22-0520A_REDEMPTION IN COMPLETENESS OF JOY Pt-4_(JUMALAN RAUHA, "GOD'S PEACE UPON YOU")
REDEMPTION IN COMPLETENESS, IN JOY
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Num 20:7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Num 20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Num 20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Num 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Psa 62:1 To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Psa 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psa 62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Psa 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psa 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psa 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Psa 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Psa 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Php 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Col 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
1Jn 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
1Jn 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
1Jn 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1Jn 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
1Jn 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
29 Now let's turn in the Bible to two places,
the books lay close together. It's in the Old Testament. I take the text for
the reading, from two places, Isaiah 62 and Psalms 60. Now in Isaiah
62, we'll turn to read first. And in this, we are reminded of the great
powers of our Lord God, and how--how great He is, and how mighty our God is. I
am sorry, it's Isaiah 60 instead of 62. Isaiah 60. All right, now
we read this, Isaiah 60:1 and 2.
Arise, and shine; for the light is come, and the glory of the LORD
is risen upon thee.
For, behold,... darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the LORD shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee.
30 "Gross darkness upon the people." Of this,
course, this is a prophesying of the day that we're now living.
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Now let us turn then to Psalms. I believe that I may be a little
confused where I've wrote my Scriptures down here, when in a hurry last night
in writing them, writing out this. Psalms 62:1 to 8.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not
be greatly moved.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain
of all of you: as a bowing--bowing wall shall... be, and as a tottering fence.
They only consult to cast him down from the excellency: they delight
in lies: they bless their... with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectations is from him.
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not
be moved.
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength and my
refuge, is in God.
Trust in him all the times; ye people, pour out your, hearts before
him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
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Now, if you noticed in the Scripture reading there in the Psalms, it
kept saying, "God
is my rock." Do you know what a rock represents in the Bible? A rock in the Bible,
here, represents "the revelation of God." See, "God is
my revelation." He is, see. The revelation of the Word is the rock.
33 Cause, Peter one day when... Jesus had
asked the question, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"
34 And one of them said, "You are... Some
of them say you are Moses, or Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
But that wasn't the question.
"Who do
you say I am?"
35 He, Peter spoke up, these famous words, and
said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
36 He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, son
of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to thee, but My Father
which is in Heaven. And upon this rock!" See?
37 And David speaking here, "God is our
rock." God is our rock when God has been revealed to us. That becomes a
rock, see. God is our rock.
***JUMALAN
RAUHA, WHICH MEANS "GOD'S PEACE" UPON YOU.
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Now, my text, for this morning, is an odd word: Shalom. Shalom, in the Hebrew, means
"peace." And that's what I say to the Church this morning,
"Shalom!" That's peace.
39 In Finnish it's called Jumalan rauha, which means
"God's peace" upon you. Rauha. God, see, God's peace, shalom.
40 My new-year's Message is to the Church elected in Jesus
Christ, for
1964. Not--not just the church groups; but the Elect, the Lady, the Lady
of--of the Church, Christ's Bride, see, that's who I'm addressing.
41 We're facing here, in our two subjects that
we read, the two Scriptures, rather, a very contrast, one to the other. In
Isaiah, it says, "Arise, and shine, for
the glory of God has come upon you. The Light is here." And
then the very next verse, he says, "Gross darkness is upon this
people." And then when we are in a mixtury of Light and
darkness, and then my address to the Church is "shalom, peace," let's
find out what it's all about, see. We are facing this year, with both
darkness and Light. We are... the world is in one of the
most chaotic times of darkness that it's ever stood in; and yet it's standing
in, again, the most blessed Light that it ever did
shine in. And there is...
AND I
BELIEVE THAT WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THAT HOUR AGAIN, THAT WHEN GOD IS SEPARATING
LIGHT FROM DARKNESS
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The difference is just like it was in the beginning, when there was
gross darkness upon the earth. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the water and said, "Let there be light." And God separated
the light from the darkness. And I believe that we are now living in that hour again,
that when God is separating Light from darkness, and He's pressing it to the
other side of the world, that the Light might be made manifest.
And we are...
43 Then, the--the Church, the reason I'd
say "Shalom" to them, is because that it's God's Peace. That's
what I want to bring to you this morning, for the new year's, not looking back,
but we're looking forward to the breaking of a new day. Until, there is
something great laying ahead of us, where the years has been the joy that we've
looked forward to, the pressing, coming of the great Light. And now we can see
it breaking over the horizona, horizonal realm, it's breaking between mortal
and immortality. We see it breaking between heavens and earth, from an
earth-bound sickness and troubled world, into a bright shining day of an
immortal Life and an immortal body and an immortal earth that shall never pass
away. It--it's "Shalom," unto the--unto the Church. Now, it's Light time coming for
the believers, but a gross darkness for the people. I...
NO MATTER
HOW SHARP THE THING MIGHT BE, AND TAKE A HOLD OF HIS HANDS
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44 The other day we was talking, the wife and
I, and we were talking about the--the hour that we're living in. Now, the
reason I chose this place, I felt like I could just let down and talk to you,
see. See? It's, there seems to be a time that's upon the people that it's the
most pathetic time that I could think about.
45 I have constantly done my very best
to try to, in disagreeing with man in religious terms; but if I couldn't take
his hand afterwards, no matter how sharp the thing might be, and
take a hold of his hands, and say "this is in the light of a better
understanding between us," and still love the person (not just say it
from my lips, but from my heart), then I'm no--no subject at all to go out
there and to try to talk to people. Because, see, we must do that, we
must love the person. See? And going amongst the people in all kinds of
classes, and different cults and clans, and religions and so forth, and trying
to lay the Bible down, and say "let's--let's discuss it not from your
creed or from your book of ethics, but from the Bible." And then not... Maybe sometime
man get up real sharp; but if I got one thought that I didn't like that person,
then--then I know one thing, the Spirit of Christ has departed from me. If
I--if I can feel that I don't like that person, there's something wrong with
me.
BECAUSE
THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, WHEN THEY... THE... AT--AT CRUCIFYING HIM
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Because the
Spirit of Christ, when they... the... at--at crucifying Him, and His Own people
driving the nails, and--and His very creation He created was putting the nails,
that He created, back into His human flesh. And yet, with a heart full of
love, He cried, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're
doing," you see.
IT SEEMS
LIKE THERE--THERE'S A SHADOW OF DARKNESS, JUST OVER THE PEOPLE, THAT PRESSES
THEM.
47 And
I--I've come to that spot. I believe that people don't know what they're doing.
It comes to the time to where the human being has, look like, become such a
subject to evil until it--it's a pathetic thing. It seems like
there--there's a shadow of darkness, just over the people, that presses them.
48 Like, for instance, this one thing.
Crossing the nation around and speaking, and the Lord God identifying,
vindicating His Word and showing that's exactly, and never let nothing be said
unless it comes to pass exactly what He said, speaking it right into existence,
and so forth, as He's been doing. And people sit and look at that, and
continue right on in their same condition. See?
49 See,
not any disregarding, but like our sisters, many time when I speak to them
about wearing those clothes, and cutting their hair, and little things. And
man, how they'll continue on into their creeds, and--and serve under those
creeds and things. And--and
they're good people. They're fine people. But yet it seems like that
they--they--they can't understand, look like they can't get it. Why?
I go back the next year, and, instead of being any better, it's worse.
It--it continues on. Here's a sister that once had lovely long hair, she cut it
off. Here's a man that once looked like he took his stand and went out for the
thing was right; he's right back in the... like a dog to its vomit, and a--and a
hog to its wallow. See, goes right back out in it. It seems like there's something that has struck
our people, it struck the world, that they don't seem to have the--the
understanding, there's something's wrong.
THERE'S
SOMETHING THAT PRESSES HER THE OTHER WAY.
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Just like you notice man today, you don't find that genuineness in
man. You don't find it in women. Now I'm not talking about... Reason I'm
basing this, is get to "Shalom." See?
51 But you notice the women in our day,
they don't seem to have that ladylike they once had. They're just like
they--they want to, but there's something won't let them do it. It seems like
there's a heaviness. That, you tell a--a lady that she. should not do such-and-such a thing,
and the lady looks upon That and believes That, she wants to believe That, but
there's something that presses her the other way. See? Poor
thing, I--I--I feel sorry for her. She's so caught in such a web of Hollywood,
and the advertisements in television, radio, newspaper, on the street, in--in
the store windows, with modern dress and so forth, and the way that other women
meet her. And it seems to be that there is something that they just can't pull
away from; our young people, our old people, our middle age.
YOU TAKE
MAN TODAY, MAN DON'T SEEM TO BE BURLY LIKE THEY USED TO BE…IT'S THAT GROSS DARKNESS UPON THE
PEOPLE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT--THAT'S PRESSED THEM INTO IT.
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There seems to be something among man. Man don't seem to be, have
that masculine touch that he used to have. Women don't have that feminish touch
she used to have. You take man today, man don't seem to be burly like
they used to be. It's all some sort of a... They want to wear suede
shoes with purple, and--and they want to act like women. Now that is true. It
seems to be, more or less, like a perversion. A woman wants to cut off
her hair and act like a--a man. And a man wants to act like a woman. See? And
yet you can talk to them, and they're nice people to talk to, nice people,
friendly, sociable people. What's caused this? It's that gross
darkness upon the people, it's something that--that's pressed them into it.
*LIKE THE
JEWS WAS IN THE DAYS THAT JESUS CAME TO THE EARTH, ISAIAH HAD PROPHESIED OF IT…
AND IT'S RETURNED AGAIN TO US…"GROSS DARKNESS UPON THE PEOPLE."
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Like the Jews was in the days that Jesus came to the earth, Isaiah
had prophesied of it and said, "There would be, they would
have eyes but couldn't see, and ears and couldn't hear." And that's the reason Jesus
prayed their forgiveness, because it had to be that way to fulfill the
Scripture.
54 And it's returned again to us. The Bible has spoke of
this day that we live, and said these things would come, "gross darkness
upon the people." And we see it, that there's something that just,
simply, the people want to but they can't.
55 Nicodemus expressed it one time before
the Lord, "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no
man could do the things that you do if God wasn't with Him." But it was that darkness, or
blindness, upon the Jewish race, that the Messiah might come to take from the
Gentiles a Bride. They had to reject Him.
*AND
THAT'S THE GROSS DARKNESS THAT'S UPON THE CHURCHES AND THINGS TODAY, TO FAIL TO
SEE THE LIGHT THAT'S SHINING.
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And that's the gross darkness that's upon the churches and things
today, to fail to see the Light that's shining. See? See, there
seems to be such a heavy press. We take some of the noted evangelists today,
they are constantly screaming for a revival, and working right against It; see,
not understanding, without understanding.
57 And I don't say that in the--the motive
of trying to say, "Now we've seen This, and, 'glory to God,' they--they're
not in it." I'm not trying to--to say that in the... to get people to
think, "Well, Brother Branham, you--you got the only Truth there is in the
world." No, that is wrong. See?
58 I'm only saying it in the Light of the hour that
we're walking in, and for the benefit of people who are trying to seek this
Light. Truly,
Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My
Father draws him." No man will never see It. It's that predestinated
Seed, and that only, is going to receive It. But we've come to that place
again. The Bible said that, "You're the light
of the world."
*** GOD,
IN HIS GREAT MERCY, AS I HAVE ALWAYS PREACHED AND TRIED TO STAND FOR, THAT HE
ALWAYS SHOWS HIS--HIS EVENTS FROM HEAVEN, HIS GREAT MAJOR EVENTS, HAPPENS IN
HEAVEN BEFORE IT HAPPENS ON EARTH.
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The prophet said, "Gross darkness upon the people," upon
the people of the world at this time. And that's exactly what we've got, gross
darkness upon the people.
60 God, in His great mercy, as I have always preached and
tried to stand for, that He always shows His--His events from heaven, His great
major events, happens in heaven before it happens on earth. He reflects
Himself. In other words, before Messiah came into a place
where His ministry would start, there came forth a--a Star out of heaven that
guided the man to the--the--the place where He was, the wise men. As
you heard in my last Message how that God dealt with the--the wise men,
and--and in the day that He--He turned them aside by a dream, and He told
Joseph by a dream how to take care of the welfare of His Own Son. Because
he had the dream, there was...
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A dream is secondarily, something off to one side, 'cause people can
have dreams that's not right. But there was no prophet in the land in that day,
see, there was no prophet, therefore God had to use what He had to use with. And
teaches us that--that God can use every faculty and everything that we do, if
it's consecrated to Him. But it first must be consecrated to Him.
Let your--your meditations, which really reflects your dream, see, 'cause it's
your subconscience. If you'll watch a dream, you'll see that it's
something that you been thinking of, or something like that. Usually, you see.
And let your mind be on God, then, see, so it reflects something for Him. And
whatever you are, let it reflect Him.
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Now, in the heavens above. Did you notice I'm looking on this, the--the
Light on the picture there out of the Life Magazine, that the brother that
lives here in this home has put on his wall, that triangle of Light.
63 I just happened to run across my mind. If
any of you have the Lamsa Bible translation, if you'll notice over the cover of
it, is a triune, trinitarian light, a three-cornered light like a halo. And
when Dr. Lamsa, a friend, my personal friend, was translating the Bible, that
is the old Hebrew symbol of God in the true trinitarian way that He is; not
three Gods, but three manifestations of the same God: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. The Light is
one complete circle of Light in a triangle shape, which means that God will
dwell in three offices, the Fatherhood, Sonship, and Holy Ghost dispensation,
all the same God.
***BUT HE
DECLARES IT IN THE HEAVENS BEFORE HE DOES IT ON EARTH.
… But before He broke forth on
those Seven Seals to reveal them, that He showed miraculous, He showed it first
in the heavens.
65 That day they took pictures all across
southern United States and Mexico. There it hangs now in the Life Magazine,
still a mystery to them. But He declares it in the heavens before He does it on earth. He always
does that. He shows His signs in the heavens first.
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And even in the Zodiac. I'm not going back to teach Zodiac, but I'm just
showing you the heavens declare It. In the Zodiac we find out, in the
constellations of the stars, that He declared the whole Bible in the
constellation of the--of the Zodiac. We find out there that He starts
off, the very--very first figure in the Zodiac is the Virgin, and the last
figure in the Zodiac is Leo the Lion; showing that Jesus would come first to
the earth by a Virgin, He'll come the second time as the Lion of the tribe of
Juda. See? He goes through the crossed fishes just before that. Cancer Age,
what we're living in now. "And all the heavens declare Him," the
Bible said.
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Now, a few months ago I preached, for a series of meetings at the
tabernacle, on The Seven Church Ages. You, perhaps, all have heard them. And
when I finished drawing out on the blackboard the Seven Church Ages, how the
Light come in and how the Light went out. And I guess you have that,
perhaps, here somewhere; but it's among us, anyhow, we know. And the strange
thing, on the last day when the last Church Age was drawed out, this great
Pillar of Fire (which is among us) came down among hundreds of people, and took
Itself back to the back wall of the tabernacle. And there, before these
hundreds, drawed those Church Ages, darkening and lightening, just exactly the
way I had it drawed on the board. Mysteriously!
***THE MOON REPRESENTS THE
"CHURCH," AND THE SUN REPRESENTS "CHRIST."
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Now, the other day, we've had in the event of the history of the church
now... In the--the Bible, the moon represents the "church," and
the sun represents "Christ." For
we find that in Revelation, the 12th chapter, the woman which was the "church," she was found
with the moon under her feet and the sun at her head, twelve stars in
her crown. Which, the--the old Orthodox Jewish law was under her feet,
she had crossed over that into the light of the sun. Twelve stars are the "twelve
apostles" that brought the messages to us, now, under the Holy Spirit.
Now we find that the moon
in the heavens is to reflect the light of the sun, in the absence of the sun. It gives us--it gives us light
to get around. But it's still... No matter how much it
reflects, it's still not the perfect light, because it is reflecting. And the sun shines against the
moon, and the moon reflects its light in the absence of the sun. But
when the sun comes up, then the moon is not needed no more.
***AND TODAY THE CHURCH IS REFLECTING THE
LIGHT OF THE ABSENT SON OF GOD.
69 And today the Church is reflecting the Light of
the absent Son of God. The Church is a reflection of the Light. Because He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye
shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the age. The
works that I do," Lights that He made manifest. And there's no
Light except through the Word of God. There was...
***THAT SUN IS THE WORD OF GOD. … AND WHEN THE
MANIFESTED WORD OF GOD, WHEN THE WORD OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THERE WAS LIGHT.
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That sun is
the Word of God. In the beginning, God said, "Let
there be light." And when the manifested
Word of God, when the Word of God was manifested, there was light. First, God spoke it. What if it didn't manifest? Then
it wasn't light yet. But when He spoke it, and then it was manifested,
vindicated, His Word was a-vindicated, light come into existence.
71 And that's the only way it can be done now, is when
the Word is vindicated, God's written Word vindicated, then it shows Light.
It's, a portion is
lit, or put out for each age. We find it in the Church Ages, we find it in the Old--the
Old Testament church ages. Each time that there
come a time for a--a certain manifestation of the journey, there was a prophet
came to the earth. And the Word came to the prophet, and he made that Word
live. And
when that Word was identified, it reflected God. And there was the--the age,
there was the Light. And that's the way Light comes today.
AND NOW
THAT CHURCH, SINCE THAT TIME, HAS EXACTLY REFLECTED DARKNESS, BECAUSE AT THAT
TIME WE GO THROUGH, WHAT WE CALL, "THE DARK AGES," ABOUT A THOUSAND
YEARS
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Now, I have nothing against any denomination, people. But I have all
that I can think about against the systems, because they're wrong. And the
first system that ever rose up, was the--the Roman system of the Roman Catholic
church. That was the first organization that ever was organized, was the Roman
Catholic church, Nicaea Rome. About three hundred and twenty-five years
after the death of Christ, 325, came forth the Roman church organization that
put the people together and blanded out anything else that was contrary to it.
That's where they
got their strange doctrines and started off in a system away from the Word. And now that church,
since that time, has exactly reflected darkness, because at that time we go
through, what we call, "the Dark Ages," about a thousand years.
Its known to all historians and Bible scholars, and so forth, as the Dark Ages,
is when the Roman church controlled everything.
73 And this Roman church is "the--the
mother of harlots," the Bible said, in Revelation 17, "she
was a whore, and the mother of harlots." Now, that is immoral, unclean
living of a woman. Both of them is the same thing, both the same. So if--if
harlot, it would have to be a woman. So therefore, you notice it's not harlot,
but "harlots." See? She is "her," singular,
"whore." Then the churches is called "harlots,"
daughters of the Roman whore. She is the mother of all of it, the mother of
organization.
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And is it not a strange thing, that in this day that when we have come
through all these things, and the Message has crossed the earth against
organization, It's blasted it from right to left, that, in this hour that's
been told since 1933, when the Holy Spirit gave me that visions and showed me
the end time, seven things that I spoke of, and five of them has already
happened, perfectly, right on; like Germany and--and Italy and all the wars,
and the national things (seldom speaks to me on those things). But they
happened just exactly the way He said they'd happen. How Mussolini would go to
Ethiopia, and Ethiopia would fall at his step, and then how that he'd come to a
disgrace, and be spit on by his own people; and disgraced, hung upside down,
with that prostitute that he lived with, on the street. How that the Americas
would go to war with Germany, they'd take an awful beating at a place called, a
great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it's
called the Siegfried Line. And there's one called Maginot, I believe that was
the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried Line was the German line. And the
Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would
admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn't, till they almost sunk
the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just
trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk
it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever--ever a foundation
was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried Line. And all these other
things, like machines and automobiles, and--and how everything has come right
down exactly what He said, until a woman ruling this nation, which, perhaps, is
the church. And then the end come.
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Now we find that in this, all this thing and how I've blasted against
organization, isn't it a strange thing that the pope of Rome would leave
Rome for his first time to go back to Jerusalem? And doing this...
Jerusalem is known the oldest church in all the world.
76 When Melchizedec met Abraham from the slaughter of the
kings, he was the King of Jerusalem, a Priest, which was Christ, it was God; no
one else could be Melchizedec but Christ Himself, God Himself, rather,
see, God Himself, because he was without father and without mother. See?
Jesus had both father and mother, see. So this Man was without father, without
mother, without beginning of days or ending of life. And whoever He is, He
still lives. And He was King at that time, of Salem, which is interpreted,
"King of Peace, Shalom." King of Jerusalem, who met Abraham and
give him wine and bread, communion, after the battle. A very beautiful type
there in the 7th chapter of Hebrews, we find it. Now, gave him bread and wine
after the battle was over. As He...
77 That's the first thing we'll take after we enter into the New Kingdom,
we'll eat it anew with Him in the Father's Kingdom, the bread and wine.
"I'll not drink the fruit of the vine, nor eat the bread anymore, until I
eat it with you, anew, in the Father's Kingdom, and at that day."
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Now, now when we find out that after King Shalom was in the...
come from the city, then creed took it over, later. And it's constantly
been creed, but it represents the old church. And we're taught in the New
Testament, don't fail to get this, in the New Testament that we are not of this
city Jerusalem, on earth, but we are from the New Jerusalem, above. So this
must be the moon, Jerusalem, and not the New Jerusalem, above. So the moon
representing the church, earthly.
PROTESTANTS
AND CATHOLICISM JOINING TOGETHER, WHICH THEY ARE DOING AND WILL COMPLETELY DO.
AND GOD REFLECTED THIS TO US, IN THE MOON, OF A TOTAL BLACKOUT.
79 And isn't it strange that just before the pope took his journey to Jerusalem, that the moon in the heavens made a total blackout, just a few days before he took it, his journey. He's coming here also, you know, see. Now that's never been known, see. But what does it show? That, this, he's doing this to win fellowship as he met on the day after he come into Jerusalem, he met the Greek Orthodox hierarchy. And what does that reflect? Fellowship, they're wanting Protestants and Catholicism joining together, which they are doing and will completely do. And God reflected this to us, in the moon, of a total blackout. By His mercy and grace...
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Did any of you see the paper where they took the pictures of the moon? I
have it here. If it ain't a perfect image, leaving out the seventh age which is
not yet, exactly the way I drawed by the Holy Spirit, the Church Ages. There's
the six of them, the seventh is not finished yet. The six conditions of the
moon, how in its brightness in the first church age; dark in the second, third,
fourth, fifth, and sixth; just the way the Holy Spirit let me draw them on
the board, and then identified them with Hisself on the wall of the tabernacle,
two years ago. The moon reflects itself, and science again picks up the picture
of the, Church Ages, just as they picked up that Light yonder and put it in
Life Magazine, of the opening of the Seals, of the revealing in the age of the
seventh angel. In the days of his ministry, the seventh messenger, the
mysteries of God, which all the mysteries has been along the ages, should be
revealed, made manifest, it should be at that time. And He did it! His words
don't fail. Isn't that a mysterious thing? God drawing in the heavens the same thing that they hold,
same God let me draw on the blackboard, and then by Himself. That's three times
He's perfectly identified it, and just before the pope goes into Jerusalem.
*AND THE REFLECTION
OF THE MOON THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GIVING LIGHT TO THE EARTH, IT WAS BLACKED OUT
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Which, that was the church, the moon is the church, represents
the church. And before
the church, the shadow of the world crosses the moon. And the shadow of
worldly-ism, the shadow of worldliness, worldly church, has swept across to
blackout the entire Light of the Bible. The world got in the Light
of the reflection. Do you understand? The world crossed in the light of the
moon, and blinded out the sun. And the reflection of the moon that's
supposed to be giving light to the earth, it was blacked out. And It
come in and drawed the pictures just exactly like It did, by inspiration,
before it happened.
82 Now
that, I believe, Sister Simpson, was the Tucson paper. I don't know if Sister
Simpson knew... She didn't understand it then. She said, "I cut out some
pictures for you, and some notes, out of the paper," handed it to me.
83 And I thought something strange. I went in
there and picked it up, and looked at it, I said, "There it is, just
exactly, see, just what I've been looking for." And there it was in the
paper.
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Sister Simpson might tell you what paper it's in, if you want to get a
copy of it. [Sister Simpson says, "It's December the 28th."--Ed.]
And--and what say? ["It's the evening edition of December the 28th."]
Evening edition of December the 28th.
85 See, before he went to Jerusalem to
block out its Light, or what access it does have. What time, position, and what
rights It has to shine, now it's cutting It off altogether, for the last age,
the seventh church age where she goes into darkness. What a great thing the
Lord is telling us. In everything, It's never failed but what God in the heaven
has declared it and told it, looked to it, and here has identified it and
a-vindicated it, that it is the absolute Truth.
DARKNESS,
GROSS DARKNESS UPON THIS PEOPLE.
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Darkness, this
Laodicea Church Age. Now when Jesus, which is the Word, in the Laodicea Church
Age was on the outside of the church, knocking at the door, trying to get in.
Darkness, gross darkness upon this people. Was the Bible right?
[Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
87 The
perfection of the Scripture, glory of His great Name. The pope's visit was a
sign of the churches blackening out His manifested... The manifested Light of
the world was the Bible. Jesus said He was the Light of the world. The
Bible said that He is the Word. And the manifested, or the vindicated,
Scripture is the Light. Now you'll not be permitted to do it when this
takes a hold. And we seen it foreshadowed, told by inspiration before it
happened; foreshadowed by the moon, and shows it happening, and here it is
taking place.
***GOD
HAS BEGIN TO SEPARATE THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS, SEE, PRESSING IT BEHIND,
LIKE HE DID IN THE BEGINNING, TO SHOW THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY.
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flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." All right.
90 What does it mean? God has begin to separate the Light from the
darkness, see, pressing it behind, like He did in the beginning, to show the
dawn of a new day. The Church Ages are fading out. Pardon me.
The Church Ages are fading out. God is pressing the darkness into a place, it has to do
it, to fade out the church organizations, fade out the world. The
world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing.
Then isn't God right? By
worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living,
it's the world!
91 You are not of the world, little children. You are
of Heaven. This is not your Home.
92 Why should I look, to us older people,
try to look back and get young again? We can't do that. But we're
looking forward, not looking back. Looking here, what has been, and we want to
know what's going to be. And we're looking for that hour, pressing for it.
***NOW THE BLINDING OF THE GENTILES IS THE
LIGHTENING OF ISRAEL…. THE CHURCH IS MAKING HERSELF READY, BEEN MAKING HERSELF
READY FOR A TIME, IT'S TIME FOR THE RAPTURE.
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So many good, sincere people today are caught away in these creeds,
these churches and organizations, "having a form of godliness, but denying
the Power thereof," as Second Timothy, 3rd chapter, says so.
94 Gross darkness, blinding of Israel, was for the
lightening of the Gentiles. Now the blinding of the
Gentiles is the lightening of Israel. It's just like the day and night;
one side has got darkness, the other side has got light; and then the light
comes over on the other side. So the--the moon passing the way it did, and the
reflection of the darkness of the world blinding out its light, is a reflection
to us that the Gentile church age is finished. The Church is making herself ready, been making herself ready
for a time, it's time for the Rapture. For darkness is fading upon the Gentiles, and
dawn will soon break upon the Jews. The sun has traveled from the East
to the West, and we're on the West Coast. The Light can only do one thing, go
back East, on the other side. You understand, do you? [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.] The Light can only go back East again, to where it
began at, Israel. God blinded them for a while, but the--the darkness
now is pressed upon the Gentile world that's covered the whole thing. The
Gentiles will trod down Jerusalem until the Gentile dispensation will be
finished. Jesus said so. And now it's finished, gross darkness upon the people! God reflecting it in the
skies, as He has shown it on earth before it all happens.
We're in it.
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