Preached on July 21st, 2022 – pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a somber night for each one. I am going to miss my precious brother and what he added to the family of God by his anointed singing. The anointing was there when he did sing. Remember just last Sunday and how God blessed then. But God does not leave us comfortless, does He? He is always a present help in the time of need. When we get older, we might expect something to happen to our bodies, but someone in their mid-thirties, it is a little bit different. But it is all in the hand of the Lord, just as all our lives are in the Lord’s hand. We praise Him for that. He is good to us all the time; we thank Him for that.

 

I praise the Lord for a beautiful sunset last night. I was driving home, and it was raining a long distance off. I could see the lightning in the clouds, it was so beautiful. I just watched as the flickering lightning lit up those clouds. God has beauty in what He has created, even in the lightning. It can be a beautiful thing. When it is lightning, then we know thunder must be heard. We know God speaks through the thunder; He speaks through the storms. He speaks through different means, and we praise Him for that.

 

The Natural River

 

I have been on this subject for some time, this is the fifth part. I am going to go back into it tonight. I have mentioned something on this subject before that I want to go back into tonight in relationship to something else that I want to bring out. In Ezekiel 47 and Zechariah 14 we are looking at two scriptures concerning the natural side of this setting. Then there is a follow up in Revelation 22 that tells the spiritual side of it. We will find out when in time Ezekiel 47 really happens. God has a time for different things to happen. Many things we did not know in the past, but He lets us know in His time. But we all have to study the scriptures, especially the ministry. The Bible says to study to show yourself approved unto God, and in another place, it speaks of your reasonable service. What He talks about is reasonable, what He shows us is reasonable. I want to thank the Lord for His wonderful grace to us as human beings. As we look into Ezekiel 47, I have listed verses one through twelve. “Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: (He is talking about the temple. At this point in time all the temple is not yet finished. But when Jesus comes back after the tribulation time is over, then that gives you the period of time when this will happen). …waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: (Eastward is across the Mount of Olives. There is something that will happen that will change the landscape for this water to go forth.) for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, (This is where the prince that we talked about in chapter 46 will be directing the offerings. Because he stands near to the gate, right at the threshold of the gate.) and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.” Which would be the south side of the temple area in Jerusalem. Verse two, “Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.” Which would be south. “And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, (fifteen hundred feet or so) and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.” This is where the waters are just starting. It is just ankle deep where it starts, but the water is really rushing, picking up speed. “Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.” It is getting deeper all the time. We are some forty-five hundred feet from the start when it is to the loins. It had really picked up speed at the beginning, and now it has slowed a little as we go. “Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.” He has gone over six thousand feet and now it is a river of water that has spread out. It has gotten so deep that you would have to swim in order to cross it. “And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.” Back where it first started, to the brink of the river. “Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.” In these verses he is talking about the waters that are coming out from under the throne, going eastward. There is a reason he tells us about the water going eastward. As I said in another service, you do not just get one scripture and go with that. You must take the whole Word to understand the picture. We will have an explanation of the direction of flow as we go along. Verse eight, “Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, (Where is the east country? It would be towards the Mount of Olives.) and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: (the sea he is talking about here is the Dead Sea) which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.” We saw when we were there, salt spreading twenty to thirty feet out from the water all the way around the Dead Sea. It was just white all the way around it because it had gone down so low. Only one tenth of the water from the Jordan River makes it into the Dead Sea. Because the other 90 percent is used for irrigation and such by Israel, Jordan, and Syria. So, the Dead Sea really is dying, more and more, because they are using the water for other things. Verse nine, “And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.” It is fresh water, fresh water from the throne. God is making sure where it is coming from. “And it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.” Now he is talking about another sea, the ‘great sea.’ He is not just talking about the Dead Sea; he is talking about another sea. There must be a reason for that, which we will get to later. “But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.” There will be marshy places where the water is pushed out, that there is no life in it. It will not be moving water. A marsh is something of standing water. That is the way it will be in certain places along the Dead Sea. Again, “But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.” I am sure God will have a purpose for the salt. Verse twelve, “And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, (I have talked about the Bible using the word ‘meat’ for bread and other foods. We always think of meat as being something that has been killed. But whenever the Bible speaks of it, it is something that is grown. The ‘meat’ that we would think about is the animal offerings of the children of Israel. The ‘meat’ mentioned here is something that is grown for the making of bread or something of that nature. That will include nut trees and all that, that will be there). “And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, (South from Jerusalem, you have nothing but desert all the way to the Dead Sea. It is desert now, but as the Bible speaks of the desert blooming as a rose, which is what it will do in the Millennium. The desert there now is a very large amount of land but only two tribes, Judah and Simon, lived there. But in the time that we are reading about, that same area is going to be able to take care of five tribes. Whose leaf shall not fade…) neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: (It will never run out. That is going to be a fruitful season, twelve months a year.) it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat; and the leaf thereof for medicine.” There will be herb medicine even in the Millennium. The leaves will have their potency in the framework of God. Because people are going to need it. As I have said before, which I will get into later, there will be death in the Millennium. There will be a lot of death in the Millennium because of disobedience of the people. But also, there will be people who are living at the start of the Millennium that will live through the whole thing and into the Eternal Age. The Bible says they will lean upon their staff because of age. People will age during that time.

 

The Dead Sea Lives Again

 

I want to go to Zechariah now and we will get some answers from there. I love the word of God; I hope that everyone does. Fourteenth chapter starting with verse three. “Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, (this is at the end of the tribulation time, when Jesus and the Bride come back, then He will stand on the mount of Olives…) which is before Jerusalem on the east, (We have been there, we took pictures there looking over to the eastern gate. That eastern gate looks right toward the Mt. of Olives.) and the mount of Olives shall cleave (This is the answer to how the river in Ezekiel 47 (that I just read about) flows east and then south. Verse four, “And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, (That is where the river goes, right through the Mt. of Olives. The mount splits when Jesus comes back and stands upon it. The water will run right through there on down. We will see that as we go on.) and there shall be a very great valley; (a valley where it has cleaved, where that water will go) and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, half of it toward the south.” The Mt. of Olives will split and move toward the north and toward the south. “And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.” Right there is where YOU are going to be! He will be the one standing there, but we will be onlookers. ‘The saints,’ that is talking about the Bride. Verse six, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: (‘In that day’ is referring to an event that has already passed. We have passed that.) But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.”

 

Let me say something here. It has been several years now since Sister Alice from Tennessee called me with her testimony. She told me of the time that Bro. Jackson prophesied to her when she was a teenager. The prophecy said that one day you will leave the church but at the end you will come back. When she called me and told me that the Lord had saved her, there was nothing but tears there. I thought about that. Just before the end time, the Lord would bring her back. That is what He did, brought her back, and brought in her husband, Brother Jack, also. Talking about the evening time, we are here. There will be a day when it will neither dark nor light, but at the end time it will be light. We used to sing a song, It shall be light in the evening time, the path to glory you will surely find. I will not sing that song because it goes on to talk about God and Christ being one. But otherwise, it is a pretty song, but we know God and Christ are not the same.

 

Verse eight, “And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; (This is the way the Mt. of Olives splits, then living waters go into the desert country, which is below Judah. It shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem…) half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: (The former sea, which is the Dead Sea, we have already talked about. But the hinder sea, which will be the Mediterranean, is the ‘great sea’ mentioned in Ezekiel 47:10. It says the fish in the Dead Sea will be like fish that come out of the great sea. They will swim across right into the Dead Sea, which will not be dead any longer, it will be alive. I will read verse eight again, “And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.” So, there will be summer and winter always. It will not matter to the saints of God; weather will not affect them. It is supposed to be a hundred degrees here this Saturday and Sunday, but if we had our new bodies, it would not make any difference to us. Verse nine, “And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: (South of Jerusalem, that is what we are talking about.) and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate (The tribe of Benjamin will dwell south of Jerusalem, before it dwelt north, but in the Millennium it will be south.) unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.” That is in the Millennium. “And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.” That is going to be terrible heat. When I was in school in the Methodist Church, there was a young man that went to school there. He had lived in Japan in the area where the two atomic bombs were set off. I heard him talk about it. He said that people were walking across the bridge and their footprints were still there as their bodies melted. They just melted right there when those bombs went off. But you know, God made the material for the bombs. He has material there, waiting for this smiting of the people. Verse 13, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.” This has happened before when battles were fought, and it will happen again when Russia comes against Israel. People will become so confused that they will be killing each other when all this happens. “And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.”

 

The Bride People

 

I will stop there and will go to Revelation. I will start in the last part of chapter 21 and then into chapter 22. Chapter 21, verse 22, “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: (This is Bride people, we are the inside of the city. We are inside the gates; we are inside the walls. This is the Bride’s dwelling; it is inside what has already been built. We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. So we are that inner circle. We are that cube, something that you cannot add to. It should make us want to go. The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it…) for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” Of course, this is speaking of a spiritual sense. Then we will not only be natural beings, but we will be spirit beings, as the angels. That is something beyond our capability of understanding. We do not see angels every day, but they are there to minister to the saints of God. You feel them sometimes, it is the spirit of God you are feeling. The spirit of God directs angels. Angels were not just made to fly around; they were created for benefit. One of their benefits is to be around the saints of God. Not just around Bro. Branham who saw them. But we feel that spirit around us.

Verse 24, “And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: (That will be the natural people from every nation. The ones that have overcome, let me say, the sheep people. By the end of the Millennium there will be generations of people (both good and bad) born here on this earth. But by then there will be a lot more land. Because there will only be seas, not oceans. This is what Bro. Jackson taught. I do not just gather from Bro. Jackson to prop up something, I believe what he preached). “And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: (In the light of the city, which is the Bride people.) and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.” Because it is worldwide. “And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.” That is talking of the Bride people, there will be no night to them. You will not walk around with a sleepy head. Verse 26, “And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.” We are talking about people bringing their glory and honor into the city, which is Bride people. “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

 

The Spiritual River

 

Now Revelation chapter 22, verse one. I have mentioned this before, what we are reading here is a replica of the natural river that we read of in Ezekiel and Zechariah. I do not want to make it seem less important than what is written in Ezekiel and Zechariah, because really it is greater than either one. “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, (You know what that is; it is the Holy Ghost.) clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” That is our life where it is proceeding from the glory of God and the Lamb. “In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life,” (The tree of life is much the same as the water of life, because the tree of life will work in the Eternal Age. Go back into the garden before Adam and Eve fell. The tree of life would have worked there, if sin had not entered through their taking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They took the evil part, not the good part. I have gone over that before. “In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits, (Bro. Jackson went over that one time. He said we have nine spiritual fruits now, but there will be three more and we do not know what they are yet). and yielded her fruit every month: (The natural element will still be counting days, months, and years. But the Bride will not). and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” That is much the same as Ezekiel. The difference is that this is spiritual for the Bride of Christ to administer to the nations for their healing. It is shed forth spiritually every month from the tree of life unto the nations. At the beginning of the Millennium the nations will still have animosity toward each other. Something is wrong in their hearts and minds. Otherwise, why would it say for healing? For every month there is a healing process, as you go through the Millennium until you get to the end.

 

Behold, I Come Quickly

 

“And there shall be no more curse: (This will end the Millennium. There shall be no more curse, the curse is over. You have the tree of life there. I have said before and say again, there will be babies that will be born in the Eternal Age. There would have been babies born with eternal life all along if sin had not entered into the garden. But it will not be like it is now, because lust will not bring children forth. As Bro. Jackson said one time, it will be appointed by the woman. She will know when the time comes. Animals do not live like humans. Humans are the worst animals that God made, if you want to call them animals. Some of them must be the worst because Jude called them brute beasts. Verse three, “And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; (After the Millennium is over and into the Eternal Age, you have day and night, and you have winter and summer. It will not be like it is now. There will be no more one-hundred-degree days. God’s canopy will cover the earth. But you still must have icecaps at the north and south poles, otherwise it would be like the other planets. God had to put a deep freeze at the poles to cool the earth. In our northern hemisphere, when you get a breeze from the north, it is coming from a colder climate. Verse five, “And there shall be no night there and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: (Now why would He say, ‘Behold, I come quickly’? John is taken in the spirit to the future when these things begin to happen. It is when we look at the scriptures, when we look at the time we are living in, it matches up. Take what you see happening out here and match it up with the scripture, you will find that you can place it right there with the Bible. It is right there in it. Years ago, when people talked about the endtime (I remember people were talking about the endtime in the 1940’s when I was growing up.) they did not know where to place it. I am not saying they did not know what they were talking about, because there was beginning to be a feeling that we are in the last days, for the last one hundred years. But when God sent a prophet, (some do not think He sent him, but they are just ignorant) we began to see where to place the endtime. From verse six, “And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which much shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.” Not one of God’s angels would say, ‘Worship me.’ Only a fallen angel would say that. John was contacted by that angel face to face. That is why I say they are ministering spirits because the angel was talking to John, and he was of John’s brethren, the prophets. I will go over the ninth verse again. “Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” That is talking about the end, when the thousand years are over, when God shall devour those that are without the city. Verse 16, “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” May the Lord bless you. Prayer.

 

 

July 24, 2022 AM Service

 

I have quite a few scriptures today, I will not get to all of them because there are certain other things I want to talk about and bring in during this message. This is part six of the series I am in, The Millennium Reign. I said at the beginning it would probably be a long series. There is much to be talked about in the Millennium time, in the rulership and things we will be going into. There are going to be rules in the Millennium. It is not going to be an open field for everybody to do as they want. There will be leadership and there will be rulership. It will not be a democratic government; it will be a monarchy with God being the head of it. Of course, Jesus Christ will be the one that will be over the Church. The Bible speaks of the Lamb’s wife. We are looking forward to that day.

 

We know different ones have gone on before us and they are experiencing the beauty that we cannot see with our natural eyes. But they are very much real this morning. Death affects us here on earth. The Bible says to weep when a child is born but rejoice when a saint passes. We have it all backwards, but it says blessed is the death of His loved ones. God looks at things different than what we do. We as human beings are touched by the loss of a loved one. As it has always been throughout the Bible. We know in this case; many people are touched. I will say this, Brother Clint was an inspiration to me in his songs, because he sang with an anointing. God blessed his songs, as He did even last Sunday. You never know from one week to the next what lays ahead of us. We do not stand here and weep over what may be, but we weep over what happens at the time. We know that it is all in God’s hands. He knows more than we know, He knows better than we know. He is an ever-present help in the time of our needs and our struggles. Before we leave this world, if we are going to see the plan of God work, we must humble down and wait upon Him for the things that are just ahead of us. There has been a lot behind us but there is still a lot ahead of us. There may be some things said in times to come that may not be pleasing to everyone, but there are things I feel need to be said, not necessarily altogether this morning. There are some things I will point out today but there is a time coming when we must begin to realize our position in Christ and do something about it. Because we cannot just coast in this life or just put it life on autopilot. We are not in an automatic world. If that were the case, then there would be no need for Ephesians 2:2 and 6:12 where it talks about the prince of the power of the air and so on. That was put in there for a reason.

 

The Mountain of The Lord

 

The scriptures are there for a reason as we look into them. This morning my message is primarily about the rulership in the Millennium and those that are ready to rule. We must realize that God has an order in His ministry as well as He does in the body of Christ. We are looking to Him for that order to come. I will be careful not to just hammer on something and hope for results. I want to speak about some things in this message that will help us to know our position and our place as time moves on and we enter the Millennium. There are scriptures that will tell us just what we will be, where we will be, and everything of that nature. We are going to look into different things in this. You might say, ‘well, you are just speculating.’ I do not think so, I feel that God has a plan and that we have an obligation to know that plan. The scripture was not put there for us to live any life that we want to live. Many things in the scriptures do not go along with the flesh. We must realize that as we go on and as we look at scripture from here on out. We must acknowledge the plan of God that He has left for us. I still think of the song, I am not alone. We realize God has His purpose in our lives. In the present time and in the time to come. I have several scriptures on the list today and I have had others that I have talked about and may bring back in the future. First, I want to go to Isaiah chapter two, verses one through five. “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, (which we are in) that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, (That is talking about the temple. As I have said before, the temple grounds will not be finished before the coming of the Lord to bring His judgment. The temple will be finished, but the temple grounds will not all be there. The whole city will be finished in the Millennium. The temple grounds will be almost a mile square, some five thousand feet in each direction, and that will not be finished. Also, the walls will not be finished. The Bible says the sons of strangers will come in and build up thy walls. This will be in the time of the Millennium. The only thing you see to be measured in Revelation 11 is the temple and the altar. The rest of the grounds are left out because God planned that there would not be enough time for it all to be completed before Jesus and His Bride returns. We are looking at the future Millennium here. Verse two, “It shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.”  If you go to the last few verses of Zechariah 14, that will tell you about all the nations flowing unto it. That will be during the last of the three feasts mentioned in Leviticus 23. During the seventh month (which will be in the time frame of our current months of October and November.) All the nations will not be going to Jerusalem all year long. It will be at that same time every year. But if they do not go, they do not get any rain. 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, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 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: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (That will be in the Millennium because the war materials will be here until that time comes. For example, these big tanks will be made into these big combines and other farm machines.) “O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.”

 

In That Day

 

Now I will go from there to Isaiah chapter four because I want to deal with something there. We see from chapter two where the word of the Lord comes from. It will come from Jerusalem to the nations. From Jerusalem to the nations, which is not necessarily speaking of the Bride of Christ being in Jerusalem. The Bride of Christ will be ruling over their nations. God is going to implant in them the knowledge of exactly what they are to do from the very beginning of the Millennium. They will know, because before they call, He will answer. The Bride is not going to be surprised. God is going to put His knowledge in them, just like He did Jesus Christ when He was here. His knowledge is going to be in them to be able to judge at any time it is needed. We will not have to go to Jerusalem for our instructions. The instructions it is talking about here will be for the natural people. The word of the Lord will be unto the people, but the Bride of Jesus Christ is going to be right there with Him. Not necessarily in the same place physically, but they are going to be with Him. Why? Because they are His body. He is the Head, and they are His body, and they are going to know what the Head is thinking.

 

If we want to learn, the scripture is open to us to learn. I remember years ago, Brother Meadors said something to Sister Meadors. He said I wonder when Brother Allen is going to preach on the fourth chapter of Isaiah. I had not told anybody. A week later I preached on it. I know our sister remembers that. There are spiritual people in our midst that are not just ‘going along for the ride.’ I hope that nobody is going along for the ride just because it is something to do. If you are, it is not going to work out good for you. Whether you are a man or a woman, God can show you certain things. He will not let you get ahead of the ministry, but He will let you know things maybe a week ahead of what is going to be preached. If we are spiritual people, God will show us spiritual things. We want to be the type of people that can understand the will of the Lord at all times. It is not that we are going to know everything. But as I mentioned about Brother Meadors, God put that in his heart ahead of time so that he might know when the time came for it to be preached, this would be what was needed. Verse one, “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” We see more women senators and representatives entering the political realm all the time. There are women that are pushing for those positions. I saw the news this morning, how these women are pushing for these positions because they do not feel like the men are taking care of things as they should, which they probably are not. But it is something else that a nation must rely on something like that to get things done. Because in the beginning it was not that way. I mentioned about the wife of a senator back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s that when women were beginning to push for these positions, she said I hope not, because I am satisfied with my position. Now we have women in the churches today, especially Catholic women, who are pushing religion and having meetings. But they are not concerned about the Bible but on how to get along here in this life. That is what their expectations are. They are not looking for the coming of the Lord, they are looking to make things different and better, in their way of thinking.

Let me say this, this scripture (seven women taking hold of one man) is something that I have seen play out in Denmark. In Denmark there are certain elements of people where women run the family. They run everything. They said the only thing they needed a man for was for a child. There are nearly whole towns run by women and the man has no position. Now what I am saying here, this is not necessarily the plan of God. But He allows the woman to push for this. This will only be in the early start of the Millennium because there is going to be few men left. Even now, many women do not feel like they need marriage. But in that time, they will ask to be able to be called by his name so they can have children without reproach. Of course, there will be complete families with husband, wife, and children. But there will be many women that are without a man, and they are going to desire to be called by a man’s name so that they can bring up children. This is the way it will be in the early part of the Millennium. By this and other events, judgment will happen to a lot of people. As I have said before, there will be many people that will die in the Millennium. Because you still have serpent seed being born in that time. Even though the devil is not there to push it, they are born without salvation. It is very much like what you see in the world today. Except there will be judgment that will come on this earth through the Bride of Jesus Christ, to keep it to a minimum. The Bride is going to rule and reign in that time, to be able to take care of situations that come about. You may want to think about that a little bit, but you cannot deny the word of the Lord. Because the verse starts with ‘in that day’ as does the next verse.

 

We find in the Old Testament, especially in First and Second Kings, there was a lot of polygamy. It was even prevalent in America in the 1800’s. I have read some information on Brigham Young. He took over Mormonism when the Methodists killed Joseph Smith. Maybe you did not know that, but the head of the Mormons was Joseph Smith. To get away from all of society, Young went all the way to Utah. There he established the Mormon church and community. If you have ever been to Zion National Park in Utah, he was the one who named that. There were even miracles that happened in the Mormon church. They did not have The Truth, but there were miracles that did happen. I remember reading one story. They had a swarm of locusts to come through Utah that covered the land. The Mormons began to pray, and God sent seagulls to eat the locusts. That did not make them right, but it was a prayer of faith. A prayer of faith works even when sometimes it is not the best thing. It was what they needed then, so they prayed about it. I am not taking up for the Mormon church. I remember in reading that history there was a cartoon showing Brigham Young looking back at all his wives and children and saying, ‘What do I do with all of these?’ Because President Ulysses Grant had outlawed polygamy in the United States and territories.

 

But to move along, verse two, “In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.” For them of Israel that escaped, that will be in the Millennium. The ones that are alive at the start of the Millennium. The woman of Revelation 12 and the other natural Jews that do escape. There will be some that will escape the judgment of what is to come to pass during the tribulation. Because there will be enough Jews to be able to re-establish the nation of Israel for that time to come. “And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:” I know I receive a lot of criticism about many things that I preach. I got a lot of criticism for saying that there will be polygamy in the Millennium. But this keeps repeating, ‘in that day,’ ‘in that day.’ These three verses are talking about the Millennium, every bit of it. Verse four, “When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.” The spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning will both come right at the end of the tribulation before the Millennium. Verses five and six, “And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.” There are going to be storms and rain, but God will have a cover for His people. You can read more scriptures in Isaiah chapters 13 and 24 showing that there will be few men left.

 

A Way Has Been Made

 

I have other scriptures I want to go to as I look at this. Let us go to Isaiah 35:1-10, “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” He is talking about going south out of Jerusalem, what I went over on Thursday night (Ed. July 21, 2022), about the water coming out from under the altar and going into the valley all the way to the Dead Sea to heal its waters. The water will also go into the Mediterranean so that the fish from the Mediterranean can travel through this waterway right down to the (as the Bible says) ‘healed’ Dead Sea. The Jews know how to manage water and they know how to irrigate. They gained this knowledge when they were slaves in Egypt. Egypt was a prosperous place; they got their water from the Nile River to irrigate their land. Egypt is a similar desert place like Israel. They will know how to take care of those things in the Millennium. Verse two, “It shall blossom abundantly, (Right now, only ten percent of the water from the Jordan River goes into the Dead Sea so its level is going down more all the time. That is the only source of water that it has. It shall blossom abundantly…) and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.” This is the hope of Israel right now. The only hope that they have. Russia is supporting Iran for them to be able to build the nuclear bomb. Iran says they have the material to build the bomb now. Israel is setting on a powder keg if it were not for the hand of the Lord. But still, many nations, even Russia, dread Israel, because of the nuclear weapons they have. The world does not know exactly what Israel has in their arsenal. They do not know how many nuclear bombs they have because Israel does not let that out. One former prime minister, Barak, almost let it out. He was just a go between, like the president we have now, only he was not as bad. What a sad picture we have of our nation this morning. Right under our feet is every resource we need, and the leadership is looking everywhere else. Department of Transportation Secretary Buttigieg says that everyone should buy an electric car. The news was telling this morning that the electric car battery makers would have to almost completely strip the earth of many minerals and materials to build those batteries. They do not have all the materials at this time, and I doubt if they ever will. They are looking at something that is not going to happen. Do you want to go out and buy yourself a sixty-six-thousand-dollar electric car?

 

Verse four again, “Say to them of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not, behold your God will come with vengeance, with recompence, He will come and save you.” Talking about the Jews. “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.” That is talking about at the beginning of the Millennium there will be people that will not be able to see, and people that will not be able to hear. But before long, they will have both their hearing and sight. I am talking about the natural people; I am not talking about the Bride of Jesus Christ. The Bride will not need the sun nor the moon, or anything else to see. Because everything will be opened unto them. Verse six, “Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, (Think about that! Like it was when Peter and John went into the Beautiful gate in Jerusalem. The man that was healed began to leap and jump. No wonder! Somebody who had been lame, sitting there begging for years, all at once they receive strength in their legs and they are not beggars any more, because they have strength. I am sure it will not be like it is now in America. People do not want to work. There are eleven million jobs available, and more people are quitting all the time because they can get government aid. Many people go to college and come back to live at home, because they have insurance through their parents until they are twenty-six years old. What a time we are living in. It is all handouts and give outs. I am not talking bad about anyone who may be getting insurance from their parents. But it was not this way until a few years ago. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart…) and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” All due to what God is going to do when Jesus Christ comes back to stand upon the Mount of Olives, and the Mount of Olives splits. Then you have the water gushing down into the valleys. I do not think it will ever get to those high hills that we saw when we were there, but there are many valleys there. God just let the fertilizer build up there over all these years. Verse seven, “And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.” Reeds and rushes are around ponds and pools of water. “And an highway shall be there, (That is talking about the goodness of the Lord. The highway is not necessarily a paved road, it is God doing something for them that is going to be marvelous). and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; (A highway shall be called the way of holiness.) the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.” Talk about the lame being able to walk, the deaf being able to hear, and those who are mentally unstable, being healed in their minds. There is much to look forward to. Verse nine, “No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, (It is not talking about natural lions or ravenous beasts. It is saying that no evil mankind will go there, because it is a way of holiness). it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there.” The redeemed will walk on that highway, in the way of the Lord. This is going to be very real; it is not a fake. “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Think about it, as you sang this morning, how joyful you were. That joy was not because there was a highway there, the joy was because there was a way that has been made for us. There will be a way made for them.

 

Christ and The Church

 

Now I want to go into some other things. First to Ephesians chapter five. I have gone over it before, in another message a few weeks ago. (Ed. July 3, 2022, am). Starting with verse nineteen, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” That is trusting in each other. “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it:” There are two things there. One thing is husbands love your wives. The other thing is the wife being obedient. He is not talking about a day and hour like we are living in. Do you think the women in America are willing to listen to their husbands? There is no respect there. No, He is talking about the church being able to get along together and he is likening it unto a marriage. A marriage situation that is not shared is not a marriage. I want you to understand that. It says in Genesis that God gave man a wife to be his helpmate. In that way they share with one another, and one is not neglected of the other. The man must get that respect from his wife. She must be able to respect him. I hate to say, but there are some men that do not desire that respect. It is ‘my way or the highway.’ I remember, especially in the earlier days of our marriage, my wife would ask if what she was wearing would be all right. I did not tell her to do that, she would ask me. A marriage is to be shared one with another as something very precious. It is one of the things that God did for a man and a woman when He put them on earth. This is what he is talking about, marriage and the church. I will go on reading in verse 25, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” He is showing the relationship between these two things, the husband and wife, and Christ and the church. Verse 28, “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.” If you do not love your wife, you do not love yourself. “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” It is not necessary that the wife know every bit of the business things, but if she asks, then she should be told, because we are looking for unity. We are not looking for anything other than that. We are looking for unity in the Bride of Christ. As he is talking about unity in marriage, he is talking about unity with Christ and the church. Showing the perfect relationship. Verse 31 again, “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” That is why I said what I did the other day. When two people get married, moms and dads need to stay out of it. Otherwise, there will be problems. “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” If she has that in her heart, I believe she will do that. And if he has it in his heart to love his wife, she will respect that. I hope this means something to you.

 

Rulership in The Millennium

 

There are a couple more scriptures I want to get to. Revelation chapter one, verse four, “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. (Jesus Christ is Prince over the kings of the earth. This was what I went over before, being a prince is more than being a king, as we have read in Ezekiel.) Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” Let us read verses five and six again. “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests…” I remember some seventeen years ago, Brother Vaughn had died not long before then, I was walking up the aisle and Sister Ruby was standing there, and she brought this up. She said: ‘You know, women are not going to be kings and priests, that is for men.’ This has been on my heart ever since. It caused me to think about it. Women will not be the rulers in the Millennium. It will be men who have a head on their shoulders. Men in the ministry and in other positions of leadership who, in this life, have been able to make judgments. That know how to rule their own house as it says in First Timothy, chapter three. This says He will make us kings and priests. Women are not kings and priests, but they have their position right there next to the man. They will reign, but not as kings and priests. I am not trying to put women down; you will have your place and you will be satisfied in your place.

 

Let me go to Revelation chapter five, verses six through ten, “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” I held this back for seventeen years because I did not want the sisters to feel I was picking on them. I am not picking on you, everyone will have their place. But there will be certain men in rulership that have done things on this earth that have been beneficial unto the saints of God. You can see what I am talking about from what I read in Ephesians the fifth chapter. We are entering a time like we have never been in before. If we face up to the things that are needed, then God is going to reward us for it. Everyone will get their reward, but God has an order. When God made man and woman, He made the man first, for leadership. He made the woman for a help to him. The husband is the head over the wife, but he must have a head on his shoulders. He cannot just be somebody that is an old grouch. I just say it like it is. There have even been preachers who have been such fools. A preacher from North Carolina said, ‘If I tell my wife to lay down in a mud hole so I can walk over her, she cannot say anything.’ What foolishness! God bless you. Prayer.

Preached on July 28th, 2022 pm

Preached on July 28th, 2022 pm

We are living in such a time and hour in which we have a government in the United States that is saying everything is well and that there is no recession. I guess to them there is not a recession, but to a lot of people there is. People are going through hard times that are being caused by wicked men that do not care about the nation and do not care about the people. If they did, they could do something about it tomorrow. This ‘no care’ attitude upon our government leaders is a disgrace. I feel like God’s people are going to fare better than many others. (The Lord said, I will never leave you or forsake you.) We can still count upon the grace of God as time goes on and things get worse. We may not have what we have had in the past, but He said He would always take care of our hunger and our needs. We thank Him for that because He is faithful to the saints of God that have been privileged to be able to take part in a message of truth in this hour, though it is being spoken against. Hard things are being spoken against truth, but I thank God for the truth. I, and other people here, were privileged to witness the ministry of a prophet that God sent for this day. There is still more than one witness of that ministry here in this church. They are not going to pull the wool over our eyes, because we have seen the hand of God work in our lives. We thank the Lord for His wonderful grace to us. His kindness and truth.

So Great a Cloud of Witnesses

I am on the same subject, The Millennium Reign. I have added two scriptures to the list. Ezekiel 48 and Revelation 7. I will go to Ezekiel 48 tonight and spend some time on that chapter. It is dealing with the children of Israel and where they will be located during the Millennium. I said before that the dimensions of the city of Jerusalem will be about forty-four square miles. Jerusalem will make up most of the portion of land for Judah. I saw something today that measured the distance from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea was forty-five miles, so I missed it by one mile, or they did. No, I will give it to them, because they have the measurements on the ground. I have the measurements that come from the Bible, which could vary a little bit.

Even Brother Jackson when speaking of the birth of Jesus, said it could vary a year or year-and-a-half at the most. But when talking about Jesus finishing His ministry, he said it was April 3rd, 33 A.D. when Jesus was crucified. That is what I looked at. And scientists have said there was an earthquake in that area in 33 A.D. There was no other earthquake in that area except at that time. When God does something in a major way, there is an earthquake. When the two prophets are killed and then raised from the dead, there will be a great earthquake. It is all witnessed out in the Bible, and that is what we believe. There is no iota of doubt in my mind that what we have been taught is right. As well as the truths of Malachi 4:5-6, Revelation 10:7, Matthew 25, also First Thessalonians 4. It is all there. There are too many witnesses in the Bible and in what we have witnessed in our time to believe otherwise. People can have their doubts if they want to, but I have no doubt. I believe in the word of the Lord, and I believe it is coming to pass right here in our day. No matter what the unbelievers believe, we stand on the Word. It is ‘set in concrete’ with us. I remember a brother had a dream back in 2008 about this platform where I am standing. He saw a white marble platform, but he saw some loose wires hanging down from the ceiling. He could not figure out what those loose wires meant. Later in that same year of 2008, he knew what it meant because the ‘loose wires’ left. They left, but the platform of marble is still here. We are standing on a true foundation. We are not guessing, not ‘maybe so,’ or ‘it might be,’ but it is all settled in the scripture. We are standing on firm ground tonight as the body of Christ. I love the truth we are standing on. It first came through a prophet to this age. William Branham preached the seals in March 1963. The revelation came to a man that God had introduced down at the Ohio River in 1933, when he was baptizing a hundred and fifty people. As he was baptizing the 17^th person, a light shone and a voice said, “As John the Baptist forerun the first coming of Christ, you will bring forth a message that will forerun the second coming of Christ.” Now that is being disputed. But I knew a woman that was there. I have been able to meet people in my life that were witnesses of these events that have taken place. And I was there when the word of God spoke to people, and they were healed and raised from sicknesses. Some went on to believe in other things, but they did receive their healing at that time. But God was not responsible for their leaving truth. It just fulfills the word of God. The 13^th chapter of Matthew, from verse 47 to verse 52, tells about the ministry of Brother Branham. How a net was cast out, and it gathered of every kind. Brother Branham was a part of The Full Gospel Businessmen at one time, but they opposed his stand on Serpent Seed. They said that was of the devil, but I believe it. Many kinds of people have been caught in the net. The good are gathered into vessels but the bad are cast away. That is what the scripture says. Before Brother Branham died, Brother Jackson preached on Matthew chapter 13. Brother Branham agreed with what he preached because he brought in that the seven mysteries were the seven church ages. We have that as a memory tonight, a memory of which I heard, and I saw. There are witnesses of what God did through a man, from South Africa, into Europe, the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, all over the United States, and all the way into India. Many parts of the world were able to hear and to see the moving of the spirit. When Billy Graham was in India, they asked him, if Jesus is who you say He is, then show us a miracle. He said, ‘I do not have that gift, but there is a man in the United States that does, his name is William Branham.’ He was known around the world by the biggest of the great healing ministries. Oral Roberts got his start under Brother Branham. When Brother Branham met him, Oral Roberts just had a little old, ragged tent. He began to ask of Brother Branham, ‘Would the Lord do for me as He has done for you?’ He told him, ‘He will do that for anyone who will believe.’ Of course, in the time we are living in, we are beyond that time of evangelism. The only evangelism in our time, is among the body of Christ. We are not looking for a worldwide revival, we are not looking for a national revival. The only way this nation will ever have a revival is that she will be brought to her knees, then after that, God will do something for the nation. Especially if Israel is to come here, and I do not know of any other place that a nation has been cut out of the wilderness as it says in Revelation 12:14. We are living within a few miles of where God started it all, right down here at the Ohio River. The Catholic church tried to stop Brother Branham. They said he was disturbing the people. They sent a policeman in to try to stop him. The same woman that was there at the baptism, she told me about that meeting. She said the Catholic church sent a policeman to stop the meeting, but he ended up at the altar. That is God, that is not a man! Anyone else would have closed the doors and said no, we cannot do that. But God opens doors when men try to close them. He opens mouths when men try to close them. This message has gone around the world, and it takes too much to try to stop it. I am not afraid of this message. I am not worried about it. Whatever happens to me for standing for Truth, that is all right. God is going to expose some critics and they will have to take the blame. He will not let critics of the things that He has done hide from the Truth.

The Millennial Israel
by Portions

I will go to Ezekiel chapter 48 now. “Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the Border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.” Bro. Branham did not know all the scriptures, but what he did know he preached. That is why I have added the seventh chapter of Revelation to the list. From this scripture Brother Branham thought that Dan was forever cut out because of his disobedience to God. In the book of Judges, Dan was the first tribe to ever appoint a priest and set up graven images on their own. They felt they were too far from Jerusalem to travel there for their sacrificial offerings. I was thinking about this, we see here in Ezekiel that Dan is going to be the northernmost tribe again in the Millennium, but the means of travel available in the Millennium will allow them to travel that distance in a just a few hours, when that time comes for Dan to come to Jerusalem to worship. God has the means to make a way for people. I know in Revelation chapter seven Dan does not have a representation in the 144,000 because of what he did. But that was not to be his eternal punishment, because we read here that Dan will have his portion of land. Bro. Jackson brought that out about Dan many years ago. Verse two, “And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh. And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.”

1:Joshua 13-19

I have a map showing where the tribes of Israel will be during the Millennium. It is going to be different than what it was in the book of Joshua. Then only the two tribes of Simon and Judah were able to live from Jerusalem and to the south because it was desert. But we read in the Bible that the desert is going to bloom as a rose. So, in the Millennium that area south of Jerusalem will take care of five tribes from then on. You see the Millennial Israel starts far north. All the way above Damascus on up to the river Euphrates, which is not all shown on this map. Verse six, “And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.” As the prophecy continues it goes into more detail about Judah because this is where the city will be. The forty-five-mile area (I will say forty-five miles now) is Jerusalem, which makes up the portion for Judah. “And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.” It is a very large square city. The sanctuary will be in the middle of it. Verse nine, “The oblation that ye shall offer unto the Lord shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in

2:Millennial Israel

length: and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.” It is in the midst of the ten thousand reeds by twenty-five thousand reeds which is some twenty miles wide and forty-five miles long. Remember from chapter 45, the sanctuary will be five hundred reeds long and five hundred reeds wide (almost a mile square) in the center of the city. Verse eleven, “It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.” That is what I was talking about earlier concerning Dan. This was the start of the split when the ten tribes separated from the two southern tribes and became the northern kingdom. There is the reason for the difference of the two groups of priests. The sons of Zadok are going to have the more important role in the inner court. “And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.” The Levites will serve the people in the outer court. These have no portion of land, only dwellings in the city. The Levites have no portion of land because God said, I am their portion. Verse thirteen, “And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord. And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place (It is called profane because this will be the city in Judah around the sanctuary.) for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof. And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.” This is measuring off around the holy place. Verse seventeen, “And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.” This is the little area all the way around that oblation. “And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.” God is very meticulous in what He does and what He provides for those that will be His servants in that city. Verse nineteen, “And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.” The servants will be furnished with food for the city from what is brought in from all the tribes. “All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.” Verse 21, “And the residue shall be for the prince, (He is the one that I have talked about who will be the king, which will offer up sacrifices for the children of Israel. He does not do it himself, the sons of Zadok make the sacrifices and offerings for the children of Israel. They put it on the holy altar and offer it up, and then the prince portions it out.) on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.” The sanctuary is in the midst of the city. As I have explained before, the prince will come in the eastern gate, and he will go out the eastern gate. But the children of Israel that come to worship will either come in the south gate and go out the north gate or will come in the north gate and go out the south gate. God is giving knowledge to the Church of the Living God in that. It is saying that we do not go out the way we came in. When we come to the Lord, we do not go back out the same way. We are a changed people. I thank God for that. Verse 22, “Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince’s, (that is not plural, that is his possession) between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. “As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.” This is south of Jerusalem. Benjamin which before was north, will now be south. “And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.” Simeon was in the south with Judah before. “And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion. And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion. And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.” These five tribes are all south of Jerusalem, which is in Judah’s portion. “And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.” The waters of strife are at Kadesh Barnea. That is where ten of the twelve spies for the children of Israel brought back an evil report. This will be the southernmost border of the portion for the tribe of Gad. He will be all the way down to the river Egypt, which will be the Nile. That is where the southern border of Israel will be in the Millennium, down to the Nile River. Verse 29, “This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God. And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.” This is what he has said before. “And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate for Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.” Levi has a gate because he is one of the twelve tribes, even though he does not have a portion of land. “And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. It was round about eighteen thousand measures: (The four sides of four-thousand-and-five-hundred measures each added together equals eighteen thousand measures.) and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.” I have gone over this chapter to acquaint us with what is going to be. The twelve tribes will dwell from the Euphrates River in the north to the River Egypt in the south. Israel will also possess the territories of Edom and Moab. There is a little difference with Ammon because the scripture says Ammon will be at Israel’s side. So, Amman, Jordan is still going to exist, but it will be under Israeli control.

Tribe of Dan not used
in the 144,000

As we go to Revelation chapter seven. We are looking at something here that is going to tell us just who and what is going to happen in Israel by the calling out of the 144,000. It is going to tell you where they come from and what happened. Verse one, “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, (Preachers have tried to place where these four corners of the earth are, which they know nothing about. Revelation chapter nine tells us they are at the river Euphrates. From there you go east, west, south, and north to get the picture.) holding the four winds of the earth, (What is he talking about, holding the four winds? He is talking about war. They are stationed there for six, almost seven, years before they are let loose. God has them placed there. To angels that is a very short time, because angels have been here for millions of years. Because God is from everlasting to everlasting. He is God. We do not know when God created the angels and all these things happened. If it was a trillion years ago, it is no time with God. God does not exist by a time clock. He created time to measure us out, and to measure Israel out. But as far as His existence, there is no time. People have tried to figure out where God came from. You cannot measure God, you can say He has always been, but even that would not justify it. In the Psalms it says from eternity to eternity, thou art God. He never made a mistake; He is not making a mistake now. Of course, we are being blamed for saying the Lord is coming soon in our generation, and it has been said by critics that it will not be in our generation. Just those plain words, this generation is all going to die, and He still will not have come. It would scare me to death to believe something like that. Again, verse one, “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” There is a reason the angels are holding back the war. He gives the reason for it in the next verses. God is using angels throughout the book of Revelation to express His desires. Not His feelings but His desires. Just like God is using a ministry in this hour to fulfill what He desires them to do. He did not just call men and set them aside or call them and then say you have nothing to do, or you have nothing to learn, or there is nothing to be revealed. If you take revelation away from God’s ministry, you take the ministry away. Brother Jackson went over that from the book of Proverbs. ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Or you could say, without a revelation the people go wild. We have seen that happen, and it still happens. Verse two, “And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, (The four angels are standing here at the Euphrates River. Then God sends another angel to tell the other four what to do. This angel is ascending from the east, so that is beyond the river Euphrates.) to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.” It was given to those four to hurt the earth and the sea, but the fifth angel is sent to hold up this war because there is something that must be done. We will see that as we go along here. “Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.” That is talking about the ministry of the two witnesses (the spirits of Moses and Elijah on the two Jewish prophets) that seals the 144,000 in their foreheads. In other words, gives them an understanding. That seal is the Holy Ghost. In your forehead is where your knowledge comes from. God works on your heart, but the front of your brain is where your knowledge resides. Not the back of the head, but from the forehead. Verse four, “And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.” This is where Brother Jackson brought out the understanding that Dan is not left out of his portion of land in the Millennium. He compared Ezekiel chapter 48 where Dan is given his portion of the land, with these verses in Revelation seven where Dan is left out of the 144,000. But when Brother Branham preached on Revelation seven, he did not bring in Ezekiel. So, Brother Branham thought the tribe of Dan had been forever cut out. Also, I have gone over in the past why it appears that Ephraim is left out here in Revelation seven. But Ephraim is not left out because the names Joseph and Ephraim are used interchangeably in places. Joseph was blessed by his father, Jacob (Israel), at the same time Ephraim was being anointed over his older brother by Jacob. Therefore, Joseph and Ephraim are the same two anointed ones.

As I said a few minutes ago, the tribe of Dan was left out of the 144,000 because of their transgressions. They felt like they lived too far north so they got a priest and anointed him, and they made a calf and other graven images, so that they could worship there instead of having to travel all the way to Jerusalem. We see that people have tried to substitute for God from the very beginning. You cannot substitute what God offers. There is no substitution for what God is doing. We must leave Him alone and let Him do what He wants to do, and we follow His leading. He is the leader. But He sent Jesus Christ to live in us, because of the blood. Jesus says, except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no portion with me. We understand that He is talking about the cross, where He shed His blood. We took on His body and we took on His blood. We are His body. It takes that for our salvation. In taking communion we honor and commemorate what He did for us on the cross. He became our substitute.

That New Song

I will go to the 14^th chapter in order to bring the story further. Verse one, “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, (This is a continuation of the seventh chapter.) and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, (John is showing where Christ, in angelic form, is. He is back on earth in Israel. Just as He is in the twelfth chapter of Daniel. There He is standing on the river Jordan and two angels are standing on the banks, one on each side. That is in the middle of the 70^th week. And here He is standing on Mount Zion, back in Israel in the middle of the week.) having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.” In other words, in the last verses of Revelation chapter ten and on into chapter eleven, Jesus Christ (in angelic form) will show himself in Israel to those two prophets, represented as the two olive trees and the two candlesticks. These two men are ordained to carry out a message to seal the 144.000 that lasts for more than three- and one-half years. After that, the ministry of the 144,000 starts in the middle of the week. From verse one, “And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.” Something has the angels excited. Verse three, “And they sung as it were a new song, before the throne, and before the four beasts, (The four beasts represent the Bride, who will be in heaven when this revival starts. They are going to know something about it, because the Bible says they do.) and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.” Why does it say that no man can learn that song except them? The Bride in heaven will know it. But no other man on earth will know it. They are on earth singing that song, which is the song of redemption unto a Jewish people. Verse four, “These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. (You denominational system ministers, John Hagee, and all of you other men that have gone to Israel to try to convert the Jews. You will never touch this 144,000 because they have virgin minds. It is not talking about them being virgins as far as some would consider, but they have a virgin mind.) These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, (The everlasting gospel is the 144,000 preaching.) and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” They are going to spread throughout the earth. Verse seven, “Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” They are telling their fellow Jews in their countries to get away from this Godless spirit, that is exactly what they are doing. By that time, the beast has turned completely away from the God of his fathers. I am not taking up for him or the Catholic Church, but even what they taught, he is turning away from that. Verse eight, “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, (This takes place near the end of the 70^th week and goes with the 17^th and 18^th chapters, even into the first part of the 19^th chapter, where Babylon is fallen.) that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” This is talking of the woman of Revelation 17; you see there it mentions the wine of her fornication.

 Chapter 14, verse nine, “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture (which will be the last part of the 16^th chapter) into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: (For ever and ever is a period of time. I like the way Bro. Branham explained that hell is not eternal. If hell, or if the lake of fire, was eternal, you would have to have a form of eternal life to be there. There is only one form of eternal life and that is through God.) and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: (Here is the patience of the saints, listen to this.) here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” These are keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus under that ministry of the 144,000. Verse thirteen, “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” This is unusual. What they have done is choose death over life rather than surrender. And because they have, God is congratulating them. That is exactly what it is. Let us pray.

 

July 31, 2022
AM Service

 

I will keep my title this morning The Millennium Reign, but this message has little to do with the Millenium in a way. But I feel this is something that needs to be addressed, so I will go into it at this time. It is fitting for the hour we are living in. We are living in such a time and hour, that has never been. Some people say that all things continue just like they were, but they are not continuing as they were. There are things that have changed, people that have changed, and minds that have changed. We want to thank God for His wonderful grace to us because God never changes. His Word does not change so God does not change because God and His Word are one.

 

The Ministry Must Care
For The Flock

 

Let us turn to Acts Chapter 20 and Verse 20. “And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house.” Paul is talking about himself, teaching publicly and from house to house. “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.” Or he could say, ‘They wait on me.’ Verse 24, “But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.” He is preaching his last message unto these people. He is telling them he knows that they will see his face no more, and they did not. “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.” That is what I want my life to be. I want it to be pure from all the blood of all men. I do not want to hold back on truth, I want to stand for truth and the way that I feel it is to be ministered in this hour. Verse 27, “For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, (Paul is talking to the ministry there, and he is talking to this ministry in this day. I will read the 28^th verse again.) “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” Purchased with His own blood. God created the blood of Jesus Christ inside of the womb. So, He was God’s own Son, which was His own blood. That is the way you interpret that. When a man is the father of a child, it carries his blood and his name. “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.” That would be those that come in among you, that would not spare the flock but would be trying to put some kind of influence upon people. But then he goes ahead to say, verse 30, “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.”  That is exactly what they do, draw away disciples after them. “Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, (In other words, to make you grow, to be able to know right from wrong.) and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.” I can say the same thing of myself. If you have something, I do not desire it. If you have more than me, I do not desire what you have. This is the will of God for each individual. Whether they have little or much, it is all a gift of God, and we should be thankful for that, not desirous of what another person might have, but desiring the grace of God. Verse 34, “Yea, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.” He is stating something that is needed, not just in his age but, in all ages.

 

We Live By Grace

 

I will go now to the book of Galatians. Much of this is self-explanatory without me going into great elaboration. I hope you understand what I am talking about. The first chapter, verse one, “Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.” He was not called of men; he was called on the road to Damascus and told what his ministry would be and what great things he would suffer for that ministry. We see what he went through as we read the book of Acts and his own epistles. He recounts in Second Corinthians the many things that he suffered in his body and in his care of the churches. Galatians Chapter One, verse two, “And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia.” This is to the Galatian people, but there is more than one church in that area. The churches (plural) of Galatia. “Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever, Amen.” Now he goes into the heart of his message and deals with it for the rest of this epistle. How that the Jews are unwilling to depart from the law and live by grace. It is grace that we live by, and I thank God for that. Verse six, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:” We hear of these other gospels that are being preached now. Things that are completely out of context with the message of the hour. The message that Brother Branham brought, and the message that Brother Jackson brought. (Which was to stabilize the message that Brother Branham brought.) There were things that were not completely explained or gone into in a deep manner. God gave Brother Jackson books, and words, and illustrations, which allowed him to bring a message that would stabilize the unstable. I am not talking about Brother Branham being unstable, but the movement being unstable. I have said that the things that Brother Branham taught gave us an outline of a message, and Brother Jackson filled in much of the outline. Not all of it because the outline is still being filled in. We believe today that God is still working in His church to the benefit of His people. Paul said here, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.” This is going on now and we want to be aware of our surroundings, even who we talk to and who we associate with. There are things in this world that are not friendly to the gospel of Christ. I will stand with The Truth without wavering in any way. That is my complete aim and purpose. If I have preached anything that you do not understand, or have an honest question about, then I will go back over that. But if you are questioning a revelation, then that is different. A revelation cannot be changed, it must be adhered to. Verse eight, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” He is speaking of the gospel that he has preached; he is putting himself and any other person before the people. If we would preach anything other than what has already been preached, let him be accursed. That is strong words, but that is the way it is. Even an angel, or a man, whatever, let him be accursed. He goes over this again, he wants people to understand, he wants them to be sure of what they believe and what they stand for. “As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

 

The Shout, The Voice,
The Trump

 

I will go to First Thessalonians now. This has been gone over many times and I will go over it again. We can take this scripture and go to Matthew 25, and Revelation 10:7 and see that it fulfills both. We are waiting for the trump now to sound, that the dead in Christ will be raised incorruptible. We realize there are things that must happen before that time. There has to be seven thunders sound before the resurrection. We cannot change things in The Word that have been established. We will not seek to change things that have been established. First Thessalonians, Chapter four, Verse 13, “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.” Let me say this, as I am preaching this message, if it sounds like I may be pointing at someone or something, I do not want any saint of God to feel that I am pointing to you. Not in any way am I pointing to you. “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” He is giving comfort to those that have needed comforting. He is bringing comfort unto a body of Christ that has lost loved ones. I say the same thing to the body of Christ this morning. When that resurrection takes place, God is going to send Jesus with all the spirits of all the saints (from the last one who has passed away at that time to the first who passed away at the beginning of the Bride) to be reunited with their incorruptible resurrected bodies. If it were today, the last one that has passed away that I know of is our Brother Clint. I am not saying that he will be the last one. But I am saying on that day God is going to bring ALL our brothers and sisters on back through time. I will just mention Brother Jackson, Brother Branham, their wives, and so on. God is going to bring them, and they will be raised before we are changed. I say ‘we,’ if I be here at that time. That is up to God, it is all up to God. Verse 14 again, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, (Are we going to change the word of the Lord? Or are we going to leave it like it is? This is by the word of the Lord.) that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.” Verse 16, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, (He has done that. I do not care what anybody says, the picture taken in Arizona in 1963 is evidence of when this happened. It does not matter, you can go back and research it, you can take it back and forth, whichever way you want to, you will not change what God has done. There was an earthquake when that happened. I remember Brother Branham talking about it. He said there were three-cornered stones, like pyramids, formed from that earthquake. People began to pick up rocks like pyramids out there in Sabino Canyon.

 

It has been said that Brother Jackson did not believe that that was the shout. There has been enough preached through the ministry of Brother Jackson that proves that he did believe it. I wonder why Brother Jackson would talk about the first verse of Revelation Chapter 6, where it says, “the noise of thunder”? The thunder which would represent the earthquake. Then you come down to the fourth horse. In verse seven it says, “the voice of the fourth beast” (that flying eagle). Brother Jackson pointed out that those two things actually happened in 1963. This has already happened, and it will not have to happen again. God has so manifested himself in the hour that we live in, that we cannot doubt it and believe the gospel.) “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, (That was the message. That was Revelation 10:7, that was Matthew 25, that was Malachi 4:5-6. There are too many scriptures that are evidence of what happened.) with the voice of the archangel, (That will sound whenever Jesus comes back to earth in Revelation 10.) and with the trump of God: (That will raise the dead. The first event has already happened and the second and third are going to happen.) and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, (It has been said that the Lord is not coming back in this generation, in the generation of the holocaust people. The scripture talks about when the fig tree began to bloom, it began to bloom in 1948. That is when Israel became a nation. That is when it began to bloom, it has been more than seventy years now, it will be seventy-five years next year (2023). This is going to happen in that generation. There may be just ten people left from that generation, but there will be people left. It is going to happen. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds…) to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” There is no departing from the Lord, we shall ever be with Him. But that does not mean always in His physical presence. But we will always be in His presence spiritually. We are Bride people. We are His wife. Praise the Lord for that! He is saying here to those people that are troubled about the resurrection, “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

 

Natural Brute Beasts

 

I am going to First Peter now. Chapter four, Verse 17. “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” That is a strong statement. “Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.” Now I have scriptures in Second Peter that I want to go to. Second Chapter, Verse nine, “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, (I want to say something here. The ministry here has been accused of saying that Black people are serpent seed. That is a lie. That is nothing but a lie. Noah had three sons by his only wife. All races came from one father and one mother. How can we pick out one race and say they are serpent seed and let the others go? I have brothers and sisters all the way from Africa. I had a good email from Africa the other day. It was a short message just congratulating the truth for which we are standing. Wherever you have heard that, it is nothing but a lie. I do not believe it, the body of Christ does not believe it, Faith Assembly does not believe it, the ministry does not believe it. If you ever hear that, it is a lie. I want you to know that. I welcome our brothers and sisters at Faith Assembly no matter what color they are. As long as God is in their heart, that is satisfactory to me. I am not their judge. As your pastor, I am a judge of certain things, of what should be and what should not be. So, I am a judge of this accusation, and it is a lie.) Verse twelve, “But these, as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption: And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, (I am just reading this out of The Word. I am not trying to paint over or gloss over something, I am reading what The Bible says. This is the way it stands. From Verse 14, “Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: (Anybody who would believe this is just unstable. I am talking about the error; I am not talking about this truth.) An heart they have exercised with covetous practices, cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; (He goes all the way back into the Old Testament to explain that.) But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb animal speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.” Verse 17, “These are wells without water, (You never can get a drink from something like that. In the Old Testament, there were many wells that were dry; they had no water in them. This is what these natural brute beasts are.) clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” If somebody has the rule over you and if you are listening to a wrong voice, they are bringing you into bondage. That is exactly what it is talking about here. People may have had an experience with God in their life, but here is what it says. Verse 20, “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them that the beginning.” This is a sad picture. I am sorry to have to present it, but I have no other way, because an uncertain sound has gone out. I must defend the gospel. I must defend the message of this hour. “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”

 

Stir Up Your Pure Minds

 

I will go on into the third chapter. Verse one, “This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? (This is happening. When Brother Jackson preached on The Countdown Is On, and used the chart that is still on the wall here, he put dates on there. One was the year 2004 ½ of when the time would be up for the two thousand prophetic years talked about in Hosea 6:2. He added the time up starting from the death of Christ. This is what he came up with. I have not questioned that. I have not had to go back and add it up or anything like that because I feel like he did a good job on it. He started with the date that scientists said that there was an eclipse, the third of April 33 A.D. which is in the Jewish month of Abib. He then came forward for two thousand years prophetic time, which contains 360 days each year, to reach the middle of 2005. Now it is being said that that was a hoax, that it really was not true. I am just telling you what is being said, that is all. “This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: He is getting them to remember. That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour; Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, (Since the fathers fell asleep, our spiritual fathers.) all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” This is the last day fathers. This is not going far back in the history of the Bride. It is in our day, the fathers of truth for this hour. Verse five, “For this they willing are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” He says, ‘Beloved,’ this promise is for the Saints of God. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?” I am going to stop there. As the body of Christ today, I believe that we want the best spiritually for ourselves, and we are willing to do our best in all that we can to fulfill that purpose. May God bless you. I promise you I will keep on the Truth. Let us pray.

 

To be continued in next issue…