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The Seventh Seal and Seven Thunders: Now we come to the Tenth Chapter of Revelation which puzzles almost all of us. You may ask "why Should not God come just like He came to create in the beginning"? Why didn't you ask this question about Jesus Christ in Virgin's womb? God has to fulfill every prophecy uttered by the true prophets. He did not come to break but to fulfill. In other words, what God spoke through the prophets, as they were moved or carried away by the Spirit of God, should be fulfilled by Him, as otherwise He is not true. Now John sees a Mighty Angel. Pople say this is Christ and God; of course it is corret in one way. Our Lord in the Father's throne, who even as a baby was called the everlasting Father, is Almighty God and He gradually descends on the body members of the Bride through the End - time Messenger (not the end - time Seventh Church Age Messenger or the Seventh Angel). God then becomes the Mighty Angel after meeting the Bride on the SKY IMMORTAL i.e. Word of God. The Roaring of this Angel signifies God Almighty in the Temple of the Son of Man or Bride. This clearly shows God coming down, since all the signs (Rev 10 : 1) signify God. These signs of clouds, brightness of face like sun with flames of fire, voice which thunders, legs like pillars of fire, and rainbow on the head are all nothing spiritual but should occur literally in this world and their significance revealed only to the Bride. The modern people do not believe that the body will put on immortality, and think that Bride will have to go by ship and plane to Mount Olives and fight for the Jews etc. But God means what He says. The Gentiles expect to see God with signs of nail-pierced hands but this sign is only for the Jews. For the Gentile Bride, the clouds and rainbow signs are given to help them find out the door to immortality. These should be fulfilled literally. Thare are many self-styled messengers saying that everything was finished after the prophet (William Branham) ; but they are all wrong. It is like the dispute among the elders in Moses' time (Numbers 17 : 2-10). Aaron's rod budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds i.e. vindicated. Then all the murmurings and division among the people ceased (Verses 5 and 8). In the same way the Bride Age, having a capstone message, is a great mystery hidden and when God comes on His Messenger, whoever it is, he should have the supernatural vindications stated here; the divisions, murmurings and doubt, if any, among the Bride should cease immediately. The others who are not in the Bride will say this (Rev 10 : 1) only typifies Christ in symbol, so it can never be a reality. But many people have observed that wherever this Bride Message is preached in sincerity, it has the mighty vindication of thunders and lightning since the clouds and pillar of fire are promised for the Bride with literal fulfilment (Isaiah 4 : 5). Jesus does not come wearing a long robe and with beard etc. but these signs. O ! Bride, watch for these signs. When anyone, who is not on God's word, approaches the Bride and obstinately tries to resist the Move of God, these signs will not show up over the Bride's and the Messenger's residences since they are not meant for such person. Therefore, how can he know the Bride's move and the coming of the Son of Man ? In fact, the selection of the Bride is most secret. The Bride gets visions and dreams to strengthen her. Man has to do nothing here - "Stone Untouched by Human Hands'. The selection of the Bride members is going on secretly and they are getting rid of everything pertaining to this world to be ready for the flight with no weight to carry along with. O My ! I shudder to think that the TIME for Rapture is so very close and also the onset of Tribulation so near. The Lord will do a quick work. O ! Bride of the Lamb, be reverent and humble. God has visited this generation on Moon Landing Day, but the Laodicean Age people, with their Seventh Church Age Messenger, only see like Moses - 'Backside' i.e. human side of the Bride Messenger and try to attack and crucify him amd slander him as Anti-Christ or false anointed one. On the other hand the Bride, like Joshua and Caleb, sees the front side (the divine nature) of God coming down on the Messenger (Exodus 33 : 11-23). Now the door is open since the Bridegroom has come to Earth to possess the Bride. This door is now seen through the cloud and rainbow vindications; when the selection of the Bride becomes complete in any particular area and her faith is firmly established on the Son of Man, the vindications show up only on and off for she is able to believe even without seeing. However, when any seed approaches, these signs could be seen again with a greater intensity for strengthening that particular seed. When the vindications in any particular area cease to show up regularly, it indicates that the door is getting closed in that zone with the Bride inside. As soon as the complete Bride members all over the World get an undaunted rapturing faith and ready in all respects to be transformed, the door will be closed once for all. Rush in when the door is still open. No use of crying after it is shut. The Bride gets a revelation of the Lord coming down before the door is shut, but the others who have to go through tribulation will come to know of it only after the closing of the door when they will cry and beg the Bridegroom (Lord Jesus Christ) saying LORD OPEN TO US'. They no doubt get a belited revelation and rush to get in but will not be allowed just like the foolish virgins who came back after buying oil and started knocking the door in vain-chaff. There is still another set of people (Wise Virgins) who get the revelation to some extent and be closely associated with the Bride. But they will not be able to pay the price and forsake everything and so will be left over (Hay -- Such as those left over in Luke 17 : 34-37) when the rapture takes away the Bride (Grain) to New Jerusalem since she is all out for her Bridegroom unlike the wise virgins. The vindications of pillar of cloud and rainbow etc. should be available till Rapture takes place when the LIGHT would cease to shine on this world and Night Time sets in; for the Light of the world will be gone with the Bride. At the extreme end of the Seventh Church Age, Jesus knocks at the door (Rev 3 : 19-20) and has personal fellowship. This is the Bride Age (Rev 3 : 20-22) in the last lap of the Seventh Church Age having the capstone message and the Messenger. This Bride Age ( 3.5 Year period ) started on the Moon Landing Day, and at the end the overcomers will put on immortality and sit with Jesus who would have occupied the Throne of God in Heaven by then. As a symbol of God coming down and possessing his temple (the Bride) by rightful ownership since the fall of Adam and Eve, the Bride should be clothed with a bright, transparent, glassy wonderful cloud which would follow wherever she moves. This unusual cloud alone can reflect the light in such a way as to form beautiful circular rainbow both around the Sun and Moon without rain or moisture to produce it. When the Bride recognises the Bridegroom, believes in her heart and declares by her mouth, God then opens out her understanding which comes as a result of her stand on the word of God. Immediately a new wonderful assurance of life without death is felt, the veil which blinds her is taken off by God and a cloud is given to her as a defence and cover by day and pillar of Fire by night. This has been promised for Zion (Isaiah 4 : 5). There is a thick veil on the people who read only the Spoken Word Books not caring to check everything with God's word. If the face is as Sun, how could we recognise the same except that our eyes are blinded or else we should see through a red or black smoky glass or goggles which make the sun look either red or without any white light or rather black. Therefore, people can only see the cloud and rainbow but they can never see the brightness of the face as it is; so there should be a coloured glass for us to see the glory. Pillars of fire, being the feet, means Jesus comes for judgment. Since they appear during the night, it shows that judgment falls on the world only in night time. In other words, severe judgment cannot fall till the Bride is taken up (end of Day Time). When the feet members are recognised, it means the sun is going down. The world enters into Night Time when God who came down goes up with the Bride to New Jerusalem. The two witnesses of this Bride Gospel will bring the Jews in Palestine subjected to 'Jacob's Trouble' back to God in the Night Time (Tribulation). The two witnesses to the Jews die, as serpent bruises the heel (under the feet - after the leg members of Bride are formed) and they brought back to life later (i.e. Gentile Bride having glorified without death and Jewish dispensation of the last half week resumed). The Bride, on the other hand, bruises the head of the serpent, destroys death and flies off. Glorification without death is only promised to the Bride. All others who are dead already will be resurrected. According to the Word of God, the seventh sprinkling cleanses everything unclean. The mixture consisting of the lost tribes of Israel and the gentiles comes out as a pure stock for God only after the seventh sprinkling or seven church ages - No denomination, but Bride spotless. Every church in the Seventh Church Ages had spots - they are all dead and await resurrection ; death had a claim over them. But you do not die, O Bride ! The Mighty Angel had a little book open (Bibloridion - Miniature Bible ; the Bible we have is 'Biblus'). This Book is open as there are no more mysteries or parables as in the days of Jesus' first coming when He did His divinity and showed His humanity much of the time. But now Jesus shows His divinity all the time and we see streaks of humanity of the one whom He has possessed. Then it was God hidden in a man but now it is a man hidden in God to snatch away the Bride. When Jesus was in this world, He had to talk in parables and hidden mysteries, so the book was somewhat closed to others, but now the book has no mysteries as everything is more or less finished. This Angel set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot on the earth. Sea means multitudes of people (Rev. 17 : 15). Right foot is the strongest and is put at a place of security or homeland. Sea is full of saltish water and free creatures of the sea (Luke 14 : 32-34). This mighty Angel who puts his legs beginning in East and ending in West must be a Messenger dwelling east of Jerusalem. Since this Angel is an earthly Messenger, he is called Mighty Angel and not Almighty, since God alone can have the almighty power. Jesus at the first coming showed only His humanity most ot the time; if He had tried to exhibit His almighty power, then He couldn't have allowed himself to be crucified. As this Angel came down, he cried with a loud voice just like the roaring of a lion -- The Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Please remember this is the Voice of the Archangel (Voice of resurrection of Jesus Christ which raised up dead Lazarus and others) without a Trumpet. When he cried, SEVEN THUNDERS utterd their voices. Whenever God speaks, it is confirmed by thunders to prove that God spoke. In facts, Thunders are the voice of God. Thunders do not speak but simple thunder and do not have their own voice; actually what God speaks is thunders in heaven. So these Seven Thunders are the Seven Messengers, who have forsaken everything, follow the Lord Jesus who has come down, and reveal the person who is roaring. You can never find out the person who roars unless you hear the Voice of the Seven vindicated Sons of Thunder, who after having assimilated the Prophet's food, believed the Bride Message and found the way to meet the Bridegroom whom they now publicly declare with their mouth blowing their Ram's Horn Trumpet -- redemption in Soul, Spirit and Body through the sacrifice made by the Lamb of God at Calvary. Christ died for us so that we may live and not die. If we also die, then what purpose is served by His death ? You as a modern preacher, without any thought of the possibility of overcoming death, preach to the people saying 'CHRIST DIED FOR US SO THAT WE MAY LIVE'. Well, what is the use if you or your blind followers still die which would be a contradiction of what you preach ? If Christ has really died for you, it only means He died in your place so that you won't have to die. Otherwise you don't really mean what you preach. Either Christ did not die for us all on the cross at Calvary or if that is true we should not die at all but have the power to overcome death. If you still maintain that although Christ died for us yet we can not escape death, it only shows that you are deliberately making a false statement by saying 'Christ died for us so that we may live'. In any case, the Bride in this Age firmly believes to put on immortality in fulfilment of the purpose for which Christ died. We praise the Lord for having given to us such a superb and mighty assurance. The Seven Messengers (perfect number of angels) heard the Voice of the Mighty Angel and his message which gave them the assurance of overcoming death. Through them this message of life is preached to the chosen seeds (Bride) scattered all over the world. They, in turn, spread it to many others. The Bride is God's Trumpet. As we all know, a trumpet blows with a small breath in the beginning, and blasts with a loud pitch and noise towards the end. The trumpet is made from either a dead metal (like silver signifying redemption) or a ram's horn (signifying sacrificial lamb) and has no life in itself. Likewise the Bride who accepts the Message of Life is also dead to this world like a Trumpet. She blasts out the voice which spread all over the world. The voice or the message coming through the Bride (Trumpet) is not her own but that which is blown by God Himself. She is just a Channel. The message is life and immortality to all who accept it. When Jesus spoke, the confirmation came in thunders that what He spoke was of God. So no one can imitate what God speaks in thunders. There are many Bible verses to support this. 'Father glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. The people therefore that stood by and heard it said that it thundered and others said an Angel spake to Him. Jesus answered and said : this voice came not because of me, but for your sakes" (John : 12 : 28 - 30). Thunders always meant God was speaking from somewhere in Heaven or Earth: (Job 40 : 9, Ps. 77 : 18, Ps. 81 : 7, Ps. 104 : 7, Isaiah 25 : 6, Rev. 14 : 2, John 12 : 29, Ps. 18 : 13, Job 37 : 4, Ps. 29 : 2). "The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war : he shall cry, yea roar : he shall prevail against his enemies" Isaiah 42 : 13. We know the Angel roars which is the Voice of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah but to be God's Voice, thunders should echo and seven thunders mean perfect symbol of God, like seven voices of God or seven spirits or seven eyes. When the voice roars and echoes in thunders, it is God speaking. The roaring is after the Angel descends on the earth which means God has come down to take possession of His Bride. When a King visits, cannons roar as the march-past is done. So, actually thunders do not speak but we must notice the voice which caused the thunders. This roaring message of God Coming Down is the one which John was forbidden to write before it actually happens when God comes down. It is said that the seven thunders uttered their voices which means seven special Bride Messengers (or Angels) carry the Message of God Coming Down (Bride Gospel) in order to gather the wheat. When the Messengers preach this message, it is again confirmed by thunders. Those who believe this message also get the vindication through thunders and lightning which goes on like fireworks. The Voice of the Archangel or Mighty Angel is the Seven Thunders i.e. God Coming Down (Seven Messages in one Bride Age unlike Seven Church Age Messages). The power of God manifested in seven church ages through each messenger will be all put together in the Bride Age. The seven spirits of character of God and His power will be exhibited in this Age through the Bride Messenger into whom Christ has come. 3.5 years of Jesus Christ's stay in this world to proclaim judgment to Gentiles before Rapture. John was in Patmos at a time when Christ went up after resurrection and so God had to speak to John from heaven, but the fulfilment of the vision was to be hundreds of years later. God opened the curtain to the end of the Gentile period. Jesus has said not to swear at all because He was the one going to swear at the end time - Rev. 10 : 5-6. He asked people not to call anyone Father as He was going to take the Father's office after putting on glory. God swears because He alone could keep. This Angel swears not on himself for he is not God but swears on the Eternal God who has got complete control over earth and sea. Now the Bride is married and God and Bride become one flesh and spirit, but being a weaker vessel the Bride can do everything by Spoken word through her submission and obedience to the Master. Bride does not preach the gospel of repentance or any kind of evangelistic message as those days are over. She always adores and praises and talks about her God who came so low to claim these unworthy people. God has no real control of the earth before Millenium sets in. When the Angel swore, the time has come near for the sleeping saints and the living Bride to be glorified. Lifting up the hand is the custom of all human spiritual leaders; lifting their hands to the Lord in heaven to ratify an oath (Deut. 32 : 40). Now the Angel swears saying 'There should be time no longer'. Here again in Greek "delayed" is added. Now when God comes down, that period is calculated in TIME, times and a half (Jewish dispensation) - Rev. 12 : 14 and Dan. 12 : 7. But when it comes to the Gentiles, it is mentioned TIMES of the Gentiles. Time -- 1 year -- God on Earth. Time of God -- direct control of God. Time -- 1000 yrs -- God in Heaven -- time under control of human beings -- direct control of man and devil. ( One year of God equals our 1000 years ) The last three and half years' period is the one awaited by the martyred saints and all the Israelites when the Messiah should restore the Kingdom. It was delayed for nearly 2000 years and patience was running out and God seemed to be deaf to their cries. At long last, the Almighty God descends to take the Mighty Bride or rather the Almighty Angel (God) becomes the Mighty Angel (Son of Man : Members of the Bride). The Jews have now gathered as a nation and when God came down, the judgment should have falled immediately. God came to destroy but since the prophet Elijah came earlier and turned the people to God's Word, the Bride Age or extension of time for judgment till rapture became possible (Malachi 4 : 6). The Bride intercedes like Abraham for extension and mercy until the entire Word Bride comes into her proper place, united under the head. The Bride swears to show that she will not be the cause for anymore delay as she loves the true Israelites and she herself wants the judgement of the World, but for the sake of taking the body members out of the fire the delay occurred. Therefore, anyone who hates the Jews with all their faults cannot be in the Bride because the Master loves them. It is like Joseph who married a Gentile Bride. In India, when a boy marries a girl outside his own community without his parents' consent, he is considered an outcast by the brothers and sisters and the parents. After some time when they meet, they make it up and accept the girl into their family which privilege they never gave before marriage and this is strengthened after a child is born and then they all become one lovable family. In the same way, the Jews and Gentiles never pulled on together except in hatred. The Gentiles had titles like dogs and asses while the Jews were called Shylocks and money bags and plunderers. Even Jesus Himself called in the Jewish terms the Woman as Dog as He came only for the Lost Tribes of Israel (Matt. 15 : 26). But when Jesus takes a Bride from the Gentiles, calling them individually (the Israelites only being dealt as a nation or as a family), the Jews are forced to love the Bride since deliverance comes to the Jews only from : Zion and from the Lord Jesus who has come down to take the Bride and in no other way. The Bride naturally loves the Jews deeply and does everything to support them in their struggle against the whole world and succeeds in bringing victory jointly with her Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ. You may not agree. The Jews have a great future from now on, but there is to be "Jacob's Trouble". Just after these labour pains, there will be born the real people having the right to reign with God. No more soft law but strict law. So immediately after the Angel's swearing, judgement starts falling (Rev. 18 : 20-24) with the rapture already having taken place. Here you may ask 'What about the sleeping saints of Jesus Christ ?' Of course this has to happen before the living saints are raptured. No doubt this happens in the twinkling of an eye but God comes to take the Bride prepared through the Prophet, staying with her for three and a half years in order to teach her rapturing faith based on the Word of God. Therefore, this Bride Message alone can give rapturing faith to those who act sincerely and get ready immediately. Now the Seventh Angel should finish the mystery ; the mystery of God should be finished (in plain English it means not yet finished). It does not mean that everything is finished as the foolish people say with their intellectual thinking and referring to many denominational books. It is said the mystery should be finished as he hath declared to the prophets. You must understand that the prophets' eyes can reach up to the thunders and the Tree of Life which is mystery of God revealed i.e. there is no more mystery about this, as there should be thunders when we approach the Tree of Life. When we say a mystery is revealed, it only means there is no more mystery about the matter. It does not mean that the matter is not there. Suppose there is a person hiding in a room, and people are searching hin including his loved ones. One person may know the mystery of his hiding place and he comes and tells his loved ones so and so is hiding in that room. The person who tells this secret hiding place is not the man hiding; he only clears the mystery, and when the room is opened and searched, the hiding person is found out to the joy of all. In the same way, the Seventh Angel's messages (Spoken Word Books) clearly reveal to the Bride the mode of God Coming Down and the Bride Message. If you care to read the Prophet's messages with an open and inquiring heart, you will certainly find many passages where he clearly mentions about God Coming Down and personalised, reaching at close range the Bride all over the world who is called even before the foundations of the world, through Holy Spirit's direct dealing and opening her eyes to understand the end-time message. People who are not in the Bride can never understand this, and it would be better for them to keep quiet and not commit the unpardonable sin (I John 5 : 16). Nevertheless they will, in their frenzy, attack the capstone message and make attempts to crucify the Messenger. Now there exists no more mystery about the Second Coming except that the people who eagerly desired to see the appearing of Jesus Christ should get ready leaving everything weighty that might pull them down. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be. Now listen, the same Voice of God from heaven at this juncture speaks to John in Patmos seeing this vision and asks him to go and take the book from the hand of the Angel which contains an incident covering nearly two thousand years. He was then asked to eat it (Rev. 10 : 8-11). When Jesus asked John to take care of His mother (Matt. 12 : 46-50), John definitely became the Representative for all disciples who were on God's Word and did the will of the Father (males or females) who slept in Jesus to be raised at the last day. This clearly shows that John (representing the brethren and friends of Bridegroom converted Jews - and Children of the Bride Chamber) must come back to life when this drama is enacted two thousand years later and preach this bitter message (Manifested Sons). John also stands to represent all the 12 tribes of Israel who accepted the Lord. We all know that once he along with James even wanted to burn the Gentile Samaritan village which did not receive the Lord Jesus Christ by commanding fire from heaven (Luke 9 : 54). Also read Acts 11 : 2-3, 10 : 28, 13 : 46, 15 : 1-11, Gal. 2 : 11-21. What could be more bitter for such a staunch Jew like John than to receive the message from the Gentile Bride ? Nevertheless, he has to accept the food now provided by the Bride or the Son of Man in whom the Lord Jesus hides from the world's view. This is the only food which contains life. We all know that most of the best medicines are sweet to the mouth so that one can eat or swallow them easily, and then in the stomach would be bitter and perform the work of healing. The Bride Message also reacts in the same way (Rev. 10 : 10). This message which gives life and rapturing faith to the Bride should also glorify the sleeping saints who rise at the last trumpet call (Last Voice of the Mighty Angel through the Great Trumpet blast-the trumpet can't sound of itself except there be a voice at the mouth). The Angel said unto John "Thou must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings" (Rev. 10 : 11). PROPHESY AGAIN. This means John (a type of dead saints as well as converted Jews) had prophesied before during the time of Jesus Christ's first coming and worked for the Master and spread the message during persecution and was banished to Patmos. If after his death he has to prophesy again after eating this bitter message given by the Angel, how can he do it unless the sleeping saints waiting for this great time rise up who already have a revelation of the message in part ? The Bride who has already assimilated the message cannot be raptured without the sleeping saints rising first. Now Jerusalem has been taken back by the Jews, but very soon after the rapture the Gentiles will tread for three and a half years part of the Holy City leaving the temple and then the two witnesses start their mighty Vindicative messages. The Bridegroom should rest for one year with the Bride. The Bridegroom should rest for one year with the Bride, so honey-moon time in Millenium for 1000 years (Deut. 24 : 5). After the marriage and marriage feast involving a period of 3.5 years in this Earth, the time comes for the Bridegroom and Bride to go to the Bridegroom's house for Reception for Wedding Supper. Then the Bride'smaid and others get up first with Bridegroom's friends and torch bearers. They rise from sleep (sleeping saints) and then the Bride gets ready and together they go in glorious bodies to Wedding Supper in the Air arranged by the Bridegroom in glory for 3.5 years during tribulation. Do not mix up marriage and marriage feast on the earth and Wedding Supper in Air (Reception) by Bridegroom. When Jesus was in this world, He preached the Gospel of the Kingdom openly in the streets, gatherings and in mountain tops. Everyone heard His voice. Jesus was God hidden in man revealing streaks of divinity, but most of the time walked and behaved like a real Messenger sent by God performing all what a Perfect Man filled with the Holy Ghost would do by emptying His divinity (Phillippians 2 : 5-11) and at baptism was filled with the Holy Spirit just to show man the Living Way even though He was God Almighty. The Seven Thunders sounding like as if spelling some name repeatedly in a series, were due to the Roaring of the Angel while coming down. You could hear only the roaring when the Angel came down for judgement, but now God comes down on a man who is hidden giving out streaks of humanity; all the work does not have any human touch at all but entirely a revelation of the Lord in glory. Now He has not come to die as before but to destroy everything which comes against Him just as a lion would do. These Seven Thunders were SEVEN VOICES representing Seven Powerful Messengers or Angels (perfect number) who are sent forth to gather wheat by proclaiming the identity of God who has come down to Earth. The Mighty Angel roars at the time of the Lord's descent. After that the Mighty Angel or the Son of Man does not propogate the New Gospel with the New Wine (Bride Message). This is done by the Seven Thunders or the Seven Thunderous Angels or Messengers and others who accept this message. They reveal to the world the identity of God who has come down and in doing so they are supported by regular thunders and lightnings etc. literally taking place. When Joshua went to take over Jericho, there were Seven priests going before the Ark (God coming Down) sounding the Seven Trumpets but when crossing the Jordan, the Ark went first and others followed. The people had to be 2000 cubits away from the Ark to know the Way except the Levites and Priests who left everything (Deut. 33 : 9, Joshua 13 : 33). So also in this age, except the Bride (who has no inheritance in this world except God) all others will be made blind from seeing the Move of God. The saints watched for nearly 2000 years. Now the Bride marches forward armed with the whole armour of God (Eph. 6 : 14-17). The Seven priests thunder the trumpet messages of the Ark of God through which God speaks to the people and they go round silently seven times -- Seven church Ages. The ram's horns are blown for each Church Age seeing the Ark of God 2000 years ahead (God Coming Down on the Son of Man) but on the seventh day, seven times people went round, shouting only in the last round when rapture occurs. This time the ark goes behind the Seven priests (Joshua 3 : 3-5) who blow the trumpets all along. After the period of Seven Church Ages is over, the Ark is borne by Levites (The Bride). The Voice of the Seven Thunders will be heard by the Bride who, armed with God's Word, will go forward selling everything and transferring her belongings to the foreign bank in New Jerusalem. All what is left of property and money will be claimed by Anti-christ. O ! Bride of God, do not allow Anti-christ to possess and use God's wealth ; better have it converted into foreign exchange to be credited into New Jerusalem Bank. When Jesus the wheat went underground, it died with its roots DOUBT down. All left everything they had in the world. They DOUBT all things in common; there was nothing to be called their DOUBT (Acts 2 : 44-48). Then leaves and stalks came. Two thousand years of possessing everything and going with God till the Pentecostal Shuck. Now comes the Grain Age when the Word Bride will be like Jesus possessing nothing (John 14:30). This is the Truth, nothing but Truth and the Bride will be in that condition when glory falls soon. The fall of Jericho was a miracle of God Coming Down. So also is Rapture a miracle of God Coming Down to give us immortality. Our redemption is at the end of the seventh round - Rapture i.e. human barriers fall down like walls of Jericho. The world cannot see anything of God since the Messenger is totally hidden and when God hides a man He really does it. This Bride Message may not be spread through the medium of radios, television and great crusades etc (trumpets made of goat's horn) by the Bride Messenger. "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street" (Isaiah 42:2). O Bride! whenever You hear a message about God Coming down in this generation, do not take it into heart unless it is confirmed by thunders in heaven. Nature will sing to you to make you believe and stop when you believe. Ignore all the propaganda done through human efforts such as million dollar drives etc. The Bride Ministry now on is untouched by human hands and God is the sole controller. May we give all honour and glory to our Father in Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ in the throne. The Lord who has come down will be spiritually crucified in Sodom and Egypt. (Rev 11:8. "Which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified"). Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, but this is spiritual Sodom. So God who has come down will spiritually crucified in Sodom and egypt - East and West. Did this ever happen in history? This should happen before Tribulation. The two witnesses of this God Coming Down in the twentieth century will shake the country of Palestine, get killed in tribulation and come to life when the voice (Bridegroom and Bride in glory) calls from heaven i.e. wedding Supper in the Air. The message will be so severely opposed that the presecution on the followers will be terrific. Nevertheless they won't die provided they totally identify themselves with Mighty Angel (Son of Man). God who has come down will glorify them all. So let us be bold. This message will drive away even some more. Dear Reader, will you also go away? In any case the Bride will not miss the Rapture. The Bride Ministry is such that the Messenger is very much hidden and the Angels of this Messenger are the ones who go forth to reap and bring in the grain. So, after every roaring of the Angel, the Bride and others can hear the Voice either directly or through the Seven Messengers (Son of Thunder). This Voice will be "to that group which can really take the Word of God and handle it there. It will cut and slice. They (Bride) can close the heavens, they can shut this, or do that, whatever they want to" (THE FOURTH SEAL). May all the Sheep which form the Bride open their ears to take only the Message that is vindicated by thunders and lightning, pillars of cloud, pillar of fire etc.and throw out as trash anything which is not vindicated like this. The Spoken word ministry has already started to be confirmed by the Heavenly Thunders. Wake up, O! Bride of God.
GOOD SAMARITAN We have heard so much about the Good Samaritans and Social Work etc. but we have failed to notice the significance of the story narrated by Jesus (Luke 10: 25-36). The Lawyer was asked by the Lord to love his neighbour as himself and he wanted a clarification about who his neighbour was so that he could love him as himself. Then Jesus related the story of a man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he is attacked by thieves and left naked, wounded and half-dead. A priest and then a Levite passed by that way but didn't bother to help the poor man lying on the road. At last a samaritan had compassion on him; he bound up his wounds, brought him to an inn and said unto the inn-keeper 'Take care of him and, whatsoever thou spendest more, WHEN I COME AGAIN, I will repay thee'. We often talk of helping our neighbours and any social work done is called a Good Samaritan work. But the real implication here is, Jesus asked the Lawyer who among the three was the neighbour unto the man left half dead, and the Lawyer admitted it was the Samaritan. Then Jesus advised him to go and do likewise (love the Samaritan and other non - Jewish people (neighbours) as himself. In other words the Lawyer is compared to the man who lay wounded on the road). So the story did not actually mean social work. It was only intended to make the Lawyer realise that he was half dead and unable to do anything to favour God. 'Go and do thou likewise' - The Lawyer was to just lay half dead so that anyone, even if it be the low caste Samaritan, who comes to help him becomes his neighbour whom he should love. This story rather typifies the conditions of Jews after they killed their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. In the present day situation, they will not be able to come up depending entirely on their military power. The two witnesses will make them accept the Messiah when the glory they had lost will be given back to them and the gentiles destroyed. The Jews have been persecuted and killed and half dead and so on from the time of their captivity in Jerusalem and were scattered all over the different countries of the world until now when the world conditions are like Jericho walls ready to fall down. The story implies that Jesus would come as a Samaritan to lift the Jews up and that He is the neighbour whom they should love. If they don't love the Samaritan or Gentile with their full heart they will miss their Saviour since He will come to deliver them now only in the form of a Gentile as they (Jews) lie persecuted and half dead in these last days. Since deliverance should come to the Jews from Jesus (now coming like a Gentile), the Jews should know how to love the most presecuted people, the Jews. Jeus Christ is their neighbour and to love Him with all their heart is what is required. He came unto His own but they received Him not, and as many as received Him to them. He gave power to become the Sons of God (as well as daughters of God and THE BRIDE). See how we have been thinking quite the opposite. Jesus now comes in the form of Samaritan, half Jew and half Gentile. God steered the Gentile nations such as U. S. A. and England to bring the persecuted and half-dead Jews back to Palestine "THEINN". The two pence given to the Inn-keeper by the Samaritan are the two witnesses who will make them accept their Messiah by opening their eyes and thus bring them back to their former glory. God, as a Samaritan Jesus, is willing to even give more witnesses if needed when He returns now.
HOW TO HAVE SALT IN
OUR LIVES, CLEAN AND PERFECT IN THIS AGE, HAVE OUR TREASURED (FOREIGN
EXCHANGE) IN HEAVEN, HAVE OUR LOINS GIRDED AND OUR LIGHTS
BURNING AND SAVE OUR
LIVES
Matt. 19 : 21: Jesus said unto him, if thou will be perfect go and sell all that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shall have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me. He went away sorrowful. Mark 10 : 21: God thy way and sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor and thou shall have treasure in heaven and come take up the cross and follow me. Luke 12 : 33-35: Sell that ye have and give alms; provide yourselves bags which was not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth neither moth corrupteth for where your treasure is there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning. Luke 14 : 33: So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple. Salt is good, but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be seasoned. Luke 11 : 41: Rather give alms of such things as ye have, and behold all things are CLEAN unto you (clean life). Luke 17 : 33: Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lost it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. (To forsake everything in this world is to lose your life). Quoting the above verses does not mean, as the people may slander, that we are trying to make them sell all what they have and give to us. Suppose a man has 10000 dollars in the Bank, and if I give him another 5000 dollars a gift, he will certainly add this to his fortune since he has 'Guile and Selfishness' which Jesus deplores. That is why he said 'Give and it shall be given unto you' (even more). He has promised hundred - fold with tribulation and eternal life ("Whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap" - hundredfold : Gal 6 : 7). Suppose that man draws his whole 10000 dollars from the bank, gives to the poor and becomes and pauper, it clearly shows he obeyed the commandments and has no 'Guile. If after he has done it I give him 5000 dollars, surely he will not keep this money for himself as he would have lost the desire for money when he distributed the 10000 dollars and thereby he is without 'Guile'. The greatest thing is to be without guile, selfishness and faithlessness. God will take care of your needs (Matt. 6 : 32). "SELL AND GIVE TO THE POOR" is the order to this soon ending age, posessing nothing and then our fellowship on God's Word is sweet and perpetual. My dear friends, this is Bible and you may talk jokingly, but did you ever try this kind of faith life ? If so, you will know God. These big organisations having insurances etc. provident fund and pensionary benefits in denominations, could they trust God in these hard days ? Why were the Israelites made to go in the wilderness under severe trial for 40 years ? It was just to make them know that there is a God who will provide (Deut. 29 : 5-6). When I was asked by God to leave my job and also my wife her job and sell and give to the poor, we thought it was not human and we had some good savings in the Bank 'for emergency'. But God never supplied our needs for nearly some months. We prayed and prayed and the heavens were shut, and we had to live frugally with whatever was left of our earnings. We then sold everything including the jewellery and distributed to the poor keeping only the Bank Money. We were starving and the Lord spoke to me in an audible voice, "Take out the Bank Money". The Lord knows your secret chambers and your hoardings in which you keep your heart and depend. We spent that money also till we came to a bare minimum in the Bank. Even that we ultimately drew and finished off. We thought we were sinking and dying. Strangely, we lost all our friends and no one would even look at us. Some of them started throwing stones. I had no money even to have my hair-cut; my wife and children (fairly very small) could not bear hunger, yet we kept on going. I was keeping my certificates etc. in my trunk to depend on and I had to destroy them also. Then a superb peace filled my soul, but no money came. One day my wife went to the market to buy vegetables by faith without any money (believe and see). Just at that moment a lady heard the audible voice of God and thrust plenty of money into her hands and faith life started for her. As for me I was like a street vagabond, but with terrific deep peace. One day a man came and called me to pray for his wife who was dead quite a while ago. My wife and I went rather skeptically to please this man. As I laid my hands and prayed closing my eyes, this lady woke up as if from sleep and sat on the bed. On another occasion we had been to a village where a man who was bedridden for many years jumped up and rejoiced without having to attend any big crusade or show. Then a mad man in chains biting everyone was there, and I was taken to touch and pray for him. He got healed instantaneously. From that time onwards we have never been in went of anything and we know our God is great. Twentyeight years of daily miracles in every walk of life. I can give you wonderful testimonies of God's dealing meticulously. Trust God at all costs. You will not know the real world and real friends till you have nothing of this world's goods and you will find many things you depended on and friends and kith and kin you relied on as false since they will leave you when money takes its flight away from you. When God spoke, the Sun came into existence and it rotates till now. Likewise if man rotates on God's Word, he will live eternally without human effort. This dependence is the secret of faith life. It is difficult at first but a pleasure as time goes by. The Bride has to totally depend on her husband for everything. If she depends on anyone or anything else it is called ADULTERY. We do not ask or beg or hint at or demand, but provision comes to the very door. If you do not depend on God for all your needs you commit spiritual adultery by depending on something of this world other than God. Praise God, He cares for you, O Bride ! This selling all and following was preached by Jesus nearly 2000 years ago who promised hundredfold of everything you leave (except wife or husband) - Matt. 19 : 29.
St. John in his Patmos vision was asked not to write the thunders which we now know signifies God Coming Down. He sealed the mystery of thunders accordingly. Nevertheless if we study his epistles or gospel, we should be able to find some place where he must be avoided or hinted at this. It is the place where he mentions about the 'Unpardonable Sin'. I John 5: 16 - "There is a sin unto death, I do not say he shall pray for it". Rejecting the Tree of Life is wilful rejection and is the sin unto death as the person who rejects this Tree of Life message (Seven Thunders Mystery) will have no option but to die and there is no use of prayer for this sin as it is 'unpardonable'. It is nothing but wilful rejection of God himself.
Leprosy in the House at the Land of
Canaan (Lev. 14 :
34-53) The house is watched and if the priest sees traces of leprosy, he commands the people to take away the stones and plasters and throw them in an unclean place outside the city. New stones and plaster are put in their stead. If the leprosy is found to still exist, the house is completely destroyed. The house cannot be occupied till it is cleansed by the priest. But if it is alright, then two birds are taken and one is killed in an earthen vessel over running water and the priest shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water and sprinkle the house seven times and shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields and make an atonement for the house and it shall be then clean. The Israelites were a people of God or House of God with whom God dwell. When they sinned, God could not be present with them. At first He even removed some people out of the scene to see if the sin question could be solved. If that failed, the whole structure was destroyed (cast out like lepers), but if the sin question did not proceed further and the people were healed, then came the two birds. (God did not own them till they were cleansed by the said ordinance performed by the priest). One bird was killed which typifies the Lord Jesus Christ who shed His blood in Calvary when the Holy Spirit ran as waters for the people of God to quench their thirst; another bird typifying the Bride of Christ was bound by the scarlet thread (death in every church age) and after the seventh sprinkling (seventh church age) the bird (Bride) was set free to go in the open and fly in the air. Thus after the death of Lord Jesus Christ, the Gentile Bride has been dipped in His blood and sprinkled during the seven church ages bound by death. After the last church age, she is free from death to go up. This dealing of God with the Gentiles purifies the Israelites from the sin question. The Lord is then ready to occupy the House (Son of Man) and dwell in this Earth to take the Bride up. Also this makes the House of Israel cleansed to be occupied by God and the former glory which was lost is restored to them.
Spoken Word Books The people in U.S.A. who consider themselves to be masters of these books are so sensitive that they just want people to blindly believe what all bed time stories related by them. If we refute anything as unscriptural, they get into a frenzy and call us 'serpent seed' and false anointed ones of devil's incarnate. Further the preachers have got a set of notes or selected portions from these books which suit their own thinking and creeds and serve as defence to their doctrines. I am not writing this to say that all must follow us. Follow the Lord Jesus. If you had known and loved Brother. Branham sincerely you would undoubtedly know that there is a following ministry and that he was not the final messenger which he himself has clearly said. Everybody who agrees to this is not far from the kingdom of God. They have in their lamps a little oil unlike the dead ones who are possessed of murderous demons and incite some mad folks to frighten people out of the New Move. If you had known Brother Branham intimately, you would know this move of God which is presently going fast around the world fulfilling the Tent Vision without anything much of human effort. You cannot come to accept this greatest move of God unless my Master Jesus Christ in the Father's throne draws you. All those who are drawn will be glorified and none left to die.
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