The Last Will and Testament of God Pt.7
REVELATION 7:9-10
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb (Notice, it’s talking here about multiple millions upon millions of gentile people - from every nation, and every kindred, and every tongue in the world), clothed with white robes (Their souls and spirits have been clothed with pure and perfect human bodies with no sickness or death), and palms in their hands; (Palms signify victory and peace and of the future enjoyment of rest and plenty after toil)
10 And cried with a loud voice (Notice carefully what they say here – because remember that your words of worship reflect your revelation of God), saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. (They are worshiping God because they realize that they have been saved by God – but the bride’s revelation goes way beyond just being save, and so this is also why we know that this cannot be the gentile bride)
The Last Will and Testament of God Pt.7
REVELATION 7:13-17
13 ¶ And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? (When the seals opened in March 1963, it was the first time that we were directly told by God that these people of whom were arrayed in white robes were not the gentile bride group as we had been previously taught in the message up to that point in time, but that they are made up of the groups that will be saved out of the great tribulation period such as the foolish virgins etc. because they all had to be purged for rejecting the end time message (that is what the sixth seal was all about) just like the Jews had to be purged because they rejected Christ – yet they are still to be saved. And so there will be multitudes of millions of gentile people in this group from every nation, and every kindred, and every tongue in the world)
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation (That’s the great tribulation period that takes place after the bride is resurrected and raptured), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (And so this includes the foolish virgin group, as well those shown in Mathew 25 that have done good to the least of these “His” brethren as well as many other groups of the saved that are written in mystery form under many other scriptures)
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. (Like a good king that dwells among his subjects)
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. (Notice carefully, when they had lived their lives out on the earth, they had suffered by hunger and thirst, and heat, and all the troubles associated with living life in a fallen world of sin, and so now they are so happy because the toils and troubles of their earthly lives are over and they are so appreciative to be on the other side knowing that none of those sufferings of earth can ever touch them again – and this is why they are praising God for their salvation, because this is their revelation – that God has saved them)
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
*The tears of all the sorrows of life that came by living in a fallen body and in a fallen world have all been wiped away forever.
JOHN 5:28-29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (When you hear the voice of God, it resurrects you. And in this hour, we have already heard God’s voice through the mouthpiece of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 – and so the resurrection for us personally has already taken place in that we have been raised up out of dark denominational tombs into a bride age dispensation)
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
*Mathew 25 explains what this “doing good” and “doing evil” is. And so we notice that these people are not being judged according to their sins, because good works can never take away sin anyway, because only the blood Jesus Christ is able to take away sin, and so this is about them being rewarded for their works based upon how they treated the “least” of His brethren – because Mathew 25 makes that clear.
LUKE 16:19-25
19 ¶ There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, (Notice – two people with completely opposite levels of quality of life)
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. (Notice – in this life Lazarus had experience huger and sickness and poverty and struggle and sadness and sorrow and loss - while this rich man fared sumptuously every day. This word sumptuously = splendidly and magnificently, in other words, he lived splendidly and magnificently every day)
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
(Remember that under all scripture are names of people written in mystery form – because the bible is the book of redemption that contains every person’s name written in it and in mystery form)
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. (This rich man’s sin wasn’t that he was rich, because there were many great rich men in the bible – Abraham, Job, Joseph and Solomon etc., but his sin was that he had failed to share some of the blessings of his wealth that God had allowed him to have in order to relieve the suffering of others while on earth, and so because of this he qualified for the group spoken of in Mathew 25 of the goats on the left hand side that failed to serve the least of these His brethren. But now that he is on the other side, this rich man is wanting others of whom he did not help on earth to now relieve his suffering, even though he had had many opportunities on earth to have used the excess of his resources for the good of others, yet did not)
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things (He received his good things while on earth – in other words some people have to wait until they get to the other side to receive their good things, but he got given a head start and began to receive good things while he was still on earth), and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
**Lazarus is now beginning to receive good things – because on earth he had lived a life that had been full of suffering and hunger, but now on the other side, he was receiving the opposite to that – a life of joy and bliss and comfort.
***And so these teachings of Jesus is revealing to us an aspect of the title deed that is clearly showing us a category of people who will be saved as subjects in the eternal kingdom of heaven simply because they had had a life of suffering and struggle while on earth – and this is not my idea, because this is what the word is telling us here of what Jesus is teaching us in Luke 16 – because there are many names of people that are written under these scriptures, because the bible is the title deed book that contains the names of every person that has ever lived on this earth and by these scriptures places a category of people into their eternal position and inheritance in the future kingdom of heaven.
**We know that the 7 church ages of Revelation chapter 2 and 3 was the history of the gentile church, and the first four seals of Revelation 6 showed us the mystery that was behind that history – the mystery of why the elected of God acted the way that they did, and it was because of the anointing that they were under of what God had sent to them that influenced their nature.
From the anointing of the Lion in the first church age, and on through to the OX, Man, and then finally the Eagle age.
*God used the nature and characteristics of these different creatures to show us the type of spirit that He released onto the elected bride of each of the seven church ages.
*And we also know that because the seven church ages was a nighttime of candlelight ages, God had to “wink” at many of their teachings throughout those ages that were in error, until it would be that at evening time the light of the real truth of the word would be restored and understood by an end time people.
**And so as brother Branham progressed through the years of his ministry, for a time and season during his life and ministry, God had to also “wink” and allow His prophet to teach things that as time went on He would have to be corrected on.
*And this is why that when Brother Branham finally came into the third pull part of his ministry and arrived at the time of the opening of the seven seals, the Holy Spirit began to show him and reveal to him things that were altogether different to that of what he had previously taught for many years.
THE.SECOND.SEAL_ JEFF.IN TUESDAY_ 63-0319
178-4 {11} And now, tonight we are studying this Second Seal. And e... For the first four Seals there is four horse riders. And I tell you today something happened again, and I--I... Something that I... I go and get the old script that I had that I talked on long ago. And just set down there, and I thought, "Well, I--I did the very best I could." And many writers and things... And I thought, "Well, I'll read a little while, and look over and see this and that," and the first thing you know, something just happens, and it's altogether different. It just comes in different. Then I grab me a pencil right quick and start writing down just as fast as I can while He's there.
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
527-4 {17} Now, I say this... Looking over old notes that I preached on many years ago, I was just coming in and saying what I thought was right and going on. It was away off of the line.
And now, all four of them Seals, I had it in about twenty minute sermon. Oh... The four horse riders of Revelations, I throwed them all together, and said, "One horse went in white"; I said, "perhaps that's the--the--the early age. And next horse went in famine," and then on like that.
But my, when the Word really was opened up, it was a hundred miles away from it. So it behooves us to watch and wait.
**And one of the things that the Holy Spirit had allowed him up to that point to teach different (to when the seals opened and showed him different), was what he had always taught about how that this gentile group that was without number spoken of in Revelation Chapter 7 was not the bride as he had always taught. Because up to the opening of the seven seals, he had always emphatically taught that this group was the bride, but when the real truth of it was made known to him by the Holy Spirit, he was showed that they were not the gentile bride.
**And so when he came to the night of the opening of the seventh seal on the evening of the 24th of March 1963, it was only then that the Holy Spirit corrected him on this by completely changing his understanding by showing him that this group was not the bride but in fact was those of whom Mathew chapter 25 speaks of that are to be purged and saved out of the great tribulation period after the rapture of the gentile church has taken place – and that there will be multitudes of millions of these gentile people that will be saved out of every nation and tongue from out of the great tribulation period.
***And so we want study this by reading some of the quotes of the statements that Brother Branham had made about these gentile people of Revelation chapter 7 before the opening of the seven seals of where he had always taught that this gentile group was the bride - but then when the seals were opened, we find out that they were not the bride, because the opening of the seals was the accurate and final reading of the last will and testament of God.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 54-0515
174-Q-32 32. Last night you spoke of the great multitude that no man could number from every tribe, nation that are--are mentioned in the 7th chapter of Revelations. Did I understand you correctly to say that they are the Bride of Christ?
Yes, you understood me; they are the Bride. Now, if you'll notice, just exactly in Revelations 7, he saw the hundred and forty-four thousand. Now, I'm not accusing you of this, my brother, but the hundred... Usually a Jehovah Witness is the one that believes that hundred and forty-four thousand will be the Bride. And that's an error. John knowed every one of them, and he called them by name. They were every one Jews. He said, "Twelve thousand of Gad; twelve thousand of Zabulon; twelve thousand of Benjamin; twelve thousand of Juda." Is that right? And there's twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve times twelve is a hundred and forty-four thousand. Is that right? He said, "All the children of Israel." John recognized them.
174-154 Then he looked this way, and he said, "Why, here stood a great multitude that no man could number of all kindreds, tongues, and nations stood with white robes in their hands and palms, and waving, and shouting, and singing hosannas and--to the King." He said, "Who are they?"
He said, "That's the ones that's come out of great tribulation and washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb. They are before God, and they'll serve the Lamb in His Temple with Him. Day and night they'll not leave Him." There's the Bride (See?), the Wife, the Gentile Bride.
**This is 1954, and this was the understanding that he had had of this portion of scripture, and he held to this teaching right up to the night of the 24th of March 1963 of when he preached the seventh seal – and it was only then that the Holy Spirit revealed to him that this was not the bride. And so we notice that God had not moved in any way to correct him prior to that time.
Let’s look at another quote of where he again teaches that this is the bride in 1957.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.HEBREWS.1_ JEFF.IN COD WEDNESDAY_ 57-0925
222-77 Now, watch; just read It now.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these and... which are arrayed in white robes? and whence cometh they?
The elder said to John, which was a Jew that recognized the hundred and forty-four thousand, and said, "Now, you knew them; they're all Jews. But who are these? Where'd they come from?" See what the elder said, "One of the elders answered (That's the elders before the throne.)--answered me, saying, 'What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence cometh they?' Now, we all know the Jews and their covenant and so forth, but when did these come?" Now, watch.
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest... ("I--I--I don't." John said, "It's just past me. I don't know.")... And he said unto me, These are they that came out of great tribulations, (Through trials and many these dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come. See?)... these come up out of great tribulations, and have washed their robe,... (in the church? Does that sound right?)... have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
... they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night... (Who serves me in my home? My wife, is that right?)... and in His temple:... (That's who stays with me in my home and in my economy, is my wife. She's the one who sets with me, and washes my clothes, and keeps things ready for me.)... and he that setteth upon the throne shall dwell among them. (Oh, my, listen.)
And they shall hunger no more,... (Looked like they had missed a few meals coming along.)... neither shall they thirst any more; nor shall the sun light on them and--no more, nor any heat.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water: and God shall wipe... all tears from their eyes. (There She is; there's your Bride.)
*Even in the church age book, the Holy Spirit did not allow this to be corrected.
316-2 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
God is talking about the bride here. Do you want to see another picture of her?
It is over in Revelation 7:4-17,
"And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. (Notice – this group is sealed by their two Jewish prophets that opens up the mystery of the bible to them concerning their part, but this next group that is mentioned of the gentiles from all nations and tongues that no man could number, they are not sealed by the revelation of any prophetic ministry, but they will go on to receive white robes like the Jews under the 5th seal who were under the brazen altar) Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God Which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. (Again, we notice that the way a person worships reveals the level of their revelation and relationship to God)
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. (Each group is giving worship according to their revelation of God, Because the angels cannot worship God as a Saviour, but a person who has been born into the world and has experienced being lost and then realizes that they have been saved by God, they are then able to truly worship God as a Saviour.)
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation (This is the great tribulation period after the rapture has taken place), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them (Notice how that they are His subjects that he will dwell among them like a good king would dwell among his people – but they are not his wife, because his wife dwells with Him and rules with Him).
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
For the Lamb Which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
Jesus has come. He has sealed the 144,000. He took 12,000 out of each tribe. But there is another group that doesn't belong in this 144,000 who are seen in verses 9-18. Who are they? These are in the bride taken from amongst the Gentiles. They are before His throne day and night. They serve Him in the temple. They are the special care of the Lord. They are His bride.
**But when the seals were opened (The Last Will and Testament of God), it completely turned the prophet’s understanding around 180 degrees to reveal that this group was not the gentile bride, and this is such a powerful revelation because there are multitudes of millions of people who are written under this scripture that we didn’t know existed before until the last will and testament of God was made known to us in this hour, but now that we know this, it has become so clear and obvious to us – because for a start, the bride does not even go through the tribulation period, and so just on that point alone, it proves that this group cannot be the bride.
*Yet we see that right throughout the message, and even in the church age book, Brother Branham is identifying these gentile people of Revelation chapter 7 wrong and is placing them in the wrong category by saying that they are the bride when they are not the gentile bride – and the reason for this is because up until the last will and testament of God is opened and made known, it could not have been known who this group was because the mystery of it was sealed by seven seals.
***At the opening of the seven seals, all of these different categories of who is who and who gets what inheritance - it all becomes clear to us in this hour, because we are to now judge the world by this revelation of the opened book.
*Another thing that we notice, is that in the Sunday morning service of the 24th of March 1963, an event takes place when the prophet of God is answering a question and gives the wrong answer about the people who are spoken of in Revelation chapter 5, because he says that this group that is worshiping in Revelation 5 is not the bride when they were the bride, and so the Holy Spirit stops the service supernaturally and causes that to be corrected.
**And so the Lord allowed that event to take place in the morning service because He was preparing us for the evening service by letting us know that when he gets to Revelation 7 in the evening service, that he is not going to let his prophet make a mistake even though it would be different to what brother Branham had previously taught about it all those prior years.
**And so in the evening message of the opening of the Seventh Seal, the Holy Spirit turns around and now corrects all of those places in the message of when Brother Branham (the man) was wrongly identifying this group of what he had always understood as being the bride – because the title deed must be made known correctly.
**And so now, at the opening of the seven seals, the Holy Spirit has him in effect read out and the last will and testament that tells us that this group is NOT the bride but those of Mathew 25 of the foolish virgins etc.
So let’s read this last quote.
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
545-1 {141} ... First we start now, Israel, and then we see the purged church, not the Bride, the purged church by tribulation (See, see?) coming up here, great number of real sincere hearts that come up out of--of the great tribulation. Not the Church, it's gone on--the Bride. There's the church.
Now, we find out over a little later, Jesus said that the throne would set and how the--they'd stand in the judgment, each one. (He is speaking of Mathew chapter 25 – of those that do good to the brethren) Now, we find now that these people were sealed with the Seal of the living God (Is that right?), these Jews. What is the Seal of the living God? Now, I'm not calling any--hurt any feelings, I'm just saying it. See? Do you know that reading after many of scholars who write on this, claim that this group here, blood washed, are actually the Bride? Did you know that many scholars also claim that the hundred and forty-four thousand is the Bride? What a... There's something got to fit out here wrong--in here right, 'cause there's something wrong now.
**It’s wrong because the bride is gone off the earth before the tribulation period of the purging time starts, because the bride is not to be purged during the tribulation period like the foolish virgins are, because she has received the message of Malachi 4 - it’s only those who have rejection the message that have to be purged because of their rejection of the message, but yet they will still be saved just like the Jews are purged for rejecting Christ but are still save as what the opening of the 5th seal revealed that to us)
***And so after the opening of the 7 seals in Mather 24, the Holy Spirit then begins to show us in Mathew 25 these other qualifying groups of saved people of which He shows us in parable form of their identifying characteristics – and these people are also a part of these ones which no man could number that are to come out of the great tribulation period after the bride has been taken off the earth.
***As the end time gentile bride group of this last hour’s message, what proves who we are in this hour, is that we have been clearly separated into the bride body category by the fact that we have been sealed by the voice and message of the messenger that God sent to us in this end time age, because that is what seals you into the bride body, it’s the revelation of this hour, just like the 144,000 Jews were identified and sealed by the revelation of Jesus Christ that is taught to them through the voices and teaching of their two prophets Moses and Elijah.
**And so that is what clearly identifies us as the end time gentile bride group – it is by the fact that we have been sealed in our foreheads by the revelation of the truth of the message that God has sent to us in this hour by the voice of Revelation 10:7.
The sealing angel is the Holy Spirit, and He alone is the teacher of truth, and He is the only one who can reveal the truth of the word to you for the age that you live in, and He will only reveal that truth to those of the exact number of the elected and predestinated bride for each age.