Bible Believers' Newsletter 1093
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now . . ."
ISSN 1442-8660Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; the finished mystery of God is drawing us into the unity of the faith in preparation for the manifestation of the Sons of God. We are admonished to quit those things which are 'religious' but displeasing to the Spirit and Word of God.This week we invite brethren and churches in the circle of this Message to examine whether they are in the faith of Jesus Christ having proven all things in the Absolute of God's written Word or under "the strong delusion" of a second-hand Laodicean religion. If you truly are born-again "you are not your own, for you were bought with a price;" you belong to your Husband Jesus Christ, and must be subject in everything" (I Corinthians 6:19-20; Ephesians 5:24). The evidence of your union is the Token of His Life living in you. As the wife of Christ you must obey His every Word. An absence of the Token on display may indicate that you are not born-again.
When the Life of Christ is in you your life becomes a written epistle of His Word for this day and hour known and read of all men when they recognize that you have been with Jesus. If the Life of Christ is really in you you will not spend leisure time viewing unholy, unhealthy television when your soul could be feeding on the stimulation of revelation. Neither will you suffer foul-mouthed presenters explaining conspiracy theories. You will tithe the pastor who feds your soul, not call repayment of debt a tithe, or steal God's money to donate to charities. If you are a Christian woman you will not paint your face, cut your hair or simulate uncut hair with a wig.
Christians manage to attend their place of employment on time, and should attend Church, say twenty minutes ahead of service. We are close to the sinking of Los Angeles and the close of the Christian dispensation so "Stay in line!" or you will be left behind.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Davos World Economic Forum Celebrating 50th Anniversary
January 22, 2020 — In the 1960s Henry Kissinger said that a key objective of the Bilderbergers is population reduction. In 1974, newly rewarded by the Nixon Administration as Secretary of State, for the fascist coup "9/11/73" he led in Chile, had this advice:
"Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries."
There you have it. The dark Luciferian elite of the WEF may be talking eugenics . . . we are moving ever closer to an all-annihilating WWIII . . . they may opt for a "soft" version of population reduction—eugenics—and continuous, eternal and highly profitable regional conflicts and wars . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
US Dollar Collapse will happen this Year
January 22, 2020 — Central banks have been buying massive amounts of gold over the last 50 years, purchasing a historic high of 374.1 tons in 2019. The unprecedented shift has been seen by many as a move away from the US dollar . . . not every country is buying gold . . . mainly Eastern central banks have been piling up the shiny metal . . . China, Turkey, Poland, and Hungary. Russia and China are the ones that are "really seeing what's happening. They know that the dollar is going to collapse." Full story: rt.com
IMF warns New 'Great Depression,' Russia ahead of the Curve
January 20, 2020 — Kristalina Georgieva . . . head of the International Monetary Fund . . . warns . . . global economy risks another "Great Depression" . . . confirms what experts in the Russian capital have been saying for years: a major Western financial crash is both inevitable and reasonably imminent . . . western governments have accumulated too much debt . . . bubbles in the system . . . include US stocks, German and British property, and the oversized valuations of tech companies, especially startups unlikely to ever return their costs. Throw in aging workforces, wage stagnation, higher living costs, and disruption to traditional industries from IT innovation, and you have all the ingredients needed for a 'big bang' . . . If she's correct, Russia is better prepared for the shocks than any other large world economy. Full story: rt.com
The Doomsday Machine Returns: Citibank has sold Protection on
$858 Billion of Credit Default SwapsJanuary 3, 2020 — According to the latest derivatives report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Citibank, the federally-insured, taxpayer-backstopped bank owned by Citigroup, has sold protection to other banks, hedge funds, insurance companies or corporations on a staggering $858 billion of Credit Default Swaps. When a federally-insured bank sells protection to others on Credit Default Swaps, it is effectively taking on the risk of a default event. At a time of unprecedented levels of debt in the system and growing warnings about leveraged loans, that seems like a very unwise move by Citigroup.
The OCC notes that Citibank has bought protection via a larger amount of Credit Default Swaps—a total of $898.8 billion. (See Table 12 in the Appendix of the report.) There is no guarantee, however, that these bets are properly aligned and will not, once again, blow up this bank along with a chunk of Wall Street firms or insurance companies that may be its counterparties.
Credit Default Swaps played a central role in the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street, as did Citigroup. It is an indictment of every federal banking regulator in the United States, as well as Congress, that Citigroup has been allowed to return as a major player in this market while using its federally-insured Citibank once again as a pawn in this game . . . Full story: wallstreetonparade.com
Comment: Why is Wall Street the only industry in America with access to the Fed's Endless Money Machine? Federal Reserve admits it pumped more than $6 trillion to Wall Street in recent six week period. Brother Branham said, "You watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing" (Jezebel Religion, p. 22:100).
Treasury's Fraud exposed at Cash Ban Hearing
December 17, 2020 — The 12 December 'public' hearing of the Senate cash ban inquiry proved that the government has zero evidence or data to support its policy to ban cash transactions over $10,000. The hearing showed that despite the efforts to rig the entire legislative procedure of the cash ban bill, there is a very real chance of defeating it.
This hearing is essential viewing! The Senate Economics Legislation Committee deliberately notified interested parties only after 5:30 PM the night before so it would be too late for the public to attend, which worked. The few people who did attend reported an empty room. However, the Citizens Party has uploaded all the testimony in separate videos to YouTube so it's readily available to everyone, to see the truth about the cash ban.
The most important testimony came at the end of the day from the architects of the law at Treasury's Black Economy Division. All day ALP Senator Alex Gallacher and Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick had asked witnesses for evidence that the cash ban is necessary, to no avail. The Liberal chairman Senator Slade Brockman kept telling them they could ask Treasury those questions. When they finally did get to ask Treasury, the response was stunning: Treasury had nothing! They had zero evidence and zero actual data to back up their claims that Australia's black economy is a growing problem, or that banning cash transactions above $10,000 would combat that problem . . . Full story: cecaust.com.au
Comment: This is another element of "the squeeze" similar to that imposed upon US banks in the '80s.
Australia's Holocaust
June 25, 2018 –January 2, 2020 — Fires have so far burned as much as 25 million acres of land—more than the 2018 California wildfires and 2019 Amazon fires combined. This is greater than the size of Ireland. In addition to the terrible human toll, homes and an estimated 500 native birds and animals, the loss of native Australian plants and insects and their habitats has been horrendous and the heat has incinerated micro flora in the soil.
Australia is burning, exploding fire balls 500 feet wide. Smoke stretches from Australia over New Zealand covering an area equivalent to the United Kingdom and Europe, or the whole of North America.
Please view at least the first four links which allege planning over decades by corrupt state, local and federal authorities in compliance with UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 30 to which the nation is signatory toward world depression and depopulation, 'smart cities' and the return to serfdom. Twenty years accumulation of chemtrails composed of nano particles of incendiary aluminium, strontium and barium have rendered forests and even soils flammable.
Full story: Operation Torch Australia themillenniumreport.com; Australian companies – manipulating our weather; Perfect Firestorm – Created by Design; Australia – Water Deprivation Incendiary Fueled Fires; Drought by Design – The Genociding of Australia; The Deliberate Burning of Australia; Australian Bushfires: A Smart City Conspiracy?; Australian Fire Series Part 5: An Australian Holocaust; Australian Fire Series Part 6: Directed Energy Weapons, the Importance of Critical Examination; What's Really Happening With the Australian Fires.
Comment: Revelation 11:18, "And the nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should give reward unto Your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Your name, small and great; and should destroy those which destroy the earth".
Taal volcano: Lava spews as 'Hazardous Eruption' feared
January 12, 2020 — Taal volcano, 40 miles south of Manila, Philippines, launched a 9 miles high towering column of ash and smoke filled with flashes of lightning and thunder. Video shows a marriage, the volcano erupting in the background. Full story: youtu.be
Comment: "As in the days of Noah, so shall also the (Gk. 'parousia') of the Son of man be . . . they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark." This is another element of "the squeeze".
Trump's Legal Team responds to Dems Impeachment Scam
January 20, 2020 — Ahead of proceedings to begin on Tuesday, Trump's legal team formally slammed what's going on as a "brazen and unlawful attempt" to overturn results of the 2016 presidential election . . .
How would Abraham Lincoln fare today. He illegally suspended the Constitution and habeas rights, forcefully closed courts, arbitrarily ordered arrests, conscripted US citizens without congressional consent, closed newspapers opposing his policies, and ordered generals to commit war crimes. Under his command, General William Sherman's march to the sea involved rape, pillaging and mass murder. His Emancipation Proclamation didn't free a single slave. He wanted them deported at war's end to maintain America as a white supremacist society. Glorifying him as one of the nation's greatest presidents ignores his dark side. History taught Americans in secondary school, college, graduate school and in doctoral studies conceals the US dark side.
Slave owners Washington, Jefferson, and other US presidents diminished their moral and ethical standing, clearly not believing that all Americans are created equal. Despite his lofty rhetoric and intellectual pursuits, Jefferson knew slavery was wrong, but owned them anyway, never freeing them like Washington. He had a slave as mistress and lied about it. He or Washington could have set an example by freeing the nation's slaves, neither figure having the courage to do the right thing. Samuel Johnson asked: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of Negroes?" According to historian Stephen Ambrose, "(o)f all the contradictions in Jefferson's contradictory life, none is greater," adding: "Of all the contradictions in America's history, none surpasses its toleration first of slavery and then of segregation."
Ambrose omitted endless US wars throughout most of the nation's history—from exterminating Native Americans to ongoing war on humanity. Washington reviled the nation's native people, calling them "wolves" and "beasts of prey." He dispatched General John Sullivan to attack noncombatant Onondaga people in 1779, ordering him to destroy their villages, homes, fields, food supplies, cattle herds and orchards, wanting as many as possible killed. He stole Indian land.
Dem Woodrow Wilson's tenure was defined by US involvement in WW I—after pledging to keep America out of Europe's war. It was also disgraced by signing the 1913 Federal Reserve Act into law, giving Wall Street control of the nation's money, the supreme power above all others. Policies under Franklin Roosevelt pressured imperial Japan to attack the US, giving FDR the war he wanted.
US history isn't pretty, Trump the latest in a long line of presidents whose policies supported wealth, power and privilege exclusively over peace, equity and justice, notions considered un-American—based on policies pursued by its ruling class throughout US history.
The Clinton co-presidency was anti-New Deal, anti-Great Society, pro-war, pro-business, anti-populist, anti-labor, anti-public welfare. Bush/Cheney waged US war OF terror, not on it in Afghanistan, Iraq, and against Muslims in America, numerous police state laws enacted on their watch.
Obama bragged about terror-bombing seven countries in eight years. He institutionalized indefinite detention, authorizing the military to indefinitely detain anyone anywhere without charge, including US citizens, based on suspicions or spurious allegations. His disposition matrix kill list ordered the elimination of alleged enemies of the state.
Trump exceeded the worst of his predecessors' domestic and geopolitical policies—filling the swamp he pledged to drain with neocon hardliners, militarists, and super-wealthy individuals like himself. He broke virtually everyone positive promise made, operating in bad faith, never to be trusted, while waging war on humanity at home and abroad. Yet none of his legitimate wrongdoing is included in impeachment charges against him . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: "The actions of George W. Bush, Obama and Trump have only served to inadvertently accelerate the world's transition away from a unipolar world to a multipolar one. As Trump follows in the steps of his predecessors by being aggressive towards Iran, he only serves to weaken the US global position and strengthen that of his opponents" (strategic-culture.org).
Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian Integration
January 6, 2020 — Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2001 to 2005, cuts to the chase: "America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It's part of who we are. It's part of what the American Empire is. We are going to lie, cheat and steal, as Pompeo is doing right now, as Trump is doing right now, as Esper is doing right now . . . and a host of other members of my political party, the Republicans, are doing right now. We are going to lie, cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That's the truth of it. And that's the agony of it."
Moscow, Beijing and Tehran are fully aware of the stakes. Diplomats and analysts are working on the trend, for the trio, to evolve a concerted effort to protect one another from all forms of hybrid war—sanctions included—launched against each of them.
For the US, this is indeed an existential battle—against the whole Eurasia integration process, the New Silk Roads, the Russia-China strategic partnership, those Russian hypersonic weapons mixed with supple diplomacy, the profound disgust and revolt against US policies all across the Global South, the nearly inevitable collapse of the US dollar. What's certain is that the Empire won't go quietly into the night. We should all be ready for the battle of the ages. Full story: asiatimes.com
Comment: Scripture is coming to pass.
Julian Assange's Extradition Case a SHOW TRIAL
Assange is charged with possession and dissemination of classified information and could face up to 175 years in prison for what is essentially the crime of exposing US war crimes. John Pilger slammed the lack of prominent coverage the day's events received in major British media, saying it was "deliberately excluded" and minimized. The journalist slammed the Guardian newspaper in particular "has played an appendage role to the state in undermining WikiLeaks and everything it represented." Reports from Pilger and others inside the room suggest the WikiLeaks co-founder looked weak and weary, his months behind bars at a maximum security prison—much of that time in solitary confinement—having had a significant deteriorative impact on both his physical and mental health. He reportedly held back tears as he told the judge he could not "think properly." His condition was the result of having "no access to proper exercise, no access to proper intellectual stimulus and no access to the people around him." Even convicted criminals responsible for "terrible crimes" at Belmarsh still "have a human social life" which is denied to Assange, he said. Full story: youtu.be
You can't teach Pentecostal Babies Supernatural Things
The cherubim had six wings, with two they covered their face in reverence; with two they covered their feet in humility, and with two they entered service. "And they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." God was showing Ezekiel how His prepared servants must be reverent, humble, and active in allegiance to their heavenly King" (#63-0112, Influence, par. 179; Ezekiel 1).
As a travelling minister I visit many Churches whose pastors and congregations have been friends over years, even decades. However I have found most of the Churches to be what is commonly described as "Pentecostal" in character, exhibiting a confusion of unknown tongues and perambulating zombie-like in choreographed expressions of their mortal "spirit" contrary to the Holy Spirit and the strict "Conduct, Order and Doctrine in the Church" introduced by Paul and reinstated by Brother Branham (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Jude 3). II Timothy 1-4 commands: "Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." And Galatians 1:8-9 states, "If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached, let him be accursed".
It is a mistake to call these churches "Pentecostal" since Paul brought his correction in the first century, long after Pentecost when the Ephesian Church Age "left her First Love" Christ the WORD (Revelation 2:4). Then the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic Jews of Revelation 2:6, 9, 13-15, ever anxious to destroy the faith, organized the Judaeo-Roman Universal Church at the First Nicaea Council (AD325) in the Pergamean Church Age (AD312 – 606). Brother Branham's correction likewise came decades after the Pentecostal Revival of 1906 under the apostasy of the Laodicean Church Age (1906 – 1963) "when they would not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts, and turn their ears away from the truth unto fables" (II Timothy 4:3-4; Revelation 3:15-20). The Judaeo-Roman Catholic Charismatic Movement was already gathering her apostate (once) Protestant harlot daughters to form a federation of all religions when on January 25 1959 Pope John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council as a means of spiritual renewal and an occasion for Christians separated from Rome to join in a search for Christian unity. Vatican II (1962 – 1965) was the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church and will fulfil Revelation 13:14-18, 16:12-16 and Daniel 9:27. So from the opening and revelation of the Seven Seals in March 1963 the Prophet began calling the wise and foolish virgins out from the world church system to meet the Bridegroom's parousia Coming (Isaiah 58:19; Amos 3:3; Matthew 25:6; Ephesians 1:10; I Thessalonians 4:16a; Revelation 18:4).
In his sermon, "Being Led of the Holy Spirit," the Prophet said, "You can't teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things. You'll cause carnal impersonations" (#56-0219). You will never hear Branham Tabernacle babbling unintelligibly in unknown tongues on any of 1, 200 recorded sermon from 1947 to 1965. "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints" (I Corinthians 14:33). Only an evil spirit "sending them strong delusion that [like Eve] they should believe the lie [that God loves all worshippers so dearly "they will not surely die" when] they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (II Thessalonians 2:11-12).
Brother Branham proclaimed, "The day of vengeance of our God" (Isaiah 61:2b; Malachi 4:1-3, 6b) and "by the grace of God we now have the perfect interpretation of the Word with divine vindication" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages). We must take Brother Branham's (Gk.) "rhema" back to the (Gk.) "Logos" to distinguish what he said from what the Holy Spirit meant, confirmed to you personally by "the Voice of the Archangel" (Acts 17:11; I Thessalonians 4:16; 5:21; II Timothy 2:15; II Peter 1:10).
Preaching from a montage of Brother Branham's quotes leads into error for "the letter kills whereas the Spirit gives eternal Life" (II Corinthians 3:6). This is exemplified in the wrongful promotion of Brother Branham as "the Absolute" by Voice of God Publications and misguided "Branhamites" (so-called), the late Brother Joseph Coleman's "Seven Thunders" fantasy, the Talmudic "Two Souls" theory (also see Talmudic doctrine), Jeffersonville's Deity doctrine; natural understandings of "the Tent Vision," the "rapture" as the first resurrection and translation rather than a revelation, the proposing piloting of a vintage DC3 around the globe to gather the saints, and the "eight angel." Jesus said, "In vain do you worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matthew 15:1-9).
Many ministers feed the mortal spirit of their simple-minded congregants with a second-hand religion, the enunciation of meaningless tongues, repetitious choruses, sweat and zombie-like callisthenics to the loud jungle beat of rock 'n roll (which is American Negro) slang for 'fornication.' Such 'Pentecostal' joy tickles the religious spirit of those who should be corrected or dismissed and supports the 'minister-business' but serves the Devil. One sister excited by her pastor sought to 'dance in the spirit,' collapsed under her delusion and was tendered by Sisters. This is not Christianity, it is apostasy.
Branhamite pastors are insufficiently acquainted with the Prophet's Message, else they might repent of their unbelief, repair to the Absolute of God's unchanging Word and be born anew (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). Their evangelists conjure spectacular theater to loud "Amen's" and "Hallelujahs" then retire breathless and drenched in sweat without drawing even one of their fellows into a clear understanding of the revealed Word of the hour.
Church music is an accompaniment complimentary to and in balance with the hymnody—never overwhelming except at dismissal or "here comes the bride." Reverent restrained music prior to service stills mind and soul setting an atmosphere conducive to worship in Spirit and in Truth. Generally unskilled musicians, often attuned to the clamour of keyboard and percussion excite the senses by might and power overwhelming "the still small Voice" of God's gentle Spirit. They are attracting the wrong spirits and need to be instructed and born-again, or removed.
"Now, all the prophets spoke of this day. Isn't that right? These things would be taking place in this day. And said "in the last days, scoffers would come." Is that right?"
The Spirit spoke, "that in the last days, people would be. They'd be heady. You know what heady means? High-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." Look at these arenas and things over here, the stadiums: Sundays and everything else, they fill up the picture shows and the dance halls . . . "truce breakers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good . . ." Holy-rollers, hillbillies, and everything else . . ." (#50-0823, Testimony, E-30; II Timothy 3:1-4; II Peter 3:3).
Brother Branham said there should be two or three hymns not a "vain repetition" of choruses (Matthew 6:7-8), then the anointed Message from the pulpit which is the most important part of the service. Brother Branham, Isaiah and Jesus Christ also spoke against the "pretence of long prayer" (Isaiah 1:15; Matthew 23:14).
One minister assured me, "you can't take music out of the Negro, it is his only hope." I say his only hope is to be purged of 'music' that rules body, mind and soul. Without music or preaching urchins by the highway gyrate like anointed ones in the end-time, 'men of God' simulating what they suppose to be God's Spirit! Educated Negros and ministers do not gesticulate like men possessed. Empty cheapjack music out of the church and you'll be rid of non-elect make-believers who attend to feed fleshly senses and religious spirits. Empty cheapjack music out of the man and fill him with the stimulation of revelation and you will find a new creature whose walk and talk is sober, whose sole hope and reality is Jesus Christ the Absolute.
This-evening we will look at on the gift of speaking with other tongues. This means "a single tongue" not a faculty for speaking in various languages; a tongue that is the language used by a particular people in distinction from that of other nations. To speak with a tongue is the gift of men, who, rapt in ecstasy and no longer quite masters of their own reason and consciousness, pour forth their glowing spiritual emotions in strange utterances—rugged, dark, disconnected, and quite unfit to instruct or to influence the minds of others. The origin of the expression is apparently to be found in the fact that in Hebrew, the tongue is spoken of as the leading instrument by which the praises of God are proclaimed, and that according to the more rigorous conception of inspiration, nothing human in an inspired man was thought to be active except the tongue, put in motion by the Holy Ghost.
At Babel all spoke with other tongues, and no man could understand his neighbour, but at Pentecost "every man heard in his own tongue." Pentecostal impersonators of today are the apostate daughter churches of mystery Babylon; like the citizens of Babel they are seldom inspired of the Holy Ghost to interpret the tongues in which they speak and their services are a "babble" of confusion (Genesis 11:1-9).
As Paul set the Gifts in order in the Ephesian Church Age, Brother Branham restored that order in the Laodicean Age, according to his commission in Malachi 4:5-6 and Matthew 17:11. When asked, "In what order are tongues and prophecies to be used during the service?" he interjected, "It is NOT to be used at all during the service! See? . . . to glorify God?" Brother Branham said, "Not at all" (COD, p. 533:112).Asked, "Is there difference between the tongues spoken in private prayer and in the churches where interpretation is required?" He replied, "Yes" (COD, p. 549:240). Unknown tongues are unintelligible, and NOT edifying to the Church unless they are interpreted. "Now if there be no interpreter, anytime in the church, anywhere in the church, keep silent . . . I heard a precious brother just recently at the altar, just go down and shake somebody on the back, and then speak in tongues themselves, speaking it like they were trying to show them what to do. See, that's kind of artificially bringing the Holy Spirit . . . don't do that . . . they should keep silent in the church. He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself" (COD, p. 554:276-277, 298).
Let's read what Paul taught.
I Corinthians 14:18-19, "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all: yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand meaningless words in an unknown tongue".
Paul denounces as childish and a mark of immature judgment the brethrens' high valuation of a gift so fitted to excite great astonishment, yet so unprofitable for the church as a whole. In chastising them he says such childishness belongs to Christians only in respect of evil which may as such be considered innocent, but in understanding we are to be mature.
Paul appeals to the Law to support his disapproval—not of the gift of tongues—but of their use without interpretation, showing that as the Corinthians employed it they were virtually carrying out the Divine threat in relation to the church which was pronounced by Isaiah on unbelieving Israel:
Isaiah 28:8-13, "For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean" says the Lord.
"To whom does God imagine He is teaching knowledge? Whom shall He make to understand doctrine? Why does He speak to us as if we were babies just weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts," said Israel, "Teaching us precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little".
"For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people" said Isaiah, UNINTELLIGIBLY. "God said to Israel, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing': yet they would not hear. But the Word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken".
God pronounced this Divine threat upon unbelieving Israel because of their contempt for His messengers. They asked derisively why they should be treated as little children in being taught line upon line as children are instructed.
In reply, God threatened that because they had despised His simple teaching in their mother tongue, He would thereafter instruct them through foreigners—the Assyrians—who would speak to them in a strange tongue they will not comprehend, and would treat them as contemptuously as they had treated God's servants and His Word.
The Assyrians had only the three fundamental vowels a, i, u, and must have sounded like lisping children against a God who spoke in their own familiar tongue. Although the Israelites heard nothing but childlike short monosyllabic words, they were full of meaning. And because they were ignored, they fell backward, were broken and snared, and taken captive.
Thus, when God speaks unintelligently, He exhibits Himself as a stranger, veiling Himself from those who will NOT believe, and not as One that is opening His thoughts (as a friend or Father) to His faithful elect. As Paul says in verse 22, "Tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not (nor have faith): however prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them who believe" (and can see the revelation).
Speaking with tongues is very powerful but it accomplishes nothing as it is unintelligible to the ear and to the mind, so the listener cannot follow the message as was the case when God spoke to Israel through the Assyrians. Israel called themselves His, but incurred His wrath. When someone speaks unintelligibly to the Church, they make it appear as if God has withdrawn Himself as if through their unbelief, as He did from Israel, and that the Church has incurred His judgment. This is the effect of using tongues in the Church without interpretation.This is how Jesus separates the elect from the non-elect. Those who are not His sheep may hear, but cannot understand His Voice.
Matthew 13:10-16, "And the disciples came, and said unto Him, Why do you speak to them in parables?"
"He answered and said to them, because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is NOT given. For whosoever has faith, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even what he has."
"Therefore I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear".
Matthew 11:25, "Jesus answered and said I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes".
Jesus spoke unintelligibly to the seventy as if He were a stranger "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood you have no life in you." Jesus didn't explain Himself. It was a revelation and it pronounced judgment upon those who could not see it (John 6:53).
He employed the same technique in Matthew 28:19 where He commanded His disciples to baptize "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Those without the gift to interpret see God as a trinity of three persons, and baptize in three of His many Titles whilst His elect baptize in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ as He commanded.
I Corinthians 14:22, "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them which believe" (Revelation 10:8-11).
Uninterpreted tongues, is a judgment sign, condemning unbelievers as if by withholding their understanding, God has turned His back upon them. But prophecy is a sign and means of communication to those who believe, or "understand".
As the passage in Isaiah announced judgment upon Israel, the most powerful speaking on God's part did not change the unbeliever hardened in sin. Thus Paul argues that in his day, speaking in tongues without interpretation was a sign from God to unbelievers, and a pronouncement which would produce no repentance.
Brother Branham said in the Seven Church Ages, page 42, "As Joseph stood before his brethren when Benjamin was not with them he spoke through an interpreter though he knew the Hebrew well." He spoke to his brethren in another tongue. Did you know that the first Gentile Age (the head of gold, Babylonian Age) went out with a message in tongues written on a wall? This age is going out the same way. The abundance of tongues in this day is a further proof that the Times of the Gentiles is over and God is turning back to Israel".
I Corinthians 14:23, "If therefore the whole church comes together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, won't they say that you are mad?"
Paul was condemning not the gift but exposing the absurd disobedience of using it in the Church without interpretation whereby no grace can be received from God as it can through prophecy. Faith comes by hearing and understanding by the Word of God. We are saved by grace through faith, or understanding. Without interpretation it is as though God has shut Himself from our apprehension, as He would hide Himself from unbelievers.
If "all speak with tongues" (not necessarily simultaneously), any not familiar with the gift will think you crazy. After all, there is no sense attending a meeting where what the speakers are saying can't be understood—not even by themselves.
I Corinthians 14:24-25, "But if all prophesy (or reveal the faith as in inspired preaching and not especially prophetic utterance of future events], and there come in one who believes not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: and thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is IN you of a truth".
Prophesy (or revelation) can bring faith and the baptism with the Holy Ghost (which is the new birth) to the unlearned—but heathen tongues cannot. Inspired preaching can bring conviction, making a man conscious of his own sinfulness, and knowing that he is judged, bring him to repentance and redemption. Prophesy reveals God in the speaker because the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and the Light or understanding scatters darkness. Uninterpreted tongues are darkness manifest and have NO redeeming power.
Paul now draws some practical reasons for regulating the use of the gifts in the assemblies.
I Corinthians 14:26, "How is it then, brethren [or why?] Whenever you come together, every one of you (who has a gift), has a psalm, has a doctrine, a tongue, has a revelation, and has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying."
"Decently and in Church order".
I Corinthians 14:27-28, "If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, each taking his turn; and let one person interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let those persons keep silence in the church and speak to themselves and to God".
We speak with God all week in our prayers and supplications. We go to Church to hear God speak to us through inspired preaching. When the gifted ones are unable to contain their own enthusiasm in the exercise of their gift they create confusion, and the operation is sensual and not spiritual. Besides, what is the sense of listening to God speak if we are unable to understand His intended message? God is not the author of confusion, and unless an interpreter of tongues is present, the inspiration is either not of God or the person is untrained.
I Corinthians 14:29-33, "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If anything is revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. For you may all prophesy one by one, (but not in service, because messages must first be judged by two or three before they are told to the Church) that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints".
There should be just two or three messages to the whole church, but after service there may be additional prophecies to individuals, as in Brother Branham's prayer lines when he discerned the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Brother Branham said, "Here's the way I'd run it: I'd try to find every person in there that had a gift. And I'd have those people to meet about an hour before the services ever started in a room to themselves. Let them sit under the Spirit. And the first thing you know, one comes down. He's got a gift of speaking in tongues, and he speaks in tongues. Everybody sit still. And then one raises up and interprets what he says. Now, before that can be given to the church, the Bible says it has to be judged between two or three witnesses. Now, that is men who has discernment of spirit (See?), 'cause a lot of times evil powers gets in there. See? Paul spoke of it . . . Tell me a congregation where evil doesn't sit. Tell me where the sons of God are gathered together that Satan isn't in the midst of them. It's everything. So don't frown at that. See? Satan's everywhere.
Now, here we are. Someone speaks in tongues. Now, there's three sitting there that's got the Spirit of discernment. And one speaks in tongues and gives a message. Now, it cannot be quoting Scripture, 'cause God don't use vain repetitions, and He told us not to. See? So it isn't that; it's a message to the church."
". . . your part in the church should come before the main service starts, because the unlearned is going to be among us . . . there has to be three men that have the spirit of discernment . . . They write down on a piece of paper. THAT'S WHAT THE SPIRIT SAID . . . The ones with the discernment of spirit—two or three of them—sign their names to it . . . Then they bring these messages, lay them right here on the desk . . . the pastor walks out . . . picks up this. "A message from the Church: THUS SAITH THE LORD . . . so and so".
"Then he takes his Message . . . Nothing's to interrupt; it's already taken place . . . When the message is over, the healing line starts. Here comes a woman. Someone spoke in tongues and said she was coming. See? Every one of us knows what's going to happen. Every one of us knows it. See how the faith begins to build . . ."
"Now if it doesn't happen after they've said it. Then you've got an evil spirit among you."
Speaking with tongues is not evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit . . . you could be baptized into the Devil's power, and speak in tongues with the baptism of the Devil's deceiving spirit" (COD, p. 524:89-90). "I know plenty of people that speak in tongues and hasn't got the Holy Ghost (COD, p. 1017:96).
"Now maybe there's been no message. Now the service is over . . . the chance comes where everything's in order, then if the Holy Spirit jumps on him to give the message, then give it . . . Then the interpretation comes" (COD, p. 439:124—148; 563:Q119; Q221). "Before that person gets out of the building, let the deacon take them to one side and talk to them . . . this is the orders and the way our church does it" (COD, p. 883:55).
God only anoints one individual at a time for prophecy or inspired preaching of His Word. While the anointing is upon an individual to speak, the rest of the congregation pays attention, discerning his message that they may learn.
There is a distinction between the office of a prophet and the gift of prophecy. Prophets are born from the cradle like Jeremiah, John the Baptist and William Branham. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD and there is no judging of them. But the gift of prophecy must be judged before two or three witnesses, and it will always foretell the future or expose something hidden. Otherwise it would not be edifying.
Interpreters of tongues don't "know" or recognize the language of the speaker. They are hearing what he said in their mother tongue, and just repeating what they have heard. This is as it was on the day of Pentecost when the saints emerged from the upper room, they spoke in Galilean, but every one of the different nationalities present heard them in his own tongue (Acts 2:4-11). Each sound has some significance. So the interpreter is prophesying what he has heard under inspiration in his own tongue. The Holy Spirit has interpreted it for him and he is speaking THUS SAITH THE LORD what the Spirit has said.
I Corinthians 14:32-35, "And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace [or harmony through agreement], as in all churches of the saints." (The evidence of His indwelling Presence is that He guides into ALL truth . . . That is peace or agreement).
By not maintaining control over their enthusiastic (mortal) spirit those exercising the gifts would appear unlearned and not led of the Spirit, creating disorder in the Church and confusion among strangers.
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands AT HOME: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
Paul is referring to the Garden of Eden where Eve sought to learn hidden knowledge through the Devil-incarnate Serpent, usurping her husband's authority and causing her deception. She next tried to bring Adam under submission to her by teaching him. Thereafter God placed man and woman under two separate covenants and woman serves God as she obeys her husband.
The woman is not to make a public spectacle of her husband or seek his instruction publicly before many potential commentators but should ask him to expound the Word at home. Women are forbidden to preach. The Fall resulted from one woman's deception and her attempt to teach her husband her errors (Genesis 3:16). Yes, a woman may speak with tongues or prophesy but then she is merely the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost. Her words are not her own. Once she has said what was inspired to her, she sits down without comment, and remains silent.
I Corinthians 14:36-38, "What? Came the Word of God out from you, or came it unto you only? If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant."
Paul sets himself against all spiritual presumption regarding the vindication of his prophetic office and the THUS SAITH THE LORD of his teaching. And he challenges anyone who claims to be a prophet or simply baptized into the Body of Christ to fault his teaching. Paul knew such a one would fail the test for a prophet, and as the elect receive God's Word, would demonstrate that they were without the Spirit.
He declared in Galatians 1:9, "If a man preaches any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed." Paul was a prophet who knew that heavens and earth will change before his prophecy could fail and stated, "God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to MY gospel".
Those who seem contentious about Paul's teachings are without the Spirit of revelation and ignorant like the "unjust" of Revelation 22:11 after God has revealed "the sayings of the prophecy of this Book" through Brother Branham; they have no relationship with God. (See also Titus 3:10-11). It's as if God brought them under judgment, and addressed them in unknown tongues, as when He spoke to Israel through the Assyrians.
Paul concludes by again emphasizing the preference of prophesying: inspired preaching and teaching of revelation, to edify the church and quicken men's souls over speaking in unknown tongues for self-edification.
I Corinthians 14:39-40, "Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order".
This Church Order laid down by St. Paul in the Ephesian Church Age has been restored to us in the end-time by the prophet to the Laodicean Church Age.nl1093.htm
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Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent – XIII
Bible Believers' Newsletter 1092
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; it is good to see the happy faces of subscribers and readers. We welcome our new subscribers and are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
This week's main article completes our long running series, "Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent," proving the Serpent had a seed according to Scripture and showing his offspring have overspread Earth, always working under another name and in a different occupation, intent upon overcoming Christ's "little flock" and establishing Lucifer's one world government. It is 2,000 years since Jesus refused Lucifer's proposition, soon an earthquake will sink Los Angeles, marking the close of the Christian dispensation, and after three days, our jubilee.
Our news illustrates the tenuous nature of the oil-backed US dollar and the fact nations are breaking, Israel is awakening, the signs that the prophets foretold. Gentile days are numbered with horrors encumbered, when the modern Israel state is utterly defeated the imposters will abandon the country enabling the dispersed of Jacob to return to the land of the Covenant for their redemption.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
This week's main article completes our long running series, "Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent," proving the Serpent had a seed according to Scripture and showing his offspring have overspread Earth, always working under another name and in a different occupation, intent upon overcoming Christ's "little flock" and establishing Lucifer's one world government. It is 2,000 years since Jesus refused Lucifer's proposition, soon an earthquake will sink Los Angeles, marking the close of the Christian dispensation, and after three days, our jubilee. Our news illustrates the tenuous nature of the oil-backed US dollar and the fact nations are breaking, Israel is awakening, the signs that the prophets foretold. Gentile days are numbered with horrors encumbered, when the modern Israel state is utterly defeated the imposters will abandon the country enabling the dispersed of Jacob to return to the land of the Covenant for their redemption.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Behind the Scenes of US/Iran Relations
January 14, 2020 — By having Iranian General Qassem Soleimani assassinated in Iraq, President Trump nearly provoked the Third World War. At least that is the version of the US opposition and the international press . . . what happens behind the scenes is very different from the show on stage . . . there is [or was – Ed.] a move towards a coordinated military withdrawal of the United States and Iran from the Middle East . . . Full story: voltairenet.org
Comment: Iran is not done. General Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, said in a briefing yesterday that the strike "was the starting point of a great operation." He also underlined that "the strikes were not meant to cause fatalities: We intended [rather] to deliver a blow to the enemy's military machine." And the Pentagon is saying, too, that Iran intentionally missed US troops at the bases. This is tantamount to the Pentagon admitting that Iran can land missiles with extreme accuracy over a distance of several hundred miles—and further, this occurred with not one missile being intercepted by the US forces. To completely avoid targeting soldiers at a large military base is no mean feat—it suggests an accuracy within a meter or two—not ten meters—for Iranian missiles.
Isn't this the point? It suggests that advances in Iran's guidance systems can land missiles with extreme precision. Haven't we seen something similar happen recently in Saudi Arabia (Abqaiq)? And was it not clear from Abqaiq that highly expensive US air defence systems do not work? The IRGC satisfactorily have demonstrated that they and their allies can penetrate US manufactured air defence systems, using domestically produced 'smart' missiles, and by using their electronic warfare systems . . . demonstrated the ability to upend the military status quo, there is no need for a hail of trumpets. The landing of the message itself is the 'blow' to a 'military machine.' Neatly calibrated: it avoided head to head-on war. Trump stood down (and claimed success).
Should the US withdraw from Iraq, as requested by the Iraqi Parliament, and in accordance with its agreement with the government of Baghdad, and then 'go' from the region, the military situation will ease. However, should US insist on staying in Iraq, US forces will come under political and military pressure to quit—but not from the state of Iran. It will come from the inhabitants of those states in which the US forces presently are deployed. At this point, US soldiers may be killed (though not by Iranian missiles). It is America's choice. Iran holds the initiative. And Israel, after initial self-congratulation (amongst the Netanyahuists) has understood that Iran has 'stepped-up,' and not 'stepped back' . . ." (strategic-culture.org).
Comment: Iran is not done. General Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, said in a briefing yesterday that the strike "was the starting point of a great operation." He also underlined that "the strikes were not meant to cause fatalities: We intended [rather] to deliver a blow to the enemy's military machine." And the Pentagon is saying, too, that Iran intentionally missed US troops at the bases. This is tantamount to the Pentagon admitting that Iran can land missiles with extreme accuracy over a distance of several hundred miles—and further, this occurred with not one missile being intercepted by the US forces. To completely avoid targeting soldiers at a large military base is no mean feat—it suggests an accuracy within a meter or two—not ten meters—for Iranian missiles.
Isn't this the point? It suggests that advances in Iran's guidance systems can land missiles with extreme precision. Haven't we seen something similar happen recently in Saudi Arabia (Abqaiq)? And was it not clear from Abqaiq that highly expensive US air defence systems do not work? The IRGC satisfactorily have demonstrated that they and their allies can penetrate US manufactured air defence systems, using domestically produced 'smart' missiles, and by using their electronic warfare systems . . . demonstrated the ability to upend the military status quo, there is no need for a hail of trumpets. The landing of the message itself is the 'blow' to a 'military machine.' Neatly calibrated: it avoided head to head-on war. Trump stood down (and claimed success).
Should the US withdraw from Iraq, as requested by the Iraqi Parliament, and in accordance with its agreement with the government of Baghdad, and then 'go' from the region, the military situation will ease. However, should US insist on staying in Iraq, US forces will come under political and military pressure to quit—but not from the state of Iran. It will come from the inhabitants of those states in which the US forces presently are deployed. At this point, US soldiers may be killed (though not by Iranian missiles). It is America's choice. Iran holds the initiative. And Israel, after initial self-congratulation (amongst the Netanyahuists) has understood that Iran has 'stepped-up,' and not 'stepped back' . . ." (strategic-culture.org).
History of Chinese Inventions. The Present and the Future.
Recent Chinese State of the Art Innovations
October 24, 2019 — It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of Chinese inventions that existed hundreds of years and often millennia, before they appeared in the West . . . discovery that encompasses the entire range of human knowledge, all of which has been consciously hidden from the Western world . . . the evidence is conclusive and available for examination but the West has thoroughly erased China from the world's historical memory . . . There exists an enormous amount of empirical data proving China's economic and technological superiority over Western civilization for the better part of several millennia. Given that China was the world's supreme technological power up to about 1800, it is especially important to emphasize that this is what made the West's emergence possible. It was only by copying and assimilating Chinese innovations and China's much more advanced technology that the West was able to make the transition to modern capitalist and imperialist economies. Until then, China was the leading trading nation, reaching most of Southern Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
A first thought when reviewing this research is that the world must have seemed very primitive to China 500 years ago, truly "third world" at the time. When Zhang He and others conducted their voyages of exploration, they must have been disappointed in what they found . . . One can easily theorise this is the reason China closed itself off from the world at that time, concluding that other nations were so backward that little would be gained from prolonged contact . . . they returned home and closed the door . . . China's development, social progress, and invention, ceased only from the invasions by both the Americans and Europeans, and most especially with the Jews' vast program of trafficking in opium in China . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: History has been knowingly erased by politicians and opinion makers because it exposes the crimes of imperialism, putting the European powers, Japan and the United States in the dock: the "great democracies" of the West who proclaim themselves supreme judges with the right to establish, on the basis of their canons, which countries are democratic and which are not. But we are no longer at the time of the "concessions" (urban areas under foreign administration) that these powers had imposed on China, when entrance to the Huangpu Park in Shanghai was "forbidden to dogs and Chinese people".
"Notice, civilization has followed the sun. The oldest civilization we have is China . . ." (The Feast of the Trumpets, par. 237).
A first thought when reviewing this research is that the world must have seemed very primitive to China 500 years ago, truly "third world" at the time. When Zhang He and others conducted their voyages of exploration, they must have been disappointed in what they found . . . One can easily theorise this is the reason China closed itself off from the world at that time, concluding that other nations were so backward that little would be gained from prolonged contact . . . they returned home and closed the door . . . China's development, social progress, and invention, ceased only from the invasions by both the Americans and Europeans, and most especially with the Jews' vast program of trafficking in opium in China . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: History has been knowingly erased by politicians and opinion makers because it exposes the crimes of imperialism, putting the European powers, Japan and the United States in the dock: the "great democracies" of the West who proclaim themselves supreme judges with the right to establish, on the basis of their canons, which countries are democratic and which are not. But we are no longer at the time of the "concessions" (urban areas under foreign administration) that these powers had imposed on China, when entrance to the Huangpu Park in Shanghai was "forbidden to dogs and Chinese people".
"Notice, civilization has followed the sun. The oldest civilization we have is China . . ." (The Feast of the Trumpets, par. 237).
God Save the Queen. The US Destruction of the British Empire
November 2, 2019 — Americans have been propagandised into believing that their country selflessly supported the European war effort, and generously planned and financed the entire rebuilding of all of war-ravaged Europe. Their heads are full of 'lend-lease,' the "Marshall Plan" and much more. But here we have three silent truths: One is that the US assisted Europe and the UK primarily because it needed markets for its goods. US corporations found little purchasing power in the European nations that were now largely destroyed and bankrupt, and without these markets the US economy would also have crashed. It was commercial self-interest rather than compassion or charity that prompted the US financial assistance to the UK and Europe. All the US did was provide large-scale consumer financing for the products of its own corporations, with most of the 'financing' never leaving the US. The Marshall Plan was mostly a welfare program for American multinationals. The second truth is that Europe and England paid heavily for this financial assistance. It was only in 2006 that Britain finally paid the last installment on the loans made to it by the US in 1945. The third is that the post-war financing of Europe was not primarily for reconstruction but as the foundation for an overwhelming political control that has largely persisted to this day. Funds from the American's vaunted Marshall Plan were spent more to finance Operation Gladio than European reconstruction.
. . . the US exercised enormous economic and political restrictions on recipient countries as conditions for the receipt of funds, most being used to help re-entrench the European bankers and elites in their positions of economic and political power (after a war that they themselves instigated) rather than to assist in reconstruction . . . The conviction of most Americans that their nation 'rebuilt' Europe is pure historical mythology created by propaganda and supported by ignorance. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The US is the image unto the beast of Imperial Rome. An integral part of America's brutal colonisation of undeveloped nations is the little-known US Army "School of the Americas" located in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American military officers and soldiers to subvert their governments and kill hope in their own countries.
. . . a letter sent . . . to Egypt [warned] them that they could face sanctions if they continued with their $2 billion dollar Su-35 fighter jets contract. In addition to sanctions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned . . . that "Major new arms deals with Russia would—at a minimum—complicate future US defense transactions with and security assistance to Egypt," in Wednesday's letter . . .
Turkey has purchased Russia's S-400 air defense system unmatched by anything in the West, and may buy Russian state-of-the-art Su-57 stealth warplanes.
Today, the corporate and social media narrative managers so tightly control propaganda that once again our minds are saturated with rages against the evil "adversary," Russia. The neoliberal religion of privatization makes everyone and everything for sale as a commodity, dictating both domestic and foreign policy. It is enforced at home by an overreaching national security state of surveillance (our Fourth Estate), and abroad with the most brutal "wholesale" terrorist machinery in history. The US government, and its compliant military, enables obscene profits for its Military-Congressional-Intelligence-Banking-Wall Street-Drug Complex. The US population de facto consents to destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syrian and others, i.e. with diabolical imperialism.
. . . the US exercised enormous economic and political restrictions on recipient countries as conditions for the receipt of funds, most being used to help re-entrench the European bankers and elites in their positions of economic and political power (after a war that they themselves instigated) rather than to assist in reconstruction . . . The conviction of most Americans that their nation 'rebuilt' Europe is pure historical mythology created by propaganda and supported by ignorance. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The US is the image unto the beast of Imperial Rome. An integral part of America's brutal colonisation of undeveloped nations is the little-known US Army "School of the Americas" located in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American military officers and soldiers to subvert their governments and kill hope in their own countries.
. . . a letter sent . . . to Egypt [warned] them that they could face sanctions if they continued with their $2 billion dollar Su-35 fighter jets contract. In addition to sanctions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned . . . that "Major new arms deals with Russia would—at a minimum—complicate future US defense transactions with and security assistance to Egypt," in Wednesday's letter . . .
Turkey has purchased Russia's S-400 air defense system unmatched by anything in the West, and may buy Russian state-of-the-art Su-57 stealth warplanes.
Today, the corporate and social media narrative managers so tightly control propaganda that once again our minds are saturated with rages against the evil "adversary," Russia. The neoliberal religion of privatization makes everyone and everything for sale as a commodity, dictating both domestic and foreign policy. It is enforced at home by an overreaching national security state of surveillance (our Fourth Estate), and abroad with the most brutal "wholesale" terrorist machinery in history. The US government, and its compliant military, enables obscene profits for its Military-Congressional-Intelligence-Banking-Wall Street-Drug Complex. The US population de facto consents to destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syrian and others, i.e. with diabolical imperialism.
EIA Grossly Overestimating US Shale
November 12, 2019 — Forecasts from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), along with those from its Paris-based counterpart, the International Energy Agency (IEA), are often cited as the gold standard for energy outlooks. Businesses and governments often refer to these forecasts for long-term investments and policy planning . . . A new report from the Post Carbon Institute asserts that the EIA's reference case for production forecasts through 2050 "are extremely optimistic for the most part, and therefore highly unlikely to be realized." Full story: oilprice.com
China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium
November 19, 2019 — Since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come into focus as a strategic metal. Demand is enormous in China, in the EU and in the USA at present, and securing control over lithium supplies is already developing its own geopolitics not unlike that for the control of oil.
Chinese company Talison Lithium . . . mines and owns the world's largest and highest grade spodumene reserves in Greenbushes, Western Australia . . . amassing a major share of Chile's Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM), one of the world's largest lithium producers . . . Bolivia . . . has also in recent years become a target of interest for Beijing. Some geological estimates rank Bolivia's lithium reserves as the world's largest.
Albemarle . . . North Carolina company . . . has major lithium mining in Australia and Chile . . . it bought . . . Rockwood Holdings . . . That gave Albemarle 49% share of the huge Australian lithium project, in partnership with China . . . US-China tensions over Chinese economic plans also likely include countering China influence in controlling key strategic lithium reserves. The recent military coup in Bolivia that forced [President] Evo Morales into Mexican exile . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Chinese company Talison Lithium . . . mines and owns the world's largest and highest grade spodumene reserves in Greenbushes, Western Australia . . . amassing a major share of Chile's Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM), one of the world's largest lithium producers . . . Bolivia . . . has also in recent years become a target of interest for Beijing. Some geological estimates rank Bolivia's lithium reserves as the world's largest.
Albemarle . . . North Carolina company . . . has major lithium mining in Australia and Chile . . . it bought . . . Rockwood Holdings . . . That gave Albemarle 49% share of the huge Australian lithium project, in partnership with China . . . US-China tensions over Chinese economic plans also likely include countering China influence in controlling key strategic lithium reserves. The recent military coup in Bolivia that forced [President] Evo Morales into Mexican exile . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent – XIII
Romans 8:3-5, "What the Law could not do, in that it was weakened through the fleshly nature of men without the Spirit, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and as a sin offering for us, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they who walk after the flesh seek the things of the flesh; but those who walk after the Spirit desire those things which gratify the Spirit."
Romans 7:14, "The Law is Spiritual—that's righteous—but I am carnal, sold under sin—unbelief—in the Garden of Eden." Because of Eve's unbelief, we are all born through a sexual or animal desire and not by the Spiritual desire and revelation of God's Word. Our new birth places us under the Headship of Christ, the Word, so we live to serve Him, and not the desires of mortal flesh (which is the world). God wants to fulfil or realize the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the Law in us New Testament saints.
Romans 13:1-14, "Let everyone be loyally subject to the civil authorities. For there is no jurisdiction outside God's permissive will: and the powers that exist are accountable to God."
"Whoever therefore resists the authorities, resists the ordinance of God: and those who resist will bring the judgment and penalties upon themselves. For rulers are no terror to your good works, but to evil. So if you don't wish to feel afraid, do what is good and you'll receive their approval and commendation: for they are God's servant for your benefit. But if you do wrong you should be afraid; for they don't wear a sword [or gun] for nothing: for they are God's servant to execute His vengeance on the wrongdoer."
"Therefore we must be subject, not only to avoid punishment, but as a matter of principle and for the sake of conscience. For the same reasons, pay your taxes: for government servants need to be paid so they can continue God's work, serving you. Pay taxes and import duties to whom they are due; and pay respect and honour to whom they are due. Meet all of your debts except your love for others: for he who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the Law, and will meet all of its requirements. For the Commandments: You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet things that are forbidden or do anything else that is condemned by the Ten Commandments, as summarized in the single commandment: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
"Love does wrong to no one: therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law."
[Paul expounds on the attributes of love in I Corinthians 13:4-6 where the Greek 'agape,' is translated 'charity.' "Charity is very patient and kind; never jealous or envious, boastful or proud; not haughty, selfish, easily provoked or reproachful. And it doesn't rejoice at injustice, but when truth prevails"].
"Time is no more" since the opening of the Seven Seals; we are in the end-time, and Christ is no longer interceding for ignorance of the fullness of the Word (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:6). "Arise, for the resurrection is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore quit the deeds of darkness, and put on the armour of Light".
Today, as in all previous dispensations we are born-again by "the present Truth" what Jesus is doing now. "The evening-time Light" of Zechariah 14:7, Matthew 24:27-28, Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 is the Message of the prophet William Branham, and the Light for this our day that introduced the parousia of the Mighty Angel, Christ, the fullness of the Word Who has "Lightened the earth with His glory" through the revelation of the Seven Seals (Revelation 10:1-7; 18:1-4).
"Let us conduct ourselves honourably as in the open light of day; not in partying and drunkenness, not in adultery and lust, quarrelling and jealousy. Be clothed with the Token of the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ on display, and make no plans to satisfy the carnal cravings of your physical nature".
God is love, and if we are His children we will reflect the Life of Jesus Christ for God's law of reproduction requires everything to reproduce after its own kind.
It is sometimes good to stand before the mirror of God's Word and assess our dress. Are we clothed in the full armour of God, the Light of His Life read and known of all men, subject to the covenants and promises of God as expected of Israel, a prince of God? Or clad in the darkness of strife, envy, and the carnal attributes of profane persons such as Esau/Edom?
We have been speaking on "Esau/Edom, and the trail of the Serpent." Just as Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom have a natural posterity, like everything under the Old Testament they set a spiritual antitype for the New Testament. Jacob is Israel from whose successors a tiny election of faith observed God's commands under the Covenant of Law. The natural lineage of his brother Esau, a profane person who satisfied the lusts of the flesh, despising his own race by marrying into the Serpent seed. His descendants despise the heirs of Jacob/Israel whom they impersonate because they claim the birthright and dominion their father sold to satisfy his belly.
There is "enmity" between the natural and the Spiritual. Lucifer's kin persecute the children of God (Genesis 3:15).
We have traced the trail of the physical Serpent seed in Esau/Edom. Brother Branham taught ". . . that lineage of Cain still exists, and the lineage of Seth still exists. They both come down just the same. Cain's children is here in Jeffersonville tonight, and Seth's children's here in Jeffersonville tonight. As the blood stream weakens and goes out, but that lineage still hangs on" (COD, par. 585-590; p. 474:3; #57-1006, par. 590; #55-0522, The Ark, par. 56-60; #64-0802, The Future Home of the Heavenly Bridegroom and the Earthly Bride, par. 513; COD, #64-0830M, par. 143). Like Moses in Genesis 6:1-4 God's Prophet was speaking of physical Serpent's seed: spiritual Serpent's seed is the seed of discrepancy and does not distinguish between blood lineages. We will not identify the many branches of this family worldwide. Esau/Edom cannot be offended: they are familiar with the Bible, the story of the Fall and original sin, and identify themselves as Esau/Edom. They well know their father Cain feared that upon discovery Adam's kin might slay them and that God placed a mark upon them to protect them. The "mark of Cain" is crafty intellectualism or worldly wisdom. Jesus said, "The children of this world [or Serpent's seed] are in their race wiser than the children of Light" (Luke 16:8). Cain's vicarious father Lucifer, "the sum of wisdom and beauty" is worshipped by Jews and lauded in Masonic ritual (Ezekiel 28:11).
"As it was in the days of Noah," most of Adam's race today is spiritual Serpent's seed (Genesis 6:1-7; Matthew 24:37-44). Brother Branham declared that before his conversion Jacob was spiritual Serpent's seed and "He was ousted from his people. Now, it's a type of the Jew now. He's a money snatcher. I don't care how he gets it; he will get it. He will skin you alive to get it. You know that. He's a little shyster; that's all. Boy, don't deal with him. He will get you, boy. Yes, sir. Why? He's got to be that. That's the kind of a spirit that's dominating" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, par. 244-248).
In II Corinthians 11:2-4 and 13-15 Paul compared natural with spiritual Serpent's seed, "I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. [Eve had two husbands. She was not a chaste virgin when Adam first knew her; she was already pregnant by the Serpent]. But I fear, lest by any means, as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ".
[Paul's concern was that some in the Church at Corinth who were not yet born-again or united with their espoused Husband, Christ the Word, may be spiritually seduced by the Serpent's hiss of unregenerate or misguided preachers adding to and taking from the Word, causing spiritual fornication by receiving hybrid seed into the womb of their minds as the Serpent deceived Eve resulting in her physical adultery. Brother Branham shared Paul's concern, particularly for those who take the rhema or letter of his Message without the logos or Spirit (Revelation 22:17-19)].
"For if anyone preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him . . . These are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Marvel not, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of Light (or minister of the Gospel). Therefore it is no great thing if Satan's ministers are also transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works".
I John 1:7 instructs us that "Unless we are walking in the Light of the present Truth, we are not and cannot come under the blood (or be born-again), and without the Spirit we cannot experience true Spiritual fellowship with those who are Christians." So if we are preaching anything less than the revealed Word for this day it is Spiritual Serpent's seed and will not produce a saint of God.
We cannot serve God unwittingly trying to fulfil the Word for a bygone day. We must recognize our day and it's Message. Unacquainted with God, most folk impersonate parental traditions and wonder why His Word is of none effect, not understanding that scripture was fulfilled in a previous age. Such people are spiritual Serpent's seed; the preaching and teaching they are receiving cannot produce new birth and the Life of Christ because it is not the present Truth, but something added-to or taken-from the Word.
Let's take a peek at Jesus and Mary. As Jesus was the "keystone" linking and uniting Old and New Testaments, His life, ministry and sacrifice had to match and complete the "righteousness" of the Law before He could commence the New Testament. Thus when John the Baptist protested his unworthiness to baptize his cousin, Jesus said, "We should fulfil all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15).
Mary was familiar with prophecies regarding Messiah and conscious of her obligation to the Law. According to Leviticus 12, a man child must be circumcised on the eighth day. "When He was eight days old He was circumcised and His Name was called JESUS, the Name given Him by the angel before He was conceived in the womb" (Luke 2:21; Matthew 1:21).
In that her Child was virgin-born of faith in God's spoken Word, circumcision had a different significance for Jesus than it had for every other child of Abraham. He had no connection with the original sin and the deceit by which mortal life was first reproduced in the Garden of Eden. And although both circumcision and the Law were to be done away in Christ and the New Testament, Jesus was circumcised to fulfil the Mosaic Law of that dispensation, for according to the flesh He was born under the Law and belonged to Israel, thus He took the emblem of purification called circumcision.
Hebrews 2:14-18, "Since the children are flesh and blood, Christ also became flesh and blood, for only as a human being could He be Adam's Kinsman Redeemer and die; and in dying destroy Satan who had the power of death; and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."
"He did not take on the immortal nature of angels; but mortal flesh and blood of the seed of Abraham. For it was essential that in all things He be made like his brethren, that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. And because He Himself has experienced suffering and temptation, He is able to succour them that are tempted".
In the spiritual this purification is of the soul signified by Scriptural water baptism, and the New Testament replaces the Old.
Praise God! The "last day" is in "the time of the end" and resurrection. And according to Scripture it commenced with the opening of the Seven Seals over Mount Sunset on March 8, 1963; Jesus came from Heaven with ten thousands times ten thousands of His Saints, and the Bible says that "the Heavens was empty for the space of a half hour" (Sardisean Church Age, p. 348:96; Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 8:1; 10:4). Redemption was over, and according to Revelation 4:1-2 and 5:8-14 every member of Christ's end time Bride, including those not yet born-again as I write, was caught up and present to witness Jesus claim the Book of Redemption and loose the Seals whose mystery was only disclosed through His Prophet Seals between March 17-24, 1963. This means that Christendom today is apostate as Israel has been since it rejected and crucified Christ at His first Coming. This means that the threefold PROCESS of the first resurrection has been manifesting for fifty-five years and the manifestation of the Sons of God are at hand.
Colossians 2:10-14, "You are complete in Him, Who is the Head of all principality and power: in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the carnal nature from your soul by the circumcision of Christ: [the baptism of the Holy Ghost]. Water baptism signifies we are circumcised of our old nature which died and was buried with Him and accounted raised with Him through faith in the working of God, which raised Him from the dead. And you Gentiles, once dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has quickened together with Him, in newness of Life, having forgiven you all trespasses; and blotted out the charges of ordinances proven against you for the commandments which you had not obeyed, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross".
Women came under the Old Covenant by the token of their father or husband because one cannot circumcise a woman. But under the New Covenant the union is not the fleshly union of her parents or her husband. The union is a Spiritual marriage bond with Christ, whose blood separated Him from mortality and the power of death and sin, and whose resurrection made Him immortal and incorruptible. The New Covenant is not restricted to the race descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but is open to Adam's entire race who can receive it. Whether we are male or female, Jew or Gentile, bond or free, we can be circumcised spiritually in heart and ears by faith in the Word of the hour.
Galatians, 3:27-29, "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Judahite nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
Gender, race and social station are no restriction to being the seed of Abraham and partakers of the glory and the promises and the blessings of the New Covenant which makes us joint heirs with Jesus in the Kingdom of God, Sons of God and Messiah's Wife. Natural Israel is His servant nation: our servant nation. And Esau/Edom is "cherem," or anathema.
By His circumcision Jesus took on the role of a servant symbolically bound to perform the will of the Father, and became a true Kinsman Redeemer for the saints under the Old Covenant.
Matthew 5:17-18, "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled".
Jesus by His circumcision fulfilled and virtually repealed this part of the Law (Colossians 2:10-12). As the New Covenant replaces the Old, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit with water baptism as a sign of faith (I Peter 3:21) replaces bodily circumcision and fleshly works, Paul was correct in opposing the Judaizers' zeal for the reintroduction of circumcision as it constituted a virtual denial of Christian principle (Galatians 2:1-5).
Luke 2:21 informs us Jesus was named on the eighth day. "And there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Eight speaks of eternity, resurrection and the first in a new series. Jesus was "the beginning of the [NEW] creation of God," the first God-man and the start of God making Himself a part of creation just 2,000 years ago (Revelation 3:14).
Colossians 1:12-18, "Give thanks to the Father, who has made us fit to share the inheritance of the saints in Light: who has delivered us from the dominion of Darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Being in Christ we have redemption through His blood, which is the forgiveness of sins because we are accounted as dying in Him on Calvary, and rising seated in heavenly places in Christ: who in His nature and character is the visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature in the creation of God [which began at the conception of the virgin Mary]."
"For by the expression of the Logos or invisible God all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, principalities, or powers: [and the Word was with God as His Eternal thoughts, and the Word was God]; all things were created by and for Him: [great is the mystery of godliness for God was manifest in the virgin-born flesh of Jesus and dwelt among us]; He has pre-eminence in all things, and by Him all things are sustained [because whatever is not manifested Word is not of God and will pass away]."
"And He is the Head of the Body, the Church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence".
Anything not in the Logos from the foundation of the world will not exist in the eternal eighth day that will follow the general resurrection and White Throne Judgment. Show me where Cain, Esau/Edom, and the other physical Serpent's seed were in the Logos? How about the mule or any other hybrid? They are not spoken Word, not of God and have no place in the eighth day.
Can you find the spiritual Serpent's seed in the Logos? How about your Apostle's Creed (so-called)? You can't find that in the Word of God. What about your Babylonian Trinity? It is there, but as a curse! When Israel worshipped your Trinity, God dissolved the nation. And when Judah worshipped the Trinity He sent them into captivity. What of the Talmud? By no stretch of imagination could even the sickest mind suggest such putrid sub-sewer filth could emanate from God. Talk about spiritual Serpent's seed with no fear before God! God calls the Talmud "An abomination of the earth" (Revelation 17:5). These things are all astray from the heavenly way.
Returning to Luke 2:22-24, we find Mary and Jesus fulfilling the Law after the fortieth day. "When the days of Mary's purification according to the Law of Moses were accomplished, they brought Him to Jerusalem for dedication to the Lord [not infant baptism as the Roman church would have it]. As it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every first-born male shall be called holy to the Lord (Leviticus 12:4; Exodus 13:2, 12). And to offer a sacrifice as required by the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons [if one cannot afford a lamb]" (Leviticus 12:6-8).
Israel had not had a prophet since Malachi, almost 400 years before Christ, but in verse 25 we find, "there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and he was just and devout, filled with the Holy Ghost: and waiting for the Messiah, the Consoler or Comforter of Israel."
[According to the Jews Simeon was the son of the famous Pharisee Hillel and the father of Gamaliel who taught the prophet Paul].
"For the Holy Ghost had revealed to him that he should not die 'til he had seen the Lord's Messiah. And the Spirit impelled him to visit the temple that day so when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to present Him to the Lord in obedience to the Law, he took Him up into his arms, and praising God, said, Lord, now I can die content, for according to Your prophetic Word: my eyes have seen the Saviour You've given for Adam's entire race; a Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel".
This baby would become the S_O_N Light of the world, and as the natural S_U_N light travels from the east to the west, the Gospel has compassed the globe beginning at Jerusalem, its Light of Spiritual revelation of the Word arose in the east and will soon set in the west. Darkness returned when the Roman church organized as an organ of State at the First Nicaea Council, and rejecting birthright for creed became Esau/Edom spiritually. And as Esau hunted Jacob with his sword and would have began persecuted Christians to death until the S_O_N Light in their hearts was lost.
After almost a thousand years of Dark Ages, God began to restore the S-O-N Light through Martin Luther's revelation that the just shall live by their faith, not carnal works of Catholicism. Next He sent John Wesley to add the revelation of Scriptural holiness. Then early last century the Pentecostal Revival rediscovered the Gifts of the Spirit and God's prophet William Branham restored the faith or S_O_N Light once delivered to the apostolic saints in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21). That ended the seven Church Ages of PART-Word; now it was time for the Fullness of the S_O_N Light to "Lighten the earth with His glory" and call His people out from the spiritual Serpent's seed of Rome and her apostate once Protestant daughter churches (Revelation 18:1-4 and Matthew 25:1-13).
When the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age was redeemed Christ's mediation was fulfilled. The Mercy Seat became a Judgment Seat (Revelation 4 – 5) and in response to the elders the Lamb came from the Sacrifice Altar to the Throne in the Holy of Holies of this symbolic heavenly temple, then as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah He claimed the Book of Life, which is the Title Deed to all He has redeemed, tore open its Seven Seals and revealed them through His prophet William Branham.
Brother Branham delivered the mystery of the Seven Seals from March 17-24, 1963 as Jesus revealed them to Him. The unwritten Seventh Seal is the mysteries of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10 which is the revelation of the six written Seals. Revelation 10:1-7 reveal how Christ descended from heaven in the fullness of His Word as Paul prophesied in I Thessalonians 4:16. "For the Lord Himself [not a second or third person] shall descend from heaven with a shout—[the "midnight cry" of Brother Branham's Message that wakes and calls both wise and foolish virgin out of Babylon]—with the Voice of the Archangel—[the Mighty Angel from heaven portrayed in Revelation 10:1, Who comes into the heart of His Bride in W_O_R_D Form by faith or understanding of the Message, to bring His elect to maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation]—and with the Trump of God: the dead in Christ shall rise first while the living manifest that they are the Sons of God before being caught up together with them in the Shekinah".
The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D Form. In Matthew 24:23-27 Jesus told us not to look for a Man because His second Coming is a 'parousia' Coming and not the physical return of "the glory of Israel" foretold by Simeon. When the glorified Jesus returns, He will come back with the glorified saints of all Ages and step on the ashes of the wicked after Armageddon (Malachi 4:1-3). That will be an 'erchomai' or physical Coming. If you're waiting for that you're without faith, spiritual Serpent's seed believing man-made doctrine which makes the Word of God of none effect to you.
Read your Concordance, your Vines' or Richard's Greek then check the word "coming" in the Gospels and Epistles and you will find we are not to look for His physical or 'erchomai' return at this time, but His unseen 'parousia' Coming.
Christ is here NOW. Paul said, "When that which is perfect is come—[Christ, the fullness of the Word]—that which is in PART—the PART Word revealed to the Church Age saints and Christ's intercession]—"will be DONE AWAY" (Corinthians 13:10).
God would be unjust to indict and bring the world to judgment while the Fullness of His Word was sealed, and so long as it was sealed Christ was a Mediator in behalf of the ignorance of the saints. Now He is Judge! And blind leaders are leading the blind to the slaughter as did Israel's priests 2,000 years ago. God used those false priests to blind Israel with Talmudic hocus-pocus so we Gentiles could enter the Kingdom. But He will return to Israel when Gentile days are over and fulfil Daniel's Seventieth Week. Then grace will be exhausted and the churches will be revealed as anti-Christ.
According to God's promise Simeon declared, "My eyes have seen the Saviour you've given for Adam's entire race; A Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel." That Light has been restored in its Fullness in the evening-time as an open door for any who will receive it before it returns east to Jerusalem for Daniel's Seventieth Week to be "the glory of Israel" as all 144,000 of them will be born-again in one day.
Luke 2:33, "And Joseph and His mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of Him." Mary was not His genetic mother; she just carried Him in her womb. Jesus called her "woman" and never spoke of Joseph as His father. The Mother and Father of the Man Jesus, was God. Mary and Joseph marvelled at God's prophetic vindication of Jesus. But Simeon moderates their translation, bringing them back to reality. Verse 34, "Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, This Child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against".
Joseph and Mary knew the prophecies such as Isaiah 8:14, "He shall be for a Sanctuary; but for a Stone of stumbling and for a Rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem".
Jesus referred to Isaiah saying, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the Head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" Therefore, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this Stone shall be broken: but on whoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder" (Matthew 21:42-44; Romans 9:33).
The humble shall be exalted and the proud will be abased. "The fall of many in Israel" would result from their willing unbelief and impenitence (John 8:39-41; Matthew 21:44). "The rising again of many in Israel" (Luke 2:34) refers to the resurrection of the Old Testament saints and the coming resurrection of the elect 144,000.
Simeon also said that Jesus would be "a sign which shall be spoken against." The high priests Annas and Caiaphas "spoke against" Him and chose Barabbas, a murderer, in preference to God's Messiah. If that isn't the evidence of spiritual Serpent's seed, I don't know what is (Matthew 27:25-26).
The Kingdom of God is built upon spiritual revelation of the Word which is why Abel offered a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain. Why did Abel not follow Cain who had the most beautiful Temple; because it was revealed unto Abel.
And Simeon said, "Yea, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed".
Mary would share Jesus' sorrow in His opposition and rejection by the Jews. And as Mary pondered these things in her heart, so shall all Israel, both those who "fell" and they who shall "rise again." Neutrality is impossible. Jesus said, "He that is not with Me is against Me, and he who gathers not, scatters" (Luke 11:23).
The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Israel. Daniel 2:44-45 shows us the rejected Stone will smash all other kingdoms and Israel shall stand forever.
We have been living in the end-time or days of Christ's 'parousia' since the Seven Seals were revealed in 1963. His Bride is making herself ready by clothing herself in the fullness of the Word. But II Peter 3:3-4 prophesied, "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own imaginations, and saying, where is the promise of His parousia? For since the apostolic fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation".
Esau/Edom likewise scoffed at the seed of the woman. So did the spiritual Serpent seed in the days of His flesh or 'erchomai' Coming, and denominational believers in the circle of this Message who scoff at His 'parousia' Coming have the same carnal attributes. "But the land that bears thorns and briers is rejected, and ready for condemnation; whose end is to be burned" (Hebrews 6:8): this is the destiny of the spiritual Serpent's seed.
God sent us a prophet with a Message that restored the original Seed, calling the wise and even the foolish virgin out from every denomination, including your denominational church. If you stay there and believe the nonsense they teach against the revealed Word you have a hot time coming because you have the mark of Cain which is the mark of the beast—wisdom against faith.
According to Revelation 2:21-23 spiritual Serpent's seed are cast into the Lake of Fire: "I gave the Roman Catholic church close to 1,000 years of the Dark Ages to repent of her fornication and she repented not. I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery [that's idolatry, spiritually speaking] with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her [once Protestant] children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the thoughts and hearts, [God the Word (Hebrews 4:12). This is the last Sign Jesus promised before the close of the Gentile dispensation and He fulfilled it in the ministry of William Branham (Luke 17:28-30)]: and I will give to every one of you according to your works."
Revelation 19:20, "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them who'd received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. [The beast is Rome, his mark is his false doctrine—trinitarianism, etc., his image is the Protestant denominations, and yes that does include your denomination]. These were both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone".
Revelation 20:10, "And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever".
Is that the sort of company you wish to keep? If you are spiritual Serpent's seed, that is your destiny. Don't tell me there are many wonderful Christians in your denomination. Unless they are very old men and women, there is not one! Wonderful people, yes, but not Christians. And if say you're an Israelite living in the UK, Australia or America waiting for God's two prophets you are a hypocrite because outside the Land of the Covenant you are denying the Law and outside the Covenant.
Israelite or Gentile, if you see the Truth of this teaching and reject it, you have rejected the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:32).
The Masons ask, "What is the time," and respond "High time." Paul said, "Knowing the time, it is high time to awake out of sleep: now our translation is nearer than when we first believed".
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Romans 7:14, "The Law is Spiritual—that's righteous—but I am carnal, sold under sin—unbelief—in the Garden of Eden." Because of Eve's unbelief, we are all born through a sexual or animal desire and not by the Spiritual desire and revelation of God's Word. Our new birth places us under the Headship of Christ, the Word, so we live to serve Him, and not the desires of mortal flesh (which is the world). God wants to fulfil or realize the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the Law in us New Testament saints.
Romans 13:1-14, "Let everyone be loyally subject to the civil authorities. For there is no jurisdiction outside God's permissive will: and the powers that exist are accountable to God."
"Whoever therefore resists the authorities, resists the ordinance of God: and those who resist will bring the judgment and penalties upon themselves. For rulers are no terror to your good works, but to evil. So if you don't wish to feel afraid, do what is good and you'll receive their approval and commendation: for they are God's servant for your benefit. But if you do wrong you should be afraid; for they don't wear a sword [or gun] for nothing: for they are God's servant to execute His vengeance on the wrongdoer."
"Therefore we must be subject, not only to avoid punishment, but as a matter of principle and for the sake of conscience. For the same reasons, pay your taxes: for government servants need to be paid so they can continue God's work, serving you. Pay taxes and import duties to whom they are due; and pay respect and honour to whom they are due. Meet all of your debts except your love for others: for he who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the Law, and will meet all of its requirements. For the Commandments: You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet things that are forbidden or do anything else that is condemned by the Ten Commandments, as summarized in the single commandment: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
"Love does wrong to no one: therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law."
[Paul expounds on the attributes of love in I Corinthians 13:4-6 where the Greek 'agape,' is translated 'charity.' "Charity is very patient and kind; never jealous or envious, boastful or proud; not haughty, selfish, easily provoked or reproachful. And it doesn't rejoice at injustice, but when truth prevails"].
"Time is no more" since the opening of the Seven Seals; we are in the end-time, and Christ is no longer interceding for ignorance of the fullness of the Word (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:6). "Arise, for the resurrection is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore quit the deeds of darkness, and put on the armour of Light".
Today, as in all previous dispensations we are born-again by "the present Truth" what Jesus is doing now. "The evening-time Light" of Zechariah 14:7, Matthew 24:27-28, Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 is the Message of the prophet William Branham, and the Light for this our day that introduced the parousia of the Mighty Angel, Christ, the fullness of the Word Who has "Lightened the earth with His glory" through the revelation of the Seven Seals (Revelation 10:1-7; 18:1-4).
"Let us conduct ourselves honourably as in the open light of day; not in partying and drunkenness, not in adultery and lust, quarrelling and jealousy. Be clothed with the Token of the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ on display, and make no plans to satisfy the carnal cravings of your physical nature".
God is love, and if we are His children we will reflect the Life of Jesus Christ for God's law of reproduction requires everything to reproduce after its own kind.
It is sometimes good to stand before the mirror of God's Word and assess our dress. Are we clothed in the full armour of God, the Light of His Life read and known of all men, subject to the covenants and promises of God as expected of Israel, a prince of God? Or clad in the darkness of strife, envy, and the carnal attributes of profane persons such as Esau/Edom?
We have been speaking on "Esau/Edom, and the trail of the Serpent." Just as Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom have a natural posterity, like everything under the Old Testament they set a spiritual antitype for the New Testament. Jacob is Israel from whose successors a tiny election of faith observed God's commands under the Covenant of Law. The natural lineage of his brother Esau, a profane person who satisfied the lusts of the flesh, despising his own race by marrying into the Serpent seed. His descendants despise the heirs of Jacob/Israel whom they impersonate because they claim the birthright and dominion their father sold to satisfy his belly.
There is "enmity" between the natural and the Spiritual. Lucifer's kin persecute the children of God (Genesis 3:15).
We have traced the trail of the physical Serpent seed in Esau/Edom. Brother Branham taught ". . . that lineage of Cain still exists, and the lineage of Seth still exists. They both come down just the same. Cain's children is here in Jeffersonville tonight, and Seth's children's here in Jeffersonville tonight. As the blood stream weakens and goes out, but that lineage still hangs on" (COD, par. 585-590; p. 474:3; #57-1006, par. 590; #55-0522, The Ark, par. 56-60; #64-0802, The Future Home of the Heavenly Bridegroom and the Earthly Bride, par. 513; COD, #64-0830M, par. 143). Like Moses in Genesis 6:1-4 God's Prophet was speaking of physical Serpent's seed: spiritual Serpent's seed is the seed of discrepancy and does not distinguish between blood lineages. We will not identify the many branches of this family worldwide. Esau/Edom cannot be offended: they are familiar with the Bible, the story of the Fall and original sin, and identify themselves as Esau/Edom. They well know their father Cain feared that upon discovery Adam's kin might slay them and that God placed a mark upon them to protect them. The "mark of Cain" is crafty intellectualism or worldly wisdom. Jesus said, "The children of this world [or Serpent's seed] are in their race wiser than the children of Light" (Luke 16:8). Cain's vicarious father Lucifer, "the sum of wisdom and beauty" is worshipped by Jews and lauded in Masonic ritual (Ezekiel 28:11).
"As it was in the days of Noah," most of Adam's race today is spiritual Serpent's seed (Genesis 6:1-7; Matthew 24:37-44). Brother Branham declared that before his conversion Jacob was spiritual Serpent's seed and "He was ousted from his people. Now, it's a type of the Jew now. He's a money snatcher. I don't care how he gets it; he will get it. He will skin you alive to get it. You know that. He's a little shyster; that's all. Boy, don't deal with him. He will get you, boy. Yes, sir. Why? He's got to be that. That's the kind of a spirit that's dominating" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, par. 244-248).
In II Corinthians 11:2-4 and 13-15 Paul compared natural with spiritual Serpent's seed, "I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. [Eve had two husbands. She was not a chaste virgin when Adam first knew her; she was already pregnant by the Serpent]. But I fear, lest by any means, as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ".
[Paul's concern was that some in the Church at Corinth who were not yet born-again or united with their espoused Husband, Christ the Word, may be spiritually seduced by the Serpent's hiss of unregenerate or misguided preachers adding to and taking from the Word, causing spiritual fornication by receiving hybrid seed into the womb of their minds as the Serpent deceived Eve resulting in her physical adultery. Brother Branham shared Paul's concern, particularly for those who take the rhema or letter of his Message without the logos or Spirit (Revelation 22:17-19)]. "For if anyone preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him . . . These are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Marvel not, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of Light (or minister of the Gospel). Therefore it is no great thing if Satan's ministers are also transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works".
I John 1:7 instructs us that "Unless we are walking in the Light of the present Truth, we are not and cannot come under the blood (or be born-again), and without the Spirit we cannot experience true Spiritual fellowship with those who are Christians." So if we are preaching anything less than the revealed Word for this day it is Spiritual Serpent's seed and will not produce a saint of God.
We cannot serve God unwittingly trying to fulfil the Word for a bygone day. We must recognize our day and it's Message. Unacquainted with God, most folk impersonate parental traditions and wonder why His Word is of none effect, not understanding that scripture was fulfilled in a previous age. Such people are spiritual Serpent's seed; the preaching and teaching they are receiving cannot produce new birth and the Life of Christ because it is not the present Truth, but something added-to or taken-from the Word.
Let's take a peek at Jesus and Mary. As Jesus was the "keystone" linking and uniting Old and New Testaments, His life, ministry and sacrifice had to match and complete the "righteousness" of the Law before He could commence the New Testament. Thus when John the Baptist protested his unworthiness to baptize his cousin, Jesus said, "We should fulfil all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15).
Mary was familiar with prophecies regarding Messiah and conscious of her obligation to the Law. According to Leviticus 12, a man child must be circumcised on the eighth day. "When He was eight days old He was circumcised and His Name was called JESUS, the Name given Him by the angel before He was conceived in the womb" (Luke 2:21; Matthew 1:21).
In that her Child was virgin-born of faith in God's spoken Word, circumcision had a different significance for Jesus than it had for every other child of Abraham. He had no connection with the original sin and the deceit by which mortal life was first reproduced in the Garden of Eden. And although both circumcision and the Law were to be done away in Christ and the New Testament, Jesus was circumcised to fulfil the Mosaic Law of that dispensation, for according to the flesh He was born under the Law and belonged to Israel, thus He took the emblem of purification called circumcision.
Hebrews 2:14-18, "Since the children are flesh and blood, Christ also became flesh and blood, for only as a human being could He be Adam's Kinsman Redeemer and die; and in dying destroy Satan who had the power of death; and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."
"He did not take on the immortal nature of angels; but mortal flesh and blood of the seed of Abraham. For it was essential that in all things He be made like his brethren, that He could be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. And because He Himself has experienced suffering and temptation, He is able to succour them that are tempted".
In the spiritual this purification is of the soul signified by Scriptural water baptism, and the New Testament replaces the Old.
Praise God! The "last day" is in "the time of the end" and resurrection. And according to Scripture it commenced with the opening of the Seven Seals over Mount Sunset on March 8, 1963; Jesus came from Heaven with ten thousands times ten thousands of His Saints, and the Bible says that "the Heavens was empty for the space of a half hour" (Sardisean Church Age, p. 348:96; Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 8:1; 10:4). Redemption was over, and according to Revelation 4:1-2 and 5:8-14 every member of Christ's end time Bride, including those not yet born-again as I write, was caught up and present to witness Jesus claim the Book of Redemption and loose the Seals whose mystery was only disclosed through His Prophet Seals between March 17-24, 1963. This means that Christendom today is apostate as Israel has been since it rejected and crucified Christ at His first Coming. This means that the threefold PROCESS of the first resurrection has been manifesting for fifty-five years and the manifestation of the Sons of God are at hand.
Colossians 2:10-14, "You are complete in Him, Who is the Head of all principality and power: in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the carnal nature from your soul by the circumcision of Christ: [the baptism of the Holy Ghost]. Water baptism signifies we are circumcised of our old nature which died and was buried with Him and accounted raised with Him through faith in the working of God, which raised Him from the dead. And you Gentiles, once dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has quickened together with Him, in newness of Life, having forgiven you all trespasses; and blotted out the charges of ordinances proven against you for the commandments which you had not obeyed, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross". Women came under the Old Covenant by the token of their father or husband because one cannot circumcise a woman. But under the New Covenant the union is not the fleshly union of her parents or her husband. The union is a Spiritual marriage bond with Christ, whose blood separated Him from mortality and the power of death and sin, and whose resurrection made Him immortal and incorruptible. The New Covenant is not restricted to the race descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but is open to Adam's entire race who can receive it. Whether we are male or female, Jew or Gentile, bond or free, we can be circumcised spiritually in heart and ears by faith in the Word of the hour.
Galatians, 3:27-29, "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Judahite nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
Gender, race and social station are no restriction to being the seed of Abraham and partakers of the glory and the promises and the blessings of the New Covenant which makes us joint heirs with Jesus in the Kingdom of God, Sons of God and Messiah's Wife. Natural Israel is His servant nation: our servant nation. And Esau/Edom is "cherem," or anathema.
By His circumcision Jesus took on the role of a servant symbolically bound to perform the will of the Father, and became a true Kinsman Redeemer for the saints under the Old Covenant.
Matthew 5:17-18, "Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled".
Jesus by His circumcision fulfilled and virtually repealed this part of the Law (Colossians 2:10-12). As the New Covenant replaces the Old, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit with water baptism as a sign of faith (I Peter 3:21) replaces bodily circumcision and fleshly works, Paul was correct in opposing the Judaizers' zeal for the reintroduction of circumcision as it constituted a virtual denial of Christian principle (Galatians 2:1-5).
Luke 2:21 informs us Jesus was named on the eighth day. "And there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Eight speaks of eternity, resurrection and the first in a new series. Jesus was "the beginning of the [NEW] creation of God," the first God-man and the start of God making Himself a part of creation just 2,000 years ago (Revelation 3:14).
Colossians 1:12-18, "Give thanks to the Father, who has made us fit to share the inheritance of the saints in Light: who has delivered us from the dominion of Darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Being in Christ we have redemption through His blood, which is the forgiveness of sins because we are accounted as dying in Him on Calvary, and rising seated in heavenly places in Christ: who in His nature and character is the visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature in the creation of God [which began at the conception of the virgin Mary]."
"For by the expression of the Logos or invisible God all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, principalities, or powers: [and the Word was with God as His Eternal thoughts, and the Word was God]; all things were created by and for Him: [great is the mystery of godliness for God was manifest in the virgin-born flesh of Jesus and dwelt among us]; He has pre-eminence in all things, and by Him all things are sustained [because whatever is not manifested Word is not of God and will pass away]."
"And He is the Head of the Body, the Church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence".
Anything not in the Logos from the foundation of the world will not exist in the eternal eighth day that will follow the general resurrection and White Throne Judgment. Show me where Cain, Esau/Edom, and the other physical Serpent's seed were in the Logos? How about the mule or any other hybrid? They are not spoken Word, not of God and have no place in the eighth day.
Can you find the spiritual Serpent's seed in the Logos? How about your Apostle's Creed (so-called)? You can't find that in the Word of God. What about your Babylonian Trinity? It is there, but as a curse! When Israel worshipped your Trinity, God dissolved the nation. And when Judah worshipped the Trinity He sent them into captivity. What of the Talmud? By no stretch of imagination could even the sickest mind suggest such putrid sub-sewer filth could emanate from God. Talk about spiritual Serpent's seed with no fear before God! God calls the Talmud "An abomination of the earth" (Revelation 17:5). These things are all astray from the heavenly way.
Returning to Luke 2:22-24, we find Mary and Jesus fulfilling the Law after the fortieth day. "When the days of Mary's purification according to the Law of Moses were accomplished, they brought Him to Jerusalem for dedication to the Lord [not infant baptism as the Roman church would have it]. As it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every first-born male shall be called holy to the Lord (Leviticus 12:4; Exodus 13:2, 12). And to offer a sacrifice as required by the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons [if one cannot afford a lamb]" (Leviticus 12:6-8).
Israel had not had a prophet since Malachi, almost 400 years before Christ, but in verse 25 we find, "there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and he was just and devout, filled with the Holy Ghost: and waiting for the Messiah, the Consoler or Comforter of Israel."
[According to the Jews Simeon was the son of the famous Pharisee Hillel and the father of Gamaliel who taught the prophet Paul].
"For the Holy Ghost had revealed to him that he should not die 'til he had seen the Lord's Messiah. And the Spirit impelled him to visit the temple that day so when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to present Him to the Lord in obedience to the Law, he took Him up into his arms, and praising God, said, Lord, now I can die content, for according to Your prophetic Word: my eyes have seen the Saviour You've given for Adam's entire race; a Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel".
This baby would become the S_O_N Light of the world, and as the natural S_U_N light travels from the east to the west, the Gospel has compassed the globe beginning at Jerusalem, its Light of Spiritual revelation of the Word arose in the east and will soon set in the west. Darkness returned when the Roman church organized as an organ of State at the First Nicaea Council, and rejecting birthright for creed became Esau/Edom spiritually. And as Esau hunted Jacob with his sword and would have began persecuted Christians to death until the S_O_N Light in their hearts was lost.
After almost a thousand years of Dark Ages, God began to restore the S-O-N Light through Martin Luther's revelation that the just shall live by their faith, not carnal works of Catholicism. Next He sent John Wesley to add the revelation of Scriptural holiness. Then early last century the Pentecostal Revival rediscovered the Gifts of the Spirit and God's prophet William Branham restored the faith or S_O_N Light once delivered to the apostolic saints in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21). That ended the seven Church Ages of PART-Word; now it was time for the Fullness of the S_O_N Light to "Lighten the earth with His glory" and call His people out from the spiritual Serpent's seed of Rome and her apostate once Protestant daughter churches (Revelation 18:1-4 and Matthew 25:1-13).
When the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age was redeemed Christ's mediation was fulfilled. The Mercy Seat became a Judgment Seat (Revelation 4 – 5) and in response to the elders the Lamb came from the Sacrifice Altar to the Throne in the Holy of Holies of this symbolic heavenly temple, then as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah He claimed the Book of Life, which is the Title Deed to all He has redeemed, tore open its Seven Seals and revealed them through His prophet William Branham.
Brother Branham delivered the mystery of the Seven Seals from March 17-24, 1963 as Jesus revealed them to Him. The unwritten Seventh Seal is the mysteries of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10 which is the revelation of the six written Seals. Revelation 10:1-7 reveal how Christ descended from heaven in the fullness of His Word as Paul prophesied in I Thessalonians 4:16. "For the Lord Himself [not a second or third person] shall descend from heaven with a shout—[the "midnight cry" of Brother Branham's Message that wakes and calls both wise and foolish virgin out of Babylon]—with the Voice of the Archangel—[the Mighty Angel from heaven portrayed in Revelation 10:1, Who comes into the heart of His Bride in W_O_R_D Form by faith or understanding of the Message, to bring His elect to maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation]—and with the Trump of God: the dead in Christ shall rise first while the living manifest that they are the Sons of God before being caught up together with them in the Shekinah".
The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D Form. In Matthew 24:23-27 Jesus told us not to look for a Man because His second Coming is a 'parousia' Coming and not the physical return of "the glory of Israel" foretold by Simeon. When the glorified Jesus returns, He will come back with the glorified saints of all Ages and step on the ashes of the wicked after Armageddon (Malachi 4:1-3). That will be an 'erchomai' or physical Coming. If you're waiting for that you're without faith, spiritual Serpent's seed believing man-made doctrine which makes the Word of God of none effect to you.
Read your Concordance, your Vines' or Richard's Greek then check the word "coming" in the Gospels and Epistles and you will find we are not to look for His physical or 'erchomai' return at this time, but His unseen 'parousia' Coming.
Christ is here NOW. Paul said, "When that which is perfect is come—[Christ, the fullness of the Word]—that which is in PART—the PART Word revealed to the Church Age saints and Christ's intercession]—"will be DONE AWAY" (Corinthians 13:10).
God would be unjust to indict and bring the world to judgment while the Fullness of His Word was sealed, and so long as it was sealed Christ was a Mediator in behalf of the ignorance of the saints. Now He is Judge! And blind leaders are leading the blind to the slaughter as did Israel's priests 2,000 years ago. God used those false priests to blind Israel with Talmudic hocus-pocus so we Gentiles could enter the Kingdom. But He will return to Israel when Gentile days are over and fulfil Daniel's Seventieth Week. Then grace will be exhausted and the churches will be revealed as anti-Christ.
According to God's promise Simeon declared, "My eyes have seen the Saviour you've given for Adam's entire race; A Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel." That Light has been restored in its Fullness in the evening-time as an open door for any who will receive it before it returns east to Jerusalem for Daniel's Seventieth Week to be "the glory of Israel" as all 144,000 of them will be born-again in one day.
Luke 2:33, "And Joseph and His mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of Him." Mary was not His genetic mother; she just carried Him in her womb. Jesus called her "woman" and never spoke of Joseph as His father. The Mother and Father of the Man Jesus, was God. Mary and Joseph marvelled at God's prophetic vindication of Jesus. But Simeon moderates their translation, bringing them back to reality. Verse 34, "Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, This Child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against".
Joseph and Mary knew the prophecies such as Isaiah 8:14, "He shall be for a Sanctuary; but for a Stone of stumbling and for a Rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem".
Jesus referred to Isaiah saying, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the Head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?" Therefore, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this Stone shall be broken: but on whoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder" (Matthew 21:42-44; Romans 9:33).
The humble shall be exalted and the proud will be abased. "The fall of many in Israel" would result from their willing unbelief and impenitence (John 8:39-41; Matthew 21:44). "The rising again of many in Israel" (Luke 2:34) refers to the resurrection of the Old Testament saints and the coming resurrection of the elect 144,000.
Simeon also said that Jesus would be "a sign which shall be spoken against." The high priests Annas and Caiaphas "spoke against" Him and chose Barabbas, a murderer, in preference to God's Messiah. If that isn't the evidence of spiritual Serpent's seed, I don't know what is (Matthew 27:25-26).
The Kingdom of God is built upon spiritual revelation of the Word which is why Abel offered a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain. Why did Abel not follow Cain who had the most beautiful Temple; because it was revealed unto Abel.
And Simeon said, "Yea, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed".
Mary would share Jesus' sorrow in His opposition and rejection by the Jews. And as Mary pondered these things in her heart, so shall all Israel, both those who "fell" and they who shall "rise again." Neutrality is impossible. Jesus said, "He that is not with Me is against Me, and he who gathers not, scatters" (Luke 11:23).
The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Israel. Daniel 2:44-45 shows us the rejected Stone will smash all other kingdoms and Israel shall stand forever.
We have been living in the end-time or days of Christ's 'parousia' since the Seven Seals were revealed in 1963. His Bride is making herself ready by clothing herself in the fullness of the Word. But II Peter 3:3-4 prophesied, "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own imaginations, and saying, where is the promise of His parousia? For since the apostolic fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation".
Esau/Edom likewise scoffed at the seed of the woman. So did the spiritual Serpent seed in the days of His flesh or 'erchomai' Coming, and denominational believers in the circle of this Message who scoff at His 'parousia' Coming have the same carnal attributes. "But the land that bears thorns and briers is rejected, and ready for condemnation; whose end is to be burned" (Hebrews 6:8): this is the destiny of the spiritual Serpent's seed.
God sent us a prophet with a Message that restored the original Seed, calling the wise and even the foolish virgin out from every denomination, including your denominational church. If you stay there and believe the nonsense they teach against the revealed Word you have a hot time coming because you have the mark of Cain which is the mark of the beast—wisdom against faith.
According to Revelation 2:21-23 spiritual Serpent's seed are cast into the Lake of Fire: "I gave the Roman Catholic church close to 1,000 years of the Dark Ages to repent of her fornication and she repented not. I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery [that's idolatry, spiritually speaking] with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her [once Protestant] children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the thoughts and hearts, [God the Word (Hebrews 4:12). This is the last Sign Jesus promised before the close of the Gentile dispensation and He fulfilled it in the ministry of William Branham (Luke 17:28-30)]: and I will give to every one of you according to your works."
Revelation 19:20, "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them who'd received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. [The beast is Rome, his mark is his false doctrine—trinitarianism, etc., his image is the Protestant denominations, and yes that does include your denomination]. These were both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone".
Revelation 20:10, "And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever".
Is that the sort of company you wish to keep? If you are spiritual Serpent's seed, that is your destiny. Don't tell me there are many wonderful Christians in your denomination. Unless they are very old men and women, there is not one! Wonderful people, yes, but not Christians. And if say you're an Israelite living in the UK, Australia or America waiting for God's two prophets you are a hypocrite because outside the Land of the Covenant you are denying the Law and outside the Covenant.
Israelite or Gentile, if you see the Truth of this teaching and reject it, you have rejected the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:32).
The Masons ask, "What is the time," and respond "High time." Paul said, "Knowing the time, it is high time to awake out of sleep: now our translation is nearer than when we first believed".
Think well on these things and examine your own self; are you in the faith, or spiritual Serpent's seed?
Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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