The First Seal - Part II

Bible Believers' Newsletter 639
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. An especial welcome to our new subscribers. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word and encourage you to make full use of the Christian resources on our Website.

Our Brother Boyd Reneau returns with another contribution. His article emphasizes several points essential to attaining a clear understanding of the revelation hidden under the symbols John saw in visions described in the First Seal.

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


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How Goldman gambled on Starvation
July 2, 2010 — By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world—Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more—have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world.

It starts with an apparent mystery. At the end of 2006, food prices across the world started to rise, suddenly and stratospherically. Within a year, the price of wheat had shot up by 80 per cent, maize by 90 per cent, rice by 320 per cent. In a global jolt of hunger, 200 million people—mostly children—couldn't afford to get food any more, and sank into malnutrition or starvation. There were riots in more than 30 countries, and at least one government was violently overthrown. Then, in spring 2008, prices just as mysteriously fell back to their previous level. Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calls it "a silent mass murder", entirely due to "man-made actions". . .
Full story: independent.co.uk

Comment: Like derivatives, weather modification by scalar technology, ethanol biofuel, and the likely aromatic poisoning of crops resulting from the uncontrolled gusher in the Gulf, are agents of death by famine foretold in Revelation 6:8.


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The Empire of "The City"
"The City" is an international financial oligarchy and is perhaps the most arbitrary and absolute form of government in the world. This international financial oligarchy uses the allegoric "Crown" as its symbol of power and has its headquarters in the ancient City of London, an area of 677 acres; which strangely in all the vast expanse of the 443,455 acres of Metropolitan London alone is not under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, but has its own private force of about 2,000 men, while its night population is under 9,000.

This tiny area of a little over one square mile has in it the giant Bank of England, a privately owned institution; which as is further elaborated hereinafter is not subject to regulation by the British Parliament, and is in effect a sovereign world power. Within the City are located also the Stock Exchange and many institutions of world-wide scope. The City carries on its business of local government with a fanciful display of pompous medieval ceremony and with its officers attired in grotesque ancient costumes. Its voting power is vested in secret guilds with names of long extinct crafts such as the Mercers, Grocers, Fishmongers, Skinners, Vintners, etc. All this trivial pomp and absurdity and horse-play seems to serve very well to blind the eyes of the public to the big things going on behind the scenes; for the late Vincent Cartwright Vickers, once Deputy-Lieutenant of this City, a director of the great British armament firm of Vickers Ltd., and a director of the Bank of England from 1910 to 1919, in his "Economic Tribulation" published 1940, lays the wars of the world on the door-step of the City.

That the British people and the British Parliament have little to say in the foreign affairs of the British Empire, and that the people of the British Empire must fight when International Finance and the City blow the trumpet, appears from the paean of praise of America by Andrew Carnegie, "Triumphant Democracy," published in 1886 by that American super-industrialist and British newspaper publisher, in the following words: "My American readers may not be aware of the fact that, while in Britain an act of Parliament is necessary before works for a supply of water or a mile of railway can be constructed, six or seven men can plunge the nation into war, or, what is perhaps equally disastrous, commit it to entangling alliances without consulting Parliament at all. This is the most pernicious, palpable effect flowing from the monarchial theory, for these men do this in 'the king's Name,' who is in theory still a real monarch, although in reality only a convenient puppet, to be used by the cabinet at pleasure to suit their own needs" Full story: empire.htm

Comment: Before the fourth of July weekend, there was unreported manoeuvre in the US Senate designed to cover the City's 'false flag' and protect BP and the federal government from liability in the Gulf disaster. You have to see this with your my own eyes brasschecktv. Meanwhile soldiers from the City's colony of (once) Great Britain, take a leaf from the IDF Manual on cowardice, and in the absence of Palestinian children, beat up Iraqi boys confirming Sir Henry Kissinger's assessment of military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." The National Guard is dumb enough to place New Your City under de facto martial law. Latvian and Polish troops participated in an exercise by the Illinois National Guards.


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Why the State Hates Cholesterol
Why is the war on cholesterol of such benefit to government, despite being bankrupt as a scientific theory? The State relies on a submissive population—one in which individuals do not think for themselves, and preferably do not think at all.

It is no surprise then, that a molecule that plays such a central role in the brain would become the primary target of government. The brain makes up only 2% of the body's weight, yet it consists of a full 25% of the body's cholesterol! The importance of cholesterol to mental function is enormous. Cholesterol was discovered in 2001 to be the limiting factor in the formation of synapses, which are the connections between neurons, or nerve cells. A more recent study found that extracting some of the cholesterol from the cell membrane of a neuron causes a loss of functioning of signaling proteins that tell the neurons what direction to grow in, so they can make the proper type of connections. And, Dr. Iwo J. Bohr has hypothesized that a contributing factor to Alzheimer's disease is a deficiency of cholesterol in the membranes of brain cells. . .

"Fluoride in drinking water is a topic to raise the hackles of those doubting its dental benefits and resenting its addition to the public water supply. Meanwhile the water additive plot thickens as doctors in England debate whether drinking water might be used to administer cholesterol-lowering drugs to the public in an effort to reduce incidents of cardiovascular disease, the biggest cause of death in the United Kingdom."

If your fluoridated and chlorinated municipal water supply wasn't toxic enough, you may just be a victim of theft in the coming future: the unwilling robbery of cholesterol from your cells, and an extra hit in the wallet to finance the addition of expensive drugs to your water. . . Full story: lewrockwell.com

Comment: Then there is carcinogenic unleaded petrol: lead from leaded petrol is, after combustion, relatively harmless. Blood tests show lead levels to have gradually decreased since the '30's despite increasing use of leaded fuel, following decreased use of pewter, lead solder in food cans and replacement of lead water pipes. But dimethylbenzene, mesitylene, toluene, xylene and benzene in unleaded petrol are all declared carcinogens and far more dangerous. Catalytic converters do not work until they read 400 degrees, and cars fitted with anti-pollution gear are clean for about a year or 50,000Km. The British National Society for Clean Air no longer supports unleaded petrol. More deadly that this genocidal activity of 'the City' is organized religion.


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US Government Panel now pushing "Vaccinations for All!" No Exceptions. . .
June 26, 2010 — An advisory panel to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) . . . The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, voted 11-0 with one abstention to recommend yearly flu vaccination for everyone except for children under the age of six months, whose immune systems have not yet developed enough for vaccination to be safe, and people with egg allergies or other health conditions that are known to make flu vaccines hazardous. If accepted by the CDC, this recommendation will then be publicized to doctors and other health workers. . .
Full story: naturalnews.com

Comment: Protocol 10:18-19 "It is indispensable to trouble in all countries the people's relations with their governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the "Goyim" see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else".


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The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom - Part I
The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order
June 24, 2010 — There is a new and unique development in human history that is taking place around the world; it is unprecedented in reach and volume, and it is also the greatest threat to all global power structures: the 'global political awakening.' The term was coined by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and refers to the fact that:

America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world's population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power. The need to respond to that massive phenomenon poses to the uniquely sovereign America an historic dilemma: What should be the central definition of America's global role?

Brzezinski explains that formulating a foreign policy based off of one single event—the September 11th terror attacks—has both legitimized illegal measures (torture, suspension of habeas corpus, etc) and has launched and pacified citizens to accepting the 'global war on terror,' a war without end. The rhetoric and emotions central to this global foreign policy created a wave of patriotism and feelings of redemption and revenge. Thus, Brzezinski explains:

There was no need to be more precise as to who the terrorists actually were, where they came from, or what historical motives, religious passions or political grievances had focused their hatred on America. Terrorism thus replaced Soviet nuclear weapons as the principal threat, and terrorists (potentially omnipresent and generally identified as Muslims) replaced communists as the ubiquitous menace.

Brzezinski explains that this foreign policy, which has inflamed anti-Americanism around the world, specifically in the Muslim world, which was the principle target population of 'terrorist' rhetoric, has in fact further inflamed the 'global political awakening'. Brzezinski writes that:

[T]he central challenge of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global political awakening. That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing.

This 'global political awakening', Brzezinski writes, while unique in its global scope today, originates in the ideas and actions of the French Revolution, which was central in 'transforming modern politics through the emergence of a socially powerful national consciousness.' Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: "When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded it in the name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every other blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the secrets of its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands (Protocol 3:14. So you see, the United States, Britain, Russia, and all other colonies of 'the City' are led by their enemy (Genesis 3:15).

The spirit of Laodicea is defined in Woodrow Wilson's policy of a right to 'national self determination,' and in Machiavellian Edward Bernays, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the RIIA, CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission and their US puppet through the IMF, NATO, UN, WTO and blooded military which together have manipulated human society in the creation of Lucifer's Fabian, Christ-rejecting totalitarian one world government of carnal reasoning.

The author explains how the Rothschild-controlled IMF is transforming all nations into slaves and the middle classes into serfs of credit created out of this air by employing Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) backed by the promises of its members denominated in bankrupt fiat currencies. View this video on The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.


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Green Energy 'Mafia' shows Hand
June 24, 2010 — The author of a damning study about the failure of Spain's "green jobs" program received a 'threatening package' from solar energy company Thermotechnic. Christopher Horner a Senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote:



'Green' Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor . . . with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts



'Spain's Dr. Gabriel Calzada—the author of a damning study concluding that Spain's "green jobs" energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure—was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic. . .

Dr. Calzada added: [The terrorism expert] told me that this was a warning. [There are some reports that the underlying issue was a courier error, compounded by the less tangible threats and attacks Calzada has suffered]:

The bomb threat is just the latest intimidation Dr. Calzada has faced since releasing his report and following up with articles in Expansion (a Spanish paper similar to the Financial Times). A minister from Spain's Socialist government called the rector of King Juan Carlos University—Dr. Calzada's employer—seeking Calzada's ouster. Calzada was not fired, but he was stripped of half of his classes at the university. The school then dropped its accreditation of a summer university program with which Calzada's think tank—Instituto Juan de Mariana—was associated.

Additionally, the head of Spain's renewable energy association and the head of its communist trade union wrote opinion pieces in top Spanish newspapers accusing Calzada of being 'unpatriotic'—they did not charge him with being incorrect, but of undermining Spain by daring to write the report.

Their reasoning? If the skepticism that Calzada's revelations prompted were to prevail in the US, Spanish industry would face collapse should US subsidies and mandates dry up.

As I have previously reported . . . Spain's 'green jobs' program was repeatedly referenced by President Obama as a model for what he would like to implement in the United States. Following the release of Calzada's report, Spain's Socialist government has since acknowledged the debacle—both privately and publicly. This month, Spain's government instituted massive reductions in subsidies to 'renewable' energy sources.

Dr. Calzada is a friend of mine, kindly writing a blurb for the jacket of my latest book: 'Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America'. My book details the Spanish 'green jobs' disaster uncovered by Dr. Calzada, plus similar 'green' economic calamities occurring in Germany and Denmark—also programs Obama has praised—as well as in Italy and elsewhere.

As I detail in 'Power Grab,' they felt Spain would be in a dire position without the US playing the role of sucker. With today's revelation, now we know just how far the 'green energy' lobby will go to keep the money flowing.'
Full story: pajamasmedia.com

Comment: Further reading: 'The Climate Caper: Facts and Fallacies of Global Warming' by Garth W. Paltridge, $25.00 plus postage. Governments are becoming captive to scientific and technological elites who are achieving their ends by manipulating fear of climate change into the greatest example of a religion of the politically correct.

Following our news on the climate change and ETS SCAM in last week, the Climate Change Institute (so-called) wrote pushing their propaganda on this old HOAX that goes back to the days of H.G. Wells.


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The First Seal – Part II
By Boyd Reneau



The difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan is the difference between Light and Darkness. God's creative Word has Life in itself and brought forth a universe in beauty and perfection. Satan, who is not a creator, perverted God's Word and transmogrified His beautiful creation into an Eden of sin, disgrace, and mortality. The Kingdom of God is based on Faith or revelation in His Word, which can only be received by those born again. All must enter the one Door called "JESUS," come to Him for Light and acknowledge Him as LORD. This Kingdom comes not with observation for it is that unseen dimension of faith that grows within your soul and displayed in a life lived by a clear understanding of the Word for your day. This is the evidence of heavenly citizenship.

Paul said, "He that built all things is God . . . with Jesus Christ the Chief Corner stone, we the elect stones are built up into a holy Temple in the Lord" (Hebrews 3:4; Ephesians 2:20-22). The kingdom of Satan on the other hand is typified early in Scripture by Cain who rejected revelation, killed his brother and went out of the presence of God to build a city of his own. Unlike the tents of Seth, Cain's city was outwardly ostentatious, founded on the evil works of its ultimate ruler who comes to steal, kill and destroy. Masses of this world's citizens pant after ten minutes in the illusion of Satan's temporal kingdom built upon lust, violence, misery and sinful passions. But since it is not established on the Word of God it cannot endure and bears the seed of its own destruction with all of his subjects in the Lake of Fire.

When Satan offered Jesus the kingdoms of this world, our Lord was not tempted, knowing He was heir to all things, and in the proper time reign as King of kings over a glorious domain where neither sin, death nor any offense can enter. That Kingdom was seen in visions symbolizing its various stages of development. Daniel saw it as a Stone cut without hand that grew into a mountain that filled the whole earth. This Kingdom cannot be shaken and will not pass away. Since the fall, all of Adam's race has awaited the momentous occasion when our Kinsman Redeemer would regain the Original Title Deed of all that Adam forfeited and restore His creation to glorious perfection.

Jesus Messiah satisfied God's requirements when He paid redemption's price at Calvary. And before ascending to heaven to begin His ministry as mediator in the office of Son of God, spent forty days on the earth. His resurrection from the dead ought to have inflamed faith and a sacred joy in the hearts of those early believers. yet before the Holy Fire and mighty rushing wind swept them into that Pentecostal experience, they struggled with issues that had to be purged from their minds. Reaching the sepulchre with spices to anoint the Lord's body, the women saw two men in shining garments who asked, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?' He is not here but is risen: remember how He spoke when He was yet in Galilee, saying, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified and rise again the third day? And they remembered His Words" (Luke 24:1-8). With gladness and astonishment the women hastened from the tomb to bring these glad tidings to the disciples.

However His disciples were in a somber mood and believed not the joyous tidings of His resurrection but regarded the words of the women as "idle tales" (Luke 24:11), a condition that prevailed. Scripture records Peter saying, "I'll go back to fishing," so there was considerable misunderstanding as to what was really going on. Later that evening Cleophas and another brother were heading home to Emmaus, and as they communed and reasoned among themselves Jesus HIMSELF drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were holden and they could not recognize Him. Jesus applied the 'Word Test,' asking why they were so disheartened? Luke 24:17-24 tells us how the women witnessed that the Lord's body was no longer in the tomb "and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done." The one thing that should have dispelled all doubt and raised in them an earnest expectation of meeting their risen Lord, troubled and caused them grief.

Then without identifying Himself, Jesus upbraided their unbelief, calling them "fools and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have spoken; affirming that Christ ought to have suffered all the things they acknowledged, and then enter into His glory. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself" (Luke 24:25-27). That evening when He was revealed in the breaking of bread and their eyes were opened and they knew Him. May God bless the Bread of Life and as it is broken yet again, and our eyes are opened to see the Jesus.

Lest we point the finger at the scepticism of some early followers of this Message, a similar unscriptural belief prevails in certain quarters today. In the greatest and most triumphant time in the life of the elect Church, a homogenous lukewarm Laodicean spirit, clings like the oily tar and toxic sludge from the Gulf of Mexico to many who claim to be Bride. However, neither hopeful optimism nor religious psychology can put one in the rapture. Reciting the Scriptures and quoting the prophet is fine, but if all it takes to attain the body change and translate the Body of Christ to the Wedding Supper and to the millennium was to recite as wonderful a Scripture as John 3:16; God would have had no need to send Paul, the reformers and an end time prophet "to turn them from darkness to Light" in each of the Seven Church Ages.

Jesus' own resurrection was realized by a definitive understanding of the Scriptures pertaining to Him. And He exercised an unprecedented measure of faith that ensured His soul did not remain in sheol, or His body see corruption. Similarly, no believer in this hour will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the Air because they really hope God will have pity and just take them up, or because they believe the purpose of 'The Message' is to announce that God sent a prophet at the end time. Our change and journey to the sixth dimension will take place in the midst of the greatest troubles on earth. Like Jesus, we'll have to possess perfect understanding of that Word, and know what to do with It. We'll share the testimony of Enoch that "we please God," and nothing will be able to hold us back—not gravity, and certainly not death.

There are many indications in the news of the lateness of the hour and the darkness in men's heart. But when not even "The Second Coming of Christ as a thief in the night" can fire sufficient excitement and enthusiasm to pierce the spirit of Laodicea over some in the circle of this Message who are supposed to believe the Bible, "Ichabod" is written all over them and the glory has departed. Recently I spoke with a denominational minister concerning the "Coming" of the Lord, who said he hoped this would not be too soon as it would spoil his plans of starting a new church, while a man who claims to follow this Message said that in order to avoid the horrors of the coming shaking, he hopes to die before the earthquake sinks Los Angeles. As in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, our focus will not be on seed that fell by the wayside, neither that which fell on stony ground, nor those that were choked by the deceitfulness of riches and the cares of this life. Our focus will be on seed that fell on the good ground of a true and honest heart, which, having heard the Word of God and truly understood the mysteries Jesus said were given for them to know, brought forth fruit to perfection.

Years ago when I heard Brother Branham say Jesus spoke of the "Seals of Revelations" in the Gospels, it shook me because up to that time I had never imagined that those great hidden mysteries were in the Gospels. Like those first disciples my eyes were "holden" and I had not recognized the blessed Christ of glory, though Jesus Himself was there fully revealed. But thank God according to His Grace and the good pleasure of His will He has revealed Jesus through the simplicity of His Word.

In his sermon on the First Seal, Brother Branham emphasized several points essential to attaining a clear understanding of the revelation hidden under the symbols John saw. I would like to look into some of those things for our edification, with reference to that particular sermon.

One of the first thoughts he expresses has to do with Godhead and the person of God. Brother Branham said, "Now, as we study this chapter we are referring different places even to Old and New Testament alike, because the entire Book is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." That's altogether the revelation of the Lord Jesus: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." It's God revealing Himself in the Book, revealing Himself through Christ in the Book. And Christ is the revelation of God. He come to reveal God, because He and God were the same. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself".

In other wise, you'd never knowed just what God was until He revealed Himself through Christ; then you can see. I used to think years ago that maybe God was angry with me, but Christ loved me. Come to find out, it's the same Person. See? And Christ is the very heart of God" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 118:7 – 119:3).

Another subject of absolute importance is the rapture. Too many have not cleansed their souls of denominational errors and still see the rapture like the Adventist and other Evangelical and Pentecostal groups. They believe Gabriel will make a grand appearance in the skies one of these days, sound his trumpet to announce to the world the second Coming of Jesus, and the rapture will suddenly take place with Christians popping out of homes and cars or work places, floating up to meet the Lord like helium balloons, or something on that order. The Prophet warned that you'll end up in the tribulation wondering, "Should not the rapture have happened first?" Let's hear what he said.

"Now, those first three books is the first Seven Church Ages, and then we find out in the fourth chapter of Revelations John is caught up. See? We see the churches . . . There's not too much said about the Church Ages. There's where I think that people are going to be so surprised. They're applying the Church way over into the tribulation to those things that's a-happened. And as I said Sunday (yesterday), "The first thing you know those tribulations will break in, and you'll wonder why was not the first Coming was the rapture. And it'll be as it has been; it's passed and you didn't know it" (ibid. p. 119:4).

The rapture has been confused with the translation of saints in some of his sermons because the letter of the prophet's word was taken without the Spirit. However, in his December 4, 1965 sermon entitled "The Rapture," Brother Branham clearly states that his understanding on the rapture was different from what other preachers believed and that the rapture is a REVELATION. It is the supreme revelation of the fullness of the Word that catches our souls up in the Spirit into the Lord's Day as typed by John in Revelation 4:1, for in Revelation 22 he is still on the Isle of Patmos. That three-fold process Paul mentions in I Thessalonians 4:16 encompasses the midnight cry of Matthew 25:6 and the Voice of the Archangel in intimate communion with the Bride, confirming the Message from Genesis to Revelation, and very soon the Trump of God that will break the half-hour silence in heaven and shake heaven and earth, calling the first resurrection—all three constitute the rapture.

One of the greatest miracles of all time, the rapture has been in process for the last 47 years. It is not a public show like the Prophet's miraculous ministry in Laodicea, but rest assured believers with lame feet and twisted ankles have been strengthened and are walking and leaping and praising God; troubled hearts are healed, ears that were dull of hearing due to denominational wax now hear the Voice of the Bridegroom; those who were blind now see the revelation, while once malnourished souls now drink from the river of water of Life and feed from the storehouse of Spiritual food towering like Joseph's granaries in Egypt. Brother Branham's theme song, "Only Believe," was not simply for the healing of cancers or toothaches—my brother and sister, it is to take us out of here.

Everything the prophet said was predestinated by the Spirit to sweep away man-made interpretations and do-it-yourself theology presuming to figure out the meaning of God's Word. As in the Alpha Age when Jesus proclaimed He would build His Church on spiritual revelation from the Father, revelation by the Holy Spirit is the absolute "must have" in this Omega or Capstone Age of the end-time Bride that follows the sealing of the Church. This is made clear where our prophet said:

"And now, the Lamb is standing now tonight as we enter into this sixth chapter; He's got the Book in His hand and starting to reveal it. And, oh, I would've absolutely today . . . And I hope that people are spiritual. I would've had a horrible mistake on that if it hadn't been about twelve o'clock today when the Holy Spirit came in the room and corrected me on something that I was writing down to say. I was taking it from an old context. I had nothing on it. I don't know what the Second Seal is no more than nothing, but I'd got some old contexts of something that I'd spoke on several years ago and wrote it down, and I'd gathered this context . . . And Dr. Smith, many great outstanding teachers that I'd gathered, and all of them believed that, so I'd wrote it down. And I was fixing to say, "Well, now I'll study it from that standpoint." And there about twelve o'clock in the day the Holy Spirit just swept right down into the room, and the whole thing just opened up to me, and there it was . . . of this First Seal being opened" (ibid. p. 122:2-3).

O bless the Lord! Do you see that? Brother Branham was a covenant prophet of a caliber and calling like none the world has seen since Enoch. His prophetic gift and discernment were mightily attested by all in his phenomenal ministry. Yet he said he would have made a horrible mistake EXCEPT the Holy Spirit came to him and CORRECTED him. That should serve as the ultimate warning for all who would presume to know the mind of God. We must wait upon the Lord to reveal Himself as He places His Voice in those He has ordained to rule and feed His flock. Matthew 16:13-24 well bears out this marvelous story.

"When Jesus came to the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say you are John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He said to them, But whom do you say that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and said, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not REVEALED this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I say to you, That you are Peter, and UPON THIS ROCK I will build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".

"The Lord gave him the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, the great authority to bind or loose things on earth and it would be honoured in heaven. He charged His disciples that they should tell no man that He was Jesus the Christ and began to show them how He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. . . Then Peter began to remonstrate with Him, saying, Heaven forbid! This will never happen to you, Lord. But Jesus turned, and told Peter, Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me: for you are thinking merely from a human viewpoint, not seeing God's perspective. Then Jesus said to His disciples, If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me".

We have to deny our own reasoning and intellectual capabilities and receive the kingdom as little children, because our Adversary is always on the attack, trying to displace faith with some kind of humanistic reasoning. The Bible also said, "In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for it seemed good in Your sight".

How can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? We can't neglect this under any circumstances. God is faithful and able to bring to pass all He has promised. And we have the Scriptural promise that He who has begun a good work in you will carry it through to the end. Amen! And remember, we cannot have double speak or double mindedness where the Word of God is concerned.

"And if they heard the Truth and rejected the Truth, then what's going to be said when the big thing's spread across the canvas when even your own thoughts will be there, what you thought about it. How you going to escape, and it right there on the canvas of the skies; and God's great television and there's your own thoughts rebelling right . . . Your own thoughts will speak against you in that hour.

So if you speak one thing and think another, you better stop that. Get your thoughts on God. Keep them pure, and stay right there with it, and speak the same thing all the time. See? Don't say, "Well, I'll say I'll believe it; but I'll go find out." You believe it. Amen" (ibid. p. 134:2b-3).

Who among us could ever afford not to possess rapturing faith and be clothed in the fine linen of the righteousness of saints at the first resurrection? God's Word is faithful and true. It accomplishes all He has sent it to do. So what will hinder the righteous judgments that have been in store for this wicked and adulterous generation?

"Then all the judgments of these evil doers . . . Now, see, down through the Ages as these Seals has been breaking, until now the last Seal is broken. And now, as they have been watching in on these Seals and just presuming what they were doing, now at the end of the Ages, of the Church Ages, all these evil doers will take place and head up in the tribulation.

All of these evil doers of the Seven Seals has been working mysterious in the church, and we'll find out in a minute, they even work in the name of a church. They call themselves the church. You just see if that isn't right. No wonder I have been so against denomination, not knowing why. See, see?

They end up . . . Now, it starts back here in a mild form, just keeps getting worse and worse, on down until. . . And people go right into it, saying, "Oh, yes, this is just fine." But in the last days these things are made known. And they finally go so bad until they go plumb into the tribulation period' (ibid. p. 128:4-6).

Such is the awful price of tampering with the Word of God. No one can add to or take away from its holy precepts. And that thought is repeated, clear warning is given.

"Don't Jesus speak the same thing when He said the sound come in the seventh watch? That's the last Church Age. See? And said, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go out to meet Him."

"And then the sleeping virgin come, rubbed her eyes, and said, "Suppose I ought to have some of that oil too; so maybe we'd better have some."

And the real true Bride standing there said, "We have just got enough for ourself. We just got enough to get in ourself. We can't give you nothing. If you want some, you go pray up.'

And while she was gone, the Bridegroom come (See?), and in went the Bride. And then them remnant there, the ones that were absolutely virtuous, the church was left outside. And He said, "There will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. . . "

All right. Notice, the rest of the dead, church members, lived not again until one thousand years was passed. The church members, the Christians, the church lived not again until the end of the thousand years, and then they come forth to stand before the Bride (That's right), stand before the King and the Queen. Glory" (ibid. p. 132:2-7).

My brothers and sisters, to miss the Wedding Supper and spend that glorious thousand year honeymoon in the dust awaiting the second resurrection would be a tragedy raised to the 4th power. The sweetness and shear bliss of being in the presence of one saint, filled with the Spirit on this side of Eden could lift your soul to heights of glory that make living daily for Christ a blessing. Can you imagine being caught up into the august Presence of the Lord, His resplendent glory radiating out upon His people, resurrected saints on every hand, in bodies like His own glorious body? This prospect has to be more wonderful, exceeding all we can ask or think. Contemplate that joyous refrain singing the sweet songs of Zion? Jesus pronounced the blessing on "he who has part in the First Resurrection, on such the second death has no power." What's more, everything that's needed to place us in the rapture is right here in the revealed Word.

"And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those Seven Thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth, and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written" (ibid. p. 128:3).

Brother Branham's early ministry was during the Great Depression, and we are now experiencing a worldwide recession that will shortly eclipse the Great Depression of 1929. This certain prospect and many other Scriptural signs are now a reality exactly as prophesied, so we have to redeem every moment. Heed the terse admonition of a man who preached the full counsel of God, telling us all he possibly could to get the Bride in order.

"What am I trying to say? I'm not trying to scare you, worry you. I want you to be on your toes. Be ready, watching, every minute. Quit your nonsense. Just get down to business with God, 'cause it's later than you think.

Did I hear an "amen?" Praise God, for it is later than we think.

Even in the affairs of men, a seal, as in a sealed document, speaks of one marked with or certified authentic that makes it safe and secure and cannot be tampered with. It can only be opened by breaking or tearing the seal, by the person it is addressed to. We have many references to "seals" in the Bible and "sealed" Books or documents:

For example in Isaiah 29:11 we read, "The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is learned, saying, Please read this, he will say, I cannot, for it is sealed."

And in Jeremiah 32:14, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may last a long time".

Again in Daniel 12:4: "But as for you, Daniel, shut up the Words and seal up the Book until the end of time; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased".

The use of seals began at a time when writing was not common, but when every person of means possessed a coat-of-arms or other distinctive device. Great significance was attached to the use of seals as a means of distinguishing persons. With the spread of education, a person's signature on an instrument replaced the seal, but in heaven the seal has retained its former dignity, God having placed greatest significance on its opening at the most strategic season, the time of the end.

We have seen in the Bible and in Newsletters #635 and #636, this Book which is the Original Title Deed forfeited by the first Adam, is in the right hand of Him that sat on the Throne. From before the foundation of the world it was most highly guarded, and kept safe in the repository of heaven. Perfectly sealed and under greatest secrecy, there was absolutely no possibility of human interpretation. The opening of the Book then was one of the greatest events in heaven.

"And I saw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a Book written within and on the backside, sealed with Seven Seals. And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the Book, and to loose the Seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the Book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the Book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders said to me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the Seven Seals thereof".

Not only did no one know what was contained in its sacred scrolls, no man was worthy even to take the Book or to look thereon. I think of John the Baptist, that great messenger and forerunner of the first Coming, of whom Jesus testified, "Of men born of women, none was greater than John." Yet speaking of Jesus John said, "there is One coming, who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose".

"No man in heaven, in the earth or under the earth, was worthy to even look on the Book." O Lord! No wonder John wept much when the advertisement was first made. We get a picture here of the true sense of this intense sacred drama of redemption that was unfolding in heaven at that time. "But one of the Elders said, Weep not John, behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the Book and loose the Seven Seals thereof." Hallelujah! The suspense broke and rapturous worship and praise erupted spontaneously. Then, from out of the midst of the throne ONE came forth to take the Book and loose the Seven Seals. He was the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world. Glory! Glory! Glory!

Revelation 6:1-2: "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the Seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four living creatures said, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."

The Seals were opened with a mighty blast of thunder. The Voice that spoke on earth and shook this planet from a cross on mount Calvary insomuch that the rocks rent and the graves were opened, has thundered once again, this time from heaven. The rocks will again rent and Earth quake when the shaking of this Voice is complete in this hour, and both heaven and earth as we know them will pass away.

As the legal Owner He holds the Title Deed open in His hand, placing judgment on Roman beast from the sea and the Protestant beast from the Earth, asserting with a loud Voice His absolute Sovereignty.

In response, Seven Thunders utter their voices, echoing God's assent to His royal decree, distinctly revealing the mystery of how He redeemed Adam's righteous sons that constitute His Kingdom; who they are, their rank and station in the Kingdom, and how He will restore Earth to Edenic perfection and splendour. This alone, the revelation of the Voices of the Seven Thunders and the symbols under the Seals was the Message of the seventh angel.

Yet John did not hear the Lamb speak or preach the Word as he did in His earthly ministry; instead he heard one of the living creatures, a mighty throne guard saying, "Come and see" and when he looked, he saw the symbols that represent the mystery of that Seal.

Brother Branham said, "Talk about a jubilee, talk about a time when that Lamb walked forth . . . See, the Book's even sealed in heaven, the mysteries are. Say, "Is my name there?" I don't know; I hope it is. But if it is, it was put on the Book before the foundation of the world. But the first thing that represented that redemption, come the Lamb that had been slain from the foundation of the world. And He took the Book (Glory!) opened the Book, and tore off the Seals, and sent it down to the earth to His seventh angel to reveal it to His people. There you are. Oh, my, what happened? The screams, the shouts, the hallelujahs, hosannas, the glories, the manifestations . . ." (ibid. p. 111:7).

There you are indeed. All those smart preachers and teachers who figured they had a scholastic edge over the prophet and what they considered his theologically unsound preaching and poor grammar, dismissed him as the messenger of God. Well the 'Ha' is on them and those whose names have been blotted from the Book will learn to their utter loss what it is to be cast into outer darkness. The Lamb tore the Seals, opened the Book, and carried it down to earth for His seventh angel to reveal to His people. Let's say Amen and shout hallelujah again. "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets".

It is so wonderful how God set His program and the ways He would fulfil His Word. It thins down the flock, you see, as only elected predestined seed can see the wisdom of His purpose and give the glory and worship due to His Name. Did not Paul in Acts 13 say, "Behold you despisers, and wonder and perish; behold I work a work in your day, a work you shall in no wise believe though a MAN declare it to you?"

Here is something very precious especially for younger believers and subscribers to this Newsletter. It's found in the morning service of "The Spoken Word is the Original Seed" (p. 6:2), we have a marvelous formula if you will, for studying the Message:

"And then, if there be any questions that you don't understand, I ask you to bring your books, and then you who have tape recorders can get the tapes, and put them in your home, and set down with an open heart—just an open heart. Just lay it out and say, "Lord, I've just relaxed now; I'm going to listen"; and then when you catch something, turn the recorder off and go get the Scripture. And the Bible said, Jesus said, "They are they that testify of Me." See? And let's look through the Scripture and see if it's all right."

And when we do go to the Scripture, the Word is right there for us. Revelation 10:7, "In the days of the Voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets".

Jesus told the disciples in that day that many great men and sages desired to see the things they saw but did not. Paul spoke of the mystery in Colossians 1:26-27, "Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory".

What an honour it is to see these things, and not "through a glass darkly but face to face" by virtue of the prophet's Message.

Here is where the seventh angel began to expound:

"Here's the plan of it: The first thing happens, there is an announcement in the heavens first. What happened? A Seal is opened. What is that? A mystery is unfolded. See? And when a mystery unfolds, then a trumpet sounds. It declares a war. Or a plague falls, and a Church Age opened. See? What is the war part? The angel of the Church catches the mystery of God, not fully yet revealed, but when he does, he catches this mystery of God, and then he goes forth to the people (after the mystery has been given to him), goes forth to the people. What does he do out there? He begins to proclaim that Message, and what does it start? A war, a Spiritual war. And then God takes His messenger with the elect of that Age, and lays them away asleep, and then He drops a plague upon them who rejected it: a temporary judgment. And then, after that is over, then he goes on, and they denominate, and bring in denominations, and start off with that man's work like of Wesley and all the rest of them, and then it gets all in a scrapple again; and then another mystery comes forth. Then what happens? Another messenger arrives on earth for a Church Age. See? Then when he arrives, the Trumpet sounds. He declares war. See? And then what happens? Finally then he's caught away. And then when he's laid away, then plague falls destroys them. Spiritual death hits the church and she's gone, that group. Then He goes on to another one. Oh, it's a great plan until it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no certain mystery, but he gathers up all that's been lost in them other Ages, all the truths that wasn't truly revealed yet (See?), as the revelation come. Then he reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is: Revelation 10:1-4 you get it? All right" (ibid p. 126:4 -127:3).

"Trumpets speaks of political disturbance: wars. Matthew 24, Jesus spoke of it. He said, "You'll hear of wars and rumors of war . . ."

The First Seal of Revelation is also found in Matthew 24:4-5 where Jesus warned His disciples, "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." Such is "the mystery of Iniquity" working within the framework of the Church. That is exactly what the Prophet revealed in the First Seal. That White Horse Rider was not Christ as so many eminent theologians sincerely but erroneously teach. At the first they could not know as the Book was sealed, but afterwards, when Christ had opened the Book and revealed its mystery through His Prophet, they were deceived, not believing him whom God had sent. Brother Branham left no stone unturned in revealing this mystery.

"Notice, the mystery. He's coming, riding . . . There's got to be something to change this Church, you know that. There's got to be something. Notice. No man knowed but Himself. Now, notice, no man knowed but Hisself.

"And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His Name was called The Word of God. (Oh, notice). And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He had on His vesture and on His thigh a Name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS".

There comes the Messiah. There He is, not this fellow on this horse back here. Watch the different. Here He stands with the Book in His hand here. The redemptive work is just . . . He hasn't took His place yet.

So it was not the Christ that went forth, the Holy Spirit. Not disagreeing with them great men, no, sir, I don't do it. I wouldn't want to do that, but this is what my revelation of it is. See, if you got something different, well, that's all right, but it ain't all right with me. See, I believe it this way; you know what. See?

And notice, Christ is not seen any more (See?) from the time there. But He is on a white horse; so if this guy is riding a white horse, he's only an impersonator of Christ. See? Get that? Notice, the rider on the white horse don't have any name. He might use two or three titles, but he hasn't got any name. But Christ has a Name. What is it? The Word of God. That's what it is. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word made flesh. See?

The rider has no name, but Christ is called the Word of God. That's what He is. He's called that. Now, He's got a Name that no man knows, but He's called the Word of God. This guy isn't called nothing (See?), but he's on a white horse.

The rider has no arrows for his bow. Did you notice? He had a bow, but there's nothing said about having any arrows; so he must be a bluffer. That's right. Maybe he's got a lot of thunder and no lightning, but you find out Christ had both lightning and thunder; for out of His mouth goes a sharp two-edged Sword, and He smites the nations. And this guy can't smite nothing (See?), but he's playing the part of a hypocrite. He's going forth riding on a white horse, going out to conquer.

Christ has a sharp Sword, and watch. It comes from His mouth—the living Word. That's the Word of God revealed to His servants, like He said to Moses: "Go, stand there and hold that stick out yonder, call for flies," and there was flies. Sure. Whatever He said, He done it, and it come to pass. His living Word. . . God and His Word is the self same Person. God is the Word.

Who is this mysterious rider of the first Church Age then? Who is he? Let's think of it. Who is this mysterious rider that starts forth in the first Church Age and rides plumb on out into eternity, goes to the end.

A white horse rider went out. See? Who is he? He's mighty in his conquering power, is a great fellow in his conquering power. You want me to tell you who he is? He's the antichrist. That's exactly what he is.

Now, because, you see, if an antichrist. . . Jesus said that the two would be so close together until it would deceive the very elected, the Bride, if it was possible. Antichrist, it's the antichrist spirit.

Notice, when Nicolaitia (See?), antichrist is finally. . . He's incarnate in a man; then he's crowned. When he starts off as a Nicolaitia spirit in the church, he's a spirit. You can't crown a spirit. But three hundred years later he become a pope. And then they crowned him. He had no crown to start with, but he got a crown later (See?), when that spirit become incarnate. See? He become a man. Nicolaitane doctrine become a man; then they could crown it. They couldn't do it because he was just a doctrine. Glory.

Notice, and when this Holy Spirit that we have, becomes incarnate to us, the One that's in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ, we'll crown Him King of kings . . . ? . . . That's right. See" (ibid. p. 161:5)?

Satan began his incarnation from the antichrist spirit to the false prophet back when the church was still primarily Jewish. Very soon at the Seventh Trump and close of the Gentile dispensation he will be cast out of the heavens and incarnate the Pope of Rome to rule the first stage of the New World Order. The squeeze will come down heavily and after a short but powerful ministry we who are alive and remain will be changed in the atoms and be caught up to meet the Lord with all our New Testament brethren.

This is war my brother or sister, and the Devil is taking a beating because revelation by the Holy Spirit renders Him powerless. The only people who would not rejoice in this mighty showdown are those on the Enemy's losing side. That white horse rider was Satan and He has fooled men for a long time into believing he is the Christ. But under the First Seal, Jesus blew His cover and exposed his plans which are to build a New World Order: "Mystery, Babylon the Great, a cage of every unclean and hateful bird—ruled by a priest-king—an incarnate pope of Rome worshipped by all whose names are not in the Lamb's Book of Life" (Revelation 13:1-8; 18:2).

Satan attempted his plan many times under Old Testament. After deceiving Eve and polluting the human race, he built his prototype kingdom in Babel, where his ancient priest-king Nimrod ordered secular and religious affairs, but God scattered that unregenerate rabble at the Tower. Then he build Great Babylon which became his earthly seat and the first of four Gentile world empires. But as we read in the Church Ages, Satan's seat relocated to Pergamos. Finally all the sin and uncleanness, wickedness and iniquity accumulated since the Fall became concentrated in a universal church empire called "Mystery, Babylon the Great." Like the Kingdom of God it rules from within—not from the heart by faith—but from the head by intellectual reasoning against the revealed Word.

This is consummate revelation, nothing can escape Him who has eyes like a flame of Fire. God has revealed all the subtle moves and nuances Satan employs, so it is not possible for him to deceive the elect. By divine revelation the Holy Spirit frees us from the creeds, dogma and rituals of the Judeo-Roman Catholic church, her once Protestant daughters and the lewdness of Talmudic Judaism.

Since Satan does not change his spots, his motives at the end-time are what they were in Genesis—to disarm believers by disinformation and misinformation. As TRUTH sets God's people free, propaganda and deceit enslaves his people, and God will visit those surrendered to Satan's power with a strong delusion, making them believe Satan's lie and be damned by it (II Thessalonians 2:1-12).

Stay away from the trickery of the wild untamable beast, everything in His kingdom ends in death. When the Devil-incarnate Serpent approached Eve, he did not deny God's Word, he was 99.9% on the Word, enticing the woman with that 0.01% of added knowledge. "You'll be wise, you'll be the first with a PhD in education. Oh, you'll be like God too; and since God is so loving and cuddly, you will not surely die if you add just one word to what He has said in order to follow this illuminated path and fulfill His command to "multiply and fill the earth." Satan acted as God's high priest and proceeded to impart knowledge God had not revealed to His prophet Son Adam. Aside from adding the three letter word "not" to what God had said, he quoted Him faithfully. But as the Prophet taught us, one word off is the kingdom of Satan, and Death.

We find the same admonition in II Thessalonians 2:1-3, "Regarding the 'parousia' Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we beg you, brethren, don't become unsettled in your minds, or anxious by some pretended revelation of the Spirit, by word, or by letter allegedly from us implying that the day of the Lord has already arrived. Let no man deceive you in any way: for that day shall not come, unless there is an apostasy first, and that man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition" (I Timothy 4:1).

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, and since all the New Testament speaks of THIS HOUR, that prophecy was especially given for THIS DAY.

Let No Man Deceive You! Under the First Seal the controversy about the Name of God was once and for all time also settled. It was not JVHU or Jehovah or anything the scholars came up with. In this dispensation it is Lord Jesus Christ, that glorious Name from whom the whole Family in heaven and earth is named. And as a Bride takes the name of her husband the Name of Christ's Bride is Mrs. Lord Jesus Christ.

Let No Man Deceive You! The money is gone the world is bankrupt. The bailouts for US banks and European countries is all part of the strong delusion to entrap sinners. Our Lord long ago admonished us to lay up our treasure in heaven where thieves cannot break in and steal and moth cannot corrupt. Here on earth under the leadership of 'the City,' thieves run the Fed and World Central Banks who leach the value out of currencies and impoverish nations. The Prophet foretold a depression that will be far worse that the Great Depression engineered by the international banksters. Its onset has been front page news for two years, and recovery is not imminent. The meltdown has not yet begun in earnest.

The Prophet has gone, there is no other Message to come. We can't go back to fishing or any of our chosen pastimes. We must hold to God's unchanging Word. Christ revealed God's Absolute in the revelation of the Seals, which will take us through the remaining moments of time as we know it and into eternity. The process has begun (Revelation 4:1). The Lord will reveal more and more of Himself in the eternal age to come as His elect feed directly from the Tree of Life.

That Something required to change the people of God has been with us for the last 47 years. It is the Presence of Him who has "healing in His wings," who imparts "the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Himself to enlighten the eyes of our understanding so we may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and how overwhelmingly great is His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power" (Malachi 4:2, Ephesians 1:17-19). nl639.htm


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Bible Believers' Newsletter #638
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.

This week's news items demonstrate how our Hegelian controlled party political pseudo-democratic systems have usurped governments, even presidencies, from citizens to aliens, oligarchs and plutocrats. Our main article presents the revelation of the First Seal and follows the exposition of our Lord through His Prophet, William Branham.

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


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FEMA: Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Area in Place?
June 27, 2010 — FEMA has plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay, according to a report by Maryann Tobin in the Hernando County Political Buzz Examiner. . . Full story: salem-news.com

As you know, the oil leaks in the Gulf have sent underwater plumes of toxic crude with benzene, hydrogen sulfide and methane in it to our coasts. This crude is made aromatic by even more toxic Corexit dispersants so that it evaporates and blows ashore, rains ashore, or can be dropped ashore by hurricanes. Health hazards from crude oil include contamination of drinking water and the possible evacuation of residents of the Gulf Coast. Full story: sciencecorps.org

We have found out from police and military insiders that martial law and evacuations are planned by the government when the toxic and explosive gases from these plumes on the coast reach 14% in the atmosphere. Last I knew, this had already reached 6%-7% in southeast Louisiana and has made many sick. Their worst case projection for the 14% saturation on the Gulf coast was June 15-20, and on the East coast July 1-10. I doubt that this will happen by then but the military is constantly checking the saturation rate along the coast and they don't tell us what it is. For some time the Lord, Who is in control of the winds, had been sending them from the north and kept the crude and Corexit smell mostly off the Florida coast. A few days ago, I smelled it as I walked around a few blocks, then didn't smell it anymore. I thought I was imagining things until I felt the crud in my chest the next day. The lack of smell could have been the hydrogen sulfide working. Many have not smelled it here but some are having all the symptoms of it: headaches, nausea, coughing, congestion, weakness/tiredness, etc., Full story: tribulation-now.com; youtube.comPart II.

New Orleans independent geologist Jack M. Reed believes the origin of earthquakes along the New Madrid seismic zone lie beneath the Gulf of Mexico. The New Madrid Fault extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes (click on image to enlarge). A retired Texaco geologist-geophysicist who has been studying the region's geology for over 40 years, Reed says the accepted theory of a quiet geologic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin is fundamentally flawed and needs to be revised. According to him, the Gulf was and is tectonically active—and is the likely origin for not only the New Madrid seismic activity, but also for the Middleton Place-Summerville seismic zone near Charleston, S.C. There is an apparent connection of the New Madrid seismic zone with the Gulf rift features to the south. This northeast trending earthquake zone appears to connect with the northeast trending Monroe Uplift, the La Salle Arch and, possibly, to an active seismic zone located in and around Sabine Lake on the Texas-Louisiana border. . . If the New Madrid seismic zone is indeed part of a triple juncture, he continued, there should be an expression of this limb trending along a line in a northeast direction. . ."

"This entire zone through the United States is suffering some type of tectonic activity that I believe is tied to the deeply buried tectonics in the Gulf of Mexico. . . The earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone and other locations along the theorized rift zone that cuts across the United States as well as the Middleton Place-Summerville seismic zone in South Carolina are tied to the tectonic movement in the Gulf of Mexico Basin," he said.

So, the obvious question for Reed is, what's the exploration potential of this rift zone that cuts through North America? "Not much," Reed conceded. "However, if you want waterfront property you should buy land around Indianapolis. In a couple of million years this acreage could be overlooking the Strait of America that separates western (and) eastern America"! Full story: aapg.org

Comment: Brother Branham said, when Los Angeles sinks, "waves will shoot plumb out to the state of Kentucky. And when it does, it'll shake the world so hard that everything on top of it will shake down" (A Thinking Man's Filter, p. 25:145). This seems to indicate the San Andreas Fault might trigger activity along the New Madrid Fault. Furthermore he said, "here on the [Florida] coast, which we know will someday go beneath the ocean, and there won't be a stone left upon another" (Christ is Identified the Same, #64-0415). The map shows a faultline runs from the La Salle Arch beneath the New Madrid Fault in the Gulf, cuts through Florida and continues to Charleston in South Carolina. See Newsletters #nl212, #245,#392, and #394 in which links refer to warnings by British, Russian and US scientists in 2005 that the Great Lakes are heating up and the New Madrid fault is "coiling up like a spring—at a rate comparable to the San Andreas Fault." Also see, #420.

Interestingly, the Russian scientists observed that the Atlantic sea bed is rising, and Mr. Reed observed "doming" in the New Madrid seismic region and in the Gulf into which BP has drilled. Should the US deploy a bomb to seal the oil flow, could it excite the New Madrid Fault? Authorities were well-aware of seismic forces and geological anomalies in the Gulf and their utility in a 'false flag' op.

"US Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones remembers attending an emergency training session in August 2001 with the Federal Emergency Management Agency that discussed the three most likely catastrophes to strike the United States. First on the list was a terrorist attack in New York. Second was a super-strength hurricane hitting New Orleans. Third was a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault."

"Now that the first two have come to pass, she and other earthquake experts are using the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to reassess how California would handle a major temblor" (latimes.com).

Two out of three. 'Well-connected' and prescient, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) who 'handled' the 9/11 report and Hurricane Katrina, is always ahead of the game with over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. All are staffed and surrounded by full-time guards, and all are empty. F.D. Roosevelt assured us that "If something happens in politics, you can bet [that in this wicked and adulterous generation] it was planned that way".


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How I wish I was Wrong
June 25, 2010 — Those who determine every step of the worst enemy of humanity—United States imperialism, a mixture of ignoble material interests, disdain and underestimation for other people inhabiting the planet—have calculated everything with mathematical precision. . .

Fanaticism for sport is growing incessantly, captivating hundreds or millions and possibly billions of people all over the planet. On the other hand, one would have to ask how many of them know that, since June 20, US military vessels, including the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, escorted by one or more nuclear submarines and other warships with missiles and cannons that are more powerful that those of the old battleships utilized in the last world war from 1939 to 1945, have been navigating toward Iranian coasts via the Suez Canal.

The yanki naval forces are accompanied by Israeli military boats, with equally sophisticated armaments, to inspect every vessel that leaves to export and import commercial products required for the functioning of the Iranian economy. . . Today, in 2010, after 31 years, both the United States and Israel are underestimating the one million soldiers in the Iranian Armed Forces and their capacity for fighting on land, and the air, sea and land forces of the Revolutionary Guards.

In addition to these, there are the 20 million men and women, aged from 12 to 60, selected and systematically trained by its diverse military institutions, from out of the 70 million people who inhabit the country. . . Full story: Fidel Castro


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Crisis and whispers
June 11, 2010 — The ultimate aim is to oblige the Europeans to enter into an Atlantic bloc, i.e. an empire where Anglo-American budgetary deficits would be automatically financed through the expedient of a dollarised euro. The agreement concluded between the European Union and the IMF, giving the Fund partial oversight of Union economic policies, is a first step in this direction. . .

By way of a provisionary conclusion, if the EU, facing crisis, advances at forced march towards central economic control, a stage will be reached whereby quasi-discretionary power will be granted to the European Commission—for the most part composed of non-elected technocrats and recruits—for a stainless Atlanticist allegiance. To put it plainly, this will signify the obliteration of the European nation states.

In reality, nothing can prevent the integration of Europe within a trans-Atlantic Bloc. In the end, the merging of the euro with the dollar will accelerate the union of the old world and the new world. This conclusion is evidently not a matter of pure speculation but a simple projection of the architectonic tendencies visibly at work in the framework of a process of redistribution or of geopolitical recomposition of the global map. Sufficient to say that if the euro zone does not break apart, the fate of the European peoples seems definitely sealed, tied for better or worse to the manifest destiny of the United States. And this irrespective of a 'reform' of the global economic system.

The financiers will perhaps get their fingers burnt if the international community agrees to curb their appetites in regulating the markets, but the fact remains that the promoters of constructive chaos will have won this hand as they set out to recreate the conditions for new conflagrations.

The worse case scenario, often evoked in France by such influential men as Bernard Kouchner and Jacque Attali, happens to be the least improbable at a time when governments, backs to the wall, see themselves condemned to fleeing headlong into the unknown. In Kuwait in 1991, in Iraq in 2003 among the thinly disguised objectives of war, the boosting of the economic machinery through plans of reconstruction was high on the list. Not to mention other more flagrant and immediate interests such as fossil fuels, arms sales and all the related industries.

Whatever the accords between Turkey and Iran on uranium enrichment for medical purposes, whatever the related diplomatic annoyance for the State Department, it suffices to re-read the fabulist Jean de la Fontaine to know that the rhetoric of the wolf always prevails over that of the lamb! In a situation of extreme fragility of the global economy, one must await an end to the crisis at the harrowing door of the chaos constructor. . . Full story: voltairenet.org

Comment: Rome and her US image are rising (Daniel 7:23; 9:27; Revelation 13; 17). Rome controls the gold of the world.


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'Black Bloc' as fraudulent as Al Qaeda and G20 SCAM
June 27, 2010 — Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government/media propaganda fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear that the 'Black Bloc' are undercover police operatives engaged in purposeful provocations to eclipse and invalidate legitimate G20 citizen protest by starting a riot. Government agents have been caught doing this before in Canada.

At the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' meeting protests at Montebello Quebec on August 20, 2007, a Quebec union leader caught and outed three masked undercover Quebec Provincial Police operatives dressed as 'black bloc' protestors about to start a riot by throwing rocks at the security police. See the following videos documenting this event. . .

In classic covert counterinsurgency strategy these agents manipulate the group to commit violent acts which play directly into hidden government controllers' hands. These controllers manipulate public opinion from behind the scenes through the commission of false flag acts of violence (these are acts falsely blamed on scapegoats other than those concealed perpetrators who are actually responsible). The psychological operation (psyop) is then accomplished through the propaganda fulminations of the completely controlled and complicit mass media. As in so many similar situations in so many other countries in the past, the goal of this combination of violent acts and lying media propaganda is to invalidate any legitimate citizen protest of the many immoral acts being wreaked upon the peoples of the world by our governments. The techniques of imperial control which have been used so successfully overseas are now being fully deployed against the people at home. Deployed against us. As far as our war-addicted governments are concerned, we are all insurgents now. Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: Image: Canadian undercover Police provacateur inciting riot by destroying and setting Police car aflame this week. The notion the (once) Christian West is "democratic" is absurd; like (once) Great Britain we are pawns of that alien Talmudic golem, the 'City of London'.


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When False Flags won't Fly
April 19, 2010 — Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero. It is at moments like this that the public—still in shock from the horror of the tragedy that has just unfolded before them—can be led into the most ruthless despotism: despotism that now bears the mantle of "security."

Acts of terror and violence never benefit the average man or woman. They only ever benefit those in positions of power. . . The Russians are learning how the FSB was caught planting bombs in Moscow in the 1990s during a terror scare that swept Putin into power and stirred the public into supporting the Second Chechen War. They are learning how their autocratic ex-President came to power campaigning on the graves of those his old FSB cronies had killed.

The Israelis are learning how Mossad has been caught time and again posing as the very Muslim terrorists they claim to be opposing. . . The British are learning how their SAS officers were caught dressing up as Arabs in Iraq, driving around with trucks full of munitions, shooting at police to stir up ethnic tensions and insure that permanent bases could be built in the region. They are learning how Haroon Aswat, the supposed mastermind behind the 7/7 bombings, was working for British Intelligence. . .

The Indians are learning how the Mumbai attack was helped by an US Agent who is cooperating with investigators so that he won't face questioning by foreign authorities.

The Canadians are learning how their own provincial police dressed up as protestors in 2007 and threatened violence against other police in order to force a crackdown on peaceful protests. . . And the Americans are learning that there were multiple bombs found, dismantled and taken out of the Alfred P. Murrah building on April 19, 1995. They are learning that Timothy McVeigh had written a letter to his sister in which he claimed to be in the Special Forces for the US Army. They are learning the bombing was being directed by FBI informants, just as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was. They are learning about 9/11 and the Gulf of Tonkin and Operation Northwoods and their own Army Counterinsurgency Manuals that teach officers how to commit false flag attacks to blame on their enemies.

In short, the people are learning the truth. . . They are not terrorists for pointing out that the FBI and the CIA and Mossad and MI6 are behind every major terrorist event. Full story: corbettreport.com see video .


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General McChrystal misses His Chance
June 27, 2010 — Why didn't General Stanley McChrystal just tell Ol'bummer that he would come back from Afghanistan to the White House as soon as Obama sent McChrystal his (Obama's) birth certificate proving that he (Obama) was an American citizen and therefore rightfully occupying the office of President?

This would have caused a constitutional crisis—but the kind of constitutional crisis we desperately need. . . since Ol'bummer cannot produce his birth certificate, and since he is sitting in the White House, he is being protected by very powerful forces—forces which can control and contain the US Supreme Court, many lower courts, the state government of Hawaii, the five Big TV Networks, and on and on.

The military men, Sheriffs, police chiefs, deputies and policemen exhibit unquestioned PHYSICAL courage. . . What is needed from our nation's military leaders, police chiefs, and Sheriffs—is some MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL COURAGE. They need to speak out against the takeover and take-down of our country NOW. This is where McChrystal missed his chance.

In case they have all missed it, we are under occupation government by the Rothschild/FED/Goldman Sachs banking powers working with the organized Jewish/Israeli Lobby, such as AIPAC, ADL, etc., OL'BUMMER is the current top agent, hit man, and puppet for the Elite behind the FED/Goldman Sachs cabal in their war to take over total control of the USA. Full story: Jim Condit Jr. rollingstone.com

Comment: Council on Foreign Relations founding father Edward Mandel House had set down his political ideas in his book called "Philip Dru: Administrator" in 1912. In this book House laid out a thinly fictionalized plan for conquest of America by establishing "Socialism as dreamed by Karl Marx." He described a "conspiracy," the word is his, which succeeds in electing a US President by means of "deception regarding his real opinions and intentions." Among other things, House wrote that the conspiracy was to insinuate "itself into the primaries, in order that no candidate might be nominated whose views were not in accord with theirs." Elections were to become mere charades conducted for the bedazzlement of the booboisie. The idea was to use both the Democrat and Republican parties as instruments to promote World Government.

In 1919 House met in Paris with members of a British "secret society" called The Round Table in order to form an organization whose job it would be to propagandize the citizens of America, England and Western Europe on the globes of World Government. The big selling point, of course was "peace." The part about the Insiders establishing a world dictatorship quite naturally was left out (Gary Allen, None Dare Call it Conspiracy, Ch. 5, Establishing the Establishment).

Council on Foreign Relations members have unlawfully and knowingly combined, conspired, and agreed to substantially contribute to the establishment of one world order under the direction and the control of members of Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg group and members of their branch organizations in various nations throughout the world. That is totalitarianism on a global scale.


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'Carbon Tax'–Signpost to the New Dark Age
June 29, 2010 — Big governments love carbon taxes. They promise a bountiful political dividend of tax receipts and green votes. Carbon produces heat, light, food and transport for the modern world. A carbon tax will inevitably reduce the production of these essentials—it is a signpost on the road to a new dark age.



The tax harvest will feed the climate change industry, provide eternal corporate welfare for alternate energy speculators, and allow politicians to buy votes with handouts for favoured mendicants.
But a carbon tax will have zero beneficial effect on earth's temperature.
Carbon taxes will be welcomed by the solar/wind lobby. But the world now has plenty of real experiments proving the inability of these follies to generate reliable power at reasonable cost—Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark and California.
Everyone knows that if you tax something, less of it will be produced. Here are the facts:

The Danish wind industry is a strong export industry, and this makes a direct comparison with Obama's plan difficult with regard to actual job creation in the wind industry. It seems highly unlikely that large country's wind industry such as the US—having a population of more than 50 times the population of Denmark—would be able to replicate the Danish share of exports of wind turbine technology. In that way a US expansion is expected to be predominantly domestic, and at the same time the industry is probably going to face foreign competition from companies such as Vestas, Siemens and new low cost producers in countries like India. Based on the Danish experiences with wind power, subsidies to wind need to be significant or corresponding taxes on carbon-based electricity need to be increased substantially. The Danish experience also suggests that a strong US wind expansion would not benefit the overall economy. It would entail substantial costs to the consumer and industry, and only to a lesser degree benefit a small part of the economy, namely wind turbine owners, wind shareholders and those employed in the sector. Full story: cepos.dk iesisenergy.org

Comment: Britain's biggest wind farm companies are to be paid NOT to produce electricity when the wind is blowing. Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per wind farm to turn off their turbines because . . . the 'intermittent' nature of wind makes such farms unreliable providers of electricity. that electricity customers are paying more than £1 billion a year to subsidise wind farms and other forms of renewable energy. Full story: telegraph.co.uk

Slowly but surely an extinct glacier in a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes is being returned to its former colour, not by falling snow or regenerated ice sheets, but by whitewash. . . Mr. Eduardo Gold, who has [ethnic but] no scientific qualifications . . . is yet to receive the $200,000 (£135,000) awarded by the World Bank. . . Full story: andrewbolt

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was "only a few dozen experts," he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.

"Claims such as '2,500 of the world's leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate' are disingenuous," the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered "the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism "by their fruits you shall know them".




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The Sinking of the Titanic
The greatest tragedies in the last two hundred years can be traced to the Jesuits. . . The Jesuits desperately wanted another central bank in America so that they would have a bottomless reservoir from which to draw money for their many wars and other hideous schemes around the world.

There were a number of very rich and powerful men who made it abundantly clear that they were not in favor of the Federal Reserve System. J.P. Morgan was ordered by the Jesuits to build the Titanic. This 'unsinkable' ship would serve as the death ship for those who opposed the Jesuits' plan for a Federal Reserve system. . . Three of the richest and most important of these were Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador Strauss, the head of Macy's Department Stores, and John Jacob Astor. . . These three men were coaxed and encouraged to board the floating palace. They had to be destroyed because the Jesuits knew they would use their wealth and influence to oppose a Federal Reserve Bank as well as the various wars that were being planned. . . Many interesting points about the Titanic are discussed in a videotape made by National Geographic in 1986, "The Secrets of the Titanic". . .
Full story: pacinst.com

Comment: The above article was sourced from an Adventist website, a movement begun in 1816 by Baptist lay preacher William Miller who proclaimed Christ would return in 1843. The (Rothschild-financed) Watchtower Society, better known as Jehovah's Witnesses, formed as a breakaway group in 1879, continues its apocalyptic projections. Its founder Charles Taze Russell, Knights Templar (33o Mason, adulterer, and according to his wife, Satanist and pedophile), identified himself as the Laodicean Messenger.

According to Encyclopedia Judaica Rothschilds bear the title Guardians of the Vatican Treasury. "The appointment of Rothschild gave the black papacy absolute financial privacy and secrecy. Who would ever search a family of orthodox Jews for the key to the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church? I believe this appointment explains why the House of Rothschild is famous for helping nations go to war. It is fascinating that, as Meyer Rothschild's sons grew into the family business, the firm took on the title Meyer Amschel Rothschild und Sohne, which gives us the notariqon MARS. Isn't Mars the Roman God of War, whose heavenly manifestation is "the red planet"? There is powerful cabalah here, and there's hardly an acre of inhabitable earth that hasn't been affected by it in some way" (Tupper Saussy, Rulers of Evil. p. 160-161; Newsletter #171).

With the exception of Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba, and Libya, all countries are "managed" by a Rothschild-controlled central bank. Do you seriously believe North Korea was responsible for sinking the South Korean corvette, Cheonan? Or do you still to ponder why the US has threatened peaceful Iran, Sudan, Cuba and Libya? The Talmudic Jesuits through whom Rothschild revived the Illuminati, is a Jewish organization that controls the Roman Catholic church organized by Judaics at the Hegelian dialectic of the First Nicea Council. Britain's Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote, "Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand".


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The First Seal


God's first Bible was the Witness of the Stars, His second is the Bible in Stone which records the same prophecies in the Great Pyramid; thirdly He published this Revelation in the more portable form of paper and ink. Three signifies completion, but in each Bible version the fullness of the revelation, thus the realization of redemption, was sealed to the end-time.

Adjacent to and much older than the Great Pyramid is the Sphinx, an immense sculpture with the head of a woman and the body of a lion, it is a type of the Seven Seals, which are the key that unlocks the mystery of God's written Word as the Sphinx is the key that shows us how to read the Gospel in the Stars. Both Bibles commence redemption's story with Virgo, the virgin woman through whom our Kinsman Redeemer came into this world, and both end with Leo, the Lion who claimed the Book of Redemption, loosed its Seals and introduced Christ to His end-time Bride through the Prophet-Messenger to the Seventh Church Age (Matthew 25:6). On the Sphinx the Virgin faces due East, whence Christ will return to raise and glorify her together with the New Testament saints for the Wedding Supper of the Lamb in the Sky. When Leo reunites with Virgo in the Zodiac, we will rise. Hallelujah, we will rise!



"On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise,
And the glory of His resurrection share;
When His chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies,
And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. . . "

The name "Sphinx" derived from the Greek 'sphíngo,' meaning "to draw tight." From the foundation of the world it sealed the full import of the stellar Bible as the Seven Seals bound the Revelation of Jesus Christ unto the time of the end. And although Caliph Ali Mamoun broke into the Great Pyramid in AD825, enabling Christians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to study its mathematical, astronomical and prophetical facts—mysteries sealed before the Great Flood by its builder, Enoch—we were not able to accurately 'read' the Stone Bible until it was capped by the revelation of the Seven Thunders, which are the mysteries that bound God's third Bible. Isaiah 19:19-20 says it "will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of Hosts . . . in the day of the Lord," for it foretells the history of mankind from Earth to Glory.

As God's three Bibles were all "shut up and sealed to the time of the end," the "end-time" commenced with the opening of the Seven Seals as we studied in the previous two Newsletters (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 5:7-9; 10:4; 1:3; 22:10). That took place in March, 1963, and "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" is available here.

In the tenth year of king Zedekiah, which was about 588BC, Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. The overthrow of the kingdom was prophesied and the epoch of the "desolations" certain to all who were not blinded. In fact it was a time like the overthrow of our apostate (once) Christian civilization today. On account of his prophecy of inevitable ruin, Jeremiah was held a prisoner in the court occupied by the guard, where his friends might visit him. He received a Divine revelation, which announced that the field of his uncle Shallum of Anathoth in Benjamin would be offered to him to purchase as his kinsman redeemer. Sure enough, Shallum's son Hanameel offered him the land. Recognizing the hand of the Lord Jeremiah carefully observed all the legal formalities and purchased the field to certify the Judeans their future return from Babylon.

God promised more than the restoration of "houses and fields and vineyards," He spoke of Messiah's second or 'parousia' Coming to Israel and a future restoration in Daniel's Seventieth Week more universal than that from Babylon (Jeremiah 16:15). "I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: and they will be My people, and I will be their God: I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may reverence Me for ever, for the good of them and their children after them: and I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with My whole heart and with My whole soul" (Jeremiah 32:39-41).

Jeremiah was a type of Israel's rejected Messiah, Jesus Christ, God's "earthen vessel" in which "this evidence of purchase was placed—both that which was sealed, and that which was open, until the day of redemption" (Ephesians 4:30), or "until the day that the Book of Redemption has been revealed, and the Redeemer comes to claim His possession" (William Branham, The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 78:4). "That which was open," types the written Word of God's three Bibles, while "that which was sealed" is the original containing an abstract of all occupiers of the land from its conquest and allotment in the days of Joshua and the time of the Jubilee. It types the Seven Thunders which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals that have bound the mysteries of God's three Bibles until 1963.

When Christ loosed the unwritten Seventh Seal (Revelation 8:1) it revealed the spoken Word of the previous Six Seals. Redemption was over, Christ was no longer Mediator, He was King of Kings and Judge. Revelation 10 declared His second or 'parousia' Coming in W_O_R_D form with the Book of Redemption open in His hand. Then He set His right foot in judgment upon Papal Rome, the beast from the Sea, and His left foot in judgment upon the United States of America, the image of Imperial Rome, and Seven Thunders revealed their mystery through the prophet of Revelation 10:7, to call His end-time Bride out of Babylon to be filled with the Spirit "in the unity of the faith" for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.

As we have explained in the past, John represents Christ's end-time Bride throughout the Book of Revelation, because the Book was sealed from the foundation of the world until Christ revealed it to His angel, William Branham (Revelation 1:1; 10:4-7). So wherever John speaks of himself he is speaking as each and every member of Christ's end-time Bride because the Book was sealed until the time of the end, which is our day, so it is revealed to us alone.

Revelation 6:1-2, "As . . . . your name here . . . . watched, the Lamb opened one of the Seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, Come! And I saw a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer".

Symbolically, man severed from God and resting on his physical or intellectual strength or material resources, is beastly and brutish. He is only manly when Godly, for man was made in the image of God. So when envying the prosperous wicked, Asaph describes himself "as a beast before God" (Psalm 73:22). "Despite his pomp, without Spiritual revelation man is like the beasts that perish" (Psalm 49:12). "Those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defiling passion. . . are like brute beasts that are naturally born to be caught and killed" (II Peter 2:10, 12).

The four beasts arising from the multitudes surrounding the Mediterranean or "great" sea represent the four successive Gentile world empires "whereupon the four winds [war and strife] strove," and whose evil attributes are cumulative such that Rome, the "beast" of Revelation 11, 13 to 17, 19 and 20, is a combination of all their sensual, lawless, God-opposing features. The Roman empire that first persecuted Christians at the instigation of Israel and the self-styled Edomite Jews, will finally persecute and martyr the 144,000 elect Israelites.

The kingdom of Messiah supplanting utterly the former will be eternal and worldwide (Daniel 2:35, 44). The four cherubim of Revelation 4 and 5 are not "beasts" as the KJV identifies them, but "living creatures" (Gk. 'Zoon'), God's Throne guards, who represent Christ's Bride grafted into the Root of the cultivated olive tree and tamed to the Gospel. The word "beast" (Gk. 'therion'), signifies a wild beast; metaphorically, a brutal, bestial man, like Paul's opponents at Ephesus, savage, ferocious and untamed to the obedience of Christ (Romans 8:7; I Corinthians 15:32). The "harlot" Roman Church is seated on the beast. She is controlling the last, or fourth empire. With the world church system under her Rome will be controlling, and her once Protestant image will be obedient to Rome because Rome controls the gold of the world.

The First Seal opened by the living creature with the face of a Lion was effective from Pentecost and during the Ephesian, Smyrnean and Pergamean Church Ages (AD53 – AD606). It represents the elect who were Spiritually redeemed through the revelation of the Messages to those dispensations, which reproduced the nature of the living creature who called "Come," when the Lamb opened the First Seal. In the Old Testament the Lion adorned the standard God lifted up against the enemy from the East and represented the tribe of Judah aided by Issachar and Zebulon. The Light of the Gospel came out of the East and has shone even to the West (Matthew 24:27). Under the Gentile dispensation the world power is Rome, and as Rome will rule to the consummation one need have no doubt that the Roman Catholic Church will rule Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. Thereafter the pope and his followers from all denominations and no denomination will be cast into a lake of Fire (Romans 9:27; Revelation 17:1 – 19:20). The horses of the heroes of Roman triumphs were white, and the rider of this white horse is the antichrist spirit. He had a bow but no arrows. Like a firearm, the bow is effective at a distance, but without arrows Satan was all chutzpah, a bluff, seeking spiritual power by usurping the Leadership of the Holy Spirit to establish a clerical hierarchy over the laity in imitation of Israelitish Temple worship. Jesus called this "the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I hate." He had no crown at the start of his ride, but he moved his earthly headquarters from Pergamos to Rome and in the third or Pergamean Church Age "a [triple] crown was given to him" following the organization of the Roman Catholic church at the First Nicea Council of AD325. There "the deeds of the nicolaitanes" were enshrined as "the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes" and with church and state combined "he went forth conquering, and to conquer" (Revelation 2:6, 9, 13, 15).

Brother Branham said, "Here's the plan of it: the first thing happens, there is an announcement in the heavens first. [A thunder and the voice of the living creature saying, "Come"]! What happened? A Seal is opened. What is that? A mystery is unfolded. See? And when a mystery unfolds, then a trumpet sounds. It declares a [natural] war [in judgment upon the Israelites for rejecting the Message of the angel, which is the mystery of redemption to that Age]. Or a plague falls, and a Church Age opened. See? What is the war part? The angel of the Church catches the mystery of God, not fully yet revealed, but when he does, he catches this mystery of God, and then he goes forth to the people (after the mystery has been given to him), goes forth to the people. What does he do out there? He begins to proclaim that message, and what does it start? A war, a spiritual war."

"And then God takes His messenger with the elect of that Age, and lays them away asleep, and then He drops a plague upon them who rejected it: a temporary judgment [or Vial]. And then, after that is over, then he goes on, and they denominate, and bring in denominations, and start off with that man's work like of Wesley and all the rest of them, and then it gets all in a scrapple again; and then another mystery comes forth. Then what happens? Another messenger arrives on earth for a Church Age. See?"

"Then when he arrives, the [Gospel] Trumpet sounds. He declares war. See? And then what happens? Finally then he's caught away. And then when he's laid away, then plague [or a Vial] falls destroys them. Spiritual death hits the church and she's gone, that group. Then He goes on to another one."

"Oh, it's a great plan until it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no certain mystery, but he gathers up all that's been lost in them other Ages, all the truths that wasn't truly revealed yet (See?), as the revelation comes. Then he reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is: Revelation 10:1 to about 4. You'll get it. All right. See?"

". . . while all them scruples of denominations arguing their difference about their creed, God promised that He would send us a true prophet of the true Word with a Message to return to the original Word of God and the faith of the fathers to bring down the power of the Holy Ghost amongst the people, with a power that will raise her above these things and take her in [the rapture] at the same time. Yes, sir.

"Same Word be vindicated of Jesus Christ that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. "Lo, I am with you always, even to the consummation. And the works that I do shall you do also. I'll be right with you. A little while and they won't see Me no more, 'cause they'll organize themselves and scatter out, but ye'll see Me, for I will be with you. I'll even be in you unto the consummation". . . Who is that white horse rider? You're not blind. You see who it is. It's that antichrist and that deceitful spirit that's gone now and crept in. . ."

"See, God just keeps repeating it. He showed there's a man going forth with a white horse and with his bow and no arrow. He's a bluff. He has no power. You say, "The power of the church . . ." Where's it at? What do they do? They say, "We're the original church." The original church cast out devils, healed the sick, and raised the dead, saw visions and everything else. Where is it now? See? He's a bluff: bow with no arrow. That's right."

"But you see, when Christ come, a Sword went forth from His mouth like a lightning flash. It went forth and consumed His enemies and cast away the Devil. It cut away everything else and He come, His vesture dipped in Blood and on His thigh was written "The Word of God." Amen. Here He come with His army, coming from heaven.

"That white horse rider has been in the land all the time. He will change from antichrist. He does that and becomes to a false prophet [the pope]. See, he first started an antichrist, the spirit; then he become a false prophet. Then later, when the devil is cast out, he's incarnate then with the Devil. Three stages: the first he's a devil to begin with, a spirit of the devil; then he becomes a false prophet, teacher of a false doctrine; next thing he comes as the very devil himself incarnate. See? There he is."

"And at the same time that this Devil falls out of heaven and becomes incarnate in a man, the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down incarnate Man. Amen. Oh, my. What a time. . . There it is, revealed right there. Here he rides right down through the Age and comes right out here and displays himself right down here just as perfect as he can be. See? That's him. Now, we're not deceived on that. Now, you got your eyes opened. Stay away from that kind of stuff. Love the Lord with all your heart, and stay right with Him. Yes, sir. Come out of Babylon" (ibid. p. 126:4 – 127:2; 175:2 – 176:4).

Paul explains in II Thessalonians 2:1-12, "Although religious fanaticism will abound concerning the Coming of our Lord, let no one in any way deceive you: for the day of the Lord will be preceded by worldwide apostasy, then that man of sin will be revealed, the son of perdition; the Adversary who opposes and rises up against every so-called God or object of worship, so that he seats himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God [remitting sins]."

The pope of Rome is Judas' apostolic successor as "the son of perdition," whose blasphemous claims include:

Gregory IX (1227 – 1242) stated, "Wherefore, if those things that I do, be said to be done not of man, but of God; what can you make me but God?"

Boniface VIII decreed in 1303, "Temporal authority [of kings] must be subject to spiritual power [of the pope]".

Pope John XXII (1316 – 1328) stated, "To believe that our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical" (The Gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, Cum. Inter, title 14, chapter 4, "Ad Callem Sexti Decretalium," Column 140, Paris, 1685. (In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, the words, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" (i.e. "Our Lord God the Pope") can be found in column 153).

Pius IV (1566 – 1572) stated, "He that reigneth on high made him [the pope] alone prince over all people and all kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, consume, plant and build" (Bull published against Queen Elizabeth I).

Pius V said, "The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth" (Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, 'Cities Petrus Bertanous').

Leo XIII asserted, "There is no allegiance to Christ without submission to the Pope" (Michael Malone, Apostolic Digest, Book 4: "The Book of Christians," Chapter 4). And,

"We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty" (Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894). And,

"Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ" (Satis Cognitum, quoted in "Acts of Leo XIII: Supreme Pontiff," Rome: Vatican Press, 1896).

In 1662 when "Peter's chair" was being cleaned in order to set it up in some conspicuous place of the Vatican, the twelve labours of Hercules appeared on it (Bower's History of the Popes, Vol. i. p. 7), it had been borrowed from the Pagans and so it had to be laid aside. The next chair appears to have been purloined from Muslims; for when the French soldiers under General Bonaparte took possession of Rome in 1795, they found on the back of it, in Arabic, this well-known sentence of the Koran, "There is no God but God, and Mahomet is His Prophet" (Lady Morgan's Italy, Vol. iii. p. 81; Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons).

Pius X stated, "The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under the veil of the flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus Christ who speaks. Does the Pope accord a favor or pronounce an anathema? It is Jesus Christ who pronounces the anathema or accords the favor. So, when the Pope speaks we have no business to examine. We have only to obey" (Catholic National, July 1895).

"The Pope is the spiritual father of all Christians . . . The Pope is the Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians" (A Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, Revised edition, 1985).

Here are but some of the papal titles which confirm his identity as "the" antichrist throughout modern history:

"Most divine of all Heads." "Holy Father of Fathers." Pontiff Supreme Over Prelates." "Overseer of the Christian Religion." "Pastor of Pastors." "Christ by Unction." "Abraham by Patriachate." "Melchisedec in Order." "Moses in Authority." "Samuel in the Judicial Office." "High Priest, Supreme Bishop." "Heir to the Apostles; Peter in Power." "Key-bearer of the Kingdom of Heaven." "Pontiff Appointed with Plenitude of Power." "Vicar of Christ." "Vicar of the Son of God." "Sovereign Priest." "Head of all the Holy Churches." "Chief of the Universal Church." "Bishop of Bishops." "Ruler of the House of the Lord." "Apostolic Lord and Father of Fathers." "Chief Pastor and Teacher." "Physician of Souls." "Rock against which the proud gates of hell prevail not." "Infallible Pope." "Head of All the Holy Priests of God".

In speaking of the identification of antichrist who will become "the beast," Jesus said, "This calls for [Spiritual] wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, his number is 666" (Revelation 13:18). We "count the number of the beast" by adding the Roman numerals that constitute the papal title, VICARIVS FILII DEI: "vicar—deputy or substitute for Christ" or substitute for the Holy Spirit. Thus: 5 + 1 + 100 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 1 + 1 + 500 + 1 = 666.

[The seven heads of Rome mentioned in Revelation 17 were seven emperors who deified themselves, "And the beast that was, and is not, (the pope "is," and when he dies he "is not," but when his replacement is elected he "is"), even he is the eighth [the Devil-incarnate beast], and is of the seven [in that he makes himself God (II Thessalonians 2:4)], and goes into perdition. And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast" to establish Lucifer's totalitarian one world government (Revelation 17:11-13).

Many are claiming that the mark of the beast will be a micro-chip, but Jesus said it will be identified with one man in whom Satan will rule Rome's one world government to the consummation (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 17). Christ's Adversary demands obeisance, the absolute submission of your mind to his will: his mark is not a micro-chip but absolute dominion of your will through mind control by propaganda, fanatical religion, fear and superstition, with physical violence and death to recalcitrants. Here is a secular illustration of mind control enforced global today.

Revelation 13:4, "And the whole world will [vicariously] worship the dragon [Satan] who gives his authority to the beast [of Rome in the person of a devil-incarnate pope]: and will worship the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him"? Because after the sinking of Los Angeles, the "hot stage" of World War III, the collapse of the US dollar and world economy, and Russia's successful invasion of mainland USA, the pope will restore peace under one world government, repatriate Russia's occupying armies, and in covenant with the self-styled Jewish banksters refinance the US dollar and restore the world economy. Revelation 17:1-6 portrays Papal Rome seated on or controlling the fourth world empire, and Revelation 18:1-20 like Daniel 2:40-45, describes Rome's wealth, her hubris, and her utter destruction.

Revelation 13:5-8, "And the beast [the "little horn" of Daniel 7:20] was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and permitted to control the Earth for forty-two months [the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week], throughout which he blasphemed God's Name [changing Lord Jesus Christ to three Titles], and His abode, and the saints in heaven resurrected and translated [to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb]. And he was permitted to make war with 144,000 elect Israelites and their two Hebrew prophets, and to kill them all: and authority was given him over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. And all inhabitants of Earth whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world will worship him".

The mark of the beast is the mark of Cain; it is not a microchip but carnal wisdom, reasoning against the faith or revealed Word of God, which is vicarious worship of Satan. Brother Branham said, "Anything contrary to the precepts of God, the Word of God, is not God. What is it? What is sin? Righteousness perverted. What is death? Life perverted. What is the kingdom of Satan? Anything that's setting something to take the place of the Word, anything, any teaching. One word, just one word. You might believe every bit. Eve believed every bit of It to that one Word. That one Word's all she needed to disbelieve. That one Word is all you need to disbelieve" (Oneness, p. 11:55)].

II Thessalonians 2:2-12, "Do you not recollect how I told you these things when I was with you? So now you know he is restrained from revealing himself until the lawlessness of apostasy takes hold of the world [after the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and the translation of the Bride (Revelation 6:12-17; 12:7-10)], for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work [deceiving the non-elect]: only the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Bride is restraining and will continue to impede it until He is taken out of the way [in the first resurrection]. Then that Wicked one will be unveiled [made known or revealed Gk. 'apokalupto'], whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the Spirit of His Word (Revelation 11:5; 19:15), and shall destroy [Gk. 'katargeo' or render ineffectual his influence on the 144,000 and non-elect martyrs to-be] with the brightness [shining forth Gk. 'epiphanaea']: of His [Gk. 'parousia'] Coming.

(This is not speaking of the physical appearance of the glorified Jesus mistakenly anticipated by the denominations, but His revelation to "those who pierced Him," the 144,000 elect Israelites, and to "all [non-elect] kindreds [of Adam's race that have not taken the mark of the beast] and who will wail because of Him," when they recognize they have missed the rapture and must suffer martyrdom in order to retain their names on the Book of Life, and salvation).

"The ['parousia'] coming of the lawless man [or Devil-incarnate pope] by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with lying signs and wonders, [uniting the world's religions to halt World War III (Revelation 13:3, 14), restoring peace and establishing totalitarian one world government]. The deceivableness of unrighteousness in carnal men who aspire to one world government, one world religion, climate change, environmental tax, etc., because they did not receive the love of the Truth that they might be saved [and Christ the Word is the Truth. They love the historical Jesus, but He does not love them because they hate Christ the Word, and prefer a creed]. For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, to make them believe the lie—[the same lie Satan told Eve, that God loves you dearly, He loves the Muslims, Anglicans, JWs, and Catholics so dearly, "You won't surely die"]; so that all who have not believed the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness may be damned".

Brother Branham explains the heavenly temple portrayed in the Book of Revelation as the scene of a play showing us the way back to Eden's sinless perfection. We learn from the first three verses that this is a Book of prophecy, so we must not lean to our own literal understandings but heed what God has spoken through His prophet: "John was on the Isle of Patmos because he tried to put the Word of God into a book form and was exiled there by the Roman government, and was on the island in the day of the Lord, and he heard behind him a Voice of many waters [the multitude of the saints] and turned to look, and he saw seven golden candlesticks. And there stood the Son of God in between them."

(He is describing John on the Isle of Patmos in the flesh, but caught up in the Spirit into the day of the Lord, which is yet future. John represents you as a member of Christ's Capstone Bride on earth in man's day in the flesh, but caught up in the Spirit into the day of the Lord, receiving the same revelation of Brother Branham's ministry through the Spoken Word audio and transcripts as John received when he saw and heard him in the visions. John looks back to man's day before Israel's Seventh Trumpet signaled the end of the Gentile dispensation and sees Christ in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, which represent the Bride drawn from all Seven Church Ages. His robe is no longer girt about the waist as Priest and Mediator, but about the breast as Judge).

"Now, the mystery of the Book are revealed when the Seals are broken. And when the Seals completely are broken, the time of redemption is over, because the Lamb left the intercession post to walk out to take His claims. He was a Mediator between that, but when the real revelation happens on the Seals as they begin to break, the Lamb is coming forth from the sanctuary. It's according to the Word. We read it last night. He come out of the midst [of the seven golden lampstands in the Holy Place to the Throne in the Holy of Holies] and took the Book. So He's no more Mediator, because even they called Him a Lion, and that's the King, and He's not a Mediator then."

"Although the actors of these Seals begin at the first Church Age. . . Now, remember, so we'll get the background of it thoroughly if we can, or as thoroughly as possible. The actors. . . I'll place it like that, because an actor is a man who changes masks. See?"

"And in this act tonight, we're going to see that it's Satan changing his mask. And all actors. . . Christ, acting the part as He did when He become from a Spirit to man, He only put on an actor's garment, human flesh, and came down in the form of a man in order to be a Kinsman Redeemer" (ibid. p. 124:3 – 125:1).

"Notice. Now, the Holy Spirit and the revelation and Christ is. . . The Holy Spirit is Christ in another form. That's right. Notice, it is a Lamb that opened the Book, and the Lamb is Christ; and Christ is not seen anymore from then, but He is seen in the Book of Revelations the nineteenth chapter, coming on a white horse:

"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse [not on the earth; in heaven. See?]; and He that set on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness does He judge and make war. His eyes were flames of fire, and on His head was many crowns. [Look at the diadem]; and He had a Name written, that no man knowed, but He Himself".

". . . nobody knows it. Did you ever know that the Name of Jehovah is not correct? Anyone knows. Dr. Vayle, you know that's true. The translators could never translate it. It's spelled J-v-h-u. It isn't Jehovah. They couldn't touch it. They don't know what it is. Called it Jehovah, but it wasn't His Name. Look. Every time a victory's won or something goes on, a name is changed."

"Look at the days of Abraham. He was first Abram, and never could have that baby until his name was changed to Abraham. And Sarai, S-a-r-a-i could not have nothing but a dead womb until her name was changed to S-a-r-a-h."

"Jacob means "supplanter, deceiver," and that's what he did. He put sheepskin on hisself and deceived his prophet father to take the birthright. He put poplar sticks in the water, speckled them, and scared the cattle when they was pregnated with their young, to make speckled cattle and sheep. Nothing but a deceiver, but one night he caught ahold of something real. And he knowed it was real, and he stayed with it and held on until he overcome, and his name was changed and called Israel meaning "a prince with power before God." Is that right? Every overcomer. . ."

Simon was a fisherman; but when his faith caught and knowed that was Jesus, when He told him He was the Messiah and told him who his name was and what his father's name was, he was overcome and changed from Simon to Peter."

Saul, good name, Saul was a king one time in Israel, but Saul didn't fit an apostle. Might be all right for a king, but not an apostle. So Jesus changed his name from what? From Saul to Paul. Look at the sons of thunder and on down.

"And Jesus, His Name on earth was Redeemer, Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer; that's true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on high, He received a new Name. That's the reason they holler the way they do and don't get nothing; it'll be revealed in the thunders. See?"

"Notice, the mystery. He's coming, riding. . . There's got to be something to change this Church, you know that. There's got to be something. Notice. "No man knowed but Himself." Now, notice, "no man knowed but Hisself".

"And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His Name was called The Word of God. [Oh, notice]. And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He had on His vesture and on His thigh a Name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS".

"There comes the Messiah. There He is, not this fellow on this horse back here. Watch the different. Here He stands with the Book in His hand here [in Revelation 5:7]. The redemptive work is just [beginning] . . . He hasn't took His place [on the white horse of Revelation nineteen] yet."

"So it was not the Christ that went forth, the Holy Spirit. Not disagreeing with them great men, no, sir, I don't do it. I wouldn't want to do that, but this is what my revelation of it is. See, if you got something different, well, that's all right, but it ain't all right with me. See, I believe it this way; you know what. See?"

"And notice, Christ is not seen any more (See?) from the time there [i.e. Revelation 6:1]. But He is on a white horse; so if this guy is riding a white horse, he's only an impersonator of Christ. See? Get that? Notice, the rider on the white horse don't have any name. He might use two or three titles, but he hasn't got any name. But Christ has a Name. What is it? The Word of God. That's what it is. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". And the Word is made flesh. See?

"The rider has no name, but Christ is called the Word of God. That's what He is. He's called that. Now, He's got a Name that no man knows, but He's called the Word of God. This guy isn't called nothing (See?), but he's on a white horse."

"The rider has no arrows for his bow. Did you notice? He had a bow, but there's nothing said about having any arrows; so he must be a bluffer. That's right. Maybe he's got a lot of thunder and no lightning, but you find out Christ had both lightning and thunder; for out of His mouth goes a sharp two-edged Sword, and He smites the nations. And this guy can't smite nothing (See?), but he's playing the part of a hypocrite. He's going forth riding on a white horse, going out to conquer."

"Christ has a sharp Sword, and watch. It comes from His mouth—the living Word. That's the Word of God revealed to His servants, like He said to Moses: "Go, stand there and hold that stick out yonder, call for flies," and there was flies. Sure. Whatever He said, He done it, and it come to pass. His living Word. . . God and His Word is the self same Person. God is the Word.

"Who is this mysterious rider of the first Church Age then? Who is he? Let's think of it. Who is this mysterious rider that starts forth in the first Church Age and rides plumb on out into eternity, goes to the end ["to perdition" (Revelation 17:8, 11)] (ibid. p. 157:1 – 159:7)? nl638.htm


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