Transfiguration

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Scripture describes the events that occurred in the past. But these events were part of a pattern.

Because these events also symbolized future events that would occur later, especially the events that will occur at the end-time.

But these things are written in a strange way that people cannot understand with human wisdom. End-time events were revealed by the former or teaching-rain ministry of William Branham from America. The churches ignored him and unscriptural Message-churches, who claim to follow him, manipulated his quotes away from Scripture to corrupt his teachings. All modern-day churches thus refuse to return to the beliefs of the original apostles. They never elevated a Pastor to be in charge of a church.

We await the resurrection of the New Testament saints. Then the seven Thunders of the month-long latter rain that will change the bodies of the living Bride, as they are transfigured into glorified, eternal, sinless bodies that do not need a Saviour.

JEREMIAH 5:24  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

JOEL 2:23  Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

The “catching up” pulls the Bride off the Earth. This is the “latter rain harvest” that pulls the seed off the dead plants. The time span is expressed in weeks or a month.

Jesus leaves the throne of mercy to claim His Bride. Mercy will then be over, as shown by the eyes of fire. So, the name of Jesus (Saviour) will no longer have meaning as the world goes into the awful judgement of great Tribulation for 3½ years. The Lord looks at His apostate church with eyes of fire because of their lack of interest in the revealed mysteries of Scripture. They prefer to doomscroll through mindless junk or unscriptural opinions on their cellphones. The entertainment of You-tube videos has replaced serious Bible studies.

Jesus is an angry judge of His church

The white woolen wig of a judge.

But Jesus is an angry Judge as His church has moved away from Scripture.

The modern church easily makes up unscriptural beliefs like Christmas, 25 December, Christmas tree, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, sign of the cross, holy water, turned around collar, confessional, Pastor is the head of the church, Sunday sabbath, woman preacher, Trinity, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, Jesus is in the Godhead, First Person of the Godhead, one God in three Persons, Second Person of the Godhead, Third Person of the Godhead, etc.

None of these expressions are written in the Bible. There were no church buildings amongst the Gentiles in the first church age that ended around AD 170.

God is very upset with our church errors. By having three Persons in the Godhead, it is impossible to have one name for the churches’ Triune God. Removing God’s name makes Him angry indeed.

The Bride can only take on the name of the Bridegroom by getting baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. (ACTS 2:38)

Jesus cannot catch anyone up as a member of His living Bride, to be part of His Wedding Supper, unless they have His name.

The most important aspect of Christianity is to love Scripture so much that we eagerly seek to understand the Bible Mysteries. That way, we show our respect for God’s Word and our fascination for the way God thinks. Do not fool around by ignoring or changing the old King James Bible from 1769.

Then you will face an angry God.

           Jesus will take on His new name which is associated with the future perfection of His changed Bride. When the Bride are in their changed, sinless bodies then they will take on His new name. Those who believe in Trinity will stay “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”, which is not a name. It is a list of three titles that were manifest by God. First as the Father Who was above the Jews, to establish the pattern of salvation. Then as the Son Who was with the Jews to fulfill the Plan of salvation that was prophesied of in the Old Testament, and pay the price of Sin. Then God, as the Holy Ghost,  dwells IN the hearts of His people, to enable them to fulfill His New Testament Plan that ends when the church dies and the living Bride does an Exodus back to the apostolic beliefs of the first church age. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. God above, with, and in His people.

Paul spoke of the ages to come

EPHESIANS 2:7  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

The seed Word that was planted at the beginning by the apostles went through different stages in the different ages. Human leaders began to dominate the congregations. The unscriptural Trinity was forced on the churches at the AD 325 Council of Nicaea. The seed Word began to die and was buried in the dirt of the Dark Age. It germinated into leaves of Life in 1520 when Martin Luther in Germany restored salvation by faith, instead of being saved by good works. Then John Wesley in England restored holiness and outreach. The missionaries spread the pollen of the Gospel world-wide during the 1800s.

The 1906 Azusa Street Pentecostal revival in Los Angeles began the restoration of the supernatural gifts that formed a husk around the emerging original seed Word. The United Pentecostal church began to restore the basic doctrine that Jesus Christ is Lord God Almighty. Then, the 1947 – 1965, former rain or Bible teaching rain of William Branham from America taught us how to understand the hidden mysteries of the written Scriptures.

Now, at the end, we all face two choices. The maize plant (church systems) dies as the final seed (the Bride) ripens into an exact copy of the original  seed that was planted.

Two things happen next. The Bride seed Word is pulled off the dead plant and caught up to Heaven at the Coming of the Lord. Then the beasts of the field, the farmer’s cattle, eat up and eliminate the dead church plants of stalks and leaves. That is what happens in great Tribulation to all the saved church-goers who are left behind to face the wrath of the Beast, the Man of sin, the final Pope. There are over 2000 different kinds of churches who all believe unscriptural things and disagree with each other. Thus there is much error circulating around in the churches. Eve only made one mistake and was condemned.

Stalks: my church is higher and better than your church which is competitive churchianity.

Leaves: each church tends to leave out or change various Bible verses that they cannot explain. And thus they have no desire to return or be restored to the written beliefs of the apostles who established the first church age, In the last week of His life, Jesus twice whipped the religious money-makers out of the Temple. They had made Him very angry. His harsh hatred of sin is also caused by the church that took great interest in its self-elevated power to take people’s money, but had little interest in understanding the truth of Scripture. The saved foolish virgins in the churches do not have enough oil to cast a bright enough light on Scripture so that they can understand what is written. They will be left behind when the Lord comes and will then then face 3½ years of relentless judgement and death, represented by His eyes of fire.

MATTHEW 17:1  And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart.

MARK 9:2  And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

“After 6 days” places this event in the 7^th day, representing the 7th church age that began with the restoration of Holy Spirit gifts in Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906.

Only 3 of the twelve disciples are sufficiently interested in deeper issues. They want to know more. The rest are complacently happy with what they already know. They have no desperate desire to dig deeper. That describes the state of the end-time church. No end-time prophecy or parable says anything good about the end-time church who are all fast asleep.

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

“After six days” is the seventh day. Symbolizing the 7^th church age. Each day symbolizes a church age.

Jesus describes the seventh or last church as apostate.

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

End time churches are self-satisfied with their well-staged performances, pretence, and showmanship. Scandals rip through church leadership, exposing the pretence or hypocrisy of many ministers. The beautiful festivals of Christmas and Easter were copied from the pagans. The pagan Roman sun-god’s birthday on 25 December was celebrated with a decorated tree. Jeremiah 10 tells us not to copy this heathen practice. But churches use the unscriptural Christmas tree as the focus of the day.

JEREMIAH 10:2  Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

:3  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

:4  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

The goddess Ishtar was supposedly hatched from an egg that came down and then floated on the Euphrates River. Hence the pagan Ishtar egg that was changed to an equally pagan Easter egg. Easter bunnies come from fast breeding Ishtar bunnies, symbolizing the pagan Spring festival sex orgy.

The end-time churches are blissfully unaware of their shallow understanding of Bible patterns and the great extent to which they have been captured by unscriptural pagan ideas.

A high mountain obviously separated these 3 apostles from the other 9 disciples. Symbolizing the small Bride being caught up high to Heaven to separate them from the saved Christians in the foolish-virgins-church that will be destroyed in the on-coming great Tribulation.

But now comes a difficult verse that seems to contradict the time line of 7 days.

“After 6 days” is also “about an 8 days”

Making it more difficult, “An eight days” is a single time interval.

It sees 8 days as a single group, not as eight separate days.

This is a Mystery of God at the end-time. How do 7 days, representing 7 church ages, form an 8-day group?

7 completes a system, like 7 days in a week. 8 represents a new system. That means we will move outside the passage of time.

When the Bride receives their changed bodies, they step into Eternity, and are outside of time.

The following seven-sided star represents the 7 church ages.

How can we make 8 church ages out of these 7 church ages, so that only one single  age remains?

The Bride in the 7^th church age has to make an Exodus out of the church beliefs of the 7^th church age as the Bride is restored back to the beliefs of the first church age.

This final Exodus is IN the 7th age but it is all ABOUT an 8-day cycle that takes the Bride right back to the beginning, back to the first day representing the apostolic age.

When the Bride is back in the beliefs of the first church age, the resurrection occurs and the 7 Thunders transform their bodies so that they step into a timeless Eternity.

Eternity is represented by a narrow line that fits into the events from the past as well as passing through all the future events prophesied of in the Bible.

Returning to the first church age makes the first church age transform into an 8^th age. Not another church age, but rather a new age (8 represents a new system) where there is no longer any time. That dawns as the changed Bride in their new eternal bodies enter the timeless “straight line” of Eternity so that they can be caught up to Heaven.

That alone enables them to escape the 3½ years of great Tribulation that troubles and terrifies the entire Earth.

The 7^th age and the 8^th age briefly co-exist.

Consider a field of maize. The final stage is when the maize plant dies.

The Bride moves out of the apostate 7^th day  (representing the 7^th church age that is dying) and moves into the beliefs of the 1st church age (which is the mystery of God) by copying exactly the beliefs of the apostles. The seeds on the final cob are identical to the seeds that were planted at the beginning. The rest of the dead and dried up maize plant do not look like the original seed that was planted.

The resurrection then occurs, and the Bride is transformed as they receive new sinless bodies that cannot die or get old or sick.

Thus, the Bride steps into eternity while the rest of the world goes into the 3½ years of great Tribulation which is followed by the 1000-year kingdom of Peace.

ECCLESIASTES 11:2  “Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.”

“Seven” refers to seven church ages.

“Eight” refers to the extra, unexpected church age, when the Bride performs an Exodus out of the unbelieving and dead seventh-age churches to be restored back to the first church age of the apostles. They are then caught up to Heaven with the resurrected dead while everyone who stays behind gets swallowed up by the exceedingly cruel and evil great Tribulation.

The seven church ages end when the Bride performs an Exodus out of the apostate 7^th church age and is restored back to the first church age beliefs.

This final restoration back to the first church age then becomes the eighth age, the new system, that blends into Eternity after the resurrection, when the Bride is caught up to Heaven. Then the Gospel returns to Israel to pick up the 144000 Israelites during the indescribably evil 3½ years of great tribulation.

The transformation of the body

“About an 8 days” means that the Lord demonstrated what the future was about.

The secret transformation of our bodies symbolized by His secret transfiguration.

But He confined this experience to His own Body. At the end-time, nobody except the Bride, who are the Body of the Lord, will know about it. It was a preview of future events.

His resurrection from the dead had not yet occurred. Thus, He was just symbolizing our first glimpse of a timeless Presence as He publicly, and briefly  touched Eternity in a glorified Body.

MATTHEW 17:2  And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

His face was pure Light, He did not need the Sun. Spiritual light reveals far more than sunlight. Thus, if we have any sense, we will only listen to what Jesus tells us in the Bible.

When we pray, we speak to God. When we read the Bible, we give God a chance to speak to us.

A chance to hear and thus see with pure spiritual Light.

His Body was changed. This symbolizes what happens to the Bride after the resurrection.

1CORINTHIANS 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

“Trump” and “trumpet” are used in the same sentence. Thus, “trump” is not a trumpet.

President Trump is in his second, and last, term of office. That is a sign of the times.

“We shall be changed” into sinless, bloodless eternal bodies. That was symbolized by the transfiguration or changing of the body of Jesus.

MATTHEW 17:3  And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias [Greek for Elijah] talking with him.

Mount of Transfiguration revealed two great prophets, Moses and Elijah. Yet God did not say “Hear them”. God said “Hear ye Him”. Jesus. The Word. Only the Bible is guaranteed. The Word alone is perfect.

Moses died and had to be resurrected in order for the Archangel Michael to take him up to Heaven.

JUDE 1:9  Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

So Moses represents the resurrection of the dead New Testament saints in their eternal, bloodless, glorified bodies.

Elijah represents the living Bride at the end of the seventh church age whose bodies are changed into eternal bodies before being caught up to Heaven.

2KINGS 2:11  And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

A whirlwind speaks of hectic, dangerous times.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:52  … and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

The dead will be raised and 40 days later the Bride will be caught up to Heaven.

During those 40 days Jesus will manifest secret powers that modern people know nothing about. That time is described as the time of the 7 Thunders.

Complete secrecy as it is not written in Scripture.

ACTS 1:3  To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

The passion of Jesus was His death, burial, and resurrection where He defied and conquered Death. Forty days later, He ascended to Heaven, defying the physical laws of gravitation. Those 40 days saw Jesus manifest secret power. The transfiguration of His body showed His ability to defy all the physical laws of Nature. Scientists can identify the laws of Nature, but they have to obey them, they cannot defy them.

63-0724 — GOD DOESN'T CALL MAN TO JUDGMENT WITHOUT FIRST WARNING HIM

“Oh, not many in number, but what a powerful group that’s got Eternal Life! Said, “They shall run through a troop and leap over a wall.” Yes, the “troop” of death will have no holders to it, She’ll run right through it. Leap over the “wall” between natural and Supernatural, and go into the arms of God, into that great Eternity. Lord God, we thank You for this. We know the time is approaching at hand.”

Time is the wall that stops the natural eye seeing the supernatural realm.

The Pit is the realm of the troop of death. The troop of devils that drag the unsaved spirits down to hell when they die.

The blood of Jesus is the only safety line that enables saved souls to cross-over from time to Eternity.

Uplifting a prophet is completely wrong***

The main apostle got it completely wrong.

Never trust human leadership. Only the Bible can guide us

MATTHEW 17:4  Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

The transfiguration was a totally confusing time time when the best  apostles made serious doctrinal errors.

Fooled by the Trinity spirit, Peter, though a special apostle and prophet, compounded his error by elevating two prophets to the Godhead.

This time of transfiguration symbolizes the time of the 7 Thunders that brings to pass the changing of our bodies into eternal bodies.

That will be a very confusing time. People who once knew the truth will make serious errors. We will not be able to understand these secret events in advance.

If the Lord revealed any facts about the 7 Thunders, Satan would hear and he would do great harm. The enemy must never know what the next step is.

63-0324 — THE SEVENTH SEAL

“But here is Seven straight Thunders, right in a row:… Seven Thunders in a row, uttered, making just—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, straight. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit seven times—Ed.] Then, Heavens couldn’t write That. Heavens can’t know about It, nothing else, because there’s nothing to go on. It was a relaxing time. It was so great, till, It was kept secret from the Angels.

Now, why? If Satan should get a hold of It, he might do great damage. There is one thing he don’t know. Now, he can interpret anything he wants to, and impersonate any kind of a gift, (I hope you’re learning), but he can’t know This. It’s not even written in the Word. It’s a total secret.

The Angels, everything, shut up. If they made one move, it might give something away, so they just shut up, quit harping. Everything stopped.”

If we are not to reveal any truths about what the Thunders are and what they utter, then it is safest that God says nothing about them which is why they are not written in Scripture. They will only be revealed after the resurrection in order to give us new bodies. The Thunders will give us “rapturing faith” so that we can receive changed bodies and be caught up to Heaven. We cannot be caught up in these present sinful bodies.

We will have to discern these future events as they happen in order to decide what is Scriptural and what should be ignored as we pick out the truth from amongst the confusion of errors, decoys, and distractions that will be designed to deceive us.

That is why the Iran war is so confusing. The world press gives their opinions and so-called facts that mix truth with error. We are learning not to rush to a conclusion, as we learn patience the hard way. We have to wait to see what happens.

John, also a special apostle, twice repeated the fatal error of promoting a prophet to the Godhead at the end of Revelation, falling down to worship the prophet who revealed these visions to him. The prophet was not impressed, he immediately rebuked John to knock that wrong idea out of his head.

Today, Message Christians who follow brother Branham in a sincere effort to understand truth, have repeated this elevation of a man to the Godhead by calling brother Branham the “Voice of God.” There is no such Scripture in the New Testament. They have been fooled and thus join the foolish virgins.

MATTHEW 17:5  While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

Only hear the Word, the King James Bible.

That is the Voice of God. It is not the Voice of any man.

65-1125 — THE INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

“I tell you, just as that eagle recognized that voice, so does a real, born-again Christian recognize the Voice of God speaking through the Word,”      Where brother Branham says something different to Scripture, ignore him. Just stay with his remarkable insights where he explains the Scriptures.

God is only pleased with us if we are  IN Christ, IN the Scripture. IN the will of God for our day. That means we must be returning to the first church age.

MATTHEW 17:6  And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

At the end-time, fear is generated. People are too scared to argue with their Pastors and terrified of leaving their churches.

They think their salvation depends on being in a holy church huddle. Being strictly Scriptural does not interest them.

Because true love is not an emotion that can fluctuate.

It's a decision.

When a believer decides never to leave Scripture, because Scripture gives us the very thoughts of Jesus.

You cannot claim to love Jesus if you do not love His thinking.

His thoughts that are written in the King James Bible should fascinate you, which alone makes you attract His attention.

And nobody can stop a Bride being in submission to her husband’s thinking. No man can stand between a man and His bride. No person can stand between a believer and the believer’s understanding of the Bible.

MATTHEW 17:7  And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

Our only safety is when Jesus touches us as He guides us through the pages of the Bible, revealing the deeper truth of the Scriptures. When you are close to Jesus, He gives you the ability to recognize the true revelation of His Word.

MATTHEW  17:8  And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

No man, whoever he is, can replace a Scripture. We must learn not to be dominated by any man, however charismatic he may be. Jesus alone must be the Person we listen to.

Only agree with a prophet if he explains to you what is written in Scripture.

The transformation of our bodies is top secret***

MATTHEW  17:9  And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying,

Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

This transfiguration was symbolic of a top secret operation.

The changing of the Bride’s bodies into eternal bodies.  Nobody will know of that event except those who have their bodies changed. Our changing of the body only happens after the resurrection. Until then it is a total secret. Nobody must know about how it actually happens until after the resurrection of the New Testament saints.

Nobody will know how their bodies will change until after the resurrection. We know that a change will happen but we have absolutely no idea how it will happen. In that sense, no man has been told of the vision of how the body changes. The 7 Thunders that holds the mystery to the changing of the body was not written in Scripture. We have absolutely no idea what the seven Thunders are, nor what they utter.

They remain a total mystery.

63-0324 — THE SEVENTH SEAL

“One of the mystery of that [7^th ] Seal, the reason It wasn’t revealed, It was Seven Thunders that uttered Their voices. And there It is, perfectly. Because, nothing knows anything about It. It wasn’t even written.”

Even the day of the Lord’s resurrection was a time of panic and confusion. The disciples were very troubled and did not know what was going on. We can expect a similar confusion and time of fear when the New Testament saints rise in the resurrection. We will only understand the events at that time if we stay strictly Scriptural. Worshiping the prophet will not help. Replacing the Word with quotes will not help.

“Tell the vision to no man” and yet it had to be written into Scripture. How can that be possible?

This symbolizes the end time when all the key points have to be written down to guide the Bride individuals down an unseen path. But written in such a manner that they shed no light, and reveal nothing of value to the final “foolish-virgins” churches, even though they have been saved. This is symbolized by three disciples watching and nine disciples not being invited, and thus remaining ignorant. Only the few who could keep the secret, saw the events. Even then, Peter still made a serious mistake of elevating two major prophets to the same level as Jesus, the revealed Word.

So the true Bride is not immune from making mistakes but we have to allow Scripture to correct our mistakes.

MATTHEW 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

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

[Further revelation of Bible mysteries is given to a Bride individual who believes in the revelation of Scripture by the deep insights of William Branham’s quotes. We learn to ignore his unscriptural mistakes.

Einstein made mistakes too, that we ignore. But we judge him by the amazing insights that he got right.]

“but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”

[The revelation of Bible mysteries is removed from a foolish virgin who follows an unscriptural Pastoral Priesthood that tries to reveal issues by misinterpreting and splicing quotes. They vainly insist that they are very clever, but they cannot explain deep mysteries.

For example: Genesis 1 says “multiply”. Genesis 3 says “I will greatly multiply your conception”.

Explain how “multiply” changed to “greatly multiply” in two Chapters.

They cannot, which simply reveals that they have too little oil that can only produce insufficient light to illuminate the Bible mysteries. Finally they will produce no light as they get their facts even more muddled up. They believe their safety depends on huddling in an unscriptural Pastor-dominated church].

“Tell the vision to no man”. Transfiguration refers to the 7 Thunders that change our bodies in order to give us the so-called “rapturing faith”. But we cannot be caught up in these sinful bodies.

At the time of those Thunders, our human opinions and decisions will be totally irrelevant. They will leave us completely in the dark.

There will be a deep purpose of God unfolding and He has to be in complete control of His Bride to achieve it.

God will simply pursue His own goals without considering what humans think.

God will not need us if we are not totally in His will.

He alone can change the bodies of those He wishes to marry as His Bride.

Whatever experience God puts you through, you will never be able to explain that to another person.

That is why the wise virgins have no oil that they can share. Body changing is supernatural, it cannot be done by human efforts.

OIL. The Bridegroom wants a personal experience with His Bride to illuminate her revelation.

Not a second-hand experience inspired by some other preacher who had to be paid.

In the last week of His life, Jesus twice whipped the money-makers out of the Temple.

That is why the Door then slams shut at the end for the foolish virgins.

If we listen to paid church preachers, and internet preachers begging for money or advertising their books and DVD sales, we will not be ready, and then God will not want us for His Bride.

God demands our full attention.

We listen only to Scripture and obey Scripture willingly, not reluctantly.

The 7 Thunders, new name, and when the Lord is Coming, are secrets that we must not discuss before the resurrection.

We will get them wrong and merely add to the deceptive spirit.

The church is ruled by elders, not a Pastor***

Speaking of the sign of the end-time, Jesus said:

MATTHEW 24:3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

:4  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

Unscriptural statements: “Your Pastor will see you through”, “The Pastor is the head of the church”, “The tithes belong to the Pastor”.

None of these last three statements are true. If that is what you are relying on, you have lost the path.

57-0922 — HEBREWS, CHAPTER SEVEN #2

“But the full and complete authority of the church is the pastor. Read that in the Bible, see if that’s not Bible order. That’s exactly right. There is no one above the elder. I have nothing to do with what Brother Neville does here. That’s up to you and Brother Neville. If Brother Neville wanted to preach Jehovah Witness doctrine, that’s up to him and you. See? If he wanted to preach anything he wanted to, that’s between you and him. That’s all. If the congregation votes for him in there, to preach that, that’s all right. That’s up to him.”

This quote is totally unscriptural.

Preaching Jehovah Witness doctrine is also totally wrong.

William Branham is not infallible. He made mistakes at times and you have to be able to discern those mistakes as being unscriptural.

Oversight of the church is given to the group of elders (plural). There is not one elder in charge. The Bible never mentions a Pastor as the head of the church. That is a Nicolaitan doctrine, one man conquering the laity or congregation. Nico means conquer.

Peter, an apostle, when he speaks to the elders does not try to out-rank them. He just calls himself an elder, a fellow-elder on the same level as themselves. Paul had to rebuke Peter at one stage. The other Christians were scared to correct Peter. Which was wrong.

Rank and titles are not the secret of success. That puts the emphasis on fallible human beings.

PROVERBS 3:5  “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

No one person will get it all right.” 1 PETER 5:1  “The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

:2  Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

[Today preachers first ask, How much will you pay me to preach?]

:3  Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”

No man is to be elevated as if he is the lord or head of the church.

God put the leadership of the church into the hands of a group of co-equal elders.

If the church has one man as a human head, it simply opens the door for ambitious men to boost themselves, and then they destroy any opposition. That is the spirit of Dictatorship.

ACTS 20:17  And from Miletus he [Paul] sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Act 20:28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

:29  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

:30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Any man who gets the church to follow him as if he is the Head of the church, is a grievous wolf.

From such ambitions was the unscriptural Pastoral Priesthood established, as they copied the disastrously disqualified Levitical Priesthood who killed Jesus as a man.

The Pastoral Priesthood kills Jesus as the Word of God, by calling the Pastor the complete and final authority of the church. Thus, the Bible stands outside the church door.

Message-churches become increasingly Bible-illiterate. Charismatic Pastors will guide the saved foolish virgins into great Tribulation, as they destroy the influence of unwanted Bible teachers.

A Pastoral Priesthood will produce Death***

There are four beasts around the throne in Heaven.

REVELATION  4:7  And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf [young ox], and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

Once great Tribulation starts, the Pastor’s so-called influence as the head of his church, will dissolve into irrelevance as Death destroys two billion church-goers, according to the Fourth Seal.

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

[The voice of the end-time Gentile prophet, William Branham from America, whose symbol is the white-headed or bald-headed eagle.]

6:8  “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 earth has 8.3 billion people today. One quarter of that is about 2 billion people. That is more-or-less the number of church-goers. That means that the vast majority of church people will perish in great Tribulation.

CAB-03 — 3 - THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE

“That false vine was getting a hold and it was teaching that rulership by man was right. It taught that the church had to be governed. It taught a control over the people, but instead of doing it God’s way, they simply took authority and vested all the spiritual power in their own hands and came out with a holy priesthood standing between God and the people. They went right back to the old Aaronic system [the Levitical Priesthood. Aaron was the first High Priest]. They became antichrist for they disposed of His mediatorship and imposed their own. God hated that. The Ephesians hated that and any true believer will hate it too. … That antichrist spirit was already infiltrating the church, and it was doing it by going AGAINST the Word.”

65-0801 — THE GOD OF THIS EVIL AGE “He said the antichrist would raise up and almost deceive the Elected if it was possible. But said, “Let them alone. Let them go ahead. Their folly will be found out.” Why? The Word test proves it.”     64-0823 — QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #2

“And when a person says that he is a Christian and will absolutely deny the Scripture being right, he’s committing adultery against the Body that he claims to be in. See? So it’s a mark of antichrist, so much that would deceive the Elected if possible.”

Consider important Bible patterns that are completely unknown to the vast majority of the churches.

• 1 The seven church ages. These are lumped together as a single “church age” by the churches, mainly because they cannot find a suitable candidate in their own ranks for a 7^th age messenger. Consequently, they optimistically think that the very important point that the last church of the Laodiceans is totally fallen into apostacy, does not apply to them. After all, it only affects one seventh of the total “church age”. Thus, John wrote of the final events in a manner that reveals nothing of value to the churches. Essentially, that means they were not told of the end-time events.
• 2 God is a Person with a Head and a Body and a name. Part of the mystery of God is that Jesus Christ is the Head of the Body. and He alone is fully Lord God Almighty. The Bride can only take on His name in water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. The Bride has to take on the name of her Husband.

Rev 10:7  “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery [singular] of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”

Part of the mystery (singular) of God is when the Bride returns to the beliefs of the early apostles.

Only then will brother Branham’s ministry be regarded as successful. Only then will the Bride quote from Scripture. Proving the quotes from Scripture is when the Bride will begin to sound, because God is only interested in a Scripture-loving Bride.

MATTHEW 17:10  And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

MATTHEW:11  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

A future Elijah ministry will restore the Bride back to the beliefs of the first church age. That referred to the ministry of William Branham.

Elijah or Elias in the Greek, is a prophetic ministry that has a double application at the First Coming and then again at the Second Coming of Jesus. John the Baptist, with his Elijah ministry, revealed Jesus as a Man walking amongst men in the days of John the Baptist. Then John got killed.

MATTHEW 17:12  But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Then Jesus also got killed.

MATTHEW 17:13  Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

The second Elias ministry, which Jesus referred to first was in the future, during the seventh church age. It would be when William Branham revealed the mysteries of Scripture on recorded tapes (his “voice”), to enable the Bride to return to the beliefs of the early church. He thus revealed Jesus walking through the King James Bible as the Word of God that can be understood.

Message Pastors who claim to follow William Branham deliberately chose a few quotes and combined them to form some doctrine that suits their purpose. They ignore other quotes that say contradict their agenda.

We are dealing with a manufactured consent, the deliberate construction of a common agenda based on wrong quotes, or wrongly interpreted quotes, that serve particular interests. The main wrong interest is securing power and money for the Pastor and his sons as an unscriptural Pastoral priesthood, based on nepotism (favour your family). (The Levitical priesthood ceased when Caiaphas tore his robe.) And then having the unscriptural Pastor-is-the-head-of-the-church trying to explain Scriptures that he cannot understand as he defends his church salary. People fight viciously to protect their income.

Pastoral care is helping people with their personal problems. A Pastor was never used to understand difficult Bible verses by linking them to other verses. That is the ministry of a Bible teacher. Pastors take the people away from the Scriptures and try to prove their point by manipulating certain carefully chosen quotes. They then use quotes to replace Scripture. They compound the error by condemning Bible teachers who can explain Scriptures.

Comfort is where a church goes to so that it can die.

People wear Christianity as a costume.

They are attracted to the fake excitement of radical ideas that refer to future events that they wrongly try to place in the past. Ideas such as “Jesus has come”, or “The 7 Thunders have uttered”, or “the mighty Angel of Revelation 10 has come down”. What they claim as a breakthrough is actually a breakdown.

Their personal ambition to be considered clever consumes them and makes them focus on the attrition and destruction of any opposition. The banishing of Bible teachers from Message-churches, who emphasize their Pastor and the Prophet, becomes the norm.

This effectively hides revealed Bible truths from the vast majority. It also forces people to believe the mistakes that brother Branham made in places. Message people are effectively blind to most of the deeper Scriptures, despite getting saved, as there are so many Bible verses that they cannot understand. And so many quotes that they misunderstand, that make them misunderstand the Scriptures. Message churches focus on quotes and become increasingly Bible-illiterate.

“Thinking for myself” is not the strong point of a parrot who repeats what others say without understanding what is said, and thus forms an ignorant opinion. There is no mention of parrots in Heaven.

The Bride has a studied opinion, they use the quotes to learn how to link Bible verses together.

They move from the quotes to the Scripture and then they move through the Scripture.

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

JOHN 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

No preacher should speak about himself. A person may be regarded as a success or a failure. That is irrelevant. The only thing that counts is how Scriptural the preacher is. The focus must be on Scripture because Jesus is the Word. If we cannot understand the difficult Scriptures, then we are not controlled by Jesus.