Bible Believers' Newsletter #635
"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 continue to lay the groundwork for our review of the Revelation of the Seven Seals in this week's study of Revelation Chapter Four, supported by Scripture and quotations from the Message of God's Prophet, William Branham. Please redeem the time because at the rate at which the children of Darkness are stripping away all of our individual liberties and natural law it is unlikely any of us will have opportunity to repeat this exercise. So study to "show yourself approved of God, a workman who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth." Don't hastily browse through this Newsletter, but study and prove all things in your own Bible until you know that you know that you know you have the mind of Christ on this chapter.
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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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Russia: Afghan Drug Trade threatens World Peace
June 6, 2010 — Deputy Russian Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov recently called Afghanistan's thriving drug trade supported by the US and NATO the "greatest threat to International peace and security."
Not being reported to the American people about the Afghanistan war is that it has nothing to do with their being protected from terrorists, but rather it involves the billions of dollars gained for many of the West's top intelligence agencies (mainly the CIA) from the heroin produced in this region (90% of World's total) that by 2001 the Taliban had virtually eliminated.
Immediately after the US invasion of Afghanistan in October, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) installed one of their main Afghan operatives, Hamid Karzai, as President, who then put into power his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, who since then has increased heroin production to levels unseen in modern times and resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian citizen.
Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service, Russia's National drug enforcement agency, told parliament in May that it was reasonable to "call the flow of Afghan opiates the second edition of opium wars". . .
"I can name you a lot of politicians in Russia who said that the Americans specially arranged the situation in Afghanistan so that we would receive a lot of drugs, and this is the real aim of their occupation," said Andrei Klimov, the deputy head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's lower house of parliament. "I'm not sure this is true, but who knows."
One person who definitely knew it was true was German President Horst Koehler, who after returning from Afghanistan last month linked the war with the defense of German economic interests because it was securing free trade routes for the West and had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. . . head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organized crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. . . a majority of the $352 Billion of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result. . . this past week Obama's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released what they call a "staff discussion draft" of "potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism" wherein they called for doctrine of "proprietary facts" that would outlaw anyone writing or reporting on anything that happens unless they use the "facts" provided to them by the government. . . Full story: voanews.com
Comment: The subversives, criminals, assassins, drug pushers, liars and apostates are not the nebulous "them" who never heard the Gospel, but the very definite "us." Brother Branham said, "The renegade is the white man. He's the rascal" (Revelation 3:17-20).
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Analysts question Korea Torpedo Incident
May 27, 2010 — How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a US-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare. . ? Full story: washingtonpost.com
Comment: Check the comments and photographs. Another US-'City of London' false flag operation? For starters it has secured renewal of the US Marine base on Okinawa.
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Hawaii Elections Clerk: Obama Birth not Here
June 10, 2010 — A college professor who worked as a senior elections clerk for the City and County of Honolulu in 2008 is making the stunning claim Barack Obama was definitely not born in Hawaii as the White House maintains, and that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Obama does not even exist in the Aloha State. . . "It's like an open secret. There isn't one. Everyone in the government there knows this". . .
"I managed the absentee-ballot office. It was my job to verify the voters' identity". . . "I had direct access to the Social Security database, the national crime computer, state driver's license information, international passport information, basically just about anything you can imagine to get someone's identity," Adams explained. "I could look up what bank your home mortgage was in. I was informed by my boss that we did not have a birth record [for Obama]". . . To date, no Hawaiian hospital has provided documented confirmation that Obama was born at its facility. . . Full story: wnd.com
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WHO Advisors received Kickbacks from H1N1 Vaccine Manufacturers
June 6, 2010 — Top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Several key advisors who urged WHO to declare a pandemic received direct financial compensation from the very same vaccine manufacturers who received a windfall of profits from the pandemic announcement. During all this, WHO refused to disclose any conflicts of interests between its top advisors and the drug companies who would financially benefit from its decisions. Full story: naturalnews.com
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The Christian Fascists are Growing Stronger
June 7, 2010 — Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, have begun to dismantle the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment [i.e. the Illuminati]. They are creating a theocratic state based on "biblical law," and shutting out all those they define as the enemy. This movement, veering closer and closer to traditional fascism, seeks to force a recalcitrant world to submit before an imperial America. It champions the eradication of social deviants, beginning with homosexuals, and moving on to immigrants, secular humanists, feminists, Jews, Muslims and those they dismiss as "nominal Christians"—meaning Christians who do not embrace their perverted and heretical interpretation of the Bible. Those who defy the mass movement are condemned as posing a threat to the health and hygiene of the country and the family. All will be purged. Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The United States is the image to the beast of Imperial Rome as the (once) Protestant church is the image to Papal Rome. When the false church and state unite, this killing machine will force Rome's mark of the beast, the trinity doctrine, as prophesied in Revelation 13:11-18. Christ will call His "little Flock" Home, the world church system will preach its false salvation message into the tribulation, and Rome will rule to the consummation (Daniel 9:27).
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Human Experimentation at Heart of Bush Administration's Torture Program
June 7, 2010 — High-value detainees captured during the Bush administration's "war on terror," who were subjected to brutal torture techniques, were used as "guinea pigs" to gauge the effectiveness of various torture techniques, a practice that has raised troubling comparisons to Nazi-era human experimentation. according to a disturbing new report released by Physicians for Human Rights, an international doctors' organization. Full story: truthout.org
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Is Israel exempt from International Law?
June 7, 2010 — Jewish "civil liberties" groups, especially the Anti-Defamation League, increasingly enforce their own perverted definitions of crucial moral terms such as love, hate, bias and tolerance. No one seems particularly bothered by their self-anointed right to form moral judgments for society. Today—after Israel's deadly raid on the relief flotilla—we see that the Jewish state rivals ADL in creating its own self-serving definitions. During the raid, a 19-year-old US citizen was shot five times in the face, leg and back of the head from a range of less than 20 inches. The nine slain Turks were shot a total of 30 times. Israel and its US supporters defend all the commandos' actions. Here are some of Israel's skewed terms. . . Full story: truthtellers.org
Comment: "The ultimate lesson about the Liberty attack was that it had far more effect on policies. Israel's leaders concluded that nothing they might do would bring America's leaders to the point of reprisal. America's leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens. It seems clear their American friends would let them get away with almost anything" (Comment of US Under Secretary of State George Ball on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, 8th June 1967, as quoted by Ambassador James Akins in the documentary "The Loss of the Liberty" featuring the testimonies of survivors of the attack.
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Helen Thomas under Siege [distracts Attention from Israel Attack on Flotilla]
June 7, 2010 — "Any comments on Israel," an offscreen voice asks 90 year-old Thomas, and she responded, "Tell 'em to get the hell out of Palestine! Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not German, it's not Poland's"!
Asked where Jews should go, Thomas said, "Go home to Germany, Poland or the United States. Full story: truthout.org
Comment: Truth, common sense and the Word of God are never popular. Jewish encyclopedias and some of their most eminent historians affirm Israelis generally have no history in the Middle East, no kinship with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Deuteronomy 7:1-3; Zechariah 12:2), no part in God's Covenant with Israel, and no claim to the Promised Land.
The cowardly dismissal of Helen Thomas shows the US colony of the 'Empire of the City of London' has sunk to England's chattel status. Since her overthrow in 1688, British blood and wealth has been dashed on the altar of world hegemony by her alien master, now sacrificing US wealth and making beasts of men as foretold in Revelation 13:12-18.
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US Groups joined Haitian Farmers protesting "Donation" of Monsanto Seeds
June 7, 2010 — "We're for seeds that have never been touched by multinationals. In our advocacy, we say that seeds are the patrimony of humanity. No one can control them," said Doudou Pierre, national coordinating committee member of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA), in a recent interview. "We reject Monsanto and their GMOs. GMOs would be the extermination of our people." Full story: truthout.org
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Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked
June 4, 2010 — This is the first year that the press have been invited to this truly unique event, and we pledge to make their experience a great one, leading to high levels of press coverage and maximum exposure for Bilderberg. This is the year that Bilderberg truly steps out of the shadows and into the light. Full story: trilever.com. Bilderberg now have their own website.
1. Will the Euro Survive?
2. Development in Europe: Europe's Exit Strategy. . . On Hold?
3. Do We Have Institutions to Deal With the World Economy?
4. Greece: Lessons and Forward-looking Strategies
5. NATO and Afghanistan: The Practical Agenda for the Alliance
6. Iran and Russia: Economic and Financial Threats to the Alliance
7. The Consequences of War Against Terrorism
8. The Influence of Domestic Issues on American Foreign Policy
9.The Outlook for Japan's Economy
10. The Future of the US Dollar: Alternative Scenarios Full story: blacklistednews.com
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Four Living Creatures
Ezekiel 1:4-18, "In visions from God I saw a whirlwind coming from the north, and a great Cloud with brightness about it and Fire flashing forth continually; and in the midst of the Fire was Something that shone like polished brass. Out of its center emerged four forms that looked like men, except each had four faces and four wings! Their legs were like those of men, but their feet were cloven like calves' feet, and they shone like burnished brass. Under each of their wings I could see human hands."
"The four living creatures were joined wing to wing, and flew straight forward without turning. Each had the face of a Man in front, with a Lion's face on the right side of his head, the face of a Ox on his left side, and the face of a flying Eagle at the back of his head! When their wings were spread out above, one pair of each touched the wings of the living creature on each side, and the other pair covered his body. Each went straight forward without turning wherever the Spirit impelled them to go."
"Going up and down among them were other forms that glowed like burning coals of fire or brilliant torches, moving to and fro among the living creatures; and out of the Fire lightning flashed. As I stared, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each of the four living creatures. In appearance was like polished amber, each was constructed with a second wheel crosswise inside so they could go in any of their four directions without having to face around. The four wheels had rims and spokes, and the rims were filled with eyes".
These are God's Throne guards who follow Him wherever He goes in space, time and eternity. The eyes speak of their understanding of "the things which are, and the things that will be hereafter" (Revelation 1:19; 4:1), and the vision is set "In the days of the Voice of the seventh angel, when the mystery of God spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began should be finished" (Acts 3:21; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7).
Israel's high priest entered the Presence of the Lord God once a year on the Day of Atonement by the blood of goats sacrificed at the door of the Tabernacle exclusively for the sin of the blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and a bullock for his sin and that of his fellow priests. Before entering the Holy Place he washed his hands and feet in the brazen laver, then made his annual entry into the Holy of Holies—all of this was a type of Christ's atonement for the sin of His KINSMEN of Adam's race, few of whom were Semitic as Shem was born just prior to the Great Flood, and certainly not for any of Cain's lineage, who are not in the genealogy of Adam, which is the Book of Life, and have no part in salvation.
God's dwelling under tents of animal skins portrayed His desire to dwell in the Spiritual tabernacle of souls created in His image, redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, clothed in glorified bodies, and reflecting the likeness of his character and nature that He might gather glory to Himself. After Eve fell through unbelief in the revealed Word, Adam forfeited his dominion to Satan by taking her back (Leviticus 21:9). As a consequence we are born in his iniquity and conceived in Eve's lust under the nature of the god of this world and must be re-born without sin by God's Word in order to receive His nature and eternal Life (Psalm 51:5; John 3:5-8).
The ultimate temple of God is man. "All the furniture and everything in the Old Testament was a pattern of what was seen in heaven, patterned back to the human being" (William Branham, Revelation, Chapter Four, Part II, p. 609:144).
In Hebrews chapter nine Paul expounds the antitype of Exodus 40:16-33 to explain how our great High Priest enters this "Spiritual tabernacle" though the outer court of your flesh when you are justified by grace through faith in the created Blood of God (Acts 20:27-28; Revelation 5:1) shed on Calvary, having repented and received baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-19=Luke 24:47-49=Acts 2:38-39). This remits your past sin or unbelief in His revealed Word but the worldly nature that made you sin is still there. Next He proceeds to the private sanctuary of the mind of your spirit where His revealed Word corrects and sanctifies you from ungodly desires.
Psalm 19:14, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer." That worldly nature is still present, and you can still be tempted but He has taken the want of it away.
Finally He is enthroned in your heart by the baptism with the Holy Spirit when a clear revelation of the present Truth and Fire destroys that old nature and you are born-again (Matthew 3:11). Now the Judgment Seat is in you (Mark 9:42) and your life becomes a written epistle of the present Truth—what Jesus is doing now:
"You ask me how I know He lives?
He lives within my heart"!
Brother Branham said, "Now you are already resurrected [Ephesians 2:6]. When God raised Him up, He raised you; the Son is just now on you [quickening His Word to Life in you]. And now you're growing into a blossom Life like He was, to be resurrected completely in that last day. Your potentials you have now. Why do you know? Your soul changed, didn't it? Your body come in obedience to It, didn't it? Into obedience to what? A church? The Word, which is the Life. Then you are now resurrected from the dead."
[Now the Bible was sealed from the foundation of the world until the Lord opened the Seals and revealed them to His Prophet, William Branham, as explained in Revelation 1:1; 5; 6; and 10:1-7). Up to that time, the saints from Pentecost to the close of the Laodicean Church Age had only PART-Word: Christ received the revelation for their day, placed their ignorance of the fullness under the Blood, and they were born-again. Prior to the opening and revelation of the Seals in 1963, the godliest ministers, including Brother Branham, preached a measure of error.
A common error in Laodicea was to confuse the soul with human spirit and the spirit the soul. So in 1961 Brother Branham taught, "The soul is imagination, conscience, memory, reason, and affection, is the senses or the attributes, or like the senses of the soul. And the soul is the nature of the spirit that's on the inside, 'cause the soul only puts out an atmosphere of what's on the inside of you. It takes the place of sanctification, the soul is, sets in the same category there" (William Branham, Revelation, Chapter Four, Part III, p. 685:227).
Since the revelation of the Seals we know these five senses pertain to the mortal spirit: the soul has only one (1) sense that determines its destiny—faith or unbelief in the revealed Word. Unfortunately some of the saintliest and most sincere souls in the circle of this Message have accepted what Brother Branham has said, instead of searching the Absolute of Scripture to discover what he meant, and in taking "the letter without the Spirit" became ignorant partakers of Talmudic sin which "makes the Word of God of no effect to them" (Matthew 15:9). I refer to the heresy of "Two Souls" which teaches the sinful soul is replaced by a new and different sinless soul. This stems largely from conflating nature with soul.
You are your soul, and the soul is feminine in designation, which is why it desires to worship something and must come under headship to the Holy Spirit or the evil one. God is redeeming not replacing souls. The soul is the nature of the spirit that has lordship over it (Genesis 3:16; I Corinthians 11:3). As Brother Branham demonstrated, if the husband of your soul is of this world, the nature on your soul is that of the snake; if it is the Holy Spirit it is the nature of the heavenly Dove (The Future Home of the Heavenly Bridegroom and the Earthly Bride, p. 36:86-112; John 8:34; Romans 6:16; 7:23)].
"It is Easter with Jesus and I. It's Easter with you and Jesus, and it's Easter with you, I, and Jesus. We are all—Jesus, you, and I—we're all resurrected together and we will rise at the last day even though our spirits leave our body, even though the bodies rust, may they go to dust, may they be burnt up, may they be in the bottom of the sea—the Bible said an Angel poured out his [Vial] upon the sea and everything that died come up [Revelation 17:16; 18:21]. There's nothing can hide us or separate us from that God that we love so well, that's raised us up together" (It is the Rising of the Sun, p. 44:346-347; Romans 8:28-39).
The fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in Jesus Christ since He was God incarnate (Colossians 2:9; John 3:34; 1:1), but we receive the Spirit by measure—a different measure of Spirit and Word was predestinated to build each of nine dispensations from our Pentecostal foundation to the PART-Word Body of Seven Church Ages and its Capstone of the fullness of the Word in this holy convocation of the Gentile dispensation. The Bible in Stone portrays this prophecy by defining these seven invisible steps in seven successive overhanging courses of masonry in the corbelled walls of the Grand Gallery climbed by faith over 2,000 years, reaching the prophet's chamber in this holy convocation of the antitype of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast. Brother Branham said, "Go into the prophet's chamber and watch them seven steps. Where did the guard meet the challenge to bring the comer into the presence of the king at the top of the steps? Was in the seventh step" (The Feast of the Trumpets, p. 15:112). When all of the Church Age saints were sealed to the day of their redemption, Christ's Mediation was fulfilled, but without a Mediator, how could Christ's end-time Bride at the top of the uncapped pyramid be born-again, unless His Prophet Brother Branham stood in the breach after the Seven Church Ages (see diagram below) and revealed the Capstone Revelation by the fullness of the Spirit to reveal Christ, the Logos or fullness of the Word? As John baptized Jesus, when Brother Branham was baptizing 500 in the Ohio River in 1933 before 5,000, the Holy Ghost descended as a star and a Voice from heaven declared, "As John the Baptist introduced My first Coming, your Message will introduce My second Coming" (Luke 3:21-22; Revelation 10:1-7; 8:1; Zechariah 4:7)?
Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit" (John 12:23). Jesus is the Corn of wheat that died on Calvary to redeem His Bride and reproduce His Life in the Church by the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints (Jude 3). But the Ephesian Age (53-170) left its first love, the Word, and was infiltrated by liars usurping the Spirit, working to establish a clerical hierarchy between God and the people (Revelation 2:4, 6). The Smyrnean Church Age (170-312) saw the ascendancy of the self-styled Jews Jesus called, "the synagogue of Satan." As Brother Branham explains, these were neither Jews by birth or religion, and the word "Jew" has nothing to do with race or religion but refers to anyone resident in Judea (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 120). Jesus called these so-called or self-styled Jews in the Ephesian and Smyrnean Church Ages "liars" as He had called their forefathers liars in John 8:44 and exposed their roots in Matthew 23:33-36.
"They were not of the true church, but of the false church because God said "they were the synagogue of Satan." Since they were liars they could make any claim they wished. They could say what they wanted as though it were a fact and then stick to it. And in this case they could be lying with a very powerful thought in mind. Was it not so that the early church was almost if not entirely composed of Jews, making them the original members of His body? The twelve apostles were Jews, [in that they lived in Judea, but neither Jesus nor any of the apostles was a "Jew" in the contemporary sense of this new word; and with the exception of Judas Iscariot who was a Judahite (Acts 1:15-26) the apostles, like Paul, were all Hebrews of the Tribe of Benjamin (Philippians 3:5)] and the later apostles were either Jews or proselytes. Thus for men to swear they were Jews would give them a pre-eminence and a claim to originality. Tell a lie. Stick to it. Never mind fact or history. Just say it and keep saying it to the people, and soon the people will receive it."
[Hence the BIG LIE of three "holocausts," each of six-million so-called Jews in just the twentieth century; fractional reserve banking, global warming; war on the abstract noun "terrorism," bird 'flu, multiculturalism, and so-on. "The seed of the serpent has brought tremendous commerce, wonderful inventions, but with it all comes death. Their gunpowder and atomic bombs kill in war; and in peace time their mechanical inventions, such as the car, kill even more in a time of peace than do the inventions of war destroy in times of trouble. . . But they are religious. They believe in God. They are like their father, the devil, and their ancestor, Cain" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 107:2-3)].
He goes on to condemn the Judaeo-Roman Catholic false vine church: "Now did you catch something there? Isn't that the same spirit right in the church today? Isn't there a group that claims that they are the original and true church and that salvation is found only in her? . . And even her most educated and knowing adherents believe her lies. Satan's synagogue! And if Satan be her father, and he the father of lies, then it is not strange that those in his synagogue are liars also. Consider the thought of blasphemy. These of Satan's synagogue were not blaspheming God in this instance (though that goes without saying) but they were blaspheming the true Church. Certainly. As Cain persecuted and killed Abel because he (Cain) was of that wicked one, and as the dead formal Judaic followers (Jesus said they were of their father, the Devil) tried to destroy the Christians in the first few years of the first age, now this same group (the false vine) is even more strongly attempting to destroy the true believer in the second age. That antichrist spirit is growing" (ibid, p. 120:2-121:1).
In the Pergamean Church Age (312-606) Jesus traced Satan's seat from Babylon to Pergamos, to Rome, thence to the Judaeo-Roman Universal church that organized at the First Nicea Council of AD325 and "holds the doctrine of Balaam." By substituting false teaching for the THUS SAITH THE LORD of his prophecy, Balaam taught the children of Israel to commit natural and spiritual fornication which is idolatry, and the Lord slew 24,000 (Numbers 25; Revelation 18:4). Jesus foretold the Judaeo-Roman church would likewise substitute its reasoning against God's revealed Word as Bible teaching, which is idolatry, and by impersonating the Jewish temple worship with a pope as high priest and a clerical hierarchy beneath him, enshrine "the deeds of the nicolaitanes" as "the doctrine of the nicolaitanes" usurping the Leadership of the Holy Spirit.
The primitive Church cut out from that "great mountain" of Judaic religious oppression multiplied the Life of the Original Seed at its foundation upon the doctrine of the apostles and prophets, but in the first three Church Ages the yield of wheat diminished while the tares multiplied in proportion to the pollution of apostolic faith with "Jewish fables," philosophy, manmade traditions, dogma, Jewish pogroms and Roman martyrdom of genuine Christians who refused to worship their Babylonian trinity of gods. This is evident from the diagram of the "Stone Church" in which it is apparent that in the Thyatira Church Age (606-1520) the faith of the Original Seed fell back into the ground when the Catholic church martyred scores of millions of genuine Christians, sinking Europe into almost a thousand years of spiritual, moral, and intellectual ignorance and barbarity known as the Dark Ages.
Brother Branham said, "Israel had seven church ages. . ." (The Waters of Separation, p:10:1). "Now, just as Israel come in in its beauty, back in the beginning under Abraham, come on down through the patriarchs. And in the day of Ahab it went into the Dark Ages, the darkest age that the church seen. . . And in that time, how that Ahab married Jezebel, brought idolatry into the orthodox church. The same thing, that Protestantism married Romanism in the fifteen hundred years of Dark Ages, in the Pergamos church and come out with idolatry, under the form of Christianity, going on out into lukewarm age that's coming on before us. And we're in it right now. We're in the lukewarm age" (Seven Church Ages, p. 21:161).
Brother Branham is teaching that the nicolaitanism of the Ephesian Age (Revelation 2:6) was Jewish as indicated by their boastful chutzpah in the Smyrnean Age (Revelation 2:9) and Jesus' condemnation of the First Nicea Council in Revelation 2:13-15 in the Pergamean Age, which led to the Dark Ages. Satan is using the same method of the BIG LIE in today's Jewish takeover, leading the whole world into the Dark Ages of the Tribulation for the establishment of Lucifer's global hegemony. This time the consummation will be total, not by water (Genesis 9:15) but by fire (II Peter 3:1-12; Daniel 2).
Follow the Trail of the Serpent. "The first and very important thing that we learn about Jezebel is that she is NOT a daughter of Abraham, nor is her induction into the tribes of Israel one of spiritual admission as was that of Ruth, the Moabitess. No sir. This woman was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon (I Kings 16:31), who was the priest unto Astarte. He had gained the throne by murdering his predecessor, Pheles. So we see right away that she was the daughter of a murderer. (This certainly reminds us of Cain [and Jezebel was Serpent's Seed]). And the way she became a part of Israel was not through the spiritual channels that God had ordained for Gentile admission; but she came in by MARRIAGE to Ahab, the king of the ten tribes of Israel. Now this union as we have seen was not Spiritual; it was political. And so this woman who was steeped in idolatry did not have the least desire to become a worshipper of the One True God, but rather she came with the avowed intentions of turning Israel away from the Lord."
"Now Israel (the ten tribes) had already known what it was to worship the golden calves, but as yet they were not sold out to idolatry, for God was worshipped and the law of Moses was acknowledged. But from the time of Ahab's marriage to Jezebel, idolatry progressed in a deadly fashion. It was when this woman became a priestess in the temples that she erected to Astarte (Venus) and Baal (sun god) that Israel came to the crisis point of her life."
"With this in mind we can now begin to see what the Spirit of God is setting forth in this Thyatirean Age. Here it is."
Ahab married Jezebel and he did it as a political maneuver to strengthen his kingdom and secure it. That is exactly what the church did when it married under Constantine [and what chagan Bulan did when overnight he converted his nation to Talmudic Judaism]. They both got together for political reasons, though they put a spiritual air to it. Now no one can convince me that Constantine was a Christian. He was a pagan with what looked like Christian trappings. He painted white crosses on the soldiers' shields. He was the originator of the Knights of Columbus. He put a cross on the steeple of Saint Sophia's thereby starting a tradition."
"It was Constantine's idea to get everyone together, the pagans, nominal Christians and true Christians. And for awhile it looked as if he would succeed for the real believers came along to see if they could bring back the ones that had drifted away from the Word. When they saw that they couldn't bring them back into the truth, they were forced to break away from the body political. Then when they did, they were called heretics and persecuted. Let me say right here that we have the very same thing going on right now. The people are all coming together" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages p. 227:2-228:3).
"Up till about the time of AD606 when it come into Thyatira, it was nearly all Jewish converts. But after the Jewish, it dropped over in here to both Jew and Gentile (but mostly Jewish). But when it really come through to the Gentile age, come this side (See?), come Martin Luther, John Wesley, and so forth. See? Now, watch these last three after that dark age, come up to the middle age and passed over. When it comes, watch these outer courts. See: flesh, soul, spirit. See? That outer courts, the flesh. The holy place: Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Free Methodist. See? And then holiest of holy: back into Pentecostal, where it begin at the beginning (See?), back at the beginning" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part II, p. 630:264).
After the long period of the Dark Ages, the corn of wheat germinated in the Reformation of the Judaeo-Roman Catholic system of false worship, putting forth two blades and a stalk in the Sardis Church Age (1520-1750), the tassel and pollen in the Philadelphian Church Age (1750-1906), and the shuck that looked so much like grain in the Laodicean Church Age but was just empty husk. When the green corn formed, the church—stalk, blade and husk that had carried the Life—was dead and dried (Matthew 13:30). The Pentecostal husk opened, rejecting the Word (Revelation 3:17-20) and exposing its new-formed grain to the S_O_N-Light of the "Shout" of Brother Branham's Message calling the virgin out from Rome and her once Protestant daughters to meet the Bridegroom and ripen to maturity as the Capstone "in the unity of the faith" for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7; 18:4; Ephesians 4:13; Romans 8:19).
Christ's end-time Bride is now in "the Prophet's chamber" waiting for the last of our Brethren to recognize his position in the Word and come to his place in the Body. Then we will enter the King's chamber with its open coffer signifying the resurrection of the sleeping saints and our translation. Were we speaking of the literal Great Pyramid which did not receive its capstone (signifying Israel's rejection of Messiah) it would still be said, "Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord," because Christ's end-time Bride forms the Capstone in the air completing the pyramid in the secret rapture of the Church.
When Israel rejected grace, God commanded Moses to place His Testimony, "the curse of the Law," an omer of manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, within a chest of acacia wood crowned and overlaid with gold within and without. It was His Judgment Seat, but sprinkled with the blood of an accepted sacrifice it was a Mercy Seat signifying God's Presence with and favour toward Israel, typing the humanity and deity of the first God-man and true repository for His Testimony, the Bread of Life, and resurrection from the dead typed by Aaron's rod that budded (John 14:6; Revelation 11:19). Since the Laodicean Church Age ended with the rejection of "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (Luke 17:28-30; Romans 11:32; II Thessalonians 2:3, 10-12; II Timothy 3:1-4:4; Revelation 3:17-20), Christ's Mediation in the office of Son of God was fulfilled and the Mercy Seat in the heavenly temple became a Judgment Seat whereon He sits in judgment as Son of man. Earth is God's footstool, but as the life is in the blood and we are the Blood of Christ by the baptism with the Holy Ghost, our presence makes it a Mercy Seat so He cannot "smite the Earth with a curse," until He takes us Home (Malachi 4:6; II Thessalonians 2:6-12; Revelation 12:7-13).
One word or deed against His elect will bring condemnation upon the sinner who will answer in that day when the saints judge the Earth (I Corinthians 6:2-3). Daniel 7:9-10 describes the White Throne Judgment: "I watched as thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days took the Judgment Seat, whose raiment was as white as snow, and His hair like the whitest wool: His throne was a blaze of flames, and its wheels were burning fire. A stream of Fire came from His Presence: thousand thousands [the Bride of all Ages] served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him [the righteous non-elect who must be judged]: the court sat in judgment and the books [of the sinners] were opened." This is when those whose names are in the Book of Life will be separated from those whose names have been removed, or being physical Serpent's seed were never in the Book of Life (Matthew 25:32-33).
Revelation 20:11-25, "I saw a great white throne, and One seated upon it, from whose Presence earth and heaven fled; and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and the books [of sinners] were opened: and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life: and the dead were judged by what was written in the books [of the sinners], each according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and every man was judged according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of Fire. This is the second death—the lake of Fire. And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of Fire".
In Newsletter #634 we began studying the Throne of Mercy and Judgment. Revelation 4:2-3, 9-11, "Immediately I was in the Spirit: and saw a throne standing in heaven, and One seated on the throne who resembled in appearance a jasper stone and a sardius. And a [horizontal] rainbow that looked like an emerald encircled the throne. . . And whenever the living creatures render praise and honour and thanksgiving to the One seated on the throne, Who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying, You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and dominion: for You have created all things, and by your will they were created and called into being".
Verse two says, "ONE" (not two or three but ONE) is seated on the throne. Verse three says, "HE" (NOT they) resembled in appearance a jasper stone. Verse nine says that the living creatures render honour to "HIM" (not them). Verse ten says that the elders fell down before "HIM" (not them). Verse eleven says that they cried, "You are worthy our Lord and God" (not Lords), and that this ONE on the throne was the "Creator," which is Jesus (John 1:3), who is Jehovah-Spirit-God of Genesis 1:1 made flesh.
Ezekiel 1:27-28, I John 1:5-7 and Revelation 1:10-16 all reflect the scene in the vision of Revelation 4:4-5, "Twenty-four thrones surrounded God's Throne, seating twenty-four elders clad in white robes and with golden crowns on their heads. Lightning and thunder issued from the Throne, before which burnt seven lamps for Fire, they are the seven Spirits of God." The twenty-four elders are Israel's twelve patriarchs, and the twelve apostles as John saw in a further unfolding of the vision (Matthew 19:28; Revelation 21:12-14). In the vision of Daniel 7 the Judgment was set and the thrones were placed but not occupied because the patriarchs were in paradise pending redemption, while the twelve apostles were not yet born. John's vision is set in 1963 after the end of the Laodicean Church Age when the seven portions of the Spirit of God having anointed the angels to the Seven Church Ages to deliver "that which was in PART" have returned before the Throne of "that which is Perfect" Jesus Christ, the fullness of the Word who created heavens and earth (I Corinthians 13:10). It is no longer a Throne of Mercy for without the Blood it has become the Throne of Judgment. Christ is no longer in the office of Son of God and Mediator, but Son of man and Judge, "For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22).
Our testimony of this vision is the iridescent rainbow-coloured Pillar of Cloud that appeared over Arizona on February 28, 1963 in token of God's acceptance of the Church Age saints and His end-time Bride, who, being predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word, was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and requires no mediation. This Cloud was the sign of His second or 'parousia' Coming "In the dispensation of the fullness of times to gather together all things in Christ, things in heaven and on earth. In Him we too were made His heritage, as foreordained according to His purpose, who works all things in agreement with the counsel of His Own will: that we who first put our hope in Christ, might be to the praise of His glory" (Ephesians 1:10-12). This token of the Shekinah at the end of the Age confirms Jesus is the Alpha of Genesis 9:13 and the Omega of Revelation 10:1. Having come from the Logos He returned to the Logos (John 13:3). Quoting Jude 14 and Revelation 8:1, Brother Branham said, "And Jesus comes from heaven with ten thousands times ten thousands of His saints, and the Bible said that the heavens was empty for the space of a half hour. Where is this big fellow, God then? Uh-huh. See, He's in Christ. Sure" (Sardis Church Age, p. 348:96). About ten days later Christ opened the First Seal, and like John on Patmos island, Brother Branham was caught up from Sunset mountain into a constellation of the theophanies of the Church Age Messengers, emblematic of the seven Spirits of God lined-up before the Throne. With them in the fullness of the Word were the theophanies of the Bride of all Ages, including those who will not sleep but change in the atoms, for Redemption was over at the opening of the Seals in March, 1963.
Our theophanies were represented by the four (Gk.) 'zoon,' living creatures not (Gk.) 'therion,' or savage beasts, and metaphorically, brutal bestial men, like the beast of Papal Rome that will martyr the two Hebrew prophets of Revelation 11; the image of the beast of Imperial Rome, the United States of America and the (once) Protestant image of Papal Rome in Revelation 13, or the church and state reunited in Revelation 17—forcing the "mark of the beast," which is the doctrine of the Trinity. In Revelation 5:8-9 we "sing a new song [with the elders] saying: You are worthy to take the Book and open the Seals, for You were slain, and have redeemed us out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation [of Adam's race]." Brother Branham said, "Sure it was the Bride, the raptured saints. . . the Lamb had the Book in His hand. He'd done left the Throne of mediatorial grace. See? . . . When the Lamb leaves that seat of the Throne, being a Mediator, He becomes down here [on Earth in W_O_R_D form to incarnate His end-time Bride (I Thessalonians 4:14-16; Revelation 10:1-4)], and the day of redemption for the Church is finished. . . Now, here He comes out, the Lamb, and then the day of redemption is finished, and all that's going to be redeemed is already been redeemed and put on the Book, and He's out here opening the Book. That's right" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 502:3-5).
Ephesians 4:30 said, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed until the day of your redemption." Hold that Word "redemption" (See?), until the day that the Book of Redemption has been revealed, and the Redeemer comes to claim His possession nothing can do it" (ibid. p. 78:3-4).
The Seven Church Ages ended in Revelation 3 with Christ outside the door of denominational creeds and traditions as once He was rejected by the Hebrew denominations. Typed by John who represents, "He who has an ear and hears the present Truth the Spirit is saying to the Church for their day," the elect are caught up in the Spirit in the antitype of the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of Israel's Pentecostal feast to see "things that must be after the Church Ages" (Revelation 4:1). We are in the "rapture," which is the threefold PROCESS of I Thessalonians 4:16. We live in the hour of indictment and setting-up of the judgment. The "One seated on the Throne" is the Spirit that was on Earth anointing His angels and elect with seven measures of the Spirit. That same Jesus is now Judge.
God told His Prophet, "Now, there's a third pull coming, but don't try to explain it." Because His mediation for the saints predestinated to hear only PART-Word is fulfilled, and redemption is over. The 'third pull' of his ministry was the revelation of the Seven Thunders of the unwritten Seventh Seal which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals, which will only be fully received by His end-time Bride predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word.
When "the woman was deceived" (I Timothy 2:14), "the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever, the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground whence he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden, He placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way to the Tree of Life" (Genesis 3:22-24).
The Tree of Life was Christ in theophany and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was the theophany of Lucifer. The four living creatures had a flaming sword guard the way to the Presence of God in the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve could not return under the blood of their sheep skin coats, but one day the Tree of Life would be made flesh, born of a woman, to play the part of our KINSMAN Redeemer and pay redemption's price.
Following Israel's fall from grace, God placed them under the Law and ordinances of the Tabernacle as a sacred play to instruct the nation in the way back to the Presence of God in the Tree of Life. On the Day of Atonement God revealed His Presence to the high priest in the Shekinah above the Mercy Seat between the living creatures, and the twelve tribes camped around the tabernacle to guard the way to the Presence. Judah in the East under the standard of the Lion, with Issachar and Zebulon; on the South side under the standard with the face of Man was Reuben, with Simeon and Gad; on the West side was Ephraim under the standard of an Ox, with Manasseh and Benjamin, and on the North side under the standard of an Eagle was Dan, with Asher and Naphtali (Numbers 10).
Since Pentecost the Throne of God's Presence has been in the soul of His elect. "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body, whether we be Judeans or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit" (I Corinthians 12:13). However, we must pass through His Throne guards in order for the Holy Spirit to have the preeminence to act in us as He did in the apostles. "The four Gospels are the four powers of Revelation chapter four" (William Branham, C.O.D., p. 321:688). Four is the number of the Earth, and deliverance. They do not contradict one another and lead to the baptism with the Holy Ghost, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory" Colossians 1:27), and the elect respond to the anointing for their Age (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 344:3; 352:4-5).
Guarding the way of the East with the standard of a Lion is the Gospel of Matthew the apostle, addressed primarily to Israelites. Now although there is no Scripture for it, Trinitarians believe there is a God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, but with this testimony they cannot pass the guard in the East, for Matthew 1:18 says, "The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost".
So Rome's "God the Holy Ghost" was His Father.
Matthew 1:19-20, "Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to put her to public disgrace, resolved to divorce her privately. But while he was considering this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, You son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Ghost".
Rome's "God the Father" cannot be His Father.
Matthew 1:21-23, "And she will bear a son, and you shall call His Name JESUS [i.e. Jehovah-Saviour]: for He will save His people from their sins. All this took place in fulfillment of what God had spoken through His prophet in Isaiah 7:14, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His Name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us".
One cannot pass through the Eastern gate with Trinitarian doctrine, for Matthew concurs with John 4:24 at the Northern gate that God is One Spirit: He is the Holy Spirit. "Father" is not another god or even a name, but a Title the Holy Spirit received when His first Son, Adam was created. God will not erect His Throne in your heart with a Trinitarian testimony.
Guarding the way of the West with the standard of an Ox is the Gospel pastor Mark prepared for Roman or Gentile Christians. Mark 16:14-18, "Afterward Jesus appeared to the eleven as they sat at table, and chided their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen." As it is today when those with a witness of the Holy Ghost are disbelieved by professing Christians when they present the Promise of this hour.
"And He told them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature."
There is but one Gospel (II Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:6) common to each of the living creatures guarding the way to the Tree of Life. If you cannot pass one of these creatures you will be unable to pass by any of the remaining three.
"He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned." You must be baptized, and there is but One Lord, one common faith or understanding, and one water baptism for the remission of past sins (Ephesians 4:5). And these signs shall follow those who believe".
Now the evangelicals (so-called) claim the Gifts of the Spirit were for another day, the Anglicans recite liturgy, and the Baptists say you must receive their unscriptural baptism and live a good life. But:
"In My Name will they cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." That leaves the evangelicals outside the West gate.
Guarding the way of the South with a standard bearing the face of a Man is the Gospel of Dr. Luke, the teacher, who wrote especially for we Gentiles. Trinitarians approaching from the South testify they are baptized strictly according to Matthew 28:19, "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." But in Luke 24:47 Jesus said, "That repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem".
Since Jesus' Name is not Father, Son or Holy Ghost, Trinitarians will be denied entry at the Southern gate.
Guarding the way of the North with the standard of the Eagle, is the Gospel of John, the evangelist and prophet who wrote especially for Christ's end-time Bride in this Eagle Age. Denominationals approach the Northern gate with the social gospel and a humanitarian program, but John 14:12 says, "He who believes on Me, the works that I do shall He do also; and greater works than these shall He do; because I go to My Father".
One cannot enter by the Northern gate with organizational planning and socialism or even a so-called "Apostle's Creed"! But faith: "then if you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you" (John 15:7).
Until iniquity was found in him, Lucifer, now the Adversary, Satan, was God's right-hand man to fellowship, the cherub consecrated to the Lord by the anointing oil, a type of redeemed man in his ultimate state of perfection: complete, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. God set him over mount Zion, but in ambitious imagination he took the place of God, "under whose feet was, as it were, a pavement of sapphire [while His glory was like] devouring Fire" (Exodus 24:10, 17), and instead of building Michael's Kingdom by guarding and guiding men to fellowship with the Tree of Life, he devised a scheme of deception whereby he might usurp the kingdom. It is now six thousand years since the living creatures stood with a flaming sword guarding the way to the Tree of Life; as the four Gospels under the New Covenant they stand guard with "the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God" preventing the profane but leading the elect to the Tree of Life.
One morning in January, 1963, shortly after Brother Branham had relocated to Tucson, he looked from the window of his apartment to a distant spot in the Catalina mountains, and heard the Angel of the Lord say to him, "Go there." At about 8.30 that morning he entered the canyon, drove up as far as he could, and set out on foot. He found himself in Sabino Canyon "up where the eagles were flying"; there in the midst of some jagged rocks he felt the Presence of the Lord and knelt down. Praying holding his hands out to God upon top of that mountain, a Sword dropped into his hand with a pearl handle and a blade about three feet long glistened in the Sun. Then a Voice that shook the canyon said, "This is the King's Sword." Later the Angel of the Lord revealed It was the Word in the hand.
On February 28, the sign of Christ's second or 'parousia' Coming manifest (Matthew 24:3; Acts 1:9-11; Revelation 1:7). The PART-Word Body of the Church Age saints was complete and Christ's Mediation was fulfilled. About ten days later Christ opened the First Seal and the Prophet was caught up into the theophanies of the seven angels and the four living creatures, which are the Gospel of Christ manifest in the redeemed saints of all Ages (Ephesians 1:10; Revelation 4:1), and commanded to return to his Church in Jeffersonville where the Lord would reveal the mystery of the Seven Seals.
The mysteries of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10, which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals are the Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers and finish the mystery of God (Malachi 4:5-6, Revelation 10:7). The Sword in Brother Branham's hand introduced the One who is now taking us back to Eden in the "shout" of his Message, with the "Voice of the Archangel" whispering His secrets in our heart, placing the Message from Genesis to Revelation to bring us into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the sons of God and the translation following the "seventh Trump."
Tucson is in a valley surrounded by mountains whose names spell out C_H_R_I_S_T. "Sabino," as in Sabino Canyon, is derived from the Sabine, Samnite warriors from the central south of the Italian peninsula who were some of the earliest gladiators who appeared in the Roman games shortly after the defeat of Samnium in the fourth century BC. They fought with the gladius, a twenty-seven inch straight sword, broad towards the handle, designed to thrust and parry rather than to cut and slice, they fought to the death. With a firm grip on the Sword of the Lord in the strong hand of faith in the revelation of the Seven Seals we have through the Sword in Brother Branham's hand, we press forward through the darkness and after a short and powerful demonstration of the Spirit our little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus.
"Surrounding the Throne were twenty-four elders (indicated by the circle), and on each side of the Throne there were four living creatures: the first living creature was like a Lion; the second, like an Ox; the third, bore the face of a Man; and the fourth was like a flying Eagle" (Revelation 4:4, 6). The four Cherubim, God's Throne guards, are those who are at one with Him, His elect, ultimately Christ's Bride of all Ages who sit beside Him on the Throne and accompany Him wherever He goes (Revelation 3:21)."These are Christians who have come out of the great tribulation [of the Gentile dispensation beginning with their flight from Titus and extending to our flight from "friends, Romans and countrymen" in the time of the manifestation of the Sons of God following the Seventh Trump], and have washed their robes, and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb [earnestly contending for the faith which was once delivered to the apostolic saints (Matthew 24:21-29; Revelation 20:4; Jude 3)]. This is why they are before God's Throne day and night and serve Him in His temple: and why He who sits on the Throne spreads His tent over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the Sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb who is in the center of the Throne will be their Shepherd, and will lead them to springs of living water: and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes" (Revelation 7:14-17). nl635.htm
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Throne of Mercy and Judgment
Bible Believers' Newsletter #634
"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.
Our main Article in this Newsletter is the first installment of a review of Revelation chapter four, which for the benefit of some of new subscribers is upheld both by Scripture and quotations from the Message of God's Prophet, William Branham. I pray the Lord impresses upon you the extreme lateness of the hour and the humbling grace with which He has blessed you through the Message considering millions imprisoned in the world church system have no conception their worship is in vain and their church apostate.
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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Vatican promises to open Wartime Archives
May 25, 2010 — Vatican archives for the entire period of the Second World War, when the Church has been accused of failing to do enough to help the Jewish people, will be opened soon for scholarly research. Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Council for Christian Unity, also warned that cutting itself off from its Jewish roots for centuries weakened the Church so badly that it could only offer a "feeble" resistance against persecution of the Jews.
He said that Israel without the Church was in danger of becoming "too particularistic and reclusive", but that the Church without Israel was "in danger of losing its historical grounding and becoming ahistorical and Gnostic." He added: "Judaism and Christianity need each other and therefore are dependent on each other". . .
This month Cardinal Kasper, a theologian and linguist, was honoured in the US for "extraordinary" achievements in interfaith dialogue. The American Jewish committee presented him with the prestigious Isaiah Inter-religious Award at its annual meeting in Washington DC. Full story: timesonline.co.uk
Comment: The Roman church has "Jewish roots," Christianity has no historic of present association with Jewry except as victim of Jewish pogroms. Indeed the word "JEW" was in no Bible in any language prior to the latter part of the eighteenth century and this new word has a contradictory meaning to the two words it has replaced.
Roman Catholicism "without Israel was "in danger of losing its historical grounding and becoming ahistorical and Gnostic" because the two must consummate the agreement prophesied in Daniel 9:27 and Revelation 17:11-18, without which the plan for Lucifer's totalitarian one world government will not come to fruition.
"Judaism and Christianity need each other and therefore are dependent on each other." Nonsense. Judaism is the antithesis of Yahweh Torah and of Christianity. Judaeo-Roman Catholic church and Edomite Judaism "need each other and therefore are dependent on each other."
Why would "democratic" Germany—of all countries—want to keep the Adolf Eichmann files, detailing the years of the so-called holocaust, sealed? After all it is "democratic" Germany that persecutes and prosecutes free holocaust research more than any other lobby-controlled country. It is "democratic" Germany that insists the fantastic story of six million "gassed" Jews is true. Non-believers face prison sentences up to life in Germany. Why then would Germany want the Eichmann files sealed? There answer is: these files, if opened, would expose the holocaust Germany declared sacrosanct, a BIG LIE.
The same tactic applies to sealed Vatican archives for the years of the so-called holocaust. Hundreds of Catholic ministers who performed pastoral care at the Auschwitz camp reported every detail to Rome. globalfire.tv/nj
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Von Braun: Illuminati Plan for E.T. Deception
May 26, 2010 — Dr. Wernher Von Braun was privy to work on anti gravity propulsion vehicles. With access to NASA's secret programs, von Braun apparently began to see the "big picture" regarding the true goals of America's space program and how the military-industrial complex was manipulating it according to a secret, hidden agenda. . . He said a secretive transnational power, already in existence, would move to permanently take control of this planet through a hoaxed alien invasion from outer space.
According to von Braun, space based weapons, later known as the "Star Wars" program, were to be promoted as a "shield" against the Russians. Then, as a defense against 'rogue' nations. Then, as protection against asteroids and meteors. Finally they would be presented as a safeguard against an extraterrestrial threat. . .
According to von Braun, all of these rationales would be lies. These space-based weapons would be useless against nuclear suitcase bombs available even in 1974, as well as chemical, viral, bacterial and biological terror weapons. More importantly, von Braun told Rosin, we already had the technology to build anti-gravity vehicles and entire transportation systems which did not require so-called 'fossil' fuels. Instead, they used "beams" of energy, eliminating all pollution. . .
Full story: henrymakow.com
Comment: This confirms disclosures by Dr. "Peter Beter" in the '70s covered in several Newsletters. Along with climate change this was among the HOAXES postulated in "Report from Iron Mountain." Enter these KeyWords in the "Search this Site" window on our main page.
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Victory in Sight
The banks have corrupted parliaments and courts in order to achieve their seemingly invincible position. Through the parliaments, banks have set in place legislation which form the blue print and provide the means to realize their goal.
However, such legislation can only be enforced through the courts where, if justice were to prevail, bad laws would be vetoed and rejected in fair trials or tribunals. That is why the banks have to have dominance over the courts. They do this by firstly controlling the judges and secondly eliminating juries—thereby removing any possibility that the judges may "do right" or that the people may exercise their will.
But there is a chink in the banks' armour—an Achilles' heel. There is a way to smash the banks by proclaiming a simple truth which the banks have swept aside in the implementation of their practice of issuing loan contracts.
The truth is in the meaning of the word, "variable," as found in the Oxford English Dictionary. "Variable" means "uncertain" and "certain" means "not variable." For contracts to be valid under the common law, there must be "certainty of terms" as an essential element. Therefore, all loan contracts in which the banks have incorporated variable interest rates are invalid. Those loans are illegal and the banks are common law criminals.
The judges know this and are concealing this serious offence. This website exposes the incompetence, corruption and treachery in the judiciary. Full story: rightsandwrong.com.au Indictment Plaintiff's Affidavit Notice of Motion Defendant's Submission Plaintiff's Reply Notice of Understanding and Intent and Claim of Right
Comment: For almost 3 decades, since the passing of the infamous, duplicitous and unlawful Credit Consumers Act 1981, the banksters of the City of London have been stealing and killing and destroying. Since 1996, Dr. Wilson has been trying to sever the variable interest rate component from loan contracts, because certainty of terms is one of the eight essential elements for the creation of a contract. Brother John has been unlawfully imprisoned for months at a time and 'the City' has attempted to have him certified mentally unsound.
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First Ethnic Statistics ever published in France reveal 54% of Babies born in Paris are Black
May 24, 2010 — In France, ethnic statistics are forbidden. But they left a flaw in their system: drepanocytosis is a genetic illness that only affects Blacks. Today, a map showing the "risk population" for drepanocytosis has been published: thus, the "Black population".
This is the first time ever that we have such ethnic statistics in France. And the results are. . . alarming. This only counts for BLACKS. . . Arabs are the other half. . . Full story: eutimes.net
Comment: This is the manifestation of Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 24:37. Multiculturalism is miscegenation, which is a accursed of God and a universal repetition of the original sin (Genesis 1:11; 6:1-4). Professor Kevin MacDonald of California State University, Long Beach, finds that Jews have been the foremost advocates of immigration in England, France, and Canada, and that Jewish groups were the most vocal opponents of independence for Quebec. Australian Jews led the effort to dismantle the "white Australia" policy, one reason for which was cited in an editorial in the Australian Jewish Democrat: "The strengthening of multi-cultural or diverse Australia is also our most effective insurance policy against anti-Semitism. The day Australia has a Chinese Australian Governor General I would feel more confident of my freedom to live as a Jewish Australian." Like Earl Raab writing about the United States, this Australian Jew is prepared to sacrifice the traditional culture, people, and identity of Australia to specifically Jewish interests. It would not be surprising if such an openly expressed objective did not have the opposite effect from that intended, and increase anti-Jewish sentiment.
Speaking before a special meeting of the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest on January 12, 1952, Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich said concerning progress towards their NWO, ". . . We will openly reveal our identity with the races of Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last generation of white children is now being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory . . ."
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Corporal Klinger and the Barney Frank Brigade
May 26, 2010 — While some might scoff at the idea of transgendered soldiers ever serving in the Armed Forces, the transgendered are an essential component of the so-called LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) community pushing repeal of the military’s homosexual exclusion policy. Don't forget that the Obama Administration has already claimed credit for the first openly transgendered appointee to the federal bureaucracy—a man/woman at the Commerce Department named Mitchell/Amanda Simpson. . . While it is tempting to think that the only damage that would be done would be the turning of our once-feared military into a global laughingstock, there are important national security and health implications to the homosexualization of the Armed Forces. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: "As it was in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30).
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Gulf Oil Gusher Conspiracy Coverup
May 27, 2010 — Was this disaster just an accident, or were other more sinister forces at play in order to further cripple society toward a more manageable population size? Ominous midnight symbolism. BP's "live" feed caught in an obvious short loop shows further evidence of cover-up. Full story: pesn.com bp.concerts.com
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Everything about this Year's Bilderberg Conference!
May 28, 2010 — "Sovereign states' legal systems and political establishments entail numerous obstacles to oligarchic globalism, but the coordination of corporate practice—establishing a global cartel which embraces all economic sectors—makes it possible to circumvent these restrictions. On this point, the Bilderbergs (also called "The secret world government" and "the Quisling factory") constitute a threat to civilized society". . . participants' mouths seems to be sealed with Seven Seals . . . complemented by an almost complete media blackout, in that the mainstream media neglects to mention that Bilderberg meetings take place.
All of the Bilderberg construction is inherently undemocratic, and thus a threat to basic values of "the enlightened Western country with transparency in government, in politics, press freedom and deeply embedded democratic rights". . . the most important Bilderberg participants over the years has been democratically elected leaders, who have abused the trust of their constituents by attending Bilderberg meetings behind voters' backs without having to stand up after the meetings and inform what obligations they have incurred as a result of their participation. . .
Knights of Malta and the Society of Jesus were present when the plans for today's EU was hatched. EU citizens were lured into the community under the promise of "freedom and prosperity" (much of which has also manifested itself in practice) while the iron hand in the form of continuous centralization of power and undermining of civil liberties would remain hidden until it was become an irreversible fait accompli, and too late for EU citizens to prevent.
Henry Kissinger will be absent from this year's meeting because he fears arrest. Only Jesuit intervention of senior Irish power men prevented him finally being collected in Ireland for his extensive criminal record. . . Full story: nyhetsspeilet.no
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Throne of Mercy and Judgment
Before we study "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" let us examine Revelation chapter four and review teachings vital to comprehending the present Truth: Redemption is Over, Christ's Mediation, The Rapture and the Second Coming, and Christ's Parousia to we Gentiles, all thoroughly supported by Scripture but may be unfamiliar to new subscribers. However in this article, they will be supported by quotations from the Message of God's Prophet, William Branham. Newcomers to his Message are admonished to study the main articles of Newsletters #627 to #633, and confirm their understanding with God's unchanging Word from Genesis to Revelation in order to build faith in the present Truth based on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.
Haggai 2:6-7, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, in a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come. . ."
The arrival of the true Temple in which we are pillars metaphorically shook the world, and Israel under the rule of Edomite Jewry (to whom He was not sent) rejected Messiah, but we Gentiles desired Him. In Hebrews 12:26-28, Paul condenses Haggai 2:6-7 and Haggai 2:21-22, implying it was one and the same shaking, beginning at His first advent and finished at the second. The present Spiritual shaking of this end-time Message will be confirmed by a universal convulsion in nature.
John was the covenant prophet foretold in Isaiah 40:3-4 seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. From the age of nine he lived in the wilderness free from denominational influences, and when he commenced preaching at the age of thirty he did not promote his ministry with signboards or announcements in the synagogues, but clad only in sheepskin walked out of the desert into the Jordan calling for repentance and baptism. This was when "the high places were made low, and the low places were made high."
John was so humble and his Message so simple the denominations dismissed him and could not recognize the significance of his Message which shook Israel who did not perceive it, for God had blinded their eyes and sealed their ears that they should not see (Isaiah 29:10-12). But the elect did receive It. "When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said, Who warned you Serpent's seed to flee from the approaching judgment? Bring forth fruits that befit repentance, and do not presume to say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I assure you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham." (His power and liberty are not limited by hereditary right. He may reject them as spurious children of Abraham; and on the other hand He is able to transform Gentiles of Adam's race to genuine children of Abraham by faith (Romans 9; Galatians 3:26-29).
"The axe is already laid to the root of the trees [for the spiritual world and mankind are made of those two trees which had their roots in Eden. The punishment of the spurious descendants of Abraham had begun and will descend upon all unfruitful trees, or trees of a bad kind (Matthew 7:15-21)]: therefore every tree that fails to bring forth good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. Whereas I baptize you with water for repentance: He who comes after me is so far superior to me, I am not fit to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire. The winnowing fan is in His hand, and he will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the granary, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable Fire" (Matthew 3:7-12).
At the end of the Gentile dispensation, the Gospel preached by the fourth 'Elijah,' Brother Branham, is shaking a world seemingly oblivious to its call and immune to his Message, but since the 'parousia' Coming of the Bridegroom it is shaking the elect fruit out of Mystery Babylon to be filled with His Spirit (Matthew 25:5-6). Quoting Hebrews 12:26 he said, "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." Once more God will shake the earth and with it shake everything loose that can be shaken. Then He will renovate it. Just last March, 1964, that Good Friday earthquake of Alaska shook the whole world though it did not unbalance it. But God was warning by a world tremor what He will soon do on a greater scale. He is going to blast and rock this sin-cursed world, my brother, my sister, and there is only one place that can stand that shock, and that is in the fold of the Lord Jesus. And I would beseech you while God's mercy is still available to you, that you give your whole life, unreservedly to Jesus Christ, Who as the faithful Shepherd will save you and care for you and present you faultless in glory with exceeding great joy" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 323).
Chapters one to three of the Book of Revelation contain God's Messages to the Church. The whole Church was complete when the last saint predestinated to Laodicea was born-again in Revelation three since His end-time Bride predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word by the revelation of the Seven Seals was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and does not require mediation for ignorance (I Corinthians 13:10), so His Mediation was fulfilled before the revelation of the Seals. From chapters four to nineteen the modern state of Israel is restored in Palestine (Matthew 24:32-35) where the Lord will reveal the Seven Trumpet mysteries to 144,000 elect Israelites. Chapters nineteen to twenty-two deal with Israel's revelation of Christ's 'parousia' Coming, the return of the Church as a glorified Bride adorned for her Husband, the final disposition of sin and the renewed heavens and earth.
Revelation 1:9-13, "I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation [of the Gentile dispensation (Matthew 24:21-29)], and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island of Patmos on account of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day [which will commence when Israel's Seventh Trump signals the end of the Gentile dispensation with the sinking of Los Angeles and a 1,500 x 300-400 mile section of earth]; and I heard behind me a loud Voice like a trumpet saying, Write what you see in a book, and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. Then I turned to see whose Voice was speaking to me, and [behind me, back in the Church Ages of man's day which was past] I saw seven golden lampstands [signifying the Bride drawn out from each Age, which were all fulfilled], and in their midst stood One like the Son of man (Daniel 7:13; Revelation 14:14), dressed in a robe that reached to His feet, and girt [like a judge] about the chest with a golden girdle." He is no longer in the office of Son of God mediating for the ignorance of the PART-Word saints, for the last saint predestinated the Church Ages has been born-again (Daniel 7:1-10; John 5:27).
Brother Branham said, "He wasn't in His priesthood now [as Son of God and Mediator]. John went all the way over into the Lord's day and saw Him coming as the Judge. . . John 5:22, "For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son." That right? He is the Judge, the Supreme Judge. And John shows that He wasn't in the day of His prophecy, as a prophet, neither was He plumb out into the days of His kingship, but He was in the day of the Lord as a Judge. Now, how many knows that the priest having his girdle, his string around his waistline meant he was in service? Anyone who reads the Testament, who knows the Old Testament, knows that. When a priest is girded around here, he's in service; he's a servant. But He was girded up here: a Judge" (The Patmos Vision, p. 103, 169-170. See Son of Man, Son of God, Son of Man, Son of David and Christ's Offices of Prophet, Priest and King typed in the Old Testament for an explanation of Christ's offices in the different dispensations).
Brother Branham said that in Revelation chapter four John represents the entire Church taken up because when the last saint was baptized into the Laodicean part of the Body the entire Church is redeemed, as Christ's end-time Bride was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Thus, redemption is over. Throughout the Book of Revelation John represents Christ's end-time Bride because the Book was sealed until Christ opened and revealed it to "the Seventh Angel" after the Laodicean or Pentecostal Church Age terminated in apostasy "and knows it not" (Revelation 3:17-20; 10:4, 7). During his captivity on Patmos (AD95-96), John was caught up in the Spirit to a time in our near future and in a succession of visions saw and heard William Branham (1909-1965), the angel of Revelation 1:1 expound the Seven Seals as the Lord revealed their mystery to him in 1963 (Revelation 6:1-17; 8:1; 10:1-6; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11).
Revelation 4:1-2, "After all Seven Church Ages were fulfilled [in Revelation 2-3], I saw that the Door of grace remained open in heaven [for Christ's end-time Bride]: and the first Voice [of Revelation 1:10, 12] which I heard speaking to me loud and clear like a trumpet said, Come up here through the open Door [following Brother Branham into the Presence or Shekinah], and I will show you what must take place hereafter. Immediately I was raptured in the Spirit: and saw a throne in heaven, and One seated on the throne." This "One" who holds the Title Deed to everything Adam had forfeited is "the Ancient of days," made flesh to play the part of KINSMAN Redeemer for Adam and his race, claims redemption's rights in Revelation 5 and has "proclaimed the day of vengeance of our God" through Brother Branham's ministry, indicting Rome and the world which has rejected grace (Isaiah 61:2; Revelation 14:9-11; 17:1; 22:6-10, etc).
Revelation 4:1-2 was fulfilled when Brother Branham was caught up from Sunset Mountain into a constellation of the theophanies of the Church Age messengers and the four living creatures on about March 9, 1963 as foreseen in visions recounted to his church the previous December (see Newsletters #632 and #633). We must follow him into the Presence by the mysteries of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals and the unwritten spoken Word of Revelation 8:1 (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 327:1).
The Tabernacle and its services patterned after Moses' heavenly visions were ordained to illustrate God's plan of redemption and the way back into His Presence in the form of a play acted out in simplicity the meek would receive by revelation, but whose literal interpretation would stumble the exalted learning of the wise and prudent. So when reading Scriptures such as Daniel 7:13; Revelation 1:4; 4:8, 11; 5:5-9 and 13, we should not imagine there are two gods, for Jesus Christ is the beginning of the One Person of God creating Himself a part of creation. Thus Leviticus 16 describes the annual day of atonement and how God cleansed the Temple sanctuary of the accumulated sins of the priesthood and of the nation. However, the blood of bulls and goats could not remit but merely covered the sins of the year past pending Messiah's propitiation for the sins of the world. There were two goats: one was made sin and slain, while the other was presented alive before the Lord and led into the wilderness to carry their sins away. The two goats represented the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ who bore our sins upon Himself to Calvary and carried them far away to a place of no more remembrance. Literalist Seventh Day Adventists believe one goat is Satan.
The intellectual Israelite hierarchy and their Edomite impersonators took the literal meaning of the play, crucified Messiah, and after 2,000 years they are determined to build another temple despite Isaiah 66:1-2, and mature adults spend their days examining dumb heifers in search of one hair that is not red, imagining this is the will of God! "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." The theological presumptions of intellectual nicolaitanes pontificating over psuedo-Christian Establishment and renegade churches have driven men from the simplicity of Gospel faith to reunion with Rome and union with Judaism, as if the insanely literal theories of Unitarianism, trinities, transubstantiation, and false baptisms in three Titles devoid of revelation were not sufficiently carnal in themselves.
Now Jesus Christ is "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the Lord God who is, and who was and who is coming, the All-mighty" (Revelation 1:8; 17; 2:8). It is He who is seated "with His Father in His throne" (Revelation 3:21). Jesus Christ is the One Person of God who declared, "All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18; John 13:3; I Corinthians 15:20-28). He is the only "One" seated on the throne (Revelation 4:2).
Speaking of the Church Ages Jesus said, "The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent Him. I assure you absolutely, He who hears My Word, and believes on Him who sent Me, has eternal Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto Life. I assure you absolutely, The hour is coming, and now is, when those who are dead in sin and trespasses shall hear the Voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live [through new birth during the Church Ages]. For as the Father has eternal Life in Himself; He has granted the Son to have eternal Life in Himself; and given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of man [in this our day]" (John 5:22-27). So much for Jehovah Witness speculation (II Corinthians 3:6).
Brother Branham said, "Now, God, when He is enthroned, He is then Judge. Is that right? When does the judges judge? When he comes to his judgment seat, a throne" (Revelation Four, Part II, p. 623:214). The scene in Revelation chapter four is set about ten days before the Seals were revealed to the Church in Jeffersonville, the Seven Church Ages are over and Christ is no longer in the office of Son of God and Mediator, but Son of Man enthroned as the Supreme Judge. "He who sat upon the throne was to look upon as jasper and sardius stone [Reuben and Benjamin, the first and the last, Alpha and Omega], and a rainbow that looked like an emerald encircled the throne" (Revelation 4:3; 15:3). An emerald is green, the colour of life. Jesus is the All-mighty, and the covenant sign of this rainbow is not the vertical half bow we see on half of the Earth lit by the natural Sun; the horizontal rainbow of the full circle of seven colors representing all Seven Ages is the glory of the Lord covering the throne, the elders and the four living creatures which represent Spiritual Israel, the Church (as once they represented natural Israel), because Christ is in His Church. The glory of God is Jesus Christ, and the glory of Jesus Christ is His Church.
Brother Branham said, "When John saw Him here [in Revelation four] . . . the day of redeeming was over. It was all over, so he seen Him back in His original condition, an amber colour" (ibid, p. 620:196). "And all this from hereafter . . . will take place on earth after the rapture of the church. See, after the rapture. This is going back now to pick up Israel. After . . . the Ages of the Church . . . The Church never appears again [in the Bible] until Revelation the nineteenth chapter when she returns with Her Bridegroom. Praise God for the wedding" (Revelation Chapter Four Part I, p. 560:58-63).
Revelation 19:7, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come [to pass], and His wife has made herself ready [for the Wedding Supper]." The marriage is our new birth or Spiritual redemption which takes place on earth.
"We go to the wedding supper, not to the marriage. "Fill your flesh. . . self, of all the flesh of mighty men," 'cause "the marriage of the Lamb has come." But the rapture is going to the Wedding Supper. When the Word here unites with the person, and they two become one, and then what does it do then? It manifests the Son of man again, not the church theologians, the Son of man. The Word and the Church becomes one. Whatever the Son of man done, He was the Word, the Church does the same thing" (William Branham, Proving His Word, p. 44:236).
The rapture is the threefold PROCESS Paul described in I Thessalonians 4:14-18. It commenced in 1963 with the "shout" of Brother Branham's Message calling those who are virgins to Christ the Logos or Word of God, to come out from Roman Babylon and her harlot (once) Protestant daughter churches to meet the heavenly Bridegroom in His 'parousia' Coming and be filled with the Spirit (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4). "The Voice" is Christ, the Archangel over the seven earthly angels, whispering His secrets in the heart of His beloved to place the Message from Genesis to Revelation and bring her to maturity "in the unity of the faith" (Ephesians 4:13). "The Trump" will call the resurrection of the Church Age saints and "the manifestation of the living Sons of God" (Romans 8:19).
The PROCESS called the "rapture" commenced in 1963 after the close of Laodicea when Christ opened the Seven Seals. The opening of the Seven Seals was signified to His Prophet in a vision three months beforehand, in fulfillment of which he was caught up into the Shekinah formed by the theophanies of the seven angels at the opening of the First Seal in March, 1963 while on a hunting trip with several brethren as explained in Newsletter #632 (Is This the Sign of the End, Sir? p. 43:7; Seals, p. 559:5-6; Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel, p. 4:13; Unveiling of God, p. 50:336; Choosing a Bride, p. 29:3; What is the Attraction on the Mountain, p. 22:143-148; Invisible Union of the Bride of Christ, p. 42:3). Christ came "as a thief in the night" and forty-seven years later the world knows nothing about it. This enables us to understand what the Prophet meant when he said, "Oh, and notice, John, being taken up immediately after the Church Age, was a type of the raptured Church. Immediately after the Church Age is over, this Laodicean Church Age, then comes the rapture. The Church goes up like John did into the Presence of God. Oh, that just winds my soul around. Caught up, at the rapture of the Church. And it said. . . This place, [chapter four of] the Book of Revelations was written (See?), at the end of the Church Age". . . When the Church Ages ceased, He left the earth and moved up into the heaven and called His Redeemed up with Him" (ibid p. 572:125; Part II, p. 593:42).
The second Coming of Christ is not the physical (Gk. 'erchomai') return of the glorified Jesus in the office of Son of David to step out on the atomic ashes of the wicked for the Millennium, but the unseen 'parousia' Coming of Christ the Logos or fullness of the anointed Word through the mouth of His Prophet by the revelation of the Seven Seals to bring His end-time Bride into perfect oneness under preeminence according to His prayer in John 17:21-26. We know Him by faith, not by sight. After our translation He will reveal Himself to Israel in the same manner as Son of man.
Christ came "as a thief in the night" between the Sixth and Seventh Vials, post-World War II when sovereignty was declared for Israel and former imperial colonies. "Demonic spirits" from Imperial and Papal Rome and her pope or false prophet were gathering the world's leaders to Armageddon (Matthew 24:32-35; Luke 21:29-33; Revelation 16:13-16). The PART-Word Saints are finished and sealed away in the uncapped pyramid representing the Seven Church Ages. Their organizations have been apostate since 1963 and "knoweth it not." They will continue preaching their false salvation messages into the tribulation. Christ has come, the rapture commenced forty-seven years ago; the world church system knows nothing about it, and will be just as ignorant when the Gentile dispensation has ended and Christ has taken His Bride Home for the Wedding Supper.
Brother Branham said, "What a far cry from reality is this church age in which we live. And one day soon these men that even now purport to speak for the church will be rising up in the ecumenical move to place a living antichrist as head of their organization which deposes the Lord and we will find Him (Christ) outside the church saying, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me (Revelation 3:20). . ." (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 296:2).
"Yes, there He stands, the Lord of Glory. Once as the Father, He was surrounded by the angels, the archangels, the cherubims, and seraphims and the whole host of heaven, crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Hosts." Such was His holiness that no man could approach unto Him. But now we see Him in the Church, sharing His own holiness with us, until in Him we have become the very righteousness of God (Ibid, 297:2).
The Voice John — you — heard in Revelation 4:1 is the Voice of Revelation 10:4, and Ezekiel 1:27-28. Brother Branham said, "After the Church Ages was over, and everything was come ready, made ready the setting of the fourth chapter here, the Church Ages was done. He had done left the earth. You see? Remember, the Voice that spoke to him, behind him, in the seven golden candlesticks [Revelation 1:10, 12), the work was finished. And now that same Voice was speaking up in heaven. What was it? He had done redeemed His people. His earthly work was finished, and He was in glory, calling to John, "Come up hither." Amen. . ."
Through the Seven Church Ages Christ was in the midst of the Lampstands in the South. When the Church goes up, Satan will come down and both he and the Lord will be dealing with Israel represented as the table of shewbread in the North. Isaiah 14:12-13, "How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how you are cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the North".
"Never forget this, that God promised great shakings and great and mighty works. Now, write this on your notes that you're writing (See, see?), that what man calls mighty and great, God calls foolish. And what man calls foolish, God calls great. Don't forget that (See?); don't forget it. That'll help you along in the years to come, because we're looking for something greater all the time. And we're receiving greater all the time, but the peoples of the world don't know it. Neither did they know it in the days of Noah; neither did they know it in the days of John, in the days of Jesus, in the days of the apostles, in the days of Irenaeus, any of those days; they never knew it. . . Remember, the world is getting the hardest shake its ever had, right now, the church world" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part II, p. 599:76, 81).
This "shaking" is among the elect, it is the 'third pull' of Brother Branham's ministry that flies over the heads of the non-elect. You were caught up into the Spirit and began to see things. After you recognized the very Word of God was Eagle Food, you left the other thing. You've been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. "If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting."
Brother Branham said, "I want you to notice that this was not a throne of grace no more. There the blood had been gone, and the sacrifice was back again, and they had been accepted, and the blood was off the mercy seat. And it was now a judgment seat, because thunders and lightning issued off of it. Is that right?"
"Remember, it was like Mount Sinai. When Moses went on Mount Sinai, what happened? Thunder, lightning. And even if a cow, or a calf, or a sheep, or anyone even touched the mountain, it must die. The Bible said, "So great was the quake that even Moses feared it. . . Said, "Take off your shoes here; you're on holy ground." Joshua the great warrior, was to take the children over and divide their inheritance, could only come halfway up the mountain."
(Like the PART-Word Church, which was completed and sealed into its divisions of the Body, Joshua could not cross over to the Capstone (as illustrated in our diagram). Only the Messenger to the new Age could pass from the revelation for his day into the Light for the new dispensation He was to introduce. And we can only enter the Capstone through the fullness of the Word, who is Christ, the Son of man introduced by the Message the Prophet received when he was caught up into the breach between the Church Ages and the Capstone revelation of the Seals).
"Here stood Moses up there with the colors of God, flashes from lightnings and emeralds around him, watching them commandments be written. Standing in the Presence of God, that Voice speaking back out, "Moses, where are you? Take off your shoes; you're on holy ground." A judgment seat, it was now, nothing could stand there but the redeemed. Sinner could not approach it at all (it's finished), the judgment seat. All right" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part II, p. 622:208-211).
Revelation 4:5-7, "Out from the throne issue lightnings and thunderings and voices: and before the throne burn seven lamps of Fire, which are the seven Spirits of God. Also before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal: and around the throne, on each side were four living beings full of eyes before and behind. The first living being was like a lion; the second like an ox, and the third had the face of a man, and the fourth, like a flying eagle".
The "seven lamps of Fire" represent the Spirit of the Lord sent forth in different measures to anoint the angels and their Messages which baptized the saints into their part of the Body in seven consecutive Church Ages, their lives reflecting the Token of the virtue predominant in their Age (as illustrated on the diagram). All seven Church Ages being fulfilled they are back before the throne, which, in the absence of blood, is no longer a Mercy Seat, but a Judgment Seat upon which Christ sits as Judge.
Do you see the hopeless situation of the non-elect denominational worshippers under the spirit of Laodicea? They declare, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing," but have no idea that spiritually, they are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked of the Blood of Christ".
The "sea of glass" was the pattern for the brazen laver in which the sacrifice was washed before being offered. In Revelation 15:2 it is "mingled with Fire" as the 144,000 elect Israelites are being purged through the Great Tribulation and baptized into Christ, but in Revelation four it is clear, signifying the Church Age saints have been redeemed.
The heavenly temple was the pattern after which Moses built the Tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, and Christ is building His Church as Paul explained in Hebrews 9:23. But when Jesus died, the temple veil rent, and not only a high priest, but whosoever will can have that same anointing of the Shekinah Glory, walk a life holy unto the Lord, and approach the very Presence of God, through the Blood of Jesus Christ to intercede for others. The seven Spirits of God reflected the Light of God for the Age from the Throne of God through the seven angels to the seven golden lampstands or saints whose testimony is reflected into the brass laver to the world.
God first dwelt alone in the heavenly tabernacle, His Throne was a Judgment Seat because "Judgment must begin at the house of God" (I Peter 4:17). Moses represented the pattern in the earthly tabernacle where God dwelt alone between the cherubim above the Judgment Seat in the Holy of Holies, where all Israel gathered to find mercy under the shed blood. The Shekinah departed that Mercy Seat before Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah and settled on the true Tabernacle six hundred years later. "The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22). God's Judgment Seat said, "Whoever is not with Me is against Me; and whoever is not gathering with Me scatters. I tell you therefore: every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men: but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; [another Mercy Seat]; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit [when He comes to dwell in the heart of His Bride] will not be forgiven, either in this age, or in the age to come. [Judgment Seat]. Either make the tree and its fruit to be good; or hold both the tree and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit" (Matthew 12:30-33).
God's patience is constantly strained, calling sinners to come to be reconciled to Him, and judgment is becoming more and more imminent as the Light that once shone from the heavens, shone on earth through the Shekinah, then the Shekinah was made flesh and dwelt among men, redeemed us by His Blood and came into the Church by the baptism with the Holy Ghost and "whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit [in the heart of His Bride], will not be forgiven".
As we learn from Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, His threefold purpose from eternity was to reveal Himself to the people, which He could not do as the unseen Jehovah God who covered all space, time and eternity. First He expressed the fullness of Himself in Christ in order to identify Himself with the human condition. Secondly, through this revelation He sought to bring "the fullness of the godhead bodily" into a people He might live in and have the preeminence to lead His Body of believers, His Bride, and express Himself through them. And thirdly, to restore the Kingdom to its proper estate where He walked with His people in the cool of the evening before it fell in unbelief.
God's threefold purpose for men made in His image was revealed from the heavenly Temple and replicated in the earthly Tabernacle built by Moses, both were shadows and types of the perfect man. As shown on the above diagram, the Temple was approached by the outer court of the congregation gathered under the shed blood on the brazen altar of sacrifice. Passing through the sea of glass where the ashes of the red heifer were made a waters of separation, the believer is "sanctified, being cleansed with the washing of water by the Word [or revelation], that Christ might present to Himself a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish; being holy and faultless" (Ephesians 5:26-27). And finally, through the riven veil of Christ's flesh without condemnation into the very Presence of God in the Holy of Holies (Romans 8; Hebrews 9).
The Tabernacle and Temple were mere shadows and types to instruct Israel of God's plan to reflect Himself in men made in His image as eternal spirits or redeemed souls and after the likeness of His nature and character. The Lord Jesus takes His abode in the temple of our body by three stages of grace through faith. God is love and He chose man's heart for His Throne room. He revealed His will but placed us on free moral agency to choose to reciprocate His love, or to demur. Satan chose man's head for his totalitarian control tower to beguile him into helpless submission by the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. God enters through our outer court, invited by a clear understanding of His revealed Word and redemptive work in Christ, not catechism, creed and church traditions. By this revelation coupled with repentance not only are we forgiven, we are justified by grace through faith as if we never made those mistakes. Perhaps the most simple example of saving faith is when we recognize the true oneness of the godhead through water baptism in that "The Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost" is LORD JESUS CHRIST, and in obedience to Matthew 28:19 we "and are baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, with the promise we will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost [or new birth]. For the promise is to as many as the Lord our God shall call" (Acts 2:38-39). Of course, if you have not been called by God you will ignore His command.
Having thus appealed to God for a clear conscience, He will begin to reveal His requirements for a holy walk, whereby we sanctify the spirit of our mind by bringing the five senses of our body (see, taste, feel, smell and touch) and the five senses of our mortal spirit (conscience, memory, imagination, reasoning and affection) subject to His Word, receiving correction as He reveals our errors in ignorance of the requirements of His unchanging Word. This is called sanctification. The Lord has now entered the antitype of the sanctuary.
Next we must tear down the veil of self-will between the holy place, before God can convert our soul and take His abode and the Holy of Holies of our heart. When we come into oneness with His Word for our day, and see that part of the Word living through us, this is our assurance that we have become a written epistle of the present Truth known and read by all men. nl634.htm
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our main Article in this Newsletter is the first installment of a review of Revelation chapter four, which for the benefit of some of new subscribers is upheld both by Scripture and quotations from the Message of God's Prophet, William Branham. I pray the Lord impresses upon you the extreme lateness of the hour and the humbling grace with which He has blessed you through the Message considering millions imprisoned in the world church system have no conception their worship is in vain and their church apostate.
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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Vatican promises to open Wartime Archives
May 25, 2010 — Vatican archives for the entire period of the Second World War, when the Church has been accused of failing to do enough to help the Jewish people, will be opened soon for scholarly research. Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Council for Christian Unity, also warned that cutting itself off from its Jewish roots for centuries weakened the Church so badly that it could only offer a "feeble" resistance against persecution of the Jews.
He said that Israel without the Church was in danger of becoming "too particularistic and reclusive", but that the Church without Israel was "in danger of losing its historical grounding and becoming ahistorical and Gnostic." He added: "Judaism and Christianity need each other and therefore are dependent on each other". . .
This month Cardinal Kasper, a theologian and linguist, was honoured in the US for "extraordinary" achievements in interfaith dialogue. The American Jewish committee presented him with the prestigious Isaiah Inter-religious Award at its annual meeting in Washington DC. Full story: timesonline.co.uk
Comment: The Roman church has "Jewish roots," Christianity has no historic of present association with Jewry except as victim of Jewish pogroms. Indeed the word "JEW" was in no Bible in any language prior to the latter part of the eighteenth century and this new word has a contradictory meaning to the two words it has replaced.
Roman Catholicism "without Israel was "in danger of losing its historical grounding and becoming ahistorical and Gnostic" because the two must consummate the agreement prophesied in Daniel 9:27 and Revelation 17:11-18, without which the plan for Lucifer's totalitarian one world government will not come to fruition.
"Judaism and Christianity need each other and therefore are dependent on each other." Nonsense. Judaism is the antithesis of Yahweh Torah and of Christianity. Judaeo-Roman Catholic church and Edomite Judaism "need each other and therefore are dependent on each other."
Why would "democratic" Germany—of all countries—want to keep the Adolf Eichmann files, detailing the years of the so-called holocaust, sealed? After all it is "democratic" Germany that persecutes and prosecutes free holocaust research more than any other lobby-controlled country. It is "democratic" Germany that insists the fantastic story of six million "gassed" Jews is true. Non-believers face prison sentences up to life in Germany. Why then would Germany want the Eichmann files sealed? There answer is: these files, if opened, would expose the holocaust Germany declared sacrosanct, a BIG LIE.
The same tactic applies to sealed Vatican archives for the years of the so-called holocaust. Hundreds of Catholic ministers who performed pastoral care at the Auschwitz camp reported every detail to Rome. globalfire.tv/nj
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Von Braun: Illuminati Plan for E.T. Deception
May 26, 2010 — Dr. Wernher Von Braun was privy to work on anti gravity propulsion vehicles. With access to NASA's secret programs, von Braun apparently began to see the "big picture" regarding the true goals of America's space program and how the military-industrial complex was manipulating it according to a secret, hidden agenda. . . He said a secretive transnational power, already in existence, would move to permanently take control of this planet through a hoaxed alien invasion from outer space.
According to von Braun, space based weapons, later known as the "Star Wars" program, were to be promoted as a "shield" against the Russians. Then, as a defense against 'rogue' nations. Then, as protection against asteroids and meteors. Finally they would be presented as a safeguard against an extraterrestrial threat. . .
According to von Braun, all of these rationales would be lies. These space-based weapons would be useless against nuclear suitcase bombs available even in 1974, as well as chemical, viral, bacterial and biological terror weapons. More importantly, von Braun told Rosin, we already had the technology to build anti-gravity vehicles and entire transportation systems which did not require so-called 'fossil' fuels. Instead, they used "beams" of energy, eliminating all pollution. . .
Full story: henrymakow.com
Comment: This confirms disclosures by Dr. "Peter Beter" in the '70s covered in several Newsletters. Along with climate change this was among the HOAXES postulated in "Report from Iron Mountain." Enter these KeyWords in the "Search this Site" window on our main page.
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Victory in Sight
The banks have corrupted parliaments and courts in order to achieve their seemingly invincible position. Through the parliaments, banks have set in place legislation which form the blue print and provide the means to realize their goal.
However, such legislation can only be enforced through the courts where, if justice were to prevail, bad laws would be vetoed and rejected in fair trials or tribunals. That is why the banks have to have dominance over the courts. They do this by firstly controlling the judges and secondly eliminating juries—thereby removing any possibility that the judges may "do right" or that the people may exercise their will.
But there is a chink in the banks' armour—an Achilles' heel. There is a way to smash the banks by proclaiming a simple truth which the banks have swept aside in the implementation of their practice of issuing loan contracts.
The truth is in the meaning of the word, "variable," as found in the Oxford English Dictionary. "Variable" means "uncertain" and "certain" means "not variable." For contracts to be valid under the common law, there must be "certainty of terms" as an essential element. Therefore, all loan contracts in which the banks have incorporated variable interest rates are invalid. Those loans are illegal and the banks are common law criminals.
The judges know this and are concealing this serious offence. This website exposes the incompetence, corruption and treachery in the judiciary. Full story: rightsandwrong.com.au Indictment Plaintiff's Affidavit Notice of Motion Defendant's Submission Plaintiff's Reply Notice of Understanding and Intent and Claim of Right
Comment: For almost 3 decades, since the passing of the infamous, duplicitous and unlawful Credit Consumers Act 1981, the banksters of the City of London have been stealing and killing and destroying. Since 1996, Dr. Wilson has been trying to sever the variable interest rate component from loan contracts, because certainty of terms is one of the eight essential elements for the creation of a contract. Brother John has been unlawfully imprisoned for months at a time and 'the City' has attempted to have him certified mentally unsound.
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First Ethnic Statistics ever published in France reveal 54% of Babies born in Paris are Black
May 24, 2010 — In France, ethnic statistics are forbidden. But they left a flaw in their system: drepanocytosis is a genetic illness that only affects Blacks. Today, a map showing the "risk population" for drepanocytosis has been published: thus, the "Black population".
This is the first time ever that we have such ethnic statistics in France. And the results are. . . alarming. This only counts for BLACKS. . . Arabs are the other half. . . Full story: eutimes.net
Comment: This is the manifestation of Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 24:37. Multiculturalism is miscegenation, which is a accursed of God and a universal repetition of the original sin (Genesis 1:11; 6:1-4). Professor Kevin MacDonald of California State University, Long Beach, finds that Jews have been the foremost advocates of immigration in England, France, and Canada, and that Jewish groups were the most vocal opponents of independence for Quebec. Australian Jews led the effort to dismantle the "white Australia" policy, one reason for which was cited in an editorial in the Australian Jewish Democrat: "The strengthening of multi-cultural or diverse Australia is also our most effective insurance policy against anti-Semitism. The day Australia has a Chinese Australian Governor General I would feel more confident of my freedom to live as a Jewish Australian." Like Earl Raab writing about the United States, this Australian Jew is prepared to sacrifice the traditional culture, people, and identity of Australia to specifically Jewish interests. It would not be surprising if such an openly expressed objective did not have the opposite effect from that intended, and increase anti-Jewish sentiment.
Speaking before a special meeting of the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest on January 12, 1952, Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich said concerning progress towards their NWO, ". . . We will openly reveal our identity with the races of Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last generation of white children is now being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory . . ."
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Corporal Klinger and the Barney Frank Brigade
May 26, 2010 — While some might scoff at the idea of transgendered soldiers ever serving in the Armed Forces, the transgendered are an essential component of the so-called LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) community pushing repeal of the military’s homosexual exclusion policy. Don't forget that the Obama Administration has already claimed credit for the first openly transgendered appointee to the federal bureaucracy—a man/woman at the Commerce Department named Mitchell/Amanda Simpson. . . While it is tempting to think that the only damage that would be done would be the turning of our once-feared military into a global laughingstock, there are important national security and health implications to the homosexualization of the Armed Forces. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: "As it was in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30).
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Gulf Oil Gusher Conspiracy Coverup
May 27, 2010 — Was this disaster just an accident, or were other more sinister forces at play in order to further cripple society toward a more manageable population size? Ominous midnight symbolism. BP's "live" feed caught in an obvious short loop shows further evidence of cover-up. Full story: pesn.com bp.concerts.com
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Everything about this Year's Bilderberg Conference!
May 28, 2010 — "Sovereign states' legal systems and political establishments entail numerous obstacles to oligarchic globalism, but the coordination of corporate practice—establishing a global cartel which embraces all economic sectors—makes it possible to circumvent these restrictions. On this point, the Bilderbergs (also called "The secret world government" and "the Quisling factory") constitute a threat to civilized society". . . participants' mouths seems to be sealed with Seven Seals . . . complemented by an almost complete media blackout, in that the mainstream media neglects to mention that Bilderberg meetings take place.
All of the Bilderberg construction is inherently undemocratic, and thus a threat to basic values of "the enlightened Western country with transparency in government, in politics, press freedom and deeply embedded democratic rights". . . the most important Bilderberg participants over the years has been democratically elected leaders, who have abused the trust of their constituents by attending Bilderberg meetings behind voters' backs without having to stand up after the meetings and inform what obligations they have incurred as a result of their participation. . .
Knights of Malta and the Society of Jesus were present when the plans for today's EU was hatched. EU citizens were lured into the community under the promise of "freedom and prosperity" (much of which has also manifested itself in practice) while the iron hand in the form of continuous centralization of power and undermining of civil liberties would remain hidden until it was become an irreversible fait accompli, and too late for EU citizens to prevent.
Henry Kissinger will be absent from this year's meeting because he fears arrest. Only Jesuit intervention of senior Irish power men prevented him finally being collected in Ireland for his extensive criminal record. . . Full story: nyhetsspeilet.no
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Throne of Mercy and Judgment
Before we study "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" let us examine Revelation chapter four and review teachings vital to comprehending the present Truth: Redemption is Over, Christ's Mediation, The Rapture and the Second Coming, and Christ's Parousia to we Gentiles, all thoroughly supported by Scripture but may be unfamiliar to new subscribers. However in this article, they will be supported by quotations from the Message of God's Prophet, William Branham. Newcomers to his Message are admonished to study the main articles of Newsletters #627 to #633, and confirm their understanding with God's unchanging Word from Genesis to Revelation in order to build faith in the present Truth based on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.
Haggai 2:6-7, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, in a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come. . ."
The arrival of the true Temple in which we are pillars metaphorically shook the world, and Israel under the rule of Edomite Jewry (to whom He was not sent) rejected Messiah, but we Gentiles desired Him. In Hebrews 12:26-28, Paul condenses Haggai 2:6-7 and Haggai 2:21-22, implying it was one and the same shaking, beginning at His first advent and finished at the second. The present Spiritual shaking of this end-time Message will be confirmed by a universal convulsion in nature.
John was the covenant prophet foretold in Isaiah 40:3-4 seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. From the age of nine he lived in the wilderness free from denominational influences, and when he commenced preaching at the age of thirty he did not promote his ministry with signboards or announcements in the synagogues, but clad only in sheepskin walked out of the desert into the Jordan calling for repentance and baptism. This was when "the high places were made low, and the low places were made high."
John was so humble and his Message so simple the denominations dismissed him and could not recognize the significance of his Message which shook Israel who did not perceive it, for God had blinded their eyes and sealed their ears that they should not see (Isaiah 29:10-12). But the elect did receive It. "When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said, Who warned you Serpent's seed to flee from the approaching judgment? Bring forth fruits that befit repentance, and do not presume to say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I assure you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham." (His power and liberty are not limited by hereditary right. He may reject them as spurious children of Abraham; and on the other hand He is able to transform Gentiles of Adam's race to genuine children of Abraham by faith (Romans 9; Galatians 3:26-29).
"The axe is already laid to the root of the trees [for the spiritual world and mankind are made of those two trees which had their roots in Eden. The punishment of the spurious descendants of Abraham had begun and will descend upon all unfruitful trees, or trees of a bad kind (Matthew 7:15-21)]: therefore every tree that fails to bring forth good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. Whereas I baptize you with water for repentance: He who comes after me is so far superior to me, I am not fit to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire. The winnowing fan is in His hand, and he will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the granary, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable Fire" (Matthew 3:7-12).
At the end of the Gentile dispensation, the Gospel preached by the fourth 'Elijah,' Brother Branham, is shaking a world seemingly oblivious to its call and immune to his Message, but since the 'parousia' Coming of the Bridegroom it is shaking the elect fruit out of Mystery Babylon to be filled with His Spirit (Matthew 25:5-6). Quoting Hebrews 12:26 he said, "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." Once more God will shake the earth and with it shake everything loose that can be shaken. Then He will renovate it. Just last March, 1964, that Good Friday earthquake of Alaska shook the whole world though it did not unbalance it. But God was warning by a world tremor what He will soon do on a greater scale. He is going to blast and rock this sin-cursed world, my brother, my sister, and there is only one place that can stand that shock, and that is in the fold of the Lord Jesus. And I would beseech you while God's mercy is still available to you, that you give your whole life, unreservedly to Jesus Christ, Who as the faithful Shepherd will save you and care for you and present you faultless in glory with exceeding great joy" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 323).
Chapters one to three of the Book of Revelation contain God's Messages to the Church. The whole Church was complete when the last saint predestinated to Laodicea was born-again in Revelation three since His end-time Bride predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word by the revelation of the Seven Seals was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and does not require mediation for ignorance (I Corinthians 13:10), so His Mediation was fulfilled before the revelation of the Seals. From chapters four to nineteen the modern state of Israel is restored in Palestine (Matthew 24:32-35) where the Lord will reveal the Seven Trumpet mysteries to 144,000 elect Israelites. Chapters nineteen to twenty-two deal with Israel's revelation of Christ's 'parousia' Coming, the return of the Church as a glorified Bride adorned for her Husband, the final disposition of sin and the renewed heavens and earth.
Revelation 1:9-13, "I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation [of the Gentile dispensation (Matthew 24:21-29)], and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island of Patmos on account of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day [which will commence when Israel's Seventh Trump signals the end of the Gentile dispensation with the sinking of Los Angeles and a 1,500 x 300-400 mile section of earth]; and I heard behind me a loud Voice like a trumpet saying, Write what you see in a book, and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. Then I turned to see whose Voice was speaking to me, and [behind me, back in the Church Ages of man's day which was past] I saw seven golden lampstands [signifying the Bride drawn out from each Age, which were all fulfilled], and in their midst stood One like the Son of man (Daniel 7:13; Revelation 14:14), dressed in a robe that reached to His feet, and girt [like a judge] about the chest with a golden girdle." He is no longer in the office of Son of God mediating for the ignorance of the PART-Word saints, for the last saint predestinated the Church Ages has been born-again (Daniel 7:1-10; John 5:27).
Brother Branham said, "He wasn't in His priesthood now [as Son of God and Mediator]. John went all the way over into the Lord's day and saw Him coming as the Judge. . . John 5:22, "For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son." That right? He is the Judge, the Supreme Judge. And John shows that He wasn't in the day of His prophecy, as a prophet, neither was He plumb out into the days of His kingship, but He was in the day of the Lord as a Judge. Now, how many knows that the priest having his girdle, his string around his waistline meant he was in service? Anyone who reads the Testament, who knows the Old Testament, knows that. When a priest is girded around here, he's in service; he's a servant. But He was girded up here: a Judge" (The Patmos Vision, p. 103, 169-170. See Son of Man, Son of God, Son of Man, Son of David and Christ's Offices of Prophet, Priest and King typed in the Old Testament for an explanation of Christ's offices in the different dispensations).
Brother Branham said that in Revelation chapter four John represents the entire Church taken up because when the last saint was baptized into the Laodicean part of the Body the entire Church is redeemed, as Christ's end-time Bride was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Thus, redemption is over. Throughout the Book of Revelation John represents Christ's end-time Bride because the Book was sealed until Christ opened and revealed it to "the Seventh Angel" after the Laodicean or Pentecostal Church Age terminated in apostasy "and knows it not" (Revelation 3:17-20; 10:4, 7). During his captivity on Patmos (AD95-96), John was caught up in the Spirit to a time in our near future and in a succession of visions saw and heard William Branham (1909-1965), the angel of Revelation 1:1 expound the Seven Seals as the Lord revealed their mystery to him in 1963 (Revelation 6:1-17; 8:1; 10:1-6; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11).
Revelation 4:1-2, "After all Seven Church Ages were fulfilled [in Revelation 2-3], I saw that the Door of grace remained open in heaven [for Christ's end-time Bride]: and the first Voice [of Revelation 1:10, 12] which I heard speaking to me loud and clear like a trumpet said, Come up here through the open Door [following Brother Branham into the Presence or Shekinah], and I will show you what must take place hereafter. Immediately I was raptured in the Spirit: and saw a throne in heaven, and One seated on the throne." This "One" who holds the Title Deed to everything Adam had forfeited is "the Ancient of days," made flesh to play the part of KINSMAN Redeemer for Adam and his race, claims redemption's rights in Revelation 5 and has "proclaimed the day of vengeance of our God" through Brother Branham's ministry, indicting Rome and the world which has rejected grace (Isaiah 61:2; Revelation 14:9-11; 17:1; 22:6-10, etc).
Revelation 4:1-2 was fulfilled when Brother Branham was caught up from Sunset Mountain into a constellation of the theophanies of the Church Age messengers and the four living creatures on about March 9, 1963 as foreseen in visions recounted to his church the previous December (see Newsletters #632 and #633). We must follow him into the Presence by the mysteries of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals and the unwritten spoken Word of Revelation 8:1 (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 327:1).
The Tabernacle and its services patterned after Moses' heavenly visions were ordained to illustrate God's plan of redemption and the way back into His Presence in the form of a play acted out in simplicity the meek would receive by revelation, but whose literal interpretation would stumble the exalted learning of the wise and prudent. So when reading Scriptures such as Daniel 7:13; Revelation 1:4; 4:8, 11; 5:5-9 and 13, we should not imagine there are two gods, for Jesus Christ is the beginning of the One Person of God creating Himself a part of creation. Thus Leviticus 16 describes the annual day of atonement and how God cleansed the Temple sanctuary of the accumulated sins of the priesthood and of the nation. However, the blood of bulls and goats could not remit but merely covered the sins of the year past pending Messiah's propitiation for the sins of the world. There were two goats: one was made sin and slain, while the other was presented alive before the Lord and led into the wilderness to carry their sins away. The two goats represented the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ who bore our sins upon Himself to Calvary and carried them far away to a place of no more remembrance. Literalist Seventh Day Adventists believe one goat is Satan.
The intellectual Israelite hierarchy and their Edomite impersonators took the literal meaning of the play, crucified Messiah, and after 2,000 years they are determined to build another temple despite Isaiah 66:1-2, and mature adults spend their days examining dumb heifers in search of one hair that is not red, imagining this is the will of God! "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." The theological presumptions of intellectual nicolaitanes pontificating over psuedo-Christian Establishment and renegade churches have driven men from the simplicity of Gospel faith to reunion with Rome and union with Judaism, as if the insanely literal theories of Unitarianism, trinities, transubstantiation, and false baptisms in three Titles devoid of revelation were not sufficiently carnal in themselves.
Now Jesus Christ is "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the Lord God who is, and who was and who is coming, the All-mighty" (Revelation 1:8; 17; 2:8). It is He who is seated "with His Father in His throne" (Revelation 3:21). Jesus Christ is the One Person of God who declared, "All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18; John 13:3; I Corinthians 15:20-28). He is the only "One" seated on the throne (Revelation 4:2).
Speaking of the Church Ages Jesus said, "The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent Him. I assure you absolutely, He who hears My Word, and believes on Him who sent Me, has eternal Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto Life. I assure you absolutely, The hour is coming, and now is, when those who are dead in sin and trespasses shall hear the Voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live [through new birth during the Church Ages]. For as the Father has eternal Life in Himself; He has granted the Son to have eternal Life in Himself; and given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of man [in this our day]" (John 5:22-27). So much for Jehovah Witness speculation (II Corinthians 3:6).
Brother Branham said, "Now, God, when He is enthroned, He is then Judge. Is that right? When does the judges judge? When he comes to his judgment seat, a throne" (Revelation Four, Part II, p. 623:214). The scene in Revelation chapter four is set about ten days before the Seals were revealed to the Church in Jeffersonville, the Seven Church Ages are over and Christ is no longer in the office of Son of God and Mediator, but Son of Man enthroned as the Supreme Judge. "He who sat upon the throne was to look upon as jasper and sardius stone [Reuben and Benjamin, the first and the last, Alpha and Omega], and a rainbow that looked like an emerald encircled the throne" (Revelation 4:3; 15:3). An emerald is green, the colour of life. Jesus is the All-mighty, and the covenant sign of this rainbow is not the vertical half bow we see on half of the Earth lit by the natural Sun; the horizontal rainbow of the full circle of seven colors representing all Seven Ages is the glory of the Lord covering the throne, the elders and the four living creatures which represent Spiritual Israel, the Church (as once they represented natural Israel), because Christ is in His Church. The glory of God is Jesus Christ, and the glory of Jesus Christ is His Church.
Brother Branham said, "When John saw Him here [in Revelation four] . . . the day of redeeming was over. It was all over, so he seen Him back in His original condition, an amber colour" (ibid, p. 620:196). "And all this from hereafter . . . will take place on earth after the rapture of the church. See, after the rapture. This is going back now to pick up Israel. After . . . the Ages of the Church . . . The Church never appears again [in the Bible] until Revelation the nineteenth chapter when she returns with Her Bridegroom. Praise God for the wedding" (Revelation Chapter Four Part I, p. 560:58-63).
Revelation 19:7, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come [to pass], and His wife has made herself ready [for the Wedding Supper]." The marriage is our new birth or Spiritual redemption which takes place on earth.
"We go to the wedding supper, not to the marriage. "Fill your flesh. . . self, of all the flesh of mighty men," 'cause "the marriage of the Lamb has come." But the rapture is going to the Wedding Supper. When the Word here unites with the person, and they two become one, and then what does it do then? It manifests the Son of man again, not the church theologians, the Son of man. The Word and the Church becomes one. Whatever the Son of man done, He was the Word, the Church does the same thing" (William Branham, Proving His Word, p. 44:236).
The rapture is the threefold PROCESS Paul described in I Thessalonians 4:14-18. It commenced in 1963 with the "shout" of Brother Branham's Message calling those who are virgins to Christ the Logos or Word of God, to come out from Roman Babylon and her harlot (once) Protestant daughter churches to meet the heavenly Bridegroom in His 'parousia' Coming and be filled with the Spirit (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4). "The Voice" is Christ, the Archangel over the seven earthly angels, whispering His secrets in the heart of His beloved to place the Message from Genesis to Revelation and bring her to maturity "in the unity of the faith" (Ephesians 4:13). "The Trump" will call the resurrection of the Church Age saints and "the manifestation of the living Sons of God" (Romans 8:19).
The PROCESS called the "rapture" commenced in 1963 after the close of Laodicea when Christ opened the Seven Seals. The opening of the Seven Seals was signified to His Prophet in a vision three months beforehand, in fulfillment of which he was caught up into the Shekinah formed by the theophanies of the seven angels at the opening of the First Seal in March, 1963 while on a hunting trip with several brethren as explained in Newsletter #632 (Is This the Sign of the End, Sir? p. 43:7; Seals, p. 559:5-6; Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel, p. 4:13; Unveiling of God, p. 50:336; Choosing a Bride, p. 29:3; What is the Attraction on the Mountain, p. 22:143-148; Invisible Union of the Bride of Christ, p. 42:3). Christ came "as a thief in the night" and forty-seven years later the world knows nothing about it. This enables us to understand what the Prophet meant when he said, "Oh, and notice, John, being taken up immediately after the Church Age, was a type of the raptured Church. Immediately after the Church Age is over, this Laodicean Church Age, then comes the rapture. The Church goes up like John did into the Presence of God. Oh, that just winds my soul around. Caught up, at the rapture of the Church. And it said. . . This place, [chapter four of] the Book of Revelations was written (See?), at the end of the Church Age". . . When the Church Ages ceased, He left the earth and moved up into the heaven and called His Redeemed up with Him" (ibid p. 572:125; Part II, p. 593:42).
The second Coming of Christ is not the physical (Gk. 'erchomai') return of the glorified Jesus in the office of Son of David to step out on the atomic ashes of the wicked for the Millennium, but the unseen 'parousia' Coming of Christ the Logos or fullness of the anointed Word through the mouth of His Prophet by the revelation of the Seven Seals to bring His end-time Bride into perfect oneness under preeminence according to His prayer in John 17:21-26. We know Him by faith, not by sight. After our translation He will reveal Himself to Israel in the same manner as Son of man.
Christ came "as a thief in the night" between the Sixth and Seventh Vials, post-World War II when sovereignty was declared for Israel and former imperial colonies. "Demonic spirits" from Imperial and Papal Rome and her pope or false prophet were gathering the world's leaders to Armageddon (Matthew 24:32-35; Luke 21:29-33; Revelation 16:13-16). The PART-Word Saints are finished and sealed away in the uncapped pyramid representing the Seven Church Ages. Their organizations have been apostate since 1963 and "knoweth it not." They will continue preaching their false salvation messages into the tribulation. Christ has come, the rapture commenced forty-seven years ago; the world church system knows nothing about it, and will be just as ignorant when the Gentile dispensation has ended and Christ has taken His Bride Home for the Wedding Supper.
Brother Branham said, "What a far cry from reality is this church age in which we live. And one day soon these men that even now purport to speak for the church will be rising up in the ecumenical move to place a living antichrist as head of their organization which deposes the Lord and we will find Him (Christ) outside the church saying, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me (Revelation 3:20). . ." (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 296:2).
"Yes, there He stands, the Lord of Glory. Once as the Father, He was surrounded by the angels, the archangels, the cherubims, and seraphims and the whole host of heaven, crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Hosts." Such was His holiness that no man could approach unto Him. But now we see Him in the Church, sharing His own holiness with us, until in Him we have become the very righteousness of God (Ibid, 297:2).
The Voice John — you — heard in Revelation 4:1 is the Voice of Revelation 10:4, and Ezekiel 1:27-28. Brother Branham said, "After the Church Ages was over, and everything was come ready, made ready the setting of the fourth chapter here, the Church Ages was done. He had done left the earth. You see? Remember, the Voice that spoke to him, behind him, in the seven golden candlesticks [Revelation 1:10, 12), the work was finished. And now that same Voice was speaking up in heaven. What was it? He had done redeemed His people. His earthly work was finished, and He was in glory, calling to John, "Come up hither." Amen. . ."
Through the Seven Church Ages Christ was in the midst of the Lampstands in the South. When the Church goes up, Satan will come down and both he and the Lord will be dealing with Israel represented as the table of shewbread in the North. Isaiah 14:12-13, "How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how you are cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the North".
"Never forget this, that God promised great shakings and great and mighty works. Now, write this on your notes that you're writing (See, see?), that what man calls mighty and great, God calls foolish. And what man calls foolish, God calls great. Don't forget that (See?); don't forget it. That'll help you along in the years to come, because we're looking for something greater all the time. And we're receiving greater all the time, but the peoples of the world don't know it. Neither did they know it in the days of Noah; neither did they know it in the days of John, in the days of Jesus, in the days of the apostles, in the days of Irenaeus, any of those days; they never knew it. . . Remember, the world is getting the hardest shake its ever had, right now, the church world" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part II, p. 599:76, 81).
This "shaking" is among the elect, it is the 'third pull' of Brother Branham's ministry that flies over the heads of the non-elect. You were caught up into the Spirit and began to see things. After you recognized the very Word of God was Eagle Food, you left the other thing. You've been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. "If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting."
Brother Branham said, "I want you to notice that this was not a throne of grace no more. There the blood had been gone, and the sacrifice was back again, and they had been accepted, and the blood was off the mercy seat. And it was now a judgment seat, because thunders and lightning issued off of it. Is that right?"
"Remember, it was like Mount Sinai. When Moses went on Mount Sinai, what happened? Thunder, lightning. And even if a cow, or a calf, or a sheep, or anyone even touched the mountain, it must die. The Bible said, "So great was the quake that even Moses feared it. . . Said, "Take off your shoes here; you're on holy ground." Joshua the great warrior, was to take the children over and divide their inheritance, could only come halfway up the mountain."
(Like the PART-Word Church, which was completed and sealed into its divisions of the Body, Joshua could not cross over to the Capstone (as illustrated in our diagram). Only the Messenger to the new Age could pass from the revelation for his day into the Light for the new dispensation He was to introduce. And we can only enter the Capstone through the fullness of the Word, who is Christ, the Son of man introduced by the Message the Prophet received when he was caught up into the breach between the Church Ages and the Capstone revelation of the Seals).
"Here stood Moses up there with the colors of God, flashes from lightnings and emeralds around him, watching them commandments be written. Standing in the Presence of God, that Voice speaking back out, "Moses, where are you? Take off your shoes; you're on holy ground." A judgment seat, it was now, nothing could stand there but the redeemed. Sinner could not approach it at all (it's finished), the judgment seat. All right" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part II, p. 622:208-211).
Revelation 4:5-7, "Out from the throne issue lightnings and thunderings and voices: and before the throne burn seven lamps of Fire, which are the seven Spirits of God. Also before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal: and around the throne, on each side were four living beings full of eyes before and behind. The first living being was like a lion; the second like an ox, and the third had the face of a man, and the fourth, like a flying eagle".
The "seven lamps of Fire" represent the Spirit of the Lord sent forth in different measures to anoint the angels and their Messages which baptized the saints into their part of the Body in seven consecutive Church Ages, their lives reflecting the Token of the virtue predominant in their Age (as illustrated on the diagram). All seven Church Ages being fulfilled they are back before the throne, which, in the absence of blood, is no longer a Mercy Seat, but a Judgment Seat upon which Christ sits as Judge.
Do you see the hopeless situation of the non-elect denominational worshippers under the spirit of Laodicea? They declare, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing," but have no idea that spiritually, they are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked of the Blood of Christ".
The "sea of glass" was the pattern for the brazen laver in which the sacrifice was washed before being offered. In Revelation 15:2 it is "mingled with Fire" as the 144,000 elect Israelites are being purged through the Great Tribulation and baptized into Christ, but in Revelation four it is clear, signifying the Church Age saints have been redeemed.
The heavenly temple was the pattern after which Moses built the Tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, and Christ is building His Church as Paul explained in Hebrews 9:23. But when Jesus died, the temple veil rent, and not only a high priest, but whosoever will can have that same anointing of the Shekinah Glory, walk a life holy unto the Lord, and approach the very Presence of God, through the Blood of Jesus Christ to intercede for others. The seven Spirits of God reflected the Light of God for the Age from the Throne of God through the seven angels to the seven golden lampstands or saints whose testimony is reflected into the brass laver to the world.
God first dwelt alone in the heavenly tabernacle, His Throne was a Judgment Seat because "Judgment must begin at the house of God" (I Peter 4:17). Moses represented the pattern in the earthly tabernacle where God dwelt alone between the cherubim above the Judgment Seat in the Holy of Holies, where all Israel gathered to find mercy under the shed blood. The Shekinah departed that Mercy Seat before Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah and settled on the true Tabernacle six hundred years later. "The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22). God's Judgment Seat said, "Whoever is not with Me is against Me; and whoever is not gathering with Me scatters. I tell you therefore: every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men: but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; [another Mercy Seat]; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit [when He comes to dwell in the heart of His Bride] will not be forgiven, either in this age, or in the age to come. [Judgment Seat]. Either make the tree and its fruit to be good; or hold both the tree and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit" (Matthew 12:30-33).
God's patience is constantly strained, calling sinners to come to be reconciled to Him, and judgment is becoming more and more imminent as the Light that once shone from the heavens, shone on earth through the Shekinah, then the Shekinah was made flesh and dwelt among men, redeemed us by His Blood and came into the Church by the baptism with the Holy Ghost and "whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit [in the heart of His Bride], will not be forgiven".
As we learn from Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, His threefold purpose from eternity was to reveal Himself to the people, which He could not do as the unseen Jehovah God who covered all space, time and eternity. First He expressed the fullness of Himself in Christ in order to identify Himself with the human condition. Secondly, through this revelation He sought to bring "the fullness of the godhead bodily" into a people He might live in and have the preeminence to lead His Body of believers, His Bride, and express Himself through them. And thirdly, to restore the Kingdom to its proper estate where He walked with His people in the cool of the evening before it fell in unbelief.
God's threefold purpose for men made in His image was revealed from the heavenly Temple and replicated in the earthly Tabernacle built by Moses, both were shadows and types of the perfect man. As shown on the above diagram, the Temple was approached by the outer court of the congregation gathered under the shed blood on the brazen altar of sacrifice. Passing through the sea of glass where the ashes of the red heifer were made a waters of separation, the believer is "sanctified, being cleansed with the washing of water by the Word [or revelation], that Christ might present to Himself a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish; being holy and faultless" (Ephesians 5:26-27). And finally, through the riven veil of Christ's flesh without condemnation into the very Presence of God in the Holy of Holies (Romans 8; Hebrews 9).
The Tabernacle and Temple were mere shadows and types to instruct Israel of God's plan to reflect Himself in men made in His image as eternal spirits or redeemed souls and after the likeness of His nature and character. The Lord Jesus takes His abode in the temple of our body by three stages of grace through faith. God is love and He chose man's heart for His Throne room. He revealed His will but placed us on free moral agency to choose to reciprocate His love, or to demur. Satan chose man's head for his totalitarian control tower to beguile him into helpless submission by the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. God enters through our outer court, invited by a clear understanding of His revealed Word and redemptive work in Christ, not catechism, creed and church traditions. By this revelation coupled with repentance not only are we forgiven, we are justified by grace through faith as if we never made those mistakes. Perhaps the most simple example of saving faith is when we recognize the true oneness of the godhead through water baptism in that "The Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost" is LORD JESUS CHRIST, and in obedience to Matthew 28:19 we "and are baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, with the promise we will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost [or new birth]. For the promise is to as many as the Lord our God shall call" (Acts 2:38-39). Of course, if you have not been called by God you will ignore His command.
Having thus appealed to God for a clear conscience, He will begin to reveal His requirements for a holy walk, whereby we sanctify the spirit of our mind by bringing the five senses of our body (see, taste, feel, smell and touch) and the five senses of our mortal spirit (conscience, memory, imagination, reasoning and affection) subject to His Word, receiving correction as He reveals our errors in ignorance of the requirements of His unchanging Word. This is called sanctification. The Lord has now entered the antitype of the sanctuary.
Next we must tear down the veil of self-will between the holy place, before God can convert our soul and take His abode and the Holy of Holies of our heart. When we come into oneness with His Word for our day, and see that part of the Word living through us, this is our assurance that we have become a written epistle of the present Truth known and read by all men. nl634.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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