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BEHOLD! I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET
Bible reading Malachi 4: 5 & 6

It is my prayer that as you read this message of truth which is based on the Bible, God's Word, that the Holy Spirit will open to your understanding what the Lord promised in His Word and may there be a special blessing for you.

I believe that you who are reading this message, have already prayed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Holy Spirit to open your understanding, and that by His leadership you will check everything with the Word of God, the Bible, in order that you may believe that these things are so.

The Lord Jesus Christ, when He was here on earth as our Saviour, He said in the Gospel of John 14:26-

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

It must be the Holy Spirit that places the truth of God's Word in our hearts and I am believing that the Lord will do this for you now.

If you turn in your Bible to the last two verses of the Old Testament, Malachi 4:5 & 6 you will read

v5) Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.-

v6) And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their father's, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

It will be obvious to you that before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes, that something has got to happen that will turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers.

In fact there will be two ministries that will come in the spirit of Elijah, the spirit of Elijah being the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Christ ministering through men, who had to be redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus, and who were called to be prophets.

The first ministry was to turn the heart of the fathers to the children Malachi 4:6

This is confirming exactly what our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was here as the Son of God, told His disciples. I ask you to read Matthew 17:11-13

vll) And Jesus answered and said unto then?, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

vl2) But I say unto you, 7hat Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

vl3) Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

These verses speak about two prophets in the spirit and power of Elijah. Some may question verse 13 which reads:-

Then the disciples understood that He (Jesus) spake unto them of John the Baptist.

However verses 11 - 13 of Matthew speak of two prophets in the spirit, and power of Elijah. If you refer back to Matthew 17:11 Jesus said:-

Elias truly shall first come and restore all things

To clarify concerning Elijah and Elias, Elias is the Greek form of the name Elijah, meaning Jehovah is God or alternatively my God is Jehovah. This will help to clarify the transposing of names Elijah and Elias that are used in the Bible.

Could I ask, what did John the Baptist restore? I ask you to keep that question in your heart.

In Matthew 17:12 Jesus the Son of God when He was here with the disciples on earth said:

But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not but have done unto him whatsoever they listed (or whatsoever they would). Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Jesus was saying to the disciples, that the people failed to recognize or to understand, or it could be said, they had no revelation that John the Baptist had come in the spirit of Elijah.

Yet if you were to read the Word of God in Luke 1:13-17 you would see the angel speaking to Zacharias that Elizabeth, [that is Zacharia's wife], would bear him a son. It says in Luke 1:13 "And thou shall call his name John" and in verse 17,

V17 And he (John the Baptist) shall go before Him (the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son God) in the spirit, it and power of Elias

What to do? "...To turn the heart of the fathers to the children" (Malachi 4:6) and "... to make ready a people prepared for the Lord". (Luke 1:17).

This was confirming exactly the Word of God which we read in Malachi 4:5 & 6, that a Prophet in the spirit of Elijah was to turn the heart of the fathers to the children.

Who are the fathers? Those worshipping God, under Moses' law and their hearts sincere before God, keeping the law of God, but not knowing the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Old Testament fathers received John the Baptist as a voice crying in the wilderness. Isaiah 40:3

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

The ministry of John the Baptist as a voice crying in the wilderness was confirmed in the four Gospels which you can refer to in Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3 Luke 3:4 and John 1:23. "... the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."

This was also confirmed by our Lord Jesus Christ, as He was speaking to John's disciples when John was imprisoned (Matthew 11:2) and Jesus said in Matthew 11:13 & 14 verse 13 "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John". Notice, before John the Baptist came into his ministry, was he ever named in the Bible? -only as a "voice crying in the wilderness". verse 14, Jesus speaking:- "And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come".

John the Baptist was a wilderness man, uneducated but called and predestinated to be a prophet "from his mother's womb" and came in the spirit of Elijah.

Again, Isaiah 40:3 ..."Prepare ye the way of the Lord"... Luke 1 : 17 To turn the heart of the fathers to the children.... to make ready a people prepared for the Lord".

If you were to read 2 Peter 1:21 it reads:- "but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost". And in I Peter 1:10-12, you will see that the Spirit of Christ was in them.

A prophet, while he is a man, called and ordained of God, has to be redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, but he is called t o be a voice that God would use to speak to God's people.

If you would notice, John the Baptist's ministry of repentance, did not restore: John's ministry was to prepare a people for the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. That is Jesus' first coming when He came into His ministry as our Saviour.

Another way of expressing the same truth - John the Baptist's ministry was to prepare the hearts of the Old Testament fathers, to receive Jesus Christ, as He came to be our Saviour.

I would ask you to turn in your Bible and read the verses Matthew 3:8-12

v8) Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

v9) And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our Father.- for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham

v10) And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire

v11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.- he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire

vl2) Whose fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the gamer; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

John the Baptist preached repentance "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight" Luke 3:4.

John the Baptist's ministry restored nothing. If John was to restore the Old Testament fathers, he would have been restoring them back under Moses' law. John the Baptist's ministry was to introduce the Lamb of God, Jesus the Son of God by a Holy Spirit revelation.

If you notice in the Bible, John the Baptist was witnessing before Jesus came into his ministry and this you can read in John 1:29-34

v29) The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world

But if you read particularly verse 31

v 3l) And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

I would like to repeat again verse 33 which says:

v33) And I knew hint not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

v34) And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

Now back to the question the disciples asked Jesus immediately after the Mount of Transfiguration experience, when Jesus was transfigured before Peter, James and John - Matthew 17:1-13.

You would notice that although Elijah's ministry had been approximately 900 years and Moses 1500 years before the birth of Jesus Christ; yet both Moses and Elijah were talking to Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration as referred to in Matthew 17:1-13. Peter, James and John were there to hear the conversation between Moses and Elijah and the Lord Jesus Christ who had been transfigured.

In Matthew 17:10-13 the disciples asked Jesus this question

v10) Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

vll) And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come and restore all things [and in verse 12 Jesus continued]

vl2) But I say unto you, that Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed [desired or chose]. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

v13) The disciples understood that lie spake unto them of John the Baptist.

We know that, (Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them), came to pass at Calvary when Jesus Christ was crucified for the sins of the world and rose again from the dead.

In Matthew 17:13 it says "Then the disciples understood that He (Jesus) spake unto them of John the Baptist". Remember Elijah or Elias means "my God is Jehovah". Jehovah being the redemptive name of God.

The first prophet of the New Testament in the spirit of Elijah was John the Baptist, even as testified or confirmed by the Lord Himself in Matthew 11:13-14.

John's ministry was to turn the heart of the Old Testament fathers under Moses' law to become the children of God: (Malachi 4:6) to be born again children of God when Jesus passed through Calvary, gave of His Life's Blood for the sins of the world. On the 40th day from the Resurrection He was received up into Heaven (Acts 1:8-1 1) and 10 days later, the Lord Jesus came back as the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, that is 50 days from the Resurrection, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4).

Another way of saying it: all those who have been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ received a measure of the Holy Spirit or the Life of Christ came in to dwell. This confirming exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said in John 14:16-20

vl6) And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever;

vl7) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

vl8) I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

v19) Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye shall see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

v20) At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Repeating Verse 17

But ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

This was the life of Jesus Christ our Saviour coming back into the believers, as it is to this day, who have been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, that they could be born again, filled with the Holy Spirit and become the children of God.

John the Baptist's ministry, who came in the spirit of Elijah, was to prepare the heart of the fathers under the Old Testament law of Moses, to receive Jesus Christ as Messiah (the anointed One), and as Jesus Christ went to Calvary, crucified for their sins and the sins of the world and rose again from the dead, they could be born again by the Holy Spirit and become the children of God.

Or as it says in Malachi 4:6 that John the Baptist's ministry in the spirit of Elijah, would turn the heart of the fathers to the children. You will notice that John the Baptist's. ministry never turned the heart of the children to the fathers.

As it is recorded in the Word of God in Matthew 17:12 Jesus said

vl2) But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not but have done unto Him whatsoever they listed [they desired or chose to do].

As recorded in the Word of God, the Bible, John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod, because Herod was living in adultery with Herodias, his brother Phillip's wife; you will see in Mark 6:27 that John the Baptist, had declared that this was not lawful; as recorded in the bible (Leviticus 20:21)

Jesus had said in Matthew 11:13-14 that John came as the prophet in the spirit of Elias. John's ministry was to turn the heart of the fathers to the children Malachi 4:6.

In Matthew 17:11-13, Jesus said

v11 Elias truly shall first come and restore a things

Remember John the Baptist's ministry DID NOT RESTORE ANYTHING; but was to prepare the hearts of the Old Testament fathers to become the children of God as Jesus Christ their Messiah passed through Calvary, rose from the dead and the Spirit came back on them on the day of Pentecost.

Repeating, John the Baptist's ministry DID NOT RESTORE ALL THINGS; therefore before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, God promised that He would send another prophet in the Spirit of Elijah, whose ministry would be to RESTORE ALL THINGS, and to turn the heart of God's born again children to the faith of the early Church fathers Malachi (4:6).

This other prophet's ministry will be fully detailed in the next chapter entitled "A Prophet to the Gentiles of the Laodicean Church Age" and you will see that our God promised that there would be a prophet that would come in the spirit of Elijah; and as spoken by our Lord, this ministry would RESTORE ALL THINGS (Matthew 17:1 1).

It is certainly my prayer that the Lord has already given you understanding concerning John the Baptist's ministry, which was to turn the heart of the Old Testament fathers under Moses' law to become the children of God when Jesus passed through Calvary and rose from the dead and His Holy Spirit was poured out on the day of Pentecost.

May there be an anticipation in your heart to understand, that God also promised that there would be a prophet in the spirit of Elijah or Elias whose ministry would be to turn the heart of God's born again children, [who became entangled with the doctrines of men], back to the faith of the early Church fathers, as it was following the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given.

In the next chapter, you will see that it was necessary for God to send the prophet in our generation; that is the Laodicean Church Age, the last Gentile Church Age: The prophet's ministry known as the voice of the Seventh Angel, Revelation 10:7, to turn the heart of God's children back to the Word of God and to reveal the mystery of God's Word before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Let me at this time share with you, that there are five times in the Word of God that the spirit of Elijah is used, men called of God, as prophets, remembering that Elijah or Elias means Jehovah is God.

A prophet is a voice that the Lord God could use by His Holy Spirit to speak to God's people.

The first prophet in the spirit of Elijah, was Elijah himself, the Tishbite, who was sent of God to Ahab and Jezebel. You will see that recorded in I Kings 17:1 and you will know Elijah was taken up in the chariot of fire 2 Kings 2:11.

The second prophet in the spirit of Elijah was Elisha when Elijah’s mantel, fell on him. You will find that in 2 Kings 2:13-15.

The third time, as testified by Jesus, the spirit of Elijah was on John the Baptist (Matthew 11:14).

On the fourth occasion the spirit of Elijah was to be on a prophet to the Gentiles to call out Christ's bride for the Rapture: and this ministry would restore the Gentile Bride of Christ back to the Word of God, and reveal the mystery of God including the revelation of the seven sealed book as recorded in Revelation 6 and 8:1.

The fifth time that the spirit of Elijah would be used, is when the two witnesses in Revelation 11:3-12 come, and will be ministering to God's Elect Israel, after the Gentile Bride of Christ has been raptured (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).

You would understand from the Word of God that Elijah was caught up in the chariot of fire (2 Kings 2:1 1), and also that Moses who never entered the Promised Land but according to the Word of God died and the Lord buried him, but no man knew where, Deuteronomy 34:5 & 6

However, both Moses and Elijah were very much alive and talked with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3).

The two witnesses of Revelation 11:3-6 to Israel after the Gentile Bride has been raptured, (I Thessalonians 4:13-18), will be Moses and Elijah who will preach the Revelation of Jesus Christ and call-out the 144,000 Elect Israel, (Revelation 7:1-17) during tribulation days.

These two witnesses or prophets to Israel (Revelation 11:3) are not named in the Bible, but their ministries (Revelation 11:6), to shut up the heavens that there will be no rain, and have power over the waters to turn them to blood, and smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will; (I Kings 17:1 and Exodus 7:20), identifies that these two witnesses are Moses and Elijah, prophets to Israel.

If ever there was a day that the Gentile Bride of Christ should seek to know God's prophet to Laodicea by revelation - it is now, as we are living in the seventh and last Gentile Church Age. What you have read, concerning John the Baptist was really an introduction to the truth of what the Lord promised to do in our day.

As it was said in Malachi 4:5 & 6 that there was to be a prophet in the spirit of Elijah, firstly to turn the heart of the Old Testament fathers under Moses' law to become the children of God when Jesus Christ came into His ministry at Calvary: and there was also to be a prophet in the spirit of Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, would turn the heart of God's born again children, who had become bound by the doctrines of men, to restore them back to the faith of the early Church fathers as it was on the day of Pentecost.

The second chapter in this message "A Prophet to the Gentiles of the Laodicean Church Age" will, I pray by the Holy Spirit, open your understanding, that God promised in our generation to send a Prophet Messenger in the spirit of Elijah that would restore God's children - brothers and sisters in Christ who love the Lord but had become entangled in the doctrines of men; to restore them back to the Word of God before the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. May this be your experience. Could I encourage you to pray about these matters and ask the Lord Jesus Christ to confirm it to your heart.

It is my prayer that the Lord will open your understanding to the Word of God, by His Holy Spirit, and not only yourself but many others will come to the knowledge of this truth.

A PROPHET TO THE GENTILES OF THE LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE
Bible Reading Malachi 4. 5 & 6

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

And he shall tum the heart of the Fathers to the children and the heart
of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

I am hopeful as you have read prayerfully the previous chapter "Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet", that the Holy Spirit has made it real to your heart that John the Baptist's ministry was to prepare the Old Testament fathers to welcome and receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah, so that they could become the born again children of God by grace through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it is my prayer that the Holy Spirit will open the Word of God by revelation or a quickening of His Spirit, to show you that God has also promised to send a prophet in the spirit of Elijah to turn "the heart of the children to their fathers". (Malachi 4:6). This ministry must come before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

This messenger a prophet, is a voice, that God, has and will continue to use, to restore God's children back to the Word of God, and to reveal the mystery of God's Word as referred to in Revelation 10:7 - including the revelation of the seven sealed book. [Revelation 6 and also Revelation 8:11; this was to take place before the coming of our Heavenly Bridegroom, our Lord Jesus Christ for His Gentile Bride (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).

This prophet's message was and is restoring the Bride of Christ back to the Word of God (Matthew 17:11), so that the Bride will be made ready, and dressed in His Righteousness (Revelation 19:7-8).

The Gentile Bride of Christ will and must be called away or raptured to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb before tribulation days are here on earth, (Revelation 6:12-17).

At the end of tribulation days our Heavenly Bridegroom, our Lord Jesus Christ will return back to earth again as King of Kings and Lord of Lords with His Gentile Bride, which was raptured before tribulation began.

Our Lord returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in power and glory and this can be seen in Revelation 19,11-16, as He comes with His Bride to rule and reign here on earth. This coming is known as the Lord Jesus Christ's second coming to earth. When He came as our Saviour to Bethlehem was His first coming.

Between the first coming of the Lord when He came to be our Saviour, and His second coming to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, He comes for His Gentile Bride; His Bride will meet Him in the air I Thessalonians 4:13-18. He does not come to earth.

It is certainly my prayer that the Lord will place on the heart of every reader, the importance of what you are reading now and that in prayer you will take this matter to the Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him to confirm it to your heart.

In the previous chapter entitled "Behold! I Will Send You Elijah the Prophet" I was sharing about John the Baptist, who came in the spirit and power of Elias or Elijah Luke 1:17, Matthew 17:12-13. That time I mentioned that Elijah or Elias means Jehovah is God.

John the Baptist's ministry identified the Lamb of God, our Lord Jesus Christ as recorded in John 1:29

Behold! the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

John the Baptist's ministry, was to prepare the heart of the Old Testament fathers under the law of Moses and the prophets, to receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah at the Revelation of the grace of God through faith; As John testified at Jesus' baptism. (John 1:29-34)

These Old Testament fathers having been born again by the Holy Spirit (after Jesus had passed through Calvary, risen from the dead) and they having been redeemed by His blood, became the children of God; or as the Word of God says, that the ministry of Elijah would "Turn the heart of the fathers to the children" (Malachi 4:6)  A wonderful verse in the Bible I Peter 1:13b says

For the grace that is to be brought unto you, at the Revelation of Jesus Christ

This grace was promised even in the first book of the Bible. Genesis 3:15 (The Lord God speaking to the serpent)

And I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed (the serpent, Satan) and her seed (which we know was Jesus Christ, the Son of God to be born at Bethlehem) it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.

This promise in the Bible was the first promise of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ the Son of God, who overcame the devil and all his works at Calvary. As recorded in the Bible in John 1: 11 & 12

He (Jesus Christ, Israel's Messiah) came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them (the Old Testament fathers) gave he power to become the sons of God (or become the born again children).

This was confirming John the Baptist's ministry as recorded in Malachi 4: 6

And he (a prophet in the spirit and power of Elijah) shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children

How we Gentiles should love God! The Word of God says in Romans 11:7-12, that Israel was blinded not to know their Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ, so that we Gentiles by grace could come unto salvation.

Paul the Apostle by the Holy Spirit said these words: [Romans 11-25]

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

There were some of the Old Testament fathers at the beginning, who at the preaching of John the Baptist received Jesus Christ as their Messiah and became the children of God.

Zacharias [ John the Baptist's father ], was told by the angel concerning the birth of John in Luke 1:17

And he shall go before him (our Lord Jesus Christ) in the spirit and power of Elias (or Elijah) to turn the heart of the fathers to the children.

And this was confirming Malachi 4: 6.

Israel as a nation was blinded, that grace could come to us Gentiles; but after the Gentile Bride is raptured, God will reveal Himself to Israel during tribulation days.

Acts 15:14

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his Name.

Also remember, the Gentiles were not God's people, and you can find that recorded in Romans 9:25 & 26, but because of God's grace, God who is rich in mercy (Ephesians 2:4); we Gentiles through God's predestinated foreknowledge and by His election, we Gentiles were called, and through His grace we Gentiles have obtained an inheritance (Ephesians 1:11).

Notice, as it is recorded in Ephesians 1:12 that we Gentiles, that is the Gentile Bride or the Body of Christ "should be to the praise of His glory who first trusted in Christ".

We know that Paul was the Apostle to the Gentiles (Roman 11:13) and if we read the New Testament, we see that God through Paul was exhorting us Gentiles to stay under grace and to walk in the light of God's Word. (Galatians 2:21) John also exhorts us to "walk in the light" (I John 1:7).

I am sure you will realise that as the early Church was led by the Holy Spirit, according to the Word of God, a book of Acts was written testifying of God's faithfulness to His Word.

Although God's dispensation of grace, (Ephesians 3:2), to the Gentiles has been approximately 2,000 years it is still ours today and to whosoever will, including you, who are reading this message.

A thought that I would like to share with you is, that there was approximately, 2,000 years from Adam to Noah; and 2,000 years from Noah to Christ: from Pentecost to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, approximately 2,000 years of grace to the Gentiles. Three 2,000 year periods which is 6,000 years plus 1,000 millennial reign (Revelation 20:1-6) makes a total of 7,000 years. The Bible in 11 Peter 3:8 says, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years.

But always remember, as Jesus Christ said Matthew 24 - 36 "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only".

It was only approximately 300 years (such a short time in God's time pattern) that after the death of the early church apostles and leaders, the pure Word of God, the revelation of Jesus Christ, in a measure, was lost and replaced by men’s intellectual reasoning and organised church theology.

This mixing of the pure Word of God with church doctrine and creeds, or hybreeding the Word of God, at the Nicene Council Meeting, in Nicea, in the year 325 AD, formed the first denomination, the church at Rome.

There at Nicea the bishops and theologians came out with their dogmas and creeds, in which they organised around a trinity doctrine - the baptism in the titles of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). Each church that denominated, from that time onwards, has had a trinity background, with baptism in the titles and it is even with us today and it is headed up by the World Council of Churches.

Men reading the Scriptures, without revelation by the Holy Spirit, coupled with men’s theology, resulted in the Nicolaitane doctrine, taking men and women away from the Revelation of Jesus Christ and binding them with denominational chains, membership of Organisation, based on a trinity doctrine, such as, baptism In the titles of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

However we should praise God, that through the Gentile Church Ages, you will find this recorded in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadephia and Laodicea approximately 1950 years there has always been a small elected Gentile Bride, who by God's Holy Spirit held fast to God's unchanging Word, and the revelation of Jesus Christ.

In Luke 12:32 Jesus said

Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

It was in 1906 the beginning of the Laodicean Church Age, the last of the Gentile Church Ages, the age in which we now live, that God moved with a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Azusa Street, Los Angeles with the restoration of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This age will continue until the Lord Jesus Christ comes for His Gentile Bride (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).

In the Word of God, Revelation 3:14-22, you will see what the Lord said about this age we are living in now; particularly in verses 15-17.

vl5) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.- I would thou wert cold or hot.

vl6) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (out of His Word)

vl7) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

This was the Lord Jesus Christ speaking through John the Revelator, that is the apostle John, who was on the isle of Patmos (Revelation 1:9-1 1), revealing to him the spiritual condition of the world church in the Laodicean Church Age as recorded above in Revelation 3:15-17.

This condition was caused by the Antichrist spirit manifesting itself through men in organized churches through their doctrines, dogmas and creeds through the ages. The revelation by the Holy Spirit, upon the Word of God, was lost and replaced by man's reasoning.

It is regretted and a most pitiful thing, that these churches do not realize how God sees their spiritual state, even though it is recorded in the Word of God (Revelation 3:14-19).

Today this condition of the world church system, is accepted as a normal Christian experience and when the truth of God's Word is ministered, it is judged as fanaticism. However God's Word clearly sets out the world church system in our age is wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. (Revelation 3:17).

The Word of God exhorts us to:

Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (Revelation 18.4)

How is God's elected Gentile Bride to come out of spiritual darkness? Please consider well what you are reading and ask the Lord to confirm it to your heart.

In John 10:27 Jesus says -

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Our Lord Jesus Christ, by His Holy Spirit, revealed through Brother William Marrion Branham, God's Prophet Messenger to the Laodicean Church Age, the Fourth Seal, (Revelation 6:7 & 8). This Fourth Seal is showing the Antichrist spirit riding his pale horse, (which is a symbol of spiritual confusion and spiritual death), in the seventh and last Gentile Church Age, in which we are now living, and this spiritual condition is affecting the whole world.

It was also prophesied, in the Word of God, that there would be a fourth living creature or sometimes called the fourth beast, a flying eagle, which is a symbol of the Holy Spirit upon the prophetic Word of God. [Revelation 4:7]

The flying eagle, the fourth living creature, or the Holy Spirit upon the prophetic Word of God will call out, God's predestinated elected Gentile Bride; call them out from the Antichrist spiritual confusion and spiritual death which is influencing today the world church system, in this last gentile church age.

The flying eagle or the fourth living creature is the Holy Spirit ministering by a prophet, known as the voice of the seventh angel (Revelation 10:7) a messenger to the Laodicean Gentile Church Age (Revelation 3-14).

This Gentile prophet, was to come in the spirit of Elijah (Malachi 4:6), before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, before tribulation days; and this prophet's ministry is turning the heart of the children to their fathers (Malachi 4:6).

By God's foreknowledge, He spoke through the prophet Malachi prophesying that He would send this prophet in the spirit of Elijah, even in our day before the Rapture. (Malachi 4: 5 - 6).

As has already been said, this was confirmed by our Lord Jesus Christ when He was here on earth in Matthew 17:11

Elias (or Elijah) truly shall first come, (before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord) and restore all things.

To turn the heart of the born again children of this Laodicean Church Age, our age, who had. become a part of, the denominational world church system, having had an experience with Christ in the churches, but feeding on church doctrines and creeds of men (Matthew 15:9). Because they are the predestinated elected gene seed of God, R was always in their heart by God's Holy Spirit; 'A Deep Calling Unto the Deep".

In Matthew 24:28 the Word of God says

For wheresoever the carcass is (the pure revealed Word) there will the eagles (God's Elect) be gathered together

God's Holy Spirit through His prophet Malachi, [Malachi 4:6]

To tum the heart of the children to their fathers

or what Jesus Christ Himself said in Matthew 17:11

Elias truly shall first come and restore all things

And further to this, in 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.

God, knowing all things from the beginning, purposed that before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, before tribulation days under the Sixth Seal (Revelation 6;12-17, He would send a prophet in the spirit of Elijah whose ministry, as the voice of God (Revelation 10:7), to the Gentile Bride of Christ by the Holy Spirit upon God's Word, would call out God's elected in the Laodicean church age ready for the Rapture. [I Thess 4:13-18]. To take them from the trinitarian doctrine and the baptism in the titles of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; revealing the Antichrist, which was unknown to the world church system, until God sent His Prophet.

This prophet in the spirit of Elijah which was to come to the Gentile church before the rapture, would be a voice that God would use, to reveal the mystery of the seven sealed book and the restoring of God's children back to the faith of the early church fathers as it was at Pentecost. (Malachi 4:6).

This Gentile prophet, would be a voice that God would use to restore God's elected Gentile Bride back to the pure revealed Word, as it was at the birth of the Christian church at Pentecost. Or it could be said, to restore us back to the faith of the early church fathers, when the Book of Acts was written behind their ministry.

God purposed to send a prophet to the Gentile Bride of Christ of the Laodicean Church Age, the seventh and last Gentile Church Age before the soon coming rapture, when the Lord will take His Bride to be with Him, to the marriage supper of the Lamb. (Revelation 19: 7-9).

Whether the church system acknowledges what God has done or not, there is and will be a people who will be given the revelation or quickening to hear God's Word, to hear God's voice, to hear God's prophet. The fruit will be, to be restored back to the Word of God, out of the doctrines of men, out of the denominations and their church theology, dogmas and creeds.

It is on my heart as I have written this to you, to give you a scriptural background so that you can understand by the Holy Spirit, that God purposed to send a prophet to the Gentiles, before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His Bride at the Rapture. This would be before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

The next message which is titled "Confirming Signs of The Ministry of God's Prophet" is to give you scriptural evidences and Holy Spirit confirmation, that God had called Brother William Marrion Branham to be that prophet, in the spirit of Elijah to the Gentile Laodicean Church Age.

His ministry would be as a voice of God, to call out and restore the Gentile Bride of Christ and to reveal as said previously, the revelation of the seven sealed book and the mystery of God's Word.

God had purposed, from the foundation of the world, that He would have a voice, a prophet, that He by His Holy Spirit would speak through, to His predestinated elected, sons and daughters, who were chosen from the foundation of the world and would hear God's voice by revelation. Being called out and restored back to the Word of God, as it was spoken and given by God to the early Church at Pentecost, as already said, God confirming with a Book of Acts experience.

Such a ministry would be the fulfilling of that which is spoken of by God through the prophet Malachi, that He would send a prophet in the spirit of Elijah. This voice, or earthly messenger, was a sinner that had to be redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, but predestinated to be a prophet, known to us as William Marrion Branham. This was to be before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, that God's children who had been entangled by church membership and theology, would by the Holy Spirit on the Word of God as spoken by His prophet, turn the heart of the children, by faith in the Word of God, to the early church fathers (Malachi 4:6).

A people called out of the Gentiles for His Name, the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. A people who by the Holy Spirit are given the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, not the trinity of gods, but One God, God a Spirit who was manifested or revealed in three offices. Our Heavenly Father, God a Spirit, (John 4:24, 2 Cor 3:17), Creator of all thing, revealed in the body and flesh and blood of Jesus Christ our Saviour, and present as you read this message, as the Holy Spirit. One God in the office of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Confirming what the Holy Spirit spoke through Peter on the day of Pentecost, the resurrected Christ manifested as the Holy Spirit, (Acts 2:38-39).

Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

I know there are those who have not as yet, been given the revelation of Jesus Christ will immediately go back to Matthew 28:19 and quote the words that Jesus Himself said, when He had risen from the dead and was about to be taken into Heaven to the mercy seat. He said (Matthew 28:19)

v19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy spirit.

v2O) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world. Amen

Could I ask, what is the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit? It is the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will find this confirmed right through the New Testament.

Nobody in the Bible, was baptised in the titles of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, (this was the doctrine that came out of the Nicene Council in 325 AD) - but according to the Word of God, always in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:38).

There are tracts and other messages available to cover this subject on baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and they are freely available if requested.

If you were to turn to Matthew 16:13-18, you would see that Peter (and I will stay with Peter to make it easier for you to understand), was given the revelation of Jesus Christ, and in verse 19 of the same chapter, he was given the keys to the kingdom of heaven.

After the Lord Jesus Christ had risen from the dead and He appeared to the disciples several times, as in Matthew 28:16-17, when He met them on the mountain.

Repeating in Matthew 28: 19-20 Jesus said:

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world.

This same Peter, who was given the revelation of Jesus Christ, and was given the keys to the kingdom of heaven, [Matthew 16:19], was told directly by the Lord to go and baptise in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Then Peter, on the day of Pentecost, with 119 others including Mary, who brought to birth Jesus the Son, was filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4).

Peter was used of God, to be one, who would speak to those who never had the Revelation of Jesus Christ, you can find this in Acts 2:14-36) finishing up with these words:

God has made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. [Acts 2:36]

It was the Holy Spirit, that brought conviction to these 3,000 [Acts 2-41] people, and they cried out

Men and brethren, what shall we do? [Acts 2.-37]

What was Peter going to say, or should I say, the Holy Spirit through Peter going to speak.

Peter, who had been given the revelation of Jesus Christ, and the keys to the kingdom of heaven, also told by Jesus Christ, to go and baptise in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; this same Peter, now filled with the Holy Spirit, was also used to preach the first full gospel sermon (Acts 2:14-36). What did he say? You read it for yourself in Acts 2:38-39

Repent, and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

If you have never been baptised in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I encourage you to ask the Lord by His Holy Spirit to open His Word. I know that He will lead you to the waters to take His Name, the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 2:38-39.

The purpose of God sending a prophet to our church age Laodicea, Brother William Branham, was to restore us to the faith of the early church fathers, when a book of Acts followed their ministry. The Holy Spirit through God's prophet; giving the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, that there is only One God, who Is revealed in the off ice of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and that each of us should be baptised in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38).

It is my prayer that the Lord will bless you and cause you to understand by the Holy Spirit, what God purposed in our day and that by the same spirit, you will be separated unto the Word of God and grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord.

CONFIRMING SIGNS IN THE MINISTRY OF GOD'S PROPHET
Bible Reading Malachi 4. 5 & 6

It is my prayer that the Lord Jesus Christ, by His Holy Spirit, has already opened His Word to your heart as you have read the two previous chapters and has given you understanding of what Christ purposed for our Age and that it has come to pass.

That a prophet in the spirit of Elijah was to come to the Gentiles of the Laodicean Church Age, the seventh and last Gentile Church Age under grace, before tribulation days.

It was God's purpose, in sending a prophet messenger to restore God's people, Christ's Gentile Bride, back to the Word of God and to restore them back to the Revelation of Jesus Christ and baptism in water, in His Name and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to reveal the mystery of God's Word, including the Revelation of the Seven Seals.

As it says in Acts 15:14

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.

God's Gentile Bride, having been given the Revelation of Jesus Christ, takes His Name in the waters of baptism and receives the gift of the Holy Spirit, which also confirms the truth of Revelation 19:7 & 8, that the Bride will be dressed in His Righteousness.

v7) Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His wife hath made herself ready

v8) And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in .fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Jesus said in John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

God's elect or God's sheep will always respond to God's voice. "Is a deep calling unto the deep".

Revelation 10:7

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, (the prophet messenger) when he shall begin to sound (or to speak, or to cry out) the mystery of God should be finished (or made known) as He hath declared to His servants the prophets.

We have seen from the Word of God in the previous messages, that Brother William Marrion Branham was a prophet to the Seventh Gentile Church Age, Laodicea; that is our age, our generation and he came in the spirit of Elijah (Malachi 4: 5 & 6).

Brother Branham was God's voice. A man, a sinner who had to be redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, called to be a prophet, whom God spoke through by His Holy Spirit, that God's Gentile sheep or Gentile Bride would hear.

God's gentile elect would be restored back to the Word of God, back to the Revelation of Jesus Christ, made ready for the Rapture, awaiting the coming of the heavenly bridegroom, our Lord Jesus Christ for His Gentile Bride (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).

Regrettably there are many voices in the world-today, in fact a confusion of voices. Intellectual reasoning with spiritual truths, finishing up with dogmas and creeds. In fact the Word of God says:

Let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle. [Psalms 109:29]

God is not the author of confusion .... (I Corinthians 14:33)

In every age God has had His voice, a prophet, that God's sheep, God's elect, God's Gentile Bride, would hear by the Holy Spirit, God's Word. They will hear God's voice (John 10:27).

A supernatural sign from God always has a voice, or another way of saying such; every sign from God will attract the attention of the elect, (God's sheep), to hear the voice of the sign.

In Exodus 4:1-9, which I encourage you to read, Moses was given two signs that the people would know that Moses was sent of God to deliver God's people, Israel, from the bondage of Egypt.

The first sign was Moses' rod, when he cast it on the ground it became a serpent (Exodus 4:2-4) and when Moses caught the serpent by the tail, it became a rod again.

This was repeated before Pharaoh in Exodus 7:10-13 when Moses and Aaron went before the Pharaoh of Egypt to request him to let Israel go to the Promised Land.

You would see in Exodus 7:10, that Aaron's rod became a serpent. The Pharaoh's magicians (sorcerers) cast their rods down and every man's rod became a serpent, but Exodus 7:12 records that Aaron's rod as a serpent, swallowed up all Pharaoh's magician's serpents.

The second sign that God gave to Moses, (Exodus 4:6 & 7) was that when Moses put his hand in his bosom and then took his hand out again it was leprous as snow. When he put his leprous hand back, and took it out again, it was as his other flesh.

The truth that I desire to share, and ask you to note carefully is, what the Lord said in Exodus 4:8

... If they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign that they will believe the voice of the latter (or second) sign.

Every supernatural sign of God has a voice.

It is regretted today that many want supernatural signs, but they do not hear the voice of the sign, nor do they want to hear the voice, because the voice of the sign would correct their church doctrines and creeds.

If you have listened to or have read the life story of Brother William Branham, (Supernatural Series) you will see that God who had purposed to take out a people from the Gentiles for His name's sake, was fulfilling this right from the birth of his prophet Brother William Branham, on April 6th, 1909 when Brother Branham was born.

At that time a Pillar of Fire, a light, came through the window of the log cabin where Brother Branham was born, and hung over his baby crib. The people who saw the Pillar of Fire asked, "What manner of child shall this be?"

God's care for His prophet throughout Brother Branham's young life and into his teenage years, was truly supernatural, yet he was not converted or born again until he was a young man in his early 20's.

God was with His prophet Brother Branham from his birth, as God was with Moses and Samuel (Exodus 2:1-10) (Jeremiah 1:4-5).

Brother William Branham was given by God many visions during his early life. The first vision that Brother Branham remembers, was at the age of three. It concerned where his family would live, near a city called New Albany and the Lord fulfilled the vision. The family moved into Jeffersonville, a few miles from New Albany.

It was God preparing His prophet, for the ministry that had been ordained of God, as the Seventh Angel Messenger to the Laodicean Church Age, and again to call out and restore back to the Word of God, the Gentile Bride before the Rapture.

On June 11th 1933, at the age of 24 years, Brother William Branham was baptising people in the Name of Jesus Christ according to Acts 2:38, in the Ohio River, near Jeffersonville, that a strange light, like a star, suddenly came whirling down and stayed over Brother Branham's head.

Today we know it was the Pillar of Fire, the same Pillar of Fire that appeared to Moses, as a burning bush which was not consumed. (Exodus 3:1-6). The same Pillar of Fire was seen many times during the prophet's ministry.

There were about 4,000 people watching the baptism, and when Brother Branham was baptising the 17th person, according to the Word of God (Acts 2:38), a blazing whirling star suddenly appeared out of Heaven, with the sound of a rushing wind audible to all and hovered over the head of Brother Branham. Many ran in fear and others knelt in prayer, and a voice spoke out of the Pillar of Fire, to the prophet and said

As John the Baptist was to forerun the first coming of Christ so your message will forerun the Second Coming of Christ.

Brother Branham alone heard the words, which was God's commission to him, others heard the sound but not the words, but they saw the Pillar of Fire.

This experience that Brother Branham had, was the same as when God called the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus (Acts . 9:1- , 16). Those who were with Paul, they saw the Light or the Pillar of Fire (Acts 22:9) and in Acts 9:7 it says; they stood speechless hearing a voice, but, seeing no man;

Yet it says in Acts 22:9

... but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me,

Could I be permitted to say, they heard the sound of the voice but not the words.   This is as it was, when the Pillar of Fire came to Brother' Branham at the Ohio River.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

As said earlier, the Pillar of Fire at the Ohio Rive in June 11, 1933, when God spoke to Brother Branham, as he was baptising the 17th person in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and said

As John the Baptist was to forerun the first coming. of Christ, so your message [Brother Branham's message as the prophet to Laodicea] will forerun 'the second coming of Christ.

As referred to in the two previous messages you will see that the Holy Spirit was again confirming John the Baptist's ministry (Malachi 4: 5 & 6) to prepare the Old Testament fathers to receive Jesus Christ as their' Messiah; And after Calvary, turning the heart of the Old Testament fathers under Moses' law to become the children of God under grace.

Also confirming Brother Branham’s ministry; to turn the heart of the children to their fathers (Malachi 4:6). That is the born again children, who have become a part of the denominational world church system, having had an experience with Christ in the denomination churches, but feeding on church theology through church membership. Yet because they were predestinated and elected, a gene seed of God there was always in their heart by God's Holy Spirit, "a deep calling unto the deep", to be restored back to the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

As John the Baptist's ministry was to forerun the first coming Christ, when he came as our Saviour, so Brother Branham's ministry, or message, was to and has forerun the second coming of Christ, before the Rapture of the Gentile Bride of Christ.

This also confirms what Jesus said;

Elias (or Elijah) truly shall first come and restore all things [Matthew 17:11]

God's prophet, Brother William Branham, the Seventh Angel Messenger to Laodicea (Revelation 3:14, Revelation 10:7); his message is still calling out, Christ's Bride, restoring her back to the Word of God, and getting her ready for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. [Revelation 19:7]

The fruit of Brother Branham's ministry is, if we receive it in the same spirit in which it was ministered, will cause you to love our Lord Jesus Christ more than you have ever loved Him before, and God's Word, the Bible will become a living experience in your life.

Continuing God's confirming signs in the ministry of Brother William Branham, God's prophet to Laodicea; it was in June, 1933 on the Sunday morning, that the Lord gave him seven major visions.

The first vision which was shown to Brother Branham, was that Benito Mussolini, then dictator of Italy, would invade Ethiopia and that nation would fall at Mussolini's steps. The vision also showed the end of Mussolini, and his own terrible death, and that his own people would turn on him. This came to pass exactly; Prophecy is foretelling future events.

The second vision foretold that an Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany and that he would draw the world into war and how the American army would lose many lives. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

In another vision at a latter time, he was shown that President Roosevelt, of the United States of America, would declare war against Germany, (that is the 1939 - 1945 war), and that President Roosevelt would be elected for a fourth term of office. This had never happened before and remember, it was 1933 and President Roosevelt had been just elected for the first term.

The third major vision, showed that there would be three isms: fascism under Mussolini, nazism under Hitler and communism under Russia, and that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished "Watch Russia. Keep your eye on the King of the North." Russia at that time 1933, was not recognised by the USA as a world power.

The fourth vision, showed great advances in science, that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic, bubble-topped car, that was running down a beautiful highway under remote control, so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of game to amuse themselves.

This has come to pass and even in 1988, the world media has confirmed this.

The fifth vision had to do with the condition of our age. The Lord showed Brother William Branham, how when women were given the political vote and entered into world affairs, there was a falling away in the standards of women's dress and they began exposing their nakedness: cutting their hair and wearing clothes pertaining to a man. The prophet was shown a worsening of the moral condition of the world, which is increasing daily.

Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful woman, clothed in splendour and royal dress; yet cruel, wicked, cunning and deceitful. She held the people in her complete power. Brother Branham believed that this was the rise of a major denominational church, though he knew it could possibly be of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

The seventh and last vision he heard a most terrible explosion. As he turned to look he saw nothing but debris, craters and smoke over the land of America.

Surely we can understand, that if five of these visions have come to pass and with the sixth becoming very evident, the seventh is a real possibility, with the nations possessing the ability to carry out this vision.

May God by His Holy Spirit speak to our hearts, that the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is so very real.

I personally believe in my own heart, and R is not recorded in the Word of God or the prophet's message, that the Gentile Bride of Christ will be raptured to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, before the seventh vision, the destruction of America Is fulfilled.

I certainly encourage you to pray about it, and walk in the light of God's Word which the Holy Spirit has quickened, through the ministry of His prophet.

May we understand, it is God's grace to us in our day, that He sent His Word, by a prophet, remembering that God always warns before judgment.

In Hebrews 11, the Apostle Paul had been setting out in detail about the heroes of faith. Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and many more. In verse 32 Paul said this

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson etc. [Hebrews 11:32]

That is how I feel, as I write this truth, what more could I say of the confirming signs of God in the ministry of His prophet Brother Branham? There is ample evidence, on tape and in book, of all the ways, God confirmed His prophet's ministry.

Let me share with you two further very important confirming signs.

On May 7th, 1946 Brother Branham was leaving on a hunting trip and as he walked by a maple tree, God's presence was so powerful, like a mighty rushing wind, that it caused him to stagger at the impact. His wife ran to him thinking he had become ill.

Brother Branham turned to his wife and said:

For over 20 years, I have not been able to understand this ministry or myself, and I am going to seek God with my Bible and prayer, and find out or never come back.

What a dedication to God, to know the Lord or die.  Brother Branham went away into a secret place, a cabin or a cave in the wilderness.

After much prayer and waiting upon God, Brother Branham said, about the eleventh hour he saw a soft light appearing. There hung a great star like a ball of fire; could I say the Pillar of Fire.

Then Brother Branham, heard footsteps and a man of large statue approached him, perhaps 200 lbs in weight, dark complexion with shoulder length hair, his face was beardless. Brother Branham was fearful but the stranger or the angel of the Lord looked at him kindly and said:

Fear not, I am sent from the presence of Almighty God, to tell that your peculiar life and your misunderstood ways have been to indicate, that God has sent you to take a gift of hearing to the people of the world. If you will be sincere and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayers not even cancer.

This has been confirmed hundreds and thousands of times, as you can hear on many tapes, with all the testimonies that I have shared earlier in this message.

As Moses was given two signs. first Moses' stick became a serpent and swallowed up the magicians' serpents. second His hand became leprous and then clean. These signs were given that the people would know Moses was sent of God. (Exodus 7:10-13)

The Angel that appeared to Brother Branham in the cabin talked to him referring to the signs given to Moses, and then went on to say that Brother Branham would be given two signs.

The first sign, was to raise the peoples' faith, and the second sign was a sign of the second coming of Christ.

The first sign given to Brother Branham was - He would take the hand of a person and if that person had a germ type disease Brother Branham's hand would immediately begin to swell and take on different shades and patterns allowing him to name the disease; this was confirmed in the lives of many people.

This sign was a great faith builder. You can hear it clearly explained by Brother Branham on a cassette message entitled "One True and Living Church".

The second sign, which followed the first was; the Lord Jesus Christ by His Holy Spirit allowed Brother William Branham, to know the secrets of the hearts of the people and the physical condition of their bodies.

Only our Lord Jesus Christ knows the secret of the heart, even as He knows yours as you are reading this message.

Brother Branham with his eyes wide open would be shown a vision of a person's life, as though he was watching a film, and the Lord Jesus Christ would show him the life of those standing before him, then he would speak out what he saw in the person's life.

He would be shown by the Lord, the names of the people, where they lived and the need they had, whether they had been to a doctor or a hospital everything about their life, even their prayer prayed in their own bedroom. Of course the people would immediately know, that only our Lord Jesus Christ could know these things, the secret things of their own lives, even their sins.

The people knew it was God, by His Holy Spirit, which revealed to His prophet, the secrets of their hearts and lives, and God was with His prophet Brother William Branham; and as they had faith to believe, so their prayers and needs were met. This sign was manifested thousands of times and are recorded on cassette tape.

Remember the angel of God, said to Brother Branham, that the second sign was the sign of the second coming of the Lord.

How close are we to the coming of our Heavenly Bridegroom, our Lord Jesus Christ? Are you ready'? (I Thessalonians 4:13-18)

God said to Moses, concerning the two signs He gave him

And it will come to pass if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice.... (Exodus 4.-8-9)

Then the Word of God continues speaking of judgment, if they reject the voice of the sign.

Remember a supernatural sign from God is to attract the attention of the elect of God, to hear the voice or the message that follows. So many today want the signs but refuse to listen to God's voice.

The final confirming sign, I wish to refer to, is the visitation of the seven angels. It was on December 22nd 1962 that Brother Branham, was given a vision and went out to Arizona, in the United States of America. He and two other brothers in Christ, went to Sunset Mountain outside of Flagstaff in Arizona about 40 miles north west of Tucson.

It was on February 28th 1963, that seven mighty angels appeared to Brother Branham, with the Commission to go back east to Jeffersonville, to his church and preach the revelation of the seven sealed book written in the Bible in Revelation 6: 1-17 and Revelation 8:1,

Brother Branham did as he was commissioned. On March 17th - 24th, 1963 by His Holy Spirit, our Lord Jesus Christ gave His prophet the revelation of the. mystery of the seven sealed book and this revelation is available on audio cassette tape or book.

Always remember, only our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who had purchased our redemption with His Own Blood, had the right to take the seven sealed book, (Revelation 5:1-9), and to loose the seven seals and reveal the mystery of God,. and by His Holy Spirit, spoke the revelation of the seven seals, through His prophet Brother William Branham.

When these seven angels which came to Brother Branham departed on that day, February 28th, 1963; what appeared to be a cloud, formed high in the sky. This cloud was in that part of the atmosphere, where no clouds ever form; nor can they form, many photographs were taken by people and scientists, some observed it as far as 280 miles away.

On investigation no jet planes were flying at that time, and meteorologists wrote a scientific paper on what they observed, what looked like an oval shaped cloud that was 50 miles long by 30 miles wide and 26 miles high, and sped toward the East.

Life magazine on May 17th, 1963 had four pictures of this cloud and also the Science Magazine of April 19th, 1963 published a photo on its front cover.

This cloud-like effect was formed by the departure of the seven angels, who had visited Brother Branham and instructed him to go back east, and the mystery contained in the seven sealed book of Revelation 6:1-17 and 8:1, would be revealed to him to minister to the people.

We have photographs of this cloud and for those that would desire a tract or even on a black and white print, they are available on request.

You would notice that the photograph shown below shows very plainly the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It was a confirming sign from God, confirming the ministry of His prophet Brother William Branham, who came in the spirit of Elijah, to turn the heart of God's children back to the faith of the early church Pentecostal fathers.

I have shared only a portion of all the confirming signs from God, in Brother Branham's ministry, but there are many messages which confirm what I have said, and many more on tape and book, which are available to all on request.

These messages will give much more detail and very many further confirmations from God, that He had predestinated and brought to pass His perfect will, in sending a prophet to our generation, the Laodicean Church Age.

The prophet's ministry, in the spirit of Elijah, was to turn the heart of the born again children of God, who became entangled with the denominational doctrine and creeds: to turn their heart back to the faith of the early church fathers, as at Pentecost, where the Book of Acts followed their ministry. (Malachi 4:5-6).

The prophet's ministry was not only to restore us back to the Word of God out of the doctrine's of men, but also to minister the mystery of God. [Revelation 10:7]

I have shared my heart concerning this matter, and I would like to encourage you to check everything that I have said in the Word of God, and ask the Lord Jesus Christ by His Holy Spirit, that He would place a confirmation in your heart of the truth of what has been said.

Remember the supernatural sign has a voice, and the voice is the message of God, by His Holy Spirit through His prophet, to restore us back to the Word of God and to make us ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His Gentile Bride at the Rapture.

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