Bible Believers' Newsletter #464
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our prayer-answering Lord Jesus Christ.
World-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking had this to say about knowledge, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." I would add, "and the presumption of truth". This illusion of knowledge and disdain for truth is the quicksand upon which the Establishment's brave new world is a-building.
Most people have an illusion of history, science and faith but no absolute, having been indoctrinated as to what they may think without fear of ridicule, ostracism, legal action and even imprisonment. Such was the plight of Jeremiah, Zechariah, Jesus Christ, Paul and Martin Luther for expressing politically incorrect yet essential truths. "Political correctness" is a top-down Bolshevik device employed to disempower all below the apex.
God has good things planned for His Kingdom which stands upon faith - a clear understanding of His unchanging Word - and prayer. Lucifer has "whatever it takes" planned for his kingdom, whose strength is deceit and politics. There is liberty in Christ, who said: "You shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free." However truth "offends, insults and humiliates" Lucifer, the god of this evil age who rules the executive, parliament and judiciary of every nation, hence "truth" has been outlawed as "hate".
A nationwide competition for law students to draft anti-hate legislation for minority groups was won by Joseph Ribakoff. His paper suggests that not only should state-agencies monitor and restrict free speech in general, but they should also censor all films that criticize identifiable groups. Furthermore, even if the person making the statement can justify it, for example Christians criticizing homosexuality because the Bible expressly forbids it, Ribakoff asserts that the truth is to be no defence in court.
The only proof a court will need in order to secure a conviction of "hate speech" is that something has been said, and a minority group or member of such group has felt "emotionally damaged" as a result of such criticism. Under these proposals which the ADL will have forced into law all over the world, Jesus Christ would have been arrested as a hate criminal.
Whither democracy and freedom? Historians ignore the military blueprint for three world wars and three major revolutions uncovered in 1871; seldom expose the Fascist dictator F.D. Roosevelt, who confessed, "If something happens in politics, you can bet it was planned that way." Men like Patrick Henry and Paul Revere dare not warn of the dictatorship (foretold by the Brother Branham in 1964 - The Feast of the Trumpets, p. 23:173-174; Revelation 13) rising now in the USA, lest by exposing "identifiable groups" they be indicted for "racial hatred".
Science dare not speak truths that would expose the hazards of fluoridated water, unleaded petrol or the "climate change" hoax. While organized religion, Satan's headquarters on earth, never cause him "offence" by presenting anything more than "the illusion of knowledge". . . and the presumption of truth.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Depleted Uranium: Pernicious Killer keeps on Killing
Craig Etchison, Ph.D., writes: "How to explain the exploding rates of cancer, birth defects, and radiation poisoning among Iraqis in the Basra region? How to explain a Department of Veterans Affairs study of 21,000 veterans of the Gulf War that found rates of birth defects were twice as great for male vets and three times as great for female vets who served in the Gulf War compared to vets who did not? How to explain a Washington Post report in January of 2006 that 518,000 of the 580,000 Gulf War veterans were on disability, and over half on permanent disability. How to explain over 13,000 dead Gulf War veterans when only 250 were killed and 7,000 injured in the war itself?" Full story: truthout.org
In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the US military. . . 3,100 US military dead does not tell the whole story. . . there are almost as many contractors (120,000) as US troops (135,000) in the war zone. . .
Full story: truthout.org
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Iran says Sunnis, using Pakistan as Base, planned Fatal Bombing
Tehran, February 19, 2000 – The Iranian Foreign Ministry charged Sunday that Sunni insurgents from Iran used Pakistan as a base to plan a bombing that killed 11 people and wounded more than 30 in the southeastern border city of Zahedan last week. The ministry said it had demanded an explanation from the Pakistani ambassador. . . "Both sides will suffer from insecurity and we decided to set up a committee to raise the security at the borders". . .
Iran has accused the United States and Britain of provoking Sunni insurgents. The authorities have said that the efforts are part of the plot to sow discord among Sunnis and Shiites in the country. Gen. Mohammad Ghaffari, a commander of security forces in the province, told the Fars news agency that a film confiscated from the suspects proved that the group was "affiliated to intelligence agencies of some of the foreign countries, such as the US and Britain."
The news agency also quoted what it called informed sources as saying that the explosives used in the bombings were American. . . Full story: truthout.org
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US "Iran Attack Plans" Revealed
19 February 19, 2007 – US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure. . . It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres. . . Full story: bbc.co.uk
Comment: Much of the intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities provided to UN inspectors by US spy agencies has turned out to be unfounded, . . reminiscent of the intelligence fiasco surrounding the Iraq war. . . Full story: guardian.co.uk
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Former Bush Officials accuse White House of trying to provoke Iran
Hillary Mann Leverett, the former National Security Council Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Affairs under the Bush administration from 2001 to 2004. . . accused the Bush administration of "trying to push a provocative, accidental conflict" from Iran as a pretext to justify "limited strikes" against the country's crucial nuclear and military infrastructures, as opposed to "an all-out invasion like what happened with Iraq."
Her warning comes a day after sources revealed to Newsweek that "a second Navy carrier group is steaming toward the Persian Gulf" and "that a third carrier will likely follow" to replace one of the strike carriers already in the Gulf. In retaliation, "Iran shot off a few missiles in those same tense waters last week in a highly publicized test." Full story: truthout.org
Comment: "Christian" George II is a "man of peace" in the mold of war criminal Ariel Sharon.
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Pentagon calls off Plans for Huge Explosion in Desert
Washington, February 22, 2007 – The Pentagon on Thursday canceled plans to detonate a 700-tonne explosive charge in the Nevada desert that had drawn environmental protests and lawsuits. . . the test was designed to gather data for use in developing weapons capable of destroying deeply buried bunkers containing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
It called for detonating 700 tonnes of conventional explosives over a tunnel at a Nevada test site to study its effect on hard granite structures. . . Full story: truthout.org
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Making Martial Law Easier
February 19, 2007 – A provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration's behest makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law.
The provision, signed into law in October, weakens two obscure but important bulwarks of liberty. One is the doctrine that bars military forces, including a federalized National Guard, from engaging in law enforcement. Called posse comitatus, it was enshrined in law after the Civil War to preserve the line between civil government and the military. The other is the Insurrection Act of 1807, which provides the major exemptions to posse comitatus. It essentially limits a president's use of the military in law enforcement to putting down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion, where a state is violating federal law or depriving people of constitutional rights.
The newly enacted provisions upset this careful balance. They shift the focus from making sure federal laws are enforced to restoring public order. Beyond cases of actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any "other condition."
Changes of this magnitude should be made only after a thorough public airing. But these new presidential powers were slipped into the law without hearings or public debate. The president made no mention of the changes when he signed the measure, and neither the White House nor Congress consulted in advance with the nation's governors. . .
Full Story: truthout.org
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RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag
February 14, 2007 – The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced yesterday by Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio Frequency IDentification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters.
The previous record-holder, the Hitachi mu-chip, is just 0.4 x 0.4 millimeters. . . The "powder type" tags are some sixty times smaller. The new RFID chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38 digit number, like their predecessor. Hitachi used semiconductor miniaturization technology and electron beams to write data on the chip substrates to achieve the new, smaller size.
Hitachi's mu-chips are already in production; they were used to prevent ticket forgery at last year's Aichi international technology exposition. RFID 'powder,' on the other hand, is so much smaller that it can easily be incorporated into thin paper, like that used in paper currency and gift certificates. Full story: raidersnewsnetwork.com
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Churches back Plan to unite under Pope
February 19, 2007 – Radical proposals to reunite Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope are to be published this year, . . The proposals have been agreed by senior bishops of both churches.
In a 42-page statement prepared by an international commission of both churches, Anglicans and Roman Catholics are urged to explore how they might reunite under the Pope. The statement, leaked to The Times, is being considered by the Vatican, where Catholic bishops are preparing a formal response. . . Full story: timesonline.co.uk
Comment: That most Anglicans would be against this proposal is not the point. Satan's objective is to establish certain principles now, so that in the chaos at the close of the Gentile dispensation, Anglicans will accept Roman headship.
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Be Certain of God
Genesis 17:1, "When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, and said, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be perfect".
Matthew 5:48, "You are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect".
If you are a Christian - not by church membership or personal testimony, but by rebirth - you are perfect. Jesus has already said He would present to Himself a glorious Church "without spot or wrinkle, that it should be holy and without blemish" - the antitype of Israel's acceptable sacrifices (Ephesians 6:25-30). So if you have been baptized into Body of Christ you are the true Church sealed to the day of your redemption.
Jesus said, "He who comes to me I will not cast out" (John 6:37). "Whosoever, hears My Word, and believes on Him who sent Me has eternal Life (already), and shall not come into judgment (and be cast away), but has (already) passed from death into Life" (John 5:24). "Whosoever eats My flesh and drinks My Blood has eternal Life, and I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:54).
Be certain of God. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He who fears is not made perfect in love" (I John 4:18). Uncertainty is caused through lack of understanding; that is, insufficient faith. Lucifer's most powerful tool is doubt. Speaking of the earthquake that will sink Los Angeles at the close of the Gentile dispensation and the resultant tidal waves, Jesus said, "There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken" when Lucifer and his demons are cast down to earth (Luke 21:25-28; Revelation 12:7-13).
"Then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." This will be the sign of Christ's (Gk. 'parousia') Coming to Israel of which the disciples inquired in Luke 21:7, and although the coming of the Cloud will be physical, this will not be the physical (or Gk. 'erchomai') return of the glorified Messiah. This phenomenon will be reported internationally but comprehended only by Christ's Bride, certifying her faith. "When these things begin to occur, take courage, stand erect, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh." The 144,000 elect Israelites will only see the full significance of this sign after their two prophets are martyred and raised in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
These formidable portents prophesied to come upon earth almost at once are not foreboding but promise joy unspeakable and full of glory to Christ's Bride, signifying that in the coming six weeks we will manifest that we are the Sons of God as He instills translation faith in those who are perfect. Then what we say He will do because we have His mind in us and the revelation that we are perfect.
Abraham, Isaac and Israel were shadows and types of the elect Church. God told Abram that by election and grace, "I am going to bring you Home in your old age. You will have a child by Sarah, and through that lineage I will save the World." Abram had done nothing to merit salvation, God simply called him by foreknowledge.
Abram was an Iraqi. He looked like Saddam Hussein and other Iraqis who are a Semitic people. Have you noticed that Jews bear no likeness to these brethren of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob yet Palestinians have a perfect likeness? Abraham's father was an idolater: when Babylonian idolatry became infused with Yahwism in Israel, God destroyed the Northern Kingdom and dispersed its people throughout the Assyrian provinces where they live to this day (Isaiah 11:11; 27:13). As Hosea 1-2 explains, Judah emulated her sister's idolatry so the Lord sent Nebuchadnezzar to raze the temple and take the best of the people captive. There they hybrid faith with Babylonian paganism, making the Word of God of none effect (Matthew 15:9). "The spread of a modified Pharisaism to the ends of the earth has fortunately not prevented the endurance throughout the centuries of the unchanged faith in Rabbinic Judaism. Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes of name, inevitable adaptation of custom, and adjustment of Law, the spirit of the ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. . . From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia, and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered" demonstrates the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious movement" (Rabbi Louis Finkelstein of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Foreword to his First Edition of "The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith," p. xxi).
From Judaism, Babylonian paganism hybrid into a Christianized form of idolatry at the First Nicea Council in AD325. Brother Branham said, "till about the time of the AD606 when it come into Thyatira, it was nearly all Jewish converts" (Revelation Chapter 4, Part II, p. 630:263-264). So when John was caught up in the Spirit into the Lord's day, he looked back through time into man's day and saw Mystery Babylon sitting as a queen, with a golden cup filled with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus Christ, persecuting the saints of the living God as the Pharisees had done before her yet bearing the Name of Jesus (Matthew 23:33-36; Revelation 18:24).
Brother Branham said, "Going to Sunday school one morning, I was caught away in a vision. . . Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I said, "Now, there's going to be three great isms. Which is now in existence. One of them is in Rome, which is Fascism, and one of them is in Germany which is Nazism. And the other one is in Russia, which is Communism." I said, "Those three great isms is the unclean spirits that went out of the mouth of the false prophet, and the dragons, and so forth that will unite themselves together, speaking things that they should not, and they'll all beat at one another, until they'll finally wind up in one ism. And I predict that that will be Communism. And Communism will burn the Vatican city."
"And great persecution will tear down all the differences and run us together as one person. . . No man will ever be able to do it. That's too big a job for a man; God Himself will do that. We will be one someday. Amen. Oh, my, I will be so happy for that, won't you? when it's all over?" (Faith once delivered to the Saints #55-0501; Revelation 16:12-16; 18:1-20).
God is calling His Bride out from the apostate churches into subjection under the Word, and every one, in preparation for the manifestation of the Sons of God when He will endue her with rapturing faith for translation grace. And as it was in the days of Noah, people are unconcerned, eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, heady, high-minded, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good.
Israel being called out of Egyptian bondage in the first Exodus is a type of the Bride in these last days being called out of Roman Bondage (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:1-4). Israel migrated to Egypt because of a drought, and it was almost 500 years before she returned to Canaan. The church came into Rome because of a drought for hearing the Word, which was scarce in those days because there was no open vision. Romans 10:17. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" but from John to Brother Branham we had no Word Prophet (I Samuel 3:1; Amos 8:11), and after a thousand years of Dark Ages the faith was almost lost as Rome martyred scores of millions of saints. It is now 500 years since Luther broke the drought, and although God sent the prophet Brother Branham to reveal Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever, the so-called churches remain in Roman bondage.
Present day Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified is spiritually as Sodom and Egypt - abomination and bondage - like the rest of the apostate world with God's Name on it (Revelation 11:8).
Jacob said, "bury me not in Egypt, but carry me out of Egypt and bury me with my fathers" (Genesis 47:28-31). As a prophet, Jacob knew the resurrection would be in Palestine, where God's covenant with Israel was valid (Genesis 17:8). Christians know the resurrection is in Jesus Christ where the Covenant is valid, so we are buried by baptism unto His death and reborn of water and the Spirit, signifying the death of our soul's first husband and our release from the bondage of sin that we might be free to serve our new Husband, Christ the Word (Romans 6).
God has only one provided place where He will receive worship. For blinded Israel, that place is Jerusalem where the lamb was sacrificed. For Christians it is Christ, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World." Like Israel, "We may not present our Lamb within any of the rests which the Lord God gave us: (Pentecost, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergmos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, or Laodicea): but at the place in which He shall choose to place His Name, there shall we sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that we came forth out of Egypt." We live in the evening time of the Gentile dispensation (Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 24:27), the holy convocation or fiftieth day of the Pentecostal feast in which the sacrifice of the true faith has been restored so that the evangelistic Message is no longer Matthew 28:19, but Revelation 18:4.
As God kept Israel in Egypt until there arose a Pharaoh who knew not Joseph, He kept the church in Roman bondage until there arose a Pharaoh who knew not Jesus: President John Kennedy (1917-1963). The Roman Catholic hierarchy was not in the White House but she was the system behind it because Mr. Kennedy was one of her children; and the Bible says the United States will be made into an image of the beast. As Israel was not ready to receive Moses, and ran him into exile for forty years, we Gentiles were not ready to receive the Message of our deliverer. Now, after forty years there has arisen another Pharaoh who knows not Joseph: George II, who is working to bring this prophecy of Revelation 13 to pass.
When Christ fulfilled Revelation 4, 5 and 10:1-7, He revealed the Seven Seals through the "Shout" of the Message of His prophet, William Branham. This brought Christ back to earth in WORD form and is calling the wise and foolish virgin out of Roman bondage as Moses called Israel out of Egyptian bondage (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:5-6; Revelation 18:4).
In Moses we see a type of Jesus Messiah and a type of Brother Branham also. Moses was born at a time when Egypt was engaged in a "family planning" program in which all male Israelite were to be thrown into the river at birth. By the grace of God, Moses was preserved and raised in Pharaoh's household because he was foreordained to deliver Israel from bondage. Brother Branham was born before light in the mountains of Kentucky in a little log cabin like that in which Abraham Lincoln was born. When his father opened the shutter of the unglazed window, the Pillar of Fire in the form of a pillow entered the room and stood over the little bed in which he lay. And as God spoke with Moses from the Pillar of Fire in a bush, He spoke to Brother Branham out of a whirlwind in a bush and said, "Never smoke, or drink, or defile your body in any way (i.e. by sexual sins - Ed). There'll be a work to do when you get older".
When Moses returned to Egypt to demand Pharaoh release Israel, God identified him as the promised deliverer by three signs. The first sign was when he threw his staff on the ground and it became a snake, the second was when he placed his right hand in his bosom and it became leprous, showing that the thoughts of the heart of unregenerate man are sinful, and that the hand that holds God's judgment rod must be cleansed. The third sign was when he poured water from the river onto the ground and it became blood, a sign that Egypt would be drenched in blood.
Like Moses, God identified Brother Branham by three signs. The first was where he took a person by the hand and was able to diagnose their condition. Second was the Messianic sign of Hebrews 4:12 "discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart" as prophesied in Luke 17:28-30, ". . as it was in the days of Lot." His third sign was prophetic in the revelation of the Seven Seals, which has brought the world to judgment with death to all but Christ's end-time Bride.
Not only was Moses rejected by his brethren and by Pharaoh, but Brother Branham, despite his vindication, was rejected by his denominational cousins. Both prophets remarried after the death of their first wife. According to Josephus, Moses married an Ethiopian princess, perhaps typifying the extension of God's covenant to we Gentiles (Antiquities of the Jews, ii, 10:2; Psalm 45:9-17). Brother Branham's wives may typify the Laodicean and end-time Brides as both Sisters Hope and Meda bore him children. God placed a judgment rod in Moses' hand, which signified the Word; and a silver sword with handle of pearl and guard of Gold in the hand of Brother Branham, signifying the Word of redemption held in the firm hand of priceless faith is protected by deity.
As a Midianitess, Moses' wife Zipporah delayed the circumcision of her son; her perversity almost brought divine vengeance on Moses who was so busy with affairs of the day he forgot the Old Testament Seal of God. Moses was a type of church organization which failed God, and as Moses died before Israel entered the Promised Land, the Church Age saints will die before the translation of Christ's end-time Bride. With reluctance and anger Zipporah circumcised Gershon, exclaiming, "A bloody husband you are to me because of the circumcision," which binds me to you afresh. She recovered her husband's life at the cost of her son's blood. This event at the inn seems to have induced Moses to send her back to her father as unable to brave the trials of God's people, and perhaps because she rebuked God's prophet. Psalm 105:15, "Touch not My anointed, and do my prophets no harm." Jethro returned her to Moses in Rephidim during the first year's sojourn in the wilderness, which is the last time she is mentioned. Miriam's jealousy was in the second year, so that Moses' marriage to the Cushite must have been between the first and second years. Like Moses' sister Miriam, Sister Hope was jealous.
In deference to the wishes of the mother of his first wife, Hope, Brother Branham disobeyed the Lord by delaying the command to travel and "do the work of an evangelist." Because of this disobedience, God took the life his first wife, their baby daughter, and his brother.
Like Zipporah, Sister Meda lost her temper and rebuked God's prophet, slamming the door behind her. The Lord almost took her life by a huge cyst that developed in her womb. Acts 3:22-23, "Moses said, The Lord your God shall raise up from among your brethren, a prophet like me. Listen to everything he will tell you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, who will not hear that prophet, will be utterly destroyed from among the people" (Heb. 'cherem').
Jesus was a Prophet like Moses, as was Brother Branham who veiled the fullness of the godhead and revealed Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Those who refuse his Message, which is Christ, shall be utterly destroyed, for they will have rejected the Seal of God, which is the unpardonable sin (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 14:9-12; 18:1-4; 22:18-19).
The Angel that led the children of Israel in their journey through the wilderness manifest as a Pillar of Cloud by day and a Pillar of Fire by night, was the Angel of the Covenant who was born in the flesh by a virgin and manifest as Jesus Messiah. This was the Angel of the Lord who led Brother Branham's ministry and vindicated His Presence in the same Pillar of Fire and Cloud that led the children of Israel.
If you are a subscriber or reader who is unfamiliar with the present truth, do not rest solely on this Newsletter but zealously exert yourself to confirm your calling and election by studying the Teaching Sermons and other resources on the Church Website, proving all things in your own Bible. Your first responsibility is to ensure you own a clear revelation of the true oneness of the godhead and are baptized in water in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins as Peter instructed the infant Church on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:38-39). Since the new birth is the Spiritual union of your soul with the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now - you must personally establish whether Brother Branham's ministry fulfilled Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7, and familiarize yourself with this Message which restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God, as this is the key to understanding God's unchanging Word. Then as you grow in grace the Holy Spirit will employ the Message to unlock the mystery of Christ hidden in the Holy Bible.
Shall we revisit some of the points which we studied in last week's Newsletter? The "rapture" commenced in 1963 with the "Shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16, which fulfills Matthew 25:6 and Revelation 18:4. As Jesus taught in Revelation 1:10 and 4:1-2, Paul explained in I Thessalonians 4:16, the "rapture" or our catching up into the Day of the Lord is a threefold PROCESS of revelation, consisting of the "Shout" of the Message calling the wise and foolish virgin out from Rome and her (once) Protestant daughter churches, the "Voice of the Archangel" which is Christ in the heart of His Bride placing the Message from Genesis to Revelation to unfold the mystery of God and bring her to maturity in the unity of the faith. At the dispensation change, Israel's Seventh Trump will signal the resurrection of the Church Age saints, the manifestation of the Sons of God and their translation, then anoint two Hebrew prophets to witness to 144,000 elect Israelites during the first part of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
The revelation of the Seven Seals between March 17 - 24, 1963 brought us the perfect understanding of the Word, "that which is perfect" or complete, which is Christ. Not Jesus the Man, but Christ the Logos or fullness of the anointed Word returned to earth in WORD form through the mouth of God's Prophet as foretold by I Corinthians 13:10 and Revelation 10:1-7.
We are living in man's day, a dispensation wherein grace is free and whomsoever will of Adam's race may receive our Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. When the last saint predestinated to Christ's Bride has been baptized into the Body, the day of the Lord, which is the day of God's wrath and judgment upon evil will dawn at the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. This is the manifestation of the Sixth Seal. Grace and the Gentile dispensation will end, Lucifer and his angels will be cast down to earth, Los Angeles and 1,500 x 300 - 400 miles of California will sink beneath the Pacific; earthquakes, volcanoes and tidal waves will devastate much of the world, and the great tribulation will have begun.
Christ comes only three times. This confuses believers who overlook the sometimes unfortunate translation of Greek into English - this confusion is magnified with each new translation or transliteration into colloquial English.
Jesus' first Coming was an 'erchomai' or physical Coming, born of the virgin Mary to fulfill the work of Adam's kinsman Redeemer, paying redemption's price on Calvary.
His second Coming was a 'parousia' Coming to incarnate His end-time Bride, bringing her into "the unity of the faith" for "the manifestation of the Sons of God" and the translation. He came in WORD form, through the mouth of His prophet as he delivered the revelation of the Seven Seals, making perfect, or complete "that which was in part." He is present now in the fullness of His revealed Word. He will come to the elect Israelites in the same manner through the mouth of their "Moses" and "Elijah" of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11:1-13. They will not, however, recognize His Presence until after the death and resurrection of these two prophets in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week. Then the nation will be born-again in one day (Isaiah 65:8; Ezekiel 39:22; Zechariah 3:9-10).
Third will be the 'erchomai' coming of the glorified Jesus Messiah in the office of Son of David to step out on the ashes of the wicked with the Old and New Testament saints for a thousand years of peace. This takes place after all life on earth and all traces of human activity have been destroyed by fire.
If you are unsure of the distinction and application of the Greek, a word study and the helpful research of Brother James Stuart Russell, The Parousia - A Careful Look at the New Testament Doctrine of the Lord's Second Coming will enhance your understanding.
"Friendly fellowship contending for the faith is as stimulating as the sparks that fly when iron strikes iron . . . so let us be mindful to stimulate one another toward love and edifying good works, not neglecting the assembling of ourselves together in church, as some do; but giving mutual encouragement; the more so as you see the day of the Lord drawing near" (Proverbs 27:17; Hebrews 10:24-25).
Christ's second (or 'parousia') Coming took place between March 17-24, 1963. The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in WORD form. He came "as a thief in the night" and He is Present now by revelation in the heart of His end-time Bride.
The physical (or 'erchomai') coming of "the day of the Lord" is yet future. It will be signaled by "a great earthquake of a magnitude unprecedented in human history. Jerusalem will be split into three parts; cities throughout the world will fall in heaps of rubble, and God will remember great Babylon, to make her drink the cup of the fierceness of His wrath. Islands will vanish and mountains will subside" when Brother Branham pours out the Seventh Vial of God's jealousy to separate the foolish virgin from the false church (Revelation 16:18-20). After a short and powerful demonstration of the Spirit, not for public show but to build our faith for translation grace, our hunted and persecuted little group will be stolen by the "Thief" - so few in number we will not be missed in the terrifying upset of nature that will come upon earth.
Be sure you are certain of God. As we have explained, the rapture, or catching up of the Bride is a three-fold PROCESS, and not what denominational punters anticipate. The "Shout" of this Message calls Christ's Bride out from apostate Christianity into new birth in Jesus Christ. It has been calling God's elect since the revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963, so the rapture has been in PROCESS for 44 years, yet not one person has been raised from the dead and glorified, but a little flock has been caught up by the Spirit into the Lord's day with both feet planted firmly on the ground.
The "Voice of the Archangel" is not heard by human ears for It speaks within the heart of man, giving certainty as it unlocks Life from the written Word by the Spoken Word, dissolving doubts and correcting misunderstandings to draw us into the unity of the faith. We still have both feet on the ground and must contend with the trials of life.
The manifestation of the Seventh "Trump" and the Sixth Seal at the close of the Gentile dispensation will shake both heaven and earth, casting down Lucifer and his host (Hebrews 12:26-27). And although the Gentile dispensation will have passed, we will neither change in the atoms nor will we be "caught up together with the Church Age saints in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air," until after the resurrection and glorification of our brethren who have fallen asleep and the conclusion of "the manifestation of the Sons of God, . . when the day of Pentecost has fully come [again], and we are all with one accord in one mind" as Brother Branham said (above).
Matthew 24:30-31 is the same as Acts 3:9-11 and Revelation 1:7 to which I shall refer: "Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also who pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen".
Three different groups will see Him at three different times. The first to see Him is "every eye" of Christ's end-time Bride. Three and half year after the resurrection and translation of the Gentile Church, "they who pierced Him" shall see Him. This revelation will rebirth Israel as a nation in one day, after which they will be hunted down and killed (Revelation 6:11; 11:7-13; 12:17; 13:16-18; 14:12-13). At that time a third but non-elect group of "all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him," recognizing they have missed the new birth; that the rapture has taken place years before without their notice, and in order to retain their names in the Book of Life and salvation they must die as martyrs in support of the Word who died in their stead on Calvary's cross (Deuteronomy 19:21; I John 3:16; Revelation 2:10).
Believers often conflate the second or 'parousia' "Coming of the Lord" to we Gentiles with "the day of the Lord." Christ's Parousia to We Gentiles and We See by Faith, Not by Sight explain how Christ's first or 'erchomai' Coming to Israel and His first or 'parousia' Coming to we Gentiles were in man's day, whereas His second or 'parousia' Coming to Israel and His second or 'erchomai' return as the glorified Jesus will take place in "the day of the Lord.
Matthew's Gospel was directed to an audience of Israelites, not Gentiles. In Matthew 24:3, the disciples asked Jesus three questions in respect of three signs:
1. When will no stone of Jerusalem's temple remain standing upon another?
Jesus answered this question in Matthew 24:15-21, and the prophecy was fulfilled by Roman General Titus. Two readers dispute that this was the fulfillment of prophecy because the so-called "wailing wall" is intact. However the city wall is not the Temple. Do they regard Jesus a false Christ because He was not "in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights" as He prophesied in Matthew 12:40?
2. What will be the sign of your 'parousia' Coming?
Jesus answered this question in Matthew 24:30. This sign will be the manifestation to Israel of the Pillar of Fire as a Cloud at the Seventh Trump, not unlike the sign of His "parousia" Coming that appeared to we Gentiles over Arizona on February 28, 1963 and featured in Life Magazine, May 17, 1963. However Israel will not recognize its true significance at the time as none of them believes in Jesus as His Messiah! This revelation will be delivered through three and a half years of ministry by the two "angels" of verse 31, two prophets in the office of "Moses," who will distinguish Yahweh Torah, the religion of Israel from "Judaism," the Babylonian impost of the Pharisees; and "Elijah," who will reveal the Seven Trumpet mysteries. The Seventh Trumpet reveals the previous six Trumpets of divine Judgment for the crucifixion of Messiah and His rejection over 2,000 years. The revelation of Israel's feast of Trumpets will gather the elect 144,000 Israelites from war and strife into the "Goshen" of Jerusalem for correction, new birth, and martyrdom. The revelation of the Seventh Trumpet will be their revelation of Christ's 'parousia,' and the birth of the nation in one day.
3. What shall be the sign of the end of the dispensations, or ages?
Jesus answered this question in Matthew 24:32-34, "Learn a lesson from the fig tree (the symbol for Israel); as soon as its branch is tender and leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is almost here. (The beginning of summer marks the harvest of the wheat Bride, the end of the Pentecostal feast or Gentile dispensation, and the ripening of tree crops such as the fig, for the day of Atonement and ingathering at the feast of Tabernacles for the Millennium). So when you see all these things, know that summer, (the end of the dispensations of man's day, and the dawn "the day of the Lord" and great tribulation), is near, even at the doors. I assure you, the generation that witnesses the restoration of Israel to statehood shall not pass on, till all these portents take place".
Israel was declared a nation at midnight on May, 14 1948.
Zechariah 14:1-5 is the Day of the Lord and Christ's unrecognized 'parousia' Coming to Israel, not His physical or 'erchomai' return to rule as King over the earth. It describes Israel's revelation of Christ's parousia in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week. And when they "see" or receive the faith of Jesus Christ they will also recognize His Wife, the Gentile Church as their Queen (Revelation 19:1-9).
In Matthew 24:21-22 Jesus said, "Until now, there has not been tribulation such as that which will commence with the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple; tribulation that will continue for two thousand years under the Seven Trumpet Judgments, culminating in the consummation of life on earth (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 19:20; 20:5, 10). And unless God shortens the time by physically translating His end-time Bride, there will be no flesh saved for the rapture".
As taught in The Rapture and the Second Coming, The Rapture is a Revelation, NOT the Translation. Its climax will be the resurrection and translation of Christ's Wife. His end-time Bride will not see death in the flesh, but those who outlive her will perish in the atomic conflagration soon to come upon earth. nl464.htm
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Bible Believers' Newsletter #462
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. An especial welcome to our new subscribers.
Thank you for your prayers regarding the outcome of the case brought against us by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Although the decision was in favour of our persecutors, praise the Lord who has the whole world in His hands, pray for those who have despitefully used us and be much encouraged in the ultimate will of the Lord (Romans 8:27-39).
From the outset I have believed God has allowed this frivolous and vexatious action for the purpose of opening the eyes of elect Gentiles among Jewry or dozing in the denominations; to bestir any elect Israelite to hasten to Israel for redemption as his Mosaic Covenant is without effect outside the Land, and as a witness against souls imprisoned now. I believe this because the hour is so late, the "Great Satan" Jesus identified in Revelation 13 as the image of the fourth beast of Daniel 7 will soon have his military in position for the sounding of Israel's Seventh Trumpet when earthquakes sink Los Angeles and destroy the Dome of the Rock, instantly igniting the "hot" stage of World War III.
Daniel 11:36-40, "And the king shall do according to his will; he will exalt and magnify himself above every god, even blaspheming the God of gods, and prospering - until God's indignation against Israel is accomplished (Daniel 8:19, 23-25; 9:26-27; that is, until after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week - Revelation 6:11; 11:1-12). What God has determined shall be done.
George will pay no heed to the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. Instead he shall magnify himself above all, and honour Satan, the God of forces, with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts, a god his fathers never knew. With devotees of a strange god he will man fortified strongholds, bestowing great honour upon those who serve him, making them rulers over many and dividing the land as their reward.
And at the time of the end the king of the south will press against him: but the king of the north shall rush against him like a tempest; his vast army and navy will rush out to bury him with their might. . ."
Brother Branham said, "Watch Russia. But that is not the main one to watch. . . an evil thing has been done in this country; they have permitted women to vote. This is a woman's nation, and she will pollute this nation as Eve did Eden. Now, you see why I'm hammering the way I do. I got, THUS SAITH THE LORD. . . Then when these women help elect the wrong person, then I seen a great woman rise up in the United States, well-dressed and beautiful, but cruel in heart. She will either guide or lead this nation to ruination. (I've got in parenthesis "perhaps Catholic church"). . . Then I seen the United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place. It will be near the end" (Condemnation by Representation, 5:35-40).
Search our Website for the excerpts Brother Tupper Saussy has contributed from Rulers of Evil, then read his book for an understanding or Rome's hand in America's design.
I have declared and this Church has presented God's Truth freely to "whomsoever will" without respect of persons, with the admonishment to "prove all things: hold fast that which is good." Because, by the grace of God we present a clear revelation of the present Truth without money and without price, we are the BEST friends Australian Jews could desire so near the end of the Gentile dispensation since around 95% of so-called or self-styled Jews (as Jesus and Moses identified them) are neither Israelites nor Hebrews or even Semitic. A great many are Edomites, the people of God's curse and enduring indignation; thus deceived so-called Jews of Adam's race are being robbed of eternity as their time for new birth, even salvation, will end with the Gentile dispensation, as it does for any true Israelite descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob not resident in the Promised Land. There they will have just three and a half years in which to receive the revelation of God's two Hebrew prophets and be born-again, then martyred by Romans and Jews. Brother Branham said Jews living in the United States will not escape. However no Christian minister is commissioned to serve the Jews (Ephesians 4:11-12; Revelation 18:4). The Message of our Prophet is not for Jews, whose law forbids them visiting any Christian facility such as our Church Website or living outside the nation state they claim as their homeland. Yet we have been attacked by outlaws on the pretext we are ministering to Jews they claim (without warrant) they represent but from whom they have withheld this Life or DEATH Bible truth.
Somewhere Brother Branham said that the United States is the greatest country since ancient Israel, its type. But after America rejected her last opportunity for national repentance in 1956/7, He said, "I don't even pray for it"! Her greatness derived from "the fathers'" respect for His Word. God blessed the children of the revolution in honour of their forefathers, just as He blessed Israel in honour of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In her apostasy the United States is forcibly assimilating aliens and pagans like Israel before her. Jesus said, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free." Truth forsaken brought Israel's enslavement. Now America is their slave as war criminal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon boasted, "We Jews control America, and they know it".
Today the apostate United States is enfrorcing Satanic "freedom" from morality and the Word of God out of the barrel of a gun to a decent people who want no part in it. According to the Pentagon's 2005 official inventory the US maintain a network of 737 military bases around the world. Even excluding the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, she stations over half a million troops, spies, contractors, dependents and others on military bases located in 138 countries, many of which are ruled by dictatorial regimes whose citizens had no say in the decision to allow them in.
One of America's great blessings, freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, is on the cusp of extinction by duplicitous politically correct hubris and the undemocratic power of minorities over the majority. Having rejected the grace of God, the United States has been brought under the curse of law like Israel her type. In Australia also, rejection of the Absolute of God's unchanging Word has brought us under servitude to the same people with the loss of our freedom of religion and freedom of expression.
Without freedom of expression man is little more than a chattel slave, an articulate domesticated animal like the Serpent in the garden of Eden. Contrary to the Tanach the rabbis teach: Goyim are animals God created in human form to serve the Jews (Midrasch Talpioth; Yebamoth 98a; Schene Luchoth Haberith, p. 250b). Brother Branham said, "white man is the rascal." Like Esau he had the blessing of headship and despised the birthright, allowing our alien-controlled media liberty to mock Christians and the one and only faith, while we are not free to express historic truth lest we "offend" a minority who promote the "big lie." Jesus said, "Blessed is he who is not offended in Me," and Jesus is Truth, the one way to eternal Life. Very soon we Gentiles will come to our place of no more repentance.
Please welcome back our guest contributor, Sister Joan Veon, a businesswoman and investigative journalist specializing in globalization. Sister Veon has covered 75 global meetings in the last ten years, and spent twelve years at great personal sacrifice to accumulate, read, analyze and write books. Her DVD, The World Government Connection, is available from her website, womensgroup.org. Her contribution in this issue exposes the present Truth of the work of the Adversary.
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This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Rabbi slams back at Jews for Jesus
Outreach Judaism, a leading counter-missionary organization based in New York, has launched a new website, offering a free, exhaustive library of information regarding Jews for Jesus’ multimillion dollar worldwide missionary campaigns, including a point by point audio response to their plans to convert Jews to Christianity.
In the last year alone, Jews for Jesus engaged in a 65-city tour – any city that has more than 25,000 Jews within it – primarily targeting Jewish youth and the elderly for conversion. To combat this aggressive assault, Rabbi Tovia Singer, founder of Outreach Judaism and show host on Israel National Radio, is now making available his 20-part tape series, "Let’s get Biblical" free via mp3 download to anyone seeking answers to questions posed by Christian missionaries. . .
Full story: israelnationalnews.com
Comment: The rabbi is correct. Jesus died to redeem an election of Israelites and others in Adam's race. As He was not a Jew He cannot be their kinsman Redeemer. Jews for Jesus are surely well-intentioned, but God will never deal with Judaism which makes Moses, the Prophets and Messiah of none effect and faith void (Deuteronomy 12:32; 18:20; Matthew 15:9), and He cannot treat Israel spiritually until the Gentile dispensation is fulfilled. Then Israel will be born-again as a nation in the Promised Land in one day through the ministry of two Hebrew prophets (Isaiah 66:8; Romans 11:25-26; Zechariah 4).
You must "study to show yourself approved of God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15). God will only receive His own Word so "avoid profane and vain humanistic reasoning which lead people into further ungodliness".
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US may back 40,000-Man Fatah Army
The US is quietly entrenching itself deeper in the sands of Gaza with a plan to back the entire Fatah-led security force. Hamas and some analysts warn that Americans will get stuck in a quagmire.
The Bush administration already has committed itself to give $86 million to finance training and equipment for the personal "Presidential Guard" of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. However, it now is considering to fund all of the PA security forces in order to counter the Hamas militia, Reuters News Agency reported Thursday. Israel, the PA and the US government have not commented.
The security forces include at least 40,000 members, more than twice the number allowed by the Oslo agreements . . .
Full story: mymarketing.co.il
Comment: This is the scenario prescribed by Ezekiel and Zechariah for the time of the earthquake that will split the mount of Olives and demolish the Dome of the Rock at the close of the Gentile dispensation. This will help provoke the "hot" war.
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Brave New World of Tesla Technology
November 5, 2005 – Professor James McCanney, author of several books including Principia Meteorologia, The Physics of Sun Earth Weather, points to a satellite laser as the tool being used for manipulating weather and stated that it is "the same technique that the Russian scientists and myself offered to the US air force in the mid 90's to prevent hurricanes from making landfall. . . now the US mil satellites are using it to attack our own country for the new world order bunch." Might this explain why, with the approaching of Hurricane Rita, Houston’s NASA shut down and went to Moscow?
Whether scalar technology or satellite ion beams, the method being used against the common man is irrelevant. (Realize that both methods refer to Tesla technology). As Americans, it is not politically correct to take seriously the evidence supporting weather manipulation, yet no amount of denial makes the reality any less true.
The controlled press will continue to blame all increasingly unusual weather phenomena on the global warming theory, the Gulf's loop current, El Nino and La Nina, and eventually the continuing weakening/failure of the North Atlantic thermocline/ Gulf Stream current. Aside from the brave few in our scientific community, those who value their paychecks more than the truth will hold firm to historical lies while being honored among their peers, and the Lorentz beat goes on.
The evidence that our weather has been stolen from us is in our skies every day. How long since you've looked up? The patterns and odd geometric shapes are there for anyone who has eyes to see. The perfect weapon has always been the secret weapon and is being controlled by those whose designs for humanity are rarely in alignment with that of the common man. . . Full story: theconservativevoice.com
Comment: Climate change is man-made by taxpayer-funded genocidalists working toward Lucifer's world government. Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, a satire disclosing the revelation of the method, Global 2000 Report to the President, and Global Future: A Time to Act, show us the importance of feigned climate change in achieving worldwide depopulation with deindustrialization and impoverishment of developed nations to execute policies of the CFR, IMF, US State Department, Trilateral Commission, World Wildlife Fund, and Club of Rome toward world hegemony.
The flood of refugees made stateless by civil wars and massacres created by agents of "the City," aimed of clearing human liabilities from resource-rich areas they are taking over also provides a means whereby they can busy "useful idiots" in the developed world destroy the homogeneity of their people as foretold by Jesus Messiah destroy their standard of living, divide and conquer their our nation and ensure deficit budgeting with usury (Matthew 24:37; Genesis 6:1-4).
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Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
February 5, 2007 – Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian PhD in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Few listen, even though I have a PhD (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and that for 32 years I was a Professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. . .
Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. . . Full story: canadafreepress.com cuttingedge.org
Comment: It’s difficult to figure out which is the bigger fraud - the UN or our media. Incredibly, the much-publicized United Nations climate change report, which blames global warming on people, has no published science to back it up.
The front page Washington Post story about the report waited until the 20th paragraph of a 21-paragraph story to state that the "detailed scientific documentation" for the claim is not yet available and won’t be released "for a few months." A New York Times account waited until the 40th paragraph of a 44-paragraph story to disclose that "thousands of pages of technical background," supposedly the basis for the alarming conclusions, would be released later in the year...
Full story: newswithviews.com
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US President orders Military to begin jailing all Civilian Protestors to War
January 18, 2007 – In yet another shocking prelude towards becoming a Total Police State, Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the American War Leaders have issued orders to the United States Military Northern Command authorizing the jailing, and military tribunals, for any American citizen critical of the 'war effort'.
These reports state that the American President has 'lost his confidence' in the American Judicial System and has further ordered his War Cabinet to begin attacking civilian judges, and as we can read as confirmed by the MSNBC News Service in their article titled "Gonzales: Judges unfit to rule on terror policy", and which says:
"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases.
"We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected judiciary inferior to Congress or the president in making policy judgments,"Gonzales says in the prepared speech. "That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country".
The American War Leaders have further launched attacks against their own civilian judiciary from the Pentagon, and as we can read as reported by the Jurist Legal Research and News Service in their report titled "US law deans 'appalled' by Stimson criticism of law firms for representing detainees", and which says:
"More than 130 deans of US law schools signed a statement released Monday expressing their dismay at comments made last week by DOD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson in a radio interview top US law firms for providing pro bono representation to Guantanamo detainees.
"We," the deans wrote, are appalled by the January 11, 2007 statement of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles"Cully" Stimson, criticizing law firms for their pro bono representation of suspected terrorist detainees and encouraging corporate executives to force these law firms to choose between their pro bono and paying clients".
Furthering the complete destruction of the rights of the American people to 'due process' and 'fair trials', the American War Leaders have passed a new law subjecting their citizens to Military, instead of Civilian trials.
According to reports from the United States, this little known law was 'slipped into' a large spending bill unbeknownst to US Congressional Leaders, and though 'seemingly' applying to American contractors in fact subjects all American citizens to Military Arrest and Trials.
The most destructive of these 'new' laws 'slipped into' much larger legislation, and bypassing the notice of US Lawmakers, has overturned over 200 years of American procedures for appointing US Federal Prosecutors, who are, according to the American Constitution, charged with being 'politically neutral' so as to afford the citizens of the United States protection against prosecution by a vengeful government, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service in their article titled "2 U.S. Attorneys in Calif. quit, critics say Bush forced them out". . .
"Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush's decision-making. "The president has obligations as a commander in chief," he said. "And he will go ahead and execute them."
Russian Intelligence Analysts in these reports to President Putin have asked, "If President Bush feels that he is not constrained by either the elected representatives of the American people, or the American people themselves, we must then consider that he, and his Administration, have become powers unto themselves and that the United States should therefore be considered a dictatorship, not a democracy". . .
Full story: whatdoesitmean.com
Comment: In October 17, 2006, Army Times proudly proclaimed that "US Army North reached full operational capacity. . . which means it is fully manned, equipped and ready to assume it's mission." (This article can no longer be found on the Army Times website). Just what is that mission? Some say, to overthrow that last vestiges of US freedom and establish a military dictatorship. Others, that it is to enforce the coming North American Union. But what does the Uncle Sam say about the purpose of "USARNORTH"? To protect Americans, of course! Full story: godlikeproductions.com truthout.org
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It's Our Turn, Our Time
By Joan Veon
Most people don't think of themselves as "living history," but we all are. While there are those in the headlines who are "making history," we are living history. It is our turn, our time. How will we impact society? How will we impact our families? How will we impact our neighbors, towns, and cities? The choices we make to be engaged or not to be engaged will determine our answer.
As a student of history, I have read about: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the patriarchs of the Old Testament; King Nebuchadnezzar who expanded his empire by invading Judah and carrying the children of Israel to Babylon; the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Empires; King Richard the Lionhearted and the Crusaders; the stand of Martin Luther against certain practices of the Roman Catholic Church; the change in a country’s banking system from one controlled by government to one controlled by private corporations known as central banks; the history of America and the fight by colonists for freedom from the hold of the British king; the rise of a group of men who met in secret to create a movement to bring the world into world government; the exploits of Napoleon who wanted to be crowned emperor of Europe; the rise of communism and Fabian socialism in the 18th Century; the Opium War in China which was begun by the British so they could control world drug trafficking; the Boer War in South Africa fought against honest people by the British and Cecil John Rhodes to take their property which contained the richest diamond fields in the world; the fall of the Czar of Russia as his country became the first communist ruled government in the world; the rule of President Franklin Roosevelt who confiscated gold from the common man and who worked tirelessly to put in place the foundation for a world governmental system; and World War II.
As baby boomers, we are no longer able to read about history for it is now our turn, our time. While the above constitutes a "first time in history" list, there are as many astounding things that have happened in the last 65 years that are also for the "first time in history."
In 1944, for the first time in modern history the finance ministers of the world met in New Hampshire to set in place a new international structure for how the monetary system of the world should be set up. At that meeting, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were put in place. While the US Senate refused to ratify a type of world trade association, tearing down the trade barriers between countries would have to wait until 1994 when the 27,000 page plus General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs was passed by a lame duck congress. A year later in 1945, a world governmental organization by the name of the United Nations was set up. Not since the Roman Empire during the time of Christ has the world seen a "global parliament." That same year, another global organization was set in place, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization-UNESCO, its goal is to change how people think.
In 1998, the International Criminal Court was birthed. For the first time since the Roman Empire, there is now an international court to try those who have committed a number of international crimes. This body has the power to transcend sovereign country borders in order to search, seize, and arrest the alleged criminal. In 1999, we were part of a global propaganda ploy called "Y2K." While we were told computers would shut down, that is not what it was all about. The whole purpose was to connect the world electronically in time for the third millennium. As a result of the attack on the World Trade Center, the remaining and most sensitive barriers between the countries of the world fell: the military and intelligence barriers. The result is that today we live in an "interdependent and integrated" world. President John Kennedy in 1962 called for a "Declaration of Interdependence." Every president since then has referred to some type of integrated world or new world order.
For the first time since Rome, the world is interconnected. There are no more barriers between the nation-states. As each international institution was set in place, the barriers between the nation-states vanished: economic, political, educational, trade, legal, communications, intelligence and military.
In our lifetime, we had the birth of television which at first was a blessing, but 55 years later has lulled to sleep a populace that once was vigilant. Furthermore, we have a citizenry who would rather depend on the nightly news for truth rather than searching it out.
While there have always been the international traders throughout history as civilizations evolved, today we have the powerful transnational corporation which owes allegiance to no country. These corporations have evolved in power and position since the 1950s and are powered by individual and institutional investors in the form of mutual funds, foundations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and 401K’s.
For the first time in history, we are seeing the rise of a global stock exchange with the merging of the New York Stock Exchange with the Euronext and the potential merger of the Nasdaq with the London Stock Exchange! Because there are no more barriers between the nation-states, not only do the corporations run wild, but it is now possible for those with large amounts of money to skim off the top of the world’s markets. Every time the market drops 100 or 500 points, it is quite possible that those who control the market, are making a gigantic killing worldwide.
For the first time in history, during the late 1990s key governments moved to put in place an international economic architecture to accommodate an economically integrated world. Part of this new infrastructure was to repeal key post-Depression laws to protect the average investor.
For the first time in history we are seeing the rise of a world governmental system through the United Nations. In the past 61 years, more international law has been set in place than at any time since 1625 when it first became a study. Every time the UN General Assembly passes a resolution, international law is made. The UN ambassadors then go back to their countries and pass national laws to conform to international law.
We have seen in our time, the demise of the role of the citizen as President Clinton put in place a structure to build on the foundation set up by President Ronald Reagan that would foster the role of business in the affairs of government with his "Re-inventing America." Citizens are no longer citizens but CUSTOMERS! At every turn today, government assets are being sold off at every level: prisons to private corporations, toll roads to private corporations, various military functions go to the most interested bidder. Although we are told government is getting smaller, the contracted out services still paid for with tax-payer dollars are rising, thus making the overall government much bigger! With every public-private partnership set up, the structure and purpose of government is changing from the "traditional structure" that we grew up with. We are told the reason for it is the level of governmental debt. How could it be that the greatest country in the world is bankrupt and indebted to the Saudi Arabians, the Chinese and the Japanese? Something is very wrong with this picture.
For the first time in history, we are seeing capitalism take over the world. Geo-political expert Terry Hayfield tells me that the only way to true communism is through capitalism. This 21st Century capitalism is not only through public-private partnership and privatization – which was orchestrated by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, but as a result of the system itself.
Capitalism is an "ism" like socialism, fascism, and communism. As such, it needs a constant stream of new products, new customers, and new markets. In other words, capitalism is like yeast and it is exploding. While capitalism has a lot of positives, it also has a lot of negatives. People are expendable. You don't meet quota, you are gone. It is ruthless for whichever company gets the contract is the company that stays ahead of the dragon that is chasing it. Government is now feeding the insatiable hunger of capitalism by selling off its prized possessions. While legislators are enthralled at the money they will get for the sale of the asset, once it is gone, it is gone! Government is for sale and the corporation is there to buy it up. Just ask the World Bank and IMF, just as the European Union – if any country wants in, they have to privatize and sell off government assets. I remember talking to a former Comecon official several years ago who did not understand why his country had to sell off their state assets! I wonder if he has figured out the massive thievery that is going on all in the name of joining the EU or in coming into compliance with strong-armed World Bank policies?
For the first time in our history and since the ancient traders determined what was an acceptable tangible medium to trade in such as gold, silver, jewels, animals and expensive clothing, the American monetary system was stripped of its gold backing. First in 1933 with President Roosevelt when he outlawed gold being owned by the general citizenry and then in 1973 when Nixon closed the "Gold Window" and refused to convert American gold-certificates held by foreign governments to gold. For the first time in history, all of the currencies of the countries of the world "float" against one another. This system allows the rich and powerful to bring countries which are not compliant into obedience. Never before in history was there a way to bring a country to its knees in a split-second that did not take an invasion of men and soldiers. Now any central bank or a group of central banks or powerful international bankers can teach a country a lesson by selling its currency. It is interesting to note that one of the reasons why Napoleon lost his foothold in Europe was that he was using gold while the Rothschild’s were using debt.
For the first time in history, foreign countries are selling American dollars. They do not want our currency! The Chinese have too much, the Japanese have too much, and so does everyone else. Under a policy devised by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, countries want to buy oil in currencies other than the dollar. The Euro, a five year old currency, has just overtaken the dollar in worldwide usage! The inflation that will ensue as the dollar becomes worthless is a real concern. In 1974 US$1.00 bought DM2.65. Today it buys E0.77, or DM0.66, a loss of DM1.99 or approximately 75% of its former purchasing power. In 1974, one dollar purchased 355 Japanese yen. Today, we would be fortunate to get 120 yen, a drop of 235 yen or 66%.
For the first time in history, we have the various continents of the world being divided up into "free trade zones." While we are all familiar with the European Union, America, Canada and Mexico are now part of the NAFTA portion of "The Americas." We the people have been left out of the legislative process and as if under wraps from us, our government has passed five major transportation bills to tie these three countries together by a new 21st century transportation infrastructure comprised of smart roads, high speed rail networks, and new "trading" routes.
This first step of joining three countries will be augmented by the other 30 countries in this hemisphere through the Free Trade Areas of the Americas. This has been done without the knowledge or approval of the majority of Americans. For the first time in our history, Americans have lost their power of representation. Unfortunately, we are not fighting a foreign king but our own political system. For the first time in our history, it is not a matter of Republican or Democrat but nationalist versus globalist. In a world without any barriers between the nation-state, national sovereignty is a thing of the past.
For the first time in history, in 1992 the United Nations changed how the world was ordered. They went from a Biblical based concept of man having dominance over the environment to a pagan one in which the environment has dominance over man. Sustainable development is dictating how the world is to be ordered. Throughout most of the United States, zoning laws called "Smart Growth" have been passed. This legislation dictates that the state in the future will only provide infrastructure for specified growth areas and that it will not support non-growth areas. As a result of this overcrowding in specified growth areas, traffic congestion has been exacerbated and property values have jumped substantially. This is a blessing for those who own and a curse for those who do not.
For the first time in history, a powerful group of insiders have found a way to control or take control of the assets of the world through sustainable development and its agenda. At every turn, the cost to "protect the environment" will levy many different types of increased costs for all Americans in order to put environmental rules and regulations in place. There is a move to convert most of the roads across America to toll roads where travelers can pay a toll for the usage of the road. Furthermore, with electrical de-regulation, "smart" meters are being installed in homes which will allow the homeowner to pay market prices for energy, be it electrical or gas. As well, smart water meters are also being installed so that we will pay market prices for water usage. In other words, the old idea of the electrical company buying electricity in bulk and passing on savings to the consumer is out the window in favor of each of us buying electricity as we use it at market rates.
As a result of the GATT/WTO, for the first time in history, our manufacturing base has been shipped to China to take advantage of slave labor. As a result, at every turn, America is being stripped of the ability to maintain its ability to provide for itself. According to Thom Hartmann of Air America Radio, currently foreign ownership for the following industries in America is more than 50%: sound recording industries; commodity contracts dealing and brokerage; motion picture and sound recording industries; metal ore mining; motion picture and video industries; wineries and distilleries; database, directory, and other publishers; book publishers; cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum products; engine, turbine and power transmission equipment; rubber products; non-metallic mineral product manufacturing; plastics and rubber products manufacturing; plastics product; other insurance related activities; and boiler, tank, and shipping container.
So how do we live since it is our turn, our time? We are not talking about living through the Communist revolution in Russia or in China, we are talking about how Americans live in a world governmental system that has already put on the backs of each of us legal, regulatory, and financial burdens. How do we live once we understand we ARE in world government and that our government is a proponent of this new world order? Where do we go since there are no new colonies to find on this planet?
Perhaps we need to remember that Jesus and the early church were birthed in the middle of world government. Jesus came to save us not only from our sin, but to provide for us a new way of living so that the cares of this world would not overcome us. I believe that the only way we can operate, given the reality of world government, is to stay close to God, invite Jesus to our life by asking forgiveness of our sins, and then asking Him to lead and guide us through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The God who cannot change (Malachi 3:16) and who does not lie (Titus 1:2), has cut Covenant with you and me. We should not be walking around in depression over the affairs of the world, when Luke 10:19 says, "Behold, I have given you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and all the works of the evil one and they shall not harm you." I John 4:17 says, "For as He is, so are we in this world." I think we are so busy looking at the worldly power and might of Satan’s minions on earth, that we have forgotten whose we are and the power of the God who created Heaven and Earth – He gave us POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions. We need to have a change of mind if we are going to be God-carriers in the earth.
Our words – they have life and they have meaning. Jesus Christ said in John 6:33: "The Words that I speak, they are Spirit and they are Life." Proverbs 18:21 says "Death and life are in the tongue." Therefore, we need to speak words of LIFE that will provide us the strength to live and endure an oppressive world governmental system. When you put the power of Jesus in your mind and spirit, you will see demons of oppression fee as the power of darkness is pushed back. Instead of thinking that we need to survive in world government alone, let us bring the God who created heaven and earth into our thinking and into our daily lives. The God who knows all, who sits on the edge of the earth watching man, knew that we were going to be born at this time in history. He knows it is our turn, our time to effect history and society for Him. (© 2007 Joan Veon - All Rights Reserved).
Hold the Token of the Life of Christ on display at all times. Hold it over your family, friends and colleagues, present it wherever you are, and sanctify those in your presence. It is our turn to exercise the "third pull" that will endue us with translation faith in the manifestation of the Sons of God during our time in the "squeeze" while the Church Age saints are resurrected prior to our change in the atoms.
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Show Me
Missouri, USA, is known as the "show me" state. However the slogan originated, it connotates a certain self-deprecating stubbornness and devotion to simple common sense of the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians, who might regard Revelation as the "show me" Book of the Bible because it shows Jesus Christ as the mighty God unveiled in His end-time Bride, recognized as their Queen by 144,000 elect Israelites in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
We are of the "show me" people Paul admonished to "prove all things, hold fast that which is good" (I Thessalonians 5:21).
Revelation 1:1-2, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to show His servants things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel (Brother Branham) unto His servant John. Who bore record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. . ."
This revelation was sealed from the foundation of the world to the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4), "but in the days of the Voice of the Seventh Angel the mystery of God should be finished , as He has declared to His servants the prophets" (Revelation 10:7; Acts 3:21). Brother Branham was the angel to Laodicea through whom Christ delivered this "show me" Message to His end-time Bride as He opened and revealed the Seven Seals between March 17-24, 1963.
Brother Branham's life and ministry clearly vindicated all Scripture foretold concerning the prophet-messenger to Laodicea. He was the "angel" John saw when he was caught up in the Spirit into the day of the Lord, which begins at the sound of Israel's Seventh Trumpet and the sinking of Los Angeles. It was Brother Branham who explained the symbols of Revelation that John was forbidden to write until "the days of the Voice of the seventh angel." And since he was the seventh angel and his congregation was John, John represents you and I, Christ's end-time Bride, to whom this "show me" Message is sent to call us out from denominational religion into maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation. So if God has shown you the revelation, wherever you read "John" in the Book of Revelation, replace his name with your own.
Revelation 4:1, "After the end of the Laodicean Age I looked, and saw the door (of grace and the Gentile dispensation) was still open in heaven, and the Voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after all seven Church Ages are fulfilled." (See our exposition of Revelation chapters four and five in Newsletters #290 to #294).
Brother Branham was refering to that secret "space of about half and hour," the holy convocation after the close of the Church Ages in which "the Bride of Christ makes herself ready" by clothing herself in the pure white linen of "the true sayings of God," which is the THUS SAITH THE LORD of this Message.
This Message not only unveils God in Christ, It exposes Satan and his children. Revelation 17:1-3, "Then (Brother Branham) one of the seven angels who had the seven Vials came and said to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore (or Roman Catholic church) who sits on many waters (or rules throughout the world - Daniel 2:39-43; 9:26-27; Revelation 13:1-10; 17:11-18): The kings of the earth have committed fornication (idolatry) with her, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her immorality. So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman (or church) sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns" - the revived Holy [sic] Roman Empire rising from the European Union (Daniel 7:19-26).
"I will show you the great Roman whore" in Revelation 17:1-3 contrasts with "I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife" in Revelation 21:9-10, and especially the conclusion in Revelation 21:1 and 22:5-6, which tie back to Revelation 1:1.
Revelation 21:9-10, "And (Brother Branham) one of the seven angels who had the seven Vials, came and talked with me, saying, Come hither; I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God".
Revelation 21:1, 22:5-6, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea was no more. . . And night shall be no more; they will need neither lamplight nor sunlight; for the Lord God will be their light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. And Brother Branham said, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly be done".
This "show me" Book is also a Book of contrasts as it reveals God and Satan incarnating themselves in opposing kingdoms:
The holy City, new Jerusalem not built with human hands, comes down from God out of heaven (Revelation 21:2). Babel and Mystery Babylon, built by man reaching up to heaven by his own works (Genesis 11:3-5; Revelation 17).
New Jerusalem brings God's glory down from heaven to earth (Revelation 21:1). Mystery Babylon "piles up" her sins "as high as heaven" (Revelation 18:5).
New Jerusalem is formed from living stones that are precious through and through (Revelation 21). Mystery Babylon wears an outer veneer of precious stones and pearls: inwardly she is the habitation of demons.
The ground or street of new Jerusalem is the pure gold of deity (Revelation 21:21). The street of old Jerusalem, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, is impure (Revelation 11:8).
The kings of the earth bring their glory and honour into new Jerusalem (Revelation 21:6). The kings of the earth submit to Mystery Babylon but strip her of her glory (Revelation 17:12-18).
The unclean and immoral are barred from new Jerusalem (Revelation 21:8, 27). Impurities, abominations and deception characterize the citizens of Mystery Babylon (Revelation 17:4-5).
In new Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit flows from the throne of God in Christ, healing the ravages of sin (Revelation 22:1-2). The blood of saints flows from old Jerusalem, and the blood of sinners flows to the horses' bridles (Revelation 14:20; 17:6).
God's blessing rests on the saints who enter new Jerusalem (Revelation 22:14). God exhorts all to depart from Babylon lest they share its doom (Revelation 18:4).
New Jerusalem is becoming the dwelling place of God (Revelation 21:11,23). Mystery Babylon has become the prison house of every foul spirit (Revelation 18:2).
New Jerusalem will reflect God's glory (Revelation 23:11, 23) Mystery Babylon glorifies herself (Revelation 18:7).
Those in new Jerusalem bear God's Name on their forehead (Revelation 22:4). Those in Mystery Babylon bear the mark of the beast on their forehead (Revelation 13:16-18).
The names of those in new Jerusalem are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. The names of those is Mystery Babylon are not in the Book of Life.
The river of Life will flow eternally from God in Christ. The river of Babylon dries up.
There is a parallel between the visions of Revelation 17:1-3 and 21:9-10 cited above, which indicates that the portrayal of new Jerusalem is to be taken symbolically in the same manner as Mystery Babylon. As in Revelation 1 we know the seven golden lampstands are not lampstands at all but symbolize the saints of seven distinct Church Ages, and the seven Stars in Christ's right hand were not stars at all, but symbolize the seven angels who are not in fact supernatural beings but mortal men sent to reveal the Word of the hour to the heirs of salvation (Revelation 19:10; 21:17). As Revelation 17:1 and 21:9 refer to symbolic visions of the earthly capitals of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Tree of Life, we find new Jerusalem, the new garden of Eden made from precious living stones, sits on a high mountain (Psalm 48:2; Isaiah 2:2-3; 4:1-5; 25:6 - 26:2; 40:9; Micah 4:1-2) as the original garden of Eden was situated on a mountain that contained precious stones (Ezekiel 28:14-16), and that Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore, is "decked with gold, and precious stones and pearls" and sits on seven mountains.
In Revelation 17:2-4, and 18:12, 16, the Whore's adornment represents her fornication with state and worldly economic forces co-operating in the persecution of Christians and the seduction of others to compromise the faith for economic and political advantage. Christ's Bride on the other hand, is adorned with the precious foundation stones of the heavenly Jerusalem (Revelation 21:18-21). This highlights her vindicated condition, which reflects not earthly security but the divine glory of the new cosmos, because God brought about her redemption, not she, herself. I Corinthians 3:5-15 refers to a divinely caused condition of Christian faith as part of a temple built on a "foundation" of the apostolic faith with doctrines likened to gold, silver and precious stones, which will be vindicated at the Seventh Trump, against dogmas of wood, hay and stubble incompatible with the precious indestructible Corner Stone, "from whom the whole Building is fitted together perfectly" (Ephesians 4:16). I Peter 2:4-7 also portrays Christ's Bride as precious, "living stones".
Noah was a type of the non-elect whose "work is burned up at great loss, though they themselves will be saved, but only as in passing through the purging fire of the tribulation." Their names remain in the Book of Life and they will live in the sanctified new Eden around earth's compass, but never enter new Jerusalem. God promised Noah, "While earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22). But for the elect within the beautiful City, which is the manifestation and "reward of the abiding work" of those whose names are in the Lamb's Book of Life, the holy place of the renewed garden of Eden, there will be no night and no seasons, just perfection. "Neither the sun nor any scorching heat shall beat upon them. . . There shall be no night; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them Light: and they shall reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 7:16; 22:5).
The epilogue ties us back to the prologue. Revelation 22:6-11 reverts to the angels of the seven Church Ages; in particular Brother Branham, the angel of Revelation 1:1 through whom Christ revealed the seven sealed mystery to John: that is, to you and me. The Kingdom of priests was made up when the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age was baptized into the Body in 1963. Christ's Mediation was fulfilled, and we know from the precis of Revelation 1:1-6, that Redemption is Over, for in verse seven Brother Branham describes the sign of Christ's parousia Coming that manifested as the Pillar of Cloud on February 28, 1963 (Daniel 7:13; Matthew 24:3; Acts 3:9-11; Revelation 1:7) heralding the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal feast or Gentile dispensation. This sign announced the third exodus of God's people out of Rome and her (once) Protestant daughter churches into "the unity of the faith" for "the manifestation of the Sons of God" and the translation (Matthew 25:1-13; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4).
Revelation 22:6, "The angel Brother Branham (Revelation 21:9) explained to me, These Words are THUS SAITH THE LORD: and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets (that is, the angels to the seven Church Ages under pre-eminence in Christ's right hand - Revelation 1:16, 20; I Peter 1:10-12) sent His angel (Brother Branham) to show His servants, (Christ's Bride), what must come to pass."
The revelation now concluded is confirmed as THUS SAITH THE LORD by Christ speaking through His Prophet in the first person. Revelation 22:7, "Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he who keeps the logos of the prophecy of this Book" as his guide in life. Or as Brother Branham commanded, "Say what the tapes say" by expressing the logos, but don't recite the letter without the Spirit.
In Luke 18:1-8 a widow whose pleas for justice were ignored, persisted until in self-interest the unjust judge settled her matter speedily. Jesus said, "Shall not God avenge His own elect, who cry to him day and night? Will He delay long over them? I tell you He will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall He find the faith on earth?"
Like the importunate widow, the saints waited from the day of Pentecost until 1963 for the return of the Son of man as Judge (John 5:27). Daniel and John were told to "Seal the Book unto the time of the end . . . but in the days of the Voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God should be finished" (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4-7). Since Christ claimed the Book, opened the Seals and revealed their mystery through His Prophet, Brother Branham has commanded us, "Seal not the logos of the prophecy of the Book: for the time is near" because the Seals are revealed. Now that Christ is here, He will vindicate and avenge us speedily (II Thessalonians 1:3-12). As Jesus said, through His prophet after the revelation of the Seals, "Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he who keeps the logos of the prophecy of this Book."
Some followers within the circle of the Message have been so profoundly inspired by the continual Supernatural vindication of the Prophet's ministry that when the Lord spoke through him in the first person, they formed the mistaken conclusion that the speaker, though in the form of Brother Branham, must be his Lord, and sought to worship "the angel who showed us these things." But He said, "Take heed not: I am your fellowservant, a prophet as you are, and of those who keep the logos of this Book: worship God. And he said to me, Seal not the logos of the divine inspiration of this Book: for the time is near." The brief span of our holy convocation is likened to "the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1), yet weighty matters press for irrevocable decision, so Brother Branham says, "What you are about to do, do it quickly:"
Revelation 22:10, "Let him who does injustice, do injustice still: and let the polluted pollute himself still; and let the righteous work righteousness still: and let the holy sanctify himself still" because your time for repentance and change is rapidly approaching its end. When Israel's Seventh Trumpet sounds the close of the Gentile dispensation, the whole world with the exception of 144,000 elect Israelites will find no place of repentance.
In response to the urgency of Brother Branham's warning, Jesus Himself comes into view as the Recompenser, pressing men to hasten to their decision. Revelation 22:12-17, "Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to render to each according as his work is. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end".
The Prophet responds, "Blessed are they who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City. Excluded are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie".
In the Message, God Keeps His Word, (p. 8:50), Brother Branham said, "When the Bible was completed, the angel came down, was talking to John. Then Jesus come Himself, said":
"I Jesus sent My angel to testify these things concerning the churches to the Church Age messengers and Christ's end-time Bride. I am the root (Creator) and the offspring (kinsman) of David (and a Son of Adam like yourself), the bright, the morning star" announcing the coming day of the Lord, His speedy advent and eternity (Revelation 2:28). The angel's Message (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7) gather's Christ's end-time Bride "into the unity of the faith" as Jesus prayed in Gethsemane (John 17:20-26; I Corinthians 1:10; Ephesians 1:10; 4:13). All who long for Jesus must come by scriptural water baptism and receive the Life-giving Spirit that flows as the water of Life from His riven side (Acts 2:38-39).
"And the Spirit and the Bride answer, Come! And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that thirsts come. And he that will, let him take the water of Life freely." (The parallel passage to Revelation 22:12-17 in the prologue is found in Revelation 1:7-11).
The Prophet adds "For I testify unto every one who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book. If any one adds to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this Book: and if any one takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Tree of Life, and out of the holy City, and the things which are written in this book.
Revelation 19:7 says, "His Wife has made herself ready." This describes Israel's recognition of the 'parousia' of their King and Queen in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week, three and a half years after the "Trump" and our translation. The full number of the elect Church is Christ's Wife. In Revelation 22:17, "the Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come'!" The "Shout" of Christ's marriage proposal is still crying, "Come! Whomsoever will, let him take the water of Life freely." This describes the present situation wherein grace continues and we remain individual members of Christ's "Bride," until all members of the Body are united with our Husband. Then the sleeping saints will be made perfect, and we "will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" as His "Wife" (Hebrews 11:39-40; I Thessalonians 4:17).
Finally, Jesus attests to the authority of His Book and the lateness of the hour since the mystery of God is finished, "He who testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Brother Branham expresses the longing of his revelated heart in a simple prayer, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with the saints. Amen".
God sent Brother Branham to show us the mystery of the Book of Revelation (Revelation 22:6, 16). The Book was designed to be read in the Churches, so there is a blessing upon every one who hears (verse 18), and upon those who keep the Words of the prophecy (verse 7). This means that every Christian must study this Book so he can receive and realize its sayings in his life. This command and blessing in the epilogue ties us back to the prologue (Revelation 1:3), and a judgment will be visited upon all who add to or diminish from the Words of the Book. Verses 18-20 thus testify to the inviolable sanctity of "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel, William Branham to His John," who symbolizes you and me. nl462.htm
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Thank you for your prayers regarding the outcome of the case brought against us by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Although the decision was in favour of our persecutors, praise the Lord who has the whole world in His hands, pray for those who have despitefully used us and be much encouraged in the ultimate will of the Lord (Romans 8:27-39).
From the outset I have believed God has allowed this frivolous and vexatious action for the purpose of opening the eyes of elect Gentiles among Jewry or dozing in the denominations; to bestir any elect Israelite to hasten to Israel for redemption as his Mosaic Covenant is without effect outside the Land, and as a witness against souls imprisoned now. I believe this because the hour is so late, the "Great Satan" Jesus identified in Revelation 13 as the image of the fourth beast of Daniel 7 will soon have his military in position for the sounding of Israel's Seventh Trumpet when earthquakes sink Los Angeles and destroy the Dome of the Rock, instantly igniting the "hot" stage of World War III.
Daniel 11:36-40, "And the king shall do according to his will; he will exalt and magnify himself above every god, even blaspheming the God of gods, and prospering - until God's indignation against Israel is accomplished (Daniel 8:19, 23-25; 9:26-27; that is, until after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week - Revelation 6:11; 11:1-12). What God has determined shall be done.
George will pay no heed to the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. Instead he shall magnify himself above all, and honour Satan, the God of forces, with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts, a god his fathers never knew. With devotees of a strange god he will man fortified strongholds, bestowing great honour upon those who serve him, making them rulers over many and dividing the land as their reward.
And at the time of the end the king of the south will press against him: but the king of the north shall rush against him like a tempest; his vast army and navy will rush out to bury him with their might. . ."
Brother Branham said, "Watch Russia. But that is not the main one to watch. . . an evil thing has been done in this country; they have permitted women to vote. This is a woman's nation, and she will pollute this nation as Eve did Eden. Now, you see why I'm hammering the way I do. I got, THUS SAITH THE LORD. . . Then when these women help elect the wrong person, then I seen a great woman rise up in the United States, well-dressed and beautiful, but cruel in heart. She will either guide or lead this nation to ruination. (I've got in parenthesis "perhaps Catholic church"). . . Then I seen the United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place. It will be near the end" (Condemnation by Representation, 5:35-40).
Search our Website for the excerpts Brother Tupper Saussy has contributed from Rulers of Evil, then read his book for an understanding or Rome's hand in America's design.
I have declared and this Church has presented God's Truth freely to "whomsoever will" without respect of persons, with the admonishment to "prove all things: hold fast that which is good." Because, by the grace of God we present a clear revelation of the present Truth without money and without price, we are the BEST friends Australian Jews could desire so near the end of the Gentile dispensation since around 95% of so-called or self-styled Jews (as Jesus and Moses identified them) are neither Israelites nor Hebrews or even Semitic. A great many are Edomites, the people of God's curse and enduring indignation; thus deceived so-called Jews of Adam's race are being robbed of eternity as their time for new birth, even salvation, will end with the Gentile dispensation, as it does for any true Israelite descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob not resident in the Promised Land. There they will have just three and a half years in which to receive the revelation of God's two Hebrew prophets and be born-again, then martyred by Romans and Jews. Brother Branham said Jews living in the United States will not escape. However no Christian minister is commissioned to serve the Jews (Ephesians 4:11-12; Revelation 18:4). The Message of our Prophet is not for Jews, whose law forbids them visiting any Christian facility such as our Church Website or living outside the nation state they claim as their homeland. Yet we have been attacked by outlaws on the pretext we are ministering to Jews they claim (without warrant) they represent but from whom they have withheld this Life or DEATH Bible truth.
Somewhere Brother Branham said that the United States is the greatest country since ancient Israel, its type. But after America rejected her last opportunity for national repentance in 1956/7, He said, "I don't even pray for it"! Her greatness derived from "the fathers'" respect for His Word. God blessed the children of the revolution in honour of their forefathers, just as He blessed Israel in honour of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In her apostasy the United States is forcibly assimilating aliens and pagans like Israel before her. Jesus said, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free." Truth forsaken brought Israel's enslavement. Now America is their slave as war criminal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon boasted, "We Jews control America, and they know it".
Today the apostate United States is enfrorcing Satanic "freedom" from morality and the Word of God out of the barrel of a gun to a decent people who want no part in it. According to the Pentagon's 2005 official inventory the US maintain a network of 737 military bases around the world. Even excluding the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, she stations over half a million troops, spies, contractors, dependents and others on military bases located in 138 countries, many of which are ruled by dictatorial regimes whose citizens had no say in the decision to allow them in.
One of America's great blessings, freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, is on the cusp of extinction by duplicitous politically correct hubris and the undemocratic power of minorities over the majority. Having rejected the grace of God, the United States has been brought under the curse of law like Israel her type. In Australia also, rejection of the Absolute of God's unchanging Word has brought us under servitude to the same people with the loss of our freedom of religion and freedom of expression.
Without freedom of expression man is little more than a chattel slave, an articulate domesticated animal like the Serpent in the garden of Eden. Contrary to the Tanach the rabbis teach: Goyim are animals God created in human form to serve the Jews (Midrasch Talpioth; Yebamoth 98a; Schene Luchoth Haberith, p. 250b). Brother Branham said, "white man is the rascal." Like Esau he had the blessing of headship and despised the birthright, allowing our alien-controlled media liberty to mock Christians and the one and only faith, while we are not free to express historic truth lest we "offend" a minority who promote the "big lie." Jesus said, "Blessed is he who is not offended in Me," and Jesus is Truth, the one way to eternal Life. Very soon we Gentiles will come to our place of no more repentance.
Please welcome back our guest contributor, Sister Joan Veon, a businesswoman and investigative journalist specializing in globalization. Sister Veon has covered 75 global meetings in the last ten years, and spent twelve years at great personal sacrifice to accumulate, read, analyze and write books. Her DVD, The World Government Connection, is available from her website, womensgroup.org. Her contribution in this issue exposes the present Truth of the work of the Adversary.
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This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Rabbi slams back at Jews for Jesus
Outreach Judaism, a leading counter-missionary organization based in New York, has launched a new website, offering a free, exhaustive library of information regarding Jews for Jesus’ multimillion dollar worldwide missionary campaigns, including a point by point audio response to their plans to convert Jews to Christianity.
In the last year alone, Jews for Jesus engaged in a 65-city tour – any city that has more than 25,000 Jews within it – primarily targeting Jewish youth and the elderly for conversion. To combat this aggressive assault, Rabbi Tovia Singer, founder of Outreach Judaism and show host on Israel National Radio, is now making available his 20-part tape series, "Let’s get Biblical" free via mp3 download to anyone seeking answers to questions posed by Christian missionaries. . .
Full story: israelnationalnews.com
Comment: The rabbi is correct. Jesus died to redeem an election of Israelites and others in Adam's race. As He was not a Jew He cannot be their kinsman Redeemer. Jews for Jesus are surely well-intentioned, but God will never deal with Judaism which makes Moses, the Prophets and Messiah of none effect and faith void (Deuteronomy 12:32; 18:20; Matthew 15:9), and He cannot treat Israel spiritually until the Gentile dispensation is fulfilled. Then Israel will be born-again as a nation in the Promised Land in one day through the ministry of two Hebrew prophets (Isaiah 66:8; Romans 11:25-26; Zechariah 4).
You must "study to show yourself approved of God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15). God will only receive His own Word so "avoid profane and vain humanistic reasoning which lead people into further ungodliness".
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US may back 40,000-Man Fatah Army
The US is quietly entrenching itself deeper in the sands of Gaza with a plan to back the entire Fatah-led security force. Hamas and some analysts warn that Americans will get stuck in a quagmire.
The Bush administration already has committed itself to give $86 million to finance training and equipment for the personal "Presidential Guard" of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. However, it now is considering to fund all of the PA security forces in order to counter the Hamas militia, Reuters News Agency reported Thursday. Israel, the PA and the US government have not commented.
The security forces include at least 40,000 members, more than twice the number allowed by the Oslo agreements . . .
Full story: mymarketing.co.il
Comment: This is the scenario prescribed by Ezekiel and Zechariah for the time of the earthquake that will split the mount of Olives and demolish the Dome of the Rock at the close of the Gentile dispensation. This will help provoke the "hot" war.
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Brave New World of Tesla Technology
November 5, 2005 – Professor James McCanney, author of several books including Principia Meteorologia, The Physics of Sun Earth Weather, points to a satellite laser as the tool being used for manipulating weather and stated that it is "the same technique that the Russian scientists and myself offered to the US air force in the mid 90's to prevent hurricanes from making landfall. . . now the US mil satellites are using it to attack our own country for the new world order bunch." Might this explain why, with the approaching of Hurricane Rita, Houston’s NASA shut down and went to Moscow?
Whether scalar technology or satellite ion beams, the method being used against the common man is irrelevant. (Realize that both methods refer to Tesla technology). As Americans, it is not politically correct to take seriously the evidence supporting weather manipulation, yet no amount of denial makes the reality any less true.
The controlled press will continue to blame all increasingly unusual weather phenomena on the global warming theory, the Gulf's loop current, El Nino and La Nina, and eventually the continuing weakening/failure of the North Atlantic thermocline/ Gulf Stream current. Aside from the brave few in our scientific community, those who value their paychecks more than the truth will hold firm to historical lies while being honored among their peers, and the Lorentz beat goes on.
The evidence that our weather has been stolen from us is in our skies every day. How long since you've looked up? The patterns and odd geometric shapes are there for anyone who has eyes to see. The perfect weapon has always been the secret weapon and is being controlled by those whose designs for humanity are rarely in alignment with that of the common man. . . Full story: theconservativevoice.com
Comment: Climate change is man-made by taxpayer-funded genocidalists working toward Lucifer's world government. Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, a satire disclosing the revelation of the method, Global 2000 Report to the President, and Global Future: A Time to Act, show us the importance of feigned climate change in achieving worldwide depopulation with deindustrialization and impoverishment of developed nations to execute policies of the CFR, IMF, US State Department, Trilateral Commission, World Wildlife Fund, and Club of Rome toward world hegemony.
The flood of refugees made stateless by civil wars and massacres created by agents of "the City," aimed of clearing human liabilities from resource-rich areas they are taking over also provides a means whereby they can busy "useful idiots" in the developed world destroy the homogeneity of their people as foretold by Jesus Messiah destroy their standard of living, divide and conquer their our nation and ensure deficit budgeting with usury (Matthew 24:37; Genesis 6:1-4).
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Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
February 5, 2007 – Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian PhD in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Few listen, even though I have a PhD (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and that for 32 years I was a Professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. . .
Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. . . Full story: canadafreepress.com cuttingedge.org
Comment: It’s difficult to figure out which is the bigger fraud - the UN or our media. Incredibly, the much-publicized United Nations climate change report, which blames global warming on people, has no published science to back it up.
The front page Washington Post story about the report waited until the 20th paragraph of a 21-paragraph story to state that the "detailed scientific documentation" for the claim is not yet available and won’t be released "for a few months." A New York Times account waited until the 40th paragraph of a 44-paragraph story to disclose that "thousands of pages of technical background," supposedly the basis for the alarming conclusions, would be released later in the year...
Full story: newswithviews.com
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US President orders Military to begin jailing all Civilian Protestors to War
January 18, 2007 – In yet another shocking prelude towards becoming a Total Police State, Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the American War Leaders have issued orders to the United States Military Northern Command authorizing the jailing, and military tribunals, for any American citizen critical of the 'war effort'.
These reports state that the American President has 'lost his confidence' in the American Judicial System and has further ordered his War Cabinet to begin attacking civilian judges, and as we can read as confirmed by the MSNBC News Service in their article titled "Gonzales: Judges unfit to rule on terror policy", and which says:
"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases.
"We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected judiciary inferior to Congress or the president in making policy judgments,"Gonzales says in the prepared speech. "That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country".
The American War Leaders have further launched attacks against their own civilian judiciary from the Pentagon, and as we can read as reported by the Jurist Legal Research and News Service in their report titled "US law deans 'appalled' by Stimson criticism of law firms for representing detainees", and which says:
"More than 130 deans of US law schools signed a statement released Monday expressing their dismay at comments made last week by DOD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson in a radio interview top US law firms for providing pro bono representation to Guantanamo detainees.
"We," the deans wrote, are appalled by the January 11, 2007 statement of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles"Cully" Stimson, criticizing law firms for their pro bono representation of suspected terrorist detainees and encouraging corporate executives to force these law firms to choose between their pro bono and paying clients".
Furthering the complete destruction of the rights of the American people to 'due process' and 'fair trials', the American War Leaders have passed a new law subjecting their citizens to Military, instead of Civilian trials.
According to reports from the United States, this little known law was 'slipped into' a large spending bill unbeknownst to US Congressional Leaders, and though 'seemingly' applying to American contractors in fact subjects all American citizens to Military Arrest and Trials.
The most destructive of these 'new' laws 'slipped into' much larger legislation, and bypassing the notice of US Lawmakers, has overturned over 200 years of American procedures for appointing US Federal Prosecutors, who are, according to the American Constitution, charged with being 'politically neutral' so as to afford the citizens of the United States protection against prosecution by a vengeful government, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service in their article titled "2 U.S. Attorneys in Calif. quit, critics say Bush forced them out". . .
"Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush's decision-making. "The president has obligations as a commander in chief," he said. "And he will go ahead and execute them."
Russian Intelligence Analysts in these reports to President Putin have asked, "If President Bush feels that he is not constrained by either the elected representatives of the American people, or the American people themselves, we must then consider that he, and his Administration, have become powers unto themselves and that the United States should therefore be considered a dictatorship, not a democracy". . .
Full story: whatdoesitmean.com
Comment: In October 17, 2006, Army Times proudly proclaimed that "US Army North reached full operational capacity. . . which means it is fully manned, equipped and ready to assume it's mission." (This article can no longer be found on the Army Times website). Just what is that mission? Some say, to overthrow that last vestiges of US freedom and establish a military dictatorship. Others, that it is to enforce the coming North American Union. But what does the Uncle Sam say about the purpose of "USARNORTH"? To protect Americans, of course! Full story: godlikeproductions.com truthout.org
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It's Our Turn, Our Time
By Joan Veon
Most people don't think of themselves as "living history," but we all are. While there are those in the headlines who are "making history," we are living history. It is our turn, our time. How will we impact society? How will we impact our families? How will we impact our neighbors, towns, and cities? The choices we make to be engaged or not to be engaged will determine our answer.
As a student of history, I have read about: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the patriarchs of the Old Testament; King Nebuchadnezzar who expanded his empire by invading Judah and carrying the children of Israel to Babylon; the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Empires; King Richard the Lionhearted and the Crusaders; the stand of Martin Luther against certain practices of the Roman Catholic Church; the change in a country’s banking system from one controlled by government to one controlled by private corporations known as central banks; the history of America and the fight by colonists for freedom from the hold of the British king; the rise of a group of men who met in secret to create a movement to bring the world into world government; the exploits of Napoleon who wanted to be crowned emperor of Europe; the rise of communism and Fabian socialism in the 18th Century; the Opium War in China which was begun by the British so they could control world drug trafficking; the Boer War in South Africa fought against honest people by the British and Cecil John Rhodes to take their property which contained the richest diamond fields in the world; the fall of the Czar of Russia as his country became the first communist ruled government in the world; the rule of President Franklin Roosevelt who confiscated gold from the common man and who worked tirelessly to put in place the foundation for a world governmental system; and World War II.
As baby boomers, we are no longer able to read about history for it is now our turn, our time. While the above constitutes a "first time in history" list, there are as many astounding things that have happened in the last 65 years that are also for the "first time in history."
In 1944, for the first time in modern history the finance ministers of the world met in New Hampshire to set in place a new international structure for how the monetary system of the world should be set up. At that meeting, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were put in place. While the US Senate refused to ratify a type of world trade association, tearing down the trade barriers between countries would have to wait until 1994 when the 27,000 page plus General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs was passed by a lame duck congress. A year later in 1945, a world governmental organization by the name of the United Nations was set up. Not since the Roman Empire during the time of Christ has the world seen a "global parliament." That same year, another global organization was set in place, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization-UNESCO, its goal is to change how people think.
In 1998, the International Criminal Court was birthed. For the first time since the Roman Empire, there is now an international court to try those who have committed a number of international crimes. This body has the power to transcend sovereign country borders in order to search, seize, and arrest the alleged criminal. In 1999, we were part of a global propaganda ploy called "Y2K." While we were told computers would shut down, that is not what it was all about. The whole purpose was to connect the world electronically in time for the third millennium. As a result of the attack on the World Trade Center, the remaining and most sensitive barriers between the countries of the world fell: the military and intelligence barriers. The result is that today we live in an "interdependent and integrated" world. President John Kennedy in 1962 called for a "Declaration of Interdependence." Every president since then has referred to some type of integrated world or new world order.
For the first time since Rome, the world is interconnected. There are no more barriers between the nation-states. As each international institution was set in place, the barriers between the nation-states vanished: economic, political, educational, trade, legal, communications, intelligence and military.
In our lifetime, we had the birth of television which at first was a blessing, but 55 years later has lulled to sleep a populace that once was vigilant. Furthermore, we have a citizenry who would rather depend on the nightly news for truth rather than searching it out.
While there have always been the international traders throughout history as civilizations evolved, today we have the powerful transnational corporation which owes allegiance to no country. These corporations have evolved in power and position since the 1950s and are powered by individual and institutional investors in the form of mutual funds, foundations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and 401K’s.
For the first time in history, we are seeing the rise of a global stock exchange with the merging of the New York Stock Exchange with the Euronext and the potential merger of the Nasdaq with the London Stock Exchange! Because there are no more barriers between the nation-states, not only do the corporations run wild, but it is now possible for those with large amounts of money to skim off the top of the world’s markets. Every time the market drops 100 or 500 points, it is quite possible that those who control the market, are making a gigantic killing worldwide.
For the first time in history, during the late 1990s key governments moved to put in place an international economic architecture to accommodate an economically integrated world. Part of this new infrastructure was to repeal key post-Depression laws to protect the average investor.
For the first time in history we are seeing the rise of a world governmental system through the United Nations. In the past 61 years, more international law has been set in place than at any time since 1625 when it first became a study. Every time the UN General Assembly passes a resolution, international law is made. The UN ambassadors then go back to their countries and pass national laws to conform to international law.
We have seen in our time, the demise of the role of the citizen as President Clinton put in place a structure to build on the foundation set up by President Ronald Reagan that would foster the role of business in the affairs of government with his "Re-inventing America." Citizens are no longer citizens but CUSTOMERS! At every turn today, government assets are being sold off at every level: prisons to private corporations, toll roads to private corporations, various military functions go to the most interested bidder. Although we are told government is getting smaller, the contracted out services still paid for with tax-payer dollars are rising, thus making the overall government much bigger! With every public-private partnership set up, the structure and purpose of government is changing from the "traditional structure" that we grew up with. We are told the reason for it is the level of governmental debt. How could it be that the greatest country in the world is bankrupt and indebted to the Saudi Arabians, the Chinese and the Japanese? Something is very wrong with this picture.
For the first time in history, we are seeing capitalism take over the world. Geo-political expert Terry Hayfield tells me that the only way to true communism is through capitalism. This 21st Century capitalism is not only through public-private partnership and privatization – which was orchestrated by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, but as a result of the system itself.
Capitalism is an "ism" like socialism, fascism, and communism. As such, it needs a constant stream of new products, new customers, and new markets. In other words, capitalism is like yeast and it is exploding. While capitalism has a lot of positives, it also has a lot of negatives. People are expendable. You don't meet quota, you are gone. It is ruthless for whichever company gets the contract is the company that stays ahead of the dragon that is chasing it. Government is now feeding the insatiable hunger of capitalism by selling off its prized possessions. While legislators are enthralled at the money they will get for the sale of the asset, once it is gone, it is gone! Government is for sale and the corporation is there to buy it up. Just ask the World Bank and IMF, just as the European Union – if any country wants in, they have to privatize and sell off government assets. I remember talking to a former Comecon official several years ago who did not understand why his country had to sell off their state assets! I wonder if he has figured out the massive thievery that is going on all in the name of joining the EU or in coming into compliance with strong-armed World Bank policies?
For the first time in our history and since the ancient traders determined what was an acceptable tangible medium to trade in such as gold, silver, jewels, animals and expensive clothing, the American monetary system was stripped of its gold backing. First in 1933 with President Roosevelt when he outlawed gold being owned by the general citizenry and then in 1973 when Nixon closed the "Gold Window" and refused to convert American gold-certificates held by foreign governments to gold. For the first time in history, all of the currencies of the countries of the world "float" against one another. This system allows the rich and powerful to bring countries which are not compliant into obedience. Never before in history was there a way to bring a country to its knees in a split-second that did not take an invasion of men and soldiers. Now any central bank or a group of central banks or powerful international bankers can teach a country a lesson by selling its currency. It is interesting to note that one of the reasons why Napoleon lost his foothold in Europe was that he was using gold while the Rothschild’s were using debt.
For the first time in history, foreign countries are selling American dollars. They do not want our currency! The Chinese have too much, the Japanese have too much, and so does everyone else. Under a policy devised by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, countries want to buy oil in currencies other than the dollar. The Euro, a five year old currency, has just overtaken the dollar in worldwide usage! The inflation that will ensue as the dollar becomes worthless is a real concern. In 1974 US$1.00 bought DM2.65. Today it buys E0.77, or DM0.66, a loss of DM1.99 or approximately 75% of its former purchasing power. In 1974, one dollar purchased 355 Japanese yen. Today, we would be fortunate to get 120 yen, a drop of 235 yen or 66%.
For the first time in history, we have the various continents of the world being divided up into "free trade zones." While we are all familiar with the European Union, America, Canada and Mexico are now part of the NAFTA portion of "The Americas." We the people have been left out of the legislative process and as if under wraps from us, our government has passed five major transportation bills to tie these three countries together by a new 21st century transportation infrastructure comprised of smart roads, high speed rail networks, and new "trading" routes.
This first step of joining three countries will be augmented by the other 30 countries in this hemisphere through the Free Trade Areas of the Americas. This has been done without the knowledge or approval of the majority of Americans. For the first time in our history, Americans have lost their power of representation. Unfortunately, we are not fighting a foreign king but our own political system. For the first time in our history, it is not a matter of Republican or Democrat but nationalist versus globalist. In a world without any barriers between the nation-state, national sovereignty is a thing of the past.
For the first time in history, in 1992 the United Nations changed how the world was ordered. They went from a Biblical based concept of man having dominance over the environment to a pagan one in which the environment has dominance over man. Sustainable development is dictating how the world is to be ordered. Throughout most of the United States, zoning laws called "Smart Growth" have been passed. This legislation dictates that the state in the future will only provide infrastructure for specified growth areas and that it will not support non-growth areas. As a result of this overcrowding in specified growth areas, traffic congestion has been exacerbated and property values have jumped substantially. This is a blessing for those who own and a curse for those who do not.
For the first time in history, a powerful group of insiders have found a way to control or take control of the assets of the world through sustainable development and its agenda. At every turn, the cost to "protect the environment" will levy many different types of increased costs for all Americans in order to put environmental rules and regulations in place. There is a move to convert most of the roads across America to toll roads where travelers can pay a toll for the usage of the road. Furthermore, with electrical de-regulation, "smart" meters are being installed in homes which will allow the homeowner to pay market prices for energy, be it electrical or gas. As well, smart water meters are also being installed so that we will pay market prices for water usage. In other words, the old idea of the electrical company buying electricity in bulk and passing on savings to the consumer is out the window in favor of each of us buying electricity as we use it at market rates.
As a result of the GATT/WTO, for the first time in history, our manufacturing base has been shipped to China to take advantage of slave labor. As a result, at every turn, America is being stripped of the ability to maintain its ability to provide for itself. According to Thom Hartmann of Air America Radio, currently foreign ownership for the following industries in America is more than 50%: sound recording industries; commodity contracts dealing and brokerage; motion picture and sound recording industries; metal ore mining; motion picture and video industries; wineries and distilleries; database, directory, and other publishers; book publishers; cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum products; engine, turbine and power transmission equipment; rubber products; non-metallic mineral product manufacturing; plastics and rubber products manufacturing; plastics product; other insurance related activities; and boiler, tank, and shipping container.
So how do we live since it is our turn, our time? We are not talking about living through the Communist revolution in Russia or in China, we are talking about how Americans live in a world governmental system that has already put on the backs of each of us legal, regulatory, and financial burdens. How do we live once we understand we ARE in world government and that our government is a proponent of this new world order? Where do we go since there are no new colonies to find on this planet?
Perhaps we need to remember that Jesus and the early church were birthed in the middle of world government. Jesus came to save us not only from our sin, but to provide for us a new way of living so that the cares of this world would not overcome us. I believe that the only way we can operate, given the reality of world government, is to stay close to God, invite Jesus to our life by asking forgiveness of our sins, and then asking Him to lead and guide us through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The God who cannot change (Malachi 3:16) and who does not lie (Titus 1:2), has cut Covenant with you and me. We should not be walking around in depression over the affairs of the world, when Luke 10:19 says, "Behold, I have given you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and all the works of the evil one and they shall not harm you." I John 4:17 says, "For as He is, so are we in this world." I think we are so busy looking at the worldly power and might of Satan’s minions on earth, that we have forgotten whose we are and the power of the God who created Heaven and Earth – He gave us POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions. We need to have a change of mind if we are going to be God-carriers in the earth.
Our words – they have life and they have meaning. Jesus Christ said in John 6:33: "The Words that I speak, they are Spirit and they are Life." Proverbs 18:21 says "Death and life are in the tongue." Therefore, we need to speak words of LIFE that will provide us the strength to live and endure an oppressive world governmental system. When you put the power of Jesus in your mind and spirit, you will see demons of oppression fee as the power of darkness is pushed back. Instead of thinking that we need to survive in world government alone, let us bring the God who created heaven and earth into our thinking and into our daily lives. The God who knows all, who sits on the edge of the earth watching man, knew that we were going to be born at this time in history. He knows it is our turn, our time to effect history and society for Him. (© 2007 Joan Veon - All Rights Reserved).
Hold the Token of the Life of Christ on display at all times. Hold it over your family, friends and colleagues, present it wherever you are, and sanctify those in your presence. It is our turn to exercise the "third pull" that will endue us with translation faith in the manifestation of the Sons of God during our time in the "squeeze" while the Church Age saints are resurrected prior to our change in the atoms.
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Show Me
Missouri, USA, is known as the "show me" state. However the slogan originated, it connotates a certain self-deprecating stubbornness and devotion to simple common sense of the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians, who might regard Revelation as the "show me" Book of the Bible because it shows Jesus Christ as the mighty God unveiled in His end-time Bride, recognized as their Queen by 144,000 elect Israelites in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
We are of the "show me" people Paul admonished to "prove all things, hold fast that which is good" (I Thessalonians 5:21).
Revelation 1:1-2, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to show His servants things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel (Brother Branham) unto His servant John. Who bore record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. . ."
This revelation was sealed from the foundation of the world to the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4), "but in the days of the Voice of the Seventh Angel the mystery of God should be finished , as He has declared to His servants the prophets" (Revelation 10:7; Acts 3:21). Brother Branham was the angel to Laodicea through whom Christ delivered this "show me" Message to His end-time Bride as He opened and revealed the Seven Seals between March 17-24, 1963.
Brother Branham's life and ministry clearly vindicated all Scripture foretold concerning the prophet-messenger to Laodicea. He was the "angel" John saw when he was caught up in the Spirit into the day of the Lord, which begins at the sound of Israel's Seventh Trumpet and the sinking of Los Angeles. It was Brother Branham who explained the symbols of Revelation that John was forbidden to write until "the days of the Voice of the seventh angel." And since he was the seventh angel and his congregation was John, John represents you and I, Christ's end-time Bride, to whom this "show me" Message is sent to call us out from denominational religion into maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation. So if God has shown you the revelation, wherever you read "John" in the Book of Revelation, replace his name with your own.
Revelation 4:1, "After the end of the Laodicean Age I looked, and saw the door (of grace and the Gentile dispensation) was still open in heaven, and the Voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after all seven Church Ages are fulfilled." (See our exposition of Revelation chapters four and five in Newsletters #290 to #294).
Brother Branham was refering to that secret "space of about half and hour," the holy convocation after the close of the Church Ages in which "the Bride of Christ makes herself ready" by clothing herself in the pure white linen of "the true sayings of God," which is the THUS SAITH THE LORD of this Message.
This Message not only unveils God in Christ, It exposes Satan and his children. Revelation 17:1-3, "Then (Brother Branham) one of the seven angels who had the seven Vials came and said to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore (or Roman Catholic church) who sits on many waters (or rules throughout the world - Daniel 2:39-43; 9:26-27; Revelation 13:1-10; 17:11-18): The kings of the earth have committed fornication (idolatry) with her, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her immorality. So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman (or church) sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns" - the revived Holy [sic] Roman Empire rising from the European Union (Daniel 7:19-26).
"I will show you the great Roman whore" in Revelation 17:1-3 contrasts with "I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife" in Revelation 21:9-10, and especially the conclusion in Revelation 21:1 and 22:5-6, which tie back to Revelation 1:1.
Revelation 21:9-10, "And (Brother Branham) one of the seven angels who had the seven Vials, came and talked with me, saying, Come hither; I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God".
Revelation 21:1, 22:5-6, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea was no more. . . And night shall be no more; they will need neither lamplight nor sunlight; for the Lord God will be their light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. And Brother Branham said, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly be done".
This "show me" Book is also a Book of contrasts as it reveals God and Satan incarnating themselves in opposing kingdoms:
The holy City, new Jerusalem not built with human hands, comes down from God out of heaven (Revelation 21:2). Babel and Mystery Babylon, built by man reaching up to heaven by his own works (Genesis 11:3-5; Revelation 17).
New Jerusalem brings God's glory down from heaven to earth (Revelation 21:1). Mystery Babylon "piles up" her sins "as high as heaven" (Revelation 18:5).
New Jerusalem is formed from living stones that are precious through and through (Revelation 21). Mystery Babylon wears an outer veneer of precious stones and pearls: inwardly she is the habitation of demons.
The ground or street of new Jerusalem is the pure gold of deity (Revelation 21:21). The street of old Jerusalem, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, is impure (Revelation 11:8).
The kings of the earth bring their glory and honour into new Jerusalem (Revelation 21:6). The kings of the earth submit to Mystery Babylon but strip her of her glory (Revelation 17:12-18).
The unclean and immoral are barred from new Jerusalem (Revelation 21:8, 27). Impurities, abominations and deception characterize the citizens of Mystery Babylon (Revelation 17:4-5).
In new Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit flows from the throne of God in Christ, healing the ravages of sin (Revelation 22:1-2). The blood of saints flows from old Jerusalem, and the blood of sinners flows to the horses' bridles (Revelation 14:20; 17:6).
God's blessing rests on the saints who enter new Jerusalem (Revelation 22:14). God exhorts all to depart from Babylon lest they share its doom (Revelation 18:4).
New Jerusalem is becoming the dwelling place of God (Revelation 21:11,23). Mystery Babylon has become the prison house of every foul spirit (Revelation 18:2).
New Jerusalem will reflect God's glory (Revelation 23:11, 23) Mystery Babylon glorifies herself (Revelation 18:7).
Those in new Jerusalem bear God's Name on their forehead (Revelation 22:4). Those in Mystery Babylon bear the mark of the beast on their forehead (Revelation 13:16-18).
The names of those in new Jerusalem are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. The names of those is Mystery Babylon are not in the Book of Life.
The river of Life will flow eternally from God in Christ. The river of Babylon dries up.
There is a parallel between the visions of Revelation 17:1-3 and 21:9-10 cited above, which indicates that the portrayal of new Jerusalem is to be taken symbolically in the same manner as Mystery Babylon. As in Revelation 1 we know the seven golden lampstands are not lampstands at all but symbolize the saints of seven distinct Church Ages, and the seven Stars in Christ's right hand were not stars at all, but symbolize the seven angels who are not in fact supernatural beings but mortal men sent to reveal the Word of the hour to the heirs of salvation (Revelation 19:10; 21:17). As Revelation 17:1 and 21:9 refer to symbolic visions of the earthly capitals of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Tree of Life, we find new Jerusalem, the new garden of Eden made from precious living stones, sits on a high mountain (Psalm 48:2; Isaiah 2:2-3; 4:1-5; 25:6 - 26:2; 40:9; Micah 4:1-2) as the original garden of Eden was situated on a mountain that contained precious stones (Ezekiel 28:14-16), and that Mystery Babylon, the Great Whore, is "decked with gold, and precious stones and pearls" and sits on seven mountains.
In Revelation 17:2-4, and 18:12, 16, the Whore's adornment represents her fornication with state and worldly economic forces co-operating in the persecution of Christians and the seduction of others to compromise the faith for economic and political advantage. Christ's Bride on the other hand, is adorned with the precious foundation stones of the heavenly Jerusalem (Revelation 21:18-21). This highlights her vindicated condition, which reflects not earthly security but the divine glory of the new cosmos, because God brought about her redemption, not she, herself. I Corinthians 3:5-15 refers to a divinely caused condition of Christian faith as part of a temple built on a "foundation" of the apostolic faith with doctrines likened to gold, silver and precious stones, which will be vindicated at the Seventh Trump, against dogmas of wood, hay and stubble incompatible with the precious indestructible Corner Stone, "from whom the whole Building is fitted together perfectly" (Ephesians 4:16). I Peter 2:4-7 also portrays Christ's Bride as precious, "living stones".
Noah was a type of the non-elect whose "work is burned up at great loss, though they themselves will be saved, but only as in passing through the purging fire of the tribulation." Their names remain in the Book of Life and they will live in the sanctified new Eden around earth's compass, but never enter new Jerusalem. God promised Noah, "While earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22). But for the elect within the beautiful City, which is the manifestation and "reward of the abiding work" of those whose names are in the Lamb's Book of Life, the holy place of the renewed garden of Eden, there will be no night and no seasons, just perfection. "Neither the sun nor any scorching heat shall beat upon them. . . There shall be no night; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them Light: and they shall reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 7:16; 22:5).
The epilogue ties us back to the prologue. Revelation 22:6-11 reverts to the angels of the seven Church Ages; in particular Brother Branham, the angel of Revelation 1:1 through whom Christ revealed the seven sealed mystery to John: that is, to you and me. The Kingdom of priests was made up when the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age was baptized into the Body in 1963. Christ's Mediation was fulfilled, and we know from the precis of Revelation 1:1-6, that Redemption is Over, for in verse seven Brother Branham describes the sign of Christ's parousia Coming that manifested as the Pillar of Cloud on February 28, 1963 (Daniel 7:13; Matthew 24:3; Acts 3:9-11; Revelation 1:7) heralding the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal feast or Gentile dispensation. This sign announced the third exodus of God's people out of Rome and her (once) Protestant daughter churches into "the unity of the faith" for "the manifestation of the Sons of God" and the translation (Matthew 25:1-13; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4).
Revelation 22:6, "The angel Brother Branham (Revelation 21:9) explained to me, These Words are THUS SAITH THE LORD: and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets (that is, the angels to the seven Church Ages under pre-eminence in Christ's right hand - Revelation 1:16, 20; I Peter 1:10-12) sent His angel (Brother Branham) to show His servants, (Christ's Bride), what must come to pass."
The revelation now concluded is confirmed as THUS SAITH THE LORD by Christ speaking through His Prophet in the first person. Revelation 22:7, "Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he who keeps the logos of the prophecy of this Book" as his guide in life. Or as Brother Branham commanded, "Say what the tapes say" by expressing the logos, but don't recite the letter without the Spirit.
In Luke 18:1-8 a widow whose pleas for justice were ignored, persisted until in self-interest the unjust judge settled her matter speedily. Jesus said, "Shall not God avenge His own elect, who cry to him day and night? Will He delay long over them? I tell you He will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall He find the faith on earth?"
Like the importunate widow, the saints waited from the day of Pentecost until 1963 for the return of the Son of man as Judge (John 5:27). Daniel and John were told to "Seal the Book unto the time of the end . . . but in the days of the Voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God should be finished" (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4-7). Since Christ claimed the Book, opened the Seals and revealed their mystery through His Prophet, Brother Branham has commanded us, "Seal not the logos of the prophecy of the Book: for the time is near" because the Seals are revealed. Now that Christ is here, He will vindicate and avenge us speedily (II Thessalonians 1:3-12). As Jesus said, through His prophet after the revelation of the Seals, "Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he who keeps the logos of the prophecy of this Book."
Some followers within the circle of the Message have been so profoundly inspired by the continual Supernatural vindication of the Prophet's ministry that when the Lord spoke through him in the first person, they formed the mistaken conclusion that the speaker, though in the form of Brother Branham, must be his Lord, and sought to worship "the angel who showed us these things." But He said, "Take heed not: I am your fellowservant, a prophet as you are, and of those who keep the logos of this Book: worship God. And he said to me, Seal not the logos of the divine inspiration of this Book: for the time is near." The brief span of our holy convocation is likened to "the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1), yet weighty matters press for irrevocable decision, so Brother Branham says, "What you are about to do, do it quickly:"
Revelation 22:10, "Let him who does injustice, do injustice still: and let the polluted pollute himself still; and let the righteous work righteousness still: and let the holy sanctify himself still" because your time for repentance and change is rapidly approaching its end. When Israel's Seventh Trumpet sounds the close of the Gentile dispensation, the whole world with the exception of 144,000 elect Israelites will find no place of repentance.
In response to the urgency of Brother Branham's warning, Jesus Himself comes into view as the Recompenser, pressing men to hasten to their decision. Revelation 22:12-17, "Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to render to each according as his work is. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end".
The Prophet responds, "Blessed are they who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City. Excluded are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie".
In the Message, God Keeps His Word, (p. 8:50), Brother Branham said, "When the Bible was completed, the angel came down, was talking to John. Then Jesus come Himself, said":
"I Jesus sent My angel to testify these things concerning the churches to the Church Age messengers and Christ's end-time Bride. I am the root (Creator) and the offspring (kinsman) of David (and a Son of Adam like yourself), the bright, the morning star" announcing the coming day of the Lord, His speedy advent and eternity (Revelation 2:28). The angel's Message (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7) gather's Christ's end-time Bride "into the unity of the faith" as Jesus prayed in Gethsemane (John 17:20-26; I Corinthians 1:10; Ephesians 1:10; 4:13). All who long for Jesus must come by scriptural water baptism and receive the Life-giving Spirit that flows as the water of Life from His riven side (Acts 2:38-39).
"And the Spirit and the Bride answer, Come! And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that thirsts come. And he that will, let him take the water of Life freely." (The parallel passage to Revelation 22:12-17 in the prologue is found in Revelation 1:7-11).
The Prophet adds "For I testify unto every one who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book. If any one adds to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this Book: and if any one takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Tree of Life, and out of the holy City, and the things which are written in this book.
Revelation 19:7 says, "His Wife has made herself ready." This describes Israel's recognition of the 'parousia' of their King and Queen in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week, three and a half years after the "Trump" and our translation. The full number of the elect Church is Christ's Wife. In Revelation 22:17, "the Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come'!" The "Shout" of Christ's marriage proposal is still crying, "Come! Whomsoever will, let him take the water of Life freely." This describes the present situation wherein grace continues and we remain individual members of Christ's "Bride," until all members of the Body are united with our Husband. Then the sleeping saints will be made perfect, and we "will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" as His "Wife" (Hebrews 11:39-40; I Thessalonians 4:17).
Finally, Jesus attests to the authority of His Book and the lateness of the hour since the mystery of God is finished, "He who testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Brother Branham expresses the longing of his revelated heart in a simple prayer, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with the saints. Amen".
God sent Brother Branham to show us the mystery of the Book of Revelation (Revelation 22:6, 16). The Book was designed to be read in the Churches, so there is a blessing upon every one who hears (verse 18), and upon those who keep the Words of the prophecy (verse 7). This means that every Christian must study this Book so he can receive and realize its sayings in his life. This command and blessing in the epilogue ties us back to the prologue (Revelation 1:3), and a judgment will be visited upon all who add to or diminish from the Words of the Book. Verses 18-20 thus testify to the inviolable sanctity of "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel, William Branham to His John," who symbolizes you and me. nl462.htm
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