Lampstand Part 2 Bible truth gets restored

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I will restore saith the Lord to Joel

JOEL 2:25   And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Two spiritual insects and two spiritual worms undermined the Bible’s truth during the first four church ages.

But God gave Joel the great prophecy that He would restore the understanding of the Bible's truth in the end.

DANIEL 12:10   … But the wise shall understand.

The foolish virgins of Matthew 25 would continue to be fooled by their elevated Nicolaitan pastors who each insist on being the head of a church. Christ is the Head of the church. We know Him as the Word of God, the King James Bible.

EPHESIANS 5:23   For the husband is the head of the wife,

even as Christ is the head of the church:

But the wise virgins would understand and be restored back to the beliefs of the first church age that was established by the apostles.

Chapter 3 of the Book of Revelation mentions three church ages where Bible truth revived.

Chapter 2 of the Book of Revelation dealt with the Christian church losing the truth in the Dark Ages that was at first established by the apostles.

Instead of moving away from the first church age (which is EVIL), if we reverse the direction and move towards the first church age, then when EVIL is reversed, it becomes LIVE.

Revelation Chapter 3 deals with the restoration of the truth from the Dark Ages, back to the beliefs of the first church of the apostles.

Please notice. The seventh church age is not complete. It has to be restored back to the fulness of the first church age.

LIVE

Christ was only seen in the first candlestick, which is in the middle or midst of the candlesticks.

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

We do not seee Christ in the seventh candlestick because He stands outside the church door, knocking.

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

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

Martin Luther in Germany restored salvation by grace through faith alone, not any good works.This was the fifth church age.

The King James Bible was translated and checked for about 158 years before being produced in 1769 to act as the foundation of the coming missionary age.

John Wesley in England restored holiness and outreach which led to the great missionary age of the 1800s.This was the sixth church age.

Starting in Wales in 1904 and then in 1906 in Los Angeles, Pentecost restored the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

By 1906 the seventh church age had started.

William Branham in America, between 1947 and 1965, revealed the mysteries of Scripture so that our understanding of Bible truths could be restored to what the first church age believed.

The last church age is when the wise virgins, the Bride, have enough light from their oil lamps in order to read and understand the King James Bible.

Reformers were only effective when trying to move the church back closer to the Bible beliefs of the first church age of the apostles.

Church Age 5.

The Reformation made a new start from the other side of the candlestick.

There was still much ignorance in the church but a new desire had been awakened to start getting back to the doctrine of the apostles in the New Testament.

When the Reformation started, Luther stood out like a solitary light in the darkness. Saved by grace through faith alone and not by good works. Soon he was joined by other reformers.

The brave Martin Luther in Germany defied the murderous church system, and the reformers of this age were the first leaves shooting up as the seed Word of God began to germinate. For hundreds of years the seed had been buried in the dirt of the Dark Ages. The reformers restored salvation by grace through faith in Christ and not by works.

Then Satan fought back and soon politics and violence re-entered the church.

But a beginning had been made to get back to what the early apostles taught. The church age of Sardis, the escaped ones.

The King James Version of the Bible was born in 1611 to give the Scriptures in English and was checked and re-checked before being finalized in 1769. Then It formed the backbone of the golden missionary age.

The 5th church age looked like the above candlestick as Luther and the reformers had moved to the other side of the lampstand to start a new movement. He wanted to restore the apostolic doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone. He did not want to use good works as the key to salvation to move further away from the New Testament Scriptures.

Church Age 6.

Then John Wesley, in England, abstaining from preaching politics and rejecting violence, restored holiness and outreach, which laid the foundation for the great open door of the missionary age. The life-giving pollen of the Word of God was carried around the world. This was the golden church age of Philadelphia, brotherly love.

The truth of Scripture was getting stronger so the sixth church age looked like the above candlestick.

Church Age 7.

This present age of the “church of the Laodiceans” (notice they make up their own church) is the last church age.

We are supposed to become just like the early apostolic church of the New Testament.

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

There must be no differences between the first church age believers and the last church age believers.

The Pentecostal outpouring in Wales in 1904 and at the unknown downtown 312 Azusa Street building in Los Angeles in 1906 restored the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. The church was on track to being restored to the beliefs of the apostolic church of the New Testament. This was the husk that protects the seed. But sadly by 1917 Pentecost was denominating into factions just like the other churches had done.

God did not just want a restoration of the Holy Spirit power, He also wanted a full restoration of the Bible truth.

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

Today the seed, which is the Word of God, has to ripen in the revealed truth of Scripture.

The final or last seed that a plant produces is identical to the original seed that was first planted. There is no difference.

That is why Jesus calls Himself the First and the Last. Only the first and the last church ages had the full truth.

If the 7th age produces a different seed to the first age, then the 7th age church is a man-made modified hybrid.

But there is no eternal life in a hybrid.

God wants every seed to bring forth of its own kind. God never ordained a hybrid seed.

But churchgoers prefer church loyalty to Bible truth. Each person only believes what his or her church preaches. They learn to reject any revealed truth that is different from what their specific church teaches.

Modern churchgoers value their pastors' opinions more than what is written in the King James Bible.

This is how the seventh church looks as it is locked in man-made commandments and doctrines and thus cannot discover the full truth of Scripture.

The church has come a long way from the Dark Age but is still not back to the beliefs of the original apostles.

Having introduced awful beliefs like gay rights and same-sex marriage, the churches are in a disasterous retreat from truth.

The focus on the supernatural is not the key to success, though the supernatural is wonderful.

Much supernatural in the church, if not accompanied by an understanding of the Bible's mysteries, is a deception.

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.

The will of God is always for us to understand the Word of God.

The wise virgins of Matthew 25 are defined as those who understand the meaning of the Scriptures.

DANIEL 12:10   ... but the wise shall understand.

MATTHEW 13:12   For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance:

Those who have understanding of the Scripture will gain an even deeper understanding.

MATTHEW 7:22    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.

MATTHEW 13:12   ... but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

Those who have little understanding will end up not understanding much of what they once understood.

Their focus will be on power and fame and money and women. The downfalls of man.

These Christians produced an impessive display of the supernatural. But God was not impressed with them.

Not understanding the mysteries of Scripture causes the churches to understand less and less of the Bible's truth.

Listen to church preachers tell you about the mistakes, contradictions, myths, and faulty translations in the King James Version of the Bible.

Thus, they have no Absolute to focus their attention on.

So, in the last church age of the Laodiceans (people’s rights) the church has lost direction.

The church should get back to the Bible beliefs of the New Testament in the first church age.

We need to focus on being restored to the church age of the apostles.

Otherwise Bible knowledge will shrink in our 7th church age as churches become increasingly Bible-illiterate.

The Bible warns that the seventh church is blind. Modern churchgoers are increasingly Bible-illiterate.

REVELATION 3:17    Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

The church has got richer and more materialistic instead of more Biblical.

Today there are 45000 different kinds of denominational and non-denominational churches. That represents a wide spectrum of different beliefs. There is obviously much error in the church world.

Today’s church world can get people saved (which is very good) and teach them many good truths about the Holy Spirit and how to live a good life. But then the church proceeds to lose direction, starting with all their varieties of water baptism in a money-driven age of competitive Christianity that has many unscriptural traditions and doctrines (which is bad). This mixture of good and bad makes the church lukewarm. As such they are keen to reject the end-time revelations of Scripture.

Thus, Jesus stands outside the door of the church.

The end-time church rejects Jesus as the written Word of God.

They are happy to restore the Spirit of God but not the Truth of revealed Scripture.

The next diagram is how the seventh church should look as it seeks to be restored in both Spirit and Truth, to the New Testament church.

Thus, the restoration of Spirit and Truth, back to the example of the New Testament church, since the Reformation that started in 1520 looks like this:

Thus, looking at the full candlestick, in terms of the light of the Bible truth, reveals two trends.

The central lampstand was the first church age.

Church ages 1 to 4 revealed a movement away from Scripture to the right.

Church ages 5 to 7 reveal a movement back to Scripture, on the left, that will only end when the last church, the 7th church, is just like the first church.

Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, must agree.

Please note that there is great depth in the symbols of Revelation.

The many symbols in the Book of Revelation cover the history of the church plus the events leading up to the Coming of the Lord and then the 3½ years of great Tribulation that sets in as the Gospel returns to the Jews. Then comes the titanic battle of Armageddon and the 1000 years of peace before the new Heaven and the new Earth set in.

Then there will be no more sea.

The sea will explode and totally destroy the surface of the earth and burn up all the orbiting satellites. There will be no trace left of all our technological and scientific “marvels” that did great things but also caused much damage and produced huge imbalances. The final unsustainable fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Our churches have been weighed in the balances and found wanting.

Eternity must be built on a much better foundation, which is Jesus Christ. He somehow will combine both Heaven and Earth for the welfare and benefit of those who became born again of both Spirit and Truth