1987 03 Children of Light Part 2

Vol 19 No.
2 Printed Voice of Faith Assembly March 1987

Children of Light, Part 2
that they be allowed to partake of the
glory that He partook of. Verse 26,
which is the last verse of John 17, says,
“And I have declared unto them thy
name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be
in them, and I in them.” Now to carnal
minded persons of the world, it sounds
ridiculous for Him to speak of being in
His disciples; but the spiritual minded
person knows that He is not in His
disciples as a person, for He is just one
person. But in every true believer that
has received the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, is that same Spirit substance of
Rev. Raymond M. Jackson the father that was in Him. In other
words, we are all of the same Spirit; so
the light that was in Him, is in us also.
We ended part one looking at a few When the time came for Him to be
verses in John, chapter 17, where Jesus taken up to heaven, he said to His
was praying to the Father, as the time disciples, All things must be fulfilled,
drew near for Him to lay down His life which are written in the law of Moses,
for the sins of lost mankind. He knew and in the prophets, and in the Psalms
what lay before Him, and He knew that concerning me. He told them that it
His disciples would be shaken because was necessary that He suffer death on
of it, so His concern was for them, that the cross, and be raised the third day,
they would be kept stable, secure, and and that repentance and remission of
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sins should be preached in His name Church was in unity, all striving
(which was the redemption name of together to fulfill the purpose of God in
the Father also,) among all nations, their lives. Those first Christians had
beginning at Jerusalem. Then in Luke all lived under the law of Moses; but
24:49 He said, “And, behold, I send the after receiving the Holy Ghost, they
promise of my Father upon you: (That every one saw God in a different light.
was the Holy Ghost.) BUT TARRY They knew they no longer needed
YE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, priests ordained of man, to intercede
UNTIL YE BE ENDUED WITH for them before the throne of God; nor
POWER FROM ON HIGH.” That lets did they need those animal sacrifices
us know why his faithful disciples any longer, for the perfect blood
were gathered together in that upper sacrifice had finally been offered up;
room when the Holy Ghost was poured and it was good for all men
out upon them; they were tarrying everywhere, and for all times. Now
there, just like He told them to do. does that mean that we should do away
Why? Simply because without that with the Old Testament, as some have
same Spirit in them, that He had in done? No. There were yet many
Him, they had no power to preach, scriptures in the Old Testament to be
teach, nor testify of the things they had fulfilled; and besides that, it takes the
witnessed while following Jesus. It is Old Testament scriptures to round out
that anointing that enables us to speak our revelation. We are living under the
anything that will glorify God, or cause New Covenant; but we are still
a lost sinner to repent of his sins and learning from the old one. Those who
seek the Savior. But let me tell you cast away the Old Testament, cast
brothers and sisters, when that same away the keys to a lot of revelations
Spirit that was in Jesus was poured into God means for His true children to
the Church: the Church was then able have; especially here in the end time.
to do the same works He did. That is As we have already said, When Peter
what we see throughout the book of wrote: (1st Pet. 1:19) “We have also a
Acts; the Church carrying on the works more sure word of prophecy,” he
that Jesus had started. Those children simply meant, Because of what has
of light were reflecting the same light transpired in our very midst, those
He reflected; the light of the Father. prophecies of the Old Testament are
What kind of ministry did God raise made more sure, or more real to us;
up, to lead the Church in those days? therefore ye do well that ye take heed.
The ministry Paul described in In other words, take courage; do not
Ephesians 4:11, apostles, prophets, doubt, no matter how hard your trials
evangelists, pastors and teachers. may be, for those prophecies have been
There were no Catholic priests, nor made more sure to us, or more real.
Baptist preachers in those days; the What was to be the result? The day star

would arise in the hearts of every received that new birth experience
individual that would yield completely They fall into either the 2nd or 3rd
to God’s wooing efforts, and it would example of the first parable of Jesus, in
be a completely new day to those the 13th chapter of Matthew. In that
individuals; but we are still within this parable, only the seed that fell into the
one day of salvation. A person’s inner good ground, represent those souls in
life can be no more than what the this dispensation of grace that believe
dispensation reflects to them; but to be all the way through to the born again
in the stream of God’s perfect will; our experience. The baptism of the Holy
revelation must be kept up to date. Ghost is what seals a soul into the
Those early Christians would not have family of God. But as I have already
been continuing the ministry of Jesus, said, When we receive the Holy Ghost,
if they had gone out into the streets of that is only the starting point for our
Jerusalem and preached the law of statural growth, we are only baby
Moses to the people. For Jesus came to Christians, and only able to digest the
set them free from the keeping of that milk of the word of God. It is the
law; by placing in their hearts the law revelational light we receive from that
of righteousness that would cause point on, that causes us to grow up in
them to follow God because of a love spiritual stature (in the image of Jesus
relationship. Regardless of what we do Christ.) As I said early in the message,
though, no human being will ever the word day, (DAY) has many
outshine Jesus Christ. His obedient life applications, but once again, let me use
on earth is the example we are the dawning of one 24 hour day, and
endeavoring to measure up to. The the light of that day, to illustrate what
world has called Him a superstar, in Peter was talking about, when he
their greedy efforts to put more dollars referred to the day star arising in the
in their bank accounts; but as we look heart of a believer, for our statural
at this dispensational day; He is the growth is a progressive thing, just like
Sun that gives light to the whole world. the rising of the sun. The sun does not
In other words, There is enough light come fully over the horizon in a flash,
for every human soul upon the face of but when it first begins to show,
the earth to walk in; but as the daylight starts, and the light of that day
scriptures say, Some men love gets brighter and brighter, as the day
darkness rather than light. (In other goes on; until at high noon, all the dark
words, Believe on Him to the extent of shadows are at their shortest point.
actually receiving the new birth.) A lot That is what represents full stature in
of people have believed with their the life of a born again child of God.
intellect, until something else came When we first believe and accept the
along and drew their attention away gospel message, and receive the Holy
from the Lord, but none of those ever Ghost: that is comparable to the light

of the sun coming upon the horizon; that. Physically, it does not matter
we have a little revelation. The DAY whether we are short, tall, fat, or thin;
STAR (Jesus Christ) has begun to give just as long as our spirit is in tune with
light to your soul that was in the the Spirit of God; so he can lead us,
darkness of sin and unbelief, but you and reveal His word to us.
do not learn everything in one day. It
sometimes takes many years for the
full revelation of the gospel of Jesus STAR MESSENGERS
Christ to become a living reality to us;
but as we receive more revelation, that
is comparable to the light of the natural
sun moving toward its brightest glow We have spoken of it many times; but
at high noon. Each day with Jesus gets I wonder how many of you here, could
sweeter and sweeter; unless we hit a actually explain to someone who knew
place of stagnation in our spiritual nothing about it, just exactly what
growth. That can happen you know, if brought about the dark ages. Do any of
we allow the devil to sidetrack us by you think the devil took the light away
one of his clever diversions. from any of those who already had it?
Nevertheless it certainly is not the will No. That is not what happened. Those
of God for His children to remain in who carried the true light of God’s
ignorance. Therefore you could never word in their bosom, died, and the 2nd,
convince me that the Day Star has 3rd, 4th generations and on down the
arisen in your heart; if you still light line, never really came into the full
candles, and throw coins into the water revelation; because the devil had
at the feet of some statue with the preachers scattered around, preaching
thought of it having some spiritual false doctrine, enough to keep the true
value. If you do that, you are still just revelation clouded over. Therefore by
as blind and staggering as you ever the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries,
were; for there is no light in any of that there was very little true revelation left
kind of thing. Peter’s usage of the day in what was called, the church.
star arising in our hearts, was pointing Generation after generation lived and
to that recreating, remolding process died; without ever hearing the true
the word of God works in us; to mold gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. In
us into the image and likeness of Jesus other words, You could say that God
Christ; for that is God’s ultimate allowed the devil to have his
purpose in the life of every born again Millennial reign, a thousand years of
child of His. We are talking about the darkness. But God was obligated by
spiritual image of course; and not that His own word, to fulfill the prophecies
God wants us to look like Jesus pointing to this end time hour of time.
physically. I am sure you all realize Therefore those dark clouds of dogmas

and creeds of man’s religion, had to be evening time, the full glow of the sun
forced back, and the true light of the (SON OF GOD) is seen once again. In
gospel allowed to shine in its full the evening time it shall be light.
brilliance; before the day of salvation Hallelujah! Brothers and Sisters: That
comes to an end. That is why he started is something to shout about! Just think:
giving men like Luther, Calvin, Knox, After all these hundreds of years of
Wesley, and all those various ones, darkness, we are able to hear the
little gems of apostolic truth. None of gospel preached in its full revelation,
them ever preached the entire apostolic just like it started out. We now have the
gospel; but what they did preach, revelation of all that those first age
lightened up those dark clouds, and apostles preached about, and wrote
allowed more light to be shed upon the about. We even have the revelation of
earth. Many souls were delivered from the book of Revelation, that remained
that state of almost total spiritual such a mystery for over 1900 years. I
darkness, that they were in, as those say, We are a privileged people; and
various ones began to preach what God we have much to give an account of.
had revealed to them. Dispensationally “For unto whomsoever much is given,
speaking, the day of salvation was on of him shall be much required.” Jesus
the declining side, and the sun was said that in Luke 12:48. God will not
getting very low, coming into the hold a man accountable for something
twentieth century. But the hour came, he never knew anything about; but
that God raised up a little man; a sinner those of us who have been given a
saved by grace, just like the rest of us, clear revelation of the will and purpose
and anointed him for a special purpose. of God, are accountable to Him for the
The anointing that was upon him, I way we handle the revelation; and for
have not seen on any man since. He the way we live our lives with that
preached the gospel with the same revelation inside of us. Now for you
anointing and authority the apostles of who would associate the word star,
Jesus had, in the first century. His with night time, let me remind you that
name was William Marrion Branham, there is another usage of that word.
from right here in Jeffersonville, Ind., There are a variety of definitions in the
and we are fully persuaded that he was Webster dictionary; but we are
the Laodicean church age messenger. interested in only this one, “a person
He was the seventh angel, of who stands out among his fellows.”
Revelation 10:7, and the seventh star You have movie stars, baseball stars,
of Revelation 1:16, and 1:20, and football stars, tennis stars, and on and
through his ministry, the light of that on; but the stars we are dealing with,
glorious gospel of Jesus Christ broke are the church age stars, those
through those still very dark clouds of outstanding men of God who were the
tradition and unbelief; and here in the star messengers to the seven church

ages in this one dispensational day. do we account for that? That is why
The apostle Paul was the star of the Jesus said in John 16:7, 12-14,
first church age, and Bro. William “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is
Branham was the undisputable star of expedient for you that I go away: for if
the seventh church age. Oh that does I go not away: the Comforter will not
not mean that all church going people come unto you; but if I depart, I will
accept him as that, but those who send Him unto you. (For our purpose,
dispute it, have never received a at this time, just drop down to verse
revelation of the apostolic gospel. 12.) I have yet many things to say unto
They are still existing on the stale you, but ye cannot bear them now.
bread from the Reformation. What was Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth,
good enough for Luther, and all of is come, He will guide you into all
those, is not good enough for end time truth: for He shall not speak of
children of God to receive proper Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear,
spiritual nourishment from, for much that shall he speak; and He will SHOW
has been revealed since then, and God YOU THINGS TO COME. He shall
expects us to eat of all of it. glorify me: for He shall receive of
mine, and shall show it unto you.” The
Spirit of the Father that was in Jesus,
caused Him to say everything He said.
THE HOLY GHOST - IN Therefore when that same spirit filled
BELIEVERS all those disciples; they too began to
speak the word of God; as that
inspiration rose up within them. God
moved upon them, to speak the things
I want to turn to 1st Thessalonians, Jesus said they could not bear, while he
chapter 4, and show you how that first was still with them. What was the
age star messenger fulfilled his calling. difference? Simply that they all had
Jesus knew before He left the earth, that revelatory spirit inside of them; to
that He had delivered the word of God enable them to receive deeper
to those Jewish people. He delivered to teaching. Now they could be told of
them all that God required Him to. things yet to come; and that is exactly
That is why he said, (in John 17:8) as what we are going to read; something
He prayed for all believers, “For I have the Holy Ghost revealed to them
given unto them the words which thou through the apostle Paul, that Jesus
gavest me; and they have received never did speak of. Now Peter was a
them.” Yet the apostle Paul (who never spokesman for God, on the day of
walked with Jesus, when He was Pentecost, for the keys that opened up
ministering on earth) explained things the kingdom of God to lost mankind
that Jesus never even spoke of; so how had been given to him. Therefore he

stood in the streets of Jerusalem and exercised faith in Christ. How did we
said, “Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that learn about the resurrection and
dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto rapture of the Church? Through the
you, and hearken (or listen) to my Holy Ghost that was in the apostle
words,” and then he preached Jesus Paul, doing exactly what Jesus said He
Christ to them, and three thousand would do when He came, that is, show
souls were saved. But in the eyes of you things to come. This is what
God, Peter was not the star to the age. enabled the church to know what to
Paul was the one that stood out among look forward to. No Jesus is not jealous
all of them, as the gospel went over to of Paul, nor of Peter, nor any of the rest
the Gentile; and that brings us to the that have spoken of things that He
scripture I want to read. It is 1st Thess. never taught on; for that is exactly
4:13-17, “But I would not have you to what they were supposed to do. Just
be ignorant, brethren, concerning them think of all that is being taught here in
which are asleep, (dead) that ye sorrow the end time, that Jesus nor any of his
not, even as others which have no apostles ever taught on. What is it? It
hope. For if we believe that Jesus died is the Holy Ghost, in the five fold
and rose again, even so them also ministry of this hour, revealing things
which sleep in Jesus will God bring that saints of other ages had no need to
with Him. (That is the picture we see know. That is why Jesus said, (John
in Revelation, chapter 19) For this we 17:20) “Neither pray I for these alone
say unto you by the word of the Lord, (His immediate disciples) but for them
that we which are alive and remain also which shall believe on me through
unto the coming of the Lord shall not their word.” It is through their word
prevent them which are asleep. For the that every one of us have been brought
Lord Himself shall descend from into the faith. Where would we be,
heaven with a shout, with the voice of without those New Testament epistles
the archangel, and with the trump of written by those men of that first
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise church age? We do not believe on
first: Then we which are alive and Paul, nor Peter, nor any of them unto
remain shall be caught up (This is the salvation; but on the word of the Lord
rapture of the true Church ; something Jesus Christ hat they every one wrote
Jesus never even spoke of: but about. They all wrote about Jesus; but
something every true Christian Paul is the one that stood out among
believes in) together with them in the them: he was the star messenger to that
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and age.
so shall we ever be with the Lord.” We
are told to comfort one another with
these words; for herein lies the hope of
every true believer that has ever

THE DAY OF THE LORD believe the scriptures. They will not be
ready for Him, but the little bride will.
In fact, they will say, How do we know
this is the truth? That could have just
This 5th chapter of 1st Thessalonians is been Paul’s own idea about it all.
what I like, for Paul just goes right on Besides, people have been saying that
talking about the day of the Lord; for years, and He has not come yet.
which is actually the time when Jesus Well brothers and sisters, that is how
comes back literally, with His saints, to unbelief works; it deludes the minds of
rule and reign. To the unrevelated all those who refuse to submit
person, it all sounds like one coming; themselves to God in truth. But the
but the last verses of chapter 4 are little bride knows what to look forward
dealing with the rapture of the Church; to. Notice verse 3 now, as we go on.
when the resurrection takes place, and “For when they (the unbelievers) shall
Jesus does not come to earth at that say, Peace and safety; then sudden
time; the saints meet Him in the air. Let destruction cometh upon them, as
us read a few verses, and you will see travail upon a woman with child; and
the difference. “But of the times and they shall not escape.” No woman
the seasons, (years, months, and so knows three days in advance when she
forth) Brethren, ye have no need that I is going to be delivered of her little
write unto you. For yourselves know baby. In such a case, she lives in
perfectly that the day of the Lord so expectancy; will it be today? Will it be
cometh as a thief in the night.” Does he tomorrow? But when the time actually
mean to the Church? No. To those who arrives, she may be in her car, heading
still sit in the darkness of sin and for the shopping mall; and just barely
unbelief. To them He will come as a make it to the hospital in time. To the
thief in the night, unannounced. world, the coming of the Lord is going
Actually Paul had a little twofold to be just that sudden, and it will be too
thought running here, for he had been late for them to turn to the Lord; but
speaking of the rapture of the church, the believer will be secure in Him who
and the sureness of that blessed event; works all things according to His word.
but it was not needful for anyone to Hallelujah! How blessed we are. “But
know when it would take place. ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
Actually the true saints of God will that day should overtake you as a thief.
know when the time is getting close, (Praise God! I like this.) Ye are the
because of the signs of the times, and children of light, and the children of
the scriptures that are being fulfilled, the day: we are not of the night, nor of
but the world will know nothing; darkness.” Go on, Billy Graham, Oral
neither of this coming, nor of His Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, write your
literal coming, because they do not books, and the time will come that you

will all regret what you have done, but experience. When Bro. Branham first
it will be too late. You can raise a lot came upon the scene, it was to the
of money with them; but they do not multitudes. The Baptists, the
present a true revelation to the poor Methodists, the Catholics, and all the
souls who read them. The reason we rest, both trinity and oneness, could sit
are not in darkness, is because the and listen to him, for he did not
revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ normally touch upon the things that
has lit the way for us. As I said already, made them nervous. He preached the
God does not save us, for us to remain gospel of Jesus Christ in such
twenty years in the dawning of our simplicity, that a lot of those trinitarian
Christian experience, saved, baptized people ran to the water hole to be
in the name of Jesus Christ, and not baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. A
one inch beyond that. You are lot of oneness got their revelation of
supposed to have a noon time in your the godhead straightened out, and
experience also, and if the clouds do multitudes were healed; both trinity
come, in your experience, I will have and oneness, as the Holy Ghost spake
to say, that is your fault. God does not and ministered through that little
put them there, for Paul said, ye are the vessel of clay.
children of LIGHT, and the children of
the day. There is no room for clouds of
doubt and unbelief, in the lives of
God’s revelated children. “We are not REVELATION MOVES US
of the night, nor of darkness.” FORWARD
Hallelujah! Brother: we are living in
the day time; both of our personal
experience, and also of the
dispensation. Do I say that just because I remember one particular Sunday
we have heard God’s prophet morning there in the Branham
messenger teach on the Church Ages Tabernacle, after Bro. Branham had
and the seals? No You can know all preached and was ministering to
about the Church Ages and the seals, people in the prayer line. I was sitting
but if you do not have a proper on the platform because of an overflow
foundation (revelation of the gospel of crowd; and there was a man and his
Jesus Christ) to lay all of that upon, it wife from a trinity church over in
is as worthless as a week old Louisville; sitting just 3 seats back
newspaper. The revelation of Jesus from the front. Brother Branham was
Christ is not given to a lost sinner, so anointed and began to discern various
he can learn about the Church Ages things, and tell people what was wrong
and seals. All of that is for believers, as with them and so forth. Then all of a
they progress in their salvation sudden he looked right back there to

those people in that third row and said, of Christ to be brought to the fulness of
You, brother: you are suffering with the image that she is to project before
such and such a condition! Isn’t that she leaves here. Many men who
right? The man threw up his hands, and profess to be a part of that ministry, are
began to scream. Then Bro. Branham going about, preaching things that
said, I see a dark shadow moving right simply will not harmonize with the
over to your wife, and he told exactly overall revelation of this hour of time;
what her condition was, and she threw therefore let me say this, A man ought
up her hands and began to scream. not be too quick about preaching
They both then broke down, and began something that comes to him. Each
to weep, and Bro. Branham asked, Do man of this true ministry will
you believe me to be God’s prophet? recognize that he is not the only one
Then he said, May the Lord bless you, God is dealing with; and that will cause
God has made you whole. That night, him to weigh anything that comes to
both of them came and were baptized him, against what the others are
according to the light of the gospel of preaching and make sure it does not
Christ. Hallelujah! That is why God conflict with the truth that has already
anointed him; that the true gospel of been established and confirmed by the
the Lord Jesus Christ might be word of God. Let me say this also, you
confirmed. Brother, the way God used who look at Malachi 4:2, and see the
that little man’s ministry, tore down bride, there is something wrong, for
denominational barriers of tradition, that does not even apply to the bride.
and drove back those dark clouds of That applies to the Millennium when
unbelief and doubt, and the minds of a that certain element of mortal people
lot of people were set free in Christ for are definitely going to benefit by the
the first time. That did not change the literal rule and reign of Jesus Christ on
age, it only changed those individuals earth. Therefore there is no way that
that were touched by it. They were able you can make this a part of the evening
to see Jesus Christ in the same light the light message to the bride of Christ;
first Christians saw Him in. This was except just to let her know what it
that light in the evening time, that pertains to. However the evening light
Zechariah prophesied about. I must message is still having its affect around
keep stressing the fact that the sun, this old world today, and will continue
dispensationally speaking, has not yet to do so until the little bride is ready to
disappeared over the horizon. But take her flight. I want to re-emphasize
thank God, we have been privileged to something I have already said though;
see the glory of the light of that sun in just to be sure you understand it. Just
its evening descent, and it is going to as Jesus never brought forth every
take the total five fold ministry here in truth that pertained to the bride, but left
the evening time, in order for the bride much of it for His apostles to bring out

later, so did Bro. Branham do likewise, more in the name of Jesus, Should we
when he delivered the evening light obey God, or man? God meant for the
message. God used him to restore the end time church to have certain truths
original truth of the gospel of Christ, revealed to it, that the first age Church
and to clarify the plan of salvation, but did not have, or He would never have
there were a number of things he never given the revelation to His servants in
did actually teach on. God used him to the first place. Surely you can all see
say certain things about serpent seed, a that. Well my point is this, Brother
subject that had never been taught Branham’s ministry drove back the
before to my knowledge; but he never dark clouds of tradition and unbelief;
did actually explain how it really fit and allowed the end time element of
into the overall picture. However the the bride of Christ to see the same
same anointing that revealed to him glorious light that was seen by the first
what he did say, was still here after he age saints. Bur when God removed that
was gone, to complete the picture. Paul little man from the scene, He did not
never preached anything about serpent remove His anointing. That same
seed; but does that mean that no one anointing is continuing through the
else should? No. God saved certain five fold ministry, what was started
things for the end time element of the through the ministry of Bro. Branham,
bride of Christ, that no other age ever in order that the end time church may
needed to know. I received something have a full revelation of the plan and
from someone the other day and the purpose of God. These quoters that are
person who sent it would not even sign running the roads quoting Bro.
his, or her, name, but said, stop Branham, have the same spirit on
preaching this false doctrine; there is them, that was on those tares that got
no salvation in serpent seed teaching. in, as the first age was closing out.
Well I grant you, there is no salvation They are doing exactly what was done
in knowing about serpent seed; but it then. Those men were not trying to
sure does let one know why they need bring beer and whiskey into the
salvation. In other words, it puts more Church; they were trying to change
light on the subject. It lets you know what those apostles of Christ meant,
why Jesus had to be born of virgin when they preached the gospel. By the
birth. You know, there are a lot of same token, these who are always
people in the world today, that are quoting what Bro. Branham said,
ready to tell you what the first sin of heard his words, and saw his flesh, but
mankind was not; but none of them are never received one ounce of revelation
able to tell you what it really was; and on the things he taught. Therefore they
they forbid anyone else to tell it. But quote him, and then put their own
this is like what the apostles said, when carnal interpretation on what he meant.
they were forbidden to preach any Is it any wonder that there is confusion

in the ranks of those who follow this few years after we built here, were
message? People like that are like the such hard years. I had been preaching
blind man that Jesus prayed for: that for quite a few years; but I was still
saw a little profile of something, and very young in the areas of criticism and
they knew it was important, but they pressure, that were constantly
received no revelation on what was comparing my life with Bro.
meant, so they just quote, quote, quote, Branham’s. I never compared myself
and project their own ideas. That is to Bro. Branham; but I did hear what
why the true ministry of this hour must was said, and God allowed me to
have a backbone in them that will fight understand what was meant; therefore
against that spirit, in order that this as the years passed, I came to the place
glorious light be kept bright to the very where I could not care less what they
end. say about me. The way I look at it:
when they speak against me because of
the truth I stand for, they are only
digging their own graves; because God
WE STAND FOR TRUTH Himself is my defender. He is the one
that has kept me from all of that
confusion; simply because I had only
one purpose in mind, I wanted to be put
This little assembly has always been back in the Bible and know the truth of
ridiculed and blackballed by various God’s word; instead of just being filled
elements, simply because God with a bunch of quotes. That is why I
protected me and kept me from falling am able to look out there at you, and
into that trap of the devil that so many know that you are not sitting here just
others fell into. I have said to my wife because of my flesh; for I have not
many times, honey, we sat right there cultivated fleshly attachments in my
with all those others and heard what ministry of the word of God.
Bro. Branham preached; so except for Furthermore I have heard the
the grace of God that kept our heads on testimony of many of you, how you
straight, we could be right where a lot were searching for the light when you
of them are, just running the roads, first came in those doors back there. I
causing confusion. Just like in the days tell you brothers and sisters: I have
of Christ, there had to be some learned a lot through all of this
personal witnesses that would hear pressure and criticism, that I would not
what was said, and allow the Spirit of trade for anything in the world. A
God to give them a revelation of it, for million dollars could not buy it; it can
as soon as the man was gone, that spirit only come the way I got it.
came in like a flood, with all kinds of Furthermore, if I depart this life before
carnal ideas. That is why those first Jesus comes for his church, I will leave

knowing that I have preached the truth. Gentiles had no hope in God back then,
I have not had to change what I in Old Testament times.) But now
preached twenty years ago, I have just (after the Jews rejected their Messiah)
added to it. Therefore regardless of in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were
what my critics say, I believe God far off are made nigh, by the blood of
raised up this little assembly to be a Christ.” Hallelujah! No wonder Peter
place where the evening light would could write about the day star dawning
shine brightly, so instead of hurting in our hearts. Brother that is what our
me, those critics only give us free personal experience with Jesus Christ
advertisement, for we are known is. It puts us in a brand new day. Where
around the world. I cannot be accused our soul used to be in total darkness; it
of robbing anything else, nor of now has total light. We can now look
building anything for myself, for I back and see why Jesus told his
have made every effort to build only disciples to preach the gospel to the
for God. whole world, at a time when it seemed
like the good news was only for the
Jews. The commission was, “Go into
all the world, and preach the gospel to
RECEIVING POWER FROM every creature. He that believeth and is
ON HIGH baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth not shall be damned.” (Mark
16:15-16) However they were to tarry
in the city of Jerusalem, until they were
Let us get back to our subject. We are endued with power from on high, and
children of light: not by our meriting it, of course that pertained to the Holy
but because of God’s grace. What did Ghost that fell upon the 120 disciples
Paul write in his Ephesian letter, who obeyed His instructions, and
concerning we Gentiles? Let us read waited in that upper room there in
verses 11-13 of chapter 2, and you will Jerusalem. Without first tarrying, like
see. “Wherefore remember that ye he told them to do, there never would
being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, have been any results from what they
who are called Uncircumcision by that had to say, for without the Holy Ghost
which is called the Circumcision in the to unction them, God would not have
flesh made by hands; (That was the honored their words with the necessary
Jews) That at that time ye were without vindication. What did they receive?
Christ, being aliens from the They received the very presence of the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers Spirit of God in each of their individual
from the covenants of promise, having lives. God, who is light, was then
no hope, and without God in the world: dwelling inside each of them, and that
(That allows us to see clearly that enabled them to continue the very

same works that Jesus Himself had day. That is why Peter would write, ye
begun to do on earth. What they do well that ye take heed, as unto a
received was that light that shineth in a light that shineth in a dark place; for
dark place, and the dark place is our sin before the day of Pentecost when the
laden hearts, before we receive the spirit was given, that light was not
gospel. Alright they were to take it to available. Before the dawning of that
the whole world; but we know there dispensational day, there could never
had to be some leadership as to how have been the dawning of such a day in
each individual would respond to that the hearts of individuals. The
command. It was one thing for Jesus to progression of our own individual
say, Go. But our going has to be experience does not change the
directed, so that it is according to the dispensational day at all. That day will
plan and purpose of God. Therefore the dawn in an individual’s heart, rise to its
light that shineth in a dark place peak, and then that person can pass on
ultimately turns out to be the gospel to their reward, and the dispensational
preached by the revelation and day not be affected at all. In other
anointing of the Holy Ghost. That may words, This is just Peter’s way of
sound like a tongue twister, but when speaking of the new birth experience
you analyze it, you will find that it all that individuals have, during this one
adds up to the same thing, for by day of salvation that covers many
believing and obeying the gospel, we centuries. God has allowed Himself
receive that Spirit of God which lights this period of time in which he is
up our souls, and determines our redeeming a people that can be called
eternal destiny. That is why I keep by His name, and this one day will last
stressing the fact that as long as the until the last predestined soul has heard
dispensation of grace is in effect, we and accepted their call, and from this
are still in that daylight, or daytime last day element of Christianity, He is
period of what Isaiah referred to as the perfecting a people that can be taken
day of salvation. Once that day started, up alive, like Enoch of old, who
it has been daytime ever since, even walked with God.
through the Dark Ages, when very
little light was seen. That light is
available for all to walk in, but the
world prefers darkness rather than PROPHECIES MADE MORE
light. Why did Paul say, (2nd SURE
Corinthians 6:2) “Behold, now is the
accepted time; behold, now is the day
of salvation?” Because under the law
of Moses, it was the night season Let us look at some of the scriptures
before the dawning of this glorious Peter was thinking about when he said,

“We have also a more sure word of seed; not to that only which is of the
prophecy,” or prophecy made more law, but to that also which is of the
sure to us. We have to go back into the faith of Abraham; who is the father of
Old Testament to get them. In Genesis us all.” Then Paul speaks of Genesis
15:18 before Abraham even had any 17:5, where God said to Abraham, I
children, God said to him, “Unto thy have made thee a father of many
seed have I given this land, from the nations. Abraham did not realize the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the potential that was in that one promise,
river Euphrates.” At this time, these for his mind was on the fact that at that
two people were still known as Abram time his wife Sarah had not even been
and Sarai. Bur shortly afterwards, God able to give him a seed. Nevertheless
changed their names to Abraham and God reconfirmed the covenant and
Sarah, because they were to be prince promise He had made to him saying,
and princess of a great multitude of (Gen. 17:15) “Sarah thy wife shall bear
people. All of this was pointing to the thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call
great multitude that would cover the his name Isaac: and I will establish my
earth, from that one promised seed that covenant with him for an everlasting
Abraham was to have by his wife covenant, and with his seed after him.”
Sarah. In chapter 12, verse 3, when It was through Isaac, not Ishmael, that
God had first spoken to Abraham, He all the families of the earth would be
said to him, “And I will bless them that blessed; for through his seed Jesus
bless thee, and curse him that curseth Christ, that humanly is through the
thee: and in thee shall all families of genealogy of Isaac, is where we
the earth be blessed.” That was a Gentiles come into that promise. All
prophecy pointing to you and me, the families, means all races and all colors
spiritual seed of Abraham. Paul dealt of all the families of the earth.
with all of this in his epistle to the Therefore through that one seed Isaac
Romans, pointing out how Abraham we are all included in the promise God
believed God, and it was counted unto made to Abraham. Isaac begat Esau
him for righteousness, and how that and Jacob, and you all know the story
Abraham is the father of all who there, how that even though Jacob was
believe and trust in God. In Romans the youngest of the two, he received
4:13, Paul says this, “For the promise, the birthright blessing from their father
that he (Abraham) should be the heir of Isaac, and that promise of God to
the world, was not to Abraham, or to Abraham came on down through him.
his seed, through the law, but through Jacob begat twelve sons, and brother,
the righteousness of faith.” Then in the promise of God was on its way to
verse 16, he wrote, “Therefore it is of being fulfilled; that Abraham’s seed
faith, that it might be by grace; to the would be for number as the sand of the
end the promise might be sure to all the seashore, and as the stars in the sky.

This was not altogether a beautiful DISPENSATION OF THE

picture though, when you look at it WRITING PROPHETS
from the standpoint of the natural, for
in Genesis 15:13-16, God told
Abraham of the over 400 years of
captivity that his seed would be After the children of Israel came into
subjected to, before they would come their land of promise, they are then
back into the land of promise. Let us dealt with in what we call the
read those 4 verses. “And He said unto dispensation of the writing prophets.
Abraham, (or Abram) know of a surety They would speak of past, present, and
that thy seed shall be a stranger in a future, as the voice of God to this
land that is not theirs, and shall serve people of Israel, who were the natural
them; and they shall afflict them four seed of Abraham; to instruct, warn,
hundred years; And also that nation, and chasten them, as well as to promise
(Egypt) whom they shall serve, will I them a Messiah. Each prophet, in his
judge: and afterward shall they come own generation of time, was a
out with great substance. And thou mouthpiece of God. There would be
shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou times when God would remind them of
shalt be buried in a good old age. But what He had done for them at the Red
in the fourth generation they shall Sea, in bringing them out of Egyptian
come hither again: for the iniquity of bondage, in order to encourage them,
the Amorites is not yet full.” Well all or to remind them of His great power
of that was fulfilled just exactly as God and ability, and what He could do for
had told Abraham; for 430 years after them, if they would obey Him, or
they entered that land, God brought against them, if they refused to obey
them forth from it through the ministry him. Elijah was not a writing prophet;
of Moses, (so to speak) and they came but much of what he spoke was written
forth as twelve tribes, a great multitude by others, for he was a preaching
of people, to possess the land of prophet. Men such as Isaiah, Jeremiah,
promise. You all know the story of Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, and all of them
how their unbelief caused God to have were the writing prophets, and it is
to allow them to wander around in the those prophecies mainly, that Peter
wilderness until all of the older was referring to, as he spoke about the
generation died off, and how Joshua day star arising in our hearts, and a
and Caleb led the younger generation more sure word of prophecy. Those
across the Jordan into the land of prophecies are made more sure to true
promise, and how they went about believers, because of the revelation
taking possession of that land. God has given us in this hour of time.
Well I did not know when I started on
this message, just how this thing was

going to unfold; so this is where I all the rest will just use what they can,
really stick my neck out. If any of you to benefit their flesh in some way. You
leave here, not understanding why just simply cannot change prophecy.
there is so much confusion following Malachi 4:6 is not just stating what
Bro. Branham’s message, there is should be, it is a prophecy telling us
something wrong with you, for I am exactly what the results of that man’s
going to speak very plainly. Even if I ministry will be. Of course the man
had ten natural brothers following this himself is gone, but his message is still
message, I would still have to say what in the earth today, and it is still
I am about to say. Percentage-wise, accomplishing what it was supposed to
there are as many tares following this accomplish: turning the hearts of some
message as there are out here in the back to the faith of those apostles of
denominational churches. It should not Jesus. Remember this: Man will fail;
be that way, but I am afraid it is. but the word of God will never fail; it
Furthermore I am sure that most of you will always accomplish what it was
must have noticed that God does not supposed to accomplish.
chasten nor speak to them. Well, that is
the reason: He only chastens His own
children. That is why I do not hesitate
to say, we are not all children of God. Alright Hosea was a prophet of God in
Oh I know a lot of you do not like to the 8th century B.C., when Israel had
hear me talk like this, but I have to. committed great whoredoms against
You know what Malachi 4:6 says: God. Therefore God instructed Hosea
Whoever that spirit of Elijah would to take a wife of whoredoms, and when
rest upon in these last days, was to he did so, and children were born unto
bring a message to the age, that would them, God had those children named
turn the hearts of the children (children certain names that spoke of how He
of God) back to the faith and revelation was going to deal with that nation
of the apostolic fathers. Therefore I say because of their adulterous ways. First
to you: If you have not been turned with the ten northern tribes called
back to the revelation of Jesus Christ Israel, and then with the two southern
that those early apostles had, you are tribes called Judah. Hosea writes of
not my brother. Bro. Jackson! That how God, in a certain span of time,
sounds bad! I know it does, but would say to those two southern tribes,
conditions force it to be that way. Ye are not my people, there it shall be
Furthermore I am not the one that said said to them (the Gentiles) Ye are the
it; the Bible declares it to be that way. sons of the living God. When the ten
The only ones that are going to benefit northern tribes were driven from the
spiritually from Bro. Branham’s land, they were never to be back again
message, are the true children of God, and be dealt with, until the last days,

just before the coming of the Lord SETTLING A DISPUTE

Jesus Christ. However the two
southern tribes, even though they were
taken into Babylonian captivity, were
brought back into the land of their When Paul and Barnabas went up to
fathers. For what? To be there for the Jerusalem to discuss with the other
first advent of Christ. They were the apostles, the great controversy that had
representatives of the nation of Israel, arisen at Antioch, over circumcision,
when those Messianic prophecies were James took the occasion to refer to a
fulfilled to that people, at the first prophecy in Amos 9:11 & 12, that was
advent of Christ. Even though the being fulfilled. No matter what God
people rejected Jesus Christ as their does, there is always a bunch of
Messiah, the gospel message was still legalists on hand to find fault with it,
presented to them first. They were to and that was the case at Antioch.
be first partakers of the gospel, before Certain men came down from Judaea,
the Gentiles were ever allowed to teaching that except those Gentiles
partake of it. But as a total nation of which had believed, be circumcised
people, they rejected the gospel. That according to the law of Moses, they
is why God allowed Titus and his cannot be saved. That is what caused
Roman Army to cut them off, and Paul and Barnabas to go up to
scatter them to the four winds in 69 & Jerusalem to see the other apostles, and
70 A.D., and that is why Paul became get their mind on the matter. After
very bold one day and said to a bunch explaining how God had blessed their
of them something like this, It was ministry among the Gentiles, and how
necessary that the gospel of Jesus certain of the Pharisees had caused this
Christ first be preached to you; but trouble there at Antioch, Peter was the
seeing that you reject it, and count first one of them to give an answer. He
yourselves unworthy of eternal life, said, Men and brethren, ye know how
Lo, we turn to the Gentiles. God will that a good while ago God made a
never deal with that nation again, as a choice among us, that the Gentiles by
nation of twelve tribes, until that last my mouth should hear the word of the
predestined Gentile soul has received gospel and believe. (Not too many
the gospel. The Jews did not years after Pentecost, Peter had been
understand Hosea’s prophecy; but led to one lone household in Caesarea,
there it lay just the same, and God did the house of a Roman centurion, where
exactly what He said He would do. he preached to all that were assembled
there, and they believed. But Peter
himself had no ministry to the
Gentiles.) And God, which knoweth
the hearts, bare them witness, giving

them the Holy Ghost, even as He did the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and
unto us; And put no differences Peter used those keys, both on the day
between us and them, purifying their of Pentecost, and at the house of
hearts by faith. (We are reading from Cornelius, but he did not stand out with
Acts, chapter 15, starting with verse 7, any kind of calling to preach to the
and we are now in verse 10, so listen to Gentiles. Are any of you wondering
Peter’s conclusion.) Now therefore why I am going through all of this?
why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon Because I want to go back into the
the neck of the disciples, which neither book of Revelation and talk about a
our father nor we were able to bear? star. We have already touched on it,
Peter had no revelation of what God but we want to look again at those
was going to do for the Gentiles, when seven stars in the hand of Jesus, in the
he went up to the house of Cornelius. first chapter of Revelation.
He simply went because God had
backed him into a corner, and there
was nothing else that he could do. You
all know the story, how Peter was upon GOD MADE PAUL A STAR
the housetop praying, and the Lord
gave him a vision in which he saw
something like a great sheet, with the
four corners tied together, let down Any time you mention stars, people
from heaven before his face, full of all have a tendency to think of night time,
sorts of wild beasts and creeping but in this particular setting, the stars
things, and how a voice said to him, do not pertain to night time. They are
Rise Peter, kill and eat. That was done outstanding men of God, all within this
three times, and Peter would say, Not one dispensation of time known as the
so Lord, for nothing common or grace age, and referred to in prophecy
unclean has ever entered my mouth, as the day of salvation. On the day of
and God said to him, What God has Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost was
cleansed, call not thou common nor give to the 120 disciples, there were
unclean. Peter was weighing all of this twelve apostles in that upper room, but
in his mind when the three Gentile men it was not the purpose of God for any
arrived at the gate below, and the Lord one of them to be the star of that first
instructed him to go with them, age of Christendom. That was reserved
doubting nothing. This was an for a man that was still a devout
altogether different situation than Pharisee for quite a while after the
when Paul and Barnabas boldly birth of the Church. When Saul of
declared that they were going to turn to Tarsus was out persecuting Christians,
the Gentiles with the gospel. Sure, God Himself was the only one that
Peter was the one to whom Jesus gave knew what was in store for him. After

giving his voice in the stoning death of know that within that dispensation
Stephen which was one of the seven called the kingdom of heaven, there
deacons of the early Church, Saul went was to be another term used, the
on a real crusade persecuting all that in kingdom of God. One term applies to
any way called upon the name of Jesus the dispensation itself, and the other
Christ, and God had to knock him term applies to something that is taking
down in the middle of the road to place within that dispensation of time,
Damascus, and blind him for three the Spirit of God making His abode in
days, in order to get his attention, and the hearts of His children. That is why
get him going in the right direction. it could be said, The kingdom of God
Saul thought he was doing God a is within you, because the Spirit of
service, killing those Christians. In his God rules and reigns in the hearts of
state of spiritual blindness, his His true children. Speaking of the
zealousness toward religious traditions apostles though, there were none with
had kept him from even imagining that any more boldness and fearlessness
God would have anything to do with than the apostle Peter, after he received
such an unorthodox gang as that. He the Holy Ghost. He stood right there in
thought they were a bunch of fanatics, the streets of Jerusalem, on the day of
and that the world would be better off Pentecost, and rebuked that bunch of
without them. But after God got scribes and Pharisees that were making
through working on him, his testimony fun of those disciples speaking in
was, after the way which they call tongues. He was also an outstanding
heresy, so worship I the God of my figure in those early days of
fathers. After God finally got him Christianity, in that the sick and
turned around (Not that God was diseased were laid in the streets in such
trying before that) he became as a way that the shadow of him might
zealous for Christianity as he was for pass over them, believing that there
trying to rid the world of Christians was healing virtue in it, and God
before that. Did Paul (That is the new honored it, but that still did not make
name God gave Saul) know that he was him the star of that first church age.
destined to be the star of the first The night Jesus was arrested, Peter
church age? No. Those apostles did not stood by the fire, scared half to death.
even know there would be any such But on the day of Pentecost, after he
thing as church ages. They only knew received the Holy Ghost, oh what
from written prophecies, that there was boldness. This was the same man that
another dispensation of time wherein had grabbed a sword, and cut a man’s
God would do something for Israel, but ear off, when they came to arrest Jesus.
they saw nothing beyond that. John the Well I just mention these things to
Baptist introduced that period of time more or less cause you to consider his
as the kingdom of heaven, and we human reactions under certain

circumstances, and then to see that law age was, to the grace age. It
same man moving under the leadership foreshadowed what sin was, and what
of the Holy Ghost. As we look at Peter God was going to do, to deal with it.
in the scriptures, we see a man that Now God never did tell anyone how
seemed to have the potential to be a long this dispensation would last; but
star, but remember, his ministry was according to all the signs of the
mostly to the Jews, so we have to look scriptures, we are the children of the
at the whole age in order to get the true evening light of this day of salvation,
picture. Let me just mention one more and I believe with all my heart, that this
prophecy pertaining to what God was generation will live to see this day
going to do during this day of close out. But what we want to do now
salvation, and then we will take a is go back to the dawning of this day
better look at Paul, who really was the and watch how the spirit of God
star of that first church age. The administers this new covenant, and
scripture is Jeremiah 31:33, and says watch how the apostle Paul is led by
this, “But this shall be the covenant the Spirit to become the star of the first
that I will make with the house of age.
Israel; (This gospel was first to the
Jews, and then to the Gentiles.) After
those days, (after that period of the
law) saith the Lord, I will put my law PAUL - MATTHIAS - AND
in their inward parts, and write it in THE EARLY CHURCH
their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be my people.” This was a
new covenant that God was making
with the house of Israel, and Paul Paul was not in the upper room with
picked it up in the 8th chapter of the other twelve apostles. He said of
Hebrews and says, “In that He saith, A himself in 1st Corinthians, concerning
new covenant, He hath made the first those that saw Jesus after His
old. Now that which decayeth and resurrection, “And last of all He was
waxeth old is ready to vanish away.” seen of me also, as of one born out of
The law was the old covenant. It dealt due time.” There has been much debate
with types and shadows of the new through the years concerning Paul and
covenant, which is the covenant of Matthias. Paul has been called the 13th
grace. That is why we can say, The law apostle, and a lot of people have felt
was the moon age, because it was that the eleven apostles that elected
reflecting the sun (SON) that was to be Matthias, jumped the gun and missed
seen in the day season. The moon has God. I used to feel that way myself.
no light of its own; it is just a reflector But in the Psalms, concerning Judas, it
of the sun, and that is exactly what the says, “Let his bishopric be taken and

given to another.” It is also restated in took him to them, and explained to

the book of Acts, so those apostles them the experience Saul had on the
were merely fulfilling prophecy when road to Damascus, and how he had
they elected him, and it did not mess boldly preached Christ after his
up the plan of God in the least bit. As conversion. The church at Jerusalem
we have already stated, In those early had been scattered abroad because of
years, after the birth of the Church, persecution, but that was really
Saul of Tarsus was very bent on according to God’s plan, for except for
persecuting the church, for as a zealous that, they would all have stayed right
Pharisee, he looked upon those there at Jerusalem, instead of obeying
Christians as a fanatical cult, and felt the great commission, and preaching
that he would be doing God a service the gospel to every nation. Philip, one
by getting rid of them. God had other of the deacons, ended up down in
plans for him though. He was to be a Samaria where he had a great revival.
light to the Gentiles, and a means of He was preaching the gospel, casting
salvation unto the ends of the earth, or out devils, and the Lord was adding
the end of the ages, therefore his souls to His kingdom. The thing about
theology had to be changed. So God it was, none of them actually received
just knocked him down in the middle the Holy Ghost though, until Peter and
of the road to Damascus, blinded his John went down there and prayed for
eyes, and sent him to a man that could them. That is what finalized their new
help him find the true will of God for birth experience. The Church was then
his life. The man was a disciple of on the move. As the months passed,
Christ at Damascus, and God gave him some of the others went as far as
and Saul both a vision to show each of Antioch, in Syria, first preaching to
them what was ahead. Ananias prayed only Jews, but then the Gentiles began
for him to receive his sight, and when to believe and turn to the Lord. The
he received his sight he arose, and was brethren at Jerusalem began to hear
baptized and immediately began to reports of what was happening at
preach Christ in the synagogue, that He Antioch and they sent Barnabas there
is the son of God. Before he entered to verify the report. Now when Saul
into his true ministry though, he spent had been forced to leave Jerusalem,
three years in the Arabian Desert, because of the Jews trying to kill him,
studying the Old Testament scrolls, he went to Tarsus, right back to the city
and receiving revelation of what they he was raised up in. Therefore when
truly pointed to. (He tells that in his Barnabas came to Antioch, and saw
Galatian epistle). After three years he what the Lord was doing there, he went
went up to Jerusalem, but the elders on to Tarsus to find Saul, and when he
there were afraid of him and would not found him, the two of them went back
receive his testimony. But Barnabas to Antioch together and ministered to

the church there fore a whole year, John Mark, and started on their first
teaching them. It is a wonderful thing missionary journey. Along about this
to see precious souls added to the time, Saul began to be called Paul, but
kingdom of God, but it is a tragic thing, still there is no mention, nor indication
when they are never taught anything of a star messenger. On this missionary
that could help them grow in their new journey, is when Paul and Barnabas,
experience. That is one of the main because of Jewish opposition,
failures of these great crusades; many announced that they were going to turn
of those precious souls that are touched to the Gentiles with the gospel. Now
by conviction, are simply sent back to naturally we cannot take the time to
their local church where everything is follow their missionary journeys, so
as dead as last year’s corn stalks, and for the purpose of the message, I want
they never have anyone to lead them to go directly to an event that took
on into a genuine experience of place in Paul’s third missionary
salvation, nor to teach them anything journey, somewhere in the middle 50's,
beyond John 3:16. Nevertheless as he came into Ephesus. A man
Barnabas has brought Saul back into named Apollos had been there before
the picture, and Christianity is making Paul arrived, who had preached only
its impact in various areas, and the the baptism of John. Therefore as Paul
Jewish disciples are finding out that passed through, he found twelve
they are not the only ones God is disciples there in Ephesus, and said
interested in, and at first it was quite a unto them, “Have ye received the Holy
shock to them, but when they Ghost (Acts 12:2) since ye believed?”
understood it better, they were glad They said, “We have not so much as
and glorified God. heard whether there be any Holy
Ghost.” Paul asked them about their
baptism, and they told him they were
baptized unto John’s baptism. Paul
PAUL’S MINISTRY AMONG then explained to them how John had
THE GENTILES baptized unto repentance, looking
forward to the one who was to come,
and he gave them the true revelation of
Jesus Christ, and re-baptized them,
After Barnabas and Saul had spent a then they received the Holy Ghost and
year there in Antioch teaching an started to speak in tongues, and
exhorting the Christians, the Holy prophesy. Paul then went into the
Ghost spoke to the church and said, synagogue for the next three months
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the and reasoned with the Jews. But when
work whereunto I have called them. they hardened their hearts against the
That is when Saul and Barnabas took gospel message, he took the disciples

with him, and rented a public meeting middle to late 50's, that God would use
place and preached there for the next thirty some years later, to type the
two years. Right there in that one seven church ages in the book of
place, was one of the greatest revivals Revelation. This was God’s way of
there has ever been. The Bible says, saying to Paul, I am now among the
“All they which dwelt in Asia heard Gentiles in the fullness of the light of
the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews my revelation. Brother you can be sure
and Greeks.” During that period of of this one thing, all seven of those
time, all of the seven churches of Asia churches were taught the same
found in the first three chapters of the revelation. Some of them soon got off
book of Revelation, were established. course; but nevertheless they all
No, Paul did not run up and down the started out right, for they were founded
west coast of Turkey, preaching the off of Paul’s teaching, and he only had
gospel; that great Holy Ghost revival one gospel to preach. That is the reason
there at Ephesus drew people from all he could say in his Galatian epistle, if
over Asia, during that two years of any man, or angel, preach anything
time. Just as Peter had his great revival different to you, then what I have
in Jerusalem, so that people were preached, let him be accursed. He
healed merely by the shadow of Peter knew he had the right revelation of the
passing over them, Paul had his revival plan and purpose of God, and what it
among the Gentiles, and people were took to bring it about. In other words,
healed and demons cast out, by taking God gave each one of those churches
handkerchiefs and aprons that Paul had something that He was going to require
touched, and laying them on the sick of them later.
and troubled people who were not able
to come to the meetings. Paul had been
brought up in the midst of a Gentile
society, so he knew how to A STAR BEGINS TO SHINE
communicate with them. He could
speak their language. He was well
equipped to take the revelation that
was burning in his heart, and preach it After Paul left Ephesus, he went back
to those Gentiles. It was not just to Corinth, and from Corinth, he wrote
Gentiles that responded though, for the to the Roman Assembly, telling them
Bible says it was both Jews and Greeks of his desire to come to them after he
from all over Asia. From that one made a trip to Spain. But first, he felt
revival, there were churches like he must go back to Jerusalem
established at Ephesus, Smyrna, again, and he wanted to be there for the
Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, day of Pentecost. Then as he went back
Philadelphia, and Laodicea, in the through Ephesus, he called for the

elders of the church to meet with him thereon. But let every man take heed
at a certain place; and that is when he how he buildeth thereupon. He said,
told them, “Take heed therefore unto Every man’s work shall be made
yourselves, and to all the flock, over manifest, and shall be tried by fire, and
which the Holy Ghost hath made you so forth. Brothers and Sisters: if we
overseers, to feed the Church of God, build upon the foundation Paul laid, we
which He hath purchased with His own have nothing to worry about; but I am
blood. For I know this, that after my afraid there are only a very few
departing shall grievous wolves enter building upon that foundation in this
in among you, not sparing the flock.” hour. Paul could not possibly
Even then, Paul was aware of that recognize what a lot of those preachers
antichrist spirit, that was trying to get of our day are calling the gospel of
in among the children of God. The Christ, if he were allowed to return to
church at Ephesus took heed, and this life.
stayed on guard a lot longer than some
of those others. We learn that from the
letters the Lord had John write to those
seven churches in the book of THE LORD SPEAKS TO
Revelation. We all know the story how JOHN
Paul went to Jerusalem, fell into the
hands of his enemies, is falsely
accused and put in jail. He ends up
appealing to Rome, and was put on We are going to leave Paul for now and
board a ship, for the voyage, never to go to the 1st Chapter of Revelation.
be a free man again. But from Rome, This was written 30 years after the
he wrote some beautiful epistles that death of Paul, the star of that first age.
became a part of the New Testament, That is a long time, but just think, Bro.
in which he shared those beautiful Branham has been dead 20 years. I
revelations he had stored up in his pray that it is not another 10 years until
heart. He never called himself a star; Jesus comes for us, but whether it is or
but when you read those epistles he not, God is not done yet; there are still
wrote, you recognize that it was a star some things to be made known.
speaking. He was so sure that what he Alright, beginning in verse 10, John
preached was the truth, he was ready to says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s
die for it at any time. That is why he day, and heard behind me a great
could talk like he did to the Galatians, voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am
and also to the Corinthians, when he Alpha and Omega, the first and the
referred to himself as a wise master last: and, What thou seest, write in a
builder, saying, I have laid the book, and send it unto the seven
foundation, and another buildeth churches which are in Asia; unto

Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto of fire; and His feet like unto fine
Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto brass, as if they burned in a furnace;
Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto and His voice as the sound of many
Laodicea.” In 96 A.D., there were waters. And He had in His right hand
other Gentile churches, Corinthian, seven stars: (SEVEN STARS) and out
Galatian, Thessalonian, Philippian, so of His mouth went a sharp two edged
what is the Lord doing here? We will sword: and His countenance was as the
see as we continue on. John was the sun shineth in his strength. And when
last of the original apostles, still alive I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.
at this time; and instead of killing him, And He laid his right hand upon me,
his enemies had just put him out there saying unto me, fear not; I am the first
on a little island in exile; feeling that and the last: I am He that liveth, and
he would no longer be a threat to them, was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
out there by himself. They only evermore, amen; and have the keys of
thought he was out there alone though, hell and of death. Write the things
for he was having the time of his life. which thou hast seen, and the things
He was in the Spirit, so he did not care which are, and the things which shall
how many snakes and lizards were be hereafter; (Now Jesus explains
crawling around. Therefore as he these things to John.) The mystery of
worshiped the Lord, he heard this great the seven stars which thou sawest in
voice speaking to him. It was Jesus, in my right hand, and the seven golden
His high priest authority, telling him to candlesticks. The seven stars are the
send letters to these seven churches. angels of the seven churches: and the
He was not the instrument that caused seven candlesticks which thou sawest
these seven churches to come into are the seven churches.” Alright what
existence, but being the last of the do these seven stars signify? Is it
original apostles, he has a job to do. talking about stars that shine in the sky
Verse 12, “And I turned to see the at night? No sir. The whole
voice that spake with me. And being dispensation is daylight time. That is
turned, I saw seven golden why Paul said, (Probably in Ephesians)
candlesticks; And in the midst of the Walk as children of light. Then in
seven candlesticks one like unto the Thessalonians he said, We are not of
son of man, (That lets us know that the night, we are children of the day.
there was a resemblance of the man Everything that was preached in
John had walked with for three and a daylight time. But what about this star
half years) clothed with a garment business? Here is where we must
down to the foot, and girt about the realize, that star is figurative of
paps with a golden girdle. His head and something that is outstanding, and has
his hairs were white like wool, as white nothing at all to do with night time.
as snow; and His eyes were as a flame Well what about the candlesticks? To

our natural thinking, candlesticks are anointing for whatever a man is called
something that you burn at night. But to do, but were the seven letters written
these have nothing to do with night to these angelic beings? No. Definitely
time. The seven golden candlesticks not. God does not need to write letters
called the Menorah, were burned in the to His angelic helpers. These seven
temple at Jerusalem day and night, to letters to the seven churches had a
signify that the presence of the Spirit twofold purpose and application. First
of God was there. They speak of the they were to the spiritual leaders of the
seven spiritual attributes of the one seven literal churches, but their long
God who is spirit, and he is light, both range application was to be to the star
day and night. Each one of these messengers of the seven church ages.
churches was to be the means through Since the star messenger to the first age
which this one spirit which is God was already dead at that time, the
would reflect His light to reveal His responsibility to guide the first age on
plan and purpose for lost mankind both through whatever it was to accomplish
day and night. I believe this should be in the purpose of God, fell upon the
clear enough for all to see; so I want to shoulders of the pastor of the church at
dwell for a little while on just the star. Ephesus. He could never outshine
Paul; but he could hold a line upon
what Paul had taught them, as he stood
in that position of leadership. Of
WHAT THE SEVEN STARS course the other six churches got
REFLECTED letters also, and those pastors were
responsible to God for the leadership
of their particular assemblies, which at
that time had conditions in them that
The star to the first age was already would project into the ages to come,
dead when John wrote the book of but the church at Ephesus was the one
revelation, in which we see letters that would project the spirit of the first
being sent to the seven angels of the church age. God did not tell John that
seven churches of Asia. But the Lord these seven churches would type the
goes ahead and tells John that the seven different ages of time within that
seven stars are the angels of the seven one dispensation of grace; but we can
churches; so what are we actually look back now and see it as plain as
looking at here? Of course we know anything. When it came time for the
that behind every man of God there is spirit of those churches to be projected
that spirit being, called in Hebrews, by God into an age, there was
ministering spirits. These are sent forth definitely a man in that age that would
as guardian angels of the heirs of shine as the star in the midst of the
salvation, and they minister the ministry of that hour. That is why

Polycarp was the first martyr of the apostles taught and laid down as
church at Smyrna; it was to project that foundation for our faith. That is why I
spirit of martyrdom which prevailed in said, Being a star does not in any way
the second church age. Now I realize I change the dispensation, for all seven
am going into a lot of things; but in a of those stars have shined in this one
message like this, one thing just leads day of salvation, and it is still daylight
into something else, and we have to in that one day. Those apostles laid a
touch on it in order to project our foundation in that first age, that the
thought. Paul was definitely the star devil has been trying to wreck for
messenger to that first age, but the almost two thousand years. Gentiles in
responsibility to carry on what Paul this hour are returning to the pagan
had started, fell upon the shoulders of ways of their ancestors, but thank God
the pastor at Ephesus, until Ephesus for the little blood washed church that
had fulfilled its exampleship for the will not return to those abominations.
first age. The apostle John lived way Even though the gospel was first to the
beyond all the others of the twelve Jews, the dispensation of grace is
apostles, but was never looked upon as primarily the dispensation of the
a star. He was lifted up in the Spirit and gentile church, for when God returns to
allowed to view the new Jerusalem, the the Jews, the grace age is over. Now I
spiritual city of God, and he was know there are a lot of people
allowed to describe it from its assembling around the message of Bro.
foundation up, but that did not make Branham that will not like what I am
him the star to the first age. He saw the going to say, but Bro. Branham, the
names of the twelve apostles in the star messenger to this Laodicean age,
foundation of that city, and naturally did not outshine those twelve apostles
his name was one of them, for he had of Christ, nor is his name in the
helped lay the foundation upon which foundation of that new city. Those who
our salvation and our spiritual life is attribute deity to him, take him right
built, but he was not he star of that age. out of the scriptures, for there is no
The city he saw, was the true church in scripture that even remotely points to
its end time position, and I want you to anything like that. If he was the Elijah
know, That church is built upon the of Malachi 4:6; like they say he was,
foundation of the apostles of Jesus and like I am completely convinced
Christ, the revelation they held and that he was, then his ministry was to
taught. Regardless of how the other turn the end time element of the bride
stars to the other six ages may have of Christ (the true Church) back to the
shined in their hour, they never faith and revelation of our apostolic
outshone those twelve apostles. The fathers. In other words, The star
revelation of each star messenger had messenger in every age was to do just
to go back to what those twelve exactly that, point the people of God in

this hour, back to the true Bible That is why I am so thankful to know
doctrines laid down by the twelve for sure that God is still in control.
apostles. But just think, There are men Otherwise I would look at prevailing
in this hour that devote all their efforts circumstances and say, There is no
to pointing people to the star hope for us. Well I did not know when
messenger, rather than to the message we started this message that we would
he delivered to this age, a message be going into so much detail; but I just
which lifted up Jesus Christ and turned have to be thankful to God that His
us back to apostolic teaching. word is laid out so beautifully. Some
say what we teach here is too deep to
understand, but I just have to believe
that people like that are too carnal
GOD’S PURPOSE PREVAILS minded to even care very much about
spiritual things. Our minds have to be
trained to think upon spiritual things,
and too much of the time materialism
Brothers and Sisters: I know I do not takes the preeminence. There is
have to tell you this; but our nation, nothing wrong with having material
and the world is in a bad shape. It things; if we will control them, and not
behooves Christians to walk close to allow them to rob God of first place in
God, as wickedness abounds on every our lives, to bring our little world to an
hand. Surely we must know that God abrupt end, you just have to know that
expects His true children to read the it is only by the mercy and grace of
signs of the times, and prepare God that we have anything or that we
themselves to meet Him shortly. Oh it can be anything. Everything is moved
is true, things will probably get a lot by some spiritual force; either by the
worse before the end, but they should Spirit of God, or by that spirit of the
not have to get any worse, for us to put devil which is the enemy of God, and
our lives in order. It is plain that is the spirit of destruction, therefore it
America is that lamb beast of Rev. 13, pays to have the favor of God, lest we
because she has literally rebuilt be without hope. Now as we look at the
Europe, for her end time go around. first chapters of Revelation, we have
We have been recognized for our two an opportunity to view the church
horned system, the world over, some sixty years beyond Pentecost.
(political and ecclesiastical) and We know it started out with only
people have come here from all parts twelve apostles as the ministry; but by
of the world because of it. The sad 96 A.D., when John was given this
thing is, both our politics and our view of it, and instructed to write, it
religion are filled with corruption, and had apostles, prophets, evangelists,
every day it becomes a little worse. pastors and teachers, helps and

governments, and all of that. God situation though, it was the

added to the ministry as the need arose, responsibility of the apostles to hold a
just like when it was necessary to line on the word of God and correct
select 7 men full of the Holy Ghost and error. That is why the tares never could
faith, to be the first deacons in the make any headway getting into the
church. As first, they were only table church as long as any of those apostles
waiters, you might say; but as time of Christ were alive. You can see from
passed, they were anointed of God to various epistles, how they discerned
fulfill powerful ministries. Philip and that antichrist spirit, and constantly
Stephen were examples of that, there in warned the saints of its presence. It
the 7th and 8th chapter of Acts. There was a slow process, but the devil
was nothing written back then, finally managed to get his false
concerning a five fold ministry. Paul teachers mingled among the true
wrote about that in his epistles after it saints, and little by little, false doctrine
had already been manifested. That is was brought in, and the church was
why he could say, God hath set in the eventually plunged into the Dark Ages,
Church the various offices. and it surely looked to some of those
Nevertheless the purpose of God was true saints like the gospel light would
activated when that first 120 disciples be snuffed out completely, but God
received the baptism of the Holy was never without an instrument that
Ghost. That is what put the grace age He could speak to. We just have to
in effect, and started the church on its appreciate the wisdom of God, that
course through time. It is called by could bring the Church through those
many terms, the body of Christ, the dark centuries, and then out into the
family of God, the sons of God, the full light of truth again. Hallelujah! I
new covenant people, all of which am glad John saw such a beautiful
point to Christians of the age of grace. picture of the church, over in the last
This gospel was first to the Jews, and chapters of the book of Revelation. He
then to the Gentiles, and Paul was the saw a foursquare city of pure gold with
apostle to the Gentiles. He is the one walls of jasper, and a foundation
who first received a revelation of how garnished with all manner of precious
God had Gentiles included in His plan stones, and gates of pearls. Praise God!
of grace. Nevertheless as time That is a description of the Church in
progressed God bestowed anointing its final stage, after redemption and
upon various ones, for various perfection is completed.
ministries in this great body of
redeemed people. They all believed the
same revelation of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, but they were not all anointed
to fulfill the same ministries. In every

WHAT GENTILES FELL being first to the Jew, and then to the
HEIR TO Gentiles, and also from Paul’s own
practice as he traveled from place to
place. In every city where he preached,
he always went to the Jewish
As we look at this city John saw we synagogue first, and reasoned with the
wonder, What does the wall signify? It Jews out of their law, concerning
speaks of salvation to the individual Christ, and those ten Northern tribes
believer. In the natural, a wall is for were scattered throughout the world.
protection to the inhabitants. It keeps When Thomas went to India in 53
the enemy out. Therefore your A.D., who do you think he went to
salvation experience, spiritually, does preach to? Those dispersed Jews of the
the same thing. It puts you on the 10 Northern tribes of course. Let me
inside of that protecting arm of God’s say this though, We use the word Jew,
grace, and gives you a safe habitation. when speaking of Israelites of both
It is built upon twelve foundations, or tribes, but actually in the beginning of
twelve layers, all of which speaks of its usage, it applied only to the two
the revelation of those twelve apostles, Southern tribes, which were called by
and the twelve gates speak of the Judah. Maybe someone needed that
twelve tribes of Israel through which clarification at this point.
this great plan of salvation was Nevertheless, even though Paul had a
foreshadowed in their law. Before the great burden for his Israelite brethren
gospel could ever be preached to in the natural, he was still primarily as
Gentiles who would make up the major the apostle to the Gentiles. When the
part of the body of that city, it first had time came for the gospel to go to the
to be preached to those through whom Gentiles, God had His apostle to the
it was foreshadowed, the Jews. They Gentiles ready to take it to them, and
were the first ones to enter into this by 96 A.D., Gentiles had been in the
spiritual relationship with God through church for over fifty years, and Paul
His plan of salvation, and all the had been dead for thirty years, so the
writers of the scriptures were Jewish picture had changed quite a bit from
men, but Gentiles fell heir to what the the time the Holy Ghost was first
major part of the Jews rejected. Now given. John was exiled to the little
some will say, How can it be said that island of Patmos, to get him out of the
the Jews had first chance at the gospel, way, but God was not finished with
when only the two Southern tribes him. Being in the Spirit of worship,
were in the homeland at the time the and hearing behind him this great
gospel went forth? You have to look at voice sounding out like a trumpet, he
it from the standpoint of what the turned to see where the voice was
apostle Paul said later, about the gospel coming from, and to his great surprise,

there stood Jesus whom he had walked ages, nor about the stars of those seven
with sixty some years earlier. He was ages. He could only see those local
dressed in his high priest apparel, churches, and the pastors of them.
standing in the midst of seven golden Nevertheless to Ephesus He said,
candlesticks, with seven stars in His “Remember therefore from whence
right hand. God had typed through the thou art fallen, and repent, and do the
law, what those sevens represented, first works; or else I will come unto
but the Jews never really knew why thee quickly, and will remove thy
they were required to eat unleavened candlestick out of his place, except
bread for seven days after eating the thou repent.” What did He mean by
Passover lamb in the evening of the removing the candlestick? Simply that
14th day, going into the 15th day when if they did not return to the first love,
the moon was full. Eating that their light would go out completely,
unleavened bread and celebrating the and they would just be a dead formal
killing of the Passover lamb for seven church, going through the motions as
days after the moon was full, pointed before, but without the reality of the
to Jesus the son of God, born of love of Christ burning in their souls.
woman, under the law, that would be That is the condition of your
the slain Passover Lamb, that would denominational churches the world
free them from the law, once the law over; the light that once burned so
was full. Now those Jews that were brightly has gone out, and those who
responsible for the slaying of this still carry on the programs of the
Passover Lamb, received not the church, do so because of a routine, and
benefit of its provision, for they not because God is leading them by
rejected God’s plan of salvation, and His Spirit. They have their priests,
the Gentiles have been feasting on the their bishops, cardinals and all such,
unleavened bread of the gospel of but none of it resembles the ministry of
Christ for seven church ages, looking that first age church that carried a pure
back to Calvary where it all took place. revelation of the gospel of Christ.
Now as we have said, Paul was dead in Where did all of that come from?
96 A.D., when John saw all of this; but Mostly from paganism, in their present
if there had never been a Paul, there forms.
would not have been an Ephesus,
Smyrna, Pergamos, and all of those,
for he was the instrument through
which they all received the gospel PEOPLE WHO HAVE
light. Now Jesus told John what those FOLLOWED TRUTH
candlesticks represented, and also the
stars in His right hand, but of course
John knew nothing about seven church

Let us leave the apostolic age now, and this Laodicean age has. They have
come quickly to the Laodicean age, dwelt so much on their evidence, they
this present age, the seventh and last. failed to move on with God, just like
Coming out of the Philadelphian age, all those movements before them. Well
to the age of Laodicea, there were does that mean nothing was
nothing but denominational churches. accomplished in any of them? No.
Christianity did not start out like that, Every movement added something to
but time and conditions brought it to the restoration of apostolic truth that
that, so that is what the spirit of God had been lost in the Dark Ages. Luther,
had to work with, around the turn of Calvin, Knox, Wesley, and all of them
the century, as He once again began to embraced some apostolic truth that
poor out of His Spirit upon hungry God was restoring to the body of
souls that sought more of Him. Christ. That was God’s process by
Different dates have been used, but which He worked to bring us to this
actually this outpouring of the Holy hour, and to the truth we have. The
Spirit began to stand out specifically at supernatural experiences God has
Azusa Street in January 1900, so the given through the years, has always
age itself would more or less be gauged drawn persecution from all the
off of that. Azusa Street is where your previously established movements.
Pentecostal movements of this age got Therefore as God began to give that
their beginning. You can read various Pentecostal experience here in the age
accounts of the movements leading up of Laodicea, and it was accompanied
to that hour, and of the things that took by speaking in tongues, divine healing,
place in the realms of religion between and various other gifts, then here came
the Dark Ages, and the age of the persecution from all those other
Laodicea, but no matter how pure they systems. I have read some of the
each started out, the devil always testimonies from that early hour, and a
managed to sidetrack them, and cause lot of those people were treated
them to end up as just another system terribly, but none of that persecution
of religion. When the Spirit of God kept those hungry souls from walking
starts something it is in its pure stage; on with God. Now the supernatural
but man always has a tendency to was given, not to establish an
allow the devil to turn it into a carnal evidence, but that the people of God
plaything. There were other might be able to walk in the Spirit. The
movements that spoke in tongues, the church is not just the product of the
Shakers, the Quakers, and the fire written letter; it is a spiritual organism
baptized Baptists, and even some of that can move with a revelation by the
the Nazarenes, but none of them ever inspiration of the spirit of God. Alright
established that as an evidence of the the Pentecostal move in the first years
Holy Ghost, like the Pentecostals of of the age of Laodicea, was primarily

speaking in tongues and divine teaching of men like Pat Robinson, Jim
healing. They were all Trinitarians, Baker, and Jimmy Swaggart, and be
because they carried the same perfected as the bride of Christ all at
revelation of the godhead, that the the same time.
Catholics had. But from Luther’s hour,
right on through, little by little God
restored apostolic truth to His people.
Then in 1908, he began to deal with THE LAODICEAN CHURCH
various ones on the usage of the name - AND AGE
Jesus in water baptism. To them, He
gave an understanding of His oneness.
They did not see the complete truth of
His oneness; but they did see a profile Alright now, there was an angelic
of it, and out of that, came the being watching over that literal church
movement known as oneness at Laodicea, just like there was all the
Pentecostals. But like all the rest, there others, and that same angelic being has
came an hour when they felt that their waited through time, until the age of
revelation should be organized, and time that corresponded to that local
when that took place, they shut the church would come. In other words,
door on the Spirit of God. There had to be an age somewhere
Denominational walls keep those within the dispensation of grace, when
inside them, from ever being led any the spirit of that age would correspond
further by the Spirit of God. That is to the spirit of one of those seven local
why He has to pull us out of those churches in Asia, and the spirit of that
systems, in order to lead us any further church at Laodicea, which was the 7th
in truth. When God reveals something church mentioned corresponded to the
to a person that their denominational spirit of this age, which is the seventh
system does not believe in, there is age since Acts 2:4. The Lord spoke
only one decision for that person to through John to that Laodicean church
make. They either have to leave that saying, “Because thou sayest, I am rich
system and walk with God, or else stay and increased with goods, and have
in it and dry up spiritually. Most of you need of nothing; and knowest not that
older ones have been faced with that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
decision, for you were not raised up in poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel
this, like your children have been. thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,”
Your children still have to have their and so forth. In other words, They had
own personal salvation experience strayed from the simplicity Paul had
with the Lord Jesus Christ, but they do ministered to them in. Laodicea was a
not have those denominational systems commercial trade center, making the
to contend with. You cannot follow the people of that area a little wealthier

than people of other areas. Therefore bride element, while the age goes on
their life style and standard of living and closes out. This is the evening time
had its affect in the local church there, of the day of salvation that started
and caused them to be more almost two thousand years ago, when
materialistic than spiritual. They according to Zechariah 14:7, there
trusted in materialism, more than in the shall be light; and I believe we would
Lord that saved them. Well the Church have to say, That prophecy has been
of that hour no longer exists, and fulfilled. Those dark clouds that shut
neither does the city where it was out the true spiritual light for so many
located, but the spirit and image of it centuries, has been driven back, and
has lingered through time, and is now the church of this hour is privileged to
resting on this age. We are living in an walk in the same light of revelation
age of materialism, when the general that our apostolic forefathers walked
attitude of people is the same as it was in. The star messenger to this age
in that Laodicean church. Therefore walked under the influence of that
the spiritual angel that was back there, same spiritual angelic being, that the
has hovered through time, through the pastor of the church at Laodicea was
ages, and waited to re-activate the guided by. That angelic being was on
purpose of God in the age that hand in both instances to make certain
corresponds to that local church. The that the purpose of God was
spirit of this age of time has been accomplished, and as we have stated
exactly like what God rebuked that before, those angelic beings always
local church for; but in this seventh work through human instruments, to
age, God will perfect the bride saints, accomplish the purpose of God.
and take them to glory. No, the Lord is Christians down through the ages have
not coming to take His Church, just as carried this prophetic letter in their
a scattered representation from all Bibles, without knowing how to read
these religious systems; He is coming it, until the star messenger to this
for an element of people that have been church age came on the scene, and
pulled out of those systems, by the delivered the revelation given to him.
revelation of truth that He has given To those great theologians of your
them, and that has allowed Him to lead denominational systems, the book of
them in a holy walk and way of life. revelation is still confusing. It is
This is human terminology of course, supposed to be; for it is God’s love
but we are living in a bride age. Like I letter to the little bride of Christ here at
have already said, we are not talking the end time, to enable her to recognize
about an 8th age; we are just simply where she is, and to know what to
talking about a period of time within expect. It goes hand in hand with the
this 7th church age, when the Spirit of prophecy of Daniel, and fills out our
God will deal exclusively with the revelation of the plan and purpose of

God. God meant for the children of souls together, make up the total body
light here at the end time, to know of Christ that the apostle Paul spoke so
some things other believers through much about, and it is the living element
the ages have not needed to know, for of this body, here in the end time, that
the crop He is going to reap cannot be is to be restored back to the fullness of
inferior to the seed that was sown the faith of our apostolic fathers. Why
almost two thousand years ago. It is a do we need to be restored? Because the
law of God that everything should devil managed to pervert the true
come forth of its own kind, with revelation the early church carried, and
increase. got the whole thing off course.
Therefore those coming into the
kingdom of God through the centuries
since, were not as revelated as those of
THE LAODICEAN STAR the apostolic age, so God activated His
MESSENGER plan to restore that true revelation, in
order that we may be made into the
image of His Son Jesus, who is
referred to as the first born of many
Alright according to Malachi 4:6, the brethren. God’s children have always
(Faith) children of this age were to be been the children of the day though,
turned back to the faith of our apostolic even in the darkest of the Dark Ages,
fathers, before the wrath of God for as we have been stressing, the day
strikes; so we just want to be thankful of salvation will not end until every
to God for keeping His word. He sent Gentile whose name is in the book of
that Elijah spirit that truly fulfilled the life has been dealt with. As for the star
other half of the total prophecy of messenger to this age, his calling was
Malachi 4:5-6, on a little man by the to take every revelation that had been
name of William Marrion Branham, a restored throughout the Reformation,
man from this area right here. He did put them all together, and present them
not come to establish anything new, as to the end time element of the true
far as the covenant of grace is body of Christ. Those who had truth
concerned. This covenant was to call restored to them during those
out of the Gentiles, a people that would Reformation years, never allowed the
be called by the name of God, which truth they received to take them any
literally is His redemption name, further. They just fenced it in, and tried
Jesus. Each individual was to have to hold on to it, and eventually the
their own personal experience of Spirit of God that gave them that truth
salvation, and that is what Peter just simply moved on, and gave some
referred to, as the day star dawning in more truth to others that desired to
our hearts. Well all of these redeemed walk with God. Sure the just shall live

by faith; but there is a lot more to it Bro. Branham’s life, God put certain
than that. Nevertheless the things on display, to get the attention
Reformation gave birth to these of the people. That is why certain
various denominational systems, each supernatural occurrences in his
one holding to some truth that ministry were vindicated as they were.
belonged to the overall body of Christ, God just simply made sure that a bunch
but how was it ever going to of people would sit up and take notice,
accomplish the end time purpose of as he anointed His prophet messenger
God, all divided up like that? Well it to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ the
could not. That is why God anointed way the early apostles preached it. Not
Bro. Branham, and used him as he did. only did he preach the same revelation
All of that truth belonged together, and they preached, but God also fed in
God used Bro. Branham to put it some things that they did not preach.
together, and present it to an element The apostles never did preach on
of people that would take it, and walk serpent seed, but he did, and what he
with God in it. That special anointing preached that they did not preach,
is what made Bro. Branham a star. No never changed the plan of salvation
it did not turn these denominational one bit; it just merely shed more light
systems back to the faith of the upon why we needed redemption. He
apostolic fathers, but the ministry God preached on the seven church ages; but
gave him, allowed him to preach in that did not change the plan of
places where hungry souls in those salvation whatsoever. Through the
systems could be called out of them, to preaching on the church ages, the end
walk with God in the fullness of truth. time children of God have been able to
That spirit of Elijah was a God see from a historic standpoint, how
identifying spirit, that always pointed Christianity came through the former
people to the true and living God. ages of time, and how it was
Therefore when Bro. Branham persecuted by that spirit of antichrist,
preached those simple, down to earth and its doctrines perverted. Through
sermons, you were pointed to one God, the revelation of the church ages, the
instead of a trinity. You were pointed end time children of God are better
to water baptism in the name of the equipped to discern false spirits. We
Lord Jesus Christ, instead of the titles are made more aware of the deceptive
of the office of this one God. ways the devil works against the plan
Sanctification, baptism of the Holy of God, and the people of God.
Ghost, and the gifts of the Spirit, as
well as divine healing, were all given
their proper place in the overall picture
as the gospel was preached. Now
because of the unique calling upon

AN HONEST LOOK AT rattlesnake in the same crib, and then

REALITY cry because the baby dies of snakebite.
Of course that is just a figure of speech,
pointing to the deceptiveness of this
false unity that is being propagated.
I never will forget the anticipation and We received a clipping from a South
excitement that was generated as God Carolina newspaper, where the
anointed Bro. Branham to bring fourth Catholics are asking people from all
the revelation fo the first six seals. No, denominations to join them in this
Bro. Branham did not break those wonderful fellowship of prayer,
seals; Jesus Christ Himself is the one praying the rosary together. Brothers
that broke them; but He used Bro. and Sisters: There are Protestants
Branham, to make the revelation everywhere, that know so little about
known to us. Billy Graham, Jimmy the Bible, they will fall for that, and be
Swaggart, and a lot more, have their swallowed up by it. Those early
version of what these seven seals Christians died for the faith and
pertain to, but their versions have revelation they held in their hearts; so
never been vindicated. What they do you think after two thousand years,
teach about them does not make a bit the Lord is going to return for a
of sense. They have all four of those conglomeration of people believing
horse riders, riding in the end time, and every perverted thing the devil has
what a picture they paint. Sure it offered them, just because they all
sounds exciting, but it is not the truth. have love one for another? If He does,
Each of those horse riders are there sure has been a lot of words
representative of that spirit of wasted in the Bible. Brother! That is a
Antichrist as it rode out against the counterfeit spirit. It has always cost
word, and the people of God. The something to walk in truth, and it still
fourth one is called a pale horse, which does, but according to the scriptures,
literally you would have to say is a only those who do, are ever going to be
gray horse, for there is no such thing as with the Lord. Hell is awaiting all
a pale horse. A gray horse is a those that allow the devil to deceive
combination of white hair and black them, and live as though God no longer
hair mixed, and that white and black is has any standard of righteousness and
representative of that antichrist spirit holiness. If you think God does not
of deception that is riding in this very care how you look, how you dress,
hour of time, and will continue right on how you talk, and where you go, you
out to the end of the age. This are deceived. The devil has you on his
ecumenical spirit that has pulled all merry-go-round, and he will not easily
these denominations together, is so full turn you loose. Do you think God sent
of love, it will put a baby and a a prophet to this age, to tell Protestants

to get in bed with Catholics, and the shoulder and say, That is a no-no.
pretend that everything anyone does in But do you think God will do the same
the name of religion is all right? Don’t thing for a tare? Why should He? He
fool yourself; the call has always been, would still be a tare. Nevertheless the
“Come out of her my people, that ye be message delivered to this age by God’s
not partakers of her sins, and that ye prophet messenger is His plumb line.
receive not of her plagues,” (Rev. How people respond to that message is
18:4) and that call is still the same. But going to be a determining factor, for
on the other hand, do not think for one those who truly received the message
minute, that all who came out of those have been pointed back to the Bible.
religious systems because of the They were not pointed to the
preaching of Bro. Branham were all messenger, nor to quote his verbal
children of God. A lot of them were words, but to follow the truth of God’s
tares, and once a tare, always a tare. word, that he held up before them. He
The devil’s children are not converted was not sent to make another covenant,
into children of God; but there are a lot for until the last Gentile soul is in, God
of them hanging on to children of God is still dealing with mankind on the
in this hour, and they have a lot of basis of the covenant that became
people fooled; because with the mind effective almost two thousand years
they know how to put up a front. Then ago. Through the ministry of Bro.
there is another element of tares Branham, God activated the prophecy
following this message that actually of Zechariah 14:7, so that here in the
feel that they have the edge on evening time of this dispensational day
everyone else. They can quote of grace, we again have light.
everything Bro. Branham ever said, Hallelujah! What a beautiful light it is.
and tell you exactly where and when he We have light on things, that saints of
said it, but no matter how much they other ages never had. Through Bro.
are able to quote, they are still tares. Branham, God revealed things to end
They have no revelation of the word of time believers that the apostles of
God, and could not care less what the Christ never even touched upon, and it
Bible says. As I have said, God does is up to the five fold ministry to
not even bother to correct them, continue on in the message Bro.
because they are not His children. Branham delivered to the church, but
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. not by just quoting him. They are to
Paul goes on to say, (Heb. 12:8) But if stand in a place with God, where He
ye be without chastisement, whereof can speak to them and reveal things to
all are partakers, then are ye bastards, them. In other words, The ministry that
and not sons.” A child of God may finishes up this grace age must be the
believe something wrong for a while: same as the ministry that started it out,
but sooner or later God will tap him on and the ministry that started it out was

a continuation of the revelation and would reveal things to the church, that
ministry of Jesus Christ. When Jesus have not so much as crossed our
left the earth, He knew that other men minds. I do not believe this old world,
would fill in the gap, and by the in its present trend of moral decay and
anointing of the Holy Spirit, present debauchery can hold together very
revelations to the church that He never much longer, but my point is, God does
taught on. Jesus spoke of the not reveal His total plan to a generation
resurrection: but it was the apostle Paul of people and then just sit back and
that was anointed to teach on it, and allow them to play around with it for
give the order of it. Then thirty years the next fifty years. The plan of
after the death of Paul, John, who was salvation will not change from the way
not a star, and had no thoughts of any the early apostles preached it, but God
such thing, was allowed to see the is faithful to feed fresh manna to those
whole scope of the journey of the who walk with Him in present truth. In
church through the ages, including the other words, Only a tare would go
resurrection and the great white throne around telling saints of God that there
judgment. Here is my point. Do you is no more revelation to be given,
believe Jesus would have been jealous beyond that which was given to Bro.
because His disciples taught things He Branham. God will have an end time
never taught? Do you believe Paul ministry of men that He has dealt with,
would have been jealous of Bro. and through their own experiences,
Branham for teaching things that he they will have an understanding of
never taught? Of course your obvious what Bro. Branham’s message to this
answer is, No. Well neither would Bro. age really was, and what it was to do.
Branham be jealous of anyone else, for Therefore they will be men that have
teaching things beyond what he taught. been put right back into this blessed
These men were servants of God, old book, (the Bible) that has stood the
simply passing on to the Church what test through the ages, and they will
the Spirit of God revealed to them in have a unique way of ministering to the
their hour, and their greatest delight people of God to bring about that
was to see the Church move on with perfection and total unity, that the
God. It is a terrible heart break to a church must have before she leaves
servant of God, when he sees people here. Furthermore there is still some
take hold of a revelation and treat it as more revelation to be given to the
though it is the last thing God is ever church before she leaves here, and it
going to be able to reveal to His will not detract anything from the
Church. Listen to me, saints, we serve message brought by the star
a living God in whom is all wisdom messenger, nor from the image of the
and knowledge, therefore, if time star messenger, but that does not mean
should stand another fifty years, He that God is out of business.

angel lifted up His hand to heaven, and

sware by the mighty Creator Himself,
THE END TIME CHURCH - that there should be time no longer.
AND GOD’S PURPOSE Then that same voice said to John, Go
and take the little book (scroll) which
is open in the hand of the angel which
standeth upon the sea and upon the
Let me take you to the 10th chapter of earth. When he asked for the little
Revelation, the very chapter that book, the angel said to him, Take it,
mentions the 7th angel, and call your and eat it up; and it shall make thy
attention to the last verses in that belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth
chapter. John was lifted up in the Spirit sweet as honey. Now all of that was
and projected into the future, and figurative language, but John ate it and
allowed to see things as they it was exactly like that, sweet in his
transpired. Therefore when he saw the mouth and bitter in his stomach. Then
might angel come down from heaven, it was said to him, “Thou must
clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow on prophesy again before many peoples,
His head and His face as the sun, and and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
His feet as pillars of fire, he was Now we all know John was an old
standing here at the end of the age, man. How much longer he lived after
seeing Jesus in angelic form, off of the that is not stated, but the fact that he
mercy seat, with that little scroll which was projected in the Spirit all the way
had been sealed with seven seals, now to the end time, and given this
fully open. Brothers and Sisters: When experience; says to me that somewhere
that scene becomes a fulfilled reality, in front of us, when the Lord Jesus
the Lord is ready to come for His Christ is truly off the mercy seat, and
church, the age is ready to close out. the church is now made up, that same
The sun will set on this day of prophetic anointing is going to fall
salvation, and the Lord will return unto upon the church ministry, and the
the Jews. But notice, That angel church is going to be dealt with
standing there with one foot on the sea, through prophetic utterances. The fact
and the other on the earth, (which that John, standing at the end of the
shows universal dominion) cried with age, heard those seven thunders utter
a loud voice, as when a lion roareth, things that are not even written, proves
and when He had cried, seven thunders that to me. Those prophetic utterances
uttered THEIR voices. Those seven will not be for the purpose of
thunders spoke something that John perfecting the bride; that is to be
was about to write, and a voice from accomplished through that which is
heaven told him to seal up those things written. The Bible tells us how to live
and write them not. Then the mighty a holy life, and walk with God in a

relationship of love and humbleness, begin to sound, the mystery of God

but it does not tell us of everything that (which is the grace age church Eph.
is coming down the road to tear the 3:1-6) should be finished, as He hath
world to pieces, and things like that. declared to His servants the prophets.”
Those prophecies will deal with things No saints, that does not mean the
just ahead, that are not written in the minute he started to preach his
scriptures, and they will enable the message, for that message had to make
little bride of Christ to know how to its way around the world and
conduct herself and maneuver herself accomplish God’s purpose in His
through imminent conditions, to be universal church. The mystery of God
ready to go with Jesus. God will not is definitely what Paul brought out in
make these things known to the church Ephesians 3, about how God had
world at large, but only to the little included Gentiles in His plan of grace,
bride that is hungering for God, and and it had not been revealed in times
desiring to get out of here. She will past, but was then revealed unto the
heed what those seven thunders utter; apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
but the rest of the world will not. They When you start talking about the
could not care less, what this bunch Church: you have to remember that the
they call fanatics, are saying. Well church is a universal body of people;
brothers and sisters: This old world is therefore anything that is to the church,
in a bad shape. Moral corruption and has to have time to make its rounds
wickedness about on every hand, and around the world, and have its affect.
will grow steadily worse and worse, all That is why these things have to be tied
the way to the end; so let us praise to the message Bro. Branham
God, that He has set us apart from all delivered to this age, instead of his
of that, and that even in the midst of personal ministry, for there are great
such a mess, He can perfect us and numbers of people around the world,
make us into the spiritual image of His following his message today, that had
only begotten Son Jesus Christ. The never even heard of him, when he was
age will close out, and perfection will still alive. These tares who run the
be wrought among the true children of roads with quotes, distort the whole
God, all because we have been restored picture, simply because the message
back to the word of God, by His has not done for them, what God
prophet messenger to the age, which ordained it to do for his true children,
was that seventh angel of Revelation put them in the Bible, and teach them
10:7, and the Elijah of Malachi 4:6, in to be submissive to His Spirit. These
the second part. Notice Revelation quoters can never receive a true
10:7, which says, “But in the days of revelation because they do not have the
the voice (which means the message) revealer in them. All they can ever do
of the seventh angel, when he shall is just memorize the words of Bro.

Branham and put their own carnal following. But I do consider it my

interpretations to it. That is why they responsibility, to see that they are fed
have to try to believe statements that properly when they do come, so I do
are completely opposite to each other. not put everything up to preach, that
God allowed Bro. Branham to say claims to be a preacher. Another thing
quite a few things two different ways. I have learned through the years, if you
One way would line up with the Bible, just run around with everyone, they
and the other would not, and because just look at you as one of them, and do
they are unable to use their Bibles, they not pay one bit of attention to what you
just simply say, Bro. Branham was a have to say. I love to preach to people
prophet, and he said it, so I believe it. who are hungry for truth. I would
That is their attitude about everything, rather go where there were only a half
so do not think it strange, if I do not dozen hungry souls, than to preach to
bend over backward trying to three thousand, if there is no hunger
fellowship with them. It is hard for me there. Crowds do not interest me. What
to fellowship anyone who has no thrills me most is to see a hungry soul
respect for the Bible, no matter how reaching out for truth. I was privileged
much they claim to know about Bro. to sit under and also to have personal
Branham. I am accused of having a bad fellowship with the star messenger to
attitude because I find no grounds for this age, and he pointed me back to the
fellowship with a lot of these people. Bible, back to the apostolic truth, and
But I am absolutely sure that what I that is why I cannot help but do the
have preached is the truth, and they do same thing for others. I realize that is
not like it, and constantly criticize me, what my calling is, no matter what
and accuse me of being out of the other people say about it. Bro.
message, while even the scripture says, Branham made that Bible come alive
How can two walk together, except in me; and he made the Jesus of that
they agree? So what kind of fellowship Bible stand head and shoulders above
could we have? Through the years, my anything else I had ever heard.
congregation has been made up of
people who came here in search of
truth, so do not think for one minute
that I am going to turn my pulpit over HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR
to these characters who would literally TARES
enjoy just getting in here, and trying to
tear this assembly all to pieces. These
who come here, are here because they
want to be here. I have not twisted any I hope none of you feel that I am being
arms, begged anyone, nor put on any too hard on certain people; for that is
kind of program, in an effort to get a not my purpose in saying the things I

have said. I would be more than glad, when it came to a true believer that
just to preach the word of God, and allowed some fleshly weakness to
never mention anything about these cause him to do wrong, those same
make believers again; but they will not men knew exactly how to deal with
let you ignore them. They are always that also. Take the case in 1st Cor. 5:1-
gouging me in some way, or sending 5, where Paul had to deal with
me literature, trying to prove that what fornication in the church. He simply
I teach is wrong, or grabbing hold of instructed the church to turn the man
someone in the congregation and over to Satan for the destruction of the
feeding them poison, so they force me flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the
to say things that I take no particular day of the Lord Jesus. You might look
pleasure in saying. If you really tried to at such a case and call the man a tare,
see how the early church ministry felt but those apostles had keen
about these tares that always pervert discernment, and they knew the
the word of truth, you might think my difference between a tare, and a true
words are very mild. Jude called them believer that had a fleshly weakness.
brute beasts, and clouds without water. No. They did not tolerate sinful
Peter called them wells without water, practices in the church, but they did
and clouds that are carried with a distinguish between believers with
tempest, to whom the mist of darkness weaknesses, and tares, who were
is reserved for ever, and Paul called motivated by an antichrist spirit. In
them dogs. So I feel that my speech John’s first little epistle, in 90 A.D., he
concerning them has been on the light wrote, (chapter 4) “Beloved, believe
side. None of the apostles ever asked not every spirit, but try the spirits
the saints to pray for a tare, but rather whether they are of God: because
referred to them as evil workers, whose many false prophets are gone out into
reward was already awaiting them. the world.” Then in his second epistle,
Each man had his own way of referring concerning those who preach false
to them. Jude also referred to them as doctrine, John said this, “If there come
fruit trees twice dead, plucked up by any unto you, and bring not this
the roots, and also as raging waves of doctrine, (the doctrine of Christ,
the sea, foaming out their own shame, preached by the apostles) receive him
and so on. But the fact remains, they not into your house, neither bid him
are not atheists, nor town drunks. God speed: For he that biddeth him
Somehow their lives have been God speed is partaker of his evil
touched by something they have heard deeds.” Did you catch that saints?
preached, and in one sense of the word Does that sound like John had
they believe in Jesus. But the spirit that compassion for those tares in his day?
motivated them is what caused those He said, Don’t allow them in your
apostles to speak out as they did. Yet house, and don’t be saying, God bless

you, lest you be also a partaker of his simply enlightens end time believers
evil deeds. It is high time a lot of who will be alive to see the Lord wrap
people quit playing around, and get it all up, when the last predestined soul
serious about what they believe. If you has heard the gospel call What is the
know what you believe is the truth, gospel? Some may say. It is the good
then stop allowing the devil to cram a news that tells sinners Jesus Christ has
lot of his junk down your throat, no paid their sin debt already, if they will
matter who his instrument is. It is our only believe and accept that fact. That
God-given responsibility to stand up is why those early Christians did not
for the truth He has given us. That is need to go around quoting each other,
how those apostle felt about it, and as nor quoting Jesus; there was a story to
long as they were alive, these tares did tell, and the Lord wanted each one of
not make much headway. But those them to tell it in their own words. You
little epistles of John written in 90 know, saints, if you have a revelation
A.D., were the last words of of something, you do not need to quote
admonition and instruction that were someone else, you can just simply
ever included in the chronology of the express that revelation in your own
scriptures. After that, the Church was words. That is what Jesus was pointing
for all practical purposes, subject to the to when he said, Father, I pray not for
leadership of another generation, and these alone; but also for all that shall
then the tares had a better opportunity believe on me through their word, We
to start making their influence count. are believers, and partakers of these
The book of Revelation written in 96 heavenly blessings, because of the
A.D., is not an epistle; it is a prophecy, word of those apostles and disciples
dealing with the past, present, and who walked with Jesus, and told the
future. First it reveals what has been story later, of what had been
going on in the church and brings accomplished by Him on our behalf.
conditions up to date; then it spans Jesus knew what those disciples would
time and shows what is going to take do once they received the Holy Ghost,
place in the end time. You will not find for once the Spirit of the Father got in
it dealing with the plan of salvation, them, their word would be just as loyal
but rather, dealing with what the and true to God as His word had been.
Church has strayed from. That is why Therefore these people who go around
we always stress the fact that this book threatening other people, because they
is not to be used to deal with sinners. If do not say everything exactly like Bro.
it had been for that purpose, the Lord Branham said it, are void of revelation,
would not have waited sixty some and the spirit of God is not in them. I
years to have it written. In other words, have said it to you; and I will say it to
The book of Revelation does not alter any of them who want to face me; If
in any way, the covenant of grace; it they have the spirit of God in them;

they could tell what has happened in us know that God is not without a
this generation, in their own words; voice in the earth today, just because
they would not need to quote anyone the star messenger to this age is dead.
else. When those early disciples went The five fold ministry is in the Church
forth preaching the gospel, they had no today, continuing on with the
sermon books written that they could revelation delivered to us by that star
carry with them to quote from; they messenger, and it will remain so as
had to tell it in their own words, and long as the bride of Christ is still here.
that is exactly what God wants each of Jesus is still on the mercy seat, and the
us to do, if we have any call upon our 7th seal is still on the little scroll
lives to preach or teach. We read the unbroken, and that will remain to be
words of the various writers of the the picture, until the time appointed of
scriptures, to lay the foundation, but the father, for the grace age to come to
we need to depend upon the anointing an end. When that time comes,
of the Spirit of God for words to Revelation 8:1, the breaking of the 7th
express the revelation that he has given seal, will be activated, and Revelation
us. Once those early disciples received 10:1-11 will be in effect. The message
the Holy Ghost, then the Holy Ghost of Elijah will have completed its work
took their minds back to what Jesus among the bride, and the seven
had spoken to them, and then back to thunders will begin to sound THEIR
the Old Testament prophecies that VOICES, to acquaint the bride with the
spoke of what they were experiencing, coming of the Lord Jesus, for the
and the picture was put together in rapture. AT the same time, the two
their minds and hearts, and they were Jewish prophets will appear upon the
ready to tell it in their own words, and scene in Israel, to begin their 3 ½ years
what a beautiful story they told. of prophesying to the people of that
nation, and the seventieth week of
Daniel’s seventy prophetic weeks will
be in the process of fulfillment. But
GOD IS STILL REVEALING between now and then, just realize that
THINGS we are living in that eagle age which
portrays the Spirit of God in his
servants of this hour, enabling them to
soar so much higher and see so much
I believe I should remind you once more than the servants of God in other
again that even though the star ages, while that gray (pale) horse rider
messenger to that first age had been is busy deceiving all those who have
dead for 30 years, God still had a no love for the truth. The star
vessel He could use to give a great messenger to this age is dead, but God
prophecy to the church. That should let is not dead, therefore it will be

ridiculous for anyone to believe that died in the faith will come forth from
God quit speaking to the church when their graves, and all of us will be
the star messenger was taken from the caught up together, to meet the Lord in
scene. That is why I have endeavored the air, never to walk in this old mortal
to stress the fact that God gave the flesh ever again. Hallelujah! What a
church the book of Revelation, (a book glorious expectation the children of
of prophecy) thirty years after Paul, the light should have in their bosoms in
first age star messenger was taken this hour, as we see the end
from the scene. Tares are running to approaching. Let us walk with God,
and fro, proclaiming that God fulfilled and be very sensitive to the leading of
everything to the Church that needed His Spirit; for there will be things take
to be fulfilled, when Bro. Branham place here in the end time, that you will
was still alive, and they have a lot of need to hear from God, to know how to
people convinced that there is no more handle them. May God bless you.
revelation to be given, and to them, Amen.
that is no doubt the truth; but God still
has a few things to say to the bride
Church before she leaves here, and
only the bride will have an ear to hear
them. A few people here and there are
still hearing the gospel call, but the
primary emphasis in the preaching of
this hour is on the perfection of the
children of light. No true servant of
God is adding to, nor taking from the
words of the prophecy in the book of
Revelation; but I am so thankful to
God that he is revealing things to those
who love truth, that the tares simply do
not have eyes and ears to see and hear;
therefore we can know what is coming
upon the earth in these last days, and
prepare ourselves for it. I believe the
little bride will be left here long
enough to see that seventieth week of
Daniel start, and the two olive trees of
Rev. 11:4, begin their ministry in
Israel, and then she will hear that voice
from heaven, saying, Come up hither;
and up she will go. Those who have

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