Revelation 06 The Fifth Seal

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Four beasts guard the Book of Acts of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Ghost came down on the Day of Pentecost to fill 120 believers which was the birth of the New Testament church. The Acts of the Holy Ghost in the apostles spread the Gospel truth to the Gentile nations. The Book of Acts of the Holy Ghost is the very foundation of the church.

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'Cause the Bible says that the foundation of God is built upon the doctrine of the apostles. That's right. Christ the Head--the Cornerstone.

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Now, one of those creatures, we find out in studying the revelation in the churches, that one of them was a lion; and the other one was an ox; and the other one was a man; and the other one was an eagle. We find out in the church ages that those four beasts, meaning four powers, was gathered around the Acts of the Apostles just the way that the tabernacle in the wilderness,

The twelve tribes of Israel were gathered in groups of three as they pitched their tents around the Tabernacle in the wilderness.

In Numbers Chapter 2, there were three tribes and one banner on each side to protect the Tabernacle.

Judah’s Lion banner faced East. Issacher and Zebulun were with Judah.

Reuben was immoral. His banner, on the South side, was Man as only man is immoral. Simeon and Gad were with him.

Ephraim had the birthright of this mainly agricultural nation. His banner was the hard-working Ox. His two tribes were Manasseh and Benjamin.

Dan was the Eagle as that tribe exalted itself into idolatry with a golden calf. Symbol of the last church age that says, “I am rich”. William Branham is exalted by his followers from being the voice of the seventh angel to become the “Voice of God” (not mentioned in the New Testament) and “the Son of man” (the title of Jesus. A prophet can only be “a son of man”).

Some even very wrongly say that brother Branham was Jesus Christ.

OBADIAH 4   Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle

The weakness of the Eagle age is self-exaltation or exaltation of another. It is a form of idolatry as only Jesus should be lifted up.

JOHN 12:32   And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

The “I” is repeated for emphasis. We should only brag about one Person, Jesus Christ.

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You understand it, 'cause I won't take time to go into it now. We drawed it out here and showed just exactly. They were watching over this, the Lamb and the Word to perform the Word just as they did the ark of the covenant in the holy place in the wilderness, and so forth.

Now, we even positionally showed by the tribal colors of Israel. How many heard the Seven Church Ages? I guess most have: two-thirds of you. Notice that even the nature of the beast was exactly a tribal emblem, which way the four [were placed]. The twelve tribes, set three tribes on each side. And the four beasts set and watched these tribes from all four ways.

In other words, our church age is only safe when they accurately copy the beliefs of the Book of Acts that produced the New Testament.

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

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 wisdom. The four beasts are full of wisdom. They know about future events (eyes before) and past history (eyes behind).

The sea is clear, blood-washed. The sinless Bride is in Heaven after being caught up to Heaven. No hidden agendas.

A beast is a power. They are the bodyguards around God’s throne. They protect His Body which is the church that God has developed over 2000 years.

The four beasts represent the four Gospels that protect the ability of the Holy Spirit to guide the church to uncover the truth of God’s Word.

Matthew presents Jesus as the King of the Jews, because the lion is the king of the beasts.

Mark presents Jesus as the strong Servant, the Ox, Who carried our sins far away.

Luke presents Jesus as the ideal Man. So poor He was born in a stable.

John presents Jesus as the great Eagle, God Himself. The Word was God and the Word was made flesh.

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.

The Lamb opens the first 4 Seals to reveal 4 beasts

A beast is a power that protects the church.

REVELATION 6:1   And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

The Lion combatted the white horse of religious deception the antichrist spirit rides on.

REVELATION 6:3   And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

The ox is the beast of slaughter as the church entered the red horse of politics under Roman Emperor Constantine and tens of millions of Christians were killed in the Dark Ages.

REVELATION 6:5   And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

The demonology of Big Business entered the church in a rush.

REVELATION 6:7   And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

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The last beast that was sent forth, or the last power to combat the antichrist (who was against the teaching of God, the antichrist) was an eagle. See? The fourth living beast was an eagle. Now, you just study the ages, study the Scriptures, it's a eagle. And in the Bible the last age was an eagle age, and God likens the eagle to His prophets. See? It... Now, watch.

The last age, the eagle age--a revealer of the true Word.

… The lion, that was the original. There's where the antichrist come up in combat; then He raised up another power. He sent a power to meet it. Then He raised up another power, and He sent another power to meet it.

And then at the last power,

He brings down the eagle to restore the children back to the original faith again of the fathers--the eagle age.

Then did you notice? There's no more beasts. That's all of it. That's the end.

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Now, remember, there is no more powers goes out after that eagle (See?), no more.

Every time the antichrist sent forth something, God sent a power. The antichrist sent another power; God sent something to combat it. See? Then he sent another power; God sent something to combat it. See? And then when He got

Now, watch. Isn't the prophet that we're looking to come, some man anointed with the Spirit like Elijah? It won't be Elijah, of course, but it'll be a man like that will come down,

and his very ministry is to send, to restore back to this fallen people through these denominational twists, back to the original faith of the fathers.

The beast mentioned in the Fourth Seal is a power. The power of the revealed Word.

The magnificent eye of the eagle can see details that the churches cannot comprehend.

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It also represents holy power too: a beast. Did you know that? Notice, Rebekah, when the servant of Abraham, Eliezer, when he came to get Rebekah, he mounted her up on a camel, the very camel she watered. And she rode this camel to meet her unseen bridegroom. The very thing she watered was the thing that took her to her future home and husband.

And it's the same thing today. See? The very thing that the Church is watering, that is the Seed, the Seed of the Word; it's the very Word that becomes alive and carries us to our unseen Bridegroom. See?

… And look how perfectly. Isaac had left the home and was out in the field away from his home when Rebekah saw him; and the Church meets Christ in the air, and then He takes Her back into the Father's home where the mansions are prepared. Isaac took Rebekah the same way.

And notice, it was love at the first sight. Yes. Oh, my, she just run to meet him! And that's the way the Church will meet Christ in the air and forever be with Him.

We must love the revealed Word so much that we just run towards it and want to be part of it for the rest of Eternity.

And notice, it was love at the first sight. Yes. Oh, my, she just run to meet him! And that's the way the Church will meet Christ in the air and forever be with Him.

White, red, and black horses merge together in the end to make a pale corpse-coloured horse that the antichrist spirit rides on for his killing spree.

The Fifth Seal has no beast

When the Lamb opened the Fifth Seal there was no beast.

The four beasts protected the church. The church left for Heaven under the guidance of the flying eagle, so the scene has now moved to the Jews.

REVELATION 6:9   And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

These people are martyrs. They were slain because they believed God’s Word but they did not have the testimony of Jesus. Thus, they could not be New Testament Christians. They have to be Old Testament-believing Jews who were killed for their faith during the seven church ages.

They died for the testimony that they held. They had to keep the Law as best they could. Christians are saved by grace through faith. We cannot be saved by good works. The Jews are saved by strictly keeping the works of the Law.

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Those souls (Now, watch it.) under the altar of the breaking of this Seal that had been slain in the time between the death of Christ and the going up of the Church (the Eichmann group and all that, them true Jews with their names on the Book), if you'll watch, my brother, according to the Scripture they could talk, cry out, speak, hear, and had all five senses, not sleeping in the grave unconscious. They were very much awake, and could talk, speak, hear, anything else. Is that right?

There is no such thing as soul sleep.

Here is the mystery. No beast announces the Fifth Seal. This is a complete change of scene.

The four beasts represent the power that God used during the different circumstances of church history to enable his church to overcome the changing tactics of the antichrist spirits. If there is no beast, It means that the church ages are finished and God has turned to the Jews.

Consequently, the Sixth Seal and Seventh Seal also have no beast to speak as the Seal opens.

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As in the times of the rider of the four horses, the rider, singular, of the four different horses, there was a beast that announced the power. Every time the rider straddled another horse and come forth to ride, another kind of a beast come out and announced it. That's a great mystery. See? That is the mystery... Why? Announcing the mystery.

Each of the four beasts announced the mystery of that certain time that covered two church ages.

The lion covered the first two church ages with the true Word of God.

The ox covered church ages 3 and 4 with its hard work and willingness to be slaughtered for the faith.

The man covered church ages 5 and 6 with human wisdom that restored salvation by grace through faith. Then holiness and outreach led to the great missionary age.

The eagle in church age 7 restored the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. But each beast has to be concerned with two church ages. Thus the eagle also has to restore the Bible mysteries as it has to turn the seventh church age (the evening of the church ages) back to the first church age (the morning of the church ages). Jesus is the First and the Last. Thus the true Word of God will only be known in its full Light when the seventh church age gets back to the beliefs of the First church age. The evening light is the same as the morning light.

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

Only the evening and the morning have the true light when the evening is restored to the morning beliefs of the apostles.

The seed at the harvest must be the same as the seed that was planted by the apostles.

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Why isn't there one here on the Fifth Seal to announce it? Here it is. According to the revelation that the Lord Jesus gave me today (See?), or this morning, early; that is that the mystery of the church ages are already finished at this time. The mystery of the antichrist is revealed at this time. The antichrist took his last ride, and we found him on the pale horse mixed with his many colors, and rides all the way into perdition. (We get it on the trumpets ...)

REVELATION 6:7   And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

:8   And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

The Fourth Seal sees the antichrist spirit named Death riding into great tribulation to destroy the foolish virgins who did not believe that they had to be restored back to the beliefs of the first church age of the apostles. The 3½ years of great tribulation start when Death rides in.

God left the Jews but will return to them

God left the Jews to turn to the Gentiles.

God never deals with the Jews and the Gentiles at the same time.

God saves the Gentiles as individuals but He saves the Jews as a nation. Obviously, individual Jews can get saved in the same manner as individual Gentiles but then they become Christians.

At Calvary, in AD 33, God cut off the Jews as a nation and turned to saving the Gentiles as individuals.

Then Jerusalem was destroyed in mass violence by the pagan Roman general Titus in AD 70.  More than 1 million Jews were killed and many were scattered among the nations of the Roman Empire. Between AD 132 and 136, about 158000 Jews were killed in the Bar Kochba rebellion, and most of the survivors were exiled from Israel by the pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian. Israel faded out of history with these mass killings and Hebrew as a language died. The Jews spoke Hebrew but were unable to recognize their Messiah and killed Him in a very cruel way.

So, God stopped using Hebrew as the main written language for the Scriptures. When it came to writing the New Testament, God turned to the universal Gentile language of Greek that Alexander the Great had spread throughout the then-known world. But in the New Testament, in the Gospel of John, there are four times when the Hebrew word is still used. Two speeches in the Book of Acts are written in Greek but it is recognized that they were delivered in Hebrew. This matches the style of the Old Testament, where four of the Hebrew speeches are recognized as being delivered in the Syrian or Syriac language.

Let us briefly look at modern-day Israel.

In 2018, President Trump had the incredible courage to stand up to the Arab millions and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. No other President had that amount of courage as they had just ignored the issue. They put their own interests above God’s Word.

Trump, a novice politician, came from nowhere to win the Presidency. God’s Plan overrides all human opinions. Trump was very flawed and made many mistakes but his abrasive personality made him brave enough to disregard the opposition of the Muslim nations. He was not scared to fight against huge odds. With Jerusalem as the Capital, Israel is restored back as it was in David’s day. This was a huge blow against the Devil. He knows his time is almost up.

When it comes to Israel, expect the unexpected. God turns to them when the seventh church age ends.

After AD 136, the Jews were heavily persecuted by the Gentile nations that they had moved to, especially the Christian nations who called them Christ killers.

The land of Israel became barren and desolate. Large areas had few people who lived there.

During the 1800s Jews slowly began to buy up barren and unwanted parts of the Promised Land. Hebrew slowly revived as a language.

Then, in the 6 years of the Second World War which became a time of extreme horror, six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany, mainly in 6 Death camps. Belzec, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Chelmno in Poland. In addition, there were many other lesser death camps. Those awful years are called the Holocaust.

The killing stopped in 1945 when the war ended.

The First World War from 1914 to 1918 unleashed a spirit of dictatorship as democratically elected governments took dictatorial powers to force their nations to push through in their attempts to win the war despite the horrific death rate of about 20 million people.

Three dictators unleash demons to kill Jews

After the First World War, three important anti-Jewish dictatorships were set up. Lenin and Stalin set up communism in Russia, Mussolini set up Fascism in Italy, and finally Hitler ruled Nazi Germany.

Lenin was a master of political terror who cold-bloodedly killed thousands. Stalin took over from him and cold-bloodedly killed millions. The evil of atheistic communism spread far and wide as Russia got set up as the king of the North in our day. The final Pope, the man of sin, will use the Russian military power to help him take over the world.

Mussolini made the Lateran Treaty with the Pope whereby the Vatican City became an independent state. It is the smallest country in the world as it is less than one square kilometer and has less than 1000 citizens with a Vatican passport. Mussolini gave the Pope incredible amounts of money. This fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel who had spoken of the “little horn”, the “little power” in size that has world-wide influence and will finally rule the world. The beast is Roman Catholicism which is the mother of organized man-made denominational religion.

Hitler, as a natural dictator, unleashed the demonic Jew-killing spirits of the ancient pagan Roman Empire on natural Israel, the Jews.

He needed the awful Second World War to be a huge distraction so that the nations would not notice his terrible death camps.

The Jews went out of history and out of their Promised Land in a killing spree controlled by the Roman General Titus and the Roman Emperor Hadrian. The Jews were paying their penalty for killing the Messiah. Then they were endlessly persecuted and often killed during the church ages as God turned to the Gentiles and cut off the Jews. The Jews were hated by the nations who robbed them, exiled them, and killed them. In the 1900s, God began to turn back to the Jews when an even worse mass murder of Jews occurred in the Second World War.

Satan sensed that God was turning back to the Jews and the Devil used Hitler to try to murder all the Jews.

God, however, used the vicious extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust, that ended in 1945, to briefly make the nations feel sorry for the hated Jews. So, in 1947 the United Nations voted to allow the Jews to fight for a small portion of their Promised Land against seven Arab armies that attacked them in 1948 when they declared their independence. The Jews defied the odds to win, but they paid a big price as many Jews died in that Independence War.

In 1945, when the Second World War ended, the Germans had to stop killing the Jews. The nations were horrified when they liberated the ghastly death camps. The natural murderous demons that Hitler had unleashed on natural Israel, the Jews, then had to change their tactics. These deadly demons entered the church (which is spiritual Israel) and established the World Council of Churches in 1948. The confederation or uniting of the churches is the image of the beast as they copy the Roman Catholic beast church-system of man-made organized, denominational religion. They are aimed at the spiritual destruction of the spiritual children who are supposed to be restored to the beliefs of the apostolic fathers. These demons inspired the churches to reject the King James Bible either as a “good effort” that was flawed in certain places or else just a very bad translation. The churches then produced numerous new and different translations of the Bible that are continually revised. Thus, the churches are convinced that there is no perfect Bible. As a result, they have no Absolute truth to act as a foundation for their faith. As they keep finding so-called “faults”, so they keep producing new versions of the Bible.

The churches are intent on preserving the Trinity belief, the unscriptural Christmas on the pagan holiday of 25 December, and the unscriptural Good Friday with its pagan Easter eggs and Easter bunnies. The pagans always had one man as a priest in charge of a temple. The churches copy this business model by having one man as the head of a church. They call him a priest, or vicar, or reverend, or minister, or pastor. In the New Testament, one man was never put in charge of a church. Each local church was run by a group of local elders.

Today’s churches totally reject the end-time message of William Branham and this ensures that their people have no chance of returning to the original apostolic beliefs. Message believers who follow William Branham were then deceived into promoting William Branham to be the infallible Voice of God, the Son of man. They replaced Scripture with his quotes and made up unscriptural doctrines like “The Seven Thunders have uttered”. Brother Branham never made that statement.

They claimed that the Angel of Revelation 10 (or Christ Himself) came down around 1963 - 1965 at Sunset Peak in Arizona. The details always get fuzzy when you press them for accuracy. But these errors successfully stop the spiritual children of today from being restored to the apostolic fathers, who never taught such doctrines.

Let us consider the Jews.

In 1967 the Jews won back a bigger portion of the Promised Land in the Six Day War. The Jews were then established in Israel as an end-time sign to the world that God was starting to prepare to cut off the Gentile church as He turns back to the Jews. God will not work with Jews and Gentiles at the same time. That is why the Gentile churches are so full of unscriptural ideas, because that will give God the reason He needs to cut them off and throw them into great Tribulation.

In the end, during the 3.5 years of great tribulation that comes at the end of the seven church ages, God will cut off the Gentile foolish virgins as He turns back to the 144000 Jews that must be back in Palestine. Thus, God had to restore the Jews to their Promised Land. The Gentiles are saved as individuals. The Jews are to be saved as a nation.

President Trump’s very brave recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel completes the Jews’ return to Israel. God can now return to them at any time. That means that it is almost time for the true Bride, the wise virgins who understand the mysteries of God to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air so that Jesus can take them to Heaven for the Wedding Feast. They alone escape the horror of great tribulation.

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

The evidence of the Holy Ghost baptism is when we can be guided so that we can understand the deeper truth of the Bible's mysteries.

DANIEL 12:10   …  but the wise shall understand.

DANIEL 12:1   And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

It will take the extreme horror of great tribulation to force the 144000 Jews to accept Jesus as their Saviour. It will be a time of trouble such as the world has never seen before.

A man went into space recently and saw the earth as a tiny oasis of life surrounded by an immensity of death. The deepest darkness of space contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of the earth. This is symbolic of great tribulation when the demons of darkness are unleashed upon the doomed earth until civilization as we know it will be wiped out.

God blinded the Jews for our sakes

ROMANS 11:25   For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the  Gentiles be come in.

God blinded the Jews in order to turn to us Gentiles.

God blinded the Jews for the very purpose of saving us.

In their blindness they martyred their own Messiah. But then they had to pay the penalty for that.

They were guilty of murder so they got murdered during the last 2000 years.

But, by grace, God gives them a chance. They must pay for their own sins in their own blood.

By coming in a very humble manner as a Man of Peace, Jesus blinded the Jews.

The Jewish religion was based on the Temple and its colossal wealth. Roman General Titus took that money back to Rome and built the huge Colosseum where Christians were fed to the lions. Thus, the Jews had based their religion on the accumulation of much money. Jesus whipped the money-lenders out of the Temple three times. Interfering with a religious leader's income was a death sentence. The Priests’ passion for money-making blinded them to who He was, and they demanded His death.

The Jew’s political involvement produced an intense hatred for the conquering Romans. This hatred blinded them to the fact that worshiping God and serving God has nothing to do with politics. The Jews looked for a political Messiah Who would conquer and drive out the hated Romans. This blinded them to the true Messiah Who came to conquer sin, death, hell, and the grave.

When people who want to serve God focus on money and politics then they miss the mark.

ROMANS 11:26   And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

It is prophesied that God will take away all ungodliness from the Jews, despite their colossal sin when they killed their Messiah.

ROMANS 11:27   For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

God has a Plan to remove the sins of the Jews who were killed from the time of Calvary to when great tribulation starts.

That is the Plan that is dealt with in the Fifth Seal.

The Jews cried out that Jesus must die. They said His blood be on us and on our children.

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

They rejected the Blood of Jesus to pay for their sins. The only option open to them is now to die for their own sins.

The Jews that are killed are the Jews that go to Heaven.

The Jews want vengeance

REVELATION 6:10   And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

They know that the Bride has been caught up to Heaven. Great tribulation has started now on earth.

So, the Jews that have been killed, just for being Jews, want to go to earth and take vengeance on those Gentile nations in order that the Jewish kingdom of the Millennium, the 1000 years of Peace, can be set up on earth.

The Kingdom of Heaven applies to the Bride during the seven church ages as God revealed His truth to pull out His Bride. This is revealed by the seven parables of the Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew Chapter 13. Only Matthew speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven parables that describe the Bride of Jesus being spiritually pulled out of the Gentiles.

The Kingdom of earth will belong to the Jews.

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But during this time, why, see what happens is the Gentile Bride is selected in the seven church ages and goes up, and when it does that way, all these Jews that's martyred along there, because of blindness (laying under the altar) God comes over and says, "You see what it was? Now, I'll give each one of you a robe."

They said, "How long, Lord? Are we going in now?"

Said, "No, no, no, no. Your fellowmen, the Jews, has got to suffer a little bit yet. They got to be martyred like you was martyred. The beast has got to get them when he breaks his covenant."

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And they said, "Well, why can't we go back to the Kingdom right now?" The Jewish Kingdom is to be set on the earth, you know. John said the Kingdom in heaven, to be set... Now, this is the Kingdom of the Gospel (You see?), but the Kingdom of the Jews will be preached by these two prophets. So notice the kingdom of the earth here. The Kingdom of heaven is preached to the Gentile. The Kingdom here on the earth is to be set up in the Millennium, after the Millennium to the Jews.

Their Old Testament Law said:

EXODUS 21:24   Eye for eye, tooth for tooth,

Jews are entitled to revenge. Christians are not allowed to ask for revenge or vengeance.

Look what the first Christian martyr, Stephen, said because he did not want the Jews to be guilty of his death.

ACTS 7:59   And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

:60   And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

The Blood of Jesus lets our prayers through to God

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Now, if there's no altar of sacrifice in heaven, where is the sacrifice for sin laying then, the Lamb? There has to be a place where that slain Lamb, bloody, is laying there, where the Blood is.

Now, the incense was the odorous stuff that they burnt, which the Bible said was the prayers of the saints. If there isn't no sacrifice on the altar, then the prayers cannot be received.

It’s only by the Blood on the sacrificial altar that lets the prayers go through to God.

The Lamb leaves the mercy seat to rapture the Bride. Then there is no more blood on the mercy seat. Then the prayers of the foolish virgins, who were left behind, will have no more value. They will all be doomed to die as great tribulation unfolds on earth.

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.

White robes are a symbol of pardoning grace.

God’s extreme grace. Because He blinded the Jews in order to save the Christians, God gives eternal life to every Jew that has been killed just for being a Jew, during the seven church ages.

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“Should be fulfilled.”    See, in other words, it's predestinated to them. It's the Scriptures that they have to do it. And just rest for a little while. Now, you got your robes; you're going home.

… The grace of God comes to them, and Jesus gives them each one a white robe (Watch.) plumb over after the Church is gone, because they were loyal to their cause, and they were blinded, and they didn't know it. They didn't know it. They were playing exactly the part that God had ordained for them to play.

… Now, if they hadn't have been blinded, God said, "Let them alone. They're not worthy." But being that they was blinded by God, His grace reached down to them. Amen. Talk about amazing grace, and give each one of them a robe, because all Israel will be saved: every one that has his name written. That's right.

… Them Jews are, they're the most religious people in the world; God's chosen. But He blinded them to take us, and we turn it down. What is the judgment of the Gentile church? There you are. See? Blinded purposely by God, so that He could get us, the Bride, for Jesus.

… He takes the Gentile Bride. Now, she goes up, and when she goes up, two prophets arrive to Israel.

And those souls that's been martyred now down through here, real true Jews down through there, they'd their name on the Book, that lived the right life, and done the right thing, lived Judaism to the dot; and they were martyred by Eichmann and many others. Honest people, millions of them down there and them Germans shot them to death, and murdered them, and killed them, and hung them on fences, and burned them up, and cremated them and everything else. That bloodless, blood-hearted hungry, Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini, and all them people that hated them Jews...

I think that's just one of the--one of the things that's holding this nation together, 'cause they've always respected the Jew (That's right.), give him a place. You honor a Jew, and God will honor you. Now, there's a bunch of Jews that's renegade, just like there's Gentiles the same way. But the real Jew, God's put his name on the Book before the foundation of the world, and here he was murdered down in this time. And remember...

Think of it now, how perfect this is. Right after them millions of slaughtered Jews, innocent people, by the nations of the world, here the Scripture says right in this time that they're each one under the altar, realized what has happened; and they are given white robes.

But Armageddon will only happen 3½ years after the rapture when the Bride is caught up to Heaven. During that time of great tribulation, the two prophets Moses and Elijah, have to lead the 144000 Jews to accept Christ. Then the two prophets and the 144000 all have to be killed by the evil man of sin, the final Pope.

Israel gets saved as a nation.

Then Jesus comes back, to destroy evil at the battle of Armageddon.

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God having to take His own beloved children, and blind their eyes, and send them, because His own justice requires judgment of sin... Think of it. His justice and His holiness requires justice.

A law without a penalty is not law. And His own laws, Himself, He cannot defy and still remain God. That's the reason God had to become man. He couldn't take a substitute, a son that wasn't, just an ordinary son to Him or something. God became both... Jesus became both Son and God, the only way He could justly do it. God had to take the penalty Himself. It wouldn't be just to put it upon somebody else, another person. So, the person of Jesus was God manifested in the flesh called Emmanuel.

And to do that, and to take a Bride, and to save a lost bunch of heathen Gentiles, He had to blind His own children, and then punish them for it in the flesh for rejection; but His grace provided robes.

But the life... See what happens? And if He had to do that in order for us to have a chance, how can we spurn that chance in love?

… Now, let us bow our heads again. If that person or persons are in here that desires that, or want to accept it upon the basis of your faith in the shed Blood that God had to shed for you, suffered beyond anything that any other mortal... There couldn't have been a mortal being suffer like that till His own grief separated His water from His Blood in His veins. Before He went to Calvary, drops of blood was coming from His body with such grief and broken heart, that what He had to do, but could've refused it, too, but willingly did it for you and I.

Can you reject such matchless love?