The Breach Part 24 "A Cowboy's Meditation"
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I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Introduction.
Introduction.
The Breach sermon is ultimately about the Lamb, Kinsman Redeemer taking the Book and making the transition to a Lion Judge King. that’s what He is accomplishing during the final years of the gentile dispensation, through the tribulation and salvation of the Jews, into the Millennium where He reigns as the Son of David, and finally at the White Throne Judgment where He stands with His Queen by His side.
The Breach sermon is ultimately about the Lamb, Kinsman Redeemer taking the Book and making the transition to a Lion Judge King. that’s what He is accomplishing during the final years of the gentile dispensation, through the tribulation and salvation of the Jews, into the Millennium where He reigns as the Son of David, and finally at the White Throne Judgment where He stands with His Queen by His side.
Lets go to the Breach.
Lets go to the Breach.
269 He leaves the Throne, to be an Intercessor, as a slain Lamb; to be a Lion, King; to bring the world to Judgment, who has rejected His Message. He’s not a Mediator.
270 Remember the Old Testament teaching now, as we hurry. When the blood went off the mercy seat, what was it? Judgment seat.
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.
272 “Know ye not the saints shall judge the earth?” Daniel said, “The Judgment was set, and the books were opened; and ten thousands times ten thousands of thousand ministered to Him,” King and Queen. “And then another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life,” that’s for the church. And the Queen and the King stood there.
273 As a cowboy’s meditation said:
Last night as I laid on the prairie,
I gazed to the stars in the skies,
And I wondered if ever a cowboy
Could drift to that sweet bye and bye.
There is a road to that bright, happy Region,
But it’s dim, narrow trail, so they say,
But the broad one that leads to perdition
Is posted and blazed all the way.
They speak of another great Owner,
274 He is speaking in the terms of his cattle life. You was ever in a roundup, you could see it plain.
They speak of another great Owner,
And He’s never overstocked, so they say,
He’ll always make room for a sinner
That will drift on that straight, narrow way.
They say He will never forsake you,
And He knows every action and look;
For, for safety, we’d better get branded,
Have our name on His great tally Book.
For they say there will be a great roundup,
When cowboys like dogies will stand,
To be marked by the riders of judgment, (them prophets and seers)
That’s posted and knows every brand.
275 If you was ever in a roundup, see the boss stand out there, and the riders, and milling in that herd of cattle. He’ll see his own brand go by, and he’ll motion to the boss. And the boss will see it, and give him the nod. His pony runs right in, around, around this milling, cropping bunch of horns like that, and cut his own cows out. See?
They say there will be a great roundup,
And cowboys like dogies will stand,
That will be marked by the riders of judgment,
That’s posted and knows every brand. (See?)
276 So he said:
I guess I will be a stray yearling,
Just a man that’s condemned to die, unbranded, (he, they make soup out of him, see),
That will be cut in the bunch with the rustics,
When the Boss of those riders come by.
277 See Who It is? The Boss of the riders. That’s the Lamb, to the seven messengers who is posted and knows every brand. 63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals
The Bible tells us what happens at the end of the Tribulation and battle of Armageddon.
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
(Satan is loosed)
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Another group coming out of that time is the 144,000 Jews
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Another group in Matthew 25, after the parable of the foolish virgin and the parable of the talents.
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
(The Bride sits with the King in Judgment. They are in the first resurrection.
(The Bride sits with the King in Judgment. They are in the first resurrection.
The Foolish Virgin walk in all the light they know and have a measure of salvation but are not the Bride, they go in the tribulation period and are killed.
The Foolish Virgin walk in all the light they know and have a measure of salvation but are not the Bride, they go in the tribulation period and are killed.
The 144,000 Jews are saved as a nation during the tribulation period under the ministry of Moses and Elijah and are killed by the antichrist system.
The 144,000 Jews are saved as a nation during the tribulation period under the ministry of Moses and Elijah and are killed by the antichrist system.
All others are “the nations” which are separated by the King and Queen into two groups, sheep and goats depending on how they treated the elect Bride.)
All others are “the nations” which are separated by the King and Queen into two groups, sheep and goats depending on how they treated the elect Bride.)
233 The church, the lukewarm, the anything outside of the elected Bride will go through the Tribulation Period. They will not raise in the first resurrection: “The rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years,” just the foreordained, predestinated, elected Bride, God’s Own elections. “Who is it, Brother Branham?” I don’t know. I can’t tell you who it is, but I know it’s going to be there, ’cause the Lord said they would.
They are the ones that’ll go up from the Tribulation, but the rest of them will go through the Tribulation, go down, and everything will be killed before the Millennium. Then the righteous shall come out in the Millennium and live a thousand years.
234 And after the thousand years, then the great White Throne Judgment comes, and then the dead, both right and wrong is raised. And the books are opened, and the Book of Life was open; and the saints, the Wife and the Husband, set and judge the world.
And there it comes to pass the saying: “And He’ll judge all nations with a rod of iron.” All nations shall stand before Him there, and He’ll judge them with the rod of iron. He’ll separate the sheep from the goats and say to the goats, “Depart,” and the sheep, “Come, ye blessed of My Father.” 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2
(The Jews, the Church and the Bride are all in God’s economy. He has a bunch of change in His pocket to be used for different purposes.)
(The Jews, the Church and the Bride are all in God’s economy. He has a bunch of change in His pocket to be used for different purposes.)
Abraham and Lot
Abraham and Lot
75 All these believers, as we could go on for hours, all these were like a bunch of change out of your pocket, in God’s hands. You pull out a bunch of change. There is pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half of dollars, dollar, all in coins. Now, that’s what the world is, in God’s hand. There is some people that just can have a penny’s worth of it, and God can only use them in a penny way.
That’s all they can buy. Don’t reject them. If they can’t believe the real Truth, don’t turn them down, don’t kick them out and say they’re not in It, because God uses pennies sometime.
76 Lot was just a penny, Abraham was a silver dollar, so it taken a hundred Lots to make an Abraham. And so will it take…A hundred carnal believers will never stand in the presence of a genuine Christian that’s separated from the carnal things of the world, living in Christ Jesus, where the Word can flow through him.
77 He can only take a penny’s worth; that’s all he’s got. So you see people that say, “I don’t believe in healing. I don’t believe in these things,” just know it’s a penny, but just let him alone. See? Just a penny’s worth, and so that’s all he can buy. Don’t stop him; just let him alone. Remember, that’s just all the farther he can go...
78 Yeah, I didn’t mean that hardly in that way that I said it, see. I mean, if he just, “Well, I belong to this, and that’s what we believe.” It’s just a penny, go ahead, see; just a penny.
Say, “Well, the Lord bless you, my brother.”
79 See, he is copper; he can never be silver. That’s it, so just let it go ahead. God can use him. Oh, He is using it. I’d rather see him down there in a church than to see a barroom standing there on the corner. Wouldn’t you? Sure. So just let it alone.
God can use it, anyhow; maybe not very much, but He’ll use what He can use, as much as they’ll let Him use. 64-0121 - God's Word Calls For A Total Separation From Unbelief
(We can’t change a penny into a silver dollar, let them alone. Don’t be a part of that system. They just couldn’t understand the Word, it doesn’t necessarily mean they went to hell.)
(Man arguing against divine healing)
166 And he said, “I wouldn’t believe; I don’t care what you could do, how much evidence you can prove, or anything like that. I still don’t believe it.”
167 I said, “Certainly. It wasn’t for unbelievers. It was only for believers. That’s it.” See?
168 What was it? See, you know right then, the election is off. Just don’t fool with it, at all. Jesus did the same thing, He said, “Let them alone. If the blind leads the blind, won’t they all fall in the ditch?”
169 But when He come to a little prostitute, [Brother Branham snaps his finger once—Ed.] it struck fire! What was it? It was an elected seed laying there, see, that seen It right now.
When It come to Peter, there was elected seed laying there, see, and they saw It. “And all the Father has give, hath” (past tense) “given Me, they’ll come. They’ll come to Me.” Oh, my! I love that! Yes, sir. Notice, the believers does believe It.
170 The unbelievers can’t believe It. So, now, if anybody wants to argue about the serpent’s seed and things, and you try to show them, they won’t listen to It; just walk away. Just leave them alone. See, God don’t argue, neither does His children.
171 Notice, God’s one hundred and forty-four thousand elected Jews don’t bow to the beast, his denominationalism, or statues, or anything, though their nation is in a covenant with it at the time. Israel is in a covenant, but here is the hundred and forty-four thousand that’s not going to do it. That’s the elected.
172 Same thing it is right here in the Gentile Church now, is an elected group. You can’t pull them in that kind of stuff. They won’t believe it. No, sir. When the Light once struck them, that settles it right then. They see the…see it happen, then see it vindicated and proved like that.
And they look down here in the Bible, see that Word just going. Well, you just might as well just quit fooling with them, ’cause they believe It. That’s all. That’s all. Though they can’t explain It, but they know they got It. So, as I say, there’s a lot of things I can’t explain, but I know it’s real anyhow. 63-0324E - The Seventh Seal
What about the foolish virgin?
306. After the Bride is raptured will any of the foolish virgin be saved or will they all be lost?
No! See, everything will be finished for the Gentile church when the Bride is taken from the earth. The Spirit of God leaves the earth: “He that’s filthy is filthy still; he that’s righteous is righteous still; he that’s holy is holy still.” In other words the sanctuary becomes smoky, where the Attorney stands to plead the case. Christ leaves the sanctuary; His day of mediatorial is over.
The Rapture comes; He leaves from the sanctuary, goes forth and takes the Book of Redemption, and claims everything He redeemed. There’s no more mediatorial work. How many understands that?
Now, just a minute. “Will the foolish virgin be saved?” No! Whatever happens happens now. After that time she’s in the state…Now, she will have to go through the Tribulation Period. And the reason of it is, is because she has rejected the Atonement in Its fullness. She is a believer, a professed believer, but she will have to go through the Tribulation Period. 64-0823E - Questions And Answers #2
387 Now we find out, also, in this, that the Sixth Seal, now being open, it was for a threefold purpose. Now, here was the purposes.
The first thing, was, that the sleeping virgin had to go through the Tribulation period for purification. She had to be purged of her sins of unbelief and rejecting the Message. This, she was done in the Tribulation period...
...Now, she is not the Bride. But it’s the church, the pure people that didn’t have the opportunity, maybe, to receive the Message, or in some way that they were blinded by these false prophets. And they didn’t get a chance, and yet they’re really sincere in heart. And God knows their heart. And here they are purged, during this time. 63-0324E - The Seventh Seal
201 Judgment was set. The Books was opened. Books was opened. And another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life. He separated, from there, the goats from the sheep. Is that right? That had nothing to do with the Bride. She was standing right there in judgment, …the Queen and King, together.
“He came with His saints; ten thousands times thousands ministered to Him,” His wife. Then judgment was set, and then the sheep was separated from the goats. Remember the other night, me bringing that little meditation, so you’d understand it, the cowboy meditation? See? There you are.
202 No, they, that’s they, the church, the people that’s in denominations, that are genuine Christians, who’s receives the Message and they will never see It. It’ll never be preached to them. And those in a mixed crowds, who It is preached to, It’ll go right over the top of their heads, unless their name was on the Lamb’s Book of Life. Yeah. But they will be good people.
203 And they’ll be raised up again and given trial, and be judged by the very group that preached to them. “Don’t you know the saints will judge the earth?” They’ll be preached to, see. They’ll be preached to, by the very same people witnessed to them of the Message, to “Come out of it!” 63-0324M - Questions And Answers On The Seals
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
The Tribulation period will be the worst time the world has ever known. Don’t be a rejector of the atonement in it’s fulness. Be a believer who sees God moving in His Word. The foolish virgin reject because they cannot see it. The willful rejectors end up in the lake of fire.
The boss of the riders is coming by. Make sure you have the blood tag, the token.