Paul and Mark agree on the 10 Commandments

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Mark writes for the end while Paul refers to the start

The 5^th Commandment is positive, that we should honour our father and mother.

The first 3 Commandments tell us about God. The last 7 Commandments describe the 7 church ages.

4^th Commandment refers to First Church Age.

Remember the Sabbath Day. Sabbath means rest.  We must rest from our sinful works by repenting and being born again of the Holy Spirit. Then the Holy Spirit in us makes us lose the desire to go back to our sinful works and unbelief.

God rested on the seventh day and never went back to His works.

Spiritually, the Word is the Father of the church that the Holy Spirit, as Mother, gave birth to on the Day of Pentecost. The apostles only preached the Word and thus became the fathers of the future church ages. These Christians were born again of the Holy Spirit which made them submissive to the Word, just as a wife is submissive to her husband.

5^th Commandment refers to the Second Church Age.

Honour your father and mother. This has a deeper spiritual application.

The Second Church Age was to set an example by believing and behaving the way the First Church age had done. Copying the example of the early apostles who set up home churches free from one-man domination because they were ruled by groups of local elders. The church was not a building. The people were the church when they were guided by the Holy Spirit that was in them.

Mark writes to the Bride at the end of the last church age.

The Commandments he refers to indicate the order in which basic errors entered the church during the seven church ages, so as to produce the apostate last charch age of the Laodiceans that is so in love with itself.

MARK 10:19  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Paul writes to the First Church Age believers who established the true beliefs of the church. If these beliefs had continued, the last church age would never have ended in apostacy.

ROMANS 13:9  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Paul says covet. Mark changed this to defraud. Why?

Today's Pastors are unscripturally elevated to be the head of the church. That makes them covet being a Bible teacher. They are not gifted to understand the Bible mysteries. So, they defraud the people by leading them away from Scripture into their interpretation of quotes. Then they oppose and attack Bible teachers.

Paul leaves out honouring father and mother. Why?

Paul speaks to the First age Bride. No father and mother are honoured as their church age is the father and mother, the example for the 7 church ages.

They had no adultery with Jewish and pagan religions that had a priesthood elevated between the believers and their God.

Don’t kill try to kill truth with unscriptural pagan error that always built temples and elevated a man to be in charge of the building. Do not steal and copy the big centralized pagan Roman system of Empire-government under a god-king.

No false witness of church names like Lutherans, or Methodists, or Baptists, or Pentecostals, or Message churches. They were just  called Christians.

Believing an unscriptural doctrine is a false witness.

They never coveted a teaching ministry, they just believed what Paul taught and had no desire to disagree with him.

They loved their fellow believers, as they did not hate people who had different ideas. They won converts by love and kindness, not by rejecting and hating them. They would criticize a doctrine but not criticize the person who held the doctrine.

If the church had not made all these mistakes, the church would have been in far better shape at the end. Today there are over  2000 different variations of church and denominational doctrines. The churches have become a spiritual swamp.

Mark writes to the hard-working Bride of the seventh church age.

MARK 10:19  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Do not commit adultery with Roman Catholic beliefs that dominated the Dark Ages.

The spirit of Rome enabled ambition and vengeance to gain power in the church.

The Pastor’s promotion to be the one-man-head of the church is simply an unscriptural ladder for the leader’s ambition.

Do not kill Bible truth by inflicting the unscriptural Trinity on people like they did at the AD 325 Council of Nicaea.

Do not steal Catholic ideas, like the Protestants did, of having one man (a Priest or a Pastor) in charge of a local church who preaches the unscriptural Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Monday, or Sunday Sabbath etc.

(JAMES 2:1  My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.)

A celebrity pastor simply produces a cult of personality.

ROMANS 16:5  Likewise greet the church that is in their house.

There were no church buildings until about the year AD 220. The people were the church. Not the building.

Message churches have become a personality cult wrapped up in the language of faith. The emphasis is always on the Prophet or the Pastor.

In the terror of great tribulation, the Pastors’ unscriptural authority will dissolve into irrelevance.

57-0908 HEBREWS CHAPTER FIVE AND SIX.1

"Show me by the Bible what's greater, in the Bible, than a local elder to a local church?

That's right, yes, sir, the sovereignty of the local church,"

Do not bear false witness with a church name: People are Christians, not Lutherans, Methodists, Pentecostals, or Megachurch members, or Message church, or Branhamites, or Jeffersonville Tabernacle members.

Defraud not by coveting a Bible teacher’s ministry and then leading the people away from Scripture into your wrong interpretation of human quotes. Then compounding the error by destroying the reputations of the Bible teachers.

Then comes the last commandment. Honour thy father and mother.  Get back to the Bible beliefs of the First Church Age.

This Exodus from the church of the Laodiceans, who demand their rights to worship God in a way that suits them, to become the Scriptural Bride is the Mystery (singular) of God.

Only those who make that transition have understood the message of brother Branham.

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.

62-1111 — WHY I'M AGAINST ORGANIZED RELIGION

“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.” How close are we then, brother? What’s the last call? “Come out of Babylon!”

Now, my brethren, that’s the reason I’m against it. It’s unscriptural. It’s unorthodox.”

The "Shout" is when the Bride saints at the end-time become Scriptural.

65-1127 I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE

"Dear God, in this solemn moment, it's going to be a time like this when there really will be a clap of thunder someday, and the Son of God shall descend from the heavens with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God, the dead in Christ shall rise."

This was one month before brother Branham died. Thus, the Angel of Revelation Chapter 10 never came down in his lifetime.

“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,”

The days of the seventh angel were from 1947 – 1965 when he recorded his sermons. Then he died.

The days of his recorded voice only, were from 1966 –  today.

Brother Branham only “begins to sound”, means that he only makes a success of his ministry when the Bride becomes Scriptural.

The Bride becoming Scriptural produces the end-time Seed.

64-0726 — RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY AND ITS MESSAGE

Don’t you see the Message of the hour? Can you recognize where we are?

The Message itself, from the Scripture, interprets to you the hour we’re living in. It’s the interpretation.

64-0409 — THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHRIST IN ALL AGES

So I like the Message to be God-constructed with the Scriptures, a Scriptural Message, and right there with It, everything with the Scripture. It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, then. And it’s got to stand, because, it isn’t my word that’s in question, it’ll be His Word that’s in question. Bring it from the Scripture!

64-0208 — THE TOKEN

But when God is in it, a Message is going to follow that, and that Message must be from the Scripture. That must be a Scriptural Message. It must come THUS SAITH THE LORD.

62-0727 — WE WOULD SEE JESUS

And if it’s not Scriptural, then you owe it to me to tell me about it, show me where it’s wrong.

And if it is Scriptural, then you’re duty bound to obey the Scripture.

The seed that will be harvested (at the Rapture) has to be identical to the seed that was planted (by the early apostles).

That is the mystery of God that nature alone can perform.

“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,”

When the unscriptural last-age church of the Laodiceans (Meaning, I demand my rights to serve God my way) finally produces a duplicate of the first church age, who can understand the mysteries (plural) of God, then the mystery (singular) of God is finished. The harvest seed is pulled off the dead earth plant of man-made church religion and caught up to Heaven.