Zechariah 04  Calvary and the 7 Thunders

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Wise virgins who are the Bride are asleep at the end

Calvary saw Jesus killed but then He resurrected to Life. He stamped His authority over Death by resurrecting the Old Testament saints soon after He resurrected. Then He started the 7 church ages.

In the not-too-distant future, Jesus will resurrect the New Testament saints and unleash the 7 Thunders which will reveal the changing of our bodies and the catching up to Heaven of the Bride. The 7 Thunders will also give enormous supernatural power to the prophets Moses and Elijah as they take command of the violent forces of Nature to protect the 144,000 Jews.

The 7 church ages basically occur in the roughly 2000 years between the two resurrections which are events of incredible supernatural power. The resurrections illustrate the power of Life over Death.

ZECHARIAH 4:1   “And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,”

Jesus calls us unprofitable servants. In other words, we make more mistakes that He has to clean up, than what we get right. We tend to focus on where we think we succeed but we ignore or are unaware of the many mistakes we make.

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

The prophet had to be woken up. He was fast asleep. This matches the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25. A woman is a symbol of a church. Virgins are clean women, representing saved people in the churches. All the church people, wise and foolish, are fast asleep as they wait for the Coming of the Bridegroom, Jesus.

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

So, Zechariah represents the church individuals at the end time. Fast asleep. Needing to be woken up by the midnight cry which is such a disaster that it even wakes up the foolish virgins. The extreme shock makes them realize that their churches have fooled them. They are then told, “Go ye out to meet Him”.

To meet the Lord, we will have to go out of our churches. The main reason is that the churches do not regard the King James Bible as being the perfect Word of God. Thus they change Scriptures in the King James Bible or they largely ignore or neglect the King James Bible as they focus on brother Branham's quotes which they believe have replaced the Bible.

Thus, all the efforts and obedience that you have put into your regular church attendance have not been part of God’s final Plan.  The churches can teach us about salvation from hell and encourage us to do many good works, but they cannot prepare us for the Second Coming of Jesus. The full truth of Scripture can only be found by going outside your church.

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

In the last church age, Jesus stands outside the church door knocking. The King James Bible is the Perfect Word of God but the churches no longer believe that. They reject the King James Bible as not being perfect. As such, they have rejected Jesus Himself, because he is the Word of God.

Whatever you say about the King James Bible, you are saying about Jesus.

REVELATION 3:14   And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;

God says nothing good about the end-time churches, but delivers a stinging rebuke to those He loves. This Scripture is not addressed to sinners. It is addressed to the church.

“Laodicea” means people’s rights. This is a major theme today. Everyone demanding their rights.

"The church of the Laodiceans". People demand the right to serve God in whatever way suits them.

They demand the right to reject the King James Bible and have produced over 100 different versions of the English Bible. Then they can pick and choose whatever bits they like and disregard or change any bits they do not like.

REVELATION 3:14   As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

It is not enough just to repent. We must be zealous to repent. There is obviously a lot that is wrong in the modern-day churches. Standards of dress have become very worldly. Women never wore pants before the 1960s but now they demand their right to dress like men. There are many unscriptural doctrines like gay rights and same-sex marriage that the churches have absorbed and defended. Marriage is a vow until death. Churches permit divorce and remarriage which involves a second vow until death which is invalid. Drums are not mentioned in the Bible. Churches rely on disco drumbeat music to whip up emotions for praise and worship. When the music stops, the emotions stop. That is called bubble dancing. The focus is on entertainment.

As long as there is some display of supernatural gifts, people are convinced that they are right with God.

MATTHEW 7:22   Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

:23   And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Understanding and obeying the revealed Bible mysteries is more important than displaying supernatural gifts.

Being Scriptural and understanding the Bible is more important than putting on an impressive show. Scriptural substance is worth more than charismatic style.

REVELATION 3:20   Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Christ, as the King James Bible is outside the churches. He knocks on the church door but knows that the church group will not accept Him. Peer pressure inside the churches is designed to criticize the King James Bible. But Jesus does appeal to any individual who may have the courage needed to oppose the church's beliefs.

God looks for individuals today, not for a church group. But it takes much courage and determination to dare to oppose the church’s traditions. People just find safety as they go with the flow and believe whatever the unscriptural head of the church, the pastor or vicar or priest or minister, says.

PHILIPPIANS 2:12   Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We cannot work out our own salvation from hell. We have to work out our own salvation from the horror of the oncoming great Tribulation.

The fatal mistake church-goers make is to believe that because they have been saved by repenting and accepting Jesus as Saviour, then they can believe whatever suits them, as they are automatically going to go in the Rapture when Jesus catches them up to Heaven. To please God, we have to be able to understand the revealed mysteries of Scripture. If we cannot understand the Bible’s mysteries and prophecies, then we have not been listening to God.

HEBREWS 6:1   Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Jews and Gentiles have 7 stages in their history

ZECHARIAH 4:2   And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:

The golden bowl is the most striking object as it holds the olive oil that allows the seven lamps to burn. But there is only a limited amount of oil in the bowl. This represents God dealing with Israel. God would only achieve limited success with them as they were under bondage to the Aaronic Priesthood that would end when the High Priest Caiaphas tore his robe, which broke the Law. The Law told them what to do but it could not change their sinful natures.

LEVITICUS 10:6   And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads,

neither rend your clothes; lest ye die,

and lest wrath come upon all the people:

MATTHEW 26:65   Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Zechariah's vision of the candlestick with seven co-equal lamps and a limited supply of oil in the bowl. This represented the history of the Jews during seven stages or ages of the Old Testament. There were no branches that were dependent on the main central candlestick. There was no central candlestick in this vision.

The 7 Jewish ages in this vision failed because there was no central candlestick, representing the first church age of the apostles. The other six lamps would then just be branches that had to try to be like the central candlestick.

This is what the Tabernacle candlestick looked like, which represented the New Testament seven church ages.

EXODUS 25:32   And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

JOHN 15:5   I am the vine, ye are the branches:

He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:

for without me ye can do nothing.

The branches have to be held in place by the  central candlestick.

The apostles established the central candlestick with Jesus as the Absolute truth, represented by the Lion of Judah.

Let us go back to Zechariah's vision of the 7 Old Testament Jewish ages.

The 7 lamps represent 7 stages or ages that God went through with Israel. These would form an outline or blueprint for God’s Plan of working with the Gentile church during the seven church ages that started on ther Day of Pentecost.

Zechariah's vision represents the 7 Jewish Old Testament ages that failed.

Each of these Jewish ages has a remarkable man as the messenger (Greek word is angelos. English word is angel) to that Jewish age.

First Jewish age. God picked up a handful of dust to create a body for Himself and came down as Melchizedek and spoke to Abraham who began the Hebrew nation. Abraham left his first love Sarah and produced Ishmael from Hagar. That produced the Muslims, Israel's great enemy.

REVELATION 2:4  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

First church age. Ephesus (relaxed). God Himself came down on the Day of Pentecost as the Holy Ghost to give birth to the Christian church. Paul and the apostles established the church upon the foundation of the New Testament. A group of local elders ruled each local church. Then ambitious men were elevated to be the head of a church.

People relaxed and lost their first love of being strictly Scriptural and followed human leaders who dominated each church and introduced unscriptural ideas.

Nicolaitan means to conquer the laity (congregation) by elevating a holy man to be the head of the church. God, and the true church, hated this idea because each church was ruled by one man, called a priest, rather than a group of elders.

Thus, the Roman Catholic church was born.

A Pastor was never put in charge of a church in the New Testament. Pastoral care means helping people with personal problems. Bible teachers have to puzzle out the mysteries of the revealed Word. Pastors cannot do that, and thus Pastors have led the people away from the King James Bible with their focus on interpreting a few carefully selected quotes. Different Pastors select different quotes to try to interpret and thus split the so-called end-time Message into over 100 different variations. Having a Pastor in charge of a church is the great enemy of truth as there are 1300 so-called Message-Pastors, most of whom have different opinions and beliefs. What they have in common is that their churches have grown increasingly Bible-illiterate. "I have a quote" has replaced "It is written".

REVELATION 2:6   But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

Those who served God in the early church hated the idea of having one man in charge of a church.

When that happens, the Pastor regards the Bible teacher as an enemy to be avoided at all costs. Only ambitious men, who agree with the Pastor and are subserviant to his viewpoint are allowed to preach. Any different viewpoint based on Scripture is crushed and banished. Thus the last age, having absorbed the Roman Catholic leadership model, slides into unscriptural unbelief.

Second Jewish age. Joseph was put in prison by his jealous brothers.

After Joseph died, all the Jews were put into slavery and many were killed.

REVELATION 2:10   Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Second church age. Smyrna (bitterness and death).

Priests ruled each church. Bishops were rising to be the head of all the priests in a city.

God limited the damage by allowing many persecutions of the church by the Roman government. These persecutions scattered the true believers all over the Empire. Small groups were thus able to gather unnoticed and obey the New Testament that the apostles had put in place to guide all the local churches.

Irenaeus in Lyons tried hard to stem the tide of error.

A vicious 10-year persecution was launched in 303 by the pagan Roman Emperor Diocletian. He tried to destroy all Bibles but the scattering of the Christians allowed some Bibles to survive.

A day can mean a year in prophecy.

GENESIS 29:27   Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Third Jewish age. Moses was opposed by the prophet Balaam who trapped the Jews in the pagan feast of Baal-peor where they fell for pagan women and God struck them with a plague.

NUMBERS 25:9   And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

A woman represents a church. Getting involved with a church means taking on human opinions and traditions which produces the plague of unbelief that results in believing something different from the King James Bible.

REVELATION 2:13   I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name,

Third church age. Pergamos (thoroughly married).

Pergamos is the Greek spelling of Pergamum. This age was dominated by Greek philosophical terms like “One God in three Persons”, “Son is co-Eternal”, “Eternal Sonship”, and “Father and Son are of the same essence” (whatever that means). These ideas are not written in the Bible.

At the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, dominated by the ruthless politician Constantine, the Trinity doctrine was forced on the church. Adding the word Trinity to the Bible was Satan’s seat. The Trinity God has no name as you cannot find one name for three Persons.

Removing God’s name was Satan’s cleverest trick to undermine the church. This allowed Satan to move into the church and take over the leadership of all the churches by calling himself the Pope.

One-man human leadership doomed the church to the terrible Dark Ages.

If you say that God’s name is “the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”  then you have the name of blasphemy. Because you say God has no name. That is a total lie and a massive stumblingblock on the way to understanding God and the water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38).

Revelation 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

Fornication is unmarried sex. The Roman Catholic church never was the Bride of Christ.

Trinity was invented by the pagans in Babylon, Egypt, and India.

We are not asked to celebrate Christ’s birth in the Bible. Christmas comes from Christ’s Mass which is a Catholic Mass celebrated on 25 December, the birthday of the pagan Roman sun god. Around AD 350, Pope Julius I changed the birthday of the sun god to the birthday of the Son of God. Good Friday is unscriptural. Invented by the Catholics. Like Jonah, Christ had to be buried for three nights. He rose on Sunday so He had to die on Thursday. Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night were spent in the tomb.

MATTHEW 12:40  for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Catholics changed the date of Christ’s birth and His death. And they have fooled the Protestants with both dates.

The Council of Nicaea was the most evil Council held. The church got thoroughly married to paganism and politics and became dominated by Bishops and finally a Pope. They rewrote the Bible in Latin so that the people could not read the Bible.

Martin of Tours tried hard to oppose this trend,

Fourth Jewish age. The Dark Age of the evil king Ahab and his brutal, dominating wife Jezebel.

Ahab and Jezebel were opposed by Elijah.

Fourth church age. Thyatira (Dominating woman).

A woman symbolizes a church. Jezebel symbolizes the Roman Catholic church that ruled Europe in the Dark Ages.

REVELATION 2:20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Fornication is unmarried sex.

The Roman Catholic church has never been married to Christ.  Revelation sees her as a harlot, the mother of the Protestant harlots that she has fooled.

REVELATION 17:5   and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

A wife takes on the name of her husband. But the churches have no one name for their Trinity God. They have no name for the third Person, the Holy Spirit. They cannot explain why the Old Testament names for the Father, like Jehovah or Adonai, never appear in the New Testament.

When the name of Jesus was mentioned in Matthew 1:1, then all the Old Testament names of God ceased. God’s power is now in the name of Jesus.

The Jehovah of the Old Testament became the Jesus of the New Testament.

We can only take on Christ’s name in water baptism. The churches refuse to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

The churches do not believe that Jesus is Almighty God and they do not take on the name of Jesus in water baptism. Thus, they will not be at the Wedding Supper.

Columba in Scotland most effectively opposed the power of the Pope. The Dark Ages could only start when Columba died and the Pope’s influence could then spread.

Fifth Jewish age.  Ezra restores the treasure to the rebuilt Temple.

Fifth church age, Sardis (Escaped ones)

Martin Luther in Germany restores the treasure of salvation by faith to the Protestant churches who could then escape from Roman Catholic unscriptural errors that included salvation by good works.

The printing press spread his message.

Sixth Jewish age. Nehemiah rebuilds the wall of Jerusalem to make the city safe.

Sixth church age, Philadelphia (brotherly love).

John Wesley in England restored holiness and outreach and brotherly love. These are the strong walls of Christianity. Brotherly love led to the great missionary age. They believed in converting their opponents rather than condemning them. This open door was when, for about a century, brave missionaries could risk their lives and readily spread out over the British Empire, Africa, China, and America without a need for a passport.

REVELATION 3:8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

They had an open door for the missionary age. They were incredible people with amazing faith, yet they only had a little strength. They were Trinitarians and as such they knew very little about the deeper Bible mysteries.

Understanding the truth of Scripture is what God regards as great spiritual strength.

If you can understand the Bible’s mysteries, it means you listen to God rather than the many lies that Satan has fooled the church with during their 2000-year history. Being able to hear what God says when you understand His deep prophecies and sayings means more than being able to do great works. God’s Word is eternal. Great works are temporary.

Being missionaries, they focussed on the name of Jesus for salvation. Dealing with the unsaved they did not bother about the technicalities of the Trinity. Thus, on the mission field, they presented Jesus as the name of God to get people saved and healed.

The steam engine started the Industrial Revolution and steamboats took missionaries overseas. Steam engines enabled railways to be built inland so that missionaries could quickly cover large distances.

Seventh Jewish age. John the Baptist introduced Jesus as a Man walking amongst men. The Jews rejected Jesus the Man, except for a few individuals.

Seventh church age. The message of William Branham (not William Branham as a man) enables us to understand the deeper mysteries of the King James Bible. His sermons give us an eagle-eyed insight into the meaning of prophecy and an understanding of the deep patterns in the King James Bible. The churches reject the teachings of brother Branham and reject the King James Bible, God's Word, as a flawed translation.

Thus they reject Jesus as the Word of God.

The pastors who follow brother Branham promote him to the Godhead and declare him to be the infallible Voice of God, the Son of man, and replace the King James Bible with his quotes. Thus, they preach from quotes and reject the hard work of puzzling out the deeper mysteries of Scripture. Consequently, they regard Bible teachers as enemies. The followers of brother Branham become increasingly Bible-illiterate.

Zechariah's candlestick had a limited bowl of oil. The Jews were limited by their belief in the Law. Message pastors preach from a limited bowl of carefully selected quotes.

Thus, the Bible truth gets rejected by all the churches.

But the internet enables the truth to spread to individuals all around the earth.

Two Olive trees produce life-giving Holy Ghost oil

ZECHARIAH 4:3   And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

Zechariah sees something deeper. Two olive trees that have life in them. These two trees have a compound meaning.

Two olive trees represent the Old Testament of the Israelites and the New Testament of the Gentile church.

Olive trees indicate life.

The Old Testament Jews were resurrected just after Jesus was resurrected. That was just before the church was born on the Day of Pentecost.

MATTHEW 27:52   and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

:53   And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

The seven church ages end soon after the New Testament church will be resurrected, just before the Coming of the Lord. Then God will turn to the 144000 Jews during great Tribulation.

Thus the two olive trees represent the incredible power of the resurrection. First the promise of the resurrection to Abram, then the fulfilment of the resurrection by Jesus who then resurrected the Old Testament saints. The seven Jewish ages are caught between these two powerful events.

The left hand olive tree represents Melchizedek giving Abram (who later became Abraham) bread and wine which was the promise of the resurrection. Jesus gave the apostles bread and wine at the Last Supper which were symbols of His death, burial, and resurrection that Jesus then fulfilled.

GENESIS 14:18   And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God

I CORINTHIANS 11:24   And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

:26   For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come

The olive tree on the right represents the death and resurrection of Jesus which was then followed by the resurrection of the Old Testament saints.

The power of the resurrection only flowed into the Old Testament saints after the New Testament had started with the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

MATTHEW 27:52   And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose

:53   And came out of the graves after his resurrection

Abraham, famous for his faith, had complete faith in the resurrection.

GENESIS 22:2   And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Abraham went up mount Moriah, where the Temple would later be built, to kill Isaac. Yet he believed that God would resurrect Isaac and that Isaac would return with him.

GENESIS 22:5   And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

The Jewish seven ages were built on the promise of the resurrection that only Jesus could fulfill.

ZECHARIAH 4:4   So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

But God’s Spirit moves in mysterious ways so that even a prophet knows nothing about God’s Plan unless God chooses to illuminate the mind of the prophet.

ZECHARIAH 4:5   Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

The prophet’s ignorance is repeated thrice.

Thus, this represents three great mysteries for Jews and Gentiles:

1. The return to God’s original Temple that had been destroyed by Babylon.
2. Laying again the foundation to rebuild the Temple.
3. The mystery of the resurrection of Jesus and the Old Testament saints near Jerusalem.

The angel questions the prophet to confirm that the prophet has no idea what these things mean.

Churches today have no idea that we must be restored to the beliefs of the first church age. That we must again lay a perfect foundation by believing that the King James Bible is the perfect and absolute truth.

We are not perfect but the foundation for our faith, the King James Bible, is perfect.

Only when we understand the King James Bible will the New Testament resurrection occur.

The angel begins to illuminate Zechariah’s mind.

He refers to Zerubbabel who led the first wave of Jews that were restored to Jerusalem after their captivity in Jerusalem.

The emphasis is on being restored back to the original Temple.

Once he was restored, Zerubbabel laid the foundation of a new Temple.

This symbolizes the church having the truth originally when they were established by the apostles.  But then they started losing the truth as they were captive to the Roman Catholic pagan errors of Trinity, a Trinity God Who has no name, water baptism in titles instead of a name, Christmas, 25 December, Good Friday, having a human head of the church, and the church’s involvement in politics and big money. Then the Roman Catholic Church killed their opponents. All these unscriptural ideas were absorbed into the church.

Then God wanted to restore the church back to the initial beliefs of the apostles in the first church age.

The seed that is harvested (in the Rapture when the Bride is caught up to Heaven) has to be the same as the seed that was planted (by the apostles.)

We have to build again the foundation of the New Testament that the apostles had established.

This restoration of the Bride church, the wise virgins, back to the beliefs of the first church-age apostles is part of the mystery of God that deals with the Body of Jesus Christ.

Another part of the mystery of God is that only Jesus Christ is the Head of the Body as He is Lord God Almighty, whose name is Jesus Christ.

REVELATION 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ …

:8   I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

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.

: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.

Only the Lamb is Holy.

If the Father and the Holy Ghost are different Persons, then they are not holy. That is totally wrong.

This great mystery that the prophet Zechariah knew nothing about.

How the end-time Bride would be restored back to the original faith like Zerubbabel was restored.

And then, how the end-time spiritual foundation would be laid by regarding the King James Bible as being Absolute truth. Every word.

Only God’s Spirit brings things to pass not our efforts

ZECHARIAH 4:6   Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying,

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

No human might and no human power can save us.

Salvation was totally won by the power of God’s great Holy Spirit dwelling in the weakened body of the savagely tortured Jesus.

God’s salvation Plan depends on one crucial week. The seven years allocated to the ministry of Messiah, Jesus Christ. But the Jews killed Him after 3½years.

Jesus the Man is not God because God is not a man.

NUMBERS 23:19   God is not a man

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

You are everything that is inside your body. So, Jesus is Almighty God because the fulness of God’s supernatural Spirit dwelled physically inside the Body of Jesus.

Everything to do with Eternal Life is totally done by the great Holy Spirit of God.

Jesus the Man is the Son of God (never “God the Son” because God is not a man) because He was always totally obedient to the Will of “God the Father” Who was the supernatural Spirit dwelling within the Man Jesus.

Scripture can have a compound meaning.

Jesus had a ministry of 3½ years in which He alone won our redemption on the cross.

That represented the left hand olive tree.

This was the triumph of the great Holy Spirit over Satan. The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of a dead man, then took our sins down to hell and defeated the Devil. The Holy Ghost ascended back up to earth for the resurrection. He also emptied out the Old Testament saints from Paradise and took them up to Heaven with Him on the day of His Ascension.

The Holy Ghost, Who is Lord God Almighty, was entirely responsible for saving our souls on the cross. That set up the scene for the seven church ages.

DANIEL 9:24  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,

The Jews have 70 weeks after Jerusalem’s wall is built.

Daniel's 70 weeks started with Nehemiah rebuilding Jerusalem's wall in 52 days in 446 BC.

DANIEL 9:25   Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

7 weeks and 62 weeks is 69 weeks to Messiah.

Messiah came in AD 29 when there was one week (7 years) left.

Then on the Day of Pentecost in AD 33, it was the Holy Ghost that came down to inspire the first church age that was born of their portion of the Holy Ghost. Everything in the New Testament was the moving of the Holy Spirit. Humans were just along for the ride.

ZECHARIAH 4:7   Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

Daniel saw a stone hit the feet of the Gentile image and destroy it. This represents Christ destroying the Gentile kingdoms at Armageddon.

Then the stone grew to be a mountain, the 1000-year Kingdom of Peace, called the Millennium.

The great mountain that gets flattened before Zerubabbel by his restored Temple foundation is the deceptive religious-political-financial kingdom of the Roman Catholic church. As soon as Christians desire to return to the beliefs of the early apostles who wrote the New Testament, then all the false and pagan ideas of the worldwide Catholic church just fade away as irrelevant, unscriptural human opinions.

ZECHARIAH 4:8   Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Now the focus is on the Word of the Lord. Today we have the King James Bible as our Absolute. That is Jesus in Word form, telling us the thoughts of Almighty God.

That Jesus, Who is the Word of God, is the King James Bible is a third part of the mystery of God.

The prophet Zechariah could only get a revelation if he only listened to the Word of God. Human opinions are just too shallow.

Church doctrines are a major distraction from truth.

Only the foundation will produce the Capstone

ZECHARIAH 4:9   The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

The hands that led the Jews out of Babylon and restored them to the original Promised Land are the hands that laid the foundation of the Temple. Only his hands can finish the work of restoration.

Brother Branham came to restore us back to the original teachings of Saint Paul and the apostles.

I CORINTHIANS 3:10   According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
:11   For other  foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

We can only preach from the written Scriptures that Paul and the apostles laid down.

GALATIANS 1:8  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed

Only the apostolic hands that laid the foundation of the first church age can prepare us for the Capstone Second Coming of Jesus.

The three-fold mystery of God.

1. Jesus is Almighty God.
2. Jesus is the Head and the Church or Temple is His Body
3. The King James Bible is the Absolute truth. The New Testament is the Apostolic foundation. Whatever you say about the King James Bible, you are saying about the Word of God, which is Jesus. Thus you are saying those things about Jesus.

Thus, to be ready for the mysterious Second Coming of Jesus, we have to be restored back to the apostolic New Testament until we can rebuild and believe the foundation that the early church believed.

By getting out of the seventh church age as we return to the first church age beliefs of the Lion of truth, the eagle-eyed Bride will then also be part of two church ages.

We have to get back to the first church age if we are to be part of the Second Coming. The seventh church age is condemned as Jesus stands outside the church. The 10 virgins, representing saved Christians, are told to get out of their churches to meet the Bridegroom.

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

Few will make it in the end

ZECHARIAH 4:10   For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

It will be a small despised group in the end.

LUKE 18:8   Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. A church world that has been taught to reject the King James Bible cannot develop the faith needed to understand the Bible.

MATTHEW 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

The way is hard and narrow. Human wisdom cannot connect all the Bible verses into a deeper pattern. We need divine inspiration which the churches oppose because of their human leadership.

61-0208  SIRS WE WOULD SEE JESUS

Now, let me warn the people again and again. Do not expect the last shake of God in the church to be a universal thing.

It isn't going to be. It's to the church.

It's the great things that'll happen with the people in the little minority.

That's the little group that God shakes to get ready to go. 

7 church ages are placed between two great mysteries

ZECHARIAH 4:11   Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

The 7 church ages are a great mystery hidden from most Christians and from the Jews.

But another great mystery is the two olive trees representing the two 3½ -year time periods just before and just after the seven church ages.

The prophet Zechariah was totally baffled, as are most Christians.

When Jesus died, He confirmed the covenant as His death ended the Temple sacrifices.

DANIEL 9:27   And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,

This was not making a covenant. The church preachers lie. This was confirming a covenant.

God made the covenant, using animal sacrifices, with Abraham and his seed. His natural seed was Isaac. But Abraham’s spiritual seed was Jesus.

GENESIS 15:18   In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

The Jews, the natural seed of Abram, inherited the Promised Land to dwell and move in.

But the real covenant with the spiritual Seed, the Body of Christ which is the true church, was to inherit an understanding of the Word of God which grants eternal life. Then we dwell in the Word and move according to the Scriptures for the restoration of our day which is God’s Will for our day.

Great emphasis is placed on the wise virgins being able to understand the Bible. They have enough oil of the Holy Spirit to produce enough light so that they can see and understand the Scriptures. The great mysteries are not hidden from them.

DANIEL 12:10   The wise shall understand.

GALATIANS 3:16   Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

:17   And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ,

So, the first half of the 70^th week (or 7 years) of Daniel's prophecy is described by the left hand olive tree.

ZECHARIAH 4:12   And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

A great mystery is revealed. After the 3½ years of Jesus ministry, His Holy Spirit, symbolized by olive oil, flows from Calvary (the left hand olive tree) to buy our salvation and also produce the resurrection of the Old Testament saints. This incredible outpouring of power is not due to any human born in sin. It is the power of the supernatural God in Jesus that flows from Calvary into the seven church ages to conquer the Devil and his different tactics in each age.

Today the Devil operates through religious deception in the churches who refuse to be restored back to the beliefs of Paul and the apostles in the first church age.

We only win by looking at the King James Bible and demanding, “Where is it written?”

Or replying to a church statement by asking, “Verse?”

In other words, “What does my Husband (the King James Bible) say?”

The incredible power of the Holy Spirit flowing from Calvary into the church to guide and protect is what produced the seven church ages that lasted for 2000 years.

“ … which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?”

Church preachers and members are just meant to be empty pipes that the oil of God’s Spirit flows through.

Empty pipes seek no material gain for themselves, they are just a channel that everything passes through.

The people must empty themselves of their opinions, their pride, their agendas, their desire for prosperity, and their inflated self-image to serve God who actually does the work. We humans are easily ruined by success. Defeat and difficulty shape our character.

Why did the church triumph in each church age? Because of the Holy Ghost oil that flowed in from the cross where Christ was crucified. Triumph was not due to the great men of faith. Triumph was due to the Holy Spirit that inspired the great men of faith. Triumph was due to the Holy Spirit that protected the church and stopped Satan doing too much harm. We only win when the Holy Spirit prevents Satan from hurting us beyond what we can take.

If God allows Satan to give you a tough time, it is because God has given you tough faith. A tough time is a compliment.

But there is another great secret. The right-hand olive tree. Another great source of power. The brief 3½ years of great Tribulation will see an amazing outpouring of supernatural power that will control and interrupt the worldwide forces of Nature. Drought, fire, scorching heat, earthquakes, plagues, and tidal waves. Jesus will no longer be on the Mercy Seat so He will deal with humanity in a very different way.

The Jews will be thrown back into the Promised Land by seven colossal upheavals known as the Seven Trumpets. They have to follow the pattern of the seventh church age that returned to their apostolic fathers who wrote the New Testament. The Jews in the Promised Land had made an awful mistake at the beginning. They said that they would be responsible for the blood of Jesus. The Jews now have to pay for that great sin. They will be killed in their millions. If there are 18 million Jews when great Tribulation starts, then 12 million will die in 3½ years. The Jews end up in bondage to the rash statement that their "fathers" originally made.

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

Jews thus have to be killed in order to make Heaven as Fifth Seal martyrs.

Natural disasters will force all the Jews back to Israel as two-thirds of the Jews will ultimately be killed.

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.

Fearsome judgements will strike the earth. Two men, Moses and Elijah, will be the channels through which God unleashes this incredibly destructive power. Yet they will somehow miraculously use that power to save the 144000 Jews and bring them to Christ. In addition, in great Tribulation, Jesus will have His new name, which we do not know at present in our sinful bodies.

The foolish virgins who are saved but missed the Rapture will all be slaughtered.

What event will trigger this incredible display of supernatural destructive power?

The phenomenal destructive power unleashed by the two-edged sword of God’s Word.

The seven Thunders.

63-0321  THE FOURTH SEAL

Now, we had him coming last night with his great sword to kill. We find out that he gets killed with the Sword too, the sword of the Word. God's Word, sharp, two-edged sword slays him, puts him right down.

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.

God always... It's His Word, but He always uses man to work it. God could call for them flies down in Egypt, but He said,

"Moses, that's your job. I'll just tell you what to do, and you go do it."

He fully done that. See? He could've chosen the sun to call them; He could have caused the moon to call it or the wind to call it, but He said, "Moses..." That He chooses men. All right.

The seven Thunders utter to both the Gentile Bride and to the Jewish prophets.

The seven Thunders have the incredible power of transformation for the living Bride as well as the incredible power of judgement for those who rejected the understanding of the revealed King James Bible.

62-1230  IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR?

Is that really them

Seven Thunders, fixing to utter out something, that the little group that is gathered together will receive a Rapturing Faith, to go in the Rapture when He comes?

"For we'll be changed," as quick as those Angels come, "in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye; and shall be caught up together with those that had sleep, to meet the Lord in the air."

63-0318  THE FIRST SEAL

And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. 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. There's something we've got to step farther; we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly.

We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth,

and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written.

Then all the judgments of these evil doers...

… presuming what they were doing, now at the end of the ages, of the church ages, all these evil doers will take place and head up in the tribulation.

…  they even work in the name of a church. They call themselves the church.

…. And they finally go so bad until they go plumb into the tribulation period.

The Thunders have the massive supernatural power to change our bodies into eternal bodies. Then they sweep the Bride up to Heaven.

(This copies what happened at the First Coming. The Old Testament saints arose from the dead and ascended, unseen as a cloud of witnesses to Heaven with Jesus.)

Then the Thunders roar out in judgement against all those who rejected the end-time understanding of the revealed Scriptures. They trigger the horror of great Tribulation.

Calvary and 7 Thunders are key supernatural events

Notice the unusual repetition of the prophet Zechariah’s ignorance.

Twice he admits he does not know. So, this must involve two great mysteries.

ZECHARIAH 4:12   And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

The left-hand olive tree. The killing of Messiah that launched the resurrection of the Old Testament saints and the great mystery of the seven church ages. The churches know next to nothing about the seven church ages. The Jews also know nothing about this matter.

ZECHARIAH 4:13   And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

The right-hand olive tree starts with the resurrection of the New Testament saints and then the uttering of the seven Thunders that nobody knows what they are or what they say. Their function is to transform our sinful bodies into immortal sin-free bodies so that we can be caught up to Heaven. Then they trigger the awesome supernatural judgemental powers given to the two prophets who thereby use the forces of Nature to save the 144000 Jews from a powerfully destructive final superman Pope, by bringing them to Christ.

ZECHARIAH 4:14   Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

Elijah and Moses stood talking to Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration.

Elijah represents the end-time Gentile prophet (William Branham from America) who revealed the end-time mysteries of Scripture so that the living Gentile Bride can be restored back to the beliefs of the apostles who established the first church age. Then, like Elijah, they will be caught up to Heaven for the Wedding Supper.

Then Moses and Elijah together represent the two Jewish prophets who will guide the 144000 Jews to meet Messiah during the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

Thus, these two prophets represent the end-time Bride as well as the 144000 Jews. These are the two important groups who are able to understand the revealed mysteries of Scripture.

Being able to understand the revealed mysteries of Scripture is something that God regards as very important. The harvest only happens when the final wheat seeds on the dead plant are exactly the same as the wheat seed that was planted.

Then the ripe seeds are pulled off the dead plant.

Daniel 12:10   but the wise shall understand.

In the Rapture, the wise virgins are pulled off the Earth that will then be subject to the antichrist horserider spirit called Death.