Come, let Us return to the Lord
Bible Believers’ Newsletter 816
“We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . .”
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God’s unchanging Word.
On the eve of 2014 we wish to express our appreciation and sincere thanks to our researchers, contributing authors, WebMistress, our Brother who built this Website and is creating another project for the children of God, and YOU dear reader and subscriber. Your questions, suggestions and corrections have been helpful and edifying to our brethren who feed their souls from the revelations in these pages and from the Christian resources on our Church Website.
I believe 2014 will mark the eighteenth birthday of Bible Believers’ free weekly Church Newsletter and our twenty-second year in cyberspace that began with Bible Believers’ BBS gated to the Internet. It has taken longer than anticipated but it seems Bible Believers’ Church Website has introduced Christ’s second or ‘parousia’ Coming to President Putin’s Cabinet in the Kremlin. So “Keep your eyes on Russia. You remember that? “Keep your eyes on Russia. She’ll all wind up in Communism . . . it’ll all wind up in Catholicism in the end time. That’s at the battle of Armageddon, right over in (Revelation 19:11-21) . . . when Christ comes Himself” (William Branham, The Seventy Weeks of Daniel, p. 137:220).
The next US presidential election is scheduled for November 8, 2016, and if the Gentile dispensation endures Obama will be a ‘lame duck’ in twelve months unable to keep up with the flock with diminished political power and a target for predators. He will be more dangerous than he is, not having to face the consequences of his actions in any subsequent election, giving him greater freedom to issue unpopular decisions or appointments.
Whatever our immediate prospects the keywords for Believers are separation from worldly activities and worldly people and dedication to oneness with Christ in “the unity of the faith” displaying the Token of His Life in you. Remember now, there is no economic recovery underway in any nation; on the contrary, economic collapse is the global program. When people are without homes, without food and without employment they become dependent and easily controlled. Since World War II the welfare state has trained populations in the developed world as foreign aid has trained people in the developing world to become dependent upon Big Brother. This was not altruism but programming as Pavlov groomed his dogs with the objective of destroying initiative and independence in the developed world and turning the developing world to Communism. Brother Branham said, “We had a great nation; but she is now rottening and crumbling and shaking and giving away, and trying to tax people to get money to send over yonder to buy friendship with our enemies. They’re throwing it back in our face. One world war, two world wars, and still moving on to a third one” (This Day this Scripture is Fulfilled, p. 16:132). He warned, “You watch for a depression, brother. You think you’ve seen something; you just wait after while. You haven’t seen nothing” (Jezebel Religion, p. 22:100). The sinking of Los Angeles and much of the West coast will come on top of that, followed by the well-deserved defeat, invasion and temporary occupation of the US by Russia. And the horrible solution will be totalitarian one world government under the Judaeo-Roman church in league with Jewish banksters of the City of London who now rule the Communist and Capitalist nations, using the blooded US military as their bag man.
Redeem the time while the S_O_N-Light is still shining because once Los Angeles sinks the Gentile dispensation will be over. Brother Branham said, “Just a little while and we’ll be summoned; then the rapture will come. Just a little bitty group like Enoch will be taken up. Then the remnant of the woman’s seed that keep the Commandments of God (Jews), have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Gentiles), will be hunted down like dogs and shall give their life for their testimony” (The Future Home of the Earthly Bride and the Heavenly Bridegroom, p. 62:510-511). Like the fanatics trained by Saudi Arabia’s Jewish ruler’s Wahhabi Islam, the denominations in alliance with the then Devil-incarnate Pope will kill dissenters, thinking they are doing God a service as Talmudic Jews and Roman Catholics have done for centuries (Revelation 13:15-18).
We wish you a Spirit-led, healthy, happy and prosperous New Year with the Token of the Life of Christ on display in “just a closer walk with Thee”.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ,
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Fukushima out of Control 2011-2014
December 31, 2013 — The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of worldwide nuclear radiation. . . The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination. Radioactive elements have not only been detected in the food chain in Japan, radioactive rain water has been recorded in California. . .
“While Chernobyl was an enormous unprecedented disaster, it only occurred at one reactor and rapidly melted down. Once cooled, it was able to be covered with a concrete sarcophagus that was constructed with 100,000 workers. There are a staggering 4,400 tons of nuclear fuel rods at Fukushima, which greatly dwarfs the total size of radiation sources at Chernobyl” . . . Full story: youtube.com
This shocking video was taken December 23, 2013 with a quality Geiger Counter at Pacifica State Beach (Surfers Beach), San Francisco California. Background radiation is 30CPM. Near the ocean it’s 150CPM. The fine mist coming from the ocean waves seems to be what makes the Geiger counter jump. More thorough readings need to be done! Where is the useless government/media?
We all must come to the realization that swimming in the Pacific Ocean (let alone eating anything out of it) is a thing in the past. And it’s only going to get worse, as it’s unstoppable. This is by far the worst man-made disaster in human history . . . Full story: youtube.com
A Conspiracy so Vast
December 12, 2013 — Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to privacy, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
The conspiracy he revealed is vast. It involves former President George W. Bush, President Obama and their aides, a dozen or so members of Congress, federal judges, executives and technicians at American computer servers and telecoms, and the thousands of NSA employees and vendors who have manipulated their fellow conspirators. The conspirators all agreed that it would be a crime for any of them to reveal the conspiracy. Snowden violated that agreement in order to uphold his higher oath to defend the Constitution.
As a result of these revelations, no one has been fired, except Snowden, and the conspiracy has grown. Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now spying on us. . . The Washington Post also reported this week that local cops, too, are jealous of the NSA and its ability to break the law with impunity. . . They’ve purchased a $400,000 device that mimics cellphone towers, drawing cellphone signals to it and enabling the cops to capture telephone calls without the cooperation of telecoms or permission from federal judges. That’s called hacking; it is a federal crime and in most areas a state crime, as well. . . Full story: lewrockwell.com
NSA’s Goal is elimination of Individual Privacy Worldwide – Greenwald to EU
December 18, 2013 — The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, working with its UK sidekick GCHQ, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned an EU inquiry, adding that they were far ahead of their rivals in their ability to destroy privacy.
Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist renowned for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, criticized EU governments’ muted response to the revelations about NSA’s mass espionage. Most governments reacted with apathy and indifference to reports that ordinary citizens were being spied upon, Greenwald said, pointing out that EU politicians only took action when they discovered that they themselves were being targeted . . .
The collection of metadata is one of the supreme priorities for the NSA, said Greenwald, adding that the practice was more invasive than snooping on the content of electronic communications. Metadata refers to the time, date, duration and location of calls, allowing the NSA to effectively follow targets.
To demonstrate the fact that metadata is far more useful to security agencies than content, Greenwald gave the example of a woman deciding to have an abortion. If you listen in on the woman’s call you will get a very constricting interpretation of events, said Greenwald, a generic-sounding clinic name and an appointment time. With metadata, however, agencies can construct a much more detailed picture because it gives them access to phone numbers that in turn could be used to identify the clinic.
If you’re someone who values privacy, it would almost be preferable at this point to have the NSA listening in on your phone calls and reading your emails than it is to have them collect all of your metadata over the course of many years and then analyze it in secret with virtually no restraint . . .
Greenwald rejected accusations from the American government that Snowden and his associates have put the fight against terrorism in jeopardy by releasing classified data. He said that the only thing that has been harmed is the perception of honesty and credibility of the governments engaged in spying. . . Snowden is also expected to testify before the Civil Liberties Committee in January as part of the inquiry. Full story: rt.com nationofchange.org
Comment: A series of investigations into the NSA have been unable to evidence any real US control over that agency at all. There is, in fact, no evidence of regular distribution of NSA “work product” to other US intelligence agencies. Nobody knows whom the NSA do it for or why. There is no mandate that allows funding for masses of collected data or any evidence of any threat justifying that every word spoken on this planet is subjected to interpretive software algorithms that we now know have never existed.
The NSA is a total scam, their intercepts have never accounted to more than low-level “chickenfeed” and, more seriously, have [not] been used to justify or rationalize anything. The NSA exists only to disseminate disinformation to US agencies so enamored with the horrific costs and supposed draconian capabilities, so as not to understand that the NSA is “smoke and mirrors” . . .
Every NSA intercept from Iraq and Afghanistan at key points in military operations there have now been proven to have been falsified or purposefully misinterpreted. Masses of NSA intercepts outlining a network of underground bases in Afghanistan and weapons production facilities across Iraq were fabricated at the request of Bush political operatives, some from the [Jewish] Project for a New American Century, AIPAC and its offshoots, the Heritage Foundation and Rand Corporation. Thousands of NSA intercepts from Iraq were proven to have been fabrications.
Most recently, when Israel was found to have planted transmitter/repeater units in Syria to generate false radio traffic taking credit for chemical weapons attacks, not only did the NSA fail to receive the traffic themselves, but later claimed ignorance of the whole affair, particularly when it came crashing down around Secretary of State Kerry when the deception operation was exposed as a false flag intended to bring about war between the US and Russia. . . (veteranstoday.com).
CFR Historian Carroll Quigley – Tragedy and Hope
December 29, 2013 — Quigley was President Bill Clinton’s Georgetown University professor. Georgetown is a Jesuit University in Washington DC. The current president is CFR member Dr. John J. DeGioia. DeGioia was one of US Vice President Biden’s three man delegation to the new Pope’s inauguration. Many CFR members teach or speak at Georgetown University. Quigley’s two best known works are Tragedy and Hope and the Anglo American Establishment which is about Cecil Rhodes Roundtable Group. [Please read thoroughly].
In the Anglo-American Establishment I learned about the ‘Inquiry’ which was the first US intelligence organization and was run by Col. Edward Mandel House. It was responsible for writing Wilson’s 14 points which it tried to trade off for the establishment of the League of Nations and a Jewish State of Israel. [Please watch all five video episodes]. It is missing from all US history books. I wrote an article about it and published it on the Roundtable Website. A year or so later CFR member Peter Grose published a book all about it called “Continuing the Inquiry.” Eighteen National Security Advisors, Eighteen National Security Agency directors, and Eighteen Central Intelligence Agency directors are CFR members. In his letter to Brazil, Whistleblower Edward Snowden [please read] said the NSA programs were never about terrorism they’re about economic spying. “Snowden worked for the CFR-run Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group has cornered the United States Military Industrial Complex and profits from CFR-created endless war. The Council on Foreign Relations are the spies, and a Grand Jury investigation of the CFR-NSA connection is needed to determine if they are using the US spy apparatus for industrial espionage to benefit CFR member corporations and the Carlyle Group.
Tragedy and Hope is about the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council didn’t like the book and publisher McMillan withdrew it and destroyed the plates. You can get a FREE full copy by clicking here or here.
World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes spills More!
November 30, 2013 — Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rule the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning. According to Hudes, the elite use a very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the planet. The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.
Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things. This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for more than two decades. The following summary of her credentials comes directly from her website . . . Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
Today, Hudes is trying very hard to expose the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. During an interview with the New American, she discussed how we are willingly allowing this group of elitists to totally dominate the resources of the planet. . . Full story: youtube.com
Comment: It seems most US presidents since George Washington have been related by royal bloodlines and that all belong to the Catholic Order of the Knights of Malta, the Order of the Garter and have been made Knights of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, included are Ronald Reagan and George Bush, after leaving Presidential Office. The Crown of England no longer belongs to England but under tribute from the Vatican. This followed the Compromise of Avranches in 1172 signed which marked the reconciliation of King Henry II with the Catholic Church which publicly absolved him from complicity in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket on condition that he provide 200 knights to serve in the Holy Land for one year, take the cross himself and fight either in the Holy Land or against the Moors in Spain, restore all properties seized from the church of Canterbury, and allow appeals from the English church to Rome.
In 1213 King John I conceded the the throne, the whole of England and Ireland to the Pope to lift the ex-communication of England. The nation and all assets have since been property in perpetuity of the Roman Church as well as perpetual obligations.
We are not the free and sovereign nations our controlled party political Hegelian sham democracies lead us to believe. We are ruled by the Vatican and the banksters and attorneys (Knights Templars) of the Crown of the City of London with its inverted cross (left) like that employed by John Paul II. Globally, all the legalistic scams promoted by the exclusive monopoly of the Temple and their British Accreditation Registry (BAR) franchises come from four Inns or Temples of Court: Queen Elizabeth II is a member of both Inner and Middle Temples. The Inner Temple holds the legal system franchise over Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc. Middle Temple holds the legal franchise over America. As Middle Templars, five signatories to the US Declaration of Independence were under solemn oath to the Crown, including Jewish traitor and Rothschild agent Alexander Hamilton who was behind the establishment of the First Bank of the United States—Rothschild’s first central bank in America. He was shot in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr and killed. Lincoln’s Inn consists of those members elected to high judicial office, those who have sat as Queen’s Counsel for six or seven years in England and Wales and some of the more distinguished “junior” barristers. Gray’s Inn specializes in Taxation legalities by Rule and Code for the Crown.
1776 is the year that the Crown Colonies of America became legal Crown States. The Declaration of Independence was a legal, not lawful, document signed on both sides by representatives of the Crown. Legally, it established the status quo of the Crown Colonies under their new legal entity as “States” or estates belonging to the Crown of the City of London.
Countries have been overridden by corporations. These company filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission pertain to Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the same manner as legal corporate fictions have been superimposed over physical countries if your birth was registered your government created a corporate you, a straw man. As a living human being and common state citizen, you John Doe cannot be recognized in a State Court because you don’t legally exist in Crown Chancery Courts. So in order to be recognized in their State Courts the common man must be converted to that of a corporate or legal entity, JOHN DOE in upper case.
According to Karen Hudes US Taxpayer receipts go from the privately-owned Puerto Rico-registered IRS corporation to the IMF of the Banksters of the City of London who keep 40% in reparations for the War of Independence, Civil and other wars, and remit 50% to the Judaeo-Jesuits of the Judaeo-Roman church while the US government is funded largely by the sale of narcotics.
Karen Hudes also alleges Michelle Obama has been caught in a honey trap at a hotel with two-way mirrors. So it appears the ‘First Lady’ is a tramp like Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, whose job with the CIA was to entice men into honey traps in hotels with two-way mirrors. No wonder Barry Soetoro or whoever he is had no girlfriends and became a homosexual. Talk about a wicked and adulterous generation. Hudes also stated that Pope Benedict XVI was removed from the Papacy because of child trafficking and financial crimes. And that on October 8, 2013 a nuclear bomb was supposed to be detonated in South Carolina, however two Army Generals ensured it was detonated under the ocean about 600 offshore. Those officers are among 200 Generals and higher level men Obama has relieved of duty. Reminds me of what we reported in Newsletter 439 in Connecting the Dots and the late Dr. Peter Beter’s article, The Bolshevik-Zionist Axis; please read these articles. Here was a previous instance in which senior US Generals were relieved of office because their loyalty conflicted with the strategems of the one world government elite. Generals Paton and Macarthur earlier suffered the same fate for the same reasons, and so did Senator Joseph McCarthy and Secretary of Defence James V. Forrestal who was assassinated.
Common Core, Agenda 21, and Global Governance
This lecture and power point explains how Common Core is pure Agenda 21 and a gateway for privatization of the entire school system. It shows a shocking in your face conspiracy by the 50 State governors (National Governor’s Association) and CCSSO to create, copyright, and then sell by legal vote and enforcement Common Core State Standards to each State. Most important, it shows how this Common Core scheme cannot be done federally (per the constitution) and therefore must be created by agreement/treaty at the sustainable (agenda 21) state and local level. Finally, it shows the for-profit side where taxpayers will be funding computers and other Education products and services for every student in America—this is the public private partnership model (PPP). All this is happening through non-governmental organizations (NGO) while each local and State government simply rubber stamps. In the end, I have unraveled the conspiracy of a lifetime! Full story: realitybloger.wordpress.com
Comment: Worldwide the US government controls most major corporations such as Microsoft, General Electrics, Monsanto, BigPharma, Banks, etc.,
Arab League calls for Israeli Crimes to be Documented
December 24, 2013 — The General Secretariat of the League of Arab States has called for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians to be documented. The issues should be brought to the attention of the global media and international legal authorities . . . Full story: middleeastmonitor.com
Black Panthers condemn Obama
June 15, 2013 — This video is an astounding presentation by a Black Panther who is very intelligent and his comments about globalism and its “spear-point” for eventual world dominion, Obama, appropriate and also amazing . . . It is 40 minutes long, but do watch at least the first 15 minutes . . . I believe that you will agree with his views on what has been going on in this country and globally. . . Full story: youtube.com
California floats on Ocean?
According to an article entitled “California Floats on Ocean?” in the Fall 1985 edition of Search magazine, a high-ranking but unnamed Naval officer told of the discovery of a huge network of tunnels under portions of the west coast of the US. He said that US nuclear submarines had explored some of these tunnels, which are accessible just off the continental shelf, and had followed them inland for several hundred miles. Here are highlights of this incredible claim:
1. The passageways are labyrinthine with widths from a few to thousands of feet (caverns), averaging roughly about a 100 feet.
2. Much like dry caverns do, heights and depths vary a great deal and in some cases, two or more caverns or passageways pass over or under each other at different depths.
3. Most of the entrances lie just off the Continental Shelf.
4. Most of the entrances are too small for submarine investigation; and many that are large enough lie in waters that are too deep.
5. Some of the caverns (in Southern California) are topped with oil while some others are filled with gases believed to approximate our atmosphere (in very ancient times).
6. The San Joaquin Valley is essentially a portion of the original cavernous area that collapsed eons ago due to its sheer weight.
7. What is being passed off as the ‘San Andreas Fault’ are large, unsupported chambers that are in the process of collapsing. When the BIG ONE finally hits, many scientists in the know believe that most of California will break off like a cold Hershey bar and slide into the ocean! Full story: thelivingmoon.com, thelivingmoon.com, bibliotecapleyades.net
Comment: Brother Branham spoke of this “hollow place” beneath California (Trying to do God a Service Without being the Will of God, p. 6:22-23; Anointed Ones at the End Time, p. 4:18).
Come, let Us return to the Lord
Hosea 6:1-3, “Come, let us return to the Lord: for He has torn us, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us: in the third day He will raise us up that we may once more live before Him. Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord: He will respond to us as surely as the morning sunrise; and He will come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain that water the earth”.
Hosea wrote this prophecy around 780BC when Israel and Judah were steeped in idolatry: Jehovah had become unknown, a strange God to the idolatrous people. And Judah would be blinded to the Good News of Messiah by rabbinical hubris based on the Talmud contrary to the Law and the prophets. God would tear both kingdoms apart so that we Gentiles might receive the blessing of Abraham’s grace covenant they had refused.
The aim and consequence of the divine judgment was to cause the people to seek the Lord in hopes of a restoration to His favor, but their sin was as deep-seated and enduring as when Moses first prophesied this judgment and healing of God:
Deuteronomy 32:17-21, 39, “They sacrificed to demons which were no gods; to gods they knew not, newcomers lately arrived were they, before whom your fathers had never stood in awe. You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, and you forgot the God who gave you being. When the Lord saw it, He detested them, because of the provocation of his sons and daughters. And He said, I will hide My face from them, and see what their end will be, for they are a perverse class of men, children in whom is no faithfulness. They have moved me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people (us Gentiles); I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. . . See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no God beside Me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of My hand”.
Quoting Moses, David and Isaiah in Romans 10:18-21, Paul asked, “Has Israel not heard God’s Word? Indeed they have, for David prophesied, “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world” (Psalm 19:4). Again I ask did not Israel understand? First Moses said, “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, and with a foolish nation I will anger you.” Then Isaiah spoke more boldly, prophesying, “I have been found by those who did not seek Me; I have shown Myself to those who did not ask for Me.” But of Israel he said, “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and rebellious people” (Isaiah 65:1-2).
On the surface the definite limits “two days” and “in the third day” hold out the prospect of the speedy and sure revival of Israel. But their sin is as deep-seated and enduring today as it was when Moses first prophesied this divine judgment and healing of God. So “the third day” would not be a Monday or a Tuesday, anymore than “the Lord’s Day” is a Saturday or a Sunday, but sometime in the third millennium AD, for a day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day. We are well into the third day since Hosea wrote, and as Newsletter 411 expounded, the nation state of Israel has been restored in unbelief and Jerusalem recaptured. God is waiting on you and me to have the Token on display, and for the last member of His end-time Bride to recognize her part and position in the Body. Then He will return to Israel and Israel to Him.
Hosea 4:6, “Israel is destroyed for lack of the knowledge of God: because you have despised knowing Me, I will also despise and reject the nation from being a kingdom of priests to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God whereby you could have gained knowledge of Me, I will also forget your children”.
Brother Branham cautioned, “No true believer is any stronger and spiritually healthy and alive than his knowledge of and adherence to the pure Word of God, as seen by multitudes of examples in the Old Testament” (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 113:1).
Hosea’s prophecy of revival and a transparently sinless national life before God had in view more than the recovery of Israel from their future exile, or Judah from her forthcoming captivity. As disclosed by the vision of Ezekiel 37:1-14, Israel will be spiritually awakened by her experiential knowledge of Messiah, God’s ideal Israel (Isaiah 49:3), and regenerated to eternal Life in the third day. For the natural types the spiritual (Matthew 2:15; Hosea 11:1; I Corinthians 15:4). Isaiah 53:10, “Israel shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand”.
Our former or teaching rain is Brother Branham’s Message that restores the children of God to the faith once delivered to our apostolic fathers, finishes the mystery of God, and brings us to maturity “in the unity of the faith” as the Capstone of the pyramid of the stature of the perfect Man, for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7; Ephesians 4:13-16; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 15:49-54).
Our latter or harvest rain will fall at the Seventh Trump after the end of the Gentile dispensation. This will herald a time of global natural catastrophes unprecedented since the Flood, and a brief period of public repudiation and persecution of Christ’s Bride. Its purpose is to invest the sleeping saints with faith to change in the atoms by placing us who are alive and remain in a situation of intense desperation but with the assurance God will provide our necessities during “the squeeze” by the “third pull,” elevating our faith to attain translation grace (Romans 8:19).
Our latter rain will forerun Israel’s former rain that will anoint their two prophets. God will restore Israel under the Sixth Seal through justification, sanctification, the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and perfection after they die to man-made religion as He restored Christ’s end-time Bride to the fullness of the Word under the Fourth and Seventh Seals (I Corinthians 13:10). Joel 2:23-27 agrees indicating that their former rain will reconfirm the Message of John the Baptist and Jesus or “seal up the vision and prophecy” as foretold in Daniel 9:24. Their latter rain will fall at the public ascension of the two Hebrew prophets, regenerating their souls—“the most holy place” where Christ and His Bride will be anointed with the joy of the Lord; regenerated with boldness to speak “the truth in love” they will “love not their lives unto the death” (Matthew 27:25; Revelation 6:11; 11:7-13; 12:11).
In Matthew 17 Jesus climbed Mount Transfiguration accompanied by three disciples as earthly witnesses. Peter represented faith, James hope, and John charity, the three greatest gifts (I Corinthians 13:13). In a vision they saw Jesus Messiah transfigured into His glorified form, and with Him two other heavenly witnesses, Moses and Elijah, signifying that through His atonement heaven and earth will embrace one another in agreement as taught in I John 5:1-15.
Moses represented the resurrected saints and Elijah represents we who will be changed in the atoms, while Peter, James, and John represented the 144,000 elect remnant of Israel receiving their revelation of Christ’s ‘parousia’ Coming, saying within their heart, “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord . . . singing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Your ways, You King of saints. Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your Name? For only You are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before You; for Your judgments are made manifest” (Matthew 23:39; Revelation 15:4-5).
In other words: “Your judgments upon Israel for refusing to receive Messiah’s atonement and new birth have been made manifest under the Seven Trumpet judgments expounded by the ministry of the two witnesses of Zechariah 4, Matthew 24:31 and Revelation 11, the antitype of the Feast of Trumpets by which You have gathered the remnant of Israel a second time. Here after the midst of Daniel’s Seventieth Week we stand on the sea of glass washed in the blood of the Lamb honouring and glorifying You in the reflection of the truth of Your holy Word, having believed in You and surrendered our lives in martyrdom by Rome and renegade Jews” (Revelation 14:1-5, 12 – 15:4; Isaiah 11:11). The regeneration of the 144,000 will be the birth of the nation in one day (Isaiah 10:17; 30:26; 66:8; Zechariah 3:9-10).
Isaiah 49:1-23 shows Zion forsaken by God her Husband from the time of the Desolations which began with the destruction of the Temple in 589BC to the consummation. That is, throughout “the times of the Gentiles” (as confirmed by Ezekiel 10:18; 43:2, and Revelation 7:2). When Zion sees Christ’s glorified Gentile Bride in Isaiah 49:21-23, she ponders in her heart, “Who has born me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away; who has raised these grown-up children for me? Behold, I was left alone by my Husband; whence have these come?”
“Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will beckon to the Gentiles, and raise My standard to the peoples: and they shall bring your Gentile sons in their arms, and your Gentile daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me”.
Zion’s sons and daughters are predominately not descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and most definitely not non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews who are Satan’s dupes, but Spiritual Israel—ten thousand times ten thousand and thousand thousands of Gentile converts to her rejected Messiah born for her by Jerusalem that is Above, begotten and raised by the spoken Word of God (Genesis 9:27; Isaiah 53:10; 54:1; 60:3).
Throughout the Book of Revelation John represents Christ’s end-time Bride for the Bible was sealed until the last of the PART-Word or Church Age saints was born-again (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4). So the angel who guides John through the visions can only be William Branham (1909-1965) the seventh angel; the one man to whom Jesus revealed the Seven Seals. In chapter 7 which is in parenthesis, John (as an Israelite himself) recognizes Israel’s elect remnant gathered back to the Land of the Covenant under the Sixth Seal of the Great Tribulation (Revelation 6:12-17) and sealed by the revelation of their Seven Trumpet mysteries which reveal their King, Jesus and His Gentile Queen. Like their non-elect fellow servants martyred under the Fifth Seal (Revelation 6:11) the 144,000 will martyred under the Sixth Seal before the four winds of war and strife bring Armageddon and the consummation of life.
In Revelation 7:9-17 John was nonplused when he saw Christ’s glorified Bride of all Ages as a countless multitude drawn out of all nations clothed in white and praising the Lamb for their salvation. Like forsaken Zion when she saw the vision eight hundred beforehand, he could not recognize these saints and enquires of one of the twenty-four elders who explains, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, which is why they are here before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He who sits on the throne shall spread His tent over them (Genesis 9:27). They will nevermore hunger neither thirst, nor will the sun or any scorching heat fall upon them. For the Lamb who is in the center of the throne shall feed them, and will be their shepherd and He will lead them to springs of living Water: and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes”.
The Bride of Christ serves and follows her Husband wherever He goes. The great tribulation through which we have lived commenced when Titus besieged and destroyed Jerusalem in AD70 and continued through the Gentile dispensation as Imperial Rome became Papal Rome. After the resurrection and translation of Messiah’s Bride it will become “Jacob’s trouble” when Israel’s elect will be separated from Esau’s self-styled Jews by the revelation of the Seven Trumpets, and the foolish virgin distinguished from the false church by the revelation of the Seven Vials and the various classes of the “saved” purged and martyred (Matthew 5:12; 24:21-31; John 15:18-26; Acts 5:40-42; Revelation 1:9).
From Genesis to Revelation the saints of God have experienced tribulation and suffered persecution—chiefly at the hands of the Judaeo-Roman church and those who call themselves “Jews” today (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 23:33-36; Revelation 2:9; 3:9). Of whom Jesus said, “I know you are Abraham’s seed [but you are not the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob]; and seek to kill Me because My Word has no place in you . . .” (John 8:37-44).
Revelation 1:10, “I (insert your name little Bride as John represents YOU) was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and heard behind me a great Voice like a Trumpet.” The Bible was sealed to the time of the end and revealed to Christ’s end-time Bride by the ministry of William Branham, the angel to the Laodicean Church Age (Revelation 1:1; 3:14; 10:4, 7; Daniel 12:4, 9). Hereby we know that all seven Church Ages ended along with Christ’s Office as Mediator, and that “the time of the end” began in March, 1963 when Christ fulfilled Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7.
In the flesh John was in man’s day imprisoned on Patmos Island where he would find solitude conducive to receiving and collating the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ into the Book we call The Revelation of Jesus Christ. However his soul was caught up in the Spirit of revelation into the yet future Day of the Lord, which will be signaled by the Seventh Trump of Isaiah 27:13, I Thessalonians 4:16, I Corinthians 15:52, Revelation 11:15, marked by earthquakes that will sink Los Angeles and split the Mount of Olives (Revelation 6:12; 11:19; 16; 19; Isaiah 29:6; Zechariah 14:4).
John heard the Great Trumpet blast behind him, signifying that in the vision dimension it had sounded in the past; it was Israel’s Seventh Trumpet signaling the close of man’s day, the commencement of the Day of the Lord with the first resurrection, manifestation of the Sons of God and translation preceding Daniel’s Seventieth Week. John was caught up into a series of visions over a two year period from AD95-96. In the flesh he was on the Isle of Patmos, but in the Spirit he was caught up into the Day of the Lord which is yet future. The Day of the Lord is not Saturday, Sunday or any other day of the week but a future dispensation commencing with the end of the Gentile dispensation (Isaiah 13:6-18; Jeremiah 46:10; Joel 2; Acts 2:20; I Thessalonians 5:2). As God’s hand was upon Daniel and Ezekiel, it was upon John—YOU and ME, secure in the hands of the Lord seeing the same vision as John who represented us because we are at one with the Message seven stars in His right hand (Revelation 1:17, 20; Ezekiel 37:1; Daniel 10:10).
We are inviolate, predestinated never to see death in the flesh but to change in the atoms. In the coming persecution Satan and his children will be unable to harm one hair of our head. John, our representative throughout the Book of Revelation and the sole member of the early apostles who died a natural death, is our example. Like multitudes of others, John suffered imprisonment for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. When he was arrested, they tried in vain to kill him by boiling him in oil for twenty-four hours. When this caused him no harm the enraged but powerless officials sentenced him to Patmos as a witch. But God was with him, and he was spared to leave the island and return to Ephesus and pastor his Church until the time of his death.
Brother Branham said, “The third pull . . . will not be used in a great way, until this Council begins to tighten up. And . . . when the squeeze comes down, then you’ll see what you have seen temporarily, be manifested in the fullness of its power . . . this will be the thing that will start the rapturing faith for the going away.”
“There’s coming a time in this nation, to where this nation is going to exercise all the power that the beast had before (which was pagan Rome, when it become papal Rome. See?) that this nation will do that. Revelations 13 plainly explains it. . . Roman denomination, a marked Protestant denomination, an image to the beast, making a power that’ll force all Protestants like a union. You’ll have to be into this Council of Churches, or you won’t be able to have fellowship . . . Well, it’s practically that way now. You can’t go to a church and preach, ‘less you have a fellowship card or some identification.”
“It’s tightening; and then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where you’re pressed out, then watch . . . watch the third pull then. It’ll be absolutely to the total lost, but it will be for the Bride and the Church. . . I do believe that we are so close, that I would never die with old age. Yet at fifty-four years old, I’d never die with old age until He’s here. See? Unless I am shot, killed, or something, or other, some way killed; just old age wouldn’t kill me, until He’s come” (Look Away to Jesus, p. 5:39-51).
Ezekiel was caught up in the same Spirit into a vision in the day of the Lord to see how God would awaken and redeem natural Israel, slain by Satan and spiritually dead but unburied for over 2,520 years and symbolized by an open valley full of very dry bones. Ezekiel 37:11, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts”.
God speaks by His prophet (typing Israel’s two witnesses) to quicken Israel’s bones from death in sin and trespasses; and commands the spiritually dead to hear, lift their eyes to the Cross for illumination, repent, sanctify, and seek newness of Life (Romans 4:17; Ephesians 2:1; 5:14).
One of the most important revelations is contained in I John 1:7 which I shall paraphrase, “Unless our lives are manifesting the present Truth—what Jesus is fulfilling now, we are not and cannot come under the Blood [which is to be born-again], or even fellowship in the Spirit with those who are Christians.” The saints predestinated to each of the nine dispensations within the Gentile dispensation were born-again by becoming written epistles of the revealed Word spoken by the “angel” to their Age. Revelation 2 – 3, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to bless the elect Church and rebuke the carnal Churches”.
Ezekiel knew “faith comes by hearing and understanding the revealed Word of God” (Romans 10:17). When God asked him, “Prophet, can these bones live”? Ezekiel did not speculate but inquired after THUS SAITH THE LORD. We found the same Spirit in John (Revelation 7:14). When Ezekiel prophesied according to the Words of the Lord there was a rattling noise as the bones came together, not from the Captivity and Desolations, and not the mainly non-Semitic impostors that have stolen and occupied Palestine from 1948 to the present day, for Ezekiel is prophesying of the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who will not return to the Land of the Covenant until the first half of Daniel’s Seventieth Week (Psalm 17:7; Isaiah 6:10-13; 11:11-16; 13:14; 27:12-13; 49:17; 65:9-10; Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 16:15; 23:3, 8; 31:8; Ezekiel 28:24-31; 36:24; 37:14-22; 39:27-28; Hosea 6:1-3; Micah 5:3; Zechariah 10:9-12; Matthew 24:29-31, etc).
When the sinews, flesh and skin, devoured by Satan typed by the palmerworm, locust, cankerworm and caterpillar of four Gentile world Empires is restored to Israel after the end of the Gentile dispensation, justified and sanctified, she will remain unconverted and dead before God until she receives the breath of Life by the Spirit of the Lord after the midst of Daniel’s Seventieth Week (Matthew 24:31; Revelation 7:1-8; Ezekiel 37:1-14; Daniel 9:27).
The captivity and separation of Israel from her land, announced as the last, most severe punishment (Ezekiel 6), is, according to the Law to be conceived as the death of the nation, for the nation is related to its land as the individual soul is to its body. The exiles considered themselves dead men because so long as they are outside the Land they are unable to assemble in Jerusalem for the three compulsory annual feasts, and without atonement for sins; so the faithful regarded the lands of their captivity and dispersion as “graves.” Thus the restoration of Israel to favor with God at the close of our dispensation, and the regeneration of the 144,000 will be as “life from the dead” (Romans 11:15). Sadly, most of the captives paid only lip service to the Covenant and did not return from Babylon. But the Old Covenant is without effect outside the Land. Today most Israelites of the twelve tribes remain in the Muslim lands of exile while so-called Jews who pay lip service to the Law, remain in Europe and the USA, from which neither they nor any Israelite will escape. I surmise that as wicked Haman was hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai they will be incarcerated in FEMA camps they have prepared for Christians.
In the vision of Ezekiel 37:15-18, the prophet was told to act a pantomime before the people demonstrating how Israel will again become one nation. He was to take two staffs and write on one, “For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions” (that is, those of the ten tribes who followed the fortunes of Judah). And “for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.” He was then to join them as one staff, which implies that the bulk of the ten tribes did not return at the restoration from Babylon, but remain distinct from Judah until their coming reunion after the Seventh Trump”.
Israel’s nationality in Canaan and the unity of the nation is conceived and bound up under the dominion of “David, My Servant”—King Messiah in the millennium where they will live in tribal order purified from idolatry as described in Ezekiel 48. And when the Son of David is King over a restored and redeemed Israel His Gentile Bride will be her Queen (John 10:16).
Ezekiel 37:25-26, “They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt [that eliminates the non-Semitic Jews; those that are in Adam’s race had better run to the Lord Jesus before the Gentile dispensation expires]. They and their children after them shall dwell there: and My Servant David, their Messiah, shall be their Prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant: and I will place and multiply them, and set My sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore” (Ezekiel 34:25; Isaiah 55:3; Jeremiah 32:40).
Ezekiel 36:21-29 speaks of the regeneration of the 144,000 under God’s Covenant made in His own blood and given purely by grace through faith for His Name’s sake, which Israel have profaned among the heathen wherever they have been to the present day. This prophecy will be gloriously fulfilled in the elect sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as it is in the elect Church. John 1:14, “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt or tabernacled among us . . . I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world”.
Revelation 21:3, “I heard a great Voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place [tabernacle or temple] of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them”.
Ezekiel 37:27-28, “My [tabernacle, temple, or] dwelling place shall be over them: and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Then the nations shall know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore.” God’s dwelling place is in the heart of all born-again followers of Jesus Messiah (I Corinthians 6:16). nl816.htm
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