Bible Believers' Newsletter #521
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
I have been approached by certain Brethren and subscribers for answers to questions they should understand as essential elements of the faith. We must each be familiar with Brother Branham's "Revelation of the Seven Seals," "An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages," "Conduct, Order and Doctrine of the Church" and His post-Seals sermons (1963-1965), proving all things in our own Bibles. These are all available from Voice of God Recordings, PO Box 950, Jeffersonville, Indiana 47131, USA, from their offices, and from Churches throughout the world.
I try my best to assist you who are nearby and you who are far away. If at all possible you should each be attending and supporting a Church that is strong in the revelation of this Message. "Iron sharpens iron," and fellowship with like-minded people or anyone who loves the Lord will enable you to exercise your Gift and be blessed, and be a blessing to that one in a million professed believers who is elect. Don't be satisfied with a second-hand religion, "Study to how yourself approved of God, rightly dividing the Word of Truth".
Please welcome our new guest contributor whose writings have been linked in the current affairs section of past issues. Paul Craig Roberts should be familiar to you as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and his article in this issue emphasises the extreme lateness of the hour.
Trim and fill your lamp with oil without delay, while the door of Mercy is open. Recognize your shortcomings and keep your weaknesses covered. Redeem the time, study while you have liberty, because the whole world is about to be turned into chaos such than men's hearts will fail in dread of trials that will soon come upon your town, your street, you place of work, shopping, school, and church—whoever and wherever you are. Take a firm grip on Christ the revealed Word now, because when the Gentile dispensation ends it will be you and the Lord alone, not you and money, you and your spouse and family.
Each of the News items this week seems to highlight a scam of some kind—all with a common denominator. Lucifer and the children of Darkness are turning off the Lights around the world as Death rides "to kill with war, famine, disease, and wild beasts of the earth".
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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Russian Intelligence sees US Military Buildup on Iran Border
Moscow, March 27, 2008 – "The latest military intelligence data point to heightened US military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.
He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran "that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost". . .
The USS John C. Stennis, with a crew of 3,200 and around 80 fixed-wing aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, eight support ships and four nuclear submarines are heading for the Gulf, where a similar group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been deployed since December 2006. The US is also sending Patriot anti-missile systems to the region. Full story: informationclearinghouse.info; Israel is laying foundation for Iran War and Saudi Arabia is reportedly preparing to counter any 'radioactive hazards' which may result from a US strike on Iran's nuclear plants.
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Obama heals Hundreds
Austin, April 2, 2008 – Ginny McCallum, 43, who has been confined to a wheelchair for much of her adult life, came to hear presidential candidate Barack Obama speak at the University of Texas. Afterward she found herself in a wheelchair access breezeway as Obama and his entourage exited the arena. The candidate spotted her, came over, grabbed her hand and pulled her up. She found herself standing for the first time in eleven years.
"He smiled at me and said, ‘Yes, you can,’" she says. "I was so stunned I didn't know what to do."
McCallum is among hundreds of people who say they have been healed by the Democratic candidate, in one of the most surprising and little-acknowledged aspects of his campaign. Reporters have shied away from the story, chalking it up to "Obama-mania" and people’s feelings of elation.
"We don't talk about it a lot, but yeah, it does happen," says one staffer who says he has seen multiple people healed on a rope line. . . Aides acknowledge that the phenomenon is occurring with greater frequency. "His power goes beyond simple inspiration," says one aide. "There is something developing here that I'm not sure any of us fully understands".
They say Obama has told them privately that his time has not yet come, so it would be inappropriate to talk about the healings right now. He says he will wait until the convention to speak publicly about the "special calling" he believes he has to lead the country. Full story: time.com
Comment: The Devil is in the detail (Matthew 24:24; and II Timothy 3:8-9)!
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An Invention called 'the Jewish People'
February 28, 2008 – Israel's Declaration of Independence states that the Jewish people arose in the Land of Israel and was exiled from its homeland. Every Israeli schoolchild is taught that this happened during the period of Roman rule, in 70 CE. The nation remained loyal to its land, to which it began to return after two millennia of exile. Wrong, says the historian Shlomo Zand, in one of the most fascinating and challenging books published here in a long time. There never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish religion, and the exile also never happened—hence there was no return. . .
According to Zand, the Romans did not generally exile whole nations, and most of the Jews were permitted to remain in the country. The number of those exiled was at most tens of thousands. When the country was conquered by the Arabs, many of the Jews converted to Islam and were assimilated among the conquerors. . . 30 years before the Declaration of Independence, [this thesis] was espoused by David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and others.
The first Jews of Ashkenaz (Germany) did not come from the Land of Israel and did not reach Eastern Europe from Germany, but became Jews in the Khazar Kingdom in the Caucasus. . . We find, then, that the members of a variety of peoples and races, blond and black, brown and yellow, became Jews in large numbers. According to Zand, the Zionist need to devise for them a shared ethnicity and historical continuity produced a long series of inventions and fictions, along with an invocation of racist theses. Some were concocted in the minds of those who conceived the Zionist movement, while others were offered as the findings of genetic studies conducted in Israel. . . Full story: haaretz.com The Thirteenth Tribe
Comment: This "invention" agrees with your Bible and is the conclusion other historians, including "Jewish" historians, and also with the ADL . . until it became expedient for them to create a race.
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The Biggest Scam in History
In nearly 100 years of existence, the Fed has NEVER been audited and they don't pay income tax on the billions of dollars they take. . . According to Congressional Record the US Government can buy back the FED at any time for $450 million. That's about half the amount of money we pay them daily.
The American taxpayers paid the FED banking system $173,875,979,369.66 in interest in just five short months, from October, 2005, through February, 2006. No con artist or group of con artists in history has ever perpetrated a scam that even approaches the scope of this one. . . Full story: wtv- zone.com Fox in the Hen house.
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The Clean Energy Scam
March 27, 2008 – several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it's dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it. Corn ethanol, always environmentally suspect, turns out to be environmentally disastrous. Even cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, which has been promoted by eco-activists and eco-investors as well as by President Bush as the fuel of the future, looks less green than oil-derived gasoline.
Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year. Harvests are being plucked to fuel our cars instead of ourselves. The UN's World Food Program says it needs $500 million additional funding and supplies, calling rising costs for food nothing less than a global emergency. Soaring corn prices have sparked tortilla riots in Mexico City, and skyrocketing flour prices have destabilized Pakistan, which wasn't exactly tranquil when flour was affordable. . . Full story: time.com worldnetdaily.com
Comment: This constitutes part of the plan of global impoverishment, sickness, famine, depopulation, and for the surviving minority, serfdom (Revelation 6:8).
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Climate Chaos? Don't Believe It
November 5, 2006 – Christopher Monckton disputes the 'facts' of this impending apocalypse and the Stern report accusing the UN and its scientists of distorting the truth in what many will see as a highly controversial polemic,
Download Christopher Monckton's references, charts, graphs and detailed calculations that expose this scam.
Full story: telegraph.co.uk Diagrams showing Earth's axis tilt has recently increased by an additional 26o according to NASA, USGS, NOAA, NWS, SOHO. The Establishment is in on this deceitful scam of Lucifer's NWO children of Darkness to strike fear into men's hearts so they can take control. As usual their hucksters are out to defraud, this time with a CO2 carbon trading Ponzi scheme.
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KURUSU BLUNTLY WARNED, NATION READY FOR BATTLE
November 30 1941 – Six days BEFORE Roosevelt's "surprise" attack, headlines in the Honolulu Advertiser read "Japanese may strike over Weekend!"
The story outlines how the US government was aware of the oncoming attack. After the attack, of course the government said that it was a "total surprise," and a massive coverup of the conspiracy began in earnest. The government managed to destroy almost all the evidence, even going into the Hawaii hospitals and ripping off the front page of this paper. However, Private Paul Brown, saw what was going on and managed to rip off his own front page of the Advertiser and hide it from the government.
This is one of very few known copies of that paper. It is hanging in the Punta Gorda Florida Military History Museum.
Full story: nationalsteam.org
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States hand over the DNA of Newborns to DHS
March 19, 2008 – Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last ten or so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states. And all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Homeland Security Department.
No doubt we can all see the benefits in testing for genetic disorders or genetic traits and tendencies that could be more adequately dealt with, in some cases actually deterring the onset of life-time illness, but that seems not to be the real thrust of these programs. . . Here in Minnesota the state tests for 56 various genetic disorders and variants. At least 1/3 of these tests produce a false positive meaning that a flaw was identified that actually did not exist. . .
Further, not one knew that they had the right to demand the blood and tissue samples be destroyed after 45 days per written request. . . Also unknown to at least the new parents in Minnesota, is that once that 45 days has lapsed, the state now claims that they “own” the DNA of that child. . . Full story: blacklistednews.com
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Mobile Phones "More Dangerous than Smoking"
March 30, 2008 – Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation. Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks. It draws on growing evidence—exclusively reported in the IoS in October—that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced. . . Full story: truthout.org
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Rust to fertilize Food Price Surge
April 4, 2008 – A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has likely spread to Pakistan from Africa, according to reports in the British New Scientist. If true, that threatens the vital Asian bread basket, including the Punjab region.
The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol production, especially in the United States, Brazil and the European Union, are taking land out of food production at alarming rates.
Stem rust is the worst of three rusts that afflict wheat plants. . . During the Cold War, both the US and the Soviet Union stockpiled stem rust spores as a biological weapon. . . Full story: thetruthseeker.co.uk
Comment: Revelation 6:8.
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Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
By Paul Craig Roberts
What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush's "surge" in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress.
The American people's attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue government, which has committed the US to costly military adventures while running roughshod over the US Constitution, failed. Replacing Republicans with Democrats in the House and Senate has made no difference.
The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic Party is as determined as the assault by the Republicans. On October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman, chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly.
The bill passed the House on a vote of 404-6. In the Senate the bill is sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins and apparently faces no meaningful opposition.
Harman's bill is called the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. "When HR 1955 becomes law, it will create a commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas. The commission will hold hearings around the country, taking testimony and compiling a list of dangerous people and beliefs. The bill will, in short, create massive terrorism in the United States. But the perpetrators of terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government agents and fellow citizens.
We are beginning to see who will be the inmates of the detention centers being built in the US by Halliburton under government contract.
Who will be on the "extremist beliefs" list? The answer is: civil libertarians, critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the administration's wars and foreign policies, critics of the administration's use of kidnapping, rendition, torture and violation of the Geneva Conventions, and critics of the administration's spying on Americans. Anyone in the way of a powerful interest group—such as environmentalists opposing politically connected developers—is also a candidate for the list.
The "Extremist Beliefs Commission" is the mechanism for identifying Americans who pose "a threat to domestic security" and a threat of "homegrown terrorism" that "cannot be easily prevented through traditional federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts."
This bill is a boon for nasty people. That SOB who stole your girlfriend, that hussy who stole your boyfriend, the gun owner next door—just report them to Homeland Security as holders of extreme beliefs. Homeland Security needs suspects, so they are not going to check. Under the new regime, accusation is evidence. Moreover, "our" elected representatives will never admit that they voted for a bill and created an "Extremist Belief Commission" for which there is neither need nor constitutional basis.
That boss who harasses you for coming late to work—he's a good candidate to be reported; so is that minority employee that you can't fire for any normal reason. So is the husband of that good-looking woman you have been unable to seduce. Every kind of quarrel and jealousy can now be settled with a phone call to Homeland Security.
Soon Halliburton will be building more detention centers.
Americans are so far removed from the roots of their liberty that they just don't get it. Most Americans don't know what habeas corpus is or why it is important to them. But they know what they want, and Jane Harman has given them a new way to settle scores and to advance their own interests.
Even educated liberals believe that the US Constitution is a "living document" that can be changed to mean whatever it needs to mean in order to accommodate some new important cause, such as abortion and legal privileges for minorities and the handicapped. Today it is the "war on terror" that the Constitution must accommodate. Tomorrow it can be the war on whomever or whatever.
Think about it. More than six years ago the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. The US government blamed it on al Qaeda. The 9/11 Commission Report has been subjected to criticism by a large number of qualified people—including the commission's chairman and co-chairman.
Since 9/11 there have been no terrorist attacks in the US. The FBI has tried to orchestrate a few, but the "terrorist plots" never got beyond talk organized and led by FBI agents. There are no visible extremist groups other than the neoconservatives that control the government in Washington. But somehow the House of Representatives overwhelmingly sees a need to create a commission to take testimony and search out extremist views (outside of Washington, of course).
This search for extremist views comes after President Bush and the Justice (sic) Department declared that the President can ignore habeas corpus, ignore the Geneva Conventions, seize people without evidence, hold them indefinitely without presenting charges, torture them until they confess to some made up crime, and take over the government by declaring an emergency. Of course, none of these "patriotic" views are extremist.
The search for extremist views follows also the granting of contracts to Halliburton to build detention centers in the US. No member of Congress or the executive branch ever explained the need for the detention centers or who the detainees would be. Of course, there is nothing extremist about building detention centers in the US for undisclosed inmates.
Clearly the detention centers are not meant to just stand there empty. Thanks to 2007's greatest failure—the Democratic Congress—there is to be an "Extremist Beliefs Commission" to secure inmates for Bush's detention centers.
President Bush promises us that the wars he has launched will cause the "untamed fire of freedom" to "reach the darkest corners of our world." Meanwhile in America the fire of freedom has not only been tamed but also is being extinguished.
The light of liberty has gone out in the United States.
Comment: In 1963 the Prophet warned of an "Extremist Beliefs Commission": "This Jezebel system, now blind spiritually (I'm saying) to the Word of God, joining themselves right into the Council of Churches. . . Everything, our great evangelical teaching, we have to forfeit that to be an organization. 'Cause all organizations that isn't in this Council of Churches. . . I got the paper on it, that even if your church is not in this Council of Churches, in time of trouble, they can use your church to store ammunition or anything they want to. And if any man is caught having a prayer for anybody, outside of affiliating with this Council of Churches, can be shot, as a federal offense. That's right. I got the papers on it from Washington. See, see? You. . . They're going to force you into it. That's why I've been against this organizational system. That's it. I had to keep it quiet about it being the mark of the beast, but it's late enough now till you can know it's the truth. Uh-huh. See? It is. It's exactly that" (Just Once More Lord, p. 10:52).
He taught that Rome and the non-Semitic anti-Semitic self-styled Jews will reach an agreement to refinance the US dollar with gold backing in the time of the second crucifixion in which Jerusalem, "which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified," plays a crucial part as the headquarters of Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. The Bible is emphatic, the tribulation will be "the time of Jacob's trouble," not the time of Esau's trouble, for "Esau has the dominion" (Jeremiah 30:7; Genesis 27:40). And until Rome breaks their agreement, the Jews will have great influence over her. The "extremist beliefs" list will include individuals and groups likely to oppose the ambitions of the Banksters behind the beast of Papal Rome (Revelation 13:1-10), her (once) Protestant image, and the United States, which is the image of Imperial Rome (Revelation 13:11-18; Five Things You Need to Know to Understand the Latest Violence in Iraq).
Dozens of organizations known as fusion centers were created after September 11, 2001 to identify potential threats and improve the way information is shared. The centers use law enforcement analysts and sophisticated computer systems to compile, or fuse, disparate tips and clues and pass along the refined information to other agencies. They are expected to play important roles in national information-sharing networks that link local, state and federal authorities and enable them to automatically sift their storehouses of records for patterns and clues. "Big Brother" has his eyes on you. . . and the walls have ears.
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The Creation of God and His One Eternal Purpose - Part II
Now is the time we should check-up, and "give diligence to make our calling and election sure" (II Peter 1:10). Peter said "grace and peace are multiplied through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord." And we are to "build upon or add to the foundation of faith, (our clear understanding of God's revealed Word), virtue, (which is spiritual strength), and to virtue, add knowledge; to knowledge, add temperance; to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; to godliness, add brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity" — "without which," Paul taught, "we are nothing," because God is love, and the love of God is Christ the Capstone and Head of the Temple of God, which is His mystic Body, and the Capstone revelation encompasses all of these virtues.
Peter taught, "he that lacks these things is blind and cannot see afar off." In other words, he is not born-again and not a genuine Christian. Oh, He may pay his tithes. He may be a minister, sing in the choir and never miss church. But if he can't "see afar off" he lacks the evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost or new-birth. Jesus said, "the Holy Spirit will, (not might), guide into all truth, and show you things to come;" enabling all Christians to "see afar off".
Grace and peace are multiplied to us through this knowledge. Knowing the things that will come to pass in our day casts out fear caused by uncertainty, and imparts the peace of God not understood by the natural man. So the evidence of being a genuine Spirit-filled Christian is a clear understanding of the revealed Word for your day—a perfect comprehension of what Jesus is doing now, and what He will accomplish in the near future. In other words, you will "see afar off." And what you see will be THUS SAITH THE LORD, because you have the mind of Christ in you.
If you give diligence to add all of these virtues, "not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer," as James admonished, then you will be established in the "present truth." God is only writing epistles of the present Truth: the Word predestinated to the Church Ages has already been fulfilled by the sleeping saints.
According to I John 1:7, "Unless our lives are manifesting the Light God is revealing now, we are not and cannot come under the blood, (or be born-again), nor even share Christian fellowship." Unless we recognize our day and manifest its Message, we are not Christians. Not even called to at all.
This diagram portrays how God's Temple (Revelation 21:22) has been built according to II Peter 1:1-12 and Revelation 2-3 as He revealed His Word "precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little." Christ's Body of all Ages is New Jerusalem. The base line signifies the foundation of unchanging faith "once delivered to the saints" as Jesus taught His disciples in Matthew 16:13-19.
The breach between the PART-Word Body and Christ the Headstone and fullness of the Word, shows the Church Ages end in apostasy by rejecting His second or 'parousia' Coming as Israel rejected His 'erchomai' Coming (Romans 11:25; II Timothy 4:2-4; Revelation 3:17-20). This breach of Revelation 4-5 also shows the "squeeze" after Laodicea when Christ's end-time Bride is rejected by the world church system and by carnal believers in the circle of this Message. The Capstone revelation is incarnating His end-time Bride in this present holy convocation to empower us to manifest the Sons of God during the resurrection of the sleeping saints prior to our translation.
From the inauguration of the Church to its translation, the Body or Temple of God has been built by nine distinct baptisms with the Holy Ghost. The dispensation of the apostolic saints represented by the double line or foundation is the antitype of the last six days of the feast of Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:6-8). As you are aware, leaven represents sin, which is unbelief in the revealed Word of God; and bread is the staff of natural life. Jesus said, "I am the bread of eternal Life that came down out of heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever" (John 6:50-53). For the apostolic saints, this staff of Supernatural Life was the faith delivered pure and undefiled by man made creed and traditions.
The "lively stones" built upon this foundation during the Seven Church Ages were created by the PART-Word Messages of the seven "angels" that formed this pyramid constellation the prophet saw in a vision, which he described to his Church on December 30, 1960 (Sirs, is This The Time?). The vision was fulfilled on March 9, 1963, when he was hunting Javelina pigs upon Sunset Mountain as explained in Newsletter #245. In The Revelation of the Seven Seals Brother Branham makes clear it was revelation of the individual "the Voices of the seven thunders" that spoke the "lively stones" of the PART-Word saints into the body of the pyramid as the collective "Voices of the seven thunders" are now placing Christ's end-time Bride into the Capstone. As you are aware, the loud clapping noise of a thunder is the Voice of God (John 12:23-29). And as Brother Branham explained, the messengers to the Church Ages did not live long enough to restore Church order and doctrine, and as no fresh manna fell in the seventh Age its messenger was to gather up the "loose ends" of revelation left unfinished by the angels to the previous six Ages.
"Now this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. One: According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. It will be these Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 327:1). This was Brother Branham's commission: it was fulfilled by the revelation of the unwritten Seventh Seal, which is the spoken Word of His Message expounding the mystery of the previous six written Seals. After the close of the Laodicean Church Age the revelation of the Seven Thunders brought Christ back to earth in WORD form (March 17-24, 1963; Acts 3:19-23; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:1-7). This was His second or 'parousia' Coming to incarnate His end-time Bride. It began the holy convocation or the fiftieth day of the antitype of the Pentecostal feast in which "there is silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" while His wife dresses herself in "fine linen, which is the righteousnesses of saints" (Revelation 8:1; 19:7-9).
As he prophesied in his pre-Seals Message, Sirs, is this the Sign of the End-Time and Christ's Parousia" (Matthew 24:3), we live in the holy convocation in which the apostolic faith has been restored and the mystery of God is finished. Our messenger is not William Branham, but the One he introduced—Christ—the Capstone revelation of the fullness of the Word. This is the mystery of the Voices of the Seven Thunders. Those who have not received this revelation are souls imprisoned now in apostate Laodicea, separated from Christ and His end-time Bride by the breach of Revelation 4 and 5.
The diagram illustrates how each of the nine dispensations was distinguished by the Token or evidence of its own peculiar virtue of the Life of Christ, whilst the evidence of the new birth of the Capstone Bride is the Token of the fullness of the Life of Christ on display in her life by a clear revelation of the fullness of the Word.
Every genuine Christian will have the evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost. This means the Holy Spirit will guide him into the understanding revealed for his day, and reveal things that will come to pass in his day. So his life will be a written epistle of the present truth—what Jesus is doing now.
If you will open your Bible at I Timothy 2:5 we will study the subject of Christ's Mediation.
A listener to our radio program said to me, "there is one Mediator between God and men, the Man Jesus Christ, and He is a Mediator for ever and ever".
I said to the Sister, this is not Bible teaching. In I Timothy 2:5 we read, "There is one God, (not two or three of them), and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." Period! It says nothing about Christ being a Mediator forever and ever. So I said to her, Jesus Christ is not a Mediator now. He has not been a Mediator since 1963 when the Seven Church Ages ended and the Seven Seals were revealed.
If we are Christians we will live by faith, or a clear understanding of the present Truth. We will know what Jesus is doing now, because He can only do it through His Body, through Christians. Regardless how dearly we love Jesus Christ and read God's Word, without faith it is impossible to be a Christian.
If we think Jesus is a Mediator today, and He's not a Mediator, it shows we don't know Jesus Christ. We may love Him with all of our heart, but we have never received His love (II Thessalonians 2:10). Unless we know what Jesus is doing now our love is not mutual, and we are not Christians. We may have psychology but we have no relationship with Him.
Now is the time when we should check-up and "give diligence to make our calling and election sure" (II Peter 1:10). The Church or Body of Christ is led by the Spirit of God which is its Head, the Word. If we are the Body of Christ we will be in the common faith or understanding, and know what Jesus is doing now.
If we don't know what Jesus is doing now we have no communion, do not know Him, are not baptized into His Body, and not born-again Christians. "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways" (James 1:8). We've got to have the mind of Christ in us, and His mind is not confused, it's infallible, knows precisely what His Word means and what He is doing now.
So "examine yourselves, whether you're in the faith; prove your own self while grace is still available. Knowing that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobate" (II Corinthians 13:5)! Check-up on yourself. If you find your faith short of God's requirement, be prepared to receive correction by His understanding.
We're going to study five questions. What is a Mediator? Why was Jesus a Mediator? When did Jesus become a Mediator. For whom did Jesus Mediate? When was His mediation fulfilled?
What is a mediator? A Mediator is a "go-between." A Mediator is one who stands between two parties in disagreement. If two parties to a contract have a dispute, a third party will stand between them, and without taking sides, bring them into harmony according to the terms of that agreement.
A mediator must understand the frailties and necessities of both parties but his loyalty must lie with the terms of the covenant. The Bible says "our High Priest understands our weaknesses, as He had the same temptations as we do, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). He was loyal to the terms of the Covenant which is the Word, and He is that Word manifest in flesh Who ratified the contract in His Own blood. He qualifies as the one and only Mediator between God and men as He is both God and Man. Therefore He is an impartial Mediator. He is the beginning of the [new] creation of God, the start of God, creating Himself a part of the material world, around 2,000 years ago (Revelation 3:14).
Jesus was a "go-between" for God and His elect, because they were not in agreement. In other words, these Christians were in error on God's Word. Of course God is the Word, and Jesus was that Word manifest in virgin-born flesh. Clearly therefore, He interceded in our behalf. The Church Age saints were in error but they were only required to manifest the Word for their age. As Mediator, Jesus received the Word for their day and placed their errors of ignorance under the blood so they could be born-again.
Why was Jesus a Mediator? Why did God's elect require a Mediator? Put another way, why were all of the Church Age saints in error? They were in error and required intercession because as Daniel 12:4, 9 and Jesus (Revelation 10:4) explain, the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals "until the time of the end," when Christ having completed His Mediation, claimed the Book in response to the call of the elders, opened the Seals, and revealed their hidden mystery to the angel or prophet-messenger to the Laodicean Church Age, who expounded this revelation in our day.
Christ was a Mediator so long as the Book was sealed. That is, from Pentecost to the close of the Laodicean Church Age, Christ was a Mediator between God and His elect who were in disagreement in the faith because so long as the Bible was sealed they had only PART-Word. Until Christ claimed the Book, opened the Seven Seals and revealed their mystery to His elect, they were all believing and preaching error. In I Corinthians 13:10, Paul called it PART-Word, which men mixed with human reasoning, or guesswork!
That's why Christ was a Mediator, and why the Church was in error.
The saints were mainly Israelite converts until the Thyatira Age (AD606). In Pentecost, "Jewish fables" were introduced (Galatians 4; Titus 1:14). Then the Ephesian Age fell from their "first love," the Word, by tolerating the "deeds of the Nicolaitans" which established a hierarchy within the ministry that stood between God and men, usurping the Headship of the Spirit. These "deeds" were enshrined as "doctrine" in the Pergamean Age when the Roman Universal church organized at the First Nicea Council. It began killing Christians and all who refused her Trinity of gods and baptism in three Titles and the faith, which was in the hearts of the saints, was lost when they were martyred by the false church; this brought the Dark Ages upon the Western world.
The last three Church Ages, or Ages of PART-Word, witnessed the Reformation of the Catholic system of worship. The Reformers not being prophets, sought only to restore the church to what it was when it denominated at the First Nicea Council of AD325, not realizing that this was where it fell.
They didn't realize Jesus ordained and recognizes only one Church. The Church He established on the day of Pentecost. Nevertheless, the last three Church Ages restored the revelations of justification by faith (not works), sanctification (or Scriptural holiness), and the baptism with the Holy Ghost.
In Pentecost and each of the Seven Church Ages, Christ received the faith of His elect in the portion of WORD (PART-Word) predestinated to their Age as revealed by the Message of the angel or messenger to that Age, and interceded for their lack of the fullness, placing their ignorance under the blood. The evidence of their new birth was written in their lives which became epistles manifesting the Word for their day, known and read of all men.
The next question is, "When did Jesus become a Mediator?" Good question! He certainly wasn't a Mediator during His earthly walk, for "without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins" (Hebrews 9:22). Prior to Calvary He was the prophet. He was not our High Priest or our King, and only potentially our Saviour.
As Son of Man He was the God-prophet who came to His Own and voluntarily surrendered His life in order to redeem His Bride. On the Day of Pentecost He came back in the Office of Son of God. Not Son of Man. Throughout the Church Ages He was Son of God, Parakletos, Advocate or Mediator. At the end of the Laodicean Church Age, He veiled Himself behind the flesh of a sinner saved by grace, healed the sick, raised the dead, and discerned the thoughts and intents of the heart to reveal Jesus Christ as Son of Man again, "the same, yesterday, and today, and forever" (Luke 17:28-30; Genesis 18; Hebrews 4:12). Then the revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in WORD Form in the Office of Son of Man (Revelation 10:1-4).
All of the Gospels foretell Jesus returning as Son of Man in WORD Form at the close of the Laodicean Church Age, to indict the world and bring His elect into the unity of the faith. Jesus is not a Mediator today.
At the start of the Millennium, the glorified Jesus will physically return to earth with the saints of all Ages, and step upon the ashes of the wicked after Armageddon has destroyed all life. He will not be a Mediator, He will be in the Office of Son of David, and as such He will be King.
Christ was a Mediator from the Day of Pentecost when the Church was inaugurated. He was not and could not possibly have been a Mediator until the Day of Pentecost had fully come.
The average church-goer thinks Christ was and is still a Mediator for everyone in the world. Regrettably, the average church-goer does not think! Jesus was never a Mediator for everyone. To start with, because of original sin in the garden of Eden, the majority of earth's population are not in Adam's race, and are therefore without a Saviour and irredeemable. Jesus was the last Adam, He was not the last Cain.
Then for whom was Jesus a Mediator? Christ was a Mediator for the elect of Adam's race predestinated to be born-again whilst the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals—that is, from Pentecost to the end of the Laodicean Church Age. He is not a Mediator today.
This is a stumbling-stone to the unthinking majority of nominal Christians, who say, "If Jesus isn't a Mediator, how can people be saved?"
Christ's Mediation has nothing to do with salvation. It has to do with being born-again. Every individual born into Adam's race is born "saved." In other words, their name is in the Book of Life. The Book of Life is the genealogical record of Adam and all of his descendents from Abel to the last soul born without miscegenation with the people of Cain. In God's foreknowledge the Book of Life was compiled from the foundation of the world, and potentially Jesus died to redeem every one of those names. But God placed each of us on free moral agency with the option of expressing His will or serving our own desires. Only those foreknown as His elect can be redeemed; their names are recorded in a section of the Book of Life called the Lamb's Book of Life, which is the genealogy of the last Adam; those born of the Man.
The names of most non-elect will be removed from the Book of Life and they will be lost, however, so long as a name is in that Book that person is "saved," and will be granted into eternal Life when they appeal at White Throne Judgment.
Jesus' Old Testament type was Aaron who interceded for the errors or ignorance of the Children of Israel. Aaron was not a mediator for the Egyptians, Moabites, Canaanites or the mixed multitude that came out of Egypt with Israel, or for peoples of the nations through which they traveled. He was mediator only for the chosen people or called-out ones. Aaron did not intercede for wickedness, but for the mistakes of believers in their service to God.
Likewise, Christ was not a Mediator for Buddhists, Muslims and Jews, but for the elect of God. He interceded for mistakes they made in their Christian walk. He interceded for their errors of ignorance in the faith.
When was His Mediation fulfilled? Christ is not a Mediator for ever and ever. Jesus was only a Mediator so long as the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals. His Mediatorial Office was to bring peace and agreement between God and His elect. His prayer in Gethsemane was not for the world, but for the elect God had given Him out of the world. "That they all may be one; as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us".
That word "one"—"that they also may be one in Us" means one by agreement "in the unity of the faith," (Ephesians 4:13). And if two are in agreement, they are "one" and do not require a mediator as Galatians 3:20 explains.
God ordained five different offices in the ministry to edify and bring His elect to maturity in the faith so they would always have an answer for sinners who inquired of the hope within their heart. These five offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher will be in the Body or Church "until we all come into the unity of the faith, fulfilling Christ's prayer that we all may be one; as the Father is in Jesus, and He in the Father, that we also may be one in them" (John 17:20-26).
Therefore it is wise not to conduct regular house meetings in the absence of a genuine born-again minister or brother who is an elder in the faith. You should not run such meetings without an elder to keep the doctrine true to God's unchanging Word, as they are likely to lead into errors that separate brethren from the revealed Word. This leads to denominationalism and confusion.
Christ is no longer a Mediator. He was only a Mediator so long as the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals. Daniel and Jesus said It would be sealed to the time of the end, "but in the days of the Voice of the angel or prophet-messenger to the Laodicean Church Age, the mystery of God as spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began, should be revealed" (Acts 3:21; Revelation 10:7; I Corinthians 13:10).
That angel was the prophet William Branham. His ministry restored the apostolic faith, finished the mystery of God, and is now calling Christ's people out of the world church system, into the unity of the faith, for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
In Revelation chapter five, after the end of the Seven Church Ages, the elders advertised for a Kinsman Redeemer. John wept because no man living, or who had ever lived, was worthy to open the Book or even look thereon. Then the elders announced, "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has prevailed. He overcome in the garden of Gethsemane, and He is worthy".
John looked back to see a Lion, but saw the bleeding, bloody Lamb, coming from the sacrifice altar where for 2,000 years His body lay as a memorial while as High Priest He interceded for the errors of the Church Age saints. As the Lamb He was our propitiation and Mediator. As the Lion He is King of kings and Judge.
In Revelation chapter four we saw that the Seven Church Ages and Christ's Mediation were over, and the seven portions of the Spirit that baptized the part-Word saints into the Body, had left the earth. They were back before the throne which was no longer a Mercy seat as there is no more blood. It was now a judgment seat on which an angry God sat enthroned, holding the seven-sealed Book of Life.
In Revelation chapter five, Christ took the Book which is the Title deed to all He had redeemed. He tore open the Seven Seals and sat down as Judge. No longer is He in the Office of Son of God and Mediator. Now He is Son of Man and Judge as foretold in John 5:27, and the other Gospels.
This explains why the denominationals jump up and down, and speak in tongues, yet receive no new birth. They believe Christ is still Son of God and Mediator, when He is Son of Man and Judge.
After the close of the Seven Church Ages, Brother Branham stood in the breach between the Capstone and the sealed Body of the Church Age saints as mediator for the Capstone Bride to deliver us "the keys of hell and of death," our "key to the kingdom of heaven" or new birth and to the body change. It is the unsealed revelation of Jesus Christ contained in the mystery of the Voices of the Seven Thunders John was told not to write (Revelation 10:4; 22:10).
Now the Capstone, that "stumblingstone and rock of offence to both the houses of Israel" has been put out of "the house of His friends" in this generation (Romans 11:32; Revelation 3:20). Still the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16, which is the "midnight cry" of Matthew 25:6 confirmed by the heavenly Voice of Revelation 18:4, has called wise virgin out of Babylon into Christ, uniting the Head with the Body, and the Voice of the Archangel is bringing His end-time Bride to maturity in the unity of the faith to manifest that we are the Sons of God and instill translation faith.
Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7 were all fulfilled in 1963. When the last saint foreknown in the Laodicean or Pentecostal Church Age was baptized into the Body and Christ's ministry of Mediation was fulfilled. Christ was only a Mediator so long as the Bible was sealed. He is not a Mediator today.
The elect of this day do not require a Mediator. Along with the 144,000 elect Israelites we were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary because we were predestinated to be reborn after the seven thunders had unveiled the mighty God in plain view. Since that which is perfect has come—Christ, the fullness of the Word—PART-Word and a Mediator have been done away.
Please remember that throughout the Book of Revelation, John represents Christ's end-time Bride because God revealed this mystery to Jesus after His ascension, and Jesus revealed it to only one other man— William Branham, the angel to the seventh Church Age (Revelation 1:1; 3:14; 10:7). Like Christ' end-time Bride, John was caught up in the Spirit into the Lord's day, which commences with the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet and manifestation of the Sixth Seal at the close of the Gentile dispensation. In these visions John looked back in time to 1963 where he saw and heard Brother Branham revealing the Seven Seals. Taking notes as instructed, and signifying what he saw by Old Testament symbols, he was about to record the full details of the voices of the seven thunders as Brother Branham revealed them, when the Lord commanded "Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. . . but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He has declared to His servants the prophets." So you see John represents Christ's end time Bride because we are the only ones for whom this mystery is predestinated.
Revelation 10:8-11, "After Brother Branham had finished the mystery of the voices of the Seven Thunders, the Voice which [ insert your name here if you are in Christ's end-time Bride ] heard from heaven commanding John "seal up the voices of the Seven Thunders" addressed me again and said, "Go and take the little Book that is open in the hand of Christ, the Angel of Revelation 10:1-4, who stands in judgment upon Rome, the beast from the sea and upon the its United States image, the beast from the earth."
"So I went to the Angel and said, Give me the little Book. And He said, "Take it, and become one with its Message, which will be difficult to receive, but a blessing to share with others." So I took the little Book out of the Angel's hand, and became one with the revelation of the Seven Thunders; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey, but as soon as I had received it, my belly was bitter for I was accountable and bound to bring my life subject to its revelation. Then He told me, "You must share this Message concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings".
Revelation 10:8-11 is the ministry of every member of Christ's end-time Bride, for the Life must pass through the Body. Note carefully that the heavenly Voice inspiring revelation of Jesus Christ to John, that is, to you, Christ's end-time Bride who will not see death, is the Voice of God that revealed the true identity of Jesus Christ to saint Peter (Matthew 16:17). This is your personal confirmation Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever, that the faith once delivered unto the saints—the rock of Spiritual revelation from the Father of the Son—has been restored and that the your name is in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Let us check up on what we are believing. If we do not understand what we believe, we are without the faith and our knowledge of the quotes of Brother Branham's Message is in vain. Let us study to show ourselves approved of God, not man, rightly dividing the spoken Word to recognize our day and its Message in the written Word. radio087.htm (revised)
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The Creation of God and His One Eternal Purpose - Part I
Bible Believers' Newsletter #520
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
There is no such thing as "God in three persons, blessed Trinity," or a "blessed three in One," for God is One person making Himself manifest in "thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand" in One by His Word, which is Spirit in a form we can receive by faith (Daniel 7:10; Revelation 5:11; 9:16). This was Jesus' prayer in the garden of Gethsemane (John 17:20-26). The greatest revelation is the supreme Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our main article in this issue lays a Scriptural foundation teaching "The Creation of God and His One Eternal Purpose," which explains the Bible as the story of God unfolding Himself or changing His form from the eternal Spirit—alone with His thoughts—to the manifestation of those thoughts in the flesh of His glorified Family.
After you have proven this teaching in your own Bible and found it helpful, please forward it to friends who may be loosed from chains of denominational traditions if they read and understand its Message (John 8:32).
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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Iran a Nuclear Threat, Bush Insists
March 21, 2008 – The president spoke in an interview intended to reach out to the Iranian public on the Persian new year and to express "moral support" for struggling freedom movements, particularly among youth and women. It was designed to stress US support for Iran's quest for nuclear energy and the prospects that Washington and Tehran can "reconcile their differences" if Iran cooperates with the international community to ensure that the effort is not converted into a weapons program.
But most striking was Bush's accusation that Iran has openly declared its nuclear weapons intentions, even though a National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had stopped its weapons program in 2003, a major reversal in the long-standing US assessment. "They've declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people—some in the Middle East. And that's unacceptable to the United States, and it's unacceptable to the world," Bush told US-funded Radio Farda, which broadcasts into Iran in Farsi.
Experts on Iran and nuclear proliferation said the president's statement was wrong. "That's as uninformed as [Sen. John] McCain's statement that Iran is training al-Qaeda. Iran has never said it wanted a nuclear weapon for any reason. It's just not true. It's a little troubling that the president and the leading Republican candidate are both so wrong about Iran. . ." Full story: truthout.org
Comment: Everything is running according to plan. A statement by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan confirms, 'the City' has created division among Muslims in the Middle East; UN "peacekeepers"—and in Newspeak "peace" means "war"—are overextended and unable to take over US mayhem in Afghanistan or Iraq, much less Iran. The men from "Uncle" have created intentional chaos from which they plan to establish Lucifer's new worldly order. George II must make his move before his term expires.
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The Gentlemen's Bailout
March 20, 2008 – The Federal Reserve's announcement of an open-ended bail-out for Wall Street's endangered financial firms and banks opens an ominous new chapter in what might be called "market socialism with American characteristics." If Washington tries to do something for "losers" who are ordinary citizens, financial titans complain about violating free-market principles. When the titans themselves are going down, they rush to their patrons at the central bank and demand extraordinary relief. Government must save the big money, we are told, for the overall good of the economy. Thus, the financial system's reckless losses—approaching $1 trillion but probably far more—are being "socialized," dumped on the public, the very people victimized by its snares and falsified valuations.
Put aside the obvious hypocrisy and greed. This nation is on the brink of a historic catastrophe. It requires emergency responses from the federal government on a scale not seen since the Great Depression and the New Deal, the subject of this special issue. Yet the rescue party is composed of the same people who co-wrote this disaster. They are, first, the financiers who indulged their own appetites for extreme wealth and enlarged a financial system of esoteric fakery that inflated prices and profits. Second, the close collaborators were the Federal Reserve and other authorities who blessed this dangerous concoction and declined to enforce prudential standards.
Now the hoax is falling apart. Many millions of innocents, here and around the world, will suffer painful consequences. The authorities, meanwhile, are trying to "save the system" by propping up failure. . . Full story: thenation.com
Comment: This is what Brother Branham said in 1963 with respect to the oncoming collapse of the US dollar, world financial system and economy: "I believe the time will come when we're forced to make the issue. And when it will be, that instead of us changing the currency. . . What would that do to the Philip Morris? What would that do to the whiskey companies? What would that do to the steel industry? What would that do to all the commerce? . . . It would break them. They'd be broke. But if we can borrow that money. . . See how smart he is? Then the nation sells out to the church and then church and state is united again, and there she comes. See? That's it (COD, p. 506:3).
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Brother Branham's 1933 Vision
In 1933 the Lord showed Brother Branham seven continuous visions. The fourth vision said, "And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg. And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that. . . They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, look like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn't have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that"? (COD, p. 923:17; The Boy Scouts of America Boy's Life Magazine, October 1990).
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Mr. Death: the Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr.
"Mr. Death" is a stylized documentary that deals with the life and work of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a US Federal Court qualified expert in execution technology. On the basis of his qualifications, in 1988 Leuchter was commissioned by German-Canadian publisher Ernst Zundel to conduct the first thorough forensic examination of the alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. After Leuchter testified that the alleged facilities were not—and could not have been— used for mass extermination, Jewish activists ruined his life.
Leuchter comes across just as straightforward and guileless on film as he is in real life. As a result, some viewers of earlier versions at the Sundance Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and Harvard University began to question the Holocaust extermination stories they'd been told, while others suspected that Morris himself might have been converted to Holocaust revisionism. At the eleventh hour, Morris re-edited the film in an effort to emphasize his anti-revisionist point of view. Character assassination aside, the question remains as to whether or not Leuchter's findings regarding the alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau are correct. Full story: video.google.com (1 hr. 31 mins).
Comment: Truth does not need prevarication! "Camp museum officials have downwardly revised the Auschwitz death toll from four million in 1945 to just over one million in 2005. According to Russian archives, the real number of inmates who died there was 73,137 and the gas chamber you see on show today was built in 1948 to back up the Shoah narrative, which stipulates a 'holocaust', meaning a 'burnt offering' as a sacrifice to their conception of God. . . The sacred number cannot be abnegated, for it is upon that Kabbalistic figure that the state of Israel derives its mystical, Judeo-Masonic justification." See truthtellers.org.
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The Ruthless American Empire
March 14, 2008 – [W]hy has this country been instrumental in bringing down close to 50 governments of other nations? Why did we finance the overthrow of Hugo Chavez in 2002 only to see his people rise up and re-install him? Why is Hugo Chavez, a man that works for the poorest of his country, so savagely attacked by the Empire? The reason is because like Fidel Castro, he won't play the Washington game. He won't sell his nation's resources to the Empire for pennies on the dollar. Is he a threat to you? Is he a threat to any average American? The answer is obvious, but he is a threat to the multi-national oil cartel. The people controlling this Empire's government will tell you any number of lies to watch out for their interests.
Why are we fighting in Iraq? Were we ever afraid of Saddam? Give me a break. We are fighting over there to pay for Lockheed-Martin and all the other defense contractors' budgets. We are in Iraq to give the Empire military bases to control the Persian Gulf and to assert our presence to insure our interests. We care not for the people of Iraq, nor do we care for the soldiers that die on command. This is just another example of Empire at its most malicious. Killing, according to some estimates, over a million Iraqi's and almost 4,000 American soldiers that die on the ground, soldiers who died in the air on a medi-vac didn't make the count. We have destroyed their infrastructure and now pay Halliburton, Cheney's company, to put the country back together with no-bid contracts.
We threaten Iran with attack for having the audacity to build a nuclear power reactor. The Empire which once overthrew their infant democracy and re-installed the Shah, now tells the people of Iran what they can and cannot do. Meanwhile the Empire is selling nuclear secrets to India and Turkey and is the world's foremost owner of nuclear weaponry. How insane is this logic? . . Full story: plutocracyagainstdemocracy Comment: Revelation 13:11-18.
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The Creation of God and His One Eternal Purpose - Part I
The Holy Bible is the story of God unfolding Himself or changing His form from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts—through faith in the spoken Word—to the manifestation of those thoughts in the flesh of His glorified Family, of whom Jesus Christ is firstborn.
The Logos and God: John 1:1-2, "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God Himself. He existed in the beginning with God" — as His eternal thoughts, which are the Attributes of Himself.
What was God doing in eternity before material creation? As these two verses explain, God was thinking (Psalm 119:89). God was alone with His thoughts. Verse one reveals the Logos is eternal with God, did not "become" God but is God and therefore Divine, whereas verse two demonstrates the true Oneness—not twoness or threeness—of the godhead.
Let me ask you, "Are the thoughts of God eternal?" If you can see this, you will see many things. God is unchangeable in both essence and behavior. . . God is infinite in His abilities so therefore He as God must be omniscient. If He is omniscient, then He is not now learning, nor is He taking counsel even with Himself, nor is He at any time adding to His knowledge (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 149:3).
His thoughts are eternal and they are real and will come to pass in their designated and decreed season and time. A word is a thought when it is expressed and the Greek word Logos means "thought in speech," or concept. But God cannot speak without the faculty of reason, nor think without words in His mind, whether uttered or not, so before time began God was alone with the sum of all wisdom and knowledge—plus His eternal thoughts yet unexpressed in creation.
Proverbs 23:7, "As one thinks in his heart, so is he." Therefore God's thoughts are the Attributes of what He is, what He will be and what He will be understood to be. They are His glory. The unseen God began gathering glory to Himself by manifesting the Logos (John 17:5; I John 1:1-2). Were we able to look back to the beginning with eyes of Supernatural seeing we would see a small Light forming. God was giving birth to His Son. It was the visible manifestation of the Logos Ezekiel described as "the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord" or Shekinah.
Simultaneously material creation began to manifest ex nihilo as an immense fiery Sun was born, ejecting parts of itself into space to conceive the planets, stars and suns of countless galaxies as the Shekinah has divides and emptied itself (Gk. 'kenos') into God's children from the inauguration of Christ's Church on the day of Pentecost.
The Logos and the World: John 1:3, "Through Him everything came into being and nothing that exists came into being except through Him".
The Logos was from eternity and is the source of the beginning. If He did not have eternal existence before the beginning, there could have been no beginning (Colossians 1:16-19; Psalm 33:6). He was the Shekinah Light and glory of God that shone in the darkness of chaos, the principle that commanded order (Genesis 1:1-2).
The Logos and Mankind: John 1:4, "In Him is pure Life; and the Life was the Light of men".
God and the Logos are eternal Spirit, and as we read in Hebrews 7:3, "Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life. . ." Although it is true, when the Logos manifest as Light at creation God was giving birth to His Son. On the other hand "God is not a man, that He should lie; or a son of man, that He should change His mind (Malachi 3:6; Numbers 23:19), but Jesus was a Man "born of a virgin;" He had both father and mother, a time He began, and a time when He died. Now He is alive forevermore.
The key word to understanding Jesus Messiah and the great eternal Spirit is "manifestation." The Logos was from eternity and the fullness of the nature and character of God were manifest in that Man from Galilee. Colossians 2:9-10, "In Christ dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And you are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority".
There is only one eternal, and that is God. If you have eternal Life you always were eternal as an Attribute of God in Christ the Logos, though not expressed until your designated and decreed season and time to act out or manifest the Word for your day (II Corinthians 3:1-5; Ephesians 1:4; Revelation 3:14). Whereas Jesus was given the Spirit in unlimited measure (John 3:34) to "declare" or unveil God in His Life and teachings, we have the Spirit by measure. So all of His Attributes God poured or transformed ('kenos') into Christ, and all Christ is He is pouring or transforming into the corporate Body of His Church. Thus the fullness of God's Attributes are manifest in the many membered Bride of all Ages as they are in our Head, the Lord Jesus Christ. And in the new heavens and new earth God will be worshipped throughout eternity in the form of His glorified Family, Jesus Christ and His Bride. Together, we are the hidden being of God manifest (I John 1:2).
The Logos and Sin: John 1:5, "His Life is the Light that shines through the darkness; and the darkness has never overpowered, extinguished, or comprehended the revelation."
Since Darkness has been unable to destroy the Life, it has also been unable to destroy the Light in the Life, thus the Light continues to shine from the beginning until now. The Light of Life overpowered the darkness and chaos to introduce order in the natural creation. But Darkness entered as the hostile counterpart of Light at the Fall when Eve was deceived by Lucifer's lie. As the Light is Truth, so the Darkness is falsehood (John 8:44), the positive perversion of the truth in delusion (II Thessalonians 2:10-12). Then the Logos was made flesh in "the beginning of God creating Himself" a part of the moral creation (Revelation 3:14) with the incarnation of the first God-Man, who overcome spiritual Darkness: "You shall know the Light of Truth and the Truth shall set you free."
Sinful man rejected the Light. In Romans 1:14-36 Paul explains how the mass of Gentiles as well as Israelites rejected the preparatory revelations of the Logos, and "the Light shining in Darkness." The reason is indicated in John 3:19-21, "This is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved Darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the Light, neither comes to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that does Truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God".
The natural creation and the moral or Spiritual creation will be harmonised in a renewed heavens and renewed earth. There Darkness will be banished from the pyramid city of New Jerusalem which will be overshadowed by the Shekinah such that there will be eternal day.
In John 1:6-15, John the Baptist types the Old Testament revelation, which directly prepared the way for the Christian dispensation. His ministry introduced "the Son of God who was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil" (I John 3:8).
"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for a witness, to testify regarding the Light, that all might believe through him. He was not himself that Light, but came to bear witness to that Light. The true Light that illumines every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, yet the world knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not. But to all who did receive Him, he granted authority to become the Sons of God, that is, to those who believe in His Name: who owe their birth neither to human blood, nor to physical urge, nor to human design, but to God. And the Logos became man, and lived for a time among us, and we saw His glory—such glory as an only son receives from his father—abounding in grace and truth. John testified about Him, and cried, This is the One of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for He was before me'."
Indeed He was; although John was six months his Cousins' senior, Jesus was the eternal God manifest in flesh (John 8:58). The Gospels of Matthew and Luke begin with Christ's incarnation in time, His human (Book of Life) generation and history, whereas John gives His eternal (Lamb's Book of Life) generation. (In the prophecy of Micah 5:2 concerning the "Ruler in Israel who would come out of Bethlehem, whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting" we see both together). John rises above their Gospels in pointing out a Christological theocracy and the universality of the incarnate Logos, which by its one manifestation in Man born of woman, embraces time and eternity, heaven and earth, uniting Deity and humanity (II Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 3:10; Revelation 3:14).
The manifestation of Jehovah develops from the Tree of Life in the garden of Eden (Genesis 2:17; 3:8-24), to Melchisedek (Genesis 14:18; 18:1-33), to the Angel of the Lord (Genesis 16:7-9), later designated as the Angel of the Presence (Exodus 32:34; 33:14; Isaiah 63:9), and finally, the Angel of the Covenant. This Angel is the theophany of Christ as is evident especially from Malachi 3:1 as the Angel of the Covenant denotes Messiah. As the personal pre-manifestaton of Christ in the theophanies of the Logos, the Angel of the Lord is also characterized by His standing in the closest connection with the honour or glory of God (Luke 2:9); in fact being identified with it (Exodus 16:10; 24:16). It is all synthesised in Christ, and Christ is the Logos manifesting the fullness of the nature and character of God. God and His eternal thoughts are not two people or two gods any more than you and your thoughts are two persons. One is a sensible expression or visible manifestation of the invisible Other.
Laying aside the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after and cannot invalidate a Covenant previously ratified by God, so as to annul His promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3; Galatians 3:17), the development of the Old Testament idea of Jehovah manifest in Messiah separated the race of Cain from Adam's race in Genesis 3:15 and again in 9:25 and 15-19. Here He selected the Semitic line, later the clan of Eber from among whom He chose the family of Abraham and his seed through Isaac and Jacob, and particularly the tribe of Judah (49:10). This was further defined to the house of David, a type of Messiah (II Samuel 7:12-17), whose antitype would fulfil the qualifications of Isaiah 9.
As the idea of the revelation of Jehovah works toward incarnation, the idea of Messiah strives toward human union with the "divine nature" (John 1:14; II Peter 1:4); and the union is effected in Isaiah 9 where the ideal Messiah comes to view; the Messiah has become the Angel of the Lord (Isaiah 61:1-2), and the Angel of the Lord has become the Messiah (Daniel 7:13; Malachi 3:1).
With the words, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me," (Isaiah 61:1), the Subject of the prophecy attributes to Himself what Jehovah has declared of His Servant in Isaiah 42:1, "I have put My Spirit upon Him" and what had already been declared of the root of Jesse, "The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him" (Isaiah 11:1-2). The Servant of Jehovah is Messiah, the anointed One.
Since the idea of revelation is based on the development of redemption, so the Messiah, as personal revelation is also personal Redeemer. "By grace through faith are you saved." As such Messiah has to fight and conquer; to work and struggle; to suffer, and in sinking to overcome. From this point of view the Son of God is the Servant of God who will destroy the Edomite Jews and redeem the elect of Israel (Isaiah 63).
Brother Branham frequently referred to Isaiah 6, which was Isaiah's sole vision, a vision of our glorified Lord Jesus Christ and His Bride in theophany. The scene is set after the Church is finished, between Revelation 4 and 19. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple." Uzziah, meaning "my strength is Jehovah," ran well until his latter years when he sought to make himself high priest like the Egyptian kings, and so combine in himself all civil and religious power. When he attempted to burn incense in the holy place, the Lord smote him and he died of incurable leprosy. He types the Laodicean Church Age that commenced with the Azusa Street Revival and swept the world with revival meetings, signs and wonders, but was unable to receive the Word of correction and ended in apostasy to be followed by an earthquake as in the days of Uzziah (Amos 1:1; Zechariah 14:5).
Brother Branham said "His train" represents the angels who follow Him, and the angels in Revelation 5 are the theophanies of the glorified Bride of all Ages, for Isaiah, Ezekiel and John saw the same vision. Indeed, together with the Headstone we are God's Temple, and will be overshadowed by the Shekinah in the new heavens and new earth when "the whole earth is full of His glory" (Isaiah 6:3; 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14). Having claimed the Book they crown Him King of kings by revelation (Revelation 5:7-13). This is the commencement of the Bride Age or present holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast. It is the "silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1). (And as you can see, at the close of the Laodicean Church Age redemption was over as the Prophet explained in COD p. 846:Q195-196, because Christ's end-time Bride being predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word, does not require mediation; therefore she was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary).
Isaiah's vision of the Lord Jesus and the Seraphim is parallel to Brother Branham's experience on Sunset Mountain where He was caught up into a pyramid constellation of the Seraphim which became the Supernatural Cloud, "high and lifted up," the sign of Christ's imminent parousia (Matthew 24:3). Or when John, who represents Christ's end-time Bride throughout the Book of Revelation, was caught up in the Spirit into the day of the Lord to see the heavenly transactions of Revelation 4 and 5. It was not the Holy of Holies of the earthly temple that Isaiah saw, for he was not a priest and it was veiled from all but the high priest; besides, he does not describe the Ark of the Covenant, which was certainly not "high and lifted up." His vision was of the heavenly temple which is the pattern for the Tabernacle and afterwards the temple.
The Seraphim were incense-burners and throne guards that come in closest proximity to the Lord, more intimate than the Cherubim or temple guards that symbolise the 144,000. I believe they are the heavenly representations of the seven earthly angels to the Church and perhaps Moses and Elijah. Their Voice shook the temple to its foundations as the Voice of the Seven Thunders shook heaven and earth spiritually (Hebrews 12:26; Revelation 10:1-4), and will do so physically when the earthquake sinks Los Angeles and Satan is cast down to earth (Revelation 12:7-16; 18:21-24). So the "heavenquake" that moved the sanctuary in Isaiah's vision has its counterpart with the earthquake at the end of the silence in heaven about the space of half an hour when the smoke of the revelation of the Seven Thunder mysteries added to the prayers of all of the New Testament saints ascends to God, and His judgments "smite the earth with a curse" (Revelation 8:1-5).
The heavenly temple has been "filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power" since Pentecost; "and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled" (Revelation 15:8). These bowls full of plagues poured out upon the non-elect church to distinguish the righteous from the unfaithful, mirror Israel's ordeal of jealousy. Smoke is the antithesis of Light; it signifies the severity of the wrath of God on a Christ-rejecting people and induces the consciousness of sin, mortal fear, and confession on the part of Isaiah. "Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts"—our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 12:35-41 refers to Isaiah's vision and says expressly Isaiah saw the glory of Jesus when He heard the Words of Isaiah 6:10. He accords with I Peter 1:11, which says, that the Spirit that moved on the Old Testament prophets was the Spirit of Christ; and with I Corinthians 10:4, which says it was Christ that as a Spiritual rock led Israel through the wilderness. "Jesus told the people, My Light will shine out for you just a little longer. Walk while you have the Light, so that the Darkness may not overtake you: for he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, put faith in the Light, that you may become Sons of the Light."
"When Jesus had said this, He departed and hid Himself from the people. In spite of all the miracles He had done in their presence, they put no faith in Him, in order that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, 'Lord, who has believed our Message? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?' Therefore they could not believe, for again Isaiah said, 'He has blinded their eyes, and calloused their heart; so that they may neither see with their eyes nor perceive with their heart and turn to Me in repentance for Me to heal them'. Isaiah said this because he saw His glory and spoke of Him." Christ is the glory of God, and we, "His train," is the glory of Christ (Hebrews 1:3; I Corinthians 11:7).
(Before His ascent from the mount of Olives "Jesus opened the understanding of His disciples, that they might understand the Scriptures," so John knew what he was saying).
This passage is repeated in Matthew 13:13-15, Mark 4:11-12, and Luke 8:9-10 where it is applied to the fact that Jesus always spoke to the people in parables. Thereby the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled. God is known by revelation alone, not by a recitation of the "letter" of the prophets, at which the priests of Israel and rabbis of the Jews were proficient; or by a recitation of the "letter" of Brother Branham's quotes—"what the tapes say," which is equally deadly without the Spirit. Had Jesus not spoken in parables his hearers would have memory but not faith, and no condition of responsibility on their part. But by speaking in parables his discourse penetrated the hearts of those ordained to understand and made them responsible to manifest the understanding in their lives.
Brother Branham, whose ministry revealed Jesus Christ (Luke 17:28-30), said that like Jesus (Matthew 28:19; John 6:53), his Message was delivered in such a way as to sift and "thin down" the crowds. Israel could not believe in Jesus (Matthew 8:10; Luke 7:9). Regardless of the signs He did they were not susceptible to faith; neither could the Gentile denominations believe the revelation of the Son of man in Brother Branham's ministry. Finally, in Acts 28:25-26, Paul quoted this passage to prove the general insusceptibility of Israel to the preaching of the Gospel. Paul attributes the voice Isaiah heard as the Holy Ghost, demonstrating that the Holy Ghost is Christ as confirmed by John 14:15-27.
Isaiah never spoke the words we read in verse 9. This was God's commission to His prophet, which we might paraphrase, "Whatever you preach to this people, speak not in hopes of your Message being understood and regarded, but in the consciousness that your words will be neither understood nor regarded, and like Moses' Message to pharaoh, it will serve to completely unfold the hardness of heart that exists in them, and be a witness against them and basis of Judgment. There is therefore great consolation for Isaiah in this commandant, for he will see that his labour, rather than being vain, is fulfilling the expectation of the Lord.
Romans 11:32, II Thessalonians 2:1-13, II Timothy 3-4, and Revelation 3:17-20 confirm that Brother Branham's commission was to minister a Message that would sift an election from among professing believers (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4) by the yardstick of God's unchanging Word (Malachi 4:4-6; Revelation 10:7; I Corinthians 13:10). His Message also brought an indictment: all who fail to receive it will be cast into the tribulation and judged (Malachi 4:6; Matthew 22:13; Luke 17:26-30; Acts 3:23; Revelation 22:10-19).
Isaiah 6:10, "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed".
This announcement of the judgment of hardening sounds absolute, yet it is impossible that the Lord should forever reject His people, and abrogate the promises given to the fathers. Therefore Isaiah asks, "Lord, for how long will you harden Israel's heart to Your Word"? His answer is, until there is an entire desolation and depopulation of the land; and when at last only a tenth of the inhabitants is in the land, that tenth part also must be decimated until nothing is left but the stump of a root, that shall be the seed from which a holy remnant of 144,000 elect Israelites will be purged in the time of "Jacob's trouble" when they will recognize it was God, the Logos manifest in virgin-born flesh whom their forefathers crucified, not a second or third person (Isaiah 6:11-13; Malachi 3:13-18).
In the Word of God, therefore, God is first, and before all.
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, the King of Israel,
And His Redeemer the Lord of hosts:
I am the first, and I am the last;
And beside Me there is no God" (Isaiah 44:6).
"Hearken unto Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called;
I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.
My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has spanned the heavens" (Isaiah 48:12-13).
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, your Redeemer,
and He who formed you from the womb,
I am the Lord who makes all things;
Who stretched forth the heavens alone;
Who spread abroad the earth by Myself" (Isaiah 44:24).
"Before Me there was no God formed,
Neither shall there be after Me.
I, even, I, am the Lord;
And beside Me there is no Saviour" (Isaiah 43:10-11).
"I am Alpha and Omega,
The first and the last" (Revelation 1:11,17, 2:8, 22:13).
Thus Jehovah emphasizes this great foundation truth. All must be confusion where man refuses to recognised it. All must be peace where it is owned. The first is the only one. There cannot be two firsts or three as the Trinity would suppose. Man ignorantly speaks of the "two first," or the "three first," when he really means the first two, or the first three, etc. The Word of God does not thus ignorantly speak. He is the only one. He is first in priority of time. He is first in superiority of rank, and He is first in absolute supremacy.
Redemption and salvation began with God. His was the Word which first revealed it (Genesis 3:15). His was the will which first purposed it (Hebrews 10:7). His was the power that alone accomplished it. Hence "Salvation is of the Lord" (Exodus 14:13; II Chronicles 20:17; Jonah 2:9). His is the will from which it all proceeds. "Lo, I come to do Your will," said the Redeemer (Psalm 40:7-8; Hebrews 10:7) when He came to do that "will." The "will" is the Logos, and the Redeemer is the Logos manifest in virgin-born flesh.
Revelation 3:14, "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: THUS SAITH THE AMEN, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God." Jesus gives us one final look at His own gracious and supreme Deity. This is the capstone revelation of Himself.
THUS SAITH THE "AMEN." Jesus is the Amen of God. Jesus is the "So Let It Be" of God. Amen stands for finality. It stands for approval. It stands for prevailing promise. It stands for unchanging promise. It stands for the seal of God. . . When the day of grace closes, then the millennium comes very shortly thereafter.
Regarding the Millennium Isaiah 65:16 says, "He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth..." But the real translation is not "God of truth." It is "God of the AMEN". . . Here is Jehovah of the Old Testament, "the God of the Amen." Here is Jesus of the New Testament, "the God of the Amen." There it is again, the Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New. "Hear, Oh, Israel the Lord thy God is ONE God." The New Testament does not reveal ANOTHER God, it is a further revelation of ONE AND THE SAME GOD. Christ did not come down to make Himself known. He did not come to reveal the Son. He came to reveal and make known the Father. He never talked about two Gods; He talked about ONE God. And now in this last age, we have come back to the capstone revelation, the most important revelation of Godhead in the whole Bible, that is, JESUS IS GOD, HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THERE IS ONE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS LORD JESUS CHRIST" (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 331:4 - 333:2).
In these last days Christ's Bride has seen the Logos revealed in the Office of Son of man, performing the same signs and wonders in the ministry of William Branham as He did in the days of His flesh to awaken the sleeping virgin and call the wise into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation. nl520.htm
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
There is no such thing as "God in three persons, blessed Trinity," or a "blessed three in One," for God is One person making Himself manifest in "thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand" in One by His Word, which is Spirit in a form we can receive by faith (Daniel 7:10; Revelation 5:11; 9:16). This was Jesus' prayer in the garden of Gethsemane (John 17:20-26). The greatest revelation is the supreme Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our main article in this issue lays a Scriptural foundation teaching "The Creation of God and His One Eternal Purpose," which explains the Bible as the story of God unfolding Himself or changing His form from the eternal Spirit—alone with His thoughts—to the manifestation of those thoughts in the flesh of His glorified Family.
After you have proven this teaching in your own Bible and found it helpful, please forward it to friends who may be loosed from chains of denominational traditions if they read and understand its Message (John 8:32).
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Iran a Nuclear Threat, Bush Insists
March 21, 2008 – The president spoke in an interview intended to reach out to the Iranian public on the Persian new year and to express "moral support" for struggling freedom movements, particularly among youth and women. It was designed to stress US support for Iran's quest for nuclear energy and the prospects that Washington and Tehran can "reconcile their differences" if Iran cooperates with the international community to ensure that the effort is not converted into a weapons program.
But most striking was Bush's accusation that Iran has openly declared its nuclear weapons intentions, even though a National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had stopped its weapons program in 2003, a major reversal in the long-standing US assessment. "They've declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people—some in the Middle East. And that's unacceptable to the United States, and it's unacceptable to the world," Bush told US-funded Radio Farda, which broadcasts into Iran in Farsi.
Experts on Iran and nuclear proliferation said the president's statement was wrong. "That's as uninformed as [Sen. John] McCain's statement that Iran is training al-Qaeda. Iran has never said it wanted a nuclear weapon for any reason. It's just not true. It's a little troubling that the president and the leading Republican candidate are both so wrong about Iran. . ." Full story: truthout.org
Comment: Everything is running according to plan. A statement by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan confirms, 'the City' has created division among Muslims in the Middle East; UN "peacekeepers"—and in Newspeak "peace" means "war"—are overextended and unable to take over US mayhem in Afghanistan or Iraq, much less Iran. The men from "Uncle" have created intentional chaos from which they plan to establish Lucifer's new worldly order. George II must make his move before his term expires.
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The Gentlemen's Bailout
March 20, 2008 – The Federal Reserve's announcement of an open-ended bail-out for Wall Street's endangered financial firms and banks opens an ominous new chapter in what might be called "market socialism with American characteristics." If Washington tries to do something for "losers" who are ordinary citizens, financial titans complain about violating free-market principles. When the titans themselves are going down, they rush to their patrons at the central bank and demand extraordinary relief. Government must save the big money, we are told, for the overall good of the economy. Thus, the financial system's reckless losses—approaching $1 trillion but probably far more—are being "socialized," dumped on the public, the very people victimized by its snares and falsified valuations.
Put aside the obvious hypocrisy and greed. This nation is on the brink of a historic catastrophe. It requires emergency responses from the federal government on a scale not seen since the Great Depression and the New Deal, the subject of this special issue. Yet the rescue party is composed of the same people who co-wrote this disaster. They are, first, the financiers who indulged their own appetites for extreme wealth and enlarged a financial system of esoteric fakery that inflated prices and profits. Second, the close collaborators were the Federal Reserve and other authorities who blessed this dangerous concoction and declined to enforce prudential standards.
Now the hoax is falling apart. Many millions of innocents, here and around the world, will suffer painful consequences. The authorities, meanwhile, are trying to "save the system" by propping up failure. . . Full story: thenation.com
Comment: This is what Brother Branham said in 1963 with respect to the oncoming collapse of the US dollar, world financial system and economy: "I believe the time will come when we're forced to make the issue. And when it will be, that instead of us changing the currency. . . What would that do to the Philip Morris? What would that do to the whiskey companies? What would that do to the steel industry? What would that do to all the commerce? . . . It would break them. They'd be broke. But if we can borrow that money. . . See how smart he is? Then the nation sells out to the church and then church and state is united again, and there she comes. See? That's it (COD, p. 506:3).
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Brother Branham's 1933 Vision
In 1933 the Lord showed Brother Branham seven continuous visions. The fourth vision said, "And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg. And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that. . . They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, look like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn't have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that"? (COD, p. 923:17; The Boy Scouts of America Boy's Life Magazine, October 1990).
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Mr. Death: the Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr.
"Mr. Death" is a stylized documentary that deals with the life and work of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a US Federal Court qualified expert in execution technology. On the basis of his qualifications, in 1988 Leuchter was commissioned by German-Canadian publisher Ernst Zundel to conduct the first thorough forensic examination of the alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. After Leuchter testified that the alleged facilities were not—and could not have been— used for mass extermination, Jewish activists ruined his life.
Leuchter comes across just as straightforward and guileless on film as he is in real life. As a result, some viewers of earlier versions at the Sundance Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and Harvard University began to question the Holocaust extermination stories they'd been told, while others suspected that Morris himself might have been converted to Holocaust revisionism. At the eleventh hour, Morris re-edited the film in an effort to emphasize his anti-revisionist point of view. Character assassination aside, the question remains as to whether or not Leuchter's findings regarding the alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau are correct. Full story: video.google.com (1 hr. 31 mins).
Comment: Truth does not need prevarication! "Camp museum officials have downwardly revised the Auschwitz death toll from four million in 1945 to just over one million in 2005. According to Russian archives, the real number of inmates who died there was 73,137 and the gas chamber you see on show today was built in 1948 to back up the Shoah narrative, which stipulates a 'holocaust', meaning a 'burnt offering' as a sacrifice to their conception of God. . . The sacred number cannot be abnegated, for it is upon that Kabbalistic figure that the state of Israel derives its mystical, Judeo-Masonic justification." See truthtellers.org.
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The Ruthless American Empire
March 14, 2008 – [W]hy has this country been instrumental in bringing down close to 50 governments of other nations? Why did we finance the overthrow of Hugo Chavez in 2002 only to see his people rise up and re-install him? Why is Hugo Chavez, a man that works for the poorest of his country, so savagely attacked by the Empire? The reason is because like Fidel Castro, he won't play the Washington game. He won't sell his nation's resources to the Empire for pennies on the dollar. Is he a threat to you? Is he a threat to any average American? The answer is obvious, but he is a threat to the multi-national oil cartel. The people controlling this Empire's government will tell you any number of lies to watch out for their interests.
Why are we fighting in Iraq? Were we ever afraid of Saddam? Give me a break. We are fighting over there to pay for Lockheed-Martin and all the other defense contractors' budgets. We are in Iraq to give the Empire military bases to control the Persian Gulf and to assert our presence to insure our interests. We care not for the people of Iraq, nor do we care for the soldiers that die on command. This is just another example of Empire at its most malicious. Killing, according to some estimates, over a million Iraqi's and almost 4,000 American soldiers that die on the ground, soldiers who died in the air on a medi-vac didn't make the count. We have destroyed their infrastructure and now pay Halliburton, Cheney's company, to put the country back together with no-bid contracts.
We threaten Iran with attack for having the audacity to build a nuclear power reactor. The Empire which once overthrew their infant democracy and re-installed the Shah, now tells the people of Iran what they can and cannot do. Meanwhile the Empire is selling nuclear secrets to India and Turkey and is the world's foremost owner of nuclear weaponry. How insane is this logic? . . Full story: plutocracyagainstdemocracy Comment: Revelation 13:11-18.
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The Creation of God and His One Eternal Purpose - Part I
The Holy Bible is the story of God unfolding Himself or changing His form from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts—through faith in the spoken Word—to the manifestation of those thoughts in the flesh of His glorified Family, of whom Jesus Christ is firstborn.
The Logos and God: John 1:1-2, "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God Himself. He existed in the beginning with God" — as His eternal thoughts, which are the Attributes of Himself.
What was God doing in eternity before material creation? As these two verses explain, God was thinking (Psalm 119:89). God was alone with His thoughts. Verse one reveals the Logos is eternal with God, did not "become" God but is God and therefore Divine, whereas verse two demonstrates the true Oneness—not twoness or threeness—of the godhead.
Let me ask you, "Are the thoughts of God eternal?" If you can see this, you will see many things. God is unchangeable in both essence and behavior. . . God is infinite in His abilities so therefore He as God must be omniscient. If He is omniscient, then He is not now learning, nor is He taking counsel even with Himself, nor is He at any time adding to His knowledge (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 149:3).
His thoughts are eternal and they are real and will come to pass in their designated and decreed season and time. A word is a thought when it is expressed and the Greek word Logos means "thought in speech," or concept. But God cannot speak without the faculty of reason, nor think without words in His mind, whether uttered or not, so before time began God was alone with the sum of all wisdom and knowledge—plus His eternal thoughts yet unexpressed in creation.
Proverbs 23:7, "As one thinks in his heart, so is he." Therefore God's thoughts are the Attributes of what He is, what He will be and what He will be understood to be. They are His glory. The unseen God began gathering glory to Himself by manifesting the Logos (John 17:5; I John 1:1-2). Were we able to look back to the beginning with eyes of Supernatural seeing we would see a small Light forming. God was giving birth to His Son. It was the visible manifestation of the Logos Ezekiel described as "the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord" or Shekinah.
Simultaneously material creation began to manifest ex nihilo as an immense fiery Sun was born, ejecting parts of itself into space to conceive the planets, stars and suns of countless galaxies as the Shekinah has divides and emptied itself (Gk. 'kenos') into God's children from the inauguration of Christ's Church on the day of Pentecost.
The Logos and the World: John 1:3, "Through Him everything came into being and nothing that exists came into being except through Him".
The Logos was from eternity and is the source of the beginning. If He did not have eternal existence before the beginning, there could have been no beginning (Colossians 1:16-19; Psalm 33:6). He was the Shekinah Light and glory of God that shone in the darkness of chaos, the principle that commanded order (Genesis 1:1-2).
The Logos and Mankind: John 1:4, "In Him is pure Life; and the Life was the Light of men".
God and the Logos are eternal Spirit, and as we read in Hebrews 7:3, "Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life. . ." Although it is true, when the Logos manifest as Light at creation God was giving birth to His Son. On the other hand "God is not a man, that He should lie; or a son of man, that He should change His mind (Malachi 3:6; Numbers 23:19), but Jesus was a Man "born of a virgin;" He had both father and mother, a time He began, and a time when He died. Now He is alive forevermore.
The key word to understanding Jesus Messiah and the great eternal Spirit is "manifestation." The Logos was from eternity and the fullness of the nature and character of God were manifest in that Man from Galilee. Colossians 2:9-10, "In Christ dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And you are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority".
There is only one eternal, and that is God. If you have eternal Life you always were eternal as an Attribute of God in Christ the Logos, though not expressed until your designated and decreed season and time to act out or manifest the Word for your day (II Corinthians 3:1-5; Ephesians 1:4; Revelation 3:14). Whereas Jesus was given the Spirit in unlimited measure (John 3:34) to "declare" or unveil God in His Life and teachings, we have the Spirit by measure. So all of His Attributes God poured or transformed ('kenos') into Christ, and all Christ is He is pouring or transforming into the corporate Body of His Church. Thus the fullness of God's Attributes are manifest in the many membered Bride of all Ages as they are in our Head, the Lord Jesus Christ. And in the new heavens and new earth God will be worshipped throughout eternity in the form of His glorified Family, Jesus Christ and His Bride. Together, we are the hidden being of God manifest (I John 1:2).
The Logos and Sin: John 1:5, "His Life is the Light that shines through the darkness; and the darkness has never overpowered, extinguished, or comprehended the revelation."
Since Darkness has been unable to destroy the Life, it has also been unable to destroy the Light in the Life, thus the Light continues to shine from the beginning until now. The Light of Life overpowered the darkness and chaos to introduce order in the natural creation. But Darkness entered as the hostile counterpart of Light at the Fall when Eve was deceived by Lucifer's lie. As the Light is Truth, so the Darkness is falsehood (John 8:44), the positive perversion of the truth in delusion (II Thessalonians 2:10-12). Then the Logos was made flesh in "the beginning of God creating Himself" a part of the moral creation (Revelation 3:14) with the incarnation of the first God-Man, who overcome spiritual Darkness: "You shall know the Light of Truth and the Truth shall set you free."
Sinful man rejected the Light. In Romans 1:14-36 Paul explains how the mass of Gentiles as well as Israelites rejected the preparatory revelations of the Logos, and "the Light shining in Darkness." The reason is indicated in John 3:19-21, "This is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved Darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the Light, neither comes to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that does Truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God".
The natural creation and the moral or Spiritual creation will be harmonised in a renewed heavens and renewed earth. There Darkness will be banished from the pyramid city of New Jerusalem which will be overshadowed by the Shekinah such that there will be eternal day.
In John 1:6-15, John the Baptist types the Old Testament revelation, which directly prepared the way for the Christian dispensation. His ministry introduced "the Son of God who was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil" (I John 3:8).
"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for a witness, to testify regarding the Light, that all might believe through him. He was not himself that Light, but came to bear witness to that Light. The true Light that illumines every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, yet the world knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not. But to all who did receive Him, he granted authority to become the Sons of God, that is, to those who believe in His Name: who owe their birth neither to human blood, nor to physical urge, nor to human design, but to God. And the Logos became man, and lived for a time among us, and we saw His glory—such glory as an only son receives from his father—abounding in grace and truth. John testified about Him, and cried, This is the One of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, for He was before me'."
Indeed He was; although John was six months his Cousins' senior, Jesus was the eternal God manifest in flesh (John 8:58). The Gospels of Matthew and Luke begin with Christ's incarnation in time, His human (Book of Life) generation and history, whereas John gives His eternal (Lamb's Book of Life) generation. (In the prophecy of Micah 5:2 concerning the "Ruler in Israel who would come out of Bethlehem, whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting" we see both together). John rises above their Gospels in pointing out a Christological theocracy and the universality of the incarnate Logos, which by its one manifestation in Man born of woman, embraces time and eternity, heaven and earth, uniting Deity and humanity (II Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 3:10; Revelation 3:14).
The manifestation of Jehovah develops from the Tree of Life in the garden of Eden (Genesis 2:17; 3:8-24), to Melchisedek (Genesis 14:18; 18:1-33), to the Angel of the Lord (Genesis 16:7-9), later designated as the Angel of the Presence (Exodus 32:34; 33:14; Isaiah 63:9), and finally, the Angel of the Covenant. This Angel is the theophany of Christ as is evident especially from Malachi 3:1 as the Angel of the Covenant denotes Messiah. As the personal pre-manifestaton of Christ in the theophanies of the Logos, the Angel of the Lord is also characterized by His standing in the closest connection with the honour or glory of God (Luke 2:9); in fact being identified with it (Exodus 16:10; 24:16). It is all synthesised in Christ, and Christ is the Logos manifesting the fullness of the nature and character of God. God and His eternal thoughts are not two people or two gods any more than you and your thoughts are two persons. One is a sensible expression or visible manifestation of the invisible Other.
Laying aside the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after and cannot invalidate a Covenant previously ratified by God, so as to annul His promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3; Galatians 3:17), the development of the Old Testament idea of Jehovah manifest in Messiah separated the race of Cain from Adam's race in Genesis 3:15 and again in 9:25 and 15-19. Here He selected the Semitic line, later the clan of Eber from among whom He chose the family of Abraham and his seed through Isaac and Jacob, and particularly the tribe of Judah (49:10). This was further defined to the house of David, a type of Messiah (II Samuel 7:12-17), whose antitype would fulfil the qualifications of Isaiah 9.
As the idea of the revelation of Jehovah works toward incarnation, the idea of Messiah strives toward human union with the "divine nature" (John 1:14; II Peter 1:4); and the union is effected in Isaiah 9 where the ideal Messiah comes to view; the Messiah has become the Angel of the Lord (Isaiah 61:1-2), and the Angel of the Lord has become the Messiah (Daniel 7:13; Malachi 3:1).
With the words, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me," (Isaiah 61:1), the Subject of the prophecy attributes to Himself what Jehovah has declared of His Servant in Isaiah 42:1, "I have put My Spirit upon Him" and what had already been declared of the root of Jesse, "The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him" (Isaiah 11:1-2). The Servant of Jehovah is Messiah, the anointed One.
Since the idea of revelation is based on the development of redemption, so the Messiah, as personal revelation is also personal Redeemer. "By grace through faith are you saved." As such Messiah has to fight and conquer; to work and struggle; to suffer, and in sinking to overcome. From this point of view the Son of God is the Servant of God who will destroy the Edomite Jews and redeem the elect of Israel (Isaiah 63).
Brother Branham frequently referred to Isaiah 6, which was Isaiah's sole vision, a vision of our glorified Lord Jesus Christ and His Bride in theophany. The scene is set after the Church is finished, between Revelation 4 and 19. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple." Uzziah, meaning "my strength is Jehovah," ran well until his latter years when he sought to make himself high priest like the Egyptian kings, and so combine in himself all civil and religious power. When he attempted to burn incense in the holy place, the Lord smote him and he died of incurable leprosy. He types the Laodicean Church Age that commenced with the Azusa Street Revival and swept the world with revival meetings, signs and wonders, but was unable to receive the Word of correction and ended in apostasy to be followed by an earthquake as in the days of Uzziah (Amos 1:1; Zechariah 14:5).
Brother Branham said "His train" represents the angels who follow Him, and the angels in Revelation 5 are the theophanies of the glorified Bride of all Ages, for Isaiah, Ezekiel and John saw the same vision. Indeed, together with the Headstone we are God's Temple, and will be overshadowed by the Shekinah in the new heavens and new earth when "the whole earth is full of His glory" (Isaiah 6:3; 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14). Having claimed the Book they crown Him King of kings by revelation (Revelation 5:7-13). This is the commencement of the Bride Age or present holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast. It is the "silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1). (And as you can see, at the close of the Laodicean Church Age redemption was over as the Prophet explained in COD p. 846:Q195-196, because Christ's end-time Bride being predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word, does not require mediation; therefore she was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary).
Isaiah's vision of the Lord Jesus and the Seraphim is parallel to Brother Branham's experience on Sunset Mountain where He was caught up into a pyramid constellation of the Seraphim which became the Supernatural Cloud, "high and lifted up," the sign of Christ's imminent parousia (Matthew 24:3). Or when John, who represents Christ's end-time Bride throughout the Book of Revelation, was caught up in the Spirit into the day of the Lord to see the heavenly transactions of Revelation 4 and 5. It was not the Holy of Holies of the earthly temple that Isaiah saw, for he was not a priest and it was veiled from all but the high priest; besides, he does not describe the Ark of the Covenant, which was certainly not "high and lifted up." His vision was of the heavenly temple which is the pattern for the Tabernacle and afterwards the temple.
The Seraphim were incense-burners and throne guards that come in closest proximity to the Lord, more intimate than the Cherubim or temple guards that symbolise the 144,000. I believe they are the heavenly representations of the seven earthly angels to the Church and perhaps Moses and Elijah. Their Voice shook the temple to its foundations as the Voice of the Seven Thunders shook heaven and earth spiritually (Hebrews 12:26; Revelation 10:1-4), and will do so physically when the earthquake sinks Los Angeles and Satan is cast down to earth (Revelation 12:7-16; 18:21-24). So the "heavenquake" that moved the sanctuary in Isaiah's vision has its counterpart with the earthquake at the end of the silence in heaven about the space of half an hour when the smoke of the revelation of the Seven Thunder mysteries added to the prayers of all of the New Testament saints ascends to God, and His judgments "smite the earth with a curse" (Revelation 8:1-5).
The heavenly temple has been "filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power" since Pentecost; "and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled" (Revelation 15:8). These bowls full of plagues poured out upon the non-elect church to distinguish the righteous from the unfaithful, mirror Israel's ordeal of jealousy. Smoke is the antithesis of Light; it signifies the severity of the wrath of God on a Christ-rejecting people and induces the consciousness of sin, mortal fear, and confession on the part of Isaiah. "Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts"—our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 12:35-41 refers to Isaiah's vision and says expressly Isaiah saw the glory of Jesus when He heard the Words of Isaiah 6:10. He accords with I Peter 1:11, which says, that the Spirit that moved on the Old Testament prophets was the Spirit of Christ; and with I Corinthians 10:4, which says it was Christ that as a Spiritual rock led Israel through the wilderness. "Jesus told the people, My Light will shine out for you just a little longer. Walk while you have the Light, so that the Darkness may not overtake you: for he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, put faith in the Light, that you may become Sons of the Light."
"When Jesus had said this, He departed and hid Himself from the people. In spite of all the miracles He had done in their presence, they put no faith in Him, in order that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, 'Lord, who has believed our Message? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?' Therefore they could not believe, for again Isaiah said, 'He has blinded their eyes, and calloused their heart; so that they may neither see with their eyes nor perceive with their heart and turn to Me in repentance for Me to heal them'. Isaiah said this because he saw His glory and spoke of Him." Christ is the glory of God, and we, "His train," is the glory of Christ (Hebrews 1:3; I Corinthians 11:7).
(Before His ascent from the mount of Olives "Jesus opened the understanding of His disciples, that they might understand the Scriptures," so John knew what he was saying).
This passage is repeated in Matthew 13:13-15, Mark 4:11-12, and Luke 8:9-10 where it is applied to the fact that Jesus always spoke to the people in parables. Thereby the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled. God is known by revelation alone, not by a recitation of the "letter" of the prophets, at which the priests of Israel and rabbis of the Jews were proficient; or by a recitation of the "letter" of Brother Branham's quotes—"what the tapes say," which is equally deadly without the Spirit. Had Jesus not spoken in parables his hearers would have memory but not faith, and no condition of responsibility on their part. But by speaking in parables his discourse penetrated the hearts of those ordained to understand and made them responsible to manifest the understanding in their lives.
Brother Branham, whose ministry revealed Jesus Christ (Luke 17:28-30), said that like Jesus (Matthew 28:19; John 6:53), his Message was delivered in such a way as to sift and "thin down" the crowds. Israel could not believe in Jesus (Matthew 8:10; Luke 7:9). Regardless of the signs He did they were not susceptible to faith; neither could the Gentile denominations believe the revelation of the Son of man in Brother Branham's ministry. Finally, in Acts 28:25-26, Paul quoted this passage to prove the general insusceptibility of Israel to the preaching of the Gospel. Paul attributes the voice Isaiah heard as the Holy Ghost, demonstrating that the Holy Ghost is Christ as confirmed by John 14:15-27.
Isaiah never spoke the words we read in verse 9. This was God's commission to His prophet, which we might paraphrase, "Whatever you preach to this people, speak not in hopes of your Message being understood and regarded, but in the consciousness that your words will be neither understood nor regarded, and like Moses' Message to pharaoh, it will serve to completely unfold the hardness of heart that exists in them, and be a witness against them and basis of Judgment. There is therefore great consolation for Isaiah in this commandant, for he will see that his labour, rather than being vain, is fulfilling the expectation of the Lord.
Romans 11:32, II Thessalonians 2:1-13, II Timothy 3-4, and Revelation 3:17-20 confirm that Brother Branham's commission was to minister a Message that would sift an election from among professing believers (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4) by the yardstick of God's unchanging Word (Malachi 4:4-6; Revelation 10:7; I Corinthians 13:10). His Message also brought an indictment: all who fail to receive it will be cast into the tribulation and judged (Malachi 4:6; Matthew 22:13; Luke 17:26-30; Acts 3:23; Revelation 22:10-19).
Isaiah 6:10, "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed".
This announcement of the judgment of hardening sounds absolute, yet it is impossible that the Lord should forever reject His people, and abrogate the promises given to the fathers. Therefore Isaiah asks, "Lord, for how long will you harden Israel's heart to Your Word"? His answer is, until there is an entire desolation and depopulation of the land; and when at last only a tenth of the inhabitants is in the land, that tenth part also must be decimated until nothing is left but the stump of a root, that shall be the seed from which a holy remnant of 144,000 elect Israelites will be purged in the time of "Jacob's trouble" when they will recognize it was God, the Logos manifest in virgin-born flesh whom their forefathers crucified, not a second or third person (Isaiah 6:11-13; Malachi 3:13-18).
In the Word of God, therefore, God is first, and before all.
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, the King of Israel,
And His Redeemer the Lord of hosts:
I am the first, and I am the last;
And beside Me there is no God" (Isaiah 44:6).
"Hearken unto Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called;
I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.
My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has spanned the heavens" (Isaiah 48:12-13).
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, your Redeemer,
and He who formed you from the womb,
I am the Lord who makes all things;
Who stretched forth the heavens alone;
Who spread abroad the earth by Myself" (Isaiah 44:24).
"Before Me there was no God formed,
Neither shall there be after Me.
I, even, I, am the Lord;
And beside Me there is no Saviour" (Isaiah 43:10-11).
"I am Alpha and Omega,
The first and the last" (Revelation 1:11,17, 2:8, 22:13).
Thus Jehovah emphasizes this great foundation truth. All must be confusion where man refuses to recognised it. All must be peace where it is owned. The first is the only one. There cannot be two firsts or three as the Trinity would suppose. Man ignorantly speaks of the "two first," or the "three first," when he really means the first two, or the first three, etc. The Word of God does not thus ignorantly speak. He is the only one. He is first in priority of time. He is first in superiority of rank, and He is first in absolute supremacy.
Redemption and salvation began with God. His was the Word which first revealed it (Genesis 3:15). His was the will which first purposed it (Hebrews 10:7). His was the power that alone accomplished it. Hence "Salvation is of the Lord" (Exodus 14:13; II Chronicles 20:17; Jonah 2:9). His is the will from which it all proceeds. "Lo, I come to do Your will," said the Redeemer (Psalm 40:7-8; Hebrews 10:7) when He came to do that "will." The "will" is the Logos, and the Redeemer is the Logos manifest in virgin-born flesh.
Revelation 3:14, "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: THUS SAITH THE AMEN, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God." Jesus gives us one final look at His own gracious and supreme Deity. This is the capstone revelation of Himself.
THUS SAITH THE "AMEN." Jesus is the Amen of God. Jesus is the "So Let It Be" of God. Amen stands for finality. It stands for approval. It stands for prevailing promise. It stands for unchanging promise. It stands for the seal of God. . . When the day of grace closes, then the millennium comes very shortly thereafter.
Regarding the Millennium Isaiah 65:16 says, "He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth..." But the real translation is not "God of truth." It is "God of the AMEN". . . Here is Jehovah of the Old Testament, "the God of the Amen." Here is Jesus of the New Testament, "the God of the Amen." There it is again, the Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New. "Hear, Oh, Israel the Lord thy God is ONE God." The New Testament does not reveal ANOTHER God, it is a further revelation of ONE AND THE SAME GOD. Christ did not come down to make Himself known. He did not come to reveal the Son. He came to reveal and make known the Father. He never talked about two Gods; He talked about ONE God. And now in this last age, we have come back to the capstone revelation, the most important revelation of Godhead in the whole Bible, that is, JESUS IS GOD, HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THERE IS ONE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS LORD JESUS CHRIST" (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 331:4 - 333:2).
In these last days Christ's Bride has seen the Logos revealed in the Office of Son of man, performing the same signs and wonders in the ministry of William Branham as He did in the days of His flesh to awaken the sleeping virgin and call the wise into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation. nl520.htm
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Redemption is Over
Bible Believers' Newsletter #519
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
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"Vatican Agenda" by Israeli journalist Joel Bainerman in last week's Newsletter prompted a response from a reader with emails from two of his correspondents concerned to preserve Israeli sovereignty over the city of old Jerusalem. I believe you will find it useful to share my response (in part) as we witness Biblical prophecy coming to pass in the daily news:
There is nothing that can be done about this matter since it was prophesied in both Testaments. Mr. Olmert is cut from the same cloth as all of modern Israel's Prime Ministers. Israel's first Prime Minister, the terrorist David Ben Gurion, knew the plans of the World Revolutionary Movement. Interviewed by Look Magazine, (January 16, 1962), he disclosed: "With the exception of the USSR as a federal Eurasian State, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police force. All armies will be abolished and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a shrine of the prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the supreme court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah."
So you see, Brother, there was no "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" in the mind of those behind the theft of Palestine for the establishment of pseudo-Israel. It is a key part of establishing Lucifer's one world government, using what they regard as Biblical myths to harness the energies of so-called or self-styled Jews, Muslims, self-styled nominal Christians, Judaeo-Communism, unprincipled politicians who would sell their own mother were it to gain them popularity for a season, and all others for or against. (See Energy Crisis, or Free Energy? Its Your Choice!)
These people are all "useful idiots" working toward the realization of Lucifer's totalitarian one world government, and as the Jewish traitor F.D. Roosevelt said, "If something happens in politics, you can bet it was planned that way." And the people to whom you have written [prime ministers, presidents, mayors and other officials around the world] are themselves "useful idiots" in service to the same dynasties that have been planning Lucifer's totalitarian world government since the Fall in the garden of Eden.
The state of Israel was re-established in unbelief as part of the geopolitical strategy of non-Israelites whose objective is to rule Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. Both Testaments declare Israel will be ruled by a non-Semitic people unto the consummation, thus her citizens are predominantly non-Semitic self-styled Jews and usurpers, or Semitic Palestinians (Daniel 9:27; Luke 21:24; Revelation 11:2, 8). "But we know that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose," and however it happened, the state had to be restored because Israel's Covenant is of no effect outside the Promised Land. As the Hittites and Canaanites established the infrastructure for Israel's initial colonization, they have built the infrastructure for the return of Israel and Judah from the ancient Assyrian empire in Daniel's Seventieth Week for their redemption as prophesied in Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 50:4; Isaiah 11:11; Ezekiel 15-28; Hosea 3:5; Zechariah 10, etc.,
The restoration of Israel in 1948 was a sign warning of judgment to follow under the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet that will mark the end of the Gentile dispensation, the dawning of the Day of the Lord and the commencement of Daniel's Seventieth Week. This is also called "the time of Jacob's trouble" and the "great tribulation." It may be later than you think, because the end-time began when Christ opened the Seven Seals in March, 1963. This brought Him back to earth in WORD form "as a thief in the night" (I Corinthians 13:10). This was His second or 'parousia' Coming to us Gentiles.
Three world wars were all planned in the mid-nineteenth century. One of the objects of World War III, presently in its phoney stage, is to bring political Zionists and political Islam into controlled conflict in order to neuter and subjugate both. (World government cannot tolerate freedom of expression. See Protocol 11). Proxy forces of the political Zionists are killing innocent people and destroying national infrastructure around the globe whilst political Islam desires to live in peace, but as Emil Cohn wrote in The New Holy Alliance, (Strasburg, 1938): "Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war." Now war is being forced upon Islam.
What happens in Israel should be no business of our governments, whose duties and responsibilities should rest with their own people. Besides, they are controlled by the same evil power and working toward the same end. Israel has nothing to do with the Church or Christianity except inasmuch as it is revealed as God's "timepiece" in Daniel 9 and elsewhere.
Daniel 11:41, Zechariah 14:2 and Revelation 16:19 indicate Israel will ultimately be forsaken. You should recognize this from the guile of those who drafted the form of words of UN Resolution 181 mentioned in point 6B of Mr. Belman's email and in Mr. Israel Harel's article published in Ha'aretz. Israel's "do-nothing government" does nothing because they are a part of the plan (enunciated by Mr. David Ben Gurion above). Also, you should discern the hand of God in the extensive environs designated to Jerusalem. (The City of Jerusalem shall include the present municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns, the most eastern of which shall be Abu Dis; the most southern, Bethlehem; the most western, ‘Ein Karim (including also the built-up area of Motsa); and the most northern Shu’fat). "For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call" (Joel 2:32).
Ultimately, "all Israel" territorially is not necessary to God's plan, but Jerusalem "where also our Lord was crucified," is absolutely essential.
Zechariah 12:1-14, "This is the fate of Israel, as pronounced by the Lord, who daily stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him (by which to accomplish His purposes): I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the nearby nations that send their armies to overrun Judah and besiege Jerusalem. In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome boulder for the whole world: all who lift it up will be grievously injured. And although all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed. . . In that day will I make the chiefs of Judah like a little fire that sets the forest aflame—like a torch of fire among the sheaves: they will burn up the neighbouring nations right and left, while Jerusalem stands unmoved. The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, so that the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the royal line of David won't be filled with pride at their success. The Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will be as mighty as king David! And the royal line will be as God, like the angel of the Lord who goes before them. For My plan is to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. Then I will pour out the Spirit of grace and prayer upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and they will look on Him whom they have pierced, and mourn for Him as for an only son. . . "
The Vatican is one of the actors in this "great game," a play to use the political mass of superstitious Bible believers without faith to impersonate (but unbeknownst to themselves, fulfil) Bible prophecy and establish Lucifer's totalitarian one world government here on earth (Isaiah 14:12-15). At the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet, Lucifer will be cast out from heavenly places and incarnate the pope, Los Angeles and a huge segment of earth will sink beneath the Pacific, and the Mount of Olives will split, demolishing the dome of the Rock. Weeks later, Russia will attack and invade mainland USA. The pope will bring all of the world's religions into a federation (ostensibly to suppress Judaeo-Communism) and restore world peace. In return the nations will implore him to become the inaugural president of one world government.
God has raised up Communism to destroy the false church, just as He raised up Nebuchadnezzar to destroy His temple and Jerusalem, take the Judeans captive, and commence "the times of the Gentiles" or Gentile rule over Jerusalem, which will endure until the consummation of life on earth. Communism is a spirit God calls "Laodicea," and it rules all of our Hegelian sham democracies.
II Timothy 3:1-5, "In the Messianic age perilous times shall come. For men shall be . . . trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away".
The dynasties that rule this world have all of this in hand. And so does the Lord. As it is said, "Next year, Jerusalem"! So keep your lamp trimmed and full of oil, for soon "the door will be shut . . . as it was in the days of Noah".
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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Malta is Blackwater's Operational Base
March 16, 2008 – A European Parliament working document drawn up by Giovanni Claudio Fava has claimed "Malta is the operational base of Blackwater, the organiser of private military militia which are increasingly taking on more and more roles which used to be undertaken by US forces in Iraq and elsewhere".
American left-wing [emphasis ours] and anti-war media are in full cry about the underhand and subtle changes that have made Blackwater the new symbol of American claimed supremacy, carried out by forces other than the regular military. . . Full story: independent.com.mt
Comment: Their connection with the Knights of Malta places Blackwater's hired guns and professional killers "outside the law and above the US Constitution." Despite the Second Amendment, there is a call to restrict private (non-mercenary) gun ownership. With this and Blackwater's Vatican connections in mind, their new base at Potrero, California, would appear to shine the Light on Revelation 12:13-17, and the sixth of Brother Branham's seven consecutive visions in 1933 which foretold the rise of a most beautiful, but cruel woman to power in America, and martial law (Revelation 13; 17; 18).
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Albanian Arms Dump Blasts kill Five, Devastate Area
Tirana, March 15, 2008 – An Albanian army base stocking obsolete munitions for destruction blew up in a chain of massive blasts on Saturday killing at least five people and injuring more than 240. "This is not the final number of the dead, there might be others," Prime Minister Sali Berisha said in a televised news conference. "The search will resume at daylight because night has fallen and shells are still exploding". . . Full story: alertnet.org truthout.org
Comment: Something to be expected when unwitting pawns of the 'hidden hand,' steal part of another country. Without a shadow of doubt, the Balkan war and the unlawful granting of independence to Kosovo were engineered as part of the NWO program to create hatred and division between Islam and the political Zionists to ensure the desired outcome of the controlled conflict of World War III. Across the Islamic world in particular, boundaries no longer matter. In such regions no aspect of sovereignty can now constrain a US president from acting in pursuit of whatever he may personally define as American interests.
The Bush administration has, so far, only been willing to carry out "decapitation" strikes in countries where human life is, by implication, of less or little value. It has yet to carry one out in London or Hamburg or Tokyo or Moscow or the Chinese countryside, even though "terrorist suspects" abound everywhere . . . given the impetus of this kind of globalization, who knows when such a strike might come. After all, the CIA has already carried out clearly illegal, sovereignty-violating "extraordinary rendition" operations (kidnappings of terror suspects) on the streets of European cities. . .
Full story: tomdispatch.com latimes.com
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Derivatives the New 'Ticking Bomb'
March 10, 2008 – "Charlie and I believe Berkshire should be a fortress of financial strength" wrote Warren Buffett. That was five years before the subprime-credit meltdown.
"We try to be alert to any sort of mega-catastrophe risk, and that posture may make us unduly appreciative about the burgeoning quantities of long-term derivatives contracts and the massive amount of uncollateralized receivables that are growing alongside. In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal". . .
The fact is, derivatives have become the world's biggest "black market," exceeding the illicit traffic in stuff like arms, drugs, alcohol, gambling, cigarettes, stolen art and pirated movies. Why? Because like all black markets, derivatives are a perfect way of getting rich while avoiding taxes and government regulations. And in today's slowdown, plus a volatile global market, Wall Street knows derivatives remain a lucrative business.
Recently Pimco's bond fund king Bill Gross said "What we are witnessing is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand . . . not only Warren Buffett, but Bond King Bill Gross, our Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the rest of America's leaders can't "figure out" the world's $516 trillion derivatives.
Why? Gross says we are creating a new "shadow banking system." Derivatives are now not just risk management tools. As Gross and others see it, the real problem is that derivatives are now a new way of creating money outside the normal central bank liquidity rules. How? Because they're private contracts between two companies or institutions.
BIS is primarily a records-keeper, a toothless tiger that merely collects data giving a legitimacy and false sense of security to this chaotic "shadow banking system" that has become the world's biggest "black market."
That's crucial, folks. Why? Because central banks require reserves like stock brokers require margins, something backing up the transaction. Derivatives don't. They're not "real money." They're paper promises closer to "Monopoly" money than real US dollars. . . Full story: marketwatch.com
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Venezuela switches to Euros for Oil
Caracas, March 16, 2008 – Venezuelan state oil giant PDVSA has decided to sign some oil contracts in euros in the face of a plummeting dollar, local media reported, citing officials. . . Venezuela produces 3.3 million barrels of oil a day, according to official figures, and 2.4 million according to the International Energy Agency. Half of its production is sold to the United States market. Full story: rense.com
Comment: Venezuela should ask the US to pay for oil purchases in Euros as Israel asked for its $3 billion US aid to be paid in Euros.
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Argentina, Brazil to drop Dollar in Commercial Dealings
Buenos Aires, March 15 – Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in US dollars and start using their own currencies from August . . . Brazil is Argentina's largest trading partner, while Argentina is Brazil's second-biggest trading partner after the United States. Bilateral trade stood at around 23.6 billion US dollars last year.
Full story: rumormillnews.com
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Death Treaty now in Force
March 14, 2008 – On 3rd December 2007, as his first official act of government, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the Kyoto Protocol; now, 90 days later, Australia is officially subject to that genocidal monstrosity, and its devastating assault on agriculture and industry will only accelerate the present global economic collapse.
In April 2004, Andrei Illarionov, economic advisor to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, slammed the Kyoto Protocol as a "death treaty" which will impose such strong economic constraints that it will be like an "international Auschwitz."
The mainstream media, a key asset of the British financial oligarchy pushing this "international Auschwitz," has been quick to trumpet Rudd's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. They also gloated when mining boss and Rio Tinto frontman, Ross Garnaut released his interim report on climate change last month, in which he demanded that "firm commitments" be made immediately in 2008 for "major reductions in emissions," where an emissions trading scheme (ETS) would be "the centre-piece of a domestic mitigation strategy." This proposed trading scheme, if implemented, won't stop pollution, but will be one of the biggest financial swindles to ever be pushed onto an unwitting population.
Garnaut admits, "an ETS with ambitious mitigation objectives will be difficult and will make heavy demands on scarce economic and finite political resources" which is a clear indication that economic collapse is actually intended. [Emphasis ours].
Australians suffering from amnesia should note that this is not the first time Ross Garnaut has directed major economic reforms for our economy. Garnaut, currently Chairman of Lihir Gold, a director of Ok Tedi Mining, and the head of the International Advisory Group which recommended that Papua New Guinea sell off ("privatise") its staggering raw materials wealth to the British-owned global minerals cartel, was one of the most influential economists advising the Hawke-Keating administration. His economic prescription of floating the currency, removing trade barriers and liberalising banking regulations, have led to the economic crisis which we face today, where manufacturers and farmers are a dying species and banks are set to foreclose on hundreds of thousands of homeowners this year. In the face of this genocidal insanity, the Australian media has conveniently ignored The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, held on March 2-4 in New York, where hundreds of delegates including many of the world’s top climate scientists, exposed the IPCC lies and the global warming hoax. Likewise, our media ignored a US Senate report last December, where over 400 prominent scientists were extensively quoted, disputing claims of man-made global warming, including even IPCC Vice Chairman, Prof Yuri Izrael who has stated, "there is no serious threat to the climate." Full story: cecaust.com.au
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The Deployment of US Troops inside Canada
March 13, 2008 – While a formal agreement was reached in February 2008, the decision to allow the deployment of US troops in Canada was announced in April 2002 by (former) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Donald Rumsfeld. "Binational integration" of military command structures was also contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration, law enforcement and intelligence.
The matter has been known for more than five years. It has been deliberately obfuscated. There has been no public debate. It has not received news coverage nor has it been the object of discussion in the Canadian House of Commons or the US Congress. In an article published in 2004 entitled Is the Annexation of Canada Part of Bush's Military Agenda?, I provided a detailed analysis of the process of integration of military command structures. I also examined the broader issue of sovereignty. . . Despite repeated assurances by the Toronto Star OpEd Editor, the article never appeared in print. . .
Full story: globalresearch.ca
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Secretive Freemasons open Royal Lodge at Buckingham Palace
March 10, 2008 – A branch of the Freemasons secret society is being formed by members of the Royal Household and police who protect the Royal Family. And their decision to call it The Royal Household Lodge has put them on a collision course with Buckingham Palace—as has their plan to co-opt the royal cipher—EIIR—for their regalia, to underline their connection to the Queen. . .
The United Grand Lodge of England issued the Royal Household Lodge with a warrant in June last year although it will not formally exist until the consecration ceremony on May 19 at the Freemasons’ Hall in London. Full story: dailymail.co.uk
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Solid Light
March 15, 2006 – Solid light describes a method of obtaining a phase transition in light. At a critical point light crystallises. This form of light was not predicted! It is a new exotic state for light. Despite some precursor experiments, the idea is to create a system where this effect can be observed. This would consist of a trap where a single photon reacts with a single atom. You have these photons which presumably are travelling at the speed of light because they are light, and I'd imagine the crystals are not travelling very fast and they're sitting there, so what happens to the energy? Full story: abc.net.au
Comment: The natural types the Spiritual. God is Light, and as Brother Branham explained, matter is Spirit "slowed down." Also very interesting is Quantum Entanglement
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Redemption is Over
Brother Branham opened our understanding to a wonderful revelation when He expounded Ephesians 4:30, "Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed till the day that the Book of Redemption has been revealed, and the Redeemer comes to claim His possession".
Redemption ended in 1963 when Christ claimed His possession and revealed its contents (Revelation 4, 5, 10:1-7). The Book of Redemption is the inheritance of the last Adam. It records the names of His redeemed sons: the elect who constitute the Lamb's Book of Life and the non-elect who remain in the Book of Life. Jesus Christ died to redeem this Book which is the Title Deed to everything forfeited by the first Adam. As Christ's Bride, the New Testament Church is joint heir with the last Adam, Jesus Christ.
Only in the sense that Christ is not yet revealed to certain elect still dozing under denominational delusions could one imply that redemption is ongoing. These will soon awake, but unlike the Church Age saints, they were all redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Read on.
The majority of mankind, being in the lineage of Cain, are not of Adam's race and therefore not in the Book of Life which is Adam's genealogy. Cain and his race are not God's spoken Word expressed, not "Spirit and Life," but a hybrid between the Serpent and Eve with no part in redemption.
The word "redeem" means to "buy back." As the Serpent seed line of Cain are not God's creative thoughts, they have no part in Him and are born "lost." The Serpent is God's spoken Word and will be in the Millennium and in the new heavens and new earth, but in his present reptilian form not his original upright man-like frame. Neither Cain's serpent seed lineage nor any other hybrid species such as the mule will be present.
Only lack of revelation can explain why those in Message circles invest scarce time and resources ministering to and trying to convert the Serpent's seed. Jesus was the last Adam; He was not the last Cain. When He died to redeem the first Adam who is the Book of Life, He potentially redeemed all of Adam's seed.
Cain was never in the Book of Life. Neither are any of his descendants—whole ethnic groups are excluded from the Book of Life (Genesis 10:15-19). Adam's children who marry a Serpent seed partner commit genocide as any offspring will not be on the Book of Life . . . ever. Satan knows this, which is why his people promote racial mixing.
Because of miscegenation between the races of Adam and Cain, God destroyed all life by the Great Flood. Jesus said these deplorable consequences would repeat in the time of His 'parousia,' which began in 1963 (Genesis 6:1-4; Matthew 24:37). This accursed hybreeding of God's manifested Word—from Spirit and life to Death—is disguised and promoted as "multiculturalism" (Genesis 1:11; John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). God separated the nations and set enmity between the races of Adam and Cain (Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 3:15). That enmity is extant, thus multiculturalism is accursed of God.
Few who call upon the lovely Name of the Lord Jesus Christ seem to realize the distinction between the "saved" and the "born-again." Everyone in Adam's race is born "saved" from his mother's womb because his name was placed on the Book of Life from the foundation of the world (Revelation 17:8). Jesus was the Kinsman Redeemer for Adam's entire race regardless how sinful the parents, the circumstances of their conception or whether their society worships demons and eats human flesh. Provided a baby is born in Adam's race, his name is on the Book of Life and he is therefore born "saved" from his mother's womb (John 1:29; I John 2:2). If he or she was not on the Book of Life from the foundation of the world they are not in Adam's race and were born "lost." Christ was not crucified for them in God's foreknowledge from the foundation of the world since He is not their Kinsman, and cannot redeem them.
Babies (not the still-born) and children who die before the age of accountability are "saved" so long as they are in Adam's race; likewise adults who never heard the Good News of Jesus Christ but lived all the righteousness they knew naturally (Romans 1:19-20). Every one whose name remains in the Book of Life is "saved" and will be granted into eternal Life at the White Throne Judgment.
You cannot read the Bible or listen to a sermon and "get saved." Everyone in Adam's race is born "saved" but with liberty to choose whether to receive God and live by His every Word, or follow the desires of their own hearts and chance losing the salvation Jesus has already purchased for them.
God is long suffering and gracious, not desiring that any of Adam's race should perish, excusing a multitude of sins in each of us. But sinners who exhaust God's patience and spurn His mercy, having rejected the revealed Word once too often, will come to a time of no more repentance. Their names are then removed from the Book of Life and they are irrevocably lost.
So long as your name is in the Book of Life, you are "saved" and will be judged by the saints and granted into eternal Life at the White Throne Judgment following the Millennium and the general resurrection.
Your service to God and duty to yourself is to recognize the Gift He has already provided and to secure your salvation by advancing in the faith through Justification by grace confirmed by Scriptural water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to Sanctification: amending your ways to conform to God's standard of Scriptural holiness, to the baptism with the Holy Spirit which is the new birth whereby you hear your name called from the Lamb's Book of Life when you recognize the present Truth—what Jesus is doing now—and become a written epistle of that part of the Word.
Only when you have been born-again are you a Christian with "eternal security," knowing that your name was inscribed in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world and cannot under any circumstance be erased. This Book is the genealogy of Jesus Christ and records the names of all who will be born the second time. Once born-again you are Spiritually redeemed and sealed to the day of your redemption. You can never be lost and are joint heirs with Jesus Christ by His eternal Life in your soul.
The evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is hearing, recognizing, and acting on the revealed Word of God for your day: recognizing your day and becoming a written epistle of its Message. This is best illustrated if we paraphrase I John 1:7, "Unless your life is manifesting the Word Jesus promised He would fulfill in this day, you are not and cannot come under the Blood (or be born-again), nor share true Spiritual fellowship with those who are Christians".
According to Jesus the evidence of the new birth is that "the Holy Spirit will guide you into all the truth revealed for your day. You may discern whether the inspiration is from the Holy Spirit or from your own spirit reasoning private ideas and interpretations, because whatever He says will be Bible doctrine (from Genesis to Revelation) and He will unfold Scriptures to come to fulfillment in your dispensation. Thus He will glorify God by drawing upon His Word and revealing it to you" (John 16:13-14).
Throughout the New Testament, the evidence of the new birth is "hearing" not speaking what the Holy Spirit is saying to commend and correct the elect Church—or condemn the nominal church (Acts 2:66; 4:4; 10:44-48; Romans 10:14-18; Revelation 2:7).
When Jesus died His mortal Spirit expired, but His soul in union with the Holy Spirit descended to the realm of the departed and preached to sinners, vindicating the Message of the former prophets who pointed to their Redeemer. Early on the third day, Jesus re-entered and glorified His embalmed body in Joseph of Arimathaea's tomb. In this form He encountered Mary Magdalene (John 20:11-18), bidding her not to touch Him lest she defile the sacrifice. He then ascended to present Himself to His Father and to cleanse the heavenly sanctuary of the unremitted sins of the Old Testament saints with His atoning Blood. Following Old Testament shadows and types, He sprinkled the Mercy Seat above the Ark between the Cherubim seven times with His Own Blood, once for each of the seven Church Ages.
Next He descended and made captives of eternal Life the saints held captive in death. These entered into His resurrection and appeared to many of the devout in old Jerusalem to attend the compulsory feasts of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost, under the blood of the Passover Lamb, which had become Jesus Christ (Ephesians 4:8; Matthew 27:52-53). These would become New Testament saints.
The Church was founded on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to inaugurate the many-membered Body of Christ as God's new, permanent and final Temple, made not with hands but by His spoken Word (Matthew 11:25-30; Acts 7:48-50; Ephesians 2:21-22; Hebrews 10:5; Revelation 21:3).
Since Daniel and John had been commanded to seal their common vision and prophecy unto the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:1-4), only PART-Word was revealed to the saints predestinated to Pentecost and the seven Church Ages. On this account the Holy Spirit came to them in the Office of Son of God or advocate (Gk. 'parakletos') to plead before God in behalf of their ignorance of the full Word so long as the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals.
Christ was Mediator, arbitrator or intercessor between two parties to a contract written in His Own Blood—the New Covenant or Testament between God and His elect (Revelation 1:5). His function from the day of Pentecost to the end of the seventh Church Age was to restore peace and agreement between the PART-Word saints and God, the Word.
Christ was only a Mediator for His elect, not for unbelievers, but for those who were called and chosen by His foreknowledge of their choosing to become party to the Contract. But since they had only PART-Word, they were in error and at variance with God the Word and required the advocacy of a go-between or impartial Mediator acceptable to Him. Clearly then, for seven out of seven Church Ages the Church has been believing and teaching error, otherwise Christ would never have been a Mediator.
Aaron was Christ's type: he was high priest or intercessor only for those called of God and following THUS SAITH THE LORD for their day by His prophet Moses. He was not a mediator for the Egyptians, Moabites, Canaanites, or the mixed multitude who followed Israel out of Egypt. Likewise, Christ was a Mediator ONLY for God's elect, making it possible for them to be born-again despite their errors and contradictions of His Word.
God did not expect the saints to understand all of His Word in one dispensation. He revealed a little here, revealed further understanding there, and so-on through the Ages (Isaiah 28:9-13). Although the Church of all Ages is One Body, it was born in relative ignorance before God had expounded and proven the Covenant through Paul and the ancient prophets by Old Testament shadows and types. And although the faith was delivered to the early saints, God hid many secrets within His Word which even the ancient prophets could not understand as they did not pertain to their Age (I Peter 1:10-13).
As the Christian assemblies grew in number and membership they diminished in exclusivity as many who joined themselves were not elect. Standards of holiness relaxed, compromise crept into the teachings, and the election shrunk as the nominal church grew through the first three Ages. Then in AD325 the nominal majority gathered under state patronage at the First Nicea Council where they organized the Roman Catholic system of worship, and introduced the pagan Trinity doctrine with its false baptism in three Titles. Then over the next thousand years they persecuted the saints, killing all who refused to worship their Trinity of gods or receive their false water baptism.
The last three Church Ages embodied the Reformation of the Roman Catholic system of worship. Following the Thyatira Church Age or Dark Ages, God raised up great teachers who expounded the Bible and protested the blasphemy and corruption of Rome. Sadly they did not return the Church to Pentecost and the only doctrine Jesus recognizes as His Own. Thus the reformers perpetuated Roman error. Nevertheless, they were powerfully used of the Lord and it was not yet time for restoration: the Bible would stay sealed until Christ had completed His mediation and the last saint predestinated to the Church Ages was born-again in Laodicea. He would then reveal the Seven Seals through a prophet and restore the Church back to the apostolic faith.
Knowing all things, God did not require perfect understanding from the Church Age saints as Christ's mediation made allowance for their ignorance. He received their faith in the Word revealed for their day and He placed their errors and ignorance under the atoning Blood which is the sea of God's forgetfulness where the sins of the Bride Age saints and the 144,000 elect Israelites have been since Calvary. Please read that once again . . . and again.
After Jesus' assumption into heaven His body lay as a memorial on the altar of sacrifice and throughout the Church Ages, for He was "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." So long as those seven stripes of Blood were present on the Ark it was a Mercy Seat, and Christ was a Mediator until the last saint predestinated to the PART-Word divisions of the Body came under that seventh stripe of Blood or was born-again in the Laodicean Church Age.
Once that soul was baptized into the Body, the Church Ages were over, and the sevenfold Spirit of God that had anointed the seven "angels" to the Church—Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley and Branham—ascended from Earth and stood before the throne or Ark of God encompassed by the Cherubim in the heavenly tabernacle, reporting that Christ's ministry of Mediation is fulfilled and redemption is over. This was no longer a throne of Mercy, and instead of the Blood, an angry God sat upon the throne from which proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices (Revelation 4:5). It was now the throne of Judgment.
The Church Ages were the time of Christ's justification of the PART-Word saints by receiving their faith in the Word for their Age and extending grace by pardoning their ignorance of the fulness of the Word. Now it is time for redemption to be revealed to the end-time Bride of Christ—how the saints were redeemed in each of the PART-Word dispensations, and who they were in each Age. In other words, how the mystery of God was revealed in Jesus Christ, and how Christ was revealed in His Body, the elect Church. These mysteries hidden under the Seven Seals are revealed "in the days of the voice of the angel to the Seventh Church Age" . . . after that Age had ended . . . in this fiftieth day or holy convocation of the Pentecostal feast.
The Gentile dispensation has within it nine separate dispensations defined by nine distinct baptisms of the Holy Spirit or new births. The fullness of the Word delivered to the apostolic saints was sealed with Seven Seals. The Seven Church Ages that followed were determined by seven different portions of the Word. Seven baptisms of the Holy Ghost or sabbaths. Finally the revelation of the Seven Seals restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God to quicken the saints of this Capstone or Bride Age by the fullness of the Word (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7).
Whilst the Book was sealed, the saints were born-again by becoming written epistles of the PART-Word revealed for their day. And in each Age the saints displayed a distinct nature as we explained in The Stature of the Perfect Man, a teaching sermon linked to Newsletter #146 explaining how God added faith, virtue, knowledge, and so-on, to endue the Body with His Divine nature (II Peter 1:1-12).
The elders advertised for a Kinsman Redeemer and one of them motioned to John (who throughout the Book of Revelation represents the end-time Bride who will not see physical death), "Behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David has prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the Seven Seals" (Revelation 5:5). Turning to see the Lion, we behold the bleeding, bloody Lamb coming from the sacrifice altar where He has been through His centuries of intercession.
When the Lamb left the sacrifice altar, the Blood left the Mercy Seat; redemption was over and the Mercy Seat became a Judgment Seat. Let me repeat, when the Blood left the Mercy Seat it became a Judgment Seat; the Lamb had left the sacrifice altar and redemption was over (Hebrews 9:22). The redemption of mankind ended (past tense) in 1963. The sacrificial Lamb of God became the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
Christ is not a Mediator today, He is King of Kings and Judge. He has not been a Mediator since He came forward and claimed the Book of Redemption in 1963. Our Messenger is not William Branham or any of the seven earthly angels but "another Mighty Angel Who came down from heaven clothed in a Cloud with the rainbow over His head and the Book of Redemption open in His hand." Our Angel is Christ Himself, the Angel of the Covenant (Revelation 10:1-6).
Mercy is over outside the fullness of the Word because Christ is no longer a Mediator, He is the Judge, and the Fullness of the Word requires no mediation as it is wholly God. The Word has descended for the space of half an hour to unite with His Bride and indict the world (Jude 14-15). After the Word is revealed to the 144,000 elect Israelites it will smite the nations in Armageddon and rule with a rod of iron at the White Throne Judgment following the Millennium (Revelation 19:11-15).
The revelation of the six written Seals was the Seventh Seal and the Coming of the Lord with ten thousands of His saints. The fullness of the Word in that unseen substance called faith. What are these mystic lights they call UFO's? Investigating judgment angels! It's the dimensions breaking into one another as we approach the first resurrection and translation of the living Bride. When Satan and his demons are cast out in the next cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, judgment and the Tribulation plagues will follow them down to Earth.
Christ was never a Mediator for the non-elect. The presence of the Bride on Earth enables God's blessings upon them as they honor His Word—written, or manifested in His saints. The non-elect were not "saved" by virtue of His Blood on the Mercy Seat, but being born into Adam's race, their names are on the Book of Life and while they remain, they are "saved".
The saints prayers for intercession could only be received while the Blood was on the sacrifice Altar and upon the Mercy Seat. Without that Blood, their prayers could not ascend to God, for until the Seven Seals were revealed the Blood was the evidence of their atonement. Since "that which is perfect has come" the evidence or Token of our atonement is the Life of Christ on display in our lives. So it is essential that we have the Token on display at all times.
Christ's pattern and type was Israel's high priest who stood before the golden Altar of incense and offered the prayers of the saints after the evening sacrifice. The sum of the prayers of the PART-Word Bride were presented to our High Priest after He had received the evening sacrifice of His Word written by faith in the lives of the Bride of all Ages represented by the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 5:7-8). After opening and revealing the mystery of the Seven Seals He offered up the prayers of the PART-Word saints for full redemption with "much incense" of the revelation given to perfect His end-time Bride. We are one Body and without us they cannot be made perfect or glorified (I Corinthians 13:10; Hebrews 11:39-40; Revelation 8:1-4). Our offering of His "Light in the evening time" does not require mediation (Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 24:27-28; Revelation 10:7-11).
Jesus Christ claimed His Own throne (Earth) and His redeemed subjects (for the resurrection). The Book is His Title Deed. Right now He is separating His end time Bride from the harlot and her daughter churches by the revelations of this Book.
Christ's end-time Bride and the 144,000 Israelites require no intercession for redemption, nor do we require Blood on the Altar or the Mercy Seat as we were redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Christ did not need to mediate for us as we present God with "that which is perfect," the fullness of the Word which is Christ Himself. And Christ is already accepted.
This explains why the Prophet said, "the Church goes up after the third Chapter of Revelation and does not reappear until the nineteenth." Christ's mediation for the PART-Word saints was fulfilled at the close of the Laodicean Church Age in March, 1963 (Revelation 3:22). His end-time Bride was fully redeemed 2,000 years ago in Christ on Calvary (although we were ignorant of this fact until the revelation of the seven thunders). So when He finished mediating for the last saint predestinated to Laodicea, His whole Body was completely redeemed.
This also explains how all the redeemed of all ages were already gathered in worship around the Throne that day in March, 1963, when Christ claimed the Book and opened the Seven Seals (Revelation 5:8-14). Some of us were not conceived in our mother's womb, and not one of us was born-again. Yet we were all present on that day because His end-time Bride was already redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Indeed, we are His eternal Attributes in the Logos, which is Christ, who is God, and by foreknowledge we were crucified in Him when He was slain before the foundation of the world.
If you can see all of these things, rejoice! Thank God you are "in"! And recognize this is the "relaxing time" of the Holy Convocation or fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast under the Seventh Seal where all "work" has been done. We have THUS SAITH THE LORD by a vindicated prophet and bask in the S_O_N Light of the Message, ripening, until all greenness and error is gone from us, and we are mature with the Token on display, ready for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the Translation. nl147.htm bb001129.htm (revised).
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"Vatican Agenda" by Israeli journalist Joel Bainerman in last week's Newsletter prompted a response from a reader with emails from two of his correspondents concerned to preserve Israeli sovereignty over the city of old Jerusalem. I believe you will find it useful to share my response (in part) as we witness Biblical prophecy coming to pass in the daily news:
There is nothing that can be done about this matter since it was prophesied in both Testaments. Mr. Olmert is cut from the same cloth as all of modern Israel's Prime Ministers. Israel's first Prime Minister, the terrorist David Ben Gurion, knew the plans of the World Revolutionary Movement. Interviewed by Look Magazine, (January 16, 1962), he disclosed: "With the exception of the USSR as a federal Eurasian State, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police force. All armies will be abolished and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a shrine of the prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the supreme court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah."
So you see, Brother, there was no "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" in the mind of those behind the theft of Palestine for the establishment of pseudo-Israel. It is a key part of establishing Lucifer's one world government, using what they regard as Biblical myths to harness the energies of so-called or self-styled Jews, Muslims, self-styled nominal Christians, Judaeo-Communism, unprincipled politicians who would sell their own mother were it to gain them popularity for a season, and all others for or against. (See Energy Crisis, or Free Energy? Its Your Choice!)
These people are all "useful idiots" working toward the realization of Lucifer's totalitarian one world government, and as the Jewish traitor F.D. Roosevelt said, "If something happens in politics, you can bet it was planned that way." And the people to whom you have written [prime ministers, presidents, mayors and other officials around the world] are themselves "useful idiots" in service to the same dynasties that have been planning Lucifer's totalitarian world government since the Fall in the garden of Eden.
The state of Israel was re-established in unbelief as part of the geopolitical strategy of non-Israelites whose objective is to rule Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. Both Testaments declare Israel will be ruled by a non-Semitic people unto the consummation, thus her citizens are predominantly non-Semitic self-styled Jews and usurpers, or Semitic Palestinians (Daniel 9:27; Luke 21:24; Revelation 11:2, 8). "But we know that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose," and however it happened, the state had to be restored because Israel's Covenant is of no effect outside the Promised Land. As the Hittites and Canaanites established the infrastructure for Israel's initial colonization, they have built the infrastructure for the return of Israel and Judah from the ancient Assyrian empire in Daniel's Seventieth Week for their redemption as prophesied in Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 50:4; Isaiah 11:11; Ezekiel 15-28; Hosea 3:5; Zechariah 10, etc.,
The restoration of Israel in 1948 was a sign warning of judgment to follow under the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet that will mark the end of the Gentile dispensation, the dawning of the Day of the Lord and the commencement of Daniel's Seventieth Week. This is also called "the time of Jacob's trouble" and the "great tribulation." It may be later than you think, because the end-time began when Christ opened the Seven Seals in March, 1963. This brought Him back to earth in WORD form "as a thief in the night" (I Corinthians 13:10). This was His second or 'parousia' Coming to us Gentiles.
Three world wars were all planned in the mid-nineteenth century. One of the objects of World War III, presently in its phoney stage, is to bring political Zionists and political Islam into controlled conflict in order to neuter and subjugate both. (World government cannot tolerate freedom of expression. See Protocol 11). Proxy forces of the political Zionists are killing innocent people and destroying national infrastructure around the globe whilst political Islam desires to live in peace, but as Emil Cohn wrote in The New Holy Alliance, (Strasburg, 1938): "Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war." Now war is being forced upon Islam.
What happens in Israel should be no business of our governments, whose duties and responsibilities should rest with their own people. Besides, they are controlled by the same evil power and working toward the same end. Israel has nothing to do with the Church or Christianity except inasmuch as it is revealed as God's "timepiece" in Daniel 9 and elsewhere.
Daniel 11:41, Zechariah 14:2 and Revelation 16:19 indicate Israel will ultimately be forsaken. You should recognize this from the guile of those who drafted the form of words of UN Resolution 181 mentioned in point 6B of Mr. Belman's email and in Mr. Israel Harel's article published in Ha'aretz. Israel's "do-nothing government" does nothing because they are a part of the plan (enunciated by Mr. David Ben Gurion above). Also, you should discern the hand of God in the extensive environs designated to Jerusalem. (The City of Jerusalem shall include the present municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns, the most eastern of which shall be Abu Dis; the most southern, Bethlehem; the most western, ‘Ein Karim (including also the built-up area of Motsa); and the most northern Shu’fat). "For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call" (Joel 2:32).
Ultimately, "all Israel" territorially is not necessary to God's plan, but Jerusalem "where also our Lord was crucified," is absolutely essential.
Zechariah 12:1-14, "This is the fate of Israel, as pronounced by the Lord, who daily stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him (by which to accomplish His purposes): I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the nearby nations that send their armies to overrun Judah and besiege Jerusalem. In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome boulder for the whole world: all who lift it up will be grievously injured. And although all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed. . . In that day will I make the chiefs of Judah like a little fire that sets the forest aflame—like a torch of fire among the sheaves: they will burn up the neighbouring nations right and left, while Jerusalem stands unmoved. The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, so that the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the royal line of David won't be filled with pride at their success. The Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will be as mighty as king David! And the royal line will be as God, like the angel of the Lord who goes before them. For My plan is to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. Then I will pour out the Spirit of grace and prayer upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and they will look on Him whom they have pierced, and mourn for Him as for an only son. . . "
The Vatican is one of the actors in this "great game," a play to use the political mass of superstitious Bible believers without faith to impersonate (but unbeknownst to themselves, fulfil) Bible prophecy and establish Lucifer's totalitarian one world government here on earth (Isaiah 14:12-15). At the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet, Lucifer will be cast out from heavenly places and incarnate the pope, Los Angeles and a huge segment of earth will sink beneath the Pacific, and the Mount of Olives will split, demolishing the dome of the Rock. Weeks later, Russia will attack and invade mainland USA. The pope will bring all of the world's religions into a federation (ostensibly to suppress Judaeo-Communism) and restore world peace. In return the nations will implore him to become the inaugural president of one world government.
God has raised up Communism to destroy the false church, just as He raised up Nebuchadnezzar to destroy His temple and Jerusalem, take the Judeans captive, and commence "the times of the Gentiles" or Gentile rule over Jerusalem, which will endure until the consummation of life on earth. Communism is a spirit God calls "Laodicea," and it rules all of our Hegelian sham democracies.
II Timothy 3:1-5, "In the Messianic age perilous times shall come. For men shall be . . . trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away".
The dynasties that rule this world have all of this in hand. And so does the Lord. As it is said, "Next year, Jerusalem"! So keep your lamp trimmed and full of oil, for soon "the door will be shut . . . as it was in the days of Noah".
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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Malta is Blackwater's Operational Base
March 16, 2008 – A European Parliament working document drawn up by Giovanni Claudio Fava has claimed "Malta is the operational base of Blackwater, the organiser of private military militia which are increasingly taking on more and more roles which used to be undertaken by US forces in Iraq and elsewhere".
American left-wing [emphasis ours] and anti-war media are in full cry about the underhand and subtle changes that have made Blackwater the new symbol of American claimed supremacy, carried out by forces other than the regular military. . . Full story: independent.com.mt
Comment: Their connection with the Knights of Malta places Blackwater's hired guns and professional killers "outside the law and above the US Constitution." Despite the Second Amendment, there is a call to restrict private (non-mercenary) gun ownership. With this and Blackwater's Vatican connections in mind, their new base at Potrero, California, would appear to shine the Light on Revelation 12:13-17, and the sixth of Brother Branham's seven consecutive visions in 1933 which foretold the rise of a most beautiful, but cruel woman to power in America, and martial law (Revelation 13; 17; 18).
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Albanian Arms Dump Blasts kill Five, Devastate Area
Tirana, March 15, 2008 – An Albanian army base stocking obsolete munitions for destruction blew up in a chain of massive blasts on Saturday killing at least five people and injuring more than 240. "This is not the final number of the dead, there might be others," Prime Minister Sali Berisha said in a televised news conference. "The search will resume at daylight because night has fallen and shells are still exploding". . . Full story: alertnet.org truthout.org
Comment: Something to be expected when unwitting pawns of the 'hidden hand,' steal part of another country. Without a shadow of doubt, the Balkan war and the unlawful granting of independence to Kosovo were engineered as part of the NWO program to create hatred and division between Islam and the political Zionists to ensure the desired outcome of the controlled conflict of World War III. Across the Islamic world in particular, boundaries no longer matter. In such regions no aspect of sovereignty can now constrain a US president from acting in pursuit of whatever he may personally define as American interests.
The Bush administration has, so far, only been willing to carry out "decapitation" strikes in countries where human life is, by implication, of less or little value. It has yet to carry one out in London or Hamburg or Tokyo or Moscow or the Chinese countryside, even though "terrorist suspects" abound everywhere . . . given the impetus of this kind of globalization, who knows when such a strike might come. After all, the CIA has already carried out clearly illegal, sovereignty-violating "extraordinary rendition" operations (kidnappings of terror suspects) on the streets of European cities. . .
Full story: tomdispatch.com latimes.com
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Derivatives the New 'Ticking Bomb'
March 10, 2008 – "Charlie and I believe Berkshire should be a fortress of financial strength" wrote Warren Buffett. That was five years before the subprime-credit meltdown.
"We try to be alert to any sort of mega-catastrophe risk, and that posture may make us unduly appreciative about the burgeoning quantities of long-term derivatives contracts and the massive amount of uncollateralized receivables that are growing alongside. In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal". . .
The fact is, derivatives have become the world's biggest "black market," exceeding the illicit traffic in stuff like arms, drugs, alcohol, gambling, cigarettes, stolen art and pirated movies. Why? Because like all black markets, derivatives are a perfect way of getting rich while avoiding taxes and government regulations. And in today's slowdown, plus a volatile global market, Wall Street knows derivatives remain a lucrative business.
Recently Pimco's bond fund king Bill Gross said "What we are witnessing is essentially the breakdown of our modern-day banking system, a complex of leveraged lending so hard to understand . . . not only Warren Buffett, but Bond King Bill Gross, our Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the rest of America's leaders can't "figure out" the world's $516 trillion derivatives.
Why? Gross says we are creating a new "shadow banking system." Derivatives are now not just risk management tools. As Gross and others see it, the real problem is that derivatives are now a new way of creating money outside the normal central bank liquidity rules. How? Because they're private contracts between two companies or institutions.
BIS is primarily a records-keeper, a toothless tiger that merely collects data giving a legitimacy and false sense of security to this chaotic "shadow banking system" that has become the world's biggest "black market."
That's crucial, folks. Why? Because central banks require reserves like stock brokers require margins, something backing up the transaction. Derivatives don't. They're not "real money." They're paper promises closer to "Monopoly" money than real US dollars. . . Full story: marketwatch.com
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Venezuela switches to Euros for Oil
Caracas, March 16, 2008 – Venezuelan state oil giant PDVSA has decided to sign some oil contracts in euros in the face of a plummeting dollar, local media reported, citing officials. . . Venezuela produces 3.3 million barrels of oil a day, according to official figures, and 2.4 million according to the International Energy Agency. Half of its production is sold to the United States market. Full story: rense.com
Comment: Venezuela should ask the US to pay for oil purchases in Euros as Israel asked for its $3 billion US aid to be paid in Euros.
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Argentina, Brazil to drop Dollar in Commercial Dealings
Buenos Aires, March 15 – Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in US dollars and start using their own currencies from August . . . Brazil is Argentina's largest trading partner, while Argentina is Brazil's second-biggest trading partner after the United States. Bilateral trade stood at around 23.6 billion US dollars last year.
Full story: rumormillnews.com
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Death Treaty now in Force
March 14, 2008 – On 3rd December 2007, as his first official act of government, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the Kyoto Protocol; now, 90 days later, Australia is officially subject to that genocidal monstrosity, and its devastating assault on agriculture and industry will only accelerate the present global economic collapse.
In April 2004, Andrei Illarionov, economic advisor to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, slammed the Kyoto Protocol as a "death treaty" which will impose such strong economic constraints that it will be like an "international Auschwitz."
The mainstream media, a key asset of the British financial oligarchy pushing this "international Auschwitz," has been quick to trumpet Rudd's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. They also gloated when mining boss and Rio Tinto frontman, Ross Garnaut released his interim report on climate change last month, in which he demanded that "firm commitments" be made immediately in 2008 for "major reductions in emissions," where an emissions trading scheme (ETS) would be "the centre-piece of a domestic mitigation strategy." This proposed trading scheme, if implemented, won't stop pollution, but will be one of the biggest financial swindles to ever be pushed onto an unwitting population.
Garnaut admits, "an ETS with ambitious mitigation objectives will be difficult and will make heavy demands on scarce economic and finite political resources" which is a clear indication that economic collapse is actually intended. [Emphasis ours].
Australians suffering from amnesia should note that this is not the first time Ross Garnaut has directed major economic reforms for our economy. Garnaut, currently Chairman of Lihir Gold, a director of Ok Tedi Mining, and the head of the International Advisory Group which recommended that Papua New Guinea sell off ("privatise") its staggering raw materials wealth to the British-owned global minerals cartel, was one of the most influential economists advising the Hawke-Keating administration. His economic prescription of floating the currency, removing trade barriers and liberalising banking regulations, have led to the economic crisis which we face today, where manufacturers and farmers are a dying species and banks are set to foreclose on hundreds of thousands of homeowners this year. In the face of this genocidal insanity, the Australian media has conveniently ignored The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, held on March 2-4 in New York, where hundreds of delegates including many of the world’s top climate scientists, exposed the IPCC lies and the global warming hoax. Likewise, our media ignored a US Senate report last December, where over 400 prominent scientists were extensively quoted, disputing claims of man-made global warming, including even IPCC Vice Chairman, Prof Yuri Izrael who has stated, "there is no serious threat to the climate." Full story: cecaust.com.au
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The Deployment of US Troops inside Canada
March 13, 2008 – While a formal agreement was reached in February 2008, the decision to allow the deployment of US troops in Canada was announced in April 2002 by (former) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Donald Rumsfeld. "Binational integration" of military command structures was also contemplated alongside a major revamping in the areas of immigration, law enforcement and intelligence.
The matter has been known for more than five years. It has been deliberately obfuscated. There has been no public debate. It has not received news coverage nor has it been the object of discussion in the Canadian House of Commons or the US Congress. In an article published in 2004 entitled Is the Annexation of Canada Part of Bush's Military Agenda?, I provided a detailed analysis of the process of integration of military command structures. I also examined the broader issue of sovereignty. . . Despite repeated assurances by the Toronto Star OpEd Editor, the article never appeared in print. . .
Full story: globalresearch.ca
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Secretive Freemasons open Royal Lodge at Buckingham Palace
March 10, 2008 – A branch of the Freemasons secret society is being formed by members of the Royal Household and police who protect the Royal Family. And their decision to call it The Royal Household Lodge has put them on a collision course with Buckingham Palace—as has their plan to co-opt the royal cipher—EIIR—for their regalia, to underline their connection to the Queen. . .
The United Grand Lodge of England issued the Royal Household Lodge with a warrant in June last year although it will not formally exist until the consecration ceremony on May 19 at the Freemasons’ Hall in London. Full story: dailymail.co.uk
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Solid Light
March 15, 2006 – Solid light describes a method of obtaining a phase transition in light. At a critical point light crystallises. This form of light was not predicted! It is a new exotic state for light. Despite some precursor experiments, the idea is to create a system where this effect can be observed. This would consist of a trap where a single photon reacts with a single atom. You have these photons which presumably are travelling at the speed of light because they are light, and I'd imagine the crystals are not travelling very fast and they're sitting there, so what happens to the energy? Full story: abc.net.au
Comment: The natural types the Spiritual. God is Light, and as Brother Branham explained, matter is Spirit "slowed down." Also very interesting is Quantum Entanglement
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Redemption is Over
Brother Branham opened our understanding to a wonderful revelation when He expounded Ephesians 4:30, "Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed till the day that the Book of Redemption has been revealed, and the Redeemer comes to claim His possession".
Redemption ended in 1963 when Christ claimed His possession and revealed its contents (Revelation 4, 5, 10:1-7). The Book of Redemption is the inheritance of the last Adam. It records the names of His redeemed sons: the elect who constitute the Lamb's Book of Life and the non-elect who remain in the Book of Life. Jesus Christ died to redeem this Book which is the Title Deed to everything forfeited by the first Adam. As Christ's Bride, the New Testament Church is joint heir with the last Adam, Jesus Christ.
Only in the sense that Christ is not yet revealed to certain elect still dozing under denominational delusions could one imply that redemption is ongoing. These will soon awake, but unlike the Church Age saints, they were all redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Read on.
The majority of mankind, being in the lineage of Cain, are not of Adam's race and therefore not in the Book of Life which is Adam's genealogy. Cain and his race are not God's spoken Word expressed, not "Spirit and Life," but a hybrid between the Serpent and Eve with no part in redemption.
The word "redeem" means to "buy back." As the Serpent seed line of Cain are not God's creative thoughts, they have no part in Him and are born "lost." The Serpent is God's spoken Word and will be in the Millennium and in the new heavens and new earth, but in his present reptilian form not his original upright man-like frame. Neither Cain's serpent seed lineage nor any other hybrid species such as the mule will be present.
Only lack of revelation can explain why those in Message circles invest scarce time and resources ministering to and trying to convert the Serpent's seed. Jesus was the last Adam; He was not the last Cain. When He died to redeem the first Adam who is the Book of Life, He potentially redeemed all of Adam's seed.
Cain was never in the Book of Life. Neither are any of his descendants—whole ethnic groups are excluded from the Book of Life (Genesis 10:15-19). Adam's children who marry a Serpent seed partner commit genocide as any offspring will not be on the Book of Life . . . ever. Satan knows this, which is why his people promote racial mixing.
Because of miscegenation between the races of Adam and Cain, God destroyed all life by the Great Flood. Jesus said these deplorable consequences would repeat in the time of His 'parousia,' which began in 1963 (Genesis 6:1-4; Matthew 24:37). This accursed hybreeding of God's manifested Word—from Spirit and life to Death—is disguised and promoted as "multiculturalism" (Genesis 1:11; John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). God separated the nations and set enmity between the races of Adam and Cain (Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 3:15). That enmity is extant, thus multiculturalism is accursed of God.
Few who call upon the lovely Name of the Lord Jesus Christ seem to realize the distinction between the "saved" and the "born-again." Everyone in Adam's race is born "saved" from his mother's womb because his name was placed on the Book of Life from the foundation of the world (Revelation 17:8). Jesus was the Kinsman Redeemer for Adam's entire race regardless how sinful the parents, the circumstances of their conception or whether their society worships demons and eats human flesh. Provided a baby is born in Adam's race, his name is on the Book of Life and he is therefore born "saved" from his mother's womb (John 1:29; I John 2:2). If he or she was not on the Book of Life from the foundation of the world they are not in Adam's race and were born "lost." Christ was not crucified for them in God's foreknowledge from the foundation of the world since He is not their Kinsman, and cannot redeem them.
Babies (not the still-born) and children who die before the age of accountability are "saved" so long as they are in Adam's race; likewise adults who never heard the Good News of Jesus Christ but lived all the righteousness they knew naturally (Romans 1:19-20). Every one whose name remains in the Book of Life is "saved" and will be granted into eternal Life at the White Throne Judgment.
You cannot read the Bible or listen to a sermon and "get saved." Everyone in Adam's race is born "saved" but with liberty to choose whether to receive God and live by His every Word, or follow the desires of their own hearts and chance losing the salvation Jesus has already purchased for them.
God is long suffering and gracious, not desiring that any of Adam's race should perish, excusing a multitude of sins in each of us. But sinners who exhaust God's patience and spurn His mercy, having rejected the revealed Word once too often, will come to a time of no more repentance. Their names are then removed from the Book of Life and they are irrevocably lost.
So long as your name is in the Book of Life, you are "saved" and will be judged by the saints and granted into eternal Life at the White Throne Judgment following the Millennium and the general resurrection.
Your service to God and duty to yourself is to recognize the Gift He has already provided and to secure your salvation by advancing in the faith through Justification by grace confirmed by Scriptural water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to Sanctification: amending your ways to conform to God's standard of Scriptural holiness, to the baptism with the Holy Spirit which is the new birth whereby you hear your name called from the Lamb's Book of Life when you recognize the present Truth—what Jesus is doing now—and become a written epistle of that part of the Word.
Only when you have been born-again are you a Christian with "eternal security," knowing that your name was inscribed in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world and cannot under any circumstance be erased. This Book is the genealogy of Jesus Christ and records the names of all who will be born the second time. Once born-again you are Spiritually redeemed and sealed to the day of your redemption. You can never be lost and are joint heirs with Jesus Christ by His eternal Life in your soul.
The evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is hearing, recognizing, and acting on the revealed Word of God for your day: recognizing your day and becoming a written epistle of its Message. This is best illustrated if we paraphrase I John 1:7, "Unless your life is manifesting the Word Jesus promised He would fulfill in this day, you are not and cannot come under the Blood (or be born-again), nor share true Spiritual fellowship with those who are Christians".
According to Jesus the evidence of the new birth is that "the Holy Spirit will guide you into all the truth revealed for your day. You may discern whether the inspiration is from the Holy Spirit or from your own spirit reasoning private ideas and interpretations, because whatever He says will be Bible doctrine (from Genesis to Revelation) and He will unfold Scriptures to come to fulfillment in your dispensation. Thus He will glorify God by drawing upon His Word and revealing it to you" (John 16:13-14).
Throughout the New Testament, the evidence of the new birth is "hearing" not speaking what the Holy Spirit is saying to commend and correct the elect Church—or condemn the nominal church (Acts 2:66; 4:4; 10:44-48; Romans 10:14-18; Revelation 2:7).
When Jesus died His mortal Spirit expired, but His soul in union with the Holy Spirit descended to the realm of the departed and preached to sinners, vindicating the Message of the former prophets who pointed to their Redeemer. Early on the third day, Jesus re-entered and glorified His embalmed body in Joseph of Arimathaea's tomb. In this form He encountered Mary Magdalene (John 20:11-18), bidding her not to touch Him lest she defile the sacrifice. He then ascended to present Himself to His Father and to cleanse the heavenly sanctuary of the unremitted sins of the Old Testament saints with His atoning Blood. Following Old Testament shadows and types, He sprinkled the Mercy Seat above the Ark between the Cherubim seven times with His Own Blood, once for each of the seven Church Ages.
Next He descended and made captives of eternal Life the saints held captive in death. These entered into His resurrection and appeared to many of the devout in old Jerusalem to attend the compulsory feasts of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost, under the blood of the Passover Lamb, which had become Jesus Christ (Ephesians 4:8; Matthew 27:52-53). These would become New Testament saints.
The Church was founded on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to inaugurate the many-membered Body of Christ as God's new, permanent and final Temple, made not with hands but by His spoken Word (Matthew 11:25-30; Acts 7:48-50; Ephesians 2:21-22; Hebrews 10:5; Revelation 21:3).
Since Daniel and John had been commanded to seal their common vision and prophecy unto the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:1-4), only PART-Word was revealed to the saints predestinated to Pentecost and the seven Church Ages. On this account the Holy Spirit came to them in the Office of Son of God or advocate (Gk. 'parakletos') to plead before God in behalf of their ignorance of the full Word so long as the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals.
Christ was Mediator, arbitrator or intercessor between two parties to a contract written in His Own Blood—the New Covenant or Testament between God and His elect (Revelation 1:5). His function from the day of Pentecost to the end of the seventh Church Age was to restore peace and agreement between the PART-Word saints and God, the Word.
Christ was only a Mediator for His elect, not for unbelievers, but for those who were called and chosen by His foreknowledge of their choosing to become party to the Contract. But since they had only PART-Word, they were in error and at variance with God the Word and required the advocacy of a go-between or impartial Mediator acceptable to Him. Clearly then, for seven out of seven Church Ages the Church has been believing and teaching error, otherwise Christ would never have been a Mediator.
Aaron was Christ's type: he was high priest or intercessor only for those called of God and following THUS SAITH THE LORD for their day by His prophet Moses. He was not a mediator for the Egyptians, Moabites, Canaanites, or the mixed multitude who followed Israel out of Egypt. Likewise, Christ was a Mediator ONLY for God's elect, making it possible for them to be born-again despite their errors and contradictions of His Word.
God did not expect the saints to understand all of His Word in one dispensation. He revealed a little here, revealed further understanding there, and so-on through the Ages (Isaiah 28:9-13). Although the Church of all Ages is One Body, it was born in relative ignorance before God had expounded and proven the Covenant through Paul and the ancient prophets by Old Testament shadows and types. And although the faith was delivered to the early saints, God hid many secrets within His Word which even the ancient prophets could not understand as they did not pertain to their Age (I Peter 1:10-13).
As the Christian assemblies grew in number and membership they diminished in exclusivity as many who joined themselves were not elect. Standards of holiness relaxed, compromise crept into the teachings, and the election shrunk as the nominal church grew through the first three Ages. Then in AD325 the nominal majority gathered under state patronage at the First Nicea Council where they organized the Roman Catholic system of worship, and introduced the pagan Trinity doctrine with its false baptism in three Titles. Then over the next thousand years they persecuted the saints, killing all who refused to worship their Trinity of gods or receive their false water baptism.
The last three Church Ages embodied the Reformation of the Roman Catholic system of worship. Following the Thyatira Church Age or Dark Ages, God raised up great teachers who expounded the Bible and protested the blasphemy and corruption of Rome. Sadly they did not return the Church to Pentecost and the only doctrine Jesus recognizes as His Own. Thus the reformers perpetuated Roman error. Nevertheless, they were powerfully used of the Lord and it was not yet time for restoration: the Bible would stay sealed until Christ had completed His mediation and the last saint predestinated to the Church Ages was born-again in Laodicea. He would then reveal the Seven Seals through a prophet and restore the Church back to the apostolic faith.
Knowing all things, God did not require perfect understanding from the Church Age saints as Christ's mediation made allowance for their ignorance. He received their faith in the Word revealed for their day and He placed their errors and ignorance under the atoning Blood which is the sea of God's forgetfulness where the sins of the Bride Age saints and the 144,000 elect Israelites have been since Calvary. Please read that once again . . . and again.
After Jesus' assumption into heaven His body lay as a memorial on the altar of sacrifice and throughout the Church Ages, for He was "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." So long as those seven stripes of Blood were present on the Ark it was a Mercy Seat, and Christ was a Mediator until the last saint predestinated to the PART-Word divisions of the Body came under that seventh stripe of Blood or was born-again in the Laodicean Church Age.
Once that soul was baptized into the Body, the Church Ages were over, and the sevenfold Spirit of God that had anointed the seven "angels" to the Church—Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley and Branham—ascended from Earth and stood before the throne or Ark of God encompassed by the Cherubim in the heavenly tabernacle, reporting that Christ's ministry of Mediation is fulfilled and redemption is over. This was no longer a throne of Mercy, and instead of the Blood, an angry God sat upon the throne from which proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices (Revelation 4:5). It was now the throne of Judgment.
The Church Ages were the time of Christ's justification of the PART-Word saints by receiving their faith in the Word for their Age and extending grace by pardoning their ignorance of the fulness of the Word. Now it is time for redemption to be revealed to the end-time Bride of Christ—how the saints were redeemed in each of the PART-Word dispensations, and who they were in each Age. In other words, how the mystery of God was revealed in Jesus Christ, and how Christ was revealed in His Body, the elect Church. These mysteries hidden under the Seven Seals are revealed "in the days of the voice of the angel to the Seventh Church Age" . . . after that Age had ended . . . in this fiftieth day or holy convocation of the Pentecostal feast.
The Gentile dispensation has within it nine separate dispensations defined by nine distinct baptisms of the Holy Spirit or new births. The fullness of the Word delivered to the apostolic saints was sealed with Seven Seals. The Seven Church Ages that followed were determined by seven different portions of the Word. Seven baptisms of the Holy Ghost or sabbaths. Finally the revelation of the Seven Seals restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God to quicken the saints of this Capstone or Bride Age by the fullness of the Word (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7).
Whilst the Book was sealed, the saints were born-again by becoming written epistles of the PART-Word revealed for their day. And in each Age the saints displayed a distinct nature as we explained in The Stature of the Perfect Man, a teaching sermon linked to Newsletter #146 explaining how God added faith, virtue, knowledge, and so-on, to endue the Body with His Divine nature (II Peter 1:1-12).
The elders advertised for a Kinsman Redeemer and one of them motioned to John (who throughout the Book of Revelation represents the end-time Bride who will not see physical death), "Behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David has prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the Seven Seals" (Revelation 5:5). Turning to see the Lion, we behold the bleeding, bloody Lamb coming from the sacrifice altar where He has been through His centuries of intercession.
When the Lamb left the sacrifice altar, the Blood left the Mercy Seat; redemption was over and the Mercy Seat became a Judgment Seat. Let me repeat, when the Blood left the Mercy Seat it became a Judgment Seat; the Lamb had left the sacrifice altar and redemption was over (Hebrews 9:22). The redemption of mankind ended (past tense) in 1963. The sacrificial Lamb of God became the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
Christ is not a Mediator today, He is King of Kings and Judge. He has not been a Mediator since He came forward and claimed the Book of Redemption in 1963. Our Messenger is not William Branham or any of the seven earthly angels but "another Mighty Angel Who came down from heaven clothed in a Cloud with the rainbow over His head and the Book of Redemption open in His hand." Our Angel is Christ Himself, the Angel of the Covenant (Revelation 10:1-6).
Mercy is over outside the fullness of the Word because Christ is no longer a Mediator, He is the Judge, and the Fullness of the Word requires no mediation as it is wholly God. The Word has descended for the space of half an hour to unite with His Bride and indict the world (Jude 14-15). After the Word is revealed to the 144,000 elect Israelites it will smite the nations in Armageddon and rule with a rod of iron at the White Throne Judgment following the Millennium (Revelation 19:11-15).
The revelation of the six written Seals was the Seventh Seal and the Coming of the Lord with ten thousands of His saints. The fullness of the Word in that unseen substance called faith. What are these mystic lights they call UFO's? Investigating judgment angels! It's the dimensions breaking into one another as we approach the first resurrection and translation of the living Bride. When Satan and his demons are cast out in the next cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, judgment and the Tribulation plagues will follow them down to Earth.
Christ was never a Mediator for the non-elect. The presence of the Bride on Earth enables God's blessings upon them as they honor His Word—written, or manifested in His saints. The non-elect were not "saved" by virtue of His Blood on the Mercy Seat, but being born into Adam's race, their names are on the Book of Life and while they remain, they are "saved".
The saints prayers for intercession could only be received while the Blood was on the sacrifice Altar and upon the Mercy Seat. Without that Blood, their prayers could not ascend to God, for until the Seven Seals were revealed the Blood was the evidence of their atonement. Since "that which is perfect has come" the evidence or Token of our atonement is the Life of Christ on display in our lives. So it is essential that we have the Token on display at all times.
Christ's pattern and type was Israel's high priest who stood before the golden Altar of incense and offered the prayers of the saints after the evening sacrifice. The sum of the prayers of the PART-Word Bride were presented to our High Priest after He had received the evening sacrifice of His Word written by faith in the lives of the Bride of all Ages represented by the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 5:7-8). After opening and revealing the mystery of the Seven Seals He offered up the prayers of the PART-Word saints for full redemption with "much incense" of the revelation given to perfect His end-time Bride. We are one Body and without us they cannot be made perfect or glorified (I Corinthians 13:10; Hebrews 11:39-40; Revelation 8:1-4). Our offering of His "Light in the evening time" does not require mediation (Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 24:27-28; Revelation 10:7-11).
Jesus Christ claimed His Own throne (Earth) and His redeemed subjects (for the resurrection). The Book is His Title Deed. Right now He is separating His end time Bride from the harlot and her daughter churches by the revelations of this Book.
Christ's end-time Bride and the 144,000 Israelites require no intercession for redemption, nor do we require Blood on the Altar or the Mercy Seat as we were redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Christ did not need to mediate for us as we present God with "that which is perfect," the fullness of the Word which is Christ Himself. And Christ is already accepted.
This explains why the Prophet said, "the Church goes up after the third Chapter of Revelation and does not reappear until the nineteenth." Christ's mediation for the PART-Word saints was fulfilled at the close of the Laodicean Church Age in March, 1963 (Revelation 3:22). His end-time Bride was fully redeemed 2,000 years ago in Christ on Calvary (although we were ignorant of this fact until the revelation of the seven thunders). So when He finished mediating for the last saint predestinated to Laodicea, His whole Body was completely redeemed.
This also explains how all the redeemed of all ages were already gathered in worship around the Throne that day in March, 1963, when Christ claimed the Book and opened the Seven Seals (Revelation 5:8-14). Some of us were not conceived in our mother's womb, and not one of us was born-again. Yet we were all present on that day because His end-time Bride was already redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Indeed, we are His eternal Attributes in the Logos, which is Christ, who is God, and by foreknowledge we were crucified in Him when He was slain before the foundation of the world.
If you can see all of these things, rejoice! Thank God you are "in"! And recognize this is the "relaxing time" of the Holy Convocation or fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast under the Seventh Seal where all "work" has been done. We have THUS SAITH THE LORD by a vindicated prophet and bask in the S_O_N Light of the Message, ripening, until all greenness and error is gone from us, and we are mature with the Token on display, ready for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the Translation. nl147.htm bb001129.htm (revised).
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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