ZECHARIAH 06 Satan’s 4 ways to deceive Israel

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Mount Sinai is big but Mount Calvary is small

JOB 1:7   And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Satan walks to and fro in the earth which will take him a long time as he is trying to learn from paganism, politics, and the corruption of money. He then undermined the Jewish faith by feeding the greed of the Jewish Temple Priests who were elevated to be in charge. The churches would later pick up this money-making racket. Jewish leaders absorbed the Babylonian mysteries from their time in Babylon, represented by the golden head of Nebuchadnezzar’s Gentile image. This fueled their greed for using religion to make wealth.

The North, spiritually, is Satan’s territory run by elevated leaders for their own self-enrichment.

The church later developed this spirit of conquering the laity or congregation. Nico means to conquer.

So, God called any one-man church head a Nicolaitan.

NUMBERS 3:38   But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, 

even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

There was only one entrance in the fence that surrounded the Tabernacle. The entrance to the Tabernacle faced East.

We must line up the Tabernacle on the East-West line.

EXODUS 26:35    And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south:

and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

The table of shewbread in the North with 12 loaves represents the 12 tribes of Israel. They were going to be taken over by the wealth-obsessed, cruel, and domineering Priesthood that rejected Jesus as the Word of God because He interfered with their religious money-making.

This spirit would then enter the church as each Nicolaitan church leader (one man who dominates the assembly as its head) used Greek philosophy expressions that are unscriptural like one God in three Persons, Father and Son are of the same essence (whatever that means), God the Son, and Eternal Sonship to conquer (Greek word Nico) the laity or congregation. By enforcing these very clever but unscriptural Greek ideas, the elevated one-man church leaders taught their congregations to replace and thus reject the Scriptures. Nicolaitans want the churches to believe that there is no perfect Bible. Then they can teach their own theories.

The candlestick was put on the South side.

Spiritually, this means that the South represents the seven church ages who were meant to be ruled by the Word of God. Small local churches are ruled by a group of local elders.

To the natural eye, Sinai is an impressive mountain. It represents getting saved by doing the good works of the Law which appeals to the natural man. If I have lived a good life and done good things then I can expect to go to Heaven. But none of us can live a good enough life, so our mountain of sin defeats us despite our best efforts.

Mount Calvary looks insignificant. But there, an enormous mountain of sin from all the past and future repentant sinners was judged and wiped clean by the Blood of Jesus. Yet I did nothing to save myself. Jesus did it all. That defeats all human logic. It certainly fooled Satan. The greatest battle ever fought is the fight between God and Satan for control of the human mind.

ZECHARIAH 6:1   “And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.”

Zechariah looked up. When the outlook is bad, try the “up look”. The most famous prayer starts with

“Our Father which art in heaven”.

MATTHEW 6:33   “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

We must first seek to fulfill God’s will before we ever think of our own human will.

We humans are always unaware of what is going on spiritually. We firmly believe our own delusions that make us look in the wrong direction. We tend to think that our energetic good works will save us. If God wants to speak to us, then His voice will come from an unexpected direction. Look what Isaiah says.

ISAIAH 64:6“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

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

When we obey God, we are still unprofitable servants as we make more mistakes that God has to fix up than what we get right.

What does God think of us? Not much. So, we need to deflate our egos.

If we want God’s advice we must turn to get away from the distractions of self-image, churches, politics, money, and peer pressure that are holding our attention. In addition, instead of devoting so much time to the mass media on the internet, we must rather look up. Prayer and Bible Study are essential if we are to find God's way. God’s ways are higher than our ways. We will not find the truth if we keep looking at what is going on around us. Modern events are designed to deceive and distract. Lies are the common currency of mass media.

What God wants to show us will be totally different from what we are expecting.

Remember, the real battle is being fought in the higher dimensions of the spiritual realm. God and Satan fight for the control of the human mind. Satan chooses our eyes to fool us with what we see. God chooses our ear to guide us by hearing His Word. But our eyes distract us and we fail to listen to the Bible, God’s Voice.

Brass is symbolic of Judgement.

The Jews were caught between two mountains. The Law from Mount Sinai and the unknown future Mount Calvary when Messiah came to them as a Man.

EXODUS 3:12   “And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.”

God established His Law with the Jews on Mount Sinai during the First Exodus. Breaking that Law produced Judgement. To pagans, unbelievers, and make-believers, Sinai was a mountain of brass.

You obeyed the Law because you had to, not because you wanted to. If you disobeyed, you died as you were judged for your own sins.

Satan has four different major deceptions with which he seeks to deceive God’s people. He first tried these on the Jews. He almost won but plunged to defeat in what he thought was his moment of triumph when he killed Jesus as a Man on the cross.

Four different coloured horses are antichrist spirits

ZECHARIAH 6:2   “In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;”

A horse is a powerful animal ridden by conquerors. These spirits conquered the Jews and made them reject Jesus as a Man. Then Satan planned to unleash them on the church. In the end, Satan plans to get all the churches to reject or criticize the King James Bible. That way the churches condemn or reject Jesus as the Word of God.

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

Red speaks of blood. Political power gives a person, the political leader of the nation, the power to shed blood as he controls the army.

The fatal mistake of the Jews, that really undermined them, was when they told Samuel the prophet to ask God to give them a king.

They wanted a human head to make big decisions for them.

They rejected the leadership of God who had operated through judges and prophets.

They wanted to look like other nations with all the outward symbols of success, rather than the inner obedience towards God’s Word.

Getting involved in human politics was the first downfall of the Jews, as Satan rules politics. This is a strong warning towards the church, not to get involved in politics.

A red horse is symbolic of political power and its destructiveness because with political power you can kill your opponents, just like Cain killed Abel. Today the churches are gentler, they just resort to character assassination of their opponents. But things will get worse in the end, during the 3½ years of great Tribulation.

Black horses speak of the demonology of Big Money. Too much money corrupts our minds.

666 speaks of evil, the mark of the beast.

Now comes a subtle clue. The gold that Solomon earned every year was 666 talents.

I KINGS 10:14   “Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,”

These 666 talents of gold would lead him astray. When he had enough money to solve all his problems and set up his own lifestyle, he did not need the Lord.

PROVERBS 30:9“Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD?“

Solomon’s wealth was his downfall as he could afford to upkeep 1000 women. Their various pagan beliefs corrupted Solomon.
I KINGS 11:3    “And he [Solomon] had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.”

I TIMOTHY 6:10   “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

ZECHARIAH 6:3   “And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.”

The third colour was white, symbolic of religious deception. It looks clean and pure but is not Scriptural. White easily conceals a hidden agenda that involves self-gain.

During the seventy years spent in Babylonian exile, many Babylonian ideas concerning leadership had been accepted by the Jews. The aristocrats wanted to lead the Temple worship while they were in captivity. The Temple had been destroyed but the aristocrats invented a form of worship under an unscriptural man-made group called Sadducees. Another unscriptural group, called the Pharisees, developed synagogues in their foreign land and thereby assumed a leadership role in religious matters. When the Jews returned to Judea after their exile, they took the synagogue idea with them. In the synagogue, they combined both religion and politics and their own traditions, called the Talmud. These man-made quotes began to replace the Scriptures (the Torah) in various places.

Sadducees and Pharisees developed their own version of the Jewish religion called the Talmud quotes. This was regarded as being equal to the Old Testament and sometimes better. All this man-made unbelief began to flourish in Judea after the Jews returned from their Babylonian exile.

Satan was winning. They no longer regarded the Old Testament as being the only perfect Word of God. They felt it was insufficient to cope with the changing conditions in the world as Israel was conquered first by the Greeks and then by the Romans. Human quotes were regarded as equal to Scripture, and sometimes were placed above Scripture.

Two horses of mixed colours showed the final mistakes that the Jewish priests made as they were in charge of Jewish worship. They changed their tactics to try to destroy Jesus Who had suddenly become a great threat to the Priests and Pharisees and Sadducees.

Purity of colour in the end was dying out as not effective enough to completely deceive the Jews.

They needed to mix two colours. Combine two evils.

The grisled horse colour is mixed with grey. The horse has its own colour but the striking difference is the additional grey streaks.

Grey is a mixture of white and black.

The Jews were learning to combine or merge two basic errors into their beliefs. Black represents Big Money and white is religious deception.

Unscriptural religious deception and money easily become a dance of death. Our beliefs follow the money trail of self-gain.

The Jewish Temple (white with its religious deception) had also become incredibly wealthy (black). It had become a bustling “grey” business enterprise, full of dishonest business practices.

Matthew Chapter 21 describes Palm Sunday.

MATTHEW 21:8“And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.”

MATTHEW 21:12“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,”

On the Sunday, Jesus chased the money-makers out of the Temple. (Wealthy pastors take note).

Mark 11:1 – 11 also describes Palm Sunday.

MARK 11:12   And on the morrow …

This now describes events on the following Monday. The tomorrow after Sunday.
MARK 11:15“And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;”

The day after Palm Sunday, Jesus chased the money-makers out of the Temple for the second time.

MARK 11:17“And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

:18And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.”

For two days in a row, Jesus had interfered with their religious money-making.

Jesus was doing too much damage to their income as far as they were concerned. (Never interfere with a pastor’s money-making.)

This was Monday. They quickly conspired against Him and killed Jesus on Thursday.

In the end, the black and white horses merged into the religious Temple’s Big-Money illegal business.

Jesus interfered with this lucrative business plan which drove the Priests to madness. They lost all their ability to think sensibly in their rush to destroy Him. By controlling their money, Satan was able to control their religious beliefs and get them to kill Jesus Who is the living Word of God.

The church soon learned this same awful trick. Constantine, the ruthless politician who became Roman Emperor in AD 312, gave the beautiful Lateran Palace and a huge amount of money to the Bishop of Rome which bought the Bishop’s loyalty to the Emperor. This wealth enabled the Bishop of Rome to rise until he later, in AD 606, declared himself the Universal Bishop or Head of all the churches. Thus began the Dark Ages.

In AD 325 at the Council of Nicaea, politics and money combined to enable Constantine to force the Bishops (who now claimed to be the head of the churches in a city) to accept the unscriptural Trinity doctrine. Adding to the Bible or changing the Bible kills the truth. Church traditions then began to replace the authority of the Bible. The unscriptural Christmas (Christ’s Mass) on the pagan holiday of 25 December which celebrated the sun god’s birthday, was introduced around AD 350 by Pope Julius I. And Rome got all the churches to believe it.

The death of Jesus was changed from Thursday to Friday. Like Jonah, Jesus had to be in the tomb for three nights.

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.”

Jonas is the Greek name of the Hebrew prophet Jonah. The New Testament is written in Greek as that is the language that Alexander the Great had spread amongst the Gentile nations.

He rose on Sunday, the first day of the week, so He had to be buried for Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night.

JOHN 20:1   The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

The first day of the week is Sunday.

Yet Rome got all the churches to believe that Jesus died on Friday and thus could only spend two nights in the tomb before He arose on Sunday morning. Rome invented the unscriptural “Good Friday” and “Easter Monday” which all the churches also accepted.

Changing the Scriptures is the Devil’s main attack against truth. Today there are over 100 different versions of the English Bible so the churches are convinced that there is no perfect Bible. Thus, they have no perfect foundation to build their faith on. Consequently, there are 45,000 different kinds of churches and denominations. The church world has become a swamp of personal opinions. Each church claims to have the right to worship God in its own way. “People’s rights” comes from the Greek word Laodicea. This is the last of the seven churches at the start of the Book of Revelation. But the Bible says nothing good about “the church of the Laodiceans” in this last age. The churches have now sunk so far from the truth that they have accepted gay rights and same-sex marriage.

But the Jewish Priests lacked one vital power. They did not have the authority to kill a man. They had to get permission from Rome who ruled the political world. The Jews had to merge with the political head, Augustus Caesar, who was also the Pontiff or High Priest of the Babylonian mysteries.

The Babylonian Priesthood, ever since the days of Nimrod after the Flood, have always wanted to rule the world.

The Jews now claimed that Caesar was their king.

JOHN 19:15   "But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar."

Satan's moment of glory. The Roman Emperor was the Pontiff of the Babylonian Mysteries and as such was the only man who had the authority to kill Jesus. Pontius Pilate could murder Jesus in the name of Caesar, because Caesar had complete authority over the Roman Empire. The Mysteries of Babylon had finally defeated the Word of God, so they thought.

Today, the mysteries of the seven Thunders have defeated the ability of people to understand what is written in the revealed King James Bible. Message churches are becoming increasingly Bible-illiterate.

"I have a quote" has replaced "It is written".

A bay horse has a reddish-brown colour. It also has a black mane and tail and ear edges, as well as the lower legs.

Brown is the colour of the earth. Red is the colour of blood.

The Saviour’s red Blood dripped onto the brown earth under the cross. The sun blacked out for 3 hours. That was not an eclipse as the longest eclipse is about seven and a half minutes. It was the blotting out of truth as they killed Jesus, the Man.

2000 years ago Rome had the military power and force to rule the then-known world. So, the Jews used the Roman power to kill Jesus as a Man. Today, Roman Catholicism and the other churches are killing Jesus as the Word of God by rejecting and criticizing the King James Bible. Very few people now believe that the King James Bible is the perfect Word of God.

In the end, the man of sin, Satan's superman, who will usurp the position of being the final Pope, will automatically be Pontiff of the Babylonian mysteries.  He will be given the military power of ten dictators to rule the world and kill dissenters. So, he will not need the red-brown bay horse. He will not have to appeal to the Pontiff world ruler for permission to kill because he will be the world ruler and Pontiff.

In the end the final Pontiff or Pope will merge the white unscriptural religious deception with red worldwide political power and total control over the black world economy.

This final Pope will use the military power of ten dictators to rule the world and kill dissenters.

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

“Power as kings” means they have a king’s power but not his crown. They are dictators who give their military power and strength to the final Pope. Being scattered around the world, they are in a position to quickly deal with any revolt or impose any suppression, in any part of the world.
REVELATION 17:13    “These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

Today, Satan attacks the King James Bible via the churches and the mass media. He seeks to destroy its influence as the lies told about the King James Bible multiply like a deadly virus on the internet.

The only word-for-word accurate Bible is the King James version. It was checked for almost 160 years and was then used as the foundation of the great missionary age.

Today, the churches unite more and more in their acceptance of the Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, gay rights, and same-sex marriage and their rejection of the King James Bible. And their defense of the Christmas tree which Jeremiah warns against.

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.”

Do not be influenced by heathen customs like their fortune-telling based on the signs of the Zodiac.

JEREMIAH 10:3  “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.”

“Vain” means they are a waste of time that achieves nothing of spiritual value.

JEREMIAH 10:4  “They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.”

Heathens cut down a tree and decorate it. And the churches copy this. Really? Bible truth is fading fast.

The Vatican is the world’s wealthiest organization. The Pope is heavily involved in politics. The Roman Catholic church is by far the world’s biggest church denomination. Their religious domination will spread as they bring the other churches into their belief structure.

They have religious deception by adding to the Bible, and have merged this deception with politics, and Big Money. White, red, and black are merging into a pale corpse colour.

But to rule the world the Pope must have the military power of ten dictators who have the power to kill. Then Death will ride on the Pale horse of the one-world church.

Today, the rise of powerful dictatorships is a necessary step in Satan’s plan for world conquest.

Wait till a natural disaster wrecks the American economy and the Roman Catholic church will rule America and guide it to ruin.

ZECHARIAH 6:4   “Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?”

Zechariah had no idea what the different coloured horses represented. These are mysteries that would only be revealed at the end-time according to Daniel.

DANIEL 12:4“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

With modern transport, many rush to and fro. Worldly knowledge has increased dramatically in science, engineering, medicine, etc.

Thus, we are at the time of the end. The time when God will unseal the mysteries that were previously not understood, as was promised in Revelation 10:7.

REVELATION 10:7 “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,

the mystery of God should be finished,

as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”

However, a huge failure has been that the church has not increased its knowledge of understanding the King James Bible. As scientific knowledge increases amazingly, so the churches become more and more Bible-illiterate. They either ignore brother Branham’s sermons on how to understand the King James Bible or they corrupt his teachings by replacing Scripture with his quotes. Instead of calling the Bible the Voice of God they foolishly call his quotes the infallible Voice of God, despite the mistakes that he made at times.

The Voice of God is never mentioned in the New Testament.

Brother Branham's message is simply the voice of the seventh angel.

62-1007  THE KEY TO THE DOOR

-that I am perfectly infallible. That there's nothing... And, oh, some of the awfullest things you ever heard.

63-0707   THE INDICTMENT

“Where is He crucified at? From the pastors. You hypocrites, you know better than that!

… His second Calvary where He receives His pierces against the Word. That’s what pierces Him. Who is He? He is the Word.”

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

North means pastoral domination by one person

ZECHARIAH 6:5   “And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.”

Spirits of heavens. We forget that all the devils were once angels that stood in God’s presence.

God knew they would fall but he needed evil spirits to create opposition because struggle is the law of growth. True believers must struggle against something in order to win a victory.

Devils are instruments used by God to try us, test us, and toughen us up.

Spiritually, Lucifer wanted to rise above the congregation in the North. North represents elevated human heads.

The queen of Sheba is called the queen of the South and is well spoken of for her desire to suffer the hardship of a long journey in order to hear God’s champion for that hour, Solomon, the natural son of David.

Spiritually, South can refer to the true church that suffers difficulties in hearing the revealed Word of the King James Bible. This Book reveals the thoughts of the spiritual Son of David, Jesus Christ.

MATTHEW 12:42   “The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.”

God sends out both good and evil and requires us to make a free-will choice. Thus, we have to understand the mysteries of Scripture in order to know what we are supposed to do and think.

AMOS 3:6   “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?”

ISAIAH 45:7   “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

THESSALONIANS 2:11    “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”

Grace is that God allows us to serve Him in a positive way and get a reward while He created others to be evil spirits that serve Him in a negative way by opposing us and getting no reward. We must ever be thankful to God. We are not better than those who oppose us, we are just better off.

If you want to oppose God, He will make a way for you to do so.

If you want to serve God, He will make a way for you to do so. God respects your free will choice.

But you face the consequences of your decisions.

God used four insects to destroy the crop and then called them His great army.

So, God wanted the Bible Seed that the apostles planted to be destroyed in the Dark Ages. The natural seed has to die and rot before it germinates into a new plant.

Then God wants the vast majority to forsake the Bible's truth at the end-time because the harvest only happens when the final ripe Seed is pulled off the dead plant. The Bride is represented by the ripe seed, the church-world is represented by the dead plant. The ripe seed is much smaller in size than the dead plant that it is pulled off.
JOEL 2:25   “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm,

my great army which I sent among you.”

The last insect is the palmerworm which is a mystery worm. Nobody really understands what it is. That is the mysterious spirit of false doctrine that is rampant in all the churches today as it puts a pastor as the head of a church which was never done in the New Testament. Each pastor has his own opinion and the churches have consequently split up into 45,000 different types of churches based on over 100 different versions of the English Bible. No wonder Jesus stands outside the last church and condemns it in no uncertain terms in Revelation 3:14 – 22.

We have to change our way of thinking if we want to understand God’s Plan.

Ahab, the evil king of Israel wanted Jehosaphat to go and fight the Syrians with him. God wanted Ahab to go so that he could be killed. How could God persuade Ahab to go and fight? God called a council in Heaven to hear the angels’ ideas.
I KINGS 22:19    “And he [Micaiah the prophet] said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left”.

:20   “And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.”

:21   “And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.”

:22   “And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.”
:23   “Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.”

If you want to believe a lie, God will send you a lying spirit to help you believe the lie.

God is so powerful that even evil spirits desire to serve Him.

To draw a picture you need both black and white colours, two opposites. Life is a mixture of pain and pleasure, two opposites.

A wise man once said that the cup of our joy is carved out by the knife of sorrow. Grief is the price we pay for love. Part of the mystery of life is that we have to embrace two opposites.

Character cannot just be given to an overcomer. It has to be hammered out by the hammer and anvil of difficulty and defeat.

God uses evil spirits to hammer us but yet they are under His control. They cannot do too much damage as they are not allowed to destroy us.

I CORINTHIANS 10:13“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:

but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;

but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

JOB 2:10   “But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What?

shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

In all this did not Job sin with his lips.”

North and South are difficult to define in Scripture.

We can think of them in terms of Geography or in terms of their spiritual meanings.

The great angel Lucifer, before he was cursed and became the Devil, was fascinated by the concept of “North” in Heaven.

ISAIAH 14:13   “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:”

North, spiritually, means exalting a person above God’s people, the stars that represent Abraham’s seed.

Pastors want to be the head of the congregation by being exalted or elevated above the people.

This is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans that God hates. Nico means to conquer. Conquer the laity or congregation.

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

GENESIS 22:17 “That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,”

The stars of heaven are not linked to angels but rather to the seed of Abraham, the Jews and the saved Christians who are the spiritual seed of Abraham.

JEREMIAH 1:14“Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.”

Spiritually, the North is the Devil’s territory. The elevation of a man above the people. Uplifting a man to make him important. This is evil.

Geographically, we measure from Jerusalem.

Ten tribes formed the northern state of Israel that had two golden calves at Dan and Ephraim.

These false preachers took the people away from the true leaders of the Aaronic Priesthood who operated in the Temple in Judah, the southern state.

Jeroboam was king of the northern state of Israel.

I KINGS 13:33   “After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.”

Ambitious men flock to be the pastor of the church as it is a well-paid job because they claim to be the head of the church. They claim, unscripturally, that the tithes belong to the pastor.

Pastor and Son is a good business proposition, as it keeps the money in the family.

Two golden calves were set up in Dan and Ephraim in the northern kingdom of Israel.

The lure of a paid full-time pastor’s ministry attracts the wrong people. Men love the power and the money. The power to take people’s money.

This is the Northern spiritual state of both the Jews and of the church.

The golden calves in the yellow tribal areas stopped the northern Israelites from returning back to the true Temple, that had the Ark of the Covenant, in Judah.

II KINGS 10:29  "Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan."

Then further North was Babylon.

The Jews were returning with false leadership. Synagogues and their self-elected leaders, the Pharisees. Then the self-elected Sadducees got leadership roles in the lucrative money-making Temple.

The Persian Cyrus who sent the Jews back to Israel also caused the Babylonian Pontiff, the High Priest of the Babylonian Mysteries, to flee to Pergamos. Then the god-king of Pergamos was offered the position of Pontiff. In AD 133 the very wealthy kingdom of Pergamos was given to Rome. (The golden calves represent Babylon sniffing out the money wherever their Babylonian Priesthood goes).

Julius Caesar, the most famous Roman, bribed his way to being Pontiff. After him, Roman Emperors were Pontiff until AD 382 when Emperor Theodosius gave the title of Pontiff to his uncle, Pope Damasus. The Babylonian Priesthood entered the Roman Catholic church to establish a Nicolaitan hierarchy of Priest, Bishop, Archbishop, Cardinal, and Pope.  The Mysteries of Babylon turned the Roman Catholic church into Mystery Babylon and the Vatican into the wealthiest organization in the world.

The golden calves. The Babylonian Priesthood still knows how to sniff out the wealth.

This elevated evil system still operates today, known as denominational religion.

Spiritually, South is a small church ruled by elders

ZECHARIAH 6:6   “The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

Black represents Big Money. White represents religious deception. Religious systems are always set up to chase the money. This is because people are gullible and somehow feel they must pay for their sins and pay to learn about their gods. They feel that they are paying for their seat in Heaven.

South is the opposite of North. North represents a dominating, elevated leadership by one man. South would mean a church should be modest and humble where all Christians are equal as a brotherhood. Small local churches are each run by all the local elders in that church as a group.

I PETER 5:1  “The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder,”

: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;”

When Peter writes to the elders, he describes himself as an elder to stress the equality of Christian leadership, not a graded hierarchy of man-made positions. The New Testament never has a pastor as the head of the church. There is no mention of a senior pastor or a co-pastor in the Bible.

Pastoral care is a gift some people have for helping others with their personal problems at work, or home, or their relationships with others, or their relationship with the Lord. Pastoral care has got nothing to do with teaching the deeper mysteries of Scripture. That is the function of a Bible teacher.

"Pastors" are only mentioned once in the New Testament. That gives them no Bible authority to be the head of the church.

There were no Pastors in the Old Testament. So, when Jeremiah rebukes pastors six times, he is prophetically opposing the New Testament pastors.

JEREMIAH 23:1   "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD."

:2   "Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD."

The pastors are one-man heads who feed the sheep, telling them what to believe from their carefully selected quotes.

Pastors drive away anybody who uses Scripture to disagree with them, especially if they mention other quotes that contradict the pastor's made-up doctrine.

“And the grisled go forth toward the south country.”

Grisled is grey. Grey is a mixture of black and white that has unscriptural religious deception making a lot of money.

At the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 the church (the south country) was infiltrated and then controlled by the religious-political spirit of the Roman Catholic denominational religion. Pagan mysteries like the birth of the sun god on 25 December got mixed into the Roman Catholic church as the birth of Jesus, called Christ’s Mass or Christmas. They then got the wise men to go into the stable to give gifts to the Baby, instead of going into a house to see the young Child who was about two years old. Because Herod killed all the young children up to the age of two.

MATTHEW 2:11   “And when they [the wise men] were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother”

MATTHEW 2:16  "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men."

The wise men had traveled for two years since seeing the star. It was a long and difficult journey as they could only travel at night when the stars were out. They were wise because they were seeking Christ. Wise men still seek Christ in His Word.

The church married the pagan sun god’s birthday (the white of religious deception) with the wise men giving gifts to the two-year-old Child and spawned the biggest gift-buying festival of the year (the black of Big Money). Who can resist buying gifts for children? Now the church was chasing the money. They corrupted the Scripture to make money by celebrating a pagan sun-god festival and sticking the name of Jesus onto it. The Bible never asked us to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

But the “church of the Laodiceans” (people’s rights) claims that they have the right to serve God in whatever way suits them, which includes the unscriptural Good Friday, Christmas, gay rights, and same-sex marriage.

63 – 0707   THE INDICTMENT

“They are crucifying the effects of the gospel upon the people by their creeds. That's the crucifixion: where the public set in these big morgues called churches, denominations, and draw a line of creed; and the Word of God can't have an effect upon them because they condemn the very things that Christ said would take place. It just don't come according to their creed, and neither did Jesus come according to their understanding of Him coming. He come in the way that God sent Him, and He come exactly with the Word. No wonder He said He'd hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent and revealed it to babes such as would learn. Do you understand?”

ZECHARIAH 6:7   “And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.”

The red-brown bay horse (red blood spilled onto the brown earth) as tens of millions of dissenters were slain by the Roman Catholic church in the Dark Ages.

They walked to and fro. Restless. The Devil knows no peace. He has no rest as he continually tries to justify his unscriptural errors and spread his deception far and wide. The Devil is happy to kill those who get in his way if he can.

To and fro through the earth means the Roman Catholic church was able to conquer and rule the whole of Europe during the Dark Ages. Then it was two Catholic countries, Spain and Portugal, who first learned to sail across the oceans and thus opened up South America and the East to the influence of the Pope. Today the Roman Catholic church is by far the biggest church with about 1,4 billion people who are spread worldwide. Their denominational beliefs of Trinity and one man as the head of the church have now spread to the non-Catholic churches as well.

The antichrist spirit hates those who oppose him with the Bible’s truth. It just makes him more restless if he finds someone whom he cannot deceive. That drives him to character assassination.

“They walked to and fro through the earth”.

This is an international church that is spread around the earth. Going to and fro indicates that they have to keep their people in bondage by checking that they do not dare to disagree. There is no freedom of thought. People must just be an echo chamber.

The Bible was banned in the Dark Ages. This Roman Catholic spirit has now spread to other churches that criticize and reject the King James Bible. Today, message-preachers who follow brother Branham preach from quotes as they claim that only brother Branham could understand the Bible. Thus message-people are becoming increasingly Bible-illiterate as they promote brother Branham to the Godhead as the infallible Voice of God whose quotes replace Scripture.

The earth is huge. If you try to walk to and fro, forwards and backwards, in order to cover the whole earth then it will take you a long time. The Roman Catholic church has done this for 2000 years. The other churches are following their example of finding out what the world and the Muslims want, and then allowing it. Walking to and fro, mixing with the world and the other religions, enables the churches to pick up more new ideas from paganism and worldliness and worldly dress which are added to the church beliefs.

The Muslim hatred of Israel has spread to many churches as well as the condoning of abortions and gay rights. Allowing same-sex marriage and gender change has now entered the churches that detest any opposition.

These churches desperately criticize and condemn the King James Bible as a barrier in their path to their goal of a one-world church based on people’s rights.

They are, sadly, totally unaware that their final church leadership will be usurped by the man of sin who will be the final Pope.

So, we are dealing with a powerful church spirit that has killed many (red brown) as it spread around the earth and has been spreading for a long time. They are unwittingly preparing the scene for the final Pope who will somehow, unexpectedly, gain the military power and strength of ten dictators scattered around the world. Then the bloodbath of worldwide murder will begin. All the saved Christians who were fooled by their pastor-dominated church systems will be killed as they are part of the foolish virgins.

During the Fourth Seal, the antichrist spirit of Death will kill about 2 billion church-goers. One-quarter of the world of 8 billion people. Then red blood will really stain the brown earth.

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

:8   “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,

and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

That will be the final deadly product of having a human church head.

Nicolaitan pastors quieten the Spirit of God

ZECHARIAH 6:8   “Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”

The North represents dominating one-man Nicolaitan church leadership. That leadership style means the people are brought into submission to a human church head and his opinions. Thus, the true Head, Jesus Christ, as the King James Bible that is the Word of God, gets rejected from the church until Christ stands outside the church of the Laodiceans who demand their right to serve God in the way that suits them. They no longer feel that they have to suit God’s Word.

So, God’s Holy Spirit is quieted and has less say in today's Nicolaitan church system because church pastors are not interested in all truth.

Forcing a woman (or church) to be subject to the will of a man is just spiritual rape.

63 – 0707   THE INDICTMENT

“This new Calvary is the church, so-called most holy places, great pulpits, Catholicism the altar, Catholic altar, called their pulpit. The Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Lutheran, the Pentecostals, the most holy places, there He receives his hardest pierces---a new Calvary. Where is it found at? In the holy places, the church.

Where is He crucified at? From the pastors. You hypocrites, you know better than that!”

Pastors either reject William Branham or else replace the King James Bible with his quotes instead of using his quotes to explain the King James Bible so that we can understand the Bible's mysteries and prove our beliefs just from the words of the King James Bible.

DANIEL 12:10   “but the wise shall understand.”

Only the wise virgins will understand the mysteries of Scripture which will prepare them for the Coming of the Lord.

By doing their own interpretations of the quotes, the message-pastors have produced more than a hundred different variations of brother Branham’s message.

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.”

If pastors allowed the Holy Spirit to guide them through the Bible, they would discover that nowhere does the Bible say that a Pastor is in charge as the head of the church, and nowhere does the Bible say that the tithes belong to the Pastor.

Thus, Pastors keep their unscriptural position and hug their sterile profits when they quiet the influence of the Holy Spirit by stopping the Spirit from revealing Scripture by never mentioning these points. There is no freedom of the Holy Spirit in a Nicolaitan church.

When there is freedom of the Holy Spirit in a church, then the Word of the Lord will always be emphasized.

Watchman Nee,

a famous Chinese preacher who was jailed for 15 years for his faith, wrote

“The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent churches are all the same in nature. They are all Nicolaitans. In the Bible there are only brothers.

There is the gift of a pastor, but no system of pastors.

The pastoral system is man’s tradition. If the children of God are not willing to return to the position of that in the beginning, no matter what they do, it will not be right”.

A  RESUME  OF  THE  AGES  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK  CPT.10

“Now watch this doctrine of Balaam most carefully. Notice above all, that it is the deliberate maneuver of a corrupt clergy to bind the people to them, by leading the people deliberately into the sin of unbelief.

The Nicolaitane doctrine was the corruption of the clergy as they sought political power amongst themselves,

while Balaamism is the subjection of the people to their system of creed and worship in order to hold them.”

53  0614  EARNESTLY  CONTENDING  FOR  THE  FAITH  THAT  WAS  ONCE  DELIVERED  TO  THE  SAINTS

“Elders is what's the head of the church, every church.”

57-0908 HEBREWS  CHAPTER  FIVE  AND  SIX.1
“Show me by the Bible what's greater, in the Bible, than a local elder to a local church? That's right, yes, sir, the sovereignty of the local church, each church in itself.”

ZECHARIAH 6:9   “And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,”

The Jews had just been restored from their captivity in natural Babylon. But God is now looking ahead to the seven church ages where the church will end up in captivity to the denominational style of Roman Catholicism which is Mystery Babylon. Then the little children at the end time have to escape from the Nicolaitan church systems and be restored back to the beliefs of the early church of the apostolic fathers.

The image of the beast is the ecumenical uniting of the Protestant churches into a worldwide religious and political organization.

Eventually, this ecumenical movement will be absorbed into the Roman Catholic system because they have absorbed so many of the Roman Catholic ideas.

The Roman church rises to power as a religious power and financial power that gives her great political influence.

Denominations are the mystery of iniquity that change Scripture to fit in with human thinking.

Denominational religion, based on human opinions, is the Mark of the Beast on human minds.

Compromise and comfort in their pursuit of wealth are the main focus that people strive for.

Our minds are besieged by a programmed lie that is spread by mass media.

Propaganda through social media creates confusion. People no longer know what looks right.

People want to be told what they want to hear.

Foolish virgins praise the mediocre and avoid real competition as they dish out second-rate stuff.

Zechariah saw that only the High Priest must get gold and silver crowns.

The captives must be restored to their origin.

ZECHARIAH 6:10   “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;”

Zechariah speaks to those Jews who had been restored back to Jerusalem after being in captivity in Babylon.

This is a symbol of the future believers who have to first get out of the denominational system of Roman Catholicism where each church is dominated by a one-man leader as priest, vicar, minister, bishop, or pastor.

The only thing for the believers, who have escaped the denominational church system, is to take all the crowns of church glory and put them on no other Person than the High Priest of the church, Jesus Christ.

It was Christ in us Who actually achieved His will. Our own efforts were inadequate.

PHILIPPIANS 2:13  “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

Without His inner inspiration we would never have had the will to do what God wanted done.

Unless we understand the mysteries of the King James Bible we simply will not know what God wants us to do.

ZECHARIAH 6:11   “Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;”

Gold speaks of God as it never rusts. There is only one God, Jesus Christ.

Silver speaks of redemption which is the foundation of our faith. Until you have repented and accepted Jesus as your Saviour and Redeemer, you have no foundation for your spiritual experiences.

The poles and wooden boards of the Tabernacle rested on a foundation of silver sockets.

The silver crown represents a High Priest Who would come to redeem and save the church. Jesus Christ Who is the foundation of our faith.

The golden crown represents that this High Priest, Jesus Christ, will be God Himself.

EXODUS 26:19   “And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards.”

A silver foundation.

I CORINTHIANS 3:11  "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."

HEBREWS 9:11 "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;"

Christ will build a spiritual Tabernacle out of the redeemed souls from seven church ages.

The central important candlestick with six branches

ZECHARIAH 6:12   “And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:”

Branch in Hebrew is Netzer. The place of the Branch is Netzeret. This is a possible Hebrew word for the Greek word Nazareth. Nazareth was so insignificant that it is never mentioned in the Hebrew Old Testament. But from insignificance would grow the central candlestick with its six branches that represent the seven church ages.

Christ is only fully seen in the middle of the candlestick.

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

Jesus is seen in the first church age, the central candlestick. That is the only church age that had the full truth of the Word of God.

Christ is the Branch as the candlestick represents the seven church ages that form His Body.

John falls down as dead before Him. This shows the total obedience that we must have towards the Word of God. We bow down to what the Word says. We do not argue or change it.

The real Temple of the Lord is the born-again church where the building blocks are the redeemed souls that Jesus purchased at Calvary and are wrapped up in a portion of His Holy Spirit.

ZECHARIAH 6:13   “Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”

"Both". Only Christ can rule peacefully as both King and High Priest.

Born-again saints have been the building blocks of this great spiritual Temple over the last 2000 years. Christ alone saved us, so He alone bears the glory and sits on the throne and rules as King in the Millennium or thousand years of Peace. Jesus also sits on the throne as the High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek. He is the only Person Who can be both King and High Priest without being corrupted by that power. For the rest of us, political power and religious power are too dangerous a mix for any man to have. But Jesus cannot be corrupted nor does He ever make mistakes. So, He alone can be King and High Priest. The world will know Peace for 1000 years as He will rule only in the best interests of the people.

A crown for a person will be an immortal body.

56-0304  MAKING A WAY

When you're sick and tired of this whole life, and you love the appearing of the Lord Jesus better than you love your food at the table, or your wife, or your children, then there's a crown laid up for you, not a crown, a gold crown they put upon your head, but a body free from pain of... crowned in the glory of God, crowned in the immortality of Jesus Christ. That's what's laid up for you, that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give you it that day. That's the day we look forward to. God has made a way of escape for every one of us, certainly He has.

ZECHARIAH 6:14   “And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.”

These crowns are the rewards. Everyone gets the same crown, an immortal pain-free body that cannot grow old or die, irrespective of their position in the Body of Christ which is the true Temple that God has built over 2000 years. God used people as lively stones or living stones to build His spiritual Temple or Bride. Each person, as a building block, has to be individually shaped to fit his or her place in the Body.

I Peter 2:5   “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

Four names are mentioned. An unknown Jew Helem, a Levite, and a chief Priest. And then another unknown Jew called Hen. Hen’s father is mentioned, Zephaniah. This represents that the end-time unknown children who the church world does not recognize must be restored to their fathers who wrote the New Testament. The early church were also mainly unknown as historians focussed on the big churches that rose to form the Roman Catholic denomination.

Helem is not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture. A complete nobody. He represents the humble believers of the early church who never rose to prominence and were thus unnoticed.

A major weakness in the church is those individuals who want to be noticed and uplifted by the praise of others.

Tobijah was a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat, who sparked a revival for God, whom the king sent to teach in the cities of Judah. Tobijah had been restored to Judah after the Babylonian captivity.

Jedaiah the priest was also returned from captivity in Babylon. Jedaiah means the hand of the Lord, confessing the Lord. His name speaks of One God. The power of God. The open Book where the revealed mysteries are understood, is held in the hand of the mighty Angel of Revelation 10 Who performs the resurrection of the New Testament saints.

REVELATION 10:1   And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

:2   And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

The former rain is teaching the revealed Scripture

ZECHARIAH 6:10  “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;”

Tobijah and Jedaiah knew about captivity in Babylon and its false gods and famous pagan Babylonian Priesthood who preached unscriptural ideas. They were keen to expose these pagan errors by sticking strictly to the written Word. Thus, they never mentioned the Babylonian mid-winter festival on 25 December.

II CHRONICLES 17:8   “And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.”

Tobijah was a Levite who was a teacher.

Sound teaching was essential to make a success of the restoration of the Jews to their homeland in Judea or Judah, after they escaped the Babylonian activity.

II CHRONICLES 17:9   “And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.”

A time of restoration back to the Scriptures. The double emphasis on teaching (mentioned twice in one verse) to eliminate the errors of Babylon that easily undermine our faith.

Teaching is necessary for the former rain, the teaching rain. Bible teaching from Scripture is what is needed to prepare the people for the Second Coming.

When the dead rise in the resurrection, then the seven Thunders will utter to produce the latter rain or harvest rain that will change the bodies of the living Bride and pull them off the earth into Heaven.

NEHEMIAH 12:6   “Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,”

NEHEMIAH 12:7   “Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.”

There are two priests called Jedaiah.  As chief priests they have importance. But we do not know which one of the two is being referred to. This is a very subtle way of diminishing their self-importance.

The name Hen reminds us of a verse in Matthew.

MATTHEW 23:37   “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”

"Hen" represents the safety of the protection of Jesus, the Word. If you are Scriptural then you are safe.

The first four Seals deal with the church ages which is the purpose of mentioning the four men.

They show that at the beginning and the end (the first and last church ages), God attaches no importance to the person.

The final emphasis is on each individual being safely covered by the wings of Jesus to guide and protect them as they understand the revealed mysteries of the King James Bible.

The internet will pull in far away individuals

ZECHARIAH 6:15   “And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

In the last church age, the truth will go out from certain Websites on the Internet to the ends of the earth. Individuals sitting at home will be able to join in even if they are far away from other Christians in remote areas. As their faith learns to understand the mysteries of Scripture, their spirits will be shaped as living bricks or shaped stones to fit into the positions that God wants to be filled. Only then will God’s Bride-Temple be complete and then He can come to claim His Bride. Then Zechariah’s prophecy will be complete.

But we must obey the Voice of God which is the King James Bible.

William Branham is not the Voice of God. He is the voice of the seventh angel and everything he says has to be Scriptural before we can believe it. What he says has to be exactly the same as what Saint Paul preached. Brother Branham came to reveal the mysteries of Scripture. He did not come to make up clever ideas that cannot be proven from Scripture.

When the Lord of hosts sends a prophet to us, we will know he is genuine if he makes us understand the Scriptures. If he teaches us patterns that fit all the relevant Bible verses together to give us a deeper understanding.

The mission of brother Branham was to restore us back to the original Word of the apostles who wrote the New Testament.

64-0802  THE FUTURE HOME OF THE HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM AND THE EARTHLY BRIDE

“Notice, seven days, only has to do with the old creation, world time. Seven days, that's the Millennium, the rest day. As God labored six days, rested the seventh; the Church labors six days, and rests the seventh, but you're still in time element. I ain't speaking of the Eternal.

But, you see, there is no such a thing as eight days; you go back to the first day again, see, the first day.”

To get into Eternity, we have to get out of the seventh church age which is condemned as the apostate church age. The only way to escape from the seventh church age is to be restored back to the first church age. There is no eighth church age in the Bible.

62-0318  THE  SPOKEN  WORD  IS  THE  ORIGINAL  SEED  1

“My mission, I believe, that God has called me for. I have to say some personal things today, because that's what I told you I'd do, see, and tell the world.

My mission, I believe, to the earth, is (what?) is to forerun the coming Word,

see, the coming Word which is Christ.”

63-0324  THE SEVENTH SEAL

“May you always bear that in mind: to be a gem in the crown of Jesus Christ.

Paul said to the church, ‘You are the jewels, gems of His crown.’ We want to be the gems of the crown of Jesus Christ.

We don't want never put a man in it.

You forget anything about me. I am your brother, a sinner saved by grace, not fit to live;

that's exactly the truth; and I ain't saying that to be humble; that's facts.

There's nothing in me, not one sound thing at all.

But the grace of God has let my poor dimming eyes look beyond the curtain of time and see those things yonder, and I come back.

There's no great man among us.

We're not great men, not great women--we're all brothers and sisters, all the same in the same bracket. We're no great.

One don't make one greater than the other one--not a thing at all to do.

No, sir. But we're just all human beings.

Don't try to interpret the things.”

As a prophet he could see visions of things that are still in the future. The Seventh Seal and the seven Thunders. Do not let anyone fool you into believing that these have happened. They only happen after the resurrection of the New Testament saints.

It is not William Branham the man. It is the revealed Word that he taught us so that we can understand the mysteries of the King James Bible which is the Voice of God.

64-0823  QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS.1

“But those who can accept the Word in Its fullness, not me preaching It, because It's the Bible says so. Those who accept that is free, because they--the Word's already been judged.”

62-0908  PRESENT  STAGE  OF  MY  MINISTRY

“… hope He will crown my ministry of this, of letting me take the clothes of the Word, and dress His Bride in the clothes of the Word,”

60-0804  AS  THE  EAGLE  STIRRETH  UP  HER  NEST

"We know the Bible is right; that's not my voice; that's God's voice, speaking.”