Preached on August 4, 2022
PM Service

Thank you for being here tonight, it is always good to see the saints of God and to be able to have fellowship one with another. I am still on my subject, The Millennium Reign, but I am going back to the Millennium part, which I mostly stepped away from last time. I had some good e-mails and phone calls this week concerning that message and I appreciate that. God is working on the lives of people for their benefit and their blessing. People are beginning to realize this is the last days. I feel like the saints of God are getting more into the message of Truth all the time. I appreciate the Lord for that. He has been good to us. The least we can do is to seek to do His will and His purpose as we live in this hour of time. I praise the Lord for that.

 

His Word Shall Not
Return Unto Him Void

 

We are not going to leave one person behind. We thank the Lord for that because we love the family of God. The saints of God that God has placed by His great will and purpose in this hour of time we are living in. I know the ministry that God has placed in this hour will do everything they can to benefit God’s people and be able to tell them the truth, as the truth is written in His word. We are not going to let anything deter us, detain us, or sidetrack us in any way. The word of God is taking a beating in this hour, from the government and from everything else. I noticed today about a bill in Congress, which Senator Manchin of West Virginia had held out against for a long time, now he caved in. There is one more senator, Sinema from Arizona, who is still holding out. We will see how long that lasts. I hope it does because in that bill, they want to add eighty-seven thousand IRS agents to check the taxes of everyone. And to charge you and have you prosecuted if you do not do everything that they want you to do. That is a shame. I know when Mr. Trump was president, he said we should be able to fill out our taxes on an envelope. Now there are thousands of pages of tax rules. The businesses who are helping people fill out their taxes must go through so many words that are written in the laws but are unwritten as far as the average person knows. People are beginning to wake up to what they are doing in the nation. There was a senator, or maybe she was a congresswoman, who said, ‘I have four children, I have guns in my house, and they do not dare to come and try to take them.’ That is beginning to be the feeling of a lot of people. According to some, we are headed for some kind of armed uprising in this nation. Not for the saints of God, we are not going to get out there and march and try to show off. But I believe God gave us all the ability to take care of our own homes and our own family. If you do not think that, then you are in bad shape. When people in government positions begin to talk like that and begin to say that they will protect their families, we can see that there are unwritten things that they are trying to put into the laws so that the government can try to take over the country. That is what it is all about. I said that we will not be out there marching, but I still believe that we have a right to protect our homes and our families. Like the man in New York, criminals went into his home with guns drawn and aimed at him. The man pulled out a shot gun and shot one of them in the arm, and he ran out screaming and hollering. This is the country we are living in. Law breaking people are the ones who are on the streets tonight, because they go through a revolving door. Many cities are bringing the criminals in, holding them for a few hours and letting them back out on the street that same night, without even having to put up bond. This is not the America I grew up in. But when this country got rid of the Bible, they got rid of God. That was their purpose. But God is still on the scene, and He is watching over His people. I believe that there are some good moral people in this country that God will take care of them too. You see that in the last part of Matthew 25. They do good without even realizing they have done it to benefit the people of God. It is just in their hearts. Brothers and sisters, that is not talking about the Bride people, it is talking about the Jews and foolish virgins that the people help in the last half of the week. We have not been dealing much with the last half of the week in this message, but there will be instances that we will refer to that tribulation period to let you know just who will be going in and what will be going on in the Millennium. I get that from some of the scriptures that I am on tonight, especially in the books of Daniel, of Isaiah, of Revelation chapter seven and other scriptures such as Zechariah 14 and Matthew 25. I praise the Lord tonight for His wonderful Word. It will not return to Him void, but it will accomplish that which He pleases to accomplish. God is real. No matter what is being said and talked about by critics. God dealt with me in this Truth years ago when Brother Branham was living, and then on through while Brother Jackson was living. God dealt with me in dreams and revelations. I thank Him for that because you cannot take that away. I would be a fool to think otherwise. I have had too many dreams and too many things shown to me when the prophet of God was on the scene and then when he was getting ready to leave the scene. I had dreams about him living, but I had dreams about him leaving. But I was not looking for it. If you take Brother Branham and Brother Jackson out of the picture, you do not have a picture because it was the message that came through them that pointed us in the right direction. As far as I am concerned, my message is the little one compared to their messages and to what God did for them. I do not claim to be what they were, but I do claim what God has shown me and I will stand for that just as they stood in their place. There are not enough devils in hell to convince me otherwise. God worked in those men to bring forth a message of truth, which will one day get a Bride ready. I believe when Brother Jackson saw in a dream everyone with that little bottle of oil that he estimated to be no larger than a person’s thumb, that he was in that assembly too. (Ed. See Contenders/ Times or Seasons, Part 1, August 28, 1996.) Whatever happens, God is going to show up some people. He is going to show how foolish some people have been and are being. I thank God for that, and I thank God for truth.

 

Living Fountains of Waters

 

I have scriptures tonight that I want to go to, especially from Revelation and Isaiah 24. The Lord dealt with me on some of it this week. I want to go to that and let us all be a part of what God is doing in this hour of time. We will go into this now, starting in Revelation chapter seven. We will look at what I feel God has shown us in this hour. Going into the seventh chapter, and ninth verse, “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, (What is he looking at? He is looking at after the rapture takes place, he is looking at the end of the tribulation period when these are raised from the dead and they go into the Millennium. Their position is not a Bride position, but they will rule with Christ. That is what the scripture says. Brother Jackson was criticized for bringing it out as he did. That these are not necessarily just the saints at the end time that never measured up to be Bride people, but from all through the centuries of time. But many of them gave their lives just because they saw something in somebody else. In their lives, they did not have time to measure up with the revelation that was in that hour, because they did not live long enough. But we are living long enough in this hour to be Bride people. To be Bride, you must be able to bear fruit. People wonder about that. ‘How am I bearing fruit?’ It is by the life you live; by the gospel message that has been brought. They asked Jesus, What can we do to be a part of that? Not in those words, but that is what they were talking about. What can we do to be a part of the kingdom of heaven? He said in John Chapter Six, believe on Him whom God has sent. John talks about that many times even in his little epistles of John. In First John, he talks about the little children, and the young men. He talks about elderly people. When he mentions young men, he is talking about both men and women. Because in the eyes of God, He does not look at our gender, but He looks at what fruit we are producing. But in rulership, He does look at our gender and position. Our position in rulership will be according to what we have been able to do, and what God has placed upon our lives, especially those in the ministry. We see that in Matthew 25, which I will go to later. After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude…) which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, (These have already been resurrected when this happens at the end of the 70^th week.) clothed with white robes, (White robes give an indication of the life they have lived, because they did not reach to fine linen to be Bride people.) and palms in their hands;” Palms in their hands show that they have peace now. Palms represent peace. “And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.” They have all recognized the Lamb of God, even the Jewish people that make it in that hour. Now they recognize that they are standing before the One that many times they did not recognize. But they are Jews that kept the commandments of God. God is rewarding them for it. Verse eleven, “And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, (Listen to what he is saying. All the angels stood round about the throne, and the elders, and the four beasts, which is the Bride of Christ. The four beasts (which represent the Bride of Christ) and the elders are already there whenever this comes about. ‘The elders’ means those whose spirits were freed from the paradise part of hell and their bodies were raised when Jesus came forth from the grave, so they are already there.) and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God.” Here you have this great multitude, another supporting part of the holy city. That is why the new Jerusalem must be so big, as we have gone over. It is going to require a big place for everybody to be there to fall before the throne. Because the throne of God is going to reach around this world. This event is not taking place in Israel. This is talking about the city, about the new Jerusalem. “Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.” For ever and ever is a period of time, we know that the Millennium will only last for a period of time. Then the kingdom goes back to God in the eternal age. Verse 13, “And one of the elders (That identifies the elders as being partly made up of Jews.) answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? And I said unto him, (unto the elder) Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, (they washed their robes because they came out of great tribulation, because at the last minute they saw the Lamb of God.) and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, (He is saying, this is the reason they are before the throne of God because their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. The forgiveness of sins is what he is talking about.) and serve him day and night in his temple: (They will be servants to serve him day and night in his temple. They will have a lower position than Bride people. Because the Bride of Jesus Christ is going to rule and reign in that Millennial time. Even at the end, at the final judgment. Because Paul said in First Corinthians, do you not know that the saints shall judge angels? That is the Bride of Jesus Christ. Because they have measured up to God’s expectation in this earth. They rule and reign during the Millennium, then they will go on to judge. The Bride will not just be made up of our time, but of all the ages from Pentecost until the end. They are going to be able to judge because they saw and knew what happened during their time on earth. And serve him day and night in his temple…) and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.” Dwelling among them because the presence of God is going to be everywhere that His people are. Whether they be the Old Testament saints, or whether they be this great multitude of people, or whether they be the Bride of Jesus Christ. But the Bride of Jesus Christ is that inner city that has a higher position to do what is necessary. Verse 16, “They shall hunger no more, (In the tribulation they have hungered, they have had a tough time, but God is now blessing them. He is saying, they shall hunger no more…) neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.” All the time that God is judging the earth during those additional days at the end of that 70^th week, they will feel nothing of it. Neither will the Bride of Jesus Christ feel the heat that is coming from God’s judgment. It is all in God’s hands. Our lives are nothing without Him. “For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, (What is he talking about? That means that He will take care of them. Brother Jackson taught that when Jesus rose again, He did not have to eat. But to prove that He was in a physical body, He had them bring him a piece of fish and honeycomb, to show that He could eat. Then when He left the room, the honeycomb and fish was embedded in Him to where it did not stay behind. God is so good. He does many things for us that we do not even realize. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them…) and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: (Living fountains of waters is eternal life.) and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Those tribulation times that they have gone through, when they had tears, when they had sorrows, God will wipe all of that away.

 

God Uses Men
He Has Tested
To Preach His Gospel

 

Now I want to go to Matthew 25. I am going over this so that you can understand what I am talking about. Verse 14, “For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.” The servants are the ministry here. He delivered unto them His goods. God is not preaching the gospel, but He is using men. Jesus is not here to preach the gospel, but He is still here in spirit. He is inside of us to be able to provide nurturing to those that are hungry. We must have an appetite for the gospel. If we do, God is going to feed us. That is what I believe, God will feed us if we have an appetite for the gospel. He said, ‘I will never leave you or forsake you’ and, ‘I will be with you, even unto the end of the world.’ He has left us all these promises to be able to feast on in the time that we are living in. Jesus said, “For the kingdom of heaven…” (the kingdom of heaven is a period of time that we are living in. The kingdom of God is within you. The kingdom of heaven is a period of time that the church has been going through since its inception.) Verse 15, “And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.” That is self-explanatory. When Jesus left the earth, He left it with a ministry to be able to provide food for a people. To be able to grow in grace, you grow as the ministry grows. God called a ministry to be able to feed His flock. When Jesus was there at the Sea of Galilee getting ready to leave forty days after he had risen, He told Peter, ‘feed my lambs,’ then He went ahead and said, ‘feed my sheep.’ By the time He said, ‘feed my sheep’ the third time, then Peter was grieved. Some say that was because Peter denied Him three times. No, that was not it. Jesus was not looking at Peter in that way, you denied me three times, now I am going to get even. He does not get even; He does not need to get even. He gave Peter the keys to the kingdom. That is why on the day of Pentecost, there were twelve men standing there. Peter preached, but it said the eleven stood with him. If the church of Jesus Christ is going to be like the early church, there is going to be a ministry standing together. We will be standing with each other. We will stand together because there are five offices in the ministry. Verse 15 again, “And unto one He gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.” That has been for two thousand years. He left it in the hands of men. To start with, twelve men. You see those twelve in Revelation Chapter 21, where they are the foundations of the walls of that city. Each one of them is represented by a precious stone, because of the preciousness of what they produced for that city. Matthew 25, Verse 16, “Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.” In other words, it is growth. What God puts into a man grows. This servant is not out here taking and taking from people. But this is a representation of how God is working through the ministry in the time that He has given them. When Jesus went away, He put His word into men. In John chapter one, verse one it says, “In the beginning was the Word.” God and His Word are one. Then it says in the 14^th verse, “…the Word was made flesh.” You can go back to Isaiah chapter 7, where it talks about Him being called Emmanuel, meaning that God is with us. God was with us in Christ. He was His Son. I listened to a message of Brother Jackson’s this week, where he was teaching along those lines. Verse 17, “And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one (Now that may seem strange, but God tries people. Many are called but few are chosen. As it talks about in Hebrews chapter six, about those that were once enlightened and the different levels and everything. It really fits the hour we are living in. Verse 18, “But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money. After a long time (That is talking about the end time. This has gone on all through this time, now we are talking about the end time. After a long time…) the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.” That is what He is doing in this hour of time. As I said, many are called, but few are chosen. We have seen that. It has happened in Faith Assembly Church for many years. Under the ministry of Brother Jackson, as I mentioned Sunday, how there have been different ones that challenged him, even challenged him in services here in Faith Assembly. This is not a new thing. Verse 19, “After a long time (which would be the end time) the lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them.” In other words, He comes and talks with them. That is exactly what He is doing now with His ministry. He is talking to them, He is reckoning with them, ‘What are you doing with the talent that God gave you?’ I am not questioning other ministers, I am just saying that God is reckoning with us, ‘What are we doing with what we have been given?’ I am not condemning anybody, what I am saying is that God is questioning us. He said, according to their ability. In other words, He is saying, ‘What are you doing with the ability that God gave you?’ He is not saying how intelligent you are. He is saying, what are you doing with what I have given you? As Paul said about his ministry, what he had become as far as education is concerned, he had to forget (he said, he counted it as dung) to be able to take on the knowledge of Christ. Verse 20, “And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.” The Lord knows that, but He is going to talk to his ministry. He wants to talk to us that we may be able to communicate with His people. I am talking about myself tonight, let me say it that way. What good has my life been to you? Or what good has my ministry been to you? That is the question that He is asking. This one he is talking about has gained five more talents. “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, (He does not build him up. He said, you have been faithful over a few things. God knows what we are faithful in, He knows that. We cannot build ourselves up, we just have to let Him work through us. We are instruments of Him for you because we are servants. A servant is one that serves. When I say that, I am not trying to pump myself up. I am just saying what God is expecting of me. Verse 21, “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” That is the ‘payday.’ The reward that comes afterward for being obedient unto the will of God. “He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” Verse 24, “Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.” He hid it in the ground and tells him to go get it himself, that is what he is saying. A mistake, the wrong thing to say. He makes an excuse, but it is not worthy of being an excuse. “His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money (my treasures, you are His treasures) to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.” If you had just put it in the bank instead of in the ground. That would have been something. He would have had no reward, but he would have been saved, if he had done that. But because he went and hid it in the ground, where it could not even earn interest. Verse 28, “Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

 

When the Lord of Hosts
Shall Reign

 

I want to go from there to the Book of Isaiah, chapter 24, verse sixteen, “From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.” He is talking about after the end of the 70^th week there, when you are looking at the seventh vial in Revelation 16. And, as I said earlier, in Revelation 7:16 when God is judging the earth. After Armageddon and Jesus comes back with His Bride, then the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their great armies are defeated. Verse 20, “The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.” He is not talking about the physical Earth not rising again, He is talking about the wickedness on the earth that will not rise again until the end of the Millennium. “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.” It says, ‘after many days,’ that is talking about the end of the Millennium at the great white throne judgement. I will read that 22^nd verse again, “And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, (the pit is the punishment) and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.”

 

Till the Time of The End

 

I want to go from there to Daniel, the twelfth chapter, starting in verse four. “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, (or the scroll) even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”  In other words, he is shutting up the scroll until the end. “Then I Daniel looked, and, behold there stood other two, (two accompanying angels) the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, (that is Christ in angelic form on the River Jordan, showing that this scene is to the Jewish people in the middle of the 70^th week. Christ will still be in heaven with the Bride, but God is able to do that.) How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?” Verse seven, “And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, (In Revelation 10, when He stands upon the sea and the earth and holds up one hand, He is speaking to the Bride just before the Rapture. But here in Daniel 12, He is on the Jordan River and holds up both hands. I remember Brother Jackson going over this. He holds up both hands because the 70 weeks of time are nearly finished, just three- and one-half years of tribulation left. But this is not the end of the story, there is still more which I want to get to here.) and sware by him that liveth for ever (He is swearing unto heaven by God himself) that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; (This will be the end of the tribulation, it shall be over after a time, times, and an half of time…) and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” Daniel did not understand, he was not supposed to understand. God gives understanding of His Word as it is to be finished. That is why time has built the story, just as when Brother Jackson talked about chapter four of Revelation, about the elders and the four beasts. He said Isaiah covers part of it, Ezekiel covers part of it, but they do not have the complete story. He said Revelation four is the completion of that story. Another example is in the fourth chapter of Zechariah. You have the two olive trees there, but it does not really mention that they are the two witnesses. But in Revelation chapter eleven it tells you who they are. Daniel twelve, verse eight again, “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” In other words, God had sealed these things until all is to be finished. Whenever the seals began to be opened in 1963, God began to do something in His Church. Verse ten, “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” I hope we understand that we are ‘the wise’ people because God has given us understanding. “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.” The daily sacrifice is taken away in the middle of the week, but at the end of three- and one-half years, the daily sacrifice will be returning after the end of the tribulation. Then there are another thirty days added. That is the reason I read Isaiah 24. Because this earth is going through convulsions of all kinds for a thirty-day period. We have read that in different places in Revelation. How that there will be big chunks of hail, and fire, and the atmospheric heaven departs as a scroll, and all these other things. Everything happens as it says in the book of Second Peter. God is getting rid of wickedness in His thirty days of judgment. The earth is going to go through a thirty-day time of God’s judgment. Verse twelve, “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” Another forty-five days are added. This will be the time that God will judge those sheep and goat people of Matthew 25. He will use the risen Foolish Virgins from the tribulation to judge them. Then the sheep people will go into the Millennium as natural people with eternal life after that. That is a total of seventy-five additional days with those two intervals added there. Finally verse thirteen, “But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.” He is not telling Daniel the answer to it all, but he is telling him the time frame of when it will happen. But God has given us a knowledge of what is going to happen at the end of that 70^th week and beyond in this last hour of time. As I read in the book of Isaiah, the earth will reel and rock as a drunkard. For somebody to live through that period, it can be only God that lets them live. I will close at this time. May the Lord bless you. Let us pray.

August 7, 2022
AM Service

 

This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Thank you for singing the song, These are the Days of Elijah. We will look at things today to know that this is that time. I know Jonathan Cahn is talking about this being the days of Elijah, but he is making it to everybody, but we know it is just to a direct few that God has appointed in this hour. I appreciate His wonderful grace.

 

I have some things I will go over again, to answer questions that have been asked. I want to deal with all this as I go along, looking to the Lord for His wonderful grace and blessings. There are scriptures I went over Thursday night, but I want to go over them again because we need to be brought up to date in what we believe and in what we have been taught through the years. I have scriptures here that I will use, that I had here Thursday night, also the scriptures that I have added to that. Some of them are the same thing again. I thank the Lord for His wonderful grace that He has shown to us. This is the day the Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it, because we have something to be glad about. We are not here today to just be sitting on a bench, we are not bench warmers, but we are people that have had truth shown to us. I appreciate that this morning. I appreciate the God that gave us the opportunity to be able to see in this last day, the things that He has appointed for this time that we are living in. This is good for young and old. I know when we look at other churches, they have meetings for children, young people, and all the way up to the last of the teenage years, as though nobody can understand except the older people. But that is not the way we believe it; it is not the way we have been taught. We have been given an opportunity in this hour to be able to know where we are going and what we are living for. No matter what is being said or being thought, we are living in the days of the cry of Matthew 25, we are living in the days of the shout of First Thessalonians four, and we are living in the days of the voice of Revelation ten, verse seven. God has given us all these things in the days that we are living to be able to meet His criteria. To be able to be in the Bride of Jesus Christ. We are uplifting Bride people today. Not denominational people or people sitting on the fence. Sitting on the fence will not get you where you are going, because you are immobile if you only sit on the fence. I pray that in some way people will be able to make up their minds what they believe and be able to live in that belief.

 

The Laodicean Age

 

I want to go into the Laodicean age so, I will go first to Revelation Chapter three, and then go back from there and see what God has for us. Verse fourteen, “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; (The angel to the Laodiceans was William Branham. This angel was not an angel from heaven, he was an angel messenger who was inspired by heaven to do what he did and to bring forth the message which he brought. I am going to deal with these things this morning. As I look at Laodicea, I want to go all the way back to where it started, then bring in what Matthew 25 would have to say about it. To the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…) These things saith the Amen, (When he says Amen here, this is the finish of it. These things saith the Amen…) the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” That is the beginning of the new creation, which would be Bride people. This is not talking of natural creation. This is talking about the creation of a new way, the beginning of the creation of God, which is the church. “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, (This is the Laodiceans own words that he is quoting.) I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; (This is the church world today. They have a message today that is just promoting financial prosperity. Lawyers are doing the same thing. Promoting that they can get you great sums of money from the insurance companies. The church world today is not God’s church. God has nothing to do with it. Let me say something here. I was there in 1965 when Bro. Branham talked about being shot in a hunting accident when he was fourteen years old. He said that the Masons (not the Ku Klux Klan) paid for his operation. I heard him say it was the Masons that helped him out, but he said, ‘I do not agree with the Masons, I do not agree with anything that is in the dark like that.’ He never had any connection with them, or anything of that nature. That is what they are, they are a dark organization that does not let anybody know what is going on except their own people. Another time when I had meetings in Australia. I was talking about Bro. Branham saying that he believed it would all be over in 1977. A man spoke out and said, ‘It was not exactly that way.’ I said, ‘Well, I was there.’ He did not say any more about it, and he never came back to any more meetings. This is what I have to say about that, now I will go ahead and read this.) Verse 17, “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent.” As Bro. Branham mentioned in 1960 in The Seven Church Ages, there was a little sliver of light in the Laodicean age. Then that light goes out in 1963. In the next verse, verse twenty, he was outside the door, which happened in 1963. So, we can put dates to some things because the message is completely rejected by the denominational world. I know T.L. Osborn was listening to Bro. Branham’s messages of the seals. He fasted and studied them for a week, then came back and said, ‘I do not want anything to do with them.’ That is the closing of some of those things. I do not care when anyone would say that the seals would come from someone other than Bro. Branham, I believe the seals. I do not care if somebody else had indulged in them. The seals are true. God ordained the messenger. I know it has been said that Bro. Jackson never mentioned anything about Sabino Canyon after 1993. But I watched one of Bro. Jackson’s messages yesterday from 2003. He said that what happened in Sabino Canyon was God showing something that brought forth the seven seals. That is what Bro. Jackson said. You can look it up in the archives. I do not remember the title of the message, but I saw it yesterday. The proof is in the pudding, as they always say. If you want to find something, seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened to you. We live in a time when the Word of God is taking a beating. Men that have stood for truth have taken a beating.

 

Remember, where I stopped here in Revelation chapter three at verse twenty, He is outside the door. Now I want to go back to where the Laodicean church age started. The Laodicean church age started in 1906 at the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, California. In 1901 Charles Parham had started what was called the Topeka Outpouring when the revival happened in Topeka, Kansas. As God began to deal with the people in that meeting, they began to pray for the sick, they began to speak in tongues and different things. That is the starting of that in the United States. Of course it had already started in other countries, such as Wales. In 1904-1905 a young man who worked in the coal mines held a revival in Wales that reached around the world. Another minister from Los Angeles went to some of those meetings and brought back some things. Parham also went into baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. This is the beginning of the return of proper baptism when God began to deal with the Laodicean age. We find as we come on through Laodicea, there were many moves started. John Lake set up a place where people came to be healed. There were some two thousand people that came to his place for healing. It was like a health clinic, but it was a clinic for praying for the sick. John Alexander Dowie, just a little before that, came to the United States from Europe. He brought a message of healing, but he began to think that he was Elijah. His message was “The Three D’s.” He really preached hard on doctors, demons, and drugs. But his ministry began to fade. He had built a city north of Chicago and named it Zion City. He was going to build a place for the saints of God, thinking that God was going to come there and that would be the end place where God would be. He had a great message of healing. Soon after he first went to Chicago, he started healing services next to a Buffalo Bill rodeo. Two weeks after the rodeo show started it closed because so many people instead went to Dowie’s services to be healed. They hauled off crutches, wheelchairs, and everything else people had depended on by the truckloads. God worked in that, but then Dowie began to think he was Elijah. He began to pull people from the life that they were living and take them out of the public to make a city for his believers. But God did away with that.

 

Then it comes on into the time of more great healing ministries that God raised up. There was Price and Wigglesworth. Both died in 1947, just at the time that God was dealing with a prophet for this age. God was turning the attention to Bro. Branham. From then and into the 1960’s there was Oral Roberts, T.L. Osborn, A.A. Allen, R.W. Schambach, and different ones who started healing ministries around that time. They all went to Bro. Branham to find out just how God was working. Oral Roberts had a little ragged tent when he came to Bro. Branham and asked him if God would honor his prayers like He had the prayers of Bro. Branham. He said, “If you obey God, He will.” That started Oral Roberts in his ministry, and it grew and grew. Then they began to venture into a different phase. For example, A.A. Allen had a place in Arizona that he called Miracle Valley where people were supposed to come to live. Oral Roberts went into television. He had his dancers, who were barely clad, dance before the television audience. He had a great following, but it was nothing of God. It was just something that Oral Roberts went into on his own when his ministry began to subside. When their ministries begin to subside, then they go to something else. I remember a young man by the name of Jack Coe. He had a great ministry in the middle 1950’s, then God took his life before the end of 1956. Bro. Branham had said if you do not receive the Truth by 1956, then this nation is done. That is when people like Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, The Beatles, and all these men began to get on the stage. Elvis Presley got his moves that made him famous by mimicking and perverting the Pentecostal church anointings. Really more than his singing, it was young people watching him move in the vulgar way that he did that caused them to pass out. In 1963 the government allowed one woman, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, to cause prayer and the reading of The Bible to be removed from our schools. These are the things that began to happen when God began to move His Spirit away from this country.

 

I lived in the 1940’s. I remember when there was a revival spirit going on. God was moving in denominational churches. I lived when God was moving in 1947, 1948, 1949, along in there. I remember as a boy, it may have been somewhere around 1950, there were Methodist, Baptist, and Nazarene churches that went to each other’s services. We went to a meeting in a Nazarene church. All during the service this man in a very noisy dump truck drove up and down the highway disturbing the meeting. He knew what he was doing. When church was over, we drove down the road about a mile, and his truck lay on its side, and he was dead. This was the time that God was causing the moving of His Spirit to be recognized. I remember those things. I remember God was dealing in my life as an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy. It was such a powerful thing that your heart just beat in your ears when God began to move within you.

 

The Light Goes Out in 1963

 

I have pictures here of Bro. Branham and Bro. Jackson, these are men that stood for truth. Critics, you can say whatever you want to about the men, but I know I have a revelation of what was taught. There is no way the devil can make me doubt that because it is here inside of me. I thank the Lord for that this morning. God was moving in a different direction as far as the church world was concerned. In January 1964, the pope went to Jerusalem. Right before he went, in December 1963, there was an eclipse that happened. There were seven pictures taken and published in U.S. newspapers showing how the earth moved across and shadowed the moon. The pictures were exactly as Bro. Branham had drawn in 1960. The only difference was in the last picture, the moon was completely gone where, as I said earlier, Bro. Branham had drawn a little sliver of light in the Laodicean Age. He had drawn it out in the way that the moon (which represents the church) would be darkened through time, until you come down to the last age. The reason I am saying this is that the last picture represents the Laodicean church. The Laodicean church was dead in 1963. You might say, “Well I know some great people in this denominational world.” There may be a few stragglers that are foolish virgins. You are not going to have many Bride people come out of there. There may be a few, but Bro. Jackson, when he went over it, said there will be no more foolish virgins than there are Bride people. He also said that the number of living Bride saints in the United States at the time of the rapture will only be in hundreds. We can make whatever conclusion we want of all these good people, but if you question them, if you bring truth to them, they will not receive it. It is hidden from them. You can be friends with people like that, but do not try to bring the truth to them because they will not receive it. The truth is hidden in His word. His word is truth; you have to read between the lines, and you will get the picture of revelation when you do. I thank God for the picture that He has left with us in our minds and hearts. When God first brought Bro. Branham on the scene his work was miniscule in the beginning. But he did build a tabernacle where there was once a swamp after he had the 1933 meetings. God began to deal with him, and they built the tabernacle. When they were building it, Bro. Branham placed items in a jar inside the cornerstone. He had said, “If you do not believe what I have to say, dig up the cornerstone after I am gone.” When he had passed away, I was at the funeral, after the funeral somebody came to me and said, “Do you know they are digging up the cornerstone?” Somebody did not believe. As far as Truth is concerned, if you look at the Branham move today, most of the move is gone. They will hold up their books, and they will preach from the different books of Bro. Branham’s messages, but they will not open the Bible and read it. I have seen a little bit of what they really do on the internet. I do not care to see anymore. The Laodicean age still exists, but as far as light is concerned, it is gone. 1963 finished it up, because God sent forth a prophet to bring forth seals. When He did, that enlightened the true church. There were not many in the congregation that really got it, but there were a few that got the message that was sent. We are living today on the benefits of what God has done and is doing from 1963 even until this day. The spirit of Elijah still lives. I had the sisters sing that song, The Days of Elijah, because we are still living in that time of the flying eagle. The voice that rang out in 1963, and in other times since, is still ringing today. The voice does not stop with the man. If we put our faith in a man, then we will fail. But if we put our faith in a message that a man brought, God will bring it to pass in our lives. I will go ahead and read the rest of this then go to another scripture. Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, (‘Any man’ is talking about people after 1963. By that time, He is completely out of the move because it has dwindled and dwindled until finally the light went out. He is outside the door.) I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” That is what we are doing today, we are communing with Him in a message of truth that God has brought. “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, (His throne will be in the Millennium.) even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

 

The Bride is Made New

 

Now let us go to Matthew 25. I am going back over a chapter that I have gone over before, but there are some things in here that I want to touch upon. This is for a certain time because it said “then.” Bro. Jackson emphasized “then.” Verse one, “Then shall the kingdom of heaven (The kingdom of heaven is a period of time. The kingdom of God is within you.) be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them.” In other words, they were just satisfied with a little light. But somewhere the message rang out to them. They were just not interested in going any further. “But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” Your vessel is yourself, inside you, that is where the oil is. That is where the Spirit of God is. God said, I will live with you, and I will live in you. So, we are living that ‘dream.’ It is a great revelation, a dream that no one could ever fathom. The beauty, the grace, which will be shown in a people, when that resurrection time comes and when the Bride of Jesus Christ is made new. It is going to be more than we could ever think of here. Paul said we look through a glass darkly, then face to face. Those that have gone on (most recently Bro. Clint and going back in time) are enjoying something this morning that we cannot see. But they are right in the presence of Almighty God. A Christian person does not die. Jesus talked about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that they are not dead, they are living. It is just beyond the curtain of time that we cannot see, the beauty and glory that is coming. “But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” A lamp is something that gives light, but the oil is what makes the light. It takes the oil and a spark, the spark of fire. That is what it is right here. Verse five, “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” At midnight there was a cry made, go ye out to meet him. This is when the foolish virgins started. Not in 1906, but in 1963 when the cry was made. I remember when Bro. Jackson preached that, people said he is going to have to go back and change the Contender. When what was said got back to him, he said, “Let them stew.” Even out here in the parking lot at that time one man that claims to follow the truth caused a disturbance. From here, he went on to Cracker Barrel still carrying on. Another man with him had to get him to shut up because he was getting loud in there. Brothers and sisters, we are living in a very real time! We are in the time when the cry has been made and the cry is culminating. We are getting to the end. (Let me say something else that Jonathan Cahn said. He said, we knew from The Bible that when Israel was to become a nation again, that the son of David is supposed to reign. He said, do you know who was the first prime minister of Israel? David Ben-Gurion. I like that because it started out again with David.) But there were no foolish virgins in 1948 because they did not have anything to compare themselves with. It started in 1963 when there were wise virgins that received the message from the prophet that God raised up. Then another man (pointing to Bro. Jackson’s picture) took the message further on toward perfection. Bro. Branham said after he had preached the seals, ‘I am a dying man to a dying generation, but there will be another man that will have more of a truth that will take the message onward.’ Right here we have the two men’s pictures this morning. They are taking a beating by critics, but the message is true. Let me read on in verse seven, “Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; (I have gone over that before, you know that.) and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” When Revelation Chapter ten, through Verse seven, is accomplished there will be no more salvation for Gentile people. There will be no more foolish virgins. God turns to the Jews. “Afterward came also the other virgins, (It calls them virgins, but they are foolish,) saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.” This is representing that He has not entered into them with the revelation. Like a woman and man when they are planning on a new baby. There must be a conception. It is an inception of the Spirit of God into a vessel that is going to carry them through to be whatever God wants them to be. Verse 13, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”

 

Many Periods of
Great Tribulation

 

Now go to Revelation seven, verse nine. This is where many became mixed up. Early on, Bro. Jackson may have said some things about this being only foolish virgins, but when the revelation came to him it brought forth the truth. Bro. Branham may have said similar things. Just looking at it overall, it looks good, but that is not it. “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” When does this happen? It happens after the end of the 70^th week, after the final tribulation period is over. Just before judgment is to hit the world. Then they stood with white robes and palms in their hands. “And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, (There is a difference here. The elders and the four beasts are already there.) Verse eleven again, “And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God. Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, (Bro. Jackson brought out that there were great tribulations going all the way back in time, not necessarily just at the end time, because there will not be that many people just at the end time to make up a ‘great multitude.’ These are they which came out of great tribulation…) and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Through the ages of time the Muslims, the Catholics, those spirits have killed more people than all the wars put together. That spirit that is upon the Catholic church has killed more people than all the wars. The Catholic church has listed sixty-eight million that they have killed themselves. (I would like to say this, you have this organization of women (supposed to be all types of Christians, but most of them are Catholic) that are trying to bring back some of the moral values such as anti-abortion and different things. Like the men’s group, Promise Keepers, of a few years ago. Which is good in a way, but it is not salvation.) Verse 15, “Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.” This is during the Millennium. They will serve Him day and night in His temple. They are not natural servants. They are as angels, but they are as servants. But the Bride of Jesus Christ is going to rule and reign over the earth. God is going to give that responsibility to the Bride. Does it not say, “Know ye not that we shall judge angels?” Verse 16, “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.” They have gone through all these things, now they are taken away. “For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Which they have shed through time.

 

The Natural Jews in
The Millennium Are
Under The Law

 

Now I want to go to Isaiah Chapter
two and finish up this morning. Verse one, “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.” There is much spoken about Judah (including Benjamin) and Jerusalem, which God is going to deal with first before He deals with the rest of the nation. Because Judah and Benjamin are the tribes that remained in the Jerusalem area when Jesus was here on earth. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house (that is Jerusalem, the mountain of the Lord’s house) shall be established in the top of the mountains, (In other words Jerusalem sits higher so, it will be seen from all the places around.) and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.” They have to every year. Representatives from all nations will come to Jerusalem once a year. “And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” This is what I wanted to get to this morning. Let me read that again. Verse three, “And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, (This is talking about natural people, this is not Bride people.) and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, (The Jewish people will be living under the law again.) and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” Our instructions will come from Jesus Christ and God Himself. But we are not going to be in Israel. We will be wherever He wants us to be. Wherever we need to show up, He will have us there. We will be as the angels. Angels are not bound to one place. We know Michael is Israel’s angel in warfare, but he has not been in Israel all the time, because it has not been at war all the time. But Israel is in a precarious situation this morning. I saw where three hundred and fifty rockets had been fired toward Israel just in the last few days. Things are beginning to happen in Israel. I know when these things happen, we think that maybe this will be it. If it is not, then it is just leading up to that time. We know that Iran is getting ready to have a nuclear bomb. Israel said that she will never have it. There must be something to spark the war of Ezekiel Chapters 38 and 39. There are going to be things happen in the Middle East for Israel. When God bares His arm for Israel, it will be like it was in the Golan Heights. Russia told the United States, you better get hold of Israel, or we are going to come in and do something ourselves. When the United States had the Israeli leadership call their commander on the ground, he knew what they were saying but he acted like he could not understand their transmission. All the time they were talking, he was telling his soldiers to go on, go on, and they won the Golan Heights. But it was not in favor of Russia. Russia wanted to get into the war themselves, but it did not happen. It was a big bluff. Just like China recently. They threatened to blow the plane that was taking Speaker Pelosi to Tiawan out of the air, but they did not. They have too much going on with America. China has bought farmland up north next to one of our air bases. Do you think they are buying farmland to farm it? Right next to our air base! The United States leadership is dumb; they should not let stuff like that happen. Verse four, “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: (That is in the Millennium) nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.” This morning, I will leave it at that and let you think about what I have said. May the Lord bless you. Prayer.

August 11, 2022
PM Service

I have been thinking about what is going on in this nation. It is not the nation I grew up in. It is not the type of leadership I grew up with. Of course we had different leaders that caused problems, but it was not like it is now. It is time that they can just go into the residence of a former President and take whatever they want to while he is out of town. We have a President that says he did not know anything about it but come to find out he did. I do not know why we have such people like that in the government. We now have 86,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees that carry guns and have the authority to force their way into people’s homes. Eighty-six thousand people is like an army. This is America for now, but we will see what comes later. If this is going to be the place that Israel (the woman of Revelation 12) will come to, America cannot be like it is now, it must be changed. I do not know what it will take to change it, but God does. We praise Him for his wonderful grace tonight.

 

Christ is Head of The Church

 

I have been asked a question about other writings that were not added to our Bible. All I said was, ‘Leave it alone.’ We have enough here. There are claims that other writings were found, especially the writings of Enoch. I do not believe that Enoch left a Bible for us. But the denominal church people are fishing for things. They do not understand the Bible, so they want to go into other things to try and disprove the Bible instead of proving it. I am not talking about the saints of God. I remember Bro. Branham saying one time that there are sixty-six books in the Bible and Isaiah has sixty-six chapters. If you look at Isaiah, it is a covering of what the scriptures are, all the way from Genesis to Revelation. You find Isaiah wrote more about the end time and the Millennium than any other Old Testament prophet. He writes very much about the Millennium. As do Jeremiah and the ‘minor’ prophets, as they call them. I do not call them ‘minor’ prophets. I would have to say, let these other things go. I remember one time reading that Barnabas wrote some things. The one writing of his I did read was very good, but it was not a canonized writing. This Bible is what has been canonized for the people. It is what was recognized to be inspirational. Barnabas said, we go into the watery grave laden with sin, but in the name of Jesus Christ we come forth with newness of life. People get in trouble when they try to figure out some other way or use sayings of some other people. But God gave us enough scripture and enough revelation to go on. If you look at the Lamsa translation, there are sixty-six books. Even the modern language translations of today have sixty-six books. But I know many of those translations are strange and wrong. They say the King James language is too hard to understand, but this translation is where most of the last day revelation has come from. There were many men that spent eleven years going over words, and translating words, to give us the best picture. Of course, God has given us revelation of things that we know were translated and supported incorrectly in the King James Version, such as the trinity. God has given us a revelation that we know there is only one God and one Lord Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God, which is the Holy Ghost, is God in Christ, and Christ in you, which is the hope of glory. In Luke it says, ‘the Holy Ghost descended upon Him in a bodily shape like a dove,’ but really the Spirit entered into Jesus. It said, ‘this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’ I do not want to say it in a way to mix up people so, let me put it this way, He was God’s man. Jesus Christ is our Saviour because He died for us, and He rose again. Therefore, God made Him to be the head of the church. We read in the scriptures where He is the beginning of a new creation, but that is for the church, as it is recorded in Revelation. He was the beginning of the church. So that is the way the scripture explains it.

 

Happy Is He,
Where There Is Revelation

 

I will continue with my subject that I have been on, The Millennium Reign, Part 11. I have different scriptures I want to go into. I will start with Proverbs 29. This goes along with what I have been on. You may not understand immediately that it does, but it really does.

In the 29^th chapter I will read the first two verses, then skip on down. “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” That is what America is becoming, a place that is unrecognizable from what it was fifty years ago. I was wanting to listen to some of Bro. Jackson’s messages this week, and there were a couple that I listened to, In Defense of William Branham, Parts 1&2. They were from September 8, 2002, the morning and night services. Bro. Jackson explained that there were things that Bro. Branham talked about and that he had made different statements about them. He talked about a man that I knew from the Tabernacle, who was here at Faith Assembly in the 90’s, a little fellow named Ernie Fandler, from a foreign country. Bro. Ernie Fandler was in the car with Bro. Branham one time. They were talking as they went along, and Bro. Branham asked him, ‘What did the Lord just show you?’ He replied, ‘Nothing.’ Bro. Branham said, ‘I know the Lord showed you something. What did He show you?’ Bro. Fandler did not want to answer him. He said to him, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ, tell me what He showed you.’ He said, ‘It is that you exaggerate.’ Bro. Branham said, ‘That is right.’ Bro. Jackson mentioned that in that message. But after he has gone through several things, he finished by saying, the things that Bro. Branham did, and that he said, and that he preached, there is no devil in hell that could make me doubt but what he is a prophet of God. Bro. Jackson went into the scriptures. He did not go into talking about the Apostle Paul, but he did talk about some others that had said certain things, then at later times it was straightened up. There are places in the scripture of that because we are all men. That is what Bro. Jackson was talking about, Bro. Branham was a man. These things were done to cause people to look at him as a man, but they would not. They wanted to deify him, that whatever he said was scriptural. Someone even said, if Bro. Branham told his wife to wash the dishes, then that was ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ It was crazy the things they went into. For three years I was around it; I know. In those two messages Bro. Jackson let us know what Bro. Branham did. What God used him for was ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ but he was a man, and we are all subject to mistakes, not intentionally, but we are subject to mistakes. The scripture that I read in Proverbs 29, he that is often reproved and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. That is a dangerous thing to speak against men of God that have laid down their lives for the word of God, who have given their lives for the word of God. I will go on over to the 12^th through the 18^th verses of the same chapter. “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes. The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.” These are scriptures that fit the day we live in. “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.” We see that throughout the world in this day. Children are never corrected. They will go into stores and yell and holler. Parents just let them go. They are old enough to know better, but they have never been corrected. I thank God for the little children at Faith Assembly because you can preach, and you are not disturbed. They are not a hindrance. I am glad for them to be in the congregation, this is where they belong. That is where the little ones were at with the congregation of the children of Israel. Their babies were not put off in a tent somewhere by themselves. They were right there with their mom and dad, with the cattle bawling, goats bleating, and everything else. God did not look at that, but He looked at the cruelness of men. Verse 16, “When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.” I want to look at this next verse that goes right with this message. Verse 18, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: (Where there is no revelation, the people go wild. This is where God has brought us to in this hour of time.) but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” He is explaining to us the things that we need to know. How to bring up a family, as well as believing a revelation that God has sent in this hour. God has hovered around us, like in Psalms 91, His feathers have covered us, and we are walking in the light of the scripture that God has given to us.

 

A Heavenly Country

 

I want to go from there into Hebrews chapter eleven. You will see that this goes along with what I am on, as I go into it. Verse eight is talking about Abraham. You see the faith of Abraham and what God showed him and did with him. “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.” I have mentioned this before, and you will see later why I bring it in here. Archeologists claim that the building that Abraham lived in is still there. They have shown it, and it is a very nice place that has been preserved since that time. It was covered in much sand and earth that protected it from the wind and rain so, that is possible. “By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles (that is, tents) with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.” Abraham left a fine dwelling place to live in a desert land. He was a nomad going from one place to another with his livestock, and his servants and all. When it came time for him and Lot to separate because of the strife between their herdsmen then Abraham gave Lot the choice of which part he wanted. He chose toward Sodom because at that time that area was well watered and green. We know it is desert country right now because God did away with that. But one day it will be again, the scripture bears that out. But Abraham obeyed and went out, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. Now verse ten begins to tell you something about what Abraham’s aim and purpose was. “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” He looked for a city because of something he sees spiritually. What he sees is the end time. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will be a part of that city of Revelation 21 because the Jewish nation will be a part of that city. The city is already there. Bro. Phil James told me of a dream he had the other night. He was in this beautiful place. There was a lot to the dream but when he woke up it was all taken from him except the beauty of what he had seen. It is right out there, as Bro. Branham preached in “Beyond The Curtain of Time.” (Ed. March 5, 1961) It is right there, but it is not in focus now. We cannot see it with our natural eyes because it was not made to be looked on with natural eyes. John saw it, but he was out of his body and taken to heaven before he ever saw it in the fourth chapter of Revelation. Paul had the same type of vision when he was carried up into the third heaven. He saw things that he said were unspeakable, meaning that he could not even explain them. The things that Bro. Phil saw in his dream were taken from him except for their beauty. He said he saw many things, but he was left with only the beauty of it. Because there is something that cannot be explained yet, about the glory of God. I know we read in Revelation about the rainbow around the throne like unto an emerald and everything, but this is nothing compared to what it will be. God can give a man a vision that he can see and understand by the Spirit of God, but as Paul said, we look through a glass darkly. I am glad for being able to see what we do see, even ‘darkly.’ I rejoice with anybody that sees the things of God. I know Bro. Phil was a little shaken after he had seen such beauty. Verse ten again, “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” He was looking for that city which is in Revelation 21. That is the city he was looking at. Paul continues to talk about Abraham, but he changes the subject a little bit here. “Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, (talking about Abraham, their possibilities of having children were already passed, especially Sarah.) so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, (They had not received the promises that they were looking for. They were looking for a city, but they died waiting for that. It was something that Abraham got a glimpse of, but he was not able to enter it as yet. Not having received the promises…) but having seen them afar off, (In the day of Jesus Christ and in our day. Abraham looked at that because God had told him, in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. He did not understand it, he did not have to. But far off beyond his curtain of time, he was looking at something in the future. But having seen them afar off…) and were persuaded of them, (He saw the promises afar off somewhere in a vision form) and embraced them, (He kept them in his heart. He did not let it slip. Just like us and the truth, no matter what the devil places before us, we have the promise that God is going to take care of us. We are looking to Him to take care of us in this time that we are living in, because there are so many beliefs in this world. If you do not watch, the devil will come at you, I know he has come to people to try to make them think, ‘Why am I the only one in this city that I live in that has received this truth?’ ‘Why am I the only one in this country?’ Or in some other place, wherever you come from, wherever you are tonight. It is because God showed favor to you, not because you were better than others, but because there was a seed that God placed in you that you could not get away from. Because it is real, like Bro. Kevin quoted the other night, we are ‘sealed unto the day of redemption.’ A seal cannot be broken by the devil. If you really get that seed inside you, there is no way the devil can take it away from you! He will buzz around you, he will try to dissuade you and cause you all kinds of problems, but he is just a gnat, just an aggravation. Gnats can cause you a lot of aggravation. They will get in your ear, eye, or nose and just cause you trouble. But you can swat them away. Verse 13 again, “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” They were not looking to the earth for their salvation. Many were poor people that had nothing, and yet they had everything. Because there is a longing put inside of us that cannot be taken care of without the Spirit of God. Today there are many miserable people who have everything there is, yet they have nothing. The potential is in people, even people who are “soulish” people. But they will cover it up with drugs, with alcohol, with carousing around, with every manner of thing they can find, but what they are doing is covering up what they really need. In Old Testament times, they made little wooden or stone idols to worship. Today they have all kinds of big things that they worship. Recently a news story told about the government spending fifty thousand dollars a month of taxpayers’ money to give the president’s son, Hunter Biden, a place to live, so that he is safe. There are two different houses that we are paying for. One thirty thousand per month where his security detail lives, and one twenty thousand per month where he lives. Think about how much that is, that is six hundred thousand a year, for an awful, crummy man like that. Verse 14, “For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now (I like this, But now…) they desire a better country, (He is talking about an overall group of people.) that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” They are getting more understanding of that country and city that they were looking for. There is a better country than what we are living in that we are looking for tonight. There is a country just out there beyond our reach. We cannot feel it yet, but we know it is prepared for us. I do not like to get too much into angels because people tend to worship them. But I will say, the thing about it is, God sends angels to guard His people. Sometimes you may think your life is all over, then God does something to save you. Just like He did with Bro. Branham, he waited on the angel of the Lord. The angel was not there just any time he wanted him, but he waited on him. God gave that to Bro. Branham. If He gave that to him, then He gave us angels around us. There have been many times I have needed them because they are better drivers than I am. Verse 16 again, “But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.” Just like our heavenly Father. “Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence, also he received him in a figure.” It almost happened. “By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.”

 

What It Takes For Perfection

 

Now I want to go to verse 35. “Women received their dead raised to life again: (We remember that. It happened in both the ministries of Elijah and of Elisha.) and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.” This is building up to the last verse that I am going to read. Verse 36, “And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:” This is what they went through to please God. God let them go through this in their flesh, because this was going to be their perfection. That has happened to the Jews down through time and will happen again. I was there when Bro. Branham preached the fifth seal, but I could not remember just what he said, so I watched it. He did not talk much about the seal itself, maybe forty-five minutes of the over-two-hour message. He built a picture around it, both before and after it. He went through the horses and so on in Revelation Chapter six, then he came to the seal. When you look at those Jews that are under the altar, (not underneath it, but in front of it as Bro. Jackson taught) these Jews gave their life, because they had rejected Christ. This is the way Bro. Branham explained it, they had rejected Christ. Not knowing what they were saying, they said to Pilate, let his blood be upon us and our children. Even their children’s children and so on, ‘let this curse be upon us.’ Then it happened, and it will happen again whenever you come to the last half of the seventieth week. Their brethren should be killed. It takes that to purify them. That is also what it will take to purify the foolish virgins, them giving their lives. It is going to take them offering themselves up. We read in Revelation 14, Verse 13 about them being blessed by the life that they have given. Going back to Hebrews 11, verse 37, “They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented.” This is awful to read, but this is what it took for perfection. I remember Bro. Jackson saying that we think about what all these people went through to be a part of the kingdom of God, then we think about how little we are going through compared to what they went through. But he said, standing for truth in this evil hour is equal to all of that. Bro. Branham himself said, a man does not put his future wife into tribulation before they are married, if he does, she better run. He said, Jesus Christ is not going to put His Bride through great tribulation for her to be His wife. Do you understand what I am saying? “They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted and tormented. (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.” They received not the promise because the promise was unto us. They had to go through all of this for their perfection, but we stand for truth for our perfection. Verse 40, “God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.” Paul is saying ‘some better thing for us’ is being the Bride of Jesus Christ. They could not be perfect without us. They make up the walls to the city, and the gates to the city, but you do not have the city yet. The city is inside the walls, which were provided for us in times past. The walls and the gates to the city are first. When the foundation is laid, then we are built upon that foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. It is worth it all! When we sing the song “It’s worth it all to be His child” (or when we are thinking on that), He is wanting us to see what it takes to be perfected. I may be going a little bit deep here in these things, but God is dealing with us in this hour for perfection. I know Bro. Branham mentioned ‘rapturing faith,’ The Truth is what that is. It is just like a foundation. You put the foundation there and then you build on that foundation. Then you put the framework, (the framework has already been made). Then you begin to build on to that. You put the inner walls to make the rooms, and then you have to cover that. I remember working with Bro. Jackson on a wall of this Church. He was down next to the floor putting molding on. He said, this is just like it is with us, you put the walls up, then you put the molding on to cover up any mistakes that are made. If you did not put on the trim, you would not like how it looks. Nobody would want to live in a place like that. You put on all the ‘doodads’ (decorations) to make it look good. God is doing that to us. He is trimming us; He is making us to see the beauty of what He is doing in the Bride of Jesus Christ. We are that city that one day is going to come down! We go up and then we come down. But we do not come down the way we were before we went up.

 

Nothing Can Compare

 

I want to go from there to Isaiah 65, Verse 17, “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” We are going to be forgetful; it will not even be remembered. The hard times, the sickness, the feebleness, all the other things that ail us will not come into mind, because there is going to be a new heaven and a new earth. “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” All that we have planned here, all that we have done to make things a little easier for ourselves, is not even comparable to what is coming. There is nothing to compare that to, the only thing you can compare it to is the Word of God. The Word of God will explain it to you. But God is not going to let you know all the secrets until you are there. “But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.” That will be the natural Jerusalem that is to be rebuilt, not the new Jerusalem. “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” Think about it. It is unimaginable as to what is prepared for the Bride of Jesus Christ, you cannot imagine it. It is beyond bliss, it is beyond recognition, it is beyond our finite minds. Verse 19, “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, (In other words there will be no more crib deaths, a little child will not be full of disease.) nor an old man that hath not filled his days: (That is talking about the thousand years there.) for the child shall die an hundred years old…”  Those are the ones who are just too stubborn, even in that time. Verse 21, “And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.” A person’s life in the Millennium is going to be like the trees of the Redwood Forest, those big trees that have been standing there for a thousand years. Natural people in the Millenium will get older because that is not yet the perfect day. Let me read Verse 20 again to show you. “There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days…” When the Millennium starts there will be no old people, if there were they would still live their thousand years out. Verse 21, “And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.” This is talking about natural people, ‘mine elect,’ elect people that will go into the Millennium and those that will be born in the Millennium. The Bride of Jesus Christ will be ruling and reigning, they will not be hand laborers. I know some people want to be builders and things during that time. You may be instructors, but you will not be builders. Verse 23, “They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; (Think about that! The natural man and woman that lives in the Millennium, before they call, He says, I will answer. In other words, He places the answer in their minds.) and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: (I saw something surprising a couple of months ago on television. It showed a big lion eating grass. It was the first time I ever saw that. It was in a captivity setting where he could not get out. It was funny to see that lion just eating grass like a cow. The lion shall eat straw like the bullock…) and dust shall be the serpent’s meat.” The serpent will still be a crawling reptile. He will get his food from the bugs, mice, and things of that nature. “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.” I hope I have said something that will help someone. May the Lord bless you, let us pray.

 

August 14, 2022
PM Service

 

A couple of weeks ago I was speaking about different things that brothers and sisters need to do to be able to go to meet the Lord. There is a brother that is here this morning that found a scripture relating to those things. You never can expect what I may do, but Bro. Tim Lewis, please come here a minute. He spoke the other night about a certain scripture, I have it opened here for him. It is in Genesis 41. I would like him to take five or ten minutes, whatever time he needs to be able to say what is in that scripture.

 

Presentable to Our King

 

(Bro. Tim Lewis speaking) A few weeks ago Bro. Allen was talking about the beard situation, about people with beards. He said that twenty-five years ago you would not have seen that. I have only been coming here twenty-three years in July. I have not had a beard since I became a Christian. It was Bro. Kevin that mentioned beards being an issue when I first heard about it. After that service I was approached in the parking lot by a man (he and his wife had just started coming here.) I had a great liking toward him and his wife, and I felt the same was directed toward me. He asked me about the beard situation. I personally had not given it any thought. I sure did not get upset; it was just something I had not thought much about. All I could say was that I believe Jesus had a beard when He was crucified, but I do not know that He had a beard when He was raised. This has been mentioned again of late because Bro. Kevin mentioned it again a month or two ago. Bro. David and I were talking at work about it. I believed it was something we needed to figure out, that we needed to really pray about. I never did think my brother was saying anything to be hard, and I sure did not believe that we were following men. We do not make the trip here from Lexington every week because we are following some man, it is the Lord that we are following. I know it has been the Lord the whole time. I believe these brothers are preaching what the Lord puts on their hearts. Bro. Allen mentioned Bro. David’s message about beards, and that he did a wonderful job. I learned a lot, and I am still learning. I know sometimes it takes time for people to make decisions. It has been hard on Bro. David. I have listened to a lot of Bro. Branham’s sermons; I love Bro. Branham. I love what he taught, and I believe in what he taught. I remember Bro. Branham saying one time, Bro. Neville has a hard time saying hard things, but I do not. You know, Bro. David has a backbone. This might seem odd, but it is easier for me to talk in front of all of you here than there (at Bro. Nickell’s church), because there are just a few people right there in front of you, and you feel like they are just staring at you. Then you just forget everything you really want to say. But I always want to try to help Bro. David. I woke up Friday morning and I was prayerful and opened my Bible and starting reading, like I try to do every morning. I did a Bible search and stumbled across a scripture. I say I stumbled because it was not some miraculous thing. But I believe the scripture is miraculous because He gave me the answer that I already felt like I knew. If you want, turn to Genesis 41, and go to verse nine to get the setting of what actually took place. The setting is when Joseph is in the dungeon because he has been falsely accused. I remember Bro. Branham talking about Joseph being a perfect type of Christ. He was falsely accused; he was sold by his own brethren. That is exactly the way Jesus was done. Verse 9, “Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker: And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.” They are talking about Joseph. Remember Joseph’s brothers were jealous because he was a spiritual man. “And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; (meaning it was rightfully so) me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. (meaning the chief baker) Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.” He came in to the king. I believe when Jesus was presented, when He went into the Holy of Holies, (I am not talking about in Jerusalem, I am talking about in the presence of God.) He presented himself in a way that is pure, just like Joseph showed right there. I believe we are getting ready to be presented unto the King. That is really the purpose, going before the King. I appreciate Bro. Allen and Bro. Kevin. I love the Lord and His truth. I love each and every one of you.

 

It Must Be The Word

 

(back to Bro. Allen) We are living in a different time now and in a different age. I do not think our brother just stumbled upon that scripture. I liked what he had to say there, that Joseph was going to meet the king. It is in our life to do everything we can to prepare ourselves for that time. He wanted to be presentable, so he changed his raiment. Of course, someone had to bring him that raiment because he was in a dungeon and was wearing prisoner clothes. I would say that he was dirty, as it would be in a dungeon. But when he presented himself, he had changed his raiment and shaved himself. I am not necessarily saying that you are going to be lost just because you do or do not have a beard. But I am saying today, obedience is better than sacrifice. There are things that we must do, because if it happened twenty-five years ago or less, then it must be something concerning the world. I know that is hard, but I have been given a responsibility and an opportunity from God to preach His word. That is what I am going to do. I cannot show favoritism to my family who is here, or anyone else. It just has to be that way; it must be the Word. These things should not have to be repeated. Because what is right today will be right a year from now. It is not something that I will go over all the time, but God has given us a mind to think upon certain things and to be able to look at things as we should. As Joseph, before he went to see the king, had to shave himself, we are going to see the King. Clean shaven, that is just one thing. I must look at my own self, I cannot just look at you. I have to look at myself and show a pattern of a life that is to be lived before a group of people. More than twenty years ago Bro. Jackson told about a woman who had a dream, and she came to church and told that she saw Bro. Jackson and me with moustaches. That really bothered him, because he told it to me. He said, some people think every dream they have is of God. But he said, Bro. Allen and I will never have a beard or never have a moustache. That spoke to me. He did not have to tell me that. He did not have to say that openly, but it was something that he felt needed to be said because of that dream being told. I would never have had a beard, whether he said it or not. I do not aim to get up here every Sunday and knock (criticize) somebody because they have a beard. I should not have to; no preacher should have to. But there is something here in this scripture that my brother read this morning. We are getting ready to see the King.

 

Ungodly Mankind
Is Without Excuse

 

I have a scripture I want to go to, Romans Chapter one. I want to look at it as to why it came about and what happened. This is different from the scriptures that I have been on concerning the Millennium, but I want to read this. Starting at Verse 18, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness:” This is not the same as I just went over. This is America today. America today is not what America was in past years. We have wicked men in this country that do not care for the Word of God. They have said it by their actions. I am not quoting what they said, I am giving you an illustration of what is in their minds. They have trampled over the Word of God to fulfill their desires. Verse 19, “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, (Now, in this hour, he is talking about the end time.) being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” What I am reading here will be explained in the following verses as we go on. Verse 21, “Because that, when they knew God, (That is America in times past, when they knew God…) they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” Foolish hearts were darkened. They were foolish, crazy, insane, without the knowledge of God, because they went over the Word of God to do the things that they are now doing. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” It is that way in the school systems today. This is something that is well known now by young people that have had these changes made in their bodies to become a girl or boy, which is the opposite of what they were born to be. Men and women have all these piercings in their bodies (their ears, nose, lips, eyebrows, faces), all the tattoos. Some of them look like clowns, which is what they want to be. Women wearing clothes that are painted on instead of the real thing. It all came from Hollywood and Hollywood is of the devil. I remember Bro. Branham saying of Los Angeles, Oh thou the city of the angels, you have been lifted up to heaven and God will bring you down to hell. That is on God’s agenda to do so, because the prophet of God was shown it and there have been others who have been shown it since that time. Nobody in the world wants to hear things like that, they do not want to hear Truth because they would rather live in error. They are living that way because that is the lifestyle they want. Now parents and others are waking up to what they are doing to the little children even as young as kindergarten. They are going into the schools to try to protect the children in these situations, and they are treated like terrorists by the school systems. It is just like the armed IRS agents that they are hiring. They do not care for the country; they do not care for you and me. They are going to look in every ‘nook and cranny’ to try to get something on the average American person. Biden has said that if you make four hundred thousand dollars a year, you will not have any more tax added to you. But they claim to be coming after more taxes from people that make only twenty-five thousand a year. They are never satisfied. It is like the scripture says, putting stuff in bags with holes in them. Verse 23, “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” There are many other things that they are doing now. We know there are people today that have that soulish attitude inside who desire something, but they do not know what it is. China is moving the drug fentanyl into Central America that criminals are bringing across our southern border. It is being mixed with other drugs and people are taking it (some without knowing). They are killing one hundred thousand people each year in America, and nothing is done about it. During COVID the medical field developed all kinds of things for people having COVID. But the only thing they are doing about these fentanyl overdoses is, if they find them alive, giving them a shot to take away the sting of death that is already inside their bodies. With fentanyl, one piece the size of the end of your fingernail, will kill you. They are seizing some at the border, but there is a lot getting through. Our governmental leaders are ordering the border agents to let everybody into the country that they can. But the border state leaders are sending these illegals by bus to Washington D.C., New York City, and other sanctuary cities and now these cities are complaining of the burden. They should not have made themselves cities of refuge if they are going to complain. What can they do? They have opened themselves up, but now they are crying. What about the farmers and ranchers down on the border that are having to put up with this every day? Dead people laying on their property, because they could not stand the heat and they had no water or anything. Criminals coming across, breaking into their houses, and harming their children, butchering their livestock. The farmers must stay ready with guns loaded to protect themselves and their families. This is not the America that I used to know. But this is what is happening. I am just telling you like it is today.

 

Be Real With God

 

I want to go further down in this chapter. Verse 24, “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness (This is not talking about unwashed hands. This is talking about lifestyles that people have given themselves to, living worse than animals. Animals would not do the things mankind is doing today because the animals do not have the realization to do the vile things they do.) through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.” I preached a message years ago; America Has Forgot Her Blush. I remember when something off color was said before a woman, her face would get red. Now in America the women are just as bad as the men to say off colored things. I remember, probably thirty-five years ago, the first time I ever heard anything like that. I was down on the streets of Liberty, Kentucky where I grew up. It was around ten o’clock. I saw these boys and one girl coming across the street, they were talking filthy. The girl was enjoying it just like the boys were. I also remember Bro. Bud (talking about where he worked at Naval Ordinance) saying that when he saw some men and one neatly dressed woman at the water fountain. He heard the men talking in a vulgar way. He almost went to break it up, but then the woman turned around, and he heard her saying the same things. They have lost their blush; they have no more conscience. Their conscience is seared as The Bible said it would be. “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, (That is what they have done in America today. Whatever is in the Bible that they do not like, they take it out and make a new version. Now I hear there is a version for homosexuals. It is bad to have to talk this way, but I do not want to be a part of that. When the role is called up yonder, I want to hear my name, I do not want to be left out. It is not going to be ‘left out in the cold,’ it is going to be left out in the darkness. Much worse than the cold. “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (their own bodies) more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” This morning, I would rather be preaching on the subject I have been on than what I am saying today, because I get more pleasure out of that. Being able to speak about the good things that will happen in the Millennium that are beyond our comprehension. We sing the song, “Won’t it be wonderful there, having no burdens to bear, joyously singing, with heart bells all ringing, oh won’t it be wonderful there.” The reason I am talking this way this morning is to say, Do not get mixed up in the world. You might have friends out here in the world, but do not get too close. The friends of this world are not going to make it. There is just one gospel message. I believe that God has presented us with the truth. All I am concerned about is the truth. It is not what so and so is doing down here in another assembly, or something of that nature, I do not care. I care about people, but I do not care about their religious beliefs. God was good enough to send a prophet messenger to us in this day. You can degrade him, you can throw off on him, you can call him a liar (he is being called that.) You can call him a fake, a fraud, you can call him all you want to and then turn around and speak evil about Bro. Jackson and talk about him as being a hoax. God will judge you one day for that. I cannot deny what God did for me through the message that was brought to me. It is all a revelation to me, no matter what it is to you. I was there. I do not have to ask anybody how it was. The people that do not know how it is or who are trying to tell you how it was. They do not know the God that I know that was in the men that I knew. God has shown me too many things. God dealt with me in dreams and revelations, things of that nature. I am here today because God led me. I had not been coming here very long when one night I walked outside the church (it was a newly built 60 feet by 40 feet building at that time) into the parking lot with Bro. Jackson. I felt a hand on my back, just as real as if I saw you put your hand on my back. I looked to see if it was Bro. Jackson. There was nobody around, he was walking beside me, but he did not have his hand on me. But I felt that hand on my shoulder. If you want something real, then you be real with God and He will be real with you. I am not saying He is going to put a hand on your shoulder, but there will be something that will be more lasting than anything else.

 

This Is America Today

 

Verse 26, “For this cause God gave them up (We are looking at an America today, that God has given up on. The only thing that will ever save her is something that will happen down the road that will not be very pleasant.) unto vile (VILE) affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:” Why did Satan not start out with man? Throughout time men have always been more corrupt than women. Why did he start out with woman? It is the same thing as it was with Eve. Because if Satan can break the female spirit, then he will have everything in your hands, even a nation like America. I am not talking about my Sisters, because I honor and respect you. I respect you all, from the young ones to the older ones. But this world does not respect themselves, so I cannot respect them. “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:” Then what happens? It goes into lesbianism, and all these other vile things that are going on. The women of America have fallen to where they have no concept of right. I repeat again what I just said, I am not talking about Sisters. I am not even talking about a good woman out here in the world that is not living the lifestyle that the world is living. Because I do realize that God has His hand on some people that are going to make up that last day natural group of people that are going to go into the Millennium. But we have the highest calling. Nobody in the Bride wants to be in that natural group. Now he goes ahead, “And likewise also the men, (I have some things to say about that.) leaving the natural use of the woman, (I am just reading scripture this morning, I am not making a big deal of myself out of this.) burned in their lust one toward another; (What filth it is! We live in a nation that has given themselves over unto the lusts of the flesh. As it said, vile affections. You might say, I did not come here to hear this. I want you to see today that the world is passing away more and more and more all the time.) men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” This is not in judgment to come, this is now. Let me read that part again, “…men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” Just what is he talking about? Just who is he talking about? AIDS. The disease AIDS came from men living that lifestyle. In America, from the president on down, they have spent probably a trillion dollars trying to curb AIDS. Trying to find a remedy to it when it could have been stopped at the beginning. Because that is where these diseases started, in that lifestyle men were living. Now there is monkeypox. Ninety-nine percent of monkeypox is between men living that lifestyle, ninety nine percent. You might say, you should not talk about these things in the pulpit. Where are you going to hear it? I do not enjoy talking about these things in front of my sisters or my brothers. But there is something wrong in America today and we better believe that there is. These things are coming upon America because of the lifestyle of mankind. But the government does nothing about it. The only thing they do is to try to create another serum when it could have been stopped at the beginning. It did not start in America. This gay lifestyle could have been kept out of America. But no, they do not want to do anything about it because that would interrupt their bid for office. I am just telling you like it is. They would rather take care of them than take care of a Christian. We are hated. I am not just talking necessarily about Faith Assembly, but they do not want even the resemblance of God. They would take their fist and shake it toward heaven because they did not believe in God. One day every knee will bow, but it will not be for worship. Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, to the glory of God the Father. Verse 28, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” God just gave them over. Hollywood and all these other places, all kinds of sexual entertainment. I am sorry to even speak of such things, but if you happen to see such things, you will hear (or read on a billboard) worse words than this. You would not hear this in the big denominational churches that you see. They want to keep the crowds and their crowds are mixed with this filth. Faith Assembly is not a place for anything like that, even though we have been accused of it. That makes me angry because there is nothing to it, it is a lie from hell. I am not responsible for it, Bro. Kevin is not responsible for it, Bro. David and Bro. Tim are not responsible for it. My Brothers overseas are not responsible for it. It is just religious ideas that will accept anything. They walk in their churches with their shorts on, with their low-cut dresses. Hollywood all over again in the churches. The saints of God are a decent people, they know how to dress. They can look in the mirror and see just what God looks at. No sister has to look like the world or look like they are trying to please the world. I saw my little sisters up here this morning singing with the young sisters. They are seeing something in somebody that they want to be a part of, and I rejoice in that. These older young sisters accept them. God bless you. Verse 28 again, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” Paul preached it, it is right here in The Book. Is it wrong if I say something about it? He was in the midst of controversy, but he did not apologize. He just went on and preached the word. That is what he said to Timothy, “Preach the word, be instant in season and out of season… for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…” I am not mad at you; I have nothing against you, and I have nothing against my brothers and sisters around the world. I love you as brothers and sisters. Verse 29, “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, (Fifty years ago, even sixty years ago, Hollywood was already rotten. I knew a man from Burkesville, Kentucky back then. He spent some time in Hollywood. He said on Saturday night when couples would get together, they would pitch their keys into a basket. When they left, the women would draw out a set of keys and whatever man those keys belonged to, that is with whom they went to stay that night. Hollywood is not a good example. Being filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness…) maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,” I wonder why he put debate in there? Because that is just as bad as the rest of them when you are wanting to debate Truth. There was a man at Bro. Branham’s meetings in Houston, Texas that had come against Bro. Branham and said he was a fake. He wanted to debate Bro. Branham, but he would not do it. Bro. Bosworth begged Bro. Branham to let him debate him instead. Bro. Branham said, No, do not do that, I do not want that going on in these meetings. Bro. Bosworth said, I will not debate him, I will just ask him questions because he has something to answer for. So, Bro. Bosworth met with him, and he just asked him a question, but he could not answer it. Bro. Branham had come into the place and was sitting in the upper part. The man invited Bro. Branham to come down, and he did. He was still planning to show Bro. Branham as a fraud. He had six pictures taken of himself and Bro. Bosworth and one of Bro. Branham. When they went to develop them, the six showed nothing, it did not even catch an image on the negative. But then that seventh one showed that a halo was over Bro. Branham’s head.

 

 

George J. Lacy, an expert Questioned Document Examiner (Ed. now called Forensic Document Examiner) in Houston who had worked closely with the FBI, examined the picture, the negative and the place where the pictures were taken. He signed an official authentication report that accompanied the picture to Washington D.C. It is the only picture that they have in Washington D.C. of a supernatural being. Mr. Lacy said there had to be a light strike that camera. That it was not a defect in the film or camera or an altered photograph or negative. The man that wanted the debate went insane. Do not mess with our God. A person will have problems when they mess with our Heavenly Father. But you are in His mind. It is like the song, “When He was on the cross, I was on His mind.” Verse 29 again, “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers,” This is America today. These are the politicians that we have today. As Bro. Jackson said, there is no telling what is in the minds of those people up there in Washington D.C. You would never know what is in their minds, but I tell you, it is not good. Young people, are you aggravated at me for saying these things? Do you still love me as a minister? I have not said anything against our young people, not one word have I said against you. It is you who are going to make up a part of that Bride of Jesus Christ. Verse 30, “Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,” What is he talking about there? There is no regard now for the way the parents used to live. “…haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters…” (Men who like to beat on their chests, “Look at me!” I do not want to see you. One of these days you will be crawling in a hole, when those big hailstones come. I saw where some hailstones as big as grapefruit had hit some cars and broken their windshields the other day. Those are just like marbles compared to what will fall one day. God will slam this world one of these days with His hailstones.) Verse 31, “Without understanding, (Young people are going to school now that cannot even read or write, and they go ahead and graduate them without being able to comprehend, or even being able to do simple addition. Do not go to a store when the computer is down. If that computer is down, you better hope it will come back up because you will not get your stuff, unless you walk out of the store like they are doing today. They are breaking into stores, going in and taking their time getting whatever they want, then walking out with it. They do not have any law against it. Streets today are filled with a mess. Drug needles that have been used. You do not have to go far to find a place like that. No wonder so many diseases are on the rise. God, please take us home and get us out of here! Without understanding…) covenant breakers, (that has to be the government) without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, (That is what the Bible says, people that do these things are worthy of death. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death…) not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Bro. Jackson made a statement on that, Even though they do not do it, they have pleasure watching it. They say, ‘Oh, it is just a picture.’ It is not just a picture; it is something that will enter into your soul.

 

As I said, I am not speaking of my brothers and sisters, but this is a warning. If your mind is wondering and looking at things as they come upon the earth. Do not do it, get away from it, reject it. We are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ and by water baptism in His name. But then it is up to us to grow, to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That is what we are doing, we are growing in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you today, let us pray.

 

To be continued in next issue…