Message to the Bride
Praise be to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I greet you all in the name of the Lord. It is wonderful to live in this age and to walk with God. This is not a Church Age but Bride Age with a lonely walk of God’s people leaning on the beloved (S.S. 8:5). We should be grateful to God for blessing the Chicago Moon Landing Messages and for bringing the Bride totally to the Word of God. Let us be careful to give all the glory to our Lord as it is sheer grace that He is mindful of us and not because of our righteousness. Thank you all and I praise God for the light we enjoy and for the wonderful letters. God has set us free now. This message was in my heart from Chicago, but the Lord permitted to type this out only now.
"Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank thee and adore thee and worship thee for the way you redeemed us and for arranging to take us to the place you have prepared for us. Let the power of God at the end-time shake this country full of people like the sea and may the light of the Sun of Righteousness shine to the ends of the Earth. Bless everyone who has gathered here and all those who hear the voice of God to whom this message would reach so that Your Spirit will draw them out of all bondage and set them free for the "take-off". We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ".
"But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein LAMENTATIONS, AND MOURNING AND WOE". Ezekiel 2:8-10.
We all know that Jesus Christ was born of the Holy Spirit and the apt name is the Son of God, as He was born of a virgin and not to a man and woman in the usual human way of sexual relationship. If you search the Word of God, you will find no one called him as Son of Man but Son of God except Stephen in his vision, but Jesus associated Himself always as the Son of Man. What is the mystery about this? Also whenever His disciples asked Him when He should return, He did not say: "I will return, but the Son of Man would return". If we consider the prophetical books, no prophet was called frequently by the Lord as Son of Man as Ezekiel and the important thing is that this Son of Man had not the gift of discernment at all. Elijah and Elisha had and they were more of a sort of Seers like Samuel, but this man speaks what God speaks and the Spirit enters into him and does all what God wants to do. I would advise you all to read Ezekiel with this new thought and this will help you to clear your minds of many wrong notions. We will come back to this prophet later. We all know it is a very narrow way to walk with God and every deep message instead of bringing a greater crowd, makes many go away who were supposed to be walking with God. When we grow wheat, the seed has to die first and the roots go down into the earth (like early Apostles) and then comes the leaves and only finally the grain of wheat comes and not in the middle. When we take the whole farming into consideration, the hay is greater in quantity but the grain is taken into the garner with special care and is lesser in quantity. Many people are under the impression that you get the wheat at every shooting forth of the leaf, but Jesus said the harvest is at the end of the world and not in the middle of the age or at any periods. When Adam, Son of God (not brought forth through human relationship) fell in sin, he fell down to a "seeing and believing" level instead of the glorious faith of ‘believing and seeing’ life. Now God came down to save us from every sin and redeem our souls, but unless and until man is brought to his former position by God, his redemption is not complete. This redemption of the body will take place when the Bride is translated, but this did not happen at crucifixion. As we notice things happening in this world, even our sixth sense would tell us that there is not much time left for human beings.
When we take into account St. John’s visions even though it applies to the seven churches in Asia, it also applies to the Seven Church Ages. So also every statement made by Christ seems to apply in His time and to His disciples at that time, but the Lord clearly showed me that most of His statements were interwoven so that no one would catch the time and mode of His return, nor the meaning of His sayings all through the ages until it is revealed now in this Bride Age. I have searched many concordances, Bible dictionaries, commentaries etc., but this has always been a mystery throughout the Gentile period. If we meditate on Jesus Christ’s Words, He said, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die: Believest thou this?" This is a very bold statement said by Jesus Christ and never by any religious leader of the world, but you will notice that everyone who lived and believed on Jesus Christ when He was here first did surely die, not even an exception. Did Jesus tell a lie or deceive them of a false promise, or is it something wrong in the period of time, or that people had no faith?
Yes, that was not the time, but what Jesus Christ meant was that when He comes back to the earth before taking the Bride, those who live and believe in the Son of Man into whom Jesus Christ comes will become immortal as well as those who identify themselves with the Lord Jesus Christ Who first appears as the head of the Bride, not as many conceive of a Bride without the head. The Bridegroom has a head and the Bride has a head but the head and the body of the Bride submit to the Bridegroom who also has a head. Many think of God’s Bride with the head cut off to be taken up with the Bridegroom who has a head. Now this Son of Man is not God but we do not consider the coat a man wears but the person who wears it. That’s why many people have a headless message or a message without a capstone. The Son of Man is so much dead that he does not live anymore except to manifest the Lord Jesus Christ. Since God gives a glorified body to the Son of Man and those who identify with him also will not die, and as death is sure and life is so uncertain, no one can boldly claim this, as many who fixed the date of His coming became fools at the end.
If this passage we quoted meant at the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, it clearly means Jesus told a deliberate lie, as many left all and believed in Jesus Christ and yet died. If we should have rapturing faith, we must have a foundation to base it in the Word of God. HALLELUJAH! Don’t you feel you are charged by the terrific power of God to hear that we are now living at the time when God transforms our bodies to overcome death in this generation! LOVE GOD AND FORSAKE THIS WORLD.
Many people who think they are going to meet God in the air think in a carnal way. When a man comes back to God’s total Word, he has to abandon this world and cannot be a citizen of this world. He is practically in the air sitting with Jesus in heavenly places. We are already in the air as we are on God’s Word. Heaven and earth will pass away but God’s Word will not pass away. We are in the air eventhough heaven and earth will pass. Jesus so cleverly concealed His mode of coming to take His Bride that the Gentiles will miss as the Jews missed His first coming. The Gentiles who vehemently attack the Jews for their blindness and gloating over their prosperity, will definitely find they become blind to see God’s move in this generation.
If you turn to Isaiah 61, it is prophesied in the second verse. (1) to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (2) the day of vengeance of our God (3) to comfort all that mourn. Jesus Christ when He said: "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears" according to Luke 4:18-21, He only said "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" and stopped there, but omitted the second coming for the Bride, "to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God". And the third coming for the Jews with the Bride, "to comfort all that mourn (at the wailing wall)".
The ways and dealings of God are so simple without any complications that the wise will never understand. Recently I got some literature from the United States with so many complications of dates such as solar calendar, lunar calendar and prophetic calendar and so on. I found these calculations so difficult and was wondering how can the simple understand this. But Christ has simplified methods which the simple ones will understand without difficulty.
Again in John 13:31 & 32 God was first glorified in Jesus Christ by raising Him from death, but He said He shall also glorify Him in Himself (second time as man) and shall straightaway glorify Him (without passing through death). This means that the Son of Man into whom Jesus should come, will not die but Himself will be glorified without passing through death together with all who stand with Him at the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth to take away the Bride.
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed". Luke 17:26-30.
Some people in the United States boldly say "the days of Noah will be there but Noah will not be there and the days of the Son of Man will be there but the Son of Man will not be there". They stress only the "days", but plainly this is because they are ignorant of spiritual things. During the days of Noah, there was a man called "Noah". He built an ark and went as a family inside, destruction came and so on. During the days of Lot there was a man called Lot in a place called Sodom and Gomorrah and a man called Abraham outside that city and destruction by fire did really happen. If it is said as in the days of President Nixon there must be a man called Nixon. Therefore in the last days there should be similar circumstances like Noah’s days and Sodom and Gomorrah days, people will be totally for sin and completely rejecting God and there should be somebody as "Son of Man" as Jesus terms it. Oh! Bride of God, do you believe God’s Word or human thinking and human knowledge by so called scholars of the Bible but devoid of spiritual understanding.
If you read the Spoken Word books (I am not an authority but with what little I have read) as regards the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ there are certain portions I would like to mention:
(1) "So we see that it is a complete mystery, therefore, the hour is not yet for these mysteries to be known. Therefore we are this far and the rest of it will be known right around the time that Jesus appears on EARTH again for His Bride, or whatever takes place at that time (the portion of the Seventh Seal edited by Bro. Branham........ fifth paragraph).
(2) "We believe that there will be an evening light. And this evening light..... Of course, the great Light will come when Jesus Himself will be manifested here on earth or up in the heavens, taking away His Bride and then the Millennium will set in" (Christ is revealed in His Own Word - Page-38 ........... here it is earth OR heavens; doubtful).
(3) Meeting the Lord in the air is the popular belief. Bro. Branham also mentions meeting in the air in some books.
There are three ways. So there are three groups of people. The Bride, wise virgins and foolish virgins. The Bride catches the places where it is said the Bridegroom comes to the earth to take her, while the foolish virgins catch the place where it is mentioned flying in the air (a reward seeker) as she runs to meet the Bridegroom and the wise virgins (heaven or earth) are not sure where and have no faith to know for certain and cannot be in the Bride. The Bride will not miss the rapture but will get the glorified body and will shine as the sun, but are very, very few in number.
In the same way, I read in Bro. Branham’s books certain things clearly and every time you ask this from anyone in the United States they get upset and instead of agreeing, they blame you as false serpent seed and the usual term is (the prophet will throw a rope and false ones will catch) but now I feel those people did not catch anything false; but have been somewhat correct by expecting something to follow and not dead as others who feed like vultures on dead carcass. Brothers and Sisters, I am not writing this out of any selfish motive. When I first met a man who conveyed personally the death of Bro. Branham, the whole group at the Camp meeting in India cried because they love a real servant of God on God’s Word. But when we talked with some foreigners they said: "Brother, we are all gathering in Jeffersonville on Easter Day and Bro. Branham’s coffin is not yet laid to rest as we believe we will pray and he will rise up immediately and we will take him round by plane for a tent meeting". This the Bride of India could not swallow, but yet we kept quiet.
Then during my meeting in Europe, England and then U.S.A. (my second missionary journey) the brethren talked with me very nicely and invited me to a nice dinner at a certain place. Just before meals, one spokesman from U.S.A. said: "Brother Lawrie, when Bro. Branham rises in Jeffersonville, I will take him by plane around the world and will bring him to India and what a glorious day that will be and so on. Amen! Amen!! Amen!!! I could not say Amen as my spirit did not agree (Oh! thank God for the anointing. The anointing will break every yoke!) I curtly remarked, "If Brother Branham could rise up by God’s power, then WHY DO YOU NEED AN AEROPLANE?" This upset the man and immediately all his promises of help in Indian work (false promises) failed and I was considered along with my wife as strangers immediately and was avoided and was not given much chance to preach thereafter.
Then in another place at an evening meeting, a preacher from U.S.A. said: Tucson is Jerusalem and Jeffersonville is Bethlehem and so on and the Seven Mountains are there and Jesus when He appears will stand in the mountain of Arizona, U.S.A. and it will split and so on and said that prophecy in Zechariah 14:4 will be fulfilled only in U.S.A. and all the people will have to come there and suddenly a foreigner got up and questioned and then there was a bit of commotion and the brother slandered me all over before I could reach U.S.A. and when questioned through another brother in U.S.A., this preacher flatly denied that he ever said anything like that or a situation like that ever happened.
My! You cannot believe even your ears and eyes or the tapes. I am writing this that nothing outside the Word of God will stand and we should not believe anything outside the Word of God. Most of the worldly people believe only what their kith and kin say but I want to personally tell you through these messages that we should see everything through the mirror of God (the Word of God) and not through our circumstantial position, human affection, relationship, colour, advantage of financial position etc.
During my travels in United States, I asked many people the question of lost tribes of Israel and everytime I heard from big people cunning replies "I do not know" But from the Bible we know that the lost tribes of Israel according to God’s command were scattered like wind all over the world. You cannot find from outward evidence.
This Son of Man called Ezekiel was not God, but God used him as a sign for the Jews.
"Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do and when this cometh ye shall know that I am the Lord God."
"In their sight shall thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in twilight: thou shall cover thy face, that thou see not the ground, for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel" - Ezekiel 12:6.
What all he did, Israel will at one time or other do.
If you meditate on the Word of God, at the time of Sodom and Gomorrah the Lord did not disappear after the discernment of the thought of Sarah, but the Covenant keeping Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the Nations (not West only but also the North and South and East) of the earth shall be blessed in him for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him."
The Lord spoke to Abraham then the angels went into Sodom and Gomorrah and when they brought the people out of Sodom, then the Lord was there and Lot also talked with the Lord Who said: "Escape for thy life, look not behind," but the Lord spared that small city Zoar eventhough condemned but the Lord rained fire and brimstone and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Also in Noah’s days the Lord comes to establish His covenant. Noah does all commanded by God and has personal fellowship. The Lord stood there and did not allow anyone not under the covenant and finally shuts the door before destruction and after the flood, opens the door and talks again, establishing the Covenant, sets the rainbow as a token of Covenant and blesses him and commands him just like a person to person.
This did not happen on one day. There was a period of time, as also in the case of Abraham and Lot there was a period of time. But if you will notice here, God said, "I set my bow in the cloud" (natural). The cloud was then as now a natural phenomenon but the bow was set by God as a refraction of 7 visible colours and infinite number of rays of the Sunlight, but He says "when I bring a cloud over the earth (at end-time), then the bow shall be seen in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting Covenant". This clearly signifies the Lord coming down to this earth, clothed with cloud and is a sure sign when we see the circular rainbow around the sun and around the moon because of the miracle cloud of God, it is a sure sign of this world’s destruction by fire but not all flesh die of fire. God comes down and looks at the rainbow, Hallelujah! ‘Impossible’ the skeptic and sleeping virgins say; but the Bride goes on from glory to glory. This God’s cloud in the end-time can produce circular rainbow by refraction and around the sun and moon, rainbows should appear. Otherwise rainbows are seen only at certain angles. It is a sure sign of oncoming destruction by fire. A red signal for the Bride. These rainbows are visible in India, also frequently.
Genesis 9:13-17: "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember my covenant, which is between you and every living creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah: This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."
"Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come."
"As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth".
Jonah was in the stomach, body, soul and spirit - but Jesus went only in the Spirit to the souls in prison; His body was in a cave and not buried. Jonah did not die, but Jesus died and rose again.
The disciples did not understand when He called Himself the Son of Man (Mark 9:31-32), for He taught His disciples and said unto them, "the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask Him". The secret is: God, to have fellowship with man must become a man i.e., he must become flesh and bones, but if He came as born to human beings, He will be a fallen man, and God cannot dwell in a man of sin without His righteousness.
So He took a sinless body and was the Son of David in office, but as He walked like a human being, He had a right to call Himself a Son of Man and there was no difference between Him and any other human beings except to those by revelation. You cannot have fellowship between two beings of different category. A frog and a rat cannot have fellowship; a cow and a snake cannot have fellowship unless one becomes the other in physical form.
So the Son of God had every right to call Himself the Son of Man, but the disciples and others who knew by revelation the secret of His birth never condescended to call Him Son of Man. So also a man born to a man and woman can never be Son of God because he is born in sin (Heb.1:13). So God and all the heavenly beings with God will always call the manifested Sons of God as Sons of Men, but with God in us we get authority to become as Children of God.
Now notice here: You are not a child of God because you are saved as people say put your hands up and sign this card and say thousands accepted God (all nonsense) and he becomes the greatest evangelist and God’s man of the hour because of the numbers. You just get an authority (or certificate) to become Sons of God when you accept Jesus Christ. A trained teacher can get a certificate to have passed training as a teacher, but she can never be called a teacher unless and until she writes an application for a job, gets a job after interview and then when she is given a class-room she must be bold to teach amidst the naughty children and when she is come to that level even the children will call her teacher! teacher! and tell their parents when the teacher goes on the road "there goes my teacher" and the parents smile and call her and respect that person as teacher.
In the same way, I boldly say that all who are supposed to have received the Lord Jesus Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit and spoken in tongues secretly or among their cliques are not thereby sons of God.
Once I remember when I was in Los Angeles, I just heard the Christian Businessmen’s fellowship gathered together and they were praying. I went in and joined in prayer without anyone noticing me and they were talking in tongues and when someone noticed me, a hush went and they slowly like a snail went into the shell (and a well known leader was there) and suddenly after the prayer was over (because they saw me) they were telling among themselves "though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal" and I went away.
Now listen people of God. After preaching to 1,00,000 people in the City of Madras every day till I was forced to close by the people themselves because of the uncontrollable crowd and no ground available, I was highly elated and I was in my room in Madras City thinking I was one of God’s favoured children. The Lord just came into my room and with a loud voice said: "You are not my child as yet, repent and become my bold child". He asked me to see II Cor.6:14-18 and particularly verses 17 & 18. "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty". Not for sons alone but for ladies also daughters of God. God is not your Father until you separate from every denomination and denominational spirit and you are not His son or daughter until you meet this condition boldly standing against the whole world. Unless and until God receives you, there is no use of your calling yourself a Son of God.
The next day I left my Angelican Church membership and many left me and the "big shots" scolded me and I went away and the Lord Jesus Christ was there no doubt with me in closer fellowship.
Oh! Bride of God, it is not the time for you to play about anymore. Many people are members of dead harlot denominations for the sake of holy communion, festivals, ....... cemetery when they die, but the Bridegroom comes to abolish death and no cemetery is needed in this age as we will soon go away with the Master and He instituted the Covenant of the holy communion (not just a party with bread and wine, but we do not get wine here in India unless you get a drunkard’s licence and you will have to have your pure grape juice) as a token to remember until Jesus comes. When do you hope to have that Covenant broken with a new Bride Covenant (as you do not eat and drink in glory land nor grow grapes but certainly new grape juice and not fermented liquor). Was this covenant made in heaven or on earth? Do you think that heaven is meat and drink as some people still think? We do not have such weak bodies when we are glorified which will depend on what we drink. The Lord who started this Covenant will finish it on the earth Oh! People of God, watch it! Then we will get such a faith to be transformed that no more cemetery will be needed for the Bride.
There are many things which Jesus Christ said which have to be fulfilled in this earth before the tribulation by personal appearance and not after glorification of the body as it is useless there as we will have glorified bodies. The people who go through tribulation will not understand this and it will not be revealed to them.
Therefore, a human being into whom Jesus Christ the Bridegroom comes is passed from death into life and will be glorified (translated) like Enoch and Elijah. But to associate with heavenly beings, we have authority to call ourselves Sons of God, as Jesus had authority to call Himself Son of Man. But actually heavens will call us Sons of Man. God cannot totally manifest in a man if he is a seeing and believing sort of a man as he will have two personalities and God has to show a man His walk, unless exceptionally given to a totally surrendered man as gift. That is why a walk of faith will not go hand in hand with SEEING AND BELIEVING but will inherit God or possess Him, as that particular man who believes God on His Word. Joshua had a glimpse of seeing and believing ministry but went into oblivion as he was not a power seeker and possessed Canaan. But Moses had glimpse of believing and seeing ministry without entering into Canaan, but had mostly seeing and believing ministry.
When I was in Vellore Medical College Hospital after Jesus appeared to me and asked me to leave the job and serve God full-time selling all I had, I was worried not realising that He was going to teach me as a Master the great truth of believing and seeing. I started a big prayer group in my own home and hundreds started coming and were blessed. Suddenly the discernment gift operated; many Doctors, Nurses and others were there and my wife and children were there. I had a vision like a cinema film coloured with the dresses and everything and names all written and I could see that eyes just opened and a commentary in an audible voice was speaking from the heart for nearly 15 minutes as I was walking about in the house before the meeting started. At intervals while preaching all the hearts were revealed and God also revealed that a young girl was to elope with a married boy that night and the boy was pretending to come to the meeting that night and the place the girl was to go, and the letters they were passing during the meeting at the backyard through a window and suddenly excited over this unusual dealings of God, I rushed to the boy and girl, stopping the meeting and asked another brother to take charge and caught the culprits. But they refused to admit. Then after the meeting, the boy was hanging about the house as an innocent boy and my family members were wondering if I was crazy and some Baptists said that the devil was deceiving me and I went to have dinner. While I was about to eat, pictures like a coloured film passed again between the food plate and my eyes with the voice commentary of the meaning and names of the parties concerned with their dress and colour.
I left my plate and ran to catch the people concerned and got the girl locked in a room. If this happened, this would create great trouble in the town and God’s name would have been blasphemed. Then with my family members I approached this person who was already married. He got so wild with me and because I asked this in front of his wife, he denied and suddenly his wife fell down dead, without life. And there was a terrific commotion all over. I was scared to see this woman die falling down and the man cried loudly and after a while, repented of his sins and pleaded that I should pray to God. He agreed to all what the Spirit of God revealed. Then after 30 minutes, the woman’s toe started moving and gradually the life came and she got up as if from sleep. When everything was alright, the man became bold and tried to hide things. He said that was not true. Then the child started purging, vomitting and became sick. He took the child to the hospital and the Doctor pronounced that the child would die. Then he acknowledged his sin totally and turned to God with his wife.
This was going on for a while and people were afraid and stopped coming to the meetings as their sins were revealed. But suddenly without any reason at all, the Lord took this gift away. Rather this gift ceased for the glory of God to replace it with the gift of faith on God’s Word. My wife and mother and family members thought that I had committed a great sin and that the Lord had left me and I was worried secretly in the heart. I asked God for 26 years why this gift suddenly left me? I said, I will repent if there is anything wrong in me. Life was a blind faith and I saw God’s move. But when the Chicago visitation came, I jumped and said: "Thank you Lord for your mercies for not granting me what I wanted and for withholding my desires for a greater thing".
So you see, I could understand Bro. Branham the Prophet of God without any difficulty while you Americans enjoyed his light for a season and were meticulous in taking photographs of hunting and staying in hotels you ate and had private moments with him. I agree those were rare opportunities and great vindications you had. But did that help you in any way in producing faith on the Word of God? You people not only are misled but with all your money and materials make the other countries also to commit fornication in turning people away from God’s Word.
All those who had visions of the Lord Jesus Christ said: ‘One like unto the Son of Man’. What does it mean? Does it mean God? In that case, Ezekiel must be the Lord Jesus Christ. No! People of God. When the Lord Jesus Christ appears to the Bride by revelation as Son of Man, which place they never gave Him while living in this world, then the Bride into all of whom the Lord Jesus comes through the head of the Bride will be owned by God as heavenly beings as manifested Sons of God, as Jesus Christ comes as manifested Son of Man, but first He came as Son of God or Son of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit. There is the Father also. How can the trinitarians face this fact that if Holy Ghost is the Father of Jesus Christ as it was through the Holy Ghost He was conceived, they will have to face the inevitable fact of having two fathers for the Lord Jesus Christ unless the Holy Spirit and Father are the same.
The Son of Man is after the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ, a man walking blindly on God’s Word without any outward or inward evidence. Not any outward evidence of support physically in this world or inward support of visions and dreams, just like the earth is hanging in space without any support except rotating on the Word of God when He said "Let there be earth".
So when a disciple leaves everything and depends on God alone, it is called THE FAITH LIFE. Then he will see every Word of God being fulfilled. Trust God for everything and you will see Him marvellously honour your trust. This faith life is the one which the devil aims at. When we hunt an animal, we do not shoot at the tail, but the heart or the head. In the same way, the love between us as Bride and God as Bridegroom is called faith. When we depend on any denomination or any man or money or material, i.e., creation of God, we commit spiritual adultery.
When man reached the moon, that was the death of Faith in this world. (Luke 18:8). The Australian Government passed the law that there is no God. Darkness in West has now already spread in Far East (Australia); as the Sun starts shining further from East to West, the shadows of gloom fell on Australia. I saw a pamphlet in New York as I was leaving the United States. In India the question of whether there is God was discussed in Parliament recently and God was saved by a low majority. What a poor God lying at the mercy of man’s Parliament and votes.
All this wickedness will be destroyed soon to prove that there is a God Who will destroy like a big stone untouched by man (not popular, approval of mankind) when it becomes a mountain and fills this earth. Thank God for this stone untouched by man. Why man has nothing to play politics here? Man does not know the time and the destination and the place where it rolled from to destroy the nations which are sinful.
God loved David and others, who to the human eye, did not look holier but the King knew the secret of the life that pleases God. He chose God voluntarily not as a machine but by free choice under the foreknowledge of God and predestinated to be a King for the Israelites. And he never for one moment planned his life. David allowed no short-cuts by killing Saul, but patiently waited for the proper time for his turn to come as a King by the hand of God and not by self effort. When he came as King, he gave the glory to God and did not take it for himself.
Man will not trust God anymore but will depend on something tangible on earth and thereby destroying his life line (heart) which is called Faith. Proverbs 7:7-27 clearly says about this (note Vs.19,20). There was no need to mention of harlots in daily human life and city life which everybody knows, but this was written in parables to signify denominational membership as the master of the house had gone far away taking the money with him (the money bag is with him because he is not good in terms with the wife (church) as she is a harlot). That is why, everywhere they have financial drives because the husband (goodman of the house) has gone to a far away place and taken the money bag with him and so they keep on begging. Tell me one country where begging in pulpits, platforms, televisions and radios is so prominent as in the United States. Please do not get angry with me. Decent begging but God is not there. If you are a Bride, your need will come to your house as the Goodman will send His remittances to the Bride and she need not keep on begging.
I was in Canada and there they even started preaching "Repent and believe the Spoken Word Books and you will receive the Holy Spirit". A prominent man said that he must be re-baptised (not satisfied with the baptism he had in Jesus’ name, probably in Branham’s Tabernacle) because he said he believed in the Spoken Word Books only later and so he presumably did not get the Holy Spirit correctly.
Another person met a prominent man in the States and this person was asked if he knew Elijah. He said he would very much like to see Elijah as he has come all the way seeking knowledge about God. Then the person showed the Spoken Word Books and said: "This is Elijah". You cannot deceive the Bride elect any more, she is out of border and is fighting for her possession. God promised the whole land of Canaan, but He adds "Every place that the sole of your feet shall tread upon, that I have given unto you as said unto Moses. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Moses so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee". The promise is definite there.
God has promised to glorify our bodies and take it to His abode, but there are so many doubters. The enemy appears strong. Did God tell a lie? Joshua had people, spy and they said that the enemies had iron chariots which they had in large numbers and Israelites had not any. Was Joshua dismayed? He said: "Go on, God has promised it will be ours" and they defeated everyone when they believed God. Oh! Bride of God, the possession is now yours; even immortality is yours because God is not a man to tell lies nor will He change His ideas but will keep His Word. Don’t you trust Him?
Now, people do not have a definite idea about the Jews. According to the Bible, the lost tribes of Israel were scattered like wind and sowed like salt among the nations and like seed. No one can find out where the Israelites are. But I am telling you something here, which will bring a jolt to you all and I leave this to you for your decision. One day I was in England and was talking to one Rev. Jim Cooper. We had a controversial talk with each other over the subject of the lost tribes of Israel. In Malachi 4:5 God has promised to send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. But did you ever notice what is in Malachi Chapter 4:4? "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgements". Now what has this got to do with the Gentiles? For the Gentiles, God has said in Acts 15:24-31:
"For as much as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: It seemed good unto us being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same thing, by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation". (Written to the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia Vs.23).
This clearly shows that Elijah comes to the Jews or those who follow the law and if the converted Jews should be called the Gentiles, Elijah does not come to them. Now this is for the decision of the people who talk about Elijah. I know the Word of God is always true.
Now when the disciples preached the Gospel, Jews and Gentiles were converted but most of the converted Jews never left the law and did not regard grace as much, while the Gentiles totally followed the Lord to the letter and knew what grace was. You will remember when Jesus asked Peter to take a sword with him, it is a sign that the converted Jews will never follow the teachings of Christ fully but to suit their convenience, follow the law to some extent. Now listen, when the people from England went to the land of promise for them (U.S.A.) did they follow the teaching of Christ? They followed the Old Testament law and destroyed completely the natives by "sword" (Numbers 21:3; 31:17,18) as it was Old Testament procedure. In one way it may sound good and that God had rejected natives. But do the people realise that the sword will not keep quiet? The people now have gone much more deeply in sin than rejected natives. They that take the sword will fall by the sword, will a just God keep silent? Just imagine your stalwart boys of the United States falling dead in Vietnam. For whose patriotism? One day when I saw the Life magazine with all the photographs and lists of names of dead people, it broke my heart to see such young blood with beautiful bodies fall on the streets as fodder for the bullets. The sword will never leave you unless you repent, Oh! America (present Sodom Gomorrah). This is not my words but Jesus said this. Even when Peter cut the ear of the servant, Jesus warned Peter. This was not only a warning to Peter but to all converted Jews that if they take the sword they will fall by the sword.
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