Revelation 04 Nobody compares with Jesus

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We only get into heaven when the church ages are over

REVELATION 4:1   After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

“After this”.

After the seven church ages of Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 were over, it was time for the church to be caught up to Heaven.

The same voice of Scripture that speaks to us down on earth is the same voice that will catch us up to Heaven. Once we learn that every Scripture is infallible and true, then God’s Word speaks to us in a clear-cut way like a loud trumpet signal. The Word demands our immediate obedience.

The Word of God, the King James Bible, that we learned to obey as the Absolute truth, is the same Word that will change our bodies into immortal bodies one day. Only then can we be caught up to Heaven by that same Word. Jesus is the Word of God. There is no difference between Him and the Bible because the Bible tells us His thoughts. If you criticize the King James Bible in any way, then you are criticizing the thoughts of Jesus. Then you do not truly love Jesus. His Bride will understand the mysteries of Scripture as they are in love with His thinking which is expressed as the Word of God.

The purpose of the Holy Ghost baptism is to guide us into an understanding of the revelation of God’s mysteries.

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

DANIEL 12:10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand;

but the wise shall understand.

A virgin is a clean woman who represents saved Christians in the church.

Some of the saved Christians are wise but others are foolish, fooled by unscriptural church doctrines that are not written in the Bible like Trinity, Christmas, 25 December, Good Friday, Lent, the pastor is the head of the church, etc. Saved Christians are fooled by the church leaders who criticize the King James Bible. But all saved Christians in the churches 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.

:2     And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

:5     While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Conformity to church beliefs is what saved Christians are relying on.

Completely unaware that a dramatic wake-up cry in the form of some disaster is about to strike the world. That will finally wake them up to the inadequacies of their church beliefs and force them to leave their church as they suddenly realize that they need to know what the Bible says.

Criticising any part of the King James Bible means that Jesus, Who is the Word, stands outside the churches.

REVELATION 3:20   Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,

The voice of God is the Bible.

If the wise virgins want to understand the mysteries of the voice of God (the revealed Scriptures) then they have to get out of their churches.

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

When the wise, saved Christians, who put the King James Bible first, finally wise up to the fact that modern churches are a trap of deception, they will move out of the churches and then have to clean up their lives and beliefs to meet the standards of the revealed King James Bible.

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

Trimming the error off their beliefs forces them to stop condemning those Christians who are strictly Scriptural.

When Noah built the Ark there was only one door by which you could get in. This symbolizes Heaven. Jesus is the Door and you have to have a revelation of Who He is before you can enter. Jesus is the revealed Word of God that can be understood.

JOHN 10:9   I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

We see Jesus today as the King James Bible which tells us His thoughts. We must believe everything in the Bible to be the Absolute truth.

We go into the Word in order to study and understand the truth.

Then we go out to reflect the truth of Scripture, not our own ideas.

A trumpet has a loud and distinctive note that can be clearly heard. This voice was speaking personally to John.

That signifies that God speaks personally to each individual.

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: if any man hear my voice,

Jesus knocks on the door of the church of the Laodiceans.

But Jesus is not looking for the whole church. He is looking for an individual in the church who is prepared to be strictly Scriptural.

He is looking for an individual who has the courage to disagree with the church.

A Heavenly vision shows one Person on the throne

REVELATION 4:1   After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

“Come up hither”.

To everyone that hears the Word, John represented him or her.

Caught up before great Tribulation strikes the world.

Getting to the top of a mountain gives us a better view. So, God’s Word elevates us to a higher realm of understanding to enable us to see more. It gives us a definite direction as it brings us into the presence of Jesus Who is the Word. Thus, we become more Scriptural.

The direction that we have to move in is that we must be restored back to the beliefs of the first apostles in the first church age.

The Seed Word that was planted as the New Testament, died at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 when the unscriptural word "Trinity" was introduced.

Today it is called Iznik.

Bible truth was buried in the dirt of the Dark Ages and had to germinate in the Reformation of Martin Luther and be restored to the original Seed for the harvest when it will be reaped and pulled off the earth at the Coming of the Lord.

REVELATION 4:2   And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

John was caught up into Heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit. This action was symbolic. John, as one individual, was representing the Bride as he was caught up to meet the Lord. This verse indicates that God deals with each Bride member individually, not as a group.

At the end of the seventh church age, the Bride will be caught up to Heaven. After that, there will be just great Tribulation on earth for 3½ years.

You begin to see things when you get in the Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

There is only One on the throne, so there is no Trinity. Those who believe in a Trinity will not be caught up to Heaven.

A brief look at all the unscriptural expressions that are used to try to try to "prove" the Trinity.

Trinity

Triune

God the Son

God the Holy Ghost

[Yet “God the Father” is Scriptural, but only in the New Testament and not in the Old Testament. Why? Trinitarians cannot explain this fact.]

We continue with a list of unscriptural man-made doctrines:

Jesus is in the Godhead

One God in three Persons

First Person of the Godhead

Second Person of the Godhead

Third Person of the Godhead

Father and Son are co-equal

Father and Son are of the same essence

Three Persons in the Godhead

All these statements are not in the Bible.

Thus, Trinity is not a Scriptural doctrine. It is man-made.

But if you want a direct statement then look at

COLOSSIANS 2:9   For in Him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

ISAIAH 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no Saviour.

So be careful how you interpret Jesus sitting or standing beside God in Heaven as if He is a separate Person. Because then you have the Saviour Who is sitting or standing beside God.

And Isaiah says you cannot have a Saviour beside God, so this next picture is wrong.

All the Scriptures have to fit together. But it requires us having to think hard.

There is no easy path to truth.

PHILIPPIANS 2:12. … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Understanding the Bible takes hard work.

Jesus the Word is in such splendour of lovely colours

REVELATION 4:3   And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Jesus is at the centre of the rainbow when you are in Heaven.

Only from an aircraft that is up in the air can you see the full circle of the rainbow.

Only when we are in Heaven will we truly grasp that Jesus is the centre of everything. On earth we think that our good deeds or some great man was important. But we tend to overlook that it was the Spirit of Christ in the person that achieved the success.

REVELATION 1:2   Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

The Bible shows us the way. Only the Spirit of Jesus in us enables us to walk in the Bible way.

REVELATION 1:9   I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Christ somehow brought John through the tribulation of the persecution of the pagan Roman Emperors. The scum of the Roman Empire ended up on the prison island of Patmos. Yet, in that awful company, Jesus was going to grant John the privilege of seeing these magnificent visions. The testimony of Jesus enables you to see a deeper vision as your personal situation deteriorates. It is all about Jesus living in the hearts of His people. The people are not important. The importance belongs only to  Jesus Who is in them, directing their paths.

The testimony of Jesus Christ. This is mentioned twice in the first Chapter of Revelation. Repetition means it is an important issue. We have to have Christ living in us as He controls our lives. Then Jesus gets all the praise for anything good that we did.

There were 12 stones on the High Priest’s breastplate. The red-brown Sardine or Sardius stone was first and the red-brown Jasper stone was last.

(The red-brown Jasper is just called red Jasper).

Thus, the First and the Last stones were the same colour. The Last stone had to be the same colour as the First stone.

EXODUS 28:17   And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

:18     And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

:19     And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

:20     And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

Sardius is mentioned first. Jasper is mentioned last.

Jesus is the First and the Last.

REVELATION 1:17   And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not;

I am the first and the last:

We regard John as important because he was an apostle and a prophet. He wrote 5 Books of the Bible.

Yet in the presence of Jesus he just falls down as dead.

How much deader would you and I be in the presence of Jesus. His power cannot be fully described.

A rainbow has seven dominant colours. Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Powder blue or sky blue. Navy blue or indigo. Violet.

The rainbow represents the seven church ages. Each age produced a portion of the final Bride who will surround the throne of God, because Jesus is the Husband and Head of the church.

We can picture God’s Throne as being the unmeasurable depth of God’s thinking which is expressed in God’s Word.

God’s problem is having to bring His thinking down to our level so that we can understand Him.

Are we interested in doing the hard work to understand God’s deeper thoughts? Most Christians are not.

II TIMOTHY 2:15   Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

ISAIAH 55:8   For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

:9     For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

The throne is like an emerald which has a green colour. In daylight, the human eye is more sensitive to green than to any other colour. Green light has a wavelength of 555 nanometers. Five is the number associated with grace. It is only by grace that we are allowed to see the light of God’s Word and what it means in our final age, as well as what the Word meant in previous ages.

Five. Jesus on the throne with the Four bodyguards, the four beasts around the throne. That is our grace as they fight the Devil in he spiritual realm and deliver us from his clutches. They guide us down the true path.

The church is the Body of Christ. The four beasts protect and guide the church during the seven church ages.

God loves colour and has saved people of all colours.

To see a rainbow, the sun must be behind you

REVELATION 4:3   ... and there was a rainbow round about the throne,

The rainbow is caused by raindrops. On earth we see the upper half of the rainbow as the lower raindrops hit the earth. We can only see the full rainbow when we are lifted up in the air. Then we can also see a second rainbow with colours in opposite directions.

Things have changed.

The 144000 Jews are the only group to get the Holy Spirit during great tribulation.

In the red circle is the shadow of the photographer's head. Your shadow is always at the centre of the rainbow because the sun is behind you. Our shadow is symbolic of our sin. Sin is at the centre of our lives.

Self and selfishness dominate our lives.

Photo of rainbow taken from a plane. The shadow of the plane is in the centre of the rainbow made from water drops in the cloud.

Our only escape is to make Jesus the centre of our lives. He takes on our sins and eliminates them, in the same way that a light will eliminate a shadow. Then we have Light rather than shadow at the centre of our lives.

In Heaven, our sins are replaced by the righteousness of Jesus.

Things have changed.

That is our ultimate Heavenly reward.

Your future crown will be a pain free body

REVELATION 4:4   And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

24 elders. The original 12 apostles of the New Testament with Paul replacing Judas and the 12 patriarchs of the Old Testament tribes.

White robes. Spotlessly clean. Washed from all sin in the Blood of Jesus Christ.

When the seven dominant colours in the rainbow combine, then they form white light.

White means that the Bride from all seven ages have combined together in the resurrection and the Second Coming when they are caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

The white robes of the elders is the righteousness of the saints.

REVELATION 19:8   And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Crowns. “Stephanos” in the Greek.

These crowns will only be given at the end of the seventh church age. It is wrong for a Christian to wear a crown before then. The Lord must give each of us that crown, it cannot be given by some church group.

This is the triple crown that was wrongly worn by the Popes for about 650 years until they abandoned it in 1963.

II TIMOTHY 4:8   Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness [stephanos], which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

I PETER 5:4   And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory [stephanos] that fadeth not away.

But God’s thinking is much deeper than our shallow, worldly thinking.

The crown will not be some object that we wear on our heads. A crown on our heads is just a symbol that we will be given an immortal body that will never know pain or death. That is the real crown to reward us for serving Him.

In the same way, a sword coming out of His mouth is just a symbol of Jesus speaking the Word of God.

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There's a crown laid up for you, not a crown, a gold crown they put upon your head,

but a body free from pain

crowned in the glory of God, crowned in the immortality of Jesus Christ.

Mercy ends when the Bride is caught up to Heaven

REVELATION 4:5   And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Lightnings and thunderings. It is no longer a throne of mercy, it is a throne of judgement. When the church is caught up to Heaven, then only is mercy over.

Before the church is changed and caught up to Heaven there is still blood on the mercy seat and the sinner can still find salvation.

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What was it? "The mercy seat." Where are they now? And there inside of the ark was the what? The law. And the law, to trespass one commandment was to die without mercy. But being that you could have mercy, the blood had to lay on the altar. They sprinkle the mercy seat.

And the mercy seat is the altar where you kneel and ask for mercy.

God forbid that we ever take it from our churches, the old-fashioned altar where men can kneel and call on God for mercy. And mercy is rich, and flowing free from the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Now, also, that's the mercy. That's mercy seat.

Wherever you kneel and pray, you can ask for mercy.

But the time of mercy will end one day when the Holy Ghost leaves the earth and takes the Bride up to Heaven. Then, people are condemned to the fear and terror of the merciless great tribulation.

From then on, nobody can change anymore. You stay what you are at that stage.

REVELATION 22:11   He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Brother Branham now describes the Exodus of Israel out of Egypt:

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Judgment!" Whew! They had marched out there and God had given them grace to travel by, but they had demanded a law. God wanted them to be interdenomination; they wanted to make a denomination out of it, something they could argue about, instead of just following God and living under His jurisdiction, under His power. Grace had provided a prophet, grace had provided an atonement (a lamb), grace had provided all these things, and yet they wanted judgment. They wanted something they could do.

God said, "Assemble them together, I'll let them know what it is. I'll show them what it is." Read! Listen! And the voice of the trumpet got louder and louder until it shook the earth. You see what judgment is. I don't want that. Give me mercy!

REVELATION 4:5   And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices:

“And voices”.  Not one voice, voices.

See, live your sermons. Don't try to preach them if you're not called to be a preacher; you get all mixed up, anyhow, and messed up, and you'll get people tangled up, and you won't know... Well, you'll ruin them and yourself, too. Just live your sermon!

The preacher's called to preach his, and to live it too. If you can't live It, then you stop preaching It. But you're supposed to live your sermons.

All right, here was "voices." Oh, how we need in Jeffersonville thousands of lived voices, the thunder of God thundering out in sweetness and holiness, purity, undefiled lives, walking around in the earth today, without a blemish. Yes, sir, real Christians, that's thunder against the enemy.

The Devil don't care how loud you can holler; the Devil don't care how much you can jump or how much you can do this or shout.

But what hurts the Devil is to see that sanctified, holy life consecrated to God;

say anything to him, call him anything, just as sweet as it can be and move right on.

Oh, my! That throws him away, that's the thunder that shakes the Devil.

God manifests His Spirit in 7 different church ages

REVELATION 4:5   ... and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

“Seven spirits of God” are the seven manifestations of the same Holy Spirit. A different aspect of God’s Spirit was manifest in each church age to counteract the changing tactics of the Devil.

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Where's the Holy Spirit? Here at the Throne, shining out in each church age. This church age is reflecting back this way, the voices of God, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. See, seven, there was "voices."

… the voices speaking with thunder and lightning.

"And seven lamps on fire," seven Spirits, "which are the seven Spirits of God."

“Seven lamps of fire burning”.

Seven messengers to seven church ages who were each on fire for God’s Word.

They were not on fire for a church.

The last three messengers had to restore the apostolic truth of the first messenger, Saint Paul. His Bible truth had died and been buried in the dirt of the Dark Ages by the Roman Catholic church after the death of the fourth great messenger, Columba.  He operated mainly in Scotland after establishing monasteries in the islands of Iona and Lindisfarne.

The last three burning lamps were the indomitable courage of Martin Luther in Germany who faced down the powerful Roman Catholic church to restore getting saved by grace through faith. That was the fifth church age.

Then, the disciplined brotherly love of John Wesley in England restored holiness and outreach that led to the great missionary age in church age 6.

The freedom of the Spirit in the early Pentecostal restoration of the spiritual gifts in Wales and Asuza Street, Los Angeles in America, laid the foundation for the incredible insight of William Branham in America who revealed the deep mysteries of Scripture. These mysteries will enable the wise virgins in the end-time to understand the King James Bible and thus return to the teachings of Saint Paul in the first church age. These events were all part of the seventh church age as the revealed Word moved from East to West.

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 Son of man is Jesus revealed in His Word as He walks through the pages of the Bible.

The seven messengers were just reflecting the Light of the Word of God that comes from the throne of God. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. The messengers reflected the Word.

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Therefore we are imperfect, but He said "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." How can we be? Through the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, to forget our ownselves and just live in Him. There you are. How precious is It!

We cannot approach perfection unless we die to ourselves.

The water of separation

God's Word is designed to be water, which will separate us from sin and worldliness.

REVELATION 4:6   And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

Each beast or living creature is a manifestation of the power of God whereby God opposes the tricks of the Devil.

Four is an earthly number.

There are four main directions, North, East, West, and South.  The first letter of each word spells NEWS.

“Good news” speaks of the Gospel of Grace which speaks of earthly deliverance from sin. During the 7 church ages, Jesus spoke from the midst of the seven candlesticks.

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

Four speaks of earthly deliverance.

Lazarus was in the tomb for three days and raised up on the fourth day.

Three Israelites, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown to their earthly doom in the terrible hot furnace in Babylon. They had seconds left to live. Then, at the last second, the fourth Man appeared. Jesus, the Son of Man in a created Body. Because there were four in the fiery furnace, the three men were delivered.

They refused to bow to the pagan image of Daniel and God refused to let them burn.

The pagans had made an image of Daniel which is why Daniel was not expected to bow. This worship of a prophet in this first Gentile age of Babylon will repeat today in our last Gentile age of the Laodiceans. Brother Branham is elevated to be the Voice of God. The New Testament never speaks of the Voice of God.

This doctrine of brother Branham being the Voice of God is wild and untamed as it cannot be found within the confines of Scripture.

When the church ages are over, Jesus leaves the earth and then speaks from Heaven where He sits on His throne..

A sea of glass that was clear like crystal. A sea represents a multitude of people. Cleansed by the Blood of Jesus until they have no hidden sins and no hidden agendas. No doctrinal errors to leave a stain. Everything is totally transparent. This represents the Bride of Jesus from all seven church ages.

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"Sea of glass," where the sacrifice was washed... And we are washed... Oh, don't forget that, we're coming back to it after while, "Washed by the water of the Word."

Then you've got to hear the Word before you can enter there, because only one way you can approach God, that's by faith.

Is that right? "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word," washing our conscience. Not to meet a man, not to meet father, not to meet mother, not to meet baby (them's all true, we will do that), but the first thing we got to come is God's avenue of approach; we'll be washed when we hear the Word of God.

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By faith we're walking. Grace, "what God did for you." That's right. You believe God, you believe on God; and as soon as you are sorry, you're already forgiven.

In the Old Testament Temple, there was a sea of brass, a large brass pool on the back of 12 brass oxen, where the sacrificial washing was done. I Kings 7.

This was the water of separation that washed off the world. A separation between sin and godliness.

II KINGS 25:13   … and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

The Chaldees lived in the kingdom of Babylon. They destroyed the sea of brass (the brasen sea or brazen sea) to make money from the sale of the metal. Making money out of religion has always been vital to Babylon.

The water of separation had the ashes of a red heifer that had been burned. Ashes speak of a hot fire. Symbolic of Jesus shedding His red blood to pay for our sins and then walking through the fires of hell to separate us from our sins by dumping them on the Devil. But hellfire could not burn Him because He was sinless and Hell is designed to burn up sin and sinners.

The Red Sea opened to separate the Israelites from Egypt as they left. Egypt symbolises worldliness. The Red Sea symbolises the water of separation that separates us from sin and worldliness.

The red line shows where they crossed the Red Sea.

God's ways are not our ways. It would have been much easier just to follow the green path to Palestine.

We humans always prefer the easier path. If life's journey gets difficult we always think that God has not got things under control.

But if the Hebrews went up the green path, Pharaoh would have followed them into the Promised Land and killed them there.

But by following the difficult path to the Red Sea, God was able to open the Red Sea and destroy Pharaoh and his army.

The difficult path was essential to destroy the enemy.

This also illustrated the idea of the water of separation. God wants to eliminate the enemies of worldliness and pagan unbelief (think Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas tree, Easter bunnies, Easter eggs, Lent) as these unscriptural ideas stop us from worshipping God in Truth. Add to this the unscriptural Trinity where three Persons are never seen in Heaven, and the modern churches never complete the Exodus out of the Dark Ages where truth died and the Bible was banned. Today, the churches no longer ban the Bible, they just translate It into over 100 different versions to make sure that people cannot find the truth. Very subtle.

The mystery of feet washing.

JOHN 13:6   Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

:7   Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Before Jesus died, Peter could not understand the significance of washing feet.

JOHN 13:8   Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

:9   Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

JOHN 13:10    Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

Peter wanted his body to be washed clean, but Jesus was referring to the feet of clay and iron of Nebuchadnezzar’s Gentile image that had feet of “miry clay”. Wet clay.

The head, chest, and arms represented the destroyed Babylonian and Persian Empires whose people were already dead and could not benefit from being washed in the water of the Word. Thus, there was no symbolic act in washing Peter’s head and hands.

The Jews had salvation but at Calvary, the Jews rejected Jesus and salvation crossed over into the feet of the Gentile image.

EPHESIANS 5:26    That he might sanctify and cleanse it [the church] with the washing of water by the word,

The Gentile image had a head of gold representing the Babylonian Empire. Arms and chest of silver represent the Medes and the Persian Empire. The belly and thighs of brass represent the Greek Empire. Legs of iron representing the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

The feet represent the seven church ages.

The iron in the feet represented the Roman Catholic church, the only church that was present over 2000 years of church history since they claim Peter was the first Pope. The wet clay represents the true believers down through the seven church ages who were washed with the water of the Word.

Salvation belonged to the Jews in the Old Testament. Thus, salvation was outside the Gentile nations. At the cross things changed. Salvation crossed over from the Jews to the Gentiles and entered the feet of the Gentile image, ending in 10 toes who are the 10 Gentile dictators who will give their military power to the last Pope. The last Pope will then be able to rule the world as the figurehead of the Roman Catholic church which is the beast.

REVELATION 17:12   And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

Power "as kings". They are not crowned kings but have a king's power. They are dictators.

REVELATION 17:13    These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Their dictatorial military power and strength will be given to the Pope.

Today, the Pope is the only dictator in Europe.

A pastor who rules his church like a dictator has basically handed his church over to the Roman Catholic system of denomination.

The cruel pagan Western Roman Empire (in green) would collapse under the Barbarian invaders and that spirit of pagan Rome would resurrect on the ruins of the pagan Roman Empire as the Roman Catholic church, represented by the bits of iron in the feet. Water has no effect on iron other than to degrade it as rust.

Thus, the Roman Catholic church was separated from the New Testament and they adopted unscriptural beliefs. The miry or wet clay was weak but it was the true Bride. God does not rely on human strength.

DANIEL 2:41   And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

The feet of the Gentile image represent church history. The true Bride struggling against the Roman Catholic system of denomination, with one man as the head of a church, and teaching Trinity which is an unscriptural word that takes away the name of God. Three Persons cannot have one name. Thus Christians do not know the name of their Triune God.

EPHESIANS 5:26   That he [Jesus Christ] might sanctify and cleanse it [the church] with the washing of water by the word,

The Word is the water that separates the true believers from the Roman Catholic system of unscriptural denomination.

JOHN 13:10   Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

When the believers in the feet that represent the seven church ages are washed by the water of the Word, then they are the only people that can be cleansed from sin. The dead people from the previous Gentile kingdoms cannot get saved.

In Acts Chapter 19 Paul met disciples of John the Baptist in Ephesus. John had baptized without using a name. Paul told them to get rebaptized in the name of Jesus.

ACTS 19:5   When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

These disciples wanted to hear the Word and willingly obeyed.

The water of the Word washed away their unbelief.

While on Earth the human heart is the throne of God

REVELATION 4:6   And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

Eyes speak of intelligence.

“Eyes before” means they know the future.

“Eyes behind” means they know the past.

They are too intelligent to be fooled. Their intelligence holds them to the throne in Heaven. Staying with Scripture, the Word of God, is the only real intelligence that we can display. Being Scriptural is the only way that we can stop being fooled.

Jesus is the Word of God and His throne is above us. Thus, we must always regard the King James Version of the Bible as our Absolute Truth from above. Our perfect protection from error.

What do the four beasts and the 24 elders represent?

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.

John sees One on the throne, not three Persons. So, John saw no Trinity in Heaven.

Nobody in the Bible ever looked into Heaven and saw three Persons sitting on a throne. The ancient Egyptians gave birth to that idea. The next diagram is the Egyptian trinity of Isis, Horus, and Seb. Three persons sitting on a throne.

In the Bible, we never read of three Persons sitting on a throne.

Four beasts are around the throne. They are the four manifestations of the Holy Spirit who are to protect the church during the 7 church ages.

As the church struggles down below on earth, we rely heavily on this higher protection that is up in Heaven.

So, where is God’s throne on earth?

The only place that Jesus wants to dwell, that reminds Him of Heaven, is in the centre of the four chambers of the human heart. He wants to be the Lord of our hearts so that He can guide and direct our paths.

A repentant human heart is the only throne that He wants on earth during the seven church ages.

But Jesus wants to rule alone on the throne of your heart. There must be no room for Self or the World.

61-0101  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.2

God Chose a Man's Heart for His Control Tower? The Devil chose his head for his control tower; see, he makes him see things, look through his eyes.

God in his heart makes him believe things that he cannot see.

Did He? See, God is on his heart, in the heart of man is the Throne of God. You get it? Man! God made His Throne in the heart of man.

The four chambers of the heart symbolise the four beasts around the throne.

The four Gospels present different aspects of Christ’s Life and ministry.

Only chambers 1 and 3 have blood flowing into them which represents a bloodline.

Matthew Chapter 1 (chamber 1) as the Lion King gives the bloodline from David the great king.

Luke Chapter 3 (chamber 3) as the perfect Man gives the bloodline from Adam, the first perfect man who messed up. Then Christ comes as the last perfect Man to clean up Adam’s mess. There is no perfect man after Christ. Thus, the New Testament never speaks of the Voice of God.

Mark sees Christ as the Ox, the Servant. Nobody is interested in the bloodline of a servant, who his ancestors are.

John sees Christ as the Eagle, the Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit has no bloodline as God has always existed. God never dies.

Matthew presents Christ as the King. He was visited in a house, not a stable, by wise men who dramatically followed a Star, when He was a Child of two years old (not a new born Baby). Kings recieve important presents like gold and perfume and spices. Kingdoms run on taxes so the tax collector Matthew (also called Levi) records these gifts.

MATTHEW 2:11   And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him:

Kings are not born in stables, so Matthew just ignores His birth.

Luke presents Christ as a Man. Most men are poor. Jesus was even poorer, born as a Baby in a stable. Poor shepherds ran to see Him. Hot and sweaty, they felt at home in the smelly stable. Jesus makes poor people feel comfortable.

LUKE 2:12   And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

Mark presents Christ as the Servant. Servants do not produce birth certificates. John, His forerunner, had already baptized all of Judah by verse 9 of Chapter 1. John knew how to work. Servants come onto the scene when they are adults. Christ starts in Mark at 30 years old.

MARK 1:12   And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

No time wasting here.

MARK 1:17    And Jesus said unto them [Simon and Andrew], Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

:18    And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

Jesus only chose hard workers. Men who did not haggle about salary, annual leave, and special perks.  Christianity is not for slackers.

John presents Christ as the Eagle. God Himself. The Spirit of God was never born. “I AM” has eternally existed right from the beginning in ways that we humans cannot comprehend with our limited brain power.

The fact that we live in time does not mean that God has to live in time.

But what about the 24 elders who sit further out as they sit around the throne? These are the original 12 disciples from the New Testament, with Paul taking the place of Judas. And the 12 patriarchs from the Old Testament who were the sons of Jacob.

The elders are represented by stars in the next diagram.

REVELATION 4:4   And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

These 24 elders are represented by the 24 human ribs.

Thus, down on Earth, the human heart is the most accurate copy of God’s Heavenly throne.

MATTHEW 6:10   Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Whatever happens on Earth is pointless unless it is a copy of what is in Heaven.

So, from now on, there is going to be an invisible interaction as our human thoughts down on Earth get entangled with God’s thinking in Heaven.

We must Die to self-will to experience the Predestination of God.

Thus, our human free will in some way has to be merged into God’s Predestination even though at first they seem to be contradictory ideas.

We have to die to our selfish free will, and then we must want to be totally subject to God’s predestinated Will for our lives. Not because we have to, but because we want to. Because we love God’s Will, which is His Word, more than life itself.

Our difficulty is that God sees the long-term Big Picture of 2000 years of church history that God has to hold together, whereas we individuals only see the short-term benefits for our own selfish free will. It is essential that we learn to die daily in order to be subject to God’s Scriptural Plan.

Jesus was the perfect Example as He somehow was in Heaven (the realm of the Spirit) while He was on Earth (the realm of the flesh).

JOHN 3:13   And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,

even the Son of man which is in heaven.

The sign that Jesus was also in the Heavenly realm when He was down on Earth was His incredible ability to put aside any personal wishes on a matter.

LUKE 22:42   Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

He sees One Person, Jesus, on the throne and four beasts around the throne, who are to protect the church during the 7 church ages. In Heaven, the focus is on one Person only: Jesus Christ. He is the Word of God.

The King James Bible is the Word of God. Thus, the King James Bible must be perfect.

Jesus reflects His Light down to earth by using the four beasts.

These five represent grace.

They fight the battle for us if we will just stay faithful to the written Word.

Each beast represents two church ages

The seven-branched candlestick in the Jewish Tabernacle represents the seven church ages.

The central candlestick represents the first church age that was ignited or lit by the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.

The Lion represents the first two church ages where they believed in the true Word, Jesus. He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

The calf grew up to become a strong Ox during the 1200 years of the Dark Ages when truth died out after Trinity was introduced at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 in the third church age. The ox is a beast of slaughter. Tens of millions of Christians were killed by the Roman Catholic church in the fourth church age where Bible truth almost died out.

The Man-beast represented the human wisdom of the reformers. Martin Luther in Germany in the fifth church age restored salvation by grace through faith alone. The King James Bible was translated as the Absolute Word of God in England and finally published in 1769. Then, also in England, John Wesley in the 6th church age restored holiness and William Carey went to India to start the great missionary age in 1782.

This fifth church age was Sardis, the Escaped Ones. They escaped from the beast, the religious organization and domination of Roman Catholicism. But they made the fatal mistake of setting up a religious Protestant church hierarchy as the image of the beast. They made the pastor into the head of the church. The word "pastors" is only mentioned once in the New Testament which gives him no authority to be the head of the church.

60-1209  THE SARDISEAN CHURCH AGE

Now, notice, they did not bring back the Holy Ghost revival; they brought back a new church age.

They brought back a snatched-out one; escaped one from the Roman hierarchy, to make a Protestant hierarchy. That's the only thing they did. Jumped right out of the skillet into the fire, see. It's right. Exactly.

The Reformers made some great restorations but when wealthy church hierarchies were established, the Protestant church was doomed to fail in the end. To earn a living in the church system, preachers had to toe the denominational line.

The Eagle-beast has a tremendous eye for detail plus a brilliant view of the whole panorama of the 7 church ages. That gave us a clear revelation of the Bible mysteries through the ministry of the American prophet, William Branham. But his revelations always had a definite direction. They tried to restore believers in the 7th church age back to the first church age of the apostles.

But, because pastors were regarded as being the head of the church, they controlled the money. They only paid the preachers who agreed with them. Driven by greed, most preachers happily agreed to being told what to preach by the pastors who are now the unscriptural heads of their churches. The New Testament never had a pastor in charge of a church. Thus, the church structure is opposed to returning to the pattern of the early small churches who were each ruled by a group of local elders.

True believers now have to rely on specific websites of the internet as they seek to understand the meaning of the Bible verses.

But the internet does enable truth-telling websites, however few they are, to reach the ends of the earth.

Saved Christians in the churches are represented by the parable of the ten virgins of Matthew Chapter 25. A virgin is a clean woman who represents saved Christians in a church. Only the wise virgins will be ready for the Coming of Jesus. But to qualify as wise virgins, we have to understand the mysteries of Scripture.

DANIEL 12:10   … but the wise shall understand.

The Eagle-beast lifted the church up into the realm of the Pentecostal gifts of the Spirit. Because the eagle has a tremendous eye for detail, we are able to get great insight into the Bible mysteries through the ministry of William Branham. He taught us that we had to get back to the beliefs of the apostles in the first church age, who wrote the New Testament. The English language now dominates 60% of the internet as it spreads the truth to the ends of the world.

61-0108  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.3

And I remember in my vision when I seen the Presence of the Lord, or His people in that glorious Land yonder, I looked around, I told them... And they told me He would judge me first by the Gospel that I preach.

I said, "Just exactly the way Paul preached It!"

And them millions of people screamed out, "We're resting on that!" See? See.

Now, I want it to be so. And we are going to meet there someday.

And God never sent Brother Neville and I to be bosses, not at all.

We're just your brothers, you see, instructors in the Gospel. So let's all work together.

… So then if something has struck us, no matter how real it seems,

if it's not right, not Scriptural, get rid of it right now;

'cause there is a real One waiting, you see.

… And the Voice of God is His Word.

But the churches rejected brother Branham's ministry and his followers corrupted his teachings by not proving them from Scripture. Thus, the church world slides into the darkness of man-made opinions that spread far and wide on social media.

64 0119   SHALOM

… and to this Laodicea Age going into total darkness again.

61-0108  REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR.3

And the church age goes out with such a little bitty minority.

58-0928 THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Strait, strait, if you noticed it ain't s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t; it's s-t-r-a-i-t.

Strait is the way. Strait is water. How? Back to the Name of Jesus which...?... you have. "You haven't... Got a little life, you haven't denied My Name." That in here they lost and went into a Catholic denomination, come out in a Lutheran denomination, come out in a Wesleyan denomination, then they're going right into the Pentecostal then. But just before the end time, the Seed's almost gone from the earth, it's weighted out, the seed of the righteous. The seed of the serpent is accumulating faster and faster and faster, getting ready for this atomic age to be destroyed. "But just before that time, I'll send a way of escape. I've set before you an open door.

Strait is this gate and narrow is this way, and it'll be just a few of them that'll find it, for broad is the way that leads to destruction and many will be will go in thereat."

The technological revolution does not always help us find the truth as so much error floods into the internet.

People endlessly message friends on Whatsapp and angrily argue on mass media platforms. YouTube videos entertain but easily deceive as they occupy people’s time.

Mindlessly surfing the internet is a time waster of note.

Then being glued to a television to waste yet more time.

So, modern technology spews out much that is either wrong or just an irrelevant distraction, making it very difficult to actually filter out the truth.

We need to analyse information carefully if we want to be part of the wise virgins who can understand the mysteries of Scripture.

But this requires much time and modern technology is making sure that we waste a lot of our time.

We need to be careful. The Bible says that all the ten virgins who symbolize the end-time church are fast asleep and are in need of a wake-up call.

Think of it, all our churches are fast asleep, both the wise and the foolish or fooled, saved Christians

because virgins speak of clean women representing saved people in the churches.

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.

:2     And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

MATTHEW 25:5   While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

All the churches today are fast asleep as they cannot understand the revealed mysteries of God.

Nowhere in the New Testament was a man put in charge of a church. Truth cannot be revealed when the church system is wrong. The truth will be opposed by the man in charge as his income will be threatened if he stepped down to allow a group of elders to run the church.

When you are complacently asleep you feel nothing.

Tell a Christian that in the Book of Acts they only baptized using the name Jesus. They naturally included one title to specify which Jesus so they said “Jesus Christ” or “Lord Jesus”. They never baptized in the “name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” like the churches do today.

But the Christian, being asleep, feels nothing and has no desire to use a name instead of three titles.

Today’s Christians feel nothing when you tell them that “Trinity”, “God the Son”, and “One God in three Persons” are nowhere written in the Bible. They just sleep unconcerned, convinced that they are safe because they belong to a church. Undisturbed by the fact that there are, after all, 45000 different kinds of churches with different beliefs that they can belong to.

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

A cry speaks of distress. Some disaster on a world-wide scale will shake all the saved Christians out of their church-conforming complacency.

They will then discover to their horror that if they want Bible truth they will have to get out of their church as the churches cannot cope with the consequences of the disaster.

We had a preview during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Churches could not halt the spread of the pandemic and many church pastors and radio hosts (including a famous anti-vaccine TV evangelist) died from the virus. It was left to the brave medical people to develop a vaccine that made the virus less dangerous. Having failed to stop the virus themselves, many church people promptly attacked the vaccine as evil. Thus, the churches lose direction. They will be even more confused in the resulting chaos of the midnight cry disaster.

“Go ye out”. This means that the churches at the end will actually be a trap of deception and worldliness.

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

The black carbon has to be trimmed off the lamp’s wick.

They will realize that they need a higher standard of sanctification and they must forsake worldliness. The saved church Christians will realize that they have to take the doctrines of the King James Bible far more seriously. Their standards of dress and behavior will be radically upgraded as their eyes open to Bible truth rather than church traditions.

While in the church they had never really let Christ have control of them as they were still involved in worldly amusements.

They had allowed Christ to save them but then they also wanted to follow popular fashions and ideas.

Reverence and humility must precede action

REVELATION 4:8   And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

Eyes speak of wisdom. Full of eyes within represents inner wisdom that reflects from the throne of God.

They know what is happening in the present time.

They rest not. They are tireless. Totally committed to God’s Will which states that the Lord God Almighty on the throne is Jesus Christ.

He was our Saviour when He hung on the cross. He is our High Priest and He is to come as our King. Jesus is the complete Package. He does it all for us.

Holy, holy, holy. Repeating the word “holy” three times puts an emphasis on holiness. Jesus is holy. We cannot serve Him properly unless we are holy.

These beasts are Zoon in the Greek, meaning "living creatures". They are the guards around the throne. A beast means a power.

The beasts in Revelation Chapters 11, 13, and 17 are Therion, meaning "wild, savage, and untamed".

The pagan Roman Empire that Daniel saw looked like an awful and cruel beast that was very powerful.

Julius Caesar became famous when he changed the Roman Republic into the pagan Roman Empire that was ruled by one man. Caesar was the first Dictator. His sister’s grandson became the first Emperor, but he still ruled as a dictator. One man ruling as the head of the religious and political system became the pagan Roman method of control.

The Roman Empire then divided into two parts, the Western Empire of the Romans and the Eastern Empire of the Greeks.

REVELATION 13:1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

This verse refers to the Western Roman Empire. No colour is mentioned for this pagan Roman beast. The Western Roman Empire was ruled by politicians. The first rulers or Emperors were the family of Caesar and they were pagans. The Emperor was always the Pontiff or High Priest of the Babylonian mysteries.

Constantine became Roman Emperor in AD 312 and called himself a Christian but kept the title of Pontiff, giving him power over the pagans.

But in AD 378 the Western Roman Emperor was killed. His successor, Theodosius, handed over the title of Pontiff or Pontifex Maximus (High Priest of the Babylonian mysteries) to his uncle, Pope Damasus. The Babylonian priesthood entered the Roman Catholic Church. When he died, Theodosius split the Roman Empire into Western and Eastern Empires. (The two legs of the Gentile image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream that Daniel interpreted).

REVELATION 13:3   And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

The Western Roman Empire died from Barbarian invasions by AD 476. One of its 7 heads, the Capitoline Hill, was wounded unto death by Rome losing all its political and pagan religious power as the Capitoline Hill was the centre of power of the Roman Empire. Rome faded from the scene and became a neglected city. But, the Popes very cleverly and generously stepped into the gap to run the civil service in Rome and pay the debts. Slowly, the Pope took over the leadership of Rome as he ruled from the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill. The Pope, as the new Pontiff, began to recover the power that Caesar as the original Pontiff had lost. The city of Rome started to become more important again.

The 7 heads are the 7 hills of the original Rome.

The temple of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva (a trinity) was on the Capitoline hill.

The power of the Capitoline Hill as the centre of the pagan Roman Empire was destroyed by the barbarians.

Then the Roman Catholic church rose to power with its headquarters being the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill.

Thus, the cruel spirit of pagan Rome was resurrected from the dead on the ruins of the pagan Roman Empire as the Roman Catholic church.

Consequently, the deadly wound recovered as Rome's Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost spread worldwide.

The brutal pagan power of the Roman Empire that Caesar lost, was then picked up by the Pope as the Roman Catholic Church conquered its enemies. Thus the Roman Catholic Church would end up infiltrating its doctrines into the Protestant churches.

REVELATION 17:3    So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

REVELATION 17:4   And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,

The next time we see the 7-headed beast, it has a scarlet colour and a woman who rides and controls the beast.

The Pope in scarlet robes.

The Roman Catholic church is the woman who rides the beast. But the beast that she dominates also has a scarlet colour, which is the colour of the Roman Catholic Church. The church rules the pagan beast by converting the barbarian tribes to become Roman Catholics.

The woman rides the beast. There is nobody who can keep a check on her. She does as she likes.

The beasts around the throne in Heaven are called "Zoon", living creatures.

The beasts down on earth are called "Therion", wild, savage, and untamed.

The beasts all look alike to us as they are spirits that operate through preachers to influence the people.

The Zoon spirits manifest themselves as those preachers can prove their doctrines just using the King James Bible.

But the Therion beasts are preachers that are wild and cannot stay within the limits of Scripture. They have to preach man-made doctrines by claiming that William Branham is infallible and is the Voice of God. That brother Branham's quotes can replace Scripture and that brother Branham cannot be corrected. That the 7 Seals have been opened just because the 7 Seals have been revealed.  They claim that the 7 Thunders have uttered and that a man can divorce and remarry. Brother Branham never said that the Seven Thunders had uttered. They claim that the mighty Angel of Revelation 10 has come down, etc.

The 7 Seals were revealed in 1963 when 7 angels showed brother Branham visions of the future event. But they will only open when the Bride is around the throne after being caught up to Heaven. An event must be revealed before it can happen.

AMOS 3:7   Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

62-1007 THE KEY TO THE DOOR
... that I am perfectly infallible. That there's nothing... And, oh, some of the awfullest things you ever heard.

Only God is infallible. Never try to put a man into God's shoes.

63-1114  INFLUENCE

Those Seraphims had two wings over Their faces. Why would They put them over Their faces? Because They were in the Presence of God. And just think, if holy Angels has to cover Their face, in His Presence, what about us? Has the wings over Their faces, represented reverence.

But, today, we find that there is no reverence. Hardly you can find reverence.

…  Now, secondly, They had Their feet covered with wings, under their feet. Now that represented humility. Oh, there is a word that's lost today, to many people. Humility in His Presence. Humble ourselves in His Presence.

… Notice now, they put, had wings over their feet for humility. We don't like to bow ourselves. We want to think that we're somebody.

… The thing of it is, people, my brother, sister, and friends,

is to be conscious of your littleness. See? Don't be conscious of how big you are.

Be conscious in how little you are. You're small. We're all that way. God can do without us, but we can't do without Him. See? See? We, we can't do without Him, but He can do without us.

… Now, thirdly, They could fly. They had two wings that put Them in action.

God is showing His prophet here what kind of a servant He has prepared, reverent, humble, and in action.

That, see, that's a real servant of God, these who look upon Him. He was looking upon Hezekiah that got lifted up, and fell by pride. But a servant, His servants in before Him, is reverent, humble, and in action. His servants, that's the way they should be dressed;

dressed in reverence, humility, and constantly about the Father's business.

Yes, sir. Reverent, humble, in action.

Only Jesus is worthy of honour and our thanks

REVELATION 4:9   And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

Jesus is Almighty God sitting on the throne.

All the glory, honour, and thanks belong to Him as He performed the entire redemption process by Himself. Nobody else could do it. No man can be elevated up to stand in His place. He alone has eternal life and He offers His eternal life to us as a free gift. Nobody could be more generous.

REVELATION 4:10   The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

The elders who represent the great men of the Old Testament and the great men of the New Testament fall flat on their faces in front of Jesus. They are as nothing compared to him. Their crowns are their immortal, pain-free bodies which are now lying on the floor in front of His throne.

This represents how little we actually did for Jesus compared to what He did for us.

In the Presence of Jesus Christ, there is no great man. We are all as nothing.

If you have respect of persons, that is wrong.

If you think there is some great person then you simply have not had a deep relationship with Jesus. Because Jesus makes every other person, however great they were or are, look insignificant.

REVELATION 4:11   Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Why does all the glory, honour, and power belong to Jesus alone? Because He created us and then He used us to fulfill His plan and purpose. Any good that we achieved was simply because it was His power in us that achieved those goals.

We are unprofitable servants because we did more wrong than what we got right.

Jesus then had to clean up the mess that we made.

LUKE 17:10   So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

When the Bride has been caught up to Heaven and actually see Jesus on His throne, we will realize that we are as nothing in comparison to Him. Self and Ego will be eliminated when our lives start in Heaven.

The Seven Seals are only opened when the Bride is in Heaven. When we finally can realize that we are nothing.

Revelation Chapter 4 sees the Bride being caught up to Heaven. John, as an individual, represents the whole group. This cleverly indicates that even when a group is involved, God deals individually with each person who is present. God wants each person to have an individual experience with him.

God does not want individuals to have a herd mentality where they are forced to conform to the beliefs of group-pressure.

It is most important to remember this.

Before the Seals opened in Revelation Chapter 6, John first had to be caught up to Heaven in Revelation Chapter 4.

John, representing all the true believers, is caught up or summoned up to Heaven in Chapter 4 and at this stage there is absolutely no mention of the Seven Seals being opened.

Thus, preachers who claim that the Seven Seals were opened in 1963 are simply deceiving us.

They cannot tell the difference between a vision that gives the revelation of a future event and the occurence of the event at a later time.

If brother Branham opened the Seven Seals, then who revealed the Seven Seals before he opened them?

The apostle John just wrote down the symbols of the Seven Seals but gave us no revelation of what they meant.

It took seven angels to reveal the Seven Seals to brother Branham in March 1963, but Jesus alone will open them in Heaven after catching up His Bride to Heaven.

The revelation of the Seven Seals gives us the outline of the crucial events in church history.

The opening of the Seven Seals will tell us all the details and hidden agendas that were involved in those various events.