Evening and Morning were the first day

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The Bible speaks of a day of salvation

It is strange that evening and morning are spoken of as a day.

It is a deep question that is not easily answered as to why each day in Genesis 1 only mentions the evening and the morning and not the night or afternoon.

Especially if one asks why the seventh day is left out and not described by the term “evening and morning”.

The seventh day of rest was not completed because sin entered into the Garden of Eden.

By leaving out the seventh day from His list of six days in Genesis 1, God is making it clear that as Eternity rolls on He wants no memories of sin.

So, when God leaves out something it can be because that item reminds Him of human sin. That ugliness cannot be part of the perfect structure of Eternity.

GENESIS 1:5   “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

We try to understand an unusual verse by connecting it to a revealed pattern in Scripture. And then we try to find Bible verses to justify this interpretation.

“Night” and “afternoon” are missing from the above verse. So, God is not wanting to remember them. Why? Because they represent something awful that nobody will want to remember.

A day can represent various time periods.

12 hours of daytime or, alternatively, 24 hours.
GENESIS 35:3   “... in the day of my distress”,

PSALM 110:3   “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power,”

(this is an unknown time period)

PROVERBS 16:4  “The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.”

(another unknown period of time. Probably a very long time because there has been much evil on earth)

ISAIAH 34:8   For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

(The day of the Lord is the 3.5 years of great Tribulation)

ISAIAH 49:8   Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee,

and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: 

(The day of salvation for the church has lasted 2000 years)

Thus, we can represent the 2000 years of church history as the DAY of God’s salvation.

The first church age would be the morning. The last (or seventh) church age will be the evening.

This is followed by nighttime when there is no light for the foolish virgins and the world as great Tribulation sweeps the world.

The final Pope will then rule the world.

The restored truth traveled from East to West

Daylight represents the Light of the Gospel.

Night represents the 3.5 years of great tribulation that destroys the world when the church ages are finished.

Who wants to remember the slaughter of billions of people during great tribulation time?

The afternoon also has bad memories because Jesus hung on the cross and died just after 3 o’clock.

The Word being killed is the worst sin of all.

Even the sun refused to shine for those last three hours.

MATTHEW 27:45   “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.”

This was not an eclipse as the longest eclipse of the sun is only about 7½  minutes.

When the Word of God died, then the sun simply refused to shine.

We must never fool ourselves that we are shining the Gospel Light when we say unscriptural things like “Celebrating the Lord’s birth”, “Christmas”, “Good Friday”, “Trinity”, etc.

When we say something unscriptural, we crucify Christ again because He is the Word.

Then we are actually in darkness while we bluff ourselves that we are in the Light.

ZECHARIAH 14:7   “But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.”

The 2000 years of church history is “one day” for God in terms of the Truth rising like the Sun in the morning of the first church age and then setting in the evening of the last or 7^th church age.

God calls it the day of salvation.

“Not day nor night” shows that church history has been a mixture of  Scriptural Truth and unscriptural error.

The apostles established the Truth in the first church age. Saint Paul was the messenger to the first church age. This is the only church age that had the truth as they wrote down the New Testament.

The apostle John finalized the Books of the New Testament around AD 100. Groups of local elders ruled the local churches. Christians were persecuted by the Roman Empire.

The second church age began in AD 170. The human one-man leaders began to dominate the churches as Priests and Bishops. The bread and wine began to become the elements of salvation instead of just symbols representing the Word and the Blood of Jesus. Irenaeus in Eastern France at Lyons was the messenger to this age who tried to keep the people Scriptural. Christians were heavily persecuted. A total of 3 million Christians had been killed during the first two church ages.

The third church age began in AD 312 when Constantine became Roman Emperor. He stopped persecuting Christians and gave the Pope the Lateran Palace and a huge sum of money. The church then foolishly obeyed this politician when he forced the Trinity doctrine onto the church at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. A flood of unscriptural ideas then entered the church. Martin, in Northwest France at Tours, was the messenger to this age. The Light was fading but was still moving from the East to the West. The Catholic church then began to persecute the pagans. Then they began to persecute Christians who opposed them.

The first church age had the truth but then the churches proceeded to lose the New Testament truth. This red path is contrary to Nature as far as the Sun is concerned, Best forgotten. The Sun never goes backwards from West to East.

The fourth church age started in AD 606 when the Pope declared himself Head of all the churches. The Popes degenerated into a very corrupt lifestyle. They killed tens of millions of dissenters. Columba from Scotland was the messenger to this age. The age became so corrupt that the truth was reversed and went backward, which is contrary to nature. The darkness of sin and unbelief is contrary to God.

Except for the truth established in the morning of the first church age, God wants to forget the loss of truth and the growth of error in church ages 2, 3, and 4.

Church age 5 saw Martin Luther oppose the Roman church and restore salvation by grace through faith in 1520.

Then John Wesley in Southern England, in 1750 during church age 6, restored holiness and outreach. This led to the great missionary age and the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834.

Pentecost in America in 1906 restored the supernatural gifts. William Branham in America then restored the hidden secrets of Scripture which will enable the Bride to get back to the beliefs of the first church age.

The seventh church age represents the evening time of the seven church ages. It will be cut off someday by the oncoming night of great Tribulation.

The churches reject the King James Bible and say that it is not the Absolute truth. Thus Jesus, Who is the Word of God, stands outside the door of the modern church.

The early church met in homes, not in church buildings. We have to get back to that.

ZOOM meetings are helping scattered believers in their homes to gather together by using the internet.

This restoration of Truth after the Dark Ages is a very important part of the church ages. Church ages 5, 6, and 7 moved from East to West which is the proper way for the Sun Light to move. The Sun represents the Word of God.

Only the seventh church age sees the New Testament Truth completely restored again.

Thus, the seventh church age must become the same in belief as the first church age.

MATTHEW 24:27    “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”

From the fifth church age to the seventh church age was the restoration of truth, but there was still a lot of error in the churches.

But amidst all the errors, Truth was being restored as the restored Light moved along the blue path from East to West.

Moving Light is lightning. After establishing the Truth in the first church age,  God’s main interest was the restoration of Truth in these last three church ages where the revealed truth followed the path of the natural Sun from East to West.

Jesus must first be restored as the understood Word of God; then He will return as the Man in Whom the fulness of the Godhead dwells.

COLOSSIANS 2:9    For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

EPHESIANS 2:7   “That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”

The church had fallen in the Dark Ages but God was restoring them slowly back to the first church age.

In the end the 7^th age believers are restored to the first church age beliefs of the New Testament that started in Jerusalem.

When the Gospel reverses and again goes the wrong way symbolizing the darkness of great Tribulation.

This backwards movement happened in the fourth church age which is called the Dark Age. The Gospel going from West to East signifies darkness.

At the end of the 7^th church age, there will be a time of darkness in great Tribulation as the Gospel moves backward to Jerusalem to the 12 Tribes of Israel thanks to the two Jewish prophets, Moses and Elijah.

Jerusalem is where the Gospel started.

The complete movement then forms a figure eight. Eight symbolizes a new system. The Gospel returns to the Jews for the 144000 and then the battle of Armageddon.

After that is a new system, Eternity.

Jesus sets up a Kingdom to rule for 1000 years. For the Bride and the 144000, Eternity has set in on Earth. This is the First Heaven. The first taste of Heaven on Earth.

The Shout of the Bride that has become Scriptural

JOHN 9:4   “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”

No Gentiles will get saved in the darkness of the night that symbolizes the 3½ years of great Tribulation.

AMOS 5:20   “Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?”

We have no idea how terrible and brutal and deadly the time of great Tribulation will be. The sheer terror will force the foolish virgins, who were saved but fooled into unscriptural beliefs by their church leaders, to abandon their man-made church beliefs. Then they will be killed for their faith

AMOS 5:10   “They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.”

The foolish virgins were saved Christians who trusted their pastors. But the pastors hated the wise virgins who contradicted them by revealing the hidden secrets of the Scriptures. Thus, the churchgoers learned to detest the Scriptural wise virgins. The church pastors were desperately hanging onto their position of power over the congregation so that they could collect the people’s money. They were not interested in the restoration of Bible Truth which they regarded as a threat to their position.

AMOS 5:21   “I hate, I despise your feast days,”

The Jews celebrated God’s feasts and worshiped Him but did not believe all the Old Testament Scriptures. Consequently, God detested their feast days. Believing the Scriptures was the most important thing that God expected of them. Praising God when you celebrate something but you do not believe all the Scriptures makes God hate what you are doing.

Imagine what God feels about Christmas which is copied from the pagans who celebrated their sun god’s birthday on 25 December. We were never asked to celebrate Christ’s birth.

ZECHARIAH 14:7   “But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass,

that at evening time it shall be light.”

The true light will be restored when the wise virgins in the last church age have a “shout” of mastery as they finally understand the restored Scriptures that the apostles had established. Then they will only speak from Scripture.

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“Did you notice here in the 19th chapter, "After these things"? Watch what? After what? After the Message of ‘Come out of her!’

After these things, watch,

is the shout of the Bride saints, with the Bridegroom, going to the Marriage of the Lamb."

That “shout” will raise the dead saints in the resurrection.

Only the first church age had the truth

In order to have the truth, the evening light of the 7^th age (or last age) Bride will be the same as the light of the resurrected first age saints who were the morning light of the church ages.

Jesus is the First and the Last. Only the true believers from the First and the Last ages had the real Truth.

GENESIS 1:8   “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

The morning light of the New Testament apostles and the restored light by William Branham that enabled the last age, in the evening, to understand the Bible, are the only real truth in the seven church ages.

GENESIS 1:8   “And the evening and the morning were the second day.”

The only real truth that the second church age had was where they agreed with the first church age apostles on the doctrines that the last church age would restore in the evening.

That was the same for every church age.

Church ages 2, 3, and 4 were losing the truth and thus did not have the full truth. Only the parts where they agreed with first-age apostles were the real truths that they had. The rest was an error that would be forgotten when the church ages were over. Only the bits of truth that they got from the apostles would be restored at the end. That was their portion of the true light.

Church ages 5, 6, and 7 saw a restoration of truth. Luther preached salvation. Wesley added holiness and outreach. Pentecost restored the gifts of the Spirit. But the many errors that they still believed were not part of the Daylight. Only the portions that they believed from the first age (the morning) that would be restored at the end time (the evening) were the truth.

But those portions of the Truth that they had were sufficient for ages 5 and 6 because they had no end-time prophet to reveal the full truth to them.

MATTHEW 13:23   “But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

Luther’s fifth church age had a small portion of the restored truth, symbolized by the number 30.

Wesley’s sixth church age had a bigger portion of the truth that led to the emancipation of slaves and the great missionary age. That was symbolized by the number 60.

In the last church age, we have no excuse and are expected to understand the full truth of the restored Word (symbolized by the number 100) because William Branham has revealed the mysteries to us.

DANIEL 12:10  “… but the wise shall understand.”

We cannot be the wise virgins unless we understand the Scriptures.

All saved Christians are complacently fast asleep

MATTHEW 25:1   “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.”

A woman symbolizes a church because the true church is the Bride of Christ. So, this parable deals with saved Christians because virgins are clean women.

MATTHEW 25:2   “And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.”

The wise virgins had the oil of the Holy Spirit. The foolish virgins were saved but were fooled into unscriptural doctrines and Bible ignorance by their pastors and preachers, whom they obeyed because they were scared of disagreeing with them. Make-believe religion is forcing a person to agree with a church.

MATTHEW 25:5   “While the bridegroom tarried,

they all slumbered and slept.”

In the end, all the saved Christians are complacently fast asleep in their comfortable man-made church traditions. They put up a sign that says “Please do not disturb”.

If you ask them a Bible question that they cannot answer, they are totally uninterested as they just dismiss it as an irrelevant detail or a mistake.

MATTHEW 25:6   “And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.”

But a big wake-up call is coming to us all.

A cry for being overcome by some huge natural disaster like Los Angeles sinking in an earthquake and tidal wave. That will cripple the American economy and lead to the Roman Catholic church, as the world’s wealthiest organization, taking over America. That is when we will all realize that our church systems have failed us.

The cry will tell us to get out of our churches if we want to meet the Lord. Why?

Because Jesus stands outside the church and knocks in Revelation 3.

Jesus is the Word of God.

Churches have rejected the King James Bible as being the Absolute truth. They no longer believe that there can be a perfect Bible. All translations are flawed and are being continually revised, they claim. Thus, they feel free to ignore, change, or contradict the written King James Scriptures.

Whatever you say about the King James Bible, you are saying about Jesus. The King James Bible tells us the thoughts of Jesus. We must believe and obey what is written, not debate and change anything.

REVELATION 3:20   “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:”

REVELATION 3:14   “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;”

Jesus is saying that He stands outside the church door. He is the Word of God. So, the church believes in human opinions and traditions, not the revealed truth of Scripture.

You can get saved in a church but you cannot get ready for the Second Coming in a church.

MATTHEW 25:7   “Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”

When the Spirit-filled Christians finally wake up due to some huge disaster like an earthquake, they will have to do a frantic upgrade of their beliefs, their dress, and their behavior. They will have to stop condemning those who are Scriptural.

Sadly, the foolish virgins who neglected the Scriptures and preferred church traditions will not have enough time to find the truth. They will be left behind and killed.

Oil speaks of the Holy Spirit.

But the oil has to be ignited so as to burn with sufficient light so that we can read the Scriptures with understanding.

JOHN 16:13   “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:”

The evidence of the Holy Ghost baptism is the person’s ability to understand the mysteries of the written Scriptures.

Sadly, a demonstration of supernatural gifts is not necessarily a sign of being Spirit-filled.

We have to obey the Will of God which is written in the King James Bible.

MATTHEW 7:21   “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”

:22     “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?”

:23     “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Demonstrating supernatural power did not get them into Heaven.

The start of the Millennium is the morning of a new day

But there is also a second meaning to “morning”.

PSALM 30:5   “For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

After the horror and terror of the night of great Tribulation, there will come the morning of a new Day, the 1000 years of the Kingdom of Peace which we call the Millennium.

II PETER 3:8   “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

God can regard 1000 years as one day. So God sees the Millennium as one day.

The morning of the Millennium will be issued in 75 days after great Tribulation ends and the battle of Armageddon starts.

Two prophets preach for 1260 days, the length of great Tribulation.
REVELATION 11:3   And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

The blessing of the Millennium starts after 1335 days. That is 75 days later.

DANIEL 12:12  "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days."

AMOS 5:8   “Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:”

The seven stars are the messengers to the seven church ages. Orion is the Great Hunter that symbolizes the Devil who opposes the seven messengers of God during the seven church ages.

The first church age was the morning Light.  This Light will come back to earth when the apostolic New Testament beliefs are restored during the last church age. The restored church is then caught up to Heaven.

Great Tribulation sees the shadow of Death as the last Pope rules the world for 3½  years. But Armageddon will then destroy all these forces of evil as Jesus ends the night of great Tribulation and ushers in the glory of the morning of the new day, the start of the 1000-year Kingdom of Peace. Jesus turns Death into Life.

He will turn the shadow of death into morning.

Satan, as Orion the Hunter, turns life into death. He takes the saved foolish virgins and kills them in great Tribulation. The day becomes dark with night as the saved foolish virgins are killed off.

The waters of the sea that represent the restless masses of humanity are now let loose on planet earth in all their savage violence.

We saw a tragic preview of this when the vicious Hamas terrorists attacked the Jews on 7 October 2023. They killed, raped, mutilated, and tortured 1200 Jews in the most horrific and savage manner. They even baked a baby in an oven. The depravity of mankind defies description. But this is a glimpse into the future great Tribulation. It is an awful preview of great Tribulation in that it was totally unexpected.

We need to ask Bible questions and seek Bible answers

ISAIAH 21:12   “The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.”

The morning Light of the first church age cometh back to earth when the apostolic New Testament beliefs are restored during the last church age.

When the first church age beliefs are restored in the last church age, then the morning light will shine again on earth.

Then there are two options. The wise virgins will be caught up off the earth to Heaven but the rest of the world will go into the night of great Tribulation.

Then, the night of gross darkness also cometh when great Tribulation sweeps over the earth.

“Enquire” is mentioned twice to emphasize that we must ask questions and interrogate the church doctrines to discover what is Scriptural. Clever people question others.

Wise people question themselves and their own beliefs. Are we Scriptural?

They enquire of the Scripture to find out for themselves what God’s Plan is for their day. That is what makes them the wise virgins.

“If” ye will enquire. It is a free-will option. You must want to seek out the hidden truth of Scripture.

But churches today do not foster a culture of enquiry. People must do as they are told … or else.

Mechanically repeating an unscriptural statement like “Merry Christmas” is rewarded by the church.

But do not dare to ask why the Bible never says that we must celebrate the Lord’s birth.

Mechanically “baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” is rewarded by the church.

But do not dare to ask why the church cannot tell us what that name (singular) is.

Nobody can find one name for three Persons. Thus, the Trinity God has no name. This is the best-kept secret in the church. Church-goers do not realize that they serve a nameless God.

What the wise virgins discover from their enquiries is “return and come”.

We must be restored to the New Testament faith as we return to the teachings of the apostles. Only then will the Lord come.

When the true Bride returns from Heaven at the Third Coming, the forces of evil will be destroyed. That ends the night of great Tribulation. Then, the morning of the glorious Kingdom of the 1000-years of Peace will dawn as the Millennium cometh.

In Heaven, God wants every memory of sin to be erased and forgotten.

We can only reap what was sowed by the Apostles

The First church age has eternal value as that is when the apostles established the truth of the New Testament Scriptures.

Church ages 2, 3, and 4 were losing truth. Church ages 5 and six were restoring part of the truth.

The Last church age will only be successful if the end-time believers are fully restored to understanding the Bible mysteries and getting back to the beliefs of the First church age.

We only harvest the seed when it looks the same as the seed that was planted.

If you do not baptize people who are old enough to understand what repentance means in the name of Jesus Christ, then you have not been restored to the Book of Acts of the Apostles.

ACTS 2:38   “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

:39     For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

Between the planting and the harvest, the church has gone through many other stages like leaves, stem, husks, and pollen. But all those different stages of the plant die after a while because of the denominational spirit where one man rules a church. The churches copied the Roman Catholic beliefs like Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, and calling their leader infallible.

In Nature,only the seed that was planted and the identical seed that is harvested has a life that lasts. The Apostles planted the Seed Word of the New Testament.

The apostles planted the Seed Word of the New Testament.

We only serve God when we harvest the same understanding of Scripture that they had.

In between the Apostles and the end-time Bride there have been many mistakes which will be forgotten, although those in-between stages served God as best they could. But, thanks to brother Branham, we now have the ability to understand the mysteries of Scripture. Consequently, we must not hang onto the popular church errors and traditions.

The planting of the New Testament represents the morning of the seven church ages.

The harvest, when the seed is pulled off the dead plant, represents the evening of the church ages when the Bride is pulled off the Earth and taken up to Heaven.

In the end, the wise virgins must make sure that they are identical to the original seed that was planted. Otherwise, they are actually part of the foolish virgins who are unknowingly part of the dead plant that is left behind.

What happens is that in the end, brother Branham revealed the mysteries (plural) of God to the seventh church age to restore them back to the first age of the Apostles. The seventh church age is then actually replaced by the first church age. That is the great mystery (singular) of God.

The end-time Bride that becomes like the first church age will be a minority that is hardly noticed.

The rest of the people, both saved and unsaved, go into the slaughter of great Tribulation that God does not want to remember. That is why in Genesis God does not say the evening and the morning for the seventh day. The seventh day is when sin entered. The seventh church age gets thrown into great Tribulation when sin has reached its fulness of iniquity. That is why no end-time prophecy and no end-time parable says anything good about the seventh church age.

REVELATION 3:14   “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;

:16   So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

God sees our end-time churches as vomit in His mouth. Who wants to remember vomit? God will spue our modern churches into great Tribulation to straighten them out.

The first church age is the only church age where Jesus was seen.

REVELATION 1:13   “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man,”

In the seventh age, Jesus has been kicked out of the church. So, we are not safe in the seventh age. We must move out of the seventh age churches in an Exodus back to the first church age.

Jesus is the Word of God. The only perfect Word of God is the King James Bible which the churches criticize and reject.

When we get back to the first church age of the Apostles, then we will look like this.

Only then will the Lord come.

The evening and the morning have combined and look the same.

Brother Branham revealed six of the seven Seals.

The Seals will only be opened in all their details in Heaven.

When the First Seal opens, it is the first beast, the Lion that speaks to reveal a deeper insight.

MATTHEW 19:30   “But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.”

Notice, you cannot tell the difference between the first and the last.

What saves us is not elevating brother Branham to the Godhead as infallible and the Son of man (both of those are wrong). He is not the Voice of God as that was never promised in the New Testament.

What saves us from great Tribulation is when we can learn from him how to understand the mysteries of the revealed Word.

Only by being strictly Scriptural we can prepare for the Coming of the Lord.