Protecting the Rights of the Lamb
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And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Thank Bro. Tim, Timothy, Aaron and Lydia for the hospitality. Greetings from Word of Life Tabernacle in Hardy, Arkansas
Thank Bro. Tim, Timothy, Aaron and Lydia for the hospitality. Greetings from Word of Life Tabernacle in Hardy, Arkansas
Introduction.
Introduction.
We live in an age of people’s rights. Laodicea is the age of people’s rights, human rights, animal rights. (Argentina- Orangutan.) What if we gave our dogs equal rights?
We live in an age of people’s rights. Laodicea is the age of people’s rights, human rights, animal rights. (Argentina- Orangutan.) What if we gave our dogs equal rights?
Notice the name, Laodicea, “the people’s rights,” or “justice of the peoples.” Was there ever an age like the twentieth century church age that has seen ALL nations rising up and demanding equality, socially and financially? This is the age of the communists where all men are supposedly equal, though it is only so in theory.
According to our liberal theologians Jesus was a socialist and the early church under the guidance of the Spirit practised socialism, and thus we ought to do so today.
In every attribute ancient Laodicea is found reborn in the twentieth-century Laodicean Age.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages (9 - The Laodicean Church Age)
What are rights?
What are rights?
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Wikipedia
Jefferson said- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Jefferson said- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
He went on to argue that if government failed to protect these rights it should be abolished.
He went on to argue that if government failed to protect these rights it should be abolished.
Any church system that fails to protect the rights of the Lamb should be abolished.
Any church system that fails to protect the rights of the Lamb should be abolished.
There are legal rights as well. In America we have the Bill of Rights. What would you do if someone tried to take one of those rights away?
There are legal rights as well. In America we have the Bill of Rights. What would you do if someone tried to take one of those rights away?
You have a legal right to everything that Jesus died for. He died His death there at the cross, and gave His life that you might have the legal rights to every redemptive blessing He died for. 54-0320 - Faith Cometh By Hearing
You have a legal right to everything that Jesus died for. He died His death there at the cross, and gave His life that you might have the legal rights to every redemptive blessing He died for. 54-0320 - Faith Cometh By Hearing
When John sees the bloody lamb, he sees two distinguishing things that make this lamb different. This lamb has 7 horns and 7 eyes. He was bloody, but not defenseless.
When John sees the bloody lamb, he sees two distinguishing things that make this lamb different. This lamb has 7 horns and 7 eyes. He was bloody, but not defenseless.
Bro. Branham tells us that the 7 horns are the 7 church ages and the 7 eyes are the 7 messengers.
Bro. Branham tells us that the 7 horns are the 7 church ages and the 7 eyes are the 7 messengers.
231 “Seven horns” was the seven churches, see, the seven church ages, because that was the Lamb’s protection.
What He protected His rights with, on earth, was a God-sent Group of people that protected; see, the horn on the Lamb.
63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals
What are the Lamb’s Rights?
What are the Lamb’s Rights?
To know what his rights are, we need to know Who He is.
To know what his rights are, we need to know Who He is.
He has certain rights in His person.
He has certain rights in His person.
a. He is God.
a. He is God.
95 When the virgin birth came on, that was a paradox; how that God, in order to make Himself known to man, became man. How that God, the great Spirit…God, to me, was before; there wasn’t even a light, there wasn’t a meteor, there wasn’t a atom, there wasn’t a molecule, there wasn’t anything, and everything was God.
Yes, that’s how great He is. He is from Eternity, through Eternity. He always was God. He always will be God. And how the greatest of all Life become a little small germ in the womb of a woman, in order to take His Own law, to pay the penalty of His law, death;
how God was manifested in the flesh, how the great God of Heaven changed His strain, come from being God, to be man, through the virgin birth, nobody can figure it out.
(DNA)
(DNA)
96 Science today can’t tell you how that virgin birth was, but God did it. He came. No one was able; everyone was sexually born. Like the re-…one man the same as the rest of them, no one could help the other one.
We was all in trouble. And then God Himself came down and was born, not of a Jew, not of a Gentile, but His Blood was God. Blood comes from the male sect. In this case, it was God, God the creator, created the Blood cell in the womb of Mary, and built Himself a tabernacle that Himself come down and lived in it. 63-0801 - A Paradox
235 We know that in a drama they change masks, they come from one thing to another, and that’s what You did.
You come from the Spirit, God, the Great Jehovah, and put on the mask of a human being, changed Your strain; You changed.
You pitched Your tent. You came down from God, and become man, that You might die to redeem man. You changed Your mask.
236 Then again You’ve changed it, and You’ve masked Yourself into the people who will believe and act out according to the Word that You have written here.
64-0119 - Shalom
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
b. He is the 2nd Adam.
b. He is the 2nd Adam.
Adam was the Son of God.
Adam was the Son of God.
Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
121 Now, we see something that was lost here (because the Bible said so, and in the Book here) that has redeemed us. What are we redeemed from? Something we must have lost.
Before you can be redeemed, there must be something that redeemed us back. And all the inheritance that we had has been redeemed back. Then we must have had something one time that we do not have now, but this Lamb come to redeem. See? We had something we was lost from.
122 Now notice. What did we loose? Well, it was given to Adam to have Eternal Life, as long as he eat from the Tree he had Eternal Life. And we notice again that Adam was the… inherit the earth. He was the…like an amateur god over the earth.
The earth was his. Everything was given unto his hand, he could do with it whatever he wanted to. He named it, and called it, and done whatever he wanted to. He was truly a son of God.
123 Now, in the fall, Adam forfeit the title deed to that. He forfeit it to Satan. Satan took the title deed. Adam was very slothful, and he did not redeem his rights for he could not redeem his rights.
61-0611 - Revelation, Chapter Five #1
c. He is the Kinsman Redeemer.
c. He is the Kinsman Redeemer.
Redemption was a right reserved to the near kinsman, when all other rights had been extinguished by debt.
Redemption was a right reserved to the near kinsman, when all other rights had been extinguished by debt.
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
127 That’s the reason John wept, because, if no one could get that Book, all creation, everything was gone. She would just simply turn back to atoms and molecules, and so forth, and cosmic light, and not even be creation, person, nothing else.
Cause, Adam lost the rights of that Book. He forfeited it when he listened to his wife, and she listened to Satan’s reasonings, instead of the Word of God. See? It was forfeited.
128 Then, it couldn’t go back into the dirty hands of Satan, who tempted her out of the way, so therefore it went back to its original owner, like any abstract deed would do, see. Goes right back to its original owner, and that was God, the Creator, Who made it. And He holds it.
(Original owner means it is redeemable. All the rights are vested in the original owner. You are never out of the hands of God)
(Original owner means it is redeemable. All the rights are vested in the original owner. You are never out of the hands of God)
129 And there’s a price, and that’s redemption. There is some price for redemption, and there was nobody could do it. So, He said, made His laws, His Own laws of a Kinsman Redeemer.
Then, they could find nobody. Every man was born of sex, born after sexual desire; he was in the original sin, Satan and Eve, so he could not do it. There is nothing in him. No holy pope, priest, Doctor Divinity, whoever he might be, he would nobody worthy. And he couldn’t be an Angel, because it had to be a Kinsman. He had to be a man.
130 Then God Himself become a Kinsman, by taking on a human flesh, through the virgin birth. And He shed His Blood. That wasn’t the blood of a Jew. It wasn’t the blood of a Gentile. It was the Blood of God. See? The Bible said, “We’re saved through the Blood of God.”
63-0323 - The Sixth Seal
The rights of the Lamb are Adam’s rights, and therefore they are your rights.
The rights of the Lamb are Adam’s rights, and therefore they are your rights.
Paul states your legal status.
Paul states your legal status.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
The Lamb not only had the rights of Who He was, but also His legal rights, expressed in the Scriptures. When He took the form of man He took the rights of man, not for Himself, but for us.
The Lamb not only had the rights of Who He was, but also His legal rights, expressed in the Scriptures. When He took the form of man He took the rights of man, not for Himself, but for us.
In America we have a constitution, but our rights are expressed in the Bill of Rights. Our rights as Christians are expressed in the Bible.
In America we have a constitution, but our rights are expressed in the Bill of Rights. Our rights as Christians are expressed in the Bible.
a. Right to Eternal Life.
a. Right to Eternal Life.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
The Lamb was slain, but He had a right to eternal life. So do we.
The Lamb was slain, but He had a right to eternal life. So do we.
b. Right to Healing.
b. Right to Healing.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
And here’s the next thing I want to say is this: that don’t wait for a healing campaign in your city, to be healed.
Your pastor or your neighbor that’s a Christian, has just as much legal rights from God to pray for you as anybody on the face of the earth.
It don’t have to wait till somebody comes along with a healing campaign. Those men just stimulate faith.
God never intended all these great—these campaigns sweeping across the nation. He expected that to be in every church, every pastor. 53-1115E - A Greater Witness
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
c. Right to Peace.
c. Right to Peace.
And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
d. Right to Joy
d. Right to Joy
The sons of God shouted together for joy.
Psalm 5:11 (KJV 1900)
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
I will also clothe her priests with salvation: And her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
181 When the Great Shepherd was smitten, the Great Sheep-Prophet, when He was smitten back there, He said, “It is finished!” And that minute, as soon as this Shepherd was smitten, it was over.
Sin is settled, there was no more sin. They were clean, the penalty was paid. The believers whose names were written in the Book of Life,
..predestinated from the foundation of the world, it was finished that very minute that Jesus said it was finished.
He, that Great Shepherd, had come for His sheep. It was finished, God’s right hand was pulled from His bosom, smitten.
Then on Easter He returned it (amen), raised it up again to His bosom, and extended it down to you and I, in the form of His Word, to redeem us back to the original garden from which sin took us from.
The hidden secret of His great heart was revealed by a Prophet-Shepherd. It was revealed by a Shepherd, Prophet-Shepherd.
182 No wonder the mountains jumped and shouted on that day. No wonder the sun hid its face and screamed for joy.
No wonder all nature broke loose; the wind shook the trees until they shook and shook, and joyed, and jumped.
They seen the Prophet-Shepherd, on the mountain, redeem every name on the Book of Life.
And they seen that their own nature was redeemed! They screamed, and jumped. And the world went into an earthquake. And the mountains rent, and the rocks fell out.
And the sun went down. And everything taken place. Like any meeting, when the Shepherd reveals to you that “it’s finished!” There…
183 I’ve seen jumping spells, and joy spells, but there was nobody hurt. The mountains rung out, and they…the sun went down, and everything took place, but there was nobody hurt.
And I’ve seen meetings where the power of God was revealed to the people that they “were free from the world and the things of the world,” and the joy of the Lord filled the congregation.
They stood and screamed, and cried, and shouted to the top of their voice, for the glory of God.
I never did see anything disorderly, they was always right in order; because they had recognized that, their name that had been written on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world. 64-1221 - Why It Had To Be Shepherd.
2 . How Do We Protect Those Rights?
2 . How Do We Protect Those Rights?
By being filled with the Holy Ghost, preaching and manifesting the Gospel. We are His outside dress, His armor, His body.
By being filled with the Holy Ghost, preaching and manifesting the Gospel. We are His outside dress, His armor, His body.
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
He went back to the intercessory box and left His little group on the earth to protect His rights. Don’t try to take away the Lamb’s rights.
He went back to the intercessory box and left His little group on the earth to protect His rights. Don’t try to take away the Lamb’s rights.
When our rights were restored by a restoration prophet, what were those rights?
When our rights were restored by a restoration prophet, what were those rights?
Nine Spiritual gifts.
Nine Spiritual gifts.
Any group of people, any gathering of holiness people that believe in Christ has the right to have the nine spiritual gifts.
50-0821 - The Angel And The Commission
The Original Manna.
The Original Manna.
And notice. Moses said to Aaron, and then they went out, gathered several big omer’s full, that It might be kept in the holiest of holy,
that every priesthood coming in behind the holiest of holies after that, might ask about these things.
They had a right to have a taste of the original manna. It didn’t get old back in there. It stayed forever good back in the holiest of holies. Is that right?
Worms couldn’t get in it. But it was laid back, that every person that entered into that priesthood had a right to taste of some of the original manna.
51 How beautiful it is. On the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost fell down from heaven, our Manna,
after we’s come through the Blood, and have been saved, been cleansed from our sins, and the Holy Ghost fell, brother…
Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, “It’s for you and for your children, and for them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”
And every person that enters into the baptism of the Spirit can have the same kind of Holy Ghost that they got on the day of Pentecost. 50-0115 - Believest Thou This?
There are positive rights and negative rights.
There are positive rights and negative rights.
No man has a right to preach the Gospel until he’s met God back on the backside of the desert in that burning bush, to where there’s no ecclesiastical system in the world can explain It away from you. 65-0124 - Birth Pains
That gives me a right to preach, if I’ve met Him.
That gives me a right to preach, if I’ve met Him.
This is how we enforce our rights.
This is how we enforce our rights.
84 To restore, means, “to bring back.” Or, to restore, a claim can be enforced, now, to bring anything back to its rightful owner, where it belongs.
Therefore, some way, it went away from its rightful owner, and can wander around anywhere.
But, to restore, is to bring it back to it who really owns it, or to bring it back to its natural estate where it was at the first time, bring it back into its natural condition.
And in order to do this, we have a right to enforce, if there is a law, to enforce this rightful condition of restoration, to restore.
85 Like if somebody stole some property, and they’re holding the property captive. Then you can take the law and go to this person,
and the law forces, enforces this person to restore this property back to its natural owner, into its liable first estate.
88 Enforce! Then, we are the…have the privilege to enforce, upon Satan, the claims that God give us.
For, God has a law, and His Word is a law, and God in this Word made certain claims to the Church.
Therefore, we have a right to force these claims upon Satan, and say, “Give it back,” and he has to do it.
Because, we can take God’s Agent, the Holy Spirit, go right down on our knees, and say, “It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.”
He’s got to give it up, that’s all, ’cause the Holy Spirit is there to make him do it.
The law of the land is to enforce. It’s by the land, for the land.
89 But the law of the Spirit of God is to force Satan to give up that which he has unrightfully, deceitfully taken from God.
Souls of men, he took from God; souls of women, children. Sickness of the body, he placed upon people.
Where, God made them in His image, to be like Him, and the Church is given the rightful legal rights, by the Bible, to take the Holy Spirit and enforce this upon him. 62-0422 - The Restoration Of The Bride Tree
Each one of these churches represented by horns on the lamb defended certain rights, but now, in the hour when He claims His rights, all of His rights are enforced by His little group on the earth.
Each one of these churches represented by horns on the lamb defended certain rights, but now, in the hour when He claims His rights, all of His rights are enforced by His little group on the earth.
He has a right to be worshipped.
He has a right to be worshipped.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
64 The 8th to the 14th verse of the 5th chapter, reveals the time for the Lamb to be worshipped, both in Heaven and in earth; the seven-seal Book, the worthy Lamb, the Kinsman Redeemer. And from the 8th verse, to the 14th, Angels worship Him, elders worship Him, living Creatures worship Him.
And John worshipped Him so much till he said, “Every creature in Heaven, in the earth, underneath the earth, heard me saying, ‘Blessings, glory, power, wisdom, might be to the Lamb.’” The worship time for the King Lamb.
61-0730M - Gabriel's Instructions To Daniel
271 And when the Lamb, slain, walked forward from Eternity, out of the Father’s Throne, and took His rights, it was a Judgment Seat. Then He become, not a Lamb, but a Lion, King, and He calls for His Queen to come stand by His side.
63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals
(Vashti and Esther)
(Vashti and Esther)
Esther went to Him.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
This is my picket line, this is where I protest. To protect the rights of the Lamb. He has a right to move among us.
This is my picket line, this is where I protest. To protect the rights of the Lamb. He has a right to move among us.
He has a right to be worshipped in Spirit and Truth. Protect His Rights.
He has a right to be worshipped in Spirit and Truth. Protect His Rights.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Marquis De Lafayette
Marquis De Lafayette
Women who washed Jesus feet.
Women who washed Jesus feet.