The Mystery of Going Part 2 "The Rapture Hidden in Simplicity"
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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, They stumbled and fell.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
Announcements.
greet visitors
We had a wonderful time at the youth camp.
Communion next week.
Matthew McGeary April 9-10 (Sat and Sun)
Easter Sunday one service and a dinner.
July meetings July 14-17 Wendall Martin and Andrew Glover.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Bro. Branham and Paul both commanded us to say what they said.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Both the Alpha and Omega churches were original seed.
Bro. Branham speaks about saying what he said in relation to the rapture in “God in Simplicity”.
379 And when they say, “The graves will open.” How is the graves going to open?
Everything that’s in you, of materials, only makes a spoonful. That’s right. And what that does, it breaks on back into spirit and life. God just speaks, and the Rapture will come.
It ain’t going out there, and the Angels come down and shovel up the graves, and get out an old dead carcass here. What is it? It was born of sin, to begin with. But, a new One, made in its likeness, you know.
If we have this, we’ll die again. See? Nobody…You say, “The graves will open. The dead shall walk out.” That may be true, but not open the way you say open. See? That’s right. See? It won’t be like that.
380 It’ll be a secret, because He said He’d come “like a thief in the night.” He has already told us this, the Rapture.
381 Then judgments will strike; sin, plagues, sickness, and everything. And people will cry for death to take them, when the judgment. “Lord, why is this judgment upon us, when You said that there would be a Rapture first?”
382 He’ll say, “It’s already come, and you didn’t know it.” See? God hiding Himself in simplicity. Oh, my! All right. “That all, that’s already happened, and you knew it not.”
383 Why don’t believers believe the simple signs of His Coming?
384 They’re expecting all this things that’s spoke of by the Scripture, and the moon is going to go down in the middle…or the sun, in the middle of the day, and there’s going to be all kinds of things.
Oh, if we just had…I got the notes wrote here on it, see, to show what them things are. And we’ll get it on the breaking of these Seals this week, anyhow.
There it is, just where it’s already passed, and you didn’t know it. See if it is, if the Angel of the Lord will break them Seals forth to it. Remember, it’s sealed with them Seven mysterious Thunders.
385 Now what? Why can’t people believe the simple simplicity of a humble bunch of people, see, and the Voice of the signs of God? Why can’t they believe it? Just like it always been, a true Word of God being made manifest.
It’s, they’re too smart and too educated to believe the simple form of the written Word. They want to put their own interpretation to It. “It don’t mean this. It don’t mean that.” See? It does mean That.
386 Listen. May I say this, right quick, now. Even the visions that God gives here at the place, it’s so misunderstood. That’s the reason you hear me on the tapes, say, “Say what the tapes say. Say what the visions say.”
Now, if you’re wide awake, you’ll see something. See? I hope I don’t have to hold it in my hand and show you. See? You’re…It’s here. We’re at the end.
Smart educationals miss it. The simple visions, when they are revealed in such simplicity, till it just covers over the top of people’s heads.
387 Because I seen the vision, told you all about going up there hunting, and, you know, that just stumbled people.
And there God sent it up there for the very purpose, and come back and interpret it right around, showing of the going of my mother, and things like that. And then come back and told it, beforehand. And it happened just exactly the way He said it would do.
388 And, yet, John came right out there and confessed. He said, “I’m not no Messiah, but I’m the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”
389 And then them very disciples say, “Why do, does the scribes say the... Scripture teach that Elias must first come?” The simplicity of God goes, just roots right over the top of people’s head. 63-0317M - God Hiding Himself In Simplicity, Then Revealing Himself In The Same
Very often visions are misinterpreted into something great, when the fulfilment was actually something simple.
Illustration.
25 Many times, visions say things we don’t know what they are. The prophets of the Bible didn’t know what they were writing about, they just wrote It. And they were vindicated men, inspired.
26 And Brother Shakarian said, “Brother Branham, what do you say will take place?”
27 I said, “I don’t know. Someone, they didn’t have any teeth, and I seen them gasp twice, and died. And the other person, they said…spit blood from their mouth, looked like a young man; and said, ‘He can’t die, he’s not ready.’” 60-0229 - The Oncoming Storm
Bro. Branham did not know what this meant. He even told Billy Paul not to leave his side because he thought it might be him. Bro. Branham then went to Peurto Rico to preach and while standing by the ocean he saw “my mother-in-law and father-in-law come walking by me. My father-in-law has been gone now for about eight, ten years. And, at that very same minute, my mother-in-law was passing in to meet him. She died at that same time.
When he got to Miami, he called to see how everything was at home. His mother-in-law (no teeth) gasped twice, died. Her son, not ready to die; an alcoholic; burst-ed, a hemorrhage in his stomach, and spurted blood from his mouth.
God interpreted the vision by bringing it to pass.
Everyone thought they knew what Isaiah 7:14 meant but God interpreted it by bringing a baby in a manger.
74 Now how does He interpret His Own Word? By fulfilling It. The Bible said, “A virgin shall conceive,” she did. That don’t need any interpretation. God said, “Let there be light,” and there was. That don’t need any interpretation.
75 God said, also, that in these last days He would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and He’s done it. That don’t need any interpretation. That only needs an acception, somebody to accept what God has done. It doesn’t need an interpretation. God interprets His Own Word. 65-0120 - Lean Not Unto Thy Own Understanding
53 Now, we are promised, in the last days, for this to be restored. There’ll be no church, no denomination, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, they’ll never (in their modern conditions) ever take this church to a Bride.
They can’t do it, they fail. They’re too much at one another’s throats, and worldliness has creeped in, and so forth, and they died right in their tracks. And so God knows that.
54 And to reveal this Word, one say, “Well, I got this. And bless God, It’s like that.” That’s just the way it was when Jesus came the first time; everyone has a doctrine, everyone has this. It’ll have to be something sent to us from God.
And God’s promised it. And the only way He’ll do, is keep His same pattern. He promised to send us, in this last days, according to Malachi 4, a prophet upon the earth, “That would turn the hearts of the people back, the hearts of the children back to the apostolic fathers again.”
He promised that in His Word. Luke 17 and many other places that He promised it, that He…what He would do in these last days to bring this thing to a vindicated Word.
55 See, a man can say anything, but ’less God interprets that Word…See, now, we have our own interpretation, we say It means this. And this one, Methodist, says this, the Baptist says this, the Pentecostal said this, the Oneness says this, the Twoness says this.
And, oh, my, there you are. But God don’t need no interpreter, He’s His Own Interpreter. He interprets His Own Word by vindicating It in the age that It’s purposed for, the age that It’s given for.
56 We’re not living in a Pentecostal age, we’re living in another age. See, we’re not living in the Methodist age, we’re living in another age.
We’re living on up here to the Bride age, the calling out of the Church and getting It together for the Rapture. That’s the age that we’re now living. 65-1206 - Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy
So we are commanded to say what the visions say and we are told that God interprets His own Word by vindicating it and manifesting it.
We also see the pattern of scripture and the church age where the manifestation is almost always missed because it is hidden in simplicity, and Bro. Branham ties that to the Rapture.
270 And at the same time…Now, as soon as this Church (the Bride) is drawed together, She is taken up; and that mystery of the Seventh Seal, or the Seventh Seal, the mystery of going.
And the Jews is called by the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, which is two prophets, Elijah and Moses, and they come back.
And there is where the Pentecostals is all mixed up; they’re looking for something to happen; the Church is done gone. And that’s to the Jews. 64-0719M - The Feast Of The Trumpets
We proved last week that the Shout is the Message, which means Christ is already descending and the Bride has been gathered to Him. And even the part we don’t know, which is the day and the hour, will manifest itself in our bodies when the time comes.
If someone tells you that Bro. Branham has to come back to do anything other than be a part of the General Resurrection they do not have a revelation of the Opening of the 7th Seal, the Mystery of Going. I would not sit under a ministry that does not see the Opening of the Word in our day. That type of ministry will not lead you to a Rapture because it is looking for something else.
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:
By going to the grave God interpreted which part of this Scripture Bro. Branham would fulfill.
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
This is the part of the little group that remains alive. Who will manifest verse 16? those who go by way of the grave. Who will manifest verse 17? those who are alive and remain at that time.
I hope you don’t think I stand here just to say these things to be different. I say it because of love; and knowing that it’s while I’m mortal, as I am now, is the only time I’ll ever be able to preach to people. 65-0911 - God's Power To Transform
Bro. Branham had a vision of a tent, and a little room which many folks felt was unfulfilled.
178 I suppose, by the next time I get back, the Lord willing, I’ll be running the prayer line through one of these rooms, in that little room that I’m to take them to, you see. I believe it’s unfolding now, you see, the hour. 63-0901E - Desperations
God taking His prophet off the scene tells us that his part in the vision was fulfilled. He had a right to interpret His own Word.
112 Lord Jesus, we are certainly a blessed people, above our thinking, above our understanding. For, if there was a noble among us, such as some personnel from some other country, or a diplomat of some sort, we would think it was great to have such a noble person among us.
But today we have the God of Heaven, not only among us, but in us, dwelling, living His Life through us. And we’re so thankful for this, Lord! It’s beyond our understanding, of course.
113 But now speaking on what the services, and going to Africa, and the things that we’ve tried to arrange for these few days here in Indiana. And somehow or another, Lord, it may be You are driving us to that tent, to make that vision fulfill.
So Thy will be done, we’ve committed it this way, the best of our understanding. So we pray, Lord, if there is any thing contrary to Your will, You’ll make it known to us, that we might know to do Your perfect will. 65-0711 - Ashamed
How do you know what he didn’t know?
Is it a Private Resurrection? It can’t be.
30 Now this…Brother, I tell you; sometimes we need to be skinned down and rubbed a little bit to see where we’re standing. Don’t you think so? Make right, right. Any person…If those saints…Now, I’m not condemning Catholic saints. But look.
The reason that the witch of Endor could call the spirit of Samuel, because Samuel couldn’t go into the Presence of God; he was in paradise; for the blood of bulls and goats would not take away sin.
But since Jesus died, He divorced sin, and taken away sin, and the believer now goes into the Presence of God. And he can’t come back, Jesus said in Luke when He was talking about the rich man. He can’t return.
So if you’re interceding with any kind of a spirit of someone that’s gone on, outside of God, Christ, the only Mediator between God and man, then you’re in spiritualism called religion. 53-1112 - Demonology
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.
(First. If Bro. Branham had raised after going to the 6th dimension it would be the 2nd)
If the Message is the Shout, and Bro. Branham fulfilled his part, who fulfills the rest of it, and when will it be fulfilled?
The Third Pull of Bro. Branham’s ministry was the opening of the Word. It was identified five times by the Spoken Word. Bro. Branham taught us that it would be used again.
38 So now I am going to say something to you, now, that I haven’t said all along. And, that is, the thing that we have looked forward to for so long (for at least many years, four or five years, or maybe longer), the Third Pull, has now been vindicated, and I’m sure you all know what it is.
39 Now remember, there’ll never be an impersonation of that, ’cause it can’t be. See, it cannot be. Now it’s in existent. And I have…I am warned of this, that soon…Right at this time now it’s just happened, so it could identify its presence among you, see, but it will not be used in a great way until this Council begins to tighten up.
And when it does, when that does…The Pentecostals, and so forth, can almost impersonate anything can be done. But when that time comes, when the squeeze comes down, then you’ll see, what you’ve seen temporarily, be manifested in the fullness of its power. 63-1229E - Look Away To Jesus
266 And we all know that’s the identification. We know what the Third Pull is. We all, we all understand that. Now, you got, you’ll have the tape.
And I think it’ll just lay dormant for a little while, until the great hour of persecution comes on. That’s when it be. It’ll speak. It’ll be manifested just like the five straight signs without failure, perfectly. 64-0112 - Shalom
Who will it be manifested in? Those who are alive and remain.
342 But it’s the Word, living! There it is. If they’d have only looked, He was Messiah. He was the living Word, made manifest.
343 And a man that’s got the Spirit of God in him, or a woman, lives that Word, lives right out in them. That’s the heart beat, the predestinated, for the Word of the Lord comes to them, and they are the Word to the people.
“Written epistles read of all men.” Is that right? Could the Third Pull be on? 63-1110M - Souls That Are In Prison Now
The first time it came on a person was to a woman named Hattie Wright.
224 Here, stand up, Sister Hattie. There’s the little widow woman that the miracle happened on, the first.
Bypassing all the peoples of the world, for that thing to happen first to that poor, little, humble widow woman up on a hillside, up there trying to raise a crop of corn out of a crawfish ground out there, to take care of her children.
That’s the one that God honored, the first time since the days of Jesus Christ, and said, “Ask what you will.”
226 You know why the plutocrats didn’t get it, or the big folks like that? Is because God knowed they’d ask things that was no good for them.
227 He gives It to people who He knows will ask the right thing. And what more could that woman…What more? Just tell me anything she could ask greater than that. 59-1115 - My New Ministry
(Tell story)
She had to make a decision what to ask for. She asked for the right thing. It was her Words that brought it about.
Conclusion.
I’ll leave you with this until next week.
Martha came to meet Jesus and said the right thing. She had a part in her brother’s resurrection.
At the right time when it’s needed, your voice will be heard.
When the Bride begins to speak the Word, she becomes a part of the Resurrection.