Preached on September 29, 2022 – pm

There is a lot going on in America today. I received an email about what very young, preschool age, children are being taught through a television show called “Blue’s Clues.” There is an episode with a transgender character singing about gay characters with their families. It showed the cartoon characters in a parade waving rainbow flags and dressed in rainbow outfits. Young parents, if you have children that watch television, you had better be careful. These are spirits that have a hold on this nation and a hold on the world.

Recently, I said some things about the condition of the president [Joe Biden]. He was speaking at an event two days ago, and he asked if a certain congresswoman was in the audience. Then he said something about, ‘I guess she is not here tonight.’ That Indiana congresswoman had died the month before. That is very serious for the man who is supposed to be leading this nation to not know what is going on around him many times. But I blame the people that are pushing him, not him.

We are a part of the human family, and we always want to remember those that are suffering, and those that are in need. The Bible teaches us to pray for our enemies. But I am thinking about people that are innocent of what is going on in the world. It is part of the judgment of God. Judgment on a nation that has forgotten God. Two days ago, Hurricane Ian hit Florida. It went across Florida from the west to the east, then into South and North Carolina. The weathermen are calling it a five-hundred-year storm. I am sure that there are going to be disasters hit in other parts of America because of the wickedness that is going on. Just as I said that they are trying to force all this evil on the little children. Kindergarten students, just five-years old, are told not to tell their parents what is being taught! Every grade, all the way through twelfth, teachers are telling the students not to tell your parents what you are hearing. That is outrageous! It is a shame that the United States has fallen faster in the last twenty months than it had in the last twenty years. It is because of the leadership that we have in this nation. Not just the president, but the Senate and the Congress. Mr. Biden has already said that if we elect a Republican Congress and Senate, he has his veto pen ready. Even though he does not know what they will do, he is ready to veto everything they do. But those who are using him will have to tell him what to do.

The Seven Thunders

A brother and sister asked me questions concerning the seven thunders. I will answer the questions now, then go into the scriptures later to show where I get the answers. The first question was, do the seven thunders have to be ministers? I would say, yes. They would not have to be known by us right now or be directly connected with us, but they will be Bride ministers. The second question, “Will they have to be in the five-fold ministry?” Yes, they will be, and I will go into the scriptures concerning that. The next question, “Are the seven thunders seven different messages?” No, it is one message brought out by seven ministers. The same message. “Is the number seven a type to indicate a worldwide (international) reach to the entire Bride of Christ?” Yes. “For example, seven messengers, for seven continents?” It has nothing to do with the continents. In the end-time, not all seven continents will have Bride people. Bro. Jackson went over that years ago. There will be some countries, some regions, even some continents that will not have a Bride person. They have in times past, but not in the time that we are living. Bro. Dustin has shown a map of where people are joining us online from all around the world. We do not know every one of them at the present time. But they may be in a country where there is a Bride minister. I received a letter from a brother in Kenya not long ago. He said that he watches the messages and gets the Contenders. A person of that nature could very well be one of the seven thunders. It has to be a united message. They must be men with a message that comes to them from God, but they will be connected one with another before it is all over. We would never know when all seven thunders had sounded if there was not a connection.

The Fall of The Year

People want to know what is going on and what time we are living in. I recently mentioned something about a message of Jonathan Cahn that I had heard. He said that according to the scripture in Leviticus Chapter 23 there are three feasts in the fall of the year. Two of the feasts have been fulfilled, but there is one yet to be fulfilled. It must happen in the fall of the year. For nearly two years now I have said that I believe the rapture and resurrection will happen in the fall. That scripture is what I base that on. The Feast of Tabernacles, that third fall feast, is when God tabernacles with man. Then seven years after that, during the fall of the year, God will visit the world with His judgment. That will be at the end of the seventieth week when the rest of the righteous dead will be raised out of the ground. Those are not Bride people; they are Jewish people and foolish virgins. As I look at that, I am confident in what I am saying about it. We are living right on the fringe of something great happening.

Silence In Heaven

I will go into the scripture now and talk more about this. I want to go to Revelation Chapter 8 again. There are other scriptures I will go to, but I want to start with Chapter 8, Verse 1. “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.” When does that silence take place? It is not going on right now. The silence will not start until the seventh seal is opened, then the silence comes. Keep in mind John said, when He opens the seventh seal, then it will be silent in heaven about the space of half an hour. The ‘space of half an hour’ is not thirty minutes but represents an unknown length of time after the seventh seal is opened. That is the time when God is dealing with the Bride people on earth. I will read Verse 2 now, but remember it goes just before Verse 6 in chronological order. Many times, people will keep reading from Verse 1 on through the whole chapter without realizing Verse 2 is ‘out of place’. Verse 1, then Verses 3 through 5 belong together in time. Because Verses 3 through 5 are also dealing with the Bride on earth. I have gone over that before. Verse 2, “And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.” As it says in Verse 6, the seven trumpets will be in line to sound immediately after the Bride is raptured. The first four trumpets are part of the ministry of the two prophets. So, Verse 2, then Verses 6 through 13 belong to the first half of the seventieth week when the two prophets are preaching to Israel. You will see the two prophets also from Chapter 10, Verse 8 through Chapter 11, Verse 12.

The Prayers of The Saints

Let us read Chapter 8, Verse 1 again then Verse 3, “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour… And another angel came and stood at the altar, (These are two different angels. The angel that opens the seventh seal in Verse 1 is Jesus Christ in angelic form. He opened the other six. He will be the one who will open the seventh one. But this angel in Verse 3 is in heaven representing the Bride of Jesus Christ.) having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, (In the Old Testament incense was used in worship. But this is a different incense. This incense is in heaven and is mixed with the prayers of the saints.) that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints (The prayers of the saints are going up and the incense carries them unto the throne of God.) upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, (The altar is in heaven.) and cast it into the earth: (See where the censer is cast? It is cast into the earth.) and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.” These verses in Chapter 8 (Verses 1, 3, 4, and 5) are right in line with Chapter 10, Verses 1 through 6. There is not a break between them because it is all at the same time. This is all going to happen one right after the other. The Gentile Bride is resurrected and raptured then God goes back to dealing with the Jews on earth. Because God does not deal with both at the same time. The part for the Jews cannot happen until the Gentiles leave the scene. The experience represented in the golden censer being cast from heaven to earth in Chapter 8 is going to be different than anything the Bride has ever experienced before. But first you must believe that you will have your own individual experience of receiving the Holy Ghost. It is for you. Just like our sister testified here tonight about what she experienced. I appreciate that testimony.

[Ed. Testimony of Sis. Glenda: I do not want to do anything to make anybody think I am anything special. But when I sing “I’ve Been To Calvary” sometimes I like to tell about my experience to help the young people. I knew I had been baptized right but I did not know anything about the Holy Ghost. When I would hear people talk about having the Holy Ghost some would quote the scripture, “If you have not the Spirit of God, you are none of His.” I would think, “Oh my, Lord you know I have done all I know to do!” I would pray and seek the Holy Ghost. One night as I was leaving work the scripture finally hit me “…you SHALL receive….” Shall meant it was mine! I went to Church that night and testified “I don’t have the Holy Ghost yet, but it’s coming.” I continued to pray and seek, then that weekend I was lying in bed, as the song says, “…when the Lord woke me up and said to go, get on your knees….” I went to my living room and got on my knees and the Lord came down! It was just so simple as to know “you SHALL.” It is yours; you shall receive.]

The Glory of God

Now let us go back to the seven thunders. First, let us turn to Revelation 6, Verse 1 and read just that one verse and compare the one thunder there to the seven thunders. Chapter 6, Verse 1, “And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.” This single thunder was not one of the seven, it was the message of William Branham. When Bro. Jackson went over this verse, he said that one thunder sounded out west in Sabino Canyon, Arizona, when that cloud formed in the heavens. It was to announce the opening of the first six seals. When the seven thunders happen, they will finish out the seals to the Gentiles. Back to Chapter 10, Verse 1, “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:” That is showing His authority, that God has placed in Him. When you read Revelation Chapter 1 you can see many of the same characteristics. “…clothed with a cloud:” A cloud is the glory of God that Jesus is clothed with. The same glory of God that filled the temple and travelled with the children of Israel out of Egypt. It was always a cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. Jesus Christ is given the authority to open this seventh seal and cry with a loud voice then the seven thunders utter the message. “…and a rainbow was upon his head,” A rainbow indicates something is finishing, just like God used the first rainbow for Noah as a promise. A rainbow is also God’s glory. When Bro. and Sis. Yahraus were travelling in the western United States they sent me a picture of the most beautiful rainbow I ever saw. They said people had even stopped at the side of the road to watch it. It looked sort of like a moon as it came up and it had the brightest colors of a rainbow I have ever seen. “…and his face was as it were the sun,” The brightness of the sun shows the glory of the Lamb of God. “…and his feet as pillars of fire:” That is judgment. That means something is getting ready to happen.

The Seventh Seal Loosed

Verse 2, “And he had in his hand a little book open: (Now the seventh seal on the little book is loosed. It has been the last seal holding the scroll closed since 1963. The six seals were loosed in 1963, but the seventh seal is still holding that scroll closed, even tonight. It keeps us from knowing what the end of our journey is to be. When that seventh seal is broken, then the Bride is ready for the seven thunders and Jesus Christ is getting ready to come back!) and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth.” That shows that it is an international setting. (As the question was asked earlier). It is not just one or two countries, because the message that we have is going around much of the world. It is not going around all the world, but it is going around much of the world, even into Russia. There could be a saint there. There could be one or two saints scattered here and there. In countries where there are but few Bride people there is not a need for one of the seven thunders to be there. For example, there will not be a thunder in Russia nor in China. There may be a single Bride person there, but God knows how to get the message of the thunders to that person.

Seven Thunders = One Message

Verse 3, “And cried with a loud voice, (I like wildlife, especially lions. The roar of a lion is very loud. An elephant is loud, its voice carries three miles. But a lion gets down close to the ground and when he roars it carries five miles. It can travel up to five miles in the desert in South Africa and other places.) as when a lion roareth: (The cry of Jesus Christ in angelic form is a very strong and loud cry. It is a cry that is going to wake up the Bride to the thunders.) and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.” People may think I am crazy, but I believe that somewhere there will be a place where many people will be gathered together to hear those thunders! It could be a meeting right here. I do not have to be here. I do not want to promote myself as being here because when a person begins to promote themselves, then they are in danger. But there is going to be a place where many people are going to hear those thunders. I am not saying that all the thunders will be here, but we know the message of the thunders will all be the same. There will not be two or three different messages, just like there were not two or three different messages when the one thunder happened in 1963. But it happened in a central location and people were at The Tabernacle to hear Bro. Branham when that happened. These seven thunders are going to be different; they are going to be only to the Bride. There are not going to be people that are going to get a bunch of ideas about it. The Bride will be tuned in with their spiritual antennas up to be on the receiving end of that message. I love the word of God; I hope that everyone does. Verse 4, “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, (I remember when Bro. Jackson first preached about that, uttered their voices. He said that the word “their” is a plural pronoun, therefore there had to be seven men that would utter their voices. I believe that with all my heart. There will be seven men with that message of the thunders. The thunders will be the last message to the church before she leaves here. We could be getting very close to that! We can see by the way things are going that we are at the end time. I do not ever want to put statements out to make anyone think that I know when the Bride is leaving. I do not know when it is going to happen, but I believe that it could be soon. I see what is going on in the Middle East now. Things are happening there every day. We see across the world tonight people are persecuting the Jews and countries are making the Jews leave and go home. Many Jews are exiting Russia right now. There are still many Holocaust Jews and other younger Jews in Russia that are leaving for Israel. We are getting close to something happening on the scene very soon.) Verse 4 again, “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.” He knew what they said, but at that instant it was taken away from him, because he was told not to write it. God has a way of showing you something, then He has a way of hiding it until later. What John heard those seven thunders utter will not be known until it is the right time. He was not given the opportunity to keep it in his mind because God erased it. I have told you about my dream that I had in which I remember only the number “23” and that the angel Gabriel was one of the ones talking. I do not know yet what it means. If it could mean next year [2023] or something else. But I was given other numbers in that dream, but they all left me except for “23”. I know it was Gabriel talking with another person because in my dream I was laying on the couch (I guess I was in a daze or something) and I heard the numbers being spoken and the one called the other “Gabriel.” God erased from my mind everything else, but someday I believe that I will know (or somebody will know) what those other numbers were. It had to do with something especially important for Gabriel to be the one speaking. If we look in the book of Daniel, Gabriel is an angel of numbers. Gabriel is the one who gives Daniel the numbers that he wrote about. I am not trying to predict anything or to say anything to put thoughts in the minds of people. I am just telling you what I have heard and what I have been privileged to understand in the scripture. I pray that it is a light to help someone. Remember it is seven men with one message. I repeat, seven men with one message! The seven-thunder message will take a few days to get to every living Bride person.

The Bride Is Leaving

Verse 5, “And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven.” He lifted up one hand. That is for the Bride. He is declaring to them that time shall be no more. I have gone over that. In Daniel Chapter 12 it is two hands raised. That is for the Jews and the Gentiles at the beginning of the three and a half years of tribulation. When that is over it is finished for them. Verse 6, “And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, (John is telling us that the angel (Jesus) is swearing by God because this is a message from God.) who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.” The Bride is getting ready to leave. As Bro. Jackson said, she will not know the day or hour, but she can know the year and month. That is putting it close. You will have the understanding to know when those thunders sound because you have that little bottle of oil. That is the spirit of God to everyone. We are a collective group, but we are individuals when it comes to God dealing with us. God must give each one that experience. It can happen to several people at once, just like it happened on the day of Pentecost, but to the Gentile Bride it has not often happened that way. It has been one here and one there. Just look at the end of Revelation Chapter 3. It says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” That is at the end of the Laodicean age. “He that will open the door, I will [give him that experience].” When Jesus swears “that there should be time no longer” (or no longer delayed), then the Bride is ready to leave. She is leaving at the end of Verse 6.

The Bride In Heaven

Let us go back to Revelation Chapter 5, here is where the sealed scroll is first mentioned. Verse 1, “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.” He sees that scroll at its very beginning. Before any of the seals are broken. Before 1963. “And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” Bro. Branham did not open the seals, he was given a revelation of the first six seals. Jesus Christ opened the seals. Bro. Branham was only the mouthpiece of those six seals being opened. Verse 3, “And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.” This could never have happened before 1963 because no man was able to even look upon the scroll. It was not yet time for any of them to be revealed. This scroll was in heaven, it was not on the earth. John describes it as a scroll, but it is a revelation of what is going on in heaven. Then in 1963 six seals were revealed. The events of the first three had already happened by 1963, and the fourth seal events had begun a few years before and will continue until the time of the end. Verse 5, “And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.” Jesus Christ is the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the Root of David. “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 (This is showing a heavenly scene which has not yet happened because the four beasts are not there yet. The four beasts are the Bride of Jesus Christ throughout time who have received the message from each of the seven church age messengers. Those messengers are represented in the four beasts: the lion, calf, man, and eagle.) as it had been slain, (That is our redemption.) having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” These are the seven Spirits sent forth into the earth. Verse 7, “And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, (This is the heavenly scene which will take place later. It has not happened yet because we are not there yet.) having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints.” That goes along with Chapter 8, Verse 3 that we just went over. Verse 8 again, “And when he had taken the book, (or the scroll) the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, (That is after the Bride has gone to heaven, when she is lifted from the earth. The elders will already be there.) and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the 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.” That connects with what I have just said. This is a heavenly scene when the Bride and the elders are there. Verse 10 again, “And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” It is already finished in the eyes of God! We just have to fulfill our part to get there. “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;” Millions and millions. Verse 12, “Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.” When these seals are all open, this is a finished work in the sight of God. “And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.” You can see that Chapter 5 goes with Chapter 8; Chapter 8 goes with Chapter 10. What we are waiting on right now is the readying of the Bride and the sounding of the thunders. Seven thunders will sound. That is going to happen. And the Bride will be ready to leave. Chapter 5 that I have just read to you shows you what you will be and where you will be. You are the Bride, and you are before the throne because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ! I appreciate you very much. May God bless you.

October 22, 2022
PM Service

The Beauty of
The Creation of God

It is a wonderful day and hour in which we live because we are getting close to something great happening. I was thinking about how the Bride is one happy family. The Lord is good; God is great. I went through the country yesterday and saw all the beautiful colors of the leaves: red, yellow, and orange, also the green mixed in there. I thought, what a beautiful scene that God has made. That shows that we are in a different time of the year. I have seen pictures that artists have drawn of fall colors. (You might not think so, but this is part of my message.) They have drawn beautiful pictures, but they did not paint the forest. God painted the whole forest. As far as you can see there is beauty. If you have ever been out in the western United States, you have seen the rock formations of red and many other colors which have been there for millions and millions of years. God has created beautiful things all over this country and the world. A couple of years ago some of us went down into Kentucky just to be able to see the beautiful mountains and things of nature in that area. Spring and Fall of the year are very beautiful. We praise the Lord for that. We have gone to Israel early in the year and have seen the beautiful flowers and things that God has placed there as you drive along the highways. It is all coming back as the Bible says that it will bloom as a rose. One of these days it will even be beautiful in the desert parts of Israel because God is going to shower His blessings upon it.

The Beauty of
The Family of God

I want to bring in some new scriptures relating to the Millennium that I came across in my studying. They may not seem like part of this message, but they really are. As we look at each scripture, we know that God is placing Himself in each setting. We thank Him for that and the grace of God that He is giving to us. I was reading in Genesis Chapter 2, and Hebrews Chapter 2. These scriptures will explain what I am talking about. We may not know it, but the Millennium is in there. When we look at Genesis, we know that it is the beginning. The way the earth looked then is the way it would have looked now if sin had not caused the earth to be cursed also. Sin caused the whole thing. Adam was created to till [plow] the ground and to take care of it. He was not made to be a farmer, but he was made to take care of the little part that God had put him in. He would have enjoyed growing the things that God had given him, because there would have been no weeds and no briars, or things of that nature. God put a curse upon the ground that Adam had to endure. God told Adam that he would have to work to eat ‘by the sweat of his face.’ Before sin there would have been no perspiration because God was protecting the earth from the Sun with His great umbrella. Bro. Jackson went over that with wonderful messages about the beauty of the creation of God. Speaking of the creation of mankind six thousand years ago. We know that somewhere before our creation, Satan messed up things and God cursed the earth with the Ice Age and destroyed that pre-historic animal kingdom. But in His mind was the plan to create a new kingdom, which we will see in Hebrews Chapter 2. We will see from Hebrews what all comes about in the new kingdom, to show that it will be beautiful again. Man has never reached the potential that God gave him, but he will at the end of the Millennium. Then all the people and the earth will go into the Eternal Age in a beautiful and perfect state. We should be looking forward to that. I know we go on vacations and can see the current beauty that God has given us, but one of these days we will be more interested in the beauty of the family of God than we are of anything else. When the church gets ready, there will be beauty in it. It will be harmony, because God is harmony, and His family will be in harmony. The ministry first, then the saints of God.

The Ministry Cares For You

I know there are saints of God out there that are very hungry for the fellowship that we have. They are receiving something online and through The Contender, but they are not in our audience yet. We pray that there will be several of you here during the next convention time. So that we will be able to see you and greet you, shake hands with you, and be able to draw strength from each other. Because that is what it is all about, it is not a one man show. Each of you is important to the family of God. If you are reading this with a sincere heart and an interest in the Truth, then you are important to the family of God. If you are not interested, then that would be very disappointing. I know there are a lot of people that are interested. We can see that many people are watching online, and we receive communications from all over the world. From Europe, the Middle East, and other places, even from Russia. We thank God for our brothers and sisters wherever they are. If you are never able to be here, we pray that you can still be a part of us anyway. We thank God for His wonderful grace. If you can be here, I know that the brothers and sisters of our assembly will show you the love of God. As I said earlier, we are one happy family of God. I appreciate that. I do not say it much from the pulpit, but I would like to say to the brothers and sisters that take care of the natural needs of our visitors during conventions, “I appreciate you!” We thank the Lord for you because you are a part of something that is very important. We thank God that you are showing unity in the kitchen and in other ways, just as we know that unity is shown in the ministry. It must. We must see eye to eye. I am not saying we preach the same message one after the other, but it is the same scripture. It is the same Word, but there are five different ministries. God has put them here for the edifying of the church until we all, ALL, come into the unity of the faith. Not just one person, but every one of us is seeking for unity in the faith. That is my purpose and my aim in this hour we are living in. I know that you love the Lord, and that you are striving to do whatever is necessary to be a part of the family. If there is something wrong in your life, commit it to the Lord. Let Him have it; He is forgiving. Many times, we think God is looking down and condemning, but He did something to take that condemnation away. People will read the Old Testament and say, well God just condemned everything. God was trying to set the people of the Jewish nation on a straight course. So that He could have a people that are called by His name, the Jewish people. That was just a part of the furtherance of the gospel. When you read the whole Book, you see how God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son. He loved the world, but He does not love what man has done to it. It all started out in the garden. The sin of one man and one woman brought about what has happened down through time: the flood and all. Yet they are not responsible for what we do. We know that all those things came through the sin of Adam, but there was another Adam that came. The second Adam, Jesus Christ, came to take that sin all away. God has put something in the heart of man to yearn for Him. But many people such as Native American Indians have gone astray and worshipped many gods, the sun, the moon, the wind, and more. Columbus and many others that followed tried to bring Christianity to the natives. This nation was founded on Christian principles by the first ‘fathers’ of our country and by others, like Abraham Lincoln, who believed in God. Now there are people in this country that are desecrating statues of Columbus, Lincoln, our founding fathers, and many others. They are making the men that started our country out as a Christian nation to be bad spots (blemishes) on our history. But one of these days they will find out who was right. Bro. Jackson used to say, “Stick around, you will find out who is right.” We are still here; we are still preaching the same gospel that Bro. Jackson and Bro. Branham preached. We are not preaching the same words. We are not trying to quote, quote, quote. That is not always edifying. There are things you can quote that will be a help and benefit, but you cannot live on quotes. You must live on the Word because the Word is alive. God has given us a lively hope and allowed us to have fellowship with one another. If we have fellowship one with another, the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us from all sin. I have spent some time to let you know that we do care. The ministry cares about your soul and about your salvation. The Bible teaches us to work together, work together for good to those that love God. It is all based in Jesus Christ. Nobody else gave their life for your salvation, only Him. Nobody else can save you, only Him. Your mother, dad, brother or sister, grandfather, grandmother, cannot save you. You are a part of them, but when our change comes in the rapture and resurrection, they will be your brothers and sisters. It does not seem like it now, but we are all going to be one family. I appreciate God for that.

The Will of God, Not of Man

Let us go to Hebrews Chapter 2, Verse 1, “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;” It was first spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ, then it was confirmed by the apostles to us. Because they were preaching the same thing that Jesus taught, but they had their own message from the Word of God. It was not a different message, but it was to build on to what Jesus taught. As we know Jesus was born under the law. His entire life and even His death were under the law. It was spoken in the law what He should suffer. But it was a new era of time, so Paul and others had to bring it out of the law. Verse 4, “God also bearing them witness, (Paul is talking about the first apostles. He was not there, but it did not take him long until he had the full story.) both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?” According to His will. Man has always jumped ahead of the will of God. God has a will for each of us, but man tries to make something of his own will and jumps out in front of His will. We have read about the Laodicean church, and we see it all around us in these big organizations. When you look at these big organizations, you are looking at something that fits Laodicea completely. These big churches even have Starbucks or McDonalds coffee in them. For people to be able to get coffee while service is going on. When they run out of coffee, then they run out of church. That is the only thing they get to drink or eat; they do not get any gospel. But Starbucks, or whoever is in there, is not what the gospel is about. Praise The Lord, the gospel is about good news.

God Places Man
Over His Works

Verse 5, “For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” He did not put the world to come in the hands of angels. “But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?” Here he is talking about mankind, not about Jesus Christ. He is talking about the beginning of our creation. We will find that out as we read on. Verse 7, “Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; (Speaking of the earthly physical man, not Jesus Christ. This goes back to Genesis Chapter 2. God has put in man a spirit if man would listen to that spirit. If man had listened at the beginning, he would have had eternal life. That is what God meant for man. But God knew that man would fail, that is why He put a law there for him to choose. It says in another scripture, Joshua Chapter 24, “choose you this day whom you will serve.”) thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.” God put earthly man over the works of His hands. That will begin to be fulfilled in the Millennium and will be completed for the eternal age. If you read Isaiah 65, you will see the animal kingdom returning to what it once was. Adam had no fear of the animals when he was naming them. Verse 8, “Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.” All things (even death) will finally be put under mankind in the eternal age. But it is not so now. That is what Paul is talking about through Verse 8.

America Is Crumbling

But in Verse 9 he begins to talk about Jesus Christ. As we read on, “But we see Jesus, (He is who we want to see! We do not want to see the failure of man. We do not want to see how our own nation is crumbling. It is not because of mistakes being made by man; it is deliberate choices that they are making. Just like President Biden has sent a message to Saudi Arabia, asking them not to cut their daily oil production until after the midterm election [November 2022]. Because he is afraid of losing the House and Senate to the Republicans. If the Democrats keep both, they will not have any problem passing the terrible things that they want to bring about in our country. If the Republicans do not gain at least one of the two, then this nation is ruined. The only thing that will save the United States is George Washington’s vision. We know that it is coming, but we do not know when. But we are right on the edge of something. I am not just talking politics, but I am seeing what dirt the politicians are trying to sweep under the rug because there is no fear of God. They do not fear God, they curse Him. The One that is putting breath in their lungs, they are cursing Him. They are saying that He does not exist, that they do not need God. I need Him! I need God, I need Him every day because He is the One who puts breath in my lungs. He is the One who gives me peace of mind. He is going to have a beautiful church one of these days. I believe the perfection that we are looking for is closer than we think. Jesus is coming back for a perfected Bride. I am not talking about your body. It will have weaknesses and sicknesses. We are going to have these things right up until just before the rapture, then many of these physical problems we have will be gone. I believe that the dreams that brothers and sisters have had concerning what is to take place in the Bride will come to pass. I am not a person to just believe in every dream, but I believe there are righteous dreams that will be fulfilled. I praise the Lord for that.)

Jesus, The Captain of
Our Salvation

Verse 9 again, “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, (That He would suffer death is the only way in which Jesus was made lower than the angels. When He came into the world, the Bible said let all the angels praise Him. You see when the angels told the shepherds of His birth the angels sang heavenly songs because Jesus was born. The angels had been looking for His birth because He was going to benefit them too. The devil will be put under foot, and the angels are going to be happy about that too. The angel, Michael, and his warring angels have been involved in the wars in Israel since the Old Testament. They have to be partakers in the defense of Israel against the devil and his angels. That is a serious task!) crowned with glory and honour; (That is what we are doing now. He is being crowned with glory and honour in the hearts of the Children of God. I know He was crowned with a crown of thorns, but we are not continuing to put those thorns there. We are the ones helping to take the thorns and the nails away. The scars will remain there for a time for the Jewish nation, but the Bride is helping to take the scars away. Because we have accepted that blood offering.) that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” His death was enough for the whole world, but the world did not receive it. But such as did receive, to them gave He power to become the sons and daughters of God. Verse 10, “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation (Which is Jesus Christ.) perfect through sufferings.” If we are suffering, that suffering is helping us to be perfected, if we look at it in the right way. I am not talking about just stumping [or stubbing] your toe. People are going through sufferings mentally, physically, and pressures of life. All these things will be done away with. They are done away with now in Jesus Christ. If we trust in Him, He will help us with every pressure we face. The Word does not say that He will take everything away, but it does say that He will make a way of escape. He will help us to escape. He will open that little door just like He did for Peter when they had captured him. What did the angel do? He left the soldiers, and all the others chained up, but he loosed Peter. How could he do that? With God. God is in control. He is in control of your situation, my situation, if we can look at it right. We need to trust in Him for everything because He knows what we go through. Verse 10 again, “For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,” The sufferings we go through get us acquainted with Him because He has already gone through them. He went through more in that last day of His life than any man will ever go through, besides the many tests He had beforehand. This is an important time that we are living in. Young people do not take it lightly because we are heading toward something special. The beauty that I saw going through the countryside is the beauty that he wants to see in us. The song, “When He sees me, He sees the blood of the Lamb” says that.

The Beauty in
The Suffering of Christ

Verse 11 again, “For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,” In the eternal age Jesus will be our elder brother. In the Millennium, He will be King, and we will sit on smaller thrones as kings and priests. Every Bride person, not just men, will have their place in that kingdom. Nobody will be dissatisfied. There was a man that came through here a few years ago who said that whenever we get bored of looking at things here on Earth in that time, God will send us to another planet. That is not true. Man was made for the Earth, and the Earth was made for man. God will provide enough here on Earth to keep everyone satisfied and content. Verse 12, “Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.” Or in the midst of His body, I will sing praise unto thee. “And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.” He wants us to be a part of His body, just like we see in First Corinthians, Chapter 12. He wants us to be a part of what He is; He is not leaving us out. We are a part of Him and He is a part of us because we have His Spirit. Verse 14, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.” This is all for our edification. “And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” This is referring to people in the Old Testament. They had the law; they were continually fearing death because they were afraid that they were going to step outside the law. The law had so many requirements and they were to keep the whole law. If you did not keep the whole law, you could not be a part of the family of Israel. Paul and James both speak of the whole law. Verse 16, “For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.” That is what God told Abraham, “In thy seed…” (‘Seed’ is singular, Genesis 22:18). Jesus was that seed of Abraham. Now we are a part of that seed, a branch of that vine. We receive all the “nutrients” we need to help us, through that vine. The Holy Spirit is the nutrients. It is that living water that comes from God into our soul. Jesus represented himself as being that vine, but the vine was not without branches. Everything that grows on the vine has a purpose. Why are there leaves on the vine? Why not just grapes? The leaves are for protection (shade) and to show that the branches are still alive. Every once in a while, we need an experience from God to show that we are still alive. God is not coming back after the dried-up fruit of last year. We are fruit-bearing people, made to be partakers of that vine. Then when the Millennium comes, we receive our inheritance. You have an inheritance. Jesus paid it all. The only thing we must do is accept the down payment, then the down payment will take us to the full payment. In Verse 17 Paul mentions “brethren” again, “Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.” Everything He did on the cross was for mankind, for us. We are Gentiles, but we are grafted into the vine. We are getting our life from the vine. “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able also to succour them that are tempted.” Here we see the beauty in the offering of Christ. Everything that man had missed, He gained for us.

The Millennium Will Be
a Work in Progress

Let us read in Genesis, Chapter 2, Verse 7, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, (God did not speak man into existence. He did not just say, “Here is man.” Because He knew that man would fail. Therefore, He had to give a means for his body to go back to the dust. So, He formed him out of the dust. The Bible says that we are dust and to dust we shall return. Otherwise, the bodies of the dead would cover the earth many times over.) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” We do not know how much time passed while Adam was alone. We do not know how old he was before Eve came into the picture, but it was not the next day after Adam was created. But we do know that Adam was one hundred and thirty-five years old when Seth was born. There had to be some time pass for Adam to do the work that God had for him to do before the woman ever came on the scene. Verse 9, “And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, (As I said earlier, what beauty God created for us to see. God wanted us to see beautiful things, not just see the dry ground. The Bible says that He made the earth for man. But man keeps spending huge sums of money trying to get to other planets. That is never going to amount to a hill of beans [is of little importance] because they will never grow anything out there. Bro. Jackson used to say, “Man is not satisfied here. He wants the whole Earth and a ‘tater patch’ on the Moon.” Have you ever heard that saying?) and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” God did not forbid man to take of the tree of life until man sinned. He did forbid man to take of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but He never said anything about not partaking of the tree of life. The tree of life was waiting for man. But you read in the Book of Revelation that the tree of life will be available again when the Millennium starts. The tree of life will be there in the new paradise. Because the tree of life is speaking of the Holy Ghost. The tree of life is not a natural tree. It never was a natural tree. It is the Spirit of God. Then in the Millennium that tree will be there for those that accepted the Lord, even for the foolish virgins. They are not going to be left out, but they will have to go through something to get there. I would much rather be there with expectation, believing that there was something better waiting for me. Better than what I have here. Brothers and sisters may take vacations now, but there is something coming that is better than any vacation. The Millennium is not a vacation, it is to get us ready to go into the eternal age. The Millennium will be a work in progress. We will be getting the world and the people ready for the next life. The eternal age, where there will be no death. You read in Revelation 21 where there shall be no more death. As Paul says in First Corinthians, “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

As It Was, So It Is

I will read Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 9 again then skip down, “And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” God put those two trees there for a purpose. He wanted people to choose to know Him. He did not want a bunch of robots. God did not cause man to sin. He did not push them into sin. Man and woman sinned by their choice. As it is said, we are free moral agents. Like Joshua said to the tribes of Israel, “Choose you this day who you will serve.” Now I will go to Verse 15, “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” To take care of the garden. Sure, man had servants, the serpent was a servant. If he had remained in his rightful place, he would never have lost his arms and legs. But he tempted Eve to cause her to yearn for power and popularity. Over forty years ago women began to push their way into political positions in America. Some of the wives of the senators and congressmen rebuked them, saying women should not want that kind of life. Now there are over one hundred women in our Congress and Senate. And the thing that they push most for is abortion to be their legal right. And the men who could have stopped that years ago go right along with it. Now what does this world have? Abominations and all these other things that stem from the sin in the garden. As it was in the days of Noah, violence filled the earth, they ate, drank, married wives. We have that now! As it was in the days of Sodom. It is here now! This is the last generation that God will deal with. There will not be another generation. I am not saying there will not be another baby born. I am saying there will not be another generation raise up after this one. I have to believe the Bible. I have to believe Matthew 24. I have to believe Luke 17. Jesus said, “As it was, so shall it be” and here it is. We are living in it. Verse 16, “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” These so-called preachers will say that man did not die that day, so God lied. You deceitful people. I do not care how well known you are or how big of a church you have, you are the liar. [We have been taught that ‘in the day’ refers to one thousand years. The longest a man (Methusaleh) ever lived was 969 years. Thus, man did die in the ‘day.’] Verse 18, “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” This is the promise of Eve. The animal kingdom is not his help mate. They were created for the benefit of Adam, but they were not his help mate. “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: (This did not happen in just one day. It did not happen in one year. Adam had a job to do, and it is going to take a while to do it. After that job was done, then he got lonely.) and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” God gave him a responsibility. Do you not think that Adam had a revelation to be able to call a cow a ‘cow,’ or a horse a ‘horse’? God brought them before him to name them because he had that responsibility. We will still have responsibilities in the Millennium, and in the eternal age. As you read in Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 22, as long as the world stands there will be “seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night.” Back to Genesis 2:20, “And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.” It goes back to Verse 18 where he has no help mate. He now has the animal kingdom but that was not what he was longing for. He understood why there was a female and male of every animal he named. He saw the little ones that were born to them. But there was no one there with whom he could share his life. So, God formed a complete woman from a rib of Adam. She was not an infant; she was a woman taken out of the man. “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” He was asleep. I know when Adam woke up, he saw a beautiful woman. God makes no mistakes. He saw the beauty in a creature that God had made for him. God did not make her for the serpent. He made her for Adam. Adam had a love for her right from the start. Verse 23, “And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, (He could see the scar on his side where God had taken out his rib.) and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” We use these verses in the marriage vows when brothers and sisters get married. The beauty of marriage is in getting along. But these foolish men and women who mistreat one another and call each other names like “My old lady” (and worse) do not get along. Even the male and female animals know how to get along and to do what they are supposed to do. Man does what he is not supposed to do. Just as Jude calls them “brute beasts,” that is the right name for them. That is what we have in the world today, they have a part of that old nature of the serpent. May the Lord bless you. Let us pray.