Ezekiel 1 Part 2 God moves in lightning


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God’s Word is like a flash of light. It illuminates and then moves on. God does not stand still while we relax and boast

First published on the 30th of April 2026 — Last updated on the 30th of April 2026

The wings of the cherubims are joined. They work in harmony.

After the Dark Age the lightning began with Martin Luther in Germany. It moved on to John Wesley in England. Then crossed the Atlantic to America for the Pentecostal revival and then the former rain teaching ministry of William Branham between 1947 - 1965.

A supernatural high altitude cloud near Flagstaff Arizona in 1963 was the sign of the son of man being revealed. Jesus revealed walking through the pages of His Word, the 1769 King James Bible.

Peter, in Acts 2:19, promised a high-altitude smoke cloud, that was seen with the supernatural cloud.

Two clouds formed from natural smoke and supernatural angel wings as a sign that the Seals of Revelation 6 would be revealed. Triggering a third exodus of the Scriptural Bride moving out of the increasingly Bible-illiterate churches.

Then the resurrection and the 7 Thunders giving the Bride massive rapturing faith to change their bodies into immortal bodies as well as giving the two Jewish prophets massive supernatural power over the forces of Nature.

Then the 2 prophets and the 144000 will be killed and resurrected back to life and ascend to Heaven.

The Old Testament had half the truth


EZEKIEL 1:11  “Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.”

For the Israelites, the four faces were clustered together in separate groups as God dealt with them in different circumstances.

The Cherubims were living creatures.

This vision is one of the most complex "architectural" descriptions of divine beings in the Bible, focusing on how they move and how they are structured.

These beings represent the highest form of service and alignment with the Word. Let's look at how their physical structure mirrors spiritual principles:

The Wings and the Body

The description identifies two distinct functions for their wings:

Covering Their Bodies: This represents Humility. Even though these were powerful, supernatural beings, they covered themselves in the presence of God's glory. They did not trust their own opinions. Their focus is only on faithfulness to God’s Word.

We tend to focus on covering our sins. A person caught telling a lie will often place their hand over their mouth. Their mouth let them down, making them feel ashamed or inadequate. God’s Presence is so commanding that even these heavenly beings who have never sinned still feel ashamed of their bodies as being totally inadequate in God’s Presence. How pathetic our human ego will be when we stand before God.

Connecting the Vision to the Tabernacle

This same pattern was seen in the Holy of Holies. Two Cherubims were beaten out of one piece of gold and placed on the Mercy Seat (the lid of the Ark of the Covenant). Made from one piece of gold meant they were both part of one bigger structure, despite being two separate beings.

Beaten gold means our faith has to be beaten into us. To the last church Jesus says:

REVELATION 3:19 “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”

Their wings were stretched out, meeting in the middle, just as described in Ezekiel's vision.

Two Cherubims on the mercy seat were half the four living creatures seen in the vision. Thus, the Israelites only had half the truth as they followed the Old Testament.

The queen of the South, a black lady from Africa, represented the end-time Bride.

MATTHEW 12:42  “The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.”

It sounds like she had to cross the Sahara Desert at great risk to her life, such was her desire to hear the Old Testament wisdom of God.

Black absorbs the light. She doubled her knowledge of Solomon when she met him.

1 KINGS 10:7  “Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.”

The Old Testament wisdom that she had heard was only half the truth.

Similarly, what the Bride has heard from men in the churches is only half the truth. When the Bride gets the full revelation of the mysteries of the Word of God, then she understands the thinking of Jesus, Who is greater than Solomon. Crossing the Sahara Desert was harsh. This indicates the harsh time that the Bride will have in order to fulfil their fascination to learn the truth of the Bible mysteries. One of their first discoveries will be that all the churches are wrong in their structure by making a Pastor-is-the-head-of-a-church system. Elevating a Bishop, a Vicar, a Minister, a Priest, a Pope, or a Reverend to be in charge is equally bad. Church members, complacently asleep in their wrong church system, will hate the true Bride for opposing them. After all, who wants to be disturbed when they have fallen asleep.

In the parable of the ten virgins (clean women representing saved Christians in the churches) even the Spirit-filled wise virgins who have extra oil, slumbered and are asleep. The double emphasis indicates deep sleep. Totally unaware of what God is doing today.

1 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: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”

Yet the world press and the modern churches condemn Trump. Trump is the only world leader who has criticized the Pope. The Pope condemns Trump for the Iran war, but not the Iran leaders who killed thousands of protestors in January 2026. The Pope is silent about Iran’s nuclear threat. The Pope does not criticize Iran for attacking Israel. President Trump defends Israel.

MATTHEW 25:5  “While the bridegroom [Jesus] tarried, they all slumbered and slept.”

No parable about the end-time church says anything good about the end-time church.

There is no prophecy about the end-time church that says anything good about the end-time church.

Who teaches the Bride? This verse about the Queen of the South has a very subtle hint.

1 KINGS 10:7  “Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me:

“I Kings”. Of all the Kings there is only one real King, Jesus Christ. He is Almighty God.

“10:7”.   The Bride learns the truth, or gets a revelation about the mysteries of Scripture from Revelation 10:7.

REVELATION 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.”

The man who best fulfilled this ministry was William Branham from America.

The mystery of God was two-fold.

Jesus Christ is Almighty God. As the Father, He was above the Israelites. As the Son, He was with us. As the Holy Ghost, He is in us.

Thus, the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the Lord Jesus Christ. Above us, with us, and in us.

But He, alone, is the Head of the church. So, the church is His Body.

The church was planted as a seed of truth by the apostles. It died at the AD 325 Council of Nicaea when the unscriptural word Trinity was introduced. The truth was buried in the dirt of the Dark Age. The seed germinated into leaves during the Reformation of Martin Luther. Pollen developed and blew Eternal Life around the world in the great missionary age. A husk developed when the Pentecostal revival began in the early 1900s. Finally, the full seed has to ripen at the end and be identical to the original seed that was planted.

The Bride at the end, going back to the original beliefs of the apostles, is the mystery of God for His Body.

This is the mystery that all the churches miss.

That is why at the end, the parables and prophecies reveal a church that has rejected the Christ.

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

Churches corrupt this by saying that He knocks on the door of the heart of sinners.

But Jesus is not writing to sinners, He is writing to the final church.

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

The church of the Laodiceans (people’s rights) who claim to have the right to make up their own church rules and traditions.

As a result, there are over 2000 different kinds of churches and denominations today, all different and all claiming to be right. In addition, they have over 100 different versions of the English Bible to choose from. It is thus virtually impossible to find the truth in this deep swamp of man-made church opinions.

The original church never had church buildings. The Jewish Temple briefly helped the Christians in Jerusalem, but nowhere else as they spread around the world. In AD 70, the Jewish Temple was destroyed by the Romans. Pagans had temples, but Christians shunned these because pagans filled their temples with idols.

ACTS 7:48  “Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,”

HOSEA 8:14  “For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;”

2 CORINTHIANS 6:16 “And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?

for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Each believer is a temple of God. No man-made building can be a temple of God.

The earliest church building discovered by archaeologists is dated at AD 220.

Christians had their meetings in homes, because their beliefs were their way of life.

The early church never put a Pastor in charge of a church. That is not a criticism of the man. It is a criticism of the church system. Organized religion is not God’s Will.

EZEKIEL 1:12  “And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.”

This is repetition. It is repeated because it is very important. We only serve God if we exactly follow and believe His written Word.

PROVERBS 30:5  “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.”

We must believe and do exactly what the Bible says and we must not deviate from the Scriptures in any way. Just because some man or some church says so.

We grow comfortably complacent in a man-made church with an unscriptural structure of having a Pastor as head, clinging to a clutter of unscriptural church ideas. The churches are full of fine people who desire to serve God, but the system is designed to make people devoted to their elevated church leader. Thus organized, sincere people produce a Nicolaitan system that conquers the laity or congregation, turning them into passive observers who act as an echo chamber. Only the talented and the good-looking who can produce a good performance get to perform in front.

Examples of unscriptural ideas are Trinity, Christmas, 25 December, Good Friday, Sunday Sabbath, William Branham is infallible, we know what the unwritten 7 Thunders say, and claiming that the angel of Revelation 10 has come down.

God moves from East to West and then He returns back


EZEKIEL 1:13  “As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.”

These heavenly creatures were full of fire, like burning coal that gives off light like a lamp.

This light was active and ever-moving “up and down” among the cherubims because they all had the same energy. No laziness. No complacency. No hesitation. No self-satisfied spiritual stagnation. Completely inspired by a heavenly supernatural fire to keep moving up then back down,  back to the first church age by seeking a deeper revelation of the Bible mysteries.

The hot fire was bright and vigorous. Then the confined energy exploded outwards in a burst of lightning that could not be contained. Lightning is moving light that represents the spread of the Gospel over a time period.

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.”

The Bible truth had been buried in the Catholic traditions and superstitions of the Dark Age that lasted from AD 606 when the Pope declared himself Universal Bishop. The Dark Age ended in 1521 when Martin Luther in Germany burst forth with a stunning truth in the darkness that the just shall live by faith. Not by the prescribed good works of the church.

The "Light" focused on Justification. After centuries of trying to buy or earn salvation through the "Church System," the Word revealed that the "just shall live by faith."

There was so much power released in this great move that it gave a boost to the later holiness and outreach doctrine of John Wesley in Southern England.

The "Light" moved to Sanctification. The Word revealed that a saved heart should produce a holy life and a burden for the lost, leading to the greatest global outreach in history, the amazing missionary age. The lightning was starting to move from East to West and revealing more light in the spiritual journey.

The light that started with Jesus in Palestine moved from East to West. In 1906, the Pentecostal revival began in California on the West Coast of America. The supernatural gifts and power of the Holy Spirit were released. Then God used William Branham, who had the most powerful supernatural ministry to reveal the symbols and patterns that hid the Bible mysteries. The Gospel Light was at its brightest as it reached the West.

LUKE 12:54  “And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.”

A 9-day shower of the former rain (“moreh” in Hebrew, means teaching) began 17 days after a supernaturally high cloud was seen just after sunset at 42 kilometres height, on 28 February 1963, just North of the City of Flagstaff in Northern Arizona.

During March 17 – 25, 1963, brother Branham preached the “Revelation of the Seven Seals” which enabled us to start understanding the deeper mysteries of Scripture.

The Seals were revealed, they were not opened.

Before Jesus OPENS the Seals in Heaven in Revelation Chapter 6, they must first be REVEALED on earth.

 

The brightest Light, the deepest understanding of the Word of God, unfolded from the West during the last or 7th church age and taught us how to return back to the beliefs of the first church age of the apostles.

The sign that the mysteries of Scripture would be revealed was the 42-kilometre high cloud from the West in Arizona.

There were actually two clouds, 20 miles apart.

The smaller cloud was a smoke cloud from a high-altitude rocket that was exploded four hours earlier above Vandenberg Airforce Base. Thus, there was no natural explanation for the bigger cloud. The bigger cloud was a horizontal ring with a massive circumference of 150 miles.'

Another rocket had exploded about 12 hours before this second high altitude explosion. The high-altitude jet stream carried the second rocket's smoke cloud 500 miles from Vandenberg to Flagstaff in about 4 hours. Thus the smoke of the first rocket explosion could not just be 20 miles away from the smoke of the second rocket's explosion after being in the jetstream for 12 hours longer than the second explosion.

The two clouds appeared briefly for 28 minutes before disappearing into the earth’s shadow.

ACTS 2:19  “And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:”

Water vapour makes a rain cloud. Smoke vapour makes a high-up smoke cloud in the heaven.

This was the smaller high-altitude cloud that was visible above Flagstaff in 1963.


The earth spins horizontally from West to East, causing a high-altitude jet stream that took the smoke cloud from Vanderberg Airforce Base to Flagstaff. At its great height the air was very thin and the cloud particles were too thinly spread out to be visible against the glare of the blue sky (shown by the broken line). When the sun set, the thinly spread out smoke particles became briefly visible against the dark sky for 28 minutes before disappearing into the Earth’s shadow.

It was a brief moment of high-altitude light at sunset in the evening time.

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.”

A sign that the truth would be revealed in the evening time at the end of the Gospel day of Light before the night of great tribulation sweeps over the world for 3½ years. During the Gospel day, truth and error, light and dark, were freely mixed together as truth was slowly restored.

MATTHEW 13:30  “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”

At the end, the church systems bind all the people under the unscriptural Pastor-is-head-of-the-church system. Then some people will find the deeper Bible truth outside the churches. They will be a minority.

MATTHEW 7:14  “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

From brother Branham's teachings we have to learn how to understand the written mysteries.

His quotes came to reveal the mysteries of Scripture, not to replace the written Scriptures.

Seven times Jesus said to the Jewish religious leaders, "Have ye not read ...?"

Not knowing what was written in the Scriptures was their big sin.

JEREMIAH 23:1  “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.”

Church errors prevent us understanding Bible mysteries


REVELATION 18:4 “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people,”

During church history there have been denominational systems and church systems under elevated human leadership. But there have also been individuals who sought for Bible truth.

After the Dark Age was ended by Luther, individuals have sought to be restored back to the beliefs of the New Testament church.

JOEL 2:25 “And I will restore to you”

The large 1963 cloud was supernatural, made from angel’s wings, as a sign that the Bride was to be restored to the first church age.

MATTHEW 24:30  “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:

65-0718 — TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT BEING THE WILL OF GOD

“And then in that great observatory, so that the world will be without, they’re still wondering what happened. In Tucson, them big observatories took the picture of it up there; still wondering what happened. “What is it?”  [The photograph of the supernatural cloud]. They still put in the paper, “Does anybody know anything about what, how it could have happen?” There is no fog up there, there’s no air, there’s no moisture; thirty miles high in the air. Oh, my!

“There shall be signs in the heaven above. And when these things take place, earthquakes in divers places, then shall appear the sign in the heaven, of the Son of man.” “That day,” in Luke, “the Son of man will reveal Himself again; being revealed, Hisself.” And the world will look like Sodom and Gomorrah. Oh, my!”

Christ was not revealed as a Man walking amongst men. John the Baptist had already done that.

Christ was revealed as the Word of God which could now be understood.

Jesus walking through the pages of the Word as the Son of man.

In Genesis, Jesus was the Tree of Life surrounded by 4 cherubims who were His bodyguards.

GENESIS 3:24  “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

On earth, they turned four ways. North, South, West, and East.

 

Revelation Chapter 4 shows the same pattern. Four beasts around the throne with Christ sitting on the throne.

REVELATION 4:7  “And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.”

EZEKIEL 1:14 “And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.”

This shows how God’s Spirit is manifest in these four spiritual creatures. Energy and understanding run energetically out from God’s throne towards the exiled Jews who were now far from their Promised Land. Their fundamental purpose is to prepare the Jews for their return from exile. That is a flash of lightning that illuminates their minds that they are not to dwell in captivity forever but rather return to the freedom of their original homeland in Judaea. They ran away from God and ended up in captivity. Then, after 70 years, they would return to Judaea.

In the New Testament, especially in our day at the end-time, God’s Spirit also inspires a flash of lightning. This is to illuminate the Bible mysteries so that we can return to the beliefs of the first church age of the apostles. They never erected church buildings. The Temple could only be used in Jerusalem until AD 70 when it was destroyed by Rome. Nowhere else did the early church of the first church age use pagan temples as they evangelised the world far away from Jerusalem. Pagan temples held idols.

Christians regarded themselves as being the temples of God.

They used their homes as churches.

ROMANS 16:3 “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:”

:5  “Likewise greet the church that is in their house.”

62-0601 — TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS

“Now, do you know, when those early men went out, sometimes there were only about six or eight of them, together? And they shook the country. Well, you know, when Aquila and Priscilla, that great revival that Apollos was having over there, there was only about six or eight men and women in that bunch. That whole church, meant six or eight. You got five or six, seven times as many here tonight as they had then.

You know, Jesus only had twelve apostles. We always thinking for something big. But God don’t deal in them big numbers. It’s in these little groups is where He gets it. See? Look all down through the age, at any time He ever met with men. It was in small groups, see, and spoke with them, and ordained them. It’s God’s good pleasure to do that. That’s the way He likes to do it. And now we just want to keep God in our midst, and go, doing these things.”

We live in the church age of the Laodiceans. We get a tremendous hint from the past. In the original city of Laodicea that represents our last church age, groups of early Christians met as a church in houses.

COLOSSIANS 4:15  “Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.”

Today we teach people what the church has become, rather than what it originally was.

Their work was like a wheel in the middle of a wheel


EZEKIEL 1:15  “Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.”

The four faces were different but they moved in perfect harmony under the influence of God’s Spirit. The four different faces moved together as the wheel moved. The differences between the faces caused no internal opposition, they moved together in unison. Because their different abilities were used for the glory of God, they did not compete with each other. Competitive Christianity is actually useless churchianity.

Ezekiel kept looking at the living creatures. His focus was on them. Nothing distracted him.

The wheel represents God moving and being everywhere on earth. God's presence is not just fixed in a static building, the temple in Jerusalem, but spreads all over the earth, even to those who are in captivity. This rekindles hope in the exiled Israelites of God's continued involvement and protection.

The wheel was close to the living creatures which signified that they were close to the movements of God and existed only to carry out God’s will.

The four faces also reflect the four basic ministries of Jesus Christ: as King (lion), Servant (ox), Son of Man (ideal man), and Divine (eagle). Jesus is a Man Who is God, an impossible pair of ministries for anyone else. He is also the King Who is our Servant. Another impossible pair of ministries.

EZEKIEL 1:16  “The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.”

The beryl (or chrysolite) is a sea-green or golden-yellow precious stone. In the Bible, sea-green represents the sea of restless humanity that God strives to control and save by the Glow of God’s golden-yellow Presence. Green is symbolic of life as green plants and trees cover the earth. Golden-yellow is the colour of the sun that all earthly life depends on.

"One likeness" is the ultimate goal of the Third Exodus, the Mystery of the Bride coming out of the church. It means that despite the different faces (the Lion, Calf, Man, and Eagle) or the different Church Ages, there is a singular, unchanging pattern at the core. God wanting to restore individuals to the apostolic New Testament, in the presence of the organized churches of today and their man-made traditions. Churches, struggling in the midst of the sea of worldly humanity, drop their standards and fall away from Bible truth.

God works invisibly from within to bring the outward works of his people to the same final goal. Today, God is struggling to guide us back to the beliefs of the first church age. God knows we have been  fooled by church deceptions and our selfish complacency. The inner wheel is smaller than the outer wheel. God works unseen in an unnoticed minority.

Remember, the atom is very tiny. Yet the atomic bomb is very powerful.

LUKE 12:32 “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

LUKE 18:8 “... Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”

Hardly anyone today wants to be like the first church age. We are too brain-washed by comfortable church traditions that stop us examining the Bible and learning from it ourselves.

MATTHEW 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”


Only two or three can form a church.

ZECHARIAH 4:10  “For who hath despised the day of small things?

The truth will be believed by a despised few.

MATTHEW 7:14 “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

Very few people today will be part of the true Bride that seeks to be Scriptural. Most are not searching. They are complacently sleeping in their comfortable Pastor-led churches and man-made church buildings. We do not notice our increasing Bible-illiteracy. We resent having our Bible-ignorance exposed.

The wheels touch the earth with its messy sea of humanity. We have to focus on getting people saved (and thus making them part of the foolish virgins). Then comes the higher vision of the golden-yellow sun to remind us that Christ is seeking a Bride to share His innermost thoughts. Being saved is essential so that we can live on the new earth. But that is only half the story. Being part of His Bride means we can dwell in New Jerusalem, the City that Abraham sought.

HEBREWS 11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

The City looks like a pyramid. Christ sits on top like a Light, and all the sides are also in the Light.

The foolish virgins have to dwell outside the city as they never got close enough to Jesus as the Word of God. Thus, they never understood His deeper thoughts. They were too distracted by elevated human leaders and church group-think opinions.

The Word is simply an expression of His thoughts.

Jesus and the Word of God are One-and-the-same.

You cannot criticize the 1769 King James Bible or not understand the Bible and then claim to love Jesus. Then you are fooling yourself.

“The wheel within the wheel” is the most famous part of the vision, and it explains how God governs His people without a human "system" based on church traditions.

Our visible works and invisible motives must line up.

EZEKIEL1:16  “The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.”

“And their appearance and their work”.

In human systems, the appearance on the outside (what people see on Sunday) and the work (what happens behind the scenes and on the other 6 days of the week) are often different. Scandals and financial greed have wrecked many ministries in today’s churches. The Prosperity Gospel has made Pastors excessively rich while the congregations suffered. It has created a shift from spiritual growth to materialistic pursuits.

But, there is no hypocrisy with God. What you see on the outside is exactly what is driving the inside. God converts us from the inside outwards so that we have this inner desire to serve Him because we want to, not because we have to.

The inner wheel that motivates us is linked to fulfilling the revealed Word for our day, it is not linked to church rules and traditions.

Repetition means a point is important


EZEKIEL 1:17 “When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.”

Once we know that at the end we must return to the beginning, then we must not change our final goal which is to be like the first church age.

If we start by believing what is written in the Bible then it is very important that we do not replace the Scriptures with quotes.

Circumstances on earth change, but the Divine Will never turns left or right in response to human pressure. God knows the goal and He moves relentlessly towards it despite all the sin, the distractions, and the deceptions that the Devil uses to confuse us.

Being chosen by God was never meant to be comfortable or easy. It was meant to carry a Message that can be unbearably heavy at times. A cross that is too heavy if we do not die to ourselves.

Jesus needed help with His cross. We need His help with our crosses.

God’s plan is unshakeable. We must never try to modify it. Just obey Him as we move back to the beginning. Never turning implies an intense effort. It is not an easy way. God moves in a straight line to oppose sin. The seed that will be harvested is identical to the seed that was planted. The early church had all things in common. They never celebrated birthdays. They took no part in politics. They were told to forgive a person 490 times. If you asked them for a coat, they would also give you a jacket as well. If they were forced to walk a mile to help somebody, they happily walked two miles if necessary. They fed their enemies. They knew something that the modern church has lost sight of, because we tend to deviate far from these standards.

They turned not. The same apostolic doctrines that laid the foundation of the first church age will, somehow, be restored at the end of the seventh church age.

ZECHARIAH 4:9  “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.”

ZECHARIAH 4:10  “For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”

A plummet weight on the end of a string gives the true vertical direction, the path to God. The seven messengers to the seven church ages have given true direction to the seven church ages.

The final seed that is harvested at the end is identical to the original seed of truth that was planted at the beginning by the apostles.

Our biggest fear is falling to our death

Great heights inspire fear and great caution. Everest is our highest mountain but it is also our largest open-air graveyard. About 200 frozen corpses litter its slopes. Many became delusional in that thin air and paid a big price for trying to have their brief moment of glory when they would be the highest person on earth. Elevated above everyone else was a huge boost to their ego. But it came with a heavy cost.

EZEKIEL 1:18   “As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.”

Being very high can be dreadfully scary.

Human eyes always have a blind spot. So we cannot trust human leadership.

These supernatural eyes were “round about” the living beings. Thus, they could see in all directions, past, and future and knew the full truth.

Natural Eyes see the "horrific slaughter" or the "physical loss."

The Eyes in the Rings see the "Spiritual Gain" and the "Divine Likeness."

The rings (the outer rims or tires of the wheels) being "so high that they were dreadful" represents the sheer scale and sovereignty of God’s plan. This is where we realize that while the Spirit dwells within us, the scope of God's work is far above our human comprehension.

“Dreadful” speaks of all the judgements that are stored up in Heaven, just waiting to be unleashed on earth during great tribulation, once the Bride has left.

Here is the breakdown of why these rings were "dreadful" and "full of eyes":

The height of the wheels suggests a perspective that transcends time and space.

Brother Branham’s teachings lifted us to greater spiritual heights. The air gets thinner and we hallucinate easily into false doctrines.  If we fly too close to the Sun we get burned. Careless Pastors became delusional in their man-made guesses and speculations. They began to hallucinate that brother Branham is Jesus. That he is infallible. That he is the Voice of God. (No New Testament Scripture speaks of the Voice of God.)

The dread includes the awful judgements that smite the earth after the Bride leaves.

The dread forces Bible teachers to remain strictly Scriptural. Use brother Branham’s quotes to explain Scripture but never contradict a Scripture with a quote.

No Scripture says the Pastor is the head of a church.

No Scripture says that the tithes belong to the Pastor.

No Scripture says that the Pastor will see you through.

So, you should not believe those ideas.

The highest achievement for the church is the resurrection of the dead New Testament saints in their glorified bodies. Then comes the Highest achievement for the living Bride as they are changed into their glorified bodies by the mysterious, unwritten seven Thunders. This awesome supernatural power will also sweep up the two Israelite prophets Moses and Elijah. It will give them their incredible power over the forces of Nature so that they can force the Jews to return to Israel using the supernatural power of the seven Trumpets.

CAB-10 — 10 - A RESUME OF THE AGES

“Now we are told that all these insects are all one and the same in different stages. That is right. They are the antichrist spirit manifested in organization, denomination and false doctrine through the ages. And that poor little root and stalk is going to be restored. God isn’t going to plant a new Church, but is going to bring His original planting back to original seed. He is doing it as stated in Joel 2 verse 23, by the teaching, or “former” rain.

Next will come the harvest rain or rapturing faith.”

The harvest only happens when the plant produces a seed that is identical to the seed that was originally planted at the beginning. When the Bride returns to the apostolic beliefs of the first church age, only then will we get rapturing faith.

63-0318 — THE FIRST SEAL

“And then there is coming forth seven mysterious Thunders that’s not even written at all. That’s right. And I believe that, through those Seven Thunders, will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith. Because, what we got right now, we wouldn’t be able to do it. There is something. We’ve got to step farther. We, we can’t have enough faith for Divine healing, hardly. We’ve got to have enough faith to be changed, in a moment, and be swept up out of this earth.”

That is the highest ring, when the Bride is caught up to Heaven.

If you are not in a new body then you would be terrified of the height, in your sinful body.

63-0321 — THE FOURTH SEAL

“Wait till them Seven Thunders utter Their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God and hand It there, It’ll slice and cut. And they can close the heavens. They can shut this, or do that, whatever they want to. Glory! He’ll be slayed by the Word that proceeds from His mouth, is sharper than a two-edged sword. They could call for a hundred billion tons of flies if they wanted to.”

The seven mysterious Thunders will also utter to Moses and Elijah to enable them to control Nature. They can make hailstorms, earthquakes, floods, tidal waves and dense swarms of flies.

The final Pope will struggle to fight against them with his evil armies.

Omniscience: The eyes mean that the "Work" (the wheels) is perfectly intelligent. In a system led by a Pastor, being a man however talented, his human eye has a blind spot.

Because the rings are both high and full of eyes, it tells us that God’s government is based on Total Oversight.
The eyes represent seeing the truth of the deep Bible mysteries. We have to be able to understand the written mysteries of Scripture first (the former rain). Only then will we be able to follow the clues that will lead us to recognize the unwritten mysteries of the seven Thunders when they utter.

The Bride is caught up to meet the Lord in the air

EZEKIEL 1:19  “And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.”

The living creatures set the pace and gave the Bride the correct direction to move in. Under their Scriptural guidance the Bride will become just like the early church. The Holy Spirit, manifest as the living creatures, will eventually lift up from the earth to meet the Lord in the air. So, the Bride, who has been taught to believe and follow the guidance of these Bible mentors, will automatically be caught up by their power to meet the Lord in the air.

1 THESSALONIANS 4:17  “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.”

This was reflected in the famous saying of Elisha as Elijah lifted up to Heaven in his supernatural chariot that had two wheels. Not four. The Old Testament was just half of the picture. The ascent of Elijah was a preview of the whole New Testament Bride being caught up to Heaven.

2 KINGS 2:12 “And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.”

Elijah represents the rapture of the Bride.

Elisha represents the 144000 Israelites who are called out to meet the Lord at the end of great Tribulation.

The two pieces of his clothes represent the two Jewish groups who finally go into the 1000 years of Peace, after great Tribulation.

Elijah represented the Bride caught up to Heaven by the moving wheels of the Holy Ghost power. Elisha represented the Gospel going to the Israelites during the final 3½ years of great Tribulation that end in the battle of Armageddon.

Two groups of Israelites are purified in great Tribulation and will enter into the Millennium, the 1000-year Kingdom of Peace.

ZECHARIAH 13:8 “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.”

EZEKIEL 1:20

“Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.”

The Bride is caught up by the Holy Ghost to meet the Lord in the air. Jesus is the Word of God. The Spirit is Life. When life leaves, Death enters on the pale corpse-coloured horse of the fourth Seal. The voice of the fourth beast, the flying eagle in the fourth Seal, revealed the mysteries of Scripture to take the Bride back to the first church age. God’s Spirit used this voice to teach us in the former rain (“moreh” the teaching rain) how to interpret the Word of God. Those who received that Scriptural revelation will be changed in the 40 days between the resurrection of the New Testament saints and the rapture. That change will be caused by the 7 Thunders during the latter rain or harvest rain when the original seed is pulled off the dead church plant.

The seven Thunders will be totally unexpected and be in the midst of confused and unexpected events. Remember, Elijah was partially taken up to Heaven in a supernatural chariot as well as also being pushed upwards by a physical whirlwind.

2 KINGS 2:1 “And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.”

The end of the last church age will be a tough time.

A whirlwind speaks of a windstorm of chaotic pandemonium and turbulence wherein God preserves His Bride by removing them from earth. Those who stay behind reap the whirlwind of judgement.

HOSEA 8:7 “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:”

The intense power of the 7 Thunders will equip Moses and Elijah to somehow guide and force the Israelites to return to their Promised Land to meet the Messiah.

Suddenly God stands still


EZEKIEL 1:21  “When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.”

The wheels and the faces went together. In the deadly chaos of great Tribulation, the two prophets will have to pay close heed to the movement of the Spirit. Fear produces self-discipline and obedience to God’s Will.

Then everything stood still. The wheels and the faces. Moses and Elijah will finally be killed and their dead bodies will lie in the street of Jerusalem for 3½ days.

The 144000 who followed them must also be killed.

Consider the Jewish martyrs who were slain during the seven church ages and are undeservedly given white robes in Heaven.

REVELATION 6:11 “And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.”

Their fellow servants are the 144000 Israelites.

“And when those were lifted up from the earth”. Then the two prophets are raised up from the dead and ascended up to Heaven in a cloud of witnesses.

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.”

1260 days is 3½ Bible years of 360 days. This is the time of great Tribulation.

The Two witnesses will be Moses and Elijah. They will convert the 144000 Israelites as a cloud of witnesses to celebrate their great Tribulation ministry.

REVELATION 11:6  “These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”

Moses turned water to blood in Egypt. He knows how to do it as he has already done it.

Elijah called for a 3½ year drought. He knows how to do it as he has already done it.

EXODUS 7:19  “And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.”

JAMES 5:17  “Elias (the Greek for Elijah) was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.”

REVELATION 11:7  “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”

The two prophets, Moses and Elijah, will be killed after 3½ years.

They will be the leaders of the 144000 Israelites who will also be killed. The Jews killed their Messiah in AD 33, so they also have to be killed.

The Jewish people demanded the death of Jesus and took responsibility for His death.

MATTHEW 27:25  “Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.”

REVELATION 11:8  “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”

The Lord was crucified at Jerusalem. But it had become an exceedingly sinful city.

REVELATION 11:11  “And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.”

The resurrection of the dead prophets.

REVELATION 11:12  “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.”

The cloud refers to a cloud of witnesses. The 144000 that were resurrected and ascended with the two witnesses as a cloud of witnesses that testified to the success of their great Tribulation ministry.

"Firstfruits" refer to the first handful of wheat, or any other crop, that gets ripe.

"Firstfruits" refers to the resurrection from the dead because Jesus was the first Man to resurrect in a glorified body that can never die.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:20  “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”

This same word “firstfruits” is used to describe the 144000.

REVELATION 14:4  “These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.”

The word “women” refer to the end-time churches. They believe the same as the wise virgins of Matthew 25 who made it to the rapture.

The 144000 Israelites are able to find Jesus and follow Him because they have nothing to do with any of the foolish-virgin churches that end up in great Tribulation. That simply proves that the final churches have all failed to discover the revelation of the Bible mysteries.

These churches either ignored or rejected brother Branham’s teachings or they corrupted them by elevating his quotes above Scripture. They called his quotes “infallible” despite his prediction that America would be destroyed by 1977.

The Message-churches will not impress the 144000 because their two prophets Moses and Elijah will know more of the Bible mysteries than what brother Branham knew.

They will know the mysteries of the seven Thunders because they will have uttered and taken the Bride up to Heaven. The seven Thunders will also give the 2 prophets great supernatural power over Nature. They will have seen the Lord come off the Mercy Seat to claim His Bride and will thus know His new name. Message-people who think they know what the 7 Thunders say and who think they know what the new name is, will stay behind in great Tribulation so that they can learn the truth from the two prophets. The two prophets will live through the events of the seven Trumpets and the seven Vials and will thus know all about them. Brother Branham could never explain the seven Trumpets and the seven Vials in any detail because those events have nothing to do with the Bride.

With two genuine prophets to guide them, the 144000 will not be in the least interested in anything that the end-time churches say. Message churches will be marooned on their islands of fake news that they have built on their misinterpretation of certain cherry-picked quotes that take them away from Scripture. The 144000 will have a tumultuous journey out of their countries back to Israel. They will not be interested in putting up church buildings. Self-elevated Message-Pastors, disputing with each other’s egos, will not compete with two prophets who demonstrate the supernatural power of the 7 Thunders as they control the massive forces of Nature.

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” — 1 Corinthians 16:23