Revelation Chapter 14
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This Chapter starts with God’s main gain from the 3½ years of great Tribulation which is the 144000 Jews. They repent and receive their Messiah.
- Jews will have to pay with their own blood
- The 144000 will learn the new name of Jesus
- The 144000 reject the churches and their Trinity
- Three angels restored the Gentile church
- The third angel has a frightening message
- Trinity is exposed as false by Moses
- Serve God patiently at all times
- Foolish virgins must be killed but are saved
- Jews are killed in order to be saved
- Unsaved are killed at Armageddon
- 75 days to Usher in the Millennium
Jews will have to pay with their own blood
Jacob’s favourite wife was Rachel. She had two sons, Joseph and Benjamin. Joseph was a type of Christ Who guided the church through the seven church ages. Benjamin then represented the 144000 Jews who will accept the Lord during great Tribulation.
GENESIS 35:17 “And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.”
Rachel’s hard labour was a type of the hardship and suffering that Jews will undergo as the world unites against them to destroy them in great Tribulation.
GENESIS 35:18 “And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.”
Benoni means son of my sorrow. Rachel was looking at her sad circumstances that symbolized the horror of great Tribulation. Her pain and death were the price for her son’s life. Her son, the object of her desire was her source of sorrow. The 144000 Jews will want their Messiah but His nail-scarred hands will be their source of intense grief. The Jews killed their own Messiah. Can any sin be greater than that?
But Jacob called the baby Benjamin, son of my right hand. Right hand is the symbol of power. The Fifth Seal requires that Jews must be killed for their faith in order to gain salvation. Dying as a martyr opens the door to Heaven for the Jews.
Death is not their loss, it is their power to be saved.
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:”
Jews hold their own testimony. Christians hold the testimony of Jesus.
REVELATION 6:11 “And white robes were given unto every one of them;”
The white robes are a symbol of their salvation. They are Jewish martyrs.
GENESIS 35:19 “And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.”
Rachel’s death symbolizes that two-thirds of the world’s 18 million Jews will be killed in great Tribulation when the 144000 are born again of the Holy Spirit.
ZECHARIAH 13:8 “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.”
Ephrath means fruitful. The one-third of the Jews who survive will go into the 1000-year Kingdom of Peace where they will rule the world.
The alternative name is Bethlehem which means House of God’s bread.
Bread symbolizes the Word of God. Bethlehem is where Jesus, Who is the Word, was born. He was born to die so that our sins could be forgiven. In His death was victory.
God bringing Life out of Death is most fruitful.
ZECHARIAH 13:6 “And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.”
The harsh reality for the Jews. They crucified their Messiah, their Shepherd. The Jews pay for their salvation with their own blood.
ZECHARIAH 13:7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.”
After Calvary, the Jews became scattered around the world. But in the 1900s God turned his hand back to the Jewish people. In 1948, they became a nation, and 70 years later, in 2018, President Trump bravely defied the Arab world and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The scene is now set for the Lord to return to the Jews in the 3½ years of great Tribulation.
ZECHARIAH 12:10 “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”
But great Tribulation will be a bitter time of mourning, suffering, and slaughter. Their grief will be close-up and personal.
The 144000 will learn the new name of Jesus
REVELATION 14:1 “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.”
Mount Sion, where the temple was built, was the holiest site in Jerusalem.
The fruit of great Tribulation will be the 144000 Jews who became Spirit-filled. That represented the return of the Jews to the Lord. In their foreheads means in their minds. Your brain, where your mind thinks, is in your forehead.
The name of the Lamb’s Father has always been a mystery.
As the Father, God took on many names in the Old Testament. Elohim. El. Elah. Adonai. Jehovah. JHVH. Yahweh. YHWH.
But somehow the Father’s name was a secret, as Samson’s parents discovered. Manoah was Samson’s father.
JUDGES 13:17 “And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
:18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?”
JUDGES 13:22 “And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
As soon as the name of Jesus was mentioned in the Book of Matthew Chapter 1, none of the Old Testament names like Jehovah or Elohim are ever mentioned in the New Testament. If God the Father is a separate Person to Jesus, then God the Father has no name in the New Testament.
JOHN 5:43 “I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”
So, if Jesus came in the name of His Father, the human name of God the Father must be Jesus.
The church world cannot see this. Thus, they have no name for God the Father in the 2000 years of the New Testament.
They keep saying, “In the name of the Father” but they cannot tell us what that name is.
When Jesus gets off the mercy seat, He takes on a new name.
That name will be revealed after the resurrection of the New Testament saints by the seven Thunders.
The 7 Thunders utter to the Bride and to the two Jewish prophets Moses (who created flies in Egypt) and Elijah who stopped the rain for 3½ years. These are the two groups who will know what the new name of Jesus is.
63 0318 THE FIRST SEAL
“And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it.”
The seven Thunders will utter to show the living Bride how to change their bodies into glorified bodies so that they can be raptured. This will involve great power as they step out of time into eternity.
63 0321 THE FOURTH SEAL
“Wait till them seven thunders utter their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God and hand it there. It'll slice and cut. And they can close the heavens; they can shut this or do that, whatever they want to. Glory.
He will be slayed by the Word that proceeds from His mouth; it's sharper than a two-edged sword. They could call for a hundred billion tons of flies if they wanted to. Amen. Whatever they say's going to happen, because it's the Word of God coming from the mouth of God. Amen.”
Elijah closed the heavens for 3½ years. Moses produced the plague of flies. The seven Thunders will give the two prophets great supernatural power over Nature.
63-0318 THE FIRST SEAL
“And Jesus, His Name on earth was Redeemer, Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer; that's true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on high, He received a new Name. That's the reason they holler the way they do and don't get nothing; it'll be revealed in the thunders. See?”
The Bride is then caught up to meet the Lord in the air just after they have learned the new name.
The two prophets will convert the 144000 Jews to accept their Messiah, so they alone in the 3½ years of great Tribulation time on earth will know the new name of Jesus.
Written in their foreheads. The brain is in the forehead. The brain is where the mind operates. These 144000 thus each has a personal revelation deep in their minds as to what the new name of Jesus is, because the Man Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us. God the Father with us. The fullness of the supernatural Godhead dwelled within Him bodily.
Today, the name of the Father is Jesus.
The Father is the supernatural Spirit dwelling in Jesus. When the seven Thunders utter just after the New Testament resurrection, then they will reveal the new name of Jesus.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”
That is why the foolish virgins are killed in great Tribulation. They will call on the name of Jesus but that will no longer be His name. So, their prayers will be in vain.
REVELATION 14:2 “And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:”
65-0429 THE SEED SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH THE SHUCK
“And what is the Voice of God? Is the Word of God. What's any man's voice but his word? It's the Word of God; they'll hear the Word of God.”
The Voice of God comes from Heaven. The Voice of God is the Word of God and is thus the Voice of many waters. The mysteries of the water of God’s Word have flowed through 66 different Books, that few have found a revelation for. But God expects the Bride and the Jews to find the revelation for the Word because the churches cannot find it.
At the end, God’s Voice comes speaking through thunder for those who did understand the mysteries. Seven thunders ended the time of the Gentile churches as they changed the bodies of the living Bride into glorified bodies so that the Bride could be caught up to Heaven. Then, at the end of great tribulation, comes the Voice of a great Thunder as God changes the bodies of the 144000 Jews into glorified bodies.
Great Tribulation ends with the battle of Armageddon. After this brutal struggle when the forces of evil are defeated, then the praises of the Lord will be sung as He alone could beat the forces of evil. The unified voice of those who play the harps. Their voices unify and sound like one voice because they praise one Person only, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The 144000 reject the churches and their Trinity
REVELATION 14:3 “And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”
The 144000 Jews have a special and unique redemption. They are the only people who get saved, sanctified, and Spirit-filled during the 3½ years of great Tribulation when the Lamb is no longer on the Mercy Seat. They alone can sing the song that describes that exceptional experience.
REVELATION 14:4 “These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.”
A woman symbolizes a church as the true church is called the bride of Christ. The 144000 remained totally separated from the churches. They had nothing to do with the foolish virgins who missed the Coming of the Lord. The foolish virgins are saved but fooled by their church leaders' wrong beliefs. The 144000 were a purer class of spiritual virgins, as they had nothing to do with the churches at all. This clearly indicates that the churches have become a trap of deception at the end time.
The 144000 found the truth by following the Lamb, the Word of God. The prophets Moses and Elijah did not point to themselves. Like John the Baptist, they pointed their followers to the Messiah as they followed the revealed Word. John introduced the Jews to Jesus as a Man. Moses and Elijah introduce the 144000 to the revealed Word of God by explaining the mysteries of great Tribulation time to them. Jesus is the revealed Word. At the end, Jesus will appear to them in His glorified body.
JOHN 1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
:37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
REVELATION 14:5 “And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.”
The 144000 Jews were open and honest. They knew that the word Trinity was not written in Scripture. They knew that the Trinity God had no single name. They knew that the nameless Triune God was a pagan hoax. And they did not play mind games by trying to pretend that somehow by saying “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” that they were saying the name of God. They knew that the Bible never asked us to celebrate the birth of the Lord and thus they never got deceptive by sticking the name of Jesus onto the pagan sun god’s birthday on 25 December. They knew that Christmas came from the Roman Catholic Christ’s Mass that is horribly unscriptural. By being honest enough to separate from the churches, they were able to find the truth.
The truth had died out after AD 170 due to one man being elevated as the head of a church in the second church age. That is the spirit of the Nicolaitans. In the third church age the truth took a death blow in AD 325 at the Council of Nicaea when the pagan Trinity was forced on the church by the politician Constantine who was Emperor. This evil man who killed his wife, son, and brother-in-law was then the head of all the churches. He used his army to scare and punish dissenters. Around AD 350, the church accepted the pagan Roman sun god’s birthday on 25 December, which became Christmas. Paganism flooded into the church and the Bible’s truth died out and got buried in the dirt of the Dark Ages that ended in 1520.
Three angels restored the Gentile church
The very brave Martin Luther in Germany had to oppose the dictatorial Roman Catholicism that ruled Europe with a brutal power after killing tens of millions in the Dark Ages.
The first green shoots of life to emerge from the buried seed were Martin Luther’s preaching of repentance and salvation by faith. Luther in Germany opposed the Pope which gave him much fame amongst the nations. The Pope was a killer who would execute opponents. He was a man to be feared. Luther had to have a great fear of God in order to find the courage to overcome his fear of the Pope.
An angel is a messenger. The first supernatural angel inspired the earthly messenger or angel, Luther, to fear God and put God first as the only One Who can forgive sin. Give God the glory for forgiving you of sin by His grace alone. No money is involved. God alone must be worshiped. There is no hierarchy in the church where priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and popes can make up man-made church rules to remove sin by good works or paying money.
Luther opposed indulgences whereby the Pope claimed you could buy forgiveness of sin. He said that only repentance forgave sin.
Only God can pass judgement on sin. Calvary, where Jesus died on the cross, is the only Judgement of sin whereby we can be forgiven of sin if we repent and accept that Jesus died in our place. Each person needs to claim Jesus, alone, as their personal Saviour. No church, no other people, no other system is involved. In all of creation, heaven, earth, and sea there is no other Saviour. All other religions and religious leaders fail.
REVELATION 14:6 “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
REVELATION 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
The only fountains of living waters that provide eternal life are those that flow from Calvary. Luther made people understand that they were saved by faith alone, not by anything that they did.
The everlasting Gospel is repentance. John the Baptist preached repentance which was the beginning of the Gospel.
MARK 1:1 “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.”
Printing had just been invented in 1450 in Europe. Luther printed a multitude of tracts from 1517 onwards which spread far and wide and effectively gave him a loud voice that was heard far away.
ACTS 13:27 “… because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day,”
56-0715 THE MARK OF THE BEAST
“The first angel message went forth, Martin Luther. Second angel message went forth, John Wesley. The third angel's message has gone forth, and they still reject it and getting worse and worse. And the Bible said that evil doers and sin would get worse and worse.”
61-0217 THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND THE SEAL OF GOD.2
“Now, now you see how it was represented in Ezekiel the 9th chapter at Jerusalem. Now, we come to Revelation. And now I'd like you that's got your pencils to write this down. I'd like you to write down Revelations 14:6 to 12. That's the three last angels, three angels, after the seven last angels there were three special angels come forth, did you notice that? And now, I want you to notice, them three last angels... The first angel, (that's Revelation 14:6 to 12), the first angel had sounded the trumpet of the Gospel, and had the everlasting Gospel to preach to all the world. The second angel kinda preached a holiness Gospel (See?), because he said that the church had committed fornication. And the third angel roared out to escape the mark of the beast.
Watch. The first angel, at the reformation, Luther preached the Gospel. Second angel, Wesley, sanctification. The fornication, he straightened up of the church. But the third message, the Pentecostal message should be, the true messenger warning them to escape the mark of the beast, saying, Whosoever receives the mark of the beast, the same will drink the wrath of God poured out without mixture into the cup of indignation, be poured out upon the people.
That's the very message today, the third angel, the third message, the last message.
The Lutheran message of justification, the Wesleyan message of sanctification, and the Pentecostal message of the Seal of God: escape the mark of the beast; come out of them big walls of Babylon; be sealed into the Kingdom of God.”
REVELATION 14:8 “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
Around 1750 another angel inspired John Wesley in England to preach holiness and sanctification.
Babylon symbolizes the official church denominations that follow the Roman Catholic organization of having one man in charge of a church. The Roman Catholics appointed a priest and the Protestants appointed a pastor, or vicar, or minister to be the human head of a church. This was never done in the New Testament churches. Each local church was ruled by a group of local elders. This denominational system is a spirit that goes back to the idea that a Babylonian priest was in charge of a temple. It is a good business plan for financial efficiency to grow the church. But, that just means that the churches had spiritually fallen away from the New Testament example and beliefs of the apostles. No apostle ever baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Trinitarians cannot find one name for three Persons. So, they serve a nameless Triune God. That shows how they have fallen away from the apostles who baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
The wine of wrath. Wesley knew that drinking wine was wrong and he condemned alcohol with his high standards of holiness.
Fornication. That is sexual license and unclean living outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. Wesley placed a firm emphasis on complete holiness.
Wesley stressed that the church must not be involved in political unrest and historians say his influence saved England from the French Revolution. Wesley taught us that the church must have a high standard of moral holiness. No revealing dress. No pornography. No bad language and no explicit sex scenes for public view.
The third angel has a frightening message
REVELATION 14:9 “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,”
William Branham from America between 1947 and 1965 exposed today’s churches as being a trap of deception as they move away from the King James Bible. This has caused over 100 different versions of the English Bible and split the church world into 45000 different denominations and churches. A complete spiritual swamp.
The tape recorder was released to the public soon after the end of the Second World War (1939 – 1945) where it was a secret invention to receive information from spies at any time. Brother Branham was one of the first preachers to tape-record his sermons. Thus, we have his voice on record. He had the most amazing supernatural ministry and healing lines. This gave him great authority as people could not deny the miracles. God was with him. A loud voice means you have to listen. It is a voice that is loud because he speaks with godly authority in that he kept on telling us to get back to what is written in the Bible.
Thus, his voice is further amplified because it agrees with the voices of the prophets who wrote the Bible.
The Roman Catholic church rises to power on the Beast of denominational organization of religious power, political power, and financial power.
The image of the beast is the ecumenical uniting of the Protestant or non-Catholic churches into a worldwide religious and political organization.
1965 THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES BOOK CHAPTER 10
“The image of the beast is the world church system.
With the world church system under her, Rome will be controlling, and this image (world church system) will be obedient to Rome because Rome controls the gold of the world.”
1965 THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES BOOK CHAPTER 10
“This mark in the head means that they will have to take the doctrine of the world church system which is trinitarianism, etc., and the mark in the hand which means to do the will of the world church.
With this great power the church systems will persecute the true bride.
This image will try to keep the bride from preaching and teaching, etc.”
64-0614 THE ODDBALL
“That's what the Angel told me, Get the people to believe you.
And if I tell the Word of God, it is not believe me, it is believe the Word."
63-0630 THE THIRD EXODUS
“for they can hear plainly the God's Voice, calling, through His Word
... Listen to the Bible, the Voice of God”
62-0318 THE SPOKEN WORD IS THE ORIGINAL SEED 1
“My mission, I believe, that God has called me for. I have to say some personal things today, because that's what I told you I'd do, see, and tell the world.
My mission, I believe, to the earth, is (what?) is to forerun the coming Word, see, the coming Word which is Christ.”
Brother Branham’s revelations must enable us to master the understanding the Scriptures for today.
DANIEL 12:10 “The wise shall understand.”
MATTHEW 13:12 “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”
Believing truth enables you to understand more truth in the King James Bible.
If you stop believing truth you then move away from the King James Bible and replace Scripture with your interpretations of selected quotes. As time goes on you understand less and less of the written Bible.
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.”
61-1119 PERFECT STRENGTH BY PERFECT WEAKNESS
“Oh, my, talk about the lid off of the kettle:
demons going around,
powers of the devil under the name of Christianity,
teaching for doctrine the commandments of men,
theological seminary doctrines,
leaving the Bible alone.”
Intellectually lazy, we believe unscriptural church propaganda without a second thought.
62-0908 PRESENT STAGE OF MY MINISTRY
“… hope He will crown my ministry of this,
of letting me take the clothes of the Word, and dress His Bride in the clothes of the Word,”
Denominations are the mystery of iniquity that change Scripture to fit in with human thinking.
Denominational religion, based on human opinions and church organization, is the Mark of the Beast on human minds.
A RESUME OF THE AGES - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT.10
“They [the spiritual insects and worms mentioned by the prophet Joel in Chapter 2] are the antichrist spirit manifested in organization, denomination and false doctrine through the ages. And that poor little root and stalk is going to be restored. God isn't going to plant a new Church, but is going to bring His original planting back to original seed. He is doing it as stated in verse 23, by the teaching, or ‘former’ rain. Next will come the harvest rain or rapturing faith.”
REVELATION 14:10 “The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:”
Without mixture. There is no compromise with God. The modern church has now accepted sodomy in the form of same-sex marriages. They accept abortions which kill the child before birth. Over 50 million abortions are performed each year worldwide. Pagan ideas like Christmas, 25 December, Good Friday, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, Lent, and being ruled by a priest (even if he is called pastor) infiltrate the churches but will be mercilessly stamped out when great tribulation starts.
Women compromise with worldly dresses, mini skirts, slits in dresses, see-through dresses, low necklines, wearing pants, high heels, cutting their hair, and wearing makeup. God’s cup of indignation in great tribulation will pour out on them.
REVELATION 14:11 “And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
There will be terrible consequences one day for all the evil and error that the churches have compromised with.
65-0801 THE GOD OF THIS EVIL AGE
“Notice his plans to build a super denominational church, the World Council of Churches, see, a super denominate, so that all the world will worship him, the beast, under the name of united Christianity.”
The mark of his name is the fact that people are left brainwashed in unscriptural error by conforming to the churches that are uniting together.
God’s biggest indignation is that God revealed His Bible mysteries to William Branham so that the wise virgins can understand the written Bible. But we have been too lazy to get to understand what is written. Thus, people have replaced the written Word with quotes that they can interpret in different ways.
DANIEL 12:10 “But the wise shall understand.”
If we do not understand the Bible's mysteries and are unable to explain them, then we are not part of the wise virgins that the Lord is Coming for.
God is then extremely angry with us. He has sent a prophet to reveal the mysteries but we have not listened to him. We have preferred to listen to our church leader, who does not understand the Bible's mysteries.
Ignoring God’s prophet and listening to some man is a huge insult to God. The consequences are more than frightening. Rejecting he revelation of the truth that God sent in our day is the most serious mistake that we can make.
And the deceived and fooled people in the churches cannot imagine the fate that awaits them as they complacently bask in their self-opinionated egos.
Churchgoers seek compromise and comfort in their pursuit of wealth which is the main focus that they strive for.
Our minds are besieged by a programmed lie that is spread by mass media.
Trinity is exposed as false by Moses
Revelation 15 sees fire in the sea of glass which was pure when the wise virgins were caught up to Heaven in Revelation Chapter 4.
By Chapter 15, the fire of great Tribulation is happening to the foolish virgins who got left behind when Jesus Came. These church-goers never had the courage to oppose their church leaders. But in the savage horror of great tribulation their eyes open to all the errors of their church leaders. The only true preachers they can find will be the two prophets to the Jews, Moses and Elijah.
REVELATION 15:2 “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”
Notice what they learn from Moses. Jesus the Lamb is Lord God Almighty. There is no Trinity.
REVELATION 15:3 “And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.”
Only Jesus is Holy. If there are two other Persons in the Godhead, then they cannot also be holy. Once again, they learn that there is no Trinity.
REVELATION 15:4 “Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.”
The name of God must be glorified. But the Trinity God has got no name. You cannot find one name for three Persons.
Now the Trinitarians find out that that the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is the Lord Jesus Christ.
In other words, the biggest deception in the modern churches is the doctrine of the Trinity.
That is the main reason for church-goers ending up in great tribulation where they will be corrected of their church errors and then brutally killed.
THYATIREAN CHURCH AGE - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT.6
“This chapter shows the power of the Roman Catholic Church and what she will do through organization.
… So, you see, ‘Death’ or ‘Organization’ came, and the church died, or to make it plainer death became a resident wherein shortly before only LIFE reigned. As the original Eve brought death to mankind so now organization has brought death, for organization is the product of the double corrupters, Nicolaitanism and Balaamism, propagated by the prophetess Jezebel. Now Eve should have been burned along with the serpent for their awful deed. But Adam intervened, taking her quickly to himself so that she was saved. But when this Satanic religion has gone the full course of the ages, there will be no one to intervene, and she will be burned with her seducer, for the whore and her children and the antichrist and Satan will all find their places in the lake of fire.”
A RESUME OF THE AGES - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT.10
“Now remember, it was Imperial Pagan Rome that fell by the sword. But she was healed of her death stroke when she joined to the nominal Christian church of Rome and incorporated paganism and Christianity, and thereby became the Holy Roman Empire which was to endure until Jesus came and destroyed her. But Rome is not going it alone. Her daughters are right with her and she will take over absolute authority by the World Council of Churches.
This may seem far-fetched to some, but actually, it is very plain for all to see because right now the churches are controlling politics and at the opportune time will manifest exactly how great is that control. This ecumenical move will end up with Rome at the head even though the people did not envision it that way. This is so because in Revelation 17:3-6 it states that the whore, Mystery Babylon is seated on the beast. She is controlling the last, or fourth empire. This Roman Church is doing that. With the world church system under her, Rome will be controlling, and this image (church system) will be obedient to Rome because Rome controls the gold of the world.
Thus, all the people have to belong to the world church system or be at the mercy of the elements for they cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast in the hand or head. This mark in the head means that they will have to take the doctrine of the world church system which is trinitarianism, etc., and the mark in the hand which means to do the will of the world church. With this great power the church systems will persecute the true bride. This image will try to keep the bride from preaching and teaching, etc. Her ministers will be forbidden to give comfort and truth to the people who need it. But before the antichrist (in person) takes over this complete world system of churches the true church will be taken away from this world to be with the Lord. God will catch away His bride for the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb.”
Serve God patiently at all times
REVELATION 14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
Things will not go well for the wise virgins in the end. They will be rejected and condemned because they do not believe in the Trinity, nor do they believe that brother Branham is the infallible Voice of God. But they must just have patience. They obey Scripture because that is what the faith of Jesus will always make us do. Leave God to achieve whatever He wants to achieve in His own good time.
REVELATION 14:13 “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.”
In the sixty-odd years since brother Branham died, many Bride members have also died. Many were unnoticed and often condemned by main-stream Message-groups who, unscripturally, elevated the prophet to be the Voice of God. Our only responsibility is to serve God as best we can from Scripture. We must be prepared to learn from people who are not from our specific church if they are more Scriptural. People tend to love their church more than they love the Scriptures.
65-0829 SATAN'S EDEN
“The thing of it is, is, today we don't try to establish the Word of God in the people's hearts.
We are trying to establish ourselves.
Churches are trying to establish the doctrine of the church, in a person's heart.”
Blessed are the dead. This verse also applies to the Jews, as two-thirds of them will be killed in great Tribulation. According to the Fifth Seal, being killed for their faith is the secret whereby the Jews will be accepted into Heaven.
ZECHARIAH 13:8 “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.”
Foolish virgins must be killed but are saved
Now the scene completely changes.
Christ is crowned King. The Bible uses a cloud to indicate that earthly governments are now over and it is time for God’s Heavenly plan to come to pass.
One purpose of great Tribulation was to gather huge crowds of humanity against Israel so that billions of people could be killed in Israel at Armageddon. God will force the cloud of sinners to gather for Armageddon so that they can be destroyed there.
EZEKIEL 38:4 “And I will turn thee back,
and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth,
and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:”
EZEKIEL 38:16 “And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.”
The enemy host, Gog, will cover the land like a cloud. But Christ will ride on a cloud above them to show that He has complete control over the massive forces of evil.
The sickle has two meanings. God will reap in His harvest but God is also going to cut down His enemies.
REVELATION 14:14 “And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.”
The Lord is no longer on the throne of mercy. His crown indicates that He is the King. But the sickle indicates harvest and judgement.
The harvest of those foolish virgins who must die in great Tribulation but will go to be with the Lord.
Then the judgement of those who will be cut down and destroyed by the angry king.
Now Jesus looks like the fierce Lion of the tribe of Judah, no longer the sacrificial Lamb. This is the time of great Tribulation which has three harvests for the Lord, that have to be killed and then gathered into His storehouse.
The foolish virgins have learned a harsh lesson about being deceived by their church leaders. They have to be killed in great Tribulation but will be spared on Judgement Day as they were saved before the Lamb left the Mercy Seat to collect His Bride before great Tribulation started.
Jews are killed in order to be saved
Two-thirds of the Jews will be killed in great Tribulation as the Fifth Seal in REVELATION 6:9 tells us that the Jews who are martyred are given white robes of redemption.
Jews are slain for their own testimony. Christians have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
White robes symbolize salvation. These Jewish martyrs made it to Heaven. Their anti-Jewish killers actually did them a favour, as the Jewish killers will end up in the Lake of Fire and be very jealous of their Jewish victims who are in Heaven.
Another group is the 144000 Jews who have to be killed during great Tribulation after they accept Jesus and are filled with the Holy Ghost. Two prophets will guide the 144000 through the chaos of those awful times.
REVELATION 14:15 “And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
The angels are the reapers. This angel announces that the time is ripe as the 144000 Jews are ready to be killed. This angel from Heaven operated through the ministry of the prophets Moses and Elijah during those 3½ years. God usually works through one prophet but great Tribulation is so intense that God will be using two prophets
REVELATION 14:16 “And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.”
Christ reaps in the dead who belong to the Lord from great Tribulation. The foolish virgins who were saved before great Tribulation started, the 144000 Jews, and two-thirds of the Jews (about 12 million) who will be killed, but in the process, they are reaped into the Lord’s storehouse. Jesus will lose none of them.
Unsaved are killed at Armageddon
REVELATION 14:17 “And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.”
Now an angel has a sickle. This is for the cutting down of the wicked at Armageddon.
But he needs help as the numbers will be huge. An angel who has power over fire also appears. The fire of exploding nuclear bombs and volcanos.
REVELATION 14:18 “And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.”
Great tribulation is followed by the Battle of Armageddon. The time has arrived for evil on Earth to be eliminated. The world cannot get much worse. It started with divorce and remarriage which Jesus did not allow.
MARK 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
MARK 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
People living in unmarried sin. Then same-sex marriage, a horrific number of abortions (50 million per year), and gender change have thrown morality into the pit of hell.
Their sin has made them ripe for ruin. Greed, lust, selfishness, corruption, violence, and hate now dominate people’s thinking.
Behind the superficial smiles and fake warmth, people are messy, complicated, ugly, and dark. Insecurity drives them.
REVELATION 14:19 “And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.”
The red juice of squashed grapes strongly symbolizes the violent shedding of blood. A terrible destructive calamity as the forces of evil now come up against an angry God.
REVELATION 14:20 “And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.”
They ignored His Blood shed for them on the cross. Now they pay with their own blood, torrents of it.
There are eight furlongs to a mile. Thus, 1600 furlongs = 1600 / 8 = 200 miles.
The blood shed at Armageddon will produce so many corpses that their blood will flow for 200 miles with a height of about one and a half metres.
This will be God’s final indignation against the last Pope, the man of sin or the son of perdition, and his evil armies. Russia, as the king of the North, and the Muslim armies will pay a very high price for their hatred of Israel. Their hatred and greed will see them combine to attack Israel.
But their blood will soak into the desert soil and be a very rich fertilizer which will enable the desert to bloom like a rose during the 1000-year kingdom of peace, when the Jews will rule the world from Israel.
ISAIAH 35:1 … and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
ZEPHANIAH 1:7 “Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.”
The day of the Lord is the 3½ tears of great Tribulation. The sacrifice will be the flesh and blood of the massive armies that seek to destroy Israel. The guests will be vultures and wild beasts.
REVELATION 19:17 “And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
:18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.”
JEREMIAH 46:10 “For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.”
They had rejected the last supper. The bread represented His body or His flesh. The wine represented His blood.
Thus, the wild birds and the wild beasts will devour their flesh and blood.
EZEKIEL 39:4 “Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.”
Armageddon will provide the final feast for birds and wild beasts.
EZEKIEL 39:17 “And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.”
75 days to Usher in the Millennium
The two prophets Moses and Elijah will preach for 1260 days of great Tribulation before being killed. Then the battle of Armageddon will set in.
REVELATION 11:3 “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”
DANIEL 12:12 “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”
1335 – 1260 = 75 days
The blessing of the Millennium or the 1000-year Kingdom of Peace will start 75 days after the 1260 days of great Tribulation finish.
These 75 days will be the time of the battle of Armageddon and the start of the cleaning-up campaign which is needed to usher in the Millennium.
Only at Armageddon will evil be sufficiently defeated so that the Kingdom of Peace can be set up.
The beast is the spirit of organized denominational religion that produced the succession of Popes, because the religious organization needed a human figurehead, like the Nazis needed Hitler as a figurehead.
The false prophet is that devilish spirit of antichrist that jumped from Pope to Pope in their long line of succession so that each Pope was the prophet of a false religion.
REVELATION 19:20 “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him [the miraculous uniting of the churches at the end], with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image (the uniting of the non-Catholic churches). These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”
The mark of the best is when people become unscriptural because they are brainwashed by the doctrines of the world church system. Unscriptural doctrines like Trinity, Christmas, 25 December, seven-year tribulation, the antichrist, William Branham is infallible as the Voice of God, etc.
Satan himself must be confined in a bottomless pit by a chain of circumstances. Then the 1000-years of Peace can start.
REVELATION 20:1 “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”
Satan caged. The spirit of the beast and false prophet finally being destroyed in the Lake of Fire where they had misled the church for 2000 years during the seven church ages.
If you count carefully, you will find that “sickle” is mentioned seven times. That indicates that God is demanding judgement for the errors of seven church ages that are all combined and merged in the end to produce the pale corpse-coloured horse of Revelation Chapter 6.
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 nameless Trinity finally produced a name: Death.
And Hell follows him. What an awful punishment for those who are fooled by the Roman Catholic Trinity.
Armageddon will be a slaughter on a catastrophic and unprecedented scale.
The time to bury the dead after Armageddon will take 7 months.
The time to burn the weapons of war after Armageddon will take 7 years.
EZEKIEL 39:12 “And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.”
EZEKIEL 39:9 “And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:”