The Hidden Manna
THE HIDDEN MANNA
(THUNDER SERIES NO 3)
Delivered by
R PAULASEER LAWRIE [Lord Shri Lahari Krishna]
P R E F A C E
The two books published so far in the Thunder Series have enlightened the Bride by giving forth revelation of many of the mysteries hidden in the Bible for nearly 2000 years. They have, of certain, opened the eyes of the Bride that she may behold the wondrous things out of the Word of God.
This issue brings to light ‘hidden treasures’ further and it will, no doubt, enhance the rapturing faith of the Bride considerably. A remarkable aspect of this publication is the revelation of God coming down to earth as a stone, which is well brought out by drawing a striking analogy between ‘Jacob’s dream’ at Bethel mentioned in the Old Testament and Jesus’ conversation with Nathaniel recorded in the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John. ‘The Stone Ministry” is further substantiated by citing instances from first Book of Samuel wherein a Stone was set up and named as ‘Ebenezer’ and from the Book of Joshua in which a stone serves as a witness to the Covenant made by Joshua with the people of Israel.
The mystery regarding the ‘Transfiguration’ of Jesus is admirably unveiled in the light of the present interpretation. A scene hitherto regarded as having relevance to the crucifixion of Jesus is now connected to the incident of the return of the Son of Man with Royal Majesty on the Mount of Olives. Sufficient emphasis is placed on the fact that what happened on the Mount is not translation but transfiguration, meaning a radical change in the appearance of Jesus Christ.
The interpretation of the twelfth chapter of Revelation is indeed fascinating. The ‘manchild’ is correctly interpreted for the first time, as referring to the Son of Man who will soon be caught up to the throne to receive the Kingdom. This incident is paralleled with that recorded in the Seventh Chapter of Daniel where, in night vision, Daniel sees One like the Son of Man being brought before the Ancient of Days (Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Father’s throne) to receive dominion, glory and Kingdom. What will happen to the Bride, the Jewish Church and the remnant of the Seed is clearly portrayed with reference to this chapter. The ‘tail of the Dragon’ is interpreted as constituting the false prophets who will lead astray approximately one-third of the people who have entered into the Bride covenant. That the authority of judgment is handed over to the Son of Man is clearly explained, using many important verses from the Gospel of St. John.
Due importance is stressed on the Community way of life and Psalms 133 is cited as favouring such a mode of life. Also emphasis is laid on forsaking everything and following God, in order to be hundred percent on the Word of God. In fact, perfection and consequent. Eternal Life can only be obtained by renouncing all things connected with the world and
depending entirely on God.
The futility of attempting to recognise Jesus by His appearance during secret coming is another important aspect of this Book. After resurrection, Mary recognised Jesus by His voice and the disciples by the power of the Spoken Word. The same pattern will be repeated during the Bride Age.
The Christian tradition has all along been misinterpreting the Brazen Serpent of John 3:14- 15 to mean the Lord Jesus Christ. The present interpretation clearly reveals that as Moses
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lifted the Serpent in the wilderness, our Lord Jesus Christ who is a type of Prophet Moses should lift the Son of Man that the Bride of this age may look upon Him and gain Eternal Life.
This book should certainly dispel doubts, if any, lingering in the mind of the Bride regarding the Son of Man ministry and give her entire faith necessary for rapture. Bro K Joseph
THE HIDDEN MANNA MEDITATIONS
GENERAL
Just after 15 days of blessed Camp Meetings in the Manujothi Ashram Camp Grounds, mysteriously people came from all over India without much pressure into this wilderness; the Lord revealed much of these messages and to confirm it while preaching on the last day Sunday afternoon (24th January, 1971) about “The Stone untouched by Hands” and coming to the Mount Transfiguration revelation which will be given later in these passages, an unusual terrific thunder roared for sometime confirming and vindicating the message. So I boldly give these revelations even though the world may laugh at it. Man is now again in the space spending his whole wisdom, time and money to find out the secret of the planets while completely ignoring the Person Who made them all. Let us in all humility approach our Bridegroom to instruct us during these troublous times what should be done to escape and to learn only what He would want us to teach. We are living now in an important age viewed by many in the past ages but our God has graciously permitted us to live and inherit the promised Land.
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The Hidden Manna – The Thief
THE THIEF
“Behold, I come as a thief” - Rev. 16:15.
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” - John 10:10.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” - John 10:1.
Jesus is the door of the sheepfold and the sheep hear His voice. He putteth forth His own sheep and goeth BEFORE THEM. This is the way Jesus Christ came to take His sheep the first time. Now He says He would come like a THIEF. This means He cannot come through the door - which is the Lord Jesus Christ. He should climb some other way - this is the Thunder Mystery. The Bride will be pulled only through the voice of the Thief as this is not a real thief, but comes like a thief being a Real Shepherd. He comes to steal away the Bride, kill those who make fun of Him, reject Him and oppose Him in tribulation period, and destroy those who destroy the Earth - Unbelievers. The thief does not tell his way of stealing, but keeps it to himself. Jesus Christ came with discernment, healing, mighty miracles, walking on the sea, feeding multitudes, died and rose again thereby everyone knew that He could be the True Shepherd but the thief cannot come that way. Only the Bride could find out from the voice and no outward signs and miracles to catch the eyes of the worldly people and those ‘seeing and believing folks’ who will be put through the tribulation period for not believing God’s Word but waiting for signs and wonders whom God calls “this adulterous generation”. The others will miss the whole thing as there is nothing spectacular and they are not worthy to be considered as Jewels of God as God calls only the Bride - Believing and Seeing people - as the Big Fish which comes under the Third Pull which is nothing but opening up the secrets kept hidden for centuries for the thief to pull the Bride only, who look to God’s Word as final test and thereby get a revelation from God of this ministry.
My dear friends, with all your efforts and sincerity, mastering all tapes and all books and having all the worldly goods, unless my Bridegroom draws you into this message, you can never understand this Mighty Move of God. It is not because you are discarded by God, but because you have a worldly look while the Bride has a heavenly look. Your pride, fullness of bread and laziness to read God’s Word have made you like that. Humble down and seek God; He will show this to you. The latter rain on the Bride is now on in an increasing measure and people are brought to this message by dreams and visions and wonderful guidance and not by human giant efforts. All human efforts cannot stand this “Stone Message” as it is solely done by the Fullness of the Holy Spirit so that the Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords will get all the glory Who is the rightful heir to the throne of God. Let us glorify Him and submit totally to His Rule and His Ways.
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The Hidden Manna – Eating the Flesh
EATING THE FLESH
AND
DRINKING THE BLOOD OF THE SON OF MAN
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the SON OF MAN, and drink his blood, ye have no LIFE in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh MY blood, hath eternal life (Age-lasting or Aionian life); and I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. HE that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.” -
(John 6:53, 54, and 56)
If you give close attention to these verses without prejudice, you will find that one verse represents the Lord Jesus Christ for sure and the previous verse clearly represents the Son of Man i.e., TWO different persons. By believing the Son of Man ‘Life in ourselves’ is promised i.e., that person has such life from the Tree of Life that it is not just for a season or period but forever. So the person who dwells in the Message of the Son of Man gets such a life automatically that he or she will not taste of death. Those who dwelt in the Lord Jesus Christ since His resurrection were promised “Age-lasting life” (See Emphatic Diaglott) and they should be raised to immortality on the last day which is the time when the dead in Christ will be raised and when the Son of Man should be glorified. Those who really dwelt with Jesus Christ by eating His flesh and drink His blood, did not rise with Him and go but are sleeping with the ‘age lasting’ life. When they hear the Last Trumpet call, they will have power to rise up. Others do not have power to rise up at all. Come on Bride, believe the Word of God and if you are a jewel, which the Lord came to steal in this age, you will catch it. Others will become vehement, and instead of keeping quiet, they will attack the ‘thief’ and the consequence is death as the second work of the thief is to kill and the third work is to destroy everything in the world which glorifies only man’s knowledge instead of uplifting the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything will have to go. Do not worry about the things of this world. The Bride in this age will be restored to the consecration as during the days of the Lord Jesus Christ Who came to die for the sheep and paid the ransom to purchase His Bride.
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The Hidden Manna – The New Name
THE NEW NAME
“Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? WHAT IS HIS NAME, AND WHAT IS HIS SON’S NAME, if thou can’st tell?” Prov.30:4. (Two names mentioned here).
“I have manifested THY name” ...... (John 17:6)
“.......I kept them in THY name” ...... (John 17:12)
“I have declared unto them THY name......” (John 17:26)
“I am come in my FATHER’S name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. (John 5:43)
“And in THAT DAY ....... ye shall ask the Father in MY Name”. (John 16:23) “At that day ye shall ask in MY NAME” (John 16:26)
This may sound strange to you. Jesus always said that He did not come in His own name. He came in the name of His Father which was “JESUS” or “Jehousha” (JehovahSaviour). Other religious leaders all came in their own name and people believed in multitudes. At that day God came down to die for humanity that they might live. Just as sin entered through one man, life also came through one Man the Lord Jesus Christ, but unless and until redemption of man and his outreach comes to eat the Tree of Life, the restoration of man is not complete. This should happen now and so this day was called “That Day”. We who live now call Jesus Christ’s Day as “That Day”. People talk about great miracles, but no one superseded in action except in bombastic talks and great advertisements of miracles and crowds never seen - all just to pull money. The third pull of worldly followers of Christ is “money”, but God’s third pull is “Big Fishes” - Bride. The promise of great things in “My Name” never materialised, yet people boast. Jesus says “If you ask anything in MY NAME it will be granted”. “If two or three are gathered together in MY NAME, I am there”. He did not say ‘My Spirit will be there or some ethereal sensation be there or there will be visions of My Presence’. This has not happened yet. Can you understand, O Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ? Also it is said in the Word that if we should ask a mountain to be removed or a tree to be uprooted from one place to another, in “My Name” it should happen. This has never happened and it was promised by the Lord on That Day which is “THIS DAY”. Now we are moving in so closely and will be there shortly.
On the last day Jesus Who came in His Father’s Name 2000 years ago should come in His own name, or else the last day MESSENGER to the Bride into Whom Jesus comes should not come in his own name but in the name of the Bridegroom Who prepares the “Bride” and collects her in one place of safety, and the Word of God says that the Lamb’s Wife has made herself ready - Hallelujah! Are you getting ready for this great event when the Wife of the Lamb will be glorified without death? Those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ, our Bridegroom who comes in HIS OWN NAME will be cast into the outer darkness. They will believe the one who will come in his own name, away from God’s Word - the anti-Christ. They want only one leader who never comes under the test of the Bible and who comes in his own name thereby rejecting the one who has come in the name of the Bridegroom. God have mercy on those who reject the Lord Who has come down to earth within human reach. Just ponder over what happened to the rejectors and blasphemers at the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Glory and Life offered to those who accepted Him.
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The Hidden Manna – The Stone of God
THE STONE OF GOD
CUT OUT WITHOUT HANDS - THE ROCK WHICH SMITES
“Thou sawest till that a STONE was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces..........and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth” - Daniel 2:34-35.
When we see through the Bible, we find many references to Stone or Stones and also many references to sacrifices of animals for the remission of sins. Everything should have a beginning, and at the garden of Eden we see the first sacrifice. First it was solely the work of God in contrast to fig leaf aprons which were the work of man. Secondly it was by the death of an innocent victim which had to give its life to clothe Adam. Thirdly it was by shedding of blood. Now in this first mention of sacrifice, we have God’s rule of all succeeding sacrifices. Abel had faith in God’s pattern of Genesis 3:21 and so brought a lamb (God’s Gift) for sacrifice. He killed it (here is the innocent dying for guilty) and he shed its blood. But Cain’s offering was rejected because it consisted of HIS LABOUR and work (the fruit of the field). In the same way we should trace, the first mention of stone in the Bible to find its subsequent meaning throughout the Word of God.
If you turn to Genesis 28:11-18, you will find an incident where Jacob sleeps with a stone pillow and has a dream of a ladder reaching to heaven and Jehovah standing at the top of it with Angels of God ascending and descending. He becomes so fearful and there the promise is given that, that place will be given to his seed which will be countless as dust and they would spread East and West and North and South (then how say that Jacob’s seed are only in European countries and West?). Jacob then plants the stone, anoints with oil and calls the name of that place as “Bethel” (House of God). A stone depicting the House of God, and he had a dream lying on the stone as a gate to Heaven. If we come further to the New Testament, we see another interesting story about Nathaniel. If Angels of God come to a place and go back (ascend and descend), it means God, Who is their Master is there. When Philip found out Jesus Christ as Messiah, he was not selfish but went to fetch Nathaniel (John 1:40-51). Nathaniel remarked that no good thing would ever proceed from Nazareth (God only is good and no man). Philip said, “Come and see”.
Now Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to Him and said concerning Him (by discernment), “Behold, a genuine Israelite; in whom is no guile”. Nathaniel was on God’s Word which says that God should be born in Bethlehem. Nathaniel was shocked to hear Jesus say that. “How did you know me”, Nathaniel asked. Then Jesus remarked, “Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I SAW THEE”. This clearly shows that Nathaniel had a vision of the end-time while under a fig tree. The Jews were scattered during the time of Lord Jesus Christ and had no prosperity; to sit under one’s vine tree or fig was considered to be a sign of prosperity and security (Read Micah 4:4; I Kings 4:25; Zech. 3:10).
As Nathaniel was in meditation, he saw a vision of the end-time when Jews returned to Palestine, and the King was there to rule over them, and Nathaniel was himself under a fig tree seeing the King pass at that day and Jesus (in King’s attire and not in long robe) also happened to have a glance at the same time of Nathaniel. Nathaniel could not connect that the Lord Jesus Christ, veiled in a body as a carpenter’s son and so lowly and humble, was the Messiah Who should come later, because the King in glory Whom he saw in the vision was entirely different from the man whom he now saw wearing a long robe of common man.
When Jesus said, “I saw thee”, (only Nathaniel knew the vision and he didn’t expect anyone else to know it except God) it apparently shocked him because the Figure which saw him
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under the fig tree was that of the Son of David, the King, but Jesus who related this incident looked just like an ordinary man. After this, Nathaniel gets a revelation and recognises Him as Lord Jesus Christ (You do not come to God with your rotten theologies, education, caste, creed, colour, nationality, wealth, influence, recommendation etc., but the Holy Spirit should REVEAL the secret to you. Otherwise you are lost despite your having great talents, abilities and education. You have to humble yourself before God and then you will see God is able to move you and open your eyes. If you evade to do this, you are deemed to be blind although you might say “I see”).
Nathaniel then shouts, “Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.” Yes, it is indeed a great thing to recognise Lord Jesus Christ in HUMAN FORM as God coming down, and yet Jesus tells Nathaniel of seeing still greater things. What were those things? It was a great thing to recognise Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour on that day since many had stumbled and were thrown into outer darkness. What about now?
“Because I told you that I saw thee under the fig tree thou believest!” - as Son of God and Son of David, King of Israel. Jesus was trying to make Nathaniel understand that He would not be accepted then as Son of David, but “hereafter” - (whenever ‘hereafter’ occurs, it means not at that time but later i.e., in these days when the Israelites are being regathered).
Jesus said that Nathaniel would see heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the SON OF MAN. What had this vision got to do with them at the time of the Lord Jesus’ first coming? It actually applies NOW. Here you ought to ponder over Jacob’s dream of the ladder gateway to Heaven. If angels of God should concentrate on the Son of Man, it only means that God has come into Him - the stone. Jacob’s stone meant “House of God” or “Temple of God”. It is a great thing to know that God came down as Son of God in Jesus Christ and it is still greater thing to know God coming down as SON OF MAN as a stone - House of God - Bethel. The Bethel building or stone was not worshipped but the God of Heavens who descended on the ladder.
“And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold this stone shall be a Witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God”. (Accepting this stone Witness means approval of their God) - Joshua 24:26-27.
Here we see another mention of the Stone Pillar which Joshua says had heard all the words of the Lord which He spake unto them. Joshua was narrating all what God told him and says that the stone heard all what the LORD has said. He then proclaims that as for him and his house they would serve the Lord. This incident to a great extent foreshadowed the future significance of God coming down as a stone to witness the new covenant to his people.
“Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it “EBENEZER” saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us”. - I Samuel 7:12.
At this particular time, the Israelites had no earthly King but a High Priest, the Prophet and the Ark of God. Because of their sins they were defeated and persecuted by the Philistines; when they confessed their sins and fasted, and Samuel cried unto the Lord for them, He supernaturally thundered and discomfited the enemies. Samuel then erected a Stone and called it “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us”. This means that so long as man depends on God and accepts His Move through His chosen Messenger, He would surely help him. Later, when the Israelites rejected God and had Saul as their earthly King, he led them astray. But again when they got David, a King who depended totally on God, the Lord started helping their nation for the sake of that King. He was called by God as ‘a man after His own heart’. King David was like a Stone and God did everything to destroy the enemies. He had to just
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stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. In the same way, man who accepted God, depended on God, and believed in God’s move for that generation, had life till the Stone untouched by hands came which ultimately is now helping him further to reach the Tree of Life. So men who sleep believing on the Lord Jesus Christ totally and the Messengers sent during the Seven Church Ages can say ‘Hitherto the Lord has helped us’ - upto the Stone.
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The Hidden Manna – Transfiguration
TRANSFIGURATION
(Matt 17:1-9; Luke 9:28-36; Mark 9:1-8; II Peter 1:16-17)
“The Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will recompense to each one according to his conduct. Indeed I say to you that there are some of those standing here who will not taste of Death till they see the Son of Man coming in his Royal Majesty” Matt. 16:27-28 (EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT).
There has been a lot of speculation over this verse, and people even thought that some few of the disciples would not die till the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ was just telling that some of His disciples, without mentioning the names, would not “taste death” (i.e., not completely swallowed up by death) before they had a vision of the end-time when the Son of Man should be glorified, and that they would rise again from “sleep” after that great event is fulfilled. After telling the above verse, Jesus takes them to a high mountain, and there He is “transfigured” or “changed shape”. In fact the Lord lifted the curtain of time and showed them a glimpse of the Stone Ministry at the end-time to be headed by the SON OF MAN when man would be able to have access to the Tree of Life, not only to see it but eat as well. This transfiguration is similar to what is described in Rev. 10:1-4 and Rev. 1:13-
15 - Jesus being glorified. Peter, James and John see a change in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and also observe two men - Moses and Elijah - conversing with Him. All of them APPEAR IN GLORY (not in this earth). The appearance of Jesus’ face becomes entirely different. As Moses and Elijah were found talking with Jesus, and as this incident was beyond the curtain of time, the three disciples should have discussed about it having a vision of the end-time. This incident of Jesus’ transfiguration witnessed by the three disciples was just to assure them of being alive in glorified bodies about 2000 years later along with the stolen or raptured Bride and see the Son of Man DEPARTING from Heaven in the royal majesty to descend on Mount Olives for confronting the armies that compass Jerusalem. But the original translators being unaware of the actual period of the vision’s fulfillment, connected it to the crucifixion period, giving the figurative meaning for “deceased” as “demise” in Greek. Th Greek meaning is “exodus, an exit or departure”. EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT - “who appearing in glory spoke of his DEPARTURE (at the end time, 2000 years later) to be consummated at Jerusalem”. From what Peter said about erecting tents or booths on the top of the mountain, don’t you understand that he had recollected in his mind the “Feast of the Tabernacles” which is to find fulfillment only in these last days? Moses and Elijah were in glory and not in any earthly dress. The significance of this vision is similar to that of Nathaniel’s, unfolding the end-time situation in Jerusalem before consummation when Christ personally comes to fight the armies deployed against that city. Incidentally, before this event, rapture should have taken place.
Now coming back to the Transfiguration scene, we read that a cloud then overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud shook them saying, ‘This is my beloved Son; hear ye him”. When Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist, a similar voice was heard. Why did this voice stress on them the need to hear the Lord Jesus Christ? When Peter saw the vision at the Mount Transfiguration, his thoughts advanced to nearly 2000 years, to the period of fulfillment of this glorious incident, and he actually forgot that his day was different. The Holy Spirit then speaks to them saying in order to reach that end-time 2000 years later, they need not worry about the observance of the Feast of the Tabernacles and Booths as this has to be fulfilled only at the end-time, and stresses on them the need to carefully listen to Lord Jesus Christ and accept Him as the Sacrificial Lamb which alone could provide them age lasting life until the Rapture of the Saints. Jesus cautioned the three disciples not to disclose this vision to anyone till He rose again from the dead. It is only in the Gospels of Mark,
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Matthew and Luke we see them writing rather elaborately over what happened on the Mount which gives us the impression that they had personally witnessed the scene whereas in fact, they were waiting at the foot of the mountain. Only Peter, James and John were with the Lord. The Mount Transfiguration incident has indeed been a mystery all through these years, and revealed only now in this Bride Age. Remember, what took place on the Mount was not translation but TRANSFIGURATION. Jesus Christ was born sinless as Son of God, and beloved of God, and He is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings but the Bride is in sinful body. She becomes holy and spotless only when Christ descends into the Temple of the Bride.
Many people do not realise that Adam originally when he fell down became inaccessible to the Tree of Life as otherwise, with his fallen nature, he would have attained immortality then itself. To prevent the fallen Adam from laying his hands on the Tree of Life, God had to drive him away from the garden of Eden. We usually talk about man being lifted to Adamic position, overlooking the fact that he never was allowed access to the Tree of Life. We ought to realise that the Bride in this Age, by virtue of her ability to reach and eat of the Tree of Life forbidden to Adam, is actually lifted to a position which he failed to attain. Thus the status of overcomers this time is far above that of Adam. Be careful not to miss the high calling which God has extended to you in this last age. “Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour” - Hallelujah!
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SPOTLESS BRIDE
Many people try to seek for the Holy Ghost by attending several non-scriptural “tarrying” meetings, all the while not knowing that the Holy Ghost is so easy to receive. God wants every one of us to have it but why we miss it is because we don’t expect to receive it in a simple way. I remember the many embarrassing moments when many pastors used to place their hands over my head, asking me to shout “Praise the Lord”, “Glory, glory, glory”, “Hallelujah, Hallelujah”, “Blood, blood, blood of Christ” and so on. For over ten years I did like that without any encouraging result. They eventually became fed up and asked me if there were sins in my life, and tried to make me confess such sins which I had never committed. They were unable to reveal anything hidden in my heart. All Pentecostal pastors left me thinking that I was the worst scoundrel not to get the Holy Spirit. I became extremely disgusted and disappointed when I was told that the Holy Ghost is only for ‘holy people’. I had even decided to quit religion once and for all and ceased to pray. I remember another incident where the Dean of a Bible School, under the jurisdiction of a huge world-wide Pentecostal denomination, was threatened to be sent out of the School unless he spoke in tongues. Poor fellow! He tried and tried in vain when at last he paid some money to the servants asking them to go and tell the concerned missionary that so and so has received the Holy Spirit and has started to break some furniture. The servants obliged accordingly, and on his part he did break a few tables and chairs shouting “Hallelujah, Hallelujah” to substantiate his claim of anointing. The missionary became very happy, and came running to the spot. He shook hands with the Dean saying: “Praise the Lord! Boy, now your position is secure in the Bible School”. The Dean never actually had the kind of experience which the Pentecostal church insisted on. I spoke to that poor man personally. Having come across such false things, I became rather hesitant even to pray, but one day as I was sitting in an upstair room, the Holy Spirit spoke and assured me that He is really very close.
He further pointed out that if men are allowed to get into the water only if they are clean, then it becomes impossible for them to have access to the water. How can they be clean without first getting into the water! They are supposed to walk into the water with all their uncleanliness and the water will make them clean. The same fact holds good in the matter of Holy Spirit anointing also. How can one learn swimming without him first getting into the water? Or how could an individual learn typing without actually first placing his hands on the typewriter? Besides, if you are thirsty and locate some water point, you don’t just stand in front of it and start shouting, singing or dancing. If you are really thirsty, you’d straightaway dash towards the water and gulp it. Having found out these truths through God’s timely intervention and help, I felt a terrific anointing in my body then and there itself without having to undergo any undue strain. I was thrown away about six feet from where I was sitting and for over six hours I had a wonderful anointing, speaking in unknown tongues. I had failed to accomplish such a glorious experience in all the 10 years of vain shouting amidst the Pentecostal pastors. The Holy Spirit made me run to God’s Word and implicitly obey to all what God has said. We must have the correct interpretation of God’s Word or else we will miss the blessings of our Lord. The disciples tarried for ten days before the Pentecostal outpouring. But now waiting is not necessary. The Lord wants us to straightaway take and drink. Come on, O Bride of the Lamb of God, drink of the new wine now available through the Stone Ministry!
Having had this delightful and glorious experience, I thought myself to have become holy. Everywhere I heard people preaching about great holiness, but I quite realised I was failing God in many things despite the anointing I had received. I considered myself to be the most miserable creature in the whole world to let down God like that, and as I could not be a hypocrite, I openly told people about my plight - that I was no good. My Pentecostal brethren,
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warning me as a backslider, said that once the Holy Ghost gets into a man, he cannot commit sin at all. Also they had different meanings for ‘mistakes’, ‘failures’, ‘gross sins’ etc. But to me everything was the same except with different labels suited to one’s own convenience and thinking. I began to think over diligently and asked God why I was made a sinner with so many spiritual failures in my life while there were many who claimed to be ‘spotless brides’. I could in no way claim myself to be ‘spotless’. I don’t care what people talk about me - I have no righteousness apart from recognising God coming down as a Lamb in His first coming and as a Stone in this Bride Age.
I then wondered why God called Abraham a righteous man when he lacked the boldness to tell a truth. I realised that God counted Abraham’s belief on His Word as RIGHTEOUSNESS. I then became convinced that to be righteous one must ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE the total Word of God even if it is against his thinking and reasoning. This made me very happy, and come what may, and whatever the world may say, I sought for God’s righteousness by trusting every Word of God. He certainly gave me what I asked for.
Well, how do we become “spotless bride” in God’s sight? Before a girl is married, we may go on telling about all her flaws and failures, but once she enters marital life, there is always the husband to defend her and call her faultless. Whatever be the mistakes of a wife, a real husband will always call her spotless - others will not have the courage to oppose his view about her. In the same way, when the Bride is married to Lord Jesus Christ, Who has come down to claim her, the Wife of the Lamb (with the new wine and Tree of Life’s fruit) certainly becomes spotless. Although the earthly husbands may at times let down their wives, our Lord will never do so with His Bride. Thanks be to God for He knows we are weaker vessels. Our Husband, Lord Jesus, can be trusted to make us holy and give His Robe of Righteousness. This view may make you assume that I am giving room and loop hole for God’s people to lead loose lives. In my experience, all those who talk about perfection and holiness are the people who have left the Word of God and remain in dead denominations. It is very hard, almost impossible to depend on God without first knowing Him intimately. Let us always remember the justified prayer - “God be merciful to me a sinner” - Luke 18:13. God always loves a broken heart. Read Psalms 51 of ‘a man after God’s own heart’. May God give a contrite heart to the Bride to enable Him to make her spotless and perfect.
There are certain other verses in the Bible which are so terrific, setting forth very high standards of holiness that they tend to make people who read them to try to form and adhere to a sort of “filthy rags” righteousness.
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things SHALL NOT INHERIT the kingdom of God” - Gal. 5:19-21.
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God” - I Cor. 6:9-10.
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” - Rev. 21:8.
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In order to partake in the Rapture, we ought to have 100% uncondemning conscience. We know that such sinners, as described in the above verses, cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Naturally, we should become dejected to read these verses as we all have one time or other indulged in some of the sins mentioned therein. It no doubt portrays the plight of every man and woman in this world, and tends to make them feel eternally lost. Nevertheless, God’s mercy can make us qualified to inherit the Kingdom of God. Without first seeking His mercy, if we try to make efforts to inherit His Kingdom, we would fail miserably. Although the said verses place man in a desperate position, yet they should goad him to plead for God’s mercy to enable him to inherit His Kingdom. Therefore, instead of crying, man should regard his position as a lost one, and say like King David, “Have mercy upon me, O God, acccording to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions” (Ps.51). David had no “filthy rags” righteousness as he knew of its futility in pleasing God. But what do the hypocritical holy people of the denominations say? “Oh, we are holy and have attained sinless perfection”. If it is so, they should have pleased God and would have been already glorified. To these people God says, “All your righteousness is like filthy rags”.
Jesus has also said that if a man looks at a woman with lust, he has already committed adultery in his heart. Judging at this level, where do we stand? The standard of God is indeed very high and condemns every man as a sinner so that he could humbly seek God with a contrite heart to get forgiveness and perfect peace. But man wants to show he has better holiness than God Himself! Most people are condemned by their own conscience ‘since they try to set forth their own standard of righteousness to please God and miserably fail in their attempts. Abraham, no doubt, was pleasing God; yet he had made a small idol in his heart by his affection for Isaac. God Himself had to destroy that idol before it could fully occupy his heart. That is the reason why Abraham had to be tested to the extreme point of killing Isaac. When he came back after the sacrifice, he never held Isaac as an idol in his heart.
One day my wife and I were discussing about “Simple Life” when the question of having only a few sets of clothing for our use came. She did not seem to agree at all and we began to have a bitter argument for quite a while. She was adamant and refused to resile from her stand. But when I showed her the Word of God and we referred to the booklet on ‘Faith Life’, she immediately became convinced and threw away all her extra sets of clothing and kept only the minimum. Now see! What I failed to achieve by argument has been made possible through the Word of God in no time. Similarly, you cannot make a man accept himself to be a sinner as he will go on telling of his good things and behaviour, and claim to be righteous (filthy rags) in the sight of God. But if you point to him these verses, he would immediately break down, become contrite and plead for mercy. Oh you sinners in the worldly sense! God has not come to condemn you who are fallen and rejected by “holier than thee” people. In fact you have more chances to be raptured than the hypocritical holy ones. They are imprisoned in denominations rejoicing over their “filthy rags” righteousness, and claim to be children of God. To these people Jesus said: “The publicans and harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you” - Matt.21:31.
Jesus never condemned a sinner. When Simon condemned Mary of Bethany, Jesus supported her (Luke 7:36-39; John 11:1-2). He brought life to the Samaritan woman whom others had rejected. The invited people did not come to the wedding and made vain excuses. Now they are all caught up in the net of the Beast to be marked. But Oh! you sinners of whatever calibre you are, don’t worry if you are not bound by human traditions, superstitions, fear of society etc., and feel lonely, being rejected by such people who are only “saved sinners” imprisoned in denominations. The trumpet call is now sounding exclusively for you, O desperate ones! Flee from everything evil and forsake everything not on God’s Word,
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even your home if it prevents you in reaching God. No bondage can be stronger, than the love of God. Break and flee from every human and worldly bondage. Come to Jesus with a contrite heart. It is easier only for you to get into the Kingdom of God, than the “saved sinners” who pretend to be “holier than thee”. Jesus Christ has said so. When His new wine fills you as you believe this Gospel of the Kingdom (Bride Message) which should be preached throughout the world before the end comes, you will inherit the Kingdom of God where alone exists perfect holiness; and Jesus our Lord and King will give you the Robe of Righteousness. This holiness which we now preach is not the one achieved by man in an incomplete measure through his own efforts. It is given by the Lord Jesus Christ who has come down to this earth on the Moon Landing Day to take us all to His Home, Sweet Home. You will soon see victory.
It was only the holy people who were regular church goers and thorough with the law that ill-treated our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and ultimately gave Him up to be crucified. What was the use of all their holiness which could not help them to find out by revelation the person templed in the body of Jesus Christ - the Almighty God and our Creator? There was no salvation for them in any other name. Several other good people might have existed among the World Religious and Political Leaders but none of them were able to give life. They were only like rubies and diamonds - costly things but without a speck of life in them. On the other hand, a lamb, although very cheap, compared to those rubies and diamonds, has life in it. The same thing is being repeated in these last days also. The people have become so holy and righteous that they are blind to see the move of God through the Son of Man. Thus they miss the life without death offered by God through him. People have started blaming and criticising me for championing the cause of sinners. Nevertheless, as a man having extensively travelled, I had the opportunity to peep into many denominations and groups throughout the world. I know what a great God we have and what it is to have the righteousness of God. “Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil” - Joel 2:13.
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MALE CHILD
(Revelation 12th Chapter)
This particular chapter is the most important one for the Bride. Many commentaries and dictionaries state so many contradictory things, but they all miss one thing totally. I think that is because it has been kept a mystery by God from the beginning. Try as he may, man could not interpret it till such time as now when the “Thunder Mystery” has been so clearly revealed to the Bride. People have been trying to apply a past incident to that of a future incident i.e., the life time of Jesus Christ to the DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. John actually sees something about the Son of Man, Bride, Jewish Church, Dragon cast down and persecution to those left after Rapture etc. If you study this chapter carefully, it will certainly spur you to prepare for the Rapture more quickly. Another point for consideration is that when the earthly Israel moves, the heavenly Israel also moves simultaneously i.e., both are identical. The spiritual Israel is a sign in heaven to know the earthly Israel’s move on the earth. The earthly Jew is a sign to know the move of God with spiritual Israel. Just like the earthly Israel (Daniel’s Book) which did not know the move of God with the Gentiles, the Gentiles in these last days will not know the move of the Bride and the Jewish move. While God has promised to restore the Jews, He has at the same time promised the Gentiles to gather the Bride. Joseph had his brethren and parents on one side, and his wife on the other side simultaneously, with neither side knowing the move of the other side. In the same way, the Jews will not know the Bride’s move nor will the Bride understand Israel’s move on the earth.
A “wonder” in heaven means a “sign”. The Woman is clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. The sun signifies the Lord Jesus Christ and the moon the earthly religious organisations of every sort. As this happens in heaven, it means the spiritual Israel (Bride) at this Age. A wife is clothed by her husband, takes the name of her husband and hides in the glory of her husband. This means that the Church or the Bride standing on God’s Word has brought the Lord Jesus down to her. In fact she is sitting with God in heavenly places already as she has left the world in her heart totally. The Bride is now able to approach the Sun of Righteousness as her eyes are opened to the truth. She is married to Him through the covenant and is clothed by the sun which means immortality. To try to reach the sun means sure death to anyone. Living in this earth hundreds of millions of miles away from it, we are unable to even bear an extra amount of heat emitted by the sun. But the Bride is safe in that sun, full of boiling flames, which evidently shows she has been favoured by God to live with Him as His Wife (He is a consuming fire). At the same time she has the moon under her feet. If we drop a banana and incidentally trample it, we will not eat it. For the Bride to be married to the Lord Jesus Christ, she should have left the dead denominations and trampled them and rejected all her wealth, worldly dependence, worldly popularity etc.
So the Bride has already left all bondage, traditions etc., and ceases to be a member of any organisation to enable her to be married to the Lord Jesus Who has come down ushering in a new dispensation (Bride Age). The woman has a crown of 12 stars. People take this to mean the dream of Joseph (Genesis 37:9). They must understand that there were only ELEVEN STARS and Joseph was away in Egypt when the dream was fulfilled. But here there are TWELVE STARS. These do not represent the earthly Israelites. Nor do they apply to America as she is No.13 (thirteen stripes and 50 stars). The 12 stars actually signify the restoration of the Bride-Tree to the foundation doctrine of the 12 APOSTLES - 12 stars. The Wife of the Lord Jesus Christ has left all bondage as a result of which she is able to follow the early apostolic teachings in toto. This woman being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. People usually take this to mean a normal child birth and expect the church to be delivered after persecution. Man misses everything of spiritual importance
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by his carnal thinking. If he diligently searches the Word of God, he will invariably find that almost everything in it is interwoven and authenticated by various alternate supports spread over from Genesis to Revelation.
“Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them” Isaiah 34:16.
“Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the CHILD, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you” - John 16:20-22.
“Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no King in thee? Is thy counsellor perished? For pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon: there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies” - Micah 4:9-10.
From the above verses we can understand that the Child was meant to be Lord Jesus Christ. The travail and pain to be delivered signified His rejection, persecution and eventual crucifixion. The joy of birth indicated the glorification of Jesus Christ as witnessed by the disciples on the day of ascension. But what we read in Revelation 12th Chapter is the spiritual child birth of the spiritual Bride now. I CHALLENGE THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN WORLD THAT IF THIS CHAPTER POINTS OUT TO LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE PAST EVENTS OF HIS DAYS, THEN WHAT NECESSITY WAS THERE FOR JOHN IN PATMOS TO SEE THE VISION COVERING INCIDENTS WHICH HE HAD ALREADY SEEN WITH HIS OWN
EYES! IF GOD REVEALS ANYTHING THROUGH VISION, IT SHOULD PERTAIN EITHER TO PAST FORGOTTEN INCIDENTS OR MOSTLY FUTURE INCIDENTS. IT IS NOTHING
TOO DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE TO NARRATE AN INCIDENT OR EVENTS WHICH HAVE ALREADY TAKEN PLACE UNDER HIS VIEW OR KNOWLEDGE. THEREFORE, THIS PARTICULAR CHAPTER CERTAINLY POINTS OUT TO THE EVENTS TO BE FULFILLED IN THIS BRIDE AGE THROUGH WHICH WE ARE NOW PASSING. Moreover it was many years after the birth of Christ that John began to write the book of Revelation. So to try to make this Man Child refer to Jesus Christ’s birth through virgin Mary is to violate a universal principle in language as this was a past historical event and what John actually saw in the vision was an event yet to happen.
There appears another sign in heaven. A Red Dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads. This again signifies Satan’s diabolic attack on the spiritual Israel. All the denominational Christians are earthly and carnal people who have God’s name alright but deny His power and move. Here you see the religious and political groups all united together. The seven churches which existed in Asia in John’s time also refer to the seven church ages. Now in the last church age, the unity of everything has to be seven times more. Seven spirits manifested in one Messenger, seven kind of significant churches at this time in the whole world uniting together and seven messengers silently going around the world together, under one Messenger before whom the entire world systems would ultimately fail. So the whole world’s religious bodies come under seven heads, uniting under
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the Pope. But the denominational heads retain their crowns under one dragon which has super-abundant power because of the seven crowns. The ten horns are ten political kingdoms uniting under the political head. Ten toes (Nebuchadnezzar’s dream) do not represent the West alone. People seem to forget that there are two feet - one foot in the West has five toes or five kingdoms and the other foot in the East has five toes or five kingdoms. Further in Revelation 13th Chapter, it is mentioned that the ten horns have ten crowns, but no crowns on the seven heads. In Revelation 12th Chapter seven crowns are on seven heads but no crowns on the ten horns. This means political and religious bodies unite in such a way that their combined body does all its work in an uninterrupted manner. The Red Dragon stands before the married wife of the Lamb to devour her Man Child as soon as it is born (this does not signify a past incident but a future incident to occur now in this Bride Age). Also the dragon has a tail by which it draws a third part of the stars of heaven and casts them to the earth. Let us now consider what the tail of the dragon and the fallen stars represent.
“The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that TEACHETH LIES, he is the tail” - Isaiah 9:15.
“They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever” - Daniel 12:3.
When all denominations unite under the religious head who sits on a seat, ancient and honourable, he gets a tail which wags according to what its head says. This tail represents false prophets who teach only lies. Upto the Pentecost, people denominated and they have been put into a tight jacket. They are unable to move any more except like caged lions and tigers, with their movements restricted to the area of the cage. There is no hope for them. There are a few others who claim to be independents, moving freely, having established contacts with all kinds of religious mushroom groups and inter-denominational hoaxes. When Prophet Branham came into the scene, he vehemently condemned everything not on par with God’s Word and the denominational people had nothing to say to defend themselves from his incessant attacks. He was never found beating about the bush, but spoke in an outright manner. It was apparently the spirit of God that spoke through him, condemning everything existing in the name of religions but out of the Word of God. The Prophet didn’t even spare many of his own followers whose principal aim was to make money. They are the ones who teach deliberate lies and either twist the things which the Prophet preached or teach something of which the Prophet never spoke. Many important tapes of his sermons are said to be missing - How? Scores of tapes have been ignored and put aside - the people have no opportunity to see them in book forms and know what they contain. No doubt, those associated with all such misdeeds are not just ordinary individuals but eminent leaders. They lead the people astray. These false prophets have become prominent because the people are following them blindly, and do not bother to check everything with the Word of God. They are possessed of a denominational spirit and behave worse than the political parties at the time of election; like the one now going on a year ahead of schedule here in India. If these people love Bro. Branham sincerely, they would have surely believed this move from the East of which he saw in his visions. He spoke of this clearly. I challenge these agents of the Beast - I am sorry to use such a hard term but it is a fact - like a dog in the manger they neither allow others to go in the Rapture nor would they themselves go. They are of their father, the devil - the dragon. They are not at all the Prophet’s children. Only those who have recognised this Bride move are the people who really love the God of Prophet Branham. Oh, you bunch of perverted Sodomites! Can’t you see Los Angeles rocking? Can’t you learn lessons from history? Why are you like Nero who fiddled when Rome was burning?
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When the Americans went to moon this time (Apollo 14), the Lord gave me the Third Thunder Message to type. Every time a Thunder Message goes, terrific disaster should come like Noah’s days by water. When the last Thunder Message was published, millions perished overnight in East Pakistan. Even now I had hardly typed three sheets of this message, terrific rain and thunder occurred over here, and Los Angeles was also struck by repeated earthquakes. I then discontinued typing the message for over a month as prompted by the Holy Spirit. This only means, God is yet merciful to you. He wants to allow you some time to pull you out of that cursed place. What recently happened in Los Angeles is only a warning and foretaste of the terrific calamity that is to strike there soon with shocking suddenness. There is all the more urgency now for you to heed the divine warning and get out with no delay. Oh! Dear people of God, get away from that cursed place and flee for the sake of your lives before it is too late. If you hesitate, you will miss everything which you now regard as precious, including your lives. When the impending major earthquake begins to batter California, not much will escape. All your pre-arranged plans to fly away by jets at that time won’t work. I can perfectly see Los Angeles sinking into the water like a huge millstone once for all as the prophet has predicted. If his VISION of the sinking of Los Angeles is true and will soon find fulfillment, then the follow-up ministry on this earth before Rapture about which he has clearly indicated is also THUS SAITH THE LORD.
The vindication seen in East are said to be “spurious” by many people in West, especially U.S.A. Well, what about them? Actually they are the ones who try to make mountains out of mole hills by their false advertisements and statements, all carrying only lies. All their magazines are full of “beggings”! Perhaps their God wants them to live only by begging. Show me a place where they don’t beg. I have personally attended many of their biggest meetings and that is why I am able to say all this. The Bride in India thank God for the unceasing vindications. This is the “Day time” for her. People say that the pillars of fire could be seen only during ‘night time’. This apparently proves that they are already well on their way to ‘night time’ (tribulation). There are others who make fun of those who leave everything of this world in response to the Bride Messages. Even Lot had to leave everything although he ultimately missed the promise. Lot’s wife also left everything, see three classes of people who leave everything. It is the order of the day. What would be the fate of people who are reluctant to forsake everything for God? They will realise when they are at the point of becoming ashes by the divine fire of vengeance. Leaving everything helps us to follow God fully. Lot and his wife left their kith and kin, properties, valuable etc., and ran but the heart of Lot’s wife was in Sodom. She turned around and became a salt pillar. Lot had to spoil his daughters to preserve his seed which in due course multiplied and became Moabites and Ammonites - the enemies of Israel. Safety was there but not God’s perfect will. God’s perfect will and safety was only at Abraham’s place where God had a home. Even by leaving everything, Lot’s wife was not saved! What then will be the plight of those clinging to their worldly possessions. Woe unto them!
The one third stars were pulled down by the tail of the dragon represent the WISE VIRGINS (hay) who see some vindications and enter into the wedding house and take part in the Bride covenant, but unable to firmly stand on the Word of God. They ultimately perish like all others who did not accept the Bride Message. The beast is able to bring fire from heaven, so its members (tail) also boast of having vindications like pillars of fire etc., during day time which is all nothing but deception to divert people from the right path. Come on, wake up dear people of God! The night has passed and we now clearly see the day light. But darkness will again set in soon as the world enters into tribulation. I now even find substantial sums of foreign money in the hands of certain people in India who used to attack me severely in the days bygone when in India I first began to preach Prophet Branham’s messages and Jesus’ name truth. The greed for money has now made this same people to preach and
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pose as if they have fully understood and accepted the messages contained in the Spoken Word Books but denying at the same time the follow-up ministry about which the Prophet has so clearly hinted in many of his sermons. To begin with, these people don’t have even the elementary English knowledge needed to read and grasp the Prophet’s Messages. They had demanded large sums of money from us and as we had nothing to offer, they left us. Their principal aim is to obstruct the Bride Ministry in whatever ways possible, and to this end there are many rich foreign preachers to render financial assistance, and to my surprise such benefactors comprise of Bro. Branham’s followers in U.S.A. They indulge in all sorts of blackmailing and fabrication of lies against us to cheat the people who have come into the new Bride covenant, and try to pull them down from their stand by liberally offering money. Thus I now firmly believe and can boldly say that the dragon’s tail is becoming very active and it will certainly pull down one third of the covenant people (one third stars) as they are not fully on God’s Word and are of wavering nature. Watch carefully and see what all stunts the tail of the dragon is going to perform from the Western base. In any case, the true seed now being harvested will be like the original which went underground nearly 2000 years ago; while the chaff would fly away and the hay bundled up for the beasts to eat. True Seed can never become hay or vice versa.
“She brought forth a man child, (not a female child) who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne” Rev. 12:5.
Most of the Pentecostal denominations and others consider this child as the Bride. First of all they must understand why God calls it a “Man Child”. It is not a “Baby Child” or “Woman Child” or “Girl Child”. As this mystery was not revealed to them, they formed their own wrong and convenient ideas. But now it is time for the mystery to open out. The first waving of the sheaf was Jesus, who died and rose again so that His disciples could get faith to die and rise again. In the same way a second sheaf has got to be waved (it has not been waved yet). The Bride prepared for glorification must first see a sheaf translated without death to enable her to have rapturing faith for her own translation. Jesus has come down to marry the female Bride and not the Man Child.
Man may legally marry another man and a woman may marry another woman - the disgusting habit of the Sodomites but not of God and His people. Every country which has allowed this ugly practice of marriage by law is a Sodomite country, ready to be burnt by devastating fire. Any country which tolerates this has to be equally punished. We read that this Man Child was snatched away to the Throne of God. The Kingdom of God has not yet been handed over to the Son of Man and the Bride. The Devil is still exercising its power. But wait a while. People are too hasty to have the power of the spoken WORD. The time hasn’t yet come for it since the Thief has to silently steal the Bride. That’s why you see no big maracles, big shows etc., which the anti-Christ is doing and will do - (Rev.13:13).
You know 13 is America i.e., 13 stripes. So the 13th verse of the 13th Chapter of Revelation must certainly mean America. The Beast will make the people see fire fall from above. So you can see the tail running after the fire and say “almost we were raptured”. “Almost” is as good as “lost”. King Agrippa said “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian” - (Acts 26:28). He never became a Christian at all and was eternally lost. When you reject a genuine move of the fullness of the Holy Spirit, you allow and hold out an open door for the devil to manifest in your midst.
There is not much time left. It is “too late” than you think. I can see people rushing from various parts of the world for this message. But most unfortunately, the majority which could have come into the Bride have already missed the message by billions of miles. They have
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crossed the boundary of mercy and are doomed once and for all. Such has been the will of our Bridegroom and King Whose glory we as a family and all those who follow the message are seeking. These messages are aimed at glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone who does not seek to glorify Him will be judged. Those who are on God’s Word now in this generation glorify God and they are the real Bride. I am bound, by His grace, to see the end of my task assigned by Him and I shall continue to glorify my God and King, Lord Jesus Christ until I am translated. There is nothing good in us which deserves to be glorified. But for His abundant grace and mercy we would have been nothing but dust in his sight.
“Behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him” - Daniel 7:13.
Michael and his angels cannot have power to attack the devil and cast him down to the earth till the Kingdom is received by the Son of Man. That is why in this secret coming of the Lord, the Bride does not seem to have much power, as otherwise, this ministry cannot be secret. The carnal ones will miss it. This is the Third Pull and all the big fishes on God’s Word will bite the bait of this unshowy secret ministry. They are the Bride who will go up without death. That is why they are called big fishes. When the Kingdom is received by the Son of Man, Michael and his angels strike the devils which then come down to attack the earthly Israel and others who missed the Rapture.
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TWO PLACES OF SAFETY
According to God’s Word, Palestine is the safest place for the Israelites and the Word of God is the safest place for the Gentile Bride. Now that God has come down, all other places have no divine protection. Those of the Jewish church and the spiritual Israel (Bride) who trust God and His Word implicitly will have their eyes opened to see the move of God for each of them in these last days. Do not believe any writings or statements unless and until they are verified with God’s Word and vindicated by God Himself, no matter how nice they appear to your carnal thinking.
When the Male Child is snatched away to God’s Throne, the tribulation period starts in full swing. Michael, the angel, who stands in the last day for his people, then gets the authority to push the Devil down. Also the Spoken Word ministry fully becomes operative through the Bride as the Kingdom is received by the Male Child. Immediately the Woman (1) i.e., the Bride who left everything to follow the Bridegroom totally, “fled into the desert where she has a place prepared of God”. Now this word ‘fled’ has an analogical meaning i.e., “vanished”. Jesus said: ‘I go to prepare a place for you’. Now that God has come down, we are certain that the place had already been prepared. So Jesus’ promise to take His Gentile Bride to that place must be fulfilled where she partakes in the Wedding Supper for a thousand two hundred and sixty days (Gentile calculation). While this is going on, a similar thing should happen to the Jewish people on earth since they are the time-piece to know God’s move with the spiritual people. When the state of Israel was formed and the call went all over the world for the real Jews to gather in Palestine, the Prophet of God, William Branham, also sent his clarion call like Moses to the churches of all sorts asking the people to come out of denominations and to depend totally on the Word of God. As we all know, Jerusalem was captured in June 1967, and the Jews came back to Jordan boundary. This was the time when, the Bride Messenger should have crossed the boundary of spiritual Jordan, like Joshua of old, and sent the call to the spiritual Gentile Bride and claimed the boundary all over the world wherever she was located. The trumpet call began to sound to the overcomers in places where the seven church messengers had already brought forth God’s messages to the Gentiles during their respective church ages, such as Wesley, Martin Luther and so on, upto Branham starting with Paul.
After the Bride is raptured to New Jerusalem (Jesus Who came down on the moon landing day finishes His work within 31/2 years and takes away the Bride by stealth), there is immediately a voice in heaven saying “Now is come the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of HIS anointed”. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Almighty God and King and HIS anointed One is the Human Head of the Bride. Martyrdom (tribulation) starts after the Rapture (Moffatt: Rev. 12:11 - “They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it but they did not cling to life”). The West, in fact, should shine more than the East. The two witnesses are killed in spiritual Sodom Gomorrah and Egypt. People of all nations see the dead bodies of these two men which should be possible only through Television. This happens for 31/2 days and the people do not allow the dead bodies to be put in a tomb. These two prophets torment all those who dwell on this earth except the people of the Israel State. During the tribulation period, part of Jerusalem, the Holy City, will be trodden by the Gentiles again (Luke 21:24). (God’s time-piece shows again - a short period of Gentile power - Rev. 11:2). These are the points for the reader to ponder and then judge. The two prophets shake the whole world after rapture and have power like Moses and Elijah. Since the two prophets torment all the nations on earth, it would be wrong to say that they preach only in Palestine (Rev. 11:9-10). Also they prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days (Gentile calculation). They fight for the real Israelites and those Christians who live like Jews under
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Old Testament Law having only the name as Christians and are blinded to this move. They command rulers of countries like Russia and China saying “Let my people go” and succeed in delivering those Israelites who are held captives by mighty miracles and wonders. There were given to the Woman (2) (Jewish Church) two wings of the great eagle (two witnesses as prophets of the great eagle - the Great Prophet God) “that she might fly into the desert into HER place”. What is a desert? It is a place outside human control and organisations. How can a member of any organisation say he is in desert? It is popular religion which is called a ‘fertile country’ but to be on God’s Word and be a resident of Palestine (God’s place for His people) is the desert of safety. The Bride’s desert is in heavenly places.
The present day Jews and nominal Christians will not be in the Bride. They will not understand the Bride move as they are the blinded Israelites for whom the two eyes (two prophets) are given to help them to see God and His move after Rapture. Till that time they will be blind. So to the Branham people who contend “Everything is finished after Bro. Branham’s death”, God says, “I will have to ride this trail once again”. They will be blind and will not accept this Bride move till the two witnesses come when ‘Jacob’s trouble’ also starts for them. These blind people always talk about dying as martyrs in tribulation as they are tribulation saints. But those on God’s Word will flee earlier to safety and they alone will be raptured. Desert means empty expanse and for the spiritual Bride in heavenly places how can the desert be the world except New Jerusalem, as she has forsaken everything in the world? The woman will be nourished time, times and a half (Jewish calculation) away from the face of the serpent who comes down incarnate in a man. Now the serpent tries to pour out words so sweet and which seem to be full of grace and life that it might attract the woman and engulf her. But the woman has fled to her place of safety. There is a popular approval among the civilised and scientific Gentile world for one religion, one people and one world Government. They drink these sweet words of the serpent and progress in their build up of unity which is not on par with God’s Word. Thus the serpent leaves the Woman and concentrates its attention on this ‘one unity’ people. The anger of the Serpent becomes roused against the remainder of the people who knew the Bride message all right but did not get ready and missed the Rapture. It makes war against the remnant of her seed (Woman 3) who refuse to bow to its feet. But they keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ although they had rejected the Bride message in total and missed the Rapture. They become bold and preach that they will go through tribulation and die as martyrs. Such has been their desire and blindness to the move of God to gather the Bride. May God have mercy and help us to escape this tribulation which will soon come. “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that ye hath but a short time”. Rev.12:12. Here you see the Gentile Bride rejoicing in heaven while to the people of the earth and sea “WOE” is pronounced (onset of tribulation). “The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgement unto the son” - John 5:22.
“If any man hear my words, and believe not, I JUDGE HIM NOT; for I came not to JUDGE THE WORLD, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath ONE that judgeth him: the WORD (not words) that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day” - John 12:47-48.
“And hath given him authority to execute judgement also, because he is the Son of Man” - John 5:27.
(If Jesus did not come to judge and had committed the same to another One, how could this be if Jesus Christ is not the Father Himself?)
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“I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak” - John 12:49.
“Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I SEEK NOT MINE OWN GLORY. There is ONE that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily I say unto you, If a man keep my saying (or Word) he shall never SEE DEATH.” - John 8:49-51.
Many people seem to have a wrong idea about the ministry of Jesus Christ in these last days. It is because man always wants to see and believe and anything which he cannot see is decried as not being there. If I could walk on the sea and show that I am a great man, the whole of India will come to my feet and start worshipping me as an incarnate of God. The Hata Yogi of India wanted to become a god like that, and had advertised very widely and collected huge sums of money. Even renowned ministers and other political heads attended the function at Bombay to see him walk on water. I still vividly remember the grand advertisement about this feat published in the Blitz Magazine. But ultimately the whole thing proved to be a flop and great shame, since the Yogi, instead of walking on water, went right down into it. Yes, he walked not on water but into the water! Such adventures are nothing but death in the sight of God who commends only implicit faith on His Word.
I remember I used to peach that Jesus Christ will judge everyone according to this Holy Bible. In the second verse quoted above, Jesus says: “I came not to judge the world”. Then WHO is going to be the judge? Is the Bible going to be kept open in front of nations and itself pronounce judgement? “The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life”. Jesus said He never came to judge but to save the people. There is ONE (another person) to judge those who reject Jesus Christ and receive not His name. He says He is God Almighty and the Word which He spoke will manifest in the last days as a person and judge people. That WORD is a MAN and does not just mean the “Bible Words’ as we all used to think till now, and into that Man comes the Word (the living Bible as a whole). So Jesus actually hints about another anointed One who is appointed to judge. This Person should exist because of the Word that Jesus Christ spoke, for He is Almighty God and His words can never fail but should produce everything of its kind in DUE TIME. THE SON OF MAN is, therefore, a product of the WORD that Jesus spoke. When our Lord said, ‘in the last day’, it certainly pointed out to the end time in which we are now living.
Jesus came to seek the glory of the Father, and accordingly spoke only the words of the Father (John 8:49-51). He never spoke anything by Himself nor did He seek His glory. Jesus said that someone else is to come in due time to seek His glory, and that person who comes in the name of Jesus Christ will not seek His personal glory like others by going away from God’s Word. This Messenger or the Anointed One will only speak the Words of Jesus Christ Who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will judge everyone who does not give glory to the Lord Jesus Christ by their being in man-made denominations and other organised religion or political groups. The Pentecostals in India make a lot of fuss over holiness and self-righteousness, and their consecration mostly finds emphasis in not eating meat, not chewing betel or using snuff, wearing only white garments or saffron robe, not going for pictures, not taking photographs, walking barefooted, not touching money, not eating eggs, eating vadai, growing beard, not cutting hair, silent fast, forty days fast, not drinking teetotaller, sathyagraha, indefinite fast, kneeling on gravel, reading the Word of God in kneeling position, not laughing, morose look, shaving the hair completely or having only a little hair, closing eyes in front of ladies, reading the Bible and giving respectful terms wherever it pertains to Jesus Christ like “Yesuvagiya avargal, viyathiyai sukapaduththinargal”, separating husbands from wives and putting them in different assemblies, talking a lot about holiness but put girls and boys together in the same building
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and many other such things all which no doubt sound morally good and have a show of human wisdom and holiness. But these are only secondary to committing the unpardonable sin of being in some organised denomination or groups possessed with denominational spirit, and thereby steal the glory of Jesus Christ which is due only to Him. Only the saints of God who totally depend on His Word can give all the glory due to Him and not others. Don’t steal the glory of Jesus Christ. All those who seek their own personal glory will be cast into outer darkness of tribulation where they will be biting and gnashing their teeth.
Depending on God’s Word means to depend with the proper interpretation of the Word of God as revealed through the vindicated messenger of God for that age. For example, a man went to a Doctor to get medicine for a patient at home. The Doctor gave a bottle of medicine and said ‘Shake well and ask the patient to drink it all’. He went home and asked some men to come and catch hold of the patient’s legs and head. They then shook him well till he could no longer bear and then took the bottle to administer the medicine. But alas! By this time the patient passed away as a result of the violent shake to which he was subjected. They didn’t know that it was the bottle that needed shaking and not the patient. The Prophet’s followers, instead of shaking the preachers well with the Word of God, are allowing themselves to be shaken and kill the message and die themselves. Come on, give a powerful shake to the preachers with the Word of God and you will find them running away. Shake them with the “Gleanings” (extracts from the Spoken Word Books) now being circulated by Bro. L.D. Dale at 612 South Market Street, Troy, Ohio, U.S.A. (45373).
“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also” - John 15:22-23.
These are the days when everyone says ‘Oh we too love the Lord Jesus Christ’ and yet they are unable to give up all their selfish motives. When Jesus came for the first time, the Pharisees, Sadducees and other people were unable to hide their ill-conceived and selfish motives as everything had come to light. Thus they had to reject Jesus whose teachings invariably condemned all their selfish way of life. With His coming, all their misdeeds were brought to surface. But for Jesus they could have continued in their sins. In the same way, people in these last days who talk about their keen anticipation for the coming of Lord Jesus, are also full of selfish motives, colour prejudice and money minded. When such people hear us preach about God coming down on the moon landing day, they are unable to relish it. If they accept the message it would mean an end to all their misdeeds and money begging. In any case, now that the Lord has come down, there is no cloak for this denominational, self righteous and murderous generation to hide themselves. Their true colours will have to be shown, whatever it is. Now is the time for God’s people to know what kind of snake lives in which hole!
“He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him” - John 7:18.
Who is a righteous man in the sight of God? The person who seeks the glory of the One Who sent Him is called a righteous man in terms of God’s Word. But in terms of human thinking, anyone who appears to be morally good is called righteous, no matter whether he is saved or unsaved. Jesus always sought the glory of the Father till the last minute, speaking only the Father’s words.. The Word of Jesus Christ has now brought the SON OF MAN who in turn seeks the glory of Jesus Christ by standing true to God’s Word in this generation when most people are found to be deviating from the Word of God. The Son of Man speaks only the Word of Jesus Christ. The Bride of Jesus Christ, in turn, does not seek her own glory but seeks the glory of the Bridegroom Who has revealed Himself to her. Thus there is no unrighteousness in her. The Bride speaks only the Word of the Bridegroom. All
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her words and revelations and interpretations unite entirely to the Head, there being no deviation whatsoever. Come on people of the earth! Worship God who created the heaven, the earth and the sea and everything therein and give glory to the Lord Jesus Christ Who sits on the Father’s throne. This is the everlasting Gospel of God. These messages are not intended to make people to glorify me. I seek only the glory of our King and Lord Jesus Christ. Wake up ye children of God, and glorify the Lord with me before the judgement could fall on the earth so that we may be off from this turbulent world.
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LOVE OF THE BRIDE
LOVE IS THE FINISHING TOUCH OF GOD’S TEMPLE
There are many expressions of love found in the Bible viz., animal’s love, bird’s love, mother’s love to her children, children’s love to their parents, sexual love, love of friends, love between a boy and a girl, master’s love towards his servants, love in politics, denominational love, friendship surpassing woman’s love, love between husband and wife, love of jewellery etc.
“The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider” - Isaiah 1:3.
“I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women” - II Samuel 1:26.
Jonathan loved David and his love was so great that although he was the rightful heir to the throne after Saul, he was most willing to give that up to David and be next to him. This indeed is a wonderful example of friendship and could be called as “Thyaagam” i.e., sacrificing everything for the sake of friendship (I Samuel 23:17). Yet with all this, “pure
friendship” when David became King, Jonathan and Saul died in the battle. Jonathan loved David very much but stayed among David’s enemies in a different place. The principal enemy of David was Jonathan’s own Father - Saul. Jonathan perfectly knew that David would be the King but he had his father’s love to break and join David. Thus Jonathan was tossed between two loves. He expressed his love to David who also reciprocated and commended it. But what was still lacking? He continued to be a loyal son to his wicked father and stayed among his own kith and kin where God refused to move and already wrote “Ichabod” on Saul’s house. If Jonathan had loved God as a Bridegroom, he would have certainly quit everything, even at the risk of his life, and stayed with David - his father’s enemy, for David was the Word of God for that moment. Thus, when the sword cuts his father, he could have been saved to see the wonderful move of God in David’s time - a man who was after the heart of God. Jonathan, being David’s bosom friend, should have come under the shadow of David (Psalms 91:1).
In the same way, we too are confronted with so many affections in this world which of course is right in the human sight. But in these last days, when destruction is about to fall with shocking suddenness, the safest place is to be on God’s Word and His positively vindicated move for the Bride age. Be careful, O Bride of God, about your place of choice. Get away from the place where God refuses to move. Draw closer to the place of God and His Living Word. Once when another man was found by the disciples to be casting away devils, Jesus said: ‘He that is not against me is for us’ and supported his work although it was outside the fold of the apostles. That man loved Jesus Christ all right, but only those who stayed with Him were privileged to be His apostles. They were the Lord’s friends for whom He died. There is no greater love than for a man to die for his friend. The greatest love is to live with the immortal God who will transform our bodies and glorious body. Let us walk with God like Enoch and vanish away in the twinkling of an eye.
“Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” - Isaiah 9:6.
God speaks to man at sundry times by coming down to this earth. When he came to create this universe, His name was WONDERFUL. When He came down during the period of Moses and Joshua, His name was COUNSELLOR. When He came to save mankind and
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died on the cross, showing the love of God and the living way, He was the MIGHTY GOD. When He filled everyone with His Holy Spirit and begat spiritual children, born of water and of the spirit, He was the EVERLASTING FATHER. Now at the end-time before Millennium, He should come as the PRINCE OF PEACE. Let us welcome Him with open arms and be His obedient subjects thereby acknowledging Jesus Christ our Lord as King of the earth sitting on the throne of His Father as all in all. Let us give all the glory due unto Him lifting up our hearts and swearing that we will be true to God’s eternal Word at all costs.
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COMMUNITY WAY OF LIFE
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even LIFE for evermore” - Psalms 133.
God blesses all the people who please Him. Everyone of us in this Universe can get the favour of the Lord by leading a life that pleases Him and doing only what He commands us to do. People say that all blessings are given to the elect without any effort on their part. But there are many universal blessings for people who are saints as well as sinners such as sunlight, rain, moon, air etc. which demand no special merit (Read Bro. Dale’s book entitled “VOLITION VERSUS SOVEREIGNTY”).
Human nature is such that all the commandments of God are found to be offensive. The easiest way to condemn anyone is to call him a ‘serpent seed’ straight on his face. But if we observe carefully, in our everyday walk of life, a person who condemns another of a particular sin must surely be himself indulging in the same sin. That is the reason why he is able to notice it in another man. A thief who steals a cycle will first shout “cycle thief, cycle thief” to safeguard himself, and then cycle away with terrific speed as if he is attempting to catch the thief, thereby misguiding those who try to catch him. In the same way, “the real serpent seed” will not hesitate to condemn others first as “serpent seed”. I do not find even a single instance in the Bible or in our day to day life where an “honourable man,” who wants to lead a generally good moral life, does not “condemn” another at sight. The real children of God will quietly trust in God’s defence. Sinners must call upon the Lord (Rom.10:13), and men are obliged to do something in order to gain God’s blessings (I Sam.2:30). God’s laws are meant to correct our fallen nature (Ps. 19:7 - “The law of the Lord is perfect, CONVERTING the soul”). The command to forsake everything and follow Jesus Christ was not just the useless idea of a street vagabond, or a “Hippie” or a “freelance.” It is a sure remedy for the soul, as medicine is for the physical body.
Whenever any new truth is revealed, many people suddenly leave us. When I was first preaching in the City of Madras, millions used to praise me. But when the Jesus’ name truth was boldly preached, there were thousands who flatly refused to identify themselves with me. Again when I brought the messages of Prophet Branham, a vast majority left me. Finally when God visited me in Chicago on the moon landing day (20th July, 1969), I couldn’t hold any false ones, with the result that a great number of even Bro. Branham’s followers became my enemies. I challenge them now to read the “GLEANINGS” (Extracts from the Spoken Word Books being circulated by Brother L. D. Dale) and disprove it to be wrong. If they can do that, it would automatically make the Prophet who pointed to the Word way, also as false. We are the ones who acknowledge the Prophet’s words to be true but you followers in the West make him false by your wrong propaganda and misinterpretation of the statements found in the Spoken Word Books. Even now it is not too late for you people to mend your ways, but very soon you will be crossing the ‘life line’ once for all. The new truths now being revealed are certainly marvellous dividers of the sheep and goats. These end-time messages drive away the chaff and preserve the wheat, and the hay is bundled first to feed the beasts. You cannot be a member of a denomination, and yet claim to be on the Word of God (Heb. 13:13).
“There the Lord commanded BLESSING and LIFE for evermore” (Psalms 133). We seek ‘blessings’ and ‘life’ in many ways, but here is God’s way. The present day Christians refuse
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to enjoy God’s blessing and life as presented to them. The fact is, anything which is lightly got is little valued. Gold is costly because we have to go deep to get it. Stones, on the other hand, are cheap as they can be found on the surface. The ‘heavenly blessing’ and ‘life’ commanded by God are very costly and only those who show implicit obedience and trust on the Lord Jesus Christ are able to acquire them. Emotional and excitement seekers cannot even dream of this life. Even the world-famed evangelists will not exchange their fame, popularity and money for this hard way of life. In the early days, the people of God dwelt together in an unity that surpasses our imagination. More than 3,000 believers were sharing everything in common without guile and were of one heart and soul. No one claimed anything which he possessed as his own (Acts 4:32). When we live together, there is a great flow of life from God, and we no longer need to have “showy revivals, fast and pray, rend the heavens, kneel down and pray slogans or any kind of religious vaccinations or inoculations or preventive serums” (Read John 13:34; II Cor.8:14). We have a moral responsibility for others (Matt. 25:41-45; I John 3:16-18). We are our brothers’ keepers also. “He that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin”. Remember the Levite and the Priest who bypassed the wounded Samaritan and also the Pharisees who strictly observed the law and the commandments and Sabbath, but wouldn’t help a stranger in distress. Such an attitude, as we all know, was severely reprimanded by Jesus. We talk about Millennium, when Jesus Christ will rule in peace, where the poor will not suffer and the rich will not exploit and so many utopian dreams. We all look forward with keen anticipation for that day to come soon. But why don’t the present day Christians realise that this life of common living is only a step in that direction? It has become however, the blessed privilege of the Bride which uproots all the existing stinking systems.
Even before the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, there existed societies like Essenes, Nazarenes and so on. Essenes’ Order was a popular one and many Hebrews belonged to it. It is even believed that John the Baptist, who went to the desert in childhood, belonged to this Order, and he had a great influence among the Church Rulers of his day. The historian Josephus says that there were about 4,000 of this Order. They had common living and many big groups in different cities were living in communities. Everyone who embraced this order surrendered all his earthly possessions which became the common property of the whole group. Now people will immediately say that under modern civilisation a society such as this can hardly be expected to thrive, and to substantiate their view they will deliberately bring some false allegations against it or even bring about some accusations which might be true to some extent.
Man’s nature never changed since Adam and there were many wicked and selfish individuals even during the days of Essenes as it is today. This community living was not the idea of Peter. There are many instances in the Holy Writ that support this idea. Jesus also got Himself separated from his parents, brothers and sisters and relatives. He had many people who left their all to follow Him. He commanded many to leave their homes, families, parents, jobs etc. He didn’t allow some even to bury their own fathers saying ‘Let the dead bury the dead’. Judas was the treasurer and Jesus ordered the supplies and asked Judas to purchase them. Judas once complained that the woman had wasted the valuable ointment over Jesus’ feet which he felt could have been sold and the money given to the poor. Thus we can infer how the common fund in those days was used by the apostolic consecrated family to help the needy and poor in addition to meeting their own needs. Noah and his married sons with their wives and children also remained together as one family. The Israelites had a massive community life of an unimaginable nature in the wilderness for forty years, and God was always present amidst them in pillar of cloud and fire. King David also, at a time when he was constantly pursued by the mad King Saul, lived with his men and they had all things in common. From time immemorial, many Godly people belonging
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to various religions have also left their footprints of common living in the sands of time. Many Institutions, Schools, Colleges and even Bible Schools all have some kind of community life. The Catholic priests as well as Nuns follow the same pattern, and they do not accept salaries. There are many kinds of community living in India as can be seen from the many established Ashrams (place of dwelling mostly located in wilderness or mountain slopes like Himalayas as for people (Sanyasis) who leave this world to lead a successful spiritual life.)
Even many unsanctified people also try this kind of common living for some reason or the other. Communism boasts about this life, and all over the world there is a clamour for One World Government, One World Religion and International Brotherhood. But people seem to forget that such life can only be practised or tried humanly and without any compulsion. Nations and groups which submit to the rule of a communistic society, WITHOUT THE POWER OF GOD to pilot its affairs, will sooner or later lose their freedom totally and become only bond-slaves to that system. Whether it is a big society or a small group, if God is not the founder and leader of the entire set up, these types of economy could well lead to tyranny of the worst magnitude.
In the Christian Community existing at this end-time (or the Community consisting of people with a Bride-calling who have the revelation of the end-time ministry headed by the Son of Man), solving the social and economic problems is not at all the criterion. The Community exists purely to show the Bride’s love for God Almighty Who has come down to prepare her and take her away in the Rapture. It is not like just having a namesake religion without first having a personal experience with God. Nor does it signify membership like that in a harlot system. In such a community the love of God is not considered as an unseen power. The love shown towards God is not out of fear of punishment. The love solely develops out of a revelation of God coming down in this generation as the “Bridegroom” to marry the “Bride” in this earth and prepare her for the Rapture. The Bride is full of love for her Master - the Head, without whose order she will not do anything and fail God like what Eve did by twisting the Word of God and ignoring the Head. This supreme love is the motive force which makes them (Bride) like a girl who after marriage prepares to go with her husband forsaking her home and everything else which were dear to her in the former environment in order to seek a new life in an entirely new surrounding. She completely clings to her partner’s love. Such kind of love can neither have jealousy nor hanker for any kind of power but promotes unselfish nature and makes her ready to fly away in due time putting on the garment of immortality. She has the Tree of Life which comes only into a selfless society that acknowledges God Who has come down as her Bridegroom.
In this society of Bride, there can be no unbelievers (II Cor. 6:14-15). Just as we can’t have marriage for trial, this kind of life is also not meant for trial. Such a life calls for a complete change in our attitudes and also lays emphasis on self denial and sacrifice. So many things could be said for and against this. But unless there are dedicated people, this life surely will become a flop making them look like flies in the ointment. People must die to self as selfishness wrecks their lives. Once when I was travelling from Rotterdam to New York by the steamship “Ryndam”, I watched the whole crew and the passengers living a sort of community life (forced) during the 15 days of voyage. If it can be possible in a ship, it should also be possible for the Bride who has a great love for her Master. It should be worth reading the following extract taken from a book entitled “THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL” by Gail Hoffman:
“Community living among the Zionists in Palestine is the economic backbone of the great movement of the Jewish return to the land of their fathers. One of the first community groups was located at the south-eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Here hundreds of feet below sea level (686 feet) in temperatures that often stood at 112 degrees, the early pioneers
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struggled to establish a home. Lack of funds, lack of know - how and the opposition of antagonistic Arab tribes men made the way very hard for years.
Eventually a settlement called Dagania was established, but it took forty years of sweat and tears to establish this first bridgehead. Today there are acres of fertile fields, barns are filled with choice cattle, warehouses contain stores, a fine dining hall feeds hundreds of the community, a library, public hall, amphitheatre, and high school building as well as many small neat little homes comprise this happy community.
Since the founding of this first enterprise various Jewish agencies have been opened for training of workers, and for the assistance of all communal ventures; central marketing agencies established on a non-profit basis handle much of the marketing. Loans can now be secured for the aid of young communities.
The kibbutzim, or communal farms, range in size from Ein Harod and Tel Yosef, each with 3000 acres, to areas no bigger than 200 or 300 acres. Their numbers vary also. Ein Harod has about a thousand members but most are groups of three, four or five hundred persons. A few have less than a hundred members.
Most groups are established on land provided by the Jewish National Fund, and money needed for a start comes in the form of a loan, with a very low rate of interest. The young people, most of whom are in their early twenties when they start a group, manage everything themselves. Committees are elected to arrange the various classifications of work, and tasks are assigned to each member of the community. Some go to the barns, others to the fields and vineyards. A few lead the sheep to pasture. Some must remain at work on administrative duties connected with quantity buying, the storing of food, and the care of the children, the aged and the sick.
Some settlements have spacious dining halls, and modernly equipped kitchens, but often when a group starts operations, the end of a shack, which serves as a dining hall, is partitioned off, a few small paraffin stoves and tables are installed, and the kitchen is ready. Yet satisfactory meals must be served on time to hundreds of hungry workers.
To enable the mother as well as the father to put in a full day’s work, trained baby experts and kindergarten teachers take full charge of the young babies and children. Special provisions are made for the mother before and after the birth of her child. After work, both their mothers and their dads arrive to spend a happy hour or two with their offspring, and spend much of the Sabbath with their children.
Many groups supplement their income from the fields and dairies and citrus groves by establishing workshops and factories. This helps provide employment for every type of worker in the group, and also provides work in the slack seasons on the farms.
This life with all its hardships is what these young people have chosen. They are taking part in a great movement of redeeming a land. No place for pettiness, egotism or selfishness. They find that the new freedom means discipline. But they themselves work out their own rules and regulations. To these young men and women, cooperative living has provided a means of training in agricultural work, but it is far more than a mere makeshift - IT HAS BECOME A WAY OF LIFE”.
I can quote many books and periodicals which deal with this Way of Life. Of course it is not so easy as it looks. Since I found out the Lord Jesus several years ago, we have been living in some sort of community life as God always brought some family member or other friends to live in our home. In the beginning we were rather forced by circumstances to practise this. Gradually it became a regular and acceptable feature in our family. We did have some heart aches and problems of which I shall relate a few to help the people during the short time
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now left before Rapture. People who can’t believe this message, as revealed to the Bride in this Age, will never reach the Tree of Life however hard they may shout “Thus saith the Lord”. They are all off the Word. They are missing some great thing happening under their very nose, and they will never see this life as the Prophet had told clearly. They have missed it already and there is no meaning for them to continue to talk about the Rapture.
Beloved saints, who are well on your way to attain immortality, this Community life is only a step before Rapture. It is more or less like a waiting room in the Station where passengers wait till the train arrives and then forget all about it. First of all you ought to determine if Jesus Christ, Who is the rightful owner of the Father’s Throne, is your Bridegroom - the Head, this is very important. If any community is formed on human foundations, woe unto the people who submit to such a dead system. When you have firmly decided to become a member of such a community, the next thing to observe is to obey the Lord in regard to your possessions. “Sell that thou hast and GIVE TO THE POOR” - Matt.19:21. “Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the Kingdom of God” - Luke 6:20. When you become penniless, then ask the community to take you in your humble state. If they seek wealth they will avoid you, and it will be your luck if you don’t get entry. But there will always be some rare person who knows God in this Age, stands on God’s Word and gets the end-time revelation. Such an anointed one will be able to understand you, and happily take you in your consecrated and humble state. We do not ask anyone who comes in the Manujothi Ashram at Tirunelveli to sell everything and give to us. We would gladly take you in for short and hard Community Life provided you accept the endtime message and fully consecrate everything in the altar of God and obey His command and then come to us penniless. You will be most welcome and will be blessed in the peculiar way of life that exists in the Ashram and find yourself always filled spiritually. In our homes don’t we observe that children raised in a large family are better natured and selfless than those who had few or no brothers or sisters? In a large family “give and take policy” is of necessity applied to every member. In Community Life the family is very large and hence the rules which preserve the society must always be considered above the whims and fancies of the individual and his or her desires and needs.
I have seen some people come into this life saying that they have left all, but store in their rooms eatables like cakes, sweets, biscuits etc., and eat these things alone when not observed by others. When they get caught, they cut a sorry figure. There are some others who secretly deposit their money and keep their property outside, and then come into Community Living. Such people are like drones doing nothing for the common good. If there is a big stone to be lifted, people can join hands and together do it easily. In the same way, a little effort is needed on everyone’s part to lift great problems which an individual finds difficult to do by himself. There are people who gather only out of fear to go through tribulation and calculate their money to last them for two or three years till Rapture takes place. There are some who bring in a small amount of money and within a short time make a lot of fuss and claim the whole community funds for themselves. They try to earn more money for themselves by their losing initially a little money, and also start fighting for position the very next day they come thereby creating dissension. There are some individuals who never work but sleep the whole days, and come promptly at meals time saying, Praise the Lord, Hallelujah. But God knows the hearts of the people. Such kind of people do not get any spiritual blessings in their lives and they get out soon saying that this kind of life is disgusting and intolerable. There are some other people who give nothing but falsely propagate that they brought thousands to me - they wouldn’t have seen a thousand rupees in all their life time!
We have also got to be careful about the moral life of the inmates. There may be some “cupids” who praise this kind of life only to deceive some innocent girls into adultery and run away. They then slander outside saying this life is against the Word of God. The man who
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is incharge of this Community must not behave like a boss. He must be like an experienced father and know how to treat the people with love. Some years ago when we had just started this Ashram, an Anglo-Indian gentleman and his wife came to live amidst us and brought about One thousand and two hundred dollars. Since we did not have much experience, we thought this family was God sent and took them in. The lady was of course was getting on wonderfully, but the couple in general were bent upon spending lavishly. The husband would always want to travel by air even for routine matters, go to the richest hotels and take treatment in the costliest hospital etc., and we had to spend all our funds for his extravagance. Within a few years all the funds were almost depleted. Whenever I planned to attend some big campaign of our Team, his wife would prophesy that the Lord was against my attending that campaign and so I should not go. The husband also would insist that I should heed his wife’s prophesy. I used to feel pretty embarrassed and grieved in spirit, but in order to avoid making him feel offended I would either cancel or postpone my programme. Sometime he would want to take young girls in the scooter saying that it was the social custom of his community. When I resented to see him doing such things, he would only get angry and not try to mend himself.
So these sorts of things were going on for quite sometime. I became convinced that the woman’s prophecies were all false, and ceased to attach any importance to them. Then the demons in her seemed to be greatly provoked and we all fervently prayed for her. Finally, much to the surprise of all, some 50 demons were cast out of this lady who had all along been talking in tongues and deceiving people. We also gathered information from reliable sources about her husband having disclosed to one of his close associates that he would be with us only for a few years by which time he expected to establish foreign contacts, and then go over to England for permanent settlement. To cut a long story short, this gentleman and his family finally left us and we had to pay them more than Rs.20,000 in kind (double the amount he brought) from the Community belongings which practically left us in nil balance. We had obtained a receipt from him duly signed before he went to England with the sale proceeds. After leaving us they began to slander that we had fleeced them and also wrote an article in an American Christian Publication entitled ‘Pentecostal Indigestion’. Thus instead of spiritually prospering, they backslide and entered into a worldly job once again as prearranged.
Then there is the case of another man who joined the Community, bringing with him a meagre amount for the common fund. It so happened that the very next month of his joining, a German lady offered a house to me as a custodian of her work in Bangalore stipulating many terms and conditions which I still have in my files. This gentleman approached the lady, and insisted that the house should only be registered in his name and started to fight claiming a share in the house. The lady, however refused to accede to his request. Ultimately, after some years, when God blessed us with this new ministry, we handed over the house also back to the lady. Even so some kind of slander still goes on in this regard against us. We don’t desire to hold any property in our name. In spite of all such obstacles, God has always been providing marvellous helps to meet all our needs. There have been many such bitter experiences coming in the way of Community Life.
The Bride has got to be very careful in associating with new comers to the Community Life. In the not too distant past, a middle-aged lady suddenly came to join the family of God with a hidden motive. She seemed to be getting on well for a few weeks or so, and then gradually began to show her true colours. Her sole object was to get married to a boy, an active member in the Ministry, whom she had already chosen in her heart. She wanted me to intervene and take upon myself the whole responsibility and finalise the affair. But owing to certain very justifiable reasons, we couldn’t help her out. So she packed off immediately and started concocting stories against us and made many to believe them. Needless to say, the
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world could never judge situations correctly and honestly. But do we have to fight to establish the real facts? We feel happy to get rid of such false and wicked people. Surely God does remove the unwanted characters when we earnestly pray to Him as a Community. When new-comers join us they get some wonderful and hard experiences and cutting of corners in their lives (which they could not eradicate in their previous home life) as the Spirit moves and brings them into God’s desired place.
Another striking feature we have noticed is that whenever any unconsecrated people come to stay amidst us for a week or month, the entire providential help ceases and we don’t get even a single cent unless such people leave us. As soon as they keep their legs out of the Ashram, we continue to get help as usual. Even when we try to help out of the community funds some of our unconsecrated or unsaved family members, we have seen God stopping all help and we have to ask His pardon. Then the help flows like a stream.
Unlike the many other kinds of Community Living now in existence all over the world, the Manujothi Ashram is not a place where people have to work to earn their livelihood. All what we do is to trust God like the Israelites in wilderness for all our needs. Of course people do have to work and share the multifarious responsibilities, each according to his ability and without expecting any remuneration to ensure the smooth functioning of the Ashram. Why did God take the Israelites in the hard way and make them to suffer in the wilderness? It was to show them that He can supply all their needs. When people newly come to the Ashram, they are for a few days, assigned to do some manual labour. Ladies are mostly asked to help in the kitchen. But some of them show reluctance to do the chores allotted to them and try to get away or make a good lot of fuss. This only proves that they choose to enter the Ashram thinking that they can have an easy-going and idle life and thus defeat the very purpose of Community Life i.e., to seek God more vigorously and get themselves ready for the Rapture.
Free food and accommodation is provided, as God supplies from time to time, so that the individuals need not have to work and earn their livelihood. Only a little time is spent in doing the few odd jobs allotted to each of them, and most part of the day is at their disposal for reading a good many chapters from the Bible which they couldn’t have done while in their worldly way of life. Usually they read every day about 40 to 50 chapters from the Bible. The Holy Spirit marvellously opens the Bible to them, and they get the knowledge of God direct from His Word without any denominational thrust or teaching. They show rapid progress in their spiritual growth. But there are some who are so lazy that whenever they are asked to attend to certain work, they try to evade it under the pretext of reading the Bible. Apart from Bible Reading, the inmates are engaged in a round-the-clock non-stop chain prayer in groups. This will be continued till Rapture takes place, and they especially pray to God to soon gather all the Bride members before the door of grace gets closed once and for all indicating the commencement of tribulation for those who are left behind in Rapture. There are a few young men who have proved themselves to be mighty messengers of the end time truth. God has greatly strengthened them for they have sincerely crucified their self life and go from place to place preaching the end-time gospel without any regular income to back them up but depending fully on God to meet all their needs. One can quite clearly observe the abundant and regular flow of God’s Spirit amidst the Ashramites, so much so that their desire for food etc. becomes waned and they can remain without eating for days together being filled with the presence of God. Many bear witness to the fact that whenever they leave the Ashram area, they find a great difference as they couldn’t experience the same happy and peaceful atmosphere anywhere else.
I am residing at Gandhinagar (Tirunelveli) and “New Jerusalem” is just a name we have given to our rented house; it has nothing to do with the spiritual New Jerusalem, mother of
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all, which is up above. People seem to have got mixed up after reading certain statements found in the Second Thunder Message (“Overcoming Death is possible in this Generation”). You may rest assured that there is nothing like “New Jerusalem Bank” or any other bank located in Gandhinagar where you have to transfer all your belongings. What we actually meant in the said message was the transfer of your property etc., to the Bank of God (Matt.6:19-20; 19:21). The real Bride is expected to do it before Rapture by selling away everything and distributing the money among the poor. We don’t expect people to give anything to us, and nowhere have we hinted to them to do so like the present day moneyminded “Evangelists”. That’s why we don’t even acknowledge any remittances immediately but write letters only when prompted by God. God provides all what we need in His own marvellous ways and we are more than content with that. Moreover, we are not a party to associate with people possessed with denominational spirits who cannot do God’s work without regular support. We trust only in God and He always responds to us in a mighty way for He knows that we seek the glory due to our Lord. Only those who are out of the grip of denominations and denominational spirit can give the complete glory to God and God alone. Being in denomination, people take all the glory for themselves and that is considered nothing but death.
Anyone who has the revelation of God coming down in this generation as Bridegroom will also understand and experience the joy of being married and becoming the Lamb’s wife - ready and prepared for the glorious take off. The Bride prepares herself to fully follow her Master by forsaking everything of this world. All her money, property and other worldly affections become nothing to her when compared with the new wine to which she is entitled through the new Bride Covenant. She experiences the flow of a new love in her, so much so that nothing in this world can ever pull her back to a worldly life. It is only the lack of such kind of supreme and divine love that tends to make people to offer lame excuses and prevents them from choosing this way of life.
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LAY NOT UP TREASURES
FOR YOURSELVES UPON THE EARTH
The terms “Lay not up treasures upon earth,” “Forsake all” etc., sound so terrific to the human mind that the very thought of it nauseates a worldly Christian since it cuts the very root of the purpose for which he became a Christian. In India many poor people have become Christians for the sake of bettering their worldly prospects i.e., to get a job, marry a girl and so on. We all have Bible in our hands, but whenever we come across a costly demand we just skip over it and do only the cheapest and easiest things. This is the principal reason why a vast majority of Christians are uable to show anything much of God in their lives. We firmy believe that all the commads of Christ are literal, and it is unwise to spiritualise anything, however difficult it might be. Entire dedication was commanded by Christ in His teachings. The rich man (Matt. 19) came to ask Jesus what good thing he should do to gain eternal life. He wanted eternal life to enjoy the immense wealth he possessed in this world. But Jesus, the great Physician, knew the desire of his heart and said that he should sell everything and give to the poor. He was not to stop there but also follow Jesus which was still harder than selling all. His purpose was lost. What was the use of eternal life if he had to sell all and give the money to the poor? He wanted eternal life only to enjoy his wealth. Since what Jesus told him was contrary to his desire, he went away sorrowfully. Jesus, however, did not do any bargaining like “Brinjal or potato business.” His standard was perfect and unalterable. He did not call the man back and say, ‘Well, let me reduce the standard a bit as you are very sorrowful’. He just let that rich man go his way. The command to forsake everything was fully followed by the Apostles, and this ought to be practised by us literally at least in these last days.
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, What ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” - Matt. 6:19-34.
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If we read these verses without considering the prejudice of the present day Christianity with all its luxuries, we will find that Jesus clearly attaches great significance to a “single eye” and He states that riches disturb our clear and simplicity of vision. Then He goes on to say how God cares for the lowest of His creatures and how He provides for those who do not have a storehouse or barn. He also tries to stress the point that God will definitely care in a greater degree for them even though they do not have a store-house or provisions for the future. At the end He does not blame them for anything except saying “O ye of little faith”. In Luke there is still another passage similar to this. The rebuke from God was “Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?” (Luke 12:13-21). Here there is a little difference in the final remark i.e., “sell all that thou hast and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not”. When we talk about this important matter from the Holy Writ, many would comment in the negative way saying: “That is not necessary for salvation. O Where is a man who will not fleece money? So and so preached like that to forsake and now he has cheated everyone and robbed all their money making them paupers. Jesus did not actually mean this to be followed literally. He just said it in a general way but not seriously” etc. Such people, if they read the following passage will clearly see that Christ’s teaching against laying up treasure upon earth was in fact literal.
“Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved? And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the Kingodm of God’s sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting” - Luke 18:22-30.
Jesus said: “It is easier for a camel (rope) to go through the eye of a needle than for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God”. Whenever we contemplate over the situation to which our families and children would be plunged into if we forsake all, we naturally become discouraged. It ought not to be so for we have God’s Word to pin our faith - Heb. 2:10; 5:8; Rom. 5:5; II Cor. 6:10.
We know that disobedience to God’s commands brought death into this world. Knowing well the commandments of God, if any one disobeys wantonly, he must be prepared to reap the consequences as well. I have seen many rich men, both Christians and non-Christians., die in the C.M.C. Hospital at Vellore where I was an employee for some time. Their last hours were very alarming and full of sorrow. All their hoarded wealth could not do any good to them in their last moments. They did not know what good their wealth would do to others or who will enjoy and whether or not it would be utilised for some good purpose (Eccl. 2:1721; 4:8).
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IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE
TO HAVE RICHES
AND NOT TO DEPEND ON THEM
“And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God! And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answered again, and saith unto them, children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? - Mark 10:23-26.
Jesus did not say “How hardly this rich man enter”. People seem to think that our Saviour was not severe in His remarks, but when we study this matter deeply we find that there was in fact no soft corner. This passage is not purported to make riches appear less dangerous to the possessor, but rather it explains why it is so dangerous. At first He states the cause which will prevent a rich man from entering into the Kingdom of God. The disciples were astonished and then Jesus goes on to explain that it is impossible because he trusts in riches. The disciples, instead of getting pacified, became more astonished, and this shows that there was no softening in the attitude of Jesus. It is evident that the disciples did not consider the case as less dangerous or hopeless for they eventually cry out “Who then can be saved?” This seemingly is an expression of people whose astonishment was confirmed and not removed by the answer of Jesus Christ. “They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” - (I Tim. 6:910,17). The Apostles were convinced of the Lord’s condemnation of trusting in riches to be literal and exhibited their conviction by action when they decided to follow Jesus:
“All that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their POSSESSIONS AND GOODS, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart” - Acts 2:44-46.
“The multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need” - Acts 4:32-35.
Christ’s remark about the poor widow also shows that He intended His command to be taken literally - Mark 12:41-44: “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And came there a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living”.
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The world will not come forward with an open heart to praise such an action but out rightly condemn it as very improper and insensible. But see how our Lord Jesus Christ commended this action much against our normal outlook. He judges not according to appearances. When Peter cut the servant’s ear, Jesus warned that he who takes a sword will perish with the sword. He also did not advise His disciples not to take what He said literally or casually (II Cor. 8:9; 13-15; I Cor. 4:11; II Cor. 11:27; II Cor. 4:17).
There are several of Christ’s commandments which cannot be obeyed when riches are accumulated. Some people say that to trust God for the future is to tempt Him. But there are so many varied examples of children of God trusting God, and God blessing them for that trust. The Lord God blessed Abraham for leaving the future and its consequences in the hands of God. We are all happy to call ourselves as children of Abraham, but do we have the same faith as he had on God? When Sodom and Gomorrah was to be burnt, God came down to Abraham, supped with him and promised to bless him with a son in his old age. And when Abraham did have a son, God decreed that he should sacrifice his only son. Abraham obeyed, and we know the great blessings wrought on him by God for obeying His word. “By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; BECAUSE THOU HAST OBEYED MY VOICE” Genesis 22:16-18.
When God wanted the Israelites (male children) to appear before Him thrice in the year leaving their wives and children, He undertook to take care of the defenceless wives and children (Ex. 34:23-24).
“Neither shall any man desire thy land, When thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year”.
Were the Israelites tempting God in this respect? How sincerely they trusted God at His Word and went to appear before Him leaving their wives and children defenceless. Don’t you feel that it required a great trust on God and His Word for the entire population of Israelites to leave the defence of their families in the hands of God when they were in Jerusalem? Can’t you trust God for your daily needs even though the majority of human beings normally live by working daily with their hands? We have a great, great God in Jesus Christ.
When Moses led the Israelites for forty years, the daily need of the millions was met by God throughout their journey. When they ran short of water, the spring broke forth from rock. When there was no meat, it was provided at their door step. When they wanted food, manna fell from heaven. Those who collected more without faith had not more and those who collected less had full - greedy ones who collected the heavenly food to last for the next day found it spoilt. This supply of manna stopped after their crossing river Jordan. Also when the Israelites kept the Sabbath sincerely, God brought abundant blessings:
“Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard” Lev. 25:3-4.
“And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year, until her fruits come in ye
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shall eat of the old store” Lev. 25:20-22.
“If ye will not for all this harken unto me, but walk contrary unto me, I will bring your land into desolation, and I will scatter you among the heathen; and your lands shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it” Lev. 26.
See the punishment of God on Israelites who disobeyed and did not trust God. “And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the Kingdom of Persia” (II Chr. 36:20).
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The Hidden Manna – Take a Great Warning
TAKE A GREAT WARNING
Should we not be concerned about our future? Is it wrong to think about our future and provide? Did not God say learn from the ants to gather in the summer for the winter? You may say this and you have got a right to say. But Jesus said these are things which the Gentiles seek after who have no true God. Once we enter into the fold of true God, it becomes a great sin not to trust Him. We belong to the true seed of God and faith is the criterion to please our God. We first believe God and then see the results. Whatever God promised will happen eventhough most of it might seem impossible and unreasonable to human thinking. Lack of faith and belief in God is what makes the present adulterous generation to seek for a sign. They want to see cheap magics. “Tell me what I am thinking. Show me what is in my hand. Tell me what I have in my purse. Then we will believe that God has come down as you claim!” So this is how they want to be convinced.
A few days ago a brother and his wife visited me and they were in very bad temper against me. When I stressed that we should be on God’s Word, they opposed me and said that I should believe Prophet Branham and what he said is the Word and that needs no checking. This brother became wild and furious when our messages containing the new truth of God coming down were sent. He has not read what we wrote but only heard from others and with that he began to vehemently attack on many points. At last he started asking ‘Did you know that we were coming to see you? Were you able to discern that?’ and so on to which I replied that it was only for carnal believers to ask like all that. He sarcastically said ‘Prophet Branham could do that but what are you trying to make yourself? You are trying to become somebody. You are a deceiver’ and so on. Since he had come all the way to our home we did not want to be rash. He couldn’t understand that the Stone does not discern but smites by faith on the living God and His Word. It does no play with the children but brings the people to father’s faith.
Abraham followed an ideal which should mean losing every thing dear to his heart. When he obeyed, God’s blessings were poured on him as time went by. When his children neglected to appear before God thrice a year in Jerusalem or did not observe the Sabbatical year, in order to safeguard their families which to the natural thinking is quite reasonable, they were not altogether safe because their enemies brought famine and laid their lands desolate and carried their wives and children into foreign lands as captives. Fears like ‘What will happen to our families without protection while we are in Jerusalem? What will become of our families if we do not provide for the Seventh year?’ etc., were quite reasonable and may be called wisdom. But at the same time, distrusting God and disobeying His commandments and following their natural instinct against the distinct commandments of God proved to be foolishness in the long run as God severely punished them.
Beware of distrusting God. This is the reason why the Church is in such a degraded position today with countless divisions, all centered on money and provision for the future. Which church will care for you if you become a pauper? If you have money they will receive you with open hands. If a poor man leaves a church they do not bother, but when a man with money leaves, they do not trust God but fight for the man and his membership, finally losing both the man and God as well. We believe an ordinary postman, bank clerk etc., but we don’t trust God. When a postman brings a money order, you do not sign it after receiving the money. He wants you to first put your signature as having received the money already. Then only you get the money. We deposit money in the bank and come away trusting that the money is safe there. You have to choose and serve either God or Mammon. You cannot expect to please both. When Jesus was crucified, He did not provide anything for His mother. He didn’t have a lump sum to give to her. He only gave her into the hands of an Apostle who had nothing of this world’s goods. Nor did He provide boarding and lodging expenses or
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entitle her to some kind of pension.
I have seen various people like merchants, Doctors, Engineers,business magnates and so on struggling day and night saying that they have very large families and that they are endeavouring to earn something to give as a ‘Portion’ to their children. We lay up for our children a little dust and call that a legacy. King David said that the Lord was his portion. By keeping worldly properties etc., as legacy for our children, we are actually ruining their lives, and throw them into muck and mire. Thereby we lay temptation for them to seek after the world and spend all what you have gathered under the sweat of your brow and call it “a portion”. Till we lead our children to the portion which David claims (‘The Lord is my portion’) we are not making any provision for our children at all.
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The Hidden Manna – Recognising Jesus Christ
RECOGNISING JESUS CHRIST
When Jesus Christ died, His disciples almost lost hope and were inexplicably discouraged. They must have felt utterly despaired and dejected with world mocking at them. But the Word of God tells about the unique resurrection of Jesus’ body from the grave. After Jesus was risen from the dead, Mary was the first to rush to the grave where she found His body missing. She had a great love for Jesus which impelled her to go to the grave in the early hours of the morning. She had gone there with great sorrow and heavy heart. When she saw the empty grave, she became terribly upset. Her agony was more than what she had felt at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion. What happened then? ...... “she turned herself back’, and saw Jesus standing and KNEW NOT THAT IT WAS JESUS” (John 20:14). She was so familiar with the countenance of Jesus Christ that she should not have mistaken about His identity provided He had the same appearance. “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?” She, SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDENER, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus said unto her, “Mary”. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master (John 20:15-16). So Mary actually recognised Jesus Christ by the familiar voice with which He used to call her, and not by His appearance.
Again in Luke 24:13-31, we read about the two disciples who were on their way to Emmaus that same day, discussing about the events. Jesus joined them enroute and asked what it was all about that they were so intensely discussing. But these two disciples, who were with Him all the time, couldn’t recognise who He was! Why? “Their eyes were holden that they should not know him” (Luke 24:16). “And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight” Luke 24:30, 31. See! It was only the breaking of bread that helped them to recognise and identify Jesus.
These two disciples came back to Jerusalem, and as they were narrating the incident to the other disciples, Jesus again stood in their midst and said “Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted and supposed they had seen a spirit” (Luke 24:35-37). We see many pictures of Jesus Christ showing Him with a handsome face, and with beard and long robe. But do we become frightened? Then Jesus said unto them, “Handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me have.” If Jesus had come with the same appearance, the disciples could have easily recognised Him and there wouldn’t have been any need for Him to show His hands and side to them (Read John 20:20).
The disciples, somewhat disappointed at their Master’s death, went back to fishing but caught nothing (John 21: 1-14). We also do not catch any souls because we have backslidden from our consecration, turning a deaf ear to God’s voice. Jesus stood on the shore but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. What did He look like? He asked them to cast the net on the right side of the ship. Obedience to His Word brought great results. Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter, “It is the Lord” - recognised by the power of the Spoken Word. “Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? Knowing that it was the Lord” (Verse 12). Can’t we understand that the disciples recognised the Lord in their hearts, only through the powerful Word that He spoke? Of course His outward appearance was something different, unrecognisable as Jesus, and they wanted to ask about that but had not the courage to question Him. They now had faith to believe Jesus and recognise Him as the Lord. Seeing and believing was before crucifixion.
These are the days when people talk so much about Jesus’ coming in the air and so many other things as if they are thoroughly acquainted with the Scriptures. They make use of such
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terminologies which make people to wonder and blindly follow them. But look at the Disciples! How greatly they were confused in identifying Jesus after His resurrection. The very people who had been so closely associated with Jesus, failed to recognise Him by His features and countenance. As discussed above, it was only through His Voice, breaking of bread, and power of the Spoken Word that their understanding was opened to know Him as Jesus. The same thing is now being repeated in this Bride Age. The present generation would also miss God Who has already come down to prepare and take away His Bride. People are still looking above for Jesus to come in the air. They will not recognise Jesus Christ, for He has not come in the way they have been expecting. Their eyes are blinded to see the new move of God through His Bride. “....yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more” (II Cor. 5:16).
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The Hidden Manna – False Christs
BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS
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FALSE CHRISTS
“And then if any man shall say to you, lo here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not; for false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect” Mark 13:21-22.
“Take heed lest any man deceive you: For many shall come in my name SAYING I am Christ; and shall deceive many” Mark 13:5-6.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits” Matt. 7:15-16.
“Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many” Matt. 24:4-5.
“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many” Matt. 24:11.
“THEN if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; in so much that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” Matt. 24:23-24.
These are the verses which are mostly used by the “tares and hay” to prick and confuse the real seed of God. I have not seen any real seed worry over those verses, used out of place, by false ones. Yet they (the real seed) must know clearly whom to be cautious of. The term “Christ” means ‘Anointed one’ (it can be anyone either false or true). It does not in any way point out to Jesus Christ alone. The name Jesus added to ‘Christ’ makes the difference i.e., Jesus Christ - Anointed One or Messiah. So when we say false Christs, it never does mean ‘false Jesus’, it only means false anointed ones - there are already hundreds in existence. Well, where do we expect to see the false christs and false prophets? Certainly here on earth, and not in air. And where should we expect the real Anointed One? On the earth, of course. False Christs or false anointed ones are those who do not fully stand on the Word of God. They shall, no doubt, show great signs and wonders. But there is only one real Christ - our Lord Jesus Christ. The real One comes secretly without great signs and wonders so that the majority might be made to miss to catch it. First time when Jesus came, He showed great signs and performed wonders to prove His Ministry. But now the Third Pull, as foretold by Prophet Branham, is opening the understanding of the Bride to the many “Secrets” in the Word of God. The false ones and carnal believers won’t catch the bait as they depend on seeing great signs and wonders (Matt.12:39). They are away from the Word of God and stand only on MONEY which is the rope to bind the tares. For the Bride, the Word of God is the basis of fellowship and unity.
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets” Luke 6:26.
If you diligently study the 24th chapter of St. Matthew and the 13th chapter of St. Mark, you’d get a very clear view of this subject. First when Jesus came, He said that many would come in His name saying ‘I am Christ’. This was to happen after Jesus Christ’s ascension, and not before that. After the death and resurrection of Jesus, there have been many leaders of various religions manifesting different shades of godliness, and each claiming to be the Messiah. After the days of Jesus, the Jews were carried captives by the enemies, and all those who believed in Jesus were scattered and persecuted. We may call it the ‘first
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tribulation’. Jesus instructed not to come down into the house, and those in Judaea were asked to flee to the mountains. Woe was pronounced to them that would be with child (Matt.24:15-20). Where is Judaea? Who celebrates Sabbath? Christians don’t celebrate Sabbath and Judaea is in Palestine. So this actually pertains to events that happened at Palestine immediately after Jesus’ ascension. Then there is the end-time ‘Jacob’s trouble’. “Such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no, nor ever shall be”. Then comes a talk of deliverers like “Lo, here is Christ, or lo he is there” and about the big fellow, the anti-Christ, who is forming a big world union based on human desires, and not on God’s Word (Matt.24:21-23). Only organisations can make a big noise and say, ‘Here comes so and so - God’s man of the hour; go here and go there’ and all kind of that. But Jesus has come without any organisational label. That’s why, like lightning, there is a glare in the sky when the end-time Message or Kingdom Gospel is preached. There is thunder and lightning for the Bride to catch this life-giving message. She has the assurance of overcoming death and flying away with her Bridegroom very soon. A vast majority of others keep just blinking since their understanding is closed. They have deviated from the Word of God allured by money and fame. They are not seeking the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ for they are in the stinking denominations. They cannot give the complete glory to God unless they firmly stand on the Word of God and be rejected by the world. During this Bride Age, while many people claim signs and wonders, the Bride will be caught up secretly when her understanding is opened through God’s Word, and its divine pull. It is only after the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ that the false ones (false Christs) started showing up; they will all ultimately spring up to their eternal damnation just after the Rapture.
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The Hidden Manna – Seeming Contradictions
SEEMING CONTRADICTIONS
There are so many passages in the Word of God which have seeming contradictions to the people who just have a glimpse at them, and understand not the real meaning. Jesus always spoke in parables so that only those whom He had chosen to reveal the mysteries would understand. In certain places it is mentioned about ‘Son of God’. In some other places is mentioned ‘Son of Man’, and at important places only the word ‘Son’ is mentioned. Those who do not have the revelation of Jesus Christ is and just call Him as “One of the three persons or gods of the Blessed Trinity” cannot understand these passages. Having more than one God does sound nice to “heathen Christians” for they want it that way to suit their own convenience. But when God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, He said:
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, not serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments” Exodus 20:3-6.
If Jehovah is the One God and Father, we cannot worship anyone else - even Jesus Christ, unless Jesus Himself is the Father. This can be understood only by revelation. I have seen many taking baptism in the name of Jesus for the fun of it without having a proper revelation of Jesus Christ’s identity. How can one understand Jesus Christ? Is it possible through denominational teaching, or by attending some theological course or discussion or debate? No! Not at all!
“They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. Then said Jesus unto them, when ye have LIFTED up the Son of Man, then shall ye know that I am HE, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things” (John 8:27-28).
Here again Jesus talks of the Son of Man as a different person from Himself - note the usage of ‘I’ and ‘He’. The “lift” in Greek does not mean “crucify” - which is not exalting. This crucifixion is rejection, but “lift” means “exalt or elevate to a high position”. Jesus was speaking of the Father, and said that if they did not believe that He was the Father ( I AM HE) they would die in their sins and the Jews objected to it. Then He reiterates that when the time comes for “God’s flock” to realise by direct revelation who the Son of Man is, and as a result of which they do not hesitate to “lift” him, then the people would know that Jesus Christ who came into this world as an ordinary man, as a carpenter’s son, in such a humble way, is the FATHER AND OUR GREAT CREATOR AND ALMIGHTY GOD; and that He was not a philosopher, spiritual leader, religious leader, good man or a prophet. In other words, those who call Jesus Christ, like Apostle Thomas, “My Lord and My God” will not have any difficulty in getting a revelation of the “Son of Man”, or only those who get a revelation of the Son of Man can know in reality that Jesus Christ is the Father, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. All others only pay a lip homage, and worship more than one God - worse than heathens or atheists. As denominations can be formed only by leaving aside the Word of God, everyone who calls himself by a denominational name worships “other gods”. If Jesus is a second person, separate from the Father and Holy Spirit, then the Ten Commandments given by Jehovah are wrong. God cannot contradict. We only confuse the whole thing by our carnal thinking, and call it “God’s mystery”, and say that people should not talk or dare to decipher it.
“For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son
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quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgement unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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 passsed from death unto life” John 5:21-24.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live; For as the Father hath LIFE in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have LIFE in himself; And hath given him AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGEMENT also, because he is the Son of Man” John 5:25-27.
“No man taketh it (life) from me, but I lay down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father” John 10:18.
“If any man hear my words, and believe not, I JUDGE HIM NOT; for I came NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, but to save the world” John 12:47.
Jesus clearly says that He came to save the world and not to judge, and that there would be One coming at end-time to judge (Read John 12:48); but at one place He says that the Father hath given authority to the SON to execute judgement. Also He says that the Father hath life in himself so He hath given to the Son to have LIFE in himself. These are seemingly contradictory statements.
In one place Jesus says that He will not judge, and in another place He says that the Father will not judge but giveth judgement authority to the Son. Unless Jesus Christ is the Father, these statements contradict each other. May God reveal to the Bride that Jesus Christ, our Saviour, is the Father who alone is worthy of our adoration, worship and our honour in this world. Come, O loving Bride, join with me in giving all praises, honour and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ, God of all, whom we worship and adore for this great salvation as we stand totally on God’s Word, cutting ourselves from everything having a smell of denomination or organisation and depending and trusting totally on the power of God for our needs and defence. My dear people of God, what a great and glorious hour we are privileged to live in now to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ to the Throne of the Father amidst persecution by the blind folks. Let us be grateful to God for opening our eyes, not because of any good in us, but by His sheer mercy. Suddenly people would jump up and say ‘Did not Jesus call himself as Son of Man?’ If He had told about these mysteries clearly, the saints would have found this out long ago. But God had wanted this to be opened only at the end time when redemption would be over, with the Bride standing completely on the Word of God, ready for the flight. Even the disciples who moved closely with Jesus did not understand the title ‘Son of Man’.
“We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?” John 12:34.
If you notice carefully (see verse 32) Jesus never mentioned the term Son of Man this time but just said “I”.
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The Hidden Manna – Bread of Life
BREAD OF LIFE
“I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the Wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which COMETH (to come) 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 (to the Age) and the bread I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” John 6:48-51.
If we closely study these verses we will find that two different periods are involved in them. If Jesus was the Manna mentioned in the 50th verse, it means that He was the Manna who CAME down from heaven and those who ate it had life till end time - to be raised up. But those who eat the Manna which COMETH (which will come) at the end-time WILL NOT DIE. This is the rapturing faith and this faith comes from the Word of God, and not by just jumping about or harping on old false theories. Also the Manna fell on the earth and did not stick in the mid air. Jesus the Manna touched the earth and so it shall be at end-time. Those who eat the Manna “cometh” after the Seven Church Ages will not die. Come back to the Word of God - that is your urgent need. It is the sword of the Lord and of the Bride.
“The people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld, the serpent of brass, he lived” Numbers 21:5-9.
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in MY NAME (Father’s Name), I will require it of him” Deut. 18:18-19.
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ETERNAL LIFE. For God so loved the world, that he gave his ony begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE” John 3:14-16.
IN GREEK THE WORD “EVERLASTING” MEANS “AGE-LASTING” (DIE AND RISE UP AT THE LAST DAY) BUT “ETERNAL LIFE” IS “WITHOUT DEATH”.
Let us now study the above verses and see how we have made Jesus Christ to look like a snake hanging on a pole, and all along have preached sermon after sermon. Can you imagine the Lord Jesus Christ, born without sin, God Himself personally came within the temple of a sinless body, not born to a sinful man under the curse and bite of Satan, to be typed as a serpent of brass hanging on a pole? The Prophet, John the Baptist, dared to call those who came to be baptised as vipers and snakes. What a shame! We have made our Lord to look like a serpent hanging on the cross. Don’t you see that you and I are the real
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cunning serpents, full of sin, talking hypocrisy and with feigned holiness? In the second verse quoted above, we read about God’s promise of raising a Prophet like Moses which found fulfillment in Lord Jesus Christ. What did Jesus say? “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.....” But Moses did not hang himself on a pole and call himself a metal serpent. Jesus came as a sacrifice and died on a cruel cross for the sins of the people. There is no doubt about it. But if He had compared the “lifting up” top that of crucifixion He should have said, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must I (a Prophet who came like Moses) be lifted up”. i.e., exalted or elevated. We see that it is the Son of Man who is to be lifted up.
The metal serpent lifted up by Moses was put and burnt in fire to be shaped like a serpent - not a real serpent but a brass serpent-like form. All fallen men in their sinful nature look like that. Even this portion should sound blasphemous to others. Remember, we are not attempting to belittle the efficacy of the death of our dear Lord on the cross. He was a sacrificial lamb, but in John 3:15, He is not shown as a sacrificial lamb but as a “Metal Serpent”. Jesus was a type of Moses who lifted up the metal serpent in the wilderness. So Jesus must lift up or elevate a similar type of a thing for people to look upon and remain alive. Those who were bitten by the snakes did not die after they looked at the metal serpent, and lived their span of life i.e., the poison had no effect to kill them. This look at the serpent by the people, under implicit obedience to a Prophet like Moses’ made God to have mercy as they humbled and repented, and were willing to accept a ‘foolish’ plan of God where the ‘Big shots and brains’ would have definitely failed. Here we see that the object to be lifted up is the “Son of Man”. There was life hidden in that dead metal (serpent) which produced life to those who showed obedience to the Word of God - Prophet Moses. Like the dead metal treated in fire to be shaped like a serpent, the Son of Man should have been tried by the fire of faith life (faith life or depending on God for everything in this sinful and cursed world is a life of fire which burns your unbelief).
Moses pointed out to the brass serpent hanging on the pole, and asked those who were on the verge of death by snake bite to look at it as a remedy. A similar thing should take place now at this end-time (John 3:14-15). The next verse (John 3:16) refers to Lord Jesus Christ and it covers the period until the close of the Seven Church Ages - all who believed on Lord Jesus Christ and died have age-lasting life (life till end-time, awaiting resurrection).
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The Hidden Manna – Green and Dry Trees
GREEN AND DRY TREES
“And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us, FOR IF THEY DO THESE THINGS IN A GREEN TREE, WHAT SHALL BE DONE IN THE DRY? Luke 23:26-31.
As we have already read under the heading “BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND FALSE CHRISTS” the verses quoted above (28-30) relate to the first tribulation that occurred immediately after our Lord’s ascension. Jesus foretells the situation that would exist at two different periods of time. First, as He was about to be crucified and the people started crying, He calls himself as a green tree, and also makes mention about the DRY TREE to come forth at the end-time when the situation would be as prophesied in Isaiah 2:19: “They shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth” (Also read Rev.6:16). The Green Tree (Jesus Christ) had come well ahead of the first tribulation of the Jews which was a judgement for their rejecting the Messiah. In the like manner, the Dry Tree (Son of Man) should also come well ahead of the ‘Jacob’s Trouble’ or the so called “Great Tribulation”. Jesus Christ had rightly called Himself as the Green Tree for He was full of life, grace, truth, and exhibited life in His Words. People were healed, brought to life, multitudes were fed. He walked on the sea, raised the dead and so on. Everyone saw the variety of fruits on the Tree, and many had attempted and succeeded in having access to them, but finally He was rejected and crucified. But the Dry Tree is the one in which no one could see outwardly anything of life as it is a secret coming. In spite of witnessing the mighty manifestations of God Almighty, the Green Tree was rejected ultimately by the people. Naturally the Dry Tree which hasn’t got anything much to show for people to see and believe, would not be even looked at. But only those who recognise through divine revelation that the Tree of Life has slipped into it could become the Bride of Christ. A vast majority would be deceived on account of its barren look. The Bride Tree is also a Dry Tree as it cannot produce anything good of its own unless and until the Bridegroom unites with it as a result of its stand on the Word of God (Isaiah 56:3). The Bride Tree, into whom the Life of the Bridegroom comes in a secret manner, will not be taken notice of by the carnal believers, and they will just pooh! pooh! over such a Dry Tree, which is dead to self - Psalms 1:2-3. To be on God’s Word is like being planted near a river.
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The Hidden Manna – Indian culture is Chaldean culture
INDIAN CULTURE IS CHALDEAN CULTURE
When we study the history of a country and its merits, we see that first of all some alien nation conquers it, destroys everything of its previous culture and tries to install its own culture and language. When Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem (Daniel 1), “The King spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the KING’S SEED, and of the princes; children in whom was no blemish, but well-favoured and skillful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge, understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king;’s palace, and whom they might TEACH THE LEARNING AND THE TONGUE OF THE CHALDEANS”. After the flood, the whole world sprang forth from Noah’s blood, but see the countless divisions in the world as if each is a separate race. There are multitudinous divisions among them in caste, creed and colour. A black man makes all his gods “black” and the devils “white”. The white man makes all his gods “white” and the devils “black”. Everything is viewed with prejudice and partiality. If a man has an impartial view, and judges without prejudice, then the truth will be clear for him to accept wholeheartedly. It is an established fact that we can assess the culture from the language. We know that Abraham came from “Ur” of Chaldees. Now this Ur is the name of a town, but in my whole world travels I could find no place having its name, ending in “Ur” except mostly in India where we can find almost all towns and villages with names like NallUr, TrichUr, MadUrai, NagpUr, SUrat, PunalUr, BangalUr, MysUr, ChitUr, VellUr, NellUr, GudUr, MangalUr, CoimbatUr, TrivellUr, PerambUr, BilaspUr, RUrkee, FerosepUr, JodhpUr, JamshedpUr, RoUrkela, SangrUr and so on. Further the addition of Iyah (meaning Father, God) like Hannaniah, Azariah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Obadiah, Zechariah, Zedekiah and so on is an important factor in the early names of the Jews. Their mingling with this Chaldean culture did not obliterate these names as can be seen among Christians and Hindus viz,, Rasaiah, Pooviah, Venkatiah, Kanniah, Pauliah, Veeriah etc. I am going through a deep study in this respect, and I find that nowhere in the world the names are like this which amply proves that the tribes of Israel, who were scattered, are in India also - UNIDENTIFIED. The Book of Esther proves this clearly (Esther 1:1; 3:8; 3:13; 8:13).
Besides, the Bible tells that DAN is a serpent’s trail. It means wherever the Dan tribe went, it had named the towns after its forefather Dan. If you see the names of the cities and countries such as LonDon, SweDen, Denmark, Dunkirk etc., you’ll have an idea (Joshua 19:47). When the Pilgrim Fathers went to USA, they had named the towns with New Testament names such as Syracuse and so on. Thus we can say that the Christians went and settled there. Wherever the Hindus go, the places are called with the names of Hindu gods, and where the Muslims go, they call by Muslim names. This is the inborn nature of man.
Also, if you study the Tabernacle, you’d observe that the twelve tribes were situated around it. The Tribe of Judah was in the East, near the entrance, and not in North or West or South. “On the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies” (Numbers 2:3). Considering Jerusalem as a type of fixed tabernacles, the scattering should also have been in the same way. From archealogical findings Sind Valley Culture in North India, Sumerian Culture in Mesopotamia and South Indian Dravidic Culture are all the same - even their mode of writings. Their language was Drumila which later became Tamil, and even now the Telugu people say ARAVAM for Tamil language - a deviation of the words “Arabam” or “Arabia”. The many archealogical findings stand proof to the fact that the ancient Dravidic Culture is the same as Sind Valley Culture. Y As the time for Rapture draws near, the judgement is also striking with greater intensity. These days we see millions die easily. The divine wrath and judgement will go on increasing as days pass by. We are well aware of the many false and malicious propaganda being
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made against this Ministry through tracts, leaflets and booklets and yet inspite of all such things we are able to progress steadily for we don’t claim anything away from the Word of God. The Bride Messages separate the Seed from the tares, the latter being not on God’s Word but leaning on fame, money and human way of thinking. Ask God to help and set you free from all bondage. Also please pray for the next message to be published in this series.
“MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD” (Matthew 4:4)
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