Preached on September 04, 2022 – am service

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our last issue I spoke of a film I will show soon of different preachers who had been in meetings of Bro. Branham. They testify of all the things they had seen. They all said what they had seen and heard was undisputed. Many of them knew the people that had been healed. I knew some of the people that were touched and healed of different things that Bro. Branham had discerned by the Spirit of God and called out of the people.

God Is In Control

I will go back to my subject this morning concerning the Millennium. We will also look into the eternal age. I will use scriptures to present a message that I hope will be understandable to you. We know that God is in control of whatever needs to be done. We are living in such an evil hour. The president made a speech the other night (Ed. September 1, 2022) in which he condemned half of the country and called everyone that voted for Mr. Trump a degraded group of people. He talked like the MAGA (Make America Great Again) people are the ones that are destroying the United States Constitution, which is a complete lie. It was a very stern and ‘dark’ speech; even the backdrop they had was a deep blood red. Forty percent of the people in this country think that we are going to enter a civil war, because of the things that are going on. It is all the fault of the government. It did not have to be this way. Biden ran on a ticket of uniting the country. He is completely dividing it now. We are put into the MAGA group whether we like it or not. If you voted for Trump, then you are in that group that Biden was more or less calling fascists and everything else.

The Whole Armour of God

 

We are in the last days. Jonathan Cahn has written a new book, “The Return of the gods.” In it he talks about the gods that were in the Old Testament that caused Israel to fall. That they are the same gods that are in this country now, just before it falls. If the vision of George Washington is right, then there will be something happen in this country. I pray the Bride is gone before it happens, but we do not know that. We must arm ourselves in a spiritual way, according to Ephesians 6, starting in verse 10. It speaks about the warfare that we are in. To the saints of God, it is a battle of the mind. To America, it is a battle of hate and misery. There are two sides that are mad at one another. That is one half of the country mad at the other half. It is a shame it has to be that way, but America changed back in the 1960’s when they took prayer and the reading of scripture out of the schools. Things are even worse now. There is a national hospital in Washington D.C. that allows abortions for girls under eighteen without permission from an adult parent or guardian. Abortions can even be performed during delivery of a full-term baby. They are trying to thin out the population. This mostly affects the poor in rural areas or slum areas of big cities in America. The government does not want people like us in this country. The world does not want people like us. They want to practice these things throughout the world. God help America today! A nation that has once known God, that once lived with moral standards. We have never lived in a more evil time than we are living in now. The only way a person could not see this is if they just get in their basement and never see or hear the outside world. The things that we are seeing now are things that God has judged the world of before. Just like He did in Sodom and Gomorrah, just like He did when the flood came. America is standing in that type of place this morning. If something is not done, this nation is doomed. As Bro. Branham said in 1956, ‘If America does not straighten up this year, she is doomed.’ We have seen the downfall of it in the last sixty-six years. I am saying these things today as a warning. It is up to you to open your eyes to what is going on around you. The Bible teaches us that there would be wars and rumors of wars, but it said to be not troubled, these things must be. There have always been wars and plagues that have thinned the population throughout time. In 1918 the flu killed many millions of people. When a people turn against God, He can do whatever He wants to with the situation. Just because we are Americans does not make us privileged people. It is because we are children of God, and God is going to help His children. We find that in Isaiah, First Thessalonians, and many other scriptures. All these things are the beginning of sorrows.

 

The media keeps talking about the Wuhan laboratory in China. It has been discovered that the lab continues to create different diseases in mice and other animals. I wonder why they are doing that? Because China does not care how many of their people die, they just want the whole world to lose people along with them. They are willing to do that. And Mr. Fauci is involved as much in this as they are. He may have a big name in world health but behind that name he is a scoundrel. It is hard to say, but he has helped kill millions of people. Many people in America died because of the things they have deliberately let out in China. Bill Gates and others are behind it all. They feel that the world is overpopulated, and that billions of people should be eliminated. They think they are the ones who decide who should die. They are blaming cows for climate change, so they want to get rid of cows. They do not want you to have a burger to eat. This may sound funny, but it is the truth. Why are they so anxious to do these things? Because they know that if they can control the minds and senses of everybody, they are one step closer to doing whatever they want to do. The ministry is a beacon to show the people of God how to avoid these things. God has raised up a ministry, not just one minister but a ministry, and it is up to you to listen. No one else can listen for you and your family. You and I, as individuals, will have to listen to the Spirit of God to know just what to do and how to live. How to conduct our lives in a way that is pleasing to Him. When failures come (if we have done something we should not do or let something creep into our lives that we should not have) we must know how to reach out to God in prayer and ask Him to forgive us. Listen to the ministry, listen to those that are in charge. God has a ministry and different ministries in the body that are here to help you. Deacons and trustees who will help you. We have used the deacons here at various times to speak words to the people and it has always been encouraging words that they speak. We are in Indiana. We are not in Norway, South Africa, England, the Philippines, all over the world and across the United States, but the message goes out to them from this pulpit, and they listen. I feel humbled when I hear the testimonies of some of you that tell how much they depend on the Truth that comes through the ones from here and other countries that minister in this pulpit. There are always many places that are listening online. I pray that we can say something that will help you.

The Great White
Throne Judgment

I will go into the next scripture that I want to deal with in this message. I am going to start with Revelation Chapter 20. You might say, ‘How does Revelation 20 fit into this?’ We will have to go into it and see. Starting in Verse 10, “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” For ever and ever is a period of time. If hell was eternal, that would mean the people living within hell would have eternal life. That is not going to happen. Hell destroys all the wicked over a period of time. Sometime within the eternal age (which begins after the Millennium is over) God will get rid of hell. The torment is going to be longer for some than others. We went into Luke Chapter 12 the other day (Ed. August 2024 issue) where some would get few stripes, and some would get many stripes. That will be their judgment. If people have not been out here in all this ‘mess,’ then their punishment will be less. They may have been drinkers of alcohol, or whatever, but if they have kept to themselves, it will be less for them. But all these that are in these ruckuses (Ed. disturbances, controversies) today, it will be worse for them. Especially for those in the religious systems. God cares nothing for the religious systems. You see that in Revelation 17. He speaks of their immoral lifestyles, not moral, but immoral. You can go back to Revelation 19:20 and compare it with this tenth Verse of Chapter 20. Bro. Jackson went over that. It says the beast and the false prophet would be placed in the lake of fire at the beginning of the Millennium. He explained that it is the spirits of the beast and the false prophet that are cast into the lake of fire. These spirits are fallen angels that have caused havoc on the earth. The lake of fire is already there at the beginning of the Millennium. It is just a different dimension of hell. Because hell does not have all that stuff in it yet, but it will whenever the Millennium is over. The devil is not cast in there until Revelation 20:10 because he has another work to do right at the end of the Millennium. He will be loosed for a little season after the thousand years have expired. Verse 11, “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.”  God is going to do away with all the evil in the atmospheric heaven and the earth. Not the heaven where He is. There will be a time when the Millennium starts when people are going to be able to live on this earth in a decent way. God is going to get rid of anything that is not according to His will in the Millennium. He is going to give them time to change their minds and their ways. But if they do not, He is going to eliminate them. What I am reading here takes place after the Millennium is over.

 

Let me go over rulership in the Millennium again. I said there will be kings and priests, which will be men. The sisters will have positions of rulership. It is just that they will not be kings and priests. They will have their positions because of the life they have lived here. God is going to direct them into their positions. It is not something that is going to be taken lightly. The sisters will not be looked down on, but they will be just a step lower than what those kings and priests will be. But the scripture says that they will be in rulership.

The Second Death

In the Millennium, the Bride, and the other people in glorified bodies (which will be the great multitude) will not be known as male or female in their judgments. We live now as male and female, but then we will all be as children of God. God will not look at us as male and female then, as He does now. Because God is going to give each one of us a place in His great kingdom, and no one will be ashamed of their position. As you look at the scriptures, the Bride people (from thirty-fold to a hundred-fold) are the only people who can produce those nine spiritual fruits. Thirty, sixty, and a hundred-fold are all Bride people. There are no foolish virgins in that, and there is no great multitude in that. The fruits are part of the fruit that comes from the tree of life. The Holy Ghost is that tree of life in you. We are able in this time to live a good life, because we are the wife of the Bridegroom. We have that acknowledgment in the scripture. Verse 11 again, “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, (which is God) from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.” In other words, it is the atmospheric heaven and earth, there is no place for them anymore, because God has eradicated all the evil, just like He did in the flood. God got rid of that generation, and He is going to get rid of this generation. There will be a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness (2 Peter 3:13). This all comes about at the end of the Millennium and goes into the eternal age. Verse 12, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: (These books are the books of deeds of the ungodly, fallen people. These books have nothing to do with the Bride, the foolish virgins, nor the sheep people. Here is the other part…) and another book was opened, which is the book of life: (This book is the book of life. That also contains the names of those natural people that will go into the eternal age. Remember the rapture and the resurrection of the Bride has taken place prior to the seventieth week. Then at the end of that week (seven years), the people of the great multitude will be raised. The Bride will not be standing there at the end of the Millennium. “Another book, (which is the book of life, will be for those that live to go into the eternal age.) and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” Books (plural) again, they were judged out of those books. Why are they judged out of those books? It is the books of the deeds they have committed. The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books. In the books, not in the book. There is a whole lot in that verse right there. I hope you trust me to tell you the truth in this. Then he goes ahead in Verse 13, “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; (These are people that never lived for God, that drowned, maybe in wars or whatever. Their bodies are in the sea. God knows where every particle of every person is. It does not matter if they became fish food. God is going to bring that body back together. God is so meticulous, that is the best word I know. He is so meticulous that He knows every day that we live. He knows what we are thinking. Every day He knows our life. He can judge us on that. That is the reason Jesus told the disciples when they asked, ‘Teach us to pray.’ He told them to say, ‘Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. (He is talking about the Millennium and the eternal age.) Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ God never breaks His promise. Whatever is going on in heaven is what is going on in earth. Then He went ahead to say, ‘Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses.’ Trespasses are sins. We should never stand and tell God how good we are. We should confess what we need to be in His sight, because He looks right down into the heart.) Verse 13 again, “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell (Now hell must give up its dead, which are those spirits, and the devil, and all the fallen angels. Those spirits that have been chained there all through time will come right back out for their final judgement. No doubt the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, and all the desert places throughout the earth, are places where the devil and his angels worked such sin and degradation in the Prehistoric animal kingdom (before there were humans on earth) that God will bring it out in those books of deeds. The animal kingdom is God’s, but he allowed the devil and his angels to place sin within it. Now in our time, man is trying to bypass God and make human beings out of flesh. Even if they were able to make anything in a laboratory, it would never have a soul. Man cannot put a soul in something they manufacture.) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” It repeats, ‘according to their works.’ That shows He is not going to judge everybody the same. Verse 14, “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. (Those brought up out of death and hell, and out of the sea, will be cast into the lake of fire. He brings them up for judgment. He is not going to put them in there without them seeing what they have done. He will not show them their deeds individually, He will show them all at once. God will lift the great curtain of time and show the lives of the ungodly people.) This is the second death.” The first death is when they died throughout time. All these were dead, none of these were alive. Death and hell are dead as far as God is concerned. There had to be a death beforehand for there to be a second death. “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” It goes back to the book of life. The ones found written in the book of life here are those that will go into the eternal age from the Millennium. But whosoever was NOT found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. As I said, everybody will not receive the same punishment.

According To His Doing

Now I will go into Chapter 21. Do not read Chapter 21 as though it does not pertain to Chapter 20. The first eight verses (except for verse 2) are about the judgments and about the ones that go into the eternal age. Verse 1, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: (This is talking about the eternal age.) for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; (Again, that is the atmospheric heaven and earth. He is not talking about where God lives, there is no sin up there, it cannot get there. Paul discussed it as being the third heaven.) and there was no more sea.” That is, no more oceans. By the time the Millennium is over, God will have evaporated the oceans (or taken them into the heavens, that is what evaporation is). With fires and everything that requires water, it looks like it would deplete the water of the earth. It does not. The oceans are still there just as much as they ever were since the flood. The flood caused there to be oceans. Even Bro. Jackson mentioned that there were only seas before the flood. After the Millennium there will be bodies of water, but there will be no more oceans. As I said, a great evaporation will take place throughout the Millennium and take the water right back up to where it was at one time before the flood came (Ed. See Genesis 7:11). Verse 2 goes with Verse 9, “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” God placed this verse there as a distraction, as far as man is concerned, but not as far as God is concerned. He is putting Verse 2 in ‘early’ to wake us up to revelation. When you go from there to the ninth verse and on, that tells you about that new city that we have talked about (Ed. The Millennium Reign, Part 1, January 2024). Concerning the eternal age, Verses 3-8 go with Verse 1. Verse 3, “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, (If we read further in Chapter 21, Verse 22, we see there has been no tabernacle for the Bride as far as an earthly building is concerned, but we have a tabernacle in God. It says God and Jesus (the Lamb) are the temple (or tabernacle). We go to The Father and to Him who are the tabernacle. The scripture explains it in this way, that we are the temple of God, which the Spirit of God dwells in. Verse 3 again, “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, (We now are with Jesus, our elder brother.) and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” There is no mention of Christ in this because He has already fulfilled His Millennial work. Then He becomes our elder brother as Bro. Jackson taught from the eighth Chapter of Romans. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. This is the same thing right here that we are looking at. In other words, God is going to tabernacle with man, just like He is with the angels now. Whenever it mentions men here, it is talking about both genders. Now in Verse 4 it says, “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; (Speaking of the natural Millennial people that have escaped judgment and gone into the eternal age. They have seen some of their loved ones doomed in that final judgment. Know ye not that we (the Bride) shall judge the earth… that we shall judge angels? This is what the sixth chapter of 1^st Corinthians says.) and there shall be no more death, (This is the eternal age, not the Millennium. There is death in the Millennium. Let us read the scripture right, to get the right meaning from it.) neither sorrow, (There is sorrow in the Millennium,) nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: (There is going to be pain in the Millennium.) for the former things are passed away.” All these things, death, and hell and all, are passed away, the former things are gone. We are in the eternal age. Verse 5, “And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.” The earth will be cleared of all degradation during the Millennium. There will never be another war, there will never be another evil of any kind. You are in the eternal age, and the tree of life is there! I say that the tree of life will be there because there will be babies born in the eternal age, but it will not be like it is now. It will be more like the animal kingdom is. The mother will nurse that child for three or four years. The parents will care for just that one child for several years, then they will have another one. That is the way it was meant to be. In the third chapter of Genesis God curses the woman and says He will greatly multiply her sorrows and conceptions. Verse 6, “And he said unto me, It is done. (That concludes everything that God has planned through the Millennium and into the eternal age. God has finished his work. This earth will be as beautiful as it was before. The flood came and destroyed much of the works of man. Buildings and things of that nature. God did not put meaningless filler words in His Word. It is all according to His doing.) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Of that tree of life, freely. “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” That would include sons and daughters. Our sisters do not have to think that they have nothing to do in the Millennium. It is up to God as to what their positions are then. Now in Verse 8 he refers to the judgment in Chapter 20, “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, (This has nothing to do with the eternal age, this goes back to judgment before the eternal age starts.) and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: (This goes back to the lake of fire) which is the second death.” The same thing as in the 20^th chapter, “the second death.” The Bible is not a mixture of thoughts. The Bible takes one part and goes to another part, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, that is what brings the picture out.

Abba, Father

Let us go to Romans Chapter 8, that I mentioned earlier. Starting with Verse 14, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” (sons and daughters of God) “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, (We have been adopted. He is talking to the Romans; so, he is talking to the Gentile people.) whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” He is saying we cry, “Abba Father,” which is putting God in His rightful place in our lives. God is more than just a father; God is our Savior through Jesus Christ. That is where the trinity gets it wrong. They do not know how to discern between Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Jesus said, I am come in my Father’s name. Jesus Christ is God manifested in human flesh. What do I mean by that? God is manifested in Jesus, in that life was brought forth to people by the Spirit of God which Jesus received when He was about thirty years of age. God in Him is what made Him to be the Christ. So what God was in Jesus, Jesus is in you. He is the hope of glory, which makes us the Bride of Jesus Christ. Verse 16, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, (People say, ‘Well, it is not in feeling.’ If you try to tell me that, you came too late, because I know what that feeling is. You cannot have that connection with the Spirit of God without a feeling. Every born-again person knows what that feeling is. Because His spirit bears witness with your spirit. Your spirit is the life within you that God gave you but is different than God’s spirit. Then there had to be a connection between your spirit and that Spirit, for that Spirit to come in and live inside you. Now we are not our own, we are bought with a price, sealed until the day of redemption. The devil cannot get into a vessel that is sealed. He will hound you; he will aggravate you; he will place things before you, but that does not take away your salvation. You just resist the devil, and he will flee from you). “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, (If you are a child of God,) then heirs; heirs of God, (God wants a people that worship Him, then when that eternal age comes, there is an undoubtable connection. I cannot express the way I feel about it, because it is deeper than what the mind of man can fathom. It must be experienced. Verse 17 again, “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; (Bro. Jackson preached a sermon on that. We will be joint heirs with Christ in the eternal age. We have not received our inheritance yet.) if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” Glorified together with Him, it does not say ‘with Him,’ but that is what Paul is talking about. “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (In that eternal age.) Verse 19, “For the earnest expectation of the creature (That is who we are, His creation.) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” The manifestation of the sons of God will be in the eternal age. “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, (He is talking about his time, and our time. We groan, waiting for a change to come, because we see so much turmoil, so much degradation, and all. The adoption goes back to Verses 15 through 17 where he was talking about heirs and joint heirs.) to wit, (witness) the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” We do not see it, because we are not close enough yet. We see the evidence of it, we see the promise of it, the hope of it. This is what we push for, we keep pressing on because we know that it is there. It is like something we reach for each day, knowing that it is coming. That is as simple as I can make it. I have more to get into next time. Prayer.

September 08, 2022
PM Service

I have scriptures that I want to go into, which will coincide with what has happened in these last days. The Laodicean age started around 1906. It built from there on into the healing movement. God dealt with different ones that came out of that healing move.

Only One Part of
Malachi 4:6 in Luke 1:17

I have different scriptures that I want to bring out. The first will be the book of Luke, Chapter one. God gave Bro. Jackson a revelation from this scripture while he was still in the Methodist Church that caused him to realize that there was to be another move of God in this last day. It was one cold February morning (before he even met Bro. Branham) that his Bible fell open to this scripture in Luke. He saw something in the seventeenth verse of chapter one, and he determined that the Elijah spirit must come again. I will read that part to you, beginning in Verse 13. This is Gabriel, an angel of the Lord, meeting with Zacharias. “But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.” Everything Gabriel is saying is against what would have been expected for that family. ‘John’ had never been used as a name by their kindred. Zacharias was old, Elizabeth was barren and past the age of childbearing. (Much as Abraham and Sarah were.) It is likely that John lost his parents at an early age, maybe as a teenager, because he grew up as a wilderness person. The spirit that was on Elijah, Elisha, John the Baptist, they were all men of the wilderness. So was Bro. Branham. This coincides with their lifestyles as they moved into their ministries. I am sure if we could have seen John the Baptist when he was a little boy, that he was an odd child. When God deals with this type of men, they have unusual beginnings. So it was with Elijah, so it was with John the Baptist, so it was with William Branham. Of course, that spirit of Elijah was to come five separate times and there remains one more. I remember Bro. Branham talking about Elijah as a wilderness man, that he did not really associate much with people. He would say what God had him to say, then he would hide out. But Bro. Branham said the name ‘Elisha’ indicates he was a type of the church. He mixed with people more than Elijah did. His name is not a hard name like Elijah. God knows what He is doing whenever He calls someone. Verse 14, “And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.” We read when that happens later in this chapter when Mary visits Elisabeth. Verse 16, “And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, (That is Elijah. This is what Bro. Jackson read, then he read the rest of that verse. It did not quite match up with what Malachi said in Chapter 4, Verse 6. Then he saw there must be another man come with the spirit of Elijah to fulfill the second part of Verse 6. Gabriel just quoted the first part of the verse.) to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (Remember that phrase is in Malachi.)  and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” This last part that Gabriel speaks is not in Malachi. Verse 18, “And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, (Something is missing in the thinking of Zacharias, because he is rebuked by Gabriel for not believing.) that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to show thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, (Not able speak, because of his unbelief.) until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.”

Two Parts of Malachi 4:6

Now I want to go back to Malachi 4 and pick it up from there. Verse 5, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great… (There are two comings there. The coming of the ‘great (day)’ which would be when Jesus came.) and (a conjunction) dreadful day of the Lord.” Which would be our day. There are the two comings, before the great, and before the dreadful day of the Lord. “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers (which would be the Old Testament prophets) to the children, (which would be the Pentecostal children: Peter, James, John, all those disciples at the time of Christ, and Paul and many others.) and the heart of the children to their fathers, (That would be in our day, ‘the heart of the children to their fathers,’ there is the part that was not mentioned in Luke Chapter one. Gabriel mentioned half of it, but did not mention the other half. He shall turn the heart of the Old Testament prophets to the children. The Pentecostal children were able to understand through revelation what the prophets were talking about. From Moses on through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and all the ‘minor’ prophets, as they called them. Then the heart of us, the children, to their Pentecostal fathers. The Pentecostal children became our fathers in this day. The day of the prophet messenger, as you will hear some say. Those are the third and fourth comings of that Elijah spirit.) lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” This was all to happen before judgment came. I stand here to defend this in the Name of the Lord! You cannot get rid of scripture by trying to erase it or rewrite a new message. There is only one message in the Bible. That message is summed up as Jesus Christ being The Saviour. He is our Lord, and our Saviour. We see there had to be an introduction for each of His two comings. The first introduction was John the Baptist. In this day as it says, ‘lest the earth be cursed,’ God sent a prophet messenger, William Branham. There was no one since the ministry of Jesus Christ and the early days of the apostles, until this time, which has ever matched what God did in the hour in which we live. We have been brought back to a truth because God has kept His word. He said that He would turn the hearts of the children to their Pentecostal fathers. The children at His first coming, became our fathers, by the Word of God. When the apostles began to die off, men like Polycarp, Irenaeus, then Martin, became some of the last men that had any connection with the true ministry of the apostles. Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John while he was alive, and Irenaeus was a disciple of Polycarp. So, Irenaeus knew what was taught and he taught it the same as the apostles did. But then it began to go downhill until it got to a certain place and God began to bring it back.

Third and Fourth Comings
of The Elijah Spirit

We will go into that in the book of Matthew. Keep in mind: “…he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” Now understand that we are the children of the Pentecostal fathers. That is exactly what we are looking at. In Matthew Chapter 17, I understood something very soon after I left the Methodist church. I could not understand why some people in this message could not see it. When I talked to them about it, it was just a surprise to them. I guess they did not think that anyone else could ever know anything, but God did show me something here. The last verse of Chapter 16 will be an introduction to the rest of it. Verse 28, “Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.” Chapter 17, Verse one, “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart.” Jesus had disciples that He trusted for a reason. He knew that He could tell Peter, James, and John not to tell a secret that He had, and they would not tell it to anybody. “And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.” (This is also mentioned in the ninth chapter of Luke, and the ninth chapter of Mark.) “And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.” What are they talking to Him about? They are talking about His death and resurrection. Verse 4, “Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.” See? It is as though they had been asleep and woke up and are troubled. “While he yet spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.” God is speaking out of that cloud. God often used a cloud in the Old Testament, and here He does also. Verse 6, “And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.” They were mightily afraid. “And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man; save Jesus only. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?” There is something here, when I read it back in 1963, the Spirit gave me an understanding. Verse 11, “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.” He said, Elijah truly shall come. Listen to what it says here. “But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, (There are two comings: Elias shall come, and Elias has come already. Let me go over that again. “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come and restore all things.” ‘Shall,’ that is future tense. “But I say unto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.” ‘He shall come’ and ‘has come already,’ you see the two comings there.

 

New Revelations and
Old Truths

Now I want to go to Matthew 13. (It is a funny thing that people will witness and testify to what they saw when they were around Bro. Branham and grew up in the message, but deny it now, and say there is nothing to it. They say it is a cult.) Jesus uses ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto…’ in verses 44, 45, and 47. I will go to verse 47. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind.” That was the Pentecostal move in the later stages. The message of Bro. Branham called people out from the Catholic, Protestant, Jesus Only, Assemblies of God, Methodists, Baptists, and all denominations. They all came to see Bro. Branham. The Lord told him when he started, (from Second Timothy, Chapter 4) ‘Preach the word; …for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; …do the work of an evangelist…’ The Lord told Bro. Branham that is what would happen. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Which, when it was full, (It had to get full. When 1963 came along the net was full.) they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.” Who are ‘they’ that drew to shore and sat down to sort? It is the ministry that God has raised up, from the time of William Branham, and Bro. Jackson. Ministers who have survived all this persecution and are able to stand and proclaim what God did and what God is going to do. We are not through! The mercy of God is not through; the revelation of God is not through. The things that God will do in miraculous ways are not through. He is saving this for the time that we are living in. There are people here tonight that will see this happen, just hold on a little longer. They gathered the good into vessels, this has been happening in the Eagle Age. Under the ministry of William Branham and from there on, even until the end of this age. Verse 49, “So shall it be at the end of the world: (Or the end of this age, until God is finished dealing with people.) the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.” He says, ‘sever.’ Did you ever see anyone sever something such as a fish head? You cut it off. When God, through ‘the angels,’ severs something it no longer exists spiritually. That does not mean their life is over. But that means whenever God severs something, it is finished. He does that by His ministry. We are not out here cutting off heads or promoting that. It is the spiritual work of the angels of the Lord. Verse 50, “And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: (That part is at the final judgment.) there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe (That is the five-fold ministry, which Bro. Branham said would be in operation at the end time. I had it expressed to me one time by someone in the ‘message move’ (let me put it that way), that there is no one else but Bro. Branham. They do not believe that there is any other ministry but that of Bro. Branham. They still believe he is coming back again to have that tent ministry. Verse 52 again, “Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe (Every scribe, more than one.) which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man (A man, singular.) that is an householder…” (Bro. Jackson said when he first went to hear and see Bro. Branham, he started in Genesis and finished in Revelation. He was able to take things from the Old Testament and bring them into the New. That is exactly the ministry that Bro. Branham was given. He was an Old Testament type prophet. That is the reason his ministry is mentioned in Malachi, because Malachi was an Old Testament prophet.) “…Therefore every scribe which is instructed (Instructed, not just any man who can pop up with something. If you are instructed, then you are learning something. God has given the ministry much to learn in this hour, and we are sharing what we are learning with you.) unto the kingdom of heaven (We are living in the kingdom of heaven – a period of time; the Kingdom of God is within us.) is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.” New revelations and old truths. That is exactly what He is talking about. We have the privilege to enjoy the things that God has used in this hour, starting with the ministry of William Branham.

Testimonies About
William Branham

 

(At this point in his sermon Bro. Allen plays a video titled:  Testimonies About William Branham. See: fachurch.org, Bro. Allen’s Archive Index, 9-8-2022, The Millennium Reign, Part 18, @ 1:21:49) 

 

The following is Bro. Allen introducing the video at the beginning of his sermon.

 

I am playing this video tonight because of the things that have come out against the ministry of Bro. Branham. If you are in doubt about anything, listen to these people. They were in the services of Bro. Branham or received first-hand accounts. They did not understand the revelation of the message as we do, but they tell what happened when they were there. You will not hear any of them say that what he said was ever incorrect. The things that the angel of the Lord revealed to him about the people he talked to were always right, he never missed. You may know who some of these people are. At least three of them are still alive. Near the end of this film, you will see an interview between a woman and a man that are still on television today. Bro. Branham called out the woman and told her that she would have a baby. She did ten years later. Today she and her daughter (that baby) have a television ministry. The film uses actors to play the parts of Bro. Branham and the woman to show a little of what happened. This woman and several others will tell what happened to them in meetings of Bro. Branham.

 

I know when Bro. Cox was called out and his baby daughter was healed of heart trouble in February 1965, we were sitting in the gymnasium at Parkview school here in Jeffersonville. He was sitting at the back right of Bro. Branham who mostly faced the auditorium. There was a crowd in the auditorium that overflowed into the gymnasium. Bro. Branham was on the platform between the gym and auditorium preaching from one side to the other. Just two days before that service in that same gymnasium, he called out another person by the name of Charles Mitchell, who came to that meeting with his friend, Ernest Fulcher. (Ernest Fulcher was a preacher from Virginia who came here years ago. He left us, but he had been here for several years in the sixties and seventies.) Bro. Branham called Charles Mitchell out and told him his name, where he was from, that he was a coal miner, and that he had cancer in his left lung. Bro. Branham called him out and told him to go back home and be well. He lived twenty more years!

 

The reason I do this tonight is to combat what has come against this truth, the message that we have heard. I know there are a lot of things that have come about that have brought shame and disgrace to Bro. Branham. Some that were close to him brought disgrace to him because they were out for the loaves and the fishes. They did get that, but they did not get much else, even his family members. Bro. Jackson talked to Billy Paul at different times about things that he allowed to go on, and the stand that he was taking. I know that the pastor there after Bro. Neville died said from the platform that Bro. Branham was Jesus Christ. I know he said it because I heard it. We know that is a foolish statement. Bro. Branham spoke against this belief when it started in Canada. He said he would rather be a quitter that to be an antichrist. He was scheduled to be in Canada but came off the field and showed up in Jeffersonville to dispute that and to let people know where he stood. About three o’clock the next morning, different preachers and people who had been a part of that foolishness were on his doorstep. When they did that, then Bro. Branham thought that spirit would die. I remember him telling about it. He said he saw a vision that this poisonous snake was in the bushes, he shot it and felt like he had given it a deadly blow. But then he said he saw it crawl off into the waters (waters represent people.) As soon as Bro. Branham died, this thing elevated again, to the point that people believe that. There was at least one preacher that, when presented with The Bible and one of the church age books of Bro. Branham, and asked, ‘Which would you choose?’ said, ‘I would have to lay my Bible down and choose this [Church Ages book].’ Bro. Branham was not responsible for that, no matter what they want to say! They have degraded his name and brought him low. I stand here tonight, having seen some of the things that happened under Bro. Branham’s ministry. God allowed me and others that are here to do that. God has let me and them live to see this day when all this antichrist stuff has come about. Nothing but an antichrist spirit! When you speak against the Holy Ghost, you speak against what God has done. Those who have spoken against this Truth are going to have a problem that will be hard to get rid of and will follow them.

 

Conclusion

These were not followers of the true message of Bro. Branham, but they are people who saw what happened. There were at least three of them that testified that these miracles had not been done since the days of Jesus and the early apostles. I did this to bring about something that will help strengthen you if this spirit ever comes against you. Prayer.

To be continued in next issue…