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Why it is important to listen to the tapes? http://www.7sealsand7thunders.net 22-09-2008 ___________________________________________________________________________________ Some of us may wonder why bro Branham made those tapes. Probably there is something special in those tapes and we should be listening to them; but with so many tapes in the collection (1,000 plus), we do not know where to start. Some of us may also have these questions: Why do we need to know what is in the tapes? How can these revelations help me to win more people to Christ? It looks like the more we know, the more hindrance there is for the people to come to church. So, why it is important to know the Message? How can the Message help me? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About the language barrier We know the tapes are in English. And there are many believers all over the world who are not good in the English language. They might have a language problem in tape listening. I have written a paper about this. I did not give a direct answer to this issue, but I just showed that similar situation has happened before. Please read my paper, “77_ About the Language Barrier”. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------List of Content 1. I believed God asked Bro Branham to record his message 2. The Message in the tapes was from God 3. Bro Branham was asked this question, “If we don't have a church to go to, should we just listen to the tapes?” 4. The tapes connect us to the Spoken Word 5. Bro Branham was given the power to speak the Word 6. The revelation of the Mystery of God is in those tapes 7. God has had a threefold purpose 8. How He did it; His plan of redemption 9. Because the Word of God has to be veiled, sometimes bro Branham was not allowed to explain it plainly 10. Where is the revelation of the mysteries of the Bible? Is there a third part of the Bible? 11. Bro Branham gave a list of some of the mysteries
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12. God is calling and preparing His Bride in this end-time. 13. The Son of Man Ministry 14. Apostle Paul was a prophet to the Gentiles and bro Branham was a prophet to the Gentiles too. Any difference between them? 15. How do we know all these things? 16. What does the “message of the hour” mean? 17. The church’s relationship with God is generally divided into two parts. 18.
The true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives
19. Why it is becoming harder and harder to win souls to Christ now? 20. But the Bride of Christ is going to have a Revival! 21. What will be the Revival of the Bride? The WORD! 22. Bro Branham warned us not to add or take away what was said in the tapes 23. The world-wide Tape Ministry 24. "This is not your tabernacle” 25. Different people handle the tapes differently. Listening to the tapes can be in several ways 26. Some say Brother Branham was a good man, but do not listen to his tapes, because it'll get you confused. 27. A true Message believer will take the Message as something very precious 28. But with so many tapes in the collection (1,000 plus), we do not know where to start --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bro Branham said: ABRAHAM'S.COVENANT.CONFIRMED_ MIDDLETOWN.OH SY_ 61-0318 E-57 ... I'm only telling you the truth. Someday you'll catch it. Someday you'll know that I've told you the truth. My voice may be silent. You might, might be able to silence the body that's speaking, but you'll never silent that voice. It comes from God. They stoned Stephen, but they couldn't stop his message. It'll move on. Them tapes will be played after I'm gone for years. THE.RESTORATION.OF.THE.BRIDE.TREE_ JEFF.IN _ 62-0422 78-3 Father God, into Your hands I--I commend this message. Though it's been chopped up, some way I pray that the Holy Spirit will go with it on these tapes and across the nations. And if I shall be taken from the earth, may this live, Lord. It's Your Word. Let the evening Light shine, Lord, bring forth this glorious Bride of Christ. Bless it, Lord, may It not return to You void. May It accomplish that which It was--been purposed for. Grant it, Father. All praises shall be Thine.
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1. I believed God asked Bro Branham to record his message God asked Bro Branham to store up food. There will be famine in the future. The Food (Spiritual Food or the Bride Food) is stored as those tapes. God does not do anything without any purpose. He said make the tapes and He wants us to listen to them. THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN _ 62-0311 44-7... Now, this is, what I am saying this morning is storing Food, storing Food, so that you'll have something to eat, so that you'll have something to feast upon. Get it on your tapes; set in a cool of the room. Maybe when I'm long ways away, you'll still remember these things are true. Set in your room and listen. See? And this is Food, and storing it in the storehouse. I don't know where the trip is, but wherever it is, He knows where He's leading; I don't. I just follow. CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 4 Bless our dear beloved pastor, the shepherd. We pray that You'll anoint him with the Holy Spirit, of Thy Word, and reveal to them and feed the flock. 5 And once, just a while ago, when You showed the vision, the little tabernacle here, about to store up the Food, that there would come a time when this would all be needed. When we seen Brother Sothmann and Brother Woods ready to cross over into another country, to... But You said, "Store up this Food here for the time." Lord, reverently I've tried to do that. CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 ... 90 Help, this morning, Lord, as we read the Word. May the Holy Spirit reveal It to us, that the Church might be fully established in "the Faith that was once delivered to the saints," to hold them. And may, as You gave the vision some two years ago, "to store up the Food," fine, healthy-looking vegetables that I saw in the vision, being stored here in this tabernacle, may we today receive a whole barrel full of That. Grant it, Lord. Or, a tape load, that It might reveal Jesus Christ to us in the hour that we live, to give us sustaining strength, the spiritual strength for the task that lays ahead. Grant it, Father. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. The Message in the tapes was from God THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-3 _ 65-0725M 269 Now, I want you to know this is sure, and you that listen to this tape. You might have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, being that I was packing this Message. I have no more to do with It than nothing, no more than just a voice. And, my voice, even against my better judgment; I wanted to be a trapper. But it's the will of my Father that I declare to do, and determined to do. I wasn't the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I'm not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect they are; I'm only one that's near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used, to say It. It wasn't what I knew; it's what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn't me, it wasn't the seventh angel, oh, no; it was the manifestation of the Son of man. It wasn't the angel, his message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It's not a man; it's God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ; He is the One that you're feeding on. You're not feeding on a man; a man, his words will fail. But you're feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. 270 If you haven't fed fully on every Word, to give yourself strength to fly above all these denominations and things of the world, will you at this time do it, while we pray? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Page 3 of 24
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3. Bro Branham was asked this question; “If we don't have a church to go to, should we just listen to the tapes?” QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFF.IN COD _ 64-0830M 1109-Q-353 353. Let's see. If you don't have a church to go to, should you just listen to the tapes? Yes. That's--I'd--I... That'd be fine. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. The tapes connect us to the Spoken Word God spoke through bro Branham using bro Branham’s voice The tapes contain the Spoken Word. Not the Spoken Word literally in those tapes, but the recorded words connect us to the Spoken Word that has been spoken and going round and round the earth. Sometimes it was Bro Branham speaking, sometimes it was God speaking. We normally do not know the difference because when God spoke He used bro Branham’s voice. Examples: HEAR.YE.HIM_ MIDDLETOWN.OH FRIDAY_ 58-0328 E-70 If the audience can still hear my voice. The lady seems to be moving from me and she's all nervous about something. She's very much upset. She's suffering with a nervous condition. That's correct. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe? You said you would. Now, you said, "That was a guess, Brother Branham." Watch, just talk to her a little more and see. I don't know what was wrong with her now. The only way I know it, is by my tapes. See? That was some voice that told the truth. It wasn't mine. It's Something using my voice. Do you understand? The Spirit of God... Each one of you's a spirit. Now, you believe. Let's talk to the woman just a little more. TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.BEING.THE.WILL.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN _ 65-0718M 20 A few nights ago, many of you, just in about a month before going over to Africa, many of you perhaps has the tape, of you people that get the tapes, on, Choosing A Bride, was preached in California. The last few minutes of that tape, I don't remember of ever being there. But the Spirit of the Lord came in such a way. I had been condemning them the way they were living and doing, and after the Gospel had been preached and declared before them so much. And all of a sudden the Holy Spirit spoke out and said, "Capernaum," see, "the city that calls yourself by the name of the angels," that's Los Angeles, "thou are exalted into Heaven, but be brought down to hell." See? And then after it was over, why, I was outside, and Brother Mosley and Billy was with me. And they said... Went back and looked, and the whole floor was just laying full of people, ministers sobbing. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5. Bro Branham was given the power to speak the Word The Sword of The King dropped into bro Branham’s hand. He was given the authority to speak the Word; third pull manifested five times as the Spoken Word. THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E 562-1 {284} And I had my hands out, and all at once something hit my hand. .....And it struck my hand, and I looked, and it was a sword, and it had pearl handles, real pretty; and had a guard over it with gold, and the blade looked like, something like a chrome, like silver, only it was real shiny. And it was so featheredge sharp, Oh, my. ..... And I thought, "What will I do with that?" Page 4 of 24
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And just then a voice shook down through there that rocked the rocks, said, "It's the Sword of the King." And then I come out of it. "The Sword of the King..." Now, if it said, "a Sword of a King..." but it said, "The Sword of the King," and there's only one "the King," and that's God. and He has one Sword; that's His Word, what I live by. And so help me, God, standing over His holy desk here with this holy Word laying here, It's the Word. Amen. THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E 562-4 {288} ... Standing there, when this left me, something just come to me and said, "Don't fear." Now, I didn't hear no voice, like on the inside of me spoke. I have to just tell you the truth, just exactly what happened. Something hit and said, "Don't fear. This is that third pull." THE.FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 64-0719M 42 Then one day in Sabino Canyon, while God called me early in the morning up there, I was up with my hands in the air, praying, and a sword came into my hands. You know that. I stood there and looked at it, just natural as my hand is now, not knowing what it meant. And it was left me with a Voice that said, "This is the Sword of the King." And then, later, when the Angel of the Lord revealed it, It was the Word in the hand. SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0112 171 Then one time He said about the Third Pull; how it would come by this one way, then by knowing the heart, and then the spoken Word. My note: “this one way” was referring to the first pull; “knowing the heart” was the second pull; and “the spoken Word” was the Third Pull. 172 Jesus said, "Greater things than this will you do; for I go to My Father." John 14, "The works that I do, shall you do also; greater than this, for I go unto My Father." Just as I said a while ago, when Mary tried to identify Him as Joseph's son, He corrected her. His Words cannot fail! He said so, "Heavens and earth will fail, but My Words will not." 173 When we hear the sympathy beating, changing, fixing to change, it's a junction time. We notice as He begin to--to beat, and we seen, "The works that I do, shall you do also, and greater shall you do." "Greater," He promised it. We wondered how it could be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jesus said, "Greater things than this will you do; for I go to My Father." Jesus took something that's been created, (e.g. water, bread and fish) and changed or multiplies them. But in bro Branham’s case, God told him to speak to create something from absolutely nothing. SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0112 174 But did you notice when He performed His first miracle, He took water and turned it into wine. Is that right? He took water, which potentially someday might have been wine, but it was water first. 175 And when He fed five thousand, what did He do? He took something that had been like water, He took a fish that once swam and was born from an egg, and He broke it, and another fish growed onto the creation that was the original creation. He took bread that was once wheat, and was a seed and become bread, and He broke from this bread and the creation only multiplied. SHALOM_ SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0112 176 But in the woods, there was nothing there to make a squirrel. "Let there be," and there was, without anything to break it from. What is it? The same Jesus Christ! See? "Greater things than this will you do, for I go to My Father." Not take something that's been created, break something from it and multiply a creation, but absolutely create. Showing that He's the same Jehovah that stood back Page 5 of 24
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there and said, "Let there be," and there was. His Word was made manifest! When He was made flesh on earth, He took His original creation, broke it back and multiplied it. But now in the last days, when He comes down among us again, the same Light that moved down, said "let there be light," see, He just speak the creation into existence. "Greater than this will you do, for I go to My Father." Remember, we're at these times. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6. The revelation of the Mystery of God is in those tapes The mystery of God: His purpose was in threefold, and how He did it was in those Seven Seals. God reveals how He redeemed the Church; bro Branham preached it in those tapes. It is hard to understand but we should continue to study them. ----------------------------------------------------7. God has had a threefold purpose CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 140 Notice, God has had a threefold purpose in this great mystery secret. God, in His great mystery secret that He had before the world began, ... CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 141 The first thing was, that, God wanted to reveal Himself to the people. 142 He couldn't do it as a great Jehovah God Who covered all space, time, and Eternity. He could not. He is too great to ever be revealed to people, because it would be too mysterious. How could that great Being that never did begin... that after you went beyond the cycle of a hundreds of billions and trillions and trillions of years of light space, and on out into the infinite, into the Eternity, and a great Creature that was all that, and still is. CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 143 But what He wanted to do, He loved fatherhood, for He was a Father. And the only way that He could express it was to become a Son of man. That's the reason Jesus kept saying, "The Son of man." See, they didn't know what He was talking about, many of them. But now you get it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? He wanted to express Hisself. That was His, one of His great threefold purposes, was to express Himself, identify Himself with human beings, to reveal Hisself in Christ. CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 144 Secondly, to have the preeminence in His Body of believers, that is, His Bride, that He might live in people. CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 _ 63-0728 145 Now, He could do that in Adam and Eve, but sin separated them, so now there had to be some way to get it back again. Oh, my! Oh, when I... This, this is rich, to me, just to even think of it. See? See what God's purpose was? Now why didn't He just keep Adam and Eve like that? Then He would never been able to express His fullness, His full attribute. Because, He could have been a Father there, that's true, but also He's a Saviour. You say, "How do you know He was?" He is, 'cause I've had the experience. See? See? He is a Saviour, and He had to express that. And how could He do it? Only through Christ. How could He be a Son? Only through Christ. How could He be a Healer? Only through Christ. See, all things are wound up in that one Person, Jesus Christ. Oh, my! When I--when I...
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CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 Y_ 63-0728 156 And, thirdly, to restore the Kingdom to its rightly position, that fell by sin by the first Adam, back to where He walked in the cool of the evening, with His people, talked with them, fellowshipped with them. --------------------------------------------------8. How He did it; His plan of redemption REVELATION.CHAPTER.FIVE.2_ JEFF.IN ROJC 747-793 SUNDAY_ 61-0618 135 Now, the revealing of how He did it (redeemed the church) is going to be in these seven seals. .. REVELATION.CHAPTER.FIVE.2_ JEFF.IN ROJC 747-793 SUNDAY_ 61-0618 157 Now, security... Those who He foreknew, He called; those who He called, He has justified; those who He has justified, He has already glorified. Paul told us in the 1st chapter of Ephesians, that God, before the foundation of the world, has predestinated us unto the adoption of sons through Christ Jesus. John tells us here in Revelations, that the enemy in the last days, that religious enemy, would get amongst people and have organizations and so forth, and cults and so forth, as they have today, and would deceive the very elected if it was possible, and would deceive all whose names are not put on the Lamb's Book of Life since the very foundation of the world. When was your name put on the Lamb's Book of Life? Before the foundation of the world. When was Christ slain? Nineteen hundred years ago? No, sir. Before the foundation of the world. "The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world..." See what it's doing? It's these seals opening up, just begin to reveal the plan of redemption, how He did it. It's all over now, just about--just about finishing up. So we're at the end time. So that's why the-the things are being revealed. All right. THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0324E 575-4 {390... Now, now, do you notice on the opening of this Seventh Seal, it's also in a threefold mystery. This one I have--will speak and have spoke, that it is the mystery of the seven thunders. The seven thunders in heaven will unfold this mystery. It'll be right at the coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would return. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9. Because the Word of God has to be veiled, sometimes bro Branham was not allowed to explain it plainly from the platform or on tapes The elders of the church should catch what was in the tapes and exercise upon them, and will bring the points out to the congregation. POWER.OF.TRANSFORMATION_ PRESCOTT.AZ V-17 N-1 _ 65-1031M 33 And--and I--I say It, because this is one place I feel that I could--could teach the things that I want to say this morning. And then, course, Brother Leo and Gene, and them, will--will exercise upon them, when we leave, and will bring the points out as I heard him so graciously mention in his message this morning. That, he catches that. But you can't say it from the platform like this or on them tapes, but, see, just sit down and study them. Just keep studying them, over and over. It's hard to understand. So many people misunderstand It! And did you know, little--little flock, it is--it is that way amongst all humans? It always has been. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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10. Where is the revelation of the mysteries of the Bible? Is there a third part of the Bible? We know God works in three. We have the Old Testament and New Testament. That is one and two. There has to be the third part of the Bible to make it perfect. Where is the third part? The third part is those Seven Seals at the back of the Book. In those Seals was the revelation of the Bible. And yet, it does not add something extra in addition to the Bible. The Message in those tapes is the revelation of the Bible. Without the revelation we will not understand the Bible fully. That is why the denominational churches missed Him especially in this end time. Bro Branham said, “...in the Seals, practically everything is included”. THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E 527-2 {15}
When it is not yet made known, it is still mystery. After it is revealed it is a revelation, and the Church is build by the revelation of the Word. THE.MIGHTY.GOD.UNVEILED.BEFORE.US_ PHIL.PA _ 64-0629
167 And that's what's the matter today, my Lutheran brethren, my Baptist brethren, my Pentecostal brethren. All my brethren from all different denominations, that's what it is. See? You're trying to give a note that hit back in the days of Luther, Wesley, like that, when, actually, the music Sheet here shows that it's another day. See? See? See? We can't live in the light of Luther; he was a reformer. We appreciate his--his part, but we played that out. We're way over here at the back of the Book now. See? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11. Bro Branham gave a list of some of the mysteries IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E 30-5 Now, let's note a few of these mysteries. ... Now, in the 11th verse: He answered and said unto them,... Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,... but to them it is not given. (The mysteries) Here's the mystery: A "mystery" is Scripture--is "a previously hidden truth, now Divinely revealed, but which is a supernatural element still remains despite the revelation." The greater mysteries and the great mysteries are: IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E 31-1 Number 1. The mystery of the Kingdom of heaven. That's the one we are talking on now, 13... Matthew 13:3-15. Now, 2nd mystery is the mystery of Israel's blindness during this age: Romans 11:25 with the context. 3rd--3rd mystery is the mystery of the translation of the living saints at the end time of this age: I Corinthians 15 and also Thessalonians 4:14-17. The 4th mystery, of the New Testament church as One Body, composed of both Jews and Gentiles: Ephesians 3:1-11, Romans 16:25, and also Ephesians 6:19, Colossians 4:3. The 5th mystery is of the church, as the Bride of Christ: Ephesians 5:28-32. 6th mystery is of the living Christ, same yesterday, today and forever: Galatians 2:20, and Hebrews 13:8, many places like that. The 7th mystery is of God, even Christ, as the incarnate Fullness of the Godhead embodied, in Whom all Divine wisdom and godliness is restored to man. 9th mystery is the mystery of iniquity found in II Thessalonians and so forth.
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The 10th mystery is of the seven stars of Revelation 1:20. We just been through that. The seven stars are the seven churches, the seven messengers, and so forth. And the 11th mystery is mystery Babylon, the prostitute: Revelations 17:5-7. IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E 31-2 That's some of the mysteries that this angel is supposed to wind up, all the mystery--all the mysteries of God... And the other one... May I say this with reverence, and not referring to myself, but referring to the Angel of God. The serpent's seed, that's been a hidden mystery all through the years. The grace straightened out, not disgrace, but real true grace. No such a thing as an eternal burning hell. You'll burn for millions of years, but anything that was eternal had never beginning or end, and hell was created. All these mysteries. The mystery of the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation, but the Person of Christ performing in you the same works that He did. The mystery of water baptism, where the extreme trinitarianism has brought it into titles of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and the mystery of the Godhead being fulfilled in the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ according to the Book of the Revelations, that the church in this time was to receive. There's some of the mysteries. The Pillar of Fire returning back. Amen. That's the thing that is supposed to take place, and we see it. IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E 32-4 Oh, how we could go on naming the mysteries. Seeing that Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, the same one that struck down Saul on his road down to Damascus. And the same One, coming with the same power, doing the same things, and revealing the same Word, staying word by word with the Bible. The sounding of the trumpet means Gospel trumpet. And the sounding of a trumpet in the Bible means, get ready for Scriptural war. Are you getting it down? Scriptural war... Paul said... If you want to put this down, I Corinthians 14:8, Paul said, "If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, how will a man know what to prepare for?" And if it doesn't have a Scriptural sound, a vindicated, a vindication of the Word of God made manifest, how will we know were at the end time? If it says they believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, but deny His signs and wonders that the whole realm of nature believed on Him, and all the church believed on Him by this, how will we know how to prepare? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12. God is calling and preparing His Bride in this end-time. The Holy Spirit through the ministry of bro Branham was the Eliezer seeking a Bride for the Spiritual Isaac (Jesus Christ), and the message preached by Bro Branham was the camel (symbolised as the power) that packed Rebekah to meet Isaac. EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH.THAT.WAS.ONCE.DELIVERED.TO.THE.SAINTS_ CONNERSVILLE.IN SUNDAY_ 53-0614A E-68 E69 ...Remember, it was Isaac that wanted a wife. When the father, Abraham sent the servant out, a very beautiful type of God the Father sending out for His Bride, to get His Bride. His Servant, the Holy Spirit, Eliezer... And it was in the cool of the evening when the beautiful Rebekah come out to water the camel. You know the story. E-69 And the beautiful Rebekah come out. And he said, "Now, ever who waters this camel" he said, "Lord, let that be the one You've chosen." And the... Rebekah went and watered the camel, and give them a drink, and then watered his--the animal. Look, the very animal that she was watering... The animal represents a beast, of course, a beast of burden, which means "power" in the Bible. Page 9 of 24
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And the very animal that she was watering, was the very animal that packed her to see her bride(groom). Is that right? And what is watering? The very power that we're watering now with praises, and thanksgiving, and glory, and power, and might, is the very Holy Spirit that'll pack us up to see Jesus someday. ------------------------------------------Even though bro Branham was already taken home, this end-time ministry is still carrying on. We are still living in the days of the voice of the seventh angel. God is using the tapes to call for His Bride. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13. The Son of Man Ministry The mystery of God is Christ, and in this end-time is being revealed to the public in the ministry of Bro Branham. Bro Branham as a son of man was showing The Son of Man. It was actually the ministry of The Son of Man using a member of His Bride. The same works that Christ did at His first coming, shall the Bride do also. Bro Branham’s ministry was just the same as our Lord Jesus Christ’s with all the three pulls. God is showing us that His Bride is made up of the same material as the Bridegroom (Christ). ONE.IN.A.MILLION_ LA.CA V-18 N-1 SATURDAY_ 65-0424 9 Now, coming to Tucson, it was strange, those visions speaking to you in the Name of the Lord. Not one of them as I ever can recall, will ask anyone else if they can recall anytime, that He ever did say anything but what was the Truth. It always happens just the way He says it will happen. 10 And He is supposed to, according to the Scriptures, return to us in this last days, in this type of ministry. That will be after the baptism of the Spirit, and speaking in tongues, and Divine healing, and so forth, these things. The capping of the pentecostal message is what we're speaking of today. This ministry of the Christ Himself impersonated among His people, with the very same things that He did when He was here on earth; in His Body, the Bride, which is part of Him, doing the same things, as Husband and Wife, or King and Queen, just before the Marriage ceremony. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14. Apostle Paul was a prophet to the Gentiles and bro Branham was a prophet to the Gentiles too. Is there any difference between them? In term of office they held, there was not much difference. They were major prophets. I am not going into details about this, but I will just show you one difference between them. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote what they saw; but Paul had the Revelation. Paul wrote most of the books of the New Testament. Yet he was not the writer of the book of Revelation of Jesus Christ. Why? At the time of the writing of the book of Revelation, according to tradition, Paul had already died a martyr. John was the disciple who lived the longest. It was John who was taken to the Lord’s Day and saw things which was, which is and which is to come, and was told to write what he saw. John was just a scribe writing down what he saw. It was not for Paul to know. Even though Paul was a prophet to the Gentiles, he didn’t receive 100% of the WORD of the entire Seven Church Ages. The last part of the WORD was given to bro Branham. The revelation of the book of Revelation was given to bro Branham to be revealed to the end time Bride. Page 10 of 24
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15. How do we know all this things? By going through the tapes. There are many more things God can show us if we search the tapes diligently. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16. What does the “message of the hour” mean? Every age has its message of that age. For example, Martin Luther had his message and it was justification. John Wesley had his sanctification message. Another example is the four Beasts in the book of Revelation. They are the manifested Word for their age to fight against the same antichrist horse rider in four different forms. The four beasts represent a power among the people. Every time the antichrist rode on his horse, there was a beast that announced the power to combat it. Every stage has a different beast. Do you see that every age has different manifestations of the Word? We at the last age are the flying eagles who can fly high and see far. Because of this eagle age, God is revealing His secrets to His Bride. We can see what has happened in the past, what is happening now and what is going to happen in the future. THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 345-4 {83} Now, notice. I love this. As in the times of the rider of the four horses, the rider, singular, of the four different horses, there was a beast that announced the power. Every-time the rider straddled another horse and come forth to ride, another kind of a beast come out and announced it. THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 346-3 {88} ... And there was four living creatures of God to announce the rider as they rode. Four beasts are four powers. Now, we know that "beast," by interpretation of the terms of the Bible symbols, means "power." Now, let's get that close. The four are beasts in the Bible represent a power among the people. THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322 349-4 {113} Notice, as the antichrist went forth on his beast of ministry there, God sent forth a beast to combat it. See? Now, watch. Then every time the beast rode on his horse (the antichrist rode on his horse, on his beast) to announce his ministry, God sent His beast also, in his own mask to announce His combat to it. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.HEBREWS.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 57-1006 321-688 If you noticed, they had eyes in front and in the back. They--they... Everywhere it went, it reflected. They seen everywhere they were going. And that's the power of the Gospels as it goes out; it can... It's got the shrewdness of a man; it's got the swiftness of an eagle; it's got the--the--the--the power, the pulling power, the burden-bearer like an ox; it's got the--the sternness and the boldness of a lion. ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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For every age, all the churches claimed they followed as much as they know of the Bible, no matter if they believed or rejected the end-time message. And those churches that rejected the message believe they are still serving the Lord. They are still doing many of the commandments of God such as water baptism, taking communion, doing charity works, go out to preach, doing missionary works, good, upright living, etc. But God still does not accept them as the Bride of Jesus Christ. Some of them will be the foolish virgins. Why? The reason was they did not receive the manifested Word for their age. They rejected It. Not that they had done anything wrong by doing all those good works, but they were wrong in rejecting the Word for their age. When the Word moves we must move with It. If we stopped and are not willing to go on, it means we have organized and God will not work in an organization. It died there. It is wrong for us to receive a portion of the message and say there is no need to know more when our prophet said we should. The spoken Word of God being made manifest now, the Light of the hour. This is what the evidence of the Holy Spirit is, believing the Word of God when It's manifested and walk in the Light of It. If we don’t then we are not the Bride. The message for our time is The Son of Man ministry. God is revealing Christ to us, showing us the Mystery of God, telling us how He did it, how He redeemed His Church, revealing us the mysteries, restoring back the Word, calling and preparing His Bride, showing Her how to get rapturing faith, etc Bro Branham said: "Well, Caiaphas knowed the Word too!" But not the Word for that age. He had the word of what the Pharisees had poked into him, but not the vindicated Word of the hour.” “The Gospel... The Methodists have part, the Baptists, Presbyterians, and so forth, they had part of It, Catholic had part of It, Jehovah Witness, all the rest of them. But It's the whole Word, all the Word, the Word of the hour; what counts.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17. The church’s relationship with God is generally divided into two parts.
One part is about knowing what God is doing and the second part is what we can do for Him.
The church’s relationship with GOD
Know what God has done, First part is doing now and will do later. Receive the Word for the hour Manifesting the Word of the age Second part To serve God by a) personal holiness b) go to church c) go out to preach d) do charity works e) etc, etc
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Please understand that if we do all those things and yet reject some of the Word of the hour we are still rejecting Christ! In our walk with God we must be balanced in what we do. Don’t just concentrate on the second part. We must also pay attention to the first part, which is most important. If going out to preach or personal holiness is the most important thing to do then the denominational churches have already got it. There will be no need for bro Branham to come on the scene to tie up the loose ends of the Bible. I’m not saying all those denominational people will be lost. I mean any person who does not receive the Word for the hour is not part of the Bride. They will be judged during the second resurrection. At that time there will be the separation of the sheep from the goats. In each one of those ages, usually people did not want to believe it, because they were already set in their ways. That was where we get those junctions of time when God turned a corner. We should search the Scriptures and find the hour that we're living in. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DOORS.IN.DOOR_ FLAGSTAFF.AZ V-17 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-0206 ................ 49 Now, God's promise to Noah won't work for us today. God's promise to--to Moses, we couldn't have Moses' Message. Moses couldn't a-had Noah's message. We got the Message of the hour. We couldn't have had Luther's message. We couldn't have had Wesley's message. This is another time. God has allotted His Word to each age. And as that age comes along, He sends someone there to vindicate that Word, to prove that that's true. CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME.IN.ALL.GENERATIONS_TAMPA.FL 64-0415 101 And with the age that we're living in, when that Word is interpreted, God speaking that Word out and making the Word for that age live, giving the interpretation of it, that is God in Christ, manifesting. See? Because, Christ is the Word, and when the Word is made manifest, that is Christ in every age, then. CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME.IN.ALL.GENERATIONS_TAMPA.FL 64-0415 106 And now, we find that in each one of those ages, usually people don't want to believe it, because they're already set in their way. You're turning a corner. You're building a building. And then get to the corner, everybody is running this way, they don't want to turn that corner. But the building goes that way, if the Word says it goes that way. See? There's where we get those junctions of time. That's where it's hard. That's where men had sweat it out. 107 Now, remember, God never changes His way of doing things; always through the Scripture, just the same. Now, in the days of Noah, that was Christ was in Noah. That was Noah... CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME.IN.ALL.GENERATIONS_TAMPA.FL 64-0415 109 Now we see He, God, then identifying Himself in all ages. How? How did He identify Himself now? What characteristic did He use? His same characteristic, from the beginning: manifesting His Word, making His Word to live. That's the identification, the promised Word of that age. See? 110 Now, when Moses come, he couldn't said, "Now we're going to build an ark and float out of here." That was Noah's message. And that's the trouble. When Jesus came on the scene, He found
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those Hebrews living in a glare of another light. And that's what it is today. That's what it is in every age. They live in a glare of another light. 111 That's the reason that you Methodists, when you come on the scene, Luther was... You was living, and was living in a glare of a Lutheran age; they couldn't accept John Wesley. When Pentecostal come on, the Methodists couldn't accept Pentecost, because they was living in the glare of Methodist. And now I wonder what kind of a glare the Pentecostals are living in? See? 112 What you want to do is search the Scriptures and find out the hour that we're living in, and then what's supposed to be here at that time, and see if God makes that live and manifested, then that's the thing we're--we're got the right interpretation to the age. ... CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME.IN.ALL.GENERATIONS_TAMPA.FL 64-0415 113 He said, "If you would have knowed Moses, you'd knowed Me. He wrote of Me." He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life; They are They that testify of Me." Other words, "Look in the Scriptures." See? ... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18. The true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives Please read my papers: 49_Fruit of the Spirit and Baptism of Holy Ghost 50_Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost It is also good to read the SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - from page 155-1 to 156-2. The quotes are below. In those pages bro Branham wrote: Only ONE messenger for each age receives what the Spirit has to say to that age. The message is then broadcast to all. He speaks for God by revelation to the "churches", both true and false. That message is received individually by only a certain qualified group in a certain way. Each individual of that group is one who has the ability to hear what the Spirit is saying by way of the messenger. BUT EACH PERSON IS HEARING AND RECEIVING WHAT THE MESSENGER HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM GOD. But of course all those who go out don't always learn how necessary it is to speak ONLY what the messenger has spoken. How careful we must be to hear ONE voice, for the Spirit has but one voice which is the voice of God These are the full quotes: 155-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 Now we have been constantly saying that the true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives. Let me show you most clearly. 155-2 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 The Seven Ages as set forth in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3 take in the whole span of the Fullness of the Gentiles, or the whole time in which God is dealing with the Gentiles unto salvation. In every single age, bar none, it says the very same thing in opening and closing the message to each age. "Unto the messenger of (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea) write; These things saith He, etc., etc. "... He that hath an ear, let him (singular) hear what the Spirit saith to the churches." Notice here that Jesus (by the Spirit) in EVERY age addresses Himself to ONLY ONE person relative to the Word for that age. Only ONE messenger for each age receives what the Spirit has to say to that Page 14 of 24
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age, and that ONE MESSENGER is the messenger to the true church. He speaks for God by revelation to the "churches", both true and false. The message is then broadcast to all. But though it is broadcast for all who come within range of the message, that message is received individually by only a certain qualified group in a certain way. Each individual of that group is one who has the ability to hear what the Spirit is saying by way of the messenger. Those who hear are not getting their own private revelation, nor is a group getting their collective revelation, BUT EACH PERSON IS HEARING AND RECEIVING WHAT THE MESSENGER HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM GOD. 156-1 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 Now think it not strange that this is the case, for Paul set this pattern under the hand of God. Paul alone had the full revelation for his day as evidenced by his confrontation of the other apostles who admitted that Paul was the Prophet-Messenger to the Gentiles for that day. And also note by actual illustration in the Word, that when Paul desired to go to Asia, God forbade him, for the sheep (His children) were in Macedonia and they (the Macedonians) would hear what the Spirit had to say through Paul, while the people in Asia would not. 156-2 SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4 In every age we have exactly the same pattern. That is why the light comes through some God-given messenger in a certain area, and then from that messenger there spreads the light through the ministry of others who have been faithfully taught. But of course all those who go out don't always learn how necessary it is to speak ONLY what the messenger has spoken. (Remember, Paul warned the people to say only what he said, I Corinthians 14:37, "If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD. What? came the Word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?") They add here, or take away there, and soon the message is no longer pure, and the revival dies down. How careful we must be to hear ONE voice, for the Spirit has but one voice which is the voice of God. Paul warned them to say what he said, even as Peter did likewise. He warned them that EVEN HE (PAUL) could not change one word of what he had given by revelation. Oh, how important it is to hear the voice of God by way of His messengers, and then say what has been given them to say to the churches. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19. Why is it becoming harder and harder to win souls to Christ now? It is always the same. In the beginning, many will come and then most people will turn away later. Every time God gives a message, the majority of the church will reject It. There will be only a few that believe. It happened in Jesus Christ’s third pull, and it happened in bro Branham’s third pull. God would also purposely do it in such a way to weed down the crowd. How could God purposely do a thing like that? But He certainly did. He did that before and He is still doing it. Even more so at this end time when the door is closing, the third pull is at hand. There is nothing much to attract the people except the message for the hour. But this is food that is only for His Bride. SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-7 SUNDAY_ 65-0718E …..131 You say, "Why is it that the Message don't go out in these great big places, these big crusades, like amongst the denominations?" 132 It's not their Food. It's not the church, so calls, Food. It's the Bride Food. It's spiritual Food in season. It would make them sick at their stomach. It's too rich for them. See? See? You--you--you can't do it. But, for the children, It's Bread, It's Life, It's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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THE.UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M 21 May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word! 22 Now, my subject this morning, I trust that God will reveal this. And each time, if you who take the tapes and listen, and I hope and trust that--that you have had a spiritual understanding of what that God has been trying to get over to the Church without saying it right out. See? It's a thing, sometime, we have to say things in such a way that it might thin down, it might bring some to go out, some to leave, and some to--to--to ponder over. But that's done purposely. It must be done that way. THE.UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M 23 Then it might be that some would say, "You mean God would purposely do a thing like that?" He certainly did. He does yet. 24 He said one day, when He had thousands around Him, He said, "Except you eat of the Flesh of the Son of God, or Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you." 25 What kind of a statement do you think that a medical doctor or a nurse, or any fine intellectual person would think of a statement like that, for a Man that had a ministry like He had? Why, he would say, "Eat the flesh? That's cannibal! To drink human blood? It's a vampire! In other words, He wants us to be cannibals and vampires." And the whole audience walked away from Him. THE.UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M 26 And there was a ministerial association with Him, of seventy, that had been chosen. And He turned to them, and He said, "What will you think when you see the Son of man ascending up from where He came from?" Now, He didn't explain that. He never explained how; Paul did that later on. He just said It. See? And then when this, He said, "What will you say," to these ministers, "when you see the Son of man ascending up from where He come from?" 27 No doubt them man said, "Now, just a moment. Oh, we eat with Him. We fish with Him. We sleep with Him. We--we know where He was born. We seen the cradle that He--He was rocked in. And how does this Man... This is a hard saying." 28 And the Bible said, "They didn't walk with Him anymore." They left Him. THE.UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M 29 Then He had twelve left. He had chose twelve, and one of them was a devil, He said. So He turned to them. And there's no one could explain what He had just said. "How are they going to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood? And how did He come down, when He was born right here on earth?" See? They couldn't understand It. And then He turned to the apostles, and He said, "Do you want to go also?" 30 And that's when Apostle Peter made that great statement, "Lord, to whom would we go?" See? "For we are satisfied. We know a surely that You, and You alone, have the Word of Life of this hour." See? "And we are satisfied of that." See, they could not explain It. They... You can't explain faith. It's something that you believe, and it's so solid that there is nothing else will take its place. Therefore, they knowed that the Word that was written for that age that they were living in, the Messiah-ic age, that He fit that place exactly. And what could they do to go back in them cold, formal churches that they had come out of? Said, "Where would we go to?" See? "We are fully persuaded that You have the Word of Life." See? And they--they couldn't explain It, but they believed It. See? THE.UNVEILING.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-9 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0614M 31 And Jesus said that to weed down His crowd, see, till He could get the group together. And out of all those people, they, only eleven of them then understood actually Who He was. They knowed that He was God, and God alone. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.4_ JEFF.IN COD 64-0830E 1158-Q-386 386. Brother Branham, what seems to be wrong in the day when we are living, of being a believer and following the Message and messenger of today, when you cannot seem to pray like you would like to? That's a good question. I believe brother, sister, ever who asked it, it's a cause of the conditions of time. The revival is over. The revival has lasted some fifteen years, never did last before over about three years. I believe it's received its last revival. And I believe that's why you can't pray and feel in the Spirit like you used to. It's because the revival fires has gone out. (My note: bro Branham was referring to the revival in the churches of his time) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------20. But the Bride of Christ is going to have a Revival! The revival of the other churches is over but not the Bride. But what will you expect when the Bride’s Revival comes? A big public manifestation like in Bro Branham’s time? QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1130-311... This question here is this: "Will there be miracles done by the Bride?" Yes, sir. It's being done right now. That's right. See? But don't look for something that great--or bring the heavens and close the heavens, it rain not. That goes into the--the Jews now. See? That doesn't pertain to this at all; that's Moses and Elijah to the Jews, not to this church at all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21. What will be the Revival of the Bride? The WORD! It always the WORD; the Message of the hour in the Second Riding. Bro Branham said; “Notice. But watch when, the spiritual Bride, when She begins to have a revival, when She begins to come back and line Herself up with the Word of God. Watch then again, you see, how that the Scriptures, at that time, There'll be a Message sweep out to catch that Bride, catch that Woman, Elect.” THE.INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE.OF.CHRIST_ SHP.LA _ 65-1125 49 And where can we find “the Message”? In the tapes! The Food that has been stored! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------22. Bro Branham warned us not to add or take away what was said in the tapes RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY.AND.ITS.MESSAGE_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0726M ..... 32 Here the other day in Arizona, splicing tapes, to try to make me say things that I didn't say. Just remember the vision about the Arizona proposition! The Bible said, "It was far better for you that you had a rock at your neck." And another thing, that, "Whosoever," let him be preacher or what he will, "will take one Word away from It, or add one word to It!" People putting their own interpretation upon the Word as It's been given, trying to make It say something that I did not say, and, not my Word; It's His Word. "Who shall add to, or take away!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY.AND.ITS.MESSAGE_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0726M 108 If the church denomination today could only recognize why they are being condemned, and their members are fleeing from them, like Israel out of Egypt! If the denominations would only quit condemning those tapes, and would listen to them! And you, preacher, listening to this tape, you listen! If you'd only recognize the hour that you're living, if you'd only recognize the sign of the time, you would see why the people are running from them denominations. The Spirit of the Lord, calling! "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except My Father draws him. And all that the Father has, in past times, given Me, will come." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------23. The world-wide Tape Ministry THE.INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE.OF.CHRIST_ 65-1125 339 Now, Father, being that we see across the country, around the world, in Africa, dozens, dozens through South Africa, Mozambique, all across the country, little assemblies taking these tapes. And so will this tape go to twenty-some odd, different nations. They're beginning to see It and pull away, hundreds and hundreds of them. Won't take many, Lord. Then when the last member is received into the Body, Christ will come. COUNTDOWN_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-3 SUNDAY_ 62-0909M 8 I know this is being taped. And when I say things here, I realize I'm not only talking to this congregation, but across the world. And I... Because these tapes go out to many, many nations, and they take them even back in the tribes in Africa, back in there, and they set there, and the minister takes it and interprets those tapes to the people, back in where they don't even know which is right and left hand. See? Way back into Australia ...And remember, these tapes are played back in there. The Message you're listening to here is played back in there, by hundreds of missionaries taking these tapes and playing them back in there, and interpret It to the people. So, you see, when I get there on the day of the judgment, you see what's going to be resting upon my shoulders? What if I mislead somebody? See? There you are. Just think of one of those souls, and if I mislead them to the wrong thing. TESTIMONY_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-5 THURSDAY_ 63-1128M 19 ... And hundreds are being saved and healed, just through the tapes going out across the world. All in English, but being translated in many, many different language in tribes around the world. We hear from them, back through the mail. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 62-0527 732-234 Now, I've sowed the seed everywhere; tapes has went worldwide; my messages have went around the world; all the churches know about it, around everywhere; and what the Father has elected He'll call it. See? And now it looks like it becomes an offense to them. Oh, they don't want nothing to do with it. No, sir. Shall I just go forth and pray for the sick, and little simple message upon that, and--and see the way the Holy Spirit leads me? That's what's in my mind to do until He makes another call. Because a man don't know what to do until you understand from God what to do, until you get your bearing. And I--I don't want to lay around the house. This message is on my heart. People are dying, falling away, going out into eternity. What can I do? Let me blast it everywhere I can, and tell about the Lord Jesus until He changes the position. You pray for me. I'll pray for you. I hope you do that. A.PRISONER_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0717 22 And here they both are. Tomorr-... By end of the week, maybe by Sunday, we're getting the small photograph blowed up to a large size, so it can be put on the billboard. Page 18 of 24
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23 Where, your picture hangs out there on the billboard. I don't know whether you noticed it, or not. And then... And about a week ago, in--in Jamaica, where I was missionary-ing. We send tapes all over the world. And The Seven Seals has got back into... way back into the inlands of Jamaica, way in the interior. And it's very primitive back in there, behind Blue Mountain. And the natives, sometimes, they have a--a tape recorder we get for them, that you have to--to, like the old Victrola, crank it, and then let--let it play like that. Then, every few minutes, somebody has to crank it. A.PRISONER_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0717 24 This group had a--a little battery, six-volt battery, or something another, playing the tape recorder. And they--they was all setting together, about what is here tonight, listening to those Seals, I believe it was. And while I was speaking, they noticed, coming in the room, came that same Pillar of Fire, moved over where the tape recorder was and settled down over the top of it. And they went and got a camera and took the picture of It. And just the same One, there It is, hanging right there over it. Now we're getting it blowed up, so we can put it on the--the billboard out there, that you can see it. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------24. "This is not your tabernacle” – bro Branham’s tabernacle is the whole world THE.IMPERSONATION.OF.CHRISTIANITY_ JEFF.IN _ 57-0120M E-14 ...the Holy Spirit ...It said, "Do the work of an evangelist." Said, "When you come out of this, read II Timothy 4.“ Said, "Do the work of an evangelist; this is not your tabernacle." And I said, "Where..." And I seen the tabernacle as it is today. I said, "Where is my tabernacle?“ And He set me down under the bright blue sky, (the Whole Wide World) and He said, "Do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but shall heap for themselves together teachers, having itching ears and shall be turned from the truth to fables." GOD.DOESN'T.CALL.MAN.TO.JUDGMENT.WITHOUT.FIRST.WARNING.HIM_ JEFF.IN _ 63-0724 11 I remember how was praying, and right here in this weeds, right here where this pulpit stands now, just about where it's at, that's where I drove a little stake where I knowed to put the pulpit. The Lord God give me this place. Yes, sir. Now, right there in the cornerstone lays my testimony of a vision the morning I laid it, when I hardly could think then, said, "This is not your tabernacle, but do the work of an evangelist," He said. I looked out and I seen all the world there, and the bright blue skies, and people coming from everywhere; it's laying in the cornerstone there. How little did I think that would happen, even though the vision said so; but doesn't fail, it's going to be there anyhow. You may listen to PRESENT.STAGE.OF.MY.MINISTRY_ JEFF.IN _ 62-0908 from quote 4 to 16 ---------------------------------------------------------25. Different people handle the tapes differently God told Bro Branham to record his message in the tapes. This is what we have now since he was taken home. God is using the message in the tapes to feed us the spiritual food. But different churches handle the tapes differently. Some take the tapes seriously but some do not; and some are going overboard with it interpreting things differently from the tapes. Now, listening to the tapes can be in several ways: (Listening to the tapes means listening to bro Branham’s recorded preaching; be it from cassette tapes or from computer with or without projector screen or by other means) Page 19 of 24
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1_ Why it is important to listen to the tapes?
Bro Lau
1. Listening to one whole tape at one sitting without anyone in control. Generally most people will not be able to concentrate after 20 to 30 minutes and most will just endure it without learning much for the rest of the tape session. 2. Listening to a portion of the tape in one sitting then continue at the next sitting without anyone in control. Better than the first but will take several sessions for each tapes. Many people might still miss many things without someone guiding them. 3. Same as in 1 and 2 but with a brother in charge; to guide, to pause and explain or to show the important quotes which people might miss. This tape operator must be well versed with the tapes and is Spirit-filled in order to do this task. Some may not like this because they might say the brother is interpreting the tapes. If this is so then what are you going to say when the ministers stand at the pulpit and preach to the congregation using their own words? At least during the tape session that tape operator is teaching the people directly from the tapes and with evidence to back up what he says. You should know that there is an office of a teacher in the five-fold ministry. And the person’s office is recognised by his work. His work identifies his office. 4. Same as in 1 or 2 or 3 but with the words shown on a projector screen. This is highly recommended because the people are able to hear and see at the same time. 5. Occasionally, someone especially the pastor will preach on a certain topic and bring out selected quotes to present to the people. He can play the tapes and show the quotes on the screen. The problem is that many people can bring out quotes to proof many things. On many occasions some might misunderstand the quotes, or even withhold the quotes that contradict with what they are trying to say. Sadly most people do not know the tapes well so they are not able to discern the wrong from the truth. So the people get the wrong teaching without realizing it. 6. Letting the tape run continuously in the background while we go about doing something else at home. We might miss many things listening this way. It is even worse if we just let the tape run without really paying attention to it, hoping that we will get some blessing by just playing the tapes. We will be like the Buddhists, playing recordings of Buddhist monks chanting at their homes without understanding a word. The Buddhist think that they will receive blessings by doing that, and likewise some believers believe the same too. I don’t think they will get any blessing but what they get is just some noise pollutions. I believe we do not get much by this method of tape listening. Yet some would like to tell others they listen to the tapes regularly at home, and people might be impressed by what they claimed. Actually, they play the tapes all the time in the background like a Moslem listening to the iman reciting the Quran or a Buddhist listening to a monk chanting the mantra. 7. Lastly, there are some who do not see the importance of the tapes. There is hardly any tape listening in their church. During tape day (if there is any), very few people will attend. There might be several reasons. Maybe they do not want the people to be confused with what they thought are the “unnecessary mysteries knowledge”. They will only preach the basic doctrines of the Bible. Some might be afraid that the more the people know the tapes the more they might start to question the understanding of their pastors, making them difficult to control their congregation. And then some believe the Seventh Seal is not open yet so why need to listen to the tapes? They are waiting for God to reveal the Seal in the future somehow. They believe the tapes have no part in this Seventh Seal revelation. As for me, I prefer method 3 plus 4. I recommend at least one tape day per week for the whole church. Then can the people see what the tape is all about. Page 20 of 24
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1_ Why it is important to listen to the tapes?
Bro Lau
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------26. Some say Brother Branham was a good man, but do not listen to his tapes, because it'll get you confused THE.WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 62-0513M 29-4 A man, so-called teacher (which I don't say but he isn't) made a remark the other day before some of my friends at a certain city I'd been into. You know the brother. And this brother come in; he said... Well, he said, "We had Brother Branham here once" (a certain city in--out west). And this man said, "Oh, Brother Branham's a good man (See? He knowed better than to throw anything on the character.)," said, "Brother Branham, but don't you listen to his tapes, because it'll get you confused." And there happened to be one of my friends standing there said, "Just a minute, sir. I was confused until I heard the tapes." And that's the difference. Said, "I couldn't understand how a holy God would put up with such things as that, as you all do." Same person, another one with him, stood at a certain place not long ago, said, "Brother Branham is a prophet; he can discern things and things like"; but said, "now, don't listen to his doctrine, 'cause he's not right." 30-3 The insanity, the uncouthed expression as that; don't you know that the--if it is a... I'm no prophet, but if the Word of God is true, It comes to the prophet. The Word of the Lord came to the prophet. They was the one interpretated the Word. Then you see you don't--it don't even make sense. Just to hide behind some petty denomination... One of these days they'll break, and mold, and perish in hell, but the Word of God will endure forever. Upon that Rock, I build my hopes forever, upon the Word of the Lord. And let everything else sink. If I lose every friend, everything else, my friendship's in Christ. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some believe this: No need to know the last mysteries, they will get you confused. Let us concentrate on faith, healing and personal holiness. These are enough to get us to heaven. Some couldn’t accept it: Why does God like to weed out the people? So that few will believe? And some said: The Mystery was not fully revealed. There is nothing much we can receive from the tapes. The rest of the WORD will be revealed in the future. In what way? Not sure. And the last revelations are for the Jews, and not for us Gentiles. And some believe: Rapture has taken place. Many things have already happened. The caught up has happened. The bodily change was spiritual. Two witnesses have come. Millennium is now. Everything is spiritual. And this is what some believe: They say we should not exalt Brother Branham’s words over the words of the Bible, replacing God's revelation with human revelation. They warned us to go back to the Bible as the absolute. They believe ‘the message denomination’ has removed the Bible as the absolute, and replaced it with sermons of brother Branham, and replaced the voice of God with the voice of ‘the prophet’.
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1_ Why it is important to listen to the tapes?
Bro Lau
Sounds very logical, right? But I find that it is very deceiving. They are trying to separate the Message from the Bible, indicating that bro Branham was preaching something not from the Bible. In the end they are trying to downgrade the message as just a man’s teaching, and that the message was not from God. But this is what I believe: Bro Branham said, “Now, I want you to know this is sure, and you that listen to this tape. You might have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, being that I was packing this Message. I have no more to do with It than nothing, no more than just a voice. And, my voice, even against my better judgment; I wanted to be a trapper. But it's the will of my Father that I declare to do, and determined to do. I wasn't the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I'm not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect they are; I'm only one that's near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used, to say It. It wasn't what I knew; it's what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn't me, it wasn't the seventh angel, oh, no; it was the manifestation of the Son of man. It wasn't the angel, his message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It's not a man; it's God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ; He is the One that you're feeding on. You're not feeding on a man; a man, his words will fail. But you're feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man.” THE.ANOINTED.ONES.AT.THE.END.TIME_ JEFF.IN _ 65-0725M 269 I do not know what they meant by “replaced the voice of God with the voice of the prophet.” I believe a prophet is a reflector of God. He is made so that he cannot speak his own words. It has to be God's Words that he speaks. He's just like a reflector, and he is God's mouthpiece. 324-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9 What was in those thunders no one knows. But we need to know. And it will take a prophet to get the revelation because God has no other way of bringing out His Scriptural revelations except by a prophet. The Word always came by a prophet and always will. That this is the law of God is evident by even a casual search of Scripture. The unchanging God with unchanging ways invariably sent His prophet in every age where the people had strayed from Divine order. With both the theologians and the people having departed from the Word, God always sent His servant to these people (but apart from the theologians) in order to correct false teaching and lead the people back to God. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------27. A true Message believer will take the Message as something very precious The Message was the hidden revelation of the Bible. It will make the Bible complete. How can we say the Message is not important? Without the Message we will not receive the complete Revelation of Jesus Christ! The word “absolute” means “complete” or “total”. They can talk about the Bible as being the absolute but actually what completes the Bible as the absolute is the Revelation of Jesus Christ from the Message. Therefore, knowing that the tapes are important, we should be listening to them in church and at home. It doesn’t mean that we are neglecting the Bible. There is no reason for us to take the Message and throw away the Bible. Why can’t we take both? We are still reading the Bible, and when we are listening to the tapes, we are actually also reading the Bible with interpretation from God. How wonderful!
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1_ Why it is important to listen to the tapes?
Bro Lau
There are many good Christians in the denominational churches who regard the Bible as something very important in their life. They allotted much time for spiritual communion with the LORD, reading the Bible and praying in secret. Some of us might have done it before, but what about now? And what about the Voice of the Seventh Angel of this end time? Are we not to pay attention to It? Is the Message lower in standard as compared to the Bible? Is the Lord of the Bible not the same as the Lord of the Message? We can show much affection to the Lord of 2000 years ago, so we should likewise also pay attention to the Lord of the hour. The Lord Jesus Christ of this hour. It is so common to hear people say they have no time. So busy with many things. Yes, it is true. They are not wrong. But do you know that it is exactly what Jesus Christ said the end time will be? Read LUKE 17 26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. LUKE 14 16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. Even in the Book of DANIEL 12 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1_ Why it is important to listen to the tapes?
Bro Lau
28. But with so many tapes in the collection (1,000 plus), we do not know where to start I would like to tell you what I have discovered when I study the tapes, and how I orientated myself with them. There were many tapes that I found important. If you want to pick which one, there is a general guide to follow. Bro Branham said he will teach the deeper things when he was in his own church, Branham Tabernacle. This is just a guide, because bro Branham had also preached some deep messages when he was in not in his church. This was more so in 1965 when he was staying in Arizona. The timeline/chronology of the titles of the tapes indicated that there were obvious parallels between the ministry of bro Branham and the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. Jesus Christ had His First Pull and Second Pull and then the Third Pull. He started His ministry with the First and Second Pulls to attract the people. There were many miracles and divine healings. However, the Third Pull was already present at that time, but It was veiled by the First and Second Pull. Likewise, bro Branham’s ministry was the same. Coming to the end of His ministry, Jesus Christ preached the six Seals; and we also have bro Branham preaching the six Seals in March 1963. Immediately after that, Jesus Christ was crucified, and the end time Message had to be the same too. There was the tape with the title THE.INDICTMENT_ JEFF.IN _ 63-0707M, when bro Branham preached that the churches were crucifying afresh the Lord Jesus the second time. Then Jesus went to hell to preach to the lost. Likewise we have the tape SOULS.THAT.ARE.IN.PRISON.NOW_ JEFF.IN _ 63-1110M And then, in 1965, bro Branham preached the resurrection message. For example: THE.EASTER.SEAL_ PHOENIX.AZ _ 65-0410 IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN _ 65-0418M There are so many things for us to learn from the tapes, with the later years containing more of the deeper and more important teachings. But there were many important tapes in the early years also. We should always look at the title of any tape and where he preached it. His message had all the Three Pulls in them. However, starting from after he preached the Seals in 1963, bro Branham’s message was more and more inclined to the Third Pull. ================================================================
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