lord of Harvest to New Jerusalem. The passive ordinance should cease as the Spoken Word Ministry is not a passive ministry. When John and James wanted to bring fire from heaven, Jesus said, “Ye do not know what manner of spirit you are of” - Luke 9:54-55. They were only the friends of the Bridegroom or children of the Bride chamber; but now we are the Bride who speaks to the Bridegroom and it is done or granted immediately. We do not do but Holy Spirit in its fullness is the DOER or God Who has come down. This is near about the time when even mountains would be moved and everything we ask be granted which were never fulfilled during the Seven Church Ages. It is like a seed dying and growing into a plant till harvest. God’s spirit in fullness is available to the Bride who identifies herself entirely with the Son of man into whom Jesus Christ has come. The Bride speaks and the Spirit of the Bridegroom available to her immediately reacts to the Spoken Word. Others who do not have any revelation of the Bridegroom in these days may fast and pray and cry but will get no response like the Jews who vainly prayed in Jehovah’s name having no revelation of the Messiah standing before them.
Further, there is a New Name of God who has come down which will be revealed to the Bride only and that very name will bring terrific and frightful consequences at the very mention of it, and no one would be able to stand against that name. The Christians today are like the Jews in Jehovah’s period and the Bride is like the Disciples in Jesus’ period. Everyone who was baptized and took Communion remembered the death of the Lord Jesus and was promised life only after death on the last day, but the New Covenant for this Bride Age promises life without death in the New Name. Is it something which sounds blasphemous to the Christian World? Well, wait and see, will you? See what Job says, “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” - Job 19:25- 26. Now I will leave this here for the Bride to ponder over, meditate and act for the time is short and the power is great. According to Isaiah 61, Jesus came first to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord which He personally with His disciples, preached for 31/2 years and secondly He should come to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God for another 31/2 years after Elijah prepared the way like John the Baptist at the first coming. When do you expect this to happen? O! You so called believers of all walks of life and thoughts, forget your old thinking based on narrow sentimentalism and denominationalism. Many of the things we have been preaching are not really the truth as we always preach something which is opposite to the ways of God. God said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways” - Isaiah 55:8. This proclamation of the day of vengeance should take place during Bride Age when she gets ready to fly away in the rapture before the onset of tribulation. Isaiah 42 applies only partially to Jesus Christ’s first coming and refers mostly to His second coming. At His first coming, He never brought judgement to the Gentiles or rather
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He was judged by the Jews and crucified; He came for the Jews only. Isaiah 41:2-3 has so far not been fulfilled, but it clearly says that the Bride .... will pass safely and by the way that he had not gone with his feet. This clearly shows there is no death, since overcoming power will be given.
Also Isaiah 46:11 should be fulfilled in the Bride Age as faith alone can take the people into Glory. Jesus compared ravens among all the birds for true faith life and dependence on God - Luke 12:24. So the Bride will be fully on faith lines living from what God supplies and resting from her own works. This is called Sabbath because God has come down and He does everything for us - Heb. 4:4-10. People at once may say: “We should not take God’s glory while they themselves try to steal God’s glory by being away from His Word. Only those who stand on God’s Word give the glory to God. “I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images” - Isaiah 42:8. It does not say to ANYONE but ANOTHER which means other than the ones chosen by God who stand on God’s Word. Do not mix these two words. The glory which is for Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Israelites, the Bride and Son of man will not be given to others. May the good Lord choose His Elect and prepare His glorious body for the forthcoming rapture. ‘Elect’ means individuals elected from among the people according to the foreknowledge of God (Your holiness or righteousness has got nothing much to do here). Jesus was born through a virgin as God planned and Mary was elected under the foreknowledge of God for that purpose, but Jesus came by divine right as King and no election was necessary for Him. Dear God, we thank thee for this great and wonderful privilege you have given us to have your life and immortality by visiting us in this generation.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – The Seventh Seal and Seven Thunders
THE SEVENTH SEAL AND SEVEN THUNDERS
Now we come to the 10th Chapter of Revelation which puzzles almost all of us. You may ask: “Why should not God come just like He came to create in the beginning?” Why didn’t you ask this question about Jesus Christ in virgin’s womb? God has to fulfill every prophecy uttered by the true Prophets. He did not come to break but to fulfill. In other words, what God spoke through the Prophets, as they were moved or carried away by the Spirit of God, should be fulfilled by Him, as otherwise He is not true. Now John sees a Mighty Angel. People say this is Christ and God; of course it is correct in one way. Our Lord in the Father’s throne, who even as a baby was called the Everlasting Father, is Almighty God and He gradually descends on the body, members of the Bride through the End-time messenger (not the end-time Seventh Church Age Messenger or the Seventh Angel). God then becomes the Mighty Angel after meeting the Bride on the SKY IMMORTAL i.e., Word of God. The roaring of this Angel signifies God Almighty in the Temple of the Son of man or Bride. This clearly shows God coming down, since all the signs (Rev. 10:1) signify God. These signs of clouds, brightness of face like sun with flames of fire, voice which thunders, legs like pillars of fire, and rainbow on the head are all nothing spiritual but should occur literally in this world and their significance revealed only to the Bride. The modern people do not believe that the body will put on immortality, and think that Bride will have to go by ship and plane to Mount Olives and fight for the Jews etc. But God means what He says. The Gentiles expect to see God with signs for nail-pierced hands but this sign is only for the Jews. For the Gentile Bride, the clouds and rainbow signs are given to help them find out the door to immortality. These should be fulfilled literally.
There are many self-styled messengers saying that everything was finished after the prophet (William Branham); but they are all wrong. It is like the dispute among the elders in Moses’ time (Numbers 17:2-10). Aaron’s rod budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds i.e., vindicated. Then all the murmurings and division among the people ceased (verses 5 & 8). In the same way the Bride age, having a capstone message, is a great mystery hidden and when God comes on His Messenger, whoever it is, he should have the supernatural vindications stated here; the divisions, murmurings and doubt, if any, among the Bride should cease immediately. The others who are not in the Bride will say this (Rev.10:1) only typifies Christ in symbol, so it can never be a reality. But many people have observed that wherever this Bride message is preached in sincerity, it has the mighty vindication of thunders and lightning since the clouds and pillar of fire are promised for the Bride with literal fulfilment (Isaiah 4:5). Jesus does not come wearing a long robe and with beard etc., but with these signs. O! Bride, watch for these signs. When anyone, who is not on God’s Word, approaches the Bride and obstinately tries to resist the Move of God, these signs will not show up over the Bride’s and the Messenger’s residences since they are not meant for such person. Therefore, how can he know the Bride’s move and the coming of the Son of man? In fact, the selection of the Bride is most secret. The Bride gets visions and dreams to strengthen her. Man has to do nothing here - ‘Stone untouched by human hands’. The selection of the Bride members is going on secretly and they are getting rid of everything pertaining to this world to be ready for the flight with no weight to carry along with. O, My! I shudder to think that the TIME for Rapture is very close and also the onset of Tribulation so near. The Lord will do a quick work. O! Bride of the Lamb, be reverent and humble. God has visited this generation on Moon Landing Day, but the Laodicean Age people, with their Seventh Church Age Messenger, only see like Moses - ‘Backside’ i.e. human side of the Bride Messenger and try to attack and crucify him and slander him as anti-Christ or false anointed one. On the other hand, the Bride, like Joshua and Caleb, sees the front side (the divine nature), of God coming down on the Messenger (Exodus 33:1123). Now the door is open since the Bridegroom has come to Earth to possess the Bride. This door is now seen
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through the cloud and rainbow vindications; when the selection of the Bride becomes complete in any particular area and her faith is firmly established on the Son of man, the vindication show up only on and off for she is able to believe even without seeing. However, when any seed approaches, these signs could be seen again with a greater intensity for strengthening that particular seed. When the vindications in any particular area cease to show up regularly, it indicates that the door is getting closed in that zone with the Bride inside.
As soon as the complete Bride members all over the World get an undaunted rapturing faith and ready in all respects to be transformed, the door will be closed once for all. Rush in when the door is still open. No use of crying after it is shut. The Bride gets a revelation of the Lord coming down before the door is shut, but the others who have to go through tribulation will come to know of it only after the closing of the door when they will cry and beg the Bridegroom (Lord Jesus Christ) saying LORD OPEN TO US. They no doubt get a belated revelation and rush to get in but will not be allowed just like the foolish virgins who came back after buying oil and started knocking the door in vain - chaff. There is still another set of people (wise virgins) who get the revelation to some extent and be closely associated with the Bride. But they will not be able to pay the price and forsake everything. And so will be left over (hay - such as those left over in Luke 17:34-37) when the rapture takes away the Bride (grain) to New Jerusalem since she is all cut for her Bridegroom unlike the wise virgins. The vindications of pillar of cloud and rainbow etc., should be available till Rapture takes place when the LIGHT would cease to shine on this world and Night Time sets in; for the Light of the world will be gone with the Bride. At the extreme end of the Seventh Church Age, Jesus knocks at the door (Rev.3:19-20) and has personal fellowship. This is the Bride Age (Rev.3:20-22) in the last lap of the Seventh Church age having the capstone message and the messenger. This Bride Age (31/2 year period) started on the Moon Landing Day, and at the end the overcomers will put on immortality and sit with Jesus who would have occupied the Throne of God in Heaven by then.
As a symbol of God coming down and possessing His temple (the Bride) by rightful ownership since the fall of Adam and Eve, the Bride should be clothed with a bright, transparent, glassy wonderful cloud which would follow wherever she moves. This unusual cloud alone can reflect the light in such a way as to form beautiful circular rainbow both around the Sun and Moon without rain or moisture to produce it. When the Bride recognises the Bridegroom, believes in her heart and declares by her mouth, God then opens out her understanding which comes as a result of her stand on the Word of God. Immediately a new wonderful assurance of life without death is felt, the veil which blinds her is taken off by God and a cloud is given to her as a defence and cover by day and pillar of fire by night. This has been promised for Zion (Isaiah 4:5). There is a thick veil on the people who read only the Spoken Word books not caring to check everything with God’s Word. If the face is as Sun, how could we recognise the same except that our eyes are blinded or else we should see through a red or black smoky glass or goggles which make the sun look either red or without any white light or rather black. Therefore, people can only see the cloud and rainbow, but they can never see the brightness of the face as it is; so there should be a coloured glass for us to see the glory. Pillars of fire, being the feet, means Jesus comes for judgement. Since they appear during the night, it shows that judgement falls on the world only in night time. In other words, severe judgement cannot fall till the Bride is taken up (end of Day time). When the feet members are recognised, it means the sun is going down. The world enters into Night time when God who came down goes up with the Bride to New Jerusalem. The two witnesses of this Bride Gospel will bring the Jews in Palestine subjected to ‘Jacob’s trouble’ back to God in the night time (Tribulation). The two witnesses to the Jews die, as serpent bruises the heel (under the feet - after the leg members of Bride are formed) and
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they are brought back to life later (i.e. Gentile Bride having glorified without death and Jewish dispensation of the last half week resumed). The Bride, on the other hand, bruises the head of the serpent, destroys death and flies off. Glorification without death is only promised to the Bride. All others who are dead already will be resurrected. According to the Word of God, the seventh sprinkling cleanses everything unclean. The mixture consisting of the lost tribes of Israel and the Gentiles comes out as a pure stock for God only after the seventh sprinkling or seven church ages - no denomination, but Bride is spotless. Every church in the Seven Church Ages had spots - they are all dead and await resurrection; death had a claim over them. But you do not die, O Bride!
This Mighty Angel had a little book open (Bibloridion - Miniature Bible; the Bible we have is ‘Biblus’). This Book is open as there are no more mysteries or parables as in the days of Jesus’ first coming when He hid His divinity and showed His humanity much of the time. But now Jesus shows His divinity all the time and we see streaks of humanity of the one whom He has possessed. Then it was God hidden in a man but now it is a man hidden in God to snatch away the Bride. When Jesus was in this world, He had to talk in parables and hidden mysteries, so the book was somewhat closed to others, but now the book has no mysteries as everything is more or less finished. This Angel set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot on the earth. Sea means multitudes of people (Rev. 17:15). Right foot is the strongest and is put at a place of security or homeland. Sea is full of saltish water and free creatures of the sea (Luke 14:33-34). This Mighty Angel who puts his legs beginning in East and ending in West must be a messenger dwelling East of Jerusalem. Since this Angel is an earthly Messenger, he is called Mighty Angel and not Almighty, since God alone can have the almighty power. Jesus at the first coming showed only His humanity most of the time; if He had tried to exhibit His almighty power, then He couldn’t have allowed Himself to be crucified. As this Angel came down, he cried with a loud voice just like the roaring of a lion - The Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Please remember this is the voice of the Archangel (Voice of resurrection of Jesus Christ which raised up dead Lazarus and others) without a trumpet. When he cried, SEVEN THUNDERS uttered their voices.
Whenever God speaks, it is confirmed by thunders to prove that God spoke. In fact, Thunders are the Voice of God. Thunders do not speak but simply thunder and do not have their own voice; actually what God speaks is thunders in heaven. So these Seven Thunders are the Seven Messengers, who having forsaken everything, follow the Lord Jesus who has come down, and reveal the person who is roaring. You can never find out the person who roars unless you hear the Voice of the Seven vindicated Sons of Thunder, who after having assimilated the Prophet’s food, believed the Bride Message and found the way to meet the Bridegroom whom they now publicly declare with their mouth blowing their ram’s horn trumpet - redemption in Soul, Spirit and Body through the sacrifice made by the Lamb of God at Calvary. Christ died for us so that we may live and not die. If we also die, then what purpose is served by His death? You as a modern preacher, without any thought of the possibility of overcoming death, preach to the people saying, ‘CHRIST DIED FOR US SO THAT WE MAY LIVE’. Well, what is the use if you or your blind followers still die which would be a contradiction of what you preach? If Christ has really died for you, it only means He died in your place so that you won’t have to die. Otherwise you don’t really mean what you preach. Either Christ did not die for us all on the cross at Calvary or if that is true we should not die at all but have the power to overcome death. If you still maintain that, although Christ died for us yet we cannot escape death, it only shows that you are deliberately making a false statement by saying ‘Christ died for us, so that we may live’. In any case, the Bride in this Age firmly believes to put on immortality in fulfilment of the purpose for which Christ died. We praise the Lord for having given to us such a superb and mighty assurance. The Seven Messengers (perfect number of angels) heard the Voice of the Mighty Angel and his
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message which gave them the assurance of overcoming death. Through them this message of life is preached to the chosen seeds (Bride) scattered all over the world. They, in turn, spread it to many others. The Bride is God’s Trumpet.
As we all know, a trumpet blows with a small breath in the beginning, and blasts with a loud pitch and noise towards the end. The trumpet is made from either a dead metal (like silver signifying redemption) or a ram’s horn (signifying sacrificial lamb) and has no life in itself. Likewise the Bride who accepts the Message of Life is also dead to this world like a trumpet. She blasts out the voice which spread all over the world. The voice of the message coming out through the Bride (Trumpet) is not her own but that which is blown by God Himself. She is just a channel. The message is life and immortality to all who accept it. When Jesus spoke, the confirmation came in thunders that what He spoke was of God. So no one can imitate what God speaks in thunders. There are many Bible verses to support this. “Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, an Angel spake to Him. Jesus answered and said, this voice came not because of me, but for your sakes” (John 12:28-30). Thunders always meant God was speaking from somewhere in Heaven or Earth (Job 40:9; Psalms 77:18; 81:7; 104:7; Isaiah 25:6; Rev. 14:2; John 12:29; Psalms 18:13; Job 37:4; Psalms 29:2). “The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies” - Isaiah 42:13. We know the Angel roars which is the Voice of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah but to be God’s voice, thunders should echo and seven thunders mean perfect symbol of God, like seven voices of God or seven spirits or seven eyes. When the voice roars and echoes in thunders, it is God speaking. The roaring is after the Angel descends on the earth which means God has come down to take possession of His Bride.
When a King visits, cannons roar as the march-past is done. So actually thunders do not speak but we must notice the voice which caused the thunders. This roaring message of God coming down is the One which John was forbidden to write before it actually happens when God comes down. It is said that the seven thunders uttered their voices which means seven special Bride Messengers (or Angels) carry the Message of God coming down (Bride Gospel) in order to gather the wheat. When the Messengers preach this message, it is again confirmed by thunders. Those who believe this message also get the vindication through thunders and lightning which goes on like fireworks. The Voice of the archangel or Mighty Angel is the Seven Thunders i.e., God coming down (Seven Messages in one Bride Age unlike Seven Church Age messages). The Power of God manifested in seven church ages through each messenger will be all put together in this Bride Age. The seven spirits of character of God and His power will be exhibited in this Age through the Bride Messenger into whom Christ has come. 31/2 years of Jesus Christ’s stay in this world to proclaim judgement to Gentiles before Rapture.
John was in Patmos at a time when Christ went up after resurrection and so God had to speak to John from heaven, but the fulfilment of the vision was to be hundreds of years later. God opened the curtain to the end of the Gentile period. Jesus has said not to swear at all because He was the one going to swear at the end time - Rev.10:5-6. He asked people not to call anyone Father as He was going to take the Father’s office after putting on glory. God swears because He alone could keep. This Angel swears not on himself for he is not God but swears on the Eternal God Who has got complete control over earth and sea. Now the Bride is married and God and Bride become one flesh and spirit, but being a weaker vessel the Bride can do everything by Spoken Word through her submission and obedience to the Master. Bride does not preach the Gospel of repentance or any kind of evangelistic message as those days are over. She always adores and praises and talks about her God who came so low to claim these unworthy people. God has no real control of the earth before
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Millennium sets in. When the Angel swore, the time has come near for the sleeping saints and the living Bride to be glorified. Lifting up the hand is the custom of all human spiritual leaders; lifting their hands to the Lord in heaven to ratify an oath (Deut. 32:40). Now the Angel swears saying “There should be time no longer”. Here again in Greek “delayed” is added. Now when God comes down, that period is calculated in TIME, times and a half (Jewish dispensation) - Rev. 12:14; Dan. 12:7. But when it comes to the Gentiles, it is mentioned TIMES of the Gentiles.
Time - 1 year - God on Earth - Time of God - direct control of God
Times - 1000 years - God in Heaven - time under control of human beings - direct control of man
(One Year of God equals our 1000 years) (and devil)
The last 31/2 years period is the one awaited by the martyred saints and all the Israelites when the Messiah should restore the Kingdom. It was delayed for nearly 2000 years and patience was running out and God seemed to be deaf to their cries. At long last, the Almighty God descends to take the Mighty Bride or rather the Almighty Angel (God) becomes the Mighty Angel (Son of man: Members of the Bride). The Jews have now gathered as a nation and when God came down, the judgement should have fallen immediately. God came to destroy but since the Prophet Elijah came earlier and turned the people to God’s Word, the Bride Age or extension of time for judgement till rapture became possible (Malachi 4:6). The Bride intercedes like Abraham for extension and mercy until the entire Word Bride comes into her proper place, united under the head. The Bride swears to show that she will not be the cause for anymore delay as she loves the true Israelites and she herself wants the judgement on the world, but for the sake of taking the body members out of the fire the delay occurred. Therefore, anyone who hates the Jews with all their faults cannot be in the Bride because the Master loves them. It is like Joseph who married a Gentile Bride. In India, when a boy marries a girl outside his own community without his parents consent, he is considered an outcast by the brothers and sisters and the parents. After some time when they meet, they make it up and accept the girl into their family which privilege they never gave before marriage and this is strengthened after a child is born and then they all become one lovable family. In the same way, the Jews and Gentiles never pulled on together except in hatred. The Gentiles had titles like dogs and asses while the Jews were called Shylocks and money bags and plunderers. Even Jesus Himself called in the Jewish terms the woman as dog as He came only for the lost tribes of Israel - Matt. 15:26. But when Jesus takes a Bride from the Gentiles, calling them individually (the Israelites only being dealt as a nation or as a family), the Jews are forced to love the Bride since deliverance comes to the Jews only from Zion and from the Lord Jesus Who has come down to take the Bride and in no other way. The Bride naturally loves the Jews deeply and does everything to support them in their struggle against the whole world and succeeds in bringing victory jointly with her Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ. You may not agree. The Jews have a great future from now on, but there is to be “Jacob’s Trouble”. Just after these labour pains, there will be born the real people having the right to reign with God. No more soft law but strict law. So immediately after the Angel’s swearing, judgement starts falling (Rev. 18:20-24) with the rapture already having taken place. Here you may ask: ‘What about the sleeping saints of Jesus Christ?’ Of course this has to happen before the living saints are raptured. No doubt this happens in the twinkling of an eye but God comes to take the Bride prepared through the Prophet, staying with her for 31/2 years in order to teach her rapturing faith based on the Word of God. Therefore, this Bride Message alone can give rapturing faith to those who act sincerely and get ready immediately. Now the Seventh Angel should finish the mystery; the mystery of God should be finished (in plain English it means not yet finished). It does
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not mean that everything is finished as the foolish people say with their intellectual thinking and referring to many denominational books. It is said the mystery should be finished as he hath declared to the Prophets. You must understand that the Prophet’s eyes can reach up to the thunders and the Tree of Life which is mystery of God revealed i.e., there is no more mystery about this, as there should be thunders when we approach the Tree of Life. When we say a mystery is revealed, it only means that there is no more mystery about the matter. It does not mean that the matter is not there. Suppose there is a person hiding in a room, and people are searching him including his loved ones. One person may know the mystery of his hiding place and he comes and tells his loved ones so and so is hiding in that room. The person who tells this secret hiding place is not the man hiding; he only clears the mystery, and when the room is opened and searched, the hiding person is found out to the joy of all. In the same way, the Seventh Angel’s messages (Spoken Word books) clearly reveal to the Bride the mode of God coming down and the Bride Message. If you care to read the Prophet’s messages with an open and inquiring heart, you will certainly find many passages where he clearly mentions about God coming down and personalised, reaching at close range the Bride all over the world who is called even before the foundation of the world, through Holy Spirit’s direct dealing and opening her eyes to understand the end-time message. People who are not in the Bride can never understand this, and it would be better for them to keep quiet, and not commit the unpardonable sin (I John 5:16). Nevertheless they will, in their frenzy, attack the capstone message and make attempts to crucify the Messenger. Now there exists no more mystery about the Second Coming except that the people who eagerly desired to see the appearing of Jesus Christ should get ready leaving everything weighty that might pull them down. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be.
Now listen, the same Voice of God from heaven at this juncture speaks to John in Patmos seeing this vision and asks him to go and take the book from the hand of the Angel which contains an incident covering nearly 2000 years. He was then asked to eat it (Rev. 10:8-11). When Jesus asked John to take care of His mother (Matt. 12:46-50), John definitely became the Representative for all disciples who were on God’s Word and did the will of the Father (males or females) who slept in Jesus to be raised at the last day. This clearly shows that John (representing the brethren and friends of Bridegroom - converted Jews - and Children of the Bride Chamber) must come back to life when this drama is enacted 2000 years later and preach this bitter message (Manifested Sons). John also stands to represent all the 12 tribes of Israel who accepted the Lord. We all know that once he along with James even wanted to burn the Gentile Samaritan village which did not receive the Lord Jesus Christ by commanding fire from heaven (Luke 9:54). Also read Acts 11:2-3; 10:28; 13:46; 15:1-11; Gal. 2:11-21. What could be more bitter for such a staunch Jew like John than to receive the message from the Gentile Bride? Nevertheless, he has to accept the food now provided by the Bride or the Son of man in whom the Lord Jesus hides from the world’s view. This is the only food which contains life. We all know that most of the best medicines are sweet to the mouth so that one can eat or swallow them easily and then in the stomach would be bitter and perform the work of healing. The Bride Message also reacts in the same way (Rev. 10:10).
This message which gives life and rapturing faith to the Bride should also glorify the sleeping saints who rise at the last trumpet call (Last Voice of the Mighty Angel though the Great Trumpet blast - the trumpet can’t sound of itself except there be a voice at the mouth). The Angel said unto John “Thou must prophecy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and Kings” (Rev. 10:11). PROPHECY AGAIN. This means John (a type of dead saints as well as converted Jews) had prophesied before during the time of Jesus Christ’s first coming and worked for the Master and spread the message during persecution and was
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banished to Patmos. If after his death he has to prophecy again after eating this bitter message given by the Angel, how can he do it unless the sleeping saints waiting for this great time rise up who already have a revelation of the message in part? The Bride who has already assimilated the message cannot be raptured without the sleeping saints rising first. Now Jerusalem has been taken back by the Jews, but very soon after the rapture the Gentiles will tread for 31/2 years part of the Holy City leaving the temple and then the two witnesses start their mighty vindicative messages. The Bridegroom should rest for one year with the Bride, so honeymoon time in Millennium for 1000 years (Deut. 24:5). After the marriage and marriage feast involving a period of 31/2 years in this earth, the time comes for the Bridegroom and Bride to go to the Bridegroom’s house for Reception or Wedding Supper. Then the Bridesmaid and others get up first with Bridegroom’s friends and torchbearers. They rise from sleep (sleeping saints) and then the Bride gets ready and together they go in glorious bodies to Wedding Supper in the Air arranged by the Bridegroom in Glory for 31/2 years during tribulation. Do not mix up marriage and marriage feast on the earth and Wedding Supper in Air (Reception) by Bridegroom.
When Jesus was in this world, He preached the Gospel of the Kingdom openly in the streets, gatherings and in mountain tops. Everyone heard His voice. Jesus was God hidden in man revealing streaks of divinity, but most of the time walked and behaved like a real Messenger sent by God performing all what a Perfect Man filled with the Holy Ghost would do by emptying His divinity (Phillippians 2:5-11) and at baptism was filled with the Holy Spirit just to show man the Living Way even though He was God Almighty. The Seven Thunders sounding like as if spelling some name repeatedly in a series, were due to the roaring of the Angel while coming down. You could hear only the roaring when the Angel came down for judgement, but now God comes down on a man who is hidden giving out streaks of humanity; all the work does not have any human touch at all but entirely a revelation of the Lord in glory. Now He has not come to die as before but to destroy everything which comes against Him just as a lion would do. These Seven Thunders were SEVEN VOICES representing Seven powerful Messengers or Angels (perfect number) who are sent forth to gather wheat by proclaiming the identity of God Who has come down to earth. The Mighty Angel roars at the time of the Lord’s descent. After that the Mighty Angel or the Son of man does not propagate the New Gospel with the New Wine (Bride message). This is done by the Seven Thunders or the Seven Thunderous Angels or Messengers and others who accept this message. They reveal to the world the identity of God who has come down and in doing so they are supported by regular thunders and lightnings etc., literally taking place.
When Joshua went to take over Jericho, there were Seven priests going before the Ark (God coming down) sounding the Seven Trumpets but when crossing the Jordan, the Ark went first and others followed. The people had to be 2000 cubits away from the Ark to know the way except the Levites and Priests who left everything (Deut. 33:9; Joshua 13:33). So also in this age, except the Bride (who has no inheritance in this world except God) all others will be made blind from seeing the move of God. The saints watched for nearly 2000 years. Now the Bride marches forward armed with the whole armour of God (Eph. 6:14-17). The Seven priests thunder the trumpet messages of the Ark of God through which God speaks to the people and they go round silently seven times - Seven church Ages. The ram’s horns are blown for each Church Age seeing the Ark of God 2000 years ahead (God coming down on the Son of man) but on the seventh day, seven times people went round, shouting only in the last round when rapture occurs. This time the ark goes behind the Seven priests (Joshua 3:3-5) who blow the trumpets all along. After the period of Seven Church Ages is over, the Ark is borne by Levites (the Bride). The Voice of the Seven Thunders will be heard by the Bride who, armed with God’s Word, will go forward selling everything and transferring her belongings to the foreign bank in New Jerusalem. All what is left of property and money will
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be claimed to possess and use God’s wealth; better have it converted into foreign exchange to be credited into New Jerusalem Bank. When Jesus the wheat went underground, it died with its roots going down. All left everything they had in the world. They had all things in common; there was nothing to be called their own (Acts 2:44-48). Then leaves and stalks came. 2000 years of possessing everything and going with God till the Pentecostal Shuck. Now comes the Grain Age, when the Word Bride will be like Jesus possessing nothing (John 14:30). This is the Truth, nothing but Truth and the Bride will be in that condition when glory falls soon. The fall of Jericho was a miracle of God coming down. So also is Rapture a miracle of God coming down to give us immortality. Our redemption is at the end of the Seventh round - Rapture i.e. human barriers fall down like walls of Jericho.
The world cannot see anything of God since the Messenger is totally hidden and when God hides a man He really does it. This Bride Message may not be spread through the medium of radio, television and great crusades etc., (trumpets made of goat’s horn) by the Bride Messenger. “He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street” (Isaiah 42:2). O Bride! Whenever you hear a message about God coming down in this generation, do not take it into heart unless it is confirmed by thunders in heaven. Nature will sing to you to make you believe and stop when you believe. Ignore all the propaganda done through human efforts such as million dollar drives etc. The Bride Ministry now on is untouched by human hands and God is the sole controller. May we give all honour and Glory to our Father in Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ in the throne. The Lord who has come down will be spiritually crucified in Sodom and Egypt. (Rev. 11:8 - “which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified”). Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, but this is Spiritual Sodom. So God who has come down will be spiritually crucified in Sodom and Egypt - East and West. Did this ever happen in history? This should happen before Tribulation. The two witnesses of this God coming Down in the twentieth century will shake the country of Palestine, get killed in tribulation and come to life when the voice (Bridegroom and Bride in glory) calls from heaven i.e., Wedding Supper in the air. This message will be so severely opposed that the persecution on the followers will be terrific. Nevertheless they won’t die provided they totally identify themselves with the Mighty Angel (Son of man). God who has come down will glorify them all. So let us all be bold. The message will drive away even some more. Dear reader, will you also go away? In any case the Bride will not miss the Rapture.
The Bride Ministry is such that the Messenger is very much hidden and the Angels of this Messenger are the ones who go forth to reap and bring in the grain. So after every roaring of the Angel, the Bride and others can hear the Voice either directly or through the Seven Messengers (Sons of Thunder). This Voice will be “to that group which can really take the Word of God and handle it there. It will cut and slice. They (Bride) can close the heavens, they can shut this, or do that, whatever they want to” (THE FOURTH SEAL). May all the sheep which form the Bride open their ears to take only the Message that is vindicated by thunders and lightning, pillars of cloud, pillars of fire etc., and throw out as trash anything which is not vindicated like this. The Spoken Word Ministry has already started to be confirmed by the Heavenly Thunders. Wake up, O! Bride of God.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – Good Samaritan
GOOD SAMARITAN
We have heard so much about the Good Samaritans and Social Work etc., but we have failed to notice the significance of the story narrated by Jesus (Luke 10:25-36). The Lawyer was asked by the Lord to love his neighbour as himself and he wanted a clarification about who his neighbour was, so that he could love him as himself. Then Jesus relates the story of a man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he is attacked by thieves and left naked, wounded and half-dead. A Priest and then a Levite passed by that way but didn’t bother to help the poor man lying on the road. At last a Samaritan had compassion on him; he bound up his wounds, brought him to an inn and said unto the inn-keeper, “Take care of him and, whatsoever thou spendest more, WHEN I COME AGAIN, I will repay thee”. We often talk of helping our neighbours and any social work done is called a Good Samaritan work. But the real implication here is, Jesus asked the Lawyer who among the three was the neighbour unto the man left half dead, and the Lawyer admitted it was the Samaritan. Then Jesus advised him to go and do likewise (love the Samaritan and other non-Jewish people (neighbours) as himself. In other words the Lawyer is compared to the man who lay wounded on the road). So the story did not actually mean social work. It was only intended to make the Lawyer realise that he was half dead and unable to do anything to favour God. ‘Go and do thou likewise’ - The Lawyer was to just lay half dead so that anyone, even if it be the low caste Samaritan, who comes to help him becomes his neighbour whom he should love. This story rather typifies the conditions of Jews after they killed their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. In the present day situation, they will not be able to come up depending entirely on their military power. The two witnesses will make them accept the Messiah when the glory they had lost will be given back to them and the Gentiles destroyed. The Jews have been persecuted and killed and half dead and so on from the time of their captivity in Jerusalem, and were scattered all over the different countries of the world until now when the world conditions are like Jericho walls ready to fall down. The story implies that Jesus would come as a Samaritan to lift the Jews up and that He is the neighbour whom they should love. If they don’t love the Samaritan or Gentile with their full heart, they will miss their Saviour since He will come to deliver them now only in the form of a Gentile as they (Jews) lie persecuted and half dead in these last days. Since deliverance should come to the Jews from Jesus (now coming like a Gentile), the Jews should know how to love the Gentiles. The Gentiles, in turn, should also know how to love the most persecuted people, the Jews. Jesus Christ is their neighbour and to love Him with all their heart is what is required. He came unto His own but they received Him not, and as many as received Him to them He gave power to become the Sons of God (as well as daughters of God and THE BRIDE). See how we have been thinking quite the opposite. Jesus now comes in the form of a Samaritan, half Jew and half Gentile. God steered the Gentile nations such as U.S.A. and England to bring the persecuted and half-dead. Jews back to Palestine “THE INN”. The two pence given to the Inn-keeper by the Samaritan are the two witnesses who will make them accept their Messiah by opening their eyes and thus bring them back to their former glory. God, as a Samaritan Jesus, is willing to even give more witnesses if needed when He returns now.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – How to have Salt in our Lives?
HOW TO HAVE SALT IN OUR LIVES
CLEAN AND PERFECT IN THIS AGE, HAVE OUR TREASURES (FOREIGN EXCHANGE) IN HEAVEN, HAVE OUR LOINS GIRDED AND OUR LIGHTS BURNING AND SAVE OUR LIVES
Matt19:21
“Jesus said unto him, if thou will be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. He went away sorrowful”.
Mark 10:21
“Go thy way, and sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross and follow me”.
Luke 12:33-35
“Sell that ye have and give alms; provide yourselves bags which was not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning”.
Luke 14:33
“So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be seasoned?”
Luke 11:41
“Rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are CLEAN unto you (clean life)”.
Luke 17:33
“Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it”. (To forsake everything in this world is to lose your life).
Quoting the above verses does not mean, as the people may slander, that we are trying to make them sell all what they have and give it to us. Suppose a man has 10000 dollars in the Bank, and if I give him another 5000 dollars as a gift, he will certainly add this to his fortune since he has ‘Guile and Selfishness” which Jesus deplores. That is why he said, ‘Give and it shall be given unto you’ (even more). He has promised hundred-fold with tribulation and Eternal life (“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap” - hundredfold - Gal.6:7). Suppose that man draws his whole 10000 dollars from the bank, gives to the poor and becomes a pauper, it clearly shows he obeyed the commandments and has no ‘Guile’. If after he has done as I give him 5000 dollars, surely he will not keep this money for himself as he would have lost the desire for money when he distributed the 10000 dollars and thereby he is without ‘Guile’. The greatest thing is to be without guile, selfishness and faithlessness. God will take care of your needs (Matt. 6:32). “SELL ALL AND GIVE TO THE POOR” is the order of this soon ending age, possessing nothing and then our fellowship on God’s Word is sweet and perpetual.
My dear friends, this is Bible and you may talk jokingly, but did you ever try this kind of faith life? If so, you will know God. These big organisations having insurances etc., provident fund and pensionary benefits in denominations, could they trust God in these hard days? Why were the Israelites made to go in the wilderness under severe trial for 40 years? It was just to make them know that there is a God who will provide (Deut. 29:5-6). When I was asked
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by God to leave my job and also my wife her job and sell and give to the poor, we thought it was not human and we had some good saving in the Bank ‘for emergency’. But God never supplied our needs for nearly some months. We prayed and prayed and the heavens were shut, and we had to live frugally with whatever was left of our earnings. We then sold everything including the jewellery and distributed to the poor keeping only the Bank money. We were starving and the Lord spoke to me in an audible voice, “Take out the Bank money”. The Lord knows your secret chambers and your hoardings in which you keep your heart and depend. We spend that money also till we came to a bare minimum in the Bank. Even that we ultimately drew and finished off. We thought we were sinking and dying. Strangely, we lost all our friends and no one would even look at us. Some of them started throwing stones. I had no money even to have my hair-cut; my wife and children (fairly very small) could not bear hunger, yet we kept on going. I was keeping my certificates etc., in my trunk to depend on and I had to destroy them also. Then a superb peace filled my soul, but no money came.
One day my wife went to the market to buy vegetables by faith without any money (believe and see). Just at that moment a lady heard the audible voice of God and thrust plenty of money into her hands and faith life started for her. As for me I was like a street vagabond, but with terrific deep peace. One day a man came and called me to pray for his wife who was dead quite a while ago. My wife and I went rather skeptically to please this man. As I laid my hands and prayed closing my eyes, this lady woke up as if from sleep and sat on the bed. On another occasion we had been to a village where a man who was bedridden for many years, jumped up and rejoiced without having to attend any big crusade or show. Then a mad man in chains biting everyone was there, and I was taken to touch and pray for him. He got healed instantaneously. From that time onwards we have never been in want of anything and we know our God is great. I can give you wonderful testimonies of God’s dealing meticulously. Trust God at all costs. You will not know the real world and real friends till you have nothing of this world’s goods and you will find many things you depended on and friends and kith and kin you relied on as false since they will leave you when money takes its flight away from you. When God spoke, the Sun came into existence and it rotates till now. Likewise if man rotates on God’s Word, he will live eternally without human effort. This dependence is the secret of faith life. It is difficult at first but a pleasure as time goes by. The Bride has to totally depend on her husband for everything. If she depends on anyone or anything else it is called ADULTERY. We do not ask or beg or hint at or demand, but provision comes to the very door. If you do not depend on God for all your needs, you commit spiritual adultery by depending on something of this world other than God. Praise God, He cares for you, O Bride! This selling all and following was preached by Jesus nearly 2000 years ago who promised hundred-fold of everything you leave (except wife or husband) - Matt. 19:29.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – The Unpardonable Sin
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN
St. John in his Patmos vision was asked not to write the thunders which we now know signifies God coming down. He sealed the mystery of thunders accordingly. Nevertheless if we study his epistles or gospel, we should be able to find some place where he must have avoided or hinted at this. It is the place where he mentions about the “Unpardonable Sin”. I John 5:16 - “There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it”. Rejecting the Tree of Life is wilful rejection and is the sin unto death as the person who rejects this Tree of Life message (Seven Thunders Mystery) will have no option but to die and there is no use of prayer for this sin as it is ‘unpardonable’. It is nothing but wilful rejection of God Himself.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – Leprosy in the House
LEPROSY IN THE HOUSE
AT THE LAND OF CANAAN
(Leviticus 14:34-53)
The house is watched and if the priest sees traces of leprosy, he commands the people to take away the stones and plasters and throw them in an unclean place outside the city. New stones and plaster are put in their stead. If the leprosy is found to still exist, the house is completely destroyed. The house cannot be occupied till it is cleansed by the priest. But if it is alright, then two birds are taken and one is killed in an earthern vessel over running water and the priest shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water and sprinkle the house seven times and shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields and make an atonement for the house and it shall be then clean.
The Israelites were a people of God or House of God with whom God dwelt. When they sinned, God could not be present with them. At first He even removed some people out of the scene to see if the sin question could be solved. If that failed, the whole structure was destroyed (cast out like lepers), but if the sin question did not proceed further and the people were healed, then came the two birds. (God did not own them till they were cleansed by the said ordinance performed by the priest). One bird was killed which typifies the Lord Jesus Christ who shed His blood in Calvary when the Holy Spirit ran as waters for the people of God to quench their thirst; another bird typifying the Bride of Christ was bound by the scarlet thread (death in every church age) and after the seventh sprinkling (seventh church age) the bird (Bride) was set free to go in open and fly in the air. Thus after the death of Lord Jesus Christ, the Gentile Bride has been dipped in His blood and sprinkled during the seven church ages bound by death. After the last church age, she is free from death to go up. This dealing of God with the Gentiles purifies the Israelites from the sin question. The Lord is then ready to occupy the House (Son of man) and dwell in this earth to take the Bride up. Also this makes the house of Israel cleansed to be occupied by God and the former glory which was lost is restored to them.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – Spoken Word Books
SPOKEN WORD BOOKS
The people in U.S.A. who consider themselves to be masters of these books are so sensitive that they just want people to blindly believe what all bed-time stories related by them. If we refute anything as unscriptural, they get into a frenzy and call us “serpent seed” and false anointed ones or devil’s incarnate. Further the preachers have got a set of notes or selected portions from these books which suit their own thinking and creeds and serve as defence to their doctrines. I am not writing this to say that all must follow us. Follow the Lord Jesus. If you had known and love Bro. Branham sincerely, you would undoubtedly know that there is a following ministry and that he was not the final messenger which he himself has clearly said. Everybody who agrees to this is not far from the Kingdom of God. They have in their lamps a little oil unlike the dead ones who are possessed of murderous demons and incite some mad folks to frighten people out of the New Move. If you had known Bro. Branham intimately, you would know this move of God which is presently going fast around the world fulfilling the Tent Vision without anything much of human effort. You cannot come to accept this greatest move of God unless my Master Jesus Christ in the Father’s throne draws you. All those who are drawn will be glorified and none left to die.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – New Covenant
NEW COVENANT
TO BE MADE WITH GOD ALMIGHTY
(Oath of Allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ)
I...............of...............henceforth take the Lord Jesus Christ to be mine own. I promise to receive Him as my Husband and I give myself to Him, unworthy though I am to be His spouse. I ask of Him in this marriage of Spirit with Spirit that I may be of the same mind with Him, meek, pure, nothing in myself and united in God’s will (everything within His will, neither more nor less). Pledging as I am to be His spouse, I accept as a part of my marriage portion the temptations, sorrows, slander, the crosses, the contempt which fell to Him by reckoning myself dead unto Him and returning totally to the Eternal God’s Word - the Holy Bible, and the Glory which accompanies the victory and kingdom which is now due to Him and the immortality which He gives me. I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has come down in this world in pillars of cloud, flaming eyes and the voice of thunders from the East. I promise to stand against any pressure which this world and anti-Christ may try to bring upon me as I believe totally that the Lord Jesus Christ, Who has come down to receive me unto Himself, will make me overcome and give me immortality without tasting death. I count everything in this world as dung and will forsake everything and be ready with the help of God to go away with Him shortly. (For Ladies only: I promise that as written in the Word of God, I will not preach, wear jewellery, pants or men’s apparel, or cut my hair short but allow it to grow). I also promise that I will not associate with people belonging to any denomination or possessed with a denominational spirit and who are not totally on God’s Word. I consider the Holy Bible as my final authority and not the Spoken Word books or any other books. I believe with my whole heart that Bro. William Marrion Branham was a real prophet of God and Forerunner of the Ministry which is now in full swing to take the Bride off the earth before the onset of tribulation. Now that I take this last communion, I also promise that I will no more partake in any communion service of any group or denomination since I have come into the New Bride Covenant which sets me free from all bondage.
O! Death, where is thy sting? O! Grave, where is thy victory?
Vowed on the Word of God this .................................. day on ............ month .............. year ................ in the presence of God.
Signed:
Address:
Name :
Telephone No:
Prayfully ask forgiveness for being away from God’s Word and to take away the blinding veil covering your face. Reverently kneel down and keep your hands on the Word of God. Make this vow believing sincerely this ministry of God coming down and you will be filled with a New Spirit never experienced before. Also according to Isaiah 4:5, the Lord will give you the Pillar of Cloud and Fire for your covering and defence. There is a veil on the face of those who have not come to God’s Word after reading the Prophet’s message. When you sincerely come back to God’s Word, this veil is lifted up by the Spirit of God and your blindness ceases. You see God and have access to the Tree of Life.
Some people may ask ‘Are not Baptism and Communion the Eternal ordinances and how can these be stopped?’ About Communion Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of me till I come”. Now that He has come, its significance is lost. If you are going in the Rapture in the
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skies, do you mean to say that you will fly up with a bread, knife, communion cup, wafers or bread and grape juice to serve in Heavens if that was eternal? We know that the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink. Does it mean that all will have communion in Heaven and God will push the unwanted ones down? These two ordinances were started by the Lord as death ordinances which qualify people for resurrection only after death. Therefore, everyone who continues this, shows that they will die, and rise afterwards. The Bride does not have to die anymore and hence terminates these ordinances. Besides, the real significance of these two ordinances was to make people remember God coming down in the person of Jesus. But people have made it a Harlot Sign of joining denominations and so God had to break it now just as the Sabbath and Circumcision were stopped by Jesus Christ when people failed to understand that these ordinances signified God coming down. If you consider Holy Communion and Baptism as eternal ordinances, then Circumcision and Sabbath should also be eternal; why don’t you do it? In heaven there is no night and no physical bodies to be circumcised, neither is there water to baptise people in.
Having accepted these messages, if you desire to enter into the Bride Covenant, you may do so by either contacting us or Bro. L.D. Dale at 612, South Market Street, Troy, Ohio, U.S.A. 45373. Bro. Dale will then be able to arrange for someone to visit and help you in taking the Covenant. (For God appearing on this earth, see verses Heb. 9:28; I John 3:2; II Tim. 4:8; I John 2:28; I Pet. 5:2-4; Col. 3:4; Titus 2:12-14; I Pet. 1:7; Ps. 102:16-17; I Tim. 6:11-14; II Tim. 4:1-3; Isaiah 66:5; Matt. 25:10; Rev. 3:11; 2:25; I Thess. 5:2-4; Heb. 10:37; Hab. 2:3).
Some people say if God has come down then there must be miracles performed like the time of Jesus Christ. Now listen, John the Baptist came without any miracles to the people of father’s faith. Then Jesus came with discernment to bring the people of father’s faith to children’s faith. But now it has to go from children’s faith (which was discernment and miracles given to the Prophet as a forerunner to prepare the way) to father’s faith (believing and seeing). So when Jesus has come to take the Bride off the earth, we cannot expect to have any great showy healing campaigns with discernment and so on. It will be merely Spoken Word Ministry without anything much of outward great manifestation. The Bride will not get hindered even if there is no manifestation of healing and miracles but the power seekers will miss God’s move by billions of miles. The majority will never understand this end-time message and leave it off. Discernment was never a sign of Messiah but a Prophet. So do not be deceived. Elijah had it and Elisha had it in double portion. John the Baptist was at one time thought of as Christ himself, but he had no discernment at all. John the Baptist remarked (John 1:26) “there standeth one among you, whom ye know not”. In verse 27, he clearly says about a following ministry and yet the fanatics overlooked this and claimed that John the Baptist was himself the promised Messiah or Christ. Well, what made the people to think of him as such? Discernment is a definite sign that the people concerned are only children (who need dolls and playthings to keep them happy i.e., SEE AND BELIEVE). Fathers do not need them; they just believe to see. The West saw and believed in Bro. Branham’s time but now they must be able to believe even without seeing this Bride ministry. On the other hand, the East believed Bro. Branham’s Ministry without seeing but now they are privileged to see and believe this last Move of God. God always moves by faith. The West should, in fact, shine more brightly with this message.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – The Shofar
THE SHOFAR
TRUMPET OR RAM’S HORN
“The ram’s horn or the shofar is the only ancient musical instrument still used in the rites of the synagogue. Why is the horn of a ram chosen to serve as the shofar? It is to recall to the pious listener the matchless act of fidelity to God in the binding of Isaac when Abraham, by providential intercession, was permitted to spare his son and to substitute a ram for the sacrifice. Jewish law forbids the use of a shofar made from the horn of a cow or an ox because that might bring to mind the faithlessness of Israel, when it turned away from God to worship the Golden Calf after the departure from Egypt (Ex. 32:4-8). (All the ornaments and jewellery each depicted a certain god and with this gold a calf was made and Aaron called this calf “thy gods” - all different gods put together. That is why it is a sin to wear jewellery not because it is a valuable thing but every item depicts “a god”. You ought to know that India is the only place in the whole world where cow is venerated to the point of God - the stable of the whole world)”.
“The shofar, usually ten to twelve inches long, is also required to be curved as a symbol of the contrite heart which is bent in repentance. (It is also a sign that the meanest part of its body is unable for a high purpose and that a ram possesses nothing in this world and every bit of its body is useful to man and it never care for the morrow, hears the voice of the shepherd and commits its whole life at the hands of the shepherd). In Biblical times, the role of the shofar was prominent in both religious and public affairs of Israel. Like the conch shell still in use among certain primitive peoples, the shofar sounded the clarion call to battle. It was also blown to proclaim the times of the New Moon and fast and feast days to alert the people to national dangers and to bring the glad tidings of peace. A fanfare announced the coronation of a new king or the convocation of solemn assemblies and when blown by watchmen guarding the battlements reassured the inhabitants of a city of their security. In addition, the shofar was blown to herald the approach of the Ark of the Lord, the advent of the Sabbatical Year and at the end of every forty nine years the Jubilee. But most important, after Israel lost its Palestinian homeland, was the rite of blowing the shofar in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah. The reason for this practice was given in the Midrash: when Moses went up for the second time to the Mount Sinai in order to receive the Tablets of the Law and the Commandments from God (written by the finger of God Personally - God Coming Down - Ex. 31:18; Deut. 9:10) the shofar was blown so that it shrill, awesome blasts would remind the children of Israel that they were not to fall again into idolatrous practices as they had during the first absence of Moses on the Mount. And so, of all solemn occasions during the year, Rosh Hashanah was chosen by the teachers of Israel to commemorate the Supreme religious - historic experience of the Jewish people: its consecration to the Torah at the foot of Mount Sinai more than 3000 years ago. In the Bible, Rosh Hashanah is described as “The Day of Blowing the shofar”. But unlike its use in more primitive times, the shofar no longer sounds the alarm of war: It only exhorts the spiritual warriors to battle firmly against sin and backsliding. It aims to awaken the conscience and to induce searching of the heart and mind, a moral self-accounting called in Hebrew “cheshbon hanefesh”. Maimonides, the medieval rabbi - philosopher, interpreted the sounds shofar in this manner: They seemed to be calling: Sleepers of the awake! Awake from your sleep and rouse yourselves from your lethargy! Examine your actions and turn to repentances. Remember your Creator, O You who forget the truth in the trifle of the hour, who stray all your lives after vain things which can neither profit nor deliver you!”
“The shofar blower, who is required to be a man of singular piety and purity of conduct, goes by the Hebrew name of “baaltekiah”. He does not blow upon his instrument until directed to
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do so by another participant in the rite “a prompter” called the makri, who often as not, is the rabbi of the congregation. These are three prescribed sound clusters (tekiot) which are blown either individually or in combination. Whatever reasons the Jewish religious teachers and chroniclers have given for the institution of the rite of shofar-blowing, some modern Bible scholars and ethnologists hew to the theory that, when it originated among the Jews in primitive times, it was for the single purpose of terrifying and driving away evil spirits”. (Excerpt from THE SHOFAR).
In this Age, the Bride feels that the blowing of the rams horn signifies that the ram speaks eventhough dead, that it has given life for someone for whom it died and that it possessed nothing of its own till death and that every inch of its body was useful to man and that its blood was never shed in vain as it typed the Lord Jesus Christ the Lamb of God which made her deathless and gave immortality.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – The Trumpet of God
THE TRUMPET OF GOD
The Word TRUMPET means ‘a wind instrument made of ram’s horn or any other animal, or a long metal tube with one or two bends and ending in a bell, to sound or proclaim’. (Also ‘Trump’ is a corruption of the word ‘Triumph’). Trumpet needs blowing without any big noise at its mouth, but it magnifies the sound like a loud-speaker. What we are now dealing with is the Trump of God; not the trump of man made of metal or animal’s horn. Everything which God has created should declare His glory like a Trumpet (Ps. 29). We have got into much discord since the fall of Adam and Eve and every denomination with its own scriptural interpretations has more or less become like a country speaking different languages. When I was on tour in Germany moving among the German people who mostly didn’t know any language other than German, I felt very lonely and it reminded me of the various denominations speaking different languages each having its own doctrines based on its own interpretations of the scriptures with no possibility for anyone standing on God’s Word to try to produce fellowship or harmony to declare the glory of God. God’s name is simply blasphemed by these denominations through their activities not in conformity with the Word of God. They certainly cannot be of God since they do not seek to glorify Him. Anyone who is not on God’s Word cannot glorify God and can never be His trumpet. The denominations are like Babel having different languages (interpretations). Therefore, God has to root out these denominations whose only aim is to make a “big name for themselves”. As the supposed Trumpet of God (consisting of the so called people of God) produces an uncertain sound, no one is getting ready or alerted (I Cor. 14:8). But it cannot be like that in this Bride Age.
The present day World Council of Churches seek to establish what they call ‘World Fellowship’ at all costs without touching matters which might hurt some group or individual and thereby make people to follow a path other than the one pointed out by God in His Word.
Psalms 19 says “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man”. The Trumpet should be blown before the Ark of the Tabernacle in this Bride Age (God tabernacled in a man - Psalms 148). Rev.10:6 was the time when the Angel swore by Him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things that are therein. This is the time when the Last Trumpet of God should blast. The word ‘Trumpet’ in Hebrew (Old Testament) means “Shophar or Shofar”. In Greek (New Testament) it has a root meaning such as Salpigx, Salno, Salevo, Salos: meaning quavering or reverberation, shake, disturb, move, to rock, topple, vibration of billows, waves, destroy, stir up, shake (together) etc. We all know the Voice of God either creates or destroys. The voice of Resurrection creates the Spotless Bride and separates her totally.
Man is the only being which never obeyed God since the time of Adam and Eve and the whole creation groaneth after their fall. All things created are like God’s Trumpet declaring His glory in harmony but now there is a discord among the creatures and hence an uncertain sound is produced (I Cor. 14:8). God’s great Trumpet (the Bride) is now in the process of being made. It will be completed when the last person in the living Bride is included. The most powerful blast would then sound through it (Bride - acting as a channel of God’s Voice) combined by the praises of the whole beings in heaven, earth and the sea to declare the glory of God. This great blasting sound will vibrate the whole universe and make the dead sleeping saints to rise up. When the Church of God (Bride) is united to the Bridegroom with
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love, like the body to the head, and the Bride obeys the Bridegroom, then the Love of the Bridegroom (Lord Jesus Christ) will start to flow freely and spontaneously without any pressure through human force, money, fear and intimidation. It will be like the love that exists between a true husband and a sincere wife (I Pet. 3:1-7). The Lord cannot descend finally to raise the dead saints if there is no harmony in His creation. Disobedience brought death and obedience now brings Life and Glory. “When the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him” (II Kings 3:15). Music brings down glory of God (II Chronicles 5:1314; 7:13). Where is that glory today? Do you suppose the glory of God is in the conducting of ‘Showy Revivals’ etc where mere shouting and jumping about goes on like during the time of Elijah when the Baal’s priests danced the full day accomplishing nothing? Your God is dead and deaf. He cannot hear; perhaps has undertaken a long journey never to return! You may shout and jump or even cut your bodies to bleed but there won’t be any response. You stupid bunch of snakes, crawling on the stomach, filled with greed for money and worldly possessions going in a crooked course always compromising and staying out of God’s Word, with your Christianity you try to hinder the blowing of the Trumpet of God (Bride Message); you will continue to do this till the Last Trump is blasted when a set of people will sing in harmony to the tune of God and bring down His power to earth to raise the dead. Music brings God down. The Shout was over when God spoke to the Prophet from Air revealing the Seven Seals. The Voice of the Archangel has already sounded with resurrection power and now is blasting through the Trumpet of God (The Bride) which is coming into shape.
Since man does not give glory to God, the whole creation groaneth, and they are also under the bondage of corruption (Romans 8:18-23). As the Message goes through the Bride, the Trumpet becomes more and more perfect till the last blast when the Bride will be in perfect harmony with all created things. The Last Trumpet Message should make the Bride a perfect Trumpet of God along with all other created beings and matter which, sounding in harmony, will bring down the hand of God and glorify the Son of man. The Lord Jesus Christ then descends to the sleeping saints lying down in earth below and raises them up. Hallelujah! Let us make the work quick for God in becoming one body of people throughout the world saying blessing and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever!! (Rev. 5:13). Our Lord and Master becomes the Supreme Authority over the entire Universe and we will be the privileged people, according to His foreknowledge and election, to serve and worship Him and give all the glory due to Him for He raised us from our fallen nature to Adam’s former glory or to even above the glory of the Angels which we had with Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world. Immediately after the Last Trumpet blast, the Son of man is glorified and the Sleeping Saints rise and appear and the Bride puts on glory with mighty Spoken Word Ministry. Then earthquakes and tidal waves would occur and judgement starts striking. Oh! My! It is all so close. There is no doubt that we are all living in the closing scenes of human history. Let the fear of our Lord make us all get ready to fly away with Him.
The Voice of God to His Bride or His chosen ones produces a shaking in the place (I Kings 19:11-12). It brings whirlwind renting the mountains, then comes the earthquake, then fire and then a still small voice. This is the Trumpet of God. The whole universe responds in resonance to the music (Voice of God). The Seven Messengers blow the ram’s horns and the Bride Message is propagated not by begging but by faith lines living like a sheep which has no property and without care for tomorrow, yet everything in its body is useful to man. It will only hear the Voice of its Master. The Horn is for the defence of the ram. The Bride, having forsaken everything of this world, has become the Trumpet of God. She could blow the message in a Sheep’s horn way (or the real Biblical Way) and not in a Goat’s horn way i.e., conducting great grand city - wide crusades, radio and television broadcasts etc. The
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horn is united into one solid mass through the head (thought of Christ) and there are no divisions. It cannot be artificially made. God will do the work of stirring the Bride. The Trumpet of God, when blown after perfection, is something great which at Rapture and Third Coming on Mount Olives will shake mightily the heavens and earth (Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:25; Luke 21:26; Acts 4:31; 16:26; Heb. 12:27). That is why wherever this message is accepted, you see nature rejoices and vindicates because it is God’s handiwork. The Bride Ministry is conducted by God Himself being the last and final hope of the Gentile dispensation.
Revelation of the Most confusing passage in the Bible which threw the Denominations off the true path owing to mistranslation and Denominational Misconception in regard to the Dead people and their souls having also no knowledge whatsoever of Oriental Customs of the Marriage Ceremony without checking with God’s Word and consequently not knowing that the Lord Jesus Christ comes to this earth to take the Bride, brought about multiple Erroneous doctrines by which the majority of people were made to stumble and die in the Gentile period without firm faith except the fortunate few who identified with the Messengers of each church age and now revealed in this Bride age at the end of the Seven Church Ages. I Thess. 4:13-17.
King James Version
“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. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which SLEEP in Jesus will God BRING WITH HIM. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
Greek Word to Word
“Not we wish but you to be ignorant brethren concerning those having fallen asleep so that not you may grieve as even the others those not having a hope. If for we believe that Jesus died and arose, so and the God those having slept through the Jesus will LEAD OUT WITH HIM. This for to you we may say by Word of Lord that we the living ones those being left over to the coming of the Lord not may precede those having slept because himself the Lord with a Command, with voice of Chief Messenger and with a Trumpet of God will come down from heaven and the dead ones in Anointed will be raised first: afterwards we the living ones those being left over at the same time with them shall be caught away in clouds for A MEETING OF THE LORD INTO AIR and so always with the Lord shall we be”.
Emphatic Diaglott
“We do not wish you to be ignorant brethren concerning those having fallen asleep so that you may not grieve as those others who have not a hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and arose so also (we believe) that God through Jesus will LEAD FORTH WITH HIM those who fell asleep. For this we affirm to you by the Lord’s Word that we the living who are left over to the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who fell asleep. Because the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a Shout, with an Archangel’s voice and with God’s Trumpet and the dead in Christ will be raised first. Then we, the living who are left over, shall at the same time with them be caught away in the clouds FOR A MEETING OF THE LORD IN THE AIR and we shall be always with the Lord”.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – The Trumpet of God
We must realize that St. Paul knew everything which was revealed by God for that particular Church Age. Only one attribute of the Seven Spirits of God was revealed to each Church Age until the end-time when the fullness of God should be revealed to the Bride in total to give her rapturing faith. God also revealed to St. Paul something more to increase his faith and that of his followers which was necessary for their resurrection after death. To this end God had to take him to third heaven and made him see and hear so many mysteries. (II Cor. 12:2-4) “which it is not lawful for a man to utter”. Also St. John who had so many things shown by God about the second coming says: “It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see Him as he is” (I John 3:2). Now see this contradictory remarks. He did not know “how we shall be” and yet he says “we shall be like Him (when we shall be like Him it invariably means that He shall be like us) for we shall see him as he is”. John’s statement is like telling “I do not know New York City but when you see it, no doubt, it will be like a big city”. Can’t you understand that they were so much in obedience to God’s commands that even though God personally revealed many things to them, they expressed to others only what God instructed and completely remained dumb and concealed what He wanted them to conceal (Thunder Mystery). This clearly shows that all the dead saints will rise at the Voice of the Resurrection when Jesus appears as he should at the Last Trump when the living saints will be ready to be glorified in this earth.
Now coming to this most confusing passage (I Thess. 4:13-17), we used to break our heads about God bringing the dead saints with Him when Jesus returns and also about the dead and living saints meeting the Lord in the Air. I was surprised that even Prophet William Branham failed to clearly explain this passage when particularly it concerned the Thunder Mystery of God coming down, and the dead being raised from their graves and the living putting on immortality. Many think this to be something like Alice in Wonderland or a Fairy Tale, and that the dead will never rise at all. What is the use for such people to believe in God at all? At last the people in India who believe the end-time message thought themselves cornered on this particular part of scripture and did not know the answer. The Word of God is always true. Recently I was travelling in a train with my thoughts deeply engrossed at the wonderful way the Lord has been moving in glory these days and started meditating on this particular passage (I Thess. 4:13-17). I said to myself “If only this passage is clarified, how boldly we could preach to the people, having a perfect message to be expressed without any fear”. The Lord confirmed again that His Word is true at all times and that we can rely on every Word of God and none will fail as JESUS NEVER FAILS and revealed the meaning of this passage to me. I was thrilled and full of joy. First of all we must understand that “Air” does not start from above our heads but just from the surface of the earth and as we go higher and higher, it becomes empty. When I reached Madras, I explained the following revelation to the people there and with this new thought we felt a terrific power taking away all our burden and confusion and lifting us up to a great height of spiritual enlightenment.
In the Bible, we find Death to be referred as Sleep. When a man sleeps in Chicago or Madras, and someone wakes him up, he certainly does not come from Mars or Africa. He comes from where he is sleeping. Lazarus and Jairus’ daughter were actually dead but Jesus said they were only sleeping and people laughed to hear Him say like that. He brought them back to life by the Voice of Resurrection (John 11:11; Mark 5:39-40). So the dead people are actually the sleeping ones in the sight of Jesus Christ. They are the sleeping saints who rise first and get ready to take off for the Reception arranged in heaven while the Living Bride gets herself ready putting on the new glorious garment (Immortality) to go with the Lord. The people who die without accepting Jesus are the ones who are really dead (not dead in Christ) in the worldly sense. That’s why He said “Let the dead bury the dead” (Matt. 8:22).
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We have to make clear in our minds certain things here. The living saints (Bride) in this age who will put on immortality cannot precede or go before the dead saints in Christ rise up first (1 Thess. 4:15). So it is vain to look for rapture before the dead saints (sleeping) are resurrected first. Jesus said that His Disciples would desire to see one of the days of the Son of man and they shall not see it (Luke 17:22). (This is the Key verse to unfold the truth hidden). Now if the Disciples were brought by the Lord when He descended on the Moon Landing Day, they would have seen the days of the Son of Man. To make this verse agree with the rest of the Scripture, the Son of Man should have come down to this earth without the sleeping saints accompanying Him and He should not be here when they rise from the dead. If the dead in Christ rise up even a day before the Son of Man leaves this world in glory, they will see one of the days of the Son of man. Neither can they rise up even a day after the Son of Man is glorified since the Last Trumpet blast of the Son of Man blown on earth only can and will wake them up from their sleep. To be more clear, the Disciples are not supposed to see the days of the Son of Man and yet they should hear His Last Trumpet blast on this earth. [This period of God’s Heavenly Light - Jesus coming down - and preaching judgement to the Gentiles is the half hour silence (Rev. 8:1) and the great hidden thunder mystery which is the capstone message which will set right all missing links in the Bible and make the Word of God perfectly clear. (Isaiah 41:2; 46:11)]. This will be possible only if the glorification of the Son of Man and the Resurrection of the Disciples (Sleeping Saints) take place simultaneously at the Last Trumpet Blast. This mystery of God coming down to give RAPTURING FAITH to the Living Bride and preach judgement to the Gentiles was concealed and even now no one except the sheep of God or the Bride will get a revelation. As soon as the Bride acquires full rapturing faith, the work of the Son of Man is completed and he should be straightaway glorified at the Last Trump when the dead in Christ also rise up from their graves.
When we say God has come down on the Moon Landing Day, the Pentecostals and other denominational people ask “Have the dead been raised and come with God on Moon Landing Day? Anyone who questions like this is really not on the Word of God. It clearly says that the dead will rise only at the Last Trumpet which means it should blow six times before the final blast. The living saints should hear the Seven Trumpet (Bride) messages accompanied by the vindication of thunders. These messages alone will have the confirmation by a peculiar variety of thunders and pillars of fire when preached by the Seven Messengers and/or many Angels of God provided there is at least one grain of wheat fully opened lying in the respective areas. If there is just chaff and hay, you will see the sky clear with no such thunders and pillar of fire. These strange lightnings (Pillar of Fire) should flash unaccompanied by thunders which happens with normal lightnings. People who hear these messages through the seven Angels of God and through others will also, in turn, get the confirmation by thunders, lightning and even earthquakes provided they sincerely accept and act on it. We see Moses was resisted by Jannes and Jambres and many others but the first was the Original as the prophet said, but please note that Joshua’s ministry could never be imitated by anyone in Canaan such as making the Sun standstill etc., and one was on the death side of Jordan and the other on the life side of Jordan - JOSHUA, a visible messenger with the fullness Jehovah. So do not be afraid. The Bride Ministry or the Son of Man Ministry cannot be imitated since others, however sincere and good they are with imitated holiness, will not get similar vindications.
After the Rapture, there will rise up so many impersonators since the Bride will not be here, and the forsaken ones having missed the great thing (Rapture), will believe anything however cheap it is. No one who knows Bro. Branham will ever deny him as a great prophet and the Seventh Church Age Messenger. But still there are many contradictory statements found in his books. Why should it be like that? Was it to disprove his Ministry? No! Never. I
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was trying to find out the whole of last night with my son to see if anywhere Bro. Branham says that he has laid any trap for false ones. Yes! If you turn to “The Anointed Ones at the End time” Page 53, he says, “FOR EVEN AGAINST MY BETTTER JUDGEMENT, as I wanted to be a TRAPPER (One who sets a trap), but IT IS THE WILL OF MY FATHER, and that is why I declare this and I AM DETERMINED TO DO IT”. Have you seen wild animals caught up suddenly in a trap and caged? They walk, jump and bite and behave as if walking miles up and down inside the cage, but in reality they would have walked only about 6 feet distance all the way. There are some people like a Gramophone record that keeps on producing the same tune every time you play and if there is a crack or a chip went off, it will produce the same crackling noise. They are like Samson grinding the mill after he was blinded and are beyond all hopes and no one will ever deliver them out of the trap to harm the Bride. Nevertheless they are free to howl, screech and do all sorts of mimics, but the Bride will not even take communion spread by them any more as the Master has come to take charge of her and she has made a Covenant with Him.
We all know the SHOUT was over when the Lord spoke from the Air to Prophet Branham revealing the Seven Seals. The Message had to be shouted i.e., loudly acclaimed throughout the world since God had to speak to the Prophet from a certain distance above the earth i.e., God descended but did not reach the Earth. The descent of the Lord is in three stages. First He spoke to the Prophet from the Air and revealed the seals to the Bride. You who vehemently preach that the thunders have already been revealed - and even if we agree -which is the mystery of God coming Down to this good solid earth surface, don’t you openly show ignorance thereof by declaring everything is finished with the Prophet which the Prophet Himself flatly denies in all his messages. After the revelation of the seven seals, the Lord continued to descend. The Voice of the Archangel (or the Voice of Resurrection) roared already when God came down and touched the earth and thereby acting the mystery of the Seven Thunders. You will see in most of the messages just prior to his death, the Prophet clearly said that God would come down to earth and be personalised, but in earlier messages he was not clear and said ‘in the air’. You who oppose us tooth and nail, if a prophet one time tells ‘in the air’ and another time tells ‘on the earth’ don’t you think that this contradiction is to trap you or at least will you agree this to be a contradiction? I can boldly show you many instances in this regard, but why don’t you come to reason on the Word of God? These contradictions are to only trap the people not on God’s Word while helping the Bride on God’s Word to know the way. Those of you who do not want the people to check everything with God’s Word and take only the Spoken Word Books edited or as it is, having such clear contradictions will either make them go to a mental hospital accepting both the contradictions or make them blind. Thank God for the Prophet who trapped the goats and let the sheep free to hear God’s Voice from His Word. We are now in the period of God’s Trumpet and the Last Trumpet will blast off before the tribulation which would commence by middle of 1973 or earlier. The end of this world order should be in 1977 according to the visions seen by the Prophet. I am not setting this date; it is what the Prophet said. 31/2 years tribulation precedes this.
Now coming to the most knotty points (I Thess. 4:13-17), let us consider certain particular works such as “BRING WITH HIM”. The question that arises here is “Where are the dead in Christ?” The Emphatic Diaglott says “LEAD FORTH WITH HIM”. Do you not understand that both mean different things? One means, bring the souls of saints from somewhere and bring them down before the Lord touches the earth while the other means, the Lord touches the earth and leads the transformed dead into glory. Which one will you take for you? Also “Meeting the Lord in the air” is the passage in our Bible and if you really take the original Greek, it means (in Emphatic Diaglott) “For a Meeting of the Lord in the air”. Do you think both these passages also mean the same thing? The former means that we will meet the
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Lord in the air only since He does not come down to the earth at all and we should put on the glory and reach the air to meet the Lord midway. The Bride does not do that at all. If the Lord should come down and lead us forth for a meeting of the Bridegroom in the air, it certainly means that the Bride and all the persons concerned with the Bride’s party and Bridegroom’s party take off after the wedding to participate in the Reception arranged by the Bridegroom after we all put on glory and be in the ethereal sphere. As the disciples knew that Jesus died and rose again, they believed they will rise again at the last day having firm faith on Jesus Christ who showed many examples of resurrection. This was their comfort. What is our comfort then? Unless we see Jesus come down to this earth as a man and be changed to immortality without passing through death, our faith cannot rise up to rapturing standard in these days of “no faith”. This should be the faith of the Bride who lives now ready to take off. When it is said, “this we say by the Word of the Lord”, it really means our THUS SAITH THE LORD, an unshakable fact. The sleeping friends of the Bride and Bridegroom should be awakened before they leave for the Reception or Wedding Supper in the air, but the Bride does not sleep at all but is ready in ecstasy to be transformed and caught up by the Bridegroom to New Jerusalem, dressed in glory. This ‘Thus saith the Lord’ is meant for the people living at the end i.e., God speaking direct through Paul to the Bride saying that the Bride cannot put on glory before the dead rise up.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – The Two Witnesses
THE TWO WITNESSES
There are many answers for this from various people without considering the fundamental ideas of the Word of God. Enoch and Elijah were the two people who did not die. Moses died before entering Canaan. Let me quote from ‘The Revelation of the Seven Seals” (Book 9) regarding these two witnesses:
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“I don’t know. If I don’t know I am just going to tell you, I don’t know all the answers folks, I don’t know. And if I don’t know, I am going to tell you I don’t know. If I do know ........ I won’t tell you till I do know, but I don’t know. I have often wondered about that myself”
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“Now I don’t say that is right. I just give you that for a thought. But just to say what part, I don’t know, I really can’t tell you what happened there or what God will do”.
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“Now, if I could answer that correctly, I could tell you about Enoch, see, but I can’t do it, you see. The only thing I know is just the Scripture said it, what it will be, and now it might be that the...Now I kind of inclined...(now let me say it this way and I hope the tapes, the brethren on the tapes will understand this). I am inclined to believe that it will be ANOINTED MAN OF THEIR SPIRIT (not Moses and Elijah themselves) because see he says “Does not (on Elisha)...does not the spirit of Elijah rest on Elisha? - the spirit of Elijah. And he done just like Elijah did...see, but I can’t say that is true. I don’t know, see. I am honest with you, I don’t know”.
Now when the Angel in Revelation 10 swears, that finishes the period of the Son of man and you can see John rises on the scene, to take the Book from the Angel - the Message without which the Tree of Life cannot be reached. John, as a representative of the sleeping saints, who was dead 2000 years ago, rises simultaneously when the Son of Man is glorified. He eats this bitter message. This Son of Man ministry is not propagated by the Son of Man himself. He will send forth his angels or messengers. It is untouched by man and God plans and propagates it. So the dead saints put on the glory like when Jesus preached to the souls in prison and took captivity captives delivering all those who believed in His sacrifice as a Lamb. They could not be perfect till the Crucifixion could be a fact. Now John takes the message to the peoples, nations, tongues and Kings out of which the sleeping saints of the Seven Church Ages rise. The message for the Bride, as it touches the awakened saints, makes them put on glory when believed. The Bride Message had by then already gone all over the world and rejected totally except the Bride - THE GRAINS OF RIPE WHEAT. A body can be seen outside in a visible form, but the internal organs are never seen outside without which the body cannot be perfect. Without the torch bearers of the Seven Church Ages who stood for the Truth, the Bride could never have reached this age and the Bridegroom could not have come down. Without the Apostles dying under the ground and becoming the roots, the plant of the Bride Tree could not have come. Everyone is important in the sight of God. Let us be satisfied without lot which God assigns for us in this Great Age.
“Prophecy again” means John has prophesied already. To whom has he prophesied first? To the peoples since the time of Lord Jesus, Seven Church Ages till the Bride Age, to those who died in faith to rise on the last day. The greatest thing now is, the Bible does not say just Two witnesses but “MY WITNESSES” i.e., they must witness to something happened. These two witnesses are not Moses and Elijah, but two people with their anointing who saw God coming down or rather the Angel coming down (Jesus Christ) and His stay in this earth
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for a period of 31/2 years. They are called “My Witnesses” by the ANGEL who came down to take the Bride. They are two great people who were so close to the Truth and seen terrible vindications which others could not enjoy. Mainly they are two pure Jewish people who are not of the Gentile Bride and so they witness about the Bride Messenger to the Jews in Palestine, about their Deliverer and His identity and His return to help them. This brings mighty vindications and brings the Jews to the Lord. Then their prayers are answered and they are filled with the Holy spirit. God then comes to fight for them on Mount Olives. Deliverance to Israel does not come from any other nations but by the Lord Jesus’ direct action supporting Israel. In the 31/2 years (after Rapture) they i.e., the Two witnesses, mightily shake the country of Palestine which John measures out or anoints (refer Lamsa’s translation of the Bible from Aramaic) with great signs. They prophesy in sack cloth (signifying contrite heart) because they had only the “sack cloth” left and they take with them everything which they had to prove that they are witnesses of the Bride Ministry of God coming down. Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, but what this Spiritual Sodom and Egypt where “their Lord was crucified” (see Emphatic Diaglott). They get life after death just as other saints of other Church ages. They are neither the Seven Church Age saints nor the Bride but go to comfort the mourning Israelites at the Wailing Wall. If they are real Elijah and Enoch, they went without death because they pleased God. If they should come and die again they should displease God again and fall down backsliding into this world and die again for their displeasing God and they should get life out of Grace. It obviously sounds nonsense. It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgement (Hebrews 9:27). If a man does not die, it means God came into that man in fullness because he walked by faith. They go in a cloud as they preach the Bride Ministry. This privilege is given to them as they had the opportunity to see God coming down in this age and helped the “Secret coming like a Thief”. We do not know who they are but they will be vindicated, but the Bride will not be here as the Voice now calls these two witnesses from heaven to life. All other places other than which John measured will have no anointing of God but darkness.
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The Feast of the Tabernacles – To Comfort all that Mourn
TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN
When we comfort someone, we try to satisfy the person with something as the real one is missing, a shadow, or prototype. When a child cries, we tell all kinds of things to comfort, but when it sees the mother, it stops crying. So also when the two witnesses go to the Jews, it means they go in the place of God to comfort them who are now mourning for the arrival of the Messiah to restore them to former place. This clearly means it was night time when Jesus went away at first, the Gentiles had a bunch of people filled with the Holy spirit to comfort them in the night time.
The time is very short. When commandos, guerillas, communists, Muslims, Hindu sadhus etc., leave everything and consecrate their lives to achieve something like a reality they have seen, why should the people brought from Egypt and Sin and Sickness be upset at this call to forsake worldly things? Jesus never laid down any age limit or qualifications. During the days of Noah and Sodom Gomorrah’s time, people planted, got married, builded, bought and sold etc. Does it mean that these are to be considered as sins? No! As they did not realise that destruction was so close they went on in their routine worldly prosperous things. Likewise now in the days of the SON OF MAN when the sign had already come and gone for these days through the PROPHET and there is no more time to fool about, what is the use of centering our thoughts around things of this world or concentrate on “How to prosper in this world?” Such an attitude is a crime which will destroy you ultimately. Out of the Love of God and seeing something from Him to warn the people, I humbly send this message to those who love the Lord Jesus with their full heart, but to those who get angry with me, my advice is: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still” - Rev.22:11. We are free people with free choice to do what we like and free to voice our opinion and revelations. There are many revelations which please people and bring about worldly popularity and wealth, but it is not true Love. We are now in the period of True Love. A Rolling Stone gathers no moss. This Bride Ministry is a Stone which comes rolling untouched by human hands. How can stationary objects have fellowship with rolling or rotating things? A man on God’s Word should be like the sun rolling without any dependence of anything. Then only he becomes a Holy Roller. If the harmony produced by the Bride could make God descend and raise the sleeping saints, it can also transform the living small children who are also like ‘dead’ since they are guileless and innocent which qualities are well pleasing to God and He expects everyone of us to be like that. I believe that the parents who sincerely identify themselves with the Bride Message can bring God’s power on their children and help them achieve immortality. Do not be afraid, O Bride!
I am not only a rejected man but also the worst sinner this world could find, and without any standing or qualification that this world could offer. Once I just tried to go to the Assemblies of God Bible School. I was there for a week and then the Voice of God warned me to get out immediately. The Lord punished me severely every time I went to have anything to do with denominations. Thank God when He chastises. I read the Word of God and have always been basing my foundation on it at all costs. I have no extraordinary brain or knowledge like the many people living in this world. All that I have stated here is what suddenly came into my thoughts through the fullness of the Holy Spirit which I could never find in any commentaries or books read by me. I am willing to be corrected if anything is not in accordance with the Word of God. This message is specifically meant for the people who have the mighty assurance of flying away shortly with the Lord Jesus Christ after putting on the glorious garment of immortality. If I have hurt you in any way, please bear with me as it is not intentional. May the Lord keep you in this hour. This is not to show us Big. I, with the help of Lord Jesus, aim at giving only the best spiritual food to HIS FLOCK needed in these
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last days, and to this end I spend most of my time in meditation, prayer and writing.
“Loving Jesus who has come down graciously into this sin stricken world to prepare thy own to take us all to New Jerusalem giving us glorious bodies; we thank You for your ways which are marvellous in our eyes and simple. We adore thee for opening our blinded eyes so that we could see You. Thank you for increasing our faith on thee when the world is getting dark. Thank you for the sunshine which makes us ripe in thee. Thank You for the Prophet who brought us in the way and gone, and now to see You reveal before us the New Name and thunders and be united with the Bride. We also thank for all those who oppose this Way and for the Jannes and Jambres who have caught all the goats and sign seekers so that we could, not only hear your voice but walk closely with you without hindrance. We surrender our lives without any reserve. Have your own way in our lives and fulfill thy plan for this Age you gave us the privilege to live in. In the NEW NAME of our Lord Jesus Christ we ask thee - AMEN”
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