Children of the Day
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1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Introduction
Introduction
Faithlife Study Bible (Chapter 5)
sons of light The Greek phrase used here, huioi phōtos, refers to people characterized by light.
You are not just in the light, you do not just see the light, but you are of the light.
This light increases as you walk in it.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
What brings the light?
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.
We are taught that there would be a people who understand.
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Jesus said that those that understood would be saved.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
ἀκούω (akouō). vb. to hear, listen, understand, pay attention. Describes the act of hearing or listening to a person with emphasis on the accurate understanding of that which is spoken.
Reading the Scriptures alone does not mean you understand.
29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
You can hear a prophet speak, you can listen to tapes, you can listen to your pastor, but unless you are a child of the day, it only makes you worse.
The act of listening does not make you a child of the day. Only the quickening of the seed Word inside you by the dynamics of the Holy Spirit can do that.
That’s the way the Message is. You can sympathize with It and say, “It’s right.” But you’ve got to take It yourself to become part of It. Then you and the Message become one. Then the anointing’s with you, as it is with the others. 64-1227 — Who Do You Say This Is?
We’re not to come together to talk about the Message. We are come together to get in the Message. And the Message is Christ, He is the Word. That’s right. We’re to get into It, get beneath It. Yes, sir. That’s what we’re supposed to do.
He was not responsible for any persons out from under the blood, not one; no matter who he was, he was not responsible. All had to take not only himself, but his whole family. They’re only safe when the token was displayed.
We cannot feel safe until this Token is displayed. That’s right. You must come under this Token, God’s Holy Spirit. And It displays to you Jesus Christ, because It comes and lives in you. 63-1128E — The Token
If you have substituted a genuine new Birth of the Word for joining a church, listening to a tape, hearing your pastor preach, dancing in the Spirit or anything else, you are no different than a Catholic trusting in his rosary and novena.
If I told you that Shakespeare lived in me, I would do the works of Shakespeare. Cause, I couldn’t help it, I’m no more myself, I am dead. Shakespeare and I can’t live together in here. Shakespeare was a poet, and I’m a minister, we can’t live together.
But if I am dead to myself, then, and Shakespeare lives in me, the works of Shakespeare I’ll do. The life of Shakespeare in me will be lived out like Shakespeare. If the life of Beethoven lived in me, I would be Beethoven. If the life of John Dillinger lived in me, I would be John Dillinger. That’s right.
And if the Life of Jesus Christ lives in the person, they become identified with Him. It’s Christ in you. Not a church member, not a system, but a resurrected Power. It’s the Holy Ghost, is a Token upon you, that your life says “amen” to every Scripture. The promise is written in there.
And you are not yourself no more. You are Christ’s. You don’t think your thoughts. You don’t think your thoughts, you say, “I think.” You have no thought coming. The Life that was in Christ is in you.
The mind that was in Christ is in you. The works that was in Christ is in you, and Christ Himself is in you. You are dead; your life is hid in God through Christ, sealed in there by the Holy Ghost. You’re not your own. 63-1128E — The Token
Light has come in our day, and we are children of that light.
Why are we Children of the Day?
Because His Word entered our age.
Jesus is asked about the end times, and gives the disciples some clues.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
We are children of that day, we are eagles gathered around the fresh kill of the Word.
Now, Who is the Son of man? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
And if all the teaching that we have, and confirmation of the Word of God; by Word of God, by signs, by wonders, we see today, that in the Book of Luke here, that as we just quoted from, Luke the 17th chapter and the 30th verse; and Malachi 4, and the different Scriptures that we are acquainted with,
that that Word again is waved over the people, that the dead traditions of man is dead, and the Son of God is alive again with the baptism of the Holy Spirit right among us, and is giving us Life. 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
And the Son of man is revealing Himself in the same power that He was, (not down through the church age, through justification, sanctification, all these things here) but the Son of man.
Who is the Son of man? The Word! And the Word is quicker than, powerful than a two-edged sword, and discerns the thoughts that’s in the heart. 64-0816 - Proving His Word
He, the Word, entered our age, and has made us Children of the Day.
In the first beginning, the first Book of the Bible, God told them not to break one Word of That, “every Word must be kept,” they must live by that Word. Jesus, in the middle of the Book, come along and said that in His age, and said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God.”
And in the closing age of Revelation, foretold to us, that, “Whosoever shall take one Word out of the Book, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life.”
Therefore there can be nothing shadowy, just a genuine, unadulterated Word of God! That’s sons of God, daughters of God, who’s not born by the will of man, or by shaking a hand, or some form of baptism; but borned in the Spirit of God, by the Holy Ghost, and the Word manifesting Itself through them. That’s genuine Seed of God!
The enemy joins church and becomes very orthodox in a creed or something. But that’s not…That’s discrepancy, anything that interferes with that strain of genuine Truth of God’s Word.
And how do we know? We say, “Well, they, you’ve got a right to interpret It?” No, sir! No man has a right to interpret God’s Word. He’s His Own interpreter. He promises it, then He does it, that’s the interpretation thereof.
When He promised It, then He fulfills It, that’s the interpretation of It. Anything contrary to God’s Word is a discrepancy! Absolutely! 65-0118 - The Seed Of Discrepancy
Your safety is not in who you are listening to, or who you follow. Your safety is in the Word itself.
Christ the anointed Word came down in our age, was put out by the Laodiceans, but is the Light of the hour to the Bride who have accepted His Word and have been wedded to it.
1 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:
2 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,
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
Now, all the mysteries, at this time, should be finished at the sounding of this messenger. Now, here is the angel on earth; and “another” Angel, mighty Messenger, come down.
See, this angel was an earthly angel, messenger; but here comes One down from Heaven, a rainbow covenant, see, only Christ it could be. 63-0317E — The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals
There was an earthy messenger and a heavenly messenger.
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Come out of her! God sent a mighty angel, or, a messenger. And his Light wasn’t in a corner, It scattered over the earth. Come out of her! What? Her, and her sisters, too. To lighten the earth, and call His people out of her.
Now, you know that’s the Truth. A messenger was sent from Heaven, to call God’s people out of Babylon. And his Light lighted the earth, great Holy Spirit. 62-1111E — Why I'm Against Organized Religion
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, And is become the habitation of devils, And the hold of every foul spirit, And a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, And the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, That ye be not partakers of her sins, And that ye receive not of her plagues.
Notice, this is the angel of Light, remember, the last angel, it’s the angel in the church age to the Laodicea. It’s the Laodicea messenger, that, it’s the last, because the very next chapter is the 19th chapter, which is the coming Bride.
And this is, in the Scripture, the last angel that came to bring Light before the coming of the Bride to go meet Christ. It was the Laodicean Church Age, then. What was the Laodicean Church Age messenger? Calling them out of Babylon! Look! Churches caught in her cage with her, with her dogmas, denying the Word and accepting dogmas.
This is the angel of Light to the Laodicean church that had rejected Christ and His Word, for dogma, and had put Him outside. And He stood at the door, knocking, trying to get in.
The church age had rejected the Christ, and Christ is the Word, and had rejected It, and He was on the outside. The only church age that we have of Christ on the outside, knocking, trying to get in.
And this angel’s Message, messenger come from God, was echoing his Message on the earth, to “Come out of Babylon! Come out of the organizations!” The Holy Spirit today, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit is that angel trying to get the people back to the Word, ’cause the Holy Spirit will only vindicate the Word.
It can’t vindicate dogmas, there’s no life in them. He’s Life. Notice, the Laodicean Church Age had denied Him, rejected Him, and they put Him on the outside.
Notice, this angel is the last messenger before the coming of Christ in the 19th chapter of Revelation. The messenger’s Voice! If we notice, when he gave his Voice on the earth, there was a Voice echoed again in Heaven, 4th verse, if you want to read it, all right, 4th verse, the 19th chapter.
This messenger on the earth was so inclined with God until, when he spoke it on the earth, God echoed the same thing out of Heaven. What is that 4th-verse translation? What does it mean? God’s Voice speaking to His predestinated people, saying, “Come out of her!”
Just exactly what the Voice was! He’s got people all out in there, all out through Babylon. “Come out of her, that you be not partakers of her sins,” yes, sir, out of that dogma and creeds, to the Word made Spirit and Life. Amen. 62-1111E — Why I'm Against Organized Religion
You are children of light! you didn’t just hear the voice of William Branham saying “come out”, you also heard the voice of predestination from heaven.
You didn’t just hear the voice of the angel of Rev 10:7 revealing the mysteries, you also heard the voice of the Mighty Angel of Rev 10:1 crying time is not more.
He stood on land and sea. One beast came from the land, America, another one came from the sea, Europe. He put His foot on civil and ecclesiastical power. On Hollywood and the corrupt church.
20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Your feet, because you are His body.
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
This is why we must stay with every Word that the Seventh Angel said. I’m not interested in your interpretation on how we should live or how we should have church. The voice from heaven did not echo your favorite preacher.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Have you heard the voice of the Mighty Angel? You are children of the day, the light of this Message has made a difference in your life. All things are under your feet.