Son of Man
SON OF MAN
Message to the Bride Delivered by
Paulaseer Lawrie Muthu Krishna [Lord Shri Lahari Krishna]
My sheep hears My Voice
NEW WINE
In Canaan town, at a wedding feast
One day long years gone by
The Son of Man sat down to eat But He was in disguise.
They all partook of meat prepared
His mother and the rest
But in the midst of food so good They were of wine, bereft.
The hour came and the Son of Man
Bid them cast all reason down
Then they drank the wine by Him prepared The best they’d ever found. We ate the food the Prophet gave We knew it was the Word
We waited in the Son and prayed And lingered with the Lord.
But like as in the days of yore
When out of wine they ran
We longed to feel the joy of God See Him reveal His hand.
And so it was The Son of Man To us New Wine has given The joy we now cannot contain Since He has come from Heaven.
A little man from out the East
Like lightning to the West
Provided us with this New Wine It is indeed the best.
We thank the Lord we saw the flash
And know that soon we’ll be
Forever with the Lord we love
And His face we will see.
(Poetess Laura Anderson, Alberta, Canada)
AN ASTOUNDING TRUTH KEPT HIDDEN FOR NEARLY 2000 YEARS BUT NOW REVEALED AND UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY THE BRIDE THROUGH THE END-TIME MINISTRY HEADED BY Bro. R. P. LAWRIE
PREFACE
The year 1961 was most remarkable in that it marked the initiation of a mighty revival fire
Page 114 of 9296
Son of Man
never before witnessed which initially swept the entire state of Madras and subsequently the other States in India. The power of God was manifest to millions of people in India. Devils screamed before this mighty power, the sick were miraculously healed and cancerous tumors and goiters disappeared instantaneously. Both Christians and non-Christians praised the name of Jesus Christ. The song “He is the same unchanging Jesus” was on everyone’s lips, irrespective of caste, creed, religion and nationality.
A burly, young, unassuming preacher from India, Bro. R. Paulaseer Lawrie Muthukrishna was used mightily of God for this revival. Every day the meeting was attended by well over a lakh of people. Their conscience was awakened to the realisation of the existence of God. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit gripped the entire audience spellbound.
These meetings were conducted entirely by faith. No demand whatsoever for funds was made in any of these meetings, as is customary in the normal revival meetings, both foreign and Indian. The Lord Himself met all the needs miraculously.
It was obvious that the Lord Jesus Christ raised Bro. Lawrie for India to propagate the truth with Apostolic power. But then, least was it realised that the Lord was to give him a world wide ministry for the preparation of the Bride during end-time.
In 1964, even before my acquaintance with Bro. Lawrie, the Lord gave me a strange experience. I was mightily anointed and He spoke to me in an audible voice. He told me He would come into a man of His choice who would prepare the Bride for rapture. Further, He told me I would be associated with His son, Bro. Lawrie, in a powerful end-time ministry. True to it, I came in contact with Bro. Lawrie in a few years time. All along I had no conception of the seriousness and importance of the end-time ministry. I happened to come across Bro. Branham’s books including the Spoken Word series which brought me back to the Word of God. Having gone through all his books, I decided to translate the Book on ‘Seven Church Ages’ into my own language (Tamil) which proved extremely useful to many in recognising the secret coming of Christ. We believe Bro. Branham to be the forerunner to a Ministry to be followed forthwith. If there is a forerunner, there must be someone to follow, and Bro. Branham himself was talking about the ‘third pull’ which was yet to come and of which he had a glimpse like that Moses had of Canaan. But Joshua led the people into Canaan and not Moses. If the Bride has to be raptured without death, then the man who has to lead the Bride or into whom God comes first, will not have to see death. He will have Supernatural vindications which can never be imitated as Prophet Branham has said, nor can any propaganda be made through the medium of radio, television, advertisement etc or by organising financial drives.
This Ministry is a ‘stone’ Ministry; a ‘stone’ untouched by human hands. We know that the true seeds (Bride) will not hurt each other except they be thorns. The Bride will not believe any human propaganda, but follow the Supernatural vindications by God on those who are totally on God’s Word. I also kept guessing as to the nature of this Ministry. But the messages of Bro. Lawrie, delivered in Chicago at the time man was attempting to land on the moon, opened my eyes to the truth and gave me a glimpse of the powerful Bride Ministry to follow. These messages convincingly brought home the truth of the descent of the Lord to the earth when man reached moon.
An American couple, who accompanied Bro. Lawrie on his return from U.S.A., narrated to us the events that took place at the time of the descent of the Lord. We were informed that while Bro. Lawrie was preaching to a small gathering in Ohio (U.S.A.), flames of fire proceeded from his eyes which was witnessed by many gathered there including Bro. L.D. Dale and Sis. Susie Baker who are now active witnesses in this end-time Ministry. We were further told that the descent of the Lord was marked by lightning and thunders which took a
Page 115 of 9296
Son of Man
heavy toll of lives.
It was surprising to hear that a pillar of cloud was following Bro. Lawrie wherever he went. We had to see it to believe; the Lord certainly has vindicated His ministry. In the course of a few months, we have witnessed several types of clouds following him - angelic, smoky, glassy etc. Besides, thick clouds encircle his residence during the day time while a shining flame of fire emits light at regular intervals throughout night in fulfillment of the promises in Isaiah 4:5.
All those who accept this message of the Lord coming down, and take the oath of allegiance to the Bridegroom (the Lord Jesus Christ) have a similar vindication in their lives. This New Covenant infills the covenant member with the New Spirit which gives the joy that the world cannot give, the peace that passeth all understanding and the assurance of immortality and glorification of the physical bodies.
Bro. Lloyd Williams of U.S.A. who started rather skeptically was so overwhelmed with the vindication he observed during his short stay in India that now he is completely convinced about this truth. The sun has set in the West and has now dawned in the East. Bro. Lloyd Williams, as a messenger to the West, is now carrying the truth from the East.
The tent vision seen by Bro. Branham was fulfilled with all its minutest details in Vellore, South India. The cloud formed an enormous roof over the extensive meeting grounds when Bro. Lawrie began to preach to the congregation. The ‘Spoken Word Ministry’ of the Bride became operative from then onwards. Bro. Lloyd Williams is a witness to the fulfillment of the tent vision. it was here that he was convinced about the truth and entered into the New Covenant, receiving the New Spirit and the consequent fullness of joy and victory over death.
We firmly believe that the ‘SON OF MAN’ message is the revelation of the thunder mystery which would give rapturing faith to the Bride and is a forerunner to a few others to follow. The believers of this message have together endeavoured to see this message in print so that it might become a blessing to the members of the Bride scattered throughout the world. We feel sure that the Lord has blessed this venture.
This SON OF MAN message is certainly a mystery hidden for about 2000 years, and which has now been revealed. The sheep of God will hear His voice.
Dr S.C. JACOB
JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER R. PAULASEER LAWRIE EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION, INDIA
JESUS NEVER FAILS
SON OF MAN
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me SHALL NEVER DIE”. John 11: 25 & 26.
“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightaway glorify him”. John 13:31 & 32.
“I pray thee”, said he, “tell me by what name doth thy master call himself. A prophet? Or a
Page 116 of 9296
Son of Man
teacher? Or doth he say that he is your Messiah? Or a law-giver like unto Moses?” But I made answer that Jesus called himself by none of these names: but, for the most part only “Son of Man”. Here at Xanthias of Alexandria marvelled and said, “But wherefore useth he this title? For thou and I and all men are not we all sons of men? Doth thy Master therefore fear lest His disciples may perchance forget that he is a man and deem him to be a God? For such a title as this, albeit humble in appearance, seemeth in verity too proud for any save such as aspire it to be gods. But perchance your prophets have so used this title that it hath some strange meaning whereof I know naught”.
Then I said that the Word was indeed used by the prophets: for whensoever the Lord speaketh to Ezekiel as to a mortal creature, the Lord calleth him Son of Man, as if to set the mortal infirmities of the prophet over against the divine nature of the Lord: but again the prophet Daniel saith that in the day of Judgement, there shall appear one like unto the Son of Man, sitting in the clouds of heaven and coming in glory to judge the nations of the earth: wherefore the title seemed to signify the weak nature of man, whether infirm or exalted, Howbeit, added I, before Jesus no prophet thus spake of himself as the Son of Man. Here at Xanthias marvelled the more saying that this was indeed a strange title, and such as no philosopher had ever before taken upon himself. Then he mused a while, still holding me by the cloak, and would have questioned me further: but I could tell him no more. So at last he let me go, shaking his head, and saying that it was strange, it was passing strange, and that there was more in this than he could understand: and as he turned himself to depart, I heard him repeating again to himself to depart, I heard him repeating again to himself that it was a proud title, a very proud title and such as no wise and sober philosopher should take. And thus he departed meditating as he went, and so rapt in his study that he forgot to bid me farewell, but when he was departed so that I had leisure to think on his wonder and on the cause thereof: then I also began to perceive that there was more than I had as yet understood, in this title of the Son of Man” ......... “When the Lord shall come, it shall not be after such manner as we expect and shape forth in our minds, but the manner thereof shall be unexpected and new, yet, none the less strange: yea, and perchance at the first, full of disappointment. For I perceive that all the dealings of the Lord with men are after this fashion. He ever prepareth some good thing for us, exceeding all that we had expected: notwithstanding, with the good there cometh also some wholesome pain or temptation that we expect not. For thus the Lord dealt with Adam in Paradise and thus with Israel in the Promised Land and thus also dealt the Lord Jesus with His disciples on earth. Wherefore thus also, I doubt not, the Lord Jesus will deal with His disciples now that He reigneth in heaven”...
(Memoirs of an Unknown Disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ - Philochristus)
Praise be to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I greet you all in the name of the Lord. It is wonderful to live in this age and to walk with God. This is not a Church Age but Bride Age with a lonely walk of God’s people leaning on the beloved (S.S. 8:5). We should be grateful to God for blessing the Chicago Moon Landing Messages and for bringing the Bride totally to the Word of God. Let us be careful to give all the glory to our Lord as it is sheer grace that He is mindful of us and not because of our righteousness. Thank you all and I praise God for the light we enjoy and for the wonderful letters. God has set us free now. This message was in my heart from Chicago, but the Lord permitted to type this out only now.
Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank thee and adore thee and worship thee for the way you redeemed us and for arranging to take us to the place you have prepared for us. Let the power of God at the end-time shake this country full of people like the sea and may
Page 117 of 9296
Son of Man
the light of the Sun of Righteousness shine to the ends of the Earth. Bless everyone who has gathered here and all those who hear the voice of God to whom this message would reach so that Your Spirit will draw them out of all bondage and set them free for the “take off”. We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; and he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein LAMENTATIONS, AND MOURNING AND WOE”. Ezekiel 2:8-10.
We all know that Jesus Christ was born of the Holy Spirit and the apt name is the Son of God, as He was born of a virgin and not to a man and woman in the usual human way of sexual relationship. If you search the Word of God, you will find no one called him as Son of Man but Son of God except Stephen in his vision, but Jesus associated Himself always as the Son of Man. What is the mystery about this? Also whenever His disciples asked Him when He should return, He did not say: “I will return, but the Son of Man would return”. If we consider the prophetical books, no prophet was called frequently by the Lord as Son of Man as Ezekiel and the important thing is that this Son of Man had not the gift of discernment at all. Elijah and Elisha had and they were more of a sort of Seers like Samuel, but this man speaks what God speaks and the Spirit enters into him and does all what God wants to do. I would advise you all to read Ezekiel with this new thought and this will help you to clear your minds of many wrong notions. We will come back to this prophet later. We all know it is a very narrow way to walk with God and every deep message instead of bringing a greater crowd, makes many go away who were supposed to be walking with God. When we grow wheat, the seed has to die first and the roots go down into the earth (like early Apostles) and then comes the leaves and only finally the grain of wheat comes and not in the middle. When we take the whole farming into consideration, the hay is greater in quantity but the grain is taken into the garner with special care and is lesser in quantity. Many people are under the impression that you get the wheat at every shooting forth of the leaf, but Jesus said the harvest is at the end of the world and not in the middle of the age or at any periods. When Adam, Son of God (not brought forth through human relationship) fell in sin, he fell down to a “seeing and believing” level instead of the glorious faith of ‘believing and seeing’ life. Now God came down to save us from every sin and redeem our souls, but unless and until man is brought to his former position by God, his redemption is not complete. This redemption of the body will take place when the Bride is translated, but this did not happen at crucifixion. As we notice things happening in this world, even our sixth sense would tell us that there is not much time left for human beings.
When we take into account St. John’s visions even though it applies to the seven churches in Asia, it also applies to the Seven Church Ages. So also every statement made by Christ seems to apply in His time and to His disciples at that time, but the Lord clearly showed me that most of His statements were interwoven so that no one would catch the time and mode of His return, nor the meaning of His sayings all through the ages until it is revealed now in this Bride Age. I have searched many concordances, Bible dictionaries, commentaries etc., but this has always been a mystery throughout the Gentile period. If we meditate on Jesus Christ’s Words, He said, “Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die: Believest thou this?” This is a very bold statement said by Jesus Christ and never by any religious leader of the world, but you will notice that everyone who lived and believed on Jesus Christ when He was here first did surely die, not even an exception. Did Jesus tell a lie or deceive them of a false promise, or is it something wrong in the period of time, or that people had no faith?
Page 118 of 9296
Son of Man
Yes, that was not the time, but what Jesus Christ meant was that when He comes back to the earth before taking the Bride, those who live and believe in the Son of Man into whom Jesus Christ comes will become immortal as well as those who identify themselves with the Lord Jesus Christ Who first appears as the head of the Bride, not as many conceive of a Bride without the head. The Bridegroom has a head and the Bride has a head but the head and the body of the Bride submit to the Bridegroom who also has a head. Many think of God’s Bride with the head cut off to be taken up with the Bridegroom who has a head. Now this Son of Man is not God but we do not consider the coat a man wears but the person who wears it. That’s why many people have a headless message or a message without a capstone. The Son of Man is so much dead that he does not live anymore except to manifest the Lord Jesus Christ. Since God gives a glorified body to the Son of Man and those who identify with him also will not die, and as death is sure and life is so uncertain, no one can boldly claim this, as many who fixed the date of His coming became fools at the end.
If this passage we quoted meant at the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, it clearly means Jesus told a deliberate lie, as many left all and believed in Jesus Christ and yet died. If we should have rapturing faith, we must have a foundation to base it in the Word of God. HALLELUJAH! Don’t you feel you are charged by the terrific power of God to hear that we are now living at the time when God transforms our bodies to overcome death in this generation! LOVE GOD AND FORSAKE THIS WORLD.
Many people who think they are going to meet God in the air think in a carnal way. When a man comes back to God’s total Word, he has to abandon this world and cannot be a citizen of this world. He is practically in the air sitting with Jesus in heavenly places. We are already in the air as we are on God’s Word. Heaven and earth will pass away but God’s Word will not pass away. We are in the air even though heaven and earth will pass. Jesus so cleverly concealed His mode of coming to take His Bride that the Gentiles will miss as the Jews missed His first coming. The Gentiles who vehemently attack the Jews for their blindness and gloating over their prosperity, will definitely find they become blind to see God’s move in this generation.
If you turn to Isaiah 61, it is prophesied in the second verse.
(1) to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord
(2) the day of vengeance of our God
(3) to comfort all that mourn.
Jesus Christ when He said: “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears” according to Luke 4:18-21, He only said “To preach the acceptable year of the Lord” and stopped there, but omitted the second coming for the Bride, “to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God”. And the third coming for the Jews with the Bride, “to comfort all that mourn (at the wailing wall)”.
The ways and dealings of God are so simple without any complications that the wise will never understand. Recently I got some literature from the United States with so many complications of dates such as solar calendar, lunar calendar and prophetic calendar and so on. I found these calculations so difficult and was wondering how can the simple understand this. But Christ has simplified methods which the simple ones will understand without difficulty.
Again in John 13:31 & 32 God was first glorified in Jesus Christ by raising Him from death, but He said He shall also glorify Him in Himself (second time as man) and shall straightaway glorify Him (without passing through death). This means that the Son of Man into whom Jesus should come, will not die but Himself will be glorified without passing through death
Page 119 of 9296
Son of Man
together with all who stand with Him at the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth to take away the Bride.
“As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 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 17:26-30.
Some people in the United States boldly say “the days of Noah will be there but Noah will not be there and the days of the Son of Man will be there but the Son of Man will not be there”. They stress only the “days”, but plainly this is because they are ignorant of spiritual things. During the days of Noah, there was a man called “Noah”. He built an ark and went as a family inside, destruction came and so on. During the days of Lot there was a man called Lot in a place called Sodom and Gomorrah and a man called Abraham outside that city and destruction by fire did really happen. If it is said as in the days of President Nixon there must be a man called Nixon. Therefore in the last days there should be similar circumstances like Noah’s days and Sodom and Gomorrah days, people will be totally for sin and completely rejecting God and there should be somebody as “Son of Man” as Jesus terms it. Oh! Bride of God, do you believe God’s Word or human thinking and human knowledge by so called scholars of the Bible but devoid of spiritual understanding.
If you read the Spoken Word books (I am not an authority but with what little I have read) as regards the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ there are certain portions I would like to mention:
“So we see that it is a complete mystery, therefore, the hour is not yet for these mysteries to be known. Therefore we are this far and the rest of it will be known right around the time that Jesus appears on EARTH again for His Bride, or whatever takes place at that time (the portion of the Seventh Seal edited by Bro. Branham........ fifth paragraph).
“We believe that there will be an evening light. And this evening light..... Of course, the great Light will come when Jesus Himself will be manifested here on earth or up in the heavens, taking away His Bride and then the Millennium will set in” (Christ is revealed in His Own Word - Page-38 ...here it is earth OR heavens -- doubtful).
Meeting the Lord in the air is the popular belief. Bro. Branham also mentions meeting in the air in some books.
There are three ways. So there are three groups of people. The Bride, wise virgins and foolish virgins. The Bride catches the places where it is said the Bridegroom comes to the earth to take her, while the foolish virgins catch the place where it is mentioned flying in the air (a reward seeker) as she runs to meet the Bridegroom and the wise virgins (heaven or earth) are not sure where and have no faith to know for certain and cannot be in the Bride. The Bride will not miss the rapture but will get the glorified body and will shine as the sun, but are very, very few in number.
In the same way, I read in Bro. Branham’s books certain things clearly and every time you ask this from anyone in the United States they get upset and instead of agreeing, they blame you as false serpent seed and the usual term is (the prophet will throw a rope and false ones will catch) but now I feel those people did not catch anything false; but have been somewhat correct by expecting something to follow and not dead as others who feed like vultures on dead carcass. Brothers and Sisters, I am not writing this out of any selfish motive. When I
Page 120 of 9296
Son of Man
first met a man who conveyed personally the death of Bro. Branham, the whole group at the Camp meeting in India cried because they love a real servant of God on God’s Word. But when we talked with some foreigners they said: “Brother, we are all gathering in Jeffersonville on Easter Day and Bro. Branham’s coffin is not yet laid to rest as we believe we will pray and he will rise up immediately and we will take him round by plane for a tent meeting”. This the Bride of India could not swallow, but yet we kept quiet.
Then during my meeting in Europe, England and then U.S.A. (my second missionary journey) the brethren talked with me very nicely and invited me to a nice dinner at a certain place. Just before meals, one spokesman from U.S.A. said: “Brother Lawrie, when Bro. Branham rises in Jeffersonville, I will take him by plane around the world and will bring him to India and what a glorious day that will be and so on. Amen! Amen!! Amen!!! I could not say Amen as my spirit did not agree (Oh! thank God for the anointing. The anointing will break every yoke!) I curtly remarked, “If Brother Branham could rise up by God’s power, then WHY DO YOU NEED AN AEROPLANE?” This upset the man and immediately all his promises of help in Indian work (false promises) failed and I was considered along with my wife as strangers immediately and was avoided and was not given much chance to preach thereafter.
Then in another place at an evening meeting, a preacher from U.S.A. said: Tucson is Jerusalem and Jeffersonville is Bethlehem and so on and the Seven Mountains are there and Jesus when He appears will stand in the mountain of Arizona, U.S.A. and it will split and so on and said that prophecy in Zechariah 14:4 will be fulfilled only in U.S.A. and all the people will have to come there and suddenly a foreigner got up and questioned and then there was a bit of commotion and the brother slandered me all over before I could reach U.S.A. and when questioned through another brother in U.S.A., this preacher flatly denied that he ever said anything like that or a situation like that ever happened.
My! You cannot believe even your ears and eyes or the tapes. I am writing this that nothing outside the Word of God will stand and we should not believe anything outside the Word of God. Most of the worldly people believe only what their kith and kin say but I want to personally tell you through these messages that we should see everything through the mirror of God (the Word of God) and not through our circumstantial position, human affection, relationship, colour, advantage of financial position etc.
During my travels in United States, I asked many people the question of lost tribes of Israel and every time I heard from big people cunning replies “I do not know” But from the Bible we know that the lost tribes of Israel according to God’s command were scattered like wind all over the world. You cannot find from outward evidence.
This Son of Man called Ezekiel was not God, but God used him as a sign for the Jews.
“Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do and when this cometh ye shall know that I am the Lord God.”
“In their sight shall thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in twilight: thou shall cover thy face, that thou see not the ground, for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel” - Ezekiel 12:6.
What all he did, Israel will at one time or other do.
If you meditate on the Word of God, at the time of Sodom and Gomorrah the Lord did not disappear after the discernment of the thought of Sarah, but the Covenant keeping Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the Nations (not West only but also the North and South and East) of the earth shall be blessed in him for I know him that he will command his
Page 121 of 9296
Son of Man
children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”
The Lord spoke to Abraham then the angels went into Sodom and Gomorrah and when they brought the people out of Sodom, then the Lord was there and Lot also talked with the Lord Who said: “Escape for thy life, look not behind,” but the Lord spared that small city Zoar eventhough condemned but the Lord rained fire and brimstone and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Also in Noah’s days the Lord comes to establish His covenant. Noah does all commanded by God and has personal fellowship. The Lord stood there and did not allow anyone not under the covenant and finally shuts the door before destruction and after the flood, opens the door and talks again, establishing the Covenant, sets the rainbow as a token of Covenant and blesses him and commands him just like a person to person.
This did not happen on one day. There was a period of time, as also in the case of Abraham and Lot there was a period of time. But if you will notice here, God said, “I set my bow in the cloud” (natural). The cloud was then as now a natural phenomenon but the bow was set by God as a refraction of 7 visible colours and infinite number of rays of the Sunlight, but He says “when I bring a cloud over the earth (at end-time), then the bow shall be seen in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting Covenant”. This clearly signifies the Lord coming down to this earth, clothed with cloud and is a sure sign when we see the circular rainbow around the sun and around the moon because of the miracle cloud of God, it is a sure sign of this world’s destruction by fire but not all flesh die of fire. God comes down and looks at the rainbow, Hallelujah! ‘Impossible’ the skeptic and sleeping virgins say; but the Bride goes on from glory to glory. This God’s cloud in the endtime can produce circular rainbow by refraction and around the sun and moon, rainbows should appear. Otherwise rainbows are seen only at certain angles. It is a sure sign of oncoming destruction by fire. A red signal for the Bride. These rainbows are visible in India, also frequently.
Genesis 9:13-17: “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember my covenant, which is between you and every living creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah: This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
“Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come.”
“As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”.
Jonah was in the stomach, body, soul and spirit - but Jesus went only in the Spirit to the souls in prison; His body was in a cave and not buried. Jonah did not die, but Jesus died and rose again.
The disciples did not understand when He called Himself the Son of Man (Mark 9:3132), for He taught His disciples and said unto them, “the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask Him”. The secret is: God, to have fellowship with man must become a man i.e., he must become flesh and bones, but if He came as born to human beings, He will be a fallen man, and God cannot dwell in a man of sin without His righteousness.
Page 122 of 9296
Son of Man
So He took a sinless body and was the Son of David in office, but as He walked like a human being, He had a right to call Himself a Son of Man and there was no difference between Him and any other human beings except to those by revelation. You cannot have fellowship between two beings of different category. A frog and a rat cannot have fellowship; a cow and a snake cannot have fellowship unless one becomes the other in physical form.
So the Son of God had every right to call Himself the Son of Man, but the disciples and others who knew by revelation the secret of His birth never condescended to call Him Son of Man. So also a man born to a man and woman can never be Son of God because he is born in sin (Heb.1:13). So God and all the heavenly beings with God will always call the manifested Sons of God as Sons of Men, but with God in us we get authority to become as Children of God.
Now notice here: You are not a child of God because you are saved as people say put your hands up and sign this card and say thousands accepted God (all nonsense) and he becomes the greatest evangelist and God’s man of the hour because of the numbers. You just get an authority (or certificate) to become Sons of God when you accept Jesus Christ. A trained teacher can get a certificate to have passed training as a teacher, but she can never be called a teacher unless and until she writes an application for a job, gets a job after interview and then when she is given a class-room she must be bold to teach amidst the naughty children and when she is come to that level even the children will call her teacher! teacher! and tell their parents when the teacher goes on the road “there goes my teacher” and the parents smile and call her and respect that person as teacher.
In the same way, I boldly say that all who are supposed to have received the Lord Jesus Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit and spoken in tongues secretly or among their cliques are not thereby sons of God.
Once I remember when I was in Los Angeles, I just heard the Christian Businessmen’s fellowship gathered together and they were praying. I went in and joined in prayer without anyone noticing me and they were talking in tongues and when someone noticed me, a hush went and they slowly like a snail went into the shell (and a well known leader was there) and suddenly after the prayer was over (because they saw me) they were telling among themselves “though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” and I went away.
Now listen people of God. After preaching to 1,00,000 people in the City of Madras every day till I was forced to close by the people themselves because of the uncontrollable crowd and no ground available, I was highly elated and I was in my room in Madras City thinking I was one of God’s favoured children. The Lord just came into my room and with a loud voice said: “You are not my child as yet, repent and become my bold child”. He asked me to see II Cor.6:14-18 and particularly verses 17-18. “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty”. Not for sons alone but for ladies also daughters of God. God is not your Father until you separate from every denomination and denominational spirit and you are not His son or daughter until you meet this condition boldly standing against the whole world. Unless and until God receives you, there is no use of your calling yourself a Son of God.
The next day I left my Anglican Church membership and many left me and the “big shots” scolded me and I went away and the Lord Jesus Christ was there no doubt with me in closer fellowship.
Oh! Bride of God, it is not the time for you to play about anymore. Many people are members of dead harlot denominations for the sake of holy communion, festivals, ....... cemetery when
Page 123 of 9296
Son of Man
they die, but the Bridegroom comes to abolish death and no cemetery is needed in this age as we will soon go away with the Master and He instituted the Covenant of the holy communion (not just a party with bread and wine, but we do not get wine here in India unless you get a drunkard’s license and you will have to have your pure grape juice) as a token to remember until Jesus comes. When do you hope to have that Covenant broken with a new Bride Covenant (as you do not eat and drink in glory land nor grow grapes but certainly new grape juice and not fermented liquor). Was this covenant made in heaven or on earth? Do you think that heaven is meat and drink as some people still think? We do not have such weak bodies when we are glorified which will depend on what we drink. The Lord who started this Covenant will finish it on the earth Oh! People of God, watch it! Then we will get such a faith to be transformed that no more cemetery will be needed for the Bride.
There are many things which Jesus Christ said which have to be fulfilled in this earth before the tribulation by personal appearance and not after glorification of the body as it is useless there as we will have glorified bodies. The people who go through tribulation will not understand this and it will not be revealed to them.
Therefore, a human being into whom Jesus Christ the Bridegroom comes is passed from death into life and will be glorified (translated) like Enoch and Elijah. But to associate with heavenly beings, we have authority to call ourselves Sons of God, as Jesus had authority to call Himself Son of Man. But actually heavens will call us Sons of Man. God cannot totally manifest in a man if he is a seeing and believing sort of a man as he will have two personalities and God has to show a man His walk, unless exceptionally given to a totally surrendered man as gift. That is why a walk of faith will not go hand in hand with SEEING AND BELIEVING but will inherit God or possess Him, as that particular man who believes God on His Word. Joshua had a glimpse of seeing and believing ministry but went into oblivion as he was not a power seeker and possessed Canaan. But Moses had glimpse of believing and seeing ministry without entering into Canaan, but had mostly seeing and believing ministry.
When I was in Vellore Medical College Hospital after Jesus appeared to me and asked me to leave the job and serve God full-time selling all I had, I was worried not realizing that He was going to teach me as a Master the great truth of believing and seeing. I started a big prayer group in my own home and hundreds started coming and were blessed. Suddenly the discernment gift operated; many Doctors, Nurses and others were there and my wife and children were there. I had a vision like a cinema film colored with the dresses and everything and names all written and I could see that eyes just opened and a commentary in an audible voice was speaking from the heart for nearly 15 minutes as I was walking about in the house before the meeting started. At intervals while preaching all the hearts were revealed and God also revealed that a young girl was to elope with a married boy that night and the boy was pretending to come to the meeting that night and the place the girl was to go, and the letters they were passing during the meeting at the backyard through a window and suddenly excited over this unusual dealings of God, I rushed to the boy and girl, stopping the meeting and asked another brother to take charge and caught the culprits. But they refused to admit. Then after the meeting, the boy was hanging about the house as an innocent boy and my family members were wondering if I was crazy and some Baptists said that the devil was deceiving me and I went to have dinner. While I was about to eat, pictures like a colored film passed again between the food plate and my eyes with the voice commentary of the meaning and names of the parties concerned with their dress and colour.
I left my plate and ran to catch the people concerned and got the girl locked in a room. If this happened, this would create great trouble in the town and God’s name would have been blasphemed. Then with my family members I approached this person who was already
Page 124 of 9296
Son of Man
married. He got so wild with me and because I asked this in front of his wife, he denied and suddenly his wife fell down dead, without life. And there was a terrific commotion all over. I was scared to see this woman die falling down and the man cried loudly and after a while, repented of his sins and pleaded that I should pray to God. He agreed to all what the Spirit of God revealed. Then after 30 minutes, the woman’s toe started moving and gradually the life came and she got up as if from sleep. When everything was alright, the man became bold and tried to hide things. He said that was not true. Then the child started purging, vomiting and became sick. He took the child to the hospital and the Doctor pronounced that the child would die. Then he acknowledged his sin totally and turned to God with his wife.
This was going on for a while and people were afraid and stopped coming to the meetings as their sins were revealed. But suddenly without any reason at all, the Lord took this gift away. Rather this gift ceased for the glory of God to replace it with the gift of faith on God’s Word. My wife and mother and family members thought that I had committed a great sin and that the Lord had left me and I was worried secretly in the heart. I asked God for 26 years why this gift suddenly left me? I said, I will repent if there is anything wrong in me. Life was a blind faith and I saw God’s move. But when the Chicago visitation came, I jumped and said: “Thank you Lord for your mercies for not granting me what I wanted and for withholding my desires for a greater thing”.
So you see, I could understand Bro. Branham the Prophet of God without any difficulty while you Americans enjoyed his light for a season and were meticulous in taking photographs of hunting and staying in hotels you ate and had private moments with him. I agree those were rare opportunities and great vindications you had. But did that help you in any way in producing faith on the Word of God? You people not only are misled but with all your money and materials make the other countries also to commit fornication in turning people away from God’s Word.
All those who had visions of the Lord Jesus Christ said: ‘One like unto the Son of Man’. What does it mean? Does it mean God? In that case, Ezekiel must be the Lord Jesus Christ. No! People of God. When the Lord Jesus Christ appears to the Bride by revelation as Son of Man, which place they never gave Him while living in this world, then the Bride into all of whom the Lord Jesus comes through the head of the Bride will be owned by God as heavenly beings as manifested Sons of God, as Jesus Christ comes as manifested Son of Man, but first He came as Son of God or Son of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit. There is the Father also. How can the Trinitarians face this fact that if Holy Ghost is the Father of Jesus Christ as it was through the Holy Ghost He was conceived, they will have to face the inevitable fact of having two fathers for the Lord Jesus Christ unless the Holy Spirit and Father are the same.
The Son of Man is after the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ, a man walking blindly on God’s Word without any outward or inward evidence. Not any outward evidence of support physically in this world or inward support of visions and dreams, just like the earth is hanging in space without any support except rotating on the Word of God when He said “Let there be earth”.
So when a disciple leaves everything and depends on God alone, it is called THE FAITH LIFE. Then he will see every Word of God being fulfilled. Trust God for everything and you will see Him marvelously honor your trust. This faith life is the one which the devil aims at. When we hunt an animal, we do not shoot at the tail, but the heart or the head. In the same way, the love between us as Bride and God as Bridegroom is called faith. When we depend on any denomination or any man or money or material, i.e., creation of God, we commit spiritual adultery.
Page 125 of 9296
Son of Man
When man reached the moon, that was the death of Faith in this world. (Luke 18:8). The Australian Government passed the law that there is no God. Darkness in West has now already spread in Far East (Australia); as the Sun starts shining further from East to West, the shadows of gloom fell on Australia. I saw a pamphlet in New York as I was leaving the United States. In India the question of whether there is God was discussed in Parliament recently and God was saved by a low majority. What a poor God lying at the mercy of man’s Parliament and votes.
All this wickedness will be destroyed soon to prove that there is a God Who will destroy like a big stone untouched by man (not popular, approval of mankind) when it becomes a mountain and fills this earth. Thank God for this stone untouched by man. Why man has nothing to play politics here? Man does not know the time and the destination and the place where it rolled from to destroy the nations which are sinful.
God loved David and others, who to the human eye, did not look holier but the King knew the secret of the life that pleases God. He chose God voluntarily not as a machine but by free choice under the foreknowledge of God and predestinated to be a King for the Israelites. And he never for one moment planned his life. David allowed no short-cuts by killing Saul, but patiently waited for the proper time for his turn to come as a King by the hand of God and not by self effort. When he came as King, he gave the glory to God and did not take it for himself.
Man will not trust God anymore but will depend on something tangible on earth and thereby destroying his life line (heart) which is called Faith. Proverbs 7:7-27 clearly says about this (note Vs.19, 20). There was no need to mention of harlots in daily human life and city life which everybody knows, but this was written in parables to signify denominational membership as the master of the house had gone far away taking the money with him (the money bag is with him because he is not good in terms with the wife (church) as she is a harlot). That is why, everywhere they have financial drives because the husband (Goodman of the house) has gone to a far away place and taken the money bag with him and so they keep on begging. Tell me one country where begging in pulpits, platforms, televisions and radios is so prominent as in the United States. Please do not get angry with me. Decent begging but God is not there. If you are a Bride, your need will come to your house as the Goodman will send His remittances to the Bride and she need not keep on begging.
I was in Canada and there they even started preaching “Repent and believe the Spoken Word Books and you will receive the Holy Spirit”. A prominent man said that he must be re baptized (not satisfied with the baptism he had in Jesus’ name, probably in Branham’s Tabernacle) because he said he believed in the Spoken Word Books only later and so he presumably did not get the Holy Spirit correctly.
Another person met a prominent man in the States and this person was asked if he knew Elijah. He said he would very much like to see Elijah as he has come all the way seeking knowledge about God. Then the person showed the Spoken Word Books and said: “This is Elijah”. You cannot deceive the Bride elect any more, she is out of border and is fighting for her possession. God promised the whole land of Canaan, but He adds “Every place that the sole of your feet shall tread upon, that I have given unto you as said unto Moses. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Moses so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee”. The promise is definite there.
God has promised to glorify our bodies and take it to His abode, but there are so many doubters. The enemy appears strong. Did God tell a lie? Joshua had people, spy and they said that the enemies had iron chariots which they had in large numbers and Israelites had not any. Was Joshua dismayed? He said: “Go on, God has promised it will be ours” and
Page 126 of 9296
Son of Man
they defeated everyone when they believed God. Oh! Bride of God, the possession is now yours; even immortality is yours because God is not a man to tell lies nor will He change His ideas but will keep His Word. Don’t you trust Him?
Now, people do not have a definite idea about the Jews. According to the Bible, the lost tribes of Israel were scattered like wind and sowed like salt among the nations and like seed. No one can find out where the Israelites are. But I am telling you something here, which will bring a jolt to you all and I leave this to you for your decision. One day I was in England and was talking to one Rev. Jim Cooper. We had a controversial talk with each other over the subject of the lost tribes of Israel. In Malachi 4:5 God has promised to send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. But did you ever notice what is in Malachi Chapter 4:4? “Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments”. Now what has this got to do with the Gentiles? For the Gentiles, God has said in Acts 15:24-31:
“For as much as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: It seemed good unto us being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same thing, by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation”. (Written to the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Vs.23).
This clearly shows that Elijah comes to the Jews or those who follow the law and if the converted Jews should be called the Gentiles, Elijah does not come to them. Now this is for the decision of the people who talk about Elijah. I know the Word of God is always true.
Now when the disciples preached the Gospel, Jews and Gentiles were converted but most of the converted Jews never left the law and did not regard grace as much, while the Gentiles totally followed the Lord to the letter and knew what grace was. You will remember when Jesus asked Peter to take a sword with him, it is a sign that the converted Jews will never follow the teachings of Christ fully but to suit their convenience, follow the law to some extent. Now listen, when the people from England went to the land of promise for them (U.S.A.) did they follow the teaching of Christ? They followed the Old Testament law and destroyed completely the natives by “sword” (Numbers 21:3; 31:17,18) as it was Old Testament procedure. In one way it may sound good and that God had rejected natives. But do the people realize that the sword will not keep quiet? The people now have gone much more deeply in sin than rejected natives. They that take the sword will fall by the sword, will a just God keep silent? Just imagine your stalwart boys of the United States falling dead in Vietnam. For whose patriotism? One day when I saw the Life magazine with all the photographs and lists of names of dead people, it broke my heart to see such young blood with beautiful bodies fall on the streets as fodder for the bullets. The sword will never leave you unless you repent, Oh! America (present Sodom Gomorrah). This is not my words but Jesus said this. Even when Peter cut the ear of the servant, Jesus warned Peter. This was not only a warning to Peter but to all converted Jews that if they take the sword they will fall by the sword.
All right, you followed the Bible. But what about other things? When it came to unclean animals like pigs, then you came to the New Testament, to the law of the converted Gentiles
Page 127 of 9296
Son of Man
and say: When you prayed and offered thanks everything becomes clean. According to God’s Word did America follow the law of Moses? When the Sabbath was given for rest and not to do anything other than God’s work, why do you spend your holidays enjoying with all the filth?
When God’s law said that adultery should be avoided, the bill of divorcement came which is nice for man since they did not come to New Testament law of Jesus Christ which the Gentiles follow. During the time of Peter, he even joined with the converted Jews leaving the saved Gentiles when the grace of God poured in Cornelius’ house but Paul had to fight with Peter for taking sides with the Jews converted. This is the case even now when Gentiles accepted the deeper law of Christ. But Jesus said that if one strikes you on one cheek turn the other cheek to him. It was the great knowledge of God to preserve them. Some Jews when converted followed exactly the pattern of the New Testament and among the Jews many were taken captives into heathen lands, some remained in Jerusalem and some remained as Jews. The Jews, unconverted, who were God-fearing and followed Torah (law) were the blinded ones to whom Jesus comes to help in the final war against the nations but not for the self styled “Jews” who are not Jews at all, who follow Babylonian Talmud or Traditions of Elders just like Christians of the Church follow traditions in denominations (Isaiah 66:5). Jesus will not appear to them at all.
Now if you really follow the teachings of Sermon on the Mount, it is impossible to follow the Old Testament Law “Tooth for a tooth and eye for an eye”. Why did St. Paul fight the Jews (converted) not to force law on the Gentile converts? But some Jews really followed the Lord Jesus Christ and became passive. This was God’s plan to preserve the followers of Jesus Christ in countries where they were taken captives.
Jesus was sent to the lost tribes of Israel and He told His disciples also to go to the lost tribes of Israel and said that they would not have finished the cities of Israel till the Son of Man comes. We see the Jews but the majority do not follow the Torah (law) but now they are following the Babylonian Talmud which Jesus called traditions of the Elders and Phariseeism. If you turn to Ezekiel whom God calls as a Son of Man:
Ezekiel 24:24 - “Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God”.
When Jesus came on the scene, the tribes of Israel were scattered and no visible identity could be seen by the naked eye. So there were the Jews scattered throughout the heathen countries among Gentiles and God told them:
“Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace ...... neither hearken to your dream which ye cause to be dreamed.” Jeremiah 29:6-8.
This clearly shows, real God-fearing captive Jews followed God’s instructions and mixed with the people of the country and became one like them. This was God’s advice and those who did not take this advice perished. So how can you find them? Others followed the law or Torah, but the self-styled Jews neither followed the law of God, nor the commands of Jesus Christ but Babylonian Talmud which was only traditions.
Now, many preachers use typology for everything even for Apollo going up into the space and so on. They say that Jesus should come to the earth three times. First He came to redeem the Bride (they now change even what Bro. Branham said according to their own
Page 128 of 9296
Son of Man
thinking). Second time He comes to take the Bride and third time Jesus comes with the Bride. If Jesus had come at the time of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which Apostle Paul calls earnest payment or advance payment for purchase, then the second coming should have taken place about 1970 years ago and Jesus had already prepared a place and taken the Bride there.
Suppose Jesus had returned to earth to take the Bride on Pentecost Day: it means that the Lord Jesus had already prepared a place for the Bride and the rapture should have taken place already and for 2000 years even Millennium would have been long overdue and we must have been at the final destruction, according to some preachers. If this is the case, then the tribulation was the Jews scattering and the destruction of Jerusalem, and that means the Gentile period must have been the so called Millennium. If the Lord does not come to take the Bride before the rapture now, but only on the Mount of Olives that also clearly shows that the Church will not be taken in the rapture except by going through tribulation. Let the preachers themselves decide. When the Lord ascended up, only those disciples who left everything and followed Him saw and the angels said that Jesus would return the same way to earth in a cloud. So all will not see except the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, unless revealed now at this time.
Now Jonah was swallowed by a big fish. When Jesus wanted to pay the tax He told His disciples to catch a fish and that the coin will be there. They caught a fish and the money was there. This was a sign that fish depicted a means of money. Now U.S.A. is a type of whale. All over the world people rush to U.S.A. In view of the inequalities of dollar value and with their country’s money, it is easier to get rich working in U.S.A. Every preacher desires to go to the States and if a man comes back from the States, he is regarded as a very, very rich man as the people in other Eastern countries think that there are trees bearing currency notes on their branches and we had to go there and pluck and come back rich.
The trouble is the different denominations in U.S.A. will never help anyone coming depending on God but would want them to join their harlot systems and then when they are swallowed by this whale, they get all the tax money from the mouth regularly and losing their faith become dead. They are not only dead, but come back to their countries and spoil everyone who depend on God by giving money to the believers and spoiling their assemblies. It is impossible for a man to depend on God totally unless God’s hand is on the man. I now see clearly why a majority of the servants of God who started in good consecration later lost their stand completely and just became money bags in our country. I could quote examples how I was offered large sums of money by many denominations in U.S.A. How even Bro. Osborne, Dr. Oral Roberts, Dr. Billy Graham and others whom I met personally, Assemblies of God, Church of God, Episcopal Churches, Business-men Fellowships could not look at me or receive me simply because I refused to become “their man” even though I was “Jesus Christ’s man”.
Almost all those who left India have been swallowed, dead and digested by this whale and when the Lord visited me and I decided to stand on the Word of God alone, the whale had to vomit me back into the shores of India.
Do you know that all the tribes of Israel were given possession in Canaan except the Levites? They were given properties to their clan, etc. First God chose the first-born, but later on for the loyalty of Levites, God gave them a special privilege of serving Him in the Tabernacle in the wilderness and take care of the Ark of God and God said, “Jehovah was their inheritance”. (Num.18:20-24). They did not get any reward.
So also the Bride has no inheritance in this world and the Bridegroom is her inheritance. The Levites carried the Ark of God on their shoulders which was their Head and the Bride
Page 129 of 9296
Son of Man
carries the Lord Jesus Christ Who is the Head. The Son of Man is the whole body of the saints of God totally forsaking this world and depending on God, giving glory to Lord Jesus Christ the Head. Through this little group of people who will be glorified, the Lord will manifest mightily and the whole world cannot stand against this glory and those who fight with this “Son of Man” or the “Bride of God” will be actually fighting against the Lord God and to these people God says “He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye; and ask anything in my name and it will be granted”. The Bride will have the mind, voice and Word of Jesus Christ. HALLELUJAH! - Daniel 7:13-18.
If a man followed the Sermon on the Mount totally and a whole nation did that, they will not become great in this world. They will be pushed aside and can inherit only the worst part of the country, such as thorny desert, like waterless, rainless country. But when they realize God and have faith in Him, they are lifted up after redemption of their souls. First of all, after Noah’s time, there were his children (and we usually state that Ham was cursed. But this is wrong. Ham was never cursed but only one of his children) and he had other three sons who were not cursed (Genesis 9:25; 10:6). The world was replenished by Noah’s descendants and in Acts 17:26 it is said that “God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and bounds of their habitation.”
Jesus said to walk two miles with a man if he wants us to accompany one mile. The Sermon on the Mount is very much appreciated by the Hindus and they say why do not Christians all over the world practice what they preach? During the time of Esther (Esther 1:1) Ahasuerus reigned from India even unto Ethiopia over 127 provinces. (Esther 8:9; 1617). Here we find many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. When I was reading the other day, I understood that the only way to find the lost tribes of Israel is to read Genesis 49:1-28. The whole of Ezekiel and portions in other Prophetical books give us some idea about the scattered people who were sowed into them by God. One thing surprised me as the non-Christians come to attack with many verses in the Bible to tease us as to the kind of God we have. One was as stated in Ezekiel 4:13-15. God asked Ezekiel to eat bread baked by the dung which cometh out of a man, stating that what Ezekiel the son of man (not God) will do all what the Israelites will do (Ezekiel 24:24) and then when Ezekiel objected, the Lord gave him cow’s dung for man’s dung for baking purpose.
‘Will a God ask a man to do like this’ is the query of the non-Christians, but the Word of God is true. In my travels throughout the world, I find there is a system in worship among the Hindus that they honor cow as a sacred animal and cow dung they take it, bake it like cakes and make powder (such a fine powder) and after their worship rub on their bodies and faces and forehead. Many Indians even today add straw and bake cakes out of it and use it for fuel.
The Hindu priests have a system like the Levites and serve in the temple out of the tithes and offerings and have no earthly inheritance. They carry their gods like the Ark of God on long poles. As this “cow dung” truth in Ezekiel is used only in worship in India, I believe the Levites must have been scattered in India also and lost their identity. And tell me where will they find a congenial place for worship in any other countries? When the Gospel came to India through Apostle Thomas whom we call doubting Thomas (John 20:29), “Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed”. I am sure Thomas must have preached “believing and seeing ministry” vehemently in India and was killed in Madras City at St. Thomas Mount. Apostles were sent to lost tribes of Israel to make recompense. This was 1900 years ago. St. Thomas’ churches are called Mar Thoma Churches and still have the Hebrew form of singing in worship. And people are strong in the Word of God and read it over and over.
Page 130 of 9296
Son of Man
While “forsaking all” is mocked in the West, it has been a pleasure and delight in the lives of Indian people because the Hindu culture is such. This is a sign that many scattered Jews should be in India losing their identity. And in their religious books a famous man called Thiruvalluvar has written religious couplets which are regarded as a Bible by the Hindus which is exactly like the Law, depicting One God and One family. This was written even before the advent of Christ. The temples of Hindus have only one gate with a windowless high wall around with red and white stripes (Ezekiel 23:14) with the interior holy place and holiest of holy for their God. Also a stone altar for sacrifice etc., this pattern is exactly like the Tabernacle in the wilderness. They do not have Bible, Torah, but how did they get this enlightenment of One God, I can tell many things, but I will stop here. (Zechariah 10:9; Amos 9:9; Ezekiel 20:32; Isaiah 46:10-11; 41:2).
If we turn to the Psalms we will find some interesting passages:
“Behold and visit this vine: And the vineyard which thy right hand had planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. (Psalms 80:14,15).
“Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the Son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself”. (Psalms 80:17).
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him and the Son of man, that thou visitest him”. (Psalms 8:3-4).
First Jesus came as a fruit for the Jews, a fruit out of a sown seed. He came of the Jewish seed through whom salvation comes, but when they rejected Him and cut Him off, that Branch blessed the Gentiles who are wild olives as they were grafted with this Good Branch and now the Lord comes for the fruit of the grafted branch which will be exactly like that original. This grafted fruit (all the Bride of Christ) is the Son of Man. Now this may make you think I am blasphemous. Why should you think it incredible if God could come into Enoch and Elijah and translate them, why could He not come into the Bride? Think humbly, then you will glorify the Lord Jesus Christ for the whole body needs Him. When a man dies, we call his carcass as body. A body means the whole thing from head to foot but without life. When there is life (the life is the head) then the body functions. Jesus is the Tree of Life and when this Life comes into the Bride, it is alive again.
Isaiah 56:1. “My Salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed” (the first and second coming depicted).
“When they persecute you in this city flee ye into another for ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come”.
If you turn to Luke 17:22-24, it is said unto the disciples by Jesus that the days would come when they shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man and they shall not see it. This clearly makes us understand that when the Son of man comes, the disciples cannot see, i.e., they will not even rise up from the dead and be alive during the days of the Son of man neither the Son of man will be a leader like Mohammed the Prophet, Buddha or be any big organizational head like the Pope, but He will come like lightning seen by few and disappear from shining quickly which means the time is very short for the “take off” and when people from the East to West just begin to realize the light emitted by “this lightning”, the Bride will not be here. It takes 31/2 years to form an organization but the Bride will fly away during this period as lightning. He clearly says the disciples will never see those days.
In a wedding, people seem to think that only the Bride will be there with the Bridegroom. No, not at all. There are the friends of the Bridegroom, relations, parents, businessmen, servants and hired people etc., and the Bride also has bridesmaids, parents, relations, friends, hired
Page 131 of 9296
Son of Man
servants, visitors, time servers and business people. You will also have the different parties who helped in this union and Best man or Groomsman, children of Bridechamber and so on with the torchbearers. Jesus Christ shows a difference between the dead in Christ and the sleeping. Lazarus was sleeping but was not dead, but people who were crucified with Christ were called dead in Christ.
Again when Jesus said that His disciples will desire to see the days of the Son of man while He was saying Son of man was Himself, was He fooling His disciples? But we understand that the Son of man was definitely not Jesus Christ Himself because if that was the case they were already before the Son of man themselves and need not desire to see the days of the Son of man.
You cannot recognize a man if his head is cut off, so in fights we were trained in Y.M.C.A., Ceylon to protect the face from any attack as it is the most vital place for recognition. When a man comes, we recognize from his face correctly but sometimes by other limbs. So you recognize the Bride by her Head. The Bride is on the Word and so it will be exactly like the Bridegroom who is the Word. In Mark 13:32, Jesus said: “that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” Here is an important thing to remember. Jesus came into the world to redeem us. The Father loved Him and showed Him everything and never did hide anything. When He rose from the dead, He said: “all power is given unto me in heaven and earth”. After that when He met the disciples, He never revealed the time of His coming. When Jesus Christ lifted the man to the position of Adam’s former state, God’s work through Jesus was finished and Jesus overcame and sat on the Throne of God as He is the Almighty God. But if Jesus did not know His own coming into the Son of Man, it is something like saying that God did not know what He was doing. But the Son of man into whom the Lord descends will not know himself or any other in this world the time and hour when this should happen.
We know now that God is leading us into the promised land and let us hide behind Him giving all the glory to our Creator. He alone can give us the celestial body. Why the world looks so big is, because we do not have God in His fullness. If once the Bride has got God in His fullness, the world and everything is counted as dung. When I used to travel from home eventhough I knew well ahead of time of leaving, I will try to slowly prepare. But I always found that I could never do it properly and when the exact time comes I will be in a great hurry and will not be able to do anything by way of preparation and miss something valuable which will be noticed after reaching the destination. Let us not do that in the case of our Spiritual Life which we cannot repent after we miss going in rapture.
When Jesus was in this world, they were preaching in their synagogues about the Great Messiah, singing about Him and talking about His deliverance power and the glory, but all the while the Messiah was sitting there in front of them and they excommunicated Him and killed Him. The Bride only will understand this and the whole world will miss this as that is the plan of God. I am writing this as God has revealed to me and you may ridicule or reject but that does not hurt me. The most inevitable has to happen and we will not be found at fault. If I am in U.S.A., as its citizen then it is different. But I am far, far away and am burdened about India and Africa as time is short and this is an echo of what we are giving our people in this country. No one is forced to accept this and we are ready to be corrected if we are shown proof from the Word of God and may the good Lord bless all of us.
People may be calling me a brown man as I am neither black nor white but I regard you all as children of the same Father. Children may fight, but what matters most is the relationship with the Father and the stand of truth and the path we take. Let us bring our grievances to God if there are any. Even in the vision of Stephen Acts 7:55-59, first of all he sees the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Then he says “Behold, I see the
Page 132 of 9296
Son of Man
heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God”. Where did Jesus disappear? You must understand that in the end Stephen called on God and said: “Lord Jesus receive my spirit”. He did not say “Son of man receive my spirit”. When Son of man was revealed, Jesus was revealed as God. God revealed to him that Jesus had taken His place as God, but he was not looking at the Son of man and saying “Jesus receive my spirit”. He called on God and asked Him to receive his spirit. When the Bride or Son of Man is glorified, redemption of body is complete.
“For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth shall be exalted”. (Luke 14:11).
When I left India for my first missionary journey around the World in 1959, it showed me a kind of picture. The picture in my mind was that at the left of the centre of the picture, I saw a great broad way, comparatively level, reaching onward until it was lost in the distance. On this, travelled a multitude. I could see that the men and women had not very high ambitions. They were the folks content with a living wage. They were going a long monotonous way. There was uniformity. On the right of the centre I saw a great mountain - the mountain of success - lying parallel with the broad way and also losing itself in a distance. It became steeper as the altitude increased. Men and women were travelling on the roads. Higher up the mountain the roads were growing narrower. There were not so many upon them. At the summit of the mountain was the highest road of all with only now and then a traveller upon it. These mountain roads were only for those with ambition and ability to climb. Those climbing at the higher levels seemed to be putting forth almost super human efforts and few were undertaking the more difficult ascents. The world was showing me the road to success. It told me I could plod and lose myself with the multitude or be a climber. My whole aim was to become famous and was climbing the mountain way. I came to India and became a famous evangelist and the foremost in India for crowds of attendance.
Then my second missionary journey came in 1967, the Lord brought me into deeper truth. He brought me to the fact that the Word of God is the most essential thing to follow and we should not follow the crowd. The picture I had in mind was different. The broad way and the mountain way both came to the same place down a great precipice and one could see the fright and pain on the people’s faces as they could not return because of the big crowd and had to perish falling from the precipice where there is gnashing of teeth and fire and brimstone. I found out that the world has deceived me, led me falsely and treacherously hid from me the truth of eternal separation and death spiritually. I returned to India with God and His Word and lost all popularity as I refused to walk with the crowd and people of the day.
Then my third missionary journey came in 1969. The Lord dealt with me severely in India and I was despaired of life for certain things around and happenings at home and so on. But I never knew the fault was within me also. I even did not desire to go out of the country and was rather pushed. This time the Master showed a different picture. I saw a black dark tunnel near the mountain and many who saw it turned their back and went away and no one seemed to desire the place and inside I found a great light and Jesus Himself waiting to take me and others who would pay the price. This tunnel led the people quite out of the precipice and fire and brimstone, and went to glory land. I found out not much people were interested in this way. Then the Lord caught me and spoke to me:
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, did not reckon Himself, taking the form of a bond slave becoming the likeness of men; and being found in the fashion of man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death even a death of a cross”.
Page 133 of 9296
Son of Man
Then he pointed to the background of the picture and continued:
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the name which is above every name”. “Whither I go, ye know the way.”
Then catching my hand said:
“Come, I am taking you with me. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
MEDITATIONS
“Now learn the Parable of the fig tree: When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors”. Luke 21:28-29; Matthew 24:32-33.
As you know the fig tree does not blossom after putting forth the tender and spring leaves. The fruits also do not come after the leaves. It is quite the opposite. First of all, as far as Jews are concerned, God compares them to a fig tree because you can see their fruit on their old branches immediately after blossoming. But the tender leaves and other blossom and fruit has come forth (a flag, National independence, their own defense, and “tooth for tooth” retaliation according to law, enterprising people).
But the tender leaves of a new generation has not yet shown much. It is first the blossom, then the fruit and then the leaves, then summer. In spring, instead of the leaves they get fruit and blossoms. Now spring has finished with the fruit on old tree branches, but the new shoots are just coming and this time the Lord should be at the doors on the earth rejected of every denomination and by people possessed of denominational spirit. The carcass means “the worthless or decaying remains of once great and comely or the vital thing, the shell or husk” (Webster Collegiate Dictionary). All dead denominations and denominational spirit together are called the carcass and this is the time when vultures are feeding on these dead “twice dead and plucked up by the roots”. First death is during the seeding time and second death is after having grown as a tree and then dry up. First no one will notice and the second a public laughter and if plucked by the roots a stumbling block to all traffic on the road.
The lightning coming of the Son of man means: the Bride will be off before the time given for any formation of organizations after a big revival, i.e., three to three and a half years.
“Their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” (Rev.11:8).
This clearly shows that before the two witnesses come forth for their ministry, the Lord Jesus Christ should be crucified again (rejected totally) second time, not in Jerusalem, but in Sodom and Gomorrah (U.S.A.). (This should have happened on the total Solar Eclipse on March 7, 1970). Crucifixion means no one remained even the disciples and losing all hope, denial by Peter, Judas betrayal, but this crucifixion is also spiritual not physical, as in that case Jesus had to die twice, but this time God glorifies without death and takes the Bride away before terrific judgement falls on the nations.
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12).
Why this famine and why people could not find it? First of all, who are the people who travel most at their own cost? West and North; South and East are not much travellers. The famine
Page 134 of 9296
Son of Man
for Word means that God has finished with them and they had to go overseas for food. Why? Because they hear there is food elsewhere, but they do not find it because the rapture is finished before they hear about the food and endeavour to procure it. Joseph stores food for years and marries a Gentile Bride - a priest’s daughter - not an ordinary girl. Joseph’s name was changed. Listen people of God, he did not appear as anything but as a heathen in name, not a Nazarite, but married and had children, and God made him a provider among the Gentiles. They had no true God. But Joseph had a true heart for God. The true God people had famine as they supposed they were true to God but rejected their very life in Jesus because of jealousy. They had to travel so far to get food and there Joseph was revealed, or rather Joseph revealed himself. Oh, Bride of God! What a great thing it will be for you if you can only understand this! The brethren of Joseph had to humble themselves and go to a heathen rejected place for food and meet the Provider. No more famine after that!
ORIENTAL WEDDING
When Jesus was in this world, He had been to the Wedding of Cana of Galilee. The people of the West have not the slightest idea of the Weddings of the Orient and we believe that He really meant the Eastern Wedding practices in all His references.
A) BRIDE-CHAMBER:
In Palestine, a few days before marriage, both Bridegroom and the Bride shut themselves up in their respective homes during which period the Bridegroom receives visits from parties of his young male friends. This is called the “Nuptial Joy” feast and the young men are the children of the bride chamber (Matthew 9:15; Mark 2:19). A fact which casts light upon the words of our Lord “Can the children of the bride chamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them?”
B) BETROTHAL:
Good faith or promise. The betrothal of a couple was accompanied among the Jews by a payment in money or kind, or even of both though there were occasional exceptions without consulting the betrothed. The betrothals often took place in childhood about 12 months before marriage though the marriage itself was not completed till the Bride had reached the age of 12. Betrothals were simplest affairs. Among the ancient Jews the betrothing was performed either by a writing or by the giving of a piece of silver to the Bride in the presence of witnesses, and giving a ring (not in ancient days). After the marriage was contracted, the young couple had the liberty to see each other but not go out together which was not allowed before the marriage, unlike Western countries’ custom. The woman was considered a lawful wife and any trespass against her betrothed was punished as though they were fully married. Betrothals cannot be broken without a bill of divorcement. Betrothal is used to symbolize relations between God and His people. (Hosea 2:19-20; 2 Cor.11:2).
The marriage union was arranged by the parents though the consent of contracting parties was sometimes asked. On betrothal, purchase money is paid by Bridegroom’s party or dowry by Bride’s party was paid (later custom). The Bride receives presents. The Bridegroom is freed for a year from the summons to war or business (Deut.24:5; Luke 14:20). A knowledge of the ceremonies by attending weddings in the East is essential for the understanding of several passages of Scripture. Betrothals take place with much feasting and hilarity and the young couple are permitted to talk together and so become better acquainted. A few days before the marriage, they both shut themselves up in their respective homes when the Bride and the Bridegroom receive visits from parties of their friends. The companions of the Bridegroom are expressly mentioned in the history of
Page 135 of 9296
Son of Man
Samson. Also the companions of the Bride sing the Epithalamium or Wedding Song at the door of the Bride the evening before the wedding. The wedding guests from either side were the children of the bride chamber. (Matthew 9:15).
The Bridegroom sets out to claim his Bride late in the evening accompanied by a procession of friends. His groomsman is also dressed like a Bridegroom (there is a possibility of mistaking the best man (groomsman) for the Bridegroom Matthew 22:1-10; 25:1-10; Luke 14:8). They bear torches and lamps and generally are preceded by a band of musicians. No one can join the throng without bearing some kind of a light. The lights carried in the procession are called meshals and the light carriers are paid celebrants. Linen rags or tow are tightly forced together and put into frames of metal at the top of a long pole. (This typifies making a big show of preaching on sin, when they themselves are not victorious over sin. This righteousness, God calls filthy rags, a sin. At other times, the lamps or torches are held in one hand while in the other is a bottle of oil and the bearers take care to pour out of the latter from time to time upon the linen to keep up the flame (flame of take temporary revival) which would otherwise go out. Matthew 25:1-8).
When the company arrives at the entrance of the street where the Bride resides, we can hear the shout of many female voices and observed by the light of the torches a company of veiled bridesmaids waiting on the balcony to give notice of the coming of the Bridegroom. When they catch sight of the approaching procession, they run back into the house making it resound with the cry “Halil! Halil!” and music, both vocal and instrumental, commence with it. Thus the Bridegroom enters in. After the ceremony and benediction, the Bride and Bridegroom are conducted with great pomp to their new home. The procession resembles in all essential respects that of the Bridegroom coming to claim the Bride.
After waiting two or three hours to near midnight, the coming of the Bride and Bridegroom was announced. All persons employed now lighted the lamps and ran with them in their hands to take up their stations in the procession. Some of them had lost their lights and were unprepared but it was too late then to get more. The cavalcade moved forward and entered the dwelling of Bride, the courtyard of which was splendidly illuminated and covered with lighting and decorations. There was a great number of guests all dressed in their best. The Bridegroom was carried in and after remaining with the guests in the open a short while, he entered the house when the door was immediately shut and a guard placed before it. It was usual for guests to appear at marriage feasts in a sumptuous dress. There was a wardrobe from which everyone not duly provided with a wedding garment might be supplied. It is still a custom in the East that when a rich man makes a feast he provides each guests with a sort of pelisse which he throws over his other apparel.
Between betrothal and marriage, all communication between the affianced parties were carried on through a friend appointed for the purpose and termed the friend of the Bridegroom (John 3:29). The marriage itself was a purely domestic affair though the espousal was ratified by an OATH. When the day appointed for the Wedding arrived the Bride bathed (Judith X:3 Eph.5:26-27) put on white robes, often richly embroidered, decked herself with jewels, fastened the indispensable Bridal girdle about her waist, covered herself with a veil and placed a garland on her hand and neck. The Bridegroom arrayed in the best attire with a handsome headdress and a garland on his hand set out from his home for the house of the Bride’s parents, attended by his friends accompanied by musicians and singers. If the procession moved at night there were torch bearers. Having received his Bride, deeply veiled, from her parents with their blessing and the good wishes of friends, he conducted the whole party back to his own or his father’s house with songs, music and dancing. On the way they were joined by maiden friends of the Bride and Groom (Matthew 25:6). A feast was served at the house of the groom or his parents but if he is fixed a real
Page 136 of 9296
Son of Man
distance, the feast was spread in the house of the Bride’s parents either at their expense or the Groom’s. The Groom associated with the Bride for the first time. In the evening the Bride was escorted to the nuptial chamber by her parents and the Groom by his companions or the Bride’s parents. On the morrow the festivities were resumed and continued usually for one week. For widow’s marriage 31/2 days and virgin’s 7 days.
The choice of the Bride revolved not on the Bridegroom Himself but on his relations or on a friend appointed by the Bridegroom for this purpose. The consent of the maiden was sometimes asked, but this appears to have been subordinate to the previous consent of the father and the adult brothers. Occasionally the whole business of selecting the wife was left in the hand of a friend. The selection of the Bride was followed by the betrothal which was a formal proceeding undertaken by a friend or legal representative on the part of the Bridegroom and by the parents on the part of the Bride. It was confirmed by oaths and accompanied with presents to the Bride. The presents paid by the Groom were a relic of a purchase of the Bride as in some of the less civilized portion of the world today. On the other hand, a father was bound to provide a dowry for his daughter either in money or land or jewellery (now the common form). The act of betrothal was celebrated by a feast and among the more modern Jews, it is the custom in some parts to give a ring for a Bride’s finger.
Between betrothal and the marriage a varying interval elapsed. During this period the bride elect lived with her friends and all communication between herself and her future husband was carried on through the medium of a friend termed the friend of the Bridegroom. John 3:29. She was virtually regarded as the wife of her future husband hence faithlessness on her part was punishable with death, the husband having the option of putting her away. Deut.22:23; 24:1; Mark 1:19. The essence of the marriage ceremony consisted in the removal of the Bride from her father’s house to that of the Bridegroom or his father. The Bridegroom prepared himself for the occasion by putting on a festive dress. The Bride was veiled (NO MORE SEEING ANYTHING). The Bride was vested from head to foot in a red cashmere shawl so thick that she could see nothing, but was led by her friends. Her robes were white.
The last act in the ceremony was the conducting of the Bride to the Bridal chamber - Joel 2:16. The Bride was still completely veiled so that the deception practised on Jacob was not difficult. Deut.20:7; 24:5. There is a custom in the East that the Bride cannot get out of the home in her dress except that brought by the Bridegroom (glory of the Bridegroom -
sinlessness). The Bridegroom has to be in Bride’s residence in order to take her. - Bro R Paulaseer Lawrie
Page 137 of 9296
Comments
Post a Comment