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You are Dead, hid with Christ in God

April 20, 2019

Bible Believers’ Newsletter 1067

“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.

Android PhoneOur feature article, “You are dead, hid with Christ in God” was completed on Nisan 14, Rome’s ‘Good Friday.’ This date marked the terminus of the Hebrew dispensation two thousand years ago and will mark the final year of the Christian dispensation. Easter is an unscriptural pagan festival unrecognized by the apostles and not observed by the early Church. To conciliate the pagans to nominal Christianity the Judaeo-Roman Universal church assimilated Pagan festivals. In these last days the Lord sent a prophet to restore the apostolic faith, finish the mystery of God, and call the wise and foolish virgin out from Rome and her apostate (once) Protestant daughter churches into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.

Christians are dead to the world and the things of the world and alive to Christ the King Who has established His Kingdom in our heart. He is master of our soul, enabling us to bring the ten senses of our flesh and mortal spirit under pre-eminence whereby you and I are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God so the world does not see us, they see Christ living and acting His Life behind the veil of our flesh. Like “Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, gathered together at Jerusalem” (Acts 4:5-14). This is the Token on display, your hope of glory.

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


US wants to enable Netanyahu to ‘Officially’ occupy West Bank

occult Israeli flag

April 17, 2019 — Israel is using its influence over the US establishment to try to impose the “Deal of the Century” to enable Prime Minister Netanyahu to officially occupy the West Bank. This would violate the Oslo agreement signed in 1993 and legalise all illegal Israeli settlements in Oslo-designated zone C of the occupied West Bank. The countries directly concerned in the “deal” (Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria) are unwilling to give away any part of their territories. However, Israel has managed to create enough noise around this “deal” to distract the world from its doings in Palestine, where it is in essence already implementing the “Deal of the Century.” The Israelis won’t wait for the results of US negotiations in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump seemed indifferent to Palestinian President ad interim Mahmoud Abbas’s comments that the US is “no longer viable as a partner and unfit as a mediator for any peace talks between Palestine and Israel,” in response to Trump’s gift to Israel of what doesn’t belong to him: Jerusalem. The Palestinians see the US playing the role of judge and executioner, totally biased in favour of Israel–and disrespectful of United Nations’ resolutions.

Palestine was lost when Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo agreement. He believed Israel would abide by the agreement, particularly regarding the West Bank in zones B and C. Israel disregarded Oslo and the Wye River Memorandum, giving the Palestinians less than 2% of the 13% of the land granted in both agreements . . . Full story: ejmagnier.com

Comment: US President Donald Trump has warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) of “swift and vigorous response” if the Hague-based tribunal investigates Americans and Israelis for war crimes (imemc.org).


Julian Assange & the Agenda for Global War

April 17, 2019 — By the end of a decade of war, opposition to the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan had spread to sectors of the military and civilian establishment. Documents were leaked and critics were encouraged to hand over reports revealing war crimes and the toll in human lives. WL, under Assange’s leadership, were the recipients of hundreds of thousands of documents which poured in from military analysts, contractors and civilian office holders disgusted by official and mass media lies which perpetrated and covered up war crimes.

As the wars dragged on, and new wars were launched in Libya and Syria and liberal Congress-members were impotent and unwilling to expose the Obama/Clinton regimes’ lies and the falsifications accompanying the murder of President Gaddafi. WikiLeaks and JA publicized documents which revealed how the US planned, implemented and fabricated Humanitarian Wars to ‘save people’ . . . by bombing them!

The major networks and prestigious press followed the official line, but WL documents discredited them. The Pentagon, the CIA, the Presidency and their Congressional supporters panicked—as their covert activities came to light . . . As WL message gained legitimacy, Washington turned to the judiciary in search of rulings to muzzle their critics. Free speech was criminalized. But WL continued. New and more critical whistleblowers came on the scene; Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, William Binney and others provided new devastating evidence of Washington’s gross distortions and fabrications regarding civilian deaths . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca, richmond.com

Comment: A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that US troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi (mcclatchydc.com).


Fake Charge against Julian Assange proves US Government has no Integrity

April 15, 2019 — Let’s be sure that we understand that Assange is not charged with anything related to Russia or Russiagate or even with breaking a law. Assange is charged with being in a conspiracy with Manning “to commit computer intrusion.” The charge is not that Assange succeeded in hacking a government computer and obtaining classified information. It merely says that Assange discussed the possibility with Manning and had an intention to hack a computer. Most likely, even this non-crime is an invention of prosecutors instructed to indict Assange in the absence of any evidence. It is all that they could come up with.

It is impossible to respect the indictment. It is the product of evil, and the evil indictment is a direct assault on the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Those who have brought this false charge have violated their oath to protect the Constitution from enemies abroad and at home. It is the enemies at home that we have to be concerned about as it is these enemies who have power over us.

If the US government had any evidence that Assange actually hacked a government computer, he would be charged with that. But as there is no evidence of an actual crime, the corrupt American prosecutors and a stupid and manipulated grand jury rolled out the conspiracy charge . . . He is being framed up on a false nonsense charge because the US government in order to protect its own criminality is moving to destroy the First Amendment of the US Constitution. They will succeed in destroying the First Amendment. Who is there to stop them? . . . Full story: paulcraigroberts.org

Comment: Washington’s man in Quito said he revoked Assange’s political asylum and Ecuadoran citizenship because Assange engaged in free speech.


Notre Dame Fire

April 16, 2019 — A catastrophic fire engulfed 12th century Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, gutting and destroying the landmark’s spire and stunning France and the world . . . Flames that began in the early evening burst through the roof . . . and engulfed the spire, which collapsed, quickly followed by the roof . . . the iconic towers had been saved from the blaze . . . the cathedral’s structure was “saved from total destruction” . . . fire fighters stopped the flames from spreading to the north tower belfry. Full story: abc.net.au (numerous videos).

Comment: The crown of thorns and the tunic are safe . . . no word on the 36 nails of the Cross, or St. Peter’s polyester-cotton robe. In this video Press for Truth takes a chronological look at a recent wave of church attacks in France (ten in the last few weeks) . . . a direct correlation with the fire at Notre Dame . . . Another false flag black flag Op?


US and NATO Ongoing Support for Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

NATO

April 16, 2019 — Over the past few months, NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg has continued outlining his organization’s “recognition” for Ukraine “to become a member of NATO.” Two weeks ago Stoltenberg pronounced publicly in Washington that “we work with Ukraine to help Ukraine move forward towards its transatlantic integration . . . we have trust funds, we have training, we have different kinds of activities which we are helping Ukraine”.

Comments like this are also a well-aimed provocation of nearby Russia. It is the equivalent of the Soviet Union having announced they had “trust funds” and “activities” occurring in Mexico, with the ultimate aim of luring America’s neighbour into the Moscow-led Warsaw Pact. Any such coercion by the Soviets would surely have drawn a swift military response from Washington.

It can occasionally be instructive to cast one’s eyes over a map of Europe, and a quick glance at the Ukraine reveals a long and winding border to the east with Russia; approximately 1,000 kilometres altogether no less. The Ukraine furthermore holds a generations-long history and association with Russia . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: The Ukraine has never been viable as an independent, sovereign state and so its ongoing disintegration is to be expected . . . (thesaker.is).


The Florence Declaration: Creation of a ‘NATO-Exit’ International Front

April 11, 2019 — NATO is not an Alliance. It is an organisation under the command of the Pentagon, and its objective is the military control of Western and Eastern Europe. US bases in the member countries of NATO serve to occupy these countries by maintaining a permanent military presence which enables Washington to influence and control their policies and prevent genuine democratic choices.

NATO is a war machine which works for the interests of the United States, with the complicity of the major European power groups, staining itself with crimes against humanity. The war of aggression waged by NATO in 1999 against Yugoslavia paved the way for the globalization of military interventions, with wars against Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and other countries, in complete violation of international law. These wars are financed by the member countries, whose military budgets are increasing continually to the detriment of social expenditure, in order to support colossal military programmes like that of the US nuclear programme which costs 1,200 billion dollars.

In violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the USA is deploying nuclear weapons in five non-nuclear NATO States, under the false pretext of the “Russian menace.” By doing so, they are risking the security of Europe. To exit the war system which is causing more and more damage and exposing us to increasing dangers, we must leave NATO, affirming our rights as sovereign and neutral States . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: The US under Judaeo-Roman oversight will form a Protestant image to impose Trinitarianism on pain of death (Revelation 13:14-18).


Western Intel. Network threatens Austria with Christchurch Massacre unless it ‘unfriends Russia’

April 10, 2019 — Here’s what has actually just happened: the para-legal ‘Club de Berne’—Europe’s ‘intelligence community gods’ by the looks of things—planted that story in Der Standard, thereby sending a message to Vienna’s overt government that ‘we could do a Christchurch to you too if you don’t do as we want regarding containing Russia’. Italy’s intelligence services are not treated the same way because they are controlled by PM Giuseppe Conte rather than the “Russia-tied” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, while US spies are “too important” to shut out and are considered autonomous from President Donald Trump, Der Standard made sure to note. Someone clearly did not get the Mueller memo about Russiagate being a conspiracy theory.

Did you get all that? They have compromised Conte (which isn’t surprising given that he was explicitly named as a compromise leader when the ‘Club’ threw a fit at Italy’s election result last year) and they’re operating against Trump’s wishes (which we already know because they sicced the Russiagate witch-hunt on him). And they have free use of the biggest media outlets in their target country through which to issue terror threats and foreign policy ultimatums against that country’s government . . . Full story: sott.net

Comment: Federal Court judge Conte who was found to be “incompenent” in the four-year vexatious litigation brought by the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Executive Council of Australian Jewry was of this Black Nobility family.


 

You are dead, hid with Christ in God

Like sin eternal Life is free but it is not cheap and both are permanent. “You shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe” (Exodus 21:23-25). God’s law of redemption requires “life for life . . . for the wages of sin is death . . . and without shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor remission of the due and earned punishment for sins”  (Genesis 3:21; Romans 6:23; Hebrews 9:22). We were born in sin—unworthy to redeem even our own life, but God made a way to balance the books. What works cannot merit was achieved by grace through faith in the vicarious death and resurrection of our near KINSMAN Redeemer, the last Adam. Eternal Spirit cannot die but spoken into flesh like the first Adam, only born of virgin without human intercourse, God both died and rose again: “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord . . . bringing many sons unto glory” (John 2:19; Acts 5:30; Romans 6:23).

In the Garden of Eden Satan incarnate the Serpent, a handsome giant manlike creature without a soul, this “domestic beast” served Adam and Eve. Jews are conscious of the “original sin”: the Babylonian Talmud views non-Jews as “beasts with two legs G_d made in human form to serve Jews . . . “the best of the Goyim should be killed” (Bereshith 25a; Kiddushin 66c; Soferim 15, Rule 10)! Goyim is a term of contempt for non-Jews and Negroes as inferior, the progeny of Eve’s illegitimate son Cain, the seed of the incarnate Serpent. The Serpent did not confront Adam who as God’s spoken Word could not be deceived on the Word. He approached Eve who was not spoken but made from Adam’s rib after creation was finished and could be deceived; he enquired why she and her husband did not obey God’s commandment to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it”?

When Eve confessed she did not know how to “multiply,” the Serpent enticed her to forsake God’s prohibition and reason by her natural senses: the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life (Job 31:7-8; James 1:15). “And the woman coveted the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil at so dire a price to herself and to all of her children when she saw that it was good for [gnosis or spiritual] food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise [or spiritually advanced], she partook of its fruit, and taught her husband to partake with her. And the eyes of them both were opened [to the mystery of procreation], and they knew that they were naked; and [having attained to a moral insight] they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to cover their genitals [not their mouths]” (Genesis 3:6-7; I Timothy 2:11-15).

Genesis 3:13-15, “And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? The woman said, The Serpent outwitted me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said to the Serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [domestic] animals, and above every wild beast of the field; upon your belly you shall go [whereas previously he had walked erect], and dust shall you eat all the days of your life: and I will put enmity [hatred] between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her seed; it shall [mortally] bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel”.

Genesis 3:16-19, [Eve did not eat an apple, she had intercourse with the Serpent and bore his son, Cain]. “God said, I will greatly multiply your grief and suffering in pregnancy and the pangs of child-bearing; with spasms of distress you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you (Isaiah 66:7; Romans 7:2; Ephesians 5:24; I Timothy 2:11-15; I Peter 3:6). He told Adam, Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree, of which I commanded, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow you will eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth and you shall eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken: for dust you are, and to dust you will return. And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living”.

Since falling from immortality, rather than subduing the earth and having dominion over every living thing, man became subject to nature and to the law of sin and death which had already secretly commenced in all life.

Genesis 4:1-5, “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain (I John 3:12), and said, I have gotten a man [even the Lord, the Seed, the Deliverer. Cain means ‘possession’ or ‘acquired one’ as in God redeeming His people. After nine months Eve was still deceived, believing her firstborn was Jesus Christ, “the Seed of the woman . . . the beginning of the creation of God” (Genesis 3:15; Revelation 3:14). Eve saw herself “as God,” a pro-creator of the ‘new man,’ Cain (Genesis 3:5). Had she waited Eve would have born Jesus]. “And she continued bearing and bore his half-brother Abel [which means ‘nothingness’ or ‘vanity.’] Abel was a keeper of sheep for clothing and sacrifice but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”

“And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought God an offering from the fruit of the ground. And Abel, offered the best firstlings of his flock. The Lord looked favourably upon Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering He turned away.” Cain’s sacrifice exhibited his carnal works with intent to earn God’s favour by right of debt (Romans 4:4). By faith Abel recognized the necessity of substituting innocent life for the guilty, a type of Jesus Christ as God demonstrated when He slew the innocent lambs in Eden and placed the first couple under their blood until such time as their real KINSMAN Redeemer should meet redemption’s price with His Own Blood.

The ‘original sin’ was bestiality: two races were in Eve’s womb, her first-born was Cain, the son of the Serpent. Cain and his race are not in the Book of Life which is Adam’s genealogy: Jesus Messiah was the last Adam, He was not the last Cain (Luke 3:23-38). Eve’s second child was Cain’s half-brother Abel, the son of Adam. Despite the revelation of the vindicated prophets Moses, Isaiah, Jesus and Paul, Islam does not believe in ‘original sin,’ yet simple math and commonsense require a first before there can be a second and subsequent sins.

Miscegenation is accursed of God Whose Law of Reproduction requires everything bring forth after its own kind (Genesis 1:11, 25; 11:9). Genesis 6:1-7, “It came to pass, when Cain’s race began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born, the sons of Adam’s race found them agreeable to their sensuous nature and took any woman they chose. And the Lord said, My Spirit will not always strive with the Adamites for they are flesh [like Cain]: yet their days will be a hundred and twenty years [then I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth]. There were giants in the earth in those days; and especially after that [on this side of the Flood], when the sons of God cohabited with the daughters of men who bore them children—mighty men of Cain’s antediluvian race that lived before these sensual [and genocidal] mesalliances, men of violent deeds. And God saw the increase and universal predominance of evil through miscegenation [encouraged nowadays by the deceitful euphemism, ‘multiculturalism’  (Matthew 24:37)]. The wickedness of man’s deeds had not only become great in the earth, but the phantasies of deeds imagined daylong in his heart were wholly evil [thanks in measure by print media, Hollywood and television filth, pornography, violent computer games, etc., which present murders, adulteries, thefts, deceits and blasphemies as home entertainment].” Christians should not have a television set in the house!

Two TreesFrom the Garden of Eden God has required life for life: righteous men sacrificed animals as a temporary covering until Calvary where Adam’s “near KINSMAN” Jesus Messiah met sin’s price “once for all [in the Adamic bloodline of Japheth, Ham and Shem who receive Him] . . . after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, He sat down on the right hand of God; henceforth expecting till His enemies be made his footstool” (Hebrews 10:10-12). This diagram displays the Patriarchal lineage of Adam’s race called the Book of Life, and the Matriarchal lineage of Cain’s race from Eve and the Serpent which is absent the Book of Life and includes the offspring of mesalliances. It identifies the physical seed of the Serpent in Noah’s ark and how it multiplied by Ham’s incest with his father’s wife who bore the bastard Canaan.

Genesis 6:1-4, Matthew 24:37 and other scriptures in the Old and New Testaments explain how the physical Serpent’s seed IS on this side of the Flood. Brother Branham said, “If you’ll notice today now, that lineage of Cain still exists, and the lineage of Seth still exists. They both come down just the same. Cain’s children is here in Jeffersonville tonight, and Seth’s children’s here in Jeffersonville tonight. As the blood stream weakens and goes out, but that lineage still hangs on” (COD, p. 305:590).

“It was not the seed of the Devil; it was the seed of the Serpent. And the Serpent had a seed; the Bible said it had a seed. And it still exists today, the seed of the Serpent, so much” (COD, p. 400:183; Deuteronomy 23:2-3 “tenth generation” means “FOREVER”).

Hybridization is sin. Jesus said, “My Word is spirit, it is eternal Life” (John 6:63). When one adds to or takes from God’s unchanging Word by making Him a trinity, baptising in three Titles “Father, Son and Holy Ghost” instead of the Name of those three Titles which is LORD JESUS CHRIST, or reciting the Bible-denying Apostles’ Creed (so-called) you have added to or taken from God’s Word, transforming it from eternal Life into denominational death (Galatians 1:8-9; Revelation 22:17-19). This is the hiss of the Serpent breeding spiritual Serpent’s seed, and death.

Israelites and their non-Semitic Jewish impersonators murdered Jesus Messiah who was the Logos or Word manifest in flesh because they rejected His prophetic forerunner John the Baptist, the Elijah of Malachi 3:1 and Matthew 17:12, and clung to their animal substitutes and the lewd traditions of the Babylonian Talmud that “makes the Word of Moses and the prophets of none effect to them” (Matthew 15:1-9). The so-called Christian denominations of today have rejected the prophetic forerunner of Christ’s second or ‘parousia’ Coming, William Branham the Elijah of Malachi 4:5, 6b and Matthew 17:11, held to their traditions “and know not that they are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (Revelation 3:17; Romans 11:32). Such are not foolish virgins but souls imprisoned now as “the widow who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives” (Matthew 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; I Timothy 5:5-6; I Peter 3:19).

Israel neglected to recognize their day and its Message although Moses and Daniel foretold the hour, day, week month and year in which Messiah would “be delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, taken, and by wicked hands crucified and slain” (Exodus 12:1-14; Daniel 9:25-26; Acts 2:23). Likewise denominational Christians have not recognized their day and its Message although Amos 3:7, Malachi 4:5, 6b, Matthew 17:11 and Revelation 10:7; Daniel 12:4, 9 and Revelation 10:1-4; Zechariah 14:7 and Matthew 24:22-28; Matthew 36-51 (Genesis 6:1-4); Matthew 25:6, Jude 14, I Thessalonians 4:13-16a, Revelation 8:1, 16:15 and 18:1-4; Matthew 27:50-53 (Leviticus 23:5-21); Luke 17:28-30 (Genesis 18); Hosea 6:1-3 agree “Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in which His coming was to be completed” (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 322:4).

Newsletter 1066 stated, “The usual length of a betrothal was one year [which we have emphasised as the last year Nisan 14 to Nisan 14 before the end of the Christian dispensation]. Brother Branham said, “Oh, brother, give me a church full of the Holy Ghost. God will do in one year what all theology’s failed to do in two thousand years. You wait till the anointing of the church really strikes home to that faithful the little remnant. After the doors of the Gentiles is closed, oh, God will anoint a church then. “He who’s filthy, let him be filthy still. He who’s righteous let him be righteous still, and he who’s holy let him be holy still.” And God will anoint the church with the power of God, and things will be taken place. Not only that then, but He’s doing it now” (COD, p. 145:203). During this time she was considered married to her new baal (or master), and infidelity was adultery punishable by death (Revelation 16:19). She could not be freed without a formal writ of divorcement, and if the husband dies, she automatically became betrothed to his oldest brother.

Body of ChristCommonsense should have awakened Israel to the fact “it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.” Soul-less sacrifices were a temporary covering pointing to their promised Messiah—a sinless human KINSMAN Redeemer Whose Life would meet the wages of our sins, and Whose soul would return upon the elect penitent with eternal Life (Hebrews 10:4). Likewise commonsense and the type in Leviticus 23:5-21 should have awakened denominational Christians (so-called) to the fact Christ’s mediation was but a temporary measure of grace excusing ignorance until the apostolic faith was restored and the mystery of God finished (I Corinthians 13:10). “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him: in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things after the counsel of His Own will: that we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ” (Ephesians 1:10-12).

Crescent & CrossIn spite of the curses God placed on the ground and the Serpent, and the enmity set between the two seeds in Eve’s womb, their loss of immortality and expulsion from the Garden of Eden, her strong delusion that Cain was the Christ-child persisted. Her antitype claims to be the mother of all spiritual life, “Mystery Babylon the Great, the Great Whore of Judaeo-Roman Catholicism, the Mother of harlots [her apostate (once) Protestant daughter churches] and abominations of the earth [like Judaeo-Islam and the Judaeo-Jesuits]” trying to do God a service without it being His will. These will peddle their dogmas into the tribulation forcing trinitarianism, Rome’s mark of the beast, on pain of death as did the mother church through almost a thousand years of Dark Ages.

KhazariaThe Christian dispensation will soon end and God will return to the children of Jacob, not one of whom will be a ‘Jew’ (Romans 11:25-26). An earthquake will demolish the dome of the Rock; faux Israel will be invaded and forever finished as a military power causing the mass exodus of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews who have no history in the Middle East. The sons of Jacob will then return for redemption to the Land of their Covenant without “fear of the Jews” (Isaiah 6:9-13; 11:11; 13:6-16; Daniel 11:39; 12:1; Zechariah 12:2; 14:1-5; Revelation 16:19; UN Resolution 181). As Zerubbabel’s restoration of the temple was supported by Iran, a new edifice supported by Rome will arise on the site of the Dome of the Rock: “a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents” (David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, Look Magazine, January 16, 1962; Isaiah 56:7). In covenant with Jewry the Vatican will establish its seat of world government in Jerusalem making Israel the center of the world (Genesis 48:16; Ezekiel 5:5; 38:12). Knowledge of this prophecy led to the 2014 CIA/MOSSAD coup to pull Ukraine, formerly the Jewish homeland of Khazaria, out of the Russian orbit and deliver it to Western predator corporations and ‘the City’ as a stage from which to invade and re-communize Russia then annihilate the USA and Vatican City State as Jesus prophesied (Revelation 17-20).

Zerubbabel began rebuilding at the altar before the foundation of the temple was laid (Ezra 3:1-6), 2,000 years after Calvary; so-called Jews and Israelites will restore animal sacrifices until “the midst of Daniel’s Seventieth Week [when] the [then Devil-incarnate] pope will [break his covenant, force his trinitarian mark of the beast, and] cause the sacrifice and grain offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate until the consummation which will be poured out on the desolator” (Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Isaiah 28:22; Revelation 11:7; 19:19-21).

When the earthquake divides the Mount of Olives after the close of the Christian dispensation it will demolish Es Sahkra, the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque. Jews and Israelites will restore the sacrifice of bulls and goats. Now at the end of the annual Hajj to Mecca, Judaeo-Roman-Muslim families worldwide celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha by sacrificing a goat, sheep, cow or camel. This honours Abraham’s willingness to slay his only son Ishmael! on Mount Arafat, (not Mount Moriah as in Genesis 22:2) at Allah’s request. In truth, the expulsion of Ishmael and his mother Hagar would have taken place many years before God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac, who was probably two to four years of age when he was weaned, and Ishmael sixteen to eighteen years of age.

[Sheikh Prof. Dr. Yusuf ‘Abdullah al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.” The death penalty for apostasy [which the non-Muslim world would regard as ‘enlightenment’] is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence (Bukhari 9.84.57)]. Most take a second-hand religion from their priest, rabbi or imam; people of faith “receive the word with all readiness of mind, and search the scriptures daily, [proving all things] whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11; I Thessalonians 5:21).

As traditional churches observe Easter, let us read Acts 12:1-4: “Now [about that time Saul and Barnabas were preparing to set out to Jerusalem to bring what had been collected by the Christians at Antioch], Herod Agrippa [Judea’s Serpent’s seed] king [grandson of Herod the Great who slew male babies two years and under in hopes of assassinating his rival to David’s throne (Matthew 2:16) was the nephew of Herod Antipas, who beheaded John the Baptist to please Herodias, and father to Agrippa II before whom Paul afterward made his defence]. “He stretched forth his hands denoting his intent to violently oppress and injure certain of the Church at Jerusalem, killed James the brother of John with the sword [fulfilling Jesus’ prophecy that James “should drink of His cup” (Matthew 20:23), confirming the fact that “if we suffer with Christ, we shall reign with Him”.

“And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread).” When Herod came to Judaea, he presented himself in the character of a devout worshipper, and gained favour by attaching himself to the Nazarites (as did Paul in Acts 21:26) when they came to the Temple to offer sacrifices on completion of their vows (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, xix. 7:3). Thus he found popular protest against the Christians fomented by the Sadducaean priesthood, probably by the recent admission of Gentiles, and made himself the instrument of their jealousy to gain the favour of priests and people. Those who make it their business to please men make themselves an easy prey to Satan (Ephesians 6:6). Straight-talking Peter, being designed for further services was safe, but marked for a speedy sacrifice. “Upon the ceaseless prayers of the church, Peter was delivered by an angel.” We who live in a cold prayerless generation can hardly form an idea of the earnestness of these holy men of old. But when the Lord allows an awful persecution like this to come upon the Church after the close of the Gentile dispensation, His elect will manifest that they are the Sons of God.

“And when he had apprehended Peter, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.” This informs us that the Day of Passover that occurred on Nisan 14 was already past! Then were the [seven] days of unleavened bread” that commenced on Nisan 15, and the pagan Easter was approaching: after which Herod planned to arraign Peter on public trial. The (Gk.) ‘pascha’ appears 29 times in the New Testament: only in Acts 12:4 is the word rendered “Easter,” the other 28 times ‘pascha’ is rendered “Passover.” This explains why in Acts 12:4 the translators of the Authorised or KJV Bible rendered the word ‘Pascha’ “Easter” NOT ‘Passover.’ Their combined knowledge of Hebrew and Greek and extensive collection of manuscripts and citations were employed to assess every word. The KJV is correct: Herod meant Easter, Ishtar, Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, (Nimrod’s deified wife Semiramis) the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, and not Passover. This is another scripture God employs to separate the wise virgins who have “studied to show themselves approved unto God” from the foolish virgins who are dilatory.

“Have you done your utmost to present yourself to God, a workman with no cause to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth?” (II Timothy 2:15). Passover was fulfilled by the crucifixion of Jesus Messiah two thousand years ago. The Judaeo-Roman church which married Babylonian and Talmudic paganism into a Christian form reintroduced the Jews’ Passover as the pagan festival Easter. Brother Branham restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God but his Tabernacle was a Pentecostal or Laodicean Church. Please read The Two Babylonsby Alexander Hislop (p. 103) you will understand why Bible Believers Church does not observe Easter. Easter is assuredly not “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone” (Ephesians 2:20).

Encyclopedia Britannica informs us that the festival of Easter was not observed in the early Christian church: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians” [Galatians 4:6-11; Colossians 2:16] . . . “The name Easter (Ger. Ostern), like the names of the days of the week, is a survival from the old Teutonic mythology. According to Bede (De Temp. Rat. C. XV.) it is derived from Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the month answering to our April, and called Eostur-monath,” was dedicated” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed., 1910-1911, p. 828).

“To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skilful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity—now far sunk in idolatry—in this as in so many other things, to shake hands. The instrument in accomplishing this amalgamation was the abbot Dionysius the Little, (about AD525) to whom also we owe it, as modern chronologers have demonstrated, that the date of the Christian era, or of the birth of Christ Himself, was moved FOUR YEARS from the true time [of 4BC]. Whether this was done through ignorance or design may be matter of question; but there seems to be no doubt of the fact, that the birth of the Lord Jesus was made full four years later than the truth” (Ibid, p. 105-106).

The apostles and disciples never observed pagan ‘holy days’ or heathen customs. “Learn not the way of the heathen . . . the customs of the people are vain” (Jeremiah 10:2-3). “Do not enquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I may do likewise” (Deuteronomy 12:30). Why do the majority of professing ‘Christians’ celebrate pagan holidays? Except for a miniscule remnant of genuine Christians, Christendom in common with Hindus, Muslims, Mormons, Jews, pagans and even atheists celebrate Easter and Christmas or their heathen source. Let us read a little history of the Judaeo-Roman church from Hislop’s The Two Babylons:

“After Anicetus [AD92-168] completed his term as bishop of the first church of Rome, that whole church was well imbued with the idea that they were able to change the ritual of every church in Christendom and make their own celebration of Easter the great feast day in every church of the world.

Little did the first Roman church know of the soundness of the apostolic practices of the Greek Asiatic churches. [Among them the seven city-state Churches in Asia Minor whose natural attributes type the spiritual attributes of the seven Church Ages of Revelation 2 and 3]. This idea of changing the feast of the Passover to the pagan feast day of Astarte had been tabooed by Asiatic bishops since the time of Polycarp and Anicetus.

Polycarp had been the father of the Asiatic churches and the Greek churches looked to him as the essence of Christian perfection in matters of faith and doctrine. Polycarp had not been idle after he returned to Smyrna from his visit to Anicetus. He wrote many epistolary letters to all the Asiatic churches warning them of the great apostasy of the first church of Rome. Anicetus was decidedly condemned for allowing the first church at Rome to continue so many of the pagan rituals. The substitution of the feast of Astarte for the feast of the Passover revealed an entirely pagan church at heart with only the name ‘CHRISTIAN’.

Being a Greek scholar, Polycarp wrote in the Greek language and his letters were not known to the Latins of Rome until many years later unless they were translated. When Victor wrote to the Asiatic churches requesting that they change the celebration of the Passover and make it come on the pagan feast day as his church had done, he was thoroughly repulsed by every Asiatic bishop. Most of the Greek Asiatic churches had such disdain for Victor that they scorned his proposal. They had all the past history of the reversion of that one Roman church since the earliest times and they did not even count it a Christian church.

The feast of the Passover was a feast that had been set by God. It was like the Sabbath Day. It was established in the beginning as a set feast and none of the genuinely converted [?] Christian Jews ever changed it [so it became a tradition of men]. Christians accepted it as a time to celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The time when the death angel passed over the houses in Goshen reminded the Christian Jews of the time that Jesus’ blood was taken (as the blood of the lamb had been used on the door post and lintel) by faith and placed over their hearts as a saving power in the days since Christ. The Word of God speaks continually of Christ, the Passover Lamb.

To substitute this feast for a pagan ritual was a great sacrilege. One needs only to follow the history of the pagan feast of Easter, to see the great rioting and drunkenness with the excess of passion that it carried with it and to know how far the first Roman church had degraded itself. The Asiatic churches all refused to change their blessed feast of the Passover (or Pasch) and wrote Victor to this effect. One bishop even went to Rome to try to bring the truth to bishop Victor who retaliated by rejecting him as well as the rest of the Asiatic churches.

In the language and ideology of Rome to date, we find the encyclopedias saying, “Victor excommunicated” the Asiatic bishops. Irenaeus wrote that Victor cut himself off (excommunicated himself) from the communion of all the other churches (Ibid, p. 117-119).

The purpose of preaching is to bring correction whereas the purpose of teaching is to show you your day and its’ Message which is your position in Christ. As an Attribute of the Logos God foresaw you crucified in Christ before creation. You did not choose Him, by grace He chose you according to His foreknowledge of the decisions you will make by your own free will and ordained that you should bring forth fruit to His glory, and that your fruit should remain: that He may grant whatever you ask in His Name.

You walked along the shores of Galilee in Jesus’ sandals; you were in Him when He healed the sick and raised the dead. When He died on Calvary you paid sins’ supreme price in Him; when Jesus was justified and raised you were accounted justified in Him and can never come under condemnation again for there can be no double jeopardy in capital cases. When you were dead in sins and trespasses He raised you from the miry clay and sat you in heavenly places, which is “the present Truth,” your position in Christ the Word. As His wife you are not your own but His purchased possession, and the Life you live by the Token on display is the Life Christ living in you, your Hope of Glory. nl1067.htm


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Israelite Marriage

April 10, 2019

Bible Believers’ Newsletter 1066

“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; it is a tremendous encouragement to see you and others elect of God feeding their souls from our Church Newsletter.

Android PhoneThis evening we will be studying some of the many types and shadows in “Israelite Marriage,” which provide us with a background to understanding “the present Truth” . . . what Jesus is doing NOW! Our current news items illustrate “the earth is corrupt before God and filled with violence.” As apostasy has plunged our (once) Christian nations from depth to depth such that the world is falling apart again, and “the end of all flesh has once again come before the Lord who will destroy them with the earth.” Fortunately God has sent a Prophet “for the elect’s sake that those days will be shortened” by his Message whereby we may escape the wrath to come.

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


ISIS/Al Qaeda in the Middle East & Ukraine’s ‘Neo-Nazis’: Two Sides of the Imperial Coin

April 8, 2019 — Western-supported ISIS/al Qaeda and . . . neo-Nazis are two sides to the same Imperial coin . . . product of the West’s moral degradation, its disdain for international law, and its anti-Life core . . . [it] created and supports ISIS/al Qaeda, it presents them as “enemies” . . . fake humanitarian pretexts for invasions . . . proxies to destroy target countries even before the invasions and the economic warfare are firmly established . . . scapegoats . . . Governing agencies fabricate Islamophobia . . . “Muslim” terrorists as enemies . . .

The so-called “Caliphate Project” is a CIA project. NATO and its allies support the terrorists in Syria who are carving out territory in resource rich, strategic areas of Syria . . . NATO and its allies use the Western-empowered and supported neo-Nazis in Kiev, rotten fruits of the 2014 Western [and MOSSAD] coup against the legitimate Ukrainian government . . . Russia is the scapegoat, even though the coup preceded Russian involvement that opposes the Western crime scene near its borders . . . Empire’s end-game is world conquest, a NWO of fascist totalitarianism. Those controlling the levers of power must deceive domestic populations because the impoverishing “project” is toxic to Life itself . . . NATO is the deceptive umbrella under which these diabolical machinations are thriving. Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: The US is arming and assisting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, while Congress debates prohibition. US is the image of the beast.


NATO at 70: An Unlawful Organisation with Serious Psychological Problems

NATO

April 3, 2019 — The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, celebrated its 70th Anniversary on April 4, 2019. Some of us don’t see anything worth celebrating about an incredibly expensive, dangerous and harmful alliance which should have been closed down exactly 30 years ago. Why 30 years ago? Because in 1989, the First Cold War in the Western sphere—Europe— between the Warsaw Pact and NATO came to an end thanks to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. When that happened and the Berlin Wall came down, NATO too should have been dissolved.

Its raison d’être until then had always and unambiguously been the very existence of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact (which, by the way, was established 6 years after NATO, in May 1955) and its socialist/communist ideology. But NATO instead continued to expand—today 29 countries of which 10 former Warsaw Pact members—against all promises about the opposite given to the last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev. And it has caused much harm even in peacetime. Full story: transnational.live


Even Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch Dollar for Oil Trade over US Bullying Policies

burning dollar

April 6, 2019 — The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC), which was introduced by Democrat Senator Herb Kohl in 2000 and received backing from Donald Trump in 2011 . . . aims to allow OPEC oil companies to be sued under the US antitrust law for their attempts to set international prices by limiting oil supplies, a practice which has been regularly applied as a way of stabilizing the global market . . . senior Saudi energy officials have been analysing the ditching-dollar-oil-trades possibility for several months and would have already mentioned reported it to US officials . . . “The Saudis know they have the dollar as nuclear option” and if Washington and Trump “let NOPEC pass . . . it would be the US economy that would fall apart” . . . Full story: telesurenglish.net

Comment: The only way [the US] would be able to sell shale oil and gas, since their extraction is particularly expensive [is the] NOPEC project . . . aimed at eliminating the sovereign immunity that the OPEP countries invoke in order to form a cartel, despite US anti-trust laws. It would enable pursuance before US tribunals of all the state-members of OPEP+ . . . for having profited from their dominant position, and would therefore influence the rise in prices . . . Donald Trump’s policies can only succeed by diminishing US demand. Until now, hydrocarbons were mainly used to fill automobile petrol tanks, which explains the development of projects for electric cars . . . has hardly any connection with the ideology according to which we must decrease the production of CO2 to bring down the temperature of the Earth . . . because electricity can be much more responsible for the production of CO2 than oil, when it is produced by coal, as is the case in Germany and China.

Moreover, the consumption of oil is evolving. On the world scale, it is no longer in priority destined for transport, but for the fabrication of plastics. The United States will not allow the export of hydrocarbons from Iran, Venezuela and Syria until 2023 or 2024, the date at which their shale production will begin to decrease rapidly (voltairenet.org).


Everything on Bellingcat and the Official Inquiry into the Destruction of Flight MH17

April 5, 2019 — Jürgen Cain Külbel is an ex-investigator for the criminal police of the Democratic Republic of Germany. He became a journalist after the reunification of Germany. He has managed to identify the author of the reports posted on the Bellingcat site which influenced the international police team tasked by Ukraine with establishing the cause of the destruction of Flight MH17. This amateur, who ‘found’ evidence of Russian guilt which he claims to be ‘irrefutable,’ is in reality a musician, with no competence whatsoever in criminalistics . . . For me, as an ex-professional investigator, there is another question that needs to be asked: in what sort of pitiful state are the investigation teams led by the Dutch authorities and the Joint Investigation Team—to the point that they adopt the do-it-yourself enquiries of an amateur? Full story: voltairenet.org

Comment: This demonstrates the depravity of the Western investigators whose objective seems to have been to develop and maintain enemy images of propaganda that would defame Russia prior to the ‘hot stage’ of World War III they are so anxious to start while the US dollar has reserve status.


Protecting Julian Assange: a Must for People of Conscience

April 5, 2019 — Assange’s “great crime” is revealing the crimes of US empire. War is peace. And revealing the crimes of Empire is deemed criminal by Empire . . . followers-of-conscience are indebted to Assange who as a publisher, performed a massive service to humanity by informing people about acts their governments are involved in, support, or are silent about. WikiLeaks respects “our” right to know . . . of corruption and criminality in our governments so that society can organize to denounce and put an end to such . . . Despite Assange’s sacrifice to humanity, he has ruffled the feathers of the power structure. Again, it is clear that Assange must be protected. The Nobel committee must come through for humanity and for peace.

People power needs to mobilize. If people care deeply about their right to be informed, to be apprised of their government partaking in war crimes, then millions must take to the streets and squares, especially in Norway and Britain. Full story: globalresearch.ca


US admits cannot attack Venezuela – Confirmed S-300 Anti-Air Systems

March 30, 2019 — US State Department special operator for Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, has revealed Venezuela is already in possession of numerous highly effective S-300 (Antey 2500 version) systems. This makes a military campaign against Venezuela highly unlikely, given the high-importance of air-cover for any boots on the ground, and the high effectiveness of the S-300 system. It also explains the decision of OAS member states Columbia and Brazil not to resort to military intervention . . . a jungle war without air-cover would be extraordinarily costly in terms of casualties and the resulting social and political unrest . . . Venezuelan anti-air forces could target 150 US fighters, bombers, attack planes, and even ballistic missiles simultaneously. With a hit rate of about 85%-90%, the US could expect to lose upwards of 130 planes in a sortie unless the SAM systems were overwhelmed. However, the US possesses about 1,800 fighters and attack planes in its entire arsenal; many of these are deployed around the world and could not all be used to attack Venezuela, for numerous reasons including vulnerability and logistics. Full story: fort-russ.com


Mexico’s Popocatépetl Volcano explodes in one of Largest Eruptions in Years

April 3, 2019 — Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano erupted late on Monday, hurling incandescent rock about 1.5 miles down its slopes and sending ash into the night sky near the nation’s capital . . . Mexico’s National Centre for Disaster Prevention (CENAPRED) . . . urged residents—especially the some 25 million who live within about 60 miles of the mountain’s crater—not to approach the volcano, because of the danger involved in the fall of ballistic fragments.

The 17,797-foot volcano has been particularly active in recent months, several times spewing out sprays of hot rock and towering clouds of ash, the Associated Press reported . . . Popocatépetl is considered the most threatening volcano in North America, in terms of explosive activity and population threat. Its current low-or moderate-scale eruptive behaviour can switch relatively quickly to a large, catastrophic Plinian eruption, the largest and most violent of all the types of volcanic eruptions, according to the volcanologists at the National History Museum. Full story: geek.com


 

Israelite Marriage

The Old Testament is an Eastern Book written for Eastern people, so in order for us to comprehend its prophetic shadows and types by divine revelation we must familiarize ourselves with the oriental customs on which they were established.

This-evening I am going to ask you to read many Scriptures with me—not to be tedious, but with such a small congregation, we can afford the luxury of taking our time and experiencing the consistency of God’s Word. Please turn to Genesis 24 and read all sixty-seven verses.

Abraham sent his servant, Eliezer, to choose a wife for his promised son Isaac. He was instructed to go to the land of Mesopotamia, which is Babylon whence God called him, and to seek a wife from among Abraham’s kinfolk. Likewise “Jesus sent forth the twelve, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:5-6).

Meeting at Assisi October 27, 1986Eliezer types Brother Branham whom God instructed to find an end-time Bride for Christ. He specifically told him not to seek in unbelieving heathendom but from among his misguided kinsmen in “Mystery, Babylon the Great, mother of harlots and abominations of the earth”: a universal assemblage of Catholics at the core; grouped with them Protestant denominations, sects and churches; grouped around them believing Jews, believing Muslims, believing Hindus, believing Buddhists. And that would be a universal religious assembly that could have a powerful dynamic kick in civilization and in solving the problems of men and women today (Uri Dowbenko, Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy, ISBN 0971004218, p. 213; Revelation 18:4). The family is the social unit. The Judaeo-Catholic church is called the “mother” church and her priests are called “father” and “brother.” Of the three great events in family life: birth, marriage and death—the ancient Hebrews regarded marriage as the most important. Eliezer arranged a contract with Rebekah’s brother Laban, and with her mother Milcah (Genesis 24:55). And God sent His angel before Eliezer, even as He sent His angel before Brother Branham.

When marriage was being arranged in Israel, the parents generally took all decisions. If the bride should prove unsatisfactory to her husband or with her mother-in-law she would likely be returned discredited, engendering a feeling of injustice on one side affecting the whole circle of relatives and possibly the whole community. Therefore the selection of a wife and the arrangement of all contractual and financial matters connected with it were decided upon by the parents or guardians. Neither the girl nor, often, the youth was consulted. Two men, say you and I, may be close friends, and when we marry, we might agree that my first son and your first daughter, or the other way around should marry. That settled the young children were married then but would not consummate their union until they were of age. In the old days, the yardstick was character, NOT outward looks. The esteem with which the families held each other and the preservation of common Christian principles was paramount: were we noble or wealthy we would want to see the dynasty prosper and be preserved, not squandered on a beautiful female of indifferent station.

Those were the days when family meant something, the days when men and women respected dignity, understood shame and standards. When age did not indicate one was superseded or past his use-by date because “knowledge had increased” bringing technological advancements; moreover it entitled them to respect for their standards and accomplishments in life, and for the wisdom of their experience. Those were the days before self-importance and instant gratification. The old ways seem to me far wiser, more civilized, and more certain to produce and maintain a superior culture than the anarchy to which Western culture has degenerated in today’s jungle-mating game.

If we are Christ’s Bride, we were foreknown from the foundation of the world, and chosen by the Father Who is drawing us back to Himself. John 6:44, “No man can come to Me, except the Father which has sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day”.

An unmarried woman was under her father’s authority. Rebekah’s brother Laban had authority over her and spoke as Bethuel her deceased father (Genesis 24:50). Rebekah’s consent was asked only afterwards, and then only because her father was dead.

If a youth’s father had not already contracted marriage, the father might guide his son’s choice, as for example, when Isaac sent Jacob to marry one of his cousins. You’ll recall that Jacob actually married the two daughters of Laban, his mother’s brother (Genesis 28:1-5).

Once the proposal of marriage had been put to the girl’s father and her price agreed, the groom and his bride would then seal the covenant by drinking a CUP OF WINE.

Luke 22:42, “Father, if You are willing, remove this CUP from Me: nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be done.” Jesus had already drunk from the CUP with His espoused Bride at the Last Supper, sealing the betrothal or marriage COVENANT, earlier in the evening. Judas had already betrayed his Lord, and was leading the soldiers to arrest Him. Jesus was a man like you and I, only virgin born and without sin. He was subject to the same emotions as us, and to physical pain. I should think His anguish and physical sensibilities might have been more acute than our own because He was absolutely sinless. And He was God manifest. In asking that the cup be removed He was not seeking to avoid the marriage contract. He could have written a letter of divorcement. But in terror of the ordeal He was pleading, “Is there some other way to meet sin’s price?” But He overcame His own self and resolved to do His Father’s will and purchase the unworthy woman His Father had chosen from the foundation of the world. Such precious love!

Matthew 26:26-29, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” And He took the CUP and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink all of it; for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many [nations of Adam’s race] for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s Kingdom”.

This follows the type where Eliezer declined to eat until he had explained his errand, told how the Lord had answered his prayer, then CONTRACTED the marriage bond (Genesis 24:33-58).

This CUP signified the potential oneness or agreement of Jesus with His betrothed, and a PRICE paid [or agreed to be paid]. It sealed a BINDING CONTRACT called the New Testament signifying that, like a natural bride, the future Church was His purchased possession. One should not drink the cup of the Lord’s Supper [typing the (sexual) consummation of marriage] until he has the Token or EVIDENCE of the Contract.

The Lord’s Supper consists of unleavened bread and wine prepared by holy hands. Grape juice sours. Wine has a spirit, it stimulates the human spirit as the Holy Spirit or revelation of the Word stimulates our soul. Wine, like true love, improves with the passage of time. And time was to pass while the Bridegroom went away to prepare a place for us, so Jesus said, “I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you at the Wedding Supper in the Sky”.

The CONTRACT agreed, the suitor on becoming the husband assumed definite legal obligations towards his wife. You will recall we discovered that God expects us to honour our word. He requires us to be careful how we speak because we are bound to honour our commitments. Christians should not speak of an engagement to marry as the world speaks of the custom, because when a man proposes marriage and the girl says, “Yes” they are married from that moment. And if either party breaks the engagement and marries another (without a Scriptural reason) they are committing adultery (Deuteronomy 22:23; Matthew 5:32; We Have Seen His Star, 11:66; COD 1037:197; Q342).

There was a law known as “breach of promise” whereby a man or a woman promised in marriage who broke their pledge without good cause could be gaoled and fined in the courts. This was called “jilting.” The law doubtless remains but is inactive because (as in the days of Noah and Lot), fornication, adultery, sexual promiscuity and no-fault divorce have become the social norm, along with same-sex marriage, homosexuality, drug and alcohol abuse. The Prophet said, civilization as we know it is of the Devil. But although our laws have become diluted it is still possible to see how English Common Law was originally in the Bible. God does not forget His Word; He has bound Himself under CONTRACT and requires us to honour our word.

Isaiah 55:1-3, “Ho, every one that thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money come, buy, and eat. Come, buy wine and milk WITHOUT money and WITHOUT price.” [What price eternal Life? Or what price a kinsman redeemer? Salvation is FREE, but it is not cheap].

“Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and labour for that which satisfies not? [Jesus is that bread from heaven]. He told the prostitute at the well, “whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst—sell what you have, and build treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts”]. Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me: hear, and your soul will live; and I will make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with you, even the sure mercies of David.” This prophecy speaks of eternal Life and new birth through the new CONTRACT in Christ’s Blood.

God was replacing the old system of laws with a new system quoting Jeremiah 31:31-32. This New Covenant has to do with Messiah’s coming and had to be signed in Blood as Abraham divided the animals when he received the Covenant from God. Moses too sealed his Covenant in blood.

Messiah came like a sacrificial animal and gave His Blood to seal the New Covenant. Isaiah said the Messiah would come as a lamb to the slaughter. John the Baptist called Him; “the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29).

Under the Old Testament Israel was the bride of Jehovah (Hosea 1 – 2). But that Covenant or contract under the Law was CONDITIONAL upon obedience. Hence God put Israel away.

Jeremiah 31:31-34, “The day will come when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah: not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; My Covenant which they BROKE, although I was a HUSBAND to them, says the Lord: But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel; AFTER those days, says the Lord, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord”: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest, says the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more”.

Israel REJECTED that Covenant and God turned from them to take out of the Gentiles a people for His Name, a Bride for His Son. Soon He will turn the hearts of 144,000 Israelites back to Him and they will come under this New Covenant—not as bride but as servants attending on His Bride.

The New Testament, our Covenant or MARRIAGE CONTRACT, is UN-conditional:

Mark 14:23-24, “Jesus took the cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them: and they all drank from it. And He said unto them, This is My BLOOD of the New Testament, which is shed for many”.

Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. God signed this contract in His Own Blood, showing that the perfect Life of our Kinsman Redeemer has been substituted for our life, paying sin’s penalty—able to remit our sins. Something the blood of Abel’s sacrifice could not do.

Exodus 24:8, “And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the BLOOD of the COVENANT, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words”.

Ephesians 4:30, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are SEALED UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.” That’s the everlasting Covenant Isaiah and Jeremiah sought. The UNCONDITIONAL marriage CONTRACT of grace with NO provision for divorcement (Malachi 2:14-16; Matthew 19:6).

The MOHAR or bride price is a compensation given to the father whereby the future husband acquires a right over the woman. As the unmarried woman was under the authority of her father, the married woman she comes under the authority of her husband.

The bride’s father enjoyed the use of the mohar, though not its possession. It reverted to his daughter on succession, or if her husband’s death reduced her to penury. You’ll recall the story of Jacob’s two wives. How he served Laban seven years to meet the bride price for Rachel but was cheated when Leah was substituted so he worked seven more years for Rachel. Although Jacob had worked hard and faithfully for his father-in-law, he continually defrauded him. Then God spoke to Jacob and told him it was time to return to the Promised Land and He would prosper him. And God caused Laban’s cattle to bring forth speckled and spotted cattle, brown sheep, and spotted goats which would be Jacob’s pay. Jacob told his wives what God had said, “And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? Are we not counted of him as strangers? for he has SOLD us, and has quite DEVOURED also OUR money. For all the riches which God has taken from our father, that is OURS, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God has said unto thee, do.” So you see, the Mohar was not the possession of the father but a trust.

The presents offered to Rebekah and her family were a reward for their accepting the proposal of marriage and NOT the mohar. “And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother” (Genesis 24:53).

The bride’s FATHER normally executed the marriage deed which was a bill of sale. “God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Our Bridegroom paid our Bride Price by His Own Blood. “Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is IN you, which you have of God, AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? For you are BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are GOD’S” (I Corinthians 6:19-20; Isaiah 55:1).

The CONTRACT, CUP and mohar are the bride’s security, guaranteeing the return of the Bridegroom.

John 14:18-21, 26-27, “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world sees Me no more; but you see Me: because I live, you shall live also. At that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He that has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: and he that loves Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him . . . But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”.

Our consolation and the EVIDENCE of the CONTRACT is the eternal security of a new birth and the Token on display. Brother Branham said, “The Token is not the Token unless It is on display.” If you claimed to have a wife but nobody ever saw or heard from her, it would be reasonable to suspect you were not really married because there was no evidence of the married life. And if the evidence of Christ’s Life is not apparent in me then you would be justified in believing I was not truly married to Him, or born-again.

Do you remember the parable of the woman who had ten pieces of silver? I believe those ten pieces of silver represented or were the EVIDENCE of her virtue, worn from a wedding band or chain upon her head, signifying she was betrothed. The women did not wear a wedding ring on their finger in those days. One piece was missing. She cleaned house and searched with a fine tooth comb until she recovered her token, symbolizing how we must sanctify and seek our own salvation with fear and trembling, until the EVIDENCE of the virtuous Life of Jesus Christ, the Token, is on display in us.

The CUP is to bring the CONTRACT and its PRICE (mohar) to remembrance.

I Corinthians 11:25, “After the same manner also He took the CUP, when He had supped, saying, This CUP is the New Testament or CONTRACT in My Blood: do this as often as you drink it in REMEMBRANCE of Me”.

The MOHAR was Christ’s Own Blood. Revelation 1:5, “Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His OWN Blood”.

The formalities of the transaction being complete, the groom would then make a speech to the bride. I might be something in this order:

“And when they saw Him, they worshipped Him: but some DOUBTED.” This is Christ’s espoused Bride—the CUP had been drunk, the CONTRACT agreed, and their MOHAR paid—“but some doubted”.

And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. BECAUSE of this, Go and teach ALL of ADAM’S race, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost [which is Lord Jesus Christ]: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: [PREPARE yourselves to be My Wife] and, lo, I am WITH you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen”  (Matthew 28:18-20). The consolation.

This speech is also recorded and is worthy of comparison in Mark 16:14- 20, Luke 24:46-51 and in Acts 1:7-8, “And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the TIMES or the SEASONS, which the Father has put in His Own power.”

“But you shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”.

He would then return to His Father’s house to build a bridal chamber for the consummation of their union.

“Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in Me. IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS: if it were not so, I would have told you. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. [A Bridal chamber in which to CONSUMMATE the marriage. Like “the little wooden room” in Brother Branham’s Tent Vision]. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And whither I go you know, and the way you know” (John 14:1-4).

Proposing to the girl’s father, drawing the marriage contract, and paying the mohar constituted merely the betrothal. An ‘option’, preventing the maid from marrying anyone else. An EVIDENCE or token of a price paid, a deposit.

The usual length of a betrothal was one year [we have emphasised as the last year before the end of the Christian dispensation]. Brother Branham said, “Oh, brother, give me a church full of the Holy Ghost. God will do in one year what all theology’s failed to do in two thousand years. You wait till the anointing of the church really strikes home to that faithful the little remnant. After the doors of the Gentiles is closed, oh, God will anoint a church then. “He who’s filthy, let him be filthy still. He who’s righteous let him be righteous still, and he who’s holy let him be holy still.” And God will anoint the church with the power of God, and things will be taken place. Not only that then, but He’s doing it now. During this time she was considered married to her new baal (or master), and infidelity was adultery and punishable by death (Revelations 16-19). She could not be freed without a formal writ of divorcement, and if the husband dies, she automatically became betrothed to his oldest brother.

Body of Christ[Brother Branham taught an engagement is a marriage that rests on the mutual commitment of the couple. Hence the “breach of promise” or divorce in the event of a default by either party as illustrated on this diagram by the gap between the Seven Church Ages of PART-Word and The Revelation of the Seven Seals after the Laodicean Church Age ended in apostasy. Brother Branham stood in the breach marked HOLY GHOST and revealed the mystery of the Seven Seals which “finished the mystery of God” and brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form with divine vindication. This fulfilled our Lord’s audible pronouncement spoken over the Ohio River in 1933, “As John the Baptist foreran My first Coming, your Message will introduce My second Coming.” It also fulfilled Paul’s prophecy, “When that which is complete has come [Christ the fullness of the Word], PART-Word [and Christ’s mediation for ignorance of the fulness] shall be done away” (I Corinthians 13:10). The “rapture” is a HOLY GHOST revelation; one can only cross the Breach into “Christ the Chief Corner Stone” or Capstone by a clear revelation of this end-time Message].

She may not live with her husband until he had carried her away to his father’s house, thus completing and CONSUMMATING the union. The bridegroom would have to construct and provision the marriage chamber, where he and his bride would remain secluded for the seven days of Daniel’s Seventieth Week. He could not return to claim her until his father approved the chamber and declared the time was right.

“When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, will You at THIS TIME restore the kingdom to Israel? And He answered, It is not for you to know the TIMES or the SEASONS [of the seven Gentile Church Ages], which the FATHER has put in his OWN power” (Acts 1:6-7).

So if anyone asked him when he would be married, he would reply, “Of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (Matthew 24:36).

Bride of ChristThus assured, the bride knew she was loved and was content to be separated from the world and the things of the world and to wait as long as was necessary. She would be very busy in her responsibility to make herself ready to please him. She used this time to prepare herself for her bridegroom and for the responsibilities of married life. A type of our sanctification.

She was no longer her own but had been bought with a price, set apart, and consecrated. Isaiah 61:10, “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels”.

When she went out in public, in order to discourage others from intimate contact and as a sign she was betrothed, she now veiled her face—even from the bridegroom. As when Rebekah saw Isaac for the first time, “she asked the servant, What man is this that walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master: therefore she took a VAIL, and COVERED herself” (Genesis 24:65). The bride waited in her father’s house, and stayed home at night—not knowing what time the bridegroom would come. Tradition was that the groom should come at night, at an hour when he was LEAST expected and ‘steal’ her away from her family. “Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not WATCH, I will come on you as a THIEF, and YOU SHALL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME UPON YOU” (Revelation 3:3; 16:15).

She was to be waiting with the other virgins—her bridesmaids and companions—who would all have oil in their lamps in case the groom should choose to come late in the night.

Matthew 25:1-13, “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the Bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”

“While the Bridegroom tarried [throughout the Gentile dispensation], they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom, come out to meet Him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there is not enough for us and you: you go to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the Bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door [to the bridal chamber] was shut.” Within the Father’s House were the relatives and invited guests—the friends of the groom.

“Afterward the other [foolish] virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. [But the Bride and Bridegroom were consummating their union in the bridal chamber [as Isaac brought Rebekah into his late mother Sarah’s tent, and he knew her and loved her, and she became his wife (Genesis 24:64–67)] so Christ answered the foolish virgins and said, I do not know you [as my CONSUMMATED wife. In the Living Bible Jesus says, “Go away, it’s too late”]. Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man comes”.

The bridal procession was originally the actual transference of the bride to the bridal apartment or canopy in the house of the bridegroom’s father. The bridegroom, wearing a diadem (Revelation 4:10), and accompanied by his friends, [the Old Testament saints], with tambourines and a band, proceeded to the bride’s house. When they were within earshot they would SHOUT, “Behold, the Bridegroom! Come out to meet him”.

How close are we? We’ve heard the “shout” of Matthew 25:6, I Thessalonians 4:16 and Revelation 18:4, and trimmed our revelation.

Brother Branham said, “There are some whose names are written on the Lamb’s Book of Life, and when those Seals are thrown open, they hear their name called as the Holy Spirit unfolds the Light to their hearts, and they come” (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 224:6; 473:3).

You heard your name called and recognized your place in the Word in the “shout” of the best man, Brother Branham, “Behold the Bridegroom! Come out of Babylon and be filled with the Spirit.” That was your marriage.

Throughout the Church Ages when Christ was in the Office Son of God, it was, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears My Word, and believes on Him that sent Me, has eternal Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto Life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the spiritually dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God [or Mediator]: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father has Life in Himself; so has He given to the Son to have Life in Himself”.

The bride’s father and mother would look aside while the bride and her friends were spirited away. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. But of the TIMES and the SEASONS, brethren, you have no need that I write. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a THIEF in the night. For when they shall say, “Peace and safety”; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are NOT in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a THIEF” (I Thessalonians 4:17; 5:1-4; Revelation 3:3; 16:15).

There would be much rejoicing as the noisy party journeyed through the streets. Soon the Seventh Trumpet of God will sound “rejoice”!

The bride was richly dressed and adorned with jewels but NOBODY would recognize her because she wore a veil which she took off only in the bridal chamber. This explains why Rebekah veiled herself on seeing Isaac, her betrothed, and how Laban was able to substitute Leah for Rachel at Jacob’s first marriage.

Escorted by her companions [the foolish virgins], the bride was conducted to the home of the bridegroom. This was the bringing home of an ALREADY ACCREDITED Bride to her COVENANTED husband. There was no formal religious ceremony connected with the Hebrew marriage as with us. The marriage was CONSUMMATED by entrance into the nuptial chamber in which stood the bridal bed with a canopy. The bride and groom would go into the bridal chamber [where Jesus takes us] while the wedding party waited outside.

In his Message, “The Rapture,” Brother Branham read Psalm 27:1-5, “The Lord is my Light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble [the great tribulation of Daniel’s Seventieth Week] He shall hide me in His pavilion: [the marriage chamber] in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock”.

Describing the ‘little wooden room’ he saw in the ‘tent vision’, Brother Branham said God told him, “I’ll meet you in there . . . this will not be a public show.” Certainly not, it is the bridal chamber!

Everyone would wait until the Bridegroom would tell a trusted friend through the CLOSED door (Matthew 25:10), that the marriage has been CONSUMMATED UNDER THE TENT in the LITTLE WOODEN ROOM. Two groomsmen were chosen, one from the Brides’ family, another from the husband’s—a type of Elijah and Moses—two witnesses whose duty is to introduce the Bride and Groom to Israel.

In John 3:29, the Pharisees asked John the Baptist if he were the Messiah. John set them straight: “He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice; this my joy therefore is fulfilled”.

The Israelites miss the marriage which will be CONSUMMATED and the seven-year wedding feast fulfilled when their elect 144,000 recognize the voice of their long martyred two witnesses—“Every one that is of the truth hears My voice” (John 18:37).

Revelation 19:7-8, “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints”.

The “wedding day” was the day when the Bride was taken home to her husband’s house. The word “marriage” in the New Testament, always means the “festivities” which were sometimes a considerable period after the actual COVENANT or bond of marriage. Here, the “friends of the Groom” (Mark 2:19; John 3:29) rejoice, for the marriage is CONSUMMATED.

When the marriage was publicly celebrated, the bride removed her veil and placed it over the groom’s shoulders, signifying she is under his dominion—that she has transferred her rights to him who is the head and also bears the responsibility and the care and that he and he alone; no other man, no other power, has any rights over, or responsibility for her (Isaiah 9:6-7).

Because the mystery of the Seven Thunders is revealed to us we can recognize the Bride of each generation. Soon there will be a grand Wedding Supper in the sky at the Home of our Bridegroom’s Father. The Marriage will be consummated the seven days of Daniel’s seventieth week. Thereafter “Every eye shall see Him [including the Israelites who pierced Him,” and when they see Him they shall see YOU who with Him (Revelation 1:7; 19:11-18). Israel will recognize the (Gk.) parousia Coming with His Bride of all Ages in the end of the week when faith lifts her vail from their eyes, then Israel joy will anoint the Most Holy Place, which is her king and His Queen, Christ and His Bride.

Jesus HAS returned as a thief. The world doesn’t recognize Him, because He has come in WORD Form contrary to their creeds. Through the invisible union we are one with the Bridegroom, and because they cannot recognize the Bridegroom we are veiled from the world.

Soon the seventh Trumpet will sound for the first resurrection. Los Angeles will fall beneath the sea. Sinners will be cast into outer darkness. “And the light of a candle shall shine there no more; and the Voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride shall be heard there no more: for their merchants were the great men of the earth and by her sorceries all nations were deceived” (Revelation 18:23). There’ll be shouting and rejoicing among the saints as they rise to be greeted by their brethren from previous Ages. Can you imagine the joy of our ANTICIPATION as we manifest the Sons of God, KNOWING that we shall be CHANGED and rise WITH them to meet the Lord in the air?

When that Trumpet sounds to call Israel to the Feast of Trumpets, the LAST elect will be sealed into Christ and the Pentecostal Harvest fulfilled. I Thessalonians 4:16, “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God: the dead in Christ will rise first.” He does ALL three things as He descends. The ‘rapture’ is the threefold PROCESS of a shout, voice, and trump.

Revelation 19:7-9, “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come to pass, and His wife has made herself ready [to CONSUMMATE the marriage by glorification for the Marriage Supper]. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of saints. And Brother Branham said to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he said, These are the true sayings of God.”

Her adornment is simple pure and beautiful. Linen denotes the most precious plain, unostentatious, yet elegant material representation of righteousness. This is the righteousnesses of saints, not Christ’s imputed righteousness. The Bride is adorned in the beauty of THUS SAYS THE LORD manifest in the Token that was displayed in her life. The friends of the Groom will not know her by the flesh but by the reflection of Christ in her.

This is the wedding garment of the Holy Spirit that was missing from the guest in Matthew 22:11. It is the robe of glory worn by the Bride at the Judgment Seat of Christ, when all of her false and presumptuous works will have been consumed by the holy Fire of God. In the wedding chamber, the Bride will be naked and exposed to the eyes of her Husband. At the Judgment Seat He will know the thoughts and intents of her heart (Hebrews 4:12-13).

I Corinthians 4:5, “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God”.

Romans 2:16, “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to Paul’s gospel”.

She entered the nuptial chamber a virgin Bride, she reappears for the Marriage Supper a righteous wife (Revelation 19:9).

At the bema or Judgment seat of Christ, the veil is removed and the work of every member of the Bride will be made manifest as She is commended by Her Lord and introduced to His friends, the Old Testament saints. “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be” (Revelation 22:12).

“We shall be face to face . . . then we shall know as we are known. Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Don’t you know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are . . . Therefore let no man glory in men. For ALL things are YOURS; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; ALL are yours; and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s” (I Corinthians 3:12-23).

The righteousnesses of the saints are their righteous acts and works that will come out of the “fiery trial” of the Judgment of Reward, and be found to praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Christ. These make up the beautiful wedding garments in which the saints shall be clothed—their own works by the Token on display. Then we’ll really be “written epistles, known and read of all men” (II Corinthians 3:2).

Brother Branham said, “Our thoughts speak louder in heaven than our voices do on earth.” Our words and actions are our thoughts expressed. That’s why Peter instructs us to be adorned in the Token or “hidden Man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, not the outward show of fancy hair-do’s, gold, jewellery and fashionable clothes” (I Peter 3:3-5). Because we are Christ’s jewels, and from the Bema Judgment we will outshine the stars of heaven.

What a contrast the spotless white and hue of the righteousnesses of saints will be to the purple and scarlet clad jewel-bedecked harlot wife of Satan. The Bride reflects the glory of her Husband. That’s why “Jesus is presenting to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:27).

Revelation 19:9, “And Brother Branham said to John [who represents the members of Christ’s end-time Bride], write, Blessed are they who are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he said, These are the true sayings of God”.

The Bride is clothed in the glory of THUS SAITH THE LORD manifest in her righteous life, by grace through faith. Her glory is of He who loved her and purchased her by His Own blood. It’s a blessed thing for the friends of the Groom to be invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb in the sky and witness the appearing of the Groom with His Wife after the CONSUMMATION of their marriage.

Revelation 19:10, “And I fell at Brother Branham’s feet to worship him. And he said, Don’t do that: I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”.

Some Message-believers were so carried away with God’s grace in sending THUS SAITH THE LORD to clothe Christ’s end-time Bride that they sought to worship Brother Branham as the Pharisees were prepared to worship John the Baptist (John 1:19-28).

After the midst of the week nothing shall be hid. “Behold, He comes with clouds [the Shekinah]; and every eye shall see Him, and also they who pierced Him [Israel’s elect 144,000 will mourn their Atonement when the veil is removed by faith]: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him.” The LOST will NOT repent, but “hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains” (Revelation 6:15-17; 9:20-21).

In Revelation 19:7-8, She is no longer a Bride, but a Wife. When Israel recognize Messiah, they will also recognize the TRUE Church; the marriage is CONSUMMATED and the Bride unveiled—first as the mighty army of God.

“Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the Bridegroom go forth from his CHAMBER, and the Bride from her CLOSET. [The Marriage is CONSUMMATED]. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, ‘Where is their God’?” THEN will the LORD be jealous for His Land, and pity His people” (Joel 2:15-18).

“And I saw heaven opened, [revelation coming to Israel] and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness does He judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a Name written, that no man knew, but he who had the revelation. And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His Name is called The Word of God.”

“And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. [That’s the Bride]. And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His vesture and on His thigh a Name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS”.

Israel sees Him first as the General their forefathers had anticipated, returning with His Wife. The next picture is of “the Bride, the Lamb’s wife . . . the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.”

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new” (Revelation 21:2-9). nl1066.htm


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YOU are God’s Building

April 4, 2019

Bible Believers’ Newsletter 1065

“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; it’s great to have your company in fellowship around God’s unchanging Word.

Android PhoneRevelation 19:7-9, “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the Marriage [Supper] of the Lamb has come, and His Wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteous works of saints. And Brother Branham said to me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God”.

John 8:51, “Verily, verily, I tell you, If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death.” This week we have two main articles, “The ‘banah’ of Eve,” and “YOU are God’s Building” intended to bless, encourage and edify you in your Christian walk. And we have fourteen important items of current news.

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


The New Grand Strategy of the United States

Hornswaggled=cheated/deceived

March 26, 2019 — Without the Soviet Union, the world had become unipolar . . . no longer governed by the Security Council, but by the United States alone. In order to maintain its dominant position, it was obliged to ‘lose some to gain more’ . . . to divide Humanity in two. On one side, the stable states, meaning the members of the G8—Russia included—and their allies), and on the other side, the rest of the world, viewed as a simple reservoir of natural resources. Washington no longer considered access to these resources as vital for itself, but intended for them to become accessible to the stable states only by permission of the USA. From that point on, it would be necessary to destroy—preventively—all the state structures in these reservoirs of resources, so that no-one could either challenge the will of the top world power, or do without it. [This explains General Wesley Clark’s discovery that the Pentagon had planned to take down seven countries in five years – Ed].

Since then, this strategy has been implemented ceaselessly. It began in the Greater Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Yemen). However, contrary to what had been announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, (Pivot to Asia), it was not continued into the Far East, due to the military development of China, but in the Caribbean Basin (Venezuela, Nicaragua) . . . The main force of this new Grand Strategy resides in the fact that it has not been understood by the elites of the rest of the world. Washington therefore retains the effect of surprise, reinforced by the deliberately chaotic communications of Donald Trump. If we look at the facts instead of the Presidential tweets, we note the advance of the United States after the double period of uncertainty under Presidents Clinton and Obama . . . Full story: voltairenet.org

Comment: The United States is the image of Imperial Rome as the apostate (once) Protestant churches are the image of Papal Rome (Revelation 13:11-18).


UNO destroyed by US ‘Exceptionalism’

April 2, 2019 — On 26 March 2019, the United States recognised Israeli sovereignty over occupied Golan, meaning the acquisition of territories by war. By doing so, they recanted their 52-year-old vote in the Security Council concerning the Golan, and also the principles of the UN Charter which, for 74 years, have governed the elaboration of international law . . . from this moment on, UNO resolutions will have only a relative value, since they are unable to force the obedience of those who adopted them. The process of deconstruction of international law has begun. We are entering a period governed by the survival of the fittest . . . the United States have recanted their vote in the Security Council . . .

After having dominated the world, the weakened United States now give up on the United Nations. In order to conserve their dominant position, they are retreating to the one part of the world that they still control. Until now, Russia and China had considered them, according to the image used by Sergueï Lavrov, as a ferocious but dying beast which we must benevolently escort towards its death, making sure that is doesn’t provoke a catastrophe on the way. But the United States ended their decline by electing Donald Trump, who, having lost the majority in the House of Representatives, allied himself with the US deep state (attested to by the nomination of Elliott Abrams and the withdrawal of the accusation of collusion with the enemy brought by prosecutor Robert Mueller in order to remain in power) . . . Unlike the Cold War, when it was difficult to cross the boundary between East and West in either direction . . . the new system should allow travel and commerce between one region and the other, but will have to be organised around two models of Law . . . the post-Western world announced by Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergueï Lavrov on 28 September 2018, at the forum of the General Assembly of the United Nations . . . Full story: voltairenet.org


Chairman of New Zealand’s Biggest Mosque: Mossad behind Christchurch Massacre

April 1, 2019 — Ahmed Bhamji, who leads the Mt. Roskill Masjid E Umar mosque in Auckland, made these remarks at a rally organised by Love New Zealand Hate Racism on Saturday. During a speech, he said Israeli intelligence agency Mossad was behind the attack and accused suspect Brenton Tarrant of getting funding from ‘Zionist business.’ Full story: dailymail.co.uk

Comment: However terror suspect Brenton Tarrant posted a manifesto online before the killings identifying himself as a racist white supremacist, but did NOT mention any links to Israel.

Without knowledge of Scripture or Christianity Brenton Tarrant saw the repetition of the besetting sin of Noah’s day prophesied by Jesus Christ. Genesis 6:1-13 confirms we live in a comparably prosperous technologically advanced civilization—eat, drink, trade, plant, build, free love, serial monogamy and miscegenation (‘multiculturalism’) despite God warning in a violence-ridden world wherein, “the wickedness of man is great and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually” from the Jews’ Hollywood and television. Matthew 24:37-51, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall also the (Gk.) ‘parousia’ Coming of the Son of man be.” Miscegenation was the ‘original’ sin and is accursed of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because intermarriage with Cain’s lineage is genocide to Adam’s race as any offspring is absent the Book of Life (Genesis 1:11, 25; 3 – 4; 6:1-4; 11:6-9). The Law of Redemption demands a near KINSMAN pay sin’s price, which is death (Exodus 21:23-25; Romans 8:23). Through the virgin birth God put on sinless flesh, died and was raised for our justification. Jesus Messiah was the Last Adam, He was not the last Cain whose race is irredeemable. Matthew 24:37 was fulfilled in March 1963 when the revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form with divine vindication. This initiated “the end-time” (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:1-4; 15:16). For fifty-six years Christ has since been calling the wise and foolish virgins OUT from the apostate world church system (Romans 11:32; Revelation 3:17-20) INTO maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16a; Ephesians 4:13; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 15:52).

Like the Islamic mercenaries al Qaeda, Daesh, Al Nusra, et al—recruited, trained, funded, armed, fed and directed by the Pentagon, CIA, NATO, Mossad and the Dönmeh Jew Saudi royals, Brenton Tarrant was trying (Heb.) ‘Tikkun Olam’ to repair the world that is falling apart again. He needs Christ whom the earthbound worldly church does not know. Soon we will enter the final year of the Christian dispensation, thereafter the Lord will take His children Home and send two Hebrew prophets to minister to an election of blood Israelites in the Land of the Covenant, followed by the consummation.

God’s Covenant with Abraham is of no effect to hypocritical Israelites and self-styled Jews living outside the Land of Israel. Likewise God told Abraham his son Ishmael “will be like a wild ass—[untameable, strong, free, roaming, suspicious, and untrustworthy, living wild in the desert]—his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell to the east of all his brethren [the Israelites, Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Keturah, Edomites and Jews].” What God told His prophet Abraham seems of scant importance to the children of Jacob or Ishmael living unlawfully in the flesh pots of the world.

Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto should not be hidden but read for his observations of truth condemn New Zealand and the apostate (once) Christian world; his mortal actions and threats are mild in comparison to Judaeo-Roman Catholicism and Judaeo-Communism whose victims number hundreds of millions and billions, thanks to the lewd Babylonian Talmud that views non-Jews as “beasts with two legs G_d made in human form to serve Jews,” and that “the best of the Gentiles should be killed” (Bereshith 25a; Kiddushin 66c; Soferim 15, Rule 10)! Daily they murder in places such as Palestine, Syria, Iran, Ukraine, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar and elsewhere. The Koran reads like its facsimile, stating us kaffirs, non-Muslims or infidels should be killed, and we are killed by the score. The Jew-ruled colonies of the City of London, Israel, Britain and the USA, Australia, scores of “allies” and NATO, are killing innocent people throughout the world, and preparing to attack Russia and China in order to maintain the reserve status of the US dollar and the corrupt fractional reserve banking racket of the non-Semitic international Jews. Yet neither the Talmud nor the Koran are restricted publications.

Satan, whose name is Death, is the god of this evil age riding his sickly green coloured horse to perdition (Revelation 6:8). All religion is of the Devil, God is in His unchanging Word which is Spirit in a form we can receive by faith with eternal Life (John 6:63). He has placed all men on the basis of free moral agency to “work out their own salvation with fear and trembling” and the time is short!


‘Muhammad’: Regeh Omaar’s Fundamental Flaw

July 12, 2011 — This is a refutation from the Rev. Dr. Alan Clifford of BBC2’s predictably biased July 11 documentary on Mohammed, Part 1 of 3.

“Among the several flaws in Rageh Omaar’s presentation is the fundamental claim that illiterate Muhammad could not have accessed Jewish, Christian and other supposed sources for the text of the Qur’an. However, what he couldn’t read he heard well with his ears. His several acquaintances provided a range of material eventually reflected in the Qur’anic text. This includes ancient Arabic, Zoroastrian and Hindu beliefs as well as Jewish and sub-Christian ideas. This is irrefutable, as the scholarly demonstration of the Rev. W. St Clair-Tisdall, MA proved long ago in his book, Sources of Islam“.

In short, since the Qur’an’s teaching is traceable to pre-6th century systems of thought, the claim that it came ‘direct from heaven’ simply falls to the ground. Hence, what is good in the Qur’an is not original, and what is original is not good. The early ‘revelation’ that there should be ‘no compulsion in religion’ was eventually abrogated in favour of the violent and bloody revelations which directed Islam’s later conquests.

Of this we may be totally sure: Islam is not a religion of peace and its origins are certainly not divine: Dr. Alan C. Clifford.

Comment: The US has spent 700,000,000 taxpayer dollars refurbishing foreign mosques! The Prophet William 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. 16:131-132). Australia and New Zealand are blindly following their bankrupt and apostate (once) great and powerful friend that will soon be invaded and can never win another war.


Lawyers Worldwide urge International Court investigate Israeli Crimes

April 1, 2019 — On the eve of the first anniversary of the “Great March of Return” at the Gaza border, lawyers and jurists around the world are calling on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.

Today, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers presented a petition from the International Lawyers Campaign for the Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes Committed Against the Palestinian People to Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the ICC. The petition urges Bensouda to initiate a full investigation and prosecute violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law committed by Israeli officials in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The petition has garnered the support of tens of thousands of lawyers worldwide.

The petition condemns “the unimaginable atrocities that have been committed and continue to be committed by Israel against Palestinian civilians which deeply shock the conscience of humanity” . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca


Judge Rules Trump Plans to open up Swathes of Arctic, Atlantic Oceans for Drilling Illegal

April 1, 2019 — US District Judge Sharon Gleason’s decision impacts around 98 per cent of the Arctic Ocean, but only “undersea canyons in the Atlantic, as opposed to the entire Eastern Seaboard” (which is deemed important to wildlife including “marine mammals, deep-water corals, valuable fish populations and migratory whales, the Associated Press wrote). The judge found that while the president has the power under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to withdraw leasing permits, that office cannot unilaterally grant permits without the approval of Congress . . . “if a president wants to reverse a predecessor’s environmental policy, they have to give a cogent reason why. Just saying ‘energy dominance’ is not enough. Saying ‘I won the election’ is not enough” . . . Full story: gizmodo.com.au


DoD orders $250 Million of Gas Masks – what do They Know?

March 29, 2019 — The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Avon Protection Systems Inc., Cadillac, Michigan, a $245,961,250 firm-fixed-price contract for production of M53A1 Chemical Biological Protective Mask systems . . . will start delivery in the second half of this financial year ending September . . . M53A1 . . . “provides excellent protection against traditional chemical and biological warfare agents, select Toxic Industrial Materials (TIMs) and particulate matter including radioactive dust” . . . protects soldiers from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks . . . mustard, sarin, soman, and VX nerve agents . . . The order comes one month after the US government introduced science-based guidelines for how first responders decontaminate large numbers of Americans after a chemical-weapons attack . . . “Terrorist threats and the use of chemical weapons in Syria have heightened awareness of the need for improved preparedness against chemical attacks” . . . With lightning speed, the Army and US government have been actively preparing for a biological incident on the homeland . . . the act of preparation suggests some fears that an attack of some sort could be imminent. Full story: zerohedge.com

Comment: What the US government has not said is that Pentagon, CIA and NATO mercenaries made “use of chemical weapons in Syria.”

It is 2019; Brother Branham’s said, “Oh, brother, give me a church full of the Holy Ghost. God will do in one year what all theology’s failed to do in two thousand years. You wait till the anointing of the church really strikes home to that faithful the little remnant. After the doors of the Gentiles is closed, oh, God will anoint a church then. “He who’s filthy, let him be filthy still. He who’s righteous let him be righteous still, and he who’s holy let him be holy still.” And God will anoint the church with the power of God, and things will be taken place. Not only that then, but He’s doing it now” (COD, p. 145:203).


Syria: is US Fighting ISIS or Liquidating Assets?

March 28, 2019 — That the “final stronghold” of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) resides in US occupied territory in Syria says it all. From US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) memos dating back to 2012 noting efforts to create a “Salafist” [Islamic] “principality” [State] in eastern Syria precisely where ISIS rose and now clings to its “final stronghold,” to the obvious fact that ISIS’ fighting capacity was only possible through extensive state sponsorship—it was already clear that the US and its partners in regime change against Syria had been using terrorists including ISIS as proxy ground forces.

Now the US claims it has cornered and is on the verge of defeating ISIS—despite the terrorist group having been cleared out of virtually every other corner of the nation by Syrian, Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah forces long ago.

In reality, the US is merely liquidating assets it had harboured, protected, armed, and funded throughout the 8 year proxy war until no longer politically feasible . . . it seems Washington has singled interest in sending foreign fighters back to their countries of origin—which means many will simply be reintegrated into society where local intelligence agencies will keep tabs on them, use them for domestic distractions, or redeploy them to Washington’s next proxy war when required . . . The rise of Iranian-backed militias throughout Iraq has become a potent counterweight to US-backed proxies attempting to take root there once again, and will make it infinitely more difficult for the US to repeat the scale and duration of the ISIS scourge the US visited upon the region . . . Full story: journal-neo.org

Comment: March 23, 2019 journalist Vanessa Beeley entered the Syrian Christian town of Al Skeilbiyyeh. Between 4 and 5pm, at least four villages to the west of the town were attacked by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) forces embedded to the north of the villages. HTS is a poorly disguised rebrand of Al Qaeda or Nusra Front in Syria and now controls the majority of Idleb province and terrorist-held areas of Northern Hama bordering Al Skeilbiyyeh. The villages of al-Rasif, al-Aziziyyeh, al-Khandaq and al-Jayyid were hit by an estimated 5 mortars. 34 victims of a suspected chemical attack were brought to Al Skeilbiyyeh hospital . . . (globalresearch.ca).


Pakistan Oil Find may have Meaning to Entire Region

March 26, 2019 — Pakistan may soon hit the oil jackpot, and that will be good news for not only the country itself but all of South Asia as well as China and Gulf nations . . . Pakistan’s potential oil reserves will increase the country’s attractiveness for Indian companies . . . Full story: globaltimes.cn


Xi’s Visit Sets Tone for China-EU Relations

March 27, 2019 — Xi visited Italy, Monaco and France from March 21 to 26 and held “unprecedented” talks on building new global governance with the leaders of France, Germany and the EU in Paris. During the visit, Italy became the first Group of Seven nation to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and also agreed to return 796 sets of Chinese cultural relics. China and France signed an agreement on future space cooperation in Paris, allowing France to fly its experiments on the Chang’e-6 mission.

The application of 5G in Monaco, which will become the first country in the world to be fully covered by a nationwide 5G mobile network, promotes China’s efforts in information infrastructure construction in Europe, analysts noted . . . Full story: globaltimes.cn

Comment: Less than a week ago, President Macron was lambasting Italy for signing agreements with China in the context of their New Silk Road, alias President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the same breath he was criticizing China for attempting to undermine Europe with new trade individual country deals under the pretext of BRI. However, Italy, also scolded by Brussels for her single-handed deals with China, was, in fact, the first G7 country for signing a number of contracts with China to use Italian ports under the BRI, making Italy also the first official EU partner of China’s BRI (globalresearch.ca). The China deal has the potential to change the geopolitics of not only the EU but also most of the world . . . While much attention has focused on the role of high-speed rail infrastructure as the backbone of the ambitious China BRI project . . . what may be a far more strategic geopolitical development [is] China’s ability to own or control the most vital ports of Asia, of Africa, major parts of Latin America and now . . . of the European Union . . . Chinese companies have participated in the construction and operation of a total of 42 ports in 34 countries under its Belt and Road initiative . . . (globalresearch.ca).


Massive Coalition backs Trump’s Climate Science Committee

March 20, 2019 — A massive coalition of environmental organizations, activists, and think-tank leaders signed a letter to President Donald Trump supporting the proposed Presidential Commission on Climate Security (PCCS), as well as the work of Trump climate and national security adviser Dr. William Happer (youtube.com) of Princeton University. The campaign, which comes amid fierce establishment resistance to re-examining government “climate science,” also backs an independent scientific review of the increasingly dubious claims made in federal climate reports. Analysts say this battle will be crucial in establishing the credibility of government climate science—or the lack thereof . . . Full story: thenewamerican.com

Comment: Atmospheric CO2 cannot warm planet earth; much more atmospheric CO2 would be beneficial to all. Present warming is a natural function of The Sun’s Milankovitch Cycle. Anthropogenic climate change is a far bigger hoax than the claimed extermination of six million Jews in World War I, the claimed extermination of six million Jews between the wars by the Jew-ruled USSR, and the claimed extermination of six million Jews in World War II: all four of these hoaxes were perpetrated by the same party that impersonates Semitic Israelites and whose objective is deindustrialization of the (once) Christian West, the genocide of all but 500,000 to two million and global hegemony (Genesis 3:15; John 8:44).


The Making of a Monster: we’re all Lab Rats in the Government’s Secret Experiments

March 26, 2019 — Back in 2017, FEMA “inadvertently” exposed nearly 10,000 fire fighters, paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism response sessions . . . In California, older prisoners had testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts implanted in them to test their virility. In Connecticut, mental patients were injected with hepatitis . . .

In Guatemala, prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were infected with syphilis . . . In Uganda, US-funded doctors “failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study . . . even though it would have protected their newborns” . . . in Nigeria, children with meningitis were used to test an antibiotic named Trovan. Eleven children died and many others were left disabled . . . Full story: rutherford.org


Kosovo War at 20: How Britain and America backed Jihadists throughout Conflict

March 27, 2019 — On 24 March 1999, NATO launched a 78-day-long bombing campaign against the then-Republic of Yugoslavia. Still hailed by the Western mainstream as a successful ‘humanitarian intervention’, the true story of the conflict’s roots and legacy is far darker, and points to extensive collaboration between London, Washington and extremist Islamist forces.

The official narrative of the Kosovo War states Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia, intended to create a ‘Greater Serbia’ via the annexation of Kosovo, and the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of its Albanian and Muslim population. Such was the genocidal terror and violence unleashed against civilians, NATO had no choice but to intervene militarily to avert the eradication of hundreds of thousands of people.

This stirring tale would almost completely unravel not long afterward. For one, it’s become increasingly clear the bulk of the atrocities committed in Kosovo took place after the NATO campaign began, and certainly weren’t restricted to Yugoslavian or Serbian forces . . . Moreover, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a United Nations body established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars and their perpetrators, would eventually conclude Yugoslav troops had at most tried to remove rather than eradicate the Albanian population, and Milosevic—who died in a UN prison in 2006 — would be posthumously exonerated of all charges . . . Full story: sputniknews.com


Ukrainian Security Official says Ukraine shot down MH-17

MH17

March 25, 2019 — The Ukrainian side was involved in the MH17 flight disaster over Donbass, a former officer of the Ukrainian security service SBU, Vasily Prozorov, told a news conference on Monday. “It is my personal opinion and it relies on certain information. The Ukrainian side is an accomplice to the Malaysian MH17 flight disaster,” he said.

“The amazingly prompt reaction of the Ukrainian leadership was the first thing that made me feel suspicious. My unequivocal opinion was President Pyotr Poroshenko and his press-service had prior knowledge of the affair. Secondly, hostilities had been underway for several months by then, but the airspace over the area was not closed,” Prozorov said. In particular he emphasized the invariable response to all of his attempts to find out the circumstances of the disaster, for instance, a conversation with General Staff officers. The usual reply was: “Don’t poke your nose into this business, if you don’t wish to have problems.”

“Some information has leaked out in the end, though. On the basis of my own analysis I can speculate who was an accomplice in the crime and who was involved in concealing evidence. In my opinion, there were two men involved—the current deputy chief of the Ukrainian presidential staff Valery Kondratyuk and chief of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence directorate, Vasily Burba.”

A passenger liner Boeing-777 of the Malaysia Airlines (Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur) disappeared from the radar screens over the east of Ukraine’s Donetsk Region on July 17, 2014. Its crash killed all 298 passengers and crew on board—citizens of ten countries. Although hostilities had been underway on the ground for quite some time by then Kiev failed to close the Donbass airspace to international passenger flights. Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine created a Joint Investigation Team. On May 24 last year it published an interim report to claim that the missile launcher which had fired the missile that downed the plane might have been brought from Russia’s 53rd air defense missile brigade.

Russia dismissed the JIT charges. The Defense Ministry said that not a single air defense system of the Russian armed forces had ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border. Full story: tass.com

Comment: Don’t be surprised. Western governments and media only lie. Never do they tell the truth. Remember: Russiagate. Weapons of mass destruction. Iranian nukes. Assad’s use of chemical weapons. Gulf of Tonkin. 9/11. Russian invasion of Ukraine. JFK assassination. MLK assassination. Bobby Kennedy assassination. Skripal poisoning. Maduro starving his own people. An endless list of lies. The entirety of the West is nothing but a lie factory . . . John 8:44 says so.


The ‘banah’ of Eve

By Malcolm Bowden © 2010 all rights reserved

Genesis 2:21-23, “The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall tha man, and he slept: then He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh at that place; and from the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, (Heb. ‘banah’) rebuilt an extension or continuation into a woman, and brought her to the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man”.

By revelation we understand woman is a by-product taken from and made into a continuation of the first Adam (Luke 3:38) as Christ’s Church was taken from His side in the form of the Holy Spirit and made into a continuation of the last Adam. Since the first Adam was God’s first Son, His Spoken Word manifest in flesh, he could nor sin or disbelieve the Word. Woman was made over a century after God finished creation, she is not His Word made flesh but made so that she can deceive and be deceived. Hereon I will quote Brother Malcolm Bowden’s “True Science Agrees with the Bible.” Our author does not have these revelations however he has assembled some intellectually interesting scientific discoveries someone would appreciate.

In the late 1970’s I met Dr. Wilder-Smith who gave me a fascinating account of how God could have easily created Eve from Adam’s rib. He had briefly referred to it in his book “Basis for a New Biology” (Teleos) and there was a more detailed account in “The Creation of Eve,” by R. Koontz, (CRSQ).

Why did God use a rib?

In the body, the numerous cells have a wide range of functions, and are specially designed for their role. For example, nerve cells have to carry information over long distances and interact with many other nerves. They therefore develop a very long thin structure with many branches that connect through synapses with other nerves. Similarly, blood cells not only lose their nucleus but are shaped to give a large surface area to allow the oxygen to enter and be released quickly. Glandular tissue has several sets of chromosomes due to repeated chromosome reproduction. Many other examples could be given as all cells are highly specialised in their design for their particular function.

Every cell has the same information in its DNA, but in those that have a very specialised function, much of this information is “switched off” and not used, allowing the others still active to control the development of the cell. Of all the many cells in the body, the bone marrow cells in the ribs are amongst the most undifferentiated. This means that God would have to do less work in “switching on” unused sections of the DNA chromosomal chains than for a specialised one.

There are 46 chromosomes in the human cell arranged in 22 pairs. Both members of each pair are the same shape except the sex cells. In these, the male has an X and a Y chromosome whilst the female has two X chromosomes. If the male Y chromosome is suppressed, then the X has only to be duplicated and we then have two X chromosomes—the identical female equivalent of Adam.

Most readers will be familiar with the recent development of “cloning” a variety of plant or animal. For example, they have cloned rubber plants so that they all grow to an identical height, position of branches and leaves, quality and quantity of rubber, etc. With identical trees, the tapping of the rubber can be carried out by machines.

The method is to remove the nucleus of a cell that has been fertilised and replace it with another nucleus of the desired type. This can be repeated in other cells using the nuclei from a stock set of cells from one plant or animal. The resulting offspring will all be identical in the same way as identical twins and triplets, etc. Without being disrespectful, it could be said that, in a not dissimilar fashion, Eve was a perfect reproduction, or “clone,” of Adam, but the female “version” of him!

One question occasionally asked is why a man has nipples when he has no use for them. The answer is that forming of the sexual organs is identical in both sexes for a long period of the development of the human foetus, and it is only in the late stages that they differentiate into the very specific organs of the two sexes. By that time the nipples have appeared in the male foetus but are not developed further.

By taking a part of Adam and using it to form Eve, Adam was presented with a wife who was a perfect match for him. This would give added significance to Adam’s joyous exclamation: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man”  (Genesis 2:23).

In this exultation, he used a play on the words for man (‘ish) and woman (‘isha) that indicates their oneness. The play on words may have been by Moses—unless Adam spoke Hebrew! However, many languages have similar-sounding names for man and WO-man.

Gender roles

In this creation of Adam first and the forming of Eve from part of him, we see the order of responsibility that God had set out for the family and the organising of society. The strongly patriarchal hierarchy in the society of the Old Testament is but a continuation of this God-ordained order. We also see it continued in the New Testament. Here, it is not so much with modifications but more corrections from the excesses of traditions allowed by the Old Testament religious leaders. Such a patriarchal society is anathema to today’s “politically correct” agitators, who seek to not just equalise but reverse this order to achieve a social organisation that completely contradicts God’s provision.

There is strong pressure to reverse these roles to correct the “imbalance” that is claimed to exist in today’s society. Boys are trained to take lessons in cooking whilst girls are taught handiwork, carpentry, etc. All this is against the natural inclinations of the vast majority of children and as it is against the instincts implanted in them by God, such efforts must eventually fail.

This subject is very clearly set out in an interesting article (Mechanisms for Gender Role Stasis, 3rd ICC, by C. Diane Powell).

She gives the results of research by a number of secular workers, some of whom adopt the feminist approach but have to admit their puzzlement with what they discovered. We summarise some of the points she reports.

(i) Boys have a natural tendency towards aggressiveness, visual-spacial and mathematical abilities and are better at the manipulation of objects. They prefer activities like riding and climbing and are “chauvinistic” in seeking to establish their masculine identities. Males have a better organisational ability, a greater tendency towards competition and dominance and to seek authority, status and a position of recognised achievement. This enables them to obtain high positions, even in countries which have a policy of “equality” such as Russia, China and Israel.

(ii) Girls are better at auditory skills, and have a greater sensitivity to taste, smell, temperature, touch, social stimuli, etc. and tend to fantasise. Women are unhappy with competition and the adversarial approach to solving problems. They are reluctant to assume leadership which is why the feminist movement is often troubled by positions of authority due to “women’s reluctance to vest power in the hands of women.” Career women tended to deal with social, family and personal issues in their profession.

(iii) “Men who fail will give the excuse, ‘Success is not worth the effort,’ while for women it appears to be more of a ‘self-evident truth’.”

(iv) The main role that men are suited for is as provider/protector to their family unit, whilst for the female it is as the “caretaker.” The women in the Israeli “kibbutzim” gradually reverted to their natural roles even though pay was not an issue and the leaders were intent on eliminating gender differences. Equality of pay in Australia resulted in lower employment of women due to employers finding that men were more dedicated to their careers and achieving success. The most significant contribution to criminality is the absence of a father.

All this evidence, collected at considerable cost to the public purse, only presents truths that are so very obvious to all sensible people, particularly if they are parents. The fundamentally different sexual characteristics of children are so deep-seated that it requires considerable effort and dedication to make any modest change. The unrelenting propaganda from powerful pressure groups does have some effect, but left alone, most children will revert to their natural instincts and become the moderately competent parents of the next generation. Some, however, will have been so badly affected that when they become parents, it will result in yet another generation who will be inadequate parents in their turn.

Regarding this pressure to “equalise” (!) the sexes, a letter in the Daily Telegraph (14.1.97) told of a professional career women who was:

determined that her young daughter should not be gender-prejudiced [what a delightful word!] by buying her dolls and bought her cars and lorries instead. One day she discovered the girl wrapping them up in pieces of cloth and chatting fondly to them while tucking them up in her cot.

There are many successful women who are dedicated to a career, and there are obvious overlaps where some men are less ambitious than some women. This does not alter the fact that generally the natural instincts that are present in the vast majority of men and women around the world are as set out above.

We will not go any further into what might be for some a most contentious subject, but simply say that the reason for this attack upon the family and distortion of the “gender roles” is fundamentally an attack upon yet one more of God’s many directives that He has provided for the benefit of mankind.

In consequence of Eve’s terrible sin woman lost her co-equality with man, and God determined, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth; in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Genesis 3:16; I Timothy 2:15; I Corinthians 1:3-16; 14:34; Ephesians 5:24).

No Christian would want to see women “chained to the kitchen sink” but would want to see them take their rightful role in society. Christianity has placed women on a higher level of social standing than any other tradition—even those nations that have aimed at “equality.” Who has not seen pictures of Russian women shovelling concrete on a freezing building-site and not felt that they were demeaned and little different from being slaves of an inhuman system?

In contrast, this writer has always had a very high regard for the Dutch people, and it is a fact that they have a higher percentage of evangelical Christians than most other nations. Not unconnected with this, a far higher proportion of their women are happy to be “homemakers” (Titus 2:5).

Only when both men and women undertake their God-given role will the majority of them have that deep sense of fulfilment that is God-ordained. What the relationship should be between a man and woman, particularly within a family.

In modern ears this will sound patronising, but it simply encapsulates the God-ordained relationship that is emphasised throughout the whole Bible. What woman does not look for some degree of protection from the rigours of the world? What man does not want to fulfil his role of sharing his life with a loving partner and providing for the whole family?


 

YOU are God’s Building

Like the first Adam the Last Adam is male and female in Himself, reconciling His wife to the Word for her day in the invisible marriage union of faith in “the present Truth.” The first Adam’s wife was taken from His side in the form of a rib as he slept and the Last Adam’s Bride was taken from His side in the form of the Holy Spirit as He slept on Calvary. Like Adam’s rib, we were in Christ as Attributes of the Logos and when He died for our sins we were crucified in Him; we paid the supreme penalty in Christ on Calvary and cannot come under condemnation as He was raised for our justification and there can be no double jeopardy (Exodus 21:23; II Corinthians 5:13-21; Romans 8:1, 31-35; 4:25; Revelation 13:8).

Our natural birth placed us into the family of the first Adam as our Spiritual birth placed us in the family of the last Adam. One cannot join either Family, the life must pass through the blood to engender a live birth in the true pedigree. The natural types the Spiritual. If we take for example a girl child: at perhaps two years after the age of puberty an ovum will be released and move into the fallopian tube where it remains for about 24 hours. If the ovum is not fertilized during that time, it disintegrates and menstruation begins two weeks later.

This process will repeat for ever so long without producing a child until this virgin marries Mr. Right, because only a man can beget life. The procedure is the same in the Spiritual as we learn from the parable of Matthew 25; the sleeping virgins were each justified and sanctified; all loved the Lord and were aged from perhaps nine to ninety. These virgins never missed a service; despite this even the wise could not come to the birth until the Life of Mr. Right was passed through His mystic Body by the Message of Revelation 10:7. And the only way an elect could be born-again in any of the nine Christian dispensations was by receiving “the present Truth” passed through Christ’s Body; that Life will bear His Image after His likeness.

Israel's King and Queen: Christ & His BrideThis diagram depicts New Jerusalem as the “lively stones [of] we who are alive and remain caught up together with the glorified dead in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the Air” (Revelation 20:2). In each of the nine Christian dispensations the Spirit of the Lord opposed His adversary by displaying the token of a virtue of Jesus Christ in the wise virgin. “The foundation of the apostles and prophets in the apostolic saints: faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, or brotherly kindness” in serial Church Ages of PART-W_O_R_D (II Peter 1-8) culminating with “love—Jesus Christ Himself—the fullness of the Word and Chief Corner or Capstone” (Ephesians 2:20). Here we see God’s second Bible the great Pyramid transformed from lifeless stone to glorified flesh in Christ and His Bride of all Ages. Please read Isaiah 19:19-25 and you will note the remnant of blood Israelites returning from Egypt and Assyria for redemption in the Land of their Covenant acknowledge the prophetic significance of this monument or pillar on the border between Upper and Lower Egypt (Isaiah 8:14; Daniel 2:31-45; Zechariah 4;7; Matthew 21:42-44; I Peter 2:4-8).

Isaiah 59:14-19, “When God saw that judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands far away; for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter. Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey [as when corrupt non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews held our Church hostage over four years before the Federal Court under laws they wrote until their vexatious litigation was dismissed]; it displeased the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel that there was no justice. And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no one to intercede; then His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. For He put on vengeance as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; and He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and dressed Himself with zeal as a cloak. According to their deeds He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; He will make recompense to those Gentile impostors. So they will fear the Name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him”.

This is confirmed by history and in the preceding image. Romans 8:16-18, “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God: and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”.

“Unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign with Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that character is simply never made without suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man without character cannot reign because power apart from character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to share even His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father’s throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes. Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His kingdom through much tribulation” (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 117:1).

At the close of this holy convocation the Word will be made flesh and glorified, the proof of the resurrection sign after justification, sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Ghost have been planted, organizations have died, and Christ has again centred Himself like that cap of the pyramid. Justification; sanctification; baptism of the Holy Ghost; then coming of the Capstone in 1963. His end-time Bride coming into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God to match the ministry Christ had when He went away, so we will be caught up with Him.

Church Age MenorahAs illustrated by the Menorah, there was a unique measure of Word predestinated to each dispensation of grace, and a portion of Spirit predestinated to quicken that Word to Life (II Peter 1:12; I John 1:7). But unless and until the virgin comes under that atmosphere she will remain barren despite her dedication and knowledge of Scripture.

Christ in the True Church is the continuation [(Heb.) ‘banah‘] of the Book of Acts. The Book of Revelation exposes Satan, revealing his works, the attempted destruction of God’s people and the discrediting of God’s Word, right down to the time he is cast into the lake of fire. He knows that with the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what She is, what she stands for the people of God CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, and be an invincible army.

Satan hates revelation. But we love it. It is the revelation of Jesus Christ that will give us the AUTHORITY over the Devil so we can see why all those who would add to or take from it would be cursed.

The end-time Bride will be RESTORED to unity in the “common faith” (Ephesians 4:13; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 15:51-52). If we are really going to ‘fly away’ we’d better do our pre-flight check up. The countdown began in 1963 when the Seven Seals were revealed: frequent flyer points do not apply.

Acts 2 showed the Gospel living in men, but when Peter explained Moses, the Psalms and the Prophets as Jesus rehearsed them on the Emmaus Road, proving to Israel “God has made that same Jesus whom you have crucified both Lord and Christ” NONE of the Israelites or their elders received the faith. With all of his head knowledge Paul had God down pat and was murdering the Christians to defend His dogma, but when God revealed the Good News he separated himself from the learned elders of Zion to be alone with God three years, repent and allow Him to replace scholarship with faith.

The gifts of the Spirit will pass away (I Corinthians 13:1, 9-13) but faith abides forever (I Peter 1:21-25). One may accept or decline God’s marriage proposal: once accepted one is justified by grace through faith, betrothed and bound by mutual obligation. One who breaks the engagement for another is an adulteress (Matthew 1:18-20). Sanctification is separating oneself from the world and the things of the world to the Word. In the natural it is learning how to please and serve one’s Husband yet the espoused remains a virgin until the solemn blessing witnessed by family and friends.

Despite what mainstream news, men pleasing politicians and NWO-hopeful denominational ministers enunciate there is but one “common faith”—a clear understanding of the unchanging “mind of the Lord” (Titus 1:4; I Corinthians 2:16). God is not double minded: His thoughts are eternal they are real and will come to pass in their designated decreed season and time. There cannot be a Jewish faith, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Buddhist or Muslim faith: these manmade traditions contain an element of truth married with human reasoning or guesswork, and no sure foundation on which to build the House of God (Matthew 15:6; I Corinthians 3:9-16). We must be single minded by faith whereby our “yes” is certain, and our “no” sure.

In John 8:59 – 9:1 Jesus departed from the temple as the Jews took up stones to stone Him, and He spotted a man who had been born blind, a type of Israel then and the churches today—even some in the circle of this Message who come from different parts and gather with a confusion of doctrines. Brother Branham recounted an occasion during the Pentecostal revival when two boys who had been born blind received their sight. But it was a hard struggle because there was such a confusion amongst the churches, and certain visiting ministers came with the objective of splitting churches in order to start their own church whereas he was doing his best to bring the people together in the unity of the faith.

Now it was not by chance that Jesus spoke to the blind man: he was a predestinated seed chosen (John 15:16) from the foundation of the world so that the works of God should be manifest in him to glorify the Lord. And it was not by chance that the elect of God discover our Church Website, or “ask YOU to give an account for the hope that is in you” (I Peter 3:15). Jesus said, “As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.” When He had thus spoken, He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, [a familiar folk remedy]. And told him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,” a reservoir at the end of the tunnel within the city: Siloam means Sent or apostle. He went his way in passive obedience, [neither having expressed faith nor asked for healing] and washed, and came seeing”.

Obedience is better than sacrifice for unbelief. The brain of one born blind lacks the ability to properly process visual information so the initial response to such a healing tends to be confusion. It can take a very long time for such a person to function normally. Not only were the man’s eyes healed, but like the two boys who received their sight in Brother Branham’s meeting, God also gave him the mental ability to understand what he is seeing”.

One of our subscribers introduced me to the video of an Israeli believer in Christ who employed this Scripture to show that Jesus is God our Creator manifest in virgin-born flesh (Colossians 1:15-20). God is the Potter who [without spittle] “formed (Heb.) ‘yatsar’ man from the dust of the ground [on the seventh day], and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7).

Isaiah 64:8 – 65:25 called the Lord “our Potter, and we the work of His hand.” He prophesied the blessing of Abraham would pass to Christ’s Gentile Bride of whom God will build New Jerusalem, His Holy City and eternal dwelling “John foresaw coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband” (Revelation 20:2). Isaiah 66 speaks of the rebirth of Israel as a nation in one day, all 144,000 of them, when they “anoint the Most Holy Place,” New Jerusalem—their King Jesus Messiah and His Wife, the Church—their Queen (Daniel 9:24f).

Recognize WHO you are, my Brother and Sister, this is more real than the much-married actress Megan Markel marrying a prince. By grace through faith YOU are “Mrs. Potter” Israel’s Queen, so be lovely for you are His beloved and what you say He will do (John 15:7).

Matthew 7:7-8, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened.” Does your wife have a hernia? Without surgery the Lord will heal her. Believe with thanks awaiting that manifestation. Have savages attacked you with pangas? The Lord will heal your wounds. Your Husband is your Healer, your Protector and your Provider Who knows your needs before you call. He has not forgotten; He has been anticipating your effectual fervent prayer from the foundation of the world. Are you seeking Companion, a wife? or a husband? You’ll have one in the next life, but He understands you need one now. Ask and you shall receive. Do you require employment? It is available if you seek and knock on the right door. Examinations on the horizon? Study diligently and pray.

The other day I read of a little girl who wore braces strapped around her waist to support her legs so that she could walk. She would be pushed into the prayer line and Brother Branham would lay hands laid on her, then someone would send her through again. She kept coming through. And while she passed through again, she looked up, kind of one of those little bitty grins, you know, and that tooth out. And Something just said, “Stop the child.”

Brother Branham could see that she didn’t have faith to be healed at that time. From the start of his ministry God promised, “If you get the people to believe you, then be sincere when you pray, no demon can hold over there, then.” He has to know the Master. But here they are, down here; and here’s where they ought to be, up here. Well, when the Lord tells them of their diseases and declares the secrets of their heart, faith rises up to the place where He can get them to believe him. And when He is able lift the patient up to where their faith comes to meet the requirement of God’s promise, that gives the Prophet a perfect faith. “I’ve never seen it fail. And it never will fail. It can’t fail.” [Read that again].

Brother Branham said, “Honey, you stand right behind me.” And she stood back there, just holding on to my coat tail. I said, “You pray, honey.” And she’d have her little head down, praying. And she was holding my coat, and I just kept on praying. I’d forgot about the child. I turned around again; I said, “Honey, keep praying,” like that. And after a while, I begin to feel that faith begin to set in, like a heartbeat, pump, pump, pump. And when it begin to go like that, I turned around to her. I said, “Now, sweetheart,” and I laid my hands upon her and asked the Lord Jesus.

I said to the mother, “Now, take the braces off of her.”

She said, “But, Brother Branham, I tell you, she’s . . .”

I said, “Uh-huh, don’t you doubt that, lady. You do what you’re told to do.” She walked over there and took the braces off the child.

Here she come back down and holding that great big braces, through those people like that, perfectly normal, just as normal as she could be, those little legs (#50-0100, Diseases and Afflictions).

Do you need the Lord to strengthen, straighten and restore your legs? Have confidence, be positive and patient in expectation, knowing “that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose . . . we are more than conquerors . . . nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is Christ Jesus, our Lord, Brother, King, and spiritual Husband”.

Romans 9:20-33, “Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? Does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honour, and another for dishonour? What if God, willing to demonstrate His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even YOU, [my Brother and Sister] whom He has called, not only from the Judahites but also from among the Gentiles”?

“As He says also in Hosea 2:23, “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’ And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there [in New Jerusalem] they shall be called ‘the Children of the living God’.”

“Isaiah also cried out concerning Israel, ‘Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is only a remnant [144,000] that will be saved: for He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work [one week of seven prophetic years (Daniel 9:27)] will the Lord make upon the earth (Matthew 24:21-22). And as Isaiah 1:9 foretold, ‘Except the Lord of Hosts had left us a posterity, we would have become as Sodom, and resembled Gomorrha’.”

“What shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not follow righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; but Israel, pursuing the Law of righteousness, did not attain to that Law. Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over that Stumblingstone, just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumblingstone and Rock of offence, and he who believes in Him will not be disappointed”.

That Stumblingstone is Jesus Christ, the Capstone or Chief Corner stone of His Body, the Church, over which the world church system is stumbling, together with Jewry (so-called).

In John 9:4-5 Jesus said, “We must work the works of Him Who sent Me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.” The evening time Light of Zechariah 14:7 and Matthew 24:27 opened our blinded eyes, “cleansed with the washing of water by the Word and every one of us was baptized in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.” Darkness will suddenly overtake that Light at the close of the Christian dispensation when there will be “a great earthquake; and the sun will become black as sackcloth of goat’s hair, and the full moon will become as blood [one Nisan 14 very soon]” (Revelation 6:12).

“While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.” Darkness cannot overcome Light and in this holy convocation the Light of His parousia shines like a beacon through His Bride. Matthew 5:14-16, “YOU are the Light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel basket, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all that are in the House. Let your Light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven”.

We are the “lively stones” Christ is building into the Capstone of the City, New Jerusalem that will one day rest upon that fifteen hundred mile high hill, Mount Zion, which will begin to press up causing the earthquake that will divide the Mount of Olives. Display the Light of the Token of the Life of Christ among men who suppose they are “in the House” when in fact they are building denominations walls beyond God’s Plan into the territory of Satan our Adversary, having neglected to turn the corner at the juncture of each Church Age.

God is building a House, not a wall, and YOU are God’s Building. nl1065.htm


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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers’ tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

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