2006-04-09 AM    I Am What I Am  (Jerusalem)

It reminds me of a story that Brother Branham told about someone who jumped up and gave a testimony.   And in this testimony they said, “I am not what I want to be, and I am not yet what I ought to be, but thank God I am not what I used to be.”

2006-04-09 AM    I Am What I Am  (Jerusalem)

I often heard Brother Branham talking about a revelation dropping from our head down to our heart.

2006-04-09 AM    I Am What I Am  (Jerusalem)

I mentioned Brother Branham several times.   I don’t think that will offend you, but if it does I’m sorry for that.   Let me just tell you another thing that he said that people really don’t like, but I like. I really like it.

He said, “Once you receive this revelation of who you are in the Lord Jesus Christ, once you really know, ‘I am a seed of God, I am a son of God,’ then you go forth with a revelation that you can no more be lost than God could be lost.”

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

And when I was privileged at the very end to speak with that seventh star that the Lord Jesus had in His hand, the messenger of the seventh angel . . .

He spoke to me, and just this one little piece I’ll share with you now.   And as soon as I can assimilate it all, put it all together . . .   You know, it’s big in my little head.

But when I spoke with him, one of the things that I would be willing to share this morning was that he spoke about the fact that . . . and this part I was surely aware of, but it was special in the way it was presented . . . that the evil of every other church age, all of these ages, he said was gathered together into this last church age that we’re . . . as the Bride, we’re moving out of.

But the world is still . . . the church world and the world is still experiencing the final days and stages of Laodicea.

But he said in the same way that all the evil of every age had been gathered together into Laodicea, in the same way the Anointing that it took to overcome - that special portion of His anointing and His glory that it took to overcome in each age - all of those portions of overcoming anointing, he said . . . they have also been gathered together into one measure, one great big measure.

And that’s exactly the words that he used to describe it - one great big measure of overcoming anointing.

And he assured me that it was going to be released very soon upon those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham described it as this little woman at the well who had had five husbands.   The one she was living with at this present time was not her own.

I don’t want to go through the whole dialog.  But I like what Brother Branham said about it.   He said that when that woman was a little girl . . . he said her mother used to pull her up on her knee in the evening and would tell her all of the miracles of the God of Israel, all of the glorious things that God had done for His people.

And he said it placed something inside of her.   She knew there was a God because of these wonderful stories that her mother had shared.   And it witnessed with something . . .   Of course, we know it witnessed with something that was in her by God’s foreknowledge.

And it began to grow.   But she pushed that yearning away and she went after her own pleasure, and she found disappointment and rejection and heartache, and so forth.

But all of a sudden, when she came in the Presence of the Son, the S-O-N - God expressed in human body, in human flesh - whatever that seed was, however you want to call it - a God-consciousness, something woven into her DNA, or perhaps she passed by at the right time on the conveyor belt . . .

You know what I’m saying?

There was something in her that was laying there in dormancy, and when she came in contact with the S-O-N, it drew that out of her and she began to hear and began to recognize and she received the Lord Jesus as her Messiah.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

And the dream was so real.   I believe all of these things that are happening are signs to us.

And especially the Word that Bro. Branham spoke in this dream . . . that this gathering together of all the anointing, that overcoming anointing that was present in every hour . . .   Remember the anointing that we have talked about in the Ox Age, and so forth - these powerful anointings.

And he was talking about how they had to be gathered together into this age and that we were going to overcome with a portion of that anointing that was really the overcoming portion of every age gathered into this age and that it would be released upon those that had eyes to see and ears to hear.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

But I am so impressed and so amazed because what I’ve been preaching now for over sixteen years - seventeen, eighteen, almost eighteen years - the very same message that I’ve been preaching, the same theme for eighteen years, I now recognize that God has raised somebody up, even among the Charismatic people, preaching the same thing.

I heard Paul Keith Davis preach along that line.   He had an experience about eyes and ears, and so forth, and he was preaching along, and then he began to talk very specifically about the ministry of Brother Branham.

And you know, that’s a very dangerous thing to do in the Charismatic world because most of the people have just brushed it off as though there was nothing to it.

But I want to give you a couple quotes here, things that I heard Paul Keith Davis say.

He said, “Brother Branham, his ministry, was to introduce us to our inheritance.”

Now that’s a very powerful word.   He also talked about worshipping Moses and how we cannot do that.

And he said, “Sometimes we struggle to distinguish between the humanity and the gift.   We lift up the man, we lift up humanity, and we don’t acknowledge the gift.”

Here’s something the Lord put into my heart, not because of what he was saying, but because of what I received.

“The inheritance of the rejected revelation of the past generation is ours.”   “The inheritance of the rejected revelation of the past generation is ours.”

Didn’t you hear Jesus say that?   “Your fathers didn’t see.   They couldn’t see.   They didn’t have eyes to see.   But blessed are your eyes for now you have seen what holy men . . .”

And I really believe that God is going to help a lot of people begin to see that there is a very clear word of righteousness that has been delivered in our day.

I heard Paul Keith Davis say, in reference to that thought . . .   He said that Satan has stolen away the inheritance of this generation by causing people to criticize that which they don’t understand and have not even taken the time to understand.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

God, we want those eyes to see and those ears to hear.   We recognize that You sent a great servant of God in this day.

You gave Him a word.   It was hard.   It was straight.   It has been rejected.   It has been mocked.   It has been turned down by many, many people.   It kind of pales in comparison to some of the things that have happened in the past twenty years in the Charismatic movement in a lot of people’s minds.   They just see it as very insignificant and some people go as far as to call it error.

But I thank You, Lord, that You have opened my eyes to it and my ears.   I thank You that You’ve given me a heart to perceive and the ability to receive revelation from what has already been spoken.   I thank You that You did not stop moving in those days.

I thank You there are still apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and evangelists.   I thank You that there is Truth today in many different streams.   It doesn’t all look the same.   It doesn’t all sound the same.   But I thank You that there is great Truth that is being proclaimed in many different streams.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

So we ask, oh God, today that You would give us eyes to see and ears to hear.   May we hear the righteous message that You have declared in this generation and may it be amplified and magnified in us.

Give us the anointing to break it down.   Give us the anointing to share it with those who have an ear to hear and an eye to see.

We bind the hand of the enemy that raises itself against Truth, and we declare that in a new season that the Lord is ushering in, that people will be more receptive to the Truth that was rejected by the past generation.   It is our inheritance.

We thank You for the words that we have heard of late.   We thank You, oh God, for those things that we’ve been hearing.

I heard last night, as I was laying down, a great preacher originally from India living now in Malaysia, and he was also preaching about the deposits of Truth and the great ministry of the past generation and how that You were going to sow into us the promises that were given in the last generation and not yet fulfilled.

We think about the great tent meeting, the tent vision, that is now being spoken about in circles of people that would have never considered it two years ago, three years ago.

We thank You, oh God.   We believe that part of that is because of proclamations and declarations that have gone up from this City.

We thank You for the small part.   We thank You for every bootie that has been knitted.   We thank You that You’re not taking Your people back into creeds and dogmas of men and into denominational structures and systems.

But we thank You that You’re going to raise up a true apostolic model as the church of the Book of Acts.

Oh, Lord, we’re looking for the apostolic to come in now, men with that apostolic vision who will establish and set in order the business of the King - Kingdom principles.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Now there was once a very gifted man who served under the ministry of Brother Branham.   And he was the pastor of the Tabernacle while Brother Branham was out doing all kinds of evangelistic work and holding meetings here and there and traveling even into foreign countries.

And there was a precious brother who was left in charge of the local church.   His name was Brother Neville.

And evidently Brother Neville had a very precious prophetic gift in his life.   And it was very accurate, and it had blessed a lot of people.

He had told them what their needs were.   God had come on the scene and ministered to those needs.

But there was an occasion that he received a very serious warning from Brother Branham.   It was something that he took extremely serious.

He might have even taken it a little too serious because it perhaps might have placed something within him that maybe would make him to be afraid to ever see and hear like he should.   And I can understand how that would happen.

Brother Branham said to him one time, “Brother Neville, you’ve got to be very careful with those kinds of gifts.”

He said, “You could have a hundred people and the gift could operate a hundred times and it could be right.   Everything you told people could be exactly right and it could help them and bless them ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”

But he said, “If you missed it one time, if you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you could destroy that person.”

I don’t know if you realize this or not, but there are people that are being destroyed by prophetic gifts all over the world.   And it’s a very serious thing.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

So we believe that anybody can reach into the mind of God and bring down a thought.   But all of these great leaders that God has raised up around the world . . . many of them are very specifically teaching in this hour, even as Brother Branham taught in this past generation, there is a difference between the gift of prophecy and a prophet.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Listen.   It got so bad when Brother Branham was alive . . .   And he was a mighty servant of the Lord.

But it got so bad, even in those days before there was a prophetic movement . . . it got so bad that when he would be trying to preach the Word, people would interrupt and give prophecies.

I once read a letter that Billy Paul, his son, wrote to a good friend of mine when there was a question asked about why Brother Branham preached a little message called “Church Order.”

And he talked about the gifts not operating during the time of the ministry of the Word.   He said the spirit of the prophet is subject unto the prophet.   And he gave this little outline.

And a letter was written to Brother Billy Paul - “Why did Brother Branham preach a sermon like that and kind of really put things in this black and white order - kind of stiff, a little bit?

And Billy Paul said that it had gotten so bad that people would even interrupt Brother Branham while he was preaching.

“Thus saith the Lord.   You’re to come to Chicago next, and I’m going to move, saith the Lord, and I’m going to do this and that and such great and mighty things.”

And another one might, another time . . . might stand up and say, “Thus saith the Lord, you’re supposed to come here on next month, and I’m going to do this, and I’m going to heal the sick, and I’m going to do the other.”

It got so bad.   And all these people were sincere.   They just wanted a mighty man of God in their city.   But it wasn’t God speaking every time.   And do you see what trouble Brother Branham could’ve got into?

He did get into trouble one time yielding to the pull of other people and not following the Lord.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But there’s a wonderful book that Jim Goll has written called “The Seer.”   Have you all ever seen it?   If you see it, get it.   It is so nice.   He did such a wonderful job.   It’s called “The Seer” - “S-e-e-r.”

And he goes through . . .   I haven’t finished it.   I haven’t finished the book yet.   I want to, but I’ve read the first three chapters, and it’s wonderful.

But he really breaks those words down and makes it very special.   And I really appreciate something that he said in the book concerning Brother Branham.

Because if you’ve been through what I’ve been through and others have been through, anytime somebody says something nice about Brother Branham, it makes you happy.

And in that book he mentions Brother Branham and he mentions that gift of a seer.   And he talks about how that was so heavy in Brother Branham’s life.

And I don’t want to offend anybody, but I have to say that if I was going to put Brother Branham . . .

We know that all seers are prophets, not all prophets are seers.   I know he was a prophet.   I know he had a major job to do.

But if I was going to say what he was the heaviest in, was it articulation or seeing, I would have to say it was seeing.   That was his heavy gift.

And there’s something that’s kind of noticeable about these seers.   And Jim Goll brings this out.

He said they often depend on an angel or the manifest Presence of God for the activation of their gift.

Now what in the world does that mean?

Well, it means that you may not be able to point at a seer and say, “Give me the Word of the Lord” because he may be dry as a bone if you do that.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

So there was a little bit of a difference - one who sees, who’s gifted in seeing, and one who is gifted in hearing and speaking.

And of course, if we look at somebody as outstanding as Brother Branham, we’d have to say he had both.   He was able to do both.   There’s no doubt about it.

But the outstanding thing was these visitations.   I think it added so much to what the Lord was speaking, these visitations.

And Jim Goll in this book . . .   I’m not sure he worded it exactly like I would’ve worded it, but he did good.   I’m not a writer.   He is.

But he talked about Brother Branham waiting on the Angel.   I just hope people understand that when you read it, you know, that you understand it.

He said . . .   I wish I would’ve brought it over here.   It said something about Brother Branham, you know, was heavily gifted in seeing.   And it says that his gift was pure, or whatever, however, slightly limited.

Now that doesn’t offend me because I know what the next phrase is.   Slightly limited - that would offend some people and they’d say, “Aww, I’ll tell you, that man of God wasn’t limited in any way.”

Well, he was.   He was limited in a good way.   The next sentence says, “He had to wait on the Angel of the Lord to come.”

And do you know some people use that . . .   Paul Keith Davis - I heard him say some people use that to criticize Brother Branham.

And they say, “Aww, he had to wait on the Angel of the Lord to come before he could minister,” as though that’s some slam against him.   That’s a privilege.

It’s a privilege if the Angel of the Lord decides to come and stand with somebody and minister through them.   That’s a privilege.

And a whole lot of people would’ve done better if they would’ve waited on Him to come instead of speaking presumptuously.

And what are all these people talking about?   They’re talking about times when Brother Branham would say, “We’re waiting on something.”

He would say it - “We’re waiting on something.   We’re waiting on something.”

And there was a time down there in Macon, Georgia, on one of those tapes . . .   And Sister West is here, and her father was one of the sponsors.

He was an Assembly of God pastor.   And her father was one of the sponsors who brought Brother Branham to Macon.

And in one of those meetings, they had moved out to this ball field.   And there were these big lights, these big, you know, stadium type lights.

And Brother Branham’s preaching away, or testifying, I should say - kind of telling some Bible stories to build people’s faith.

And all of a sudden he said, “Oh, we won’t have to talk about Him anymore.   He’s just come in the building.   I saw Him when He came across the lights there, that Pillar of Fire.”

And immediately the atmosphere changed.   And immediately this little humble man who had been telling Bible stories . . . immediately he became God’s mouthpiece.

And he started telling people their names, and where they were from, and where they lived, and their doctor’s names, and what their diseases were, and even their address on occasion.

Really, in the Spirit we call it reading people’s mail.   I mean really, spiritually, he read people’s mail.   He even told women what was in their purses sometimes.

He said, “Just so that you’ll know that this is God, you’ve got a letter in your purse and it’s addressed from your daughter, and she lives in Chicago, Illinois, and she’s telling you about these meetings.

“In the letter, she’s telling you that I’m going to be here and that these meetings are going on and she’s encouraging you.

“And when you went out the door tonight, you turned around and went back in and got that letter and put it in your purse, and it’s in your purse right now.”

Now that’s God.   But Brother Branham couldn’t have done that.   He wouldn’t have known that woman from Adam.

He would’ve just had to say, “Good evening, sister.”

That’s all he could’ve done until that Presence of the Lord came.   What’s wrong with that?   We want that.   We need that.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But what I wanted to share with you, as we close, was at the end of the dream, it was Brother Branham . . .   I believe Bro. Branham was the messenger to the seventh church age.   And he was there so I must be right.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

So, Bro. Branham was the last.   He put his hand there.   We walked over.   It was as though he knew me.   There was a nice feeling with all of them - a nice feeling of brotherhood, fraternal affection.

But with Bro. Branham it was as though he knew me and that we had seen each other before. And I have seen him before in vision and dream.

But there was a real, real, real familiarity as though we had . . .   You know, he just knew what I believed and what I had preached, and so forth.

And we sat down.   And he said several things to me.   And guess what he talked about first? Misunderstanding - how difficult it is to be misunderstood.

He even said, “It’s very difficult to keep the right spirit when people so misunderstand what you’re trying to say and do.”

And then he talked about how hard it is to overcome in Laodicea and the anointing that is required.

And then I mentioned to you yesterday that he explained that as all the evil of every age was gathered into the last age . . .   He said, “But that’s okay, because all the anointing, the anointing to overcome in all the other church ages,” he said, “that same anointing has all been gathered together in this day.”

So with all the evil that’s been gathered in, so there’s the anointing gathered in to overcome.   The same anointing that they overcame with in Ephesus, that’s been added to this day.   The anointing to overcome - it’s here.   It’s with us.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But then he began to talk to me about the prophetic.   And I had given a Word some months ago that the prophetic movement was muddy and that there was a clear Word coming from the Throne. He mentioned that prophecy to me as though he was very familiar with it.

I had prophesied that there was a clear Word of the Lord coming like a river from the Throne that was going to push away the dark water, the muddy water of the prophetic movement, and would establish a very clear direct Word from the Lord.

He mentioned that to me.   And we talked about this phrase, this expression, that is so powerful. It was so powerful in his ministry.   It has been so misused and so abused in the prophetic movement in the last twenty years - “Thus saith the Lord.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

And this was kind of the theme of it.   And all of a sudden, he looked at me.

We talked about the tent vision.   I’m not going to mention that this morning.   We talked about the tent vision, a little bit about the adoption and the manifested sons of God.

And then he put his hand again . . .   He had had it there before.   He put his hand over on my knee again like the apostle Paul.   He looked me right in the face, he dropped his voice . . .   I don’t know why, but the volume of his voice dropped in . . . and he said, “There’s something you need to know.”

I’m just waiting to see if I should . . .

And I said, “Yes sir, what is that?”

And he said, “You can tell the people that THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”

His eyes just sort of shifted away and his head hung away like that, and I just thought for a second, “I’ve got to know what it means.   I’d better not wake up.   I’d better not get out of this without knowing what it means.

I’ve got to know what does that mean - THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.   What does that mean?”

I was thinking it, and I was deciding how I was going to ask him.

And I said, “Brother Branham . . . ,” like that, “Brother Branham . . .”

And he said, “Oh, you want to know what it means.”

I never had the opportunity to ask the question.   I just said, “Brother Branham . . .”   He said, “Oh, you want to know what it means.”

And I’ll give you his answer.   This is the phrase that he gave me, but I’m going to give you more than the phrase.   This is what he said, but I’m going to give you where he said it in a sermon.

“Nothing can harm Her, not even death; for if the Seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Amen.”   He said, “(Now, I got a great big ‘Hallelujah.’)   Here is the secret: . . .”

This is what he answered me.   He looked at me and said . . .

I said, “Brother Branham . . .”

He said, “Oh, you want to know what it means.”   And here’s what he spoke to me.   He said to me, “Here is the secret: . . .”

And I didn’t know that that was even in the Message of the Hour.   I mean, I didn’t know that it came like that.

I’ve read this sermon.   And guess what sermon it is?   The very first sermon I ever heard Bro. Branham preach in my life - “The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed.”

And here’s what he said to me.   “Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word, and She does it in His Name.”   That’s what he said.

And then he finished with this, “She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

And then he said to me, which is not in this quote . . .   He said to me again, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”

Now let me finish the quote.   Let me read it again and then finish it.

“Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what he wants done with the Word, and She does it in His name.   She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Who is she?   The real Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now somebody has sent me, forwarded me . . .   I’ve read them already, but somebody forwarded me some articles about this . . .

You know it’s so sad that people will take the Word of God and go to seed on it, Brother Branham said.

You take a truth and you can’t stop until you make it something that it’s not.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

I’m trying to say that I believe . . . what I heard in the dream . . . I believe that God was saying that the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ in the earth is about to raise up with THUS SAITH THE LORD. And what she says is going to happen.   I believe that.

And here Bro. Branham was saying in 1963, or ‘62, “She’s got it.   The Bride has it.”   We just haven’t come to the place of using it fully.

Now let me finish this quote, if you don’t mind.

He said, “Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word . . .” (how the Word should be handled, amen?)   “. . . and She does it in His name.   She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.

“Then it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves it purpose.   They do only His will.   No one can persuade them different.   They have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still.”

Won’t that be the day?   That God raises up a people who are sensitive enough, they’ve got a pure enough stream from the Throne, that “It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD or I’m staying right here.   I’m not going if it’s not THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

You know, that’s what God was telling me in 2000 - “I don’t want you to go unless you know I’m sending you” - trying to get me ready for a time, THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still. Amen. I want to say “Amen” on the keeping still.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

We need THUS SAITH THE LORD or the Bride keeps still.   And then what is the rest of that quote?

“Then they will do the works of God.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But I’m really looking forward to a time that I wouldn’t kill myself physically fighting demon spirits, but just raise up in the Name of the Lord and the unction THUS SAITH THE LORD and watch God do it, watch every demon flee.

“You really believe that that’s what God wants to do?”

I know it.   And I not only know it.   I heard that prophet messenger say, “It’s about to come in.”

How’s it going to come in?

He said it was already with the Bride in 1962.   That’s before I was born.

What do you mean, “come in”?

It’s going to raise up in us, and we’re going to recognize that all we need is in us.   It’s there.

God’s given us the Word.   He’s given us the Anointing.   He’s given us THUS SAITH THE LORD. And He’s training us to the place that He’ll be able to trust us to use it.

THUS SAITH THE LORD or keep still.   He said, “They will do the works of God.”   Amen.   “For it is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His day.   All things when he was here - He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Here’s another little quote.   “God is uniting His Bride.   She’s coming together from the east and the west, from the north and south.   There’s a uniting time . . .   What’s she uniting for?   The rapture!”

If you don’t believe in the Rapture then just don’t worry about it.   “God’s getting her ready.   Yes, sir, uniting, what’s She uniting with?   With the Word.   ‘For all heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.’”

Listen at what he said, “She’s uniting herself with THUS SAITH THE LORD regardless of what any denomination or anybody else says.   She’s uniting herself.   Why?   She is the Bride.   And She’s united Herself with Her Bridegroom, and the Bridegroom is the Word.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

And in the “Perganean Church Age” . . .   I’ll close.  The “Church Age of Pergamos” - “Therefore nothing can harm her . . .”   “Notice,” he said, “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 . . .”

Oh, this is good for me.   I must be old school.   This is so, so good to me.   ”This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His Bride.”

What harmony?   The same kind of harmony and unity that existed between the Father and the Son, the oneness that existed between the Father and the Son.

“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 it’s 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.

“Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word.   And She does it in His name.  She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Lord, I thank You for that visitation that took place some months ago - how You sent a messenger, walked into a big Charismatic convention, walked over and appeared to two preachers.

You spoke to them.   You said to tell the Word that the tent vision was true and that it was soon that God was going to manifest it.   And now, Lord, I thank You.   The last trance vision You lifted me into, I saw that servant of the Lord.

The same Word was given, “The time is now.”   It’s soon, time for that tent vision to come.   All the glory . . .

What is that?   It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.   Nobody had to pray for them, agonize for them. They went in the tent one way, came out the other way.   What is that?   THUS SAITH THE LORD.

That’s what we’re looking for.   It all ties together.   And now this seventh church age messenger looked me right in the eye and said, (hallelujah) “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”   Oh Father, help us.

I don’t even feel like agonizing before You and begging for it.   I just feel like prophesying it, declaring it, rehearsing it, saying it again and again and again and again.

THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.   THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.   THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

What’s going to bring the resurrection of all mankind?   THUS SAITH THE LORD.   You said it was coming in.   So we don’t ask You to do it.   You said You would.   You said You were.   We just ask You to please help us to prepare ourselves.   (Tongues)

That hour when the people of God change their circumstances with the Spoken Word of their lips, their circumstances and situations are just changed by the power of the Spoken Word.

You said to us that that Spoken Word was so powerful that you could speak a Word and a world would be created, you could step out and inhabit that earth.

That’s too big for some folks, but I know.   I know.   I understand.   You were just trying to teach us the power of that Spoken Word and the creative force that’s behind it.

It’s the same issue of Light that said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.   That’s the same issue that You want to manifest in Your Bride in this hour.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

And I was so proud because I had the entire Message . . .   I had all of Brother Branham’s sermons on this little laptop, and it was so heavy you could hardly travel with it.   But I did.   I carried it all over the world.

And now I can put all these sermons in something that will fit in my pocket.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham received a Word from the Lord that was very strange.   And it didn’t say to watch the USSR.   But he was given a Word that said to watch Russia.

And a lot of Bible teachers say that Russia is dead.   There’s nothing to fear, there’s nothing to worry about.   Oh, but I want you to know Russia is still a powerful force.   They’re living, of course, in poverty, but still the government controlling that.

And I can see where they could have an important part in some of the Scriptures that we read about in the End-time - the army of the north coming down.   We could still see something out of Russia.   Amen?

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

You know, Brother Branham said a very strange thing, and a lot of women have been very angry about it.   And perhaps it is a little hard, but I’m going to say it anyway just to remind you historically.

He said, “A great evil has been done in our nation.”   He said, “Women have been given the right to vote.”

Well, when you hear that today that sounds chauvinist, I guess, you know - chauvinist.   A woman given the right to vote - doesn’t she deserve equal rights?   And how could anybody say that it’s an evil thing that a woman would be given a right to vote?   And then you have to examine it historically, and you have to hear the rest of what he said.

It was the woman vote.   It was the vote of the women that elected a president like John F. Kennedy.   It’s historically a fact that it was the vote of the women who elected a liberal Catholic president like John F. Kennedy.

And it is a legal fact that it was a woman’s vote who placed this legislature into place that would legalize abortion in America.   It was the women lobbying and the women’s votes that placed the right justices in place and put the right laws in place for these kinds of things to happen.

So, based on that, I can see that it was a very serious thing.   I’m not saying, myself, that women shouldn’t have the right to vote.   But what I’m saying is it became a very serious thing because of this abortion issue and because they voted, “We want to have control over our own bodies.”   If it was only abortion, that’s one thing.   But it caused a downward spiral of morality worldwide.

2006-04-23 AM    Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne  (Jerusalem)

I heard a great man of God say one time . . .   Brother Branham was talking about the goodness of God and the power of God and all that God is and all that He will be - everything that’s in God.

And he said, “You know, it will take all of eternity for God to completely unfold and reveal all that He is.”

And I thought, “My, that’s a strange statement.”   But even when we get into eternity, God will still be unfolding Himself and revealing Himself to us.

2006-04-23 AM    Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham had an unusual thought about that manna.   And he said in the same way that that manna was preserved and kept, he said every man of God, every real, true man of God, needs to have a taste of the original manna that fell on the day of Pentecost.

And he said if he doesn’t have a taste of that . . . I guess we could say that original blessing, that original experience . . . he has no right to stand behind the desk and teach the people God’s Word. And that’s very, very true.

2006-04-29 AM    The Infusion of Fire  (Jerusalem)

I remember Bro. Branham telling a story one time about he and his youngest son, Joseph, being in a large zoo.   And while they were in this zoo, there was a very large eagle that was in some sort of cage, you know, like maybe an aviary with a net or something.   And the eagle was just sitting there.

And Bro. Branham loved the eagle.   And it was very hard for him to see the eagle . . .   It was hard enough to see the other animals in a cage.   But it was very hard to see this eagle in a cage.

Because we all know that the eagle was not born to be earthbound, but it was born to soar through the skies.   That’s the very purpose of the eagle.   It’s his nature.   It’s what he desires to do.

And Bro. Branham was so grieved.   He was having this conversation with Joseph.   And he said, “In this eagle’s eye, there was a far-away look.”   He was grieved, and yet you could see that his mind wasn’t concentrating so much on the cage, but it was concentrating, kind of dreaming about what it would be like if he were to be set free.

I heard that story many years ago now, and it reminded me of something.   I’ve shared it here in Jerusalem before.   It reminded me of the look that the old saints used to get in our church, in our little Pentecostal church, when they were singing about heaven.

And so in this vision in January, I saw this real look, I remember seeing this real look, of exhilaration on this eagle’s face.

2006-04-29 AM    The Infusion of Fire  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham prophesied this day when others out there would begin to get a hold of the Word of the Lord and what would happen.   And I believe we’re coming in that day.

2006-04-30 AM    Angels Announcing Destiny  (Jerusalem)

But I boldly, without apology, mention some of the wonderful things that I’ve learned in the ministry of William Branham.   And one of the things that he taught that was so, so special to me was he explained the dimensions that we’re living in.

And he talked about the fact that the righteous dead are not a million miles away somewhere in the eons of space, you know, where heaven . . . you know, in the blue lofty clouds or whatever . . . how we get these images in our mind.

But he said actually we’re living now where dimensions are parallel.   And they’re very close together.   And he talked about our theophany body.   If I would have mentioned E. W. Kenyon, then everybody would have said, “Oh, yes, I’ve read him.   That’s very interesting.”

Or if I would’ve mentioned that some of these other brothers have taught these very same things, people strangely enough have no problem with it.   But if you attribute the teaching to somebody like Bro. Branham, then people’s little sirens immediately start going off in their minds and they often miss this great revelation that I think is very, very important.

He talked about that we have a theophany body, a glorified body we used to call it in Pentecost. And one day we’re going to step out of this body into a glorified body.   And he said that in fact, we bypass that glorified body.   We could’ve had it in the beginning, but we bypassed it.   It was God’s will that we not step into that glorified body, but that we come here to the earth and that we live in a body made of flesh and that we are now being tested and tried to prove our love for the Lord Jesus Christ.

But one of these days, when we have finished the test, hallelujah, passed the test, finished the course, we’re going to step out of this fleshly body into this glorified body, this theophany body, that the Lord has promised us.

Now my idea of that body was it’s not yet created, perhaps.   In the moment I need it, it’s going to be created.   But that’s not what Bro. Branham taught.   He taught that God has already made those glorified bodies and that they’re just waiting on us.   Somewhere, they’re waiting on us.

And he was preaching away sometime and he said, “You see, actually my theophany body is just waiting on me in another dimension where my loved ones are, perhaps.”   And he said, “One of these days, we’re going to speed up and they’re going to slow down and we’re going to meet in the middle.”

Now that sounds very strange for some people to be able to get in their minds.   We’d rather think about all of the cloud of witnesses being . . . looking at us over the balconies of heaven or something.   But that’s too far to get to us when we need help.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

I’ve been in the Presence of the Lord - two powerful experiences that are too big to put into words. Really, there is no way to tell you how it has impacted my life.

But to think that after all these years of serving the Lord, the Lord would give me this experience - to be able to speak, to converse, with those seven stars that He held in His hand in Revelation 1 . . .

John . . .   You see, this is humbling.   John saw them as stars in His hand.   God allowed me to see them in reality as men.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

And then . . .   I don’t know when, but I’ll take time and we’ll go through the conversation with all seven.

But when I came to the last messenger and we talked, one of the things that he said to me was . . .   We talked also about rejection.   It was a theme.   It was an unusual theme that ran between all seven of these men.

They everyone spoke to me about rejection and how hard it was to continue feeling so rejected and misunderstood.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

And then come to the last of the last and hear his rejection and what he experienced . . .   And to hear him speak about the same overcoming anointing . . .   And to have him say, “There’s one other thing I want you to know” . . .

He said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”

And I knew what it meant.

It means that very soon there is something that’s going to come for the believers that’s going to shut up all the other voices that talk to you - all those other voices that battle for your attention, all those other voices that say, “You’re not a believer.   You’re not in it.   This is not for you.   You’re not an overcomer.   You don’t have the Holy Ghost.   You’re not this.   You’re not that.   You’ll never do it.   You’re nobody.   God’ll never use you.   You don’t see visions.   You don’t have a dream.   You’re just dumb.   You’re just stupid.   God don’t . . .” - all these other voices that . . .

There is something coming in.   Hallelujah.   Come on.   There’s something coming in that will silence every other voice that battles to get your attention - something coming in.

And do you know what he said it was?   He said, “It will be THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Once you get a revelation of His Voice, once you’re able to discern and to recognize His Voice and to distinguish His Voice from all other voices, then you have received into your life THUS SAITH THE LORD.

And it absolutely silences any other voice that the enemy could use to speak to you.   Because once you know His Voice, that’s the Voice you’re listening for.   That’s the Voice you believe.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

Brother Branham explained that the righteous dead are in the Presence of the Lord.   To be absent from this body is to be what?   Present with the Lord.   He explained that to us from the Scripture.

But they have not entered into the fullness of their reward.   No, sir.   They’re in a place where there’s no pain, no trouble, no heartache, no sorrow, but they have not entered into the fullness of their reward.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

We’ve heard the prophet of God preach about that great testimony meeting that took place in Paradise.   And when Jesus left Paradise, he emptied it.   He took those righteous dead with him.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

I heard Brother Branham say, “Our loved ones are with us tonight.”   We can’t see them, and we shouldn’t try to talk to them, but he said, “They’re with us tonight.”

They’re just in a faster dimension than the one we’re living in.   But they’re with us tonight.   How could our theophanies be with us?   They’re in that other dimension.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

That’s the way God designed it.   We’re all going in.   That eternal Bride from every age . . . we’re going into that last place to see His face together.

Do you want a quote?   The prophet of God said that the Bride of every age in that land beyond the curtain of time . . . the Bride of every age was gathered with the messenger of that age.   They’re all in the same place.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

I want you to know that this is not a time to play with God.   He is confirming His Word all over the world - even through men and women who don’t know the Truth as you and I know it, but they do have a sense to hear and the ability to see as seers and prophets.   But gifts and callings of God are without repentance.

And many of them, if you knew their doctrine you would be shocked.   You’d be surprised.   You’d be amazed.   You wouldn’t want to know what their fundamental doctrine is – most of them Trinitarians.   Most of them baptize in titles.   Most of them have no real understanding of the hour that we’re living in historically and through the ministry of the Seventh Angel messenger.

And yet they’re having Words from the Lord that are so . . . they’re dovetailing and they’re pulling something out that is necessary for the hour we’re living in.

And so to know the Truth . . . to know that this is the Truth and to reject it is serious business.   To know that the Message of the Hour is right and to continue to play around with denominations, it’s a serious thing, because there are many out there who have not been given a heart to perceive.

If you can perceive what God has done in this day, you belong unto the Truth, because many cannot even perceive it.   They don’t even have eyes to begin to see it or ears to begin to hear it.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

The sad thing is Moses had already been warned about what kind of people he was leading.   He knew they couldn’t hear.   He knew they couldn’t see.   He knew they couldn’t understand, and he still got upset when they didn’t understand, when they didn’t see, and when they didn’t hear.   He knew that’s the kind of people they were.   God already told him that’s what kind of people they were.

Anybody with me?   But he got upset anyway.   And in his frustration he beat the rock.

We heard Brother Branham preach this in “Speak to the Rock,” and several other places.   And he talked about Pentecost.   And we could look at it this way.   Here they are going around the mountain one more time.   One more time around the mountain, and we ought to be able to get back to where we want to be.

We just make one more lap around the mountain, perhaps we’ll come back to the old-time power of Pentecost.   Everybody wants the power, everybody wants the fire, everybody wants the healing, everybody wants the deliverance, but nobody wants to pay any kind of a price.

The Spoken Word is not going to come to those who are unsanctified and unseparated.   The power of the Spoken Word is going to come on those vessels that are yielded.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

And in 2005, it was 120 years.   And we’ve all heard how Paul Keith Davis has said that he was standing in Moriah Chapel in Wales at the end of the 100th anniversary of the Welch Revival, and how the Lord spoke to him and said, “Moses, My servant, is dead.”

Those of you that have heard his ministry, you’ll know that he has clearly stated that Brother Branham’s ministry was a type of that Moses ministry, a prophet who would gather the people together and give them the Word that would bring them out of Egyptian slavery and bondage.

We know that Brother Branham received a Word from the Lord that a portion of his commission was a “Joshua Commission.”   And I believe that.   I believe that the Joshua Commission that was written in his Bible . . .

You know what was written in his Bible?   He wrote it there in his Bible.   I’ve seen the Bible.   He wrote it there.

I believe that it was a symbol, or a tithe, or a token of those who would sit under his ministry and receive the Voice of God to this generation.

And I want you to know that there was only a small number of people who recognized what God was doing in that day.   Many people . . .

Listen, many people went.   Many people saw the signs, many people saw the miracles, many people ordered the record albums and read the booklets, but only a handful of people were able . . .

And to that handful of people, Brother Branham was a Joshua.   To that handful of people who recognized there was a message behind the sign, there was a voice behind the sign . . . to that small remnant of people, Brother Branham fulfilled the commission that was given to him as a Joshua.

But to the majority of people in his ministry, who heard his ministry, he was a Moses.   And the Lord said last year, 2005, “Moses, My servant is dead” - meaning that an old cycle, a 120-year cycle of restoration, everything that the caterpillar . . .   (I’m not trying to re-preach brother’s message.)

Everything that the caterpillar, and the locust, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm hath eaten away . . . it has been restored.

I want to tell the devil, I want to tell the world and I want to tell you if you care to listen, that the Bride-tree has been restored.   Everything that Satan has taken away from the Bride, it has been restored because of the message that God has delivered in our day.

To multitudes of people, William Branham’s ministry was a Moses ministry.   To a small remnant of people, William Branham’s ministry was a Joshua ministry.

“But Moses, My servant, is dead.”

120 years, a Moses cycle, has ended.   And we are entering into a new cycle that will have a new model.   It will be based on what God has already done.   But it will be so supernatural that all of our thoughts and ideas about it won’t even begin to cover the expansiveness and the effectiveness of what God is about to do.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

Somebody came in last night and said, “Do you know what tomorrow is?”   Other than a couple . . . does anybody know what today . . . what kind of an anniversary today is?   Today is what?   May 7th, 2006.   May 7, 1946, something happened.

Sixty years ago today, the Angel of the Lord appeared to a little humble man that God had begun to deal with in visions and in dreams.   And he had gone to his little Baptist pastor who had told him it was of the devil and he should do everything he could to stop these visions.

He went to some of his Baptist preacher friends and they warned him.   And they told him, “You’re headed down the wrong road.   You better get free from that.   You better shake free from that as quickly as you can.”

He had gone off on a hunting trip.   And coming back through, he saw bumper stickers.   And even on the bicycles there were stickers that said, “Jesus Only.”   And he wanted to know what was going on.

There was a large convention of two of the largest Apostolic Church organizations at that time. Black . . . one was black and one was white, the P.A.W. and the P.A.O.W. – something like that. Now, one of those movements has grown into the large black Pentecostal denomination, The Church of God in Christ.

He went to the meeting.   He’d spent all his money.   You heard him say that he had just enough money to buy some old, stale, day-old rolls from the bakery and he drank water out of a fire hydrant that was being flushed out in the downtown.

He took his seersucker pants off.   He slept in the old vehicle that he had.   And he pressed his seersucker britches between the seats, the folding seat of the car.   And he went to the meeting.

And when he went in there was an old black preacher who was preaching.   And he said, “You don’t have enough room for me to preach up here.”

He was old.   Brother Branham said he was old, but he was kickin’ up his heels.   He was jumpin’ around.   He was praisin’ the Lord.   He was talkin’ about, “Where were you when the morning star, the stars of the morning, leaped for joy?   Where were you?”   You know - from Job.   And you know that story.

You know how that he was given an opportunity to introduce himself and minister a little bit.   And people were inviting him to preach all over the country – him, a Baptist preacher.

And he went home and told his wife and family.   And his mother-in-law . . . she said, “You better not get mixed up with that trash.”

And he didn’t take his opportunity to fulfill any of those invitations.   And the great flood of the Ohio River came.   And his wife and little girl died from complications of the flood.

And you know the story.   He wanted to die.   He tried to take his own life.   He grabbed a hold of a live electric wire.   He was a lineman for the electric company.   And he grabbed a hold of a live electric wire hoping and believing that it would kill him.

But he lived.   He was so desperate that he told his wife one day . . .

(I’m not sure that I’ve even got the place marked here.   Yeah.)

“Oh,” she said, “Billy . . .”  (This is his wife talking.)   “Oh Billy, you oughtn’t to listen to what people tell you.”

“I said, ‘But, honey, look at other preachers.’   I said, ‘I don’t want it.   I’m going to my place in the woods.   I got about fifteen dollars; you take care of Billy.’

Billy was a little boy then.   He said, “That’s enough for you and Billy to live on awhile.   Call them up and tell them I may be back tomorrow, and I may not never be back.   If I ain’t back in the next five days, put a man on (the line) in my place.

“And I said, ‘Meda, I’ll never come out of that woods until God promises me He will take that thing away from me and never let it happen again.’”

He was so disturbed over those visions that he was going to go and hide away until the Lord took them away from him.

He said, “Think of the ignorance a man can be.   I went up there that night, went back up in a little old cabin floor.   It was next day, it was kind of late; I was going to go up to my camp the next day, farther around the mountain . . .   I don’t believe the FBI could find me up there.

“So this little old cabin . . .   I’d been praying all that afternoon and ‘fore it got too dark.   I’d prayed, was reading over there in the Bible where It said, ‘The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet.’

“I couldn’t make that out.   So it got too dark in the little old cabin where I used to trap when I was a boy, had a trap line through there, and go up there and fish and stay all night: just a little old dilapidated cabin setting over there . . .

“. . . I was just waiting there.   I thought, ‘Well.’   Got along towards one o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock in the morning; I was walking up and down the floor, walking back and forth.   I set down on a little old stool there . . . and I thought, ‘My God, why do You do this to me?’   I said, ‘Father, You know I love you.   You know that I love You.   And I don’t want to be possessed of the devil.’”

How terrible.   This preacher made him think he was possessed of the devil because he was seeing visions.   He said, “’I don’t want to be possessed of the devil.   I don’t want them things to happen to me.   Please, God, don’t never let it happen no more.’   I said, ’I love You.   I don’t want to go to hell.

“’What’s the use of me preaching, and trying, and putting my efforts forth if I’m wrong?   And I’m not only taking myself to hell; I’m misleading thousands of others.’   Or hundreds of others in them days.   And I said . . . I had a big ministry.   And I said, ‘Well, I don’t never want it to happen to me again.’

“And I set down on this little stool . . . kind of in this position, just like that.   And all at once I seen a Light flicker in the room.   I thought somebody was come up with a flashlight.

“And I looked around, and I thought, ‘Well.’   And here It was, right out in front of me.   And old wooden boards on the floor, and there It was, right in front of me.   There’s a little old drum stove setting in the corner; the top was tore out of it.   And right in here there was a Light on the floor, and I thought, ‘Well, where’s that?   Well, that couldn’t be coming . . .’

“I looked around.   And here it was above me, this very same light, right there above me, hanging right like that, circling around like a fire, It’s kind of an emerald color . . .”

Anybody know what color an emerald is?   Not red.

“. . . going, ‘Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh’ like that, just above it like that.   And I looked at That, and I thought, ‘What is That?’   Now, It scared me.

“And I heard somebody coming, just walking, only it was bare-footed.   And I seen the foot of a Man come in.   It was dark in the room, all but right here where It was shining right down.   I seen the foot of a Man coming in.   And when He come into the room, walked on up, He was a Man about, looked to weigh about 200 pounds.   He had His hands folded like this.

“Now, I’d seen it in a Whirlwind; I’d heard It talk to me, and seen it in the form of a light, but the first time I ever seen the image of It.   It walked up to me real close.”

He said, “Well, honest, friends, I thought my heart would fail me.   Just imagine.   Put yourself there,” he said.

“’Cause after hundreds and hundreds of times of visitation, it paralyzes me when He comes near . . .   I almost completely pass out, just so weak when I leave the platform.”

“So I was setting there and looking at Him.   I kind of had my hand up like that.   He was looking right at me, just as pleasant.   But He had a real deep voice, and He said, ‘Do not fear; I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God.’

“And when He spoke that voice, that was the same voice that spoke to me when I was two years old, all the way up.   I knowed that was Him.”

“He said, ‘Do not fear,’ just as quiet, said, ’I’m sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth . . .’   As you know what my birth was up there.”

(He’s telling this in a sermon.)   He said, “As you know what my birth was.   That same Light hung over me when I was first born.

“And so He said, ‘Your peculiar birth and misunderstood life has been to indicate that you’re to go into all the world and pray for the sick people.’   And said, ‘And regardless of what they have . . .’ And . . . He designated cancer.

“Said, ‘Nothing . . .   If you get the people to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayers, not even cancer, (See?) if you get the people to believe you.’”

He said, “What did I know about healings and things like that, those gifts?   I said, ‘Well, Sir, I’m a poor man.’   And I said, ’I’m among my people.   I live with my people who’s poor.   I’m uneducated.’   And I said, ‘And I would not be able; they’d not understand me.’   I said, ‘They wouldn’t hear me.’

“And He said, ‘As the prophet Moses was given two gifts, signs (rather) to a-vindicate his ministry, so . . . are you given two gifts to a-vindicate your ministry.’

“He said, ‘One of them will be that you’ll take the person that you’re praying for by the hand, with your left hand and their right,’ and said, ‘then just stand quiet, and there’ll be a physical effect that’ll happen on your body.’   And said, ‘Then you pray.   And if it leaves, the disease is gone from the people.   If it doesn’t leave, just ask a blessing and walk away.’

“’Well,’ I said, ‘Sir, I’m afraid they won’t receive me.’

“He said, ‘And the next thing will be, if they won’t hear that, then they will hear this.’   Said, ‘Then it’ll come to pass that you’ll know the very secret of their heart.’   Said, ‘This they will hear.’

“’Well,’ I said, ‘Sir, that’s why I’m here tonight.   I have been told by my clergymen that those things that’s been coming to me was wrong.’

“He said, ‘You were born in this world for that purpose.’”

“And I said, ‘Well, Sir, my clergymen told me that it was the evil spirit.’   And I said, ‘That’s why I’m here praying.’

“And here’s what He quoted to me.   He related to me the coming of the Lord Jesus in His first time.”

And I’m not going to read every bit of that, but it went on.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

He called it many times, “How the Angel Came to Me.”   May the 7th, 1946, sixty years ago today, what happened?   An Angel came and commissioned him, told him what his ministry would be like.

Are there any witnesses here (yes) who can tell that it happened exactly like the Angel said it would?

I’m gathering a list of testimonies, little excerpts of words that have been spoken about his ministry by some of the greatest men that have ever lived.

Oral Roberts had one of the greatest healing ministries the world has ever seen.   And I found some of the quotations all of these different men have said.

Ern Baxter, who was once working with Brother Branham, this red-headed Canadian preacher . . . and he explained it and described it.   He was standing there.

He said, “I saw Brother Branham take their hand in his hand, and I watched these manifestations come on his hand.   It would either swell up, or it would turn red, or sometimes it would turn white like leprosy.

“And Brother Branham would look at his hand and by what he saw on his hand, he would tell them what their disease was.   And if their faith touched God, that breaking-out or pusy-ness or swelling, it would disappear.   And he’d say, ‘All right.   The spirit has left you.   The disease has left you. Go your way and be healed.’”

And thousands of people were healed that way.   And he had that ministry for quite some time. And then God changed the course of his ministry, and he began . . .   He didn’t need the hand anymore.   He didn’t have to hold people by the hand anymore.   They would just come before him, and he would tell them the very secrets of their heart.

Sometimes he would read their mail.   Literally, he would tell them what kind of a letter was in their purse.   He would tell them their name.   You should hear some of these prayer lines.   He would tell them their name.

He would say, “There’s a . . .   Yes, ma’am,” he said, “Your name is Burns.   No, Burke.   Burke, Burke.   You’re not from here.   You’re from another state.   And I see that you live in a house next to a little depot.   And I see that you’ve been diagnosed with such-and-such.   But go your way. Do you believe?   Do you believe what the . . . ?   Oh, then go your way, and you’re made whole.”

And thousands and thousands of people received their healing.

It was a Moses ministry to the multitudes, but to a small remnant of people, he was also a Joshua because his ministry took them farther than just sign and miracles and healings.

Sixty years ago, the Angel appeared to that man and told him what his ministry would be.   In 1965, his earthly ministry ended.   We’re here over forty years later.   There has been a generational gap.

I believe that the Lord has told me that in the same manner, in the same way, that the Angel came to commission Brother Branham sixty years ago today . . . I believe that before we leave this house, there will be a commissioning take place in the Spirit that will set the course for the final cycle of God’s dealings with men.

I believe that same Angel of the Lord is with God’s people today.   We can’t go forward by always looking backward.   But we cannot know who we are without knowing where we have come from.

And God is raising up people to go out and tell the stories, to tell the testimonies, to share the Message, to tell what God has done.   And it pales to compare with what God wants to do.

It will not be the same ministry model.   It will not be the same way – one man mightily used of God, multitudes coming to see one man perform the works of God.

It will be a multi-membered Bride raised up with the same power, the same anointing, the same calling and the same commissioning.

Brother Branham was only a Joshua to a small remnant of people.   But you and I are entering into that time of the Joshua commissioning.   And we will not go forth in the anointing of Moses.   We will go forth in the anointing of Joshua and Caleb.   It is a different anointing altogether.

The anointing of Moses was a gathering anointing, a calling-out anointing.   But the anointing of Joshua and Caleb is an anointing to possess and to overcome all of the enemies that stand between you and the promises of God in your life.

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Everything that God promised Moses and his followers never happened in the ministry of Moses. It only began to come to pass in the next generation.

Did God lie?   Did God not keep His promises?   No.   A whole generation of people forfeited their promises.   Hear me.   They did it because they murmured against the prophet.

A whole generation of people forfeited their promises.   And their children and grandchildren inherited the promises that had been given to them, but they failed to receive them.   They forfeited them.

They passed them on because they couldn’t get their deliverance, they couldn’t get their freedom. They couldn’t seem to manage to get eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to perceive.   So a generation followed.

The very same thing has happened in this last cycle as we’ve come now to the end of everything, the consummation of the ages, the end of the end.   The very same thing is happening.

God sent a Moses with a Message.   And that Moses brought precious promises that were to come upon the Bride of Christ in the last days.

And only a small remnant of people received it and became a part of that Joshua commissioning that God had given to the prophet.

Some people were not able to receive the promises because they fixated on the messenger.

You cannot hear the Message if you fixate on the messenger.   You cannot hear the Message if you fixate on the messenger.   You cannot hear the Message if you focus on the mouthpiece.

“Look what a mouthpiece.   Look what a mouthpiece.   Look what a mouthpiece.   Look what a messenger.   Look what a messenger.   Look what a messenger.   Look what a sign.   Look what a sign.   Look what a sign.   Look what a ministry.   Look what a man of God.   He was just like Jesus.   He never . . .”

I’m not telling you I believe this.   I’m telling you what a generation declared.   Be careful.   I’m just telling you what was declared.

“He never made a mistake - not one mistake.   He never made a mistake.   There was no sin in him.”   Some went so far as to say that in April, Christ was born.

I have in my files Christmas cards that have come from India in April with a log cabin on the front saying, “Christ Branham was born,” that celebrate the birth of Christ Branham.

You can’t receive a Message if you fixate on the messenger.   You can’t understand and perceive and receive a Message if you focus on the mouthpiece.   You’ll fall into error every time, every time, every time.   You’ll make your pilgrimages back to see if there’s any possibility that we can raise the mouthpiece from the dead.

But I want to tell you something.   If Brother Branham were raised from the dead and stood in this house this morning, he could not declare anything any different to you than what you have heard. He couldn’t.

And yet there are people who have fixated on the mouthpiece, on the messenger, who are waiting on him to raise from the dead.   They are waiting on a physical tent, a physical return.   And because of their behavior, many of them continued in their sin, not trusting Christ for redemption, but hoping that one day Brother Branham would bring deliverance to their lives.

So some of them continued to live in adultery.   Some of them continued to lust for other men’s wives and had them - had them, took them, prophesied.   I can give you facts, but I’m not going to this morning.

But there are people in this building who have been around these things long enough.   We know the good and the bad and the ugly.

You see, there are people in this place that know what it was like for women to go down to the lake and try to drown themselves because their husbands who believed this Message had decided . . . or who said they believed this Message had decided that there was an impurity in their wife that they had lived with all these years, so they were going to put her away and take a younger wife.

And there are people in this building that knew those kinds of situations and knew the wife that ran down to the water and tried to drown herself.

I went into the mental institution to pray for a woman whose husband had brought in another wife and said, “I’m going to have two wives because Brother Branham said, ‘many does to one buck.’” He was describing the animal kingdom, you nincompoop.

Any man who wants more than one wife is a raging idiot.   It’s strange enough to want one, but it’s terribly peculiar to want more than one.

I don’t even like to focus on these kinds of things, but I knew I came this morning with a mandate from the Lord.   And I had to tell you why that we’re living here sixty years after a prophet received a commission, forty-something years after he left the scene, and we have still not inherited the promises that were given to his generation.

We can no longer claim to be a part of the generation of William Branham because, I’m telling you, the years are taking us into another generation whether we want to believe it or not.   We’re being pushed into another generation.

And I could go on and on and on and tell you the uglies.   And it wouldn’t glorify God.   But I’ve told you enough to serve a purpose.

There was a generation of people who forfeited their rights to full adoption.   There was a generation of people who forfeited their rights to spiritual adoption.   There was a generation of people who forfeited their rights to the power of the Spoken Word.

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I thought about that great Cloud of Witnesses longing to come to the fullness of what they’ve waited for all these years.   I thought about all the promises that were given to a past generation, but they fixated on a man.

I want to say this, even though some may disagree.   I promise you I’ll love you regardless.   I will not be offended if you don’t agree.   But I want to tell you what the Spirit of God has taught me recently.   He’s taught me that the rebellion of this generation of people cut short the life . . .

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I believe Brother Branham’s life was cut short - not because of something he had done, but because of what the people had done.   And it’s all right with me.   It’s all right with me.

Tommy Osborne said at Brother Branham’s memorial service, “This was the greatest prophet who had lived since Bible days.”

No wonder people were in shock.   God was still using him.   The history books sometimes talk about how his ministry was waning away.

God was still using him in powerful ways in ’65.   God allowed . . . because listen, God’s jealous and He won’t let people share His glory.

Brother Branham went off the field because of people’s behavior.   But he later came back on the field.   You know the stories.   His life was definitely cut short.   And a whole generation of people forfeited the promises that had been given to them for their day.

But if the cutting of Stephen’s life short caused a greater harvest in the ministry of Paul, then could it be that God allowed the enemy to cut that prophet’s life short because God had a greater plan?

What He does this time, no one will be able to fixate on men because it will be so multiplied.   It’ll be carried out by a many-membered Bride - so many men and women moving under the Anointing of God, fulfilling God’s plan in their lives for a very quick, short work.

And God spoke to me and said, “Today I’m going to release a commissioning over this Joshua generation.”

And all the promises that were made to a prior generation and were forfeited, they fall on us.   They hang over our heads this morning.   All that God said He was going to do and couldn’t do in the prior generation, it hangs over our heads this day for us to reach up and say, “I’ll take that.   I’ll surrender my life.   I’ll lay my will before you, oh God.   And I want to do Your will.”

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Today the mantle is falling.   Elijah’s mantle is falling.   Will you see it?   Will you recognize it? Will you pick it up?   It’s the passing of the baton.   It’s the changing of the guard.   It’s a re-commissioning.   Will you see the mantle?   For in that mantle are the promises of prior generations, unfulfilled destinies.   Will you pick it up?

Nobody’s asking, “Where is Elijah?”   No one’s asking, “Where is William Branham, where is A. B. Simpson, where is Jack Coe, where is Amy Semple McPhearson, where is Katherine Kuhlman, where is Roland Buck, where is Smith Wigglesworth, where is John G. Lake, Alexander Dowie?”

No one is asking, “Where is Elijah?”  When we pick up that mantle, we only have one question. “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?   Where is the Lord God of William Branham?   Where is the Lord God of all of this great Cloud of Witnesses?”

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As Brother Branham went to that cabin asking You, Lord, to take this gift away from him, You didn’t come to take away the gift.   You sent Your Angel to commission him, to announce his destiny, to tell him what he was called to do.

And though he was poor and uneducated, You called him to stand before kings and potentates to minister Your Word of healing and deliverance.   We receive a commission.

We may not know every detail.   We may not know all that it entails.   But we receive Your commission in our lives, Your calling.   We recognize that You have called us, separated us, set us apart.   And we receive our calling.   We receive our commissioning.   We are ready, Lord, to do Your will, whatever it takes, whatever it involves.   We are ready to do Your will.

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How many of you understand that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance?   Now basically what that means . . . it really goes together with a Scripture that says, “The spirit of the prophet is subject unto the prophet.”

There are many different interpretations to both of these Scriptures.   But basically, let me say that people are born with gifts.   And the gift is from God.   The devil cannot give you a gift at birth.   Gifts come from the Lord.

The ability to see into another dimension, into another realm of the spirit . . . it is given to you at birth.   It is not something that you pray and all of a sudden God gives you.   It’s something you are born with.   Your awareness of it grows as you grow.

And you are able to distinguish . . .   As you mature in the Lord, you’re able to distinguish and recognize times in your life that the Lord was showing you something.   You say, “Hey, that was the Lord.   That was God showing me.   That was the leadership of the Lord in my life.”

Brother Branham explained it this way.   He had at least two, that we know of, interactions with fortunetellers.   And both of these fortunetellers told Brother Branham that he was born under a sign, a specific sign.   And that he was . . . basically, he was a seer – that he was able to see.

Brother Branham described his office as that of a prophet.   And he said that a prophet was built differently than anybody else - not any more special, just different.

There is a very small gulf or gap between the consciousness and the sub-consciousness of a prophet.   A normal person has a greater span between his consciousness and sub-consciousness.

But a man, or a woman (as a prophetess), who was born with that kind of special office, being the office of a prophet (we’re going to talk about that in the next few weeks), their consciousness and sub-consciousness is very close together.

And it’s easy for them to move back and forth between those realms.   Not at will, necessarily, but as the office matures in somebody’s life, they have a little bit more control over when and how and for how long they move back and forth between those realms.

You know, Brother Branham learned that if he could just do a little something distracting, or say a little something distracting, he could kind of cut off the vision.

And the reason why he wanted to do that is because there were times in his ministry that he would be going into vision for hours and hours and hours.   And it was such a tremendous strain on his physical body that there were times that he had to do that.

We all know the example that we give sometimes, when he was speaking privately to Brother and Sister West, that he reached up and kind of took a hold of the control for the windshield wiper. Asked Brother West, “Do you know why I’m doing that?”

Brother West acknowledged as though he did know, although he wasn’t quite sure.   And Brother Branham never really gave the explanation.   But we gathered enough from his sermons that he mentioned those kinds of things - breaking those visions.

He would set at certain times, sometimes, for people to come and knock on the door of the hotel so that . . .   And he would sometimes go to dinner . . .   He would set a time to go to dinner before a meeting just so he could have a little bit of an interaction and break that cycle.

He must have really flowed in a tremendously high level of the prophetic.   And the rest of us in the world who have any form of prophetic unction in us at all, we must be very immature in our gifts and callings.   But we’re working on maturity.

So I said all that to say this.   I’ve also had a couple of experiences with someone who was a fortuneteller.   And they . . .   Brother Branham said, “The gift that’s in their life is from God.   The ability to know the future, the ability to see into the future, is a gift from God.”

But they have a decision to make, like all of us, a choice to make with our gifts and talents - how we will use the gift, how we will use the talent.   And they choose to access that realm of information with a God-given gift, but not using it to glorify God.

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And for instance, Brother Branham talked to us about a woman and what her place was in handling the Word of God.   The Bible carefully tells us that a woman should not usurp authority over a man in the Word.

We hear women who have been mightily used of God like Maria Woodworth-Etter, Kathryn Kuhlman and Amy Semple McPhearson.

But we hear Kathryn Kuhlman saying something that’s almost profound.   And she said, “You know I live every day with the reality that I was not God’s first choice.   I was not His second choice, not His third choice.”   She said, “I may not have even been His fourth or fifth choice.”

Later in her life, she would go a step farther.   And she would say, “I was not God’s first choice. He offered this gift of faith and healing to four or five men.   And they all turned it down.   And I just happened to be the one who said, ‘I’ll be used.’”

Can anybody see that?   Can anybody see that you can be passed over by rejecting what God has for you?   You can really . . . you can really lose.   I just wonder.

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Brother Branham preached at her church, Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, California, in 1956 a message called, “Azusa Jubilee.”

It’s exciting to know that just a few weeks ago, at the same building in the same city, there was a celebration that took place in Angelus Temple celebrating one-hundred years of Pentecostal fire around the world.

I have listened recently to “Azusa Jubilee” in 1956.   And I hear Brother Branham crying out against the compromise of the Pentecostal world in merely fifty years.   I pray that he was busy elsewhere a few weeks ago because the things that he cried out against are just common practice, acceptable behavior, in the Pentecostal world today.

Brother Branham did not believe that a woman had the right to stand, to take authority over a man, and handle the Word of God.   But do you know what he said about Amy Semple McPhearson that night?   “I know that she is standing over the balcony of heaven looking down on this great gathering.”

Here was a man who had the revelation that you can do God a service and not be in the center of His will.   He also had a revelation that a lot of Message people don’t have.   (How ironic.)

And that is that God can reward you.   He can reward you and even bless you for doing Him a service that is not according to His perfect will.

He rewarded her by letting her stand and look over the balcony of heaven and see what had come of the little ministry that she had started.   She was rewarded.   She’s a veteran, so to speak, of another time.

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I have personally heard him [Benny Hinn] say wonderful things about Brother Branham’s ministry - powerfully strong things about Brother Branham’s ministry.

The focus of it is they were talking about two men who are about to leave the scene and that their leaving was going to be a sign to the whole world that something was changing.

And if you’ll remember, a prophecy was given in the middle of a sermon here not too, too long ago that was fresh from the Lord.

It’s not something that we wouldn’t already kind of know because of what we’ve heard from the Message of the Hour.   But it came as a Rhema.   It came as a fresh Word from the Lord.

And maybe you’re not as aware of this analogy that Brother Branham gave.   I think everybody in here who has studied the Message knows that he talked about Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.

He said they were men of God.   He had respect for them.   He loved them.   He had nothing against them.   But he said that they were messengers to Sodom to call out . . . to call out some folks from Sodom.

And isn’t it ironic that Brother Branham has been off the scene since 1965?   We’re talking about forty-one years later.   And the men that had really a smaller purpose are still alive and still preaching.

Now it’s just announced, you know, that Billy Graham did his last sermon some months ago.   But I’ve heard since then that he’s feeling pretty good, and perhaps he’ll do something else.   Hadn’t died yet, so maybe he should organize something else, he said.

Can you imagine?   Just kind of waiting on the deadline.   It’s kind of a strange thought.

Oral Roberts is in his eighties.   His wife has already passed away.   And he still looks pretty good. Make-up on television can do some wonderful things.   And he still has a ministry.   In fact, he just had a book published not too long ago.

It’s amazing.   Forty-one years after William Branham left the scene, we’ve got the two messengers that went to Sodom still alive and still functioning in some form of ministry.

But the Lord spoke here and he said, “Their passing will be a sign.”

Maybe you’re not aware of the other analogy that Brother Branham gave.   He also said that these two men’s ministry was typed in the three angels, or the three messengers, that appeared to Abraham - a different story.

We’re not talking about Sodom and Gomorrah now.   We’re talking about this great appointment that took place at Abraham’s tent.   Remember?   And we know that one of those was God in a theophany body.   The other two were angels.   And Brother Branham said several times that the ministry of Oral Roberts and Billy Graham typed those two angels.

But he said, “God sort of stayed with Abraham.”   He ministered to Abraham.   And there was a transfer of power and authority into Abraham’s life.   It was typed by the physical changing of his name from Abram to Abraham, the “h-a-m.”

And Brother Branham also pointed out that Billy Graham had the “ham” in his name.   And, of course, Brother Branham had the “ham” in his name.

And Abram changed to Abraham.   Really, we’ve talked about it before.   What that was - it was the “ha.”   It was “ha” that was added to his name.   And this “ha” is the breath of God.   So God breathed His breath into Abram, changed his name to Abraham - the breath of God is in him.

And then Brother Branham talked about this ministry that took place there when the back was turned, so to speak . . . when one of these messengers turned his back in the sense that Sarah was inside the tent.   He had no way of seeing Sarah in the tent, and yet he knew and discerned that she laughed.

And he talked about Billy Graham and Oral Roberts represented by these other angels.   They came and they left.

But this impartation, so to speak . . .   (I’m using a modern word, but it surely fits in with what concept he was bringing out in this message.)   But this breath of God, this impartation of God, stayed with Abraham.   It was a gifting that was placed in his life.   And there are many, many times . . .

And I don’t have time to go from one to the other, but let me just read this.   And then I’m going to read you the prophecy that was given on international television.

In a message called “The End Time Sign Seed," preached, strangely enough, in Tifton, Georgia:

“Jesus said, ‘As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.’ There was two angels went down to the Sodomites.

“Remember, Lot once walked with Abraham.   The church once walked in fellowship with Christ with the Word.   But they sold out their birthrights for denomination.  Now, she’s selling the whole thing and organizing into one big confederation of church.”

He said, “That’s exactly what happened to Lot.   He went down there.   Two angels, (Oral Roberts, and a Billy Graham, as it would be in this day) went down there, and placed the Gospel to them. What happened?   A disgrace even came out of it.

“But Abraham . . .   One stood back with him.   There’s One that he called God.   And the sign that He performed there before them . . .”

“The sign that was performed . . .”   What was the sign that was performed at Abraham’s tent? Knowing the secrets of the heart.

Brother Branham called that the sign of the Messiah, the Messianic sign.   The sign of the Messiah was to know the secrets of the heart.   And this happened there at Abraham’s tent.

He said, “It proved what he was.   Abraham was the elected because he was . . .   Abraham had the promise.”

Anybody in the house got a promise?

“And now look,” he said, “this is Abraham’s seed.   The promise was not only made to Abraham, but his seed.   Not his seed Isaac, it failed; it proved it did.

“But the seed, the faith that he had: no matter what the circumstances was, how against the nature it was, how much the doctor said it wasn’t so . . .   Abraham, after he had the promise given to him, when it was impossible . . .”

And he goes on and talks about not having children, and the church has been sowed with something that doesn’t have the Word . . .   And he talks about the foolish virgins and the . . .   And on and on it goes.

And there are many other places where Brother Branham kind of types that ministry of the Messiah, the Messianic sign, the Angel that stayed, or God staying with them while two go on.

Now if this was given in a Message Church, okay, that’s wonderful.   But this is, again, given by someone who is as far away from what I’m comfortable with as possible.   But this was a prophecy that was given.

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Now they’ve already had this discussion without calling the names of two . . .   And they said “two anointed men of God who are on the scene, who are alive today.”

But then the prophecy comes.   And he said:

“Even as I subtract these two great lives that have been carrying My anointing . . .”

“God said, ‘As I subtract, at that very moment multiplication shall begin to take place.   And the earth shall say, “Surely the Lord God of Israel lives.   He reigns.   He heals.   He delivers.”’

“God says, ‘This is your hour.’”

And then he goes a step further.   We can watch this.   He said:

“Look to the summer of this year.   For even as there is subtraction, so there will be multiplication.”

Now we’re not interpreting this, but it appears as though he is saying these men may be removed this summer.

We don’t know.   Doesn’t even matter to me when.   But we already have heard it’s a sign.   And when we go back and hear what the prophet of God said, we can really say it’s a sign because these other messengers have to go on their way so that this impartation from God can come to Abraham’s seed.

That’s good.   That’s good.   That’s good news.   This God lingered with Abraham, breathed on him, ministered to him, declared and produced multiplication in him.   And this is, you know . . . to me it’s so exciting because that’s good right there.

But what did Brother Branham call the Bride?   Over and over and over and over again, what did he call the Bride?   The royal seed of Abraham, the sons of Abraham, the royal sons of the Promise – over and over again.   Hallelujah.

Over and over again, he spiritually taught us that we were the spiritual descendants.   He said, “Not Baptist, not Methodist, not white, not black, not European, not this, not that, but the royal seed of Abraham . . .”

“That’s the kind of blood,” he said, “that’s flowing through my veins.”

Wow, what a spiritual inheritance.   Hallelujah.   But it comes by impartation.   It comes by a release.   This prophecy even said it.

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In that sermon I mentioned it wasn’t that the dove had no place to put his feet, because don’t you know that the waters were full of places that he could have put his feet?

“What kind of places?”   The dead carrion.   The dead, floating, bloated, rottening carcasses of flesh, both human and animals, that had been destroyed in the Flood.   And if the dove was really typed . . .

Listen, he sent out a raven first.   And the raven didn’t come back because it wasn’t in the raven’s nature to be picky.

The Bride of Jesus Christ . . . we’re very, very, very peculiar and very, very picky about where we rest.   We’re very discerning and discriminating about where we find . . . hallelujah . . . about where we find our rest.

The dove . . .   See, there’s been a blending of natures.   He talked about the nature of the dove and the lamb.   Oh, my.   All that old stuff, all that old stuff . . .   Why do you want to listen to all that old stuff for?

But, my, how old stuff can become new.   Hear the things the prophet preached in the fifties, and they’re new.   And they’re fresh.   And they’re being declared to a people who . . .

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This same sign that Abraham saw in his tent, that same sign was in the earth in the ministry of this little preacher.   He did the very same thing that the Angel of God did to Abraham.   He turned His back and discerned the secrets of the . . . and hearts of the people.

I preached . . .   This is what I’m about to say, and it went over like a lead balloon in the early nineties.   Let’s see if it will float tonight.   Let’s see if it will float tonight.

Isn’t it amazing that what sunk like lead in the early nineties just might float in 2006?   Wouldn’t that be something?   Fifteen years sure can make a difference.

But I talked about “What is the sign of the Messiah?”   The prophet of God gave us examples from the Scripture – this God who appeared to Abraham in his tent.

And what about this God who appeared and said to Nathaniel, “I saw thee when you were under the fig tree.   You are a devout man.   I see you.   I knew you.”

“How do you know me?”

“I saw you, Nathaniel, when you were under the fig tree.”

The very same sign.

The woman at the well.   (Remember these?)   The woman at the well.   He didn’t know anything about that woman.

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But Yeshua knew exactly where in Samaria He needed to go to.   He ended up near Shechem, modern day Nablus, at the foot of Mount Gerazim and found this Jacob’s well and met this woman. And you know the interaction they had.   And He starts telling her, “Go, get your husband.”

“Oh, I have no husband.”

“You have well said that you have no husband.   For you have had five husbands, and the one you’re living with right now is not even your own.”

He just read her mail.   How could he do that?   Because he was fulfilling the type.   He was fulfilling the shadow of what happened in the ministry of Abraham and other occasions in the Old Testament.   This was pointing to the coming of the Messiah.

Well, the Messiah came.   And when He came, He did exactly what happened to Abraham by this God in a theophany body.

And we saw that very same thing happen in our generation.

I can still hear my granny tonight.   1964 - she was in Birmingham, Alabama.   It was ’64, wasn’t it?

She heard “A Trial” and “Spiritual Amnesia.”   And she said in one of those meetings she saw Brother Branham - said, “I’m not going to do this for show, but I just want you to see what God’s doing here.”

A lot of this . . . we can’t even find some of these things on audio tape.   But my granny was never in any other meetings as far as I know, as far as she said to me . . .   I asked.   And she didn’t know a lot of this so she was telling me, I believe, honestly what she saw.

And she said, “He turned his back and he went all the way down a row.   He just chose a row and went all the way down the row with his back turned and told each person their name.   Some of them their address and where they were from and what their needs were.”

What did that mean?   It meant not that Brother Branham was more than a man, but it meant that the Angel of the Lord who was standing with him on the platform was more than a man.

It meant that this Angel that had come to minister to him and through him was more than a man. In fact, it must have been the same Angel, the same thing living again.

It must have been Jesus raised from the pages of history and proving Himself a current reality. Right?   The sign of the Messiah.   Amen.

And this is what sunk in the 90's.   Here goes.   “That’s the sign of the Messiah, the last sign” - first sign - in the hand, the last sign - knowing the hearts of the people.

“If you can’t get them to believe you this way, this is what will happen.   This is the sign of the Messiah.   This will testify that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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I have a revelation that there’s going to be a fresh revelation of Hebrews 13:8 - a fresh revelation.

And it’s going to come by remembering those that have had the rule over us, those who have come before us, and by imitating their faith.

2006-05-09 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 1

This is what I preached in the ’90's that sunk.   I said:

“Okay, if this is the sign of the Messiah, discerning the thoughts and secrets of men’s hearts, and we have been told over and over and over again we’re Abraham’s royal seed, we’re the manifested sons of God, we’re coming to full adoption, the Spoken Word is restored . . .”

But more than that, more than that, he said, “Oh, Super Church.   Don’t forget that Super Church,” and “If the vine ever puts forth another branch exactly like the original . . .” and all these promises that we’ve had.

And we found out Sunday morning that the only way the Bridegroom can come into the Chuppah is for the Bride to invite Him.   The only way our marriage can be consummated to the Lord Jesus Christ is for us to open up the door and make ourselves available for intimacy with Him.

You with me?

And above all those things that he said we were going to be, and that we should be, and that we’re going to do . . .   In all these things did he not call us . . .   Over and over and over again, did he not say that in the End-time this little royal seed of Abraham, the sons of God manifested, should raise up and be as what?   Messiahettes.

And didn’t he give definitions of Messiahettes?   What was the definition he gave?   Remember? What?   Little Messiahs.

Somebody said, “What in the world do you mean?”

I simply mean a chip off the old block.   You’re looking more like your father every day instead of your mother.   That’s the revelation that’s about to sweep forth.

For too many years the church has looked like her mother.   And who is her mother?   That harlot. No, no, that whore.

The Bible said she was a whore and she was the mother of harlots.   Didn’t it?   So the mother was a whorish woman, and she gave birth to little whorish women - harlots.

And what is that?   It’s those denominational systems that have substituted and replaced the purity of the Word of God for creeds, dogmas and traditions - doctrines and traditions of men.

And so, for too long the church world has looked more and more like it’s mother.

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But they’re just like their mother.   You can’t tell them all apart.   They’re just like their mother. But we’re coming to a new hour of revelation where the Bride, the Church called out of the church, the remnant called out, the remnant, that true Third Exodus, the true Third Exodus, is going to be a revelation where the people of God are going to start looking like their father - not like their mother, that old Roman Catholic system – their father.

Who is your father?   God Almighty, the One who breathed breath in you and let you live.   We’re going to start taking on His attributes and His character.

“I’ve heard all that before.”

Well?   Glad you have.   But in the nineties, it sunk.   Because I went so far as to say, “If this is the sign of the Messiah, knowing the secrets of the heart, and God has called His Bride in the last days to be little Messiahettes, does it not stand to reason that they will have to walk under the same sign that the Messiah did?

So I said, “Don’t be surprised if you don’t see this gift manifested in the ordinary lives of those who are really the Bride of Jesus Christ.”

I said that in the nineties, Sister Gloria.   And it just went “over the heads.”   “Because that makes it sound like you’re trying to be like Brother Branham.”

No, no, no.   I have set my aspirations, I have set my affections and my goals, a lot higher than on Brother Branham.

I put my goals and my affection and my desires, and what I want to be, and who I want to be, much higher than that.

I want to go right back to where he got his from.   I want to be like Jesus.   That’s where we’ve got to go is to be like Jesus.

And in order to do that then we’re going to have the gifts that operated in Him - the Giver living inside of us, even greater than a manifestation of the gifts.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

You see, it’s not just John that had an appointment before the Throne.   It wasn’t just Brother Shelley that had an appointment, or Brother Branham, or any of these other people that have had these heavenly experiences.

But I believe that God has an appointment with each and every one of us in heavenly places.   We may not physically leave this building tonight, but how many of you know just sitting in the Presence of the Lord, we can soar into heavenly places in Christ Jesus.   It’s not a physical relocation.   It’s a spiritual relocation.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

I want you to know you don’t have to wait until your soul leaves your body tonight to let your spirit and your inner man soar into heavenly places to receive that revelation and that overcoming anointing that has been promised for us in this hour.

How many of you want an overcomer’s anointing?

You’ve got to have it.   You’re not going to get it here.   You’re not going to get it focusing on this life.   You’re not going to get it caught up in the things around you.

The only way you’re going to receive that portion that Brother Branham said was reserved for the end of this age, that overcoming portion, hallelujah . . .

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

You see, when we preached here the other day about that THUS SAITH THE LORD . . .   When I saw Brother Branham in that night vision, all these different messengers, and received a little Word, and then come down . . .

And when Brother Branham said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in and all other voices are going to be silenced,” I knew that’s what I needed.

I knew I didn’t need another prophecy.   I knew I didn’t need somebody else to tell me what God wanted to do in my life.

I knew I didn’t have to sit in a service ever again and pray, “Lord, let him speak to me.   Lord, let him prophesy to me.   Lord, let him tell me about my problem.”

I knew that when THIS SAITH THE LORD comes in to the Bride of Jesus Christ, then all those other lying vanities, all of those other voices of discouragement, all of those other voices that cause our circumstances to cry out, all of that is silenced.

And our focus immediately shifts from where we are right now into another realm before the Throne where all of God’s government issues from, where all of His administration, everything that God is doing in the earth . . . it issues forth from the control room of heaven.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

Kind of like Brother Branham told us about the middle of the road.

Funny thing