The Voice of the Resurrection

Matthew 28:6 KJV 1900

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Romans 8:11 KJV 1900

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 KJV 1900

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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: 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.

Introduction.

When Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday almost 2000 years ago, it was not an isolated event.

There was a resurrection of Old Testament Saints at that time.

Matthew 27:50–53 KJV 1900

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

40 days later there was a rapture.

Acts 1:9 KJV 1900

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

It speaks of a future resurrection.

The Scripture says we will not be part of that future unless we are raised with Him now.

We are already quickened, resurrected by the new birth into the life of Christ.

Ephesians 2:1–7 KJV 1900

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

The new Birth is Christ, is a revelation. God has revealed to you this great mystery, and that’s a new Birth.

Now what are you going to do when you get all that group together? where the revelation is perfectly in harmony, and God expressing it through His Word by the same actions, the same things that He did, making the Word manifest.

Oh, if the Church only knew its position! It will, one day. Then, the Rapture will go when it knows what it is. 63-0728 - Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed

(Show apple tree slide)

Bro. Branham talks about “fruit orchards where you raise a lot of apples. You take a little apple tree when it’s..just a little bitty sprout.

“every bushel of apples, every apple, every blossom, every leaf that’ll ever be on that tree is on it right then"

What you have to do with the tree:

Plant it

Water it

Let it drink.

“It has to drink more than its portion.”

As it drinks the tree swells and pushes out or manifests everything that was in the seed.

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Divine healing, the power of God, and all these other things is in every individual in here that’s received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, for you’re planted in Christ.

Hallelujah. The Holy Ghost baptism, yes, sir, and everything you have need of for this life’s journey, even the rapture is right in you then.

The rapture is in us now. I will prove it by the Gospel. “Those who He called He justified, and those who He justified, He hath glorified.” Hallelujah.

Then in heaven today we’re a glorified in the Presence of God right now. I’m just pushing out to it. 53-0907A - Lord, Show Us The Father And It Sufficeth Us

The key to the rapture and resurrection is the New Birth. You must have the Token. By the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, He has quickened us together with Him, and we become His body on the earth. You are quickened to the Word.

Jesus’ body was quickened after it was dead. And in the grave, Jesus’ body was quickened by the Word of God; and transformed, from a dead, cold image, to a resurrected, glorified Son of God.

Psalm 16:10 KJV 1900

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

That Word has to come to pass, It’s God’s Word! Plant It in your heart, if you want to go in a Rapture. If you want to be Christians genuine, place this Word.

As I believe it was Ezekiel, God said, “Take that scroll and eat it up,” that the prophet and the Word would become the same. And every promise in there has to manifest itself, because it’s God’s original Seed.

Don’t you let some educated theologian out here try to pump It out of you. Don’t you let him spray you with that carnal science and knowledge, and education. Believe God! 65-0911 - God's Power To Transform

We haven’t joined nothing or bargained for nothing. We just believe, Lord, unto Eternal Life.

And You sealed us in there by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and quickened our bodies, and quickened our spirits, and quickened us then to see visions, and prophesy, and speak in tongues, see great signs and wonders take place.

Why, it’s the living God. We’re into that Body. When, to the world, is foolishness to them that perish; but to we who believe, it’s the power of God, unto Eternal Life. We thank Thee for it, Father.

Now let it be known this day, Lord, that You are God, that You have never changed Your mind about one Word that You ever said. And You’re the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the one and only Way that God has provided.

The only Man that God ever put His Name in, was His Own Son Who carried His Name, Jesus; God, Jehovah, Saviour, Emmanuel, the Door to the sheepfold; He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come;

the Root and the Offspring, both Root and Offspring of David; the Morning Star, the Lily of the Valley. O God, how wonderful! No wonder Isaiah said, “Counsellor, Prince of Peace, The mighty God, everlasting Father.” 65-0425 - God's Provided Place Of Worship

By one Spirit you are baptized into His body. The New Birth quickens you to the Word.

If you’ve been quickened to Hebrews 10:25, you go to church.

If you’ve been quickened to Exodus 15: 26 , Mark 16:18 and James 5:14 you believe you are healed.

If you’ve been quickened to Malachi 4 you know Elijah has come. If you’ve been quickened to Luke 17:30 you have seen a Son of Man Ministry.

If you’ve been quickened to 1 Corinthians 12:28 and Ephesians 4:11 you believe in the five fold ministry.

If you’ve been quickened to 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 1 Thessalonians 4:17 you are the rapture.

Why do people not believe the Word? Because they’ve never been quickened to it.

The Word, if you are predestinated, you see It. There’s no way to hide It from you. You look there and say, “Why, It’s just so plain before my face!

I’d look at It; there It is. I’m looking right at It. I see It. Here It is, the Word; every Word, just Word by Word, living out.” Then there’s a taste of Eternal Life that you want.

It’s God’s Filter. And when you breathe through That, nothing can get through That but the Holy Ghost.

Now you got the evidence of the Holy Ghost, see, a holy man or woman’s taste. They want to live. They got Eternal Life.

And because this Word is quickened to them, they live; a thinking man’s Filter, and a holy man’s taste. 65-0822E - A Thinking Man's Filter

He said “Because I live, you will live”

Each age was quickened to the portion of the Word for their day, but they could not be quickened to the fulness because the fulness of the Word had not come.

“God’s only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that’s lit off of something to make it alive;

and seated now in heavenly places (in present tense), already alive and subject to every promise in the Word.

Then what does that do? You being a part of God’s gene, a part of the Word, other men a part of God’s Word, seated together, manifest the entire Body of Christ, because there’s no leaven among you.

No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in heavenly places, in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus.

No leaven among you, that brings the entire fullness of the godhead bodily among you.

Couldn’t do it in Luther’s age, couldn’t do it in Wesley’s age, couldn’t do it in Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed,

brought back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet-God.

Oh! Glory! Promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of God, seated (in present tense). 65-1128M - God's Only Provided Place Of Worship

Christ has been resurrected, I have been resurrected with Him, and the dead will be raised by the same voice that raised Lazarus.

The first thing Christ does when He descends -Shout: a messenger getting the people ready. (living bread of life)

The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice, that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus from the grave. 65-1204 - The Rapture

John 11:20–22 KJV 1900

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

She said the right thing. (Hattie Wright)

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(Who are we? Even angels are filthy in His sight)

But a woman said the right thing that caused the heart of Jehovah…said, “Ask her what she wants, and then give it to her.” Amen. Incredible, but true! 61-1210 - Paradox

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.

He gives It to people who He knows will ask the right thing. 59-1115 - My New Ministry

(They asked Bro. Branham if HE could speak and the body change would take place, he answered that he had the authority but it was sovereignly given. This was sovereign to Hattie) (Q&A #1 pg 248)

John 11:23–29 KJV 1900

Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.

Mary without Martha could not be made perfect.

John 11:30 KJV 1900

Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

(Isaac left the tent and Rebekah went to meet him, carried by the power of the Holy Ghost)

And remember, Jesus will leave the Kingdom, and we’ll not meet Him in Glory, we’re to meet Him in the air, between heavens and earth, where it’s expanded to redeem us.

And he met Rebekah in the middle, between her home and his home. Amen! Took her into his home, and married her, and fell heir to everything his father had. 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3

Let’s pick it up from verse 38.

John 11:38–44 KJV 1900

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

We know the Voice of the Resurrection is the same voice, the voice of Christ.

Your Voice is when You speak through us. “If you say to this mountain be moved, and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe that what you’ve said will come to pass, you can have what you’ve said.

When you pray, believe you receive what you asked for, it shall be given unto you.” O God, such promises!

“If ye abide in Me, and My Word abide in you, then ask what you will.”    63-0627 - Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever

It was Hattie Wright’s voice that brought her two sons. It was Martha’s voice that brought Mary to Jesus.

The Shout was Christ bringing a Message, but He used the Lips of William Branham to speak it, the Voice is Christ raising the dead, but how will He speak? Through the lips of the living Bride.

(The church once spoke for God. Dark ages-Wesley-Luther)

The people who took his revelation from God became the living epistles read and known of all men for their generation.

(They spoke Justification, Sanctification, Gifts)

When the Methodists failed, God raised up others and so it has gone on through the years until in this last day there is again another people in the land, who under their messenger will be the final voice to the final age. CAB 09 - Laodicean

The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.

(Resurrection potentials)

Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it.

Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary).

The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has “thus saith the Lord.”

Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.

Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have “thus saith the Lord” or they keep still.

They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride.

She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time. CAB 05 - Pergamean

Conclusion.

Whatever is left it’s your job to do, and you must be quickened to do it.

Only the Holy Ghost can quicken your life to the Word.

Acts 2:38 KJV 1900

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Believe and act on the Word and be raised from your tomb.