The Breach Part 15 "A Strong Angel"

Ben Pruitt

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Revelation 5:2 KJV 1900

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Introduction.

153 Now, “And a strong angel…” Now verse 2.

…the strong angel, with a loud voice, proclaiming, Who is worthy…(Worthy for what?) Who is worthy to take that book,…

63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals

Lexham Theological Wordbook ἰσχυρός

ἰσχυρός (ischyros). adj. strong, mighty, powerful. Used to describe different kinds of strength in a wide range of subjects; often used comparatively with “stronger” or contrasted with “weak.”

There is a strong angel in chapter 18 that Bro. Branham identifies with his ministry. Notice the voice on earth and the voice in heaven.

Revelation 18:1 KJV 1900

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

Revelation 18:2 KJV 1900

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.

Revelation 18:3 KJV 1900

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.

Revelation 18:4 KJV 1900

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.

219 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...

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! 62-1111E - Why I'm Against Organized Religion

The Mighty Angel in Revelation 10 is Christ.

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 is a heavenly messenger and an earthly messenger.

I believe the 7th angel messenger on the earth shows us that no one was worthy.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 KJV 1900

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:

Shout here is a “command”. He has a Message.

141 The first thing comes, when He starts descending from the Heaven, there’s a shout. What is it? Is a Message, to get the people together. A Message comes forth, first. 65-1204 - The Rapture

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. 63-1128E - The Token

A strong angel with a loud voice let us know that no one was worthy but the Lamb. Preaching a Message of Grace.

(Back to the Breach)

154 Now we find out. Where is the Book at now? To Its original Owner, because It has been forfeited by a son, the first son of God, in a human race.

And when he forfeit his rights, to listen to Satan, he give up…What did he do? He accepted Satan’s wisdom instead of God’s Word.

Now, couldn’t we stop here a while! Sons of God will take a seminary’s idea about It, instead of the Word of God.

(The seminary idea is what the serpent taught Eve.)

Genesis 3:4 KJV 1900

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Genesis 3:5 KJV 1900

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:6 KJV 1900

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Genesis 3:7 KJV 1900

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

(Satan’s “seminary ideas” will always make sin appear:

Good for Food. Productive. Seems natural.

Pleasant to the eyes. Beautiful. Agreeable.

A Tree to be desired to make one wise. Stimulating to the mind. Intellectual.)

(He told them “God Doth Know” as if He was holding something back. It’s satan’s job to cause you to be offended with God and His servants)

(back to the Breach)

See, same thing Adam did, forfeited his rights. And when it did, it went right straight back. Can’t you see where those ages has been? See? Went right straight back to the original holder.

(That’s where it was during the church ages)

155 And John, in the Spirit, standing up here in Heaven. He’s just been lifted up now, from the church ages, see, saw the church ages.

And then he was taken up, in the 4th chapter. He said, “Come up higher. I’m going to show you things that will come.”

(what age are we living in now?)

We’re living in the Bride age, the calling, bringing back to God through a channel that He promised to bring it back in. He promised to do it. 65-1206 - Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy

Now it’s Seed time, or Bride time. The shucks are dead. The shucks are dried up. The virgin Word time, not touched.

It’s a virgin, remember, a virgin Word time. If you’d put It in the hands of a denomination, It sure won’t be virgin; It’ll be man-handled, time you get to It.

But God’s Church is not touched by denomination. Hallelujah! It’s a virgin-born Word of God made manifest, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah! 65-0218 - The Seed Is Not Heir With The Shuck

324 The Word that fell on the Day of Pentecost will not work this day. No, sir. That was for Pentecost.

This is for the Bride, going Home of the Bride. We got something different. The Pentecostals represented that, again. We’re in the Bride age. 65-1125 - The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ

(Breach)

156 And he saw One sitting upon the Throne, with this Book in His hand, in His right hand.

Think of it, now. And, then, in this Book was a title deed to redemption, and It was sealed with Seven Seals.

157 And then an Angel came forth, a strong Angel, proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who was worthy to open the Book; to take the Book?

Who was able to open the Seals? Who was able to open this Book?” See, the Angel asked it. John saw it. And He said, “Now, who is worthy? Let Him…”

Oh, my! Maybe I’m just feeling this, this a way. “But let Him,” said the Angel, “let Him…” Here is the Book of Redemption!

Here is the plan of redemption! Here is the only way you’ll ever be redeemed, for here is the title deed to redemption of the whole heavens and earth!

“Let Him come forward, if He will.” Oh, my! “Now speak, or forever hold His peace. Let Him come forward and claim this Book. Who is worthy to do it?”

158 And John said: There was no man in heaven found worthy; no man on earth found worthy; no man beneath the earth, that ever lived and died, was found worthy. No man was found worthy.

159 The Angel’s call was a call for the Kinsman Redeemer to appear. God said, “I have a law; a Kinsman Redeemer can be a substitute. Where is that Kinsman Redeemer? Who is able to take It?”

160 And it come from Adam, all the way down through all the apostles, and prophets, and everything else, and nobody was found.

Now, what about that? “Nobody in Heaven, nobody on earth, nobody that ever lived.” Elijah was standing there. Moses was standing there.

All the apostles were standing there, or all the ones that had died; all the holy men, Job, the sages.

Every one was standing there, and nobody was worthy even to look at the Book, let alone take It and break the Seals.

161 Now where is the pope and all these come in at? Where is your bishop? Where is our worthiness? We’re nothing. That’s right.

162 He asked for the Kinsman Redeemer to step forward, if He could. But John said, “No man was worthy.”

163 Not that there wasn’t worthy people there, now, like an Angel; like, for instance, we would say, Gabriel, or Michael. But, remember, it had to be a Kinsman.

Remember, John said here, “And no m-a-n,” not Angel, not Seraphim. They hadn’t sinned, but They were in a different category. They had never fallen.

164 But this had to be a Kinsman Redeemer. “No man,” ’cause there was none of them redeemed. “No man was worthy to look at It.” Oh, no! My, my! So, it took a human Kinsman.

And he asked for it, and He wasn’t found, nowhere. There was nobody. No bishop, no archbishop, no priest, no hierarchy, no nothing was even…didn’t even have the holiness enough to even look at the Book.

Whew! My, my! That’s pretty strong, but that’s what the Bible said. I’m just quoting what John said. The Bible said that John “wept.”

165 Not as some people has taught it. I was hearing a man teach this one time, said, “John wept because that he found himself not worthy.”

Oh! Any man under the Holy Spirit would know different from that, see; under the inspiration of God, would know different from that.

166 But, John “wept.” Here is what I think he wept for. Because, if no one was worthy and could open this Book of Redemption, the whole creation was lost.

167 Here is the Book, here is the title deed, and It will be offered to the Kinsman Redeemer that can meet the qualifications. That’s God’s Own law, and He can’t defy His law. See?

God required a Kinsman Redeemer Who was worthy, Who was able to do it, Who had the substance to do it.

168 And the Angel said, “Now let that Kinsman Redeemer step forward.”

(Bringing Him out of History)

169 And John looked. And he looked all over the earth. He looked beneath the earth. And there was nobody.

There, creation and the everything was lost. Of course, John wept. Everything was lost.

170 His crying didn’t last but just a minute, though. Then there stood one of the elders, said, “Don’t weep, John.” Oh, my! His crying didn’t last but just a minute.

171 John thought, “Oh, my, where is the Man? There stands the prophets; they was born like I was. There stands the sages. There stands…Oh, ain’t there nobody here?”

172 “I want a Man that’s able to do it. I want a Man that can redeem.”

173 And he wasn’t found, so John broke out. Oh, everything was lost; and he wept bitterly. And he was sad, ’cause everything, the whole creation, everything was gone, if they couldn’t find somebody.

Glory to God! If they couldn’t find somebody that can meet that requirements, there…every human being, and the whole world and creation, was gone.

Oh, everything had fallen. The rights of redemption, the rights of Eternal Life, the Light, all these rights had been forfeited, and there was nobody who could pay the price.

And John starts crying, ’cause no one was worthy, and no one could even look at the Book. Oh, it took a human being. John wept, because no one could do it, and everything was lost.

174 And there came a voice from one of the elders, standing in midst the four Beasts and all that great host of Heaven, said, “Don’t weep, John.” Oh, my!

175 [Brother Branham claps his hands together two times—Ed.] Grace of God!

176 “Don’t be brokenhearted, John. Don’t weep. For the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root and Offspring from David, He has prevailed.”