22-0916A_THE THIRD PULL_Message of the Hour Believers Tabernacle

 

22-0916A_THE THIRD PULL

Mal 4:5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 

Mal 4:6  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. 

Rev 10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 

Rev 10:2  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 

Rev 10:3  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 

Rev 10:4  And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 

Rev 10:5  And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 

Rev 10:6  And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 

Rev 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 

Now this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. 

One: According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the seven seals. It will be these Divinely revealed “mystery-truths” that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so.

But consider this also. This prophet-messenger will be in his nature and manners as were Elijah and John. The people of this prophet-messenger’s day will be as they were in Ahab’s day, and in John’s. And since it is “ONLY THE CHILDREN” whose hearts will be turned, it is only the children who will listen. In the days of Ahab only 7,000 true-seed Israelites were found. In the days of John there were also very few. The masses in both ages were in the fornication of idolatry.

I want to make one more comparison between the Laodicean prophet-messenger and John, the prophet-messenger who preceded Jesus’ first coming. The people in John’s day mistook him for the Messiah. John 1:19-20, “And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.” Now this last-day prophet-messenger will have such power before the Lord that there will be those who mistake him for the Lord Jesus. (There will be a spirit in the world at the end time that will seduce some and make them believe this. Matthew 24:24-26, “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not forth: behold, He is in the secret chambers; believe it not.”) But don’t you believe it. He is not Jesus Christ. He is not the Son of God. HE IS ONE OF THE BRETHREN, A PROPHET, A MESSENGER, A SERVANT OF GOD. He needs no greater honor bestowed upon him than that which John received when he was the voice that cried, “I am not He, BUT HE IS COMING AFTER ME.”

Before we close this section on the messenger of the Laodicean Age, we must seriously consider these two thoughts. First, this age will have ONE Prophet-Messenger. Revelation 10:7 says, “When he (singular) shall begin to sound.” There has never been an age where God gave His people two major prophets at one time. He gave Enoch (alone); He gave Noah (alone); He gave Moses (he alone had the Word though others prophesied); John the Baptist came ALONE. Now in this last day there is to be a PROPHET (not a prophetess — though in this age there are more women purporting to give God’s revelation than men), and the infallible Word says that he (the prophet) will reveal the mysteries to the end-time people, and turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. There are those who say that God’s people are going to come together through a collective revelation. I challenge that statement. It is a bald, invalid assumption in the face of Revelation 10:7. Now I do not deny that people will prophesy in this last age and their ministries can and will be correct. I do not deny that there will be prophets even as in the days of Paul when there was “one, Agabus, a prophet who prophesied of a famine.” I agree that is so. BUT I DENY UPON THE INFALLIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE WORD THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MAJOR PROPHET-MESSENGER WHO WILL REVEAL THE MYSTERIES AS CONTAINED IN THE WORD, AND WHO HAS THE MINISTRY TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS. “Thus saith the Lord” by His unfailing Word stands, and shall stand and be vindicated. There is one prophet-messenger to this age. On the basis of human behavior alone, anyone knows that where there are many people there is even divided opinion on lesser points of a major doctrine which they all hold together. Who then will have the power of infallibility which is to be restored in this last age, for this last age is going to go back to manifesting the Pure Word Bride? That means we will have the Word once again as it was perfectly given, and perfectly understood in the days of Paul. I will tell you who will have it. It will be a prophet as thoroughly vindicated, or even more thoroughly vindicated than was any prophet in all the ages from Enoch to this day, because this man will of necessity have the capstone prophetic ministry, and God will shew him forth. He won’t need to speak for himself, God will speak for him by the voice of the sign. Amen.

The second thought that must be impressed on our hearts is that the seven church ages started out with the antichrist spirit as well as the Holy Spirit Who is to be blessed forever. I John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” Did you notice it? The antichrist spirit is identified with false prophets. The ages came in with false prophets and they will go out with false prophets. Now of course there is going to be a REAL FALSE PROPHET in the grand sense of that man mentioned in the Revelation. But as of now before his revelation there are to appear many false prophets. Matthew 24:23-26, “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not forth: behold, He is in the secret chambers; believe it not.” These false prophets are earmarked for us in various other Scriptures such as the following. II Peter 2:1-2, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord That bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.” II Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” I Timothy 4:1, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” Now in every case you will notice that a false prophet is one who is outside the Word. 

Just as we showed you that “antichrist” means “antiWord” so these false prophets come perverting the Word, giving it a meaning that fits their own devilish ends. Have you ever noticed how the people who lead others astray bind them closely to themselves by fear? They say that if the people don’t do what they say, or if they leave, then destruction will follow. They are false prophets, for a true prophet will always lead one to the Word and bind the people to Jesus Christ and he won’t tell the people to fear him or what he says, but to fear what the Word says. Notice how these people, like Judas, are out for money. 

They get you to sell all you have and give it to them and their schemes. They spend more time on offerings than the Word. Those who attempt to operate gifts will make use of a gift which has a margin of error in it and then ask for money, and neglect the Word and call it of God. And people will go to them, and bear with them, and support them, and believe them, not knowing it is the way of death. Yes, the land is full of carnal impersonators. In that last day they will try to imitate that prophet-messenger. 

The seven sons of Sceva tried to imitate Paul. Simon the sorcerer tried to imitate Peter. Their impersonations will be carnal. They won’t be able to produce what the true prophet produces. When he says the revival is over they will go around claiming a great revelation that what the people have is exactly right and God is going to do bigger and more wonderful things amongst the people. 

And the people will fall for it. These same false prophets will claim that the messenger of the last-day is not a theologian, so he ought not to be heard. They won’t be able to produce what the messenger can; they won’t be vindicated by God as that last-day prophet is, but with their great swelling words and with the weight of their world-wide notoriety they will warn the people not to hear that man (messenger) and they will say he teaches wrong. They are running exactly true to their fathers, the Pharisees, who were of the devil, for they claimed that both John and Jesus taught error.

    CAB 09 - Laodicean Rev. William Marrion Branham

153 And there was three outstanding peaks. He said, “Those three peaks are the first, second, and third pull. The first one was your first part of your ministry, small hill; then your first pull, pretty high.” You know, sign in the hand. Then there was a little interval in there, the time that I was taken off from being too tired. Many of you remember it. And then come the discernment, the second pull. Now I’ve had another, about a few years here of just kind of little peaks, see, back like my ministry wasn’t yet, and then come the third one.

154 Three is a number of completion, see, the third one. The next peak was five, number of grace. And the next peak was seven, the number of comp-…of perfection, the end. “Six days shall you labor. The seventh is the Sabbath,” the end of the week, the end of time. See? And I stopped and I showed it to Billy. And I looked at them.

155 He said, “That, let that stand. If there is ever a doubt in your mind, remember this place, come back here.”

    63-0623M - Standing In The Gap. Rev. William Marrion Branham

          (OPENING OF THE WORD)

I can be here on the desert, where it’s eighty and ninety, right now, and in thirty minutes be in eight-foot of snow, see, on top of the mountain. We was at Phoenix, just recently, where it was twenty something, twenty-eight degrees. They had the swimming pool heated, and people swimming. And about forty-minutes drive from there, it was forty below zero, at Flagstaff. See? That’s the difference from the up currents and the desert. And very healthy for asthmatics, and so forth.

9 But, now, I went up in the canyon, and I climbed way as high as I could go. And I—I—I asked the Lord, while sitting up in there, what all this meant, and so forth. I was kind of bothered, and didn’t know just what to do.

10 And so while I was praying; strange thing happened. I—I—I want to be honest. Now, I could have fallen asleep. It could have been like a trance, or it could have been a—a—a vision. I’m more or less inclined to believe that it was a vision. That, I had my hands out, saying, “Lord, what does this blast mean? And what does these seven Angels in a constellation of—of the pyramid, picking me up from off the ground and turning eastward, what does it mean?”

11 I was standing there, in prayer, and something happened. And, now, something fell in my hand. And I know, if you don’t understand spiritual things, it may seem very strange. But something struck in my hand. And, when I looked, it was a sword. And the handle was made of pearl, the prettiest pearl I ever seen. And the—the guard, you know, where…I guess it’s to keep your hands from being lanced, you know, while you’re…the—the people were dueling; was gold. And the saber’s blade wasn’t too long, but it was just razor sharp; and it was glistening silver. And it was the prettiest thing I ever seen. It just fit my hand exactly. And I was holding it. I said, “Isn’t that pretty!” I looked at it. And I thought, “But, you know, always afraid of a sword.” I was kind of glad that I lived out of the days that they used them, because I—I’m afraid of a knife. And so I—I thought, “What would I do with that?”

12 And while holding, in my hand, a Voice from somewhere said, “That is the King’s sword.” And then it left me.

13 Well, I—I wondered what it meant, “‘That is the King’s sword.’” And I thought, “If It would have said, ‘a king’s sword,’ it might have been that I would have understood it. But It said, ‘the King’s sword.’” So I may not have this right, but I thought, “There is only One, the King, that’s God. And His sword is This, ‘Sharper than a two-edged sword,’ see. ‘And ye abide in Me, and My Words…’” See? And I—I thought…

 63-0317E - The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals Rev. William Marrion Branham