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WHEN YOUR OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED – PASTOR ELIJAH OJO
You can’t desire victories and run from battles, conversely, you have to be ready to face battles to be a victor. Christ has called us into battle, but there are golden weapons for waging these spiritual wars, let’s check it out.
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 2Corinthians 10:1-6
God has one church on earth, and that church has one enemy –the devil. This common enemy has been fighting the church from the beginning of the church, however, God has had victors in all ages. This is the last and He is expecting nothing less. It’s a double blessing for us because this time we have a template to read to know how to prosecute our warfare. Men have fought, and we have their lives to read in the word of God, and follow their footsteps.
Jesus, the head of the church also fought this battle; the golden weapon he used was obedience. And we should learn from Him. If you stop learning, you start dying. There are two things a dead man cannot do –he cannot learn and he cannot die. We need to die to ourselves to learn, we need to die to ourselves to stop sinning –both require death. We have a heady generation who are seeing elders as nonentities –not willing to submit to them. They have become disobedient to parent –even their parents in the Lord. Meanwhile, the direct injunction of scripture is that children should be obedient to their parent in the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. Ephesians 6:1-3
Jesus learnt obedience by the things He suffered, and became perfect, making Him the author of eternal salvation (not to all) but unto those who will obey Him. Perfect obedience is the key to our victories. When you become obedient to God, He will avenge you of your enemies. You do not have to be an enemy to a brother, instead wear a burden of reconciliation for them –this is the second weapon for overcoming.
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Hebrews 5:8-9
The ministry of reconciliation is for every believer, we are enjoined by God to be one another’s brother. You should feel a burden for a dying brother before his death. Your thought towards a backsliding brother matters and God watches it. Ever before he draws back to perdition, you should be concerned.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2Corinthians 5:18-20
Satan is the accuser of brethren; Satan is a spirit, he uses human to carry out these treacheries, instead of letting the evil spirit use you against your brother, let a positive attitude and heart spur in you for your brother –Jesus Christ is the High Priest of our confession. Learn to use your mouth positively, both for yourself, and for others.
Perfecting our imperfections requires that you become obedient to God’s word. And it begins from heeding the call of the Shout –“Come out of Babylon, Back to the Bible”. Babylon is any and everything that has is contrary to the Bible yet upheld as the truth. Denomination is of the devil, God did not set any man has the overseer of the general assembly of churches, that came from the devil. There are only five offices Christ gave to the Church –the Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers. All your denominational titles –pope, arch bishop, right reverend, general overseer and all are demonic. Christ is the owner of His Church, He is the General Overseer.
The Shout is the message of the prophet for our age, God has used him to sound an alarm to us, to be the Word-Bride. The word of God instruct us to repent and be baptize in the name of Jesus Christ, but people are rather baptizing in the titles of father, son and holy ghost, that is not scriptural, and regardless of your emotional affiliation with Jesus, you are not saved. God is not three, He is One!
Perfect obedience brings salvation, it brings answers to prayers, your obedience has to be perfect for you to be perfect; you cannot have half obedience and be perfected. You don’t need so much prayers on the enemies as we have been taught, you work out your faith with fear and trembling –in perfect obedience.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Joshua 1:8
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. Hebrews 13:17
There is no struggle for a man who can humble himself and obey; those who struggle are those who are not willing and obedient. In many cases, we rob God –in tithes, in offering, in avenging for ourselves, in ignoring the desperation to pray.
It’s a call to perfection, and obedience has to be complete to ensure perfection. Shalom.
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ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE
Distraction –a canker that has eaten up the Laodicea generation so deeply. We cannot begin to talk about perfection to a people whose vision is lopsided. We need to recalibrate our focus again on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, then can we begin a walk unto perfecting our imperfections.
There is someone who can perfect us, and if He has promised us perfection, he is more serious about it than we are. Our problem is that we have been distracted from the one who can perfect, focusing on the mundane things of life. It didn’t start today anyway, the disciples of Jesus at some point were pointing Jesus to the temple and its beauty.
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Matthew 24:1-3
When that happened, Jesus had to instantly rebuke his disciples and focus their attention on what mattered –the end. He began to tell them about the end, so much that the disciples were concerned to ask him questions about it, which are pointers to us who live in the end of the age.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:34-39
Our day is a repetition of the day of Noah, men were busy about earthly things; the same way the disciples were looking up to the temple was the same way men were looking unto the daughters of men in the days of Noah, and took them as their wives. They provoked God till He said His Spirit will no longer strive with man. And although Noah was on ground, the people choose their own ways to walk in it.
Flipping to our age, we have many Christs who have distracted the heart of the people from God to another. They have tied Christianity to how well you are on earth here, and everyone is busy chasing several things that have no eternal value. They grew and became rich, increased with goods, and are clothed; but the testimony of God is different –they are blind, wretched, naked and miserable. It doesn’t look like they understand the judgment of God because they view life from a standpoint, different from God’s, hence their rebellion. If God loves you, He will chastise you, not to kill you, but to make you perfect and whole. All He requires is your obedience. God is ready for you if you are ready to escape for your life. This concerns everyone –parents, children, elders and youth, there is deliverance in God.
God has the power of transformation –transformation is a process of perfection, if you are not transformed, you cannot be perfected. God has sent us a message through the star messenger of this age, and the call is to come out of Babylon, you have to accept and believe that message to be in God’s program of transformation. He also has given the fivefold ministry for the perfecting of the saints –if ordained by God, their goal is to point you to the Perfect One who is able to perfect you. You cannot know more than your Shepherd, so, submit yourself to them for transformation. Without transformation, there is no rapture! It has nothing to do with your head knowledge, has nothing to do with finishing the sermon books, you need to submit yourself to be transformed; it is painful but it is the way. You have several benefits to enjoy with the Holy Spirit in you –the Holy Spirit is Eternal Life, there are spiritual gifts that God can manifest in your life. If you have believed the message truly, it should manifest in your life, if your life did not change after you have received the message, you actually did not. You cannot catch fire and not burn. I invite you to focus again on the One who is the Helper, and He will break every fetters in you.
A VOICE IN A SOLITARY PLACE: GOD’S VOICE – PASTOR CHRISTIAN
PREACHED BY: PASTOR CHRISTIAN
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. John 1:19-28
It takes a determined mind to speak for God. There is a price to pay when you want to be a voice for God in your generation: you cannot speak for God and speak for man at the same time. John identified Himself with the Voice of God when he was questioned about who he was. Physically, he could boast of a few things -his father was a high priest, a Levite, that was the tribe that handled the word of God in Israel, but John didn’t remember all that, he said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness”. It takes humility to represent what God wants you to represent. We are quick to arrange our portfolios when asked who we are -it is to us, a platform to sell ourselves. This is not bad, except that when it comes to God, you cannot even represent Him if you have not met with Him, and you cannot meet with Him and be proud. God is not looking for preachers, He is looking for those who can carry His voice, hence, the need for His search.
To have a proper awareness in God, you need to have a personal identification, ministerial identification, calling identification, and conversion awareness. You are not in God because you are in an assembly, it doesn’t even mean that you are converted. This is the reason we have many church goers hindering the furtherance of the gospel -they are not aware of identity. Friends, understanding brings healing. When you have perfect understanding of what He has made you, it ends your competition and hustling. When Samuel received anointing, he didn’t jump out to start his ministry, he had to still be groomed by Eli. There is a time of calling, there is a time for grooming. Submit yourself and be humble; The proof of your calling is your ability to submit it under authority -in fact that is one of the evidences of the Holy Spirit. Instead of fighting authority, walk out discipline.
Do you realize that Jesus was not the Voice? He was the Light; he needed the Voice to introduce the Light. So, Jesus told John, “Suffer it to be so now”. Consider the greatness of the ministry of John to Jesus, he carried such grace and anointing for that ministry, yet his words were these: I am not worthy to unloose his shoe latchet, he is preferred before me. The Voice of God is usually in solitary places, they often stand alone because they only speak what God wants -which brings enmity to them.
The question before us is not far-fetched: which voice are you? At your workplace, in your career, at home, during crisis -are you a mere religious person or you are a voice that represent God’s heartbeats. God is looking for you and I to be a voice for Him. Let’s consider another case study in the Old Testament in Isaiah 6.
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Isaiah 6:1-9
Isaiah was a prophet in the land of Israel -a major one, yet God was not seeing him in his office, God was looking for a voice. He was attached to a reigning king, and enjoying political affiliation and that detested God, the privilege he had was that he had an experience with God, where he saw that his office up for advertisement. That was when he declared woe on himself. You may be standing physically but are you standing spiritually? If you must speak for God, you must stand for God. God weighs us spiritually, and what He is looking for who could be that solitary voice for Him. What you need is an encounter with God. He is the One you want to be a voice for. You can’t represent Him if you have not met Him. Pray to meet Him; He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.
Shalom!
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HOW TRUE IS GOD’S WORD? – PASTOR BLESSING NICE
It’s the beginning of the April Convention, 2023 and the Lord has starts to visit us with His word and power, upon which we can hinge our faith for whatever we are trusting Him to do in and for us in this season.
This evening’s message is about validating the word of God, and how true they are even in the face of what looks like “it can’t come to pass”. How true is the word of God to give you a child when you’re striking in age, how true is the word of God when you can’t reconcile what He’s saying with your circumstance? Is the word of God even true? If true, how true? Are there specifics to God’s word that are true? Can you even prove the word of God to those who don’t believe in God? Follow through and you definitely will be able to build your confidence in Him again to trust Him for all things in your life.
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 2Corinthians 1:18-20
We can mirror our lives with the occurrences in Abraham’s life. God made a promise to Abraham, and years were rolling upon years and they never came to pass (according to Abraham’s timing). Yes, he must have thought that God could not bring His words to pass, which was why when he received contrary advice, he succumbed and tried another alternative. You can’t believe in God and believe in what is not God at the same time. If for any reason you take another alternative, it is because you have disbelieved God –you have to disbelieve God to believe in a lie. The word of God came to pass nonetheless, despite his staggered steps in between. The fulfillment of God’s promise is not for those who are strong, it is not for those who can believe Him perfectly without doubting, for no man can. But in all our doubts and fears, He still proves Himself true and faithful. It is only the Perfect One that can make us perfect. No man is perfect but God is.
We have read in scripture of Elijah running past the chariot of Ahab, which is impossible to science, but the word of God defies science. We have read of a woman giving birth to a child at 90 years of age, we have read of God meeting the need of a widow during famine and feeding her through the years, and thousands of people have been fed with a very seemingly insignificant quantity of bread and they were filled. A man, after four days, was raised out of the dead. The God that wrought miracles in those days is still alive. The scripture says “All the promises of God are yea and Amen”. We need to realize this before struggling with God: we never sat with Him in eternity to determine the course of our lives, He sovereignly decided everything according to His prerogatives, and He knows what He is doing. He has it rightly planned. But we struggle with God by doubting Him. Try to believe God first before asking why you should. In this day of His power, it will take those who believe to the dawning of the day. God is waiting to demonstrate His power. Nazareth was not an impossible place for the Perfect One to bring good things out of.
Why should we believe in God? Let me tell you, it is because of His “THUS SAITH THE LORD”. If you understand what that means, it will help you. The revelation of the word of God is Amen! This means Amen is a personality. In Revelation 3, here is what it says;
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
If this is true, and there is none greater than Him, all His promises are Amen (let it be so). But, let’s flip this a bit. If He speaks to us, we can say “Let it be so (Amen –saying Yes to God)”, but how does God speak His word? THUS SAITH THE LORD is the Amen of God. There is no “maybe”, or “no” with God. He is perfect, and everything that comes out of Him is perfect. So, when He was to create Light, all He said was “Amen, Light” –which means “Let there be light”. Amen is God’s action word.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Hebrews 6:9-18
THUS SAITH THE LORD is God swearing by Himself because He is the greatest, that He will do what He promised to do. He is binding Himself to an oath that He cannot but bring to pass exactly the way He said it. You don’t want to doubt that –you don’t want to disbelieve the swearing of the One who has never and cannot fail. What you should say to Him was what Mary said, “Be it unto me according to your word”. Has He said anything to you, and it feels like it cannot come to pass, maybe you have even advised Him that He should not worry about it because you feel you’re not qualified anymore, I have good news for you, He swore when He said it to you, and He cannot but bring it to pass. All you need do is believe and say yes to Him.
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WHERE WE ARE IN GOD’S TIME II
Welcome back, in this second sequel, we want to talk about the Voice of the Archangel and the Trump of God quite extensively, to fill up the gap in the second sequel.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1Thess. 4:13-16.
A time came in the church in Thessalonica when people were dying, and Paul had to write to them to console them, this brought about the above text. Paul was making them understand that even in death, there is hope for those who died in Christ -in Christ actually -not in your church. Considering that he achieved what He promised us -died and rose again, there is such a glorious hope for those who died in him, so much that not even the saints who are alive can prevent them. There is a message that will awaken the dead in Christ, and there is a message that will transform the living saints.
As we earlier discussed, neither is the fivefold ministry the Voice of the Archangel nor has the message of the Shout expired. The fivefold ministry is the continuation of the Shout -to balance the message into God’s church. God is still in the program of turning the heart of the children to their fathers. When it will be time for the fulfillment of the Voice of the Archangel, it will be over for the message of the Shout.
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Ephesians 4:11-13
This is what the prophet said when he was answering questions on the seal.
194. Would the Bride of Christ have…? Would the Bride of Christ have a ministry before the Rapture?
233 Sure. That’s what’s going on right now, see, the Bride of Christ. Certainly. It is the Message of the hour, see, the Bride of Christ. Sure. She is consist of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Is that right? That’s the Bride of Christ. Sure. She’s got a ministry, great ministry, the ministry of the hour. It’ll be so humble.
63-0324M – “Questions And Answers On The Seals”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
The Voice of the Archangel and the Trump of God
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: Revelation 10:1-3
The Mighty Angel is the very personification of Jesus Christ, He comes as such to claim his possession, and crying with a loud noise in heaven, seven thunders will utter their voices on earth. We have earthly angels and heavenly angels. Before any message is preached on earth by earthly angels, the heavenly angels would have first heralded it in the Spirit. Heavenly angels work hand in hand with the earthly angels. Do you think you have an angel? I’m glad to tell you, yes, you do; everyone does. Let’s prove that a message will first have to be heralded in the Spirit before it can sound on earth.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Revelation 14:6-7
They don’t need the everlasting gospel in heaven, but this flying angel is seen preaching the everlasting gospel because there must be an angel first before the earthly ones will catch the anointing. When that angel heralds it, the 144,000 Jewish servants of God will catch the anointing and they’ll preach the everlasting gospel to the Jews. The same is this Mighty Angel. When He cries with a loud voice, seven thunders will catch the revelation and begin to minister something to the living saints, but what they’ll utter, we do not know, because it was sealed up. God commanded John not to write it. Meanwhile, what the living saints need then is the transformation of their body, while what the dead saints are expecting is resurrection -this is not the same thing. Therefore, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 has two fulfillments: the dead will be raised incorruptible -resurrection, and we (living saints) shall be changed -transformation.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1Cor. 15:51-52
God has everything at hand, all it takes is for you to trust and obey, following as He leads. You should pray now, you should fast now; in this period of the Shout, trim your lamps, put your life in order, grow in God’s perfecting, strive for mastery, and do thy diligence, this is the time to do it. At the time of the seven thunders, it will no longer be by power or might but by His Spirit. God will completely take over His own, and they’ll be ready for the rapture. Hear it in Zachariah 4,
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. Zachariah 4:6-7.
When Jesus rises as the Mighty Angel, he held a little book in His hand. The book wasn’t little because of the size of the Mighty Angel, contrary to some people’s opinion. Mightiness is not by size; it is by position. The Mightiness of Christ is His position, and the book is little because it is the seventh seal -the last of the seven seals. That seventh seal is what holds the mystery of the seven thunders, which is not written in the Bible, therefore, we cannot say that the seventh seal was opened by the prophet. That book was seen in Revelation 10:1 in the hand of Jesus Christ. He had given the prophet the privilege to reveal six of the seals to us, but the seventh was kept secret until Christ’s coming. The seventh seal holds the mystery of His coming.
For each seals, there must be an opening. You don’t have to open the whole seven seals to know what each says. For each seal, there is a phenomenon that will fulfilled -it is the mystery of redemption. Note that the seven-sealed book is just a metaphorical explanation, there is no literal book in heaven. You cannot know the content of the first seal until it is opened, and it is like that for every other seal. If you read Revelation 6, you will discover that six seals were opened, and for those six seals, God revealed them to the prophet, Bro Branham. But the seventh remains sealed up. No one will open it but Christ Himself. The opening phase, revealing phase and fulfilling phase only applies to six of the seals now, not the seventh.
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It is necessary to say at this point that, when it comes to the seals, only the prophet has the say, because he was the one that seven angels came to, not you, not anyone else. Thereefore, amongst men, he has the authority. You should read the sermon books to know what he says, otherwise, you’ll be claiming to be in the message while you’re not.
Finally, God has His time, and gently as the true shepherd, He is leading His sheep forward, but you have to, with faith and patience follow Him to obtain the promise, those who have succeeded in the journey did the same. Do not let anything take you away from God, don’t be in haste to prove a point that doesn’t exist. Don’t run with head knowledge, if there is anything you need to beg God for, it is that you should be filled with the Spirit of God, when you are filled and you follow Him as He leads, there is no way He will forget you when He comes to collect His people.
Shalom to you in the name of Jesus Christ.
WHERE WE ARE IN GOD’S TIME
The wisest man once told us that there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven. This cannot be any truer! Sovereignly, God moves, works, and progresses with time, He is never stagnant, and because He is God, He moves forward, not backward. Because we belong to Him and He’s working in and with us, it is important to comprehend, therefore, where we are in His time.
If we comb through God’s word, we will realize that there are promises and determinations of His mind, which will unfold and be fulfilled in their time. This is what God is doing, although He is working, He is not haphazard, He already has His blueprint that guides what He does per time. As children, we are neither to move faster than God nor slower, we follow Him as He leads. You need patience and trust to follow God’s timing and leadership.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; Ephesians 5:1
This big question before us, God once asked Adam in the third chapter of Genesis.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Genesis 3:9-10
To decipher this question appropriately, you will need to know what you have been, what you are now, and what you are not. You know God desires to guide us, however before He could, He had to first guide Himself, and He guides Himself by His word. In the beginning, was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. And because He guides Himself by His unfailing word, there is no other way for us to be guided than by His word. But sadly, various people love to make themselves something, therefore, they seem to not be interested in God’s laid down pattern. For 400 years after Malachi, there was no prophet with prophecy in the land of Israel. This was enough time for some people to rise and draw folks to themselves building upon lies. The Bible spoke of Theudas boasting himself to be something and Judas of Galilee, but because they built upon lies, their foundation was too weak to stand the test of time, and God wiped them off. I can say here that a so-called servant of God can make you run ahead of God, or sometimes, keep you behind. It is the purpose of God that will ripen, not man’s.
At a point when God moved from the Old Testament, the people failed to move with Him. He sent John the Baptist to them, and because he knew that God has moved from the physical tabernacle to enter His prepared body -Jesus, he didn’t go to Solomon’s temple to preach his message. He was the voice crying in the wilderness. Let’s see the prophecy Malachi gave.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Malachi 4:5-6
The first part of this prophecy was John’s responsibility, he came in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the heart of the fathers to the faith of the children. He indeed pointed them to Jesus, but not everyone moved as God moved. They loved the temple; they loved the shadow. Israel had this prophecy way back, before the silence of 400 years, through Isaiah the prophet.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Isaiah 40:3-4
God is so simple that you don’t need a college degree to know him, once you have His Spirit, you can understand Him. God speaks big, His promises seem so high that everyone will look up for their fulfillment, but He fulfills them in a very simple way. So simple that we miss Him almost every time. To see God, you must humble yourself. In fact, in the above prophecy, every valley (despised and insignificant to the world) shall be exalted, to tell you how God takes delight in simplicity, and every mountain (big men of the world who trust in their prowess and wealth) will be made low. When John came, he was preaching and baptizing the Jews only -Jews only because John was not sent to the Gentiles, he didn’t run ahead of God, he stayed where God stayed. That’s how God fulfills His purpose, there must be alignment, and as God moves, the church must move. The Bible did not tell us whether John baptized them in a name, this is because the redemptive name of God has not been revealed. Meanwhile, these were Jews, who believed only in Jehovah, they had their faith, believing that John was baptizing them to Jehovah.
Do you know that people came to push John, wanting him to move beyond God’s plans for his assignment? They came saying, ‘are you not the Christ?’ -to say to him that he should do something greater, he cannot continue to stay in the wilderness without recognition. But he knew better, he understood his assignment, and he intended to follow the blueprint, he faced them with boldness, ‘I am not the Christ -to say to them that, yes, God is going to do something greater than this, but my assignment is to prepare the way for that ‘greater’ coming, and I’m pointing that to you so that you can move with God when He moves. And indeed, God moved in Act 2, He revealed the His redemptive name (Jesus Christ), and people began to baptize in that name, and the promise that should follow came upon them -the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Let’s see a scenario in the Bible.
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. Acts 19:1-5
Here, Paul revealed to them that God had moved from the baptism of John to the New Testament faith, having given a name for the remission of sins. Although there were nice and religious, they were humble enough to receive the words of Paul and moved with God as He moved. They were all re-baptized in the name of Jesus Christ and they received the Holy Spirit. Do you see how humility is useful when you want to move with God? Wait, have you received the Holy Spirit since you believe? Again, have you been baptized by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ? You have not moved with God if you haven’t, you are far behind! The word of God is powerful, steadfast, and settled in heaven. Believe the word, become the word!
Brethren, the second part of Malachi’s prophecy is fulfilled likewise, God brought forth William Marrion Branham in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the heart of the children to the faith of the fathers. In 1933, when he was baptizing, he heard a voice from God, “as John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, you are sent with a message that will forerun the second coming of Christ”. He heard the voice alone, but this is not foreign to scripture, because it happened to John the Baptist as well.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. John 1:29-34
Now, let’s see where we are in God’s time. This is the end of time. God is wrapping up this world, to hit His final target -His final target is the restoration of all things. But Jesus is supposed to descend with three things, which His church should comprehend because it encapsulates the mysteries of the restitution of all things. He will descend with a shout, the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God. Let’s discuss this.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1Thess. 4:17
THE SHOUT
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a CRY made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Matthew 25:1-6
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. Zachariah 14:6-7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Revelation 10:7
The scriptures above describe the same ministry of the SHOUT. It is called the ‘Shout’, the ‘Evening Light’, ‘the Cry’, and ‘Voice of the Seventh Angel’. What God intends to do at this period of the Shout is to awaken us and call us out of every dogma and creed of denominationalism, trimming our lamps and preparing us for the appearance of our Lord. The Shout is a message -a message of restoration -to restore us back to the Bible. Roman Catholic Church had corrupted the world and given her her cup, and everyone had partaken of her fornication, all of those that God raised during these periods such as Martin Luther or John Wesley were reformers, but according to the promise of God for the last church age of the Gentile, there should be an Evening Light that will restore the church back to the original faith of Jesus Christ.
There are people that argued that the message of the seventh messenger has Well, I have a question: The purpose of God sending this message of the Shout is to tell us to return to the Bible. Will that message end at the sound of the warning or the actual fulfillment is when those to who the message was sent are seen in the Bible? The message ended, believing that we are now in the Voice of the Archangel. How true is this? The seventh angel’s message will not be fulfilled at just the shout, “Back to the Bible”, the fulfillment of that ministry is when the church is seen in the Bible, and not in some doctrines of men. This tells you that the ministry of the Shout will not end at the sounding of the messenger -there must be continuity, when the church is seen perfectly in the word of God, then we can say that the essence of the Shout is being actualized. Therefore, the ministry of the Shout prepared a ministry that is called the five-fold ministry -for the perfecting of the church -because the church should walk in what she was restored to! Amen! The prophet came to restore us back to the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, and the word of God cannot go obsolete, it cannot expire. Thus, the ministry of the Shout will not end because the messenger died, the death of the messenger cannot end the message -the message continues.
The ministry of the fivefold is not the fulfillment of the Voice of Archangel, rather she is a continuation of the Shout, to take every loosed end of what the prophet said and settle it by the word of God. William Branham was asked if the bride would have another message before the rapture, and he said yes, it is the humble ministry of the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. This is where God is with the church. You shouldn’t run ahead of Him if you must be in the program. The message of the first and the last church age is the same, that is what the prophet came to do. After he has called us out of denomination to the truth of the Bible, the five-fold is in continuation, ensuring that the bride is established in that truth, to a perfection stage known to God. When that is accomplished, Jesus Christ would rise as the Mighty Angel with the little book in His hand, to cry with a loud voice, and the end will produce seven thunders, which is for the living bride. At this time, the bride is ready to be raptured. We will deal with this in the next sequel.
But this is where the church is, she is in her perfecting stage, under the message and ministry of the Shout. When it is time to move further, Christ will His church on. Do not run faster than Him, and don’t be left behind. Shalom.