Bible Believers' Newsletter #535
"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. It is good to be with you.
Our main article in this week's Newsletter is quite brief but there is some important reading among the news items in which those with anointed eyes will see Scripture coming to pass in the press. It has not been not censored because the aliens who control the mass media are blind to the will and Word of God and have no idea what they should look for.
Since we are in the harvest time, men can no longer disguise their true character, which like the fruit of a tree cannot be hid, but declares the life of the seed on which it is borne. Men and women of renown are being seen for who they really are; many of the leaders, particularly in our apostate, once Christian world, are of no moral worth.
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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July 4, 1776 - January 19, 2009
The first of those dates still reverberates across history and in the American mind. The second is the last day of President Bush's second term and last day of office. They could become the official bookends of the glorious historic American political experiment with Individual Freedom and Individual Liberty. On January 20, 2009—by law—the next President will be sworn into office. On that date, the US will stand with all the internal apparatus and machinery of the full Surveillance State—one small step short of the Police State. Once the full police state arrives, individual freedom has died. Once it is there, individual liberty has also died. Individuals no longer live by RIGHT but only by the permissions of their masters. In such a situation, the American Constitution dies.
The most dangerous political time in the US is between now and January 20, 2009. The Bush Administration has its back to the wall. Its every attempt to impose an internal peace in Iraq by military means has failed and the temptation to strike out at what is claimed to be the cause of this failure raises the risks of a sudden US military strike against Iran. Here, the danger has already peaked. The Democrats in Congress have voted $US 162 Billion for the occupation of Iraq and the ongoing war in Afghanistan with no strings attached! There was even an allocation of $US 400 million to make "covert war" on Iran! President Bush signed this bill the moment it arrived at the White House.
If the Bush Administration launches a full scale aerial assault on Iran, the pressure would quickly rise for the imposition of Martial Law INSIDE the USA.
Martial Law, in its simplest historical sense, is when a nation's own Armed Forces turn its guns inwards and occupies its own country. Once this is done, such an Armed Force acts to extract from the civilians what it needs to sustain itself. This is done by direct demand at the point of a gun which will be used if any opposition or resistance is encountered. Historically, this is why there has never been any prolonged periods of Martial Law. Looting at the point of a gun fails economically when there is little or nothing left to loot. At that point, the Armed Force starts wasting away for lack of supplies.
Today, there are only two brakes on the Bush Administration. First, will the officers at the top of the US chain of command follow orders if they are told to attack Iran? Second, will the armed forces inside the US turn their guns on fellow Americans if they are ordered to do so? . . Full story: The Privateer, Early July, 2008 #607
Comment: Do you remember Brother Branham's vision of the strange caribou with a 42-inch rack, ". . . not a 16th over exactly forty-two inches?" That vision is about to be fulfilled, followed by the "nine foot silver-tipped grizzly bear," both will be "shot" (or fulfilled) according to the prophecy.
Nine is the last of the digits and thus marks the end; it signifies the conclusion of a matter. It is akin to the number six, six being the sum of its factors (3x3=9, and 3+3=6), and thus signifies the end of man, and the summation of all man's works. Nine is, therefore, the number of finality or judgment, for judgment is committed unto the Son of man (John 5:27; Acts 17:31). It marks the completeness, the end and issue of all things as to man—the judgment of man and all his works. With the silver tip it signifies the end of grace.
Forty-two is a number connected with Antichrist. Its factors six and seven (6x7=42) show a connection between man and the Spirit of God, and between Christ and Antichrist. The pretence of democracy will end with the reign of the forty-second president of the United States, followed by its forty-two-month world dominion as the image of the Beast of papal Rome. Being the product of six times seven, forty-two signifies the working out of man's opposition to God, hence the expression "at sixes and sevens" when man is mixed up with the things of God, and religious "flesh" engages in spiritual things as will the revived holy (sic) Judaeo-Roman empire vicariously ruling Lucifer's totalitarian one world government.
Seymour Hersh, who certainly has his ear to the ground in Washington, has publicly suggested that an Obama victory might be the signal for the Bush administration to launch an air campaign against that country. As Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service has pointed out, there have been a number of "public warnings by U.S. hawks close to Cheney's office that either the Israelis or the U.S. would attack Iran between the November elections and the inaugural of a new president in January 2009." (Read this article).
Higher oil prices will likely bolster support for the US dollar, a short term comfort for the Federal Reserve, whilst an attack on Iran would create the global chaos inducing martial law, civilian servitude, global poverty, famine, disease and death amenable to NWO plans to eliminate four to five billion "useless eaters." Russia can be in no doubt that for the sake of humankind the United States must be conquered without procrastination.
If Los Angeles sinks beneath the Pacific next April, come July 4, 2009 the United States will be under Russian occupation until Rome's then incarnate pope sends them home, restores peace and is installed as the inaugural president of Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. Thereafter the United States military will become such a marauding force of death that after the midst of Daniel's seventieth week when Rome abrogates her agreement with the Jewish International Banksters, Judaeo-Communist Russia will blast both Vatican City State and the North American continent off the map, ushering in Armageddon and the consummation of life as prophesied in 1933.
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Double Blow
July 9, 2008 – Right in the middle of the G-8 summit in Japan, what do American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech homologue announce? The signing of an agreement on the installation of made-in-USA radar right in the heart of Central Europe. . . It goes without saying that the declaration formulated by the American-Czech duo disgusted the Russian government, which responded as vigorously as it did promptly by threatening to arm its nuclear missiles if this project is ultimately realized.
A sign of the Bush administration's firm intention to achieve its objective—that is, of constructing an anti-missile shield between now and 2012 in the center of the Old Continent—the administration terminated discussions it was pursuing with the Polish government about erecting an anti-missile missile base. That abrupt end to a round of discussions begun close to two years ago was justified by the Poles' financial demands—deemed excessive—but also, even primarily, by the possibility of moving the base envisaged for Poland to Lithuania. Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The radars aim to track ballistic missile launches from Iran, however Tehran does not possess such firepower, and "Star Wars" technology is ineffective. Rice said, "Ballistic missile proliferation is not an imaginary threat." Mad George II and Condoleezza Rice are turning Russian (not Iranian) ballistic missile proliferation from imagination to necessity to reality. Jesus Christ, Brother Branham and Dr. Peter Beter taught, the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews are determined to reconquer Russia; and when they succeed they will "nuke" the Vatican and North America from the face of planet Earth.
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House hides Israeli Telecom spying, permits 'Classified' FISA Evidence
July 8, 2008 – This week the Senate will consider the House version of the new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill, 'President Bush's Surveillance Program,' and retroactive telephone company immunity from civil and/or criminal lawsuits for past compliance with presidential directives to eavesdrop on electronic communications of American citizens without a warrant.
The House option permits a 'classified annex,' effectively allowing the Inspector General’s (IG) report on Mr. Bush’s spy program to conceal evidence confirmed by France’s Intelligence Online that 'Israeli espionage agents, electronic communication intercept operators and military explosive ordinance/combat engineers,' detained immediately after the 9/11 attacks and quickly deported to Israel by Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft, were linked to an Amdocs, Ltd. employee who reportedly posted bail for at least one of the Israeli military operatives. . . Full story: tomflocco.com truthout.org
Comment: And the world will believe Muslims perpetrated 9/11 as they believe Germany perpetrated a holocaust of six million Jews in World War II (while the Jews were killing 66 million nominal Christians in their Soviet Union). Their "Ministry of Truth" has long since "disappeared" claims of a holocaust of six million Jews in World War I and a subsequent holocaust of six million Jews between the Wars. Small wonder Henry Ford said, "History (of the imaginative type indoctrinated under Rockefeller's worldwide franchise on education) is bunk".
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Gazprom to buy Libyan Oil and Gas
July 9, 2008 – The Russian oil giant Gazprom has announced its plans to buy all of Libya's oil and gas exports after a meeting with the Libyan leader. . . Gazprom and Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) also agreed to set up a joint venture to modernize the North African country's refineries and to build new ones.
The two sides may cooperate in oil and gas exploration and development, Gazprom said, adding that the Russian company had also agreed to build pipelines from Libya to Europe. Gazprom and Libya's NOC signed a memorandum of cooperation during former Russian president Vladimir Putin's April visit to Libya. Full story: presstv.ir
Comment: Read Ezekiel 38:5 and Daniel 11:43.
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Executive Order: Continuing Certain Restrictions with Respect to North Korea and North Korean Nationals
Washington, June 26, 2008 – I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I further find that, as we deal with that threat through multilateral diplomacy, it is necessary to continue certain restrictions with respect to North Korea that would otherwise be lifted pursuant to a forthcoming proclamation that will terminate the exercise of authorities under the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1 et seq.) (TWEA) with respect to North Korea. . . Full story: whitehouse.gov
Comment: Without God and with rogues like "the Great Satan" walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, weaker nations need a nuclear deterrent.
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Church Vote backs Women Bishops
At left female Bishop Kay Goldsworthy offering her "unbloody sacrifice" of the wafer god: in reality the fierce, scorching Sun, or terrible Moloch, yet in that offering all his terror was veiled, and everything repulsive was cast into the shade (Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, p. 164). In celebrating the Lord's Supper—not His breakfast or His lunch—unleavened bread used by the Christian Church is never round, neither is it elevated for adoration as in the Babylonian mass.
July 8, 2008 – The Church of England's ruling General Synod has voted to consecrate women as bishops and approved a code of practice aimed at reassuring opponents. . . But traditionalists have warned that the decision could hasten the prospect of a split within the Church.
Conservatives who oppose the liberalisation of Church teaching on issues such as homosexuality have already set up the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FoCA), which has promised to set up a council of bishops. . .
Synod member and traditionalist Gerry O'Brien was hissed during the debate as he alluded to the American and Canadian Churches, from whom traditionalists have split in protest at the ordination of an openly gay (sic) bishop in 2003. . .
The Rt. Rev. John Broadhurst, the Bishop of Fulham and a traditionalist, told Newsnight that the vote could lead to a split. "I think a lot of us have made it quite clear if there isn't proper provision for us to live in dignity, inevitably we're driven out . . . It's not a case of walking away". . . Full story: news.bbc.co.uk
Comment: The BBC is now applying the term "traditionalist" in a pejorative sense to those who believe the Bible and stand up to "menpleasers" posing as bishops and ministers. These ambitious misguided men and women devoid of the Spirit are all defying God and His unchanging Word in support for nicolaitanism which "Jesus hates".
"One may be tempted to scoff at the demand to legalize polygamy made recently by Khalil Chami of Sydney's Islamic Welfare Centre. But with the recent announcement by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that the adoption of sharia law in Britain seems unavoidable, the joke may turn out to be on us. . ." Full story: theaustralian.news.com.au
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Holding the Mystery of the Faith in a Pure Conscience
In verses 3 and 4 of his big little Book, Jude wrote, "It was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness. . ."
Nineteen centuries have passed since Jude exhorted the primitive Church of the need to "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints," and today we see ambitious men and women in the denominational world trampling on God's unchanging Word in shameless insolence in order to serve unscriptural personal ambitions. These so-called "leaders" are oblivious to the fact they are the very fulfilment of II Thessalonians 2:1-12, II Timothy 3-4 and Revelation 3:17-20.
Jesus condemned the Ephesian Church Age (AD53-170) for leaving their "first love"—the fervent desire to please God by knowing and carefully living His Word—in order that they might drift toward reason and human understanding pleasing to the world but He commended them for "hating the deeds of the nicolaitanes, which I also hate" (Revelation 2:6). And in the Smyrnean Church Age (170-312) He condemned "the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews [who are Israelites], and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan" that had "crept in unawares". As Brother Branham explains, these people were not of the tribe of Judah, neither was their religion Yahweh Torah, but Pharisaism which is Judaism:
"Now why do we have a people mixed in the framework of the church and calling themselves Jews? The reason is this: Since they were liars they could make any claim they wished. They could say what they wanted as though it were a fact and then stick to it. And in this case they could be lying with a very powerful thought in mind. Was it not so that the early church was almost if not entirely composed of Jews [Judeans who were Israelites], making them the original members of His body? The twelve apostles were Jews [Judeans who were Israelites], and the later apostles were either Jews [Judeans who were Israelites] or proselytes. Thus for men to swear they were Jews [Judeans who were Israelites] would give them a pre-eminence and a claim to originality. Tell a lie. Stick to it. Never mind fact or history. Just say it and keep saying it to the people, and soon the people will receive it.
Now did you catch something there? Isn't that the same spirit right in the church today? Isn't there a group that claims that they are the original and true church and that salvation is found only in her? Don't they claim that they have the keys of the kingdom which they received from Peter? Don't they claim that Peter was their first pope, and that he resided in Rome when there is ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORICAL FACT FOR IT? And even her most educated and knowing adherents believe her lies. Satan's synagogue! And if Satan be her father, and he the father of lies, then it is not strange that those in his synagogue are liars also.
Consider the thought of blasphemy. These of Satan's synagogue were not blaspheming God in this instance (though that goes without saying) but they were blaspheming the true church. Certainly. As Cain persecuted and killed Abel because he (Cain) was of that wicked one, and as the dead formal Judaic followers (Jesus said they were of their father, the devil) tried to destroy the Christians in the first few years of the first age, now this same group (the false vine) is even more strongly attempting to destroy the true believer in the second age. That antichrist spirit is growing.
The group that inched its way ever so slowly into the church by its DEEDS (Nicolaitanism) no longer fears exposure but is openly organized in a group of its own assembling and is coming against the true church in undisguised hostility.
Now when I say this was an organized antichrist church I am giving you the truth from authenticated history. The first church founded in Rome had already turned the truth of God into a lie by introducing a pagan religion with Christian names and meaning. By the second age it was so pagan (though claiming to be the true church) that Polycarp came about 1,500 miles at a very old age to plead with them to turn back. They would not do it. They had a solid hierarchy and a solid organization, and a complete departure from the Word. This then, is Satan's synagogue, full of blasphemy, in which were already the seeds of the doctrine of Nicolaitanism, and which would shortly be the actual seat or power of Satanic religion. And this is exactly right for Revelation 2:9b does NOT say these people are OF Satan's synagogue but it says they ARE SATAN'S SYNAGOGUE" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 120:2 -121:3).
Pergamos means "thoroughly married," and in the Pergamean Church Age (312-606) the nominal church married the Roman state at the First Nicea Council (325) and organized the Roman Catholic church. Jesus said, "I know your works, and where you live, even [in Rome] where Satan's seat is . . . The doctrine of Balaam" was adopted wherein elements of the Babylonian religions of Judaism and Rome were substituted for faith in the pure Word of God causing spiritual fornication as when Balaam misled the children of Israel. Balaamism is denominationalism which takes the church manual instead of the Bible (Deuteronomy 32:17; I Corinthians 10:20; Revelation 2:13-15).
"The deeds of the nicolaitanes were adopted as doctrine." Nicolaitanism is organization which humanizes the leadership of the church and deposes the Spirit. For the clergy to organize themselves with one rank over another until they are finally headed up by a president is a manifestation of the antichrist spirit, regardless how wonderful and necessary it may seem. This is nothing but human reasoning taking the place of God's Word, and anyone in the organized denominations is right now in the midst of an antichrist system.
Jesus said, "I hate nicolaitanism!" Jesus did not set a clerical hierarchy in His Church but gave five Spiritual offices to men (not women): "apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry and for the edifying of the body of Christ" (Ephesians 4:8, 11). Romans 11:29, "the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable" and cannot be withdrawn for God will never go back on His promises but will take the life of men preordained and called to the fivefold ministry or any elect who brings reproach upon the Word and does not receive correction (I Corinthians 5:5; 11:27-30).
A bishop or deacon on the other hand, is called and voted into office by his local assembly. These temporary lay offices are not granted to women but to men experienced in the faith who meet certain qualifications and are the husband of one wife. A bishop has an ability to preach, but is restricted to teaching only the apostolic faith he has been taught by his own pastor. These men are under submission to their own pastor and the authority of their office does not extend beyond their local assembly (Titus 1:1-9; I Timothy 1:3).
Present-day denominational churches have continued the error of clinging to Balaamism and nicolaitanism introduced with the Judaeo-Roman church, becoming man-made lodges unrelated to the (Gk.) 'ekklesia' or unorganized, independent but Spirit-led assemblies of elect called out and separated from the world and its religious systems unto Christ the Word.
By overturning the rules of conduct, order and doctrine in the Church to substitute that "which Jesus hates," they have "sown discord" between themselves and God, and are now squabbling over the unscriptural ordination of women bishops. In the present conflict within the Anglican church some bishops have threatened to convert to Catholicism, proving they can read the Bible's prohibition but that they have neither a knowledge of Church history nor the faith of Jesus Christ. This "falling away from the faith" can only be resolved when men and women hear the "shout" of the Message of the Prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7, heed his "midnight cry" and come out of Babylon to be filled with the Spirit (I Thessalonians 4:16; Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4).
I Timothy 3:1-7, "This is a faithful saying, If a man desires the office of bishop, he desires a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders; or he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil".
Titus 1:6-7, "If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre. . ."
Paul was the prophet who wrote the New Testament in accordance with Isaiah 42:21 wherein the Lord promised He would "magnify the Law and make it truly glorious to show the world His righteousness." In the epistles quoted above it is clear that the office of bishop, deacon (or any in the fivefold ministry) precludes women whose "desire is to her husband, who shall rule over her" (Genesis 3:16).
Jesus taught "the spoken Word is the original seed" (Luke 8:11). Moses records how woman is not a spoken Word of God, who completed the old creation years before Eve was formed as a byproduct taken from Adam's side (as the elect Church is a byproduct made from the Holy Spirit taken from Christ's side). Since woman is not the Word of God she is made so she can be deceived on the revealed Word whereas Adam being Word could not be deceived on the Word; and Christ's Bride cannot be deceived on the revealed Word with which she is united (Matthew 24:24; John 10:1-5; I John 3:9-10; 5:18; Revelation 22:17-19). For this reason God has not and will never ordain a woman to minister His Word or to usurp authority over a man.
This emphasizes the apostasy of (so-called) Christian nations that place women in the police force, in combat and behind the pulpit, when God called them "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God is not blasphemed" (Titus 2:5). Adam and Eve are the prototypes for the manly and feminine natures of their race and the real ground of the Law that the woman must not teach, and more importantly, that she be tranquil in subjection and not desirous of rule.
In I Corinthians 14:1-16 and again in Ephesians 5:22-33 Paul identifies the first pair as the prototype of Christ and His Bride. He reminds the Church that as a sign of her separation and submission to God and man, the woman is not to cut her hair (Numbers 5:11, 18; Deuteronomy 21:12; Isaiah 47:2; Jeremiah 7:29-30).
I Timothy 2:11-15, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety" (Genesis 3:1-5:3). The original sin is the basis of woman's subordination to man and the loss of her co-equality with man.
I Timothy 2:8-10 further illustrates how Paul's teachings rest solidly on the word of Moses and demonstrates that since the Fall, God has placed man and woman under two different covenants which preclude the possibility of women holding office as a minister or even as a bishop. "Everywhere" in express distinction from the women, men alone are to utter and direct public prayers. Women are to reserve questions on matters they do not understand to their own husbands in their own house (I Corinthians 14:34-36).
The corn of wheat that fell into the ground, died and rose again, returned to the ground under Roman Catholic martyrdom during the Thyatira Church Age (606-1520). Through the Reformation of the Roman Catholic system of false worship under the last three Church Ages it has repeated the cycle of growth and is now headed up in the original spoken Word Seed as the many-membered Body of Christ's end-time Bride. She is a Word Bride under preeminence to her Husband as He was under preeminence to the Father (John 5:19) so she can do "the greater works" in the manifestation of the Sons of God.
The tares are heading up in Satan's Roman Catholic false church and the World Council of her (once) Protestant daughter churches. When Satan is incarnate in their head, the antichrist or pope will be designated "the beast" (Revelation 17:8-11), and together they will be cast alive into a lake of Fire (Revelation 2:20-23; 19:20; 20:10).
Let us hold the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience that we may mature in the Word until becoming a Word Bride the mighty works will be found in us that are always attendant upon the pure Word and faith. nl535.htm
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The Former and Latter Rain - Part III
Bible Believers' Newsletter #534
"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 welcome new subscribers, delighted you have joined us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word, and encourage you to study the back issues of this Newsletter, our teaching sermons, transcripts of radio broadcasts and other Christian resources on the Church Website. Should you have any questions or suggestions, please write.
Our aim is to be "written epistles" of the Light God is manifesting right now. We press on to finish the race in the certainty of THUS SAITH THE LORD by His vindicated Prophet, Brother William Branham with our hope generated by faith anchored in the Absolute.
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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Israel Authorities warn Hospitals to prepare for Earthquake
June 30, 2008 — "The probability of an earthquake of a magnitude of up to six on the Richter scale, originating in Lebanon and being felt in Israel has increased" . . . Since February, abnormal seismic activity has been noted in southern Lebanon, which had suffered some 500 minor earthquakes in a three-month period, health ministry director-general Avi Yisraeli said, . . . "In May, the tremors have become more intense and were felt in northern Israel,"
Similar concern was issued by Lebanon's national scientific research centre. The secretary general of the centre, Moueen Hamz, told AFP in Beirut that 800 tremors ranging in magnitude from 2.3-5.1 degrees on the Richter scale had shaken the south Lebanon regions of Tyre and Nabatiyeh since February 12. . . Experts in Lebanon expect a quake of between five and six degrees on the Richter scale to strike, like the tremor that shook Lebanon in 1956 killing 136 people and destroying 6,000 houses. . . Full story: breitbart.com
Comment: This seismic activity is to be expected since the mount of Olives in the South East of Israel will be divided by an earthquake simultaneously with the sinking of Los Angeles.
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US Banking System is Doomed
June 25, 2008 – US banking, as it has evolved, is now passing from a deep Darwinist phase, the survival of the fittest, or the cannibalisation of the weakest, to something more explosive. . . like a poisoned aquarium, where some of the fish are dying and others, like Goldman Sachs, are feasting. But the system is poisoned. "They (companies like Goldman) are very adept at staying afloat by pushing their colleagues back into the water". . .
"The Treasury's attempt to reflate the real estate market has not worked, and it can't work . . . The banks are trying to win back their losses by arbitrage operations, borrowing from the Fed at a low interest rate and lending at a higher one, and gambling on options. "But options and derivatives are a zero-sum game: one party's gain is another's loss. So the banks collectively are simply painting themselves into a deeper corner.
Increasingly, independent analysts like Whalen and Hudson are blaming deregulation, especially the repeal of the 1930s Glass-Steagall Act . . . leading . . . to insufficient, or non-existent, oversight. . . Full story: theage.com.au
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Financial Catastrophe Looms
July 1, 2008 – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says global markets may still be set for severe economic downturn. . . Associate Professor Dick Bryan, an economist from the University of Sydney [said], "It's telling central banks that they got it wrong, that they shouldn't have let us get into this precarious position, that they should have been constraining credit earlier and that they've put us in a position now where there just aren't clear policy options."
Full story: Read the comments on-line
Comment: Our alien-controlled central banks, the IMF and BIS have faithfully fulfilled their destiny by bringing the nations under hopelessly unrepayable debt whereby the merchants of Venice (relocated to "the City of London" in the seventeenth century), will soon demand their "pound of flesh" . . . with usury, in the form of a gold-backed global electronic currency.
Meyer Amschel Rothschild said: "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. Enforced unemployment and hunger, imposed on the masses because of the power we have to create shortages of food, will create the RIGHT of Capital to rule more surely than it was given to the real aristocracy."
Speaking of world government, Amschel Rothschild wrote: "It will be necessary to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of such colossal riches that even the largest fortunes of the goyim will depend on us to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of their governments ON THE DAY AFTER THE GREAT POLITICAL SMASH".
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The Governor told the Truth
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this simple question: If the government can print as much money as it needs, then why is there an income tax?
In 1946, Beardsley Ruml—then Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of NYC, told the truth in a speech titled "Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete". . . since a government can easily print all the paper money it needs, in any amount, and therefore does not need to tax anyone, an income tax is maintained to siphon excess paper out of circulation, to stabilize the purchasing power of paper money (i.e. regulate inflation) and prevent the hyperinflation that would ordinarily result from printing too much paper!
Ample paper must continuously be taxed (siphoned) out of circulation to keep pace with the interest payments on the national debt, being made to the mostly foreign bankers who designed and control the Federal Reserve System.
In 1982, the prestigious, private-sector Grace Commission, in their cost-cutting report to President Reagan, confirmed the ineptness of the income tax to control inflation. The following quote by the Commission confirms that they do not even understand how the income tax functions, and that the present rate of taxation does not pay the interest for the use of the money printed by the Federal Reserve Bank and thus cannot even begin to affect the growth of the national debt. . . "100% [of income taxes] collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt ... all income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from the government" Full story: detaxcanada.org
Comment: The voting rights (shares) of the Bank of Canada have been owned by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1936.
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Think You have a Choice?
June 30, 2008 – Why would the power elite want Senator Barack Obama rather than Senator Clinton as the Democrat nominee for President? It may be so that Senator McCain will win. Senator Obama has a tremendous amount of "baggage" . . . the power elite could set up Obama to lose to McCain, who pleased the power elite (PE) on June 20, 2008 while addressing the Economic Club of Toronto by signaling his support for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. He said the next president will add to the "security and prosperity of North America." He also referred to our "security partnership," the "integration of our economies," and our "shared destiny." He further indicated he would "defend NAFTA without equivocation," and that the US should "deepen its partnerships throughout the hemisphere and the world." Because of upcoming national economic difficulties, McCain would serve only one term. Then the power elite could bring Hillary back in 2012. Regarding the future, on ABC News June 19, 2008, was reported that Basra is an Iraq "success story." This is important because according to H.G. Wells in THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1933) Basra, not Baghdad or any other city in the world, is where a global conference will establish a world government. . .
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson said: ". . . We have come to be. . . one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world—no longer a government of conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. . . ." The PE have been in control ever since and are currently manipulating events to bring about a world currency. Full story: newswithviews.com
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Thou shalt not annoy on Youth Day
July 1, 2008 – Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for "causing annoyance" to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
The laws, which operate until the end of July, have the potential to make a crime of wearing a T-shirt with a message on it . . . Police and volunteers from the State Emergency Service and Rural Fire Service will be able to direct people to cease engaging in conduct that "causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants in a World Youth Day event".
People who fail to comply will be subject to a $5,500 fine. . . More than 500 schools across Sydney and 35 train and bus stations have also been listed as "declared areas". . . the regulations were about "shutting down protests and quarantining the Pope and visiting Catholics away from messages World Youth Day authorities don't approve of".
Full story: smh.com.au
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Anglicanism faces Schism over Gay Priests, Women Bishops
London, July 1, 2008 – A divisive row over homosexuality and women bishops has left the worldwide Anglican Communion facing one of its worst ever crises, to the point where there is talk of an irrevocable schism. "The crisis is unprecedented since the Reformation devastated the Roman Catholic Church in England in the 16th century," The Times said Tuesday in a front-page article on a threat by 1,300 clergy to quit over women bishops.
And on Sunday after a conference in Jerusalem, some 300 conservative bishops and archbishops announced the creation of a new grouping that does not recognised the authority of Anglican leader the Archbishop of Canterbury. . .
Full story: afp.google.com
Comment: "As it as in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30).
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Jerusalem & Babylon
June 29, 2008 – It was a conference that checked off all the boxes, 120 participants from all four corners of the Jewish world, from as far afield as Cuba; all in their twenties and thirties, not the usual crusty customers from the old organizations . . . "There was an opening ceremony at Mount Herzl, with a senior official from the Jewish Agency," says Tal Shahar, one participant, "and some of us felt this wasn't for us, we didn't come for some Zionist jamboree". . .
Some would instinctively say that if Jews don't like Israel or believe that the Palestinians were dispossessed by its foundation, then the state really doesn't have any interest in them. This was the belief that lead to the decision last month to deny anti-Zionist historian Norman Finkelstein entry to the country, despite the fact that he is eligible for automatic citizenship under the Law of Return. A real Zionist democracy shouldn't be beset with such a feeling of insecurity. The lively debate within Israel on the injustice and disadvantages of prolonging the occupation is to a large extent absent from the state's conversation with Jews overseas. Full story: haaretz.com
Comment: This is why the Zionazis hate Dr. Flinkelstein:
"The holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with an horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a victim state, and the most successful ethnic group in the us has likewise acquired victim status, considerable dividends accrue from this specious victimhood—in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified" (Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, Verso, 2000).
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The Former and Latter Rain – Part III
A parable is commonly defined as "an earthly story with a heavenly meaning." It rests on the basis that man is made in the image of God, hence the natural types the Spiritual because the law of reproduction requires that everything bring forth after its kind so there is a continuity of the human with the Divine (Genesis 1:11, 26; Luke 3:38).
In the parables of Jesus, the natural world becomes a visible witness reflecting the invisible spiritual realm. Jesus' purpose in employing parables was the judicial veiling of truth as well as dialectic, to discriminate between the believer, the make-believer, and the un-believer. The parable, which was to the carnal a veiling, is to the receptive a progressive revealing of the truth. It was a penalty or a blessing according to the state of the hearer: a darkening to those who loved darkness, enshrining the truth (concerning Messiah's Spiritual Kingdom—so different from Jewish expectations) from the jeers of the scoffer, and leaving something for the careless non-elect afterwards to think over, while enlightening the diligent seeker of truth. His purpose remains unchanged to this day.
New Testament doctrines could not be understood fully before the historical facts such as Jesus' death and resurrection, the destruction of the Temple by Titus or the seven Church Ages, on which they rested, had been accomplished. Parables were repositories of truths not then understood, even when plainly told (Luke 18:34), but afterwards comprehended in their manifold significance, when the Spirit brought Jesus' Words to remembrance (John 14:26). The veil was sufficiently transparent to allow the spiritual easily to see the truth underneath, while those who were unspiritual saw only the sacred drapery of the parable in which He had wrapped the pearl so as not to cast it before swine.
So is it in the end of the Gentile dispensation; the former rain has been falling since the revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963 as Peter and Joel prophesied concerning "the restoration of all things spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the beginning of the world. . . I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh." This mystery is hidden in plain view for all to read and hear.
God cannot be accused of partiality or arbitrary judgement: "Whereas the rabbis have said, You shall love your fellow so-called Jew, and hate your enemy. I command you to love your enemies irrespective of their race or religion, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use and persecute you; that you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:43-45).
Paul admonished likewise, "Bless your persecutors; bless, and do not curse them. Share the joy of those who are happy and the grief of those who grieve. Live in harmony with others, do not aspire to eminence, but associate yourselves with humble people; do not be conceited."
"In no case pay back evil for evil, determine on the noblest ways of dealing with all men. If possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but leave room for divine retribution; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will pay them back, says the Lord. Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:14-21).
The Gospel and Christian revelations are never taught in some secret place but spoken openly to "whomsoever will" hear. Those whose works cannot stand public scrutiny cover their activities in organizations such as the CFR, Masonry, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, World Council of Churches, Judaism, Judaeo-Roman Catholicism and myriad metastasized tentacles of Luciferian Illuminism.
As parables veil a progressive revealing of truths only perfectly understood as history unfolds, it is at the end of the age that partial realization becomes perfect realization. When prophecy becomes history, perfect realization becomes completed realization as we experientially live these truths in real time.
Matthew 13:24-30, "The Kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. When the blade sprung up and the wheat headed, so did the tares. The owner's servants went to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where then did the tares come from?"
"He said, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Would you have us to weed them out? But he said, No, for in gathering up the weeds you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I shall direct the reapers to collect the weeds first, and bind them in bundles ready for burning, then to gather the wheat into my barn".
In verse 39 Jesus explains that His servants (Revelation 1:1) who sowed the good seed are also the reapers. They are the seven angels to the Church Ages: Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley and William Branham. The harvest is the end of the dispensations that antitype the Pentecostal feast; we live in the holy convocation of the fiftieth and last day of the feast. The former rain has brought the seed that was planted through the cycle of growth back into seed so that following the close of the Laodicean Church Age and the revelation of the Seals, the sevenfold Spirit that manifest in PART through the ministry of His servants, is present now in its fulness. And the Holy Spirit falling upon all flesh has bound the tares into bundles according to the personal choices of the non-elect, for the fruit of their lives bears witness to the nature of the seed that was sown, and cannot be disguised in the harvest time.
The natural types the Spiritual. As the mystery of God is finished, so the secret things of men's character can no longer be hid. The sowing has finished and the crop has reached maturity declaring the fruit of the life that was planted. We are in the harvest time wherein all secrets will be know. This explains why the activities of paedophile judges and priests, corrupt policemen, treasonous politicians past and present, lies taught as "history" and education in general, heretical religions, the hypocrisy of our Hegelian sham democracies, Babylonian fractional reserve usury and central banking scams, fraudulent science, health and nutrition, freemasonry, and the scheming of Lucifer's six-thousand year conspiracy for totalitarian one world government involving the most eminent and "honourable men" are all being exposed.
Luke 12:2, "There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known". Hebrews 4:12, "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Nothing is hidden in harvest time when every seed brings forth of its own kind.
Luke 21:29-32, "Jesus told a parable; See the fig tree, and all the trees; when they are fully budding, you know by looking at them that summer is in the offing. Similarly when you notice these things taking place, be assured that the Kingdom of God is near. I assure you it will come before this generation passes away. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My Words shall not pass away".
Trees represent kindred groups, and all have had their revival under the former rain. The fig tree signifies Israel in whose name a modern nation state has been established in the Promised Land by their sworn enemy and impersonator whom the Reaper has bound into Zionist, Sabbatean, Communist, Masonic and other Judaistic bundles. Other tares have been bound into Judaeo-Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal bundles, humanist, neo-con, socialist, Rhodes Scholarship, Club of Rome, Mont Pelerin, Pilgrims' Society, United Nations bundles, all ready for the burning. The former rain which was sent for the wheat, has fallen on the just and the unjust, and each has reproduced the life of the seed that was planted.
Jesus explained in Matthew 13:30, the tares have their revivals first. James 5:7 says, "Endure patiently, brethren, until the [parousia] Coming of the Lord. Take notice how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, continuing in patience until it receives the early and latter rains".
Christ's 'parousia' Coming was in 1963; He is present now. The former rain of Brother Branham's ministry was the "shout" of Matthew 25:6 and I Thessalonians 4:14-16 waking the virgin from denominational slumber and calling her out from Mystery Babylon and her harlot daughters to meet the Bridegroom at His Coming. The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form, and as the parable explains, the virgins must fill their vessels with Oil of the Spirit and trim the denominational carbon from their lamps so they can walk in the Light of the present Truth (I Corinthians 13:10).
Brother Branham was the angel of Revelation 1:1 by whom Christ "sent and signified the Book of Revelation to His servant John." He was the angel who led John through the visions on the Island of Patmos. Therefore we know that throughout the Book of Revelation John represents Christ's end-time Bride because the Book was sealed to the time of the end, until "the days of the Voice of the seventh angel when the mystery of God should be finished" (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4, 7). The revelation of the Seven Seals is the former rain of Brother Branham's Message that dresses Christ's Bride in the righteousnesses of the saints of all seven Church Ages, which is the fullness of the Word that makes up the Capstone of the Body of Christ.
In Revelation 21 Brother Branham shows John, (Christ's end-time Bride), new Jerusalem, which is the Bride of all Ages who are joint heirs with Jesus Messiah in the new heaven and new earth. In verse 27 he tells John "Nothing unclean nor anyone practicing abomination and falsehood shall ever enter it, but only the saints of the Old and New Testaments written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Revelation 22:1-13, "Then Brother Branham showed me the river of the Water of Life (or revelation), clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. And running through the middle of the street on either side of the river, trees of Life (the Old and New Testament saints) bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for a memorial of the restoration of the nations to the Lord" (a the elements of the Lord's Supper signify our individual union).
"There shall no longer be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall worship Him. They shall see His face; and His Name shall be in their foreheads. And night shall be no more; they will need neither lamplight nor sunlight, for the Lord God will be their Light, and they shall reign for ever and ever."
Then Brother Branham said to me,These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show His servants what must soon take place (Revelation 1:1). Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the prophecy of this Book."
"I, (certain hearers of this Message), am the one who saw and heard these things, and when I had heard and seen, I bowed down to worship at the feet of William Branham, the angel who showed them to me. But he told me, You must not do that! I am a fellowservant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Worship God."
(This came to pass in 1961 when some misguided folk, bedazzled by the abundance of the Supernatural (Luke 17:28-30), actually thought Brother Branham was Jesus and were baptizing in the name of William Marrion Branham. Brother Branham reprimanded them and resolved to terminate his ministry before taking glory from Christ as an antichrist had those Brothers not repented (Bruised Serpent; The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 461:Q42; C.O.D., 861:Q214; also Revelation 19:10).
"Then he said to me, Do not seal the Words of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand."
Time was at hand for the fulfilment of verses 7 and 12, "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the prophecy of this Book." It was time for the revelation of Christ's secret, sudden 'parousia' Coming through the revelation of the Seven Seals (Revelation 10:1-7), which would be known only to those who take the unsealed Book from the hands of Christ and become one with its prophecy as commanded in Revelation 10:8-11. Many newcomers to the Message do not feel the hunger of the previous generation to devour the Spoken Word books but trust their kind old priest to study and provide them a second-hand religion, which they do not prove in their own Bibles. Is this the spirit of Laodicea?
What if your kind old minister is in error? Since you are following him and his reasoning and not the revealed Word, would this indicate you have learning without faith and are justified by neither?
"Let the unjust be unjust still: and the filthy be filthy still: and let the righteous be righteous still: and the saints be holy still. Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to render to each according to his doings. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last".
He has come quickly, but why after 45 years has He not taken His waiting Bride Home? What is He waiting for? Apart from you and me, what is delaying the resurrection? Besides waiting for others like you and me to put on the likeness of the Lord God and maintain the Token on display He is waiting for that last elect.
Where is that last elect? Should he be sought among the nomads of the desert, or savages in the jungle; in Judaism, Islam or Hindustan? Well, not if we follow the pattern of previous exodus's whose ranks were filled by people of a common hope. In the first exodus, God gathered believers from among the children of Abraham, Isaac and Israel to whom He had promised a land of milk and honey where they could live as a holy nation. In the second exodus, He called His chosen ones out from apostate natural Israel into union with Messiah. In the third exodus He is calling believers out from the apostate churches to the eternal land of the Millennium.
Under the Law, Gentile proselytes and converts were joining themselves to the common faith of Israel. Under grace, an election were called into the second exodus by the former rain of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-12, 41-42; 8:1-6; 10:1-8, 34-48). Under grace, heathens from every nation, tribe and tongue of Adam's race were gathered into the faith. From among these people of the common faith the Lord is calling His end-time Bride by the former rain in this fiftieth day of the antitype of the Pentecostal feast, into the third exodus.
Throughout the Church Ages the evangelistic call was to deliver the Gospel to the heathen peoples of Adam's race all over the world (Matthew 28:19-20). And God gave the saints two thousand years in which to call His elect out of darkness into Light. Since He has come in the secret rapture of the Church, and "shortened the days lest there be no flesh saved for the translation" (Matthew 24:22-28; Romans 9:28-29), the objective of the end-time evangelism is not to convert raw heathens but to correct the erroneous understandings of those who believe they are Christians but far from being free in the liberty of "the river of the Water of Life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb," they are bound in chains of man-made creed and dogma.
I have witnessed missionaries from denominations inside and outside the circle of this Message seek to gather a following through building schools, hospitals, churches, roads, homes, farm improvements, providing food, second hand clothing, friendship, money, and everything but the revelation of the Word of the hour. Perhaps they feel that by perseverance they will weary the unbelievers into the Body of Christ, but that will not work (Titus 3:9-11). After almost half a century since the Coming of the Lord, the major emphasis on evangelism seems directed toward everyone but those specified by the Holy Spirit in Matthew 25:1-13 and Revelation 18:4.
Hebrews 6:1-8, "Let us leave behind the elementary doctrine of Christ and advance toward maturity. Surely we don't need to speak further about the foolishness of trying to be saved by being good, or about the necessity of faith in God, of instruction about baptism and Spiritual gifts, and the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment. And this will we do if God permits."
"For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once for all been enlightened, have tasted of the heavenly gift, have become participants in the Holy Ghost, have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God afresh on their own account, and hold Him up to contempt. For the land that drinks the rain that often falls on it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles it is worthless, and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned".
The end-time evangelism of the former rain in the third exodus is directed to those who believe God's promises and think they are in Christ, unaware that they are in bed with the Jezebel religion of Revelation 2:20-23. Neither the wise not the foolish virgin are going to be cajoled out of their denominations. Jesus said, "My sheep receive My Word." If after the first and second admonition they reject the present Truth you know the election is off. Just walk away from them. However, if they are His sheep and you present the Word for their hour, they will receive It.
Soon earthquakes will sink Los Angeles beneath the sea and divide the mount of Olives. Then the latter rain will fall upon all flesh, "the wicked will do wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand; but the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10). Why so? Because the latter rain is the harvest rain causing every plant to manifest in the nature and quality of its fruit the true life of the seed that was planted. At this time grace and mercy will have expired:
Revelation 12:10, "And I [....your name here....] heard an authoritative Voice in heaven saying, Now the salvation, and the power, and the reign of our God has come, and the sovereign authority of His Christ will be exercised through His Wife under preeminence to her Husband by the 'third pull' in the manifestation of the Sons of God, for the Accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night is cast down".
Satan will become truly incarnate in the pope of Rome who will head up the World Council of Churches (as he was quoted as saying in our previous Newsletter). And by his gold (remember Judas held the bag) he will control the whole world, and that antichrist system will own everything and try to control everybody. But after the Tribulation, Jesus will destroy them all by the brightness of His Coming, and their end will be the lake of Fire (II Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).
Revelation 3:10, "I will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."
Brother Branham said, "This temptation is exactly like the temptation in Eden. It will be a very inviting proposition held up in direct opposition to God's commanded Word, and yet from the standpoint of human reasoning it will be so very right, so enlightening and life-giving as to fool the world (Revelation 13:4, 8 - Ed). Only the very elect will not be fooled.
The temptation will come as follows. The ecumenical move that has started on what seems such a beautiful and blessed principle (fulfilling Christ's prayer that we all might be one) becomes so strong politically that she bears pressure upon the government to cause all to join with her either directly or through adherence to principles enacted into law so that no people will be recognized as actual churches unless under direct or indirect domination of this council. Little groups will lose charters, privileges, etc., until they lose all property and spiritual rights with the people.
For example, right now unless the local ministerial association approves in many, if not most cities, one cannot rent a building for religious services. To become chaplains in the armed services, hospitals, etc., it is now almost mandatory to be recognized as acceptable to the trinitarian ecumenical groups. As this pressure increases, and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to resist is to lose privilege. And so many will be tempted to go along, for they will feel it is better to serve God publicly in the framework of this organization than not to serve God at all publicly. But they err. To believe the devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him Jehovah. But the elect will not be deceived.
Furthermore, the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the "image erected to the beast," the saints will be gone in the rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that started out in fellowship at Ephesus will become the monster of Satan that defiles and deceives the whole world. For the church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a living. This will be accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the whole world" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 313:2-314:1; Revelation 13:11-18).
This will be the fulfilment of the sixth of seven consecutive the Lord showed His Prophet in 1933. Rome will rule the world as the Lord revealed to Daniel and Jesus Messiah, and as it was in the days of Lot, Sodom and its Sodomites will burn as the Lord showed Brother Branham in the last of seven consecutive visions wherein he heard a terrible explosion, and as he turned to look he saw nothing but debris, craters and smoke all over the land of America.
Years before that time, the resurrection of the Church Age saints will begin; Christ's end-time Bride will become a hunted and persecuted little group exercising the 'third pull' before we change in the atoms to meet our promised Son in the air as God changed Abraham and Sarah in the atoms in order that they could receive their promised son. nl534.htm
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Israel Authorities warn Hospitals to prepare for Earthquake
June 30, 2008 — "The probability of an earthquake of a magnitude of up to six on the Richter scale, originating in Lebanon and being felt in Israel has increased" . . . Since February, abnormal seismic activity has been noted in southern Lebanon, which had suffered some 500 minor earthquakes in a three-month period, health ministry director-general Avi Yisraeli said, . . . "In May, the tremors have become more intense and were felt in northern Israel,"
Similar concern was issued by Lebanon's national scientific research centre. The secretary general of the centre, Moueen Hamz, told AFP in Beirut that 800 tremors ranging in magnitude from 2.3-5.1 degrees on the Richter scale had shaken the south Lebanon regions of Tyre and Nabatiyeh since February 12. . . Experts in Lebanon expect a quake of between five and six degrees on the Richter scale to strike, like the tremor that shook Lebanon in 1956 killing 136 people and destroying 6,000 houses. . . Full story: breitbart.com
Comment: This seismic activity is to be expected since the mount of Olives in the South East of Israel will be divided by an earthquake simultaneously with the sinking of Los Angeles.
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US Banking System is Doomed
June 25, 2008 – US banking, as it has evolved, is now passing from a deep Darwinist phase, the survival of the fittest, or the cannibalisation of the weakest, to something more explosive. . . like a poisoned aquarium, where some of the fish are dying and others, like Goldman Sachs, are feasting. But the system is poisoned. "They (companies like Goldman) are very adept at staying afloat by pushing their colleagues back into the water". . .
"The Treasury's attempt to reflate the real estate market has not worked, and it can't work . . . The banks are trying to win back their losses by arbitrage operations, borrowing from the Fed at a low interest rate and lending at a higher one, and gambling on options. "But options and derivatives are a zero-sum game: one party's gain is another's loss. So the banks collectively are simply painting themselves into a deeper corner.
Increasingly, independent analysts like Whalen and Hudson are blaming deregulation, especially the repeal of the 1930s Glass-Steagall Act . . . leading . . . to insufficient, or non-existent, oversight. . . Full story: theage.com.au
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Financial Catastrophe Looms
July 1, 2008 – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says global markets may still be set for severe economic downturn. . . Associate Professor Dick Bryan, an economist from the University of Sydney [said], "It's telling central banks that they got it wrong, that they shouldn't have let us get into this precarious position, that they should have been constraining credit earlier and that they've put us in a position now where there just aren't clear policy options."
Full story: Read the comments on-line
Comment: Our alien-controlled central banks, the IMF and BIS have faithfully fulfilled their destiny by bringing the nations under hopelessly unrepayable debt whereby the merchants of Venice (relocated to "the City of London" in the seventeenth century), will soon demand their "pound of flesh" . . . with usury, in the form of a gold-backed global electronic currency.
Meyer Amschel Rothschild said: "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. Enforced unemployment and hunger, imposed on the masses because of the power we have to create shortages of food, will create the RIGHT of Capital to rule more surely than it was given to the real aristocracy."
Speaking of world government, Amschel Rothschild wrote: "It will be necessary to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of such colossal riches that even the largest fortunes of the goyim will depend on us to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of their governments ON THE DAY AFTER THE GREAT POLITICAL SMASH".
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The Governor told the Truth
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself this simple question: If the government can print as much money as it needs, then why is there an income tax?
In 1946, Beardsley Ruml—then Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of NYC, told the truth in a speech titled "Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete". . . since a government can easily print all the paper money it needs, in any amount, and therefore does not need to tax anyone, an income tax is maintained to siphon excess paper out of circulation, to stabilize the purchasing power of paper money (i.e. regulate inflation) and prevent the hyperinflation that would ordinarily result from printing too much paper!
Ample paper must continuously be taxed (siphoned) out of circulation to keep pace with the interest payments on the national debt, being made to the mostly foreign bankers who designed and control the Federal Reserve System.
In 1982, the prestigious, private-sector Grace Commission, in their cost-cutting report to President Reagan, confirmed the ineptness of the income tax to control inflation. The following quote by the Commission confirms that they do not even understand how the income tax functions, and that the present rate of taxation does not pay the interest for the use of the money printed by the Federal Reserve Bank and thus cannot even begin to affect the growth of the national debt. . . "100% [of income taxes] collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt ... all income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from the government" Full story: detaxcanada.org
Comment: The voting rights (shares) of the Bank of Canada have been owned by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1936.
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Think You have a Choice?
June 30, 2008 – Why would the power elite want Senator Barack Obama rather than Senator Clinton as the Democrat nominee for President? It may be so that Senator McCain will win. Senator Obama has a tremendous amount of "baggage" . . . the power elite could set up Obama to lose to McCain, who pleased the power elite (PE) on June 20, 2008 while addressing the Economic Club of Toronto by signaling his support for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. He said the next president will add to the "security and prosperity of North America." He also referred to our "security partnership," the "integration of our economies," and our "shared destiny." He further indicated he would "defend NAFTA without equivocation," and that the US should "deepen its partnerships throughout the hemisphere and the world." Because of upcoming national economic difficulties, McCain would serve only one term. Then the power elite could bring Hillary back in 2012. Regarding the future, on ABC News June 19, 2008, was reported that Basra is an Iraq "success story." This is important because according to H.G. Wells in THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1933) Basra, not Baghdad or any other city in the world, is where a global conference will establish a world government. . .
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson said: ". . . We have come to be. . . one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world—no longer a government of conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. . . ." The PE have been in control ever since and are currently manipulating events to bring about a world currency. Full story: newswithviews.com
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Thou shalt not annoy on Youth Day
July 1, 2008 – Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for "causing annoyance" to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
The laws, which operate until the end of July, have the potential to make a crime of wearing a T-shirt with a message on it . . . Police and volunteers from the State Emergency Service and Rural Fire Service will be able to direct people to cease engaging in conduct that "causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants in a World Youth Day event".
People who fail to comply will be subject to a $5,500 fine. . . More than 500 schools across Sydney and 35 train and bus stations have also been listed as "declared areas". . . the regulations were about "shutting down protests and quarantining the Pope and visiting Catholics away from messages World Youth Day authorities don't approve of".
Full story: smh.com.au
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Anglicanism faces Schism over Gay Priests, Women Bishops
London, July 1, 2008 – A divisive row over homosexuality and women bishops has left the worldwide Anglican Communion facing one of its worst ever crises, to the point where there is talk of an irrevocable schism. "The crisis is unprecedented since the Reformation devastated the Roman Catholic Church in England in the 16th century," The Times said Tuesday in a front-page article on a threat by 1,300 clergy to quit over women bishops.
And on Sunday after a conference in Jerusalem, some 300 conservative bishops and archbishops announced the creation of a new grouping that does not recognised the authority of Anglican leader the Archbishop of Canterbury. . .
Full story: afp.google.com
Comment: "As it as in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30).
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Jerusalem & Babylon
June 29, 2008 – It was a conference that checked off all the boxes, 120 participants from all four corners of the Jewish world, from as far afield as Cuba; all in their twenties and thirties, not the usual crusty customers from the old organizations . . . "There was an opening ceremony at Mount Herzl, with a senior official from the Jewish Agency," says Tal Shahar, one participant, "and some of us felt this wasn't for us, we didn't come for some Zionist jamboree". . .
Some would instinctively say that if Jews don't like Israel or believe that the Palestinians were dispossessed by its foundation, then the state really doesn't have any interest in them. This was the belief that lead to the decision last month to deny anti-Zionist historian Norman Finkelstein entry to the country, despite the fact that he is eligible for automatic citizenship under the Law of Return. A real Zionist democracy shouldn't be beset with such a feeling of insecurity. The lively debate within Israel on the injustice and disadvantages of prolonging the occupation is to a large extent absent from the state's conversation with Jews overseas. Full story: haaretz.com
Comment: This is why the Zionazis hate Dr. Flinkelstein:
"The holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with an horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a victim state, and the most successful ethnic group in the us has likewise acquired victim status, considerable dividends accrue from this specious victimhood—in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified" (Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, Verso, 2000).
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The Former and Latter Rain – Part III
A parable is commonly defined as "an earthly story with a heavenly meaning." It rests on the basis that man is made in the image of God, hence the natural types the Spiritual because the law of reproduction requires that everything bring forth after its kind so there is a continuity of the human with the Divine (Genesis 1:11, 26; Luke 3:38).
In the parables of Jesus, the natural world becomes a visible witness reflecting the invisible spiritual realm. Jesus' purpose in employing parables was the judicial veiling of truth as well as dialectic, to discriminate between the believer, the make-believer, and the un-believer. The parable, which was to the carnal a veiling, is to the receptive a progressive revealing of the truth. It was a penalty or a blessing according to the state of the hearer: a darkening to those who loved darkness, enshrining the truth (concerning Messiah's Spiritual Kingdom—so different from Jewish expectations) from the jeers of the scoffer, and leaving something for the careless non-elect afterwards to think over, while enlightening the diligent seeker of truth. His purpose remains unchanged to this day.
New Testament doctrines could not be understood fully before the historical facts such as Jesus' death and resurrection, the destruction of the Temple by Titus or the seven Church Ages, on which they rested, had been accomplished. Parables were repositories of truths not then understood, even when plainly told (Luke 18:34), but afterwards comprehended in their manifold significance, when the Spirit brought Jesus' Words to remembrance (John 14:26). The veil was sufficiently transparent to allow the spiritual easily to see the truth underneath, while those who were unspiritual saw only the sacred drapery of the parable in which He had wrapped the pearl so as not to cast it before swine.
So is it in the end of the Gentile dispensation; the former rain has been falling since the revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963 as Peter and Joel prophesied concerning "the restoration of all things spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the beginning of the world. . . I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh." This mystery is hidden in plain view for all to read and hear.
God cannot be accused of partiality or arbitrary judgement: "Whereas the rabbis have said, You shall love your fellow so-called Jew, and hate your enemy. I command you to love your enemies irrespective of their race or religion, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use and persecute you; that you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:43-45).
Paul admonished likewise, "Bless your persecutors; bless, and do not curse them. Share the joy of those who are happy and the grief of those who grieve. Live in harmony with others, do not aspire to eminence, but associate yourselves with humble people; do not be conceited."
"In no case pay back evil for evil, determine on the noblest ways of dealing with all men. If possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but leave room for divine retribution; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will pay them back, says the Lord. Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:14-21).
The Gospel and Christian revelations are never taught in some secret place but spoken openly to "whomsoever will" hear. Those whose works cannot stand public scrutiny cover their activities in organizations such as the CFR, Masonry, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, World Council of Churches, Judaism, Judaeo-Roman Catholicism and myriad metastasized tentacles of Luciferian Illuminism.
As parables veil a progressive revealing of truths only perfectly understood as history unfolds, it is at the end of the age that partial realization becomes perfect realization. When prophecy becomes history, perfect realization becomes completed realization as we experientially live these truths in real time.
Matthew 13:24-30, "The Kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away. When the blade sprung up and the wheat headed, so did the tares. The owner's servants went to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where then did the tares come from?"
"He said, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Would you have us to weed them out? But he said, No, for in gathering up the weeds you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I shall direct the reapers to collect the weeds first, and bind them in bundles ready for burning, then to gather the wheat into my barn".
In verse 39 Jesus explains that His servants (Revelation 1:1) who sowed the good seed are also the reapers. They are the seven angels to the Church Ages: Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley and William Branham. The harvest is the end of the dispensations that antitype the Pentecostal feast; we live in the holy convocation of the fiftieth and last day of the feast. The former rain has brought the seed that was planted through the cycle of growth back into seed so that following the close of the Laodicean Church Age and the revelation of the Seals, the sevenfold Spirit that manifest in PART through the ministry of His servants, is present now in its fulness. And the Holy Spirit falling upon all flesh has bound the tares into bundles according to the personal choices of the non-elect, for the fruit of their lives bears witness to the nature of the seed that was sown, and cannot be disguised in the harvest time.
The natural types the Spiritual. As the mystery of God is finished, so the secret things of men's character can no longer be hid. The sowing has finished and the crop has reached maturity declaring the fruit of the life that was planted. We are in the harvest time wherein all secrets will be know. This explains why the activities of paedophile judges and priests, corrupt policemen, treasonous politicians past and present, lies taught as "history" and education in general, heretical religions, the hypocrisy of our Hegelian sham democracies, Babylonian fractional reserve usury and central banking scams, fraudulent science, health and nutrition, freemasonry, and the scheming of Lucifer's six-thousand year conspiracy for totalitarian one world government involving the most eminent and "honourable men" are all being exposed.
Luke 12:2, "There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known". Hebrews 4:12, "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Nothing is hidden in harvest time when every seed brings forth of its own kind.
Luke 21:29-32, "Jesus told a parable; See the fig tree, and all the trees; when they are fully budding, you know by looking at them that summer is in the offing. Similarly when you notice these things taking place, be assured that the Kingdom of God is near. I assure you it will come before this generation passes away. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My Words shall not pass away".
Trees represent kindred groups, and all have had their revival under the former rain. The fig tree signifies Israel in whose name a modern nation state has been established in the Promised Land by their sworn enemy and impersonator whom the Reaper has bound into Zionist, Sabbatean, Communist, Masonic and other Judaistic bundles. Other tares have been bound into Judaeo-Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal bundles, humanist, neo-con, socialist, Rhodes Scholarship, Club of Rome, Mont Pelerin, Pilgrims' Society, United Nations bundles, all ready for the burning. The former rain which was sent for the wheat, has fallen on the just and the unjust, and each has reproduced the life of the seed that was planted.
Jesus explained in Matthew 13:30, the tares have their revivals first. James 5:7 says, "Endure patiently, brethren, until the [parousia] Coming of the Lord. Take notice how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, continuing in patience until it receives the early and latter rains".
Christ's 'parousia' Coming was in 1963; He is present now. The former rain of Brother Branham's ministry was the "shout" of Matthew 25:6 and I Thessalonians 4:14-16 waking the virgin from denominational slumber and calling her out from Mystery Babylon and her harlot daughters to meet the Bridegroom at His Coming. The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form, and as the parable explains, the virgins must fill their vessels with Oil of the Spirit and trim the denominational carbon from their lamps so they can walk in the Light of the present Truth (I Corinthians 13:10).
Brother Branham was the angel of Revelation 1:1 by whom Christ "sent and signified the Book of Revelation to His servant John." He was the angel who led John through the visions on the Island of Patmos. Therefore we know that throughout the Book of Revelation John represents Christ's end-time Bride because the Book was sealed to the time of the end, until "the days of the Voice of the seventh angel when the mystery of God should be finished" (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4, 7). The revelation of the Seven Seals is the former rain of Brother Branham's Message that dresses Christ's Bride in the righteousnesses of the saints of all seven Church Ages, which is the fullness of the Word that makes up the Capstone of the Body of Christ.
In Revelation 21 Brother Branham shows John, (Christ's end-time Bride), new Jerusalem, which is the Bride of all Ages who are joint heirs with Jesus Messiah in the new heaven and new earth. In verse 27 he tells John "Nothing unclean nor anyone practicing abomination and falsehood shall ever enter it, but only the saints of the Old and New Testaments written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Revelation 22:1-13, "Then Brother Branham showed me the river of the Water of Life (or revelation), clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. And running through the middle of the street on either side of the river, trees of Life (the Old and New Testament saints) bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for a memorial of the restoration of the nations to the Lord" (a the elements of the Lord's Supper signify our individual union).
"There shall no longer be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall worship Him. They shall see His face; and His Name shall be in their foreheads. And night shall be no more; they will need neither lamplight nor sunlight, for the Lord God will be their Light, and they shall reign for ever and ever."
Then Brother Branham said to me,These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show His servants what must soon take place (Revelation 1:1). Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the prophecy of this Book."
"I, (certain hearers of this Message), am the one who saw and heard these things, and when I had heard and seen, I bowed down to worship at the feet of William Branham, the angel who showed them to me. But he told me, You must not do that! I am a fellowservant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Worship God."
(This came to pass in 1961 when some misguided folk, bedazzled by the abundance of the Supernatural (Luke 17:28-30), actually thought Brother Branham was Jesus and were baptizing in the name of William Marrion Branham. Brother Branham reprimanded them and resolved to terminate his ministry before taking glory from Christ as an antichrist had those Brothers not repented (Bruised Serpent; The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 461:Q42; C.O.D., 861:Q214; also Revelation 19:10).
"Then he said to me, Do not seal the Words of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand."
Time was at hand for the fulfilment of verses 7 and 12, "Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the prophecy of this Book." It was time for the revelation of Christ's secret, sudden 'parousia' Coming through the revelation of the Seven Seals (Revelation 10:1-7), which would be known only to those who take the unsealed Book from the hands of Christ and become one with its prophecy as commanded in Revelation 10:8-11. Many newcomers to the Message do not feel the hunger of the previous generation to devour the Spoken Word books but trust their kind old priest to study and provide them a second-hand religion, which they do not prove in their own Bibles. Is this the spirit of Laodicea?
What if your kind old minister is in error? Since you are following him and his reasoning and not the revealed Word, would this indicate you have learning without faith and are justified by neither?
"Let the unjust be unjust still: and the filthy be filthy still: and let the righteous be righteous still: and the saints be holy still. Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to render to each according to his doings. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last".
He has come quickly, but why after 45 years has He not taken His waiting Bride Home? What is He waiting for? Apart from you and me, what is delaying the resurrection? Besides waiting for others like you and me to put on the likeness of the Lord God and maintain the Token on display He is waiting for that last elect.
Where is that last elect? Should he be sought among the nomads of the desert, or savages in the jungle; in Judaism, Islam or Hindustan? Well, not if we follow the pattern of previous exodus's whose ranks were filled by people of a common hope. In the first exodus, God gathered believers from among the children of Abraham, Isaac and Israel to whom He had promised a land of milk and honey where they could live as a holy nation. In the second exodus, He called His chosen ones out from apostate natural Israel into union with Messiah. In the third exodus He is calling believers out from the apostate churches to the eternal land of the Millennium.
Under the Law, Gentile proselytes and converts were joining themselves to the common faith of Israel. Under grace, an election were called into the second exodus by the former rain of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-12, 41-42; 8:1-6; 10:1-8, 34-48). Under grace, heathens from every nation, tribe and tongue of Adam's race were gathered into the faith. From among these people of the common faith the Lord is calling His end-time Bride by the former rain in this fiftieth day of the antitype of the Pentecostal feast, into the third exodus.
Throughout the Church Ages the evangelistic call was to deliver the Gospel to the heathen peoples of Adam's race all over the world (Matthew 28:19-20). And God gave the saints two thousand years in which to call His elect out of darkness into Light. Since He has come in the secret rapture of the Church, and "shortened the days lest there be no flesh saved for the translation" (Matthew 24:22-28; Romans 9:28-29), the objective of the end-time evangelism is not to convert raw heathens but to correct the erroneous understandings of those who believe they are Christians but far from being free in the liberty of "the river of the Water of Life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb," they are bound in chains of man-made creed and dogma.
I have witnessed missionaries from denominations inside and outside the circle of this Message seek to gather a following through building schools, hospitals, churches, roads, homes, farm improvements, providing food, second hand clothing, friendship, money, and everything but the revelation of the Word of the hour. Perhaps they feel that by perseverance they will weary the unbelievers into the Body of Christ, but that will not work (Titus 3:9-11). After almost half a century since the Coming of the Lord, the major emphasis on evangelism seems directed toward everyone but those specified by the Holy Spirit in Matthew 25:1-13 and Revelation 18:4.
Hebrews 6:1-8, "Let us leave behind the elementary doctrine of Christ and advance toward maturity. Surely we don't need to speak further about the foolishness of trying to be saved by being good, or about the necessity of faith in God, of instruction about baptism and Spiritual gifts, and the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment. And this will we do if God permits."
"For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once for all been enlightened, have tasted of the heavenly gift, have become participants in the Holy Ghost, have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God afresh on their own account, and hold Him up to contempt. For the land that drinks the rain that often falls on it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles it is worthless, and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned".
The end-time evangelism of the former rain in the third exodus is directed to those who believe God's promises and think they are in Christ, unaware that they are in bed with the Jezebel religion of Revelation 2:20-23. Neither the wise not the foolish virgin are going to be cajoled out of their denominations. Jesus said, "My sheep receive My Word." If after the first and second admonition they reject the present Truth you know the election is off. Just walk away from them. However, if they are His sheep and you present the Word for their hour, they will receive It.
Soon earthquakes will sink Los Angeles beneath the sea and divide the mount of Olives. Then the latter rain will fall upon all flesh, "the wicked will do wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand; but the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10). Why so? Because the latter rain is the harvest rain causing every plant to manifest in the nature and quality of its fruit the true life of the seed that was planted. At this time grace and mercy will have expired:
Revelation 12:10, "And I [....your name here....] heard an authoritative Voice in heaven saying, Now the salvation, and the power, and the reign of our God has come, and the sovereign authority of His Christ will be exercised through His Wife under preeminence to her Husband by the 'third pull' in the manifestation of the Sons of God, for the Accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night is cast down".
Satan will become truly incarnate in the pope of Rome who will head up the World Council of Churches (as he was quoted as saying in our previous Newsletter). And by his gold (remember Judas held the bag) he will control the whole world, and that antichrist system will own everything and try to control everybody. But after the Tribulation, Jesus will destroy them all by the brightness of His Coming, and their end will be the lake of Fire (II Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).
Revelation 3:10, "I will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."
Brother Branham said, "This temptation is exactly like the temptation in Eden. It will be a very inviting proposition held up in direct opposition to God's commanded Word, and yet from the standpoint of human reasoning it will be so very right, so enlightening and life-giving as to fool the world (Revelation 13:4, 8 - Ed). Only the very elect will not be fooled.
The temptation will come as follows. The ecumenical move that has started on what seems such a beautiful and blessed principle (fulfilling Christ's prayer that we all might be one) becomes so strong politically that she bears pressure upon the government to cause all to join with her either directly or through adherence to principles enacted into law so that no people will be recognized as actual churches unless under direct or indirect domination of this council. Little groups will lose charters, privileges, etc., until they lose all property and spiritual rights with the people.
For example, right now unless the local ministerial association approves in many, if not most cities, one cannot rent a building for religious services. To become chaplains in the armed services, hospitals, etc., it is now almost mandatory to be recognized as acceptable to the trinitarian ecumenical groups. As this pressure increases, and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to resist is to lose privilege. And so many will be tempted to go along, for they will feel it is better to serve God publicly in the framework of this organization than not to serve God at all publicly. But they err. To believe the devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him Jehovah. But the elect will not be deceived.
Furthermore, the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the "image erected to the beast," the saints will be gone in the rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that started out in fellowship at Ephesus will become the monster of Satan that defiles and deceives the whole world. For the church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a living. This will be accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the whole world" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 313:2-314:1; Revelation 13:11-18).
This will be the fulfilment of the sixth of seven consecutive the Lord showed His Prophet in 1933. Rome will rule the world as the Lord revealed to Daniel and Jesus Messiah, and as it was in the days of Lot, Sodom and its Sodomites will burn as the Lord showed Brother Branham in the last of seven consecutive visions wherein he heard a terrible explosion, and as he turned to look he saw nothing but debris, craters and smoke all over the land of America.
Years before that time, the resurrection of the Church Age saints will begin; Christ's end-time Bride will become a hunted and persecuted little group exercising the 'third pull' before we change in the atoms to meet our promised Son in the air as God changed Abraham and Sarah in the atoms in order that they could receive their promised son. nl534.htm
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Former and Latter Rian - Part II
Bible Believers' Newsletter #533
"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.
This issue further explores how the pagan religion of Babylon was transformed into Judaism and Roman Catholicism—mother and daughter reunited to rule Lucifer's one world government during the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week, after which they will have a "falling out" and fight to the death in the battle of Armageddon. We take another look at the former and latter rain through Old Testament shadows and types which indicate how they will apply in the immediate future.
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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Why an Income Tax is Not Necessary to Fund the US Government
Can this statement possibly be true? In order to answer this question, Americans must first understand what is the source of the money that funds the government and where it goes. Contrary to the sound bites issued by the two mainstream political parties, the reality of how the system actually works will not only open your eyes, but hopefully stimulate the American people to demand that the thievery underway come to an end.
Where do your "income" tax dollars go? The best place to look for an answer to this question would be a government report, so let's take just one at random. . . Full story: devvy.com
Comment: Devvy Kidd's research of government documents demonstrates how taxpayers ignorantly fund the International Banksters and their wars, and feed the egos of "the City's" puppet politicians who transfer our wealth to our enemies. Last week in Japan, Australia's glib new puppet PM gave $35 million to Toyota; in Indonesia he glad-handed $50 million on top of the existing $1 billion pledge.
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The Science of the UN
June 21, 2008 – The United Nations has selected 600 willing people with formal education in science to participate in its series of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") meetings and studies. . .
If the mob rule process of the United Nations worked, many great unsolved scientific questions could be quickly solved. United Nations observers could attend scientific meetings of cancer scientists and determine the causes and cures of cancer. With the "science settled," this scourge could be eliminated. Likewise, Alzheimer's disease, human aging, the origin of the universe, and other great unsolved problems could be solved. The fact is that mob rule does not work in science any better than it works in nations. No scientific question has ever been resolved in this way.
In the present case in which United Nations apparatchiks have proclaimed that human activity is catastrophically warming the planet, the human cost of error is so great than many other scientists have become motivated to individually examine the evidence. Now, a total of more than 9,000 Americans with PhDs in science and therefore professional educational credentials that, on average, equal or surpass the United Nations 600—and a total of more than 31,000 Americans with at least BSc. degrees have signed a petition to the US government specifically rejecting the United Nations claim that human use of hydrocarbon energy is injuring the climate. In fact, the 31,000 scientists state that carbon dioxide released by energy production is actually beneficial to the environment. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
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Going Green = $4 per Gallon
June 22, 2008 – Going green (its real name is sustainable development) has led to Orwellian regulations resulting in the destruction of American businesses and the jobs that go with them, including manufacturing and industry; the locking away of American natural resources like oil, timber and minerals, forcing expensive imports; the near abolishment of private property, the bedrock of any economy's source of wealth; and massive invasion of the farming industry to assure it is "sustainable," including the mandated use of corn for the making of ethanol, leading to food shortages and higher prices...
Global warming has been the most convenient threat upon which all of the rhetoric has been based. What it is really leading to is the creation of a new economy based on trading carbon credits. Such policy is really nothing more than a massive redistribution of the wealth scheme designed to force industrial nations to make deals with less developed ones to trade for energy credits and get around severe energy use restrictions. It's what Al Gore trades in order to allow him to claim he has a "zero carbon footprint"—even as he flies around the world in his jets and pays $2000 electric bills on his Tennessee mansion. In the end, the same emissions are released into the atmosphere, but money and power is exchanged from the industrial nations to the less developed. Where is the protection for the environment? Of course there isn't any.
The International Energy Agency just reported the need for an "energy revolution" in which $45 trillion will be allocated to combat Global Warming. What bunk. Global warming is quickly proving to be little more than a natural phenomenon having virtually nothing to do with man. Science has now shown that human-caused CO2 emissions amount to no more than 0.017%—virtually insignificant. More and more scientists—by the thousands—are now expressing their skepticism about the whole global warming theory. . . Going green=sustainable development=the coming dark ages for all of mankind. Americans have only just begun to experience it and they are already feeling loss and a sense of hopelessness.
Full story: newswithviews.com
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Catholic Bishop says Protocols of Zion Authentic
March 5, 2008 – A senior bishop of the Lefebvrist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has endorsed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic forgery that enjoys widespread currency in neo-Nazi circles.
Richard Williamson, one of four bishops ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, told The Catholic Herald the document—which supposedly reveals a Jewish plot to dominate the world—was authentic.
He is also on record as saying the Jews are fighting for world domination "to prepare the Anti-Christ's throne in Jerusalem". The SSPX has refused to condemn English-born Bishop Williamson and says it has "no policy" on the authenticity of the Protocols, a Russian Czarist forgery. . . The Society's support for Williamson—who also believes that the Americans planned 9/11—is likely to end any chance of full reconciliation between the SSPX and Rome. . .
In 2000 Williamson endorsed the Protocols on an official SSPX website. He wrote: "God put into men's hands the Protocols of the Sages of Sion . . . if men want to know the truth, but few do". . . In a YouTube video, Williamson is filmed arguing that the Twin Towers were not brought down by aeroplanes but by "demolition charges". . .
Full story: catholicherald.co.uk
Comment: The bishop's views on the Protocols accord with the High Court in Berne, Switzerland, which found the Jews had bribed the primary Judge in the 1935 hearing and reversed his decision on November 1, 1937.
With Declassified US Military Intelligence Reports from US National Archives prepared during World War II concerning the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the Zionist problem for the United States from pre-WWI to the mid-50's, only declassified 1973, and include reports before the US Senate, as well as British and French intelligence investigations over the same period.
Theodor Herzl's book, Programme for the Jewish World-Colony, recently republished, but better known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, did not regard them as a "Russian Forgery." Neither did the decision of the Court of Appeals of Paris on the 22nd of September 1993, nor the High Court of Justice of Budapest in their decision of 14th May, 2004 (monusaron.com). Indeed, the Alliance of the Jewish Religious Associations in Hungary and its director, Gusztáv Zoltai, were made to publish apologies in the press and on television.
Only in Russia after the Jews invaded from New York City, enforced Judaeo-Communism, and murdered 66 million nominal Christians, were the Protocols proscribed as "a forgery," and their possession a capital offence. No one, not even Theodor Herzl, has stated where he obtained "original" documentation from which he wrote his "notorious anti-Semitic forgery".
On the other points the bishop appears to have based his statements on the authority of Daniel, Jesus Christ, and the Babylonian Talmud, which reveal the same "plot"; while in the case of 9/11 he obviously relies on the forensic evidence of qualified experts. It was not possible for two aeroplanes to demolish one building, much less Building 7 and two others, and it was not an aeroplane that struck the Pentagon.
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The Former and Latter Rain - Part II
Ahab, son of Omri, was the seventh king of the Northern kingdom of Israel, however he was weak and became a puppet in the hands of his wicked wife Jezebel, whose name means "chaste, free from carnal connection"; but like her antitype, the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church, which Jesus and Brother Branham called "the great whore . . . the mother of harlots," and "Jezebel" religion, her name belied her nature (Revelation 2:20-23; 17:1-8; 18:1-20).
Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon and priest of Astarte, who murdered Pheles his predecessor. A perfect type of the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church which is the daughter of Babylonian Judaism that murdered Israel's Messiah. Under Jezebel's influence Ahab introduced the idolatrous worship of Baal the Sun-god, the deified Nimrod, and his consort the Babylonian Moon-goddess Astarte (Ishtar) after which the Roman Catholic festival of "Easter" is named. Astarte is actually Nimrod's deified wife Semiramis who is also worshipped as Venus, Beltis, Diana, Rhea, Cybele, Melissa and Melitta, and whom Roman Catholics ignorantly worship as Mary. The worship of Jehovah was scarcely tolerated and the public mind seems to have halted between the two, Jehovah and Baal, except for seven thousand who alone had not bowed the knee. Unbelief was such that people thought to unite the worship of Baal with that of Jehovah.
How like today? Vatican II was a move in the same direction and tentative attempts at a congress of religions like that of Pope John Paul II at Assisi on October 27, 1986, had occurred in 1893 in Chicago and in Paris in 1900. In June of 1995, an Interfaith Summit Conference was held in San Francisco for the purpose of "uniting the world's religions into a global organization. The United Religions Organization (UR) will be an international, inter-religious organization modeled after and affiliated with the United Nations, cooperating closely with the UN and its organizations to complement its political, diplomatic and social mandates, influence UN policy and support its programs".
Pope John Paul II also predicted that there will be a unity of faith and that all religions will soon worship together:
"Pope John Paul II said yesterday that he is willing to seek agreement with other Christian denominations on the future role of the papacy. The pope made his offer in a 115-page encyclical, 'That They All May Be One,' which is dedicated to the search for unity among Christian churches that split from each other during the past thousand years." The pope made clear he would not accept a symbolic papacy without teeth and that Rome would have to hold the primary place among Christians. He also said a pope should have the authority to make infallible declarations regarding the basic tenets of faith (San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 1995).
"In the year 360 Julian, a cousin of Constantine, was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army. Constantine, who had prepared for battle against him, died on the way; this made easier the final victory for Julian and his proclamation as Emperor of the Orient and Occident. The policy of Julian had three principle aims: I. To renew the Pagan belief and to again declare it a state religion of the Empire, so that Rome, which according to his view had declined through Christianity, might return to its old glory. II. To destroy Christianity. III. To concede to Jewry its old positions, from which it had been expelled by Constantine and his sons; even the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon was to be arranged. . ."
"The famous Jewish historian [H. H. Graetz] said: ". . . Julian paid great admiration to the Jewish religion" and confirms that "the period of government by Julian . . . was a time of highest fortune for the Jews of the Roman Empire. . ."
"Graetz likewise establishes that Julian called the leader of Jewry in the Empire, the patriarch Hillel, literally "his respected friend," and promised him in a personal letter to make an end of the misdeeds committed by the Christian Emperors against the Jews. Further, Julian made all necessary preparations in order to begin the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem. He addressed a letter to all Jewish congregations of the Empire, in which he spoke in a friendly way of the leader of Jewry in the Empire, the Patriarch Julos (Hillel), as his brother. He promised the abolition of the high taxes laid upon the Israelites by the Christians, guaranteed that in the future none should accuse them of blasphemy, promised freedom and security and promised to have Jerusalem rebuilt at his expense, as soon as he returned victorious from the Persian war. For the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem Julian commissioned his best friend, Alypius of Antioch, to whom he gave instructions to spare no expense, and commanded the governors of Palestine and Syria, to assist with everything necessary" (H. H. Graetz, History of the Jews cited by Maurice Pinay in The Plot against the Church, 1967, p. 285-6).
The death of Julian in AD363 curtailed plans for rebuilding Solomon's Temple; however, the Jewish Virtual Library boasts of a Hebrew revival in Rome in the centuries which followed:
"During this period there was a revival of Hebrew studies in Rome, centered around the local yeshiva, Metivta de Mata Romi. A number of well-known scholars, Rabbi Kalonymus b. Moses and Rabbi Jacob 'Gaon' and Rabbi Nathan b. Jehil (who wrote a great talmudic dictionary, the Arukh), contributed to Jewish learning and development. Roman Jewish traditions followed those practiced in the Land of Israel and the liturgical customs started in Rome spread throughout Italy and the rest of the world."
The abovementioned Jewish "liturgical customs" which started in Rome somehow were little by little incorporated into what gradually developed into the Roman Catholic Mass. The Catholic Encyclopedia officially defines Catholic liturgy as a carryover from the Mosaic Law: ". . . the word liturgy . . . is used for the public service of the temple . . . the function of the priests, the ritual service of the temple . . . So in Christian use liturgy meant the public official service of the Church, that corresponded to the official service of the Temple in the Old Law."
Reading further we find the startling admission, that the Mass was "a Christianized synagogue service" conducted by "learned elders":
"The Eucharist was always celebrated at the end of a service of lessons, psalms, prayers, and preaching, which was itself merely a continuation of the service of the synagogue. So we have everywhere this double function; first a synagogue service Christianized, in which the holy books were read, psalms were sung, prayers said by the bishop in the name of all (the people answering 'Amen' in Hebrew, as had their Jewish forefathers), and homilies, explanations of what had been read, were made by the bishop or priests, just as they had been made in the synagogues by the learned men and elders (e.g. Luke, iv, 16-27). . . The likeness between the prayers of thanksgiving (ix-x) and the Jewish forms for blessing bread and wine on the Sabbath (given in the 'Berakoth' treatise of the Talmud; cf. Sabatier, 'La Didache', Paris, 1885, p. 99) points obviously to derivation from them."
Little wonder that one Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism made the astounding statement that entering the Catholic Church was not a "conversion" experience for him, but rather a continuation of Judaism. Roy Schoeman, the author of Salvation is from the Jews, confirms as well that the Mass is based on the Jewish ceremonial worship and that Catholic theology is based on the Old Testament!
"As a Jew coming to the Catholic Church, it was natural for me to find the relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church among the most interesting things in the world. It was obvious to me that for a Jew to enter the Catholic Church wasn't a matter of conversion at all, but was rather simply coming into the fullness of Judaism—into the form that Judaism took after the coming of the Jewish Messiah."
"Although Catholics are aware of this in principle, they often don't think of the Catholic Church as the continuation of Judaism after the Messiah. . . It's everywhere you look. It's obviously in the Sacrifice of the Mass and the way the Mass is prefigured in Jewish ceremonial worship. It's in the role that the Old Testament, Jewish Scriptures have in Catholic theology and the structure of the Catholic Faith" (www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20031215_pr.html).
A listing of parallels between Roman Catholicism and Judaism, which have analogues in the Eastern Orthodox Church as well, presented us with the startling prospect that Roman Catholicism may have been a Judaised form of Christianity from its inception. In the list of traditions below, links to the Catholic Encyclopedia show that the Roman Catholic Church justifies most of its practices by appealing to the Old Testament. Even in cases where the New Testament is cited as justification, these practices are not required under the New Covenant but have their basis in Judaism.
Priesthood (Levitical priesthood/mediators between God and men).
Pope (Jewish High Priest).
College of Cardinals (Seventy elders of Moses/Deuteronomy 17:8).
Confession of sins to priest for forgiveness (Leviticus 5:5).
Daily sacrifice of the Mass (Daily burnt offering/Hebrews 10:11).
Altars for sacrifices
Altar vessels of gold and silver.
Vestments for priests.
skullcap (Jewish yarmulke).
Offertory (Offerings).
Church buildings for worship (Temple).
Liturgy (service of the Temple).
Sunday obligation (Sabbath observance).
Ecclesiastical Feasts (Jewish feasts).
Scapular/Hairshirt (Sackcloth).
Works-based salvation (Mosaic Law).
Sacrament of infant baptism (Rite of Circumcision/Talmud).
Wafer-only Communion (Manna/Show Bread).
Sacrament of Confirmation (Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah).
Burning of candles and incense (Exodus 30).
Holy water font (The Laver/Exodus 40).
No salvation outside the (Catholic) Church (Gentiles must convert to Judaism to be saved).
The following Roman Catholic traditions were not part of the Mosaic Law but were adopted by the Israelites in their apostasy:
Traditions of men (Mark 7:6-13).
Vain repetitions (Lip service/Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 6:7).
Veneration of saints (Idolatry/pagan gods).
Worship of Mary as Mother of God (Jews worshipped Queen of Heaven/Jeremiah 44).
Statues/images (images on the walls of Solomon's Temple/Ezekiel 8:10).
Demotion of Jesus to Co-Redeemer (Jews' denial of Jesus as Messiah).
Preoccupation with Christ's death rather than resurrection (Jews' denial of Jesus' resurrection).
The above is only a partial catalog of Jewish traditions found in Roman Catholicism. The sacerdotal (priesthood) and daily sacrificial systems alone strongly implicate the Roman Catholic Church as not only a 'front' for apostate Judaism, but as a vehicle for converting nominal Christians, who have no knowledge, to the very religious system that rejected Jesus Christ. "Explanatory Comments on the Methodist Articles of Religion" compares the Roman Catholic teaching on salvation to that preached in Judaism:
"The Catholic perspective on salvation is largely 'Judaised' Christianity. In the days of the Apostles, many Jewish Christians believed that Christians had to follow all the requirements of the Mosaic Law, e.g., circumcision, the system of offerings, going to a priest to have sins forgiven, making sacrifices as atonement for sins, etc. A system that requires some type of 'priest' to act as an intercessor between the layperson and God is known as a sacerdotal system (from the Latin word sacerdote, meaning 'priest')." Jesus called it Nicolaitanism, "which thing I hate" (Revelation 2:15).
In view of the striking parallels between Roman Catholicism and Judaism, it becomes apparent that Roman Catholicism represents, to a remarkable degree, the triumph of the Judaisers at the Hegelian dialectic of the First Nicea Council in AD325 where the Universal Church of the Roman Empire was organized as a counterfeit form of Christianity by apostate self-styled Jews whose works caused papal Rome to become the actual seat or power of Satanic religion (Revelation 2:13; Barbara Aho, Mystery, Babylon the Great: Catholic or Jewish)?
During the Babylonian captivity, the prophet Ezekiel continued to reprove Judah for its apostasy from the God of Israel and her love affair with Babylon. In Ezekiel 23:14-18, the Jews' admiration for the images of rich, brightly attired Babylonian princes, evokes visual images of the elegant processions of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church attired in their rich and colorful vestments:
". . . [Jerusalem] was in fact more debased than Samaria, and increased her whoredoms: for when she saw carvings of men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans painted in vermilion, with girdles about their loins, and flowing turbans upon their heads, captains to look to, all of them looking like Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity. When she saw them she longed to give herself to the men pictured, and sent messengers to them in Chaldea to invite them to come to her. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and when she was polluted with them, she turned from them in disgust. And because she flaunted her harlotries and exposed her nakedness, I also became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister, Israel. . ."
Moreover, as Matthew Henry noted in his commentary on this passage, the kingdom of Judah patterned its own worship after the pomp and pageantry of the Babylonians with whom they had become enamored:
"Thus she increased her whoredoms; she fell in love, fell in league, with the Chaldeans. Hezekiah himself was faulty this way when he was proud of the court which the king of Babylon made to him and complimented his ambassadors with the sight of all his treasures, Isaiah 39:2. And the humour increased (verse 14); she doted upon the pictures of the Babylonian captains (verse 15-16), joined in alliance with that kingdom, invited them to come and settle in Jerusalem, that they might refine the genius of the Jewish nation and make it more polite; nay, they sent for patterns of their images, altars, and temples, and made use of them in their worship. Thus was she polluted with her whoredoms (verse 17), and thereby she discovered her own whoredom (verse 18), her own strong inclination to idolatry".
According to Jesus and Paul, Judaism is the pagan Babylonian antithesis of Yahweh Torah, the God-revealed faith of Israel. If you doubt these two men who were prophets, read the Babylonian Talmud on the Church Website and see if you can reconcile it with Abraham, Moses and the Prophets. Jesus said, "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matthew 15:9; Mark 7:7-9).
The Anti-Defamation League's Interfaith Affairs Director Emeritus, Papal Knight Rabbi Leon Klenicki, described the reprint of Elijah ben Abraham Benamozegh's (1823-1900) "Noahide" tome, Israel and Humanity, "at once a wide-ranging summa of scriptural, Talmudic, Midrashic, and kabbalistic ideas, and an intensely personal account of Jewish identity. It is also a systematic, meticulously reasoned philosophy of Judaism in its relation to the other religions of mankind, especially its daughter religions, [Roman Catholic] Christianity and Islam".
Like Jesus Christ and Paul, the so-called "Jews" of the present day and Brother Branham revealed that Babylonian Judaism is the mother of the Roman Catholic system of false religion. And if you examine Islam you will see the Babylonian Talmud as indelibly etched in Koranic thought as in Catholicism.
God destroyed the Northern kingdom of Israel when it forsook the pure worship of Jehovah for the Babylonian Trinitarianism of Assyria. This system of false worship derived from the wickedness of Ham who replicated the original sin this side of the Flood. He was the father of Cush, the father of Nimrod who built Babylon. When Judah committed spiritual fornication with the Babylonian Trinity, God brought the nation under Gentile dominion unto the consummation of life on earth. They came under submission to the world empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Imperial Rome, and finally Papal Rome, which will shortly impose Trinitarian worship upon all under pain of death (Revelation 13:1-4, 8, 15-18). Furthermore, they intermarried with and came under the dominion of the Edomites as prophesied by Isaac.
Idolatrous Babylon foreshadowed and spawned a daughter called Talmudic Judaism, and Babylonian-Judaism bore the great whore, Judaeo-Roman Catholicism, which is the mother of harlots, so the history of Ahab and his Jezebel has its antitype in these last days. Brother Branham said, "America is the seat of the Devil": the (City of London's) Ayatollah Khomeini was correct when he called the United States, "the Great Satan," for Jesus said she is the image to the beast of Imperial Rome as the (once) Protestant churches are the image of the beast of Papal Rome (Revelation 13:10-18; 17:5).
Brother Branham typed Ahab with US President John Kennedy, behind whom was the Jezebel religion of Judaeo-Catholicism. In the sixth of seven consecutive visions the Lord showed him in 1933 "there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women." This accords with the abovementioned Scripture. The power Rome was not able to obtain by religious conversion she has gained through political influence. The neocons, for instance, are either Judaeo-Catholics or Pharisees. Sinners, behold your monsters masters under Lucifer's NWO: Judaism and Catholicism are two tentacles of the same golem.
I Kings 16:30-34, "Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more so than all who were before him. As if following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat had been trifling, he married Jezebel, the (Canaanite Serpent's seed) daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went on to serve and worship Baal. He erected an altar to Baal in the temple of Baal which he built in Samaria. Ahab also made a grove and so continued to provoke the Lord God of Israel more than all the kings of Israel that were before him. And in his days Jericho, which was accursed of God, was rebuilt".
Thus God sent Elijah to Ahab to curse the land with famine: "As sure as the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, it will not dew nor rain for several years, until I say the Word" (I Kings 17:1).
Brother Branham said, "When God sends forth a message and . . . the people . . . don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing. You think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away".
The apostolic faith has been restored, the mystery of God is finished; the Message has been rejected; God has taken His prophet off the scene and the long-planned global famine is well-under way, directed by global warming, climate change, ecological, environmental pollution, "peak oil," bio-fuel, genocidal "free trade" schemes and manipulation of fiat monetary systems in the grand conspiracy against God and man with the objective of massive world depopulation and the return to serfdom under Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. Like Ahab, the world church system precipitated this iniquity by committing the unpardonable sin and intensified God's curse by instituting a Spiritual famine for hearing the present Truth. However, the Lord cares for you and as He ordained the ravens to feed Elijah, their service types the five-fold ministry sent to feed the Church in the wilderness. Brother Branham said, "I'll ride this trail once more," and he being dead yet speaks through this ministry, while "the Voice of the Archangel" in the heart of Christ's Bride is placing the Message from Genesis to Revelation to bring her to maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
While the nominal church has sunk to the depths of apostasy in the bosom of mother Rome, the Church in the wilderness has preached no revivals. No one will listen: hate legislation against truth and the love of God in league with the controlled media has outlawed her Voice so she remains silent, "making herself ready." But the Message came to a widow when the death of her husband, denominational religion, set her free to believe THUS SAITH THE LORD (Romans 7:1-4).
Few will enter into the Capstone of the Body of the Lord, and the hour is coming in which God promised a former rain and a latter rain; a double portion as when Elijah was caught up into the Shekinah and dropped his mantle. The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ living in His end-time Bride, while the Elisha will be those who catch the vision of the resurrected Bride and receive a double portion of the Spirit. Zechariah 14:8, "It shall be in the day of the earthquake, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former [or Dead] sea (signifying Israel), and half of them toward the hinder [or Mediterranean} sea (signifying the Gentile Bride): in summer and in winter shall it be." Our latter, gathering or harvest rain will produce Israel's former or teaching rain, and as the rain fertilizes the otherwise barren land, so God's favor will restore the nation of Israel long Spiritually lifeless (Joel 2:23-27; Romans 11:15).
God said there will be a former rain and a latter rain, and in the latter rain, both former and latter would come together: a double portion. Hallelujah! We have seen what the former rain produced at Pentecost and in the calling out of Christ's end-time Bride; how much more powerful will the latter rain be when God pours out His Spirit upon all flesh at the close of the Gentile dispensation and His return to Israel? Signs and wonders will take place when the hunted and persecuted members of Christ's Bride speak the Word, and Israel's prophets repeat the miracles God performed through Moses and Elijah.
I wonder if we are sufficiently impressed with the Word in our midst. Let me give you a thought here. How do we pray? We pray in Jesus Name don't we? Every prayer is in His Name or there isn't any answer. Yet in I John 5:14, we are told, "This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us; and if we know that He listens to us in whatever we may petition, then the requests we ask of Him are assured us."
You ask, "What is the will of God?" There is only ONE WAY to know His will and that is by the WORD OF GOD. Lamentations 3:37, "Who speaks and it comes to pass unless the Lord has ordained it?" There it is. If it isn't in the Word you can't have it. So we can't ask unless it is in the Word, and we can only petition or ask in His Name. There it is again. JESUS (the Name) is the WORD (will). You cannot separate God and the Word. They are ONE. This Word He has left behind on the printed page is a part of Him when you accept it by faith into a Spirit-filled life. He said that His Word was Life. John 6:63b. But that is exactly what He is: John 14:6, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."
Romans 8:9b, "Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ is none of His." There it is, He is Spirit and He is Life. That is exactly what the Word is; that is exactly what Jesus is. He is the Word. So when a Spirit-born, Spirit-filled man in faith takes that Word into his heart and places it upon his lips, why that is the same as Deity speaking. Every mountain has to go. Satan cannot stand before that man. If the church, way back there in that third age where the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church organized, had only held on to the revelation of the living Word in their midst, the power of God would not have faded as it did in those Dark Ages. And today, when the church returns to the Word in faith, we can say without doubt that the glory of God and the wonderful acts of God will be in her midst again. This the key to the operation of the 'third pull' manifesting by the spoken Word from your lips in the latter rain. No true believer is any stronger and spiritually healthy and alive than his knowledge of and adherence to the pure Word of God, as seen by multitudes of examples in the Old Testament.
Brother Branham said, "One night as I was seeking the Lord, the Holy Spirit told me to pick up my pen and write. As I grasped the pen to write, His Spirit gave me a Message for the church. I want to bring it to you. . . It has to do with the Word and the Bride.
"Here is what I am trying to say to you. The law of reproduction is that each specie brings forth after its own kind, even according to Genesis 1:11, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." Whatever life was in the seed came forth into a plant and thence into fruit. The very same law applies to the church today. Whatever seed started the church will come forth and be like the original seed because it is the same seed. In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ's seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations cannot produce this (wrong seed). They will produce their creeds and their dogmas, mixed with the Word. This mongrelizing brings forth a hybrid product.
The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.
The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam's wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died.
From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.
The word of promise came to the virgin Mary. But that Word of promise was He, Himself, to be made manifest. God was made manifest. He, Himself, acted at that time and fulfilled His own Word of promise in the virgin. It was an angel that had brought her the message. But the angel's message was the Word of God. Isaiah 9:6. He fulfilled at that time all that was written of Him because she accepted His Word to her.
The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.
Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His Name for she has "thus saith the Lord." Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.
Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.
Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. Our promised land is coming in sight even as theirs did. Now Joshua means "Jehovah Saviour", and he represents the end-time leader that will come to the church (Brother Branham of Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7 – Ed) even as Paul came as the original leader. Caleb represents those that stayed true with Joshua. Remember, God had started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last day church. Notice how God did not move Israel, or let her go into the promised land until it was His own appointed time. Now the people might have put pressure on Joshua, the leader, and said, "The land is ours, let's go and take it. Joshua, you are all through, you must have lost your commission, you don't have the power you used to have. You used to hear from God and know the will of God, and act quickly. Something is wrong with you." But Joshua was a God-sent prophet and he knew the promises of God, so he waited for them. He waited for a clear cut decision from God and when the time came to move, God placed the full leadership in Joshua's hands because he had stayed with the Word. God could trust Joshua but not the others. So it will repeat in this end day. The same problem, the same pressures. Take the example we see in Moses. This mighty anointed prophet of God had a peculiar birth, being born at the right time for the deliverance of Abraham's seed from Egypt. He never stayed in Egypt to argue Scripture with them, nor fuss at the priests. He went to the wilderness until the people were ready to receive him. God called Moses to the wilderness. The waiting was not on Moses' part but because of the people who were not ready to receive him. Moses thought the people would understand but they did not.
Then there is Elijah to whom the Word of the Lord came. When he got through preaching the truth and that group back there that is the forerunner of the American Jezebel group would not receive the Word, God called him off the field and plagued that generation for rejecting the prophet and the message that God had given. God called him to the wilderness and he would not come out even for the king. Those who tried to persuade him to do so, died. But God spoke to His faithful prophet by vision. Out of hiding he came and brought back the Word to Israel. (Typing Brother Branham's ministry - Malachi 4:5-6 - Ed).
Then came John the Baptist, Christ's faithful forerunner, the mighty prophet for his day. He did not go to his father's school, nor the school of the Pharisees—he went to no denomination, but out to the wilderness called there by God. There he stayed until the Lord sent him out with the message, crying, 'The Messiah is at hand.'
Now let us take a Scriptural warning here. Was it not in the days of Moses whom God had vindicated that Korah rose up and withstood that mighty prophet? He disputed with Moses and claimed that he had as much from God to lead the people and that others shared in the Divine revelation as well as did Moses. He denied the authority of Moses. Now the people back there, after they had heard the true Word and were well acquainted with the fact that a true prophet was vindicated of God, I say those people fell for Korah and his gainsayings. Korah was not a Scriptural prophet but the people in great numbers with their leaders went for him. How like the evangelists today with their golden calf schemes like Korah's. They look good to the people as Korah looked good then. They have blood on their foreheads, oil on their hands and balls of fire on the platform. They allow women preachers, let women cut their hair, wear slacks and shorts, and by-pass the Word of God for their own creeds and dogmas. That shows what kind of seed is in them. But not all the people turned on Moses and left the Word of God. No. The elect stayed with him. The same is happening again today. Many are leaving the Word but some are staying with it. But remember the parable of the wheat and tares. The tares have to be bundled for burning. These apostate churches are getting bound closer and closer together, ready for the fires of God's judgment. But the wheat is going to be gathered to the Master.
Now I want you to be very careful here and see this. God has promised that at the end time Malachi 4 is going to be fulfilled. It has to be for it is the Spirit-quickened Word of God spoken by the prophet Malachi. Jesus referred to it. It is just before Christ comes the second time. By the time Jesus comes all Scripture must be fulfilled. The Gentile dispensation will be in its last church age when that messenger of Malachi comes. He will be right with the Word. He will take the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He will start at the serpent's seed and carry on to the messenger in the latter rain. But he will be rejected by the denominations.
He has to be for that is history repeating itself from the time of Ahab. Israel's history under Ahab is happening right here in America where the prophet of Malachi appears. As Israel left Egypt to worship in freedom, pushed out the natives, raised up a nation with great leaders like David etc., and then put an Ahab on the throne with a Jezebel behind him to direct, so have we done the very same in America. Our forefathers left for this land to worship and live in freedom. They pushed back the natives and took over the land. Mighty men like Washington and Lincoln were raised up but after awhile other men of such poor caliber succeeded these worthy men that soon an Ahab was set in the presidential chair (John Kennedy) with a Jezebel (the Roman Catholic church) behind him to direct him. It is at such a time as this that the messenger of Malachi must come. Then in the latter rain will come a Mount Carmel showdown (the spoken Word of the 'third pull' against man-made creed and dogma in the manifestation of the Sons of God as when Elijah withstood the four hundred prophets of Baal and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Astarte – I Kings 18:17-46 - Ed). Watch this carefully now to see it in the Word. John was the forerunner of Malachi 3. He planted the former rain and was rejected by the organizations of his day. Jesus came and had a Mount Transfiguration show down (through which He vindicated John the Baptist by revealing Himself as the Word John's ministry had introduced – Matthew 17:1-13 - Ed). The second forerunner of Christ will sow for the latter rain (by restoring the apostolic faith of the former rain - Ed). Jesus (the fullness of the Word - Ed) will be the showdown between the denominations and creeds, for He will come to back up His Word (by the 'third pull' - Ed) and take His bride in the rapture. The first showdown was Mount Carmel; the second was the Mount Transfiguration, and the third will be Mount Zion.
(In Israel when a son born into his father's house came of age, having proven himself worthy he was taken to a public place and formally adopted as one with his father (John 17:21-26 - Ed). Prominently seated and dressed in a special robe, it was pronounced that hereafter his word was equal in authority to that of his father; whatever he said, his father would honour as the obedient youth had proven responsible in honouring his father's word. This "mount Zion Showdown" will be our formal placing as Sons and full adoption, firstly in the vindication of our spoken Word in the 'third pull,' and secondly when our old garment of corruptible flesh is changed to glorified flesh).
The strange behaviour of Moses, Elijah, and John withdrawing from the people into seclusion left many confused. They did not realize that it was because their messages had been rejected. But the seed had been sown, the planting was over. Judgment was next. They had served their purpose as a sign to the people, so judgment was next.
I believe according to Revelation 13:16 that the bride will have to stop preaching for the beast is demanding the mark in the hand or forehead if permission to preach be granted. Denominations will take the mark, or be forced to quit preaching. Then the Lamb will come for His bride and judge the great harlot.
Now remember that Moses was born for a certain work, but he could not do that work until he had received the gifts which would enable him to do the work. He had to go out in the desert and wait there; God had an appointed time. There was to be a certain Pharaoh on the throne, and the people had to be crying for the bread of life, before God could send him back. This is true for our day.
But what do we have in this our day? Multitudes are working signs until we have a generation of sign seekers that know little or nothing about the Word, or a true move of the Spirit of God. If they see blood, oil and fire they are happy; it matters not what is in the Word. They will support any sign, even unscriptural ones. But God has warned us about that. He said in Matthew 24 that in the last days the two spirits would be so close together that only the very elect could tell them apart, for they alone would not be deceived.
How can you tell the spirits apart? Just give them the Word test. If they don't speak that Word, they are of the evil one. As the evil one deceived the first two brides, he will try to deceive the bride of this last day, by trying to get her to hybridize herself through creeds, or just plainly turning from the Word to any sign that suits her. But God never placed signs ahead of the Word. Signs follow the Word, as when Elijah told the woman to bake a cake for him first, according to the Word of the Lord. When she did as the Word said, the proper sign came. Come to the Word first and then watch the miracle. The seed Word is energized by the Spirit.
How can any messenger sent from God believe only a part of the Word and deny some of it? The true prophet of God in this last day will proclaim the whole Word. Denominations will hate him. His words may be as harsh as John the Baptist who called them vipers. But the predestinated will hear and be ready for the rapture. The Royal Seed of Abraham, with like faith as Abraham's will hold to the Word with him, for they are predestinated together.
The last day messenger will appear in God's appointed time. It is the end time now as all know, for Israel is in the homeland. Any time now he will come according to Malachi. When we see him, he will be dedicated to the Word. He will be indicated (pointed out in the Word - Revelation 10:7), and God will vindicate his ministry. He will preach the truth as did Elijah and be ready for the Mount Zion showdown. (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 170:1 – 176:2).
Jesus was the Logos, the Spoken Word of Isaiah 14:7 manifest in the dust of the earth transformed into the food Mary ate. At the age of thirty the Sacrifice was baptized in water and anointed by the Holy Spirit as witnessed by the Shekinah in the form of a dove and a Voice said, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." God was redeeming that part of the earth, that body was the beginning of God creating Himself a part of creation. Only in Christ is He a creation, because God is the eternal uncreated Spirit.
Ours is a natural birth, but by grace through faith we were baptized in water, sanctified by the Word and our soul was cleansed by Holy Fire and regenerated when the Spirit and took His abode and claimed our body for the resurrection as it did His, who was raised for our justification. And "Every one the Father has given Me will come to Me; and he who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out; for I came down from heaven, not to do My will but the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given Me, but raise it up again at the last day" (John 6:37-39). You are an Attribute of the Logos God redeemed on Jordan's banks and raised on the third day. You are the continuation of the creation of God, for the Bible is the story of God unfolding Himself or changing His form from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts to the flesh of His glorified family through manifested faith in His spoken Word.
After the Millennium the whole earth will have a baptism and be renewed, and the Holy Ghost will come down from heaven upon a fifteen hundred-mile high mount Zion in the form of new Jerusalem, for "the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with us, and we will be His people, and God Himself will be with us, and be our God" (Revelation 21:1-3). We are the daughters of Zion: Jesus and His Bride is "the Mountain of the Temple of the Lord," or "mountain of the Lord's house" and (relatively speaking) mount Zion will be the only mountain in the new heavens and new earth (Isaiah 2:2-4, 12-17; 40:4-5; Micah 4:1-2; Zechariah 14:9-11; Revelation 21:10-27). In the latter rain the mount Zion showdown will be the vindication of God's Word made flesh in His end time Bride in the manifestation of the Sons of God and our translation.
When Elijah confronted Ahab he told him to gather all Israel to mount Carmel with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of the groves whom Jezebel maintained (typing the beast and its image). And said, "How long will you halt between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him." He asked the people to provide two bullocks. Each party would build an altar, prepare and lay their bullock on the wood, "and call upon the name of his god; let the God that answers by sending fire to receive and consume the sacrifice be God".
Well, the denominational priests called on the name of Baal from morning until noon when the Sun-god should be at his strength; they spoke with other tongues, prophesied, cut their bodies and raved all afternoon until the time of the evening sacrifice (when Christ's Bride will be waved and offered back to the Lord), "but there was no voice, no one answered or recognized their prayers".
It was time for the manifestation of the Sons of God, time for the Elijah of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11 to gather the twelve tribes back to Israel and to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. The prophet prepared his altar, laid the sacrifice on the wood, and commanded the people to baptize the bullock and the wood with twelve barrels of water; he then called upon the Lord to vindicate His Word by receiving the evening sacrifice (Revelation 8), and restore the heart of Israel. Then Fire from God came down and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones (Israel) and the dust; it even evaporated all the water in the trench surrounding the altar".
"And when all of the people saw it, they fell on their faces (not on their backs as they do before the Jezebel priests of the Catholic Charismatic movement), shouting, Jehovah is God! Jehovah is God! And Elijah commanded them to kill every one of the prophets of Baal." Then came the latter rain.
I Kings 18:41-46, "Elijah said to Ahab, Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel; and he knelt down with his face between his knees, and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he got up, looked, and said, There is nothing at all. And he said seven times, Go back. At the seventh time he said, There is a small cloud the size of a man's hand rising out of the sea. And he said, Go up, tell Ahab, Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you. And before long the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel". nl533.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.
This issue further explores how the pagan religion of Babylon was transformed into Judaism and Roman Catholicism—mother and daughter reunited to rule Lucifer's one world government during the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week, after which they will have a "falling out" and fight to the death in the battle of Armageddon. We take another look at the former and latter rain through Old Testament shadows and types which indicate how they will apply in the immediate future.
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Why an Income Tax is Not Necessary to Fund the US Government
Can this statement possibly be true? In order to answer this question, Americans must first understand what is the source of the money that funds the government and where it goes. Contrary to the sound bites issued by the two mainstream political parties, the reality of how the system actually works will not only open your eyes, but hopefully stimulate the American people to demand that the thievery underway come to an end.
Where do your "income" tax dollars go? The best place to look for an answer to this question would be a government report, so let's take just one at random. . . Full story: devvy.com
Comment: Devvy Kidd's research of government documents demonstrates how taxpayers ignorantly fund the International Banksters and their wars, and feed the egos of "the City's" puppet politicians who transfer our wealth to our enemies. Last week in Japan, Australia's glib new puppet PM gave $35 million to Toyota; in Indonesia he glad-handed $50 million on top of the existing $1 billion pledge.
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The Science of the UN
June 21, 2008 – The United Nations has selected 600 willing people with formal education in science to participate in its series of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") meetings and studies. . .
If the mob rule process of the United Nations worked, many great unsolved scientific questions could be quickly solved. United Nations observers could attend scientific meetings of cancer scientists and determine the causes and cures of cancer. With the "science settled," this scourge could be eliminated. Likewise, Alzheimer's disease, human aging, the origin of the universe, and other great unsolved problems could be solved. The fact is that mob rule does not work in science any better than it works in nations. No scientific question has ever been resolved in this way.
In the present case in which United Nations apparatchiks have proclaimed that human activity is catastrophically warming the planet, the human cost of error is so great than many other scientists have become motivated to individually examine the evidence. Now, a total of more than 9,000 Americans with PhDs in science and therefore professional educational credentials that, on average, equal or surpass the United Nations 600—and a total of more than 31,000 Americans with at least BSc. degrees have signed a petition to the US government specifically rejecting the United Nations claim that human use of hydrocarbon energy is injuring the climate. In fact, the 31,000 scientists state that carbon dioxide released by energy production is actually beneficial to the environment. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
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Going Green = $4 per Gallon
June 22, 2008 – Going green (its real name is sustainable development) has led to Orwellian regulations resulting in the destruction of American businesses and the jobs that go with them, including manufacturing and industry; the locking away of American natural resources like oil, timber and minerals, forcing expensive imports; the near abolishment of private property, the bedrock of any economy's source of wealth; and massive invasion of the farming industry to assure it is "sustainable," including the mandated use of corn for the making of ethanol, leading to food shortages and higher prices...
Global warming has been the most convenient threat upon which all of the rhetoric has been based. What it is really leading to is the creation of a new economy based on trading carbon credits. Such policy is really nothing more than a massive redistribution of the wealth scheme designed to force industrial nations to make deals with less developed ones to trade for energy credits and get around severe energy use restrictions. It's what Al Gore trades in order to allow him to claim he has a "zero carbon footprint"—even as he flies around the world in his jets and pays $2000 electric bills on his Tennessee mansion. In the end, the same emissions are released into the atmosphere, but money and power is exchanged from the industrial nations to the less developed. Where is the protection for the environment? Of course there isn't any.
The International Energy Agency just reported the need for an "energy revolution" in which $45 trillion will be allocated to combat Global Warming. What bunk. Global warming is quickly proving to be little more than a natural phenomenon having virtually nothing to do with man. Science has now shown that human-caused CO2 emissions amount to no more than 0.017%—virtually insignificant. More and more scientists—by the thousands—are now expressing their skepticism about the whole global warming theory. . . Going green=sustainable development=the coming dark ages for all of mankind. Americans have only just begun to experience it and they are already feeling loss and a sense of hopelessness.
Full story: newswithviews.com
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Catholic Bishop says Protocols of Zion Authentic
March 5, 2008 – A senior bishop of the Lefebvrist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has endorsed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic forgery that enjoys widespread currency in neo-Nazi circles.
Richard Williamson, one of four bishops ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, told The Catholic Herald the document—which supposedly reveals a Jewish plot to dominate the world—was authentic.
He is also on record as saying the Jews are fighting for world domination "to prepare the Anti-Christ's throne in Jerusalem". The SSPX has refused to condemn English-born Bishop Williamson and says it has "no policy" on the authenticity of the Protocols, a Russian Czarist forgery. . . The Society's support for Williamson—who also believes that the Americans planned 9/11—is likely to end any chance of full reconciliation between the SSPX and Rome. . .
In 2000 Williamson endorsed the Protocols on an official SSPX website. He wrote: "God put into men's hands the Protocols of the Sages of Sion . . . if men want to know the truth, but few do". . . In a YouTube video, Williamson is filmed arguing that the Twin Towers were not brought down by aeroplanes but by "demolition charges". . .
Full story: catholicherald.co.uk
Comment: The bishop's views on the Protocols accord with the High Court in Berne, Switzerland, which found the Jews had bribed the primary Judge in the 1935 hearing and reversed his decision on November 1, 1937.
With Declassified US Military Intelligence Reports from US National Archives prepared during World War II concerning the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the Zionist problem for the United States from pre-WWI to the mid-50's, only declassified 1973, and include reports before the US Senate, as well as British and French intelligence investigations over the same period.
Theodor Herzl's book, Programme for the Jewish World-Colony, recently republished, but better known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, did not regard them as a "Russian Forgery." Neither did the decision of the Court of Appeals of Paris on the 22nd of September 1993, nor the High Court of Justice of Budapest in their decision of 14th May, 2004 (monusaron.com). Indeed, the Alliance of the Jewish Religious Associations in Hungary and its director, Gusztáv Zoltai, were made to publish apologies in the press and on television.
Only in Russia after the Jews invaded from New York City, enforced Judaeo-Communism, and murdered 66 million nominal Christians, were the Protocols proscribed as "a forgery," and their possession a capital offence. No one, not even Theodor Herzl, has stated where he obtained "original" documentation from which he wrote his "notorious anti-Semitic forgery".
On the other points the bishop appears to have based his statements on the authority of Daniel, Jesus Christ, and the Babylonian Talmud, which reveal the same "plot"; while in the case of 9/11 he obviously relies on the forensic evidence of qualified experts. It was not possible for two aeroplanes to demolish one building, much less Building 7 and two others, and it was not an aeroplane that struck the Pentagon.
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The Former and Latter Rain - Part II
Ahab, son of Omri, was the seventh king of the Northern kingdom of Israel, however he was weak and became a puppet in the hands of his wicked wife Jezebel, whose name means "chaste, free from carnal connection"; but like her antitype, the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church, which Jesus and Brother Branham called "the great whore . . . the mother of harlots," and "Jezebel" religion, her name belied her nature (Revelation 2:20-23; 17:1-8; 18:1-20).
Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon and priest of Astarte, who murdered Pheles his predecessor. A perfect type of the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church which is the daughter of Babylonian Judaism that murdered Israel's Messiah. Under Jezebel's influence Ahab introduced the idolatrous worship of Baal the Sun-god, the deified Nimrod, and his consort the Babylonian Moon-goddess Astarte (Ishtar) after which the Roman Catholic festival of "Easter" is named. Astarte is actually Nimrod's deified wife Semiramis who is also worshipped as Venus, Beltis, Diana, Rhea, Cybele, Melissa and Melitta, and whom Roman Catholics ignorantly worship as Mary. The worship of Jehovah was scarcely tolerated and the public mind seems to have halted between the two, Jehovah and Baal, except for seven thousand who alone had not bowed the knee. Unbelief was such that people thought to unite the worship of Baal with that of Jehovah.
How like today? Vatican II was a move in the same direction and tentative attempts at a congress of religions like that of Pope John Paul II at Assisi on October 27, 1986, had occurred in 1893 in Chicago and in Paris in 1900. In June of 1995, an Interfaith Summit Conference was held in San Francisco for the purpose of "uniting the world's religions into a global organization. The United Religions Organization (UR) will be an international, inter-religious organization modeled after and affiliated with the United Nations, cooperating closely with the UN and its organizations to complement its political, diplomatic and social mandates, influence UN policy and support its programs".
Pope John Paul II also predicted that there will be a unity of faith and that all religions will soon worship together:
"Pope John Paul II said yesterday that he is willing to seek agreement with other Christian denominations on the future role of the papacy. The pope made his offer in a 115-page encyclical, 'That They All May Be One,' which is dedicated to the search for unity among Christian churches that split from each other during the past thousand years." The pope made clear he would not accept a symbolic papacy without teeth and that Rome would have to hold the primary place among Christians. He also said a pope should have the authority to make infallible declarations regarding the basic tenets of faith (San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 1995).
"In the year 360 Julian, a cousin of Constantine, was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army. Constantine, who had prepared for battle against him, died on the way; this made easier the final victory for Julian and his proclamation as Emperor of the Orient and Occident. The policy of Julian had three principle aims: I. To renew the Pagan belief and to again declare it a state religion of the Empire, so that Rome, which according to his view had declined through Christianity, might return to its old glory. II. To destroy Christianity. III. To concede to Jewry its old positions, from which it had been expelled by Constantine and his sons; even the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon was to be arranged. . ."
"The famous Jewish historian [H. H. Graetz] said: ". . . Julian paid great admiration to the Jewish religion" and confirms that "the period of government by Julian . . . was a time of highest fortune for the Jews of the Roman Empire. . ."
"Graetz likewise establishes that Julian called the leader of Jewry in the Empire, the patriarch Hillel, literally "his respected friend," and promised him in a personal letter to make an end of the misdeeds committed by the Christian Emperors against the Jews. Further, Julian made all necessary preparations in order to begin the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem. He addressed a letter to all Jewish congregations of the Empire, in which he spoke in a friendly way of the leader of Jewry in the Empire, the Patriarch Julos (Hillel), as his brother. He promised the abolition of the high taxes laid upon the Israelites by the Christians, guaranteed that in the future none should accuse them of blasphemy, promised freedom and security and promised to have Jerusalem rebuilt at his expense, as soon as he returned victorious from the Persian war. For the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem Julian commissioned his best friend, Alypius of Antioch, to whom he gave instructions to spare no expense, and commanded the governors of Palestine and Syria, to assist with everything necessary" (H. H. Graetz, History of the Jews cited by Maurice Pinay in The Plot against the Church, 1967, p. 285-6).
The death of Julian in AD363 curtailed plans for rebuilding Solomon's Temple; however, the Jewish Virtual Library boasts of a Hebrew revival in Rome in the centuries which followed:
"During this period there was a revival of Hebrew studies in Rome, centered around the local yeshiva, Metivta de Mata Romi. A number of well-known scholars, Rabbi Kalonymus b. Moses and Rabbi Jacob 'Gaon' and Rabbi Nathan b. Jehil (who wrote a great talmudic dictionary, the Arukh), contributed to Jewish learning and development. Roman Jewish traditions followed those practiced in the Land of Israel and the liturgical customs started in Rome spread throughout Italy and the rest of the world."
The abovementioned Jewish "liturgical customs" which started in Rome somehow were little by little incorporated into what gradually developed into the Roman Catholic Mass. The Catholic Encyclopedia officially defines Catholic liturgy as a carryover from the Mosaic Law: ". . . the word liturgy . . . is used for the public service of the temple . . . the function of the priests, the ritual service of the temple . . . So in Christian use liturgy meant the public official service of the Church, that corresponded to the official service of the Temple in the Old Law."
Reading further we find the startling admission, that the Mass was "a Christianized synagogue service" conducted by "learned elders":
"The Eucharist was always celebrated at the end of a service of lessons, psalms, prayers, and preaching, which was itself merely a continuation of the service of the synagogue. So we have everywhere this double function; first a synagogue service Christianized, in which the holy books were read, psalms were sung, prayers said by the bishop in the name of all (the people answering 'Amen' in Hebrew, as had their Jewish forefathers), and homilies, explanations of what had been read, were made by the bishop or priests, just as they had been made in the synagogues by the learned men and elders (e.g. Luke, iv, 16-27). . . The likeness between the prayers of thanksgiving (ix-x) and the Jewish forms for blessing bread and wine on the Sabbath (given in the 'Berakoth' treatise of the Talmud; cf. Sabatier, 'La Didache', Paris, 1885, p. 99) points obviously to derivation from them."
Little wonder that one Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism made the astounding statement that entering the Catholic Church was not a "conversion" experience for him, but rather a continuation of Judaism. Roy Schoeman, the author of Salvation is from the Jews, confirms as well that the Mass is based on the Jewish ceremonial worship and that Catholic theology is based on the Old Testament!
"As a Jew coming to the Catholic Church, it was natural for me to find the relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church among the most interesting things in the world. It was obvious to me that for a Jew to enter the Catholic Church wasn't a matter of conversion at all, but was rather simply coming into the fullness of Judaism—into the form that Judaism took after the coming of the Jewish Messiah."
"Although Catholics are aware of this in principle, they often don't think of the Catholic Church as the continuation of Judaism after the Messiah. . . It's everywhere you look. It's obviously in the Sacrifice of the Mass and the way the Mass is prefigured in Jewish ceremonial worship. It's in the role that the Old Testament, Jewish Scriptures have in Catholic theology and the structure of the Catholic Faith" (www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20031215_pr.html).
A listing of parallels between Roman Catholicism and Judaism, which have analogues in the Eastern Orthodox Church as well, presented us with the startling prospect that Roman Catholicism may have been a Judaised form of Christianity from its inception. In the list of traditions below, links to the Catholic Encyclopedia show that the Roman Catholic Church justifies most of its practices by appealing to the Old Testament. Even in cases where the New Testament is cited as justification, these practices are not required under the New Covenant but have their basis in Judaism.
Priesthood (Levitical priesthood/mediators between God and men).
Pope (Jewish High Priest).
College of Cardinals (Seventy elders of Moses/Deuteronomy 17:8).
Confession of sins to priest for forgiveness (Leviticus 5:5).
Daily sacrifice of the Mass (Daily burnt offering/Hebrews 10:11).
Altars for sacrifices
Altar vessels of gold and silver.
Vestments for priests.
skullcap (Jewish yarmulke).
Offertory (Offerings).
Church buildings for worship (Temple).
Liturgy (service of the Temple).
Sunday obligation (Sabbath observance).
Ecclesiastical Feasts (Jewish feasts).
Scapular/Hairshirt (Sackcloth).
Works-based salvation (Mosaic Law).
Sacrament of infant baptism (Rite of Circumcision/Talmud).
Wafer-only Communion (Manna/Show Bread).
Sacrament of Confirmation (Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah).
Burning of candles and incense (Exodus 30).
Holy water font (The Laver/Exodus 40).
No salvation outside the (Catholic) Church (Gentiles must convert to Judaism to be saved).
The following Roman Catholic traditions were not part of the Mosaic Law but were adopted by the Israelites in their apostasy:
Traditions of men (Mark 7:6-13).
Vain repetitions (Lip service/Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 6:7).
Veneration of saints (Idolatry/pagan gods).
Worship of Mary as Mother of God (Jews worshipped Queen of Heaven/Jeremiah 44).
Statues/images (images on the walls of Solomon's Temple/Ezekiel 8:10).
Demotion of Jesus to Co-Redeemer (Jews' denial of Jesus as Messiah).
Preoccupation with Christ's death rather than resurrection (Jews' denial of Jesus' resurrection).
The above is only a partial catalog of Jewish traditions found in Roman Catholicism. The sacerdotal (priesthood) and daily sacrificial systems alone strongly implicate the Roman Catholic Church as not only a 'front' for apostate Judaism, but as a vehicle for converting nominal Christians, who have no knowledge, to the very religious system that rejected Jesus Christ. "Explanatory Comments on the Methodist Articles of Religion" compares the Roman Catholic teaching on salvation to that preached in Judaism:
"The Catholic perspective on salvation is largely 'Judaised' Christianity. In the days of the Apostles, many Jewish Christians believed that Christians had to follow all the requirements of the Mosaic Law, e.g., circumcision, the system of offerings, going to a priest to have sins forgiven, making sacrifices as atonement for sins, etc. A system that requires some type of 'priest' to act as an intercessor between the layperson and God is known as a sacerdotal system (from the Latin word sacerdote, meaning 'priest')." Jesus called it Nicolaitanism, "which thing I hate" (Revelation 2:15).
In view of the striking parallels between Roman Catholicism and Judaism, it becomes apparent that Roman Catholicism represents, to a remarkable degree, the triumph of the Judaisers at the Hegelian dialectic of the First Nicea Council in AD325 where the Universal Church of the Roman Empire was organized as a counterfeit form of Christianity by apostate self-styled Jews whose works caused papal Rome to become the actual seat or power of Satanic religion (Revelation 2:13; Barbara Aho, Mystery, Babylon the Great: Catholic or Jewish)?
During the Babylonian captivity, the prophet Ezekiel continued to reprove Judah for its apostasy from the God of Israel and her love affair with Babylon. In Ezekiel 23:14-18, the Jews' admiration for the images of rich, brightly attired Babylonian princes, evokes visual images of the elegant processions of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church attired in their rich and colorful vestments:
". . . [Jerusalem] was in fact more debased than Samaria, and increased her whoredoms: for when she saw carvings of men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans painted in vermilion, with girdles about their loins, and flowing turbans upon their heads, captains to look to, all of them looking like Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity. When she saw them she longed to give herself to the men pictured, and sent messengers to them in Chaldea to invite them to come to her. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and when she was polluted with them, she turned from them in disgust. And because she flaunted her harlotries and exposed her nakedness, I also became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister, Israel. . ."
Moreover, as Matthew Henry noted in his commentary on this passage, the kingdom of Judah patterned its own worship after the pomp and pageantry of the Babylonians with whom they had become enamored:
"Thus she increased her whoredoms; she fell in love, fell in league, with the Chaldeans. Hezekiah himself was faulty this way when he was proud of the court which the king of Babylon made to him and complimented his ambassadors with the sight of all his treasures, Isaiah 39:2. And the humour increased (verse 14); she doted upon the pictures of the Babylonian captains (verse 15-16), joined in alliance with that kingdom, invited them to come and settle in Jerusalem, that they might refine the genius of the Jewish nation and make it more polite; nay, they sent for patterns of their images, altars, and temples, and made use of them in their worship. Thus was she polluted with her whoredoms (verse 17), and thereby she discovered her own whoredom (verse 18), her own strong inclination to idolatry".
According to Jesus and Paul, Judaism is the pagan Babylonian antithesis of Yahweh Torah, the God-revealed faith of Israel. If you doubt these two men who were prophets, read the Babylonian Talmud on the Church Website and see if you can reconcile it with Abraham, Moses and the Prophets. Jesus said, "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matthew 15:9; Mark 7:7-9).
The Anti-Defamation League's Interfaith Affairs Director Emeritus, Papal Knight Rabbi Leon Klenicki, described the reprint of Elijah ben Abraham Benamozegh's (1823-1900) "Noahide" tome, Israel and Humanity, "at once a wide-ranging summa of scriptural, Talmudic, Midrashic, and kabbalistic ideas, and an intensely personal account of Jewish identity. It is also a systematic, meticulously reasoned philosophy of Judaism in its relation to the other religions of mankind, especially its daughter religions, [Roman Catholic] Christianity and Islam".
Like Jesus Christ and Paul, the so-called "Jews" of the present day and Brother Branham revealed that Babylonian Judaism is the mother of the Roman Catholic system of false religion. And if you examine Islam you will see the Babylonian Talmud as indelibly etched in Koranic thought as in Catholicism.
God destroyed the Northern kingdom of Israel when it forsook the pure worship of Jehovah for the Babylonian Trinitarianism of Assyria. This system of false worship derived from the wickedness of Ham who replicated the original sin this side of the Flood. He was the father of Cush, the father of Nimrod who built Babylon. When Judah committed spiritual fornication with the Babylonian Trinity, God brought the nation under Gentile dominion unto the consummation of life on earth. They came under submission to the world empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Imperial Rome, and finally Papal Rome, which will shortly impose Trinitarian worship upon all under pain of death (Revelation 13:1-4, 8, 15-18). Furthermore, they intermarried with and came under the dominion of the Edomites as prophesied by Isaac.
Idolatrous Babylon foreshadowed and spawned a daughter called Talmudic Judaism, and Babylonian-Judaism bore the great whore, Judaeo-Roman Catholicism, which is the mother of harlots, so the history of Ahab and his Jezebel has its antitype in these last days. Brother Branham said, "America is the seat of the Devil": the (City of London's) Ayatollah Khomeini was correct when he called the United States, "the Great Satan," for Jesus said she is the image to the beast of Imperial Rome as the (once) Protestant churches are the image of the beast of Papal Rome (Revelation 13:10-18; 17:5).
Brother Branham typed Ahab with US President John Kennedy, behind whom was the Jezebel religion of Judaeo-Catholicism. In the sixth of seven consecutive visions the Lord showed him in 1933 "there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women." This accords with the abovementioned Scripture. The power Rome was not able to obtain by religious conversion she has gained through political influence. The neocons, for instance, are either Judaeo-Catholics or Pharisees. Sinners, behold your monsters masters under Lucifer's NWO: Judaism and Catholicism are two tentacles of the same golem.
I Kings 16:30-34, "Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more so than all who were before him. As if following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat had been trifling, he married Jezebel, the (Canaanite Serpent's seed) daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went on to serve and worship Baal. He erected an altar to Baal in the temple of Baal which he built in Samaria. Ahab also made a grove and so continued to provoke the Lord God of Israel more than all the kings of Israel that were before him. And in his days Jericho, which was accursed of God, was rebuilt".
Thus God sent Elijah to Ahab to curse the land with famine: "As sure as the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, it will not dew nor rain for several years, until I say the Word" (I Kings 17:1).
Brother Branham said, "When God sends forth a message and . . . the people . . . don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing. You think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away".
The apostolic faith has been restored, the mystery of God is finished; the Message has been rejected; God has taken His prophet off the scene and the long-planned global famine is well-under way, directed by global warming, climate change, ecological, environmental pollution, "peak oil," bio-fuel, genocidal "free trade" schemes and manipulation of fiat monetary systems in the grand conspiracy against God and man with the objective of massive world depopulation and the return to serfdom under Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. Like Ahab, the world church system precipitated this iniquity by committing the unpardonable sin and intensified God's curse by instituting a Spiritual famine for hearing the present Truth. However, the Lord cares for you and as He ordained the ravens to feed Elijah, their service types the five-fold ministry sent to feed the Church in the wilderness. Brother Branham said, "I'll ride this trail once more," and he being dead yet speaks through this ministry, while "the Voice of the Archangel" in the heart of Christ's Bride is placing the Message from Genesis to Revelation to bring her to maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
While the nominal church has sunk to the depths of apostasy in the bosom of mother Rome, the Church in the wilderness has preached no revivals. No one will listen: hate legislation against truth and the love of God in league with the controlled media has outlawed her Voice so she remains silent, "making herself ready." But the Message came to a widow when the death of her husband, denominational religion, set her free to believe THUS SAITH THE LORD (Romans 7:1-4).
Few will enter into the Capstone of the Body of the Lord, and the hour is coming in which God promised a former rain and a latter rain; a double portion as when Elijah was caught up into the Shekinah and dropped his mantle. The Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ living in His end-time Bride, while the Elisha will be those who catch the vision of the resurrected Bride and receive a double portion of the Spirit. Zechariah 14:8, "It shall be in the day of the earthquake, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former [or Dead] sea (signifying Israel), and half of them toward the hinder [or Mediterranean} sea (signifying the Gentile Bride): in summer and in winter shall it be." Our latter, gathering or harvest rain will produce Israel's former or teaching rain, and as the rain fertilizes the otherwise barren land, so God's favor will restore the nation of Israel long Spiritually lifeless (Joel 2:23-27; Romans 11:15).
God said there will be a former rain and a latter rain, and in the latter rain, both former and latter would come together: a double portion. Hallelujah! We have seen what the former rain produced at Pentecost and in the calling out of Christ's end-time Bride; how much more powerful will the latter rain be when God pours out His Spirit upon all flesh at the close of the Gentile dispensation and His return to Israel? Signs and wonders will take place when the hunted and persecuted members of Christ's Bride speak the Word, and Israel's prophets repeat the miracles God performed through Moses and Elijah.
I wonder if we are sufficiently impressed with the Word in our midst. Let me give you a thought here. How do we pray? We pray in Jesus Name don't we? Every prayer is in His Name or there isn't any answer. Yet in I John 5:14, we are told, "This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us; and if we know that He listens to us in whatever we may petition, then the requests we ask of Him are assured us."
You ask, "What is the will of God?" There is only ONE WAY to know His will and that is by the WORD OF GOD. Lamentations 3:37, "Who speaks and it comes to pass unless the Lord has ordained it?" There it is. If it isn't in the Word you can't have it. So we can't ask unless it is in the Word, and we can only petition or ask in His Name. There it is again. JESUS (the Name) is the WORD (will). You cannot separate God and the Word. They are ONE. This Word He has left behind on the printed page is a part of Him when you accept it by faith into a Spirit-filled life. He said that His Word was Life. John 6:63b. But that is exactly what He is: John 14:6, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."
Romans 8:9b, "Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ is none of His." There it is, He is Spirit and He is Life. That is exactly what the Word is; that is exactly what Jesus is. He is the Word. So when a Spirit-born, Spirit-filled man in faith takes that Word into his heart and places it upon his lips, why that is the same as Deity speaking. Every mountain has to go. Satan cannot stand before that man. If the church, way back there in that third age where the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church organized, had only held on to the revelation of the living Word in their midst, the power of God would not have faded as it did in those Dark Ages. And today, when the church returns to the Word in faith, we can say without doubt that the glory of God and the wonderful acts of God will be in her midst again. This the key to the operation of the 'third pull' manifesting by the spoken Word from your lips in the latter rain. No true believer is any stronger and spiritually healthy and alive than his knowledge of and adherence to the pure Word of God, as seen by multitudes of examples in the Old Testament.
Brother Branham said, "One night as I was seeking the Lord, the Holy Spirit told me to pick up my pen and write. As I grasped the pen to write, His Spirit gave me a Message for the church. I want to bring it to you. . . It has to do with the Word and the Bride.
"Here is what I am trying to say to you. The law of reproduction is that each specie brings forth after its own kind, even according to Genesis 1:11, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." Whatever life was in the seed came forth into a plant and thence into fruit. The very same law applies to the church today. Whatever seed started the church will come forth and be like the original seed because it is the same seed. In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ's seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations cannot produce this (wrong seed). They will produce their creeds and their dogmas, mixed with the Word. This mongrelizing brings forth a hybrid product.
The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.
The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam's wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died.
From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.
The word of promise came to the virgin Mary. But that Word of promise was He, Himself, to be made manifest. God was made manifest. He, Himself, acted at that time and fulfilled His own Word of promise in the virgin. It was an angel that had brought her the message. But the angel's message was the Word of God. Isaiah 9:6. He fulfilled at that time all that was written of Him because she accepted His Word to her.
The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.
Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His Name for she has "thus saith the Lord." Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.
Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.
Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. Our promised land is coming in sight even as theirs did. Now Joshua means "Jehovah Saviour", and he represents the end-time leader that will come to the church (Brother Branham of Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7 – Ed) even as Paul came as the original leader. Caleb represents those that stayed true with Joshua. Remember, God had started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last day church. Notice how God did not move Israel, or let her go into the promised land until it was His own appointed time. Now the people might have put pressure on Joshua, the leader, and said, "The land is ours, let's go and take it. Joshua, you are all through, you must have lost your commission, you don't have the power you used to have. You used to hear from God and know the will of God, and act quickly. Something is wrong with you." But Joshua was a God-sent prophet and he knew the promises of God, so he waited for them. He waited for a clear cut decision from God and when the time came to move, God placed the full leadership in Joshua's hands because he had stayed with the Word. God could trust Joshua but not the others. So it will repeat in this end day. The same problem, the same pressures. Take the example we see in Moses. This mighty anointed prophet of God had a peculiar birth, being born at the right time for the deliverance of Abraham's seed from Egypt. He never stayed in Egypt to argue Scripture with them, nor fuss at the priests. He went to the wilderness until the people were ready to receive him. God called Moses to the wilderness. The waiting was not on Moses' part but because of the people who were not ready to receive him. Moses thought the people would understand but they did not.
Then there is Elijah to whom the Word of the Lord came. When he got through preaching the truth and that group back there that is the forerunner of the American Jezebel group would not receive the Word, God called him off the field and plagued that generation for rejecting the prophet and the message that God had given. God called him to the wilderness and he would not come out even for the king. Those who tried to persuade him to do so, died. But God spoke to His faithful prophet by vision. Out of hiding he came and brought back the Word to Israel. (Typing Brother Branham's ministry - Malachi 4:5-6 - Ed).
Then came John the Baptist, Christ's faithful forerunner, the mighty prophet for his day. He did not go to his father's school, nor the school of the Pharisees—he went to no denomination, but out to the wilderness called there by God. There he stayed until the Lord sent him out with the message, crying, 'The Messiah is at hand.'
Now let us take a Scriptural warning here. Was it not in the days of Moses whom God had vindicated that Korah rose up and withstood that mighty prophet? He disputed with Moses and claimed that he had as much from God to lead the people and that others shared in the Divine revelation as well as did Moses. He denied the authority of Moses. Now the people back there, after they had heard the true Word and were well acquainted with the fact that a true prophet was vindicated of God, I say those people fell for Korah and his gainsayings. Korah was not a Scriptural prophet but the people in great numbers with their leaders went for him. How like the evangelists today with their golden calf schemes like Korah's. They look good to the people as Korah looked good then. They have blood on their foreheads, oil on their hands and balls of fire on the platform. They allow women preachers, let women cut their hair, wear slacks and shorts, and by-pass the Word of God for their own creeds and dogmas. That shows what kind of seed is in them. But not all the people turned on Moses and left the Word of God. No. The elect stayed with him. The same is happening again today. Many are leaving the Word but some are staying with it. But remember the parable of the wheat and tares. The tares have to be bundled for burning. These apostate churches are getting bound closer and closer together, ready for the fires of God's judgment. But the wheat is going to be gathered to the Master.
Now I want you to be very careful here and see this. God has promised that at the end time Malachi 4 is going to be fulfilled. It has to be for it is the Spirit-quickened Word of God spoken by the prophet Malachi. Jesus referred to it. It is just before Christ comes the second time. By the time Jesus comes all Scripture must be fulfilled. The Gentile dispensation will be in its last church age when that messenger of Malachi comes. He will be right with the Word. He will take the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He will start at the serpent's seed and carry on to the messenger in the latter rain. But he will be rejected by the denominations.
He has to be for that is history repeating itself from the time of Ahab. Israel's history under Ahab is happening right here in America where the prophet of Malachi appears. As Israel left Egypt to worship in freedom, pushed out the natives, raised up a nation with great leaders like David etc., and then put an Ahab on the throne with a Jezebel behind him to direct, so have we done the very same in America. Our forefathers left for this land to worship and live in freedom. They pushed back the natives and took over the land. Mighty men like Washington and Lincoln were raised up but after awhile other men of such poor caliber succeeded these worthy men that soon an Ahab was set in the presidential chair (John Kennedy) with a Jezebel (the Roman Catholic church) behind him to direct him. It is at such a time as this that the messenger of Malachi must come. Then in the latter rain will come a Mount Carmel showdown (the spoken Word of the 'third pull' against man-made creed and dogma in the manifestation of the Sons of God as when Elijah withstood the four hundred prophets of Baal and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Astarte – I Kings 18:17-46 - Ed). Watch this carefully now to see it in the Word. John was the forerunner of Malachi 3. He planted the former rain and was rejected by the organizations of his day. Jesus came and had a Mount Transfiguration show down (through which He vindicated John the Baptist by revealing Himself as the Word John's ministry had introduced – Matthew 17:1-13 - Ed). The second forerunner of Christ will sow for the latter rain (by restoring the apostolic faith of the former rain - Ed). Jesus (the fullness of the Word - Ed) will be the showdown between the denominations and creeds, for He will come to back up His Word (by the 'third pull' - Ed) and take His bride in the rapture. The first showdown was Mount Carmel; the second was the Mount Transfiguration, and the third will be Mount Zion.
(In Israel when a son born into his father's house came of age, having proven himself worthy he was taken to a public place and formally adopted as one with his father (John 17:21-26 - Ed). Prominently seated and dressed in a special robe, it was pronounced that hereafter his word was equal in authority to that of his father; whatever he said, his father would honour as the obedient youth had proven responsible in honouring his father's word. This "mount Zion Showdown" will be our formal placing as Sons and full adoption, firstly in the vindication of our spoken Word in the 'third pull,' and secondly when our old garment of corruptible flesh is changed to glorified flesh).
The strange behaviour of Moses, Elijah, and John withdrawing from the people into seclusion left many confused. They did not realize that it was because their messages had been rejected. But the seed had been sown, the planting was over. Judgment was next. They had served their purpose as a sign to the people, so judgment was next.
I believe according to Revelation 13:16 that the bride will have to stop preaching for the beast is demanding the mark in the hand or forehead if permission to preach be granted. Denominations will take the mark, or be forced to quit preaching. Then the Lamb will come for His bride and judge the great harlot.
Now remember that Moses was born for a certain work, but he could not do that work until he had received the gifts which would enable him to do the work. He had to go out in the desert and wait there; God had an appointed time. There was to be a certain Pharaoh on the throne, and the people had to be crying for the bread of life, before God could send him back. This is true for our day.
But what do we have in this our day? Multitudes are working signs until we have a generation of sign seekers that know little or nothing about the Word, or a true move of the Spirit of God. If they see blood, oil and fire they are happy; it matters not what is in the Word. They will support any sign, even unscriptural ones. But God has warned us about that. He said in Matthew 24 that in the last days the two spirits would be so close together that only the very elect could tell them apart, for they alone would not be deceived.
How can you tell the spirits apart? Just give them the Word test. If they don't speak that Word, they are of the evil one. As the evil one deceived the first two brides, he will try to deceive the bride of this last day, by trying to get her to hybridize herself through creeds, or just plainly turning from the Word to any sign that suits her. But God never placed signs ahead of the Word. Signs follow the Word, as when Elijah told the woman to bake a cake for him first, according to the Word of the Lord. When she did as the Word said, the proper sign came. Come to the Word first and then watch the miracle. The seed Word is energized by the Spirit.
How can any messenger sent from God believe only a part of the Word and deny some of it? The true prophet of God in this last day will proclaim the whole Word. Denominations will hate him. His words may be as harsh as John the Baptist who called them vipers. But the predestinated will hear and be ready for the rapture. The Royal Seed of Abraham, with like faith as Abraham's will hold to the Word with him, for they are predestinated together.
The last day messenger will appear in God's appointed time. It is the end time now as all know, for Israel is in the homeland. Any time now he will come according to Malachi. When we see him, he will be dedicated to the Word. He will be indicated (pointed out in the Word - Revelation 10:7), and God will vindicate his ministry. He will preach the truth as did Elijah and be ready for the Mount Zion showdown. (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 170:1 – 176:2).
Jesus was the Logos, the Spoken Word of Isaiah 14:7 manifest in the dust of the earth transformed into the food Mary ate. At the age of thirty the Sacrifice was baptized in water and anointed by the Holy Spirit as witnessed by the Shekinah in the form of a dove and a Voice said, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." God was redeeming that part of the earth, that body was the beginning of God creating Himself a part of creation. Only in Christ is He a creation, because God is the eternal uncreated Spirit.
Ours is a natural birth, but by grace through faith we were baptized in water, sanctified by the Word and our soul was cleansed by Holy Fire and regenerated when the Spirit and took His abode and claimed our body for the resurrection as it did His, who was raised for our justification. And "Every one the Father has given Me will come to Me; and he who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out; for I came down from heaven, not to do My will but the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given Me, but raise it up again at the last day" (John 6:37-39). You are an Attribute of the Logos God redeemed on Jordan's banks and raised on the third day. You are the continuation of the creation of God, for the Bible is the story of God unfolding Himself or changing His form from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts to the flesh of His glorified family through manifested faith in His spoken Word.
After the Millennium the whole earth will have a baptism and be renewed, and the Holy Ghost will come down from heaven upon a fifteen hundred-mile high mount Zion in the form of new Jerusalem, for "the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with us, and we will be His people, and God Himself will be with us, and be our God" (Revelation 21:1-3). We are the daughters of Zion: Jesus and His Bride is "the Mountain of the Temple of the Lord," or "mountain of the Lord's house" and (relatively speaking) mount Zion will be the only mountain in the new heavens and new earth (Isaiah 2:2-4, 12-17; 40:4-5; Micah 4:1-2; Zechariah 14:9-11; Revelation 21:10-27). In the latter rain the mount Zion showdown will be the vindication of God's Word made flesh in His end time Bride in the manifestation of the Sons of God and our translation.
When Elijah confronted Ahab he told him to gather all Israel to mount Carmel with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of the groves whom Jezebel maintained (typing the beast and its image). And said, "How long will you halt between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him." He asked the people to provide two bullocks. Each party would build an altar, prepare and lay their bullock on the wood, "and call upon the name of his god; let the God that answers by sending fire to receive and consume the sacrifice be God".
Well, the denominational priests called on the name of Baal from morning until noon when the Sun-god should be at his strength; they spoke with other tongues, prophesied, cut their bodies and raved all afternoon until the time of the evening sacrifice (when Christ's Bride will be waved and offered back to the Lord), "but there was no voice, no one answered or recognized their prayers".
It was time for the manifestation of the Sons of God, time for the Elijah of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11 to gather the twelve tribes back to Israel and to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. The prophet prepared his altar, laid the sacrifice on the wood, and commanded the people to baptize the bullock and the wood with twelve barrels of water; he then called upon the Lord to vindicate His Word by receiving the evening sacrifice (Revelation 8), and restore the heart of Israel. Then Fire from God came down and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones (Israel) and the dust; it even evaporated all the water in the trench surrounding the altar".
"And when all of the people saw it, they fell on their faces (not on their backs as they do before the Jezebel priests of the Catholic Charismatic movement), shouting, Jehovah is God! Jehovah is God! And Elijah commanded them to kill every one of the prophets of Baal." Then came the latter rain.
I Kings 18:41-46, "Elijah said to Ahab, Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel; and he knelt down with his face between his knees, and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he got up, looked, and said, There is nothing at all. And he said seven times, Go back. At the seventh time he said, There is a small cloud the size of a man's hand rising out of the sea. And he said, Go up, tell Ahab, Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you. And before long the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel". nl533.htm
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